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By Charley Been on December 12, 2012 in Movies, TV
After a record-breaking 13 nominations for the upcoming Critics Choice Awards, Steven Speilberg’s film is getting the same attention from the Screen Actors Guild. Lincoln will be facing off against Silver Linings Playbook at the 2013 SAG Awards this coming January, after each film picked up for nominations each. Daniel Day-Lewis and Bradley Cooper will […]
Will Demi Lovato Return To ‘The X Factor’ Next Season?
By Charley Been on December 7, 2012 in TV
On Thursday night, Demi Lovato became the first mentor on ‘The X Factor’ to have her team fully eliminated from the competition, so what does that mean for her position on the judges panel next season? Simon Cowell spoke with People Magazine after Thursday’s show to which he responded, “It’s that time of year [when] you’re […]
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Release First Video For Christmas Album
John Travolta and Olivia Netwton-John released a new video for their song “I Think you Might Like It” from their holiday album, ‘This Christmas.’ In sort of a ‘Grease’ throwback, the co-stars appear in a 1955 Thunderbird, strikingly similar to the one that their characters rode off into the sunset in at the end of […]
Rihanna Producing and Starring in Reality Show For Style Network
Rihanna is headed to reality TV! The singer is set to star in a new reality show called “Styled To Rock” for the Style Network. Possibly taking a page from Project Runway, the series will center on 12 designers handpicked by Rihanna, who will design outfits for celebrity guests. In an official statement the […]
Anderson Cooper Visits Hospital For Sunburned Eyelids
Anderson Cooper posted a picture of himself to his Instagram page sporting a white gauze patch over his right eye after burning his eyelid by the sun! Along with the photo, Cooper wrote, “Temporarily blinded last week while on assignment. UV light bouncing off water. Much better now. Details today on #andersonlive.” Anderson Cooper can see […]
Kat Von D Gets Restraining Order Against Crazed Fan
Kat Von D has sought out a restraining order against a crazed fan that showed up at her LA home and sent her creepy messages on the Internet. According to TMZ, Von D filed her request in the LA Superior COurt, claiming the man, whose real name is Michael Nunn has been contacting her non […]
Rob Kardashian Lashes Out At Ex On Twitter With Cheating Claims, Then Deletes It.
Rob Kardashian rarely tweets from his Twitter page, but he did go on a rant regarding his ex-girlfriend Rita Ora this week briefly before deleting the tweets. Unfortunately for Rob, Twitter is forever! Kardashian and Ora both lashed out after their breakup, after a post from Ora called out Kardashian’s manhood. She wrote, “Rob’s d*ck was […]
Anne Hathaway Eyeing A ‘Catwoman’ Spin-Off?
Anne Hathaway has her sights set on a passion project, a spin-off sequel to ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’ The actress appeared in the latest Christopher Nolan film as Selina Kyle, the alter ego of Batman’s nemesis, Catwoman, and she loved the role so much that she cries whenever discussing it because she missed it so […]
Lindsay Lohan Refusing Help From Family & Friends
Lindsay Lohan’s friends and families are urging her to get help after her recent troubles, hoping the star will seek treatment for her alcohol problem, but Lohan is refusing according to reports. Last week Lohan was charged with misdemeanor assault after punching a woman inside an NYC nightclub. In addition, she was handed out three […]
Kim Kardashian is Yahoo’s Most Searched Person of 2012
Kim Kardashian’s Internet domination of 2012 continues with her being named Yahoo’s most searched person of the year. Though she came in third place over all on the search engine, she was behind only the election and iPhone 5, Kim was the most searched person on the list, which also included Kate Upton, Kate Middleton, […]
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EMERALD COAST CYCLISTS
About ECC
1 RideWithGPS.com
2 ECC Routes
2.1 Blackwater Forest Loop
2.2 Britton Hill
2.3 Freeport North and South Loops
2.4 Freeport-Outpost-Bruce Loop
2.5 Mossy Head/Big Mary's Loop
2.6 Mossy Head-Ponce De Leon
2.7 New Year's Day Ride
2.8 North County Loop
2.9 Ranger Camp Road
2.10 Red Bay Loop
2.11 Red Bay-Knox Hill
2.12 Ruckel/Bob Sikes Loop
2.13 Shalimar-Mossy Head
2.14 South Loop
Emerald Coast Cyclists has a variety of club rides that are scheduled every Saturday. We ride all over the panhandle of Florida, from Okaloosa County to the Northern counties. A detailed ride schedule for the current quarter is included in each PACELINE Newsletter. The ride schedule includes directions to the starting point, as well as route descriptions.
RideWithGPS.com
RidewithGPS.com is a website that uses Google Maps to create bike routes and view elevation profiles. For each of our club rides, we have included a link to our official ECC Route Maps, along with "Alternate" route maps, created using RideWithGPS.com. For each club ride you will be able to view and print how to get to the ride's starting point, a map of the route and route cue sheets. You can also export GPS data to your device. Each map includes the parking location at the start point (with photos) and water stops.
Signing up for an account with RideWithGPS is optional, however a "STARTER" account is free and we are currently working with them to offer ECC'ers a discount should members opt to upgrade their accounts to BASIC or PREMIUM. If you do not wish to open an account that's okay. You will still be able to view and print maps and cue sheets, and export GPS data.
ECC Routes
Blackwater Forest Loop
The Blackwater Forest Loop is a beautiful 60 mile (97 km) large loop ride through the Blackwater Forest. There are a lot of hills on this ride with scenic views primarily on the last half as you head toward Holt on the back roads. Longer and shorter options are available. See "Alternative" route maps. (note: the bridge has been repaired and no longer an issue). Parking is at Baker High School, 1369 14th Street, Baker, FL 32531. Park in the big lot in back of the school near the ball fields.
RideWithGPS: Official Club Route (60 miles)
RideWithGPS: Alternate Route 1 (36 miles)
Britton Hill
The Britton Hill ride consists of a combination of rolling hills and flat terrain that includes a stop at Britton Hill, the highest point in Florida. The distance is 57 miles (92 km). As with many ECC routes, there are several ride options for this ride (see "Alternative" routes).
Park in the field behind the basketball court at the Mossy Head Community Center as shown on the official route map and photos.
Freeport North and South Loops
The Freeport North and South Loops route is a 59 mile (96 km) ride. Knock off either one of these loops for a shorter option, or do them twice for a longer option. Note, this route passes through the Eglin Range so a Range Pass is required. Parking for this route is behind Whataburger at 4450 Highway 20, Niceville, FL 32578.
Freeport-Outpost-Bruce Loop
The Freeport-Outpost-Bruce Loop is a 64 mile (102 km) ride. This route can be shortened simply by turning around at any point on Highway 20 and heading back to the start. Ten miles can be added by following the Alternative route. Parking for this route is behind the Whataburger at 4450 Highway 20, Niceville, FL 32578.
Mossy Head/Big Mary's Loop
The Mossy Head/Big Mary's Loop ride is a hilly (for "Flat-rida") 45 mile (72 km) ride. A longer option is available. See "Alternative" Routes.
Park in the field behind the basketball court at the Mossy Head Community Center as shown on the official route map.
RideWithGPS: Alternative Route 1 (80 miles)
Mossy Head-Ponce De Leon
The Mossy Head/Ponce De Leon route is a 48 mile (77 km) out-and-back ride that heads east on Highway 90 to Ponce de Leon and back. Longer options are available. See "Alternative" maps. For shorter options, simply turn around on Highway 90 and head back to the start. Note, some of the "Alternate" routes pass through the Eglin Range so a Range Pass is required.
New Year's Day Ride
The New Year's Day Ride will start and finish in Niceville.
The purpose of the ride is to have everyone finish at about the same time so that they can enjoy a bit of hospitality at the end of their ride. Participants are asked to bring a covered dish, salad, desert or whatever to share. If you bring a hot dish it can be heated up at the house while you're riding. The club will provide soft drinks.
The first ride will start at 8:00 am and is usually around 60 miles (96.5 km). The route is often decided upon at the start. The second ride will start at 9:00 am and is usually around 36 miles (58 km). A run up to Mossy Head and back via Highway 285 is generally the consensus. The third option will be a 25 minute spin through Rocky Bayou that will start at 11:00 am. There is a strong likelihood that you will overindulge in all the food and pack back on all the calories you just burned off!
Look for more information in the club newsletter. Note, the route chosen may pass through the Eglin Range so a Range Pass will be required.
North County Loop
The North County Ride is a 60 mile (96.5 km) loop and is about as hilly as it gets in Northwestern Florida! See "Alternate" route maps for longer and shorter options.
Park at Crestview YMCA, 298 Wilson St N, Crestview, FL 32536.
Ranger Camp Road
Ranger Camp Road provides areas for both road riding and mountain biking. The road is out-and-back, so Range Pass holders can ride up to 38 miles (61 km) on a smooth, paved surface with almost no traffic. Timberlake Trails provides up to a 15 miles distance of mostly single-track trails for mountain biking.
An annual "Range Pass" is required to ride anywhere on Ranger Camp Road. See the PACELINE Newsletter for details about getting a pass or look on the left-hand side of this webpage for the heading "Range Pass".
There are specific landmarks that road riders typically refer to as points of location and turning around spots, 5-mile hill, 8-mile hill (aka The Dip), 1st stop sign, 10-mile hill, 2nd stop sign, Tank Farm and the Water Tower.
For emergencies there are several call boxes on the road route. See the link below for specific locations. Also, if you are in need of water, there is a faucet at the building on the hill of the Tank Farm, however it is highly recommended that you bring enough water with you for the entire ride.
Wildlife is abundant on Ranger Camp Road. Be watchful for spiders on the trails and rattlesnakes on the road, among a variety of other 4-legged friends.
Parking for both Mountain Biking and Road Riding is just off Lewis Turner Blvd. See RideWithGPS map.
RideWithGPS: Road Ride Route
PDF: Emergency Phones
Red Bay Loop
The Red Bay Loop ride is a 50 mile (80 km) ride. Meeting location is at the Regional Sports Complex in Hammock Bay. Drive 1.5 miles South from Hwy 20 on Great Hammock Bend, make a left turn to Victory Blvd, drive about a half mile then park on the left near the baseball fields. Hammock Bay, 74 Great Hammock Bend, Freeport, FL 32439.
Red Bay-Knox Hill
The Red Bay-Knox Hill route is a 60 mile (98) km ride to Knox Hill and back. Knox Hill is one of ECC's only "Categorized" climbs. Listed as a "Cat 5" climb, the stronger riders can usually manage it in the big ring. See the "Alternative" Route for a longer option. Meeting location is at the Regional Sports Complex in Hammock Bay. Drive 1.5 miles South from Hwy 20 on Great Hammock Bend, make a left turn to Victory Blvd, drive about a half mile then park on the left near the baseball fields. Hammock Bay, 74 Great Hammock Bend, Freeport, FL 32439.
Ruckel/Bob Sikes Loop
The Ruckel/Bob Sikes Loop is a hilly 52 miles (84 km) ride to Defuniak Springs, Florida and back. This route contains one of the best string of rollers in the area. See the "Alternative" Route for a longer option. Note, this route passes through the Eglin Range so a Range Pass is required. Caution: Bob Sikes road is rough pavement, with lots of holes. Parking is at Ruckel Middle School, 201 Partin Drive, Niceville, FL 32578.
Shalimar-Mossy Head
The Shalimar-Mossy Head ride is a 63 mile (100 km) out-and-back ride to Mossy Head. Park at Rocco's Sub Shop, 1191 Eglin Pkwy, Shalimar, FL 32579.
The South Loop is 46 miles (74 km) to Freeport and return. Parking for this route is behind Whataburger at 4450 Highway 20, Niceville, FL 32578.
RideWithGps: Official Club Ride (46 miles)
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We Are Goat Nation
My first experience of the Skerries rugby diaspora, was watching the tape as a teenager of Michael Branagan and Mark O’Connor’s commentary of the Leinster Senior Cup semi-final win over Terenure College in May 1998 in Stradbrook, Blackrock.
“One thinks of the Skerries diaspora, who’d love to be here today,” Bash mused, as Skerries were within minutes of their first Leinster Senior Cup final. “The Ross McNally’s (Brisbane) and Mark Ryan’s (then living in the US) who’d be so proud of the calibre of our running game and the fact that we’re heading for the cup final.”
Since those heady days of 1998, the Skerries rugby diaspora has multiplied sweeping from Vancouver to Melbourne, taking rich pickings from the numbers to leave the sinking Irish economy from 2008/9 onwards.
Much is made in the media of how GAA clubs have been decimated by emigration but there’s little doubt rugby clubs have also felt the pinch. Skerries has suffered no more than other clubs. Indeed at a memorable pre-match dinner in Nenagh Ormond in 2012, the mother of Nenagh’s captain told of how her two other sons, key players for Nenagh the year before, were now scattered around the globe alongside two other guys from the previous year’s team.
Last year while I was living in Australia, it was great to see two Skerries brothers Seamus and Eddie O’Mahony – both club men – contribute handsomely to Sydney Irish winning the Grand Final of the NSW Suburban league in the clubs ever first season.
Whether you’ve been involved with clubs overseas or outside of Skerries, your ties to your home club tend remain strong. Those friendships and memories that last through the years were evidenced in the Q&A earlier this week with former player Paddy O’Sullivan, now based in Brisbane, which has generated huge interest amongst the Skerries fraternity online.
I have fond memories of waking up at 3am on the lower north shore of Sydney Harbour and checking Twitter for updates. Nice to know that from 17,000 kilometers from home you can keep abreast of events in Holmpatrick courtesy of the club’s well-oiled social media machine, with scores, pictures and match reports available online a short period after the match.
Whether you’re logging onto the club website in Beijing to check the score in a league game in Cashel or planning a trip home from London to coincide with Friday Night Lights in Holmpatrick, we’d like to hear from you this season as we reaffirm our commitment to stay in touch with Skerries folks around the world and interact with them.
Over the coming weeks and months of this season, we’ll be featuring interviews with club members and former players from abroad, dotted round Ireland and even unearth one or two gems closer to home. The series will also look to feature interviews from members of other clubs with fond memories of playing in Skerries. If you have any suggestions or think you know of a suitable candidate please drop us a line. A gentle reminder for the Skerries fans overseas that Overseas Membership is only EU50 and is a great birthday or Christmas present for family and friends. You’ll find more information on the club website about the package.
Skerries rugby club is proof that clubs known for their Corinthian values, fantastic community backbone and a thriving underage structure that pushes quality players through to senior ranks can always thrive.
Whatever happened to those decorated Sydney Irish brothers I hear you ask? One of them is in fact active for the club this weekend.
As we head into our first UBL 2A league game tomorrow night against Old Wesley, it’s time to continue enjoying the spirit of the running game and remember – we are Goat Nation.
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Will Bynum Thinks He Should Start
by SLAM Staff August 14, 2010
The Free-Press reports that Bynum, who recently signed a three-year, $9.75 million contract, wants to start. Tell that to Rodney Stuckey and Rip Hamilton: “He said he has a goal to hear his name called with the starting lineup on opening night in New Jersey on Oct. 27. ‘I’m looking forward to a great year,’ Bynum said. ‘I don’t think for one second that the money I’m making makes me a reserve. I just want to clear that up from the beginning. I think that the money that I’m making gives me the opportunity to excel, and I’m trying to do it.'”
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NBA teams are rebranding left and right—but no one has done so better than the Milwaukee Bucks.
by Brad Graham September 01, 2015
NBA logos can trigger religious devotion or provoke strong rejection. They can also stand for something that has nothing to do with their actual aesthetics. From a design standpoint, sports logos need to survive on a variety of surfaces—timber, plastic, foam, ice, grass—and they need to be visible at extreme sizes. In certain instances, as Vice Sports’ Andrew Helsel notes, “Logos have nothing to do with performance” but “plenty to do with performance goals.”
Todd Radom, who has been crafting event and team logos for a quarter century as the Creative Director of his eponymous design company, says, “Design for sports teams is different from design for any other consumer brand because sports fans are the most ardent, passionate brand loyalists on earth.” He adds, “There are untold billions of dollars attached to revenue directly derived from team identities.”
In the NBA, identity includes primary, secondary and tertiary logos; the home, road and alternate uniform systems; and the actual court design. From Mitchell & Ness throwbacks to New Era snapbacks, there are a number of tangents that link back to the respective team identities. That places extra importance on team branding. Every footwear brand draws inspiration from a franchise’s visual identity because sneakers, especially PEs, can act as extensions of the uniform, thus apparel color and team logo matter. Athletes might not always wear matching kicks, but footwear manufacturers make sure they’re available. As Radom notes, identities “need to successfully extend to a larger program.”
Christopher Arena, the NBA’s Senior Vice President of Identity, Outfitting & Equipment, tells us that all relevant parties “work toward a common goal to deliver the team an identity that represents its goals and objectives.” The NBA advises where need be, but identity creation is essentially left up to the team.
When the Golden State Warriors elected to revisit their 1969 The City emblem, they didn’t just re-energize consumers, their logo ushered in an orbicular renaissance. Now the Atlanta Hawks, Milwaukee Bucks, Philadelphia 76ers, Toronto Raptors and Washington Wizards have all reintroduced themselves with ring-shaped logos while 2015’s other identity reviser, the Los Angeles Clippers, unveiled a botched facelift when the world was expecting a sexy, rejuvenated makeover.
Yet of all the new emblems to surface during Adam Silver’s epoch, the Bucks’ reboot is by far the most elegant. New team owners Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry brought with them a revised branding and marketing strategy, one that would require a complete makeover.
Designed by Doubleday & Cartwright, a Brooklyn-based, creative agency that was founded by three friends—Aaron Amaro, Christopher Isenberg and Kimou Meyer—the new identity also enlisted the skills of Justin Kay, a D&C Creative Director who just so happened to be a lifelong Bucks fan from Milwaukee.
Having previously designed campaigns for Nike, including a range of work centered around Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul, the D&C team was perfectly suited to the task, but because of their unproven track record, “the Bucks had to convince League officials that their choice wouldn’t backfire,” Meyer admits. “We felt like we had to prove ourselves.” But at their initial presentation, League officials were impressed.
Elsewhere, teams are certainly rolling the dice. Washington made their W-shaped icon disappear but oddly kept the sorcerer tag. Their logo is now all about the Capital’s monument, but their appellation is at odds with their branding. The decision makers for the Raptors believe that claw marks and a sans-serif font are enough to get their message across, while Philadelphia has elevated its Benjamin Franklin logo and taken its uniforms back to the days of Dr. J. Atlanta, meanwhile, reissued the Pac-Man and are now a “Basketball Club,” but those items pale in comparison to the three modish, fluorescent green-accented uniforms they’ve assured viewers won’t blind them during HD broadcasts. Yet the talk of new identity town always circles back to Milwaukee, who, according to UniWatch’s Paul Lukas, are “definitely in the top 10” when it comes to their new uniform system.
After the D&C team solved their primary logo puzzle (Meyer says the deer head was built like Frankenstein’s monster), they developed the team’s home, away, alternate and pride (t-shirt) uniforms. “There’s a huge difference between designing for print or web versus designing for garments,” Meyer says, “but because the team already knew how to create t-shirts and jersey patches, we were well equipped to produce the Bucks’ uniforms.”
When it comes to NBA design, there really are only two constants: 1. Not all athletic club identities are created equal, and 2, logos rarely last forever. There have been, by our count, 81 different primary logos since the NBA-ABA merger (and we arrived at that figure after discounting color upgrades, basic shape modifications or minor typeface refinement). That translates to roughly three facelifts per franchise…or a reset every 14 years. So hang in there, Clipper Nation.
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Review: Rock Band 3
The biggest drawback of the song list—and the whole game—is the fact that the track count is downright puny compared to the game’s console versions.
Bryan Lufkin
Nowadays, you don’t need to be able to sing or play guitar, drums, or any other instrument to be in a band. Hell, you don’t even need to play the kazoo, triangle, or a plastic comb covered in wax paper. All you need is a video game, and with the rhythm game genre that’s skyrocketed in popularity over the last decade, anyone can become a musician. And if you’re not planning on entering the school talent show, does it matter if the instruments are virtual or not? It’s still fun, regardless. Rock Band 3 for Nintendo DS, the latest in the popular franchise, proves it.
Like Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, and others in the long, long list of rhythm games, Rock Band 3 basically tests your sense of beat, requiring you to hit buttons when the game tells you to. You’ll have to juggle all components of the band (guitar, drums, keyboard, and vocals), each with its own set of notes that must be played to score points. You can use the L and R buttons on your DS to toggle between instruments. Otherwise, it’s nothing new. Keep in sync with the beat long enough and you’ll score bonus points; the higher your score, the better your ranking for each song, and the more songs you’ll unlock.
As for the songs themselves, it’s a pretty solid collection of familiar hits. You’re given a slate of rock favorites that span the decades, among them the Doobie Brothers’s “China Grove,” Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun,” Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” and Paramore’s “Misery Business.” The biggest drawback of the song list—and the whole game—is the fact that the track count is downright puny compared to the game’s console versions. On consoles, you get an amazing list of 83 songs, but on the DS, it’s curtailed to 25. Pretty big bummer when the music is what can make or break these games.
Not that Rock Band 3 for the DS is a broken game. In fact, it’s still pretty awesome, even when you consider the shortage of tuneage. For the great many gamers who’ve played these types of games, even in passing at some party, Rock Band 3 is a cinch to learn, but difficult to master. Even if it’s an abridged package of its non-handheld counterparts, it’s definitely one of this year’s highlights for the DS.
Developer: Harmonix Music Publisher: MTV Games Platform: Nintendo DS Release Date: October 26, 2010 ESRB: E10+ ESRB Descriptions: Language, Mild Lyrics, Suggestive Themes Buy: Game
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Its repetitive tasks are like the usual arbitrary gates to reach a cutscene in a mediocre video game.
Steven Scaife
Photo: Electronic Arts
An endless ocean submerges an orange-bricked German city, its rooftops drenched in sunlight or doused in rain as they poke through the watery barrier. The soft, cartoonish look of this place seems to deserve a word like “beautiful.” On the other hand, leading Sea of Solitude’s black-feathered, red-eyed protagonist, Kay, into collectible memories, which queue up wistful dialogue snippets from a life outside her metaphorical turmoil in the waterlogged city, might warrant something like “heartfelt.” The vocabulary for evaluating a game like Sea of Solitude, which is designed completely around emotions and various manifestations of mental health, may sound positive, but it’s also undeniably familiar.
Puttering across the sea on her tiny motorboat or hopping around sun-kissed platforms, Kay encounters literalized inner demons. Many of them are dark things to be avoided. Others can be led into the light that will destroy them. A monster in its shell blocks Kay’s path, and whispering, anonymous shadows follow her if she gets too close to them. Clouds of gloomy thought become actual baggage once Kay walks up to a glowing orange circle and the player presses the button that sucks those clouds into her ballooning backpack. The themes of loneliness and empathy are quite explicit here, and if familiarity and explicitness aren’t inherent problems, in Sea of Solitude they’re nonetheless the symptoms of the game’s difficulty envisioning a unified wrapper for feelings it wants to evoke.
The mechanical trappings of Sea of Solitude are basic to the point of feeling perfunctory, like mindless tasks to perform while each new floating orange circle spoons out dialogue for thematic context. It’s all mostly polished, of course; Kay flops around a little as she walks, and she visibly shivers at the whip-crack of thunder and lightning. You’ll jump, sail, melt ice, and illuminate shadowy figures, but the connection between these actions and the intended emotions always feels tenuous at best because they rarely have a discernible effect on or specific ties to the world in front of you. The dialogue colors in some world that’s conspicuously beyond Kay’s metaphorical dreamscape; though she claims to recognize certain places in the city, most seem indistinguishable from the last. All of these repetitive tasks seem more like the usual arbitrary gates to reach a cutscene in a mediocre video game.
There are fleeting moments of empathetic power over Sea of Solitude’s brief runtime, where the imagery and the action coalesce into some recognizable slice of Kay’s life. But so much of the game feels only slightly more cohesive than someone scribbling the word “depression” over, say, a picture of a person being eaten by a shark. Games like Psychonauts or The Gardens Between work a character’s personal details into the level design, while the horror game Devotion uses specific objects and actions to supplement the rising tide of memory. Sea of Solitude, however, is so blandly abstract that it loses any sense of specificity.
The game was reviewed using a download code provided by fortyseven communications.
Developer: Jo-Mei Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Platform: PlayStation 4 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Fantasy Violence, Language Buy: Game
From the second you power on the game, its entire toy chest is open to you, no strings attached.
Justin Clark
Photo: Nintendo
Like its predecessor, Nintendo’s Super Mario Maker 2 is predominantly what it announces itself to be: an extremely versatile creation engine allowing players to make their own side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. levels, using the mechanics, assets, and aesthetics of the series’s best games. The 2015 original for the Wii U had some strangely arbitrary limits and omitted elements, things that the creator community delighted in finding patchwork ways of recreating. Those creators will find that Mario Maker 2 has matched their ambitions. For one, you can now make slopes that Mario can slide down. And that terrifying evil sun from Super Mario Bros. 3 is now in the mix. Also, auto-scroll levels can be finetuned to change direction and speed at will. Whatever barriers to the player’s imagination existed in the first iteration of this game, Nintendo has torn many of them down.
That goes hand in hand with Mario Maker 2 opening up creative pathways left unexplored by the first game. You’re allowed to create levels that take place in a wide assortment of weather environments, with new chiptunes accompanying the creation of levels from the series’s 8-bit titles. Super Mario 3D World has been added as a visual/mechanical option, which allows for multi-level backgrounds and hazards, along with all the unique and delightfully adorable cat-costume shenanigans from that game. The conditions for clearing a stage can be changed to where just making it to the flag is far from enough. More ambitious is the option to switch any stage to a nighttime mode, which changes its physics. Ice stages are more slippery, and ghost houses have less visibility. Airship levels, in particular, are particularly awe-inspiring for their unique mood and texture, with rain, thunder, and lightning—conditions that allow for sea-based elements to float through the air—now standing in your way throughout.
The most blessed thing about the experience, though, is that aside from a couple of buried secrets, all these tools are all available to the player upfront. From the second you power on the game, its entire toy chest is open to you, no strings attached. Now, the only real barrier to immediate entry is that Course Mode’s user interface is still so heavily designed for a touchscreen. Using the analog sticks or a Pro controller isn’t impossible, but it’s drastically less intuitive than using the Switch’s touchscreen, while undocked, to build levels.
For those less inclined to just jump right in and start creating levels, not only is there an in-depth and endlessly amusing tutorial, where you’re taught by a woman and her talking pigeon companion, but a full-fledged Story Mode. Surprisingly, there isn’t even a Bowser-kidnaps-Princess conceit this time around: As a result of a complete accident, the hilarious particulars of which won’t be spoiled here, Princess Toadstool’s castle gets completely erased, and a small crew of Toads and Toadettes is tasked with rebuilding. The project costs money, though, and it’s up to Mario to go freelance, running through over 100 custom levels—explained here as “odd jobs”—to collect all the coins he can in order to fund the construction project. Somewhere in there is a sharp commentary on the dangers of gig economy, but more than anything else, Story Mode is a brilliantly tactile and immersive extension of the tutorial on how the myriad assets given to you in Course Mode can be utilized. You’ll leave more than a few courses with devious ideas, and that certainly seems intentional.
The possibilities are endless, and even a cursory glance at the game’s online community shows that those possibilities are being explored to their fullest, and that the limits of what this toolbox is capable of are being pushed. Indeed, some of the best stages currently out there shift Super Mario Bros. as a series of platformers into the far reaches of other genres, form spins on Pong to 2D versions of Mario Kart to elaborate facsimiles of Metroid.
Mario Maker 2’s sole problem is that it’s a fundamentally lonely game. You can share course codes, and follow your friends through their Maker IDs, and, of course, you can experience the worlds and challenges that others have created. However, the only substantive way to collaborate, compete, or build with other players is if they’re next to you on the couch. Designer and developer Shigeru Miyamoto may be a genius, but if there’s any one thing he’s been generous enough to hammer home over the years, it’s that given the option, he wouldn’t work alone. Right now, more often than not, players don’t have that option at all.
It’s still heartening to see Nintendo show the ultimate in respect to the poor, neglected Wii U by giving its best games new life on the vastly more successful Switch. Seeing Super Mario Maker enhanced to the point of becoming a straight-up sequel is magnificent, even as a few stray three-steps-forward-one-step-back decisions keep the game from true perfection.
This game was reviewed using a download code provided by Golin.
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Switch Release Date: June 28, 2019 ESRB: E ESRB Descriptions: Mild Cartoon Violence Buy: Game
The similarities between SolSeraph and ActRaiser are unmistakable, but it’s a joyless facsimile that lacks a single spark of innovation.
Aaron Riccio
Photo: Sega
Some time ago in the shallow world of ACE Team’s SolSeraph, Sky Father and Earth Mother drove back Chaos and created the Earth, before then vanishing from the planet, no longer directly meddling in the ways of mankind. But the void they left behind was soon filled by the Younger Gods of flooding, famine, and the like, who took it upon themselves to torment our nascent humanity. It’s finally left to the winged half-god, half-man Helios to defend mankind. Right out of the gate, the similarities between SolSeraph and the decades-old classic ActRaiser are unmistakable, right down to the hybrid action/strategy gameplay, but it’s an empty emulation, a joyless facsimile that lacks a single spark of innovation.
SolSeraph boasts five essentially identical biomes. Entering a region requires players to clear a menial combat section and to perhaps platform their way over a few bottomless chasms. After doing so, they’ll take an angel’s-eye view of a village and issue orders to the helpless human inhabitants who know how to forage and fight but would never think to do so without godly assistance. Periodically, as a town survives enemy waves and builds temples, monster lairs are unlocked: short combat arenas that Helios fights his way through. Finally, after clearing all of these, players can face off against the region’s animal-themed boss.
The game offers an insultingly reductive mix of resource management and tower defense. There are two types of food-producing buildings, one that increases population, and one for harvesting wood. They can be instantly demolished for a full refund of workers and wood and almost as quickly rebuilt, so there are never any shortages, and no long-term consequences for poor planning. Likewise, there are but four defensive structures: melee barracks, ranged archery towers, a laser-shooting magical hut, and a crowd-controlling bomb-shack.
Helios is known as the Father of Forethought, so perhaps the dearth of strategic options available throughout SolSeraph is an inside joke, albeit a poor one, on ACE Team’s part. After all, the demons are so monomaniacally fixated on snuffing out your central bonfire that they march right past all your other vulnerable structures. This allows players to forget their measly four tactical options, or the range-, damage-, and speed-amplifying dwellings. You can win simply by lining the road with archery towers. For even less of a challenge, players can divinely intervene, using Helios to summon thunderbolts and sun spirits.
That you only ever need to use about half of the buildings or skills exposes the game’s emptiness. Some structures are introduced with a one-note mechanic, like wells, which you can build in every level but are only required for the Sekh Desert, where they turn inhospitable sands into arable farmland. These tools also sometimes fly in the face of narrative sense: You can’t build farms in the Vale of Yeg, as it’s too cold there, but you can depend on livestock for sustenance, which may lead you to wonder what exactly your animals eat. After a while, it feels as if the game’s environmental challenges exist only to mask the tedious repetition of each level, and given how the problems you run across are so easily addressed (bridges and boats are automatically built for you) or beside the point (the Arunan Isles occasionally and briefly flood without affecting gameplay), they ultimately feel entirely cosmetic.
This same redundancy spills over into the combat sections of SolSeraph. You climb the trees of the Plains of Widhu as you do the cliffs of Mount Agnir, and every area has some kind of spider, flying bat, and club-wielding monster. Two of the bosses—a snowy owl and fiery dragon—fly about, but you can otherwise just stand next to all of them, hacking away. (Outside of a healing spell, Helios’s magic is superfluous.)
Even the game’s plot is redundant. Each village is led by a different elder, but they all offer similar platitudes about the various forms of faith and mankind’s resilience, things that the game’s active sequences consistently rebuke. There’s no insight to be gleaned here, and no meaningful interaction beyond clicking on the campfire to hear more dialogue. Helios may protect mankind’s free will and creativity, but he appears to have none of his own.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Sega.
Developer: ACE Team Publisher: Sega Platform: PlayStation 4 ESRB: E ESRB Descriptions: Mild Fantasy Violence Buy: Game
Where the game goes in-depth, and where it clearly feels most comfortable, is in its omnipresent brawls.
With Judgment, the developers at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio turn their gaze elsewhere in Kamurocho, the fictional red-light district that serves as the stomping ground for their Yakuza series. Protagonist Takayuki Yagami (Takuya Kimura) isn’t one of the many manly gangsters who anchor the studio’s past narratives, but the current proprietor of the barely afloat Yagami Detective Agency and a disgraced former lawyer, having traded his businesswear for a punk jacket and a truly elaborate haircut that one guy alternately calls the look of a boy-band castoff or “a mop of pubes.” But if Yagami sounds like a big change for the series, fear not, as he has deep ties to the Matsugane Family, a knuckleheaded ex-yakuza of a partner in an exceptionally loud shirt, and an inexplicable mastery of martial arts that leaves him radiating red or blue energy just like any other Kamurocho tough guy.
There’s actual detective work in the game, to some degree. In his hunt for an eye-gouging serial killer, Yagami tails or chases suspects, questions witnesses, and even searches crime scenes for clues in a first-person spot-the-object sort of game mechanic. But Judgment never totally commits to these investigative wrinkles the way it does to the Yakuza series’s familiar combat mechanics, where each story thread tends to leave Yagami encircled by henchmen and where random punks roam open-world Kamurocho spoiling for a street fight.
Glancing around a crime scene is ultimately a simple matter of finding whatever you’re told to look for, and dialogue selections feel more like multiple-choice pop quizzes, the sort of thing a teacher might spring on students just to make sure they’re paying attention. Throughout the game, chase scenes are just auto-runners where you do things like press the triangle button to hop over a fallen bicycle, and the sluggish tailing segments prominently highlight whatever objects the player is supposed to hide behind. There are occasional glimpses of what might have been, when the game provides an objective that doesn’t outright tell the player where to go, or when it asks you to draw a logical conclusion instead of parrot information. It seems perfectly capable of taking these mechanics a step further, which makes it all the more frustrating to see Judgment so rigidly affixed to its investigative rails.
Where the game goes in-depth, and where it clearly feels most comfortable, is in its omnipresent brawls. Yagami’s non-yakuza profession hardly reduces the number of besuited bad guys out for his blood, though he’s a more acrobatic fighter compared to Yakuza’s beefy Kiryu, leapfrogging over opponents with ease. If the detective kicks off a wall, he can catch some unfortunate soul between his thighs and propel them with a devastating throw, perhaps into a store window or a nearby koi pond. It’s familiar stuff, even with Yagami’s multiple fighting styles (“crane” for groups and “tiger” for one-on-one), though it’s easily the most polished mechanic in the game, still satisfying even after so much use.
Judgment’s central mystery, too, features some of the most engaging storytelling in a Yakuza game to date, and it’s freed from any bounds of continuity. The entirely new cast here—disheveled dirty cop Ayabe, the team at Genda Law Office where Yagami once worked, and any number of silly citizens, such as a potion-brewing hermit and a doctor whose office is in the sewers—retains the series’s gift for endearing characters. Their sincerity and determination drive a plot with twists that feel purposeful rather than perfunctory; Yagami’s investigation uncovers unexpected layers to an initially straightforward problem, leading him to medical research facilities, real estate schemes, and organized crime.
There are faint noir undertones here and there to complement the game’s private-eye POV, as in Yagami’s haunted backstory or the layers of corruption that seem to close in around him. But Judgment is simply far too fond of its gooey-hearted crime boys to ever dwell on the depths of despair and moral compromise inherent to noir storytelling. The twisting mystery posits the denizens of Kamurocho as lost souls who have no more than the city and, if they’re lucky, each other, yet the story does little to ever muddy their path; its characters are as warm as they are secure in their righteousness. Foregrounding detective work over the power struggles of crime families (which do still figure into the plot) does, however, lead the series to rely less on a xenophobic fear of thinly characterized outsiders, even if stepping beyond its favored patriarchal organizations has done little to change the largely peripheral inclusion of women in the story beyond punching bags or objects to be ogled.
If the detective angle is little more than a mild seasoning sprinkled over the usual Yakuza beats, the two at least naturally complement one another in a thematic sense. Through its various side stories, the series has long emphasized the plight of everyday people as well as the empathy of stopping to help one another, and in Judgment, taking on such problems is outright Yagami’s job as a detective. The game even dots the main story with some of these side stories, which send Yagami after a lab coat-clad underwear thief called the Panty Professor or have Yagami’s partner, Kaito, babysit a kid who’s convinced that the burly ex-yakuza is secretly his favorite superhero, Captain Cop. Another mechanic encourages players to befriend various characters around town by performing small favors or just visiting them, and you get a little boost when greeting a friend on the street.
But Judgment is also a longer game than either of its immediate predecessors, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life and remake Yakuza Kiwami 2, which also have second open-world locations. In Judgment, almost all the action is confined to Kamurocho, where you’re often dropped on one end of the map only to learn you’re needed on the other. It all grows a little stale after a while, not just from repetition but from the knowledge that you can now interact (or are supposed to be able to interact) with the game in ways beyond simply throwing punches at a gaggle of yakuza goons. For as basic as the detective mechanics can feel, they actually harm the series’s reliance on various gauntlets of bad guys, because those fighting setups now signify the game avoiding other avenues of interaction in favor of what’s safe and familiar. Judgment suggests plenty of compelling new directions for the series to go, as well as an ultimate reticence to totally follow any of them. Yagami’s primary investigative tool is his fists.
This game was reviewed using a retail PlayStation 4 copy purchased by the reviewer.
Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Publisher: Sega Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: June 25, 2019 ESRB: M ESRB Descriptions: Blood, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol Buy: Game
As varied and intriguing as the game can get on a conceptual level, it outdoes itself in the minutiae of traversal and combat.
Photo: 505 Games
After four years in development, Tokyo-based ArtPlay’s Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night arrives on the scene bearing more of a resemblance to Sonic Mania or Mega Man 11 than to Mighty No. 9. It’s an immense joy to have a true current-generation side-scrolling Castlevania out there in the world, and more than a little embarrassing for Konami that this game, which can stand proudly alongside Symphony of the Night in terms of quality and creativity, could’ve been theirs had they not been, well, Konami for the past decade.
And make no mistake: This is a Koji Igarashi Castlevania title through and through. This could have been a 20-hour game full of creative cheap shots—and, indeed, it isn’t above thumbing its nose at its spiritual predecessor with reckless abandon, with one particular NPC and his voice actor essentially walking right up to the line of blatant copyright infringement, which would be egregious if Igarashi hadn’t essentially created that character. But Bloodstained still has its own envelope-pushing identity. This is a game that feels like the sum total of lessons learned across Igarashi’s storied history as a series director and producer, while also a promising look toward a potential future for the whole Metroidvania genre.
Bloodstained distances itself from Castlevania most in its characters and narrative. The story involves alchemists rebelling against forced obsolescence due to the Industrial Revolution by unleashing arcane horrors upon the world using demonic crystal shards. Gebel, an orphan, was supposed to be a ritual sacrifice to Hell itself, but he survives and, in his rage, leads the charge from an eldritch castle. The world’s only hope is Miriam, another orphan whose mysterious childhood coma prevented her from being sacrificed but who’s still able to wield the demonic shards on behalf of a thinly veiled take on the Vatican until the day the crystals consume her. It’s such a fertile little story that it’s almost a shame the game doesn’t do more with it. Fortunately, what largely takes its place is enthralling in its own right.
There are a few moments of pure old-school gothic horror in Bloodstained—one particular boss is essentially Elizabeth Bathory taken to the utter extreme—and Michiru Yamane’s score spectacularly sets the stage for it all, but it’s by and large operating on a very different wavelength than grim moonlit vampirism. Perhaps informed by cel shading, the game displays a command for strange colors, aesthetic mash-ups, and lighting schemes that consistently unsettle the player at tense moments, making it seem less like Bram Stoker’s Dracula than Dario Argento’s Suspiria. And it does that without every losing its sense of play. It’s incredible how often one is legitimately surprised by what’s waiting in the next room. This is the type of game that will stun you by throwing indescribable behemoths at you in one room, then have you chuckling at the flying pigs puttering their way around the next.
As varied and intriguing as the game can get on a conceptual level, it outdoes itself in the minutiae of traversal and combat. The game’s opening hours feel instantly familiar. The castle is wide open for players to explore until they come across dead ends requiring as-yet-discovered abilities. The only new aspect early on is that Miriam is able to wield guns. Before long, it becomes clear that the player has never had more freedom to choose how to play this type of game. The initial Kickstarter campaign had Igarashi asking his audience via a website whether players preferred to use a sword or a whip in their Castlevania games, cleverly concealing the enormous number of options available to them in the final game. There are physical weapons above and beyond what’s ever been available in one of Igarashi’s Castlevania titles—everything from machetes, to shotguns, to lightsabers are options here—but it’s the shards that open up the player’s imagination, a mechanic that gives Miriam additional powers to equip and swap at will after defeating certain enemies, and the options seem just endless.
At one point, while fighting a two-headed dragon, each head wrapped around the outside of a clocktower, I ended up pausing the game just to marvel at the sheer lunacy that had just been playing out on screen. Miriam was calling up columns of hellfire against the dragon with one hand, slicing at it with a steam-powered greatsword with the other, while occasionally turning into a bunny woman devastating the beast with lightning fast kung-fu kicks. All these things are slotted to shortcuts in a shoulder-trigger menu, accessible at the push of a button.
There’s a freedom to how Bloodstained allows you to tackle any obstacle that many MMOs would kill to be able to replicate. But that freedom comes at a price. There’s quite a bit of random chance involved with collecting many of those crazy powers and weapons, with progression still working off of RPG-lite principles, this time with a bit of item crafting involved. But the system is forgiving and highly versatile, and it encourages experimentation, both through the ease of accessibility and a tough-but-fair difficulty curve that has no intention of letting players simply traipse through as unscathed as quite a few Igavania titles have in the past. There will be walls of difficulty here, and they’re quite welcome.
Less welcome is a certain lack of technical finesse that riddles the game with performance stutters, stops, occasional tanking framerates and unexpected load times. It’s nothing that breaks the game—though a treasure issue caused by the most recent patch at the time of this review came frighteningly close—but often enough to make itself noticeable, even on a PS4 Pro. Sadly, the poor Switch is even less capable of plowing through the problems, and coupled with the drastic visual downgrade, it’s a much less enjoyable experience than on PC or the other consoles. (Editor’s Note: 505 Games has since issued a statement that says these issues will be addressed in upcoming patches.) Still, those hitches feel like the cost of freedom for Igarashi and his ArtPlay team. It’s not hard to imagine a Bloodstained—or, more accurately, a Castlevania—made by Konami that ran flawlessly but was released in compromised form in the way so many of their titles have been. That is, compromised in the way that weak-sauce multiplayer experiment Harmony of Despair felt compromised. The occasional two-second load screen is a paltry price for experiencing a near-masterwork.
Developer: ArtPlay Publisher: 505 Games Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: June 18, 2019 ESRB: T ESRB Descriptions: Blood, Partial Nudity, Violence
Review: The Sinking City Doesn’t Earn Its Lovecraftian Credentials
Worse than the sheer tedium of shooting is the effect it has on the game’s atmosphere.
Photo: Frogwares
The life of a 1920s private investigator is hardly a convenient or particularly romantic one, at least to hear The Sinking City tell it. The game’s fedora-wearing protagonist, Charles Reed, owns a shotgun but has no access to a GPS, a minimap, or a little earpiece to talk to some computer-whiz partner who does all his research. Reed is on his own, tramping through the dilapidated streets of Oakmont, Massachusetts to the university library, the hospital, or some such place, combing through newspaper archives or police records based on scant clues. With the right information, he digs up addresses that must be manually marked on the map after consulting the labeled city streets. Reed becomes such a familiar sight to the librarian, whose mouth is sewn shut as a punishment according to “local custom,” that she later sends him a note asking for help. A private eye’s work is never done.
Such decidedly analog activities are one of the most engaging elements of The Sinking City; in an open-world game like this, they’re a slightly more involved alternative to the usual process of mindlessly following arrows to the next cutscene and accompanying action sequence. Here, you need to make deductions in order to figure out where you’re going, to decide which archive has the information you need and which combination of search criteria will get it. It’s a fitting accompaniment to the game’s myriad crime scene investigation sequences, where you’ll comb an area for evidence and then fit together clues to form new, sometimes differing, conclusions in the “mind palace” section of the game menu.
Developer Frogwares is best known for a long-running series of Sherlock Holmes games, and that influence is clear in their latest adaptation, which is based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft and his overarching Cthulhu mythos. Reed has arrived in Oakmont due to disturbing visions only to find the place devastated by a flood all but biblical in its proportions. And that disaster is decidedly ongoing; some ships have run so far aground that they block off parts of the city, and so many of the streets are underwater that citizens often travel by boat or on crude, makeshift wooden walkways. Thick crusts of barnacles seem to cake every surface, while hasty barricades wall off areas where the monsters are. Oakmont is a truly fascinating backdrop, where Lovecraftian horror has essentially become the new normal. Citizens simply step around the rotting carcasses of sea creatures that litter the streets of poor areas, and they’ve gotten used to weird new fauna like crustaceans that seem to wear dead cats like shells.
In a rather tenuous attempt to address Lovecraft’s virulent racism, fish-faced refugees from nearby Innsmouth are a common sight, minding their own business as they try to feed their own families like anyone else. The game specifies that they’re not all wrapped up in a Dagon-worshipping cult devoted to getting human women to birth fish-people, but so many of them are and the game is otherwise so disinterested in the average Joe Innsmouther (or even people of color) compared to the exploits of the white Mr. Reed that its journeying into race relations feels more like a perfunctory disclaimer. When it comes to Lovecraft’s metaphorical expression of his own abject horror at the Mixing of the Races, the game is largely uncritical.
You will, perhaps, take some of the in-game prejudice into account when you make your deductions. Is their cult, for example, really up to no good, or is the man opposing them just a racist? (Answer: It’s the former.) Based on such context, as well as other factors like your knowledge of the city itself or the personalities of involved characters derived from evidence, you piece together your own conclusions and make story decisions as a result. And although these investigations can feel a bit guided and simplified since there are only ever two real conclusions, they always leave a nagging sense that perhaps you were wrong.
Most of The Sinking City, though, is spent putting boots to ruined pavement in what feels like little more than busywork. Despite the presence of fast travel points, the process of running between crime scenes, archives, and the various characters grows tedious; for as interesting as the city can be beneath the surface, its grim, gray ruination makes for a rather homogeneous sight. Other activities, like putting crime scene events in order, similarly feel like time-wasters, though nothing quite approaches the drudgery of the game’s frequent combat.
Seemingly every crime scene, story area, and empty, side mission-hosting house with a similar layout is infested with fleshy gray abominations of inscrutable anatomy that Reed must shoot with a gun until they’re dead. Despite so much investigation, the game seems reticent to leave players alone with their thoughts for too long, opting to fill the spaces in between investigations with menial combat just in case you were getting bored finding clues. Loading screen tips advise that you flee when the opportunity presents itself, but the cramped environments and rudimentary stealth all but force you to make a stand over and over again.
Worse than the sheer tedium of shooting, however, is the effect it has on The Sinking City’s atmosphere; with the same four monster types lurking around every corner and conspicuous ammo crates strewn all over the place, there’s little dread to the experience of playing the game because you simply know what’s coming. The encounters are expected, and so is your triumph over them, which feels decidedly antithetical to Lovecraft’s favored themes of humanity’s insignificance and fragility in the face of forces it cannot understand. For what seems meant to be a horror game about piecing together clues and cobbling together what’s left of your sanity, long stretches of The Sinking City are inordinately concerned with killing the shit out of some monsters as a sort of Chosen One. With pistol in one hand, eldritch relic in the other, and fedora comfortably shading his white, stubbled face, Charles Reed looks and feels more like a mentally tormented Indiana Jones.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by HomeRun PR.
Developer: Frogwares Publisher: Bigben Interactive Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: June 27, 2019 ESRB: M ESRB Descriptions: Blood and Gore, Suggestive Themes, Violence Buy: Game
Review: My Friend Pedro Vividly Casts You as a Bollywood-Style Action Hero
Every shootout is an opportunity to execute a thoroughly balletic performance of sorts.
Khee Hoon Chan
Photo: Devolver Digital
Bollywood’s charm lies in the sheer melodrama and absurdity of its films, which typically feature heroes taking arms against foes in lurid fashion. The industry’s influence on My Friend Pedro, a shoot ‘em up from Swedish developer Victor Agren’s DeadToast Entertainment, is certainly unmistakable. Indeed, you’ll feel like a Bollywood strongman as you mow down mobs of henchmen in spectacular ways as the game’s unnamed protagonist, with Pedro, your chatty banana companion, cracking wise by your side.
Each level of the game is presented as a 2D platformer, and there are unbounded thrills to be had in making it through each area, from ramming through a plate-glass wall into a room to gliding down from an overhead cable to the story below. As you caper across abandoned buildings and deserted rooftops with an array of firearms at your disposal, you’ll pump your enemies’ guts full of lead as the dizzying electronic soundtrack—redolent of a neo-noir film—slickly complements the carnage. And because you have to plan your moves in advance, it’s almost as if you’re choreographing that carnage. Every shootout is an opportunity to execute a thoroughly balletic performance of sorts. And with more points awarded for intricate stunts, there’s a huge incentive to bring as much pizazz to your violence as possible.
How you carry out all these stunts is dependent on your creativity and skill, with players equipped with an arsenal of Bollywood-esque combat techniques. Among these is a nifty trick called split aiming, which lets you wield a pair of guns and shoot two targets at the same time. You can also perform an elaborate somersault in midair, all while raining bullets down on the targets below you. Even conveniently placed objects, like a frying pan laying on the ground, can be used to pull off even more outrageous stunts. The pan, for instance, is an especially useful weapon against hard-to-reach mobsters: Kick it into the air and fire at it and your bullets will ricochet off its surface and right into nearby enemies.
In later chapters, My Friend Pedro points to a more profound narrative beneath its silly veneer, weaving in clues to the protagonist’s depression as well as a twisted backstory. There’s an entire chapter devoted to his crumbling mental state, with the player traversing through a hallucinatory dreamscape painted in pastel hues, all as quirky, floating figureheads and soft doughy clouds dance about. The shift in tonality is jarring, but there’s a pleasant self-awareness to My Friend Pedro as it shovels cartoonish levels of elegant violence at the player. Later chapters even see the game breaking the fourth wall to poke fun at you. In one instance, you’ll be laying siege upon a crew of white brutes known as hardcore gamers, whose soundbites consist of familiar gaming lingo like “Git guud noob” and “GG.”
Throughout, you can dramatically slow down the pace of combat, and you’ll feel like Neo from The Matrix as you leap off an impossibly tall skyscraper, fending off hordes of enemies falling alongside you. If the slow-motion gunplay makes such feats easier to pull off, there’s more challenge in mastering the controls that allow you to split aim, wall jump, and somersault. That gameplay may be limited in the end, but the violence in My Friend Pedro is so hyperbolic and varied—at one point, you’ll find yourself doing backflips on a motorcycle in order to avoid a barrage of bombs—that you’ll be gunning to repeat levels in order to best your high score. It’s mayhem that speaks so strongly in the language of the Bollywood action film that the only thing you may be left wanting for is the wisecracking Pedro to do a song-and-dance routine once the curtain comes down on your adventure.
The game was reviewed using a review code provided by Tinsley PR.
Developer: DeadToast Entertainment Publisher: Devolver Digital Platform: Switch Release Date: June 20, 2019 Buy: Game
E3 2019: The Best and Worst Surprises
The 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo presented an industry in transition.
Ryan Aston
The 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo presented an industry in transition. As the current console generation winds down and new hardware is still in development, the subject of how games will be played going forward has come into question, as the technology to stream games via the cloud supplants the need for consoles or PCs.
In a 15-minute presentation prior to E3’s launch, Google unveiled their cloud gaming service Stadia, a subscription-based service—for use on desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices—that allows high-end gaming without the need for expensive hardware. Supposedly offering computing power significantly stronger than that of the PlayStation Pro and Xbox One X combined, Stadia relies on Google’s own data centers, with the only real bottleneck being consumer internet speeds and bandwidth caps as the gameplay is streamed to the end user. Hands-on experience with Stadia has shown it to be incredibly impressive—provided one’s internet connection is stable and fast enough to handle the required download speed.
Even before the expo officially kicked off at the Los Angeles Convention Center, notions of “traditional” video gaming were being challenged. There was no greater sign of the shake up than the absence of one of the three major console makers: Sony. The company eschewed not only their usual press conference, but any showing at all. While many have suggested that Sony, who had informally announced their upcoming PlayStation 5 console earlier in 2019, wanted to benefit from Microsoft announcing what the target specs would be for the Project Scarlett, the simple truth is that Sony doesn’t have much to currently show to the public.
Only two of Sony’s upcoming first-party exclusive titles particularly stand out: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us 2, a known quantity which has already seen multiple previews, and Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, whose trailer premiered shortly before the expo kicked off. In the end, releasing the trailer ahead of E3 was a smart move on the company’s part, as the ongoing enigma that is Kojima’s next title dominated discussion for days instead of getting lost in the sea of announcements after E3 was officially under way, and a solid release date is something that Sony can boast about in a year where their exclusives are scant.
EA also elected not to host their customary press conference, instead opting for a streamed video presentation similar to the Nintendo Direct broadcast. The company’s decision not to discuss anything about this year’s disappointing Anthem is damning, not only for the remaining fans of the game hoping to see the game properly supported moving forward, but for EA itself, whose frustrating trend of misusing developers they acquire has left BioWare on thin ice. As one live service game in an ocean, and created by a company with little experience making such games, Anthem was always destined to face an uphill battle; at this point, some four months after its release, turning the game around would require faith in the product and an evolving cycle of new content, both of which EA could have presented to the world here. And there’s precedent for this, demonstrated by the success of Destiny after its first tumultuous year. Alas, not even a mention across the entire show.
The main event of EA’s Play presentation was their upcoming Star Wars title Jedi: Fallen Order. Though the somnolent 14-minute video that capped the presentation seems to promise a cross between Uncharted and The Force Unleashed, hands-on time with the game reveals that its closest analogue is Dark Souls, given that it takes place across large open areas with bonfire equivalents the protagonist can meditate at, which inexplicably revives all enemies. The combat feels like that of Dark Souls, with the fast-paced lightsaber duels of something like Jedi Academy replaced by slower, more precise one-on-one battles where you must manoeuver around enemies to fight them individually, and in a manner that recalls other From Software games. Whether Jedi: Fallen Order will be as difficult as the Soulsborne titles remains to be seen, though one would assume EA would want the title to be accessible as possible, especially considering their recent and lousy track record with the franchise.
The first official E3 press conference was presented by Microsoft, which had a stellar showing of new games and announcements. New titles demonstrated include Outer Worlds, a Fallout-esque sci-fi action adventure game, a new Battletoads game featuring bright and colourful cartoonish graphics, the latest iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator, the next chapter in the Gears of War series simply titled Gears 5, and survival horror outing Blair Witch. Microsoft’s next console, Project Scarlett, was broadly discussed as a technical powerhouse without mentioning any specifics, including price, as if to ensure Sony has no edge on the competition when their PS5 announcement finally comes. More interestingly, Microsoft presented their version of the cloud streaming gaming, the Microsoft xCloud service, which Phil Spencer was able to elaborate on during Giant Bomb’s Nite Two live show.
Spencer notes that while cloud streaming services are convenient, allowing gamers to play games anywhere, they’re to the detriment of consumers in terms of actually letting them own the games they buy. The Stadia pricing model includes not only subscription fees, but also additional prices on top for some games, which is troubling as purchasers will only “own” any game they buy as long as the service is active, or if they have an active internet connection. If Google, or any streaming service, pulls the plug, purchased products simply go away.
Which is why Microsoft is working toward a hybrid of cloud streaming services with traditional ownership models, where gamers will own their console and their games, but can also stream them to other devices to play games on the go using the cloud. Google’s Stadia offers something more akin to Netflix, and looks to suffer from some of the same issues as Netflix when it comes to content disappearing as licenses expire. Whether Microsoft’s model works also remains to be seen, but their excellent and inexpensive Game Pass service, which saw extension to the PC during E3, has demonstrated both the excellent value and the focus on services benefitting the end user that Spencer advocated for.
Bethesda was in full-apology mode for their first press conference since the disastrous launch of Fallout 76, bookending their presentation with saccharine, insipid videos about how they understand and like gamers, how they’re gamers themselves, and other such rigmarole. Bringing out Todd Howard to discuss said elephant in the room would have been a misstep had it not been for the announcement of the game’s Nuclear Winter DLC—a fresh take (currently available in beta) on the battle-royale genre—as well as a Fallout 76 freeplay period where anyone can play the game with the new content. Nuclear Winter is a surprising amount of fun, a squad-based battle royale allowing players to choose where they spawn on the map and then take advantage of classic Fallout devices while fighting to become the only survivor. For example, becoming invisible with a Stealth Boy offers a fleeting chance to get the drop on enemies or flee an area teeming with overpowered opponents, or jumping into a set of Power Armor gives more health but impedes player speed and is loud enough to give away player location. At time of writing, Bethesda have made Nuclear Winter an indefinite add-on for Fallout 76, which gives the populace at large a reason to try Fallout 76.
Standing high above Bethesda’s other announcements and demos, Doom Eternal looks to be a spectacular follow-up to the successful 2016 reboot, escalating on the core gameplay with new abilities including a combat grappling hook and a flamethrower, and an expanded narrative involving angels as well as the demons of Hell. Elsewhere, Square Enix’s press conference largely focused on the Final Fantasy VII Remake and concluded with a baffling look at Marvel Avengers, a game that probably should have been revealed back when Avengers: Endgame was still a part of the popular conversation but probably wasn’t given its ugly and bizarre character models. More notable, though buried within the conference, was the announcement of Dying Light 2, which looks to be an ambitious and sprawling follow-up to the original game. It boasts expanded parkour gameplay in a new environment that changes with player choice, promising to give fans a unique experience with each playthrough.
Nintendo Direct closed out the conferences, announcing two new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC characters: the much-loved dynamic duo of Banjo and Kazooie and the not-so-loved hero from Dragon Quest. The Link’s Awakening remaster, which boasts frustratingly cutesy graphics that go against the original game’s theme and tone, was also exhibited; it’s as if the developers thought that the cartoonish look of the original 8-Bit Game Boy title was an intentional stylistic choice, rather than how Zelda games looked at that time, and that it was something that needed to be made cuter. It feels like a significant misstep, and one that’s bound to cheapen the surprisingly mature and thoughtful narrative. Nonetheless, it’s pleasing that this underplayed classic will find a new audience, and Nintendo’s diorama displays of areas from the game on the show floor were exceptional and gorgeous.
Finally, a new Animal Crossing was revealed, with a fresh island setting, new crafting gameplay, and the inclusion of fruit stacking. After sideline missteps like Pocket Camp, Amiibo Festival, and Happy Home Designer, a new Switch entry seems to be exactly the shot in the arm that this beloved series needs to get back on track.
Although E3 2019 demonstrated that there are major changes coming for the gaming industry, some things remain the same, even if it’s just Devolver Digital taking the piss out of, well, the big-budget press conference. Indeed, latest conference was as fresh, joyous, and deranged as its predecessors. The future of video gaming might be uncertain, but there’s still plenty to look forward to and celebrate, and this is something the folks at Devolver Digital are committed to proving year after year, and with a humor that could stand to rub off on the industry at large.
E3 ran from June 11—13.
Review: Outer Wilds Is a Wondrous Maze of Infinite, Breathtaking Possibilities
This is a rare adventure game in which the journey is actually more of a reward than the destination.
Photo: Annapurna Interactive
Mobius Digital’s Outer Wilds begins and ends with a quietly spectacular explosion. As a result of this open-world space exploration game’s time-looping mechanic, one of those explosions is the first thing you’ll see every time you reawaken, but it’s so far off in the distance—just a brief flash of rippling orange in outer space that’s overshadowed by the surface of a massive green planetoid—that it might take a few cycles before you actually notice it. And even then, its significance won’t become apparent until you’ve blasted off from your home planet and flown yourself out there to get a better look at the blast.
The understated appeal of the smartly designed Outer Wilds stems from its abundance of deliberate details scattered across its worlds, ever-nudging you toward understanding how various scientific phenomenon operate. This is a game so beautiful that you might spend hours taking in the sights before you start focusing on its loose, nonlinear plot. Despite taking place in a comparatively small six-planet solar system, the game’s open-galaxy design feels full of infinite possibilities, each excursion as fresh and exciting as the last, even hours in.
Should you survive for a consecutive 22 minutes, you’ll come across that second explosion. You’ll hear a sonic boom and, if you’re facing the right way, see a universe-engulfing tide of crackling blue energy coming your way, resetting the time loop and providing a fairly substantial (though never obtrusive) endgame, one in which you must find a way to prevent your sun from going supernova. But think of the solar system’s terminal diagnosis as less of an ending than a chance at a fresh beginning: carte blanche to try just about anything.
Even if there’s only one real way to “beat” it, there’s no wrong way to play Outer Wilds, and no barriers in your way. You don’t have to fight any enemies or level up—a tacit acknowledgement on the game’s part that the galaxy’s destruction can’t be prevented through brute force, only through the fearless act of discovery. For one, you’ll fly through a tangle of tornadoes on Giant’s Deep that are periodically thrusting the planet’s islands into orbit, and on Brittle Hollow, you’ll follow a precarious trail of gravity crystals along the underside of the planet’s exposed equator. You also don’t need to collect any items. Everything you need is given to you at the game’s start: a radio-frequency scanner, a launchable probe that takes pictures and measures surface stability, an auto-translator for alien languages, and a spacesuit capable of rocket propulsion. How you choose to use these items to do your first-person exploration is entirely up to you, and that freedom is a large part of the game’s charm.
Early on, you’ll visit a museum that outlines the history of the Outer Wilds space program, with exhibits that call out some of the unexplained quantum phenomena and gravitational distortions that your fellow explorers have found. You’ll later encounter many of these same exhibits in the wild, on a much larger and dangerous scale, but as the museum suggests, the game’s overarching theme isn’t just about encountering these things or exploring the many eye-catching, heart-stopping wonders of Outer Wilds, but appreciating how they work. You’re going to be eaten by a giant anglerfish, smashed by a rotating column of ash, engulfed by the sun, buffeted by heavy gravity, thrown through a black hole, electrocuted by a jellyfish. But you’ll also study the skeletal remains of that fish or the frozen corpse of a jellyfish and realize how to utilize them. You’ll marvel at what first seems like magic, and then you’ll pull up Clarke’s third law and exploit the technology or quantum physics behind it.
The game’s time loop allows players to harmlessly test lethal hypotheses, such as what might happen if you use a geyser to propel yourself to new heights, or mix two forms of warp cores in the High Energy Lab located on Ember Twin. Throughout, your ship’s log tracks the overarching goals via a digital corkboard web of rumors—concerning gravity cannons, missing escape pods, your fellow explorers, and the mysterious Quantum Moon—but it doesn’t explicitly ask you to pursue any of those leads. In fact, Outer Wilds never even warns you that your sun is about to go supernova or suggests that you find a way to stop it.
Repetition is often the bane of time-looping games, and this is where Outer Wilds benefits from its open galaxy setting. You can travel to anything you see, even if it’s not always apparent how to, say, land on a stray comet, or approach the tiny space station that orbits the sun without being pulled into a massive star. Moreover, each planet feels distinct: Your home world of Timber Hearth is a small region of geysers and massive oxygen-producing trees, which is a far cry from Giant’s Deep, a gas-giant-like planet made of fluid layers, and the dangerous Dark Bramble, what with its misty voids and treacherous anglerfish.
And these planets continue to change as time passes, which makes familiar locations feel new again, if visited later on in the game. Take, for instance, the two binary planets known collectively as the Hourglass Twins. As sand is gravitationally pulled from Ash Twin and deposited on Ember Twin, you’ll find that the latter planet’s caves fill, becoming inaccessible. By contrast, as Ash Twin is denuded of its sandy shell, entire towers are unearthed.
Elsewhere, as planets orbit closer to the sun, iced-over paths might melt open, revealing shortcuts through, say, deadly, invisible ghost matter. You might start out trying to access the Southern Observatory on Brittle Hollow, but along the way, you may discover the massive bridges leading to the Hanging City, get sidetracked by signage pointing to the Gravity Cannon, experiment with leaping between tractor beams that lead to a Quantum Tower, or simply stumble into the hollow planet’s black-hole core and end up teleported elsewhere. Or you might get struck by debris and die, resetting back to the game’s start.
Think, then, of Outer Wilds as a maze without dead ends, or like the Nomai language itself, which is depicted as a series of geometric spirals branching out from a fixed point. Each branch, no matter how small, offers up some sort of discovery, whether it’s just a breathtaking vista, a scientific model, a fossil, or a text log. The rare adventure game in which the journey is actually more of a reward than the destination, Outer Wilds delights in inviting you to spend a few minutes marveling at the sight of the galaxy as planets orbit balletically in and out of view. You’re not exploring a series of discrete worlds so much as you are engaging with one interconnected star system, constantly learning right up to your final expedition. That’s the brilliant hook that’ll keep you returning, loop after loop, not just for the chance to watch the dizzyingly beautiful (and angrily reddening) sun crest into view, but to better know why it does so. The real world is overwhelming and unmooring, but here, in 22-minute chunks, you can wrest back a sense of control and understanding of a momentous model galaxy.
Developer: Mobius Digital Publisher: Annapurna Interactive Platform: PC Release Date: March 30, 2019 ESRB: E Buy: Game
Review: Warhammer: Chaosbane Is a Hack-and-Slash Adventure Without Purpose
Even the few inventive stretches of the game are ultimately driven into the ground by a punishing sense of repetition.
Photo: Eko Software
The opening cinematic for Warhammer: Chaosbane sets the tone for the game that follows. The series of crudely animated storyboard sketches describe a rather generic massive-scale war that’s just been concluded against the forces of Chaos and how your chosen protagonist bravely helped Commander Magnus to victory. What follows isn’t a hack-and-slash dungeon-crawler so much as a hack-and-slack time-killer, one that pales in comparison to the game that Chaosbane fruitlessly emulates: Diablo.
Chaosbane’s squandered potential is most evident in how the game mishandles its four selectable characters. Elessa, a wood-elf archer, is meant to use poisons and traps to keep enemies at bay, but those skills are never needed, as the game’s witless AI hordes are only too happy to serve as stationary targets for her arrows. The dwarven Bragi Axebiter uses a chain axe to grapple into foes, since his rage-based mechanic relies upon constantly hitting things, so it’s odd that many dungeons are filled with long, empty corridors that drain his rage meter. Konrad Vollen, a shield-bearing soldier gains extra strength when taunting or being swarmed by enemies, and yet outside of the co-op campaign, he seems rather listless, his status-boosting AOE banners largely going to waste. And then there’s the high-elf mage Elontir, who’s impossibly complicated to handle in the solo campaign. Indeed, the joy of finely controlling his spells is lost in the hectic rush of constantly teleporting away from foes.
The first few dungeons showcase Bigben Interactive’s latest at its best, as they at least offer the illusion of depth and variety. You’ll move from the green-hued sewers beneath Nuln to the ramparts above, and then through the grim, gray-hewn streets of the ravaged fortress city, all the while learning exciting new moves. (Never mind that the characters seem to have inexplicably forgotten all their heroic skills from that introductory cutscene.) But should you decide you don’t like Bragi’s fast-paced dual-wielding axes and want to shift to Konrad’s slower, more methodical sword-and-shield bashing, you’ll have to begin a whole new campaign, and it’s here that the game’s non-randomized levels come dully into view.
Even if you never restart and choose to stick with a single character, the rewards are quickly diminishing. You’ll revisit slightly different areas of Nuln’s sewers and streets throughout the first chapter, fighting, for the most part, the same types of monsters: some sort of swarmer, some sort of tank, a ranged unit, and perhaps a mounted creature. Your hero, limited to a single weapon type, only ever minimally upgrades his or her loot, and of those 14 active abilities and countless passives to equip, only a few builds seem viable or interesting.
The game’s main campaign is relentlessly repetitious. Dungeons are straightforward affairs, mostly linear corridors that are occasionally pockmarked with a treasure-filled cul de sac, though they offer no optional objectives or lore. There are no side quests, no interactions with townsfolk, not even a shop. There are only five or six NPCs, all of whom give the same fetch-quest variations, only with slightly different accents, and ultimately, whether they send you to the frosty trees of the Forest of Knives or the floating stone bridges of the Chaos Realm, the result is always exactly the same. While Chaosbane abounds in colorful background details—toothy red maws pressing out of the earth, tentacles flailing far beneath you—the game would have been better served by bringing more hazards to the actual forefront, so as to break up the monotony of just how easy it is to vanquish your enemies.
Even the few inventive stretches of the game are ultimately driven into the ground by that sense of repetition. Chaosbane’s four bosses are its strongest feature, given that they possess unique mechanics that you must learn to strategically overcome, from dodging a bullet-hell attack to baiting a laser away from the pillars that you’ll later need as cover. But replaying these encounters in Boss Rush mode quickly blunts the excitement of learning boss patterns, making these encounters as rote as any other enemy in the game. Increasing the difficulty simply allows enemies to hit harder and absorb more damage, which makes the game longer, not harder, and the post-game Relic Hunt mode’s random enemy modifiers do little to change this. To put it lightly, it’s a case in which nothing is adventured, and nothing is gained.
This game was reviewed using a download code provided by HomeRun PR.
Developer: Bigben Interactive Publisher: Eko Software Platform: PlayStation 4 Release Date: June 4, 2019 ESRB: M ESRB Descriptions: Blood and Gore, Violence Buy: Game
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In the whole population of Dumfries and Galloway, 0.6% of people are known to have autism. The prevalence of autism in the 0-15 age group is 2.2%. This reflects availability of diagnostic services for autism, which have improved considerably over the last two decades.
953 people are known to have autism; that's 0.6% of people
222 females and 731 males are known to have autism
33.4% of people known to have autism live in social rented accommodation, compared with 18.1% of all people
of people known to have autism in Dumfries and Galloway were born in the UK
of people known to have autism in Dumfries and Galloway speak only English at home
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Federal Judge Hears Arguments For Permanent Injunction Against NDAA Indefinite Detention
Sparrow in free speech, news
[NEW YORK, NY] Today at 2pm at 500 Pearl St. in Manhattan Judge Katherine Forrest will hear arguments by plaintiffs and the government relative to an effort to block the government from using new “indefinite detention” powers.
The lawsuit, brought by journalist Chris Hedges, Professor Noam Chomsky, activist Daniel Ellsberg (leaker of the Pentagon Papers) and others argues that the government’s assertion of the right to detain civilians indefinitely and without charge or trial violates the Constitution. The provision in question was passed in late 2011 as part of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Judge Forrest —a recent Obama appointee— has concurred with the plaintiffs and earlier this year issued a temporary restraining order against the government’s use of the indefinite detention powers. Today she will hear arguments for and against issuing a permanent order. The hearing is expected to last 3-4 hours. Attorneys for the plaintiffs, and lead plaintiff Chris Hedges will speak to the press afterwards.
For more information, and to sign on as a supporter of the lawsuit, Internet users may visit www.StopNDAA.org
Civil liberties organizations Demand Progress and Revolution Truth have provided grassroots and monetary support for the lawsuit. According to Demand Progress executive director David Segal, “We are hopeful that Judge Forrest will make clear that the government’s assertion of indefinite detention powers is an obscene violation of basic tenets of our Constitution; she deserves the acclaim of all Americans for protecting our rights to speech, association, and due process by placing a rare check on executive power run amok.”
Written by Sparrow in free speech, news on Aug 07, 2012
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In Solidarity With Mexican Protestors, Activists Take Direct Action Against Communications Magnate Carlos Slim & Saks Fifth Avenue
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Arsenal vs. Southampton: 3 things we learned from Gunners’ 2-0 win
Drew Farmer
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Arsenal cruised to victory over relegation-threatened Southampton on Sunday, 2-0. The win puts the Gunners one point ahead of top four rivals Manchester United and three points above Chelsea. Manager Unai Emery’s team has been playing well in the league collecting four wins from its last five.
With 11 games to play and a Champions League berth on the line, here is what we learned from Arsenal’s 2-0 win on Sunday.
Denis Suarez struggles
Denis Suarez hasn’t been the creative answer many Arsenal fans believed he would be. Fortunately, Henrikh Mkhitaryan is fit and in-form.
Suarez joined from Barcelona on loan with expectations he would provide an upgrade in the attack. Yet Suarez has played just twice in the Premier League recording no goals or assists.
The Spaniard has managed just 38 total minutes in the Premier League.
Suarez had played just eight times for Barcelona before arriving at the Emirates managing two goals and an assist in the Copa del Rey.
He hasn’t been the player many expected him to be and is being kept out of the side by Alex Iwobi and Mesut Ozil. Suarez was an unused sub on Sunday.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan star shines
Mkhitaryan’s performance against Southampton once again showed how well Arsenal’s swap of Alexis Sanchez for the Armenian was.
The midfielder scored a goal and added an assist while Sanchez came off the bench in another disappointing performance for Manchester United.
Mkhitaryan has tallied five goals and two assists in 16 league games compared to Sanchez’s one goal and three assists in 15 games. But unlike Sanchez, Mkhitaryan makes his team better rather than being a weak link on the pitch.
The Armenian’s form will make it difficult for Ozil to get back into the starting XI next week.
Gunners defence a work in progress
Arsenal’s clean sheet was just their fifth all season. Last term, Arsenal allowed 51 goals. This year, they have conceded 37 with 11 games to go.
Despite Bernd Leno arriving and taking over for the ageing Petr Cech, more defensive upgrades are needed at the Emirates.
Their clean sheet against Southampton was a positive but games against Tottenham, Manchester United, Watford, and Wolverhampton Wanderers will once again put the back four to the test.
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Major League Baseball and MLB Advanced Media Complete $1.58 Billion Sale of Majority Ownership Interest in BAMTech to The Walt Disney Company
S&C represents Major League Baseball and MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) in connection with the sale of a majority ownership interest in MLBAM's subsidiary, BAMTech, LLC, to The Walt Disney Company for $1.58 billion.
The S&C team on the transaction was led by Ivan Deutsch, along with Pavan Surapaneni, Carlo Zenkner and Kristin Rulison. David Spitzer, Isaac Wheeler and Max O'Neill advised on tax matters; Jeannette Braun and Joshua Green advised on executive compensation and benefits matters; Mehdi Ansari advised on intellectual property matters; and Juan Rodriguez, Eric Queen and Frederic Robles advised on antitrust and regulatory matters.
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Travel: Lovely Ludlow is poetry in motion
by Steve Finan
May 5, 2018, 12:02 am Updated: January 3, 2019, 4:47 pm
Church Street from Castle Square, Ludlow (MH Country / Alamy Stock Photo)
WHEN William Blake penned the immortal line “In England’s green and pleasant land” (that would later become the famed hymn Jerusalem) he may just had Shropshire in mind.
Now Shropshire isn’t the most famous county in England, or the largest, or the centre of important affairs, but it is very green and extremely pleasant.
The countryside consists of low hills, with pastures separated by ancient woods, lichen-bespeckled stone walls, beautiful old stone buildings and winding roads.
It sits on the border with Wales and is often dismissed with the uninspiring label “West Midlands”, which robs this romantic and historical county of some of its dignified majesty.
It’s the perfect place for a getaway. And the most getaway-worthy town in the county has to be Ludlow.
Just to keep the poetry references coming, no less than former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman described it as “probably the loveliest town in England”.
You might say this 11,000-population market town was sleepy, or old-fashioned.
Old historic streets of Ludlow (Getty Images/iStock)
Both descriptions should be regarded as compliments, but aren’t completely true.
Ludlow is hardly Metropolis but is a thriving, interesting little town that is proud of its history.
So proud is it of its looks and traditions that it conducted a long-running battle with supermarket giants Tesco, who were eventually only allowed to open a superstore if its design complemented the architecture of the surrounding buildings.
Ludlow is known for its antique shops and small art dealers.
A walk through the town, among the Elizabethan buildings and market squares, is a delight.
The town whispers to you of genteel living from those comfortable old buildings’ nooks and crannies. It smells of cream buns and strawberries.
It is lovely. The streets are narrow, some of the black-and-white old buildings alarmingly overhang the street, but it feels like a nice place.
It has pavement seating outside many of its pubs and cafes and, very importantly, it seems to like visitors.
Our Scottish accents were greeted with smiles and a wish to chat.
It is a friendly town that has become used to tourists and the locals seemed pleased to see us.
The overwhelming memory I’ll take from Ludlow is that people smile at you and it was charming, enough in itself to make me want to return.
We stayed at Fishmore Hall, a privately-owned boutique hotel and spa few hundred yards outside town.
It has a deserved reputation for elegance and a relaxed atmosphere.
There are three reasons for this. The first is that it is well-put-together, pristine without being posh, scrupulously clean and a model country hotel.
The second reason is the spa. I’m not usually one for spas, I’m a bit wary of hot stones, unheard-of unguents and being thrashed with birch twigs or whatever some of the more “out-there”treatments are these days. I have a fear that some Swedish Valkyrie will utter the most feared words a podgy man can hear: “ice bath”.
But the facilities at Fishmore Hall were more of the hot-tub, hammock and soothing hands variety.
I loved it and the fact that I fell asleep on the massage table should be seen as a tribute to the skills of the masseuse.
The best bit (remember that word “podgy”?) was the restaurant. It was out of this world.
Fishmore Hall has an ambitious, inventive head chef named Joe, who will do all he can to make you feel welcome.
He introduced us to the term “amuse-bouche” which turned out to be a few delicate delicacies intended to engage your appetite.
A view over the town of Ludlow in Shropshire (Getty Images/iStock)
They aren’t appetisers, they are inventions of chefs to simply show off their talents and demonstrate their approach to cuisine.
I think this is a truly wonderful idea and I have suggested the introduction of amuse-bouches to my local chippy, although with a lukewarm response.
The food is spectacular. It is like being a judge on an episode in the final of MasterChef. It’s one of those restaurants that you’d want to boast about visiting.
On chatting to the other guests, it seemed Fishmore Hall is a favourite venue for girls (of all vintages) enjoying away days, but also famed around Shropshire as a great place to eat.
And it deserves that. Shropshire doesn’t seem to be talked of enough when UK breaks are discussed.
It is a wonderful county and well worth a visit.
Fishmore Hall one-night stays (with full English breakfast) start at £175, dinner and spa treatments extra.
See the website at fishmorehall.co.uk or call 01584 875148.
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Nicolson Notes
Published: 07:35 Sunday 21 February 2016
The weekly round up of news from the Nicolson Institute.
Despite the best efforts of various storms, which closed the school for two days this month, all prelim examinations have taken place.
Pupils in S4, S5 and S6 will shortly receive a post-prelim report, identifying where they should concentrate their efforts before the SQA examinations in May.
The exam timetable is now available on the SQA website.
Many pupils will also be undertaking important assessments this term as part of their SQA examinations.
These include music performances and French and Gaelic speaking tests for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher.
For senior pupils sitting National 5 and Higher English, folio essays must be submitted using the SQA folio template.
To access these from home, visit: {http://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/47904.html under ‘Submitting Coursework’|website}
Parents’ evening for S2 pupils is an opportunity for parents to meet with pupils’ subject teachers.
Choice forms for personalisation in S3 have been issued to pupils.
To help with these important decisions, the school is holding a Careers Focus Day on Monday, February 22.
Pupils will listen to outside specialists and subject teachers talk about the opportunities available to them in the future.
In addition, on Tuesday, March 1, there will be a meeting for parents regarding personalisation in S3.
As well as senior staff, representatives from SDS (Skills Development Scotland) and LCC (Lewis Castle College) UHI will also be attending. S3 exams will start on Tuesday, February 23 until Monday, February 29.
Goalkeeping club
Since late October there has been a goalkeeper club in the school.
A group of up to 12 goalkeepers meet every Wednesday after school.
The club is open to all S1-S3 pupils who want to learn more about the position and develop their technique.
Anyone interested should speak to Mr Lamont in the PE Department.
French taster trip
The Modern Languages department is proposing to take a party of 30 pupils to Glasgow in May for a French Taster Experience.
Pupils will have the opportunity to sample a meal at a French restaurant, served by French-speaking waiters, spend the afternoon at the Alliance Française, participating in various activities, and watch a French film in the evening.
Could any pupil in S2 or S3 who is interested in the trip, please see any of the Modern Languages teachers for further information.
Colin MacLean
The late Colin MacLean, who passed away earlier this month at the age of 56, taught English at Shawbost Secondary School for 18 years until its closure in June 2013.
He then transferred to the English Department of The Nicolson Institute where he remained until his early retirement last summer.
Colin’s former pupils, of whom there were many at both services, held him in high regard and spoke of him with great affection.
Sympathy is extended to his son, also Colin, and the wider family.
Pictured are some of the pupils who currently take part in the Goalkeeping Club.
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Japanese court tells Google to stop autocomplete function
Apr 16, 2013, 2:38 pm SGT
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TOKYO (AFP) - A court in Japan has told Google it must de-link words in its autocomplete function to prevent the search engine suggesting criminal acts when users type one man's name.
The Monday ruling by Tokyo District Court was the first time a court in Japan has ordered the search giant to alter this aspect of its algorithm, said Mr Hiroyuki Tomita, a lawyer representing the plaintiff.
The court also ordered the US-based company to pay 300,000 yen (S$3,809) for the mental anguish experienced by the man, whose identity has been withheld.
The plaintiff claimed that when users begin typing his name, the search engine automatically suggests what they might be looking for.
Clicking through these results takes users to websites that defame the unidentified man, his case said.
Because Google's search functions are not based in Japan, the Japanese court cannot compel it to make the change.
Google told local media that it was studying the ruling.
Last year, the same court approved a petition by the same man to have his name delinked from autocomplete suggestions, and issued a temporary injunction, which Google did not follow.
This week's ruling is permanent - although it can be appealed - and is attached to a defamation case that attracts damages.
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Banks vying for largest-ever HDB bond issue
Banks are bidding for the largest issue yet from HDB, totalling up to S$1.6 billion.ST PHOTO: STEPHANIE YEOW
Jan 15, 2016, 10:50 am SGT
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SINGAPORE - Banks are bidding for the largest issue yet from Housing & Development Board, totalling up to S$1.6 billion, IFR reported on Friday (Jan 15).
The Singapore statutory board has asked banks for proposals to sell a seven-year bond for a target size of S$1 billion and a S$600 million greenshoe, said IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication.
If it does achieves the maximum deal size, it will beat its largest single issue, when it sold a S$1.5 billion 1.875 per cent four-year issue in November 2013, IFR said.
Bids are due to be submitted on Monday (Jan 18), it added.
HDB obtained its first rating in October when Moody's scored it Aaa, the top rating, increasing its appeal to the asset liability management desks of banks.
The rated HDB notes will now have a zero risk-weighting and qualify as Level 1 high-quality liquid assets under the Monetary Authority of Singapore's rules on liquidity coverage ratios, said IFR. Previously, the unrated notes qualified as a Level 2 HQLA and were subject to a 15 per cent haircut under LCR rules, it added.
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Change File and Folder Attributes With Attribute Changer
Last updated by rhiannon on 08. August 2018 - 17:22
Was the time zone or date wrong on your camera on your vacation photos? Need to change the name of a drive, the time or date stamp on a bunch of files or folders? Was a file moved to a different location and the date and time changed? Need to synchronize the attributes of files or folders? Have a file or folder you want to protect from changes by write protecting it? Do all that and more with this useful file management tool for Windows.
Attribute Changer lets you change and modify files and folders on your computer. Easily change the file attribute of any file, folder or drive from within Windows File Explorer. With a right click, you can change the attributes of drives, folders, and individual files (hidden, compressed, read-only, EXIF, archive, system, etc.), the date and time stamps on photos and files of all types (PDF, MP3, html, .doc, text, mobi, png, jpg, exe, system and more) one at a time or in a batch.
If you like to fiddle with attributes, the program has filters, reports and settings to work with, and the simulation mode lets you view changes before making them permanent. The program has a PDF user manual with tutorials.
This program can make changes to system files, so be careful changing system and hidden attributes - they are used by Windows to flag special folders.
Attribute Changer runs on Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP with 32 and 64 bit versions. At 4.57 MB, it's a small program that integrates nicely into the Explorer context menu. VirusTotal rates it 1/67, with the 1 more than likely a false positive. WOT says the site is safe. I've used it for 5 months with no issues.
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Submitted by gizmofan1248 on 9. August 2018 - 14:08
Thanks! Useful utility. It works for me for most attributes (Windows 10). Strangely, some refused to be changed. Some could only be reverted to the original state when using "Use saved".
PS. Sorry, I could change all attributes. But for some of them you have to click several times in the tick box. First time a small black square appears (means no change - just as a blank white box), next time a tick (V) appears - then it changes attribute there.
Submitted by rhiannon on 9. August 2018 - 16:20
You're welcome. I've run across some system files where the box was grayed out for certain attributes.
Submitted by crosseyedlemon on 8. August 2018 - 20:36
Looks like a useful utility but I'm wondering if the attribute changes made with the program remain unaffected if a system restore has to be implemented.
Good question. I don't know the answer to that.
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WestJet profit up as concerns linger over 737 Max grounding and Swoop
Rivalries have spawned a predatory pricing investigation into WestJet and Swoop by Canada’s watchdog
WestJet Airlines Ltd. topped expectations in its latest quarter, but chief executive Ed Sims said Tuesday the airline continues to face challenges from the grounding of its Boeing 737 Max aircraft and lagging demand at its discount subsidiary.
“For the last 18 days of March, our absolute revenue was adversely impacted, as we spent considerable effort re-accommodating thousands of disrupted guests,” Sims said, referring to impact of the grounding of the 737 Max aircraft.
READ MORE: Federal Court orders second WestJet employee to testify in competition probe
The grounding weighed on the company’s revenue in the first quarter, which rose 5.5 per cent year over year to $1.26 billion — slightly lower than analysts expected.
Sims said the impact on its second quarter looks harsher, with passenger capacity reduced by up to three per cent from April through June.
WestJet’s 13 Max 8s — about 10 per cent of its total seat capacity — remain grounded after regulatory authorities across globe closed their skies to the aircraft following a second fatal crash in March that Boeing has since linked to a malfunctioning safety alert.
While Air Canada has extended leases on a half-dozen narrow-body jetliners alongside long-term leases for six Airbus A321 jets picked up from Iceland’s WOW Air — which went defunct less than three weeks after the March 10 crash — WestJet has extended just one lease — on a Boeing 737-700 jetliner — relying on its existing fleet.
“Certainly, I have not seen any kind of rationale that would justify the costs of short-term leases,” Sims said, adding that he has “a clear line of sight” to the Boeing software updates that are expected to precipitate a lift on the flight ban.
Meanwhile Swoop, WestJet’s discount brand, continued to struggle in the shoulder season, said chief financial officer Harry Taylor.
“Swoop was weaker than we expected and would have liked,” he said. “Awareness is so low. It hasn’t even had its first birthday yet.”
Competition among budget carriers is intensifying, with Swoop recently launching routes to Mexican and Caribbean hot spots to battle for customers with Transat A.T. — now in talks to sell the company — Air Canada and Sunwing Airlines.
Capacity among Canadian airlines for Mexican and Caribbean sun destinations jumped about eight per cent this winter, according to Transat. That includes a 16 per cent leap by Air Canada — which has put more pressure on the sun market since Rouge entered the airspace in 2012 — and a 14 per cent increase by WestJet — excluding the additional routes from Swoop.
The rivalries have spawned a predatory pricing investigation into WestJet and Swoop by Canada’s competition watchdog, following a complaint from Flair Airlines.
Taylor said the ultra-low-cost Swoop, which launched last June, is now listed on travel fare search engines such as Skyscanner and Google Flights, prompting an uptick in bookings. The company is also negotiating agreements with large online travel agencies, including Expedia, he said.
“We are not giving up or worried about it,” Taylor said.
Swoop’s woes were the “primary driver” behind low revenue per available seat mile (RASM), a key performance measure, Sims said on a conference call with investors ahead of the airline’s annual meeting in Calgary.
Analyst Doug Taylor of Canaccord Genuity called the results “mixed,” pointing to solid profits but “slightly disappointing” RASM. The metric grew just 0.2 per cent last quarter versus the 4.5 per cent RASM growth that Air Canada posted in quarterly results Monday.
Swoop’s RASM is expected to pick up in the second half of the year, analysts said.
On Tuesday, WestJet announced that it and regional offshoot WestJet Encore had each reached tentative agreements with the Canadian Airline Dispatchers Association.
WestJet topped expectations as it reported its first-quarter profit climbed more than 30 per cent compared with a year ago.
The Calgary-based company said it earned $45.6 million or 40 cents per diluted share for the quarter ended March 31, compared with a profit of $34.2 million or 30 cents per diluted share a year ago.
Analysts on average had expected a profit of 34 cents per share and revenue of $1.28 billion, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.
The increased earnings came as WestJet saw both its capacity, measured by available seat miles, and its traffic, measured by revenue passenger miles, climb by 5.3 per cent compared with a year ago.
The airline’s load factor, a measure of how full its aircraft were, held steady at 84.8 per cent in the quarter.
Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press
Don’t stop the presses: Report finds Canadian newspaper readership at all-time high
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Axumin® (fluciclovine (18F)) receives positive recommendation from Transparency Committee of the French HAS, for use in PET imaging of suspected recurrent prostate cancer
Published 02 Oct 2018
Blue Earth Diagnostics, a leading molecular imaging diagnostics company, today announced that the Transparency Committee of the French Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS) has recommended that Axumin® (fluciclovine (18F)) is included on the list of medicines approved in France for hospital use, in line with its European indication.
Axumin is a novel molecular imaging agent approved in the European Union for use in PET imaging to detect and localize prostate cancer in men experiencing suspected recurrence based on elevated blood prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels after primary curative treatment. The positive recommendation marks a further milestone in the roll-out of Axumin across Europe, following receipt of Marketing Authorisation from the European Commission in May 22, 2017.
Axumin is the first and only PET imaging agent approved by the European Commission for use in men with suspected recurrent prostate cancer in all European Union member states as well as in Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Blue Earth Diagnostics is working to build a network of authorized and approved manufacturing locations across Europe. The company now has six European manufacturing and distribution agreements for Axumin in place, covering seventeen countries. Axumin is already commercially available in Norway, the Czech Republic, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Austria with further European countries set to follow soon.
Jonathan Allis, Chief Executive Officer of Blue Earth Diagnostics said, “We’re delighted to announce another significant step towards our mission of making Axumin commercially available to clinicians and their patients across Europe. Detection and localization of recurrent prostate cancer is a significant unmet medical need, and Blue Earth Diagnostics is committed to maximizing access to Axumin across Europe.”
About Blue Earth Diagnostics
Blue Earth Diagnostics is a leading molecular imaging diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialization of novel PET imaging agents to inform clinical management and guide care for cancer patients in areas of unmet medical need. Formed in 2014, Blue Earth Diagnostics is led by recognized experts in the clinical development and commercialization of innovative nuclear medicine products. The company’s first approved and commercially available product is Axumin® (fluciclovine F 18), a novel molecular imaging agent approved in the United States and European Union for use in PET imaging to detect and localize prostate cancer in men with a diagnosis of biochemical recurrence. The company’s pipeline includes Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA)-targeted radiohybrid (“rh”) agents. rhPSMA is a clinical-stage, investigational class of theranostic compounds, with potential applications in both the imaging and treatment of prostate cancer. Blue Earth Diagnostics is backed by Syncona, an investment company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: SYNC). For more information, visit: www.blueearthdiagnostics.com.
This press release is intended to provide information about Blue Earth Diagnostics’ business in Europe. The approval status and product label for Axumin varies by country worldwide. Refer to the individual country product label at www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/medicines/human/medicines/004197/human_med_002100.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058001d124 for complete information or contact Blue Earth Diagnostics.
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Annual Day of Giving: Thank You Taft Community!
Taft alumni, current and former parents, grandparents, and friends from across the globe—as near as Watertown and as far away as New Zealand, China, and Turkey— helped to make this year's Day of Giving the most successful one yet.
"We were hoping to exceed last year's total of 530 individual donors," said Annual Fund Director Kelsey Kerr P '07. "It is a testament to the strength of the Taft community that we went well beyond our goal, logging gifts from 764 individual donors. Those gifts represent commitments from every constituent category, from alumni and current parents, to grandparents, former parents, and friends."
Kerr credits Taft's alumni, current parent, and student telethon volunteers for much of the increase in Day of Giving support. Nine current student volunteers made 573 calls to alumni over the course of two hours. Their calls generated a total of 166 Day of Giving gifts and pledges totaling $46,356.
"Student participation means a lot, and gives alumni the opportunity to experience the energy and vibrancy that are hallmarks of campus life today," said Kerr.
Taft raised a total of $822,017 during this year's initiative. Taft's current parents contributed $246,006 of the overall total.
"It was really an impressive number that represents the extraordinary generosity of Taft families," noted Parents' Fund Director Amy Gorman P'12,'14. "Our current parents are consistently supportive of the work we do, which directly benefits their children in every aspect of their lives at Taft."
Alumni engaged in friendly competition, with classes competing by decade to earn seat plaques in Bingham Auditorium. The overall winning class of all alumni was the Class of 1991 with 52 members, or 41% of the class, showing their school spirit on this important day.
The class winners were:
Of course, the biggest winners are the students who benefit from the loyal support of the Taft community.
2019-20 Theater Season Announced
Academic Excellence Celebrated at Awards Ceremony
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Senior Curriculum Officer, English - 00003YQY
Date 2015-10-08 11:10:35 Location : Oceania
For More Information About This Job or To Apply, Please Click Here
The Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards (‘BOSTES’) is a statutory authority responsible for the curriculum, assessment, teacher accreditation and regulatory standards in NSW schools (Kindergarten to Year 12). The BOSTES is also responsible for developing policies and initiatives for evaluating and improving student learning performance across all schools and school sectors. The BOSTES was established on 1 January 2014 following the merger of the Board of Studies NSW and the NSW Institute of Teachers.
We are looking for a Senior Curriculum Officer, English who will be responsible for providing curriculum and assessment advice in the English learning area, and across the curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 12. Responsible for the development of English Years 11–12 syllabuses and materials to support implementation in accordance with BOSTES syllabus development processes.
To be successful in this role you must possess the following essential requirements:
* Tertiary teaching qualifications in English.
* Outstanding recent experience in implementing NSW English curriculum for Years 11-12, including the Extension courses, in government or non-government schools.
How to apply. Your application should include a covering letter (maximum of two pages) briefly responding to the focus capabilities and essential requirements detailed above, a resume including 2 referees and their contact details (no more than 5 pages) and your response to the targeted questions listed below.
Targeted questions Please answer the following questions with concrete examples and in no more than 300 words per question. Briefly describe the context of the situation(s), the actions that you took, the outcome of your efforts and what you learned from the experience.
Q1: Outline an example of how you have managed, reported on and evaluated a project involving stakeholder engagement? What processes did you implement to meet milestones and timelines? How did you work collaboratively with others to deliver the project? What strategies did you implement to ensure the success of the project? What would you do differently next time?
Q2: Describe a recent situation where it was important for you to identify, understand and consider the needs and perspectives of others. How did this influence the outcome of the situation? What strategies did you use to consider and address different perspectives and communicate with those involved? What was the outcome? What did you learn from the experience?
In addition, applicants progressed to interview will be required to undertake 1 or 2 relevant on-line assessments.
Under new employment legislation all current and new Public Service non-executive employees are employed at a classification level and assigned to a role rather than appointed to a position. Employees may be re-assigned to other roles at the same classification over time, in line with organisation priorities and/or personal development plans.
Temporary employments/secondment under sections 43 and 64 of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 for a period of up to 2 years.
Consistent with the entitlements of public sector applicants, BOSTES is prepared to negotiate bilateral agreements with current employers of successful non-government school applicants to facilitate right of return and recognition of service while employed by the BOSTES.
Closing Date: 21 October 2015
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Home Cyber How to Track Your Kids (and Other People’s Kids) With the TicTocTrack...
How to Track Your Kids (and Other People’s Kids) With the TicTocTrack Watch
Troy Hunt
Do you ever hear those stories from your parents along the lines of “when I was young…” and then there’s a tale of how risky life was back then compared to today. You know, stuff like having to walk themselves to school without adult supervision, crazy stuff like that which we somehow seem to worry much more about today than what we did then. Never mind that far less kids go missing today than 20 years ago and there’s much less chance of them being hit by a car, circumstances are such today that parents are more paranoid than ever.
The solution? Track your kids’ movements, which brings us to TicTocTrack and the best way to understand their value proposition is via this news piece from a few years ago:
Irrespective of what I now know about the product and what you’re about to read here, this sets off alarm bells for me. I’ve been involved with a bunch of really poorly implemented “Internet of Things” things in the past that presented serious privacy risks to those who used them. For example, there was VTech back in 2015 who leaked millions of kids’ info after they registered with “smart” tablets. Then there was CloudPets leaking kids voices because the “smart” teddy bears that recorded them (yep, that’s right) then stored those recordings in a publicly facing database with no password. Not to mention the various spyware apps often installed on kids’ phones to track them which then subsequently leak their data all over the internet. mSpy leaked data. SpyFone leaked data. Mobiispy leaked data. And that’s just a small slice of them.
And then there’s kids’ smart watches themselves. A couple of years back, the Norwegian Consumer Council discovered a whole raft of security flaws in a number of them which covered products from Gator, GPS for barn and Xplora:
These flaws included the ability for “a stranger [to] take control of the watch and track, eavesdrop on and communicate with the child” and “make it look like the child is somewhere it is not”. These issues (among others), led the council’s Director of Digital Policy to conclude that:
These watches have no place on a shop’s shelf, let alone on a child’s wrist.
Referencing that report, US Consumer groups drew a similar conclusion:
US consumer groups are now warning parents not to buy the devices
The manufacturers fixed the identified flaws… kind of. Two months later, critical security flaws still remained in some of the watches tested, the most egregious of which was with Gator’s product:
Adding to the severity of the issues, Gator Norge gave the customers of the Gator2 watches a new Gator3 watch as compensation. The Gator3 watch turned out to have even more serious security flaws, storing parents and kids’ voice messages on an openly available webserver.
Around a similar time, Germany outright banned this class of watch. The by-line in that piece says it all:
German parents are being told to destroy smartwatches they have bought for their children after the country’s telecoms regulator put a blanket ban in place to prevent sale of the devices, amid growing privacy concerns.
Wow – destroy them! The story goes on to refer to the German Federal Network Agency’s rationale which includes the fact that “parents can use such children’s watches to listen unnoticed to the child’s environment”. This is a really important “feature” to understand: these devices aren’t just about tracking the kids whereabouts, they’re also designed to listen to their surroundings… including their voices. Now on the one hand you might say “well, parents have a right to do that”. Maybe so, maybe not, you’ll hear vehement arguments on that both ways. But what if a stranger had that ability – how would you feel about that? We’ll come back to that later.
Around a year later, Pen Test Partners in the UK found more security bugs. Really bad ones:
Guess what: a train wreck. Anyone could access the entire database, including real time child location, name, parents details etc.
This wasn’t just bad in terms of the nature of the exposed data, it was also bad in terms of the ease with which it was accessed:
User[Grade] stands out in there. I changed the value to 2 and nothing happened, BUT change it to 0 and you get platform admin.
So change a number in the request and you become God. This is something which is easily discovered in minutes either by a legitimate tester within the organisation building the software (which obviously didn’t happen) or… by someone with malicious intent. The Pen Test Partners piece concludes:
We keep seeing issues on cheap Chinese GPS watches, ranging from simple Insecure Direct Object Request (IDOR), to this even simpler full platform take over with a simple request parameter change.
Keep that exploit in mind – insecure direct object references are as simple as taking a URL like this:
example.com/get-kids-location?kid-id=27
And changing it to this:
The level of sophistication required to exploit an IDOR vulnerability boils down to being able to count. That was in January this year, fast forward a few months and Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners contacts me. He’s found more serious vulnerabilities with the services these devices use and in particular, with TicTocTrack’s product. He believes the same insecure direct object reference issues are plaguing the Aussie service and they needs someone on the ground here to help establish the legitimacy of the findings.
To test Pen Test Partners’ theory, I decided to play your typical parent in terms of the buying and setup process and use my 6-year old daughter, Elle, as the typical child. She’s smack bang in the demographic of who the watch is designed for and I was happy to give Ken access to her movements for the purposes of his research. So it’s off to tictoctrack.com.au where the site leans on its Aussie origins:
I can understand why companies emphasise the “we host your data near you” mantra, but in practical terms it makes no difference whether it’s in Australia or, say, the US. You’re also often talking about services that are written and / or managed by offshore companies anyway so where the data physically sits really is inconsequential (note: this is assuming no regulatory obligations around co-locating data in the country of origin). The “we take the security of your data seriously” bit, however, always worries me and as you’ll see shortly, that concern is warranted.
The Aussie angle comes up again further down the page too:
At this point it’s probably worthwhile pointing out that despite the Aussieness asserted on the front page, the origin of the watch isn’t exactly very Australian. In fact, the watch should be rather familiar by now:
So for all the talk of TicTocTrack, the hardware itself is actually Gator. In fact, you can see exactly the same devices over on the Gator website:
It’s not clear how they arrived at the conclusion of “the world’s most reputable GPS watch for kids and elders”, especially given the earlier findings. And who is Gator? They’re a Chinese company located in Shenzhen:
The country of origin would be largely inconsequential were it not for TicTocTrack’s insistence on playing the Aussie card earlier on. It’s also relevant in light of the embedded media piece at the start of this blog post: this isn’t “a new device developed by a Brisbane mother” nor is the mother “the creator of the watch”. In fairness to Karen Cantwell, it wasn’t her making those claims in the story and the media does have a way of spinning things, but it’s important to be clear about this given how this story unfolds from here.
Regardless, let’s proceed and actually buy the thing. I get Elle involved and allow her to choose the colour, with rather predictable results:
The terms and conditions were actually pretty light (kudos for that!) but the link to the privacy and security policies was dead. I go through the checkout process and buy the watch:
iStaySafe Pty Ltd is the parent company and we’ll see that name pop up again later on. An email promptly arrives with a receipt and a notice about the order being processed, albeit without a delivery time frame mentioned. With time to kill, I decide to poke around and take a look at how the tracking works, starting with the link below:
Turns out the tracking app is a totally different website running on a totally different hosting provider in a totally different state:
The primary site is down in Melbourne whilst the tracking site is in Brisbane per the info on the front page. My credentials from the primary site don’t work there and registering results in me needing to choose a reseller:
Here we see iStaySafe again, but it’s the other resellers (all Aussie companies) that help put the whole Gator situation in context. Uniting Agewell provides services to the elderly and when considering the nature of the Gator watch, it made me think back to a comment on the Chinese manufacturer’s website: “the world’s most reputable GPS watch for kids and elders”. Cellnet is a publicly listed company with a heap of different brands. Weareco produces uniforms. eHomeCare provides “smart care technology for healthy ageing” and their product page on the GPS tracking watch explains the relationship:
As it turns out, attempting to sign up just boots me back to the TicTocTrack website so I assume I just need to wait for the watch to arrive before going any further. Still, this has been a useful exercise to understand not just how the various entities relate to each other, but also because it shows that the scope of this issue isn’t just constrained to kids, it affects the elderly too.
A few days later, this lands in the mail:
I’m surprised by how chunky it is – this is a big unit! For context, here it is next to my series 4 Apple Watch (44mm – the big one):
I’m not exactly expecting Apple build quality here (and as you can see from the pic, it’s a long way from that), but this is a lot to put on a little kid’s wrist. You can see the access port for the physical SIM card (more on that later), as opposed to Apple’s eSIM implementation so it’s obviously going to consume a bunch of space when you’re building a physical caddy into the design to hold a chip on a card.
Regardless, let’s get on with the setup process and I’m going to be your average everyday parent and just follow the instructions:
The app is branded TicTocTrack and is published by iStaySafe:
Popping it open, the first step is registration (the mobile number is a pre-filled placeholder):
I’m surprised by the empty space at the top and the bottom – just which generation of iPhone was this designed for? Certainly not the current gen XS, does that resolution put it back in about the iPhone 5 era from 2012? That’d be iOS 6 days which their user manual seems to suggest:
Whilst the aesthetics of the app might seem inconsequential, I’ve always found that it’s a good indicator of overall quality and is often accompanied by shortcomings of a more serious nature. It’s the little things that keep popping up, for example the language and grammar in the aforementioned user manual. Why is it “Support Platforms” and then “Supported devices”? And why is the opening sentence of the doc so… odd?
Welcome to TicTocTrack® User Manual! You are about to begin your journey with the live tracking with your family.
That sort of language appears every now and then, for example in the password reset section:
If you forget your password, please use web portal to obtain new password.
It has me wondering how much of this was outsourced overseas and again, that wouldn’t normally be worth mentioning were it not for the emphasis placed on the Aussie origins of the service (I know, despite it being a Chinese watch). The actual origins of the service become clear once you look at the download links for the app:
Searching for that same “Nibaya” name on the TicTocTrack website turns up several different versions of the user manual:
It turns out that Nibaya is a Sri Lankan software development company with a focus on quality control and quality assurance:
We’re also told by the browser that they’re “Not secure” which is not a great look in this day and age. They do in fact have a certificate on the site, only thing is it expired two and a half years ago and they haven’t bothered to renew it:
Moving on, there’s a mobile phone number verification process which sends an SMS to my device:
Only thing is, the keyboard defaults back to purely alphabetical after every character is typed so unless you pre-fill the field from the SMS (which iOS natively allows you to do), it’s a bit painful. Again, it’s all the little things.
Following successful number verification, the app fires up and asks for access to location data:
Based on what I’d already read in the user manual, my location data can be used to direct me to a child wearing the watch so requesting this seems fine for that feature to function correctly.
Next is the money side of things and we’re looking at $20 a month for the “Full Service Subscription”:
If I’m honest, I’m still a bit confused about what this entails. Is this for the tracking service? Or for the Telstra SIM which it shipped with and is identically priced?
Or is it for both? I’m assuming both but then when I look at the service plans on the website, none of them are priced at $19.99. Regardless, I take the $20 option and move on:
The adding a device bit I get – I’m going to need to pair the watch – but the subscription bit further confuses me because I’ve literally just bought a subscription on the previous screen! For my purposes I don’t see myself needing it for any more than 7 days anyway so I’m not too concerned, let’s go and add that new device:
A new TicTocTrack watch it is:
And let’s go with the supplied SIM which then leads us to the device and SIM registration page:
The IMEI is the identifier of the device itself (the watch) and that can be scanned off the barcode in the packaging. The SIM ID relates to the pre-packaged SIM from Telstra, the barcode for which is under one of the grey obfuscation boxes in the earlier image. I call the device “Elle”, register it and that’s that.
Lastly, I insert the SIM into the watch (the metal flap for which opens in the opposite direction to the video tutorial and took me a good 5 minutes to work out for fear of breaking it), then drop it onto the power. Give it a couple of hours to charge, boot it up and shortly afterwards it’s showing a 3G connection:
I give it a little time to sync to the TicTocTrack service then successfully find it in the app:
Drilling down on Elle’s profile, I get an address and GPS coordinates which are both pretty accurate:
To its credit, the watch does a pretty good job of the setup and tracking process once you’re past some of the earlier hurdles. At this stage, I now have a device which is broadcasting its location reliably and I can successfully see it in the app. I’m not going to go through other features such as the ability to send an SOS or make a call, at this stage all I really care about is that the watch is now tracking her movements.
The next day, we head off to tennis camp (it’s school holiday time) with the TicTocTrack / Gator on her wrist:
She isn’t aware of why she has the watch, to her it’s just a new cool thing she gets to wear. And it’s pink so that’s all boxes ticked. She’s now at the local court whilst I (in my helicopter parent mode), am sitting at home watching her location on my device:
Safe in the knowledge that my little girl is in a place that I trust, I get back to work. But someone else is also watching her location, someone on the other side of the world who is now able to track her every move – it’s Ken. Not only is Ken watching, as far as TicTocTrack is concerned he’s just taken her away:
She’s no longer playing tennis, she’s now in the water somewhere off Wavebreak island. This isn’t a GPS glitch; Ken has placed her four and a half kilometres away by exploiting an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in TicTocTrack’s API. He’s done this with my consent and only to my child, but you can see how this could easily be abused. It’s not just the concept of making someone’s child appear in a different location to what the parents expect, you could also have them appear exactly where the parents expect… when they’re actually nowhere near there.
But these devices are about much more than just location tracking, they also enable 2-way voice communications just as you’d have on a more traditional cellular phone. This, in turn, introduces a far creepier risk – that unknown parties may be able to talk to your kids. In order to demonstrate this, I put the watch back on Elle and gave Pen Test Partners permission to contact her. Pay attention to how much interaction is required on her part in order for a stranger to begin talking to her simply by exploiting a vulnerability in the TicTocTrack service:
Even for me, that video is creepy. It required zero interaction because Vangelis was able to add himself as a parent and a parent can call the device and have it automatically answer without interaction by the child. The watch actually says “Dad” next to a little image of a male avatar so a kid would think it was their father calling them:
This is precisely what the Germans were worried about when they banned the watches outright and when you watch that video, it seems like a pretty good move on their part.
The exploits go well beyond what I’ve already covered here too, for example:
That link goes off to a Facebook post by an account called Travelling with Kids which very enthusiastically espouses the virtues of tracking them (it’s not explicitly said, but the post appears to be promotional in nature):
The little wanderers were stoked to be going off to kids club at the Hard Rock Hotel Bali We have complete peace of mind knowing they’re wearing their TicTocTrack watches, so they can call us at anytime and with GeoFencing we know their location
By now, I’m sure you can see the irony in the “peace of mind” statement.
The technical flaws go much further than this but rather than covering them here, have a read of the Pen Test Partners write-up which includes details of the IDOR vulnerability. Just to put it in layman’s terms, here’s the discussion I had with Vangelis about it:
Being conscious that many people who don’t normally travel in information security circles will read this, handling a vulnerability of this nature in a responsible fashion is enormously important. Obviously you want to remove the risk ASAP, but you also want to make sure that information about how to exploit it isn’t made public beforehand. We religiously followed established best practices for responsible disclosure, here’s the timeline with dates being local Aussie ones for me:
Saturday 6 April: Ken first contacts me about the watch. I order one that morning.
Tuesday 9 April: Watch arrives.
Wednesday 10 April: I set the account up.
Thursday 11 April: Elle wears the watch to tennis and we test “relocating” her.
Friday 12 April: Vangelis calls her and has the discussion in the video above. Ken privately discloses the vulnerability to TicTocTrack support that night.
Monday 15 April (today): TicTocTrack takes the service offline.
A couple of hours before publishing, I received a notification to the email address I signed up with as follows:
I’m in 2 minds about this message: on the one hand, they took the service down as fast as we could reasonably expect, being within a single business day so kudos to them on that. On the other hand, the messaging worries me in a number of ways:
Firstly, Ken didn’t just “allege” that there were security flaws, he spelled it out. His precise wording was “The service fails to correctly verify that a user is authorised to access data, meaning that anyone can access any data, should they so wish”. Anyone testing for a flaw of this nature would very quickly establish that changing a number in the request would hand over control of someone else’s account thus proving the vulnerability beyond any shadow of a doubt. That word was used 3 times in the statement and it implies that they’re unsubstantiated claims; they’re clearly not. Which brings me to the next point:
Secondly, it wouldn’t make sense to pull down the entire service if you weren’t convinced there was a serious vulnerability. Many people allege there are security flaws in services but they don’t generally go offline until they’re proven. Clearly an incident like this has a bunch of downstream impact and acknowledging it publicly is not something you do on a whim. Either TicTocTrack was very confident in that accuracy of Ken’s report (well beyond what “alleged” implies) or there were other factors I’m not aware of that drove them to rapidly pull the service.
Thirdly, the following statement was made without citing any evidence: “there has never been a security breach that has lead to our customer’s personal data being used for malicious purposes”. It’s not uncommon to see a response like this following a security incident, but what it should read is “we don’t know if there’s ever been a security breach…” This vulnerability relied on an authenticated user with a legitimate account modifying a number in the request and the likelihood of that being logged in a fashion sufficient enough to establish it ever happened is extremely low. And if you were the kind of developers to log this sort of information, you’d also be the kind not to have the vulnerability in the first place!
Let’s be perfectly clear – this is just one more incident in a series of similar ones impacting kids tracking watches and Gator in particular. What’s infuriating about this situation is that not only do these egregiously obvious security flaws keep occurring, they’re just not being taken seriously enough by the manufacturers and distributors when they do occur. There’s no finer illustration of this than the statement Ken got when speaking to an agent over in his corner of the world:
UK agent for Gator said that they didn’t have the money for security, as otherwise they couldn’t afford a staff Xmas party
Is that really where we’re at? Tossing up between exposing our kids in this fashion and beers at Christmas? If you’re a parent ever considering buying one of these for your kid, just remember that quote. Inevitably, cost would have also been a major driver for TicTocTrack outsourcing their development to Sri Lanka, indeed it’s something that Nabaya prides itself on:
I want to finish on a broader note than just TicTocTrack or Gator or even smart watches in general; a huge number of both the devices and services I see being marketed either directly at kids or at parents to monitor their kids are absolute garbage in terms of the effort invested in security and privacy. I mentioned CloudPets and VTech earlier on and I also mentioned spyware apps; by design, every one of these has access to data that most parents would consider very personal and, in many cases, (such as the photos older kids are often taking), very sensitive. These products are simply not designed with a security-orientated mindset and the development is often outsourced to cheap markets that build software on a shoestring. The sorts of flaws we’re seeing perfectly illustrate that: CloudPets simply didn’t have a password on their database and both the VTech and TicTocTrack vulnerabilities were as easy as just incrementing a number in a web request. A bunch of the spyware breaches I referred to occurred because the developers literally published all the collected data to the internet for the world to see. How much testing do you think actually went on in these cases? Did nobody even just try adding 1 to a number in the request? Because that’s all Ken needed to do; Ken can count therefore Ken can hack a device tracking children. Maybe I should give Elle a go at that, her counting is coming along quite nicely…
There’s only one way I’d track my kids with GPS and cellular and that’s with an Apple Watch. I don’t mean to make that sound trivial either because we’re talking about a $549 outlay here which is a hell of a lot to spend on a kid’s watch (plus you still need a companion iPhone), but Apple is the sort of organisation that not only puts privacy first, but makes sure they actually pay attention to their security posture too. As that Gator agent in the UK well knows, security costs money and if you want that as a consumer, you’re going to need to pay for it.
I’ll leave you with this thread I wrote up when first starting to look at the watch. It got a lot of traction and I’d like to encourage you to share it with your parenting friends on Twitter or via the one I also posted to Facebook.
I’ve been looking at a bunch of kid-related devices and services lately, mostly relating to how parents can monitor and control their activities. It’s just consistently horrifyingly bad; FUD-ridden at best, massive privacy violations at worst (i.e. data accessible to the public).
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) April 6, 2019
The problem is that you’ve got a bunch of technically illiterate parents (understandable) being pushed things by schools that are influenced by marketers (much less understandable) and built with near zero focus on security (inexcusable).
You worried about your kids online? Talk to them. Browse the web with them. Introduce them to the wonders of the web on your terms and *physically* monitor them (you know, like exist together in the same room for a bit).
And accept that they’re going to see porn. They’re going to swear in chats. They’re going to talk to people you don’t like. And 90%+ of the time, they’re more technically adept than their parents and will know how to hide it and circumvent the parental controls.
I’ll talk to my kids all day long about this stuff, but I’ll never install the sorts of software or buy the kinds of tracking devices I keep seeing peddled. These things are consistently absolute rubbish and they prey on scared and uninformed parents and teachers to get traction.
Lastly, resources from the big OS vendors to help parents without putting kids even further at risk:
Apple: https://t.co/9lzpSJoH5s
Microsoft: https://t.co/jnQ06xp2L5
Google: https://t.co/jeOdqUz37Y
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Reporter threatened at rally? REWARD for information
Haley Jarmain, a reporter at our Calgary anti-carbon rally said she received death threats from a men (or men) in the audience.
But weirdly, she waited two hours after the event to mention it. She also said she didn’t report it to police because they “have much better things to do with their time.”
But if Haley Jarmain doesn’t want to find a would-be murderer, I sure do.
I have the names and email addresses of 759 of the people at the rally who RSVP'd in advance. And as to the other 350 people, cameras captured every person coming and going.
I have written to both Haley Jarmain and her boss, offering to arrange a time to go through the hotel’s security footage with them.
I’m also announcing a $1,000 cash reward for anyone who can identify this man, or these men.
I will keep this website up as long as necessary to find the criminal.
If you know who this man or these men are, contact us at tips@therebel.media.
When social justice warriors throw out accusations like this, and then run away from any proof, or even contacting police — it’s tough to come to any conclusion than that they just want to smear unemployed Albertans.
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Jimmy Reece here is an example of the liberal media:
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/15/hey-president-donald-trump-do-you-know-where-your-bombs-are-falling/
LMAO!
Their site is pathetic and so full of shit , like most liberals.
Jimmy Reece i thought it was Lucy Decouture who exposed him with her complaint? And Ezra and the Rebel criticize conservative politicians when they do wrong. And Gomeshi was just a CBC employee not a damn political party member.
Edward Jobin commented 2016-12-16 19:47:38 -0500
Leviticus: Hope this helps. http://www.torontodefencelawyers.com/blog/general-category/crime-report-crime-canada/
A statement made while letting out steam can be interpreted as not intending to be taken seriously.
Leviticus 2013 commented 2016-12-16 16:36:09 -0500
Edward Joben… I know it is illegal to report a crime that never happened.!! I thought it was like a citizens duty or something like that to report a crime. Especially a crime of aggression because there may be a violent person running around out there.
So what you are saying is that it is not illegal to let a crime “go-unreported.”? And you’re absolutely sure about that or you’re just guessing.?
Threatening Words [edit] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Law/Offences/Uttering_Threats
A “threat” has been interpreted to include any “menace or denunciation that ill will befall the recipient”.1
“Bodily harm” includes psychological hurt or injury in addition to physical.2
The test for whether an utterance constituted a criminal threat is a question of law not fact. The words “must be looked at in the context in which they were spoken or written, in light of the person to whom they were addressed and the circumstances in which they were uttered. They should be viewed in an objective way and the meaning attributed to the words should be that which a reasonable person would give to them.”3
If the utterance meets the criteria, it is irrelevant whether the victim appreciated the threatening nature of the utterance.4 To put it another way, the effect of the threat on the prospective victim is of no consequence.5
Proof of Offence[edit] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Law/Offences/Uttering_Threats
The crown should establish the following:
identity of accused
date and time of incident
jurisdiction (incl. region and province)
the accused uttered words;
that words conveyed a threat to:
cause death or serious bodily harm to a person,
burn, destroy or damage real or personal property; or
kill, poison, or injure an animal that is the property of any person.
the accused demeanour as the words were being said;
the words were meant to be taken seriously as a threat
the method by which threat was conveyed;
a person received the threat;
motivation for threat;
the effect the words had on the recipient.
The essential elements to be proven are in bold.
Jimmy Reece the left cheats and censors and hides the truth , we welcome it.
Jimmy Reece left wing judges and kangaroo courts do not make Ezra wrong. And of course when someone slanders him the left has a cow when he threatens to sue , they are pathetic hypocrites.
Jimmy Reece Ezra did not create this situation , he is merely calling someone on their fake bullshit. And sorry but the left makes more death threats than the right. Try some reality. GO look at Trumps campaign managers twitter feed , the hate spews for her from left wing scum.
Leviticus: I don’t believe it is however make a false claim to the police about a crime is and it gets a bit weird with some situations. A physical threat is considered a threat if the recipient took it that way whether the person making it meant it or not.
Is it not illegal do to let a crime go unreported..??
Jimmy Reese: Also keep in mind that Ezra had a lie told about him by a star reporter once and if it weren’t for the fact he had been taping the whole thing (which the editor asked to see before printing a retraction). So yes it is sad we live in a day that even reporters are asked to provide evidence from time to time. (sarcasm off).
Jimmy Reese said: Let’s be honest here – death threats made by extreme conservatives are nothing new, so I don’t think anyone would really be shocked if it were true. That’s the problem – extreme conservatives give reasonable conservatives a bad reputation. To which I say lets be honest. When Ezra tried to confront the problem he gets called out for it. I don’t agree with death threats or even threats of physical violence which too many people also fail to realize is an indictable offense. You also claimed that death threats from the far right are nothing new to which I would or from the left but in search of that honesty we seem to both value so much what is wrong with trying to hold these people to account that are misrepresenting us and if they turn out to be a dark operative planted by either side then they need to be exposed as well.
Jimmy Reece commented 2016-12-16 13:08:56 -0500
Edward Jobin,
Keep in mind that it was Jesse Brown that exposed Jian Ghomeshi. so clearly there is no bias to protect liberals. I think he is as fair and balanced as you are gonna get in the media. Jesse Brown was completely reasonable in his view of Ezra
The reality is that Ezra is an attention whore. He does this sort of thing all the time, which is why he has been sued so often and lost. Regardless if she is telling the truth or not – he loves this. He loves making a big stink right or wrong and pretty much masturbates to all the people who talk about him
Let’s be honest here – death threats made by extreme conservatives are nothing new, so I don’t think anyone would really be shocked if it were true. That’s the problem – extreme conservatives give reasonable conservatives a bad reputation. Right from the get go, people believe that it’s true.
And yet serious enough to make the initial claim. Jesse Brown and his friend call Ezra clever but if the threat never happened then it is a clever response to a cunning accusation that was made without proof.
Jimmy Reece: Unfortunately Jesse Brown only provided an opinion over an alleged incident. I wasn’t there so I can’t say what was or wasn’t said and that is the problem. Based on the allegation of one person many people are being impugned by that allegation. This same person has shown no desire to help resolve the issue and because if it everyone is held hostage under a cloud of suspicion. It should be apparent to you and if not I will help try and clear up why. Because some in the lefty media has tried to portray Conservatives as right wing violent Nazis or white supremacists. Do such extremists exist? No doubt. In my opinion extremists exist on both sides. Always have and unfortunately always will no thanks to those who refuse to participate in identifying the problem. We also have became aware during the craziness of the recent American election that there is groups who dark operatives who purposefully go to meetings to create situations in which they position themselves in front of the media in the hopes their mischief can be caught on tape. The veritas project caught some of these activities on tape and heads rolled over it. Since then the MSM has happily taken the mantle of trying to portray the rebel as the alt right with all those same innuendos of racism and sexism. So yes I am suspicious of some in the MSM. Are the media always fair and balanced in their coverage? Do media personalities ever lie? Should we always take them at their word just because they are media? I think we would both agree and say no. So why then should I just accept because Haley Jermain said someone said something if she is refusing to lift a finger to verify it especially if it could stop a potential dangerous criminal and clear those who have fallen under a cloud of suspicion? If it did happen she doesn’t seem to taking it too seriously.
James Scott commented 2016-12-16 10:00:17 -0500
Gosh, still no suspects in the Haley Jemaine death threat case?
Guess we’ll have to rely more heavily on the victim’s statement to solve the crime; while promising to be most respectful.
Haley, why don’t you simply meet up with Ezra and Joe McFarlane and help identify this guy? After all we want to keep our streets safe from murderous men suffering from xenophobia.
around the 15 min mark I think.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/831051843993/
Ezra on cbc
If you say so Butterbutt.
Liza,
He is great indeed – calls out the left and the right in the media, unlike Ezra. We need more people like him in the media.
‘The great Jesse Brown’, hehehehehe
Jimmy Reece yeah sure he did. Canadaland is complete crap, and why is the reporter not wanting to take action on her supposed death threat? Oh yeah because it is made up left wing Bullshit. The left is so pathetic they have to invent outrages. LMAO! HOW PATHETIC!
The great Jesse Brown calls out Ezra on his bullshit.
http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/short-cuts-ezra-issues-fatwa/
Liza Rosie—Probably she was only causing " trouble for troubles sake"; however she caused damage with her cause. It makes you and I and tens of thousands of Rebels look like Deplorables.
Haley wasn’t just a Country Bumpkin ; along with thousands on Face Book, it was mentioned on her open-line radio station in Alberta where she worked.
Ezra is shrewd; I think he is baiting her or he already has all he needs.
I also wonder if the name “Rebel” attracts controversy. It seems that the MSM and low information viewers constantly want to challenge whatever the Rebel reports . If the name was “True News”, the Liberal Morans that I know wouldn’t be as quick to criticize.
Ron Joseph, if only she had reported it. The fact that she didn’t makes you wonder if she wasn’t just causing trouble for trouble sake. If its not cleared up it will forever sully our names. Tired of being called deplorable because we don’t follow Notley’s insane agenda. If we don’t make it stop and push back they will step up the attacks.
mike krchnak commented 2016-12-15 17:31:20 -0500
When reading vajay jay’s comments, please remember that years of booze and pills have rendered its/his/hers mind into mush. Really rather sad in fact, although somewhat comical.
Glenn Craig commented 2016-12-15 16:52:11 -0500
@jay Kelly…ah such uncouth rabble (not a reference to Judy Rebic’s white knights)….they just have no appreciation for pussy.
@jay Kelly…thou hast been unhorsed white knight…thy high horse..such a nobel steed…is being rendered at the glue factory….:-)
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Ship Life
2/6/2018, 12:16am
SU sculpture classes emphasize nature’s natural beauty with environmental art
By Olivia Riccio - Copy Editor
The SU Art and Design Department
SU students in Steven Dolbin’s fall 2017 basic sculpture course place rocks in the dirt to create an environmental sculpture that extends from the roots of a tree on the Cumberland Valley Rail Trail. Dolbin plans to have students create more eco-friendly art on the trail in future semesters.
Two basic sculpture classes at Shippensburg University left their mark on the local rail trail with environment art created during the fall semester.
Steven Dolbin, a professor of art and design at SU, and his classes partnered with the Rails to Trails Organization last December — working until finals week to complete the sculptures found along the trail.
The reason Dolbin wanted his students to participate in this kind of project is because of how important environmental art has been throughout the years, and it still continues to be important.
“Environmental art is one of the most vital forms of sculpture today,” Dolbin said. “It has been practiced for millennia, literally tens of thousands of years. Stonehenge, the great chalk drawings in Britain, the Nazca Lines in Peru. I could go on and on.”
Through this project, anyone who visits the rail trail will be able to see and appreciate the sculptures, which Dolbin said is another important reason why he chose this project.
“It connects our students to the great earthwork of the past and it connects all who see it — such as those in our community — with issues of the earth. And of course it demonstrates how we as artists and citizens can work with and for the environment,” Dolbin said. “The works are temporary and will degrade back into the earth. So we are not dominating the environment but working with it.”
The students also enjoyed being a part of this new project. Working in groups helped complete the project faster, but also offered a new experience for some of the student artists involved.
Lydia Westre-Stith, a junior at SU, learned how to work with a group and the land around her.
“We were moving timbers that weighed more than me, and we all kind of worked as a unit. It’s not very common in art,” Westre-Stith said. “I learned a lot about going with the flow and letting the materials direct you, especially in an environment where you can’t go get a wrench or weld things together when they break.”
Collin Dolbin, an SU freshman who participated in the project, enjoyed the aspect of leaving a piece of artwork behind for others to see.
“I liked that we could reach a new audience artistically and people are going to be cycling and walking past the art and seeing it every day,” Collin said. “We are very detached from the environment, and this brings attention to it.”
A major idea formed through these sculptures was to use the elements of nature that the students were provided.
“Everything we used was from the site, or the area relative to the site. We didn’t bring anything with us,” Westre-Stith said.
Another student participant, Anna Snee, found this to be important in the project.
“The purpose of our environmental art was less to create but more to put emphasis on what nature already made,” Snee said. “So I think it’s important to just showcase what nature does daily without us noticing.”
The art department plans to work with Rails to Trails in the future to create some semi-permanent sculptures along the trail near town. This will be a revolving outdoor exhibition-type venue for visitors.
“My hope is to not only contribute to the sculptural learning of my students but to engage and enlighten the campus and town communities,” Dolbin said. “We hope to excite and delight all that see the sculptures and bring new visitors to the trail.”
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Art Paper Surface Types
These 6 paper varieties have different characteristics
By Helen South
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Artists have many different types of art paper to choose from, ranging from super-smooth surfaces to very rough, "toothy" papers. Some papers are best with soft pencils, pastels, and charcoal, while others are better suited for watercolors. You will find no shortage of paper to work with. The hardest part is deciding which to use.
The texture of the surface is the primary concern for art papers. Several factors influence the texture of a paper:
The fiber is most important. Different types of wood pulp, cellulose, and cotton behave differently when made into paper.
The volume of pulp per sheet affects the weight and strength of the paper.
The production process is also important. Papers are made with mold, machine, or hand processes. The amount of heat and pressure in the drying process changes the paper as well.
Surface textures can be created by the mesh mold that paper sheets are made on or applied by a roller to machine-made paper.
The amount of "size"—the binding glue, not the dimensions—in the paper and on the surface affect how well it holds water. It also determines how "toothy" the surface is, or how much texture it has.
Here's a look at some of the descriptions to give you a better understanding of the papers you'll run across. Every artist is different, so it's best to explore your options. Give some of these a try to see which you most enjoy working with.
Laid Paper
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Laid paper has a pattern of parallel lines created by the wires from the mold used in its production.
Some papers, such as Ingres, have a broad, pronounced surface texture clearly visible in the drawing. Other laid papers have a finer texture. It's important to choose a scale of texture appropriate to your style of drawing. For instance, a finer-scale texture will often work best for smaller work.
This type of paper is suitable for sketching with pastel, charcoal, and soft pencil. Brands include Canson Ingres, Hahnemühle Ingres, Hahnemühle Bugra Pastel Paper, and Strathmore 500 Series Charcoal Paper.
Textured Pastel, Charcoal, and Craft Papers
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Textured surfaces typically have a fine, irregular texture pressed into the surface during manufacture. It often mimics the natural irregularities of mold-made paper.
The tooth and hardness of the paper vary according to the manufacturer, though most have a hard vellum surface with moderate sizing. This allows them to be used with harder media and a certain amount of layering. However, they are usually not suitable for heavy layering.
Textured paper is good for pastel and charcoal, as well as expressive larger scale pencil sketching.
Brands of textured paper include Strathmore Pure Tints and Canson Mi-Teintes, which are available in a huge selection of colors.
Wove Paper
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Wove paper is made on a woven wire "cloth" like a fine sieve instead of the traditional parallel wires of laid paper. Most paper that we use was manufactured this way.
The tightly woven mesh creates a fine, smooth surface. Ideally, there is no texture at all, although some papers may have texture added. A heavier weave may also give some paper a slight texture.
The smooth surface of untextured wove paper is particularly well suited to ink drawing and realism pencil drawing.
One of the best known and most enjoyed by artists is Arches Text Wove, also known as Velin d'Arches.
Rough Paper
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A rough-grained paper has a noticeably bumpy surface. In making rough paper, the pulp is pressed without additional heat, so there is a natural variation in the surface.
When shading with chalk or flat pencil, the pits in the paper create an irregular pattern of white spots throughout the area. A mold-made watercolor paper is a typical example of a rough paper surface.
The coarse surface makes it difficult to control tone and lends itself to simple, broad, expressive gestures in pastel, charcoal, or soft pencil.
Rough paper is a traditional favorite of watercolorists because the tiny pits allow paint to pool in a heavy wash. At the same time, it leaves dots of light with a dry brush, so the texture can be used to great effect.
Medium Paper
Medium papers include "Not" (meaning not hot-pressed) cold-pressed watercolor paper, as well as a variety of medium-surface drawing papers such as Lana Dessin.
Medium paper has a fine grain, which can look subtle when shading with a sharpened pencil. It may also be accentuated by shading with a blunt pencil or charcoal.
Hot-Pressed Paper
A hot-pressed or smooth paper has been, as the name suggests, hot rolled or "ironed" during production to create a very smooth, flat surface.
Hot-pressed paper allows you to draw very fine detail without noticeable bumps or texture. The amount of manipulation and type of medium depend on the quality of the fiber and manufacturing process used.
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Peers' fears
Lords warn bid to keep Britain under rule of Euro judges after Brexit would be act of ‘political suicide’
One crossbencher says the Government may face a number of defeats, while another member cautions that his Europhile colleagues delaying Brexit could prove fatal for the upper house
By Matt Dathan, Political Correspondent
24 Jan 2018, 0:44
Updated: 24 Jan 2018, 0:57
A BID by peers to keep Britain under the rule of Euro judges after Brexit would be an act of “political suicide,” Lords grandees have warned.
The crucial EU Withdrawal Bill arrives in the House of Lords next week but crossbench peer and former top diplomat Lord Jay predicted colleagues could impose a raft of defeats on the Government.
The House of Lords will now have its chance to debate and vote on the all-important EU Withdrawal BillCredit: Getty Images - Getty
He warned Theresa May her pledge to remove the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice in the UK could be defeated.
Peers could also open up the prospect of Britain staying in the EU beyond March 2019 by removing the exact date and time Britain leaves the EU - in order to give more flexibility to the negotiating timetable.
And Lord Jay - speaking at the Institute of Government yesterday - predicted peers could also defeat the Government by maintaining the scope of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
But the former Tory Leader of the House Lord Strathclyde warned his Europhile colleagues that they face triggering their own political death if they vote to frustrate or delay Brexit.
He even raised the prospect of a repeat of the 1911 Parliament Act, which drastically reduced the upper chamber’s powers.
Lord Jay is a former diplomat who served as Ambassador to France and Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeCredit: AFP - Getty
Lord Strathclyde is a Conservative former Leader of the House of Lords and Chancellor of the Duchy of LancasterCredit: Getty - Contributor
Lord Strathclyde warned: “It would be an act of political suicide for the House of Lords, it would be reminiscent of the debates we had just over 100 years ago in 1910 and 1911 and I’m not convinced that the House of Lords has the thirst for that right now.”
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Urging Tory peers to back the Government over Brexit, the Tory grandee said: “When it comes to defeating the Bill, they should not do so. The House of Lords is at its strongest when it’s on the same side as the people, against an elected dictatorship in the House of Commons.
“On this occasion that would be completely reverse. It would be the House of Lords acting against the people, and against the express will of the House of Commons at the same time. This strikes me as bright, red flashing lights of danger.”
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Beckham fined but gets injury boost
October 12 2000, 1:00am, The Times
David Beckham has today been fined almost £4,000 by UEFA after showing “clear dissent” towards referee Markus Merk during Manchester United’s defeat at PSV Eindhoven last month.
Beckham showed his anger, after being booked for dissent, by turning and spitting on the ground in the general direction of the German official.
Merk did not take any further action but European football’s governing body today announced the United star had been fined 10,000 Swiss francs (around £3,900).
Meanwhile, Beckham learnt today he does not need surgery on his damaged left knee. It had been thought the midfielder may require an operation after limping off during England’s defeat at the hands of Germany at Wembley on Saturday.
Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, said Beckham would…
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Schoolgirls face ban on skirts
Sian Griffiths and Julie Henry
July 1 2018, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
At least 40 secondary schools have stopped their girls from wearing skirtsALAMY
For schoolgirls, the skirt is on the way out. An analysis of the uniform policies of schools in England shows that at least 40 secondaries have stopped girls from wearing them, while others are consulting on a ban.
The change to trousers comes as schools opt for gender-neutral uniforms to cater for transgender pupils.
Priory School in Lewes, East Sussex, which banned skirts last year, said pupils had questioned why its uniform was different for boys and girls, and that the needs of transgender students must be taken into account. Crawshaw Academy, near Leeds, is “consulting on implementing a gender-neutral uniform (trousers only)”.
Copleston High School, in Ipswich, has placed skirts on a list of unacceptable items alongside “skinny jeans and facial piercings”. Skirts at…
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2 Pineville men arrested in theft of camper trailer
Camper stolen from Kolin residence and found in Ruby community.
2 Pineville men arrested in theft of camper trailer Camper stolen from Kolin residence and found in Ruby community. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/2018/09/12/2-pineville-men-arrested-theft-camper-trailer/1284363002/
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Gary Dean Ryland (left) and Kenneth Wayne Coutee(Photo: Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office)
Two Pineville men have been arrested for the theft of a camper trailer stolen Sept. 7 from a residence in the Kolin community.
According to a release from the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office, the victim reported two subjects were seen on the property attempting to hook a truck to the camper trailer. Deputies learned the suspects were a Gary Dean Ryland, 60, of the 1300 block of LA Highway 454, and Kenneth Wayne Coutee, 51, of Quattelbaum Road.
Kolin Sheriff’s Station deputies were assigned to investigate the case and were reportedly familiar with both suspects. Detectives located the camper trailer on a vacant property on LA Hwy. 454 in the Ruby Community.
Subsequently, Ryland and Coutee were each arrested and charged with theft between $750 and $5,000. Both suspects were taken into custody without incident and booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center.
Ryland was also arrested on a contempt of court warrant through another agency and later released on $3,000 bond. Coutee remained incarcerated as of Wednesday afternoon with a $2,500 bond.
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Menard's Smith hopes final LHSAA meet sparks bright future ahead for Eagles
For 33 seasons, one name has been synonymous with Central Louisiana cross country and track and field.
Menard's Smith hopes final LHSAA meet sparks bright future ahead for Eagles For 33 seasons, one name has been synonymous with Central Louisiana cross country and track and field. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: https://www.thetowntalk.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/05/02/menards-smith-hopes-final-lhsaa-meet-sparks-bright-future-ahead-eagles/3647233002/
LaMar Gafford, Alexandria Town Talk Published 6:21 p.m. CT May 2, 2019 | Updated 6:24 p.m. CT May 2, 2019
Wally Smith (Photo: Melinda Martinez/mmartinez@theto)
Wally Smith.
As Smith prepares to coach Menard's track team one final time at the LHSAA state meet in Baton Rouge Friday, he believes that this meet could be the start of something bigger.
"My speech to these guys is, 'Yeah, I'm deserting, but they should have the potential to be better next year,'" Smith said. "We're losing the two twins (Addison and Hannah Hays), we should be handy in cross country if all works out, and I'm expecting it to work out."
This season has been a strong one for the Menard girls despite long-distance runner Claire Vaughn being sidelined with mononucleosis since the cross country season — where they finished second in the state cross country meet.
The Lady Eagles have won four track meets, came in second in the Reservation Relays at Tioga and combined with the Eagle boys with 20 qualifiers in this year's state meet — mostly coming from the field events.
With the amount of entries, Smith expects his girls to finish between third and fifth.
"I was not expecting much this year with Claire being out with mono and having a hard time coming back. That was a lot of points from last year," Smith said. "But we've had a lot of field people step up."
A trio of those spots come from Aly Jo Warren, who comes in as one of the favorites in the girls pole vault and will compete in the 100 and 300 hurdles. Ben Beard, Tiana Victor, Addison Hays and Hannah Hays are competing in two events each.
Menard coach Wally Smith (green shirt) meets with his boys cross country team and oversees the 2014 Menard Invitational cross country meet at Fort Buhlow Recreational Area. (Photo: Melinda Martinez)
Throughout his 33-year career, Smith has had many good teams be part of the program.
He coached the Lady Eagles to 11 state cross country titles and a title in track and field in 2013, while also coaching the boys team to a pair of titles in 2000 and 2001.
"God called me to Menard in the mid-1980s," Smith said. "That was no question that that's what I was supposed to do and He's blessed it. Who would have guessed? I didn't come over here thinking I'm going to be winning state championships; I just was coming over to work with kids. But we've had all this success and it's just been a blessing from Day 1."
Although Smith might be hanging up the whistle, he has three new careers waiting for him.
Husband, dad and grandfather.
"My kids were in college when I started all of this and my grandkids didn't exist," Smith said. "While I still have two legs under me... God's calling me to family, and I'm expecting Him to bless whatever the future holds."
Menard will compete in Day 2 of the LHSAA meet Friday as classes 1A and 2A do battle at LSU's Bernie Moore Track Stadium. Classes 3A to 5A will compete Saturday in Day 3, while classes B and C kicked off the three-day event Thursday.
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Drive a Clean, Green Garbage Truck
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Wes Muir, Guest Writer
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Can you figure out the common denominator between a Prius and a Waste Management garbage truck? The answer may surprise you: both can benefit from hybrid power.
Yes, the same garbage truck that stops in your neighborhood each week, with new advancements in engine technology, could eventually run on the clean technology that powers other better-known hybrid vehicles. This is especially important to the waste industry due to the many cycles of braking and acceleration a collection truck encounters along a given route. However, while the wheels are in motion, this technology will take some time to perfect. While hybrid technology has already been successfully implemented in automobiles and light trucks, Class 8 vehicles, a category that includes waste trucks, pose additional challenges to hybrid engine design. Among the largest vehicles on the road, Class 8’s require a robust drive train to handle heavy loads. They also have multiple systems for compaction and lifting that draw a great deal of power from the engine. This, in turn, complicates hybrid design.
Therefore, until the hybrid engine for Class 8’s are perfected, Waste Management continues to look for ways to improve its fleet of garbage trucks so that they produce fewer emissions and operate more efficiently. In 2007 alone, effective fleet management and route optimization allowed us to improve efficiency and reduce driver time by more than 2 million hours. This included several truck and route modifications:
• Programming the engines of newer trucks to shut down automatically after idling for five minutes
• Standardizing route optimization planning
• Installing more than 1,000 after-treatment devices
• Converting to the use of ultra low sulfur diesel (pdf file)
• Limiting top engine speeds
• Increasing the use of biodiesel to 2,218 trucks using approximately over 1.6 million gallons of biodiesel ranging from B5 to B20
• Using liquefied and compressed natural gases (LNG and CNG) in nearly 1,000 trucks
While these improvements are valuable in the short run, it’s important to remain focused on the end goal: implementing hybrid technology in waste truck fleets as soon as possible. In fact, last year Waste Management began field-testing the industry’s first parallel hydraulic hybrid truck. Four of these trucks were added to the company’s Fort Worth fleet in November 2008, in partnership with Peterbilt and Eaton. (As pictured.)
The parallel hydraulic hybrid employs a pressurized hydraulic system to capture and store energy every time the brakes are applied. This energy is then transferred to accelerate the vehicle to the next pickup location. Ultimately, this should reduce wear on the brake pads, extend engine life, reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency on such vehicles that constantly start and stop.
A June 2009 study also shows that such early technological developments help to support the long-term organic growth of hybrid powertrain systems in the market. Financial incentives also provide opportunities for others in this industry to expand their hybrid truck technologies.
As the operator of one of the country’s largest commercial fleet of vehicles, we are in a unique position to provide incentives to spur the development of efficient hybrid systems for the waste collection vehicles. . Over the next decade, Waste Management will spend up to $500 million per year in capital on our fleet and heavy equipment. We expect to direct this capital spending on equipment to help increase the fuel efficiency of our fleet by 15 percent and reduce our fleet emissions by 15 percent – all by 2020.
A 15 percent reduction in the fuel used by our trucks would total about 350 million gallons of fuel saved and a reduction of about 3.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Some of these savings and efficiencies will come from currently available technology; others are now in the development stage. We hope this financial incentive will be a catalyst for a breakthrough technology to make this goal a reality.
With rapidly increasing developments in hydraulic hybrid technology, this reality may be closer than we think. Just think: in the near future, you could see that Prius and garbage truck side-by-side and know that they’re both running on engine technologies that reduce emissions and help the environment.
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Fort Worth considering the mandatory microchipping of pets
Fort Worth, Texas, is considering a measure that requires all pet owners to have their animals microchipped. The city council is expected to vote on the proposal next month.(Christopher Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Images)
The city council of Fort Worth, Texas, is mulling over revisions of its animal ordinance — with the possibility of requiring all pet owners to have their dogs and cats implanted with microchips for identification.
Fort Worth Animal Services is pushing for the initiative, and a vote is expected on the proposal next month.
Some pet owners have expressed concern over the additional cost of pet ownership, but if passed, a microchip mandate would replace the more expensive current requirement for having a pet licensed: Microchipping costs $12, while a pet license costs $36.
While microchipping became mandatory in the United Kingdom years ago, it is a rare requirement in the United States. But another Texas city, Dallas, made the practice a pet ownership requirement last year.
The regulations implemented by Dallas were more stringent than the Fort Worth proposal. Dallas requires any pet owner who wishes to breed their animal to hold an annual breeding permit at a cost of $100. The dog or cat also has to be registered with a purebred kennel club and only one litter per year is permitted.
Currently, Fort Worth requires pets to be both licensed and spayed or neutered. Microchipping is optional, for now.
Dog owner Chuck Menke supports the proposal, and believes there's no excuse for noncompliance.
"It's a responsibility as a pet owner or a parent and we consider ourselves pet parents," he said. "It will help people that are not pet owners be responsible pet owners or have a second thought about 'Am I going to own a pet or not? Do I want the responsibility of that?'"
But for some owners who have already licensed their pets and consider themselves responsible dog owners, the new ordinance is simply seen as an additional cost.
Ryan Black, a Fort Worth resident who owns a 3-year-old dog, said, "We just have an 8-foot tall fence so whenever he's outside he's not going to get out of that."
The incentive for Dallas to implement its more sweeping initiatives in 2017 was the fact that Dallas Animal Services was at near capacity. Regulating pet breeding was seen as part of the solution.
The animal shelter's chief, Major Barbara Hobbs, said, "We're trying to allow breeding, but to restrict it from backyard breeders who are just trying to sell puppies in the parking lot of Walmart."
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Singer Measha Brueggergosman admitted to Foothills Hospital, awaiting double bypass surgery
Opera singer and memoir writer Measha Brueggergosman. Herald archives.
Canadian soprano star Measha Brueggergosman is awaiting heart surgery at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, just days after garnering rave reviews from a unique performance live-streamed around the world.
The singer wrote on Facebook this weekend that she needs double bypass surgery and ended up in hospital after awakening to severe chest pain on the day she was to fly home from Calgary to Nova Scotia. The problem arose almost 10 years to the day after Brueggergosman had heart surgery to repair a torn aorta.
Brueggergosman also revealed in the social media post that her father, Pastor Sterling Gosman, recently died and that this hospital stay may prevent her from attending the service planned for him.
“The agony of not being with my mother and my sons right now has inspired me to write this post because I am in desperate need of prayer and support,” she wrote.
“I am in very good hands medically,” she continued. “But I am also human and I want to be at my father’s funeral. It has always been our father-daughter pact that I would sing his favourite hymn — In The Garden — at his homecoming and I’m trying to make my peace that it might not happen. But I also want to fight from every possible angle to make it happen.”
By Sunday, an outpouring of social media love was sent Brueggergosman’s way. She thanked the friends and strangers who were wishing her well, and paid tribute to the religious path her father chose in life.
Brueggergosman, a Juno winner and Grammy nominee, is a sought-after soprano who sang at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympics. Last weekend in Calgary, she closed off the season of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra with a performance that featured classical, opera and popular music in one concert — only the second time she’s performed in this manner. The concert was live-streamed around the world.
“She’s one of the few vocalists in the world who can do that,” CPO music director Rune Bergmann said of the concert’s diverse program.
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News / Local / Angus & The Mearns
“Idiotic calls” putting Courier Country coastguards in danger
by Graeme Strachan
January 2 2019, 12.01am Updated: January 2 2019, 9.45am
© PA
A Coastguard helicopter was used in the search.
Coastguards in Tayside and Fife are being plagued by hoax calls which are putting lives in danger.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) received 1,970 false alarms from across Scotland since 2016, with 123, or 6%, classed as hoaxes.
Some 397 calls were recorded between Stonehaven in the north and the southern mouth of the Forth, 20% of the Scottish total.
Malicious calls made up 7.3% of contacts, more than the Scottish average.
The MCA provides a 24-hour maritime search and rescue service around the UK coast, and international search and rescue through HM Coastguard.
There are local coastguard rescue teams in Stonehaven, Montrose, Arbroath, Carnoustie, St Andrews, and Leven.
Arbroath East and Lunan Conservative councillor Derek Wann said: “I find it incredible that there are people out there who would attempt to waste the time of this and other emergency services by making hoax calls.
“The coastguard service is a 24 hour search and rescue emergency service and relies on getting to the area of incident as quickly as possible.
“The number of hoax calls recorded is astonishing.”
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine Conservative Andrew Bowie praised the “round-the-clock dedication” of paid and volunteer coastguards which often does not make the news.
He said: “Members of the public usually only hear about their brave exploits at cliff rescues or when taking part in multi-agency operations.
“But these figures confirm just how much work goes in to checking falls alarms, and unfortunately the extent to which their heroism can be abused.
“Each one of these idiotic calls could have put lives in danger, anywhere from the Mearns to Fife to North Berwick.”
The MCA said false alarms are classified as good intent or malicious intent by the officer who took the call.
The authorities warned hoax callers face up to six months in jail, and fines of up to £5,000.
Chris Thomas, deputy director of maritime operations with the MCA said: “If we get an emergency transmission, we always treat it as real.
“If we think someone’s in danger or trouble, we will always search for them rather than risk loss of life.
“We would take this opportunity to remind people that making deliberate, false or misleading calls is against the law and we treat it very seriously.
“We keep a record of these calls and hold those records as evidence for future prosecutions. Have no doubt – if you’ve been identified as making a hoax call, the MCA will seek to prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law.”
Andrew Bowie
UK Coastguard
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Famous Scone Palace painting to be shown on BBC One’s Fake or Fortune
by Ryan Maher
August 29 2018, 8.26am Updated: August 29 2018, 9.47am
© DC Thomson
Fiona Bruce and art detective Philip Mould visited the Palace with Lady Mansfield of Scone Palace.
The enduring mysteries behind one of Scone Palace’s most famous paintings will be investigated by experts in a weekend television show.
Journalist Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould of the BBC’s Fake or Fortune, will inspect the illustrious portrait of Lady Elizabeth Murray and Dido Belle.
For many years, the painting has been credited to German neoclassical painter Johann Zoffany but the show will question whether he was, in fact, the artist.
The portrait’s fame circulates around Dido Belle, the mixed-race 18th century daughter of an African slave, Maria Belle and a British naval captain, Sir John Lindsay.
After her mother died, Sir Lindsay instructed his uncle and aunt, the Earl and Countess of Mansfield to look after Dido.
The pair were guardians to their niece, Lady Elizabeth Murray, and they brought Dido up as a free, educated girl on their estate at Kenwood House in Hampstead.
The painting shows Dido and her cousin Lady Murray sitting on a bench with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background.
Until the 1990s, the identity of Belle was unknown and other factors around the painting remain a mystery.
Scone Palace has been the beneficiary of the portrait since 2014 and has seen its popularity increase following release of Belle, a film about Dido’s life later that year.
Lady Mansfield of Scone Palace said she has always wanted to know the truth behind the painting.
She said: “The Dido painting, which hangs in our Ambassador’s Room at Scone Palace, is always a favourite with visitors and it still fascinates me.
“It poses all sorts of questions about race, identity and class.
“It was a treat to work with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould as I have always wanted to know who actually painted the picture.”
Scone Palace will also host an exclusive Dido Belle evening on Thursday November 1.
Fake or Fortune will be shown on Sunday at 8pm on BBC One.
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Downward Mobility
Bushes Buy Dallas Home
How many homes does a president need to retire to? George W. and Laura have bought a single-story, 8,500-square-foot, light-red brick house at 10141 Daria Place on 1.1 acres of land in Preston Hollow, North Dallas, the tony neighborhood he used to live in before becoming president. The adjacent house, at 10151 Daria Place, is under contract, and neighbors believe the Bushes will buy that property as well, reports the Dallas Morning News. A neighbor-to-be, Christine Tomasides, says the locals are friendly. "We will welcome everyone: lawyers, restaurant owners or leaders of the free world. Come on in," she said. And another neighbor, Douglas Fletcher, reports the cul-de-sac is home to screech owls, hawks, and the occasional coyote. And it is not just the presence of the hawks that will make Bush feel at home. As the Morning News reports, “After a jarring eight years in the White House that saw his popularity tumble to record lows, Mr. Bush can take comfort in knowing his new precinct is overwhelmingly Republican.”
Read it at The Dallas Morning News
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Don't Retreat
Palin Unveils Secret 2012 Weapon
Ed Andrieski
Sarah Palin may have a secret weapon to catapult herself to the front of the Republican presidential race: a movie. RealClearPolitics recently screened a rough cut of The Undefeated, a two-hour, million-dollar epic directed—and financed—by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, at the request of Palin’s camp. The documentary chronicles Palin’s record as governor of Alaska and her decision to step down midway through her first term. The film, in which Palin is not interviewed directly, reportedly shows the former governor as a Joan of Arc-like figure. It’s set to premiere in Iowa in June and later expand nationwide in two versions: an unrated edition, with language hostile to Palin, and a more family-friendly PG-13 cut.
Read it at RealClearPolitics
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STILL IMPRISONED
Turkish Court Rejects U.S. Pastor’s Appeal for Release From House Arrest
Published 07.31.18 8:40PM ET
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A Turkish court rejected American pastor Andrew Brunson’s appeal to be released from house arrest while awaiting his October trial, Reuters reports. Brunson is currently being held on terrorism charges after living in Turkey for nearly 20 years. Charges include “Christianization” and allegedly being affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and exiled Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen. Brunson was recently moved from prison to house arrest after 21 months due to health concerns. “We are going to request his house arrest be lifted every month,” lawyer Ismail Cem Halavurt said. Vice President Mike Pence and President Trump recently threatened sanctions against Turkey if Brunson was not released immediately, after a deal to get Brunson released fell apart. “We won’t comment on potential sanctions targets or processes. In the meanwhile, diplomacy will continue,” National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis told Reuters after the appeal decision.
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Savvy advertisers set sights on fingertips, not eyeballs
Google’s Coke campaign allowed users at select vending machines to log on to a Coke app and send a real can of coke to a stranger standing at a vending machine across the world.
SUSAN KRASHINSKY
MARKETING REPORTER
Published June 21, 2012 Updated April 30, 2018
Making good mobile advertising is child's play.
That's the lesson one Canadian agency is bringing home from Cannes this week. For the first time this year, the festival created a stand-alone category for mobile ads. Toronto agency Cundari was among the Gold Lion winners, for a smartphone game it built for the Hospital for Sick Children. The "Pain Squad" game was designed to encourage young cancer patients to fill out more regular pain journals – a constant problem with consistency when dealing with kids already worn out from painful radiation treatments and surgeries.
While the app is not an ad, its awards (two golds, for "best user experience" and "charities, not for profit and public information" in the Mobile category) are partly an indication of the lessons the work holds for other advertisers looking to get the most out of mobile.
The advertising awards circuit in general is bloated with events, but few in the industry dispute the value of the Cannes festival, considered the brass ring for creatives around the globe. And the new category is a signal that a marketing platform is growing in importance, as the introduction of the Cyber Lions did in 1998.
"Cannes Lions grand prix are not always the most commercial things in the world, but it's a sign of where the industry is heading," said Tom Eslinger, worldwide creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, and the president of the Mobile jury.
Mr. Eslinger singled out one trend in the mobile entries that most caught the judges' attention: utility. The mobile platform presents an incredible opportunity for advertisers to reach their audiences on the devices closest to them. But people have no incentive to download an app or visit a mobile site just to interact with a brand. The advertisers who make their mobile marketing useful and fun will be most successful at using this medium.
"It's telling that some of our main competitors [in the category] … were children's apps," said Cory Eisentraut, associate creative director at Cundari who helped to create the Pain Squad app. That's because "gamification," increasing the appeal of a task by making a game out of it, is naturally tailored to children.
An app that was in a "dead heat" for the grand prix, according to Mr. Eslinger, was Toyota's "backseat driver" game from Japan. Part of a marketing effort to create a future generation of Toyota drivers, the game used GPS location to allow a child in a car's back seat to "drive" along with his or her parents. The animated car on the phone's screen follows a more colourful version of the actual route, transmogrifying the grey concrete of Shibuya, for example, into a road through the clouds heading for a rainbow's arc.
The app, which also includes points kids can use to customize their virtual Toyotas, was downloaded more than 100,000 times.
"People don't love brands … everybody has to do something that's interesting and engaging," Mr. Eslinger said.
In Cundari's case, overcoming physical pain and exhaustion in children is a lesson it will take forward to its commercial work. (Cannes does not award the grand prix to pro-bono work for the non-profit sector, but Mr. Eslinger said otherwise the jury would have considered it a contender for the top prize.) Kids were rewarded for filling in their pain journals with videos from the cast of TV dramas Rookie Blue and Flashpoint cheering them on.
It's had real results: SickKids' data on pain in young patients had been too scattered use. With the app, completion rates for journals rose to more than 90 per cent. Four more Canadian hospitals will start testing the app next month.
"I look at mobile as where the internet used to be 10 years ago. We haven't even scratched the surface," said agency chairman and chief executive officer Aldo Cundari.
Mobile ad spending is constantly growing as advertisers figure out how to use the platform – rising 74 per cent in Canada to $130-million this year, and set to rise another 65 per cent next year, according to media-buying firm ZenithOptimedia's ad spending forecast released this week.
That's still a fraction of the money pouring into display and search engine advertising online, but industry leaders predict it will continue to grow in importance for marketers looking to reach consumers wherever they are.
Agencies around the world are finding new ways to use mobile. Just this week, South African agency Cow Africa launched a Twitter vending machine to court social media engagement through mobile phones.
It installed the machine in Cape Town for BOS Ice Tea. But you don't buy a can of BOS with pocket change; the machine accepts tweets instead. Passersby are encouraged to send a message to their followers. When the machine's Twitter monitor detects a mini-missive that includes the hashtag "#BOSTWEET4T," it dispenses a can.
The campaign is exactly the type of strategy Mr. Eslinger believes marketers need to use for mobile: creating an experience interesting enough to make consumers want to interact. The machine has charmed people – with the incentive of a free drink – to pull out their phones and become unofficial brand ambassadors. Many wrote messages such as "would love some tea," and "my thirst is quenched."
"Bev" is reminiscent of the campaign that took the very top prize in Mobile in Cannes this week. Google created vending machinesallowing people to send a free Coke to strangers in far-off locations around the world.
All users had to do was tap into the Coke app on their smartphones, select a location, and send it along with a message. When the Coke is delivered, the machine shows the sender a video of that person receiving it.
While the campaign is only a test case and has not been rolled out more widely, the jury felt it used mobile in a particularly ingenious way.
The business side of things
Mobile was not the only new category at the Cannes festival this year. This week also saw the inaugural Creative Effectiveness prizes, reflecting a growing pressure in the industry to demonstrate the business case behind marketing budgets.
The Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness went to BBH London, U.K., for Unilever PLC's men's body spray, Axe. Because it is targeted at young men, the brand has to constantly refresh its campaigns to appeal to new consumers as others grow up. After a successful product launch in 2008, its ads weren't working as well and sales for new fragrances weren't as high. Its "Video" campaign hit 100 markets and increased sales.
Other Lions winners in this new category:
"Born of Fire" Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Portland, U.S.; Client: Chrysler
"Watermark" Agency: Leo Burnett Sydney, Australia; Client: Diageo's Bundaberg Rum
"Breathe Happy" Agency: Grey New York, U.S.; Client: Procter & Gamble's Febreze
"Germany will find you" Agency: Kempertrautmann Hamburg, Germany; Client: Initiative vermisste kinder
"You're not you when you're hungry" Agency: Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO London, U.K.; Client: Mars Inc.'s Snickers
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Sleep 'resets' brain connections crucial for memory and learning, study reveals
Discovery that sleeplessness causes neurons to become ‘muddled’ with electrical activity could help develop new treatments for mental health disorders
Ian Sample Science editor
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Tue 23 Aug 2016 11.22 EDT Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 10.58 EST
Scientists found that, deprived of rest, the brain’s neurons seemingly became over-connected and so muddled with electrical activity that new memories could not be properly laid down. Photograph: www.bridgemanimages.com
For Jules Verne it was the friend who keeps us waiting. For Edgar Allan Poe so many little slices of death. But though the reason we spend a third of our lives asleep has so far resisted scientific explanation, research into the impact of sleepless nights on brain function has shed fresh light on the mystery - and also offered intriguing clues to potential treatments for depression.
In a study published on Tuesday, researchers show for the first time that sleep resets the steady build-up of connectivity in the human brain which takes place in our waking hours. The process appears to be crucial for our brains to remember and learn so we can adapt to the world around us.
The loss of a single night’s sleep was enough to block the brain’s natural reset mechanism, the scientists found. Deprived of rest, the brain’s neurons seemingly became over-connected and so muddled with electrical activity that new memories could not be properly laid down.
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But Christoph Nissen, a psychiatrist who led the study at the University of Freiburg, is also excited about the potential for helping people with mental health disorders. One radical treatment for major depression is therapeutic sleep deprivation, which Nissen believes works through changing the patient’s brain connectivity. The new research offers a deeper understanding of the phenomenon which could be adapted to produce more practical treatments.
“Why we sleep is a fundamental question. Why do we spend so much of our lives in this brain state? This work shows us that sleep is a highly active brain process and not a waste of time. It’s required for healthy brain function,” said Nissen.
The results are a boost for what is called the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis of sleep, which was developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. It explains why our brains need to rest after a day spent absorbing all manner of information, from the morning news and the state of the weather, to a chat over lunch and what we must buy for tea.
Known more simply as SHY, the hypothesis states that when we are awake, the synapses that form connections between our brain cells strengthen more and more as we learn and eventually saturate our brains with information. The process requires a lot of energy, but sleep allows the brain to wind down its activity, consolidate our memories, and be ready to start again the next morning.
Writing in the journal Nature Communications, Nissen describes a series of tests that 11 men and nine women aged 19 to 25 took part in, either after a good night’s sleep, or after a night without sleep. On the sleepless night, participants played games, went for walks and cooked food, but were not allowed caffeine. Staff watched them throughout to make sure they stayed awake.
In the first round of experiments, Nissen used magnetic pulses to make neurons fire in the volunteers’ brains and cause a muscle in the left hand to twitch. When sleep deprived, far weaker pulses were sufficient to make the muscles move. This implied that sleepless brains are in a more excitable state, with their neurons more strongly connected than they are after a good night’s sleep.
Nissen next turned to another form of brain stimulation to mimic the way neurons fire when memories are laid down. He found it harder to get the neurons to respond in sleep-deprived people, a sign that the process of writing memories was impaired by sleep loss.
Why do we sleep? To clean our brains, say US scientists
Taken together, the results suggest that sleep allows the brain to calm its activity so memories can be written down. In contrast, the sleep-deprived brain becomes noisy with electrical activity and so feeble at laying down memories that the process is all but blocked. The consequences of sleep loss were clear in a simple memory test, with tired volunteers faring worse than those who were well-rested.
Teasing out how sleep affects brain connections could do more than answer why we snooze so much. Shift workers and military personnel that have to cope with sleep deprivation could benefit from new drugs or countermeasures that restore normal brain connectivity. Blood samples taken from volunteers in the study showed that sleep deprivation lowered levels of a molecule called BDNF, or brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which regulates synaptic connections in the brain.
But Nissen is more excited about the study’s implications for understanding therapeutic sleep deprivation and its impact on depression. “If you deprive people with major depression of sleep for one night, about 60% show a substantial improvement in mood, motivation and cognitive function. We think it works by shifting these patients into a more favourable state,” he said.
Though striking when it works, therapeutic sleep deprivation is not much use because many patients relapse after the subsequent night’s sleep. But that is not the point, Nissen says. “It proves that it’s possible to shift a person’s mood from one state to another within hours. The idea is that we use sleep and sleep deprivation to understand the brain and develop new treatments. If you think about antidepressants or psychotherapy, it can take weeks or months to see any effects.”
Giulio Tononi, a professor of sleep medicine who first proposed SHY at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the new study was “truly elegant and powerful” and confirmed experiments that until now had only been performed in animals.
“Sleep is essential, and one main reason is that it allows the brain to learn new things every day while preserving and consolidating the old memories,” Tononi said. “Learning and memory require synaptic activity, which is very energetically expensive and prone to saturation. Sleep allows the brain to renormalize this synaptic activity after it increases in the waking day.”
Lars Westlye, a psychologist at University of Oslo, called the study “wonderful” and said the results could throw light on links between the biology of sleep, more complex brain functions, and severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. Like Nissen he believes that a clearer understanding of brain connectivity might explain why sleep deprivation can be so effective in people with depression, and plans to study the effect in patients.
“These new results should strongly motivate further studies in patient groups, both to learn more about the roots of the disorders and how to treat them,” Westlye said.
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Dancing With the Stars Results: Who Made it to the Finals?
by Free Britney at November 15, 2016 6:55 am .
The top five remaining celebs gave it everything they had on Dancing With the Stars Monday, with a spot in next week's finals at stake.
Who's moving on, and who's heading for the door?
With each star set to compete in a Trio Dance on top of a solo routine, the margin of error was small and the stakes couldn't be higher ...
The five couples remaining, heading into the night:
1. Laurie Hernandez and Val Chmerkovskiy
2. Jana Kramer and Gleb Savchenko
3. Calvin Johnson and Lindsay Arnold
4. Terra Jolé and Sasha Farber
5. James Hinchcliffe and Sharna Burgess
It's been shaping up like a two-person race between Laurie and James, both of whom cruised into the Season 23 finals as anticipated.
As for the one unfortunate pair headed home?
At the end of the night, host Tom Bergeron and co-host Erin Andrews revealed the couple who would not be progressing to finals week.
It came down to Calvin Johnson and Terra Jolé.
And while the duo scored a perfect 60/60 (!) for their two dances, Jolé and Farber were sent packing at the end of the evening on ABC.
Said the gracious Little Women: LA star, 36:
“Sasha has been extremely supportive throughout this entire process and honestly, I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Sasha."
“I’m so grateful to have him as my partner.”
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Bergeron then gave her the ultimate props:
“When people ask me in future interviews who are my favorite people we’ve had on the show, your name is on that list now my dear."
Very sweet. As for the four who move on:
The remaining contestants all performed individual dances, after interviews with their loved ones, and Laurie Hernandez stole the show.
Her moving segment featured the gymnast encouraging her grandmother, Brunilda Hernandez, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
“I kind of feel bad ‘cause I’ve been away from home for so long,” Laurie said. “So I haven’t really been able to see her as much as I used to."
"And she’s not really doing so well, but I think I’m gonna see her soon,” Hernandez said, but her grandmother died the very next day.
Wearing purple, in support of Alzheimer's awareness, the 16-year-old Laurie and her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, danced in her honor.
The judges were moved and lavished praise - and perfect scores - on Laurie and Val, who remain the couple to beat going into the finals.
In the second round, made up of trio dances, all couples received perfect scores, which didn't make the voters' jobs any easier for sure.
With four couples remaining, tell us what you think:
Who do you think will win the Dancing With the Stars title this season? Can Calvin or Jana possibly stop James or Laurie from triumphing?
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Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: Caught Throwing Birthday Shade at Prince William?!
by Tyler Johnson at June 25, 2019 1:28 pm .
Last week, Prince William celebrated his 37th birthday.
It was a relatively low-key affair (by royal birthday standards), but all of the important figures in the future king's life paid their respects.
Much of the royal arse-kissing occurred in the comments section of this photo.
Posted by the official Kensington Palace Instagram account, the pic -- which shows Big Willie cold chillin' on a recent trip to Kenya -- was captioned:
"Thank you everyone for your lovely wishes on The Duke of Cambridge's birthday!"
Family, friends, and fans from all over the world gushed about Will on his big day, but one of the top comments stood out for its terse brevity:
“Happy Birthday to the Duke of Cambridge!” the comment reads.
It was posted from the @SussexRoyal Instagram account created by Harry and Meghan back in April.
Now, at first glance, it may look as though there's nothing particularly scandalous -- or even noteworthy -- about the remark.
But compare Harry and Meg's comment to some of their previous birthday greetings:
“Happy Birthday Louis! Sending lots of love from both of us,” the couple wrote on Prince Louis' birthday.
“Happy Birthday Charlotte! Lots of love, H and M xo," they wrote to Charlotte.
Granted, Louis and Charlotte are children, and -- as everyone who's observed the slow recession of his hairline over the years knows -- William is a grown-ass man.
But still -- no expression of familial love? No birthday post on the Sussex's page? Calling Will by his official title rather than his name?!
That's chilly stuff, even by British Royal Family standards.
Social media accounts representing Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles posted tributes to William, and even they were more effusive in their praise for the father of three.
Of course, Meg and Harry's low-key freeze-out may have gone unnoticed were it not for all the recent drama within the Windsor clan.
It all started with reports that Meghan was feuding with Kate Middleton.
Those gave way to insider claims that the real feud was between William and Harry.
Then came the real bombshell in the form of reports that Harry was pissed at William due to the fact that Will cheated on Kate Middleton while she was pregnant with her third child.
Much of this remains unconfirmed, and we may never get the whole story.
But whatever transpired, it's clear that the two couples are not as close as they once were.
Harry and Meghan have moved out of Kensington Palace and relocated 20 miles away at Frogmore Cottage.
They've even broken up the Royal Foundation -- a charity that both couples previously presided over together -- into two separate organizations.
So while we don't know the exact nature of the beef, and it remains unclear if Harry and Meghan intended to snub William, it's undeniable that there's something going on here.
And it doesn't look as though the children of Charles will be burying the hatchet anytime soon.
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Real estate company sues law firm over HHGregg property deal gone awry
Jeff Newman and Indianapolis Business Journal Staff
A Carmel-based real estate company has filed a lawsuit against Krieg DeVault, alleging the Indianapolis-based law firm’s failure to file a property deed in 2003 in a transaction involving defunct retailer HHGregg could now cost the real estate company millions of dollars.
Holcomb signs bill to legalize sports betting, allow Terre Haute casino
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Gov. Eric Holcomb signed gambling legislation into law Wednesday — the last day the bill was eligible for action — bringing significant changes to Indiana’s casino industry this year.
Report: Bosma has deal arranged by casino investor
The leader of the Indiana House is skipping votes on a major gambling-related bill after a casino owner helped arrange a local government contract with his law firm.
Attorney general won’t recuse from overseeing Mueller probe
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Lawyer reprimanded for unknowingly representing co-defendants in separate cases
IL Staff
The Indiana Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a Terre Haute attorney who failed to realize he had agreed to separately represent two co-defendants, leading to his representation of both defendants in a matter in which one defendant wanted to testify against the other.
Convicted ex-ASC chief Burkhart loses bid to stay civil lawsuit
Olivia Covington
The former CEO of a nursing home company now serving prison time for his major role in a corporate fraud scheme has lost his bid to stay additional civil proceedings against him while he fights to have his convictions tossed on the basis of an alleged “profound conflict of interest” on the part of Indianapolis law firm Barnes & Thornburg.
Ex-nursing home CEO wants convictions tossed because of Barnes' 'profound conflict of interest'
Greg Andrews and Indianapolis Business Journal Staff
The ringleader in one of the largest corporate-fraud cases in Indiana in recent years is asking a judge to throw out his felony convictions on the grounds that his legal team at the Indianapolis law firm Barnes & Thornburg failed to disclose a “profound conflict of interest.”
Whitaker will consult with ethics officials over Mueller recusal
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker will consult with Justice Department ethics officials about “matters that may warrant recusal” amid pressure from Democrats to step aside from overseeing the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Federal judge disqualifies lawyer who sued ex-client
Dave Stafford
A federal judge last week disqualified an attorney from representing a plaintiff in a lawsuit alleging abusive debt collection practices in a case filed against a client of the attorney’s former law firm.
Legal defense fund for AG Hill raises questions
The formation of a 501(c)3 to collect contributions to provide for Attorney General Curtis Hill's legal defense against sexual misconduct allegations brought a fresh round of inquiry. Nonprofit law attorneys questioned the legality of starting a charity to raise money for one specific person and how the fund would be monitored in Indiana.
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Showing posts with the label the Kitchen Mom
Healthy Meal: Pan-fried Tofu with Mixed Ground Beef and Veggies
Being a mom, we are used to waking up early and sleep late. Making sure that everything is in place and ready for the next day. It is the same with the meal that I prepare for my family.
A one-dish meal that we can share during lunch or dinner time. When I say one dish meal, it means it's already packed with all the nutrients and vitamins that our body needs, especially for growing up kids.
What's good about the one dish meals aside from it having a full meal in one, it is also not time-consuming. You can finish a simple dish in 15-30 minutes.
As long as you have the right ingredients and seasoning in your kitchen, preparing a yummy and healthy dish will be easy.
If I don't have much time to do grocery shopping, I usually check what's available in the fridge or in our food stock.
Here is one of the recipes that I can share with you that you can also prepare for your family
Ingredie…
Star-studded Aji Seasoning Series with Marian Rivera, Anne Curtis and Liza Soberano
Last May 25, Ajinomoto Philippines Corporation (APC) unveiled two big developments, first is the star-studded Aji Seasoning Series campaign with Anne Curtis, Liza Soberano, and Marian Rivera then APC also announced the New Ajinomoto Group Global Brand Logo ( AGB ) during the #AjinomotoBigDay event held at Oasis Manila
The Aji Seasonings Series
The campaign brings together four Ajinomoto seasoning brands – AJI-NO-MOTO® Umami Seasoning, AJI-GINISA®, AJI-PORKSAVOR®, and AJI-CHICKENSAVOR® – and three of the country’s biggest stars to provide Filipino families with an Ajinomoto seasoning for whatever kind of deliciousness they need whether in fried, saucy, or soupy dishes.
The new AJI-PORKSAVOR® and AJI-CHICKENSAVOR® endorser Anne Curtis and AJI-GINISA® ambassador Marian Rivera made a special joint appearance at the #AjinomotoBigDay to share with media guests their own cooking journeys and encourage Filipinos to #AlwaysChooseAjiSeasonings.
Newlywed Anne said, “Like so many others, I’m a beginn…
Vivo and Qualcomm collaborate for the 5G Antenna Technology
The need for a faster connectivity is a must these days, with smartphones overtaking the sales and usage more than personal computers and laptops, it also requires a more stable and reliable connection, so if you feel the need for speedy connection, well fret no more! As 5G antenna technology is now here.
Vivo and Qualcomm collaborate on breakthrough 5G antenna technology. These two mobile pioneers accelerate 5G development by integrating new 5G millimeter wave technologies with sub-6 GHz into a single commercial form factor
Last June 22, 2018 at Shenzhen, China, Vivo has detailed its collaboration with Qualcomm to address a critical 5G development milestone with their ground-breaking 5G antenna technology.
This collaboration has resulted in the successful design and integration of new 5G mm-Wave (millimeter wave) antenna arrays into a Vivo commercial form factor as well as the measurement of system-level OTA (over-the-air) performance.
This milestone is significant as the arrival o…
Vivo X21 with In-Display Fingerprint Sensor launched in PH: Price and Full Specs
Vivo finally released its latest flagship smartphone in the Philippines, the X21. Pioneering in the latest innovation with the In- Display Fingerprint scanning technology that lets user a futuristic unlocking experience. Combined with its FullView™ Display, AI photography and upgraded face recognition technology, the X21 is the ideal mobile partner for the tech-savvy consumer.
Through its continuous research into user needs, Vivo has consistently pursued innovation to solve consumer pain points. Having invested in long-term research and development to overcome the problems posed by mass producing In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology, Vivo is finally bringing this secure and intuitive unlocking solution to more consumers. Vivo has also made major technology breakthroughs with its FullView™ Display and AI photography featured in the X21.
Two unlocking technologies to bring double convenience
Vivo has been the industry pioneer of In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology from show…
SM Supermalls won a prestigious award in PH Best Brand Awards
SM Supermalls has been part of the Filipinos daily lives. Groceries, clothes, shoes, toiletries, furniture and everything, these are all can be found in all SM Supermalls nationwide.
SM Supermalls was presented with the prestigious ‘Shopping Centre of the Year’ award in the first edition of the Philippines Best Brand Awards, at the recently concluded awarding ceremonies last June 8, held at Dusit Thani Hotel.
Accepting the award on behalf of SM Supermalls was its Chief Operating Officer Steven Tan. “We owe our success to our customers and partners who continue to support and trust the SM brand. This achievement motivates us to further innovate and to strive harder in bringing bigger and better activities and brands to the SM malls,” Tan said.
From its first shoe store in Carriedo, Manila, opened by Henry Sy, Sr. in 1958 – the SM brand has come a long way as it celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. From a one-store operation, the brand grew to provide people with a range of shoes …
Vern & Vernice Enciso, Vivo X21 is their secret for perfect photos
To be a professional blogger or influencer you must have all the essential skills to make an impact in the blogging industry. Content writing skills will always be on the top list. Publishing a good content that can have a great value for your audience. Aside from your quality content, knowledge in social media marketing, patience, strong will and photo editing skill are required.
Editing photos nowadays are easier . People can do the editing in just one click using a smartphone device. It's easy now to have that perfect shot to add as a featured photo.
Vivo endorsers and blogger-sister Vern and Vernice Enciso revealed their secret for taking Instagram worthy photos at the Bloggers United PH, co-presented by Vivo Philippines.
Vivo, is one of the fastest growing company behind the top notch smartphone in the country to date. Last June 22, Vivo launch its newest flasgship smartphone X21 with an In-Display Fingerprint scanner.
During their visit to the Vivo booth at the said well-a…
Tik Tok bares winners of its first “Talent ng Pilipino” Audition in PH
Have you seen the latest online craze? This is the most downloaded app now in the world. Tiktok allows users to easily create a 15 minutes videos with a unique kind of effects that they can share to their friends and loved ones.
Tik Tok, the most downloaded iPhone app in the world, has announced the 15 “Most Talented Award” winners of its first-ever talent contest “Talent ng Pilipino” in the Philippines. The winners will receive Php20,000 each and will be invited to join Filipino stars Maymay Entrata and Edward Barber, who kicked off the talent contest, at the Meet & Greet Party in Robinsons Place Manila on June 24!
The top winners with the most likes respectively under each hashtag are:
#tunogngpilipino:
Chierald Tan - https://www.instagram.com/p/BkM1L1rHI_W/?taken-by=tiktok_philippines
Issey Miyake Parto - https://www.instagram.com/p/BkM1kypHsHE/?taken-by=tiktok_philippines
Norika Koketsu - https://www.instagram.com/p/BkM1sL2nsp5/?tagged=talentngpilipino
RC - https://www.instagra…
Shopee Partners with Leading Beauty Brands, Maybelline and Palmolive in Celebration of Women Empowerment
Shopee partnered with the leading beauty brands Maybelline and Palmolive in celebration of women empowerment. Five Women's Right advocate shared their own personal journey and stories on how they overcame the society's beauty standards and gave tips, pieces of advice to encourage all Filipina women to do the same. 2013 Ms. World Megan Young together with KC Concepcion, and well-known blogger influencers Martha Jante, Kristine Roces and Helen Payawal, the women who advocate women empowerment graced the event.
Jane Lim, Director of Shopee Philippines, said, “Shopee’s Beauty Fair is a celebration of women and their success, and we are proud to partner Maybelline and Palmolive for this event - both leading beauty brands who share the same belief that women should be celebrated as they are. Beauty Fair was conceptualized as part of Shopee’s continued commitment to empowering Filipina across the country. We hope that this serves as an inspirational platform for more women to take a …
Vivo to introduce In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology in PH
All of us are now Xcited to see and try the newest smartphone that will be released by Vivo, the new X21 that contains another pioneering feature that we'll surely love. Young global smartphone Vivo is all set to introduce in the Philippines its upcoming flagship smartphone, X21, that features the pioneering In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology.
Vivo Philippines will reveal all the details about the future of express unlocking technology on June 21 on their official website and social media pages with the #VivoX21LaunchPH.
Vivo is the world’s leading smartphone brand on In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology. At Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in 2017, the smartphone brand unveiled the industry’s first Vivo Under-Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution. Then at CES in 2018, Vivo revealed a ready-to-produce smartphone with the world’s first In-Display Fingerprint Scanning Technology, which preceded the release of the X21.
The upcoming X21 also boasts of an extraordinary …
The Blulane Hotel in Binondo, Manila
When we hear Binondo, we usually think about the Filipino-Chinese community in Metro Manila that has been a melting pot of two different culture, making a destination to locals and tourist that wanted to experience the fusion of modern and traditional establishments.
Binondo is known as the world’s oldest Chinatown and, as such, is richly steeped in history and culture. Since it was established in 1594, it has always been a busy hub for commerce for the Filipino-Chinese community. The area has undergone several phases of modernization through the years with the opening of progressive establishments, but the essence of its old-world charm has remained intact with the eateries at the esteros, to the mom-and-pop shops that offer products ranging from lucky trinkets to traditional Chinese medicines.
The Blulane Hotel is the newly-opened hotel with a vibrant modern luxury ambiance. Its a 17-story building with 172 rooms. This hotel aims to cater to the needs of local guests, business tra…
Foodpanda's Hot ‘n Hungry is back!
The month of June is one of the busiest months of the year. This is the season where we celebrate the important event in the Philippine history, which is Independence Day on last June 12, we also celebrate the day we give honor to the special man of the house during Fathers Day, June -bride weddings and moms and kids getting ready for the opening of the class this school year.
In celebration, foodpanda, the on-demand food delivery platform, has announced the second run of its biggest food sale event: Hot ‘n Hungry!
The second edition of Hot ‘n Hungry will run for the whole month of June, from June 1 to June 30, 2018. These delicious meals are available to foodpanda customers in Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, and Metro Davao. Customers can expect the same jaw-dropping offers, huge discounts and exclusive bundles from over 50 amazing restaurants, including popular restaurants such as Greenwich, Sunnie’s Cafe, Rackshack, Tim Ho Wan.
“No Pinoy holiday, small celebration and fiesta is complete …
Celebrate #AweSM DADventures at SM Supermalls
As they say, "anyone can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad". As the month of June enters, we now anticipate the special day to honor our Daddy, Papa, Dad, Pops, Tatay, a day to honor the man who gives a tough but warm love.
This month, SM Supermalls invites everyone to have fun Dad-ventures on Dad's Day with a host of awesome fun-filled activities, deals and treats in 70 SM malls nationwide.
Kids and moms can give dad the coolest gift by the experience of spending Dad's Day at SM. Adventures include Dad-licious Dining deals, such as upsized meals, dining promos, and meal combos on June 13 to 14 at participating restaurants! Dad's passion for speed and motorbikes is indulged at Extreme Wheels, an exhibit of pimped-up cars and bikes from June 13 to 18 or June 19 to 24.
Meanwhile, tech for Dads teaches interested fathers how to pilot drone or remote-controlled gadgets at the drone demo or RC exhibition on June 15 to 17 or June 22 to 24 in select…
SM City North Edsa celebrates Independence Day through showcasing Filipino Inspired-Collection
Celebrating our independence is a way of honoring the lives and efforts of our ancestors for giving their lives to fight for our country but more than that, this also serves also as a reminder to us that whatever privilege that we are enjoying today are due to the hardships of our Filipino Heroes.
One of the best ways of celebrating our independence is through showcasing the talents that we enhanced as Filipinos.
Last Tuesday, June 12, SM City North Edsa celebrated Independence Day in partnership with one of the hottest street fashion designer Jeffrey Rogador, whose designs are a celebration of immense and diverse Filipino culture. His collection features a style with a concoction of contemporary and deep-rooted aesthetics that both serves to form and functionality. It is about dressing up and celebrating the liberty, diversity, and inclusivity, regardless of age.
Jeffrey Rogadors designs and works represent comfort, style and a ready to wear for the people who love to go with style …
Vivo levels up with the launch of X21 in the Philippines
The smartphone brand that is making breakthrough is again unleashing a new game changer.
Young global smartphone brand Vivo is taking the game a notch higher, launching its first X-series model in the Philippines in June.
Vivo X21, the latest flagship smartphone, breaks world records as it introduces Vivo’s In-Display Fingerprint Scanning technology. It replaces the traditional rear fingerprint sensor commonly found on many smartphones.
The In-Display Fingerprint Scanning technology was preceded by the Under-Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution unveiled during the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in 2017—the first of its kind in the world.
This was no surprise since Vivo has introduced many firsts in the past. It is the first to launch smartphone with a 24-megapixel selfie camera in V7 and V7+. It is also a pioneer in launching a 20MP dual front camera smartphone in V5Plus.
In February 2018, Vivo launched its APEX™ FullView™ Concept Smartphone, its “ultimate iteration” for the futur…
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Just let Cersei Lannister sort out Brexit
Brexit is coming…eventually. With the exit date delayed until October and a bevy of deplorables running in May’s European elections, is it any wonder that millions are tuning in to Game of Thrones for a little escapism? Or at least, that’s what many worthy commentators would like us to believe. The world of Game of […]
by Darragh Roche
Brexit is coming…eventually. With the exit date delayed until October and a bevy of deplorables running in May’s European elections, is it any wonder that millions are tuning in to Game of Thrones for a little escapism? Or at least, that’s what many worthy commentators would like us to believe.
The world of Game of Thrones may be more tantalising than Brexit Britain. Westeros, after all, has far more magic and far less Jacob Rees-Mogg. But as a cultural phenomenon, the show goes well beyond the ‘titties and dragons’ appeal that some wags decried in its early days. The show speaks to a moment in 21st century, a time of moral grey areas and technocratic ennui.
Morality in Game of Thrones isn’t black and white. Most of the character have done unforgivable things: patricide, child murder, torture, mass murder, poisoning, mutilation and on and on in a never ending cycle of horror, regret and vengeance. How paltry and pathetic disputes in the House of Commons seem compared to burning your enemies with wild fire or forcing them to watch their children decompose.
All of which brings us to Cersei Lannister, present holder of the Iron Throne, by sheer force of will. She didn’t start off as a fan favourite: a condescending, incestuous, petty, poor little rich girl. And to be sure, there are plenty of GOT fans who’d love to see Arya Stark drive Needle through her elegant neck (while wearing Jaime’s severed face, apparently) but Cersei has a certain appeal in this dreary political season. She’s a mirror for Theresa May.
Let’s be clear: May shouldn’t start murdering her political opponents, no matter what her private fantasies about Boris Johnson’s demise. But in the Land of Always Brexit, Cersei’s ruthlessness is a twisted reflection of the UK’s political elite. Brexiteers and their megaphones in the press bray about treason and sovereignty, Game of Thrones’ characters are this narrative writ large. A Brexit-weary nation looks to the lords of Westeros to compensate for what British politics lacks: leadership, decisiveness and, yes, revenge on those who’ve wronged the nation.
The parallels between Theresa May and Cersei Lannister are eerie. Neither was supposed to rule, both have been betrayed by powerful men, both have survived where others would have fallen, both face opponents who are stronger, yet fail to seize the opportunity to destroy them. Contrast the painfully honourable Jon Snow and frustratingly ineffective Daenerys with May’s political opponents: a Labour Party hamstrung by its internal squabbles and pro-Brexit Tories who keep failing to oust her.
The key difference, of course, is that Cersei has a plan – at least we’ve been led to believe she does, and her past supports the idea that she has a nefarious plot in the works. Theresa May? Brexit means Brexit. Leave means Leave. My deal or no deal.
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Is it any wonder Game of Thrones engages more people and creates more passionate devotees than exiting the European Union? Imagine, after all, if Cersei Lannister was in charge of Brexit.
We can hate politicians, with good reason and sometimes just intuitively. But like Cersei Lannister, and other GOT characters over the years, we love to hate our least favourite politicians. We enjoy seeing them succeed, in a perverse but all too understandable way. Who didn’t admire Cersei when she blew up the Sept of Baelor, killing her enemies along with many innocent people, some popular characters, and the hapless Mace Tyrell?
What’s unforgivable is politicians who fail, politicians who lose battles but somehow act like they’ve won. Theresa May has been losing for three years but she’s still clinging to power. In Game of Thrones, people like that don’t last long. For good or ill, only the effective survive.
In a country run by knights-turned-fools and the privileged sons of better men, British voters can be forgiven for seeing a little truth in the 21st century’s fantasy epic. And the White Walkers are still on their way to London.
Darragh Roche
Darragh Roche is an Irish freelance journalist writing about politics, society and culture.He studied History and English at the University of Limerick and American studies in Budapest, Hungary.
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Suspended sentence in the Crimea for incitement to racial enmity
BBC Ukraine—
A Simferopol court has found one of the leaders of the pro-Russian Crimean Cossack Movement, Vladimir Tyunin guilty of deliberately inciting ethnic and religious enmity and handed down a 2.5 year suspended sentence.
The proceedings were initiated by a Prosecutor’s Office in Simferopo in February on charges of anti-Islamic and anti-Crimean Tatar calls at two rallies in the summer of 2010.
Around 30 supporters of Tyumin held a picket in protest outside the court.
Vladimir Tyunin who heads the Coordination Council of Russian Organizations of Sevastopol and Tavrida denies any guilt and calls the prosecution “political repression against Russian civic self-organization” He promises to appeal against the ruling.
The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People are basically satisfied with the verdict though they feel that the sentence should have been harsher. According to the Head of the Mejlis Secretariat Zair Smedlyaev, “this is the first warning for Tyunin. We hope that the sentence will be a lesson for him and that he’ll stop slinging mud at our ethnic groups. If not, we will try to get a harsher sentence for him”.
Vladimir Tyunin is a comrade in arms of another well-known Crimean Cossack Vitaly Khramov who was fined 3.5 thousand UAH in June 2011, and then in September deported from Ukraine and prohibited from returning in the next 5 years for inciting inter-ethnic enmity. It also transpired that Khramov had illegally received Ukrainian citizenship while also holding Russian.
In July last year the District Administrative Court of the Crimea passed a ruling to deport from Ukraine for 5 years the first and last President of the Crimea Yury Meshkov. This was on the initiative of the SBU [Security Service] for “indirect calls to change the constitutional order in the Crimea.
In March 2011 two other pro-Russian activists received three year suspended sentences – the leader of the Sevastopol-Crimea-Russia movement, Valery Podyachy and Semen Klyuyev. Both were found guilty of encroaching upon the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the inviolability of its borders. They denied the charges and said that they planned to appeal it in international courts.
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Jewish groups protest ‘revisionist plaque’ at Babi Yar
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Video Librarian Best Documentaries List 2018
Posted on December 10, 2018.
The following list, which was selected and compiled by Video Librarian staff, honors the 25 best new documentaries that were reviewed in the magazine and online during calendar year 2018. Unless otherwise noted, the titles listed here are available from most distributors.
78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene
(Shout! Factory, 92 min., Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $29.99)
Director Alexandre O. Philippe’s insightful documentary focuses on the infamous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. (VL-7/18)
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
(PBS, 90 min., DVD: $24.99 [$54.99 w/PPR from teacher.shop.pbs.org])
Filmmaker Steve James’s PBS-aired Frontline documentary centers on the family-owned Abacus Bank, founded to cater to NYC’s Chinese-American community by Thomas Sung, whose American Dream became a nightmare when the bank was the only financial institution to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 economic meltdown. (VL-1/18)
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Ancient Wargaming Tactics
An article about tactics for Ancients wargaming
Ancients is the most diverse of any wargaming period, in that it attempts to cover warfare from pre-history to the advent of gunpowder.
Wargaming the period can therefore pose a huge challenge to the beginner. There are a myriad of different armies and troop types, many with strange and exotic names. There are hoplites, peltasts, ashigaru, lanciarii, fyrd and huscarls to name but a few. Weapon technology also changed: including the move from the use of sticks and stones to bronze, to iron, to steel, and the development of the horse as a weapon of war.
The situation is further confused by the large numbers of different sets of wargaming rules available for the period.
There are the two biggies, the De Bellis family of rules (DBA and DBM, together known as DBx) and Warhammer Ancient Battles, each of which takes a radically different approach even to such fundamentals as basing the troops: the former uses element-based figures, the latter recommending individually-based figures. After these, the Society of Ancients lists no fewer than 30 other sets, including my own Vis Bellica rules.
What this article will try to do is to give the beginner a basic guide to the tabletop tactics that can be used when wargaming the Ancients period. In other words, what you should be trying to do with your figures when you’re actually playing a wargame, and what your opponent will be trying to do you!
A Body of Knowledge
Rather than rely wholly on my own research and opinions, a request for other people’s ideas and opinions on the subject was posted on two of the wargaming and Ancients wargaming forums. My thanks to all those people who took the time and trouble to respond.
Gross Over Simplification
As has already been stated, the Ancients period is about as diverse as you can get in wargaming terms so, in order to simplify matters for the beginner, I've divided the armies of the period into five extremely approximate stereotypes.
The Charioteers: mass light or heavy chariots supported by infantry (New Kingdom Egyptians; Assyrians; Hittites)
The Regulars: drilled or regular foot supported in a 'combined arms' way by smaller numbers of light troops and horse (Hoplite Greeks; Macedonians and Successors; Imperial Romans)
The Warbands: any irregulars armed with light spear and shield (Celts, Norse, Saxons)
The Cavalry: heavy, extra heavy or noble cavalry supported by light cavalry or horse archers, with maybe the odd infantryman to rally behind (Mongols; Ayyubids; Turks, later Romans)
The Knights: heavily armoured knights supported by peasants who deserve to be ridden down, except for those lovely English longbowmen (Medieval French; 100 Years War English)
These choices caused some controversy from contributors, despite my requests for tolerance!
Comments such as “I can't even agree with your 'extremely approximate' divisions, so I can't make any specific comments here” and “historical tactics for one army that might fall within one of these ‘types’ may never have been used by other armies within that type” whilst not being particularly helpful do serve to illustrate the potential difficulties involved.
However, what follows is a summary of my own and others’ opinions of the following questions:
what tactics are historically accurate for each type of army?
how are those tactics simulated in the various sets of wargaming rules used?
how well do those simulations reflect history?
what tactics ACTUALLY work for that type of army under the various rules used?
The Charioteers
Chariot armies have at their disposal light chariots and/or heavy chariots. These are supported by average or poor quality infantry and, for later armies, average quality cavalry as well.
Despite looking fantastic and awe-inspiring on the table, relying on a panzer division of chariots alone is not going to win battles. Part of their attraction for the Ancients period general was as a strategic transport for his men: they would arrive on the battlefield more rested than if they had walked all the way there themselves. This explains their predominance as much as any of the tactical strengths that they possess.
The key to winning on the tabletop with a charioteer army is to use the chariots to disrupt the battle line of the enemy force to such an extent that your infantry can win the day. Note that you may need to clear enemy chariots from the field before you can do this and, under the DBA rules system, this can often lead to the end of the battle as your general is usually in a chariot and if he goes, so does your whole army.
Assuming that your chariots have cleared any enemy chariots from the field with some form of mass attack, light chariots and heavy chariots should be used to soften up the enemy line.
Light chariots are for skirmishing, not for close combat. They should use their mobility to get round the flanks of an enemy force and pour missile fire into them. Once the enemy battle line has been sufficiently disrupted by this, either due to being shot down or being demoralised by flank fire, attack frontally with your infantry.
Many rules systems, including Vis Bellica and Warhammer Ancient Battles (WAB), simulate this tactic by giving chariots a stability bonus for missile fire over other mounted archers: presumably for providing a relatively stable shooting platform. Watch out, however, for foot bowmen, who can probably outshoot chariots on a frontage-to-frontage basis.
In DBA, however, the missile firepower of chariots is subsumed into their general melee factor: so contacting the enemy’s flank is the thing to do. Being pushed back or removed from the table can here represent withdrawing to regroup rather than being physically destroyed.
As for heavy chariots, many rule systems, including Vis Bellica and WRG 6th, make a mass of heavy chariots frightening to enemy morale but not quite as effective in combat as an infantry unit of the same size. They move faster than the infantry however, so one use is to position your heavy chariots behind your main line as a comparatively fast-moving, and reasonably combat effective, reserve. They can also be used as the expendable tip to a rapid thrust at the enemy line: denting the line enough for your main force to punch a way through the weakened spot. They provide a bit of extra “oomph” for your troops: not your main strength.
In conclusion, your first task is to clear away any enemy chariots: probably with a massed chariot charge of your own. Stay away from the enemy infantry until this is done. After that, if the battle is still continuing, divide your chariots into groups of small numbers and use light chariots as skirmishers, with heavy chariots either forming a reserve or being used as expendable shock troops to be committed just before your main infantry battle line attacks.
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The Regulars
Various contributors pointed out that this army type should really be divided into two sub-types: those regular, drilled, close order troops whose prime aim was to melee and those whose prime aim was to blow the enemy away with concentrated missile fire.
This is a fair point, so let’s deal with each in turn.
For those Regular armies whose main strength is melee, one basic principle emerges: get stuck in to the main enemy force as soon as possible. This holds despite the fact that the tactics used by the Macedonians, Romans and Hoplite Greeks were all slightly different. Alexander used his heavy infantry to pin enemy units, then smashed his shock cavalry into the critical point of the enemy line. The Romans used their heavy infantry as a grinding force that wore down an enemy army through its ability to replace units in close combat, and also used their flexible system to allow them to reinforce weak areas or exploit gaps in the enemies line. Hoplite tactics were pure grind: trying to break an enemy’s line by continual pressure.
Whatever the actual army used, the wargaming application is largely the same. If you are fielding an army whose strength is drilled 'heavy' infantry (Regulars/Melee) then your tactical aim must be to engage your opponent’s main strength with yours as fast as possible: either to pin them to allow your combined arms forces to strike elsewhere (Alexander but not necessarily other pike leaders), or to grind them down (Romans, Hoplites).
Don’t forget that you must be careful to protect the flanks of your valuable infantry as you advance them into combat: and that this will usually involve countering enemy skirmishers or cavalry. Players must also remain focussed on the tactical aim of entering close combat with the main enemy body, and not fritter your Regulars/Melee away on other battlefield tasks. That’s what the Auxilia are for. Finally, only commit them when you have identified where the enemy main strength is on the field.
Note that there are similarities between the tactics above and those previously described for Charioteer armies: the main difference being that Regulars/Melee don’t necessarily need to soften up the opposition before seeking contact. This article will conclude with an examination of these emergent general tactical principles.
As for how rules systems simulate this, most make Regulars/Melee type infantry extremely effective in close combat. DBA also rewards a solid line: making it possible to "squeeze" the enemy by seizing the initiative. Both it and Vis Bellica also do a good job of simulating how, once the battle lines are joined, your choices become more limited: emphasising how important it is to get the choice of where to deploy your Regulars/Melee troops right first time.
The opposite tactics apply to Regulars whose primary strength is missile fire (e.g. Classical Indians, Achaemenids). Here, the tactics are to avoid combat for as long as possible and, as one contributor put it, “shoot, shoot, shoot”.
Find a good spot on the battlefield, preferably behind a defensive obstacle that borders an area of poor quality, but open, terrain (think Agincourt) and sit and wait for the enemy to attack. When actually deploying your troops, work out the fields of fire of your Regulars/Missile troops, making sure you have covered all approaches and exploited cross- or concentrated fire opportunities whenever possible i.e. into an advancing enemy’s flanks, and/or having more than one unit able to hit the same enemy. The more aggressive commander might also want to keep an eye out for the moment to launch a battle-winning counter-charge as the enemy reels back from a failed attack.
When looking at how different rules sets advantage or disadvantage Regulars/Missile troops, two areas must be examined in great detail: the ratio between speed of troop movement and range of missile fire, and the degree of flexibility allowed in target acquisition.
For your army to have the greatest possible chance of success, you want long range missile fire in a system with slow movement (WAB is a bit this way); and as much free choice of target as possible. In Vis Bellica, for example, elements fire at the nearest enemy unit at close range but, at longer ranges, the presence of Officers can concentrate the fire of several bases.
In DBM, nearly all missile fire is subsumed into close combat, with only artillery and foot archers in formed bodies shooting at longer ranges, so players wanting to use tactics like the above must choose which army to use carefully.
In conclusion, using Regulars is relatively simple. If their speciality is melee, go forward. If their speciality is missile power, stay back!
not your average celtic warband!
The Warbands
Warband armies are those such as the Ancient British that are made up of large numbers of average quality, irregular foot, armed with light spears and shields, supported by similarly armed light or medium horse, and large numbers of missile-firing light infantry.
I believe that they are the most challenging type of army to use, as they have the command and control problems associated with their tribal nature, combined with the fact that, troop type for troop type, they usually don’t fight as well as the armies that they are likely to face. The ‘average’ unit of Celts stands very little chance of success in a straight melee with an ‘average’ unit of Roman legionaries.
The key to success with Warband armies is to use your whole infantry force like Alexander’s Companions: striking with overwhelming numbers at a single point of your opponent’s line and relying on your support troops to hold off the rest of the enemy army until you have broken him there.
Warbands do best to attack near a flank of a solid line of "Regulars", especially if they can overlap one edge. Rather than lining up your men evenly across the field, heavily weight one end of your line and aggressively attack that end of the enemy’s battleline with everything you’ve got. The one thing to avoid is to get sucked into the “mincing machine” of a frontal melee against Regulars/Melee troops. Likewise, a “Light Brigade” charge into the front of a line of Regulars/Missile troops.
In DBA, one suggestion is to attack a flank with a double-deep line making sure you have one stand of overlap, and the other flank "held" by a skirmisher. You only get one chance to win with an attack like this, because your skirmisher will flee at the earliest opportunity, but you have a 50/50 chance of rolling up your opponent's flank, and then it doesn't matter what your skirmisher does.
In WRG 6th, one tactic is to mass your skirmishers into larger than normal units. This is particularly effective if using sling-armed lights against Cavalry or Knights armies: watch your opponent’s wedges of five or seven figures disintegrate under the hail of slingshot fire that sixteen slingers can produce!
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The Cavalry
Cavalry armies are fast-moving armies with a devastating combination of (a) massive missile firepower delivered by light cavalry and (b) powerful charges delivered by shock cavalry.
The formula for success is actually very straight forward.
The light cavalry skirmishers use their mobility to shift about the battlefield and pour fire into the stationary enemy. The enemy is almost always outnumbered in the cavalry arm so must either hold it in reserve or watch it get destroyed. If the enemy is foolish enough to charge the horse archers, they fire and retire, drawing the advancing enemy further and further from their supports. Without a fast striking force to interfere, the horse archers fire and fire, careful to avoid any infantry missile men that can out range them.
After a period of time during which the enemy has been weakened, the heavier cavalry charges. Ideally the targets of the charge have been so decimated by archery fire that they don't even stand. The skirmishing horse is now thrown in pursuit of the fleeing enemy, turning defeat into rout.
One aspect of this army overlooked by most rules systems is their ability to pursue the enemy after the battle. This pursuit is, however, handled nicely in Warrior Kings from Two Hour Wargames. After the battle, both sides count the number of units still functioning. Any numerical superiority on the winning side can, under certain circumstances, be used to inflict more (post-battle) casualties on the losing side. This can have a huge effect in competition and campaign games where it’s not just if you win, but how much you win by, that counts.
In DBA, light horsemen are allowed to take more than one move per turn, as long as they stay away from the enemy whilst so doing. This, combined with the longest move distance of any troop type in the game, lets them get almost half way across the battlefield each turn, making them extraordinarily manoeuvrable. Most combat defeats result in them fleeing rather than being destroyed, so they aren't easy to get rid of, and as they are allowed "quick kills" against a number of troop types, they can relentlessly harass slower opponents.
Finally, one thing to note about most rules systems is that they do not allow a good simulation of the “false flight” tactic practised by some cavalry armies.
Knights armies generally comprise a limited number of lance-armed, super-heavy, armoured cavalry supported by similar number of skirmishing light cavalry, and a body of below average quality infantry armed either with bows/crossbows or long spears. They are sometimes split from the Ancients period into a separate Medieval period, representing the fact that they are just too technologically superior to, say, a charioteer army for a battle between the two to have any more relevance than magazine-rifle armed European infantry against spear and shield armed tribesmen!
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Under most rules systems, the actual ‘armoured knights’ elements of a Knights army are incredibly effective in an all out charge, but also incredibly expensive to buy as part of your army composition. In Vis Bellica, for example, a base of Knights (300 odd horse) costs the same to buy as two bases of decent quality foot (say 2,000 men). All the principles that we have explored above for similar troop types therefore apply, but to an even greater extent.
The temptation is to use the armoured knights themselves for an all out charge at the very heart of an enemy line. This is often doomed to failure because, after an initial success, the knights are overwhelmed by superior numbers of inferior troops. The small number of knights available also makes them vulnerable to mass missile fire: Agincourt and Crecy being perhaps the most familiar examples, but light horse archers very dangerous as well.
The knights should be saved for a smashing attack similar to that of heavy chariots or shock cavalry, above, but taking into account the fact that they are so effective in a charge that they can often succeed where the chariots/cavalry would fail. The trick is therefore to make your opponent expose a weak point you can charge: the problem is that you often won’t have the support troops to do it.
As above, again, light cavalry and missile-armed infantry should be used to tempt the enemy into over-extension. At Agincourt, it wasn’t until the English archers snuck forward into range and fired an ineffective but annoying volley of arrows that the French knights charged them: attacking piecemeal in their eagerness to get at their socially inferior tormentors.
In DBx, it is also often worth dismounting your knights and using them as infantry. It might not be historically accurate, but compare your chances of success mounted and dismounted against the enemy troops you are facing, and act as appropriate.
Emerging General Principles
Those amongst you taking notes will have noticed several general principles that have emerged during our examination of battlefield tactics. In summary, these are:
1) The key to success is combined arms, not a preponderance of strength in one type.
2) Use your troops for what they were designed for. Use skirmishers to skirmish, shock cavalry as shock cavalry.
3) Weaken the enemy with skirmishers, then smash overwhelming force into a single, critical point of the enemy line.
4) Aim to disrupt the enemy line. Punching a hole in the middle of it; or attack, then roll up, a flank.
Perhaps most importantly, you must know how the rules system that you use simulates and rewards the successful tactics listed above.
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movie review July 19, 2018
With The Equalizer 2, Denzel Washington Is Hell-bent on Selling His Superhero Franchise
By Emily Yoshida
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The age range for superhero eligibility in Hollywood is quite wide and forgiving, particularly for men, but it seems Denzel Washington missed the cut. There are few other explanations for his and director Antoine Fuqua’s rehabbing of The Equalizer, a mostly forgotten piece ’80s prime-time pulp, with Washington in the title role. The first film garnered many a comparison to the late career of Liam Neeson, but Robert McCall is more of a superhero than the men-of-a-certain-age-in-impossible-situations in which Neeson has found his calling. The voluntary nature of McCall’s sundry vigilante missions is their defining aspect. At the end of the first Equalizer, McCall is seen putting out an open call on Craigslist for anyone who might need rescuing, like a slightly bored, coming-out-of-retirement Spider-Man.
But, like the Spider-Man movies, that should be the theoretical fun of The Equalizer, and now its sequel (somehow not titled The Sequelizer.) The large majority of superhero movies have long since leapt into stakes no smaller than the destruction of the universe, and it’s refreshing to see someone who just wants to take down local crooks and unsavory types. With this premise fully established by the end of the first film, The Equalizer 2 spends — and I did check my watch — about 40 minutes just following McCall as he slaps around bad guys and reunites adorable children with their weeping parents before it digs into its central plot. His new gig as a Lyft driver gives him ample opportunity to witness crimes and bring perps to justice, and this elongated prologue feels a little like a promo reel for a procedural drama — which makes sense given the film’s provenance. But after a guns-blazing opening fight sequence wherein McCall takes a break from reading Ta-Nehisi Coates to beat up some kidnappers on a Turkish train, the film starts to feel like it’s more invested in selling the idea of the series rather than a film in and of itself.
The plot, once we get around to it, centers on the murder of one of McCall’s best allies from his former life as a full-time agent, and the web of global conspiracy that inevitably follows. It’s clear once it gets going why the film has put it off for so long — there’s absolutely nothing memorable to take away from it that can’t be found in every other revenge movie of its ilk. The visible sweat on this is a curious, repeated “fwp-fwp-fwp” laid into the audio track, seemingly meant to emphasize beats of action we would otherwise gloss over.
McCall, tireless do-gooder that he is, is once again fighting for the soul of a wayward young person — this time a neighbor boy and would-be gangbanger played by Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders. It’s a hokey plot elevated by Sanders, who has the same “who is that” screen energy he did in Barry Jenkins’s film, harnessed for quite different means here. Sanders is a necessary presence in a film that early on decides to go full superhero — he’s recognizably, awkwardly, painfully human, even if we’ve seen story lines like his a hundred times before.
Meanwhile, Robert McCall can flip a gun into the would-be shooter’s face (his trademark skill, which he does early and often); he has a MacGyver-like resourcefulness and knack for booby-trapping that should be plenty of fuel for a film’s worth of Wile E. Coyote payoffs. But maybe that’s why it’s hard to track The Equalizer 2 as a film with a plot: With the secret behind his formidable skills out of the bag, all we have is a good guy who is good at things, and a sense of obligation to conjure up a convoluted syndicate of straw men for him to chop down. You can feel how much the film just wants to be about a Lyft driver who beats up rapists, and frankly, maybe that first instinct was best.
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Home » Tyson hopes to expand plant in North Carolina
Poultry Processing & Slaughter / Broilers & Layers / North America / Industry News & Trends / Business & Markets
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By Roy Graber
Tyson hopes to expand plant in North Carolina
Company wants to invest in cooked poultry facility in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, but the project is contingent upon approval of community development block grant
Tyson Foods has plans to expand its cooked poultry plant in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the company revealed on September 1.
The project, however, is in part contingent upon the approval of a community development block grant from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Tyson Foods spokesman Worth Sparkman said. If the grant is approved, the project would create as many as 75 jobs and would represent an investment of more than $14 million in the community.
The company remains optimistic that the CDGB can be approved and that the project can move forward.
“We’re grateful to the North Carolina Department of Commerce and everything it has done to help Tyson Foods bring jobs to the state in the past,” Drew McGee, Tyson Foods’ senior vice president of raw poultry, said in a statement. “We’re hopeful this project will be a win for our company, North Carolina and our customers.”
According to the WATT PoultryUSA Top Companies 2015 Poultry Plants Directory, Tyson Foods has two facilities in Wilkesboro.
Tyson Foods is the largest broiler company in the United States, and the third largest in the world, trailing only JBS and BRF, both companies headquartered in Brazil. According to the WATTAgNet Top Poultry Companies Database, Tyson Foods slaughters 2.31 billion chickens on an annual basis.
Roy Graber is a staff reporter at WATT Global Media. Contact Graber via email at rgraber@wattglobal.com.
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Gas prices rising due to tropical storm Barry
Barry and gas prices
By Joshua Gauntt | July 11, 2019 at 10:35 PM CDT - Updated July 12 at 11:25 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) -Gas prices are starting to rise because of Tropical Storm Barry.
Right now, Gas Buddy says you’re going to pay around $2.39 in Alabama. That’s up six cents, which is better than most of the rest of the country. The national average is around $2.76.
Gas Buddy doesn't expect prices to shoot up because of the storm. A majority of oil and gas rigs are in Tropical Storm Barry’s path. Almost 30% of those rigs have been evacuated.
Gas Buddy says it will become a supply and demand issue and they recommend you go ahead and fill up before prices head further north.
"Prices are going to tick up a little bit because its already started to tick up. But I don't foresee it being too high or ticking up for too long because once this storm passes us, I think it should be going back down pending no major damages or anything of that sort,” Allison Mac, a petroleum analyst with Gas Buddy said.
Flooding may hit some of the refineries, so officials will be keeping a close eye on them as well.
Joshua Gauntt
Josh joined the WBRC FOX6 News team in July 2013 as a reporter covering Tuscaloosa and other parts of West Alabama. Now, Josh serves the community as an On Your Side Investigator. He hopes to be able to continue telling stories that make a difference.
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Financial and Monetary Systems
You’ve heard of Bitcoin, but what about Ethereum?
While Ethereum has its own currency, its potential as a network is piquing investor interest
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You’ve just got to grips with Bitcoin – maybe you’ve even used it. Well, it has a new challenger on the scene that’s got the support of some major businesses.
Ethereum is gaining popularity and its value is rising. According to Bitcoin Magazine, in June Ethereum's currency reached its highest value so far of more than $420. While this is approximately a tenth of Bitcoin’s current value, according to Cryptocompare, some of Ethereum’s unique features have got investors excited.
Launched in 2015, Ethereum is actually the name of the technology which the currency Ether runs on.
Similar to Bitcoin, it allows payments to be made anonymously via the internet and displays these transactions in a decentralized ledger – the blockchain. It does this without involving any third party or banks, which allows users to avoid fees, especially when paying large amounts.
Like Bitcoin it is known for its security and protection against fraud and theft created by the ledger, which anyone using the network can view.
How it differs from Bitcoin
Firstly, where Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, Ethereum is, in fact, a platform, and that’s where its potential lies.
Ethereum creates “blocks”, records of transactions, more quickly than Bitcoin and its supporters believe this efficiency makes it easier to use.
Ethereum allows apps to run on its network. Its creator Vitalik Buterin explains how this works: “The idea is that there exists this magic computer in the cloud and anyone can send programmes to it, anyone can run programmes on it and those programs can talk to each other.”
It will run these programs and eliminate the possibilities of downtime (even if an entity involved ceases to operate), malicious attempts to disrupt them, fraud and other interference. This means a program set to pay another user 10 Ether in five years time will happen without any further input from the user.
Ethereum also allows for smart contracts – digital contracts, written in code, which can be automatically verified and enforced. This allows for the creation of decentralized apps and even decentralized companies, involving no other parties outside of the Ethereum network.
Applications built on the network include apps for smart contracts for crowdfunding and sustainable development and an alternative version of Twitter.
Who’s buying and using it?
Ether, which is the currency that operates on the Ethereum network, is the second biggest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin and the total value of all the Ether in circulation is currently $28.1 billion compared to $57.2 billion of Bitcoin.
According to CNBC, 60% of purchases of Ether have been in Korean won. South Korea is looking at regulating Ether and Bitcoin, which is boosting interest in the cryptocurrencies and Ethereum as a platform.
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), set up in February 2017, consists of 86 companies, including JPMorgan and Microsoft, who support the development of Ethereum. It aims to deal with issues for businesses who want to use the Ethereum such as governance and accountability, and its support has lent credence to the platform.
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Because Ethereum is built on a blockchain, it is also, unsurprisingly, gaining traction with blockchain start-ups. Many of these are taking advantage of initial coin offerings (ICOs), which allows Ethereum to build early investment in return for offerings of Ether equivalent to shares.
Etherscan, an analytics platform for Ethereum, suggests there are nearly 5.5 million Ethereum accounts holding more than 93 million Ether. As a currency, Ether is accepted as payment by a number of web hosting companies and independent online businesses, and can be used with cryptocurrency “credit cards”.
Many users are hoping that the currency they have stored in the account or wallet grows in value – in the same way as Bitcoin. However, experts suggest that investing in Ethereum is really about investing in the platform and the innovative programming it can support rather than in a new cryptocurrency.
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BAD NEWS about diesel car emissions and predicted financial penalties for driving them could be behind a rush to sell oil-burners. And Essex leads the way in Britain as the area’s drivers switch out of diesel cars more rapidly than everywhere else, according to data from the consumer car selling website Wizzle.co.uk. Wizzle has detected a change in the number of people selling their diesel car...
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BAD NEWS around diesel car emissions and predicted financial penalties for driving them is believed to have caused selling times for diesels to double in early 2017, according to new analysis. And in an apparent short-term collapse in confidence the slowdown was immediately followed by the pricing relationship between petrol and diesel cars reversing. The findings come from analysis comparing tr...
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We've been looking at the cars that fly off the Wizzle site fastest - and why some might not sell as quickly as others. The best news is that everything is selling faster this year than ever before! - LIGHTNING FAST sales make Lexus the quickest used car brand for Britain’s motorists to convert into cash, according to new figures. All cars have been selling faster this year than at any point si...
March 29th, 2017 - Car news
Dealer used car appraisal activity in January came close to matching September
We've been looking at how busy dealers are, behind the scenes, and the answer is...very! It supports what we've been saying about 2017 shaping up to be a great year for buying and selling used cars especially. DEALERS appraised almost as many used cars for stock purchase or part-exchange in January as in September last year, according to new data released by AUTOi. The figures add weight to predi...
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2017 Set To Be The 'Year Of The Used Car'
At the beginning of 2017 we published an opinion that this would be the year of the used car. Nothing has happened so far to discourage that view. As the year wears on it is increasingly clear that the balance of opportunity is weighted away from the new car market for the first time this decade. We base this on two factors – the inevitable pressures on the new car market that weaker sterling w...
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We've updated our Christmas story about the psychology of expecting a HIGHER price when selling your car, just when you're likely to get a bit less. And it turns out it's not just for Christmas after all. The data shows us that it looks like it's a winter thing - so we're calling it the 'winter price gap'. EXPECTATIONS ARE HIGHEST just as values are lowest when motorists sell their car in the ...
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Let's face it, Christmas is great but it really takes a toll on your finances. But did you know that all that spending even makes a difference to how much you think your car is worth? We compared the difference between the prices Wizzle users hope to get for their car and what it's really worth. And we found something interesting. It looks like the closer we get to Christmas, the higher the price ...
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Governments Should Focus on Shared Prosperity to Address Inequality—World Bank Group President
Kim rejects “trickle-down” economics in favor of inclusive growth
WASHINGTON, October 1, 2015—World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today called on governments looking to address growing inequality to work on boosting “shared prosperity,” with a strong focus on improving the lives of the bottom 40 percent of populations in developing countries.
“How are we going to address the problem of inequality? At the World Bank Group, we attack it using a term that suggests a solution -- shared prosperity,” Kim stated. “In our work with governments, we support efforts to ensure that everyone benefits from growth, not just those who already control or have access to capital.”
Speaking at the United States Institute of Peace in advance of the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, being held this year in Lima, Peru, Kim pointed to the civil society organization Oxfam as effectively laying out one way to view the challenges of inequality.
“Last year, Oxfam laid down an unusually sharp challenge in their report, “Even It Up,” stating that the richest 85 people in the world control as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of the world – or more than 3.5 billion people,” Kim said. “By highlighting the stark reality that so much of the world’s population shares almost none of the world’s wealth, Oxfam touched a nerve.”
However, rather than focusing on the wealthy, Kim asserted that addressing inequality would be most effective by tailoring policy approaches to help the bottom 40 percent, depending on the country context.
“Efforts to boost shared prosperity will require a variety of strategies for countries, because the bottom 40 percent is made up of different populations in each one,” Kim noted. “Policies or interventions have to be supple and flexible to respond to the variation. A low income country may need to ramp up agricultural productivity. A middle income country may focus more on urbanization. For a country where most children don’t go to primary school, this is the first goal that has to be reached—and then, secondary education.”
Kim described the three ingredients the World Bank sees as having the most promise: “At the World Bank Group, for both of our goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity, three things have to happen—we call it Grow, Invest, and Insure. Grow the economy, invest in people, and insure them so they don’t risk falling back.”
Of the three, Kim stated that economic growth accompanied by rising wages and job creation has been the most important factor in ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity over the past half-century.
However, Kim took issue with those who believe growth alone is the rising tide that will lift all boats:
“A focus on GDP growth is simplistic,” said Kim. “We reject ‘trickle-down’ approaches that assume any undifferentiated growth permeates and fortifies the soil and everything starts to bloom even for the poor. We need to find an economic growth model that’s inclusive, that lifts up the poorest citizens rather than maintains those at the top.”
But, Kim asked, “What do we do in an era of low global growth—such as we are living through now?”
“One answer is to encourage countries to do all they can to boost growth – which often means enacting reforms, like ending regressive fossil fuel subsidies, improving the business climate, and making public expenditures more efficient and targeted,” he said.
Another important step is for developing countries to build more equitable and more transparent tax collection, said Kim.
“Christine Lagarde and I pledged a few months ago that our organizations will do all we can to help countries collect more taxes more fairly. In too many countries, the rich evade paying their fair share. Some companies use elaborate strategies to not pay taxes in countries in which they work, a form of corruption that hurts the poor,” Kim said.
No matter the levels or prospects for economic growth, Kim called on governments to continue to invest in people and insure them against the risks and looming disasters of modern life, so that everyday shocks will not be overly disruptive.
“So many people in all countries, including this one we live in, are living just one illness or accident away from destitution. To have a goal of ending extreme poverty that doesn’t take into account keeping people from plunging back into poverty just doesn’t make sense.”
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Uruguay Challenges Latin American Taboos
President Is Close to Legalizing Pot Use After Doing the Same for Abortion, Gay Marriage; Critics Say Social Services Worsening
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—This South American nation of just 3.3 million people has become the site of a socially liberal experiment of sorts.
In the past year, Uruguay's center-left government has taken on a raft of issues long seen as taboo in conservative Latin America. Abortion was legalized last year, and in August gay couples began to marry under new legislation. In the coming weeks, the Senate is expected to approve a bill that would give Uruguay the world's most liberal marijuana laws.
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Venezuela Says Drone Attack Targeted President Maduro
President, who was speaking at a military ceremony, is unharmed; seven soldiers injured
Venezuelan state television showed moments of panic when a speech by President Nicolás Maduro was interrupted by blasts. The government said that drones carrying explosives targeted the president. Screenshot: VTV via AP
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Updated Aug. 4, 2018 11:57 pm ET
Venezuela’s government said explosives carried by drones were detonated near President Nicolás Maduro and his entourage at a military ceremony Saturday in what the leader called an assassination attempt by right-wing foes.
Mr. Maduro was unharmed, but the blasts injured seven soldiers taking part in a military parade honoring the National Guard in the capital of Caracas, the government said.
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First local case of fentanyl derivative cited in Newberry Twp. death
A Lehigh County man is accused of providing the drugs that caused the death of a Newberry Township man in mid-2016.
First local case of fentanyl derivative cited in Newberry Twp. death A Lehigh County man is accused of providing the drugs that caused the death of a Newberry Township man in mid-2016. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2018/02/24/first-local-case-fentanyl-derivative-cited-newberry-twp-death/367027002/
Christopher Dornblaser, 717-505-5436/@YDDornblaser Published 4:01 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2018 | Updated 5:56 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018
FILE - In this May 11, 2011, file photo, a man prepares heroin he bought on the street to be injected at the Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia. As part of Philadelphia's effort to combat skyrocketing opioid overdoses, city officials announced Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, they want to establish safe havens where people can inject drugs, after members of the city's opioid task force visited Seattle and Vancouver in 2017. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP, File)(Photo: DARRYL DYCK / AP)
A Lehigh County man is accused of providing the drugs that led to the death of a Newberry Township man in June 2016, according to officials.
Newberry Township Police allege that Jeffrey Michael Laughlin provided the drugs to 35-year-old Joshua Wildman, who died following an overdose at his home.
Wildman, according to police, said before he died that he was surprised Laughlin's dealer "wasn't killing people," because of how strong the drugs were.
Laughlin, 39, of Whitehall, is charged with drug delivery resulting in death and drug possession with intent to deliver.
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Death: According to court documents, Wildman was found dead with a syringe in his hand while at his home on June 15, 2016.
When police searched his home, they found bags used to package heroin with white powder substance inside and a bottle cap with white powder substance on it.
The substance and packets tested positive for furanyl-fentanyl. Wildman's cause of death was furanyl-fentanyl toxicity, according to officials.
Detective Daniel Grimme, who filed the charges, said this was the first drug-delivery-resulting-in-death case in York County that dealt with furanyl. Grimme said it is a derivative of fentanyl.
Investigation: Police searched Wildman's phone and found text conversations between Wildman and Laughlin that indicated a drug deal, according to police.
Grimme said Wildman worked in the Allentown area, near where Laughlin lived. Wildman also knew Laughlin because Wildman used to live in that area, according to the detective.
Charging documents state that Wildman and Laughlin discussed meeting for a drug deal in the Allentown area on June 15.
“While he was out there, he picked up from his buddy,” he said.
Wildman took the drugs back to his Newberry Township home, where he then overdosed and died.
According to court documents, Wildman texted Laughlin, indicate that the drugs were strong.
"Yeah this s— is wicked strong. Not your fault," Wildman said to Laughlin, according to police.
"I'm surprised this guy isnt killing people to be honest," Wildman then texted less than a minute later, according to court documents. Police say Wildman was referring to Laughlin's dealer.
"Yeah he says everyone loves... Told him to warn people who slam," Laughlin responded, police said. Grimme said by "slam," he meant use a lot of the drugs.
Officials said they have not yet identified who supplied Laughlin with the drugs.
Grimme said Wildman didn't respond to any other texts or calls after 7:30 p.m., about two hours after his text exchange with Laughlin.
Wildman was found the next day, police said.
Charges were filed for Laughlin on Feb. 22, and he was arraigned on the charges Wednesday, Feb. 28. He was sent to York County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.
— Reach Christopher Dornblaser at cdornblaser@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @YDDornblaser.
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Selling a Birthright: What would the West be like without its federal lands?
A hiker on the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, part of which crosses areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management. More than 1.8 million westerners hunt, and the overwhelming majority of that hunting occurs on national forests and BLM rangelands. (BLM photo)
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– by Chris Madson
I wonder when hunters and anglers in the West are finally going to take to the streets.
For 30 years, a handful of special interests has been trying to steal the public’s forests and rangelands. The faces of the Sagebrush Rebellion are shirttail bandits like Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher who has spent a lifetime raping public rangeland in southern Nevada and has flouted federal law and court orders for the better part of 20 years, but Bundy and his confederates couldn’t get news coverage next to the comic strips in the Pahrump, Nevada, Valley Times if it weren’t for the potent financial, political, and legal backing they get from a much different band of activists — the billionaire supporters of organizations like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
With the big money behind it, the Sagebrush Rebellion simply won’t die.
In the spring of 2012, the Utah Legislature passed a bill calling on the federal government to “transfer title of public lands to the state on or before December 31, 2014.” In 2013, the Idaho legislature authorized a two-year interim committee to “study the process for the State of Idaho to acquire title to and control of public lands controlled by the federal government in the state.” Nevada, Montana, and Wyoming have since passed similar bills, and the Colorado and New Mexico legislatures are considering their own versions.
Of course, the states can’t force the federal government to give up its holdings; a move like that would require approval from Congress in Washington. And it’s clear that the same forces that are working to shove proposals through state legislatures are at work in Congress as well. In late March, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to an appropriations bill that would help fund initiatives “to sell or transfer to a State or local government any Federal land that is not within the boundaries of a National Park, National Preserve, or National Monument,” which is to say, any national forest land, BLM holding, or national wildlife refuge said state or local governments might want.
This isn’t the work of a renegade bunch of disgruntled brush poppers. It’s a well-funded, carefully coordinated effort to disinherit 318 million Americans inflicted on us by a tiny group of billionaire outlanders. The injury would be felt across the country, but it would be most painful for the people who have chosen to live, often at great personal cost, in the 12 western states that contain most of the nation’s public land. More than 1.8 million of these westerners hunt, and the overwhelming majority of that hunting occurs on national forests and BLM rangelands. More than 5.3 million westerners fish, and while a solid proportion of these anglers pursue their sport on the ocean or on large reservoirs, many, if not most, spend at least some their time fishing on federal land.
So what would ALEC’s brave new West be like for the average resident and tourist? A poorer place ….
Condition of rangeland and forest
Most Monday mornings, I have coffee with three retired biologists who spent long careers with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The other day, I asked them how well they thought state lands had been managed in Wyoming over the last 30 years. About all I got was a snort.
Most of the land the state currently owns is leased to private interests. The Office of State Lands and Investments has neither the manpower nor the inclination to keep track of how those lessees are managing the state property under their control, which means that much of it is routinely abused for short-term profit.
Even the federal authorities struggle to control the excesses of commercial operations that hold leases on public land. In 2011, the BLM itself reported that nearly 93 million acres of the pasture it manages could stand improvement. That’s about 60 percent of BLM rangeland. Not even BLM officials, with the full weight of the federal government behind them, could make sure that public lands were being managed properly if that meant confronting a leaseholder.
I’ve personally seen a sheep operation leave its flocks on a Forest Service grazing allotment for more than three weeks after they were supposed to be removed. This happened repeatedly over several years, and was no accident. The operator was simply stealing public forage, and there was no one around who could force him to stop.
If federal lands reverted to the state, would state authorities have the personnel or the inclination to act against an operator who violated the terms of his lease? Hard experience with state lands suggests the problem would be far worse.
Timber management on national forests has gone through several phases since the Forest Service was created. In 1905, the Service allowed 68 million board feet to be cut. By 1924, the harvest had increased to 1.1 billion board feet. In 1987, it peaked at 12.7 billion board feet, but soon after, the volume dropped as opposition to large-scale clearcuts and the construction of access roads intensified. These days, timber harvest on the national forests hovers around 2.5 billion board feet a year.
Large clearcuts are good for the timber industry and generally bad for the forest, since they encourage soil erosion, degrade water quality, often delay regeneration of the forest, reduce cover for many species of wildlife, and can actually increase the risk of wildfires when large piles of tinder-dry slash are left behind. On the other hand, small clearcuts and selective cutting may be useful tools in managing for wildlife and reducing the risk of wildfire — their value depends on what the public wants from a forest and how the timber harvest is carried out.
Striking a balance between timber yield and other management objectives on national forests has been the subject of lively debate for 50 years or more, and the resulting public dialogue has led to nuances in forest management that would have been unimaginable in the 1960s. I’m not an unalloyed fan of federal timber management, but I have no faith at all in the outcome of similar debates if they are controlled entirely at the state or local level. Without a federal presence to lend some measure of balance to the discussion, industrial interests will prevail.
Energy and mineral development
Over the last 20 years, several researchers have studied the effects of oil and gas production on wildlife in the sage. The results of these investigations are sobering. Massive drilling for natural gas began on the Mesa near Pinedale, Wyoming, in 2001. Over the next 12 years, the mule deer population there dropped 42 percent while the wintering populations on less disturbed winter ranges two to 10 miles to the west showed no decline.
Researchers have found that pronghorn are avoiding the heaviest drilling and vehicle traffic on the Mesa, and still other investigators have found that sage grouse stop using areas within three miles of roads and production sites, apparently because of the noise.
The gas field on the Mesa, along with several other major oil and gas fields in Wyoming, is on BLM land and under nominal BLM management. It’s clear that the federal agency had little influence over the decision to develop these fields, but it has at least been able to force a review of environmental impacts, require ongoing research on lingering effects, and mandate some contribution by the energy companies to fund habitat management for affected wildlife elsewhere.
It’s hard to believe that any of these measures would have been required if the state had been in charge when the leases were developed.
Oil and gas are by no means the only valuable commodities under federal lands in the West. Wyoming is now the leading producer of coal in the country, and as domestic demand has flattened, the state is actively pursuing the possibility of shipping coal to the Far East.
Uranium is once again in demand, and a mining operation for rare earth minerals is scheduled to open in Wyoming’s Bear Lodge Mountains as early as 2017. The fight over the Canadian proposal to mine gold and silver in and around the Gallatin National Forest at the headwaters of the Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone is still fresh in many minds, and huge deposits of oil shale under BLM holdings will attract attention from industry as soon as the price of oil heads back up. The gigantic Chokecherry and Sierra Madre wind energy projects by themselves will cover nearly 220,000 acres.
Finding a way to balance the demand for these resources with the long-term health of wild land and wildlife will be hard enough, even with federal laws like the National Environmental Policy Act, the Federal Land Management Policy Act, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, and the Endangered Species Act in place to force a semblance of rational decision-making. In the absence of such environmental laws, big business would be free to use its considerable economic and political power to cut every corner and get on with maximizing profit at the expense of the land and its people.
Few management questions on the public domain have generated more heated debate than the issue of access. Whether the proposal at hand is as sweeping as a new million-acre wilderness or as local as a locked gate during hunting season, people on several sides of the proposal are likely to end up fighting mad before a final decision is made.
Most westerners who are familiar with federal lands recognize that there is a balance to be struck when it comes to access. Few of us would be happy if we had to park our trucks at the forest boundary and walk wherever we wanted to go on several million acres, but nearly all of us recognize that, left without regulation, travelers on federal land would pioneer a two-track into every square foot of national forest and BLM land. We know what kind of damage that would cause, not only to vegetation and streams but to the experience most of us come to the public domain to find.
Research at the Starkey Experimental Forest in Oregon has proved what nearly every experienced elk hunt knows: Successful elk hunting begins where the road ends. Elk and most other big game animals have learned from hard experience to stay away from roads. Hunting is just better in the backcountry. That goes for fishing, too — any western angler knows he’d better walk half a mile up the creek before he starts to cast.
The current mix of road and roadless is about as even a compromise as we’re likely to have. It ought to be — we’ve spent two generations wrangling over it. People with the cash and inclination can get to a lot of good places by internal combustion engine. People who are willing to pay for their solitude with sweat instead of gasoline also have that option.
I don’t think the balance we’ve struck would survive if federal lands were turned over to the states. There are already far too many people breaking the law with their ATVs, driving where the law says they should be walking. Without roadless rules and credible enforcement to back them, public land would be overrun with vehicles, and the opportunity to enjoy a day of silence in the backcountry would be lost forever, simply because there would BE no backcountry.
Federal land in the West is far from perfect wildlife habitat. The concessions that have been made in the name of multiple use; the relentless pressures brought by special interests, from Exxon to Wild Horse Annie, have left the nation’s forests and rangelands in less-than-optimum condition. But if the feds can’t hold out against these pressures, I’m sure I don’t know how anyone can expect the states to do better. If federal lands were given to the states, wildlife habitat, both terrestrial and aquatic, would inevitably deteriorate as the demands of special interests were served. There would be less fish and game.
And what was left would spend more time on private property. For several years, I’ve hunted elk on a little mountain range close to the exact center of nowhere. The range itself is BLM ground; the sagebrush flats on all four sides are private land, jealously posted. The mountains aren’t a bad place to find an elk, if you’re willing to get down into the canyons and pack your quarters a thousand vertical feet and a mile or two back to the truck. Better get him in the first three days, though — after that, the whole herd will be down on the private ground, laughing at you. If the access on public land were better, the elk would just move across the fence sooner.
I doubt that any of the western states could summon the will or budget to enforce restrictions on access, should they find a way to lay claim to the federal estate. Without the enforcement, hunting and fishing opportunity would migrate onto private land.
There are a few hunters and anglers who are lucky enough to have connections on a big ranch or two. Some of them may be thinking that more fish and game on private land could be a great thing. I wish them luck with that approach. As quality hunting and fishing become rarer, their value increases. Half a dozen times in my life, I’ve lost a great hunting spot on private land because the owner decided to lease it. I can’t fault such decisions because they mean that the owner may be encouraged to invest more time and money in his wildlife habitat, but the trend clearly favors the hunter who has enough money to lease hunting privileges or buy top-quality game cover outright. I can’t afford to go very far in the bidding for this kind of opportunity, and I doubt many other hunters can, either. This is the way a uniquely American system of hunting becomes Europeanized.
When it comes down to a confrontation between the interests of thousands of hunters and other conservationists on one hand and the interests of even a single landowner on the other, the states have a long, sad record of siding with the landowner. In Wyoming, we now have a law that orders the Game and Fish Department to remove a herd of bighorn sheep if it interferes in any way with a domestic sheep operation.
The bighorn is the West’s rarest and most spectacular game animal. Before settlement, there were as many as 2 million bighorns in North America; now, there are about 50,000. Hunting licenses for bighorns are prized and, at auction, have brought more than $100,000 each. Over the last century, tens of millions of acres of bighorn habitat have been stripped of their wild sheep to make way for domestics. None of this seems to make the least difference to the Wyoming Legislature or its governor. What was it Saint Matthew said? Ah, yes: “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
Nailing down the current cost of managing federal lands in the West is a challenge. Budgets for the federal departments of Interior and Agriculture are broken out by activity, not management unit or state. Still, I think it’s fair to assume that the clear majority of the U.S. Forest Service’s activities are carried out west of the 100th meridian, and practically all of the Bureau of Land Management’s work is done in the West.
The Forest Service’s overall budget for fiscal year 2016 is $6.5 billion. Of course, the Forest Service collects money from many of the entities that use the nation’s forests — payments for mineral leases, timber leases, grazing allotments, camping permits, and the like defray some of the cost of operation. In fiscal year 2016, the Service estimates that its income will be about $493 million.
That leaves a Forest Service operating deficit for fiscal year 2016 of about $6,000,000,000 — that’s billion.
Federal mineral royalties from public lands is in the neighborhood of $7 billion, but that goes to the U.S. Treasury (and to states where minerals are extracted) while Congress is always in the mood to cut budgets in the Interior.
These numbers prompt a simple question: If the western states manage to convince the rest of America to give up national forests and rangelands, how could the states possibly afford to manage these lands?
The answer from the proponents of the scheme is twofold: first, eliminate all that federal bureaucracy and, second, charge more for activities on these lands.
The current condition of many of the West’s public lands clearly shows that federal agencies are underfunded — they’re strained to even inspect the properties they’re supposed to manage, and hard experience has shown that they struggle to enforce the land management plans already in place. The cost of federal land management can certainly be cut or entirely eliminated, but that will open the public domain to uncontrolled timbering, mining, mineral extraction, grazing, water diversion, and exploitation of archaeological and paleontological sites. A refined way of describing that situation would be “the tragedy of the commons.” Or you could simply call it what it would be — land rape.
Any effort by state officials to raise more money from leases on public lands would be doomed before it started. Political pressure from special interests has kept user fees and leases on federal lands at fire-sale prices for the last century. State or local authorities would face even more intense pressure to keep fees low. In the end, the asking price for leases and other fees would be a moot point, since there would be little, if any, surveillance or enforcement on the public domain because there would be little, if any, budget or manpower to support these activities.
Sell out
Of course, there’s a way states could avoid all the complications that would come with taking over federal land — once they gain title, they could just sell it. I doubt that they could find a buyer for it all; bear in mind that the federal government spent years trying to give some of this land away, without success. However, I’m sure there are lots of corporations who would be happy to negotiate rock-bottom prices for the rights to minerals, timber, or forage on some of the federal estate, and the CEOs of those firms certainly have the money to buy the best of what’s left, a few not-so-little corners of paradise for the super rich. Whoever might hold the title to those acres, you can be sure the first order of business would be to build fences and hang out “no trespassing” signs.
The Bureau of Land Management oversees the Adobe Town Wilderness Study Area southwest of Wamsutter. The Wyoming Legislature recently joined several other western states in research to take over management of federal lands in the West. (BLM photo)
Why federal lands matter
This all comes down to a matter of trust: Can state officials, legislators, and bureaucrats be trusted to withstand pressure from oil and gas conglomerates, mining companies, timber magnates, well-connected wind energy corporations, the manufacturers of off-road vehicles, and the livestock industry? Very little that I’ve seen in the last 30 years leads me to believe they can.
And that’s one of the very few convictions I share with the captains of industry. Like me, they’re certain that most of the politicians at the state level can be bought, bullied, or bamboozled into giving them an even freer hand in “developing” the resources of the West than they’ve had in the past. That’s why they continue lurk in the shadows of the debate, pouring untold millions into the effort to take federal lands away from the rest of us. They want to return to the good old days of the nineteenth-century robber barons when they could take what they wanted, when they wanted it, without any concern for the damage they did to the land and its people in the process. They measure their freedom now, as they did then, entirely by their bottom line.
I grew up in a place where I had to ask permission if I wanted to pull off on the shoulder of the road. Like so many others, I was drawn to the West by the mountains and sagebrush basins, the badlands and the big sky. I stayed, like so many others, because these places were open to common, everyday people like me. I can’t understand why anyone with a love of these wild places would ever willingly give them up.
More than government or business, more than constitutions or flags, the land held in common for us all is what keeps real freedom alive in the West. The nation’s forests and ranges are the foundation of a way of life. Without them, this part of the world would be like any other, a landscape whose only purpose is profit, subject to the will of a tiny minority, closed to the rest of us. I can’t even imagine it. I don’t want to try.
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Continental Divide Trail photo and Adobe Town photo by Bob Wick/BLM via Flickr Creative Commons.
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Maggie Frazier says
As a NY resident – I really dont have the experience everyone else here has. But having been caught up in the whole wild horse & burro brouhaha – the idea of our (all of us) public land being handed over to the state sort of turns my stomach. Its not only the horses & burros, but the idea that public land is already pretty much given to cattle & sheep at bargain prices. I wont go on about that but between the cattle degradation, the gas/oil/mining destruction, logging, etc etc., and then there is the “management” of predators – as in slaughter.
I certainly agree with all the people who have commented. I sure would like to feel that these public lands will continue to be left alone just for people to know they are there even if they arent able to visit them.
Incidentally this is a great article – really enjoyed it.
City: Windsor
State of Residence: New York
Barbara Parsons says
I so loved Wyoming Wildlife when you were editor Chris. Toward the end of your tenure you became more outspoken and told it how it is. Here you do so again.
I’m afraid apathy on the part of many will be our undoing. Less than half of our population bothers to vote. Those who want to profit will prevail unless we become very vocal, have rallies, public meetings and so on. We must speak out and vote for what is right. We must engage in public service.
This week we lost our premier conservationist, Tom Bell. He was so effective because he organized the Wyoming Outdoor (Coordinating) Council, rallied the electorate and started a newspaper, High Country News, to tell us the facts. He was a very gentle, caring man, but, he did not make nice when his beloved state was at risk from greedy corporate interests and the lacky politicians who promoted their agenda. He engage his whole life and even sold his ranch to fund what he believed.
Most of our legislators regularly go to meetings of and promote the agenda of ALEC, Wyoming Liberty Group and other like groups promoted by “rich” folks with a for profit agenda. These groups are doing their best to inflict their agendas on our state. They have been successful often either due to corruption or ignorance of our legislators.
We can’t depend on just to residents of western states to oppose them. We have to engage the rest of the citizens in this country to protect “their” public lands.
City: Rawlins
Mary Mangold says
Thank you for this excellent article. In Idaho, the people recently voted out, Idaho County Commissioner, Jim Chmelik, an apostle of Rep. Ken Ivory of Utah. Chmelik will no doubt, still travel the west, preaching his gospel of federal land disposal, but atleast this paraiah will not dwell in the halls of our county courthouse, voting to send precious taxpayer funds to the likes of American Lands Council and Coalition of Counties at $5000 a pop, 3 years in a row. Chmelik, who was campaigning for a third term, lost in a landslide Republican Primary election in Idaho County, on May 17, 2016. The people did speak.
City: Grangeville
State of Residence: Idaho
Duane Short says
Thanks Chris for expertly detailing this issue.
Even in Illinois, a state with only one national forest, the Shawnee and one national prairie, the Midewin, a movement erupted in the early 2000s to transfer management of federal lands to the state.
The movement, led primarily by real estate developers and their political allies, fizzled rather quickly but it did not die.
There, the premise remains that the more local control of the land becomes the more easily the decisionmakers can be influenced by local and not-so-local private interests.
Distilled to its most basic elements, the movement to usurp federal control of federal lands with local control is an effort to divide and conquer.
For example, it is a far earlier task to grease the palms of a few state and local politicians and decision-makers than to accomplish the same at the federal/congressional level. Legislators from all 50 states, to at least some degree, must answer to their constituents who are adamantly opposed to, for example, Wyoming selling off part or all of Yellowstone, the Thunder Basin National Grasslands, Grand Tetons NP and ecetera to private interests. To shut New Yorkers, for examples, out of Yellowstone would incite an uprising and it would cost Wyoming citizens billions in revenue.
Your article is of utmost importance and should be widely distributed and read since the effort to take over federal land is not on most citizens’ radar, especially in states possessing little to no federal lands of great size and/or significance. But… citizens of these many states, likely value our national parks, forests, grasslands and monuments more than do citizens who have these treasures in their own states, or their proverbial backyards. But isn’t that how it goes?
Pre-settlement Illinois was as wild as Wyoming or Alaska. Endless biologically diverse prairies were its hallmark. Today, Illinois’ tallgrass prairie is… get this… 0.047% of its original size. How could this happen? Divide and conquer. That’s how.
Private interests simply could not restrain themselves.
Only a fool would contend that such a thing could never happen in Wyoming. Only a fool would support a movement to divide and conquer our nation’s greatest public treasures while simultaneously betraying our national trust.
City: Laramie
Stephen Bushi says
ALEC should have to register as a lobbyist, and all contributors to ALEC made public. Similarly, all State and Federal legislators should have to make all contacts with ALEC representatives be a matter of public record. And all donations and other contributions of value (travel expenses, cost of accommodations, meals, etc.) provided to legislators be made public. (Essentially any expense involving a legislator that ALEC or its contributors would try to use as a business expense). Any time a Legislator proposes a law that ALEC was involved in authoring, that fact should be made public. The American public has a right to know.
Mark Heckert says
Great article. We, as owners and users of these lands, must stand and defend or they will be stolen away by people who’s highest interest is money. Public lands are part of the fabric of America and part of my identity as an American. I’m NOT letting go!
City: Puyallup
State of Residence: Washington
Brian Connely says
Thanks Chris for ditilling the issue and connecting it to our Lives. You do a better job at that than ANYBODY (living anyway, Aldo was pretty good :))
The issue, nay the very Concept of Public Lands is integral to Who we are as a Country! America’s conservation ethic and practice are not only a model for the World but the envy of all peoples. This concept of the citizens’ Right to use Public Lands was unprecedented before this Nation was born. Before this model, land and its resources were owned/controlled by the elite(Monarchs, Fifedoms, Provencial gov’ts, etc.) and the “common man” was often hung by his own bowstring if he dared trespass on “the King’s Ground”.
The specific issue at hand…whether Public Lands(owned by All Citizens) control be handed over to State Control would be a reversal of the very foundation of what our forefathers envisioned and the antithesis of “Who We Are”.
We can look at the State of Texas as an example of what might lay in store for a State with virtually No Public Lands(because of an unique history of annexation by the Federal Government) (more here:http://www.wideopenspaces.com/….
In Wyoming, our State Lands are in a much worse state than our Federal Lands. Their use by the Public (i.e. The Common Man) is restricted and is governed by State Commissions whose directions change with the political winds.
And in closing, I believe that Local Control = the Wisest Control is a myth. If the formation of ANY of our National Parks/Wildlife Refuges/Wilderness Areas/Forests etc had been left up to “local control”…….None of them would have ever seen the light of day!
This Land IS Your Land, This Land IS My Land, from California to the New York Islands (Thanks Woody….for the reminder!)
City: Casper
Jim Hagood says
Excellent piece.
Exxon, BP, Encana, Chevron, Shell Oil are mere leasees of federal lands, and have obligations as a leasee to the U S A.( mineral extractions/ productions)
Recall, the RIK matters. On that, WYOFILE did some of its best work.
The University of Wyoming(via the Foundation, UWF) had a chance to manage lands, the Y Cross, and deemed it a sell decision. The USA is the owner of lands where much of the mineral production takes place in Wyoming–Federal lands. Off shore lands, are also, Federal lands. (submerged lands).
I too thank, Mr Madison, for his thoughtful, and insightful piece. Also, thank you state and federal workers who care about public trust issues on Federal lands, in ever capacity in which such lands are in need of good stewardship.
City: Lakewood
State of Residence: Colorado
dale lockwood says
I always think about the song America the beautiful and God Bless America. To me without our public lands this country loses much of what is important to us. A quality of life and a way of living most will not experience without land all can use and experience.
Dale Lockwood
City: brainerd
State of Residence: Minnesota
Terry Potucek says
This was a great article for any conservationist and especially those who wish to preserve our wild lands for future generations and save the few unspoiled areas for our dwindling wildlife. There is no doubt in my mind that the western United States public lands would become private playgrounds for the rich and those who would seek to only plunder its natural resources or for those who wish to enrich themselves further. We don’t want to have public lands become private European style hunting preserves and there is no doubt in my mind that state governments will be able to better protect/manage these lands than the federal government, which is far better able to funnel more funds and assistance to wilderness areas than financially-strapped state governments. Please feel free to email me and keep me in the loop on these issues.
Terry Potucek
City: La Mirada
State of Residence: California
Mark O'Brien says
This is an issue at state also in the Great lakes region. On one hand, the GOP-dominated state governments condemn those of us opposed to state giveaways of land to business interests and call us liberals, tree-huggers, etc. and proclaim it is all about jobs- short term, benefiting only a few people. Imagine the number of jobs we would have if these lands and facilities were maintained properly. This is all about conservation — and anyone that enjoys the outdoors, clean water, hunting, fishing, camping, etc. should realize that had these lands not been set aside by the federal government 100+ years ago, we would not be enjoying them now. It’s unfortunate that so many politicians see $$ from the lobbyists and do not really care about America. This really has to change.
Mark O’Brien
City: Ann Arbor
State of Residence: Michigan
brett bittenbender says
Thanks for the great article Chris!!!! I will surely share it. We all have to stay diligent now, more than ever regarding our public lands. The powers pushing this whole movement won’t be happy until they’ve transformed the west into another Appalachia….!!!!
Brett Bittenbender
City: mccall
Earl DeGroot says
I have been watching this issue for months…years actually. I am excited to see so many people jumping on the band wagon. Our elected officials are soon going to realize they have awaken a sleeping giant. I encourage everyone to contact them. I have written until my fingers are sore, and I am going to keep writing!!
Earl DeGroot
City: Cheyenne
Mike Hunzie says
Glad to be able again to read another great work by Chris Madson.
I remember seeing Cliven Bundy riding around on a horse displaying the American Flag, presumably because he thought he was some kind of patriot, while spewing his hate of the U. S. Government. Our state legislature’s “Darby Mountain Sheep Bill” was their way of doing the same thing. It makes for a great show, but in the end, accomplishes nothing except hurting the honest hard working public.
Writing your elected representatives may help (I have; it did not); but the most effective way to keep our public lands public is going to require the people to get their heads out of the sand and work hard to elect those who will not be bought by Corporate America.
Mike Hunzie
City: Diamondville
sarah krall says
Thank you, Chris. I so miss reading your essays every month. I hope I continue to find your work as guest writer; I’ll certainly keep searching for it.
Sarah Krall
City: Lander
Fred Maguire says
Mr. Madsen did a great job communicating the reasons not to transfer every American’s land to the states. As we enter this fight, and it will be a fight, I think we need to include all those users of public land including the folks that come west to visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton Parks. Many stop in their national forests on their way. Also include the out-of-state hunters that use their federal lands in the west. Many are of substantial means and know how to get things done. We need to get all 300 million people to cry foul on the taking of their lands. We can’t allow the Bighorn National Forest become Anadarko Acres.
By the way, Cliven Bundy owes me and a whole bunch of other people a lot of money. I want my money and I want it now.
Fred Maguire
Unfortunately, this is a west-wide problem, not just Wyoming’s. I don’t live in Wyoming anymore, but I still love it as much as I did for the 30 years I was a biologist with Wyoming Game and Fish. The issues are much the same in my adopted state, Arizona, and for the same reasons expressed by several commenters. I admire the optimism expressed by Kim Wilbert of the Sierra Club, but I have followed the actions of Wyoming political representatives Lummis, Enzi and Barraso over the years, and, of course it being Wyoming, have met all of them personally. For the most part, their priority has not been sustainable management of Wyoming’s wildlife and natural resources. I often send comments on land management issues to Arizona representatives McCain, Flake, and McSally. From the canned replies I usually, receive from them I have no faith that they will do the right thing either.
Obviously, the underdogs in this dogfight need a champion or two willing to take off the gloves and fight bareknuckle. Eloquent writers like Dan Neal and Chirs Madson have helped spread the good word over the years, and possibly Wyoming could not have accomplished the reintroduction of state’s iconic wildlife species, the black-footed ferret, without a helping hand from Senator Charles Scott and many, many ranchers in southeastern Wyoming. I worked with a lot of ranchers over the years and found most of them to be people who cared about the land and wildlife. I would hope that most of them do not support this attempted land grab by extractive industries.
So band together my friends, lovers of wild places and wild animals of the open range. You are on the same side. Find me some champions, and If you want to start a revolution count me in.
R.J. Luce
City: Sierra Vista
State of Residence: Arizona
Larry O Copenhaver says
Mr. Madsen’s heart is in the right place but his handle on details is lacking, especially concerning MT. I live here and have been deeply involved in conservation issues for 30 years and the devil is in the details… For one thing you included MT in the states that have passed a law demanding study of Fedral statutes in order to transfer Fed lands to the State. Do realize that Yes, such a statute passed the Legislature here in 2015, but the Governor vetoed it, so no such statute/Resolution exists – please remove MT from your examples. Secondly, Bighorn sheep are an important, almost an APEX species for those enthusiasts who love them… you quote “Hunting licenses for bighorns are prized and, at auction, have brought more than $100,000 each.” Sir, understating things doesn’t help your main point. In 2014, the MT Bighorn Tag brought $474,000 at the Wild Sheep Convention, almost 5 times the figure you quoted… and very close to a Half Million dollars… I still salute your efforts but I hope you’ll forgive my cringing at the details… Respectfully!
Larry O Copenhaver
City: Helena, MT
State of Residence: Montana
Karen Hartman says
Utah has already said that it would sell off some of the Federal lands if they get control to help fund their schools, and to pay to manage the lands. If people think access is difficult now on Forest Service and BLM land, just imagine what it will be like once the state sells off the ‘crucial elk and deer winter ranges’ to private parties. They will block access to the high country, as well as destroying wildlife habitat in the name of subdivisions and large energy developers. I for one don’t want to see uncontrolled oil and gas development, grazing and wind farms on Federal lands. You are so right when you call it land rape.
Karen Hartman
City: Spanish Fork
State of Residence: Utah
Dan Smitherman says
I have read Chris for years when he worked for Wyoming Wildlife. His essays were always thoughtful, well researched and relevant. This one is no different. i have followed this issue for some time and for once an author has captured not only the essence of this issue but all the ramifications and risks in a single essay. Well done Chris. It is way past the time the public spoke its mind and reminded the politicians who votes and whose land this is.
Dan Smitherman
City: Bondurant
Dewey Vanderhoff says
Madson hits a triple here with this essay , but didn’t score at the plate because of an omission. The reala ctivist organization behind the ” Take back our federal lands” by the states and counties is actually the American Lands Council. The ALC is headed by a snarky Utah legislator named Ken Ivory, HQ’d in a very upscale office park south of Slat Lake City. It is also parallel to and possibly ( probably ) partly funded by the Koch Brothers via ALEC. But American lands Council has covertly been co-opting county governments across the West to buy in. ALC has gotten dozens of countie governments to pony up. The list f those counties that donated used to be visible on ALC’s website, but thatw ebside is —conveniently —-down. They say due to overwhelming response., to which I call B.S. because the FAQ pages, propaganda and rhetoric messages, and most convenient of all the fundraising and donations pages are still nicely active. http://www.americanlandcouncil.org/
They succeeded in Wyoming in getting a couple counties to pledge public funds for their private efforts. Lincoln and or Sublette counties if I recall . Ken ivory and his ALC almost succeeded in getting my own Park County Commission to pledge $ 5000 in public funds to ALC last spring, until I called them out on it and had a few other folks raise the issue. Park County then deferred to the state County Commissioner’s organization for guidnace…a thin veiled attempt to get a bloc of Wyoming counties to buy in simulataneously . Oh by the way , 38 of Wyoming’s 90 state legislators belong to the Koch Bros’ ALEC , whose efforts to force relinquishment of federal lands to state governments is ongoing. Our governor Matt Mead gave one of three keynote addresses at last year’s national convention of ALEC in Washington D.C.
ALC is a 501(c)(4) exempt organization and contributions are not tax deductible for federal income tax purposes.American Lands Council 10808 S River Front Pkwy Ste 3029 South Jordan UT 84095 Office: (801) 252-6622
The bottom line is there is a broad, well funded, politically aggressive movement to get vast amounts of federal lands into state hands. Maybe only for “co-management” at first , but eventually full control, then state ownership, and finally privatization —so the billionaires can buy land at bargain prices and lock the rest of us out. It has already happened in Ivory’s Utah , where fully a third of repatriated federal lands have found their way into private ownership.
Make no mistake. The threat is real. Your public lands are on a path to being sold to Oligarchs, and the hunting fishing recreation and natural resources along with them.
Why would we want to go down that path ? We do not. So please keep an eye on your county commission and state representatives about this, and do not hesitate to call ’em out.
Dewey Vanderhoff
City: Cody
Dan Stroud says
Chris; thanks once again for going to the max in your essays. I believe that we in Wyoming have taken for granted what we have for too long; whether it’s the sage-grouse or bighorn sheep! We need to better consider a future that “plans” for these and all wildlife in all of our efforts. Selling our lands is not in our best interest, nor the best interest for anyone other than the rich. Freedom remains as long as we have places to go hunt, fish or just think. Once these lands are gone, heaven help us, our children and their children.
Thanks again for the great article!!
Dan Stroud
City: Pinedale
Joan Timchak says
Great article and I agree with all that has been said
One way to possibly curtail efforts is to find primary election challengers that support public lands to run against Lummis, Enzi, Barasso and state representatives. With such a high percentange against a land transfer a challenger may have a chance of ousting those so willing to sell our heritage to special interests.
Joan Timchak
City: Dubois
Rob Davidson says
The lands managed by the State of Wyoming biggest attraction to the folks backing the transfer of our public lands is no public. The citizen or group that wants to participate on how our state trust lands are managed has no where to go as long as the leaser is meeting their payments. There is no planning process, little notification of pre-determined outcomes, and a body of law within the state that bars any consideration outside revenue.
Rob Davidson
Kathy Baker says
Look to Elk Mountain in southern Wyoming if you want to see one potential downfall. Back in the 1980s I reported on the problem hunters had trying to access the federal lands in that area. There was essentially one public road in, and due to its layout, most hunters could not gain legal access to public lands on the mountain. The mountain had essentially become a private hunting reserve. I moved away from the area in the late 80s so have no idea of this is still the case. I do know that reporting on the access issue caused a local brouhaha, including at least one business (with ties to the landowner) threatening to pull their business from the small newspaper that I reported for. That never happened, and to the publicher’s credit, he never told me to stop reporting on this issue–just to be sure that I was accurate and gave the landowner a chance to respond. The federal government, which has infinitely more resources than the state, has challenges managing public lands and providing access. If the state takes over management of more public lands, access issues like this would likely become much more prevalent–both due to lack of resources and also because our state is still run, by and large, by a good old boys’ network. And that network does not often protect or seem to care for the rights of those who are without connections or power.
ken casner says
Mrs. Baker, you should come and look now at Elk Mountain. Since you left the stages of public access have been fought at a higher level several of the ranches you knew have been sold the Basin, Mckee, UL, Elk Mountain Home Ranch, Rattlesnake Ranch, Vicker’s, and the OH or Ozzburges.
A rich billionaire bought the land,which is his rights. However he enclosed even more public land,and has purchased some more, and for what to raise cattle. We all know it is to protect his holdings along with his private forest and hunting.
I came to Elk Mountain in 1969, with what was to be my best Friend Bill(Boog) Kennedy. Since that time I have truly never left and in 1998, I bought the Elk Mountain Trading Co and for the last 17 yrs have watched this very movement, around the whole area.
Currently this mountain is overgrazed especially when you run 14,000 head of steers on all these Ranch for two years running. First to be grazed off is BLM and State Ground and then private sections are last, for the State and BLM have no real control. Most of these private ranches are within sight, look good at the glance, go up to Quarter section on County Rd. 404 and look beyond the second gate which is private holdings, along with four sections of State and BLM.
Granted, no rain and add all those Wyoming Cattle Association Excuses,even the true stewards of privately owned ranchers give an eye of disgust and know the answers.
What really gets my heart is the Wyoming Game and Fish keeps increasing the licenses and extending the season to curb the Elk Populations, due to these elk coming down to access feed. When that feed is grazed off by 14,000 steers compared to 10,000 Elk, in the prime time of Grass for these animals. Where do these animals go when the first shot is fired on the mountain.
We have a problem brewing and it will reach over all Wyoming people, just not Elk Mountain. I suggest as Mrs. Parson’s said, you better vote… The final report to this legislator by the Office of Land investments is due on 30 November after the elections, this study was funded in 2015 to the tune of $100,000 to turn over Federal Lands to the State. Our representatives voted this year for such an exchange in 2016 just look at the voting records.
City: Town of Elk Mountain
R.W. "Doc" Boyle says
Alec is simply a criminal, traitorous organization bent upon a fascist/republican takeover of our country. Every legislator/congressman or senator associated with it should be impeached.
R.W. “Doc” Boyle
City: New Castle
Betsy Marston says
I couldn’t agree with you more, thanks.
Betsy Marston
Paonia, CO
City: Paonia
Bill Voigt says
This is a great idea if you like pump jacks and private land. Senators John Barrasso and Mike Enzi do not represent the sportsmen and sportswomen of Wyoming. They represent the interests who have contributed to their campaigns. The Koch Bros, proponents of privatization of public lands, have been major contributors to both our Wyoming Senators. When you write your Senators to express your displeasure to their vote on the Murkowski Amendment make sure you enclose a large check or your voice will not be heard.
Bill Voigt
Dan Neal says
Chris Madson hits the nail on the head. State decision-makers will not stand up to pressure from the big interests in coal, oil & gas, and wind power. They can’t afford to manage these lands and will simply sell them off.
Hunters and anglers did take to the streets in Boise last winter to tell the Idaho legislature to back off. We may need to do that in Wyoming this winter, but in the meantime, we all should be writing our legislators.
I suggest that people send their state representative and their state senator an email message expressing opposition to the land grab and including a link to Madson’s analysis. (Here it is: https://www.wyofile.com/column/selling-a-birthright-what-would-the-west-be-like-without-its-federal-lands/)
You can find your legislator’s email address here: http://legisweb.state.wy.us/LSOWEB/LegInfo.aspx
Those of you who are represented by Sen. Charles Scott should know that he rarely reads email. Please send a letter to him via the U.S. Postal Service:
Sen. Charles Scott
Casper WY 82604
Or simply call the good senator at home. I know he likes to talk with his constituents. (307) 473-2512
Two other things: Post a link to this WyoFile essay on your Facebook page and email links to all your friends who love Wyoming’s accessible public lands and want to see them remain under federal control where the public has a chance to stand up for good management.
Let’s oppose the Great Land Grab.
Dan Neal
Kim Wilbert says
Absolutely, this is an excellent article. Transfer of publicly owned federal lands to states will benefit only huge corporations and billionaires. Jerry Egge is correct – everybody who lives in and loves Wyoming or the West must make sure our cherished public lands birthright is not squandered. Please contact your representatives in D.C. (Rep. Lummis, and Senators Enzi and Barraso) and ask them to stop this nonsense now!!
Kim Wilbert, Chair
Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club
City: Riverton
Jerry Egge says
Great article! Without a doubt, we need to stop the federal land-grab movement. Wyoming is under attack. Our congressional delegates have declared their support for transferring our federal lands. I encourage everyone to contact them and put this transfer idea to bed.
Jerry Egge, Co-chair
WY Backcountry Hunter and Angler
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Posted on October 19, 2011 by Greater Media
Patriots nail down A North field hockey championship
BY TIM MORRIS
I n the last two years, nine players from the Freehold Township High School field hockey program have gone on to play in college. It was only natural, considering the talent that has graduated, that coach Beth English looked at the 2011 season as a rebuilding campaign. However, the season has been anything but a rebuilding year.
With a 2-1 win atManalapan on Oct. 11, the Patriots sewed up the Shore Conference ANorth Division title. It is Freehold Township’s first outright division title.
The Patriots (8-4-2) survived a competitive and balanced division and won the A North title with a 5-2-1 mark. Middletown North was second in the division at 4-3-1.
“I really saw this as a rebuilding year, considering that from the past two years we now have nine girls playing in college,” English said. “But (this year’s players) have fight and a winning mentality. The team gets along and that makes a difference.”
Senior Jenna DeMarinis is a differencemaker in goal, English said. DeMarinis has more saves (134) than any goalie in the Shore Conference and has allowed only 22 goals. She has recorded four shutouts.
Helping her out in the back are Jess English, the only returning starter from 2010, freshman MaKayla Pak, who earned her starting slot, and Heather DelGuerico. Ari Bellafiore andAlyssa Moore have been outstanding as reserves.
English said there is little difference on the field between her starters and the substitutes, and that gives Freehold Township significant depth.
Midfield play has been very important for Freehold Township and it starts with Sydney Weise, a junior.
“Sydney Weise controls the game with help from returnee Rachel Swenarton and newcomers Mandy D’Amico, Tori Boylan, Steph Belli and Lindsey Tobey,” English said .
With nine players having scored, “that makes our offense very spread out and hard to defend,” English said. “Senior captains Shannon Hancock (midfield) and Jenna Cassara (forward) play the whole game and lead by example on and off the field.”
Cassara leads the Patriots with six goals and she has added two assists. Weise is the team’s leading playmaker with seven assists and she has added three goals.
Other scorers are Swenarton (three goals, three assists), Boylan (four goals), Hancock (two goals, three assists), Danielle Hallacker (two goals, one assist), Belli (three assists), D’Amico (one goal, one assist) and DelGuercio (one goal).
The Shore Conference Tournament is under way and the Patriots were seeded No. 6 and drew a bye in the first round. Freehold Township was scheduled to play on Oct. 18 at home against the winner of the Howell vs. Ranney School first-round match.
Howell (5-4-1) is the No. 11 seed in the tournament.
Defending champion Shore Regional High School of West Long Branch is the No. 1 seed, and the Freehold High School Colonials are the No. 2 seed. Shore Regional beat Freehold in the 2010 finals.
The Shore Conference Tournament field hockey semifinals (Oct. 25) and final (Oct. 27) will be played at Holmdel High School.
Oct. 19 is the deadline for teams to have a .500 record or better in order to automatically qualify for the NJSIAA state tournament. Freehold (12-0), Freehold Township (8-4-2) and Howell (5-4-1) are in. Colts Neck (4-6-3) and Manalapan (4-6) need wins before the deadline to gain automatic qualification. The state tournament will begin Oct. 26.
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German orthography
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For the international agreement about spelling rules among most German-speaking countries, see German orthography reform of 1996.
Adverbial phrases
Modal particles
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic. However, it shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling once the spelling rules are known, but the opposite is not generally the case.
Today, German orthography is regulated by the Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung (Council for German Orthography), composed of representatives from most German-speaking countries.
1.1 Basic alphabet
1.2 Special letters
2 Use of special letters
2.1 Umlaut diacritic usage
2.2 Sharp s
2.3 Long s
2.4 Sorting
2.5 Person names with special characters
3 Features of German spelling
3.1 Spelling of nouns
3.2 Vowel length
3.3 Double or triple consonants
3.4 Typical letters
3.5 Foreign words
4 Grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences
4.1 Consonants
4.2 Vowels
4.2.1 Short vowels
4.2.2 Long vowels
4.2.3 Diphthongs
5 History of German orthography
5.1 Middle Ages
5.2 Early modern period
5.3 19th century and early 20th century
5.4 German spelling reform of 1996
Alphabet[edit]
German alphabet
(Listen to a German speaker recite the alphabet in German)
Austria's standardized cursive
Cursive from Germany
See also: wikt:Appendix:German spelling alphabet
The modern German alphabet consists of the twenty-six letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet plus four special letters.
Basic alphabet[edit]
Name (IPA)
Spelling alphabet
A a /aː/ Anton
B b /beː/ Berta
C c /t͡seː/ Cäsarnb 1
D d /deː/ Dora
E e /eː/ Emil
F f /ɛf/ Friedrich
G g /ɡeː/ Gustav
H h /haː/ Heinrichnb 1
I i /iː/ Ida
J j /jɔt/; in Austria sometimes /jeː/ Julius
K k /kaː/ Kaufmann; in Austria Konrad
L l /ɛl/ Ludwig
M m /ɛm/ Martha
N n /ɛn/ Nordpol
O o /oː/ Otto
P p /peː/ Paula
Q q /kuː/; in Austria /kveː/ Quelle
R r /ɛʁ/ Richard
S s /ɛs/ Samuel; in Austria Siegfriednb 1
T t /teː/ Theodor
U u /uː/ Ulrich
V v /faʊ̯/ Viktor
W w /veː/ Wilhelm
X x /ɪks/ Xanthippe; in Austria Xaver
Y y /ˈʏpsilɔn/; in Austria /ʏˈpsiːlɔn/ Ypsilon
Z z /t͡sɛt/ Zacharias; in Austria Zürich
^ In the spelling alphabet, for ⟨ch⟩, Charlotte is used. For the trigraph ⟨sch⟩, Schule is used.
Special letters[edit]
German uses three letter-diacritic combinations (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü) using the umlaut and one ligature (ß (called Eszett (sz) or scharfes S, sharp s)) which are officially considered distinct letters of the alphabet.[1]
German extra letters
(Listen to a German speaker naming these letters)
Ä ä /ɛː/ Ärger
Ö ö /øː/ Ökonom; in Austria Österreich
Ü ü /yː/ Übermut; in Austria Übel
ẞ ß Eszett: /ɛsˈt͡sɛt/
scharfes S: /ˈʃaʁfəs ɛs/ Eszett; in Austria and Southern Germany Scharfes S
The capital ẞ was declared an official letter of the German alphabet on 29 June 2017.[2]
In the past, long s (ſ) was used as well, as in English and many other European languages.[3]
While the Council for German Orthography considers Ä/ä, Ö/ö, Ü/ü, and ẞ/ß distinct letters,[1] disagreement on how to categorize and count them has led to a dispute over the exact number of letters the German alphabet has, the number ranging between 26 (special letters are considered variants of A, O, U, and S) and 30 (all special letters are counted separately).[4]
Use of special letters[edit]
Umlaut diacritic usage[edit]
See also: Umlaut (diacritic)
The diacritic letters ä, ö and ü are used to indicate the presence of umlauts (frontalizations of back vowels). Before the introduction of the printing press, frontalization was indicated by placing an e after the back vowel to be modified, but German printers developed the space-saving typographical convention of replacing the full e with a small version placed above the vowel to be modified. In German Kurrent writing, the superscripted e was simplified to two vertical dashes, which have further been reduced to dots in both handwriting and German typesetting. Although the two dots of umlaut look like those in the diaeresis (trema), the two have different origins and functions.
When it is not possible to use the umlauts (for example, when using a restricted character set) the characters Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö, ü should be transcribed as Ae, Oe, Ue, ae, oe, ue respectively, following the earlier postvocalic-e convention; simply using the base vowel (e.g. u instead of ü) would be wrong and misleading. However, such transcription should be avoided if possible, especially with names. Names often exist in different variants, such as "Müller" and "Mueller", and with such transcriptions in use one could not work out the correct spelling of the name.
Automatic back-transcribing is not only wrong for names. Consider, for example, das neue Buch ("the new book"). This should never be changed to das neü Buch, as the second e is completely separate from the u and does not even belong in the same syllable; neue ([ˈnɔʏ.ə]) is neu (the root for new) followed by an e, an inflection. The word neü does not exist in German.
Furthermore, in northern and western Germany, there are family names and place names in which e lengthens the preceding vowel, as in the former Dutch orthography, such as Straelen, which is pronounced with a long a, not an ä. Similar cases are Coesfeld and Bernkastel-Kues.
In proper names and ethnonyms, there may also appear a rare ë and ï, which are not letters with an umlaut, but a diaeresis, used as in French to distinguish what could be a digraph, for example, ai in Karaïmen, eu in Alëuten, ie in Ferdinand Piëch, oe in Clemens von Loë and Bernhard Hoëcker (although Hoëcker added the diaeresis himself), and ue in Niuë.[5] Occasionally, a diaeresis may be used in some well-known names, i.e.: Italiën[6] (usually written as Italien). To separate the au diphthong, as well as some others, which are graphically composed of potentially umlaut-holding letters, the acute accent is sometimes used (e.g. Saúdi-Arabien).[7]
Swiss typewriters and computer keyboards do not allow easy input of uppercase letters with umlauts (nor ß) because their positions are taken by the most frequent French diacritics. Uppercase umlauts were dropped because they are less common than lowercase ones (especially in Switzerland). Geographical names in particular are supposed to be written with A, O, U plus e except "Österreich" (Austria). The omission can cause some inconvenience since the first letter of every noun is capitalized in German.
Unlike in Hungarian, the exact shape of the umlaut diacritics – especially when handwritten – is not important, because they are the only ones in the language (not counting the tittle on i and j). They will be understood whether they look like dots (¨), acute accents (˝), vertical bars (‖), a horizontal bar (macron, ¯), a breve (˘), a tiny N or e, a tilde (˜), and such variations are often used in stylized writing (e.g. logos). In the past, however, the breve was traditionally used in some scripts to distinguish a u from an n, as was the ring (°). In rare cases the n was underlined. The breved u was common in some Kurrent-derived handwritings; it was mandatory in Sütterlin.
Sharp s[edit]
German label "Delicacy / red cabbage." Left cap is with old orthography, right with new.
The eszett or scharfes S (ẞ, ß) represents the unvoiced s sound. The German spelling reform of 1996 somewhat reduced usage of this letter in Germany and Austria. It is not used in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
As the ß derives from a ligature of lowercase letters, it is exclusively used in the middle or at the end of a word. The proper transcription when it cannot be used is ss (sz and SZ in earlier times). This transcription can give rise to ambiguities, albeit rarely; one such case is in Maßen (in moderation) vs. in Massen (en masse). In all-caps, ß is replaced by SS or, optionally, by the uppercase ẞ.[8] The uppercase ẞ was included in Unicode 5.1 as U+1E9E in 2008. Since 2010 its use is mandatory in official documentation in Germany when writing geographical names in all-caps.[9] The option of using the uppercase ẞ in all-caps was officially added to the German orthography in 2017.[10]
Although nowadays substituted correctly only by ss, the letter actually originates from two distinct ligatures (depending on word and spelling rules): long s with round s ("ſs") and long s with (round) z ("ſz"/"ſʒ"). Some people therefore prefer to substitute "ß" by "sz", as it can avoid possible ambiguities (as in the above "Maßen" vs "Massen" example).
Incorrect use of the ß letter is a common type of spelling error even among native German writers. The spelling reform of 1996 changed the rules concerning ß and ss (no forced replacement of ss to ß at word’s end). This required a change of habits and is often disregarded: some people even incorrectly assumed that the "ß" had been abolished completely. However, if the vowel preceding the s is long, the correct spelling remains ß (as in Straße). If the vowel is short, it becomes ss, e.g. "Ich denke, dass…" (I think that…). This follows the general rule in German that a long vowel is followed by a single consonant, while a short vowel is followed by a double consonant.
This change towards the so-called Heyse spelling, however, introduced a new sort of spelling error, as the long/short pronunciation differs regionally. It was already mostly abolished in the late 19th century (and finally with the first unified German spelling rulebook of 1901) in favor of the Abel spelling that put focus on logical word ends. Besides the long/short pronunciation issue, which can be attributed to dialect speaking (for instance, in the northern parts of Germany Spaß is typically pronounced short, i.e. Spass, whereas particularly in Bavaria elongated may occur as in Geschoss which is pronounced Geschoß in certain regions), Heyse spelling also introduces reading ambiguities that do not occur with Abel spelling such as Prozessorientierung (Abel: Prozeßorientierung) vs. "Prozessorarchitektur" (Abel: Prozessorarchitektur). It is therefore recommended to insert hyphens where required for reading assistance, i.e. Prozessor-Architektur vs. Prozess-Orientierung. The use of hyphens here is, however, somewhat frowned upon as it is considered a dumbing down of the written language.
Long s[edit]
Wachstube and Wachſtube are distinguished in blackletter typesetting, though no longer in contemporary font styles.
In the Fraktur typeface and similar scripts, a long s (ſ) was used except in syllable endings (cf. Greek sigma) and sometimes it was historically used in antiqua fonts as well; but it went out of general use in the early 1940s along with the Fraktur typeface. An example where this convention would avoid ambiguity is Wachstube, which was written either Wachſtube = Wach-Stube (IPA: [ˈvax.ʃtuːbə], guardhouse) or Wachstube = Wachs-Tube (IPA: [ˈvaks.tuːbə], tube of wax).
Sorting[edit]
There are three ways to deal with the umlauts in alphabetic sorting.
Treat them like their base characters, as if the umlaut were not present (DIN 5007-1, section 6.1.1.4.1). This is the preferred method for dictionaries, where umlauted words ("Füße", feet) should appear near their origin words ("Fuß", foot). In words which are the same except for one having an umlaut and one its base character (e.g. "Müll" vs. "Mull"), the word with the base character gets precedence.
Decompose them (invisibly) to vowel plus e (DIN 5007-2, section 6.1.1.4.2). This is often preferred for personal and geographical names, wherein the characters are used unsystematically, as in German telephone directories ("Müller, A.; Mueller, B.; Müller, C.").
They are treated like extra letters either placed
after their base letters (Austrian phone books have ä between az and b etc.) or
at the end of the alphabet (as in Swedish or in extended ASCII).
Microsoft Windows in German versions offers the choice between the first two variants in its internationalisation settings.
A sort of combination of nos. 1 and 2 also exists, in use in a couple of lexica: The umlaut is sorted with the base character, but an ae, oe, ue in proper names is sorted with the umlaut if it is actually spoken that way (with the umlaut getting immediate precedence). A possible sequence of names then would be "Mukovic; Muller; Müller; Mueller; Multmann" in this order.
Eszett is sorted as though it were ss. Occasionally it is treated as s, but this is generally considered incorrect. Words distinguished only by ß vs. ss can only appear in the (presently used) Heyse writing and are even then rare and possibly dependent on local pronunciation, but if they appear, the word with ß gets precedence, and Geschoß (storey; South German pronunciation) would be sorted before Geschoss (projectile).
Accents in French loanwords are always ignored in collation.
In rare contexts (e.g. in older indices) sch (phonetic value equal to English sh) and likewise st and ch are treated as single letters, but the vocalic digraphs ai, ei (historically ay, ey), au, äu, eu and the historic ui and oi never are.
Person names with special characters[edit]
German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled in the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone of the passport, but with AE, OE, UE and/or SS in the machine-readable zone, e.g. Müller becomes MUELLER, Weiß becomes WEISS, and Gößmann becomes GOESSMANN. The transcription mentioned above is generally used for aircraft tickets et cetera, but sometimes (like in US visas) simple vowels are used (MULLER, GOSSMANN). As a result, passport, visa, and aircraft ticket may display different spellings of the same name. The three possible spelling variants of the same name (e.g. Müller / Mueller / Muller) in different documents sometimes lead to confusion, and the use of two different spellings within the same document may give persons unfamiliar with German orthography the impression that the document is a forgery.
Even before the introduction of the capital ẞ, it was recommended to use the minuscule ß as a capital letter in family names in documents (e.g. HEINZ GROßE, today's spelling: HEINZ GROẞE).
German naming law accepts umlauts and/or ß in family names as a reason for an official name change. Even a spelling change, e.g. from Müller to Mueller or from Weiß to Weiss. is regarded as a name change.
Features of German spelling[edit]
Spelling of nouns[edit]
A typical feature of German spelling is the general capitalization of nouns and of most nominalized words.
Compound words, including nouns, are written together, e.g. Haustür (Haus+Tür; house door), Tischlampe (Tisch+Lampe; table lamp), Kaltwasserhahn (Kalt+Wasser+Hahn; cold water tap/faucet). This can lead to long words: the longest word in regular use, Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften[11] ("legal protection insurance companies"), consists of 39 letters; while the longest German word ever published (Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, "Association for subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services") has 79 letters.
Vowel length[edit]
Even though vowel length is phonemic in German, it is not consistently represented. However, there are different ways of identifying long vowels:
A vowel in an open syllable (a free vowel) is long, for instance in ge-ben ('to give'), sa-gen ('to say').
It is rare to see a bare i used to indicate a long vowel /iː/. Instead, the digraph ie is used, for instance in Liebe ('love'), hier ('here'). This use is a historical spelling based on the Middle High German diphthong /iə/ which was monophthongized in Early New High German. It has been generalized to words that etymologically never had that diphthong, for instance viel ('much'), Friede ('peace') (Middle High German vil, vride). Occasionally – typically in word-final position – this digraph represents /iː.ə/ as in the plural noun Knie /kniː.ə/ ('knees') (cf. singular Knie /kniː/). In Fraktur, where capital I and J are identical or near-identical J {\displaystyle {\mathfrak }} , the combinations Ie and Je are confusable; hence the combination Ie is not used at the start of a word, for example Igel ('hedgehog'), Ire ('Irishman').
A silent h indicates the vowel length in certain cases. That h derives from an old /x/ in some words, for instance sehen ('to see') zehn ('ten'), but in other words it has no etymological justification, for instance gehen ('to go') or mahlen ('to mill'). Occasionally a digraph can be redundantly followed by h, either due to analogy, such as sieht ('sees', from sehen) or etymology, such as Vieh ('cattle', MHG vihe), rauh ('rough', pre-1996 spelling, now written rau, MHG ruh).
The letters a, e, o are doubled in a few words that have long vowels, for instance Saat ('seed'), See ('sea'/'lake'), Moor ('moor').
A doubled consonant after a vowel indicates that the vowel is short, while a single consonant often indicates the vowel is long, e.g. Kamm ('comb') has a short vowel /kam/, while kam ('came') has a long vowel /kaːm/. Two consonants are not doubled: k, which is replaced by ck (until the spelling reform of 1996, however, ck was divided across a line break as k-k), and z, which is replaced by tz. In loanwords, kk (which may correspond with cc in the original spelling) and zz can occur.
For different consonants and for sounds represented by more than one letter (ch and sch) after a vowel, no clear rule can be given, because they can appear after long vowels, yet are not redoubled if belonging to the same stem, e.g. Mond /moːnt/ 'moon', Hand /hant/ 'hand'. On a stem boundary, reduplication usually takes place, e.g., nimm-t 'takes'; however, in fixed, no longer productive derivatives, this too can be lost, e.g., Geschäft /ɡəˈʃɛft/ 'business' despite schaffen 'to get something done'.
ß indicates that the preceding vowel is long, e.g. Straße 'street' vs. Masse 'amount'. In addition to that, texts written before the 1996 spelling reform also use ß at the ends of words and before consonants, e.g. naß 'wet' and mußte 'had to' (after the reform spelled nass and musste), so vowel length in these positions could not be detected by the ß, cf. Maß 'measure' and fußte 'was based' (after the reform still spelled Maß and fußte).
Double or triple consonants[edit]
Even though German does not have phonemic consonant length, there are many instances of doubled or even tripled consonants in the spelling. A single consonant following a checked vowel is doubled if another vowel follows, for instance immer 'always', lassen 'let'. These consonants are analyzed as ambisyllabic because they constitute not only the syllable onset of the second syllable but also the syllable coda of the first syllable, which must not be empty because the syllable nucleus is a checked vowel.
By analogy, if a word has one form with a doubled consonant, all forms of that word are written with a doubled consonant, even if they do not fulfill the conditions for consonant doubling; for instance, rennen 'to run' → er rennt 'he runs'; Küsse 'kisses' → Kuss 'kiss'.
Even though German does not have phonemic consonant length, long consonants can occur in composite words when the first part ends in the same consonant the second part starts with, e.g. in the word Schaffell ('sheepskin', composed of Schaf 'sheep' and Fell 'skin, fur, pelt').
Composite words can also have tripled letters. While this is usually a sign that the consonant is actually spoken long, it does not affect the pronunciation per se: the fff in Sauerstoffflasche ('oxygen bottle', composed of Sauerstoff 'oxygen' and Flasche 'bottle') is exactly as long as the ff in Schaffell. According to the spelling before 1996, the three consonants would be shortened before vowels, but retained before consonants and in hyphenation, so the word Schifffahrt ('navigation, shipping', composed of Schiff 'ship' and Fahrt 'drive, trip, tour') was then written Schiffahrt, whereas Sauerstoffflasche already had a triple fff. With the aforementioned change in ß spelling, even a new source of triple consonants sss, which in pre-1996 spelling could not occur as it was rendered ßs, was introduced, e. g. Mussspiel ('compulsory round' in certain card games, composed of muss 'must' and Spiel 'game').
Typical letters[edit]
ei: This digraph represents the diphthong /aɪ̯/. The spelling goes back to the Middle High German pronunciation of that diphthong, which was [ei̯]. The spelling ai is found in only a very few native words (such as Saite 'string') but is commonly used to Romanize /aɪ̯/ in foreign loans from languages such as Chinese.
eu: This digraph represents the diphthong [ɔʏ̯], which goes back to the Middle High German monophthong [yː] represented by iu. When the sound is created by umlaut of au [aʊ̯] (from MHG [uː]), it is spelled äu.
ß: This letter alternates with ss. For more information, see above.
st, sp: At the beginning of the main syllable of a word, these digraphs are pronounced [ʃt, ʃp]. In the Middle Ages, the sibilant that was inherited from Proto-Germanic /s/ was pronounced as an alveolo-palatal consonant [ɕ] or [ʑ] unlike the voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/ that had developed in the High German consonant shift. In the Late Middle Ages, certain instances of [ɕ] merged with /s/, but others developed into [ʃ]. The change to [ʃ] was represented in certain spellings such as Schnee 'snow', Kirsche 'cherry' (Middle High German snê, kirse). The digraphs st, sp, however, remained unaltered.
v: The letter v occurs only in a few native words and then, it represents /f/. That goes back to the 12th and 13th century, when prevocalic /f/ was voiced to [v]. The voicing was lost again in the late Middle Ages, but the v still remains in certain words such as in Vogel (compare Scandinavian fugl or English fowl) 'bird' (hence, the letter v is sometimes called Vogel-fau), viel 'much'.
w: The letter w represents the sound /v/. In the 17th century, the former sound [w] became [v], but the spelling remained the same. An analogous sound change had happened in late-antique Latin.
z: The letter z represents the sound /t͡s/. The sound, a product of the High German consonant shift, has been written with z since Old High German in the 8th century.
Foreign words[edit]
For technical terms, the foreign spelling is often retained such as ph /f/ or y /yː/ in the word Physik (physics) of Greek origin. For some common affixes however, like -graphie or Photo-, it is allowed to use -grafie or Foto- instead.[12] Both Photographie and Fotografie are correct, but the mixed variants Fotographie or Photografie are not.[12]
For other foreign words, both the foreign spelling and a revised German spelling are correct such as Delphin / Delfin[13] or Portemonnaie / Portmonee, though in the latter case the revised one does not usually occur.[14]
For some words for which the Germanized form was common even before the reform of 1996, the foreign version is no longer allowed. A notable example is the word Foto, with the meaning “photograph”, which may no longer be spelled as Photo.[15] Other examples are Telephon (telephone) which was already Germanized as Telefon some decades ago or Bureau (office) which got replaced by the Germanized version Büro even earlier.
Except for the common sequences sch (/ʃ/), ch ([x] or [ç]) and ck (/k/) the letter c appears only in loanwords or in proper nouns. In many loanwords, including most words of Latin origin, the letter c pronounced (/k/) has been replaced by k. Alternatively, German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. However, certain older spellings occasionally remain, mostly for decorative reasons, such as Circus instead of Zirkus.
The letter q in German appears only in the sequence qu (/kv/) except for loanwords such as Coq au vin or Qigong (the latter is also written Chigong).
The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in loanwords such as Xylofon (xylophone) and names, e.g. Alexander and Xanthippe. Native German words now pronounced with a /ks/ sound are usually written using chs or (c)ks, as with Fuchs (fox). Some exceptions occur such as Hexe (witch), Nixe (mermaid), Axt (axe) and Xanten.
The letter y (Ypsilon, /ˈʏpsilɔn/) occurs almost exclusively in loanwords, especially words of Greek origin, but some such words (such as Typ) have become so common that they are no longer perceived as foreign. It used to be more common in earlier centuries, and traces of this earlier usage persist in proper names. It is used either as an alternative letter for i, for instance in Mayer / Meyer (a common family name that occurs also in the spellings Maier / Meier), or especially in the Southwest, as a representation of [iː] that goes back to an old IJ (digraph), for instance in Schwyz or Schnyder (an Alemannic variant of the name Schneider).[citation needed] Another notable exception is Bayern ("Bavaria") and derived words like bayrisch ("Bavarian"); this actually used to be spelt with an i until the King of Bavaria introduced the y as a sign of his philhellenism (his son would become King of Greece later).
In loan words from the French language, spelling and accents are usually preserved. For instance, café in the sense of "coffeehouse" is always written Café in German; accentless Cafe would be considered erroneous, and the word cannot be written Kaffee, which means "coffee". Thus, German typewriters and computer keyboards offer two dead keys: one for the acute and grave accents and one for circumflex. Other letters occur less often such as ç in loan words from French or Portuguese, and ñ in loan words from Spanish.
In one curious instance, the word Ski (meaning as in English) is pronounced as if it were Schi all over the German-speaking areas (reflecting its pronunciation in its source language Norwegian), but only written that way in Austria.[16]
Grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences[edit]
This section lists German letters and letter combinations, and how to pronounce them transliterated into the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is the pronunciation of Standard German. Note that the pronunciation of standard German varies slightly from region to region. In fact, it is possible to tell where most German speakers come from by their accent in standard German (not to be confused with the different German dialects).
Foreign words are usually pronounced approximately as they are in the original language.
Consonants[edit]
Double consonants are pronounced as single consonants, except in compound words.
b: at end of syllable: [p]; otherwise: [b] or [b̥]
c: before ä, e, and i: [ts]; otherwise: [k]
ch: after a, o, and u: [x]; after other vowels or consonants or initially: [ç] or [k] (word-initially in Southern Germany); the suffix -chen always [ç]. In Austro-Bavarian, especially in Austria, [ç] may always be substituted by [x].
chs: [ks] within a morpheme (e.g. Dachs [daks] "badger"); [çs] or [xs] across a morpheme boundary (e.g. Dachs [daxs] "roof (genitive)")
ck: [k], follows short vowels
d: at end of syllable: [t]; otherwise: [d] or [d̥]
dsch: [dʒ] or [d̥ʒ̊], used in loanwords and transliterations only. Words borrowed from English can alternatively retain the original ⟨j⟩. Many speakers pronounce ⟨dsch⟩ as [t͡ʃ] (= ⟨tsch⟩), because [dʒ] is not native to German.
dt: [t]
f: [f]
g: when part of word-final -ig: [ç] or [k] (Southern German); at the end of a syllable: [k]; otherwise: [ɡ] or [ɡ̊]
h: before a vowel: [h]; when lengthening a vowel: silent
j: [j] in most words; [ʒ] in loanwords from French (as in jardin, French for garden)
k: [k]
l: [l]
m: [m]
n: [n]
ng: usually: [ŋ]; in compound words where the first element ends in "n" and the second element begins with "g" (-n·g-): [nɡ] or [nɡ̊]
nk: [ŋk]
p: [p]
pf: [pf] in all cases with some speakers; with other speakers [f] at the beginning of words (or at the beginning of compound words' elements) and [pf] in all other cases
ph: [f]
qu: [kv] or [kw] (in a few regions)
r: the pronunciation of r varies regionally:
[ʁ] before vowels, [ɐ] otherwise; or
[ɐ] after long vowels (except [aː]), [ʁ] otherwise;[17] or
[r] or [ɾ] before vowels, [ɐ] otherwise (Austro-Bavarian); or
[r] in all cases (Swiss Standard German)
s: before and between vowels: [z] or [z̥]; before consonants or when final: [s]; before p or t at the beginning of a word or syllable: [ʃ]
sch: [ʃ]; however, [sç] when part of the -chen diminutive of a word ending on "s", (e.g. Mäuschen "little mouse")
ss: [s]
ß: [s]
t: [t]
th: [t]
ti: in -tion, -tiär, -tial, -tiell: [tsɪ̯]; otherwise: [ti]
tsch: [tʃ]
tz: [ts], follows short vowels
tzsch: [tʃ]
v: in foreign borrowings not at the end of a word: [v]; otherwise: [f]
w: [v]
x: [ks]
z: [ts]
zsch: [tʃ]
Vowels[edit]
unrounded
[i] [iː] i, ie, ih, or ieh [y] y [yː] ü, üh or y [u] [uː] u or uh
near-close
[ɪ] i [ʏ] ü or y [ʊ] u
close-mid
[e] e [eː] ä, äh, e, eh, or ee [ø] ö [øː] ö, öh [o] o [oː] o, oh, or oo
[ə] e
open-mid
[ɛ] ä or e [ɛː] ä or äh [œ] ö [ɔ] o
near-open
[ɐ] -er
[a] a [aː] a, ah, or aa
Short vowels[edit]
Consonants are sometimes doubled in writing to indicate the preceding vowel is to be pronounced as a short vowel. Most one-syllable words that end in a single consonant are pronounced with long vowels, but there are some exceptions such as an, das, es, in, mit, and von. The e in the ending -en is often silent, as in bitten "to ask, request". The ending -er is often pronounced [ɐ], but in some regions, people say [ʀ̩] or [r̩]. The e in the ending -el ([əl ~ l̩], e.g. Tunnel, Mörtel "mortar") is pronounced short despite having just a single consonant on the end.
a: [a] as in Wasser "water"
ä: [ɛ] as in Männer "men"
e: [ɛ] as in Bett "bed"; unstressed [ə] as in Ochse "ox"
i: [ɪ] as in Mittel "means"
o: [ɔ] as in kommen "to come"
ö: [œ] as in Göttin "goddess"
u: [ʊ] as in Mutter "mother"
ü: [ʏ] as in Müller "miller"
y: [ʏ] as in Dystrophie "dystrophy"
Long vowels[edit]
A vowel usually represents a long sound if the vowel in question occurs:
as the final letter (except for e)
followed by a single consonant as in bot "offered"
before a single consonant followed by a vowel as in Wagen "car"
doubled as in Boot "boat"
followed by an h as in Weh "pain"
Long vowels are generally pronounced with greater tenseness than short vowels.
The long vowels map as follows:
a, ah, and aa: [aː]
ä, äh: [ɛː] or [eː]
e, eh, and ee: [eː]
i, ie, ih, and ieh: [iː]
o, oh, and oo: [oː]
ö, öh: [øː]
u and uh: [uː]
ü and üh: [yː]
y: [yː]
Diphthongs[edit]
au: [aʊ]
eu and äu: [ɔʏ]
ei, ai, ey, and ay: [aɪ]
History of German orthography[edit]
Middle Ages[edit]
The oldest known German texts date back to the 8th century. They were written mainly in monasteries in different local dialects of Old High German. In these texts, the letter z along with combinations such as tz, cz, zz, sz or zs was chosen to transcribe the sounds /ts/ and /s(ː)/, which is ultimately the origin of the modern German letters z, tz and ß (an old sz-ligature). After the Carolingian Renaissance, however, during the reigns of the Ottonian and Salian dynasties in the 10th century and 11th century, German was rarely written, the literary language being almost exclusively Latin.
Notker the German is a notable exception in his period: not only are his German compositions of high stylistic value, but his orthography is also the first to follow a strictly coherent system.
Significant production of German texts only resumed during the reign of the Hohenstaufen dynasty (in the High Middle Ages). Around the year 1200, there was a tendency towards a standardized Middle High German language and spelling for the first time, based on the Franconian-Swabian language of the Hohenstaufen court. However, that language was used only in the epic poetry and minnesang lyric of the knight culture. These early tendencies of standardization ceased in the interregnum after the death of the last Hohenstaufen king in 1254. Certain features of today's German orthography still date back to Middle High German: the use of the trigraph sch for /ʃ/ and the occasional use of v for /f/ because around the 12th and 13th century, the prevocalic /f/ was voiced.
In the following centuries, the only variety that showed a marked tendency to be used across regions was the Middle Low German of the Hanseatic League, based on the variety of Lübeck and used in many areas of northern Germany and indeed northern Europe in general.
Early modern period[edit]
By the 16th century, a new interregional standard developed on the basis of the East Central German and Austro-Bavarian varieties. This was influenced by several factors:
Under the Habsburg dynasty, there was a strong tendency to a common language in the chancellery.
Since Eastern Central Germany had been colonized only during the High and Late Middle Ages in the course of the Ostsiedlung by people from different regions of Germany, the varieties spoken were compromises of different dialects.
Eastern Central Germany was culturally very important, being home to the universities of Erfurt and Leipzig and especially with the Luther Bible translation, which was considered exemplary.
The invention of printing led to an increased production of books, and the printers were interested in using a common language to sell their books in an area as wide as possible.
Mid-16th century Counter-Reformation reintroduced Catholicism to Austria and Bavaria, prompting a rejection of the Lutheran language. Instead, a specific southern interregional language was used, based on the language of the Habsburg chancellery.
In northern Germany, the Lutheran East Central German replaced the Low German written language until the mid-17th century. In the early 18th century, the Lutheran standard was also introduced in the southern states and countries, Austria, Bavaria and Switzerland, due to the influence of northern German writers, grammarians such as Johann Christoph Gottsched or language cultivation societies such as the Fruitbearing Society.
19th century and early 20th century[edit]
Though, by the mid-18th century, one norm was generally established, there was no institutionalized standardization. Only with the introduction of compulsory education in late 18th and early 19th century was the spelling further standardized, though at first independently in each state because of the political fragmentation of Germany. Only the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 allowed for further standardization.
In 1876, the Prussian government instituted the First Orthographic Conference [de] to achieve a standardization for the entire German Empire. However, its results were rejected, notably by Prime Minister of Prussia Otto von Bismarck.
In 1880, Gymnasium director Konrad Duden published the Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ("Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language"), known simply as "the Duden". In the same year, the Duden was declared to be authoritative in Prussia. Since Prussia was, by far, the largest state in the German Empire, its regulations also influenced spelling elsewhere, for instance, in 1894, when Switzerland recognized the Duden.
In 1901, the interior minister of the German Empire instituted the Second Orthographic Conference. It declared the Duden to be authoritative, with a few innovations. In 1902, its results were approved by the governments of the German Empire, Austria and Switzerland.
In 1944, the Nazi German government planned a reform of the orthography, but because of World War II, it was never implemented.
After 1902, German spelling was essentially decided de facto by the editors of the Duden dictionaries. After World War II, this tradition was followed with two different centers: Mannheim in West Germany and Leipzig in East Germany. By the early 1950s, a few other publishing houses had begun to attack the Duden monopoly in the West by putting out their own dictionaries, which did not always hold to the "official" spellings prescribed by Duden. In response, the Ministers of Culture of the federal states in West Germany officially declared the Duden spellings to be binding as of November 1955.
The Duden editors used their power cautiously because they considered their primary task to be the documentation of usage, not the creation of rules. At the same time, however, they found themselves forced to make finer and finer distinctions in the production of German spelling rules, and each new print run introduced a few reformed spellings.
German spelling reform of 1996[edit]
Main article: German orthography reform of 1996
German spelling and punctuation was changed in 1996 (Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996) with the intent to simplify German orthography, and thus to make the language easier to learn,[18] without substantially changing the rules familiar to users of the language. The rules of the new spelling concern correspondence between sounds and written letters (including rules for spelling loan words), capitalisation, joined and separate words, hyphenated spellings, punctuation, and hyphenation at the end of a line. Place names and family names were excluded from the reform.
The reform was adopted initially by Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, and later by Luxembourg as well.
The new orthography is mandatory only in schools. A 1998 decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany confirmed that there is no law on the spelling people use in daily life, so they can use the old or the new spelling.[19] While the reform is not very popular in opinion polls, it has been adopted by all major dictionaries and the majority of publishing houses.
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^ Andrew West (2006): The Rules for Long S.
^ "Das deutsche Alphabet – Wie viele Buchstaben hat das ABC?". www.buchstabieralphabet.org (in German). Retrieved 2018-09-24.
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^ Wortherkunft, Sprachliches Das Wort Ski wurde im 19. Jahrhundert vom norwegischen ski ‚Scheit (gespaltenes Holz); Schneeschuh‘ entlehnt, das seinerseits von dem gleichbedeutenden altnordischen skíð abstammt und mit dem deutschen Wort Scheit urverwandt ist.[1] Als Pluralform sind laut Duden Ski und Skier bzw. Schi und Schier üblich.[2] Die Aussprache ist vornehmlich wie „Schi“ (wie auch original im Norwegischen), lokal bzw. dialektal kommt sie auch als „Schki“ (etwa in Graubünden oder im Wallis) vor.
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Hands-on with the Razer Wildcat controller for Xbox One
Razer announced it's own pro-level controller for the Xbox One at the recent PAX Prime gaming show. To compare it with Microsoft's own Elite Controller would be fair, as it's about the same price and it's most definitely targeting the same demographic.
At the IFA show in Berlin, Germany, we caught up with Razer and took a first-look at the new Wildcat.
Since this is a Razer controller, the overall look and feel is a little different to that of a regular, Microsoft Xbox One controller. It's not a massive departure from standard, but it's got a different shape to it, though the buttons are naturally all where you'd expect to find them. What's surprising is how light it is.
The weight is one of the things you notice first about the Microsoft Elite Controller. And in many ways it also helps you 'feel' where the $150 outlay has gone. The Wildcat is nothing like that, it's very light. Light doesn't equal cheap, but it's closer to the regular Xbox One controller, for sure.
Some technical specs:
2 shoulder Hyperesponse Multi-Function Bumpers
2 removable Hyperesponse Multi-Function Triggers
4 Hyperesponse ABXY action buttons
4 button Quick Control Panel
Optional trigger stops for rapid-fire
Zero slow-turn analog joysticks
3.5 mm audio port for stereo audio output and microphone input
Optional rubber palm grips
Quick-release cable feature
Detachable 3 m / 10 ft lightweight braided fiber cable with Micro-USB connector
Approximate size : 106 mm / 4.17" (Length) x 156 mm / 6.14" (Width) x 66 mm / 2.60" (Height)
Approximate weight (without cable) : 260 g / 0.57 lbs
Around the back of the Wildcat there are two triggers, both of which can be removed, though you'll need a screwdriver to do it. There are also a couple of switches that you can activate to shorten the travel on the left and right triggers individually. Down the bottom you've got a control pad that besides handling your headset audio can also be used to remap the buttons.
One thing the Wildcat has that the Elite Controller does not, is the ability to remap buttons right on the controller without the use of an app. The ability to do that on the fly has its appeal.
Other things worth noting, then. The Wildcat feels pretty well made, though perhaps not quite to the level the Elite Controller reaches. The palm grips are included as standard, though not installed. If you want them you can add them yourself, and we're told that the adhesive is pretty strong. So once it's on, it's on. But not everyone will want them, so kudos to Razer for giving us the choice.
The extra triggers on the back and the thumbsticks are made from reinforced materials, with aluminum round the back and forged stainless on the front. So it's set up to take some serious use. And of course, it'll work just fine with Windows 10, with the exception of the audio controls.
So, what do we think? It's too early to say for sure, but the Razer Wildcat looks like a decent option for the serious Xbox One gamer. But broader than that, it's great to see these types of peripherals starting to hit the market for the gamers that crave them. E-Sports is big business, and we're delighted the Xbox One is getting it's share of the action. It's set to launch in mid-October for $150.
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Online Conspiracy Groups Are a Lot Like Cults
Author: Renee DiRestaRenee DiResta
Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg/Getty Images
In recent months there’s been an increase in stories in which a follower of radical conspiracies shifts their actions from the web and into the world.
In June, a QAnon conspiracy follower kicked off a one-man standoff at the Hoover Dam in Nevada. Another QAnon supporter was arrested the next month occupying a Cemex cement factory, claiming that he had knowledge that Cemex was secretly assisting in child trafficking—a theory discussed in Facebook groups, in an attempt to push it into Twitter trending topics.
Renee DiResta (@noUpside) is an Ideas contributor for WIRED, the director of research at New Knowledge, and a Mozilla fellow on media, misinformation, and trust. She is affiliated with the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University.
WhatsApp conspiracy theories about pedophiles in India led to murders. Investigations of Cesar Sayoc, dubbed the “Magabomber,” turned up his participation in conspiratorial Facebook groups. There’s the Tree of Life synagogue shooter. The Comet Ping Pong “Pizzagate” shooter. There are, unfortunately, plenty of examples.
Of course it’s expected that people who commit acts of aggression will also have social media profiles. And most people who believe in a conspiracy are not prone to violence. But these social media profiles bear another common thread: evidence that the perpetrators’ radicalization happened within an online conspiracy group.
We used to worry about filter bubbles, which accidentally trap users in a certain sphere of information. In the era of social networks, the bubble has expanded: People can easily become enmeshed in online communities that operate with their own media, facts, and norms, in which outside voices are actively discredited. Professor C. Thi Nguyen of Utah Valley University refers to these places as echo chambers. “An epistemic bubble is when you don’t hear people from the other side,” he writes. “An echo chamber is what happens when you don’t trust people from the other side.”
There are some common pathways reported by people who fall into, and then leave these communities. They usually report that their initial exposure started with a question, and that a search engine took them to content that they found compelling. They engaged with the content and then found more. They joined a few groups, and soon a recommendation engine sent them others. They alienated old friends but made new ones in the groups, chatted regularly about their research, built communities, and eventually recruited other people.
“When you met an ignorant nonbeliever, you sent them YouTube videos of excessively protracted contrails and told them things like: 'Look at the sky! It's obvious!'" Stephanie Wittis, a self-described former chemtrails and Illuminati conspiracy believer, told Vice. “You don't even go into detail about the matter or the technical inconsistencies, you just give them any explanation that sounds reasonable, cohesive, and informed—in a word, scientific. And then you give them the time to think about it."
This behavior resembles another, older phenomenon: It’s strikingly similar to cult recruitment tactics of the pre-internet era, in which recruits are targeted and then increasingly isolated from the noncult world. “The easiest way to radicalize someone is to permanently warp their view of reality,” says Mike Caulfield, head of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities digital polarization initiative. “It’s not just confirmation bias ... we see people moving step by step into alternate realities. They start off questioning and then they’re led down the path.”
The path takes them into closed online communities, where members are unlikely to have real-world connections but are bound by shared beliefs. Some of these groups, such as the QAnon communities, number in the tens of thousands. “What a movement such as QAnon has going for it, and why it will catch on like wildfire, is that it makes people feel connected to something important that other people don’t yet know about,” says cult expert Rachel Bernstein, who specializes in recovery therapy. "All cults will provide this feeling of being special.”
The idea that “more speech” will counter these ideas fundamentally misunderstands the dynamic of these online spaces: Everyone else in the group is also part of the true believer community. Information does not need to travel very far to reach every member of the group. What’s shared conforms to the alignment of all of the members, which reinforces the group's worldview. Inside Cult 2.0, dissent is likely to be met with hostility, doxing, and harassment. There is no counterspeech. There is no one in there who’s going to report radicalization to the Trust and Safety mods.
Online radicalization is now a factor in many destructive and egregious crimes, and the need to understand it is gaining in urgency. Digital researchers and product designers have a lot to learn from looking at deprogramming and counterradicalization work done by psychologists. “When people get involved in a movement, collectively, what they’re saying is they want to be connected to each other,” Bernstein adds. “They want to have exclusive access to secret information other people don’t have, information they believe the powers that be are keeping from the masses, because it makes them feel protected and empowered. They’re a step ahead of those in society who remain willfully blind. This creates feeling similar to a drug—it’s its own high.”
This conviction largely inures members to correction, which is a problem for the fact-checking initiatives that platforms are focused on. When Facebook tried adding fact-checking to misinformation, researchers found, counterintuitively, that people doubled down and shared the article more when it was disputed. They don’t want you to know, readers claimed, alleging that Facebook was trying to censor controversial knowledge.
YouTube is still trying; it’s recently begun adding links to Wikipedia entries that debunk videos pushing popular conspiracy theories. In March, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told WIRED that the site included entries to the internet conspiracies that had the most active discussion. (Perhaps she’s operating under the premise that believers in a vast globalist conspiracy just haven’t read the Wikipedia article about the Holocaust.) The social platforms are still behaving as if they don’t understand the dynamics at play, despite the fact that researchers have been explaining them for years.
So what does work? One-on-one interventions and messages from people within these trusted networks. These consistently have the greatest impact in deradicalization. Since that’s very difficult to scale online, experts look to prevent people from becoming radicalized, either by inoculating communities or by attempting to intercede as early as possible in the radicalization process. But this requires companies to fundamentally shift their recommendation process, and redirect certain users away from what they wish to see. It requires the platforms to challenge their own search engines—and perhaps to make judgement calls about the potential harm that comes from certain types of content.
Previously, the platforms have only been willing to undertake this thorny evaluation after extensive public pressure and government pleas, and only in cases of explicit terrorist radicalization. To counter violent terrorist threats like ISIS, YouTube ran a program called Project Redirect, which used ad placement to suggest counter-channels to those searching for ISIS propaganda.
But companies are reluctant to apply these strategic nudges when the radicalization process is just a touch grayer. We’re increasingly aware of how social media pushes users into echo chambers online. We’re seeing more and more researchers and ex-conspiracists alike describe these dynamics using terms like “cult.” We’re seeing more violent acts traced back to online radicalization. When features designed to bring us together instead undermine society and drive us apart, it is past time for change.
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Inside the cafés where people go to talk about dying
Meet the carousing Texan who just won a Nobel Prize
It was as an online gaming prank. Then it turned deadly
Why You Can Never Argue with Conspiracy Theorists
Alex Jones is not the only guy making a career out of conspiracy theories. They are everywhere on the internet and here's why you have no choice but to ignore them.
Gretchen McCulloch
Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online
Collier Meyerson
'The Last Black Man' Reveals San Francisco's Lost Authenticity
Noam Cohen
Why Siri and Alexa Weren’t Built to Smack Down Harassment
Renee DiResta
The Return of Fake News—and Lessons From Spam
Space Exploration and the Age of the Anthropocosmos
Can Sci-Fi Writers Prepare Us for an Uncertain Future?
Author: Rose EvelethRose Eveleth
The Death of a Patient and the Future of Fecal Transplants
Author: Maryn McKennaMaryn McKenna
A New and Terrifying Tick, a 3D-Printed Shoe Sole, and More
The Terrifying Unknowns of an Exotic Invasive Tick
Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Betrays Its True Ambitions
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The Challenge of Helping Blind People Navigate Indoors
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Virginia Heffernan
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The YouTubers Who Changed the Landscape for #NaturalHair
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Antonio García Martínez
Are Facebook Ads Discriminatory? It’s Complicated
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The Writers' Group Pty Ltd
Level 34, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney (NSW), 2000, Australia
thewritersgroup.com.au
Writing Service Marketing Agency Educational Organization
The Writers' Group
We tell the stories of companies with good news to share. We encourage companies to become more personal, connect more with their customers and get back to their purpose beyond making money. This is our sweet spot.
The Museum Of Sydney
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Keyin Migration
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Altitude Digital
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Harvard Club of Victoria
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EF Student Council Sydney
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Tactical Training Group
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Resumes To You
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Fanfare Competition
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145 Macquarie St, Sydney (NSW), 2000, Australia
Medical & Health, Educational Organization
Intellectus Training
Suite V91, 38 Ricketty Street - Mascot, Sydney (NSW), 2020, Australia
Australian Institute of Management
Sydney (NSW), Australia
Management Service, Business Service, Educational Organization
Australian National Band & Orchestra Conference 2016
Macquarie Street, Sydney (NSW), 2000, Australia
Historical Performance Division Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Macquarie St, The Rocks (NSW), 2000, Australia
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Iconic Performances Pty Limited
Level 36, Gateway, 1 Macquarie Place, The Rocks (NSW), 2000, Australia
Broadcasting & Media Production Company, Performance Art Theatre, Educational Organization
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All staff as well as management is responsible for the implementation of this policy and its supporting policies and documentation related to ISMS.All external parties such as suppliers and vendors are also required to refrain from all possible breaches of information security that has impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. Any such breach will be duly reported and investigated by YKK management. The objective of implementing information security is to ensure business continuity and lessen business damage by minimizing the impact of security incidents and prevent any such occurrence. We are determined to maintain a defined IT security level with continuous improvement to deduct and prevent all kinds of security breaches, and incidents as per YKK Pakistan ISMF Charter.
As per standard, risk assessment for all information assets within the defined scope of Information Security Management System will be conducted and reviewed periodically. All identified risks will be reduced to an acceptable level as approved by the management. YKK PAKISTAN management is committed to comply with all business, legal/regulatory and other applicable requirements.
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2-8 Higgs Boson Frozen into the Universe III
从大爆炸到暗能量
We have learned a lot recently about how the Universe evolved in 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang. More than 80% of matter in the Universe is mysterious Dark Matter, which made stars and galaxies to form. The newly discovered Higgs-boson became frozen into the Universe a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and brought order to the Universe. Yet we still do not know how ordinary matter (atoms) survived against total annihilation by Anti-Matter. The expansion of the Universe started acceleration about 7 billion years ago and the Universe is being ripped apart. The culprit is Dark Energy, a mysterious energy multiplying in vacuum. I will present evidence behind these startling discoveries and discuss what we may learn in the near future. This course is offered in English.
This was an excellent course! It was very interesting, well-explained, and easy to follow (even for someone like me, who isn't necessarily up-to-date on mathematics). Can't recommend enough!
Very interesting course.\n\nHold on for the last part of the course - that particles physics is hardcore.\n\nThe tutor is really gifted and it has been a pleasure taking part in this course
Birth of Elements and Higgs Boson
We are made of chemical elements. So one of the fundamental questions “where do we come from?” leads to another question: “how were elements born?”. This is related to the Higgs Boson, an important particle in answering this question which remained elusive until its discovery was recently announced on July 4, 2012. In this module, we will learn recent research outcomes on these topics.
2-6 Higgs Boson Frozen into the Universe I7:58
2-7 Higgs Boson Frozen into the Universe II13:51
2-8 Higgs Boson Frozen into the Universe III15:34
2-9 Higgs Boson Frozen into the Universe IV12:39
Hitoshi Murayama
MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
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So when we say the Higgs boson it the origin
of mass, we are talking about actually about many different roles
the Higgs boson has played, or is going to playing
now by freezing in to the empty space of the universe.
We talked about this question before, why does the sun shine?
We did understand it at the end of the
day by detecting these neutrinos coming from the sun.
But, this is happening based on
the weak force. I mentioned just this word before.
Namely, that in order for this reaction to happen,
you need to convert a proton into a neutron.
So, you're changing one particle species to another particle species.
And that is not something we see commonly in our daily life.
How can this kind of thing possible?
And that is called the weak force. The weak force is a special kind of force
that can change one particle species to another particle species.
But there is a big mystery about this force.
The kind of forces we are familiar with, for example electromagnetism.
It's long ranged and you can see this immediately if you hold the
piece of compass and you're trying to
orient yourself, let's say you went camping.
You're trying to understand which way should be going.
But the compass would respond and point directly towards the north because
this magnet in the compass is attracted by
the magnetic field coming from the North Pole.
So, the magnetic force reaches all the way from the North
Pole to wherever you are, so the compass points the right way.
So the electromagnetism, both electric magnetic forces go a long range.
The same is true with gravity. Us, the Earth,
is being pulled by the Sun.
So again, the gravity is a very long-range force.
But the weak force we just talked about that change proton
to neutron and neutron back to proton is an incredibly short-range force.
The range of the force is actually only like, a billionth of a nanometer.
Even smaller than size of the nucleus, it doesn't go very far at all.
But as far as we can tell, we the people have
studied the nature of the electromagnetism
and weak force during acquisitive accuracy.
And to the extent we looked, they look exactly identical to each other.
They are very much similar forces except for the fact
that one is long range, the other one is short range.
So it looks as if the electromagnetism and weak force used to be
of the same kind of force.
There was a symmetry between these two types of forces.
But somehow the symmetry's lost in our universe today.
And we call this phenomenon spontaneous symmetry breaking.
The universe used to have a symmetry at the very
beginning, but somehow that symmetry got lost in the current universe.
So let's picture the situation by the following example.
If you think of the universe
being very, very hot.
Let's think about very hot temperature of a, a piece of water.
Then water vaporizes so it becomes steam.
And as you probably know the steam is made up
of this individual water molecules flying apart in all random directions.
So each molecule moves on it's own, they are sort of independent from each other.
So that's the way, also the Hicks-Boson used to be,
at the early stage of the universe, when it was very, very hot.
But when you cool steam down to colder
temperature, then eventually water freezes and become ice.
And ice is a crystal.
Namely that, the water molecules are lined up in a very, special way, very
neatly packed with each other, and that's how the crystal of ice gets formed.
So, one way to put
it, is that the initial stage of the
Universe, was in a disordered state, everything was random.
But as you cool the Universe, then eventually an order is formed.
Everything is lined up neatly.
So this is what we believe what happened the Higgs boson, too.
So in the case of ice, you need to cool
it down to zero degrees Celsius to make turn into ice.
In a case of Higgs Boson, that it
had to come down to a cooler temperature
for the Higgs Boson to freezing into the Universe.
So the universe had to be as cold as
4 quadrillion degrees for the Higgs boson to freeze in.
It's still an incredibly high temperature, but it
was much higher before, so as you came down
to this temperature, Higgs boson throws into empty
space, and that's the space we live in now.
And, once you
go from this disorder state, a disorder state actually
high degree of symmetry, because everywhere is the same.
But once you go to order, then individual molecules
specifies a very particular location, so there's no symmetry anymore.
You can't change your location randomly, so
this is the phenomenon called spontaneous symmetry breaking.
So the way we picture the universe today is being filled
with the Higgs boson.
It's not as neatly packed as this one,
it's sort of completely packed as densely as
possible, but when the electron wants to go
through this space, gets bounced around, gets slowed down.
Also when the weak force wants to act on distant body, it gets swivelled around.
It doesn't go very far.
That's how it became a short range force.
But, things like photon, that's a particle of light.
actually interacts with anything has an electric charge.
But Higgs boson doesn't carry any electric charge.
It's electrical neutral.
So it doesn't actually notice the Higgs boson is out there, stuck
in empty space, so light travels as if nothing is out there.
So that's why electromagnetism is long-ranged and we can
deduct light coming from galaxies billions of light years away.
And the reason
why this has to do with our own existence. Is because of atoms.
So inside atoms, electrons move about. Kind of, slowly.
They're not going the speed of light.
But if the Higgs boson in the universe evaporates in an instant, let's
say, then electrons wouldn't get bounced around by this Higgs boson anymore.
It goes at the speed of light.
So the electronics inside the atom, all of a
sudden, would start flying apart at the speed of light.
So, our entire body would smither into pieces in a billionth of second.
Namely, the fact that there's a Higgs boson out there
anywhere is keeping the electron sort of neatly inside the atoms.
We can live without any fear of disintegrating in an instance.
And that's the important
role Higgs boson seems to play.
So it's out there everywhere inside Universe packing
the universe in dense, very very dense way.
And that's the reason why atoms. Had, can possibly been formed.
Electrons can now move about in the atom without any problem, without flying apart.
But that will lead to an interesting question.
So I'm telling you the universe is filled
with Higgs boson anywhere you go. But then why don't we notice that?
That's an interesting question, and I think the answer is very simple.
It's just like the air.
You know, you probably got told by your parents that
there's an air out here, but if you were not
born to that kind of intelligent household, let's say, then
how do you know that we are living in the air?
We can't taste it. We can't smell it.
We can't see it. We can't touch it.
So how do you know that here's the air? Well, you might say we breathe.
But, y'know, the, and, and the, the, the, the fact that what we are breathing is the
air is also not quite, obvious to even ancient
people who want to understand what we are breathing.
So something that's sort of, you take for granted
you actually don't notice.
The only way you might notice the existence of
air around us and when you see some motion
with it, namely if there's a flow of air
you'll feel the wind on your face or your body.
So the motion may create something unfamiliar and
that gives you sensation that's something's out there.
So we try to do similar thing with the Higgs boson.
So our senses are atune
to the environment that is familiar to you so we
are built in a way not to notice things around us.
We, are built not to notice the air around us until it's necessary.
So in order to notice something's out there you need to create a motion.
But Higgs is so much frozen densely into the
empty space, it's very difficult to move this whole thing.
So the only way
we can create a motion in it is by basically hammering it hard enough.
Strike one piece out of it and observe it.
So that's exactly what the original experiment has done.
By smashing protons against each other, it has so much concentration of energy,
it's like hammering empty space and striking the Higgs boson out of it.
It decays immediately into fragments, but that's the how, the reason
we could ever actually be able to observe the Higgs boson in this experiment.
[COUGH]
So put this into sort of a simple picture.
That what role Higgs Boson played is something like this.
If you imagine the break at the kindergarten.
All the kids are running apart on, on their own.
They're not working together, they're not playing with each-other.
Everybody's full of themselves.
They're just running around with no rules, and it's kind of chaos.
But when comes the Higgs boson as kind of magician.
The Higgs boson spells magic on them, they all of a sudden slow
down, and then sit at their individual desks.
And the desk here is the atomic neucleus, and these kids are
the electrons And then what, that the desk the kid together
and that forms an atomic an atom.
So that's how the atoms were born so without this spell of magic
by the Higgs bosom electrons would have still been flying about
the sphere of light there wouldn't be any atoms and no us.
So that's, actually, one of the important origins.
We wanted to understand where we came from.
And the Sun, actually, kept doing this experiment farther beyond July 4 last
year, and now there is a statement that the observed, changed the statement
from observing a Higgs like particle. Now, to discovery of a Higgs boson.
We are still want-, would like to understand
what we have discovered is the Higgs boson.
We are not quite there yet.
And for this purpose, one of the important
thing we'd like to verify is the following.
Every small particles we have discovered
so far, elementary particles which don't have
any internal structures, are spinning forever.
They are like little top.
All the particles we know are spinning.
Electrons, photons, quarks, they're all spinning.
But Higgs boson shouldn't.
In some sense, all these spinning particles got their faces.
We can, you know, look at them from different directions.
We can tell them apart. But if the Higgs
boson is stuck out there, so that we
wouldn't notice it, it shouldn't show any faces.
It doesn't spin at all.
So, it's kind of faceless particle, it's kind of spooky.
But that's the way Higgs boson should be.
So we would like to verify that, based on our measurement.
So, because it's so spooky, to even think about
a particle without any spin, sort of a faceless object.
I even propose theories,
called Higgsless theories. Because I sort of despise that.
We didn't want to have these spooky particles around.
But it looks like it had been discovered, so I
need to actually and, as a proper Japanese I need to,
apologize like this.
So, that the question is the now that
we have discovered Higgs boson, which looks as spooky
as Jason up there, you know we would
like to understand this particle a little bit better.
For example, is that the only one particle in nature that doesn't have spin.
Or does it have
[INAUDIBLE]
? SO relatives of some sort.
Maybe there is a whole family of faceless particles without spins.
And this is the first one among this family.
Or maybe it is actually spinning, but we don't notice it
because they're extra dimensions, the space where the Higgs Boson is spinning.
But we don't get to see these extra dimensions.
We perceive it as spinless.
Maybe that's what's going on. Or maybe Higgs boson is not elementary,
has an internal structure with it.
And no matter what the nature of the Higgs boson is, we still also
don't know why did it freeze in to the empty space of the universe?
We'd like to understand that too.
So, there's still lot to be done but one
thing is clear, we have just entered a new era.
In the first half of the 20th century, we understood a lot
about electromagnetism that had to do with the distance of the order
of 10th to minus 8 centimeters.
In say the second half of the, 20th century, we understood a
lot about what is called the strong force which binds the nuclide together.
And that happens the distance of 10 to minus 13 centimeters.
Now we have entered a new era, we are now discussing the nature of the weak force.
Important distance scales even shorter, 10 to minus 17 centimeters
It looks like we are just about to
start new exploration of this new energy scale, and
scale.
So, you know you see this star about twice in a century
opportunity if you are very lucky to be live in this era.
But at the same time Higgs boson is the strange faceless particle.
There are still many questions to be answered.
What we have discovered, is this really the Higgs boson we have been looking for?
Is this the only one which doesn't have spin?
Or maybe there are other kinds of Higgs boson.
Maybe it's the first one in new family of this faceless, spinless particles.
We would like to answer these questions.
I mentioned this extra dimension, for instance.
Now maybe we live in a universe with extra dimensions.
So for a person who actually walks on this rope of Golden Gate bridge.
The person can go, only go forward and backward.
So basically there's only a spacial one dimension for this person.
But for little ant living on this wire, it can not
only go forward and backward, it can also walk around this cable.
So, the ant will see two special dimensions.
So small things can see more dimensions in space.
So maybe Higgs Boson actually sees this extra space, the direction, it's
spinning in that direction instead of our direction, but we don't see it.
Maybe that's why we think Higgs Boson is spinless and faceless and kind of spooky.
So here comes the question.
What is the best way we can study the
nature of this new particle in a greater detail?
So, instead of smashing these protons against each other, which are already
complicated objects on its own, is there any better way of doing it?
So, that's the question you should think about.
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No Copyright in EU-US Trade Agreement!
IP out of TAFTA
Civil Society Declaration released by 38 European and International organisations, to exclude from the upcoming Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, data protection, geographical indications, or other forms of so-called “intellectual property”.
Last year, millions of Americans told their government not to undermine the open internet. We sent the SOPA and PIPA bills down to defeat.
Soon after, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Europe to protest against ACTA, a secretive trade agreement that would have violated our rights online and chilled generic drug competition.
Meanwhile, leaked trade texts revealed US and EU threats to access to affordable medicines, which significantly disrupted trade talks in India and the Pacific.
On February 13, the US President Barack Obama, the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and the European Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced the official launch of negotiations of a Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA)—also touted as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP.
We, the undersigned, are internet freedom and public health groups, activists, and other public interest leaders dedicated to the rights of all people to access cultural and educational resources and affordable medicines, to enjoy a free and open internet, and to benefit from open and needs-driven innovation.
First, we insist that the European Union and United States release, in timely and ongoing fashion, any and all negotiating or pre-negotiation texts. We believe that secretive “trade” negotiations are absolutely unacceptable forums for devising binding rules that change national non-trade laws.
Second, we insist that the proposed TAFTA exclude any provisions related to patents, copyright, trademarks, data protection, geographical indications, or other forms of so-called “intellectual property”. Such provisions could impede our rights to health, culture, and free expression and otherwise affect our daily lives.
Past trade agreements negotiated by the US and EU have significantly increased the privileges of multinational corporations at the expense of society in general. Provisions in these agreements can, among many other concerns, limit free speech, constrain access to educational materials such as textbooks and academic journals, and, in the case of medicines, raise healthcare costs and contribute to preventable suffering and death.
Unless “intellectual property” is excluded from these talks, we fear that the outcome will be an agreement that inflicts the worst of both regimes’ rules on the other party. From a democratic perspective, we believe that important rules governing technology, health, and culture should be debated in the US Congress, the European Parliament, national parliaments, and other transparent forums where all stakeholders can be heard—not in closed negotiations that give privileged access to corporate insiders.
The TAFTA negotiations must not lead to a rewriting of patent and copyright rules in a way that tilts the balance even further away from the interests of citizens.
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Electric VehiclesNew Cars
Volvo XC90 – T8 Twin Engine R-Design
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I never quite got to grips with the older ‘Boxy’ XC90 – so, when Volvo announced that they were going for a bold new move on updating the old model – I was a little worried that it would be no more than some new door handles and a new lighting system.
So, when I first got a glimpse of the new XC90 – I was actually jumping for joy because Volvo had made good on all its promises of producing something bold and new and what you now see before you is something that I can only describe as a thing of beauty and will have you basking in all its beauty for some time to come.
Also, people used to think that owning a Volvo was boring or just for people on pensions – but you would be wrong, because owning a Volvo is now classed as being cool and hip and many people are now seeing the error of their ways and they‘re now like a Cruise Missile which is locked onto a path to their nearest Volvo dealer.
The Exterior: the new XC90 is a car that stands out from what everybody else is driving around you. It is very futuristic looking, but it does keep some of the standard Volvo appearance that I loved so much about the older model – such as being Big & Bold.
Inside: is a real pleasure to behold. It’s well equipped and has some very nice touches around the centre console. To be honest, sitting in here is like sitting in the Royal Suite at the The Goring, where everything you will ever need is just a button push or arm’s reach away. Volvo really has done the most brilliant job of making you feel like it was made just for you.
Standard equipment on the New XC90 starts with – 9″ Centre Console Touch Screen, Sensus Navigation – full European mapping with traffic information and lifetime map updates, Volvo On Call function that also acts as an emergency and tracking service, LED Headlights with Active Beam, two zone climate control with ‘CleanZone’ Air Quality System, Power Operated Tailgate with Handsfree Opening, Keyless Entry and Start, Power Drivers Seat, heated front seats, seven seats three second row individual folding seats with fore/aft adjustment and two third-row individual folding seats, City Safety – includes Pedestrian and Cyclist Detection and Front Collision Warning with Full Auto Brake, including at junctions and Run-off Road Protection. As you can see that’s just the start. There are also additional option packs you can add in to create even more luxury such as Xenium, Winter and Family.
Space: inside the cabin is a big plus point for the XC90, it has plenty of room for everyone. Boot space is brilliant and even better with its split folding seats. There is more than enough space in here for your entire family, even with the use of the seven seats, there is still enough room for a few bags etc… not like some seven seat cars I have come across in the past, where you see the third row passengers faces being contorted against the glass in the rear window due to lack of rear seating space.
On the road: the XC90 is comfortable and is agile enough to keep up with the demands of a heavy foot – but to be honest you don’t drive around in a luxury XC90 with your hair on fire – you simply glide. If you do decide to push the car a bit ‘gung ho’ down a smooth country lane or even around some twisty curves you will find it’s actually very smooth with just a hint of body roll here and there.
Hybrid mode: The T8 can be run just on the electric motor alone and by using just this function – it will provide you with an average range of about 24 miles. But, because I’m a petrol head – I used a combination of the two and decided to let the cars computer switch between the 320hp petrol engine which drives the front wheels and the large 87hp single electric motor that drives the rear axle – also, while we are at it – the XC90 is able to generate electricity under braking which will all help in recharging the system to gain a few extra miles.
Power & performance: is a key part of the XC90 T8. Volvo claims a 5.6sec 0-62mph and I would agree with that because it feels immense and when you think about it – that’s Porsche beating territory, also if you own a Ferrari I would think twice about a race from the lights to 60mph. But remember the XC90 comes in at around 2,300kg, so it won’t keep up for long.
If you are a person who only lives 15 miles from where you work – then you could in all possibility effectively run it entirely on electricity alone by charging it from a mains supply – but of course in the UK will are still finding our feet in the new age of Hybrid Technology and finding a charge station when you live in a remote village somewhere in North Wales will be quite difficult.
If I was you – I would opt for the ‘Hybrid’ mode setting as this allows you to use the best of both worlds. (I did for most of the time)
Safety: Well let’s just say it’s a Volvo and it has you covered. No worries here then.
Would I buy one? A big fat YES, but I can’t afford one – but as a man – I really, really, really do want one of my own.
Price: £70,875 Model as tested, including fitted options
Top speed: 140mph
0-62mph: 5.6sec
Economy: 134.5mpg (combined) emissions g/km (49)
Power: 320hp at 5,700rpm
Torque: 400 Nm at 2,200rpm – 5,400rpm
Electric Motor Power: 87hp & 240Nm of Torque
Gearbox: Auto (8 Speed)
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Alyssa Zajac » August 16, 2017
Breaking News: Christy Holly Steps Down as Sky Blue FC Coach
Christy Holly has announced that he will be stepping down from his position as Sky Blue FC Head Coach, effective immediately. pic.twitter.com/FinkhbmuY5 — Christy Holly (@christyeholly) August 16, 2017 Sky Blue […]
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U.S. Soccer has announced that the United States Women’s National Team will be hosting the 16th ranked Korea Republic in two friendlies in October. New Orleans. North Carolina. It's been […]
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Jill Ellis Releases Roster for Tournament of Nations
Jill Ellis has named 23 players to the roster for the inaugural Tournament of Nations featuring Australia, Brazil, and Japan. Now it's a party. The #USWNT roster for #ToN2017 is here! […]
Kealia Ohai to Miss Remainder of 2017 Season
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The Houston Dash announced today that forward and captain Kealia Ohai suffered a season-ending knee injury against the Orlando Pride this past Saturday. NEWS: Ohai to miss the remainder of […]
Roster News: Pride Add Morgan, Waive Burkenroad
The Orlando Pride has added USWNT forward Alex Morgan to the club’s roster today, waiving Christina Burkenroad to make room for last year’s captain, returning from her time with UEFA […]
Breaking News: Houston Dash and Randy Waldrum Part Ways
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The Houston Dash has announced that it has parted ways with head coach Randy Waldrum. Waldrum, who had been the head coach of the Dash since the team joined the NWSL […]
Breaking News: Chicago Red Stars Sign Yuki Nagasato
The Chicago Red Stars have announced the signing of Japanese international Yuki Nagasato. https://twitter.com/chicagoredstars/status/867425029696479232 Nagasato has appeared 132 times with the Japanese Women’s National Team, where she scored 58 goals and […]
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Advances in Medical, Dental and Health Sciences (AMDHS) [www.amdhs.org] [e-ISSN : 2581-8538] is a OZZIE Publishers journal. It is an international peer-reviewed journal. AMDHS publishes four issues per year devoted to research and review articles in the field of Medical, dental and health sciences.
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1. Ahmad A, Khan MU, Gogoi LJ, Kalita M, Sikdar AP, Pandey S, et al., Japanese Encephalitis in Assam, India: Need to Increase Healthcare Workers’ Understanding to Improve Health Care. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135767.
2. Mousnad MA, Palaian S, Shafie AA, Mohamed Ibrahim MI. Medicine Expenditure and Trends in National Health Insurance Funds Sudan. J Pharm Pract Community Med. 2018;4(3):144-9.
3. Haider S, Haq NU, Riaz S, Nasim A, Saood M, Yasmin R. Nurse’s knowledge and Awareness Regarding Cervical Cancer and its Prevention in Different Hospitals of Quetta, Pakistan. Res Pharm Healt Sci. 2018;4(1):436-441.
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Untamed Wilds Session 6
With the antidote in hand the party healed everyone on their ship from the affliction of “Turned to Deer” and heard an odd sound, they looked overboard and found a small boat with a sleeping dwarf in it. When he woke up pulled out a rusty knife and jokingly threatened to take over the ship. They brought him aboard and fed him while he introduced himself to the party and the other people on the boat. He was a dwarf from the north island that had become separated from his fellow travelers. The lizard folk worked together to set up a wall of fishbones to replace the wall that was missing from the back of the boat where the captain’s quarters used to be, the wall was only a few feet high. They set sail on the trail of Jazina and her pirates and consulted their map again, the bard taking a bit of time to identify the map finding it was not only ancient but elven made and had a secret phrase that would unlock its hidden bounty. He spoke the elvish word for “reveal” and two islands showed up as well as an odd rock formation they would have to pass to get to Jazina and her flag ship, the Drakes Fortune. They sailed through the afternoon and came within sight of the first island, which as they got closer they observed abandoned boats. A few were newer, but most of them looked beaten and worn down by the sea and time. They gave it some distance and as night fell they saw fire in the center of the island and could hear some sort of revel taking place. The night air was filled with the smells of a delicious feast and the sounds of a good time, but the party stayed away from it. During the night they had a few visitors, a greeting was heard from the water and the druid lizard folk saw a small kobold on a boat that was set up like a general store. He offered the party wares for gold and trade. The group was split into two groups, one side wanted to murder him and take everything he had, the other side wanted to trade and would attempt to stop the other group if stupidity overtook them. They traded away their magic speaking golden monkey skulls for a spyglass, the other spyglass was in the captain’s quarters that sank to the deep. They bought some lumber, chains, potions, healers kits, and a potentially cursed yo-yo. He bid them ado and rowed off into the night after telling them the first island had food that was so good you never wanted to leave and the other island had shepherds that would sell you sheep if you had things to trade. The next watch saw a few whales off in the distance coming up for air and the following watch felt something rock their boat. With their torches they noticed a column of green scales that lead to the face of a sea serpent flickering in the light. The serpent asked in a booming voice for Jazina to show herself, which woke the entire boat sending the party scurrying. Diplomacy mixed with selective phrasing was attempted by the bard and monk leading to a quick and to the point discussion. The swashbuckler tried to hide his Jazina hats he had taken as spoils of battle. He looked into the water and saw another serpent head rising up. The heads both started sniffing the boat and eventually found the hats. The party found out the beast was an enemy of the creature that Jazina employed to destroy her enemies, the dreaded kraken. The party informed it where her ship was and they were not her friends. It left them a scale to throw into the water when they were close to her ship to bring him into the fray. Left confused, the party went back to sleep and finished off their watches. In the morning they sailed further past the second island, a hilly rock with herds of sheep milling about. They decided again to stay off and away from the island for fear of another deer incident. After a few more hours of sailing and some minor reef navigation they drew close to an odd bit of water full of broken ships, floating bodies, and in the distance large columns of stone jutting up from the ocean known as the Titan’s Ribcage. With their spyglass the ranger and blood hunter noticed odd forms flying around the ribs, recognizing them as more stitched together dragon creatures and they were eating something. With their combined effort in the crow’s nest and the centaur navigator they started making for the ribs, knowing from their map there was only one safe way through without wrecking the ship and ending up like the rest of the flotsam. As they started their progress they were almost caught off guard by one of the dragon creatures dive booming the deck. The bard knocked it out of the sky and into the water with a spell of laughter and it was struck by the boat as it continued moving forward. The centaur tied off the wheel and started her charge toward the front of the ship where all the action was taking place, the quickling guarding the wheel from danger if need be. The other two dragons hovered above the deck and blasted people with their chilling breath, the party all rushing up to deal with their foes. the minotaur had been ordered to attack anything they could with the ballista on the sides of the ship but were unable to bring anything to bear quick enough to deal with the dragons, some drawing smaller crossbows to shoot at the winged threats. The new dwarf friend called down a few pillars of radiant light to vex the scaled beasts and the monk was quick to land quite a few punishing blows against it, knocking it prone again. The first dragon eventually fell to the centaurs assault as well as electrical vengeance. The second dragon realized people were shooting at it and attacked the crow’s nest mercilessly with both chilling breath and tooth and nail. The blood hunter fell first, just to the floor of the crow’s nest and not out of it. The cleric threw a small ranged healing spell to him, hoping to keep him around for a bit longer. The ranger stabbed at the beast also taking a few hits too and eventually fled, almost succumbing to the pain. The third dragon had gone after the minotaur manning the ballista and was quickly punched in the back by repeat attacks of the monk and the dwarf cleric. The centaur had a few good hits as well and the beast fell. The monk, seeing his friends in the crow’s nest were in trouble, ran up to help them. The bard threw around a few spells to harry the minds of the dragons and enabled his allies to last longer in the combat as well as limited mobility bonuses, the druid threw fire at the dragons, attempting to burn them away, and while it was difficult to throw the flame the ship did not catch fire. The minotaur attempted to detach a few of the ballista to shoot at the dragons on deck and missed terribly. The swashbuckler had little luck with his bow. The crow’s nest was a mess, the ranger had fled and the blood hunter climbed away from the beast while it was preoccupied with the fleeing ranger, eventually the monk was able to bludgeon the life out of the dragon and it fell to the deck in a heap of broken bone and gristle. The party gathered their wits and continued piloting their ship before it continued its crash course with the ribs and were able to safely make their way within sight of the Drake’s Fortune, stationary on the sea on the horizon. The party has now made it to 5th level.
Untamed Wilds super session
Island Map for Untamed Wilds
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Nigeria plans to set up cashew processing plants in four states to add value to the produce and create employment and wealth.
Chief Audu Ogbeh, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said in Abuja that the project would reduce the waste of cashew fruits and delay in the export of raw nuts.
According to him, we are currently wasting an estimated 8 million tonnes of cashew fruits annually.
He said the long term solution to the delay in export and stocking of cashew nuts at the ports is for Nigeria to be exporter of finished products and not raw materials.
Ogbeh listed the states where the plants would be set up to include Enugu, Benue, Kogi and Oyo.
He said that the challenge was usually access to credit because a good processing cashew line would cost about two million dollars.
The government, he said, was talking with the Brazilians now in order to bring in machines from Brazil to process the cashew fruits into juice which has a high content of vitamin C.
“It is very good for health because we are currently wasting an estimated eight million tonnes of cashew fruits annually, throwing them away,” he said.
“That is what the Cashew Association of West Africa told me, in Nigeria alone, that we waste eight million tonnes.
“This is our concern, we are very troubled with this development but later in the year, I will have meeting with the cashew producers and farmers association to sit down with the CBN and get some help,’’ he said.
The minister, who lamented that the country has been major importers of goods and services, said the government was determined to changing the trend.
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The quality of the environment in Vietnam has steadily dropped compared to other nations in the world, according to the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which is compiled by prestigious global environmental centers.
The survey is coordinated by scientists from the environmental studies centers of Yale University and Columbia University in the US and in the European Union, who have carried out the research for years in 132 nations.
In the general environmental index, Vietnam is ranked 79th -- the lower part in the middle group. But on specific detailed criteria, Vietnam displayed even worse performance, including air quality with effects on human health, water, and environmental burden of disease.
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Air quality in Vietnam is lagging among the ten worst nations in the world, ranking 123rd, and it is forecast that air pollution will continue to worsen in the near future and may fall to 125th place, according to the EPI survey.
This information, while alarming, is now new, as independent surveys by Vietnamese agencies have reached the conclusion that the country’s air pollution has worsened at a steady rate and has reached an alarming level, said Ph.D. Ngo Duc The -- a Vietnamese professor of the National University of Singapore.
Smoke and dust created by trucks are the main factors leading to the decline in air quality in Vietnam, especially in major cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
The other important aspect of this ranking is water. Despite making improvements in the management of subterranean water and rivers over the past decade, Vietnam’s water quality is ranked 80th in the world by the EPI.
A fact worth further examination in water management is that Vietnam possesses a high potentiality of fresh water reserves thanks to its system of interlaced rivers and streams and canals, but locals have nonetheless endured the lack of water and low quality water on a daily basis.
A survey by the Vietnamese government announced in 2010 showed that only 40 percent of the population in rural areas had access to clean water supply.
In addition, the natural resources of fish and forestry products in Vietnam have also been declining.
Ph.D. Le Huy Ba, chief of the Institute for Environmental Management and Technology, added that environmental management in Vietnam has been even worse than stated in the report, as it excluded information on soil quality in Vietnam.
Land for agricultural purposes has been diminished recently for construction projects such as golf courses and new urban centers. The quality of ground has faced erosion, exhaust and pollution due to the use of diesel, organic and microbiological substances for farming, he added.
The ongoing trend of migration from rural regions to cities has also created risks and deteriorated the quality of the environment, Ba said.
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Former Massachussets state Attorney General Martha Coakley has joined the roster of JUUL Labs.
This is a natural progression from her role as a partner at law firm Foley Hoag, where JUUL was one of her primary clients in a consulting role.
JUUL states that Coakley’s skills will be applied to the tasks of handling government affairs and educating the public on the steps JUUL is taking to combat underage use of their products. Said Coakley:
“I believe in JUUL Labs’ commitment to eliminate combustible cigarettes, the number one cause of preventable death in our country, and to combat youth usage. JUUL has an incredible opportunity to switch adult smokers and I look forward to working with stakeholders from the private and public sectors as we fulfill that mission and prevent youth from ever using vapor products like JUUL.”
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Stories, confidencepumpup April 27, 2016 lindsay, linds_3, weightlifting, stories, success stories
Lindsay Will Inspire You To Get Over Your Fear of Lifting
Social anxiety used to get in the way of Lindsay's fitness progress. "I have always felt overwhelmed in a crowd, preventing me from attending certain events and social gatherings," she elaborated. "When I first began going to the student gym at my university, I found it very difficult to be in the weight room because I felt like everyone was judging me." She resorted to only using cardio machines. Due to her heavy student workload, Lindsay exercised at the gym for 3 days a week at most - often going for an hour at a time. "I didn't know about the advantages of weightlifting and I was nervous about [resistance training]," she said. "Running on the treadmill was my go-to exercise." For this reason, it was easiest for Lindsay to make changes to her diet before she joined the PumpUp community. First, she stopped eating junk food. Next, she swapped out simple carbohydrates for complex carbohydrates and whole grains. "It wasn't easy, but it was do-able because I had my 'cheat' day on the weekend to look forward to," she admitted.
When Lindsay joined the PumpUp community, she overcame all of the trepidation that she used to feel towards strength training. "After a year and a half of using PumpUp, I do strength training 5-6 days a week for an hour to an hour and a half at a time, and do 10-20 minutes of cardio for every other workout, depending on how I feel that day," she said gleefully. "My friend showed me how to use the weightlifting machines and taught me basic strength training exercises. I eased into going to the gym by myself and I finally felt relief because I was no longer thinking about others' opinions of me. I focused on my own workout goals instead."
PumpUp has been Lindsay's primary motivator over the past year. She adopted so many positive lifestyle changes by learning from fellow members. "I gained tons of inspiration from others in the PumpUp community, as well as confidence," she insisted. "[I received] so much support! I have even incorporated some of PumpUp's and other members' exercise ideas into my routine." Though Lindsay still maintains a wholesome diet, she confessed that she now has to eat more food to keep up with her fast metabolism. "I definitely make more smoothies after having been on PumpUp and I'm always attempting to make healthier snacks, such as protein balls."
By sharing constant updates about her fitness journey on PumpUp, Lindsay stayed accountable to all of her health goals. "When I stop to think about it, I gained much more confidence just by having a profile on PumpUp where others can see my progress over time and what I did to get there," she mused. "It's kind of like going to a gym, but more personal and in a positive way. It's nice to hear that others notice your progress. [This isn't] something that typically happens at a gym, unless you know everyone there and have been going for awhile."
Moving forward, Lindsay hopes to inspire others to move past their insecurities so that they can realize their full potential. "I have come to realize that no one at the gym is going to judge you because everyone starts out as a beginner," she affirmed. "People are there for different reasons, but we all have one thing in common...wanting to live a healthier life! Thinking more positively in anxiety-inducing situations has really helped me over the years."
Lindsay's Accomplishments with PumpUp (so far)
I've accomplished unassisted chin-ups, pull-ups, and dips. I demolished my love handles and nailed my headstands.
Lindsay's Best Advice
Start small and work your way up as you get comfortable with your new lifestyle. Also, it doesn't hurt to try different activities or change up your workouts because you never know what will work best for you unless you try a bit of everything! Girls, don't be afraid of weightlifting...we can be strong too! The more muscle you have, the more calories you'll burn, even when at rest!
Lindsay's Biggest Source of Motivation
I'm inspired when others around me are working hard and doing their best. I have a lot of ambition and am always setting goals for myself, so accomplishing these goals is what's really motivating to me.
Lindsay's Favorite Form of Exercise
Calisthenics (bodyweight exercises) have become my favourite exercise to do! I enjoy working on chin-ups, dips, crow pose, and am working on a new pose called the elbow lever! I also love being upside down in an elbow stand, headstand, or handstand!
More about Lindsay
I have a BSc Honors in Psychology and have recently started working as a Behavioural Interventionist. My dream job would be as a Speech-Language Pathologist, working with kids with developmental disabilities to improve their communication!
Keep Lindsay pumped! Find her on the PumpUp community @linds_3. Share positive words of encouragement for her in the comments below!
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Katie’s Story Will Inspire You
It would be an understatement to say that PumpUp member @katieeliza_ has been through a lot! “Confidence is a new thing to me and I wish I could help grant everyone with even just a little bit of it!” shared Katie. “I could only imagine where I would be or who I would have become if I’d just learned to believe in myself sooner.” After she gained weight in the years following high school, Katie recovered from an eating disorder and now lives an active lifestyle with the help and support of PumpUp!
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How Zoe Achieved Her Progress Without the Help of a Gym
Zoe (@zoetigran) has a luminescent smile and the warmest heart. She joined PumpUp in October 2013 to keep her heart healthy in light of her family’s history of cardiovascular disease. “I realized how important it was to live a healthy lifestyle and I didn’t want any problems as I got older, particularly with my heart,” she elaborated. “A lot of people in my family don’t lead a healthy lifestyle and are now afflicted with heart problems. I didn’t want the same thing to happen to me. I know I’m young but you can never start too early!”
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How Elizabeth Overcame Depression & Binge Eating Disorder
At this time last year, Elizabeth’s New Year’s resolution was the same as it always was: to lose weight. With the help of PumpUp, she accomplished so much more. “Ever since I can remember, I’ve had self worth issues,” she revealed. "I began to love the way I am, inside and out. I’ve lost 20 pounds and I’ve learned that the halfway point of becoming who you want to be begins with loving who you already are." Be inspired about how Elizabeth overcame bingeing and depression, transcended a weight loss plateau, and learned to love herself by joining the PumpUp community!
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How Holly Became Happy With Her Body
"It depressed me to see how out of shape I became," Holly lamented. "It seems backwards, because taking ballet class would have only benefitted me. PumpUp was a great way to exercise in the comfort of my own home."
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How Anne Learned to Truly Accept Herself and Fuel Her Body
"After I found PumpUp, I [really became] healthy. I learned how to truly fuel my body the right way. I have never felt happier."
Kristin's 62-lb. Transformation Will Amaze You
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Soleil Whitaker
Killed: February 05, 2019 at 07:41 pm EST
Lycanthrop Born: December 31, 2016 Forum Topics Started: 0
Race: Werewolf Forum Posts / Replies: 2
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My Minion Raiding Party won't come back
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Soleil Whitaker's Biography
You were successful in stealing $21,327.00 from Claire Cross.
You were successful in stealing $1,220.00 from Elouise Orlav.
Soleil Whitaker's Friends ~
Bloedzuiger
Jameson Orlav
Beau Theroux 10/16/18 -smiles brightly-
"As long as my sister and I are around, neither of you will ever go hungry. Or without a drink! I own a bar, she bartends. Expect some wild barbecues."
-offers hand-"On behalf of Elysium, I welcome you."
Beau Theroux 10/15/18 -nods-
-looks around as they speak-
-checks watch-
-grins at the question-
"Cher, we got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes- you name it! My sister and I were raised in a cooking home in Lousiana, so you got your comfort food. And chocolate. Everywhere. A very food oriented group."
Beau Theroux 10/11/18 "I recruited her and we became fast friends.
-nodnods-
"I would like you to join her in Eden Kennedy's Sanctuary, Elysium."
-smiles-
"No catch. Just thought you would like to join her is all! Plus, we have a lot of food. And we need more people so it won't go to waste."
Beau Theroux 10/11/18 -squints at-
-murmurs to self-
"Short... black hair... rebellious looking... sexy... you fir Rhiannon's description."
-offers a chocolate bar-
"Hello, I'm Beau. I was sent here by Rhiannon, and we both want you to join Elysium."
-insert big smile here-
Jameson Orlav 07/16/18 Soleil Whitaker. There are so many reasons that her name leaves a foul taste in Jameson's mouth. He should have trusted his gut when it told him not to trust her, especially when it came to the interest she eagerly had given to his wife. That didn't matter anymore. The woman had friends in interesting places. A family. One that was very delicate. Susceptible to pain. There had been a fact that lingered on the mind of Jameson Orlav since just after his transition. Elouise had voluntarily surrendered the possession of their son when it seemed that she had been backed into a corner. No interest in raising a boy on her own, much less one that would grow into the unmistakable qualities of his father. It didn't bother him then, and it hardly bothered him now.
Except for the fact that once again, Soleil Whitaker had been in possession of something that belonged to him, and the chorus of his consciousness was like a broken record. Mine. Mine. Mine.
Jameson doesn't make his presence known... Yet. But one thing that is for certain is that he's there. Logan is, and will always be an Orlav. Jameson's kin. Whatever tiny slither of hope that the Whitaker's had held while trying to sate their appetite for a normal family... Trying to hide from him would always have proved to be futile.
Mackenzie 03/17/18 Soleil
Your hair looks like a pot of gold at the end of a blue rainbow.
Elis Griffyn 11/10/17 Email
To: Soleil Whitaker
From: E. Griffyn
Soleil,
Sorry for the seemingly random email, I managed to get your address from a friend. I hope you don't mind. And I appreciate that, given the issues in the past with her, you don't mind me contacting you in regards to Elouise.
We've had a falling out after a very upsetting incident involving some rather unsavoury beings (I'm sure you can guess who, or rather, what I am referring to) and she seems to be suffering some rather delusional thoughts about me as a result.
I worry for her safety and the safety of those she may come into contact moving forward, including yourself and your beautiful family.
If she gets in contact, please approach with caution while I try to fix the issue and get her help. And feel free to call me at any time. I believe you have my number.
She's not herself and I'm concerned for her.
Elis.
Caitlyn Darrow 06/06/17 *squeak, squeak*
*SQUEAK, SQUEAK, SQUEAK*
*silence*
*SQUEEEEEEAAAK*
Caitlyn Darrow 06/06/17 *squeaky toy sounds*
Elisa Stratten 05/31/17 Coffee was exactly what the poor girl needed right now. Her temples throbbed, likely do to the lack of caffeine and sleep in her system. She hadn't had any sleep in close to three days, and it had been even longer since her last cup of joe. Eagerly, Elisa followed the woman's gesture and made her way to the corner. She could almost taste the french vanilla right now.
"I've just never had someone cool with a stranger reaching into their back pockets..." Elisa offered a toothy grin. Not all people were awful pricks, and she was going to have to realize that eventually. "I'll have to make sure Zack is up for it, but I don't think he could turn down the pizza... and I'll supply the booze. It's the least I can do for my actions... I’ve really got to get better at that.” It was meant as a joke, but Elisa had a weird sense of humor.
Elisa Stratten 05/29/17 Trying not to seem too eager, Elisa glanced down at her phone, skimming the through texts as if to check for forgotten plans. She knew there was nothing important for her to attend to currently, but it almost felt lame to just jump at the opportunity. Truth be told, this place was sort of lonely without friends. Most of Ellie's friends had either passed or moved on with their lives, leaving her behind to figure it out on her own.
"Looks like I'm free for the next hour or so." She offered a the woman a friendly smile. "And yes, we should." Elisa could feel a burning sensation in her cheeks. It was quite embarrassing to get caught in an attempt at stealing, but even more embarrassing to be called out for it. "I was thinking about pizza and some drinks if the two of you would happen to be interested?"
Elisa Stratten 05/28/17 As luck would have it, this just wasn't Elisa's day. Last time she would spend all of her money on bail. So strapped for cash, she had been resorting to petty theft...and failing miserably. Never had she been caught in the act, and then apologized to for another's actions. This was certainly a first.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Soleil, I'm Elisa." She offered warmly. "And coffee would be lovely."
Summer 05/18/17 Giving a cheeky grin right back, she says, "Had I known you were the lucky lass, I'd have kept my hands to myself!" Quirking her head to the side, Summer lifted a brow in coy thought as she gives the woman an approving glance. "On the other hand, maybe I wouldn't have!"
"It's a pleasure to finally meet you!"
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Don't waste the whisky.. pour it out into your mouth and just pretend. No one has to know.
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The nurses received flak after their videos went viral on social media platforms with people demanding suspension of all those involved. Hospital's officer-in-charge Tapan Kumar Dinda said an inquiry is being conducted into the incident and the probe report will be submitted to the CDMO for necessary action.
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The Cordish Companies and Kansas City Power & Light District Announce Move-In Date for Two Light Luxury Apartments
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Construction of Kansas City's second luxury, high-rise apartment tower in over 50 years to be completed a month ahead of schedule
KANSAS CITY, MO (Dec. 11, 2017) - Just four months after the celebration of Two Light Luxury Apartments' topping out, The Cordish Companies and Kansas City Power & Light District proudly announce construction will be completed a month earlier than anticipated, allowing residents to move into their new luxury apartment homes as early as May 4, 2018.
When it opens, Two Light will add 24/7 energy and 400+ residents to its community at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Truman Road, connecting the vibrancy of the Power & Light District with the eclectic energy of the Crossroads Arts District.
Two Light is the second of four planned high-rise apartment buildings to be built by The Cordish Companies within the nine-block perimeter of the Power & Light District. The 25-story One Light Luxury Apartments opened in November 2015.
"We can't wait for Kansas City to experience Two Light," said Nick Benjamin, Executive Director of the Kansas City Power & Light District and Vice President of Multifamily Development for The Cordish Companies. "Like its sister property, One Light, Two Light will raise the bar for multifamily living in the Midwest and will be a great milestone in the continued growth and revitalization of downtown Kansas City."
The expedited opening of Two Light Luxury Apartments has been aggressively sought by locally owned general contractor, JE Dunn, and their team of quality subcontractors.
"The early opening announcement could not have been possible without the hard work and coordination from both our design and construction teams throughout the project," said Barbara Allen, Construction Project Executive for The Cordish Companies. "There is still work to be done, but we will continue to meet and exceed our schedule so that our residents are able to move in May 4th and take full advantage of all the exciting events happening this summer."
The exterior façade and many units are already near completion in the $120 million, 296-unit tower which was originally scheduled to open in June 2018. The finishes and final details in the remaining units and incredible amenity spaces will continue through the final months.
"The Cordish Companies had a bold vision for Downtown Kansas City, and it's been an honor and privilege to work with everyone there to make it come to life. I would like to thank our trade partners and the men and women who have been dedicated to working safely and completing a quality project ahead of schedule," said Dirk Schafer, Midwest President, JE Dunn Construction.
Two Light's key construction and development milestones in recent months have fueled additional interest in leasing and general excitement about the project and include:
March 14, 2016: Groundbreaking
April 21, 2016: Tower crane erected
August 4, 2017: Topping Out
September 14, 2017: Alexander Austin mural initiated
October 9, 2017: Rooftop signs installed on both the north and south face
October 9, 2017: Exterior glass installation completed
October 16, 2017: Tower crane dismantled
October 25, 2017: Power Life Yoga Barre Fitness announcement
January 8, 2018: Hard hat tours begin
May 4, 2018: Move-in Day
"The anticipation of our residents and the downtown community overall has been exhilarating," said Marnie Sauls, Director of Residential Management for The Cordish Companies. "For residents who have already signed leases, we send them pictures and video of the progress of their new home. They get to see the walls going up, the incredible views as their balconies are installed, the finishes being added and more. There is nothing greater than seeing and hearing our residents' excitement for move-in day, and now that we get to tell them they will be able to move in earlier, we couldn't be more excited."
Two Light will join One Light as the second new construction high-rise apartment building in the last 50 years in downtown Kansas City. The 24-story tower features a seven-story parking garage with 436 spaces, plus 17 floors of apartment homes. Additionally, the first floor will include 15,000 square feet of office space and 3,100 square feet of retail space occupied by Power Life Yoga Barre Fitness.
Two Light will feature more than 16,000 square feet of amenity space that rivals that of any luxury apartment or condo building anywhere in the United States including:
An expansive outdoor amenity deck featuring an infinity edge pool at the building's northwest edge, grilling stations, cabanas, an outdoor bar and a belvedere relaxation and activity space that cantilevers over 14th street
An indoor heated pool and spa retreat
A demonstration kitchen
Indoor-outdoor private event room
Club room featuring a 120-inch big screen TV
Quiet room
A building sommelier
24-hour lobby attendant and full suite of concierge services
Tours of a model apartment of Two Light can be scheduled by visiting the Two Light Leasing Center at 1251 Main Street, emailing info@twolightkc.com or by calling 816-472-1444. Beginning in January, Two Light will offer hard hat tours of a finished model apartment home inside the building.
For more details, visit www.twolightkc.com.
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Famin
In the beginning there was nothing but an egg. It was plain, completely white. The egg hatched, birthing Arceus, The Alpha. But another being emerged from the egg with Arceus. It was dark, The Shadow. He immediately despised his hatchmate, but quivered in view of the power that Arceus emanated, so The Shadow did not attack. He watched Arceus and his children create the world, and fill it with life. He despised it all, and wanted to see it burn. Instead, he lurked where Arceus would not find him, for he knew that the mighty being would end him upon sight. Instead, he chose to subvert the world that had been created, to ruin it. He took the creations of Arceus and his children and twisted them. He killed trees and fouled waters. Most importantly however, he turned pokemon into a dark reflection of himself - dark and evil, merciless killers who killed only to kill. These corrupted pokemon served his interests to the letter, and he used them to great effect.
Eventually however, Arceus discovered his brother, and attempted to end him. Arceus failed, and The Shadow escaped. The Shadow launched an invasion into the land of Serrin in an attempt to weaken Arceus to a point where he could kill the god. Arceus intervened and dubbed The Shadow as Famin. After being weakened by fighting armies of corrupted pokemon, Arceus faced Famin in battle. The two clashed in a mighty battle. It ended when the two gods were near death. Their powers were so depleted that it created a vacuum, and it sucked up the nearest energy it could find - the aura of a human being. It encased them and created the object known as the Beacon. The two have waged an eternal war in the Beacon ever since then.
Today, both Arceus and Famin are both active participants in Aatos, though their powers are limited greatly by the encasing Beacon. Unable to leave his shell, Famin is limited to influencing the minds and bodies of others indirectly, by whispering in their minds, casting curses, and causing people to fall into depravity. One of his largest projects is the creation of Corrupted Pokemon which draw on his power source in a perverse imitation of the world Arceus and his children built. He has also reached out to a series of powerful humans and twisted their minds, causing them to seek his reinstatement into the world. This organization is known as the Ring of Shadows, and after several hundred years, they finally approaching the goal of releasing Famin back into the world. If not stopped soon, the Ring will likely resurrect Famin within the next five years, at the longest.
A Note From CosmicOccurence
It may seem that I have used Famin to fill the role of the 'One Evil to Rule them All' in Aatos - the Sauron or Voldemort of this world that I have created if you will. I assure you that it was not my intention. Instead, I use Famin to answer the question 'Can Pokemon be Evil.' To which I wanted the answer to be yes. While sentient pokemon can be evil without the help of a god, there needed to exist the ability for less intelligent pokemon to be intentionally malicious and proactively working towards the destruction of something. Giratina was one answer to this question for me, but he is a sympathetic force. I was looking for something that might be the source of evil that exist in pokemon. Famin also allowed me to take the world of Aatos in many new directions including the nation of Serrin and the formation of the Ring of Shadows.
That being said, Famin can easily be turned into one large villain to cap off a campaign and save the world if the DM chooses to go that direction with him. However, that is not what I tried to do with him in the context of creating a setting. I intentionally avoided the stereotype of having one great evil that was threatening to destroy humanity (though he would certainly love to do so). I wanted Aatos to be more dynamic than that. Famin is merely one player in the game of actions and reactions that make Aatos into a dynamic world - I hope - in many ways similar to our own.
Treat Famin exactly as you would treat Arceus in your game. Both are of the same power levels, and both derive power from the 18 mystical type plates that harness their power. Instead of Judgement, Famin should instead have Damnation, which is mechanically identical.
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The Official Lewis Hamilton thread
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F1Tyrant wrote:
TedStriker wrote:
Let's add Singapore quali to that list - his best lap ever?
Almost certainly. Ferrari were nailed on favourites for qualifying and the race.
On an added note, how do you guy's rank Hamilton's titles? Mine is:
It's strange that 2008 sticks out like a sore thumb.
I would actually put 2008 above 2014 and 2015 because he didn't have the fastest car.
Agreee, his 2008 season seems to be under rated, when he really drove well, the Ferrari was arguably the superior car, I would say convincingly the better car so was quite impressive that he was able to win the title
shay550
Five time
World Champion!
Arguably the greatest F1 driver of all time!
This could be his last. Leclerc looks MEGA consistent and Seb will be keen to iron out the mistakes. Verstappen+Honda could be an incredible combination. Bring on 2019!
2014 is quite under rated though.. Rosberg won 5 races and they are all *
Australia - Hamiltn DNF from pole
Monaco - Rosberg ruins Hamiltons pole lap
Austria - Hamilton has pole lap deleted for running wide then spins and starts P9.
Germany - Hamilton starts P20 after blowing up in qualifying
Brazil - Hamilton spins when just about to overcut Rosberg (left out 1 lap too long).
Hamilton absolutely thrashed Rosberg in 2014, some races were close but Hamilton was always on top unless something happened. The only downside was qualifying pace but he still only lost 8-10 and the up turn in race pace more than made up for it.
stevey
I just hope Lewis can break his duck at brazil and finish first while securing merc the WCC.
The Ferrari is looking very Racy at the minute and the merc looks to be the tyre eating monster it used to be back in the day.
Lewis won in Brazil in 2016.
Wow, 5 WDC. Been a while since that happened last!
Well done to Hamilton, controlled his race and didn't risk at all, pretty much the best drive he could have had, smart man. The same can be said for the whole year, apart from a sluggish start, he was the driver to beat, no matter what. Delivered in wet and dry, what else could a manager want? Totto must be a happy man.
Well deserved WDC, I also rate it as arguably his best. Let's see if he'll have a crack at Schumie's records.
Still overall it's seen as him winning in the fastest car unlike 2008.
For me both 2014 and 2015 were superior seasons to 2008. Yes, Hamilton won in a slower car in 2008 but he also made a few significant mistakes that year and he was competing against Massa and Raikkonen (neither as good as Rosberg IMO). In 2014, Hamilton was a beast on Sundays and 2015 was arguably his most dominant season (up to the point when he secured the title).
Invade wrote:
So that will be two titles he's won whilst not having the best car? Some would argue three - I'm amazed at how many people on Reddit and Discord who AREN'T Merc fans came to the conclusion that Ferrari had the better car in 2017 (I don't agree).
Good stuff tho.
Anyway, regardless...
2018>2017>2014>2015>2008
All strong.
Three? No way 2017 Ferrari was better, especially once reliability is considered. Vettel lost a lot of points in Japan and Malaysia. Hamilton was bulletproof
Mercedes had their reliability issues too e.g. Spain (Bottas engine failure), Britain (Bottas gearbox penalty) etc.
Vettel lost approx 34 points to reliability
Hamilton, 20 (Gearbox penalty in Austria, headrest malfunction in Azerbaijan).
The difference in loss of points, 14.
2018, 2017, 2008, 2015, 2014. I agree with Pokerman re 2008. Securing the title without an outright car advantage, that's more impressive than winning in the dominant W05 & W06 (imo).
You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24181 ... n-mercedes
Always nice to wheel this one out. Think McNish probably got it the furthest wrong. Alonso seemed to be on the money, and the article's author was right on target with the notion that Mercedes would be in pole position engine wise for 2014.
Underviewer
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24181/10039850/what-was-said-when-lewis-hamilton-quit-mclaren-to-join-mercedes
I remember thinking it was a poor decision to move although Mclaren were full of mistakes and Whitmarsh seemed to promote failure by being too...soft. I would love to know what he was really like behind the scenes. With hindsight, the very fact that Brawn was in charge at Mercedes meant it was always going to come right. Everything Brawn touched turned to gold eventually.
I think that Joe Saward has the most egg on his face based on the comments there. His condescending and superior tone only serve to make him eat his words even more.
Experts eh? I wonder how much that lot were paid to come up with their opinions.
BMWSauber84
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:09 am
God, the Daily Mail's Jonathan Mcevoy came across as so holier than thou. What a difference 6 years makes. These days he is calling Hamilton the joint greatest of all time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formu ... ssion=true
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:59 pm
I'm not going to criticise any of them, at the time I was saying don't leave McLaren.
Last edited by pokerman on Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Junglist
I always love revisiting that article.
I mean, none of us could've imagined this would happen. I thought it was a bad move in 2013 but look where we are now!
Obviously, nobody can really criticize Martin Whitmarsh and Jenson Button for their comments in that article. They were Mclaren employees so were hardly going to say that leaving the team was a good move.
I thought like a few of the journalists in the article that Mercedes would be competitive in 2014. I wasn't expecting dominance by any means. Their horrific end to 2012 was somewhat worrying though.
They had a big budget, a successful history as an engine supplier to Mclaren and a great pedigree of staff. That doesn't guarantee success of course (Toyota), but the comparisons to Fittipaldi and Villenueve's move to BAR were pretty ludicrous.
BMWSauber84 wrote:
I disagree neither Whitmarsh or Button foresaw the disaster about to befall then, Button in particular thought that Hamilton had lost his marbles and with Hamilton out of the way thought he was going to have a serious run at the 2013 title.
"Lewis is a fantastically quick driver and he has expressed interest in driving for the team in the past. But it wouldn't have been right for the team. I have great admiration for the talent he has but I don't think Lewis and Sebastian would be the right combination" - Christian Horner, Red Bull.
Lewis and Seb as team mates??? That would have been fun, or else TEOTWAWKI!
Nice little article from Crash.net
https://www.crash.net/f1/feature/909346 ... s#comments
Clarky
Location: LONDON...!
stevey wrote:
What duck?
Just came across this on Youtube, one of Lewis's mechanics wearing a GoPro showing the end of the Mexico race and part of the celebrations afterward, it's cool to see things from a different point of view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pznxVy31mg
Clarky wrote:
I was thinking the same. I'm sure he won a race this year!
owenmahamilton wrote:
Yeah I've already seen it, it was a bit like watching a video game when he was running.
This year?
Brazil is the next race.
Maybe the "never winning a race after winning the WDC in same season" duck?
That's an interesting duck and the Mercs aren't looking overally good after the last 2 races.
I think you missed my point entirely
I think you need to explain?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:44 pm
I'd expect a Mercedes win in Abu Dhabi. Perhaps Brazil if there are changeable conditions.
shoot999
He doesn't. You just need to read it again. More carefully or twice, whatever gets the job done.
Nope still didn't work.
At the risk of over-explaining it...
The way this is written, from a grammatical standpoint it is saying that the poster hopes Lewis can break his duck at Brazil, not that his duck is specific to Brazil. 'I hope Lewis can break his duck and finish first (at Brazil)' not 'I hope Lewis can break his Brazil duck and finish first'.
Siao7 then made a joke about it:
Which is a play on the way it is written, not the obvious meaning.
But aside from all that, Lewis has won in Brazil as recently as 2016, so there's no real 'duck' to be broken.
https://twitter.com/autosprint/status/1 ... 84/photo/1
Italian press getting restless?
Indeed the only duck to be broken is winning a race in the same season after securing the WDC, anyway thanks for the effort.
shoot999 wrote:
https://twitter.com/autosprint/status/1059729618306064384/photo/1
Maybe that's the reason why Vettel felt the need to defend himself?
Ah, yes, that's it. Thank you Exediron and Lotus, I've been away since last week, so I only saw this now.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uplo ... d-duck.jpg
Do we have a problem here guys???
Nah, just ducking around.
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Profit and Loss: a drawing by Owen McGuigan
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David Betteridge introduces a drawing from Owen McGuigan which 'takes a line for a walk'; and a song on the same theme of shipbuilding on Clydeside.
Watching Owen McGuigan taking photographs is an eyeopener, especially when he is at work among a crowd at a public event. It is like watching a snooker player lining up a shot, or a footballer, seen in slow motion in a video, moving with expertise to be in the right place for a good kick or header, at the decisive moment. Strangely, Owen manages to do this almost unobtrusively, despite the fact that his shock of white hair acts as a flag. It is a flag of peace, perhaps, signalling a quiet professionalism.
Behind Owen’s skill in taking photographs lies something equally important for understanding his genius, and the genesis of his huge archive of images (including videos) that document the life and soul of his native Clydebank. See www.myclydebankphotos.co.uk. That “something” is a habit of looking at the world and the people in it sympathetically. He looks with a feeling eye, and a democratic one.
Besides photography, Owen works in other media too - fretwork, for example. A piece of his combining several iconic images from the Clydebank Blitz has pride of place in an exhibition in the Town Hall, commemorating that dreadful episode in the town’s history.
Drawing is another outlet for his vision. Sitting with a sheet of paper in front of him early in the New Year (2017), and with a pen in his hand, Owen began to “doodle”, as he puts it. One part of the drawing led to the next, until, by an uncanny process, the drawing reproduced above was completed. Owen calls it “Profit and Loss”. It represents, in a complex and beautifully ordered way, the industry that put Clydebank on the map, shipbuilding.
Paul Klee famously described drawing as taking a line for a walk. Owen’s “Profit and Loss” does something similar. He takes a scene for a walk, or maybe a selection of themes from a scene, namely a composite shipyard, and takes them for a walk; or, viewing the drawing from a different angle, you might say that the drawing takes the observer on a conducted tour of the scene, starting where Owen started, namely at a magnificent great girder at the centre of the page. From there our eye progresses, from detail to detail, following a roundabout route to the drawing’s edges and corners.
You might object that we should start by looking at “Profit and Loss” in the round (or rectangle), as a whole, enjoying the strength and coherence of the overall design first, and only then zooming in on the details - and what details there are, of various sizes, shapes and textures! There is a pint of Guinness on the pub bar, ready poured, waiting for the drinker’s arrival soon from the yard; there are palm trees in a holiday resort that the builders of cruise liners that take folk there will never themselves visit; there is the lovely contour of a ship’s keel driving into waves; there is a man falling; there is blood.
In fact, there is no single way of looking at this, or any drawing. There are several ways, and they are complementary, and different people will see different significances in the selection and combination of pictorial elements. If you know about shipbuilding, you will see more in “Profit and Loss” than most. You will see, for example, references to the deadly phenomenon of asbestos, which has hit Clydebank as badly over the generations as anywhere.
Regarding this killer, Owen has written:
There are several asbestos references in the drawing. Although the shipyards have long gone, we are still living with the legacy of asbestos. Many workers have died as a result of asbestos-related cancers and diseases. Below is a copy of “Profit and Loss” with some reference notes to asbestos.
Here is a bit of info about Marinite board used on the ships: Marinite Insulating Panels are 4-foot by 8-foot sized boards that are currently sold as an asbestos-free product, but that was not always the case. For many years, these panels were made with the naturally occurring mineral, because it can control heat and even help stop the spread of fire. This made it ideal for use in industrial settings, and also for homes, schools, churches and most any other standing structure. Aside from its heat-resistant capabilities, asbestos was also extremely durable, so products made from it can last for decades. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a negative trait. The International Asbestos Memorial is down at the bottom left of the drawing.
“Profit and Loss” benefits from repeated looking, I believe; and it makes a good companion to certain poems and songs on the same subject of shipbuilding, considered in the same complex way. One such song is a brilliant and moving piece called “Song o the Yard”, written by the late Leo Coyle, who said of his work:
Much has been written and sung in praise of the Clyde and the great ships built there, but little written or sung are about the hellish conditions endured by the workers who built them. Since I served my time in the shipyards, I lived with the unique humour and tenacity of the Clyde shipyard worker to overcome and survive in spite of so many betrayals. The song is self explanatory and is supported by guitar accompaniment that echoes the tragedy of the loss of a proud industry.
Here is “Song o the Yard”, performed by Leo’s daughter and son, Leanne and Eddie, followed by the lyrics:
From Clydeborn, a CD collection of Leo Coyle’s songs, sung by Eddie and Leanne Coyle, available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Tune: “The Laird o Cockpen” (traditional)
Through the eyes o a young man born on the Clyde,
When the pulse o humanity turned on the tide,
An a nation that depended on ships for its trade,
Turned a blind eye on the price that was paid.
Raw cauld is the mist on the river at dawn,
Wi coat collars up, the men hurry on;
The keel maun be laid ere a new ship is born,
An yae might lose a shift if yer late for the horn.
The frames o the hull in the cauld mists are lost,
A skeleton dressed in a mantle o frost,
A spectre sae drear t’would daunt even the brave,
For there’s nae caulder place tween the womb an the grave.
Wi the reek o steel burnin an the clangin o plates,
The choking on fumes an shoutin o mates,
Wi the din o the caulkers vibratin the shell,
A ship on the stocks is just organised hell.
But there’s aye caustic humour an witty retort.
An endless comment aboot wimen an sport,
For it’s wimen an horses an who scored the goal
That sustain men in life such conditions tae thole.
On Kilbowie Hill the beeches stand tall,
Oer men frae the yards who hae given their all,
One moment alive and the next just a wreck,
Covered oer wi coats on a cauld rusty deck.
They were aye in the news when the critics cried oot,
Just countin up hours that’s lost in dispute;
An I wonder, did they earn their livin as hard
As the men that were buildin the ships in the yard?
Noo, there must be oer many who think they were daft,
Takin pride in oor labour, oor skill an oor craft,
Buildin luxury liners, empresses an queens,
That ever tae sail on was far yond oor dreams
Through the eyes o an auld man, I gaze on the river,
An the young jobless men, wonderin if it’s for ever;
Wi Scotland united, we’ll still turn the tide,
An return tae its glory, the Valley o Clyde.
One last reference cries out to be given, namely a collection of poems springing from a similar experience and culture and ethos as Owen’s and Leo’s, namely Bill Sutherland’s A Clydeside Lad. Three of these poems are included in A Rose Loupt Oot, an anthology published by Smokestack Books of various materials inspired by the great UCS Work-In of 1971-72.
In one of them, the poet characterises a ship under construction as being both a “beast o steel” and a “beauty”, and wonders, in the voice of childhood, “whit god’s, whit divvil’s beast is this?” What contradictions there are here, as in Owen’s “Profit and Loss” and Leo’s “Song o the Yard”!
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Nick Wright is an editor at Manifesto Press, blogs at 21centurymanifesto and is responsible for the Communist Party’s media work.
Art, politics, anti-semitism and anti-Corbynism
Alex Simpson
Dr. Alex Simpson is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Applied Social Science at the University of Brighton.
Melissa Oldham
Melissa Oldham is a PhD student and tutor in the department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
How the media shapes our cultural ideals of body shape
Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.
IWD 2016: Rebellious Silence and Rebellious Singing
Anne Duggan
Anne E. Duggan is a Professor of French and Chair of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University, Michigan. She is also Co-Editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
Reactionaries and Revolutionaries: Classical Fairy Tales and Class
Walter Wolfgang
Ben Stevenson
PCS Culture Manifesto
Andy Summers is a writer based in Birmingham.
The Responsible Bomb
Richard Clarke
Richard Clarke works at Westminster Business School, Birkbeck College, and runs a consultancy in heritage management.
Sheree Mack
Dr. Sheree Mack is a writer and artist, with expertise in Black British Women's Poetry. She's currently working on a creative non-fiction novel as well as a poetry collection about Rewilding.
We'll show you you're a woman
Kevin Higgins is a Galway-based poet, essayist and reviewer, and satirist-in-residence at the alternative literature site The Bogman's Cannon, www.bogmanscannon.com.
Waiting for Boris
Steve Griffiths
Steve Griffiths's latest collection of poems is Late Love Poems (Cinnamon Press). A series of filmed performances of poems from the book, funded by Arts Council England, is now available on YouTube. Steve worked in London for most of his life in welfare rights and health and social policy, and now campaigns against inequality. See also www.stevegriffithspoet.com.
Rita Ann Higgins
Rita Ann Higgins is a Galway-based poet and playwright. She has published ten books of poetry.
It Suits a Narrative
Lisa Kelly
Lisa Kelly is a freelance journalist and Chair of Magma Poetry. Her first collection, 'A Map Towards Fluency' is forthcoming from Carcanet this summer.
This poem has a title
Adrian Chan-Wyles
Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD is a writer, translator, founder of the Sangha Kommune, and Spiritual Director of the Chan Buddhism Institute.
When Karl Marx Practised Buddhism
PL Henderson
PL Henderson is a writer, reviewer, art historian/researcher, feminist activist and artist. She is creator/curator of #WOMENSART, see https://womensartblog.wordpress.com.
'Marxism will heal the sick': Frida Kahlo and Karl Marx
Gerald Horne
Gerald Horne is an African-American historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
Paul Robeson: The Artist As Revolutionary
Vicky Sparrow
Vicky Sparrow is a Ph.D student working on the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn, at Birkbeck College, London.
'A poem of objects that live by magic': the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn
Kim Reynolds
Kimberley Reynolds is the Professor of Children’s Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. Recent publications include Children’s Literature in the Oxford University series of Very Short Introductions (2012) and Left Out: The Forgotten Tradition of Radical Publishing for Children in Britain, 1910-1949 (Oxford University Press, 2016).
'Heed the truth/Spoken by the youth!' Stories of political activism by young people at the Battle of Cable Street
William Rowe
William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His most recent book is nation (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2016).
Two Poems by William Rowe
Steve Johnson is London District Secretary of the Communist Party and a social worker by profession. He has a keen interest in music, politics and real ale and is a regular festival attender
Dylan Goes Electric
Chris Guiton
Chris Guiton is an Associate Editor of Culture Matters, and a freelance writer and project manager.
Profound new visions of a better world: why we need cultural education
Deborah Price
Deborah Price lives in Deri. She has written four books for children and collaborated on and published another ten. They include poetry anthologies/collections and a 30th anniversary commemoration of the 1984 Miners' Strike.
Aberfan and the Free Wales Army
Jim Aitken
Jim Aitken is a poet and dramatist living and working in Edinburgh. His last poetry collection was ‘Flutterings’ 2016 and his last play produced was ‘Letters from Are C’ directed by Karen Douglas of SpartaKi. Jim also tutors in Scottish Cultural Studies in Edinburgh, organises Literary Walks for groups around the city, and teaches creative writing for people with mental health issues.
His new play ‘Rosa’, about the life of Rosa Luxemburg, will be staged at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh in November 2019.
Christ is a communist and God is a miner: ‘The Sair Road’ by William Hershaw
Steve Pottinger
Steve Pottinger is a performance poet who's passionate about the power of poetry to create connections between people. He believes in making an audience laugh and think and decide that poetry isn't so bad after all.
The Glass Collector
Gordon Parsons
Gordon Parsons is an arts reviewer for the Morning Star.
Theatre and Politics: Book Review
Keith Armstrong
Keith Armstrong has worked as a community worker, librarian, publisher and poet, and has performed his poetry throughout the world.
The Divided Self: a poem for Burns Night
Mary Vincent
Animal Farm: a powerfully written allegory but an untruthful, gender-blind analysis
Paul Foley
Paul Foley is a trade union activist and arts reviewer for the Morning Star.
A Terrible Beauty: The Cultural Impact of the 1916 Easter Rising
Helena Sheehan
Helena Sheehan is an author and activist. She is emeritus professor at Dublin City University where she taught history of ideas, science studies and media studies. Her books include: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History, Irish Television Drama : A Society and Its Stories, Has the Red Flag Fallen? and The Syriza Wave. She is an active contributor to mainstream, alternative and social media.
A brief and breathtakingly brilliant life: Christopher Caudwell, activist and intellectual
Sandy Grant is a philosopher at the University of Cambridge and tweets at @TheSandyGrant
The Power of Poetry in Dark Times
Paul Victor Tims
Paul Victor Tims is a writer and a magician.
Culture Punch: reforming the videogames industry
Lucy Pearson
Dr. Lucy Pearson is Lecturer in Children's Literature at Newcastle University.
The child colonisers: fanfiction and young people’s reading power
Michael Flynn and Julian Germain
The Pitmen Painters and the Ashington District Star
Richard King is Professor of Buddhist & Asian Studies, Head of Religious Studies and Programme Convenor for Asian Studies, Kent University.
Marxism, Buddhism and socialism
Robert Minto
Robert Minto is a writer and philosopher. He blogs and tweets.
A smuggling operation: John Berger's theory of art
Dave Rogers works for Banner Theatre and is a political activist and campaigner.
Banner Theatre: Building Communities of Dramatic Resistance
Marc James Leger
Marc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today (2014) and author of Brave New Avant Garde (2012), The Neoliberal Undead (2013) and Drive in Cinema: Essays on Film, Theory and Politics (2015).
Unknown Knowledge: Richard Hamilton's Last Works
Anthony Sullivan
Dr Anthony Sullivan lectures in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion.
Why Fashion Matters
Mike Jenkins
Mike Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh poet and author and unofficial poet for Cardiff City FC. His new book of political poetry, Nobody's Subject, is published in Summer 2016.
Two poems for St. David's Day
Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.
When Pep Met Jose: From Northern Powerhouse to Northern Bauhaus
Ian Birchall
Ian Birchall is a writer and translator; see his website at http://grimanddim.org.
Book Review: Comrades Come Rally
Fran Lock
Fran Lock is a poet, illustrator, and political activist. She has written several collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Muses and Bruises', published by Culture Matters.
helpston
Bruce Wilkinson
Bruce Wilkinson is an occasional contributor to the football magazine When Saturday Comes, generally writing about social issues affecting fans, and his team, Blackburn Rovers.
Hidden Culture, Forgotten History
Tony Collins is a professor of history at De Montfort University. His books include 'Sport in Capitalist Society' and 'The Oval World'.
What's Happened to Sport?
Martin Brown
Martin Brown is a retired teacher, a member of the National Education Union and Unify (a cross-union body campaigning for one union for all education professionals) and former editor of 'Education for Tomorrow'.
Is There a Marxist Perspective on Education?
David Cromwell and David Edwards
David Cromwell and David Edwards are co-editors of Media Lens, medialens.org.
Distortion and groupthink
I, Daniel Blake demands a political response
It Ain't Me, Bob
Graham Stevenson
Graham Stevenson is a political and trade union activist, and has held many senior posts in the labour movement.
Peaky Blinders and the Real Jessie Eden
Emma Boyland
Dr Emma Boyland is a lecturer in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Liverpool since 2012.
A Culture of Overconsumption: Portion Control
Mohja Kahf
Mohja Kahf was born in Syria. She is a widely published poet and author.
Little Mosque Poems
Chris Norris
Christopher Norris is Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of more than thirty books on aspects of philosophy, politics, literature, the history of ideas, and music.
Bojo: Night Thoughts of a Political Journalist
Paul Donovan is a freelance journalist, who reports on football for the Morning Star. He has also contributed across the British media on a variety of issues across the political and cultural sphere over a number of years.
Is football still the game of ordinary working people?
Haydn Greenway
Haydn Greenway is a recently retired nuclear medicine technologist, having worked for the NHS for over 30 years.
The Music of Imperialism: Berlioz's The Trojans
Joanne Entwistle
Dr Joanne Entwistle is Reader in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College, London. She has written extensively on fashion, dress and the body.
The everyday creative activity of clothing ourselves
Jane Kallir
Jane Kallir is co-director of the Galerie St. Etienne, New York.
A weapon in the class struggle: American artists and the Communist Party
Daniel Rosenberg
Dan Rosenberg teaches history at Adelphi University, just outside New York City.
Sidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic
Tayo Aluko
Tayo Aluko is the writer and performer of the multi-award-winning CALL MR ROBESON which he has been touring worldwide since 2008. His new play JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER has also started being performed internationally since February 2017.
Art as a weapon to defend the oppressed
Peter Doran
Dr Peter Doran is a lecturer at the School of Law at Queens University Belfast and a life-long activist on issues ranging from the arms trade to the circular economy.
Towards a mindful cultural commons
Norrie Paton
Norrie Paton is a writer and Burns scholar. He grew up in the shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow and served a five-year apprenticeship as a draughtsman.
Robert Burns the Democrat
Paul Simon is a reviewer for the Morning Star.
The Handsworth Times
Gerry Cordon
Gerry Cordon is a retired FE college lecturer, blogging at gerryco23.wordpress.com.
Blood and Roses: The concert marking the centennial of Ewan MacColl
Matt Bruce
Matt Bruce is an architect who moved to Lewis in 1987 and worked in both public and private sectors and then on housing development in the islands' council. He is now retired but active in a number of community organisations.
Cuimhneachain nan Gaisgeach - Remembering the Heroes
Gerry Rowe
Gerry Rowe is a writer, disgruntled minor functionary, and a Labour councillor in Chepstow.
Peggy Deamer
Peggy Deamer is a professor of architecture at Yale University and a practicing architect. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, an activist organisation that argues for the value of architectural work within and without the profession.
The architect as activist
Steve Willey
Steve Willey is a poet, researcher and critic. He is lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. Elegy, his most recent book of poetry, was published by Veer in 2013.
A Poetics of Struggle: An Introduction to the Poetry of William Rowe
Greg Godels
Greg Godels wrote cultural commentary for the US Communist publication, The Daily/Weekly World. Today, he writes political and economic commentary from a Marxist-Leninist perspective.
Coltrane's revolutionary musical journey
Daniel Clarkson Fisher
Danny is an essay filmmaker whose work has been featured in numerous outlets. See danielclarksonfisher.com.
Dunkirk: Keep Calm and Carry On?
Marc Nash
Marc Nash is a novelist and short story writer, and works for the freedom of expression charity Index on
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Peter Schlemihl
Doug Nicholls
Doug Nicholls is General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and the author of numerous books on history, politics, poetry and culture.
Geoff Bright
Dr Geoff Bright is a Research Fellow in the Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. With a background as a rail union activist and community educator in the UK coalfields, his research focuses on the intersection of class, place, gender and affect as it impacts on the political imagination of working class communities.
Social haunting in the Brexit coalfields
Patricia McGee is a retired FE lecturer, and very concise.
Tyneside Story
Martin Hayes has worked in the courier industry for 30 years. His latest collection is The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, published by Culture Matters.
Mayday poem: hearts bigger than the sun
Dr Rebecca Hillman
Rebecca Hillman is a writer, theatre maker and activist. Her teaching and research at the University of Exeter, where she works as a Drama lecturer, are informed by her involvement in trade union and community campaigns. Her research explores the role of art in social and industrial movements past and present, and the way in which the history of political art and creative protest has been documented. Please contact Rebecca if you are interested in helping build a cultural wing of the labour movement at r.a.hillman@exeter.ac.uk
Rebuilding Culture in the Labour Movement: collaborations for the future and celebrations of the past.
John Smith is an award-winning avant garde film-maker, based in London.
Susan Jones
Susan Jones is a published writer, researcher and consultant on contemporary visual arts matters, at www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk. She is a specialist in artists’ livelihoods, professional development and employment patterns, and was Director of a-n The Artists Information Company 1999-2014.
Art, activism and the cultural food chain
Andy Croft
Andy Croft has written and edited over 80 books, including poetry, biography, teenage non-fiction and novels for children. He writes a regular poetry column for the Morning Star, curates the T-junction international poetry festival on Teesside and runs Smokestack Books. He lives in North Yorkshire.
Mobilise the books! A review of Shabbigentile
Rab Wilson
Rab Wilson is a Scottish poet who writes mainly in the Scots language. His works include a Scots translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. His latest collection is Zero Hours.
Burnsiana
Peter Branson
Peter Branson is a full time poet, songwriter, traditional-style singer and socialist whose poetry has been published around the world. His latest collection, ‘Hawk Rising’, is due out early 2016.
Tony McKenna
Tony McKenna is a writer, his latest book is 'Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives' (Zero Books).
Sarah Alderton
Sarah Alderton is an Assistant Nutritionist at Consensus Action on Salt, Sugar & Health.
Fast Food Fury: time to overhaul our takeaway culture
Jon Tait
Jon Tait is a postal worker and writer from Northumberland who lives in Carlisle.
Paul Dovey
Paul Dovey is a trade unionist who sometimes gets angry and writes things. He strongly believes that the act of creativity itself is empowering and that working class culture should make its own space and use its own voice.
On the Up
Steve Presence
‘Bomb the river’: space, class, and masculinity in Shane Meadows' films
Matt Abbott is a spoken word poet from West Yorkshire. Having started a few weeks before his 18th birthday, his career has so far ranged from a major record deal with the band Skint & Demoralised, through to political activism, education work and forming spoken word record label Nymphs & Thugs. He is an ambassador for Trinity Homeless Projects and CRIBS International, as well as Poet-in-Residence at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Pick up a pen and speak out
Monique Charles
Monique Charles is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick.
Grime helps launch a revolution in youth politics
Chris Bartter
Chris Bartter is a Glasgow-based writer and cultural activist, blogging at captaingrumping.blogspot.co.uk. Chris was the Communications Officer at UNISON Scotland for 20 years.
Universalism, People and Song: A Last Toast to Burns
Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid
Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid is an Iraqi born artist and writer, living and working in Helsinki.
Short Story: Ark of Salvation
Zita Holbourne
Zita is a poet, artist, national vice president of PCS Union, and National Chair and co-founder of Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (BARAC) UK.
Justice 4 Grenfell
Sean Ledwith
Sean Ledwith is a Counterfire member and Lecturer in History and Politics at York College, where he is also UCU branch secretary.
Don’t just stop the wheel, break it! Feudalism, capitalism and revolution in Game of Thrones
Fred Voss
Fred Voss, a machinist for 32 years, has had three collections of poetry published by the UK’s Bloodaxe Books. His latest booklet is The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand, published by Culture Matters.
Joe Hill Walks This Factory Floor
Martin Cloake
Martin Cloake is a journalist, award-winning author, editor, trainer and project manager.
Killing the FA Cup by the pound
Michael Lavalette
Dr Michael Lavalette is Professor of Social Work and Social Policy,
and Head of School of Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University
Hillsborough and the policing of working class sport
Amir Darwish
Amir Darwish is a poet, born in Syria and now living on Teeside. His poetry has been published in the USA, Pakistan, Finland, Morocco and Mexico, and he is a graduate of Teesside University and the University of Durham.
Cultural beheading: art from Syrian refugees
Julia Mickenberg
Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor (with Philip Nel) of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.
Radical Children's Literature
Esther Leslie
Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London.
'The murderous, meaningless caprices of fashion': Marx on capital, clothing and fashion
Len Phelan
Art of Solidarity
Amarjit Chandan
Amarjit Chandan is a noted Punjabi poet and essayist.
Thank you John; thank you
Peter Raynard
Peter Raynard is a writer and editor of Proletarian Poetry: poems of working class lives. He has been widely published and his debut collection Precarious will be published by Smokestack Books in April 2018. His poetic coupling of the Communist Manifesto will be published by Culture Matters in May, 2018.
Shabbigentile
Niall McDevitt
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet and activist. He leads epic psycho-geographical walks through London, about Shakespeare, Blake, Rimbaud, and Yeats.
The Western Wall Plaza
Sanjiv Sachdev
Sanjiv Sachdev is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West London. Formerly a trade union research officer, one of his interests is political art.
Photos of a divided society
Prue Chamberlain
Prudence Chamberlain is a Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing. Her first collection is forthcoming with Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, while her collaborative work with SJ Fowler, on Disney, will be released later this year. She is currently writing a book on affect and the fourth wave of feminism for Palgrave Macmillan.
The Argonauts: Book Review
Trish Lavelle
Trish Lavelle is the Head of Education and Training at the CWU.
Refreshing the culture of working class education
Stuart Cartland
Stuart Cartland is a lecturer in Humanities at the University of Brighton.
Cultural nationalism: Brexit and the rise of nostalgia identity
Boff Whalley
Boff Whalley is a songwriter, fellrunner and former postman, previously in the troublesome pop group Chumbawamba. He has worked extensively in theatre and arts projects, collaborating on choral pieces at Manchester Museum, Tate Britain and Somerset House, London.
A Manifesto for a Choir
Rip Bulkeley
Rip Bulkeley is a semi-retired research historian and non-retired poet.
Grenfell Day
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, occasional translator and political science scholar. He teaches poetry at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.
Staring Back
Dermot Foster
Dermot Foster lives in Oldham and recently retired from teaching in Further Education, in colleges, communities, mental health facilities, and HMP Manchester.
Trouble In Store
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
Rebecca researched and drafted the report on Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing, 2017 for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing,
Promoting creativity: towards a socialist cultural policy
Jonathan Edwards's first collection, My Family and Other Superheroes (Seren, 2014) received the Costa Poetry Award and the Wales Book of the Year People's Choice Award.
From Aberfan t Grenfell
Linda Hirst
Dr Linda Hirst is Head of Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban Conservertoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, London.
IWD 2016: Women of the World
Michael Rosen is a freelance writer, teacher, journalist, performer and broadcaster. He supports Arsenal Football Club.
Stephen Pritchard
Dr. Stephen Pritchard is an artist and academic, researching and practising activist art projects in community settings in order to create spaces for community empowerment, resistance and liberation.
Caught Doing Social Work? - socially engaged art and the dangers of becoming social workers
Michael Roberts is Festival Producer of the Cornwall Film Festival.
Dunkirk - a visceral account of the Allied retreat
Robb Johnson
Stop consuming and do it yourself
Ross Bradshaw
Ross Bradshaw runs the radical Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.
Stephanie McMillan
Stephanie McMillan is an artist, cartoonist, communist organiser and cultural activist. See http://stephaniemcmillan.org
The American Ruling Class
Alan Dunnett
Alan Dunnett is a poet, active union member and former theatre director who now works at Central Saint Martins, London. His poems have appeared in magazines and ezines including Dead Ink, The Recusant, Militant Thistles and Communist Review.
At service or brexit
Emma Carboni
Emma Carboni works for Accumulate.
Alfredo Jaar's Garden of Good and Evil
Susan Millar DuMars
Susan Millar DuMars is the author of four poetry collections, all published by Salmon Poetry. The most recent, Bone Fire, appeared in 2016.
Dirty word
Nadia Drews
Nadia Drews is a playwright, director, poet and performer. Thirty years of repressed rhymes mean she writes long poems - but she reads them fast.
Like Mother
Nathan Akehurst
Nathan Akehurst is a socialist activist and freelance writer, working in campaigns and communications.
Take back control: inspiring revolutionary architecture from 1917 Russia.....and 2017 London
Robert Farrell
Robert Farrell lives and works in the Bronx, New York, as a librarian.
Aftersong
Owen Gallagher
Mayday poem: The Blacklist
Mina Boromand & Chris Bird
Mina Boromand and Chris Bird create art and cartoons for 'The Morning Star' newspaper and trade union pubIications, hoping to connect political action to creativity and imagination. They have organised exhibitions and displays at the Marx Memorial Library and other events such as the annual Red Star conference.
Free all political prisoners
Darren Pih
Tracey Emin meets William Blake
Tony Walsh
Tony Walsh, also known as Longfella, is an English poet, performer and writer.
This is the place
Mollie Brown
Mollie Brown is an activist, student and mother, and an Associate Editor of Culture Matters.
The winners! The Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2019
Scott McLemee is a critic and essayist living in the United States who writes for a variety of cultural and political journals.
Glenn Bradford
Glenn Bradford is a poet and short story writer based in Sutton-in-Ashfield. He works for Royal Mail, and takes inspiration from the people and places he sees whilst out delivering the post. In some ways he genuinely is a man of letters.
The Miner
Kathryn Keane
A student of English and history, Kathryn Keane's poetry has appeared in in 'Silver Apples Magazine', the 'NY Literary Magazine', 'Bitterzoet Magazine', and the 'Stanzas: An Evening of Words' chapbook.
An Irish Politician Speaks
Mike Templeton
Mike Templeton is a freelance writer and independent writer from Cincinnati.
Public Art and Public Image in the World of the Spectacle
Fran Lock and Jane Burn
Fran Lock and Jane Burn are poets and Associate Editors of Culture Matters.
IWD 2019: Eighteen working women poets
Alexis Lykiard
Alexis Lykiard was born in Athens. His books include 9 novels, translations from French, 2 memoirs of Jean Rhys, and numerous poetry collections – most recently Schooled For Life (Shoestring 2016). His website is www. alexislykiard.com
Ballad of Credulity: a Brechtian poem
Luke Callinan
Luke Callinan is a Left Republican from south County Roscommon, Ireland. His main interests are Irish literature and history.
Harry Giles
Harry Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney who lives in Leith; their latest book is Tonguit (Freight 2016). www.harrygiles.org
Provocations for a Culture Strategy
Owain Holland
Owain Holland is an environmental worker in Cornwall, a shop steward and trade union activist and a member of the Cornish language community.
The Profit Motive
Conrad Landin
Conrad Landin is Scotland editor for the Morning Star
Meanwhile, what about socialism?
Jack Newsinger
Jack Newsinger is Assistant Professor in Cultural Industries and Media at Notts. Uni.
‘Dreams to live on’: The Acting Class and working-class diversity in the arts
Jane Burn
Look at me, lingering outside this murdered church
Sam DeLeo
Sam DeLeo is a widely published writer of poetry, fiction, plays and cultural commentary. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
Culture's Nice Try
Tom Walker is Production Editor at Red Pepper.
A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism
S O Fasrus
S. O. Fasrus is a published poet and has written articles for national newspapers and magazines. She's a social research interviewer and a social justice activist.
A Double Act
Luna Williams
Luna Williams is a theatre graduate and political correspondent at the Immigration Advice Service.
One Night in Miami
Mike Wayne
Mike Wayne is a Professor in Screen Media at Brunel University.
Helen Pheby
Helen Pheby is Senior Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cultural Fellow at York St. John University, and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection 2016-17.
Yes we can! The role of artists and art galleries in changing the world
James Martyn Joyce
James Martyn Joyce is a poet from Galway, where he is a member of The Talking Stick Workshop.
Dilemma of Politeness
Adam Shehada
Adam Shehada is a hyperrealistic pencil artist based in Gaza.
Al Nakba: Disaster
Phill Jupitus is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster.
Poetry on the Picket Line
Eoin Ó Murchú
Eoin Ó Murchú is a communist journalist, now retired. He was a senior member of the Official Republican Movement in Ireland and then the Irish Communist Party.
Cré na Cille: a comedy and a bald statement of unacceptable class rule
Phil Mellows
Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has been writing about pubs and brewing for more than 30 years.
Healthy drinking behaviour vs. neoliberal capitalism
Chip Grim
Chip Grim is a poet on the picket line.
Poetry on the Picket Line: real people and real poetry in the real world
Ed Edwards
Ed Edwards is a playwright based in Manchester, has written extensively for TV and Radio and currently lectures in Theatre and Creative Writing at a small northern university.
The theatre, the working class and the need for revolution
Elizabeth Gibson
Elizabeth Gibson is a poet from Wigan. She was announced as a New North Poet at the 2017 Northern Writers’ Awards.
Things that can fly
The arts can imagine alternatives: Chi Onwurah MP introduces the AV arts festival
Len McCluskey is General Secretary of Unite.
We Will Be Free! Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018
Ira Lightman
Ira Lightman occasionally appears on BBC Radio 3's The Verb and is a professional proofreader and copyeditor who makes public art now and then.
Helen Burke
Helen Burke is a poet and artist from Yorkshire.
Reuben Bard-Rosenberg
Reuben spent four years putting on radical folk gigs up and down the country, and likes socialism.
Badass Jewish women: Chanukah Lewinsky, 120 Years from Grodno
Martin Gollan
Martin Gollan paints but also works with print and video. He recently has been working with local charities and their beneficiaries to dynamically illustrate the impacts of austerity and welfare reform.
Hockney's Portrait of an Artist: A perfect expression of gross inequality
Deirdre ONeill and Mike Wayne
Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne are film educators and writers.
The Gentrification of Culture
Robert J. Gallagher
Robert Gallagher is a radio playwright and former soul music journalist for Melody Maker and Black Music magazine.
Aretha Franklin: the sound of vulnerable, hopeful, defiant, precious humanity
Alan Dent
Alan Dent is the founder and editor of The Penniless Press and its successor MQB.
The Things Our Hands Once Stood For: Introduction and Review
Alejandro Hernandez
Alejandro is an instructor at Carleton University, Canada, a PhD candidate in sociology, and a Vanier Scholar.
Craig Campbell
Craig Campbell is a freelance writer from Hartlepool.
Owton Manor Olympian: a short story by Craig Campbell
Peter Knaggs
Peter Knaggs is the author of two poetry collections. 'Sunburnt Bollock,' is forthcoming.
Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie
Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie is a refugee from Iran, currently a student and living in Liverpool.
Tireless work: an image for May Day
Jan Woolf
Jan Woolf is a playwright, writer and reviewer. Pic: Roelof Bakker.
Shrinking Brexit
Edward Mackinnon
Edward Mackinnon's fourth collection is "The Storm Called Progress", published by Shoestring Press.
National Poetry Day: Symptomatic
Jowonder
Jowonder is a visual artist and performer.
The Giant's Mirror
Ian C Smith
Ian C Smith is a poet who writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island, Tasmania.
National Poetry Day: Suffer the Wretched
David Susswein
David Susswein writes from the bottom of England, in a town called Eastbourne.
Capitalism Aggressive, At Its Best
Martin Hayes and Jamie Thrasivoulu
Martin Hayes is a poet and works in the courier industry. Jamie Thrasivoulu is a lyricist, educator and official poet for Derby F.C.
Pigeon problem
Jane Rosen
Jane Rosen is a librarian and has worked in a number of specialist historical and cultural libraries including the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies and the Marx Memorial Library.
Thou Shalt Teach Revolution
Jim Mainland
Jim Mainland is a graduate of Aberdeen University and until his recent retirement was Principal Teacher of English at Brae High School, Shetland.
Tim Hollins
Tim Hollins is a musician, educator and cultural activist.
There will be work for all! The story of a Chilean mural
Rita Di Santo
Rita di Santo is a film critic and reviewer.
Young Ahmed: the fear and anguish of a young radical working-class Muslim
Marilyn Francis
Marilyn Francis lives and writes poems in Radstock, which was once a mining town in the Somerset coalfield.
Dave Russell
David Russell is a writer of poetry, literary criticism, speculative fiction and romance.
Shabbigentile: a radical challenge to poetry, politics and economics
Kevin N Jelf
Kevin N Jelf is 54 and works preparing parts for painting in the aerospace industry. He has
previously been published in The Cannon's Mouth Quarterly, Here Comes Everyone and The Angry Manifesto.
Trump's Creed
Peter Clive
Peter lives on the southside of Glasgow with his wife and three children. He is a scientist working in renewable energy, and in addition to writing poetry, he enjoys writing and performing piano music.
Joan Jobe Smith Voss
Joan Jobe Smith's poetry was recently published in SCHIZZO; she last read in UK in 2017 at the Hull Literature Festival.
IWD 2019: My Mother Margie & Rosie the Riveter
Northerner/Londoner: Cut teeth at Survivors Poetry. Performs London and beyond. Part-time NHS Worker.
Entrailpreneur
Chad Norman
Chad Norman's poems have appeared for the past 35 years in literary publications around the world.
Messiah for the Misled: to Trump
Narbi Price
Narbi Price is a painter. He was the Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year 2018, and the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017.
Against the day
Deirdre ONeill
Deirdre O'Neill is a film educator and writer.
Culture by and for the working class – Inside Film and cultural democracy
Anthony Squiers
Anthony Squiers is a political philosopher and poet. He is the author of An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics and co-editor of Philosophizing Brecht: Critical Readings on Art, Consciousness, Social Theory and Performance.
It's the revolution or the doors: a review of an early Brecht play
Nicholas Tucker
Nicholas Tucker was formerly Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. Before that he was first a teacher and then an educational psychologist. He is the author of nine books about children, childhood and reading, and has also written six books for children.
Secrets, crimes and the schooling of the ruling class: how British boarding school stories betrayed their audience
Bianca Idelson
Bianca Idelson's main fields of interest are medical theories and contemporary art.
Absurd colours for absurd people: an exhibition ridiculing the right wing, by Heidrun Thate
Becky Bone
Becky Bone is a mature student, studying a Creative Writing and English BA at Birkbeck University. She works part-time with children as a creative arts facilitator.
William Hershaw
William Hershaw is a poet, playwright and folk musician. He is the founder and leader of the Bowhill Players, a group who perform the poems and songs of Cardenden miner writer Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968).
Ray Miller is a socialist, Aston Villa supporter and faithful husband. Life's been a disappointment.
Doc Ritchie
Doc Ritchie is the founding editor of Comedy Studies Journal and the author of The Idler & Dandy In Stage Comedy and Performing Live Comedy.
Should politics be comedy? Donald Trump - one giant, bad joke
Moya Roddy
Moya Roddy is a working-class writer from Dublin, who has written novels, short stories and poetry.
Kate Potts
Kate Potts is website and marketing manager for radical independent publisher Lawrence and Wishart.
'I am a human and I will be seen': the anti-imperialist power of the photographic image
Paul Summers
Paul Summers is a Northumbrian poet, performer and literary activist.
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YouTube keeps deleting evidence of Syrian chemical weapon attacks
"However, a video for example showing Isis recruitment can violate the law in one context, but also be legal and important for purposes such as documenting crimes for future prosecution, says Daphne Keller, intermediary liability director at Stanford's Centre for Internet and Society.
“The more we push companies to carry out fast, sloppy content removals, the more mistakes we will see,” Keller says. She thinks lawmakers should “slow down, talk to experts including both security researchers and members of the affected communities, and build on that foundation”."
Lessons From Making Internet Companies Liable For User's Speech: You Get Less Speech, Less Security And Less Innovation
"Stanford's Daphne Keller is one of the world's foremost experts on intermediary liability protections and someone we've mentioned on the website many times in the past (and have had her on the podcast a few times as well). She's just published a fantastic paper presenting lessons from making internet platforms liable for the speech of its users. As she makes clear, she is not arguing that platforms should do no moderation at all.
What Is GDPR and What Can America Learn From it?
"“The GDPR does not provide meaningful procedural barriers to over-removal,” Daphne Keller at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society recently warned.
How Government Pressure Has Turned Transparency Reports From Free Speech Celebrations To Censorship Celebrations
"Indeed, as Europe is pushing for more and more use of platforms to censor, it's important that someone gets them to understand how these plans almost inevitably backfire. Daphne Keller at Stanford recently submitted a comment to the EU about its plan, noting just how badly demands for censorship of "illegal content" can turn around and do serious harm.
Data Analytics, App Developers, and Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse
SLS Legal Aggregate Blog
Facebook has come under increased scrutiny in recent months, the social media giant’s efforts to protect its users’ data questioned.
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PM Modi biography case move to Supreme court
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PM Modi biography case move to Supreme court NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biography is based on the PM Narendra modi film. Narendra Modi has filed a lawsuit against the Election Commission’s prohibition on the issue. The Supreme Court is investigating the case proceedings of the film maker …
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Russia honours PM Modi with highest civilian award Congratulations to our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra modi ji on being conferred Russia’s highest civilian award. The honorary “Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle” Russia’s highest civilian award for our beloved PM will further strengthen …
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PM Modi addresses public meeting in Maharashtra
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PM Modi addresses public meeting in Maharashtra Shri narendra modi to address a public meeting in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra today. PM Modi plans to launch election campaigns will be in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. Inviting the people of Ahmednagar, Gangavathi and Kozhikode to join today’s public meetings. Had …
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7 layers of security alert in Madurai airport Madurai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi are coming to Madurai airport, so far, 7 layers of security alert in madurai airport. Prime Minister Modi and Rahul Gandhi will visit Madurai for election campaigning in southern Tamil Nadu. For …
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Election Commission bans PM modi biography
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 10:20 am Entertainment karpaga valli 0 132
Election Commission bans PM modi biography Narendra Modi’s biography is based on PM narendra modi film. The Election Commission has banned the Narendra Modi film before election. The Election Commission has refused to release the film while the PM Narendra Modi was released tomorrow.The Commission has …
PM Narendramodi film certified with “U”
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:53 am Entertainment karpaga valli 0 108
PM Narendramodi film certified with “U” Prime Minister Narendra Modi film has been certified with “U” from the Film and Cinema Department of Biography. Opposition parties opposed the release of the film by claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the film telling a biopic …
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Vivek Oberoi says think about participate in 2024 election
Monday, April 8, 2019 5:16 am News karpaga valli 0 123
Vivek Oberoi says think about participate in 2024 election If i’m jump into politics,i will participate in the 2024 Lok Sabha election in Vadodara area. Actor Vivek Oberoi, who starred in Narendra Modi, said. The apparatus that was released on the last 5th was delayed by the instructions of the Censor Board. …
PM Modi addressing rally in Saharanpur
Friday, April 5, 2019 11:50 am News karpaga valli 0 107
PM Modi addressing rally in Saharanpur PM narendra modi addressing campaign rallies in Amroha, Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Dehradun (Uttarakhand) today. I want to tell my Muslim daughters, the opposition will never let triple talaq go ahead. Those who do ‘boti boti’ cannot do anything for people …
Vivek Oberoi said ‘Narendra Modi is the hero’
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:40 am News karpaga valli 0 122
Vivek Oberoi said ‘Narendra Modi is the hero’ Actor Vivek Oberoi says that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the hero of the Indian billionaire. PM Narendramodi has been sued in many courts to protest the release of the film. Actor Vivek Oberoi has acted in the film. In this case, Vivek Oberoi, who met …
Delhi HC ordered, PM Modi’s film not banned
Monday, April 1, 2019 10:01 am News karpaga valli 0 143
Delhi HC ordered, PM Modi’s film not banned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s biographical film, PM Narendra Modi, has been subjected to a ban on the film. The case was stated that the film was violated at election time. The Delhi High Court has dismissed the case and said that Narendra Modi’s film …
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Interdisciplinary Sciences: Pre-Professional Health Sciences Specialization, B.S.
A strong background in science will prepare students in the pre-professional health sciences specialization for entry into a variety of graduate and professional programs, including medical and dental schools, physical and occupational therapy programs, physician assistant and chiropractic programs, optometry and and radiography programs. Volunteer work in the community and complementary coursework in the humanities and social sciences are included to help students meet the admissions requirements of these professional schools.
Students planning to enter these professions should consult the programs of study for the schools of interest to them. Working closely with their advisor, they will select the courses needed to fulfill the graduation requirements for the IS degree and to meet the entrance requirements for the professional schools in health science.
For more information, students should review the resources available on the BSIS website at is.sdsmt.edu
Interdisciplinary Sciences B.S.
Dr. Sue Shirley
Departments of Humanities and Social Sciences
Classroom Building 310
E-mail: Sue.Shirley@sdsmt.edu
The bachelor of science degree in interdisciplinary sciences (IS) is a science degree program that seeks to serve the needs of students whose goals cannot be met within the other science departments. IS students choose from three areas of specialization: atmospheric sciences; pre-professional health sciences; and science, technology, and society. The IS degree program allows students to enroll in a wide variety of math and science courses, as well as carefully chosen electives in the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences.
The Interdisciplinary Sciences degree is especially appropriate for the following individuals.
Students pursuing professional and health services careers, including but not limited to law, medicine, physical therapy, and radiography.
Students whose educational and career goals require courses in several departments and the integration of knowledge from diverse fields.
The benefits of the interdisciplinary sciences degree include
Flexibility in a wide range of study;
Individual design allowing the student to help select the content of the degree; and
The opportunity to study natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and liberal arts from a broad perspective, thus providing a well-rounded program.
Interdisciplinary sciences majors choose from three areas of specialization that will prepare them for graduate and professional programs.
Pre-Professional Health Sciences
Science, Technology, and Society
Interdisciplinary Sciences Program Admission Policy
After successful completion of at least 60 credit hours and at least one year prior to the intended graduation date, the student must apply for admission to the degree program by filing a plan of study with the IS Steering Committee. The plan of study must be approved by the steering committee before a student will be formally admitted to the program. This plan of study consists of (1) a Letter of Intent stating the career goals to which the IS degree coursework is to be applied and (2) an IS worksheet showing the courses already taken and the courses to be completed prior to graduation. The Letter of Intent and worksheet must be reviewed and approved by the student‘s IS advisor before submission to the Steering Committee. The Letter of Intent form and worksheet are available from the IS office or may be accessed on the IS website.
Deadline for submitting the Letter of Intent and worksheet to the IS office: For May graduates — April 30 of the preceding year; for August graduates — July 30 of preceding year; for December graduates — November 30 of preceding year. Students must have an approved Letter of Intent and IS worksheet on file in the IS office before registering for IS 498 , the senior capstone project.
Science Minors available to IS Students
When possible, students pursuing the IS specializations are strongly encouraged to complete a minor in another science field at School of Mines as part of their 120 total credits. Minors are available in applied biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, geology, geospatial technology, mathematics, physics, or occupational safety. Students should consult the policy on minors and the specific courses required for each minor, provided elsewhere in the catalog. The IS degree is not available as a minor.
Transfer Studies
Students who reside in local communities can achieve considerable savings in their education costs by completing a portion of their studies close to home before transferring to another institution to complete their desired major. Students who do not intend to pursue a degree offered at the School of Mines are encouraged to take courses appropriate for the two-year associate of arts (A.A.) degree in general studies. Through this program of access and transfer, students still experience the excellent educational environment found on the School of Mines campus. Students should consult the programs of study for the school from which they plan to graduate and then work closely with their A.A. advisor to select courses with the highest likelihood of transferability. Completion of the A.A. degree will fulfill the general education requirements for a baccalaureate degree at the other state universities of South Dakota (BHSU, DSU, NSU, SDSU, and USD).
Pre-law/Pre-medicine Study at Mines
While the IS specializations in pre-professional health sciences and science, technology, and society (STS) are especially designed to help students meet the entrance requirements for medical or law school, a particular baccalaureate degree is not required for admission into most law and medical programs. Graduates from the School of Mines with degrees in several of the science and engineering programs have successfully completed these professional programs. Students are encouraged to consult the admissions requirements and policies for those professional and medical schools to which they intend to apply.
Pre-Nursing Study at Mines
The IS degree program does not include a pre-nursing track. Students interested in earning a nursing degree from SDSU (four-year B.S.N.) or USD (two-year A.D.N.) should apply to the degree-granting university. Upon acceptance to SDSU or USD, students can take courses offered by School of Mines that meet pre-nursing requirements. For more information visit www.gotomines.com/academics/majors/non-degree/nursing
Teaching Opportunities and Certification
Students who are interested in teaching science at the secondary education level should contact education programs at the other state universities for information on the auxiliary courses required for certification. Project SELECT, an accelerated one-year certification program offered through Black Hills State University, may be of interest to students completing the IS and other science degrees at the School of Mines. Information on this program can be obtained from the BHSU website at www.bhsu.edu/select
General Requirements for Graduation
For all interdisciplinary sciences specializations, students are responsible to check with their advisors for any program modifications that may occur after the publication of this catalog.
I. IS Core Courses (IS 110 , IS 201 , IS 401 , IS 498 ) 11 credits
II. English sequence (ENGL 101 , ENGL 279 , ENGL 289 ) 9 credits
III. Math, Computer Science, Sciences
Math and Computer Sciences 1 min. 12
Biology 2 min. 3
Chemistry 2 min. 3
Additional Natural Sciences 2 min. 24
Other Math, CSC, Sciences min. 18
SUBTOTAL 60
IV. Humanities and Social Sciences
Humanities general education 6
Humanities upper division 6
Social Sciences general education 6
Social Science upper division 6
V. Program Approved Electives 3 16
120 credits required for graduation
1 All IS specializations require MATH 123 Calculus I or a math course requiring MATH 123 as its prerequisite. Some specializations require additional math courses beyond Math 123.
2 All IS specializations require a minimum of 30 credit hours in the natural sciences, including 6 hours in sequence (e.g., BIOL 151/BIOL 153) and 12 hours at the upper division. Chemistry must be at the CHEM 112 level or higher. Biology must be at the BIOL 121 level or higher. Students are expected to identify a science concentration and are encouraged to pursue a science minor as appropriate to their specialization. Students should work with their advisors to determine the most appropriate science courses for their career goals.
3 Engineering courses may be counted toward graduation as electives only.
Thirty-six of the required 120 credits must be at the junior or senior level (courses numbered 300 and above.)
Interdisciplinary Sciences Core Courses
All IS students take a sequence of four core courses, spread out over the course of four years. These courses are sequential and cannot be taken concurrently. IS courses cannot be counted for humanities/social science credit.
IS 110 Explorations Credits: (2-0) 2 in the freshman year;
IS 201 Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Credits: (3-0) 3 in the sophomore year;
IS 401 Writing and Research in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Credits: (3-0) 3 in the first semester of the senior year; and
IS 498 Undergraduate Research/Scholarship Credits: (0-3) 3 (senior project) in the second semester of the senior year.
Pre-Professional Health Sciences (IS-HLTH): Curriculum/Course Checklist
Students should consult with their advisors for a more personalized course of study based on career goals within the health sciences. Course requirements vary according to professional program, e.g., medical school, radiographic technology, physical therapy. Course sequence may also vary by student entry year, math/science placements, course availability, and career objectives.
IS 110 Explorations Credits: (2-0) 2
1 BIOL 121 Basic Anatomy Credits: (3-0) 3
BIOL 121L Basic Anatomy Lab Credits: (0-1) 1
2 Math/CSC Elective Credits: 3
3 Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective Credits: 3
BIOL 123 Basic Physiology Credits: (3-0) 3
BIOL 123L Basic Physiology Lab Credits: (0-1) 1
Math/CSC Elective Credits: 4
Gen Ed Humanities/Social Science Elective Credits: 3
IS 201 Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society Credits: (3-0) 3
BIOL 151 General Biology I Credits: (3-0) 3
BIOL 151L General Biology I Lab Credits: (0-1) 1
BIOL 153 General Biology II Credits: (3-0) 3
BIOL 153L General Biology II Lab Credits: (0-1) 1
4 Science Electives Credits: 9
Upper Division HUM/SS Elective Credits: 3
5 Electives Credits: 3
Science Electives Credits: 6
Electives Credits: 7
IS 401 Writing and Research in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Credits: (3-0) 3
IS 498 Undergraduate Research/Scholarship Credits: (0-3) 3
Thirty-six (36) credits of the 120 credits required for graduation must be at a junior or senior level (courses numbered 300 or above).
1 All IS specializations require a minimum of thirty (30) semester hours of natural sciences, including a minimum of three (3) semester hours in chemistry (Chem 112 or higher), three (3) semester hours in biology (Biol 121 or higher), and twelve (12) semester hours at the upper division. Of the thirty hours required in natural sciences, a minimum of six (6) credits must be sequential. The Professional Health Sciences specialization requires one year of general biology with labs, one year of general chemistry with labs, and one year of anatomy/physiology with labs. Students should consult with their advisors to determine the sequence of additional science courses appropriate for and required by their career paths, e.g., medicine, dentistry, physical or occupational therapy, chiropractics, radiography, and physician assistantships.
2 A minimum of twelve (12) semester hours of approved mathematics and computer sciences is required, including Math 123 or a math course requiring Math 123 as its prerequisite. Math 102 and Math 120 may be used towards graduation requirements for the IS-HLTH degree.. Students should consult with their advisors on the most appropriate math/computer science courses for their career paths.
3A minimum of twenty-four (24) semester hours of university-approved humanities and social sciences is required. This minimum includes six (6) hours of general education coursework in Humanities, six (6) hours of general education coursework in Social Sciences, six (6) hours of upper division Humanities, and six (6) hours of upper division Social Sciences.
4Science electives include additional coursework in math, computer science, and the natural sciences. Students should consult with their advisors on the most appropriate science electives for their career paths. Students are expected to identify a science concentration and are encouraged to pursue a science minor (e.g., applied biological sciences or chemistry) as appropriate to their specialization. A total of 60 hours in math, computer science, and natural sciences is required.
5Elective credits may include additional college coursework at the 100 level or above in math, computer science, sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, military science, or engineering as needed to meet the required minimums or to qualify for a science minor.
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Reid put smackdown on Inouye over Stevens
There always been a special relationship between the congressional delegations from Alaska and Hawaii, and it showed yesterday:
Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye provided a campaign boost Saturday to embattled Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, predicting that his colleague from Alaska will win re-election and overturn his conviction on appeal.
"I am absolutely confident that Ted Stevens will be sworn into the Senate while he appeals this unjust verdict," said Inouye, D-Hawaii, a longtime friend of Stevens. "I am certain that this decision in Washington, D.C., will be overturned on appeal." - AP
Well, Majority Leader Harry Reid appropriately pulled the rug from under Inouye:
In a bluntly worded release from his office, Reid warned that Stevens would not only face an ethics investigation but also expulsion proceedings regardless of his efforts to appeal the convictions.
“While I respect the opinion of Senator Daniel Inouye, the reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate. And as precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process,” Reid said.
“This is not a partisan issue and it is unfortunate that Senator Stevens has used his long time friendship with Senator Inouye for partisan political gain,” he added. - Roll Call
Hopefully Stevens will lose his reelection bid in a couple of days.
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De Re Militari
The Society for Medieval Military History
Upcoming Book Reviews
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Black Camels and Blazing Bolts: The Bolt-Projecting Trebuchet in the Mamluk Army
by DRM_peter Posted on February 16, 2014
By Paul E. Chevedden
Mamluk Studies Review, Vol. 8:1 (2004)
The Mamluks pioneered the use of gunpowder ordnance, but their principal piece of heavy artillery was “the crushing, demolishing trebuchet”. In their campaigns of conquest, the Mamluks used substantial batteries of trebuchets, and Mamluk military science produced the only major technical treatise on the construction and operation of this form of artillery. The trebuchet was the most powerful form of mechanical artillery ever devised. It consisted of a long tapering beam which pivoted near its butt-end around an axle mounted on top of a framework. At the end of the long arm of the beam, a sling was attached which held the missile. This was designed to open when the beam’s motion and position reached the desired state for discharge.
To launch a projectile, the beam—equipped with pulling-ropes at its short end—was set in a horizontal position. The operator of the machine readied the machine for launch by placing a projectile in the pouch of the sling. The sling had two ropes: one attached firmly to the end of the beam and the other looped over an iron prong extending from the tip of the beam. The alignment of the prong and the length of the sling were crucial to achieving maximum range. Human muscle force was applied to the pulling – ropes by a team of men — or, in some cases, women — while the operator guided the missile through the initial phase of the launch cycle. When the operator released the sling, a sudden surge of power was imparted to the beam, as the maximum force exerted by the pulling-crew took full effect. This action propelled the throwing arm skyward and allowed the looped end of the sling to fly free, thus hurling the missile from the sling.
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