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A TEDx talk is another arrow in the quiver for authors to propel their book… or to get a book deal.
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Learn about how a TEDx Talk can help you make it big as an author.
Technology, Entertainment, and Design or TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading ideas in the form of short yet powerful talks. Since its inception in 1984, its talks have covered a plethora of topics such as science, art, business, global issues, and education.
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While TED talks take a global approach to a topic and must be hosted by experts, TEDx talks focus on a local community and can be organized by just about anyone. Believe it or not, there are many authors that have given TEDx talks and landed book deals as a result.
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If you’re interested in taking your career and book to the next level, getting involved in a TEDx talk may be a great idea. Here are 17 TEDx talks around the country that you can apply to as an author.
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If you do decide to participate in a TEDx talk, it’s important to listen and watch various talks so that you can get a feel for what they are like and what the audience expects to see. “TEDx presentations are an art form,” says Jess Todtfeld former TV producer for NBC, ABC and FOX-TV. “You have to deliver on the theme of the event and speak without notes. I help authors and experts fine-tune their talks to fit the TEDx style so they can crush the talk,” says Todtfeld.
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Also, when speaking in a TEDx talk, focus on one idea worth spreading, create a hook that grabs the audience’s attention and sparks their curiosity, and make sure you are clear and conversational. In addition, keep in mind that some TEDx talks require video applications or in-person auditions.
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Popularity vs Population
Posted on October 3, 2008 by spinks
As I write this, the game has been live for exactly a fortnight. In those two weeks, many elves have been slaughtered (1000 by me alone, apparently), many seeds have been sown, many keeps have fallen, many guilds and alliances have been created, and the paths around Nordenwatch have probably been haunting the dreams of tens of thousands of people. It’s been great!
And Destruction outnumbers Order on pretty much every single server, both EU and US/Oz. We knew by the end of closed beta that this was a possibility. All the surveys backed it up. But we didn’t know for sure how much of an issue it was going to be. In a sense we still don’t — the majority of players who started at the outset are not yet into Tier 4 so balance in the endgame is still something of an enigma.
It certainly hasn’t stopped people from having fun and levelling characters. Order has way fewer queues and shorter waits for scenarios on average. We’ve been able to take keeps and hold them- then they get retaken. Tier 3 on Burlok has been pretty solidly in Destruction hands all week, for example. But we’re still levelling (mostly) and when people are struggling through the windswept tundra of their 20s towards the heady climes of Tier 4, they won’t always want to take time off for keep take operations.
I’m expecting that we’ll usually be able to take keeps when we want to, assuming we can put some kind of organised force together. But it will be an uphill struggle to hold them for any length of time, especially if Destruction is bored and spoiling for a fight. As Order, we can get fights pretty much whenever we like; we set the terms on which PvP is played. If we don’t go out into world PvP then there simply won’t be any.
And in the endgame, Tier 3 and Tier 4 keeps both contribute towards being able to ‘lock down’ the zones. What we don’t know yet is how difficult it will be for an outnumbered side to be able to do this. In a few weeks time, we’ll know if any Order teams have been able to stage a city siege themselves. Certainly it’s an uphill struggle when the numbers are against you. But certainly I know that I intend to siege The Inevitable City, alongside my guild and alliance and friends. I don’t entirely know how yet but I know that we will find a way to do it.
In the worst case, if there are servers where Destruction constantly knocks Altdorf over and Order never get a chance to regroup, then people will get demoralised and leave or swap sides. This is one of the big balancing points with PvP in general. You want to win. But unless you are a griefer you don’t want your opponents to actually throw in the towel and quit. And if people feel like they have no chance, a lot of them will decide not to bother.
The main thing is that the Order players need to feel that they have a chance. You can do a lot with a ball of string, a couple of warrior priests, a keg of ale, and hope.
Some of this comes down to the players. It’s down to us to forge strong alliances, sort ourselves out, and make sure people know that our faction/server is welcoming to new players, well organised, and has a lot going on. And to keep our spirits high and keep trying. Nothing is inevitable.
Some of it comes down to Mythic. The underpopulated side will need tougher NPCs and tougher keep defences, especially on the fortresses, to make up for the lack of numbers. They’ll need to fix this anyhow after the Karak Eight Peaks city siege this week, and I’m expecting to see some kind of announcement from them on the subject soon. Unlike Tobold, I don’t like the idea of forcibly eliminating alarm clock raids. If raid leaders can muster 40 players who are willing to get up at stupid o’clock to play a game, good luck to them. I wouldn’t do it, but the servers are up 24/7 so it’s fair play. It’s important to a lot of players that we have the illusion of free will, so if we think of a (non exploiting) tactic, we’re able to try it out.
So what can you do without restricting player choice?
The population issues in WAR remind me that this style of game relies entirely on player preference to sort out the numbers of classes and sides. We had these discussions months ago about the lack of tanks in WoW. Without a mechanic to encourage or enforce people to play under-represented roles or sides, these imbalances can and do happen. Over time, it’s assumed that players will tend to balance things out. But what if they don’t?
The trouble for Mythic is that in this case, it’s mostly to do with the look and feel of the sides which is something they don’t have a lot of control over. Was it crazy not to have at least one big and imposing tank on the Order side? In retrospect yes, but there’s a limit to what you can do within the IP. I know people have suggested that bringing back the Knight of the Blazing Sun as an Empire tank would help but have you seen those guys? (The first quest giver in the Empire starter zone is a knight if you want to check an NPC out.) Yes they have plate armour. Yes they also have fwoofy feathers in their hats. They aren’t big ugly lumps of meat like the Black Orc and Chaos Chosen. They were never all that popular in beta polls and I don’t think that people would find them very imposing now. They look great, I’d love to see them back, but I don’t think it would miraculously get large numbers of people on-side.
Dwarf slayers would be a better enticement. They’re iconic and loads of people love playing hit-it-with-an-axe-until-it-stops-moving melee classes. It might even be possible to add the Order classes in but not the Destruction ones. That wouldn’t really affect balance, Destruction already has its aura tank and a few extra melee here or there would only counterbalance the tank-tastic armies that Destruction likes to send out (ie. the counter classes for any new melee are already present in large numbers).
I think Mythic are right to take a hands off approach. This is a genre that thrives on the illusion of player freedom. People like to play what they like, where they like, when they like. People get attached to their characters. Forcing anyone to play anything is a sure way to piss off the player base. But they also can’t conjure new players from nowhere.
It’s also key to the game that the classes and PvP are balanced for each other. There has to be no question of making the Order classes more powerful in order to make them more appealing. It would work, but it would totally undermine the game. Besides which, we don’t want to storm every scenario because of imbalances. We want good fights too.
Inducements for people to play Order might work, as long as they don’t affect PvP balance. Levelling and renown boosts aren’t really needed at the moment, but they probably would be the easiest way to encourage new players to give the realm a look. A better way to balance would be to reward Destruction players who switch to Order alts; it’s a very tough sell but people who were considering the idea anyway might be open to it.
We won’t really know how this will work out for a few more weeks yet. And it’s down to the Order players to try to pull together on their servers even with a numbers disadvantage. It is our game to lose. But you have to wonder whether a balanced MMO PvP game can ever really work when you give players total freedom to pick what they play.
Adding Skaven as a Destruction race in an expansion could deal a deathblow to Order. Unless they could be added as a third side … maybe that’s where the longterm answer will lie.
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Brian, on October 3, 2008 at 12:33 pm said:
With the number of people who want to play Skaven, I agree that adding the race would cause serious population issues to an already imbalanced situation. If you want to boost Order’s population by adding a new race/faction, then look no further than the Brettonians. People would swarm to play Lancelot, Nimue, or Robin Hood knock-offs.
However, I don’t see a new race coming into play on either side for quite a while. Adding an Empire knight class, and a dwarf melee DPS class (the Trollslayer would bring in more people than the Hammerer) would attract a few more people to Order.
Jace, on October 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm said:
I’m playing Order at the moment and am trying my best to make it home however I keep getting tempted by Destruction for 2 reasons . . . Black Orcs and Marauders.
As has been mentioned the lack of an Order tank class that actually looks like it means business is definitely hurting the population balance, as is the lack of a suitably bad-ass looking dual wielding melee death machine.
Bjorn, on October 3, 2008 at 2:58 pm said:
You have a point on the limitation of the IP for the Knights. Yet, they kept them out for a reason so hopefully the Knight will see some changes before it is finally introduced. They do need to look at at least attempting to make them as bad ass as possible within certain reasonable limits. Perhaps shoot more for the Knight in Shining Armor look, but that will probably come with Bretonnia. The bad ass look is probably not possible but striking and impressive at some level is a must.
I cannot see a third side, even with an underground Skaven, ever working in this game given the way that the zones and sieges are setup. I could, however, see a pairing, mostly underground, between the Skaven and the Lizard men. And the Lizard men would definitely add some cool factor to the order side. It works within the lore and could help balance things though it would be pretty freaky to see some big ass, tanking Lizard man wondering around Altdorf.
Lizardmen vs Skaven, thats my vote for the first expansion.
I suggested this in the comments on Tobold post but I will mention it again here in the interest of throwing the idea out on the table to see what folks think.
I completely agree that restricting when raids happen arbitrarily would be a horrible solution. But they could possibly be restricted based on overall activity. Base the restriction on the overall flux of victory points throughout the pairing during the siege by having using the amount of victory points generated to restrict npc reinforcements. In other words, at 3 am, when the population is low for both sides but you have one industrious guild hit a fortress, why should it be difficult for the King to mount an overwhelming defense. The war is not raging significantly anywhere else in the kingdom so he should have lots of resources to throw at the keep. But during peak hours, when the population for you side is high, (and usually similarly high for the other side), the victory points are flying in every zone and the troops are pressed on all sides then the reinforcements for the keep will be slow or non existent. This will encourage sieges to happen naturally at peak hours and it will get lowbies involved in the effort and feel that they are more directly contributing to the capture the the greatest objectives. This is realm vs realm after all so it should take the whole realm’s effort to take at least the fortresses and cities.
Another recommendation would be to add a delay for locking down successive zones. starting in neutral territory and quickly taking the enemies frontier and then fortress and then city all in a few hours at night should not be possible. Moving the lines back over the course of several days of effort would be far more dramatic and lend to the epic feel of a victory. Of course people have to sleep and work so these objectives taken can’t be allowed to so very easily be taken back by the enemy in the middle of the night so perhaps again the retaking of a zone and its keeps might some how be linked to the overall war effort effecting the reinforcement of NPC defenders. This would give a reasonable chance for people to come back online the next night and be able to pick things back up where they were left. The idea of victory point flux would also make it more important for the sieging army to actively hold and defend the other fortresses during peak hours if they want to maintain the siege on the city.
Which leads me to my final recommendation. That once the two fortresses are locked down there should be a delay before the doors of the city are busted open and it becomes truly contested. Having vast army sitting just outside the city for a few hours or even a day while the gates are being pounded on would again be very dramatic and could be taken care of War effort style. Basically. all victory points throughout the realm, or only a portion of victory points from uncontrolled regions could contribute to the breaking of the gates. this would give everyone in the realm that sense of “everyone push NOW!” Also, it would tend to push the breaking of the gates to happen somewhere around primetime more often since that will be the time of the greatest generation of victory points. To this you could add some repeatable collection quests. Say the donation of potions, talismans and the ingredients to make them as a why to stock pile defensive points for your city to be used during the siege, making the enemy’s attack take longer to succeed. Again, a great way to get lowbies more directly involved in defense.
In the end, no matter how the problem is solved. It simply shouldn’t be possible for a single guild or warband to capture a city, or even a fortress, ever. It should, for the most part, take the effort of a whole realm to take the biggest objectives in the game. This is, after all, REALM vs REALM.
AW, on October 3, 2008 at 6:45 pm said:
It’s a ways off, but I don’t think adding one race to each side will be the answer. As mentioned, though, it seems like it would be intriguing to add another realm. Skaven on their own might not be enough but Skaven and Undead? Probably pretty darn complex to pull off, but it would be fun to see it.
In the short term, I am thinking that adding classes to Order and not destruction might be the way to go.
Lalkin, on October 3, 2008 at 9:41 pm said:
I rally don’t understand why people don’t like the Order tanks. Swordmasters are awesome. Sure, at low levels it looks like they wear dresses but by late T1 you can get metal armors and who doesn’t like a sword as tall as you are.
Plus, as least in my experience, we destroy chosen, who look pretty generic IMO.
Levi, on October 4, 2008 at 10:24 am said:
An extreme measure would be to make Ogres the tank for Empire. That would be very cool, scary and you could fit them into lore as mercenaries the Empire has hired to combat the sheer overwhelming numbers of chaos. Because in it’s darkest hour the Empire will go to extreme measures to survive.
Kazok, on October 6, 2008 at 8:34 am said:
Troll Slayers are probably Games Workshop’s most iconic dwarf creation, and leaving them out was a big mistake I think. Yes there are massive design issues with them, difficult to give them visual progression for one, but they managed that with Witch Elves. No one cares about Hammerers, not even Mythic.
The only way I can see a third side being added is if every existing zone got an underground section, but I just don’t see it. There’s a massive population imbalance to overcome adding a faction late in the day. I think they’d have really had to put a third side in right from the start for it to be workable.
Order will struggle with any expansion pairings. Lizardmen offer us something cool, but are people going to choose them over Skaven? I have to disagree with an earlier poster, Brettonians are dull as ditchwater. Who needs another human faction, especially if the Empire get their knight eventually? You could argue the same about Wood Elves, but at least with them you get Wardancers and perhaps Dryads. I suppose they could stretch things to bring the Tomb Kings in on Order’s side to offer something a bit different, but I’ll lay money on Vampire Counts winning in the popularity stakes if they’re ever pitted against each other.
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MUNICIPALITY OF monte castello di vibio
1.700 (300 in the borgo)
SS. Filippo e Giacomo, May 3rd
Tourist office, via Roma 1 – Ph. 075 8780711
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The name Monte Castello derives from the typical medieval fortress built on top of the hill, while the addition of the word Vibio dates back to 1863 when, by royal decree, municipalities had to take on new names in order to distinguish themselves, after the Unification of Italy, from places with the same name. Vibio probably derives from the name of an ancient family from Perugia which was also that of a Roman emperor.
Monte Castello di Vibio retains the look of a medieval castrum. It stands on a hill, which offers a unique view of the Umbrian hills and the Tiber valley.
From afar, you can admire the borgo with the colour of the antique red roof tiles of its beautiful stone dwellings surrounded by the green countryside.
Flashes of light, shadows, and that of twilight strike the visitor while walking along its narrow streets, going around the fourteenth century Tower of Porta di Maggio, the medieval well-cistern, the portal of its former sixteenth century monastery; and all the other details that capture the visitors attention.
Inside the Church of Santa Illuminata, once a seventeenth century oratory, now with nineteenth century modifications, is a miraculous crucifix, already described in a Gothic manuscript, that is venerated .
Talking about miracles, we would like to mention the nineteenth-century parish church dedicated to San Filippo and Giacomo, which preserves the statue of the Madonna dei Portenti, so called for its miraculous properties that were recognized by the inhabitants.
The square of the church, dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, is like a balcony over Umbria.
The borgo was once a papal fiefdom, as evidenced by the presence of many ancient towers and Guelph merlons.
The citizens of Monte Castello succeeded in building a theatre at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which in 2008 celebrated its bicentenary. Teatro della Concordia was designed during the French post revolutionary period and reflects the soul of the borgo in miniature.
It is an intimate place, a masterpiece frescoed in 1892 by the young painter Luigi Agretti (1877-1937), who was spending a holiday in Monte Castello; he was the son of Caesar from Perugia, already the author of the decorations of the drop-curtain and the backdrop of theatre.
In addition to the vaulted ceiling and the foyer of the theatre, Luigi Agretti also painted the apse of the Church of Santa Illuminata.
You cannot leave Monte Castello without a visit to the beautiful hamlet of Doglio, placed even further up the wooded hill on the road to Todi. Doglio was a Ghibelline castle that overlooked the Guelphs of Orvieto.
There is a stone coat-of-arms with the eagle of Todi on the fourteenth-century Porta Fuje, from which you can enter the old borgo.
The territory of Monte Castello di Vibio is also included in the “Strada dell’olio extravergine d’oliva DOP Umbria”. Therefore, its main product is Olive-oil that comes from the olive groves of the hills that surround the borgo.
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Although the dog days of the offseason that are quickly approaching are voluntary, they can also be vital, especially when it comes to coaxing necessary improvements from younger players. Today our objective is to focus specifically on the “rookie redshirts,” players who were nonfactors in Year 1 — whether the result of injuries, inexperience or it simply wasn’t yet their time to shine. Rest assured, if they’re on this list, their teams are expecting that time to be now. New England Patriots OT Isaiah Wynn Imagine suffering a season-ending ruptured Achilles in your first preseason, only to see your team win the Super Bowl with your college teammate and fellow first-rounder serving as a catalyst, then being thrust into a more prominent role in your redshirt season than the one you were ticketed for out of the gate. Wynn doesn’t have to imagine. After being selected 23rd overall and penciled in as New England’s starting right tackle, his rookie campaign ended after only nine preseason snaps, when he fell awkwardly into Tom Brady following a push from Eagles Pro Bowler Michael Bennett. Nine months later, Wynn has yet to be cleared for activity but already is being penciled in as the replacement for Trent Brown, the NFL’s largest man, with its largest contract belonging to an offensive lineman. Did we mention Wynn, who started 15 games at left tackle for the Bulldogs in 2017, is tasked with protecting the GOAT’s blind side?
Washington RB Derrius Guice After his tumultuous pre-draft process ended last year with a tumble to Washington in the latter part of Round 2, the former LSU feature back tore his left ACL only six carries into his preseason debut. It was actually a carry called back by penalty after going for 34 yards and both displaying Guice’s exceptional abilities and derailing his rookie season. Although Guice’s injury in many ways foreshadowed another disastrous season in Washington ransacked by ailments to many of the team’s most important players, he watched future Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson arrive as his replacement days later and author his eighth 1,000-yard season. If that wasn’t hard enough, Guice also saw A.D. re-signed in March to a contract worth up to $8 million before Washington drafted another back with a recent ACL tear, Stanford’s Bryce Love. Just as Guice can offer a layer of insurance in front of Love, Peterson’s presence should prevent Washington from calling on the sophomore any sooner than needed. But all eyes will be on Guice and whether after two years of disappointing setbacks, he can rediscover the devastating 2016 form that once seemingly made him a first-round lock.
Cleveland Browns OG Austin Corbett So he wasn’t up to the task of replacing legendary LT Joe Thomas? Few would be. Now the question becomes whether Corbett — the first player drafted last year on Day 2, at No. 33 overall — can fill the shoes of Kevin Zeitler, who was shipped from Cleveland to New York in exchange for pass rusher Olivier Vernon. While the two O-linemen selected immediately after him were forging All-Rookie campaigns, Corbett logged only 14 snaps for a Browns team that arguably was still flying somewhat under the radar after drafting Baker Mayfield and appearing on “Hard Knocks.” Enter OBJ, Kareem Hunt, Vernon, Sheldon Richardson and rookie head coach Freddie Kitchens on the heels of Mayfield’s oft-spectacular debut that yielded seven wins — three more than the previous three seasons combined — and Cleveland is a legitimate playoff hopeful and must-see theater. That actually might work to Corbett’s advantage, allowing him to toil in obscurity as he takes his lumps. That could change fast, though, the first time the Browns projected starting right guard is whipped by — :: checks Cleveland’s schedule:: — any of the star DTs he’ll see in the first month of the season, including Tennessee’s Jurrel Casey, Jets No. 3 overall pick Quinnen Williams and two-time reigning Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Ronald Jones The good news for Jones: the Bucs didn’t draft a running back and incumbent starter Peyton Barber is imminently replaceable. Bruce Arians is installing a big-strike offense that can create chances underneath for Jones, who entered the league with a reputation for being an explosive playmaker. Plus, Arians has flowered his young back with praise this offseason. The bad news for Jones: his rookie season was so awful that only four qualifying backs in the league ranked worst in Football Outsiders DVOA metric than the former Trojan, who was never even truly considered to replace Barber after being selected 38th overall. He finished more than a yard under the “Mendoza line” for running backs. The ugly news for Jones: He’s yet to show little at any level as a pass catcher, unlike former Cardinal Andre Ellington, who reunited with Arians this spring. Jones also might never be the type (unlike the bigger back Barber) who’s able to consistently create his own holes, and Tampa’s O-line is among the league’s most overrated.
New England Patriots CB Duke Dawson Despite returning from injured reserve from a hamstring injury by mid-November, Dawson became the first second-rounder of the Bill Belichick era not to dress as a rookie, according to Patriotswire.com. That’s not great, especially since JC Jackson emerged from the UDFA ranks to become one of the league’s stickiest cover men as a rookie. Dawson now not only must compete with the bigger Jackson but King-sized second-rounder Joejuan Williams, whom Bill Belichick moved up to select in Round 2. Though it could prove problematic for Dawson, it’s a typical good problem for the Patriots. To wit: New England has among the NFL’s biggest incoming draft classes — 10 men, bested only by Arizona, Seattle and Minnesota — is projected to have another double-digit draft haul with multiple third-round compensatory picks next year and is the only team to appear twice on this list.
Just missed the cut: Minnesota Vikings CB Mike Hughes It appears Minnesota might manage its significant cap constraints without trading one of its promising corners in contract years, Trae Waynes and Mackensie Alexander. But Hughes had provided some nice flashes prior to ripping up his knee in Week 6 and will need to reemerge on special teams, if not ‘D,’ in a make-or-break year for the Vikings. Miami Dolphins RB Kalen Ballage The ‘Phins speedy big back has caught the attention of new coach Brian Flores and managed 5.1 yards per carry, albeit only 36, under Adam Gase. He has soft hands to help in the receiving game, too, but Miami is throwing a ton in its RB corps to see what sticks. Jacksonville Jaguars WR DJ Chark The tantalizing second-round size-speed prospect wasn’t ready to be a rookie factor, which wasn’t unexpected after he was rarely utilized at LSU. The Jaguars need Chark (and 2018 first-rounder Taven Bryan) to be ready this year as the replacements for Donte Moncrief and Malik Jackson. Los Angeles Rams OL Joe Noteboom Noteboom actually fared OK in the regular-season finale, when he spelled LT Andrew Whitworth in his easily his most extensive rookie action. He could be OK inside, too, where he’ll have a chance to replace departed Rodger Saffold or deficient Austin Blythe. But the Rams O-line turnover is worrisome with Jared Goff not known for his resourcefulness.
5 'rookie redshirts' we're most excited to see in Year 2
We spend so much time each offseason analyzing comings and goings and dissecting rookie and free-agent classes that it can be easy to forget another method by which teams can improve: internal reinforcements.
Although the dog days of the offseason that are quickly approaching are voluntary, they can also be vital, especially when it comes to coaxing necessary improvements from younger players.
Today our objective is to focus specifically on the “rookie redshirts,” players who were nonfactors in Year 1 — whether the result of injuries, inexperience or it simply wasn’t yet their time to shine. Rest assured, if they’re on this list, their teams are expecting that time to be now.
New England Patriots OT Isaiah Wynn
Imagine suffering a season-ending ruptured Achilles in your first preseason, only to see your team win the Super Bowl with your college teammate and fellow first-rounder serving as a catalyst, then being thrust into a more prominent role in your redshirt season than the one you were ticketed for out of the gate.
Wynn doesn’t have to imagine. After being selected 23rd overall and penciled in as New England’s starting right tackle, his rookie campaign ended after only nine preseason snaps, when he fell awkwardly into Tom Brady following a push from Eagles Pro Bowler Michael Bennett.
Nine months later, Wynn has yet to be cleared for activity but already is being penciled in as the replacement for Trent Brown, the NFL’s largest man, with its largest contract belonging to an offensive lineman.
Did we mention Wynn, who started 15 games at left tackle for the Bulldogs in 2017, is tasked with protecting the GOAT’s blind side?
Washington RB Derrius Guice
After his tumultuous pre-draft process ended last year with a tumble to Washington in the latter part of Round 2, the former LSU feature back tore his left ACL only six carries into his preseason debut. It was actually a carry called back by penalty after going for 34 yards and both displaying Guice’s exceptional abilities and derailing his rookie season.
Although Guice’s injury in many ways foreshadowed another disastrous season in Washington ransacked by ailments to many of the team’s most important players, he watched future Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson arrive as his replacement days later and author his eighth 1,000-yard season. If that wasn’t hard enough, Guice also saw A.D. re-signed in March to a contract worth up to $8 million before Washington drafted another back with a recent ACL tear, Stanford’s Bryce Love.
Just as Guice can offer a layer of insurance in front of Love, Peterson’s presence should prevent Washington from calling on the sophomore any sooner than needed. But all eyes will be on Guice and whether after two years of disappointing setbacks, he can rediscover the devastating 2016 form that once seemingly made him a first-round lock.
Cleveland Browns OG Austin Corbett
So he wasn’t up to the task of replacing legendary LT Joe Thomas? Few would be. Now the question becomes whether Corbett — the first player drafted last year on Day 2, at No. 33 overall — can fill the shoes of Kevin Zeitler, who was shipped from Cleveland to New York in exchange for pass rusher Olivier Vernon.
While the two O-linemen selected immediately after him were forging All-Rookie campaigns, Corbett logged only 14 snaps for a Browns team that arguably was still flying somewhat under the radar after drafting Baker Mayfield and appearing on “Hard Knocks.” Enter OBJ, Kareem Hunt, Vernon, Sheldon Richardson and rookie head coach Freddie Kitchens on the heels of Mayfield’s oft-spectacular debut that yielded seven wins — three more than the previous three seasons combined — and Cleveland is a legitimate playoff hopeful and must-see theater.
That actually might work to Corbett’s advantage, allowing him to toil in obscurity as he takes his lumps. That could change fast, though, the first time the Browns projected starting right guard is whipped by — :: checks Cleveland’s schedule:: — any of the star DTs he’ll see in the first month of the season, including Tennessee’s Jurrel Casey, Jets No. 3 overall pick Quinnen Williams and two-time reigning Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers RB Ronald Jones
The good news for Jones: the Bucs didn’t draft a running back and incumbent starter Peyton Barber is imminently replaceable. Bruce Arians is installing a big-strike offense that can create chances underneath for Jones, who entered the league with a reputation for being an explosive playmaker. Plus, Arians has flowered his young back with praise this offseason.
The bad news for Jones: his rookie season was so awful that only four qualifying backs in the league ranked worst in Football Outsiders DVOA metric than the former Trojan, who was never even truly considered to replace Barber after being selected 38th overall. He finished more than a yard under the “Mendoza line” for running backs.
The ugly news for Jones: He’s yet to show little at any level as a pass catcher, unlike former Cardinal Andre Ellington, who reunited with Arians this spring. Jones also might never be the type (unlike the bigger back Barber) who’s able to consistently create his own holes, and Tampa’s O-line is among the league’s most overrated.
New England Patriots CB Duke Dawson
Despite returning from injured reserve from a hamstring injury by mid-November, Dawson became the first second-rounder of the Bill Belichick era not to dress as a rookie, according to Patriotswire.com. That’s not great, especially since JC Jackson emerged from the UDFA ranks to become one of the league’s stickiest cover men as a rookie.
Dawson now not only must compete with the bigger Jackson but King-sized second-rounder Joejuan Williams, whom Bill Belichick moved up to select in Round 2. Though it could prove problematic for Dawson, it’s a typical good problem for the Patriots. To wit: New England has among the NFL’s biggest incoming draft classes — 10 men, bested only by Arizona, Seattle and Minnesota — is projected to have another double-digit draft haul with multiple third-round compensatory picks next year and is the only team to appear twice on this list.
Just missed the cut:
Minnesota Vikings CB Mike Hughes
It appears Minnesota might manage its significant cap constraints without trading one of its promising corners in contract years, Trae Waynes and Mackensie Alexander. But Hughes had provided some nice flashes prior to ripping up his knee in Week 6 and will need to reemerge on special teams, if not ‘D,’ in a make-or-break year for the Vikings.
Miami Dolphins RB Kalen Ballage
The ‘Phins speedy big back has caught the attention of new coach Brian Flores and managed 5.1 yards per carry, albeit only 36, under Adam Gase. He has soft hands to help in the receiving game, too, but Miami is throwing a ton in its RB corps to see what sticks.
Jacksonville Jaguars WR DJ Chark
The tantalizing second-round size-speed prospect wasn’t ready to be a rookie factor, which wasn’t unexpected after he was rarely utilized at LSU. The Jaguars need Chark (and 2018 first-rounder Taven Bryan) to be ready this year as the replacements for Donte Moncrief and Malik Jackson.
Los Angeles Rams OL Joe Noteboom
Noteboom actually fared OK in the regular-season finale, when he spelled LT Andrew Whitworth in his easily his most extensive rookie action. He could be OK inside, too, where he’ll have a chance to replace departed Rodger Saffold or deficient Austin Blythe. But the Rams O-line turnover is worrisome with Jared Goff not known for his resourcefulness.
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Canadian Independent Distributors Group vs. Bell Media : 8622-C193-201201110
Application for dispute resolution by way of expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration - 2012-01-17
2012-04-05 - Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-208 Request for dispute resolution by the Canadian Independent Distributors Group relating to the distribution of specialty television services controlled by Bell Media Inc.
2012-03-26 - Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG)
Description: CIDG has reviewed Bell’s response to undertakings from the hearing which were filed at end of day on Friday March 23, and as per the timeline set at the hearing,1 held last Thursday and provides the following reply comments in relation to this additional information provided by Bell.
Document: 1693159.pdf - 253KB
2012-03-23 - Bell Media Inc.
Description: Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) is pleased to provide the following undertakings as requested during the oral expedited hearing on 22 March 2012:
Document: 1693067.zip - 75KB
Description: Opening remarks
Document: 1689698.pdf - 2111KB
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2012-03-21 - Commission Letter
Description: Letter addressed to Bell Media – Re: Applications by: (a) CIDG for dispute resolution, by way of an expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration, with respect to a dispute with Bell Media; and (2) Bell Media for final offer arbitration with respect to a dispute with Cogeco – Confidentiality of documents
Description: Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) is in receipt of a letter from the Commission relating to how the various pieces of information that were filed by both Bell Media and the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG) in relation to the above-referenced matter and designated as confidential will be treated.
Document: 1688843.doc - 46KB
Description - Letter addressed to Canadian Independent Distributors Group and Bell Media - Re: Applications by: (a) CIDG for dispute resolution, by way of an expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration, with respect to a dispute with Bell Media; and (b) Bell Media for final offer arbitration with respect to a dispute with Cogeco – Confidentiality of documents
Description: The Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG) hereby provides its reply to the responses filed by Bell regarding Commission‟s requests for information March 1, 2012 interrogatories.
Description: This constitutes Bell Media Inc.'s reply to CIDG's response to interrogatories which were filed with the Commission and served on Bell Media on 6 March 2012
Document: 1682915.zip - 1227KB
Description: Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) is pleased to submit its responses to the Commission's 1 March 2012 correspondence. For ease of reference, we have reproduced the Commission's questions below
Description: The Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG) hereby provides the attached responses to the Commission’s requests for information on behalf of its members Bragg Communications Inc. (EastLink), Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Inc. (CCSA), Cogeco Cable Canada LP, represented by its general partner Cogeco Cable Canada GP Inc. (Cogeco Cable), MTS Inc. (MTS) and TELUS Communications Company (TELUS). CIDG’s responses are set out in an attachment hereto
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2012-03-06 - Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA)
Description: The CMPA appreciates this opportunity to provide these brief and general comments concerning the possible impact of the above-noted dispute between Bell Media and the CIDG
2012-03-02 – Commission Letter
Description: Letter addressed to Public Interest Advocacy Centre – Re: Applications by: (a) CIDG for dispute resolution, by way of an expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration, with respect to a dispute with Bell Media; and (2) Bell Media for final offer arbitration with respect to a dispute with Cogeco – PIAC’s request to file comments
Description: Letter addressed to Canadian Media Production Association – Re: Applications by: (a) CIDG for dispute resolution, by way of an expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration, with respect to a dispute with Bell Media; and (2) Bell Media for final offer arbitration with respect to a dispute with Cogeco – CMPA’s request to file comments
2012-03-01 – Commission Procedural Letter
Description: Letter addressed to Canadian Independent Distributors Group and Bell Media – Re: 22 March 2012 Expedited Hearing between CIDG and Bell – Procedural Matters
Description: Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) provides the following response to the 27 February 2012 letter by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) in which they request to file comments in the above-referenced proceeding. Bell Media formally objects to PIAC's filing of their letter 12 days after the deadline for interested parties to file a request to submit comments in this proceeding.
2012-02-27 - Public Interest Advocacy Centre PIAC
Description: Pursuant to the Commission's procedural letter dated 6 February 2012, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre ("PIAC)" requests the opportunity to file comments in the above-mentioned proceeding.
Document: 1680125.pdf - 32KB
Description: The Commission's procedural letter dated 6 February 2012 relating to the above-referenced Application notes that, consistent with paragraph 127 in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2011-601 (BRP 2011-601), Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) and the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG) must participate in a mandatory mediation session supervised by a Commissioner before the date of the oral hearing regarding this matter
Description: Further to the Commission's procedural letter dated 6 February 2012, Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) provides the attached response to the above-referenced Application by the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG)
Document: 1677395.zip - 593KB
Description: Pursuant to the procedures outlined in the Commission’s Procedural Letter dated 6 February 2012, the Canadian Media Production Association (“the CMPA”) hereby requests the opportunity to file written comments in the above-noted proceeding
Description: Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media) is pleased to provide the following comments relating to the above-referenced request by TELUS Communications Company (Telus), Cogeco Cable Canada LP (Cogeco), MTS Inc. (MTS), Bragg Communications Inc. (Eastlink) and Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Inc. (CCSA) (collectively, Telus et al.) that was filed with the Commission on 17 January 2012 (collectively, the Parties).
2012-02-06 - Commission Procedural Letter
Description: Letter addressed to Canadian Independent Distributors Group and Bell Media - Re: Applications by: (a) CIDG for dispute resolution, by way of an expedited hearing and subsequent final offer arbitration, with respect to a dispute with Bell Media; and (2) Bell Media for final offer arbitration with respect to a dispute with Cogeco
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Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection
Woodblock prints from 1760-1956 by over 40 artists depict Japanese culture through detailed depictions of portraits, landscapes and theatrical performances, taking into account some of Japan's rich history.
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The Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection contains 126 wood block prints. While the earliest print dates to 1760, most of the prints were produced in the 1800s, while others were created in the 1900s. The work of over forty artists is represented in the collection. The images selected for digitization constitute a significant portion of the total collection.
The descriptive information for the online collection includes notes on series, publisher, provenance, and if the print was signed by the artist. Where this information is known it is displayed. When an item is comprised of two or more plates, each plate was scanned separately; this is indicated with the designations of the plate number followed by an a, b, c, etc. Read more...
The images portray Japanese culture through detailed depictions of portraits, landscapes, wildlife and theatrical performances, taking into account some of Japan’s rich history. A small quantity of prints depicting Chinese scenes is also part of the collection.
Images range in size from that of a small greeting card to poster size. The smallest measures 4 x 6 inches and the largest 9 x 30 inches. The accompanying descriptive text includes the Japanese term for the approximate paper size: Aiban tate-e, Aoban tate-e, Chuban tate-e, Chu-tanzaku, Dai-oban tate-e, Hashira-e, Hosoban, Kakemono-e, Koban, Koban Tate-e, Oban tate-e, and Oban yoko-e.
The work of over forty artists is represented in the collection. The earliest print, dating to 1760, is by Kitao Shigemasa (1739-1820) and depicts a carp leaping a waterfall. The works of several artists of the Utagawa school are found in the collection. While there is a broad representation of artists, it is interesting to note the significant number of pieces by a select few.
The Rosensteel Collection is located in the Special Collections Department of the University Library System, where all of the original prints are available for research and scholarly study. It complements the holdings of the East Asian Library, a collection of over 400,000 volumes, which makes it the 14th largest East Asian collection in North America. It also complements the Walter and Martha Leuba Collection , which contains several twentieth century Japanese woodblock prints.
About Barry and Elizabeth Rosensteel
Born in 1955, Barry Rosensteel is a native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania. His family has a long association with that region, dating back over two hundred years to some of the early settlers. For example, through his mother’s side of the family, he is a descendent of Henry Beeson, who founded nearby Uniontown in 1796. Mr. Rosensteel’s wife Elizabeth was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and later lived in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, with her family. Barry and Elizabeth met on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in 1974, two years before Mr. Rosensteel graduated from Pitt.
After having planned and overseen the development of real estate ventures for Fortune 100 corporations throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Mr. Rosensteel formed his own real estate development and consulting group. He is presently managing director of PRIN Investments Real Estate Group located in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Rosensteel has a history of buying and selling works of art. As a hobby he operates Rosensteel Galleries, which enables him to maintain close contact with artists whose works represent a variety of creative talents.
Mrs. Rosensteel attended Boston University and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. With the exception of a brief five years as the first elected principal of Taliesin Architects, Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio and school, Mrs. Rosensteel has owned her own interior/architectural design firm, Elizabeth A. Rosensteel Design Studio, specializing in 12,000–30,000 sq. ft. custom designed homes and commercial/hospitality projects.
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Jacoulet, Paul, 1902-1960 (12) + -
Taiso, Yoshitoshi, 1839-1892 (6) + -
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900 (6) + -
Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848 (5) + -
Kitagawa, Chikanobu (5) + -
Kubo, Shunman, 1757-1820 (5) + -
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861 (5) + -
Gosōtei Hirosada, active 1840-1860 (4) + -
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Utagawa, Kunishige (3) + -
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858 (2) + -
Goyōtei Hironobu, active 1851-1872 (2) + -
Kitao, Shigemasa, 1739-1820 (2) + -
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Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850 (2) + -
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Fleurs Violettes de Tomil, Yap
Jacoulet, Paul, 1902-1960
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Nakamura Utaemon III as Fukashichi and Bando Mitsugoro III as Iruka
Jukōdō Yoshikuni, active 1813-1830
Courtesan reading a letter representing "Rain at Karasaki Pine"
Utagawa, Kunisada, 1786-1864
Takehisa, Yumeji, 1884-1934
Seven Gods of Good Fortune in the Treasure Boat
Gosei, Hōtei, active ca. 1804-1844
Beauties at the beach at Suma
Toyohara, Kunichika, 1835-1900
Twelve reproduction prints after a Genji series
Portrait of a Taoist Sage
Isoda, Koryūsai, active 1764-1788
Figures on an embankment at night
La Statuette Thang, Manchoukuo
Portrait of Fukuchi Gen'ichiro, October 26, 1885
Kobayashi, Kiyochika, 1847-1915
Half-length portrait of an actor as Kaneomaru
Onoe Kikugoro V as a nightwatchman
Utagawa, Kunishige
A Meeting of Generals
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi, 1798-1861
Beauties in a garden and interior settings
Kitagawa, Chikanobu
Kambara
Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858
Portrait of Ichikawa Ebijuro
Jugyōdō Umekuni, active 1816-1827
Une Histoire Tres Drole Mongols
The Actor Nakamura Tomijūrō as the Nurse Masaoka Watching Two Children Dance in the Play 'Date sugata wagatsuma utsushi-e' Performed at the Kitashinshi Theatre in 7/1836
Utagawa, Sadamasu, active 1832-1854
Figures on a Beach
Totoya, Hokkei, 1780-1850
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Greendale fields have formed part of the Champion Hill site for over 100 years and were at one time home to the Football Club. As part of the redevelopment of Champion Hill in the early 1990s, a new astroturf pitch was built and the land leased to Dulwich Hamlet Football Club from Southwark Council. Whilst there were for many years successful football leagues which took place on the astroturf pitches, successive owners of the Football Club gave little thought for the ongoing maintenance and repair of the site and it started to fall into disrepair. The site was subject to a planning application for a new stadium in the late 1990s which did not materialise.
When Greendale Property Group bought the freehold to Champion Hill in 2014, the project managers for the planned redevelopment, Hadley Property Group, sought to rectify some of the issues including Japanese knotweed and also stopped a weekly bootfair which was taking place and using the astroturf pitch. DHST also urged the developers to engage with Southwark Council to renew the lease which was due to expire in 2015. As the site had been left to fall into disrepair much of it was overgrown and had developed into a naturally biodiverse habitat for many plants and animals. It was around this time that the Friends of Greendale were formed and sought to protect and enhance the site from the threat of redevelopment.
Despite a promising start in trying to manage the site properly, it did not last and with the change from Hadley Property Group to Meadow Residential in October 2016, the site was given even less attention. Given that the site formed a fundamental part of the proposed redevelopment, it seemed very odd that the developers did not give greater importance to doing everything possible to ensure the lease was renewed and the owners of the site (Southwark Council) would not stand in their way when it came to renewing the lease or indeed, determining the planning application. To further illustrate the almost suicidal nature of Meadow’s actions, they hired the astroturf pitch out to a group who organised soundystem weekends where loud music, barbecues and drinking were very much the order of the day. This culminated in an event on one weekend during the summer of 2017 which resulted in numerous complaints and reports that the music could be heard some way up Lordship Lane. Fortunately for DHFC, the Council did not find them guilty of any wrongdoing however, it was another nail in the coffin for Meadow’s hopes to renew the lease on behalf of DHFC.
In October 2017, a hearing took place at Central London County Court between Southwark Council and Dulwich Hamlet Football Club. Meadow, acting on behalf of the Football Club, under an agreement signed with the majority shareholder, Nick McCormack, instructed lawyers to seek an adjournment in determining whether the lease would be renewed or not. The case against the Football Club was lost and this kicked off a series of events where Meadow opted to withdraw their planning application appeals and all financial support and management for the Football Club. The costs of the case are currently set against Dulwich Hamlet Football Club despite the whole case and any instructions coming from Meadow – a consequence of the agreement made between the Club’s majority shareholder, Nick McCormack and Meadow.
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Despite Loss of Sponsor, Berner Excited about 2014 Season
By Drag Illustrated | February 15, 2014
This year, Pete Berner Racing will look a lot more like it did when Berner won his 2006 and 2008 world championships. After a four-year absence, the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) welcomes mountain-motor Pro Stock back to its lineup and Berner is thrilled to return to where his beloved class took root.
“I’m really excited to get back to the origin of Mountain Motor racing with the new IHRA,” Berner said. “We’ll be racing and working with many old and new friends. IHRA is heading in a great direction.
“We hope to work closely with Scott Gardner and his team to build the mountain-motor Pro Stock class and the organization as a whole. Gardner is a visionary and door car enthusiast with the personality to lead IHRA forward with great success.”
However, while Berner says hello to his former racing home, he also says goodbye to a major sponsor.
“Summit won’t be with us in 2014. I am grateful for their four year sponsorship and the friends I made over the course of our tenure together. We developed long-lasting relationships with the folks at Summit, and although we have enjoyed their partnership over the years, Cheryl and I are just as enthused about our race season as ever,” Berner insisted.
“We’re ready to get back to our winning ways. In this sport, age doesn’t count you out. One look at John Force will tell you that. We’re as hungry as ever and not done winning championships by any stretch.”
Another change for Berner is to welcome new crew chief Adam Drzayich, perhaps best known for his seven-year stint with NHRA Pro Stock star Warren Johnson.
“Adam is a great fit for our team,” Berner said. “He brings enthusiasm and expertise. He’s very smart and articulate in what he does. Joining RV (crew member Rick Varnold) and Jerry (Janota) and Mike (Slaviero), our engine guys, we have a great team assembled that is ready to turn on the W’s.
“The past two years have proven to be a challenge. We never made a run that was all this car had; despite that we almost always qualified in the top three. Our struggle has never been with engine power or with this RJ Camaro. We just haven’t been able to optimize the two together,” Berner elaborated.
“I honestly haven’t been able to tell Jerry [Janota, engine builder] that we need more power because we haven’t used all we have. We’ve had more power than we can use and this Camaro is as trick as we thought it would be. All along the car has felt smooth and wanted to go fast. We are looking forward to having the combination produce the results we know we’re capable of.”
A recent test session for Berner shone the light for a brighter–and quicker–future.
“Thanks to Rick Jones (RJ Race Cars), Pat Norcia (RAM Clutches) and Adam, we made great strides in testing and feel confident to make this car do what we expect of it. Up until recently only a few cars have been able to accomplish what we did three years ago at E-town. We have significantly more horsepower now and we are finding the magic to use the power we have. We’ve been maintaining in our engine program, but I hope to give Jerry notice shortly that we’ve exceeded power available and see what else he has up his sleeve.
“We expect big things for 2014. The key is getting the confidence back in our program. To be successful we have to have confidence in everything we do.”
The driving forces of the IHRA are clearly making strides in the right direction, including a recent announcement for a Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series (NJDRS) television package. The series coverage will still highlight the cars and speeds that fans love, but will work within the setting of an innovative reality show format that focuses on the characters of the NJDRS and brings out the personality of professional drivers.
“I want to personally thank the IHRA for obtaining TV coverage for us,” Berner stated. “Our teams are full of personality and human interest. Mountain-motor Pro Stock racers are rich in diverse personalities. Dean Goforth is a perfect example. The story of how he became a self-made man is incredible. Kevin Bealko has another amazing story. These are the people that you look up to, not only in racing world, but in all walks of life. These stories need to be told; they will really draw fans back to the sport of drag racing. We need to be better about telling our stories and letting driver personality show through. This reality TV coverage is a great step in that direction.
“I’m looking forward to all that this season holds for us. In more ways than one, we’re getting back to the roots of our racing, focusing on the people and stories that helped create drag racing as we know it. It’s going to be an extraordinary year.”
(Photo courtesy Pete Berner Racing)
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Peruvian restaurant in Shoreditch Pachamama East is an excellent Peruvian restaurant in Shoreditch, from the same group as the original Pachamama in Marylebone. The group’s mission is to introduce exciting, diverse and playful dining concepts to the London restaurant scene. This restaurant focuses on infusing Peruvian cuisine with Chinese to create a fantastic menu. The…
Bar and Street Food in London Bridge Brits love an outdoor area when the sun decides to shine! Vinegar Yard offers a decent open space serving drinks and street food in London Bridge area. Expect some wacky art installations on the approach including giant ants on a tube carriage! The Drinks The main bar can…
Italian restaurant in Islington Latteria is a new Italian restaurant in Islington, just down the road from Angel Station. They serve up authentic Milanese food and drinks with their inspiration drawn from the pasticceria, panino shops and pizzeria’s in Milan. Everything is made freshly in house with ingredients sourced directly from Italy. We visited on…
Rooftop Bar in Waterloo This rooftop bar in Waterloo is a hidden gem and one of the newest rooftops in London. Located just moments away from Waterloo station, there is signage to point you in the right direction. Expect quite a few flights of stairs to reach the top! On the way up there are…
South Indian Cafe in Baker Street Ooty Station is the latest opening by South Indian restaurant Ooty. The new casual dining spot and cafe in Baker Street is said to take inspiration from the quaint little hill-station town in the Nilgiri mountains. It aims to transport you to a bygone era with contemporary touches too. We can…
Restaurant in Sloane Square Sloane Place is a boutique hotel, bar and ‘Modern British’ restaurant in Sloane Square. The interior is gorgeous with its teals, dark woods and retro browns, along with low hanging lights. It has a classy, sophisticated vibe and when we visited the service followed suit. We had the warmest welcome by the host…
Cocktail afternoon tea in London The Lyaness is the latest bar from the award-winning Mr Lyan (Ryan Chetiyawardana). Situated on the ground floor of the Sea Containers Hotel we visited to try out their Fancy cocktail afternoon tea. Lyaness aims to bring a cook’s approach to cocktails and flavour creation and focuses on sustainability and…
Restaurant near Richmond Bingham Riverhouse is a luxury hotel and award winning restaurant near Richmond (around 15 minutes from the station). The restaurant has a fabulous terrace and views that stretch over the Thames which is great for those sunny days. Drinks There are a wide variety of wines on the menu and a friendly sommelier on…
Rooftop Bar in Charing Cross St James rooftop bar in Charing Cross is situated on the seventh floor of the Trafalgar Hotel. We recommend that you book in advance as it’s very popular and there is limited seating in some areas especially if there is a private hire. This lovely rooftop is split into two…
Dinerama Street Feast Shoreditch
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Stochastic models for the consequences of "Plasmodium falciparum" infections in the human host : malaria morbidity, mortality and infectivity
Ross, Amanda. Stochastic models for the consequences of "Plasmodium falciparum" infections in the human host : malaria morbidity, mortality and infectivity. 2008, Doctoral Thesis, University of Basel, Faculty of Science.
The consequences of Plasmodium falciparum infections for humans range from selflimiting asymptomatic parasitaemia to rapid death. Annually, P. falciparum malaria is estimated to cause 0.5 billion acute febrile episodes, 2-3 million severe episodes warranting hospital admission and one million deaths. This enormous burden demands effective control strategies. A number of different interventions are available, but policy-makers need a rational basis for discriminating between them. The likely consequences of each intervention, or combination of interventions, must be considered. Trials can provide estimates of the impact of interventions on acute episodes over a short timespan. Predictions are required where field data are not available: over longer time periods, for severe outcomes, for many combinations of interventions, or for interventions which do not yet exist. A model intended for making quantitative predictions of the impact of interventions must relate transmission and infection to the key outcomes used by health-planners such as morbidity, mortality and cost-effectiveness. It must also allow for dynamic effects on transmission and acquired immunity, and incorporate the effect of the health system. Until recently, there was no such model. In the past, emphasis had lain with the transmission cycle. In addition, the most practical models would be individual-based with high computational demands. In response to this need, a stochastic individual-based integrated model has been developed at the Swiss Tropical Institute. The core of the integrated model is a description of asexual parasite densities, providing a basis for the effects of acquired immunity on reducing densities and for the density-based consequences of infection. This thesis contributes those elements that consider the immediate consequences of human infection: morbidity, mortality and transmission to the vector. The integrated model is then applied to questions concerning a new intervention, intermittent preventive treatment in infants (IPTi). A framework for morbidity and mortality is proposed. The probability of an acute febrile malaria episode is related to parasite densities via individual- and time-specific pyrogenic thresholds that respond dynamically to recent parasite load. Severe episodes result either from overwhelming parasitaemia, or from acute episodes in conjunction with a co-morbidity which acts to weaken the host. Both direct and indirect mortality were considered. Age-dependent case fatality rates estimated from field data were used to quantify the probability of direct mortality. Indirect deaths occur following an acute episode with subsequent co-morbidity after the parasites have cleared, or within the neonatal period as a consequence of maternal infection. Co-morbidity is assumed to be age-dependent. The model components are fitted to field data or to summaries of field data, and can simultaneously account for the observed age- and exposure-specific patterns of paediatric malaria and malaria-associated mortality. The model component for infectivity relates asexual parasite densities to the probability of infecting a feeding mosquito, taking into account the delay resulting from the timecourse of gametocytaemia and the need for both male and female gametocytes in
the blood meal. This component is fitted to data from malariatherapy patients and can
account for observed patterns of human infectivity. The integrated model is validated
against published estimates of the contribution of different age groups to the infectious
reservoir.
The integrated model, in conjunction with an added component for the action of
sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) and site-specific inputs, reproduced the pattern of
results of the IPTi trials reasonably well. The model was modified to represent different
hypotheses for the mechanism of IPTi. These hypotheses concerned the duration of
action of SP, the empirical timing of episodes caused by individual infections, potential
benefits of avoiding episodes on immunity and the effect of sub-therapeutic levels of SP
on parasite dynamics. None of the modified versions improved the fit between the
model predictions and observed data, suggesting that known features of malaria
epidemiology together with site-specific inputs can account for the pattern of trial
results. Predictions using the integrated model suggest that IPTi using SP is effective
over a wide range of transmission intensities at reducing morbidity and mortality in
infants. The predicted cumulative benefits were proportionately greater for mortality
and severe episodes than for acute episodes, due to the age-dependent co-morbidity
functions in the model. IPTi was predicted to avert a greater number of episodes where
IPTi coverage was higher, the health system treatment coverage lower, and for drugs
which were more efficacious and had longer prophylactic periods. Additionally, IPTi
was predicted to have little impact on transmisison intensity.
This is the first major attempt to model the dynamic effects of malaria transmsission,
parasitological status, morbidity, mortality and cost-effectiveness using model
components which were fitted to field data. The model can be extended to predict the
dynamic effects of different interventions, and combinations of interventions. The
ability to compare the likely impact of different interventions on the same platform will
be a valuable resource for rational decisions about strategies to control the intolerable
burden of malaria.
Smith, Thomas A.
Lengeler, Christian and Alexander, Neal
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Ross, Amanda and Smith, Thomas A. and Lengeler, Christian
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Works Cristaux liquides Mario Rodrigue
Cristaux liquides
Sound poetry inspired by two different physical states of water — the solid and the liquid. The solid, with its fixed, crystalline movements, superimposed upon the undulations of the liquid. Evocation of the avalanches of color characteristic of liquid crystals.
Cristaux liquides [Liquid Crystals] was produced in 1990 in the studios of the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal and at the composer’s studio: the first minute was composed with the use of a Fairlight, the eight following minutes with an Akai S1000 sampler and RealTime software on an Atari 1040st. The final mix was produced on April 7th,1990 at the Cinar studio with the assistance of engineer Alain Roy. Cristaux liquides was presented on April 25, 1990 as part of the Clair de terre concert series at the Planétarium de Montréal. Cristaux liquides was awarded a mention at the 19th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1991).
April 4, 1990, Clair de terre I: Concert 6, Planétarium de Montréal, Montréal (Québec)
Mention, Electroacoustic Music Prize, 19th Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition 1991, Bourges (Cher, France)
A Storm of Drones
Asphodel / ASP 0966 / 1995
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Perfecting the lost art of the backstage meet ‘n’ greet at John Mellencamp in Vancouver
August 7, 2014 · by the newt · in vancouver concerts. ·
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, MAY 20, 1999
I like John Mellencamp, but my sister Julie and cousin Cory are crazy about him, so I did some serious scroungin’ and wangled three backstage passes to meet the Indiana rocker before he went on-stage at GM Place last Saturday (May 15). Now, for those who’ve never experienced what is known in the music industry as a meet ’n’ greet, you basically stand around with a bunch of company jacket–wearing types from local radio stations and CD stores until it’s your turn to pose with the artist for a quick photo. It’s sort of a cheesy, embarrassing ritual, but hey—if it means the world to people you care for, you deal with it.
Besides, before shaking hands with the diminutive Little Bastard—I’m not being rude, that’s what Mellencamp calls himself—I got to rub shoulders with the Comedy Channel’s Mike Bullard, who seems like a real nice guy. I also managed to chat with some members of Mellencamp’s band, who proved equally friendly and unassuming. New drummer Dane Clark was so relaxed that I felt safe commenting about his having big shoes to fill in taking over drum god Kenny Aronoff’s role of 22 years.
“It’s no problem,” replied the bespectacled skin-basher, “no problem at all.”
As soon as the concert started, Clark’s confidence was validated by his deft stickwork on the calypso-tinged “I’m Not Running Anymore”. That was one of only three tunes Mellencamp offered from his new self-titled CD, staying true to his promise to roll out the oldies to please long-time fans. Bolstered by the intense execution of a crack seven-piece band, his 90-minute set featured gutsy versions of “Rain on the Scarecrow”, “The Authority Song”, and “Crumblin’ Down”.
Mellencamp’s own energy level has dropped somewhat since I last saw him, at the Pacific Coliseum prior to his 1994 heart attack, but his vocals are still potent. That said, crackerjack percussionist and backup vocalist Pat Peterson nearly stole the show when she sang the parts recorded by Me’shell Ndegéocello on Mellencamp’s version of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night”.
The crowning moment of the night came when Mellencamp performed a solo rendition of the recent single “Your Time Is Now”, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica. The spare arrangement helped drive home the tune’s homespun, teach-your-children-well theme, and large sections of the crowd erupted in appreciation of his uplifting ode to the simple life.
The wildest cheers were saved for “Small Town”, though, which the muscular Mellencamp sang in a sleeveless white undershirt, causing both of my kin to dance wildly in the aisle. By the time he pulled a freaked-out fan up from the second row to sing a couple of choruses on “Hurts So Good”, it was clear the tattooed grandad had the near-sellout crowd of 13,000 directly under his 47-year-old thumb. Who cares if he can’t shimmy like he used to?
Neither can I.
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Runewaker and Gameforge Celebrate 10 Years of Runes of Magic with a Momentous 10th Anniversary Festival
March 12, 2019 March 12, 2019 JADIRI GAMER0
Gameforge — the leading publisher of popular free-to-play multiplayer online games including Guardians of Ember, SoulWorker, Aion, and Metin2 — celebrates the 10th anniversary of renowned developer Runewaker’s popular free-to-play MMORPG, Runes of Magicon March 19. Starting March 14, players are invited to join the Anniversary Festival for exclusive boost, exchange, and login events, as well as special in-game activities to celebrate 10 years of adventures as brave players explore the breathtaking fantasy world of Taborea in their search to uncover its mystical legacy.
For those veterans who have carved out their own legendary journey over the years, Gameforge has planned something special. Players whose accounts are also celebrating their 10th anniversary will receive an exclusive package — the “Legend of Taborea” costume set — as thanks for a decade of adventuring. Heroes who have forged their own journey for seven years or more will also receive special recognition in the form of the “Hero of Taborea” costume set, to wear proudly as they do battle against the forces of darkness.
“I’m extremely happy to see Runes of Magic hit this major milestone,” said Belen Banos Trujillo, Associate Game Manager for Runes of Magic. “We’re thrilled to celebrate not only the game’s history but also the fantastic community that has formed over the years, which continues to enjoy the world of Taborea and are probably the most welcoming and helpful bunch you could hope for when returning or joining fresh! I’m really looking forward to another great 10 years of excitement, adventures, and more friendships to be forged!”
The celebration begins on March 10 with exclusive boosts and login events that run until March 19. To keep the party going, players are invited to participate in a special exchange event starting March 22 and continuing through March 31. Throughout the celebration, community members are invited to partake in the festivities, which will include additional surprises!
There has never been a better time for players who yearn for the glory days of their epic crusades to return to Taborea. Set off on epic adventures, rekindle the long-lasting friendships that can only be found in battle, and, of course, race some Alpacas. Among the various improvements added to Runes of Magicthroughout its 10 years, at the dawn of Chapter V: “Fires of the Shadowforge,” a new race was introduced to its epic story — the Shadowforge Dwarves. Skilled prospectors and master weapon-smiths, the Dwarves must fight against the menacing spirits plaguing their home — the glorious underground city of Taffroc — and save their princess from the clutches of this twisted enemy.
The highly anticipated latest chapter, Chapter VII: “Legacy of the Soulless,” returns to “The Spirits of Despair” storyline that began in 6.4.0 and introduced the Shataem Archipelago — with four of its five islands: Tasuq, Korris, Enoch and Vortis, currently available — bursting with lore, challenging dungeons, and simply begging to be explored. A forbidden spatial rune landed in the wrong hands and is the source of dangerous rifts sprouting up across Taborea. A newly formed group — the Hands of Balance — call upon the heroes of Taborea to join forces and venture forth to the Archipelago to put a stop the rifts and defend the land from certain demise.
With over eight million players worldwide, Runes of Magic continues to be one of the most successful titles in the genre. Available on PC through Steam and the Runes of Magic homepage, the free-to-play fantasy MMORPG is available to play in English, French, German, Spanish, and Polish. Players wishing to find out more information about the 10th Anniversary event can visit: https://forum.runesofmagic.gameforge.com.
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Covert, Bert Professor
Professor, Anthropology
Museum Assoc Curator, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Faculty Director, Baker RAP
Ecology and Population
International Relations/Diplomacy
Systematic Biology
Professor Covert's research is focused on the behavioral ecology and conservation of Southeast Asian primates. He works closely with Vietnamese colleagues to study the feeding ecology, positional behavior, and habitat utilization of endangered monkeys with the aim of gaining a better understanding of their ecology so that long-term and sustainable conservation efforts can be developed. Noteworthy examples of this research is his collaborations with Dr. Le Khac Quyet in Ha Giang Province where they are conducting long-term study of the ecology of the critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkey and with Drs. Hoang Minh Duc and Luu Hong Truong of the Southern Institute of Ecology working on a variety of biodiversity conservation projects. He also works in capacity building for the protected area system of Vietnam.
biological anthropology, primate conservation biology, primate evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia biodiversity conservation
Primates in Flooded Habitats 2019
The International Encyclopedia of Primatology 2017
On the brink of extinction: conservation and ecology of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) 2010
Conservation status of primates in Ta Kou Nature Reserve 2010
Does Overlap Among the Adaptive Radiations of Omomyoids, Adapoids, and Early Anthropoids Cloud our Understanding of Anthropoid Origins? 2004
The EPRC as an important research center: ontogeny of locomotor differences among Vietnamese colobines 2004
The earliest fossil primates and the evolution of prosimians: Introduction 2002
Recently recovered North American Eocene omomyids and adapids and their bearings of debates about anthropoid origins. 29-54. 1994
Ankle and foot morphology of Cantius mckennai: adaptations and phylogenetic implications 1988
Primates: Cladistic Diagnosis and Relationships 1987
Biology of early Cenozoic Primates 1986
Anatomy and behavior of extinct primates 1984
Diet Metabarcoding and Conservation of Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey in Vietnam. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 11-11. 2018
Book review. Biological Conservation. 38-39. 2018
Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model. Scientific Reports. 2018
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE NILE: A BIOETHNOGRAPHY OF THREE ANCIENT NUBIAN COMMUNITIES.. New Directions for Evaluation. 174-175. 2018
A review of the distribution of a new gibbon species: the northern yellow-cheeked crested gibbon Nomascus annamensis Thinh, Mootnick, Thanh, Nadler and Roos, 2010. Primate conservation : the newsletter and journal of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group. 2018
An anatomical and mechanical analysis of the douc monkey (genus Pygathrix), and its role in understanding the evolution of brachiation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 801-820. 2017
Current conservation status of Germain’s langur (Trachypithecus germaini) in Vietnam. Primates. 435-440. 2017
Primates of Vietnam: Conservation in a Rapidly Developing Country. Anthropology now. 27-44. 2017
No evidence for mitochondrial genetic variability in the largest population of critically endangered Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys in Vietnam. Primates. 449-453. 2016
A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF EARLY EOCENE (YPRESIAN) ARTIODACTYLA (MAMMALIA), GAGADON MINIMONSTRUM, FROM BITTER CREEK, WYOMING, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 731-736. 2014
A Pictorial Guide to Living Primates and Much More. New Directions for Evaluation. 84-85. 2012
TONKIN SNUB-NOSED MONKEY (RHINOPITHECUS AVUNCULUS) CONSERVATION IN HA GIANG PROVINCE, VIETNAM. American Journal of Primatology. 50-50. 2011
Primate diversity, conservation, and behavioral ecology at Ta Kou Nature Reserve, Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 86-86. 2010
Comparisons of Suspensory Behaviors Among Pygathrix cinerea, P-nemaeus, and Nomascus leucogenys in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. International Journal of Primatology. 1467-1480. 2008
It's Tough Out There: Variation in the Toughness of Ingested Leaves and Feeding Behavior Among Four Colobinae in Vietnam. International Journal of Primatology. 1455-1466. 2008
Habitat structure variation: implications for understanding the feeding ecology of black-shanked douc in Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 164-164. 2008
Book reviews: The ape in the tree: An intellectual and natural history ofProconsul. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 483-483. 2007
Cercopithecid cranial variation of the primates of Vietnam.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 64-64. 2007
Does craniofacial variation among Rhinopithecus species follow an altitudinal cline?. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 252-253. 2007
Long bone articular and diaphyseal structure in douc langurs: evidence of suspensory adaptations.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 253-253. 2007
Use of terrestrial substrates by captive and semi-wild delacour's (Trachypithecus delacouri) and Hatinh (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) langurs at the endangered Primate Rescue Center, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. American Zoologist. E268-E268. 2006
Learning the ropes: The ontogeny of locomotion in red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus), Delacour's (Trachypithecus delacouri), and Hatinh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) I. positional behavior.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 371-380. 2005
A recently discovered population of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 89-89. 2005
Effects of the illegal animal trade on primate conservation in Vietnam.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 157-157. 2005
New survey data on Pygathrix ni-gripes the black-shanked douc langur, from Cat Tien National Park, Viet Nam. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 165-166. 2005
Unexpected locomotor behaviour: brachiation by an Old World monkey (Pygathrix nemaeus) from Vietnam. Journal of Zoology. 101-106. 2004
Skeletal variation among some Vietnamese colobines. Folia Primatologica. 251-251. 2004
Phalanges of Omomys carteri from the Eocene of North America and the morphologv of early primate grasping digits.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 81-81. 2002
The positional behavior of douc langurs, Delacours' langurs, and white-cheeked gibbons at the endangered primate rescue center, Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 51-51. 2002
Fossil mammals from the Late Miocene of Vietnam. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 633-636. 2001
The petrosal of Omomys carteriand the evolution of the primate basicranium. Journal of Human Evolution. 225-252. 2000
New skeletal remains of Omomys(Primates, Omomyidae): functional morphology of the hindlimb and locomotor behavior of a Middle Eocene primate. Journal of Human Evolution. 607-633. 2000
Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis:Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis.. American Anthropologist. 662-664. 1999
New body mass estimates forOmomys carteri, a middle Eocene primate from North America. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 41-52. 1999
Primate evolution - in and out of Africa - Comments. Current Biology. R747-R747. 1998
NEW EARLY EOCENE ANAPTOMORPHINE PRIMATE (OMOMYIDAE) FROM THE WASHAKIE BASIN, WYOMING, WITH COMMENTS ON THE PHYLOGENY AND PALEOBIOLOGY OF ANAPTOMORPHINES. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 323-340. 1994
Description of new skeletal remains of the early Eocene anaptomorphine primate Absarokius (Omomyidae) and a discussion about its adaptive profile. Journal of Human Evolution. 351-362. 1993
THE ANTERIOR LOWER DENTITION OF WASHAKIUS-INSIGNIS AND ADAPID ANTHROPOIDEAN AFFINITIES. Journal of Human Evolution. 463-467. 1991
Biomechanical association of dental and temporomandibular pathology in a medieval Nubian population.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 201-205. 1991
Phylogenetic relationships among the Notharctinae of North America.. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 381-397. 1990
Ankle and foot morphology of Cantius mckennai: adaptations and phylogenetic implications. Journal of Human Evolution. 57-70. 1988
Primates: cladistic diagnosis and relationships. Journal of Human Evolution. 1-22. 1987
Ontogenetic, intraspecific, and interspecific variation of the prehallux in primates: Implications for its utility in the assessment of phylogeny. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 513-523. 1986
True grit: A microwear experiment. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 33-38. 1983
Paleoprimatological research over the last 50 years: Foci and trends. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 373-382. 1981
Dental microwear and diet: Implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern ofSivapithecus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 331-336. 1981
ANTH 2030 - Laboratory in Biological Anthropology 1
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Lab in human osteology and musculoskeletal system emphasizing comparative primate morphology, adaptation, and the fossil record documenting the natural history of primates. Recommended corequisite: ANTH 2010. Meets the MAPS requirement for natural science: lab, when taken with ANTH 2010.
ANTH 3010 - The Human Animal
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Identifies genetic, anatomical, physiological, social, and behavioral characteristics humans share with other mammals and primates. Explores how these characteristics are influenced by modern culture. Recommended prerequisite: ANTH 2010.
ANTH 4170 - Primate Evolutionary Biology
Focuses on the fossil record of primates excluding the Hominini). Special emphasis is placed on delineating the origins of the order Primates, the origins of the primate suborders Strepsirhini and Haplorhini and the adaptations of extinct primates in light of our understanding of the modern primate adaptive radiations. Recommended prerequisite: ANTH 2010 or EBIO 1210. Same as ANTH 5170.
Focuses on the fossil record of primates excluding the Hominini). Special emphasis is placed on delineating the origins of the order Primates, the origins of the primate suborders Strepsirhini and Haplorhini and the adaptations of extinct primates in light of our understanding of the modern primate adaptive radiations. Same as ANTH 4170.
Ph.D., Duke University 1985
M.A., Arizona State University 1978
B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1976
Global Citizen Award (International Education), conferred by International Education, 2010
Traditional Fulbright Scholarship (Council for International Exchange of Scholars), conferred by Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 2008
BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching (Boulder Faculty Assembly), conferred by Boulder Faculty Assembly, 1999
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PSA hires McKinsey partner as strategy chief
Wire reports
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen has hired top McKinsey consultant Yves Bonnefont as strategy director following the surprise departure of the automaker's second-in-command executive Jean-Marc Gales.
Bonnefont, who ran the consulting firm's global automotive practice, joined PSA on Jan. 10 and reports to CEO Philippe Varin, the carmaker said on Friday.
The appointment comes amid sagging sales and profitability at Europe's second-biggest automaker after Volkswagen.
Frankfurt-based Macquarie analyst Jens Schattner said Bonnefont's appointment is not a change of direction.
PSA is in a difficult situation because its core European market is under increasing pressure, Schattner said, adding: "They have the right strategy of growing international volumes and upgrading the brands but it will take years to implement and the pressure is short-term. There's no easy answer."
On Thursday, PSA said it will speed up its strategy to globalize its operations and move the Peugeot and Citroen brands upmarket.
PSA aims to reduce its heavy dependence on a weak European market by boosting sales in China, India and South America. The automaker plans to achieve 50 percent of sales outside Europe in 2015 and two-thirds in 2020, compared with 42 percent in 2011.
PSA is also seeking to boost the value of it brands by focusing on more expensive cars after increasing the proportion of upscale vehicles to 18 percent in 2011 from 13 percent a year earlier. The upscale models include the Citroen DS line and the Peugeot 508.
The company said on Thursday that its worldwide sales declined 1.5 percent to 3.5 million vehicles last year, with European sales falling by 6.1 percent to 2.05 million.
The group warned in October that its core automotive division would likely post a loss for 2011. The company will report 2011 financial results on February 15.
Reuters contributed to this story
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Osamu Shimomura
For the Japanese economist, see Osamu Shimomura (economist).
下村 脩
Shimomura Osamu
Shimomura in 2008
Fukuchiyama, Japan
October 19, 2018(2018-10-19) (aged 90)
Nagasaki, Japan
Nagasaki University
Nagoya University
Asahi Prize (2006)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2008)
Golden Goose Award (2012)
Scientific career
Osamu Shimomura (下村 脩, Shimomura Osamu, August 27, 1928 – October 19, 2018[1]) was a Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist, and Professor Emeritus at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein (GFP) with two American scientists: Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Roger Tsien of the University of California-San Diego.[2]
2 Study
5 Selected publications
Biography[edit]
Paul Krugman, Roger Tsien, Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, Nobel Prize Laureates 2008, at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm.
Born in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto in 1928, Shimomura was brought up in Manchukuo (Manchuria, China) and Osaka, Japan while his father served as an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Later, his family moved to Isahaya, Nagasaki,[3] 25 km from the epicenter of the August 1945 atomic bombing of the city. He recalled hearing, as a 16-year-old boy, the bomber plane Bockscar before the atom bomb exploded.[4] The explosion flash blinded Shimomura for about thirty seconds, and he was later drenched by the "black rain" bomb fallout.[5] He overcame great odds in the following 11 years to earn an education and achieve academic success.[3]
Shimomura's education opportunities were starkly limited in devastated, post-war Japan. Although he later recalled having no interest in the subject,[4] he enrolled in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Nagasaki Medical College (now Nagasaki University School of Pharmaceutical Sciences).[6] The Medical College campus had been entirely destroyed by the atomic bomb blast, forcing the pharmacy school to relocate to a temporary campus near Shimomura's home. This proximity was the fortuitous reason he embarked upon the studies and career which would ultimately lead to unanticipated rewards.[4] Shimomura was awarded a BS degree in pharmacy in 1951, and he stayed on as a lab assistant through 1955.[4]
Shimomura's mentor at Nagasaki helped him find employment as an assistant to Professor Yoshimasa Hirata at Nagoya University in 1956.[6] While working for Professor Hirata, he received a MS degree in organic chemistry in 1958 and, before leaving Japan for an appointment at Princeton University, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1960 at Nagoya University.[7][8] At Nagoya, Hirata assigned Shimomura the challenging task of determining what made the crushed remains of a type of crustacean (Jp. umi-hotaru, lit. "sea-firefly", Vargula hilgendorfii) glow when moistened with water. This assignment led Shimomura to the successful identification of the protein causing the phenomenon, and he published the preliminary findings in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan in a paper titled "Crystalline Cypridina luciferin." The article caught the attention of Professor Frank Johnson at Princeton University, and Johnson successfully recruited Shimomura to work with him in 1960.
Study[edit]
Shimomura worked in the Department of Biology at Princeton for Professor Johnson to study the bioluminescent jellyfish Aequorea victoria, which they collected during many summers at the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington.[9] In 1962, their work culminated in the discovery of the proteins aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) in A. victoria;[10] for this work, he was awarded a third of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008.
Family[edit]
His wife, Akemi, whom Shimomura met at Nagasaki University, is also an organic chemist and was a partner in his research activities. Their son, Tsutomu Shimomura, is a computer security expert who was involved in the arrest of Kevin Mitnick. Their daughter, Sachi Shimomura, is director of Undergraduate Studies for the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature.
Recognition[edit]
2004 – Pearse Prize, Royal Microscopical Society[11]
2005 – Emile Chamot Award[12]
2006 – Asahi Prize
2008 – Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2008 – Order of Culture[13]
2008 – Person of Cultural Merit
2012 – Golden Goose Award[14]
2013 – Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Selected publications[edit]
Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles and Methods (Revised Edition) (WSPC 2012) ISBN 978-981-4366-08-3.[15]
『クラゲに学ぶ : ノーベル賞への道』（長崎文献社 2010年 ISBN 978-4-88851-157-5） * 安永峻五、下村脩、『無機クロマトグラフィーに関する研究-6-』 Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan 74(7), 778-780, 1954–07 * 『口紙電気泳動に関する研究 (第3報) 難溶性塩および錯イオンの生成時における濃度-泳動度曲線について』 日本化學雜誌 Vol.76 (1955) No.9 P.973-977, doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.76.973 * 『アニリン誘導体およびフェエノール誘導体のロ紙電気泳動について』 日本化學雜誌 Vol.76 (1955) No.3 P.277-281, doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.76.277 * 平田義正、江口昇次、下村脩、『海ホタルルシフェリンの構造』 天然有機化合物討論会講演要旨集 (3), 83-93, 1959-10-17 * 『海ホタルルシフェリンの構造(第2～3報) (第2報)海ホタルルシフェリンの性質および分子式について』 日本化學雜誌 Vol.81 (1960) No.1 P.179-182, doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.81.179 * 『海ホタルルシフェリンの構造(第2～3報) (第3報)海ホタルルシフェリンおよびヒドロルシフェリンの推定構造』 日本化學雜誌 Vol.81 (1960) No.1 P.182-185, doi:10.1246/nikkashi1948.81.182 * 『緑色蛍光たんぱく質GFPは天の恵みか?』 Acta anatomica Nipponica 85(3), 99-106, 2010-09-01
Japan portal
Chemistry portal
List of Japanese Nobel laureates
^ Chang, Kenneth (24 October 2018). "Osamu Shimomura, 90, Dies; Won Nobel for Finding a Glowing Protein". The New York Times.
^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008". The Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
^ a b "Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ a b c d Nobelprize.org: Nobel laureate lecture. December 8, 2008.
^ "Osamu Shimomura The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 Interview". The Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
^ a b "Woods Hole cell biologist wins Nobel Prize". boston.com. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ "Former Associate Professor Osamu Shimomura Wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry". Nagoya university. Retrieved 2008-12-05. [dead link]
^ "下村脩先生が2008年ノーベル化学賞をご受賞". Nagoya University. Archived from the original on 2008-12-19. Retrieved 2008-12-05.
^ "Nobel goes to former Princeton researcher for discovery made here". princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
^ "GFP History". Marc Zimmer. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
^ "About the Pearse Prize". Royal Microscopical Society. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
^ "Emile Chamot Award Recipient". State Microscopical Society of Illinois. Archived from the original on 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2008-12-09.
^ "Donald Keene, 7 others win Order of Culture," Yomiuri Shimbun. October 29, 2008.
^ "Green Fluorescent Protein". The Golden Goose Award. Retrieved 2015-05-27.
^ "Bioluminescence: Chemical Principles and Methods". World Scientific. Retrieved 2017-11-28.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008
Japanese Nobel laureates
Kenichi Fukui (1981)
Hideki Shirakawa (2000)
Ryōji Noyori (2001)
Koichi Tanaka (2002)
Osamu Shimomura (2008)
Ei-ichi Negishi / Akira Suzuki (2010)
Yasunari Kawabata (1968)
Kenzaburō Ōe (1994)
Eisaku Satō (1974)
Hideki Yukawa (1949)
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1965)
Leo Esaki (1973)
Masatoshi Koshiba (2002)
Makoto Kobayashi / Toshihide Maskawa (2008)
Isamu Akasaki / Hiroshi Amano (2014)
Takaaki Kajita (2015)
Physiology or Medicine
Susumu Tonegawa (1987)
Shinya Yamanaka (2012)
Satoshi Ōmura (2015)
Yoshinori Ohsumi (2016)
Tasuku Honjo (2018)
Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1901: Jacobus van 't Hoff
1902: Emil Fischer
1903: Svante Arrhenius
1904: William Ramsay
1905: Adolf von Baeyer
1906: Henri Moissan
1907: Eduard Buchner
1908: Ernest Rutherford
1909: Wilhelm Ostwald
1910: Otto Wallach
1911: Marie Curie
1912: Victor Grignard / Paul Sabatier
1913: Alfred Werner
1914: Theodore Richards
1915: Richard Willstätter
1918: Fritz Haber
1920: Walther Nernst
1921: Frederick Soddy
1922: Francis Aston
1923: Fritz Pregl
1925: Richard Zsigmondy
1926: Theodor Svedberg
1927: Heinrich Wieland
1928: Adolf Windaus
1929: Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1930: Hans Fischer
1931: Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius
1932: Irving Langmuir
1934: Harold Urey
1935: Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie
1936: Peter Debye
1937: Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer
1938: Richard Kuhn
1939: Adolf Butenandt / Leopold Ružička
1943: George de Hevesy
1944: Otto Hahn
1945: Artturi Virtanen
1946: James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley
1947: Robert Robinson
1948: Arne Tiselius
1949: William Giauque
1950: Otto Diels / Kurt Alder
1951: Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg
1952: Archer Martin / Richard Synge
1953: Hermann Staudinger
1954: Linus Pauling
1955: Vincent du Vigneaud
1956: Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov
1957: Alexander Todd
1958: Frederick Sanger
1959: Jaroslav Heyrovský
1960: Willard Libby
1961: Melvin Calvin
1962: Max Perutz / John Kendrew
1963: Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta
1964: Dorothy Hodgkin
1965: Robert Woodward
1966: Robert S. Mulliken
1967: Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter
1968: Lars Onsager
1969: Derek Barton / Odd Hassel
1970: Luis Federico Leloir
1971: Gerhard Herzberg
1972: Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein
1973: Ernst Otto Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson
1974: Paul Flory
1975: John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog
1976: William Lipscomb
1977: Ilya Prigogine
1978: Peter D. Mitchell
1979: Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig
1980: Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger
1981: Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann
1982: Aaron Klug
1983: Henry Taube
1984: Robert Merrifield
1985: Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle
1986: Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi
1987: Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen
1988: Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel
1989: Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech
1990: Elias Corey
1991: Richard R. Ernst
1992: Rudolph A. Marcus
1993: Kary Mullis / Michael Smith
1994: George Olah
1995: Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / F. Sherwood Rowland
1996: Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley
1997: Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou
1998: Walter Kohn / John Pople
1999: Ahmed Zewail
2000: Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa
2001: William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless
2002: John B. Fenn / Koichi Tanaka / Kurt Wüthrich
2003: Peter Agre / Roderick MacKinnon
2004: Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko / Irwin Rose
2005: Robert H. Grubbs / Richard R. Schrock / Yves Chauvin
2006: Roger D. Kornberg
2007: Gerhard Ertl
2008: Osamu Shimomura / Martin Chalfie / Roger Y. Tsien
2009: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan / Thomas A. Steitz / Ada E. Yonath
2010: Richard F. Heck / Akira Suzuki / Ei-ichi Negishi
2011: Dan Shechtman
2012: Robert Lefkowitz / Brian Kobilka
2013: Martin Karplus / Michael Levitt / Arieh Warshel
2014: Eric Betzig / Stefan Hell / William E. Moerner
2015: Tomas Lindahl / Paul L. Modrich / Aziz Sancar
2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage / Fraser Stoddart / Ben Feringa
2017: Jacques Dubochet / Joachim Frank / Richard Henderson
2018: Frances Arnold / Greg Winter / George Smith
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Japanese chemists
Organic chemists
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Evidence based assessment/Instruments/Dimensional Obsessive Compulsive Scale
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DOCS-SF[edit]
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) was developed to take into account patients with uncommon Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms, measure obsessions and compulsions together, and bring more dimensions into addressing OCD. It is a 20 item self-reported assessment regarding the severity of four dimensions of obsessive and compulsive symptoms: contamination, responsibility for harm and mistakes, unacceptable thoughts, and symmetry/completeness[1][2]
DOCS-SF is used by both clinicians and researchers. In regards to clinicians, it is used to give general practitioner’s a brief, initial screening for OCD symptoms before they refer them to a specialist for treatment. In regards to researchers, it is a new, valid and time - efficient measure of OCD symptom severity.[1]
DOCS[edit]
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) was developed to take into account patients with uncommon Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) symptoms, measure obsessions and compulsions together, and bring more dimensions into addressing OCD. The DOCS was created to address the limitations of previous OCD symptom measures and further assess the severity of each symptom dimension on many different levels.[3][4]
The DOCS is intended for physicians to conduct on OCD patients in order to measure the severity of their symptoms. It is used on adults 18 and older who already have a current OCD diagnosis.[5] Clinicians also use the DOCS to track patients' progress throughout treatment.[6] The DOCS evaluates 20 items, with five for each of the OC symptom dimensions. Within these individual dimensions, the DOCS analyzes the severity of the symptoms over the past month, in terms of time occupied, avoidance behavior, associated distress, functional interference, and difficulty disregarding the obsessions and associated compulsions.[7]
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Norms Good Multiple samples that were not random nor representative of census data[8]
Internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) Excellent Alpha usually between .87 and .95[3]
Interrater reliability Not applicable Designed as a self-report scale[1]
Test-retest reliability (stability r = .73 over 15 weeks. Evaluated in initial studies,[9] with data also show high stability in clinical trials[citation needed]
Repeatability Not publish No published studies formally checking repeatability
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Content validity Excellent Covers both DSM diagnostic symptoms and a range of associated features[9]
Contruct validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity) Excellent Shows Convergent validity with other symptom scales, longitudinal prediction of development of mood disorders,[10][11][12] criterion validity via metabolic markers[9][13] and associations with family history of mood disorder.[14] Factor structure complicated;[9][3] the inclusion of “biphasic” or “mixed” mood items creates a lot of cross-loading
Discriminative validity Excellent Multiple studies show that GBI scores discriminate cases with unipolar and bipolar mood disorders from other clinical disorders[9][1][15] effect sizes are among the largest of existing scales[16]
Validity generalization Good Used both as self-report and caregiver report; used in college student[3][17] as well as outpatient[1][18][19] and inpatient clinical samples; translated into multiple languages with good reliability
Treatment sensitivity Good Multiple studies show sensitivity to treatment effects comparable to using interviews by trained raters, including placebo-controlled, masked assignment trials[20][21] Short forms appear to retain sensitivity to treatment effects while substantially reducing burden[21][22]
Clinical utility Good Free (public domain), strong psychometrics, extensive research base. Biggest concerns are length and reading level. Short forms have less research, but are appealing based on reduced burden and promising data
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What was the theoretical background behind this assessment? (e.g. addresses importance of 'negative cognitions', such as intrusions, inaccurate, sustained thoughts)
How was the scale developed? What was the theoretical background behind it?
If there were previous versions, when were they published?
Discuss the theoretical ideas behind the changes.
Impact[edit]
What was the impact of this assessment? How did it affect assessment in psychiatry, psychology and health care professionals?
What can the assessment be used for in clinical settings? Can it be used to measure symptoms longitudinally? Developmentally?
Use in other populations[edit]
How widely has it been used? Has it been translated into different languages? Which languages?
Scoring instructions and syntax[edit]
We have syntax in three major languages: R, SPSS, and SAS. All variable names are the same across all three, and all match the CSV shell that we provide as well as the Qualtrics export.
Hand scoring and general instructions[edit]
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If there are any hand scoring and general administration instructions, it should go here.
CSV shell for sharing[edit]
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Here is a shell data file that you could use in your own research. The variable names in the shell corresponds with the scoring code in the code for all three statistical programs.
Note that our CSV includes several demographic variables, which follow current conventions in most developmental and clinical psychology journals. You may want to modify them, depending on where you are working. Also pay attention to the possibility of "deductive identification" -- if we ask personal information in enough detail, then it may be possible to figure out the identity of a participant based on a combination of variables.
When different research projects and groups use the same variable names and syntax, it makes it easier to share the data and work together on integrative data analyses or "mega" analyses (which are different and better than meta-analysis in that they are combining the raw data, versus working with summary descriptive statistics).
R/SPSS/SAS syntax[edit]
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Additional assessments on obsessive-compulsive disorder can be found at the page below:
Evidence based assessment/Obsessive-compulsive disorder (assessment portfolio)
The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form (DOCS-SF)
Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
Evidence-Based Assessment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
EffectiveChildTherapy.Org information on rule-breaking, defiance, and acting out
Example page[edit]
General Behavior Inventory
Click here for references
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Eilertsen, Thomas; Hansen, Bjarne; Kvale, Gerd; Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Holm, Silje E. H.; Solem, Stian (2017-09-05). "The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form (DOCS-SF)". Frontiers in Psychology 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01503. ISSN 1664-1078. PMID 28928693. PMC PMC5591872. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591872/. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":2" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Raines, Amanda M.; Allan, Nicholas P.; Oglesby, Mary E.; Short, Nicole A.; Schmidt, Norman B.. "Examination of the relations between obsessive–compulsive symptom dimensions and fear and distress disorder symptoms". Journal of Affective Disorders 183: 253–257. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2015.05.013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.05.013.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Deacon, Brett J.; Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Wheaton, Michael G.; Berman, Noah C.; Losardo, Diane; Timpano, Kiara R.; McGrath, Patrick B. et al.. "Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale.". Psychological Assessment 22 (1): 180–198. doi:10.1037/a0018260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018260. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":1" defined multiple times with different content
↑ "Dimensional Obsessive Compulsive Scale - DOCS". www.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
↑ Eilertsen, Thomas; Hansen, Bjarne; Kvale, Gerd; Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Holm, Silje E. H.; Solem, Stian (2017). "The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form (DOCS-SF)" (in English). Frontiers in Psychology 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01503. ISSN 1664-1078. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01503/full.
↑ Rapp, Amy M.; Bergman, R. Lindsay; Piacentini, John; McGuire, Joseph F. (2016-08-21). "Evidence-Based Assessment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder". Journal of Central Nervous System Disease 8: 13–29. doi:10.4137/JCNSD.S38359. ISSN 1179-5735. PMID 27594793. PMC PMC4994744. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4994744/.
↑ Melli, Gabriele; Chiorri, Carlo; Bulli, Francesco; Carraresi, Claudia; Stopani, Eleonora; Abramowitz, Jonathan (2015-06-01). "Factor Congruence and Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) Across Non-Clinical and Clinical Samples" (in en). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 37 (2): 329–339. doi:10.1007/s10862-014-9450-1. ISSN 0882-2689. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10862-014-9450-1.
↑ Eilertsen, Thomas; Hansen, Bjarne; Kvale, Gerd; Abramowitz, Jonathan S.; Holm, Silje E. H.; Solem, Stian (2017). "The Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale: Development and Validation of a Short Form (DOCS-SF)" (in English). Frontiers in Psychology 8. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01503. ISSN 1664-1078. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01503/full.
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Depue, Richard A.; Slater, Judith F.; Wolfstetter-Kausch, Heidi; Klein, Daniel; Goplerud, Eric; Farr, David (1981). "A behavioral paradigm for identifying persons at risk for bipolar depressive disorder: A conceptual framework and five validation studies.". Journal of Abnormal Psychology 90 (5): 381–437. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.90.5.381.
↑ Klein, DN; Dickstein, S; Taylor, EB; Harding, K (February 1989). "Identifying chronic affective disorders in outpatients: validation of the General Behavior Inventory.". Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 57 (1): 106–11. PMID 2925959.
↑ Mesman, Esther; Nolen, Willem A.; Reichart, Catrien G.; Wals, Marjolein; Hillegers, Manon H.J. (May 2013). "The Dutch Bipolar Offspring Study: 12-Year Follow-Up". American Journal of Psychiatry 170 (5): 542–549. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.12030401.
↑ Reichart, CG; van der Ende, J; Wals, M; Hillegers, MH; Nolen, WA; Ormel, J; Verhulst, FC (December 2005). "The use of the GBI as predictor of bipolar disorder in a population of adolescent offspring of parents with a bipolar disorder.". Journal of affective disorders 89 (1-3): 147–55. PMID 16260043.
↑ Depue, RA; Kleiman, RM; Davis, P; Hutchinson, M; Krauss, SP (February 1985). "The behavioral high-risk paradigm and bipolar affective disorder, VIII: Serum free cortisol in nonpatient cyclothymic subjects selected by the General Behavior Inventory.". The American journal of psychiatry 142 (2): 175–81. PMID 3970242.
↑ Klein, DN; Depue, RA (August 1984). "Continued impairment in persons at risk for bipolar affective disorder: results of a 19-month follow-up study.". Journal of abnormal psychology 93 (3): 345–7. PMID 6470321.
↑ Findling, RL; Youngstrom, EA; Danielson, CK; DelPorto-Bedoya, D; Papish-David, R; Townsend, L; Calabrese, JR (February 2002). "Clinical decision-making using the General Behavior Inventory in juvenile bipolarity.". Bipolar disorders 4 (1): 34–42. PMID 12047493.
↑ Youngstrom, Eric A.; Genzlinger, Jacquelynne E.; Egerton, Gregory A.; Van Meter, Anna R. (2015). "Multivariate meta-analysis of the discriminative validity of caregiver, youth, and teacher rating scales for pediatric bipolar disorder: Mother knows best about mania.". Archives of Scientific Psychology 3 (1): 112–137. doi:10.1037/arc0000024.
↑ Alloy, LB; Abramson, LY; Hogan, ME; Whitehouse, WG; Rose, DT; Robinson, MS; Kim, RS; Lapkin, JB (August 2000). "The Temple-Wisconsin Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression Project: lifetime history of axis I psychopathology in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression.". Journal of abnormal psychology 109 (3): 403–18. PMID 11016110.
↑ Klein, Daniel N.; Dickstein, Susan; Taylor, Ellen B.; Harding, Kathryn (1989). "Identifying chronic affective disorders in outpatients: Validation of the General Behavior Inventory.". Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 57 (1): 106–111. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.57.1.106.
↑ Youngstrom, EA; Findling, RL; Danielson, CK; Calabrese, JR (June 2001). "Discriminative validity of parent report of hypomanic and depressive symptoms on the General Behavior Inventory.". Psychological assessment 13 (2): 267–76. PMID 11433802.
↑ Findling, RL; Youngstrom, EA; McNamara, NK; Stansbrey, RJ; Wynbrandt, JL; Adegbite, C; Rowles, BM; Demeter, CA et al. (January 2012). "Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled long-term maintenance study of aripiprazole in children with bipolar disorder.". The Journal of clinical psychiatry 73 (1): 57–63. PMID 22152402.
↑ 21.0 21.1 Youngstrom, E; Zhao, J; Mankoski, R; Forbes, RA; Marcus, RM; Carson, W; McQuade, R; Findling, RL (March 2013). "Clinical significance of treatment effects with aripiprazole versus placebo in a study of manic or mixed episodes associated with pediatric bipolar I disorder.". Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology 23 (2): 72–9. PMID 23480324.
↑ Ong, ML; Youngstrom, EA; Chua, JJ; Halverson, TF; Horwitz, SM; Storfer-Isser, A; Frazier, TW; Fristad, MA et al. (1 July 2016). "Comparing the CASI-4R and the PGBI-10 M for Differentiating Bipolar Spectrum Disorders from Other Outpatient Diagnoses in Youth.". Journal of abnormal child psychology. PMID 27364346.
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Pegasus dialling Milky Way planets aside from Earth - and vice versa
Thread: Pegasus dialling Milky Way planets aside from Earth - and vice versa
November 28th, 2015, 06:55 AM #1
Alyssa Ogawa
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Pegasus dialling Milky Way planets aside from Earth - and vice versa. Is it possible? (Without the use of Midway.)
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Re: Pegasus dialling Milky Way planets aside from Earth - and vice versa
According to Mckay there was some sort of complication. I believe the reason was the 8th chevron crystal introduced in "home". (or rather, the absence thereof)
Originally Posted by thekillman
So it's not possible dialing from a gate that isn't on Atlantis? You'd need the 8th chevron crystal?
Originally Posted by neela
I believe that in Midway (or related episode) it was said that they had significant problems doing it and eventually just used two stargates. I would expect that it can be done, it's just not easy and it can't be done without modifications.
jhorgan9
Atlantis' gate is the only one in the Pegasus galaxy that is capable of dialling an intergalactic gate address because it has a control crystal that allows the 8th chevron to lock.
The intergalactic gate bridge operated on the basis the each individual gate in the chain was within the normal (interstellar) dialling range of a gate. There were 32 gates in the chain, spanning a distance of 3 million light years or so, which means that each gate was within 93,750 light years of each other. That's the equivalent of establishing a wormhole from the one edge of the Galaxy to other edge.
November 28th, 2015, 04:04 PM #7
lvalen18
The complication that happen in the Midway station was gate succession. Since the Pegasus Gate was a newer model it automatically claimed dominance in a sense when next to the older Milkway one. Similar to how two gates in the same area only the one with a DHD is functional. This was seen when the super hive was in earth orbit and how all incoming wormholes were directed to it. Mckay/Carter managed to keep each gate attached to their own network.
Now for the OPs question. I don't see why not just as long as the control crystal is present.
If a Milky way gate has enough power it can dial any gate in Pegasus. Similar to how O'Neil was able to dial the Asgard homeworld from earth. And just like how two random gates (one Pegasus and the other milky way) were able to connect and then used an explosion to jump the wormhole to the super gate.
Originally Posted by lvalen18
Does that mean that with the Midway station gone, a Jumper would for instance have difficulty dialing the MW side of the gate bridge?
It seems the control crystal has been an extra measure to control the flow back to MW from Pegasus. To me, it begs the question of whether this was always the case (i.e. when the Pegasus gate network was originally seeded), or if the Ancients introduced the control crystal during the war with the Wraith. If the latter, I would imagine that it would still be possible to hijack a Pegasus DHD to override whatever lockout is preventing the dial of the eight chevron, much like Sam or Ba'al could hijack the MW network and change its galaxy-wide update program. However, it would probably require some highly specific equipment and training, so not everyone would be able to do it. And once the lockout is overridden, it would just be a question of getting enough power to make the intergalactic call, right?
Edit: I looked up the episode The Pegasus Project to see if it'd work with a normal MW and P gate. This is something I noted:
To warn the Odyssey near the black hole of the Wraith, Atlantis must first dial the SGC, which dials the Gamma site, which calls Teal'c next to the supergate, who in turns dials Pegasus and the Odyssey. That's a bit of a roundabout way, right? Now, is that because of sheer distances or because of the presence of the black hole (or both)? If distances, it could mean that Teal'c's gate and Odyssey's gate are so close that they are able to make a "normal" dial, whereas Atlantis and the Odyssey's gate are too far apart (somehow).
Last edited by neela; November 29th, 2015 at 12:10 AM.
Atlantis could not contact Odyssey directly because of the black hole interference (and the fact that dialing a gate so close to a black hole is hugely problematic). Teal'cs gate was much further away (and next to a much smaller black hole) so he did not have troubles.
Atlantis likely didn't dial the Gamma site directly because they had no information on the best approach to contact teal'c. Furthermore, given the events of Matter of Time, the president likely established that the SGC was not allowed to dial a stargate around a black hole under any circumstances.
Bhousden
Atlantis couldn't dial the gamma site. They dialed earth, gave them the message, they called the gamma site, who relayed the message to Teal'c who told the Odyssey.
atterodevice
A cohesive explanation here is tough because they introduced elements of intergalactic gate travel before that was going to become an important part of the show's universe. They never directly contradicted past events but also didn't go out of their way to come up with plausible explanations to fit it all together.
My thought is the MW gates were the second galaxy where the gates were built (after the Ori galaxy) and the ancients had no reason to place limitations on the gates, especially because they were the only ones using them. When they came to Pegasus and built Destiny they started thinking about the implications of intergalactic gate usage, especially if the Ori began expressing a desire to move across galaxies. So they left the MW gate system as it was because the ancients had a large presence to oversee the galaxy but wanted more limitations for other galaxies where that wasn't the case.
That doesn't explain why the Pegasus gates override the MW gates except maybe the newer technology unavoidably overrides or they wanted Atlantis to always be the overriding gate in MW.
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No Good Deed [Story][Public]
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by OrcishLibrarian
The drunken man was still clutching a half-full glass in one hand as he emerged from the Silver Bullet Saloon onto the streets of Verkell. Stumbling outside, he reeled beneath the noonday heat, and took a few staggered steps backwards before he seemed to steady himself. He held up one arm to shield his face from the blazing sun, and he blinked his pickled eyes over and over again as he tried to adjust to the brightness and noise of the street. Then he took another drink.
That was when Sister Temperance stepped forward, and bowed before him.
“When we are lost, faith can be our lodestone,” she told the drunk, paraphrasing one of her favorite hymns, and holding one of her handwritten tracts at the ready. “There are no answers to be found at the bottom of a glass – we must look higher.”
At first, the drunk just stared at her, as though his whiskey-addled mind were unsure about what to make of the earnest young woman who had appeared before him, and was attempting to press a religious pamphlet into his free hand. But, eventually, his eyes went wide as saucers, and he tried to sidestep the smiling sister, batting away the offered tract as he did so.
But Sister Temperance had the advantage of both youth and sobriety, and she moved quickly to intercept him.
“Please,” she said, making a second attempt to hand him the tract. “Please, just take it with you, and let the angels guide you home?”
This time, she managed to get the pamphlet into the drunken man’s open hand, which he closed – reflexively – around it.
He stared down at the folded paper, onto which Sister Temperance had copied relevant verses from the Book of Virtues, and he seemed momentarily confused.
“Angels keep you,” Sister Temperance said, and she bowed again before the drunken man.
In reply, the man leered at her, and he returned her blessing with a particularly graphic obscenity – although his words were sufficiently slurred that Sister Temperance couldn’t tell if the sentiment was directed at the angels, or at her.
Then, with a crooked smile on his lips, the man raised his glass above the kneeling sister, and he emptied its contents out over her head.
Tepid, vile-smelling whiskey soaked Sister Temperance’s hair. It ran down her sunburnt face, it stung her eyes, and it dripped from her nose and chin to puddle on the sawdust-covered street. The priestess tried to wipe the liquor away with the sleeve of her sackcloth robe, but a trickle of liquid found its way into the corners of her mouth, causing her to spit, frantically, as she tried to keep from swallowing.
The man pointed, and laughed, and, after delivering himself of a second, even cruder obscenity – this time directed clearly at the Sister – he crumpled the tract she had given him into a little ball and threw it to the ground at her feet, before brushing brusquely past.
Still trying to wipe her face clean, Sister Temperance turned to look at the man’s retreating back.
“Angels keep you!” she called out after him, as he disappeared into the bustle of the Verkell street.
Kneeling down, Sister Temperance picked up the pamphlet where the man had dropped it, and she did the best she could to smooth it out before tucking it back into her robe.
Each tract took her an hour to copy. It would not do to let one go to waste.
Then, after sighing a small sigh, and a whispered prayer for strength, Sister Temperance moved to stand in front of the door to the Silver Bullet, and she began to sing a hymn. It was a struggle to make herself heard over all the shouting and laughter coming from inside, but she trusted in the power of the angels to carry her words.
Every seventh day, Sister Temperance stood on the doorstep of the Silver Bullet, and she offered her pamphlets to the lost souls she saw going in and out. She had chosen the Silver Bullet because it was the saloon closest to the chapel where she had been cloistered ever since she had left her home in Hickle Gully on the back of a mail train, and had pledged herself to the Sisterhood of Angelic Mercy. After taking her vows, she had cast aside all vestiges of her former life, and had taken one of the seven virtues as her own name – a tradition that, to her surprise, few of the Verkell sisters seemed to practice.
She had chosen temperance because it was, to her mind, the most difficult of the virtues to attain – a fact which only made her need to evangelize about it all the more urgent. So, on those days when she wasn’t needed in the kitchen, or at the orphanage, Sister Temperance found herself outside the Silver Bullet, with tracts in her hands and good tidings in her heart, as she preached to the lost souls of Verkell with the earnest fervor of one for whom salvation was more than an article of faith.
But, so far, salvation had proven to be a harder sell than whiskey. For all her singing and proselytizing, more patrons of the Silver Bullet had spat on Sister Temperance than had agreed to accept one of her tracts.
If she had failed in her effort to spread the angelic virtues, though, then that failure was not the fault of the virtues themselves, but rather of the imperfect vessel through which she tried to embody them. So, each night, as twilight fell outside the cloister, Sister Temperance performed her devotions with the same sense of purpose as she had since the hour of her conversion, and she begged the angels to give her the strength to touch even just one life in the same way that their mercy had touched hers.
Which was why, week after week, she came back to the Silver Bullet, in spite of all the evidence that she was not wanted there.
As she finished her hymn, a pair of women – one human, one rattler – stepped off the street and in the direction of the saloon. Sister Temperance smiled at them, and produced two tracts from her pocket.
When the two women saw her, though, they stopped dead in their tracks. The rattler jerked her head in Sister Temperance’s direction, then whispered something into her human companion’s ear, at which point they both executed a sharp turn and disappeared back into the passing crowd.
“Angels keep you!” Sister Temperance called after them as they departed.
They would probably just go to a different saloon, Sister Temperance knew. But maybe not.
There was always hope.
“What in the seven Hells are you doing here?” growled a rough, sandpaper voice from behind her. “You must be crazy to show your face here again.”
Sister Temperance turned around to see Tarrik – the Silver Bullet’s erstwhile bouncer – glowering at her from the entrance to the saloon.
“Hello, Tarrik,” Sister Temperance said to the minotaur, whose massive frame barely fit through the hinged double doors. She pressed her hands together in a gesture of respect, and she bowed. “I hope your day has been as blessed as mine.”
The minotaur did not return the gesture. Instead, he snorted at her.
“Don’t talk to me like we’re friends,” he said, as he stepped outside to tower over the human. “I told you what would happen if you came back here. I told you more than once.”
“I know,” Sister Temperance said, with a resigned nod. “And I’m sorry to have put you in this position. But I have work I must do.”
“So do I,” the minotaur said. Then, before the Sister could react, he grabbed her by the shoulders and hoisted her up into the air, slamming her against the saloon wall so forcefully that sparks flew in front of her eyes, and the breath was knocked from her lungs.
As Sister Temperance gasped for air, Tarrik lowered his head so that it was level with hers, and he was so close that she could feel the breath from his flared nostrils as it washed over her in warm, whistling gouts. His eyes were wide, and his face was a mask of anger.
Then, after casting a furtive glance back over his shoulder, as if to see who else might be watching, the minotaur’s face softened almost imperceptibly, and, when he spoke again, it was in a hushed, plaintive whisper.
“You’re driving away the customers, Sister,” the bouncer said, before glancing back over his shoulder a second time. “That’s bad for business, and business wants you gone. They told me to get rid of you, which I did – three times.” He closed his eyes and exhaled, before opening them again. “But you keep coming back, and now they want you gone permanently.”
Sister Temperance could see the fear that was lurking beneath the minotaur’s anger. She nodded her head.
“I understand,” she said.
“No, you don’t,” the minotaur said. He leaned in even closer, so that his face was just inches from hers. “I’m supposed to send you off today with a message that you won’t be able to forget. And, if you come back again?” He shook his horns. “It’ll be someone other than me waiting here for you the next time. And they won’t just rough you up – they’ll kill you.”
Sister Temperance closed her eyes, and she sighed. She knew what was going to happen next, and there was a part of her that was afraid of it.
Still, she had taken beatings before, and she knew that, with the angels watching over her, she could take one more.
She did not feel any anger towards Tarrik, either – she never had, not even on those occasions when he had raised his hand against her.
Instead, what she felt was sadness, and pity. Her heart went out to Tarrik. He was not a bad man, she thought. He was just lost, and he needed someone to show him the way.
Sister Temperance had hoped that someone could be her. But she had failed. She had not saved him.
So she prayed to the angels for strength, and forgiveness, before she opened her eyes.
She took a moment then to remove most of the tracts from her pockets, and she placed them in a neat pile on the ground, safely off to one side, where they would not get too crumpled, or bloody.
Then she drew in a deep breath.
“You must do what you must do,” she said. “Just as must I.”
The minotaur shook his horns one more time, and he sighed.
“I can’t take it easy on you,” he whispered to her, “or they’ll know. So, for the love of all that’s holy, when I hit you, go down, and just stay down. Okay?”
Sister Temperance nodded her head. The minotaur sighed again.
“I really wish you hadn’t come back,” he said. Then he released his grip on her shoulders, and she fell to the ground.
Before she could get up again, the minotaur hit her in the back, square between the shoulder blades, with a fist that felt like an iron hammer. Pain exploded through Sister Temperance’s body, and the force of the blow knocked her to the ground, where her head slammed against the street with a sickening crack. With her mind swimming and her whole body shaking, Sister Temperance tried to get back up on her knees. This drew an angry snort from the minotaur, followed by a sharp-hooved kick that caught her in the ribs. The young priestess could hear the sound of her own ribs cracking, followed by a searing pain that seemed to cover her whole side in fire.
She was knocked down to the ground again, and, this time, she stayed down.
As she lay there, prone, face flat against the street, the minotaur kicked her again, and again, and again. He seemed to be making some effort to avoid hitting her in the same place too many times, for which she was silently grateful. But each kick still felt like being hit by an oncoming train, and, as Sister Temperance felt herself sinking through a red haze of pain towards darkness, and oblivion, she repeated the names of the seven virtues over and over to herself, as though they were the lifeline upon which her spirit clung.
Charity, she vowed to herself, as the blows rained down.
Chastity, temperance, forbearance.
The pain was unlike anything she had ever experienced.
Humility, honesty, and obedience.
A kick landed hard, just below her elbow, and she felt her arm break, heard the bones snap like dry kindling. She wanted to cry out, but held her tongue.
Charity, chastity, temperance, forbearance, humility, honesty, obedience.
She repeated the virtues again, even as she felt the world slipping away.
Finally, the beating stopped.
Sister Temperance felt calloused fingertips press against her neck, as the minotaur checked her pulse. Then, with more tenderness than she would have expected, she felt Tarrik lift her up off the street. He draped her carefully over his broad shoulder, and, slowly – taking care not to jostle her too much – he began to walk.
“Let’s take you back where you belong. Away from here,” he said, with a tone in his voice that she could not quite mark. Then, more quietly, so that only she could hear it, he added: “Forgive me, Sister.”
She wanted to answer, to tell him that all was forgiven, and that she would pray for him, but, between her broken ribs and her whistling breath, she could not quite form the words.
Instead, she somehow managed to extract a crumpled, blood-spattered tract from the folds of her robe, and, as her last willful act before fading into unconsciousness, Sister Temperance slipped the little pamphlet into the minotaur’s pocket.
Then she smiled, and was gone.
Sister Temperance sat – painfully – on a low-backed wooden chair in the Supreme Mother’s office.
As she sat there, waiting for the Supreme Mother to speak, Sister Temperance’s eyes kept drifting to the decanter of centaur wine that sat atop the Supreme Mother’s desk. “For sacramental purposes,” the Supreme Mother had once assured her, when Sister Temperance had inquired, and Sister Temperance had known better than to question the head of her chapter further on the matter.
Obedience was, after all, a virtue.
Even so, Sister Temperance could not help but wonder just what sacramental purpose the cut crystal glasses next to the decanter were meant to serve.
Meanwhile, from her seat behind the desk, the Supreme Mother cleared her throat. Sister Temperance looked up to see the gray fox staring down at her from behind thick glasses, with a pained expression on her face.
“I have spoken with Sister Florence in the infirmary,” the Supreme Mother said, steepling her paws together as she spoke, “and she tells me that we may need to break your arm again, if we’re to have any hope of setting it properly.”
Sister Temperance looked down at her right arm, which was bound up in a sling. There was something visibly off about the angle of her elbow, and, whereas every other part of her body seemed to cry out in pain every time she moved, the fingers on her right hand were conspicuously numb.
“Aside from that, though,” the Supreme Mother continued, “Sister Florence assures me that you will mend. Which is a near enough miracle, given the state we found you in.”
Sister Temperance nodded her head. She could remember nothing from between when she had passed out on Tarrik's shoulder to when she had woken up in the infirmary three days later, wrapped nearly head-to-toe in bandages, with Sister Florence – the chapter’s most practiced nurse – praying silently by her side. Based upon the expression she had seen on Sister Florence’s face when she had first opened her eyes and asked for a drink of water, Sister Temperance had been able to deduce the severity of her own injuries. And, although she had improved steadily since then, she still hurt all over. Even just sitting was excruciating. Sister Temperance could find no way to position herself in a chair that didn’t aggravate either her bandaged ribs, or her broken arm, or both.
“Sister Florence has been extremely kind to me,” she said, bowing her head slightly. “I thank the angels for her every day.”
“Of that, I have no doubt,” the Supreme Mother said. She sighed, and turned her face upwards, as if to study the ceiling. “Which leaves us with the question of what I am going to do with you.”
That remark left Sister Temperance confused. She shifted in her seat, which sent needles of pain shooting through her ribs.
“I don’t understand,” she said, shaking her head, carefully. “Once I’ve mended, surely I will resume my duties?”
“Yes. But, tell me,” the Supreme Mother said, still looking up at the ceiling, “to your mind, does that resumption of duties include a return to sermonizing outside saloons?”
“Of course,” Sister Temperance said.
With a sigh, the Supreme Mother looked back down, and, for a moment, she closed her eyes.
“Your faith is a beacon to us all, Sister Temperance,” she said. “As is your commitment to spreading the virtues. And I have nothing but praise for the way that you discharge your duties – within the walls of this chapter, that is.” The fox sighed again, and shook her head. “But this crusade of yours has to stop, before you get yourself killed – or worse.”
Sister Temperance could not believe what her Supreme was saying. It took her a second to collect her thoughts, by which time her eyes had drifted back over to the decanter.
“With all due respect, Supreme Mother, I cannot stop now,” she said. She forced herself to look away from the wine, and back up at the fox. “You see, I believe I am being tested. I believe this is my trial.”
“On that we agree,” the Supreme Mother said. “Where we differ, though, is on how you might pass that trial. I, for one, would argue that getting yourself killed out in front of the Silver Bullet hardly constitutes a triumph for the virtues.”
Sister Temperance shook her head.
“The angels will watch over me,” she said.
“The angels have gone!” the Supreme Mother snapped, drawing a painful flinch from the young Sister. “The angels left Verkell decades ago, and they have not spoken to any of us since. They left the city in pieces, and they left us to try to hold it together – a commission which is difficult enough at the best of times, and which will become properly impossible if you persist in antagonizing the sorts of people who can bring all seven Hells down upon our heads, now that we are without our protectors.”
The Supreme Mother took off her glasses and rubbed at her eyes. Her voice grew distant, and she suddenly seemed very old to Sister Temperance. Very old, and very small.
“The city is lost, Sister,” the Supreme Mother said. “It was lost a long time ago, and our responsibility now is to see that we don’t become lost with it.”
Sister Temperance blinked.
“If the city is lost,” she said, slowly, “then isn’t our responsibility to save it?”
“You can’t save the whole city, Sister Temperance,” the Supreme Mother said. She sounded tired. “No one can.”
“Not the whole city, no,” Sister Temperance said. For a moment, she closed her eyes, and she thought about Tarrik, the bouncer, and about the pamphlet she had placed in his pocket. “But maybe just one soul. That would suffice.”
The Supreme Mother rubbed even harder at her eyes, before sliding her glasses back on.
“Should I take that to mean then that you intend to defy my order, and to return to preaching on the street?” she asked.
Sister Temperance was silent for a long moment.
“Yes,” she said.
“Obedience is a virtue,” the Supreme Mother said.
“So is honesty,” Sister Temperance said.
“So it is,” the Supreme Mother said.
The gray fox leaned back in her chair and she, too, passed a long moment in silence before she opened the top drawer of her desk and extracted a small slip of paper, which she offered to Sister Temperance.
“Tradition holds that a Sister must spend five years in the cloister, doing good works and demonstrating her mastery of the virtues, before she is entrusted with her mission,” the Supreme Mother said. “But, by right, I, as the Supreme of this chapter, have the power to make an exception, which – in your case – I intend to do.”
Sister Temperance accepted the paper that the Supreme Mother had offered to her. She looked down at it.
It was a train ticket: one-way, third-class, to a destination that Sister Temperance had never heard of.
A place called “World’s End.”
“Sister Temperance,” the Supreme Mother said, “I charge you with carrying the gospel into the Waste. You will go to World’s End, and you will preach the virtues there. That is your mission.”
Sister Temperance stared mutely down at the train ticket she held in her hands.
“Who will I report to?” she finally asked. “Will I be met at the station?”
“No,” the Supreme Mother said. “The Sisterhood has no chapter in World’s End. You will be the first among our number to carry the virtues quite so... far from Verkell.”
Sister Temperance was too surprised to say anything. She remained silent even as the Supreme Mother unstoppered the decanter of centaur wine.
“Do you have any questions?” the fox asked, as she poured herself a generous glass.
“No,” Sister Temperance said. “Only, when do I leave?”
“As soon as you are able,” the Supreme Mother said, and she took a drink of the strong, red wine, before adding: “Angels keep you.”
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Leevi Aaltonen
2001-01-24 / Mikkeli, Finland
#7 at 1 / 2018-19
Drafted by New York Rangers in 2019 #130
2019-04-21 at Finland - Czech Republic, U18 World Championship by Lassi Alanen
Aaltonen was featured on Finland’s second line and he also played on both special units regularly throughout the game. He didn’t record any points, but was one of the most active shooters on the team, even though only one of them was a high-danger scoring chance.
Aaltonen’s most noticeable quality in his skating. He is very active on his feet, has excellent acceleration and can burn opponents with high-end speed. Skating makes Aaltonen very good at creating zone entries for his team. He also has a lot of pace to his game beyond his obvious foot speed. Aaltonen is good at making effective passes in the neutral zone, but he hasn’t been a reliable playmaker in the offensive zone at this level. He is very eager at finding shooting lanes and utilizing his wrist shot, but most of his shots have not caused any problems for the opposing goaltenders. His stickhandling is good, but not anything special.
Aaltonen doesn’t have a long stick or big frame, but he is still a good penalty-killer due to his activeness and skating. I could see him end up as a middle or bottom six forward at the NHL level due to those capabilities, but I’m not sure if he has the skills or the vision to be an high-impact player.
2019-01-05 at Tappara - KalPa, A-SM by Jokke Nevalainen
Aaltonen played left wing on the second line, and he was also responsible for running KalPa’s top power play unit from the right half-wall. He didn’t get any points in the game but was constantly dangerous offensively and did score in the shootout with a really nice wrist shot.
Aaltonen is capable of stick-handling through traffic, and he’s a very talented skater with great speed. He showed great vision by finding open players all the time, and he also made great passes to those players. He made clean offensive zone entries frequently in the game. He was asked to carry the puck and create something offensively, and he delivered on that. He also created one good scoring chance with strong forechecking.
Aaltonen’s defensive commitment was lacking a bit, though. He was a bit lazy skating back to his own zone and didn’t backcheck as well as I had hoped. He also didn’t give full effort in defensive zone puck-battles. The coach tried to get him more engaged defensively by putting him on the PK. He did look at bit better during that time but that didn’t seem to carry to even-strength game.
2018-12-16 at JYP - KalPa, U20 by Lassi Alanen
Aaltonen scored twice on the power play and added one secondary assist on even-strength in KalPa’s 0-3 win over JYP. Playing on the second line and on the first power play unit, he was one of the best players on the ice, constantly creating offense for him and his teammates. He scored both of his goals with an accurate wrist shot.
Aaltonen has many tools you would want from a prospect. He is a very good skater with quick feet and excellent agility. Aaltonen has very good vision and playmaking skills and he can also stickhandle well in tight spaces. He is excellent in transitions due to his elusiveness and puck-handling skills. He is also relentless on the forecheck and works hard.
The fact that Aaltonen is very small doesn’t worry me as much because of his great skating. It will likely take many years for him to reach the NHL, but I like him as a long-term prospect due to his speed and skill.
2018-11-08 at Finland - Switzerland, U18 Five Nations Tournament by Asko Huuki
Aaltonen was the most dangerous player on ice against Switzerland. He was able to make two goals during the first period and on top of that, he was probably the most dynamic Finnish forward in this game.
Aaltonen seemed to fly today. His skating is top notch, he was maybe the quickest player on ice and with his great acceleration and agility makes him excellent skater overall. He is also a very skilled player with really good hands. He really got things happening combining his speed and skill making many efficient dekes during the game. However alongside with his small size, I think the biggest problem in his game is that he tries to make things happen too much by himself. He carried the puck bit too much trying to create scoring chance for himself and he did not use his line mates properly. This was especially evident at the end of the game when he really tried to make that third goal.
However I think his work ethic is really good, he wants to help defence and he uses his speed well in checking game. He is a above average player at the own zone for a winger of his age. His play off the puck was also pretty good and he really made himself playable. Overall, Aaltonen really impressed in this game and the performances like this definitely doesn’t hurt his draft stock.
2018-09-15 at Kärpät - KalPa, Liiga by Markus Suhonen
Aaltonen played his second pro league game on the third line. He had a rather sheltered role in which he didn’t get the puck as much as he would have liked. During the game he flashed his strong puck control and ability to make key passes during high-speed plays.
The Finn wasn’t afraid to carry the puck in the neutral zone while being pressured. In the first period, Aaltonen fired a quick backhand shot after a strong carry from the boards showing his eagerness to scoring chances.
He is learning the pro game, which was visible during defensive plays. Aaltonen was relatively passive when he didn’t have the puck and his forechecking has a lot of room for improvement in the defensive zone. Aaltonen could carry more momentum and lateral movement while pressuring opponents. On the positive side, the 17-year-old was aware of his surroundings and didn’t let himself to be surprised.
2018-02-21 at Kärpät - KalPa, U20 by Asko Huuki
Aaltonen got a goal against Kärpät when he foisted puck to the net after finding open space between the goalie and the goal post. He also hit the post during the game. He got just over 11 minutes of ice time but he had a chance to play in power play.
Aaltonen is a flashy player. His speed is evident and his skating is excellent all-round. On top of that he has excellent puck handling skills and he has ability to make some very efficient dekes. However as expected, he still plays like an youngster. He does’t utilize his line mates properly and he tries to make things happen too much all by himself. He also needs more time to adjust to the tempo of Finnish U20 league and his decision-making was too slow occasionally.
The forward needs to improve his defensive and checking game because he made too many wrong decisions in the situations. However even though Aaltonen is a smallish player, he battled hard and he wasn’t afraid of physical play and his skating definitely helps in one-on-ones. Aaltonen has very good passing abilities and together with other offensive qualities, his offensive potential is undeniable.
2017-03-19 at HIFK - KalPa, U18 by Marco Bombino
While KalPa U18 lost 6-0 to HIFK, Aaltonen was once again able to show his high end skating ability. His acceleration, speed and overall mobility are what make him such an excellent skater. He has good hands, on-ice vision and delivers smarts passes for his linemates. Wouldn’t consider him a defensive specialist at this point in time. However, Aaltonen is one of the top forwards in the 2001 age-group and has considerable offensive potential.
2016-12-28 at Finland - Slovakia, U16 by Marco Bombino
Aaltonen is an excellent skater with impressive acceleration and first-step quickness. Probably the fastest player in this contest, he can fly on the ice and create separation from opponents. He showcased strong playmaking skill and offensive instincts, making smart passes in the final third. Had strong chemistry with Henri Nikkanen and Patrik Puistola. Even though he’s on the smaller side and not a physical force, he battled hard off the puck. Had some scoring chances himself but wasn’t able to find the back of the net this time.
2016-10-21 at Finland - Germany, U16 by Miika Arponen
Aaltonen was definitely the best player of the game when Finnish U16 national team faced their German counterparts. Aaltonen recorded four assists when Finland won 5-3.
The winger stands out especially because of his skating. He is both very fast and very agile, and has very explosive first strides. He can blow past defenders with ease even in international games. Aaltonen also has a very high hockey IQ, and he excels especially on the power play. He is still a bit smallish, but he can avoid getting into battles with his fantastic speed.
2013-2014 Jukurit U16 Jr. C Suomi-sarja 5 2 2 4 2 |
2014-2015 Jukurit U18 Jr. B Mestis 3 0 4 4 0 |
2015-2016 KalPa U16 Jr. C SM-sarja Q 10 13 12 25 2 |
KalPa U16 Jr. C SM-sarja 27 26 44 70 39 | Playoffs 4 2 4 6 0
2016-2017 KalPa U18 Jr. B SM-sarja 38 21 38 59 28 | Playoffs 4 1 2 3 0
KalPa U20 Jr. A SM-liiga 2 0 0 0 2 |
Finland U16 (all) International-Jr 11 1 14 15 4 |
2017-2018 KalPa U18 Jr. B SM-sarja 1 0 0 0 0 |
KalPa U20 Jr. A SM-liiga 34 8 13 21 4 | Playoffs 13 2 5 7 2
Finland U17 (all) International-Jr 9 3 8 11 2 |
Finland U18 WJC-18 7 2 0 2 2 |
Finland U18 (all) International-Jr 13 5 2 7 2 |
Finland U18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup 4 3 2 5 0 |
2018-2019 KalPa U20 Jr. A SM-liiga 29 12 24 36 28 | Playoffs 6 1 2 3 31
KalPa Liiga 7 0 1 1 0 |
IPK Mestis 1 0 0 0 0 |
Finland U18 (all) International-Jr 25 10 13 23 12 |
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Tommo May 19, 2018 Food, Food & Drink Tours, Food Experiences (Restaurants and Where To eat In...), Fun
From famous street food – oh yes, there will be tacos! – to the lively theatrics of Mexican wrestling. In this article, we set out to find the best of Mexico City food & fun experiences in this Mexico City Travel Guide.
Mexico City was founded by the Aztecs in 1325. Legend stated that the capital of the Aztec civilization must be founded where an eagle was seen perching on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. It just so happened this sight was seen in swampland. The Aztecs filled parts of the swamp with soil and built a grand capital. A couple of centuries later, the Spanish arrived and built Mexico City upon the grounds of the Aztec city.
The city on the swamp is still sinking today, sometimes at a rate of up to 30cm per year! Regardless, this metropolis of over 20 million people has become a melting pot for the food and culture of Mexico. From tree-lined European style avenues to old colonial houses and a barrage of tacos and other Mexican flavors. Mexico City is a microcosm of the whole country, but like any capital, it’s more than just the sum of cultures it represents.
Below, find our Mexico City travel guide to food, fun & attractions and our pick of accommodation options.
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Mexico City Food
It’s impossible to avoid the endless taco options around Mexico City. So that is where our journey had to begin. In this foodie roundup: taco tours, markets and a high-end dining experience without the price tag. We sifted through our time in Mexico City to bring you our top picks of what and where to eat.
Mexico City Food Tour – Taco Tour!
Although the first tacos weren’t invented in Mexico City, the city was largely responsible for their rapid rise in popularity in the late 19th & early 20th century. In fact, we released a whole podcast about the surprising history of the taco.
By taking a taco tour around downtown, not only did we learn about some of Mexico’s most popular taco styles, we got fast-tracked to some of the best tacos in CDMX (that’s the local abbreviation for “Mexico City”). If you are only in a destination for a short time, making every calorie you chew on count is an essential part of having a top foodie experience. So having an experienced guide introduce you to the tastiest and most important flavors is a great way to get your foodie bearings from day one.
During the taco tour, you’ll get to try a multitude of taco styles including the “carnitas” at one of Mexico City’s favourite all day and night taquerias. Carnitas is similar to the French cooking style of confit – where meat is cooked in its own fat and juices. Pork is the most typical meat used for carnitas in Mexico.
Carnitas tacos – Cachete (cheek, right) & Campechana (Means “mix” and here its a mix of chorizo style sausage and pork shoulder)
On the tour, you’ll also get to try the original street food taco style – tacos de canasta. This literally means “tacos in a basket”. Simple fillings like chicken and potato are mixed into a delicious, mildly spiced paste, and stuffed inside corn tortillas. The tortillas are made as a large batch and stacked inside a basket, wrapped in cloth to keep them warm for many hours. You’ll learn more about the origin of this original taco style on the tour.
Tacos de canasta – tacos in a basket
One of the biggest and tastiest surprises was a roasted turkey taco from a taqueria that’s been open since 1910. The founder’s grandson, now in his 80’s, is still to be seen in store every day. I’m not the biggest fan of turkey, but here they combine it with chicharron (crispy pork rinds) and guacamole and have managed to keep the turkey soft and succulent. No dry mouth here!
Turkey & chicharron tacos – Mexico City Food Tour
As well as tacos, you get a guided tour of some of downtown’s less visited historical spots. The stunning interior below is from a building that still has an active role in the community today – you’d never think this interior would be in the heart of Mexico City… And if you’ve never visited, you wouldn’t be able to guess what this building is used for, still to this day.
A marvel of interior design, a building still with a practical purpose today
You’ve certainly heard of Tequila. And if you’ve been to Mexico, you’ll likely have heard of Mezcal too – a super strong Mexican spirit (at least 45% ABV) distilled from smoked agave. With a strong smokey but smooth punch in the face, this spirit is to be sipped & savoured, not shotted. As part of the tour the bartender at a very historic venue, with a legacy tied directly to the Mexican revolution, helped us choose the right Mezcal for our taste preference.
During the 3 hour tour, we got to sample 10 or more tacos each, so the Mezcal was an essential digestif after all those tacos!
Mezcal – a strong Mexican spirit made from smoked agave
We talk more about the fascinating history of Mezcal on our Tequila vs Mezcalpodcast. Also, join our mailing list to get updates about our podcasts future releases.
We took the Tasty Bites Mexico City Centro Historico Taco Tour – Book in advance to secure your spot.
More Places To Eat In Mexico City
After taking a Mexico city food tour to get an overview of the food scene (and to ask lots of questions to supplement our online research), it was time to road test all the other places to eat in Mexico City that had made our list. Many we tried didn’t make it into our top spots. Which did? Find out below.
Lets start with a Mexico city street food classic: tacos al pastor.
Best Tacos Al Pastor Mexico City
What is pastor?
Al Pastor (Which means “shepherd style” – because it was originally made with lamb) is a Lebanese Mexican fusion dish, similar to Shwarma, but now made with pork which has been marinated in vinegar, achiote (a ground red paste) and other spices. It’s cooked on a vertical rotisserie and thin slices are shaved off into tortillas to make tacos al pastor.
You can learn the full history of Al Pastor on our podcast. But for now, all you need to know is that it’s super tasty and that it was invented in Mexico City. We did a ton of research before arriving and went on a mission to try all the top-rated pastor places. From the 2 restaurants that both claim to have invented pastor (more on that shortly) to local favourites and those regularly recommended in big publications, by food/travel bloggers and guides.
Did we find the best pastor in Mexico? And if so, which taqueria had the best? Let’s find out.
The Contenders:
1 & 3 = El Vilsito. Recommended as a top pick by BBC, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Condé Nest, Migrationology and many more. This is a popular student stop. They open at 8pm and serve up juicy pork late into the night. This seems to be the less famous option that a lot of food writers tote as actually being the best.
2 = El Huequito. Recommended by Travel & Leisure, Somebody Feed Phil (Netflix), Matador Network and more. They claim to be the original Al Pastor, first sold in 1959. The odd thing for me is that this pastor lacks key ingredients that define pastor… There is no achiote in the marinade and they do not serve it with pineapple. Which begs the question, is this really al pastor? Or is this a proto-pastor that filled the gap between tacos arabe (the original pre-pastor dish invented in the 1930s) and the modern pastor now sold everywhere in Mexico.
4 = El Tizoncito. Surprisingly few people recommend this as the best, but it is the second contender for being the original pastor. They are believed to be the first to add pineapple to the dish (in 1966) and, they definitely marinate the meat with achiote – creating a bright red tower of pork! So, to me, this is a full pastor, unlike El Huequito. But will it taste better?
5 = Tacos los Juanes. A wildcard option against the big 3. Quoted as a locals only taco stop serving both pastor and carnitas, we needed a benchmark for comparison, and this was it. There was certainly a crowd of locals around this small street cart when we arrived.
Best Tacos Al Pastor Mexico City – The Verdict
Tacos los Juanes fell by the wayside pretty early on. While satisfyingly filling, the meat lacked flavor. It was a little too bland to be a real contender.
El Vilsito & El Huequito come in joint second. El Huequito makes meat with a fantastic charcoal flavor. Although their tangy sauce, which substitutes for pineapple, gave the dish a little kick, the overall blend of the dish, and the fact that it’s more of a taco arabe than a taco al pastor, stopped it getting the top spot. El Vilsito cook with gas, rather than charcoal. This helps crisp up the meat better. But overall the meat itself, while having the perfect juicy to crispy ratio that only super hot gas burners seem to create, lacked in flavor compared to El Huequito.
So, they both had merits and faults, which drew them level, for me.
So the winner… El Tizoncito. The meat was flavored exquisitely. The charcoal really lifted it. The selection of condiments far exceeded anywhere else and these flavors added to the taco took it to another level. The only downside is the price, given how little meat you get.
El Tizoncito took the top spot amongst the hottest recommendations in CDMX but was it the best Al pastor in Mexico??? Nope! We found one that blows all four of the above out of the water… Check out the companion notes for our Tacos podcast to find out where to eat better pastor than in Mexico City.
But first a little teaser – Item 1 is the tacos at El Tizoncito. Item 2, the al pastor at our number one spot – fully loaded! But, if you are only visiting Mexico City, then Tizoncito is the place.
El Tizoncito – Best Pastor in Mexico City
A Better Pastor Option outside CDMX… Find out more
Best Tacos Mexico City – Tacos Don Juan
Tacos Al Pastor may be a famous Mexico city classic, but there are many different taco styles that form the base of Mexico cit street food.
We stuffed our faces with one hell of a lot of tortilla based snacks during our time in CDMX but one place stood out for killer flavor – AND big crispy layers of grilled cheese. Tacos Don Juan.
Longaniza & Crispy Cheese (Back). Nopal (cactus) and costillas (beef rib) (Front) at Tacos Don Juan
The longaniza (sausage) with cheese (rear taco in photo) is a cheese and meat fest that pleases every taste bud. Also, try the suadero in pasilla. Suadero is a cut of beef or pork which originated in Mexico City. It’s diced brisket. Pasilla is a type of chilli which is turned into a mildly spicy sauce.
Join Tasty bites Food tours for a trip around Condesa where you’ll get to try tacos at both Tizoncito & Tacos Don Juan.
Are tacos truly an ancient dish? Learn more about the history of Tacos on our podcast.
San Juan Market Mexico City
There are a lot of markets in Mexico City. San Juan market is a mix of local oddities and international cuisine, as well as some classic home-style Mexican cooking.
Multiple types of corn at San Juan Market
The market feels more like markets in Spain than other parts of Mexico, with food stalls being directly attached to produce stalls. So, if you want to eat ceviche straight from the fishmonger, this is the place to come.
As for more exotic Mexican fare… everything from Iguana & escamole (a type of lavae) to Scorpions and the more common chapulines (grasshoppers).
Best Restaurants in Mexico City?
Pujol is widely regarded as the best restaurant in Mexico City. At least as far as the Michelin Guide is concerned. If you can’t get a reservation, and/or justify the cost (dinner and drinks are likely to set you back between $100 & $250 USD per person), then there is another more affordable option that is also creating some great dishes…
Chef Juan Cabrera previously worked as head chef at Pujol as well as in famed restaurant El Bulli, in Spain in 2006. He is now the mastermind behind Fonda Fina where they serve innovative Mexican cuisine.
We ordered the Stuffed chilli tamale, Pork belly Chapulas (left), and the Arrachera Steak (Right) and 6 beers. This came in under $40 USD
I wasn’t a massive fan of the tamale (honestly, I don’t like tamales anyway, but gave it a go. It was better than most). But the Pork belly was decadently fantastic and the arrachera instantly took top spot as the best Mexican flank steak we’ve had anywhere in the country. Melt in the mouth, medium rare with no chewiness at all! BBQ’d on charcoal for extra smoky greatness.
There are a lot of Mexico City restaurants to try, but Fonda Fina should be added to your shortlist, especially if you are in Condesa.
Fun Things To Do In Mexico City
As always, once the fun of eating is over, we need to find other non-foodie fun activities to occupy our time. These are our top picks from our Mexico City adventure that we highly recommend.
Mexico City Wrestling – Lucha Libre
Quite literally the most fun activity in Mexico City!
Don your colourful mask and get ready for some ridiculously theatrical wrestling moves as well as a few unexpected haircuts…
Lucha Libre (which means “Free Fight”) is a freeform style of Mexican wrestling. It is designed to be more fantastical theatre than aggressive blood spilling. It’s light hearted entertainment for the audience but for the performers, there are some genuine grudges being beefed out in the ring. On the night we attended, a girl on girl fight that would result in the loser having her head shaved live on stage. Things got ugly…
We decided to take a tour with an ex-wrestler – who kept his wrestler identity a secret – as part of a Lucha Libre Walking Tour & Pub Crawl with Mexico a pie tours.
To get us ready for a lively and packed arena full of cheering, we enjoyed a Mezcal tasting, which constituted the pub crawl part of the tour. It wasn’t really a pub crawl, as it was a single bar we visited, but a few people were crawling after tasting numerous 47%+ shots of Mezcal. I talked a little bit about Mezcal earlier in this article. For much more info on Mexico’s artisan spirit, check out our full Tequila vs Mezcal podcast (coming Jul/Aug 2018).
After a walk to the arena, we donned our own masks (yours to keep as part of the tour) and got ready for some serious slam-downs. (Cameras are not allowed in the arena, but phone cameras are.)
Mezcal tasting
Our Lucha Libre Masks
Every Tuesday, Friday & Sunday the arena is packed with fans ready to cheer for the good fighters and boo the evil ones.
The Lucha Libre Arena in Mexico City
Things get pretty intense, you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you may even pee yourself a little – hopefully, that’s not what the upside-down wrestler is doing in the below photo though…
Some serious Lucha Libre wrestling moves
And of course, you’ll experience the glory of the “micro stars”. Smaller teammates who may lend a hand by being swung around as a weapon or thrown like a missile at an opponent.
The Mexico City Lucha Libre “Micro Stars”
Whatever happens though, you’ll have a super fun evening!
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Get A Personal Mariachi band at Cantina El Centenario
A cantina is a traditional Mexican Bar. And a Mariachi band, in case you didn’t know already, is a group of roaming Mexican musicians dressed in “traje de charro” – the typical cowboy outfits of the state of Jalisco with sombreros and tight, ornamented jackets and trousers.
Mariachis now exist all over Mexico, with varying levels of musical skill. It just so happens, the Mariachi band at Cantina El Centenario (Opened in 1948) is not only awesome, but they are there on a consistent schedule, rather than roaming from venue to venue.
Visit Wednesday to Saturday 5pm-10pm (or 11pm depending on customers) and negotiate a price for 1 or more songs.
Megsy with the Mariachis
We were both singers before become travel bloggers. These guys really inspired Tommo to get back into singing, get a microphone and get back into recording songs again. So fun!
City Tour Mexico City – Free Walking Tour
Take a free walking tour around Mexico city’s historic heart. From colonial cathedrals to Aztec ruins and old tiled homes all the way to the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
The Metropolitan Cathedral, Zocalo, Mexico City (above)
Our local guide was super knowledgeable and ready to answer all our questions. Learn about how Mexico City was founded by the Aztecs and how the modern cathedral and other buildings in the central Zocalo were built directly upon the Aztec buildings.
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Chapultepec Castle
This 19th century castle, completed in 1863, sits atop Chapultepec Hill, an area that was sacred to the Aztecs before it was taken by colonial powers. The castle has served as both a royal castle, a military academy, a gunpowder warehouse and now as an art gallery. The gallery depicts the history of Mexico from Aztec times, through to modern day with a number of wraparound murals that are particularly impressive and make the walk up the hill totally worth it.
The other reason to make the walk up the hill is for the view, straight down the main “Paseo de Reforma” avenue, which leads all the way to the heart of downtown.
The View From The Top, Down Reforma.
Accommodation – best places to stay in Mexico City
Chaya B&B Boutique Mexico City
We stayed at Chaya B&B Boutique Mexico City. It’s a roof top hotel just on the edge of the heart of downtown, one of the best areas to stay in Mexico City, less than 5 minutes walk from Palacio de Bellas Artes. The location is definitely one of the top selling points of the hotel, giving you easy access to all the historical monuments of downtown.
We enjoyed lazing in the rooftop hammocks in the afternoon sun, an oasis from the busy city streets (above). There is also a roof bar which has views of the Almeda central park on one side, and the church of San Hipólito on the other. A great people watching spot with surprisingly affordable beer and cocktails.
Chaya B&B is also in a fantastic location to explore everything downtown. It’s within easy walking distance to many central sights, museums, and galleries. Plus the staff are super friendly and helpful so if you are unsure of what to see, do or eat – ask them and they will absolutely help you find the perfect Mexico City experience to suit your likes.
Our Standard Class Room – they also have suites with bathtubs
And of course, as Chaya is a B&B, we got to enjoy a cooked to order breakfast every day with a rotating selection of Mexican classics such as Sopes and chilaquiles. Or a choice of eggs. One thing we loved was the communal dining room table where all guests can come to sit, chat, make new friends and discuss the best things to do in CDMX. It’s a great place to meet new people and get the goss on what’s going on in Mexico City or tips about backpacking around Mexico.
Sopes at Chaya B&B
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Downtown is the closest area to the main historical sights of Mexico City. But if you’d like to stay in CDMX’s leafy European style neighbourhood, then Condesa & Roma Norte is also an interesting option. Browse accommodation in that area.
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High Prices, Lack of Appropriate Infrastructure Are Barriers to Electricity Access
Banjul, The Gambia – March 26, 2019:High prices and lack of appropriate infrastructure are the main barriers to electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report presented on Wednesday in Banjul by Moussa Blimpo, a World Bank Senior Economist, co-author of the book, with Malcom Cosgrove-Davies a former Energy Practice manager at the same institution, retired in April 2018.
According to Fafa Sanyang, Gambia Minister for Petroleum and Energy who chaired the presentation, “the Electricity Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Uptake, Reliability, and Complementary Factors for Economic Impact report is a body of knowledge with vital information on electricity access including great lessons from countries with success stories around the world.”
The report indicates that African countries cannot afford to ignore what is keeping potential users from connecting and consuming higher quantities of electricity, and that electricity access expansion in Africa faces a dual challenge.
On one hand, faster access requires lower prices, since most households cannot afford to connect and pay tariffs that will allow utilities to recover their cost and to consume at meaningful levels. On the other hand, lower regulated tariffs, which could make access more affordable to more people, can exacerbate utilities’ already precarious financial situation.
“The best way to simultaneously make electricity more affordable for households and improve the financial viability of service providers is to focus on using electricity primarily for income generating activities,” said Moussa Blimpo. “This can build the economic capabilities of entire communities,” he added.
The report concludes that help translate electrification into economic impact, job creation and poverty reduction, countries should ensure the provision of reliable electricity, even if it comes at the expense of faster expansion of the share of the households with electricity access. Access without capacity and reliability will constrain economic impact and poverty reduction. stated the report.
The author also underlined the need for better coordination across sectors for greater impact. Electricity access must work together with access to credit, access to markets, and skills for lasting economic effects.
“Supporting the country’s commitment to achieve universal access to electricity by 2025 is a strategic priority of engagement in The Gambia. The World Bank’s active energy portfolio in The Gambia amounts to $175M for both national and regional projects,” Elene Imnadze, The World Bank Country Representative for The Gambia added.
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Ubisoft Forums > For Honor > General Discussion > The resurrection of For Honor
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Wolf-Heathen
I'm tired of all the "FH is dead" posts. We all recognize this, but I, like many others, still enjoy the basic concept FH was trying to achieve. So I want to share what I believe Ubisoft needs to do to fix For Honor. The long and short of it is that FH has been mismanaged right out of the gate when it first was launched. We're left with a game that is like a leaky boat with the devs desperately trying to patch the leaks, but for every one they fix, three more pop up.
You need to fix the two core problems with this game that have plagued FH since it's release; balance and online stability. These aren't easy fixes, and Ubisoft execs are going to have to throw some serious money at the game if they want it to succeed. You cannot continue with your current development cycles and ever hope to get in front of the many, many issues this game currently has. And the more time/resources you spend trying to fix problems, the less can be spent on new and interesting content for the user experience. Forget about ornaments, forget about new costumes, and forget about executions. You need to focus all your energy on balance and connectivity. That is what drove people away. Some of us stuck with it for longer than others, but everyone reaches a tipping point.
Goofy mood effects or ornaments aren't going to bring people back, people who left because they were fed up with stuff like the ridiculous Centurion's cut scene of death. You know, where you can't do anything, and are forced to watch your character get rag-dolled for 5 seconds while your screen jarringly shakes. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be fired. You never want to put players in a situation where they are helpless to respond to what is happening to them. It is just bad design.
Once you can get these two major issues dealt with, you need to relaunch the game to highlight these changes. By that I simply mean a big event to promote the change. But you need to be clear and precise that this is a major overhaul of the game. You can make it coincide with the launch of a new season but what players really need to see from you is a serious and concerted effort to address the issues that are adversely effecting players' experience in FH. Up until now there has been a somewhat contemptuous attitude when critical issues are highlighted to the FH team. Typical responses as seen on the livestream were to brush off the issue, stating your data doesn't support what the community says, or in other cases that you need more data before you will acknowledge the issue at all. Players are not happy with the state of FH. Now I'm not saying that you need to cede to the wishes of everyone who has a bad game and complains about class X, but FH needs a serious departure from the way things have been going so far for it to get back on its feet.
Sekiro...
If lawbringer, centurion and valk dont get any nerf soon this game will die before christmans
SplugeKing
Didn't read but simple answer: get rid of centurion.
Then change spamables and gimmicks so they can't be used continuously and so they don't render you useless for all of the 30 seconds you're on your back then dead.
Then make connections better and balance matchmaking. I shouldn't have to restart my xbox before i play every day if i don't want to lag out or have every other chars be bots
Rikuto01.tv
Centurion is fine. Playerbase is garbage though, they could use a buff.
MadCYclops
good sentiment, but it's never gonna happen this games playerbase is gonna dwindle down until there is 2 dudes left stuck in a perpetual duel match never seeing or playing against anyone else... I love this game mind you... but really...yeah nothing will change so i just have to deal with the fact that Ubisoft will never admit what they did wrong about like mass effect andromeda never will, but they WILL however gladly place the blame EVERYWHERE but themselves like a small child.
Those fat lumberjack piggies will never be men, because they lack the balls to stand up and admit the truth. I'm 38 and i'm pretty sure i had more balls before i hit puberty than these developers do...granted as i said they are not the only ones, every game that has issues nowadays blames the prob on everything but the perpetrator.
This generation of consoles has been such a let down... buggy game afeter buggy game after buggy game... in the past usually console games get better as they age... but ps4, xbox 1 hasn't and its a damned shame... when a console is hitting its golden years... it should be pumping out nothing but flawless games, but these developers have somehow ingrained it into weak minded individuals that a "buggy game is the standard".... yeah try that in ANY other field and you'll be jobless... oh heres a 2019 ford truck... its the best ford truck we have ever made with new innovations.... buuuuuut there is a glitch in it where you can only drive in a straight line... i'm sorry but we are investigating the problem and we will have it patched 6 months down the road.... DOn't you love our new truck it has sooo many safety features and paint jobs... oh here look buy the newly redesigned chrome bumper.... oh i'm sorry we accidentally made it from wax paper...wait 6 months for us to resolve the problem...smh
meanwhile there 20 fan boys over there screamin you just need to learn how to drive better to get around the fact you can't turn the steering wheel...
CaptainGadriel
I took a break of 1 month and I have to say Im a little bit surprised there are still connections problems. Thats my main complain. And I think thats really what killed a lot of the community (I play on pc).
I returned from my break along with two friends. One is still playing with me to do orders and the other just quitted again because of the constant disconnections.
I really enjoy the game.. when it works. I even continue fighting when I get matched against superior enemies with better gear and more experience than me. But those dc's are the main problem, beyond the balance and mm.
I really enjoy the game.. when it works. I even continue fighting when I get matched against superior enemies with better gear and more experience than me. But those dc's are the main problem, beyond the balance and mm. At least for me.
Hope they fix those problems soon.. I beginning to notice Im fighting against the same players at night. And thats because of the low pop..
I really want to see this game fixed. I love it.
JibletHunter
Enjoy playing alone (I am sure it wont be a big change from your normal routine).
UbiNoty
Thank you for your input. Improving balance and stability are definitely two of our biggest goals and we're slowly trying to work our way there. If we could have one giant overhaul that would fix all the problems we would definitely like to have that too, but it's not quite so simple.
Balance - balance will always be an ongoing issue. Perfect balance is incredibly difficult and becomes even more difficult when we have to consider balance across different game modes. Believe me, we are in no way disregarding your feedback on balance as a community. But balance changes take time if we want to try to at least make sure we're doing the right thing. We are doing our best to respond as quickly as we can to community feedback about balance issues, but we do also like to have the supporting data as well in order to back up and confirm that we are making the right decision with the changes we make.
Connectivity - definitely still a major project that we're working on. We've seen incremental improvements as of late, and we hope that the quit-penalty will work to improve it even further (we're sorry about all the bugs that join-in-progress caused, which is why we disabled it temporarily again) - but we have even bigger changes planned that we hope will help us see a big leap in improvement. It's still being worked on so we can't give out any specifics just yet, but I just wanted to let you know that we're most assuredly not slacking off on this front.
That being said, I do appreciate that you took the time to write up your sentiments and thoughts. I just wanted to give you a bit of insight into our thought process and our perspective on these two topics. Always feel free to comment/expand further if you like on what you think could be improved on!
Mia.Nora
Whatever happens is just baby steps, but the game is not a baby anymore. Whatever is being done.. too little too late, game needs those big jumps.
It is about time it was supposed to be up and running and we are still at the stage it falls back on its *** at every attempt on bipedal locomotion....
EDG_Avocado
why cant you guys just add servers? WHY? o w8 nvm. U guys never planned to keep For Honor as a growing game. mb mb
BeefMan_
Agreed. I, for one, enjoy fighting turtlelords who punish your smallest mistake with 60dmg and an exhaust.
Netcode_err_404
Are you that brave ? Why don't you join the army ? Im sure they could need brave souls like you.
salekr
This will never happen.
The BIG fix!
Devs will make some small steps and that is it. Game is broken and will stay broken.
It would take a lot of time and money for them to revamp the whole game.
That was kind of the point I was trying to highlight, in an effort to illustrate to Ubisoft that they realistically have two options for the future of FH. They can continue the status quo, and watch the player base bleed out until it's no longer profitable to support the game, or they can shake things up and put the resources needed to fix this game. It is clear that this game was rushed, and also a well know practice that Ubisoft has strict launch dates for their titles and projected profit targets that they expect to be met. But this method is what has lead to such a sad state. It needed more time in the oven. If they have ever wanted this game to be a success then they need to do the latter. I have heard from an employee that among the higher ups in Ubisoft, FH is considered an embarrassment. If this game is to be saved then you really need to allocate more resources to the FH Ubisoft dev team so they fix this game.
Reinborn
What, what, what? Lawbringer needs a nerf all of sudden? It was just 2 days ago that he was considered lower tier hero not only because of his slow guard switch but mainly due to his lack of damage compared to other heroes and predictability. All it took for him to be in need of a nerf was to set his guard switch speed to an average speed that every other hero has?
I get that Centurion nerf, even though his moves get readable after some time, he still punishes too hard. Valk on the other hand is only annoying if you fail to parry her follow-up attacks before the sweep comes in. Parrying her is now more doable since the last few characters got their guard switch speed set properly.
Antonioj26
why would valk need a nerf? the guard switch changed nothing for her, shes always had a 100 ms guard switch.
A character with 10 million hp and a 50/50 off of every block is low tier?
Valk is annoying because her light spam is barely reactable on console, let alone everything else she can mixup into.
shes more than reactable with deadzone adjustments being a thing and now with the guard switch change its even easier.
If you say so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHkHjoLGlc&t=321s
doing it right here with a level 3 bot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymOx5pFmpI4
here it is with a level 3 pk bot
happy to show on humans too I just dont have any footage yet but will make some if someone wants to do some friendlies on PSN
Are you playing on PC? That video looks like it's being played in slow motion.
Either I need a new TV or FH needs a 60fps optimization patch
no thats playstation, you can tell from the quick chat button being L1, I will say I played on PC the other day and it really is night and day. It almost feels way too slow, I realize its the same speed but being able to perceive those movements makes it look like even the fastest attacks are turtle speed.
That_guy44
I haven't had any trouble with light spam in the last day. The deadzone modifier and guard change speed buff has really helped with defense. I've noticed a lot more blocking(from me) going on compared to months past. I'm glad I'm not on pc. If the blocking is better on console, it must be boring as **** on pc now lol
bananaflow2017
Will this game have 60 fps with the new Xbox?
T_Sesh
Artists working on ornaments and mood effects have no business inserting themselves in balancing and networking fixes. They work on those things because things like that EARN MONEY. For as much as fixing long term problems like networking and balancing would help player population, they still need ways to make money while problems like that are fixed, and to justify giving maps, characters, and modes for free.
DaLokTik
I agree 100% with this post. The division saved itself doing basically what you have said above. They delayed their DLC releases and really put forth the effort to fix the division. And I believe that effort saved the division and won their community back. I believe UBISOFT would have learned a valuable lesson from the division, but sometimes people always choose the hard way. With that said, I think if UBISOFT put the future DLC on hold including all the cosmetic's stuff and just focus all your efforts on correcting "Balance & Stability". I truly believe this will win back a lot of players who have left for something else.
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Southern Focus
A Dazzling Mardi Gras Spectacle
A New Orleans tradition—Mardi Gras Indians
photo: Erika Goldring
Spy Boy Got Fiya!, 2017
By the time the first Mardi Gras after Hurricane Katrina rolled around in 2006, fewer than half of the Crescent City’s residents had returned. Photographer Erika Goldring, though, had stayed, and in the storm’s aftermath befriended Monk Boudreaux, the Big Chief of the Golden Eagle tribe of Mardi Gras Indians. These groups of revelers spend months making their elaborate, hand-beaded costumes, new ones each year, then parade on Mardi Gras, on Super Sunday—the Sunday closest to St. Joseph’s Day, in March—and on St. Joseph’s night, a tradition dating to the 1800s that is said to have begun as a tribute to the Native Americans in Louisiana who helped the enslaved escape. At Boudreaux’s invitation, Goldring has been photographing his tribe, as well as others, ever since. Boudreaux’s grandson Jwan, pictured above, is Spy Boy for the Golden Eagles. David Montana, pictured below, is the nephew of Tootie Montana, the now-deceased longtime Big Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas tribe. He has since formed his own tribe, Washitaw Nation. While the Indians’ parades have become more popular, for most of their existence “you really had to be in the know,” Goldring says. “The routes weren’t on the news.”
Yellow Pocahontas, 2009
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“there are things that look like people dressed as dolls, or else dolls made up to look like people. I remember being confused about which it was… When I emerge from the bedroom, I see their eyes are shining in the white darkness, and their heads are turned in all directions. Paralysed – yes! – with terror, I merely return a fixed gaze, wondering if my eyes are shining the same as theirs. Then one of the doll people, slouching against the wall on my left, turns it’s head haltingly upon a stiff little neck and looks straight at me. Worse, it talks. And its voice is a horrible parody of human speech. Even more horrible are its words.”
Thomas Ligotti, Dream of a Manikin
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Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
I can’t say I loved this book, though it’s entertaining, gives insights into a different era and most interestingly illustrates the complexities of power and liberation.
It’s set in 1970s San Francisco, when a new generation of people – and some older – are living footloose and hedonistic lives that were unimaginable to most earlier generations.
There is Mary Ann Singleton, who has just moved to San Francisco; Mona, her friend from back home who has been there a while; Michael, Mona’s gay and promiscuous roommate; Brian, a straight philanderer; Beauchamp, who works where Mary Ann does, and his troubled wife De-De; Norman, an apparently dull but actually odd and perhaps sick guy who Mary Ann befriends; and Anna Madrigal, an older bohemian lady who owns the building, 28 Barbary Lane, that many of the characters live in.
Most noticeable to me about the book, first off, was the style: there is almost no description, nearly all of it is dialogue, and very short, snappy dialogue at that. You learn about the characters almost entirely through what they say. It’s like a play as much as a novel in that sense.
The big theme of the book is liberation, both as a positive and negative force. It’s positive insofar as the characters are living free and experimental lives, doing things for themselves that few others would have dreamed of. San Francisco gives them amazing possibilities for living differently, for creating their own way of being.
But despite their liberation from conventional ways of life, they appear trapped by the new one they have embraced. They are troubled by relationships they are and aren’t having, they end up forcing themselves to do things against their better judgement (one woman pretended she was black for years, using hardcore pills that coloured her skin, in order to get on in the modelling industry), and there’s a lot of sadness that their hopes about how life could be are constantly unmet.
The great thinker on power – Michel Foucault, who incidentally spent time in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s for precisely the reasons the characters moved there – is quite clear on what’s going on here. He says there are always power relations and discourses in society that define how we live. New generations might liberate themselves from old conventional lifestyles but then new ways of thinking, new conventions, new forms of normality, take their place and despite being different and perhaps better than the old ones, they are still a constraint on people’s lives.
For Foucault we need to develop an ‘art of the self’ where, through reflection and hard work we craft a way of being for ourselves that takes bits of different discourses and become something that as far is possible our own, making us free subjects not just objects of discourse and power relations.
What we see in Tales of the City are a group of people trying – to different degrees – to tread a line and find their own ways of being between the new and old discourses about how to live, sometimes being trammelled by power relations, sometimes finding flashes of freedom.
By gilessimon April 25, 2017 April 25, 2017 527 WordsLeave a comment
The missing protagonist at the heart of Joyce Carol Oates’s Broke Heart Blues
An evocative story, Broke Heart Blue weaves the voices of countless upper class Americans together in a powerful tale of memory, perception and class.
The background to the plot is the early years of John Reddy Heart, a working class teenager from our of town and new to a well-off school in Willowsville in upstate New York. Adored by the girls for his rugged aloofness and admired by the boys for his manliness, he ends up shooting a man – Melvin Riggs – apparently after Riggs has a fall out with Reddy’s Mum, the beautiful and out of control Dhalia Heart. We subsequently learn that John Reddy was not responsible but takes the fall anyway in order to protect his family.
What’s interesting is how little John Reddy Heart is in it. The book is split into three parts. Part 1 is at high school and told through the eyes of various teenagers, first focusing on their lust for him, later the trial. Part 2 is twenty years later when John Reddy is trying to make his way as Mr Fix It, an odd-jobs person, and build a relationship with a young woman, Nola. And Part 3 is a 30 year reunion for the school, where the privileged kids of yesteryear reunite in a decadent party that is fuelled by alcohol and the lack of John Reddy a Heart.
Beyond the missing Heart, so to speak, the most striking feature of the book is the style. At no point is there a clear narrator but instead a range of interweaving voices and perspectives. The technique is at once gripping and difficult, and has the effect of reinforcing the subjective views on what’s happening and the impossibility of getting clarity. It’s all emotion, conjecture and desperation. Other than John Reddy there are no strong characters developed, despite this being a dense 500 page book.
In their youth, the mass of teenagers – Verrie Myers, Art Lutz, Kate Olmsted, Dwayne Hewson and countless others – are so in thrall to their passions that they can’t get a clear sense of what’s going on for John Reddy. He is living a difficult life with a neglectful mother, forced to be the grown up rather than her – but none of them ever appear to realise the gravity of the situation.
And thirty years later, at the reunion, their memories of school are idealised and often wrong. There are events they have completely rewritten, people forgotten – and John Reddy Heart looms large in their lives despite them not knowing him while at school or since.
They are, it seems, all successful white upper class Americans who were always destined to do well. Their love affair with John Reddy Heart represents a shallow infatuation with the working class and troubled life of John Reddy Heart which they appropriated for their own stories, entertainment and collective memories without ever thinking of his life. In this sense, John Reddy Heart is missing from the story both in the sense that he isn’t much part of the plot and in the sense that his thoughts, motives and life are never seen or understood by the other characters that place such significance in him.
By gilessimon December 23, 2016 December 23, 2016 531 WordsLeave a comment
Man Crazy – Joyce Carol Oates
True to form, Joyce Carol Oates’s Man Crazy is a powerful and affecting book. It tells the story of Ingrid, whose father mysteriously chose to leave after involvement in a murder and whose mother lived a needy and unsettled life, largely reliant on a series of men for a mix money and adoration. As Ingrid hits adolescence she experiences the same kinds of neediness as her mother, desperately craving the attention and lust of men.
It ends with her living as a sex slave in a biker – Satanist cult led by the depraved Enoch Skaggs. She exposes the cult, in the end, though it’s not clear entirely to her how that happened. Throughout the book the sheer sadness and desperation of Ingrid’s upbringing and its impact on her personality is so present, so powerful, that at times it’s difficult to continue reading.
The most affecting point is Ingrid’s poetry reading at secondary school. She has won the poetry competition and is to read out her winning poem during the end of year assembly. She cannot believe that anyone would think it worthy of winning and works herself into a state of panic in the run up to the reading. She scratches itches on her face so she is bleeding from her hairline and decides at the last minute to find another poem, by a classic poet, to read instead, which she mumbles through, the teachers and pupils in shock. The build up to the performance, excruciating to read, conveys such a strong insight into her insecure, under-confident and needy character.
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Teatro Grottesco – Thomas Ligotti
I don’t read a lot of horror which may or may not explain why I was captivated by Ligotti’s book of short stories.
There are around twenty stories, each telling an eerie and disconcerting tale of strange occurrences in a world devoid of hope. It is horror (or perhaps what seems to be referred to as speculative or weird fiction) with a focus on creating an atmosphere or creeping terror rather than any recourse to violence or gore. Each story is written in a flowing but formal matter of fact tone, which adds to the distance the reader feels.
Take The Town Manager, which tells the odd story of a town which has a manager who runs it. There has been a succession of managers, each bringing in new and stranger decisions, with the latest boosting tourism by forcing all the shopkeepers to turn their stores into bizarre carnival-like attractions. As always the town manager eventually disappears. The protagonist leaves the town, only to be approached and asked to be the next town manager.
Our Temporary Supervisor is perhaps the most powerful in the collection. Written in the first person it describes a factory where the supervisor is replaced by a dark phantom like presence and, more strangely still, where a new worker appears who is faster and works harder than everyone else. Not to be seen to be lazy or inefficient, everyone else starts to work longer and longer hours until their lives are spent working in the factory, rarely leaving or stopping.
Many of the stories are driven by themes of determinism, of dark forces – both supernatural and the very material power of capital – driving everyone’s behaviour, of our lives being the plaything of others. The books are full of despair and almost entirely lacking in warmth or character. Yet they are absolutely compelling reading, as if you are being forced to read on by powers beyond your control ….
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The Switch – Elmore Leonard
Read Feb 2016
Elmore Leonard is a brilliant crime writer. Reading him is like reading a Tarantino movie. Great dialogue. Great plot. Menacing and fun characters. It’s surprising how few people write like him. Early George Pelecanos, maybe, but few others capture the reckless and entertaining violence of his books.
The Switch is the best of his novels I’ve read so far. *Spoiler alert* He tells the story of Mickey, an overlooked wife of rich but corrupt husband, Frank. Newly out of jail, Ordell and Louis decide to kidnap her and hold her to ransom. They are dodgy, but relatively harmless criminals, though unfortunately enlist the help of Richard, a psychopathic Nazi.
The kidnap itself goes as planned, but less so when they contact Frank to demand $1 million as ransom.Frank has just decided to divorce Mickey, and so doesn’t want to pay up. Eventually the blackmail fails and they let Mickey go, though not without crazy Richard causing problems that result in a shoot-out with the police.
But when Louis says she is free, Mickey doesn’t want to go home! In the best scene of the book, she hangs out for the day with Louis, drinking and smoking grass, letting herself go in a way she never does and determining to not go back to being the brow-beaten tennis mom Mickey.
After confronting Frank she ends up back with Louis and Ordell and – the final twist, the final switch – together they plan to kidnap Frank’s mistress, Melanie, and hold her to ransom ….
The Switch, more than anything, is great reading, great entertainment. But having said that, the characterisation is so strong. He captures, through dialogue rather than introspection, Mickey’s sense of being trapped and squashed by Frank, and Frank’s utter indifference to Mickey, in a way that many more ‘literary’ writers would struggle to do.
First class.
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Little Green by Walter Mosley
Read January 2016
Another classic in the Easy Rawlins series, in Little Green we join Rawlins as he comes out of a coma caused by an alcohol induced crash at the end of the last book.
He immediately ends up on a case brought to him by his hard-man friend, Mouse. It’s a typically twisting Mosley plot, with racism and justice, capitalism and hippies, drugs and lowlifes. The lot.
As well as a really great idea – a young man wakes from a five day acid trip with hazy memories of violence and brothels, and a bag full of money next to his bed – what Little Green gives us is more insight into Rawlins and Mouse’s characters – their friendship, their histories, their worries.
Rawlins remains the cool PI but with more depth, and that makes Little Green one of Mosley’s best novels.
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Walter Mosley – Little Scarlet
Read Oct 2015
For such a plot-driven genre, often the most interesting elements of hard boiled crime fiction tend are the characterisation and social critique.
This is absolutely the case with Little Scarlet, one in Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels – a hard boiled private detective series with the fundamental twist that Rawlins is black.
The twisting plot, as always in this genre, is constantly shifting. It’s the LA riots, it appears that a white man killed a black woman at the tail end of the riots, and the police ask Easy to look into it. It gradually transpires that the white man was not involved and it’s a serial killer called Harold who is killing young black women, driven by his Mum’s history as a black woman who tried to to pretend she was white.
It’s a strong plot, written in classic hard boiled style. But what matters most is the characterisation and the social critique.
Easy Rawlins is a powerful protagonist. He does everything you want from a PI in a novel like this – he’s terse, he’s a loner, he’s prone to violence, and he struggles between the woman and family he loves and his desires for others.There is a moral ambiguity to Easy, who wants to do the right thing, but often that clashes with his desires on the one hand, and with what society – and the law in particular – thinks is the right thing, on the other. Hard boiled heroes are often drawn with this kind of stereotyped masculinity, and although Easy fits the category, it’s hard not to like him.
The social critique in the Rawlin’s series is what makes Mosley stand out. Easy is black and the ongoing theme running through the series is the inequality and injustice experienced by African Americans in mid-twentieth century US. It’s present in the police force, of course, and their treatment of people, but also evident in the politics and social life throughout the novels.
What Mosely does really well in Little Scarlet in particular is highlight the anger and emotion that racial inequality leads to, and the way it manifests itself as major events like the LA riots and ongoing incidents of ‘resentiment’ – where suppressed and sometimes unarticulated feelings occasionally burst out – that are part of the everyday lives of many of the African Americans that feature throughout the book.
Racial injustice plays a causal role in everything from the race riots and the killer’s motives right through to the way Easy is treated by the police and the life chances of a young woman that Easy falls for.
It’s this – the combination of plot, character and critique – that makes Mosely a powerful novel.
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Richard Ford – The Sportswriter
Read October 2015
With its cynical, insightful and aloof protagonist, The Sportswriter is the first in the series of Frank Bascombe novels by Richard Ford. It covers a long Easter weekend when, in fact, very little happens, though a short term relationship with Vicki breaks down after a trip to Detroit and a friend, Walter, commits suicide.
The big events of Frank’s life seem to have taken place prior to the weekend and we learn about much of it through his reflections on the past and how it’s affected him: Ralph, one of his three children died; he let his relationship with his wife (known here only as X) collapse in the aftermath of the death; and, after a promising start, his career as a novelist is cut short when he chooses to become a sportswriter instead.
The core of the book is about Frank’s thoughts and the way he relates to and understands people. He is cynical, diffident, slightly lonely, though not necessarily unhappy. Throughout he offers remarkable and original insights into his own and others’ behaviour.
Interestingly, Frank is portrayed as a pretty average suburban American, not unlike Updike’s Rabbit. He is both unremarkable in his normality but also unique in his profound reflections. It is this, more than anything, that makes this such a good novel. Through Frank, Ford manages to demonstrate the individuality that underpins every apparently ‘normal’ life.
I can’t say I loved every bit of this book, though there are long sections of brilliance and Frank is a great American character who it is both entertaining and educational to spend time with. I know that I’ll be reading more about Frank Bascombe because his story, his spot-on reflections and his slightly wayward approach to life draws you in.
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Read July 2015
American gods is the story of shadow, a quiet hard man, out of prison, wife dead, recruited to be the minder for what it turns out is a God. He is drawn into an underworld, existing beneath contemporary America, in which the Gods of old are. Battling for relevance in a consumerist age. It’s an interesting theme, the protagonist is great to follow, although a bit too perfect, and the plot draws you in. I got a bit lost 2/3 of the way in when it turned to lots of description and was less plot driven, but it’s a good back that balances mystery and fantasy well.
It was followed by a short story – The Monarch of the Glen – where Shadow is in Scotland and is chosen, Gladiator style, to fight for the humans against the monsters, in a house party for the mega rich, which is a modern version of a ritual that has taken place annually for thousands of years. Because – but largely because – we already know Shadow, this feels a stronger, more engaging and punchier story than American Gods.
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GLIFAA has been working hard over the years to advocate for important policy changes that affect the lives of LGBT foreign affairs employees and their families. Some important letters and joint statements are linked below.
GLIFAA met with Director General of the Foreign Service to discuss lingering issues affecting FSOs and their Same-Sex Domestic Partners.
Secretary Kerry responded to GLIFAA’s memo and position paper. See Secretary Kerry’s response below.
GLIFAA presented a memo and Position Paper to Secretary Kerry’s Team outlining the difficulties facing LGBT Foreign Affiars employees as well as the current status of regulations, including action that must be taken should the Supreme Court overturn DOMA.
Approximately 2,200 current and former personnel of USG foreign affairs agencies signed a joint letter to Secretary Clinton advocating for equal treatment for same-sex partners. Together, they stated that “no colleague of ours is a second-class colleague.” Download (pdf)
Several Members of Congress sent a letter to Ambassador Susan Rice, the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, encouraging her to extend domestic partnership benefits to employees of the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Download (pdf)
Senators Russ Feingold and Ron Wyden and Representatives Tammy Baldwin and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wrote a letter to Secretary Clinton supporting equal rights for LGBT foreign affairs employees. Download (pdf)
The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and GLIAA made a joint statement on the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act and the Uniting American Families Act to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on October 9, 2008. Download (pdf)
GLIFAA presented a package to the Presidential Transition Team outlining the difficulties facing LGBT Foreign Affiars employees as well as the current status of regulations. Download (pdf) Download Accompanying PowerPoint Presentation(ppt)
GLIFAA Transition Memo and Position Paper
Secretary Kerry’s Response to GLIFAA Transition Memo
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The Nintendo Switch is just over a year old now and it is doing very, very well. After the utter catastrophe that was the Nintendo Wii U, the gaming brand is on a stride with their latest hybrid console and the Nintendo Switch shows no sign of stopping anytime soon. We could even see a new Nintendo Switch model by the end of 2019.
According to new rumours, Nintendo plans to release a new Switch console by the end of 2019 to counter the console sales losing momentum. The console would be out for 2.5 years by the end of 2019 which means sales of the device could slow down by then, a natural occurrence with gaming hardware. The new Switch model will follow Nintendo’s past history of revised consoles with a new LCD, perhaps a bigger display and maybe even a thinner device.
If Nintendo’s past is an example of what to expect, we could see improved battery life, a smaller, thinner device with more screen space and improved internals such as better BlueTooth and Wi-Fi chips.
The rumours stem from the Wall Street Journal that claims they have insider information regarding the hardware revision. If this is true, the new Switch model could be out by the end of 2019. We will not see any announcement until the company is ready to reveal it which usually takes place two/three weeks before they release new hardware revisions.
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Most telecom markets remain overall pulsating with focus on higher speeds, better interactivity, and customer experience. What is needed is for telecom players to find their best identity in the value chain and position their brand accordingly.
ver the last quarter, I had been very fortunate to interview and discuss one-on-one with some of the whos who of Canadian Telecom Industry. What is most interesting behind the success of many of these leaders and their organizations outstanding performance was the extremely simple but fundamentally profound marketing wisdom. I could easily compare their thought-patterns with the likes of Al Ries and Jack Trout, the marketing Gurus and founders of Positioning theory. Most of these interviews were remarkably insightful not only in terms of where the Canadian or Global Telecom Industry is headed to but also in that how just about any geography could relate to the other from the cause and effect perspective of micro and mega trends and, eventually, in one way or the other, can possibly utilize the end takeaways towards their collaborative industrial betterment. From a marketing standpoint, this at first seems tough to assimilate though, let alone to be compared any further. More so because, we speak of one of the most dynamic and, particularly now, evermore stirred-up industrial segments and also when the diversity is hugely evident, among widely different geographies. However, if we refer from the standpoint of inspiration, similar to a Case study and not simply adaptation,
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For the most part, Indian telecom has been doing really well relatively barring the Spectrum Refarming struggle cited above. But the option of taking a look at the external and distant trends could also guarantee significant betterment for the highly innovative kinds.
because that would be unfair indeed, theories suddenly start making practical sense. In a way, it is more like cross-industrial learning, redevelopment and collaboration or, rather, Biognosis and Bio-mimetics. Some may want to research those terms in entirety to get greater insight. The biggest challenges that Canada had faced since inception were essentially the huge geography, weather conditions and the diversely growing consumer demography, for instance. As a result, the network infrastructure maintenance investments went beyond and out of proportion and, hence, the anatomy of basic marketing strategies today seems starkly different. And, then, there remain similarities too in terms of trends, especially in the Social Media era. According to Gautam Nath, one of the best Canadian marketing knowledge-banks today, who I had the opportunity to meet recently, MultiCultural marketing dynamics is the most sought-after horizon here in Canada at the moment . I feel essentially the rise in multi-cultural marketing shares a similar pattern to that of the ongoing Rural Penetration pursuit in India. And, yet again, considering that Canada wants the largest pipelines at the lowest cost, which definitely would demand more funds, access to global capital market through more relaxed and free competition and more incumbents is desirable not much unlike how it had
always been in India regardless of the competition because population and the market size is awesome. On a global level too, most telecom markets remain overall pulsating with focus on higher speeds, better interactivity, and customer experience. Realistically, it is easy to understand that the Churn Management is definitely a very important issue still for the most part because acquiring a new customer is much more pricey and unpredictable than retaining the existing customer base. The latter, however, could also be equally demanding and complex, but more often than not, cost-effective to both the consumer and the service provider. The new generation of consumers is definitely not as loyal as it used to be in the Wireline-only era. Moreover, brand loyalty itself cannot be compared at any given moment between a telecom service provider and a financial institution. In the case
Mobile broadband traffic volumes will see a 2600 percent increase in the next five years, say Nokia Siemens Networks own figures. The Nokia Siemens numbers are astounding a 1000fold mobile data traffic increase by the year 2020.
of the former, it could be far more casual for the consumer to be flirtatious and shop around. Another common challenge across economies is to maintain and strive to increase the dirt-cheap margins. And, that is where the opportunities for telecom consulting and marketing organizations and analys ts lie. Subscriber base might have been sustained or grown, but the revenues seem to dip gradually. With respect to the extremely lowmargins, it is not difficult to gauge the situation when you find analysts use Price-Earnings (P/E) and Price-toSales (Price/Sales) Ratios as measures of valuation; for, some companies have little or no profits to speak of unfortunately, especially at this time. And, now, all of a sudden, inadequate Spectrum poses another big challenge in India which DoT, the telecom regulatory body, proposes to address with Refarming the 900 megahertz
(MHz) spectrum when operators licenses come up for renewal between 2014 and 2025, by including it in the Spectrum Bill in its recommendation. Telecom providers are, of course, not equally fond of such a recommendation by DoT because there are reasons to believe that it would not be appropriate at this point when you have to be moving all the subscribers to a brand new network, as a consequence, while they are on a fully functional one already. Let alone the obvious interruption in current service and big investments that will be needed to carry out this change in any case, at any given point in time. Still, we cannot deny the relative growth prospects that sound paradoxical after summing up all the above challenges. But, they are true for sure. I am going to mention the exploding Mobile Broadband Traffic below and the figures are mindblowing. Whatever be the reason for this increase in traffic, in the end, telecom service providers have both the responsibility and the opportunity to serve the consumer well and make money. There is also no denying of the fact that there is a huge potential for the current generation of consultants in cross-economy trend-spotting as well as for telecom service providers to bootstrap themselves. Most of all, to find their best identity in the value chain and to be able to innovate lightening fast have been the top priorities of the best players so far and, again, trend-watching gives the best food for thought in terms of both innovation and the correct Brand
What we see around today is everyone doing everything, everyone selling everything. But, the biggest brands in the world are the ones that do only their thing that reflect them directly and uniquely.
Positioning. For the most part, Indian telecom has been doing really well relatively barring the Spectrum Refarming struggle cited above. But the option of taking a look at the external and distant trends could also guarantee significant betterment for the highly innovative kinds. The face of telecom is changing by the hour and it is not the same simple voice domain anymore. Rather, it is a more holistic and all-embracing one with the rising Mobile Broadband Traffic, dominant Consumer Electronics and a skyrocketing Ultra-Viral Social Media. Mobile Applications market, for instance, is the most astonishing at this moment . Back in March of 2009, about 2,300 applications were available on the Android Market, according to T-Mobile CTO, Cole Brodman. And, in May 2011 alone, during the Google I/O, Google announced that Android Market listed 200,000 applications and had already clocked 4.5 billion installed
applications. By July, the figure had crossed the 250,000 milestone. Distimo and Germany-based research2guidance forecast that the number of apps on Android Market would surpass Apple by the third quarter of 2011, with some 425,000 apps. Similarly, in terms of Consumer Electronics and Mobile Broadband Traffic, iSuppli reckons global SmartPhone shipments will double by 2015 and account for more than half of all mobile phones sold. At the same time, mobile broadband traffic volumes will see a 2600 percent increase in the next five years, say Nokia Siemens Networks own figures. The Nokia Siemens numbers are astounding a 1000fold mobile data traffic increase by the year 2020. To the consumer, mobility is not a privilege anymore; it is simply an extension of access to information and telecom providers only need the super value creation attitude besides the competent technology to win the game. Lack of mobility is rather a polite way of saying denial-of-service in todays competition. Take m-Commerce, for example, which has been considered as the game changer, especially in the developing economies. Even in the developed ones, it is not yet ubiquitous, probably because of the security-related, technological and psychological challenges. But, once the ice is broken and it is made easily accessible, theres no dearth of the wonders that efficiently run m-Commerce could do. So, for the winners, it must not just be the Next Thing. Rather, it ought to be
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a current service provisioning mandate top on their priority list to keep ahead of the rat-race. Coming back to the trends and patterns that Indian telecom providers can bank upon, first of all, focusing on that one particular differentiating Brand Identity, that makes any brand unique it is just too important. What we see around today is everyone doing everything, everyone selling everything. But, the biggest brands in the world are the ones that do only their thing that reflect them directly and uniquely. When you talk about a particular product or service, it is only that brand that comes to the consumers mind and vice-versa. Many of the top executives and telecom professionals advocate restricting the number of players to 4-6. The reason behind that is both intelligent and plausible. However, from the perspective of brand management and positioning, more intellectual bandwidth should be targeted on their main focus, and focus is the key to positioning. The Narrower and Unique it is, the better for any brand. Forget about the competition for a moment. Let us first understand what we want to achieve, get clarity, prioritize our things and then jump in the warfare fully armed. This is one of the key findings you instantly get a feel of when you look at a market such as Canadas. Each brand has an identity and a unique personality and thats where the learning is. And, in abundance!
The author is a distinguished Brand Management and Corporate Communications consultant with over a decade of cross-industrial exposure and has been extensively published and exclusively featured in some of the best international publications. He currently provides branding and communication consultation to several MNCs, especially on elevating and differentiating their brands and creating more focused and better perceptions. He writes independently for various publications across AsiaPacific, US/Canada and is a proactive member at many Professional Canadian Communities and Non-Profit Organizations.
1 Source: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3853327&trk=anet_ug_hm 2 Special Thanks to the Source Cited here: Mr. Ofer Glanz, the Founder of Barak Strategic Consulting for his exceptionally interesting insights at Innovate that I am citing here with gratitude. Asheesh Pandia 3 Citing Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Market 4 Citing Source: http://paulpapadimitriou.com/commentary/2011/09/20/mobilebroadband-traffic-increase-2600-5-years/
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The UTM market is making steady progress in the Indian market as its appeal increases among enterprises of all sizes and across verticals.
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ecuring enterprise systems is a top priority, especially in a connected world. A fundamental truth for organizations worldwide is that protecting their mission-critical applications, sensitive electronic data, and underlying computing infrastructure is a challenging and never-ending taska grim scenario wherein IT and security personnel will always have their hands full. With increasing connectivity, a companys vulnerability and risk of security compromises increase manifold. More signiicantly, a shit in hackers motivation and the growth in corporate espionage have increased the security threat to enterprises. herefore, it is not only large enterprises but even the SMBs that is scurrying for cover with robust security products. Earlier security deployments meant point solutions for a variety of requirements such as irewalls, intrusion detection systems, VPNs, anti-spam gateways, etc. However monitoring, managing and scaling them as the enterprise grows becomes a huge challenge for the technology department. Over the years, vendors have started clubbing their oferings in order to differentiate their products and also to make it easy
for deployment and maintenance. Gradually such deployments became more common, and the term Uniied hreat Management (UTM) became mainstream when analyst irm IDC used it in a 2005 publication on threat management. he term has since been used to refer to uniied, multi-use security threat management devices. It helps enterprises reduce the number of vendors, manage the ugrade cycle of diferent products and simpliies trouble shooting. According to IDC, a UTM typically comprises a irewall, antivirus and intrusion prevention and detection. With increasing proliferation of connectivity, the threats and complexities in security management have grown tremendously. he scope and expanse of UTM oferings have also kept pace by providing very high-end and sophisticated capabilities. his eliminates the need for systems administrators to maintain multiple security programs over time. herefore sophisticated versions of UTMs can ofer much more with capabilities that can manage URL iltering, spam blocking, spyware protection, content management, data leakage protection. Oten these devices ofer centralized monitoring and management of security deployments across locations and incident logging. hese multifunction security products provide many beneits
for customers, which combined with new features, have spurred market growth. here is also a trend for service providers to ofer UTM-as-a-service from their datacenters, but it is still early. Security consolidation via UTMs represents not just a better security and convenience but also opportunitiesan opportunity to reduce network traic, an opportunity to ease integration of VoIP and Web 2.0 applications, and an opportunity to boost IT productivity, says Shubhomoy Biswas, Country Director India & SAARC, SonicWALL.
The Market in India
he UTM market for appliances in 2009 stood at $42.25 million and is poised to keep growing at a steady CAGR of 35-40% over the next 3-4 years. he market is slated to cross $100 million by 2012. According to a report by research irm IDC in October 2008, UTM products, which passed the $1 billion mark in market size in 2007, will make up 33.6 percent of the total network security market by 2012. IDC has identiied the UTM market segment as the fastest growing segment of the broader network security market globally, and expects UTM to represent approximately 30 percent of
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ment. It further expanded its capabilities for the SRX series with the new AppTrack sotware. Building on Junipers recently announced AppSecure suite of applications, AppTrack sotware provides tight services integration that enables application-level visibility and improved data lows and adds application identiication information to the IPS session log. Juniper AppTrack is part of the AppSecure suite of applications, which provides business logic denial-of-services prevention for the the SRX series. Astaro is a relatively new entrant in the Indian network security market. he company is still relatively small and is poised for much higher growth than other vendors. In the last two years, the company has already built a foundation for explosive growth in its UTM business. However, India revenue still represents a small percentage of its worldwide business, but it is now growing rapidly. Most of our partners have chosen our product line for its capabilities and ease-of-use. Since we are relatively a late entrant in India market, our partners typically used some other network security product before, and now use Astaro to realize a broad variety of networking and security projects. he margins our partners make, positions our products as second to none, says Sunil Sapra of Astaro. Astaro solutions are sold more on the basis of value than price, enabling partners to package their services well with the solutions. A service-led approach builds customer relationship and improves the margins. Aastaro has a solid line up of products with Sophos next gen UTMs. Cisco looks at the market and customer requirements from a holistic perspective and ofers an End-to-End Self Defending Approach and Integrated Security. As per Bipin Phase I UTM is deined by consolidation: he initial intent of UTM is the consolidation of multiple security-related technologies into one system. Initially, UTM solutions were integrated Firewalls with Intrusion Detection/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS). Now, most UTM solutions also include Anti-X (SPAM and malware) and VPN functionality. UTM continues to evolve with expanding functionality. Nevales Networks ofers small and medium a secure environment to conduct their business on a pay-as-you-use model. Nevales platform is delivered over the Internet with free 24x7 support and is free from licensing, scalability and maintenance hassles, thereby providing the best value for money and allowing SMBs to focus on their core businesses. Nevaless security-as-a-service ofering bundles everything into a single subscription fee, including comprehensive security features,
TAKING AN END-TO-END SECURITY APPROACH HELPS INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGERS BUILD REASONABLE CONFIDENCE ON THEIR SECURITY STRATEGY AND DEPLOYMENTS.
BIPIN KUMAR AMIN, PRINCIPLE CONSULTANT, BORDERLESS NETWORKS, SECRITY, CISCO, automatic updates, patches, and 24x7 technical support, thus enabling organizations to eliminate upfront costs, providing a predictable cost structure, ensuring quality of service, and the freedom to re-evaluate the solution decision at any time. Nevales Networks closely works with its partners through regular distribution meets and promotions in key channel media. We support our partners with regular training and product updates to help them reach out to their customers better, says Ravishankar. Dominique MEURISSE - Executive Vice Presiden, NETASQ, says, Everyone is looking for an integrated security solution to reduce maintenance costs and have a more comprehensive control over their network security. We foresee a phenomenal growth in this sector. We at NetASQ have UTM products from SOHO to enterprise class networks customers to have higher return on investment and lower total cost of ownership. Integrated security appliances are witnessing high penetration in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Future demand from these markets will be strong and these markets will lead market growth. he lack of skilled manpower in these cities makes deployment of UTMs a simpler choice due to the integrated nature of these devices. In conclusion, the UTM market is on the growth track and the demand for UTM products will increase from all sizes of enterprises. his is because the security threats are increasingly getting complex and the IT department is looking for simpler management processes so that they are able to focus on innovation. At the same time, as enterprises cope with business growth they will be increasingly looking for simpler and easy to roll out solutions, which is an advantage with UTM solutions as they are easy to deploy. here is increasing awareness and understanding in the market about the beneits of UTM markets in metros and smaller cities. here is likely to be balanced growth from all these market segments with the SMBs demonstrating the strongest appetite for UTM products. However, Asheesh Pandia, Sr. Brand Management, Communications & PR Professional, maintains, he evolution of original irewall is what came up as UTM in early 2000s followed by XTM (eXtensible hreat Management) - as the threats kept on becoming more dynamic, stealthy and pervasive. Today it is not just the threat part that is being addressed by XTM but also greater networking and management capabilities. he market in India for UTM and XTM seems very promising despite the issue of sustainable diferentiation amongst the various competitors. he list of players has been ever expanding and of course analysts have positioned the key vendors appropriately including Fortinet, WatchGuard, SonicWall, Cyberoam, Quick Heal and GajShield others.
The Future Landscape
he future UTM solutions are likely to include one-stop solutions with features such as irewall, VPN, anti-virus, anti-spam, IDS and IPS, content iltering, bandwidth management, multiple load balancing and gateway failover. More and more enterprises will look for easier management with plug and play kind of capabilities. As more enterprises look to simplify infrastructure management, they will look for allin-one security appliances to ease their management burden. UTM solutions will be an integrated ofering and will be able to handle blended threats. UTM solutions has emerged out of the need to stem the increasing number of attacks on corporate information systems via hacking/cracking, viruses, wormsmostly an outcome of blended threats and insider threats. herefore future demand for UTM solutions will be for blended capabilities to thwart such threats. Such oferings will enable
UC OPPORTUNI
ACT IN UNISON TO TAP SME
Unied Communications (UC) has always been the tool of the large enterprises but with the market slowdown and the growth of the SMEs, it had also come to the space of the SMEs. But the fact is that the vendors are not able to understand the market as yet and thus have not been very aggressive also.
f one goes by the dictionary meaning of Uniied Communications (UC), it is the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, telephony (including IP telephony), video conferencing, call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as uniied messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax). he evolution of the UC has been gradually over a period time. UC is not a single product, but a set of products that provides a consistent uniied user interface and user experience across multiple devices and media types. For the lay man, it is nothing but managing communications and getting quick and timely response. he business turnaround entirely depends on the response of the communications. A delayed communication or collaboration can incur huge amount of revenue loss. herefore, UC is as critical to SMEs as it is to the large enterprises.
As per Frost & Sullivan study, the total size of the UC market in India will grow more than $1 billion by the end of 2010 and expected to grow manifold in coming times also. Similarly, as per DellOro Group, despite pockets of weakness reappearing, the uniied communications market will expand signiicantly in 2010 as existing vendors continue to invest and expand their sotware oferings and Microsot begins to actively push Lync. When the overall UC market is growing at the CAGR of 7.9 percent, the individual components of uniied communications are already witnessing healthy double digit growth number. For example the audio video conferencing market is estimated to grow at 60%, e-mailing and IP telephony is growing at 20% and 30 percent CAGR. In this scenario, globally SMEs play major role in the growth of UC market. But in India the market is yet to pick up because they face a lot of challenges. he irst and foremost is they
have budget constraints and they think too much about interoperability. Secondly, the UC vendors have not been much focussed on the Indian SME market. Adil Doctor, Director SMB Sales (India), Avaya India, says, Since, SMEs have limited resources they are gradually exploiting the beneits of Uniied Communications to help increase eiciency, productivity, and sales. However, SMEs or companies with up to 999 employees in the Indian subcontinent beneited the most from Uniied communication. According to a survey by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners, Inc. SME in India market spent around US$48.8 million on uniied communication (UC) in 2009. Majority of this includes enterprise IP telephony, applications like telepresence, mobility, conferencing and collaboration are still used to a limited extent by organizations and therefore comprise only 10 per cent of the market.
AS PER FROST & SULLIVAN STUDY, THE TOTAL SIZE OF THE UC MARKET IN INDIA WILL GROW MORE THAN $1 BILLION BY THE END OF 2010.
AS SMES HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES THEY ARE GRADUALL EXPLOITING Y THE BENEFITS OF UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS TO HELP INCREASE EFFICIENCY , PRODUCTIVITY AND , SALES.
ADIL DOCTOR, DIRECTOR SMB SALES, AVAYA INDIA Asheesh Pandia, Manager Communications, Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN India), says, UC is precisely as relevant as costcontainment, ROI or productivity to SMEs, as it is to the large enterprises. Speciically all those verticals where the resource size is bigger, travel OPEX is higher or communications is process critical, they need UC more than others. Also, categories with proven needs and interest with IT/ ITES, BPO, Petroleum, Manufacturing, Banking & Finance, Healthcare and Professional Services need UC. UC clearly ofers proitability, savings, improved decision making, better collaboration and mobility to them. Although pure IP adaptation is seen more in Greenield projects so far, overall, we can see quantiiable growth. Adaptation is rising with the awareness and developments in security. At this rate, the 100% growth dreams over next three years sound real, he added. In its February 2009 report, Market Overview: Sizing Uniied Communications, Forrester also predicts that companies will deploy enhanced UC capabilities to about 60 per cent of employees in functions that will beneit most from embedding communications features like wireless and video directly into their business applications. Minhaj Zia, National Sales Manager, Uniied Communications, Cisco India and SAARC, says, Indian SMBs are growing and adding more business partners nationally and internationally. With many of them also opening new branches, networking will play an important role in keeping employees connected. According to a Frost & Sullivan study, currently, India leads the SAARC regions UC market in terms of total spending and better overall awareness of UC. India has a good potential for growth of UC applications as demonstrated by the CAGR of 7.9 per cent during the period from 2008 to 2015. He added, he SMB-potential for UC is tremendous as UC oferings span across budgets and requirements. he bouquet of UC oferings, currently available in the market, is so versatile that any organization, large, medium or small, can ind technology that best suits both, its needs and budget. Interestingly, according to a NASSCOM report, approximately 50-60 per cent of IT spends in the country is expected to come from the lourishing SMB segment. Clearly, there is a huge market waiting out there to be tapped and companies are focused on addressing it. However, in order to efectively tap this segment, it is important that vendors develop customized solutions, which ofer a cost-efective and easy to deploy alternative. Indian SMBs are looking at UC as a low-cost tool to communicate efectively with customers and suppliers as well as
UC IS PRECISEL AS Y RELEVANT AS COSTCONTAINMENT, ROI OR PRODUCTIVITY TO SMES, AS IT IS TO THE LARGE ENTERPRISES.
ASHEESH PANDIA, MANAGER COMMUNICATIONS, SIEMENS ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATIONS (SEN INDIA)
facilitate communication across multiple branch locations. Its important that SMBs are shown how, by streamlining communication infrastructure, they will be able to ind smarter ways to cut travel costs maximize operational eiciency and improve business & customer strategies. Conferencing and collaboration tools such as video, audio, web conferencing and instant messaging will account for a majority of the total UC spending. As per Minhaj with the expansion of Uniied Communications from the enterprise space into mid-level and smaller organizations, a growing number of SMEs are gradually exploring how Uniied Communications has the potential of increasing eiciency, productivity, and sales. As uniied communications applications become more prevalent in the extended workspace, more organizations are realizing the associated beneits. Results documented by Sage Research demonstrate a multitude of beneits - both in terms of employee time savings and inancial savings. Organizations using uniied communications clients saved an average of 32 minutes daily per employee because presence technology enabled staf to reach one another on the irst try. Use of sotphones resulted in an average savings of $1,727 per month in cell phone and long distance charges. Mobile workers also saved 40 minutes each day, enjoyed greater business communications convenience, and generated annual productivity gains of 3.5 days per year through business continuity impact. Organizations using uniied messaging reported that employees saved 43 minutes per day from more eicient message management while mobile workers saved 55 minutes per day. Companies using integrated voice and Web conferencing reported a 30 percent reduction in conferencing expenses (by making integrated conferencing capabilities available in-house and on-network) and an average savings of approximately $1,700 per month in travel costs basis the Sage report. Uniied business communications applications not only facilitate productivity improvements for employees wherever their work takes them, they can also enhance the way in which all employees communicate. More speciically for SMBs, the biggest USP of opting for UC solutions is the cost savings that they present in terms of travel, communications, etc. Many SMBs also appreciate that enhanced geographical collaboration that comes with the adoption of UC. For example, CoStar has made a signiicant investment in a broadcast-quality video conferencing system from Polycom to connect 3,000
CoStar workers in the US and abroad. heyve worked hard to build out their network -- dealing with bandwidth allocation, traic shaping and end-user training -- to keep users satisied with and using the system. According to CoStars Sergio Soto, When we irst started with video conferencing a few years ago, we simply wanted a way to reduce travel costs for our sales team. Now we have developers and researchers on both coasts that use our video conferencing rooms eight hours a day. Video has helped them cut $4-$5M in travel costs. Neeraj Gill, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Polycom, says, SMEs have always faced an uphill battle when competing with larger, more established companies. he challenge is even more daunting in the current economy of slower business growth, reduced sales opportunities, and sometimes lower revenues. SMEs are turning to these solutions because they can help them Improve productivity, Higher return on investment (ROI), Enhance their corporate image, Make better decisions faster, Reduce costs, etc. Company-wide Communications,Vendor/Supplier Relationships ,Employee Training/Distance Learning etc are few more points for which SMEs need the UC solutions. he other vendor of UC is NEC, which is present in India since 2006 and among other products, the company has a strong foothold on UC space. Ravinder Raina, Country Head Private Network Solutions, NEC India, says, In the post recession scenario, Uniied Communications is fast emerging as a business necessity. Large organizations and SMBs have become optimistic about uniied communications and use it for integrating communication tools with real-time business processes. Over the years, uniied communications has helped in easing communication hassles and now, even SMEs have started to realize these advantages. He added, Uniied Communications has come a long way from a simple uniied messaging inbox for email, voice and faxes, to enhanced mobility, multi-modal mashups of various forms of communications. hough, the market for UC technologies is still at its infancy. Currently, the UC market in India stands at $549 mn, while $321mn comes from enterprise telephony that includes 17% share of contact center applications, 11% email and messaging, 10% tele-presence and conferencing while 1% comes from mobility, which is still a long way to go. Similarly, Business Octane is another player who contributes large to UC space through its large presence in the telepresence space. Sanjay Bansal, Chairman of the Board & Managing Director, Business Octane, says, Immersive
SMES ARE TURNING TO THESE SOLUTIONS BECAUSE THEY CAN HELP THEM IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY HIGHER RETURN , ON INVESTMENT (ROI), ENHANCE THEIR CORPORATE IMAGE, MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FASTER, REDUCE COSTS, ETC
NEERAJ GILL, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INDIA & SAARC, POLYCOM
Telepresence is gaining momentum and has a huge potential in India. he SME market in India is growing tremendously. he SME segment is already a heavy user for virtual collaboration technologies. he Immersive Telepresence Suites available in the marketplace are majorly suitable for large enterprises given the inancial bandwidth and quantum of usage in such enterprises. However, these factors difer for the SME segment where the demand will be driven by such innovations that can replicate in the most efective manner as possible the experience of immersive telepresence at reduced costs to vindicate the investments being made.
INDIAN SMBS ARE GROWING AND ADDING MORE BUSINESS PARTNERS NATIONALL AND Y INTERNATIONALL . Y
MINHAJ ZIA, NATIONAL SALES MANAGER, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS, CISCO INDIA AND SAARC
He added, Business Octane has gone ahead in terms of innovation with its customized range of Immersive Telepresence Suites & Solutions for the SME segment that will help these enterprises beneit from a faster ROI. We had recently introduced CollaboratorPOWERMAXTM an afordable immersive telepresence collaboration suite that ofers media-rich, immersive dynamic telepresence experience. he customized suite creates a meeting experience over telepresence which is as efective as meeting face-to-face with distant participants with high deinition studio quality video and high deinition stereo spatial audio, together with near actual physical sizing and natural eye contact. he company has advanced video collaboration solution: AltraCOLLABORATOR that also caters to the SME segment; it is a customizable collaboration solution to be retroitted in existing video meeting rooms. Sanjay Manchanda, Director-Microsot Business Division, Microsot India, says, In todays fast evolving competitive global market, SMBs need cost-efective technologies that allow lexibility and adds value to their organization. As an initial step towards adopting a UC solution, SMBs are increasingly turning to Sotware + Services solutions to meet the needs of their businesses. Keeping these changing trends and requirements in mind, Microsot announced the launch of Microsot Online Services last year in India that will help fulil the communication and collaboration needs of these small businesses. his suite combines services such as email, ability to chat, work together simultaneously on documents, have a meeting online and maintain a common calendar at a cost-efective price with lexible payment options he online services of the company ensures reliable email communication, work and collaborate
BUSINESS OCTANE HAS GONE AHEAD IN TERMS OF INNOVATION WITH ITS CUSTOMIZED RANGE OF IMMERSIVE TELEPRESENCE SUITES & SOLUTIONS FOR THE SME SEGMENT THAT WILL HELP THESE ENTERPRISES BENEFIT FROM A FASTER ROI.
SANJAY BANSAL, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD & MANAGING DIRECTOR, BUSINESS OCTANE
faster with a common library of all documents at one location, engage and ask for opinions using media-rich presentations and option to switch video and audio with multiple parties and ind the right colleague quickly and chat on messenger, audio or video. From the vendors perspective, Siemens is very focused on the SME space. As Asheesh says, We highly focussed on it with a comprehensive portfolio of exclusive UC oferings for this segment. SEN has a track record of consistent product and solution innovation for small and medium businesses. Moreover, our marketing and service/support are aligned rightly to get us an edge on SME space. SEN provides platforms that best suit smaller business - be it integrating uniied communications functionality into Microsot Outlook, launching conferencing from desktop or using existing infrastructure, such as analogue telephones or entry phones. SEN communications systems and platforms support small businesses with up to 500 employees. SEN OpenScape Oice is the industrys irst UC application designed speciically for small- and medium-sized businesses, HiPath 1100 is designed to give highperformance telephony to small/medium sized businesses with up to 140 users and HiPath 3000 is our lexible uniied communications platform that scales from 20 to 500 users. he latest OpenScape Oice MX is an all-in-one, uniied communications appliance built upon reliable, secure, serviceable, and manageable OpenSmart architecture with network connectivity that supports upto 150 users. Among Siemens Enterprise Communications other oferings are OpenScape Oice Contact Center, Network Infrastructure & Security portfolio and a whole range of voice/ data/video products and solutions.
Similarly, Cisco also takes SMBs very seriously. Ciscos SMB division customizes networking solutions. hese products and solutions are under the umbrella solution-packs of Cisco Small Business Pro, Cisco Smart Business Communication System, backed by a host of service & support, and inancing ofers. Channel presence and technical support. Cisco qualiies businesses with less than 100 PCs as
OVER THE YEARS, UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS HAS HELPED IN EASING COMMUNICATION HASSLES AND NOW, EVEN SMES HAVE STARTED TO REALIZE THESE ADVANTAGES.
RAVINDER RAINA, COUNTRY HEAD PRIVATE NETWORK SOLUTIONS, NEC INDIA
Small businesses. Adil says, Looking at the current trends, IP based systems like SIP; IP PBX and telephony systems are gaining ground. Avaya ofers a platform speciically tailored for SME needs, such as Avaya IP Oice. Avaya IP Oice is simple yet sophisticated platform which can also scale to provide UC & CC features. SMB customer can start small and add application later as they grow. He adds, Avaya is the worldwide leader in the SME market, with leadership in both revenue and line share. With Avaya IP Oice 6.1, the company accelerates uniied communications and contact center technologies in the SME market, helping SMEs compete more efectively, but in a cost-conscious manner. As per Sanjay, Business Octanes immersive telepresence collaboration suites and customized collaboration solution are equipped with a user interface that allows for simple and elegant use of all the functionalities. All the immersive telepresence collaboration suites and speciic advanced video collaboration solution incorporate a new revolutionary user interface SimpliUSE+ that incorporates TeleconnectWIZARD for connecting multiple locations with extreme ease of usage and without any external help. In addition, Business Octanes Immersive Telepresence empowers users to collaborate seamlessly with other communication applications. Meeting participants whether on audio, desktops, and video conferencing sites can seamlessly collaborate with the companys immersive telepresence suites. As per him, the return on investment with our immersive telepresence suites is so compulsive that companies can start reaping returns on their investment within 3 to 6 months. On the other hand, Polycom is farming up a strategy speciically aimed at the SME segment. As a part of this strategy Polycom has recently appointed a global head for the SME segment. he company provides a wide-range of desktop, wireless and multimedia communication solutions for small and medium enterprises. For example, Polycom SoundPoint IP family of phones leverages the capabilities of SIP-based VoIP networks to deliver breakthrough voice quality and advanced features that make calls more eicient and productive. Polycom SoundStation Conference Phones are the industry standard for clear productive conference calls. Similarly, Polycoms recently introduced QDX 6000 is the irst videoconferencing product of its kind to address the cost-conscious SME segment that at the same time seeks ease of use and high quality. However, the biggest challenge the SMEs today face isnt so much relevant to cost, but the
complexity of IT. he interoperability is no more relevant now as most the vendors have addressed the issue with open standards based solutions. he lack of awareness and value perception is one of the key roadblocks to SME IT adoption. And, these challenges can only be mitigated by the aggressive engagement of partners to play a consultative role to the customers. Some partners have already understood the value proposition some are not. For example GoIP Global Services is one of the channel partners of multi brands and understand the market very well. hey must have gone through gruelling sessions and have acquired the knowledge hard way. Shiv Sharma, Director - Strategy & Alliance, Go IP Global Services, says, Uniied Communications (UC) has emerged as an important milestone in the evolution of enterprise communications. UC seeks to break down the communications silos in the enterprise and add collaboration functions. Using a diferent tool for each communications mode (phone, fax, and email) hinders productivity, wastes time, and causes frustration. Business users no longer want to juggle multiple devices and phone numbers, multiple message stores, and multiple directories when instead they can access multimedia communication and collaboration tools in a single interface on the desktop. UC breaks down barriers and integrates communication and collaboration tools, making them more easily accessible and saving signiicant time and resources. He adds, UC solutions, such as Microsot Lync Server 2010 typically combine several traditional communications functions (including presence, instant messaging, real-time voice and video communications and uniied messaging) into an integrated, uniied solution. UC can improve productivity, accelerate information transfer, and reduce costs. UC solutions, such as Lync Server 2010 and Microsot Exchange Uniied Messaging, can also replace traditional PBX and messaging systems in remote oice locations. Ciscos SMB market strategy involves helping customers create a sustainable competitive advantage, improve their operational eiciencies, increase their employees productivity, and ultimately boost their returns and proitability. he strategy includes focusing on new customised SMB products/solutions and inancing schemes like the Easy Lease program, and the 0% inance ofering for SMBs. To increase awareness of its products and programs among these businesses, Cisco will continue to invest heavily in partner enablement and innovative marketing initiatives such as the Network on Wheels and the Sales and Marketing Services Organisation. Cisco is developing domain speciic solutions
UC SEEKS TO BREAK DOWN THE COMMUNICATIONS SILOS IN THE ENTERPRISE AND ADD COL LABORATION FUNCTIONS.
SHIV SHARMA, DIRECTOR - STRATEGY & ALLIANCE, GO IP GLOBAL SERVICES
to help SMB customers in each sub-vertical, which will help them plan, design and operate business critical networks more eiciently. he Company has also launched a small business partner proitability program. Cisco also makes available a lot of product literature and support material to partners to support their sales eforts. In fact Cisco has a separate division called the Sales and Marketing Support Organisation (SMSO) that takes care of the marketing collateral needs of the channel partners. Similarly, Avaya in India has been moving towards a High-Touch, channel centric (HTCC) sales model. hey now have two national level distributors in Redington and Bharti Teletech helping the company reach out to the SMEs across the country. hese distributors further sell to a large set of System Integration (SI) partners, across geographies in India & SAARC. he company has a fantastic Channel Partner Program called Avaya Connect, which helps SI partners take advantage of enhanced technical and marketing beneits. his in turn helps them build capability on Avaya Technologies and serve customers better. he company is gung ho about 2011 and has a slew of marketing initiatives in the pipeline, one of which is already rolled out. hat is the 6 city Experience roadshows to showcase the integrated product roadmap and Avaya technologies to the customers and partner community. he company is investing heavily in the channel partners, by way of partner enablement, Demo Gear, Ex-Stock product availability, Solution bundles, Toll free Support line for Pre-sales & Post-sales, Partners Rewards & Rebates. Avaya has ambitious plans on marketing online, print, road shows for SMB partners who are certiied and invested in Avaya. SENs indirect channel structure is extensive and so is its reach. he company has over a hundred partners with pan-India presence, including tier II cities. he company has also an excellent
partner program that focus on their empowerment in terms of knowledge - trainings & certiication, engagement - partner communication, presence & messaging - marketing and branding support, references and rewards & recognition. On global level, the company has programs like Go Forward that are meant for channel empowerment and recognition. Polycom is also working on a strategy to reach bigger number of SME throughout the country for which they are appointing more channel partners. hey have 3 distributors and more than 50 channel partners spread across India. he company will soon appoint some more channel partners to reach out the wide spread SMEs in India. By irst quarter of 2011, Polycom will launch Polycom Choice Programme for its channel partners, which will encompass certiication, growth and deining the channel partners. NECs channel network for PNS (Private Network Solutions) is pretty strong including the names like Enkay Technologies, Syntel and Intellicon. Very recently they have tied-up with Avaya Global Connect Networks as its national distributor for the PNS solutions.
he entire assortment of opinion says that most of the vendors are ready with SME solutions and they have addressed the pricing and interoperability issues with due care. he only thing they are struggling waiting is the educating the customers about the utility and R0I of the UC solutions. his is surely a challenge and the large vendors should take the foot forward by engaging the customers in various platforms explaining them about the beneits, which will include aggressively engaging with the partners. Another trend - hosted communication services or cloud services - is also picking up in the market which is very much relevant to the SME market and it is waited to be seen how the things are panning out. But the sentiment is UC is high with the SMEs.
ASHEESH PANDIA BRAND MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
TELE-MIMETICS, TELETRENDS AND FOCUS FOR INSPIRATION!
On a global level too, most telecom markets remain overall pulsating with focus on higher speeds, better interactivity and customer experience.
OVER THE LAST quarter I had been very fortunate to interview and discuss one-on-one with some of the whos who of Canadian Telecom Industry. Whats most interesting behind the success of many of these leaders and their organizations outstanding performance was the extremely simple but fundamentally a profound marketing wisdom. I could easily compare their thoughtpatterns with the likes of Al Ries and Jack Trout, the marketing Gurus and founders of positioning theory. Most of these interviews were remarkably insightful not only in terms of where the Canadian or Global Telecom Industry is headed to but also in that how just about any geography could relate to the other from the cause and effect perspective of micro & mega trends and eventually, in one way or the other, can possibly utilize the end takeaways towards their collaborative industrial betterment. From marketing standpoint this at first seems tough to assimilate though, let alone to be compared any further. More so, because we speak of one of the most dynamic and particularly now, evermore stirred-up industrial segments and also when the diversity is hugely evident, among widely different geographies. However, if we refer from the standpoint of inspiration, similar to a Case-study, and not simply adaptation because that would be unfair indeed; theories suddenly start making practical sense. In a way, its more like cross-industrial learning, redevelopment and collaboration or rather Biognosis and Biomimetics. Some may want to research those terms in entirety to get greater insight. The biggest challenges that Canada had faced since inception were essentially the huge geography, weather conditions and the diversely growing consumer demography, for instance. As a result, the network infrastructure maintenance investments went beyond and out of proportion and hence, the anatomy of basic marketing strategies today seems starkly different. And then there remain similarities too in terms of trends especially in the Social Media era. According to Mr. Gautam Nath, one of the best Canadian marketing knowledge-banks today, who I had the opportunity to meet recently, Multi-Cultural marketing dynamics is the most sought-after horizon here in Canada at the moment . I feel essentially the rise in Multi-Cultural Marketing shares a similar pattern to that of the ongoing Rural Penetration pursuit in India. And yet again, considering that Canada wants the largest pipelines at the lowest cost which definitely would demand more funds, access to global capital market through more relaxed and free competition and more incumbents is desirable not much unlike how it had always been in India regardless of the competition because population and the market size is awesome. On a global level too, most telecom markets remain overall pulsating with focus on higher speeds, better interactivity and customer experience. Realistically, it is easy to understand that the Churn Management is definitely a very important issue still for the most part because acquiring a new customer is much more pricey and unpredictable than retaining the existing customer base. The latter, however, could also be equally demanding and complex but more often than not cost-effective to both the consumer and the service provider. The new generation of consumers is definitely not as loyal as it used to be in the Wireline-only era. Moreover, Brand Loyalty itself cannot be compared at any given moment among a telecom service provider and a financial institution, in the case of the former; it could be far more casual for the consumer to be flirtatious and shop around. Another common challenge across economies is to maintain & strive to increase the dirt-cheap margins and thats where the opportunities for telecom consulting and marketing organizations and analysts lie. Subscriber base might have been sustained or grown but the revenues seem to dip gradually. With respect to the extremely low-margins, its not difficult to gauge the situation when you find analysts use PriceEarnings (P/E) and Price-to-Sales (Price/Sales) Ratios as measures of valuation; for some companies have little or no profits to speak of unfortunately, especially at this time. And now, all of a sudden, inadequate Spectrum poses another big challenge in India which DoT, the telecom regulatory body, proposes to address with Refarming the 900 megahertz (MHz) spectrum when operators licenses come up for renewal between 2014 and 2025 by including it in the Spectrum Bill in its recommendation. Telecom providers are of course not equally fond of such a recommendation by DoT because there are reasons to believe that it would not be appropriate at this point when you have to be moving all the subscribers to a brand new network as a consequence while they are on a fully functional one, already. Let alone the obvious interruption in current service and big investments that will be needed to carry out this change in any case, at any given point in time. Still, we cannot deny the relative growth prospects that sound paradoxical after summing up all the above challenges but they are true for sure. I am going to mention the exploding Mobile Broadband Traffic below and the figures are mind-blowing. Whatever be the reason for this increase in traffic, in the end, telecom service providers have both the responsibility and the opportunity to serve the consumer well and make money. There is also no denying of the fact that there is a huge potential for the current generation of consultants in cross-economy trend-spotting as well as for telecom service providers to bootstrap
themselves. Most of all, to find their best identity in the value chain and to be able to innovate lightening fast have been the top priorities of the best players so far and again trend-watching gives the best food for thought in terms of both innovation and the correct Brand Positioning. For the most part, Indian telecom has been doing really well relatively barring the Spectrum Refarming struggle cited above; but the option of taking a look at the external and distant trends could also guarantee significant betterment for the highly innovative kinds. The face of telecom is changing by the hour and it is not the same simple voice domain anymore rather a more holistic and all-embracing one with the rising Mobile Broadband Traffic, dominant Consumer Electronics and a skyrocketing Ultra-Viral Social Media. Mobile Applications market for instance is the most astonishing at this moment . Back in March of 2009, about 2,300 applications were available on the Android Market, according to T-Mobile CTO Cole Brodman. And in May, 2011 alone, during the Google I/O, Google announced that Android Market listed 200,000 applications and had already clocked 4.5 Billion installed applications. By July, the figure had crossed the 250,000 milestone. Distimo and Germany-based research2guidance forecast that the number of apps on Android
Market would surpass Apple by the third quarter of 2011, with some 425,000 apps. Similarly in terms of Consumer Electronics and Mobile Broadband Traffic, iSuppli reckons global SmartPhone shipments will double by 2015 and account for more than half of all mobile phones sold. At the same time, mobile broadband traffic volumes will see a 2600% increase in the next five years, say Nokia Siemens Networks own figures. The Nokia Siemens numbers are astounding a 1000-fold mobile data traffic increase by the year 2020. To consumer, mobility is not a privilege anymore; its simply an extension of access to information and telecom providers only need the super value creation attitude besides the competent technology to win the game. Lack of mobility is rather a polite way of saying denial-of-service in todays competition. Take m-Commerce, for example, which has been considered as the gamechanger especially in the developing economies. Even in the developed ones, it is not yet ubiquitous maybe because of the security-related, technological and psychological challenges but once the ice is broken and it is made easily accessible, theres no dearth of the wonders that efficiently run m-Commerce could do. So for the winners, it must not just be the Next Thing. It rather ought to be a current service provisioning mandate top
on their priority list to keep ahead of the rat-race. Coming back to the trends and patterns that Indian telecom providers can bank upon. First of all, focusing on that One Particular Differentiating Brand Identity, that makes any brand unique it is just too important. What we see around today is everyone doing everything, everyone selling everything but the biggest brands in the world are the ones that do only their thing that reflects them directly and uniquely; when you talk about a particular product or service, its only that brand that comes to the consumers mind and vice-versa. Many of the top executives and telecom professionals advocate restricting the number of players to 4 to 6 and the reason behind that is both intelligent and plausible. However, from the perspective of brand management and positioning, more intellectual bandwidth should be targeted on their main focus and focus is the key to positioning. The Narrower and Unique it is, the better for any brand. Forget about the competition for a moment, lets first understand what we want to achieve, get clarity, prioritize our things and then jump in the warfare fully armed. This is one of the key findings you instantly get a feel of when you look at a market such as Canadas. Each brand has an identity and a unique personality and thats where the learning is. And in abundance!
CONVERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGIES TO PREVAIL
As technology progresses and customers seeks to satisfy different needs in one transaction, has led to technology combinations or to put it simply, Convergence. Today, it has become a mainstream phenomenon and the market is embracing the growing convergence technology market.
BY KARMA NEGI
karma@smechannels.com
ately, we are hearing a lot about convergence. Technologies are converging to bring together a myriad of devices to ease usability and increase effectiveness for the end-user. The form-factors are becoming more compact and portable with providing better processing, efficient storage and easy access
capabilities. Today, integration, convergence, whatever you call it, is happening all around us from computing to smart phones and tabs. Datacenters are employing such technologies as they are running out of space and power. With Convergence, they can use the same device for multiple applications by implementing Virtualization and Cloud techniques. Recently IBM announced a new family of data center building blocks called PureSystems with the aim to offer integrated systems. Or take Oracles Exadata, which has been in the market for quite some time now, and is a complete package of storage, servers, networking and software, which the company says is secure, scalable and redundant. Then there is the HPs converged cloud solutions. The list is endless. A precursor to most application developments today, the network industry too renders many convergence products like IP Surveillance with
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TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE CONVERGENCE MARKET, ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE VARIOUS BOTTLENECKS OF IMPLEMENTING SUCH SOLUTIONS NOW AND THE IMPACT AND TURN IT WOULD MAKE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.
SUBHASHINI RAMAKRISHNAN, CTO, DAX NETWORKS
IN FACT COST OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION HAS BEEN JUST GOING DOWN ONLY. THE LIFE SPAN OF DEVICE TOO HAS SHORTENED AND USERS KNOW THAT.
SUBIR BHATNAGAR, VP & GLOBAL HEAD SOLUTIONS, AGC NETWORKS LTD
WITH VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD TECHNIQUES, THE DEFECTIVE DEVICE CAN BE MOVED OFFLINE BY HAVING THE APPLICATION INSTANCES MOVED TO A DIFFERENT DEVICE TO MINIMIZE DOWNTIME.
SRIDHARAN MANI, CEO AND DIRECTOR, AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INDIA.
in-built storage and centralized monitoring facilities, Network Attached Storage with Surveillance Station, Web Server, Multimedia Station, FTP Server, etc. Storage consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers/devices.Scanner, copier and printer are becoming MFD while multiple point security products are becoming Unified Threat management (UTM) box. As collaboration becomes social, as user experience goes mobile, and as computing infrastructure and platforms migrate to the cloud, the convergence of these technologies will create the next big wave in the IT industry, says Salil Godika, CSO and CMO, Happiest Minds Technologies. So, does convergence encompass the merging of technologies, devices and networks? No, says Asheesh Pandia, Global Brand Manager, Tyco International, ON Canada, Boiling Convergence down to a simple, one-line definition is difficult because it is not only about merging technologies, devices and networks but it ultimately encompasses user experience as well. New dimensions of simplicity, integration and automation are what convergence means to the users, and eventually, true convergence would mean that customers device doesnt define him anymore. To understand convergence as a process and way for development is important because it is a continuous and dynamic phenomenon. More-
over, with its role in socio-economic development, it needs to be observed not only from the technical standpoint but also from that of a developmental one, he explains. Delving more into the meaning of convergence Subir Bhatnagar, VP & Global Head (Solutions), AGC Networks Ltd, says that there are three critical aspects of experiencing technologythe equipment or device, applications stored in servers, network to access these applications. While the servers are used for running these applications, storage devices or systems are used to store information and data related to these applications. What convergence does he says is sync up all the three aspects and attempts to deliver a seamless experience which is also known as virtualization. The convergence market is large and growing as the customer today looks for business specific needs with minimal customization and provision for future scalability in terms of technology and space. Being able to manage a business with centralized control and management is a basic requirement. Commenting on the size of the market Bhatnagar informs, A report quoted the market size to be around $35 billion across the globe with a predicted growth of minimum 12%. But the way convergence is being adopted by enterprises and demanded by users I am sure the growth rate can exceed anything around 20%. Vendors agree that convergence does help in
making things simpler by making management uncomplicated with consolidation and centralization of data or services. Consolidation and centralization widely contribute to lower TCO and save power thereby increasing ROI. Subhashini Ramakrishnan, CTO, Dax Networks, informs, Apart from the fact that convergence may influence consumers to accept new technologies, it definitely delivers higher efficiency while reducing TCO. To be successful in the convergence market, one must understand the various bottlenecks of implementing such solutions now and the impact, and the turn it would make in the next couple of years. Convergence helps customers to reduce their TCO on infrastructure management and support. Helps to implement solutions such as DR2Cloud and have multiple applications running on same device and easy to scale up and scale down based on demand, says Sridharan Mani, CEO and Director, American Megatrends India. As devices are reduced there will be reduction in power, less carbon emission and hence a greener planet. Turing off devices, instances, processor cores during off-peak demand time helps to save power and energy, he adds. Pandia sees Convergence as all about making things simpler, leaner and greener. With smaller storage footprint, lower cooling, lower power and simplified management, convergence reduces TCO to a great extent he affirms.
THE MARKET IS COMPETITIVE ENOUGH NOT TO ALLOW ANY VENDOR TAKE ANY UNREASONABLE STAND. COMPETITIVE UPGRADE PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE FROM MOST BRANDS TO HELP CUSTOMER SWITCH FROM ONE VENDOR TO ANOTHER WITH LEAST IMPACT.
SUNIL PILLAI, CO-FOUNDER AND MD, IVALUE INFOSOLUTIONS.
CONVERGENCE IS NOT ONLY ABOUT MERGING TECHNOLOGIES, DEVICES AND NETWORKS BUT IT ULTIMATELY ENCOMPASSES USER EXPERIENCE AS WELL.
ASHEESH PANDIA, GLOBAL BRAND MANAGER, TYCO INTERNATIONAL, ON CANADA
AS COLLABORATION BECOMES SOCIAL, USER EXPERIENCE GOES MOBILE, COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLATFORMS MIGRATE TO CLOUD, THE CONVERGENCE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES WILL CREATE THE NEXT BIG WAVE IN THE IT INDUSTRY.
SALIL GODIKA, CSO AND CMO, HAPPIEST MINDS TECHNOLOGIES.
Hence over the years, the reliability of IT hardware has improved tremendously. Therefore, Pillai explains, most of the issues faced today are on the soft side like setting and configuration. Hardware failure is rare and hence manageable through replacement process due to low incidence. In case of critical applications or devices, provision for high availability must be kept in mind. Most products used in such environments have built-in redundancy and 99.99% uptime features, reminds Ramakrishnan. Care must be taken at the architecture design level to handle adequate redundancy. It is advisable to practice and have a disaster recovery plan in place. In fact many convergence products have multiple functions to serve as both primary/secondary devices individually. As per Mani, Ideally, the device would employ techniques to avoid single point of failure with redundancies built-in. If not the case, the downtime will definitely increase. With virtualization and cloud techniques, the defective device can be moved offline by having the application instances moved to a different device to minimize downtime. With the consolidation of different devices customers more often go for products of more than one vendor but there is always the lingering fear of vendor lock-in among the end customers. The market is replete with vendors accused of vendor lock-in both on the software and the
hardware side, though they may deny following such practices. But things might be changing. Vendors have started to address the lock-in concerns of the end user already and they are coming up with investment protection plans, says Pandia Although the focus has to be more on the service part of it, both buy-back and time or technologyproofing packages will soon be seen more often as vendors re-align their product and service strategies. Allaying the vendor lock-in issue Sunil Pillai, Co-founder and MD, iValue InfoSolutions, remarks, IT has come a long way over the years. Its rare to see offerings only form a single vendor for most requirements. Also the market is competitive enough not to allow any vendor take any unreasonable stand. Competitive upgrade programs are available from most brands to help customer switch from one vendor to another with least impact. He further adds that buying criteria should focus on relevance of the offering to address business and IT challenge. Brand and vendor should come after relevance in decision making criteria. Today, most agree, that neither technology makers nor connectivity providers are married to a particular vendor. They all are following a multi association approach to maximize their market capitalization. A lot in both enterprises and consumers is shifting from Capex to Opex model, just
to eliminate the fear of high cost of technology shift or upgrade. In fact cost of technology adoption has been just going down only. The life span of device too has shortened and users know that, informs Bhatnagar. Coming to challenges, the opinions differ all across the board. While for Ramakrishnan with the ease in use and accessibility for the user comes the concern for security and availability. As long as this is kept in mind one is ready to go. Also, proper management of applications across the WAN can help mitigate convergence challenges she says. For Mani the business continuity is critical. For him the biggest challenge would be to ensure that downtime is zero and RPO is minimum. And for Pandia overwhelming demand for new policy frameworks, bandwidth, investment and standards for seamless integration are some of the key challenges. Besides, both organizations and regulators are faced with the vertical and horizontal integration challenges. In terms of regulatory ecosystem, a competitive market would allow convergence to expand the most, he opines.
So convergence is not a loose term any more. It is real and happening. The IT industry is already seeing the benefits of convergence but the fact of the matter is that the manageability is not yet tested though said to be worry freed. So time will tell how it stands in long run.
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The security and surveillance sector is fast altering with the strengthening economy and technology as well as market shift. Although globally, the growth is expected to be at around 12 per cent which is significantly lower mainly due to the wide stretch of Eurozone debt crisis. India and Gulf, for instance, are growing at more than twice that rate. VARINDIA speaks to the Indian System Integrators about their perception of the market and the challenges they face.
he significance of Security & Surveillance (S&S) systems has changed over the years. Security today has become a major concern for most individuals / organizations, given the increase in the number of crime rates in recent times. This is precisely where technology plays a major role in curbing such gruesome incidences and also in tracking crucial evidences. The recent increase in terrorist acts has significantly influenced the way one considers the need for adequate levels of security. As a result, electronic security apparatus is creating a niche for them in the market. As a result, there has been an increase in the need for integrated security solutions, both for products and services.
IP-based surveillance is steadily catching up
Traditionally controlled by analogue-
Organization: A leading International Airport in India Location: Cannot specify due to confidentiality factors and security concerns Challenges: There were no integrated and comprehensive baggage handling solutions. The baggage screening system was solely dependent on standalone baggage scanners and manual intervention. Solution: HCL Infosystems helped in setting up five-stage screening system having Automated tomography and CT machines in the Hold Baggage Screening (HBS) Solution. Benefits: The integrated baggage screening solution provided for minimum manual intervention. Rejected / suspected baggage images get transferred to separate level workstations automatically. Computed tomography-based technology is used, which gives 3D images of bags scanned giving minimum false alarms. Worked handin-hand with the infrastructure/construction company, in accordance with their project plan, as SECURITY and INFRA construction/ development is interlinked.
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based surveillance systems, the Indian market is now shifting towards digitized, i.e. IP-based surveillance systems. Earlier, surveillance systems were restricted to a closed circuit where images are seen from a centrally monitored station. However, with the advancement in technology, the images can now be viewed from anywhere in the world. This has increased the scope for the use of security and surveillance across the world, with the Indian market not left far behind. IP video surveillance is a key business tool for ensuring smooth operations, general security, preventing loss and controls mischievous activity. It is steadily emerging as one of the most compelling investment areas, creating a whole new market for networking resellers and integrators. The current technology trend in the surveillance space and some of the recent market reports suggest that IP video surveillance equipment market globally was estimated to be at over $800 million in 2010-11 and over $45 million in India alone. As per the industry estimates, the market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 30.2% approximately over the next five years and is likely to be worth over $3 billion by 2015 globally. Sharing manufacturers views, Asheesh Pandia, Global Brand Manager, Tyco International, Canada, said that manufacturers are realizing that though the image quality is very important, it is not only about pixels but there is much more to it. Similarly, there has been progress with regard to evolution of smart storage, and maturity and convergence among interoperability standards as well. With evolving processors, intelligent video analytics is reaching out to fresh, unprecedented dimensions and in turn it is helping manage and employ silos of raw video content. The emergence of Cloud, Mobile Apps and I/SaaS (Infrastructure/Surveillance as a Service) is also bound to be pumping the security and surveillance market. Forecasts suggest considerable impact on the storage market with over 70% of network security camera shipments comprising of megapixel
Global Brand Manager Tyco International, Canada
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By Olivia Laing
The Importance of Refusing to Look Away from Scenes of Violence
Indecency surrounds us, we must not look away
At a party in south London, a man comes up to me. He’s big, with close-cropped grey hair, bright blue eyes, a network of broken veins across his face. ‘My dad was Irish,’ he says, ‘he worked on the building sites. London was built by the Irish. They all died young. No compensation. It was the asbestos, it got into their lungs.’ He tells me about working on a demolition site as a teenager, bringing tea to a man who emerged from a tunnel the width of his body, which ran 40 metres beneath the ground. He had a handkerchief over his mouth. Pulled it off, grinning, his whole face pancaked in poisonous white dust.
Everything’s seeping to the surface now, the slow or hidden violence of late capitalism, the concealed cruelties of immigration removal centres, the secret acts of racist police, all made inescapably visible by way of the scrying glass of social media. You can become an accidental connoisseur of snuff movies simply by scrolling through Twitter with a breakfast cup of tea. A young woman shot by her ex-boyfriend in a university hall of residence, the video of her final seconds played on a loop on a British newspaper website. A black man looking at his phone in a parking lot, dragged from his car and beaten by three white police officers in what looks like riot gear, blow after blow after blow.
‘I think it would be indecent these days for writers to talk of anything else but violence,’ the French author Édouard Louis said in an interview about his new novel, History of Violence (2018), a fictionalized account of his rape and attempted murder by a stranger he met on the street. But actually grappling with this material often carries the charge of indecency, as if bringing a horror into view is perversely worse than the act it records. I’m thinking of two artists in particular, Kathy Acker and Ana Mendieta, who were born a year apart, who both died young and who were among the most unflinching chroniclers of 20th-century cruelties.
Acker’s world is one of terrorist attacks and sexual degradation: it resembles the baroque imaginings of the Marquis de Sade, but also the tabloid fixations of Fox News and the Daily Mail. As for Mendieta, in 1973, while still a student at the University of Iowa, she recreated the recent rape and murder of a woman student in her photograph Untitled (Rape Scene). Deploying her own half-naked body, blood dripping from her thighs, she made herself both perpetrator and victim, creating a shock zone of resistance as well as mourning.
If Untitled (Rape Scene) was about preserving and making visible a scene of horror, the work that followed was far more concerned with how violence ebbs away. For the ‘Silueta’ series (1973–80), Mendieta cut female silhouettes into the earth, pressed them into grass, traced them with flowers or burned them with fire. They look like traces of some unspeakable disaster, but at the same time they register a longing for connection, for dissolving or being subsumed into nature.
I find looking at these works comforting, as if the violence they attest to has been absorbed by an order of time that dwarfs any human act, no matter how vicious. And yet each time I see the seeping red shape of a woman’s body carved into the ground I am reminded of a scene from Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) by Hannah Arendt, another woman who looked at indecency and recorded what she saw.
Adolf Eichmann’s trial testimony was marked by a constant refrain of not looking. He hadn’t seen. He had turned his face away from the naked corpses in ditches. He had refused to look through a hole in the mobile gas van, though he had not been able to tune out the shrieking of the people trapped inside. It was all ‘horrible … horrible’. What he had seen, and what therefore must stand in for the many things he’d chosen to ignore, was a burial ditch that had already been filled with soil. A spring of blood was gushing from the earth: ‘like a fountain’, Eichmann said. The evidence is always there. The acts keep coming. What permits them is another kind of indecency: the indecency of the eye that turns away.
Main image: Ana Mendieta, Untitled, 1978, from the ‘Silueta’ series. Courtesy: © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC, and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York/Paris
Olivia Laing
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Chaplain to championsReflection
Chaplain to champions
Could you help reach the sporting community with the good news of Jesus?
Written by Ben Hampshire //From Sports Chaplaincy UK
Chaplain to champions Ben Hampshire April 11, 2018
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What do you think of when you see an athlete win a medal at the Olympics or your favourite football team, hopefully, lifting the coveted silverware? Success; of course? Fulfilment; maybe? Care-free living; rarely, if ever.
In the UK, conversations around mental health are gaining huge momentum, with Princes William and Harry raising the profile of the subject recently, but interestingly, the community of sport is ahead of the game when it comes to tackling these issues head on.
Media coverage has forced conversation and positive reform around mental health and wellbeing in the world of sport.
The pedestals upon which society elevates sporting stars can blur the reality that they are simply human beings, no different to you or I. High-profile sports stars like England cricketer Marcus Trescothick – who cut his international short due to depression – have shared their stories with great vulnerability and honesty, while former Wales manager Gary Speed’s suicide was widely documented. Media coverage like this has forced conversation and positive reform around mental health and wellbeing in the world of sport.
This is precisely where Sports Chaplaincy UK steps in, up and down the country. Week in, week out, from amateur level right up to the elite echelons of the sporting community, there are human beings in need of support, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on, and a word of encouragement.
When I walk into a sports club and ask people how they’re doing, taking a genuine interest in their welfare and what’s happening in their world, I am conveying the heart of God which says, “You are valued for who you are, not what you do or can achieve.” With sharing faith outside the walls of the church, it’s the small things that can really make a big difference.
With sharing faith outside the walls of the church, it's the small things that can really make a big difference.
People in the sporting community can often embody addictive personalities, as success at the top level requires an ‘all-in’ approach. Tony Adams, the former Arsenal captain and England centre-back once quipped, “football was my drug,” as he opened up to how a leg break drew him into alcoholism, simply because his drug of choice had been stripped away. This is why it’s crucial that chaplains are available to respond to the questions of life, bringing hope and encouragement when injury hits or form dips, supporting people who are often treated like commodities by their sport and its fans
Sport is not just what you see on television or read about in the newspapers, though; there are over 151,000 registered sports club in the UK – a community totalling millions of people. And it doesn’t simply stop on the field. Sports chaplains also take a pivotal role behind the scenes, talking and sharing with backroom staff, office workers, cleaners, fans and more.
As the Church, we have a crucial responsibility, not to make people choose between sport or church – often meeting at conflicting times in the week – but to step out into all communities and areas of society, as a loving presence to communicate the heart of God.
'Chaplain' most likely throws up some stereotypical images, but as a former bouncer in excess of six foot, walking around with no dog collar, I probably break the mould.
At Sports Chaplaincy UK, we have a vision to see a chaplain present in every professional and amateur sports club across the nation. But what does a chaplain look like? Well, ‘chaplain’, most likely throws up some stereotypical images, but as a former bouncer in excess of six foot, walking around with no dog collar, I probably break the mould.
With the correct training and passion for the sports community, anyone with a love for God and people can become a sports chaplain. Sports Chaplaincy UK run training courses and seminars in order to equip and inspire current and future chaplains, all centred around our key values; presence, excellence, confidentiality and humility.
Do you think you could help us fulfil our God-given dream to see chaplains present in every sports community in the UK?
For more information, head to Sports Chaplaincy UK.
We hope you find videos, articles and resources on our website that inspire you and your community to share Jesus – and please do feel free to share these on social media or in church gatherings. If you see something that you would like to post on another website, however, please get in touch so that we can help you.
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This Week in Dinosaur News: New dinosaur Vouivria from France, new largest Japanese dino, and more
Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology is coming next week https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29282/21339
This week in the News:
French and British scientists have named the earliest Brachiosaurid, Vouivria damparisensis, from the Late Jurassic with titanosauriform features
A Quipalong was found outside of China, marking the first transcontinental ornithomimid genus according to an article in the new journal FACETS
A new paper investigates the biomechanics of Diplodocus feeding habits and fails to find support for the branch stripping technique
Japan has a new largest dinosaur fossil. The hadrosaur was found in the mountains of Hokkaido and is about 8m (~26ft) long
The first evidence of an iguanodontid in western Canada was found in the form of an isolated footprint
A professor at the University of South Florida has begun creating digital animations of dinosaurs and viewing them in Virtual Reality
The 5th Annual Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology meeting is coming next week (May 15th–17th, 2017) and the abstracts are available here
University College London posted a specimen of the week, the 100 year old Proavis wax model complete with really strange feathers
9News shared a feature about Arthur Lakes in Morrison, Colorado, including how the area was involved in the Bone Wars
Before Dippy was dismantled and being prepared to travel, the museum used a laser scanner system to make accurate measurements of the skeleton
Markie Massey, one of our patrons, was the featured volunteer on the Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs website
Dinosaurs were seen crossing the Clifton Suspension Bridge in the UK to promote the animatronic dinosaurs coming to Bristol Zoo
Peter Kulikowski is a one man dinosaur band and he sings songs about meteor strikes and dinosaurs in love
Two NBA players on the Toronto Raptors showed up to a game wearing the $800 Saint Laurent T. rex sweater
The Dinosphere at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis was listed number three as top places in the world to see dinosaur fossils, according to Forbes
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How Peter Might Acquire The Red & Black Suit In Spider-Man: Far From Home
Joshua Baldera
Since the debut of Spider-Man, he’s worn various suits for various purposes. Originally in the Spider-Man comics, his suit was red & black. The reason we know him as wearing red & blue is because the color was used for lighting the black colored areas in that period of comics. Eventually over time artists started using blue of various shades instead of black with blue to help make the different parts stand-out.
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker will don 2 new suits confirmed as of writing this editorial. His initial “Stark Suit” which first appeared in Captain America: Civil War does appear in the trailer, seemingly used by him when he first begins working with Nick Fury. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man wears in most promotional material the Stark Suit from Iron Man. This suit, besides having the A.I. system Karen, gave Spider-Man 576 web-shooter combinations, web wings, & a lot more features such as a little drone. At the end of the film we see our first look at the MCU’s version of the “Iron Spider” suit.
This was the suit worn for the majority of Avengers: Infinity War which had extra features such as nanites to form the suit, spider-legs, & protection in environments with limited oxygen levels. Why he doesn’t continue to use this suit is unknown but possibly related to PTSD he’s rumored to have in the film related to his “death.”
Based on set photos & the trailer we know Spidey gets some new outfits while he’s in London. The first of the new suits is a stealth suit provided by Nick Fury. This is an all-black traditional stealth suit including SHIELD symbols, essentially Spidey’s version of what Captain America wore for SHIELD in Captain America: Winter Solder. The second suit is the red & black suit this editorial will primarily focus on.
Presumably the new red & black suit is the “Stark Suit MK3” based upon the similarities to the initial suit from Tony. We saw in the trailer it carries over the web wings to provide gliding capabilities so it’s safe to say likely 95% of capabilities from the first Stark Suit will remain. The biggest changes will be new features such as the possibility of Spidey using new spider-legs and/or nanites like the Iron Spider suit possessed.
But how does Peter get this new suit? Even though I call it the Stark Suit MK3 many people online assume SHIELD, courtesy of Nick Fury, provides the suit. This would be similar to how Ultimate Nick Fury presented Miles Morales with his black & red suit along with how he mentored Ultimate Peter Parker.
Nick Fury or SHIELD seem like unlikely candidates for the new red & black suit however due to how they already give the black stealth suit. That suit has SHIELD symbols & seems very lowkey. I think it may be a hint that SHIELD is not back to a position of pre-Winter Soldier power, so they’re scaled down to more spy-oriented operations again.
The most likely option is Tony Stark aka Iron Man. This could be done both from beyond-the-grave or while he’s still alive if he’s not dead. It seems to make more sense Happy would be the person that gives Peter the suit considering his role in the MCU Spidey films. We see he flirts with Aunt May, but he doesn’t join Peter on his class trip thus he must head to Europe later into the film.
In the trailer during a scene that looks like he’s talking to Peter he’s inside of a private jet so it’s possible then is when Peter receives the suit. How long he keeps the suit is another story but maybe Peter embraces the new red & black suit as his new default.
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Bare Escentuals Is Being Purchased By Shiseido For $1.7 Billion After QVC Made It Famous
Looks like Leslie Blodgett, CEO of Bare Escentuals, has landed quite a little pay day for her company: It’s being bought by Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido for $1.7 billion. Leslie, can we be your friend?
Blodgett, a long-time QVC vendor whose line launched the mineral makeup trend in the U.S., is quoted Thursday in a Wall Street Journal story about the deal.
The story says that Bare Escentuals “shot to fame” after Blodgett “started appearing on infomercials on QVC, the television shopping channel.” Journal dumbbell reporters — those were not infomercials, that QVC’s programming! That’s what TV shopping is, you ink-stained wretches of Rupert Murdoch.
The Journal said that Blodgett has become “become something of a cosmetics superstar,” with customers flocking to her public appearances.
“I don’t think of myself of an icon in any way,” Blodgett told the Journal. “The fact that we grew so much is a big suprise…I went on TV because there was no one else to do it.”
She was interviewed at Shiseido’s Tokyo headquarters in Japan.
Blodgett will remain CEO of Bare Escentuals, still operating out of San Francisco.
The deal will give Shiseido more market power in the U.S., while Bare Escentuals gets to expand internationally.
Tags:$1.7 billion, Bare Escentuals, Japan, Leslie Blodgett, mineral makeup, QVC, Rupert Murdoch, sale, San Francisco, Shiseido, The Homeshoppingista, The Wall Street Journal, Toyko
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Hootsuite Names Bob Elliott as SVP of Global Sales
Veteran Enterprise Sales Executive Brings Experience from Market-Leading Software Companies
VANCOUVER, BC – November 2, 2015 - Hootsuite, the most widely used platform for managing social media, appointed Bob Elliott as senior vice president of global sales. Elliott brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in building high-performing sales teams and driving revenue growth at leading companies such as SAP, Ariba, I2, JD Edwards, and Sybase.
Elliott will lead all aspects of Hootsuite’s global enterprise sales strategy and execution to fuel the company’s continued revenue and international growth. Hootsuite has a customer base with more than ten million users, including 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies.
"As we continue expanding our service to enterprise customers, we’re excited to add business and technology leadership that will help the company grow to the next level. Bob’s enthusiasm and demonstrated leadership success will help us best serve our customers and drive company growth," said Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite.
Elliott has extensive experience leading enterprise sales, most recently as Managing Director of SAP Canada, a subsidiary of SAP SE, the world leader in enterprise software and services. At SAP Canada, he lead a team of five hundred people and revenue ownership of $1 billion.
“Hootsuite is a fast-paced, creative company that has a loyal customer base because it understands how to help businesses get the most out of social. It’s exciting to join a company who are leaders in their space and focused on making customers successful,” says Bob Elliott, senior vice president of global sales at Hootsuite.
As part of Hootsuite’s plans to expand its market presence, it’s strengthening the management team with industry leaders who have proven track records of technological expertise and leadership. Recently, Hootsuite added Sujeet Kini as chief financial officer and Penny Wilson as chief marketing officer.
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Italian Cruise Ports of Call: Explore Italy’s Cruise Ports with a Cruise Around Italy
Italy cruise travelers visit not only Italy’s great “cities of art,” Venice, Rome and Florence, which have been attracting visitors for ceturies, but Italy cruise travelers also discover Italy’s port cities all full of history, art, and clture.. And what better way to travel around Italy than on an Italy cruise. Explore the mosaics of Ravenna, the hidden gems of Palermo, the history of Cagliari, the Etruscan tombs of Tarquinia, and much more on an Italy cruise.
A Mediterranean cruise from Italy is a lovely way to tour Italy visiting several Italian cities in one trip, without having to pack and unpack or move from hotel to hotel – the cruise ship is your floating hotel. A Mediterranean cruise around Italy that visits several of Italy’s ports won’t give you an an-depth look at any one Italian port city, but a cruise around Italy is a good way to get a taste of the Italian cities, where you sample each Italian port city so that you may create an Italy travel itinerary for your next Italy vacation that focuses on the Italian cities you enjoyed on your Italy cruise.
Italy is a peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea, with various gulfs and islands to visit. There are several options for ports of call on an Italy cruise, depending on which cruise line and Italy cruise itinerary you choose for your Italy cruise.
Below you’ll find a list of some of Italy’s cruise ports of call visited on a cruise around Italy. Whatever your Italy cruise itinerary you are sure to enjoy the Italian ports on a Italy cruise.
Italy Cruise Ports
Italy cruise to the city on the southern coast of Sicily, it is renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragas, one of the leading cities of Magna Gracia during the golden age of Ancient Greece. Ancient Akragas dates back to the 6th century BCE. now excavated and partially restored, the Greek Temples constitute some of the largest and best-preserved ancient Greek buildings outside of Greece. Agrigento is a major Italy cruise and Italian tourism center with rich archaeological legacy.
Italy cruise to the port city of Ancona, on the east coast of Italy in ther region of Le Marche on the Adriatic Sea, is an off-the-beaten path Italy cruise destination. Cruise ships from both the Costa Crociere Group and MSC Group regularly stop in Ancona, although it’s not a major port of call for most Mediterranean cruises and cruises around Italy. Right in Ancona there is evidence of both Roman and Greek settlements, and there is a hilltop cathedral in the city to visit on your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Bari a major city in the southern Italian region of Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. Bari and Puglia exhibit the confluence of many cultures that during the centuries have melted into a unique culture. Bari’s centro storico, its old section isnice to wander. And the Bari art museum is full of treasures from ancient Roman, Greek, and Ottoman inhabitants. There are several churches, and a castle that dates from the 12th century. Bari also boasts a lovely beach on the adriatic coast to take swim on your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Cagliari, which was the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia (which in the 1861 became the Kingdom of Italy) from 1324 to 1720 and from 1798 to 1815. Cagliari is an important regional cultural, educational, political and artistic centre, known for its diverse Art Nouveau architecture, vibrant nightlife and several monuments. The old part of the city (called Castello, the castle) lies on top of a hill, with a wonderful view of the Gulf of Cagliari (also known as Angels Gulf).
Italy cruise from Rome’s cruise port located about 45 minutes outside Rome’s centro storico literally means “old city” or “ancient city.” Civitavecchia is next to Ostia Antica, Rome’s first port built by the Etruscans and a Mediterranean trade route during Ancient Rome, where ships from Alexandria and Istambul arrrived. Today Ostia Antica boasts excavations of buildings and markets from ancient Rome that rival Pompeii. Civitavecchia is Rome’s port of call where you’ll embark and disembark on Rome cruises. Click to find a Rome cruise and cruises around Italy.
Italy cruise to Crontone in Calabria, on the Ionian Sea, founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton. Crotone was long one of the most flourishing cities of Magna Graecia. Its inhabitants were famous for their physical strength and for the simple sobriety of their lives. Crotone hosts a national archaeological museum, a municipal museum, a municipal art gallery, and a provincial museum of contemporary art, as well as the Antiquarium di Torre Nao, all perfect day trips on a Italy cruise.
Italy cruise south of Rome in the region of Lazio Gaeta is a fishing and oil seaport, and a renowned tourist resort. NATO maintains a base of operations at Gaeta. Its main site Tis the massive Aragonese-Angevine Castle. There are also various churches and cathedrals built in gothic an dbaroque styles and a very nice town to walk around to enjoy a gelato or local seafood. Gaeta is also the centre of the Riviera di Ulisse, a park that includes Monte Orlando, Gianola, the Scauri Mounts, and the two promontories of Torre Capovento and that of Tiberius’ Villa at Sperlonga, a quaint town to visit on a Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Genoa one of Italy’s original maritime republics. The port of Genoa is a cruise port where many Italy cruises start or end for an Italy cruise or a Mediterranean cruise, so rather than looking for shore excursions from Genoa you might just be looking for things to do in the city before or after your cruise. The historic center is beautiful, and along with a selection of pretty churches Genoa is also home to Europe’s largest aquarium and an excellent art museum to visit o your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Livorno popular given its proximity to Florence, Lucca, Pisa, and the Ligurian Coast like Cinque Terre and Pietrasanta. Shore excursions to Etruscan sites are popular as well. Livorno is known as the Venice of the Mediterranean because of its canals that run through the city. Whether you decide to take a shore excursion into Tuscany or Liguria or decide to stay in Livorno you will have a lovely day. Click Florence Cruise to find a Livorno Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to the Sicilian port of Messina is the busiest in terms of passenger traffic, partly because of ferries back and forth from mainland Italy to the island of Sicily; but it’s also the port Mediterranean cruises use for shore excursions to Taormina and Mt. Etna. Messina is famous for its cultivation of lemons, oranges, mandarin oranges,olives and wine. The Regional Museum is known for hosting notable paintings by Caravaggio and Antonello da Messina. The official Messina cruise terminal website is here to learn more about Sicily before your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Naples home to one of Italy’s largest ports, offers passengers a wide variey of shore escursions. Naplesis the home of pizza margherita and limoncello, and is where Naples Archaeology Museum is located. Cruise passengers may take a shore excursion from Naples port to visit the Amalfi Coast, the island of Capri and Ischia,or across the bay of Naples to Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Sorrento. Click Naples cruise terminal website to learn more about Naples before your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to Palermo on the western side of Sicily is more easily reached when Italian cruises stop in Palermo. It’s one of Sicily’s major cities, and has many notable churches and historic sights, so it’s well worth spending time right in Palermo if the shore excursions don’t interest you. The official Palermo cruise terminal website is here to learn about Sicily and Palermo Italy cruise.
Italy cruise just down the coast from Genoa, in the region of Liguria, is the picturesque postcard perfect town Portofino. While massive cruise ships can’t get in close to Portofino, it’s still a popular port of call. If the ship you’re on can’t get into the harbor, you’ll be ferried from the ship onto the land. The “fine port” is typically full of yachts hosting the rich and famous so be sure to dress the part. Santa Margherita is another town popular among Italy cruise passengers.
Italy cruise to Portovenere another small town along the Ligurian coast just south of the Cinque Terre where the big cruise ships can’t get into the harbor, so if Portovenere is on your Italy cruise itinerary you’ll be ferried to the land from your ship. There is plenty to enjoy in Portovenere for the day, such as a hike up to the castle and a visit to the churches and the local stores. A Italy cruise “shore excursion” from Portovenere to Cinque Terre may be done by grabbing a water ferry in Portovenere to see the Cinque Terre by boat. The ferry will stop in four of the five hamlets so you may get off and get on to visit these seaside hamlets which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site (as is Portovenere).
Italy cruise to Ravenna described as the city of mosaics, the city’s long Roman and Byzantine history contributes to the beautiful artwork seen here. With a history that dates back to the Roman period, the port now serves as a gateway to those exploring Croatia’s coast. The city has several UNESCO World Heritage monuments. This designation is due to the number of buildings and structures with renowned mosaic work. The archeaological zone includes the former Port of Classe.
Italy cruise to Rimini located on the Adriatic Sea, it is one of the most famous seaside resorts on the Adriatic Riviera. Previously inhabited by the Etruscans, Umbrians, Greeks, Gauls and Romans, it is rich with cultural history. In modern history Federico Fellini, the great Italian movie director may be its most famous inhabitant. Rimini is a popular Italy cruise destination for ships going to Croatia and Venice on a cruise around Italy.
Italy cruise to Savona Italian port city 40 KM west of Genoa, 150 KM to the east of Nice, France, located on a beautiful stretch of Meditrranean coastline in the region of Liguria. Savona used to be one of the chief seats of the Italian iron industry, having iron-works and foundries, shipbuilding, railway workshops, engineering shops, and a brass foundry. One of the most celebrated former inhabitants of Savona was the navigator Christopher Columbus, who farmed land in the area while chronicling his journeys. ‘Columbus’s house’, a cottage situated in the Savona hills, lay between vegetable crops and fruit trees. It is just one of many residences in Liguria associated with Columbus.
Italy cruise to Siracusa famous for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheaters, architecture, and as the birthplace of Archimedes. This 2,700 year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean, when it was founded by Ancient Greek Corinthians it was allied with Sparta and Corinth, exerting influence over the entire Magna Grecia area of which it was the most important city. Once described by Cicero as “the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all”, it later became part of the Roman Republic and the Byzantine Empire, a fabulous Italy cruise destination.
Taormina (Giardini Naxos)
Italy cruise to Taormina midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century. It’s popular beaches (accessible via an aerial tramway) on the Ionian sea, which is remarkably warm and has a high salt content. Taormina sightseeing highlight is the ancient theatre (the teatro greco, or “Greek theatre”), which is one of the most celebrated ruins in Sicily, on account both of its remarkable preservation and of the surpassing beauty of its situation.it is frequently used for operatic and theatrical performances and for concerts.
Italy cruise to Trapani located on a low-lying promontory jutting out into the Mediterranean. Carthage seized control of the city in 260 BC, but ceded it to Rome in 241 BC following the Battle of the Aegates in the First Punic War. Two ancient legends tell of mythical origins for the city. In the first legend, Trapani stemmed from the sickle which fell from the hands of the goddess Demeter while she was lookking for her daughter Persephone, who had been kidnapped by Hades. The second myth features Saturn, god of the sky, who eviscerated his father Cronus with a sickle which, falling into the sea, created the city. In ancient times Saturn was the god-protector of Trapani. Today Saturn’s statue stands in a piazza in the centre of the city a must-see on your Italy cruise.
Italy cruise to the city of Trieste, close to the border it’s almost in Slovenia, which means that shore excursions could technically take place in two different countries if you were so inclined. Trieste itself is a pretty port city, with a beautiful main square, a hilltop castle, and a cathedral worth visiting. It’s also famously home to Italy’s illy coffee company, so be sure to have a cup before you leave. The official Trieste cruise terminal website is here for more information about a Italy cruise to Trieste.
Italy cruise to Venice has its own cruise terminal, despite not being a big city. It is, after all, a city built upon and surrounded by water. Venice is one of Italy’s four original maritime republics. A cruise from Venice typically cruises around Italy to Rome or Florence. The Italy cruise itinerary around Italy such as a Venice to Rome cruise is a classic Italy tour that will bring you to the great Italian ports including Italian cruise ports on the Amalfi coast like Sorrento where you may visit Pompeii, Capri, and Naples. Click to find a Venice cruise, a popular port of embarkation for a Italy cruise.
Italy Cruise – Cruise around Italy and the Mediterranean:
Mediterranean cruises around Italy offers an unforgettable experience! Italy cruises along the Italian Riviera, the romantic seaside towns of Italy, the great treasures of ancient Greece – these are just a few of the destinations you’ll discover on an Italy cruise. Cruising around Italy gives you the ability to discover multiple Italian cities and Mediterranean countries during one voyage while never having to transfer your luggage from city to city and you always have the same accommodations onboard the ship. Italy cruises include ports in Rome, Venice, Florence, Amalfi Coast, and the Italian Riviera.
Choose from a variety of Italy cruises:
Western Mediterranean cruises sail among the cities and villages of Southern Europe from the Adriatic to the Straits of Gibraltar, including Venice, Naples, Civitavecchia (Rome), Florence and Pisa (Livorno), and Genoa, Italy, as well as Monte Carlo, St. Tropez, (France) Barcelona (Spain) and a host of other ports ranging from small villages to major cities.
Eastern Mediterranean cruises visit ports in Turkey, Greece and islands such as Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos and Crete. Southern Mediterranean cruises visit the more exotic ports of call along the coast of North Africa from Morocco to the Holy Lands, including Tunis, Tunisia, Alexandria, Egypt and Haifa, Israel among others.
The Price of your Italy cruise includes:
The price of your Italy cruise ticket includes all of your meals and in-between snacks on-board; your stateroom, activities, parties and entertainment; plus, an exciting voyage to some of the most enchanting and culturally-enriching places in the world. You’ll find that a cruise ship is a floating resort, with all the things a fine resort has to offer and more! You’ll meet new friends who share the same tastes and interests as you. The hassles of an ordinary vacation are completely eliminated. An Italy cruise ticket is one convenient package. You don’t have to worry about making dinner or nightclub reservations, running to make flight connections as you cruise around Italy from one destination to another, or packing and unpacking. Just enjoy Italy on your Italy cruise.
Italy Cruise Tips:
If you are flying a long distance to reach Italy, we suggest arriving at least one day prior to your Italy cruise. Italian Tourism can help you find accommodations before and after your Italy cruise that include all your transfers between the hotel, cruise ship and airport. Italian Tourism also has great Italy cruise pre-cruise Italy travel packages and Italy cruise post-cruise Italy travel packages so you may extend your stay in one of Italy’s magical cities like Rome and Venice after your Italy cruise.
For more information about Italy cruise call Italian Tourism 800-227-1577 the Italy cruise experts to find out more information or to speak to an Italy cruise expert agent to find your Italy travel package and Italy cruise.
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The Dixon is the latest opening in the prestigious Autograph Collection Hotel Group, and it certainly lives up to expectations. Last Thursday, we made our way to The Dixon for a very special evening celebrating the art of set design. ‘Behind the Scenes’ was an intimate panel discussion with some of Britain’s most prominent set designers, hosted by no less than acclaimed film critic, Mark Kermode.
Located in the midst of Tower Bridge’s buzzy cultural scene, The Dixon occupies a former Magistrate’s Court and the very definition of a ‘boutique hotel’. Handsome wood panelled interiors, a myriad of contemporary art on the walls, and a breathtaking entrance hall — give The Dixon instant impact, balancing references from both past and present. Originally designed by John Dixon Butler, (from whom The Dixon coins its name) this hotel exemplifies the impeccable standards of The Autograph Collection, while also being effortlessly unique.
Michael Carlin, John Paul Kelly, and Gemma Jackson
One of The Dixon’s core philosophies is to ‘represent the finest local talent, from emerging artists to established producers’ — and so it makes sense that this beautiful hotel is hosting Behind the Scenes. Part of the hotel’s Indie Film Project, a multi-faceted program that celebrates the craft of filmmaking in support of local film makers, Behind the Scenes is in itself a celebration of individuality. The panel was composed of John Paul Kelly, Michael Carlin, and Gemma Jackson, whose collective credits include, The Theory of Everything, Game of Thrones, Colette, Stan & Ollie, and Aladdin. During the discussion, Mark Kermode talked about where the process of world-building jumps off from, the challenges faced by a production designer, and their authorial role in weaving the narrative of a film. They also discussed some key tips for aspiring production designers, of which the most memorable was, to take every opportunity to cultivate the spark, and keep the passion that drives you during late nights.
The most memorable thing we took away from this inspiring panel discussion is that, ‘great set design should go unnoticed’ , which may seem paradoxical, but actually makes complete sense. It is the production designer’s job to create worlds we can escape to, and the best ones will do it without you noticing. In the same way, hoteliers are also tasked with the job of creating a sense of escapism, a sense of departure from our day-to-day. Whether that be through the room’s interior design, excellent customer service, or an extra-indulgent breakfast, it is a wonderfully whimsical quality that The Dixon has in spades.
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Augmented Reality Game Developer Illumix Comes Out of Stealth to Finance $ 8.6 Million in Mobile AR News :: Next Reality
Apple often cites its tight integration of hardware and software for its success. Startup Illumix wants to do the same for AR games by developing an AR platform for its apps.
Illumix completed a $ 8.6 million seed round of stealth financing on Tuesday, helping the company develop its products and partnerships and build its development team. The company also announced plans to release two AR games in 2019, one with original intellectual property and another licensed by an established franchise.
Both games will use Illumix's own AR platform, which uses computer vision and machine learning to enable environmental understanding in real-time interaction with the player's physical space. The company claims that its AR technology can achieve these capabilities in real time without the need to move mobile devices to pre-map the environment. The custom toolkit will also support shared multiplayer experiences for iOS and Android.
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"AR will be the next transformation in the way of seeing the world and our role in Illumix Gives People Freedom to Penetrate into a Greater, More Boundless Reality Illumix uses AR games beyond tabletop or geolocation by understanding and exploiting the space around gamers more completely than ever before. Only technology, our team creates meaningful, compelling and responsive AR User experiences, "said Kirin Sinha, founder and CEO of Illumix.
While her work experience is low, Sinha has some impressive educational aspirations. She graduated with a BA in Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014 and continued her studies at the University of Cambridge, where in 2015 she earned a master's degree in mathematics. She also holds masters degrees in London School of Economics and Political Science, where she focused her studies on machine learning, and Stamford University, where she studied business administration. Prior to founding Illumix in 2017, she founded SHINE for Girls, a non-profit organization that promotes interest in mathematics among young women at MIT by combining math with dance.
Venture capital firms Maveron and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the seed round of financing with other participants including Radar Partners, Unusual Ventures, and 451 Media, an entertainment company co-founded by film director Michael Bay (and one likely unconfirmed Candidate for the licensed game by Illumix).
"We met in Kirin A brilliant entrepreneur passionate about creating a world-class gaming studio while redefining what's possible on mobile devices and with augmented reality. We believe That Illumix is perfectly positioned to transform the defining consumer brand into transformative mixed-reality games that will be integrated into people's everyday lives, "said David Wu, Partner at Maveron.
In a blog post, Light The Speed compares Illumix with Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore and the AR cloud platforms Ubiquity6 and 6D.ai, but emphasizes the vertically integrated approach as an advantage in building AAA quality and the Avoiding Limitations, Such as ARKits iOS Only Multiplayer
Illumix's AR technology is capable of multiplayer – Experiences promised by Niantic, 6D.ai and Ubiquity6 AR platforms Real-time environment mapping This example is from Niantic. Image by Niantic / YouTube
Without Pokémon GO Developer To mention Niantic by name, the investor also noted that Illumix will demarcate itself from massively multiplayer MMORPG games instead of locations (19659002) "At Lightspeed is looking for companies that redefine our lives and practices, and Illumix's team and vision, coupled with its bespoke technology, have the power to transform AR beyond novelty and define a new category in interactive entertainment "added Nicole Quinn, Partner at Lightspeed.
So far, the gaming industry has not produced a blockbuster AR hit on Pokémon GO, but that does not mean it works there (19659002) According to the Newzoo Global Games Market report, mobile gaming accounts for half of the total Gambling market and grow by more than 25% to $ 70.3 billion year-on-year. Considering that the consumer segment of AR is, at least for the time being, a mobile game, it seems to be a gain for the participants to support a company that controls their own destiny in terms of the underlying AR technology investors
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PUBLIC SPEAKING AND CONVERSATION
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Despite their many similarities, public speaking and everyday conversation are not identical. Let's consider an example in which casual conversation expanded gradually into a true--and vital--public speaking situation. here the speaker originally had ho intention of becoming a public speaker and had not trained formally for that role. She was forced to learn by trial and error--in circumatances where the outcome has affected one of the vetal issues of our day.
At one time, Carolyn McCarty's world focused on the town of Mineola, New York When she lived with her husband and son. A housewife and licensed practical nurse, McCarthy was, in her own words, an "average person" and "one of the quietest people you'd ever meet."
The incident that changed her life forever took place on December 7, 1993. On that day, a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon in a car of the Long island Rail Road packed with commuters on their way home from work in New York City. By the time the shooting stopped, six people were fatally wounded--one of them McCarty's husband, Dennis. Her son Kevin, also on the train, was partially paralyzed for life.
As McCarthy wrestled with fer grief and anger, she swore she would do something to help stop America's plague of gun-related violence. She began talking to friends, family, neighbors--anyone who would listen. But conversations involving a few people would not solve the problem. So McCarthy started working with gun control organizations. In the process, she found herself addressing citizens groups all across Long Island. As people started listening, she had to adapt her conversational abilities to larger audiences and more formal speaking situations. The spontaneous give-and take of conversation evolved into structured public speeches.
When the U.S.Congressman in McCarty's district voted in March 1996 to repeal the federal Ben on assault weapons passed two years earlier, McCarthy took her speech making to a new level. "Determined," as she said, "to make a difference," she announced her candidacy for Congress. Again she had to adapt--this time to a cluster of newspapers and television cameras, as well as to a speaking schedule that in creased from two or three presentations a week to as many as four or five a day.
Her greatest challenge came five months later, when she addressed a national television audience at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. "this is really scary," she said before the speech. "I have got butterflies in my stomach!" Then she added, "but Believed in what I am doing." Fired by that belief, McCarthy spoke movingly about her journey into politics and about the toll that gun violence takes in American society.
Returning home after the convention, McCarthy had to adapt yet again--this time to the speaking demands of a tough political campaign, including television debates with her opponent. Running as a Democratic in a traditionally Republican district, she had to reach people by talking about the issues rather than by appealing to party loyalty. Often addressing several audiences a day, she communicated her ideas so effectively that she was elected to the U.S. Congress by a comfortable margin.
What a long road Carolyn McCarthy has traveled in the past few years. If someone had asked her before December 7 1993, "Do you see yourself as a major public speaker?" she would have laughed at the idea. Yet, today are gives more than 100 speeches a year, not including radio, television, and newspaper interviews. Along the way, she has had to adapt to three major differences between conversation and public speaking.
1. Public speaking is more highly structured. It usually imposes strict time limitations on the speaker. In smut cases, the situation does hot allow listeners to interrupt with questions or commentary. The speaker must accomplish her or his purpose in the speech itself. When preparing the speech, the speaker must anticipate questions that might arise in the minds of listeners and answer them. Consequently, public speaking demands much more detailed planning and preparation than ordinary conversation.
2. Public speaking requires more formal language. Slang, jargon, and bad grammar have little place in public speeches. When Carolyn McCarthy addressed the Democratic National Convention, she did not say, "We have damn well got to stop the creeps who use guns to shoot down innocent people." Despite the growing informality of all aspects of American life, listeners usually react negatively to speakers who do not elevate and polish their ;language when addressing an audience. A speech should be "special."
3. Public speaking requires a different method of delivery. When conversing informally, most people talk quietly, interject stock phrases such as "you know" and "I mean" adopt a casual posture, and use what are called vocalized pauses ("uh","er","um","am"). Effective public speakers, however, adjust their voices to be heard clearly throughout the audience. They assume a more erect posture. They avoid distracting mannerisms and verbal habits.
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Quber Uses Savings App To Help Moncton United Way To Meet Fundraising Goal
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Quber co-founder Jen Leger. (Image: Submitted)
MONCTON– A New Brunswick startup is teaming up with the United Way to help them meet their ambitious fundraising goal.
Quber, a fintech company that offers a mobile app which helps users reach their savings goals, has partnered with the Greater Moncton & South Eastern New Brunswick United Way to help drive more donations to meet its $2.5 million fundraising goal for its 2018 campaign.
The Quber mobile app motivates people to manage money by focusing on saving and donation goals. Quber makes it super easy to achieve these goals through fun challenges and ‘set & forget’ automated deposits.
“The Quber Team is excited to work with United Way to help support our local community,” said Jen Leger, co-founder of Quber, in a release. “We believe charity donations are an important part of well-being and QUBER’s objective is to make it even easier for donors to give to United Way in 2019.”
Now until Feb.15, Quber will donate money to the Greater Moncton & South Eastern New Brunswick United Way for each new user. For every new user registration, QUBER will donate $2. If the user is activated (Moves $20 to their Quber Vault), the company will donate an additional $3. If more than 500 people register, then they will double their donation for activated users to $10 donation/activated user.
“Over eight in 10 Canadians wish they’d made better financial decisions earlier in life, according to the Financial Planning Standards Council,” said Debbie McInnis, executive director of the Greater Moncton & South Eastern New Brunswick United Way.
“With so many Canadians unsure of their financial well being, this truly is a win-win partnership for our region. Not only does it open new ways of giving for our programs, but helps promote financial literacy in our community.“
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Sawyer walked into Pro Joe’s once a week during his work day. Being the Executive Editor at Sun & Moon Publications, he has the free will to take time out of the office. Pro Joe’s is his favorite café on the outskirts of the city. It’s old, built fifty years ago and still thriving.
“Heya Sawyer. Regular today?” the barista asks before Sawyer can close the door behind him.
“Yeah, thanks, Marty. Extra shot of espresso will ya?”
“You got it.” Marty has Sawyer’s drink made by the time he gets to the counter to pay. He hands Marty a ten-dollar bill and grabs his regular order of coffee and a croissant on his way to his regular seat in the corner of the shop. Sawyer spreads out the stories that need reviewing, and his colorful pens along with a clean notebook with every page in place, nothing ripped or dog-eared. Within minutes Sawyer is lost in his work, noting and highlighting and slicing pages with his red pen causing the papers to bleed.
After a while Sawyer took a break, breathing hard and slow, scanning the room to see that Pro Joe’s has ten times the usual number of customers at this time of day. He put his pen down and sipped his coffee, watching everyone going through the doors, taking seats at the tables to chat. There’s all of three open seats in the whole café, one being directly across from him at his table.
She looks around the shop, her hair falling out of her ponytail, eyes widening with stress. After a few seconds, she walks to Sawyer, coffee in one hand, backpack hanging over her opposite shoulder.
“Do you mind if I share this table with you? It’s pretty crowded in here.” Sawyer had social anxiety, yes. But when it came to interacting with people, Sawyer was oddly social at work and with the baristas at Pro Joe’s. It was strangers he didn’t know how to talk to, but his therapist urged him to come out of his comfort zone in public.
“Yeah of course,” Sawyer said, offering the seat to the girl. She smiled and dropped her backpack gently to the floor. He watches as she tucks her loose strands of hair behind her ears and opens her notebook to her current page, textbook closed to the side. Her notes, unlike her reddish-brown hair, are neat as can be, the words color-coded and written perfectly in place.
"You look like an interesting person, Sawyer.” She rests her head in her hands, “I’m Lexa.” Sawyer smiles politely, wondering how she already knew his name. He squints his eyes in confusion before realizing that his name is written on his coffee cup. They both let out a small laugh and Sawyer sits back in his seat, impressed by the girl’s attention to detail.
“What do you do?” Lexa straightened out her pens and closed her notebook. A full-time student at St. Mary’s. She’d earned a bachelor’s degree in English with an emphasis in Literary Theory & History and was now studying for her teaching credential. She liked to talk and Sawyer liked to listen to her. Lexa told him about the adventures she’d experienced on the weekends and intersession breaks from school. She’s hiked Hekla, Mount Temple, Mount Katahdin, and Mount Olympus. She’s been to Pompeii, Paris, snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef, and ziplined through Rio de Janeiro and Yellowstone. Her grandparents had left her millions in their will, Lexa had invested some of it into the New York Stock Exchange. She doesn’t have to go to college, she doesn’t even have to work. But she wants to earn respect from her peers. She doesn’t date, not since high school. She doesn’t have time for immaturity. She doesn’t have many close friends, but she’s friends with everyone.
Lexa was so different than Sawyer. They were both friendly and had similar traits, but Lexa was so much more adventurous than him. As he exchanged conversation about their lives with her he can’t help but feel that inevitable emotion he got at night before bed. Despondency.
Sawyer woke in a sweat. His phone rang loudly, frightening him. His breathing finally slowed down when he answered to find his brother on the line. He addressed the question of bringing a date to the wedding next month. Yes, he’d find someone to bring with him. He promised. Sawyer hung up, stood and stared at his reflection in the mirror in his bathroom. Normally his mirror was bland, just a decorative frame surrounding the reflective glass. It’d been a year since he met Lexa and the mirror’s framing had pictures of them hanging out of the edges. There hadn’t been a weekend without some sort of adventure since he’d met her.
He picked up his phone and sent her a text: I need a solid. They’d established a system. They would never give in to society’s pressure and consider dating. They both knew who they were and they both knew they weren’t attracted to the other. Sawyer saw Lexa as his second little sister and Lexa considered Sawyer the older brother she never got. I need a date for Tom’s wedding next month. He knew she wouldn’t like it, but he needed a solid. He’d pay her back with donuts later.
Fiiiiiiiiiiiine. He smiled at the text from his best friend, put his phone away, and continued to get ready to see his family and try on his tuxedo at the fitting.
The weeks before the wedding moved fast. Sawyer and Lexa had been meeting at Pro Joe's every week to work together on their respective practices. They talked about their excitement for the wedding and spoke of how they wouldn't fake a relationship there even to please his mom, who pushed them to date every time Sawyer talked to her.
“You can’t let people control your life and walk all over you. You can’t please everybody. You’re you. Be you, not what the world wants,” she gave Sawyer confidence, a boost of self-esteem that he’d never been given. He knew she was right but he didn’t know or realize how toxic pleasing people was.
Before they knew it, the big day was there. Sawyer was Tom's best man. In the dressing rooms, Sawyer noticed how nervous Tom was and watched him pace back and forth. He checked his reflection in the mirror every few seconds. Sawyer checked his watch every few seconds.
A knock came at the door and Tom's head jolted sideways as Sawyer jumped to get the door before Tom could move. Lexa stormed in with a fury so red that Sawyer could feel the fire emanating from her body, "You told your mom we're dating?" She was trying to keep her voice level as to not cause a scene.
"No, of course not. What happened?"
"Oh, nothing, just your mom casually introducing me to everybody as her second future-daughter-in-law. I asked her what she was talking about off to the side so I wouldn't embarrass her and she said that you said we're engaged. What the hell, Sawyer? What happened to all of our conversations about staying true to ourselves?" She took a deep breath and found some alcohol in the room. She poured herself a glass of champagne and drank it as if it were a shot.
"Lexa, I promise you, I didn't tell my mom we're together, we're dating, or we're engaged. She knows I'm single, she knows we don't like each other like that. I'll go settle this, alright?" She nodded and downed another flute of champagne as Sawyer walked out the door to find his mother.
Outside the air was warm, the sun bright, and the flowers brighter. The palm trees swayed in the wind and there were coconuts sporadically fallen in the sand around the wedding arch. There were fifty or so chairs distributed evenly between two sides of the space reserved for the wedding, one side for the groom's family, one for the bride's. Sawyer pulled his mother out of a crowd of their family members and asked to speak with her in private. By the look on her face, once they were alone, Sawyer could tell that she already knew what he needed to talk about.
"You have no right, mom," Sawyer angrily whispered to her. "You know that we're just friends and will only ever be friends. Why are you going around and telling people that we're engaged?"
His mother sighed and rolled her eyes in exhaustion. "Humor me," she said as if Sawyer was being overdramatic.
"No, mom. I'm never asking Lexa out. She's like a little sister to me."
"But you love being around her! She makes you so happy!"
Sawyer could feel his temperature rising from more than just the spring air and the fading breeze, "Fix it. We are not dating and you are lying to people about it. Lexa is so angry right now mom, and so am I. You don't get to meddle in my love life. Okay? Today isn't about you, it's not about me, or Lexa. It's about Tom and Tina. Stop trying to get me settled down and pay attention to the son you have that's getting married," Sawyer said and walked away.
The ceremony was short after that compared to the reception that followed. There was an open bar and great music. Sawyer and Lexa sat together for about an hour, people-watching. For the first time in a while Lexa pointed out some boys she thought were cute, she admitted because she was almost done with her degree she had more downtime to think about starting a family. Sawyer couldn’t stop staring at the maid-of-honor. Alana. He’d walked down the aisle with her and had had several friendly conversations with her but decided to admire her from a distance. That is, before Lexa caught him gawking and encouraged him to slow dance with her. He felt silly, asking her to dance out of peer pressure as if he were at prom, but as soon as Alana smiled at him, he couldn’t get her out of his head. That dance was perfect and Lexa was the sole reason for the two-year-long relationship Sawyer found himself in after Tom’s wedding.
Alana made Sawyer happier than he’d ever been in his life. Lexa had helped him out of his shell and made him a happier person in general, but Sawyer had never felt the kind of love that he felt with Alana. Ever. He bought her flowers and chocolates on her period, he took her on fancy dates and fun dates and relaxing dates. She bought him new ties and cufflinks for his suits. She worked as a chef in an up and coming restaurant and because of that, Sawyer was her guinea pig when it came to new recipes. She wasn’t one of those hipster chefs that shoveled dirt into a mold and called it “food.” Alana made real food with top-of-the-line ingredients that tasted delicious.
On their two-year anniversary, Sawyer had planned a series of dates throughout the day. For dinner, he took her to her favorite restaurant where they had the most incredible cocktails they’d ever seen. They walked back to Alana’s apartment, slightly tipsier than either of them would willingly admit. They stumbled through her door, laughing and kissing. Alana tugged on Sawyer’s suit jacket and as he took it off he separated their lips and insisted they both drink a glass of water.
As Alana grabbed the water, Sawyer pulled out his phone to check the time and left it on the counter, throwing his jacket on the barstool next to it. He slowly sipped the water with the love of his life. She wasn’t perfect, he knew that. They’d had their ups and downs like any other couple, but Sawyer couldn’t help but admire her at that moment the same way he’d admired her at Tom’s wedding.
“Why is she texting you?” Sawyer didn’t know what or who Alana was talking about. He followed her eyes to the screen of his cell phone and saw a text message from Lexa. “It’s half past midnight, Sawyer. What could she possibly want?” He didn’t know, and he continued to ignore the message.
“Nothing’s going on, babe. We’ve talked about this.” He softly grabbed Alana’s hands and stuttered to her to try to calm her. His heart rate quickened and he knew Alana wasn’t about to drop the subject. They’d fought about it many times before and it was often the basis of any argument they’d ever had.
She huffed a shallow breath of air, “I don’t get it. What does she have that I don’t?” Sawyer sighed and checked what the message said.
How was your big anniversary date? Hope it was a good night dude ;D Sawyer continued to stand his ground that Lexa and he were merely friends. Alana simply ignored him.
“You’re fucking, aren’t you? Boys and girls aren’t ever friends unless one is gay or they’re fuck buddies,” she argued. Sawyer insisted this wasn’t true to no avail. “Which one is it Sawyer?”
“Neither! For Christ’s sake, Alana. We have been together for two years. Lexa and I have been friends for three. She was there for me during times when I had no one. She got me out of a black hole. She’s the one who encouraged me to dance with you the night you and I met. We’ve never so much as bat an eye at each other romantically or sexually. I’m so tired of arguing about this. You make me so happy but I don’t think you realize that Lexa makes me happy too. Every time we argue about this, it makes my depression and anxiety skyrocket. But you don’t seem to care one bit. I love you but if you can’t accept that Lexa is my friend then this is over. Figure it out,” Sawyer snatched his jacket off the barstool and took off to go home.
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Zuma has been fighting multiple allegations of corruption for more than a decade and has incurred millions of dollars in legal fees. The court’s decision marks the end of a poor year for Zuma, who was forced out of office in February. It is estimated that the state has paid between $1m (£792,000) and $2.2m in legal costs for him. “Like all other accused persons in South Africa is thus entitled to be represented by a legal practitioner using his own resources, or those offered by the Legal Aid Board,” Ledwaba stated.
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Manafort Intended for Polling Data to Go to 2 Ukrainian Oligarchs Who Owed Him Millions
Posted 4:02 PM, January 9, 2019, by CNN Wire
Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov, two Ukrainian oligarchs who had paid Paul Manafort for years for his political work in their country, were the intended recipients of the American polling data that Manafort shared with Konstantin Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been circling Lyovochkin and Akhmetov’s dealings with Manafort for a while, as they were both key, generous backers of Manafort’s Ukrainian lobbying work, prosecutors said at Manafort’s financial fraud trial last summer.
The Justice Department initially asked Mueller to look into the pro-Russian Ukrainians’ ties to Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, because of how they may relate to other allegations of Russian coordination with the Trump campaign.
The sharing of the polling data with Kilimnik was revealed this week, despite being redacted in a court filing, due to a formatting error.
Manafort earned millions from his Ukrainian political work over several years. That included wire transfers from Akhmetov and Lyovochkin through offshore bank accounts, prosecutors said at trial.
The revenue appeared to dry up by 2015. However, Manafort wrote in one August 2016 email to his accountant that he expected a payment of $2.4 million in November 2016 for work he did in Ukraine, according to trial documents.
A spokesman for Manafort confirmed Wednesday that Manafort expected to receive the $2.4 million in income from his Ukrainian political backers, including Lyovochkin and Akhmetov. But the money was meant to reimburse old debts that predated the Trump campaign, spokesman Jason Maloni added, and it was not a quid pro quo for the polling data.
Still, the developments of Manafort’s court filing Tuesday and the assertions Wednesday about the oligarchs confirm that Manafort had an interest in pocketing cash from a foreign country while he led Donald Trump’s campaign. Previously, investigators noted the debts between Manafort and foreign businessmen in their effort to obtain search warrants for the Russia investigation.
Akhmetov is one of the richest men in Ukraine and bankrolled the Party of Regions, a Ukrainian political party aligned with Moscow that Manafort worked to bolster. Akhmetov reportedly introduced Manafort to the party’s leader, Viktor Yanukovych, and they embarked on a decade-long partnership that saw Yanukovych win the presidency and major victories at the polls. Manafort earned $60 million for his work in Ukraine, and was convicted last year of financial fraud after hiding the money overseas to avoid paying US taxes.
Some of the money came from Akhmetov through wire transfers between hidden bank accounts in Cyprus, Manafort’s deputy Rick Gates testified in court.
Another witness, testifying against Manafort under oath, said Manafort and Akhmetov “knew each other well.”
Lyovochkin was a senior official in Yanukovych’s administration, and secretly funneled millions of dollars to Manafort for his political consulting, according to testimony from Manafort’s trial. Lyovochkin survived the 2014 revolution that ousted Yanukovych, rebranding himself an opposition leader in the Ukrainian Parliament. He was implicated by federal prosecutors in a criminal scheme to steer foreign money to Trump’s inauguration committee, though he wasn’t mentioned by name in any of the court filings.
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March 3, 2018 by thekaplanianreport
Volume 5 Issue 3 The Kaplanian Report
The 737 MAX Gains Momentum
On February 5th Boeing rolled out the first 737 MAX 7, the third member of the MAX family to come down the line in Renton.
The MAX 7 is slightly stretched compared to the 737-700, giving customers the capacity to fly 12 more passengers even farther. The airplane will have the longest range of any member of the MAX family at 3,850 nm. What’s most impressive about the MAX 7 is its ability to offer exceptional performance at high altitude airports and hot climate.
Global airlines holding orders for the 737 MAX 7, as of January 1, 2017 include Kunming Airlines of China for 10, Southwest Airlines for 30, WestJet of Canada for 23 and Jetliner of Canada for 5.
On February 16th the Boeing 737 MAX 9 has gained FAA certification, clearing the way for the second variant in the MAX family to enter commercial service.
The MAX 9 has a maximum capacity of 220 passengers in a single-class configuration, 10 more seats than the MAX 8. The MAX 9’s maximum range of 3,335 nm is the same as the MAX 8, although the -9 needs an auxiliary fuel tank to reach this range.
Boeing is now in the final stages of preparing the MAX 9 for its first delivery to launch customer Lion Air Group.
Finally, Boeing’s MAX 10 reached a major milestone as the MAX program completed firm configuration on the airplane.
Source : Boeing/Boeing Pictures
Airbus Has Commenced the Maiden Flight of the A321LR
Airbus has commenced the maiden flight of its new long-range A321LR, the aircraft having lifted off from Finkenwerder airfield in Hamburg. It took off from the plant as weather conditions, including an overcast sky and rain, cleared sufficiently for the test.
The test aircraft, powered by CFM International Leap-1A engines, has a new fuselage door configuration which will enable customers to fit up to 240 seats.
The configuration will become the structural standard for future A321neo production.
The aircraft will have a 97t maximum take-off weight and optional additional fuel tanks, giving it the capability of operating on long-range routes up to 4,000nm.
The initial test flight lasted 2h and 30 min.
Source : Flightglobal/Pictures Airbus
REGIONAL/BUSINESS JETS
Dassault Receives Orders for 41 Falcons in 2017
Dassault Aviation reports receiving orders for 41 Falcon Jets in 2017, up from 33 in the prior year; the termination of the Falcon 5X program resulted in three cancellations.
The French airframer delivered 49 business jets last year, up from a forecast of 45. Meanwhile, the company’s backlog decreased from 63 to 52 and some Falcon 5X cancellations have yet to be entered in the books.
The business jet market has yet to recover from the global financial crisis of 2008.
Source : BCA/Picture Dassault
Bombardier Enters Final Phase of Global 7000 Testing
Bombardier has entered the final phase of a 14-month-old airworthiness campaign after the fifth Global 7000 business jet entered flight testing on January 30th. The debut for flight-test vehicle (FTV) 5 keeps the program on track for gaining type certification in the second half of this year.
Bombardier has now logged more than 1,300 flight hours in the Global 7000 test campaign and completed fatigue testing on a full airframe, the company says.
The 7,400nm (13,700km) range of a Global 7000 with eight passengers sits between the 7,000nm range of the G650 and the 7,500 range of the G650ER.
The Global 7000 offers more room, with a cabin about 2.5m (8ft 2in) longer than the Gulfstream models.
Source : Bombardier/Bombardier Picture/Ed’s Research
Spirit AeroSystems Ships 10,000 737 Fuselage
A train carrying the 10,000th 737 fuselage left Spirit AeroSystems’ factory in Wichita, Kansas on February 13, the supplier says. Spirit AeroSystems builds 70% of the 737, including the fuselage.
The milestone was announced on February 14 by Spirit AeroSystems senior vice president and chief technology and quality officer John Pilla, a speaker at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance conference in Lynnwood, Washington.
The milestone aircraft is a 737 Max 8 scheduled for delivery to Southwest Airlines, Boeing says.
When that fuselage is integrated with wings, systems, engines and interiors in Boeing’s final assembly plant, the 737 will become the first aircraft of the jet age to achieve the 10,000th delivery milestone.
The first 737-100 entered service with Lufthansa 50 years and four days ago on February 10,1968. The type has progressed through four generations, including the original 737, classic, Next Generation and Max families. Southwest Airlines flew all variants with the exception of the 737-100.
Source : Flightglobal/Picture Spirit AeroSystems
Meridiana Relaunched As Air Italy
Meridiana has been relaunched as Air Italy on February 19 in Milan by investors Qatar Airways and Alisarda. Akbar Al Baker pitches the “new airline” as a direct competitor to Alitalia, outlining a rapid expansion program involving several new domestic and international services.
Air Italy will take 20 Boeing 737 Max 8s plus five Airbus 330s over the next three years, on lease from Qatar Airways “at market rate”. It will also take 20 787s, bringing its fleet to 50 aircraft. The airline will be based at Milan Malpensa airport.
The airline will offer business-class cabins along its economy offering. Qatar Airways took a 49% stake in Meridiana last year and the remainder is held by Alisarda.
Source : Flightglobal/Qatar Airways/Picture Qatar Airways
Copa Airlines Plans to Expand Fleet in 2018
Copa Airlines flag carrier of Panama plans to grow its fleet by 25% by 2020 with the first of 71 Boeing 737 MAX arriving in August of this year.
The airline should receive five 737 MAX aircraft this year, followed by 10 in 2019 and 22 in 2022, says Ahad Zamany, VP technical operations, speaking at the Aviation Week Network’s MRO Latin America event. The last of the 71 should arrive in 2025.
Its Predominant fleet of 737-800s will cap out at 71 this year up from 69 in 2017.
To accommodate the expanding fleet, the Panama-based carrier broke ground on a new maintenance hangar in 2017 that should be finished in the fourth quarter of this year.
Source : Aviation Week/Picture Copa Airlines
China Aircraft Leasing Group (CALC) placed an order with Airbus for 15 A320neos valued at roughly $1.7 billion.
Sichuan Airlines has ordered 10 Airbus A350-900s, on February 9; the aircraft will help facilitate a rapid international expansion plan.
Aviation Capital Group took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX in Seattle.The aircraft, a 737 MAX 8 variant on a long term lease to Aerolineas Argentinas.
BOC Aviation will lease seven Airbus A320neo aircraft to Chongqing Airlines, with all aircraft scheduled for delivery in 2018.
Oman Air has taken delivery of the first of 30 Boeing 737 Max 8s it has on order.
Qantas has released the first pictures of its latest aircraft to bear an indigenous-inspired livery, this time on its fourth 787-9 delivered on March 2nd.
UPS places an order for 14 Boeing 747-8Fs and four Boeing 767-300 Freighters.
Travel Service Airlines has received its first Boeing 737 Max 8, one of 10 the Czech airline is taking on operating lease from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS )
Lufthansa Its new revised livery, first appeared on one of the fleets 747-8is
Subaru (formerly known as Fuji Heavy Industries) has completed production of the first Boeing 777X center wing box at the company’s Hanada factory.
Southwest Cargo Set To Begin International Shipments in May
Southwest Airline announced on February 19th that it will roll out its new Southwest Cargo Suite(SCS) point -of-sale system this month and will begin international cargo shipments to destinations in Mexico in May.
The carrier will kick off its shipments to Mexico, with destinations including Mexico City, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas/Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, pending government approvals. Southwest Airlines senior director for cargo and charters, Wally Devereaux, stated at the Air Cargo 2018 conference.
The airline expects to add more routes in Mexico and the Caribbean through this year and build steadily on an international cargo business Southwest expects to be small — at first.
Southwest expects healthy trade units routes between the United States and Mexico, with northbound flights likely moving perishables to the U.S.,while flights to Mexico to transport a variety of cargo, including pharmaceutical products and e-commerce goods.
Source : Southwest Airlines
MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND OVERHAUL NEWS
GE Grows Parts Presence in Singapore
GE Aviation plans to open a new GE9X components manufacturing facility in Singapore and will draw on ideas and concepts from its existing parts repair center in the city-state.
It will grow its engine components footprint in Singapore after announcing plans to establish a new center to manufacture parts for the GE9X engine powering the Boeing 777X.
Announced at the Singapore Air Show on February 5, the new 50,000 square foot facility located at the City-State’s Seletar Aerospace Park will specialize in high pressure compressor vanes for the wide body engine, which to date amassed 700 orders. In the Asia-Pacific region, Aviation Week’s 2018 Fleet & MRO Forecast has an order backlog of 82 units for the GE9X,a figure not taking into account this year’s Singapore Air Show.
With plans to implement digital and lean manufacturing concepts at the new facility, the engine maker said it will draw on ideas and concepts from existing Singapore repair center.
Investments at the component service center include research into new repair processes’ lean lab for advanced manufacturing and utilizing the latest robotic technologies to drive greater efficiencies. These Commitments were made in anticipation of growing regional demand from engine types such as the CFM LEAP, GEnx and the GE9X.
Source : GE Aviation
MRO LATEST NEWS
Iberia Maintenance has signed a contract to inspect &repair the Rolls-Royce RB 211 535-E4 engines powering DHL Air UK and Blue Dart’s 757 aircraft fleet.
Tarmac Aerosave received a second ex-Singapore Airline’s Airbus A380 for storage at its Tarbes, France facility.
Triumph Aviation Services Asia was selected by Boeing to provide inspection, recertification and repair support on nacelle and flight control components in the Asia-Pacific region.
KLM UK Engineering has a Finnair contract for Embraer E190/Airbus A320 line maintenance at Edinburgh.
Spirit AeroSystems unveiled 20,000 sqft center of excellence at Wichita to focus on the fabrication of large, complex soft metal parts for fuselage, pylon and wing structures.
Safran Electrical & Power was selected by Boeing to equip its 2018 ecoDemonstrator (FedEX Express 777F) with an electrical channel that includes electric power generation and distribution systems, engine and aircraft wiring, and specific electrical loads (electric fans).
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Dear East and South County Neighbors,
Across every generation, parents worry about their kids. We hope for them, and want them able to meet life’s challenges.
I waited until my sons were out of high school before I ever considered running for public office. Raising them well, saving my time away from work for them, that was my priority.
Following each of their high school graduations (in 1998 and 2000), I took each one away for a day into California’s mountains just east of here. For each, our destination was a wagon road used by pioneers to climb the great rock wall of the eastern Sierra Nevada.
My message? The wagon road is the road of life. Away in these great mountains, among the rutted boulders and rust-flecked granite sheets of Carson Pass, or on the steeply forested talus slope west of Donner Lake, my sons could see what commitment and determination looks like. The message of the wagon roads is vivid. Pioneers made California the home of their families and the founding place for their dreams by hard work, unwavering determination — and teamwork when facing adversity.
California must reclaim this heritage. In the State Capitol, solving California’s problems has taken a back seat to partisan bickering. Effort applied is ineffective. The new and accustomed routine is failure after failure. In the face of skyrocketing deficits, underfunded schools and out-of-whack budgets, gridlock is accepted as a norm.
Nothing is solved, while the most precious resource of every person or institution, time itself, is wasted. It’s killing our future. The Wall Street Journal recently blasted California citing the stark fact our government no longer works.
That’s why I am running for State Assembly - I am convinced California’s best days lay in front of us – not behind us.
My priorities in the State Assembly will be clear: ~ Target job creation by cracking the nut the Wall Street Journal identified – making government work.
~ Accept the charge our Constitution vests in every lawmaker’s office to pursue oversight and accountability of state agencies. Under our Constitution, California’s future is entrusted not to a “Big 5″, but to ALL 120 state lawmakers.
~ Protecting our investment in education. Without a growing, educated work force, we’ll lose the jobs competition to other, better educated places.
We Must Grow Our Future from Today’s Difficulties
Carved in the granite above the main entry to California’s 1st office building is a message to succeeding generations, “Bring Me Men to Match My Mountains”.
Early Californians understood that the character and determination of our pioneer forbears represented the type of man or woman California would need if successive generations were to meet the mountain-like challenges of their time. I’ll bring a belief in the preciousness of this heritage to the State Assembly.
You can read more about my vision, values and plans for California here on my website. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
I would appreciate your support and your vote.
Onward and Upward,
Ken Cooley
Sacramento Bee election endorsements for Nov. 8
Excerpted from The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board generally does not endorse when one candidate essentially is assured of victory. However, in these races, we recommend the re-election of Reps. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, and Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, and Assemblymen Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento, and Ken Cooley, D-Rancho Cordova. Each has little chance of losing.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/ election-endorsements/ article108811402.html# storylink=cpy
Ken Cooley vows to be 'particularly energetic' in new Assembly post
If there’s one lawmaker who appreciates the rules and traditions of the California Legislature, it’s Assemblyman Ken Cooley.
The Rancho Cordova Democrat has spent years steeped in the culture of Sacramento, having served as a staffer for more than a decade before winning his seat in 2012. His knowledge of the Capitol’s architectural history runs so deep that he gives tours of the building, and he commonly invokes legislative history and procedure during floor speeches.
Cooley’s Bill to Expand Foster Youth Access Signed by the Governor
Excerpted from Gold River Messenger
Assemblyman Ken Cooley’s (D-Rancho Cordova) AB 2417 was signed in to law by Governor Brown this afternoon. AB 2417 expands foster youth access to court appointed special advocates, known as CASAs. These are volunteers who are appointed by a judge to provide one-on-one mentorship and advocacy to abused and neglected children who are under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Children with court appointed special advocates have demonstrably better long-term outcomes: they are more likely to find a safe permanent home, half as likely to reenter the foster care system, and have far greater success in school. However, there are currently not enough CASA volunteers to advocate on behalf of the foster children in need of their services.
CASA programs are required by law to fingerprint each volunteer to screen for a criminal background before allowing them to mentor and advocate for youth. Non-profit organizations that serve children do not have to pay the California Department of Justice fees for background checks, but CASA programs are currently excluded from this benefit. This places an undue financial burden on this critical child advocacy program.
Cooley Bill to Protect Historic State Park Names Signed into Law by Governor Brown
Excerpted from Carmichael Times
The California Heritage Protection Act (AB 2249) was signed into law on September 21st by Governor Brown, Assemblyman Ken Cooley (D-Rancho Cordova) has announced. AB 2249 ensures park concessionaires in California’s state parks cannot trademark historic place names simply due to their status as a concessionaire. The bill was introduced by Assemblyman Cooley and Assemblymen Frank Bigelow (R-O’Neals) and Adam Gray (D-Merced) in response to the U.S. National Park Service’s controversial renaming of several landmarks at Yosemite National Park due to a dispute with their ex-concessionaire.
“This bill makes clear that trademarking of historic names in state parks by concessionaires without any independent basis for a claim is unacceptable and our state Department of Parks and Recreation cannot sign off on the type of trademarking conduct that produced the Yosemite dispute,” said Assemblyman Cooley. “With AB 2249’s signature, that kind of behavior will disqualify a concessionaire from receiving a concessions contract in California, which makes the bipartisan unanimity of the Legislature especially impressive.”
Cooley Stresses “Doing Good”
Excerpted from Rancho Cordova Independent
Although State Assemblyman Ken Cooley is in his first term at the Sacramento Capitol, he is not inexperienced. Cooley worked straight out of Berkeley for a senior member of the assembly. “He was Rules chairman, I was his top guy,” Cooley said.
Cooley later worked for a state senator drafting legislation, and this was while he was also on the Rancho Cordova City Council. Having worked with Cooley on the city council for years, council member and past mayor Robert McGarvey said, “He’s probably one of the most experienced elected officials there in the Capitol right now.” Therefore, when Ken Cooley began his term he was able to step right into the work.
Cooley’s Bill to Bolster Transparency of Mental Health Services Act Passes First Policy Committee
Assemblyman Ken Cooley’s (D-Rancho Cordova) AB 2279 passed unanimously out of the Assembly Health Committee this week. AB 2279 bolsters transparency about how Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) funds are being used by requiring that information about state-wide and county-by-county funding for mental health programs be made available to the public to enhance accountability, outcomes, and facilitate mental health program improvement.
Proposition 63, the MHSA, was passed by the voters in 2004. Its purpose was to transform the mental health system by providing prevention and intervention services to those living with mental illness.
Yosemite dispute prompts bill to ban name trademarks at California parks
Excerpted from Sacramento Bee
Assembly Bill 2249 prohibits contracts with companies that pursue trademarks at state parks
Follows ongoing controversy over ownership of names for some of Yosemite’s most famous sites
Assemblyman Ken Cooley: ‘I just find it shocking’
Assemblyman Ken Cooley is pursuing a bill that would ban concessionaires at state parks if they trademark iconic names.
Comparing the Yosemite renaming controversy to a punch in the gut, Assemblyman Ken Cooley on Monday announced a bill that would prohibit California from contracting with concessionaires who attempt to trademark names associated with a state park.
Ken's conservative financial habits reflect the values of his home life with Sydney, his wife of 36 years, who has served for many years as bookkeeper for Cordova Neighborhood Church.
His habit of care with money was deepened and reinforced by his 18 Year private sector business career as In-House Counsel to State Farm Insurance, one of America’s most successful financial enterprises. The stewardship of Ken’s city with tax dollars makes it a rarity — 8 yrs of balanced budgets, every year a surplus, never yet dipped into our reserves, chosen as an All America City during his second term as Mayor...
Government works best when it is connected to those it serves.
I believe that, and during my 1st term as Mayor in 2005, I did something to make that idea a part of my city’s history and identity.
While still under construction, I opened our future City Council Chamber to City residents for an event I called ”My City Hall”. City residents – young and old - had one evening to enter the shell of our under construction City Hall...
International study into effective governance makes City of Rancho Cordova its first stop.
The People’s Republic of China has 10 study missions now underway around the globe to explore how a variety of modern democratic societies manage change through deliberative government institutions. Rancho Cordova was singled out as the first stop for the team that is conducting its survey here in the United States. The clip that folllows was aired on Sacramenmto area television as the local news crews profiled the team from China’s visit to Rancho Cordova City Hall.
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Home Sports West Indies women team arrives in Pakistan for T20 series
West Indies women team arrives in Pakistan for T20 series
KARACHI: The West Indies women cricket team arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to play a three-match T20 series from January 31 to February 3 at Karachi’s Southend Club.
The Windies’ return to the country marks the resumption of women’s international cricket in Pakistan since they hosted Bangladesh for two T20Is and two ODIs in September 2015. West Indies last toured Pakistan 15 years ago in March/April 2004 for an ODI series.
Speaking to the media at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, Windies interim captain Merissa Aguilleira said she is happy to be in Pakistan after 15 years. “I am happy to see women’s cricket in Pakistan improving,” she said.
She added that the series will serve as a bonus, since they play Pakistan in next year’s Women’s World T20 as well. “The team has the ability to win, however, it is not easy to play in the subcontinent.”
Stand-in Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik welcomed the team and wished the tourists and Pakistan women team all the best for the series.
“Welcome to Pakistan Merissa Aguilleira and team, exciting times! All the best for the series and hope you get some time to check out the beautiful city of Karachi where I grew up. I’m sure Sana Mir, Bismah Maroof and team have planned some fun activities, hope you all enjoy,” he tweeted.
Following the T20 series, the two sides will go head to head in three ODIs in Dubai on February 7, 9 and 11. The first ODI will be played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, while the second and third ODIs will be played at the ICC Academy in Dubai.
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Lecture 19, Part 1: The Box Model
HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers
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Introduction to CSS3
A lot of people "tinker" with CSS. In this module, we'll take you from the very basics of CSS3 to some fairly advanced concepts like floating and CSS rule conflict resolution. We'll go over the 'box model', background property, etc. We'll finish off the module with learning about Responsive Design using our own CSS code as well as start introducing Twitter Bootstrap with its essential Grid System.
Lecture 19, Part 1: The Box Model10:43
Lecture 19, Part 2: The Box Model7:04
Lecture 20: The background Property6:32
Lecture 21: Positioning Elements by Floating10:47
Lecture 22, Part 1: Relative and Absolute Element Positioning7:57
In HTML every element is considered a box.
However, there's more to that box than just the content that the element wraps
Let's take a quick look at a simple diagram.
Besides their [INAUDIBLE] content, each box consists of padding,
border as well as margins.
The box model refers to the components that make up an HTML box
as well as the rules that govern how these box components affect the layout
as well as how width and height of the box are calculated.
Let's jump into the code and take a look at some examples.
Okay, so here I am in subline text and
I'm looking at the file called box-model-before.html.
And it's located in the examples Lecture19 folder.
Let's quickly examine the HTML structure of this document.
It's actually pretty simple.
It just has one h1 here.
Has a div that has an ID box and inside of that div there is another
div with an ID content and has some Loren ipsum, basically some dummy text in it.
In addition to that I colored the box itself with a background color blue and
the content which is the div right here.
This content.
I colored it with this color which is basically light green.
And just so we have some more interesting colors in the background
I colored the body to be gray.
Okay, so here is the representation of our page in the browser.
And since div is a block level element,
it tries to fill in the entire parent in terms of width.
So it's trying to fill up the entire width here in the browser.
But there's something strange going on if you take a look.
There's some space that's gone in here right before Lorem and
here at the end of our content beginning and there's spacing going on.
So let's take a look at the chrome developer tools real quick and
figure out what that space is about.
Okay so we'll go ahead and choose the box, that's our box.
And we'll take a look as to what's going on.
There doesn't seem to be any spacing that's set on the box itself.
Well how about the body itself in the body tag?
Go and here we go.
See we'd realized that the body tag here has a margin all around of eight pixels.
Now where is that eight pixel coming from?
Or if we take a look here, it's telling you where it's coming from.
It's coming from the user agent style.
Style sheet.
Which means it's the browser itself.
It's the default browser styles.
So that's actually pretty common that the browsers do stuff like that.
And what we're going to do is in order for
it not to affect what we're doing we're going to reset it.
And it actually resets on the web out there,
plenty of resets on the web how to reset default browser setting.
So we'll go ahead and do margin 0 and
we'll also do padding 0 so we won't be affected by any of that.
And when we do that and we save and refresh, you see that now our content is
flush with the actual borders of the browser window.
Okay, so moving on.
So we have our content.
And you can see the context is green.
Now we're not seeing the background of the box the content is actually sitting in
because we would have seen something blue in the background and always see green.
And that is because the inner box, the inner content div
is covering up the outer one completely because they are the same size.
They both try to fill up their parent which is in this case the body tag.
Both try to fill it up all the way.
And since this one basically sit it on top or inside of this one,
it's covering up the blue background.
Let's go ahead and set some padding on our box.
Let's do padding, and we'll do 10px top.
10px right, 10px bottom, and 10px left.
Now we set that and by the way, there's obviously a shortcut for this.
You could actually remove all this 10px right here and
that would mean exactly the same thing and I let you actually look up as to
all the different shortcuts that you could take, but I'll leave this here for now.
So point is, it's always goes top, right,
bottom, left and let's go ahead and save that and refresh the browser.
And voila, now we've seen the padding.
And what the padding is doing is basically giving some padding around our content and
our content being this div tag right here with the content text, is the one that's
being kind of squeezed all around and the padding is showing up all around and
now you can see the blue because that's the background color of our box.
Okay so next, let's give our box some border.
Let's go ahead and say border, and
we'll give that border that's going to be 3px thick.
And it's going to be solid as opposed to dashed or something like that.
And there's other options here you're welcome to look up.
And we want to give it the color black.
Okay. When we save that, and
when we refresh the browser, you could see that the border showed up.
And in fact, let's make it a little bit thicker.
Let's make it a five pixels border.
And let's make it like that.
Okay and then last but not least, let's give it some margins as well.
Let's go to margin and let's go ahead and use the shortcut notation which is
giving you 40 pixels which means I'm saying I want 40 pixels all around.
So top, right, bottom, and left.
So if I go ahead and refresh that.
You could see now there's 40 pixels on every side.
And, well, you could see it on the bottom, per say, and
you can't really necessarily see it here.
But there's 40 pixels on every side.
Okay. Well, up until now,
we've sort of let the content and some of our margins, and so on dictate
how big the actual box is or what about if we actually set this width our self.
Let's set the width to be let's say 300 pixels and we save and
refresh the box became smaller but let's go ahead and examine that box.
Let's click on the inside Chrome Developer tools, now let's take a look.
So it's showing us that our box is in fact 300 pixels wide and
since we didn't restrain our height, it went ahead and wrapped around the text.
And basically the height will adjust unless we restrain it.
A manually by specifying the height,
it will adjust to however much it needs to fit.
So if we make it a little bit small, let's make it let's say 100 pixels,
we'll refresh you'll see the height will become a little bit bigger, the height
will become 72, because now we squeezed it enough that extra lines got added.
So now the content width is 100 but the height is larger.
Let's go ahead and put it back to 300 and refresh.
And now if you look at this breakdown
we come to our first pretty interesting point.
But first of all let's go through all the components.
Here this one is the pure content right here that I'm mousing over right here.
And then if I go up a little bit, it'll highlight for
me in the browser the padding that's going on there.
And if I highlight, if I go out a little bit more, I'll go straight up to
the border, right, and if you can't really see the margins if you roll over to
the margin side voila now you see what the margins are gone and even though to
the right side showing you a little bit more than really margin is going on.
But the 40 pixels all around still stands.
Now what's interesting to find is well how big is this
box exactly as we going to start putting more and more boxes right.
We going to start making layouts of different HTML components and
to get our UI just right, we need to find out how big is each box.
Well, we sort of specified that we want the box to be 300 pixels wide.
The problem is that it's not really 300 pixels wide.
Let's take a look.
If we take a look here it says 300 pixels wide, but we're forgetting there's
a border around it or the padding around it, and the padding is 10 pixels on one
side And ten pixels on the other side but that's not all, there's also a border
around it as well that is 5 pixels wide and 5 pixels wide on this side.
So really, it's 300 plus 10 plus 10 that's 20, 320, plus 5 plus 5 that's 330.
So if you look at the actual visible border of this box, this box,
this distance is not actually 300.
This distance is 330.
And the interesting part is, or kind of annoying part,
is that, depending on what border and padding you set, this width will change.
So let's take a look.
Let's say if I make the border something really crazy like 20 pixels.
So go ahead and refresh.
Now the border is 20 pixels so now my box end all the way there.
And if I make the padding even bigger,
let's say I make the padding this one is the right so I make the padding 30 and
on the left I make the padding 30 as well, and I take a look at the box.
Take a look at how it's going to whoa, it became bigger again.
So even though we said I want the width of the box to be 300,
it turns out that we aren't really setting the width of the box,
we're actually setting the width of the content.
And that's this piece right here in the green.
Well it turns out for layouts, and just in general sanity this is kind of annoying.
You really want to change that and CSS3 actually did change that,
it turns out that by default, the box sizing is actually a property of
every HTML element and by default it's actually set to content box,
which means when you specify it's height and width,
you're specifying the height and width of the content box, not the entire thing.
Well CSS 3 came out with a new value for that property,
and that's called border-box.
Let's go ahead and set that right here.
We'll say box-sizing, and we'll say border-box.
And when we refresh let's take a look, look at that, it became smaller.
So now, if you take a look at the breakdown,
you could see that even though it was specified the width would be 300.
That width is guaranteed to be the width of this box right here
from the edge of this border.
To the edge of this border.
So if you take a look here, 200 plus 30 plus 30,
that's 260, plus 20 plus 20, that's another 40, that's 300.
And if we change it back to content-box,
which is the default, it will jump back to its original size.
But the truth of the matter is, all the modern frameworks like Bootstrap and
others use box, border box as its sizing mode,
and as you plan and work with your layouts this is the same choice to make.
So, make sure you always stay with a box sizing of border box.
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The Minister further Explained that the establishment of the new Ministry of Finance and Development Planning will streamline the national planning and finance functions and foster increased aid coordination within the government and between our development partners, as all of our aid The Minister also coordination functions will considered the merger of now be undertaken in a the Ministry of Planning centralized unit. Better aid and Economic Affairs and management will increase the Ministry of Finance donor confidence which coupled with the creation of should contribute to greater, the Liberia Revenue more sustainable support. Authority as a milestone for the public sector management that will enhance efficiency. "Another significant milestone is the passage of
Regarding the 2013/14 National Budget the Minister said "Obviously, the most important instrument passed by the National Legislature is The National Budget Law FY 2013/2014. The passage of the National Budget by the Senate on Thursday, September 12, following an extended period of stakeholder consultations, dialogue and debate demonstrates the progress we have made in the last few years in building our democratic institutions. We salute both houses of the Legislature for the quality of their engagement during these debates and the selflessness with which they drove the national agenda, making necessary concessions and compromises in the interest of our people." He said the approximately US$582 million details the policy priorities and direction of the Government investing in key infrastructure and social programs intended to expand the economy for growth, development and job creation. "Given the size of our budget and the fiscal space with which we must navigate our development agenda, the passage comes at a very critical point in our drive to stimulate growth through increased consumer spending and execution of Public Investment Projects,". He said [The Inquirer]
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[Democratic Alliance]
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"We need to accelerate the reform of the educational system and supervise Tunisian youth, who because of deteriorating standards of living and lack of a horizon, drop out of school and engage in many unsafe experiments such as
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ZIMBABWE: BOOK CAFE INTRODUCES NEW YOUTH EVENT Harare, 20th September 2013 - THE Book Caf has introduced a new youth event "World Music Shortlisted" in its October World Music Festival. The event, which takes place from October 11 to 19, will witness an audition show for emerging artistes who have been shortlisted from many nominations and applications to perform in dedicated slots during the festival. The music fiesta will coincide with Mbira and Disabilities Discussion forum in the "September Mbira Month". Seven hot young groups will feature on the musical festival and will be judged by a panel from the festival's programming committee representing the Italian Embassy, Pamberi Trust, Culture Fund of Zimbabwe and several prominent artists. Leo Bescotti Trio and Were. the annual Special Schools Arts Festival, will also take Meanwhile, on the mbira part. side, the audition show is preceded by a free public The discussion will be discussion organised by chaired by Masimba mbira player and youth Kuchera, director of the project officer Hector Mu- Centre for Disability and gani of Pamberi Trust, and Development. The October the "Mbiravolution" artistes World Music Festival 2013 initiative. follows the success of the The selected artistes will be 2012 October Jazz and elevated to a new level in The panel includes Terence World Music Festival, in their careers - the festival Nazare a disabled student at partnership with the Italian stage. Pamberi Trust Danhiko who is advocating Embassy and other programme officer Penny for music to be included in stakeholders. Young said some of the their curriculum. Ticha Mugroups to audition on the zavazi, the young poet and day will include Gwenga, mbira player who works Jam Signal, Gary Tight, with disabled African Pride, Soul Bone, children and is involved in
It has been rebranded to capture a broader range of world music (including jazz) built on cutting-edge and innovative styles and the artistes who dare to break barriers and create fresh artistic products. The festival will comprise world-class concerts at Book Caf, the Italian Club and venues across Harare, as well a film screening, workshops and public discussions. "Audience support counts, and artists' friends, fans and families are invited to come out to support their favourites while entry is free," said Young. [The Herald]
CANADA: GOVERNOR GENERAL TO ADDRESS YOUTH FORUM IN PENTICTON Penticton, 26th September 2013 - PENTICTONITES will have a rare chance to interact with Canadas Governor General Monday, when he visits the city to support a new youth initiative. Gov. Gen. David Johnston is addressing a forum with the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan and the United Way, where they are presenting the results of a collaboration with youth in the community and a new program. Its absolutely amazing that the Right Honourable David Johnston will be joining us for this important community discussion, said Aaron McRann, executive director of the CFSO, adding that there are two reasons the Governor General has chosen to attend. One is that he really believes in collaboration between organizations that we are demonstrating, said McRann, adding that youth and families, and trying to find better ways to support them, is also one of the Governor Generals goals, one of the three pillars of Johnstons vision for a smart and caring nation. So the whole concept appealed to him very directly. He will be speaking, giving closing comments at the forum, said McRann. We are very excited to launch this unique youth program. Between discussions between ourselves and the executrix of the estate we decided to focus on defining first the needs of the youth in our community, recognizing that a lot of the services provided in our community events and The forum is a milestone on health services are a path that started about a focused on older year ago, when the United populations, said McRann. Way and the CFSO both received bequests from the The first step was to hire a estate of Rohan Crompton- researcher who spent time Bell. with youth in the community as well as Crompton-Bell wanted to service providers, trying to support youth, especially identify what the real needs regarding self-esteem are. issues, explained McRann. Since the two organizations That report has been already had ties, McRann completed and we will be said they decided to get presenting the findings of together and plan how to the report on Monday. maximize the gift. There is going to be more Our partnership between that needs to be done after the Community Foundation that, said McRann. Where and the United Way is a we go from there starts on wonderful example of how Monday at this public donors can make immediate forum. We will be engaging impact and leave a in a conversation with those sustainable legacy for at the forum about what Penticton, explained Marla comes next. OBrien, executive director of the United Way. We After the forum, according have consistently heard that to McRann, the first step is youth are an underserved to establish a community group in this region and we committee. look forward to addressing the issue with proceeds That committee will sink from the bequest. their teeth into what should happen first, he said. The research report clearly indicates what direction we need to go, with three specific goals for outcomes. But how we get there and which one comes first requires more discussion. [Penticton Western News]
JAMAICA: INNER-CITY YOUTH GET TRAINING IN ANIMATION Kingston, 27th September 2013 - THE gate has been opened for 15 inner-city youth to unleash their potential in the global animation industry, which is currently valued at more than US$200 billion. These youth are taking part in the Girls' Town Professional Development Institute Animation Programme, which was launched yesterday in Kingston. do something more, and animation was, basically, the next step. In terms of expanding my creative Reginald Henclewood, one skills and what I can do, I of the participants expressed have learned how to his gratitude for being given manipulate the software, the opportunity to take part create certain images, in the programme. implement pace, motion, and to do a complete "I do computer graphics as animation, so far," he told a profession. After creating The Gleaner. flyers and logos, I wanted to "After this course, I intend on pursuing a career in animation," Henclewood added.
The project involves the establishment of an animation studio with 15 computers, office furniture, and broadband Internet service. It is a partnership among the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), the Reel Rock GSW Animation Limited, and the Professional Development Training Institute. chance to improve their lives. JSIF is impressed with the fact that the training will equip these EXCITING AREA students with skills, in a "Animation is an innovative short time, that will make and exciting area for JSIF, them immediately but we support skill sets employable in the animation that are in demand and will industry," said Andrew give young persons a Neita, general manager of infrastructure/civil works at JSIF. The project is a six-month initiative, financed at a cost of approximately $9 million. [The Gleaner]
PANAMA: CASCO VIEJO PROGRAM FOR YOUTH AT RISK
Panama City, 8th September 2013 - A PILOT program to help San Felipe youth at risk is off to a promising start and could become a model for other communities in Panama.
on the venture so having accurate profiles allows the team to create a personalized development plan for each participant, and have a power base from which to measure progress. Besides diagnosis, the Sixteen young people are group held workshops and the initial participants in the discussions to create the venture named Esperanza rules of the next 10 weeks San Felipe of the program.
It calls on the local community to provide A proposal to be encouragement to the implemented later is to form participants to continue in a community volunteer the program when they corps named COMPAHs seem them walking in the ( body management and streets. The opportunity to maintenance of heritage ) , be accepted socially is a big It began with a retreat at a Classes are initially which would allow them to motivator for them. hotel in the mountains of focusing on what is called act in the community and Penonom with the primary The Foundation , contribute to the solution of The report concludes with a purpose of a team of punctuality , personal everyday life issues that call for volunteers willing to psychologists the hygiene , interpersonal affect them and the houses give a helping hand. There opportunity to interact one relationships , group work , in which they live. The are actually a very small on one in a neutral self-discipline and report says: We think number of youth at risk environment where and communication. COMPAHs can become a even in San Felipe , and we develop a psychological force in the neighborhood may give most of them at profile. It also includes motivational because it would facilitate least a fair chance to make activities such as tours to the link between the something of their lives. hotels to begin to see career graduates of the program Participants vary widely in opportunities while and maintain active [Newsroom Panama] age, education, history and performing daily exercises participation in other factors, says a report and self-defense classes . In neighborhood activities. USA: YOUTH POLICY INSTITUTE'S 'PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS' AIMS TO BREAK CYCLE OF POVERTY IN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY Los Angeles, 1st September 2013 - IN a gritty corner of the northeast San Fernando Valley, where poverty and violence have been a way of life for generations, tens of thousands of families are being offered the promise of a brighter future. Thanks to a $30 million federal grant that could be matched with private donations, the nonprofit Youth Policy Institute has launched an ambitious initiative to bring hope to the so-called Promise Neighborhoods. Over the next five years, the 30-yearThere are similar signs of old organization will invest hope in east Hollywood, in education, job training where high unemployment and technology programs in and dropout rates have an effort to break the cycle created desperate conditions of poverty in those for adults and children communities once and for alike. all. "This is not just a single program, and it's not just a specific department addressing the issue," said Iris Zuniga, YPI's chief operating officer. "This involves the whole system and all its institutions." As envisioned by YPI and coordinated by Zuniga, the city and county of Los Angeles will partner with Los Angeles Unified and philanthropic groups in creating a network of 65 programs to support youths and their families in Pacoima, San Fernando and the Little Armenia area of Hollywood. There will be health-care and preschool for the youngest kids, for instance, and tutoring and enrichment programs for their older brothers and sisters. High school students will have access to academic and college counselors, with a focus on keeping them in school and on track for college or the workforce.
the weeks following the program will revolve around values , tools for daily life and eventually vocational tools including finding work.
( You can imagine a cross between Guardian Angels and the local Rotary Club ).
Parents and families will be able to take English classes, earn their high-school diploma, get job training and help in managing household finances. "There is a sense of urgency in what we're doing," said Zuniga, an Arleta native. "These are families in crisis, I want to open up the policies that are in place and see where we can create And for everyone, there will change." be a focus on wellness -from vaccines to a healthy With the goal of helping diet and exercise. 18,000 kids a year, the programs will be offered at The wide-ranging programs 19 Los Angeles Unified and were developed charter schools, including strategically during an 18the San Fernando Institute month planning process that for Applied Media, a included a poll of 1,200 technology-focused pilot residents in the low-income school that YPI opened in communities. The 2010 on the grounds of San organization found that Fernando Middle School. more than half of the adults in Pacoima lack a "This will be a laboratory of high-school diploma, and education reform, with high two-thirds of K-12 students -quality options for all of perform below grade level. our families," said YPI Nearly everyone surveyed Executive Director Dixon in the Northeast Valley Slingerland. "We will serve community said public safe- or try to serve every youth ty and gang activity were who lives in the their top concerns. neighborhood." Pacoima and San Fernando for anyone who wants to use them. "Our kids too often face gaps in the support they need because of a lack of coordination among services," said Mayor Eric Garcetti, who worked on the Promise Neighborhood grant while representing Hollywood on the City Council. "The Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood is a holistic approach that provides a full range of services -from cradle to college and career -- to help our kids and make our city more economically competitive in the future." and a "baby university," where moms can bring their kids for playtime. Much of the renovation work is being done by residents of "The Gardens," giving the young men and women a glimpse of the possibilities awaiting them. For 19-year-old Juan Reyes, it was the chance to pursue his dream to of being a "positive muralist," with a colorful project he designed entitled "Believe Yourself." Putting the finishing touches on his mural, Reyes talked about his desire to get away from The Gardens, where he said that most of his friends are "either in jail or dead. "I love doing art, painting. I believe that with art, you can change people's perspective on what they look at, and that's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to give back to my community." [Los Angeles Daily News]
The Valley programs will be administered out of an office building YPI is renovating on Van Nuys Boulevard in Pacoima, not far from San Fernando YPI found out in December Services will also be offered Gardens, a public housing that it had received the at city YouthSource and project for low-income grant, and the first $6 neighborhood centers and residents. The office will million installment became dozens of satellite facilities, also house classrooms, an available in July. like the storefront computer art studio, computer lab, labs YPI operates in college-counseling center
VENEZUELA: POVERTY SEEN BEHIND VENEZUELA'S RISING YOUTH CRIME Caracas, 19th September 2013 - VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro says imports of U.S. comics and television cartoons are to blame for a continuing upsurge in youth crime, but analysts say evidence suggests otherwise. millions of unemployed youth are drawn into anti-social and criminal The government's activities, official data revolutionary preoccupation analyzed by advocacy won't matter so much if at groups indicates. the same time oil-rich Venezuela's economy could be Maduro said imported popticking over. But that isn't ular culture from North happening. Venezuela is in America, in particular the Venezuelan youth grew up a third year of United States, created false on a diet of revolutionary recession that the flow of oil idols for youth. And he rhetoric under President earnings hasn't managed to singled out Spider-Man as a Hugo Chavez, who died of end. major culprit in the cancer in March. His handcorruption of the nation's picked successor Maduro is Shortages of consumer youth. under pressure from Chavist goods, power outages and power centers in the unemployment have Pursuit of imagined political establishment and combined with everyday superhero figures from the military to keep up the urban violence to create a television programs fostered populism of Chavez's potent mix in which violent tendencies among Bolivarian revolution, analysts said. youth who appear to have little problem obtaining firearms, Maduro aides say. The government has yet to announce a credible policy for controlling proliferation of weapons. Settling of minor scores routinely results in homicide. Police data indicate Venezuela's homicide rate of more than 71 per 100,000 is three times the rate in Mexico. At least 21,692 people died in murders last year, the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence advocacy group said.
Unlike Mexico, though, Venezuela doesn't have a serious drug war on, but grinding poverty among the vast majority of Venezuelans is seen behind the spiral of crime, U.N. data show. The Venezuelan Observatory on Violence cited figures that showed Venezuela trailed behind El Salvador and Honduras in violent crime, most of it resulting from youth discontent. Maduro told Bolivian newspaper La Opinion he saw a distinct correlation between youth violence and superhero idolization that negates cherished values. He arrived at the conclusion, he said, after watching "Spider-Man 3," a 2007 movie directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church. "From the beginning until the end there are more and more dead," Maduro said. "And that's one of the series small children love most ... because it's attractive, it's from comics that are attractive, the figure, the colors and movements ... so much so that we finished watching it at four in the morning." Criminal violence has come dramatically to the forefront in contemporary Latin America, to the extent it is widely considered the critical social concern of the present day, a 2009 study by Gareth Jones and Dennis Rodgers says. "Youth are among the principal victims but also the primary perpetrators of this new panorama of brutality," says the study. "At the same time, the youth violence phenomenon remains profoundly misunderstood, as sensationalist myths and stereotypes abound." Venezuelans have been voicing frequent protests, including street marches, over youth violence that exacerbates suffering under shortages of consumer goods. The government this week countered criticism over shortages, saying it was fighting an "economic war" being waged by the business community, El Universal reported. [United Press International]
BAHRAIN: INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE URGES TO COMMUNITY TO CREATE YOUNG LEADERS Manama, 25th September 2013 - PARTICIPANTS in the International Youth Conference urged the international community to create young leaders who are able to serve as peace ambassadors. This was one of several recommendations announced yesterday on the final day of the conference, which was hosted in Bahrain over the past four days. promote the concepts of peace among the youth, while stressing the importance of moving away from conflicts and disputes in order to bring development to where it should be. qualities of good sportsmanship in the youth. Hisham Mohammed Al Jowder honoured the media parties which have He focused on the youth of contributed in covering the peace and sportsmanship, conference, in addition to which represents a powerful the working committee in tool to strengthen ties and appreciation to their efforts promote the ideals of peace. in making this international gathering an all-round His speech was followed by success. a panel discussion, which included Orlando Predators More than 500 participants, Head Coach Doug Plank, coming from 36 nations Bahrain Marshals Club from all over the globe president Fayez Ramzy and attended the conference. Dubai Sports Council general secretary Dr Ahmed Delegations attending the Al Sharif. conference were from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Further discussions Emirates, Qatar , Kuwait, involved member of the Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan, Advisory Committee of the Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Ministry of Justice Shaikh Sudan, Algeria, Tunisia, Ali Mattar, Psychological Libya and Morocco. consultant to the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs Other participants and and Endowment Dr Abdulla speakers have come from Al Maqabi, Anglican India, Pakistan, Thailand, Church priest Hani Aziz, Bangladesh , the Shura Council Member Philippines , Malaysia , Nancy Khedouri and United China , Japan , Indonesia, Nations advisor Ibrahim Al Sri Lanka, Korea, the UK, Dabal. France, Italy, Russia, Turkey and the US. The conference concluded with the Goys president [Bahrain News Agency]
This first-of-its-kind event in Bahrain was organised by the General Organisation for Youth and Sports under the patronage of Supreme Council for Youth and Young participants from all Sports chairman and around the world also called Bahrain Olympic on to encourage small Committee president Shaikh businesses and support it in Nasser bin Hamad Al Khaorder to boost the nation lifa. economy.They also urged to educate youngsters on the High-ranking officials from principles of peace no Bahrain and abroad have matter how different their been involved in religions and cultures are, discussions about different for its great importance in issues related to peace and the continuity of the peace its role in the development process without having bad of nations. influence on this young generation in the future. The concluding day program started the final Other recommendations session of the conference, in were to adopt a positive which ICHPER-SD dialogues based on Honourary president Dr accepting all opinions, Dong Ja Yang stressed the convergence of views to importance of instilling the
INDIA: 1ST INDIAN HIMALAYAN YOUTH SUMMIT BEGINS Dimapur, 23rd September 2013 - TO address issues of environment and sustainable development of mountain States, youths from 11 Indian Himalayan States, including Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and West Bengals hill district Darjeeling, have gathered here for the 1st Indian Himalayan Youth Summit. The two-day Summit got underway at Naga Heritage Village, Kisama on Sunday. Nagaland Sports & Youth Resources Minister Merentoshi R Jamir, addressing the inaugural programme, termed the occasion as a path breaking event where the youth are given a platform to have a hand in the efforts of the elder generation towards building a sustainable development of the mountain region. exist. The Himalayas are the biggest source of fresh water as also the custodians of the biodiversity that we all need so much to survive, Jamir added. He said the Indian Mountain Initiatives (IMI) Sustainable Mountain Development Summits (SMDS) are the need of the hour not only for discussion and understanding of what the mountains are all about He said the great Himalayas but also to spread the contribute largely towards message of how to take care the cooling down of the of them and make them planet, creating a conducive sustainable for the benefit atmosphere for life forms to of all mankind. MLA and chairman, MARCOFED Nagaland, Mmhonlumo Kikon delivered the keynote address of the Summit based on striving towards one ecological citizenship. Climate disasters over the past few years in the mountain and hill States of India have only served to reinforce the notion that we share one ecological space and hence we must share the duties and responsibilities of one ecological citizenship, he said.
The Summit is being organised jointly by Sustainable Development Forum of Nagaland (SDFN), YouthNet, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD) India. The event is a part of IMIs SMDS-III (Kohima Summit 2013). [The Assam Tribune]
INDONESIA: BALI 2013 GLOBAL YOUTH CONFERENCE Canggu, 9th September 2013 - WHILE APEC delegates from more than 20 countries arrive on the Island of Bali, school students from Bali and the region will be spending three days participating in motivational and educational experiences created to foster deeper understandings of community action on behalf of environmental and humanitarian concerns, The Bali 2013 Global Youth Conference (Global Initiatives Networking Conference) will be held October 5-6, 2013 at the Canggu Community School. Students from Bali and the region will meet with each other and Malacca, 15th September 2013 - ALL the government in the world must open their doors widely for highskilled youths to migrate into or out of a country in search of better living, said World Assembly of Youth (WAY) secretary-general Ediola Pashollari. international leaders to mutually inspire and motivate. Students will be given the chance to learn, create, and join together in group activities that seek to achieve shared understandings on the challenges faced in the modern world. In the end, they will acquire practical approaches to major challenges to be shared with their home communities. they have an interest where, through skill enhancement, they will discover ways to help others in their community. skateboarder Rob Dyer from Skate for Cancer (SC4). Scott Hammell a professional stunt man who shares the power of personal belief and conviction. Indonesia's Nila Tanzil who runs Taman Bacaan Pelangi - an Indonesia-wide literacy program. Martyn Denis a young intern working with the United Nations in East Timor. Robi Navicula an environmental activist and front man of the indie Balinese Rock Band Navicula. [Bali Discovery Tours]
Solutions explored might include creating a fundraising sports tournament or setting up a reading group with local school children using their love of ocean to raise environmental awareness.
The Bali 2013 Global Youth Conference seeks to Among the diverse motivate and educate, build activities planned during the networks and prepare the two days are skateboarding, coming generations for the surfing, farming, challenges ahead. environment studies, literacy, health and human Speaking the conference rights issues. Students sign will be: up for the groups in which Canadian champion
MALAYSIA: OPEN DOORS WIDE TO SKILLED YOUTHS, COUNTRIES URGED I truly appeal to all people of the world not to look at youth-migration as a negative thing. Please dont keep your youth in the country if you cant give them the opportunity to live better, she told Bernama on the sideline of the 13th Melaka International Youth Dialogue themed, Youth She said the migration will Migration: A Step From benefit both the government Heaven. and the youths by providing highly-skilled workers for The three-day dialogue, the country and better which ended yesterday, was standard of living for the organised by WAY and youths. attended by about 100 participants from 10 The government must countries including South make it easier for highAfrica, the United States, skilled youths to migrate by Singapore, and Brunei. implementing simple but efficient immigration When asked about the procedure and removing the countrys loss if highinternational discrimination skilled youths were to barriers such as skin colour. migrate elsewhere, Pashollari said the country must give better opportunities and better standard of living if they wanted to retain their highskilled youths in the country. She also reminded the youths to migrate legally and choose the migration opportunity wisely so that they would not become victims of crime such as human trafficking.
Malaysia is a very good role model where the government had given a lot of opportunities to its high skilled youths to grow and develop a better living for themselves. From what we see, more and more youths choose to stay in the county because of this.
I also praise Malaysias effort to lure back its high skilled youths. So, people of the world must see how Malaysia do this and not keep their high-skilled youths in the country by force, she said.
It looks easier to migrate illegally then to go through the time-consuming migration procedures. But trust me, it is not worth a dime to migrate illegally because they are easier exposed to crime and the better living they searched for, wouldnt last, she said.
[Bernama]
MYANMAR: CHIN YOUTH WINS PRESTIGIOUS LEADERSHIP AWARD Chin, 25th September 2013 A CHIN activist from Myanmar has been recognized as one of 30 most inspiring young leaders in the world working to promote democracy by the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Salai Ceu Bik Thawng, 29, was honoured alongside 30 other young leaders from more than 20 different countries around the world. All of the recipients are under 30. Salai Ceu Bik Thawng who is also the general secretary for the Chin National Party (CNP) was thrilled when found out his work in Chin state was being recognized by the worlds leading democracy endowment group. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the organization that was created by the United States Congress in 1983 and operates out of 100 different countries. happy to promote the people who are facing many challenges in religious, ethnicity and other reformatory areas. It shows that the world has already recognized Chin people and ethnics in Myanmar. Although our work is not big enough, the world has acknowledged what we have done and our feelings, he said. Some of the other recognized young leaders came from some of the worlds most troubled regions: Zimbabwe, Belarus, Afghanistan, North Korea, Liberia and Kyrgyzstan. Concerned about human trafficking the Chin state government held a special meeting in the Hakha Town Hall on Sept. 12 to find ways to prevent and protect people from trafficking in Myanmar. trafficking protection group that runs from 2012-16 is made up of 12 state-level committee members and 12 from district and township levels. [Burma News International]
During the meeting, Chief Minister Pu Hung Ngai discussed about the dangers In a country faced with of human trafficking. Its numerous challenges to its estimated that 26 million democratic progress, people are being trafficked Thawng is a dynamic young globally. Many women are ethnic leader and a model being forced into sex trade, for all of Burma, said the or as house maids. Other NEDs website. cases involve hard labour. The government has Thawng explained his views projects to eliminate illegal on the reform process in human trafficking. They Burma to Khonumthung also made agreements with News. neighboring countries like China and Thailand to preTransforming the country vent human trafficking. from military dictatorship to democracy is but one The Human Trafficking challenge. We need to think Protection Chairman for about the broader and more Chin state U Myint Aung substantive issue of how we Chin spoke about a recent can achieve harmony and agreement with the US to realize peaceful coexistence monitor human trafficking in a country that is so in Myanmar. diverse in terms of religion and ethnicity...Im very The Chin state human
AZERBAIJAN: INTERNATIONAL YOUTH PROJECT WRAPS UP IN BAKU Baku, 25th September 2013 - AN international "StartChange-Develop" project, implemented within the European Union's Youth in Action programme, has ended in Baku on September 23. About 30 youngsters from Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Hungary, Moldova, The project was organized Ukraine, Malta, Turkey, by the Ireli Public Union. Georgia, Belarus, and the During the meetings, they Czech Republic came Several meetings were held were informed about together in Baku to use with the project Azerbaijani achievements in various tools as workshops, participants, including at the the last years, successful group and peer works, "Start-Change-Develop" is Center for Strategic Studies youth policies pursued in outdoor activities, media, an international youth under the President of the country, "Azerbaijan challenge games that project for rising youth Azerbaijan, as well as at the 2020: A Look into the increase creativity and participation in creating Azerbaijan Diplomatic Future" Development entrepreneur skills. healthy society in the future. Academy. Concept, as well as The project puts creative Armenia-Azerbaijan [AZERNEWS] approaches in the field of The project participants also Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. entrepreneurship to promote held meetings with BELARUS: CIS INTELLECTUALS URGED TO CREATE PLATFORM FOR UNITING YOUNGER GENERATION Minsk, 25th September 2013 - THE older generation of the CIS intellectuals should create a platform to unite the youth, Chairman of the Board of the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund Polad Bulbuloglu told reporters on 24 September, BelTA has learnt. Fund. youth to take part in the forum. and academic intellectuals in education, culture, healthcare, ecology and The participants of the joint environmental protection, session approved the mass media, and initiative of Rector of the humanitarian field. Lomonosov Moscow State University Viktor The forum will run through Sadovnichy to establish a 26 September. The CIS think tank that will deal organizers of the forum are with relevant issues facing the CIS Interstate the CIS member states. Humanitarian Cooperation Fund, the Government of The 8th Forum of Creative Belarus under the auspices and Academic Intellectuals of the President of Belarus, of the Commonwealth of the CIS Executive Independent States is held Committee, the National under the motto 2013 is the Academy of Sciences of Year of Ecological Culture Belarus, the Minsk City and Environmental Hall. Protection in the CIS. Partaking in the event are [Belarusian Telegraph delegations from ten CIS Agency] member states: representatives of creative leadership among youth with different backgrounds. representatives of Ireli PU and Azerbaijani Students and Alumni International Forum (ASAIF).
The joint session is among the numerous events that will be held in Belarus during the 8th Forum of Creative and Academic Intellectuals of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The participants of the session The older generation of the took stock of the activities creative and academic in 2013. They discussed the intellectuals knows each elaboration of the CIS other well. Therefore we humanitarian cooperation should create a platform to strategy and plans for 2014. enable the younger In this connection Chairman generation to communicate of the Humanitarian closely with each other, Cooperation Council, Polad Bulbuloglu said prior Belarus Information to the joint session of the Minister Oleg Proleskovsky Humanitarian Cooperation emphasized that one of the Council and the Board of major goals facing the the CIS Interstate creative and academic Humanitarian Cooperation intellectuals is to engage the
BULGARIA: BULGARIA RESHUFFLES FUNDS TO MAKE A SMALL DENT IN YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Sofia, 11th September 2013 - THE Bulgarian government said on September 11 that it was granting a further 104,000 leva (about 52 000 euro) to counter youth unemployment by assisting employers who hire people younger than 29 a step that it claims will create 300 education, must not have jobs for young people by been employed previously. the end of 2013. The period that the subsidy will be paid is from six to But the deal is not without 18 months. its strings, because those hired, while having the The decision was approved appropriate qualifications by the cabinet on September and secondary or higher 11, amending the 2013 National Action Plan for Employment. According to the government, the changes would mean jobs for 300 young people by the end of the year.
Labour bureau figures say that this year, of people up to the age of 24 who were unemployed, just less than eight per cent were university graduates. As at the end of July 2013, a total of 34 412 young people were registered as unemployed, according to official figures. Of these, 63.6 per cent had no qualifications, official figures said. Bulgaria earlier this year amended the Employment Promotion Act, introducing new incentives to support youth employment, in response to an EU Council recommendation on creation of a Youth Guarantee. the cabinet on September 11 is the result of reallocating reserves in the National Plan for Employment. Unemployment among men in this age bracket was 21.7 per cent and among women 21 per cent. Unemployment among women from 15 to In mid-August, the National 29 was three percentage Statistical Institute (NSI) points higher in Q2 2013 said that unemployment than in Q2 2012, while among Bulgarians aged 15 among men, it had dropped to 29 was 21.4 per cent in by one percentage point, the second quarter of 2013, according to the NSI. up 0.7 percentage points from Q2 2012. [Independent Balkan News Agency]
The funding for the amendments approved by
FINLAND: YFCU VICE PRESIDENT TREVOR CO -LEADS RURAL YOUTH PROJECT TO FINLAND Pori, 13th September 2013 WORKING in partnership with Antrim District Council and GROW (Generating Rural Opportunities Within South Antrim) the YFCU were recently involved in a second Rural Youth Project. YFCU Vice President Trevor Wilson, (Lisbellaw YFC), was team leader in the youth trip to Pori in Finland. This is his report: pigs. After visiting the farm we travelled to Yyerti Beach to go swimming in the Baltic Sea, then we went shopping in Pori and had dinner in Hesburger which is Finlands own version of McDonalds. To experience nature we One day we welcomed went for a hike through the members from Porin forest which ran from the kameraseura (Pori camera school at Kullaa up to a club) who shared their campsite beside a lake wealth of knowledge about where members of Pori photography, giving us tips Scouts helped us erect the The first week in August on how changing simple tents for the nights camping. saw 10 teenagers and three settings on a camera can However the leaders leaders from GROW South make flattering changes to a decided that the participants Antrim and Young Farmers photograph. We were also would prefer not to have Clubs of Ulster travel to shown how we can use leaders in the tents with Kullaa School of Forestry different objects to enhance them, so the leaders slept in near Pori in Western Finour photographs; however the comfortable beds in the land for a Rural Youth for some of us it may take a log cabins! Workshop with participants few more lessons. also from Estonia, France After the workshop was and Finland. The workshop We also had the opportunity over, the group from was delivered by Satkunta to visit an open farm where Northern Ireland had an 4H and the theme was we were able to experience afternoon in Helsinki where Nature and Photography. the day to day life of living we could sightsee in some on a farm in Finland, like of the historic parts of the While at Kullaa, the milking cows and feeding city before having dinner in participants got to make lots of friends from each of the countries by taking part in group activities which encouraged them to communicate with each other and find out about each others way of lives. the Hard Rock Caf. During the week it was great to see all the youth participants develop friendships and as a leader I can now see how important trips like these are, as by the end of the week the participants had become a lot less shy and a lot more comfortable in a strange environment. The participants and leaders would like to thank GROW South Antrim and YFCU for the opportunity to be involved in such a workshop. I really hope that the friendships made at this workshop will last for years to come and I encourage anyone that gets the opportunity to be a participant in such an event, to embrace the opportunity. [Farming Life]
IRELAND: LIMERICK YOUTH SERVICE HEADS EAST FOR MAJOR EVENT Limerick, 17th September 2013 - MEMBERS of the Limerick Youth Service joined more than 700 youngsters from 62 countries at a youth summit in the Ukraine. They were invited to attend the International Youth Summit at the Artek International Childrens Centre in the Crimea region of the Eastern European state. girl Chloe Gallagher, and South Circular Road lad Jacob Woulfe were part of Irelands first delegation at the summit, now in its 12th year. and discrimination by getting young people to experience and understand different nations and cultures at an early age.
Limerick youth worker The aim of the event was to Claire Donaldson, Askeaton tackle the issue of racism
Claire said despite the various language barriers, they struck up friendships with people from across the world. It was an amazing experience both for the young people and myself. We spent time a lot with young people and leaders from Andorra, India, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan; where else would you get that? she asked. Away from the workshops each country had a national days where they displayed aspects of their own culture through cuisine, music, dance and dress. Claire, Chloe and Jacob performed a live Irish gig - which aired live on Ukranian television. The young people also explored internet safety and the relationships between youngsters and the police in different countries. [Limerick Leader]
AUSTRALIA: EMPLOYMENT FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH ON THE TABLE Sydney, 16th September 2013 - NOT for Profits, business leaders, government decisionmakers and education providers will meet in Sydney to discuss solutions and strategies to increase youth employment especially for disadvantaged youth. unstable, low paid employment for the rest of their lives, he said. Thats not good for the young people, and its not good for our economy. Weve set out actions to equip all Australians with the right skills and education to boost participation, create more productive and innovative workplaces and foster better relationships between employers and employees. Another speaker at the conference is Employment and Social Policy Consultant Toni Wren who believes its important to understand one of the main causes of rising youth unemployment is the loss of full-time jobs for young people due to structural changes in the labour market over the past 20 years. In 1990, two-thirds of teenagers who had left fulltime education held a fulltime job. Now, less than half do, Wren said. We cant bring those jobs back but we need to better equip our young people for the jobs that are available now and in the future. That means more effective education and training opportunities and support for those who are at risk of dropping out. Solutions are needed. One of them might be found in a better understanding of the corporate sectors needs and the implementation of the corresponding training to work transitions for young people. Smart strategies are needed to keep young people in school but also to re-engage in education those who have left prematurely so they can gain the skills they need for the jobs that are available. I believe that system needs to be more demand-led. That means starting with employers and working backwards to develop a pipeline of qualified job seekers. [Pro Bono Australia News]
One speaker will be Business Council of Australia (BCA) Chief Executive Jennifer Investing in Youth Westacott who will talk Employment Conference about the BCAs work to will run from September 19 bring together economic -20 and will include guest and social policy so that speakers and two youth groups of Australians dont panels who will give their get left behind. opinions and advice on employment issues. In developing our Action Plan for Enduring Michael Coffey, the CEO of Prosperity the BCA felt that the peak body for youth we needed to re-prosecute homelessness sector in the case that without NSW - Yfoundations, said economic growth Australia youth unemployment is a will not be able to solve complex and stubborn many of the social problems problem, which cannot be that our society faces, in solved by simplistic particular unemployment, interventions. Westacott said. If young people dont get the experiences and exposure they need early on, they are statistically more likely to remain in Suva, 27th September 2013 ONE of the government's strategic directions for 2014 is to strengthen the partnership between the Youth and Sports and Social Welfare ministries to create new platforms for youth empowerment. One of the aspirations we spell out in the plan is for Australia to have the most skilled and educated workers in the world.
FIJI: YOUTH ACTIVITY PLANS inculcate the positive change in the mind-sets of youths today, to empower them to become self-reliant and gender-sensitive," he said. "The youths of this nation are our investment for the future and it is equally important to equip the youths towards ensuring socioeconomic development sustainability." In addition, Mr Sania said in the quest to achieve excellence in its service delivery, the meeting enabled executive staff to put together a consolidated effort to refine and project the strategic direction for 2014. "The mainstreaming of excellence within the ministry, irrespective of levels of operation, will ensure we truly embrace and practise what we preach. "The Ministry of Youth and Sports, together with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Women, are both classified under government's social sector and connect in many defined and informal ways; these include gender equality and empowerment, poverty alleviation and social justice." [The Fiji Times Online]
"The Ministry of Youth and Sports further anticipates on addressing reproductive This was the proposition by health services at the Youth and Sports Ministry community level through permanent secretary Joseva maximum utilisation of the Sania at the closing of a existing women's networks strategic planning exercise and mechanisms of the to scrutinise the annual Ministry of Women as well corporate plan meeting for as the established youth 2014. network at divisional and district levels. "A key strategy is to
GUAM: STRIDES FOR THE CURE AND GUAM CANCER CARE TEAM UP TO FIGHT CANCER IN OCTOBER Hagatna, 20th September 2013 - OCTOBER is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and it's going to start with a lot of pink this year for Guam! independent and focusing on educating the youth of Guam. This year, we're teaming up with Cancer Care and we're becoming one unit to focus on educating the youth to Strides for the Cure and prevent the rise of cancer on Guam Cancer Care are Guam," stated Founder of teaming up this year with Strides for the Cure Donna events underway such as the Baker. 12th Annual 2K and 5K Run/Walk, 2nd Annual Get So far reaching 1500 Your Pink On & Join the students, the two Fight Wave, and ending it organizations have been with a health fair. targeting the public schools' 3rd and 4th graders with "We're joined together. That their "Koko Challenge", was the big announcement which promotes exercise this year. Strides for the among the students. Baker Cure has always been explained, "It challenges the children to compete against each other in races, relays, games and different activities while educating them that a healthy lifestyle will deter their chances of getting cancer, diabetes and heart diseases which are the top three killers of people on Guam." Terry Cuabo, Executive Director of Guam Cancer Care, stated, "Teaming up with Donna from Strides for the Cure was a response to the fact that majority of our clients are coming in later stages of cancer and that's why we think Guam has to take a more proactive approach in the fight against cancer." They both say that the goal is to take a more proactive approach by changing the mindset of the youth and raising awareness to knock out cancer right before it starts. [Pacific News Center]
NEW ZEALAND: ANNAH MAC AT YOUTH FORUM Winton, 27th September 2013 - SOUTHLAND singer Annah Mac and actor Tim Foley worked with youth in Winton today at a Southland District Youth Council forum. from rural backgrounds. Today Waiau Area School, Northern Southland College, Aparima College and Central Southland College students were treated to a morning of workshops with Annah Mac, Tim Foley and James Beck. who has singles in the top 40 charts. New Zealand actor Tim Foley is known for his role on Shorthand Street and has recently landed a gig in Hollywood produced film Jack and The Beanstalk. social issues with secondary school students. [stuff.co.nz]
The forum, 'Follow Your Dreams' gives senior high school students the James Beck is a opportunity to talk with Annah Mac is a local spokesperson from Attitude successful actors, musicians Southland singer/songwriter for Schools which explores SAMOA: EMPOWERING SAMOAN YOUTH ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Apia, 2nd September 2013 SAMOAN youth in Apia are getting ready to speak out about climate change.
30 students from three schools are taking part in a training workshop for the Action Against Climate Change initiative. For the next three months they will work on creating TV-documentaries, radio programs or newspaper stories about climate change and its impacts on the country.
Joelle Auffray is the co-founder of Apidae Development Innovations, the organisation leading the initiative.
She says it will give the youth an opportunity for their voices to be heard by the community and key decision makers. [ABC Radio Australia]
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Loveless : A Film Review
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev, 124 mins, Cast: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov.
A continent unseen
As winters black and white poles contrast the snow covered land and roads blend into fields the view in the opening of Loveless is of a lake with fallen trees alongside tall leafless ones. Beside them runs a pathway with lampposts high and marking out a route between neighbourhoods. On the horizon as the film scopes out tower blocks of mass housing and the community of a modern Russian city appear. It moves onto a scene where a school discharges into the afternoon Alyosha and his friends are despatched from a careworn rudimentary education positing a regular uncared existence of a society in its own limbo. The vastness of Russia occurs to me in reflection, from St Petersburg in its isolated North Western location from the Urals to the Soviet Kazakhstan and the lands forested and regionally contested over centuries where socialism became a lost ideology, this modernity is playing out right now.
When Director Andrei Zvyagintsev says : ‘Living in Russia is like being in a minefield’ it seems futile to suggest it is a generality after viewing this film. The horror of that is where the Leviathan director takes us. Into the minefield. Exploding tropes and myths by using frameworks of cinema familiar to audiences seeing drama of the most perturbingly psychological kind where films – L’Avventura, Scenes from a Marriage are mentioned as similar themes, take us in it is gloriously but troublingly insightful.
Emptying
A couple are in the process of separating, Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) Boris, (Aleksey Rozin) and on hearing an argument, itself a witness to his solitude and the lack of love from his parents, 12-year-old boy Alyosha (Matvey Novikov) goes missing. The household is in a uniformly drab tower block and he is seen initially wistfully looking out over the winter cloak of white snow into the deep horizon of a vast Russian urbanity from his bedroom. The forest and nature is a form of consolation but his world is made ever more harsh by the insensitivity of the mother and father whose only child Alyosha is, giving him little love or conversation. Zhenya has moved on, Boris has moved on and while they embark on selling their comfortable apartment, the despairing ‘elephant in the room’ taking care of Alyosha, hovers and causes even more antagonism which Alyosha is an unfortunate witness to. Ignored and distraught he disappears with the abandonment itself becoming an almost fated outcome given the weaknesses and the couples selfishness.
Boris has a new partner and it’s a bit of deja vu with love and kisses for him like ‘starting over’. His younger companion is less sure and new to the expectations of making a home. She is also a step removed but not as far as Zhenya, from her own mother. Some of the pleasant rites of passage are visible in her outlook and it is not played or cast as naivety but as raw concern of new horizons. In the case of Zhenya her partner has a daughter reached only by Skype whose fortune is outside Russia. He is a oligarch type or class protected older man living in a futuristic ‘dacha’ which allows his thai chi to evolve. Zhenya has a protector and savior after the mistake she made hastily leaving home and her cantankerous mother for Boris it appears.
Measured scenes
The film follows relentlessly the intensity of emotions clashing around the central loss of Alyosha. His disappearance heightens the immediacy of untangling the weave and knots of a broken loveless marriage. Each scene is carefully economically placed in a line of almost fated tragedy but the inferences and questions which arose are put to the viewer as whether or not a good outcome will materialise. As a type the film could be categorized as a procedural crime thriller but as Andrei Zvyagintsev insists through his artful direction it is much bolder and thought entangling.
The tension throughout is heart felt and the possibilities of loss are slowly dawning on and emerging from the recesses of Boris and Zhenya’s insular thoughts. From the moment the rescuers come on board an cautious element of optimism, ever so small but present arrives – after a very well handled portrayal of the police element – a huge and stoic but helpful officer puts the cards on the table as to the probabilities and the needed actions. The apparatus of Policing is as tough as nails the film proposes but their is goodness within.
With the form of a crime drama this Russian hiatus of intense emotional drama is a warning of how brutal our world is becoming. The themes of realism in concert with dark nationalist, unrelenting Religious angst ridden theocracies, our complaint and complacent conformity is shockingly portrayed through the medium of a lost child.
Disappearance is a wholly unconscionable notion for a parent whose duty is foremost the child while the breakdown of their aspirations affect the state of their family unit. The forces around allow freedom of individual choice. The central protagonist is Boris, (Aleksey Rozin) a lookalike Fidel Castro. I recently learnt of the early demise through mental illness that the late Fidel Castro’s son who bore a striking resemblance to him recently took his own life. Boris is not easy to like and his workplace environment is a large corporate type well heeled office and it appears as though his job is to create fake news. The whole building is in the process of regurgitating propaganda for the Government via. an agency run by a Religious zealot whose compromises regarding family issues are finite. Zhenya is in charge of a Beauty salon and is in an orbit of similar disappointments as conversations with her employees draw out lines of dissatisfaction but in a pleasant stoical way. Society is to blame. In the background, sometimes foreground there are TV broadcasts of Russia going wrong and the outsiders being to blame. Society is to blame but not their own society. Rebellions are put down and countered by the fake diet of news the outlets spill out.
This vastness of the Directors ‘minefield’ is part of the bewilderment that franks this film. How the individual is facing contested self image, from the day they are born through a fixed national identity from which it is virtually without moving away to escape. Escape routes are taken in parts of the story but none are a satisfactory retreat or utopian alternative. It is a quarter of a century on since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The currency of the occupation and sequestration of the Crimea is seen here. The former autonomous republic of the Soviet Union, now a region of Ukraine, is configured into the narrative to show the lack of progress and the democratic deficit apparent through the world to observers. The West as ‘actors’ may maliciously have a hand in the Crimea annex but whether it does or not is merely a statement of man made divisions.
There then is the fate of the individual in the context of family and in a wider sense extrapolated here in the workplace where Boris is in a setting where family is a signal of unity of purpose and it is given a religious slant here also. The Lutheran idea of individualism is challenged by the preorder of Catholicism and adherence without scrutiny. The theory is that (Protestant suicide attributed to free spirits) the greater concessions a confessional group, the less it (Russia) dominates lives, the less its cohesion and vitality makes to individual judgement. In this film it is perhaps being said that – without the suicidal propensity angle – that the weakness of the mind when empowered by thinking and ‘sensible’ things developing reflective powers renders them susceptible to morbid impressions. So is the film portraying in a minor part of its vast observation that there is a failure arising in individuals not accepting their affinity within community and necessary interplay? There is the added dilemma of the titles presence itself. Lovelessness existing maybe because the lack of self control, earlier as youths when bad choices were made and for intractable headstrong reasons – or finding in their individuality sensations and temporary joy from exploration and satiated desires. Such pitfalls are almost arbitrary in most lives. The form of the film is of it taking time and taking an external view of the many sexual intercourses – they are short on words and are for the most part in one take – makes me think the intensity of the pleasure seeking is being portrayed paramount as each characters driver. There is time taken also after intercourse when to differing degrees they express their new found love as a place where they are safe from the outside. So what does it say about the presence of love in a place where other sacrifices are made for the common ‘good’. The male is seen to ignore these emotions as the society is harmful from whichever way you look so they take it as it’s found, by finding also what they seek. The family togetherness is implicit. The detachment from the birth family is evident in each relationship.
When the disappearance of Alyosha happens another element takes on huge significance. In the absence of a ‘proper’ process of police management of the required intensive searches it is the whole community who rally voluntarily and in a shape which is performed to take charge of every forensic and civil aspect of the search. This is again implicit of the community in service for others. Where the state has failed this is the alarmingly professional organised communities answer. Therein implies the strength of Russians beyond the stereotypes of indolence and trammeled individuals found routinely. Each has forsaken their time and individual diversions, needs, to focus on finding Alyosha. They have his welfare in mind untiringly.
A hero emerges in the form of a leader of the large community unit in the shape of a pragmatic and smart coordinator, veteran (Aleksey Fateev). Some of the most harrowing scenes are during the period of the searches and stoic stark raw emotions grip with the growing tension of not finding Alyosha. The searches are coordinated and segmented and woven into the parallel story of the couples breakup and their new relationships forming and the connections each has with their ‘estranged’ families.
The world itself is not loveless but a host to our misguided often secular illusions.
There is then the division individuals within a family unit is on trial and this is central to the films narrative.
Plausible synecdoche
Russia is both a place and an image. The Sochi Olympics in 2014 came into play in Loveless in a simple but significant role. The tracksuit top which the freshly reinvented and reborn Zhenya wears as she steps onto her outdoor treadmill at her lovers and now her home, is a Bosco white and red shock of the new top. Emblazoned with Russia across it the notion – it is symbolic – is challenged by its director Andrei Zvyagintsev as a mere coincidence of our times. Without synecdoche it would not amount to a message of any kind he mildly insists. An actor from the town of Novosibirsk he is responsible as one of the most respected directors of his time in putting out work which is formative and provocative and using storytelling from the initial success, The Return, (2003) about brotherly tensions on reengaging with their father on a fishing holiday, through The Banishment, (2007) Elena, (2011) which is a story of a capital class and marital gloom, to the large scope of examination in rural Russia of Leviathan, (2014) marking a tense conflict in expansive steepes uniquely epic in its portrait of a Russian psyche. The beast is universal, a sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif, in the obvious mode of Thomas Hobbes philosophical treatise on the organisation of society politically. It floats and pins you and grabs you by the throat with unsettling force. Ballet never was meant to be pure and white as the Russians understood, understand.
If talk of synecdoche is to be made it is only on reflection due to the cinematic exposure and storytelling quality found often in Russian novels from Gogol to Solzhenitsyn and the play’s we are accustomed to seeing being replaced in this time by art of a different luminosity. Film has come a long way to provide other than features in the pleasuredome. Conflicted memories and historical propaganda are challenges filmmakers can treat with the memes of our times. In Loveless, Siri gets a question, so the Oracle is in the detail of storytelling in a candid frank and shocking way not for pure entertainment or underpinning presumption or prejudice. We are as my review of Loveless pressed, 25 years on from the dissolution of the Soviet Union and with sport being the glue of the masses, sans Cicero, about to embark on a post Sochi, World Cup, Andrei Zvyagintsev is probably more concerned with us getting his first name right, Andrey or Andrei, than fixating on the politics which inevitably come with filmmaking. The production of his work takes many players to embrace the work for multiple reasons. Factor in the Russian state support of only Leviathan his task is difficult enough. Shaping the story in a plausible and parallel synecdoche path is a skill which we can ourselves welcome and be fortunate to be presented with. No one actually makes or draws similarities between the films in their construct but it is a common theme to appreciate the human examination in a fully coherent form is achieved in each individual work. When asked about his politics he is clear in those separations given his role is as a filmmaker not as a protagonist or spokesperson for a viewpoint. He considers for example the period over which he has developed his oeuvre. “In the 1990’s there were real hopes. But now, with the re-Stalinisation and the re-Sovietisation, there are negative tendencies.” *. In the report noted it is recollected by Andrei Zvyagintsev the appeal of the mirrors reflection is undeniably at times unattractive. Something un-contestable..
*via. translation in Irish Times 07.02.18 interview, Donald Clarke.
The simple form this film takes draws you into the harrowing story of the disappearance of a 12 year old boy and provides an unsettling experience seldom found in cinema. With Director Andrei Zvyagintsev‘s commitment to delving into the conditions faced by his fellow Russians. The political constraints and formation of society detaching itself through state indifference and corruption from the family of community is foresaken in the materialistic pursuits found on the edges. The individual is found floundering and having lost the direction of shaping a meaningful life. In the disappearance of a Alyosha many realities become exposed.
For the viewer, this one, it is compassion which is driving through this film despite the invidious world of circumstances and is seen through the societal response. The true egalitarian response when harm is encountered. The edginess of the relationships pale into – albeit parallel dominions of supposed utopian thinking – minor concerns. The real protagonist is the duel of state and the suppression of the individual and at what cost is the freedom sought to be accounted for. The polarities are Religious, Molecular, Unknowns, Universal and contribute to a very vexing movie. It was hard to sympathise with the couple at its heart yet there was some sign of they felt enormous pain and an outcome would be found to satiate the pessimism and sense of disorder that grew as the film progressed. What outcome is likely. You will have to sit gripped through its daunting telling to find out and draw your own conclusions. A spiritual minefield.
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Alabama Newspaper Makes Horrible Joke in Headline About Rape
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An Alabama news outlet is apologizing after an extremely awful joke made it into the headline of a story about a rape.
On Sunday, AL.com (which includes coverage from The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times, Mobile's Press-Register and others) published this story about the arrest of two men accused of a brutal rape in Guntersville. The victim was raped and thrown into a ditch by her assailants. It's a particularly horrific story that presumably requires a level of sensitivity to the subject matter. However, somewhere in the process of publishing this story to the website, someone thought it would be a good idea to make a joke in the headline.
The original headline (as shown in the screencap above) read: "Guntersville men faces charges of rape, sodomy after assaulting, then —literally—ditching intoxicated girl."
Literally ditching her. It's really hard to see who thought this was a good idea or why, exactly. After receiving complaints, AL.com quickly apologized and changed the headline.
When we talk about rape culture, these are the kinds of things we mean. Is this the absolute worst, most evil thing that could ever happen? No, of course not. This instance is probably just one person (or perhaps a few) making a stupid decision because they lack the empathy and awareness to understand how serious the topic is. It's just one more example of the collective callousness in a society where rape victims are ignored, second guessed or just plain laughed off on a regular basis.
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The Adaptive Farming and Communities Policy team brings together work on policy to design interventions to support change on farms, including policy to design extension services, and integrated farm planning.
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Changing Holiday Trends in 2014
British attitudes to the annual summer holiday have been put under the microscope thanks to the results of a new survey into the holiday habits of people across Britain. The study, which surveyed the holiday habits of 61,000 people across the country, found some starting results in terms of destination, accommodation preferences length of holiday, and the popularity of last minute holidays 2014.
The study of British holiday habits has found that the traditional two week break in the sun that has traditionally been very popular with families across the country could be set to die out, as within 10 years, the popular ‘mini break' will dominate the holiday market. Meanwhile, the study has also predicted that holidays will become more multi-generational by 2023, with more families set to travel with parents, grandparents and children.
While holidays may be getting shorter, more and more holidaymakers are set to stop heading abroad, as the rise of the so-called ‘staycation', sometimes known as ‘holidaying from home' takes hold, which grew by 61% in 2013, compared to 2012, thanks to many families feeling the pinch of the government's ongoing austerity measures. However, unlike the tradition of booking just one annual holiday abroad, families could take as many as three of four staycations a year, each lasting around four days. This could also be due to our increasingly hectic working lives; with seemingly fewer people being able to book holidays that last one week or longer.
Changing attitudes to holidays are also evident in the booking process; the earliest part of holiday preparations. While when, where and how consumers book their holidays has always been a personal decision based on financial and other reasons, the survey revealed that last minute holidays remain popular. However, while last minute trips are still readily available, as with the rest of the survey's findings, consumers are choosing to book last minute trips to other destinations in the UK, as opposed to abroad.
One of the most surprising things about the study is the accommodation that holidaymakers are choosing is becoming increasingly unusual and unique. For example, there has been a substantial increase in people choosing to stay in non-traditional accommodation, such as windmills, old train carriages and even lighthouses, which have proven especially popular and useful with people booking holidays in coastal areas, such as Cornwall.
While the results of this survey have made for surprising reading, they point to changing trends in booking holidays and point to the importance of outside forces, such as financial pressures and personal choice proving to be the most influential on consumers this year. However, the ongoing popularity of last minute holidays 2014, and the rise of the staycation, reveals that British holidaymakers are opting to save money by booking as last minute as possible, as well as sacrificing the sun and luxury of foreign holidays with more adventurous accommodation in the heart of the UK.
But what next for Britain's holidaymakers? Will 2015 be the year that consumers start heading back abroad? Only time will tell.
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Nepal Trekking Routes
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The trek to Everest Base Camp is one of the best treks that Nepal can offer to any seasoned trekker. The highlight of the popular trek remains incredible views of Himalayan peaks like Everest, Ama Dablam, Lhotse and many more. Hiking past alpine forests, full of ancient oak and pine trees, you'll make your way along the Dudhkoshi River. For a week spent inside the Sagarmatha National Park, you'll trek past icy glaciers and herds of massive yaks, you'll spend nights in rustic tea-houses full of charm, eventually reaching the base of Mt. Everest.
Another highlight of the trek, you'll scale the Kala Patthar mountain, positioned opposite Mt. Everest, to get a glorious sun rise view of the Himalayan range.
NOTE: All prices in this package are subject to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking.
The tallest mountain peak in the world, Mt. Everest, has captured the fancy of trekkers for centuries. This trek takes you to the location where mountaineers attempting the summit set up their base camp. The route to the Everest Base Camp takes you inside the Sagarmatha National Park, overgrown with sprawling forests of oak, pine, rhododendron and bamboo with alpine birds chirping throughout.
The Everest Base Camp trek is a tea-house trek. Instead of camping in tents, you'll spend the night in family-run, local tea-houses that offer basic amenities for stay and food.
• Earn bragging rights of the trek to Everest Base Camp.
• Explore trails and routes in the Sagarmatha National Park.
• Catch gorgeous views of Himalayan giants like Everest, Ama Dablam and more.
• Trek to Kala Patthar to view a glorious sun rise over the Himalayas.
Travellers are requested to treat the local culture with respect and avoid littering, defacing property and monuments and causing general disturbance.
Travellers are required to follow instructions of the trek leader during the Everest Base Camp trek.
Consumption of alcohol and drugs is strictly prohibited during the trek. Consumption of tobacco products like cigarettes is not recommended.
All cancellations made after booking the Everest Base Camp trek: no refund.
In case of no show: no refund.
Instead of cancelling the initial booking, travellers may use the booking amount to book any alternate trek with the tour operator. This offer is valid for a period of one year after the initial booking, and may be subject to a transfer fee.
Instead of cancelling the initial booking, travellers may transfer their spot to another eligible traveller as well.
It is mandatory for travellers to obtain complete adventure travel insurance, covering personal accident, medical expenses and emergency evacuation charges.
Travellers from outside Nepal are requested to carry enough cash in the local currency to cover any personal or incidental expenses.
The tour operator reserves the right to alter or cancel the itinerary of the Everest Base Camp trek due to any unforeseen circumstances to ensure maximum safety of travellers and staff. Costs arising due to such a change in itinerary are borne by the traveller.
The tour operator takes utmost care to ensure maximum safety for travellers and will not be responsible for any accident, mishap or loss of life during the trek to Everest Base Camp.
All prices displayed are subject to fluctuations based on international currency exchange rates at the time of booking. Accordingly, prices may be subject to a foreign currency premium/discount.
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Day 1 of the Everest Base camp trek: Arrive in Kathmandu
Arrive at the Kathmandu International Airport, where you'll be picked up by a representative of the tour operator and escorted to a hotel. Spend the rest of the day at leisure. Venture in the city to explore the local marketplace or visit restaurants to taste the traditional cuisine. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Day 2 of the Everest Base camp trek: Kathmandu to Phakding
Wake up, bright and early, and travel to the airport. You'll board a domestic flight to Lukla, with beautiful birds eye views of the mountains. Once you reach Lukla, you'll begin the trek to Phakding. Walking through forests of oak and pine, you'll trek past pleasant views of the terrain. The chirping of alpine birds will accompany you throughout the trek, even as you reach Phakding by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Phakding.
Day 3 of the Everest Base camp trek: Phakding to Namche Bazaar
Today's journey will take you to the gateway town of Namche Bazaar. Entering the Sagarmatha National Park, you'll breath in the crispy mountain air and take the path parallel to the Dudhkoshi River. As you cross suspension bridges over the river, you'll catch your first glimpse of the big mountain, the Everest. You'll encounter an especially tedious, uphill climb in the final stretch of the trail, until you reach Namche Bazaar. Overnight in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar.
Day 4 of the Everest Base camp trek: Day at Namche Bazaar
The day is reserved for you to rest and acclimatize to Namche's high altitude. Explore the sights and sounds of the town by taking a short hike to visit the Everest View Hotel, the highest hotel in the world. Panoramic views of the peaks like Everest, Ama Dablam, Lhotse and others will dominate the distant horizon. In the evening, relax at one of the cosy cafes or pubs of Namche with your fellow trekkers. Overnight in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar.
Day 5 of the Everest Base camp trek: Namche Bazaar to Tengboche
Begin your day with a fairly gentle trek towards Tengboche. Forests painted in all shades of green and brown, with pines and magnolia, pepper your trail to Tengboche. Ever spectacular views of higher mountain peaks like Nuptse and Thamserku will fade in and out of view along the trail. En route, you'll visit the 300-year old monastery of Tengboche, where Everest climber Tenzing Norway once lived as a monk. Overnight in a tea-house at Tengboche.
Day 6 of the Everest Base camp trek: Tengboche to Dingboche
Today's trek will take you to the village of Dingboche. The initial stretch of the trail takes you downhill via Debouche and Pangboche. As the route resumes a steady march uphill, the dense greenery begins thinning into sparse vegetation. Giant boulders, patches of snow and barren slopes begin dominating the view. Overnight in a tea-house at Dingboche.
Day 7 of the Everest Base camp trek: Day at Dingboche
The day is reserved for you to rest and acclimatize to Dingboche's high altitude. Explore the sights and sounds of the region by taking a short hike to the nearby Pangboche valley. Along the route, you can spot several yaks plying on the trail and stop to chat with the Sherpa natives that herd the yaks. Return back to Dingboche by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Dingboche.
Day 8 of the Everest Base camp trek: Dingboche to Lobuche
The trek from Dingboche to Lobuche is a straight, easy trail through open lands. Alongside small river streams and increasingly large patches of ice, you'll grab beautiful views of higher peaks and reach Lobuche. En route, stop to pay respect at the memorials erected in tribute of the mountaineers who have perished in their quest to summit Mt. Everest. Overnight in tea-house at Lobuche.
Day 9 of the Everest Base camp trek: Lobuche to Gorakshep via EBC
One of the longest stretches of the trek, today's itinerary will take you to the Everest Base Camp. Trekking over the rocky trail, you'll make your way parallel to the Khumbu glacier. Negotiating your way around rocks and boulders, you'll reach the site of the Everest Base Camp. After half an hour spent to admire the views and breath in the moment, you'll turn around and trek to the nearby lodges of Gorakshep. Overnight in a tea-house at Gorakshep.
Day 10 of the Everest Base camp trek: Gorakshep to Pheriche via Kala Patthar
Begin trekking in the moonlight, as early as 04:00 hrs, and take the strenuous, uphill route up the Kala Patthar mountain. You'll arrive at a view point on the mountain, a short distance away from the summit, just in time for a glorious sun rise. You'll get panoramic views of entire Himalayan range. Descend back to Gorakshep and continue onward to the village of Pheriche. Overnight in a tea-house at Pheriche.
Day 11 of the Everest Base camp trek: Pheriche to Namche Bazaar
Make your way down to Namche Bazaar. A long but easy trek, you'll leave Mt. Everest behind and begin the descent. You'll retrace your steps over the familiar route and reach Namche by late afternoon. Overnight in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar.
Day 12 of the Everest Base camp trek: Namche Bazaar to Lukla
Continue descending and retrace your steps back from Namche to Lukla. Passing the villages of Phakding and Monjo, you'll exit the Sagarmatha National Park and conclude the trek at Lukla. Overnight in a tea-house at Lukla.
Day 13 of the Everest Base camp trek: Lukla to Kathmandu
Early in the morning, you'll board a domestic flight from Lukla to Kathmandu. You'll spend the rest of the day at leisure. Shop for souvenirs and gifts at the local marketplace or visit some of the heritage monuments of Kathmandu. Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Day 14 of the Everest Base camp trek: Depart from Kathmandu
Depending on your flight timings, you'll take an airport transfer back to the airport and proceed to your next destination. Your trip ends here.
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Accommodation in a hotel in Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis
Accommodation in basic tea-houses while trekking on multi-sharing basis
All meals from breakfast on day 2 to breakfast on day 13, plus dinner on day 13 and breakfast on day 14
Services of experienced trek leader and support staff
Services of porters/mules to carry personal luggage of maximum 12 kgs per traveller
All government permits and charges
International payment transfer fees
Travel arrangements between your home city and Kathmandu Airport
Any meals not included in the package
Travel insurance (mandatory)
Nepal visa charges and arrangements
Personal expenses such as gear, apparel, extra meals and beverages etc.
Costs due to unforeseen circumstances such as bad weather, natural calamities etc.
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Waterproof trekking shoes
Spare laces
Full-sleeved t-shirts/shirts
Full-length track pants/trousers
Thermal wear and sweater
Raincoat or poncho
Expensive jewellery and gadgets
Hard luggage like trolley bags, suitcases etc.
Private vehicle for airport transfers in Kathmandu
Technical and safety gear required during the trek, if any
Dry snacks (biscuits, plum cake etc.)
Sun screen lotion and lip balm
Light towel and napkins
Torch with batteries
Sun cap/hat
Combination lock for bags
Basic first aid kit
Large plastic bags
Trekking poles (optional)
Extra money in local currency
Overnight in a hotel at Kathmandu.
Arrive and rest in Kathmandu. Depending on your flight timings, a representative of the tour operator will escort you to your hotel. You'll be accommodated in a hotel at Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. Since no meals are included in today's package, you may visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have meals at your own expense.
Overnight in a tea-house at Phakding.
Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla and trek to Phakding. Adverse weather conditions may cause delays in the flight timings from Kathmandu to Lukla. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Phakding. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Overnight in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar.
Trek from Phakding to Namche Bazaar. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar. Depending on availability at the tea-houses and your group size, accommodation may be in twin-sharing or triple/quad-sharing basis. If unavailable, accommodation may be changed to multi-sharing dormitory rooms. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Spend the day at Namche Bazaar. You'll be accommodated in the same tea-house as yesterday. A tea-house room will include basic amenities like a bed and bed sheet. Several trekkers prefer to bring their own sleeping bag to use during overnight stay in tea-houses. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Overnight in a tea-house at Tengboche.
Trek from Namche Bazaar to Tengboche. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Tengboche. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Meals are usually served from an a-la carte menu at the tea-house. Egg preparations will be available on most days.
Overnight in a tea-house at Dingboche.
Trek from Tengboche to Dingboche. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Dingboche. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. While non-vegetarian preparations will be available on some days, travellers are advised to only consume vegetarian options due to concerns of health and safety.
Spend the day at Dingboche. You'll be accommodated in the same tea-house as yesterday. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner. Please make sure to carry enough cash in local currency to cover any personal and incidental expenses.
Overnight in a tea-house at Loboche.
Trek from Dingboche to Lobuche. Throughout the trek, you'll be accompanied by an experienced trek leader and a support staff of cooks, porters and helpers. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Loboche. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Overnight in a tea-house at Gorakshep.
Trek from Lobuche to Gorakshep. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Gorakshep. In most tea-house accommodations, washroom facilities will be common to all guests at the tea-house. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Overnight in a tea-house at Pheriche.
Trek from Gorakshep to Pheriche. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Pheriche. A tea-house is a local, family-run lodge offering basic services of stay and food. They cater entirely to trekkers and mountaineers plying the route. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Trek from Pheriche to Namche Bazaar. Throughout the trek, you'll be accompanied by porters who will carry your personal luggage. One porter will be assigned to two travellers, carrying a maximum weight of 25 kgs. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Namche Bazaar. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Overnight in a tea-house at Lukla.
Trek from Namche Bazaar to Lukla. Celebrate the successful end of your trek to Everest Base Camp. You'll be accommodated in a tea-house at Lukla. Today's meal package includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Fly from Lukla to Kathmandu. You'll be accommodated in a hotel at Kathmandu on twin-sharing basis. Today's meal package includes breakfast and a farewell dinner at a popular restaurant in Kathmandu. You may visit any of the restaurants in Kathmandu to have extra meals at your own expense.
Your trip ends before nightfall.
Today's meal package includes breakfast only. Your trip ends here.
No meals are provided today
Kathmandu is well-connected to most major cities of the world via flights to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport (KTM). For Indian travellers, most major air carriers operate daily flights from New Delhi and with similar frequency from other cities as well.
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The tour operator will arrange your transport to the start point of the Everest Base Camp trek.
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“The Asphalt Jungle”: The best laid plans of some very tough men go awry
John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” was one of the first great heist films, paving the way for “Rififi,” “Bob Le Flambeur” and later “Ocean’s 11” and a ton more.
But those viewers used to the fun of a heist movie will be surprised by how melancholy “The Asphalt Jungle,” now out in a new Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, Consider the end of Steven Soderbergh’s “11” remake, where Danny Ocean and his 10 confederates take a moment in front of the fountains at the Bellagio, “Clare de Lune” playing, to wordlessly celebrate a job well done before they smile and part ways.
In “Jungle,” there is no such moment of victory. Each of the conspirators play out their own string separately, ending in quiet failure, alone, the world largely indifferent.
Set in an unnamed Midwestern city (it was filmed in Cincinnati), the caper to steal over a million dollars in jewels is masterminded by Doc (Sam Jaffe), an avuncular German just out of prison. He gets wealthy lawyer Emmerich (Louis Calhern) to agree to fund the robbery and fence the jewels afterwards. The team includes a getaway driver (James Whitmore), a safecracker (Anthony Caruso) and some muscle in the form of Dix (Sterling Hayden), a snarling ex-country boy who hopes to buy his family’s horse farm back with the proceeds.
But what we know even before the heist begins, but the players don’t, is that Emmerich is deep in debt and plans to double cross the team after the heist is over. That foreknowledge adds an air of fatalism to the movie’s crisp 11-minute heist sequence, in which the criminals meticulously and flawlessly steal the jewels. Well, almost meticulously — the safecracker is accidentally gutshot during a skirmish with a policeman.
That one mishap ends up spelling doom for the entire team, and the real tension in “The Asphalt Jungle” is watching how, one by one, they fail. Each man’s fate is like it’s own mordant little short story. Emmerich is found out by the police and ends up taking his own life, but not before writing a tender suicide note to his wife — and then tearing it to bits. A bleeding Dix makes it back to the horse farm, and dies in the pasture, the horses idly sniffing at his corpse.
And, in the ending that haunts me the most, Doc very nearly gets away when he inexplicably gets distracted by a teenage girl dancing in a roadhouse, giving the cops the precious few minutes they need to catch up with him. In the end, law enforcement seems to play a very minor role in the film and in the criminals’ capture — what gets them in the end is their own human nature, the weaknesses and obsessions they can’t get away scot-free from.
The Criterion Collection Blu-ray looks exceptional, capturing how Huston and cinematographer Harold Rosson mix empty, expressionistic long shots of the city with tight, claustrophobic shots of the conspirators in small rooms, their faces often looming into the foreground. The Criterion disc also includes a lengthy inteview with film noir historian Eddie Muller and a commentary track from historian Drew Casper, along with archival interviews with Huston.
In the end, what’s so striking about “The Asphalt Jungle” isn’t the clockwork heist at its center, but the tenderness with which the film treats these tough, doomed men. After all, as Emmerich says ruefully, “Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.”
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Wine tourism is big for the Bordeaux region. Now, spectactular architecture is drawing visitors who have not yet discovered the joys of the grape.
An excited quacking erupts from the reeds. On the manmade lake outside the wine cellar at Château Les Carmes Haut-Brion, three ducks are having a noisy race to see which of them can make it around this futuristic building first. The four-story oval building projects far into the water, its outer wall clad with bronze-colored aluminum panels. This building in Bordeaux bears a strong resemblance to a submarine, but it could also be the blade of a plow, cutting a furrow in the fertile soil of the Bordeaux region. Philippe Starck, the internationally acclaimed industrial designer and co-architect on this project, cleverly describes it as a “non-building” designed to blend into its surroundings. Indeed, there are moments when the clouds, the sun and the nearby vineyards are reflected so harmoniously in the glittering facade that the building – around 80 meters long and nearly 12 meters high – is rendered virtually invisible.
This shimmering giant is just one of many brilliant strokes of architectural genius to be found in the wine estates around Bordeaux. For the past decade, the ambitious architectural elite of France have been immortalizing themselves in the famous wine region; even some of their famous colleagues from abroad have followed suit. To the left and right of the Garonne, where the vineyards seem to go on forever and some of the world’s most illustrious and expensive red wines rest aging in barriques, a good dozen modern wine cellars today enliven the monotony of the monoculture landscape. As the region happily acknowledges, an undeclared yet heated contest to erect the most spectacular building is definitely in progress.
Château Les Carmes Haut Brion is the oldest and most famous wine estates in the Bordeaux region
Young visitors see red:
The new wine cellar at Château La Dominique
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Instead of merely imparting facts, we amaze people
Véronique Lemoine, Cité du Vin
The city of Bordeaux is also in the running: In spring 2016, the wine museum Cité du Vin (wine city) was officially opened on the banks of the Garonne, in the former industrial district Bacalan. Even before the groundbreaking ceremony, the project’s initiator, Mayor Alain Juppé, vowed that the Cité du Vin would be his Guggenheim. His comparison to the museum in Bilbao, Spain, is a bold but fitting one. Since it first opened its doors, the “wine city” has become a new Bordeaux landmark. The Paris-based firm of architects XTU led by Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières took their inspiration from a typical wine-tasting gesture: As it curves in on itself, the building emulates the swirling of wine in a glass. The facade of glass and aluminum panels shimmer brown to gold, depending on the light. A tower roughly 35 meters tall crowns the structure. The eighth floor has a bar where visitors can enjoy a free glass of wine and a panoramic view of the city after the tour. Oak, glass and stainless steel dominate inside the building, where decorative elements are reminiscent of corks or fizz bubbles. The 3000- square-meter permanent exhibition provides information and includes a trail, interactive maps and games that focus on the natural, economic and cultural history of wine. Véronique Lemoine, 55, the scientific consultant responsible for the exhibition, emphasizes that the aim is “also to appeal to people who don’t know about wine.” But experts also get their money’s worth: “Instead of merely imparting facts, we amaze people. Here, you can find out how the Ancient Egyptians made wine and which particular wine was Churchill’s favorite,” says Lemoine.
Even the wine estates are keen to attract a broader public, including Château La Dominique in the famous wine town of Saint-Émilion, which has really opened up to wine tourism. A big draw for visitors is the building designed by star architect and Pritzker Award winner Jean Nouvel. His ultramodern wine cellar rises fiery red from the green vineyards all around. The Parisian architect used metal panels in six different shades of red for the facade. Overlapping like scales, they create a pleasing progression of colors, from reddish purple to amber. The curved wall mirrors the vineyards and the sky, blending the building discreetly into its surroundings despite its brilliant color. Marketing manager Camille Poupon, 38, has the statistics to prove its attraction: “We used to get 2000 visitors a year here, today it’s 12 000, and we expect to see as many as 16 000 in the coming years. We call it the Jean-Novel effect – his name even attracts people with no keen interest in wine.” By lunchtime, La Terrasse Rouge, the restaurant on the roof of La Dominique, is already heaving. From here, visitors have a good view of Saint-Émilion’s second highlight, the snow-white, elegantly rounded Cheval Blanc wine cellar just a few hundred meters away. It was built by Christian de Portzamparc, also a Pritzker Award winner.
The new Cité du Vin wine museum reflecting the Garonne
Simple elegance: Château Faugères
Adèle de Monteynard, Cité du Vin guide
For a long time, it was the noble Grand Cru and Grand Cru Classé vineyards that neglected to engage with the consumer, says Poupon. They didn’t need to because designations of origin, such as Saint-Émilion or Médoc, were enough. “On top of this, there’s the local practice of selling 70 percent of the wine produced by famous vineyards en primeur, in other words, at a very young stage, before the refining process. The vintners themselves didn’t meet their customers”, she explains, “but this has changed with the rise of wine tourism.” More and more consumers want to see how wine is made. They want to taste it, preferably in a pleasant ambience at the vineyard.
Many winegrowing families embody a 200-year-old wine tradition, says the marketing expert. Often a certain snobbery exists, and some estates will allow only experts into their cellars. “But there’s a new, more open generation coming up – the new vintners are culturally unburdened because they started out in other industries,” says Poupon. The owner of Château La Dominique, Clément Fayat, is one such newcomer. The founder of one of the biggest construction companies in France, he bought the estate in 1969. His son Jean-Claude took over from him in 2012 and two years later, opened the spectacular new building; since then, the visitors have been pouring in.
Château Faugères in Saint-Étienne-de-Lisse, just a few kilometers from La Dominique, has a similar story to tell. Silvio Denz from Basle, founder of one of the largest Swiss perfumery chains and owner of the Lalique crystal company, took over there in 2005. Denz commissioned a friend, the famous Lugano -based architect Mario Botta, to build his new wine cellar. Botta’s “wine cathedral” was inaugurated back in 2009 and is regarded as the region’s pioneer project. Behind its smooth walls of pale sandstone on top of a hill lies the cutting-edge winemaking technology of which David Bolzan, the vineyard’s manager, is especially proud: “The maceration process takes advantage of the natural slope of the hill.” The freshly picked grapes fall from above into the barrels beneath, where they burst open. This eliminates the need to crush them, and that means higher quality. The modern equipment also cools and cleans the water sustainably. Such investments are necessary, says Bolzan, 46, since the Bordeaux Grand Crus, the region’s top wines, have a reputation to maintain. These days, many small vineyards are capable of producing very good wines, too, so that pressure on “the big names” is growing, especially the Grand Cru estates, whose seals of quality are reviewed every ten years. Presentation is important: “Many factors, such as a special bottle or architecture, today shape a wine’s image,” says Bolzan.
The Bordeaux winegrowing region generates 1.8 billion euros in sales annually.
The Cheval Blanc estate
David Bolzan, manager at Faugères
The Ballande et Meneret wine warehouse
The vines require 1250 hours of sunshine a year to produce a good Bordeaux.
The wine wholesaler Ballande et Meneret, which was forced to relocate its warehouse to make way for the new TGV high-speed train line between Paris and Bordeaux, is also well aware of the greater significance of such factors. With bottles worth a total of some 70 million euros stored there, it holds the largest stock of Grand Cru Classé wines in the world. Necessity proved to be the mother of an attraction, in that the company commissioned the architects at Baggio-Piéchaud in Bordeaux to design its new flat-roofed warehouse. Its architectural “punch line”: 300 red LED lamps that shine throughout the night along its 100-meter-long and 10-meter-high white outer wall, evoking a glimpse inside the building and onto the bottles stored there.
Where such precious wares line the shelves, public tours are out of the question. However, important clients will occasionally request permission to take a look inside. Warehouse manager Pascal Brouet, 48, recalls a group from Singapore: “They only wanted to stay for 15 minutes, but after one-and-a-half hours, they had bought wines to the value of 40 000 euros – on their laptops, straight from the warehouse.” He sums it up like this: “Architecture has become a major marketing tool.”
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Without Orlando's nagging, Ning Xi's last few days in Lorraine City was spent feeling exceptionally free and contented.
Spirit had long been prepared to be a listed company. Everything was in order. This time, riding the wave of shining at Lorraine Fashion Week, in a spurt of energy, they successfully made their mark in Wall Street.
On that day, Tang Lang strongly hinted to Ning Xi to treat him to a nice meal.
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Tang Lang shrugged. "Sure, I've no opinion. The two bosses up there are temporarily agreeing now, so what else do we little bandits have to say?"
Previously, because Lu Tingxiao and Yun Shen's relationship was tense, to avoid arousing suspicion, they had almost never met up in secret, and now, no one knew what the two sides had secretly reached an agreement on, but they actually surprised everyone by making peace.
"Hehe, then I'll call them over!" Ning Xi happily called Feng Xiaoxiao.
On the other end of the phone, when Feng Xiaoxiao heard that Ning Xi wanted to treat them to a meal, she quickly agreedand even promised to bring First Senior Brother along too.
Half an hour later, the fellow apprentices met up at a crossing.
"Oh! Little Junior Sister! Come here, let me hug you! Senior Sister has missed you so much!" Once Feng Xiaoxiao went over, she immediately ran to Ning Xi and gave her a huge bear hug.
"Third Senior Sister, I really missed you too!" Ning Xi had emotionally hugged her back.
On the side, Tang Lang raised his brows as he watched Ning Xi and Feng Xiaoxiao embrace. He faintly smiled to Tang Ye across him who wore his gold-framed spectacles and seemed expressionless as always. "First Senior Brother, how about... we hug too?"
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Tang Lang clutched his chest and pretended to be hurt. "Oh, I'm devastated... It looks like First Senior Brother didn't miss me at all..."
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Tang Lang seemed to have expected this. He grinned, knowing that he got away with it.
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"No problem!"
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In the corner of a wall stood a man who was unkempt and looked like a beggar. The man used a newspaper to cover his face. It was his lean, long leg that had tripped Tang Lang earlier.
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Media Release -The Community Alliance Party is committed to Woden Town Centre – Election Commitment – Woden Concourse
The Canberra-based Community Alliance Party (CAP – in Weston Creek) has unveiled plans to revitalise Woden Town Centre and secure its immediate and future economic and cultural vitality.
CAP candidate for Murrumbidgee in the October ACT election, Michael Lindfield said, “the ACT government should take a leading role in ensuring that the design, construction, management and funding of a new Woden Concourse precinct be incorporated in the Woden Town Centre Master Plan. Like Weston Creek, Woden Valley has been neglected for the past 15 years and has been left behind in the economic development stakes.
“ACT government investment in a Woden Concourse is vital and would provide certainty to the Woden Town Centre as a place for economic growth and ongoing private sector re-investment, guaranteeing existing and future employment opportunities, and viable cultural and learning activities. It can be the start of a growth corridor for South Canberra.”
Lindfield said, “a Woden Concourse precinct could be a stimulus for the public to use landscaped walkways to access restaurants and street cafes, boutique retail stores, indoor entertainment and other places of community expression, as well as the flagship arts venue.”
If the light rail ever comes to Woden, this will only make a new Concourse precinct even more valuable to residents and visitors alike.
“I will lobby key Government agencies to fast track discussions with the Woden Community Council and other interested groups to refine their needs and expectations.
“If I am elected, I will be the first to knock on the door of the incoming Chief Minister and Treasurer to secure the funds from the $48 million the ACT government received from the Federal Government in 2016-17 under its Financial Assistance Grant programme to support better infrastructure for Canberra residents. I will use this opportunity to also secure funds for Weston Creek’s much needed new community centre,” Lindfield said.
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Is this the longest sentence by Twain?
I noticed this sentence in chapter 4 of The Gilded Age with numerous commas, semi-colons, colons, and dashes prolonging a sentence of prodigious length:
Sometimes the boat fought the mid-stream current, with a verdant world on either hand, and remote from both; sometimes she closed in under a point, where the dead water and the helping eddies were, and shaved the bank so closely that the decks were swept by the jungle of over-hanging willows and littered with a spoil of leaves; departing from these “points” she regularly crossed the river every five miles, avoiding the “bight” of the great binds and thus escaping the strong current; sometimes she went out and skirted a high “bluff” sand-bar in the middle of the stream, and occasionally followed it up a little too far and touched upon the shoal water at its head—and then the intelligent craft refused to run herself aground, but “smelt” the bar, and straightway the foamy streak that streamed away from her bows vanished, a great foamless wave rolled forward and passed her under way, and in this instant she leaned far over on her side, shied from the bar and fled square away from the danger like a frightened thing—and the pilot was lucky if he managed to “straighten her up” before she drove her nose into the opposite bank; sometimes she approached a solid wall of tall trees as if she meant to break through it, but all of a sudden a little crack would open just enough to admit her, and away she would go plowing through the “chute” with just barely room enough between the island on one side and the main land on the other; in this sluggish water she seemed to go like a racehorse; now and then small log cabins appeared in little clearings, with the never-failing frowsy women and girls in soiled and faded linsey-woolsey leaning in the doors or against woodpiles and rail fences, gazing sleepily at the passing show; sometimes she found shoal water, going out at the head of those “chutes” or crossing the river, and then a deck-hand stood on the bow and hove the lead, while the boat slowed down and moved cautiously; sometimes she stopped a moment at a landing and took on some freight or a passenger while a crowd of slouchy white men and negroes stood on the bank and looked sleepily on with their hands in their pantaloons pockets,—of course—for they never took them out except to stretch, and when they did this they squirmed about and reached their fists up into the air and lifted themselves on tip-toe in an ecstasy of enjoyment.
Does anyone know the "story" behind this? Was Twain deliberately seeing how long he could draw out a sentence? Are there any longer ones in any of his works?
By the way, some of the chapters of this book were written by Twain's friend and neighbor Charles Dudley Warner, but not this one - this is Twain.
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At 419 words, this whopper may indeed be the longest sentence Twain ever wrote. Searching the internet for references to longest Mark Twain sentences, the best I found was this 262-worder from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line; that was the woods on t’other side–you couldn’t make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness, spreading around; then the rive softened up, away off, and warn’t black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away–trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks? rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by-and-by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there’s a snag there in the swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t’other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there so cool and fresh, and sweet to smell, on account of the woods and flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars, and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you’ve got the full day, and everything smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
Another source refers to a mere (!) 236-word sentence as the possible record. If these claims to fame for sentences not much more than half as long as the one you've found can be taken seriously, then yours may quite possibly be the record.
As for the "story" behind these impressively extended and verbose sentences - clearly not just a one-off in Twain's writing, since there are several sentences scattered through his works which, although not as long as the example you've found, are nevertheless over two hundred words long and therefore pretty impressive and out of the ordinary - it may well be the case that the author was deliberately trying to create exceptionally long sentences for effect; partly, of course, longer sentences were simply more common in writing in those days, before the age of modernity, advertising and the internet, when people's attention spans shrank to the size of gnats' and it became necessary to impart information to them as swiftly and efficiently as possible before they went "TL;DR" and moved on to something more entertaining; partly, also, long sentences can be a practically useful writing device, as for instance when trying to include a great deal of description but make it feel compressed as though it's all happening at the same time (in your example, putting the entire description of the boat's motion and progress in a single sentence gives the reader the feeling that they're taking it all in at a single glance rather than reading about it piece by piece in a book; in the above description of a sunrise, again putting it all in one sentence is akin to compressing the experience into a single glance, the way it would be in the real world, rather than artificially extending it by a long wordy description); but in addition to their utility in writing, it may be that Twain was using these excessively long sentences for humorous effect or to make a point - a thesis supported, for example, by the following speech he once made in German on 21 November 1897, and for which he also wrote the entertainingly bad English translation which is provided below (a better translation is available here, but Twain's own has amusement value while still being comprehensible).1
I am indeed the truest friend of the German language - and not only now, but from long since - yes, before twenty years already. And never have I the desire had the noble language to hurt; to the contrary, only wished she to improve - I would her only reform. It is the dream of my life been. I have already visits by the various German governments paid and for contracts prayed. I am now to Austria in the same task come. I would only some changes effect. I would only the language method - the luxurious, elaborate construction - compress, the eternal parenthesis suppress, do away with, annihilate; the introduction of more than thirteen subjects in one sentence forbid; the verb so far to the front pull that one it without a telescope discover can. With one word, my gentlemen, I would your beloved language simplify so that, my gentlemen, when you her for prayer need, One her yonder - up understands.
Before several days has the correspondent of a local paper a sentence constructed which hundred and twelve words contained, and therein were seven parentheses smuggled in, and the subject seven times changed. Think you only, my gentlemen, in the course of the voyage of a single sentence must the poor, persecuted, fatigued subject seven times change position! Now, when we the mentioned reforms execute, will it no longer so bad be. Doch noch eins. I might gladly the separable verb also a little bit reform. I might none do let what Schiller did: he has the whole history of the Thirty Years' War between the two members of a separable verb in-pushed. That has even Germany itself aroused, and one has Schiller the permission refused the History of the Hundred Years' War to compose - God be it thanked! After all these reforms established be will, will the German language the noblest and the prettiest on the world be.
1 332 words.
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BTW, that entire answer has 23 sentences total, counting the quotes. – Mithrandir♦ Feb 26 '17 at 14:54
@Mithrandir I find it particularly amusing that (at the time of writing) Do text walls scare off readers? is visible on the HNQ list in the sidebar of this page. – Rand al'Thor Feb 26 '17 at 14:56
I'm sure you know this, but in 1880 (so 19 years before that speech), Twain wrote The Awful German Language, a hilarious and perceptive essay along the same lines as your quote. (Even reminds me of Sanskrit.) I hadn't heard of this speech, so thanks for the very enjoyable pointer; looks like Twain's interest with German continued over several decades! – ShreevatsaR Feb 28 '17 at 8:24
Project Gutenberg has compiled The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain from over 220 of his works.
I downloaded the text (about 16 million bytes) and split it by '. ' (and similar patterns) to identify sentences. Then I split sentences into words. (There is some scope for error in both these steps: for example, periods can occur within sentences, in abbreviations.) Sorting these pointed me to the following which may possibly be the top 10 sentences by length:
A sentence of about 688 words, from The Innocents Abroad, namely the middle of the three sentences below (note that this actually gets split into multiple sentences by the program because of a footnote that occurs in it, which I've omitted here):
Something interfered, and we did not visit the Red Sea and walk upon the sands of Arabia. I shall not describe the great mosque of Mehemet Ali, whose entire inner walls are built of polished and glistening alabaster; I shall not tell how the little birds have built their nests in the globes of the great chandeliers that hang in the mosque, and how they fill the whole place with their music and are not afraid of any body because their audacity is pardoned, their rights are respected, and nobody is allowed to interfere with them, even though the mosque be thus doomed to go unlighted; I certainly shall not tell the hackneyed story of the massacre of the Mamelukes, because I am glad the lawless rascals were massacred, and I do not wish to get up any sympathy in their behalf; I shall not tell how that one solitary Mameluke jumped his horse a hundred feet down from the battlements of the citadel and escaped, because I do not think much of that—I could have done it myself; I shall not tell of Joseph's well which he dug in the solid rock of the citadel hill and which is still as good as new, nor how the same mules he bought to draw up the water (with an endless chain) are still at it yet and are getting tired of it, too; I shall not tell about Joseph's granaries which he built to store the grain in, what time the Egyptian brokers were "selling short," unwitting that there would be no corn in all the land when it should be time for them to deliver; I shall not tell any thing about the strange, strange city of Cairo, because it is only a repetition, a good deal intensified and exaggerated, of the Oriental cities I have already spoken of; I shall not tell of the Great Caravan which leaves for Mecca every year, for I did not see it; nor of the fashion the people have of prostrating themselves and so forming a long human pavement to be ridden over by the chief of the expedition on its return, to the end that their salvation may be thus secured, for I did not see that either; I shall not speak of the railway, for it is like any other railway—I shall only say that the fuel they use for the locomotive is composed of mummies three thousand years old, purchased by the ton or by the graveyard for that purpose, and that sometimes one hears the profane engineer call out pettishly, "D—n these plebeians, they don't burn worth a cent—pass out a King;" I shall not tell of the groups of mud cones stuck like wasps' nests upon a thousand mounds above high water-mark the length and breadth of Egypt—villages of the lower classes; I shall not speak of the boundless sweep of level plain, green with luxuriant grain, that gladdens the eye as far as it can pierce through the soft, rich atmosphere of Egypt; I shall not speak of the vision of the Pyramids seen at a distance of five and twenty miles, for the picture is too ethereal to be limned by an uninspired pen; I shall not tell of the crowds of dusky women who flocked to the cars when they stopped a moment at a station, to sell us a drink of water or a ruddy, juicy pomegranate; I shall not tell of the motley multitudes and wild costumes that graced a fair we found in full blast at another barbarous station; I shall not tell how we feasted on fresh dates and enjoyed the pleasant landscape all through the flying journey; nor how we thundered into Alexandria, at last, swarmed out of the cars, rowed aboard the ship, left a comrade behind, (who was to return to Europe, thence home,) raised the anchor, and turned our bows homeward finally and forever from the long voyage; nor how, as the mellow sun went down upon the oldest land on earth, Jack and Moult assembled in solemn state in the smoking-room and mourned over the lost comrade the whole night long, and would not be comforted. I shall not speak a word of any of these things, or write a line.
The sentence of about 423 words that is included in the question.
The following sentence of about 418 words, from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
They were freemen, but they could not leave the estates of their lord or their bishop without his permission; they could not prepare their own bread, but must have their corn ground and their bread baked at his mill and his bakery, and pay roundly for the same; they could not sell a piece of their own property without paying him a handsome percentage of the proceeds, nor buy a piece of somebody else's without remembering him in cash for the privilege; they had to harvest his grain for him gratis, and be ready to come at a moment's notice, leaving their own crop to destruction by the threatened storm; they had to let him plant fruit trees in their fields, and then keep their indignation to themselves when his heedless fruit-gatherers trampled the grain around the trees; they had to smother their anger when his hunting parties galloped through their fields laying waste the result of their patient toil; they were not allowed to keep doves themselves, and when the swarms from my lord's dovecote settled on their crops they must not lose their temper and kill a bird, for awful would the penalty be; when the harvest was at last gathered, then came the procession of robbers to levy their blackmail upon it: first the Church carted off its fat tenth, then the king's commissioner took his twentieth, then my lord's people made a mighty inroad upon the remainder; after which, the skinned freeman had liberty to bestow the remnant in his barn, in case it was worth the trouble; there were taxes, and taxes, and taxes, and more taxes, and taxes again, and yet other taxes—upon this free and independent pauper, but none upon his lord the baron or the bishop, none upon the wasteful nobility or the all-devouring Church; if the baron would sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit up all night after his day's work and whip the ponds to keep the frogs quiet; if the freeman's daughter—but no, that last infamy of monarchical government is unprintable; and finally, if the freeman, grown desperate with his tortures, found his life unendurable under such conditions, and sacrificed it and fled to death for mercy and refuge, the gentle Church condemned him to eternal fire, the gentle law buried him at midnight at the cross-roads with a stake through his back, and his master the baron or the bishop confiscated all his property and turned his widow and his orphans out of doors.
The following sentence of about 410 words, from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc:
And he said it was a young bull now, and very frisky; and he was to bear a principal hand at a funeral; and she said, "The bull?" and he said, "No, myself"; but said the bull did take a hand, but not because of his being invited, for he wasn't; but anyway he was away over beyond the Fairy Tree, and fell asleep on the grass with his Sunday funeral clothes on, and a long black rag on his hat and hanging down his back; and when he woke he saw by the sun how late it was, and not a moment to lose; and jumped up terribly worried, and saw the young bull grazing there, and thought maybe he could ride part way on him and gain time; so he tied a rope around the bull's body to hold on by, and put a halter on him to steer with, and jumped on and started; but it was all new to the bull, and he was discontented with it, and scurried around and bellowed and reared and pranced, and Uncle Laxart was satisfied, and wanted to get off and go by the next bull or some other way that was quieter, but he didn't dare try; and it was getting very warm for him, too, and disturbing and wearisome, and not proper for Sunday; but by and by the bull lost all his temper, and went tearing down the slope with his tail in the air and blowing in the most awful way; and just in the edge of the village he knocked down some beehives, and the bees turned out and joined the excursion, and soared along in a black cloud that nearly hid those other two from sight, and prodded them both, and jabbed them and speared them and spiked them, and made them bellow and shriek, and shriek and bellow; and here they came roaring through the village like a hurricane, and took the funeral procession right in the center, and sent that section of it sprawling, and galloped over it, and the rest scattered apart and fled screeching in every direction, every person with a layer of bees on him, and not a rag of that funeral left but the corpse; and finally the bull broke for the river and jumped in, and when they fished Uncle Laxart out he was nearly drowned, and his face looked like a pudding with raisins in it.
The following sentence of about 376 words, from Life on the Mississipi:
Now, Charlie the 3 months on the square are up 2 months ago, & as you said, it is the best job i ever did in my life, & i commenced another of the same sort right away, only it is to God helping me to last a lifetime Charlie—i wrote this letter to tell you I do think God has forgiven my sins & herd your prayers, for you told me you should pray for me—i no i love to read his word & tell him all my troubles & he helps me i know for i have plenty of chances to steal but i don't feel to as i once did & now i take more pleasure in going to church than to the theater & that wasnt so once—our minister and others often talk with me & a month ago they wanted me to join the church, but I said no, not now, i may be mistaken in my feelings, i will wait awhile, but now i feel that God has called me & on the first Sunday in July i will join the church—dear friend i wish i could write to you as i feel, but i cant do it yet—you no i learned to read and write while prisons & i aint got well enough along to write as i would talk; i no i aint spelled all the words rite in this & lots of other mistakes but you will excuse it i no, for you no i was brought up in a poor house until i run away, & that i never new who my father and mother was & i dont no my right name, & i hope you wont be mad at me, but i have as much rite to one name as another & i have taken your name, for you wont use it when you get out i no, & you are the man i think most of in the world; so i hope you wont be mad—I am doing well, i put $10 a month in bank with $25 of the $50— if you ever want any or all of it let me know, & it is yours.
This "sentence" of about 494 words from a letter, though it contains so many parenthetical remarks that we probably shouldn't count it:
His patience; his indestructible equability of temper; his exceeding gentleness, kindness, forbearance, lovingness, charity; his loyalty: to friends, to convictions, to promises, half-promises, infinitesimal fractions and shadows of promises; (There was a requirement of him which I considered an atrocity, an injustice, an outrage; I wanted to implore him to repudiate it; Fred Grant said, "Save your labor, I know him; he is in doubt as to whether he made that half-promise or not—and, he will give the thing the benefit of the doubt; he will fulfill that half-promise or kill himself trying;" Fred Grant was right—he did fulfill it;) his aggravatingly trustful nature; his genuineness, simplicity, modesty, diffidence, self-depreciation, poverty in the quality of vanity-and, in no contradiction of this last, his simple pleasure in the flowers and general ruck sent to him by Tom, Dick and Harry from everywhere—a pleasure that suggested a perennial surprise that he should be the object of so much fine attention—he was the most lovable great child in the world; (I mentioned his loyalty: you remember Harrison, the colored body-servant? the whole family hated him, but that did not make any difference, the General always stood at his back, wouldn't allow him to be scolded; always excused his failures and deficiencies with the one unvarying formula, "We are responsible for these things in his race—it is not fair to visit our fault upon them —let him alone;" so they did let him alone, under compulsion, until the great heart that was his shield was taken away; then—well they simply couldn't stand him, and so they were excusable for determining to discharge him—a thing which they mortally hated to do, and by lucky accident were saved from the necessity of doing;) his toughness as a bargainer when doing business for other people or for his country (witness his "terms" at Donelson, Vicksburg, etc.; Fred Grant told me his father wound up an estate for the widow and orphans of a friend in St. Louis—it took several years; at the end every complication had been straightened out, and the property put upon a prosperous basis; great sums had passed through his hands, and when he handed over the papers there were vouchers to show what had been done with every penny) and his trusting, easy, unexacting fashion when doing business for himself (at that same time he was paying out money in driblets to a man who was running his farm for him—and in his first Presidency he paid every one of those driblets again (total, $3,000 F. said,) for he hadn't a scrap of paper to show that he had ever paid them before; in his dealings with me he would not listen to terms which would place my money at risk and leave him protected—the thought plainly gave him pain, and he put it from him, waved it off with his hands, as one does accounts of crushings and mutilations—wouldn't listen, changed the subject;) and his fortitude!
This sentence of about 326 words from Sketches New and Old:
And Riley used to tell about publishing a newspaper up in what is Alaska now, but was only an iceberg then, with a population composed of bears, walruses, Indians, and other animals; and how the iceberg got adrift at last, and left all his paying subscribers behind, and as soon as the commonwealth floated out of the jurisdiction of Russia the people rose and threw off their allegiance and ran up the English flag, calculating to hook on and become an English colony as they drifted along down the British Possessions; but a land breeze and a crooked current carried them by, and they ran up the Stars and Stripes and steered for California, missed the connection again and swore allegiance to Mexico, but it wasn't any use; the anchors came home every time, and away they went with the northeast trades drifting off sideways toward the Sandwich Islands, whereupon they ran up the Cannibal flag and had a grand human barbecue in honor of it, in which it was noticed that the better a man liked a friend the better he enjoyed him; and as soon as they got fairly within the tropics the weather got so fearfully hot that the iceberg began to melt, and it got so sloppy under foot that it was almost impossible for ladies to get about at all; and at last, just as they came in sight of the islands, the melancholy remnant of the once majestic iceberg canted first to one side and then to the other, and then plunged under forever, carrying the national archives along with it—and not only the archives and the populace, but some eligible town lots which had increased in value as fast as they diminished in size in the tropics, and which Riley could have sold at thirty cents a pound and made himself rich if he could have kept the province afloat ten hours longer and got her into port.
This sentence of approximately 300 words again from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court:
"I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal who, by bar and lack of that great consecration seeth in his own unlearned estate but a symbol of that other sort of lack and loss which men do publish to the pitying eye with sackcloth trappings whereon the ashes of grief do lie bepowdered and bestrewn, and so, when such shall in the darkness of his mind encounter these golden phrases of high mystery, these shut-up-shops, and draw-the-game, and bank-the-fires, it is but by the grace of God that he burst not for envy of the mind that can beget, and tongue that can deliver so great and mellow-sounding miracles of speech, and if there do ensue confusion in that humbler mind, and failure to divine the meanings of these wonders, then if so be this miscomprehension is not vain but sooth and true, wit ye well it is the very substance of worshipful dear homage and may not lightly be misprized, nor had been, an ye had noted this complexion of mood and mind and understood that that I would I could not, and that I could not I might not, nor yet nor might nor could, nor might-not nor could-not, might be by advantage turned to the desired would, and so I pray you mercy of my fault, and that ye will of your kindness and your charity forgive it, good my master and most dear lord."
This of about 297 words, from Roughing It:
In place of roughs and rowdies staring and blackguarding on the corners, I saw long-haired, saddle-colored Sandwich Island maidens sitting on the ground in the shade of corner houses, gazing indolently at whatever or whoever happened along; instead of wretched cobble-stone pavements, I walked on a firm foundation of coral, built up from the bottom of the sea by the absurd but persevering insect of that name, with a light layer of lava and cinders overlying the coral, belched up out of fathomless perdition long ago through the seared and blackened crater that stands dead and harmless in the distance now; instead of cramped and crowded street-cars, I met dusky native women sweeping by, free as the wind, on fleet horses and astride, with gaudy riding-sashes, streaming like banners behind them; instead of the combined stenches of Chinadom and Brannan street slaughter-houses, I breathed the balmy fragrance of jessamine, oleander, and the Pride of India; in place of the hurry and bustle and noisy confusion of San Francisco, I moved in the midst of a Summer calm as tranquil as dawn in the Garden of Eden; in place of the Golden City's skirting sand hills and the placid bay, I saw on the one side a frame-work of tall, precipitous mountains close at hand, clad in refreshing green, and cleft by deep, cool, chasm-like valleys—and in front the grand sweep of the ocean; a brilliant, transparent green near the shore, bound and bordered by a long white line of foamy spray dashing against the reef, and further out the dead blue water of the deep sea, flecked with "white caps," and in the far horizon a single, lonely sail —a mere accent-mark to emphasize a slumberous calm and a solitude that were without sound or limit.
Finally, saving the best for last, this of 297 words from A Horse's Tale:
The very first day I came, I don't know how long ago it was, Buffalo Bill took me on Soldier Boy to Thunder-Bird's camp, not the big one which is out on the plain, which is White Cloud's, he took me to THAT one next day, but this one is four or five miles up in the hills and crags, where there is a great shut-in meadow, full of Indian lodges and dogs and squaws and everything that is interesting, and a brook of the clearest water running through it, with white pebbles on the bottom and trees all along the banks cool and shady and good to wade in, and as the sun goes down it is dimmish in there, but away up against the sky you see the big peaks towering up and shining bright and vivid in the sun, and sometimes an eagle sailing by them, not flapping a wing, the same as if he was asleep; and young Indians and girls romping and laughing and carrying on, around the spring and the pool, and not much clothes on except the girls, and dogs fighting, and the squaws busy at work, and the bucks busy resting, and the old men sitting in a bunch smoking, and passing the pipe not to the left but to the right, which means there's been a row in the camp and they are settling it if they can, and children playing JUST the same as any other children, and little boys shooting at a mark with bows, and I cuffed one of them because he hit a dog with a club that wasn't doing anything, and he resented it but before long he wished he hadn't: but this sentence is getting too long and I will start another.
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Ouch... That one time when wall 'o text is a great answer! You shall have my upvote - please do stick around! – Gallifreyan♦ Feb 28 '17 at 8:18
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The Survivalist: A new dawn for Osiris New Dawn
MJ Guthrie
Such is the circle of space life: As one survival sandbox shuts down development indefinitely, another powers up. I mentioned last week that ROKH admitted it hit a barrier it can’t break and will be going quiet until funding is acquired, whereas Osiris: New Dawn has really taken off. The latter wasn’t relatively silent due to any lack of things to discuss; it was actually super nose-to-the-grindstone over there at Fenix Fire Entertainment as the dev team has been updating, optimizing, and more (continuing to do Early Access pretty right). And there are more noses at that grindstone than before; the team has grown from the initial two at launch two years ago to 23 members now. And this team has plans.
Do you want to know these plans? There’s a roadmap of highlights paving the way of the game’s future. And this roadmap appears to include even more folks and more playstyles. Here’s a look ahead at the triple threat of modes you’ll see along the journey to a Spring 2019 launch.
Show me the story
If you are going to TwitchCon at the end of October, you could see a demo of the upcoming story campaign mode first-hand. If you aren’t no worries — it will also be released as a playable demo to the Behind the Scenes Experiences on Steam just a day later on the 29th. (I had to peek at my games list and discover that the BSE is indeed a thing!) If you don’t want to mess with that, you can wait until it moves over to the main game in December of this year.
As much as I have loved the open sandbox elements and ability to make your own story in these survival games, there is definitely something to be said for having the option of partaking in some official story. I personally love story in all other games, and I’ve discovered how much it enhances a survival game for me. That’s why I am excited to see that Osiris: New Dawn is adding in this mode. Doing so has a number of benefits, including appealing to a broader audience (more friends?!) and offering more reasons to stay for existing players (like me!). Story mode basically equating to getting more friends joining in to play with me! I totally understand that some people don’t want to aimlessly wander an alien landscape, and that’s OK. For them, giving a reason to explore and build will get them hooked into the experience. And I am all for more people getting invested in the game.
Now, you might have questions as to what this story mode entails. Well, I can’t help you there yet, but I hope to share more information with you all soon. I am hoping that you can do the campaign mode multiplayer as I’d still rather live out my (hopefully not final) days on this alien world with friends.
Making the most of your survival
Campaign mode is not the only new mode Osiris: New Dawn will sport come December. That major update will also add a survival mode to the the already available sandbox mode that players are already familiar with. If survival mode sounds like it will be harsh, it’s because it will. Fenix Fire notes that this mode will include multiple scenarios with specific goals that players must achieve either alone or with compatriots. Of course, if you fail to achieve the goal or you die while trying, you’re finished.
Without knowing more details about this scenario, I have two hopes. One, that these have different difficulty settings. Before I dive into a DIE IN THREE SECONDS TAKING YOUR FIRST STEP one, I’d love to tone it down a notch. Of course, for all those who want the most serious challenge possible, they should be able to crank that sucker up! I’m thinking back to my very first stream of the game where we upped the monster density when making our world and it was constant vicious death! Yes it made for amusing viewing, but I couldn’t actually play until we remade it a little less hardcore.
Two, I’d also really like to see scenarios with different time sets. For instance, I’d love to see some short but super intense one-and-done survival scenarios that can be played in anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours or so. Having the chance to have leaderboards for these would also be pretty neat, as folks take on the challenge to see who can beat it with the fastest time for each difficulty setting. I’d also like to try to get through the challenge of one that may take 10 plus hours or even a couple of days to complete. This scenario would necessitate being able to close down and save in order to come back when real life permits. Perhaps this is best only for solo, but maybe in multiplayer it only opens when all the original crew is present?
Still a sandbox
Sandbox mode is already known pretty well. It involves keeping yourself alive while you improve your abilities to help keep yourself alive. You forage, you hunt, you craft, and you build… and you get better at at foraging, hunting, crafting a building. Sometimes you prevail in your endeavors, and sometimes you fail. Here, though, while failure may have some setbacks, you still dust yourself off and keep going. The main difference players will see in this mode with the big December update is the inclusion of a number of new and/or improved systems. Fenix Fire gave traversal, combat, and repair as three examples of these systems.
In sandbox mode, there will be no missions to complete, no story to follow — just you (and maybe friends) and your own wits, creativity, and abilities to get you by. If you want story, you will have to make it. If you want missions, you will have to just create them. Will you survive on the planet and work your way up to building a ship to get you off in order to explore the others? Wait, did I say other planets? Yes. In this update, there will be other worlds to work your way to to explore… well, and survive on; Proteus 2, Aziel, and Zer will all be available in the Gliese 581 system, as well as a brand-new planet.
In the survival genre, there are at least 1001 ways to die, and MJ Guthrie is bound to experience them all — in the interests of sharing them with you! The Survivalist chronicles life and death struggles against all forms of apocalypse, outbreak, mutation, weather, and prehistoric wildlife. And let’s not forget the two-legged enemies! Tune in here and on OPTV to see who feeds better: MJ or the Death Counter.
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writelikeaman
Such a great game to play solo. The isolation is really unsettling. The enemies creep up on you with nary a sound. Always got to be on your toes. Play around with the film grain and filters and it becomes even more unsettling. Playing in first person mutes some of the outside sound, giving a false sense of security. I like it, it’s comforting.
MrNude
Happy to see Fenix Fire plugging away. I picked this one up pretty early, and it still kept me entertained for months. Will definitely have to pick it back up after the update!
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Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)
Cranial trauma or a head injury was a term used for when a person was hit on the head violently or suffered from an injury from hitting their head.
Leonard McCoy suggested the head injury of Montgomery Scott as a possibility for his memory loss while on Argelius II. (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")
In 2365, Doctor Katherine Pulaski was able to exclude a head injury as the reason for the unconsciousness of the doppelgänger of Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Time Squared")
In 2366, Beverly Crusher ruled out cranial trauma as the cause of Patahk's neural pathway degeneration due to the absence of it. (TNG: "The Enemy")
When Commander William T. Riker was undercover on a mission on Malcor III, he suffered from head injuries he gained during an escape attempt out of the Sikla Medical Facility. (TNG: "First Contact")
In 2369, Doctor Julian Bashir examined Chief Miles O'Brien after he had been found to be suffering from aphasia. Bashir could not find any signs of cranial trauma, which, along with a stroke, was usually a possible cause of aphasia. It was later discovered that O'Brien had contracted aphasia from a device planted on the station in 2351 by Bajorans when it was under Cardassian Occupation. (DS9: "Babel")
In 2371, a representation of Benjamin Sisko that Bashir encountered in his mind following a Lethean telepathic attack told a nurse to give a patient with cranial trauma inpedrezine after treatment with an osteogenic stimulator. (DS9: "Distant Voices")
Commander Chakotay suffered from a head injury after he crash landed on a planet in the Nekrit Expanse. (VOY: "Unity")
In 2373, The Doctor's "daughter" Belle hit her head playing parrises squares and suffered severe cranial trauma that compromised her brain stem and motor cortex. (VOY: "Real Life")
Seven of Nine suffered from a severe head injury after she received a bullet into her head, a centimeter next to her brain. (VOY: "The Killing Game")
In 2375, B'Elanna Torres suffered cranial trauma amongst other injuries while running holoprograms with the safety protocols turned off. (VOY: "Extreme Risk")
In a different timeline, Chakotay told Seska about retaking Voyager while suffering from a head injury. (VOY: "Shattered")
Cranial trauma at Wikipedia
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Classical preview: Royal Northern College Of Music Symphony Orchestra
metrowebukmetroWednesday 2 Jul 2008 10:00 pm
by RICHARD BRATBY
Pascal Rophe is one of the conductors brought in to replace Martyn Brabbins
You know a conductor’s unique when it takes two to replace him. This concert by the Royal Northern College Of Music Symphony Orchestra was to have been conducted by the respected British maestro Martyn Brabbins.
But with Brabbins out of the picture after a serious elbow injury, the RNCM has sensibly taken the decision to substitute him with Clark Rundell and Pascal Rophé and to leave this spectacular programme unchanged.
And rightly so, because this is the mother of all end-of-term blow-outs. The opener alone is an epic: the exuberant choral symphony The Dance, Forever The Dance by RNCM principal Edward Gregson. Setting words by Byron, Auden and Wilde, it’s scored for a Mahler-sized orchestra.
That alone makes any performance a major occasion, but under the baton of Rundell, a long-term colleague of Gregson’s, this one should be particularly special.
The Dance however is just the upbeat to the even more outrageous second half â Messiaen’s vast Turangalîla-Symphonie, a psychedelic, toweringly kitsch celebration of love on a cosmic scale. Listen out for the retro electronic swooning of the ondes-martenot, played tonight by the French virtuoso Pascale Rousse-Lacordaire.
Conductor Rophé, meanwhile, knows the contemporary French repertoire inside out, and the RNCM’s superb young players will do the rest.
Thu, The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Central Manchester, 7.30pm, £9 to £26, concs available, pre-concert talk, 6.30pm, free for ticket holders. Tel: 907 9000. http://www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk
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INVEGA 12 mg prolonged-release tablets
Summary for the public
Patient’s Leaflet
Invega is a medicine that contains the active substance paliperidone. It is available as prolonged-release tablets (orange-brown: 1.5 mg; white: 3 mg; beige: 6 mg; pink: 9 mg; yellow: 12 mg). ?Prolonged release? means that paliperidone is released slowly from the tablet over a few hours.
What is it used for?
How is it used?
How has it been studied?
What benefits has it shown during the studies?
What is the risk associated?
Why has it been approved?
Invega is used to treat schizophrenia, a mental illness that has a number of symptoms, including disorganised thinking and speech, hallucinations (hearing or seeing things that are not there), suspiciousness and delusions (false beliefs).
Invega is also used to treat schizoaffective disorder. This is a condition in which the patient has episodes of elevated or depressed mood in addition to symptoms of schizophrenia. Invega is not effective in treating the depressive symptoms of schizoaffective disorder.
The medicine can only be obtained with a prescription.
The recommended starting dose of Invega is 6 mg once a day, taken in the morning. The tablet should be swallowed whole with a drink. Patients should take Invega either with or without food, but should not switch between taking it with food on one day and without food on another. After assessment of the symptoms, the dose of Invega can be adjusted to between 3 and 12 mg once a day in patients with schizophrenia and to between 6 and 12 mg once a day in patients with schizoaffective disorder. Patients with mild or moderate kidney problems, including some elderly patients, should start with a lower dose of Invega, but the medicine is not recommended for patients with severe kidney problems. For more information on the use of Invega, including the adjustment of doses, see the summary of product characteristics (also part of the EPAR)
The active substance in Invega, paliperidone, is an antipsychotic medicine. It is known as an ?atypical? antipsychotic because it is different from the older antipsychotic medicines that have been available since the 1950s. Paliperidone is an active breakdown product (metabolite) of risperidone, another antipsychotic medicine that has been used in the treatment of schizophrenia since the 1990s. In the brain, it attaches to several different receptors on the surface of nerve cells. This disrupts signals transmitted between brain cells by ?neurotransmitters?, chemicals that allow nerve cells to communicate with each other. Paliperidone acts mainly by blocking the receptors for the neurotransmitters dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (also called serotonin), which are involved in schizophrenia. By blocking these receptors, paliperidone helps to normalise the activity of the brain and reduce symptoms.
Invega has been studied in three main short-term studies involving 1,692 adults with schizophrenia. In all three studies, doses of Invega between 3 and 15 mg a day were compared with placebo (a dummy treatment) and with olanzapine (another antipsychotic medicine). The main measure of effectiveness was the change in the patients? symptoms using a standard scale for schizophrenia after six weeks. A fourth study in patients with schizophrenia looked at the long-term effects of Invega in preventing new symptoms for up to 35 weeks in 207 patients who had initially been treated over a 14-week period.
Two main studies were carried out in patients with schizoaffective disorder. A total of 614 patients were given either Invega or placebo. The main measure of effectiveness was the same as in the main schizophrenia studies: change in the patients? symptoms after six weeks on a standard scale.
Invega was more effective than placebo and as effective as olanzapine in reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia. In the first short-term study, patients taking placebo had an average fall in their symptom score of 4.1 points, compared with an average fall of between 17.9 and 23.3 points in those taking Invega and of 19.9 in those taking olanzapine. Similar results were seen in the other two short-term studies. Across all three studies, higher doses of Invega were more effective than lower doses in reducing symptoms.
Invega was also more effective than placebo in preventing the occurrence of new symptoms of schizophrenia in the long-term study.
In the studies in patients with schizoaffective disorder, Invega was more effective than placebo. In the first study, patients who were given Invega had a fall in their symptom score of between 27.4 and 30.6 compared with 21.7 in patients who were given placebo. In the second study, the fall in symptom score was 20.0 in the Invega group and 10.8 in the placebo group.
The most common side effect with Invega (seen in more than 1 patient in 10) is headache. For the full list of all side effects reported with Invega, see the package leaflet.
Invega should not be taken by people who may be hypersensitive (allergic) to paliperidone or any of the other ingredients, or to risperidone.
The CHMP decided that Invega?s benefits are greater than its risks and recommended that it be given marketing authorisation. The CHMP noted that, although Invega is beneficial to patients with schizoaffective disorder, the medicine has not been shown to be effective in treating depressive episodes in these patients.
Diacomit 500 mg hard capsules
TAXOTERE 80 mg/2 ml concentrate and solvent for solution forinfusion
Rivastigmine Teva 4.5 mg hard capsules
Apidra 100 Units/ml solution for injection in a cartridge
Xelevia 100 mg film-coated tablets
Rivastigmine 1 A Pharma 6 mg hard capsules
Insuman Rapid 100 IU/ml solution for injection in acartridge
VELCADE 1 mg powder for solution for injection
NovoSeven 4.8 mg (240 KIU) - powder and solvent for solution forinjection
ADROVANCE 70 mg/2800 IU tablets
JEVTANA 60 mg concentrate and solvent for solution forinfusion
Sildenafil ratiopharm 100 mg film-coated tablets
Riprazo 300 mg film-coated tablets
Rebif 44 micrograms/0.5ml solution for injection incartridge
Xiapex 0.9 mg powder and solvent for solution for injection
Pedea 5 mg/ml solution for injection
Atriance 5 mg/ml solution for infusion
Protaphane NovoLet 100 IU/ml suspension for injection in apre-filled pen
Optisulin SoloStar 100 units/ml solution for injection in apre-filled pen
ATC-Code: N05AX13
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Anatomical group: Nervous system
Therapeutic group: Psycholeptics
Pharmacological group: Antipsychotics
Chemical group: Other antipsychotics
Active substance: Paliperidone
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Fixed broadband the future, voice calls to go free: Telkom
Jan Vermeulen5 February 2014
Telkom’s head of strategy, Miriam Altman, has said that fixed broadband represents the future of the company, and that they expect voice calls to eventually become a free service and are planning accordingly.
Answering questions about Telkom’s strategy to reverse the decline in fixed-lines that is reported in the company’s financial statements year after year, Altman said that a lot of people have migrated to mobile voice.
However, she challenged the notion that fixed-line connections have been outmoded by mobile.
“Some believe that fixed line is an outdated technology and yet it is the technology of the future and acts as the foundation for most telecoms services,” Altman said.
“For example, most mobile services now rely on a fixed network,” she said. “Big data applications, large firms, government and connected homes streaming movies or games will all rely on fixed broadband.”
Altman said that mobile broadband has an important role to play for when people are on the move, but businesses and home users will still rely on fixed broadband connections.
For this reason Telkom is investing heavily in its network – R5-billion per year – and will focus on making its fixed broadband products more compelling, Altman said.
Miriam Altman
“Historically we haven’t made fixed broadband a sufficiently compelling product – because of the quality of service we offered in relation to mobile broadband,” Altman said.
She said that this is set to change as Telkom continues to upgrade its last mile infrastructure.
Telkom officially announced its network transformation initiative in March 2012, revealing that it would replace street cabinets and eventually exchanges with multi-service access nodes (MSANs).
These MSANs lets Telkom offer 20 Megabit per second (Mbps) and 40Mbps very-high-bitrate digital subscriber line (VDSL), and fibre services that Telkom said can one day reach up to 1 Gigabit per second.
After conducting trials during 2012 and early 2013, Telkom launched 20Mbps and 40Mbps VDSL services commercially in March 2013.
Availability of VDSL services remains limited to a few areas in South Africa, but this is expected to change in the coming years as Telkom has said that the MSAN project is on track and roll-outs continue as planned.
“This is rolling out rapidly to Telkom’s top 600 exchanges, covering 90% of its customer base,” Altman said. “Our customers can now check the potential speeds they can access in their areas on our website.”
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SoBeWFF CRAVE GFL Tickets on Sale
Foodie alert! SOBEWFF tickets are now on sale
Maybe you were awake just after midnight last night and got on the phone first thing to snap up your tickets to the 2018 South Beach Wine & Food Festival. No? Then today is your chance to do that with tickets that will sell quickly for some of the top events taking place Feb. 21-25.
The festivities happen in two major places: on South Beach, of course, and for the third year, in Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale Series of celebrity chef shindigs has proved popular, and some of us who prefer shorter drive times are very happy about that.
BBQ Dinner Hosted by Chris Lilly and Jorge Ramos
Craving some good ol’ comfort food? Join barbecue aficionados, Chris Lilly and Jorge Ramos at the recently opened Conrad Fort Lauderdale to kickoff the third annual Fort Lauderdale SOBEWFF series. Get your hands on an array of barbecue classics, including comfort sides, slow-roasted meats and decadent desserts.
Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.; $200; 551 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Clambake Hosted by Emeril Lagasse and Jorge Ramos
BAM! Join celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse and Conrad Fort Lauderdale chef Jorge Ramos under the SOBEWFF’s signature white tent with sweeping views of Fort Lauderdale Beach. The intimate Broward County affair will feature seasonal seafood and an array of wine and spirits. Once the sun sets, Charm City Cakes founder Duff Goldman will showcase samples of his iconic sweets.
Women of Syria Dinner Hosted by Alon Shaya and Ingrid Hoffman
Join Chef Alon Shaya, a James Beard Foundation award winner, and Colombian-American TV personality and author Ingrid Hoffmann at the Broward Center for Performing Arts as they bring an unforgettable food experience to SOBEWFF. Taste and learn about the heritage of Syrian refugees during this family style dinner prepared by two organizations dedicated to supporting Syrian refugees: Denver’s Comal Heritage Food Incubator and Miami’s Syrian Supper Club.
Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.; $200; 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale
Lucky Chopsticks Hosted by Andrew Zimmern
Grab your chopsticks and come ready to get your grub on at this signature outdoor event hosted for the first time in Fort Lauderdale. Andrew Zimmern, famed chef known for his TV series “Bizarre Foods,” will liven up the crowd during this rooftop, Asian street market-inspired event held at W Fort Lauderdale. Did we mention there will be ample amounts of sushi and dumplings in attendance?
The Champagne of Victors: G.H. Mumm and a History of Innovation
Looking to expand your Champagne knowledge? This seminar at the Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach will dive into the history of world-renowned G.H. Mumm Champagne, exploring 200 years of winemaking in Europe.
Feb. 24 at 11 a.m.; $125; 551 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Frederick Wildman Wine Seminar
The acclaimed New York-based fine wine and spirits importer will showcase its collection at the upcoming SOBEWFF. Sample wines and learn about the vision of the founder, Frederick Wildman. The event will be held at the Conrad Fort Lauderdale Beach.
Feb. 24 at 12:30 p.m.; $85; 551 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Rooftop Rosé Happy Hour Hosted by Kristin Cavallari
Pinkies out! Join TV star and True Roots cookbook author Kristin Cavallari for a rosé rooftop party at the W Fort Lauderdale. Nosh on bites while overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
Feb. 24 at 5:30 p.m.; $75; 401 North Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
The Ritz-Carlton Dinner: A Culinary Adventure
Wine and dine at The Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale’s Burlock Coast for an epic culinary adventure. Head chef Paula DaSilva, alongside chefs from The Ritz-Carlton Naples, Miami, Key Biscayne and Orlando locations, will bring their talents to the table to showcase the Sunshine State.
Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.; $175; One North Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Grand Bloody Mary Brunch Hosted by Geoffrey Zakarian and Aarón Sánchez
Longtime Food Network stars Geoffrey Zakarian and Aarón Sánchez bring a whole new meaning to Sunday brunch at Zakarian’s latest restaurant, Point Royal, located inside The Diplomat Beach Resort. Sip on Bloody Mary’s while perusing an assortment of brunch goodies, such as a dessert room, raw bar and suckling pig.
Feb. 25 at 11:30 a.m.; $150; 3555 South Ocean Drive, Hollywood
And there’s a lot more. For the full list and to buy tickets, visit sobewff.org.
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To what do I owe this pleasure?
For some reason I got onto a thought thread about what makes a good
premise for a film.
We've already been through the more global concepts of story and
character, and how important they are to a film completely
independent of budget.
But trying to plumb the depths of what makes a story good, at
least within the context of a film, proves to be something of a
Think about your top five favorite films. If you don't want to play
favorites, then pick any five films that you like. Now for each of those
films, write down a one-sentence description of the story.
For instance, I picked these:
Alien: A group of space voyagers encounter a deadly alien race
and battle to the death until it comes to a one-on-one battle.
North by Northwest: A man is mistaken for a spy and falls into
the realm of intrigue.
Chinatown: A detective is hoodwinked, and in trying to determine
who hoodwinked him, he exposes a family's secret and pays a high price.
Star Wars: A young man loses his family but finds his destiny as
a hero against the dark side.
Mad Max: A young man loses his family but finds his destiny as a
hero against the dark side.
Something that struck me about all of these movies is that there is a
single protagonist.
Alien: Ripley.
North by Northwest: Cary Grant's character whose name I forget at
the moment.
Chinatown: Jake Gittes.
Star Wars: Luke Skywalker.
Mad Max: Max. Or whatever the hell his name was.
The stories are told centering around them and their conflicts.
A very wise man once said that all drama is conflict. And within this
context (entertainment movies), the more enjoyable movies for me tend to
revolve around the resolution of conflict around a single protagonist
(or small group of protagonists like The Incredibles).
Furthermore, there is one primary conflict that is the root of
That doesn't mean that a movie that has a story that has human conflict
is necessarily a good movie.
Van Helsing. Pretty much centered around Van Helsing.
Star Wars Episode I. Umm... ObiWan? The kid?
Ankle Biters (shudder). Centered around the vampire hunter. Of course, I
still don't know what the conflict was there, other than him vs. the
midget vampires.
Thus, not all conflict is drama.
And a movie like Ju-On (The Grudge) doesn't center around a single human
character, it centers around the character of the house and the human
conflicts radiate from that like the spokes of a wheel. Yet within that
structure, there are several smaller stories that reveal a greater whole
(a cool bit of storytelling in my humble opinion).
Another bit of fluffy logic is that (at least for the most part), every
story has a beginning, a middle, and an </i>end</i>. This
is true of most classical western literature, and actually pretty
universal among all cultures. And since I'm still trying to remain
within the context of a "commercial" movie, let's call the paradigm of
beginning->middle->end a universal.
(Side note here: If you want to bring up movies like Pulp Fiction
and Memento, I will still argue that they have a
beginning/middle/end, just not necessarily in the linear order.)
Now I'll try and link those two concepts together: the beginning of the
story sets up the primary conflict, the middle focuses on the
primary comflict, and the end resolves the primary conflict.
Again, still not the key to a good story. But we're getting
closer.
I think that the key centers on the discovery of the primary conflict.
That conflict needs to be something that we can identify with, on either
a direct or a symbolic level.
Alien: The success of the individual against overwhelming odds.
Who hasn't felt like the universe is against them from time to time?
North by Northwest: Choosing to fight for the greater good over
the self. We all want to be heroes.
Chinatown: Not giving up in the face of adversity.
(Interestingly, the resolution of this conflict ends badly, which is one
of the reasons I like it.)
Star Wars: Triumph of the will, becoming the hero. Rooting for
the underdog.
Mad Max: Revenge. Placed in a context where revenge is allowed.
I may not have identified the same primary conflict arcs as you would,
but these are reasonable identifiable to me, and I think reflect my
experience of these movies.
So some of the "bad" movies:
Van Helsing: What is the primary conflict here? As likeable as
Hugh Jackman is in the role of Van Helsing, I just don't identify with
his character at all. It's a neat actiony romp, but it doesn't hold me.
(I enjoyed the movie, but it's not a great film by any means.)
Episode I: Assuming that ObiWan is the primary character here,
what is his conflict? He goes against the Jedi council? What gets
resolved?
Ankle Biters: The vampire hunter has to fight vampires. I don't
think I've ever fought a vampire, let alone a dwarf vampire. So a little
secret here: successful vampire movies are about the symbolism--
vampires are used to represent something. In this case, they don't
represent anything but vampires. Bo-ring.
One of the things that I loved about The Matrix was the
trippiness of the whole world-as-we-know-it being an illusion. I think
that almost everyone has had that feeling at one time or another, like
there's something behind the scenes that is making all of this stuff
happen. It's something that we can all identify with. To me, that middle
point is clearly defined as the time that Neo is faced with the choice
between the red and the blue pill, and that defines the primary
conflict: the relative safety of the illusion or the risk of reality,
the known vs. the unknown.
I'm really trying to get a handle on story here. This isn't something
that comes easily to me, particularly with writing a screenplay. I
really want to make good movies. So hit me up here. Tell me if I'm
wrong, or if you think I'm missing something (character aside-- I will
agree that good characters are important) in what makes a good movie
story. Or if you can think of good or bad movies that don't fit the
story/conflict paradigm. Or what movies you like/hate and how they fit.
lexinatrix
Mar. 4th, 2005 07:48 pm (UTC)
An extension of your conflict resolved theory is that there is growth on the part of the characters. Self-discovery, realization of talent, whatever.
As an aside: Chinatown is a piece of crap that never should have been made. The costumes and cars are more interesting than any of the characters or the story. So there.
Growth of a character is a moe difficult thing from a writing perspective. While watching a movie, you can extend the character's life out backwards and forwards in your mind, but with writing the character ceases to exist at the last page.
And poo-poo on you for not liking Chinatown. It's simply aged, like a fine cheesy wine.
mlif
Resolution of conflict can also be a lack of resolution, a lack of discovery. All resolution really means is (in this context) -- we have some idea (based on what we know of this character) of what is to become of her/him after the screen fades to black.
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Category: KHL
Why hockey needs to appreciate the Red Army
At the height of the Cold War, one could say that everything in the public was scrutinized more than necessary. There was a hint of secrecy and in other words a terrifying sense of immediate nuclear destruction that could tear the world apart in an instant.
Sport had its own Cold War and in particular, hockey.
And if there’s two things on this planet that really turn my crank, it’s history and hockey.
In the 1980s, Communism in the Soviet Union was in full swing yet slowly starting to die. A win in the sporting world equaled a win for the whole country and in extreme aspects, a win for Communism. Sport was used as propaganda for the nation and the Red Army team were the country’s main idols. It came as no surprise when former Soviet Army general Viktor Tikhonov lead one of the best and one of the most feared hockey teams in the game. Feared because they had the Iron Curtain hanging over their shoulder and the KGB watching every move.
Without beating around the bush, Tikhonov was hard. One could point out that on the ice and behind the bench, he ruled his team like a Dictator would his country. After all, maybe he did see his team as a country looking to invade and capture foreign land. His time as a general led him to create very unorthodox coaching styles. Players would have to train 11 months out of the year, away from their familiars and live in
Tikhonov in 2010.
the provided barracks; no doubt a salute to life in the army. Slava Fetisov, who captained the Red Army squad, was trained so hard that it has been said he could skate backwards as fast as any Western player could forward. How’s that for conditioning.
Former Soviet Union coach and credited as the god-father of Russian hockey, Anatoli Tarasov was once quoted as saying: “A hockey player must have the wisdom of a chess player, the accuracy of a sniper and the rhythm of a musician.” You could, quite frankly, describe Tikhonov’s team in that exact way. Of course, playing together for 11 months out of the year will definitely bring talent together at outrageous circumstances but the stickhandling, skating, and overall look of hockey the Soviets gave to it pushed the sport ahead 20 years in time.
Tikhonov’s methods were built around the strategies of the game. Working down angles. Being able to have that Gretzky instinct of knowing exactly where your teammates were with the puck. God forbid if you didn’t have a clue. He learned his ways of course pig-backing from tactics that were put in place by Tarasov. Practices would leave you barely making it back to the locker rooms and passing out from exhaustion on the ice. They both expected everything from you.
While they demanded your best, Tikhonov and in a much broader sense, the Soviet Union would give their stars players nothing in return. Most didn’t receive big cheques; they were a pittance at best and then shunned after their big wins. After all, it wasn’t a win for the team, it was a win for Communism and the country! Every game was an Olympic style event with less fanfare.
That’s where the defection of Russian players started to take place. The players knew deep down how they were being treated wasn’t right but they couldn’t speak up for fear of being sent to isolation in Siberia to put it bluntly. Nobody in their right mind liked the coaching style but they did what had to be done.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed.
Tikhonov had some of the BEST players under his wing. However with the threat of the NHL coming in and making offers now that they could entice players to the West, Tikhonov cut Pavel Bure, Valeri Zelepukin, Evgeny Davydov, and Vladimir Konstantinov in 1991 because he knew they’d be gone in an instant. It would save him the trouble. Those names should be familiar to you by now.
While Tarasov and Tikhonov were hockey dictators in their coaching ways, we would not have the style or innovation of the game that we do today. As I mentioned earlier, they helped push the game 20 years ahead of its time. Nobody had seen what they did with stick on these shores before. Some players described it as ballet on ice.
Sony Pictures is releasing a documentary on the entire squad entitled “Red Army”. I urge you to check it out and give it a watch. I can’t wait to see it myself.
Feel free to follow me on Twitter: @MarchHockey or on facebook, www.facebook.com/marchhockey and drop me a line!
Author MarchHockeyPosted on September 21, 2014 November 27, 2015 Categories KHL, NHL, RussiaTags Anatoli Tarasov, featured, Red Army, Russia, Soviet Union, USSR, Viktor TikhonovLeave a comment on Why hockey needs to appreciate the Red Army
Remembering Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Summer and early fall of 2011 was not kind to the hockey world. In the span of four months we lost Derek Boogaard, Wade Belak, and Rick Rypien. As tragic as these players stories are, little did we know that the worst was yet to come.
As 26 players, 11 coaches and a handful of flight crew boarded their plane to Minsk, Belarus, it seemed like any old start to a hockey season. The KHL was starting up their third season after evolving from the Russian Superleague. It is seen as one of the best hockey leagues in the world – second only to the NHL – and the best in Europe and Asia.
The 2011 roster of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was made up of young lads and NHL veterans. Some winding down on their careers; others just getting started. The team had an impressive season the year before finishing 1st in the Tarasov division with 108 points and losing in the conference finals to Moscow. The team’s top scorer, former NHLer Pavel Demitra, seemed to be on a tear and was eager to build on his formidable play.
The day started off like any other. Conditions were clear at Yaroslavl’s Tunoshna Airport and it was a great day to be flying. Driving to Minsk would take 12 or 13 hours by bus or train so flying was most welcome. Loading the gear up onto the plane then getting comfortable in their seats were names that people from North America would recognize. Canadian and Stanley Cup champion Brad McCrimmon was excited to coach his first KHL squad. It was a new and exciting opportunity to continue his career in a country like Russia. His assistant coaches were also former NHLers Alexander Karpovtsev and Igor Korolev.
Karel Rachunek, Karlis Skrastins, and Josef Vasicek joined Demitra with this team to start the winding down of their careers. Each daunting players in their own right, you could easily see how much of a force Yaroslavl was going to be for this upcoming season. Sadly, we’ll never find out.
As the plane rushed off down the stretch of paved road, it overran the runway. The nose briefly went airborne before stalling and running into a tower mast. When it came back and hit the ground, the plane broke up and immediately caught fire near the Volga River. From the wreckage, all but two perished including the flight crew. Young Alexander Galimov survived the crash but died five days later in hospital. The avionics flight engineer, Alexander Sizov was the only survivor.
As the crash began to be investigated, there were a few shocking revelations that started to come to fruition. The plane overran the runway because of pilot error. The pilot put on the brakes as it began taking off thus skidding along the runway. What’s even more worry some was what came to light after. Both pilots had falsified documents to be able to fly the plane. They were flying illegally and the co-pilot was suffering from a nerve disease. He wasn’t even allowed to fly.
Upon hearing the news, the KHL canceled all of their home openers. The season was delayed by a week or so. Former NHL teams of those players who died paid tribute by wearing honorary patches. The German Ice Hockey Federation retired Robert Dietrich’s number and the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation did the same for Karlis Skrastins. Tributes upon tributes were poured out from hockey fans across the world for a senseless tragedy.
Yaroslavl did not compete that season but did rebuild for the next one. It’s sad and downright scary to think that everything could be taken away from you in an instant of time. However, life and death doesn’t stop for anyone. Not even in the hockey world; the show must go on.
September 7th will always be a dark cloud and reminder to the end of the chilling offseason of 2011. They may be gone but certainly not forgotten.
Vitaly Anikeyenko, Mikhail Balandin, Gennady Churilov, Pavol Demitra, Robert Dietrich, Alexander Galimov, Marat Kalimulin, Alexander Kalyanin, Andrei Kiryukhin, Nikita Klyukin, Stefan Liv, Jan Marek, Sergei Ostapchuk, Karel Rachůnek, Ruslan Salei, Maxim Shuvalov, Kārlis Skrastiņš, Pavel Snurnitsyn, Daniil Sobchenko, Ivan Tkachenko, Pavel Trakhanov, Yuri Urychev, Josef Vašíček, Alexander Vasyunov, Alexander Vyukhin, Artem Yarchuk.
Yuri Bakhvlov, Aleksandr Belyaev, Alexander Karpovtsev, Igor Korolev, Nikolai Krivonosov, Yevgeni Kunnov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Brad McCrimon, Vladimir Piskunov, Yevgeni Sidorov, Andrei Zimin.
Author MarchHockeyPosted on September 6, 2014 September 7, 2014 Categories KHL, NHLTags featured, KHL, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, NHL, Pavel Demitra1 Comment on Remembering Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Jon “Nasty” Mirasty is one player you’d rather have on your team then to be playing against him. In his 10 year professional career which has seen him play all over the globe, he has racked up a total of 2571 penalty minutes.
Case in point: He’s not one to be messed with.
Jon Mirasty is a native of Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan and got his start in the WHL. He turned pro in 2003 with the Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL and the legend was born. I was intrigued by his style and his brief foray into the MMA world.
March Hockey: You’ve played in numerous leagues but the one I’m most intrigued by is the KHL. How does the game over in Russia compare to that of North America?? Different atmosphere??
Jon Mirasty: Russia was a great experience. The game is a lot different. You play on a bigger ice surface which opens things up. On the physical aspect, guys there shy away from the rough stuff. Instead of booing, fans whistle. You don’t know if they are cheering for you or against you. It was very hard for me because I love to fight, and there I’d get into only 4 or 5 fights a season. All in all, it was a great time!
MH: I’ll ask right off the bat too, who’s the toughest guy you’ve ever fought?
JM: The toughest guy I ever fought is a pretty hard question to ask. I’ve fought so many guys that were very tough in different ways. Memorable guys that stand out to me would be guys like Steve MacIntyre, Derek Boogard, Jeremy Yablonski. I have to admit, Steve Bosse hit pretty hard too! But like I said, all the guys I fought were pretty tough and I respect them for doing one of the harder jobs in the game.
MH: You’ve spent some time in the LNAH. How does that league compare to other ones you’ve played in? Do you think it’s changed since you’ve left?
JM: I had a great time playing in the LNAH. Obviously the skill level wasn’t on par with the KHL or AHL, but I feel that a lot of people under estimate the league. From what I remember, there were some very good players, along with some very tough men. I love old school hockey but sometimes the fights/brawls got a little carried away. It was a very exciting league where fans got a little bit of everything. I haven’t played there in over 6 years so things may have changed.
MH: Growing up as a kid, who was your biggest influence on your game and why?
JM: A lot of people helped me get to where I got, but the biggest influence would have been my dad, Gary.
MH: Any chance will see you in an MMA ring again?? What was that experience like??
JM: MMA was awesome. I have a lot of respect for those athletes. It is completely different than fighting on skates. I did not prepare properly and was not ready to compete. It takes a lot of devotion and time to train. With my new business adventures, I doubt I’ll have the time to ever attempt to compete again. I will train though.
MH: If you could play (or fight haha) against anyone, past or present, who would it be and why??
JM: I’ve had great battles against many guys and would look forward to doing it again against any one of them. Let my son put a few years on, and maybe I’ll try him.
Author MarchHockeyPosted on July 16, 2013 June 6, 2014 Categories AHL, KHL, LNAH, Player Q And A'sTags AHL, featured, Jon Mirasty, KHL, LNAH, Player Q and A's, Syracuse CrunchLeave a comment on Q&A With Former KHL Enforcer Jon Mirasty
LNAH 2013 Draft: Sorel-Tracy HC Carvena
The team who hosted the draft is up next on our look at the team’s faired.
HC Carvena wasted no time and drafted a player who is well known in LNAH and hockey circles, Jon Mirasty. “Nasty” Mirasty has been with Sorel-Tracy years ago when it was know as the Sorel-Tracy Mission. He then made it to the show with the Columbus Blue Jackets and spent sometime in the AHL with the Peoria Rivermen and Syracuse Crunch before making his way over to the KHL.
Yes. The KHL.
Mirasty was signed by Vityaz Chekhov and played a total of 30 games. He was suspended for 15 of them for things like this:
Yes, that’s minor for North American standards but I guess they don’t take fighting in the KHL too lightly.
Anyway, HC Carvena did draft a couple other guys, like Danny Masse and Steve Label but…..Mirasty is the only one you should be worried about. I am.
Author MarchHockeyPosted on July 4, 2013 July 11, 2013 Categories KHL, LNAHTags HC Carvena, Jon Mirasty, KHL, LNAH, Sorel-TracyLeave a comment on LNAH 2013 Draft: Sorel-Tracy HC Carvena
Patten’s Take On Jokerit And The KHL
The Finnish team has decided to cut ties with SM-Liiga and join the KHL.
I feel this is possibly bigger news than it is being downplayed as the KHL will be in nine or ten different countries across eastern Europe.
NHL beware?
Many would consider a move like this a concern for the NHL. Finland and Scandinavia have been some what of an NHL hotbed, seeing as they have opened their season every year since 08 (baring the this years late start due to the lock out).
Although again one can argue that their slower, spread out game is not as attractive as the NHLs. In addition to this they have done very little and seem to have no interest in attracting non-Russian speaking markets. Perhaps that is an intentional move there.
Jokerit have had a fair history of success; winning SM-Liigas Kanada-malja trophy several times over the 90s and early 2000s.
They also have accommodated players such as Jari Kurri, Teemu Selanne and Several of the Ruutu family to name a few.
This move will definitely turn a few heads in Scandinavia the K’s way this coming season, and Its clear the KHL expansion is not slowing down. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out!!
Author leopattenPosted on July 2, 2013 July 1, 2013 Categories FInland, KHLTags Finland, Jokerit, KHLLeave a comment on Patten’s Take On Jokerit And The KHL
Finnish Team Jokerit Helsinki To Leave SM-Liga And Join KHL
Jarkko Ruutu.
In what seems as a shocking move, Finnish based team Jokerit Helsinki has announced it will leave the very respectable SM-Liga (Finnish Elite League) for the KHL starting in the 2014-2015 season. Jokerit is one of the more established teams in SM-Liga with quite the following. This proves the KHL is adding one more step to become an international competitor to the National Hockey League.
The KHL is currently comprised of 29 teams based out of 8 countries. Jokerit Helsinki will become the ninth representing Finland. Croatia is slated to enter the league this coming season.
All 29 teams are spread out throughout Euro-asia with the far east being newly HC Admiral Vladivostok which plays on the east coast of Russia across from Japan. Spearheaded by Alexander Mogilny, Vladivostok is hoping to turn itself into a contender within it’s first year and play for the Gagarin Cup.
Jokerit has had several stars breakout over the years including Esa Tikkanen, Teemu Selanne, Ville Laino, Erik Karlsson and currently Valtteri Filppula’s older brother Ilari and Jarkko Ruutu. It will be interesting to see how this team of Finnish faithful will adapt to the Russian style and league.
Author MarchHockeyPosted on June 28, 2013 June 28, 2013 Categories FInland, KHLTags Finland, Jokerit, KHL, SM Liga, SuomiLeave a comment on Finnish Team Jokerit Helsinki To Leave SM-Liga And Join KHL
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Gustavus Adolphus College News
Analysis: Which college volleyball program grossed the most in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Apr 22, 2019
Concordia University-Saint Paul, University of Minnesota-Duluth and Winona State University top the list of highest grossing college volleyball programs in Minnesota in 2016
Analysis: Which college football program grossed the most in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Mar 18, 2019
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Winona State University and Minnesota State University-Mankato top the list of highest grossing college football programs in Minnesota in 2016
36.4 percent of Gustavus Adolphus College students played sports on university teams in 2016-2017
In 2016-2017, 36.4 percentage of Gustavus Adolphus College students participated in collegiate sports, according to data made available by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Analysis: Which college baseball program grossed the most in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Mar 4, 2019
Winona State University, Concordia University-Saint Paul and Saint Cloud State University top the list of highest grossing college baseball programs in Minnesota in 2016
Analysis: Which college softball program grossed the most in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Feb 18, 2019
Winona State University, Minnesota State University-Mankato and University of Minnesota-Duluth top the list of highest grossing college softball programs in Minnesota in 2016
Analysis: Which college golf program grossed the most in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Jan 7, 2019
Concordia University-Saint Paul, Southwest Minnesota State University and University of Minnesota-Crookston top the list of highest grossing women's college golf programs in Minnesota in 2016
Central Lakes College-Brainerd, Concordia University-Saint Paul and Macalester College top the list of highest grossing men's college golf programs in Minnesota in 2016
State institution: These 4-year Minnesota schools attract the most in-state students
By Local Labs News Service | Dec 31, 2018
Academy College, National American University-Bloomington and National American University-Burnsville enrolled the most in-state students of all four-year Minnesota schools, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of fall 2017 data.
These 4-year schools have the top 'on time' graduation rates in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Nov 21, 2018
Walden University, Carleton College and Herzing University-Minneapolis have the best 'on time' graduation rates among four-year schools in Minnesota, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
State institution: These 4-year Minnesota schools attract the fewest in-state students
Walden University, Capella University and Carleton College enrolled the fewest in-state students of all four-year Minnesota schools, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of fall 2017 data.
These 4-year schools have the top 'on time' graduation rates in the U.S.
By Local Labs News Service | Sep 26, 2018
Walden University, Carleton College and Herzing University-Minneapolis are among four-year schools in the U.S. with the best 'on time' graduation rates, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
These schools have the top 'on time' graduation rates in Minnesota
By Local Labs News Service | Sep 5, 2018
PCI Academy-Plymouth, Carleton College and Macalester College have the best 'on time' graduation rates in Minnesota, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
68 percent of applicants to Gustavus Adolphus College were admitted for fall 2017
By Local Labs News Service | Aug 18, 2018
At Gustavus Adolphus College, 99 percent of undergraduate students are traditional students - age 24 or younger - and 56 percent are female, according to the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.
Sticker shock: Which 4-year U.S. schools charge the highest in-state tuition?
State residents enrolled at Carleton College face among the steepest cost of attending four-year in-state colleges and universities in the U.S., according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
Which Minnesota colleges receive the most state student aid?
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and University of Minnesota-Duluth reported receiving the most state financial aid during the 2015-16 academic year among Minnesota schools, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
Sticker shock: Which U.S. schools charge the highest in-state tuition?
Residents in Minnesota face some of the steepest cost of attending in-state colleges and universities in the U.S., according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
Cost of college went up for all students at Gustavus Adolphus College
By Local Labs News Service | Jun 12, 2018
Tuition and fees rose 2.9 percent for 2017-18 at Gustavus Adolphus College, according to the latest disclosure from the U.S. Department of Education.
Graduates earn 613 degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College
By Local Labs News Service | Jun 5, 2018
About 14 percent of the 613 degrees and certificates handed out by the Gustavus Adolphus College in 2016-17 were to students in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services programs, making them the most popular programs that year, acco
The price of education: Which 4-year Minnesota schools charge the highest in-state tuition?
Minnesota residents attending four-year schools pay the highest in-state tuition at Carleton College, Macalester College and St Olaf College, according to a Higher Education Tribune analysis of federal data.
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Ad Network Reviews »
Airpush Review for Publishers
Review Information Last Updated on: September 9th 2016
Introduction to Airpush
Airpush offers aggressive monetization methods for mobile app developers and publishers looking to squeeze more revenue. In addition to common and traditional display ad units, Airpush offers monetization via video ads, advanced overlays, rich media, and push notifications that appear in the notification slide-down trays on Android devices. Although these more aggressive monetization strategies may be off-putting to a lot of users, Airpush is able to boast high eCPMs.
Overall Rating: 4.00 out of 5.
What We Like: Revolutionary monetization methods, compliance with Google Play Store Developer Guidelines.
What We Don’t Like: Monetization methods result in an off-putting user experience.
Airpush Company Stats
Homepage: Airpush
Program Founded In: 2010
Employee Count: “Approximately 230” as of May 2, 2014, according to Airpush.com
Ownership: Airpush, Inc. (Private)
Profiles: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Crunchbase, BBB
Airpush Support & Contact Information
Address: 11400 W Olympic Blvd Ste 200, Los Angeles CA 90064
Support Email: [email protected]
Publisher Requirements
Publisher Terms: http://www.airpush.com/developer_agreement/
Traffic Minimum: None.
Publisher Language Requirement: There is no specific language requirement.
Prohibited Publisher Content: There is no content that is explicitly prohibited by the Airpush Developer Agreement; however, developers are expected to be in compliance with the Google Play Developer Program Policies, which does have certain content restrictions.
Advertisers & Offers
Advertising Types: Mobile App Monetization.
Offer Types: CPA, CPC, CPM.
Verticals: All.
Network Size: 100,000+ mobile apps amd 10,000+ live campaigns.
Sampling of Publishers: Unknown.
Airpush Tech Implementation Rating: 4 out of 5.
Example of Airpush push notification ad unit for Taco Bell (left) and rich media unit for Dunkin’ Donuts (right)
Creating an Ad Unit: Creating and implementing an ad unit for a mobile app is definitely more of a chore than it is for creating a simple display ad unit for a website. Unless you’re well-versed in app development, you’ll need help from an app developer to implement the XML code. To create the unit in the dashboard, click the “Add Application” button, then fill out the app info and select ad formats and targeting options. Then, download the SDK and drop the Jar file into your app project. Additional instruction is available in their AirSDK 1.0 for Play Store Documentation.
Display Ad Unit Sizes Available: SmartWall, banner, push notifications, icons, rich media, video ads.
Implementation Technology: Airpush AirSDK Jar File and XML.
Compatible with Google AdSense: N/A.
Mobile Ad Units Available: Yes.
WordPress Plugin Available: N/A.
Publisher Reporting & Admin Control Panel
Airpush Publisher Reporting & Admin Control Panel Rating: 5 out of 5.
Airpush control panel
Control Panel: The Airpush publisher control panel has a sleek layout and user interface. It is easy to use and navigate with top-level pages for payments, reports, helpdesk, API, user settings, and of course the homepage (dashboard). Upon first logging in, the dashboard displays a list of all of the developer’s ad types across all applications, with the current day’s numbers for impressions, CPM, and earnings. For quick reference, the account’s API key is always displayed at the top of this home dashboard page.
Reporting: The reporting section of the Airpush control panel is easy to use, yet very powerful. Developers/Publishers are able to generate reports by ad platform (push notification ads, icon ads, smartwall, or banner ads) and/or application name. Metrics available include new installs, impressions, CPM, and earnings over time. A report can be generated over any custom date range. Custom reports with additional options can also be saved and easily re-generated at any time.
Control Panel URL: http://manage.airpush.com/publishers/publishers/
Airpush Payment Rating: 4 out of 5.
Publisher’s Share of Revenue: Not disclosed.
Payment Methods Available: ACH, PayPal, Wire Transfer.
Payment Terms: Weekly payments.
Minimum Payout Threshold: $50.
Airpush Account Help Rating: 3 out of 5.
Knowledge Base URL: http://www.airpush.com/resources/faqs/
Personal Account Manager: No.
Easy to Contact Support: Yes.
Editor’s Airpush Review
Airpush is one of the preeminent mobile app monetization platforms, boasting over 100,000 applications that use their service. Airpush offers a wide range of monetization options for app developers, including standard in-app banner ads, push notification ads, icon ads, rich media, video, and SmartWall ads.
Standard in-app banner ads are exactly what they sound like: static or rich media display ads of varying sizes that are displayed within the application. Push ads are more intrusive on the user: they display in the notification tray of Android devices, alongside other alerts, which can certainly be off-putting to your users.
But, consider that these units can achieve 10 times the revenue that banners alone do, according to AirPush. Icon ads are sponsored shortcut icons that are placed on Android device homescreens. SmartWall monetization is engineered to automatically display the optimum type of ad format out of rich media, dialog, video, and AppWall, based on performance and current network connection type.
Implementing an Airpush ad unit within an app is not for the feint of heart, particularly if you’re a Web publisher who is just dabbling in the art of mobile app monetization for the first time. You’ll definitely want an experienced mobile app developer to assist with proper implementation of the AirPush Jar file and XML code into your application.
This is not a criticism of Airpush, but rather is simply a function of the complexity involved in developing and monetizing any mobile app with any monetization platform in 2016. It’s just not as simple as creating and monetizing a blog.
To create an ad unit in the Airpush control panel, navigate to the dashboard and click the “Add Application” button. Fill in the information for the app, including name, URL, category, and sub-category.
On the ensuing screen, you’ll need to select options for how you want to target your audience and what kind(s) of ad units you want to display. There are a lot of options on this screen, but that’s a good thing in that it affords a high degree of customization.
As far as targeting is concerned for push ads, there are options to delay the display of the first ad for a certain number of days; you can also opt to display ads to all users or only to users who have been inactive for a specified number of days. There is also an option to limit the number of ads that each user sees in a single day. There is also one targeting option for icon ads, which gives you the ability to throttle the number of icon ads each user sees every month.
For SmartWall ads, you can opt to display AppWall ads, dialog ads, landing page ads, rich media full page ads, and/or overlay ads.
The Airpush admin control panel offers a sleek interface and is easily navigable. Reports are relatively easy to create and offer a high degree of customization and granularity, so you can get to the heart of the data that you’re looking for.
Payments are timely (with an option to be remitted weekly) and the options for receiving payment are plentiful (ACH, PayPal, and wire transfer).
While Airpush does not provide new accounts with a dedicated support rep, contacting support is fairly simple, with options to fill out a contact form, email, or even call.
Unfortunately, they do not offer an in-depth support knowledge base or forum as many other ad networks do. But they do provide an FAQ page that answers some of the most common questions.
Overall, we recommend Airpush as one of a select few viable options to use when attempting to monetize a mobile application.
http://www.airpush.com/resources/blog/
http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-working-with-AirPush-as-a-developer
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It is also illegal to download movies from any of these TamilMV Websites. Indiatimes had recently published an article, quoting that “Soon Downloading Pirated Movies Could Land You Behind The Bars For 3 Years, Fine.”
Why Is It Illegal To Download Movies From TamilMV
To stream or distribute any movies, TamilMV needs proper authority from Production Houses. As they spend millions to produce movies Product houses have the copyright (ownership) of the content they produce. Productions Houses have to authorize TamilMV to distribute their movie.
As a fact, TamilMV is never into Film distribution Business, whereas Production houses have never authorized TamilMV for any of their film distributions. In fact, TamilMV acquires the Movie Downloads from an illegal means, for eg: Leaks from Labs, theatres, and uploads into their websites. As per the copyright law, Piracy is illegal and is equivalent to theft. This Copyright act is different in different countries, For example as per the Indian Copy Right Act 1957, TamilMV is distributing Movies illegally hence punishable under the Indian Law.
The Law (Copy Right Acts) also states that the distribution is illegal. Also, the consumption of copyrighted content is a punishable act. Hence as a viewer, you are committing illegal activity by downloading movies from TamilMv.
Why TamilMV Does Not Have Official Website or Social Media Presence
TamilMV is illegal, because of which their websites is banned in India and other countries. Whereas Social Media Platforms like Facebook and YouTube also have stricter copyright policies and they keep banning the pages like TamilMV.
How much Illegal websites like TamilMV are costing Film Industry?
According to Forbes Magazine, the action movie, starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, was leaked to “pirates” three weeks before its official release, leading to 70 million illegal viewings and costing $100 million in lost revenues.
Bearing a loss of 100 million dollars, from just one movie, which means the entire industry bears in multiple billion dollars loss. This loss is directly proportional to the lively hood of millions of people from this industry worldwide. Whereas TamilMV being one of the top illegal websites is causing troubles to the livelihood of millions of people indirectly.
Extracted from US Government website
Following text from the US government website, gives us an idea about the impact the sites has on the audience and also on the society at the macro level.
“The revenues lost from piracy affect carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen who work in the entertainment industry as well as the economies of countries all over the world where movies are made. Movie piracy can affect you as well, even if you’re not downloading illegal copies of movies” – share.america.gov
Illegal uploading and downloading of copyright-infringing materials takes up 24 percent of the bandwidth used in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. If you have a slow connection speed, it could be because of illegal file-sharing.
Even if you don’t download movies illegally, you probably know — and get email and photos from — people who do. According to the Digital Citizens Alliance, consumers are 28 times more likely to get malware (software designed to damage computers) from sites offering illegal downloads. If you know anyone who does illegal streaming, you must guide her to not support this activity.
According to the Motion Picture Association of America, the film and television industries are responsible for 2 million jobs in America alone. And local businesses that support the industry receive $43 billion every year. Numbers like that apply to overseas filming hubs as well. If piracy reduces the number of films made, the economic effects will be felt in filmmaking countries around the world.
Legal ways to watch Movies Online?
It is always better to watch movies through legal channels so that we can enjoy movies in High Definition. There are several legal movie streaming platforms for cheap, hence for those who do not have time for theaters can use these platforms. These platforms are easily accessible on your TV, smartphones, and laptops. Thanks to the latest telecom technology that have reduced the cost of data plans. Unlike TamilMV, you will find a number of legal streaming services to enjoy the best quality movies.
These legal streaming service providers typically provide three types of services:
Free Streaming of Movies online – Yes, there are plenty of free streaming services like JioCinema and Hotstar that provides free movies. But, you won’t find the latest movies on this site.
Pay per Movie – This is one of the best services for those who do not watch movies regularly. Platforms like YouTube Movies, iTunes, Google Play Movie, and many others provide similar service. If you are a regular viewer, then this service might get expensive for you.
Monthly subscription – This is one of the best and most used services for those who are a regular viewer. Platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ErosNow, and similar other platforms have monthly subscriptions. These websites release movies within a few months of its theater release. All you have to do is, buy a monthly subscription plan and enjoy unlimited movies and TV Shows.
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Gregory Peck – The Chain Reaction Film Club
Posted on November 1, 2018 by Mr Pootler
One of the great things about IMDb is that the URL for people betrays how early they were added to the database. For example, the first person on the IMDb, with the url ending ‘name/nm0000001/’, is Fred Astaire. There’s another film club to be had around that idea, now that I think about it.
Last time I wrote about the rather strange Last of Sheila, then waxed lyrical about two Gregory Peck fims. Anyway, so taken was I with Gregory Peck, and so enticed by the fact that he’s got a relatively small filmography for someone of his fame, that a season beckoned. And now after ten Peck films in a row I am a dedicated fan. Even though I’ve written about two of them before, I’ll look at the whole season here, because Peck deserves that sort of treatment.
From Last of Sheila we linked via James Mason to The Boys From Brazil. I enjoy Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives (the original, obvs) so another Ira Levin-based ooky thriller seemed like a safe bet. Laurence Olivier is a Nazi hunter (and the 59th person added to the IMDb), and Gregory Peck is the fiendish Joseph Mengele (and number 60, conveniently enough. The first hundred or so seem to have been added in alphabetical order!).
It wasn’t great (nor was James Mason’s accent come to that), but I thought Gregory Peck was outstanding. Looking up trivia afterwards, it turned out that Olivier was nominated for an Oscar for his performance, which seemed terribly hammy to me. Peck on the other hand was critically mauled. Perhaps it’s time and acting styles passing on that have affected my view, perhaps it’s just down to taste, or perhaps it’s that I wasn’t saddled with the view of Peck that critics of the time had. He was, by all accounts, almost always cast as the good guy, the moral authority. But I can count the number of Peck films I’d previously seen on the fingers that I’d hold up at the President if I saw him.
The previous films were Roman Holiday and The Omen, neither of which I remember him from particularly. In fact, in my head Cary Grant played the lead in Roman Holiday, so what do I know!
It definitely wasn’t all top quality stuff in the season. Designing Woman was a fun enough romp, but would have benefited from Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant in the lead, with their screen personas more able to invite laughter at their expense. Spellbound and Mirage were a pair of duff Hitchcock and Hitchcock-wannabe thrillers. The former is notable for a Dali-designed dream sequence, the latter for an excellent Walter Matthau interlude.
But everything else was gold. To Kill A Mockingbird and Cape Fear both came out in 1962. Even without seeing any other Peck films, those two alone should be enough to cement an iconic image. A man of unwavering moral authority, brought to breaking point. A man for whom morality is the ultimate arbiter. I think Cape Fear is one of the very best we’ve watched as part of the Chain Reaction Film Club.
I’ve not seen the remake (I mooted it as a way to end the season, as Peck turns up in it, but Tim was less keen) and am a little scared of it now. I found Robert Mitchum to be skin-crawlingly horrible enough. I’m not certain I want to see where De Niro takes it.
Then there was The Gunfighter, a stripped down Western that would work well as a stage play. It’s largely set in one bar as a weary-of-fame gunfighter waits for the woman he loves and tries to fend off young hotheads and horrified matrons. It’s good stuff. The Guns of Navarone is one of those Sunday afternoon standards that I somehow missed growing up, and its band of plucky misfit soldiers assaulting a Nazi base seems to have laid the blueprints for parts of the original Star Wars trilogy.
A war film with a different tone, Twelve O’Clock High had Peck taking over a bomber unit suffering from low morale. Determined not to get attached to the men for their own good, it’s another great example of his moral strength being tested. Bouncing back to another western, The Big Country is as handsome as they come.
It’s here where Peck’s archetypal quiet competence and morality seemed to find their most natural home. Thrust into the middle of a feud which is about to bubble over, Peck outwardly takes the moral high ground, using brain over brawn. At the same time he tackles physical challenges on the quiet, determined not to use those as a means of proving himself to others.
After ten films, almost a fifth of his entire filmography, I am absolutely converted to the temple(ton) of Peck. Is he the greatest actor? No, I don’t think so. There is an unbendingness to his performances that suits his most notable roles. I think that’s also why he excelled as Mengele – a man who believes as unwaveringly in his (horrendous) actions as Atticus Finch believes in the law.
After leaving Peck behind we tackled The Ballad of Cable Hogue, then via Strother Martin we watched The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Made four years after The Big Country, it was a similar story of Jimmy Stewart’s moral man forced into a world where the rule of law is seemingly meaningless. When we started the Peck season I thought of him as an also-ran compared to the likes of Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. Watching Liberty Valance I was struck by how much I would have liked Gregory Peck to be playing the lead instead.
It turns out that The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was the 100th film in the Chain Reaction Film Club, so I’ll have a little look through what we’ve watched so far and pick out a few choice morsels. And if you haven’t looked at my post about some exciting writing news, then maybe tiptoe over here and see what’s going on.
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Chain Reactions Galore
Posted on June 27, 2018 by Mr Pootler
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Chain Reaction Film Club entry, but rest assured it has been carrying on in the background. Last time I posted about it we’d just tackled Animal Kingdom. Here’s how the chain has continued – I won’t put in a slavish entry for every film, but a few broad strokes.
From Animal Kingdom we linked to Kinky Boots via Joel Edgerton. It’s a somewhat different tone (Australian crime family to British drag queen shoe manufacturing), and although Joel and Chiwetel Ejiofor put in decent performances it never quite rises above a sort of Full Monty lite. I started drafting a post about it, but it just descended into a rant about how unfair it is that Idris Elba is always mooted as the first black James Bond but Chiwetel seldom is. He’d be excellent. So that’s you told. Apropos of nothing, my other half saw Chiwetel, Bill Nighy and Andrew Lincoln in Joe Penhall’s play Blue Orange years ago. What a cast.
From Kinky Boots to Inside Man to… Bond?
Using Chiwetel Ejiofor we moved on to Inside Man, a 2006 Spike Lee joint that was perfectly enjoyable. Though now I write about it a couple of months down the line I’m actually struggling to remember much about it. Chiwetel was underused though, I remember that much. Oh, get ready for a spoiler… I absolutely loved the bait-and-switch tension the title gave the film. As it deals with a bank heist the instant assumption is that either the cops or the criminals have a man on the other side. But for once that’s not quite what’s going on… I can’t remember another film that built tension purely from its title. Also, the way Jodie Foster says Baron De Rothschild is worth the entry price.
The big cheese in Inside Man was played by Christopher Plummer, and so I decided to tackle his Kipling. The Man Who Would Be King (1975) is one of those films that everyone else seemed to see repeatedly on lazy Sundays growing up, but I didn’t goddammit and I think I missed out. Michael Caine and Sean Connery are the ne’erdowells who decide to take over a country and somehow manage it until their own greed plays against them. It’s a top watch, despite Connery’s repeated ‘we two Englishmen’ lines being spewed in his Scottish accent.
Nothing to see here, just two Englishmen, oh yes indeed.
Following that I was up for a season of either Connery or Caine films, and we plumped for the latter. So over the course of a few weeks we tackled Zulu (which I did see on lazy Sundays growing up, and was not quite as problematic as I feared it might now be), Gambit (1966 – an incredibly well played twist early on), The Ipcress File (it must surely rate as one of the most British films ever made, and certainly features some of the best passive-aggressive paperwork) and two of its follow ups – Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain (the law of diminishing returns applies).
Britishness is most definitely afoot. And ahead. And ashoulder.
Finally, having started the season with a war epic, we finished with the same. 1969’s all-star Battle of Britain which was worth watching purely for the scene of Edward Fox parachuting into a greenhouse. Here, I’ll save you a couple of hours, watch this.
Making a wonderfully fresh-faced appearance in Battle of Britain was Ian MacShane and so I poopooed the likes of Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier’s weighty filmographies and plumped instead for The Last Of Sheila.
Swearengen. Mhm.
It’s a sort of whodunnit cat and mouse affair about a film producer going on a cruise to uncover which of his chums killed his wife in a hit-and-run. Strangely enough it was the only the only film either of its co-writers ever scripted. And who were those writers? Why Psycho’s Anthony Perkins and composer extraordinaire Stephen Sondheim! Apparently they used to host murder mystery treasure hunts for their celeb chums and it spun out of that.
It’s surprisingly good and nicely twisty, however there is one deeply strange thing in it. The game the producer plays is to give each of his guests a card with a dark secret on. Over the course of a week the game is meant to be deciphering who has which card. The secrets don’t correspond to the person who has the card, but they are of course, a secret harboured by one of the other guests. Raquel Welch’s diva character is devastated when it’s revealed that she shoplifted a coat early in her career. However when it is revealed that James Mason’s character is a child molester there is no comment. It’s mentioned a couple more times in the film and, despite the fact that one of the other characters was around him when she was a child, no further comment is passed. It is completely shrugged off. Now, this was in the 70s and we’re living in a post-Saville world, but even so surely it wasn’t something to be glossed over. On the plus side, James Mason’s voice is gloriously James Masony.
From his dulcet tones in The Last of Sheila we pivoted to an occasionally German accented James Mason in The Boys From Brazil. I’m a big fan of Ira Levin’s Stepford Wives and Rosemary’s Baby, and while this wasn’t on that same level it was still enjoyable. Laurence Olivier and Steve Guttenberg are Nazi hunters (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write), and uncover Dr. Mengele alive and well in Panama. But an evil scheme is afoot… Olivier was nominated for an Oscar for it but Peck’s performance was apparently lambasted by critics at the time. Seeing it for the first time now, I’d argue that Olivier’s performance almost ruins the film and Peck is excellently monstrous.
Peck is excellent, Mason is just enjoying the holiday.
So good was Peck in fact, that I struggled to pick just one film for the following week. But eventually I settled on Cape Fear – the 1962 version. He does actually appear in the 1991 version too so we may well get to that shortly. I know the Cape Fear episode of The Simpsons very well, though it seems like that’s more of a riff on the 90s version. I worried that Sideshow Bob’s version of Max Cady’s evil revenge story might soften Cape Fear a bit, but my gosh was I wrong. Robert Mitchum is incredibly horrible, and despite some censoring and the removal of references to child rape from the script, it’s really clear what his plan is. Peck is a muscular counterpoint to Cady and the testing of his almost inflexible moral core creates brilliant tension. One of the best we’ve seen in the 90 films we’ve tackled since the starting point of Chain Reaction.
Sideshow Bob Mitchum
Phew. That’s caught me right up to speed. It’s Tim’s choice this week and I’m hoping for another Peck film. I had about 8 or 9 on my Peck shortlist without even looking at any Westerns or war films. And most importantly I could name the season ‘The Pecking Order’, so presumably we have to do it now. Got a favourite Gregory Peck film? Let me know and I’ll add it to the list!
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Canada’s Hidden Asset in China Talks
It’s too bad Regina and Ottawa are so far apart these days.
The trade challenges between Canada and China have many offering opinions on the stance this country should be taking….some say toughen up our position, others are more measured. Either way, Saskatchewan may be a diplomatic ace-in-the-hole no one in Ottawa is thinking about.
Back in the early 60s, it was Saskatchewan’s John Diefenbaker who broke ranks with the world and sent food aid to starving Chinese citizens dealing with natural disasters. This came at a time when none in the Western world were talking with China. It was Canada who opened the door.
Nearly ten years later the University of Regina became one of the first to establish ties with a campus in China, almost a decade before China opened up to the world. It also presented a senior Chinese government official with an honorary degree, cementing the relationship that led to the U of R being the first international institution accredited for senior Chinese bureaucrats seeking executive training resulting in many of China’s top officials having lived in this province. Canada may want to ask us for some help.
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Prior to establishing the EAC Group she was the CEO of United Capital Plc and before
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Artemis Fowl – Teaser Trailer
Posted on 28 Novembro, 2018 by Admin
ARTEMIS FOWL follows 12-year-old genius Artemis Fowl, a descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds, as he finds himself in a battle of strength and cunning against a powerful, hidden race of fairies who may be behind his father’s disappearance.
The film stars Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Tamara Smart, Nonzo Anozie, with Josh Gad, and Judi Dench. Judy Hofflund and Kenneth Branagh are producing with Angus More Gordon and Matthew Jenkins serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Conor McPherson.
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The Lion King Official Teaser Trailer
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POKÉMON Detective Pikachu – Official Trailer #1
The world of Pokémon comes to life!
The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie, “POKÉMON Detective Pikachu” stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular character in the first-ever live-action movie based on the iconic face of the global Pokémon brand—one of the world’s most popular, multi-generation entertainment properties and most successful media franchises of all time.
Fans everywhere can now experience Pikachu on the big screen as never before, as a talking detective Pikachu, a Pokémon like no other. The film also showcases a wide array of beloved Pokémon characters, each with its own unique abilities and personality.
The story begins when ace private eye Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry’s former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu join forces on a thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery. Chasing clues together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City—a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live-action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon universe.
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Dumbo Official Trailer
From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, “Dumbo” expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. A new trailer, images and poster are now available. The trailer features Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Green, Finley Hobbins and Nico Parker.
Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer, Dreamland is full of dark secrets.
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Zero | Official Trailer | Shah Rukh Khan | Aanand L Rai | Anushka | Katrina | 21 Dec 2018
Posted on 4 Novembro, 2018 by Admin
Here’s presenting the official trailer of Zero starring Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif and directed by Aanand L Rai. The film releases in cinemas on 21st December, 2018.
Red Chillies Entertainment and Colour Yellow Production come together to bring the film, produced by Gauri Khan, ZERO is all set to release worldwide.
Actors: Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, Shah Rukh Khan,
Producer: Gauri Khan
Director : Aanand L Rai
Writer: Himanshu Sharma
Co-producer: Karuna Badwal
Music: Ajay-Atul
DOP: Manu Anand
VFX Supervisor: Harry Hingorani
Production Designer: Wasiq Khan
Editor: Hemal Kothari
Born to a wealthy family and raised in an environment of affluence and indulgence, Bauua was never failed by Meerut or its people. But when he meets two women (Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma), his experiences with these women take him on a journey to complete his ‘incompleteness’ and broaden his horizons to find a purpose he never knew he had.
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ISN’T IT ROMANTIC – Official Trailer
From New Line Cinema comes the romantic comedy “Isn’t It Romantic,” starring Rebel Wilson (“How to Be Single,” the “Pitch Perfect” films), Liam Hemsworth (the “Hunger Games” films), Adam Devine (“The Intern,” the “Pitch Perfect” films) and Priyanka Chopra (“Quantico,” “Baywatch”), under the direction of Todd Strauss-Schulson (“A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas,” “The Final Girls”).
New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city’s next skyscraper. And if things weren’t bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.
Wilson stars as Natalie, alongside Liam Hemsworth as Blake, a handsome client; Adam Devine as her earnest best friend, Josh; and Priyanka Chopra as yoga ambassador Isabella.
Strauss-Schulson directs from a screenplay by Erin Cardillo and Dana Fox & Katie Silberman. Todd Garner (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Tag”), Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo (“13 Going on 30,” “What Women Want”) are producing, with Marty Ewing (“IT,” “The Accountant”) and Rebel Wilson executive producing.
Collaborating with Strauss-Schulson behind the scenes are director of photography Simon Duggan (“The Great Gatsby,” “Hacksaw Ridge”), production designer Sharon Seymour (“Argo,” “The Town”), editor Andrew Marcus (“Begin Again,” “Sing Street”), and costume designer Leah Katznelson (“How to Be Single,” “Sleeping with Other People”).
New Line Cinema presents, in association with Bron Creative, a Broken Road/Little Engine Production, “Isn’t It Romantic.” Slated for release on February 14, 2019, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. The film has been rated PG-13.
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Aladdin Teaser Trailer
Posted on 12 Outubro, 2018 12 Outubro, 2018 by Admin
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Dark Phoenix | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
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Syria news: Will Putin respond to missile strikes and bomb the UK? | World | News
The world is on the verge of World War 3 as political leaders from Syria, Russia, the US and UK head on a collision course.
A week of Twitter threats and political posturing ended when US, UK and French forces launched “precision missile strikes” on Syrian chemical weapons facilities on Saturday evening.
In a televised address from the White House, Trump said the strikes were in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma last Saturday.
Trump said: “These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead.
“This evil and despicable act left mothers and fathers and children thrashing in pain and gasping for air.”
The President had previously threatened military strikes via Twitter, warning Russia to “get ready” for missiles to be launched at Syria.
Vladimir Putin had previously stated that Russia would be prepared to respond in full to any attacks on its allies, but the world is still waiting for Russia to retaliate.
Where did the missile strikes hit?
An announcement from Washington was made at 2am on Sunday, stating that a military operation had launched.
Donald Trump said: “Precision strikes have been ordered on chemical weapons sites in Syria and attack is underway with UK and France.
“Middle East is a troubled place. We will try to make it better but it is a troubled place.”
He added that the attacks would be sustained till Syrians stop using chemical weapons.
He said: “The use of chemical weapons was a significant escalation. They were evil and the crimes of a monster in Syria.”
Donald Trump announced the missile Strike on Saturday evening
Western leaders launched missiles at Syrian chemical weapons plants on Sunday
The missiles were intended to take out Syria’s chemical weapon development facilities, but conflicting reports on their success suggest there was little damage made by the strikes.
CNBC reported that the missiles had little to no effect, causing no military casualties and failing to inflict any meaningful damage to the military infrastructure.
Experts suggest that this strike was no different from any previous strike the West has exacted on Syria, only this time, blame was okayed firmly at the door of Russia.
Tensions have been rising between Putin and Trump, with both leaders suggesting full missile operations and counter-strikes could be imminent.
Accusations of Russian intervention and a direct order from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad prompted the West to put on a united front.
The US is also reportedly set to announce further sanctions on Russian exports.
Syria news: Will Russia respond to Western missile strikes? Will Putin bomb the UK?
The damage done by the missiles is said to be minimum
Bashar al-Assad defies claims he ordered a chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta
Will Putin respond to the missile strikes?
The world is still waiting for Russia’s reaction to Sunday’s missile strike.
In a statement released by the Kremlin, the Russian president denied evidence of a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma and said the strike would “have a destructive effect on the entire system of international relations”.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has today announced Moscow “will not delay in adopting legislation against US sanctions,” news agency RIA said, adding that Washington was demonstrating “open economic aggression.”
Experts believe that Russia’s reaction will be muted, for now, with one analyst noting that the “likelihood of a direct, military response to the strikes from Russia is very low.”
“Despite the threats from Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin that Russia would target the platforms from which the missiles were fired, Moscow is fully aware that such an attack would not only constitute a massive and dangerous escalation,” Daragh Mcdowell, principle Russia analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, said in a note to CNBC on Sunday.
“It would be virtually certain to fail given the relative strengths of [the] coalition and Russian assets in [the Syrian] theater,” McDowell continued, adding that for the moment it seems that Russia’s response will be “contained to statements condemning the attacks, public anger, but very little else.”
“Because the strikes did not hit Russian assets, and do not appear to have significantly undermined the Assad regime, there is no material reason to go further than that. Nevertheless, the poor state of East-West relations overall, and displeasure in the Kremlin with the strike may push Russia to seek asymmetrical means of retaliation. These kinds of actions are difficult to predict by their very nature, and Russia is unlikely to telegraph its intentions,” he said.
Theresa May has had to defend her actions to Westminster
What western leaders have said
Prime Minister Theresa May has had to defend her actions to coordinate with US and French military to bomb Syria.
The Prime Minister defied suggestions that she was simply following Trump’s orders, saying the strikes were essential.
In a statement released by Mrs May shortly after Trump’s address, she said there was “no practicable alternative to the use of force” to deter the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime.
Adding that every possible diplomatic channel had been sought before the decision to launch targeted strikes had been taken.
Macron claims to have convinced President Trump
Syria air strikes latest pictures: US, UK and France attack Damascus
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The United States, France and Britain have launched military strikes in Syria to punish President Bashar Assad for an apparent chemical attack against civilians and to deter him from doing it again.
The destroyed Scientific Research Centre is seen in Damascus
She said: “This persistent pattern of behaviour must be stopped not just to protect innocent people in Syria from the horrific deaths and casualties caused by chemical weapons but also because we cannot allow the erosion of the international norm that prevents the use of these weapons.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the strikes “legally questionable” in a letter to Mrs May.
Speaking in Downing Street, Mrs May said the “limited and targeted strikes” had degraded Syria’s ability to use chemical weapons.
“This collective action sends a clear message that the international community will not stand by and tolerate the use of chemical weapons,” she said.
French President Emmanuel Macron, claims he was the one to convince Mr Trump to stay in Syria before the strikes hit.
“Ten days ago, President Trump said the USA’s will is to disengage from Syria. We convinced him that it was necessary to stay,” Macron said, during a two-hour televised interview with several French media outlets.
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Why These Lithium and Cobalt Companies May be the Ultimate Contrarian Play
Lithium and cobalt companies are a hidden gem in the mining sector. Lithium and cobalt, along with nickel, are the primary metals used in most modern batteries.
42% of the world’s cobalt production goes toward the creation of Lithium-ion cell batteries.
According to the Cobalt Institute, lithium-ion batteries have higher energy density than other battery types and are used in laptops, smartphones, medical devices, and electric vehicles, in addition to having a number of other industrial applications. Needless to say, the need for lithium and cobalt won’t be diminishing anytime soon.
While an initial spike in prices led to investor euphoria in 2017, that euphoria quickly faded as prices corrected sharply in 2018 and into 2019. But there is evidence to suggest that a huge boom in the battery metals may still be just around the corner. If so, this could be an excellent opportunity for contrarian investors to start accumulating shares on the cheap.
Before getting into two of the best lithium and cobalt stocks in 2019, let’s briefly examine the case for an imminent increase in demand for lithium and cobalt.
Lithium and Cobalt Demand Set to Surge
With the proliferation of smartphones and electric vehicles, demand for lithium and cobalt has become entrenched in the global economy. And over the next 5 years, it seems almost certain that increasing amounts of lithium and cobalt will be needed for producing batteries.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence Managing Director Simon Moores told the US Senate in February 2019 that he sees global cobalt demand rising fourfold by 2023 and higher still by 2028. This estimate factors in the potential decrease in demand resulting from companies like Tesla seeking to reduce reliance on cobalt in their batteries in order to reduce supply-side risks.
Moores’ report puts into perspective the dramatic increase in production of lithium-ion batteries:
“The advent of electric vehicles (EVs) and the emergence of battery energy storage has sparked a wave of lithium ion battery mega factories being built. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence is now tracking 70 lithium ion battery mega factories under construction across four continents… in October 2017, the global total was at 17.”
That one little factoid is all anyone really needs to know in order to get the picture of increasing demand for lithium and cobalt. The question for investors then becomes: what small-cap lithium and cobalt companies are in a position to capitalize on and profit from this trend?
Two Lithium and Cobalt Companies with Promising Futures
Lithium Americas (LAC) has a lithium project in Argentina and another in Nevada. They have seen increased investor interest lately and the share price has started to move higher. Someone has been buying shares of LAC as if they know something the rest of the world doesn’t.
First Cobalt (FTSSF) is among the few leaders in the cobalt sector seeking to establish a North American cobalt supply chain. The company recently closed a $1.6 million private placement and the share price is showing signs of bottoming.
While there are plenty of lithium and cobalt companies to choose from, we believe these two provide excellent chances for profit as the sector expands.
Lithium Americas
Lithium Americas has two big projects under its belt – the Cauchari-Olaroz project in Argentina and the Thacker Pass project in Nevada.
Cauchari-Olaroz Project
The Cauchari-Olaroz project is one of the largest known brine lithium resources in the world. The company recently increased the resource by 53% to 17.9m measured and indicated tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). It is a high-grade resource, with few impurities and low costs.
Lithium Americas owns 50% of the project with Gangfeng Lithium owning the other half. Gangfeng recently made a new investment of $160 million into the project to increase their stake to 50%. They are targeting initial production in the back half of 2020, as shown in the timeline below.
Some of the key points in Cauchari-Olaroz part of the press release include:
Production wells: Currently there are seven wells in production and three more are under construction. By the end of April, the project is scheduled to have seven drilling rigs mobilized at site for drilling of additional production wells. Civil: Work associated with roads and platforms continues as planned. Contracts have been awarded for earthworks (plant and operations camp), concrete supply, and other key items. Procurement: Minera Exar is in the process of reviewing proposals for long lead items and expects to finalize such awards in due course.
Cauchari-Olaroz will have 40,000 tonnes per annum (tpa) lithium carbonate capacity. I also like the fact that management’s interests are highly aligned with shareholders. Management and directors own 12.1% of the company.
The Stage 1 Feasibility study returned results that include: 25,000 tpa battery grade lithium, a 40-year project life, operating costs of $2,495/t, an after-tax NPV of $803 million at a 10% discount rate, a 28.4% after-tax IRR and 3.4-year payback.
Thacker Pass Project
The Thacker Pass project is a Nevada-based lithium mining operation taking place in the largest known lithium deposit in America. The project is 100% owned by Lithium Americas and is not part of any joint venture. This puts LAC in a unique position to profit from the rising demand for lithium.
The Thacker Pass project is economic, scalable, and intends to use a cutting-edge method of extracting lithium directly from claystone deposits. They are making steady progress with commissioning of the pilot plant well underway. Environmental baseline data has been collected, permit applications are advancing, and a Preliminary Feasibility Study was released back in August of 2018.
The PFS called for 60,000 tpa battery-grade lithium, a mine life of 46 years, operating costs of $2,570/t, an after-tax NPV of $2.6 billion and IRR of 29.3%.
The technical chart shows that the recent spike took out key resistance at the red downtrend line and did it on exceptionally-high volume. This also pushed the price through both the 100-day and 200-day moving averages. Adding to the bullish move, the recent advance pushed the price for LAC above resistance at $4.50, which held twice over the past six months.
Lithium Americas (LAC) Chart
Higher highs and higher lows since bottoming late last year is another bullish technical sign for LAC. The relative strength index (RSI) was overbought in early March, dipped to 40 during the pullback and is currently at 60 with room to run higher. There is plenty of upside potential for LAC, as it would need to more than double just to return to 2018 highs.
First Cobalt
First Cobalt is a Canadian-based pure-play cobalt company and owner of the only permitted primary cobalt refinery in North America. The company is exploring a restart of the First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario, Canada, which could produce 2,000 tonnes of cobalt sulfate or metallic cobalt per year.
First Cobalt’s flagship asset is the Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Idaho, USA, which has Inferred mineral resources of 26.9 million tonnes grading 0.11% cobalt equivalent. The company’s other assets include 50 past-producing mines in the Canadian Cobalt Camp and the only permitted cobalt refinery in North America capable of producing battery materials.
An updated mineral resource estimate is expected in the near term and the resource contains no arsenic, which means simpler processing & permitting.
FCC is among a small handful companies around taking advantage of what’s known as the Idaho Cobalt Belt. This area in Lemhi County, Idaho, is thought to be one of the most cobalt-rich regions in America. The Iron Creek Cobalt Project consists of 1,700 acres worth of exploration claims and mining patents in the Idaho Cobalt Belt.
The company just announced it has successfully produced a battery grade cobalt sulfate using the First Cobalt Refinery flowsheet. This significant milestone brings the Company closer to recommissioning the only permitted primary cobalt refinery in North America. They also own 45% of the cobalt camp surrounding the mine, including 50 past producing mines.
On March 29th, 2019, FCC announced a non-brokered private placement that raised $1.6 million by issuing 8.9 million shares of the company at $0.18. The proceeds are being used for ongoing work at the First Cobalt Refinery and other general purposes.
The technical chart shows the price putting in a double bottom this year and breaking out above the long-term downtrend lines. We also see a series of higher highs on the chart, coupled with increasing volume. This all suggests a bottoming in the share price for First Cobalt.
First Cobalt (FTSSF) Chart
The RSI is at 55, with plenty of room to continue higher without hitting overbought levels. As with Lithium Americas, the upside potential with First Cobalt is massive. The share price would need to go up roughly 9 times in order to return to 2018 highs. The first half of 2019 appears to be an excellent time to start edging into a position in First Cobalt Corp.
Best Lithium and Cobalt Stocks: Lithium Americas and First Cobalt
It’s not hard to make the case for Lithium Americas and First Cobalt being two of the top battery metals companies to invest in during 2019.
Lithium Americas is preparing to mine the largest deposit of lithium in America and just secured $160 million in funding from their JV partner Ganfeng Lithium.
First Cobalt owns the only permitted cobalt refinery on the continent, a highly prospective cobalt project in Idaho and a camp with multiple projects near their refinery in Ontario.
Both companies have seen significant insider buying in recent months and both companies are starting to show bottoming patterns in their technical charts. This makes the current entry points attractive for long-term investors wanting to bet on increased prices for battery metals.
The absolute bottom may have yet to be hit for either stock, but this could be a good time to start accumulating shares via buying in tranches.
Both the fundamentals and technicals suggest that higher prices are in store for the lithium and cobalt sectors. This may not be the most popular time to buy, but contrarian investors know that the precise time to buy is when others are selling and there is blood in the streets. Prices for lithium, cobalt and the companies that mine these metals, look very oversold and undervalued in our view.
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Yes, You Can Use Instagram Direct For Sexting (As Long As Your Friends Aren’t Narcs)
Sometimes Snapchat, SMS, email and webcams aren't enough.
By Molly Mulshine • 12/12/13 12:46pm
Kevin Systrom addresses the unwashed masses. (Photo: Getty)
It’s been an hour since this morning’s presser ended, so you’ve probably heard about Instagram Direct and all the wondrous features it is bringing to your smartphone. You can use it for secret picture messages! You can pick and choose the recipients! You can exclude people to make yourself feel important!
But the question on everyone’s minds, or at least the minds of the people who read this blog, or at the very least the minds of the people who write this blog, is this: can you use it for sexting?
Betabeat went all the way to the (very Christmasy!) 11th floor of 28 W. 36th St. this morning to find out. After the 30 minute presentation, we joined the scrum gathered around Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. A reporter from the Telegraph asked if people could use the platform for sending sexy photos.
“Sexy photos?” Mr. Systrom said. “I just like to send pictures of my dog.”
Boooringggg. Instagram has a strict content policy, he continued, but photos aren’t pulled unless someone flags them as inappropriate, meaning lots of risqué stuff still makes it through. Instagram Direct will operate in the same way.
“So you can sext as long as no one reports you?” Betabeat interjected.
“Well, if a tree falls in the woods, can you hear it?” Mr. Systrom responded. We took this as a yes (and as some sort of veiled dick pic joke that we still haven’t decoded).
BUT GUYS, THIS ISN’T SNAPCHAT
(Screengrab: Instagram.com/press)
Don’t get too excited about blasting out pictures of your boobs cloaked in Mr. Systrom’s favorite filter, which is surprisingly mayfair. Instagram Direct photos are built to last. They are not ephemeral, and Instagram has no interest in making them so.
Also, all of the people to whom you send a photo or video can easily make fun of you for it by commenting, together, directly underneath, so that could always dissuade you.
The hope is that people will use Instagram Direct to spark conversations—conversations that live on the app forever and ever and ever. So if you do use Instagram Direct to make your porny dreams come true, keep that in mind.
Instagram also is trying, as always, to class up the joint through the use of filters. You won’t find Snapchat’s crude drawing tools here.
“I think Snapchat has their own market,” Mr. Systrom said diplomatically. “They’re going after it in a unique way.”
Another key difference: You can only send an Instagram Direct photo to 15 people, whereas on Snapchat, you can inundate every single person on your list with that dumb photo of your face with “funny” glasses drawn on. This will help cut down on spam, Mr. Systrom said.
Also, you’ll only receive photos from people you follow—but you also have to manage an inbox of pending photos from everyone else in the world. For most plebes, this won’t be a problem. You can choose to ignore the pending requests and you won’t even see the photos. But if you’re well known, we can see this getting annoying.
INSTAGRAM VIDEO IS KEVIN SYSTROM’S RED-HEADED STEP CHILD
Through the whole half hour presentation, Mr. Systrom made nary a mention of Instagram Video. We asked him about it afterward.
Rude tbh (Screengrab: Instagram.com/press)
“Video is included,” he said, but it sounded like an afterthought. We asked if he thought Instagram Video had been successful thus far.
“It’s taken off in a different way” than what was expected, he said. “It’s more about consumption than production.”
Celebrities, brands and networks have success with Instagram Video, he said. That’s not to say typical users aren’t making videos, but if our anecdotal evidence is any indication, only their moms are enjoying them.
OTHER DEETS
• This will not cannibalize Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, Mr. Systrom said a ton of times because people kept asking about it. “This is a new use case,” he said. “We wanted to attack an opportunity that hasn’t been covered.”
• You can’t forward Instagram Direct messages, so again, happy sexting.
• Insta is based in Silicon Valley, but they held this presser in NYC as a reminder that the company “is global.”
• Mr. Systrom repeatedly turned down opportunities to talk monetization, saying they’d rather take the process slowly. But anyone you follow can send you a direct message, so a company with a ton of interns willing to blast out ads to 15 people at a time could always pop up in your inbox.
• Mark Zuckerberg was one of the earliest beta users of Instagram Direct, and he was involved in early stages of product development.
• This is not a marketing tool to lure young people, Mr. Systrom insisted when asked if this was a ploy to attract Facebook hating teens back to one of the social network’s platforms. That’s a shame, because it sounds like a great new avenue for cyber bullying.
• Mr. Systrom also showed this incredibly moving and nostalgic promo spot that might cause you to shed a single tear while wondering why nobody’s ever invited you on a cross country road trip.
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NYU Professor and Antifa Blast List of ICE Immigration Agents that Can Be Used for Intimidation
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Sam Lavigne, a far-left artist, game designer, and professor at New York University art school, created a database of 1,595 ICE employees using their LinkedIn profiles and shared it with his 3,600 followers on Twitter. Antifa, a violent leftist organization that the FBI and Homeland Security classify as a terrorist organization, spread it further across Twitter. A group on Reddit who ‘doxxes’ the right, whom they consider Nazis, and include ICE and NSA agents in this characterization, also spread the list across the web.
Antifa, a violent, so-called anti-fascist group, tweeted out a list of over 1,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ identities.
The Twitter account “nebraska antifa” sent out a tweet to its followers on Tuesday that linked to the personal information of ICE officers compiled from information found on LinkedIn.
“Some enterprising hero archived the ICE employees listed on linkedin,” the tweet reads.
A Twitter user who goes by Sam Lavigne compiled the list of ICE agents’ identities, titles and locations. In a tweet on Tuesday morning he says he “scraped LinkedIn for people that work for ICE.”
The Medium link in Lavigne’s was no longer available as of Tuesday night.
While the original post of ICE personal information has been removed, the Antifa Twitter account linked to an archived post, where viewers can access the Lavigne’s original database.
Lavigne created the database in response to ICE’s “inhumane” efforts in on the border, according to his archived Medium post.
“I’ve downloaded and made available the profiles of (almost) everyone on LinkedIn who works for ICE, 1,595 people in total. While I don’t have a precise idea of what should be done with this data set, I leave it here with the hope that researchers, journalists, and activists will find it useful,” Lavigne wrote on Medium.
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2006 FORD HARLEY F-150
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January 4, 2005 As we've seen before, automotive marketing often sees strange bedfellows seeking to leverage each other's brand values - from Tonka and Ford through Razor scooters and Chrysler, a marketing edge can sometimes make all the difference in the tough world of automobile manufacturing. Ford will use the Detroit (North American International Auto Show aka NAIAS) auto show next week to launch another "king of the road" by joining with another motoring giant with a view to giving performance enthusiasts a new definition of custom cool - the 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150.
The limited-edition vehicle draws inspiration from more than a century of tradition at Ford and Harley-Davidson to give customers an F-150 with more attitude than any other truck on the road.
"This truck builds on the legacy of toughness that's been the hallmark of the Ford brand," said Ford President Steve Lyons. "Now, we're giving customers more of everything they love with the boldest Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 ever - with all-wheel-drive capability, 22-inch polished aluminum wheels and an interior that will take your breath away."
The 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCab is the seventh model to emerge from the alliance that was first forged in 1999. The successful collaboration between these two icons of the open road has produced four F-150 models, as well as Super Duty F-250 and F-350 offerings. This is the first Harley-Davidson edition vehicle built on the new Ford F-150 platform.
"No one understands their customers better than Ford and Harley-Davidson," said Joanne Bischmann, vice president - marketing, Harley-Davidson. "We're proud to share the spirit of Harley-Davidson authenticity in a unique interpretation of America's favorite truck, the Ford F-Series."
HOT-ROD INSPIRED CUSTOM LOOKS
For 2006, the Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCab visually communicates power, dressed in all black, oozing chrome and sporting distinctive Harley-Davidson visual cues. The Black Monotone exterior is accented with a hot-rod inspired custom scalloped red stripe outlined in electric blue running along the beltline, punctuated with the "Harley-Davidson" script. The custom stripe adds to the overall performance feel of the vehicle, creating a sense of motion and speed.
The custom appearance begins with the bold front-end design, featuring a unique chrome billet grille and blacked-out headlamps. Based on a SuperCab configuration with a 6-1/2-foot Styleside box, the new 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 cuts a menacing profile. Beefy 22-in. polished forged aluminum rims - a first for any F-150 - sport a split 5-spoke design, exposed lug nuts and the distinctive Bar & Shield logo on the center cap. The massive wheels give this ride undeniable attitude.
Between the wheel wells, chrome-accented side tubes help create an integrated appearance and enhance the truck's powerful stance. The side tubes and the unique lower front valence, or chin spoiler, help create a lowered look. Heavyweight genuine zinc die-cast badges on the fenders celebrate the Ford Harley-Davidson alliance. Dark tinted smoked-out tail lamps, a blacked-out bumper and the "Harley-Davidson F-150" badge distinguish the rear. Chrome tie-down hooks and a slash-cut chrome exhaust tip add even more street-rod appeal.
RUGGED AND REFINED
Harley-Davidson heritage resonates throughout this new vehicle. Inside, the 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 makes a strong statement of custom-inspired refinement, with an underlying tone of authenticity and genuineness that has been the hallmark for all Ford Harley-Davidson trucks.
"For the new Ford Harley-Davidson F-150, we've designed a cockpit that's a tribute to the open road," said Ford F-Series Chief Designer Gordon Platto. "We've introduced high-gloss Piano Black cues along the instrument panel, center stack and console to bring in a feeling of visual motion. Combine that with the rich leather and bright chrome that's been such an essential part of all our Harley trucks, and you're surrounded with styling that salutes motorcycle culture."
Rugged and supple black aniline leather seating surfaces create a distinctive, inviting interior. The Captain's Chairs are unique, sporting a die-cast HARLEY-DAVIDSON Bar & Shield logo embedded in the leather. Elegant high-gloss Piano Black surfaces on the centre stack and door panels are flanked by a Bar & Shield logo-patterned graphic treatment.
The striking instrument panel - and the overall vehicle interior - features a stunning display of chrome, including unique chrome-ringed instruments, chrome handles, vent rings, floor shifter and door pulls. Adding to the overall custom feel of the interior is a serialized nickel plate showing the vehicle's production date and number.
BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE
Enthusiast events such as South Dakota's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and Daytona Bike Week in Florida, along with everyday customer feedback, helped shape the performance story for the new 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150. Customers said they wanted bigger wheels and all-wheel drive capability. Besides boasting 22-in. wheels, this truck includes a performance sport handling suspension that's tuned to deliver a more precise driving feel.
Customers now also have the choice between 4x2 and all-wheel drive, with the capability to handle more challenging driving conditions and road surfaces - ranging from dry pavement to winter weather. The new AWD system continuously monitors the wheel speeds and throttle position to determine the appropriate amount of power to send to the front of the truck to help prevent slip. Customers also can choose to override AWD by simply selecting the locked mode.
Lurking under the hood of the 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 is a 5.4-liter, 3-valve Triton V-8 featuring a specially tuned exhaust system that delivers a more powerful, throatier rumble. It turns out 300 horsepower at 5,000 rpm and 365 lb.-ft. of torque at 3,750 rpm.
Ford will build up to 10,000 of the 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCab limited-edition trucks for sale throughout North America beginning next fall. The vehicle will be produced in Michigan at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant. In addition to the 2006 Ford Harley-Davidson F-150 SuperCab and other vehicles in the Ford Harley-Davidson truck lineup, the companies' alliance has produced other products such as co-branded clothing and vehicle accessories.
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The MCU's future is in weird Jack Kirby stuff and pre-made teams like the Guardians
Photo: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press (Getty Images)
With half of all living things in the Marvel Cinematic Universe now dead thanks to the events of Avengers: Infinity War, and with the surviving Avengers having absolutely no hope of ever undoing that (since it’s not like anybody possess a mystical stone with time powers), Marvel Studios is going to have to dig pretty deep in the well for its post-Avengers: Endgame movies. We were surprised to learn in April of last year that studio head Kevin Feige was considering a movie based around The Eternals, an obscure line of space-based characters that Jack Kirby came up with in the ‘70s, and we were similarly surprised when Feige actually hired a couple of writers to make a script for an Eternals movie with some “Game Of Thrones-style cosmic powerplays.”
Now, contrary to the understandable assumption that Marvel Studios is just making up the post-Thanos roadmap as it goes along, Feige has indicated in a new interview with Collider that he actually does have some kind of plan here. For one thing, he says that making room for returning characters is “certainly something we’re gonna do and want to do,” but the MCU’s focus in its next phase will be “introducing characters that the majority of the world has never heard of.” He offers up the Guardians Of The Galaxy and The Avengers as examples of Marvel Studios having pulled this off before, even though cool Marvel fans had definitely known about Rocket Raccoon for years and plenty of people knew that the Avengers were hanging around somewhere while they read X-Men comics.
Speaking of Guardians, Feige said Marvel Studios would like to do more movies that start off as ensemble stories like that one did, rather than introducing a bunch of solo movies that eventually converge into big events like Avengers. He doesn’t necessarily want to match up with the tone of Guardians, but he apparently likes the idea of throwing together big groups of characters that people don’t know—like, say, The Eternals—to quickly and efficiently expand the reachers of the MCU. Plus, as Feige told Collider, Jack Kirby created a whole bunch of crazy space shit that people don’t really know about, so there’s tons of stuff for Marvel to revive with a big ensemble movie.
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FST mourns the passing of Professor Emerita Ericka Barrett
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FST recently learned that Professor Emerita Ericka Barrett passed away on August 23, 2015. Ericka was central to our food microbiology teaching and research program for two decades. She modernized the food microbiology curriculum in the 80s; she ably served as department chair in the 90s; and she mentored more than a dozen MS and PhD students who have gone on to productive careers in academia, the food industry, biotechnology and health care. Notably, Dr. Barretts NIH-funded research program pioneered the genetic and biochemical analysis of anaerobic metabolism in Salmonella. Long mysterious, this metabolism is now recognized as an important contributor to Salmonella pathogenesis.
Ericka Barrett with her husband, Jim Buhlert
In the late '90s she retired to the California North Coast to start an organic farm with her husband, Jim Buhlert, a respected career staff member and the former FST Pilot Plant Manager. After Jims death in 2007, Ericka continued to operate the farm as The Ettersburg Address, selling fruit preserves, cherry pie filling, asparagus, squash, beans, eggplant and tomatoes to great acclaim, and in 2010 she was named Farmer of the Week by the Southern Humboldt Farmers Market.
On August 20, 2016 the family will hold a memorial for Ericka and Jim at the Putah Creek Lodge on the Davis campus. More details will be available closer to the date. Those who wish to share their thoughts and condolences with the family may contact Ericka and Jims eldest daughter, Dr. Corie Ralston, who is now at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (cyralston@lbl.gov).
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Gerontology students gain a new advocate
BY Jonathan Riggs
USC doctoral student Patrick Beck
Southern California students interested in helping older adults have a new statewide voice.
Patrick Beck, a doctoral student at the USC Davis School of Gerontology, was named the Southern California student representative to the board of directors of the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics (CCGG).
“It is an honor to have the opportunity to serve as a representative of the collective interests of the many students who share my passion for this wonderful field,” Beck said. “I look forward to helping move our ever-changing field forward.”
Beck’s ascension to the two-year position is personally meaningful, since his decision to enter the field came about during the 2008 CCGG conference held at his alma mater, California State University, Northridge.
“The passion and talent of students like Patrick Beck bode well for the future of gerontology,” said Maria Henke, president of CCGG and assistant dean of USC Davis. “Seeing dedicated up-and-coming leaders like Patrick helps inspire us all to redouble our efforts to improve the lives of older adults in California and beyond.”
CCGG is the only statewide association that links academic institutions to legislators, service providers and older adults and their families. Its membership is representative of California’s cross-educational systems, spans a wide array of disciplines and seeks to strengthen the quality of gerontology and geriatrics education, as well as increasing advocacy for and access to programs and services.
“Southern California represents the future of the field of aging,” Beck said. “I am very proud to join the board of CCGG to help do my part in making it a better one.”
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Lisa Misraje‘s first career was doing service work in China; her "second dream life" includes graduating from USC in the spring at age 54. (USC Photo/Beth Newcomb)
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Striking Bolivian police reject accord
Associated Press June 24, 2012
Police demanding salary increases shout slogans on the roof of a police internal affairs building that was sacked and its content burned, in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, June 22, 2012. Protesters were demanding salaries on par with soldiers and a pension equal to 100 percent of their salaries. Bolivian police earn about $144 a month and were not appeased by a 7 percent government-decreed wage increase this year. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Striking Bolivian police officers have rejected an accord with the government four days into a nationwide strike to demand higher wages.
The protesting rank-and-file police burned copies of the agreement during marches across Bolivia Sunday and said they would elect new representatives.
President Evo Morales accused his political foes of using the mutiny to prepare a coup d'etat.
The striking police rejected an accord reached overnight that would have raised salaries by $30 a month above the current $194. They are seeking wages on par with army sergeants, who earn nearly $300.
The protest has been largely peaceful though some injuries occurred Thursday when about 30 police and their wives launched the mutiny with the occupation of a La Paz police barracks.
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Youngest captain, loving son: Ethiopian pilots honored in death
By Maggie Fick
Mohammed Omar, father of Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 First Officer Ahmednur Mohammed, poses for a photo during a Reuters interview in Addis Ababa
Mohammed Omar, father of Ethiopian Airlines ET 302 First Officer Ahmednur Mohammed, poses for a photo during a Reuters interview in Addis Ababa, March 17, 2019. REUTERS/Maggie Fick
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The dreams of the two young men soared as high as the Ethiopian Airlines planes they proudly flew.
Handsome, cosmopolitan Yared Getachew was to marry another plane captain this year. Studious, serious Ahmednur Mohammed rented his first apartment with his maiden paycheck in February.
Their lives, along with 155 others, ended when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged into a field moments after take-off in a still unexplained disaster.
Yared, 29, was captain; Ahmednur, 25, his first officer.
Yared was a popular and brilliant student who became the airline's youngest ever captain at 27, said his father Getachew Tessema, a retired plastic surgeon and dentist.
He spoke to Reuters after a ceremony at the Kenyan embassy in Addis Ababa to honor the 32 Kenyan victims from the crash. Yared's mother was Kenyan, making him a citizen of two nations.
"I'm very bitter," 80-year-old Getachew said, sitting hunched with his head in his hand as he reflected on Yared's shattered marriage plans.
"At least if he had had a child," he trailed off painfully as friends nodded in understanding.
Yared's brother Meno Getachew Tessema, 39, sat next to his father, sometimes putting an arm around him as the ceremony progressed. Yared visited Meno's family in Toronto when the young pilot came to train on flight simulators in Miami twice in the past two years.
By the time of the crash, Yared had amassed 8,100 hours of flying experience, the airline said, unusual at his age but no surprise to the family. They remembered him as a committed student who shone at school as a child in his mother's native Kenya and as a teenager in his father's home country Ethiopia.
He went straight into Ethiopian Airlines' Aviation Academy after high school. "His dream was to be a pilot," said Meno, a corporate lawyer. "He was diligent, hardworking, he had a consistent work ethic ... he was a rising star of Ethiopian Airlines."
ARCHITECT TURNED PILOT
Sitting next to Yared in the cockpit on March 10 was Ahmednur Mohammed.
While the pair's professionalism has been lauded, air safety experts fear they - and pilots in a similar crash in Indonesia in October - may not have been sufficiently versed in a new automated anti-stall system in the Boeing 737 MAX series.
The middle of three sons of a small business owner, friends from the sleepy eastern city of Dire Dawa remember Ahmednur as unusually driven to study when others would spend afternoons relaxing in the shade, chewing the narcotic leaf qat.
He spent five years at college studying his first love - architecture - where he earned the nickname 5-10 for his legendary 17-hour library stints, and received gentle ribbing for the neatness of his room.
Even as a student, Ahmednur's skill earned him some small interior design commissions, friends said.
But the dutiful son feared he would not be able to make enough money as an architect to help his family, said his father Mohammed Omar, a white-haired 60-year-old in a carefully pressed worn suit.
So he switched to aviation school and completed two years of training. After school hours, he would visit a friend whose brother was a pilot and sit in the living room, running through cockpit checklists and motions on the couch, the friend said. He graduated with a commercial pilot's license, the airline said.
"He would call me every three days. He would talk about his plans, he said that he was going to help his family," his father told Reuters after Islamic prayers in Ahmednur's memory at a relative's house on the outskirts of Addis Ababa.
Last Friday, mosques in both the capital and Dire Dawa held prayers for Ahmednur, the family said.
After a few months rest, he began working for Ethiopian Airlines, visiting other nations -- Israel, South Africa, Burkina Faso -- and earning his first salary.
He adored it, said his brother Menur Mohammed.
Ahmednur amassed 350 flying hours and had just started living alone for the first time when the family heard his plane had gone down.
"It took us long to believe he was dead," his cousin Imran Mohammed, 30, told Reuters.
"He was so excited to live on his own."
The family wants the airline or government to build a bridge or a school, something tangible to commemorate Ahmednur: pilot, architect, son. "We want to see something in his name, to remember him," his father said softly.
(Writing by Katharine Houreld; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
Firefighters in Canada saved nearly 300 people from a stranded cruise ship in a harrowing overnight rescue operation
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David D'Amato on Libertarians and Originalism
At Liberty Law Blog, David S. D'Amato: The Judicial Necessity of Constitutional Choice. In conclusion:
... Even for a committed libertarian, the insistence that the Constitution “just is” a consistently libertarian instrument strains credulity on its face. What is rather clearer, perhaps, is that it ought to be a libertarian instrument—that judges should read it as protecting the natural rights of the individual; this, of course, is a philosophical claim and is distinctly at odds with the argument of most libertarian originalists.
Indeed, they tend to actively deemphasize the role of their own convictions in reaching their constitutional conclusions. [Randy] Barnett, for example, asserts that “We are not pushing a libertarian reading of the Constitution.” Yet we can hardly regard it as mere coincidence that the original meaning as conceived by the libertarian legal community aligns quite neatly, almost perfectly, with their normative commitments and political ideology. What are the chances that all libertarian policy prescriptions are so seamlessly consistent with a principled originalist method of constitutional interpretation? Or as philosopher Jacob T. Levy recently remarked, “Your views about what laws are bad shouldn’t align too closely with your theory of what laws are unconstitutional.”
So while the particular and peculiar brand of libertarian originalism is not without appeal, especially for one who is already a radical libertarian, it often appears too convenient. As Professor Mark R. Killenbeck writes, this “ ‘new originalism’ is incredibly seductive,” but its unique and delicately assembled recipe of historical and philosophical claims are ultimately a bridge too far.
Moreover, libertarian faith in the judiciary may be misplaced, with judges likely to be more statist and Progressive than most Americans. Indeed, the federal bench in particular is likely to be even more confident in the boundless benevolence of omnipotent government than either house of Congress. As Judge Richard Posner observed in a 2009 interview with Russ Roberts, “Really the Supreme Court has written a pretty blank check to the government.”
As libertarians and conservatives, we ought not needlessly bind ourselves to any particular interpretive idiosyncrasy. Our Progressive adversaries feel no such arbitrary compulsion to adhere to any fixed method of interpretation, for they accept, at least tacitly, that all such methods are themselves grounded in normative ideas. Sunstein’s book is refreshing in its acknowledgment of this fact. The Constitution has been a kind of Rorschach test, seeming to recommend whatever politico-economic philosophy or program its interpreter espouses.
As unpalatable as it may be to us as libertarians and conservatives, living constitutionalism of some variety may well be the interpretive method most amendable to libertarian ideas, affording the adaptability necessary for transitioning from the soft-authoritarian Progressivism of the present moment (which, we should note, is supported by mountains of precedent) to a free society with a limited government.
A strong statement indeed, although one might think the third-to-last paragraph somewhat in tension with the last paragraph. I guess the question for libertarians is, are you more likely to convince legal elites of libertarianism or of originalism which (at least to some significant extent) produces libertarian results?
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OUR PAPER
February 7, 2019/ /
Members of CPI’s Recovered Paper Council (RPC) continue to be concerned about the poor quality of paper being presented from post domestic collections. In early 2018, and particularly in light of Chinese restrictions on the importation of mixed papers largely recovered through household collections, it was agreed that members would fund a campaign to promote the benefits of the separate collection of paper to local authorities.
On 24 January, CPI announced the formal launch of OUR PAPER, a new programme to support councils in improving the quality and quantity of paper and card separately collected for recycling. OUR PAPER is an initiative that promotes the value of paper that local councils collect on behalf of the public, a resource that generates income from their recycling services.
It was devised in partnership with WRAP and supports its valuable work on recycling consistency. It will encourage councils to consider service review and will promote the benefits of separate collection of paper and card, highlighting opportunities for maximising efficiency and the cost savings potential from other changes in recycling services. It will use evidence generated by the WRAP consistency project to demonstrate a business case for this approach.
Coming after the launch of the new Resources and Waste Strategy for England and in the wake of new, ambitious targets for recycling, the project will also brief councils on the significant changes in recycling markets emerging as a result of the China waste ban, and the evolving situation in other South East Asian markets.
OUR PAPER has engaged industry veteran Ray Georgeson to spearhead the programme, supported by a Steering Group from CPI, its Members and WRAP, and chaired by Sarah Raymond of Palm Recycling. The programme is fully funded by CPI and its Members with an anticipated three-year lifespan.
The OUR PAPER website can be viewed at http://ourpaper.org/
For further information contact Simon Weston on 07887 641481 or email sweston@paper.org.uk
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A monk wielding a kusarigama.
For another meaning of "Kusarigama", please see Kusari-Gama.
The kusarigama (or sickle and chain as it is sometimes known)[1] is a melee weapon composed of a kama or sickle connected to a chain at least 10 feet in length, with a weighted, metal ball at the other end. Held in two hands, the kama can be used to make jab or trip attacks, while the weighted chain is whirled at high speed to entangle the opponent's weapon or limbs, or just to smash into the target. The average kusarigama made for a human-sized opponent weighs 3 pounds.[2][3]
Magical kusarigamas
A well-known magical kusarigama found primarily on the continent of Tian Xia is the Dancing Wasp, which makes a high-pitched whistling sound when wielded and can summon giant wasps.[4]
↑ Jason Bulmahn, et al. (2011). Ultimate Combat, p. 132. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-359-0
↑ Jason Bulmahn et al. (2012). Ultimate Equipment, p. 20. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-390-3
↑ James Jacobs. (2011). The Brinewall Legacy. The Brinewall Legacy, p. 60-61. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-361-3
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Exotic weapons
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