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[Travel] Fabulous “MADE” 2015 Opening Concert by BIGBANG.
I can bet that most of the VIPs on around the world are already knew the opening concert BIGBANG 2015 World Tour [MADE] in Seoul, Korea on 25th April 2015 and 26th April 2015 at the Olympic Gymnasiums Stadium.
These times, I got a chance to catch a concert in Seoul again with my best buddy – Iffa K. It's a full house in 2 day concert and the ticket are sold out – since it’s over 3 years, BIGBANG were comeback with new single album “MADE” after their album “ALIVE” and repackage album “STILL ALIVE” on 2012. But we’re lucky when we still can manage to get concert ticket for 2 day concert.
In reality, their single album was released on 1st May 2015 but BIGBANG were making awesome performance together with two new songs off their new single album “MADE”, which are “LOSER” and “BAE BAE”. They'll also present the new music video of LOSER in the opening concert to all VIPs. We are the luckiest VIPs, who are the first person here and view their new concept of music “MADE” in the concert day before YG Entertainment release as official BIGBANG “MADE” single album “M” on 1st May 2015. For me, BIGBANG want to show the side of them as normal people alike all of we are, which is their also have their own feeling, private time and space as they're needed in their life. At the same time, they look so sexy and mature like a genuine man for me.
The most I like when watching a concert in Seoul is the concert’s decorations and concert's merchandise. Its have variable type of decoration and images of your favorite artist so you can take the pictures as many you like on the concert’s day. They likewise give the great offer for their own related brands; which mean for YG Entertainment are Moon Shot and NONA9ON at the concert days. At the same time, I can choose the concert's merchandise as many I want to buy during the concert day since it's available.
That's why, I and my best buddy – Iffa K. will come to Seoul, Korea and take chances to follow our favorite artist’s concert. The feeling and experience when watching a concert in Seoul is quite a huge different mix feeling between to watching their concerts at our home. Perhaps some of you don’t understand this mean so why not you try once in your life.
Photo credit to Iffa K.
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June 2015: Residential Market Survey
Demand sees further moderate rise while price momentum accelerates
• Buyer enquiries increase moderately and across the majority of areas
• Price momentum continues to rise and expectations strengthen
• New instructions remain in short supply, with respondents seeing a slight fall over the month
The June RICS Residential Market Survey shows a further acceleration in price growth. Prices are reported to be rising in the majority of areas, with Northern Ireland and East Anglia seeing particularly firm momentum during the month. Driving this pick up in growth was a further modest rise in demand across most parts of the UK alongside yet another decrease in the level of new instructions.
Buyer demand rose in each area except the South East. Demand in Scotland and Northern Ireland remains on a firmly upward trend while London and the West Midlands also saw a pick up in enquiries over the month. With mortgage rates still near record lows and the labour market continuing to strengthen, this moderate increase in demand is no real surprise. Although the most recent mortgage approvals data (from the Bank of England) for May showed a 4.7% fall versus the April figure, this probably just reflects some recoil from the sharp rise the previous month, and the underlying trend does appear to be gently upwards. Reflecting this, respondents expect activity levels to pick up across all areas over the coming three months. At the twelve month horizon this positive outlook for sales growth is also shared across all areas..
Supply of new stock to the market decreased once again in June with the headline RICS New Instructions balance remaining in negative territory for the fifth consecutive month. Discussions with some respondents suggest that the underlying causes of this continued supply shortage vary across different parts of the UK. Transaction costs are one significant factor in some of the more expensive markets. Costs such as stamp duty are making renovation/extension works more financially appealing than changing home. There is some consensus that the lack of stock is, to an extent, self perpetuating as it acts as a deterrent to new vendors entering the market due to the reduced choice on offer for their next purchase. With respondents, on average, reporting no change in the number of appraisals carried out in June, there is no signal, as yet, that the supply shortage is going to improve. Indeed, stocks per surveyor reached a new low of 49.5 per branch in June.
Despite the lack of new supply, the RICS Agreed Sales balance showed a further marginal increase in transactions in June. This hides substantial variation across areas with the most consistent feature of the data over the last year being the sustained contraction in activity in London and the South East and the persistent increase in Northern Ireland.
The outlook for prices strengthened once again in June with respondents in all areas now expecting an increase at both the three and twelve month horizons. A net balance of 41% of respondents envisage prices rising in the coming three months while the twelve month expectations series reached a 15 month high. Contributors, on average, foresee prices rising by a little over 3% in the year to come with price growth accelerating thereafter to an average of 4.8% per annum over the coming 5 years.
The strongest level of sales for quite some time with the “top” end doing well. However on the flip side market appraisals and new instructions were down in numbers. Whether the seasonal slow down will occur this year remains to be seen.
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Asus unlocks the power of Windows 10 with new gaming PCs
Ken Heslip Email @ Oct 9th, 2015 in Latest news
Microsoft is on a hardware blitz this week with their Windows 10 devices event on Tuesday being followed up by several partners showing off their own Windows 10 PCs. HP and Dell have both had their turn and today Asus announced several new Republic of Gaming (ROG) PCs built exclusively for Windows 10. The news is detailed in a new blog post from Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, who joined ASUS Chairman, Jonney Shih, onstage at ROG Unleashed in San Francisco. The hardware announced at the event included the ROG GX700, ROG G752, and ROG G20 Compact Desktop PC.
Myerson says both companies worked closely together to develop this hardware and make full use of the new DirectX 12 capabilities. He goes on to highlight how Windows 10 is the best gaming experience ever delivered by Microsoft with features like Game DVR, an Xbox app, DirectX 12 and several exclusive games including Halo and Minecraft. Apparently DirectX 12 has been adopted faster than any other version before it with games such as Fable Legends and Gears of War pushing the new technology to its limit. DirectX 12 is also supported by the most popular game development engines including Unreal, Unity and Oxide.
Myerson tossed around out some statistics too saying:
143,000 years of games has already been played on Windows 10 since it launched just over 2 months ago
The game Solitaire has 7 million people playing over 300 minutes per month on Windows 10
These are exciting times for PC owners as not only can many people access Windows 10 for free but the operating system is getting some really cool hardware to run on. This is the launch that Windows 8 should have been but let’s not spoil the present by dwelling on the past.
Do you agree with Myerson about the gaming credentials of Windows 10? Let us know in the comments below.
Further reading: Asus, Gaming, Microsoft, Terry Myerson, Windows 10
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Science|A Stick Insect. A Tree Lobster. Whatever You Call It, It’s Not Extinct.
A Stick Insect. A Tree Lobster. Whatever You Call It, It’s Not Extinct.
The tree lobster, a six-inch-long stick insect, was declared extinct in 1960.CreditCreditRohan Cleave/Melbourne Zoo, Australia
By Joanna Klein
The tree lobster, one of the rarest insects on Earth, has lived a rather twisted life story.
Scientifically known as Dryococelus australis, this six-inch-long stick bug with a lobster-esque exoskeleton once occupied Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand.
In 1918, rats escaping a capsized steamship swam ashore. The tree lobsters became rat chow. Two years later, all tree lobsters seemed to have vanished, and by 1960 they were declared extinct.
But in the latest chapter for what has also been called the Lord Howe stick insect, scientists compared the genomes of living stick bugs from a small island nearby to those of museum specimens, revealing that they are indeed the same species. The resulting paper, published Thursday in Current Biology, resolves an identity question that has impeded conservation efforts for years, and sets the scale to effectively resurrect the insect.
“This allows us a second chance to bring it back to the island,” said Alexander Mikheyev, an ecologist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology who led the study.
Not long after the insects were believed extinct, climbers found dead tree lobsters on Ball’s Pyramid, a sheer rock cliff of an island separated from Lord Howe by 12 miles of water. In 2001, nearly four decades later, scientists scaled the rock, a third-of-a-mile-high, and discovered a small group of living tree lobsters dining on tea tree at night. It turned out they were not extinct.
But some scientists worried these tree lobsters might actually be a distinct species because they looked mysteriously different from the preserved Lord Howe tree lobsters. Their legs were skinnier with smaller spines and the little stubs sticking out from the abdomen called cerci were slightly off. They were darker. It wasn’t clear if they’d always been on Ball’s Pyramid or if birds, mistaking them for nesting material, carried them there. The two islands were never connected by land, and the insects couldn’t swim.
A female tree lobster specimen. Scientists have learned that the Ball’s Pyramid stick insect and the Lord Howe stick insect are variations of the same species.CreditRohan Cleave/Melbourne Zoo, Australia
The researchers collected living specimens to create a new population of tree lobsters that could be reintroduced to the wild if the ones on Ball’s Pyramid ever disappeared. Now thousands of living descendants and eggs from the Ball’s Pyramid couple are held in zoos and museums around the world.
But more recently, Dr. Mikheyev and his colleagues managed to reveal that the genetic differences between Lorde Howe and Ball’s Pyramid insects were within the range of the same species. This meant that they had to make sense of stick bugs’ massive genome — about a quarter bigger than the human genome. They did this by comparing genetic samples from living Ball’s Pyramid tree lobsters with material extracted from Lord Howe specimens preserved in museums. Age, inbreeding, environment or diet might explain their new look.
The finding could make it possible to restore the insects to their former home on Lord Howe island.
But rats remain a problem on the island, where they have killed off five bird species and around a dozen invertebrates, and still threaten 70 other species.
Following years of research and debate, the Lord Howe Island Board decided in September to go ahead with a rat eradication program. Beginning in mid-2018, helicopters will drop cereal laced with rat poison onto the island.
If all goes to plan, threatened or endangered species like ground lizards, snails and the Little Mountain Palm could then recover on this World Heritage site.
The tree lobsters may be able to return, too. Confirming their identity was important because the consequences of introducing a new species mistaken for an old one to Lord Howe Island were unpredictable.
Return candidates must also be chosen. Would they come directly from Ball’s Pyramid, or their captive bred descendants? Ideally, the most genetically diverse tree lobsters have the best shot at recolonization. This means more genetic analysis.
As the Lord Howe tree lobster saga continues, one thing is certain: The tree lobster was never a lobster in a tree, but it is just as much a tree lobster as it ever was.
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In Review > Concerts and Recitals
Alexander Nevsky | Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra
ON OCTOBER 22, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony concluded the third day of a Carnegie Hall vastly successful residency with an all-Russian program dominated by Sergei Prokofiev’s 1939 concert cantata Alexander Nevsky. The work, for huge orchestral forces, chorus and contralto, derived from but also varies in detail from the magnificent music Prokofiev crafted at top speed for Sergei Eisenstein’s striking 1938 historical/propaganda film of the same name. Listeners new to Nevsky might have recognized some of its themes from War and Peace: the composer recycled them in Kutuzov’s aria and the patriotic finale. Operatic sources for some of Prokofiev’s deft instrumentation choices include Glinka’s Ruslan and Liudmila and Glazunov’s overture to Borodin’s Prince Igor, omitted in the recent Met staging. Nevsky is a thrilling piece to encounter in a sonically magical hall, and Nelsons displayed complete command of it. The percussion section had a (battle) field day, and—as at the previous day’s Elektra—the Boston strings proved wondrous in their cushioned texture and clean attack.
Mariinsky Theater mezzo Nadezhda Serdyuk had made a trenchant First Maid in the previous night’s resounding Elektra. Her entrance to sing the spirited, moving Lament “The Field of the Dead” was well timed: clad in black, she passed with dignity through the violin section and arrived next to Nelsons’ podium at the perfect moment to begin that movement. Dramatically, it might have been better to have her—as the representative of the catastrophe’s survivors—leave the stage before the upbeat final chorus hymning Nevsky. Perhaps the fear was that people would applaud? At any rate, Serdyuk sang with commendable sincerity, evenness and poise. She does not command the deep, “earth-mother” richness of an Irina Arkhipova, Lili Chookasian or Ewa Podles—and the Lament seems to cross over from touching to devastating only with such a voice deployed. But Serdyuk’s vocalism was assured, with a lovely spin on the final word, and her clearly uttered text was a tonic after the Americanized vowels and loosely conceived consonants of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. In most other ways, however, James Bagwell’s choral forces—absent, of course, the authentic tinge of awesome Russian bass sound—were remarkable for both sonority and precision, both in dynamics and cut-offs. The cantata’s choral parts demand a full range of expression, from ethereal to sinister (the Latin texts of the Teutonic Knights’ spiritual guides, who are corrupt, terrifying figures in the film) to ecstatic. Nothing was stinted.
The evening concluded with Sergei Rachmaninov’s final work, the career-summatory, nostalgic Symphonic Dances, premièred by the Philadelphia Orchestra in January 1941 and first heard in Carnegie days later. The composer’s only music for saxophone stood out amidst the BSO’s remarkably harmonious and controlled playing. Nelsons and his forces will clearly be welcome, envy-inducing guests whenever they concertize in New York. —David Shengold
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Home News Reports West Bengal: Mamata visits hospital, accuses protesting doctors of hurling abuses at her
West Bengal: Mamata visits hospital, accuses protesting doctors of hurling abuses at her
Last month, Mamata had created a similar fuss confronting people chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans and had claimed that they were 'outsiders' who were 'hurling abuses' at her.
Mamata Banerjee, Courtesy: businessworld.in
Amidst the agitating doctor’s mayhem in Kolkata, West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee has cast accusations at 13 doctors at the SSKM hospital of verbally abusing her during her visit there.
The chief minister made the allegation hours after her visit to the state-run hospital in the afternoon to take stock of the situation in the wake of disruption of medical services across the state. Mamata claimed that there were ‘outsiders’ present among the agitating SSKM hospital doctors, who “abused” her.
“I went to the emergency section where they could have talked to me, but the language they used when I was there and the manner they abused me. Had somebody else been there in my place, some other action would have followed,” Banerjee told a Bengali news channel on Thursday.
The chief minister, however, said that she had, owing to their young age, forgiven them. “I only wanted them to return to their duties”, said the CM.
Doctors across West Bengal have gone on a strike in protest against the insensitivity shown by the state government towards the attacked doctors in West Bengal. Services have come to a halt over the past three days in emergency wards, outdoor facilities and pathological units of many state-run medical colleges and hospitals and a large number of private medical facilities in the state.
The crisis escalated after Mamata Banerjee accused the protesting doctors of being ‘outsiders’ and dubbed the entire matter a conspiracy by her political opponents. Now, several doctors at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata have resigned demanding an apology from the Chief Minister for her remarks.
On Thursday, Professor Saibal Kumar Mukherjee and Professor Saurabh Chattopadhyay had also resigned as the Principal and Vice-Principal respectively of NRS Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.
Moreover, several doctors from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH), Department of General Medicine at Calcutta National Medical College (CNMC) and North Bengal Hospital, Darjeeling submitted en masse resignation over the State government’s apathy towards the protesting and assaulted doctors.
Several interns and junior doctors had defied Mamata Banerjee’s ultimatum to continue with the strike until their demands are met.
Meanwhile, lakhs of doctors across the country have decided to boycott work for a day to express solidarity with their protesting colleagues in West Bengal.
Union Minister for Health, Dr Harshvarshan has also come out to appeal to Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal Chief Minister, not to turn the issue of doctors going on strike following violence being unleashed on them as a matter of prestige.
However, this is not the first time Mamata has made this ‘outsider hurling abuses at her’ claim. Last month, Mamata had created a similar fuss confronting people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans and had claimed that they were ‘outsiders’ who were ‘hurling abuses’ at her. Displaying similar intolerance then too, she had put her state officers to work, who on her instructions had unleashed terror on people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the state.
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The police have informed that the madarsa students had an argument with one of the 4 people in the other group which led to a clash.
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The New Black Panther Party is offering $10,000 for the "capture" of the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that New Black Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the bounty on George Zimmerman's head during a rally over the weekend in Sanford, Florida, where the shooting happened last month.
"If the government won't do the job, we'll do it," Muhammad said, referring to the failure thus far of police to arrest Zimmerman.
Sanford Police Captain Robert O'Connor is asking that people ignore the offer.
"The City is requesting calm heads and no vigilante justice," he said in a statement. "Attempts by civilians to take any person into custody may result in criminal charges or unnecessary violence."
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On Israel trip, some state employees spent taxpayer dollars at $425-a-night hotel
By Ana Ceballos
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The Florida Cabinet, from left, Attorney General Ashley Moody, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Petronis, Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, convenes on Wednesday May 29, 2019, in an annex of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. (Office of Gov. Ron DeSantis)
TALLAHASSEE — When Florida Cabinet members went to Israel in late May, some state employees who traveled at taxpayer expense stayed in a more than $425-a-night luxury hotel in Jerusalem, where a Cabinet meeting was held.
But more than a month after the trade mission ended, the full cost of the trip, proposed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is not clear.
The governor’s office has not released expense records from the weeklong trip. And Enterprise Florida, an economic-development agency that receives state and private money and helped plan the trip, said on its website that “total mission expenses are compiled approximately 45-60 days” after the trip ends, suggesting it could still be about a month before a total tally will be made public.
But records obtained by the News Service of Florida detailing travel expenses of Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Cabinet staff members show taxpayers footed the bill for nearly $30,000 in hotel rooms, airfare, “registration” fees for Enterprise Florida, baggage fees and per-diem costs, which can include meals.
That total covered expenses for Fried, three of her staff members, Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis’ chief of staff and Attorney General Ashley Moody’s general counsel.
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Records show Fried and the five staff members spent $15,663 for hotel rooms, which included nights at the David Citadel Hotel, a luxury five-star hotel in Jerusalem that charges $425 a night with the promise of a “majestic Jerusalem experience facing the Old City wall.”
The records show, in part, that two of Fried’s employees each stayed at the David Citadel for two nights, totaling $1,700. Moody's general counsel also stayed there for two nights for a total of $850. A report for Patronis’ chief of staff, Ryan West, did not provide detailed information about hotel stays, but his lodging expenses for the trip totaled $2,400.
“If Florida taxpayers are on the hook for a $500-a-night hotel for state employees, I would say that is excessive. It starts to sound more like a junket than a real trade mission,” said Ben Wilcox, director of Integrity Florida, a nonprofit group that does research on ethics-related issues.
Kathleen Keenan, a spokeswoman for Enterprise Florida, said the hotel was picked after taking security concerns and room capacity into consideration. She said more than 90 hotel rooms needed to be reserved for the delegation of about 200 people.
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Along with state leaders, the delegation included top-tier lobbyists, business officials such as the president and CEO of Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest utility company, and 24 people representing Florida universities.
The U.S. Embassy offered suggestions for other hotels, Keenan said, but the David Citadel was the “only hotel with the capacity to reserve a room block large enough for the delegation.” She also said the DeSantis-led mission occurred during Israel’s peak tourism season, suggesting the trip’s timeline made it harder to find secure hotels that could have been cheaper.
It remains unclear exactly how many people had their travel expenses covered by Enterprise Florida, whose board is chaired by DeSantis and includes the Cabinet members, numerous business leaders and state officials.
What is known, however, is that Fried was the lone Cabinet officer who did not have all of her travel expenses covered by the public-private agency. Patronis and Moody traveled on the dime of Enterprise Florida. The agency did not answer why that was the case.
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“Enterprise Florida did cover several expenses for Commissioner Fried’s participation, including her in-country transportation, security and meals,” said Franco Ripple, a spokesman for Fried. “We have no way of knowing what expenses Enterprise Florida chose to cover for other Cabinet officials.”
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In total, Fried’s office billed taxpayers for $20,714 in travel costs. That included $4,246 in hotel rooms and airfare for Fried, whose stay at the David Citadel was covered by Enterprise Florida, and $16,167 for the combined expenses of three of her staffers.
The costs, which also included some additional, relatively minor expenses, were approved by agency supervisors with the understanding that the contingent would be “carrying out their core critical mission on behalf of the (Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services).”
While in Israel, Fried’s office at times parted ways from the governor’s delegation to learn about the country’s agriculture industry, including a meeting with Agriculture Minister Uri Uriel.
Ana Ceballos writes for the News Service of Florida.
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JJ Abrams Explains Kylo Ren's Table of Ashes from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Kieran Dickson
Tuesday, 05 April 2016 - 1:19PM
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens now out on Blu-Ray and Digital platforms, fans can examine the latest Star Wars movie in a whole new level of detail. However, far from giving us clarity, such scrutiny can often raise even more questions, most of which won't be answered until Episode 8 at the very earliest.
With the exception of Rey, none of The Force Awakens' major characters have been the subject of more questions and speculation than Kylo Ren (Snoke isn't 'major'....yet). Despite being the subject of many revelations in the movie, the wannabe Sith Lord remains something of an enigma. From the formation of the Knights of Ren to his time training under Luke Skywalker, it would seem that there's still much to learn about Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, but in a recent interview with EW JJ Abrams revealed new details about the character, namely what the deal is with that table of ashes in his quarters.
When Kylo is interrogating Rey we see him take off his mask and slam it into a dusty table of ashes. Abrams explained what the ashes were, before revealing that we could have seen it featured much earlier in the movie.
"The backstory is, that that table has the ashes of the enemies he's killed," said Abrams. "That moment was actually shot for, and meant to be used in, the scene where he was talking to the Vader mask."
Abrams continued "He originally had his mask off the first time we shot that scene. Then we reshot it with his mask on, but we had that shot which I loved and thought was so cool of the mask being slammed down into that ash," Abrams says. "So that shot was stolen from the scene that we had changed and put into the scene with Rey."
So it looks like Kylo Ren was more than just an emo Sith wannabe, he was a seriously dark and twisted soul. Given all of Kylo's inner conflict, it could be that he keeps the ashes of his foes as a reminder of his Dark Side– a kind of trophy that reminds him that, no matter how strong the call to the light is, he's still on a path to emulating his grandfather.
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1919 - Oxford Handbooks
Jean-François Fayet
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism
Edited by Stephen A. Smith
History, Social and Cultural History
The War is a Revolution, a Multitude of Revolutions
Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions in Europe
Anti-Imperialist Contestation
Introduction: Towards a Global History of Communism
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Communism
Lenin and Bolshevism
Stalin and Stalinism
Mao and Maoism
The Comintern
Communism in Eastern Europe
Communism in China, 1900–2010
Communism in South East Asia
Communism in Latin America
Communism in the Islamic World
Communism in Africa
Political and Economic Relations between Communist States
Averting Armageddon: The Communist Peace Movement, 1948–1956
The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
Communist Revolution and Political Terror
Popular Opinion Under Communist Regimes
Communism and Economic Modernization
Collectivization and Famine
The Politics of Plenty: Consumerism in Communist Societies
The Life of a Communist Militant
Workers under Communism: Romance and Reality
Communism and Women
Privilege and Inequality in Communist Society
Nation-Making and National Conflict under Communism
Cultural Revolution
Communism and the Artistic Intelligentsia
Religion under Communism
Sport Under Communism
Two years after the revolution in Russia, the social revolution was once again fermenting on the ruins of the empires defeated in the war. The First World War was turning into a civil war and not only in countries defeated in the war. The year 1919 saw the spread of workers’ and soldiers’ councils and a series of anti-colonial revolts in the Middle East and Far East. As yet, the link between these and the October Revolution was largely symbolic, since the Communist International generally learned of events only after the fact even as it endeavoured to integrate them within a global theoretical framework. Nevertheless it felt as though revolution were spreading like a contagion, at the same time as a wave of repression no less generalized was building up. Opening in revolutionary struggle, the year 1919 would end in victory for counter-revolution.
Keywords: civil war, Communist International, council, counter-revolution, anti-colonial, First World War, imperialism, repression, October Revolution
Jean-François Fayet teaches in the Department of History in the University of Geneva. He has published extensively on the history of international communism and is author of Karl Radek (1885–1939). Biographie politique (Berne: Lang, 2004).
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"Days Of Our Lives" Weekly Recap: Vomitus Donuts From The Bowels Of Hell
Welcome to our weekly recap of Days Of Our Lives, the story of three gay men, a special PRESUMED DEAD BUT NOW MISSING manwhore, and the inconsequential straight people who bug the shit out of them (and us).
This week can best described as ... what's the word I'm looking for ... oh yeah ... FILLER.
They guys only had two episodes, and i didn't do an actual count, but i swear the number of new scenes and the hot sepia flashbacks of what happened just last week were about 50/50.
But we did get a new twist, if "new" can describe one of the hoariest of all soap opera cliches.
But we'll get to that.
Paul visits Will to find out what the fuck is up with all the sneaking around with Sonny. Well, he doesn't put it exactly like that ... he's Paul. Which means he earnestly asks what was going on at the mansion and vulnerably asks why Will has been so scarce.
Will tells him that everything is fine, and there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Well, he doesn't put it exactly like that ... he's Will. Which means he hems and haws and stutters as his eyes dart back and forth.
Will convinces Paul that they were just discussing the case, and that he told Sonny about his uncovered memories, and made it clear that even though he remembers telling Sonny "I love you," his heart is now with Paul.
Paul buys it, but is taken aback when Will tells him he has to work on a story all night and maybe it'll be better if Paul stays at his own place tonight.
SIDEBAR: Where does Paul live? Is he still staying at that hotel? Did they get another hot meddling bellhop? Is it the same hotel where Brady lives? Does little Tate ride his tricycle through the empty halls trying to escape the horror of his life? Oh the things that boy has seen.
Meanwhile, Sonny is struggling with keeping the secret of Leo's death. I mean struggling. Physically spastically struggling. Justin arrives at the mansion and immediately wants to know what happened to THAT RUG.
Okay ... I understand that the show doesn't want us to forget that THAT RUG is playing a major part in a storyline, but every person who comes into the mansion immediately stops everything and loudly exclaims "WHERE IS THAT RUG?" Okay, people, it's not the friggin Shroud Of Turin, just calm down.
Justin wants to prepare Sonny for the trial, but Sonny is completely out of it. He's sweaty and twitchy, and frankly looks like he's trying to keep his cheeks together til he can get to the toilet.
After ditching his dad, Sonny meets Will at ... the park ... and they plan how they're going to proceed. They decide to go to where they left the car, prop Leo up in the front seat (Presumably after unrolling him from THAT RUG, but you never know with these two) and crash the car into a tree or telephone pole, thus making it look like a car accident. And hopefully the investigator will be Chief Wiggum or Roscoe P. Coltrane, cause no actual cop would ever buy this.
Their plan goes off without a hitch ... oh wait ... there's the little matter of Leo's car and body disappearing into thin air. Hey, problem solved!
The next day Leo is a no-show for the trial (I would have forgiven this show for all its bullshit if Leo suddenly entered the courtroom wearing a new suit made from THAT RUG). Sonny rushes over to see Will and they discuss their strategy.
Just kidding! They both freak out.Will tells him "I called every impound lot within a 50 mile radius and none of them have the car." Good idea Will! Now when the D.A. subpoenas your phone records, it'll be a nice tidy list.
Sonny speculates that whoever Leo was working with Leo might have followed them and taken the car. Sure. Works for me.
Paul walks in with a bag of delicious sandwiches he was going to share with Will to help him meet his deadline, but sees Will and Sonny sitting on the bed, and suddenly sharing his meatloaf with Will doesn't sound as appetizing.
Will explains about Leo not showing up for the trial, and when Paul offers to try to find out where Leo ran off to, Sonny practically blurts out "GO TO HELL!" He tells Paul thanks, but he really wants to put Leo in the past, and hopefully Leo just left town and they'll never have to deal with him again. Paul is not at all suspicious.
Paul says uh-huh, okay, whatever. Having had enough of Sonny for one day, Paul hints that he only brought two delicious sandwiches, so they'll have to share. Will says "Actually, they want me to drop the story I was working on and write this story about Leo not showing up at the trial, so I'm going to need to be with Sonny for a while."Paul takes the hint and leaves the delicious sandwiches. After he's gone Sonny tells Will that if he needs to tell Paul the truth he'll understand, but Will says "If I tell Paul, that makes him an accessory to the crime." He doesn't want to involve Paul, but he warns Sonny that eventually Paul will figure it out.
Elsewhere in Salem ...Gabi is still trying to get back in Ari's good graces, but it isn't working out, thankfully. She brings her a new doll, and Ari flings it across the room like it was an extorting manwhore.
Besides, Ari already has a favorite doll, which she immediately runs upstairs to play with.
Causing this ...
Oh, and Jennifer begs Eric to taste her plain cake donuts. That's not a euphemism. He wisely resists. I'm still waiting for the day when he confesses his love for cream-filled eclairs.See you next week!
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Home » Resources » "We are Healthy, Why Change?" Perspectives, Observations, Experiences of People Living in Poverty on Their Hygiene and Nutrition
"We are Healthy, Why Change?" Perspectives, Observations, Experiences of People Living in Poverty on Their Hygiene and Nutrition
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Reality Check Approach + Project Team
The Reality Check Approach is an internationally recognised qualitative research approach that requires the study team to live with people in poverty in their own homes for a period of time and to use this opportunity to have many informal conversations and interactions with all the members of the household, their neighbours and with the service providers with whom they interact.
This study was jointly commissioned by a group of stakeholders including the World Bank, KOMPAK and the Knowledge Sector Initiative. It was designed to understand the nuances of hygiene and nutrition behaviour from the perspective of families living in poverty.
The study was undertaken in three provinces across Indonesia (Central Kalimantan, Maluku, and North Sulawesi), the same districts as those chosen for the Frontline Service Providers RCA study to enable further examination and triangulation of the dynamics between the community and frontline service providers.
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Produced by the Participation Research Cluster, Institute of Development Studies.
Generously supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
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Architectural Concrete –
Modern Language of Architects
Whether it is at breathtaking heights or through extreme forms and structures - the visions of architects for the realisation of museums, concert halls, stadiums or bridges place the highest possible demands on the construction industry around the world.
In many cases, architectural concrete is the modern solution, whether it is for civil engineering, economic or aesthetic reasons.
PERI provides its customers in the construction industry with practical help and support: selection, planning and supply of formlining and formwork systems which are optimally matched to the project requirements. The right formwork solution for every architectural concrete surface, from standard formwork to special designs. The best results arise from the very close cooperation between architects, contractors and PERI engineers.
Basic Principles for Realisation
Architectural concrete has developed into one of the most important means of design in modern architecture. No other building material can be used and processed in such a versatile manner. Therefore, architectural concrete is used for almost all construction tasks. Through the design capabilities of the fresh concrete, virtually any shape and quality can be economically realised with the help of appropriate formwork systems and formlining. The different architectural concrete qualities are divided into four classes according to the DBV (German Concrete Association) pamphlet, "Architectural Concrete".
The creation of architectural concrete as a design element is influenced by the:
formlining and formwork system
concrete mix including type of cement and aggregates
added pigments
selection of a suitable release agent
subsequent surface treatment such as washing, sanding, polishing and sand-blasting
hydrophobizing impregnation, colour varnishing and coatings
The development of the building material concrete with new concrete types such as high-strength, lightly-compacted and self-compacting concretes as well as fibre-reinforced concretes (steel and textile fibres) opens up further areas of application.
DIN 18217 "Concrete Surfaces and Formlining" is considered as the definitive standard for the construction of different kinds of concrete surfaces. Aesthetic references are not stipulated in this standard because there are no binding regulations for the production of architectural concrete. This is understandable as the creative intent of a planner cannot be standardised. His task is to describe as comprehensively and clearly as possible his individual ideas about the appearance of a concrete structural component.
With the DBV "Architectural Concrete" pamphlet, which defines specific architectural concrete classes and the associated requirement criteria, good technical support is available to planners, those tendering contracts and contractors themselves. It is strongly recommended to put out to tender, assign and supply the services on the basis of this pamphlet.
The Architectural Concrete Team
For the planning and execution of structures and structural components with special concrete surface requirements, the coordinated co-operation of all parties involved is essential. The expectations and requirements of the planners and clients must correspond to that which can be realised in the actual execution.
The best solution for a good result is the creation of an architectural concrete team. As the contract has not been normally allocated in the planning phase, and no final decision has been taken regarding who will carry out the work, consultation agreements with competent specialist companies (e.g. formwork manufacturer) or experienced engineering offices. The selected engineering office can then assume the role of architectural concrete coordinator in the architectural concrete team.
Overview Formwork Systems
In modern formwork construction, system formwork or shuttering is primarily used which consists mainly of system components. The compatibility of the individual system components has several advantages: non the one hand, the specified assembly logic increases the chance that individual formwork components are used correctly. On the other, the number of possible uses on the construction site is multiplied whereby amortization costs of the equipment used - related to a building project - are reduced. At the same time, using system formwork is much safer for the construction team.
With the use of formwork systems for architectural concrete surfaces, the quality of the formwork is to be taken into consideration. Panel formwork is mainly used as the rental formwork supplied by the rental parks. Here, the individual formwork elements have different utilisation rates and can also feature repaired areas. With rental formwork, only SB 1 and SB 2 architectural concrete classes can be achieved. Realising the higher SB3 and SB 4 classes of architectural concrete is not possible or only possible to a limited extent using rented panel formwork, for example with PERI MAXIMO.
The commonly used formwork systems can be divided into different groups
Architectural Concrete Team
Formwork Systems
Formlining
Infrastructure construction
In traffic route construction - for example, bridges, tunnels or retaining walls - architectural concrete is regarded as an important design element.
These concrete surfaces are often observed only from a distance or vehicles driving past at speed. In order to create optical accents, clear design elements therefore must be selected. For example, formwork panel joints or those joints resulting from working phases, must be distinctly formed.
However it is important to note that many components of these structures are mainly exposed to the direct influences of the weather. This means they undergo a rapid aging process and, in the course of time, also greatly change their appearance.
Formwork Systems for Walls
With wall formwork systems, a distinction is made between panel formwork and girder formwork. A special feature is represented circular formwork systems.
Panel formwork
Today, around 70% of building companies use panel formwork in order to construct concrete walls. The name is derived from the peripheral frame which protects the edges of the fitted formlining against mechanical wear and stress. As a result, the panel joints leave a typical impression on the concrete surface. In addition, the steel or aluminum frames are used for installation of the formwork anchors and also serve for accommodating the formwork couplers and moving devices.
The main principle of panel formwork is embodied through the PERI TRIO. Other panel formwork systems are similar in their respective concrete finish. The grid arrangement of the standard panels and formwork ties varies between 2.70 m and 3.50 m, and the individual panels can be connected with each other either vertically or horizontally. Panel formwork is robust, long-lasting and easy to use due to its pre-determined assembly arrangement.
Girder Formwork
Girder formwork is used much less today than was previously the case, and mostly for special applications. Its name is derived from the wooden or metal formwork girders that are used. Main beams, steel waling and freely-selectable formlining form prefabricated formwork elements, the so-called formwork sections. The steel walers connect the system and also serve as support surfaces for the anchoring system.
The main principle of girder formwork is embodied through the PERI VARIO GT 24. Other panel formwork systems are similar in their respective concrete finish. The grid arrangement of the standard elements and formwork ties can vary.
We differentiate between
A) Standard elements
Prefabricated sections with pre-determined element sizes stored in rental parks, partly equipped with formlining for secondary requirements and as supporting panel for architectural concrete formliner.
B) Object-related formwork elements
These formwork sections are project-planned and produced according to special requirements. The formlining (type, size, fixing), girder and waling (spacings) as well as the tie arrangement are freely selectable whilst taking into account the system´s principles.
Curved walls can be constructed polygonally in the form of a polygon with panel formwork through inserted trapezoidal cover strips. Circular wall areas are formed with special girder formwork systems with which the required radius is achieved by means of adjustable spindles connecting the single waler sections. Bending radii are continuously possible from 1.00 m to approx. 20.00 m. The curvature of the formlining is achieved through special profiled timber - cut to match the curvature radius - which is inserted between the formlining and girder position.
MAXIMO Panel Kalıbı
TRIO Panel Kalıp
DOMINO Panel Kalıbı
VARIO GT 24 Perde Kalıp Sistemi
RUNDFLEX Dairesel Duvar Kalıbı
Formwork Systems for Slabs
Likewise as for girder formwork systems for walls, slab formwork is made out of wooden or metal girders. It stands out through its flexible range of applications.
Slab tables, which are normally used to form large slab areas, consist of the same system components. Through the large-sized formlining surfaces, the number of panel joints is reduced and facilitates a concrete finish which fully meets higher requirements.
Similar to the panel formwork for the wall area, panel formwork was developed for constructing slabs. The main advantage of panel slab formwork is the fast and safe utilisation. According to the design principle, slab formwork is divided into:
girder slab formwork (e.g. MULTIFLEX)
panelized slab formwork (e.g. SKYDECK)
girder grid slab formwork (e.g. GRIDFLEX)
large-sized formwork (e.g. table modules, customised tables)
With slabs, the quality of the concrete surface can vary for different reasons. This includes panel impressions caused by the panel layout of the formwork system being used. Likewise the quality, arrangement and size of the individual sheets of the freely selected formlining influences the concrete quality.
MULTIFLEX Kirişli Döşeme Kalıbı
SKYDECK Döşeme Kalıbı
GRIDFLEX Döşeme Kalıbı Sistemi
MASA Modülü VT Döşeme Masası
Formwork Systems for Column
Column or support formwork is mostly a derivation of panel or girder formwork. As a result, the special features are very similar. In order to be able to fulfil the required quality standard for supports and columns, the correct choice of formwork system also has to be selected here. Depending on the requirements of the column cross-section, the finish of the edges or the concrete surface, panel and girder formwork are used.
VARIO GT 24 Kolon Kalıbı
TRIO Kolon Kalıbı
SRS Dairesel Kolon Kalıbı
Formwork Systems 3D free-form surfaces
Through the use of extraordinary structural forms, owners and architects frequently set visual accents in the construction of cultural buildings or for prestigious structures which feature very demanding building requirements. These so-called 3D free-form surfaces can hardly be realised with conventional formworking methods. Furthermore, there is the fact that most of the remaining visible surfaces are to be constructed in the highest quality and with sharp edges. For these extravagant building structures, an individual customised formwork concept must be realised in each case.
This formwork concept is developed on the basis of a three-dimensional building model provided by the formwork manufacturer. It consists of statically supporting basic elements and form-giving 3D formwork units. The individual elements are easily joined together on the construction site and then positioned with the help of measuring points, auxiliary axes and erection aids. On-site utilisation takes place similar to that of systemized formwork.
3D Kalıp Birimleri
Formlining - Design of the Concrete Surfaces
Through the selection of the formlining, a large number of design possibilities for the concrete surface structure are possible. In the process, the formlining determines the surface character of the concrete - independent of any subsequent processing or treatment. The person writing the tender documents must have detailed knowledge of the formlining together with the material properties, coatings and processing as well as the interaction with the release agent and the fresh concrete, and take this into account during the planning. The specifications of the concrete surface must be well-defined so that the contractor can take into consideration all aspects relevant to the materials and applications without any risk when selecting the formlining to be used. Furthermore, he must be able to assess the feasibility and to point out any expected tolerances and fluctuations in the results.
Four formlining factors which have a decisive influence on the concrete surface:
Absorbency of the formlining Concrete surface light/dark
Surface texture (structure) Concrete surface texture
Formlining joints Grid arrangement of the concrete surface
Fixing of the formlining Impressions on the concrete surface
PERI FinPly
Today's structural designs and building methods allow the realisation of impressive architectural concepts. In this respect, we would like to present a number of projects featuring a wide range of variants.
General building construction
For many years now, architects have re-discovered the potential of architectural concrete in building construction and to use it as an important design element. Parallel to the development of building materials and process technologies, the requirements have also risen quite significantly. High-strength as well as liquefied through to self-compacting concretes facilitate the realisation of more slender concrete constructions along with more diversified forms. Curved and inclined walls and slabs are a frequently featured design element. The formwork construction industry has adapted itself to the situation accordingly. The desire for achieving smooth, joint-free concrete surfaces as far as possible can be satisfied with the range of available large-sized formlining.
Components in the protected inner areas are not exposed to weathering, therefore the aging process of these concrete surfaces takes place substantially more slowly. Concrete surfaces on the inside areas of a building are viewed at very short distances. Therefore, details will become considerably more accentuated. Due to this reason, architectural concrete classes SB3 and SB4 are frequently demanded by architects.
As a result, the planning architects together with the building contractor should define what is feasible in order to achieve the required architectural concrete finish. Otherwise excessive demands and rectification work will cause inadequate and unsatisfactory results.
Particularly in the area of cultural buildings, architects and project planners prefer architectural concrete as a means of design. Apart from artistic requirements regarding the visibly remaining concrete surfaces, the special forms of the complete structures or individual components also frequently dominate proceedings.
During the formwork planning attention should be paid to ensure a neat joint and tie pattern as well as an orderly arrangement of the formwork elements. This is because the panel joints and tie pattern along with the formation of the tie points are substantial design elements in architectural concrete.
In order to achieve a uniform finish of the concrete surface, special attention must be paid when selecting the type of concrete to be used and the entire processing technology of the concrete including any subsequent treatment. If increased requirements are placed on the appearance of the concrete surfaces, it is advisable that new formlining is installed in the formwork. If required, the anchor pattern can be supplemented with blind anchors to form a neat symmetrical arrangement. For the invitation to tender for architectural concrete in the construction of cultural buildings, it is recommended to take architectural concrete classes SB3 and SB4 of the DBV of instruction card into consideration.
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Learn how to manage language and subtitles preferences for Prime Video.
At this time, the Prime Video website and Prime Video app user interface are available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
For many Prime Video titles, you can choose multi-language subtitles and audio dubbing for video playback in languages including French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Portuguese and English.
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You can set a default language for subtitles and audio dubbing from the video player:
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Select your preferred language from the list of available options.
Your language selection will be used automatically whenever you play a future video on this device if the selected language is available
Note: Subtitles and audio will only play with your preferred language if it is available for the movie or TV show you're watching. To learn more, go to Turn on Subtitles & Multi-Language Audio.
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You can also customize the text display used for subtitles on the Prime Video website:
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Use the Edit button to configure your presets. You can change the text color, style, size, and more.
Tip: You can also do this while you're watching a movie or TV show on the Prime Video website. Select Subtitles and Audio ("speech bubble" icon) in your playback controls, and select you preferred text display from the preset options.
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Timmins 9-1-1 Dispatchers
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Cst. Liban Farah joined the Ottawa Police Service with an intention of making his community a safer place and on December 8, 2017, he did just that. Cst. Farah was patrolling downtown Ottawa when he heard a radio call for service in response to a shooting that had occurred at King Edward Ave at Rideau St in the heart of downtown Ottawa.
My cousin works very hard. She's a great mom and able to balance life and community with her work as a police officer. Photo credit: Jeff Klassen/SooToday
Tina Pippy deserves to be the police hero because she saved a little girl's life. She's kind and caring. See more on this story here: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/8-year-old-girl-thanks-ottawa-cop-who-stepped-in-when-she-was-choking-1.3342936 Photo credit: CTV News Ottawa
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Palfreyman has a good weekend in Switzerland
By John Moore on 30th June 2016
Following the first round of the Formula 2 World Championships in Peurunka, Finland, which saw Matthew involved in a first turn incident, damaging his boat, forcing him to retire from the race and leaving the venue with zero points, the team headed to Campione D’Italia, Switzerland for round 2.
Not deterred by the team’s disappointment in Finland, Matthew contacted multiple time World Champion, Massimo Roggiero, who allowed him the pleasure of driving one of his famous BaBa boats.
The team drove to the BaBa factory in Busto Arsizio, Italy for some last minute boat preparations, then made their way to the race venue following a day of testing the boat in San Nazzaro, making sure everything was in working order and Matthew can have some extra time in the boat prior to the race.
Day one was rather frustrating due to extreme weather and a delay in ambulance presence.
The boats managed to get on to the water and eventually completed two sessions of Free Practice. Due to 25 entries and a water approval of 20, the sessions were split in to A and B, with each group allowed an hour to get used to the course and see which propeller suited the water conditions best. Matthew went second quickest in the free practice session, with a 44.94 second lap, just behind Germany’s Stefan Hagin who put down a 44.28. Due to the delays of the day, qualifying was moved to day two, for what would become a jam packed schedule which also included a repecharge race and the main event of the weekend, the Grand Prix.
Day two also saw a mixture of blazing sun and torrential rain, but fortunately did not affect the tight time schedule. After easily making it through qualifying rounds one and two, Matthew found himself in session three, a ten boat shootout, with each driver getting two laps, alone on the course in an attempt to secure the fastest time.
It was Stefan Hagin to beat once again with a lap time of 45.94, when Matthew’s turn came around, Hagin was beaten with a 45.03, putting him at the top. Only two drivers stood between Matthew and his first ever Pole position, which was taken away by Sweden’s Pierre Lundin, who achieved a rapid 44.19 second lap, putting Matthew in 2nd position for the Grand Prix.
Twenty boats lined up on the start pontoon, for what turned out to be a staggered get away due to an issue with the lights. Though Lundin was unfazed and powered towards the first turn, with no red flag for the light error, this left Matthew with 45 laps to chase him down. During lap 14 whilst passing back markers, there was unfortunately a coming together with Sweden’s Bimba Sjoholm, leaving Matt with damage and Sjoholm out of the race.
Getting closer to Lundin, the BaBa hull lost a deck hatch due to the rough conditions, leaving the boat liable to take on water, making the boat more difficult to drive as the race went on. Despite Matt’s efforts, he was unable to close the gap on Lundin and switched to “get me home mode” in order to take the boat safely past the chequered flag in second position, 30 seconds ahead of third place, Erik Edin, also from Sweden.
Photos: Photos: Emilio Carabelli
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"Hold on, Ui. Your big sister will find you."
From Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story: Magia Record comes a Nendoroid of Iroha Tamaki, the character in search of her younger sister Ui, who disappeared in Kamihama city.
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Rise of the Earth Dragon
West, Tracey
Series: Branches: Dragon Masters Vol. 1
Annotation: Eight-year-old Drake is snatched up by the King's soldiers and taken to the castle where he is told by the wizard Griffith that he has been chosen to be a Dragon Master like Ana, Rori, and Bo, and his first task will be to discover whether his dragon, Worm, has any special powers.
Genre: Adventure fiction Fantasy fiction
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Common Core/STEAM: Common Core
Dragons. Juvenile fiction.
Wizards. Juvenile fiction.
Magic. Juvenile fiction.
Dragons. Fiction.
Wizards. Fiction.
Magic. Fiction.
Drake doesn't like digging onions, but he's resigned to that future. That is, until one of the king's men scoops him up and whisks him away to the castle to become a Dragon Master. When faced with the door to the dungeon, Drake thinks the onion field might be the better choice. But then he sees the dragons. Disappointment strikes again when he meets his particular dragon: the Earth Dragon. It's not flashy, can't fly, and looks like a snake. Still, Drake senses a connection and names it Worm. The two form a bond and save the other dragons and their masters when they attempt to break the rules. In this first of the Dragon Masters series, vocabulary is accessible; sentences, paragraphs, and chapters are short; and dialogue moves the story along rapidly. Black-and-white sketch-type drawings add depth to the story and feelings to the characters (both children and dragons). Emergent readers will find happy success here.
Gr 1&11;3&12; In this heavily illustrated chapter book series for newly independent readers, eight-year-old Drake is chosen by the magical Dragon Stone to train dragons along with three other Dragon Masters-in-training. The four students must learn to connect with their dragons and discover their unique powers.
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Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.1 / points: 1.0 / quiz: 169156 / grade: Lower Grades
This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!
DRAGON MASTERS has it all! Dragons, a Dragon Stone, a king, a wizard, and magic! In the first book in this fully-illustrated series, 8-year old Drake is snatched up by King Roland's soldier and taken to the castle. He is to be trained as a Dragon Master. At the castle, he is joined by three other young Dragon Masters-in-training: Ana, Rori, and Bo. The Dragon Masters must learn how to connect with and train their dragons--and they must also uncover their dragons' special powers. Does Drake have what it takes to be a Dragon Master? What is his dragon's special power?
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Vapor Degreasing Process Uses TCE Replacement to Eliminate Hazardous Waste
Originally titled 'Good Chemistry Helps Vapor Degreasing Process Become Greener'
A solid relationship with a solvent manufacturer has aided Electro-Spec Inc. with the implementation of a trichloroethylene replacement material in its vacuum degreasing unit to clean a customer’s micromachined parts more efficiently.
Electro-Spec used trichloroethylene (TCE) solvent in its Tiyoda vacuum vapor degreasing unit for years. When the solvent came up on the EPA list of top 10 hazardous material, environmental health and safety director Ben McKnight led a research project to find an alternative to this hazardous chemical.
Often customers ship micromachined parts to the company that have yet to be cleaned. When this happens, Electro-Spec uses its vacuum vapor degreasing system prior to plating the parts that are made of copper, copper alloys, steel, stainless steel, Kovar, nickel, titanium and aluminum.
Greg Wilkinson, Yangsheng Zhang and Ben McKnight discuss the vacuum vapor degreasing system at Electro-Spec Inc.
This application requires a degreasing product with very good wetting ability to be able to get into the recessed areas within these micromachined parts to remove soils. Therefore, it needs a solvent that is less viscous—able to clean out recess areas in very small parts.
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Electro-Spec Inc. (Franklin, Indiana) had been using a trichloroethylene (TCE) solvent, one of these hazardous materials, in its Tiyoda vacuum vapor degreasing unit for years. When the solvent came up on the EPA list, environmental health and safety director Ben McKnight led a research project to find an alternative to this hazardous chemical. As members of an environmental stewardship program and members of a program sponsored by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management—Partners for Pollution Prevention—Electro-Spec needed to live up to its drive for environmental excellence, and therefore minimize or eliminate hazardous waste.
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“With the exception of TCE, our facility would be exempt of hazardous waste at the time,” says Mr. McKnight, who is also the executive director for Partners in Pollution Prevention.
While researching companies that sell TCE replacement material, Mr. McKnight discovered the chemical manufacturer, BHC (formerly known as Brulin), only 20 miles away, in Indianapolis. The company produces SolVantage Vapor Solv, a non-hazardous solvent.
“We are so fortunate to have found BHC,” Mr. McKnight says. “We have found an excellent partner in them to help us stay environmentally friendly.”
The two companies’ chemistry isn’t only about the degreasing product — they have formed a strong relationship that goes both ways to moving toward their goals as environmental leaders in the industry.
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Parts Cleaning Editor Lori Beckman interview with Ben McKnight from Electro-Spec and Yangsheng Zhang, Ph.D., director of research and development at Brulin, on how the project is progressing.
It Hasn’t Always Been Easy Being Green
As a precious metal electroplating company since 1959, Electro-Spec plates parts for the automotive, aerospace, military, battery, telecommunication and medical industries. Often customers ship micromachined parts to the company that have yet to be cleaned. When this happens, Electro-Spec uses its vacuum vapor degreasing system prior to plating the parts that are made of copper, copper alloys, steel, stainless steel, Kovar, nickel, titanium and aluminum.
“We need a degreasing product with very good wetting ability to be able to get into the recesses within these micromachined parts to remove soils,” Mr. McKnight says. “Therefore, we need a solvent that is less viscous—able to clean out recess areas in very small parts.”
Prior to looking outside of the company for help with their problem, Greg Wilkinson, a chemist at Electro-Spec, combed a list provided by the EPA with TCE-alternative cleaners. “I spent about two days looking through this list and found zero solvents on it—they were all aqueous cleaners.”
Aqueous cleaners, although environmentally safe, often do not come out of the recesses in the very small parts that Electro-Spec is cleaning. Therefore, a lower viscosity solvent was in demand for this particular application, but also not a solvent that is too viscous to clean inside the tiny areas of the parts.
When the company began working with BHC, it offered samples of Vapor Solv. Electro-Spec used its own SEM/EDX equipment to test soiled parts, then clean them with this newfound solvent and then test them again using the SEM/EDX equipment. After the initial testing results came back positive, the company transitioned to a pre-production scale of the solvent, where it used about 20 gallons of the material.
“I kept track of running samples,” Mr. Wilkinson says. “I ran more than 85,000 parts or 100 loads. The parts range from copper to stainless steel to brass and many types of finishes. Very few of them had defects, and none of them had defects from having been degreased improperly.”
The New Solvent Solves the Problem
Understanding that his customer did not have the freedom to switch to an aqueous product because of the application, Yangsheng Zhang, Ph.D., director of research and development at BHC, realized Electro-Spec’s dire need to be environmentally friendly, yet also produce the cleanest parts without leaving behind traces of cleaning solvent on their parts.
“We have been very active with precision cleaning industries using our different chemistries,” Dr. Zhang says. “We are helping clients become more environmentally compliant. We are helping the industry transition to safer choices. Aqueous solutions have their limitations in certain applications, so we are looking for safer solvents to augment the aqueous product lines.”
SolVantage Vapor Solv is one of these environmentally safer products that BHC has developed. The product is a non-flammable, high performance, precision cleaning solvent particularly designed for vapor degreasing. An azeotropic, fluorinated solvent degreaser, it is safe on virtually all metals; it is non-corrosive and will not stain metal parts.
Vapor Solv also has a very low surface tension, which Dr. Zhang says is especially critical when cleaning micromachined parts as Electro-Spec does. “Lower surface tension helps the cleaner to get in and out around the small holes on the parts or gaps between stacked parts,” he says. Water has surface tension of 72 dyne/cm. With the presence of surfactants, the formulated aqueous cleaners can get close to the low 30s in dyne/cm. “Formulated solvent degreasers, on the other hand, can easily get below 30 dyne/cm, which is often needed to clean micromachined parts. Vapor Solv has an estimated surface tension of 14 dyne/cm,” Dr. Zhang says.
Dr. Zhang’s job, he says, is to help his customers succeed. “If they are successful, we are successful,” he says. “Our development ideas come from the customer. We don’t develop products in a vacuum that don’t answer issues in the real world. We are getting ideas and directions from the industry we serve.”
Advantages for All
After the trial of the new solvent was deemed successful, Electro-Spec converted its vacuum vapor degreasing process to become compatible with the new material.
“This only involved changing a few gaskets, but we had to change those periodically anyway; we just put a different type of gasket in instead,” Mr. Wilkinson says. “It wasn’t a problem or a challenge.”
Not only was the transition to Vapor Solv simple, it came with several benefits unseen with the use of TCE.
First, there’s the environmental advantages for the company, as they are now ahead of the curve with EPA regulations, which is extremely critical for Electro-Spec living up to its environmental excellence standard. This, in turn, also benefits the company’s employees and environment: the new material is non-hazardous, non-flammable and non-carcinogenic.
Also, the new material is much less susceptible to moisture. “If moisture does occur—which it doesn’t—we don’t have to run an acid acceptance test periodically or as frequent as we do the prior material,” Mr. McKnight says.
Electro-Spec is also experiencing energy and cost savings. The new solvent runs at a cooler temperature inside the degreasing system, which saves energy. Since the old material demanded a recharging or changing out, it saves money for the company as well as manpower. “We hope to go three to five years using the new material,” Mr. McKnight says. He adds because the new material is not hazardous, freight cost coming in is less expensive. “And we hope it will be the same on the way out of our facility,” he adds.
The two companies are also working in Electro-Spec’s lab together, doing real-world testing, to create the next generation of solvents.
Electro-Spec is seeing benefits from this partnership, and the company is giving back to BHC for its helpful customer support by offering its lab for further testing. “We don’t have SEM/EDX capabilities at BHC, so Ben and I have an agreement to share the resources,” Dr. Zhang says. “He has graciously let us use 80 hours of instrument time to do some work together.”
Electro-Spec is also giving BHC all the data that is coming off of its testing equipment. “With our SEM/EDX capability, we are able to see if there are any defects that come about, but I don’t foresee that ever happening,” Mr. McKnight says. “I think we will be fine. BHC is going to test the solution for us periodically.”
Next Generation Planning
After solving one issue, the partnership is already moving on to create what it anticipates will be the next generation of solvents: non-chlorinated solvents. “The EPA will not allow chlorinated solvents in the next 10 years,” Mr. McKnight says. “The next generation of solvents will have a lower global warming potential. This one doesn’t have a high one, but it will improve even more for the next solvents.”
Dr. Zhang concurs. “The solvent Electro-Spec is using now has zero ozone depletion potential and global warming potential score of about 400,” he says. “But the next generation will bring that down to global warming potential score to 1, which is extremely low.”
Because of its strong partnership with BHC, Electro-Spec has gained much more than the benefits of a greener solvent to use in its vacuum vapor degreasing system. It has also gained the customer support that goes along with the new material as well as a say in developing the next generation of solvent that will eventually influence the entire parts cleaning industry. And BHC is gaining material testing ability in its customer’s lab as well as valuable customer feedback it is using to design the best possible solvents. The companies’ collaboration has created good “chemistry” in all aspects of the word.
“We are so glad to be able to help a client that is so close in proximity, and they are enjoying our chemistry,” Dr. Zhang says.
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Grand ArtHaus Studio and Exhibit Space Coming to Oasis on Grand in Downtown Phoenix
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Michael Viglietta, Laura Dragon, and Robert Gentile are creating a business called Grand ArtHaus.
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Soon, Grand Avenue will be home to a new arts destination. Laura Dragon, who operates {9} The Gallery, is working with artists Robert Gentile and Michael Viglietta to create a studio and exhibition space at Oasis on Grand.
Owned by Laurie and Tom Carmody, Oasis on Grand is a complex of artist live/work spaces created through an adaptive reuse project in 2011. Art is often exhibited in a central community space, and the complex also includes a 3,000-square-foot space that's been used on and off for exhibitions in recent years.
Dragon says Laurie approached her in mid-December about wanting to activate the space on a regular basis. By then, Dragon says, Carmody had already considered other options, including a restaurant or brewery, but settled on keeping with Oasis on Grand's art focus.
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Dragon says they signed a one-year lease for the space on Thursday, February 18, and have options to renew the lease after that. The trio is creating a working studio space to accommodate about a half-dozen artists. Dragon says it will include both individual work areas delineated by movable walls, and community work space with shared equipment. Eventually they’ll have a space for photo shoots, which photographers will be able to rent as needed.
And there will be regular exhibitions on First and Third Fridays, including the inaugural exhibition they're hoping to open in time for Art Detour on Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20.
Improvements currently underway inside the 3,000-square foot gallery space at Oasis on Grand.
First, they're working to get the space ready.
"They're doing the build-out for us," Dragon says of Carmody and her husband. One bathroom will get a slop sink, and the concrete floors are being touched up, Dragon says. They're also insulating the ceilings, and adding new lighting, heating, and air conditioning. "It will still have a raw, industrial look," Dragon says.
Gentile says he got involved in late January or early February, after asking Dragon whether she knew of any available studio space. He's excited about the venue's "prime location" and other new businesses in the area, including Barrio Cafe (opening soon) and Chartreuse. Those are located in the historic Bragg's Pie Factory that's home to several additional art spaces. In November, another art venue called Unexpected Art Gallery opened just off Grand Avenue.
Exterior for the Oasis on Grand space that's being transformed into Grand ArtHaus.
"I feel everything will be moving to Grand anyway because gentrification in Roosevelt Row will push all the artists out," Gentile says, referencing changes that include new residential developments, and fewer spaces with an indie vibe. "Every First Friday I come down here it's getting busier and busier," he says of Grand Avenue.
Michael Viglietta, an artist with many years experience in the film and television industry, recently moved from Venice to Phoenix. Viglietta connected with Dragon about potential studio spaces through mutual friends, and says he was drawn to Phoenix by the lower cost of working art spaces and several family members living in Chandler. "This is just kismet," he says of the group's new partnership and venue.
Dragon says they're planning to operate Grand ArtHaus as an artist collective, with up to a dozen members using the space on a rotating basis. They're working now to select members of a jury, which will evaluate potential collective members using criteria including CV and artist statement. She expects they'll issue the call for applications in April, and establish the collective by September or so. She's hoping several ASU graduate art students will consider taking part.
They're still finessing the fine print on financial details involving artists, such as monthly collective dues and the cost of working studio spaces. It's likely, Dragon says, that member artists who sell their work will pay 20 to 25 percent back to the collective. But benefits to artists include more than work and exhibition space, Dragon says.
"There's something that goes with having a tribe," she says. "It gives everybody a sense of empowerment."
Lynn Trimble is an award-winning freelance writer and photographer specializing in arts and culture, including visual and performing arts
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PIAC Annual Dinner to feature guest speaker Jean-Pierre Blais, Chairman, CRTC
November 30, 2012, 6 p.m. at the Yangtze Restaurant, 700 Somerset St. W. in Ottawa
OTTAWA – The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) cordially invites all of our friends and colleagues to the PIAC Annual Dinner 2012. We will have a very special guest speaker, Mr Jean-Pierre Blais, the newly appointed Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, joining us. He will be presenting his vision for the CRTC’s approach to consumer protection in telecommunications and broadcasting, as well as introducing Ms. Barbara Motzney, the CRTC’s new Chief Consumer Officer.
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We will also be taking this opportunity to say a big thank you to Michael Janigan for his many years as PIAC’s Executive Director and General Counsel.
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Things I learned from last night’s first live show of the season:
1.) I am sick of hearing “Beneath Your Beautiful” & “I Love It”.
2.) The judges may be regretting putting some of the acts through to the live shows.
3.) There’s a lot of technical kinks with Radio City Music Hall that still need to be worked out.
Overall, I was left a bit disappointed – with as strong of a group of acts that comprised last night’s show, I had high hopes…but only a few acts actually delivered, and almost everyone seemed to suffer from nerves. Guess I can only hope that tonight was just first night jitters – that next week’s live show will come off quite a bit smoother and with fewer gaffes.
So now I’m going to rank the acts we saw last night, from the act that I think is most likely to get through to the act that I think is least likely to get through. Since four acts are advancing, it’s safe to assume that the four at the top of my list are the ones I see making it through – the 5th place spot is the act that I think will lose the judge’s choice.
1.) Collins Key – I had a feeling this kid would knock his act out of the park once more, and he sure did. Loved how he made his act very current and relevant by incorporating Twitter into it – he seemed a bit nervous at times, but overall I liked his delivery and think he appeals to a wide demographic, both young and old. My only concern is that we’ve basically seen the same act from him 3 times in a row now, just tweaked slightly to change things up. I’m hoping he’s got something new up his sleeve for the next round – because at this rate, I think he’s got a decent chance of winning this whole thing.
2.) Branden James – I knew when they had him going last that he was likely going to benefit from some degree of “pimping” from the judges. And when he started belting out “You Raise Me Up”, I knew he had probably just secured himself one of the spots in the next round. I guess I’m just left a little confused as to why Branden is getting such lavish praise – I thought his performance was ok, but nothing exceptionally special; I didn’t think his first audition was anything terribly special, either. I think we have much stronger male opera singers this season – and I think any of the 3 guys in Forte could put him to shame, vocally. Personally, I thought “You Raise Me Up” was a bit of a cop-out song – it’s one of those schmaltzy songs that seems to tug at heartstrings and illicit an emotional response from the audience, even if it’s not sung particularly well. I thought he could have picked something a little more daring to highlight his vocal skills. I think he’s got one of the spots in the next round, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope someone edged him out of it – for me, he was just ok last night.
3.) Kristef Brothers – The unexpected delight of the night for me 🙂 Thought the comedic pas-de-deux theme of their act was genius – I do think they’re really hit paydirt with their “comedic acrobatics” strategy, as these two were one of the acts I really remembered fondly from last night’s show. These guys are legitimately talented in what they do – and they’ve got the added benefit of having a great sense of humor about it and not taking themselves too seriously. I think it’s this combination of skills that could help them edge out a stronger acrobatics act – I think Duo Resonance is technically the strongest acro act this season, but they seem to lack stage presence and personality; I think Kristef, though less technically skilled, could actually edge them out on personality alone.
4.) The American Hit Men – Seems like all of the musical acts last night seemed to suffer from picking the wrong song, and I think the Hit Men did struggle to a degree with “With a Little Help from My Friends”. While I overall liked their performance and think they should go on, I think they probably would have had a stronger showing with a more uptempo song – maybe “American Woman”? I still think they’re popular enough and entertaining enough to advance, but I think they really need to start focusing on the right songs – so far, they have yet to perform anything that had as strong an impact as “Simple Man” from their inital audition.
5.) Anna Christine – Poor Anna – not only did she suffer from picking the wrong song, but she seemed to suffer from nerves more than any other act and seemed to have some technical difficulties as well. I’m not sure what it is with Anna and The Animals, but the downtempo version of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood'” that she did just never really got off the ground – it was so subdued and quiet, perhaps because she herself admitted that she “couldn’t hear the track very well”. As much as I do think she deserves to advance, I think she may have done herself in with that song – if she does come back, she needs to pick something that’s more uptempo and can really show off her vocals.
6.) Alexanderia the Great – Her act was impressive – but I don’t know that they really built it up enough so that it really left me on the edge of my seat. Alex actually has a rather unique problem as an escape artist: she almost makes it look too easy, so that you don’t really pick up on the difficulty of what she’s doing. Part of the appeal of escape artists like Spencer Horseman last season was that they really drew out the escape – he was always completing the escape just barely in the nick of time, and he really let the suspense build. Alex does it so quicky & easily that you don’t really have time to get hyped up about it. If Alex does somehow make it through tonight, I think in the next round she’ll really need to work on building the suspense of her act – holding her breath longer, taking more time to escape, maybe adding a clock or another element of danger to really amp things up.
7.) Special Head – I think the execution of this trick was so poorly carried out that even poor Nick wasn’t quite sure what to do! As I was discussing with my two right-hand men (Will & jimmbboe) last night, Special Head has sort of hit a plateau for me: we’ve basically seen the same trick from him 3 times now, just dressed up with different props so it looks like a new trick. And tonight, the trick was so clumsily executed that it wasn’t even impressive – we caught a glimpse of Special Head’s…well, head, after he had supposedly disappeared, and then a confused Nick was wandering out onstage, unsure of whether the trick was actually over or not. Cut to a video feed of Special Head out on the balcony at RCMH (which looked pre-taped to me), and everything just felt sloppy & haphazard. However, I did see “Special Head” trending for quite sometime on Twitter – no way to really be sure if that will translate to votes or not, but it did seem like people were talking about him. I don’t think he deserves to move on to the next round, but that doesn’t mean he won’t…
8.) Fresh Faces – I feel bad putting these cuties so low, but I feel like their act just may have gotten lost in the shuffle last night. I think the major problem with what they did was that it just felt messy and chaotic – rather than the organized, in-synch group we saw in the audition rounds, we basically got some semblence of a bunch of little girls running around giggling at a slumber party, which I think detracted from some of the really skilled tumbling and stretching moves they were doing. That dumb “I Love It” song didn’t seem to help matters, either. Very cute, very talented girls – but I think they suffered from the wrong kind of presentation in their act last night.
9.) Hype – The strangest thing about these guys? They actually seem better with less preparation than with more!!! They only had about 12 hours to come up with their routine for their audition, and it was fantastic; they have beaucoup time to come up with their Vegas and Radio City routines, and both fall flat. I just don’t get it – I really had high hopes for these guys, and while their two most recent routines have been marginally entertaining, they seem to lack the same inspiration that we saw in their initial audition. I think they may have blown their chances last night, and may not even have a hope and a prayer of getting asked back for the wild card. Ack.
10.) Aaralyn & Izzy – What can I say that I haven’t already said since the audition round? I don’t find them talented, entertaining, or particularly special…but at least now the judges are seeing it, too. “Stepping in dog poop”? That song maybe had 15 words, repeated 2-3 times…usually inaudibly. The only thing that I found semi-amusing about the whole act was Aaralyn’s semi-split at the end. For the individuals who think this act is artistic and wildly talented…I’d love to know what real metal artists think of Aaralyn & Izzy. I’d say we get Ozzy’s take on them, but I’m sure Sharon’s got him on a gag order since she left AGT.
11.) Tellavision – Another act that I’m glad the judges are finally realizing ain’t that great – I thought there was very little dancing in this number, they relied too heavily on the LCD screens, and the whole thing was just really cheesy and, as Howard put it, “artsy-fartsy”. I feel like we’ve got far stronger dance acts than this one this season, and the LCD screens are really more of a distraction than anything else.
12.) Kevin Downey Jr. – I just think Kevin got lost in the shuffle – his jokes were only slightly funny, and in the end, none of them were particularly memorable. I don’t think he was bad, per se – I just don’t think he was anything special.
So what did you guys think of last night’s acts? And who do you hope to see advancing to the next round?
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PureAGT Season 8 – Roster for First Live Show Airing July 23
As he usually does at the end of the Vegas week finale, Nick announced the 12 acts we’ll be seeing in the first live show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Tuesday night. They are:
Branden James (opera singer)
Aaralyn & Izzy (kid death metal band)
Fresh Faces (dance/gymnastics group)
Anna Christine (kid singer/pianist)
Kevin Downey Jr. (stand-up comedian)
Hype (hip-hop dance group)
Tellavision (LCD screen dance group)
Kristef Brothers (hand balancing acrobats)
Collins Key (magician)
I don’t know about you guys, but this seems like a really tough first group for the live shows. Keep in mind that only 4 acts get to go through each week of the live shows – and this particular episode pits several heavy-hitters (like Collins Key, Anna Christine, Special Head, Alexanderia, & the Hit Men) against one another. I guess my only hope is that some of these stronger acts end up sending some of my least favorites (Aaralyn & Izzy, and Tellavision) home. What do you guys think?
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PureAGT Season 8 Vegas Week Predictions – Danger Acts/Magicians/Comedians
Only 24 hours till Vegas! Who’s excited? 🙂 I continue my predictions with my thoughts on the danger acts, magicians, and comedians. If you haven’t already, check out my analysis of the singers and dancers.
David “The Cobra Kid” Weathers: Could go either way. He’s the only animal danger act this season…but how much more can he really do with these snakes?
Brad Byers: Could go either way. He’s a great sword swallower, but there’s another sword swallower this season that can do other things while swallowing swords. However, I think Brad probably has the better stage presence. Which will win the judges over?
Alexanderia the Great: Looking likely. She’s a novelty, in that she’s a middle-aged mom doing dangerous escapes that we typically only see from young men. She’s also go some flexibility in her act – the escape possibilities are endless.
Slackwire Sam: Could go either way. It’s a cool and daring act…but is it all he can do? How can he switch things up in Vegas to keep the act fresh?
Omega Force Strength Team: A long shot. Howie was skeptical about this act from the get-go, and unless they’re flipping cars in Vegas, I think they may fall a bit flat. There’s only so many heavy objects they can lift before it becomes repetitive.
Team Rock: Could go either way. The only martial arts act this season, but they don’t seem to have a very unified act…it’s just a series of tricks. Can they create more of a “show”?
David Ferman: A sure thing. He’s this season’s only juggler, and I think he’s got a pretty broad skill set in that respect. He also knows how to set up an act in order to make it suspenseful.
Alex Magala: Looking likely. He swallows swords – then proceeds to do other things with the sword down his throat. I’d say that’s probably pretty impressive in the judges’ eyes.
Special Head: A sure thing. People are still talking about the levitation he did – and he’s got this great mystical persona to carry off tricks well. He’s unique, and not really like any other magician we’ve had on the show.
Collins Key: Looking likely. Young, attractive, well-rehearsed kid with cool up-close magic tricks.
Leon Etienne: Could go either way. I doubt we’ll see more than two magicians this year, and I’m having a hard time remembering Leon’s act…other than the fact that it was kind of cheesy. But we do need some cannon fodder acts, so maybe he has a shot.
Naathan Phan: A long shot. I really like this guy, but he basically flubbed his first trick at the auditions and only made it through based on an impromptu trick the judges let him do to redeem himself. Will he be able to avoid dud tricks in Vegas?
Dave Shirley: Could go either way. The LCD screen thing is cool, but I’m not sure how much more he can really do with it.
Angela Hoover: Could go either way. I would have had her pegged for the live shows…until Jim Meskimen showed up, and he’s unfortunately a better impressionist. Not sure if we have room for two impressionists this season…but she is the only female in the comedy category, so who knows.
Taylor Williamson: Looking likely. He’s got this adorably awkward manner about him, and manages to make it work for him in his act. His comedy is relevant, relatable, and amusing.
Jim Meskimen: A sure thing. One of the best impressionists the show has ever seen…and I’m sure he’s got a lot more up his sleeve.
Kevin Downey Jr.: Could go either way. He was amusing, but I felt as though the judges were just chuckling at him, while they belly-laughed for Taylor.
So which acts do you think stand a chance in Vegas?
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PureAGT Season 8 Episode #2 Music List – San Antonio/New Orleans Auditions
Here’s the music I could identify from this week’s episode. Please feel free to request other songs or add any that you might know in the comments section 🙂
“El Jarabe Tapatio (The Mexican Hat Dance)” (judges arrive in San Antonio)
“Diamonds (instrumental)” by Rihanna (Travis Pratt intro)
“This Will Be” by Natalie Cole (Travis proposes; montage of good auditions)
“Oye Como Va” by Tito Puente Jr. (Jonas & Ruby performance)
“I Like It” by Enrique Iglesias (Jonas & Ruby get 4 yes’s)
“Straight Up” by Brian Setzer Orchestra (D’Angelo & Amanda performance)
“We Come Running” by Youngblood Hawke (D’Angelo & Amanda get 4 yes’s)
“Low” by Flo Rida (covered by Mariachi Nuevo Estilo)
“Sexy & I Know It” by LMFAO (covered by Mariachi Nuevo Estilo)
“Bailamos” by Enrique Iglesias (Mariachi gets 4 yes’s)
“God Blessed Texas” by Little Texas (Pistol Packin’ Paula intro)
“Juggernaut” by Jo Blankenburg (Brad Byers intro)
“Secrets” by OneRepublic (Collins Key intro & 4 yes’s)
“Sympathy for the Devil” by The Rolling Stones (New Orleans intro)
“Saving All My Love For You” by Whitney Houston (Megan Piphus performance)
“Best Thing I Never Had” by Beyoncé (Megan gets 4 yes’s)
“Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli (Jonathan Allen performance)
“A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri (Jonathan gets 4 yes’s)
“Feel Again” by OneRepublic (montage of New Orleans contestants waiting to audition)
“Garador’s Flight” by Jo Blankenburg (Alexanderia emerges from underwater)
“Fashion” by Lady Gaga (JC Starbright intro)
“The A-Team (instrumental)” by Ed Sheeran (Paul Thomas Mitchell intro)
“Time for Miracles” by Adam Lambert (Paul gets 4 yes’s)
June 12, 2013 I Written By Courtney
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PureAGT Season 8 Audition Round Rundown #2 – San Antonio/New Orleans Auditions
Howard really wasn’t kidding when he said the level of talent in San Antonio was high! Loved tonight’s episode even more than last week’s – and I thought last week was a VERY strong episode. This could really be the best season of AGT yet. Loved the fact that this episode was predominantly great acts that got 4 yes’s, and only a few bad acts. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good trainwreck – but outstanding talent vs. hot messes? I’m gonna always pick the former. And I can usually be pretty easily swayed by some strong ballroom dancers, too 😉
This week saw the judges dissenting a bit more than last week, but for the most part, when one of them thinks an act is great – they ALL think the act is great. I think it’s a testament to how well they get along – or how great the talent is!
UPDATE: Rundown of New Orleans auditions is up!
Travis Pratt – 32 years old, from Tipton, GA
The act: He sang an operatic aria in what sounded like an astoundingly high key for a man.
The verdict: Howie couldn’t believe he didn’t lip sync, and asked if he “had swallowed Jackie Evancho”. Howard called him a “freak – but I mean that in the best way possible!” All 4 judges said yes to Vegas – and Travis proposed to his girlfriend (who had urged him to audition) live onstage. 🙂
Court’s thoughts: When I saw this guy make his way onto the stage, I of course thought he would be singing some smooth R&B song – he had that suave, slick look to him. So you can imagine my surprise when he starts belting out an aria like a soprano! And I think what impressed me the most is that he managed to stay in-key the whole time – I thought for sure his voice was going to crack hitting notes that high, but he hit ’em like a pro. I could see him making it through to the live shows without many problems, for the simple reason that he’s set himself apart from any other male classical singers they might find this season: he’s a guy that can sing in a female register.
Duo Resonance (Yury Kuznetsov & Nina Chubrikova)
The act: They did acrobalance – doing some gravity-defying tricks while using each other’s body weight to counterbalance.
The verdict: All 4 judges said yes to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: There seems to be 1 good acrobatic couple just about every season – but man, these two may be the prettiest I’ve seen. Loved some of the poses they were doing, and I felt like they were more artistic than the couple we saw last season (their name escapes me – but it was a dark-haired guy from Europe and a blonde from Australia, and they were in insanely good shape). I think their best bet is going for themed performances each time – maybe try to tell a story or tailor their tricks to a certain song. Otherwise, I think this could get a bit repetitive.
Ron Garber & Liza Satorov
The act: They’re ballroom dancers that did a Latin dance with some fast spins and cool dips.
The verdict: They made it to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: As I mentioned last week, I always get a little flustered when they only show us a brief clip of an act that made it through to Vegas, because it doesn’t leave me with a whole lot to go off of in my commentary – and usually forces me to go hunt down their names elsewhere. However, I liked the dance these two did, and they seem to have a good chemistry on the floor. But in light of what else we saw in San Antonio – I’m wondering if the adult ballroom acts are going to be taking a sort of backseat to the youngin’s this season.
Jonas Terleckas & Ruby Castro – ages 10 & 9
The act: A Latin ballroom act – they did a cha-cha to “Oye Como Va”.
The verdict: Howie remembers Ruby from The Untouchables last season, and all 4 judges give them a yes.
Court’s thoughts: Gotta hand it to Manny & Lori Castro – they’ve practically made a career out of getting acts on AGT, as this is will be the 3rd year in a row that they’ve made it to Vegas…and they’ll likely make it even further, again. For those who have no idea what I’m talking about – Manny is the cute little Columbian guy from Miami with the thick accent that was the leader of the Miami All-Stars in season 6, and the director of The Untouchables in season 7, and now he’s brought his kids to audition for season 8. Ruby is he & Lori’s daughter, and she’s so stinking cute I could die…I love precocious kids, and this little gal has got sass to spare. And she’s a great dancer! Jonas is good too, but I can see certain areas where he still has some growing to do in his dancing. I’m on the fence about these two making it to the live shows – part of me thinks they’re gonna pit these two against Ruby’s brother & his partner in Vegas, and only take one act (and I think it’s probably going to be her brother). But another part of me thinks that the powers that be probably dig the “first ever sibling vs. sibling competition on AGT!” and might take them both. Guess we’ll have to wait and see!
D’Angelo Castro & Amanda Carbajales – ages 12 & 13
The act: They’re Latin ballroom dancers, too – and did a humorous jive to “Straight Up” by the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
The verdict: Howard can’t resist playing matchmaker, and ask them if they’re “romantically involved” – they adorably relate the story of them being “boyfriend & girlfriend” when they were 9, but they broke up “like 4 times” and it confused D’Angelo. All 4 judges think they’re great and put them through to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: D’Angelo is another precocious kid that I just get a real kick out of – and he’s got some serious skills, as does Amanda: they actually won the first (and only) season of Paula Abdul’s ill-fated Live to Dance back in 2011. Plus, D’Angelo is Manny & Lori’s son – and he was part of The Untouchables last season. Honestly, if there’s any dance act this season that I could see making it all the way to the finale – it might be these two. They’re already seasonsed pros at 12 & 13, and are charismatic beyond their years! I think they have all the skill of Anna & Patryck from season 5 – but they’ve got double the amount of stage presence. Love watching them!
Mariachi Nuevo Estilo AVM – ages 18-29
The act: They’re a mariachi band that performed a mash-up of “Low” by Flo Rida & “Sexy & I Know It” by LMFAO…with a mariachi twist.
The verdict: Howard, who admitted at the beginning of the episode that he “hates mariachi bands”, even loved this act – all 4 judges said yes to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: It’s kind of a neat concept – we’ve had bluegrass bands covering top 40 stuff, and now we’ve got mariachi bands covering current stuff. Admittedly, I’m kind of with Howard – mariachi music is something that I can only really tolerate in small doses at low volumes (blame my next door neighbors, who love to blast mariachi while working on their cars outside), and the opening of their performance (when they did “Low”) sounded all sorts of cacophonous to me. But once they segued into “Sexy & I Know It”, it became more pleasant to listen to, and I started to enjoy it more. I think they’re probably going to have to expand their horizons a bit in order to stick around – tackle some slow stuff, too, and maybe some more rock-tinged songs.
Pistol Packin’ Paula – age 48
The act: She’s a wild west act that shoots & twirls pistols and used a bullwhip to chop a rolled-up piece of paper out of Nick’s mouth.
The verdict: Heidi & Mel buzzed her pretty quickly, and they gave her no’s along with Howie. Howard actually enjoyed it, though, and seemed to indicate that he would’ve given her a yes.
Court’s thoughts: This had the potential to be a good act – similar to the western act from season 6 – but it was just disorganized and all over the place. The fact that she came out shooting pistols (and had half the auditorium jumping out of their seats and hitting the floor) probably set everyone on edge a bit, and then it was just a random smattering of her hollering, shooting, and doing some impressive gun twirling. The bullwhip trick was cool, but I just got the feeling that she probably didn’t have a whole lot of other tricks to add beyond that. Maybe if she polishes up the act a bit more, she can come back in a later season.
Brad Byers – age 53, from Idaho
The act: He swallowed 9 swords simultaneously, with a fluoroscope on-hand to show an internal view of his esophagus. He then twisted the swords 360 degrees, while they were still down his throat.
The verdict: Mel was the sole “no”, stating that watching him “made her want to throw up”. Howie, Howard, and Heidi all said yes, though.
Court’s thoughts: LOVED the fact that he had the fluoroscope there to prove that he was actually swallowing the swords – none of the previous sword-swallowing/sideshow acts we’ve seen have done that. Also thought the sword twisting was a nice…err, twist. 😛 But once again, as I usually say with every danger act we see: how much more is he going to be able to do with this?
Collins Key – age 16
The act: He’s an up-close magician that managed to teleport a dollar that Howie gave him into a sealed bag of popcorn that Mel was holding.
The verdict: All 4 judges loved it, and praised him for enduring ridicule and continuing to practice his magic. We’ll see him in Vegas!
Court’s thoughts: I’m guessing the PureAGT search engine is probably going to be filled with “how did Collins Key teleport the dollar?” queries within the next 24 hours, just like they did with Special Ed’s levitation last week 😛 I’m half-tempted to do a “how did the magicians do that???” post in the next few weeks, since I know a thing or two about magic. But anyway – great trick, with a great set-up. I find myself more & more impressed by the magicians who really put thought into how to set up their tricks – the premise of it, the props, even their dialogue & hand gestures. And I thought Collins really took a big risk by doing up-close magic – even though it’s on a smaller scale, you leave yourself far more vulnerable to mistakes being caught, so everything has to be perfect. I’m thinking Collins could beat out some of the other magicians this season who operate on a larger scale – we haven’t had a good “up close” magician in awhile.
Megan Piphus – 20 years old, from Nashville, TN
The act: She’s a ventriloquist that performed with a puppet of a little girl named Monica and a cat named Princess. Monica sang a little bit of Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love”, while Princess sang an operatic aria.
The verdict: All 4 judges commended not only her singing voice, but her ability to throw her singing voice as a ventrioquist. She’s going to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: This girl smashed every stereotype I had in my head for ventriloquists – she’s young, she’s gorgeous, and she’s got an exceptional singing voice – that she can throw with ease, and you don’t see her lips moving AT ALL. I was also really impressed with her ability to throw her voice while still reacting believably to her puppets – part of the challenge of ventrioloquism is not only the voice-throwing, but also all the multitasking you have to do when it comes to moving your puppets and acting as if they’re the ones actually doing the talking. My only worry for her in this competition is that her material is a little bland – if she can come up with more of a narrative (like Todd Oliver did last season) as opposed to just having her puppets talk, I think she can go far.
Jonathan Allen – 20 years old, from Lawrenceburg, TN
The act: He’s a sort of baritone opera singer that sang “Time to Say Goodbye”.
The verdict: All the judges loved him and said yes to Vegas – and praised him for overcoming the adversity of being rejected by his parents for being gay.
Court’s thoughts: If Travis Pratt’s appeal is that he’s a guy that can sing opera like a girl, Jonathan’s appeal is that he’s got an exceptionally rich male voice for opera singing, and he’s got the emotion to put behind it. Thought he maybe got a little thin in his lower register, which could use some work, but the high note at the end was fantastic.
Alexanderia the Great – 51 years old, from Medway, MA
The act: She’s an escape artist that had to free herself from handcuffs, leg shackles, and a long chain with padlocks wrapped around her body – from underwater, after EXHALING before jumping in.
The verdict: Judges started fearing for her life around the 1 minute mark, but cheered with joy and said “yes!!!” to Vegas when she emerged at 1:36.
Court’s thoughts: Love the fact that she’s a middle-aged mom that’s doing something that’s typically only done by younger men – and I can’t believe she was able to hold her breath that long while struggling to remove the handcuffs & shackles & chains. But as I say with every danger act: “How much more is she going to be able to do?” Spencer Horseman did a great job last season of changing up the parameters of his escapes – I think Alexandria is going to have to do the same to avoid getting repetitive & boring.
JC Starbright – 59 years old
The act: He’s a flamboyantly-dressed songwriter that performed an original song about AGT – and forgot some of the words…to the song HE wrote.
The verdict: All 4 judges buzzed – and all 4 judges said “no” to Vegas. Upon hearing that JC wants to be “the next Lady Gaga”, Howie dubbed him “Lady Guy-Guy”…a title I feel the need to point out that he first gave to Daniel Joseph Baker in season 6 🙂
Court’s thoughts: He was a special guy…perhaps too special for AGT. But as always, I LOVE it when Nick decides to play along, and lol’d when he joined JC for the encore 😛
Andrew Ward – 34 years old
The act: He came out dressed in a voodoo-y type suit, and attempted to give a dramatic reading of a ghost story.
The verdict: Everyone except Heidi said no.
Court’s thoughts: Maybe a more cerebral audience would have appreciated Andrew’s storytelling more – but on a big stage like AGT, where everyone wants instant gratification, it just took took too long.
Sam Johnson (aka Slackwire Sam) – 34 years old
The act: He’s a “swaypole” artist – which means he climbs 80 feet in the air, climbs to the top of a flimsy vertical pole that’s bending and twisting in the wind, and does a handstand.
The verdict: All four judges were amazed and put him through to Vegas.
Court’s thoughts: I kind of loved that this guy came out on stage acting rather eccentric – wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and a stovepipe hat, and telling everyone that he was “going to do a handstand…but not where you think.” Just made it that much more amazing when he actually pulled off that feat. But once again, I’m left wondering: how much more can he do? Does he only do swaypole? If so, how is he going to make it fresh each time he performs? Does he do anything else besides swaypole? With the danger category shaping up to be possibly the most competitive this season, I don’t think any of them can afford to be a one-trick pony.
Paul Thomas Mitchell – 19 years old, from Memphis, TN
The act: Paul’s a singer-songwriter that performed an original song called “My Life” while playing the guitar.
The verdict: All 4 judges loved both his voice and his song – and the emotion he put behind it. Heidi even went so far as to say “John Mayer better watch out!!!”
Court’s thoughts: If I were Marty Brown, I’d be worried – because this kid just made the singers category much more competitive. He impressed me more than any other act tonight. He’s got this breathy, unique voice that reminds me a bit of James Morrison, and the song he wrote?! You can’t teach songwriting talent, and this kid has IT. Echoing Heidi backstage, “If he put out a CD tomorrow, I’d buy it.” Really rooting for this kid now – I’m hoping he either has a bunch of great original material up his sleeve, or can do really great, cool covers of other artist’s songs.
So who were your favorites and least favorites from last night’s show? 🙂
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PureAGT Season 8 Social Media List
For those wanting to follow some of this year’s cast on Twitter (or just looking to find out more about some of them), I’ve compiled this list of links to various social media resources for the judges, hosts, and contestants. I’m going to do my best to update it after each audition, but I can always use some help – if you locate a contestant’s Twitter, Facebook, website, Instagram, etc. (and I haven’t already posted it), please mention it in the comments and I’ll add it to the list. I’m also working on an AGT Season 8 Twitter list at our @pureagt account…stay tuned!!!
Judges & Hosts:
Mel B – Twitter, website, Facebook, Instagram
Nick Cannon – Twitter, website, tumblr, Instagram, Facebook
Heidi Klum – Twitter, website, Facebook, Instagram
Howie Mandel – Twitter, website, Facebook
Howard Stern – Twitter, website
Acts that made it through to Vegas:
The Academy – website
Marty Brown – Facebook
Catapult Entertainment – Twitter, website, Facebook, YouTube
Angela Hoover – Twitter, Facebook, myspace
Hype – group Twitter, Headache Twitter, Hazmat Twitter, Mikey Twitter, tumblr, Mikey YouTube, Hazmat Youtube, Headache YouTube, Facebook
Tristan Jih – website, Facebook, Vimeo
Pacific Boys Choir – website, Facebook
Dave Shirley – Twitter, website
Special Head – Facebook
David “The Cobra Kid” Weathers – Facebook, website, mySpace
Travis Pratt – Twitter, Facebook
Duo Resonance (Nina & Yury) – website, Facebook, YouTube
Ron Garber & Liza Satorov – Ron Twitter, blog, YouTube, Facebook
Jonas Terleckas & Ruby Castro – Ruby Twitter
D’Angelo Castro & Amanda Carbajales – D’Angelo Twitter, Amanda Twitter, D’Angelo Facebook, D’Angelo & Amanda Facebook
Mariachi Nuevo Estilo AVM – Twitter, Facebook
Brad Byers – website, YouTube
Collins Key – website, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Megan Piphus – Twitter, YouTube, website, Instagram
Alexanderia the Great – website, Facebook, blog, YouTube
Slackwire Sam – YouTube
Paul Thomas Mitchell – Facebook
Acts that got cut:
Chuck from the Bronx – website, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Miu – Twitter, YouTube
Nezbit Blue (alien in lederhosen) – Facebook
Pistol Packin’ Paula – website
JC Starbright – website, Twitter
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Visa Expands B2B Connect Project To Asia And Russia
Posted on February 16, 2018 February 21, 2018 9:21 am
UnionBank has announced that several community banks in the Philippines have signed on as partners to develop the blockchain platform underlying Visa’s B2B Connect solution.
Reports from the Philippine News Agency said UnionBank Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology and Operations Officer Henry Rhoel Aguda did not name the four rural banks participating in the collaboration, but did say the venture aims to “elevate their capabilities.”
“We’re co-creating the blockchain platform to be used by the rural banks,” the executive said.
Reports noted UnionBank’s work with smaller banks is part of its collaboration with Visa as it develops B2B Connect, a platform to facilitate cross-border transactions for financial institutions (FIs). Visa is in the midst of testing the solution for commercial rollout later this year. That solution uses blockchain to facilitate faster payments across borders; according to Aguda, the four rural banks have signed on to deploy the tool, noting that UnionBank hopes more FIs will join the platform.
“We want to grow from four right now to as many as we can support,” he added.
The company has been developing B2B Connect to utilize blockchain for corporate transactions and, in addition to UnionBank, is collaborating with the U.S.’ Commerce Bank, South Korea’s Shinhan Bank, Russia’s Sberbank and Singapore’s United Overseas Bank.
Last month, Visa offered new details into the testing of B2B Connect with its FI partners. UnionBank was the first to successfully pilot the solution.
“Visa B2B Connect takes on an innovative approach and eliminates friction for cross-border transactions by using distributed ledger technology to enhance the speed, security and reliability of these transactions,” said Visa Asia-Pacific Head of B2B Partnerships Vikram Kshettry in a statement at the time.
Earlier this month, Visa announced it reached a deal to acquire Fraedom, an expense management company, as part of its broader push into B2B payments.
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What is the most plausible hypothesis to explain the nature of the North Korean missile program?
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The security community generally believes that North Korea acquired Soviet guided ballistic missiles from Egypt in the 1980s, reverse engineered them, and has indigenously produced and deployed in North Korea perhaps 1,000 ballistic missiles of various types. This report questions this common view and seeks to better characterize the North Korean missile threat. The author compares the available data on the North Korean missile program against five hypotheses about the program's origins, sophistication, and scale, highlighting inconsistencies. The author finds that the most plausible characterization of the North Korean missile program is what he terms the "Bluff" hypothesis: The main purpose of the program is political — to create the impression of a serious missile threat and thereby gain strategic leverage, fortify the North Korean regime's domestic power, and deter other countries, particularly the Republic of Korea and the United States, from military action. The author maintains that the North Korean missile program's operational readiness seems to be secondary, and that therefore the threat posed by it has been exaggerated.
The Common View of the North Korean Missile Program
North Korea is commonly believed to have acquired Soviet guided ballistic missiles from Egypt in the 1980s, reverse engineered them, and deployed as many as 1,000 ballistic missiles of various types.
The possibility that some of these missiles might be armed with nuclear warheads is a serious concern.
North Korea Is Not Behaving Like a Developer and Producer of Large Numbers of Relatively Sophisticated Missile Systems
North Korea has conducted very few missile test launches, but the missiles used in these few launches have shown a high level of reliability.
Launches take place only at politically significant dates and are therefore not dictated by engineering development or training needs.
Soviet Scud missiles and the North Korean Scud missiles that have been observed look exactly the same, up to the smallest details.
North Korea apparently limits its reverse engineering and production capabilities to missiles and a few other defense products. For example, it possesses almost no automotive or aerospace industry.
The North Korean Missile Threat Is Largely a Bluff
North Korea has likely launched Soviet/Russian-made missiles (that are old but proven designs) to maximize the appearance of performance.
North Korea may never have tested missiles from its own production, and any such indigenous missiles cannot have noteworthy reliability or accuracy.
It cannot be ruled out that North Korea has nuclear warhead designs for its missiles, but without actual testing, the reliability of these warheads has to be assumed to be low.
The main purpose of the program seems to be political — to create the impression of a serious missile threat and thereby gain strategic leverage, fortify the North Korean regime's domestic power, and deter other countries, particularly the Republic of Korea and the United States, from military action.
North Korea should be considered to possess no real long-range missile threat, but steps should be taken to defend against a conventional short-range threat.
Concerns about North Korea's missile launches are overblown: Every launch further depletes the limited North Korean arsenals, and North Korea gains no real experience from these events. Since the purpose of the launches seems to be political, the United States and other nations should downplay or even ignore them.
A variety of avenues of investigation should be pursued to gain more information about the North Korean missile program.
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Robert Reardon
Facing the Missile Challenge: U.S. Strategy and the Future of the INF Treaty
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RHONJ’s Danielle Staub Tells Amy Phillips How Caroline Manzo’s Family Harassed Her Into Moving Away
by Erin Martinon December 13th, 2017
She may be trying to leave her tarnished reputation behind on The Real Housewives Of New Jersey, but Danielle Staub still has plenty of baggage from the old days weighing her down. Danielle recently described this tough period in her life on Amy Phillips’ SiriusXM show, claiming that Caroline Manzo and her family systematically harassed her so relentlessly after the infamous Teresa Giudice table flip, she had to move out of town.
“There was everything from bullying my children behind the scenes – remember, there were eleven of the Lauritas and all of them had children as well,” says Danielle, whose girls were “terrified” of the backlash they received at school. Caroline, who was originally a Laurita (along with sister Dina Manzo and brother Chris Laurita), was likely the ringleader of the harassment, according to Danielle.
Real Housewives of New Jersey,Reality News
Halloween Kids And Family Photo Roundup: Lydia McLaughlin, Amber Rose, Chelsea Houska, Kandi Buruss, Melissa Gorga, And More!
by Mary McClellandon November 1st, 2017
Shhh… don’t tell the various stars of reality TV but Halloween is all about the kids in their costumes! Thankfully reality stars and their over-sharing on social media means plenty of adorable photos of their kiddos trick or treating and we get to see all their fun costumes.
Above Kandi Burruss shared, “The things you do for family…. #TrickOrTreat @[email protected] & @todd167” My favorite costume: Vicki Gunvalson dressed as a pug to take her grandsons trick or treating. Just wait… it’s amazing!
Hot Photos,Photos
Instagram Roundup: Farrah Abraham, Shep Rose, Shannon Beador, Kim Zolciak, Dorinda Medley, Jenelle Evans, & More
by Melissaon September 16th, 2017
A new roundup of reality TV stars’ social media pics to kick off your weekend!
Above: Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham and her daughter Sophia catching a bite to eat at the Sugar Factory in New York City. “Sophia” captioned the pic on her Instagram page: “Girls gotta eat. ”
Look below for more selfies and snapshots, including Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann celebrating Kroy’s birthday, Shahs of Sunset star Mercedes “MJ” Javid showing off her assets, Real Housewives of New York star Luann de Lesseps promoting Kelly Bensimon‘s new book, Southern Charm star Shep Rose cruising around town during Hurricane Irma, Real Housewives of Orange County stars David and Shannon Beador tailgating at USC, and many more.
Photo of the Day: Amy Phillips Pokes Fun At Reality Star Product Ads On Instagram
by Reality Teaon December 21st, 2016
Amy Phillips wins Instagram this week. The Real Housewives impersonator and Radio Andy “Reality Checked” Sirius XM radio host posted this hilarious photo yesterday, poking fun at reality stars and the products they love to get paid to post about.
If you follow any of the reality stars on Instagram (Real Housewives, Teen Mom stars and more), you know they love a good paid promotion. Light up tooth whiteners, nutritional shakes, weight loss teas, waist trainers and two dozen other products that they all claim to be IN LOVE with…for a price, of course. 😉 I’m not shaming them for making an extra buck where they can, but please for the love of reality TV, stop posting the gushing pics AT THE SAME TIME of day on the SAME DAY. Ladies, spread it out a little so my entire Instagram scroll isn’t the same product photos over and over.
Brandi Glanville Says Yolanda Hadid Is NOT Joining Real Housewives of New York; Dishes On Latest Projects, Kim Richards and More
by Reality Teaon September 13th, 2016
Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville was a guest on Amy Phillips’ Sirius XM radio show this morning. She dished on her besties Yolanda Hadid and Kim Richards and shared her thoughts on the ladies of The Real Housewives of New York and more!
Brandi explains that her family talked to someone on Friday who “speaks to the other side” and that was the trigger for her panic attack. So her Tweet wasn’t about her supposed back taxes report. I’m going to guess she was being taped for an episode of the Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry? She didn’t specify, so we’ll have to wait and see.
Famously Single,Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,Real Housewives of New York
Shannon Beador: “Kelly Dodd Is Flattering Herself To Think I Would Orchestrate Such A Big Ordeal For Her”
by Melissaon August 9th, 2016
Real Housewives of Orange County star Shannon Beador was a guest on Reality Checked with Amy Phillips last week. So, of course, they talked all about the 70s party drama with Kelly Dodd.
Shannon insists she doesn’t know why Kelly doesn’t like her, adding, “I really was nice to her at that boat party. I had tons of conversations with she and her husband so I don’t know.”
Amy asks Shannon if she thinks Vicki Gunvalson got in Kelly‘s ear. “I don’t know,” she says. “It is possible. I don’t know what their agenda is. I didn’t really spend that much time with them [at that point in the season].” As for where Kelly and Shannon stand now, she teases, “It’s a road that takes you up hills and down hills. I will tell you that.”
Reality TV Stars Snapshots And Selfies – Lisa Vanderpump, Farrah Abraham, Kenya Moore, Khloe Kardashian, And More
by Melissaon July 30th, 2016
Our favorite reality TV stars cannot get enough of the spotlight during their regularly scheduled time slots, so they take to social media to share even more of their lives with us. And we would not have it any other way. Here’s a roundup of some of our favorite snapshots and selfies from this week. Enjoy.
Above: Mohamed Hadid shared, “A night out with my best friend Lisa Vanderpump at Pump.”
Below you will find pics from Tamra Judge, Kenya Moore, Ashley Darby, Kim Zolciak, Brandi Glanville, Teresa Giudice, Farrah Abraham, and more.
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Ramona Singer Says Luann De Lesseps Is Over The Top And Protests Too Much; Brings Attention To Tom And Sonja’s Body Language
The Real Housewives of New York star Ramona Singer and NFL star and soon-to-be reality TV star Travis Kelce are Andy Cohen‘s guests on WWHL tonight. Between the night’s bartender, Real Housewives impersonator Amy Phillips, getting a lot of attention and the vast majority of the questions focusing on Luann de Lesseps and Tom D’Agostino Jr, I imagine it was not a very fun visit for needs-to-be-the-center-of-attention Ramona.
To set the tone of the night, Andy plays a video montage of Luann‘s bragging on tonight’s episode of Real Housewives of New York, titled Gloating While Boating starring Luann de Lesseps. Ramona says Luann’s enthusiasm is “over the top.”
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Dancing WIth The Stars Season 14
Dancing With The Stars Premiere Recap: Best Season Premiere Ever?
by Reality Teaon March 20th, 2012
The new season of Dancing With The Stars premiered last night on ABC, in what is now being called the best season opener ever!
The reason? Let’s just say all the c-list celebs scored pretty high as the lowest score of the night was a 20. “Without a doubt, this is the best first show of any season,” said judge Len Goodman after the performances.
There was a tie for first place as Katherine Jenkins and Urkel Jaleel White both earned a remarkable 26 points, which included a pair of nines for each. Katherine, a British opera singer, danced the fox-trot with partner Mark Ballas, while actor Jaleel received compliments from the judges, also for his fox-trot with partner Kym Johnson.
In second place was hotness William Levy–aka The Cuban Brad Pitt–receiving a score of 24 for his sexy cha-cha dance with partner Cheryl Burke. William not only received praises from the judges, but also had the audience going wild! Judge Bruno Tonioli called the duo “the hottest package of the season.”
There was a three-way tie for last place with Melissa Gilbert, Gavin DeGraw, and Martina Navratilova all receiving a score of 20! Still pretty impressive considering they’ve only been dancing for a few weeks.
The good news is that all the 12 “stars” will get to return next Monday night and perform new dances. The first elimination will then take place next Tuesday.
The full scores from last night are below –
Katherine Jenkins & Mark Ballas – 26
Jaleel White & Kym Johnson – 26
William Levy & Cheryl Burke – 24
Gladys Knight & Tristan MacManus – 23
Jack Wagner & Anna Trebunskaya – 23
Sherri Shepherd & Val Chmerkovskiy – 23
Roshon Fegan & Chelsie Hightower – 23
Maria Menounos & Derek Hough – 21
Donald Driver & Peta Murgatroyd – 21
Melissa Gilbert & Maks Chmerkovskiy – 20
Gavin DeGraw & Karina Smirnoff – 20
Martina Navratilova & Tony Dovolani – 20
TELL US – THOUGHTS ON LAST NIGHT’S DWTS SEASON PREMIERE? WAS IT THE BEST SEASON OPENER YET? WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE SO FAR?
Is The Bachelor’s Courtney Robertson Joining Dancing With The Stars?
According to a new report by the very credible PEOPLE magazine, The Bachelor’s resident villain Courtney Robertson might be gearing up to join Dancing With The Stars! Wowzers.
Just days before the March 19th premiere of the all new season, sources tell PEOPLE that Courtney, 28, is currently in talks with DWTS producers and could make an appearance on Monday night.
Courtney’s addition to the show would be a pretty big surprise as the cast has already been announced and this would mean she only has five days to rehearse while her competitors have had three weeks.
PHOTOS – IS BEN FLAJNIK CHEATING ON COURTNEY AGAIN?
However, adding a last minute Bachelor contestant to the series is not a first for DWTS. If you recall, former Bachelor contestant Melissa Rycroft, was also a last minute add-in back in 2009, as she replaced an injured Nancy O’Dell, after being famously dumped by Jason Mesnick.
The decision to include Courtney, aka controversy on the show, also makes sense as the reaction from this season’s pick of “celebrities” has been very lackluster.
Adding more fire to the speculation, when contacted by PEOPLE, a rep for DWTS would only state: “We do not comment on casting rumors. You’ll have to tune in Monday and see.”
TELL US – ARE YOU SHOCKED THAT COURTNEY MIGHT BE JOINING DWTS? GREAT OR BAD MOVE BY ABC?
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Sherri Shepherd, Jack Wagner, and Melissa Gilbert Join Dancing With The Stars Season 14! Giuliana Is Out
by Reality Teaon February 27th, 2012
With just one day left until the official announcement by ABC, TMZ has now revealed four of the Dancing With The Stars season 14 contestants!
Sources close to production confirm to TMZ that The View’s Sherri Shepherd, actor Jack Wagner, actress Melissa Gilbert, and entertainment reporter Maria Menounos are all gearing up to put on their dancing shoes!
Sherri’s name is not much of a surprise as she has made no secret of her wish to do the show in the past.
Meanwhile, there had been rumors that super hotness/pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy would not be returning to the show, but Maksim shut down those rumors over the weekend confirming to TMZ that he will be back! It is his show after all.
One person who won’t be appearing on the new season is E! reporter Giuliana Rancic. Reports came out stating the series was interested in Giuliana following her battle with breast cancer. The 37-year-old E! host, however, stated she had to turn down the offer as she is currently too busy to do the show.
She told E! Online: “I’ve been a big fan of the show for years. But sadly, my schedule at the moment would never allow for the gruelling rehearsal commitment.”
Other stars rumored to be in the running to join the show include Bruce Jenner, JWoww, and Paula Deen.
ABC plans to unveil the full cast tomorrow morning on Good Morning America. The new season will then officially kick off on March 19.
[Photos Credit: WENN.com]
TELL US – THOUGHTS ON THE DWTS SEASON 14 CAST SO FAR? HAPPY THAT MAKSIM IS RETURNING?
Bruce Jenner To Appear On Dancing With The Stars? Plus More Casting News!
by Mary McClellandon February 14th, 2012
We all know the Kardashians love them some Dancing With The Stars! Several of the famegrubbing family members have shimmied into their sequins to shake their bootys. Well, the latest Kardashian associate to get considered for the show is none other than poor whipped Bruce Jenner!
Oh, Bruce – imagine doing something besides playing with helicopters without Kris Jenner breathing down your neck whilst she prostitutes your daughters for a measly 10%! I swear she even forced Bruce to get that “facelift”!
Yes, unfortunately Bruce is the latest name to be thrown out as a possible contender for the show. I personally think he would be fun on the show – at least as far as Kardashians go!
Apparently, despite the looming deadline to announce the new cast, the producers haven’t filled the fourteen celebrity spots yet! According to HollywoodLife, DWTS producers think Bruce would be a great option. Or they realize Bruce has nothing else going on and would be available last minute!
Bruce hasn’t decided if he’ll sign on yet. He’s likely waiting for Kris to give the ok!
In other casting news, The Huffington Post is reporting that NY Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz was bragging of turning down a DWTS offer while backstage at the Grammy’s!
And singer Ryan Tedder was overheard telling people that Chariot singer Gavin McGraw will be joining the cast this season! Gavin or his rep hasn’t confirmed or denied an interest in the show, but I guess we’ll find out on February 28th when the official lineup is announced.
Other possible castmates are Giuliana Rancic, JWoww, Tim Tebow, Paula Dean, and Herman Cain! Oh, and Melissa Gorga – in her dreams!
Dancing With The Stars returns Monday, March 19 at 8 PM EST on ABC.
[Photo Credit: Mr. Blue/WENN.com]
DO YOU WANT TO SEE BRUCE ON DWTS? OR ARE YOU TIRED OF THE KARDASHIANS INVADING THAT SHOW?
Giuliana Rancic To Appear On Dancing With The Stars? Plus New Season’s Cast To Be Revealed On Feb. 28!
by Mary McClellandon February 1st, 2012
Everybody’s favorite game of will they or won’t they, speculating who will dance is soon coming to an end! The new Dancing With The Stars lineup will be announced February 28th according to ABC.
The celebrity cast for Season 14 will be unveiled on Good Morning America! Then the newbies will strap on their sequins and get to fox trottin to prepare for the March season premiere! Producers are apparently hoping for failed Presidential candidates Michelle Bachman or Herman Cain, along with JWoww, Tim Tebow, and Paula Dean to join the show!
For all y’all wondering just who will make the cut, rumors are also circulating that Giuliana Rancic has been approached by producers!
“Producers have reached out to see if Giuliana would like to be a part of the show,” a set insider tells HollywoodLife. “They love the triumph over tragedy element that she would bring.”
The star of Giuliana & Bill has been battling breast cancer and recently underwent surgery for a double mastectomy. Giuliana is recovering well with the help of her supportive husband Bill Rancic and I think she would be a fantastic candidate for the show, provided she is well enough to compete and feels ready for the challenge.
Giuliana certainly is an inspiration and would provide for a compelling storyline. I guess we’ll find out February 28th!
Photo Credit: [WENN.com]
WHO IS YOUR DREAM DWTS CAST MEMBER? IS GIULIANA A GOOD CHOICE FOR THE CAST?
Dancing With The Stars Wants JWoww, Tim Tebow & Paula Deen Next Season! Plus Plans For An All-Star Season?
by Mary McClellandon January 18th, 2012
Fans anticipate the casting drama of Dancing With The Stars almost as much as they anticipate watching the celebs strap on their dancing gear and compete. Well, casting for season 14 is about to begin and already a whole host of names are being thrown around as possible contenders!
HollywoodLife is exclusively reporting that JWoww and Tim Tebow are both topping DWTS’ producers wish list and have already been approached to participate in the show. Eeks – Can you imagine what JWoww would wear to dance in!?
And following the announcement by Food Network’s star Paula Deen yesterday that she has Type II Diabetes, the show producers now want the 64-year-old on the show! “‘DWTS’ suits love good stories,” the source says. “It’s good timing. Paula just confirmed she has diabetes and this could help her a lot.”
The source also reveals that the show is hoping to get some failed presidential hopefuls on board by asking Michelle Bachman and Herman Cain to consider the show. Also, if Rick Perry or Ron Paul leave the presidential race producers are apparently hoping to entice one of them as well. That seems like one politico too many!
In other DWTS news two-time winner Cheryl Burke recently hinted that fans may get their wish for an all-star show! Cheryl taught a dance class in Mountain View, CA over the weekend and participated in a little Q & A session about the show, which was tweeted live by the peeps at Mountain View Patch.
Among some of the juicy tidbits Cheryl revealed, she mentioned that an all-star show could be in the works in time for season 15! Cheryl also talked on-set egos and revealed, “Some male dancers on the show have egos, but I stay out of it.” I wonder whom she could be referring to…
Cheryl also pointed out egos have never been a problem with male celebrities! Cheryl also shared that she takes Len Goodman‘s advice the most seriously because he’s a real ballroom judge.
[Photo Credit: Judy Eddy/WENN.com]
THOUGHTS ON NEXT SEASON’S CASTING PICKS SO FAR? WHO DO YOU WANT TO SEE ON AN ALL-STAR SHOW?!
Kris Jenner Demands Apology From Daniel Craig! DWTS Wants Kylie Or Kendall Jenner! PHOTOS of Kim Kardashian In Haiti
by Mary McClellandon December 13th, 2011
The Kardashian publicity machine is at it again in a desperate attempt to salvage their image and convince people they are still a big deal!
Kris Jenner pimpmomager extraordinaire must be impressing someone because Dancing With The Stars may have a continued interested in the family K and considering Kendall, 16, or Kylie, 14, to be part of next season’s cast!
A source spoke to HollywoodLife, claiming the network is indeed interested in the littlest of the Keeping Up With The Kardashian siblings. “We would actually love for Kendall or Kylie to join the show; they are so young and would give our show a different audience because you honestly don’t know how they would do,” the source explains. “I mean look at what happened with Rob [Kardashian] this year! It would be great to have Kendall or Kylie.”
“The Kardashian family has been great for the show and we would love any of the family to join the show,” the source continues.“It’s a complete open door for Khloe, Kourtney and the rest of the gang.”
One person who is not interested in dancing is Kris, herself! Showing up at The Hollywood Reporter’s Power 100 Women in Entertainment breakfast last week, Kris told former contestant Nancy Grace that she has “too much work,” to make time for DWTS. Work? What work? Manipulating the media and pimping out her daughters for a measly 10%? And it seems like the feeling is mutual! “Nope, no offer [was made by ‘DWTS’],” Kris’ rep confirms to the NY Post.
While Kris may be too busy for a DWTS appearance she’s not too busy to get in feuds with A-List celebrities! Speaking to GQ, famous actor Daniel Craig complained about the culture of reality TV creating celebrities out of nothing. And who better to illustrate that point than the Kardashian family! “It’s not about being afraid to be public with your emotions or about who you are and what you stand for. But if you sell it off it’s gone,” Daniel lamented.
“You can’t buy it back — you can’t buy your privacy back. ‘Ooh I want to be alone’. ‘F*** you. We’ve been in your living room. We were at your birth. You filmed it for us and showed us the placenta and now you want some privacy?’” he continued.
“Look at the Kardashians, they’re worth millions. I don’t think they were that badly off to begin with but now look at them. You see that and you think “what, you mean all I have to do is behave like a f***ing idiot on television and then you’ll pay me millions. I’m not judging it — well, I am obviously,” Daniel declared, echoing what millions of Americans think as well.
While Daniel denies that he was speaking about the Kardashians directly, telling Reuters people need to “re-read the quote,” Kris is taking offense and she wants him to apologize for speaking the truth!
“[He has] crossed the line. It’s not made him look like the world’s nicest guy,” Kris snapped, speaking to Heat Magazine. “The right thing for a real man to do now would be to issue a public apology. The easy thing would be to criticize his career now, but our family won’t stoop to that level.”
Wait — they were considering criticizing his career in retaliation. Excuse me while I laugh. I’m sure Daniel is really worried about the prospect. Oh dear… I just couldn’t make up better stuff!
Finally, just as we had predicted, photos of Kim Kardashian “giving back” in Haiti have made their way online! In fact, Kimmie really wants the world to like her again know about her good deeds as she of course blogged about it this morning.
Kim wrote, “Hey dolls. I want to share this article I wrote with Maria Bello for The Huffington Post about our incredible experience together in Haiti. I’ll be posting more pics and stories from this life-changing trip next week.” Yaaay, more photos to come! Lucky us. In the meantime, below are two photos of Kim and her pimp mom in Haiti.
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HAS DANIEL CRAIG CROSSED THE LINE AND SHOULD HE APOLOGIZE? WOULD YOU WATCH KYLIE OR KENDALL ON DWTS OR SHOULD THE KARDASHIAN REIGN OF TERROR END?
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Home ❯ Articles ❯ Brexit Polls – Lessons from Ireland
Brexit Polls – Lessons from Ireland
The Brexit vote will take place this Thursday. Trends in the polls in the past few weeks had seen a significant shift towards Leave, with the poll of polls suggesting the outcome could well be as much as 55% Leave and 45% Remain. This trend has been seen across both Online and Telephone polls as we move closer to the day of voting, despite the fact that originally Telephone polls had suggested a leaning towards the Remain camp. More recently the polls have suggested a swing back to Remain.
So are the polls measuring Brexit correct? Or is there anything we can learn from Ireland, where the pollsters have had perhaps more experience of measuring Referendum than their near neighbours in recent years.
Detailed analysis of Irish referendum polling has uncovered two main features that can impact on the polls. The first being the “status quo” effect, and the second the impact of “shy voters” on the outcome.
The Status Quo Effect
The status quo effect has been seen in almost all of the referendum polling conducted in Ireland over the last number of years. This suggests that voters, if they are not 100% decided on how they will vote, end up voting for the option that means no real change to their own lives, when it comes down to making a decision in the polling booth. This can have two impacts on the polls as they currently stand.
The first impact is that it is very likely that those who currently tell pollsters that “don’t know” how they will vote, will ultimately vote for the status quo if they actually bother to vote at all. The second is that, even if voters are telling pollsters how they will vote, but have any doubts on voting day, they are far more likely to end up voting for the status quo than otherwise.
In the recent Marriage Referendum almost all of those telling pollsters they were undecided in the final polls, appear to have voted No to changing the law and allowing same sex marriage. If RED C had simply excluded undecided voters from our final poll before the referendum, we would have been predicting an 80% Yes vote. As it was we argued that all the undecided voters would vote No, and published a final poll predicting 69% would vote Yes.
This phenomenon was also apparent in the Children’s and the Oireachtas Enquiries referendums, with at least 70% of undecided voters ending up voting for the status quo if not more. An Irish Times/MRBI opinion poll taken in the week before the Oireachtas Enquiries referendum suggested it would be passed by at least 74% when undecided voters were excluded. A week later the referendum was defeated by 53% voting No and just 47% voting Yes. Even if 100% of the undecided voters moved to No or the Status Quo, then the poll would still have only suggested 43% were going to vote No. But at least it would have been significantly closer to the final result.
Learning – undecided or wavering voters are far more likely to vote for the status quo than for change, assuming they turn out.
Shy Voter Effect
Referendums can often be far more emotionally charged than political party elections. With strong and emotive arguments being made on either side, voters can sometimes feel “shy” about expressing their opinions, particularly when it appears to be in the minority.
This was particularly evident in the recent Marriage Equality Referendum where many of those that didn’t want to see change happen felt somewhat compelled to silence by the overwhelming media support for Marriage Equality. This meant all of the polls underrepresented their views. In fact, even when allocating most undecided voters to the status quo, the final polls in Ireland were still at least 7% too positive for the Yes camp.
Only RED C, using a Wisdom of Crowds approach in an aim to overcome this shy voter effect, correctly predicted the result with 100% accuracy.
In the Marriage Referendum campaign the No side had not been strongly represented, with no political party on the side of the No camp, and the media firmly in the Yes camp. So it wouldn’t be a surprise if voters were “shy” about telling us they plan to vote No.
In our polls running up to the referendum we also saw that many voters claiming that they will vote Yes still had reservations about some of the claims being made by the No camp. To get behind this for our final poll, we used a Wisdom of the Crowd approach to polling. As well as asking how our representative sample of voters will vote themselves, we also asked them what they thought the final result might be.
This aimed to take into account the conversations that voters are having with family and friends about the topic, and how they see people voting on Election Day. Once the 1% of don’t knows were excluded, this analysis predicted the final result with 100% accuracy! Suggesting that there was indeed a “shy No” voter effect in the standard poll analysis.
Learning – watch out for a possible shy voter effect on your referendum polling.
So how might these two referendum poll learning’s from Ireland impact on the UK Brexit polling result?
Firstly, it is clear that the status quo in this instance is to remain as part of the EU. As such, based on this learning from Ireland, we might assume that a large majority of undecided voters in the UK Brexit polls that are still definitely planning to vote will end up voting to Remain.
What the UK Thinks, (http://whatukthinks.org) is a web site run by John Curtice, one of the most respected political scientists in the UK, in order to give an unbiased view of all the polling data available. It runs a poll of polls analysis, using the most recent 6 polls from reputable polling companies in the UK. At the time of writing (Sunday 19th June) it has the two camps neck and neck at 50% each.
However if we were to create an exact replica of the poll of poll average, but were to allocate ALL the undecided voters to end up voting for the status quo, it would show the Remain camp at 55% and the Leave at 45%. Even if only 70% of undecided voters end up voting for the status quo, it would still put the Remain camp ahead at 52%.
Secondly, there is certainly potential for voters on one side or the other, in what has been a very emotive campaign, to feel shy in expressing their views on how they plan to vote.
RED C has been working with partner pollsters in the UK in order to try and replicate the Wisdom of Crowds approach for Brexit, that RED C used in Ireland at the Marriage Referendum. ORB International are the UK member of the WIN Gallup International network along with RED C. In their Brexit polling they asked the exact same wisdom of crowd question used by RED C.
ORB’s topline published poll vote intention results on the 10th June showed 55% Leave and 45% Remain. But the Wisdom question asked of the exact same voters suggested a 52% Remain and 48% Leave result was being predicted by their representative crowd as the likely result. While this poll was taken some time ahead of the referendum itself and so can’t be used to predict the result itself, the difference between the wisdom prediction and the topline vote intention results suggest at that stage of the campaign that shy voters were more likely to be in the Remain camp.
More recent polling, in particular since the death MP Jo Cox, and the unveiling of Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration poster, has seen the wisdom of crowd question produces the opposite result.
In other words, as the topline vote intention poll results have moved more in favour of the Remain campaign in the past week, the crowd is suggesting a result that is far closer and even possibly in favour of Leave. This may seem at odds with earlier results, but could also suggest a new underlying shy voter effect, this time among Leave voters who no longer want to admit to pollsters that is how they will vote as the media narrative possibly turns against them.
So how does this help us to predict the Brexit Referendum result itself?
We preface our conclusions by stating that of course no one referendum is exactly the same as another. Having said that, if the same issues for the pollsters in recent Irish referendum are taken into account, then the current Brexit picture is possibly more positive for the Remain camp than the topline poll results suggest based on the impact of the “status quo” effect, but these gains could be balanced out by any underlying “shy voter” effect.
The “status quo” effect certainly appears to favour Remain. In fact, the Remain camp could potentially secure as much as 55% of the vote based on polls to this date, despite only securing 50% of the poll of poll average at this stage. Most recent polls released today also suggest a greater move to remain, which could push the Remain vote up to mid to high 50’s if the status quo undecided voter impact is at play.
This then needs to be countered with a possible “shy voter” impact in the opposite direction, potentially pulling the vote closer.
As we don’t have the full data itself from the polls, it is very hard to determine exactly how much impact each poll effect may have. However to hazard an estimate of where the two factors might balance out I am suggesting a possible result that sees a Remain victory, in or around 53-54%.
Only time will tell if this analysis holds true and that the Brexit referendum has these two Irish referendum poll effects at play, in another country and a very different referendum, but it will be provide an interesting lesson for pollsters should this pan out.
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Donald Searing
Very Undesirable Unintended Consequences
PostSat Apr 09, 2016 1:20 pm
After reading yesterday's Comparative Politics Digest, I think that it is the editor of World Politics who has it about right. Hall is on target as well. We are talking about implementing a system that will have very undesirable unintended consequences. It will certainly discourage people, and especially young people, and particularly people in comparative politics, from doing ambitious qualitative-quantitative/mixed research. And it will discourage people from interviewing elites and others under real conditions of confidentiality (eg, "Turn it over") and from collecting complex, time-consuming interview and other qualitative data (eg, "Turn it all over in two years"). The model looks as though it is looking to micro economics whose model is physics. I think it is misguided. We are a methodologically rich diverse discipline and that is our strength. Are some colleagues hoping we can become a "real" science rather than be a social science (which uses natural science methods to study humanistic problems) by getting rid of anything that smells of the humanities? I spent a morning reading all of this newsletter and got so worked up that I'm posting about something I would ordinarily never post about. Thankfully the current editors of the APSR seem to be bending over backwards to be accommodating. But who knows what the next APSR editors will do? Talk about incentive structures: under this regime, graduate students and new assistants in comparative politics would be absolutely bonkers (until tenure or even promotion to full) to do anything other than analyze existing quantitative data sets because any of their competitors doing just that will have an enormous advantage. Transparency yes, but with these costs? How did we get to this impasse?
Donald D. Searing
Re: Very Undesirable Unintended Consequences
I would go even further--at what point do we as scholars abandon political science? Meanwhile, what do we advise PhD researchers? Emerging scholars will suffer the consequences disproportionately. Over the long term, political science will eviscerate itself before higher education writ large eliminates tenured jobs.
Tim Buthe
HfP/Technical Univ of Munich & Duke University
PostFri Apr 22, 2016 11:03 pm
Thank you, Donald and Guest, for your posts--which reinforces some of the points in the great thread started by Gary Marks about whether qualitative research is held to a higher standard. In our introduction and conclusion to the symposium in QMMR, Alan Jacobs and I argued that almost all of the same demands that are made of qualitative sources of information (especially the demands for background information about concepts and measurement) should equally apply to quantitative datasets, including pre-existing ones. Reasons include: The inferences drawn from any statistical analysis are at best as good as the measurements employed to generate the data--and the suitability of many statistical techniques depends upon whether its assumptions about the data-generating process are met. My impression is that the best datasets provide this kind of meta-data, and their creators should get (and often do get) a lot of credit for it. I wonder whether it wouldn't lead to better research to insist that users of existing datasets dig up and provide such information, too (thus holding all research, including quantitative, to higher standards) than to reject the demands for more information about qualitative research?
The key questions then are: What is the background information that "transparent" research really must provide, even if costs are high? And which additional information is unreasonable to demand since the costs clearly exceed the benefits? The answers to those questions almost surely depend upon the specific kind of qualitative research a scholar is considering. It would be great if a large number of you were to weigh in concerning specific kinds of research, so as to help inform the decision how to structure the more differentiated deliberations during stage 2 of the QTD.
Anne Pitcher
PostSun Apr 24, 2016 11:28 am
I strongly support initiatives to make the research process more transparent and to make the evidence used to support a claim more available to scholars. The availability of generous funding, technical support, and research assistants who could scan archival data and fieldnotes; de-identify respondents to interviews, surveys, and focus groups; translate reports from Portuguese and French into English (or vice versa) would be very welcome. It would also be most useful if journal editors would extend the limits on article word length to allow qualitative scholars to more extensively document the wealth of sources they rely on to produce their work. How many of us have had to cut sources to fit the word length of a journal?
But in line with the arguments of this thread, what I find troubling about DA-RT is that it appears to be another effort to privilege the "science" in political science over the "political", to stress the "method" of doing political science over the big ideas that the methods and the evidence support. It sends a signal and a wrong one in my view that political science is exactly like studying the effects of smoking. "Data" needs to be "transparent" so it can be "replicated" in order to test another "hypothesis".
Yet much of what I find interesting in political science is not the methods but the big ideas about politics-Barrington Moore's claim regarding "no bourgeoisie, no democracy"; Jim Scott's ideas about "high modernism" and the state; Theda Skocpol's theory of revolutions; Sid Tarrow's ideas on contentious politics and social movements. Each one of these scholars has "data" to support his/her claims, but more importantly each scholar is advancing a theory, an interpretation about a series of events or a process that seeks to inform our views about the practice and the consequences of politics. One wonders if any of these works could have been produced had DA-RT been strictly enforced.
Being reminded by other scholars, journals and the association that we have an obligation to produce scholarship in accordance with the highest ethical standards of the discipline is both worthy and important. But let's remember that interpretation, perception, serendipity, experience are also integral parts of the study of politics. Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan
Karen Alter
PostSun Apr 24, 2016 3:00 pm
Here is a list of unintended consequences that I have discovered while publishing in law journals, that do rely on active citation:
1) the copy-editing in law journals is 75-100% about tracking and checking citations. It is easier for editors to focus on this technical side, but it comes at the cost of making sure that the argument is clear.
2) I actually compared footnotes in law to footnotes of my polisci publications. Depending on the detail the journal wants (e.g. replication of quotes informing the inference for example), active citation adds footnotes add 25-39% to the text.
3) I already posted about concerns about exacerbating inequalities based on access to research assistants. Less resourced faculty, and those for whom number of publications is important, will be more likely publish in journals that do not require DA-RT. We might exacerbate hierarchies that already exist based on wealth of the University/college.
4) I also worry about the creeping expectations about number of publications. If a qualitative publication requires 20% more time and effort to deal with footnotes (a low estimate I think), then over time quantitative scholars could publish something like 20% more. We already know of publication rate disparities by gender, and the citation rate disparities. I anticipate that active citation will enlarge these disparities.
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
Independent Scholar
Other unintended consequences of DART are that in favoring numbers, research results are necessarily superficial. Numbers can’t get into the motivations of actors, or interpret the different meanings that policies and events have for people. In this sense, numbers compel triviality. Studies have shown that the repetition of trivial research results in journals causes contempt for the political science profession among political professionals.
I discuss this in detail in my paper on Clarke and Primo at
https://independent.academia.edu/WilliamJKelleherPhD
(free safe download)
PostTue May 03, 2016 10:15 pm
I'm a junior faculty member at a research university, and I've often relied on interviews with participants in the policymaking process (in the United States and elsewhere) to support in-depth case studies. It is clear to me that the unintended consequences of the proposed changes are likely to be profound. Others have made the point that these standards are likely to deter grad students and junior scholars from engaging in time-consuming qualitative research. The other side of the coin is that potential interviewees will simply decline to be interviewed. If the interview is on the record, the interviewee will not want a transcript of the interview (or the notes from it) made public. These individuals often worry about how they will be represented and how well they have articulated their points. For this reason, I am frequently asked by interviewees to consult with them before attributing a quote or a point to them in a publication. If the interview is off the record, releasing a transcript or the notes from the interview runs a risk of revealing who the individual is, even if their name is withheld, particularly if the interview discloses information that relatively few individuals would possess. Under these circumstances, I can imagine many important individuals simply declining to be interviewed - or being so cautious in their remarks that the value of the interview is greatly diminished.
Derek Beach
University of Aarhus
PostFri May 13, 2016 2:10 am
I can second the problem with interviews. Having extensively interviewed elites in high-level negotiations in the EU, I can confirm that none of my interviewees would have consented to having the material archived. Many only allow me to refer to them as 'high level Commission official', if at all (many were background only). If I had to submit my interview transcripts as a precondition to publishing, I would have been forced to rely on secondary news accounts like the FT (that sometimes were correct, sometimes not).
A better way forward is to make the research process transparent so that other scholars could go out and replicate the research by talking to the same or similar people to hear whether they are getting similar accounts.
Ches Thurber
PostSun May 15, 2016 12:29 pm
Let me start with a note of agreement saying that I agree with the possibility and undesirability of the negative consequences described above. It seems that any standard for transparency in qualitative research should seek to avoid these outcomes. Furthermore, this thread highlights the difficulty of the endeavor for qualitative research as opposed to quantitative research, where DA-RT really just codifies what had already become standard best-practices for that methodology (and explaining why quantitative scholars find it so bewildering that other political scientists find DA-RT to be at all problematic).
That said, it seems to me that the discussion of whether there can and should be some common standards for transparency in qualitative research is well worth the time. Many of the participants on these boards have been leaders in the attention they give to their sources, approaches, and transparency in their work. So the discussion need not be one of creating new rules to bring qualitative research to a higher standard, but about what are some of the best practices already being employed that could either a) be acknowledged as such and more widely employed, and b) be made easier to employ through better infrastructure and resources. For example, the creation of an active citation protocol with an easy to use repository could make it easier for more scholars to use such an approach if it fits their research design. It does not have to follow that active citations be imposed as a requirement on all qualitative scholars, or that the creation of such infrastructure needs to be opposed out of fear that its existence could lead to the de facto creation of such a requirement.
Finally, I would like to speak directly to what I see as two different types of concerns being raised:
1) Transparency standards will create issues related to copyright and protection of human subjects.
This seems clear-cut to me. We cannot impose standards that would require scholars to either violate copyrights (or in any way disseminate materials to which they do not have the rights) or disclose information that could endanger human subjects. Scholars need to have the ability to decline to provide additional "data" on these grounds and not fear being penalized by reviewers of editors for lack of transparency.
2) Transparency standards will undermine the the kind of knowledge that comes from just spending a lot of time in a country, observing and having casual conversations with people.
This argument, to me seems a little more problematic. Of course, time spent in a country, linguistic knowledge, local expertise, access to social networks, are all valuable tools for the qualitative researcher. But the value should come unique exposure to evidence that the scholar can then leverage in support of an argument. Arguments backed only by a scholar's claims of unique personal expertise are, in my opinion, a type of practice that we might want to discourage as our discipline evolves. At the very least, a discussion of the costs and benefits of this practice, or maybe a contextualization of the conditions under which this is more or less appropriate would be helpful.
PostMon May 23, 2016 12:33 pm
I agree fully that the unintended consequences are likely to be profound and that this initiative favors and is designed with a certain kind of quantitative research in mind. The initiative is wrong-headed, at least in its current form.
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To see and doBiking in QuébecMountain biking
Mont-Sainte-Anne © Québec/Lyra
Mountain biking in Québec: For the challenges, the thrills, or simply the pleasure of being in nature
For the high of riding downhill
Outdoor enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies have a blast on the vast network of mountain bike trails that unfold throughout the province. The network’s 1,553 miles (2,500 km) of trails in national parks and resorts is a great challenge for all mountain bikers, regardless of skill level. The sport has grown in popularity and become even more accessible thanks to the construction of many beginner trails and bike parks. Young and old, beginners and advanced alike can explore mountainous terrain and enjoy breathtaking views. Imagine the glorious scenery that awaits in fall! Looking for an invigorating adventure and up-close contact with nature? Mountain biking is for you.
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Vallée du Bras du Nord © Tourisme Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean/P.Jobin
Coveted mountain bike sites
With its plethora of landscapes and the quality and variety of trails, Québec is on its way to becoming a world-renowned mountain biking destination. In fact, many of its trails are increasingly notorious. The trails of the Vallée Bras-du-Nord, located in a glacial valley, are among the most famous for their high quality and the superb landscapes. If you plan to visit this leader in mountain biking in Québec—and soon, in northeastern North America—you absolutely must try out the Neilson trail! Mont-Sainte-Anne, the largest network in Eastern Canada, is also a must-do, as are the Mont-Tremblant and Bromont outdoor centres, the latter considered a classic by the Québec mountain biking community.
Mountain biking in all its forms
Most mountain bike parks in Québec have trails for cross-country and enduro riding. Thrill seekers will be delighted by the sites that offer downhill, challenging and technical trails accessible by chairlift.
Fatbike: the latest craze!
Designed for use in all weather conditions and on unstable terrain in any season, fatbiking has won over many riders! This sport, requiring a bike with oversized tires, is similar to mountain biking and is practised in some 80 outdoor centres throughout Québec.
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International mountain bike events
Québec is host to world-class mountain biking events that have helped the province add to its reputation. Some of these events are:
Raid Bras du Nord
The most popular mountain bike race in Québec draws athletes from all walks of life. Endurance cyclists and newbies alike have the opportunity to discover the natural riches of the Vallée Bras-du-Nord.
Vélirium – international festival and UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
The best downhill and cross-country pro and amateur riders from more than 25 countries race down Mont-Sainte-Anne.
Crossroads Tremblant
This biking festival brings together cyclists from across the country in a festive atmosphere. Athletes compete in downhill events during the MTB Québec / Canada Cup, the festival’s flagship competition.
Québec Singletrack Experience
Seven stages, seven days, seven sites, and a bonus of seven timed descents and ascents. An incredible experience!
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10 Super Weird Superman Facts That DC Will Never Ever Let You Know
by Bibhu Prasad
Superman Facts DC
Superman is considered the most perfect superhero. He is the big blue boy-scout. He is strong enough to break planets apart with one strike yet has the moral restraints of a gentleman. He is a good, noble soul with Godlike powers and has saved the world, the universe and even the Multi-Verse, several times. People look up to him. He is their idol. But nobody is perfect. Not even Superman, who harbors secrets so dark even DC does not want you to know. Presenting – 10 Super Weird Superman Facts that DC will never ever let you know!!
10. Exposure to Kryptonite can turn him gay
Kryptonite is Superman’s one true weakness. And just like there are different versions of Superman in the comic books, there are different versions of Kryptonite as well. Since Kryptonite is just the fragments of Superman’s home-world Krypton, there exists different types of Kryptonite depending on the planet’s geography. There is the normal Green Kryptonite that makes him weak and is deadly to him. Red Kryptonite makes him way too angry and leads him to have violent temper tantrums. Pink Kryptonite has the strangest effect of them all on him. Too much exposure to Pink Kryptonite could permanently turn Superman into a homosexual. That storyline was offensive on so many levels to the Gay community that we could not even fathom.
9. His tragic love story with a mermaid
In a 1959 issue, Superman went to an esteemed university as Clark Kent to study, only to fall in love with a young, wheelchair-bound student called Lori Lemaris. Lori was a fellow student and both soon became a thing. Lori Lemaris was secretly living a double life. In the day, she was the regular wheelchair bound Lori. After 8 pm, she would go out to the sea, revealing that she is actually a mermaid. The fact that Superman never saw Lori after 8 pm; never bothered him even after being in a relationship with her for two years! Clark Kent even proposed to her and it was Lori who revealed that she is a mermaid and from a different world, claiming that they could never be together.
8. The dreaded Superman Curse
The Superman curse is not something we made up. It has been something the studios, and the comic book publication house have been trying to cover up since ages. The story goes something like this – whoever is involved in a live action Superman production, especially the actor who plays the Man of Steel, dies a painful death.
George Reeves, the first-ever live-action Superman, died of a mysterious gun-shot wound. Christopher Reeve who played Superman next, was paralyzed from the waist down after a horse-riding accident and he too died a sad yet slow death. Lee Quigley played the baby Superman in the 1978 movie. He later died in 1991 of extreme substance abuse. Multiple Sclerosis and Drug abuse also dogged Richard Pryor, who played a vital role in Superman III.
7. There is a Superman in the Marvel Universe
The amount of Crossovers between DC and Marvel is astounding. Several times, the heroes of DC and Marvel have met each other in the same panel, to either fight each other or join hands and fight a common enemy. But before the crossovers saw Superman jump into the Marvel Universe, there was already a Clark Kent running around in the latter.
Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont, and John Byrne – prominent Marvel Comics writers wanted to take a dig at DC Comics, their greatest competitor. They periodically inserted a very Clark Kent looking character into the backgrounds of major Spider-Man, Thor, and Fantastic Four comic book issues. So this now begs the question – if Clark Kent exists in the Marvel Universe already, how long till Superman shows up??
6. Lex Luthor is bald due to Superman
No matter which comic book you read, no matter which year it is – Lex Luthor has always been bald. That has been the norm since more than 80 years. But that was not always the case. When Lex Luthor first came into the DC Comic books, he had red hair that could give Tintin a run for his money. Back then, Lex was a huge fan of Superman and wanted to help him when Superman was dying of radiation poisoning due to exposure to Kryptonite.
When his lab caught fire, Superman came to his rescue. While using his freeze breath to blow of the fire on his hair, he blew some of the Kryptonite cure onto his head, which turned his head permanently bald. Luthor then became evil to exact revenge on Superman for making him bald.
5. He starred in a Porno movie with Big Barda
The 1980s were crazy times. The 1987 Action Comics #593 had a story line where an alien called Sleez kidnapped the Man of Steel and Big Barda and used his mind control powers to make them fall into the pits of lust and have sex with each other. Sleez’s intentions were to film the entire ordeal and sell a million copies to become rich. His idea for choosing Big Barda for the role was because she was the only one had the physical strength to withstand Superman’s super-human ‘strokes’. It is a dark and rather insane storyline that could never see the light of day during current times if someone was crazy enough to come up with a similar idea.
4. Superman was originally evil
It was in 1932 that Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel joined hands to pen the world’s first ever comic book featuring the Superman. Superman in that story arc was a guy named Bill Dunn, who was genetically enhanced using a secret chemical developed by a mad scientist. Bill Dunn was transformed into a super human with the ability of mind control. Bill would later become evil, kill his creator, and uses his powers to manipulate the stock market and racetrack winnings. Later, he gathers enough money to rule the whole world.
3. Superman made the world’s two greatest physicians fight
Superman has the power to fly faster than the speed of light. He has done it thousands of times in the comic books. But according to Einstein, nothing in this universe can travel faster than the speed of light. His famous theory of relativity is a testament to that fact. But Isaac Asimov, another visionary of the same domain, felt that it is possible. This clash of opinions would later lead to the two pioneers of physics enter into a heated debate with each other. None could conclusively prove that they were right and the other was wrong.
2. Superman’s Krypto-Ray Gun
Superman is the freaking Man of Steel!! What does he need a gun for!! Back in those days, Superman was not was well known as he is today. Before he became a household phenomenon, DC tried to use all sorts of tactics to make money. The Krypto-Ray Gun is not actually something Superman uses. It is actually a children’s projector – a line of toys that was intended to make Children know more about the Man of Steel. It would be really absurd if Superman started brandishing a gun that was powered by an element that is deadly to him itself.
1. Superman almost made America lose World War Two
In 1945, a Superman comic book strip in a prominent newspaper showed Superman visiting an atomic-cyclotron as Clark Kent. This drew the attention of the FBI, who feared that information regarding the still on-going Manhattan Project (America’s A-Bomb program), was leaked. The newspaper clarified that it was just a stroke of luck. However, the FBI ensured that another storyline where they show Superman observing an atom bomb test, and another one showing Lex Luthor conducting an atomic explosion experiment were delayed until America dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Superman made his first appearance under the DCEU banner in Man of Steel of 2013. The official film synopsis for the movie reads:
With the imminent destruction of Krypton, their home planet, Jor-El (Russell Crowe) and his wife seek to preserve their race by sending their infant son to Earth. The child’s spacecraft lands at the farm of Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha (Diane Lane) Kent, who name him Clark and raise him as their own son. Though his extraordinary abilities have led to the adult Clark (Henry Cavill) living on the fringe of society, he finds he must become a hero to save those he loves from a dire threat.
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Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just… do things
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Thu 27 Jul 2017, 01:26 PM
Michael Oldfield admits he is humbled to have been given a chance by Ricky Stuart and the Canberra Raiders.
"I'm very excited and humbled, it's always a pleasure to play first grade, it's a real honour and I'm looking forward to my chance on Saturday," Oldfield said.
In the absence of Jordan Rapana who is serving a one game suspension, Oldfield is excited to line up alongside Joey Leilua and strike up a Leifield partnership.
"Ive got big shoes to fill in Rapa's absence but ill just go out there and play my game and hopefully my combination with BJ Leilua will be fine."
"I have to be ready for anything, Joey is a great play who can do anything so ill be ready."
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Jordan Peele Unveils Terrifying Trailer For Us
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Get Out's Jordan Peele Unveils Terrifying Trailer For New Film Us
Courtney E. Smith
Photo: Courtesy of Universal Pictures.
Are you ready to be terrified by Jordan Peele all over again? The Oscar-winning creator and director of Get Out dropped the trailer for his next film on Christmas Day and you can forget about sleeping. Ever again.
The trailer shows a family, with Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke as the parents, taking their two kids to the beach for a vacation. Everything seems fine, until the son spies a strange person standing on the beach in full winter clothing...with what appears to be blood dripping from his fingertips. No, this is not your normal summer family getaway.
Then a creepy family of four show up in their driveway and just stand there, creepily. The trailer reveals that the family is them, or some alternate universe versions of them, who have come to kill. How do you fight an enemy who not only knows who you are and how you think but literally is yourself?
We'll all find out on March 15, 2019 when Us hits cinemas. Until then, check out the trailer below.
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Home Sports News Cricket News We never thought about spin option: Virat Kohli
We Never Thought About Spin Option: Virat Kohli
Written By Press Trust Of India | Mumbai | Published: December 18, 2018 14:34 IST
Skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said the thought of having a spinner for the second Test against Australia never crossed his mind as he believed India's four-pronged pace attack would do the job
The India skipper praised Australia for the win, saying the hosts were relentless in their bowling and also outshone the visitors in batting
Skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said the thought of having a spinner for the second Test against Australia never crossed his mind as he believed India's four-pronged pace attack would do the job.
India lost the match by 146 runs.
The visitors were outdone by a second successive eight-wicket haul by off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who was adjudged the man-of-the-match, on a pitch that favoured the seamers.
"When we looked at the pitch, we didn't think about the (Ravindra) Jadeja option. We thought four quicks would be enough," said Kohli after India were bowled out for a paltry 140 in their second innings on the fifth and final day.
"Nathan Lyon bowled really well. We never thought about the spin option to be honest."
Asked about his 123-run innings in the first innings, Kohli said: "When you don't win you don't really rank your performances so it's irrelevant because we didn't get the result we wanted.
"I am focused on the next game and I hope I can contribute on a winning note."
The India skipper praised Australia for the win, saying the hosts were relentless in their bowling and also outshone the visitors in batting.
"As a team I think we played well in patches which we can hold onto. Australia played much better than us with the bat. 330 on that pitch we felt was a bit too much. They deserved to win," he said.
"We had the belief we could do it, but they were more relentless and put us in trouble."
Talking about India's bowling performance, Kohli said: "(Our bowlers) are outstanding as a pack, to see them dominate was really good to see and something we want to build on. They are relentless even if they aren't getting wickets which is a great quality."
Asked about his controversial dismissal in the first innings, Kohli: "It was a decision made on the field, it stays there."
Australian skipper Tim Paine was a relieved man after his team won their first Test since the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa had plunged the game into crisis.
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"It's probably more a relief at the moment, first Test win has taken a while," Paine said after Australia levelled the four-Test series 1-1.
"Really proud of the players and staff. Good to get a little bit of reward. It was as difficult Test, both have been tough Tests. Two really competitive sides with good fast bowling attack."
Paine said the opening partnership between Aaron Finch and Marcus Harris in the first innings made a lot of difference.
"Day one was a bit of a funny one, we crossed our fingers. Marcus and Aaron, to get us none for 100 was brilliant and probably the difference in the end," he said, referring to their 112-run opening stand.
Usman Khawaja scored a valuable 72 in the second innings after flopping in the opening Test and Paine hoped a big hundred is round the corner for the star batsman.
"Uzzie (Usman Khawaja) has been batting well for a long time. He's in a really good space. If he keeps batting the way he is right now, I am sure some big runs are going to come." He also praised Lyon for his exploits.
"It's great to have Lyon in our team. Every team would want to have him in their team. You can throw him the ball in any condition, at any end, any time against any team and he loves bowling to the best players in the world."
It was also his Paine's first win as a captain.
"It's a huge honour to captain the Australian side. Now to do it at the MCG for the Boxing Day Test is a special feeling. We all can't wait to get to Melbourne," he said.
Lyon was ecstatic to play a role in Australia's win.
"It's amazing to play a role in a victory, haven't had one in a while. It's fair to say we've been in a drought, so good to break. Was special to wrap the tail up quickly," he said.
"My role probably changed a bit, attacking in Adelaide to a defending on here. But luckily they ran down to the wicket to create a few footholes.
"When you come up against the best players, to compete against Virat and take his wicket was pretty special. Big thanks to my brother, I'm not a very good batter so just trying to play my role.
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HomeResearchResearch ExplorerResearchersProf Robert Ainsworth PhD, FRS FREng
Prof Robert AinsworthPhD, FRS FREng
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Dalton Nuclear Institute, Faculty of Science and Engineering
robert.ainsworth@manchester.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 4317
Bob Ainsworth joined The University of Manchester as BNFL Professor of Structural Integrity in early 2011 after over 35 years in the UK electricity supply industry. There he was heavily involved in development of structural integrity assessment procedures, in particular the defect assessment procedure R6 and the high temperature assessment procedure R5. The central parts of R6 have been included in other procedures: for example, the British Standards document BS7910; the American Petroleum Institute/ASME procedure API/ASME FFS-1; and the European procedures SINTAP in 1999 and FITNET in 2006. The R6 procedures are used routinely in defect assessments on UK nuclear plant and are also used widely outside the nuclear industry. The R5 procedures are the UK power generation industry standard for assessing the lifetime of high temperature components and are also used worldwide.
Bob Ainsworth has received a number of awards including being elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 2009 and of The Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. As well as being active in research he has been involved in teaching, including giving lectures on the High Temperature Component Life Assessment Course at Imperial College on 15 occasions between 1987 and 2011 and being an invited or keynote speaker at a numerous conferences and seminars.
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Home » News » Agriculture Universities Ranking
Agriculture Universities Ranking
After the release of engineering, management and pharmaceutical institutes, last month and the heated debate on the performance of some institutes, like ministry of HRD, the agriculture ministry has decided to rank the 73 agriculture institutes of India.
The responsibility for the ranking has been given to national academy of agriculture sciences. The NAAS has firstly to develop the evaluation methodology. As per the resources, the initial framework for the ranking process has been designed and in coming days, the universities would be asked to participate in the process.
As per the details, some key determinants for the ranking are quality inputs, increase in agriculture growth in the area of jurisdiction, technology transfer to farmers, teaching, research impact and research excellence.
The meeting of the committee held recently under the minister of state of agriculture Sanjeev Kumar Balyan in which the indicators to measure the quality and performance of the universities given the final authentication and committee also discussed the details to invite the application from the participants. Mr. Balyan will handle all this project of ranking on the behalf of Ministry of agriculture.
One official of the ministry said that after the final approval from the union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh, the next procedure would be announced.
One of the interesting moves is the inclusion of award winning farmer in the process of ranking. These farmers are identify and given the awards each years by Indian council of agriculture research.
In the confidential survey, during the process, the retired faculty members of the universities in India and Abroad would be given the free hand to give the opinion about the universities. The view of the award winning farmer will be taken as the stakeholders’ perception - the perception has the weightage of 7 out of 100 total marks.
The mark distribution of ranking is as follows;
33 marks to research, 35 to teaching outcome and facility, 20 to extension ( the lab to end activity), 7 marks to stakeholders and 5 marks to linkages.
Under the category of “teaching outcome and facility” – marks would be given to universities that have good record of digital connectivity.
The final raking will be made by the ranking the participating universities, however, efforts shall be done to include all the 73 institutes in the ranking.
The ministry believes that this process of ranking the universities will help the universities to self access themselves on the basis of quality and through this they can enhance their skills.
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The main objective of the ministry behind this initiative to ranking will improve the ranking of the agriculture institutes in the world university ranking.
After the successful completion of the HRD ministry ranking, the Agriculture ministry has tightened its belts to know the quality of agriculture education. This process was much needed and must be started in the previous government so that the actual situation of the quality could be come up in front of nation and efforts were made according to them.
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January 28, 2015 / 6:22 PM / 4 years ago
EU mergers and takeovers (Jan 28)
BRUSSELS, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process:
APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS
— Generic drugmaker Mylan Inc to purchase Abbot Laboratories’ specialty and branded generics business outside the United States (approved Jan. 28)
— Swiss drugmaker Novartis to acquire British peer GlaxoSmithKline’s oncology products (approved Jan. 28)
— British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to acquire Novartis’ vaccines business, excluding flu, and the setting up of a consumer healthcare joint venture (approved Jan. 28)
EXTENSIONS AND OTHER CHANGES
FIRST-STAGE REVIEWS BY DEADLINE
— French chemicals producer Arkema to purchase Blu-Tack maker Bostik from French oil major Total (notified Dec. 12/deadline Jan. 28)
— Belgian telecoms group Telenet to acquire 50 percent stake in Belgian broadcasting company De Vijver Media (notified Aug. 18/deadline extended for the second time to March 5 from Feb. 5)
— Proposed joint venture for 1 gigawatt “Nemo” power link between Belgium and Britain between Britain’s National Grid and Belgium’s transmission system operator Elia (notified Jan. 5/deadline Feb. 9/simplified)
— European private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to buy Finnish insulation material maker Paroc for enterprise value of some 700 million euros. (notified Jan. 8/deadline Feb. 12)
— German conglomerate Siemens to purchase U.S. oilfield equipment maker Dresser-Rand Group Inc (notified Jan. 9/deadline Feb. 13)
— Japanese building materials and housing equipment group LIXIL Group Corp to take sole control of sanitory fittings group Grohe (notified Jan. 9/deadline Feb 13/simplified)
— Private equity firm Bain Capital to acquire British brickmaker Ibstock Group from Irish buidling supplies group CRH (notified Jan. 12/deadline Feb. 16/simplified)
— Private equity firm Apax Partners to acquire Scandinavian IT services provider Evry (notified Jan. 13/deadline Feb. 17/simplified)
— Canadian asset manager Brookfield Infrastructure Fund to acquire broadcasting and wireless telecom infrastructure platform operator TDF S.A.S.(notified Jan. 14/deadline Feb. 18/simplified)
— Swiss telecoms provider Swisscom and car leasing company Sixt to set up a joint venture (notified Jan. 15/deadline Feb. 19/simplified)
— French minerals company Imerys to acquire rival S&B Minerals (notified Jan. 15/deadline Feb. 20)
— U.S. conglomerate General Electric to acquire most of French engineering group Alstom’s power equipment business (notified Jan. 19/deadline Feb. 23)
— Commodities trader Cargill to buy rival Archer Daniels Midland Co’s global chocolate business (notified Jan. 19/deadline Feb. 23)
— German DIY retailer OBI to acquire a joint venture led by Brico Business Cooperation (notified Jan. 19/deadline Feb. 23/simplified)
— Asset manager The Carlyle Group and private equity firm Warburg Pincus to jointly acquire control of credit rating agency DBRS Holdings (notified Jan. 21/deadline Feb. 25/simplified)
— German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen to buy U.S. peer TRW Automotive Holdings Corp (notified Jan. 22/deadline Feb. 26)
— Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp to acquire aseptic filler machines maker SIG Combibloc Group AG and SIG Holding USA (notified Jan. 23/deadline Feb. 27/simplified)
— Belgian telecoms group Telenet, which is a subsidiary of U.S. cable group Liberty Global, to acquire 50 percent stake in Belgian broadcasting company De Vijver Media (notified Aug. 18/deadline extended for the second time to March 5 from Feb. 5/companies submitted concessions on Nov. 24)
— SOCAR, Azerbaijan’s state energy company, to buy stakes in Greek natural gas grid operator DESFA from Greek natural gas utility DEPA (notified Oct. 1/deadline extended for the second time to April 22 from March 23)
— French telecoms operator Orange to acquire Spanish provider Jazztel (notified Oct. 16/deadline extended to April 30 from April 24 after the Commission resumed its scrutiny after a four-day halt)
— Mondelez International Inc and competitor D.E Master Blenders to merge their coffee businesses in new company called Jacobs Douwe Egberts (notified Oct. 27/deadline extended for the third time to May 13 from May 6)
— PRS for Music Ltd (PRSfM), Foreningen Svenska Tonsattares Internationella Mysikbyra (Stim) and Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (Gema) to set up a joint venture to administer mechanical and performing rights (notified Nov. 28/deadline extended to May 29 from Jan. 14 after the Commission opened an in-depth probe)
— U.S. orthopaedic products maker Zimmer Holdings to acquire rival Biomet Inc (notified Aug. 29/deadline suspended from Dec. 2, 2014)
The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that by 10 working days to 35 working days, to consider either a company’s proposed remedies or an EU member state’s request to handle the case.
Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90 additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working days.
SIMPLIFIED:
Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the clearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without giving any reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified as non-simplified - that is, ordinary first-stage reviews - until they are approved. (Editing by Foo Yun Chee)
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Russian Police Vow Clampdown On Election Protesters Who Break The Law
January 25, 2018 10:48 GMT Updated January 25, 2018 11:53 GMT
By RFE/RL
The announcements comes just a few days before nationwide demonstrations that have been called by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. (file photo)
Russian police will act "toughly" to prevent any violations of the law at protests ahead of the March 18 presidential election, a senior Interior Ministry official says.
The January 25 warning came three days ahead of nationwide demonstrations that opposition leader Aleksei Navalny is organizing in support of his call for a boycott of the election.
At a meeting with top Moscow police officials, First Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandr Gorovoi said that police would respect the right of citizens to hold public gatherings, as provided by the constitution and other legislation.
But he said that that they must "absolutely toughly...prevent violations of these laws," state-run news agency RIA reported.
Navalny has been barred from the ballot due to a financial-crimes conviction in a case he contends was fabricated to punish him for his opposition activity and keep him out of elections.
He has dismissed the election as the "reappointment" of President Vladimir Putin and is urging Russians not to vote.
With the Kremlin controlling the levers of political power nationwide after years of steps to suppress dissent and marginalize political opponents, it is virtually certain that the election will hand Putin a new six-year term.
Navalny and his backers are planning rallies in dozens of cities across Russia on January 28 to support his call for a boycott.
Police have repeatedly cracked down on demonstrations organized by Navalny in the past.
More than 1,000 people were detained in Moscow alone on March 26, 2017, when Navalny organized protests in some 100 cities nationwide.
Law enforcement authorities also cracked down hard at a protest in May 2012, the day before Putin -- who has been president or prime minister since 1999 -- returned to the Kremlin for his current term after a stint as head of the government.
With reporting by RIA and Reuters
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Back to 'I am a geographer'
Ian Spencer - Head and Director
Ian Spencer is Head of the Foundation of Geospatial Intelligence and Director of the Defence Geographic Centre at the Ministry of Defence.
Senior positions ,
I read Geography BSc at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London) and then joined the UK Ministry of Defence’s Mapping and Charting Establishment in 1990; the organisation then comprised 900 staff and I was one of six graduate trainees appointed that year. At the same time I was elected a Fellow of the RGS-IBG. I worked in various MOD roles, including promotion to more senior roles, involving geographic information source evaluation, information management, and product and standards development.
I was promoted in 2004 and became a member of the Defence Geographic Centre Management Team. I moved every couple of years through roles including capability planning, delivery and integration; business and resource management and corporate planning; learning and development; information management; and geographic research. I was promoted into my current position as Deputy Head NCGI-Foundation and Director of the Defence Geographic Centre in October 2015.
My role includes being “Head of Profession” for civilian geographers in the MOD, and in 2018 I was appointed one of the Deputy Heads of the Government-wide Geography Profession.
What do you do as part of your role?
I am the Senior Civilian Geographer and Geospatial Analyst in the UK Ministry of Defence and one of three Deputy Heads of the UK’s National Centre for Geospatial Intelligence (NCGI). I am responsible for delivering global Foundation GEOINT - assured geospatial and environmental information, products and services - to UK Defence, and also to support partners across Government.
My teams comprise 450 civilian and military personnel delivering geographic support and aeronautical navigation support through the Defence Geographic Centre and the No1 Aeronautical Information Documents Unit. I am also responsible for service delivery agreements through which a further 280 personnel within the UK Met Office and UK Hydrographic Office satisfy Defence’s global requirements for meteorological, oceanographic and oceanographic support.
My week is split between senior level meetings with colleagues and seniors in the wider MOD, and managing the day to day operations of the organisation through my team of experienced leaders at Civil Service Grade 7 and the military equivalent. I also regularly engage with senior military and civilian officials in other countries, typically travelling abroad up to four times per year.
What skills and characteristics do you need for this role, apart from geographical knowledge?
Good leadership and management skills combined with good communication skills are vital. One minute I may be leading negotiations with a senior official from another country (so that we can share information and expertise, through a formal memorandum of understanding); the next minute I may be dealing with an urgent personnel disciplinary or welfare issue, or dealing with the safety issues arising from an infrastructure or equipment failure.
How does geography feature in your work/what difference does it make?
My main function and that of my team is to ensure that the UK MOD and Armed Forces receive the most suitable geographical information and data services that will enable them to understand location, and to plan, navigate and operate anywhere in the world. It is therefore all about geography.
What do you enjoy most about your job?
Knowing that what I and my staff do really matters to our nation, in terms of its security, and in terms of the safety of the people who keep our nation safe, or providing assistance overseas in the event of crisis. Every day I champion the contribution that geography makes to our machinery of government, and the best of times are when I see my staff being celebrated and recognised for the work that they do.
What are the opportunities for career progression?
The Civil Service is a rich environment for a variety of career development paths. Within my part of the MOD we recruit at Civil Service Executive Officer-equivalent level, currently up to 60 people per year. The organisation is relocating to Cambridgeshire by 2023 and I anticipate significant progression opportunities for the staff who decide to stay with the organisation, or who join after the move. There are also opportunities to move into adjacent roles in other MOD analytical professions.
What advice would you give to someone wanting to go in to this career?
Keep an open mind about what you want to do and how you want to progress. Some people arrive with an ambition to achieve promotion as quickly as possible. It isn’t always about that, and when you start your career you need to navigate carefully to identify what learning you need to pursue - having A Levels and a degree doesn’t automatically make you a great manager, people person, or deep expert. Be prepared to continue learning.
How do you maintain your knowledge and interest in geography outside of work?
I have become increasingly involved in supporting the growing Government Geography Profession, and getting involved with activities that support the development of the Chartered Geographer community.
Why did you choose geography? Why should others choose geography?
I grew up in a coal mining community in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. Both the people and landscape were so visibly shaped by physical processes (glaciation) and human interaction with the landscape (coal mining, and disasters such as the Aberfan landslide). I just wanted to understand my place, why it was the way it was. Geography was in my heart, and it was easily seen through every window at home and at school. I also had an enthusiastic and inspiring teacher.
Geography is the lattice and glue that joins together everything about our world, and is vital if you want to understand the complex interrelationships between different systems and disciplines.
Ian Spencer
Job title: Head of Foundation of Geospatial Intelligence and Director of the Defence Geographic Centre
Organisation: Ministry of Defence
Location: Feltham and Northolt, West London and Wyton, Cambridgeshire, UK
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Running The Circle Line
The idea of above-ground trips along the London Underground lines is not new. Mark Mason's 2011 book Walk The Lines is the best example and many other running geeks have also attempted them. Needing to escape an especially tiring year-end at work, I set off to conquer the Circle Line on a cold mid-December morning.
The Circle Line is great starting point for above-ground Tube adventures. All other lines have distant start and end points and need a bit more planning. At just over a half-marathon, the Circle is an easy half-day adventure.
My start point was Marylebone Station. Although not on the Circle line, it's on the route between Edgware Road and Baker Street, my star and end points. I set off clockwise with the aim of marking each station with a Selfie.
Despite knowing London pretty well, I still needed a bit of navigational help. The North and South sections are pretty straightforward, with the East and West trickier. The walking directions on Google Maps and a Google Keep checklist of all the stations were a big help.
The total distance underground is 14 miles, although that's by avoiding buildings. Negotiating the streets above ground adds at least a mile. Missing Temple station and having to run back to it from Embankment added another mile. Don't do that.
Once back at Marylebone I'd covered just over 16 miles. At around 3 hours it was no Personal Best. Speed is not something to be aimed for on a working day in central London. It was a fun trip though and a nice way to link up some familiar parts of London.
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Surveyors shape the way we live. From our towns and cities to our streets and homes, they help create safer, better, happier communities.
Surveyors keep traffic flowing, water running and people moving. They shape our roads, bridges and tunnels, our skyscrapers, stations and stadiums. They work in mines and in fields, on cliffs and on beaches. They value the houses we live in and the places we work in. They create safer homes and happier communities.
And they’re busy shaping our future too: helping to regenerate deprived areas and planning smart cities connected by the Internet of Things, while pioneering safer, more sustainable and more environmentally friendly building methods.
Surveyors work closely with a wide range of people: architects and engineers, bankers and ecologists, town planners and property developers. And they use the latest technologies: flying drones to map land and measure buildings, creating virtual reality models of buildings, and using Big Data to tackle global issues like climate change, migration and urbanisation.
There are more than 100 varied career roles across the surveying profession in three main sectors: construction and infrasructure; property; and land.
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Laura Collins, Young Surveyor of the Year
I’m lead consultant on a project in Amsterdam for an Australian client: so, I’m liaising across time zones. I like getting out into the world. I find it fascinating to see how other countries approach construction and to expand my knowledge.
Read Laura's story
Construction and infrastructure careers
Making crucial decisions of what goes where and why, surveyors are involved in planning the construction of everything from skyscrapers to shopping centres and festivals to football stadiums. And the infrastructure that connects us relies on surveyors too: from our roads, bridges, and railways to our energy supplies and communication networks.
There will always be a need for buildings to live, work and play in, but with Earth’s resources becoming ever-more scarce, there is a huge opportunity for surveyors to play key roles in sustainable development.
Richard Serra MRICS
Head of Planning, Tottenham Hotspur FC
Surveying roles in construction and infrastructure
Building surveyors help create and supervise everything from towering skyscrapers to simple home extensions.
Project management surveyors run teams to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Quantity surveyors assess the financial impact and profitability of construction projects.
Building control surveyors design and manage the use of buildings to make sure they comply with laws and regulations.
Infrastructure surveyors ensure the effective running and connecting of cities, including rail, road, broadband and electricity.
I act as a consultant on the costing and budgeting for new building projects. My role needs all sorts of skills, from finance and project management to communication and teamwork, to get the building from the page to being physically built. The opportunities in this industry are endless.
Richard Owen
Quantity surveyor and Business Management graduate
Property careers
Property surveyors work in housing, business property and even personal property, such as antiques and fine art. They buy and rent homes and offices, acquire land for property development and value everything from possessions to skyscrapers.
I work across the UK and Europe with valuation portfolios in excess of £1billion, providing essential advice to banks, fund managers and property companies.
Stephen Todd
Valuation surveyor
Surveying roles in property
Property surveyors value, sell, rent and manage all types of housing and businesses, from offices to shops and restaurants.
Valuation surveyors analyse and measure the value of buildings or businesses: for example, how much is Google actually worth?
Management consultancy surveyors maximise business performance by running operations, strategies and structures.
Facilities management surveyors add value to businesses by creating vibrant, productive workplaces.
Construction underpins every other business on this planet. For example, in the context of climate change, cement manufacture accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions. If we addressed that, we could make a huge difference.
We don’t want the best talent to go into law or banking, come and shape the world we live in.
Fred Mills
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Land careers
From coastal erosion and flood defences to town and environmental planning, land surveyors play a huge role in how we live. And, with climate change and resource scarcity becoming ever-more important issues, land surveyors will have an even greater role in shaping the future.
I use cutting-edge technology on a daily basis, like flying drones to capture ultra-high accuracy aerial photogrammetry. Geospatial surveying is at the forefront of the profession and it’s really growing, so there are huge opportunities to work in the UK and abroad.
Charlton Bland
Geospatial surveyor
Surveying roles in land
Geomatics surveyors map, analyse and interpret spatial data and information about the land, sea and buildings.
Environmental surveyors manage the development and use of land to minimise the impact on the environment.
Minerals and waste surveyors extract, mine, use and manage natural resources and then plan the disposal of related waste.
Rural surveyors value and manage the use of land and buildings in the countryside.
Planning and development surveyors help create the towns and cities of the future, ensuring happier, healthier communities.
The new Tottenham Hotspur stadium has a capacity of more than 62,000 and features a retractable pitch
The stadium development has created 2,000 full-time local jobs
I chose a career in the built environment to make positive change and there is nothing more satisfying than seeing a building through from the first concept sketches to seeing it occupied and enjoyed.
Read Richard's story
Surveying: a high-tech career
Technology is transforming the world and surveyors work with many of the latest innovations – from drones to augmented reality, artificial intelligence and even 3D-printed buildings:
Internet of Things – smart objects, sensors and big data help to plan and manage intelligent cities with less pollution, better public space and more connected communities
AI and virtual reality – artificial intelligence helps create augmented reality, 3D models allowing people to tour buildings or inspect construction sites virtually
mobile mapping – specialist drones, ground penetrating radar and laser scanners enable surveyors to map and analyse anywhere on Earth.
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See the impact of surveying on society: from health and the environment to the Olympic Park
Explore the trends and opportunities shaping the future of surveying
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Drafting Todd Gurley
Thu Jun 13 2:58pm ET
By JEFF PAUR
Sr Fantasy Writer
Gurley is tough call for owners
Every season there seems to be a player or two that is a tough call for fantasy teams, a polarizing figure. Well, this year that player is Todd Gurley. He was third overall in fantasy running back scoring last year but saw his playing time decrease down the stretch and in the playoffs because of a sore knee, a knee that has been surgically repaired in the past. There are questions surrounding his health and workload for the coming season, making where to draft Gurley a tough call for fantasy teams.
So I thought it would be interesting to get some insight from some top fantasy experts. My question to them: Where do you feel comfortable drafting Todd Gurley this year and why?
Here are the results:
"I don’t hold out a lot of hope for Todd Gurley returning to his perch as a top running back this season. The Rams needed him the most down the stretch and he was completely ineffective. Their silence during the playoffs and the offseason only lead me to believe things are worse than they seem. If the Rams still have him in their offensive plans, I’d expect they’ll limit his touches to make sure he can handle a reduced workload.
Running backs have the shortest shelf life of any skill position so it’s possible he may never be back to what he was early in 2018. For that reason I’m avoiding Gurley in fantasy drafts this season…unless he falls into huge value territory, possibly in Round 4 or 5."
-Steve Gardner (USA Today)
“While I wouldn’t take Gurley in the first round, I’d feel comfortable drafting him in the second. Yes, his workload is going to decline this season. However, he still plays for an electric offense and should be among the league leaders in red zone rushing attempts, so I don’t think touchdowns will be all that hard for him to come by.”
-Mike Barner (RTSports)
“I am 100 percent comfortable drafting Gurley in the second round IF I have a running back in the first round. He goes right before Joe Mixon for me. He has had 1,800-plus yards from scrimmage each of the last two years and averages 15 touchdowns. The knee is a HUGE worry, so you have to have a running back in Round 1 and then take him as a RB2. If you draft DeAndre Hopkins in the first, you have to take a more sure thing. I think he has 10-12 touchdowns this year and 1,600 scrimmage yards with 50-plus receptions. That is 300-plus points in a PPR. BOOM.”
-Rick Wolf (Fantasy Alarm)
“Depending on draft slot, late third or early forth round, which means he will probably not be on any of my teams. I think the top three draft picks are critical to a successful season, and at this point, I can’t trust Gurley to be productive or even playing. I think the Rams will be cautious with him this year, and when he does play, he won’t be the ‘bell cow’ he’s been in the past.”
-Charlie Wiegert (RTSports)
“Given the information we have at the moment, I would not hesitate to take Gurley early in the second round and perhaps as early as No. 10 overall. Even if we trim 25 percent of his production (touches, yards, touchdowns, etc.) across the board in each of his two years under HC Sean McVay, he still would have finished as the RB8 in 2018 and RB5 in 2017. Yes, there is substantial risk in investing significant draft capital into a running back with a knee ‘condition’ like Gurley has, but how does his risk make him all that different from just about every fantasy back going in the same area (Mixon, Chubb, Cook) or right after him (Damien Williams, Devonta Freeman, Fournette)?”
-Doug Orth (FF Today)
“For me personally, the draft would have to fall ‘perfectly’ in order for me to take Gurley at 2.08 with the list of guys I’ve made out, I feel like you’re risking too much for guys who are proven (Mike Evans, Zach Ertz) but I would take Gurley over the likes of Dalvin Cook or Nick Chubb due to the question marks of their own (Cook injury history, Chubb effectiveness in the passing game + Kareem Hunt factor once his suspension is up).”
-Stephen Hawley (’17 Fantasy Championship winner and #5 ranked fantasy player on RTSports)
"There's definite concern over the knee, but if I'm drafting at the tail-end of the first round, I would consider grabbing Gurley, especially if I'm on the wheel and can guarantee another solid running back with my second pick. The only problem I have is how Darrell Henderson is a must-handcuff and you probably have to reach before you would normally draft him to ensure you get him. It's one of those situations where those who don't believe in Gurley will make their move in the middle rounds just to screw you over; just like those who didn't own Le'Veon Bell made it a point to target DeAngelo Williams."
-Howard Bender (Fantasy Alarm)
“Every pick carries some risk but avoiding risk early in drafts is always a strategy I like to employ. I know many will say go big or go home, but I think playing it a little safe with your early picks is the smart move when it comes to injury, playing time, etc. So for me, I would not take Gurley until the mid to late second round of drafts this year. I can’t invest early in a running back with a potentially bad knee and a decrease in playing time from past seasons. And if I’m picking early, I want to make sure I have already used my first-round pick on a running back before grabbing Gurley. That would make me much more comfortable with selecting Gurley for my team.”
-Jeff Paur (RTSports)
Hopefully, this article helps your decision making when it comes to Gurley for the coming year. There doesn't seem to be a right answer when it comes to drafting him, but maybe hearing from some of these experts will help make a decision for you when it comes to Gurley. He is shaping up as a make or break fantasy player for the coming year, a critical player in fantasy drafts. Good luck in navigating all your drafts.
Jeff Paur is a two-time finalist for FSWA Fantasy Football Writer of the Year and won the FSWA award for Best Fantasy Football Article on the Web in 2011. He also was the most accurate expert in 2012, winning the FSTA Fantasy Football Accuracy Award. If you have any questions for Jeff, email him at jeff@rtsports.com. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeffpaur.
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> PEACEFUL AND PRIVATE – 6 BEDROOM HOMESTEAD - COUNTRY LUXURY AND LIFESTYLE
PEACEFUL AND PRIVATE – 6 BEDROOM HOMESTEAD - COUNTRY LUXURY AND LIFESTYLE
56 Onslow Road, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
Property type: Rural
Language: English French German Japanese Spanish
Extensive network water system
Excellent shedding & garaging
16.7m colorbond workshop/garage
Close to all city conveniences
Majestic country views
3kw solar system
10 x 10m colorbond & corrugated iron machinery shed
6 x 4m fully enclosed zincalum shed
110,000litres of fresh tank water, bore water
Highly improved acres, well fenced
Six bedroom colonial homestead with open living
Spacious kitchen, huge pantry, breakfast island
Main bedroom, ens, wir & dressing area
Well insulated, natural light
Covered outdoor entertaining
2.4m wide verandahs
16 panel 3kw solar system connected to the power grid
Large wood heater
2 reverse cycle air conditioners
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Auction conditions
Bidders guide
Sale Ezy conditions of use
Just a few minutes from Goulburn. So close for all city conveniences and yet so far away. Only majestic country views and glimpses of Sooley Dam to interrupt your thoughts. Off the sealed cul de sac, Onslow Road, you will find the private 25 acre (approx) “Lilydale” property and homestead. Down a tree lined driveway, the beautiful homestead comes into view. The fresh country green grass, garden beds and paved path lead you to 2.4m wide verandahs which frame this home and add to the tranquil, “I’m home” feeling.
Come on inside to appreciate this spacious, country, family home. A semi private but relaxed style formal lounge is off the entrance foyer as is the roomy main bedroom with great natural light, ensuite, walk in robe and dressing area. Floating timber floors, guide you through French doors to the amazing expanse of the open plan living room with a huge feature fireplace for the large wood heater and loads of room for comfortable, relaxing family time. This open plan area also comprises the spacious kitchen with huge pantry, great cupboard and bench space, large gas cook top and oven, and the most accommodating breakfast island of tallow wood timber top, for any large family breakfast. Adjacent to this is the dining area with fantastic natural light beaming in through the large windows and with views down across the park like yard to the dam making this a picture-perfect setting for any meal time. From the dining area are sliding glass doors to the grand scale, covered outdoor entertaining area which also has similar picturesque views to the dam. Just imagine having a family gathering or a special party here at night with the soft lights and park like setting - breath taking!
Back inside and flowing on from the formal lounge area are two double bedrooms and an office all with built in robes, a powder room and excellent linen and general storage cupboards. In the third wing you’ll love the 3-way bathroom with a fabulous kidney shaped tub inviting you to bubble it up and just relax and let the world fade away. Another equipped kitchen and a large living room plus two more spacious bedrooms with built in robes in this wing open up opportunities for the dual use of this home or great guest quarters. This third wing has private access to the verandahs and to the outdoor entertaining area. A pleasure to live in this well insulated home, has plenty of natural lighting as well as down lights and feature lights with high ceilings and decorative cornices. Well thought out extras and features ad charm and individuality to this very attractive and comfortable country style homestead.
House water is catered for by way of 110,000 litres of fresh tank water and bore water is used for the extensive network water system to the house yard, garden and toilets.
Excellent shedding and garaging is an outdoor feature of this property with a 16 x 7.5m colorbond workshop/garage having a built-in office with plumbing in place, concrete floor and power. 3 main roller doors and a P.A door as well as access into a 3.5 x 8m workshop bay and an adjoining second 3.5 x 8m bay with external roller door access, concrete floors and power. A separate 10 x 10m colorbond and corrugated iron machinery shed as well as 6 x 4m fully enclosed zincalum shed for extra storage.
The highly improved acres roll out further on from the back house yard, providing an extensive island buffer around the home area, with total privacy and blending in and complementing the scenic distant rural views. Room for a few horses, cattle, sheep or alpacas. Well fenced and sheltered by established pine trees, water is a feature with a dam at the back of the house supported by a high capacity 4000 gallon per hour bore. A private, serene property only minutes from Goulburn and with a homestead dreams are made of. Inspect by appointment.
Travel Time Major Centre: 5 minutes
Situation Access: 2.7kms from Goulburn City to Onslow Road. 560m to end of cul-de-sac
Dwelling Entitlement: Yes
Rates: $1,304
Rainfall: 700mm
Phone: Yes Mobile Reception: Yes Smoke Detectors: Yes
Internet Connection: Yes Type: ADSL/Wireless/Satellite/Other:
Power: Yes Mail: Yes Bus: Main Road
Built Prior to 1980: Insulation: Yes Bats: Yes Loose Fill: N/A
If Loose Fill-Inspected: N/A Proof of Inspection: N/A
Title: Lot 1 Dp:1054414 Zoning: E3 Environmental Management Covenants/Easements: None known
Sale Yards: Yass Air Services: Canberra Schools: Primary & Secondary Goulburn
Topography: Gently undulating to gently sloping
Soils & Suitability: Limestone grey & red loam soils
Crops/Pastures: Highly improved quality pastures of phalaris, clover, cocksfoot & rye grass
Fertiliser History: Superphosphate 4 years ago
Timber: Pine trees, shade & shelter belts on southern & western boundaries and around shed complex. Deciduous trees in park like house yard Cover: 3% Arable Area: 95%
Paddocks: 2 Production Capacity: 6-8 horses or cattle
Fencing: North: Steel, Concrete Posts & Hinge Joint, East: Hinge Joint & Steel, South: Hinge Joint & Steel privacy tree lane & West: Hinge Joint & Steel
Property Water: Good size dam at rear of home in adjoining paddock. Filled by bore when required. High capacity bore 4,000gallons per hour
House Water: 110,000 litre fresh water tank. Bore water to house from variable pressure pump
Homestead: Majestic country colonial homestead. 6 bedrooms or 5 and a study. Roomy main bedroom with ensuite, dressing area and WIR. Floating timber floors. French doors to the large open plan living area with huge feature fire place for the large wood heater. Spacious kitchen with huge pantry, large gas cook top and oven and excellent cupboard space and feature tallow wood breakfast island. Adjacent dining room with fantastic natural light and views over the parklike surrounds. Sliding door to the grand scale entertainment area, then to the formal lounge and office with built in robes. A 3 way bathroom with free standing tub. A second fully equipped kitchen and large living room provides versatility for this large spacious home.
Improvements: Timber post and rail set back entranceway off sealed cul-de-sac with attractive garden feature and tree lined drive to homestead. 16 x 7.5m colorbond workshop/garage with enclosed office with sink and plumbing for toilet. Concrete floor and power, 3 main roller doors (one electric) and PA door. Small roller door internal to workshop bay 3.5 x 8m and adjoining second bay 3.5 x 8m with external roller door access, concrete floor & power. 16 panel 3kw solar system connected to the power grid. 10 x 10m colorbond & corrugated iron machinery/tractor shed with open front doorway and central roller door. Colorbond dog shed with twin dog runs. Extensive network water system to house yard and garden area. Expansive lush green lawns. Parklike setting with English & Chinese Elms, Crab Apple, ornamental Pear trees, Silver Birch, Plan trees, Silk trees & flowering Plum. A Leylandii Pine windbreak provides privacy & shelter. The driveway leads to large compacted gravel parking area and circular drive. Historical farm implements including a steel wheel tractor and wagon wheels add character and charm to this magnificent country setting for the six bedroom colonial homestead
Additional Comments: Just a few minutes from Goulburn. So close for all city conveniences and yet so far away. Private and peaceful. Comfortable country home in beautiful country setting. Lush green lawns and parkland. Abundant water & improved farmland to complete an enviable country lifestyle.
OFFER/BID LABELS AND PROCESS: QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
Sale Ezy offers two auction stages, 'best offer' which includes private offers made under the below binding conditions, and 'final call' which is public bidding made under the below binding conditions. The stages may be used exclusively or in succession.
Any auction that only includes 'best offer' will not include any vendor bids. In any auction that includes 'best offer' and 'final call' stages, no vendor bids can be made during best offer, and only one vendor bid may be made during final call. A vendor bid will be clearly labelled 'vendor bid'.
Bids to purchase the interest of another co-owner or to purchase as executor or administrator may be made by or on behalf of the seller within this auction. Bids of this nature will be labelled (written and audibly) 'co-owner'.
Any offer appearing with an asterisk in the bid log (*offer submitted) indicates the offer is made with a condition.
For you, your offers will be shown as your bid number and '(you)', for example, 897(you), others will see your identity simply as '897'.
During 'best offer' only you, the agent, auctioneer and vendor see our offer amount, it is not displayed for anyone else. During 'final call/public bidding' all bid amounts are publicly displayed.
New South Wales Auction Conditions
Property, Stock and Business Agents Regulation 2014
Part 3 Clause 15
15 Conditions of sale by auction
1. The following conditions are prescribed as applicable to and in respect of the sale by auction of land or livestock:
The vendor’s reserve price must be given in writing to the auctioneer before the auction commences (but not if the auction relates solely to livestock).
A bid for the vendor cannot be made unless the auctioneer has, before the commencement of the auction, announced clearly and precisely the number of bids that may be made by or on behalf of the vendor.
The highest bidder is the purchaser, subject to any reserve price.
In the event of a disputed bid, the auctioneer is the sole arbitrator and the auctioneer’s decision is final.
The auctioneer may refuse to accept any bid that, in the auctioneer’s opinion, is not in the best interests of the vendor.
A bidder is taken to be bidding on the bidder’s own behalf unless, before bidding, the bidder has given to the auctioneer a copy of a written authority to bid for or on behalf of another person.
A bid cannot be made or accepted after the fall of the hammer.
As soon as practicable after the fall of the hammer the purchaser is to sign the agreement (if any) for sale. Cooling‑off rights do not apply to a sale by auction or a sale on the day of auction to a person who has made a bid in the auction (whether in person or by their proxy or representative).
The auctioneer will have irrevocable authority, after the fall of the auctioneer's hammer, to complete and sign the contract on behalf of the purchaser or the vendor, or both.
2. The following conditions, in addition to those prescribed by subclause (1), are prescribed as applicable to and in respect of the sale by auction of residential property or rural land:
All bidders must be registered in the Bidders Record and display an identifying number when making a bid.
Subject to subclause (3), the auctioneer may make only one vendor bid at an auction for the sale of residential property or rural land and no other vendor bid may be made by the auctioneer or any other person.
Immediately before making a vendor bid the auctioneer must announce that the bid is made on behalf of the seller or announce “vendor bid”.
3. The following conditions, in addition to those prescribed by subclauses (1) and (2), are prescribed as applicable to and in respect of the sale by auction of co-owned residential property or rural land or the sale of such land by a seller as executor or administrator:
More than one vendor bid may be made to purchase the interest of a co-owner.
A bid by or on behalf of an executor or administrator may be made to purchase in that capacity.
Before the commencement of the auction, the auctioneer must announce that bids to purchase the interest of another co-owner or to purchase as executor or administrator may be made by or on behalf of the seller.
Before the commencement of the auction, the auctioneer must announce the bidder registration number of any co-owner, executor or administrator or any person registered to bid on behalf of any co-owner, executor or administrator.
17 Warnings about bidders’ obligations
1. The notice required to be given by section 78 (3) of the Act is to be in the following form:
Penalty for collusive practices
It is an offence against the Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 for a person to do any of the following as a result of a collusive practice, or to induce or attempt to induce another person by a collusive practice to do any of the following:
to abstain from bidding,
to bid to a limited extent only,
to do any other act or thing that might prevent free and open competition.
Severe penalties may be imposed on persons convicted of collusive practices.
Successful bidders
The actual successful bidder at an auction sale must give to the auctioneer or an employee of the auctioneer:
the bidder’s name, or
the name of the person on behalf of whom the successful bid was made.
3.The notice required to be given by section 66 (4) of the Act is to be in the following form:
Penalty for dummy bidding
It is an offence against the Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 for a person to do any of the following:
make a bid as the seller,
make a bid on behalf of the seller (unless the person is the auctioneer),
procure another person to make a bid on behalf of the seller.
Any bid made with the dominant purpose of benefiting the seller constitutes a bid made on behalf of the seller.
A bid may be found to be a bid made on behalf of the seller even though the seller did not:
request the bid, or
have any knowledge of the bid.
Severe penalties may be imposed on persons convicted of dummy bidding.
4. Each notice must:
have its contents clearly and legibly written or printed in the English language, and
be exhibited in a conspicuous position so as to be clearly visible to, and available for inspection by, any person attending the auction before and during the auction.
This auction is also governed by the terms of use for Sale Ezy to which all users agree when they register for a profile with Sale Ezy. Additional conditions may also be listed in the property documents sections of this property page and must also be agreed, adhered to and acknowledged.
Bidder's Guide
The NSW Department of Fair Trading
Residential and rural property auctions
You will not be able to bid at an auction of residential and rural property in NSW unless you give the selling agent your name and address and show proof of your identity. Your details will be recorded by the agent in the Bidders Record and at the auction (or by email in the case of Sale Ezy's online auction) you will be given a bidder’s number. Registering for an auction does not mean you must bid. Registering simply gives you the right to bid.
Who needs to register?
If you are bidding to buy the property jointly with another person, for example, a spouse or partner, only one of you needs to register.
You need to register if you are bidding for another person or a company, and you need to show the agent a letter of authority from them, authorising you to bid on their behalf. This also applies if you are bidding on behalf of someone on the telephone.
If you are bidding for another person the letter of authority must include the person’s name, address and the number on their proof of identity (eg. driver’s licence). If you are bidding for a company the letter of authority must be on the company letterhead and the ABN will be recorded in the Bidders Record as the company’s proof of identity.
To register, you must present a card or document issued by government or a financial institution, that shows your name and address, for example:
driver’s licence or learner’s permit
vehicle registration paper
council rates notice.
If you do not have this kind of proof of identity, you can use two documents that together show your name and address. One must show your name and be issued by a government or financial institution, for example:
ATM/Eftpos card
credit card or store card
citizenship papers.
The other must show your address, for example:
utilities bill (eg. gas, electricity, telephone)
real estate rental agreement
statutory declaration stating your address.
When to register
You can register with the selling agent at any time prior to the auction, such as when you inspect the property, or on the day itself. If you pre‑register, you will still need to show the agent your proof of identity on auction day. The agent will then give you your bidder's number.
What happens at registration
The agent will write your name, address and the number of your proof of identity in the Bidders Record and, if you are bidding for someone else or a company, their name, address and proof of identity details. The agent will then give you your bidder’s number, which must be displayed when you bid.
What if I arrive at the auction late?
If you arrive after the auction has started and wish to bid, you will need to quickly find the agent and register or present your proof of identity, if you have pre‑registered. If you need to make a bid immediately, hold up your hand to let the auctioneer know you are going to make a bid after you have registered.
These documents are developed by the NSW Government.
Where an official bidder's guide isn't mandated or supplied by a state or territory, please refer to the NSW bidder's guide prepared by the Office of Fair Trading. Please scroll past NSW for the South Australia bidding guide and Victoria Schedule 5 and auction information.
NSW Bidder's Guide
You will not be able to bid at an auction of residential and rural property in NSW unless you give the selling agent your name and address and show proof of your identity. Your details will be recorded by the agent in the Bidders Record and at the auction (or via email when using Sale Ezy), you will be given a bidder’s number. Registering for an auction does not mean you must bid. Registering simply gives you the right to bid.
-driver’s licence or learner’s permit
-vehicle registration paper
-council rates notice.
-passport
-Medicare card
-ATM/Eftpos card
-credit card or store card
-birth certificate
-citizenship papers.
-utilities bill (eg. gas, electricity, telephone)
-real estate rental agreement
-statutory declaration stating your address.
You can register with the selling agent at any time prior to the auction, such as when you inspect the property, or on the day itself. If you pre‑register, you will still need to show the agent your proof of identity on auction day. The agent will then give you your bidder's number (emailed if using Sale Ezy).
As soon as you have a bidder’s number, the auctioneer can accept your bids. Return your bidder’s number to the agent after the auction.
Please note: In the case of Sale Ezy, you can register to bid at any time during the auction, however, as the auctioneer is overseeing the auction, it is not guarenteed you will be registered on time. It is highly recommended you register in the days or weeks prior to the auction.
The agent is not permitted to show the Bidders Record to anyone, including the property owner. Only an authorised person from NSW Fair Trading is permitted to see the Bidders Record.
The agent must store the Bidders Record securely and cannot use it for any purpose.
This auction is being conducted under certain conditions that are set by law.
The auctioneer will have these conditions on display before the auction so that you can read them. The auction conditions include:
-the highest bidder is the purchaser, subject to any reserve price
-the auctioneer is entitled to make one bid only on behalf of the seller
-before the auction, the auctioneer must announce that the auctioneer is permitted to make one bid on behalf of the seller
-the auctioneer must announce immediately before, or in the process of making the bid, that he/she is making a vendor bid
-the auctioneer can refuse a bid that is not in the interests of the seller
-the auctioneer has no authority to accept a late bid, that is, a bid after the fall of the hammer
-if there is a disputed bid, the auctioneer is the sole arbitrator and makes the final decision
-the successful buyer’s name must be given to the auctioneer as soon as possible.
Successful bids
If you are the successful bidder, you must sign the sale contract and pay a deposit on the spot, usually ten per cent of the purchase price (these conditions may vary for Sale Ezy, depending on the day of the auction and the contract conditions). There is no cooling-off period when you buy at auction.
After the exchange of contracts, your solicitor or conveyancer will carry out various searches on the property. Your solicitor and the seller’s legal representative will then arrange for settlement at which time you must pay the balance of the purchase price.
Dummy bidding and collusion
It is illegal to make dummy bids at an auction.
The seller of the property is entitled to have one bid made on their behalf by the auctioneer. When the seller’s bid is made the auctioneer must announce it as a vendor bid.
If you make dummy bids for the seller, you may be prosecuted and fined up to $55,000. The property seller who asked you to bid can also be fined up to $55,000, as can the agent and the auctioneer if they were involved in the arrangement.
It is an offence to collude with someone to interfere with free and open competition at the auction. This offence carries a maximum fine of $55,000.
Co-owners and executors
A co-owner, executor or administrator or someone bidding on their behalf, may make more than one bid to purchase the property as long as:
-this is outlined in the auction conditions
-the auctioneer has announced this before the start of bidding at the auction
-the auctioneer announces before the start of the auction, the bidder registration number of any co-owner, executor, administrator, or someone bidding on their behalf.
South Australia Bidder Information
Prepared by sa.gov.au
Form R4 Bidder's guide
Guide to the sale of residential property by auction
Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 section 24I and section 24J(1)(f)
Under the Act, the real estate agent responsible for this auction must provide each person registered on the bidders register with this guide.
Any person who intends to bid at an auction for residential property must register.
Registering for an auction does not mean you must b id. Registering simply gives you the right to bid. You can register with the agent at any time before the auction, such as when you inspect the property, or on the day of the auction.
If you are bidding to buy the property jointly, for example, with a spouse or partner, only one person needs to register, however, only that person will be able to bid at the auction.
If you are bidding on behalf of another person you will need to provide that person’s name and present a copy of a document signed by that person that authorises you to bid on their behalf.
To register, you must show the agent one of the following*:
• a current document or card issued to you from a Commonwealth, State, Territory or local government authority (e.g. passport, driver’s licence, or pension/health concession card, council or water rates notice)
• a document or card issued to you from a utility company (e.g. an electricity supply company)
• a document or card issued to you by a bank (e.g. visa card)
• a passport issued to you by a foreign government.
*you do not need to leave the document with the agent or allow them to make a copy. If you are bidding on behalf of another person, you must also provide a copy of one of the documents listed above that has been issued to that person. It is against the law to provide false information for entry onto the bidders register.
What happens at registration?
Once you have registered, the agent will provide you with a unique identifier (comprising a number, letter, colour or some other identifying feature). Each time you make a bid you must display this unique identifier.
Once an auction has commenced, the agent may interrupt the auction to allow you to register. It is up to the agent to determine whether or not to stop the auction to allow you to register. If you are entered on the register you may bid at the
auction. Prescribed standard conditions for auction of residential property
Apart from any conditions of auction that the agent also displays at the auction, the following prescribed standard conditions will apply to all auctions of residential land:
a) any person may bid in the auction in person, or by their proxy or representative, subject to the conditions of auction;
b) the vendor’s reserve price will be as recorded in the auction record;
c) to make a bid a person must be registered in the bidders register, having satisfied the requirements as to proof of identity and, if applicable, authority to bid as a proxy or representative;
d) the auctioneer will only accept a bid if the person making the bid displays a unique identifier (comprising a number, letter, colour, or some other identifying feature) allocated to the person by the auctioneer
e) the auctioneer will, when accepting a bid, audibly announce the unique identifier so displayed by the bidder;
f) the auctioneer may refuse a bid if of the opinion that it is not in the best interests of the vendor, and will not be obliged to give any reason for refusing a bid;
g) the auctioneer may make bids on behalf of the vendor but not more than 3 such bids and only for amounts below the reserve price; any such bid will be audibly announced by the auctioneer as a “vendor’s bid”;
h) bidding increments will be accepted at the discretion of the auctioneer;
i) the person accepted by the auctioneer as having made the highest bid at or above the reserve price will be the purchaser and that bid will be the purchase price;
j) the auctioneer will not accept a bid made after the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer;
k) unless otherwise agreed in writing by the purchaser and the vendor before the commencement of the auction—
i) a contract for the sale of the property, in the form displayed by the auctioneer at the auction, will be completed and signed by or on behalf of the purchaser and the vendor immediately after the fall of the hammer; and
(ii) the purchaser will pay a deposit immediately after the fall of the hammer, as specified in the conditions of auction*;
l) the auctioneer will have irrevocable authority, after the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, to complete and sign the contract on behalf of the purchaser or the vendor, or both; completion and signing under that authority will be at the auctioneer’s discretion in the event of breach by the purchaser of any of the conditions of auction;
m) the cooling-off rights under section 5 of the Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 do not apply to a sale by auction or a sale on the day of auction to a person who has made a bid in the auction (whether in person or by their proxy or representative).
*NOTE: Conditions of auction includes conditions displayed by the auctioneer at the auction as conditions of the auction, together with the standard conditions set out above.
Dummy and vendor bidding
It is against the law for the vendor of the property, or a person acting on behalf of the vendor, to make a bid at the auction. This type of activity is called dummy bidding and can attract a maximum penalty of $20,000.
However, the vendor of the property is entitled to have up to three bids made on their behalf by the auctioneer, who must announce each such bid as a ‘vendor bid’.
The amount of a vendor bid must be less than the vendor’s reserve price.
Interrupting auctions
It is against the law to knowingly prevent a rival bidder from freely bidding at an auction, or to harass a bidder.
It is also against the law to do anything with the intention of preventing, causing a major disruption to, or causing cancellation of an auction. A maximum penalty of $20,000 applies.
Cooling-off period
There is no cooling-off period when you buy at auction. If you are the successful bidder at auction no further bids can be made or accepted. You must then sign a binding sale contract as soon as possible after the conclusion of the auction. You will usually be required to pay a deposit at the time. The deposit amount is usually around 10% of the purchase price, however you may seek to negotiate a lesser amount with the agent before the auction.
If the property is passed in at auction and if you made a bid at the auction then any sale contract you enter into before midnight on the same day as the auction, as a result of further negotiations with the vendor, is not subject to a cooling-off period.
The agent is not permitted to disclose information on the bidders register to anyone unless required to by an authorised person under the Fair Trading Act 1987.
Disclaimer: This publication is a plain language guide to your rights and responsibilities. It must not be relied upon as legal advice. For more information please refer to the appropriate legislation or seek independent legal advice.
Form R5 Collusive Practices
Collusive practices at auctions of land or a business
Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 section 24L
Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Regulations 2010 regulation 28
Section 24L of the Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 makes it unlawful to engage in collusive practices in relation to an auction of land or a business. Under that section a person must not do any of the following as a result of a collusive practice, or induce or attempt to induce another person by a collusive practice to do any of the following:
(a) abstain from bidding;
(b) bid to a limited extent;
(c) do anything else that might tend to prevent free and open competition.
The maximum penalty for committing such an offence is $20 000.
* “Collusive practice” is defined in section 24L(4) of the Act. If you are intending to bid at an auction and are unsure whether your activity constitutes a collusive practice, it is advisable to seek independent legal advice.
NOTE: At auctions of land or businesses this form must be made available for perusal by members of the public for at least 30 minutes immediately before the auction is due to commence.
Form R3
Buyers information notice
Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 section 13A
Before you buy a home there are a number of things that you should investigate and consider. Though itmay not be obvious at the time, there could be matters that may affect your enjoyment of the property, the safety of people on the property or the value of the property.
The following questions may help you to identify if a property is appropriate to purchase. In many cases the questions relate to a variety of laws and standards. These laws and standards change over time, so it is important to seek the most up to date information.
Various government agencies can provide up to date and relevant information on many of these questions. To find out more, Consumer and Business Services recommends that you check the website: www.cbs.sa.gov.au
Consider having a professional building inspection done before proceeding with a purchase.
A building inspection will help you answer some of the questions below.
The questions have been categorised under the headings
• Is there asbestos in any of the buildings or elsewhere on the property eg sheds and fences?
• Does the property have any significant defects eg cracking or salt damp? Have the wet areas been waterproofed?
• Is the property in a bushfire prone area?
• Are the electrical wiring, gas installation, plumbing and appliances in good working order and in good condition? Is a safety switch (RCD) installed? Is it working?
• Are there any prohibited gas appliances in bedrooms or bathrooms?
• Are smoke alarms installed in the house? If so, are they hardwired?
Are they in good working order and in good condition? Are they compliant?
• Is there a swimming pool and/or spa pool installed on the property? Are there any safety barriers or fences in place? Do they conform to current standards?
• Does the property have any termite or other pest infestations? Is there a current preventive termite treatment program in place? Was the property treated at some stage with persistent organochlorins (now banned) or other toxic termiticides?
• Has fill been used on the site? Is the soil contaminated by chemical residues or waste?
• Does the property use cooling towers or manufactured warm water systems? If so, what are the maintenance requirements?
• Does the property have any stormwater problems?
• Is the property in a flood prone area? Is the property prone to coastal flooding?
• Does the property have an on-site wastewater treatment facility such as a septic tank installed? If so, what are the maintenance requirements? Is it compliant?
• Is a sewer mains connection available?
• Are all gutters, downpipes and stormwater systems in good working order and in good condition?
• Is the property near power lines? Are there any trees on the property near power lines?
Are you considering planting any trees? Do all structures and trees maintain the required clearance from any power lines?
• Are there any significant trees on the property?
• Is this property a unit on strata or community title? What could this mean for you? Is this property on strata or community title? Do you understand therestrictions of use and the financial obligations of ownership? Will you have to pay a previous owner's debt or the cost of planned improvements?
• Is the property close to a hotel, restaurant or other venue with entertainment consent for live music? Is the property close to any industrial or commercial activity, a busy road or airport etc that may result in the generation of noise or the emission of materials or odours into the air?
• What appliances, equipment and fittings are included in the sale of the property?
• Is there sufficient car parking space available to the property?
• Are there any illegal or unapproved additions, extensions or alterations to the buildings on the property?
• How energy efficient is the home, including appliances and lighting? What energy sources (eg electricity, gas) are available?
• Is the property connected to SA Water operated and maintained mains water? Is a mains water connection available? Does the property have a recycled water connection? What sort of water meter is located on the property
(a direct or indirect meter – an indirect meter can be located some distance from the property)? Is the property connected to a water meter that is also serving another property?
• Are there water taps outside the building? Is there a watering system installed? Are they in good working order and in good condition?
• Does the property have alternative sources of water other than mains water supply (including bore or rainwater)? If so, are there any special maintenance requirements? For more information on these matters visit: www.cbs.sa.gov.au
Disclaimer: There may be other issues relevant to the purchase of real estate. If you are unable to ascertain enough information about the questions raised in this form and any other concerns you may have we strongly recommend you obtain independent advice through a building inspection, a lawyer, and a financial adviser.
Victoria: Schedule 5 and auction information
Sch. 5
Information Concerning the Conduct of Public Auctions of Land
Meaning of vendor
The vendor is the person who is selling the property that is being auctioned. There may be more than one vendor. Where there are two or more vendors, they are selling the property as co‑owners.
Bidding by co-owners
Where there are two or more vendors of the property, one or some or all of them may bid to purchase the property from their co-owners. The vendor or vendors intending to bid to purchase the property can make these bids themselves, or through a representative, but not through the auctioneer.
Vendor bids
The law of Victoria allows vendors to choose to have bids made for them by the auctioneer. If this is the case, it will be stated as the first rule applying to the auction. However, these bids cannot be made for a co-owner intending to bid to purchase the property from their co-owner or co-owners.
The auctioneer can only make a vendor bid if —
-the auctioneer declares before bidding starts that the auctioneer can make bids on behalf of a vendor, and states how these bids will be made; and
-the auctioneer states when making the bid that it is a bid for the vendors. The usual way for an auctioneer to indicate that the auctioneer is making a vendor bid is to say 'vendor bid' in making the bid.
What rules and conditions apply to the auction?
Different rules apply to an auction depending upon whether there are any co-owners intending to bid to purchase the property from their co‑owners, and whether vendor bids can be made. The auctioneer must display the rules that apply at the auction.
It is possible that a vendor may choose to have additional conditions apply at the auction. This is only allowed if those additional conditions do not conflict with the rules that apply to the auction or any other legal requirement. The additional conditions are usually contained in the contract of sale.
Copies of the rules
The law requires that a copy of the rules and conditions that are to apply to a public auction of land be made available for public inspection a reasonable time before the auction starts and in any case not less than 30 minutes before the auction starts.
A person at a public auction of land may ask the auctioneer in good faith a reasonable number of questions about the property being sold, the contract of sale, the rules under which the auction is being conducted and the conduct of the auction.
Forbidden activities at auctions
The law forbids any of the following—
-any person bidding for a vendor other than—
a. the auctioneer (who can only make bids for a vendor who does not intend to purchase the property from their co‑owner or co‑owners); or
b. a representative of a vendor who is a co-owner of the property wishing to purchase the property from their co‑owner or co‑owners;
-the auctioneer taking any bid that the auctioneer knows was made on behalf of the vendor, unless it is made by a vendor (or their representative) who is a co-owner wishing to purchase the property;
-the auctioneer acknowledging a bid if no bid was made;
-any person asking another person to bid on behalf of the vendor, other than a vendor who is a co-owner engaging a representative to bid for them;
-any person falsely claiming or falsely acknowledging that they made a bid;
-an intending bidder (or a person acting on behalf of an intending bidder) harassing or
-interfering with other bidders at a public auction of land.
Substantial penalties apply to any person who does any of the things in this list.
Who made the bid?
At any time during a public auction of land, a person at the auction may ask the auctioneer to indicate who made a bid. Once such a request has been made, the auctioneer is obliged by law to comply with such a request before taking another bid.
It is an offence to disrupt an auction
The law forbids an intending bidder or a person acting on behalf of an intending bidder from doing any thing with the intention of preventing or causing a major disruption to, or causing the cancellation of, a public auction of land.
The cooling off period does not apply to public auctions of land
If you purchase a property that has been offered for sale by public auction either at the auction or within 3 clear business days before or after the auction, there is no cooling off period.
What law applies
The information in this document is only intended as a brief summary of the law that applies to public auctions of land in Victoria. Most of the laws referred to in this document can be found in the Sale of Land Act 1962 or the Sale of Land (Public Auctions) Regulations 2014. Copies of those laws can be found at the following web site: www.legislation.vic.gov.au under the title "Victorian Law Today".
If you are the successful bidder at auction:
you will be offered a contract on the same terms that were on display before the auction. You cannot make the contract subject to any further conditions (for example, obtaining finance or having a longer settlement period) unless the vendor agrees to them. There is no cooling-off period.
Before you bid:
research the market, search the internet, attend auctions, speak with several estate agents and monitor auction results get independent, expert help on legal, finance and building matters.
An auction is a public sale, usually conducted by an estate agent acting as an auctioneer, and governed by strict rules.
The auction is advertised for a specific place, time and date. Prospective buyers bid and the property is offered to the highest bidder.
There is an advertising campaign with open house inspections for several weeks leading up to the auction date. In the lead-up, the agent may contact you to gauge your level of interest.
On the day of the auction, the property may be open for inspection, generally half an hour before the bidding starts. This gives you a chance to have a final look at the property, the relevant paperwork and the auction rules.
By bidding, you accept the terms of the contract on display before the auction, so you will not be able to negotiate matters such as a longer settlement period.
Pre-auction offers
If the seller has agreed to consider pre-auction offers, you can make an offer through an agent prior to an auction.
Your offer will usually be in the form of a signed contract and the process of negotiation is the same as buying by private sale.
If your offer is accepted less than three clear business days before the auction date, you do not get a cooling-off period (time to change your mind).
Auction conduct
There are strict rules about how an auctioneer runs an auction, and how people attending must behave.
The auction rules and the auction information statement outlining Victoria's auction laws, must be on display: for at least 30 minutes before an auction starts at the place where the auction will take place.
The auction rules, information statement and announcements the auctioneer must make are set out in the Schedules to the Sale of Land (Public Auctions) Regulations 2014. Substantial penalties may apply to anyone who breaks the auction rules.
Before bidding starts, the auctioneer must tell bidders:
-the auction will be conducted according to the auction rules
-the rules prohibit bids being accepted after the fall of the hammer
-bidders will be identified on request
-it is against the law to make a false bid, hinder another bidder, or in any way intentionally disrupt an auction
-substantial fines apply to anyone who engages in illegal auction conduct
-whether or not there will be vendor or co-owner bids
-any additional conditions that apply to the auction.
It is illegal to disrupt an auction, but you can still ask questions. During the auction, anyone can askthe auctioneer a reasonable number of questions about the property, the contract, or the auction.If you are bidding, you can also ask the auctioneer to indicate who else made a bid.
Bidding at auction
Auctioneers have different ways of conducting an auction. Generally, they aim to encourage as many bidders as possible to compete, to achieve the highest possible price.
The auctioneer can set the amount by which bids increase. These are called rises or bidding advances.
You can bid at the amount stated by the auctioneer or offer an alternative amount. The auctioneer may choose to accept or reject that bid.
Be clear about your bidding limit. To bid successfully:
-bid confidently
-ask relevant questions of the auctioneer, including who made a bid.
Generally, the amount the bidding advances will decrease as the auction draws to a close.
The auctioneer may:
-refuse a bid at any time during the auction, including when the auction hammer is falling
-if there is a dispute over a bid, resume the auction at the last undisputed bid or start the bidding again
-refer a bid to the seller at any time before the conclusion of the auction
-withdraw the property from sale at any time.
-Vendor and co-owner bids
Vendor and co-owner bids are allowed at auctions. If these bids are to be made at an auction, the arrangements for making vendor and co-owner bids must be:
-set out in the rules displayed before the auction starts announced by the auctioneer at the start of the auction.
Vendor bid:
The auctioneer bids on behalf of the seller because the seller is not satisfied with the amount of the last bid.
This type of bid:
can only be made by the auctioneer must be announced by the auctioneer when the bid is made.
Co-owner bid:
When a property is jointly owned, one or more of the owners who genuinely wants to buy the property may bid from the crowd.
Co-owners may bid themselves or through a representative in the crowd but not through the auctioneer.
The arrangements for making vendor and co-owner bids must be:
set out in the rules displayed before the auction starts announced by the auctioneer at the start of the auction.
Dummy bidding
All dummy bids are illegal and attract significant penalties.
A dummy bid is either a bid:
-made by the vendor, in circumstances where the:
-auction rules do not allow for such bids; and
-auctioneer has not orally announced that such bids are allowed before the commencement of the auction.
-made by a person who knows that the bid is being made on behalf of the vendor.
An auctioneer must not:
-accept a bid at the auction if they know the bid was made by, or on behalf of the vendor, unless the bid was in accordance with the law and the auction's rules on vendor bids
falsely acknowledge a bid, where no bid was made.
Also, it is an offence for any person to procure another person to make a bid at an auction that is against the law.
Auction language: 'on the market' and 'passed in'
The auctioneer may halt proceedings and say they are 'going inside' or 'seeking advice or instructions' from the seller. They use this time to discuss the progress of the bidding with the seller.
If the bidding has reached or is close to the reserve price (the lowest price at which the seller will sell), the auctioneer will ask the seller if they will sell at the highest bid.
If so, the auctioneer will say the property is 'on the market'. Bidding will continue and the property will be offered to the highest bidder, at the seller's discretion.
Passed in
If bids do not meet the seller's reserve, the auctioneer will seek more bids. If bids still do not meet the reserve, the property may be 'passed in' or 'withdrawn from auction'.
The highest bidder then gets first right to negotiate with the seller.
When is the property sold at auction?
There is no legally binding contract until both buyer and seller have signed the contract of sale.
If you are the successful bidder at the auction, you:
-will be asked to immediately sign the contract in the terms that were on display prior to the start of the auction
-cannot make the contract subject to conditions without the agreement of the vendor
-will not have a cooling-off period
-sign the contract before the seller, to make your formal offer to buy the property. The seller accepts your offer by also signing the contract
-have to pay the deposit specified in the contract (unless otherwise agreed).
-when you and the seller have signed the contract and the deposit has been paid, the sale is binding and enforceable.
The sale is finalised at settlement when:
-all checks have been made
-the title and transfer documents have been exchanged
-the balance of the purchase price has been paid.
Paying a deposit at auction
When you sign the contract of sale after an auction, you will need to provide a deposit. There are no laws about the amount of deposit but it is usually 10 per cent of the purchase price.
Deposits can be made in any way depending on the terms and conditions set by the selling agent. Before the auction, check with the agent what options are available to pay the deposit.
If you are using a bank cheque to pay the deposit, your cheque will be for 10 per cent of the amount you are prepared to pay for the property. This means that if you buy the property for less than you expected, your deposit will be more than 10 per cent.
Before the auction you can ask the seller if they will accept a part deposit with the remaining amount due on a specified date. This would require a change to the contract. The seller may or may not agree to this arrangement.
The deposit must be held by the seller's estate agent, conveyancer or legal practitioner in a trust account until the settlement date. The deposit can be released to the seller before settlement, if you agree.
A seller who does not have an estate agent and takes your deposit directly must either:
-pay it to their legal practitioner or conveyancer
-bank it in a special purpose account in an authorised deposit-taking institution in Victoria.
The account
-must be in both the seller's and your name.
These documents are developed by the Victorian Government.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE
PART A – What are these terms and conditions about?
1. Accessing the Website.
1.1 These terms and conditions set out the provisions that apply to any person wishing to access and use this Website and become a Member of Sale-Ezy. They form a legally binding and enforceable agreement between such user (‘You’) and Sale-Ezy.com Pty Ltd ACN 126 608 697 (‘Sale-Ezy’).
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a. land or any part thereof including fixtures as well as any chattels or personal property nominated by the Seller (‘Real Estate’); and
b. a business or businesses (‘Businesses’)
for sale and for Buyers to bid to purchase the Real Estate and Businesses.
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a. in which you are a resident; and
b. in which the Real Estate or Business is located
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a. you are the holder of a real estate agent, stock and station agent or business agent licence in the state or territory in which the Real Estate or Business is located or are otherwise employed by a licenced real estate agent, stock and station agent or business agent and hold a certificate of registration in that state or territory (if required) to act under the authority of that real estate agent; and
b. your real estate licence, stock and station agent or business agent licence permits you to lawfully act on behalf of a principal as an agent in respect to the sale or purchase of the Real Estate or Business that you have been commissioned to act on and that you have the authority as required by the laws and regulations of the state or territory in which the Real Estate or Business is located to so act on the principal’s behalf.
15.4 Each Member expressly agrees to:
a. provide complete and accurate information about the Member or their principal as the case may be as required and requested by Sale-Ezy;
b. maintain and update the requested information as required to keep it current, complete and accurate; and
c. undertake a verification of identity check (‘VOI’) as and when directed by Sale-Ezy.
d. agree to the terms and conditions of sale for the Real Estate or Business, including these terms & conditions, any conditions contained in the contract for sale & purchase as well as any auction conditions that apply to the sale.
16. Warranties of Members. You represent and warrant in relation to any content and/or information you provide to the Website that:
16.1 You are authorised to provide the content and /or information;
16.2 The content and/or information is not defamatory or a malicious falsehood in relation to any product, service, person, corporation governmental agency or other legal entity (‘person’);
16.3 The content and/or information is not a ‘passing off’ of any product or service and does not constitute unfair competition;
16.4 The content and/or information does not infringe any intellectual property right including, but not limited to, trademarks, service marks or business names (whether registered or unregistered), confidential information and copyright of any other person; and
16.5 The content and/or information does not infringe any legislation or regulation of the Commonwealth of Australia and the State of New South Wales including, but not limited to, the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and the Fair Trading
Act 1987 (NSW) and equivalent state and territory legislation and any other parliament competent to legislate in
relation to the Website or any law in any country where the content and/or information is or will be available electronically to users of this Website.
17. False Information. If any information provided by Member is incomplete or inaccurate, Sale-Ezy retains the right to terminate Member’s rights to use the site. Providing false or fraudulent Member information could subject a Member to criminal or civil liability as well as being a breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access. Member may change personal information on its existing membership account only to update the Member account.
18. Denial of Access. The site is a private venue and as such Sale-Ezy may at its sole discretion deny access to its site, and for any reason or for no reason.
19. Username & Password. Once a party becomes a Member of the Site, the Member will select a username and a password. Members are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their usernames and passwords. Furthermore, Members are entirely responsible for any and all activities which occur under a Member’s username and password.
20. Unauthorised Access. Members agrees to immediately notify Sale-Ezy of any unauthorized use of Member’s username or any other breach of security known to Member. Sale-Ezy may terminate the membership of any Member due to the misuse, improper use or unauthorized use of their username, password or this site. Sale-Ezy shall not be responsible and the Member shall hold harmless Sale-Ezy for any loss or damage arising from the misuse, improper use or unauthorized use of their username, password or this site.
21. Licence. By uploading any content which is intellectual property including, but not limited to, copyrighted works, trademarks and service marks (the ‘intellectual property’) on to the Website, you are granting Sale-Ezy a perpetual, non-exclusive and payment-free licence throughout the world to:
21.1 Reproduce, use and exploit the intellectual property, as part of the Website, to the full extent permitted by the intellectual property law in any jurisdiction in which the Website is available to users; and
21.2 Allow Sale-Ezy to sub-license others the same rights granted to Sale-Ezy in (a) above.
22. Power to Remove. In relation to any content and/or information included on the Website, Sale-Ezy may remove any content and/or information, including but not limited to links to other sites at any time without giving any explanation or justification for removing the content and/or information.
23. Costs. Sale-Ezy and its respective officers, employees and agents have no liability for any cost, losses or damages of any kind, which you may incur, arising whether directly or indirectly from or in connection with your uploading of content onto or other use of the Website, which costs are entirely to your account. This applies in relation to or in connection with any content and/or information supplied in respect of advertising on the Website; and as a consequence of removing any content and/or information from this Website.
24. Indemnity. You will at all times indemnify and keep indemnified Sale-Ezy and its respective officers, employees and agents (in this paragraph referred to as “those indemnified”) from and against any loss (including reasonable legal costs and expenses) or liability incurred by any of those indemnified arising from any claim, demand, suit, action or proceeding by any person against any of those indemnified where such loss or liability arose out or, in connection with or in respect of any breach of these terms and conditions by you; and publication of or distribution of the content and/or information supplied by you
PART D – Sales on the Website
25. Real Estate and Business Listings.
25.1 The Real Estate and Businesses listed on the Website will have a description, a hyperlink to a contract for sale & purchase and auction conditions (if required) and any other document as may be necessary or desirable.
25.2 The Seller or their Agent representative must:
a. accurately describe the real estate or business in a listing provided for inclusion on the Website and shall be liable for any misstatements or omissions in such description;
b. upload to the Website, a contract for sale and purchase (and any other required document, written or audible) that complies with the laws, regulations and rules of the jurisdiction in which the Real Estate or Business is located, including a copy of any certificates or warranties required in a contract for the sale and purchase of Real Estate or a Business and conditions for the sale of real estate and business by way of the auction; and
c. pay in full to Sale-Ezy upon demand Sale-Ezy’s fees & charges as notified & described on the Website or as otherwise agreed to by Sale-Ezy.
d. Audibly read the conditions of the auction to commence the auction and any other documents required to be audibly read according to the relevant legislation and auction conditions for the state or territory within which the property is listed. The auctioneer nominates Sale Ezy to act as a vocal proxy to announce the agreed auction conditions in situations where the auctioneer may not be audible to all.
The Seller and their Agent representative acknowledge that Sale-Ezy is under no obligation to list the real estate or business on the Website till such time as the obligations contained in subclauses 25.2(a) -25.2(c) have been complied with.
26. Who can Bid.
26.1 Buyers must be capable of forming legally binding relations under the law and regulations of the state or territory where the Real Estate or Business is located. The services provided by Sale-Ezy are not available to individuals under the age of 18 years old and any other individuals who are legally prohibited from or otherwise incapable of entering into binding contracts.
26.2 Buyers:
a. must be registered:
i. as a Member of Sale-Ezy prior to bidding on any Real Estate or Business listed for sale on the Website; and
ii. as a bidder for each item of Real Estate or Business the Member proposes to bid for.
b. have their identity verified by:
i. the listing agent for any Real Estate or Business the Buyer proposes to bid for or an employee of that real estate agent, stock & station agent or business agent; or
ii. in the event the Real Estate or Business is offered for sale without a listing agent, the Bidder’s solicitor
and agree to produce one or more of the following identity documents as proof of identity:
iii. for an Australian citizen or resident:
A. an Australian passport or foreign passport; and
B. an Australian drivers licence or card issued by the Commonwealth or any State or Territory showing a photograph or the holder and enabling the holder to evidence their age and/or their identity; or
C. a full birth certificate or citizenship certificate or descent certificate and a Medicare or Centrelink;
D. an Australian passport or foreign passport; or
E. or by an authorised deposit taking institution.
iv. For persons who are not Australian citizens or residents:
A. A foreign passport; and
B. Another form of government issued photographic identity document; and
C. A change of name or marriage certificate if necessary.
c. authorises Sale-Ezy to submit to the listing real estate agent any data stored or recorded by Sale-Ezy for the compilation of the Bidders Record, including but not limited to:
i. the Buyer’s name and address;
ii. the number allocated to the Buyer by Sale-Ezy for the purposes of the sale; and
iii. a log of the bid/s made by the Buyer for the Real Estate.
d. agree to the terms and conditions of sale for the Real Estate, including these terms & conditions, any conditions contained in the contract for sale & purchase as well as any auction conditions that apply to the sale.
e. agree and consent to be bound by these conditions of use and access, the conditions contained in the contract for sale & purchase of the Real Estate or Business and by the terms and conditions of auction.
f. consent to signing an electronic contract immediately if they are the successful buyer or to sign and execute a contract by whatever means are legally binding within the time constraints that legally apply within the State or Territory of their purchase .
27. Who can Sell.
27.1 Sellers must:
a. be the rightful owners of the Real Estate or Business or otherwise authorized by the owners of such Real Estate or Business, a court of law, or under a power of attorney to sell the Real Estate or Business they have listed on the Website and must upon request by Sale-Ezy or the listing real estate agent, produce evidence of ownership and/or authorization to sell on the Website; and
i. the listing agent for any Real Estate or Business the Seller has entered into an agency agreement for the Real Estate or Business or an employee of that real estate agent, stock & station agent or business agent; or
ii. in the event the Real Estate is offered for sale without a listing real estate agent, the Seller’s solicitor and agree to produce one or more of the following identity documents as proof of identity:
c. provide a contract for sale containing all relevant documents and certificates to offer the Real Estate or Business for sale by auction as required by the state or territory in which the Real Estate of Business is located.
d. nominate an agent or otherwise upload & enter a description of the Real Estate or Business and provide all relevant details of the Real Estate or Business to Sale-Ezy
e. provide pest and building inspection reports from an accredited / licensed building inspector and pest inspector as required by Sale-Ezy and/or the state or territory of the listed property.
f. provide a valuation report or comparable sales report except where the Seller has nominated a real estate agent, stock & station agent or business agent as the listing agent in which case the Seller’s agent is to provide a comparable property report made available to the Seller to ascertain the market value of the Real Estate or Business.
g. agree and consent to be bound by these conditions of use and access, the conditions contained in the contract for sale & purchase of the Real Estate, by the terms and conditions of auction and to pay upon demand any fees and charges of Sale-Ezy.
h. consent to signing an electronic contract immediately upon hammer fall and the sale of the property. or to sign and execute a contract by whatever means are legally binding within the time constraints that legally apply within the State or Territory of their sales contract.
27.2 The Seller acknowledges and agrees that Sale-Ezy does not provide any representations with regard to the ability of the Bidder to pay the Seller the bid price for the real estate being sold.
27.3 Unless otherwise agreed to by Sale-Ezy in writing, the Seller agrees that Sale-Ezy will be the sole selling mechanism for each listed item of real estate for the term of the listing online and the item of Real Estate is not offered for Sale simultaneously by another method or as a Non Exclusive listing with any other medium.
27.4 Auctioneers acting on behalf of a Buyer or Seller must be qualified and accredited for the field of real estate or agency practise under the relevant State legislation under which they are conducting auctions They must display their licence number as Auctioneer and meet all requirements of an Auctioneer throughout the auction process.
28. Auctions on Sale-Ezy
28.1 Unless otherwise nominated by the Seller, all Real Estate and Business may be offered for sale using all three stages of the Sale Ezy three-stage progressive auction system: best offer, final call and best offer.The auctioneer nominates Sale Ezy to act as a vocal proxy to announce the agreed auction conditions and schedules in situations where the auctioneer may not be audible to all buyers and participants, and likewise, to announce the bidder number and 'vendor/co-owner bid' as required.
28.2 In the event the initial stage of ‘best offer’ has not concluded with a successful sale, the auction process continues and bids for the purchase of the Real Estate or Business can be made from the commencement of the final Call stage of the Auction, the procedures of which are described below at clause 30.
28.3 During the three-stage progressive auction:
a. the auctioneer may refuse to accept any bid that, in the auctioneer’s opinion, is not in the best interest of the seller;
b. the Seller must, prior to the commencement of any auction, on the Website nominate and set:
i. a reserve price and have this recorded by the Seller’s nominated agent/auctioneer. In the event the Seller has not commissioned an agent for the sale of the Real Estate or Business then the Seller must record the reserve price within the Sale-Ezy platform prior to the commencement of the auction.
ii. a minimum bid price for the Real Estate or Business, which will be published and shown on the auction listing for the Real Estate or Business on the Website for the period of the auction during the best offer stages to indicate an acceptable starting bid (except in Victoria and Queensland), and at the commencement of final call, to be replaced by the minimum next bid, when each bid is made. For properties listed in Queensland, or with a $0 value for the base price, the $0 value is not a price guide for the property or an indication of the value of or asking price for the property. For all properties, the minimum bid price is not an indication of expected selling price, it is the lowest acceptable bid to commence the auction; bids under this price will be automatically rejected as they are not in the best interest of the vendor. The Minimum Bid must be set within the 10% expected selling price range.
c. the reserve price set by the Seller cannot be increased during the final call stage of the auction but may be reduced to meet the market or an offer acceptable to the Seller. The reserve price will not be published on the Website.
d. if there are no bids at or above the reserve price, then the Seller is not obligated to sell the Real Estate.
e. No bids can be made during an auction for an amount that is less than the Minimum Bid nominated by the Seller.
f. The Buyer and Seller are obliged, at the fall of the hammer, pursuant to these terms of access and use, to proceed to contract at the price of the Buyer’s bid and on the terms and conditions contained in the contract for sale published on the Website. The online auction contract is the official and original contract for sale and must be signed and exchanged as is; it must not and cannot be altered in any way following the fall of the hammer at auction. Legal counsel regarding the contract for sale should be sought and obtained at the discretion of the Buyer prior to bidding on the Real Estate or Business listed on the Website. All buyers and sellers must consent to signing an electronic contract, with electronic signature at the fall of the hammer or to sign and execute a contract by whatever means are legally binding within the time constraints that legally apply within the State or Territory of their sale or purchase.
g. The Buyer and Seller must be in a legal and financial position to exchange contracts and proceed to completion of the transaction per the provisions of clause 30.
h. In respect of the sale by auction of co-owned Real Estate or Business or the sale of such asset by a seller as executor or administrator who have intention to bid as a co-owner executor or administrator they must register as a co- owner
on Sale Ezy. This is not a seller bid but a genuine registered bidder with intent and means to purchase the property offered for sale by auction. This bid will display the notation ‘Co-owner’ to show the bid is made by a co-owner, executor or administrator. All registered bidders are made aware and acknowledge that any property offered for sale by auction on Sale Ezy Property Auctions Online is open to bidding by a co-owner, executor, administrator or any person registered to bid on their behalf and such bidder must show the notation co-owner when their bid is recorded in the bid register.
29. Best offer
29.1 The Best Offer stage of auction for the sale of Real Estate and Businesses listed on the Website can be employed optionally at the start of an auction. A property that is not sold during the final call stage of the auction will automatically transition back into the best offer period after an uninterrupted 3rd call where the bid has not reached the reserve applied to the auction. Best offer will be conducted as follows:
a. The best offer stage of the auction will commence at a time and date set by the Vendor or Agent/Auctioneer and display the notation ‘make an offer now’ on the Auction display page prior to the final call segment of the Auction commencing. Upon the close of final call segment of the Auction, if the property does not reach or exceed reserve price, the property transitions back to best offer until sold or withdrawn from sale. During this period, bids may be made by registered buyers and accepted by the Agent AND Auctioneer on behalf of and with the consent of Vendors.
b. Upon making a bid for the Real Estate or Business, the Buyer’s bidder number and the time and date of the bid will be recorded and displayed for public view. The amount of any bid made during best offer will not be publicly displayed on the Website but will only be disclosed by Sale Ezy to the Seller/s, their agent and the person nominated as the auctioneer for the auction. Where required, the bid number will be audibly read; the auctioneer nominates Sale Ezy to act as a vocal proxy to announce the bidder number where the auctioneer may not be audible to all.
c. All bids made during best offer will remain open for acceptance by the Seller for a period of 24 hours from the time of the making of the bid unless the Buyer withdraws their bid by notice in writing sent by email to the nominated Auctioneer and Sale-Ezy prior to the Seller accepting the Buyer’s bid, or the Auctioneer/Agent or Seller rejects (marked as ‘declined’) the bid as they deem it not to be in the best interest of the Seller.
d. In the event the Seller does not give notification that the bid has been accepted within 24 hours then the bid will be automatically withdrawn. The bidder agrees that the bid is withdrawn on their behalf. The Seller may field and accept any offer from a bidder or a number of bidders during this period.
e. Once the Seller accepts a Buyer’s bid, the auctioneer or Seller will close the auction with the fall of the hammer and a contract of sale of the Real Estate or Business will be formed between the Seller and Buyer. The Seller and the Buyer are obligated to complete the sale and purchase of the Real Estate or Business pursuant to contract for sale & purchase as set out at clause 30 below.
f. Best offer will continue until the first to occur of the following events:
i. The Seller or the Auctioneer on behalf of the Seller accepting an offer to purchase the Real Estate or Business;
ii. The property transitions into the final call stage of the auction as dictated by the count down clock and the start date set for 1st Call by the agent/auctioneer in the listing form.
iii. The property is withdrawn from sale by the Agent /Auctioneer or the Seller if acting without an Agent.
e. If the property is ‘Passed In’, the Agent/Auctioneer agrees to negotiate first with the bidder who has submitted the most recent highest bid if so dictated by the relevant state or territory laws.
30. Final call
30.1 Final call for the sale of Real Estate and Businesses listed on the Website will be conducted as follows:
a. The final call stage of the auction will commence at a time and date notified on the Website following which bids may continue to be made by Buyers.
b. Upon making a bid for the Real Estate or Business, the Buyer’s bidder number and the time and date of the bid will be recorded and displayed for public view as well as the amount of the bid made.
c. Buyers may make a bid at any time during the nominated final call period. Final call will be extended for a further period or periods of 1 minute and 30 seconds should any bids be received within the designated 1 minute and 30 seconds of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Call before the time for the auction to end or transition back into best offer (and as extended by this clause).
d. An Auctioneer representative or Seller may place (1) one Vendor bid on behalf of a Vendor during the final call stage of the auction period and prior to the property being shown as ‘on the market. This bid will display the notation ‘Vendor’ to show the bid is a Seller bid. A Seller who is represented by an Agent/Auctioneer cannot make a Vendor Bid on their own behalf, regardless of laws in their state or territory, and by agreeing to use Sale Ezy, forfeits their right to submit their own Vendor Bid.
e. The Seller will accept, and the Real Estate or Businesses will be deemed ‘sold’ at the highest bid at the close of bidding period unless:
i. the highest bid is less than the Seller’s reserve price.
f. In the event the circumstances in subclauses 30.1(e)(i) do not apply at the close of final call, a contract of sale of the Real Estate or Business will be formed between the Seller and Buyer who has made the highest bid. The Seller and the Buyer will be obligated to complete the sale and purchase of the Real Estate or Business pursuant to contract for sale & purchase as set out at clause 31 below.
31. Contractual Obligations of Buyers & Sellers.
31.1 These Terms and Conditions of Use and Access together with the contract for sale and purchase and auction conditions for a particular item of Real Estate or Business listed for sale on the Website, comprise a contract between a Seller and the winning Bidder.
31.2 By bidding on Real Estate or Business listed on the Website a Buyer agrees, and by listing Real Estate or Business on the Website a Seller agrees, to be bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access and the contract for sale and purchase and auction conditions, so long as those conditions of sale are not in breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access or unlawful. In the event of any direct conflict between these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access and any conditions of sale provided by a Seller, then these conditions will prevail.
31.3 A bid made by a Buyer is an offer to purchase the real estate from the Seller at the bid price that may only be withdrawn as set out above at subclauses 28.3(d) and 29.1(e) or in the event that there is a material change in the description of the Real Estate or Business being sold.
31.4 Unless otherwise indicated by the Seller on the listing, the real estate listed for sale on the Website is sold on an ‘as is’ and ‘where is basis’ and a Buyer cannot make any claim or raise any requisition or objection in respect to the present condition of the real estate as at the close of the Auction/saleor in respect of fair wear and tear since that date. It is the Buyer’s obligation to make inquiries and undertake due diligence research in respect to real estate prior to making a bid, subject to sellers disclosures and warranties in their contract for sale.
31.5 The Seller and Buyer of any item of real estate must, in circumstances where a contract of sale has been formed, pursuant to these Terms and Conditions Of Access and Use, complete the exchange of contracts for sale and purchase of the real estate as follows:
a. Sale-Ezy will issue a Sales Advice and Contract in respect to the real estate and thereby provide the Seller the Buyer, their legal representatives and agent representative with written notice that a contract of sale has been formed.
b. The Seller, Agent or Auctioneer representative must:
i. Arrange for contract for sale and purchase to be completed by inserting the purchase price and the Buyer’s details including name, address, legal representative per the details on the sales advice issued by Sale-Ezy; and
ii. Duly execute a completed contract for sale and purchase; and
iii. Cause a complete contract for sale & purchase that contains the sale price and the purchaser’s details to be delivered (whether electronically or otherwise) to the Buyer or their nominated legal representative as soon as is practicable following the fall of the hammer; or
iv. contact the Buyer or Buyer’s legal representative who has received a contract for sale and purchase issued by Sale-Ezy and confirm in writing receipt by the Buyer or their legal representative of the contract for sale and purchase.
c. Within the specified timeframe set by the auction conditions and relevant legislation within the state or territory where the property is listed (generally on auction day), the winning Buyer must:
A. deliver (whether electronically or otherwise) to the Seller or the Seller’s nominated legal representative a duly signed contract for sale & purchase; and
B. pay the agreed deposit to the nominated deposit holder.
d. Upon receiving the contract for sale and purchase from the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s representative the Seller or representative of the Seller is to cause the contract he/she/it as the Seller has signed and the contract the Purchaser has signed to be dated the date of agreed exchange of contracts. for sale and purchase. Exchange of contracts must be executed by the deadline specified in the auction conditions within the state or territory of the listed property or either party, Buyer or Seller may be in breach of contract. The agreed deposit must be payed as a condition of exchange of contracts.
e. Once the parties are in contact, the Seller and the Buyer must complete the transaction according to the provisions of the contract the parties have entered into.
31.6 By consenting to these Terms and Conditions of Access and Use, Members acknowledge and agree that should either the Buyer or Seller of Real Estate or a Business sold at auction via the Website fail to sign the contract for sale and purchase within the Exchange Period as required by this clause 31, the Buyer or Seller that fails to sign the contract for sale and purchase irrevocably authorises the nominated Auctioneer on the Sale-Ezy auction listing to sign the contract on behalf of the Buyer or Seller..
31.7 All Members are third party beneficiaries of these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access and Buyers and Sellers shall be entitled to enforce the provisions hereof and may pursue legal action against each other for non-performance of any provision hereof, including without limitation, non-performance of a purchase and sale after a completed bidding process. In addition, Sale-Ezy retains the right to assess fees or terminate a Member’s rights to use the Site in the event a Member breach these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access.
Part E. General
32. Agents may represent either a Seller or Buyer if so instructed and authorised under the relevant state legislation and can register and use the online platform for this purpose.
33. Sale-Ezy may change these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access from time to time with effective as and from the date of publishing the amended Terms and Conditions of Use and Access to the Site. Member’s continued use of the Site constitutes an affirmative:
(1) acknowledgment by Member of these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access and any modifications; and
(2) agreement by Member to abide and be bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access, including any modifications. Both the Seller and Buyer acknowledge that they shall be solely responsible for obtaining updated information concerning changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access. It is further acknowledged by the Member that the Terms and Conditions of Use and Access in effect at the time that a contract of sale is deemed to be formed pursuant to these Terms and Conditions of Use and Access shall be the relevant Terms and Conditions of Use and Access should a dispute ensue.
34. The duties and responsibilities of Sale-Ezy are limited to those expressly set forth in these Terms and Condition of Access of Use.
35. Information given to Sale-Ezy by Members is subject to Sale-Ezy’s Privacy Policy, which is available here [include link]
36. These Terms and Conditions of Access and Use is governed by the law of New South Wales.
37. All members irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the court of New South Wales.
Part F. Indemnity & Release
38. You release Sale-Ezy against all actions, claims, demands arising from or in connection with a failure by another Member to complete a sale.
39. You indemnify Sale-Ezy against all actions, claims, demands arising from or in connection with an act or omission on your part, including but not limited to a failure by you to comply with your obligations under these terms and conditions.
Part G. Acknowledgement
41. You acknowledge and understand that your obligations in relation to the purchase of property by auction through the Sale Ezy Platform are governed by these Term and Conditions of Use and the relevant legislation for conditions of sale by auction.
Sold by auction
For price: $1,345,000
Agency name: Professionals Real Estate Goulburn
Agent name: Allan McDonald
Agent landline: (02) 4822 1411
Agent mobile: 0428 482 425
Agent email: allan@professionalsgoulburn.com.au
Auctioneer name: Allan McDonald
Auctioneer licence: 142096
Click the links below to download documents
Timber Pest Inspection.pdf
Visual Timber Pest Inspection Report.pdf
Building Report 56 Onslow Rd.pdf
56 Onslow Road, Kingsdale.pdf
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Minimum bid: $170,000
Verner Street, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
Streamville Road, Bigga, NSW 2583
Cuddyong Road, Binda, NSW 2583
Range Road, Goulburn, NSW 2580
Minimum bid: $4,900,000
Princes Highway, YATTE YATTAH, NSW 2539
4849 Boorowa Road, Crookwell, NSW 2583
Boongarra Road, Laggan, NSW 2583
Pomeroy Road, Goulburn, NSW 2580
98 Pomeroy Road, Goulburn, NSW 2580
Thornford Road, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
Granger Road, WOLLOGORANG, NSW 2581
Towrang Road, TOWRANG, NSW 2580
Onslow Road, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
"Alinda Park" Flowerburn Rd, LIMERICK, NSW 2583
Inverary Road, BUNGONIA, NSW 2580
Corrinyah Road, BRISBANE GROVE, NSW 2580
Cowper, CROOKWELL, NSW 2583
Towrang Road, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
Peelwood Road, LAGGAN, NSW 2583
Dennys Lane, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
Taralga Road, GOULBURN, NSW 2580
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Court digest: Disqualified driver gets jail sentence
Susan Gamble
More from Susan Gamble
A man who has lived in Barrie and Simcoe has been ordered to never drive again after pleading guilty to driving offences from 2014 and 2018.
Christopher Scott Rumbolt, 37, appeared before Justice Gethin Edward in Ontario Court recently and pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified on Aug. 16, 2014. He was charged with breaking seven other driving prohibitions at the same time. The other charges were withdrawn.
Rumbolt also pleaded guilty to disqualified driving in Norfolk County last Sept. 28, when he was charged with breaking nine orders not to drive. Eight charges were withdrawn.
The judge credited Rumbolt with already serving 218 days in jail and sentenced him to return to jail for a further 142 days for a total sentence of 12 months.
He remains under a lifetime driving prohibition.
Man caught driving stolen vehicle
A man with no fixed address, who was driving a stolen vehicle on Highway 24 and nabbed by a licence recognition program, pleaded guilty to four charges when he appeared in Ontario Court in Simcoe recently.
Christian James Johnston, 25, was spotted by police near Windham on Oct. 9 at about 9 a.m. An officer was using an Automatic Licence Plate Recognition vehicle, which picks up licence plates that are stolen or otherwise in poor standing.
When he stopped Johnston, the officer found the vehicle had been reported stolen from Dryden, Ont.
Johnston pleaded guilty to theft of a motor vehicle on Oct. 1, theft under $5,000 on Oct. 8, and possession of stolen property and driving while suspended on Oct. 9.
Justice Colette Good credited him with time already served calculated at 200 days and ordered that he pay a fine of $1,125 for his driving infraction.
Woman gets weekend jail sentence
A Belleville, Ont., woman, who was originally charged with causing an accident that injured another woman, was given the chance to serve her sentence in weekend jail.
Sarah H. Hilts, 39, pleaded guilty to the July 11, 2017 incident and pleaded guilty to public mischief for reporting the theft of her vehicle to police the following day.
Justice Gethin Edward sentenced Hilts to 90 days of weekend jail, a one-year probation period and a two-year driving prohibition.
Man assaulted woman
A 30-year-old Simcoe man who assaulted a woman in January was sentenced in Ontario Court recently to time served, plus more days in jail.
Michael Whittaker pleaded guilty to the Jan. 5 assault and was credited by Justice Aubrey Hilliard with already having served 54 days in jail. Hilliard ordered that he attend weekend jail for another 66 days for a total sentence of four months.
Whittaker was ordered not to communicate with his victim and to have no weapons for 10 years.
SGamble@postmedia.com
Seniors centre location in Port Dover identified Lighthouse theatre airs its Sexy Laundry
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Pound Rallies as UK Services Sector Grows against Forecasts
Published: 4 May at 5 PM Tags: Euro, Dollar, Pound Sterling, America, UK, Eurozone, Australian Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada,
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After the UK services PMI rose instead of falling as forecast, the Pound rallied against the Euro and US Dollar.
The GBP EUR exchange rate has since fallen due to a strong Euro, but the Pound remains in high demand against other peers.
The services sector is the largest in the UK, so this unexpected growth has been especially supportive of the Pound.
On the other side of UK news, relations with the UK and EU have been frosty. After Theresa May claimed EU officials were interfering in the UK general election, European Council President Donald Tusk issued a sharp rebuttal.
Unless leaders on both sides can come to an agreement, the Pound could be further devalued by the diplomatic spat.
No major UK data is out on Friday, but the Pound could still be pushed upwards if Theresa May appears to mend fences with her EU counterparts.
A weak US Dollar and forecast-beating sales figures have enabled an all-around rally for the Euro today.
The single currency has been pushed up by March’s year-on-year retail sales figures, which showed growth from 1.7% to 2.3%. While the month-on-month result posted slowing growth, the dip from 0.5% to 0.3% was also better than expected.
The last major Eurozone data of the week will be Friday’s retail PMI for April. In March, retail activity contracted, so a rise into the 50-plus growth range could be enough to trigger a Euro rally.
Ahead of a vote that could see the Affordable Healthcare Act repealed, the US Dollar has fallen against the Euro and Pound.
US data has been slightly positive – the huge trade deficit has reduced marginally from -43.8bn to -43.7bn.
The healthcare vote has been concerning traders, however, as both outcomes could be negative for the US Dollar.
If repeal and replace action is approved, the US could be thrown into turmoil over a major overhaul of its healthcare provisions.
If the vote fails, however, it could be seen as a sign that all of Donald Trump’s major policy plans will be held up by Congress and opposition voters.
The Australian Dollar has slumped across the board today, falling by over -0.4% against the Pound, Euro and US Dollar.
National housing data has been poor recently, with home sales falling by -1.1%. Additionally, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe has identified high house prices as a national issue. In other negative news, the Australian trade surplus has reduced by more than expected.
The Australian Dollar may fall further on Friday if the April construction index falls into contraction. This outcome will imply less house construction and higher prices.
NZ news has been thin on the ground today, though the New Zealand Dollar has dropped heavily against the Euro, Pound and US Dollar regardless.
Milk prices have risen, but alarming forecasts about how much a major earthquake could cost the economy have put traders off the NZD.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) will make its interest rate decision next Wednesday. If the RBNZ cuts interest rates as some are predicting, the New Zealand Dollar could slump in demand.
The price of crude oil has been consistently poor today, with costs remaining under the $46.50 per barrel mark.
This has caused the Canadian Dollar to slide against the Pound and Euro, though a minor gain has come against the weaker US Dollar.
Canadian data has shown the March trade balance deficit fall by more than expected, though at -0.14bn it is still not at a surplus.
Friday’s closing Canadian data will cover employment in April. The unemployment rate is forecast to stay at 6.7%, while a rise of 10k employed persons is predicted.
If unemployment drops unexpectedly, the Canadian Dollar coul
As of Thursday, 4th May 2017, the Pound Sterling currency rates mentioned within this news item were as follows:
GBP EUR exchange rate was 1.1767, GBP USD exchange rate was 1.2921, GBP AUD exchange rate was 1.7435, GBP NZD exchange rate was 1.8806, and GBP CAD exchange rate was 1.7767.
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SF’s Dogpatch bucks trend, welcomes Navigation Center
Local // Bay Area & State
Heather Knight Jan. 12, 2017 Updated: Jan. 12, 2017 8 p.m.
Mc Allen (top center), Dogpatch Neighborhood Association member, stands with his son Lincoln (bottom center), 4, as they listen to Mayor Ed Lee (left), address those gathered at the site of a new Navigation Center in the Dogpatch neighborhood during a press conference on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 in San Francisco, Calif.
Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle
Mc Allen, a stay-at-home dad who lives in Dogpatch, took his 4-year-old son on an unusual field trip the other day: to a soon-to-open homeless shelter.
Allen, a board member of the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, persuaded reluctant neighbors not only to accept the city’s newest Navigation Center in their own backyard, but to embrace it.
“When I look out at the weather right now, the urgency couldn’t be more real,” Allen told Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials who toured the center that’s set to open in March and house 70 people. Rain pounded the trailers, and wind whipped the group’s umbrellas. “I wish this place was already open.”
That welcoming attitude is rare, even in a liberal, compassionate city that professes to want to help its huge homeless population. Hand out change, give money to nonprofits, volunteer in a soup kitchen? You betcha. But accept a shelter or service provider in your neighborhood? That’s another story, even among supervisors tasked with solving the city’s most frustrating problem.
Lee is adamant that Navigation Centers and homeless services spread beyond the Tenderloin and into less likely parts of San Francisco, such as the site at 25th and Michigan streets in Dogpatch. But the mayor has already tripped up in finding supervisors willing to go along with the plan.
He said in two separate interviews that he asked candidates for the District Eight seat, vacated when Scott Wiener won a seat in the state Senate, if they would accept a Navigation Center in the district and that they had to say yes to get the job. But his hand-picked choice, Jeff Sheehy, said that while they discussed Navigation Centers, Lee never asked him whether he’d back one — and he won’t.
“I don’t think it would be appropriate in District Eight,” Sheehy said. “If you want to have a Navigation Center, there should be services nearby, and you should have neighborhood support. I don’t see a site in District Eight where that would be possible.” His district includes the Castro, Noe Valley and Glen Park.
Sheehy is in his first week on the job — distancing himself from the mayor sure didn’t take long.
But Sheehy’s attitude is common — among supervisors and San Franciscans at large. While the new Dogpatch center breaks the mold, the last Navigation Center at the Civic Center Hotel and the next one in the Salvation Army building at Sixth and Jessie streets, set to open by the end of the year, are in more predictable locations.
Statistics from an internal document prepared by the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and obtained by The Chronicle show just how concentrated services are in District Six, which includes the Tenderloin and much of SoMa. It also shows that other districts are not shouldering their weight.
While the numbers are a little dated — they’re from 2015, when the last citywide homeless count was conducted — the overall picture hasn’t changed much. District Six has 56 percent of the homeless population, but 65 percent of its shelter beds and 73 percent of its permanent supportive housing.
District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point and Potrero Hill, appears to be have the biggest shortfall. According to the city, it has 17 percent of San Francisco’s homeless population but just 8 percent of its shelter beds and 4 percent of its permanent supportive housing units.
The numbers don’t count the coming Dogpatch shelter beds, but the Bayview neighborhood did infamously battle the city over a proposed shelter on Jennings Street, and the city scrapped its plans in 2015.
The Bayview neighbors aren’t alone. Supervisor Mark Farrell has had a laser-like focus on homelessness, but there’s still almost nothing for homeless people in District Two, which includes the Marina and Pacific Heights. (And yes, there are homeless people there: 60 by the last count.)
Portable structures are seen at the site of a new Navigation Center in the Dogpatch neighborhood on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 in San Francisco, Calif.
A recent proposal by Community Housing Partnership to demolish the Bridge Hotel on Lombard Street and build 100 units of supportive housing met with major neighborhood resistance — in part because it would have required breaking the zoned height limitations — and didn’t move forward. Farrell didn’t go to bat for the project.
When former Supervisor David Campos circulated a list of potential sites for more Navigation Centers last year, he left off any sites in Bernal Heights, where he lives.
West Portal neighbors were irate, as Campos’ list included two parking lots there. Supervisor Norman Yee said the sites weren’t appropriate because they were near family-oriented businesses. Hmmm, are there no families or kids in the Tenderloin? Asked which sites in District Seven would be appropriate for Navigation Centers, Yee said, “I can’t think of any.”
Yee also doesn’t support a proposed 150-unit apartment complex for low-income seniors, some of whom would be formerly homeless, in the Forest Hill neighborhood. Neighbors have fought the plan, and a lawyer representing them said it should be relocated “somewhere along the Van Ness corridor next to a Holiday Inn.”
These attitudes need to change, Lee said. For the record, he lives in District Eight in Glen Park and said he’d be “very willing” to establish a Navigation Center in the district. (District Eight has 5 percent of the city’s homeless population, but 3 percent of its shelter beds and 1.5 percent of its supportive housing.)
“Everybody in every district and every supervisor needs to contribute to this idea,” Lee said. “When people get used to helping transform people’s lives — and not just watching it happen in a negative way on the streets — they’re going to be a lot more enthusiastic.”
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It may help that Navigation Centers aren’t your standard scary-looking homeless shelters. They’re intended to be more welcoming than traditional shelters and offer intensive case management, storage, come-and-go privileges and the ability to sleep next to partners and pets.
The Dogpatch center has the look of a cheery elementary school: bright green and blue trailers that are raised off the ground and will be connected by elevated walkways.
City officials who discussed the plans, which include trailers situated around community courtyards with picnic tables and greenery, used oh-so-San Francisco phrases like “outdoor dining options” and “a restorative environment” in a “village concept.”
“This is the classiest Navigation Center we have thus far,” Lee said.
Whether he can convince other neighborhoods that the centers can class up their areas rather than destroy them remains a big question.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Tuesday and Friday. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Heather Knight is a columnist working out of City Hall and covering everything from politics to homelessness to family flight and the quirks of living in one of the most fascinating cities in the world. She believes in holding politicians accountable for their decisions or, often, lack thereof – and telling the stories of real people and their struggles.
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Designed To Connect: Inside Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ
December 3, 2018 (originally posted August 22, 2018) | by Richard Scheinin
On Franklin Street, outside the SFJAZZ Center, passerby peer through the glass walls of the Joe Henderson Lab. Inside, singer Shehererazade Stone performs. Reflected in the glass is a jazz photography installation across the street from the Lab. (Photo by Henrik Kam)
When piano titans Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed as a duo at the SFJAZZ Center not long ago, trombonist Adam Theis was among the 700 listeners in the sold-out concert hall. The performance was “enthralling. My wife and I could not believe it, and then we decided to stick our heads into the side room,” he says, meaning the Joe Henderson Lab, the Center’s other performance space, a tiny club-like venue. “I was just going to check out what’s going on, but this Cuban drummer was playing, and she was just killing it.” It was the young drummer Yissy García and her group Bandancha.
I felt like I was watching some rare YouTube video or something,” Theis says, “except it was, ‘Oh, this is happening right here.'
Yissy García in JHL (Photo by Rick Swig)
The Joe Henderson Lab – named for the late saxophonist, who lived for years in San Francisco – is a modest room, a rectangle measuring 22 by 44 feet with a small stage at one end and seating for exactly 107 listeners. When the SFJAZZ Center opened in 2013, the room was slotted as a rehearsal space for the SFJAZZ Collective, the organization’s all-star octet, and for the SFJAZZ High School All-Star groups. Gradually, though, the Joe Henderson Lab – JHL, for short – also gained traction as a performance venue, albeit a secondary one in the $64 million jazz complex, which is down the block from the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera in the city’s busy Hayes Valley neighborhood.
During the 2013-14 season, there were 92 shows in the JHL; during the 2018-19 season, there will be 189. While the Bay Area jazz club scene has sputtered, programming has more than doubled at the Joe Henderson Lab. The coming season will feature dozens of the region’s best-known musicians, including pianist Myra Melford with her group Snowy Egret; bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, performing compositions inspired by the fantasy writings of Italo Calvino (March 2); and trombonist Theis, leading a three-night festival with his Jazz Mafia collective (Dec. 7-9). Whole weeks will be given over to some of the fastest-rising trumpeters in the country, including Adam O’Farrill and Keyon Harrold, as well as pianists, including Cameron Graves and Christian Sands. (Such theme-driven weeks are common at the JHL; while superstars Valdés and Rubalcaba played in the main hall over the summer, Yissy García was part of a week spotlighting emerging bands from Cuba). Established national acts will include pianist Cyrus Chestnut, leading a primo trio with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Lenny White; Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid, reimagining the music of Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsies; and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, leading a cutting-edge quintet featuring saxophonist Mark Turner (April 11-14).
Kurt Rosenwinkel in JHL (Photo by Don Dixon)
“We’re doing more with the room,” says Randall Kline, SFJAZZ’s founder and executive artistic director. “We’ve increased the weeks in there as we’ve met success. And we’re doing a little more with national, attracting some bigger things. Vernon Reid’s Band of Gypsies project in that room is going to just blow the roof off. We’ve already had some amazing things there, like (pianists) Eric Reed and Henry Butler. And Mariza” – the acclaimed singer of Portuguese fado – “saw the room and fell in love with it. In Europe, she sells out soccer stadiums. But she was attracted to the room, to the feeling on the street.”
After selling out Miner Auditorum ("the big room"), Mariza asked to perform in JHL (Photo by Rick Swig)
Situated at the northeast corner of the SFJAZZ Center, the JHL is lined by floor-to-ceiling walls of glass – you can see straight out to the street, and passersby can see straight into the room. The JHL’s most unusual feature, it makes for something of an aquarium effect: “Everyone feels on display a little, which almost starts off seeming voyeuristic,” says Taylor McFerrin, the keyboardist, DJ and producer who performed four nights as a duo with drummer Marcus Gilmore.
But I find it always turns into something good. The Joe Henderson Lab has actually been one of my favorite places to play the last few years... People are really tuned in,” McFerrin says, describing the room’s “intense kind of listening environment.
It “has the intimacy of an old jazz room,” says Oakland-based saxophonist Howard Wiley, who often has performed at the JHL. “I like being close to people. I never even use the microphone in there. I like that; I like people being able to hear my full sound. When we all fell in love with jazz, it was never in a big concert hall. It was like, `I heard some jazz at this little club and the saxophone player played all damn day!’”
Pianist and organist Tammy Hall, who performed a tribute to Shirley Scott in the JHL two years ago, wouldn’t mind having a larger stage: “Things get pretty tight,” she says. Yet the tight quarters can be a good thing; she was among the lucky ones who got to see Mariza during her four nights there in 2017. She recalls how the singer “walked out into the audience, and we all got a personal serenade. She sang `La Vie en Rose’ and she was also trying out new material, really, really gorgeous. It’s like she was trying to transport us to the feeling of being in a bistro in Paris or a room for fado in Lisbon. Everyone was there for the music and the beauty – plus, there were good cocktails.”
Adam Theis in Joe Henderson Lab (Photo by Bill Evans)
The road to the JHL extends back to around 2002.
That’s when Kline began to actively float the idea of building a permanent home for SFJAZZ, which had been presenting concerts in rented venues since 1983. The idea met with “a lot of doubt,” he says. “The question from our board, and from people who were skeptical, was, `What are you thinking? Jazz is on the downslide, not on the upswing. Nightclubs are closing. CDs are gone. The stars are dying.’ And our response was, ‘Look, the music is actually as vital as ever. And if you can create an ecosystem that can support the vitality of it, then maybe we can grow the audience.’ The idea was to attract people who like jazz and like music, but who hadn’t yet found a place where they felt comfortable, where they actually liked to go and hear a show.”
One piece of the puzzle fell into place in 2006, when the SFJAZZ Collective was in New York, rehearsing for a tour. Kline, who accompanied the band, went out for a stroll “and I happened to walk past the Alvin Ailey dance studios” on West 55th St. “It was twilight when I was walking past there and the studios were lined with glass – you could look right inside and see the dancers, the students, dancing. It was just one of the most beautiful manifestations of what we could do with our own building.”
Kline and San Francisco architect Mark Cavagnero – already working on preliminary designs for the SFJAZZ Center – had spoken about doing something unusual at the building’s northeast corner: “So I called Mark from the street and said, ‘This is exactly what we want to do.’”
The northeast corner of the SFJAZZ Center (Photo by Henrik Kam)
Initially, there was pushback from acousticians: “They said, ‘You can’t have all that glass; it won’t work,’ and we just said, ‘Come on guys, we can figure this out.’” Which they did, yet when the room opened in 2013, Kline says, there was “still some concern about how performers would relate to it – a lot of people would come into that room and say, `How do we close the curtains?’ Well, we don’t close the curtains.”
In order not to compete with concerts in the larger hall, starting times were staggered at the JHL. Generally, the early show began at 6:30 or 7 p.m., making it easier for audience members to come straight from the office. Also, the shows were just an hour long: “People are busy and they don’t have a lot of leisure time,” Kline says, “so it’s this idea to make it a bite-sized chunk, maybe attracting a different set of listeners."
Initially, the room almost exclusively showcased Bay Area musicians: singers Paula West and Lavay Smith, drummer Scott Amendola, bassist Marcus Shelby. As attendance grew, so did the budget, allowing national acts to come through: pianist Benny Green with his trio; guitarist Rosenwinkel; and the Cookers, a septet of hard bop veterans, including saxophonist Billy Harper and trumpeter Eddie Henderson. Artists performing in the 2018-19 season range from 27-year-old singerJazzmeia Horn to vocalist and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan, who will turn 90 not long before her night of duets with bassist Cameron Brown (Jan. 20). Other programs will feature Mark Guiliana, the drummer on David Bowie’s Blackstar; South African guitarist Derek Gripper, who specializes in playing transcriptions of Malian kora music (March 14, part of a week-long run of string players from around the world); and two great soprano saxophonists, Jane Bunnett (with a band featuring drummer Yissy García) and Jane Ira Bloom.
Operating in parallel to the main hall, the Joe Henderson Lab seems to have become part of the above-mentioned ecosystem at SFJAZZ.
Joe Henderson Lab has flexiblity for dance floor performances as well, here with Oakland's Brass Magic (Photo by Jason LeCras)
Singer Tiffany Austin has performed to full houses in the room since 2013. She ticks off what she likes about it: “First of all, the stage isn’t too high, so you’re not towering above everyone. The way things are lit, I can look out and see all the faces. I can connect with the person in the back of the room and the person over on the side. Sight lines are good; no one is craning their neck. And acoustically, no one is searching for the sounds. I’ve been in small spaces where the sound is imbalanced – voices and instruments get lost and people are disoriented and it makes it difficult to connect. But at Joe Henderson, the sound is great, every time.”
She mentions one of her heroes, the singer Kenny Washington, and a performance he once gave in a barroom in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood: “It was the first time I ever saw him sing, and you could sense this quiet romance with the music that Kenny was having. It was that intimate; you could feel it. To sit five, ten feet away from him and watch him fall in love with those songs, again and again – that’s an unusual experience. It’s what happens in a small room. You connect.”
A staff writer at SFJAZZ, Richard Scheinin is a lifelong journalist. He was the San Jose Mercury News' classical music and jazz critic for more than a decade and has profiled scores of public figures, from Ike Turner to Tony La Russa and the Dalai Lama.
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Freshman Adoree Jackson survived stressful…
Freshman Adoree Jackson survived stressful second game
In this file photo, Stanford wide receiver Ty Montgomery (7) catches a pass in front of Southern California cornerback Adoree’ Jackson (2) during the first half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, in Stanford, Calif. (Tony Avelar/Associated Press file photo)
By Scott Wolf | swolf@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: September 10, 2014 at 11:22 pm | UPDATED: August 30, 2017 at 7:41 am
USC freshman cornerback Adoree Jackson enjoyed a stress-free debut against Fresno State, but his second game forced him to singlehandedly fend off Stanford’s top offensive player, wide receiver Ty Montgomery.
Jackson and Montgomery went one-on-one on a deep pass from the end zone. There was pushing and shoving. Stanford coach David Shaw wanted pass interference called, but the ball fell to the ground with no penalty.
The Cardinal went after Jackson deep another time with similar results.
“It still hasn’t hit me really that I’m playing college football,” Jackson said Wednesday. “It was crazy. I wasn’t thinking about (pass interference). Most defensive backs do because they are nervous.
“It was a fight for the ball. It was just two athletes fighting for the ball.”
USC defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox, who has lobbied for Jackson to play defense since Day 1, was pleased with his performance.
“He’s one of our best cover guys,” Wilcox said. “We haven’t scaled anything back for him.”
Jackson also became a decoy on offense as he frequently went into motion and looked like he might take a pitch, but USC coach Steve Sarkisian chose to give the ball to a tailback instead.
“I was ready in case they gave me the ball, we played a different scheme than (the Fresno State game),” he said. “I just have to be prepared.”
Jackson said he is not nervous playing in nationally-televised games. USC plays Boston College in prime time on Saturday night on ESPN.
“I remember my first time on ESPN was in the Under Armour (all-star) game,” Jackson said. “I thought to myself, ‘I need to get used to it.’ ”
Williams’ ankle ‘painful’
Defensive lineman Leonard Williams was limited in practice and admitted his sprained ankle bothered him.
“It was still pretty painful,” Williams said. “They didn’t want me to practice.”
Sarkisian said he did not plan to sit Williams out of the game.
“Our goal is to go win the game,” Sarkisian said. “If Leonard’s healthy enough to play, he’s going to play.”
Williams said he never expected to lead the Trojans with 11 tackles (eight solo) against Stanford with a sprained ankle.
“Definitely not,” Williams said. “I knew I would tough it out, but at the end of the first quarter it was still painful.”
Safety John Plattenburg (Achilles) wore a protective boot on his foot and looks unlikely to be available for the game.
Hutchings ready
Senior captain Hayes Pullard is suspended for the first half of Saturday’s game against Boston College after being ejected from last week’s game against Stanford, but sophomore linebacker Michael Hutchings said he is prepared to start and succeed.
“I study his every move, how he watches film, how he studies, how he prepares for the game,” Hutchings said of Pullard. “I prepare for every game like I’m him.”
Line drops
USC opened as 20-point favorite over Boston College on Sunday night. The line is now down to 17 points.
Defensive line update
Sarkisian complimented two new starters on the defensive line — Delvon Simmons and Claude Pelon. Simmons was credited by USC this week with a blocked field goal because it said film revealed his thumb touched the ball on Jordan Williamson’s missed 49-yard field goal.
“They both have plenty of room for improvement, but they improved from one week to the next,” Sarkisian said.
Adoree Jackson
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State narcotics agent fired for sexual tryst…
State narcotics agent fired for sexual tryst with subordinate, say newly released disciplinary records
Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent lied about the affair and blackmailed the woman into lying as well
By Tony Saavedra | tsaavedra@scng.com and Ian Wheeler | iwheeler@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: June 4, 2019 at 6:03 pm | UPDATED: June 5, 2019 at 12:03 pm
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
A former state drug agent overseeing Southern California operations was fired after having sex with a female subordinate and blackmailing her into covering it up, according to recently unsealed personnel records.
William Telish, former director of a Los Angeles-based regional task force, had an affair with a secretary and then threatened to send nude photos of the woman to her son after she tried to tell a supervisor, said termination records obtained from the state Department of Justice under a new police transparency law.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra released the records after his department was sued by the First Amendment Coalition and Bay Area news radio station KQED.
In 2010, Telish was fired for dishonesty and discourteous treatment from his latest job as special-agent-in-charge of the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement office in Riverside, the largest regional office in California. When he worked in Los Angeles, Telish supervised more than 95 local, state and federal workers in the operation against drug traffickers.
Agent calls firing a ‘sham’
Telish appealed his termination, calling the personnel investigation a “sham” and alleging that phone recordings surreptitiously made during the probe violated his civil rights.
The firing, however, was upheld by appellate court justices. The name of the woman, Linda Drylie, was redacted from state records, but appeared in lawsuits she filed against Telish and the Department of Justice. Her suits were privately settled, records show.
Telish and Drylie did not respond to phone messages seeking comment Tuesday.
The state termination notice says Telish and Drylie began the affair in 2006 while at a work-related conference for the Los Angeles lnteragency Metropolitan Police Apprehension Crime Task Force. Telish marked the relationship by taking nude photos of Drylie and making a sex tape with her.
At the time of the affair, Telish was being sued by another employee for sexual harassment.
In her lawsuit, Drylie alleged Telish began dating her “to satisfy his sexual, sadistic, torturous and narcissistic needs.”
Denied the affair
State records say he and Drylie kissed after hours in the office and had sex in a state-owned vehicle. Telish denied the affair when asked about it by another official.
“In other words, you lied. Thus, you intentionally tried to conceal from management that there was anything inappropriate going on between the two of you,” stated his termination notice.
To further the lie, records say, Telish forced Drylie to deny the affair to the deputy director of the task force. Telish threatened to post the photos and video of Drylie on social media if she didn’t recant her earlier acknowledgement of the affair, the documents say. He also threatened suicide, her lawsuit says.
Telish ended the affair when Drylie left the task force, but he demanded that she email him photos of her genitals, so he could determine if she was having sex with others, the state investigation found.
Victim hired at Placentia PD
Drylie obtained a job with the Placentia Police Department and Telish was sent in 2009 to head the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement office in Riverside. The couple resumed the affair, but Drylie accused Telish of assault after he held her down with one hand and used the other hand to look through her cellphone messages to determine if she was dating other men.
Drylie reported the alleged assault to Placentia’s police chief, James Anderson, after Telish called her at work, reminding her that he still had the video and photos, records said. The chief complained to the state Department of Justice, which initiated an investigation. As part of the probe, Drylie started recording her phone conversations with Telish.
In the recordings, Telish used racial epithets to describe a co-worker and wondered aloud about the physical attributes of two male and female task force candidates, records say.
He also allegedly told Drylie to call him “Daddy” and said falsely that he had a 70-year-old informant in the Department of Justice headquarters who gave him information in exchange for sexual favors.
‘Extreme and irreparable discredit’
The termination notice said, “Despite the fact that you and Ms. (Drylie) had an ongoing personal relationship, such comments made to an employee of an allied agency … are unacceptable and cause extreme and irreparable discredit to the department.”
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office launched an investigation into Telish for allegedly controlling a witness, but declined to file charges because there was not enough evidence.
The Southern California News Group and news organizations across California have been working together since January to collect once-secret law enforcement records under SB 1421 in cases of dishonesty, sexual misconduct, officer-involved shootings and other uses of force.
Tony Saavedra
Tony Saavedra is an investigative reporter specializing in legal affairs for the Orange County Register. His work has been recognized by the National Headliner Club, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and the Orange County Press Club. His stories have led to the closure of a chain of badly-run group homes, the end of a state program that placed criminals in inappropriate public jobs and the creation of a civilian oversight office for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, among other things. Saavedra has covered the Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson case, the downfall of Orange County Sheriff-turned felon Michael S. Carona and the use of unauthorized drugs by Olympian Carl Lewis. Saavedra has worked as a journalist since 1979 and has held positions at several Southern California newspapers before arriving at the Orange County Register in 1990. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1981 with a bachelor of arts in communication.
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Ian Wheeler
Ian Wheeler is a data reporter. He began his journalism career at Cal State Fullerton's student newspaper, the Daily Titan. He started at The Orange County Register in 2013 and has filled several reporting and research roles since then. Recently, he's specialized in data reporting, processing spreadsheets till his computer crashes.
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Climate-related data collection and research have been conducted in the Skagit for decades. This includes efforts such as air and water temperature monitoring, tracking the volume and timing of water in the Skagit River and its tributaries, and monitoring the changes in the extent and size of glaciers.
Scientists doing climate research in the Skagit basin use different approaches to improve their understanding of climate change and its related impacts. One way is to develop a hypothesis and then test this hypothesis by collecting data. For instance, a hypothesis could be that the glaciers are shrinking as a result of warmer average temperatures. The scientist would collect data average temperatures and the size of the glaciers over time.
Scientists also use models to help them understand how more complex issues, like climate, influence other complex factors, like flooding risk. Models help scientists by creating a structure that shows how multiple things relate to each other. For example, increasing average temperatures result in melting glaciers, which contribute more water to the Skagit river, which changes flood risks or the timing and amount of water available for use by human communities along the river. The modeled structure of these relationships can then be quantified and improved over time by developing individual hypotheses and collecting data that tests how each of the relationships work. Ultimately, scientists seek to be able to take these models, which include real-world data like air and water temperature change, and look forward in time to predict what could happen under future scenarios of climate change. For instance, modeling could show that if the current trend of glacial melting continues that summer ground water levels and summer flows will likely decrease.
Skagit Climate Science Consortium scientists have created a research vision that is a form of a model that shows the relationships between their various research and data collection efforts. They have also begun to create one-page statements describing their current, or not yet published, research efforts; and they are in the process of making their written reports, documents or papers that describe completed research efforts and findings available in a centralized location. Lastly, SC2 scientists have begun to compile a list of priority research gaps that they believe are important to fund in order to answer key scientific questions or reduce the uncertainty of existing findings regarding climate change and its impacts in the Skagit Basin.
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NBA to Appoint a CEO to Run the Clippers
by SLAM Staff May 04, 2014
With Donald Sterling effectively muted as Clippers overlord, the NBA has decided to hire a CEO to run the franchise until it’s sold to a new owner. No word on who that person will be just yet. Per SI:
The NBA announced Saturday that a new CEO will be appointed to lead the Clippers in an attempt to fill the void created by commissioner Adam Silver’s lifetime ban of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who was caught on tape making a series of racist remarks.
The new executive, who has not yet been named, will be tasked with “supervising the team’s operations,” according to a press statement. USA Today Sports reports that longtime Clippers president Andy Roeser will remain with the organization “for now” and that he and the rest of the organization will report to the new boss.
“The best way to ensure the stability of the team during this difficult situation is to move quickly and install a CEO to oversee the Clippers organization,” a league spokesman said. “The process of identifying that individual is underway.”
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Phoenix Losing Ground in Amar’e Derby?
by SLAM Staff July 02, 2010
Word out of Arizona is that Stoudemire and the Suns aren’t exactly seeing eye-to-eye. From the AZ Republic: “It is true that the odds of Stoudemire returning to the Suns have become longer but Stoudemire’s agent, Happy Walters, said he is open to talking more with Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver at any time. Suns coach Alvin Gentry talked to Stoudemire on Wednesday and Walters had said that he spoke twice to the Suns on Wednesday as well. ‘It’s nothing adversarial,’ Walters said. ‘We’re really not that close to an agreement. If Robert calls me, I will always take the call.’ Two sources have said that Stoudemire would have taken a five-year contract offer if it had been made by the Suns. Walters has said Stoudemire is only interested in a deal with at least five years. One report had Phoenix making a five-year deal but that could have been including a team option or injury stipulations. There are mixed ideas of how ardently other teams will pursue him. Some league sources think many teams will have the same concerns about his knee history that Phoenix does while others wonder if the effect of a team like New York possibly missing out on the top tier of free agents would prompt it to pursue Stoudemire more aggressively.”
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The D.A.Y. the Lakers lost Lamar
by SLAM Staff December 13, 2006
For the past five days or so, I feel like I’ve been writing and reading this: “A.I. A.I. A.I. A.I. A.I. A.I.” Is this thing happening? I really don’t have time for another Ron Artest situation, where it goes on and on and on. Put Allen on a new team please. You’re wasting one of the great talents of our time. And now, back to the land of NBA action.
LA LAKERS 102 HOUSTON 94
The Lakers nearly blew a 27 point lead over the last 9:45 of the game, which is funny since they were playing the Rockets, a team that tries to blow leads like that every night. T-Mac is out indefinitely with back spasms, which you could see coming this year from 5,000 miles away, hence his low spot on our top 50 over the summer. Yao was scoring at will against one-on-one matchups early on, but once L.A. started to double, Houston fell behind. They came back on the strength of their feisty young guys like Luther Head and John Lucas, but couldn’t finish off the comeback. Phil had pulled Kobe out of the game with that 27 point lead, with Kob already icing his knees. After the game Kobe called it “the weirdest game I’ve ever been a part of. That’s the first time I’ve put the ice on and had to come back out and play. It’s almost like Red Auerbach smoking the cigar.” He knows the history of the game. Too bad his coach had a running grumpy old man feud with Red. Kobe led the Lakers with 23-8-7, and hit a crazy hanging fading double pump going baseline on Battier, hanging in the air and coming up for oxygen on the other side of the basket. He actually goes to that move a lot. Not many can. Yao had 26, Luther had 21, but the big news from the game is that Lamar Odom sprained his knee and they’re calling is a moderate MCL sprain. He could miss a month. Lamar has been the glue on the Lakers all year. I have a feeling that one of his teammates is about to start shooting a lot more. He might have to.
GOLDEN STATE 126 SACRAMENTO 113
Matt Barnes is the new Kevin Martin. Barnes, who has spent most of this season playing with incredible efficiency in limited time, is now getting more run and starting to put up numbers. Matt had a 32 and 11 game on 13 of 22 shooting, including 6 of 9 from three. Kevin Martin wasn’t bad himself, matching those 32 on 10 of 18 shooting including 3 of 7 from three. With J-Rich and Murph sitting with injuries, Nellie’s team got big contributions from lots of places: Biedrins had 20 and 14, Baron had 13 assists, and L’il Dun and Pietrus both topped 20 points. The Kings are disappointing me. Other than Kevin Martin, Ron Artest scored 22 and John Salmons had 18 and 10 off the bench, but what’s up with a Ron Ron team allowing 126 points?
STEVE PHILLIPS 1 SUCKERS FOR HIRING HIM 0
As I’m writing this, I have Mike and Mike on ESPN radio on. Yeah, it’s not the greatest show in the world, but at least they don’t take random personal shots at SLAM and our readers (YOU!) like some other blog plagiarising personalities on their airwaves. I don’t want to say his name, because that’s the only thing that a guy as lowly and pathetic as him craves. I don’t want to give him any more publicty and I don’t want his baseless, offensive trash to be responsible for us getting more exposure. Anyways, Mike and Mike just had the Scott Layden of the Mets, Steve Phillips on the air. He’s still pretending he’s a GM. This is the perfect winter for him to be playing make believe with all the crazy contracts being handed out. Mo Vaughn. If Steve were still in the game as a real GM (no disrespect to the site realgm.com, which has more authority and knowledge than Phillips does), there’s no telling how many $200 million dollar contracts he would have put out there. This is their expert, a guy who was overmatched by Scott Boras, the agent that runs baseball, and is so irritating, he’s the one guy that is able to generate sympathy for A-Rod with his own barrage of personal attacks out of jealousy. Comical. I’ve stayed away from rampantly making fun of ESPN lately, cause they’re such an easy target these days. But if they’ve got shock jocks taking shots at us for no reason, I should say something. I don’t want to say anything too clever though, cause he’ll just rip it off and claim it as his own.
DENVER 100 ATLANTA 87
Okay, the Nuggets won this game and are obviously the much better team. But give Lang this one moment of happiness: Marvin Williams on Marcus Camby. Chris Paul, Deron Williams, or Bogut will never do it like that. Oh wait, I forgot that we’re not allowed to glorify a losing team making an exciting play cause losing a basketball game is the worst sin in life. I know that sportscenter would never show a higlight of a losing player dunking on a winning player. The Hawks hung in there for three quarters, until The Squirrel got them. Earl Boykins scored 9 of his 19 points in the fourth quarter. Joe Johnson missed another game due to injury, and Josh Smith led Atlanta with 21 and 10. Melo was held to a lowly 26 points. Camby grabbed 17 boards and blocked 4 shots.
MILWAUKEE 94 SEATTLE 93
The Sonics finally got on board with the Oden lottery ball program, finally losing a game with Ray Allen out with an “injury.” Luke Ridnour missed a three at the buzzer in a game where the Sonics hit just 1 of 6 threes. The Sonics only took six threes? The Seattle Supersonics? Someone had a strategy meeting! The Bucks hit 1 of 13 threes. Coming into the season, you would have thought this was a Ray-Redd teacher-student shooter’s delight. Not on this night. Redd scored 22, Ruben Patterson scored 21, and Rashard Lewis led Seattle with 26, and Bogut hit the winning free throw.
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Prudent quant strategies can thrive in the A-share market
On 1 June, MSCI added A-shares from 226 companies to its global and regional indices. While A-shares constitute an exciting playground for quant investors, practical implementation also requires taking additional precautions, says Yaowei Xu, senior portfolio manager Conservative Equities.
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How do you see this first wave of Mainland China-listed A-share inclusions?
“To me, this is very important. It illustrates that A-shares, which used to be considered as an exotic potential source of alpha, are slowly becoming a ‘must-have’ for global investors. Although the number of stocks included by MSCI is small, this is a first step towards a USD 8.5 trillion stock market.”
“After this initial MSCI inclusion, China A-shares represent just 0.75% of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and 0.1% of the MSCI ACWI Index, while China accounts for 15% of global GDP, 11% of global consumption and 11% of global trade. A-shares also represent 20% of global equity turnover and 11% of global equity market capitalization, making them the second largest national stock market after the US. This means A-shares remain clearly underrepresented in global equity indices, and their weight is set to increase significantly over the coming years.”
“Moreover, A-shares offer investment opportunities that are not accessible through Chinese offshore markets. Compared to Hong Kong-listed H-shares, they enable greater diversification across sectors such as consumer goods and services, health care, industrials, commodities and technology. By investing in A-shares, international investors can obtain greater and more diversified exposure to many of the fast-growing sectors.”
Does that mean A-shares data should be treated differently when used for quantitative investment strategies?
“Yes and no. ‘No’, because Robeco’s quantitative research methodology and stock selection models, based on proven factors, also apply to the A-shares market. And ‘yes’, in the sense that we take additional steps to ensure the quality of the data used as input for the models. It is important to make sure this data is reliable.”
“China’s economy has experienced tremendous changes over the past three decades, and so have Chinese companies. Such radical changes have translated into fast business transformation and sometimes convenient ‘shortcuts’ towards the capital markets, such as backdoor listings on the A-shares market.”
“To verify the quality of the data, we first look at its consistency. For example, if a water pump company ‘changed’ into a digital marketing company a year ago, the stock’s prior historical data is not valid anymore. Second, we take an active stance concerning corporate governance issues. If a company is suspected of significant manipulation of its financial statements, then the data for that stock is not reliable.”
“A typical illustration is off-balance sheet financing. Some construction companies, for example, generate most of their revenues through contracts owned by off-balance sheet special purpose vehicles, which are usually highly leveraged. With some creative accounting, the firm can manipulate its financial statements to make its leverage appear lower, its profits look higher, or its free cashflow seem stronger.
“Whenever this kind of dubious practice is spotted, we do not buy nor overweight the stock, to avoid any risk. These governance screenings are done by the quantitative portfolio managers, in close cooperation with Robeco’s fundamental A-shares team based in Shanghai.”
Chinese equity markets still feature very specific characteristics that really set them apart
But despite these challenges, A-shares still represent an opportunity for quantitative investors, right?
“Definitely. Chinese equity markets still feature very specific characteristics that really set them apart and make them particularly interesting from quantitative investment point of view. Unlike most major equity markets, the A-shares market is still very much dominated by retail trading flows and foreign participation remains extremely low, close to 2%.”
“And since it remains largely underexplored by rules-based investors, prudent quantitative strategies have the potential to thrive in such a less efficient market. Our research shows that stock selection based on the factors we firmly believe in, like low volatility or value, also works well with A-shares. These factors show strong performance, both taken together and on a stand-alone basis.”
How are A-shares considered in Robeco’s quant equity strategies?
“Current quantitative emerging markets strategies already include A-shares in their investable universe. As of July 2018, our Emerging Conservative Equities strategy invests 1.5% in A-shares, while Emerging Markets Active Quant invests 0.6% and Emerging Markets Enhanced Indexing invests 0.4%. Additionally, I will be managing two dedicated A-shares quantitative strategies: Quantitative Active China A-shares and Conservative China A-shares. Clients investing in our quantitative strategies through segregated emerging markets accounts can now choose whether to invest in A-shares within their mandates, through Stock Connect or via the Robeco funds.”
“The Robeco QI Chinese A-share Active Equities strategy was launched in November 2017, aiming to consistently outperform its benchmark by taking a high multi-factor exposure to three proven return factors: value, quality and momentum. This strategy ranks the 1,000 largest A-shares and uses the same stock selection model as the Emerging Markets Active Quant strategy. Since inception, the strategy has outperformed the benchmark significantly, with a 50% targeted active share.
“In August of this year, we will also launch the Robeco QI Conservative China A-shares strategy that will aim to maximize the Sharpe ratio in the long run with a substantially lower downside risk. Both strategies invest in Chinese companies that have an A-shares listing, but can invest up to a certain amount in H-shares, as an alternative to Mainland China-listed stocks.”
“These days, the dual listed A-shares trade at a 25% premium (market capitalization-weighted) to their H-share counterparts. We choose the most efficient securities based on multiple criteria, such as liquidity differences, premium/discount, trading costs, index exposure and client guidelines. We believe that, as China’s capital account opens up further, the valuation gap between A-shares and H-shares will gradually decrease.”
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What industries are covered by the alliance?
The Rural Safety & Health Alliance (RSHA) is a leadership group committed to health and safety improvement across all primary production sectors. Its management committee is comprised of nine of Australia’s rural research and development corporations (RDCs), representing majority of the nation’s farming and fishing sectors. These RDCs will make decisions about the research, development and extension priorities for RSHA. This ensures levy-payers of each RDC are first beneficiaries of investments made, but does not preclude sectors whose RDCs are not RSHA partners.
If the RDC for my commodity is not contributing, can I still apply?
Yes. RSHA welcomes collaboration with individuals and organisations who are passionate about improving health and safety in rural industries. RSHA welcomes contact from all stakeholders, such as potential funding partners, researchers, government representatives, extension agents, industry association leaders, farmers and fishers
What types of projects might be sought?
Despite all the effort and investment in health and safety, the record has not improved. The role of strategic RD&E is vital to understand key drivers in delivering positive and sustained change in health and safety. The projects for which RSHA will seek expressions of interest will focus on the most significant risks leading to death, serious injury and illness across multiple sectors. Priority projects will define what is already known about these risks and what measures will eliminate or reduce them. RSHA will be informed by existing evidence, and fund the creation of new evidence, of change mechanisms which are effective for individuals, farming or family businesses, communities and industry-wide levels.
When will the alliance be ready to receive project proposals?
RSHA will call for expressions of interest on a number of project concepts in February 2019, following its inaugural meeting with RDC partners. Invitations for new and alternative proposals will be called later in the year.
How do I find out more?
The best way to stay informed is to sign-up to the RSHA email list at rsha.com.au.
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Pitchfork Awards: Celebrating distinguished Sun Devils
Nearly 30 awards were given out to students, clubs, organizations and staff members
Photo by Marcella Baietto | The State Press
Students involved with International Night accept a Pitchfork Award during the ASU Pitchfork Awards ceremony on April 11, 2017, at Orpheum Theatre.
By Marcella Baietto | 04/14/17 2:51am
The Orpheum Theater was home to this year’s sixth annual ASU Pitchfork Awards on Tuesday where nearly 30 awards were given out to accomplished on-campus clubs, staff members, students and organizations.
The event brought in hundreds of audience members who were ushered down a red carpet photoshoot with Sparky the Sun Devil. The ceremony was emceed by Katelyn Schroll, a junior human systems engineering student, and Monica Sampson, a journalism and theater student.
Some of the awards given out included: Best Cultural Program, Emerging Student Leader, Outstanding Interfaith Program and Intramural Team of the Year.
The student program, International Night, which is hosted by the ASU Coalition of International Students, took home the most awards, winning three out of the four it was nominated for. International Night is one of the largest cultural festivals at ASU that encourages the inclusiveness of various nations, traditions and cuisine.
Pitchfork Pantry also managed to walk away with more than one award, including The Changemaker Award For Social Change and Most Promising New Student Organization. Pitchfork Pantry began this past January with the mission of providing food for ASU students in need.
Pitchfork Awards: Celebrating distinguished Sun Devils from The State Press on Vimeo. Video by Marcella Baietto.
A student involved with Pitchfork Pantry, Rebecca Bender, a nutrition dietetics junior, was also runner-up for Best Intramural Female Athlete of the Year. Regardless, Bender said she was still thankful for the recognition that Pitchfork Pantry received.
"I'm speechless," she said. "The amount of support that we have gotten throughout our course of getting this program started has been amazing and breathtaking. It has been a blessing to be a part of this experience."
Bender said winning a Pitchfork Award was validation that Pitchfork Pantry is a necessity on campus.
"The students voted for us, so the students see that there is a need for it on campus," Bender said. "With the support we have gotten from tonight, it gives us a fire to keep it running and hopefully keep it going for the next years to come."
The award ceremony not only provided recognition to on-campus service organizations but also to the Greek life at ASU.
Tanner Karlinger-Gladney, a kinesiology senior, presented the award for Greek Man of the Year, which was given to David Roberts of Kappa Alpha Order, an on-campus fraternity.
Karlinger-Gladney said that being a part of such a large school can make it difficult to stand out, but the Pitchfork Awards enables students to be highlighted for their success.
"In a school of 70,000 students, it's nice to recognize those students who really can stand out in a very large population," he said.
Aside from the several pitchfork awards given out that night, four live performers took the stage to battle for the title of Best Live Performance. Audience members were encouraged to vote for the best act via Facebook. The student duo 76th Street won the award with one of their original songs.
Business management junior Angelica Rodriguez, a finalist representing student coalition El Concilio, said even though her coalition didn't win an award, she was grateful for the recognition it got at the ceremony.
"I think it's amazing that we got recognized for an event that we worked hard on," Rodriguez said. "Just being here and being nominated and people realizing that we did do a lot here at ASU is a pretty amazing thing especially as a coalition on campus."
Reach the reporter at mmbaiett@asu.edu or follow @marcellabaietto on Twitter.
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Students take DIY tailgate fashion to the next level
From original graphics to classic designs, these students are adding personal twists to tailgate fashion
Photo by Taylor Franz | Courtesy
ASU junior, Taylor Franz, who majors in retailing and consumer science at UA, poses in a shirt she's designed on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona.
By Ellie Borst | 09/27/18 3:18am
With ever-changing fashion styles and techniques, fashion gurus at ASU have found unique ways to redesign the basic maroon-and-gold tee for football games and tailgates.
College students in Arizona are finding innovative ideas to makeover their own shirts using a pair of scissors and a creative mind. Some students take to the internet to sell their creations online, others keep their designs for themselves, and these shirts can be seen all over campus every Saturday.
Taylor Franz, a junior at UA majoring in retailing and consumer science, developed her own brand in which she reconfigures the typical t-shirt.
Using zippers, acid wash detailing and lace-up strings, Franz adds her own twist to shirts.
It began her freshman year of college on her living room floor with an old t-shirt and a hot glue gun. She then sent a message to her sorority asking if anyone was interested in buying a shirt.
The demand and positive feedback she received encouraged her to create her own brand, Franz said, which she named GameDayCustomTees.
Through word-of-mouth, Instagram and Etsy, her business has grown beyond UA to ASU, NAU and a variety of schools across the country.
The large amount requests she has gotten from customers has led her to start working with her mother to fulfill orders and continue expanding GameDayCustomTees. She said her mother helps with many of the sewing aspects while Franz focuses on the design.
“Quality shirts, like the ones at the bookstore, can be so expensive,” Franz said. “We go all around town trying to make these shirts, and we just make whatever we find.”
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Ainsley Ramsey, a junior studying actuarial science at ASU, is a long-time friend and big supporter of Franz.
“She’s definitely found some really fun ways (to design shirts) that I hadn’t seen before,” Ramsey said.
Ramsey has brought Franz's shirts to her sorority’s meetings and said the response from the girls has always been extremely positive, and they often asked for more.
Ramsey said the support from student-to-student is exciting to witness, especially across “rival schools.”
“They are supporting another college student who’s doing what they love and what they’re good at as opposed to another company that’s making them,” she said.
Kendra Olivieri, a freshman studying supply chain management, is another student who decided to take her own spin on tailgate fashion.
Olivieri started designing her own shirts using an app called Procreate, where she creates a design and prints it off on a t-shirt at a drugstore, like CVS Pharmacy.
She said she started designing her own t-shirts because she found the shirts sold at the bookstore to be too expensive. In addition, the designs she liked the most from other brands cost too much money, and the cheap, affordable shirts weren't her style.
“I don’t keep them as t-shirts,” she said. “I like to cut them into a crop top or some cool cut-out.”
Olivieri said she is not selling her own shirts currently, but would like to get involved in her own business in the future. She said she often comes up with her own designs to avoid copyright issues.
"I'll do something that says 'game day' in the ASU color scheme or something like that," Olivieri said.
Reach the reporter at eborst@asu.edu and follow @ellieeborstt on Twitter.
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Diabetic Nephropathy
Ron Varghese
Ishwarlal Jialal
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the main cause of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), in the developed countries including the United States.[1] It is considered a microvascular complication and occurs in both diabetes mellitus type 1 (T1DM) and diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM). Reliable tests for diagnosis and monitoring include urine albuminuria and the estimated GFR (eGFR). Optimizing glycemia and good blood pressure control are pivotal in halting the progression of DKD.[2]
Thirty percent to 40% of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM)develop diabetic nephropathy.[3]
While patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus may present with albuminuria at the time the diabetes is detected, diabetic nephropathy develops in type 1 diabetes 15 to 20 years later. This difference is mainly because the precise onset of type 2 diabetes is difficult to discern. Structural and functional changes occur in the kidney on account of diabetes and result in proteinuria, hypertension, and progressive reduction of kidney function, which is the hallmark of diabetic nephropathy.
Certain racial groups like African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans are at high risk of developing diabetic nephropathy. Studies have noted familial clustering, hinting that genetics plays a part in the risk of developing nephropathy.
Hyperglycemia leads to the production of reactive oxygen species and activation of pathways including protein kinase C, polyol, hexosamine, and advanced glycation end products (AGE). A significant feature is marked inflammation manifested by an increase in cytokines and chemokines including IL-6, MCP-1, TGF-beta (transforming growth factor- beta) and VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), causing inflammation fibrosis and increased vascular permeability. A podocytopathy ensues resulting in albuminuria. The resulting systemic and intraglomerular hypertension results in proteinuria. Proteinuria causes epithelial-mesenchymal cell transformation leading to fibroblasts and chronic tubular injury.
Kimmelstiel-Wilson nodules, glomerular basement membrane thickening, and glomerular sclerosis, inflammation are the common pathologies seen in diabetic nephropathy.
Increasing duration of DM, poor glycemic control, and uncontrolled hypertension are strong risk factors for the development of diabetic nephropathy (DN). A family history of hypertension and cardiovascular events in first-degree relatives is also a strong risk factor for developing diabetic nephropathy. Obesity, smoking, and hyperlipidemia are risk factors for DN. This, along with family clustering, suggests genetic factors could also be at play. Several genes including polymorphisms in angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and angiotensin receptor are being studied. Males are at higher risk for developing diabetic nephropathy.
Diabetic nephropathy is diagnosed by persistent albuminuria on 2 or more occasions, separated at least by 3 months on early morning urine samples. Persistent albuminuria is greater than 300 mg over 24 hours or greater than 200 micrograms per minute. Moderately increased albuminuria is when the urine albumin excretion rate is between 30 to 300 mg over 24 hours and is a marker of early DN. It is critical to exclude a urinary tract infection as the cause of the albuminuria by a urinalysis.
Early in the course of the disease, patients are often asymptomatic and are diagnosed during screening with levels of 30 to 300 mg/G creatinine. Once nephropathy sets in, patients present with fatigue, foamy urine (urine protein greater than 3.5 g per day), and pedal edema due to hypoalbuminemia and nephrotic syndrome. They may also have associated peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and diabetic retinopathy.
Proteinuria is the hallmark of diabetic nephropathy. The absence of retinopathy makes diabetic nephropathy less likely in T1DM.
The scenario is more difficult in T2DM than with T1DM. The exact time of onset of T2DM is unclear in most patients. History and physical exam play a crucial role in diagnosing diabetic nephropathy in T2DM.
Treatment of diabetic nephropathy targets 4 areas: cardiovascular risk reduction, glycemic control, control of blood pressure, and inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS).
Risk-factor modification, including tobacco cessation and optimal lipid control strategies, are crucial for cardiovascular risk reduction.
Studies have shown a significant reduction in risk of developing proteinuria and microalbuminuria with intensive diabetes control in T1DM.[4] These studies include DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) and EDIC (Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study). The benefits of good glycemic control early in the onset of disease carried over even after a long time, despite glycemic control being similar in both groups on longer follow up. This effect is "metabolic memory," a term coined by DCCT/EDIC investigators.
In T2DM, UKPDS (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study) showed that targeting a HbA1C of 7% led to lower risk of microvascular complications including nephropathy.[5] However, blood pressure (BP) control also led to a decrease in cardiovascular mortality.
Studies have shown the benefit of ARBs (angiotensin receptor blockers) in delaying the progression of kidney disease.[6][7] These include studies like RENAAL (Reduction of Endpoints in NIDDM with the Angiotensin II Antagonist Losartan Study) and IDNT (Irbesartan Diabetes Nephropathy Trial), which also showed that the BP achieved, better-predicted kidney outcome rather than BP at entry, emphasizing the need for BP control. UKPDS showed the benefit of BP control on any DM-related complication such as death, adverse cardiovascular events, and the composite of microvascular events. However aggressive control of systolic BP to less than 120 mm Hg, as opposed to standard therapy (less than 140 mm Hg systolic), found no difference in cardiovascular outcome or end-stage renal disease. The Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC 8) guidelines recommend a goal BP less than 140/90 mm Hg for most patients with T2DM and diabetic nephropathy, but with individualization.[8] Recent diabetic society guidelines suggest goals of 130/80 for people with diabetes.
While RAS blockade is crucial to prevent the development of diabetic nephropathy, multiple studies show that early therapy in patients with T1DM is ineffective in preventing the development of microalbuminuria. However, studies including ROADMAP (Randomized Olmesartan and Diabetes Microalbuminuria Prevention) have shown that RAS blockade can prevent development of microalbuminuria in T2DM.[9]
Studies like IRMA2 (Irbesartan in Microalbuminuria, Type 2 Diabetic Nephropathy Trial) have shown the benefit of ARB in preventing proteinuria in patients with microalbuminuria.[10] Studies in patients with T1DM and overt proteinuria have also shown that ACE inhibitors slow the progress of diabetic nephropathy. The IDNT and RENAAL studies have shown similar benefit in T2DM patients. These studies provide clear evidence of the benefit of RAS-blocking medication on slowing progression of diabetic nephropathy, independent of their effect on BP. However, the use of more than one RAS-blocking agents resulted in multiple adverse outcomes including acute renal failure and has fallen out of favor.
Newer drugs like a third-generation mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, finerenone, has shown albuminuria reduction in diabetic nephropathy at 90 days, on patients already on ARB.[11] The EMPAREG and CANVAS studies showed that SGLT2 (sodium glucose co-transporter 2) inhibitors that prevent reabsorption of glucose via the renal tubules reduced cardiovascular mortality.[12] In these cardiovascular outcome trials, the SGLT2 inhibitors had positive effects on kidney outcomes, namely albuminuria reduction and a reduction in the occurrence of a composite renal outcome. However, since these are secondary outcomes of trials designed to test cardiovascular benefit, many studies are now underway to test the actual potential of this group of drugs to prevent progression of diabetic nephropathy.
Toxicity and Side Effect Management
Effect of CKD on Diabetes Drugs
The kidneys play a crucial role in clearing insulin from the body. When the kidney fails, insulin remains for longer periods in the body, and this warrants dose reduction of insulin to prevent hypoglycemia. This principle also is true for most oral antidiabetic medications that are cleared from the kidney.
Metformin is contraindicated in patients with eGFR less than 30 mL/min/1.73 m2, due to the likelihood of lactic acidosis. With most oral drugs the physician needs to be cautious when the eGFR is less than 45 mL per minute and especially below 30 mL per minute.
Patients with diabetic nephropathy are at risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) and, one must exercise extreme caution with the use of nephrotoxic medications like NSAID, intravenous contrast, among others.
When the eGFR is below 45 mL per minute, and the patient has albuminuria greater than 300 mg/G creatinine a nephrology consult is prudent to establish a baseline for future renal replacement therapy.
Protein intake should be around 0.8 g per kilogram body weight.
Interdisciplinary clinical teams have been crucial in reducing cardiovascular risk factors, glycemic control and decreased risk of complications, across multiple countries [13]. The current recommendation is that the patient also is included as a member of this interprofessional treatment team for optimal outcomes. The nurse should educate the patient on the importance of glucose control and a healthy diet, whereas the pharmacist should educate the patient on medication compliance. Further, these patients should be taught how to monitor and treat their blood glucose levels at home. Studies show that patients who remain compliant with home monitoring of blood glucose tend to have a delay in renal dysfunction.[14]
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[11] Bakris GL,Agarwal R,Chan JC,Cooper ME,Gansevoort RT,Haller H,Remuzzi G,Rossing P,Schmieder RE,Nowack C,Kolkhof P,Joseph A,Pieper A,Kimmeskamp-Kirschbaum N,Ruilope LM, Effect of Finerenone on Albuminuria in Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2015 Sep 1 [PubMed PMID: 26325557]
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My night with the Dayton Dragons – June 10, 2019
It is rare for Minor League Baseball teams to sell out their home games. It is even more rare for teams to consistently sell out games. However, the Dayton Dragons have sold out every home game since moving to Fifth Third Field in 2000. So any baseball fan traveling through the Midwest should make a stop and become part of a sellout streak that spans over 1,000 games.
Arriving at the ballpark
With its downtown location there are several parking lots near Fifth Third Field. Some lots are free, but according to the team’s website most parking spots are about $5. Metered street parking is free after 6 p.m. during the week and always free on the weekends. The Dragons offer a VIP parking garage pass for the CareSource building at the intersection of East Monument Avenue and Harries Street. However, the pass must be purchased in advance.
Entering the ballpark
There are multiple entrances to Fifth Third Field, but the primary entrance is at Don Crawford Plaza. The plaza sits at the intersection of North Patterson Boulevard and East Monument Avenue.
Home plate entrance to the ballpark.
Additional entrances are in right field and along the first base line. However, the only place fans can purchase tickets is at the main ticket office, which is located by Don Crawford Plaza.
Exploring the ballpark
Fifth Third Field features a wrap-around concourse, so it is easy for fans to explore the entire park. However, fans entering at home plate from the Don Crawford Plaza are greeted by two statues of the team’s mascots.
Statue of Dragons mascot Heater.
Statue of Dragons mascot Gem.
There is a kids’ play area in center field behind the batter’s eye, which features a face painting artist along with the typical games like fastest pitch.
The Dragons Zone is a kid play place in center field.
The outfield offers a fantastic view of a revitalized downtown Dayton.
A view of the grandstand from the outfield.
Eating at the ballpark
There are a lot of options when eating at a Dayton Dragons game. Most concession stands offer the typical ballpark fare. However, there are more than enough options for fans who want something a bit different.
Dragons Fire Grill on the first base line allows fans to customize their sandwich by picking the meat (grilled chicken or a half-pound burger), the bun (kaiser or pretzel roll), the “style” (mushroom and Swiss, backyard, the Heater, ultimate cheese-burger, or buffalo), and the toppings (lettuce, tomato, onion, or pickle spear). Although the option to customize a burger was tempting, I opted to eat something else.
Dragon Dog.
At a concession stand on the first base line, I found a bevy of unique hot dogs. The stand offered a Cincinnati coney dog, a chili cheese dog, a gyro dog, a dragon dog, a BBQ dog, and a mac-n-chz dog. Although the mac-n-chz dog came highly recommended, I opted for the dragon dog because I couldn’t resist a dog that shared the team’s moniker. The dragon dog is a hot dog topped with pickled jalapeños, French fry crisps, and doused with sriracha sauce. For a team named the “Dragons,” the dragon dog was a spicy treat.
Drinking at the ballpark
The craft beer scene in Dayton has grown dramatically since Toxic Brew Co. opened in 2013. Unfortunately, I did not find any craft beers brewed in Dayton available in the ballpark. However, there is one spot in the ballpark that primarily serves craft beer.
Entrance to Samuel Adams Pub.
The Samuel Adams Pub is on the first base line not far from Dragons Fire Grill. The mix of beers on draft was interesting, as four of the ten were macro-owned craft beers (two from Goose Island with one each from Kona and Devil’s Backbone). Three beers were from Samuel Adams along with its hard cider, Angry Orchard. The lone, independent craft beers on tap were from Mother Stewart’s Brewing (from nearby Springfield) and Taft’s Brewing (from Cincinnati). If you are not a beer drinker, do not fret. The Samuel Adams Pub is a full-service bar that also offers wine and liquor.
Watching the ballgame
Dayton Dragons right-handed pitcher Jared Solomon delivers the first pitch to Fort Wayne TinCaps second baseman Tucupita Marcano.
You can’t watch a baseball game without watching the first pitch. Construction of a building beyond the outfield makes the view a tad unpleasing, but overall the ballpark has a beautiful backdrop for watching a ballgame. Although the view from behind home plate is enjoyable, I opted to explore a bit and got a few shots of the game’s starting pitchers.
Dayton Dragons right-handed pitcher Jared Solomon prepares to deliver a pitch.
Fort Wayne TinCaps right-handed pitcher Gabe Mosser prepares to deliver a pitch.
As I walked around the concourse, I saw the Dragons’ mascots dancing on top a dugout during a between-inning promotion.
Gem and Heater dance on the first base dugout.
As I wanted a photo of me with either of the mascots, I waited around for them to finish dancing to get a picture with them.
Me with Heater.
Although I was unable to get a photo with both mascots, I was happy to get a picture with one of them. Mascots are a staple of Minor League games, but it’s always interesting to see new promotions. The Dragons put a new twist on a classic when they rolled out the Retirement Village People.
The Retirement Village People dance on the third base dugout.
The group of senior citizens first danced to “Macho Man,” and later led the ballpark in a rousing rendition of “Y.M.C.A.”
Something that was not part of the in-game promotions was a benches clearing shouting match between the two teams.
Benches clear late in the game.
Although no punches were thrown and no players were ejected, Fort Wayne manager Anthony Contreras was visibly upset with how the umpires handled the situation and was ultimately ejected.
Recapping the fan experience
Cincinnati Redlegs bench outside of the ballpark.
There are multiple reasons why the Dayton Dragons have sold out every home game they have ever played. For me, there are a handful of reasons that stand out. First and foremost, Fifth Third Field is a beautiful ballpark in a revitalized area of downtown Dayton. Secondly, whether fans are driving to the stadium or walking from a nearby hotel it is easy to access. Third, there are several unique food and beverage options available at the ballpark. Fourth, the on-field promotions strike a balanced mix between familiar games and new twists on old favorites. Adding all of these elements together leads to a great time at a stunning ballpark, which is one reason fans love attending Minor League Baseball games.
Final: Fort Wayne 2, Dayton 3
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Willow Moreno
by Diana Calloway | Jan 15, 2019 | Characters: Apocalyptic | 0 comments
Willow was born to two hippie vegan lesbians that were ready to start a family of their own. One mother is her natural birth mother, while the other asked her brother to be the sperm donor so her child would still share the family DNA. Willow was a happy child in downtown San Fransisco, going to school, farmers markets, and just being a kid. She didn’t think about what she wanted to be in the future, but she did really like art. Art, horses, and tween pop stars.
The first stages of outbreak began when Willow was 11. A city as big as San Fransisco was a dangerous place to be, so her family packed up and migrated out of state. Over the next few weeks there were some separations and losses. At a dingy motel in Utah a couple of desperate people attacked her parents to steal their car. One mother was killed immediately, and the other was injured. Not knowing much about the airborn virus, they took too long when trying to bury Mom 1 in the desert. She turned and killed her wife. All Willow could do was run.
Willow has had nothing but long and painful experiences since. She’s been with creeps who enjoyed taking advantage of little girls, families who swore to take in a lost child only to abandon her when things get difficult. She’s seen frightening towns where the worst things weren’t even the zombies. Somewhere along the way she stopped speaking. Willow wouldn’t talk to anyone. She’d just show up somewhere, hang around if she was allowed to, and then disappear again once things got moving.
Something was different when she stumbled over Quinn, Robert and Bonnie. Willow did what she always did – make camp close by, but not too close. She ignored all attempts to get her attention or get to know her. But every night Quinn seemed to inch closer and closer. Willow found herself involved in meals, or being talked to, and even helping with supply gathering. What might have sealed the deal, though, was that during a skirmish she wasn’t left to fend for herself. And every time thereafter she was still protected as part of the group. No questions, no asking, she was just one of theirs. It’s been almost a year now and Willow has made sure to be useful.
Willow still doesn’t really speak, but she has developed more of an open personality around the group outside of “quiet weird girl”. She’s very facially expressive. Though Quinn seems to be the one she feels safest around and will often cling to, Willow finds Bonnie hilarious and seems to share that same sarcastic smartassery. She’s been slower to warm up to Robert, but these days she’s fine being alone with him and even having silent conversations. In very rare occasions Willow might speak out loud to one of the three, but so far it’s only been when she’s had something important to say or warn them about.
She has nightmares often. Pure terror nightmares. It’s one of the few times anyone will hear her vocal. Willow has taken to sleeping with Quinn or Bonnie and it helps.
Willow is barely 5 feet when wearing sneakers, with black hair and dark brown eyes. She’s small and wiry, but strong. Especially now that she is with a group and getting consistent meals.
She’s great for squeezing in to tight places, being sneaky, or climbing up things. She’s gotten very good at cooking stuff up, mending things, and doing busy work that’s given to her.
She whittles things from sticks. Specifically animals. In her pack she’s practically got a zoo of little wooden animal figures. It’s relaxing and she just enjoys doing it. Quinn has even painted a few of them for her, whenever they stumble across the right kind of supplies.
By all odds, Willow really should’ve died by now. But there is a little spark in her that keeps her going. Willow wants to defy all odds and live. She has this daydream about being somewhere safe and beautiful, with lots of animals, and doing stupid things that she used to do, like going to the farmer’s market, hanging out at a park or listening to music.
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How The Zion Sweepstakes Affects NBA Handicapping – Fade The Tank
Another NBA Trade Deadline has come and gone, and the league is now set to begin a collective sprint towards the season’s end. Some used the deadline to collect extra ammunition for a playoff run, while others fed said ammunition to said playoff teams to race towards the bottom of the standings and the top of the lottery odds. Contenders, pretenders, and flat-out bad teams are now all to be siphoned off into their respective tiers.
From a handicapping perspective, the biggest mistake you can make over the remaining 25-30 games of the NBA season is to handicap games without considering context. Sure, the Knicks or Bulls might be an attractive home dog when a playoff team comes into town. But from now on, don’t forget that these teams are actively doing everything in their power to lose as many games as possible.
Last year, we made good money down the stretch on our nightly NBA picks by strictly comparing motivation and situation. In the same way that a team who really needs a win might be worth betting on because of their relative motivation, there will be nights down the stretch where teams really need a loss. This year, especially, it’s not just about being “near the top of the draft”… the #1 pick and the #1 pick alone is where everyone wants to be.
Duke freshman star Zion Williamson will be the most coveted prospect to enter the league since Anthony Davis. His athleticism is unlike anything we’ve ever seen and his versatility on the floor is pretty much perfect for the modern NBA. We’re talking about a guy who can do this:
This could be the most athletic thing I’ve ever seen pic.twitter.com/DjaSyNGykl
— Eric Hubbs (@BarstoolHubbs) February 10, 2019
Zion Williamson 13 PTS, 6 REB, 5 STL & 1 Windmill dunk!
(Via @espn)
pic.twitter.com/RPmToOlaY7
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) November 20, 2018
Now, I’m not the biggest Zion Williamson fan out there, but there’s no denying that this dude will give any franchise an instant jolt of energy. His on-the-court game is must-see TV, and every franchise has to be foaming at the mouth at the thought of marketing a kid named Zion with 2.3 million followers on Instagram. If you get Zion, fans will shut the fuck up and buy tickets. It’s that simple. He will have an unprecedented impact in the short-term.
Zion is a lock at #1 and a tanking team’s dream. Couple that fact with the reality that the rest of this draft is just not that deep, and the #1 pick is more important than ever. The other wild-card in the room is the potential to trade for Anthony Davis. Any team that gets the #1 pick will have to decide between Zion and AD — not the worst problem in the world to have, to say the least. Most of the teams around the top of the lottery have enough assets to couple with the rights to Zion to beat any offer outside of a Tatum-led Celtics mega-deal.
The Zion sweepstakes are on, and here are the teams firmly in the race:
Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Memphis, and Phoenix.
From now on, you’ve got to be extremely wary betting on any of these teams. All of them have a larger goal in mind, the achievement of which requires they be as bad as possible for the rest of the season. Now, I’m not saying that this batch of teams won’t cover any spreads down the stretch; nothing I’ve said here is news to bookmakers and they’re not gonna give you an attractive price to fade a team when said team is trying to lose.
But if you can stomach big MoneyLine favorites, I think there is profit to be had in juicy parlays or straight up. Perhaps not the sharpest thing to do, but those 5 teams are 9-41 combined in their last 10 games. That’s a lot of L’s, and they’re only gonna keep coming as we push towards the end of the season.
Zach is currently a law student and loves to write about all things hoops. Follow him on twitter @NBAZachB for all of his articles and daily NBA picks.
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Story of Manataka
Leave a Comment / Ancient Civilizations / By Stijn van den Hoven
By Lee Standing Bear Moore
THE PLACE OF PEACE
The Sacred Mountain
and Valley of the Vapors
Source: manataka.org
For thousands of years, this magnificent site was the gathering place of many nations. Tribal leaders and spiritual elders made pilgrimages to the Great Ma-na-ta-ka Mountain to sit in great councils with many tribes. Some came every seven years, others came every eleven years, and others made the journey more frequently depending on local custom.
Tribal leaders prayed and made peace offerings to the Creator, the Great Manataka (Place of Peace) Mountain and each other. They danced and sang around huge campfires in the narrow valley situated between the Manataka mountain and her sister mountain, today called North Mountain. Her other sister mountain, today called Indian Mountain stood guardian to her east. Daughters of the first nations gathered rare medicinal herbs found in great abundance in a large area surrounding Manataka in the shape of a circle. Their sons found precious clear crystals, gold, silver, pyrite, and whetstones.
Spiritual elders also brought gifts from their tribes to Manataka. Some gifts were intended to establish friendships and diplomacy between various tribes and others were personal gifts between long-time friends. Trade items were also exchanged on blankets spread out in dozens of camps just outside the sacred valley. Other, more precious gifts brought to Manataka were not intended for humans, but were ceremonial offerings for the sacred mountain.
It is said by the grandfathers that seven holy caves were on the sacred mountain. The center cave is made of magnificent shining crystal encoded with messages of the star people. Inside the crystal cave are seven crystal cones set on a crystal altar and each contain secret messages and seven shields.
Ancient tribes came to Manataka on pilgrimages to place ceremonial items in five of the caves. The people of the south laid gifts in the southern-most cave and people of the north laid their gifts in the northern-most cave. Two other caves were used by the people from the west and east for offering ceremonies. The cave located to the left of the crystal cave was used by the ‘Keepers of Manataka’, the Tula Indians, who lived in surrounding areas and for other tribes living nearby such as the Caddo, Quapaw, Osage, Tunica, and Pawnee. To the right of the center crystal cave was a ceremonial cave reserved for gifts of the other people of this land – the animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, stones and the elements. No one ever approached the most sacred crystal cave, as it was said to have been the work place of the star people (angels?) and resting place of many spirits.
The southern-most cave, nearest the surface of the ground, once held the Manataka Stone, or as referred to by the National Park Service as the “Calendar Stone” brought by people from the south. The Calendar Stone was removed after the Civil War by workmen digging on the mountain to capture the sacred waters of Nowasalon and build ornate bathhouses for the rich. An ancient clay doll was recovered from the northern cave some time in the early 1900’s by workmen and is currently on loan to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. Each of the seven caves disappeared at various times after the invasion began in the 1500’s, either at the hand of the invaders or by natural or supernatural causes.
Everyone sought healing and pleasure in the magical hot waters of Nówâ-sa-lon (Breath of Healing) that spewed from the sides of the mountain creating dozens of crystal clear pools. No one was allowed to enter the sacred area, called the ‘Valley of Vapors’ carrying a weapon into the sacred area decreed by the Great Mystery as the ‘Place of Peace’. No fighting or discord was allowed. Should anyone violate these laws, they were taken outside the valley and severely punished.
The Lady of the Rainbow, referred to as Ix Chel by the Maya, was said to have presided over the peace in the valley. Dressed in all white buckskin and holding one eagle feather in each hand, she stood on the mountain overseeing the peace. When quarrels did arise, a vision of the Rainbow Woman could be seen at twilight rising in the vapors of the highest pool as a warning to the offending person. If the guilty one did not listen to this warning, the Lady of the Rainbow came to him and dropped one feather at his feet, which meant it would be wiser to fly away than to disturb the peace again. If this warning was not heeded, she dropped the second feather as a sign to his family and others to remove the offender from the valley by whatever means necessary.
Our Grandfathers saw dense green forests surrounding the narrow valley. Steam rose from abundant hot springs on the side of the mysterious mountain. The valley was shrouded in misty vapors which feathered the lush underbrush and curled upward through the tall trees. Sometimes the vapors joined low clouds to float away in the pink evening sky. Other times they lay lightly upon the ground like a soft blanket or swirled around the bubbling crystal pools.
Manataka was a place of strange, mystical beauty. Everywhere, the sound of trickling water made sensual music as it bathed the bare faces of fractured cliffs and splashed into creeks at the bottom of the mountain. In places where the steaming waters issued from the rock, growing cones of tufa covered with exotic mosses cupped in shades of red and orange painted the calcareous rock. Particles of silica, washed by the sun, sparkled like millions of diamonds while pyrite fragments seemed to catch fire and glow.
The most magnificent sight to behold at Manataka was seen from miles away in any direction. Indian elders on pilgrimage may have said to their fellow travelers, “We know we are there when the sign in the sky appears.” The sign was a huge, beautiful rainbow stretching across the entire valley.
The Rainbows of Manataka would not disappear after a few minutes of glory in the sun like all other rainbows. Manataka’s rainbows would build and build in size and would become more colorful throughout the day because of the constantly running hot and cold water springs.
The Rainbows of Manataka were not only a natural wonder of the world and a magical sight, they held a very special meaning. We believe the rainbow has a sacred purpose. The rainbow is a sign of the Creator’s Great Blessing.
Wherever the rainbow appeared was a place appointed by the Great Spirit – Creator for people to gather, especially those of differing origins and interests. It was a place where even enemies sat in peace. It is at Manataka, under the rainbows that the nations gathered by direction of the Creator for His purpose.
Manataka is truly the place of peace for all people. The area was a cultural and trade center for all native peoples – a great melting pot of American Indian culture. The Valley of the Vapors was neutral territory unclaimed by any tribe. The Great Spirit decreed that all that visited here were to lay down their weapons and bathe as brothers in the healing waters. Even tribes who were hostile to each other acknowledged the truce while in the Place of Peace.
The Caddo were the dominant people in areas surrounding the valley. The Quapaw, Osage, Tunica, Natchez, Pawnee and Shawnee were nearby. There is disagreement between archeologists, ethnologists and historians as the exact number of tribes that may have visited Manataka. Some say there may have been 34 language groups who considered the Valley sacred ground. In an effort to diminish any sort of future claim on Manataka, others say there were none who visited here. Stories of the sacred Valley of Peace still exist among some tribes today. Other tribes, whose languages have been largely lost since the European invasion, speak of Manataka as if it were a mythical place.
In the early 1500’s, Spanish conquistadors mounted expeditions to find the legendary spring whose magic waters could rejuvenate the elderly and heal the sick. In 1512, Ponce DeLeon failed in his attempt to reach the mysterious hidden valley containing a crystal fountain of healing water known as the “Fountain of Youth”.
His fellow explorer, Hernando DeSoto was the first white European invader to enter the Valley of the Vapors in 1541. Desoto’s chroniclers wrote about the amazing sites they beheld. As far as the eye could see were hundreds of lodges representing tribes from every part of the vast continent. The colorful dress of various groups was different from one another and they spoke many distinct languages. Ceremonial and tribal dances were held in a central plaza, and elders sat in circles smoking the pipe.
Almost immediately after first contact, the original inhabitants began to disappear. European invaders sacked the land, spread disease and incited inter-tribal wars that all but decimated dwindling native populations during the next two and half centuries.
After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, white invaders began to settle in the Valley of Vapors. In 1832, President Jackson, mastermind of the Trail of Tears and other racial atrocities, was looking for a way to totally demoralize and disorient native populations. He was also concerned about Manataka from a strategic military viewpoint. Jackson was not prepared to risk the possibility that thousands of Indians on the Trail of Tears might decide to gather at the sacred site and mount a rebellion. So, Jackson pushed Congress to take an unprecedented action in the nation’s history by confiscating the most holy site in the American Indian world, Manataka, and making it the nation’s first federal reservation.
The confiscation of Manataka by Jackson was an act contrary to the terms of the Louisiana Purchase and against the Constitution of the United States. The United States government promised the French, Spanish and native tribes in negotiations preceding the Louisiana Purchase the federal government would not violate sacred sites. The U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Marshall, warned Jackson the government was prohibited by the Constitution to own land [There is still no provision in the Constitution for the government to own land].
[There is still no provision in the Constitution for the government to own land. The Constitution does not contain a provision for the federal government to own land. One reason why this provision was purposely omitted from the Constitution is because the founding fathers lived under a European system where the royal government owned and controlled all land. The government cannot assume any power that is not specifically given to them by the Constitution.]
Thus, the only legal way Jackson could accomplish the take-over was to pass a ‘provisional’ law steering around treaties with other nations and the U.S. Constitution. Jackson wanted to create the first commercial federal reservation. As a popular president and famous Indian fighter, this was an easy task as members of Congress, of which not one of its members had ever seen Manataka, looked the other way.
For the next four decades the government allowed settlers to build bathhouses and residences around the springs but in 1875 it forced the settlers out and later began selling off choice pieces of property to selected businessmen.
What was left of the Hot Springs Federal Reservation after the ravages of the settlers and greedy government agents was turned over to the newly created national park system in 1921 and became the second national park after Yellow Stone. Today, it is known as Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.
Settlers and the U.S. government destroyed the sacred Circle and the seven ceremonial caves containing the Manataka Stone and other ancient artifacts gifted to Manataka by the tribes. Stolen artifacts were sold for profit by government agents. Government bureaucrats, to cover up gross negligence of the past, claim there were never any caves on the mountain, regardless of strong evidence to the contrary.
Out of forty-seven hot water springs surviving the early onslaught of settlers, the government covered all but two small hot water display springs with metal and concrete in the name of “protecting visitors and the environment.” Actually, the reason is to control the sacred waters for profit. They pump the waters to private bathhouses and hotels where it can be sold.
The vapors that once blanketed the valley have vanished. The wondrous rainbows covering Manataka have not appeared since government bureaucrats decided to “preserve” the springs from pollution and the escape of radon gas. The so-called scientific preservation basis for covering the springs can be disproved by any high school freshman.
The pools of healing waters are hidden with garishly ornate bath houses for the rich. Over the years, the U.S. government has systematically attempted to wipe every trace of Indian culture from Manataka. They deny this place is a sacred site and twist history with much authority to discourage our people from reclaiming our heritage.
One park historian recently wrote a report claiming Indians were afraid of the hot waters because they came from the devil. [The idea of ‘devil’ is foreign to American Indian beliefs.] The fact is, the land and waters are too commercially valuable. It is for greed, not preservation they hold hostage our Great Manataka.
The federal government has covered up the Story of Manataka for nearly 200 years. Government agents were especially aggressive in this effort just prior to and immediately after the Removals (Trail of Tears) when hundreds of ancient artifacts and religious objects were either sold, lost or destroyed. Regardless of this fact, the NPS curatorial collection today still has over 414,000 objects, nearly 46% remain un-catalogued, stored in dilapidated, unsecured buildings.
Their lust to remove all traces of indigenous cultures has gone from frenzied greed, to sordid indifference, to outright denial that our ancestors were ever here. A more insidious tactic used in recent times is to craft promotional material about the park that states, “People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for two hundred years.” — as if no one was ever here before then.
The Tula people made their home along the Caddo River near what is known today as the town of Caddo Gap, located approximately 45 miles southwest of Hot Springs. Today, a large statue of an Indian stands in the middle of Caddo Gap declaring the area was known as “Tula”.
There are no plaques or statues designating this area as Manataka (The Place of Peace). Yet, the bureaucrats know this is its holy name.
Today, there are no monuments to the gentle people who were the ‘keepers’ of Manataka. There is barely a remembrance of the spiritual power the Great Manataka gave to the people. This sacred ground held great meaning for all native people and is part of their ancient lore.
Will Manataka always be held captive by government bureaucrats never to breathe again? Will the Rainbow Woman who sleeps deep within the mountain awaken once more? Will the giant of American Indian spirit reawaken and its awesome strength be unleashed to give life back to the people of the land?
Today, there are many signs showing the great resiliency of native cultures. Our sons and daughters are returning to the old ways in search of peace in their daily lives. Everywhere you look there is renewed interest in native culture. It was foretold that this would be so.
It is our prayer the people of the land will return. We long for the day when the tribes of many nations will journey to these grounds again. They will not come as tourists looking for wondrous sights, but as brothers and sisters seeking healing and guidance while showing reverence and faith in the Great Spirit who dwells in this sacred place.
We yearn for the time when the tribes will come together, not to achieve some political or economic purpose, but to learn from each other and share the strengths of our cultures. We pray for the time when the leaders of our nations will once again hold hands in the Great Circle of Peace and give thanks to the Creator.
Should the American Indian be angry about the past? Should we do to others what they have done to us? At Manataka, the answer is No. Why?
No, because we are sacred water given to us by the Creator of All That Is. We were born in water and our bodies are composed mostly of water. We must drink water to restore us. Water is necessary to life. But, sometimes the water comes in floods and washes away our homes and food. Waters of the flood take away our homes and often bring disease. We are sad after the flood waters leave.
No, because we are the sacred wind given to us by the Creator of All That Is. Every cell in our bodies contains the wind. We must breathe the wind every moment in order to live. But, sometimes the wind comes like a tornado and blows away our homes and kills our loved ones. We are sad after the tornado leaves.
The white European Christian culture came to us like the wind and water. They flooded us with filth and greed and killed indigenous babies and grandmothers in the name of their religion. They came to us like the tornado bringing the whirlwind stench of war and the shame of false ways.
Should we hate the ignorant white invaders who came like a senseless flood and washed away the homes and sacred places of our ancestors? Should we hate those who flooded into our homes and stole the land? Do we hate their children who continue to violate our sacred Mother Earth and reek terrible injustices upon us? Should we despise the government that came like a terrible tornado and killed our people and defiled our sacred places?
But dear friend, we as American Indians cannot be angry at the sacred waters and the wind because they are made by the Creator. We can only be sad.
In the same way, the white European Christian and their government are also made by the Creator. And we cannot hate them for they too are made by the Creator.
At Manataka, we shed no more tears for the past.
Why should we not shed tears for all that has been lost!?
Because our culture is not gone! It flourishes and grows stronger each year! Look around you. American Indian culture is spreading all over the world.
We should not cry for our ancestors because they are not gone. They are here with us now. Their spirits dwell within us. They are on our lips as we speak. They are upon our fingertips as we do the work to uphold our heritage. We honor them. We do not cry for them. We rejoice for them!
The Great Spirit – Creator caused our circle to be broken. At Manataka we know the reason. It is for that reason we are here keeping the spirit alive.
Together, we can awaken the great forces of all native peoples by rekindling the fire of Manataka. The hot springs are still here. The medicinal herbs, quartz crystal, precious stones, and beauty are still here. And, the beautiful waters of Nowasalon flow abundantly.
Wakantanka niya waste pelo !
Why did the elders of many nations make regular pilgrimages to Manataka?
Was it to bathe in the healing waters? Was it to gather the healing herbs, healing stones or healing clay? Did the great beauty of Manataka compel the elders to travel great distances across raging rivers, through snow storms, sand storms, sometimes facing hunger on the trail, and sometimes losing one of their family along the way?
According to the National Park Service the reason the people of the land came was to bathe in the waters for their health. NPS also says they came to make peace with one another. (“…You know those savages were always warring against each other and for what other reason would this site be called ‘The Place of Peace’?”) Other NPS bureaucrats contradict these claims and say American Indian elders never considered Manataka a sacred place and few tribes ever came here. All these claims are false.
Do you know why the nations sent their elders to Manataka?
The answer to this most important question cannot be given in writing out of respect for our ancestors, our culture and the sanctity of the Story of Manataka. The answer may only be given eye-to-eye, heart-to heart to those who come to this special place of peace in the right way. The answer to this question will amaze you and fill the remainder of your days with deep respect and understanding of the American Indian way of life.
In 1996, for the first time in over 150 years, three elders of the Mayan, Cherokee, and Cheyenne people came on pilgrimage to Manataka.
In 1997 and 1998, three more spiritual elders prayed and performed ceremonies on the sacred mountain.
In 1999, four spiritual elders performed ancient ceremonies at Manataka.
In 2000, five holy men made pilgrimages. In April, the first public Gathering of Manataka was sponsored by the Manataka American Indian Council. The second Gathering was performed in September by Grand Chief Woableza LaBatte, a Lakota spiritual leader who heads the World Council of Spiritual Elders. Over 2,500 American Indians prayed at the Mountain.
In 2001, six spiritual elders prayed at Manataka, two more Gatherings were held and over 4,500 American Indians made pilgrimages.
In 2002, seven elders journeyed to the sacred mountain and two Gatherings were sponsored by MAIC. The last Gathering in November, 2002, Zintkala Oyate, Peter V. Catches-the-Enemy, a 34th generation Lakota spiritual leader of the Spotted Eagle Sundance officiated ceremonies. Nearly 7,000 people, of many faiths and races came to the sacred mountain to pray. The colors of the rainbow gather again!
Up to May, 2003, five elders had journeyed to Manataka to pray. In June, the annual Summer Gathering at Manataka will be led by Grand Chief Woableza and Omeakaehekatl, a Maya high priest and Day Keeper who will conduct ancient rites. The Painted Horse War Dance Society of Oklahoma will act as color guard and perform dance exhibitions. Chief Gray Wolf Henson (ret.), former chief of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians will lead the Fire Ceremony.
By June of 2004, twelve spiritual elders came to Manataka to perform ancient ceremonies completing the requirements and setting the stage for a cleansing of Manataka to take place. The Saginaw Chippewa Warrior Society came with their families to join hands in the sacred circle at Manataka with other indigenous peoples.
The new Superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park, Josie Fernandez notified Manataka that a permit and cash bond would be required in the future before ceremonies could be held in the circle in Gulpha Gorge Campgrounds.
In June 2004, members and guests were accosted and harassed by National Park Rangers who threatened the people with arrest if they came again to pray in the sacred circle. Many people were frightened away. During a later meeting with the new Superintendent, Fernandez threatened Elders with arrest and she called them pagans and witches. Josie Fernandez threw pieces of paper on the table saying Manataka’s members and guests violated seven rules and forbade any future gatherings. Elders were not allowed to examine the documents, nor were they allowed to answer any of the allegations. The so-called evidence were trumped up and false allegations. Throughout the remainder of the year and throughout 2005, families and individual members and supporters (anyone wearing Indian regalia or jewelry or appearing to be Indian) who went to the park to have a picnic or pray in the circle were stopped by Rangers and questioned, often times searched. Fernandez demanded a large cash bond (far beyond the financial means of Manataka) before a permit to perform ceremonies would be allowed.
Throughout 2005, Elders attempted to seek a meeting with Fernandez or her superiors without success.
In Mid-Spring 2005, MAIC learns of a new website called “Manataka Exposed” operated by a former employee of the National Park Service. Manataka writes a response to the charges. Read History of MAIC
In June 2005, as the annual Gathering was about to take place, armed Park Rangers blocked the entrance to Gulpha Gorge Campgrounds to anyone appearing in Indian regalia or appearing to be American Indian.
In October 2005 during the Fall Gathering held at Bald Eagle Mountain Park a distance of 5 miles from the sacred Manataka, over 250 members and guests rode in caravan to several locations around the sacred mountain and walked over the mountain to the sacred circle in Gulpha Gorge to evade a National Park Service blockade set up at the entrance of the Campgrounds. Ceremonies were performed in the sacred circle and afterwards, the people quietly walked back across the mountain. Many more ceremonies were performed in the circle in coming months under the cover of darkness or inclement weather. Park Rangers continued to stop vehicles appearing to be Indian and issued strong threats. Fernandez continued to make racial and other derogatory remarks to individuals in the community.
Secret prayer ceremonies were held each month on the sacred Manataka asking the Creator to bless Fernandez.
A large number of letters from recognized spiritual elders in North, Central and South America declaring Manataka a sacred site were received.
In June 2006, MAIC Elders decided to return to Gulpha Gorge to perform ceremonies regardless of the threats and harassment of National Park Rangers. The Gathering was the smallest yet (due to Gestapo tactics of the NPS) but the Gathering was a beautiful event with Otto Riollano Davila of Puerto Rico delivering a spiritual message. Park Rangers did not interrupt the gathering in any significant way, but the hovering presence of armed Rangers frightened many families.
Manataka discovers the presence of individuals who joined Manataka but were agents of Fernandez.
Because of continued Fernandez harassment, MAIC continued to use both Bald Eagle Mountain Park, the sacred Manataka Mountain, and Gulpha Gorge Campgrounds for ceremonies and gatherings in 2006 and 2007.
In 2007, Elders decided to hold all ceremonies on top of Manataka mountain in locations not easily found or accessible to outsiders. The elderly and disabled are transported by vans and carried to various locations on the mountain. Many make the journey on foot. In 2007, Spiritual Elders and hundreds of people continued to journey to Manataka for prayer and ceremony.
2008-2012 Today’s Keepers of Manataka and members of MAIC are watching and waiting for other Gatherings in preparation of the Great Awakening and the Great Gathering at the Place of Peace. Will you join us?
©Story of Manataka, All rights reserved, 1992-2008.
Credits:Some material for this article were taken from the Indian Folklore Atlas, Phillips/Long, 1994, U.S. government records, the Garland County Historical Society, stories told Chief Benito Gray Horse and by the elders of many nations.
Indian Folklore Atlas of Hot Springs National Park
by Marcus Phillips and Sandra Long
The Valley of the Vapors, Manataka — The Place of Peace was never told as well before this excellent resource guide was written. Well researched with dozens of references, this book contains the colorful history of Hot Springs and Indian legends of this sacred site. The Indian Folk Lore Atlas also serves as a tour guide with seven individual walking tours designed to take the visitor back in time to the actual locations where history was made. This book is endorsed by the American Indian Center of Arkansas, the City of Hot Springs and the Garland County Historical Society. Experts of the Caddo, Quapaw and Cherokee nations consulted on this book. A wonderful addition to any library. Great for the coffee table. Dozens of maps and illustrations. 195 pp. Soft Cover. $37.95
PILGRIMAGES TO MANATAKA
Feel the power and spirit of ancient rites. Attend ceremonies, guided tours, and cookouts. Travel and lodging booking for groups of 25 or more.
(Some activities not available year-round.)
A pilgrimage to Manataka is a journey through the outer world to the inner world.
Navajo Song
Walk on a rainbow trail;
walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty.
There is a way out of every dark mist,
over a rainbow trail.
MAIC
Box 476, Hot Springs Reservation, AR 71902
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Wine bodies consider merger10 months ago
Wine bodies consider merger
14 Sep 2018, 11:42 a.m.
Winemakers Federation of Australia and Australian Vignerons consider amalgamating to one peak federal body.
TWO leading wine industry groups – Winemakers’ Federation of Australia and Australian Vignerons – have begun formal discussions on a potential amalgamation to create a single united peak body.
The single body would represent the Australian grape and wine sector at the federal level.
WFA chief executive Tony Battaglene said this followed years of talk on potentially forming a single body.
“There have been discussions over the years for reform of the grape and wine representative bodies, to deliver greater unity and representation of the sector as a whole,” he said.
“It has been made clear to me, that political parties of all persuasions would welcome representation from a single body for the grape and wine sector and our advocacy efforts would be much stronger.”
AV CEO Anna Hooper said there was potential to improve service delivery.
“The creation of a single body will provide stronger representation for our members, improve efficiency and increase positive outcomes for the entire grape and wine sector,” she said.
“This proposal demonstrates a fantastic example of collaboration and leadership that Australian Vignerons is proud to be part of.
“We look forward to the prospect of being able to deliver more for our members, and the sector as a whole.”
WFA and AV are in formal discussions on the structure of a single organisation, with the objective of a vote on the amalgamated body to be presented to members in November 2018.
The boards of WFA and AV have supported these moves.
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Good support at Hazeldean5 months ago
Good support at Hazeldean
14 Feb 2019, 7:03 p.m.
Mount Bruce livestock manager Malcolm "Moose" Wilson, Greenways, Hazeldean's Guy Cunningham, Connie Ryan, 12, and her father Mount Bruce owner Richard Ryan and PPHS Kingston livestock agent Peter Dunn.
THERE was good buying support at the Hazeldean Angus bull sale at Willalooka on Tuesday and a top of $10,000 was achieved.
Out of 57 bulls offered, 48 were sold in the ring for an average of $5468.
Buying the top price bull was Richard Ryan, JH Ryan & Son, Mount Bruce, Greenways, who has been a client at Hazeldean for more than a decade.
Mr Ryan runs a pure Angus operation, with a self-replacing herd of 500 cows.
"I've concentrated on putting better genetics into the herd and have been very happy with the results I've been getting over the years," he said.
"Our heifers are getting better and better each year."
Mr Ryan's $10,000 bull was Hazeldean N214 - a 19-month-old sire weighing 740 kilograms.
It was sired by Hazeldean Katzen K416 and out of Hazeldean J1023.
The bull ranked in the top 5 per cent on the Angus Breeding Index for heavy grain and heavy grass value.
Mr Ryan also bought another bull at $9000.
Paying the second-highest price at $9500 was regular clients Boonoonar Partnership, Keilira.
Hazeldean N768 is aged 18 months and weighs 750kg. It is also in the top 5pc on the Angus Breeding Index for heavy grain and heavy grass value.
The bull was sired by Hazeldean Katzen K416 and out of Hazeldean J1610.
Boonoonar Partnership bought six bulls all up, averaging $5750.
New buyer AT&RA Bradey, Ullswater, Vic, purchased two bulls to $5500, averaging $5000.
Regular bidders Donald Brown & Co, Keppoch, bought near the top of the catalogue, taking one bull at $8000, while other long-time supporters DK&JD Symonds, Edenhope, Vic, paid the same price for Hazeldean N522.
DH Prosser & Son, Marcollat, bought three bulls to $8000, averaging $6333, while MH Marwood, Kingston, took four bulls to $4500, averaging $4250.
Buying near the top of the catalogue was AJ&DH Lock, Geranium, paying $7000 for Hazeldean N190.
Return clients GA Young & Sons, Kalangadoo, bought four bulls to $6000, averaging $4750.
Taking four bulls all at $5000 were long-time buyers Hillcrest Pastoral Co, Avenue Range, while other regular bidders SA&GE Smith, Lucindale, took two bulls to $8000, averaging $7750.
Hazeldean's Guy Cunningham said it was good to achieve solid clearance in a tougher year like this one.
"I was pleased to sell that many bulls and I was really pleased at how well the bulls have come up this year," he said.
The sale was conducted by Pinkerton Palm Hamlyn & Steen and Spence Dix & Co, with Jono Spence and Josh Manser sharing auctioneering duties.
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Dream final is set: Brazil-Spain
by Paul Kennedy @pkedit, Jun 27, 2013
[CONFEDERATIONS CUP] For organizers, the Confederations Cup has gone according to form on the field. Spain's shootout win over Italy sets up a dream final Sunday at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium: host Brazil, the two-time defending champion, against Spain, shooting for its four title in the last six years. But they'd never have imagined the problems off the field. Protests continued into a third week, and the largest demonstration is expected Sunday on the route to Maracana.
Like Brazil, Spain had cruised into the semifinals with three wins by a margin of 15-1 but found things tougher when it got to the next-to-last hurdle.
Playing against Italy, which it had beaten, 4-0, only last year to win Euro 2012, Spain could only manage a scoreless draw after 120 minutes before winning, 7-6, on penalty kicks.
Even without injured star Mario Balotelli, Italy put pressure on Spain. Emanuele Giaccherini hit the post in the 93rd minute, while Xavi's shot for Spain was deflected off the post by Italy keeper Gianluigi Buffon in the 115th.
In the shootout, both teams went 6-for-6 before Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci missed over the bar, and Jesus Navas scored the winner for Spain.
“They put a system in place that really complicated things for us,” said Spain goalie Iker Casillas. “Italy was well organized, with two fullbacks who attack a lot, get forward and come into the center. I’m convinced that Brazil won’t play like that. The whole world wanted to see a Brazil-Spain final, and in the end the two teams who are there are the ones who deserve it. It’s basically a curtain-raiser for the World Cup, and everyone who loves soccer will agree that it should be a great match.”
Italy had the majority of the support of the more than 56,000 fans on hand for the semifinal at Fortaleza's Estadio Castelao.
"We played a great match,'' Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said. "We created and we conceded but we were always in the match. They're still ahead of us but we're improving. In these conditions, between absences and fatigue, it's nearly impossible to go all the way, but the guys really moved me."
July 27 in Fortaleza
Spain 0 Italy 0 (Spain wins 7-6 on penalties).
Spain -- Casillas: Arbeloa, Sergio Ramos, Pique, Jordi Alba; Busquets; Pedro (Mata 79), Xavi, Iniesta, David Silva (Navas, 52); Fernando Torres (Javi Martinez 94).
Italy -- Buffon; Barzagli (Montolivo, 46), Bonucci, Chiellini; Maggio, Pirlo, De Rossi, Giaccherini; Marchisio (Aquilani, 79), Candreva; Gilardino (Giovinco, 91).
Referee: Howard Webb (England).
Att.: 56,083.
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5 comments about "Dream final is set: Brazil-Spain".
cisco martinez, June 27, 2013 at 11:21 p.m.
Can't wait for brazil-Spain final. Look at both these teams and read what brad friedel said in the SA interview...Technique, technique, technique.
Carl Hudson, June 28, 2013 at 8:45 a.m.
A very watchable and exciting nil-nil game after 120 minutes.
Both teams comported themselves well in the penalty shootout, decided (unfortunately) by a "Baggio" error - kicking a penalty shot high.
When will these professionals learn there are only two places for a penalty shot: LOW left or LOW right (unless you are a Pirlo who has the skill to make a swerving center shot with the keeper diving).
Gus Keri, June 28, 2013 at 9:45 a.m.
Good for you Carl. Go teach those stupid professionals. LOL. These were some of the best PKs ever taken.
Kent James, June 28, 2013 at 10:48 a.m.
Gus, you're right about the quality of the PKs. Most were superb. Unfortunate for Bonucci, and his case is why PKs are such a harsh way to determine a winner. At this level, I'd rather see them take kicks from the 18 (or maybe even the arc) so that goalkeepers never had to guess (eliminating the Pirlo chip-type goal, which, much as I like Pirlo, is just cruel to keepers). I think this might lead to many strong shots and great saves. Then only great shots would score, rather than either keeper errors (guessing wrong) or luck (guessing right), or shooting errors (missing the goal) determining the winners. A win should celebrate good play, rather than highlighting mistakes.
Ramon Creager, June 28, 2013 at 11:10 a.m.
Gus, exactly right. Great PKs, neither keeper got a hand on any of them. That's 13 of 14 top-drawer PKs; you'll rarely see this. To PK haters: after 120 minutes of even soccer, as good a way to settle it as any. Enjoy the spectacle. One thing that could decrease the number of games that go to PKs is to liberalize substitutions for extra time (as Jogo Bonito proposed in another thread). Why not, for example, allow the coach to send out as many unused subs from the sub bench as he wants at the start of extra time? This would, of course, favor the deeper team, but the point of the contest is to decide the better team in any case.
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Every day the glamourous executives at MuchMusic are bombarded with emails, letters and carrier pigeons sent from unknown bands 'cross the country, all scrawled with the same plea: "PLAY OUR BAND'S VIDEO! MAKE US FAMOUS!" Well, fine - your time is now, musical friends. Our new show disBand will take unsigned bands, stick 'em with a music industry guru and put 'em through rock star training. Once they pass the challenge test, each band will perform live for a group of industry professionals - where they may succeed to impress, or may be told to (dun dun dunnn)... DISBAND.
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Sound of Speed EP
Release Date: January 15th, 2010
1. Impossible (MuchMusic Remix)
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Black Box EP (Available on iTunes)
Release Date: April 20th, 2009
1. Impossible
2. Life is Beautiful
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6. Welcome to T-dot city
Countdown to Launch EP
Release Date: September 5th, 2007
2. Floodgates
3. Fade Away
6. Reach for the Sky
7. Look my Way
The stage starts buzzing with a medley of instruments being tuned. As the vocalists take the stage, they look into the crowd and can't help but feel goosebumps. They've never played in a venue this big. Deep breaths...
Tensions are at an all-time high. Yui picks up the microphone.
"What's happening Torontoooooooooooooooooo!"
The roar of the crowd is so strong that the microphones feed back. They know there's nothing to fear.
This is what they've been waiting for. It is no accident.
Soul Plane has always been accustomed to taking off on short runways. Only a few weeks after coming together, the band took to the stage at the El Mocambo in Toronto to play their first gig. It was a battle of the bands. Soul Plane took first place and went on to win enough studio time from the event to put together their first EP -- Countdown to Launch.
The success of this record and continuous dedication to their music landed the band a spot on MuchMusic's DISBAND in the summer of 2008. Soul Plane became the first band on the show to get approval from the judges and to this day their episode (Season 1, Episode 3) is still one of the most played and watched episodes on Much.
Since then, the band has touched down at venues around Toronto and surrounding areas including the Hard Rock, Sound Academy, Opera House, Kathedral and countless more as they continue to play to a dedicated and growing audience.
Their uniquely urband blend of rock, rap and RnB is inspired by the diverse influences of the bands' members, altough it's hard to say what exactly it is about the music that's so moving.
Is it the rocky blues sound that's often attributed to Pearl Jam? Maybe it's the funk of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and an added touch of Roots style Jazz. Or maybe it's Yui and Karla's hip-hop/RnB duet that to the untrained ear could pass as the Gym Class Heroes rocking out with Alicia Keyes.
Whatever it is, it leaves listeners wondering... where can I get some of that? And they always come back for more.
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1. Turnin’ Me On
2. This Time Around
3. This Alcohol
4. Come So Far
5. T-dot T-dot
10. Life is Beautiful
11. Tearin’ It Down
12. Hold On A Little Bit Longer
13. Start Over
14. Champion
15. Band on the Fly
17. No Worries
18. Liquor On the Curb
We also play various Top 40 covers.
Written By: Yui/Tom Oosterman
up up away we can push it to the max
'til we higher than the cash that a boss could stack
'til we flyer like the ads for shows we tryin' to pack
'til we admired like ferraris on a track
anything you need, you can put it on my tab
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i show up any hour just to put you on my back
the "s" on my chest means you don't gotta stress
yes, and you are now rollin' with the best
fresh, so it don't matter how they try to pull it
I'll be standin' right here deflectin' every bullet//
...you pick me up when i hit the ground
stickin' up for me when no one else is around
...you take me high when i'm feelin' down
ohh... you're my superhero (x2)
i'd blast through the clouds just to give you some sunlight
so it ain't a question what i'd do in a gunfight
...and i don't care what they front like, i only got
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...so you can tell him, if he try to hurt you
I'll hit him so hard it's gon' be more than full circle
and i don't need a phone booth... to put a cape on or
go "zoom", i just blow apart the whole room
...picture us, sittin' on a park bench
and suddenly it's dark, just like where the sharks swim
then i turn into somethin' that looks like clark kent
man of steel, for real, we'll see who's hard then//
the skies get dark and the clouds gather
but when you're here, it just don't matter
you're the only one who's
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i smash through any ceilin, i'd leap over any buildin
i'd conquer any villain for my, one in a million
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At a time when women rarely went into business for themselves, Mary Sachs, an immigrant from a poor family with little formal education, became perhaps the most successful entrepreneur in her adopted city of Harrisburg, Pa., and beyond. She opened her first retail store in Harrisburg, selling upscale women’s clothing in 1918, but expanded it to include several departments. Stores in Lancaster and Reading followed. Known as the “Merchant Princess,” she revolutionized retailing, by setting customers up in individual booths and bringing clothes to them.
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Travel: Washington DC is a real vote winner
October 21, 2017, 12:01 am Updated: January 3, 2019, 4:47 pm
Capitol Building, Washington (iStock)
THERE are things you’ve seen a million times in the movies and on TV.
So many, in fact, that seeing them in reality is, bizarrely, a bit unreal.
That’s definitely the case with the White House, which we’re standing in front of nice and early to get a proper look and some photos before it all gets too busy.
But then with the wide road outside closed off by the Secret Service agents, there’s actually plenty of room to take it all in.
It’s every bit as impressive as we’d imagined.
Of course, a certain former big cheese on the US version of The Apprentice has, if such a thing were possible, made the White House and Washington DC bigger news than ever.
The White House in Washington DC (iStock)
And just like the White House, you can’t come to the seat of power and not see the Capitol Building.
We’ve booked ahead for a free one-hour tour (easy to do online) and bang on time at 9.20am we’re led off for a fascinating look inside the domed building famous around the world.
There’s nothing, it seems, our guide doesn’t know no matter how random the question from our party.
We’ve only got a few days to do must-see DC, so we’re glad we’re not wasting time travelling far from the main attractions. The Darcy on Rhode Island Avenue is a mere six blocks from the aforementioned abode of Mr Trump.
There are 226 rooms (and 37 suites) and we’re in one of the City View ones, looking out over America’s capital. It only opened in April and is classy but not stuffy, with some really nice touches.
One is the fact you can get free bikes and scooters to aid your exploration – another is the free gin-tasting cocktail sessions at 5.30pm each day.
The food is worth tasting, too, especially if you happen to like seafood. That’s the speciality of in-house restaurant Siren which is already winning a fine local reputation. The crab cakes in particular were stunning.
But then locals are spoiled with all sorts of delicious fare in a city adding Michelin stars for fun these days. But we loved the buzz and atmosphere of the less fancy All Purpose Pizzeria where the gnocchi and the buona pizza were to die for.
It’s in the smart Shaw neighbourhood, just one of the areas that’s transforming itself in trendy, lovely for a walk, fashion.
Back on the main tourist trail, the Washington Monument is closed for renovations but the iconic needle is still the place to be. You’re right at the centre of the National Mall, looking one way to the Capitol Building and the other to the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pools.
If the above are things you’ve seen so many times before, there’s a new cracker directly opposite.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (iStock)
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is ultra-modern looking and surprisingly bright and airy inside. The glass elevator takes you down and back in time to the 1400s then you work your way back up, learning about everything from slave ships to segregation.
It’s a revealing, if sobering, experience and the Contemplative Court with its amazing indoor waterfall is a welcome place to sit and reflect. The museum is so popular you’ll need to book ahead – tickets are released in three-month blocks.
It’s the newest of numerous Smithsonian attractions and the Air and Space Museum is an older but also endlessly fascinating must-do with its Apollo spacecraft one of thousands of exhibits.
The vast Natural History Museum is another place you can spend many an hour. All the Smithsonian centres are free.
And with Trump, politics and more making such big news, the Newseum ($25) is the place to read – well, see – all about it.
It tells the story of news through the centuries, not dusty and dry but lively, fun and endlessly interesting.
We use virtual reality headsets to picture ourselves on the scene at the Berlin Wall and then go to the basement to touch a piece of it.
But take a tip and start or end your tour on the 6th floor terrace which has some of the city’s best views.
You look across to the adjacent Capitol Building and directly down to Pennsylvania Avenue, THE street which has seen so much history.
The Darcy Hotel is part of Hilton’s Curio Collection and has rooms from $350. thedarcyhotel.com
National Museum of African American History and Culture details at nmaahc.si.edu
And get all tourist information from washington.org
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The 10 hottest cars at the Geneva Motorshow 2015
McLaren, Aston Martin et al fight for the fast lane on Fury Road
By Leon Poultney 2015-03-06T11:25:00.640Z
An absolute bargain at £260,000, the McLaren 675 LT, which stands for 'Longtail', is a lighter, more extreme version of the current 650S with a slightly longer body and some styling tweaks. It looked magnificent on stand with its Airfix model grey paintjob, which will look even better when barrelling around a race circuit. The 3.8-litre twin-turbo V8 has been modified to cope with extensive track use, as has the aerodynamic package, but this is still road legal. That means it has an infotainment system and air conditioning to keep the driver cool, as well as a scant amount of carpet in the barebones interior.
£260,000 | www.cars.mclaren.com
One of the most revered sports cars in the world returned this year, boasting the sort of performance figures that make grown men weak at the knees. A 493bhp 4.0-litre, six-cylinder engine is capable of propelling the lightweight racer for the road from 0-62mph in 3.3 seconds. It'll cost £131,296 when it goes on sale later this year and will undoubtedly be one of the most focussed and enthralling drives money can buy.
£131,296 | www.porsche.com/uk
Lamborghini Aventador SV
The Italian marque is never one to be outdone at a motor show so it prepared a stupidly powerful, lightweight Aventador to have fans salivating all over the well-kept carpets. The Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce, to give it its full designation, is powered by a 740bhp 6.5-litre V12 engine and weighs about the same as a dehydrated pea. The result is a car that can sprint from 0-62mph in 2.8 seconds and on to a top speed of 217mph. Scary stuff.
£238,000 plus tax | www.lamborghini.com
Audi's top-selling supercar has had a thorough refresh for 2015, with new exterior styling, stiffer underpinnings and a lightweight chassis that has been pinched from the Lamborghini Huracan. The interior has also received some serious updates, including a new 'Virtual Cockpit' system that sees a large TFT display replace the old analogue instrument binnacles, which can also be found in the new Audi TT. Its 5.2-litre V10 engine is offered in either 601bhp or 532bhp guises, depending on how much you want to part with, as well as an all-electric e-tron version for the first time.
£119,500 | www.audi.co.uk
Aston Martin Vulcan
Aston was just one of a number of manufacturers to release a stripped-out racing car for the private and extremely well heeled buyer. The Vulcan features a 7.0-litre V12 engine that produces in excess of 800bhp. It will also cost around £1.8million and only 24 examples will ever be built. Guess what? The majority of those have already been snapped up by wealthy Aston customers, who will have to undergo professional race training before they are let loose in their fearsome machines.
£1.8million | www.astonmartin.com
Kahn Flying Huntsman
Do you own a Land Rover Defender but feel that it looks a little understated? Do you have a massive inferiority complex? Perhaps you just like the attention. Whatever the issue, Kahn has the perfect vehicle for you with its ludicrous Flying Huntsman. The model is based on a Longnose Defender but receives an extra axle - yeah, it's got six wheels - and a 6.2-litre V8 underneath that elongated hood. Head-swivelling styling comes at a price though, so best start buttering up the bank manager now if you fancy one.
£125,000 | www.kahndesign.com
We've only covered this because our fragile minds need a break from the weight of enormously expensive metal on display this year. Only joking, the Tivoli is well worth your attention because it will start at a refreshing £13,000 for entry-level models and rise to £20,000 for the most premium editions. That money buys a good-looking baby SUV to rival the likes of Nissan's Juke and Renault's Captur. The higher spec versions come with a colour touchscreen infotainment system and a HDMI socket for beaming video content from smartphones and other devices (when parked, obviously), as well as well as rain-sensing wipers and a rear-view camera.
£13,000 | www.ssangyonggb.co.uk
Rolls-Royce Phantom Serenity
The Serenity isn't quite a concept, nor is it a production-ready vehicle but rather showcases of just how skilled the Rolls-Royce craftspeople are. The interior is decked out in a one-off bolt of silk that the team had to source and have hand-dyed by the Chinese craftspeople. It was then hand-woven by one of Britain's oldest mills and hand-painted by experts in London. Excessive doesn't quite cut it.
£POA | www.rolls-roycemotorcars.com
Honda Civic Type R
This is it. This is the final iteration of the long-awaited hot hatch that will go on sale in July with prices starting from £29,995. Honda has added a few bits of exterior chintz to its molten hatch, such as slightly awkward looking air intakes above the front wheels and a massive fixed rear wing. Regardless, the 2.0-litre engine produces a fruity 306bhp that results in a 0-62mph sprint time that is claimed to be class-leading. It's certainly a lot of bang for your buck but only time will tell if it has got the skills to fend off the upcoming Ford Focus RS
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We didn't envy the poor chap who had to back the Mercedes-Maybach Pullman into its space on the stand at the show this year, namely because it measures a whopping 6.50-metres long and the visibility out of the rear isn't exactly excellent. Saying that, the passenger carriage of the exclusive limousine is about as opulent as things get, with the most expensive 3D Burmester stereo system on the market providing the tunes, deep leather seats offering comfort and the optional champagne fridge providing the entertainment. The interior is, in short, quite swank.
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This is your next car if you're a billionaire: the most fap-worthy supercars of Geneva Motor Show
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Is this the car of the future? The coolest, techiest and craziest concepts from the Geneva Motor Show
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Samsung Galaxy S10 all-screen and triple-camera revealed from EVERY angle
It looks like the rumours were true. But is it enough to make you upgrade?
After the recent deluge of Samsung Galaxy S10 leaks, there's not much about the forthcoming flagship phone that we don't know ahead of the Galaxy Unpacked announcement next month. But while we might have a good grasp of the measurements, components, and raw numbers, we haven't really seen the Galaxy S10 range in the flesh. Until now.
Earlier this week, a blurry paparazzi shot of the Galaxy S10 Plus that seemingly confirmed the long-rumoured dual front-facing selfie cameras embedded in the new Infinity-O all-screen design.
However, a series of photographs purporting to show the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus have been uploaded to technology blog All About Samsung, which reveals both handsets from almost every angle.
The leaked images appear to confirm a slew of rumoured changes coming to the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus successors, including the Infinity-O all-screen design, which buries the front-facing camera in a small hole-punch opening in the top right-hand corner of the OLED display, and the triple-camera on the back of the handset.
According to an earlier leak by prolific XDA Developers contributor Max Weinbach, the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus will couple an ultra-wide 16MP f/1.9 lens with a 123-degree field of view but no optical image stabilisation (OIS) with a 12MP lens with the same variable aperture mechanism introduced with the Galaxy S9 last year.
As before, this camera will automatically switch between f/1.5 and f/2.4 based on the amount of available light to improve image quality in challenging conditions.
The third camera will purportedly be a 13MP f/2.4 telephoto lens with OIS and a 45-degree field of view. This will help with the depth-sensing abilities and allow for more accurate bokeh-style blur in the background of Live Focus photographs.
New software features, including Bright Night and Portrait Lighting, will apparently be added to the Samsung camera app, too.
According to the latest images from All About Samsung, the 3.5mm audio port will remain intact on the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus. That's likely to appeal to a lot of customers. Samsung is one of the few remaining manufacturers standing by the once-universal audio connector. Fellow stalwart OnePlus decided to ditch the 3.5mm headphone port in order to increase the size of the battery cell in its OnePlus 6T.
Neither Galaxy S10 handset has the rear-mounted fingerprint seen on earlier flagships from Samsung, which suggests rumours of an in-display solution were correct. Samsung is widely-tipped to be working with Qualcomm to develop an ultrasonic scanner capable of reading fingerprints placed on the glass display.
Unlike traditional optical sensors, the ultrasonic variant does not compare smartphone owners' prints against a two-dimensional pattern previously stored. Instead, the new technology – dubbed 3D Sonic Sensor – creates a three-dimensional mould of the fingertip by bouncing soundwaves off the skin through the display.
According to Qualcomm, the sensor can capture a breathtaking amount of detail – down to the individual ridges and pores. This makes it far more accurate than optical sensors that compare the pattern of the fingerprint.
Although these undoubtedly look like previous Galaxy S smartphones, there's a serious amount of new technology squeezed into these handsets. Of course, that means we can expect a price bump with the latest flagship models.
According to a reliable source speaking to Gizmodo, the entry-level Samsung Galaxy S10, which has a 6.2-inch Infinity-O AMOLED screen with 128GB of storage will cost £799. This is reported to rise to £999 for the 512GB model.
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Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, which reportedly has a larger 6.44-inch Infinity-O AMOLED display with dual front-facing cameras and 128GB of storage, will set you back £899. The maxed-out 512GB model will cost £1,099.
As always, none of this is definitive until Samsung announces it on-stage during its upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event on February 20. However, this close to the event, it seems like the rumours are really firming up.
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03-07-2019, Adventure Market ing, Section 69, 69B, 28(iv), Tribunal Mumbai
1 week 4 days ago #9973 by amit
03-07-2019, Adventure Market ing, Section 69, 69B, 28(iv), Tribunal Mumbai was created by amit
Section - 69, 69B, 28(iv), 56(2)(viia), 2(18)
Appellant - DCIT
Respondent - Adventure Market ing Pvt . Ltd.
Justice - C.N. PRASAD, JM & MANOJ KUMAR AGGARWAL, AM
Appeal No. - I .T.A. No.6091/Mum/2017
PER : Manoj Kumar Aggarwal
1. Aforesaid cross-appeals for Assessment Year [AY] 2013-14 contest the order Ld. Commissioner of Income-Tax (Appeals)-2, Mumbai [CIT(A)], Appeal No. CIT(A)-2/IT/247/2016-17 dated 14/07/2017.
The grounds raised by the assessee reads as under: -
The Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) -3, Mumbai [hereinafter referred to as CIT(A)] erred in directing the AO to not allow set off of losses under the head ‘Income from Other Source’ against the income under the head ‘Income from business & profession’.
The appellant submits that the Ld. CIT(A) once having accepted the claim of the appellant for deduction u/s 57(iii), the resultant losses under the head ‘Income from Other Sources’ are eligible for set off against the ‘Income from business & profession’; hence the AO shall be directed to allow the set off of losses under ‘Income from Other Sources’ against income under the head ‘Income from business & profession’.
The grounds raised by the revenue reads as under: -
1. Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in Law, the Ld. CIT(A) was ustified in deleting the addition of Rs. 23.17 crore made by the AO on account of acquisition of quoted shares through off-market, below the market price?
2. Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in Law, the Ld. CIT(A) was justified in deleting the addition of Rs. 23.17 crore made by the AO on account of acquisition of quoted shares through off-market, below the market price though the same was resulted in accrual of benefit to the assessee taxable u/s. 28(iv) of the I. T. Act, 1961?
3. Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case and in Law, the Ld. CIT(A) was justified in deleting disallowance made by the AO u/s. 14A of the Act read with Rule 8D of the Income-tax Rules in relation to investment made by the assessee in listed equity shares of Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd., by ignoring the Board's circular No. 5 of 2014 dated 11.02.2014? Revenue’s Appeal, ITA No. 6091/Mum/2017
2.1 Facts leading to the same are that the assessee being resident corporate assessee stated to be engaged in manufacturing of ready-mix concrete was assessed for impugned AY u/s 143(3) on 18/03/2016 wherein the income of the assessee was determined at Rs.2611.94 Lacs after certain disallowances as against Nil return filed by the assessee on 16/09/2013. The following quantum additions are the subject matter of revenue’s appeal before us: -
2.2 Facts qua the same are that during assessment proceedings, it transpired that the assessee acquired 12,75,27 787 shares of an entity namely M/s Network 18 Media & Investment Ltd. for a sum of Rs.361.88 Crores. Out of this, the shares numbering 82,78,180 were purchased in off-market transaction from different shareholders @Rs.5/- per share whereas 11,92,49,607 shares were acquired by the assessee in the right issue @Rs.30/- per share. It was observed that the payment of shares acquired in off-market transaction was made after more than one year. whereas the period of off market transaction and right-issue was less
than 3 months.
2.3 In the above background, Ld. AO show-caused the assessee as to why the investment made in 82,78,180 shares stated to be made @Rs.5/- per shares, was not to be considered @Rs.30/- per share and the differential amount of Rs.25/- be brought to tax in assessee’s handas undisclosed investments. In defense, the assessee submitted that all the investments were recorded in books of account and the provisions of Section 69 were not applicable. The assessee also filed declaration from the sellers that the shares were sold at Rs.5/- per share. However, rejecting the same, Ld. AO opined that investments were under-valued since the market price of the share on the date of transfer was much higher and therefore, an amount of Rs.28/- per share [being the difference between market price per share i.e. Rs.33/- & price at which the shares were acquired i.e. Rs.5/- per share] was to be added as undisclosed income u/s 69B. The same worked out to be Rs.23.17 Crores.
2.4 The second addition i.e. disallowance u/s 14A stem from the fact that it was noted that the assessee debited ROC fees of Rs.25,000/- each on 14/09/2012 & 06/11/2012. The said sums were stated to be paid to SEBI for submission of post issue report u/r 10 of Takeover Code for investment in Right issue of TV18 Broadcast Ltd. and Network18 Media & Investment Ltd. Since the assessee had investments in its Balance Sheet, the same called for disallowance u/s 14A. The assessee defended the same by submitting that no exempt income was received during the year and no expenditure was incurred towards the investment. However, not convinced, Ld. AO, applying Rule 8D, computed aggregate disallowance of Rs.96.18 Lacs, which comprised-off of aforesaid direct expenditure of Rs 50,000/- u/r 8D(2)(i) and indirect expenditure disallowance u/r 8D(2)(iii) for Rs.95.68 Lacs, being 0.5% of average investment.
3.1 Aggrieved, the assessee agitated the same before Ld. CIT(A) vide impugned order dated 14/07/2017. Regarding addition u/s 69B, it was submitted that the additions were made on mere presumption, surmises and conjectures. The attention was drawn to the fact that 82,78,180 shares were purchased from 4 parties which were the assessee’s promoters or promoters group entities. It was submitted that these
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BlackBerry says tablets will be dead by 2018
By Hugh Langley 2013-04-30T11:45:00.119Z Tablets
Ambitious claims from the 'Berry
Are you sure about that, Heins?
Update: BlackBerry seemed eager to temper its CEO's comments as the company's PR arm sent out a message not to read too deeply into Thorsten Heins' pronouncements:
"The comments that Thorsten made yesterday are in line with previous comments he has made about the future of mobile computing overall, and the possibilities that come with a platform like BlackBerry 10," a BlackBerry spokesperson told AllThingsD.
"We continue to evaluate our tablet strategy, but we are not making any shifts in that strategy in the short term. When we do have information about our PlayBook strategy, we will share it."
Oh joy, more PlayBooks?!
Original article...
Everyone else might see a bright future for tablets, but BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins reckons slates have just half a decade left on the clock.
"In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workplace, but not a tablet as such," he told Bloomberg in an interview at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles.
"Tablets themselves are not a good business model."
Bold claims from the BlackBerry man, which will no doubt be met with a lot of scepticism. Apple has just reported that iPad sales are on the up, and Android tablets continue to rise in popularity.
He'll probably regret this in Heins-sight
But the crystal-ball gazing continued with the CEO stating exactly where he thinks BlackBerry will be positioned when the tablet supposedly lets out its last breath.
"In five years, I see BlackBerry to be the absolute leader in mobile computing – that's what we're aiming for."
It seems a pretty contradictory thing to say, however Heins wants Blackberry's focus to be purely about phones, leaving the tablet market to everyone else. After the fate of the PlayBook, we're not all that surprised.
The company has just released the BlackBerry Q10, which Heins said he expects to sell in the "tens of millions". The proof will be in the BlackBerry pudding.
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Hollywood sceptical about Apple film rentals
By Dean Evans (TechRadar ) 2007-06-11T23:00:00.161Z Apple
Low pricing good for consumers, not for content owners
Hollywood studios are sceptical about Apple's plans to offer online film rentals via iTunes, reports Reuters .
Yesterday, reports emerged suggesting Apple was in "advanced talks" with key Hollywood studios about online film rentals.
The Financial Times revealed that Apple's proposed service would charge $2.99 (£1.50) for a 30-day film rental. Apple's own DRM software would allow rented titles to be copied once to a portable device, like the video-capable iPod or iPhone.
But Reuters claims that Hollywood execs are unhappy with Apple's copy protection, especially the idea of transferring a copy of a film to a portable device.
Pricing is also believed to be an issue. Hollywood studios might also be concerned that a $2.99 charge would undercut existing rental pricing. It could have an impact on current pay-per-view revenues generated from TV sales as well.
Only a matter of time
Considering Apple's success in the music market, and its existing Hollywood connections, an Apple film rental service is only a matter of time.
But the embryonic nature of the online film rental market means that studios don't need to rush headlong into any deal. Apple needs compelling content. Hollywood can call the shots.
Any film rental service would be an obvious addition to Apple's iTunes portal, which already offers film and TV episode downloads in the US. Apple's high-profile brand and fast-expanding user-base would make it a serious competitor to emerging video-on-demand services.
Crucially, perhaps, Apple already has a ready-made film player for the home - the Apple TV . A film rental service would give this underperforming set-top box a much-needed raison-d'etre.
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Learn To Code On Your Android or iOS Device
Last updated by rhiannon on 23. April 2018 - 01:30
Learn to code on your mobile device with Google Grasshopper. The app is available for Android and iOS and is aimed at teaching adults to code in JavaScript with a series of lessons in the form of quizzes and puzzles.
The Grasshopper app has a game like interface and uses game puzzles and quizzes to teach coding in JavaScript. The interface is easy to use, and the puzzles and quizzes are presented in small bites. The lessons focus on three areas:
The Fundamentals - How code works, calling functions, variables, strings, for loops, arrays, conditionals, operators, objects, and how all these things work together.
Animations I - Drawing shapes using the popular D3 library, defining functions, callback functions, and animations.
Animations II - Creating more complex functions using D3 and the topics from The Fundamentals course.
Once launched, you're asked to log in with a Google account and choose whether you're new to coding or you've coded before. I didn't see a way to change that option so if you're new it's probably best to go with the 'I haven't coded before' choice.
In addition to the puzzle games and quizzes there's a support forum where you can find explainers for each puzzle and other material. There's also a Code Playground - both are accessible from the drop down menu in the upper right. You can set practice times, control notifications, and opt in to be kept up to date on coding, research and updates to Grasshopper through your Profile.
You'll have the basics of Javascript when you finish all the puzzles and quizzes in the app, and if you want to go further Grasshopper recommends some options in the support forum:
Super-charge your coding skills! - Coding Education
One of the options they recommend are classes taught online at Coursera. Coursera offers the classes for free, but that's not very clear when you visit the site. You can pay for the classes and get a final grade and a Course Certificate, or you can audit the class for free and not get a grade or a certificate.
To take classes you'll need to create a free account. Once you have an account, visit the page for the class. To audit the class, when you're at the page for the class you want to sign up for, click on the blue Enroll button. When the enrollment window opens, there will be an option to audit the class - either a small link in blue at the bottom of the window that says Audit, or a larger window with the option to purchase the course or audit only. You can choose which option you prefer. If you choose audit, at that point you're enrolled in the class. Paying for the class will take you through the purchase process.
Google Grasshopper is built by a team within Area 120, a workshop for experimental projects, and will be expanded in the coming months.
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https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/Mets-GM-Van-Wagenen-is-walking-talking-14089721.php
Mets' GM Van Wagenen is walking, talking trainwreck
Bill Madden, New York Daily News
Disgruntled New York Mets fans express their sentiments with a sign for Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen during a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Sunday, June 30, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) less
Disgruntled New York Mets fans express their sentiments with a sign for Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen during a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Sunday, June 30, 2019, in New York. (AP ... more
Photo: Kathy Willens
Let's be perfectly frank about this: Brodie Van Wagenen has been an absolute disaster as Mets GM.
Other than having the foresight to turn the first-base job over to Pete Alonso in the spring and letting the unproven rookie run with it, every move Van Wagenen has made in his rookie season has backfired badly. He has conducted his baseball business in the manner of a fantasy league player, grabbing up players based off their 2018 stats with the aim of winning now but without any regard for defense or the future. The result is a mess of a team with a 40-50 record at the All-Star break, lacking in athleticism and reasonably effective bullpen operatives. Unfortunately, it's only going to get worse in the second half of the season.
The Edwin Diaz-Robinson Cano trade fiasco has been well documented. In sacrificing the Mets' two top prospects, Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn, while also taking on a $64 million commitment to Cano through 2023 to land Diaz, Van Wagenen elected to overlook the fact that Diaz had only one great season. Furthermore, Diaz did his work that season in the laid-back/no pressure environment of Seattle for a Mariners team that was out of the postseason pennant race by August. New York has been a whole different ballgame for Diaz and there's no telling if he will ever regain his dominant stuff and overcome his yips in the pressure cooker that is New York. As for Cano, he's 36 and having the worst season of any No. 3 hitter in baseball. There is no reason to suggest he is anything else but washed up.
On top of that, there's the $20 million Van Wagenen wasted on Jed Lowrie, an infielder with below average defense the Mets didn't need, and who has been nothing but hurt this year; the $30 million spent on Jeurys Familia, a back-end reliever who can't get anybody out; the $19 million on Wilson Ramos, an offensive catcher none of the Mets pitchers want to pitch to. (According to a high-placed Marlins' source, Miami would have traded their franchise catcher, J.T. Realmuto, to the Mets for Brandon Nimmo and Amed Rosario, but Van Wagenen balked at giving up two established regulars.)
That's a total of $133 million spent on four players who are mostly useless to the Mets but are all on the payroll at least for the next year. (In Familia's case 'til 2021 and Cano through 2023.)
This is the mess Van Wagenen has created; a mess that will be only further magnified if and when Kelenic and Dunn reach the vast potential all the scouts seem to hold for them. There is no way any of this can be undone. Nobody is going to want any of these players the Mets splurged on, so now the question for Van Wagenen is how to salvage his general managership and save Alonso from becoming the National League version of Mike Trout — a popular and talented player doomed to never see the bright lights of a World Series.
To be sure, there is a core of good young players on this Mets team — Alonso, Rosario, Michael Conforto, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, and Dominic Smith — but not nearly enough compared to their NL East rivals, the Braves, Nationals and Phillies. In addition, there are no emerging position players on the horizon in the Mets' farm system.
It is imperative Van Wagenen gets a substantial return on his two most marketable players, Zack Wheeler and Todd Frazier, even though they are both free agents after the season and clubs are loath to give up top prospects for rental players.
At best, Van Wagenen, as a GM, is batting at 1-for-5 in the acquisitions department (we'll give him J.D. Davis). He needs to get that batting average up quickly if he wants to prove he knows what he's doing.
So far there is little evidence of that.
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Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden herald the death of the material as Lost Girls, new EP out this March Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden herald the death of the material as Lost Girls, new EP out this March
By Lijah Fosl https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/lijah+fosl · February 5, 2018 2018-02-05T12:18:43-05:00
Photo: Lasse Marhaug
It’s 2018, y’all! And while some of you are out here still “playing concerts” and “releasing albums,” Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden are transcending our material plane as Lost Girls. With their debut two-track project, Feeling , out March 2 on Smalltown Supersound, the duo is dissolving theory and structure and all those other things that are just plain old hat.
Forget the death of God and the death of the Author. What year are you from? “This is the death of material!” so says Hval.
Okay, backstory time! Hval and Volden have collaborated for some years. After playing together at loads of live performances with Volden in Hval’s band back in 2012, the two released an album as “Nude on Sand” in 2015. Now they’ve left that moniker behind — along with all their corporeal manifestations — for their new project, which promises a sound that could never, ever be replicated live. (They really want us to know that.)
For Hval, this marks the first new tunage we’ve heard since 2016’s Blood Bitch , which was one of our favorite albums of 2016.
As of now, you can preorder the EP from Smalltown Supersound and check out a video trailer for the Lost Girls project — followed by its positively transcendent cover art — down below. Careful though, if you aren’t ready to leave your attachment to object reality in 2017, you probably aren’t ready for this either:
Feeling EP tracklist:
02. Accept
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Kim Jong Un holds off on missile plans
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un looking at a map showing a flight path for missiles from his country to Guam in this photo released by the North's state media. PHOTO: REUTERS
Analysts believe N. Korea is using Guam threat to bargain for cut-backs on US-South Korean military drills
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said yesterday he would hold off on a planned missile strike near Guam, but warned the highly provocative move would go ahead in the event of further "reckless actions" by Washington.
Some analysts suggested Mr Kim's comments opened a possible path to de-escalating a growing crisis fuelled by bellicose words between US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leadership.
Mr Kim's remarks would appear to bring into play the large-scale military exercises held every year by South Korea and the US that are expected to kick off later this month.
The North has always denounced the drills as provocative rehearsals for invasion and has in the past offered a moratorium on nuclear and missile testing in exchange for their cancellation - a trade-off promoted by Pyongyang's main ally China, but repeatedly rejected by Washington and Seoul.
Some analysts said Mr Kim was seeking a similar quid-pro-quo this time around, using the Guam missile threat as leverage.
"This is a direct invitation to talk reciprocal constraints on exercises and missile launches," said senior fellow at the Centre for American Progress Adam Mount.
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Yesterday, North Korean state media offered in photos a glimpse into its plans to fire missiles into the sea near Guam, as Mr Kim was briefed on the plans drawn up by the army.
Mr Kim was seen holding a baton and pointing at a map reading "Strategic Force's Firing Strike Plan", which showed a flight path for the missiles appearing to start from North Korea's east coast, then flying over Japan and ending near Guam, as Pyongyang announced last week.
The launch location seen in the map appeared to be in the vicinity of Sinpo, the coastal city that hosts North Korea's submarine base, said military expert Kim Dong Yub from Kyungnam University's Institute of Far Eastern Studies in Seoul.
He said the location near Sinpo fits with what North Korea outlined last week - that four intermediate-range missiles will cross the sky above Shimane, Hiroshima and Koichi prefectures of Japan and hit the waters 40km from Guam in just over 17 minutes.
"Every North Korean must have seen this photo on TV and newspapers. North Korea is showing its confidence, telling the US: If they want to stop it, they can try," he said.
"It also signals that the North has been studying this for a long time and getting ready to act if it decided to."
At the Guam briefing on Monday, Mr Kim was flanked by other army generals, including veteran rocket scientist Kim Jong Sik, one of the masterminds behind North Korea's missile programme.
Mr Kim, who praised the army for drawing up a "close and careful plan", said he will "watch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees" before deciding on whether to go ahead with missile launches towards Guam.
He warned, though, that the highly provocative move would go ahead in the event of further "reckless actions" by the US. - AFP/REUTERS
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Dog left at shelter has this heartbreaking ritual almost every night
Older dog left at shelter cries all night in her kennelMontgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center
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By Arin Greenwood
During the day, Baby is a happy dog.
She gets love and affection from people who adore her at the Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center in Derwood, Maryland. "She has a little collection of toys in her kennel and will gladly show you them if you go in there to spend time with her," Hannah Carl, the shelter's program administrator, told TODAY.
But at night, when the shelter quiets down, Baby starts to cry. Her mournful wails begin, and "it's absolutely heart-wrenching," said Carl, who took this video of Baby about two weeks ago. It was about a week after she'd been brought to the shelter.
"When Baby started to cry, our dog kennels, which are normally very loud, became very quiet," said Carl. "All the other dogs stopped barking, so it was just the sound of Baby's whining."
Baby is 7 years old. She had one home for the last six years.
That changed at the end of November. "Her owner felt she did not have the time to care for Baby anymore," Carl said. "She was working very long hours and Baby was being left alone for 16-plus hours a day."
Hannah Carl notes that Baby's previous owner told shelter staff that she has lived happily with other dogs, as well as babies and children. "She'd likely get along with another dog with a similar activity level (medium energy), or be just fine having her humans all to herself," she said.Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center
Baby is a good dog. She can be a little shy at first, but Carl says she "warms up quickly."
"Her owner said she liked to bark at strangers, but it's clear that Baby only considers a person a stranger for about five seconds or until they start petting her," she said. "I sat with her in her kennel for a little while today and she laid her head in my lap and seemed to enjoy listening to me talk to her as I stroked her head."
Shelter staff and volunteers do their best to help Baby adjust to this new situation. What they really want is for her to be adopted by a loving family of her own.
The Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center asks those who are interested in adopting Baby to come to the shelter at 7315 Muncaster Mill Rd. in Derwood, Maryland. Here's more information on how to adopt: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/animalservices/adoption/howtoadopt.html. And here is Baby's adoption listing: https://petharbor.com/pet.asp?uaid=MONT.A379085.Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center
Carl knows how tempting it may be to feel brokenhearted about Baby's situation and prospects. But she doesn't feel that way. She can't.
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"Maintaining our optimism and focusing on what her future will bring helps us from getting too distressed over the situation," Carl said. "Dogs are so resilient and truly embody the idea of living in the moment. So I have hope that she'll experience the love and happiness she deserves once again."
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Light on the Path, Fourth Mindfulness Training
Light on the Path
Opening Meditation
We begin: In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty...
The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved, my Love, dearest one of my Heart. Come to me..."
We rest in the words, at-one with both the whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies... everything has it's being within this Call, "Come to me, my Beloved"...
This Sacred Mystery expands and deepens as the Call of the One, becomes the Call for the Many...
The Holy One speaks: "Come to me my Beloved... and bring All the Others with you. Leave no one behind, for I would abandon no One -- and so you must bring everyone with you."
The whirl of atoms and the spin of galaxies become as a soup-ladle, lifted and poured out upon the Bread that is your Body, to likewise be lifted and given to the world, given to those who hunger for justice and who thirst for hope... everyone will find their safety, their health, and a joyous homecoming for their heart, lifted up by the wings of the Holy One, "Come to me, my Beloved... everyone is Wanted..."
Centered within this Holy Secret, relaxing into the pregnancy of breath, we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I thank You". We let that awareness deepen and expand to include our loved ones, our communities and regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included this entire precious Planet. We let that awareness then receive the terrible weight of all suffering within our lives, within our loved ones, our communities, regions, all living beings and all inanimate things, until our awareness has included all suffering on this precious Planet. We breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I bless You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will remember You"... we breathe in "I love You" and we exhale "I will give You reason to hope"...
We recite the Three Refuges:
I take refuge in the Holy One. I take refuge in Love. I take refuge in Service for Peace and Justice.
We take up the Mindfulness Trainings because in our moments of Awareness we know that we will forget... and in our frequent states of forgetfulness we need light on our path... we search out many sources and they are all true, deep, and good: Yeshua has stories and counsel, Rumi has poetry for the mid-night soul, Dorothy has a strong hand and a potato-peeler to share... Thich Nhat Hahn, our brother, suffered war and exile and the blessedness of return and teachings of peace -- from the once-napalmed forests, fields, and villages of Vietnam (napalmed by American planes and chemicals), came the liberating insight that we are all One, that with this precious Planet, we all exist in the steady state of "inter-being"...
Mindfulness Training Four:
Aware that looking deeply in the nature of suffering can help us nurture compassion and discover the Way of Love in our present circumstances, we are committed to a personal identification with those who suffer so we can understand their stories and situations deeply, and help them transform their suffering into hope and peace.
Reflection:
Week four of a profoundly personal / spiritual project together gives us pause: we are no different from anyone else! Life is a maelstrom of passion and conflict, of questions and darkness -- and, thanks be to the Holy One, at the very same time an oasis of possibilities and quest, of dreams and self-effacing courage...We pause to reflect upon our own journey's: many, too many, years separate... then our discovery of the Other and our coming together... our first kiss (which rocked the Universe to it's Higgs boson particles)...
our wedding, our twin sons, and then our daughter... our friends over the years, some gained and others lost... our work with children and the homeless... and still we dream! And still we dream of many lifetimes and adventures together!
One of our chosen symbols for our marriage and our love is that of a chalice, a cup to hold and then set loose infinite possibilities. Our lives together are meant to liberate the other into becoming "an agent for transformation" and to find both the strength of perseverance and the radical witness of courage. As awareness seeps into one's bones, and then into and through the marrow, the truest response to the pain and suffering that devastates lives and is threatening to destroy this precious Planet, is the Way of Love: the breaking and opening of our hearts to unleash the power of compassion and a personal identification with the "Other" -- whomever She may be. Compassion and identification are the two primary "tools" in the belt of the mystic / activist. With them fully available and activated, becoming "agents of transformation" is within our reach -- without them, we will only fool ourselves and others, and cause still more pain and harm...
We wonder what is in the news? A quick glance reveals these headlines: Landlord fights "White Only' pool sign ruling; Human Rights Watch criticizes Alabama immigration law; Inequality in the US - the top 0.1% gaining even more than top 1%; Threat of malnutrition dire in Africa's Sahel region... taking refuge in the Holy One, in Love, and in Service for Peace and Justice breaks one's heart -- and it just keeps right on breaking, leaking out all over the place...
Three Stories: 1. Two women, farm workers, showed up at our House asking for food for their families. A few questions later, they revealed that they both had been working for a labor contractor. Together, they worked from sun-up to sun-down. The contractor gave then one check -- which they showed us -- to split for their days' work: the check totalled one dollar. There were a number of deductions made... 2. We organized a free health clinic at a migrant farm worker camp. The volunteer doctors were dispersed in a number of the small housing units. The families would make the rounds for diabetes screening, eye exams, PAP smears, etc. I wandered the camp visiting throughout the evening. Every time I passed one of the units, a young girl would come to the door and ask if I wanted to come in out of the cold wind. After a while, thoroughly chilled, I accepted her invitation. she was overjoyed to be able to offer me something from the little they had, would I like some hot chocolate and a pastry? I said, thanks for asking, but I was fine and just glad to be getting warm. I could hear her puttering around in the kitchen, and a few minutes later, she came out of the kitchen with a steaming cup of chocolate, and the gooiest Mexican pastry I could have ever imagined. Ah, but the look on Her Face! She was as radiant as the most beautiful summer day... 3. A couple had been reading our newsletter for some months and was curious about our stories of farm worker children. Could I take them with me to a farm worker camp? They went with me that Thursday, following me in their car. We arrived, I parked, and they parked facing the Santa Lucia Mountains across the Valley. "M" volunteered to distribute the beans, rice, and other items in the back of my truck -- I went off to play ball with the kids. later, "M" came up to me, she had finished, and she and her husband would be leaving. As I was walking her to her car, she asked if I was curious why her husband never got out of the car -- I really didn't think about it, probably figuring he was just shy. "M" stopped in the middle of the dirt parking lot and pointed to a ranch house in the distance. She said, "My husband grew up on that ranch. He drove by this camp everyday of his life -- and he never knew it was here."
Just say the Word
And every border
Will vanish this very night.
We could tomorrow all wake up
And not know if we're coming or going.
Then we might finally understand:
We are all, each one of us, aliens
Until our pilgrim hearts
Find their rest in Your embrace...
"La Illaha, Il Allahu"
We think we are many,
But we are really only one...
(Just say the Word...)
Another story: It was nearing the end of time. There were huge crowds waiting in line, each one hoping to make it through the Pearly Gates. There was a steady movement forward -- no one seemed to be going away! Whew, maybe there's hope for all of us... slowly, whispered instructions were being passed back all the way from the front of the line, "Just say that you're a friend of Dorothy Day's. Pass it on." (Thanks to Milton Mayer for another version of this story from the February 1981 edition of "Enthusiasm" the paper of the Viva House in Baltimore).
An Alternate Fourth Mindfulness Training:
Aware of how my heart thrills to love, I will focus my daily intentions and actions upon living in solidarity with all those for whom to live means to suffer. I will listen deeply to hear their stories and their wisdom. I will walk with all of my sisters and brothers into our mutual liberation.
Question for the Week:
How would you re-imagine America if every cultural / social / economic / political / religious institution sought the full development and liberation of every person? (We know this to be a "big" question -- but if the big questions are never asked, how will we ever change course?)
Practice for the Week:
Review the pages of "Light on the Path"; pick a quotation that especially resonates with your mind, heart, life, and vision; write it down, make as many copies as you can, tape / place the copies wherever they might catch someone by surprise; sign them from "Occupy Love"...
"We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form, saying, "We need bread." We could not say, "Go, be thou filled." If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us... And somehow the walls expanded... The most significant thing about The Catholic Worker
is poverty, some say. The most significant thing is community, others say. We are not alone any more. But the final word is love... We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship." --Dorothy Day
'Tis a gift to be simple,
'Tis a gift to be free,
'Tis a gift to come down
Where we ought to be
And when we find ourselves
In the place just right
'Twill be in the valley
Of love and delight. -- An old Shaker hymn
"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, 'What are you going through'?" --Simone Weil
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." --Philo
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." --Anais Nin
"...What I want and all my days I pine for is to go back to my house and see my day of homecoming. And if some God batters me far out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit inside me, for already I have suffered much and done much hard work on the waves and in the fighting. So let this adventure follow." --Homer, Odyssey
With love and December blessings,
Michelle and Robert
"In the Name of the Holy One, Boundlessly Compassionate, Boundlessly Merciful... Beauty within Beauty within Beauty..."
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Take a Look Back at Iconic Editor Diana Vreeland’s Style
By Leah Rodriguez
Photo: Rowland Scherman/Getty Images
Legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland’s grandson Alexander Vreeland is launching a series of fragrances in her name this week. The five scents, named Extravagance Russe, Absolutely Vital, Perfectly Marvelous, Outrageously Vibrant, and Simply Divine, were designed to capture her distinctive style and unconventional beauty. Best known for her years as the editor-in-chief of Vogue, Vreeland was a ballet dancer before penning a column for Harper’s Bazaar.
While Vreeland may have discovered and promoted the talents of icons like Lauren Bacall and Twiggy, she was also a distinctive figure. Known for her immaculate bob that curled at the sides, she was often seen in voluminous silhouettes and a string of bold pearls, a cigarette frequently capping off her look. In honor of these new perfumes, we took a look back at Vreeland’s singular style. Click through our slideshow to see her life in fashion.
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May 26, 1933 Where: At her presentation to the court in Buckingham Palace. Photo: © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
January 1, 1937 Where: At Harper's Bazaar working on layouts about the Paris fashion shows. Photo: George Karger/Time Life Pictures
January 1, 1955 Where: On a fashion shoot of jewellery at Tiffany's with Richard Avedon. Photo: Sherman
January 1, 1966 Where: In Vogue magazine offices. Photo: Rowland Scherman
February 15, 1966 Where: At a dinner given by Vogue for Marylin Bender of Women's News. Photo: New York Times Co./2011 New York Times Co.
May 6, 1968 Where: At the premiere of Trilogy. Photo: Ron Galella/1968 Ron Galella
November 20, 1974 Where: At the opening of an exhibiton of Hollywood costumes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: New York Times Co./2004 ...
November 20, 1974 Where: At the opening of an exhibiton of Hollywood costumes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: New York Times Co./2004 Getty Images
January 1, 1975 Where: At the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Sara Krulwich
December 10, 1975 Where: At the "American Women of Art" exhibition. Photo: Ron Galella
December 6, 1976 Where: At the "The Glory of Russian Costume" exhibit opening. Photo: Ron Galella
September 19. 1977 Where: At "Folk and Funk - Andy Warhol's Folk Art World" exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art. Photo: Ron Gal...
September 19. 1977 Where: At "Folk and Funk - Andy Warhol's Folk Art World" exhibit at the Museum of American Folk Art. Photo: Ron Galella
October 12, 1977 Where: At the "The Treasures of Early Irish Art" exhibit opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Ron Galell...
October 12, 1977 Where: At the "The Treasures of Early Irish Art" exhibit opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Ron Galella
September 18. 1980 Where: At the Girls Town of Italy Dinner Fashion Show in New York City. Photo: Ron Galella/1980 Ron Galella
November 12, 1980 Where: At the Barrymore "Lunch Hour" Preview & Party. Photo: Ron Galella
December 8, 1980 Where: At Diana Vreeland's Costume Exhibition Photo: Ron Galella
August 12, 1981 Where: At the Shanghai Peking Opera Opening. Photo: Ron Galella
December 7, 1981 Where: At the "The 18th Century Woman" Costume Exhibition. Photo: Ron Galella
January 26, 1982 Where: At the Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Show.
January 29. 1982 Where: At the Yves Saint Laurent 20 Years Of Fashion Anniversary Party Photo: BERTRAND RINDOFF PETROFF / ANGELI
July 10, 1982 Where: Posing for a portrait. Photo: Santi Visalli
December 6, 1982 Where: At the "La Belle Epoque" Party. Photo: Ron Galella
May 6, 1983 Where: At a gala honoring Diana Vreeland. Photo: BEImages/Copyright (c) 1983 BEImages. No use without permission.
July 6, 1983 Where: In New York City. Photo: Tom Gates/2005 Getty Images
December 5, 1983 Where: At a Yves Saint Laurent Party in New York City. Photo: Ron Galella
June 14, 1984 Where: At Diana Vreeland's Book Party. Photo: Ron Galella
December 3, 1984 Where: At Diana Vreeland's Annual Costume Exhibit. Photo: Ron Galella
January 1, 1985 Where: At a party with Yves Saint Laurent in Paris, France. Photo: Eric Ryan/1985 Eric Ryan
January 1, 1990 Photo: Time & Life Pictures/Time & Life Pictures
January 1. 1990 Photo: Time & Life Pictures/Time & Life Pictures
November 29, 1962 Where: At her temporary office at Vogue. Photo: Tony Palmieri/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
August 13, 1971 Where: In Paris Photo: Christian Avril/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
October 9, 1975 Where: At the M.E.F. lunch for Madame Gres Photo: Tony Palmieri/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
December 1, 1975 Where: At the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Nick Machalaba/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
November 20, 1978 Where: At The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute gala. Photo: Tony Palmieri/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
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Binge-Worthy?
Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’: Fat-Shaming Is the Least of This Misguided Show’s Problems
The controversial Netflix satire was criticized for a ‘fat-shaming’ trailer. We’ve seen the actual episodes, and the backlash was warranted, for more reasons than one.
Updated 08.08.18 5:23AM ET / Published 08.08.18 12:18AM ET
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When a TV show’s protagonist is introduced as “Fatty Patty,” it’s going to raise some eyebrows. When that character is played, Shallow Hal-style, by the stunning—and thin—former Disney star Debby Ryan in a fat suit, those eyebrows might just leap off people’s heads. Then came the trailer.
The trailer for Netflix’s Insatiable revealed that the show’s plot appears to depict what happens when Fatty Patty has her jaw wired shut, loses an immense amount of weight, re-emerges as her high school’s hottie, and, now “conventionally attractive,” exacts a revenge mission against all those who made her life so miserable when she was overweight.
A fire tornado of backlash emerged, accusing the series of fat-shaming and sending the message that a person’s life can only improve if they lose weight; that being skinny is, in some way, “winning”; and that fat women couldn’t possibly stand up for themselves or find happiness. A petition emerged demanding that Netflix cancel the show.
Of course, this reaction was all from a trailer. The reflex outrage was reminiscent of what befell the recent Amy Schumer comedy I Feel Pretty, which was lambasted after its trailer hinted at a similar body-shaming message, only for the film itself to reveal a far more nuanced and positive narrative of self-acceptance. Lauren Gussis, Insatiable’s creator, as well as its stars Ryan and Alyssa Milano, urged audiences to give it a chance and not judge the entire show based on one trailer.
Having watched the first six episodes of Insatiable, we can say that the way it portrays body image is more nuanced that what the trailer suggests. But more nuanced certainly doesn’t mean good, or even valuable.
Insatiable is a harsh example of the best intentions yielding the worst results.
The show is meant to be satire, a tool often used to confront sensitive topics and expose our biases and vulnerabilities surrounding those issues. Yet Insatiable is unforgivably inelegant as satire. It fails not only to land its purportedly progressive message about body image and weight, but also its storylines tackling sexuality, sexual agency, classism, race, and transgender acceptance.
It’s not hard to imagine the show’s creative team earnestly believing in their many missions. Insatiable boasts a sprawling cast of ethnically diverse characters, broaches several different coming out stories, casts trans actors, and attempts to teach teenagers valuable lessons with a mischievous comedic edge, eschewing the kind of schmaltz that might make them feel patronized.
But in reaching for an extreme, campy tone, it instead comes off as tone-deaf.
The first string of episodes introduce two different storylines involving statutory rape. In one, a teenager falsely accuses an older man of molesting her—arguably not the most constructive way into a #MeToo storyline amid today’s broader conversations on the topic.
Patty’s first instinct when she’s newly skinny is to use sex as a weapon, pitching her body to two older men.
One coming out storyline is treated with admirable delicacy. Another comes so far from left field that it nearly betrays the character, torpedoing an excellent point the show had made about masculinity and gender norms. Later, a teenage girl who leaks a nude selfie of herself comes to regret it—though not for the reason one might think: “I just figured everyone would think I’m a slut,” she says. “Now they think I’m a lesbian and that’s way worse.”
We understand the presumed intention of the satire’s edge. But the darkness and flippancy of the jokes are rarely earned, resulting in too much dialogue soured by a certain ugliness, rather than the exposure of any provocative truth.
Another pivotal scene finds thin Patty bonding with a transgender girl over their lingering insecurities and reluctance to wear bikinis in public. (There is little continuity to these insecurities. In other scenes, Patty strips down to her underwear to wantonly seduce older men.)
“I used to be fat,” Patty tells her. “I used to be a guy,” she replies. “If anybody understands being uncomfortable in my own skin, it’s me.” It falsely equates a hot white woman’s “I just need to lose 10 more pounds” insecurity with the gender identity struggle and journey of a trans person.
As for the accusations of fat-shaming, aside from the grotesque spirit behind the Fatty Patty flashback scenes, there are more than a few truly honest and meaningful moments in which Patty confronts her body image and self-worth. The issue is the whiplash-inducing way the show then contradicts these moments in service of a sexy, soapy plot.
“‘Insatiable’ is unforgivably inelegant as satire. It fails not only to land its purportedly progressive message about body image, but also its storylines tackling sexuality, sexual agency, classism, race, and transgender acceptance.”
In reading about all this, you might not expect that the greater throughline of the show is Patty’s entry into the world of beauty pageants. She is recruited by her lawyer, played by Dallas Roberts, who moonlights as a pageant coach and sees her as his ticket to the top of that world.
The thing is, there’s a lot of fun to be had in Insatiable, and in that world. There is a nearly absurd array of characters orbiting Patty and her lawyer/pageant coach, Bob. They’re all written so brightly as to shine in more than a few moments—Alyssa Milano as Bob’s wife and Sarah Colonna as Patty’s mom, in particular, give wonderful, bold performances. But too often, these bright characters mixed all together prove almost blinding.
There’s a soap opera nature to the show that, for all of its problems settling on a coherent tone, makes the episodes move quickly. The series, in turn, is appropriately bingeable. But that soapiness is another of the show’s missteps. Nearly every character conspires against every other and almost none of their actions are well-intentioned. That collective evilness juxtaposes against the intended messaging’s positivity.
At the point of this publishing, two days before the show’s release, the Change.org petition in protest at the series crossed over 220,000 signatures.
“For so long, the narrative has told women and young impressionable girls that in order to be popular, have friends, to be desirable for the male gaze, and to some extent be a worthy human...that we must be thin,” the petition states, urging Netflix to cancel it before the premiere. “This series will cause eating disorders, and perpetuate the further objectification of women's bodies. The trailer has already triggered people with eating disorders. Let's stop this, and protect [against] further damage.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Gussis acknowledged and validated the criticism of the show, but urged audiences to give it a chance. “I think that once people see the show, they will understand how deeply I understand all of the things they’re actually upset about,” she said.
“So many of the messages I believed as a kid growing up were, if you fix your outside, suddenly you’re a good person,” she told Vanity Fair, explaining that she’s struggled with binge-eating since the age of 12. She thought, “If I only looked this way, or did this thing, I would be a popular 17-year-old girl.” But “the more attention I put on dieting or exercise, the less attention I put on my inside. Then I got angrier and angrier and I didn’t understand why.”
That point is gently made, but gets lost amid the louder messiness of the series. It is a shame, as a TV show confronting this subject with more creative eloquence wouldn’t just be welcome, but, as this whole controversy proves, might even be culturally necessary.
Insatiable is a satire very much rooted in Gussis’s own journey, one that clearly hits a raw nerve for a lot of people. But taken as a piece of television that purports to send important messages—body image is the tip of the iceberg—to a target teenage audience, the execution is a woefully misguided big swing.
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Formula Drift is Returning to Irwindale Speedway
The House of Drift has been playing with drift fans emotions, but Formula Drift has confirmed that the last race of 2018 will be at Irwindale.
Formula Drift | YouTube
Irwindale Speedway, affectionately known as the House of Drift, has played host to Formula Drift events for years since the series' infancy in 2003. Drift fans were told the final event in the 2017 season would be the final Formula Drift event at Irwindale Speedway before its closure. Irwindale was being demolished for redevelopment plans. The last day of operations was supposed to be Jan. 31, 2018, but in the off season a deal was made to keep both the speedway and the dragstrip at the location open.
This played with drift fans and drivers emotions, one day closed, the next day open. Before the news of Irwindales "resurrection," Formula Drift had already announced the 2018 schedule with a Las Vegas event planned as a Irwindale replacement. Knowing that Irwindale was not closing left Formula Drift fans and the drivers wanting to go back to Irwindale.
Formula Drift confirmed rumors that the series would be returning to Irwindale Speedway via a YouTube video which provided some nostalgic Irwindale race footage. Formula Drift President and Co-Founder James Liaw told me "With Irwindale Speedway being saved, we have chosen to go back to it, instead of having the finals in Las Vegas." The Irwindale race weekend will take place from Oct. 12 to Oct. 13, 2018, replacing the Las Vegas event.
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Nostalgia Rewatch
Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia
At Least It’s Not Grain Storage: Stargate
Leigh Butler
Thu Aug 31, 2017 1:00pm 68 comments 9 Favorites [+]
Dust off your sarcophagi and bust out your sunscreen, Tor.com, because the Movie Rewatch of Great Nostalgia is back, with: 1994’s Stargate! They do the sand dance, dontcha know!
(And if you immediately got that reference: congratulations, you’re old. Whee!)
Previous entries can be found here. Please note that as with all films covered on the Nostalgia Rewatch, this post will be rife with spoilers for the film.
And now, the post!
ME: Let’s have a fight about aliens!
Well, what I actually said was “Let’s talk about the next MRGN movie, Stargate!”, but what ended up happening was that we had a fight about aliens. As you do.
Specifically, my sisters were both appalled that I did not immediately agree that aliens exist. They’re probably not going to be the only ones.
And look. I feel you. Coming from a lifelong, dyed-in-the-wool science fiction nerd like yours truly, that assertion may be a bit startling. But my argument, like any good sci-fi nerd’s argument should be, is based in scientific principle. Meaning, I am certainly open to the possibility that there are aliens out there somewhere; I would even cop to the likelihood of their existence, given the statistical argument which Carl Sagan summed up as “if there weren’t, it seems like an awful waste of space.” Sure, no problem.
But, sez me, likelihood is not proof. It’s not even evidence, in fact—at least, there is no evidence I’m aware of that doesn’t come with a tin foil hat firmly glued to it. And unless and until any concrete evidence of aliens does show up, I feel like the question of their existence or not remains not much more than a mildly interesting intellectual exercise without a conclusion.
LIZ: But… you love stories about aliens and stuff.
ME: Well, sure. Fictional aliens are awesome. But why do I have to believe in real aliens before I’m allowed to enjoy fake ones?
This is a weird (to me, anyway) phenomenon that I’ve run into before. I had a friend back in California who was, it transpired, a fairly fervent believer in things like ghosts and poltergeists and psychic phenomena, and he was genuinely shocked to discover that I didn’t believe any of those things were real. His response was nearly identical to Liz’s: “But you love stories about psychics and ghosts!” And I was like… yeah, so?
But I digress! My point is, I am perfectly capable of enjoying the shit out of a good “aliens exist” yarn without needing to believe that it translates to aliens actually existing. And 1994’s Stargate, while not being perhaps cinema’s most iconic portrayal of aliens, is still one of our favorites.
There’s nothing I could point to that makes this movie great, but there are plenty of things I could point to which are more than good enough to make it unite into a very pleasing and satisfying (and rewatchable) whole. Which is a lot more than most movies can do, so, you know, don’t knock it.
The production design, for one, which took the plot’s clichéd-but-acting-like-it’s-not clichéd premise of “Ancient Egyptians = ALIENZZZ!!” and ran with it, to lovely effect. Liz in particular is very fond of the way the costumes and sets evoked the feel of Ancient Egypt while also infusing a technological/otherworldly feel into it.
The Western fascination with the mysteriousness of Ancient Egyptian culture, while dimmed over time (especially in light of increasing awareness of its racist/imperialist overtones), is still plenty strong enough to lure the audience in right off the bat, and the film does a great job of including just enough realism about the era and culture (or at least the research into it) to give a note of authenticity to the blatant fiction of everything else.
The detail that Dr. Jackson could read hieroglyphics, but couldn’t actually speak the language until he got Sha’uri to tell him what the vowels were, for instance. Which is an element that I loved at the time—and still do, really, even though I now know that’s a simplified at best explanation of the difficulties modern scholars have with translating the language.
It also doesn’t hurt that the movie is very nice to look at, if in a very “late 20th century Hollywood” way:
KATE: I had a house like that once.
ME: TEAL AND ORANGE TEAL AND ORANGE TEAL AND ORANGE
I remember reading a remark from one of the actors that the desert sure as hell hadn’t looked that pretty when they were filming the movie, so yay for aggressive color correction, I guess.
The CGI effects in Stargate are definitely a tad dated, but they were used sparingly enough that their clunkiness is easily ignored, and some effects—like the gorgeous “sunlit water” effect of the Stargate itself—still hold up very well.
LIZ: I love the scene where they open the Stargate for the first time, but I could never understand why they didn’t just figure out the last chevron by trial and error. There can only be so many options on that thing, after all.
Yeah, well. As a side note, it may not have been until I saw this movie that I realized “chevron” was a word that meant something besides “a brand of gas station”. Love and kisses, my first-class American education. Ahem.
Anyway, the other thing that is not-great-but-definitely-very good about Stargate is the cast.
KATE: This is literally the only role I can remember James Spader in where he wasn’t a total asshole.
Me too. And yet his Dr. Jackson was a most excellent adorable nerd, which kind of makes me sad Spader didn’t more often get to break out of the “smarmy dickface” style of character he is, admittedly, very good at playing.
LIZ: Aim for the flattop!
Wow, that hair, y’all. Colonel O’Neil was something of a departure for Kurt Russell as well, if not so much as Jackson was for Spader. I could never quite decide if the tragic backstory for O’Neil was overwrought or not, but then it’s not like Russell ever does “subtle”, so from the perspective of “this character is being played by Kurt Russell”, it worked just fine, I suppose.
Jaye Davidson really only ever had two memorable roles in Hollywood: in Stargate as the evil sun god/alien Ra, and (by several orders of magnitude of memorability) as the transgender character Dil in 1992’s The Crying Game. The hullabaloo over the latter of which at the time is, I think, pretty embarrassing in retrospect—not for Davidson, but for everyone else. You guys, the collective OMG ANDROGYNY TRANSGENDER WOMAN-MAN-WHAAAAT losing-of-shit over that movie in the 90s was not to be believed.
Anyway, I remember reading at the time about how Davidson was reportedly incredibly difficult to work with on Stargate, how he was a total diva and prone to throwing tantrums and being completely unreasonable on set, etc. And hey, I wasn’t there, maybe he really was a nightmare. But looking back on the kind of prurient, half-mocking “fame” he attained for daring to be so far outside the acceptable Hollywood parameters for masculinity and gender conformity in the 1990s—or, hell, twenty years later than that—I have to wonder how much of his tantrum-throwing was actually perfectly reasonable.
Moving on! Then you have Assorted Military Speaking Roles, which by unspoken Hollywood rule included a guy with a Polish surname starting with a “K” sound (seriously, I’m not making this up, there’s always a Kowalski or some variation thereof), and weirdly, French Stewart, who was much more believable as an actual alien than as a military dude fighting them.
KATE: At least the squinting made sense in the desert, though.
And last and most definitely least, of course, was The Token Chick, Sha’uri, played by Israeli-American actress Mili Avital.
Needless to say, Stargate fails the Bechdel test with a resounding clunk, since as far as I know no female characters speak to each other on camera at all, much less about something other than a man. And Sha’uri, with dreary predictability, is confined to the standard female roles of love interest, damsel in distress, and general walking plot device. Sigh.
(Liz staunchly interjects that she thinks the love story between Sha’uri and Jackson is adorable, and she’s not wrong; they are very adorable. But, well.)
KATE: Bing! She’s done!
While we liked the conceit of alien technology finding repairing the human body laughably easy, we would like to ask why, when it healed Jackson, why it also didn’t fix his eyesight. As someone who’s worn corrective lenses since she was seven, I’M JUST SAYING.
Stargate was directed by Roland Emmerich, and represents a key stage in his evolution as a director, in that the plot only threatened to destroy the Earth, instead of actually doing it. I assume he was just gearing up for the real Earth-killin’ later on. There’s also his standard trope of What These People Need Are (American) (Military) White Dudes (To Save Them), which I’ve always found slightly puzzling considering that Emmerich is German, but okay, sure.
Also worth noting: Stargate did a lot better at the box office than most people thought it would, which led to it being spun off multiple times into various TV series which have attained a pretty solid cult following in the SFF community. I confess that I myself never got too much into the post-movie Stargate franchise other than watching a couple seasons of Stargate: Atlantis more or less at random, and my sisters have never watched any of them at all, so while I suspect a discussion of Stargate the movie is incomplete without addressing the (from what I understand) fairly complex universe that built on it later, it’s a discussion I am not qualified to undertake. But feel free to school me on it in the comments!
In any case, standard Hollywood problematicness and silliness aside, Stargate is a solidly entertaining SF flick that in general we thought held up very nicely. A deathless classic it is not, perhaps, but it has good humor and good action and an engaging premise, and we enjoyed rewatching it very much.
And so! We end with: THE SCALE.
Nostalgia: 7
Reality: ehhh, 7 or 8, sure
And that’s the show, kids! Tell me your thoughts! Later!
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Beach Channel Drive Greenway
Bedminster Hike and Bikeway
State: NJ
Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder
Bethpage Bikeway
Black River County Park Trail
Black River Wildlife Management Area Trail
Boulevard Trolley Line Path
Asphalt, Concrete
Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
Bronx River Greenway
Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area
Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Columbia Trail
Cross Island Parkway Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
East River Greenway
Eastern Parkway Trail
Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway
Ellen Farrant Memorial Bikeway
Flatbush Avenue Greenway
Fort Washington Park Greenway
Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway
Asphalt, Dirt
Great Valley Trail
Dirt, Grass
Green Brook Multi-Use Trail
Hamburg Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
Henry Hudson Trail
Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Hudson River Greenway
Hudson River Waterfront Walkway
Hutchinson River Greenway
Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway
Woodchips
John Kieran Nature Trail
Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
Johnson Trolley Line Trail
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Jones Beach Boardwalk
Jones Point Path
Ballast, Dirt
Kennedy Trail
Kings Park Hike & Bike Trail
Kingston Branch Loop Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Lake Iliff Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
Landsdown Trail
Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Lawrence Hopewell Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone
Loantaka Brook Reservation Trail
Manasquan Reservoir Trail
Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Middlesex Greenway
Morris Canal Greenway
New Springville Greenway
Norwalk River Valley Trail
State: CT
Ocean Parkway Coastal Greenway
Ocean Parkway Trail
Ogden Mine Railroad Path
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
Old Erie Path
Dirt, Gravel
Old Mine Railroad Trail
Old Putnam Trail
Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Patriots' Path (NJ)
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Paulinskill Valley Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Pequest Wildlife Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
Perth Amboy Harbor Walk
Putnam Trailway
Quarry Trail
Ramsey Bike Path
Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail
Ridgefield Rail Trail
Roosevelt Island Greenway
Samuel G. Fisher Mount Ivy Environmental Park
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway
Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail
Shore Parkway Greenway Trail
South County Trailway
Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail
Sussex Branch Trail
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path
Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Taylor SteelWorkers Historical Greenway
Timp-Torne Trail
Trolley Line Trail (NJ)
Union Transportation Trail
Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
West Essex Trail
Cinder, Gravel
West Hudson Park Path
Wharton Rail-Trail (part of Patriots' Path)
Wood Duck Nature Trail (Wallkill River NWR)
Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
Although just a mile long, the Beach Channel Drive Greenway in Queens offers expansive views of Jamaica Bay and the beautiful Marine Parkway Bridge as it traces the border of Jacob Riis Park. On the...
NY 1 mi Asphalt
The 2.8-mile eastern phase of the Bedminster Hike and Bikeway allows pedestrians and cyclists to safely traverse part of Bedminster Township by crossing over I-287 and US 206/202 via a series of three...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt
The Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail passes through hardwood forests and affords views of the valley below to the right. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ...
NJ 2.1 mi Ballast, Cinder
The nicely paved Bethpage Bikeway runs alongside suburban roads for long segments of the route, but it’s much more than a suburban trail. Each on-road suburban stretch is broken up by one of three...
NY 13.4 mi Asphalt
In the mid 1800s Chester, New Jersey, was the home of the iron ore industry; railroads shipped the ore all over the county. With the end of the industry, however, the rail lines were abandoned, turned...
NJ 2.3 mi Dirt
This trail goes through the Black River Wildlife Management area along streambeds and forest. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ DEP for a fee. The trail follows...
NJ 4 mi Ballast
This 2.1-mile long paved path runs directly adjacent to (about 30-40 feet off of) the Boulevard in Mountain Lakes, NJ, and follows the exact route of a former trolley line operated by the Morris...
NJ 2.5 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway is a 12-mile linear park that runs from the town of Ossining north to Westchester County's Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill. The trail is built on land...
NY 12 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Bronx River travels from the mouth of the East River north to the Kensico Dam, providing views of the natural history of the area. Because the trail is under development, there are several gaps...
NY 23.3 mi Asphalt, Concrete
This pleasant, flat rail-trail parallels Capoolong Creek through the Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area for nearly 4 miles. The surface is varied, so the trail is best suited for hiking or...
NJ 3.7 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Columbia Trail has the distinction of being named for a natural gas pipeline that runs beneath it for 15 miles in rural northern New Jersey. The crushed-stone trail rolls along the South Branch of...
NJ 15 mi Crushed Stone
The Cross Island Parkway Trail closely follows its namesake thoroughfare through northeastern Queens. From its northern end, you will soon enter Little Bay Park, which offers lovely views of the...
NY 3.1 mi Asphalt
Spanning more than 70 miles, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail is the longest completed multiuse trail in the state and is described by many as the crown jewel of New Jersey trails. A...
NJ 72.8 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
New York City's East River Greenway offers views of the East River, Queens, Brooklyn, and the iconic bridges that connect these boroughs to Manhattan. The paved pathway traces the waterfront on one...
The Eastern Parkway Trail is a 2-mile route along a tree-lined boulevard in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. The path begins at Prospect Park, which houses some of Brooklyn's most popular...
NY 2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
Prepare to be whisked into the past when you take the Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway. The paved trail follows a short-line railroad corridor from the coastal city of Manasquan to a village at Allaire...
When Jones Beach State Park opened on Long Island’s South Shore in the late 1920s, a series of scenic parkways was built on infill dredged from nearby towns to connect New Yorkers to the new public...
Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue Greenway parallels its namesake roadway for just over a mile from Marine Parkway Bridge to a connection with the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail. The two trails are part of the...
The Fort Washington Park Greenway brings residents and visitors to Washington Heights right up to the edge of the Hudson. The mile-long trail begins near the pier at the end of Dyckman Street and...
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk follows Staten Island's eastern shore from Miller Field -- a recreational area for sports, picnicking and bird watching -- to Fort Wadsworth. Highlights of the...
NY 2.7 mi Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway will eventually be a 10-mile route linking parks and open spaces throughout South Brunswick Township in northern New Jersey. The trail follows a former rail line through...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Great Valley Trail, built on the former Lehigh & New England Railroad, offers an unpaved, natural experience through quiet woodlands between the townships of Hampton and Frankford. Although...
NJ 3.5 mi Dirt, Grass
When complete the Green Brook Multi-Use Trail will meander for 7 miles through the communities of Plainfield and North Plainfield, New Jersey. The trail will connect major regional trails and parks as...
NJ 0.25 mi Asphalt
This trail is in an area rich in geological history. Zinc and Iron Ores were transported along this branch from mines in the area that operated for over 200 years. The trail is scenic with a slight...
NJ 3 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
The tree-lined 22.5-mile Henry Hudson Trail is the definition of scenic variety. Traversing both urban and natural environments, the route passes wetlands, streams, fields, and the Garden State...
NJ 22.5 mi Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Built on the former Erie Railroad main line, the 15-mile Heritage Trail runs through the small Orange County towns of Goshen, Chester, Monroe, and Harriman. The shaded trail runs through different...
NY 15.1 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
The High Line trail runs 30 feet above the bustling Manhattan streets and sidewalks below, which for trail lovers makes it an attraction in the same league as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State...
NY 1.5 mi Concrete
While not a "rail-trail," the Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway is a very scenic trail along the Hudson River in Rockland County. The southern half of this trail is flat and runs right along the...
NY 4.9 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Hudson River Greenway (HRG) is one of the most popular places to ride, walk, and jog in New York City. It makes up part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway loop, the cross-state Empire State...
The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a 1.5 mile walkway along the bank of the Hudson River in Jersey City. The walkway offers stunning views of Manhattan as well as access to a number of ferries and...
NJ 1.5 mi Concrete
The Hutchinson River Greenway offers a convenient alternative to the Hutchinson River Parkway, which it closely follows. Although adjacent to the busy thoroughfare, trees have been planted along the...
NY 2.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway was recently renamed to honor a long-time member of the city's conservation board. The trail's corridor follows the former New York, Westchester & Boston...
NY 1.2 mi Woodchips
The John Kieran Nature Trail is a short loop that borders Van Cortlandt Lake and its associated wetlands. It is a wonderful site for bird-watching. The trail also passes several sites of significance...
NY 1 mi Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
The Johnson Trolley Line has two sections, north and south, which are split by Interstate 95; there is talk of building an overpass to link the two segments. The Trenton-Princeton Traction Company ran...
NJ 1.9 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Jones Beach Boardwalk traverses Jones Beach State Park, running parallel (and south of) Ocean Parkway. The pleasant pathway offers views of the beach and the ocean. Although bicycles are...
NY 4 mi Boardwalk
The Jones Point Path occupies an abandoned motor vehicle route (old US Route 9W). The path provides bicyclists with a relatively safe bypass to a dangerous section of busy US Route 9W near Bear...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Dirt
You might expect a 4-mile rail-trail that passes through three downtowns to be excessively urban, but the quaint town centers on the Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail are compact and surrounded by...
The Kennedy Trail begins at the northwest corner of the 68-acre campus of John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers. The town, which sits 30 miles from White Plains and 55 miles from New York...
NY 1.7 mi Cinder
The Kings Park Hike & Bike Trail runs for 1.5 miles between Old Dock Road at Church Street in Kings Park and Nissequogue River State Park. The trail is a town of Smithtown park and follows an...
The Kingston Branch Loop Trail is a trip up one side and down the other of the scenic tree-lined Delaware and Raritan Canal. The eastern half of the loop follows the bed of the Rocky Hill Railroad and...
NJ 1.75 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
This is the first phase of the proposed Lehigh & Hudson River Rail Trail. The second phase will connect Hillside Park to Kittatinny Valley State Park. It is hoped that there will be an eventual...
NJ 1.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
The Landsdown Trail runs 1.8 miles between Lower Landsdown Road and W. Main in Clinton. The trail passes among open fields, woodlands and wetlands and provides access to the South Branch of the...
NJ 1.8 mi Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Lawrence Hopewell Trail (LHT) offers more than 19 miles of pathway on a developing loop through public and private land in Lawrence and Hopewell Townships, about 5 miles north of Trenton. The...
NJ 19.2 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The system of trails in Loantaka Brook Reservation are open to hikers, cyclists and equestrians, although the trails are marked as to which uses are permitted on each segment. Loantaka Brook...
NJ 7 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Manasquan Reservoir Trail is located in the Howell Township and provides a great natural destination in the heart of the town. The trail forms a perimeter loop around the 770 acre reservoir...
NJ 4.8 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
It’s hard to believe that a noisy locomotive once ran through here, given that stillness is a defining characteristic of the Middlesex Greenway. Even when people pour onto the trail from the adjacent...
In the early 1830s the Morris Canal opened across northern New Jersey, from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Newark, and later to Jersey City on the Hudson River. It provided a thoroughfare for...
The Mosholu-Pelham Greenway connects several parks and recreational opportunities in New York City's north and central Bronx neighborhoods. A portion of the trail is also part of the growing East...
The New Springville Greenway stretches just over 3 miles, primarily paralleling Richmond Avenue on New York's Staten Island. A highlight of the paved pathway is its proximity to Freshkills Park, a...
The former “Old Put” commuter rail corridor that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties is popular once again, only this time it’s for people riding...
When completed, the Norwalk River Valley Trail will run from Danbury to Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut, for a total of about 27 miles. Currently, several disconnected sections totaling...
CT 5.8 mi Asphalt
Like Wantagh State Parkway, Ocean Parkway was built in the postwar 1930s to provide access to the crown jewel of the state park system, Jones Beach State Park. Unlike the former road, however, this...
The Ocean Parkway Trail closely follows its eponymous thoroughfare nearly 5 miles through several Brooklyn neighborhoods, ending only a block from the popular Coney Island boardwalk. Those traveling...
This trail is located in the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation which is a unit of the Morris County Park Commission. The trail follows an abandoned railroad bed through hardwood forests, past ponds, swamps...
NJ 2.7 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
At first glance, there’s no evidence that an aqueduct ever existed along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The trail is often a singletrack dirt pathway that winds through communities and trees and...
NY 26.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Old Erie Path reveals spectacular views of the Hudson River Valley as the rail-trail rolls along cliffs that border the river’s western shore. Although fairly short, it joins two other...
NY 3 mi Dirt, Gravel
Fahnestock State Park is a relatively undiscovered gems in the New York State Park System. Located a few miles east of Cold Spring Village on Rt. 301 (Main Street), the park jurisdiction was recently...
NY 2.2 mi Dirt
Splayed over 1,146 acres in northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park has a lot going on. The park is New York City's fourth largest and is home to the oldest municipal golf course in America. There are...
NY 1.25 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
The Patriots' Path covers roughly 35 miles of terrain and is open to mountain biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and hiking. The multi-use trails links parks, open space, recreational...
NJ 35 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Paulinskill Valley Trail follows a creek by the same name through a section of rural New Jersey with a strong German influence. In fact, the word kill is Dutch for “riverbed or stream channel.”...
NJ 27.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
This trail is much better suited to walking than to biking. It provides excellent access to the Pequest River which is stocked with trout. Not all of the bridges across the river have been decked and...
NJ 4.2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
The Perth Amboy Harbor Walk offers scenic views of the Raritan Bay and Raritan River as it hugs the shoreline of the City of Perth Amboy, founded in 1683 and home to one of the nation's oldest ports....
The old New York Central rail line that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties carried commuters during the workweek, but on the weekends tourists...
The Quarry Trail is currently a 600-foot long unimproved strip of land along what is known as Quarry Road in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The trail links Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic...
NY 0.1 mi Dirt, Grass
The Ramsey Bike Path is a recreational path built on the former Paterson to Suffern trolley line right-of-way. The path extends along a north-south route from one end of Ramsey to the other....
NJ 1 mi Asphalt
Randall's Island Park Trails offer a series of interconnected paved loops on an island in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park offers a quiet setting, especially enjoyed by runners, with...
NY 8.75 mi Asphalt
The Randolph Trail system covers 16 miles of pathways through five parks, the Clyde Potts Reservoir watershed and 2,000 acres of pristine open space. The trails link schools and neighborhoods and also...
NJ 16 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail travels from one end of the village of South Nyack to the other in 1 mile but greatly expands its reach by connecting with the Old Erie Path and a new shared-use...
NY 1 mi Crushed Stone
The Ridgefield Rail-Trail meanders for nearly 2.5 miles through the forested exburbs of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The trail passes among suburban acreages, along a creek at one point, and past a couple...
CT 2.3 mi Gravel
Roosevelt Island Greenway, a little-known gem in the Big Apple, was named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1973. To reach this scenic pathway, board New York City’s only aerial tram,...
The Saddle River County Park Bike Path is a beautiful suburban trail that winds alongside the Saddle River. Most of the trail runs through moderately dense suburban development, with residential and...
A former right-of-way of the NY & NJ Railroad. Near historical Mount Ivy which was the center of a Quaker settlement in the 18th century. Hiking along railroad bed and wildlife observation and...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
The Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway travels 8.7 miles alongside the picturesque beaches and historical monuments of the Sandy Hook peninsula. The pathway begins in the Gateway National Recreation Area...
The Setauket-Port Jefferson Station Greenway Trail stretches just over 3 miles along Long Island’s north shore. Construction was completed in two phases with the first trail section opening in 2009...
The two diverse sections of the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail blend urban and scenic, offering views of sights ranging from the Statue of Liberty to wildlife refuges. Following the Belt/Shore Parkway,...
NY 13 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The South County Trailway rolls 14.4 miles through one of the most densely populated parts of New York, but its route through pocket woodlots, parks, and golf courses and along riverbanks makes it...
At 2.6 miles, the Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail offers a nice jaunt for joggers, walkers, and cyclists alike. The crushed-stone path is 6-feet wide and runs from Rockland Avenue to...
NY 2.6 mi Crushed Stone
The corridor now home to the Sussex Branch Trail was originally the narrow-gauge, mule-drawn Sussex Mine Railroad, which opened in 1851 to haul iron ore from mines in Andover to the Morris Canal....
NJ 18 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path is partially paved and bisects the Tallman Mountain State Park. The route provides a motor-vehicle-free way for bicyclists using US Route 9W to connect with...
NY 2.1 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
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TUF EVENTS
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TUF Takeover at the MoPop
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ABOUT TUF
TUF ZINES
Zine Issue 1: Attachments
Zine Issue 2: Pathos Playbook
Attachments are broad and complicated and sometimes there is not enough bandwidth to hold us. Physical or digital or emotional. Sometimes the hyperlink leads to nothing. Sometimes the file is corrupted. Sometimes they are mislabeled or unedited or the version that we didn’t want anyone to see. Attachments can be embarrassing or exposing or exposing of our own error.
We are constantly fighting to transcend the politics of identity that society attaches to us-- how we were born and how we are supposed to live. To make visible the attachments we want to use as signifiers, what we choose to encode in the endless approach to our truer selves. To create new bonds across time and space to a person, to an object, to an idea.
We attach fragments of ourselves to our confidants and our public. Equally interesting is what we choose not to attach. What we withhold or what we encrypt.
To remain in the flux of attachment and detachment as we evolve. A file is static but we can shed them as necessary, while still recognizing the imprints of our former selves that are dragged across the surveillance grid. Each attachment we make is a risk, but who can live without risk?
TUF is an affiliation that each member chose to trail their moniker, their digital presence, their talents and devotions. Our attachment to each other allows the perpetuation of our common mission and goals as artists and musicians and writers and designers. Here are some things we’ve been working on.
Úna Blue
Bristol Hayward-Hughes
Katherine Humphreys
Sofia Lee
Andrea Friedman
Madeline Franks
Danae Harrison-Corey
Gia Valente
Neon Saltwater
we are particles, floating through
space, attached
for a moment in time
receiving it.
drowning in grief.
we are separate again.
we are our whole
selves.
- to attach
Simone Pierson
Lisa Hammond
The following is an excerpt from a collection of narratives about instances of flirtation
with pronoun in place of name. This collection posits flirtation as something
memorable and/or meaningful but not necessarily leading to any end, or confined
between any prescribed genders.
Her eyes—I could hardly see past the pink light of the room & such difference in our
heights. I wondered how she had chosen me, when I was having trouble making her
out without seeming rude. This morning I’d been reading about falling in love and it
had felt painful, huge, desireable, and terrifying. Something I had finally tasted,
pulling back at all the wrong times, not folding myself into loves reckless abandon.
She kept leading me back and forth across the room. She was embarrassed to be
grinding her small body against my large one? Trying to hide me but I’m so large
and uncontrollable? And what did she see? I could hardly focus, following her hand
through the crowded dance floor and up onto the stage with the neon green
imitation ice blocks. I wanted to get off the stage. I felt awkward in the permissions I
was taking, she was taking, and who was this girl? Melissa had been telling me
earlier that if I moved to the city I would have all the one-night-stands I wanted. She
said it with such a straight face, with such joy that she must believe that was all I had
ever wanted. I had to laugh. This girl, who kept claiming that it wasn’t about sex that
she just wanted to talk as she pressed her small body roughly into mine, teething at
my nipple through my shirt, the night was pouring through her. She was opened
wide, boldly claiming gateways to alternate realities in which I lived with her in her
New York apartment and helped her bring her son to New York from Ecuador. She
took what she wanted, grabbing me out of the crowd, sipping from stranger’s beers,
throwing herself in the middle of the street asking, begging to be filled with the
spirit of love. She took what she wanted because nothing was ever given to her. I
pulled her by the arm out of the street and she kept running back, ready to be
engulfed by the city. She looked like a twelve-year-old tomboy, unaware of how time
washes you away. I can’t even remember what she was wearing, maybe a polo shirt,
tight jeans, and those fashion moccasins from the early 2000s .
Is this what it’s like to live in the city? Fusing so intensely--ego deconstruction and
reconstruction each time you meet someone? Each time you want to take someone
home? But I was so large! Each deconstruction was sure to be a disaster, how could I
pick myself up from such far-flung remnants of myself? Continually piecing such a
monumental structure back together?
Leaving her behind was a struggle like a knot accidentally tied too tight. She wailed
against my departure, against the pain of rupture. She knew once I left everything
would leak out from inside her, all the flashes of imagined utopias, falling
compacting, crashing. She couldn’t ask me to be faithful to her, I couldn’t buy her
groceries, I wouldn’t be there waiting in her bed when she got home from work. She
pulled at me, leaning back with all of her weight, desperately using any excuse she
could to get me to stay. Spewing every type of logic she could think of attempting to
quell my imagined fears. ‘We don’t have to have sex’. It’s funny because that’s what I
wanted actually... I wanted the moments of nakedness, the moments of ecstasy. I
wanted to be inside her and run my hand down the front of her smooth body,
fingers rippling over her taut nipples. ‘We don’t have to have sex’. It made sense that
she thought that was why I was holding back, but really it was the fantasy she had
already created that I was scared of. I was scared of waking up in her bed, when
she’s all closed down with bits of the city lodged inside her. I was scared of the
meanness of the comedown.
How could such immediate fusion not be painful?
She tried to literally drag me up her stairs, she grabbed my phone and sprinted. She
called me a bitch. She told me I was making the wrong decision. Each grab, each
persuasion cementing my desire to sleep in my own bed, wake up and make
breakfast with my friends.
I’m a bitch. I don’t want to live in her alter-reality.
What I wanted, was to crawl into bed with the girl who I was staying with. I wanted
to take one look at the bed that she made for me, admiring it, and to pull myself up
into her loft. Maybe I wouldn’t say anything. I would just jump into her bed and pull
her close to me, spooning her body, like I had before, and say “can I sleep here?”
whisper into her ear, close, hot, breathy, and when she looked up, there would be
play in my eyes.
‘The New Love Card’ is the one I pulled at this strange yoga dance class that I went
to. The rooms there had tall ceilings and black floors. The instructor played songs by
Rhianna and Billie Holiday while we stretched, and it ended by each of us getting a
perfectly ripe peach and bringing home the intention card we had picked. Who had I
become? I needed to stretch, needed space to spread my limbs, to move, to sweat. I
bought into the ‘intention card’ spirituality fed to me by white yogis in Brooklyn. I
was the only white person in the class other than the instructor and one other
professional looking grunge/punk girl. Who knew that look could be so clean? I hold
the card and look at it now. Amazing how such a cheesy card could activate such
strong emotionality: ‘New Loves’: opening myself to new environments, new
friendships, new loves.
I couldn’t really believe that BIG LOVE, the way people talk about LOVE, ‘the L word’,
that sticky loaded four letter word, I couldn’t believe that was coming into my life.
All I wanted was the fantasy moment, that clicking where two people just work, and
can open their legs, take off their clothes and just be in their bodies. Where for a
moment, many hopefully ☺ they can be comfortable in opening and closing, in
running hands down each other’s bodies, hungry, voracious.
Grey Ellis
Nicole Carr
Zarina Khakberdieva
COMMUNICATING IRL
BY TDK
We have now settled into the twenty-first century where communication patterns that were introduced at the end of the last century have cemented themselves into the fabric of our society and reality. There has been an identifiable shift in the way we communicate and the way we seek connection with others that is having a detrimental impact on the progression of our human family.
Now we, as a society, have taken the concept of overindulgence, what we think we desperately need, and have applied it to how we communicate. More. We want more. We want to show more. We want people to hear us more. Instead of speaking and communicating with direct and intentional impact, we share, we tweet, we post but yet, still, somehow, it doesn’t feel as if we are speaking, as if we are engaging. Each of us are alone on our soapbox, preaching to the world the problems we see, the problems that affect us from the most macro to the most micro. We all have our voice and damn it, it’s important so it better be heard. “I am important! Hear me! Listen to me!” We beg to be noticed. We beg to be heard, to be understood, to be recognized for the righteousness of our beliefs. But something’s wrong with this machine. It’s not producing the desired results. What’s going on here? Why are we not being heard?
In the long-winded romance that Internet connectivity has brought us, we’ve left out one crucial aspect of this entire relationship. Our society has been so infatuated with communication, with sharing our own perspectives, that we have completely overlooked that there is another component in all of this. People are so focused on communicating a message, and being the first or most “liked” to do so, that we’ve forgotten the whole reason why we’re communicating in the first place: for a message to be received.
Somewhere, somehow, we lost sight of the fact that communication and connection is a two way street. It is a partnership in the most simple and purest form. If you take a look at the current status of communication, you will find that it is ego driven like never before. Yes, the ego is ever present and there’s no getting around that, but something is different this time.
So much emphasis has shifted towards HOW we communicate rather than WHAT we are communicating. It has become standard practice for companies, no matter the industry, to have a “presence” on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and whatever else we’re being told is the most popular way to connect with your consumer to increase “awareness.” Oh, the irony!
We have become so focused on communicating in the digital realm that we have let slip the nuances that make up communicating in “real life.” We have applied the same concepts of communication that have been deemed “successful” in the digital realm and expect them to translate to this realm of more fully encompassed energy.
All is not in vain, however, as we have come close to perfecting the how of communicating. We have made it as easy as possible for the ego to be heard. Now, it’s time to turn our focus on being conscious of how the communication is received. This of course has implications regarding the manner in which we communicate, the vessels we choose to occupy. But we must also be aware that receiving information is a process.
The mode, for all intensive purposes, is our voice, however you choose to express that – whether literally by speaking, through typing or through sharing it in a visual format. What is important though, is what our voice holds – the meaning, the intention, the energy we put into it – and how that “what” is received and processed by our intended parties.
Our words are vehicles for the energy we feel and create within ourselves. You can hear irritation in somebody’s voice. You can hear sadness and regret and everything along the entire spectrum of feeling. Without making the conscious decision, we put feeling into anything that holds an ounce of meaning for us. People seemed to have forgotten that.
With the absence of conscious, intended feeling as the core of our communication, we can’t seem to remember what it feels like to be on the receiving end of such a phenomenal thing. As a result, we have grown accustomed to receiving communication that has little or no feeling; a waste of time and energy but we hold onto it because it’s the only thing we have in this age of post-digital revolution. This has become our standard, and that is not ok. That will lead to our demise. It’s that simple.
What differentiates us from the rest of the living community is the degree and ease with which we communicate naturally. Yes, the world evolves, technology develops, but that is no reason to leave the heart of the matter to the winds of time. We must hold on to it, nurture it and allow it to grow.
We have convinced ourselves that this is how we humans are, that this is our nature. But it is not. It is in our nature to sense and to feel and to share that feeling with the rest of our human family. The intention behind our path is correct. We love to share. The structure is there for us; it has been created by the collective human consciousness. Now it is on the ego to fill it with meaning.
But of course, at the root of all this is our basic, instinctual desire to feel connected, to feel a part of something. So we talk until our voice is hoarse. We type until paralyzing carpal tunnel sets in. We like and friend and tweet until the entire day is wasted away. We must change this. This relationship is not working for us. We love you but it’s time to refocus on our collective, connected growth IRL.
Tane Kaymaz
Jeanne-Marie Joubert
Annie Holden
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Zohar is turning 13 soon and one of his Barmitzvah tasks in to write his dad a letter...but what will it say?
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DEAR ABBY: More than a year ago, you published a letter from "Mac in Oregon." He told you about his life and his battle with cancer and said he hoped his wife would not spend her life alone after he died.
Well, Mac lost his battle on May 30. He fought long enough to show great courage, but not so long as to destroy those he loved. He was as unselfish in death as he was in life.
I knew Mac for 42 years. He taught me about life, love, truth and mercy, and left me (and others) with sweet memories and a treasure trove of lessons about what is truly important. He wasn't rich, powerful or famous, but he was my dad. Rest in peace, Mac -- we love you still. -- TIM McSWAIN, LINCOLN PARK, N.J.
DEAR TIM: My heartfelt sympathy to you and your family. And now, as a tribute to Mac, I'm printing your father's letter that appeared in my column on April 24, 1990:
DEAR ABBY: Thank you for supporting the widow who started dating three months after her husband died. You were right to say, "The time to show respect for one's spouse is while that spouse is living." Here is my story, and there must be thousands of husbands (and wives) who feel as I do.
My wife and I had many good years together. We raised kids, lived through joyous good times and horrendous bad times.
I am in my 18th month of chemotherapy for various cancers. I may live three months or five years. It doesn't matter how short or long my life will be, but it's reasonable to assume that I will die before my wife does. I have had a more rewarding and fruitful life than I probably deserve, for which I am grateful. But the day I die, my last thoughts will be regret that I shall leave her alone. It's sad to know that after so many months of total concentration on my welfare -- days of putting up with my misery and never letting me see her own misery -- her reward will be to be left alone.
Abby, she is not the kind of person who should be alone. So I tell her now, and I want my kids and all my friends to listen: "As soon as you possibly can after throwing my ashes off the boat into the Pacific, wrap the memories of our life together around you -- and begin a new life. If three days, or three months after I'm gone, you find a man who will love and cherish you for a few years as I have for so many -- go for it! You've earned it." -- "MAC" IN OREGON
DEAR MAC: Your sincerity rings true, leaving me uncharacteristically speechless. Thanks for a two-hankie letter.
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Wilbur Wright died at the age of 45, a bachelor. Orville Wright lived to be 77 years old and married late in life. His wife was not as old as he was, but they had no children.
You were correct in stating that the Wright brothers do not have any direct descendants. -- HELEN L. THOMAS
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Bargain Bash! Uma Nota and Footprints in An Honest Farewell
February 13, 2017 / Jonathan
Anyone who's lived in Toronto for some time knows about Honest Ed's. For decades of Toronto's history, the big, tacky store at Bathurst and Bloor was THE destination for cheap housewares, gaudy colour schemes and corny puns on hand-painted signs. ("Welcome, don't faint at our low prices, there's no place to lie down" and "Only the floors are crooked!" are just a couple of examples.)In a recent post, Judith Cohen, an ethnomusicologist, folk musician and longtime member of the Uma Nota community (she's also the mother of performing artist Tamar Ilana), remembers some of the things she'd find at her "corner store" of 33 years.
“Everything” included... VHS tapes (back in the day)! The lowest pharmacy fees. Toothpaste. Photo albums at a fraction of camera store prices. Batteries. Coffee mugs. Kettles. Shower curtains. Socks. Kitchen clocks. Boots. Tinned sardines. Italian and Portuguese cooking oil. Light bulbs. Toys. When my daughter was little, I could outfit her for a summer for $20.Non-stick (sort of) frying pans. Bath towels, and beach towels with improbable designs. Blue jeans with only a few loose threads. Sturdy fall jackets. Dubious Birkenstock sandal imitations. Plastic lawn chairs. Bookshelves. Picture frames. Knitting wool. Clothes drying racks. Garish skirts and blouses labeled, with insouciant mendaciousness, “Fashion.” Hanukkah candles and chocolate coins, and for Passover, kosher matzah, grape juice and candied fruit.
The store's fame owed much to the late Ed Mirvish himself, an outgoing and jovial character whose giant retail operation paved the way for the Mirvish theatre production empire and the beloved Mirvish Village area on Markham St. beside the store. The theatre productions will continue, but the village will meet its end when the store, long since sold off, is demolished, turned into condos and retail units by its new owners. (The famous giant illuminated sign is being relocated to the Mirvish Theatre in the Entertainment District, The Globe and Mail reports.)While the "the longest goodbye in retail history," which included sales of all those hand-painted signs and the last of many clearance items, finished up on Dec. 31, 2016, there's a final series of events taking place in the giant old building in the Annex, and we invite you to participate. It's all happening as part of a four-day sendoff called An Honest Farewell, organized as part of the Toronto For Everyone "co-creating our city" initiative by The Centre for Social Innovation."We believe that Toronto can be the global model for inclusivity, community and social innovation," the Toronto For Everyone website explains. "Honest Ed’s may be closing its doors, but Ed’s legacy is his unique ability to foster community can carry on. For years, Ed opened his doors to immigrant families, hosted street parties and gave away free turkeys. Now it’s time for us to carry the torch through all of our city and community building initiatives, starting with TO4E this February 23-26, 2017." Honest Ed's get-down finale is called Bargain Bash (tickets here), happening on Saturday, February 25 starting at 9 p.m."Join us as we bring together some of the hottest dance parties in Toronto, all under one roof, for one truly epic Saturday night farewell extravaganza," T4EO invites. "Explore the newly empty rooms transformed, bask in palpable nostalgia and find yourself on one of three dance floors, participating in a night made for the history books."Featuring:
Footprints DJs Jason Palma and General Eclectic. Live Afro-Brazilian drumming performance by Maracatu Mar Aberto (presented by Uma Nota).
Electro Swing TO, Toronto's original speakeasy dance party, featuring resident DJs Medicineman & The Great Grantsby.
Hip hop, dancehall, soca, reggae, afrobeats and good music brought to you by Dre Ngozi and DJ Bambii.
This is a special one-off jam for the Bargain Bash festivities.Our groove affair goes down in the former Bad Boy space on Bathurst, and features the deep dance floor vinyl selections of Footprints DJs Jason Palma and General Eclectic with the polyrhythmic release of an Uma Nota live show, represented here with powerful Afro-Brazilian Maracatu rhythms and songs.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSfsypAACdw[/embed]At Bargain Bash, we present Maracatu Mar Aberto, whose thundering bass drums and rich, layered percussion hold the rhythm for beautiful Afro-Brazilian songs. Performing as a special guest with the maracatu drummers is Brazilian vocalist and past Uma Nota featured artist Flávia Nascimento, an award-winning singer/songwriter living in Quebec and recording original Brazilian-Canadian music.
Foot Prints LIVE DJ Mix - April 27th, 2013 Part 1 by Footprints Toronto on Mixcloud
Meanwhile, with a shared belief that you can't know your future until you know your past, Footprints DJs Jason Palma and General Eclectic showcase their unique all-inclusive approach to DJing and crate-digging at the monthly, vinyl-heavy open format dance party. Steadily packed with soulful dancers for the past 14+ years, Footprints is where Palma and G.E. connect the dots between wide varieties of music, from Funk, Soul, Disco, Afrobeat, Latin and Brazilian to Dub, Reggae, Electro, House and Hip Hop.What else can you expect? How about custom visual projections by Pleasurecraft Studio, an opening drum and horn parade into the space to honour the local community and history, and other surprises.Stay current on party updates with our Facebook event page and join us for Bargain Bash on February 25, along with Electroswing TO and Manifesto's High Power crew, and celebrate the official farewell party for Honest Ed's.
February 13, 2017 / Jonathan/
Footprints, General Eclectic, Honest Ed's, Jason Palma, Maracatu Mar Aberto, Toronto For Everyone
The Soul Motivators funk up Toronto with their debut EP release
If you're a lover of funk and soul music and you live in Toronto, the chances are you've already heard of The Soul Motivators. The nine-piece band has been together only a short time, but has hustled and sweated and played tirelessly to appear in numerous funk shows, festivals and special events around town in the one year-plus since they've been together. These eight guys and one soulful mama don't miss many chances to do their thing. What's most impressive is that the band has kept up the pace of their many shows, all while spending months in the studio recording their debut self-titled EP, which drops this March 2013 with shows in Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. The Soul Motivators, as their website bio describes them, are "here to restore your faith in funk." Their sound, guitarist and co-founder Voltaire Ramos explains, harkens back to something of a bygone era. Why do they want this sound? "It’s nostalgia for honest, authentic, non-commercially-driven music," he says. "It’s music from the gut ... you can really hear the gritty honesty just oozing out of '70s funk. I think the sound we love is driven by something other than chasing dollars and commercial success." That analog, one-take approach from their favourite '60s and '70s records remains a driving inspiration for their sound. They even limited themselves to eight microphones in the session, to "create that retro style and sound."Ramos notes that the band's members all came to funk -- along with influences like classic hip-hop, soul and Afrobeat -- in a number of ways. In his case, it was growing up in the '80s near Trinity Bellwoods Park and in the '90s in Rexdale where his crate-digging tendencies came about. "I was surrounded by hip-hop the whole time. I loved the fat bass lines, the drum breaks, the scratchy rhythm guitar, and the horns that were all over the samples they’d use," he says, citing the likes of Pete Rock & CL Smooth, NAS, A Tribe Called Quest and others as early references. "I started exploring the music they sampled and pretty much found a treasure trove of awesome music: obscure soul, funk, jazz – music that you would never hear on commercial radio."He also mentions that through the late-'90s Movement parties in Toronto, helmed by DJ Jason Palma, he learned to see the connections between different styles of music as diverse as hip-hop, house, Afrobeat, Latin, blues and soul. Other members of The Soul Motivators may have different trajectories for finding the music they wanted to make with this project, but they've ended up together in a formation that allows them to produce the sounds they love. The band formed in 2011 after Ramos, drummer Doug Melville and keyboard player James Robinson decided to change up the funk approach from a previous group they'd been in (Ambassadors, circa 2009). "We wanted to explore a rawer, grittier sound." They soon connected with bassist Marc Shapiro of King Sunshine, and added him on, along with the three-man horn section of Nathan Dell-Vandenberg (trombone), Dominique Morier (saxophone) and Thomas Moffett (trumpet). Next came vocalist Lydia Persaud and finally, percussionist Nigel Pitt on congas, bells and other fun rhythmic elements. The Soul Motivators - Gravy Train from Orange Peel Pictures on Vimeo.Soul Motivators caught the attention of Toronto's CBC Radio One early on: Until the Sun Goes Down was a track of the week on the afternoon show Here and Now, and Gravy Train, another signature tune, received a fair bit of airplay. After we heard Gravy Train, we had to ask about the story behind the song, and its composer, keyboard player James Robinson obliged:"As a songwriter, I wanted to pay tribute to James Brown's soul divas - Lyn Collins, Marva Whitney et al. They'd sing songs of empowerment after being messed around by a no-good man. There's a universality to that, just as many of us have been hard done by in the recent economic downtown. So it's a two-fold response to those two scenarios. Of course, you can infer a little 'local flavour' if you wish (not naming any names; nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say no more). This song gets a good reaction at shows because lyrically it appeals to Toronto. But more than that, its a soulful 12-bar groove you'd find on a dusty, old 45. A rare gem from the bottom of the crate. And it makes you wanna move!" Of the many gigs they've played in their year or so together, the band counts high-profile opening slots for the likes of Lee Fields and Afrika Bambaataa (this past fall 2012) among the highlights, but they have also played memorable happenings like Footprints' Halloween jam last October and parties at the Great Hall such as CirQlar's Shag in February 2012 and Jen Orenstein of Maracatu Mar Aberto's recent My Funky Valentine bash. (They also maintain a monthly residency at the Orbit Room every second Thursday of the month.) And while it may surprise those who think of Toronto as a cultural hotspot, Ramos gives the prize for most memorable audience to a gig in Hamilton (then again, this may not surprise anyone who's been to a (non-Uma Nota) show in Toronto in the last, oh, several years)."It was only about 150 people but the reception was crazy, it was rammed, " says Ramos. "People were literally jumping in the air, kicking their shoes off, pouring out this intense energy to us. We had no choice but to pour it right back." For pure electricity at a show, he says nothing has quite touched that night in Hamilton so far.But with the EP release coming up, the band has a few special treats in store. For one, they will perform never-before-heard originals along with a slate of new cover tunes, as well as their other original tunes from the album. They will also try a DJ-live band collaboration, starting from a vinyl track and using it to transition to the live band performance, a first for the Soul Motivators in concert.Get ready to motivate yourself onto that dance floor, if you know what's good for you.The Soul Motivators Toronto EP release takes place on Friday, March 15, with the Soul Motivators live alongside DJs Andy B. Bad and Voltaire (of the Soul Surrender series). Venue: Bite, 423 College St. Tickets: $10 cover at the door. Doors: 10 p.m. More info: Soul Motivators website, Facebook event page.
funk, James Robinson, Jason Palma, Nathan Dell-Vandenberg, soul, Soul Motivators, Toronto underground funk, Voltaire Ramos
Afro Connections: Wunmi in Toronto
March 01, 2012 / Jason
Africa has long been regarded as ground zero for the beat and the sole birthplace of rhythm. Without exaggeration, it is the very epicentre from which an endless stream of beat-driven music has flowed since day one. But while the continent itself is as varied musically as anywhere else in the world, we tend to use just one single word to describe the many polyrhythmic influences this part of the globe has given us. That word, of course, is "Afro."Now, this word tends to gets tossed around a lot, but nowhere in the world is it more at home than in Brazil, where rhythmical styles like Samba, Maracatu and Batucada trace their lineage from the African experience.This Saturday's show at Revival in Toronto will feature a great musical encounter from these two areas of the world:For one, we'll showcase the one and only Wunmi from Nigeria. She first appeared back in the late '90s, collaborating with the likes of Bugz In The Attic, Masters At Work and Osunlade and helping to kickstart the whole neo-Afrobeat scene that would soon spread across underground movements in both the U.K. and the U.S. Her stage presence, style of musical attack and singing voice are comparable to greats that have come before her (namely Fela Kuti and Victor Oliaya, among others). What's interesting to note is that while she remains true to this long line of Afrobeat legends, she is a woman in an field traditionally dominated by men. This combination of sensitivity and vulnerability coupled with a hard-edged stage presence creates something entirely new to be experienced and is sure to make this weekends show very special indeed. (More about Wunmi on her very nicely designed website.)
The other part of this Saturday's show (a co-production with United Soul) is a showcase of our Uma Nota mainstays Maracatu Mar Aberto. Billed this time out as Mar Aberto Percussion, this performance will feature a pared-down version of our beloved super group playing various drums and instruments alongside myself, DJ General Eclectic. Expect to hear a broad cross section of Brazilian music, specifically Afro-Brazilian styles like Samba, Bossa Nova and MPB alongside newer underground beat productions. This will be our first DJs-and-drumbeats type of event since our three-day festival last November, so we're all super excited to create a dynamic showcase and also reconnect with our music-loving community! See more about the event on our Facebook event page.
March 01, 2012 / Jason/
Artists, Music, Uma Nota Culture
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HomeEditorialDid the police conspire to frame Sierra Leone’s opposition leader?
Did the police conspire to frame Sierra Leone’s opposition leader?
October 28, 2012 Abdul Rashid Thomas Editorial 1
When the Sierra Leone Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) saw it fit to put out a public statement, expressing concern “about an incident, which took place in Freetown on Friday 12th October 2012, involving the motorcade of His Excellency the President – Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and the motorcade of the flag bearer of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) – Brigadier Rtd. Julius Maada Bio”, you know that the country had come very close to another civil upheaval, the outcome of which no one could have predicted.
The commercial district of Freetown came to a chilling standstill that Friday, as a deadly shootout between the armed guards of president Koroma and those of the opposition SLPP leader, was averted by a struck of fate rather than by design.
Should the armed guards of both sides have opened fire on each other, what would have been the fate of the president and the opposition leader? Would they have survived the carnage?
Would that shooting have marked the beginning of yet another senseless civil war in Sierra Leone?
Some analysts in Freetown believe that the incident was planned and stage managed by those wanting to derail the democratisation process in Sierra Leone.
Others have gone so far as to accuse senior police officers and key members of the ruling APC party of conspiring to instigate violence in the country, for which the opposition SLPP presidential candidate would have been held responsible ahead of elections in November.
There are strong suspicions that senior police officers deliberately bungled the logistic and traffic planning arrangements, usually put in place to ensure the safety and security of the president.
As a result of this conspiracy, heavily armed guards of both sides came face to face in a massive traffic jam, which could have been avoided, had the police gone about their job in their usual manner.
The question being asked, just three weeks before presidential election is held, is whether the president himself was party to the deadly conspiracy, designed to lure the opposition SLPP presidential candidate – Julius Maada Bio into a violent confrontation with the armed presidential bodyguards.
This incident could have at best led to the arrest of Maada Bio, and worse – killed in the ensuing gun battle.
Critics say that the senior police officers responsible for traffic planning and presidential security knew and approved Maada Bio’s travel schedule and traffic detail.
The police also knew about the president’s travel and traffic arrangements, well in advance to ensure that the route to be taken by the president was cleared.
But it seems the police had a different plan and motive.
Freetown is a densely populated city, with one of the worst traffic congestion problems in the West African sub-region. It is therefore unthinkable that the police could have got it so terribly wrong on Friday, 12th October.
The leaders and supporters of both political parties had been rallying in the streets of Freetown, as they launched their election manifestos, marking the start of campaigning.
Security, law and order ought to have been at the top of the police’s agenda, but they just weren’t. Why?
Following the approval of the travel and traffic plans of Julius Maada Bio by the police, arrangement was made for a team of armed police officers to be embedded within his convey and to take the lead, as the convoy made its way from the east of Freetown to the commercial district of the city.
As both president and opposition convoys set off from different locations, heading towards the same direction, it was obvious that confrontation was inevitable.
A close confidant of the opposition SLPP leader told the Sierra Leone Telegraph that; “Maada Bio was unaware that the president was also stuck in the chaotic and heavily congested traffic, heading towards Goderich Street.”
“Bio’s vehicle was on the other side of the road, with cars in front and at the back of the convoy of eight vehicles” he said.
And as we have also learnt, there were police officers travelling with Maada Bio, who ought to have known of the on-coming presidential convoy and who also, should have led Bio’s convoy away from the presidential route.
But it seems the police had a somewhat different agenda.
What used to be routine traffic planning, had become a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
“There were many people – SLPP party supporters dancing behind Bio’s convoy as it made its way across Kissy Road, heading for Goderich Street. The police could have diverted Bio’s vehicles to Ross Road. And the police officers travelling with the opposition leader showed no concern.”
Then it happened. The people of Sierra Leone were facing a nightmare scenario, recklessly engineered by senior police officers to cause mayhem, as both convoys met head on at Goderich Street.
Weapons were drawn, guns uncorked, but no bullets fired. The body guards in both convoys had served in the country’s army that was once headed by the opposition SLPP presidential candidate – Maada Bio.
It seems those who planned and engineered the incident had forgotten to inform the body guards to open fire, once both convoys meet head on; or could it be that the body guards of both Bio and Koroma are not as unprofessional and dumb as was thought.
Their decision to show restraint in the face of such dangerous and risky encounter, perhaps unwittingly averted what could have led to serious and uncontrollable violence in the country.
According to the statement released by the police after the incident, the opposition SLPP leader – Maada Bio, had disobeyed their orders for his convoy not to approach Goderich Street. This sounds highly implausible.
Why the police officers embedded in Bio’s convoy, did not simply divert his convoy to avoid any possible confrontation with the presidential motorcade is a valid question that must be asked.
Was there a conspiracy by senior police officers to ensure that both convoys meet head on, with the expectation of a deadly shoot out?
There is little doubt, had violence erupted at the scene, Bio would at best have been arrested, charged with treason and disqualified from contesting the forthcoming elections in November.
Some analysts have speculated that perhaps, should violence have erupted leading to widespread revolt in the country, the police and the army would have seized the opportunity to take over State House.
The constitution would have been suspended, a state of emergency declared – once again heralding the return of martial law in Sierra Leone.
Was president Koroma an innocent sitting duck in his convoy, oblivious of any conspiracy to frame the opposition SLPP leader, or was he a party to that conspiracy?
Can the police be trusted to oversee a free and peaceful election in November?
Let truth be told
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Alusine Amara says:
I don’t think there was a conspiracy with such intentions, but I believe should that ugly situation ended the way the article’s author imagined, the consequences could have been what he feared.
The security and traffic lapses bear the hallmark of Sierra Leone’s Police anaemic professionalism and the lack of capacity to adequately handle the affairs of state security.
However, what makes matters worse is the political influence that constantly pervades their operational decision making, up their ranks.
It was an isolated incident that yet exposed the pitfalls we have in the institutions that should constitutionally maintain law and order. Look at the judiciary, for example – the miscarriages and executive interference.
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