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Isaiah Mustafa Cast as Mike Hanlon in ‘It: Chapter 2’
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Volunteer Spotlight: Nancy Ying '95
Feb 15, 2018 — Nancy Ying ’95 fundamentally enjoys interacting with Grinnellians because they are passionate, kind, and fun to be around.
That’s why Nancy goes out of her way to make time to visit Grinnellians, make new relationships, keep in touch with classmates, and plan engaging events. She is the co-coordinator along with Luzat Khandkar ’07 of the Grinnell-in-Chicago Regional Network, which plans alumni events in Chicago. She also serves as a Class Agent with John Wanninger ’95.
Nancy Ying '95
“Being involved as a volunteer in more than one way helps me stay active within the Grinnell community,” she says. “I enjoy having intersecting opportunities to talk about Grinnell and planning events that bring alumni together.”
Nancy was born in Taiwan, immigrated to Edison, New Jersey, in elementary school, and had planned to be an engineer. But that changed thanks to an event meeting with another Nancy who has a great volunteering track record. Nancy Schmulbach Maly ’61, a former Grinnell College admissions representative and Alumni Council president, encouraged her to apply and fly to Iowa for a visit.
“I loved the classes, people, and campus,” Nancy says. “Having no course requirements was a liberating concept.”
Nancy studied economics at Grinnell. Today she lives in Evanston and works for IBM Watson Health. That job aligns well with her Chicago co-coordinator role since she can use her project management skills to coordinate events and bring the group’s vision to light. Nancy also has had numerous other Grinnell volunteer roles over the past two decades. The list includes serving on Alumni Council, hosting summer picnics, joining the Wilson Planning Committee, and serving as an admission representative.
Nancy says she deeply appreciates the education she received at Grinnell. It was one of the best and most pivotal decisions, and she is motivated to volunteer to support the College and grow alumni connections.
One of her favorite Grinnell events was in 2016 at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art where Ross Elfline ’95 presented a lecture.
“The MCA event was such a fun and educational evening combining the expertise of my classmate Ross, the art of Kerry James Marshall, and the alumni community in Chicago,” she says.
Grinnell alumni pose for a group photo after listening to a presentation by Chase Strangio '04, ACLU staff attorney, at the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival.
Nancy encourages her fellow Grinnellians to volunteer. Her advice is for alumni to figure out how their own talents can best contribute to the College. She says it’s very rewarding when volunteers’ events, vision, and ideas come to fruition.
For you information:
Nancy is one of many volunteers serving as leaders on Grinnell’s Regional Networks. Learn more about the networks and how to get involved.
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Tag: Herbert Lake
Three perfect nights in July provided opportunities to capture the night sky at popular sites in Banff National Park.
When the weather forecast in mid-July looked so promising I made an impromptu trip to Banff to shoot nightscapes and time-lapses under unusually clear skies. Clouds are often the norm in the mountains or, increasingly these days, forest fire smoke in late summer.
But from July 15 to 17 the skies could not have been clearer, except for the clouds that rolled in late on my last night, when I was happy to pack up and get some sleep.
My first priority was to shoot the marvellous close conjunction of the Moon and Venus on July 15. I did so from the Storm Mountain viewpoint on the Bow Valley Parkway, with a cooperative train also coming through the scene at the right time.
This was the view later with the Milky Way and Mars over Bow Valley and Storm Mountain.
The next night, July 16, was one of the most perfect I had ever seen in the Rockies. Crystal clear skies, calm winds, and great lake reflections made for a picture-perfect night at Bow Lake on the Icefields Parkway. Above is a 360° panorama shot toward the end of the night when the galactic centre of the Milky Way was over Bow Glacier.
Streaks of green airglow arc across the south, while to the north the sky is purple from a faint display of aurora.
This is a rare appearance of the unusual STEVE auroral arc on the night of July 16-17, 2018, with a relatively low Kp Index of only 2 to 3. While the auroral arc was visible the ISS made a bright pass heading east. This is a blend of a single 15-second exposure for the sky and ground, with seven 15-second exposures for the ISS, but masked to reveal just the ISS trail and its reflection in the water. The ISS shots were taken at 3-second intervals, thus the gaps. All with the Sigma 20mm Art lens at f/2 and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. Taken from Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta.
The unusual STEVE auroral arc across the northern sky at Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta on the night of July 16-17, 2018. The more normal green auroral arc is lower across the northern horizon. But STEVE here appears more pink. The STEVE aurora was colourless to the eye but did show faint fast-moving rays, here blurred by the long exposure. They were moving east to west. The Big Dipper is at left. The lights are from Num-Ti-Jah Lodge. This is a single exposure for the sky and a mean-stacked blend of 3 exposures for the ground to smooth noise. All 15 seconds at f/2 with the Sigma 20mm Art lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400.
Earlier that night the usual auroral arc known as Steve put in an unexpected appearance. It was just a grey band to the eye, but the camera picked up Steve’s usual pink colours. Another photographer from the U.S. who showed up had no idea there was an aurora happening until I pointed it out.
My last night was at Herbert Lake, a small pond great for capturing reflections of the mountains around Lake Louise, and the Milky Way. Here, brilliant Mars, so photogenic this summer, also reflects in the still waters.
A blend of images to show the stars of the southern sky moving from east to west (left to right) over the peaks of the Continental Divide at Herbert Lake near Lake Louise, in Banff, Alberta. The main peak at left is Mount Temple. A single static image shows the Milky Way and stars at the end of the motion sequence. The star trails and Milky Way reflect in the calm waters of the small Lake Herbert this night on July 17, 2018. This is a stack of 100 images for the star trails, stacked with the Long Streak function of Advanced Stacker Plus actions, plus a single exposure taken a minute or so after the last star trail image. The star trail stack is dropped back a lot in brightness, plus they are blurred slightly, so as to not overwhelm the fixed sky image. The sky images are blended with a stack of 8 images for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise in the ground. All are 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the 24mm Sigma lens and Nikon D750 at ISO 3200. All were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Clouds moving in added the odd dark patches in the Milky Way that look like out of place dark nebulas. The reflected star trails are really there in the water and have not be copied, pasted and inverted from the sky image. They look irregular because of rippling in the water.
A blend of images to show the stars of the southern sky moving from east to west (left to right) over the Rocky Mountains at Bow Lake, in Banff, Alberta. The main peak at centre is Bow Peak. Crowfoot Glacier is at far left; Bow Glacier is at right below the Milky Way. A single static image shows the Milky Way and stars at the end of the motion sequence. The star trails and Milky Way reflect in the calm waters of Bow Lake this night on July 16, 2018, though they appear large and out of focus. This is a stack of 300 images for the star trails, stacked with the Ultrastreak function of Advanced Stacker Plus actions, plus a single exposure taken a minute or so after the last star trail image. The star trail stack is dropped back a lot in brightness, plus they are blurred slightly, so as to not overwhelm the fixed sky image. The sky images are blended with a stack of 8 images for the ground, mean combined to smooth noise in the ground. All are 30 seconds at f/2 with the 15mm Laowa lens and Sony a7III at ISO 3200. All were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Bands of airglow add the green streaks to the sky.
The stars trailing as they move east to west (left to right), ending with the Milky Way and Galactic Centre (right) over Storm Mountain and the Vermilion Pass area of the Continental Divide in Banff National Park, Alberta. Mars is the bright trail at left. Saturn is amid the Milky Way at right. This was July 15, 2018. The lights at left are from the Castle Mountain interchange at Highways 1 and 93. This is a stack of 8 exposures, mean combined to smooth noise, for the ground, plus 200 exposures for the star trails, and one exposure, untracked, for the fixed sky taken about a minute after the last star trail image. All 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the 24mm Sigma lens, and Nikon D750 at ISO 6400. The frames were taken as part of a time-lapse sequence. Dynamic Contrast filter from ON1 applied to the ground, and Soft and Airy filter from Luminar applied to the sky for a soft Orton effect.
At each site I shot time-lapses, and used those frames to have some fun with star trail stacking, showing the stars turning from east to west and reflected in the lake waters, and with a single still image taken at the end of the sequence layered in to show the untrailed sky and Milky Way.
But I also turned those frames into time-lapse movies, and incorporated them into a new music video, along with some favourite older clips reprocessed for this new video.
Banff by Night (4K) from Alan Dyer on Vimeo.
Enjoy! And do enlarge to full screen. The video is also in 4K resolution.
Clear skies!
— Alan, August 2, 2018 / © 2018 Alan Dyer / AmazingSky.com
Star Trail Reflections
The stars of the southern sky arc over the peaks of the Lake Louise Range in this half-hour’s worth of exposures.
For this shot I took 35 frames from a 200-frame time-lapse movie and stacked them to create star trails moving over about 25 minutes time when the sky was dark and moonless. I also layered in the moonlit landscape from a frame taken at the very end of the time-lapse sequence when the Moon has risen and was lighting the mountains and trees. So this scene is a bit of a Photoshop fake, but only so far as to merge exposures taken a couple of hours apart from the same fixed camera to combine the sky and stars from when the Moon was not in the sky with the ground from when it was, so the ground isn’t too dark and featureless.
What most people find surprising about star trail shots is the range of colours displayed. Some of the magenta trails come from a little chromatic aberration in the lens. But nevertheless, stars do exhibit lots of colours, but usually only in time exposures like this. As a bonus one frame captures either a meteor or an Iridium satellite flare at right above Mount Victoria.
I took the images for this scene on Friday, September 7, on a shoot at Herbert Lake in Banff.
– Alan, September 14, 2012 / © 2012 Alan Dyer
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My Problem With Sinterklaas*
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Photo credit: Huffington Post UK
Sinterklaas arrived in Holland this weekend to begin the celebration leading up to winter holiday known as Sinterklaasavond (Sinterklaas evening) on December 5. As always, he was accompanied by his controversial companion Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). For the next several weeks Holland will be inundated with images of Zwarte Piet: pictures in the windows of shops, large puppets hanging from the ceilings of Holland’s finest department stores, and even little children dressed in blackface.
Living in the Netherlands for over a decade has not made this spectacle any easier to witness. Before children, I could ignore it. But with this buffoonery being directed at children, I no longer have that luxury. A number of years ago I expressed concern about how to shield my children from the Zwarte Piet madness, and a wise sister-friend who had lived here many years and raised children here told me that I couldn’t. Sinterklaas is the most widely celebrated holiday in the Netherlands and during the three weeks between his arrival and the actual holiday on December 5, children will encounter Zwarte Piet in stores, on the street and at school. They will also encounter, as I recently discovered, the lies told to justify keeping Zwarte Piet a major part of the Sinterklaas celebration.
While discussing the impending arrival of Sinterklaas this weekend Miss P, my 8 year old, announced, with a tinge of skepticism in her voice, that Zwarte Piet was black because he comes down the chimney. While I am not sure if Miss P’s skepticism is a result of her becoming racially aware or just the age-appropriate questioning of the whole coming down the chimney thing, I took the opportunity to stop “whitewashing” the whole blackface issue and tell them the truth: Zwarte Piet is black and that when people dress up with black paint on their faces, they are making fun of black people. I find this very insulting and thus choose to not participate in the Sinterklaas celebration. Miss P agreed that it wasn’t a very nice thing to do and denounced Zwarte Piet because “he makes fun of people with dark skin.”
Despite the protestations of my child, myself and many others regarding Zwarte Piet, most Dutch people that I have encountered refuse to see anything racist about him. In fact, they attempt to argue that Zwarte Piet is not a black person, but that he is black from of the soot from the chimney. This attempt to chimney sweep the issue under the rug is ridiculous because it fails to explain the thick read lips and curly hair.
Photo credit: www.eenvandaag.nl
The insistence that Zwarte Piet is not black is not only patronizing, but it is also untrue. One need look no further than Dutch folklore to uncover the truth. The children’s book “De Grote Reis Naar Nederland” (The Big Trip to the Netherlands by Piet Broos published in 1949 in which Sinterklaas seeks to recruit “three, pitch black niggers” to sail with him to the Netherlands, serves as further evidence that Zwarte Piet is in fact black, as seen in an except from the book: (translated from Dutch)
The three, pitch-black little niggers, Piempampoentje, pumpernickel and Peep Ling, live in a country where Snorre Mustache, the nigger mayor and his Spanish master Gabbler Straw, teach the little niggers the ABCs. There is constable Knobbed Goose, the blacksmith, the butcher, the shoemaker and the notary. And of course many pitch-black little niggers, like the father and mother of Piempampoentje, Brommie and Grommie, and the fathers and mothers of his friends and pumpernickel Beep Ling.
One day the friends read an ad in the newspaper, where Sinterklaas asked for three large servants. They should go to St Nicholas Island.
They arrived in Flushing welcomed by the mayor and rode through the city. They slept in a hotel and the following days worked hard for Santa Claus. They got a big map showing where all the chimneys of the Netherlands stood. They visited schools, asylums, and collected hay and carrots for the horse.
Zwarte Piet is also portrayed as one of several black “bogeyman” type figures in the Dutch tradition, all used to promote proper conduct by instilling fear in children. Zwarte Piet carries a large sack which contains candy for nice children and willow branches to spank naughty ones. He is also said to sometimes put children who misbehave into his sack and take them back to Spain. Tenensnijder (toe-cutter) is a headless, legless, black triangular figure who carries a knife and cuts of toes of disobedient children. Pietje Roet (Little Sooty Peter) punishes children who play in the woods or the street and Zwarte Hannes (Black Hans) forbids going out alone and playing in the bed. Like Zwarte Piet, both Pietje Roet and Zwarte Hans are pitch-black and synonomous with the devil. They emerge from the fireplace and, like Zwarte Piet, take mischevious children away.
In theory I really like the idea of celebrating Sinterklaasaovnd, as it was traditionally the time to focus on the more commercial, gift-giving aspect of the season, thus allowing Christmas, which is celebrated a few weeks later, to be spent in church celebrating the birth of Jesus and with family.
But I can’t get past the reality of people in blackface and afro wigs dancing merrily through the streets. It pretty much turns me into the Grinch.
Are you familiar with the Dutch character Zwarte Piet?
What are your thoughts about him?
*Originally published on MsWoodenshoes.com
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The LUX : Best of ABQ City Tour
Tour in our 14-passenger Mercedes Sprinter
Time: 1:00pm Day: Tuesday Doors: 12:30pm Ages: All Ages Price: $13 - $40
BEST OF ABQ CITY TOUR
Albuquerque magnificently glows with its culture, food, art and people. We’ll take you by the most historic and popular areas of the Duke City. Learn what Albuquerque has to offer from the Tour Guide on board. Explore areas such as Old Town, Nob Hill, a beach, a castle and more! Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, get the inside scoop of where to find Albuquerque’s hidden gems. Discover why this is the best first thing to do in Albuquerque!
This tour will be in The LUX, which is a luxury, climate controlled, 14-passenger Mercedes Sprinter.
Redeem special offers throughout the city! A full list of partners and discounts are in the “AT&SF All Stars” brochure. You'll receive this brochure while you're on the tour. Consider yourself an Albuquerque VIP!
Buy tickets online or via phone at (505) 200-2642. Walk-ups welcome at the AT&SF box office in Old Town (inside Hotel Albuquerque) or the AT&SF box office downtown (inside Hyatt Regency, Suite Q).
Box Office open Tuesday-Saturdays from 9am-1pm (April 2 - Oct 30)
Board in Old Town at Hotel Albuquerque (800 Rio Grande Blvd NW 87104).
The full tour takes approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.
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April 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment
2016 Invictus Games opening ceremony set for May 8 at ESPN Wide World of Sports
The 2016 Invictus Games will hold their opening ceremony on May 8 at ESPN Wide World of Sports.
Wounded warriors from around the world will gather at Walt Disney World’s ESPN Wide World of Sports to compete in the 2016 Invictus Games Orlando, whose opening ceremony is set for May 8. [Read more…]
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April 15, 2014 By Banks Lee 1 Comment
You could win $1 million in the Million Dollar Arm pitching contest at Disney World
Think you can throw the fastest fastball? Then you could win a $1 million prize in the Million Dollar Arm Pitching Contest. [Read more…]
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March 7, 2014 By Banks Lee 2 Comments
Inaugural Disney Fit Challenge coming to ESPN Wide World of Sports
The sport of competitive fitness is coming to the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex with the inaugural Disney Fit Challenge . [Read more…]
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February 5, 2016 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment
Cheerleading and dance team venue to be built at ESPN Wide World of Sports
ESPN Wide World of Sports at Walt Disney World is set to break ground on a new state-of-the-art cheerleading and dance team competition venue. [Read more…]
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January 21, 2014 By 3 Comments
Running 71 miles at six Disney parks in 11 days: the unofficial marathon Hercules Challenge
By Don Gworek
Brand new opportunities have been introduced in the runDisney event schedule. This year started with a multi-race series where you could earn the above 10 medals in 11 days.
This story begins at the Walt Disney World Marathon weekend, where the race expo was held in three venues at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. Seen here is the Jostens Center.
Adult runDisney shoes were introduced by a vendor at an expo last year, and the shoes quickly sold out. What runDisney fan wouldn’t want to run in super cool shoes like these? This is one of the 2014 editions of the running shoes, the Sorcerer Mickey shoe.
Most of the expos have an “I Did It!” shirt. New to the schedule was a four-race series called the Dopey Challenge. The Dopey Challenge is where you run a 5K, 10K, half marathon, and full marathon, one per morning of the event weekend. It totaled 48.6 miles.
For many years the Dopey Challenge was unofficial. Guests would register for the half-full marathon combo, the Goofy Challenge. If you also did the 5K fun run, you did the unofficial Dopey Challenge. Now the Dopey Challenge is official, and includes a 10K too!
The first event of the 2014 Walt Disney World Marathon weekend was the 5K fun run at Epcot, held the Thursday morning of the event weekend. The 5K has grown to a well-organized but incredible size, where all of Amaze section of Epcot parking is used to hold the starting corrals. Thousands gather in the corrals for each separate starting wave. Seen here is just Corral A, the first wave. Seven thousand of the 10,000 5K participants were entered in the four-race Dopey Challenge.
Corral A is moving to the starting line, on the roadway between the Amaze and Imagine sections of the parking lot.
The 5K fun run is quick 3.1 miles around to backstage, and then under Test Track, seen here.
Participants then circle the World Showcase lagoon. Seen here is Italy. The race continues through Future World, to finish in the Epcot parking lot.
Three point one miles done. Sixty seven point nine miles to go!
The next morning is the brand new 10K race of Marathon Weekend. It was held Friday morning. The starting line was the same as for the 5K, but the first few miles were different.
In the 10K, participants headed out the Toll Plaza for two miles on Epcot Boulevard, the guest entrance road to Epcot.
Seen here in the median of Epcot Boulevard was a video wall. The screen is too bright here, but it had Disney characters dancing to current pop music. This location is also the start of the half and full marathons the following two mornings, with the video wall turned the other direction.
The 10K course then circled World Showcase to the International Gateway hotel resort entrance. The course then circled Crescent Lake. Seen here is the course near Disney’s Yacht Club Resort. The yellow arrow points to the glow of the finish line, in Epcot’s parking lot.
The 10K course continued to have very interesting routing. It then went backstage. Seen here is the backstage view of Soarin’.
The 10K course continued through Future World, to Epcot parking, and the finish line.
Saturday morning of the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend was the 13.1-mile half marathon.
The organizers have introduced smaller corrals for the leaders. The first wave had only a few hundred of the fastest runners entered. Later waves grew in size. This allows more people of similar pace to run with each other. There is less jostling for proper position in the pack. The starts are safer and more comfortable. This also means there were 16 separate starts! Each started with a blast of fireworks, like seen here.
The half marathon heads direct to the Magic Kingdom, through the Toll Plaza on World Drive.
The course then enters the Magic Kingdom through a service access road north of the bus loops.
The course goes up Main Street and zig-zags through most of the lands of the Magic Kingdom.
The course then continues on Seven Seas, along the Grand Floridian and Polynesian resorts, before returning to Epcot on World Drive.
With 16 different starts, there were far more people on the other side of the road at this point than before. On the left are thousands still early in the half marathon, heading north to the Magic Kingdom. On the right are many of the first to return to Epcot.
The course takes many of the heavily forested ramps and Epcot access roads before a quick loop in the park and the finish line.
Sunday morning is the signature event of the Walt Disney World Marathon weekend, the full 26.2 mile marathon.
The first eight or so miles of the full marathon are identical to the half marathon. The course changes when the full marathon enters for a lap on the tri-oval loop of the Walt Disney World Speedway (the race track normally used for the Richard Petty Driving Experience and the Exotic Car Experience). Many years ago the Speedway was built and used for Indy car and Nascar events.
Much of the tri-oval track is lined with classic muscle cars and show cars. Car clubs are invited to come cheer on the participants in the full marathon. Look closely and you’ll see Herbie the Love Bug is among the cars along the track.
The full marathon continues down a service road, and enters Animal Kingdom park through its north service entrance. At left are cast members of the Lion King show, cheering the guests entering the park.
The full marathon continues into Animal Kingdom’s normal guest areas and circles past Expedition Everest.
The course goes backstage again. The large building at left is the show building for the Dinosaur attraction.
The full marathon continues to Osceola Parkway, where Haunted Mansion grave diggers were available if you needed a ‘final rest’.
The full marathon continued to ESPN Wide World of Sports for a lap on the 400 meter track.
The marathon also lapped the baseline of Champion Stadium.
It then continued through Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Participants continued through the Epcot resort area, to the International Gateway, and a lap around World Showcase. Seen here is the hill near the United Kingdom pavilion. From here it’s aproximately 1.3 miles to the finish line!
The last half mile of the full marathon is through Future World.
If you ran the Dopey Challenge, you earned six medals in the past four days. Left to right, 5K Pluto, 10K Minnie, half marathon Donald, full marathon Mickey. You also earned a Goofy medal for the half-full combo. And the brand new official Dopey Challenge medal!
Seen here also are an additional lanyard on the Mickey medal for completing all 21 of the full Walt Disney World Marathons since 1994, and an additional lanyard for completing all nine of the Goofy Challenges – next year is the 10th Anniversary of the Goofy Challenge!
Just a few days later, a three race series began at Disneyland. Hundreds of the Dopey Challenge participants were there!
This three race series is themed to Tinkerbell. It’s intended as an event for ladies, but hundreds of men run too. Just like the race weekend before, the Tinkerbell weekend begins with a race expo in the Disneyland Convention Center.
A very cool item for sale was this pair of glowing fairy wings.
There were official runDisney tutus for sale too!
This fashionable women’s running jacket was also for sale.
The “I Did It!” shirt for Tinkerbell weekend.
The Neverland 5K starting line and corrals are within Disneyland itself! Seen here is a young pixie darting ahead, the first to enter Main Street this morning.
Participants head up Main Street the Friday morning of the weekend.
For this event, the first-to-arrive are in the first corrals. Corral A lined up on the east side of the castle hub. When it filled, Corral B filled on the west side. When B filled, two more corrals filled the blocks of Main Street USA. Four starts in all.
The pre race ended with a flurry of fireworks. And then Corral A was lead to the starting line at the base of the Matterhorn.
Small World was still with the Christmas holiday overlay, and was brightly lit with multicolored lights.
The Neverland 5K darted among the backstage areas of Disneyland, including this service tunnel to Frontierland.
The Neverland 5K course eventually crossed over to Disney California Adventure park. Seen here is Hollywood, turning at Buena Vista Street.
The last portion of the Neverland 5K circled most of Paradise Pier. The participants here are dressed as Sully and Mike from the Monsters Inc. Spectators cheer at right.
Just after the finish line was a wonderful and rare view of the World of Color fountains in the sunrise twilight. The fountains are normally seen only at night during the show performances.
The next race was a brand new Tinkerbell 10K. The starting line was at the top of the Disneyland Drive viaduct under Downtown Disney. Note a race sponsor on this Anaheim sign – Celebration Health, Florida Hospital.
The Tinkerbell 10K course quickly went backstage at Disneyland. Same areas seen in the 5K, but with different parade floats and music this morning.
Each morning, you never knew what they would have on display backstage to see as you ran by.
For the 10K only, these Haunted Mansion characters were available for photos as the course went around the Rivers of America. It’s the bride and the ballerina/tightrope walker as seen in one of the stretching room portraits.
The sunrise silhouettes the Matterhorn, while the carousel lights continue to glow warmly.
Circling Tomorrowland in the Tinkerbell 10K.
Passing Sleeping Beauty Castle.
Going down Main Street.
Between the turnstiles of the two parks.
Running through Hollywood.
And through Cars Land.
And then out to circle through the businesses and lodging next to Disneyland Resort.
Returning to Harbor Boulevard. Straight ahead used to be the main entrance of Disneyland parking.
And finally to the Finish Line, where Mickey and Minnie are excitedly waiting to congratulate you!
The final race of the unofficial Hercules Challenge was the Tinkerbell Half Marathon!
Only ladies are permitted in Corral A. This is the front of Corral B, and the bottom of the viaduct under Downtown Disney, looking south. Corrals extended past the Paradise Pier hotel tower at right.
Looking under the Downtown Disney bridge, through to the half marathon starting line on top of the viaduct.
The half marathon circles Disneyland’s north perimeter on city roads. It then darts backstage on the east side into the viaduct that connects backstage of Disneyland and backstage of Disney California Adventure.
Running through Cars Land in the Tinkerbell half marathon.
Around Paradise Pier.
Across the turnstiles to run up Main Street U.S.A.
There were many official and unofficial areas where ladies posed for ultimate running photos. The half marathon is all about this magical location!
Now the course runs through Sleeping Beauty castle. This is the only time in the weekend’s three races that a course entered the castle.
Posing with Darth Vader.
The half marathon now circles backstage at Disneyland park. Seen here is the roundhouse where the steam trains and monorail trains are serviced. This steam engine tooted happily. It was as if the steam engine was a living character, stepping out from its house to its front yard, to toot and cheer participants as they passed by.
The Tinkerbell half marathon then exited backstage of Disneyland at Adventureland to Downtown Disney.
Passing the Disneyland Hotel.
The Tinkerbell half marathon reaching downtown Anaheim at sunrise. The course also went by Anaheim City Hall and the Muzeo attraction.
On returning to Disneyland, the course once again used the viaduct connecting the two backstages.
Backstage of Tower of Terror.
Backstage of the Cars Land desert mountain formations.
To the finish line!
Here are the 10 medals you would have earned if you did the Dopey Challenge in Orlando and the three races of Tinkerbell weekend in Anaheim over the 11 days, spanning the two events.
At bottom are the 5K, 10k and half marathon medals of Tinkerbell weekend.
At bottom right is a Coast to Coast medal. The Coast to Coast medal is earned by running a half or full Disney marathon in Orlando and a Disney half marathon in Anaheim in a single calendar year.
Some of the unofficial Hercules Challenge participants earned 10 medals in 11 days. Others earned only nine (including this reporter).
The Coast to Coast medal seen here is actually the 2013 medal, and for display purposes only. This is because there is now the opportunity to earn two Coast to Coast medals in a single year. We were given a choice of earning a blue-ribbon Coast to Coast at Tinkerbell weekend, or earning a new pink ribbon Coast to Coast by completing the Princess half marathon next month – Pink ribbon for completing the two Disney half marathons for ladies.
If you also ran the 2014 Walt Disney World marathon you could also earn a blue Coast to Coast by completing the September Disneyland half marathon. So if you opted to earn a pink Coast to Coast medal, you finished the unofficial Hercules Challenge with nine medals. If you opted for a blue Coast to Coast to be earned at Tinkerbell, you finished with 10 medals.
Many hundreds look forward to earning both Coast to Coast medals this year!
There is no such thing as an “I Did It!” shirt for the unofficial Hercules Challenge, like the representation above. But maybe, someday! It took nine years before the Dopey Challenge became official. And all Hercules needs is a bunch of medals around his neck, plus a set of sparkling wings instead of a cape!
It was a fun, but very tiring, 11 days. The most tiring part: waking up so early on seven of the 11 days!
Filed Under: Disney, Sports Tagged With: Disney, Disneyland, Dopey Challenge, ESPN Wide World of Sports, Event, featured, half-marathon, Hercules Challenge, marathon, medals, race, RunDisney, Sports, tinkerbell, Walt Disney World
July 24, 2015 By Banks Lee Leave a Comment
Team Mickey All-Star Baseball Tour kicks off this weekend
The Team Mickey All-Star Baseball Tour is allowing fans of all ages to celebrate two beloved All-American icons: baseball and Mickey Mouse. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Disney, ESPN Wide World of Sports, Sports Tagged With: baseball, ESPN Wide World of Sports, featured, Mickey Mouse, Team Mickey All-Star Baseball Tour
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On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination
Drummond, D. Allan and Silberg, Jonathan J. and Meyer, Michelle M. and Wilke, Claus O. and Arnold, Frances H. (2005) On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102 (15). pp. 5380-5385. ISSN 0027-8424. PMCID PMC556249. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:DRUpnas05a
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Intragenic recombination rapidly creates protein sequence diversity compared with random mutation, but little is known about the relative effects of recombination and mutation on protein function. Here, we compare recombination of the distantly related beta-lactamases PSE-4 and TEM-1 to mutation of PSE-4. We show that, among beta-lactamase variants containing the same number of amino acid substitutions, variants created by recombination retain function with a significantly higher probability than those generated by random mutagenesis. We present a simple model that accurately captures the differing effects of mutation and recombination in real and simulated proteins with only four parameters: (i) the amino acid sequence distance between parents, (h) the number of substitutions, (iii) the average probability that random substitutions will preserve function, and (iv) the average probability that substitutions generated by recombination will preserve function. Our results expose a fundamental functional enrichment in regions of protein sequence space accessible by recombination and provide a framework for evaluating whether the relative rates of mutation and recombination observed in nature reflect the underlying imbalance in their effects on protein function.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC556249/ PubMed Central Article
ORCID:
Wilke, Claus O. 0000-0002-7470-9261
Arnold, Frances H. 0000-0002-4027-364X
© 2005 by the National Academy of Sciences. Edited by Michael Levitt, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and approved March 7, 2005 (received for review January 27, 2005). Published online before print April 4, 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0500729102. We thank Z.-G. Wang for helpful discussions. This work was supported by National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award 5 T32 MH19138 (to D.A.D.), National Institutes of Health Grant R01 GM068665-01 and Fellowship F32 GM64949-01 (to J.J.S.), and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship (to M.M.M.). This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
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NIH Predoctoral Fellowship 5 T32 MH19138
NIH R01 GM068665-01
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship F32 GM64949-01
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) UNSPECIFIED
Subject Keywords:
directed evolution, mutagenesis, neutrality, lattice proteins, site-directed recombination, neisseria-meningitidis, evolutionary landscapes, protein recombiniation, directed evolution, gene, libraries, robustness, generation, mutations, tolerance
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PMC556249
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500729102
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A Barefoot Music Group Review- “If Walls Could Talk” by Justin Johnson
Maestro Justin Johnson’s “If Walls Could Talk” is an intriguing album of engaging instrumental compositions and arrangements with extraordinary layers throughout all 12 dynamic tracks. A must hear that should not be defined by genre alone.
A fellow roots fan first introduced me to Johnson’s music a couple of years ago when he was on tour performing with his Cigar Box Guitars (CBG) in Coos Bay Oregon while also turning his shows into teaching moments. Educating school children (and parent & teachers) about CBG’s and their relationship to the history of Roots music; keeping an important art alive and thriving with new students thanks to Justin Johnson.
Whether it be one string or 12, Maestro Johnson is a string virtuoso and he is an ambassador for Roots music.
This newly released CD & DVD combination “If Walls Could Talk” showcases the impeccable string musician that Johnson is; spotlighting the individual layers of who he is as a musician, and who he is as an artist. These 12 tracks speak volumes to how genuine Johnson stayed to his own roots (pun intended) on this project, and how true he stayed to the music that unfolded in the Tennessee Braxton Dixon built house where he lived during the composing and arranging of this album.
The brilliant nod to the stunning voices of each of the instruments Justin chose to use also feels to this listener that he intentionally also stayed true to his signature sound and roots style.
Justin Johnson has created an archive of music history with this album.
Album producer John Carter Cash says it far more eloquently about Justin and his music; “the very soul of America.”
If you’re a lyrically driven music fan who’s not typically an instrumental fan Justin Johnson is going to convert you with his introspective melody lines.
If you are a die-hard instrumental fan “If Walls Could Talk” will speak to you on many levels with the dramatic voices of each string instrument that Justin and album producer John Carter Cash obviously put much thought into choosing.
If you are a returning Justin Johnson fan then you will be happily content with this new addition to Johnson’s catalog.
As is my custom when living listening to a new album I intend to write about I begin compiling snippets of notes. “If Walls Could Talk” struck me right away as being quite special. A repeated note I made throughout the week was referencing the emotional roller coaster this album takes the listener on; each song evoking wonderfully intense feelings of nostalgia, lightness, sadness, mourning and moody
feelings…. just like music is meant to do- just like music should do.
The opening track for me is nostalgia in music, captivating me right away with Johnson’s epic interpretation of “Summertime,”
Justin perfectly sets up the stunning ambiance for the phrasing of the entire album with this classic song with the strikingly beautiful unique voice of the 1923 Gibson Mandolin. It’s fine nuances bring a richness of depth to this classic that makes it Justin’s own. The mandolin ‘singing’ the lyrics is perfectly accompanied by a 1963 Gibson Folksinger and “Magic” an upright bass. This is a treasure to any collection of music, it’s also a fabulous crossover for different categories of collections.
Though I could easily write about each of the 12 tracks, I’m not. I don’t want to intrude on anyone’s first listen who may have not yet heard the album. Each listener is going to hear something different from these walls as this music will touch a personal chord in each one of us.
While speaking of personal and again my love for nostalgia in music I want to address one more track.
So many memories are wrapped around music
Track #5 “Wood & Weed” takes me back in time to another phase of my life when traditional country music was what I was being raised on. “Wood & Weed” is definitely not country, nor is it traditional. Great roots music is organic in nature and allows for the listener to hear in the composition that which reaches inside and grabs the individual attention of each of us..I am taken to my childhood with this track.
Throughout the album there is almost a mythical ‘poetic-ness’ – for me it’s all about the instrument voices and the songs they sing. Much like a Museum of Art I find myself associating this album to a dream come true for an audio curator of string instruments.
Audiophiles/musicologists like myself however will find this no dream, instead happily we find a reality in our ears when we hear the brilliance of Maestro Johnson perfectly translating the voice of each incredible instrument that he played on this album.
*Recording Notes*
Mandolin- 1925 Gibson Lloyd Loar F5
Resonator Guitar- 176 Dobro Model 66
Acoustic Guitar- 163 Gibson F-25 Folksinger
Acoustic Guitar-Martin Limited Edition OM-28WRosanne Cash Signature Model #2
Electric Guitar- Little Crow Guitars Custom “Justin Johnson”Corvinho Model
Cigar Box Guitar- Homegrown Strings-4-string
Baritone Ukulele- Willow Glen Guitars
Upright Bass- “Magic”
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the video footage of the recording sessions on the DVD included in the CD/DVD set. I purposely left watching the DVD until I was ready to write and I am glad I did as I wanted to write without any bias; After watching the video I know that would not have been an easy thing to do.
Following Justin and Nikki for months prior to release they shared so many aspects of this project during the composing and then the recording that their sharing endeared them both to fans,this writer included. Leaving the DVD’ for the last was much like an epilogue to living vicariously through Justin & Nicki over the past several months and allowed for no bias on this listener/writer’s part.
The music that went on inside those walls is simply brilliant, and that’s no bias. Like blueprints, that’s a fact
If Walls Could Talk Cd/Dvd available here www.RootsMusicSchool.com
“If Walls Could Talk” Mp3’s available at all outlets below here:
https://www.amazon.com/Walls-Could-Talk-Justin-Johnson/dp/B01J2BT2RY
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/if-walls-could-talk/id1138032207
More Justin Johnson here http://www.justinjohnsonlive.com/
and here http://www.youtube.com/justinjohnsonlive
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Home / News & Events / College News / Atmospheric sciences alum Mike Bettes describes whirlwind career after Ohio State
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Atmospheric sciences alum Mike Bettes describes whirlwind career after Ohio State
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On May 31, 2013, a 2.6 mile-wide tornado careened across the landscape near El Reno, Oklahoma.
The sky is painted an ominous, green tint. A furious wind gusts with sporadic pace. Flashes of lightning flicker through the dark clouds.
In the distance, a colossal tornado tears unbridled across the rural landscape. It’s May 31, 2013, in central Oklahoma, and standing in front of a camera reporting live on the chaotic scene is field anchor for The Weather Channel and 1995 Ohio State alumnus Mike Bettes.
“Look at that monster; this is a huge tornado,” Bettes says on air as the camera pans from him to the twister. “If you live in Union City south of El Reno, you have to take shelter now. There’s no more time to waste.”
Sensing potential danger, Bettes cuts the broadcast short, telling the anchors back in The Weather Channel studio that he and his team are going to drive south to escape the tornado’s path.
The group jumps back into the vehicle and races down Highway 81. Unknown to them, however, is that the tornado is increasing its speed and doubling in size. In seconds, the crew is at the cyclone’s mercy.
It gets darker. The rain grows heavy. Visibility plummets. Bettes watches as the car in front of his gets swatted off the road by the tornado’s extraordinary winds.
Go. Go,” Bettes shouts. “Just keeping going if you can. Keep going if you can. Everybody duck down. Everybody duck down.”
The car is lifted off the pavement. Bettes squeezes his eyes shut as time grinds to a halt and be feels himself become weightless.
Mike Bettes (BS, atmospheric sciences, 1995), who’s been with The Weather Channel for nearly 15 years and currently hosts “Weather Underground,” fell in love with weather as a kid, watching thunderstorms from the garage with his dad.
A native of Akron during his childhood and Lexington in high school, Bettes knew he wanted to study meteorology. The only university that offered such a program was Ohio State.
“I was a Buckeye since birth,” Bettes said. “Ohio State was only an hour down the road, so it was a pretty easy choice.”
After graduating, Bettes landed a weekend gig at WKEF-TV in Dayton, where he stayed for a year before moving on to ABC6 in Columbus. Following a three-year stint at ABC6, he was named chief meteorologist at WLOS-TV in Ashville, North Carolina. Bettes was in Ashville for three years and reported on the region’s most powerful hurricanes, including the devastating Hurricane Isabel in September 2003.
The evening after Isabel made landfall, Bettes was sitting on a North Carolina beach waiting to go on air when his phone rang. It was The Weather Channel.
“I had gone for an interview at The Weather Channel in the summer of 2003,” Bettes said. “They called and offered me a job, and I couldn’t believe it. Next thing you know, I was off to Atlanta, and I’ve been with The Weather Channel ever since.”
Bettes has filled several roles with The Weather Channel and has covered several of the biggest weather events in history, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Joplin, Missouri, tornado in 2011, and Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Starting in 2009, Bettes reported on tornadoes for The Weather Channel alongside the government-funded VORTEX2 field project, which was aimed at the scientific study of tornadoes. In 2013, Bettes led The Weather Channel Tornado Hunt Team, which traveled up and down Tornado Alley chasing and broadcasting severe storms.
That’s when he found himself inside the largest tornado ever recorded.
His eyes are shut. Time is still. He is weightless. And Bettes knows he’s in the tornado.
I thought, ‘Am I dead already?’” he said. “And then I saw kind of an angelic vision of my wife. I’d only been married for a few months at the time. So, I was having both these streams of thought at the same time, and then a very harsh reality happened where the vehicle hit the ground.”
The car tumbled over and over and over again before coming to rest in a field. The windows were smashed out, and the winds were still howling.
“I remember yelling out to our producer and photographer, ‘Are you guys OK?’” Bettes said. “And everyone was alive and conscious and they all yelled back to me that they were OK. Then we all got out, and I saw the tornado in the field moving away from us, and I was just like, ‘Wow. I can’t believe that just happened.’”
The tornado that lifted Bettes’ vehicle 30 feet into the air and tossed it 200 yards away went down as the widest tornado ever: 2.6 miles wide. The twister received an initial EF3 rating based on damage, but that rating was subsequently upgraded to EF5 — the highest on the scale — based on radar analysis that measured winds up to 301 mph.
Bettes and his team, miraculously, received minor injuries. Other storm chasers, however, were not as fortunate. Professional tornado documenters Tim Samaras, his son Paul Samaras and their colleague Carl Young were killed when their vehicle was thrown nearly a half-mile by the tornado. In all, the tornado killed eight people.
“It was a moment that had more impact on me than I thought it would,” Bettes said. “It gave me real empathy for what victims of tornadoes go through physically and emotionally, and how jarring it can be and how life-altering it can be.”
Today, Bettes hosts “Weather Underground,” which consists of interviews with experts, in-studio experiments and demonstrations, and viewer interaction.
Most years, Bettes returns to Ohio State to speak at the annual Severe Weather Symposium hosted by the Meteorology Club. He enjoys coming back to his roots to see how the club and the atmospheric sciences program have both grown, and he continues to appreciate how the program and the university in general shaped his career.
“Ohio State really set me on a path to good things,” he said. “I think that’s where all the students who are in the atmospheric sciences program are today; they’re ready to take on the world.”
As for advice Bettes has for students who want to carve their own meteorology path, Bettes says to be steadfast in their quest to attain their goals.
Be patient, but be persistent,” he said. “And it’ll pay off. I look at where I am today, and I never could’ve imagined the good fortune I have now if it were not for the great education at I got at Ohio State.”
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is defined by NHS Scotland as including “a wide range of often linked sexual activities which (typically) men profit from or buy from women and which objectivity and harm women. It includes prostitution, phone sex, internet sex/chat rooms, stripping, pole dancing, lap dancing, peep shows, pornography, trafficking, sex tourism and mail order brides.
“The women involved are often on low incomes, substance users and victims of other forms of gender-based violence. Based on a lack of alternatives and often on coercion, such activities are rarely a ‘free’ or ‘vocational’ choice.
The Scottish Government includes prostitution, pornography and other forms of involvement in the ‘sex industry’ in its definition of violence against women. It considers that the exploitation of women through these forms of ‘entertainment’ legitimises negative attitudes towards women and is inextricably linked to gender inequality and sexual violence.”
–NHS Scotland: Commercial Sexual Exploitation
SNP Conference – March 2017
The SNP Haddington Branch put forward a motion that I presented at Conference, in March 2017, for a Scottish Model of Legislation on Prostitution. This motion seeks to legalise the sale of sex while criminalising the purchase of sex, thereby protecting those exploited by prostitution and punishing the exploiters. It would also offer a system of support for those wishing to exit prostitution.
This mirrors the Nordic Model such as successful legislation in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and France.
Statistics show that neighbouring jurisdictions result in the demand being displaced to nearby countries. Thus, Scotland is at risk for an increase in demand for paid sex.
The motion successfully passed and is now SNP party policy.
In depth research has been done to raise awareness for the decriminalisation of prostitution. As we advocate for the Nordic Model, I urge you to educate yourself and stand up for those in need in order to protect Scotland.
Click here to see the motion in full and a list of supporters.
Advocacy in the Media
Click the below headlines to read about articles on CSE by Ash Denham.
SNP Conference – October 2017
Outlaw Sex for Rent – Ash is supporting an amendment to a motion, along with four other MSPs, that seeks to outlaw sex for rent. This is a practice where landlords offer rent-free accommodation in exchange for sex. The is a practice that sees landlords preying on vulnerable women, and those in these arrangements have no tenancy rights or protections.
For more information, click here to read a Times article on the motion.
The Scottish Government has published two reports regarding the issue:
Evidence Assessment of the Impacts of the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex: A Review
Exploring Available Knowledge and Evidence on Prostitution in Scotland via Practitioner-Based Interviews
To learn more about CSE, visit: Women’s Support Project
Below are informative articles on CSE and its effects:
The Left’s Love of Prostitution: An Open Letter From Exited Women
Rae Story on neoliberalism, ‘sex work,’ and the ‘middle-classing’ of prostitution
Legalisation has turned Germany into the “Bordello of Europe” and we should be ashamed
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Want to Be a Wildcat
Montini Blast Gives Wilmington Men’s Soccer 2-1 CACC Victory over Concordia on Homecoming
Concordia (N.Y.)
Wilmington (Del.)
Concordia (N.Y.) (4-1-1, 3-1-1 CACC) 1 0 1
Wilmington (Del.) (6-1, 3-0 CACC) 1 1 2
1st - 10:38 - Lance Berry (Wilmington (Del.))
1st - 12:06 - Ovan Oakley (Concordia (N.Y.))
2nd - 51:49 - Bruno Montini (Wilmington (Del.))
G: Ovan Oakley - 1
A: David Roberson - 1
Sh: Ovan Oakley - 2
Sv: Ruel Gordon - 7
G: 2 Players (#8, #23) - 1
A: Bruno Montini - 1
Sh: Samuel Naiwo - 6
Sv: Frank Hall - 2
Bruno Montini put home a free kick in the second half to lead the Wilmington University men's soccer to a 2-1 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference victory over Concordia on Saturday at the WU Athletics Complex during the 2014 Wilmington Homecoming Weekend.
It was the sixth consecutive victory for the Wildcats (6-1 overall, 3-0 CACC) as the Clippers (4-1-1, 3-1-1 CACC) suffered the first loss of the season in the tightly contested contest.
Lance Berry put the Wildcats on the board first early in the first half, putting home a cross from Montini in the 11th minute. Montini made a run into the box and made his way to the endline before finding Berry on the back post for his fourth goal of the season.
But the Wildcats were unable to maintain the momentum as the Clippers responded less than two minute later on a scramble in the box following a corner. CACC goal scoring leader Ovan Oakley put home a rebound shot off David Roberson who was outside the 18-yard box, cleaning up the play after the corner. Oakley was on the back post as the ball was deflected by a Wildcat defender, putting in his CACC leading seven goal of the year.
Wilmington held a 9-3 lead in shots at the halftime, maintaining the bulk of the offensive possession throughout the first 45 minutes.
The possession continued throughout the first moments of the second half, as they ended up leading in shots, 17-4, for the match.
But it wasn't until the 52nd minute before the Wildcats were able to find the back of the net again.
Following a foul and a yellow card to Concordia's Gio-Vaughni Linton, Montini's left footed shot from the right side went around the five-man wall, beating Concordia goalkeeper Ruel Gordon to his right side and into the side of the net.
Concordia received votes in the latest NSCAA National Poll last week, being the only team from the CACC listed on the poll.
JJ Naiwo recorded six shots for the Wildcats on Saturday, while Tom Debenham, Josh Fawssett, and Juan Bernal posted two shots each.
Gordon made seven saves for the Clippers, keeping them in the contest throughout the second half. Wilmington goalkeeper Frank Hall made two saves to pick up the victory.
The Wildcats end their six games in 10 days with six victories and return to action on Wednesday at the WU Athletics Complex. The team remains in CACC action and face Chestnut Hill with a 4 p.m. start.
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Cavaliers Showcase Ineptitude on National Television
September 28, 2015 Seward Totty
There are only so many ways to write this tale of woe. Different opponent, same result. Facing its third quality opponent of the month, the University of Virginia football team absolutely embarrassed itself on Friday night. The Cavaliers’ 56-14 loss to Boise State in front of a national television audience was not the worst loss Virginia has endured under London’s leadership but it sure felt like it. It was a debacle of the sort that coaches don’t survive and I think that last weekend’s result included the knockout punch that will put an end to Mike London’s coaching career at Virginia.
Against Boise State the pressure of a completely ridiculous and fantastically overzealous schedule finally broke the Cavaliers. In a game that Virginia absolutely had to have, the Wahoos stopped being competitive at the conclusion of the national anthem. After fourteen seconds, Virginia was down 7-0. Boise State scored 10 more points in its first two possessions and led 17-0 before most fans had finished their hot dog. Virginia’s first three possessions produced 2 interceptions and a three-and-out. Virginia, with a roster full of London recruits, the same recruits whose hype had likely saved his job previously, were completely, totally, and utterly non-competitive.
By every metric which can be used to assess a team’s performance Boise State destroyed Virginia. Virginia was outplayed, outcoached, outhustled, outmuscled, outthought…outeverything. Thomas Jones is one of Virginia’s most storied players. He is Virginia’s all time rushing leader. He was the seventh overall pick in the 2000 NFL draft. He had a twelve-year NFL career. Like most Virginia fans, he tuned in to watch the nationally televised game. As the horror unfolded, his pregame Twitter excitement turned to frustration and then embarrassment.
Virginia great Thomas Jones is uniquely qualified to comment on the pitiful state of Virginia’s football program.
Virginia fans are fed up–and have been for some time now–by the sorry state of the football program and last weekend’s result has them demanding that someone answer for it. Head coach Mike London is the obvious choice, but there is talk that Executive Associate Athletic Director Jon Oliver’s overzealous scheduling and micromanagement has put London in an untenable position. There was a time when fans accepted the notion that Virginia’s academic standards made fielding a top-25 football team a difficult proposition. Those same fans now point to Duke’s football resurrection and shout, loudly, “See? If Duke can do it, why can’t we?” Northwestern University, another academic stalwart and the not-proud owners of college football’s longest losing streak (34 games from 1979-1982) currently is 16th in the latest AP Top 25 football poll. Notre Dame, Michigan, Stanford all are academically rigorous and have historically successful programs. Even Virginia has done it before, rising from complete irrelevance to national power under George Welsh in the 1980s-90s. Virginia has everything that it needs to be successful except an exceptional coach.
London’s abysmal coaching record has been at least partially offset–in some people’s minds at least–by his recruiting successes and his good character. However the highly touted recruits aren’t developing under London’s tutelage and fans aren’t coming to the stadium to see the head coach showcase his good character. Virginia fans want a coach who has good character, wins the recruiting battles AND wins games. Winning sells tickets. Winning makes donors generous. Winning makes everybody happy.
Individually, these Cavaliers have talent. Many of them were heralded recruits whose commitment to Virginia was viewed as confirmation of the program’s resurgence. Collectively however, these Cavaliers are ineffectual. Virginia’s offensive line has plenty of game experience. It was expected to be an area of strength this year. It’s not. The line play has been terrible. Someone–perhaps a Virginia fan–once said that all runners look the same when there is no hole. Virginia’s tailbacks have nowhere to run and the quarterback has no time to throw. It wasn’t that long ago that Virginia regularly was sending lineman to the NFL as high draft picks. Not anymore. Is that a talent or a coaching issue? Where does the fault lie for this ineptitude?
One need look no further than Athens, Georgia for the answer. Virginia transfer Greyson Lambert is thriving as Georgia’s quarterback after struggling last year as UVA’s signal caller. Working behind a superior offensive line, Lambert two weekends ago set an NCAA efficiency record when he completed 24 or his 25 passes for 330 yards and 3 touchdowns. On a better team, Lambert is living up to the hype that never was evident during his time in Charlottesville. Given this, do you think that Andrew Brown and Taquan Mizzell wish they had signed with another school? Lambert looks like a champ at Georgia. London sold recruits on the promise of early playing time and parents on hands-on mentorship. These recruiting wins in turn fostered the belief that Virginia was turning things around. It’s not happening for the team or the players. Rushing 7 times for two yards won’t get Mizzell drafted but completing 24 of 25 passes for 330 yards and 3 touchdowns will do that for Lambert. A team with no coaching won’t win any more games than a team with no talent will.
And let’s be clear. It is the coaching. The mental mistakes that Virginia regularly commits game after game reflect a lack of mental discipline, a lack of focus, a lack of preparation. At this point Virginia’s players are so desperate to make a play, to cause a turnover, to do anything to jumpstart Virginia’s nonexistent momentum that they are taking reckless chances. Their overpursuit leaves them vulnerable to the cutback, their desire to strip the ball causes them to miss tackles. Virginia’s defense is among the worst in the country.
The players and coaches admit that last weekend’s loss is unacceptable. They said the same thing about Virginia’s close win against lower-division William and Mary two weekends ago. They lamented not being able to finish against Notre Dame, when finishing–plays, drives, games–is the team’s stated mission this year. They say that, with the entire ACC schedule ahead of them, the goals of an ACC championship and a bowl berth are still in front of them. The facts belie this, however. Virginia has not won an ACC road game since 2012. London’s overall ACC record in five seasons is 8-24. He has never beaten primary rivals Virginia Tech and North Carolina. I think it would be impossible for Mike London’s ice to be any thinner or his seat to be any hotter. Barring a miraculous turnaround, I don’t see how the psychological damage can be repaired by anything other than a fresh start.
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Oh Virginia
Oh Virginia. Poor, poor Virginia. You know what Virginia football is? It’s Rudy Ruettiger, the totally undersized kid who defied the skeptics and walked on to the Notre Dame football team in the 1970s. He’d go to practice and get beat all to hell but he’d come back for more punishment the next day. That’s Virginia football. Overmatched, taking the beating, coming back for more. The school wants so desperately to be big time and for its football program to be as successful as the school’s other teams. It’s not there yet and the schedule is not helping the turnaround effort. Whoever makes Virginia’s schedule has a very overinflated image of the current state of the school’s football program.
The football program is the outlier. The Cavaliers have had four losing seasons in a row. The coach’s seat is so hot that he can’t sit down, not even for a second. So, in a season where Virginia desperately needs to post a winning record to change the losing culture and reverse the fan apathy that is taking hold in Charlottesville, the Cavaliers opened the 2015 season against two top-15 teams. Hardly a cure.
Virginia went to UCLA two weeks ago and got a predictable result, looking overmatched in a 34-16 loss. This past weekend the Cavaliers played host to Notre Dame. The Irish now are obligated to play five ACC teams per year as a condition of its ACC membership in all sports but football and either the league scheduling office hates Virginia or else the Hoos are just plain unlucky (more on that later) to have drawn Notre Dame in a season in which it already had games against UCLA and Boise State on the calendar. Head coach Mike London has repeatedly said he has no input on the making of the schedule and that the schedule is what it is, but for a coach trying to hang on to his job, playing three ranked nonconference teams in the first month of the season has to have him shouting a very loud “WTF!” when he is alone.
Against UCLA, Virginia looked no better–and perhaps worse–than last year’s team. Virginia was unable to finish drives with touchdowns, Virginia committed silly penalties, Virginia surrendered long plays on defense. Virginia was in over its head. So it was somewhat surprising that Notre Dame came to Charlottesville as only an eleven-point favorite given that the Irish totally dominated Texas 38-3 in week one. Well, guess what? The odds makers knew something that most fans didn’t.
In a game that could have gone a long way towards fixing Virginia’s problems, Notre Dame avoided a colossal upset when WR and All-America candidate Will Fuller got free behind the Virginia defense and hauled in a 39-yard game-winning touchdown pass from backup QB DeShone Kizer with 12 seconds left in the game. Prior to that, Virginia had put together one of its best drives in years, a 13-play, 80-yard drive that ended with an Albert Reid one-yard touchdown plunge. Leading by one point, Virginia tried and failed on the two-point conversion that would have at least allowed for overtime in the event of a last-minute Notre Dame field goal. Instead, the Irish took advantage of some last-second confusion at the line of scrimmage and sent Fuller on a double move fly route that got him behind the defense and Kizer, in relief of starter Malik Zaire, delivered a perfect strike.
Hoping to post the weekend’s biggest upset, Virginia instead became internet cannon fodder. #SadVirginiafan was instantly a trending meme on Twitter.
The mantra for this year’s Virginia team is “finish.” Finish plays. Finish drives with touchdowns and finish games with wins. Finish, finish, finish. In every media opportunity, Virginia’s players have talked about finishing. Yet for the fourth time in its last eight games Virginia lost the game when it couldn’t hold a late lead. And for the second time in three games, it couldn’t hold a lead with under two minutes to play. A different result in those two games and Virginia’s football trajectory would be totally different. Up, not down. Hold a late lead against Virginia Tech last November and the Hoos would have been bowl-eligible and would have broken Tech’s silly stranglehold on the rivalry. Beat Notre Dame last weekend and observers talk about Virginia perhaps being one of this year’s surprise teams despite the murderous schedule.
But Virginia didn’t win either of those games. That’s the reality. Yes, there were plenty of positives. QB Matt Johns was stellar, mixing pocket poise with an improvisational ability that allowed him to extend plays. WR Canaan Severin was fantastic, hauling in 11 passes for 153 yards and consistently making contested catches. The running game was better and tailback Taquan Mizzell may be about ready to deliver on the hype that accompanied his commitment. Perhaps best of all, heavily-criticized offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild opened up the offense in a way that Virginia hasn’t seen during his tenure. The defense, which was identified as a potential weakness after the early departures of DE Eli Harold and LB Max Valles, has struggled to get off the field and will need to get better to give the Hoos a chance to recover from this 0-2 start.
It is said that good teams find a way to win. Virginia may be a good team with talented players, but it doesn’t yet know how to win. For the program to break through, it is going to have to find a way to win one of these close games. Run out the clock, stuff the run. Make an interception, force a fumble. Score 200 points. Sack the quarterback, break up a pass. Hell, we don’t care. We aren’t proud. We’d be fine with the opposing player tripping over his own feet just short of the goal line or having the guy behind the bar at Buffalo Wild Wings turn on the sprinklers during a field goal attempt. Whatever it takes, Virginia needs to finish a game.
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Basketball, College Basketball
Could Virginia be Kentucky’s Kryptonite?
January 1, 2015 Seward Totty
As I write this Kentucky and Virginia are two of this season’s six remaining unbeaten college basketball teams. Both are having historically good, statistically great seasons. They won’t play in the regular but an eventual collision in the NCAA Tourney is of course possible. The Wildcats are, with good reason, the talk of college basketball this year. Every other team, including third-ranked Virginia, appears to be a national title afterthought.
Kentucky has lots to celebrate this year.
However, as a lark and to pass the time until the day that they get to write about Kentucky’s predestined national championship, sportswriters are entertaining themselves trying to find a team that could perhaps, maybe, possibly, if-everything-in-the-universe-lined-up-correctly, derail Kentucky’s championship express train. Kansas couldn’t do it. Texas either. Blueblood North Carolina wasn’t up to the challenge and neither was red-blooded Louisville. Could Virginia be one of the very few teams that might give Kentucky more than a brief test? I graduated from UVA and was a hoops-addled student there during the Jeff Lamp/Ralph Sampson-fueled golden era of Virginia basketball. I have lived in Lexington, Kentucky for the past 22 years and have been here to witness UK win three of its eight basketball titles. I don’t know him personally but Kentucky head coach John Calipari lives less than a mile from me. I think my perspective on a prospective UK-UVA matchup is unrivaled.
Kentucky, with its eight championships, is basketball royalty. Virginia historically has been a pauper but for the period when it beat, ironically, Kentucky to win the Ralph Sampson lottery. Sadly, like many who find themselves suddenly rich, Virginia squandered its fortune and spent most of the past twenty years in various states of destitution until last year claiming the ACC regular season and tournament titles, plus a #1 seed in the national tournament. Virginia fans are hoping that the school has this time made a solid long-term investment in the form of head coach Tony Bennett and that it will pay off in regular tournament appearances and a permanent move into basketball’s upper echelon.
Many basketball observers have opined that this Kentucky team could be the greatest ever. Such an accomplishment would place them alongside the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers, college basketball’s last undefeated team and, because of the restrictive shorts of that era, a squad that these Wildcats likely would beat by 40. Such hyperbole is not unusual for Calipari’s Kentucky teams. The combination of his recruiting acumen and Kentucky’s storied history has turned UK into an NBA incubator program. Like legendary UK coach Adolph Rupp 65 years ago, Calipari’s program has reached the point where it recruits itself. For any coach in any sport, Calipari’s position is an enviable one.
That this year’s Kentucky team is so loaded is not the result of Calipari’s clever stockpiling of talent but rather of a malfunction on his NBA assembly line. Willie Cauley-Stein, Alex Poythress, and twins Aaron and Andrew Harrison haven’t developed at the speed called for in Calipari’s production schematic. In an era where high profile players must “eat” to burnish their NBA credentials, Calipari found himself dangerously short of food (aka available minutes). To remedy this he came up with a unique platoon system where 10 players (9 now that Poythress is lost for the season) get relatively equal minutes and there is no distinction between what Cal painstakingly refers to as his “first” and “second” platoons. That he has gotten his highly-touted players to accept reduced minutes in pursuit of historical greatness may be his greatest coaching achievement.
If Kentucky is an assemblage of incredible individual talent, what then is Virginia? It’s not Kentucky, that’s for sure. Kentucky runs talent, Virginia runs a system. That is not to say that Virginia’s players aren’t talented. They are, but they are less heralded and their professional prospects are far less certain. Virginia tried for years to land Kentucky-type talent but having to recruit against league heavyweights Duke, North Carolina, and other occasionally-great ACC schools was too difficult for a team seemingly always playing for next year. Six years ago Virginia determined that its best chance for prolonged success lay in the system approach. The Wahoos hired Washington State head coach Tony Bennett, the son of legendary coach Dick Bennett, creator of college basketball’s most perplexing puzzle, the Pack Line defense. Tony Bennett brought the Pack Line to Virginia and the results have been nothing short of astonishing. Virginia has improved every year under Bennett’s tutelage, culminating in last season’s school-record-tying 30 victories and the program’s first ACC Tournament championship since 1976. Bennett and Virginia have accomplished all of this despite having exactly zero McDonald’s All-Americans and only a few players with NBA talent. The system is the foundation for Virginia’s success. When executed correctly, the Pack Line and its focus on help defense covers up the shortcomings Virginia’s players may have against taller, faster, and more athletic opponents.
Now that Kentucky has dispatched all the teams on its nonconference schedule Virginia and Duke are about the only teams writers have left to offer up as possible spoilers. Could Virginia’s system neutralize Kentucky’s talent advantage? The easy answer is no. Players make plays and the Wildcats have more players than anyone. Kentucky’s guys would blow holes in Virginia’s D while locking down the Cavaliers defensively because it is the Wildcats’ defense that is terrifying and terrorizing opponents this year. Superior talent wins the day, right? Well, over the past year Virginia has posted a 33-3 record and throttled teams with far more talent, but could they beat what is being touted as one of college basketball’s greatest-ever lineups? The matchup is more interesting than you might think.
Ken Pomeroy calculates pace-adjusted stats that give interested parties the means to compare teams across different playing styles. Applying Pomeroy’s methodology to the stats shows that Virginia and Kentucky have remarkably similar defensive and offensive profiles. Kentucky is harder to score on than Virginia, but not by much. The statistics bear this out. UK and UVA rank first and second nationally in scoring defense, allowing 47.8 and 48.2 points per game respectively. They also rank first and second in field goal percentage defense. UK’s opponents make just 29.7 % of their field goal attempts, Virginia’s opponents make just 32.6%. UVA ranks third in the nation in rebound margin at +14.4, UK ranks ninth at +10.5. Kentucky allows opponents to score 82.1 points per 100 possessions and Virginia allows 84.2. That’s first and third nationally. Louisville is second.
Virginia’s Pack Line D is designed to deny the opposition close-in baskets and second-chance points. The way to beat Virginia is shoot over it. A team that makes its three-point shots will always give Virginia trouble because that’s the shot Virginia concedes in order to defend the paint. That doesn’t mean that Virginia is soft against the three, though. The Cavaliers’ 3-point field goal defense allows opponents a conversion percentage of just 29.2%. With its interior size, Kentucky has not had to lean on the three-pointer this year. The Wildcats rank 182nd (of 345) in three-point field goal attempts per game and 228th in three-point field goal percentage at 32.1 %. Kentucky does have capable shooters in Devin Booker and Tyler Ulis. Booker has made 49% of his 50 attempts and Ulis has made 52% of his small sample size 23 attempts. Aaron Harrison is Kentucky’s most prolific three-point bomber and despite a knack for making the big shot he has been statistically terrible this season, converting just 18 of his 66 attempts (27%). His twin Andrew has attempted a far more modest 28 treys but has found nylon only on 9 of them. Booker appears to be the shooter Virginia would need to be most concerned about.
Virginia likes shots like this one by Justin Anderson.
What about at the other end? Could Virginia overcome UK’s length? On offense, Kentucky ranks fifth at 115.4 points per 100 possessions. Virginia averages 114.8 points per 100 possessions, slotting them right behind Kentucky at 6th. By contrast Louisville, Kentucky’s last opponent and formerly the rest of America’s best spoiler hope, ranks 55th at 106.2 points per 100. Virginia is a better offensive team than Louisville and it’s really not even close, as will become obvious in a minute. Virginia has the backcourt size to match up with Kentucky, running 6’2″, 6’5″, and 6’6″ at the guard spots. There is no team in America that can match Kentucky’s frontcourt size and that would be an issue for Virginia because the Hoos prefer layups to three-pointers. Virginia ranks just 322nd in three-point attempts per game and would need to shoot a ton of them against Kentucky because the Wildcats will not let teams score at the rim. The teams that have tried (Kansas, Texas) have gotten obliterated. Virginia is a marginally better overall shooting team than Kentucky, making 49.3 % of its attempts (20th nationally) to Kentucky’s 47.2 % (51st nationally), and a much better shooting team than Louisville (43.1%, 197th nationally). Virginia guard Justin Anderson, one of the few Virginia players with an NBA future, is torching the nets this season and has hit 61% of his 48 three-point attempts.
Kentucky likes shots like this one by Willie Cauley-Stein.
Would Kentucky’s height allow its skyscrapers to pass out of the post traps Virginia uses to deny opposing big men easy looks at the hoop? Given that Kentucky normally has at least two guys taller than 6’9″ on the floor at the same time, Virginia won’t be able to double all of Kentucky’s bigs. If the doubled man can pass out of the trap Kentucky’s other big man should have an easy look at the hoop. Virginia will have no answer if the post trap breaks down or if Kentucky’s guards can extend the floor by hitting the three and that’s why I think that Kentucky’s interior height and superior talent ultimately would prove too much for the Wahoos to overcome on a neutral court.
SCACCHoops, a simulation service, ran a simulated game between Kentucky and Virginia 300 times. Kentucky won 167 times and Virginia won 133 times. The average score was Kentucky 60.8, Virginia 59.7. Fewer than five points decided 101 of the games and 12 of the games went into overtime. While these results lend credence to Virginia fans’ belief that the Cavs could hang with the Cats, simulations are just that. I think fans of both schools would love to have the issue settled on Monday night, April 6 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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Virginia Stumbles Into the OffSeason With Lots of Questions
December 2, 2014 Seward Totty
Virginia’s Kevin Parks is a man alone with his thoughts after concluding his college career with another loss to Virginia Tech. Photo/Ryan M. Kelly/ The Daily Progress
Well, that was quick. Whatever goodwill head coach Mike London managed to accrue after Virginia’s convincing victory over Miami last weekend evaporated in the frigid night air at Lane Stadium on Friday when Virginia coughed up a late lead and suffered a season-ending 24-20 loss to Virginia Tech. The game ended in the worst-possible way for Virginia—a sack on a 4th-down play that was ill-conceived, fooled no one, and had little chance of success. It served as a microcosm of the offensive shortcomings that have plagued the Hoos all year. At the point of desperation and with the season on the line, Virginia dialed up play-action on 4th and 5 with 12 seconds left in the game. Play action? Did anyone for even a second believe that Virginia would attempt a rush?
After a season of bizarre play calls like this one, Virginia fans are left to wonder if offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild hampered the offense or if the offense hampered Fairchild. One thing is certain. Virginia missed Jake McGee much more than anyone might have expected. Virginia struggled terribly in the red zone this season and McGee, a sure-handed tight end, most likely was exactly the red zone weapon that Virginia so needed this year. Reportedly at odds with the Virginia staff regarding his role in the offense, McGee opted to play his final season at the University of Florida. Sadly for him, his Florida career lasted less than a quarter as he broke his leg in the first game. It was the rare situation in which everyone involved lost–McGee, Florida, and certainly Virginia.
The Virginia Tech game offered the Cavaliers a chance at so many positives but it instead became another maddening chapter in Virginia’s increasingly long book of missed opportunities. The maligned Virginia offense founds its rhythm just in time to execute a 10-play 89-yard that gave Virginia a 20-17 lead with 2:55 left in the game. Virginia then turned the game over to its defense, the same defense that stifled opponents all year and kept Virginia in almost every game. In a bit of bitter irony that only Virginia fans can appreciate, the normally stout defense allowed Tech to score in just three plays. “Sometimes I feel like we are just cursed,” said junior defensive tackle David Dean, echoing a sentiment shared for years by Virginia fans who struggle to explain Virginia’s futility in any other way.
With the loss not much changed for the Hoos in 2014. Sure, there were a few more wins and the Cavalier’s margin of defeat narrowed considerably, but the Hoos had a losing season. Again. It finished last again in the ACC’s Coastal Division. Again. It lost to Virginia Tech for the 11th consecutive time. It won no road games for the second year in a row. Yet against this backdrop of futility Athletic Director Craig Littlepage announced prior to the Tech game that Mike London would be back to coach the Cavaliers next season. “It was important to see improvement in our football program this season,” Littlepage said. “I’ve seen signs of progress in many areas.” Never mind that this progress was measured against Virginia’s historically bad 2013 season when Virginia was rarely competitive and lost by an average of 21.6 points per game. If 2013 is the standard then it is a laughably low one. Nevertheless London will be back for a sixth year despite an overall record of 23-38, an ACC record of 11-29, and a combined record of 0-10 against North Carolina and Virginia Tech, UVA’s biggest rivals. It is easy to understand why Virginia fans to have taken to every social media outlet to express their collective disbelief.
London will have every conceivable obstacle in his path next year-another difficult schedule, increased fan antipathy, the weight of his overall record as the Cavaliers coach and specifically his aforementioned record against Tech and UNC. London will need a heroic season next year to save his job. At the end of next season he will have one year left on his current deal. Coaches don’t coach on one-year contracts because the uncertainty cripples recruiting. So, either London and UVA will have a banner year and he will be extended or else London and the Cavaliers will part ways. With non-conference games against UCLA, Notre Dame and Boise State, Virginia appears to have once again overscheduled. Throw in the annual game against Virginia Tech and Virginia could easily have four losses or more. I think sevens wins will be the minimum required of Virginia next year given the displeasure fans currently have with the state of the program. I expect season ticket sales and early home attendance to lag accordingly.
“I trust the plan Mike has in place and believe his leadership provides the best opportunity for Virginia football to be successful in the future,” Littlepage said in a press release. “The staff has refocused its recruiting efforts to emphasize the need to attract student-athletes capable of helping the program compete at a high level in the expanded Atlantic Coast Conference,” Littlepage said. “We are seeing many of these student-athletes on the field right now and the staff continues to have success on the recruiting trail. We will continue to support the program in their efforts to maximize their recruiting success.” Littlepage’s support of London puts him in a potentially untenable position. It’s win and win big for London next year or else Littlepage will be held responsible for Virginia football falling even father behind.
Reflecting on his team’s season-long effort, London said, “We improved as a football team. We played better. We did a lot of things that you can look at and you can build on, but ultimately when we don’t have a chance to go beyond the regular season and into other opportunities, it hurts. You want to win football games. That’s the whole objective.” In reference to Virginia’s offensive line play against Tech, London admitted that some of his lineman were “overmatched there a little bit.” After five years of bungling effort, indefensible clock management, poor personnel decisions, and overzealous scheduling, many fans feel the same way about London. However, the players, London and Littlepage all feel confident that next year is THE year that all the hard work starts paying off. For the sake of everyone with an interest in the University of Virginia’s football program, I hope they are right because at this time next year there will be no debate about London’s job. He either will or he won’t.
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Virginia Thumps Miami, Eyes Virginia Tech
November 25, 2014 Seward Totty
Khalek Shepherd and Virginia celebrate a big win over Miami. Photo by Matt Riley
Saturday’s 30-13 Senior Night thumping of Miami was a vindication of sorts for those Virginia fans who have supported the team and beleaguered coach Mike London during this up and down season. Shaking free of a four-game losing streak caused as much by Cavalier mistakes as by opponent play, Virginia put forth a mostly mistake-free effort that left fans wondering where this team has been for the past five weeks. Like a procrastinator who functions best only when pressed, Virginia had run out of time and really had no choice but to play a complete game to avoid a fourth losing season in five years. The win keeps alive Virginia’s bowl hopes and momentarily quiets the speculation that Mike London is on his way out as head coach.
London has said all year that Virginia’s losses were attributable to just a few plays here and there. Having been beaten by more than 9 points only once this season, the stats would seem to bear that out. Turnovers–and to a lesser extent penalties–have been Virginia’s undoing this year and those mistakes likely cost the team victories against Duke and North Carolina, so it was a relief to have Miami play the role of accommodating victim Saturday night. Miami committed the penalties that extended Virginia drives and Miami made the turnovers that Virginia turned into points. Virginia’s other glaring issue–red zone efficiency– remains a problem. Virginia twice had to settle for field goals after gaining first downs inside the Miami ten yard line. However, on this night the offense converted enough opportunities and the defense did what it always does and bottled up the opposition.
All that stands now between Virginia and bowl eligibility is Virginia Tech in the annual battle for the Commonwealth Cup. What appears to be a relatively unexciting game between two also-ran 5-6 teams actually is a game with extraordinarily meaning. The winner becomes bowl eligible and denies bowl eligibility to the loser. That in itself should be reason enough for both teams to approach this game with an intensity that belies the circumstance. Virginia Tech has been to 21 consecutive post-season bowls, the second-longest active streak in the country. Virginia would love to end that. Virginia Tech has won ten straight games in this series and would love to extend that streak to eleven and salvage some pride in what otherwise has been a bad football year in Blacksburg.
This has become a rivalry game in name only. Not only has Tech won the past ten in this series, but it also has won 14 of the past 15, and 17 of the past 21 contests. Virginia seems to have closed the gap in the past few years, losing by 10 points last year and by a last-second field goal in 2012. However, victory–and the associated bragging rights–have eluded Virginia since winning the 2003 game 35-21. While it would appear that Virginia has its best chance in years to put this losing streak to bed following the impressive showing against Miami, a complication for Virginia is that London is 0-4 vs. Tech and the Hoos have yet to win away from Scott Stadium this season. Simply put, there will be an inordinate number of streaks in play when these two teams square off in prime time on Friday night.
Virginia players have been careful in interviews this week, understanding that trash talk from players on teams mired in long losing streaks looks foolish. Virginia senior running back Khalek Shepherd sounded like a graduate of diplomacy school when asked yesterday about the animosity between the two teams. “You respect every team that you play, but you fear no team. We respect Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech’s a great program, a great team under Coach Beamer,” he said. Virginia fans have had to fall back on their school’s supposed preeminence in the state’s higher education hierarchy as a rebuttal to Tech’s football dominance. As football taunts go, this one doesn’t pack much punch but until the football Cavaliers give fans something more powerful to lob at the Hokies, this vapidity is all they have to counter ten years of gridiron futility.
Finally, there is widespread speculation that Mike London might be coaching for his job in this game. Absent a breakout season that quieted all doubts concerning his status, beating Virginia Tech would serve as a very tangible measure of the “progress” Athletic Director Craig Littlepage has said he would use to assess London and the program by. Virginia whiffed on the chance for that breakout season in losses to Duke and North Carolina so this game serves as London’s last best chance to achieve a pre-season benchmark that everyone said was vital to his job security.
Virginia vs. Virginia Tech at 8 pm Friday. Smashmouth. “Let the pads do the talking,” said Virginia linebacker Daquan Romero. This game may not draw much national interest given Tech’s record this year, but for residents of the Commonwealth and fans of both teams, there are subplots aplenty. Winner gets the Commonwealth Cup.
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Virginia and Georgia: Compare and Contrast
November 18, 2014 Seward Totty 1 Comment
Sanford Stadium is one of college football’s greatest venues. Photo by author
I was among the 92,000+ woofing, screaming, deliriously happy Georgia fans at this past weekend’s tackle football contest against the Auburn Tigers. I knew that this big game between two ranked opponents, in the nation’s best football conference, would give me lots of data that I could use to compare the football programs at Virginia and Georgia. I know that ACC football in general is about a 90-yard field goal away from the product put out by the SEC’s schools, but I hoped to find some common elements that would give me reason to believe that Virginia’s problems are not insurmountable. That’s what I hoped, anyway.
The comparisons are pretty easy.
Both schools play Division 1 football.
That’s about it. There is little else about the two programs that is comparable other than the fact that both schools have been playing football for more than 120 years. UVA football is free Tuesday night Shakespeare-in-the-Park. Georgia football is a Led Zeppelin reunion concert. Georgia plays before sellout crowds year after year. Virginia plays to half-empty stadiums filled with listless and frustrated fans. Georgia has won 768 games in 122 years, Virginia 632 in 126 years. Virginia’s record is distorted by success in the late 1800s and early 1900s, periods that only Wahoo homers would trot out in support of Virginia’s football relevance. Virginia played football for almost 100 years before qualifying for its first bowl game in 1984. It has but two conference co-championships to show for 61 years of ACC football effort. Georgia, meanwhile has been to 49 bowl games and has won two national championships in its history.
Georgia has demographics that Virginia does not. Georgia’s Sanford Stadium seats 92,746 and is the 5th-largest on-campus stadium in the country. Virginia’s Scott Stadium, by contrast, seats 61,500, making it the nation’s 27th-largest on-campus stadium, a surprising fact given Virginia’s historical football mediocrity. Athens, with a population of 112,000, is better able to support the home team than is Charlottesville and its 44,000 residents. Georgia has a strong alumni base among metropolitan Atlanta’s 6.2 million residents, who are just 70 miles away. Virginia’s total population, by contrast, is 8.2 million and UVA must cobble together a crowd from all over the state. While Georgia’s Atlanta fans wouldn’t think of missing a game, Virginia’s non-Charlottesville fans are decidedly more, ahem, cavalier. Noon games may be too early, night games may be too late. August and September games are too hot and by the time good football weather rolls around, Virginia may be out of contention for…anything.
Georgia’s success has created demand for the product. Now, to be fair, I was at Georgia for a night-game against a ranked and hated conference rival in what is billed as the deep South’s oldest rivalry, but I also have been in Scott Stadium for night games, big games, and big night games against ranked opponents. I was in the crowd for what probably was Virginia’s biggest game ever, the 1990 game against Georgia Tech when Virginia was the #1 ranked team in the country. I was not in the crowd for Virginia’s biggest night win ever, the 1995 Thursday night victory over Florida State. I’m sure that the atmosphere was electric at that game almost 20 years ago, but what I experienced at Sanford Stadium last weekend is not an anomaly–it’s the norm. Virginia may not ever have had–even at the program’s peak in 1990–an atmosphere comparable to what I experienced Saturday night in Athens.
According to the Georgia Athletics website, “Georgia’s average home attendance has ranked among the nation’s top 10 for 23 consecutive seasons and among the top seven for 21 of the past 24 years. Virginia has not played in front of a sellout crowd since last year’s Virginia Tech game, and only then because Tech fans bought all the unsold tickets. It was hardly a home game sellout atmosphere. Georgia fans did not sit for one second of game action Saturday night, allowing themselves a brief rest only during timeouts. Virginia fans will stand only when exhorted by the team or when a big play is coming. Shakespeare vs. Led Zeppelin.
Interestingly, Virginia’s and Georgia’s football paths crossed when Virginia coach George Welsh retired following the 2000 season. Georgia also was looking for a new coach following the dismissal of Jim Donnan. Both schools pursued then Florida State offensive coordinator Mark Richt, with Georgia winning the bidding. Spurned by Richt, Virginia seemingly pulled a coup in convincing then New York Jets head coach and UVA alumnus Al Groh back to Charlottesville. Seemingly. While Georgia got the coach it wanted in Richt, who has gone 134-47 in his time at Georgia, Virginia is still searching for a worthy successor to Welsh. Groh and his successor Mike London have gone but 81-90 since Welsh’s fateful announcement in 2000.
If winning cures everything then Virginia needs to start winning again. Virginia must find another George Welsh. Like it or not, college sports have become big time businesses and universities must push back against the academic community’s revulsion of sports and embrace that fact. Football success and fundraising success are linked. Football is the flagship product and UVA must find a way to win without sacrificing the academic standards that it holds above all else. Difficult, but not impossible. Virginia alumni want a team that they can be proud of. In a time of dwindling state financial support, alumni support is needed to bridge the gap. A winning football program spurs alumni support not just of the football program , but of all areas of the school. Virginia cannot afford to play to a half-empty stadium of listless and disenchanted fans. The financial repercussions are too great.
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Virginia Continues to Beat Itself
Virginia has been its own worst enemy this year. Kyle Green/The Roanoke Times
Turnovers have been both the boon and the bane of Virginia’s football existence this season. In fact, with better ball security I think that Virginia would be 6-4 or 7-3, not 4-6. The Cavaliers almost certainly beat themselves in losses to UCLA and UNC and probably did so again Saturday night in Tallahassee against a Florida State team that is undefeated but not invincible. Virginia’s defense has played well enough to give the team a chance in every game this year but the offense has given the ball away at a rate that nearly matches the defense’s ability to get it back. What’s even more troubling is that Virginia’s turnovers have come not in the middle of the field but rather when Virginia is either in the red zone or in the shadow of its own goalposts. It’s hard to blame turnovers on coaching but with the staff on exceedingly thin ice, you can be sure that the boobirds are finding a way to pin Virginia’s turnover problem on embattled coach Mike London.
The Cavaliers’ 24 takeaways places the team 10th nationally in turnovers created. However, its 22 turnovers places the team 116th out of 125 teams in a ranking of ball security. Overall, Virginia’s +2 turnover margin is good for just 51st. As I wrote last week, only Appalachian State among FBS teams has more red zone turnovers than Virginia’s five. When you couple that with Virginia’s propensity for turning red zone chances into field goals rather than touchdowns it is obvious that Virginia has let slip way too many scoring chances. As a result, Virginia’s promising 4-2 start has become a 4-6 spiral. The Hoos have an bye week to try to get the offensive line healthy before taking on Miami at home and Virginia Tech on the road in an attempt to break Tech’s ten-year stranglehold on the rivalry. The Tech game, for many reasons, will likely decide London’s fate. Beat Miami and Tech and London and the Cavs will be bowl eligible and he will finally have beaten Virginia Tech. That’s measurable progress. The Cavaliers undoubtedly are an improved team this year but the statistical improvement is not translating into wins. If Virginia beats Tech and loses to Miami, the case for London’s retention becomes more questionable. With five wins–Virginia Tech being one of them–a case might be made that the incremental progress plus London’s recruiting ability should be enough to give him another year. But has London’s recruiting actually matched his reputation as a recruiter?
Mike London’s supporters have—in the absence of on-field success—pointed out that Virginia has made great recruiting progress with him at the helm. Virginia is a state that produces an outsized share of high major talent and the Tidewater area of the commonwealth is a hunting ground for every major program in the country. London’s predecessor, Al Groh, famously alienated many coaches at the state’s top high schools, with the result being that Virginia Tech and out-of-state programs became the destinations of choice for the state’s top talent. Every recruiting analyst will tell you that state schools must be able to retain in-state talent. Under Al Groh Virginia had lost that ability. In-state schools—for a variety of reasons—should have an advantage over other schools when recruiting local talent.
Mike London must be given credit for repairing the damage Groh caused. His message of ‘faith, family, and football” has resonated with recruits and their parents, who often are anxious about having their children away from home and are looking for a coach who will look after their children both on and off the field. In Al Groh’s last recruiting class only one of the state’s top 30 players, Henry Coley, signed with Virginia. Last year Virginia signed four of the state’s top 30, but two of them–Quin Blanding and Andrew Brown–were rated among the top recruits in the nation. Virginia has taken commitments from 91 players under Mike London. Sixty-seven of those 91 recruits have been accorded three stars or less by ESPN. Predicting college success for high schools players is a notoriously inexact science. Two three-star members of Virginia’s 2012 recruiting class, Max Valles and Canaan Severin, now star for the Cavaliers while the top signee in Virginia’s 2013 class, Taquan Mizzell, has yet to become the star that his ranking would suggest. London’s reputation as a recruiter seems to have been bolstered by a few high-profile in-state signings because the majority of his recruits are only of average ability per the ESPN rankings. To London’s credit, his recruits appear to be good citizens. His demand for personal accountability is a very real component of the recruiting process and has tended to weed out problem players. Would Mizzell already be a star at another scho0l like Alabama? As a 5-star recruit he certainly could have gone anywhere he wanted to play football. Has Virginia’s weakness along the offensive line hampered Mizzell’s playmaking abilities? A recruiting class that is top heavy with a few stars but weak on the back end won’t fix Virginia’s problems.
London’s pitch to recruits has been the possibility of early playing time and the chance to help turn the program around. That message works until recruits realize that the program is not in fact improving. Playing in a losing program is a mentally taxing and hurts a player’s chances for a professional career. When the coach’s job security becomes an issue, recruits go elsewhere and the coach’s recruiting reputation suffers. London isn’t a bad recruiter and his connections to the state have allowed Virginia to get back into the mix with the state’s best players, but I don’t think that his recruiting record is such that Virginia will retain him if the Cavaliers post another losing record.
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Virginia Not Making Meaningful Progress
November 2, 2014 Seward Totty
Virginia made all manner of mistakes in losing 35-10 to Georgia Tech on November 1. Photo: Mike Stewart
Oh boy. Virginia fans knew that the team’s 2014 football schedule presented opportunities early and that the team would need to seize those opportunities if it were going to make meaningful progress after last year’s 2-10 disaster. When pre-season favorite North Carolina and its porous defense was exposed early, that home matchup became the opportunity for the all-important sixth win that everyone looking at the schedule was trying to find. “Meaningful progress” is the standard that head coach Mike London supposedly is being held to this year and that term is just nebulous enough to invite debate. Some have insisted that six wins and a bowl game are the minimum standards for meaningful progress. Others believe that merely being competitive is the threshold following a season in which Virginia’s average margin of defeat was three touchdowns. Still others maintain that as long as Virginia defeats Virginia Tech this year then the record shouldn’t matter and that Mike London should be given more time. Athletic Director Craig Littlepage is tightlipped as to what constitutes his standard of meaningful progress, but what is clear following yesterday’s game at Georgia Tech is that this Virginia team no longer is meeting the standards that anyone has for it—not the players, not Mike London and his coaches, and certainly not the fans. Virginia, having let its two best chances for wins five and six slip away against Duke and UNC, now faces a November schedule that offers no handholds for a team trying to avoid falling headlong into the abyss.
I was among Mike London’s supporters at the beginning of the year. For a number of reasons I felt that this team would be markedly better than last year’s. It would have more upperclass leadership and more talent after the addition of an impressive recruiting class that included several players who were expected to contribute right away. The players would be more comfortable with the new offensive and defensive schemes that were installed last year and they would have the extra motivation of playing for a coach they love and whose job security depended on their play. Early on, I looked pretty smart. Even in losses to nationally-ranked UCLA and BYU, Virginia was game. As the team’s confidence grew, so did my belief that we could win almost any game on our schedule. The importance of confidence to on-field performance cannot be overstated and as Virginia stood up to its nationally-ranked opponents, I could sense that this team was vastly improved and comfortably within the parameters I personally had established for meaningful progress.
And then came the bye week. Virginia’s seemed to come at a good time. Starting QB Greyson Lambert was nursing an ankle sprain and the team needed to address some deficiencies while preparing for a very important road contest against a Duke team that has owned Virginia under Mike London. Well, what looked like good timing for a bye week in hindsight wasn’t. For Virginia, the bye week broke the team’s rhythm. Post bye-week Virginia has looked very much like the fumbling, bumbling, stumbling 2013 Virginia team and nothing like the 2014 team that started 4-2. What the hell happened?
Virginia’s offense is going backwards. The Cavaliers haven’t scored a second-half touchdown in four games and have only 6 points total in those eight second-half quarters. I believe that the offense’s shortcomings were masked early by the help it was getting from the defense. Virginia scored 190 points in its first five games, but 72 of those points (38%) came after the defense either forced a turnover and scored or presented the offense with a short field or an unsettled situation. Virginia’s defense has been far less helpful during this three-game losing streak, generating just two turnovers that the offense has turned into exactly three points. Without the defense’s help, the offense has been exposed. Two of Virginia’s first five opponents were inferior and the Hoos took advantage, inflating its offensive stats by posting 45 points against both Richmond and Kent State. The offensive line, thought to be a weakness, has yielded but 8 sacks this season, giving the impression that it is better than it is. Virginia, however, wants to run the ball and it has gotten an uneven effort from the line in that regard. Virginia’s quarterbacks, lacking game experience, are having to learn on the job and are continuing the struggles Virginia has had at that position since since Matt Schaub graduated in 2003. Among FBS teams only Appalachian State has committed more red zone turnovers than Virginia’s five this year. Clearly, the offense has struggled when tasked with producing points on its own.
When a team is confident and playing well, the game’s breaks fall its way. Conversely, stumbling teams can’t seem to get out of their own way or catch a break. There was abundant evidence of this in Atlanta yesterday. When a team (Georgia Tech) is playing well, it gets a favorable spot on a 4th down play in the red zone. When a team (Virginia) isn’t playing well, it can’t convert an interception deep in its opponent’s territory into a touchdown because a wide open receiver inexplicably drops the pass. When a team (Virginia) isn’t playing well, it commits an illegal shift penalty that negates a first down throw early in the 4th quarter when the game is not yet entirely out of reach. The resultant punt into the wind travels 23 yards, giving the opponent a short field from which it did put game away. When a team (Virginia) isn’t playing well, it compounds its misery by going four straight second-halves without a touchdown. Virginia, quite simply, is doing this to itself.
Virginia and Duke were once the laughingstocks of college football. The schools made fortuitous hires in George Welsh and David Cutcliffe and everything changed. Virginia seems to have in place everything it needs to be successful except the right head coach. Mike London was not untested at this level but he was unproven when Virginia hired him. His ties to the state and his established recruiting contacts were valuable assets to a Virginia team that was whiffing on in-state recruits under former coach Al Groh, but now Virginia needs a leader who can change the losing culture. For all of his admirable qualities Mike London doesn’t seem to be the man for that job. Virginia’s early-season meaningful progress has evaporated and with it has gone London’s job security. Never will a school more reluctantly part ways with a coach whose only shortcoming is that he doesn’t win. And unfortunately that’s the bottom line.
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Mike London is a Great Guy, But…
October 28, 2014 Seward Totty
UVA head coach Mike London reacts to a late-game penalty that sealed UVA’s fate in a loss to North Carolina. Photo/Ryan M. Kelly/ The Daily Progress
There was a universal theme in my conversations with agitated Virginia football fans after Saturday’s devastating loss to North Carolina. “Mike London is a great guy, a terrific role model, and a fantastic recruiter but…” What followed was some variation of “he’s not a very good head coach.” That “but” was once again on display this past weekend as Virginia made mental mistake after mental mistake in gift-wrapping and delivering a victory to a UNC team that was statistically inferior and beaten for 55 minutes. UNC head coach Larry Fedora put it best when he stated that his team was fortunate to find a way to win. Virginia has been far too generous this year in helping teams overcome their own mistakes. Complaints about mental preparedness have dogged Mike London’s Virginia teams and unless the Hoos execute an unexpected turnaround, Mike London almost certainly will be Mike Lon-done by the end of the season.
London’s perceived shortcomings as Virginia’s head coach were again showcased in the late game meltdown against UNC. London’s few remaining supporters might offer that it’s the players who block, tackle, run, catch and throw. True enough, but London, however, is the coach and “coach” is sports terminology for “teacher.” As such London and his staff ultimately are responsible for teaching players how to react to stressful late-game situations in which time is compressed and the effect of mistakes is magnified. Preparation and repetition are teaching fundamentals and Virginia has looked unprepared in failing to handle late-game stress in back-to-back losses. Virginia committed what basically were game-ending penalties in both games, drawing an inexcusable defensive substitution infraction against UNC and an equally-inexcusable 4th down delay-of-game flag against Duke. These types of mistakes —and the losses caused by them—identify Virginia as a team lacking mental acuity.
London admitted as much in a postgame press conference at which he made no attempt to hide his exasperation. “We coached poorly at the end and played poorly,” said London. “We did not recognize things that we should have. It is disappointing to have an opportunity to win a game down the stretch and have all the miscues that occurred. We beat ourselves. I did not do a good enough job coaching. Coaches didn’t do a good enough job coaching their players and the result is a loss.” Statements like this have been a familiar refrain during London’s time at Virginia and do not give his proponents much to work with in trying to counter the argument that London is not the man for this job.
The Cavaliers have lost 4 games by 8,8,7, and 1 point and have had a second half lead or a tie in 3 of those 4 losses. It is one thing to lose to a physically superior opponent but Virginia has beaten its opposition statistically even while losing. The Cavaliers have yet to be physically overmatched this season despite playing one of the nation’s most rigorous schedules. I find it curious that London has struggled so at Virginia but was 24-5 at Richmond and won a national championship. What is missing from London’s Virginia teams that was not at Richmond? Football at the FCS level is still football, so why the disparity? The rules are the same, the field is the same and the seconds tick off the clock at the same rate. Did his Richmond teams have more talent? Richmond currently has three players in the NFL and none of them played for London. Observers of the Virginia program seem confident that London’s teams have more talent than any Virginia teams in the last 20 years. Are FCS coaches less savvy than their FBS brethren? Hard to make that case. Were London’s Richmond teams not subjected to late-game stress? Certainly not. If London’s coaching philosophy is the same as it was at Richmond and Virginia has comparable talent and we assume that FCS coaches are just as capable as FBS coaches then what is it? Did London have a better staff at Richmond? Even though Virginia’s current staff has more than 38 years of head coaching experience critics insist that it has weaknesses. His staff is full of talented coaches but for whatever reason it just isn’t working out for some of them in Charlottesville. The wholesale changes he made to his staff several years ago seemed to have brought improvement early in the season but now this Virginia team is looking very much like the teams of the past two years.
No teams play error-free football but the best teams find ways to overcome mental miscues. Virginia has been unable to overcome its own stupidity largely due to a continual problem with offensive efficiency. Virginia’s touchdown odds in the red zone are no better than a coin flip. The Cavaliers have 17 touchdowns in 34 red zone trips. Exactly 50 percent. Fans have chided offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild for the predictability of his playcalling. In a televised game earlier this season, commentator and former Virginia head coach AL Groh made sport of calling Virginia’s plays as the team broke the huddle. Either Groh is a soothsayer or Virginia is indeed too predictable. Couple this with Virginia’s inability to itself adjust to the adjustments that its opponents make at halftime and you are left with a team that is 4-4 despite being statistically superior to its opposition all year long. Against UNC, a team that allows 43.3 points per games (second most in the country) Virginia looked good early and terrible late. This is a pattern. If teams are consistently able to outmaneuver Virginia after halftime, does that not fall on the coaches?
Put it all together and it adds up to a perfect storm of ineptitude. Virginia can’t put away its opponents after halftime, leading to close games and late-game stress. Mental mistakes have a much bigger impact late in the game because there is less time to overcome their effects. Virginia’s players and coaches are desperate to turn things around and the stress of trying to avoid mistakes is having just the opposite effect. In a tragi-comedy that has come to define UVA football under London, defensive end Eli Harold made a vicious hit on UNC quarterback Marquise Williams, separating Wilson from his helmet. The rules mandate that a player who loses his helmet has to leave the game for at least one play, so UNC had to turn to clipboard-toting reserve QB Mitch Trubinsky on a game-deciding 3rd and 15 from the UVA 16-yard line. You know what happened. Virginia blew the coverage and Trubinsky found a totally-uncovered receiver for the 16-yard touchdown that gave UNC the lead and ultimately the game. Snake-bitten UVA fans knew it was coming. It was as inevitable as the sunrise.
If karma is a thing, Virginia has none of the good variety and plenty of the bad. As difficult as it might be in the short-term, the only way to change that might be with a new coach. Unless Virginia executes a stunning turnaround, that’s what is going to happen.
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A Must Win Game for Florida State
October 17, 2014 Justin Bramm
This weekend, the #2 Florida State Seminoles play the #5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Doak Campbell Stadium, and with the lack of quality opponents on Florida State’s schedule, the rest of the Seminoles season hinges entirely on the outcome of this game.
As I’m sure every Florida State fan is aware of, the Seminoles don’t have a very strong schedule this year. With the only other two ranked opponents on the Noles schedule besides Notre Dame already in the rear view mirror, this game will be one of the last chances for Florida State to come out and make a statement. Adding to this, in the previous two opportunities that Florida State has had to make a statement against a quality opponent in Oklahoma State and Clemson, the Seminoles were not very convincing. If the Seminoles want to make everyone believe that they are the real deal, and don’t want to be on the outside looking in to the playoff picture, this is a must win game. If the Seminoles were to lose this game, they don’t have the comfort in knowing they have other chances to redeem themselves against a high quality opponent, unless there in an ACC team that reels off some wins to make the ACC championship a compelling match up. After Notre Dame, the Seminoles play Louisville, Virginia, Miami, Boston College and Florida, none of which are currently ranked, or especially talented. If the Seminoles play the football that they are capable of, and win this game, then they will have a good chance of regaining the #1 position in college football, and will remind everyone why they were favorites to repeat coming into the season. The outcome of this game will make everyone watching either believe that the Seminoles are the best team in the country, or believe that they are not who we thought they were when the season started.
The preseason #1 ranked Seminoles have experienced multiple bumps in the road so far this season, including a lot of trouble surrounding star QB Jameis Winston off of the field, and numerous injuries occurring to vital players on both sides of the ball. As a result, the Seminoles haven’t exactly lived up to the expectations that were set out for them prior to the season starting. The Seminoles have sputtered against every opponent they have played except Wake Forest, specifically having trouble against Oklahoma State and NC State. Not to mention the game against Clemson where an inexcusable fumble by Clemson late in the 4th quarter basically lost Clemson the game. Now, after the great start to the season that Mississippi State has had, the Seminoles find themselves ranked #2 for the first time all season.
I believe that the Seminoles are completely aware of the stakes of this game, and will be extra motivated by the fact that they were moved down to the #2 spot in the rankings. These Seminoles are tired of hearing all of the distractions that have been surrounding Jameis Winston, tired of hearing all of the doubts surrounding whether or not this team has what it takes to stop a mobile quarterback and most specifically are tired of hearing that they aren’t the best team in the country.
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by b2tw | July 12, 2013 · 3:42 PM
Tea With Chris: A Dress of Beautiful Skeletal Crystal
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week:
Chris: I miss the era when developers would publish a Laurie Anderson conceptual-art video game.
Connor Willumsen stays killing the incredible-full-length-comics-released-for-free-on-Tumblr game.
*shrieking* KYARY PAMYU PAMYU
Carl: First and foremost, read this account by a freelance war correspondent in Syria. It’s an impassioned account of how and why we’re getting perilously close to losing our ability to gather important information about global situations: Most media companies are unwilling to pay what it takes, because their audiences, us, don’t seem to care.
Next, I can’t put this any better than the headline does: “Please Stop Wearing Redface to A Tribe Called Red Shows.” Oh, and please stop wearing redface anywhere else. This kind of absolutely appalling ignorant fashionable-appropriation-trivialization-racism bullshit has been going on for several years, with the would-be-chic wearing headdresses and feathers and “tribal” makeup and holding “fashion powwows” (see Ke$ha among many, many others), but I didn’t think people would actually have the gall to wear it to concerts by actual aboriginal people, obviously thinking they were paying some kind of compliment. Can we take up a collection and buy these kids a clue?
Here, on the other hand, is something nicer about Ke$ha. I wouldn’t call this stealing, I’d call it a tribute to one of my favourite oddball bands ever. (I don’t have it on hand but she’s been photographed wearing a Residents T-shirt before.) As someone said, if even one Ke$ha fan buys a Residents album as a result, that’d be awesome.
On the appropriation/tribute/collaboration theme, there is a lot to say about Jay-Z’s dance with Marina Abromovich this week, and the developing relationship between hip-hop artists, fine-art-museum and auction culture (which I discuss a bit here) and now performance art (NB also Kanye’s collaborations with Vanessa Beecroft, among others), but time is short. Meanwhile enjoy Jerry Saltz’ s first-hand account of the Jay-Z-meets-the-art-world experience – kind of giddy, but kind of on-point too, because isn’t the central fact that (even in his recent, weaker period) someone like Jay-Z is at the very least as good and vital an artist as any of them?
A sexy-filthy Soviet alphabet.
And because I didn’t post a Tuesday Musics this week … I’m not even 100% sure what kind of music this is, but it makes me feel really good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVc3Z-bG6Eo
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by b2tw | January 19, 2012 · 2:00 PM
List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance
by Margaux Williamson
1. Remembering what a brilliant idea feels like – Occupy Wall Street
It was a simple and brilliant idea – that people could “occupy” a space in addition to protesting it, that the power and action could be contained and directed inward to make something new, rather than all thrown at an opponent (where it often just falls uselessly at their feet).
It made me think of something that the physicist Lee Smolin wrote in his 2006 book The Trouble with Physics. In the book he attempts to untangle the genuinely revolutionary ideas in contemporary physics from the ones that might be time-consuming dead-ends. To begin this untangling – and to help identify the promising theories from the dead-end ones – he looks for the commonality and rules that past genuinely revolutionary scientific ideas share. Some of the rules, for instance, involved simplicity, uniqueness, immediate impact on other related problems and, also, that once you truly understand the genuinely brilliant scientific idea, you can’t (for the life of you) see the world in the old way again.
Coming from the arts, where words like “genius” are flung around just as often in hopeful declarations as in certainty, and where the term avant-garde more often than not describes a genre from the past rather than anything new (or involves an isolated “newness” that doesn’t in the least impact anything else), I had been very attracted to thinking that truly brilliant ideas have a natural order to them and clearly identifiable nature. Because this natural order seemed so comforting when I first read it, I had wanted to apply it (however unwisely) to everything. Though I simultaneously thought that such rules could never apply to something genius like the civil rights movement where the struggle is so long and complicated and where it can take forever to invert people’s world view.
But seeing the simplicity and brilliance of this protest shift on Wall Street made me remember to be more humble in my thinking of what is a truly brilliant idea – that of course in a movement hoping to get somewhere new, a lot of genuinely revolutionary ideas, thinking and actions are essential along the way. Maybe it is just easy to forget all of the brilliance because the better the ideas are, the more quickly they become obvious to everyone – as though they had never been invented or discovered in the first place.
I remember awhile ago at a talking tour I had given for Ryan Trecartin’s work at the Power Plant Gallery here in Toronto, I had been asked by someone in the audience (who was skeptical of the brilliance of Trecartin’s work) if the work would still be important in 100 years. I had said – I hope not! I said, I hope it’s such useful work for understanding our time that we’ll completely absorb it into culture and forget that what this artist knew and could express was ever separate from what we knew and what we could express. I said that’s probably why I never thought Picasso was so special – his work probably actually worked, it probably impacted and was absorbed by culture by the time I came around. At which point I was like, duh.
2. Music videos – Beyoncé and The Beastie Boys change things
Beyoncé’s song Run the World (Girls) has given me at least two solid waves of power goosebumps. In the beginning of the song Beyoncé authoritatively sings Girls! we run this motha ___ (yeah!). To me, it sounded like the censors had taken the fucker out of mothafucker and that She is singing Girls! we run this mothafucking (world). You hear this suggested adjective while simultaneously also hearing that it was only ever motha – motha the noun, that the Girls are running the motha (the world). Motha (in a second) suddenly becomes more powerful and crazy than motherfucker ever was or could be. Mothafucker has always been a real challenge – it has such weight. But here Beyoncé brilliantly and effortlessly handed the sinister and seductive weight over to something both more ominous and familiar. Re-appropriation at it’s best. Also (and as usual) the dancing is amazing.
Before watching the 2011 30 minute video written and directed by Adam Yauch Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length (the sequel the Beastie Boys‘ 1987 music video (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) ) I watched the original 1987 music video first. I was surprised at how incredibly slow the original felt. It made me think that things in 1987 must have been ever slower than the video since I had remembered the video as being very exciting. The new one – inexplicably filled with famous actors and comedians – is weighty and strangely fast-feeling for it’s 30 minute length and heavy use of slow motion. The video takes the original premise (of reckless partiers) and simply makes it more real. A more reality-based representation of destruction and stupidity turns out to be incredibly captivating and frightening. After 30 mintues, it is hard to know where the time went but you want to watch it again – this also happens to be the gist of the narrative. More movies from Adam Yauch!
*It is worth watching to the end credits – Seth Rogen walking down the street in slow motion as the credits role is somehow better than any cartoon I have ever seen.
3. THE CLOCK, a 24 hour movie in real time constructed by Christian Marclay
Congratulations to Christian Marclay for making a great piece of art that would even move and intellectually simulate aliens with superior minds who might be shamefully ignorant of our small and complicated art world. This 24 hour movie is comprised of clips, taken from a million different movies, that all feature some indication of the actual time. The clips from these other time/spaces correspond exactly to the real time of the audience watching.
If you haven’t seen it, Zadie Smith wrote a beautiful piece on it here, and Jerry Saltz here. It is simple and big and makes you think of the strangeness of time. You can see a little piece of it on Youtube, though for instance, this clip has the thoughtful request: In order to respect the concept of Christian Marclay’s work, spectators are kindly requested to play this video at 4 pm, local time. If time is passed, please wait for tomorrow or another day same time. Thank you. I hope Marclay puts this work on a 24-hour-moving website soon. This one shouldn’t be hoarded by real space. The aliens need to see this.
4. The Hunger Games – the trilogy by Suzanne Collins
This was recommended to me this year by a lot of tough 12 year old boys. The scenario doesn’t sound exactly promising -“Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television” – but the young adult books are very serious and very pleasurable. The story is about how a revolution begins. In the book, the main instigators for revolution are a tough teenage girl with a bow and arrow, a cool-headed adult fashion designer and a sensitive son-of-a-baker who paints. Of course me and the 12 year old boys loved it.
5. Thank you for television – True Blood and Whale Wars
I was housebound for a good part of 2011 with health problems which led me to watch a lot of television which led me to want to write a letter to the makers of True Blood and thank them – except then I remembered I wasn’t 11 years old. (The houseboundness accounts for my heavy-on-pop-culture list this year). I started watching True Blood after being compelled by a perplexing video that Snoop Dogg (who often shows up in various seemingly random screens around the screen world – maybe to tell us that those screens are real, or that he is real, or simply to help identify that the screens we see him in are from the time of now).
The best thing about True Blood (based on the books by Charlaine Harris and created for television by Alan Ball) is the full insertion of these fantasy characters – vampires, faeries, werewolves – into a reality-based narrative where vampires have to fight for equal rights and where werewolves haven’t yet come out of the closet. This is the only way I can enjoy fantasy, when it is firmly but campily tied to the ground. It is funny when a vampire never lies about being a vampire. The second best thing about the show is that it is more emotionally intelligent than usual, with bad vampires and good vampires, bad Christians and good Christians. The bad vampires often become good and vice versa. And like life, it is the rule that the best (or at least most tolerable) characters occasionally partake in some healthy self-hatred.
I would alternate between this show and Animal Planet’s Whale Wars which my friend Steve Kado had brought over. It’s a documentary television show about environmental pirates battling Japanese whaling ships in order to try and save the whales. If you are also sick, I highly recommend watching these shows together – a near real-life (and dream) simulation.
Best single episode of television this year – the Louis episode where he goes to Afghanistan
In this episode of the show Louis, Louis C.K. travels to Afghanistan to perform his comedy act for the American troops. But while there he finds himself to be (for all narratively practical reasons and with the help of an American cheerleader, a group of Afghan locals and a duckling) suddenly a real clown, with actual white face paint, with everyone around him laughing. It was a brilliant shift for what a contemporary comedian can be – far from (but logically connected to) the standard boring shock-talk of cable comedy specials. Thank you Louis C.K. for making everyone laugh and for trying to end a small piece of the violence with some good self-humiliation.
Speaking of learning how to see oneself as both good and bad, Lars Von Trier seemed to have opened up like a flower this year to mixed results. He was banned from France’s Cannes Film Festival after a misstep at a press conference. It involved Von Trier’s half hearted and confused attempt to make jokes while also maybe trying to say that it might be just as useful for the world to occasionally identify with a monster as it is to identify with a victim. He was inarticulately crossing into dangerous terrain for the delicate people of earth for sure, but getting banned suddenly made France (or at least the Cannes Film Festival) seem like a television show for children.
In a funny way, it was as though Von Trier was being more confused and open himself – less in wry attack mode and more just trying to survive and communicate. Or maybe it was that this feeling was very apparent in his latest feature – Melancholia. Often, the stories for his movies involve a darkly funny punch line with the generosity and depth of his vision reserved for the politics of his structural and aesthetic choices – embedded in every inch of his works.
But in Melancholia the story is more searching and seems more like a story he needs to tell himself than he needs to tell to others. This makes Melancholia feel like one of his deepest works – or at least certainly the most generous. What we need to tell ourselves is often more complicated than what we think the world needs to hear. And the story doesn’t suffer for this searching – the small but piercing details that connect together a story here resonate deeper – they are the kind of details from our own lives that we grasp together and attempt to make stories out of. When the main character Justine (Kristen Dunst) says passionately and convincingly – in a conversation she is having with her sister regarding her wishful certainty that the evil world will end – “I know things”, we feel both in the heart of the only possible meaning one could find in life and also completely lost. It is the attempt at stories that is heartbreaking here – the paradox of making meaning while telling a story of meaninglessness. One of the nicest things that a human could do.
7. Biography & autobiographies big and small
I read a lot of these books this year. They all seemed to fall into one of two categories – feeling very claustrophobic and depressingly small or feeling very big – even when the facts of the lives presented didn’t seem very different. The most fun big-feeling one was John Water’s book Shock Value that my friend Lynn Crosbie gave me. I somehow had never read this before even though I love him. The healthy, generous, positive and curious mind evident in this book is a good reminder of where a lot of great art comes from. It’s hilarious to hear him describe how great everyone was during his Mondo Trasho days, from the local priest to the owner’s of the hair salon he accidentally flooded in a film shoot. Clearly, he is a very easy man to get along with.
Sempre Susan, a short and pleasurable book about Susan Sontag written by Sigrid Nunez, also fell into the bigger category – even though I came to it because it was being passed around gleefully on a summer cottage trip after its original owner described it as a high-class gossipy People magazine article. And though this description was true, the book also is also simple and quiet and good with lots of room to move around in and take things in. The space it allowed me made me think of Sarah Manguso’s book The Two Kinds of Decay a beautiful memoir detailing a prolonged illness the author suffered. The two books are similar mainly in that both writers were writing about something they were so entwined in without bothering to mention in any great detail their own fraught feelings or inner turmoil, even as their presence was right there next to you the whole time. The resulting powerful intimacy of both books reminds us that for finding love, excessive emotional transparency might not be the way, but you do probably have to get naked.
8. Movie directors waving their hands in front of the camera
I saw Moussa Touré’s Poussieres de ville in a program of short works curated by Jean-Marie Teno called Reframing Africa 1: Representation or Reality?. In Touré’s movie, we first see young boys wake up in odd positions in various stalls at an empty market. The work is immediately playful and visually compelling which makes it a bit hard to tell off the bat if it is a fiction or a documentary exactly. As the work progresses, questions start to come from behind the camera, asking the boys more specific questions regarding their homelessness. Near the end of this 52 minute work, hands emerge to offer clothes and new backpacks. And then, with even more presence but also more uncertainty, the hands deliver the kids each to separate relations who may or may not look after them. I am very sympathetic to this solution – you do the best you can with the information you have before you.
Documentary movie-making can have some pretty crazy and uptight rules. It was great to see a director allow themselves to be a logical human participant in relation to the complicated subject matter before them, and to react in the best way they knew how – rather than a director who thinks that their objective distance is useful (or even possible). In Poussieres de ville, high-minded silliness was abandoned for deceptively simple thoughtfulness.
Werner Herzog’s engagement with subject came out too in his recent Into the Abyss; A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life . He introduces himself to a young prisoner on death row before he begins an interview with him. Herzog says to the young man (in essence): I am sympathetic to your situation, I feel for you and your situation – and that doesn’t mean that I have to like you, but I am sympathetic.
This scene made me think of an art movie I had coincidentally watched the day before with my friend Amy Lam at University of Toronto’s Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. It was a work from Dutch artist Renzo Martens called Enjoy Poverty. Enjoy Poverty is comprised of footage from Martens time spent in the Congo. His intentionally simplistic and painfully committed approach – that involved his desire and attempt to help people in poverty by getting them to consider their poverty as a commodity to sell – was conceptually smart and tight. But unfortunately, the director’s character feels like all cruel fiction (to prove a point) and the world he is engaging with that feels like all fact. So as you see him engage with yet another poor local, saying something intentionally naive and stinging (he is committed!) it very often looks like the local is doing their best not to cry. I am guessing we (the audience) were supposed to feel like villains alongside the director, but we feel like the victims too.
I love art that engages with the reality of the world and that uses persona, specifically the persona of the director, to create a story. Even better, sometimes, if the director generously plays the villain. But I always think it’s most interesting when there is fact and fiction mixed together in a persona – it is always much less like a cartoon and always more strange. Watching Enjoy Poverty made me think of a Hollywood comedy that I really understood, Tropic Thunder – specifically a scene where one of the actors playing another actor talks to one of the other actors while they are doing some acting in the jungle. The wiser actor tells the other actor (in regards to winning Oscars), “Everybody knows you never go full retard man. .. never go full retard. You don’t buy that? Go ask Sean Penn 2001, I Am Sam, remember? Went full retard. Went home empty handed.”
Herzog is an expert at being comfortable with (or intrigued by) his subjects’ discomfort on film – and with his booming voice coming from behind the camera, he often doesn’t see so far off from a villain. But in this scene where he introduces himself to the young man, you see the complications and bravery involved in being a real human – even one who is playing.
Apart from all that, Into the Abyss is also deceptively simple and full of enormous depth. Part of its success (apart from the incredible storytelling craft evident in the way the questions were asked and how the editing was done) is in the equal time that Herzog gives to everyone involved in the execution: a sister of one of the murder victims, a brother of the other, the accused murderer’s collaborator, the collaborator’s wife, the minister at the prison, the executioner, etc. The suffering of the executioner was particularly eye opening. The story that emerges from these subjects (especially in relation to the various generations involved) hints at something old and sinister and alive – something even more chilling the calm facade of one psychopath.
9. Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods
Helen DeWitt’s novel feels like a Kafka fable written by a friendly can-do American from the future who filled it, using a confident steady-hand, with insane pornography, solid jokes and an optimistic (or chilling) matter-of-factness about dealing with people not as they should be, but as they are. I wish this book was small enough to allow for teenagers to keep it in their back pockets. DeWitt received a lot of accolades for her first novel “The Last Samarui”, but the deceptively simple and strangely clear Lightning Rods is, in my opinion, the real masterpiece.
10. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Instead of the desert, in this Planet of the Apes, we have the lush and moist San Francisco. That, right off the bat, makes this Planet of the Apes infinitely more watchable. Also the more ape-like and less human-like apes, makes it infinitely less creepy. But the strange and exciting this about this movie, apart from the AWESOMENESS THAT ONE DESIRES FROM A GREAT HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, is that it’s less a metaphor for human rights than it is actually about animal rights. Sitting in the audience at the multiplex, it seemed suddenly like the first Hollywood blockbuster I had ever seen that dealt seriously with animal rights. These monkeys represented monkeys! It can take awhile, but eventually you’ll get a crazy story right.
11. Songs and paintings
I came across the book 1000 paintings while I was staying at my friends Jean and Mic’s place in Thunder Bay (the book had been a gift). I hadn’t seen anyone in a few weeks and somehow, as a leisure activity, I had a great time looking at every single painting in sequence. This painting from Maruyama Ōkyo was my favourite. True Blood television enriched my love for Neko Case’s song Wish I was the Moon. It does what most good songs do – makes your bad feelings seem useful. And Efrim Menuck’s album Plays “High Gospel”, which first caught me with the beautiful song I Am No Longer a Motherless Child, proved to be good company when I went back to work making paintings – a good album if you need to get to a deeper place fast – and are too tired to go alone.
ALSO *My boyfriend Misha Glouberman and my best friend Sheila Heti wrote a great book called The Chairs Are Where the People Go – that I am perhaps too close to to add to my year end list, but luckily The New Yorker added it to theirs.
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Paddy’s have the Power in all things Conor McGregor
In August 2017 Floyd Mayweather came out of retirement to tackle Mixed Martial Arts fighter Conor McGregor and attempt to take his professional boxing record to 50-0 (surpassing the 49-0 record of Rocky Marciano). In winning Mayweather achieved this and also successfully boosted his bank balance by $300 million. Read on for the latest UFC news and Conor McGregor betting odds for his next UFC fight.
McGregor also topped his bank account up by $100 million in that Mayweather fight . Unsurprisingly this face-off was titled ‘The Money Fight’ and it was not only the contestants who begged loads of it.
Betting turnover on this colossal sporting spectacle was enormous and online bookies were unable to balance their books with 90% of all wagers on the underdog, with the Conor McGregor betting odds, backed from 12/1 into 4/1.
As much as they were out on a limb, and victory for the Irishman would have severely damaged their end-of-year balance sheets, the bookies loved this fight. Paddy Power were particularly big winners. In arranging for the unbeaten champion to wear branded pants at weigh-in (which stated ‘always bet on black’) they netted an untold number of new customers.
The long awaited return of Conor McGregor
Now, more than a year on, the Paddy Power media machine is ecstatic that, after taking a break to smash up a few bus windows and dodge jail, Conor McGregor’s long awaited return to the UFC has been confirmed.
The Irish mauler will finally face UFC Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov on October 6th at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. It marks McGregor’s first outing in the octagon since November 2016, when he comprehensively dismissed Eddie Alvarez to win the Lightweight strap and become the UFC’s first dual weight world champion as he also held the featherweight gold at the time.
Nurmagomedov is undefeated at 26-0, including 10 on the spin in UFC and picked up the Lightweight title McGregor vacated in April by defeating Al Iaquinta in Brooklyn, New York.
While the hype around this fight is not quite at ‘Money’ Mayweather levels, it’s still been the most talked about potential MMA bout out there and it was finally made official with a surprise video package at a 25th anniversary press conference by UFC President Dana White.
— UFC (@ufc) August 3, 2018
Khabib Nurmagomedov v Conor McGregor Betting Odds
Reacting to the news the Paddy Power odds makers have the champion Khabib Nurmagomedov their 4/6 (1.67) favourite to hand McGregor just his fourth defeat in his MMA career with underdog Conor McGregor betting odds available at 6/4 (2.50).
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Interview | Rosemarie Hudson, founder, HopeRoad Publishing | Indie Publisher of the Week
Did you want to work in the publishing industry from the start?
No, I only started my career in publishing twenty years ago; previously I spent most of the time in the film industry.
Has your vision from when you started HopeRoad 7 years ago changed?
No, in that I still want to continue to publish authors and writings from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. It’s a big, rich vision that will last my lifetime.
How do you balance originality and profitability?
Our remit is to publish books of quality – to add a third word – that would otherwise not see the light of day. Profitability is something one can depend on when selling shoes, for instance – but book sales are mainly a gamble. Perhaps most publishers would agree with this! However, I believe in every single title we publish and gain great satisfaction from seeing these books in print and also from working with talented writers. We are still looking forward to that “big win”, but in the meantime, with occasional help from Arts Council England, along with grants for our translations, we are able to keep going, and to keep our standards high.
Your views on writing? What books have had a lasting impact on you?
Books that have stayed with me are Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
What makes you decide to publish one writer, and not another?
When the language and the style make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up – and when I am still reading the manuscript at 2 a.m. – that is when I know that I must publish that writer! And that is also when I know I’ve found a book that our readers will enjoy and which will make a difference to their lives.
Before you take on a manuscript, how much consideration do you give to the writer’s willingness and ability to promote the book?
The short answer is: “This is a key part of the deal.” Writers are very clued-up these days about the need to push their books by all and every means, so it’s not usually a problem. Before a contract is signed with HopeRoad, it is made clear that an author must be proactive, willing to suggest ways that they can promote their book themselves. We will support them every inch of the way, while doing our part by utilizing the connections we have built up over the years. Even shy authors, unused to the spotlight, can catch fire when talking to an audience about their work. They will surprise themselves and grow from the experience. Frankly, any writer who won’t join in this process with a good heart and total dedication won’t get far with me and my team.
Picking winners is not easy . . . which titles have sold better than your predictions?
No one can truly predict a winner. If it happens, that is the icing on the cake. Becoming a winner is a mysterious event, but must be related to the last question about publicity and promotion. By the way, I still believe in the old-school “word of mouth” phenomenon. At HopeRoad The Silent Striker by Pete Kulu, about a deaf fourteen-year-old footballer, has been well received.
What are some of your recent releases?
Our latest publication, The Ghosts & Jamal by Bridget Blankley is a beautifully written story of a naïve, thirteen-year-old epileptic boy who is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on his village in Nigeria. Despite never having been out of his compound before, he sets off on a journey and experiences many trials and adventures that will keep a reader on the edge of their seat.
Sugar, Sugar by Lainy Malkani is an entertaining and sometimes challenging collection of short stories, based on historical fact and focused on the migration of Indian indentured workers to sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean in the 19th century. Lainy brings to life her characters from the distant and recent past and allows their voices to be heard once again.
The Warehouse by S.S. Mausoof is a stunning crime thriller set in unfamiliar territory – on the dangerous borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan; this is a powerful read.
Finally, An Ounce of Practice by Leo Zeilig is focused on a group of students fighting against Mugabe’s dictatorship. Set in London and Harare, it has a flawed hero who sometimes flounders in a world of domestic upheaval whilst clinging on to his integrity in a dangerous political arena.
Do you enjoy reading ebooks? Will the physical book die away eventually?
I don’t enjoy reading on a small screen. The printed book will always be with us.
Your views on marketing and distribution? And on social media?
Our marketing budget is not as generous as we would like but we do as much as we can. We do try to tie our books to events, and to important anniversaries or organisations. Here is an example: our new Young Adult title The Ghosts & Jamal by Bridget Blankley is linked with the National Autistic Society as the author herself has an autism spectrum disorder.
How important is funding?
Hugely important. Vital! Independent publishers – especially the smaller ones – are always searching for funding and it doesn’t get any easier.
Your favourite qualities in a person?
Honesty, a sense of humour, punctuality and kindness.
Who are the five people, living or dead, you’d invite to a party?
Both sets of my great-grandparents and grandparents, Zora Neale Hurston and Louis Armstrong!
Your chief characteristic? And chief fault?
Optimism and determination are my watchwords; impatience is my chief fault.
Music always relaxes me, and most mornings start with a walk through my local park. It’s a pleasure to buy fresh ingredients at farmers’ markets, then I will cook for family and friends.
Your greatest achievement?
Still working at it . . .
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Wounds in the Rain
By Stephen Crane
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This book was written shortly after the end of Spanish-American war. For the most part, these tales are episodic, reports of isolated instances -- the profanely humorous experiences of correspondents, the magnificent courage of signalmen under fire, the forgotten adventure of a converted yacht -- but all are instinct with the red fever of war, and are back grounded with the choking smoke of battle.
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UnityPoint Health Systems faced cyber attacks – how blockchain can help
by Brennan B. in Cybersecurity
In August, as many as 1.4 million patient records were compromised at UnityPoint Health Systems when an email phishing scam breached the provider’s network. This was the second of two cyber attacks on the Iowa-based health provider, with clinics and hospitals in Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago.
UnityPoint Health Systems Cyber Attack
The first attack was discovered in April and compromised more than 16,000 health records. The attack may have been found a full four months after the provider’s network had already been compromised. Employees rushed to change passwords, but another series of email phishing attacks loomed.
Email phishing scams, in this case, mean the contact or employee received an email that mimicked a legitimate contractor, vendor or company.
These types of cleverly-disguised emails may include an access link giving the hacker carte blanche with the system. The phishing email may also encourage the contact to update their information. The better phishing emails sometimes appear to come from a vendor that the contact has already worked with or is working with, which makes it more likely that the contact will share requested information.
A spokesperson for UnityPoint Health Systems explained that the cyber attacks were probably aimed at vendor accounts—an attempt to redirect payments or payroll—and not patient records. Despite this, the attacks compromised names, social security numbers, banking information and more.
The sheer number of compromised files after the second series of attacks—equal to more than one-fifth of the Wisconsin state population—prompted the state’s attorney general to recommend credit freezes on compromised health accounts, and a class action lawsuit has already, allegedly, been levied against UnityPoint Health Systems.
The Outlook for UnityPoint Health Systems
The Office of Civil Rights has yet to weigh in on UnityPoint Health System’s possible HIPAA violations, but if recent fines are any indication, the health provider may be in trouble.
Earlier this year, Fresenius Medical Care North America was fined $3.5 million when an OCR investigation revealed that the provider or related covered entities had not performed thorough risk analyses to expose ePHI vulnerabilities. These fines were levied despite no evidence of a breach and following an OCR investigation that took place in 2013.
In summary, and in relation to UnityPoint Health Systems, HIPAA compliance calls for weighing the strength of cybersecurity and physical security protocols against threats to client data, this includes the way employees and business associates handle, access, or store PHI and ePHI. HIPAA also calls for compliance documentation, and encryption is part of the Security Rule—45 CFR 164.304. There is no specific wording in HIPAA regarding email phishing scams, but past fines for phishing compromises fell under 164.308, a section that outlines the responsibility of covered entities to provide security awareness training.
THE HIPAA PENALTY BREAKDOWN
Tier 1: The covered entity is unaware of the violation, and the violation could not have been reasonably avoided–PENALTY: $100 per violation up to $50,000.
Tier 2: The covered entity should have been aware of the violation, and the violation is deemed preventable—PENALTY: $1,000 per violation up to $50,000.
Tier 3: The covered entity demonstrates compliance neglect, but shows efforts to bring the flagged issues into compliance—PENALTY: $10,000 per violation up to $50,000.
Tier 4: The covered entity demonstrates compliance neglect, but shows no effort to bring the flagged issues into compliance—PENALTY: $50,000 per violation.
So far, no money has changed hands in the reported civil suit filed against UnityPoint Health Systems.
However, OCR has already issued more than $24 million in HIPAA fines to other covered entities, and it is only October. At the close of 2017, total fines stood at just over $20 million, and at the close of 2015, HIPAA fines stood at just $6.1 million. When the OCR issues fines for HIPAA violations, these fines are per violation and per day that the violation was active, and the fines can reach back years.
A recent round of OCR audits revealed that almost 85% of evaluated covered entities scored below tier 3 in risk. This equates to negligible and preventable violations, still commonplace more than 20 years after HIPAA implementation.
UnityPoint Health Systems has since reset passwords, utilized multi-factor authentication and enrolled employees in phishing education, but it may be too little too late.
According to a report released by McAfee Labs in March, the health care industry is the number one target for hackers. In fact, cyber attacks grew by more than 200 percent in 2017 over the previous year, and 2018 is gearing up to top last year.
How blockchain can help
Guardtime is a production example that utilizes blockchain technology to secure data. Instead of utilizing verification keys, they instead distribute data to a decentralized set of nodes where the system routinely compares metadata packets. If any end up not aligning, they are excluded. As a result the only way to alter data distributed on the nodes is to alter the blockchain itself by destroying all the nodes. The advantage of this is that if just one node with accurate data remains online after countermeasures defeat the attack, the entire system can be restored.
Guardtime’s system detects changes to data and is subsequently constantly verifying the changes. These types of measures ensure minimal weak ‘links in the chain’ i.e. tampering with the ledgers contained in the blocks, thus the data remains uncompromised.
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Tags: Blockchain, Blockchain Technology, Cybersecurity, distributed ledger, Fresenius Medical Care North America, Guardtime, Health Data, Health IT, Healthcare Information Technology, HIPAA, McAfee Labs, OCR, Phishing, Secure Healthcare, UnityPoint Health Systems
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Lab 2: Aseptic Technique and Transfer of Microorganisms
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FORMS OF CULTURE MEDIA
OXYGEN REQUIREMENTS FOR MICROBIAL GROWTH
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COLONY MORPHOLOGY AND PIGMENTATION
PROCEDURE (to be done in pairs)
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES FOR LAB 2
In natural environments, microorganisms usually exist as mixed populations. However, if we are to study, characterize, and identify microorganisms, we must have the organisms in the form of a pure culture. A pure culture is one in which all organisms are descendants of the same organism. Techniques for obtaining pure cultures from a mixed population will be described in Lab 3. In working with microorganisms we must also have a sterile nutrient-containing-medium in which to grow the organisms. Anything in or on which we grow a microorganism is termed a medium. A sterile medium is one which is free of all life forms. It is usually sterilized by heating it to a temperature at which all contaminating microorganisms are destroyed. Finally, in working with microorganisms, we must have a method of transferring growing organisms (called the inoculum) from a pure culture to a sterile medium without introducing any unwanted outside contaminants. This method of preventing unwanted microorganisms from gaining access is termed aseptic technique.
Keep in mind that you must wear the correct Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) in all labs where you are using microbial cultures, stains, chemicals, and glassware or microscope slides!
Concept map for Lab 2: Terminology
The procedure for aseptically transferring microorganisms is as follows:
1. Using a microincinerator to sterilize the inoculating loop
Microincinerators enable the sterilization of inoculating loops without having to use an open flame of a Bunsen burner. The microincinerator uses infrared heat at a temperature of 816°C to sterilize the wire portion of the inoculating loop. Be careful not to touch the top portion of the microincinerator. It becomes very hot!
a. At the start of class. turn on the microincinerator and wait 10 minutes for it to heat up.
b. Place the entire wire portion of the inoculating loop into the opening of the microincinerator and hold it there for 10 seconds (see Fig. 1A). In this way all contaminants on the wire are incinerated. To avoid burning your hand on the handle of an overheated inoculating loop, never lay the loop down in the microincinerator and then attempt to pick it up. Never lay the loop down once it is sterilized or it may again become contaminated.
c. Allow the loop to cool 10-20 seconds before removing the inoculum.
2. Remove the inoculum.
a. Removing inoculum from a broth culture (organisms growing in a liquid medium):
1. Hold the culture tube in one hand and in your other hand, hold the sterilized inoculating loop as if it were a pencil (see Fig. 1).
2. Remove the cap of the pure culture tube with the little finger of your loop hand. (see Fig. 1B and Fig. 1B2). Never lay the cap down or it may become contaminated.
3. Place the lip of the culture tube at the opening of the microincinerator for 2-3 seconds (see Fig. 1C). This heats the glass and creates a convection current which forces air out of the tube and prevents airborne contaminants from entering the tube.
4. Insert the inoculating loop and remove a loopful of inoculum (see Fig. 1D).
5. Again place the lip of the culture tube at the opening of the microincinerator for 2-3 seconds (see Fig. 1E).
6. Immediately replace the cap (see Fig. 1F).
Removing the inoculum from a broth tube is summarized in Fig. 1.
b. Removing inoculum from a plate culture (organisms growing on an agar surface in a petri plate):
1. Sterilize the inoculating loop by placing it in the microincinerator for 10 seconds. (see Fig. 3A).
2. Lift the lid of the culture plate slightly and stab the loop into the agar away from any growth to cool the loop.
3. Scrape off a small amount of the organisms and immediately close the lid (see Fig. 3B).
3. Transfer the Inoculum to the Sterile Medium.
a. Transferring the inoculum into a broth tube:
1. Pick up the sterile broth tube and remove the cap with the little finger of your loop hand (see Fig. 2A). Do not set the cap down.
2. Place the lip of the culture tube at the opening of the microincinerator for 2-3 seconds (see Fig. 2B).
3. Place the loopful of inoculum into the broth, and withdraw the loop (see Fig. 2C). Do not lay the loop down!
4. Again place the lip of the culture tube at the opening of the microincinerator for 2-3 seconds (see Fig. 2D).
5. Replace the cap (see Fig. 2E).
6. Resterilize the inoculating loop by placing it in the microincinerator for 10 seconds (see Fig. 2F). Now you may lay the loop down until it is needed again.
Transfering the inoculum into a broth tube is summarized in Fig. 2.
b. Transferring the inoculum into a petri plate:
1. If the agar surface of the plate is visibly wet, use a sterile swab to gently remove the water.
2. On the bottom of the petri plate, divide the plate into thirds with your wax marker and label as shown below. This will guide your streaking.
3. Lift the edge of the lid just enough to insert the loop.
4. Streak the loop across the surface of the agar medium using the either the pattern shown in Fig. 4 or the pattern shown in Fig. 5. These streaking patterns allow you to obtain single isolated bacterial colonies originating from a single bacterium or arrangement of bacteria (see Fig. 6).
In order to avoid digging into the agar as you streak the loop over the top of the agar you must keep the loop parallel to the the agar surface. Always start streaking at the "12:00 position" (see Fig. 3C) of the plate and streak side-to-side as you pull the loop toward you. As you follow either Fig. 4 or Fig. 5, each time you flame and cool the loop between sectors, rotate the plate counterclockwise so you are always working in the "12:00 position" of the plate. This keeps the inoculating loop parallel with the agar surface and helps prevent the loop from digging into the agar.
5. Remove the loop and immediately close the lid.
6. Resterilize the inoculating loop by placing it in the microincinerator for 10 seconds (see Fig. 3D).
Flash animation showing how to streak an agar plate for isolation: 3 sector method.
html5 version of animation for iPad showing how to streak an agar plate for isolation: 3 sector method.
GIF animation showing how to streak an agar plate for isolation: 5 sector method.
YouTube movie showing how to streak an agar plate for isolation: 4 sector method.
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See the links below to view isolated colonies on three sector streak plates.
Streak plate #1: Serratia marcescens on trypticase soy agar.
Streak plate #2: Escherichia coli on trypticase soy agar.
Streak plate #3: Fecal specimen on blood agar.
In the future, every procedure in the lab will be done using similar aseptic technique.
1. Broth tubes are tubes containing a liquid medium. A typical nutrient containing broth medium such as Trypticase Soy broth contains substrates for microbial growth such as pancreatic digest of casein, papaic digest of soybean meal, sodium chloride, and water. After incubation, growth (development of many cells from a few cells) may be observed as one or a combination of three forms:
a. Pellicle: A mass of organisms is floating on top of the broth (see Fig. 7A).
b. Turbidity: The organisms appear as a general cloudiness throughout the broth (see Fig. 7B).
c. Sediment: A mass of organisms appears as a deposit at the bottom of the tube (see Fig. 7C).
2. Slant tubes (see Fig. 8A)are tubes containing a nutrient medium plus a solidifying agent, agar-agar. The medium has been allowed to solidify at an angle in order to get a flat inoculating surface (see Fig. 8B).
3. Stab tubes (deeps) are tubes of hardened agar medium which are inoculated by "stabbing" the inoculum into the agar (see Fig. 9).
4. Agar plates are sterile petri plates that are aseptically filled with a melted sterile agar medium and allowed to solidify. Plates are much less confining than slants and stabs and are commonly used in the culturing, separating, and counting of microorganisms. Single colonies of microorganisms on agar plates can be described using the terms found in Appendix A.
Microorganisms show a great deal of variation in their requirements for gaseous oxygen. Most can be placed in one of the following groups:
1. Obligate aerobes are organisms that grow only in the presence of oxygen. They obtain energy from aerobic respiration.
2. Microaerophiles are organisms that require a low concentration of oxygen for growth. They obtain energy from aerobic respiration.
3. Obligate anaerobes are organisms that grow only without oxygen and, in fact, oxygen inhibits or kills them. They obtain energy from anaerobic respiration or fermentation.
4. Aerotolerant anaerobes, like obligate anaerobes, cannot use oxygen for growth but they tolerate it fairly well. They obtain energy from fermentation.
5. Facultative anaerobes are organisms that grow with or without oxygen, but generally better with oxygen. They obtain energy from aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration, and fermentation. Most bacteria are facultative anaerobes.
Microorganisms have a minimum and maximum temperature at which they can grow, as well as an optimum temperature where they grow best. Microorganisms can be divided into groups on the basis of their preferred range of temperature:
1. Psychrophiles are cold-loving bacteria. Their optimum growth temperature is between -5°C and 15°C. They are usually found in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and in streams fed by glaciers.
2. Mesophiles are bacteria that grow best at moderate temperatures. Their optimum growth temperature is between 25°C and 45°C. Most bacteria are mesophilic and include common soil bacteria and bacteria that live in and on the body.
3. Thermophiles are heat-loving bacteria. Their optimum growth temperature is between 45°C and 70°C and are comonly found in hot springs and in compost heaps.
4. Hyperthermophiles are bacteria that grow at very high temperatures. Their optimum growth temperature is between 70°C and 110°C. They are usually members of the Archae and are found growing near hydrothermal vents at great depths in the ocean.
A colony is a visible mass of microorganisms growing on an agar surface and usually originating from a single organism or arrangement of organisms. Different microorganisms will frequently produce colonies which differ in their morphological appearance (form, elevation, margin, surface, optical characteristics, and pigmentation). Single colonies can be described using standard terms, as listed in Appendix A.
Scanning electron micrograph of a microcolony of Escherichia coli.
Animation of Bacterial Colony Morphology. © Hussein Shoeb, author. Licensed for use, ASM MicrobeLibrary.
Probably the most visual characteristic is pigmentation (color). Some microorganisms produce pigment during growth and are said to be chromogenic. Often, however, formation of pigment depends on environmental factors such as temperature, nutrients, pH and moisture. For example, Serratia marcescens produces a deep red pigment at 25°C, but does not produce pigment at 37°C.
Pigments can be divided into two basic types: water-insoluble and water-soluble. If the pigment is water-insoluble (see Fig. 10A), as is the case with most chromogenic bacteria, it does not diffuse out of the organism. As a result, the colonies are pigmented but the agar remains the normal color. If the pigment is water-soluble as in the case of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (see Fig. 10B and Fig. 10C), it will diffuse out of the organism into the surrounding medium. Both the colonies and the agar will appear pigmented.
Below is a list of several common chromogenic bacteria:
Staphylococcus aureus - gold; water-insoluble
Micrococcus luteus - yellow; water-insoluble
Micrococcus roseus - pink; water-insoluble
Mycobacterium phlei - orange; water-insoluble
Serratia marcescens - orange/red; water-insoluble
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fig. 10B and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fig. 10B - green/blue; water-soluble
Trypticase Soy Broth tubes (4), Trypticase Soy Agar slant tubes (4), Trypticase Soy Agar stab tubes (4), and Trypticase Soy Agar plates (7).
Trypticase Soy Broth cultures of Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli and Micrococcus luteus, and Trypticase Soy Agar plate cultures of Mycobacterium phlei.
1. Aseptically inoculate one Trypticase Soy Broth tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar slant tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar stab tube, and one Trypticase Soy Agar plate with B. subtilis. (See Fig. 11)
Remember to label all tubes with a wax marker. When streaking the agar plates, use either of the patterns shown in Fig. 4 or Fig. 5. This procedure is termed streaking for isolation and has a diluting effect. The friction of the loop against the agar causes organisms to fall off the loop. Near the end of the streaking pattern, individual organisms become separated far enough apart on the agar surface to give rise to isolated single colonies after incubation.
2. Aseptically inoculate one Trypticase Soy Broth tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar slant tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar stab tube, and one Trypticase Soy Agar plate with E. coli. (See Fig. 11)
3. Aseptically inoculate one Trypticase Soy Broth tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar slant tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar stab tube, and one Trypticase Soy Agar plate with M. luteus. (See Fig. 11)
4. Aseptically inoculate one Trypticase Soy Broth tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar slant tube, one Trypticase Soy Agar stab tube, and one Trypticase Soy Agar plate with M. phlei. (See Fig. 11)
5. Incubate all the tubes and plates inoculated with B. subtilis, E. coli, M. luteus, and M. phlei at 37°C. Place the tubes in your dedidated test tube rack. Incubate the petri plates upside down (lid on the bottom) and stacked in the petri plate holder on the shelf of the 37°C incubator corresponding to your lab section. Incubating the plates upside down prevents condensing water from falling down on the growing colonies and causing them to run together. (Store your test tube rack on your incubator shelf when not in use.)
6. In order to illustrate that microorganisms are all around us and to demonstrate the necessity for proper aseptic technique, contaminate three Trypticase Soy Agar plates as follows:
a. Remove the lid from the first agar plate and place the exposed agar portion in or out of the building for the duration of today's lab. Replace the lid, label the plate "air", and incubate it upside-down at room temperature. Do this plate first.
b. Using a wax marker, divide a second petri plate in half. You and your partner both moisten a sterile cotton swab in sterile water. Rub your swab over some surface in the building or on yourself. Use this swab to inoculate your half of the second agar plate. Label the plate and incubate upside-down at room temperature.
c. With a wax marker, divide a third petri plate into quartersand label as shown in Fig. 12. On your half of the plate, first rub the fingers of one of your gloved hands over your "glove" quadrant. Remove that glove and rub your fingers over your "fingers" quadrant. Your partner will do the same on his or her half of the plate. Label the plate and incubate upside-down in your petri plate holder at 37°C. Do this plate last.
1. Draw and describe the growth seen in each of the four broth cultures.
Bacillus subtilis
Growth =
Micrococcus luteus
Mycobacterium phlei
2. Observe the growth in the slant cultures and stab cultures for pigmentation and purity.
3. Using the terms in the Appendix A, compare a single colony of B. subtilis with a single colony of M. luteus. Use a hand lens or a dissecting microscope to magnify the colony.
single colonies of Bacillus subtilis
single colonies of Micrococcus luteus
single colonies of Escherichia coli
single colonies of Mycobacterium phlei
B. subtilis
M. luteus
Form of colony
Margin (edge)
4. Observe the results of the three "contamination" plates and note the differences in colony appearances.
5. Observe the demonstration plates of chromogenic bacteria and state the color and water-solubility of each pigment.
Micrococcus roseus
Serratia marcescens
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fig. 10B and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Fig. 10C
After completing this lab, the student will be able to perform the following objectives:
Define the following terms: pure culture, sterile medium, inoculum, aseptic technique, and colony.
State and define the three types of growth that may be seen in a broth culture.
Define the following terms: obligate aerobe, microaerophile, obligate anaerobe, aerotolerant anaerobe, and facultative anaerobe.
Define the following terms: psychrophile, mesophile, thermophile, and hyperthermophile.
Define the following terms: chromogenic, water-soluble pigment, and water-insoluble pigment.
1. Using an inoculating loop, demonstrate how to aseptically remove some inoculum from either a broth tube, slant tube, stab tube, or petri plate, and inoculate a sterile broth tube, slant tube, stab tube, or petri plate without introducing outside contamination.
2. Label all tubes and plates and place them on the shelf in the incubator corresponding to your lab section.
3. Return all class pure cultures to the instructor’s lab bench.
4. Dispose of all materials when the experiment is completed, being sure to remove all markings from the glassware. Place all culture tubes in the plastic baskets in the biohazard hood and all petri plates in the buckets in the biohazard hood.
1. Recognize and identify the following types of growth in a broth culture: pellicle, turbidity, sediment, and any combination of these.
2. State the color and water-solubility of pigment seen on a plate culture of a chromogenic bacterium.
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Dr. Gary Kaiser (COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, CATONSVILLE CAMPUS)
Lab 1: Introduction to the Microscope and Comparison of Sizes and Shapes of Microorganisms
Lab 3: Obtaining Pure Cultures from a Mixed Population
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At this year’s BVN’s diversity assembly, students experienced numerous cultures through different art forms, including poetry and dancing. The assembly opened with a traditional Bollywood dance, organized by junior Ashmika Behere.
Behere, who has been dancing and choreographing Indian dances for years, was excited to share her culture with her fellow peers.
“I was never embarrassed,” Behere said . “I mean, it’s your culture and I feel like one should never be embarrassed by their culture…it was just really fun.”
The dance didn’t just inform the audience about culture, either; the dancers were also more informed about various cultures within South Asia. Junior dancer Mira Bhagat, isn’t very involved with her family’s culture and was exposed to more traditions as she practiced with the other girls.
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Ashmika Behere dancing at the diversity assembly
“[My family] celebrates the basic holidays,” Bhagat said . “We don’t really go to the temple and pray, and we don’t really watch Bollywood movies or listen to Bollywood songs. I think I did [learn a lot]… I learned like five new songs that I’d never heard of before. We talked about the different food they have, the different languages that they speak.”
For Bhagat, the dance was difficult to learn because she had danced very little before the performance.
“To me, yes [the dance was hard],” Bhagat said . “Because everyone else around me dances a lot outside, but the last time I danced was two years ago. [However,] with more practice I finally got it.”
However, Behere has been dancing since she was five years old, therefore dancing and choreographing didn’t pose a massive problem for her.
“I’m really familiar with [choreographing]…I’ve choreographed multiple dances for my family and family friends for when they go back to India,” said Behere. “I have a system down, so it wasn’t really difficult…normally when I choreograph, I do it for one or two people, not seven. A lot of people in the dance had never danced before, so I’d say the hardest thing was choreographing it in a way so that it wasn’t that difficult but still looked nice and showed actual culture.”
Despite participating in the assembly and having a club dedicated to diversity at school, Behere still believes that some BVN students remain ignorant of other cultures.
“Generally, with the diversity club and assembly, people are really respectful and appreciative of other cultures and do a good job of respecting and appreciating them, but there have been times when I’ve definitely seen other people be disrespectful and ignorant,” Behere said. “With the election and the xenophobic tendencies that went along with it, I definitely saw a lot more of that in school this year and that was kind of disappointing.”
However, Diversity club, which organized the assembly, is open to students of all ethnicities in order to share various cultures to students who are unaware of them.
“I know some of my friends that I talk to are like, ‘I’m white—I can’t go to diversity club!’,” Behere said. “But obviously that’s not the point. So I would really just encourage more people to go [to diversity club]. Or the Asian American club—you don’t have to be Asian to be in it. Honestly just going to the clubs and trying out new things is definitely something I would encourage.
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By: Robert Surridge, Noleen John and Brian Murphy
About Houseman’s Law of Life Assurance
Unique in its depth of coverage and currency, Houseman’s Law of Life Assurance has established a well-deserved reputation as an authoritative practitioner work on life assurance and is renowned for its practical insight into the workings of the industry. In addition to being fully updated to take account of new legislation and case law the new 15th edition also covers developments including: Significant structural changes to the UK regulatory framework... Read more
Unique in its depth of coverage and currency, Houseman’s Law of Life Assurance has established a well-deserved reputation as an authoritative practitioner work on life assurance and is renowned for its practical insight into the workings of the industry.
In addition to being fully updated to take account of new legislation and case law the new 15th edition also covers developments including:
Significant structural changes to the UK regulatory framework since the 14th edition and in particular the creation of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority each with their own different statutory objectives;
Creation of the PRA and the introduction of a new rulebook with a different structure for conveying regulatory guidance;
Implementation of the Solvency II Directive which has made fundamental changes to the way insurers calculate their capital, invest their assets and govern their businesses;
Changes to insurance law on misrepresentation and warranties and the new duty on consumers to take reasonable care not to make a misrepresentation and on non-consumers to make a fair presentation of the risk;
New e-commerce chapter to reflect the growing importance of this distribution channel for life insurance products;
Anticipated changes to the regime applicable to insurance distribution because of the Insurance Distribution Directive and rules relating to packaged insurance investment contracts, including the impact on remuneration of intermediaries;
Changes to the UK compensation scheme for insurance policyholders.
Chapter 1 The contract of life assurance
Chapter 2 Insurance law issues
Chapter 3 FSMA and the life office
Chapter 4 Intermediation and distribution of life insurance products
Chapter 5 Financial promotion and product disclosure
Chapter 6 With-profits funds
Chapter 7 Prudential regulation
Chapter 8 Life reassurance
Chapter 9 Claims and title to life policies
Chapter 10 Assignments and Mortgages
Chapter 11 Trusts and life assurance
Chapter 12 Insolvency and MWPA trusts
Chapter 13 The framework for pension scheme products sold by life offices
Chapter 14 Income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and the use of life policies in inheritance tax planning
Appendix 1 Life Assurance Act 1774
Appendix 2 The Policies of Assurance Act 1867
Appendix 3 Statement of long-term insurance practice
Appendix 4 Specimen Power of appointment
Appendix 5 Statutory declaration
Appendix 6 Deed of Indemnity
Appendix 7 Payment into Court by Life Assurance Company (Ord 92, r 1)
Appendix 8 Deed of Assignment
Appendix 9 Notice of Assignment
Appendix 10 ‘Double Option’ Agreement
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← “We don’t sign backups here at the University of Texas.”
“I’m not who I am today if I don’t go play at Georgia.” →
Coaching ’em down.
Take the five-year average of the 247Sports Composite team rankings without consideration for player attrition, player development, transfers or other factors, and what do you get? This.
Here’s where your last 10 national champions rank on this list: Clemson (No. 12), Alabama (No. 1), Ohio State (No. 2), Florida State (No. 4), Auburn (No. 7), Florida (No. 10), LSU (No. 3)
Perhaps underperforming relative to their talent: Georgia (No. 5), Notre Dame (No. 8), Texas A&M (No. 9), Tennessee (No. 11), UCLA (No. 13)
“Perhaps”? Thanks for being kind.
Filed under Georgia Football, Recruiting
13 responses to “Coaching ’em down.”
Zutadawg
Same song 15th verse on Georgia underperforming, so why does #6 USC get a pass on the under performing? Can we chalk that up to liberal media bias for the Hollywood school?
They have college football in Cali?
They have a college in Cali?
DawgByte
UGA under performing?
Now having said that, these class rankings over the last 5 years only factor in the exit ranking, not how the classed turned out over time. For example, we had two classes ’12, ’13 that started out ranked fairly high, but ended up being disasters. Suffice it to say, Georgia has a lot of room for improvement.
’12 is gone now. Because we’ve retained (so far) a lot of fairly decent players as 5th year players for this coming year, the class of ’13 for this year only is not a liability.
Boy that 2016 class must have really bumped up our average, since we all know there was zero talent when Kirby got here.
Exactly why there is too much “absolute confidence” placed in team rankings before they actually play. So much depends on whether you get the exact pieces, they develop as projected, and are available for all the key games. Also, being the 7th best class nationally, but 4th or 5th best in your conference is pretty significant too. Not saying there aren’t correlations to class rankings, nor that it isn’t a big piece, but it is not the total answer.
Think of this: If Georgia only loses in 2017 to schools that rank above it on this list, and wins every game against teams that rank below it, we’ll finish the regular season at 12-0. Assuming we would play Bama in the SECCG, we’d lose that, but we’d win our bowl as long as we’re not paired against Ohio State or Florida State, and we’d finish 13-1. The fact that that outcome is hard to swallow shows how much we’ve under performed.
This analysis is spot on and you could repeat it over and over basically for every UGA team since 2007. What about 2012 you ask? That team lost in embarrassing fashion to South Carolina–a team that was good but nobody could say with a straight face that the Dicks…er…Cocks had personnel as good as the Dawgs had. Coaching was the reason for the consistent under performance. The Dawgs got outcoached in just about every major game they played for years. I actually think CMR got outcoached in a whole lot of games the Dawgs won. The team just saved his bacon by playing better than the other team in spite of him. I hate to say it but I saw a lot of that last year, too.
Let me add, I would like to know what the top coaches really think of CMR. Urban, Nick, The Hat, SOS, Dantonio, Big Game Bob, Jimbo, Dabo–guys like that. I think I know. The Laner let the curtain slip open a little in ’09 by shooting off his mouth.
dawgfan
It would be interesting to see an analysis of players drafted or making the NFL for these same years from each school.
OdontoDawg
And I think it was the championships of Auburn and Florida, both below us on the list yet bitter rivals, that stuck in the craw of the BM folks and boosters pulling strings…more so than Bama.
Dylan Dreyer's Booty
Perhaps underachieving? Boy, that is a gentle way to put it.
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Identification of nucleotides and amino acids that mediate the interaction between ribosomal protein L30 and the SECIS element
Abby L Bifano1,
Tarik Atassi1,
Tracey Ferrara1, 2 and
Donna M Driscoll1, 3Email author
© Bifano et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013
Ribosomal protein L30 belongs to the L7Ae family of RNA-binding proteins, which recognize diverse targets. L30 binds to kink-turn motifs in the 28S ribosomal RNA, L30 pre-mRNA, and mature L30 mRNA. L30 has a noncanonical function as a component of the UGA recoding machinery that incorporates selenocysteine (Sec) into selenoproteins during translation. L30 binds to a putative kink-turn motif in the Sec Insertion Sequence (SECIS) element in the 3’ UTR of mammalian selenoprotein mRNAs. The SECIS also interacts with SECIS-binding protein 2 (SBP2), an essential factor for Sec incorporation. Previous studies showed that L30 and SBP2 compete for binding to the SECIS in vitro. The SBP2:SECIS interaction has been characterized but much less is known about how L30 recognizes the SECIS.
Here we use enzymatic RNA footprinting to define the L30 binding site on the SECIS. Like SBP2, L30 protects nucleotides in the 5’ side of the internal loop, the 5’ side of the lower helix, and the SECIS core, including the GA tandem base pairs that are predicted to form a kink-turn. However, L30 has additional determinants for binding as it also protects nucleotides in the 3’ side of the internal loop, which are not protected by SBP2. In support of the competitive binding model, we found that purified L30 repressed UGA recoding in an in vitro translation system, and that this inhibition was rescued by SBP2. To define the amino acid requirements for SECIS-binding, site-specific mutations in L30 were generated based on published structural studies of this protein in a complex with its canonical target, the L30 pre-mRNA. We identified point mutations that selectively inhibited binding of L30 to the SECIS, to the L30 pre-mRNA, or both RNAs, suggesting that there are subtle differences in how L30 interacts with the two targets.
This study establishes that L30 and SBP2 bind to overlapping but non-identical sites on the SECIS. The amino acid requirements for the interaction of L30 with the SECIS differ from those that mediate binding to the L30 pre-mRNA. Our results provide insight into how L7Ae family members recognize their cognate RNAs.
RNA-binding protein
SECIS-binding protein 2
Selenoprotein
Eukaryotic ribosomal protein L30 is a component of the large ribosomal subunit. L30 has no prokaryotic ortholog but the gene is essential in yeast [1]. Cryo-electron microscopy studies of the wheat germ and canine 80S ribosomes revealed that L30 is located in a eukaryotic-specific bridge between the large and small subunits [2, 3]. The interaction of L30 with the 60S ribosome is mediated primarily through binding of the protein to a kink-turn motif in helix 58 of the large rRNA [2, 4]. L30 also binds to a kink-turn in the 5’ untranslated region (UTR) of its cognate pre-mRNA and the mature spliced mRNA to auto-regulate its own expression at the level of pre-mRNA splicing or mRNA translation, respectively [5–8].
The repertoire of L30 functions was expanded by the discovery that the protein is involved in the mechanism that recodes the UGA stop codon as selenocysteine (Sec) during selenoprotein synthesis [9]. In humans, there are 25 known selenoprotein genes, whose products play critical roles in anti-oxidant defense, thyroid hormone metabolism, immunity, and development [10, 11]. Sec incorporation at the UGA/Sec codon is dependent on a stem-loop structure, the Selenocysteine Insertion Sequence (SECIS) element, which is found in the 3’ UTR of eukaryotic selenoprotein mRNAs. This structure consists of two helices separated by an internal loop with an apical loop or bulge at the top (see Figure 1A). The core of the SECIS contains a quartet of non-Watson-Crick base pairs, including two sheared G•A tandem base pairs which are characteristic of kink-turn motifs. Based on structure probing and computer modeling, Walczak et al. proposed a three-dimensional structure of the SECIS in which the RNA is kinked at the internal loop, exposing the sheared G•A tandem base pairs in the SECIS core to the solvent [12]. The SECIS core, which is essential for Sec incorporation, is required for binding of two proteins, L30 and SECIS-binding protein 2 (SBP2) [9, 13–16]. In vitro studies support a model in which the two proteins bind to the SECIS element independently, and likely sequentially [9]. SBP2 has been shown to recruit the Sec-tRNASec:EFSec complex, bind to the ribosome, and induce a conformational change in the A site [17–19]. However, the exact functions of SBP2 and L30 in UGA recoding have not been fully defined, and alternative models have been proposed [9, 17, 18].
RNA footprinting of the L30:SECIS complex. A. The structure of the SECIS element from the rat PHGPx mRNA is shown. Boxes and circles indicate nucleotides that are protected from cleavage by RNase T1 and RNase A, respectively. B. The 5’ end-labeled PHGPx SECIS was incubated in the absence or presence of L30 (0.75 or 1.5 μM). The reactions were then partially digested with RNase T1, A, or V1 as indicated. The products were analyzed by denaturing gel electrophoresis. The sequencing (G and C + U) and alkali ladders are shown in the left lanes. The numbers to the left of the gel indicate the positions of G nucleotides using the numbering in (A). The bars on the right indicate the different regions of the SECIS element. The gel is a representative example from 3 independent experiments.
A prerequisite for elucidating the mechanism of Sec incorporation is a detailed understanding of the molecular basis for protein:SECIS interactions. L30 and SBP2 are both members of the L7Ae family of RNA-binding proteins. In addition to the founding member archaeal ribosomal protein L7Ae, this family includes other eukaryotic ribosomal proteins as well as proteins involved in RNA processing, ribonucleoprotein assembly, and termination of protein synthesis [20, 21]. The L7Ae family members share a similar RNA-binding domain and characteristically bind to kink-turn motifs in their cognate RNA. However, the kink-turn does not represent a single structural motif [22]. Each protein in the L7Ae family has a unique RNA-binding specificity, which allows it to distinguish its cognate RNA from other kink-turn containing transcripts in the cell. Indirect evidence from our lab suggests that the SECIS core is part of a noncanonical kink-turn, which may explain why the SECIS is bound by L30 and SBP2, but not by other proteins in the L7Ae family [9].
We, and others have characterized the SBP2:SECIS interaction at the molecular level, although no structural studies on the complex have been performed to date. Based on RNA footprinting experiments, SBP2 binds to both sides of the SECIS core, as well as to the 5’ strand of the internal loop and lower helix [14]. The upper helix and a large internal loop in the SECIS may also be important for recognition by SBP2 [23]. Mutational analysis of SBP2 revealed that the L7Ae motif is necessary but not sufficient to mediate SECIS-binding and that additional amino acids in a K-rich region N-terminal to this motif are required [24, 25]. The SBP2:SECIS interaction is critical for human health as mutations in either the SBP2 binding site or in the SBP2 RNA-binding domain result in a reduction in selenoprotein synthesis and a variety of phenotypes [26–28].
In contrast to SBP2, much less is known about how L30 recognizes the SECIS. We previously showed that L30 binds to SECIS elements from multiple selenoprotein mRNAs [9], but the actual L30 binding site has not been defined. Compared to SBP2, L30 is a relatively small protein (11 kDa) and it lacks a K-rich region. Structural studies of L30 in a complex with its cognate target, the stem-loop from the L30 pre-mRNA, have defined the RNA-binding interface of the protein [29, 30]. However, it is not known whether the same amino acids mediate binding to the SECIS. In this study, we used RNA footprinting and site-directed mutagenesis to identify nucleotides and amino acids that are important for the L30:SECIS interaction.
Defining the L30 binding site by RNA footprinting
Eukaryotic SECIS elements are stem-loop structures containing two highly conserved motifs that are essential for Sec incorporation, namely the SECIS core and the AAR motif in an apical bulge or loop. The SECIS element from the rat Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase (PHGPx) mRNA is shown in Figure 1A. We previously showed that binding of L30 to the PHGPx SECIS was abrogated by mutations in the sheared G•A tandem base pairs in the SECIS core, but not by deletion of the AAR motif [9]. In order to define the L30 binding site on the SECIS, we used enzymatic RNA footprinting. The 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS RNA was incubated in the presence or absence of purified rat L30. The native RNA and RNA:protein complexes were then partially digested with different ribonucleases and analyzed by electrophoresis. Regions of cleavage and protection were identified by comparing samples with RNA sequencing reactions (G and C + U) and alkali ladders. A schematic illustrating the results is shown in Figure 1A and a gel representative of 3 independent experiments is shown in Figure 1B.
The cleavage results with the native RNA are consistent with the published structure of the PHGPx SECIS, which was determined by enzymatic and chemical probing [31]. RNase T1, which cleaves after single-stranded G bases, cleaved the native PHGPx SECIS RNA in the apical region, both strands of the SECIS core, and the 3’ side of the internal loop (Figure 1B). Similar results were obtained when the SECIS was partially digested with RNase A, which cleaves at single-stranded C and U bases. Cleavage by RNase A was detected in the 5’ side of the SECIS core, the apical loop, as well as both sides of the internal loop. Both RNase A and T1 cleaved at the base of helix 1 (nucleotides 121-128) suggesting that this region may breathe due to imperfect base pairing. RNase V1, which cleaves in double-stranded regions, cleaved at multiple positions in helix 1 and helix 2. We also observed faint V1 digestion in the large internal loop, which suggests that this region may occasionally form an alternate structure.
When the SECIS was incubated with 0.75 or 1.5 μM L30, there was a marked reduction in cleavage by RNase T1 on both sides of the SECIS core (G41, G82, G84) and along the 3’ side of the internal loop 2 (G85, G90, G91, G93, G95). We were unable to achieve full protection by increasing the amount of L30 in the binding reaction, most likely due to the high on/off rate of the L30:SECIS complex as determined by Surface Plasmon Resonance (data not shown). G53 and G68 in the apical region and G122, G125, G127, and G128 at the base of helix 1 were not reproducibly protected by L30 from RNase T1 cleavage.
When the L30:SECIS complexes were partially digested with RNase A, there was a reduction in cleavage in the 5’ side of the internal loop and SECIS core (bases 36-38 and 40) and the 3’ side of the internal loop (bases 92, 94, 96). Other bases in the internal loop (C87, C88, U89) and the base of helix 1 were still cleaved by RNase A in the presence of L30. Similarly, the binding of L30 did not protect nucleotides in helix 1 or helix 2 from RNase V1 cleavage. Taken together, our results show that binding of L30 protects nucleotides in the SECIS core and in the 5’ and 3’ sides of the internal loop. We previously showed that SBP2 interacts with both sides of the SECIS core, the 5’ strand of the internal loop, and the 5’ strand of helix 1, but not with the 3’ side of the internal loop [14]. Thus the two proteins bind to similar but not identical regions of the SECIS, as illustrated in Figure 2A.
The U40C mutation abrogates L30 binding. A. Schematic illustrating the binding sites of SBP2 [14] and L30 (this work) on the SECIS, as determined by RNA footprinting. The position of the U40C point mutation is indicated. B. UV cross-linking experiments were performed using the 32P-labeled wild-type PHGPx SECIS or the U40C mutant RNA, which were incubated with increasing amounts of purified L30 as indicated. After RNase digestion, the products were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and autoradiography.
L30 represses UGA recoding in vitro and this inhibition is rescued by SBP2
The fact that the SBP2 and L30 binding sites overlap is consistent with our earlier finding that purified recombinant L30 and SBP2 compete for binding in vitro to an isolated SECIS in the absence of other factors [9]. To test whether this competition could occur during translation, we used a luciferase reporter construct and a modified rabbit reticulocyte lysate (RRL) system. This assay has been previously validated to be specific for UGA recoding [32]. The Luc/UGA/PHGPx reporter RNA contains a UGA/Sec codon at position 258 in the open reading frame and the PHGPx SECIS in the 3’ UTR. Since RRL contains very little SBP2, we added recombinant SBP2-CT, which represents the C-terminal half of the protein and encodes all known functions of SBP2. Translation assays were supplemented with purified 70 nM SBP2-CT to be within the linear range of the assay. Reactions were performed in the absence or presence of increasing amounts of L30, and the products were analyzed for luciferase activity.
As shown in Figure 3A (top panel), the addition of exogenous L30 inhibited recoding of Luc/UGA/PHGPx in a dose-dependent manner. This effect is codon-specific and SECIS-dependent as the inhibition was not observed when the reactions were primed with a Luc/UGU/PHGPx reporter construct, which contains a UGU/Cys codon (Figure 3A, bottom panel) or a normal luciferase RNA that lacks a SECIS element (data not shown). The addition of L30 also repressed UGA recoding directed by the SECIS element from Thioredoxin Reductase 1 (TR1) (Figure 3A, top panel). We hypothesized that the exogenous L30 protein interacted with the SECIS and prevented binding of SBP2, which is limiting in our translation system. To test this competitive model, we added increasing amounts of SBP2 to the translation reaction while keeping the amount of L30 constant. As shown in Figure 3B, the inhibitory effect of L30 on recoding from the TR1 SECIS was rescued by the addition of SBP2. Similar results were obtained using the Luc/UGA/PHGPx construct (data not shown). Taken together, these results demonstrate that SBP2 and L30 can functionally compete in an in vitro translation system.
Repression of UGA recoding by L30 is rescued by SBP2. A. In vitro UGA recoding assays were performed using a luciferase reporter RNA that contains UGA (top panel) or UGU (bottom panel) at position 258 of the coding region, fused to either the PHGPx or TR1 SECIS element as indicated. Translation assays were performed in the presence of increasing amounts of L30 as indicated. The products were analyzed for luciferase activity using a luminometer, and the results are expressed as means ± SEM. Statistical significance is indicated by ** (p < 0.01) and *** (p < 0.001). B. UGA recoding assays with the luc/UGA/TR1 reporter construct were performed with a constant amount of L30 (44 pmol/reaction) and increasing amounts of SBP2 as indicated. The products were analyzed as described in (A).
Mutations in L30 inhibit SECIS-binding
The L7Ae family members are functionally diverse and recognize a variety of targets. A number of these RNA:protein complexes have been analyzed at the structural level [29, 30, 33–36]. An emerging theme from these studies is that the L7Ae family members bind to their different cognate RNAs in a similar manner. Therefore, we designed site-directed mutations based on the solution structures of yeast L30 in complex with the stem-loop from the L30 pre-mRNA target, which were solved by NMR spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography [29, 30]. An induced fit model was proposed in which L30 folds into an α/β/α sandwich, with the three loops at the end of the sandwich in direct contact with the RNA [29, 30]. We generated alanine point mutations in these functionally important regions, including L29 in the first loop of the α/β/α sandwich, L35 and K36 in the α2 region, and K87, Y89, and V91 in the α4–β4 loop (Figure 4A). We also mutated M108 and E110 in the C-terminal region, as these residues are present in L30 sequences from higher eukaryotes and SBP2, but not in S12, an L7Ae family member that does not bind the SECIS [9].
Mutational analysis of L30. A. A schematic illustrating the primary sequences and predicted secondary structures of L30 and SBP2. The position numbers refer to the rat protein sequences. The L7Ae conserved RNA-binding domain is underlined and the conserved signature amino acid motifs for L30 and SBP2 are boxed as described in [37]. Arrows indicate the amino acids in L30 that were mutated to alanine. B. The wild-type and mutant L30 protein were expressed in bacteria, purified and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and Coomassie Blue staining. The molecular weight markers are shown in the left lane of each gel.
The wild-type and mutant L30 proteins were analyzed for purity by SDS-PAGE (Figure 4B) and for RNA-binding activity using RNA Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays (REMSA). The rat PHGPx SECIS element and the stem-loop structure from the yeast L30 pre-mRNA (subsequently referred to as L30 RNA) were used as 32P-labeled probes. As shown in Figure 5A, the wild-type protein bound to the SECIS in a dose-dependent manner with an apparent KD of ~ 0.49 μM, which is comparable to what was previously reported [9]. The affinity of L30 for the L30 RNA was several-fold higher with a KD of 0.17 μM (Figure 5B). We performed a survey of the mutant proteins, using a protein concentration at which 50% of the probe was bound by the wild-type L30. Representative REMSAs are shown in Figure 6A, and the graphs of the results from 5 and 3 independent experiments, respectively, are presented in Figure 6B.
REMSA analysis of the RNA-binding activity of L30. A. The 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS was incubated with increasing amounts of L30 as indicated. The complexes were analyzed by native gel electrophoresis (top panel). The percent SECIS bound at each protein concentration is shown graphically (bottom panel). B. REMSA analysis was performed as described in (A) except that the stem-loop from the L30 pre-mRNA (L30 RNA) was used as the probe.
Point mutations in L30 affect RNA-binding activity. A. Representative REMSA analysis of the 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS (top panel) or L30 RNA (bottom panel). The RNA probes were incubated in the absence or presence of wild-type and mutant L30 proteins as indicated. The positions of the free probes and protein:RNA complexes are indicated. B. Graphical representation of REMSA results for L30 binding to the SECIS (top panel) or L30 RNA (bottom panel) from 5 or 3 independent experiments, respectively. The results are expressed relative to the activity of the wild-type protein, which is expressed as 100%. Statistical significance is shown by asterisks, with * (p < 0.05), ** (p < 0.01) and *** (p < 0.001).
We found that the amino acid requirements for L30 binding to the SECIS and the L30 RNA are similar but not identical. The Y89A mutant protein was the most defective, with 32% and 37% binding to the SECIS and L30 RNA, respectively, compared to the wild-type protein. We also identified two mutations that selectively inhibited binding of L30 to one target RNA but not the other. As shown in Figure 6B, the K87 mutation in rat L30 reduced binding to the SECIS by 40% but had little effect on the L30:L30 RNA interaction. In contrast the K36A mutant protein was more impaired in its ability to interact with the L30 RNA (reduced by 60%) than the SECIS (reduced by 22%). There was a slight (14%) reduction in binding of the L35A mutant to both the SECIS and L30 RNA, but only the latter result was statistically significant (Figure 6B). The other mutants, L29A, V91A, M108A, and E110A, were comparable to the wild-type protein with respect to their ability to bind to both targets.
We also analyzed several mutant L30 proteins for their ability to inhibit UGA recoding in our in vitro translation system. As shown in Figure 7, the L29A and M108A mutant proteins, which have wild-type levels of SECIS-binding activity, reduced UGA recoding by ~50%, similar to wild-type L30. However, the K36A and Y89A mutants, that are defective in SECIS-binding, only reduced UGA recoding by 9% and 4% respectively Thus, there was a correlation between the ability of L30 to bind to the SECIS and repress recoding in vitro.
L30 repression of UGA recoding correlates with SECIS-binding. UGA recoding assays were performed using the luc/UGA/TR1 reporter construct as described in the legend to Figure 4A. Reactions contained either no L30 or 44 pmol of wild-type or mutant L30 proteins. Results are expressed as means ± SEM.
A naturally occurring SECIS mutation inhibits L30 binding
One interesting finding from the footprinting experiments was that L30 protected U40 in the SECIS core. A previous study identified a naturally occurring U to C point mutation at this position in the Selenoprotein N (SelN) SECIS element from a patient with a mild form of rigid spine muscular dystrophy [16]. SelN expression was impaired in this patient, and this mutation was shown to abrogate binding of SBP2 to the SelN and PHGPx SECIS elements [13, 16]. We hypothesized that the mutant RNA may also be defective in the L30:SECIS interaction, as L30 and SBP2 have overlapping binding sites (Figure 2A). The 32P-labeled wild-type and U40C mutant SECIS RNAs were incubated with increasing amounts of purified L30 protein. The RNA:protein complexes were UV cross-linked, digested with RNase A, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and autoradiography. As shown in Figure 2B, L30 cross-linked to the wild-type SECIS but not to the U40C mutant RNA. Thus, defects in selenoprotein synthesis in patients with mutant SECIS elements may not be solely due to an impaired SBP2:SECIS interaction.
As members of the L7Ae family, L30 and SBP2 share a similar RNA-binding domain. However, there are important differences in how the two proteins interact with the SECIS. Our RNA footprinting experiments revealed that the binding site of L30 centers on the SECIS core and internal loop. L30 protects nucleotides in the SECIS core, including the Gs in the two, sheared G•A tandem base pairs that form the putative kink-turn motif. The protein also protects many of the nucleotides in the internal loop. Thus, the L30 binding site described here overlaps with the regions that have been shown to be protected by SBP2 binding, including the SECIS core and 5’ side of the internal loop [14]. In addition to sharing these common nucleotide requirements, L30 and SBP2 each have unique determinants for binding to the SECIS. We show here that L30 protects the 3’ side of the internal loop, which is distinct from the known SBP2 binding site [14]. Likewise, SBP2 protects nucleotides in the upper part of helix 1, which are not part of the L30 binding site.
The fact that the binding sites of L30 and SBP2 overlap provides a molecular explanation for our earlier finding that the two proteins cannot interact simultaneously with the SECIS [9]. Our results also have implications for interpreting defects in SBP2:SECIS interactions that are associated with human disease. A naturally occurring point mutation in a highly conserved nucleotide in the SelN SECIS that was previously shown to disrupt SBP2 binding and selenoprotein synthesis also inhibited binding of L30. Thus, it is important to keep in mind that mutant SECIS elements may be defective in more than one function.
To date, the SECIS element is the only known cognate RNA for SBP2. In contrast, L30 binds to several other kink-turn containing targets, including the L30 pre-mRNA, L30 mature mRNA, and 28S ribosomal RNA. As the structure of the SBP2:SECIS complex has not been solved, we turned to the NMR and co-crystal structures of the yeast L30 protein in a complex with the L30 pre-mRNA to guide our mutational analysis. We chose to design site-specific mutations in regions defined as the RNA-binding interface for the L30:L30 pre-RNA interaction. Interestingly, the crystal structure of a 60S ribosomal subunit from the fresh water ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila was recently published, and it is the first such structure from an organism that synthesizes selenoproteins [4]. Using the published coordinates, we utilized several molecular modeling programs to analyze the structure of L30 on the ribosome where it is bound to helix 58 of the 26S rRNA (unpublished observations). T. Thermophila L30 appears to use a similar RNA-binding interface to bind to a kink-turn in helix 58, as the yeast protein uses to bind to the L30 pre-mRNA. Thus, we expected that some of the same amino acids might also be important for the L30:SECIS interaction. Indeed, the Y89A mutant protein was defective in binding to both the SECIS and the L30 RNA, its canonical target. This residue is equivalent to F85 in the yeast protein, where it is the most prominent amino acid contact in the L30:L30 pre-mRNA complex [29, 30]. Based on mutagenesis studies, an aromatic group is required at this position for binding of the yeast protein to the L30 RNA [29], and a similar requirement may be true for the L30:SECIS interaction.
Unlike Y89, mutagenesis of K36 and K87 had selective effects on the interaction of L30 with the two target RNAs. The K36A mutation had a greater inhibitory effect on binding of the protein to the L30 RNA than to the SECIS. The equivalent amino acid in the yeast protein, K32, did not directly contact the RNA in the NMR and crystal structures of the L30:L30 RNA complex [30]. However, it was proposed that this highly conserved amino acid could play an important role by neutralizing the negatively charged phosphate backbone [29, 30]. We also found that mutagenesis of L35, which is also in the α2 helical region, modestly reduced binding inhibition to both targets. This result was only statistically significant for the L30:L30 RNA interaction, however.
In contrast, we found that K87 is important for the L30:SECIS interaction, but is dispensable for binding to the L30 RNA. This was a particularly interesting result as K87 is part of a signature motif that has been identified for L30 [37]. It is well established that each L7Ae family member has a unique RNA-binding specificity. However the basis for this selectivity has not been well understood as the proteins share a relatively conserved RNA-binding domain. An elegant study by Gagnon et al. recently identified five signature amino acids flanking this region that are unique to each family member [37]. One amino acid is N-terminal to the RNA-binding domain whereas the other four residues comprise a motif that is C-terminal to the domain. The C-terminal motif in particular is quite different between family members, with respect to the structure and chemical properties of the conserved amino acids. Functional evidence was provided for the L7Ae and 15.5 kDa proteins, showing that the unique conserved amino acids are necessary although not sufficient to mediate specific binding to the appropriate cognate RNA. The consensus N-terminal amino acid for L30 and SBP2 is a basic residue, K26 in rat L30 and R665 in rat SBP2 (Figure 5A). K87, which is important for the L30:SECIS interaction, is the first amino acid in KYYR, the C-terminal signature motif for L30 [37]. This residue is also highly conserved in SBP2 (K733 in rat SBP2, see Figure 5), where it is part of this protein’s signature motif KAVP [37]. Interestingly, K is not present in the first position of the signature motifs for other eukaryotic L7Ae family members, including L7Ae, 15.5 kDa protein, rpL7a, Nhu2p, and Rpp38p [37]. The unique signature motifs that have evolved in L30 and SBP2 may explain the ability of these proteins to bind to the SECIS, which contains a large internal loop and a non-canonical kink-turn motif. As discussed above, the binding of L30 to the SECIS and the L30 RNA depends on Y89, which is the third amino acid in the KYYR motif. SBP2 has a V at this position, and mutational analysis of human SBP2 showed that this amino acid is important for the SBP2:SECIS interaction [38]. The fact that the signature motifs for L30 and SBP2 are not identical is consistent with the unique RNA-binding specificities of the two proteins, as L30 has been shown to bind to multiple cognate RNAs whereas the only known target for SBP2 is the SECIS element. An important future direction will be to solve the structures of the L30:SECIS and SBP2:SECIS complexes.
The study presented here provides new insight into how ribosomal protein L30 recognizes the SECIS element. Our findings suggest that there are subtle differences in how L30 interacts with its different cognate RNAs. The results expand our knowledge of how L7Ae family members recognize different RNA targets.
The wild-type rat PHGPx SECIS and U40C mutant constructs were previously described [13]. The rat PHGPx SECIS elements of 129 nucleotides and 102 nucleotides, which were used for RNA footprinting and REMSA analysis respectively, are described in [39]. The stem-loop L30 pre-mRNA was generated by annealing primers (Additional file 1: Table S1) in 10 mM NaCl and slow cooling the sample from 95°C to room temperature. The luc/UGA258/PHGPx and luc/UGA258/TR1 constructs were described in [40]. The L30 cDNA was amplified from rat liver cDNA (BD Bioscience) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the products cloned into the Champion™ pET200 Directional TOPO® vector (Life Technologies) downstream of an N-terminal His6 tag. Mutants of L30 were constructed using the QuikChange Site-directed mutagenesis method (Stratagene), using the appropriate mutagenic primers (Additional file 1: Table S1). All constructs were verified by Sanger sequencing.
Plasmid DNAs were linearized and used as templates for in vitro transcription. For UV cross-linking and REMSA analyses, RNAs were synthesized in the presence of [α32P] UTP (800 Ci/mmole; Perkin Elmer Easy Tides) using the RiboMAX™ Large Scale RNA Production Systems (T7) (Promega). Transcripts were purified using organic extraction followed by gel filtration using Micro Bio-Spin 30 Columns (BioRad). L30 RNA was gel purified and resuspended in 10 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5. Unlabeled RNAs were prepared using the AmpliScribe T7-Flash Transcription kit (Epicentre) and purified as described above. For RNase footprinting experiments, cold synthetic transcripts were dephosphorylated with SuperSAP (Affymetrix), purified, and resuspended in nuclease-free water. Dephosphorylated transcripts were end-labeled in the presence of [γ32P] ATP (3000 Ci/mmole; Perkin Elmer Easy Tides) and T4 PNK (NEB) at 20 units/pmole RNA. The transcripts were gel purified on 8% acrylamide (19:1)/7M urea gels and eluted in 10 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8, 300 mM NaAc, pH 5.5 at 4°C overnight. Purified RNA was stored in 10 mM Tris HCl, pH 7.5 at -20°C.
Recombinant rat L30 was expressed in BL21 Star (DE3) cells (Invitrogen). IPTG was added to 1 mM and the culture was grown at 37°C for 3 hr. The cells were harvested at 4°C, and the pellets washed with 1X PBS and frozen on dry ice. Purification buffers (PB) contained 20 mM HEPES-HCl, pH 8.0 and the indicated amounts of NaCl and imidazole. The frozen cell pellet was re-suspended in 20 ml of PB/0.2 M NaCl/20 mM imidazole, to which 60 kU rlysozyme (Novagen), 500 U of Benzonase Nuclease (Novagen) and two Complete, Mini, EDTA-free Protease Inhibitor Cocktail tablets (Roche) were added. The cells were further lysed by sonication on ice. The insoluble material was removed by two centrifugations of the lysate at ~16,000 × g for 15 min at 4°C. The cell lysate was filtered through a 0.45 μM filter and passed across a HisTrap TM FF crude column (GE Healthcare) using an AKTA Purifier (UPC-900) (GE Healthcare). The resin was sequentially washed with PB/0.2 M NaCl/20 mM imidazole, PB/1 M NaCl/20 mM imidizole, and PB/0.2M NaCl/40 mM imidazole. The protein was eluted with PB/0.2 M NaCl/250 mM imidazole and collected in 1 or 2 ml fractions. Fractions containing the pure protein were combined and dialyzed against 1 L of PB/0.2 M NaCl buffer for 2 hr at 4°C, which was then repeated with fresh buffer for an additional 2 hr at 4°C. The protein was dialyzed against PB/0.2 M NaCl containing 50% glycerol for 18 hr at 4°C. The dialyzed protein was aliquoted and stored at −70°C. Recombinant SBP2-CT was purified as previously described [40].
RNase footprinting
End-labeled 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS RNA was heated to 95°C and slow cooled to room temperature. The RNA (2.5 nM) was incubated in L30 binding buffer (30 mM Tris HCl, pH 8.0, 75 mM KCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT, 0.04 μg/μL BSA (NEB), 10% glycerol, and 50 ng/μL yeast tRNA) with or without rat L30 protein (0.75 or 1.5 μM as indicated) at 30°C for 15 min. Reactions were cooled to room temperature over a 2 min period and then placed at 22°C for 2-5 min. The indicated amounts of RNase T1, A, or V1 (Ambion) were added to the appropriate samples and incubated at 22°C for 5 min. Enzymatic reactions were quenched with 20 μL Inactivation/Precipitation buffer (Ambion) and purified according to manufacturer’s directions. Samples were resuspended in 10 μL of dye-less loading buffer (95% formamide, 18 mM EDTA, and 0.025% SDS), heat-denatured at 95°C for 5 min, and separated in a denaturing 8% (19:1) polyacrylamide/7 M urea gel. The dried gels were visualized with a phosphorimager or on film.
Sequencing ladders were prepared by incubating end-labeled 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS RNA (2.5 nM) in 1X Sequencing Buffer (Ambion) supplemented with 50 ng/μL yeast tRNA. The RNAs were incubated at 50°C for 5 min, cooled to 22°C and the indicated amounts of RNase T1, A, or V1 added. The samples were incubated, quenched, and purified as described above. Alkali ladders were prepared by incubating end-labeled 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS RNA (2.5 nM) in 100 mM NaOH, 2 mM EDTA, pH 8.0, and 2 μg/μL yeast tRNA at 37°C for 3 min, to which 0.2 M Tris HCl, pH 8.0 (final) was added. The samples were frozen on dry ice and combined with an equal volume of denaturing loading buffer (10 M urea, 1X TBE).
UV cross-linking
The 32P-labeled PHGPx SECIS or U40C mutant RNAs (10 fmol) were incubated in buffer containing 0.7X PBS, 11 mM DTT, 250 ng/μL yeast tRNA and RNAguard (Amersham). The indicated amounts of L30 were added last and the reactions incubated at 37°C for 30 min. The samples were irradiated on ice at 254 nm for 10 min in Costar 96-well polystyrene plates (Corning, Inc) using a Bio-Rad GS Genelinker. The RNA was digested with 20 U of RNase A (Fermentas) at 37°C for 1 hr. The samples were separated on a 15% SDS–PAGE (37.5:1) gel. The gels were dried and visualized using a phosphorimager.
UGA recoding assays
In vitro transcribed RNAs (100 ng) were added to an in vitro translation reaction (25 μL) containing rabbit reticulocyte lysate (Promega), complete amino acid mix (Promega), Protector RNase Inhibitor (Roche), and 70 nM purified recombinant SBP2-CT protein. Purified recombinant L30 protein was added as indicated. Reactions were incubated at 30°C for 30 min and placed on ice for 15 min. Aliquots of the translation products (2.5 μL) were then added to the luciferase substrate (50 μL) in a well of a Microlite 1 microtiter plate (Thermoscientific). Luminescence was measured in 10 sec intervals using a Victor3 Multilabel Counter (Perkin Elmer).
RNA Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assays (REMSA)
The 32P-labeled SECIS RNA (10 fmol) was incubated in L30 binding buffer (30 mM Tris HCl, pH 8.0, 75 mM KCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 1 mM DTT, 0.04 μg/μL BSA (NEB), 10% glycerol, 50 ng/μL yeast tRNA, and 0.2 U/μL Protector RNase Inhibitor (Roche)) with the indicated final concentration of L30 protein at 30°C for 15 min. Samples were transferred to ice and then separated in non-denaturing polyacrylamide gels, either 6% (19:1) or 8% (29:1), in 0.5X TBE gel at 4°C. The dried gels were visualized with a Phosphorimager or on film. The 32P-labeled yeast L30 RNA was incubated in 350 mM KCl, 30 mM Tris HCl, 8.0, and 10 mM DTT at 60°C and allowed to slow cool to room temperature as previously described [41]. The binding reactions were then set-up and processed as described above. The reactions were separated in a non-denaturing 8% (29:1) polyacrylamide/0.5X TBE gel at 4°C.
Data were analyzed using GraphPad Prism software. The results are expressed as means +/- standard error of the mean (S.E.M). Statistical significance is indicated as * (P < 0.05), ** (P < 0.01), or *** (P < 0.001).
PHGPx:
Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase
REMSA:
RNA Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay
RRL:
Rabbit reticulocyte lysate
SBP2:
Sec:
SECIS:
Selenocysteine insertion sequence
SelN:
Selenoprotein N
TR1:
Thioredoxin Reductase 1.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants DK085391 and HL29582 (to D.M.D.). We would like to thank Jodi Bubenik and Angela Miniard for reading the manuscript.
12867_2013_658_MOESM1_ESM.doc Additional file 1: Table S1: Oligonucleotides used in this study. (DOC 40 KB)
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
AB, TF, and DD conceived and designed the experiments, and analyzed data. AB, TF, and TA performed experiments. AB and DD wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue NC10, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
Present address: Department of Human Medical Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
Department of Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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The Official Misc MMA thread
Redsoxx started a topic The Official Misc MMA thread
did this in the Hip Hop section too, but this thread is for random news fight announcements, interviews etc... that u dont think deserve their own thread.
I'll start
-Dana White said in a recent interview that the WEC 155 LB division is likely headed to the UFC soon and the WEC will likely add a 125 LB division
-Joe Doerksen replaces an injured Tim Credeur to face Tom Lawlor at UFC 113
-Jake Ellenberger vs John Howard targeted for UFC on Versus 2 August 1st in Salt Lake City Utah
-Dennis Siver vs Spencer Fisher set for Ultimate Fight 11 Finale on June 11th. Already rumored for that card are Jardine vs Hammil, Leben vs Simpson, Mcsweeney vs Browne & Taylor vs Gunderson
-Chris Lytle vs Matt Brown targeted for UFC 116(awesome fight)
-Recent UFC cut Tim Hague replaces injured Chad Corvin to fight Joey Beltran at UFC 113
-Paul Buentello was cut by the UFC wednesday
-Joe Stevenson vs Takanori Gomi likely for UFC on Versus 2
-UFC's Brian Stann is dropping to MW
-Goran Reljic and Kendall Grove will both return at UFC 116, neither has a named opponent yet
-Strikeforce's Fedor vs Werdum card on June 26th will likely feature Le vs Smith 2 as well as Lawler vs Miller 2
-Penn vs Edgard 2 and Maynard vs Florian will both take place at UFC 118 in Boston on August 29th
-Rob Emerson, Brad Blackburn, Jason High & Fabricio Camoes were all released from the UFC last week
Eugene replied
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AlpHa_OmegA replied
Shogun/Forrest 2 confirmed for UFC Rio.
Nick Diaz says he may be done with MMA and will be making his pro boxing debut late this year against Fernando Varges or Jeff Lacey. Already signed by Nick, just waiting on one of them to sign.
http://tkohub.com/nick-diaz-signs-to...rgas-jeff-lacy
Last edited by AlpHa_OmegA; 04-15-2011, 02:14 PM.
AK replied
stopped watching when he power bombed him, wtf was that lol
AJ replied
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgG6...layer_embedded
Fuck, Jeeves. Them mega posts freezing my shit.
Dan Henderson Vs Fedor Emelianenko targeted for summer.
http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/04/1...oker-confirms/
Fedor has gone to Holland to work on his striking (rumor is he's at Mike's Gym which has trained K1 champions like Badr Hari, Melvin Manhoef) and will be traveling to work on his BJJ as well.
This is good news. Fedor was just so successful and so far ahead of all other HWs for so long that he got too comfortable and stopped evolving. Now you got a guy like Bigfoot who is 300lbs, great sriking and legit BJJ BB and you gotta evolve more as a small HW.
I am a huge fan of both guys and I hate it when 2 of my favorites fight eachother but this is a great fight between 2 of the GOAT. Best of luck to both guys.
def not.. it killed me watching the Lesnar fight. he had that fight won, and he punched himself out.
also, i think it was you Jeevz who wanted the Jay Leno show with Jon Jones
http://www.rlslog.net/jay-leno-2011-...hdtv-xvid-2hd/
Keigan replied
i just hope carwin workin hard on that cardio .. i dont wanna see him gas out again
Hope Carwin DESTROYS this faggot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qec7L...el_video_title
Shane Carwin making his return at UFC 131 versus Jon Olav Einemo.. hope to see Carwin back on his usual bullshit of knocking out whoever steps in his path.
STRIKEFORCE UFC CONFERENCE RECAP
- Scott Coker: "This is a historical day for the sport of MMA."
- "Silicon Valley Sports & Entertainment wanted to get back to their core business (hockey). I wanted to stick around in MMA."
- "We have around 140 fighters under contract in Strikeforce."
- "HWGP delay had more to do with finding the right location for the fight. This deal had nothing to do with it."
- "I think fans are eventually going to get to see the fights they want to see."
- "We had booking approval for guys with non-exclusive contracts."
- "Fedor fights for Strikeforce. Fedor fights on Showtime. I can't get into the specifics."
- Dana White: "Right now, we're looking to run Strikeforce on Showtime. Business as usual."
- "I'll never say never to anything, but right now Strikeforce will continue to run on Showtime. Showtime runs the production for Strikeforce. There's things we can do to help out, but they're running production."
- "There's always going to be competition. We're just looking to expand and grow the business. We need more fighters."
- "I wouldn't count anything out with regards to fighters crossing over. As of now, we're keeping things separate, but it's a work in progress."
- "There are a lot of people who aren't big fans of mine, but we can still do business." (Re: Barnett, Daley)
- "All you have to do is have some money and some big balls to get into the MMA business."
- "My thoughts on women MMA is the same. That's Scott's deal, not mine."
- "We're open to the idea of the HWGP final being on PPV."
- "We have the largest MMA video library in the world."
- "A fighter's union is up to the fighters. The problem is that this isn't a team sport. Guys at the top might not want to kick money down to the guys at the bottom."
- White dodges a question about multiple champions in each weight class.
- Lorenzo Fertitta: "It's a positive for the fighters to work for Zuffa. We have vast resources and will honor contracts."
- "There are plenty of promoters around the world for fighters."
- "We haven't had a chance to meet with Showtime yet. Strikeforce still has a contract for 16 fights with Showtime. If Showtime is interest in something beyond that, we're interested."
- "So far, we have not been able to do a deal with a network that makes sense for us."
- "Strikeforce will continue to use the hexagon. Strike WILL ADOPT the Unified Rules. Elbows on the ground will be allowed in Strikeforce."
- "Showtime contracts runs through 2014. Showtime controls production which includes announcers, etc. We'll offer input, but that's all."
- "We put this together in short order, and we don't have all the answers yet."
- "It's important for fighters to remain professional. We're honoring our side of contracts."
- "There's a lot of "unfinished business" over in Strikeforce with regards to matchups."
- "We're not worried about opening ourselves up to anti-trust suits. There are 1000s of other promotions."
- "Scott does not have an equity stake in Zuffa."
- "We started talks in mid-December."
TODD DUFFEE ON UFC / STRIKEFORCE
I had the luxury of hearing of this possibility about two weeks ago so I have had time to brace for impact. However I thought it would happen later in the year or next year... I am aware there are a lot of possible negatives but I'd much rather hear what the positives are going to be, and dwell on that. At this point, it should be embraced. Complaining isn't going to undo anything.
- My first thought was all the great possible match-ups we will get to see. I understand they will be operating separately for some time but I hope when they say cross-promotion they are saying mega-fights will happen, not just strikeforce will have a booth at the fan expos.
- Some of the greatest fighters in the world won't have to hear the dreaded question of when will you get good enough to be in the UFC and instead get the respect they have already earned.
- Another step in gaining the same respect the NBA, NHL, NFL, MLB etc.
- Strikeforce will now have the money to put on more shows meaning guys won't have to sit on the shelf for long periods of time... More shows means possibly more free shows.
- More pull within the japanese market due to strikeforces good relations which might save Japanese mma.
- The naysayers can now be ignored an we can rest assured that the tourney will go on... Also the greater possibility of more tournaments in the future as a feeder into the big shows.
YouTube - UFC Fighters Discuss Alien Invasion
YouTube - Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida Sparring at Black House
Three-time UFC tournament champion and UFC Hall of Famer Royce Gracie (14-3-3 MMA, 11-1-2 UFC) is in continuing negotiations with the promotion to appear in a retirement fight at the Brazilian event, which is expected to take place Aug. 27 at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.
Mike Kogan, the U.S. representative for the Japan-based Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG) and Gracie's longtime manager, today informed THE MEDIA
Although negotiations are far from over, Kogan said he and Gracie are talking directly with UFC president Dana White and UFC executive Lorenzo Fertitta about the prospect of bringing the 44-year-old MMA legend back into the octagon one last name against a specific - but undisclosed - opponent.
A couple years ago I met Bas Rutten at a Hooters which was the same day I realized that a buffalo wing is a garbage concept. There is no way a buffalo can fly with those things. The best thing a buffalo wing can do is be dipped in ranch. Bas Rutten doesn't have time to think about the inability of a Buffalo to fly. He's too busy appearing on Ustream, talking to Joe Rogan about MMA for two hours. How many of you knew that Bas Rutten nearly fought Wanderlei Silva at Pride in a K-1 match with 4oz gloves? This broadcast is filled with so much awesome that you may not watch the entirety of this recorded stream now, but at some point in your life you will -- and you'll thank me for it.
bas rutten, brian redban, Recorded on 2/22/11 Joe_Rogan on USTREAM. Comedy
http://sports.yahoo.com/video/player...s_MMA/24294517
TUF 13 TRY OUTS (LESNAR V JDS)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLOl...layer_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrekV...layer_embedded
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BOB ARUM STILL CHATTING SHIT
"I don't want to demean UFC, because they've done a marvelous job of marketing. But it's the same audience over and over. It's white males, and they have never been able to expand their demographic."
"So the future success of UFC is limited. The success of boxing is not, because boxing reaches those groups. The only demographic that boxing has lost is the white, young males, period."
According to TATAME, on UFC's official Brazilian website, fans can choose between an army of Brazilian fighters to vote on who should be fighting at UFC: Rio on August 27th. Here's the list offered by ZUFFA thus far.
Bantamweight:
Diego Nunes - Caxias do Sul (RS)
Rany Yahya - Brasília (DF)
Renan Barão - Rio Grande do Norte (RN)
Featherweight:
José Aldo - Manaus (AM)
Raphael Assumpção - Fortaleza (CE)
Charles "Do Bronx" Oliveira - São Paulo (SP)
Edson Barboza - Nova Friburgo (RJ)
Gleison Tibau - Tibau (RN)
Rafael dos Anjos - Rio de Janeiro (RJ) Thiago Tavares - Florianópolis (SC) Yuri Alcântara - Ilha de Marajó (PA)
Welterweight:
Carlos Eduardo "Tá Danado" Rocha - Cabedelo (PB)
Paulo Thiago - Brasília (DF)
Renzo Gracie - Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Thiago "Pitbull" Alves - Fortaleza (CE)
Middleweight:
Alexandre Ferreira "Cacareco" - Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Anderson Silva - São Paulo (SP)
Demian Maia - São Paulo (SP)
Jorge Santiago - Angra dos Reis (RJ)
Mário Miranda - Niterói (RJ)
Rafael "Sapo" Natal - Belo Horizonte (MG)
Rousimar "Toquinho" Palhares - Dores do Indaiá (MG)
Thiago Silva - São Paulo (SP)
Vitor Belfort - Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
Wanderlei Silva - Curitiba (PR
Light Heavyweight:
Fabio Maldonado - Sorocaba (SP)
Luiz "Banha" Cané - São Paulo (SP)
Lyoto Machida - Salvador (BA)
Maiquel Falcão - Pelotas (RS)
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua - Curitiba (PR)
Rogério "Minotouro" - Salvador (BA)
Heavyweight:
Junior "Cigano" dos Santos - Caçador (SC)
Rodrigo "Minotauro" - Salvador (BA)
YouTube - UFC's Phil Davis Talks 2011 NCAA Wrestling Tournament, Cael Sanderson, Penn State
The story behind that video, that was January 2008, it was an event called the Northeastern Grappler's Challenge and was hosted by Team Bomb Squad in Ithaca, New York - which was the team that Jon Jones was originally from. It was actually a pretty big tournament and it was the first time that the American Sambo Association had put together its competition team, its grappling team (no gi). We had on the team Doug Fournet who you see in the video, who is a world class grappler who has been in the FILA grappling world championships many times and the Sambo world championships many times. He originally started off in Judo under Christophe Leninger, a UFC guy in the original days (UFC 3, fought and lost to Ken Shamrock) ... we just know each other through the Sambo community and so at that event I was coaching him but he's not my student.
That was the first time I saw Doug get submitted by anybody so it was pretty surprising. Also on our team was Reilly Bodycomb, who's now kind of famous as well in the grappling world. That was Reilly's very first time doing no gi grappling. Also there was Anthony Sansonetti, Jeremy Paiser and Josh Alti, those were the five guys on our team. We were making our debut as Team American Sambo and we did the Pro Team Challenge and some of the guys did individual tournament brackets as well, but in the Pro Team challenge we actually came in 2nd place only because of Jon Jones beating Doug, and Anthony actually lost to Tamdan McCrory who was also young into his career. But it was just great, it was a fun time and I mean obviously we didn't know who Jon Jones was going to develop into. January 2008 was really early into his career outside of wrestling. We had no idea who he was other than he was really good and he beat Doug and Doug is totally a top level guy, you know? So what was cool about the tournament also was for most people it was the first time they had seen Sambo. It was pretty common place for people throughout the tournament to come up and say to us "What the hell are you guys doing?" because you know it's definitely not like a BJJ style as what we did was a very aggressive style.
Over all it was a pretty great day on a lot of levels and it's pretty cool 3 years later to see what Jones has grown into. He's from New York and I think it's important for people to see, especially those battling for legalisation in New York to really see the history of how these guys become who they are.
YouTube - Before you were famous: Jon Jones
YouTube - Urijah Faber gives the "Korean Zombie" an English Lesson
YouTube - 25 of the Greatest Insults in UFC History
YouTube - Georges St-Pierre Training with Freddie Roach in Los Angeles
and hes training bjj with braulio estima
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YouTube - Risk / Black House (Graffiti Legend Risk Stops By Black House)
To: Joe Silva, Matchmaker Extraordinaire, Ultimate Fighting Championship
Re: Spitsbing & his tainted victory
Joe:
If you get a chance to talk with him, please mention to your idiot-in-residence Michael Spitsbing it’ll be a little tougher to knee ME in the head when I’m charging at him like a runaway train and mincing him through the fence like a boiled potato, should we ever have the pleasure of each other’s company for a few (VERY few) moments in the Octagon.
Oh; and I’d suggest to him being a little careful about spitting on any of MY cornermen, since any one of them can beat him up as badly as I can. Thanks ever so much.
-Chael Sonnen
The acquisition could mean only one MMA video game going forward.
Last year's EA Sports MMA was licensed by Strikeforce, using its rules, many of its fighters, and venues where major Strikeforce cards have been fought. The two had a hand-in-glove promotional relationship leading up to the game's release, including bouts fought during E3 under Electronic Arts' sponsorship.
Though EA Sports MMA did not perform to analysts' sales expectations, a producer vowed in November that the publisher would make a sequel. That may be off now; UFC President Dana White has made no secret of his contempt for EA Sports. Further, the UFC and THQ, publisher of the UFC Undisputed Series, have an exclusive partnership lasting through 2018.
According to Brian Ebersole, the arrow on his chest is pointing to his chin to let opponents know how to defeat him. That's the equivalent of a me having a neon sign pointing to my empty wallet whenever I go on a date to alert the chick they will eventually pay for everything. My friend Eric told me he hasn't brushed his teeth since he was 21. I promptly responded with 'Hey Eric, I will never share a burrito with you again'. Some stuff is inexcusable, but Brian Ebersole's cartwheel kick at UFC 127 gets a pass solely because he pulled it off in a previous bout and KOd his opponent with it. Check out this video of Ebersole KOing Shannon Forrester at XFC - Return of the Hulk. See, it's not that ridiculous, folks.
YouTube - Cartwheel Kick MMA KO Knockout
The UFC middleweight champion has signed with 9ine, the upstart sports marketing firm of soccer great Ronaldo, the three-time FIFA Player of the Year. 9ine is a partnership venture between Ronaldo, entertainment entrepreneur Marcos Buaiz, and London-based advertising powerhouse WPP.
The company, which officially launches in March with offices in both Sao Paulo and London, has already thrown its weight behind its new client. Silva will still be managed by Ed Soares and Jorge “Joinha” Guimaraes, while 9ine look to secure sponsorships and opportunities to develop the brand of “The Spider.”
“9ine has a concept of exclusivity, which means working with only a few athletes and brands, just the best,” Ronaldo stated in a press release. The 34-year-old superstar currently starts for Sao Paulo-based soccer club Corinthians, which happens to be Silva’s team of choice. “This is the case of Anderson Silva, one of the greatest competitors in the MMA world.
It appears that Silva is pulling an average of $80,000 - $100,000 per sponsorship on his shorts.
urijah faber on jones
told him he could be a mix between Jordan and Ali," said former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber, who saw Jones' appeal early on and had his clothing line sponsor Jones. "He's got a lot of character, a great personality and he's a good person. I remember the first time we sat down and talked. I talked to him about sponsoring and he didn't even know there was money involved."
I'm seriously stoked to have one of my brands behind him on a guy who is going to bring the sport up. I was impressed. He looked awesome."
YouTube - Jose Aldo: Managing ED Soares
Former 3x ADCC and 4x World's Jiu-Jitsu champion, Murilo Santana, has a strong inclination to believe that Brock Lesnar's jiu-jitsu coach is not only a better teacher than the Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, but he believes Lesnar will submit Junior Dos Santos in the second round at UFC 13
"I think the ground game will be the deciding factor in this fight. Brock will take Dos Santos down immediately and then we will see who has trained the hardest. Both have great coaches. Even though Comprido is more accomplished than Nogueira in Jiu-Jitsu, I don't think this will matter. It's about the student and their willingness to learn. I know Comprido very well and I know Brock Lesnar has a very strong Jiu-Jitsu game for MMA thanks to Comprido of course. Dos Santos also has very good hips and is hard to hold but in my honest opinion, I don't think it will be enough. A lot of people overlook the fight with Frank Mir who has very strong Jiu-Jitsu. I knew immediately that Comprido prepared Brock well for Frank. There are a lot of things that they did on the ground that most people who don't know Jiu-Jitsu cannot see. For example, the 'lockdown'. Frank tried to use the lockdown on Brock, but Brock shut it down perfectly. I'm sure this was something they prepared for. I know Robert Drysdale sat down with Frank after the fight and watched the tape. They went through every technique Brock used and what Frank should have done to counter or avoid it. It was perfect top control from the half guard. The reason he is adapting so well to Jiu-Jitsu is because of his wrestling background. If it wasn't for that, it would have taken him a long time to learn the stuff he has already learned in the four years he has been training Jiu-Jitsu. In the end, I trust Comprido and I know he has a surprise for Dos Santos. My prediction for the fight is if it stays standing, Dos Santos will take it. But once they go to the ground, that will be the moment where Dos Santos will lose. I have Brock winning by submission in the second round."
The Korean Zombie, Chan Sung Jung, has stepped in on extremely short notice for an injured Nam Phan and will be banging his undead heart out against Leonard Garcia only 10 days from now at the UFC Fight Night on March 26th! Wow! Watch the video below for a little refresher course.
YouTube - Leonard Garcia VS The Korean Zombie Highlight
dana White said St-Pierre vs. Silva may not be as close as we originally thought.
"This fight isn't happening," White said. "It's not a fight yet. It's still a big fantasy fight. There are still things that need to happen in the meantime before we sit down and discuss where this fight would be, what weight it would be at, how it would work. It's all just fantasy yet.
"I literally have not talked to Georges St-Pierre or Anderson Silva about this fight."
The same obviously goes for Jones vs. Silva. White admitted numerous people stopped him on the way to the post-UFC 128 press conference to ask about Jones vs. Silva.
"With what I saw tonight, [Jones] looks a mile ahead of everyone else," White said. "In my opinion, not only is he the No. 1 light heavyweight in the world, he shot up the pound-for-pound (rankings) as well."
But that doesn't mean he's ready to throw him into a fight with Silva just yet.
Besides, Silva really has no interest to fight at light heavyweight, White said. He only did so before (in wins over James Irvin and Forrest Griffin) because he largely had cleaned out the division and was pushed by White.
"Anderson Silva has made it very clear to me that he doesn't want to fight at 205 pounds," White said. "That's why originally when I was always talking about him trying to go for another belt at 205 pounds. ... He stuck his big toe in a couple of times because I was pressing the issue. He made it very clear he doesn't want to fight at 205."
However, like White and other true MMA fans, he thinks Silva might be lured after what we've seen from Jones, MMA's next big star, in the past couple years.
"Who knows?" White said. "Maybe he sees a guy as talented as Jon Jones, and he'll want to try it."
JORGE RIVERA ON SONNEN
Can you explain your dislike of Chael Sonnen?
Cocky man, he's doing what he likes to do he's selling talking shit and messing with a guys mind. It's OK, he talk too much and he doesn't have any ground so he shouldn't talk too much.
If you were booked in a match with him, how would you deal with the smack talk mentally? Would he get to you?
Never, never. He can spend his time talking shit and not being in the gym. I will be in the gym, let him talk the shit.
BIGFOOT SILVA ON BROCK
"It excites me, The UFC is the No. 1 event on earth. The best fighters in the world are there. I would love to fight there."
"I'd love to fight Brock Lesnar and send him back to pro
wrestling because I don't accept the fact that [he's] ranked No. 2. It's not personal; I don't know Brock. It's just professional."
This is what he said previously
"Man, I think he must return to his fake fights that it’ll be best for him. I’ve always said that, he’s not a better fighter than Fedor, or Minotauro, or Cigano… He’s not the number one. I’ve said that when Werdum beat Fedor, who would become the number one? To me, it must have been Wedum because he had just beat the number one, but no. they put Brock Lesnar as the first, Werdum on the second place and Fedor in third. For sure now the top position is on good hands because Cain is a great fighter, he’s complete, has proven to have a good ground game, a good Wrestling and h’s a good exchanger. Now it’s on good hands. It was ridiculous for us, fighters, to see Brock Lesnar with only four or five bouts being considered the top athlete on earth, it’s ridiculoius. And people like Cain Velasquez, Cigado, Fedor and Minotauro coming after Brock Lesnar… He’s a fake fighter."
FIGHT NIGHT - DAVIS V NOG .. CONFERENCE CALL RECAP
- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira: I was already far into my camp for Tito, but Phil's a wrestler too, so my training doesn't change too much.
- Nog: This is definitely a great moment in my career. It's a big step for me.
- Nog: This fight is just as tough as it would have been with Tito. Every fight is tough.
- Nog: Davis and I trained not too long ago. Very strong wrestling, very strong ground skills.
- Nog: I've dedicated the last year to wrestling.
- Phil Davis: It's an excellent opportunity to fight a legend in the sport. I'm thrilled just to be in the Octagon with him.
- Davis: Nogueira is a threat everywhere.
- Davis: I took a lot of thought before agreeing to this fight. Great opportunity, but it's a huge challenge.
- Davis: I don't know if I'm close to fighting for a title. That's not for me to say. I have to worry about Nogueira first.
- Davis: I'm definitely taking time off after this fight to improve my fight. This fight came sooner than I expected.
- Davis: I take inspiration from Jon Jones. He accomplished so much in such little time.
- Dan Hardy: Anthony and I are friendly. No reason to fabricate trash talk. I've invested my energy into my training.
- Hardy: I always like to put pressure on myself. I perform better. I've put myself in a situation where I feel like I'm fighting for my job.
- Hardy: The Monday morning after the Condit fight I was back in the gym. I was annoyed that I let myself and my fans down.
- Hardy: I got back to the UK just before Christmas. I've done my camp with Team Rough House.
- Hardy: It's always good having Paul Daley around. We've been together for 9 years.
- Hardy: I've knocked out enough people that it was bound to happen to me.
- Hardy: I'm annoyed that Condit thinks he's a better fighter than me. He isn't.
- Hardy: I wasn't quite sure how the medical suspension works. If someone tells me I can't punch for 30 days, I'm not going to listen to them.
- Anthony Johnson: Dan's already been respectful to me. I like watching him fight. We're top athletes, we don't need to go back-and-forth.
- Rumble: I said I was thinking of moving to 185 to get people talking about me while I was out. 170 pounds is my home.
- Rumble: I don't think GSP is giving up the belt any time soon. There's still guys who want to get a piece of him.
- Rumble: I got pretty big, pretty lazy being out with the injury. My weight is great now.
- Rumble: I'll be under 200 pounds in cage. Maybe 180-185.
- Rumble: Hell no. This fight isn't going to the ground. You're talking to two guys who like to bang.
- Rumble: We don't like that lovey-dovey stuff. That's why we should be in the main event.
he UFC's deals with Spike TV, Versus and ION Television (not to mention Facebook.com) are now coupled with Strikeforce's Showtime and CBS partnerships, creating a widespread MMA presence across a variety of television platforms.
But could the purchase of Strikeforce, including its fighters and extensive tape library, signal the coming of the UFC's own television channel? UFC president Dana White admits it certainly make sense.
"It's a different world out there right now," White told Mike Straka on this week's new edition of HDNet's "Inside MMA." "Going out and starting your own channel isn't as easy it was six or seven years ago. It's a lot tougher than it used to be.
"But does it make sense? Yeah, it makes sense."
MMA fans have long salivated over the prospect of a 24-hour network dedicated to the broadcast of UFC programming. With the PRIDE, WEC, Strikeforce and EliteXC video libraries now under Zuffa's control, it would seem there is now more than enough stockpiled footage to make that dream a reality.
White, himself, even spoke on the potential for a UFC channel in an October 2010 interview with Broadcasting & Cable.
"SportsBusiness Journal just came out with a survey asking big names in the industry which sport could start its own network, and four out of five said us," White told Broadcasting & Cable. "They are right. I agree. That will happen within the next couple years."
Of course, exactly when that will happen remains a mystery. Some MMA pundits have suggested that while an all-UFC channel is certainly possible, the real crux behind the UFC's acquisitions of promotions like Strikeforce and the WEC is the access to their TV deals, thus allowing White to pit networks against each other in their bids for his programming.
White dismissed that notion.
"It makes me laugh sometimes when I'm cruising through the Internet and I read some of the stories that some of the reporters write," White told Straka. "Nobody knows what we're doing. We know what's going on. We're the ones that built this industry. We're the trailblazers that are out there making all these things happen.
"We know what we're doing. We know what the future is. We know what's going on, and it's funny to sit around and read some of the ideas that some of these websites throw out there. Trust me, we know exactly what we're doing for the next five years."
Instead, White stuck to his "business as usual" mantra in regards to current broadcasting plans. And as far as Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker is concerned, that means a continued presence on Showtime, as well as a return to network-television partner CBS for the first time since a post-fight brawl marred the April 2010 broadcast of "Strikeforce: Nashville."
"It's definitely still a possibility," Coker told HDNet's Bas Rutten. "We all know what happened last year, and we said we'll revisit it this year.
"Under the new regime, honestly, we haven't had a chance to sit down. It happened so fast. ... We really haven't had the time to sit down and create the overall master plan in detail."
The UFC's recent purchase of Strikeforce was unquestionably a game-changer in MMA, and the sport's most powerful promotion further distanced itself from any potential challengers for its market share. But what exactly that means for the sport's presence on television remains to be seen. White declined to reveal the company's current plan, but he admitted his promotion is an extremely enviable position.
"To be where we are right now in such a short amount of time?" White asked. "We bought the company literally 10 years ago, so to be sitting here now and talking about all this stuff and to be where we are today is pretty amazing in 10 years."
CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME ufc in the moment with jones show that aired last week, from jones perspective
YouTube - UFC In the Moment: Jon Jones - Full Episode
YouTube - UFC Fighter Jon Jones Pro Debut in MMA
YouTube - Phil Davis Mistaken For Jon Jones LMFAO
rashad on jon nones
""I mean it's one thing to say something in an interview but the least you could have picked up the phone and been like, "man I did an interview today and they kind of put me on the spot with a rough question and I answered it this way." At least give me the heads up so that way I know and not look at it if he's Judas or something. You know who Judas is? That interview was some backstabbing s**t but now it's like whatever because now I know the game he is playing. Then for Greg to sit back and say he doesn't want to have anything to do with it....why not? You f**kn created the situation. Be his coach and be in his corner. That's what you want so do it. I don't care if coaches against me. It doesn't even matter."
"Greg brought this situation about. He brought Jones on board a while back against my wishes are here we are today. I decided to leave (Jackson’s MMA) because I felt like he didn’t have my best interest anymore. Greg is not the same coach he used to be.”
cro cop waasnt allowed to bring a japanese flag into the cage
YouTube - Mirko Cro Cop UFC 128 Entrance
YouTube - Junior dos Santos - Showtime Kick
YouTube - Lyoto Machida: Wrap Up From Belem
jon jones on being remembered
"“I think being remembered for standing for something is a lot more important than just for a cool move that you did. Right now I’m standing up for Christ, and if I find something that I’m passionate about as I learn more about myself and the world, I definitely want to step up and help. Being great is one thing, but being remembered is another thing. To be great, magnificent and remembered, you have to stand for something and change the world in a way. I want to change the world. Ali stood up for the Muslims and for not going to war and he made an impact. People don’t remember Bruce Lee as “that Asian guy.” No one cares that Bruce Lee was Asian, they love him all over the world, and I want to have that same impact. I don’t want me being African-American to ever play a difference in anyone’s mind. I don’t want anyone saying ‘I like that black fighter.’ I want people to love me because of me. I’d rather be known as that Christian fighter or that peaceful fighter or that fighter that’s spreading positivity and kindness and confidence and way more than tactics. It’s important.”
YouTube - Anderson Silva talks George St. Pierre, Jon Jones win over Shogun, & the UFC in Brazil
NINJA on his brothers loss
"Yes, I was very surprised with (Jones’) game, Shogun trained a lot, Jones was able to neutralize my brother’s game, I think he studied Shogun’s game a lot, so congrats to him. Shogun now needs to go back to Brazil and analyze the fight, see what went wrong in the fight and go from there, ball forward."
"I think (Jones) has a brilliant future ahead of him, he’s a very young athlete, but in this weight class I think it’s very hard… people don’t seem to be able to keep the title for more than one fight. Everyone wins and then loses the belt so it’s a very tough weight class and there are a lot of great fighters, so we’ll see, he’s a young guy and will stay strong going forward, but Shogun will be able to make a strong come back, for sure."
"I think (what went wrong during the fight) was that the very first strikes Jones landed on Shogun, that knee and the head kick, may have taken his gas away."
Some 400 hopefuls turned out today at the Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott in Newark, N.J., to audition for the 14th season of "The Ultimate Fighter."
Seen in the crowd were a few familiar faces: UFC vet Din Thomas, who appeared on the show's fourth season, and WEC vets Wagnney Fabiano, Micah Miller and Ian McCall.
"The Ultimate Fighter 14," which begins production this summer and debuts in the fall on Spike TV, is expected to feature bantamweight and/or featherweight fighters. It's the first time the reality show has featured competitors in the UFC's lightest weight classes.
Although not confirmed by the promotion, bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber are believed to be frontrunners to coach the show. UFC president Dana White confirmed this past weekend following UFC 128 that the two bantamweights are set to meet sometime this year, though he stopped short of confirming the bout as the traditional season-ending fight between "TUF" coaches.
In what's become a customary part of the reality show's tryouts, lines ran long and time ran short for fighters to show their stuff. Each hopeful had a couple of minutes – tops – to grapple and strike before White, UFC matchmaker Joe Silva, and officials from Spike TV.
But there was added incentive to impress, at least during the grappling portion of the tryout: a cash bonus. White plunked down a stack of $100 bills at his table and offered a C-note to anyone who earned a tapout.
"I didn't have a chance to tap (someone)," said 39-year-old bantamweight Alexis Villa, a former Olympic wrestler from Cuba who now resides with American Top Team in Coconut Creek, Fla. "You only have two minutes that you can do it. But I controlled the position the whole time. I was controlling the guy."
Vila had made it through the initial tryouts and was waiting for the interview portion of the audition.
"He's probably on paper the No. 1 guy here," said Ron Foster, a former matchmaker for Shine Fights who now works with STARS MMA and ML Management. "The guy's a monster."
With his thick Cuban accent, Vila is a prime candidate for subtitles.
26-year-old featherweight Josh Tyler, a former Golden Gloves champion and wrestler at Old Dominion University, was still waiting to get in the room.
"I guess with being a fighter and competitor, I feel like everywhere I go, I find myself sizing people up," he said. "I don't know if that's because I'm 145 and a little guy and that's just what us little fellas do.
"You can get a pretty good idea of people and where they are – not so much their ******d appearance, but their attitude. The look in their eyes. I think you can tell a lot from that. There's so many people out there that will surprise you."
Pablo Alfonso, a 28-year-old bantamweight, was certainly shocked when he grappled for White and the remainder of the judging panel. His partner was 177 pounds and normally competed at lightweight.
"I tried to entertain Dana," Alfonso said. "They didn't call my name. But you know what? I'm motivated right now. I want to continue fighting and prove them wrong."
For those of you who are completely out of touch with the MMA world and especially the saga of the fighter formally known as Krazy Horse and Chute Box back in Pride, here's a handy guide to get up to date. First, watch this video of Krazy Horse fighting Cristiano Marcello backstage in Pride FC.
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At some point at the beginning of this year, Kid Khaos claimed the video footage was actually cut and he knocked out Wanderlei Silva after he was choked out. Within hours, Cristiano Marcello made this video which directly addressed Kid Khaos and his allegations. Later that night, Wanderlei Silva went on a Twitter rampage (twitterage?) and vehemently denied that he was ever knocked out by Kid Khaos.
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NOW KRAZY HORSE RESPONDS
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JUST RANDOM BUT .. ARIZONA STATES RANKED NO1 AT THE NCAA DIV1 TOURNAMENT IN HIS WEIGHT
Anthony Robles - an inspiring story, he's the one-legged wrestler who can't be told no. Robles was born with one leg, but hasn't let physical impairment get in his way. His seeding at number one comes with some controversy, but he nevertheless had an unfefeated season at Arizona State University and is something akin to the people's champ.
Arizona State senior Anthony Robles is seeded No. 1 in the 125-pound class at the NCAA Division I wrestling tournament. He aims to finish No. 1. He's never been daunted by the fact he was born with one leg.
"I plan on going all out. I'm going to be throwing the kitchen sink and everything else out there with it," Robles said Wednesday.
Robles, 22, who started wrestling as a high school freshman in Mesa, Ariz., and won two state titles, is well known to NCAA tournament fans. They gave him standing ovations after performances that earned him All-America status the past two seasons.
He will take a 31-0 record into the tournament Thursday through Saturday at the Wells Fargo CenTER
YouTube - NCAA Wrestling National Championships Division 1 Anthony Robles vs. Matt McDonough (Full Match)
DALEY INTERVIEW
Do you think you’ve got enough time to prepare for someone as dangerous as Nick Diaz?
Well first I wasn’t going to take it because I wanted some downtime after this training camp but my team spoke about it and we’re confident that we’ve got a good game for this fight and this is the right decision for us.
I’m going to smash him, take his belt then I can take all the time off I want.
There were situations outside of your control that contributed to the weigh in situation at BAMMA but are you confident that you can hit the 170 mark at Strikeforce?
Yeah the BAMMA situation was pretty messed up because the hotel had locked the Sauna off and that situation made it pretty impossible. In the end I only missed it by 0.4lbs and with a sauna that would have come off pretty easily.
There’s no downtime so I don’t have to do as big a cut so I’m very confident that Strikeforce won’t be a problem.
Do you honestly think that Nick Diaz will stand up with you?
There’s no way he’ll stand up with me. He might think he wants to but his coaches won’t allow it; Cesar Gracie’s a great coach and he won’t want him trading punches.
What holes do you see in Nick Diaz’s game that you can exploit?
His boxing and his lack of wrestling. I’m a better athlete than he is. He’s a really dangerous grappler but he’s got to get in close enough to make it work and I’m not going to give him the chance.
YouTube - The Story of The Sengoku King (Miami Hustle Prequel By Genghis Con)
After reading this article, you will be awarded with the 'Highly Touted Newcomer' card to be placed in your back pocket. You can redeem this card at anytime, preferably in the midst of a late-night conversation about MMA. When this card is redeemed, people will instantly drop their beverage of choice and stand in awe at your MMA knowledge. You don't even have to credit us. Just pretend like you knew about Derek Brunson before you read this MiddleEasy article. We really don't care. Either way, you will be one of these. Derek Brunson is a three-time All-American wrestler hailing from The University of North Carolina. He has finished all of his fights in the first round, and usually through some incredibly violent knockout. In fact, the longest he's ever been in the cage is 2:27 and if you add the total time in all of his six fights, it only comes to a little bit over six minutes. According to his Twitter account, Derek will be making his Strikeforce debut on an April 1st Strikeforce Challengers card against one of those mysterious TBD/TBA guys.
Derek Brunson auditioned for The Ultimate Fighter and for some insanely complex reason, he was not selected to participate in the show. It's alright though, we still have his TUF audition reel and now it's time you check it out.
YouTube - Derek Brunson . Official TUF audition film
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A place called The Center in Oklahoma is now nestled comfortably inside a Wal-Mart, which essentially means you can work on your sprawl while your mother's holiday pictures are being developed in the photography department. While The Center has multiple locations across the country, it appears that their El Reno, Oklahoma establishment is the first mixed martial arts gym that is housed entirely inside of a Wal-Mart. If you're in the area, you can try a class out for free with a promise that 'you'll want to be a member forever'. Here are a few pictures of the establishment via The UG. Let's just hope these guys are using Dollamur Mats.
YouTube - MiddleEasy.com | Fabricio Werdum says he's only going to fight for 2-3 more years
There's an embargo on this MMA Supremacy news, but I'm leaking it out early to you guys in an attempt to bring you the news first, and to put MiddleEasy in a potential lawsuit. IGN ran a story on MMA Supremacy being the first videogame to feature women's MMA (something that I knew over a month ago), but they don't quite have the content that we're presenting to you guys. Felice Herrig and Michele Gutierrez will be featured in the game and most likely beating every morsel of facial recognition out of each other. After we interviewed Felice Herrig nearly two years ago, she told us to throw away her number and never call her again. Apparently she thought we were stalkers and that our interviewer, Noel, sounded just a little bit 'too creepy'. We were stuck in Biloxi, Mississippi at the time to watch a newcomer to MMA called 'Bobby Lashley' take on 'the biggest challenge of his career', Bob Sapp. Later that night, we accidentally dialed her up and just stayed quiet as Felice repeatedly said 'Hello?' over the phone. In retrospect, we really should have taken her advice and trashed her phone number. Ah well, at least we can occasionally stalk Felice on her Twitter account.
Check out these exclusive screen shots of Felice Herrig and Michele Gutierrez tearing it up in a digital world along with a video of them playing their digital representations in the real world. My god this simulacrum...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ03Q...layer_embedded
OVEREEM ON FEDOR
I have said it many times, M-1 is doing everything to get attention and they know they only get media attention if they say stupid things so they will demand crazy things to get there voice out there. I’ve always said that I will do my test like every other fighter. I honestly believe that Fedor lost the fight because of ‘bad’ karma. I’ve heard stories what M-1 did to their own staff and what they are demanding. They used Fedor to get what they want. What goes around comes around and that’s Fedor losing. I seriously like Fedor and I had mixed feelings when he lost. On the one hand I wanted to see Fedor in the semi finals but on the other hand I’m happy so M-1 is not co-promoting any event where I will be fighting in."
ANOTHER LASHLEY INTERVIEW
PRO MMA NOW: Rumor has it that your contract with Strikeforce was up and you chose not to resign. Can you talk about why you and Strikeforce parted ways and clear up any rumors that might be out there?
BOBBY LASHLEY: "It was basically that. I think Coker is a great guy and I think that he has a great organization. The last card was incredible. It was a great fight show. I have no bad words to Strikeforce or Coker. I think he is great. I just felt the need to just get away from that relationship for whatever reasons and start over and build myself back up. I’ve been talking with Joe Kelly and he has been an incredible person to talk with and an incredible person to work with and I see his vision with his organization and I just want to be a part of it. Then having an opportunity to be able to fight in Kansas and really build back up and get ready I think it was just the right fit for me."
PRO MMA NOW: Could you ever see yourself fighting with Strikeforce sometime in the future?
BOBBY LASHLEY: "I don’t know about that."
ANOTHER DALEY ON DIAZ INTERVIEW
“I think his boxing is phenomenal. He’s a great striker and he’s a guy that comes to fight. It was a great display of that in that fight. He was fighting with Cyborg standing up, Cyborg took him down, and he carried on fighting and submitted him. As a fighter, Nick Diaz is phenomenal.”
“Although he’s fought a lot of guys standing up, he’s not fought me. I don’t mean to be arrogant and I don’t mean to continue piping on about it, but I’m a whole different animal when it comes to the stand-up game and I’ve continued to get better.
“I don’t do it for publicity when I say his expiry date’s going to be up, that’s genuinely how I feel. I think the build-up could be interesting. I think if Diaz lets his mouth flow away with him, I think it could be quite entertaining.”
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Jul 29th, 2012| Tip
“Looking for more than 2-players, Overlord rules are it!”
Memoir 44 offers the fan a lot of options, and one of them is overlord rules!
Some complain about M44 being a 2 player game, but they probably don’t know about “Overlord” rules. You can play overlord rules for the base game, but it really needs two base games or overlord battlemaps to take full advantage of what you can do in team play. With two base games, you just put two boards side by side on the narrow edge. You can download the first edition of the overlord rules here
Normally, the rules talk about playing two teams of 4 (8 players); however, you can scale it down, since it’s hard to find 8 players to play a game. Just decide who’s the Commander in Chief, and who plays the sections.
And to really make overlord shine, buy the “Operation: Overlord” expansion to get the special Overlord deck. This makes it easier to keep track of the rules, since many are printed on the cards.
Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from playing overlord for 2 players, and many players do just that and prefer it that way.
“Buy Breakthrough and Winter Wars expansions for deeper 2 player gameplay and more options.”
One of the great things about Memoir ’44 is it’s expandability. It’s not a game…it’s a game system! One of the complaints about M44 is that it’s so lightweight and limited, that some wargamer snobs don’t consider it a “wargame”.
Well, I believe this is better addressed in one of the more recent expansions called “Breakthrough”. Basically, Breakthrough introduces a larger board for two players. It’s about the size of two normal base game boards put together on the wide sides, making it a deeper board. The breakthrough scenarios allow for “deeper” game play not just because of the board, but also more medals need to be won and more units on the board.
For this expansion to really shine, you need the “Winter Wars” expansion which includes the new “Breakthrough” command deck. These cards really open up your options, because it allows you to move more units while others are attacking. This helps the game a lot, because the board is so long! You’re units sometimes have a long way to go to get to the front line and engage the enemy.
Player 1 Yellow {Avid Gamer}
Sep 5th, 2012| Strategy
“Ride The Line”
Whenever you can, keep a unit or two in the hexes with the flank lines drawn through them! Then they can be activated by either Section orders.
Others have mentioned this, too, but i’ll echo how important it is to plan ahead! If you are down to only one Left Section card, but have a few good Center Section cards, then get those troops in the Left Section onto (or across) that line! (Granted, terrain & enemy position can foil that plan, but it’s often well worth the try).
coltsfan76 {Avid Gamer}
“Armor Overrun FTW!”
Tanks can be a formidable weapon given their movement and range of 3 each. They are often best used at this maximum range to stave off an unwanted Ambush attack.
Their most powerful tool, however, is the Armor Overrun (AO). AO lets you move into an adjacent vacated hex due to a retreat or unit elimination and then attack again. This is effectively a double turn when it is triggered. Use it to mop up weak units, especially those trying to stay out of the fight. If you go after stronger units (those with most of their figures), make sure their retreat path is not completely blocked. Rolling a flag on the first strike is more powerful than a single hit.
Be cautious of terrain type as the terrain you are standing on, or overrun into, may prevent moving and/or additional combat this round.
Stonemason {Avid Gamer}
Mar 7th, 2013| Tip
“Don't let them get away!”
In Memoir 44, causing an enemy to retreat can be a good thing, but preventing it from retreating or forcing it to retreat off the board is even better. One way to do this is by placing your units behind it or attacking the enemy unit while it is on the base line. For each retreat the opposing player can’t carry out, he/she loses 1 figure. Setting up your units to prevent the enemy from retreating takes time and patience.
If you have artillery or if you are using the air rules, you can direct
your attacks against the enemy units on the opposing player’s base line.
Even if you fail to force the enemy unit’s off the board, you can bet the enemy player will be concentrating on moving his/her units inland
instead of attacking you.
Also, don’t fall into this situation yourself by blocking your retreat
paths should the need to strategically redeploy be of utmost importance.
Sep 13th, 2011| Tip
“Army packs are great”
Once the base game scenarios start to get stale, the next place to look is the army packs. They are the simplest expansion to get, and they add a lot to the base game with new armies and rules for each army. You don’t have to get all 3 either, you can just pick one and try it out, then get another.
The Pacific Theater focuses on the Japanese armies with new miniatures and rules for them. You reuse the US/Allies units for the base game to play the marines with some new rules for them. Scenarios for that part of WWII are included as well.
The Eastern Front adds the Soviet forces miniatures and scenarios to reflect the other side of the European front. Some people highly recommend this one, and this theater gets more love in future expansions.
The Mediterranean Theater adds the British units. Expect lots of tank battles in this one as you roam over the Sahara Desert trying to push back the Italians and Germans. This introduces the Italian rules and anti-tank weapons.
Beyond those expansions, things get more complicated as more expansions require previous expansions to fully utilize new scenarios.
Hurmferd {Avid Gamer}
Feb 14th, 2015| Tip
“Is it worth buying the book ""Memoir 44 Tactics and Strategy Guide" by Alexis Beuve?”
I’ve found the “Memoir 44 Tactics and Strategy Guide” by Alexis Beuve to be very challenging and worthwhile as an instructional guide. It includes a wealth of information on key aspects of infantry, armor, and artillery, on scenarios and tools, and also provides a number of game walkthroughs. Alexis’ walkthrough of the Sword Beach scenario really opened my eyes to how one must play both strategically and tactically to win, all the while being mindful of opportunities that arise from cards drawn and in-hand.
Just one awesome tidbit out of hundreds in the book is the general guidance to play armor (depending on the situation) more in a supporting role than in an offensive role. I suspect that I’d probably otherwise have played armor more in the offensive role, often placing them at risk, until I’d have had many games under my belt.
WHAT I LIKED ABOUT THE BOOK
– Chapters and chapters of solid advice for playing various units and situations
– Starts off relatively easy, then builds upon earlier advice to deliver more advanced techniques
– The 4 different game walkthroughs not only highlighted a variety of scenario types, but included a nice twist when the writer analyzed a game played by other tournament-winning players with commentary from the players as to why they made certain decisions
– Provided overviews of tools and web areas for the player to use as reference
– Covers all of the key expansions
– Includes one-liner “proverbs” of key tactics/strategies that can be more easily remembered when playing (e.g. “Infantry attacks armor at close range”)
WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE SO MUCH ABOUT THE BOOK
– Dense in information, and dry at times (what did I expect, it’s a wargame, right?)
– Some one-page references to certain scenarios didn’t really provide advice or commentary, but seemed to serve merely as a pointer for the reader to the scenario
– Some maps were too small to easily read and reference (although I’m red-green color blind, so maybe that played a role in my difficulty)
Oct 21st, 2011| Tip
“Use stronger units to screen weaker units”
If you need to protect wounded units, move a stronger unit next to an enemy unit to keep them from attacking the weaker unit. The rules say, that units must attack other units that are adjacent to them. In other words, you can’t attack another unit at long range if an enemy unit is adjacent to you.
This can be an effective tactic to buy you some time particularly from enemy artillery.
Lozmoid {Strategy Gamer}
Nov 28th, 2012| Tip
“Official FAQ/Errata”
http://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44/en/content/faq/
Very concise and segmented into easy parts, it is an essential read to any Memoir 44 player.
I hope you will find this document useful, I certainly did!
Sep 21st, 2011| Strategy
“Cut off your enemy's retreat!”
One of the most valuable moves in Memoir ’44 is being able to cut off a unit’s retreat. This allows flags on a die roll to count as hits now and increases the probability of a hit. Tanks become key to this strategy, because they can move up to three hexes and still battle with up to 3 die depending on terrain. Combine that with an armored assault card, and it’s lethal.
So when attacking see if you can maneuver one of your units to where it can block a target’s retreat, you’re in good shape if it doesn’t leave you too vulnerable the next turn.
Also, always be on the lookout for units that can’t retreat because they are at the back of the board or their own units block the retreat path. That makes them prime targets.
Aaron Perkins {Avid Gamer}
“Recon 1 and Sandbag Cards”
Usually it is a good Idea to play all of your recon 1 cards as early as possible to get them out of your hand and pad your hand with more useful cards. Play sandbags as early as possible to protect your troops, and because it might be more painful to give up a chance to attack later in the game.
“Capture the Flag - Ignoring flags is optional”
It can be annoying when a retreat flag is rolled against you. Not as damaging as a hit, but usually as frustrating. Some terrain allows you to ignore a flag, which is a benefit.
However, many people forget this is (usually) an option. When more than one retreat flag is rolled, it is often best to accept the first flag as well. This will allow you to move 2+ hexes away (instead of ignoring one and only moving 1 space). Frequently, this will get you out of range of other attackers this round. Look also to move into better coverage because of the terrain type or blocking Line of Sight (LOS).
Remembering that ignoring flags are optional can turn an annoying roll for you into a frustrating roll for your opponent.
“Save "Armor Assualt" for the right time!”
Armor Assault is deadly card in the hands of a experienced player. Don’t waste this card right a way with your tanks. The key to this card for scenarios with lots of tanks on your side is to get your tanks in position for a close strike and weaken the opponent’s units.
Why is this so powerful? Well, you get an extra die to roll against your enemy if you’re adjacent to them. So, get as many tanks next to an enemy. This works best if you get next to wounded units that are down to 1 or 2 figures. If the enemy retreats, you can perform “Armor Overrun” maneuver for another possible 4-die attack. If they’re eliminated, you can overrun for an attack on another nearby unit!
I have turned the tide of a battle that I was losing with this card and three well-placed tanks! Going from being down 3-1 in medals to being up 4-3 in one single turn. I eventually went onto to win the scenario.
“Armor as a ranged weapon”
Often I play against people playing a little too close with their Armor..Infantry tends to chew up tanks if you can get within close range of them. Use the tanks range of three to your advantage, keep a distance and try to let enemy infantry close that gap, by the time they get to you they have probably taken heavy casualties and you are good to charge in and pick up that armor overrun.
Randy Newnham {Avid Gamer}
Apr 4th, 2012| Tip
“Speed up setup for units”
When I set up a scenarion for Memoir ’44, I first put out a single figure for each unit per hex. I find it is easier, faster and more accurate to focus on getting the correct type out first, then sifting through and counting after that is done. Try it next time you play this awesome game!
Sep 11th, 2011| Strategy
“Attack with longest range unit first on combined attacks”
When you are using multiple units to attack a single target, it is best to attack with the your unit that is farthest away. You want all your attackers to be able to attack. But if you attack first with your unit that is closest, the target may have to retreat out of range of the farthest unit. So, you would have wasted activating that farthest unit. If you attack with the farthest unit first, the enemy may have to retreat, but will still be in range of the nearest unit for another attack.
The only time you shouldn’t attack with longest range unit is if the target could potentially retreat out of range (behind a hill or forest). Then you’d want to attack with the units next to the target for maximum dice. Hopefully, the long range unit like artillery can still be in range if the target retreats for an attack.
Oct 12th, 2011| Tip
“Artillery Bombard...another timely card”
This card is really only most useful when you have more than one artillery on the board. It’s not completely useless with one artillery, but it becomes more powerful with 2 or 3 artillery on your side. The ability to do two attacks per turn per artillery can be devastating especially at close range.
The ability to move the artillery 3 hexes and not battle is still nice if you have artillery out of range. With multiple artillery, you can let an in-range artillery land a devastating double attack while moving up another artillery into closer range on another turn.
Use it wisely and to full effect!
Jason Morningstar {Avid Gamer}
Nov 4th, 2011| Rule
“Zombies of Normandy”
This is a silly variant but offers some surprising tactical depth.
You need a big bag of zombie figures, or tokens to represent zombies.
When an infantry unit (not armor or artillery) is eliminated, immediately replace it with a four-zombie unit.
Zombie units have their own “turn” immediately after the Axis turn. All zombie units move one hex per turn toward the nearest non-zombie unit. If more than one unit is equidistant, determine which they approach randomly. Zombies are indiscriminate eaters.
If a zombie unit ends its movement adjacent to any non-zombie unit, they attack. A zombie unit battles with as many dice as it has figures. This makes a new horde very dangerous.
Zombie units are battled as though they were infantry, and do not re-spawn when eliminated. They do not count toward victory conditions.
In play this variant creates large numbers of fairly dangerous hordes that must either be avoided (reducing tactical choices) or fought (wasting resources). Both sides suffer equally. It’s pretty fun.
fryytaw {Avid Gamer}
Jul 26th, 2015| Rule
“Buy the cards instead of receiving them by sort”
Some years ago, I played a lot this game with a friend. But the limitation of the cards in relation with the side of the board you work on, and the aleatorical way of receiving the cards was bothering us. So, we managed one system to get cards and make decks before to play, and programming the actions in advance. It gives a much more programming kind to the game and deserves better the nice stuff the game is made on.
“Try before you buy...”
Not ready to invest in the Memoir ’44 game system? Well, try the online version at http://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44-online/en/
You get 50 gold ingots to play which amounts to about 18 to 25 games depending on scenario. Download the rules to the base game from the board game website, so you know how the units work in battle. Pick the first few scenarios which are from the base game.
By the time you play a few scenarios, you’ll have a good idea what the game is like and know whether or not you want to buy it.
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Labour Party Adopts Goodluck Jonathan
by Dailytimes
The Labour Party (LP), has on Wednesday announced the adoption of President Goodluck Jonathan for this year’s presidential election.
The Party also said that it would not support a further postponement of the general
The party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Abdulkadri . A. Salam made this declarations in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital during its National Executive Meeting held at premier hotel.
Salam noted that going by the youthful age that is in the majority in the country, General Muhammadu Buhari is too old to rule the country noting that for this reason, the party has adopted the candidature of President Jonathan.
While kicking against the usage of card readers for this year’s general elections. The party said the nation is not ready for this technology now, during the Osun and Ekiti elections, Prof. Jega categorically state that the card reader cannot be used for very sensitive elections like that of Osun and Ekiti”
“In our own view of election sensitivity, the presidential election is more sensitive and crucial that we cannot do anything capable of causing confusion should not be used”.
Salam however supported the deployment of military personnel during the general elections.
“I want to state emphatically, that the use of deployment of military personnel to provide security at 2015 polls cannot be over-emphased, we are in a state of war, considering the security challenges facing the nation now, it is now important and fundamental that the military be deployed to ensure peaceful elections and protection of lives of electoral officials and party agents during election, the presence of the security personnel at strategic locations on election day would curtailed the issue of rigging and snatching of electoral materials”
The National secretary of the party Prince Barrister Kayode Ajulo in his address said “in this call to onerous duty, the Labour Party cannot afford to stand aloof or choose to be left out. It is even more so because we consider the office of President of our nation an exalted one. It is not an office to be left to the good where there is a better alternative, neither is it one to be left to the deadlier of two devils when there are no other alternatives.”
He said further that ” we feel the time is right, a most auspicious atmosphere presents itself to make our choice and declare same, believing that whatever decisions men arrive at in good faith and on the bases of sound principles and compelling realities, the heavens as well as mortals of more than mundane disposition will stand in thunderous acclaim”.
“It is clear that these are certainly not the best of times for our country, not with our past experience under military dictatorship which remained untrammeled for over three decades, and our recent experience again in the hands of dastardly insurgents since the last six years. However, the truth is Nigeria, admissibly, must strive to move forward no matter what”.
“Change is desired, but such changes will only make meaning when they are objective in nature and not subjective. The change Nigerians desire at this time is not changes of personalities alone. The change the main opposition proposes is based on frivolities andmendacious claims. The change Nigerians desire are verifiable changes and not changes based on the imaginations of day dreamers. Real change can only be based on a foundation of truth and genuine love for the people”
Over 300 members of the executive council of the party including gubernatorial candidates of Kwara, Akwa Ibom, Delta and others were in attendace.
From left,Labour party Deputy Governor,Alhaji Sarafadeen Ali;National Chairman Labour Party,Alhaji Abdulkadri Abdulsalam;Akwa Ibom state ,Labour party Gubernatorial candidate ,Senator Helen Esuene being welcomed by Oyo State Labour party governorship candidate,Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala during a diiner in honour of Labour party National EXCO for Labour Party NEC meeting in Oyo State,
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Military Has Reclaimed 36 Towns From Boko Haram- Omeri
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Wake up call to tanker, truck owners
by DTN
Recent warning by the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) that tanker and truck owners would now be prosecuted alongside their drivers involved in accidents, as a result of reckless driving is very timely.
The number of lives wasted on daily basis by the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers is very alarming. There is no day that passes without records of a truck or tanker crushing a pedestrian, a commercial motorcyclist rider with his passenger or badging on cars killing all the occupants.
Most worrisome is the speed that these tankers and trailers apply even when they are carrying petrol or unlatched containers. These trucks adopt these speed even within the city where they are supposed to maintain some decency.
On the other hand, what happens on the express road defy the calculations of highway safety regulators. These days, motorists are now afraid to use the Lagos Ibadan expressway because of the recklessness of tanker and truck drivers.
No day passes without tens of people being burnt on that road. On a particular day in May about 26 people got burnt in a single collision on that road due to vehicular accident.
Recently thousands of worshippers returning from Holy Ghost Service of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) miraculously escaped being burnt to death along the expressway following a major auto crash barely 48 hours after 10 trucks exploded on the same road.
The accident involved 15 articulated vehicles, a luxury bus, five mini buses and two pick up vans, which were burnt to ashes, while trucks loaded with frozen fish, poultry feed, bags of rice, exotic drinks and other valuables worth millions of naira were destroyed by the billowing fire which broke out after the accident.
FRSC Zonal Commander for Lagos and Ogun states, Ademola Lawal, said a tractor travelling from Lagos to Ibadan punctured a tanker carrying petroleum product while trying to overtake it at about 2.18 a.m.
Lawal said that petrol gushed out of the 33,000 litres tanker and spread all over the highway, resulting in an explosion. After hearing the explosion, some motorists quickly abandoned their vehicles and ran for their dear lives.
For the umpteenth time, the recurring carnages on our road caused by the vicious activities of reckless truck and trailer drivers and the seeming helpless posturing adopted by concerned authorities has reached an alarming level.
More than ever, we are witnessing an upsurge in the collateral damages caused by these merchants of deaths on our roads who have apparently become more powerful than the State.
The disgraceful activities of this group are commonplace across the country but Lagos appears to be worst hit.
The whole scenario calls to mind the Thomas Hobbes State of Nature where life is nasty, brutish and short.
Back home, undertaking, a trip to Apapa in Lagos through the Oshodi-Apapa expressway is a nightmarish experience that no time-conscious person would want to dare.
Petroleum tankers and haulage trailers are the Lords of the Manor in this part of Lagos.
Two lanes of this road are permanently occupied by stationary trucks waiting to load petroleum products from the tank farms or returning freight containers to the wharf.
This indiscriminate parking has caused unquantifiable loss of man hours to the economy and needless bloodletting.
The vices associated with the activities of these drivers are many. It is the norm to park their trucks on the flyover bridges that were designed to bear fleeting and transient weight and not dead weight.
Having suffered accelerated depreciation owing to non-maintenance and massive vandalisation of support utilities like railings and lighting systems, these bridges are already in very precarious states.
Experts say that continuous occupation of these bridges by high-tonnage trucks is only bringing doomsday closer if nothing is done to reverse the trend.
The serviceable state of these trucks also raises lot of concerns as they are always rickety, wobbly, and in a perpetual state of disrepair.
Although the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) took some measures last year to sanitise the state of trucks on the roads. The action lasted for a brief period as the rickety trucks are back on the roads.
More often than not, these trucks and tankers possess malfunctioned brakes.
Every day you see the drivers’ assistants armed with wooden wedges that are used to jolt these carbon-monoxide emitting trucks to a halt, especially on hilly terrains.
Quite a number of these trucks do not have rear lights, indicator lights, C-caution signs and even registration plate numbers.
While tankers and truck drivers remain errant, arresting and jailing them with their owners will help keep everybody in check. It should however not stop there.
Concerted action is required by governments at all levels to checkmate the excesses of recalcitrant drivers while safety regulations should be strictly enforced to guarantee the safety of all road users.
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Daily Times Newspaper, Friday, March 09, 2018
2019: Buhari’s delay, reluctance puts APC on edge
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May 13, 2019 / 8:20 PM / 2 months ago
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks dive, yuan weakens as U.S.-China trade fight intensifies
Lewis Krauskopf
* Global stocks gauge touches two-month low
* China's yuan weakest since late December
* China to slap tariffs on U.S. goods despite Trump warning
* U.S. Treasuries, yen benefit from safe-haven bid
* For Reuters Live Markets blog on European and UK stock markets, please click on: (Updates with close of U.S. trading)
By Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - Global stock markets tumbled on Monday and the Chinese yuan weakened to its lowest level since December as the trade war between the United States and China escalated.
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe shed 1.90%, its biggest one-day drop in more than five months as it touched a two-month low. Wall Street's main indexes tumbled more than 2%.
China said it would impose higher tariffs on a range of U.S. goods, striking back in its trade war with Washington shortly after President Donald Trump warned it not to retaliate in the long-running trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies. Trump said he would meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month.
Investors piled into safe-haven assets, including U.S. Treasuries and the Japanese yen.
"It's clear that there is a lot of nervousness around the U.S.-China trade negotiations and concern that it's really deteriorating pretty significantly and that's impacting all areas of markets," said Kristina Hooper, chief global market strategist at Invesco in New York.
China's finance ministry said it plans to set import tariffs ranging from 5 percent to 25 percent on a target list worth about $60 billion. Trump on Friday ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China, but investors had taken solace in some comments from officials about the negotiations.
"The market thought it was positioning and at the end of the day there would be a deal and that over the weekend they would work things out and that is clearly not the way this thing is going," said Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services in Charlotte, Vermont.
On Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 617.38 points, or 2.38%, to 25,324.99, the S&P 500 lost 69.53 points, or 2.41%, to 2,811.87 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 269.92 points, or 3.41%, to 7,647.02.
"The market has been looking around for an excuse to correct. We were straight up from Christmas," said Paul Nolte, portfolio manager at Kingsview Asset Management in Chicago. "We now have an excuse to have a correction."
The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 1.21%.
In currencies, the yuan weakened to as far as 6.92 against the U.S. dollar, its lowest level since Dec. 24.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, was flat, with the euro down 0.04% to $1.1228.
U.S. Treasury yields fell to six-week lows as investors piled into low-risk assets.
Benchmark 10-year notes last rose 15/32 in price to yield 2.4015%, from 2.455% late on Friday.
Ten-year yields fell below those on three-month Treasury bills. A sustained inversion of this part of the yield curve has preceded every U.S. recession in the past 50 years.
Spot gold added 1.1% to $1,299.72 an ounce.
Oil futures fell as worries about the trade talks spooked investors who had initially sent oil higher on concerns that tanker attacks in the Middle East could disrupt supplies.
U.S. crude settled down 1% at $61.04 a barrel, while Brent settled at $70.23 a barrel, down 0.55%.
Additional reporting by Karen Brettell, Chuck Mikolajczak and Richard Leong in New York; editing by Nick Zieminski, Dan Grebler and Sonya Hepinstall
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A.J. Banks Trey Porter Caleb Martin Jordan Caroline Jazz Johnson Cody Martin Justin James Tre'Shawn Thurman Sports Men's basketball Men's sports Basketball Men's college basketball College basketball College sports
Nevada Mountain West Wyoming
No. 7 Nevada wins 10th straight behind Porter's 14 points
By BOB MOEN - Feb. 17, 2019 01:34 AM EST
Nevada forward Cody Martin (11) charges forward past Wyoming forward AJ Banks during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, in Laramie, Wyo. (AP Photo/Jacob Byk)
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Nevada relived last season's double-overtime loss at Wyoming by watching video of fans storming the floor every day for the past week, and even just before taking the court Saturday night.
There were no fans storming the floor this time, as No. 7 Nevada easily beat Wyoming 82-49 for its 10th straight win.
Trey Porter led the way with 14 points, and Jordan Caroline and Caleb Martin each scored 13.
Jazz Johnson contributed 12 points and Tre'Shawn Thurman had 11 points and 12 rebounds for Nevada (24-1, 11-1 Mountain West). The Wolf Pack shot 54.4 percent from the field.
Nevada avenged last season's loss at Laramie, when Wyoming defeated the then-No. 23 ranked Wolf Pack 104-103 in two OTs.
"We saw that film over and over again — losing in double overtime, the crowd rushing the court — you just don't want that same feeling," Thurman said.
Justin James led Wyoming (6-19, 2-10) with 16 points, followed by TJ Taylor with 13. The Cowboys were just 15 for 50 (a season-low 30 percent) overall and 6 of 24 from the 3-point line. The 49 points scored was the fewest this season by Wyoming.
Entering the game, the Cowboys had won five of their last six home games against ranked foes dating to 2012.
Nevada led from the beginning, building a 36-20 halftime advantage on nine points each by Thurman and Cody Martin. Wyoming got as close as 14 points on a basket by A.J. Banks to open the second half.
"I thought defensively we could have played a little bit better, but it's good anytime you win on the road by that amount," Nevada coach Eric Musselman said.
Wyoming coach Allen Edwards said Nevada played with great energy and effort for the full 40 minutes and never deviated from what it does best, which is play unselfish basketball.
"They play together; they played hard on both ends of the floor," Edwards said.
Nevada: The Wolf Pack notch a road win at a venue that visiting teams find difficult to play in because of the 7,220-foot elevation of Laramie.
"It's just so hard to get here," Musselman said. "Guys are tired."
Wyoming: The Cowboys continue to languish in second-to-last place in the Mountain West, but still have an 8-4 advantage at home against Nevada.
James lamented the lack of defense on the part of the Cowboys.
"We gave them anything they wanted," he said. "It's hard to win when they're getting dunks and open 3s."
Nevada has another road game when it visits San Diego State on Wednesday night, which will be followed by a March 9 meeting between the two teams to end the season.
Wyoming gets to stay home while hosting UNLV on Tuesday.
More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Review for Avast for Business
Sam Elias
101-250 Employees
Avast for Business is a free AV solution with a cloud based control/monitoring console. It has worked great on my PC and my test VM's. I will be rolling this out to all our PCs soon. Edit: We now use Avast for Business Free on 92 workstations. It works the same on every version of Windows, from XP to 10.
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I've used it to help out my family members as the "computer guy" in the family. The central console gives me peace of mind that they are protected!
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I was reluctant to move to this. I had wanted to use the now defunct Avast for Education. So far though no complaints after a few months of use. Light weight, small footprint, easy deployment (although you can't preload onto an image). Has caught and contained more than our Kaspersky Endpoing did, and doesn't use 40% of our systems' resources which was a real selling point. The online portal is a great way to keep track of my nearly 100 workstations.
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Edit - At Bottom - As of 2015-07-27: Program is up to date: version 10.2.2505, release date 05/21/2015 Edit - At Bottom - As of 2015-12-21: Program is up to date: version 10.2.2508, release date 11/19/2015 There are a few little quirks with Avast for Business FREE currently, but they acknowledge them and they said some should be fixed in the next major release, which I was told would be the end of July by support. I haven't specifically noticed them as much lately, but at one point, every 3 days or so, all of the computers would send out notifications that the virus definitions are out of date. It's easy to go in, tell them to update and that's all you have to do, but it was really annoying getting the constant notifications. I also occasionally get notifications saying a system has been offline for 14 days when it hasn't been, so I accept the notification and ignore it. One thing to make sure when you create your account, go into your profile and set your local time zone under Admin > Company Profile, otherwise the time on the notifications won't necessarily be on your local time zone and can cause confusion. The notification email just says there's an alert/notification and sends you to the portal to view the event. There currently isn't a way to copy/paste information from an event/notification/alert to forward the information to anyone. Basically, you have to hover over it, have it popup the information, then screenshot it and you can forward that information if you need to notify someone. I let support know that this is really inconvenient and really needs to be selectable for a copy/paste of the information. I was told by support that they submitted the feature request for it. The most annoying thing currently is Avast only sends a summary email of notifications once per day and doesn't send an immediate email to notify you when there is a virus/important event. Support also said they have a request submitted for this (I couldn't tell if they meant they would submit one from my request or already had it submitted from someone's previous request) to customize email notification settings for different events. If there is a virus event, I damn sure want to have an email sent to me immediately notifying me of it so I can act on it. I don't want to wait until 11:24PM (the time I receive my daily notifications) for a notification of a virus event that happened at 6AM, or 8AM or even 6PM. I want to know right away! There are a few settings that aren't available in the console that I want to see and some that are missing, but are available in the client that can't be changed because they're overridden by the template (which doesn't have that option). The two that come to mind are: - Participate in the Avast Community - Scan for potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) If you want to force the FREE version to Participate in the Avast Community, I wouldn't mind that, but have a note or disclaimer somewhere stating that. I do want to scan for PUPs, but checking that box does not stay checked. I would like to see the ability to turn off Animation in the Tray Icon, just like the FREE Home Edition has an option for. I would like to see a way to setup a custom installer with the components you want included and the ones you don't want removed. Yes, you can go into the portal to uninstall components after installation, but that's an extra step that's really rather unnecessary in my opinion. I would also like to see an option to install Software Updater, that the FREE Home Edition has. It doesn't need to be installed by default, because most corporate installs wouldn't need or want this, but for some MSP installations, or installations for a family member, that would be a helpful addition. Customization made to the local Exemptions and certain program settings are not retained between reboots. Exemptions need to be made to the Template in the web console in order to be retained through system restarts. I hope this helps you with some more in-depth information about Avast for Business FREE version. Overall, it's a very nice product and the centrally managed portal, ability to manage multiple templates for different computers and other features still make it a decent product currently. I haven't tested the full version of this product, which adds: - Anitspam - Firewall - Data Shredder - SafeZone - Sandbox THE SANDBOX is what adds extra protection against unknown virus and malware, such as a lot of the new Ransomware variants being released that many AV products cannot detect. If you want extra protection against these threats, you're better off going with a different product instead of paying for additional premium protection from a more mediocre product. Take a look at Webroot instead if you want better protection in a paid solution. EDIT: As of 2015-08-24, I've noticed the email notifications have now started including information about the event. The event log has been spammed for months with this error: Log Name: Application Source: bcc Date: 8/4/2015 1:32:51 AM Event ID: 1 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: NAME Description: new synchronize delay 360 Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="bcc" /> <EventID Qualifiers="0">1</EventID> <Level>3</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-08-04T06:32:51.000000000Z" /> <EventRecordID>33094</EventRecordID> <Channel>Application</Channel> <Computer>NAME</Computer> <Security /> </System> <EventData> <Data>new synchronize delay 360 </Data> </EventData> </Event> Review last updated 2015-08-24, this edit 2015-10-23 is to fix formatting since Spiceworks released a Community update that included proper formatting of reviews. THANKS SPICEWORKS!!!!!! As for the promised major update by the end of July by Avast, there hasn't even been a minor update. Still on .2505. Not impressed. Update 2015-10-30: Watch out for their screwed up 10.3.2507 update because of a new sandbox feature. They were supposed to release update 10.3.2508 on 2015-11-03 to fix this issue, but I don't see it available to push out or even downloadable through the management console. For the installations that I have this implemented on, the 2507 update kept disabling itself on 4 of the 5 initial systems the update was tested on, both Win7 and Win8, with Outlook 2013 installed locally. The disabling seemed to occur after Outlook 2013 was launched. What other scenarios/configurations may be affected by this, I cannot speculate on. A Win10 system with Thunderbird experienced no apparent issues with the 2507 update. Edit 2015-11-05: Apparently when Support initially said the 2508 update would be released on 2015-11-03, that wasn't exactly accurate. Even though my 2505 installs specifically show the following: "A new version is available: version 10.3.2505, release date 11/04/2015" This is probably to get the clients that did install 2507 back to 2505, but as far as I'm concerned, shouldn't really be showing up on existing 2505 installs. Either way, I'm not doing anything until I know the real 2508 fixed update has been released and I can download the full installer from the console. Support did reply back to my inquiry about the version/update discrepancy when I was initially told 2508 would be release on 2015-11-03, and they said that there is now no specific release date for 2508, but their estimate as of early morning 2015-11-05 is 5-8 "business days", which would make it sometime (estimated) between 2015-11-12 and 2015-11-17. Edit 2015-12-21: The most recent 2508 Avast on a nearly clean system just upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 is now getting taskhostw.exe Exception unknown exception (0xc000008) every single time the system is restarted. As far as I'm aware, 4 other Windows 10 systems are not experiencing this issue, or at least that I've heard of yet. Reply from Support: This is a known issue that the developers are working on resolving at this time. I will update you once more information becomes available. Initial reports of this issue were 2015-11-19, that I could find: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=179357.msg1269529#msg1269529
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Book & Lace
The 21st Century Mind: Review of the Essay Collection,”The Word Pretty” by Elisa Gabbert
Book Review, review
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert (Black Ocean, 2018)
☆☆☆☆☆/ 5 stars
“The essay needn’t be faithful to the path of the thinking, but the form can reveal how thinking happens, like when a song gets stuck in your head and only later do you realize why you thought of it, that you had read or heard a word from the third verse. There’s magic there—the mind doesn’t always show its work. Why should prose?” -Elisa Gabbert, “The Art of the Paragraph,” The Word Pretty
Elisa Gabbert’s work first appeared to me in the form of her first poetry collection, The French Exit (Birds, LLC., 2010) which I had to purchase as one of three collections for a poetry class earlier this semester. In the second week of classes we were asked to go home and read all three collections and bring back our favorites to read for the class the following week. I perused the pages of the other two required collections, relatively unmoved, but when I opened Gabbert’s collection I was taken aback; a storm of pages turning and pen marks flying ensued. The collection is filled with self-deprecating humor regarding sadness and life, a language I speak fluently and resonated with me. So, when I learned that Gabbert would be visiting my university in February, but for her creative nonfiction work in the essays of The Word Pretty, I immediately headed to the web to order one of the last two available on Amazon.
The Word Pretty is a brilliant collection, the style of which I can’t help but compare to my favorite book of essays ever, Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew Bose. Gabbert, like Bose, has written essays for the modern world. She muses on the linguistic significance of the emoji, the variations on the catharsis of crying, the definition of poetry, why one reads novels, the word pretty, and more. Gabbert, though presenting essays full of research, fact and opinion alike, offers-up essays full literary mastery, images, and ideas that will resonate with the modern woman or man.
Gabbert’s structuring of her essays and the book as a whole is masterful. I must now then contend that Gabbert’s true brilliance is revealed in something in the collection which at first I was unsure of: her recycling of ideas and specific references in separate essays, highlighted by the chosen structure of the collection. For example, there are a several successive essays in the collection that reference the variations on translations of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, or toward the end of the collection she quotes John Berger’s Ways of Seeing two separate times. On a surface level I have to acknowledge that to some this may appear lazy, a recycling of ideas with little effort; however, I think this is where the genius lies. Gabbert has mimicked what it is like to think and learn—one gathers information and continuously returns to it, musing on it in different ways, seeing how it applies to the world around them. She revealed how thinking happens. She muses on the same ideas, but in fresh ways each time.
This week, I had the pleasure of meeting Gabbert and hearing her read from The Word Pretty(as well as The French Exit, and L’Heure Bleue Or The Judy Poemswhen she came to speak to my poetry class that has been studying her work). I must say hearing her read from the collection and explain some of it, only solidified my appreciation for what she does in this collection. Gabbert has revealed herself as a modern writer for a modern audience, musing on what it means to live and think in the 21stcentury.
February 27, 2019 Laci Durhamauthor, black ocean publishing, book, Book Review, books, Elisa Gabbert, essay collections, essays, independent publisher, indie books, personal essays, review, the word prettyLeave a comment
A Voice for You: A Review of “I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir” by Reema Zaman
(This book was sent to me courtesy of Amberjack Publishing…thank you!)
I Am Yours by Reema Zaman (Amberjack, 2019)
“I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir” Reema Zaman, Amberjack, 2019; Photo by: Laci Durham
I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir follows Reema Zaman on her journey through the first thirty years of her life. Her journey begins in Bangladesh, but is then sent abroad to Hawaii, on to Thailand, and finally to the continental US. As the reader moves through the book, they are confronted with what it means to be a woman as the writer finds her voice quieted by societal expectations of women time and time again. She recognizes herself as an object of sexual prize in Thailand and the US and as a mere background character in her native country of Bangladesh. Zaman leads the reader through her trials with emotional and sexual abuse at the hands of others, and destructive behaviors bread from these circumstances at the hands of herself.
This, though, is a story of triumph as Zaman comes to find the powerful voice within herself and the courage to share it.
From the first line of this book I was hooked, eager to turn each new page which I found to be filled with both heartbreak and triumph. I found myself tearing up on more than one occasion, filled with amazement that someone could put into words what it feels like to be without them. Zaman poured herself into each piece of this memoir and it shows. Each word is masterfully selected, intentional, and moving. The structure is intelligent: told in four acts, with a guiding word for each chapter.
There is a line from the book that reads: “Language births art, literature, dance, theater, and bedtime stories.” This simple line I found to be a metaphor for what Zaman does in this book: she crafts a narrative that is deeply personal like bedtime stories, but universal like the art language breeds. This is Zaman’s greatest accomplishment: she has made a memoir of herself for others; she has poured out her soul and dedicated it to those who cannot do the same.
This is a book that deserves to be read if only for Zaman’s masterful literary technique, but if you choose to peruse its pages and go on one woman’s journey to find her voice, you will find something far larger and more powerful than you could ever expect.
February 22, 2019 Laci DurhamBook blogger, Book Review, books, I Am Yours, I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir, Reema ZamanLeave a comment
Mermen, Sappho, & Diabetic Dogs: A Review of “The Pisces” by Melissa Broder
REVIEW: The Pisces by Melissa Broder (Hogarth, 2018)
☆☆☆☆/5 stars
In Melissa Broder’s first work of fiction, we are introduced to Lucy, a PhD student from Phoenix, AZ writing about the gaps in Sappho, who finds herself at the end of her
long-term relationship with Jamie, a scientist who has transformed from chiseled jaw to neck fat before her eyes over the years. After Lucy ends it with Jamie, she finds herself in a deep depression that much like Jamie’s body changes seems to appear without her realizing, but culminates in a depressive episode of disembodied stupor, sleeping pills, and jelly donuts. After an outburst of emotion in a moment of lucidity involving her ex, she finds herself between being arrested and therapy for love addiction. Lucy chooses therapy and ends up in Venice Beach, taking care of her yogi sister’s diabetic dog Dominic in a beach side mansion. Early in her stay she wanders out to rocks on the shore in the middle of the night where she meets a strange swimmer who refuses to exit the water. The reader is taken through Lucy’s attempts to come to terms with her reliance on men and her desire to be autonomous despite them. Enter merman infatuation, Sappho, and the universe.
I found this book daring. Broder does something in this novel unlike anything I’ve seen before. She somehow manages to develop an erotic psychoanalytical, almost mythical, story of a late-thirties woman into a work of modern literary fiction that leaves the reader questioning if it is the most brilliant thing they’ve ever read, the craziest thing they’ve ever read, or perhaps both.
Despite its achievements, there were a few places I found this book falling short—or perhaps, doing too much. I found the psychoanalytical portions of the novel brilliant, as well as the contemplation of Sappho in the process of Lucy analyzing her own feelings; however, when it came to other characters it was as if they were just dumped there and left underdeveloped and ridiculous for no apparent reason. I also found the eroticism too much. I think had the moments been better developed it would have been more excusable, but a few of the moments seemed unnecessary.
Though it lacks in areas, what Broder does in this book, is an achievement. The author seems to be shepherding the world into a new kind of literary fiction filled with feminine desire and myth that belongs in the modern world.
February 4, 2019 February 4, 2019 Laci DurhamBook Review, hogarth, Melissa broder, review, the pisces1 Comment
Review: How to Find Love in a Bookshop
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry (Pamela Dorman Books/ Viking, 2016)
☆☆☆/5 (3/5 stars)
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry || Published by Viking/ Pamela Dorman Books, 2016
“After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.” Veronica Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop
Emilia Nightingale is brought home from teaching English abroad by her father Julius’s death. Julius was the proprietor of Nightingale Books, a bookshop in Peasebrook–an idyllic country village in the Cotswolds. Emilia decides to take his place in running the shop and in so doing uncovers just how many lives Julius had touched. While Emilia finds herself overwhelmed with attempts to fill his shoes, several stories of grief and love all connected to the bookshop begin to unfold around her.
The book was a darling concept: simple and sweet through and through. The way Henry approached the story, which on the surfaces seems to be no more than a love story was unique. As the reader begins to traverse Emilia’s grief, they are taken into her backstory, then they are shown through the numerous lives of those in the community who her father touched over the years, all culminating in several love stories taking shape around the bookshop and their connections with it.
Overall, I found the book just okay. Due to there being so many stories happening at once, I never got to actually sink my teeth into any one of them or get to know the characters. It was overall surface level and rather boring. I also found the marketing of it as “perfect for bibliophiles” a gimmick as books took a total backseat throughout. I so badly wanted this to be one of those books I return to as a fun read from time to time, but it won’t be.
I think one can take the book for what it is at face value: a cute read that skims the surface and one that a person picks up once and says “okay, that was nice, moving on.”
January 30, 2019 January 30, 2019 Laci Durham3/5, Book Review, how to find love in a bookshop, Veronica henry, viking pressLeave a comment
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This book is one of the cutest, funniest, and most heartfelt books I’ve ever read. It tackles some serious topics in a delicate yet poignant way. Highly recommend it to all young and old. #LaciReadsMiddleSchool #InsignificantEventsInTheLifeOfACactus
Cutest little bookshop goes to The Book Nook in Buena Vista, CO—it has seven rooms of WELL selected books and antiques PLUS a barn in the backyard with even more...oh and this darling greenery covered arch. I picked up an American cover of Winter by Ali Smith, this copy of Rebecca, and a copy of educated by Tara Westover! . What is your favorite bookshop you’ve ever been to?
“‘Stories don't end,’ he says. ‘They just turn into new beginnings.’” From #HourOfTheBees by Lindsay Eagar
This book was meh.
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Celebrating the Students for Carbon Dividends
Citizens' Climate Lobby > CCL News > Celebrating the Students for Carbon Dividends
Posted on March 6, 2018 in CCL News
The Students for Carbon Dividends launched last week with a bold video promoting a climate solution that prices carbon and returns revenue to Americans.
By Jim Tolbert, CCL Conservative Outreach Director
A new conservative voice came forward last week calling for a price on carbon: Students for Carbon Dividends. This coalition of 23 College Republican groups, along with six College Democrat groups and five college environmental groups, is calling for a gradually increasing revenue-neutral carbon tax where all of the fee is returned to Americans.
Young Republicans want GOP to lead on climate
Conservative Caucus members in Citizens’ Climate Lobby have always found that College Republicans and millennial Republicans are likely to engage in discussions on climate and energy policy. They often want to see the GOP adopt policies that actively address climate change while holding to their values. When members of CCL’s Conservative Caucus table at events, we are frequently approached by conservatives glad CCL is there and who want their party, the GOP, to take a leadership role in addressing climate change.
Alex Posner, the 22-year-old founder of Students for Carbon Dividends, told The Atlantic, “I think a lot of young conservatives are frustrated by the false choice between no climate action and a big government regulatory scheme. They feel pressured that those are the only two options, and they’re hungry for a conservative pathway forward on climate.”
Posner added, “The other thing that’s unique here is that the elder statesmen of the Republican Party are kind of uniting with the younger generation, to press the middle generation to act on climate.” The “elder statesmen” he’s referencing are the founders of the Climate Leadership Council: Former Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker, former Secretary of Treasurey Hank Paulson, and others. The Students for Carbon Dividends are specifically endorsing the policy proposed by the Climate Leadership Council.
It is not the exact policy that Citizens’ Climate Lobby endorses, and we have solid reasons why our position is different. Despite these differences, CCL is very excited that the conservative luminaries from Climate Leadership Council and now conservative youth in the Students for Carbon Dividends support the idea of a revenue-neutral price on carbon, with dividends going back to Americans.
It was just one year ago in February 2017 that the Climate Leadership Council made a splash with guest columns and press coverage in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, US News & World Report, Scientific American, USA Today, Time, Washington Post, Fox Business, and many other media outlets. Then they followed up with a full page paid advertisement in the Wall Street Journal in June of 2017. These efforts built momentum for the climate conversation that’s happening right of center, which helps our own efforts as we build bipartisan consensus for climate legislation.
Connecting with College Republicans
Tactically, this initiative provides a great opening for CCL to connect with other College Republican groups in campuses across the United States. CCL members can speak at College Republican meetings, host joint events on campus with College Republicans, bring in speakers for the CR group, and host movie nights. Remember that the messenger is often as important as the message, so within CCL, our Conservative Caucus can help you find conservatives to approach these College Republicans.
Executive Director Mark Reynolds said, “It’s right there in our core values: CCL is nonpartisan. That’s why we’re so excited to see young people from both parties pushing all our elected leaders to adopt effective climate solutions.” He added, “This is a wonderful opportunity for CCL members to continue building strong connections with other climate advocates, regardless of party.”
On staff, we are coordinating our communication with Students for Carbon Dividends and the Climate Leadership Council. If you want to reach out to one of the groups that are already engaged in the Students for Carbon Dividends, please email me at james (dot) tolbert (at) citizensclimate.org.
As a conservative member of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, I am both encouraged and called to further action by this initiative and these college students taking a stand for a revenue-neutral carbon dividend program. I hope you are too, and I look forward to supporting these growing relationships.
As Conservative Outreach Director, Jim Tolbert engages, recruits, retains, and activates conservatives within Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Doing so, he builds on 20 years on the board of the Michigan Chemistry Council, training as a geochemist, and a career helping Fortune 500 companies characterize and clean up contamination from historic spills of PCBs, chlorinated dioxide, and other pollutants.
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Celebrating the Students for Carbon Dividends,
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/celebrating-students-carbon-dividends/
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Daniel Mothowagae 2019-01-06 16:26
Mushin Ertugral
Letting go of Steve Komphela a ‘big loss’ for Chiefs – Pirates assistant coach
Ex-PSL coaches headline NFD super Sunday
‘She Ref’ Akhona leads the way for women referees
In light of Muhsin Ertugral and Ernst Middendorp bouncing back to the premier division, it remains a mystery why PSL clubs are not choosing local coaching talent.
Experts argue that PSL clubs’ tendencies of recycling coaches is the reason domestic coaching talent is easily lost in the system.
A case in point is Teboho Moloi and Dan “Dance” Malesela – coincidentally, both are former Chippa United coaches and Orlando Pirates players – who are not deemed good enough to coach at top-flight clubs, despite their massive contribution to the local game after their retirement as professional players.
There are others, including Harold “Jazzy Queen” Legodi, Donald “Ace” Khuse, Fani Madida, Simon Ngomane, Zipho Dlangalala and Roger Links, to name but a few, who have also vanished from the elite football scene.
“It is sad to see knowledgeable coaches being sidelined,” said Safca technical adviser Sudesh Singh.
The common factor among the aforementioned coaches is that they made every effort to get their coaching credentials.
They have also been an integral part in the development of players at grassroots level.
How does one explain Moloi’s sudden disappearance from top-flight football when he was voted PSL coach of the month while at Chippa just 13 months ago?
Legodi was assistant at Mamelodi Sundowns and Pirates.
Interestingly, the former Pirates assistant coach and Doctor Khumalo were among the first group of former professional players to study coaching abroad. They were sent to Germany by Safa.
Khuse, a Kaizer Chiefs legend, served as an assistant coach for a number of seasons at Amakhosi, but didn’t get a chance to prove himself as the head coach, except for a few times when he was handed a caretaker role.
Renowned development coach and Stars of Africa Academy owner Farouk Khan said: “If South Africans don’t embrace our own, we’ll never grow as a nation, be it in business or sport.”
The former deputy coach at Chiefs reserved special praise for a few foreign coaches who he believes had added value to the local game.
“When you coach the so-called big clubs, you are judged by how much silverware you have won.
“I still believe that there is good local talent out there that can add also add value to our game, but nobody can prove himself without being given the opportunity.”
Khan, who had a stint as head coach at Santos FC in Cape Town, is from the Dumitru school of coaches, which also had Ngomane and Dlangalala among its students.
The late Romanian enjoyed trophy-laden stints with Chiefs and Sundowns, and he was passionate about coaching education, which saw many local mentors subscribing to some of his methodologies and philosophies.
Well-travelled coaches at the helm
Dumitru later established a coaches body called the SA Football Coaches Association (Safca), which was mostly critical of foreign coaches who did not add value locally.
The former Sundowns scout is also one of Dumitru’s graduates.
“But the coaching fraternity is also the reflection of our society, where we are divided along racial lines. Sadly, local black coaches don’t get as fair a share as their white counterparts,” said Singh, adding that “it doesn’t seem this will change soon, but it must be addressed”.
Singh is also of the view that most clubs have lost their identity, which is the reason “they take just anyone to coach”.
“But, again, club bosses can be misdirected by people around them.”
Khan said it was encouraging to see clubs like Cape Town City giving a rookie coach like Benni McCarthy a chance to prove himself.
McCarthy (41) guided City to a fifth-place finish in his maiden season in charge and has already won a trophy and reached two cup finals.
“Some of my colleagues, such as Steve Komphela and Cavin Johnson, as well as young coaches like Fadlu Davids, have done fairly well,” said Khan, who is also a football pundit on TV channel SuperSport.
“All we are saying is, let us empower our own.”
Singh added: “At least Pirates have embraced one of our own in Rulani Mokwena, who has done well as an assistant coach. Sundowns also believed in coach Pitso Mosimane and the results are there for all to see.”
Mosimane has always been particularly vocal about local coaches not being given a fair chance in the country’s top-flight football arena.
The 54-year-old and Bidvest Wits’ Gavin Hunt have represented the locals well and are the most recent Absa Premiership winning coaches in charge of leading teams in the league.
As for the likes of Middendorp and Ertugral – who are both at the helm of their sixth premier division clubs – there is still much to prove.
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Parekh & Singh - Science City
A rewarding return from the idiosyncratic Indian duo...
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Nischay Parekh and Jivraj Singh look like they’ve walked off a Wes Anderson set. Their sharp suits and deadpan expressions don’t give away much. However when you play their debut album ‘Ocean’ and its follow up ‘Science City’ you are ushered into an expansive and emotive world or glorious melodies, quirky electronics and stories filled with playful and eccentric characters.
‘Ocean’ was an album filled with stories about magical creatures and whimsy, ‘Science City’ channels the realm of science and a retro-future world of doctors, scientists and quantum mechanics who plan to unlock the secrets of the universe. As with ‘Ocean’ their brand of dream-pop is grandiose in scope and is easy to get lost in its delicate melodies and sci-fi synths. ‘Science City’ is full of airy compositions of love, loss and redemption.
These songs show a progression in Parekh & Singh’s songwriting. ‘Be Something’, ‘Sunbeam’ and ‘Forward Slash’ are filled with a heady optimism, but with lyrics like “Time is a waste of life”, “Life doesn’t really need a meaning”, “Paranoia is getting in your way, been plaguing you for days” and “I never agree with what you say, as I’m a dickhead” hint at an existential crisis bubbling along just under the surface.
And this is what Parekh & Singh do well. The juxtaposition of upbeat compositions and slightly and lyrics that hint at something is hard to ignore. Throughout ‘Ocean’ Parekh’s sonorous vocals were the main event, but here it’s all about the minimal backing tracks. On a first listen Singh’s drumming feels functionary, he’s keeping time and adding a few small fills, but on repeat listens you realise that he is a master of understatement. He doesn’t need to overplay to get the most out of the music. The more you listen the more you are drawn, and pulled, toward his gentle scattershot drumming.
The cover of ‘Ocean’ saw the dream-pop duo in pastel suits. These have been ditched for bold red ones. This isn’t just to make the visuals more striking. Science City’ is a bolder and braver album that sees Parekh & Singh pushing themselves lyrically and musically. Lyrically the songs feel very autobiographical and musical there are elements of prog and electronica seeping in. All of this suits the subject matter and give us a more rewarding, and enjoyable, listen than their debut.
Words: Nick Roseblade
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Treatment vs Jail: Portugal’s Success
The United States has been fighting the war on drugs for decades now and there seems to be no end in sight which bring to mind the old proverb about the definition of insanity – “Doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result.’ Well I think it is time we start doing things differently and here is a good example of where we should start.
Big Risk, Big Reward
Ten years ago, Portugal had a big drug problem. 100,000 people, or about 1% of the population, were addicted to drugs. Portugal found itself in the never-ending cycle of arresting drug criminals, prosecuting them, and then after their sentence was complete finding them back on the streets again. It’s one of the main problems countries face when trying to end drug addiction and the crimes that so often are associated with it.
In 2000, Portugal passed a law that decriminalized the use of all illegal drugs. Drugs are still illegal in Portugal, but instead of throwing someone in possession of drugs to jail, it sends them to treatment or counseling. Portugal wrote it into law that anyone caught with illegal drugs instead of being charged with a criminal offense will go directly to a “Dissuasion Committee” for counseling and further treatment if necessary.
It’s not a new concept, but it is one that is difficult to carry out. How does a government take the first step and say that citizens aren’t going to get in trouble if they are caught with illegal drugs? Fears in Portugal were that everyone would go out and try drugs, and that the country would become full of addicts who were getting away with their drug abuse. But that hasn’t happened. In the last 10 years, Portugal has seen drug-related court cases drop 66%, the number of drug abusers has remained the same, and the number of people receiving treatment rose 20%. Most importantly, some of the country’s worst neighborhoods, once plagued with drug addicts and crime, have become safe.
Some argue that policies like these are too soft on drug addicts, and without pressure and the threat of jail some people will never change, and for some people that is true. But only in countries that become lax when it comes to carrying out the law do they see an increase in drug users, but in countries like Portugal who have followed through with the treatment part of the plan, they have seen success. It works because they have changed the drug problem from a law enforcement issue to a public health issue which can be more openly managed.
Throwing a drug addict in jail does little good. We can expect 48% of substance abusing criminals to get caught using drugs again. However, if we can get these people the help they need to live a life without drugs, we can change their lives for good and we would encourage these countries to implement a mandatory ignition interlock device like Cleared2Drive program, which can prevent drugged or impaired driving as they too have proven very successful in keeping people from relapsing.
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The Treatment Research Institute Opens New Center
The Treatment Research Institute (TRI) in Philadelphia will officially launch a new research center for parents of substance-using adolescents at a national conference this week. TRI said the center would be the “first-of-its-kind” and would focus on translating evidence-based research into specific strategies and tools that will help parents better help their teen-aged children who are struggling with substance abuse problems.
Kimberly C. Kirby, Ph.D., the director of the new center said, “Our goal is to get practical help to parents without short-changing the need to base advice on a solid scientific foundation.” Funded for five years by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the center’s work was presented to parents, substance abuse professionals, and policy makers at the Joint Meeting on Alcohol Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE) in Baltimore Dec. 14-16.
The new center will focus its work on three projects aimed at helping parents with adolescents all along the spectrum, from occasional users to those in recovery after treatment.
First, the center will study the efficacy of a brief intervention for non-dependent teens. Rather than being guided by a counselor, the intervention would be led by parents.
Second, researchers at the center will create a consumer guide to adolescent treatment to help parents identify evidence-based care for their children. The research will be conducted in Philadelphia and result in an evaluation protocol that can be disseminated in other cities.
Third, researchers plan to refine and test the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) protocol for use by parents of treatment-resistant teens. Among their goals are to verify the protocol’s efficacy with teens and to create a manual for parents.
The Partnership at Drugfree.org will partner with TRI to disseminate the findings of the new center to parents.
We commend this good work and certainly hope that they expand their reach by offering to introduce Impairment Detection Technologies like Cleared2Drive’s as a means to ensure continued sobriety and success because we all know that get sober is not the most difficult aspect of sobriety, it the maintenance of a individual’s sobriety that is the hardest part.
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Clemson Women's Tennis
Women’s Tennis Competes in National Clay Court Championships
BALTIMORE, Md. – The Clemson women’s tennis team competed in the T. Rowe Price National Clay Court Championships, held September 19-27 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Senior Cecilia Hincapie won by default over Jan Perez in the first round of prequalifying, then defeated St. Bonaventure’s Sara Wilcox, 6-0, 6-1. She defeated Martina Ondrejkova of South Alabama 0-6, 6-1, 6-3 in the final round of prequalifying.
In the first round of qualifying, Hincapie defeated Penn State’s Rebecca Ho 6-3, 6-2. She took a 1-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Galina Seliounina of Houston, then defeated Minnesota’s Nora Sausake 6-3, 6-3 to qualify for the championships. Sauska entered the qualifying round seeded third in the tournament. Michelle Dasso of Notre Dame defeated Hincapie 6-1, 6-1 in the first round of the main draw, then Celeste Frey (Mississippi) took a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Hincapie in the consolation round.
Sophomore Christina Oldock defeated Karen Prangley of UM-Baltimore 6-0, 6-1 in the first round of prequalifying, then defeated Radford’s Sofia Najda 6-1, 6-0 in the second round. Marketta Blazkova of South Alabama defeated Oldock in the final round of prequalifying, 6-3, 6-3.
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What Snacks Are Celebrities Eating Today?
by David Ariagno | Oct 10, 2018 | blog, David Ariagno, snacks
With celebrities continuing to be a heavy influence on so many industries in today’s world, it is not surprising to learn that they commonly reveal their favorite snack foods. Whether they get a photo taken by paparazzi while indulging in a snack or reveal what their favorite snacks are during an interview, celebrities have a profound impact on the industry. What type of snacks do some of the most well-known celebrities enjoy?
The young, up-and-coming singer has revealed in interviews that she has several favorite snacks in her home at all times. Beginning with pickles to satisfy her salty cravings, Gomez reveals that her next snack food is Flaming Hot Cheetos, and eats them often. Additionally, she disclosed that she typically ends with chocolate to wash down everything else.
Chrissy Teigen has become increasingly famous in recent years and is well-known for her best-selling cookbook. While the cookbook, “Cravings: Recipes For All The Food You Want To Eat”tend to focus on healthier options, Chrissy has discussed snacks that she cannot live without. In a recent interview, she explained that she would never give up Sour Patch Kids, Sour Punch Straws, and Peanut M&Ms.
Nick Jonas is a singer that has made incredible headway in recent years through major movies like Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle.” While he maintains a very busy lifestyle, Jonas has expressed his love for food, particularly popcorn. Not only does he regularly eat popcorn, but he has taken it to the next level by adding Sriracha, giving the popular snack food a spicy twist.
The Hunger Games star has made a big name for herself in Hollywood, landing her roles in a variety of movies. During an interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence revealed that her all-time favorite snack is Cool Ranch Doritos. While she says that she has tried to substitute the chips for snacks that are a bit healthier, she admits that she can’t stay away from the flavorful snack.
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Storm heads to Southern California, as more rain expected near Oroville Dam
Posted 7:21 AM, February 17, 2017, by CNN Wire
Damage to a spillway on California's Oroville Dam prompted an urgent call for residents downstream to evacuate to higher ground Sunday. ***EMBARGO: Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA***
(CNN) — The next wave of torrential downpour is expected to hit Southern California by daybreak Friday as northern parts of the state brace for whether the Oroville Dam can withstand more rain this weekend.
Flash flood watches affecting more than 21 million people are in effect for Los Angeles, Ventura and Southern Santa Barbara counties, the National Weather Service said.
“The storm looks to be the strongest storm to hit southwest California this season. It is likely the strongest within the last six years and possibly even as far back as December 2004 or January 1995,” according to the National Weather Service.
Parts of the south-facing foothills and coastal mountain slopes could see up to 10 inches of rain through the weekend, meteorologists said.
“The incessant heavy rains, expected to reach up to 1 inch per hour, will dramatically increase the threat of urban flooding, as well as mud and debris flows from recent burn areas near mountainous terrain,” CNN meteorologist Derek VanDam said. “The highest elevations of Los Angeles and Ventura counties will likely experience 1 to 2 feet of snow with near hurricane force winds near the tops of mountain overpasses.”
Oroville Dam ‘is holding up’
While Southern Californians will be seeing the bulk of their rain before the end of the weekend, those in Northern California can expect heavier rain late Sunday and into Monday.
The weather brings more worries for communities south of the heavily damaged Oroville Dam. Rainfall continuing over the next seven days could total more than 12 inches.
On Wednesday, although the threat level has been reduced for residents living near the dam, Butte County officials advised those returning to their homes to “remain vigilant and prepared.”
Helicopters dropped rocks and concrete into the erosion area every minute and a half late Wednesday night in “a manner that kind of glues the areas of concern,” Acting Director of the California Department of Water Resources, Bill Croyle said.
Erosion was a concern in three sites, officials said Thursday. The first site has been completely filled, while the other two sites are 25% and 69% filled.
“The dam is holding up, it’s structurally sound,” California Fire Department spokesman, Jay Smith told CNN.
The Oroville Lake level has dipped to 869 feet, 32 feet below the top and that “everything is going well,” Smith said but added “we’re cautiously optimistic.”
“The next week of storms could potentially bring hundreds of billions of gallons of water into Lake Oroville, adding pressure back onto the already compromised structure of the concrete spillway and emergency spillway next to Oroville Dam,” said Dave Hennen, CNN’s senior meteorologist.
Authorities ordered mandatory evacuations over concerns that an emergency spillway at the dam could fail and threaten nearby communities.
On Tuesday, officials downgraded the evacuation order to a warning, allowing 188,000 evacuees from Butte, Sutter and Yuba counties to return home.
But evacuation warnings remain in place for Oroville and Thermalito, as well as, “all low-lying areas around the Feather River, which includes Gridley, Biggs, Yuba City, Loma Rica, and anywhere south of Butte County along the River,” according to the Butte County Sheriff’s Officer website.
All schools in Butte County will be closed through Friday, except those in Chico and Paradise, officials said.
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Fractal Dimension Analysis of Mandibular Bones: Toward a Morphological Compatibility of Implants
Authors: Oshida, Y.; | Hashem, A. | Nishihara, T. | Yapchulay, M. V.
Affiliations: Dental Materials Laboratory, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry, 1121 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5186, USA | Department of Mechanical Engineering. Kokushikan University, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan | Prosthdontics, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry, 1121 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46202-5186, USA
Note: [] All correspondence regarding this paper should be addressed to Yoshiki Oshida, PhD, Dental Materials Laboratory, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Indiana University School of Dentistry, 1121 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5186, USA, Tel: .(317) 274-3725, Fax: (317) 274-2419.
Abstract: In addition to biological and mechanical compatibilities for promising implant materials, a morphological compatibility is proposed by the authors. It has been reported by many investigators that implant surface with appropriate roughness and pore size exhibit better bone ingrowth activities. However, these parameters cannot characterize the complexity of surface textures. In the present study, dentulous and edentulous mandibular alveolar bones were utilized. Four segments from each mandible were subjected to the Fractal Dimension (DF) analysis. It was found that the dentulous mandible showed the DF of 1.81 ± 0.03 while the edentulous mandible exhibitedDF of 1.55 ± 0.07, indicating that the former has more complex surface texture. It was also found that there could be a linear relationship between the surface roughness and the fractal dimension.
Keywords: morphological compatibility, surface texturing, implants, fractal dimension, mandibular bones
DOI: 10.3233/BME-1994-4506
Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 397-407, 1994
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The Relationship between Centralization of Care and Geographic Barriers to Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer
Authors: Casey, Martin F.a | Wisnivesky, Juanb | Le, Valerie H.a | Sarpel, Umutc | Stensland, Kristian D.d | Oh, William K.e | Galsky, Matthew D.e; *
Affiliations: [a] Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA | [b] Department of Medicine, Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA | [c] Division of Surgical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA | [d] Department of Urology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA, USA | [e] Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Matthew D. Galsky, MD, Tisch Cancer Institute, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029, USA. Tel.: +1 212 659 5412; Fax: +1 212 659 5599; E-mail: matthew.galsky@mssm.edu.
Keywords: Cystectomy, urinary bladder neoplasms, healthcare disparities, centralized hospital services, health services accessibility
DOI: 10.3233/BLC-160058
Journal: Bladder Cancer, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 319-327, 2016
Supplementary Materials:
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Background: Centralization of cystectomy treatment for bladder cancer, while associated with improved outcomes, may impose geographic barriers to care. However, whether this effect may be counterbalanced by an increased number of high volume centers has not previously been explored.
Objective: To characterize changes in geographic disparities to high volume cystectomy centers over time.
Methods: Data on all inpatient admissions for cystectomy in New York State (NYS) from 1997–2011 was obtained from the Department of Health. Using these data, we classified hospitals according to cystectomy volume and measured patient distance traveled to a cystectomy center. Population weights, from the US Census, were used to describe changes in minimum travel distance to high- or very high-volume (HV/VHV) facilities across the NYS population.
Results: Bladder cancer patients underwent cystectomies at 195 hospitals during the study period. In 1997–2001, eleven HV/VHV facilities accounted for 37.5% of all cystectomies, while sixteen HV/VHV hospitals accounted for 71.5% of all procedures during 2007–2011. Median distance traveled by cystectomy patients to all hospitals increased from 9.6 to 14.4 miles in 1997–2001 to 2007–2011, respectively. In the same time span, the median travel distance for the NYS population to a HV/VHV center decreased by 1.9 and 9.4 miles at the median and 75th percentile, respectively.
Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate a complicated relationship between centralization and geographic access. While centralization has led to a decrease in overall access to cystectomy facilities, the process simultaneously improved access to high volume centers.
Radical cystectomy is the standard, and potentially curative, therapy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer [1]. Achieving optimal outcomes after radical cystectomy requires maximizing tumor control while minimizing treatment-related morbidity and mortality [1, 2]. Multiple studies have shown a strong association between facility volume and improved cystectomy outcomes including reduced perioperative morbidity and mortality [3–6], shorter length of stay [7, 8], lower costs [6, 7], and better long-term survival [9]. Moreover, it has been estimated that up to 40% of the decrease in 30-day mortality after cystectomy observed between 2000–2008 was attributable to centralization of care [10]. As a result, multiple stakeholders have advocated for centralization of care to hospitals with high cystectomy volumes [11, 12]. The dialogue on centralization has received renewed attention of late due to the “Take the Volume Pledge,” a public campaign to eliminate use of low-volume centers and surgeons [13].
Alignment of advocacy and market forces (e.g., shrinking reimbursement) have led to significant centralization of cystectomies over the past decade [14]. It is estimated that high-volume hospitals accounted for 50–90% of the cystectomy market in the late-2000s compared to only 35–40% in the prior decade [10, 14, 15]. As a result, many low-volume surgeons have exited the marketplace, decreasing the overall number of available centers. These patterns have generated concerns about increased travel distances for patients seeking surgical care for bladder cancer [10, 16, 17]. Specific concerns include delays in delivery of the initial procedure and fragmented perioperative care, particularly in the management of late complications. However, centralization has also led to an increase in the number of high-cystectomy-volume centers. The net overall impact of centralization of cystectomy care on hospital access thus remains unclear.
Several studies have established that long travel distance is an important barrier to surgical care for bladder cancer [17–20]. These studies are predominantly retrospective analyses of changes in travel patterns among cancer patients. These methods fail to differentiate between patients forced to travel longer distances for care versus those that opted to travel greater distances in light of the volume-mortality benefit. In this study, we describe accessibility using Census data and geo-mapping to capture accessibility across the entire New York State (NYS) population.We further characterize population level changes in access resulting from variations in number and geographic location of high-volume, or higher quality, centers over time. We hypothesized that, despite centralization, increases in the absolute number of high-volume cystectomy centers has improved geographic access to high-quality hospitals across the entire NYS population.
Data on all inpatient admissions in NYS from 1997–2011 were obtained from the NYS Department of Health’s Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) database [21]. SPARCS contains information on patients’ demographics, insurance status, ZIP code of residence, clinical diagnoses and procedure codes (organized by International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision [ICD-9]), and facility identifiers. Hospital addresses were manually coded via online search based on facility identifiers. The dataset was merged with 2000 and 2010 United States (US) Census data to obtain ecological measures on the percent college educated population, median household income, and urban/rural status. Census and SPARCS datasets were merged using ZIP codes. This study was deemed exempt by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Institutional Review Board.
All bladder cancer patients (diagnosis codes 188.X and 236.7) that underwent cystectomy (procedure code: 57.59–57.79 and 68.8) were identified from the registry using ICD-9 codes. Patients with unknown ZIP code of residence or cystectomy center were excluded from the analysis. Patients residing outside of NY State were also excluded.
Currently, there is a lack of consensus on thresholds for classifying cystectomy centers based on their volume. Previous studies have tabulated cumulative hospital cystectomy volume over the study period, and then classified centers into volume quintiles of very low-volume (VLV), low-volume (LV), medium-volume (MV), high-volume (HV), and very high-volume (VHV) [3, 4, 22]. However, this method has been criticized as it yields inconsistent thresholds across studies, due to temporal and geographic variations in hospital volume across study cohorts [8, 23]. In order to address these limitations, we first divided the sample into three 5-year blocks: 1997–2001, 2002–2006, and 2007–2011. Cumulative hospital volume was calculated within each 5-year period prior to restricting the cohort to NY residents. Thresholds separating hospital volume quintiles were determined for the period of least centralization (i.e., 1997–2001) and then applied to subsequent time periods (i.e., 2002–2006 and 2007–2011). This methodology allows for reclassification of hospitals over time. Similar methods have been reported in other volume-outcomes studies [15, 16, 24, 25].
Two approaches were used to describe geographic access. First, using the cohort of cystectomy patients, driving distance traveled to the center (from home ZIP code to cystectomy hospital ZIP code) was calculated using Microsoft MapPoint® and Excel® plugin CDXTech ZipStream™. Route optimization technology from MapPoint® was used to calculate the minimal distance and time between zip codes. Distance traveled was trended over time [16, 24]. Secondly, minimal driving distance and time to any HV/VHV center were calculated from every NYS ZIP code within each 5-year period. Population-weights, from the US Census, were linked to the data by ZIP code in order to describe geographic accessibility across the entire NYS population. Geographic distribution maps, reflecting the location and volume of hospitals within NYS, were created utilizing Python code and the Basemap library. Hospitals were mapped using the latitude and longitude of the hospital ZIP code (code available at https://github.com/stensy/sparcs_bubblemap).
Statistical analyses were carried out with Stata software version 13.1 (StataCorp, College Station, TX). Descriptive statistics were used to characterize temporal changes in the proportion of cystectomies performed at higher volume facilities and the number of hospitals in each volume group. The chi-square test was used to assess unadjusted associations. In order to characterize the relationship between geographic accessibility and utilization of low-volume hospitals, we performed logistic regressions of minimum distance to HV/VHV centers on the utilization of LV/VLV and VLV hospitals. The cohort of cystectomy patients was separated into terciles according to the minimal travel distance to a HV/VHV center in order to simplify the regression. Models were adjusted for age, gender, race, Charlson comorbidity score, insurance status, and Census measures including: median income per household, urban/rural status, and percent population that was college educated. The Bonferroni correction, p < 0.025, was applied to our regression analyses as results are reported across two outcomes, utilization of LV/VLV facility and VLV facility. Wilcoxian signed-rank tests were used to compare non-parametric differences in minimum travel distance and time from 1997–2001 to 2007–2011. All statistical tests were two-sided.
A total of 10,713 bladder cancer patients that underwent cystectomy between 1997–2011 were identified from the SPARCS database. Of these, 9,121 patients met criteria for inclusion in the study (Supplemental Figure). The cohort was predominantly male (73.8%), aged 65–75 (40.0%), white (83.3%), insured by Medicare (60.9%), and without comorbid conditions (39.6%). Using data from 1997–2001, the following volume thresholds were created: ≤2.6, 2.7–5, 5.1–10, 10.1–27.2 and≥27.3 cystectomies per year for VLV, LV, MV, HV and VHV facilities, respectively.
Hospital volume thresholds
Study subjects received care from a total of 195 hospitals between the years of 1997–2011. Consistent with centralization, the proportion of cystectomy patients utilizing HV/VHV facilities increased from 37.4% in 1997–2001 to 71.5% in 2007–2011 (Table 1). A corresponding decrease in the market share of LV/VLV facilities, from 41.6% to 21.9%, was observed concurrently. Similarly, the number of HV/VHV hospitals increased from 11 to 16 and number of LV/VLV centers decreased from 155 to 108 from 1997–2001 to 2007–2011, respectively. Overall there was a decrease in the number of available cystectomy hospitals (184 to 130 hospitals from 1997–2001 to 2007–2011, respectively). Regardless, LV/VLV hospitals outnumbered HV/VHV centers by approximately 7:1 in 2007–2011.
Geographic access among cystectomy patients
Among the cohort of cystectomy patients, distance and time traveled increased over periods of increasing centralization. Median distance traveled increased 4.8 miles overall (from 9.6 to 11.6 to 14.4 miles in 1997–2001 to 2002–2006 to 2007–2011, respectively). Similar increases occurred for median time traveled (medians of 18.6, 20.6, and 24.0 minutes in 1997–2001, 2002–06 and 2007–2011, respectively). Restricting the analysis to HV/VHV patients only, median travel distance had a smaller increase in travel distance at 1.1 miles (from 7.6 to 8.4 to 8.7 miles in 1997–2001, 2002–2006 and 2007–2011, respectively). Similarly, travel time increased by 2.5 minutes (from 25.9 to 28.6 to 28.4 minutes in 1997–2001, 2002–2006 and 2007–2011, respectively).
Figure 1 maps the changing geographic distribution of cystectomy hospitals. Comparison of the maps depicts the decreasing density of cystectomy hospitals as LV and VLV centers exited the marketplace. HV and VHV centers were located in or near NY State’s most population-dense cities, including New York City metropolitan area, Buffalo, Rochester and Albany. Overall, approximately one-third of the cystectomy cohort lived 0–7.5 miles from the nearest HV/VHV center, another third in the >7.5–21 mile range and the final third >21 miles. Logistic regression analyses showed that relative to patients living 0–7.5 miles from a HV/VHV facility, odds ratios (ORs) for utilization of LV/VLV facility of 1.33 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.15–1.54) and 2.17 (95% CI: 1.81–2.60) were observed among patients in the >7.5–21 and >21 mile categories, respectively (Table 2). Similar effects were observed in the utilization of VLV facilities among patients >7.5–21 miles (OR: 1.94; 95% CI: 1.63–2.32) and >21 miles (OR: 2.47; 95% CI: 1.99–3.06) from a HV/VHV center. Regardless, there was a group of LV/VLV utilizers that traveled distances in excess of the distance to the nearest HV/VHV center (20.8%, 23.3% and 28.7% of LV/VLV utilizers in 1997–01, 2002–2006 and 2007–2011, respectively).
Geographic access to high volume centers in the New York State population
Cumulative percentage and box plots, generated with US Census data, depict population-level changes in travel distance (Figs. 2A and 2B) and travel time (Figs. 3A and 3B) to HV/VHV centers across NY State. The analyses are repeated in each time period in the study: 1997–2001, 2002–2006 and 2007–2011. The left shift in the cumulative percent curves from 1997–2001 to 2007–2011 demonstrates the decrease in distance and time to HV/VHV centers over time. Median travel distance to a HV/VHV center decreased modestly from 12.2 to 9.4 to 10.3 miles in 1997–2001, 2002–2006 and 2007–2011, respectively (p < 0.001). Similarly, median travel time decreased from 23.3 to 19.3 to 20.6 minutes in 1997–2001, 2002–06 and 2007–2011, respectively (p < 0.001). Concurrently, a 9.4-mile decrease in minimum travel distance and an 8.9-minute fall in minimum travel time were observed at the 75th percentile (observed distances of 30.8, 27.0 and 21.4 miles and times of 44.3, 41.7 and 35.4 minutes in 1997–2001, 2002–06 and 2007–2011; p < 0.001). A similar, but smaller, decrease of 7.0 miles occurred at the 90th percentile (observed distances of 68.5, 62.9, and 61.5 miles in 1997–2001, 2002–06, and 2007–2011, respectively; p < 0.001). No corresponding improvement in travel time was observed at the 90th percentile. The majority of the decrease in travel distance and time occurred in the population living between 15–70 miles or 20–80 minutes from a HV/VHV center. Little to no improvement was observed in the population living the closest and furthest from HV/VHV centers.
Radical cystectomy has long been the standard of care for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Quality improvement efforts have led to significant centralization of cystectomy centers, which is believed to reduce operative mortality [10]. Despite the documented benefits, efforts to expand centralization, such as “Take the Volume Pledge” campaign, have been greeted with notable opposition [26]. A major concern of these healthcare delivery changes is that geographic inequities are imposed upon populations that live far away from HV/VHV centers [16, 17]. Our study demonstrates a mixed relationship between centralization and geographic access. While centralization has led to a decrease in overall access to cystectomy facilities, and overall increased travel for care, the process simultaneously improved access to high volume centers. Examining travel patterns among HV/VHV utilizers shows an 7.7 mile increase in distance traveled from 1997–2001 to 2007–2011, but at a slower rate relative to the general cystectomy population. This result is likely due to competing effects on travel patterns: improvements in minimum distance to HV/VHV centers (which decreases travel) and a larger percentage of the populationseeking care from HV/VHV centers (which may extend travel depending the distribution of said patients). For these reasons, one cannot wholly extrapolate a causal relationship between increased travel distance and decreased geographic access. When examining access in the NYS population rather than among cystectomy patients, minimum required travel distance and time to HV/VHV centers decreased during periods of increasing centralization. If the goal is to redirect patients to higher quality hospitals, consistent with the ‘Take the Volume Pledge’, then centralization has arguably improved geographic access to care.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to report that centralization may have beneficially impacted geographic barriers. The decrease in distance to HV/VHV centers was modest, only 1.9 and 9.4 miles at the median and 75th percentile. However, it is quite notable that these changes occurred passively in the context of centralization. As the process continues, centralization may continue to improve access to higher quality centers. Further, policy makers may leverage this phenomenon to improve access to HV/VHV centers. For example, distributional maps displaying the location of cystectomy centers, such as Fig. 1, may be superimposed onto population density maps to identify optimal locations for the placement of additional HV/VHV centers. State government may set aside tax credits for hospitals in aforementioned locations for the establishment of “centers of excellence”. Alternative strategies may be required to address the needs of patients living in particularly remote regions of the country, such as subsidies to cover travel costs.
We have further shown that LV/VLV centers are still very prevalent in NY State and that distance plays a critical role in their continued utilization. Unfortunately, no studies have evaluated the utility of accessing HV/VHV centers from great distances against the costs associated with significant travel. As of now, patients must individually weigh the benefits of HV/VHV utilization against the financial costs of travel and potential delays secondary to the referral for care, which have also been associated with increased perioperative mortality among bladdercancer patients [27, 28].
Of note, there remain a large subset of patients utilizing LV/VLV facilities and traveling excess distance compared to the nearest HV/VHV center, indicating that there are still barriers to access of HV/VHV hospitals not simply related to travel time or cost. Structural barriers related to facility type and physician access, as well as direct affordability, have been cited as significant obstacles in access to HV/VHV centers and thus appropriate care [22, 29]. Further, cultural obstacles, namely racial disparities, have been shown to be drivers of LV/VLV utilization in large urban cities where HV/VHV cystectomy providers are often located [29]. Though centralization has decreased physical distance and travel time to a HV/VHV center, further changes in access are necessary to provide care to the local, not merely the isolated or more dispersed, populations.
There are several important limitations to our study. First, the volume-mortality benefit was not independently validated in our dataset as the dataset only included inpatient mortality (an extremely rare event). This study assumes that high volume leads to higher quality, which has been robustly demonstrated in larger observational studies [3, 4]. Secondly, our study was limited to New York State. We were not able to characterize the effects of border crossing, nor account for the presence of HV/VHV facilities near the state border. This effect is somewhat attenuated by interstate variations in insurance regulations that favor the receipt of in-state care. Additionally, the findings in this study are geographic in nature, thus limiting generalizability to other states, which most likely have very different distributions in population density. However, centralization and increasing number of HV/VHV centers have been recorded across different cancer procedures and locations [10, 24], suggesting that our findings may be replicated in numerous contexts. Further, we believe the findings can likely be generalized to other highly specialized cancer surgeries (e.g., Whipple, esophagectomy) as these forms of care are often co-located in tertiary referral centers. This study is also limited in that population-density was a fixed characteristic based off the 2010 Census, and thus our findings fail to account for the effects of population shifts over time. This study may have underestimated geographic disparities in 1997–2001 and 2002–2006 given the history of migration out of Upstate New York [30], a location that lacked a HV/VHV center throughout the study timespan. Moreover, we were not able to account for patients’ access to various modes of transportation. Patients without access to a car may be particularly vulnerable in the utilization of LV/VLV hospitals. Other drivers of LV/VLV utilization, namely clinical information conferring low risk for perioperative complications (eg, pathological data), were not available in SPARCs as it is an administrative dataset. Finally, we did not assess the distribution of HV and LV surgeons, which can independently impact outcomes for cystectomy patients.
A key strength of our study is the population-based approach in the analysis of geographic barriers to care. This approach has two major advantages. First, our estimates on access are not impacted by patients selectively opting to travel further for higher quality care. Secondly, our analysis focuses on changes in access to HV/VHV centers, simultaneously recognizing the importance of both quality and distance in the assessment of access. Using this approach, geographic access to HV/VHV centers was found to modestly improve as a result of centralization. Of note, changes in travel distance were experienced differently across the population. Fortunately, the improvements in travel distance were mostly experienced among patients living at moderate-to-great distances from HV/VHV hospitals likely due to the increase in the number of high volume centers over time. It is important to note that reclassification only favorably impacts geographic barriers if the city of a newly ‘reclassified’ HV/VHV hospital does not already have a HV/VHV center. Other strengths of our study include the use of a large database that captured all cystectomies in NYS, regardless of payer type. Finally, geographic barriers were characterized using actual driving distance rather than straight-line distance. Straight-line distance has previously been reported to underestimate driving distances by 20–30% [31].
In conclusion, our study may abate some concerns that centralization imposes geographic barriers unto patients. Regardless, further analyses are needed to assess the needs of patients living in particularly remote regions as well as barriers within communities close to HV/VHV centers. Unfortunately, these analyses have been inhibited by a lack of consensus on fixed volume criteria as a quality measure for cystectomy. Despite the complicated nature of the debate on centralization, inexpensive and affordable methods to address inequities in access do exist. We believe that geographic mapping, as we have done in this study, can assist in the formulation of effective policy to appropriately address inequities in access to care.
This work was supported by the New York Acad-emy of Medicine through the Margaret E. Mahoney Research Fellowship.
Dr. Wisnivesky is a member of the research board of EHE International, has received honorarium from Merck and Quintiles and research grants from Aventis and Quorum. No other conflict of interests or disclosures.
We appreciate Tal Gross, of Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, for providing critical feedback on the manuscript.
The supplementary material is available in the electronic version of this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BLC-160058.
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Geographic distribution of cystectomy facilities in New York State by ZIP code over time. Each bubble represents a single cystectomy hospital with bubble size correlating to volume status. (A) 1997–2001, (B) 2002–2006, (C) 2007–2011. Key: VLV (very low volume) hospital: ≤2.6 cystectomies per year. LV (low volume) hospital: 2.7–5 cystectomies per year. MV (medium volume) hospital: 5.1–10 cystectomies per year. HV (high volume) hospital: 10.1–27.2 cystectomies per year. VHV (very high volume) hospital: ≥27.3 cystectomies per year.
(A) Cumulative percent and (B) box plot distribution of the New York State population living near a HV/VHV center by minimum distance needed to travel.
(A) Cumulative percent and (B) box plot distribution of the New York State population living near a HV/VHV center by minimum time needed to travel.
Number of hospitals and cystectomies performed by volume status over time
1997–2001 2002–2006 2007–2011 Total
Hospital Volume N (%) N (%) N (%) N (%)
Cystectomy hospitals Very low volume 120 (65.2) 111 (69.4) 91 (70) ––*
Low volume 35 (19.0) 21 (13.1) 17 (13.1) ––*
Medium volume 18 (9.8) 14 (8.8) 6 (4.6) ––*
High volume 9 (4.9) 12 (7.5) 9 (6.9) ––*
Very high volume 2 (1.1) 2 (1.3) 7 (5.4) ––*
Total 184 (100) 160 (100) 130 (100) ––*
Cystectomies performed Very low volume 684 (21.5) 523 (18.1) 361 (11.8) 1568 (17.2)
Low volume 641 (20.1) 396 (13.7) 307 (10.1) 1344 (14.7)
Medium volume 669 (21.0) 500 (17.3) 201 (6.6) 1370 (15.0)
High volume 698 (21.9) 907 (31.5) 661 (21.7) 2266 (24.8)
Very high volume 495 (15.5) 558 (19.4) 1520 (49.8) 2573 (28.2)
Total 3187 (100) 2884 (100) 3050 (100) 9121 (100)
*Hospitals were allowed to reclassify their volume status across time periods, thus total number of hospitals in each volume grouping is not reported.
Logistic regression analysis of utilization of VLV/LV and VLV providers by minimum travel distance to HV/VHV hospitals
Minimum Travel Distance to HV/VHV Hospital§
LV or VLV Utilization VLV Utilization
OR 95% CI OR 95% CI
0–7.5 Miles 1 ref 1 ref
>7.5–21 Miles 1.33 (1.15,1.54) 1.94 (1.63,2.32)
>21 Miles 2.17 (1.81,2.60) 2.47 (1.99,3.06)
§Regressions adjusted for age, gender, race, year of procedure, Charlson comorbidity score, source of admission, payer, annual surgeon volume, and Census variables measured at the level of the ZIP code including: median income per household, urban/rural status, % college educated, % houses that are owner occupied. All p-values≤0.002.
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We Need To Talk About Happy Endings’ “New Day”
Posted in Entertainment by Traci
Happy Endings fans – we need to talk about the show. If you’re not a Happy Endings fan, you are missing one of the greatest things that has ever happened to television so stop reading this right now and go out and buy the DVDs of all three seasons and binge watch until you look like Max hibernating in his apartment.
Great. Welcome back all Happy Endings fans new and old. In February, someone from the Happy Endings writers’ room Twitter account posted a mysterious link to this countdown, with the phrase, “It’s almost a new day”. WHAT DOES IT MEAN, cried every single person in the fandom. Some folks quickly figured out that the countdown led to April 1st – AKA April Fool’s Day AKA THE DAY EVERYONE THINKS THEY’RE A JOKER (see whole rant here).
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— Happy Endings (@happywrites) February 6, 2015
Since then, the anon Tweeter has been posting random hints, like pictures of Michael Jordan – who not only played for the Chicago Bulls/the city where Happy Endings takes place – but made a brief comeback to the Washington Wizards, the great Mark Morrison hit, RETURN of the Mack, stuff about ketchup, and coordinates to the Four Seasons Hotel in Chi-town.
All these hints could mean nothing or they could mean something, but I’m hoping they do mean something, like a brief reunion of sorts? A revival on Netflix? Recently, the anon did start following the Netflix and Yahoo! Screen accounts on Twitter.
So in saying this, I’m a naturally positive person. I’m a “everything happens for a reason” type of gal. No cynical bones in my body. Which is why I really think something significant will happen come April 1st.
Reasons Why I Think This Is Not Bullshit
Ever since the show was cancelled in 2013, it has had a strong cult following grow year by year. Happy Endings’ grassroots fans used word of mouth as a weapon, also with the help of TV critics and Internet critics who loved the show and will forever put it on the “Cancelled Too Soon” lists from now until eternity. Fans were clamoring for more when it ended, and that need/want hasn’t faltered since
This is the age of TV where there are 10 million pilots made and only a handful are actually picked up. But this is also the age where shows like Community or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, both of which were given the axe by NBC, were picked up by online services Yahoo! Screen and Netflix, respectively. TV is changing, so why can’t Happy Endings do the same too?
Adam Pally is leaving The Mindy Project and Damon Wayans Jr. is leaving New Girl. Eliza Coupe’s show Benched, was recently cancelled, Casey Wilson is on the bubble for renewal for Marry Me, and Elisha Cuthbert and Zachary Knighton are on shows that could possibly get the boot. Are they secretly quitting all their current jobs to be avail for Happy Endings reincarnate??
Adam Pally said this of the countdown to The Huffington Post: “I can’t tell you anything. I know as much as you. I’ll tell you this: I know the origin of that Happy Endings countdown clock was not intended to be where it is headed. That’s as much as I can give you.” BUT LIKE, OBVIOUSLY HE KNOWS SOMETHING, RIGHT
It would be extremely mean to have a 50+ day countdown to nothing.
But even for the most positive of people, I know that like most things in life, we can’t get our hopes up too high.
Reasons Why I Think This Is Bullshit
It’s on April Fool’s Day. Honestly, this “holiday” needs to stop. Reiterating this with another link to my previous post.
Reps for Netflix, Amazon, and Yahoo have all denied any news of a comeback. ABC bosses are clueless, Sony (the studio that produced the show) has “no comment”. This could also mean something is most definitely happening.
The writers link pranks. See Season 3, Episode 12, “The Marry Prankster“
Casey Wilson is pregnant. Her husband, the creator of Happy Endings and their new show Marry Me, still might have a second season of the NBC show to get ready for, come fall.
Speaking of Casey Wilson, she’s a life ruiner. She ruins people’s lives (jk, love ya Pen Pen, but ugh). In a new interview, Casey basically shuts all the speculation down. And she would know, because, again, her husband was the creator of Happy Endings (yes, that’s how they met).
It’s certainly nothing to my knowledge so I think it might be our writer’s assistant joking around and unfortunately, I know it’s not a welcome joke for everyone necessary.
Casey Wilson: I know. I don’t love that he did it to be honest. But at the same time, I think he was framing it like he knew fans would be excited. I don’t think he meant it in any way but to my knowledge, there’s nothing moving forward. I mean I’m still on the show.
You’d probably know.
CW: I would hope. I would hope. But nothing sadly and I apologize if it got anyone excited… It got me excited.
For a second, were you like, “Oh, great, why didn’t they tell me”?
Yeah. I was like I’m sure they want to tell because they’re bringing me such a great offer that they want to wait… So nothing yet.
You’d think I’d be convinced that there’s definitely nothing happening after Casey’s interview, but I’m still holding on to a glimmer of hope. Maybe at least a small series of webisodes?? A TV movie a la Lifetime? I’ll even settle for a reunion where the cast sits around and does nothing but drink and and eat ribs. Anything. Just let it be something. I can’t be the only one who’s dying over this! And there’s less than 24 hours left!!! What do y’all think? Are we just wasting our time? SHOULD WE ALL JUST GET TOGETHER AND HAVE A MASSIVE HAPPY ENDINGS VIEWING PARTY??
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I am literally thinking of nothing else until this is resolved. If it’s a cruel trick, I will no longer trust happiness or hope.
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BY SAM HOOPER
John Harris has long been about the only writer at the Guardian worth reading, and last week he had some wise words of advice for the organisers and stars of last week’s march in support of the “People’s Vote” on overturning Brexit and remaining in the European Union.
For those who have been living under a rock and therefore missed the incessant publicity of these astroturf, significantly foreign-funded umbrella groups agitating for another vote (termed by activists and unquestioningly sympathetic journalists the “People’s Vote” because presumably the June 2016 vote which they lost turned out not to be a people’s vote) held another one of their big marches in central London last weekend. They clustered in fashionable Park Lane, that bastion of salt-of-the-earth Britishness with which so many potentially wavering regional Leave voters identify, and sauntered down to Parliament Square to hear last season’s political grandees tell them the same comforting bromides that they have been repeating for over two years.
John Harris thinks that maybe – just maybe – this “second time lucky” approach will not bring the windfalls which the organisers are hoping for, which presumably include generating mounting and irresistible public pressure for Brexit to be delayed while a new referendum is organised.
Says Harris:
The music, apparently swelling towards a climax that never arrives, sounds like a Coldplay outtake, and most of the faces suggest an entertaining Saturday night in front of the TV. On and on they go: the singer Jamelia, the actor Dominic West, Philip Pullman, Stephen Mangan, Josh Widdicombe, Tracey Ullman, Natascha McElhone, the musician Nitin Sawhney, Gary Lineker, Matt Lucas and good old Dan Snow. Non-famous people seem to be few and far between, with the exception of an unnamed man in front of a football crowd and someone whose caption merely says “a farmer from Scotland”.
The same crowd of luvvies who believe that their celebrity endows them with some special wisdom and insight into geopolitics which the rest of us desperately need to hear. The same people who actively drove wavering voters into the arms of the 2016 Leave campaign.
Harris continues:
Ostensibly, the video is aimed simply at encouraging people to go on the demo, a job it may well be doing reasonably well. But it clearly has a larger reach, and shines light on an increasingly inescapable problem: the failure of the range of forces now pushing against Brexit (from Open Britain, to Scientists for EU and the student campaign FFS (AKA For our Future’s Sake), and Britain for Europe) to do much more than working up their own side, and get anywhere near shifting the balance of opinion in the country.
Slow hand clap.
It took two years, but we finally got there. To be fair, Harris probably knew this all along – but then if more instinctively pro-EU journalists, commentators and campaigners had half of Harris’ self-awareness we likely would not have voted to leave the EU in the first place. More:
To be fair to anti-Brexit campaigners, the contortions of the Labour party and the big trade unions are not helping them. But they should also look at their own failings. First, as evidenced by the video, they cannot seem to break out of the stereotype of remain voters as metropolitan and largely middle class, nor push beyond the impression of the anti-Brexit cause as something led by representatives of some awful ancien regime, commanded by Tony Blair, Nick Clegg and Bob Geldof (with supporting roles for, say, the former minister Andrew Adonis and the philosopher AC Graying, both of whom perhaps ought to tweet less).
Overall, there is still precious little awareness that if you put the people formerly known as the great and the good at the forefront of anti-Brexit campaigning, you run the risk of simply reminding millions of people why they voted to exit the EU in the first place. The problem is arguably symbolised by one fact above all others: that by the end of this month, the two biggest anti-Brexit events to date will have been huge marches in London.
This is why I shake my head every time that Tony Blair decides that the nation needs to hear from him on Brexit one more time – that if only he gives one more stirring speech, contorting his increasingly cadaverous face into those positions of faux-anguish and sincerity which once fooled so many of us – that we will immediately stop, see the error of our ways and hand the car keys back to the same determined kidnappers who drugged and abducted us in the first place, just as we stand on the cusp of escape.
But clearly this is not a lesson which penetrates the minds of the Smartest Guys In The Room, the people who think that their credentials, jobs and lifestyles give them some kind of exclusive divine right to chart Britain’s course. And so, like a one-hit wonder that won’t go away, they keep playing the same tune to an increasingly bored wider audience.
But it need not be like this, says Harris, who proposes ditching the celebrities and failed ex-politicians in favour of being seen “pitching up in the places that voted leave, and finally listening”. Harris signs off with this parting advice:
And perhaps bear in mind the words of the venerable Gina Miller, uttered at the people’s vote march earlier this year. “It’s time we took things back to the streets and the lanes, the towns and the villages, the meadows and the squares of this country,” she said. So why haven’t they done it?
Why haven’t they done it yet?
Maybe because people like Gina Miller and the assembled celebrities agitating to subvert Brexit would never sully themselves by holding their big march in Sunderland (61-39) or Boston (75-25). Hell, they won’t even go so far as Birmingham (50.4-49.6). They wouldn’t be caught dead in any of those places. They’re happy to cut schmaltzy little videos exhorting other people to take the “People’s Vote” campaign to those areas, but Patrick Stewart and Bob Geldof aren’t going to check in to the Premier Inn Coventry and dine at Wetherspoon’s after a long day knocking on doors or accosting shoppers outside WH Smith.
And so we have this ludicrous campaign of unhinged celebrity carnival barkers, bleating their hypocritical demand about another referendum yet refusing to take their message beyond its existing metropolitan strongholds. Remember, these people really do consider themselves so smart. So much more educated, so much better informed, so much more aware of every possible relevant factor concerning Brexit, and yet they have made zero attempt to change the disastrous strategy which saw them lose the last round back on June 23, 2016.
I am becoming increasingly convinced that the reason is that for many of them, this is not about leaving the European Union at all. That like so many other social justice causes, this is little more than a convenient vehicle for second-tier celebrities to clamber onto in order to prove their woke, right-on credentials. In short, the People’s Vote campaign is at least 50% a culture war issue. If even half of these celebrities were really motivated purely by the earnest desire to see Britain saved from economic self-harm, they would have been found during the 2017 snap general election protesting Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and cutting urgent YouTube campaign videos warning people not to vote for the party of renationalization and endlessly high taxes. But they didn’t, because allying with the Conservative party makes for bad PR, while hating on the Tories makes you cool and edgy.
Establishment and celebrity Remainers talk the language of economic damage, but at heart they are fighting a culture war. And to these people, Brexit is to be opposed because as Bono never tires of lecturing us, the European Union stands for everything enlightened and noble on this continent, and the nation state (and particularly Britain) stands for everything retrograde, oppressive and embarrassing. I have been watching this establishment-celebrity hissy fit roll on for over two years now, and I am convinced that the great thrust of their motivation is entirely rooted in the culture war.
Were it otherwise, establishment and celebrity Remainers would have used some of their vaunted intellect to learn from their mistakes and change tack. They would have realized that screeching worst case scenarios of economic doom at a population who were not evaluating the decision to leave the EU purely on economic terms had failed once, and would likely fail again. They would have conceded that having the same tedious, back-slapping conversation in which they and other like-minded souls praise one another for being so compassionate, intelligent and not stupid enough to be manipulated by the Russians was not buttering any parsnips among Leave voters. They would have ventured out into places like my hometown of Harlow, Essex and chatted with voters there – that way they could engage and attempt to convert some Leave voters firsthand while remaining within spitting distance of the M25 when they reached their tolerance limit for mingling with parochial Gammons.
But the celebrities and their political puppet-masters didn’t do any of that stuff. Instead, they threw every insult in the book at the other side. They painted the question in stark, good versus evil terms. They put forward air-headed celebrity spokespeople to make pro-EU statements about as emotionally convincing as a Kate Winslet Oscars acceptance speech. They came up with a new, racist word for white male Leave voters: Gammons. They broke out their actuarial tables and publicly looked forward to the death of elderly Brexit voters. And they organised march after insufferable march deep in the heart of Fortress London, the only part of the United Kingdom which most of them know or like.
The campaign for a “People’s Vote” is an exercise in catharsis for ordinary Remainers and an opportunity for virtue-signaling and personal brand-burnishing for the campaign’s celebrity conscripts. It is the least organic political movement in modern British history, and by far the most cynical. Again, most of these people bleating that the British people must be given a say over the terms of our future relationship with the EU never wanted the public to have a say in the first place, and certainly never wanted any public consultation or consensus-building as government after government took us deeper into supranational political union. And now they’re weeping in the streets of London, claiming that another referendum is required in the name of justice and democracy?
Give us a break.
This is a culture war and these people are culture warriors – and rather pathetic, transparent ones at that. They certainly are not genuine tribunes of the people. Go ahead, try to change my mind.
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Brit Rock
Definitely Maybe [Deluxe Edition]
Lanzamiento: Aug 1994
Disquera: Big Brother
With this record, Oasis took classic British rock and gave it back to the kids again. This is a great listen and also works as a fun spot-the-influence game for music critics. The songs are top-notch, with "Slide Away" and "Live Forever" leading the pack. Definitely Maybe stands as a classic debut album and certainly one of the best of the genre.
Linda Ryan
Rock 'N' Roll Star (Remastered)
Shakermaker (Remastered)
Live Forever (Remastered)
Up In The Sky (Remastered)
Columbia (Remastered)
Supersonic (Remastered)
Bring It On Down (Remastered)
Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered)
Digsy's Dinner (Remastered)
Slide Away (Remastered)
Married With Children (Remastered)
Columbia (Remastered White Label Demo)
Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered Demo)
Sad Song (Remastered)
I Will Believe (Remastered Live)
Take Me Away (Remastered)
Alive (Remastered Demo)
D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman? (Remastered)
Supersonic (Remastered Live)
Up In The Sky (Remastered Acoustic)
Cloudburst (Remastered)
Fade Away (Remastered)
Listen Up (Remastered)
I Am The Walrus (Remastered Live Glasgow Cathouse June '94)
Whatever (Remastered)
(It's Good) To Be Free (Remastered)
Half The World Away (Remastered)
Supersonic (Remastered Live At Glasgow Tramshed)
Rock 'N' Roll Star (Remastered Demo)
Shakermaker (Remastered Live Paris Instore)
Columbia (Remastered Eden Studios Mix)
Cloudburst (Remastered Demo)
Strange Thing (Remastered Demo)
Live Forever (Remastered Live Paris Instore)
Cigarettes & Alcohol (Remastered Live At Manchester Academy)
D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman? (Remastered Live At Manchester Academy)
Fade Away (Remastered Demo)
Take Me Away (Remastered Live At Manchester Academy)
Sad Song (Remastered Live At Manchester Academy)
Half The World Away (Remastered Live, Tokyo Hotel Room)
Digsy's Dinner (Remastered Live Paris Instore)
Married With Children (Remastered Demo)
Up In The Sky (Remastered Live Paris Instore)
Whatever (Remastered Strings)
Los álbumes más recientes de Oasis
Don't Believe The Truth
Be Here Now (Remastered)
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A Century Later, T. rex Is Still a Puzzle
Nature takes a look at the most famous dinosaur 108 years after its discovery and asks some questions only evolutionists would ask, ignoring questions creationists are asking.
In “Paleontology: the truth about T. rex,” Brian Switek in Nature presents as many puzzles as truths. “Even one of the best known dinosaurs has kept some secrets,” the article begins. “Here is what palaeontologists most want to know about the famous tyrant.” The article includes an infographic and various historical anecdotes, but the puzzles he refers to are these:
Where did they come from? “The dinosaur’s evolutionary origins, for example, are still a mystery.” The monster’s “fuzzy origins” are not clear in the fossil record. “The key parts of the story are missing,” Switek says, after describing historical changes in how to classify them. Short answer: more fossils are needed to answer this question, even though earlier he boasted that we have lots of fossils of this species. Stephen Brusatte (U of Edinburgh) said, “It’s rare to have so many good fossils of one dinosaur, so we can actually ask questions about T. rex — such as how it grew, what it ate and how it moved — that we can’t for other dinosaurs.“
What did they look like as juveniles? Was Nanotyrannus a juvenile T. rex? The debate goes on. Once again, as Lawrence Witmer states, “The solution may reside in the tired plea for more fossils.“
Did they have feathers? Here, Switek takes a swipe at artists who are too eager to link them with birds. He presents this quote by Thomas Carr (Carthage College, Wisconsin): “There is no empirical evidence that tyrannosaurids had feathers,” Carr says, “and artists have no business decking them out with plumage until the day comes when a tyrannosaurid is found with feathers.”
Why did they have such short arms? Switek quotes a paleontologist who denies that the arms were vestigial. They still retained substantial musculature, for instance, indicating that T. rex used them. But how did they use them, and for what purpose? As for the suggestion they were decked out with feathers for display, see #3 above.
Switek said nothing about the question that most interests creationists: how can evolutionists believe that the soft tissue and blood vessels found in T. rex bones is over 65 million years old? They believe that is one of the most spectacular discoveries about dinosaurs of all time, but it was completely ignored in this article. Creationists couldn’t care less about their “evolutionary origins,” the first question on Switek’s list.
In other dinosaur news, Nature reported that a high school student from Claremont, California found the most complete skeleton yet of Parasaurolophus, a trumpet-headed duckbill dinosaur, including skin traces in southern Utah. Kevin Terris was a lucky young man:
“It’s a truly remarkable specimen of a rare and iconic dinosaur,” says David Evans, a palaeontologist at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. “It demonstrates that Parasaurolophus underwent radical changes in skull shape from hatchling to adult, but it started in a fundamentally similar anatomical place as other closely related species.”
The article includes a 15-second video clip of a 3-D artist rendering. All the data about “Dinosaur Joe” has been made freely available online. ““If someone wants to 3D print the entire skeleton, they can” (see 10/21/13 entry about 3-D printing).
Everyone is intrigued by dinosaurs, but the questions people ask are often reflections of their world view. We should follow the evidence where it leads, not assume an evolutionary ideology to fit data into a predetermined picture (5/03/13). Creationists must do that, too, but look: the lack of ancestors, lack of feathers, and the presence of soft tissue should motivate honest paleontologists to reconsider the evolutionary stories usually told, and ask whether these fossils might really be young. Why are so many found in the “dinosaur death pose” suggestive of drowning? Why are so many jumbled into fossil graveyards mixed in with marine fossils? Evolutionists don’t ask those questions because their eyes are focused on fitting the bones into a millions-of-years, slow-and-gradual, evolutionary-progress picture. If the shoe fits, wear it; if it doesn’t, give it the boot and get new shoes.
Tags: dinosaur feathers, duckbill, feathered dinosaurs, Parasaurolophus, T. rex, Tyrannosaurux rex
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Tag: ShakeAlert
Remembering the Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011 And Efforts to Reduce the Impact of a Similar Event in the Pacific Northwest
Monday, March 11th marks the 8th anniversary of the Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, (Sometimes called the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami). The dramatic and startling images, covered on live television, are indelibly chiseled into the subconscious of everyone who watched the events unfold in real time, as the most disaster prepared country in the world, faced the wrath of a magnitude 9.1 earthquake, the 4th largest ever recorded and a series of massive tsunami waves.
Earthquake Early Warning
At 2:46 pm on Friday, March 11, 2011, the Japanese Earthquake Early Warning System received an indication of a major earthquake fault rupture, 45 miles east of the Tōhoku region and 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. Within seconds, the Earthquake Early Warning System transmitted a warning message to the people in and surrounding the Tohoku region of Japan, indicating a large earthquake had occurred. People began receiving the warning message, via a cell phone text message, as local television and radio stations began broadcasting the earthquake warning. As a result of the Early Earthquake Warning, elevators in Tokyo moved to the closest floor and opened to allow passengers to evacuate and take protective actions. Factory assembly lines were automatically shut down and the Tōhoku Shinkansen high-speed bullet trains, travelling nearly 200 mph, were automatically prompted to slow and stop, potentially saving thousands of passengers from injury. Just 5-15 seconds after the alert, coastal areas of the Tōhoku region closest to the rupture, began to violently shake, while a more devastating disaster was fast approaching – a series of massive tsunami waves.
As of September 2018, data indicates 15,896 people were killed and 2,536 are still missing from the magnitude 9.1 earthquake and resulting tsunami. 58,000 of the coastal citizens who evacuated their homes remain evacuated 8 years later, while 5,623 still live in prefabricated temporary housing. The economic damage from the disaster event is estimated to be near $360 billion. As of Spring 2017, seven cities, towns and villages have been deemed “difficult to return” zones by the Japanese government because of increased radioactivity in those areas, due to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that occurred during the tsunami.
Is Knowing What to Do Enough?
We can never be prepared enough for disaster, nor should we take any of them lightly. Any effort toward disaster preparation will help reduce the impact the event will have upon your family, business and community.
Families need to develop a Family Emergency Plan and discuss all types of disaster events (earthquake, flood, wildfire, tsunami, severe weather, etc.), with each other, to determine which actions to take, where you would evacuate to, shelter locations, and how to contact each other, should you become separated in a true emergency or disaster – then actually practice your plan at least once each year.
Each family should prepare Family Emergency Kits to be able to be on your own for a minimum of 2 weeks.
Make individual Go Kits for each member of the family, as well as your pets, to store in your home, in vehicles and at work, in the event you must evacuate in a hurry.
Sign up to receive emergency and disaster alerts and updates through the Emergency Notification System in your community, city and county.
Obtain an All Hazard ALERT Weather Radio for emergency and disaster notifications automatically.
Take a first aid and CPR class. You never know who might need assistance.
Learn protective actions be used during an earthquake to prevent injury, as well as learning, there may be aftershocks, and the possibility of tsunami in low lying coastal areas.
If in tsunami inundation areas, learn what to do and where to go while at home, at work and while shopping.
Get involved with local community groups that prepare for disaster such as a Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT).
Sign up for the Washington Shake Out and practice your disaster plans with your family.
Local, State and Federal Efforts to Reduce Disaster Impacts
Efforts are increasing in coastal communities to build Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Structures, like the Ocosta Elementary School, in Grays Harbor County and the planned Vertical Evacuation Tower, in Tokeland, by the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe.
Unreinforced Masonry Buildings are being identified throughout Washington as local governments are working with owners to assist in ways to retrofit the buildings, preserving the historic facades, while protecting people from an exterior wall collapse during earthquake.
Earthquake Early Warning is being developed and is becoming more robust throughout the Pacific Northwest and in Washington State. Pilot users are being sought in schools, business and industry to begin implementation of the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System. Currently Earthquake Early Warning messages cannot be sent to individuals, because the current process to send the warning to individual cell phones is far too slow. Work is ongoing, toward the development of a process that can transmit the warning to everyone, much more quickly and prior to the earthquake shaking at your location.
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Is there a formalization of the computational model for quantum computers?
There are several equivalent computation models, each capable of simulating each other. For example, the lambda calculus or the SKI calculus which are based on rewriting, Cardelli's object calculus, Hoare's communicating sequential processes, and of course the universal Turing machine, all of them formally defined.
I do understand that though there are possibly different ways of building quantum computers, the ways we build them today are Turing-complete and equivalent to the other models of computation. My question is: have anyone formalized a mathematical computation model for a quantum computer (such as the D-Wave)? (As the other models, I assume this could be used as a programming language.)
(I do understand that a possible answer would be "the quantum mechanics", but that's not exactly what I'm looking for...)
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$\begingroup$ As with most of the models you mention, the mathematical formalism(s) for quantum computing came before anyone had any clue how to actually build one. $\endgroup$ – OrangeDog Sep 15 '17 at 10:11
$\begingroup$ Also, the D-Wave is not a classical quantum computer (apologies for the pun). It solves a single class of problems apparently using quantum effects, but is not capable of general-purpose computing or running Shor's algorithm or anything. $\endgroup$ – OrangeDog Sep 15 '17 at 10:14
$\begingroup$ That's what I was looking for, @Clément. As Haskell is built upon the lambda calculus, I was looking for some minimalist model that could be used as the foundation for a quantum programming language. $\endgroup$ – paulotorrens Sep 15 '17 at 14:23
Just as Turing machines aren't widely used to model computation, so are quantum Turning machines not wildly used to model quantum computation. Instead Quantum circuits are more popular. Quantum circuits defined in the obvious way: reversible transformations on a quantum mechanical analog of an n-bit register.
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$\begingroup$ Would you have any resources with the formalization of quantum circuits, with the primitive operations, etc? $\endgroup$ – paulotorrens Sep 15 '17 at 15:52
$\begingroup$ @paulotorrens Try looking at the lecture notes for this CMU course, especially the first two: cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/quantum15 $\endgroup$ – Stella Biderman Sep 15 '17 at 16:09
Yes. The quantum Turing machine is a mathematical formalization of a computation model for a quantum computer.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing#Developments and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_complexity_theory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP.
$\begingroup$ This answer would be better if it weren't wholly reliant on Wikipedia links (and mentioned Quantum Circuits). $\endgroup$ – OrangeDog Sep 15 '17 at 10:30
Peter Sellinger has been working on programming languages for quantum computing for a long time now. He is not the only one working in that field, of course, but I believe his work is accessible and largely accepted enough to fit your bill.
What he essentially developed is a "typed lambda calculus for quantum computation". I believe the best place to start is in the chapter of the textbook Semantic Techniques in Quantum Computation (written with B. Valiron), available at http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/papers/qlambdabook.pdf. I believe the list of references in that chapter is quite authoritative, too.
If you're looking for a concrete formalization, have a look at the Quipper language, which is embedded in Haskell. The introductory paper as well as the devoted webpage are probably the best places to start.
If you're looking for a more general discussion / introduction to those topics, you can have a look at the video and the article Programming the Quantum Future.
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Cyclone Kenneth hits Mozambique with deadly force
Cyclone Kenneth has claimed its first life in Mozambique.
by Greg Walton and Joaquim Nhamirre for Agence France-Presse (AFP).
A powerful cyclone smashed into northern Mozambique, leaving one person dead on Friday, barely a month after a super-storm hit the centre of the country, devastating the area and leaving hundreds dead.
Category three Cyclone Kenneth, packing winds of 160 kilometres (100 miles) an hour, struck the north coast’s Cabo Delgado province late Thursday after swiping the Comoros islands.
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The United Nations warned of flash flooding and landslides as Mozambique’s emergency agency the INGC reported one person was killed by a falling coconut tree in the port city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado’s provincial capital.
On the tourist island of Ibo, 90 percent of homes for the 6,000 population had been flattened, according to a spokesman for the agency, Antonio Beleza.
“I don’t expect to find my hotel undamaged,” said Swiss hotel owner Lucie Amr, who took refuge in Ibo’s fort alongside many local residents.
The winds had reduced to about 70 kilometres an hour on Friday, according to the local meteorological institute, but heavy rains are forecast over the next 24 hours, raising fears of flooding and mudslides in Cabo Delgado, which borders Tanzania.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said over 600 millimetres (almost 24 inches) of rainfall was expected.
That would be nearly double the amount accumulated in 10 days of rainfall that caused flooding in Beira, which was devastated during Cyclone Idai.
Cyclone Kenneth, the “additional blow”
The most powerful storm to strike the region in decades, Idai cut a path of destruction through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. It left more than 1,000 dead, causing damage estimated at around $2 billion (1.8 billion euros)
“Although floodwaters have receded in most areas it (Idai) affected, access is still a challenge as infrastructure was severely compromised,” the WFP said.
“This second cyclone is an additional blow for the people of Mozambique and bound to complicate the humanitarian response,” adding that it had already provided food aid to 1.3 million people after Idai.
It said the government has made public buildings including schools available to people seeking shelter from the flooding and the WFP has “prepositioned” over 500 tonnes of food in Pemba.
A helicopter is expected to arrived in Cabo Delgado when weather conditions allow as roads are expected to be impassable because of flooding, making food delivery difficult, it added.
Forecasters at Meteo-France warned that Kenneth could trigger waves off Mozambique’s northeastern shore as much as five metres (16 feet) higher than usual.
“I was quite preoccupied by the sea because they announced six metre waves… the wind was very strong, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my 15 years in Pemba,” a Portuguese owner of a lodge on Wimby beach, Anabela Moreira, told AFP.
Local journalist Jonas Wazir told AFP that some houses had collapsed and that electricity supply in the city was down.
The Red Cross warned it was “especially concerned” about the storm’s impact, as many communities in Mozambique are still recovering from a cyclone that hit on the night of March 14-15.
“Cyclone Kenneth may require a major new humanitarian operation at the same time that the ongoing Cyclone Idai response targeting three million people in three countries remains critically underfunded,” the UN’s humanitarian coordination office OCHA also warned.
Kenneth first passed by the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros on Thursday, battering it with high winds and heavy rains, the country’s Meteorological Office wrote on Facebook.
Tanzania concern
Tanzanian authorities ordered schools and businesses shut in some southern districts on Thursday and urged people to brace for extreme winds and rain.
The Tanzanian provinces of Mtwara, Lindi and Ruvuma were at highest risk, the country’s meteorological agency said.
Residents in Mtwara were leaving the coastal enclave with their families, some on foot, for emergency shelters, witnesses told AFP by phone.
Gelasius Byakanwa, the governor of Mtwara, ordered schools closed in his province and asked “students to stay home and employees not to go to their offices”.
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Marcus Morris Wipes Out Thousands Of Acres Of Transaction Market Confidence, Dumps Spurs For Knicks
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In a move that has been described by some as a ruinous assault on, uhh, confidence in the transaction market, Marcus Morris has officially reneged on his verbal agreement to join the San Antonio Spurs in free agency, in order to sign a more lucrative contract with the New York Knicks.
Morris had originally agreed to a two-year deal worth $20 million with the Spurs, with the second year a player option. The free agency moratorium gave him a chance to reconsider, and the chance to make more money next season ultimately pushed him to New York. Morris’s last contract—a four-year, $20 million extension signed with the Suns in 2014—eventually made him one of the more underpaid veterans in the NBA, certainly as he developed into an important rotation player on a playoff Celtics team. He can be forgiven, then, for prioritizing cash over competitive concerns in a short-term deal signed in his age-30 season. This new contract will pay Morris handsomely to be a veteran contributor on a bad Knicks team, and allow him to get back into unrestricted free agency next summer, when the market will be significantly less top-heavy with superstar players.
The Knicks will have to figure out how to find minutes for $108 million worth of power forwards next season, now that they have all of Morris, Julius Randle, and Bobby Portis under contract. Meanwhile the Spurs, who restructured their deal with DeMarre Carroll and traded away sweet-shooting Dāvis Bertāns in order to make space for Morris, have reportedly shifted their gaze to young Trey Lyles, recently of the Denver Nuggets. Unbelievably, the transaction market appears to have survived the ordeal.
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Telegram, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to Liu Shaoqi
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Yudin recounts his meetings with Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and Zhou Enlai. In three meetings, Yudin learned more about China's relations with other communist parties in Asia, economic conditions in China, and developments in the Korean War.
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This journal entry from Zhukov describes the breakfast that was given by Huang Zhen in honor of Soviet author N.S. Tikhonov on March 31, 1955. Zhen and Tikhonov exchanged "short greetings." Zhen then informed Zhukov that numerous newspaper reports stating that Ho Chi Minh will head the North Vietnamese delegation at the upcoming Bandung Conference are incorrect. Mao Shen, the Chinese military attache, also relayed to Zhukov his concern over security issues at the upcoming African-Asian Conference.
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This is a telegram from the 1st Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania Enver Hoxha to President Ho Chi Minh delivered via the Albanian Ambassador to Moscow Gac Mazi. This telegram discusses the possible visit of Ho Chi Minh to Tirana. Hoxha orders Mazi to contact Ho Chi Minh urgently and deliver a copy of the telegram to him. Enver Hoxha believes that the disputes between the various leaders of the socialist countries in Europe and the Party of Labor in Albania are serious and cannot be resolved simply or immediately. He assigns the blame for these disputes to the leaders of the other socialist countries. Hoxha asks Ho Chi Minh to talk to these leaders about these disputes before coming to Tirana. The reason for this is that other European communist leaders have begun denigrating the Party of Labor of Albania, the Albanian government, and the Albanian people. Hoxha writes that the Albanian leadership is still carefully analyzing the causes of the disputes. Lastly, he informs Ho Chi Minh that he will be ready to discuss the Tirana trip further in the second half of November of 1961.
Record of Conversation between Premier Zhou Enlai and Comrade Foreign Minister Ung Van Khiem
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The Albanian Ambassador in Beijing Reiz Malile writes to the Prime Minister, Mehmet Shehu, and reports on his discussion with Marshal Chen Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, about a possible visit from the President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh to Tirana. Chen Yi suggests that Malile go to Vietnam for a national celebration and he promises a Chinese plane as transportation for his trip.
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Struggling to find the right shoe is an experience most people can relate to, yet for Gretchen McGoffin wearing the wrong shoes led to constant discomfort and burning pain.
“In researching my diagnosis I discovered the cause of a Morton’s neuroma is typically from wearing the wrong shoes all my life; the real culprit is high heels that restrict the toes,” said Gretchen.
Her condition, known as Morton’s Neuroma, is described by the Mayo Clinic as: a thickening of the tissue around one of the nerves leading to your toes. This can cause a sharp, burning pain in the ball of your foot. Your toes also may sting, burn or feel numb.
Over the past 10 years, Gretchen visited several podiatrists complaining of a sharp pain in the ball of her right foot, a pain most closely resembling an electric shock. After several pairs of custom orthotics for her shoes and multiple steroid injections, Gretchen was no longer able to ease her pain. The discomfort had become a persistent and constant presence in her life, no matter what shoes she was wearing, so she consulted podiatrist and surgeon, Dr. Alan Ng.
“I had an MRI, which revealed not one but two Morton’s neuromas in my right foot. The larger one was between the second and third toes and a smaller one between my third and fourth toes,” said Gretchen.
Upon review of the MRI, Dr. Ng recommended surgical removal of the neuromas, one procedure at a time, due to an underlying circulation condition that could have caused further complications for Gretchen. His plan was to remove the larger neuroma first and then wrap the end of the nerve with AlloWrap® DS, an allograft made from the lining of a human amniotic sac, which can be donated following cesarean-section births.
This was Dr. Ng’s first time using amniotic tissue for this particular procedure, but he was confident that by using it to wrap the end of the nerve where the neuroma had been he would be able to prevent scar tissue from forming, which can cause pain at the surgery site.
“The recovery from the first neuroma removal was swift with little pain. I wore a surgical shoe for a couple of weeks, then loose fitting shoes for the next several weeks, at which point I could walk with no pain and resumed light exercise. Around week eight I was given the approval to resume all normal activity,” said Gretchen.
Gretchen’s procedure was a success and despite the remaining smaller neuroma she is currently able to walk pain-free and enjoys an active lifestyle including hiking, aerobics, yoga and even the occasional high heel. She is eternally grateful for donation since the process assisted in restoring her life back to normal.
Prior to her surgery, Gretchen was familiar with the notion of tissue donation due to her work at AlloSource, one of the largest tissue banks in the country.
“I made the decision to be an organ and tissue donor many years ago. Only after receiving my donated tissue and through working at AlloSource have I discovered how important and impactful that decision is,” said Gretchen.
For Gretchen, the future is bright. She is in the process of consulting with Dr. Ng about surgery to remove the second neuroma, a similar procedure for which AlloWrap will be used again. She is also excited and thankful to be become a second time tissue recipient.
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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sells 126 Guitars For Climate Change In Massive Auction
His iconic “Black Strat” went for more than 26 times its asking price.
The man who sang Pink Floyd’s classic song “Money,” has just donated a lot of green to fight climate change.
Former Pink Floyd frontman David Gilmour sold off more than $21 million worth of his guitars in a record-breaking auction hosted by Christie’s in New York City.
On Thursday, a crowd of bidders bought 126 of the instruments, including the iconic black Fender Stratocaster that Gilmour used to record the band’s most famous albums including “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall.”
The guitar was initially appraised at $100,000 to $150,000, but sold for a hammer price of $3,975,000.
In a press release, Christie’s called it “the largest and most comprehensive sale of guitars” as well as “the most valuable musical instruments sale in auction history.”
But it wasn’t meant to be another deposit in the bank for the man who played guitar on “Another Brick in the Wall.”
On Wednesday, Gilmour announced that the proceeds would go to ClientEarth, a nonprofit international environmental law organization, which will no doubt be left in the pink by the hefty donation.
“The global climate crisis is the greatest challenge that humanity will ever face, and we are within a few years of the effects of global warming being irreversible,” Gilmour said. “We need a civilised world that goes on for all our grandchildren and beyond in which these guitars can be played and songs can be sung.”
ClientEarth CEO James Thornton praised the donation as “truly humbling and extraordinary.”
“The law is one of the most powerful tools we have to tackle the world’s increasing environmental problems,” he said. “This gift is a phenomenal boost to our work using the law to tackle climate change and protect nature. It will allow us to play an even greater role in addressing the climate crisis and securing a healthy planet for future generations.”
According to Christie’s, the auction was delayed by an hour due to an “unprecedented number of bidders” who lined up around the block of its Rockefeller Center location. In total, more than 2,000 bidders from 66 counties participated both online and in person.
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Options IX was the largest international conference exclusively devoted to influenza prevention, control and treatment.
ECDC staff had a number of abstracts accepted at the conference:
11:15 am, Oral presentation: Surveillance of influenza-confirmed cases admitted to intensive care units and related fatal outcomes in eleven EU countries, 2010-2016 Friday, August 26, 2016, 11:15 am - 11:30 pm, Oral abstract session: Clinical Science, Room Location: Chicago Ballroom 10 Level 4, Presentation: Cornelia Adlhoch.
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6:40 pm, Poster session ABSTRACT# P-280: Association of influenza virus subtypes between consecutive influenza seasons, EU/EEA, 2006-2014 Friday, August 26 2016, Rapid Oral Poster Presentation, Time: 6:42 PM, Presentation: Eeva Broberg, Chantal Quinten, Cornelia Adlhoch and Pasi Penttinen on behalf of the European Influenza Surveillance Network (EISN).
Background: Circulation of influenza subtypes varies between influenza seasons. Little is known about patterns of circulation from one season to another. We studied the association of influenza virus subtypes detected in consecutive influenza seasons in EU/EEA countries to understand the possible predictive value of the previous season for the upcoming season.
Method: We analysed the sentinel (with systematic sampling) and non-sentinel (with convenience sampling) influenza virological surveillance data reported to the European Surveillance System from all EU/EEA countries during the seasons 2006/07-2013/14. Data were excluded if viruses were not subtyped, the number of detections exceeded the number of tested specimens or if less than 10 specimens were tested per week. Countries were excluded from analysis of any pair of consecutive seasons (cycle) if they reported for <50% of weeks in either season. We assessed the association of weekly A(H1), A(H1) pdm09, A(H3) and B virus-specific detection rates in cycles for sentinel and non-sentinel specimens. We used multilevel Poisson regression with 7 cycles as repeated measures, treated countries as cluster, and corrected for week of reporting. A sensitivity analysis was performed omitting the 2009 pandemic cycle. Associations were reported as incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI).
Conclusion: Six-11 countries reported sentinel and 3-10 non-sentinel data per each cycle. The proportion of sentinel and non-sentinel influenza detections varied by (sub)type across seasons, being highest for the A(H1)pdm09 subtype during season 2009/10 (99.4%; 99.3%). The A(H3) detections were highest during 2006/07 (92.5; 91.1%). The highest proportion of influenza B was observed in 2012/13 in sentinel (64.2%) and 2007/08 in non-sentinel specimens (78.1%).
Significant associations between consecutive seasonal influenza rates were found for A(H1) (2.73;1.33-5.61, p=0.006), A(H1)pdm09 (4.31;1.92-9.67, p<0.001) and B (0.03;0.02-0.07, p<0.001) virus in the sentinel system and for A(H1) (2.70;1.00-7.30, p=0.049), A(H1)pdm09 (3.87;1.50-10.01, p=0.005) and B (0.7;0.51-0.98, p=0.039) in the non-sentinel system. When omitting thepandemic cycle, the association remained significant for A(H1) and A(H1)pdm09 in the sentinel system.
The virological influenza surveillance data suggest that influenza A(H1) and B virus circulation during any season is associated with the circulation in the forthcoming season. Vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness have probably an impact on the results and cause country variation as well, however, they were not within the scope of this study.
Poster session ABSTRACT# P-322: Policy recommendations, payment schemes and uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine in health care workers in EU/EEA Member States assessed for the 2009/2010 to 2014/2015 influenza seasonsPresentation Date: Friday, 26 August 2016 Presentation: Kari Johansen, Svetla Tsolova, Pasi Penttinen et al on behalf of the VENICE project gatekeepers group)
Background: The European Council recommendation on seasonal influenza vaccination adopted in 2009 encourages European Union/ European Economic Area (EU/EEA) Member States (MS) (n=31, population of ~500 millions) to improve uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination among older age groups and individuals with chronic conditions to 75 % vaccination coverage. Increased vaccination rates among risk groups were expected to contribute to higher vaccination rates also in healthcare workers (HCWs). Following these recommendations data on reported national policy, payment schemes and measured/estimated uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine in HCWs were collected.
Method: A standardized online survey questionnaire was developed and made available to all EU/EEA MS gatekeepers.
Results: Of the 30/31 responding countries, 29 countries recommend seasonal influenza vaccine to HCWs. In Denmark no national recommendation is available, but most regions and municipalities offer HCWs influenza vaccination free of charge. Vaccination is recommended to all HCWs in 23 EU/EEA MS, while another 5 recommend vaccination to either front-line staff in close patient contact or staff caring for immuno-compromised patients only. In the UK vaccination is recommended for all HCWs in Northern Ireland and Scotland while England and Wales recommend front line HCWs only. No MS enforces mandatory vaccination of staff. Some health care settings in MS require unvaccinated staff to wear a mask during the influenza season. Payment schemes for vaccine/vaccination varied, with the employer, national or regional health services paying in 19 MS while 4 reported that at least some HCWs paid out of pocket. In the remaining seven countries a combination of several payment mechanisms exists (e.g. private insurance, out of pocket, employer or national insurance scheme). Uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine in HCWs was reported from fourteen EU/EEA MS and ranged between 5-55%. Information was collected by the administrative method (n= 13) or the survey method (n=1). Uptake in HCWs was often but not always lower than uptake in older populations, with a median uptake of ~25% among HCWs (n=14) compared to ~40% in older populations (n=23).
Conclusion: There is a need for collection of uptake of seasonal influenza vaccine in HCWs in all EU/EEA MS and at least in those reporting there is room for substantial improvement in uptake of seasonal influenza vaccination.
6:00 pm, Poster session ABSTRACT# P-542: European surveillance of consumption of neuraminidase inhibitors and comparison with influenza virus circulation, EU/EEA Member States, 2007-2014Saturday, August 27, 2016, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Presentation: Pasi Penttinen
Background: Antivirals for the treatment of influenza, i.e. neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs), are licensed in all EU/EEA Member States (MSs). Recommendations for treatment of patients with severe influenza or at high risk of complications of influenza, and for prophylaxis of the most vulnerable persons and their families, are based on clear evidence from randomised controlled trials. Surveillance of NAI consumption has previously been suggested as an addition to laboratory surveillance of influenza to help in early and timely assessment of virus circulation, assessment of virus spread and activity level, and evaluation of public health policy implementation. We analysed data on NAI consumption from the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption Network (ESAC-Net) to assess their possible usefulness to complement weekly influenza surveillance.
Method: The ESAC-Net database and reporting of NAI consumption is characterised using the following attributes: monitoring method, data sources and time covered; variables available for analysis ; validation process; current use of the data ; timeliness of reporting; missing data; representativeness; and limitations. In this assessment we only analysed consumption of NAIs with an allocated defined daily dose (DDD), i.e. oseltamivir and zanamivir. We compared the quarterly reported consumption of NAIs with the proportion of positive influenza specimens submitted to the EU/EEA MSs sentinel laboratory surveillance system for the influenza seasons (four quarters ) 2007/08 to 2013/14. To explore whether NAI consumption could be used to monitor influenza transmission, we used cross-correlation analyses between proportion of positive samples and NAI consumption by MS. The cross-correlation was used to assess the nature of the relationship between the two time series and how they are correlated in time.
Results: Twenty/31 (71%) MSs were able to report quarterly data on consumption of NAIs , but only 12 (43%) had reported at least one complete winter season during 2007-2014. Consumption varied from 0.0002 to 0.269 DDD per 1 000 person days during a season. The timeliness, continuity, or consistency of data sources and reporting healthcare sectors were not adequate for analysis for six MSs. Further, it was also not possible to differentiate stockpiling from routine use, and treatmentfrom prophylaxis. In the six countries that provided continuous time-series of quarterly data during 2010-2014, NAI consumption showed a clear winter seasonality, consistent with influenza seasonality. After removing the long-term trends and seasonality from the data we found, in all six MSs , a significant correlation between NAI consumption and the overall proportion of positive influenza virus specimens in sentinel laboratory surveillance in the following quarter.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that quarterly data on NAI consumption from EU/EEA MSs could be a feasible , though indirect, adjunct method for surveillance of influenza. However, too few MSs currently report data quarterly in a consistent and timely fashion, and the data do not allow for differentiating between stockpiling and use.
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Seasonal influenza is a preventable infectious disease with mostly respiratory symptoms. It is caused by influenza virus and is easily transmitted, predominantly via the droplet and contact routes and by indirect spread from respiratory secretions on hands etc.
Animal influenza viruses that cross the animal–human divide to infect people are considered novel to humans and therefore have the potential to become pandemic threats.
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Legitimate expectations in the TTIP proposal, in CETA, in EU law and in international investment law: a paradigm of Heraclitean hidden harmony?
by Artemis Malliaropoulou*
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953
The wording of the European Commission Public Consultation Paper on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP signals, among other questions, the necessity to conduct further research and elaborate on the ambit of legitimate expectations in international investment law as well as in EU law and compare the standard of protection provided so far with potential differences in interpretation arising out of the Public Consultation Paper’s clarification. It is stated that: “The “legitimate expectations” of the investor may be taken into account in the interpretation of the [FET] standard. However, this is possible only where clear, specific representations have been made by a Party to the agreement in order to convince the investor to make or maintain the investment and upon which the investor relied, and that were subsequently not respected by that Party. The intention is to make it clear that an investor cannot legitimately expect that the general regulatory and legal regime will not change. Thus the EU intends to ensure that the standard is not understood to be a “stabilisation obligation”, in other words a guarantee that the legislation of the host state will not change in a way that might negatively affect investors.[i]”.
CETA, as a point of comparison, makes clear from the outset that the EU and Canada preserve their right to regulate and to achieve legitimate policy objectives, such as public health, safety, environment, public morals, social or consumer protection and the promotion and protection of cultural diversity. This is a clear instruction to the tribunal for the interpretation of the investment provisions. It is also explicitly foreseen that Governments can change their laws, including in a way that affects investors’ expectations of profit and that the application of EU’s state aid law does not constitute a breach of investment protection standards[ii]. Paragraph 2 of the Article 8.9 states that: “For greater certainty, the mere fact that a Party regulates, including through a modification to its laws, in a manner which negatively affects an investment or interferes with an investor’s expectations, including its expectations of profits, does not amount to a breach of an obligation under this Section.”
Unlike many agreements encompassing investment protection, CETA expressly deals with the issue of the role that legitimate expectations play in finding a breach of the FET standard. It limits their applicability to situations where a State party made a specific representation to the investor and subsequently frustrated it. Paragraph 4 of the Article 8.10 states that: “When applying the above fair and equitable treatment obligation, a Tribunal may take into account whether a Party made a specific representation to an investor to induce a covered investment, that created a legitimate expectation, and upon which the investor relied in deciding to make or maintain the covered investment, but that the Party subsequently frustrated.”.
It is worth mentioning four questions, as a minimum basis, arising out of the CETA text. First, the language of the provision leaves it up to the tribunal whether legitimate expectations must be considered or not[iii]. This uncertainty does not seem to be in line with the nature of legitimate expectations as seminal part of the FET standard and fundamental principle of EU law. Second, it remains unclear what a specific representation is and if the precedent in international investment law cases is going to be followed. A report[iv] of the International Institute of Sustainable Development points out the vagueness of this provision by a comparison with a previous draft for an umbrella clause. This clause specifically mentioned “any specific written obligation”. In comparison with the reference in paragraph 4 of the fair and equitable treatment provision to a “specific representation”, it shows clearly that “a specific representation is more open than a specific written obligation.”.
However, it should be pointed out that the requirement of a specific written obligation does not correspond to an existing precedent in EU law or in international investment law. Third, there is a lot of jurisprudence on the question of legitimate expectations based on objective criteria. Decisive is what a “reasonable investor is entitled to expect on the basis of the host State’s representations”[v], however, it is not clear if this “objective test” is going to be followed. Fourth, it seems that the expectation must be present at the time of the investment or maintenance of the investment[vi], which is in line with existing case-law. It is not clear whether it will be up to arbitral tribunals to interpret at what point investors’ expectations have been legitimate.
As arbitration scholars find the roots of legitimate expectations in investment law in the 2003 award “Tecmed v. Mexico”[vii], it could be rightfully supported that this principle is entering its adolescence in this field[viii], while in the EU law field it is in its forties.
In international investment law the concept of legitimate expectations has developed to be at the heart of the FET standard. In a nutshell, under a FET clause, a foreign investor can expect that the rules will not be changed without justification of an economic, social or other nature. Investors’ expectations can be based on governments’ written commitments to investors (e.g., contractual commitments beyond mere contractual expectations), governments’ representations vis-à-vis specific investments (e.g., direct and public endorsements), or host countries’ unilateral representations (e.g., favorable regulatory frameworks) as they existed at the time of an investment[ix].
Conversely, it is unthinkable that a State could make a general commitment to all foreign investors never to change its legislation whatever the circumstances, and it would be unreasonable for an investor to rely on such a freeze[x]. Given the State’s regulatory powers, in order to rely on legitimate expectations the investor should inquire in advance into the prospects of a change in the regulatory framework in light of the then prevailing or reasonably to be expected changes in the economic and social conditions of the host State[xi]. No reasonable investor can have an expectation of an unaltered regulatory framework, unless very specific commitments have been made towards it or unless the alteration of the legal framework is total[xii].
In EU law legitimate expectations is a concept derived from German law, where it is known as Vertrauensschutz which was originally translated in English as “protection of legitimate confidence”; a translation that corresponded more closely to the French concept of “protection de la confiance légitime”[xiii]. This was thought to be misleading in English and henceforth the term “legitimate expectations” has been used[xiv]. This term indicates that administrative acts lato sensu[xv], in the absence of overriding public interest, must not violate the legitimate expectations of those concerned and it presupposes a careful balancing of conflicting rights-principles. From its early case-law, the Court of Justice of the EU has recognized that legitimate expectations form part of the European legal order[xvi] and provided EU citizens with a subjective right that justified expectations, which have been raised by the administration will actually be realized[xvii]. The principle of legitimate expectations is considered to be an assurance that the administration achieves its objectives while protecting the individual’s expectations and it has been used as a rule of interpretation[xviii], a ground for annulment[xix] or a basis for an action for damages for non-contractual state or EU liability.
The right to rely on that principle requires that three conditions are satisfied. First, precise, unconditional and consistent assurances originating from authorized and reliable sources must have been given by the state’s authorities to the person concerned. Second, those assurances must be able to give rise to an expectation which is legitimate for the person to whom they are addressed. Third, the assurances given must be consistent with the applicable rules[xx]. However, it is highlighted that, despite its status as a fundamental principle, economic operators are not justified in having a legitimate expectation that an existing situation which is capable of being altered by the EU institutions in the exercise of their discretion will be maintained, particularly in fields whose subject matter involves constant adjustment to reflect changes in the economic situation. The Court has held that, even if the European Union were first to have created a situation capable of giving rise to legitimate expectations, an overriding public interest may preclude transitional measures from being adopted in respect of situations which arose before the new rules came into force but which are still subject to change[xxi].
Nevertheless, in particular situations, where the principles of legal certainty and of the protection of legitimate expectations so require, it may be necessary to introduce transitional arrangements appropriate to the circumstances. Thus, the Court has held that a national legislature may breach the principles of legal certainty and of the protection of legitimate expectations when it suddenly and unexpectedly adopts a new law which withdraws a right that a category of taxable persons enjoyed until then, without allowing them the time necessary to adjust, when the objective to be attained did not so require[xxii].
The adverb “may” that accompanies the phrasal verb “take into account” in the context of the European Commission’s Public Consultation Paper, which is similar to the CETA wording, followed by a one-sided or superficial elaboration of a fundamental principle of EU law and international investment law may generate ambiguous outcomes. As soon as investors’ expectations are examined and considered to be justified, it is not clear why then they must not be balanced with the conflicting public interest at stake (or with the legitimate expectations of the state[xxiii]), applying the proportionality test. Bearing in mind the need for any type of dispute resolution mechanism created to not only do justice, but to be seen to be doing justice, a thorough research of the area is required and any attempt by policy makers (and later by adjudicators) to formulate sensitive concepts without following the precedent developed in the respective fields of law should state expressis verbis the reasons why that precedent should not be followed.
* Artemis Malliaropoulou, Visiting lawyer at the ICC (International Criminal Court) and visiting scholar at the University of Vienna.
[i] European Commission Public Consultation Paper on modalities for investment protection and ISDS in TTIP, Question on FET standard, p.6, http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/march/tradoc_152280.pdf
[ii] http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/november/tradoc_151918.pdf
Legitimate expectations are also mentioned in paragraph 2 of the Annex 8-A as one of the factors that should be taken into consideration in the context of the determination of whether a measure or series of measures of a party, in a specific fact situation, constitutes an indirect expropriation The extent to which the measure or series of measures interferes with distinct, reasonable investment-backed expectations.
[iii] Ursula Kriebaum, FET and Expropriation in the (Invisible) EU Model BIT, 2014 (15) The Journal of World Investment & Trade, p. 476.
[iv] Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Howard Mann‚ A Response to the European Commission’s December 2013 Document “Investment Provisions in the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement (CETA)”, International Institute of Sustainable Development 2014, 7, http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2014/reponse_eu_ceta.pdf
[v] Ursula Kriebaum, op.cit., pp. 476-479.
[vii] Técnicas Medioambientales Tecmed, S.A. v. The United Mexican States, ICSID Case No. ARB(AF)/00/2, Award (29 May 2003).
[viii] Lucy Reed and Simon Consedine, Chapter 20: Fair and Equitable Treatment: Legitimate Expectations and Transparency in Meg N. Kinnear, Geraldine R. Fischer, et al. (eds), Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID, Kluwer Law International 2015, p. 283.
[ix] Christoph Schreuer and Ursula Kriebaum, At what time must legitimate expectations exist?, in Jacques Werner and Arif Hyder Ali, eds., Law Beyond Conventional Thought, London: Cameron May, 2009, pp. 265-276.
[x] El Paso Energy International Company v. The Argentine Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/03/15, Award (31 October 2011), para. 372.
[xi] Philip Morris Brands Sàrl, Philip Morris Products S.A. and Abal Hermanos S.A. v. Oriental Republic of Uruguay, ICSID Case No. ARB/10/7, Award (8 July 2016), para 427.
[xii] El Paso, op.cit., para. 374.
[xiii] Trevor C. Hartley, The Foundations of European law, 2008 OUP, p.149.
[xiv] John A. Usher, The influence of national concepts on decisions of the European Court, 1976, 1ELR p.363.
[xv] There is no uniformity as far as the definition of an administrative act is concerned. The 2004 Recommendation of the Council of Europe provides the following one: “legal acts- both individual and normative- and physical acts of the administration taken in the exercise of public authority which may affect the rights or interests of natural or legal persons or situations of refusal to act or an omission to do so in cases where the administrative authority is under an obligation to implement a procedure following a request”. It is worth mentioning that this definition compared to others is much more concrete, and includes not only acts but also omissions and refusals in cases where the administration has no discretionary powers, while it refrains from including any obligation of an act to directly affect rights/ interests.
[xvi] C-78/74, op.cit.
[xvii] T-199/99 Sgaravatti Mediterranea Srl v Commission of the European Communities [2002] E.C.R.II-03731.
[xviii] C-78/74 Deuka, Deutsche Kraftfutter GmbH, B. J. Stolp v Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Getreide und Futtermittel [1975] E.C.R.421.
[xix] C-112/77 August Töpfer & Co. GmbH v Commission of the European Communities [1978] E.C.R.1019.
[xx] C- 566/14 P, Jean-Charles Marchiani v European Parliament, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 14 June 2016, para. 77 and the case-law cited; Joined Cases T‑50/06 RENV II and T‑69/06 RENV II, Ireland and Aughinish Alumina Ltd vs. European Commission, Judgement of the General Court (First Chamber, Extended Composition) dated 22 April 2016, para. 213 and the case-law cited.
[xxi] C- 526/14, Tadej Kotnik and Others v Državni zbor Republike Slovenije – Request for a preliminary ruling from the Ustavno sodišče Republike Slovenije, Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 19 July 2016, paras. 66, 68 and the case-law cited.
[xxii] C-332/14, Wolfgang und Dr. Wilfried Rey Grundstücksgemeinschaft GbR v Finanzamt Krefeld – Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof, Judgment of the Court (Fourth Chamber) of 9 June 2016, paras. 56-58 and the case-law cited.
[xxiii] Karl P. Sauvant and Güneş Ünüvar, Can host countries have legitimate expectations?, Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 183, September 26, 2016.
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Bicycle Queensland Home News 2018 August MIND your SMIDSYS on the road …
MIND your SMIDSYS on the road – ‘inattentional blindness’ can kill
Inattentional blindness means drivers do not see 30 per cent of people riding bicycles on roads in major cities, with new Australian research warning that more needs to be done to promote driver awareness of vulnerable road users.
The research has prompted Bicycle Queensland to remind Queenslanders to MIND their SMIDSYS, a reference to the often-used crash acronym ‘sorry mate, I didn’t see you’ and the rider response – ‘mate, I nearly died’.
The ground-breaking research was led by a team at the Australian National University and published in The International Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Bicycle Queensland CEO, Anne Savage, said the study findings were alarming, but sadly not surprising to the cycling community.
“This ground-breaking research provides vital evidence to help end the tragic death toll on Queensland roads.
“It pinpoints a common concern for bike riders and other vulnerable road users – drivers simply don’t see us on the road.
“In many instances, this is due to ‘inattentional blindness’, a phenomenon where drivers may be paying attention to the road, but fail to notice unexpected objects located in plain sight.
“This expert study highlights the urgent need to encourage all road users to maintain higher awareness of what’s happening on the road around them when they drive, walk, and ride.
“This is particularly important for all of us when we drive, with much higher risks of fatalities and serious injuries resulting from driver-related inattentional blindness.”
The findings back up a growing body of evidence that has seen researchers and international authorities call for new strategies to improve road safety.
“Of particular concern, about 22 per cent of cyclists are not seen by motorists, and in busy cities this increases to about 30 per cent of riders,” Ms Savage said.
“The same study also found that the major factor influencing inattentional blindness was driver awareness, not the visibility of the cyclist or other external signposts.
“The effect was more pronounced in drivers using GPS devices, when drivers fail to see 24 per cent of bike riders compared to 19 per cent for drivers not using the technology.
“Drivers aged between 20 and 29 were also found to have a high rate of inattentional blindness, failing to see 31 per cent of cyclists, compared to a rate of just 21 per cent for drivers aged 50 or over.
“This finding is particularly interesting, because it challenges the perception that older drivers experience greater difficulty with driver vision.”
Nearly 800 cyclists are injured on Queensland roads each year, costing the economy over $220 million annually, and contributing to a horror road toll in Queensland this year.
“There have been 166 lives lost on Queensland roads this year – shattering the hopes and dreams of our family members and friends,” Ms Savage said.
“I have written to the State Government calling for the creation of a Road Safety and Healthy Travel Commission to spearhead a much stronger response to achieve the target of zero deaths on our roads.
“Concerted investment to improve on-road bike lanes and build new separated cycleways is critical, together with slower speed limits and a fresh approach to community awareness and education.
“One thing is clear – we need to act now and act courageously – we owe it to each other to do better.”
ENDS.
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Tag: Vogue
How much does “pretty” matter?
On January 14, 2014 By broadsideblogIn aging, beauty, behavior, culture, design, domestic life, Fashion, life, Style, US, women27 Comments
Cover of Pretty Is
Loved this blog post, from dressaday, by brilliant Bay area writer and dictionary editor Erin McKean, about why women don’t have to be pretty — unless they choose to:
You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness toanyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
I’m not saying that you SHOULDN’T be pretty if you want to. (You don’t owe UN-prettiness to feminism, in other words.) Pretty is pleasant, and fun, and satisfying, and makes people smile, often even at you. But in the hierarchy of importance, pretty stands several rungs down from happy, is way below healthy, and if done as a penance, or an obligation, can be so far away from independent that you may have to squint really hard to see it in the haze.
And this essay from The Wall Street Journal by an Iranian writer, Marjan Kamali, about returning to her homeland, where every woman she meets urges her to pretty up:
The first thing we noticed as we strolled to a fancy shopping mall were the couples. Young women in bright tunics and scarves that slipped back to show their hair walked with guys in jeans and tight T-shirts. The women’s eyes were accentuated with eyeliner and shadow…Their nails were red and green and hot pink.
“I didn’t know they were allowed boyfriends here,” my daughter said. “I didn’t think they could do lipstick.”…
Later that evening, over a feast of jeweled rice and walnut and pomegranate stew at my aunt’s home, we caught up on family and politics. Suddenly my aunt said: “I can take you if you want.”
“Take me where?” I asked.
“To our best beauty salon.”
“I didn’t come here for a beauty salon.”
“As you wish,” she sniffed. “But what is this look that’s no look that you have?”
At another relative’s house, it was the housekeeper who pulled me aside. “Madam,” she whispered. “Those eyebrows. Please. You’re a mother of two. You need to be tweezed.”
My naked face stood out among a sea of lipsticked and glamorous Tehranis glowing under their hijabs. The surprise bordering on concern at my un-made-up ways was everywhere. “Why don’t you wear more makeup?” asked women whose cheeks were caked with foundation. “What do you have against lipstick?”
In Tehran, it turned out, the standards for fashion and appearance were extremely high. Women dieted and went to Pilates and yoga. Though by law they had to cover up outside their homes, many women rebelled, especially the young. They let their head scarves slip as far back as they could and wore tunics that, while not revealing any skin, were vivid and tight. And they obsessed about their faces, moisturizing and plucking and exfoliating.
And this, from Danish blog Rebelle Society, one I recently discovered:
Brace yourself, beautiful.
We’ve now entered the PhotoShop era, where a fanciful fiction of fairness leads to a fall down the rabbit hole of deception and discontent, all designed by an ad executive who will tell the world what your ass should look like in those $300.00 jeans.
It’s a dizzying effect of distortion and contortion of beautiful form without adding real function and it’s pretty damn ugly.
I’m also re-reading DV, one of my favorite books, by the late, legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, a famous jolie laide, whose style was defiantly and gloriously and confidently eccentric.
Women use their disapproval of one another’s appearance as a channel for aggression, according to this recent study. Facepalm.
While we’re heavily socialized not to appear mean, women can be sneakily vicious to those who fail to meet our standards of thin, stylish beauty.
Here’s Emily Graslie, who does videos of science from the Field Museum in Chicago, talking — with considerable and real frustration — about the haters who comment on her appearance, not her effing big brain and all the cool stuff she shares. Morons!
If you’ve got time to watch it, this new British documentary about six extraordinary women — ages 70s to 91, including an active choreographer and the oldest woman in the House of Lords — is lovely. Each is stylish in her own way, from the Baroness visiting her hair salon of 30 years to the defiantly confident Bridget, who visits Vogue to see if they’d like to hire her as a model.
They each have terrific elan and confidence, and none is Botoxed or rolling in bags of cash. The film is 47 minutes long, and worth every minute.
Pretty is as pretty does.
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If one more woman bitches about the size of her body…
On December 6, 2012 By broadsideblogIn aging, beauty, behavior, blogging, books, culture, domestic life, Health, life, Media, women386 Comments
What scientists call “Overweight” changes with our knowledge of human health (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I am going to lose it completely.
Some of you read Kristen Lamb, who writes a blog about writing. It’s extremely popular and usually very helpful. But her latest post was a digression — an extended piece about being a size 10/12 and why she feels fat:
I am healthy, have beautiful skin and hair. I have enough energy to power a small city and am never sick, but I am still a size 10-12 and 170 pounds.
Why is it no one looks like me?
When we look on TV, we are confronted with extremes–super skinny or clinically obese. We are calling anorexics “beautiful” and calling dangerously obese women “curvy.” We are an a country that is dying because of euphemisms. I hear parents call morbidly obese children “husky,” “big-boned” or “muscular.” We have retailers calling anorexics “curvy.”
I get it. I’ve written about this as well.
But, seriously — it is time for women to move on.
Every time a healthy woman feels compelled to discuss the size of her ass or thighs or hips I want to throw a piece of furniture. Yes, being fat is annoying and unhealthy and no one makes pretty clothes for fatties.
I’m overweight, and have been since 2003 when I packed on 23 pounds in one year — the year I wrote my first book, traveling alone around the U.S., interviewing victims of horrific gun violence and crime, and dealing, alone, with my mother’s 3-inch-wide brain tumor and surgery in Vancouver. I was too damn distracted to even notice.
I’ve gained even more since then. Ugh. I’m not thrilled, believe me, to need to lose 40+ pounds. But we need to stop talking about this, and this is why I feel so strongly.
The larger issue here — pun intended — is this:
Whining about weight is the biggest fucking distraction that women indulge in! We have much bigger fish to fry!
Whining about weight is a huge time-suck.
Whining about weight teaches the girls in our lives, who look to us their role models, that this is just what women do, that focusing miserably and endlessly on our individual body size and shape is our most pressing issue as women — instead of political and economic issues that affect us all, size 00s to 24s, like paid maternity leave or better domestic violence protection or access to birth control and abortion.
Whining about weight ignores and demeans the many incredible gifts we enjoy every single day. We are not living in Syria with government/rebel bombs exploding all around us, for example.
Whining about weight is the ultimate shiny object that women continue to focus their attention on, instead of:
— fighting for social justice, at home and abroad
— running for political office and kicking ass when we win
— creating astonishing works of art
— waking up every single day grateful for their health and strength, the not-so-simple ability to walk and stand and reach for things without pain
— knowing that women all over the world are dying of starvation, malnutrition and in childbirth at 14 or 16 because their young bodies are too weakened to do so healthily
— ditching the people in their lives who shame them by focusing on the size of their ass instead of what matters most, the size of our hearts and brains
— exploring the world, no matter our size, with excitement and anticipation
— thinking, long and hard, about our legacies in this world
There is something ironic to me that Kristen’s blog post includes a photo of herself holding — of all things! — a very large gun. Having written a book about American women and guns, I know this decision isn’t one she made lightly, and showing her readers that she owns a gun takes serious guts. Shooting well also requires tremendous mental and physical control.
So, frankly, I don’t get it. You’re powerful and self-determining, or you’re not. A woman who knows how to handle a gun safely and shoot well is someone I respect; I’ve done a lot of shooting and know the power it conveys.
Labels are also something we generally choose to ignore after leaving the schoolyard, so why are women of all ages so eager to keep self-flagellating about how fat we are (or are not?)
At this point, I’m technically “plus size.”
Why don’t the curvy chicks start calling size 6’s and 00’s minus-size?
Give it up, ladies! This obsession is wasting our talent, energy, excitement and drive.
Give it up today.
Wearing Your Man's Clothes (Or Fragrance Or Ski Boots)
On March 20, 2010 By broadsideblogIn Fashion, men, womenLeave a comment
Image by justgrimes via Flickr
Annie Hall did it in 1977 — wearing trousers and a white shirt and a man’s hat. Women borrowing their guys’ clothing is a perennial favorite.
Recent issues of Vogue and Elle suggest borrowing everything from his leather messenger bag to his gray flannel vest to a cobalt blue V-neck sweater.
Writes Joe Zee:
When it comes to the age-old sport of clothes-nabbing, my role has always been easy: the innocent bystander who listens and
spectates. The girls get together, compliment one another, “borrow” from one another, and then call me to complain that they don’t think they’ll ever see their things again. Now, for the first time it looked as though I was about to be the victim of closet robbery, and I didn’t like it one bit. I stopped my friend as she approached the door, my favorites in hand.
“No, not cool,” I said. “I wear those things all the time. Plus, they won’t fit you. And why do you want my clothes, anyway?”
“I’m doing the oversize men’s look that Rihanna’s been pulling,” she said.
“Can’t you get your own white shirts and blazers?”
“Not the same. There’s something about real men’s clothes from a guy’s closet that’s so much better.” And with that declaration, she was gone, clothing and all.
The dressing tables had been officially turned.
I liked Vogue’s picks better, including pajamas, a bucket hat, a watch and fragrance. My favorite watch is a 1920s silver man’s watch I bought in a London flea market and I’ve long loved 108-year-old Blenheim Bouquet, officially a man’s scent from the British firm Penhaligon‘s.
I’ve almost always dated shorter, smaller men, most of them stylish. One was small enough I could even borrow his ski boots.
I deeply coveted half of my sweetie’s wardrobe the first time I saw his stuff — a crisp white collar-less shirt, a charcoal sweater and the khaki-colored Nautica cotton jacket he almost never gets to wear because I love it so much. I’ve borrowed everything from his black polypro ski underwear to his sweatshirts.
The night we met he took off the red silk Tibetan prayer shawl he was wearing as a muffler and gently wrapped me up in it. It smelled of 1881, his cologne, and was warm from his skin.
Worked for me.
What clothing of your man’s do you wear?
Gentlemen, is any of it off limits to your women?
Anna and Grace duke it out over Galliano — finally saw, and loved, 'The September Issue'
On March 15, 2010 By broadsideblogIn business, Fashion, Media, womenLeave a comment
Anna Wintour, Vogue editor. Image via Wikipedia
What a fun film!
OK, I am way behind on this one — the documentary, “The September Issue,” came out nationwide last September. I watched it yesterday. If you haven’t seen it, rent it with “The Devil Wears Prada” for a delicious double-bill, comparing real life to reel life.
For those of you not passionate about clothes, fashion, design or what Anna actually looks like without those damn sunglasses — the film is about the making of Vogue’s September issue, a legendarily enormous annual doorstop of a magazine weighing as much as a Thanksgiving turkey.
Tom Florio, publisher of Vogue, is a great character in the film as he tries to explicate Wintour’s terrifyingly glacial demeanor, deliciously parodied by Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”, a film based on a book by former Vogue assistant, Lauren Weisberger.
“She’s not warm,” he says. “I have to be warm for both of us. She’s busy. She’s busy doing her job.”
I’ve seen DWP so many times I can recite its dialogue by heart; I loved seeing how exactly it mimics Wintour’s real office, behavior and rareified lifestyle.
And the brutal, albeit very well-dressed, power struggles are Olympian!
Watching Grace Coddington — the magazine’s creative director — sparring with (and inevitably losing to) Wintour is a rare and telling glimpse of what it takes for two powerful, determined, talented and creative women to achieve, and remain at, the highest levels of this most competitive game. That both are British, coming from a culture where understatement trumps typical New York in-your-face-ness, only makes their civil but relentless jockeying for pages even more compelling.
Not to mention the enormous egos — photographers, models, editors, art directors, designers. However appalling to every feminist bone in my body, I loved the scene where the art director is deciding which image of Sienna Miller to use on the most valuable piece of real estate, the cover — and he’s dismayed by her visible fillings (!)
“I think this neck looks better. Maybe we’ll put this head on this body,” he says, revealing how their use of Photoshop and retouching is as automatic and unremarkable as breathing. Altered images, which I’ve blogged about here before, are normal in this world. Therefore Grace — desperate to rescue a failed shoot by using one of the documentary’s middle-aged male cameramen, complete with his real pot-belly, as a photo subject — has to rush to the phone to make sure his jiggly real-world belly is not artifically flattened by their ruthlessly fastidious re-touchers.
“We’re not,” she says to the camera, “all perfect.”
Even if reading Vogue has never been a priority, check it out.
It’s funny, moving, telling — few documentaries focus on women at work, let alone whose well-toned arms wrestle so fiercely for raw, pure power.
Fashion Advice From A 13-Year-Old?
On February 21, 2010 By broadsideblogIn Fashion5 Comments
New York Fashion Week. Image via Wikipedia
Of course you’ve heard of Tavi Gevinson, darling!
How many tweens have their own Wikipedia entry already — for blogging about fashion since they were 11? Not to mention she’s a muse (before puberty?) for Rodarte, one of the edgier fashion labels out there.
She appeared, of course, at New York Fashion Week, which just ended, her hair (why, dear?) dyed an odd shade of pale blue-gray, the color of hypothermic skin. She lives in a Chicago suburb, but has been profiled in major publications from the Los Angeles Times to Vogue.
But, hey, her blog gets 1.5 million hits a month. Nice work if you can get it!
That's Why They Call It Conde Nasty — New Hotline Helps Colleagues Drop A Dime On Each Other
On February 3, 2010 By broadsideblogIn business, Media3 Comments
Vogue editor Anna Wintour, in green.Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife
That’s my kind of corporation! Rat out your colleagues, courtesy of an in-house hotline. Reports the New York Post:
Insiders got a memo yesterday from Chief Financial Officer John Bellando, revealing that the company set up the hotline to stop the “release of proprietary information, accounting/audit irregularities, falsification of company records, theft of goods/services/cash,” and even “unauthorized discounts/payoffs.”
This could put a damper on some of the perks inside S.I. Newhouse Jr.‘s empire.
Last fall a hacker broke into Condé’s system and stole early copies of GQ, Vogue and other magazines, which were posted online.
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Yesterday’s move seemed to put the brakes on CEO Charles Townsend‘s happiness campaign. Trying to boost morale after 2009’s turmoil and layoffs, he recently did a coast-to-coast tour to give a corporate pep talk and encourage staffers to “get their mojo back.”
Conde Nast, named for the man who founded the publishing empire in 1909 by acquiring Vogue, is legendary in Manhattan publishing circles for its elite worldview. The 2006 film “The Devil Wears Prada”, starring Meryl Streep, is said to be based on Anna Wintour, long-time Vogue editor.
I interviewed at Conde Nast a few times, but never got hired there. It’s a great place to have on your resume, but maybe — now — not such a cosy place to crank out copy.
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USTA offers exciting tennis opportunity
Doug Hastings dhastings@wickedlocal.com @the_dougout
Jun 5, 2019 at 12:53 PM Jun 5, 2019 at 12:54 PM
High-school aged basketball players gravitate toward AAU leagues in the offseason.
Hockey players skate in Junior Leagues.
Baseball stars have plenty of options, like American Legion or many select leagues.
What do tennis players have?
Sure, there are USTA-sponsored tournaments held throughout the year at locations all over New England, but what about for players that are unable to give up weekends to play? What about players that are seeking additional avenues to play competitive tennis?
The USTA has an idea.
In June, another season of JTT is about to begin.
It stands for Junior Team Tennis and it encompasses many facets of tennis from both an individual and team standpoint.
What’s even better?
JTT has playoffs at both the state and New England level.
JTT almost mirrors the popular World Team Tennis format used in professional leagues throughout the country.
Matches add up games between boys singles, girls singles, boys doubles, girls doubles and then one court of mixed doubles.
Teams need a minimum of six players (three girls and three boys) to compete, but a lineup can include as many as five per gender.
"For adults, team tennis is very popular," said Pam Villari, a coordinator of junior tennis for the USTA. "We know younger players enjoy another opportunity to socialize and have that team experience."
This summer’s JTT schedule will be released soon and the season is scheduled to run from June 24 through Aug. 5 for age groups including 10s and 12s, 14s and 18s.
JTT teams will play multiple matches and qualify for playoffs based on their win/loss record.
"This is serious, competitive tennis," said Villari. "These matches often come down to the final few games so the action is fast and intense. It’s a great way for players to develop their skills in pressure situations. We think JTT can help develop a player of any ability while also bringing a wonderful social aspect."
Players can sign up individually or as a team.
A USTA membership is required to participate.
For more information on cost or to register, email
emassjtt@gmail.com.
The league also offers a great opportunity for parents seeking to volunteer and get involved in the management of their child's team (no prior experience needed).
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Windows by Henry Hughes - Maker
Henry Hughes (1822-1883), was born at Market Drayton, Shropshire. He was the son of a butcher, but was given an apprenticeship as an artist at Ward & Nixon, stained glass manufacturers. He became a partner in 1857, after the death of James Nixon, making his own windows as well as those of the firm, which was renamed Ward & Hughes, 67 Frith Street, Soho, London.
12 Windows, listed in Church Order
Organ Chamber E St Giles in Chalfont St Giles 1863 Henry Hughes
N Aisle E St Giles in Chalfont St Giles 1864 Henry Hughes
Nave S (E) St Peter in Chalfont St Peter 1870 Henry Hughes
Nave S (C) St Peter in Chalfont St Peter 1875 Henry Hughes
N aisle N (W) St Mary the Virgin in Hardwick 1876 Henry Hughes
N aisle N (E) St Mary the Virgin in Hardwick 1878 Henry Hughes
S aisle E All Saints in Lathbury Henry Hughes
N aisle N (E) All Saints in Lathbury 1880 Henry Hughes
Chancel N (E) All Saints in Little Kimble 1870 Henry Hughes
East St Edward the Confessor in Shalstone 1862 Henry Hughes
S aisle E St Edward the Confessor in Shalstone †1860 Henry Hughes
S aisle W St Edward the Confessor in Shalstone †1860 Henry Hughes
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Zip line ride filled with fear, fun
Niagara Falls, Ont., opened its new zip line attraction Wednesday. WildPlay’s MistRider Zipline descends 2,200 feet into the gorge. Buffalo News Urban Affairs Editor Rod Watson gets his turn on the zip line and comes in for the landing.
By Rod Watson|Published Wed, Jul 20, 2016
It’s not often that I think about my own funeral.
But waiting to get strapped into a harness at the top of the nearly half-mile MistRider zip line at Niagara Falls, Ont., the pessimist in me couldn’t help but seep out.
Actually, it had come out even earlier, in stop-and-go traffic on the Rainbow Bridge when I glanced to the left and noticed the brand new attraction I was headed for. My first reaction, even from a distance: That’s a &$%# thin wire.
Suddenly, it seemed all too possible that all of those readers who’ve suggested some form of “Go jump in the lake,” “You’re all wet,” or “Why don’t you go over the Falls without a barrel” might get their wish. Sure, technically I’d be splattered on dry land, as the zip line runs adjacent to the river, with a perfect last view of both the American and Canadian falls. But this was no time to quibble.
Nor had research helped. It took me to last summer’s headlines after a North Carolina girl became the latest to die when her zip line tether snapped. “Zip line regulations scrutinized after several deaths ” and “Zip line accidents soar” were not inspirational.
On the bright side, it could be one last chance for me to give the readers what they want.
My real funeral would be small: Just a few close friends and relatives who didn’t have other plans.
But the on-line reaction? Not since the Munchkins sang over the Wicked Witch’s body would there be such joy.
Based on the phone calls, emails and web comments over the years, there are lots of groups who wouldn’t mind seeing me make news: Public school teachers. City and suburban cops. The Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, the Erie County Industrial Development ... oh heck, the entire business community. All those who “don’t see color” but see red whenever I write about black. The Cuomo administration.
The Brown administration. Gun-control nuts. Lane-hogging bicyclists. The 30 mph Scajaquada Expressway Luddite community.
In terms of enemies per column inch, it was a life well-lived.
“Sir, you have to take your cap off,” the attendant said, interrupting my burial plans. He had noticed it under the flimsy plastic safety helmet they’d handed out. The helmet seemed obviously too thin to offer any real protection, but the bright blue color would make it easier to find the body.
Not that you really expect to die. You know the statistics say this is far safer than driving. But there’s always that little sliver of doubt; that moment when, suddenly, numbers just don’t count.
It didn’t help watching them attach the riders before me and noticing that the bracket holding the harness is not bolted onto the wire; the only thing holding it on appears to be the rider’s body weight. I’m sure engineering says this use of gravity makes perfect sense, but still ...
Then you step into the launching gate, and everything changes.
With the majestic American and Horseshoe falls and their swirling river to the left, the green treetops below and Wednesday’s bright blue sky above, all of the anxieties and petty concerns melt away and there’s nothing left but a peaceful appreciation of what nature has given us.
And then you’re off. Declining on a pitch comparable to an intermediate ski slope, it’s a roughly 45- to 60-second ride, depending on whether you extend your arms to create wind resistance and slow down, or keep them tucked for more speed. I tried both, wanting the exhilaration but also to make it last as long as possible. The ride is both tranquil and thrilling at the same time, providing a unique vantage point to appreciate the falls while reaching speeds of up to 40 mph.
And then it’s over. But not before it sends me safe and sound back to my keyboard with the reinvigoration only nature – with a minor intrusion by man – can provide.
And my critics? They’ll just have to wait. But they may get another chance.
Now that I’ve survived, there’s still time – and renewed nerve – to tackle what’s always been my one-item bucket list: skydiving.
After all, former President George H.W. Bush was celebrating his 90th birthday when he made one last jump in 2014. And former Erie County Sheriff Tom Higgins was 83 when he took the plunge for the first time in 2013. So it’s never too late.
Of course, by the time you reach those ages, there’s not much left to lose anyway.
Oooops. There’s another group I just ticked off.
email: rwatson@buffnews.com
Rod Watson – Rod Watson has been a weekly columnist for The Buffalo News since 1992. In addition, as urban affairs editor, Watson oversees coverage of the city school system, City Hall reporting, the federal courts, transportation and politics.
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Aam Admi Party alleges Rs 50,000 crore power scam in Madhya Pradesh
Not only the PPAs were signed with the power producers on the same day, but two of officials who signed it on January 5, 2011, were not even posted on the designations which empower them to sign those agreements.TNN | March 26, 2017, 08:41 IST
Bhopal: A scam to the tune of Rs 50,000 crore has been executed by signing 'illegal' power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the six private power producers by the Madhya Pradesh government, alleged leaders of Aam Aadmi Party's state unit on the basis of the documents procured under the RTI Act .
Not only the PPAs were signed with the power producers on the same day, but two of officials who signed it on January 5, 2011, were not even posted on the designations which empower them to sign those agreements. They signed them by showing fake designations.
The illegal PPAs forced the state to pay Rs 2,163 crore each year to these companies even as power was not purchased from them since the state is power surplus, alleged AAP.
"We were shocked to find the exorbitant rates of power in the state and started to find out the reasons behind it, and subsequently several applications under the RTI Act were filed," the state convener of AAP, Alok Agarwal said.
"The outcomes were shocking. The documents received under RTI reveals that Madhya Pradesh government has executed a Rs 50,000 crore scam by illegally signing PPAs with six private power producers, making power costly," Agarwal alleged. "Rs 2,163 crore will have to be paid every year to these companies as fixed charges even if power is not purchased from them for a span of 25 years and the total amount will be more than Rs 50,000 crore," Agarwal said.
Explaining further, Agarwal said, "The government signed power purchase agreements with six power producers in 2011 at Jabalpur and Bhopal for purchasing 1,575 MW of power for 25 years. But as per the tariff policy declared by the government of India in 2006, clarification published on tariff policy by government of India in 2010 and the state government's power purchase Act 2004 amended in 2006, any such power purchase move can only be done by competitive bidding and not signing PPAs with the companies of choice, but no competitive bidding was followed in these cases".
Moreover, two officials - Gajra Mehta and Sanjay Mohase - were not posted as director commercial of Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaram Company Limited, when the agreements were signed. But they fraudulently signed the agreements, Agarwal said.
The companies with which the state government signed PPAs are JP Bina Power, Sagar, JP Nigrie, Singrauli, Jhabua Power, Seoni, MB Power, Anuppur, BLA Power, Narsinghpur and Lanco at Amarkantak.
Rajendra Agarwal, the former additional chief engineer of Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board, who was also present with the AAP leaders and is power consultant for the party in MP, said, "These PPAs are completely illegal and I have been moving petitions before competent authorities for long but to no avail"."It is these PPAs that are making power extremely exorbitant in Madhya Pradesh", he said.
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Spike Lee's best in 20 years: BlacKkKlansman shows in Diss
PUBLISHED: 10:23 13 March 2019
BlacKkKlansman is showing at Diss Corn Hall. Picture: David Lee/Focus Features
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Probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years, this stranger than fiction story of a black man infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan mixes absurd comedy with jaw-dropping racism to brilliant effect.
Both a social satire and a stunning period piece, BlacKkKlansman revolves around a wonderfully knowing performance by John David Washington, with Adam Driver just as good as his corporeal Jewish alter ego.
Harry Belafonte is particularly moving in a brief cameo as veteran activist Jerome Turner, while a superb cast of supporting misfits and malcontents are headed up by Topper Grace as the ridiculous, yet terrifying Grand Wizard, David Duke. Together, Washington and Driver worm their way into a Ku Klux Klan that is so palpably absurd in its philosophy and execution, it would be hilarious if it were not the grim reality.
Reminiscent of Chris Morris’s Three Lions, Spike Lee’s film reveals not only the evils of racism, but also its banality and stupidity, in a film that draws explicit parallels with what is going on in America today.
The closing scenes, added after the film’s completion, are perhaps the most chilling of all – not least as they include current footage of David Duke, showing how little seems to have been learned since the lynchings of yesteryear.
• BlacKkKlansman (15) screens at Diss Corn Hall on March 13, 7.30pm, 01379 652241, disscornhall.co.uk
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Why leadership-development programs fail
Sidestepping four common mistakes can help companies develop stronger and more capable leaders, save time and money, and boost morale.
For years, organizations have lavished time and money on improving the capabilities of managers and on nurturing new leaders. US companies alone spend almost $14 billion annually on leadership development. Colleges and universities offer hundreds of degree courses on leadership, and the cost of customized leadership-development offerings from a top business school can reach $150,000 a person.
Moreover, when upward of 500 executives were asked to rank their top three human-capital priorities, leadership development was included as both a current and a future priority. Almost two-thirds of the respondents identified leadership development as their number-one concern. Only 7 percent of senior managers polled by a UK business school think that their companies develop global leaders effectively, and around 30 percent of US companies admit that they have failed to exploit their international business opportunities fully because they lack enough leaders with the right capabilities.
We’ve talked with hundreds of chief executives about the struggle, observing both successful initiatives and ones that run into the sand. In the process, we’ve identified four of the most common mistakes. Here we explain some tips to overcome them. Together, they suggest ways for companies to get more from their leadership-development efforts—and ultimately their leaders—as these organizations face challenges ranging from the next demanding phase of globalization to disruptive technological change and continued macroeconomic uncertainty.
1. Overlooking context
Context is a critical component of successful leadership. A brilliant leader in one situation does not necessarily perform well in another. Academic studies have shown this, and our experience bears it out. The CEO of a large European services business we know had an outstanding record when markets were growing quickly, but he failed to provide clear direction or to impose financial discipline on the group’s business units during the most recent economic downturn. Instead, he continued to encourage innovation and new thinking—hallmarks of the culture that had previously brought success—until he was finally replaced for underperformance.
Too many training initiatives we come across rest on the assumption that one size fits all and that the same group of skills or style of leadership is appropriate regardless of strategy, organizational culture, or CEO mandate.
In the earliest stages of planning a leadership initiative, companies should ask themselves a simple question: what, precisely, is this program for? If the answer is to support an acquisition-led growth strategy, for example, the company will probably need leaders brimming with ideas and capable of devising winning strategies for new or newly expanded business units. If the answer is to grow by capturing organic opportunities, the company will probably want people at the top who are good at nurturing internal talent.
Focusing on context inevitably means equipping leaders with a small number of competencies (two to three) that will make a significant difference to performance. Instead, what we often find is a long list of leadership standards, a complex web of dozens of competencies, and corporate-values statements. Each is usually summarized in a seemingly easy-to-remember way (such as the three Rs), and each on its own terms makes sense. In practice, however, what managers and employees often see is an “alphabet soup” of recommendations. We have found that when a company cuts through the noise to identify a small number of leadership capabilities essential for success in its business—such as high-quality decision making or stronger coaching skills—it achieves far better outcomes.
In the case of a European retail bank that was anxious to improve its sales performance, the skill that mattered most (but was in shortest supply) was the ability to persuade and motivate peers without the formal authority of direct line management. This art of influencing others outside formal reporting lines runs counter to the rigid structures of many organizations. In this company, it was critical for the sales managers to persuade the IT department to change systems and working approaches that were burdening the sales organization’s managers, whose time was desperately needed to introduce important sales-acceleration measures. When managers were able to focus on changing the systems and working approaches, the bank’s productivity rose by 15 percent.
Context is as important for groups and individuals as it is for organizations as a whole: the best programs explicitly tailor a “from–to” path for each participant. An Asian engineering and construction company, for example, was anticipating the need for a new cadre of skilled managers to run complex multiyear projects of $1 billion or more. To meet this challenge, it established a leadership factory to train 1,000 new leaders within three years.
The company identified three important leadership transitions. The first took experts at tendering (then reactive and focused on meeting budget targets) and sought to turn them into business builders who proactively hunted out customers and thought more strategically about markets. The second took project executors who spent the bulk of their time on site dealing with day-to-day problems and turned them into project directors who could manage relationships with governments, joint-venture partners, and important customers. The third targeted support-function managers who narrowly focused on operational details and costs, and set out to transform them into leaders with a broader range of skills to identify—and deliver—more significant contributions to the business.
2. Decoupling reflection from real work
When it comes to planning the program’s curriculum, companies face a delicate balancing act. On the one hand, there is value in off-site programs (many in university-like settings) that offer participants time to step back and escape the pressing demands of a day job. On the other hand, even after very basic training sessions, adults typically retain just 10 percent of what they hear in classroom lectures, versus nearly two-thirds when they learn by doing. Furthermore, burgeoning leaders, no matter how talented, often struggle to transfer even their most powerful off-site experiences into changed behavior on the front line.
The answer sounds straightforward: tie leadership development to real on-the-job projects that have a business impact and improve learning. But it’s not easy to create opportunities that simultaneously address high-priority needs—say, accelerating a new-product launch, turning around a sales region, negotiating an external partnership, or developing a new digital-marketing strategy—and provide personal-development opportunities for the participants.
A medical-device company got this balance badly wrong when one of its employees, a participant in a leadership-development program, devoted long hours over several months to what he considered “real” work: creating a device to assist elderly people during a medical emergency. When he presented his assessment to the board, he was told that a full-time team had been working on exactly this challenge and that the directors would never consider a solution that was a by-product of a leadership-development program. Given the demotivating effect of this message, the employee soon left the company.
By contrast, one large international engineering and construction player built a multiyear leadership program that not only accelerated the personal-development paths of 300 midlevel leaders but also ensured that projects were delivered on time and on budget. Each participant chose a separate project: one business-unit leader, for instance, committed his team to developing new orders with a key client and to working on a new contract that would span more than one of the group’s business lines. These projects were linked to specified changes in individual behavior—for instance, overcoming inhibitions in dealing with senior clients or providing better coaching for subordinates. By the end of the program, the business-unit head was in advanced negotiations on three new opportunities involving two of the group’s business lines. Feedback demonstrated that he was now behaving like a group representative rather than someone defending the narrow interest of his own business unit.
The ability to push training participants to reflect, while also giving them real work experiences to apply new approaches and hone their skills, is a valuable combination in emerging markets. There, the gap between urgent “must do” projects and the availability of capable leaders presents an enormous challenge. In such environments, companies should strive to make every major business project a leadership-development opportunity as well, and to integrate leadership-development components into the projects themselves.
3. Underestimating mind-sets
Becoming a more effective leader often requires changing behavior. But although most companies recognize that this also means adjusting underlying mind-sets, too often these organizations are reluctant to address the root causes of why leaders act the way they do. Doing so can be uncomfortable for participants, program trainers, mentors, and bosses—but if there isn’t a significant degree of discomfort, the chances are that the behavior won’t change. Just as a coach would view an athlete’s muscle pain as a proper response to training, leaders who are stretching themselves should also feel some discomfort as they struggle to reach new levels of leadership performance.
Identifying some of the deepest, “below the surface” thoughts, feelings, assumptions, and beliefs is usually a precondition of behavioral change—one too often shirked in development programs. Promoting the virtues of delegation and empowerment, for example, is fine in theory, but successful adoption is unlikely if the program participants have a clear “controlling” mind-set (I can’t lose my grip on the business; I’m personally accountable and only I should make the decisions). It’s true that some personality traits (such as extroversion or introversion) are difficult to shift, but people can change the way they see the world and their values.
Take the professional-services business that wanted senior leaders to initiate more provocative and meaningful discussions with the firm’s senior clients. Once the trainers looked below the surface, they discovered that these leaders, though highly successful in their fields, were instinctively uncomfortable and lacking in confidence when conversations moved beyond their narrow functional expertise. As soon as the leaders realized this, and went deeper to understand why, they were able to commit themselves to concrete steps that helped push them to change.
A major European industrial company, meanwhile, initially met strong resistance after launching an initiative to delegate and decentralize responsibility for capital expenditures and resource allocation to the plant level. Once the issues were put on the table, it became clear that the business-unit leaders were genuinely concerned that the new policy would add to the already severe pressures they faced, that they did not trust their subordinates, and that they resented the idea of relinquishing control. Only when they were convinced that the new approach would actually save time and serve as a great learning opportunity for more junior managers—and when more open-minded colleagues and mentors helped challenge the “heroic” leadership model—did the original barriers start to come down and decentralization start to be implemented.
Another company decided that difficult market conditions required its senior sales managers to get smarter about how they identified, valued, and negotiated potential deals. However, sending them on a routine finance course failed to prompt the necessary changes. The sales managers continued to enter into suboptimal and even uneconomic transactions because they had a deeply held mind-set that the only thing that mattered in their industry was market share, that revenue targets had to be met, and that failing to meet those targets would result in their losing face. This mind-set shifted only when the company set up a “control tower” for reflecting on the most critical deals, when peers who got the new message became involved in the coaching, and when the CEO offered direct feedback to participants (including personal calls to sales managers) applauding the new behavior.
4. Failing to measure results
We frequently find that companies pay lip service to the importance of developing leadership skills but have no evidence to quantify the value of their investment. When businesses fail to track and measure changes in leadership performance over time, they increase the odds that improvement initiatives won’t be taken seriously.
Too often, any evaluation of leadership development begins and ends with participant feedback; the danger here is that trainers learn to game the system and deliver a syllabus that is more pleasing than challenging to participants. Yet targets can be set and their achievement monitored. Just as in any business-performance program, once that assessment is complete, leaders can learn from successes and failures over time and make the necessary adjustments.
One approach is to assess the extent of behavioral change, perhaps through a 360 degree–feedback exercise at the beginning of a program and followed by another one after 6 to 12 months. Leaders can also use such tools to demonstrate their own commitment to real change for themselves and the organization. One CEO we know commissioned his own 360 degree–feedback exercise and published the results (good and bad) for all to see on the company intranet, along with a personal commitment to improve.
Another approach is to monitor participants’ career development after the training. How many were appointed to more senior roles one to two years after the program? How many senior people in the organization went through leadership training? How many left the company? By analyzing recent promotions at a global bank, for example, senior managers showed that candidates who had been through a leadership-development program were more successful than those who had not.
Finally, try to monitor the business impact, especially when training is tied to breakthrough projects. Metrics might include cost savings and the number of new-store openings for a retail business, for example, or sales of new products if the program focused on the skills to build a new-product strategy. American Express quantifies the success of some of its leadership programs by comparing the average productivity of participants’ teams prior to and after a training program, yielding a simple measure of increased productivity. Similarly, a nonprofit we know recently sought to identify the revenue increase attributable to its leadership program by comparing one group that had received training with another that hadn’t.
Companies can avoid the most common mistakes in leadership development and increase the odds of success by matching specific leadership skills and traits to the context at hand; embedding leadership development in real work; fearlessly investigating the mind-sets that underpin behavior; and monitoring the impact so as to make improvements over time.
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A painter of a resurgent India
At the “young” age of 90, Krishen Khanna is one of the stalwarts of Modern Indian Art. A Far Afternoon 2015 is one of his attempts at creating a work on large scale. At 90 years of age he painted – a 22 foot long masterpiece
A Far Afternoon, has been painted over a period of nearly 9 months and is 22 feet long. The painting is constructed in five panels that flow into each other. The theme of the painting is of a wedding party in procession in a mid-summer wedding. The Indian Yellow spreads like a shimmering blanket.
The Bandwallahs perform in the Bridegroom’s procession.
The “cutting” chai wallah and the Thanda thanda ( cold) juice wallah.
The fruit sellers and the dhabha owner
A Far Afternoon Exhibited at Piramal Art Foundation, Mumbai Smriti- a book on art history by Ashvin Rajgopalan and Vaishnavi Ramanthan of the paintings in the Piramal Art Foundation collection.
Artists Raza and Anjolie Ela Menon view the painting- Far Afternoon at the Delhi Art Fair 2015
Krishen Khanna (1925 - ) is an Indian artist born in Faislabad, Pakistan. in pre partition India in 1925, Krishen Khanna moved to Shimla during the partition. He attended Imperial Service College in England. He is recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship in 1962, the Padma Shri in 1990, and the Padma Bhushan in 2011. Krishen was inducted into the Progressive Artists` Group by M.F. Husain, who was to remain his lifelong friend. Krishen Khanna remembers that his painting had been displayed in the centre of the PAG exhibition. About the Artist
The Progressive Artists' Group was formed by six founder members, F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade, and S. K. Bakre. Others associated with the group included Manishi Dey, Akbar Padamsee, Ram Kumar and Tyeb Mehta. The Progressive Group wished to break with the revivalist nationalism established by the Bengal school of art and to encourage an Indian avant-garde. The Group was formed just months after the 14 August, 1947 and the "Partition of India“ because Francis Newton Souza, S.H. Raza, M. F. Husain and co. wanted to imagine modern art for a free India. It disbanded in 1956 but this group shaped Indian fine art for decades to come. Modern Art for a Free India
Science and the Arts- a melange of progressive ideas for a young country. Scientist Homi Bhabha bought the first Krishen Khanna’s painting for the TIFR collection
In Krishen Khann’s painting the “themes of ordinary life dominate- simple joy and pleasures of life, colours, vibrant, rich, exciting, liberating, dancing, smiling, singing, speaking colours. ” Vibrant, smiling, singing colours.
In the late 1940s, the Progressives were encouraged and received support from an assortment of European Jewish émigrés who had fled Europe with the rise of the Nazis to settle in Bombay. Walter Langhammer, an art teacher as well as Rudolf von Leyden, who was an art critic for The Times of India, were patrons. They helped not only financially, but also by opening up a world of European paintings to these young artists. Krishen Khanna with Rudy Von Leyden , a respected art critic The creation of the Progressive Artists Group is entwined with that of independent India. A culturally and religiously diverse cast of characters, the artists came together to form an informal group in the highly charged political climate of cosmopolitan 1940s Bombay, as the city was then called. Freedom to be modern. Krishen Khanna with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
The founders of the Progressive Artists Group often cite "the partition" as an impetus for their style of modern art. Their intention was to "paint with absolute freedom for content and technique, almost anarchic, save that we are governed by one or two sound elemental and eternal laws, of aesthetic order, plastic co-ordination and colour composition.” they wrote. In 1950, Krishen Khanna joined the Group. Photo-Raza, Bal Chabbda, Tyeb, Krishen , Akbar
Krishen wrote “I’ve painted the people of this country. But I’m dumbfounded at the popularity of the bandwallahs,”-something he attributes to the grand Indian wedding fantasy which has kept at least this one British institution complete with red coats, brocade trimmings, hats, trumpets, “the whole jolly lot” — intact.
In this work here, Khanna presents a bandwallah whose tightly closed eyes may be both a symbol of his absorption in the music or the reflection of his mental fatigue. The bandwallah, is indispensable for every marriage celebration. Piramal Art Foundation collection. The Bandwallah
In his painting Musicians, Khanna’s preoccupation is to recreate the rhythm of music through the use of white as a connecting note throughout the work. One panel represents sarod maestro Amjad Khan . The other panel depicts the South Indian flautist T.R.Mahalingam. Piramal Art Foundation collection. North and South- connected with white
“I had no idea that this painting would grow to this size. I began with the groom on a white mare, accompanied with an even more inexperienced youngster seated behind him fearfully clutching the groom . The painting took off from this image and became pivotal in the expansion of this work. The choice of colours and the tone of each expanding form was determined by what had already been set down. It seemed to me that the expanding shapes and colours were attaining to a life of their own. The painting, as it developed, was growing out of its own inevitability plying my energy for recording the entire movement. It was as if I had abandoned myself to forces beyond me. I would find myself moving forward and then I would find that what I had left behind as done would start asking questions. My attention would shift to the earlier panels where modifications were made… This was becoming like a mural which by its nature boarders on infinity. The change is scale involved a wholly different approach to the way this work was painted.” -KRISHEN KHANNA A Far Afternoon
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Poland and Ukraine: miles to go
By Jan Cienski
The fastest way to appreciate just how far Poland has advanced in the last two decades is to make a quick trip to neighbouring Ukraine. The visual evidence is overwhelming.
But while Poland is comparatively wealthier than Ukraine, the economic situation of both countries will likely come as something of a surprise to western European football fans when they visit Poland and Ukraine for the European football championship, which is being hosted by the two countries next year.
The true taste of whether a non-EU and an EU member can co-host an international tournament will come on the Polish-Ukrainian border as tens of thousands of fans try to drive from one venue to another.
After waiting for more than two hours to cross into Ukraine at the Hrebenne-Rava Ruska crossing, the first impression one gets of Ukraine is based on the truly enormous potholes on the main road from the border to Lviv, the capital of western Ukraine and one of four Ukrainian cities where matches will be held during next year’s European football championship. Cars and trucks crawl along, circling axle-breaking holes.
Although Poland still lags western Europe when it comes to highways, most roads have been modernised and resurfaced – creating a strikingly smoother driving experience. That is in large measure a result of the billions of euros flowing into Poland as part of the EU’s structural funds programme.
The roads in Ukraine look a lot the ones in Poland two decades ago. Back then the roads were a potholed mess, but traffic, like in today’s Ukraine, was sparser than in Poland today, where roads are clogged by increasingly obtainable cars and the transport trucks that tie Polish factories to the rest of the EU.
In Lviv, many of the city’s streets are a barely-drivable cobblestone that looks to have last been fixed before the war, while ambitious urban transit plans for the tournament look far from ready.
East of Lviv, the sight of a horse-drawn cart draws barely a glance, and fields are dotted with farmers walking behind horse-drawn ploughs– views that used to be ubiquitous in Poland but are now a rarity – even in the country’s poorest areas.
While more than a million Poles have decamped to western Europe after their country joined the EU in 2004, millions more have found decent jobs in Poland and are increasingly able to enjoy a middle class existence. In Ukraine, millions have left to work in Russia, while thousands more are in Spain, Italy and Poland, often working illegally as the local job market is dire.
“There is absolutely nothing for anyone here, why would they stay?” says Jozef Czyzewski, an 84-year-old peasant farmer in Pieniaki, avillage of 300 about 100km east of Lviv where only a handful of peopleown cars.
When UEFA, the European football association, granted the two countries the right to host the championships, the hope was that both would fulfil ambitious plans to build thousands of kilometres of highways, new hotels, improve rail connections, and, crucially, each build four world class stadiums in which to stage the matches.
That last requirement is being met. But infrastructure is evidently another matter.
Officials in both countries say that the roads will be smoother next year, and that there will be a separate driving lane for fans, but a cursory inspection of the facilities at the Hrebenne-Rava Ruska crossing shows that fans are likely to endure Dantesque scenes.
“I’m sure the Germans have never seen anything like this,” says a stout Polish woman as she fought for a place in line before a tiny window at the Ukrainian passport control.
Here’s to hoping things get better, soon.
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Especially if they’re Black: A shortage of men for poor women to marry
One thing a lot of liberals and conservatives can agree on: not talking about race.
[If you don’t have time for the text, just skip to the figure.]
Liberals are happy when conservatives talk about inequality, which they’re doing a lot more these days. And when they debate marriage as a way to “cure” poverty, neither talks about race. For example, Annie Lowrey writes in the the NYT Magazine:
With Democrats and Republicans pitted against one another in a vicious election-year battle over how to alleviate poverty, marriage is the policy solution du jour.
First, Lowrie makes the now universal mistake in interpreting the famous Chetty et al. result:
In a new study, the economist Raj Chetty and his co-authors found that, in terms of income mobility, nothing matters more for a low-income child than the family structures she sees in her community — not neighborhood segregation, school quality or a host of other factors.
Traditionally in America, when you say “a host of other factors,” that includes race. But the Chetty et al. paper is nearly unique in its avoidance of race, partly because race isn’t specified in tax records. So “nothing matters more” is at best untested, and at worst completely wrong, since race isn’t in the model. (My argument on this is here).
To those of us old enough to remember, or have read stuff from, the 1980s, not including race in this conversation is bizarre. Of course, it is not crazy to talk about poverty as an issue. In that article, Kristi Williams is right when she says:
It isn’t that having a lasting and successful marriage is a cure for living in poverty. Living in poverty is a barrier to having a lasting and successful marriage.
But the article doesn’t address the hard demographic reality that the things that make marriage less available or attractive to poor women — Lowrey lists “globalization, the decline of labor unions, technological change and other tidal economic forces” — have done it much more for Black women, even among the poor. In addition to even worse job prospects, for Black men you need to add incarceration, mortality, and intermarriage rates much higher for men than for women.
Here’s a simple way to see this. Adapting the old formula from William Julius Wilson, I counted up the number of employed, non-married men per non-married woman (employed or not) in the age range 25-34, separately for Blacks and Whites, and by education, for the 50 biggest metropolitan areas (one not shown because of data shortage, one outlier excluded). With intermarriage rates so low for Black women, and the tendency not to marry men without jobs, this is a reasonable approximation of the marriage market for Black women, though it understates the number of men available to White women.
This is the result:
Dots in the green areas show relative surpluses of men. Dots under the red line show better markets for White women than for Black women. It takes a minute to figure out. If your jaw dropped, you got it. With or without college degrees Black women face a shortage of “mariageable” men in every single market except five (Portland OR, Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Providence, which was the outlier not shown). For college graduates Black women are under 75 men per 100 women in all but two markets, non-graduates are under 75 in 40 out of 48.
White women’s market is better than Black women’s in all but six (those five plus Sacramento). In most cases White women graduates have a surplus of men from which to choose.
Poverty is one thing. Race is another. They overlap, but on some questions they can’t be combined. Marriage is one of those issues. So, when you talk about the shortage of men to marry, I recommend remembering race.
Note: After I made this graph, Joanna Pepin and I decided to write a paper together on this. That is still in the pipeline, and I was going to save this for when it’s ready. But there will be plenty more.
Tagged as black men, black women, demography, marriage, marriage markets, marriage promotion, race
43 responses to “Especially if they’re Black: A shortage of men for poor women to marry”
Kristi Williams (@kristexanite)
Great point. I mentioned some of our findings on race differences to Annie Lowery and others, but they never made it into the final piece. For example, we find that to the extent that marriage is associated with any benefits for the health of single mothers, these only apply to white women who enter lasting marriages with the bio father, and not to black women at all. Your point about marriage markets is especially important, though.
Thanks. To Lowrey’s credit, she packed a surprising amount of complexity into a short story. And sometimes it’s better if race is not mentioned, if the alternative is a simplistic or deterministic mention.
Agreed, it’s a great piece and my work on women’s health outcomes is not as directly relevant to the poverty issue. Honestly, although I’m not surprised, I didn’t realize that the race differences in marriage markets were so stark. It would be interesting to see these specifically in neighborhoods with high poverty rates. I’ll wait for the paper!
Hi Professor Williams.
I would like to ask a question if Dr. Cohen willl not mind. In Lowry’s article is a quote attributed to you
“Living in poverty is a barrier to having a lasting and successful marriage.”.
Do you have any evidence to this? Like divorce rates per marriage of people who had been in poverty for the last year/2 years. I did some analysis that shows no such evidence. In fact, the divorce rates of people who have incomes > 60,000 is nearly twice the rate of married people in poverty.
Vijay- Here are a couple of references for divorce that I have immediately availablebut I was also referring to the ability to get married in the first place (to find a marriage that one thinks has a realistic chance of success). Bramlett, M. D., & Mosher, W. D. (2002). Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_022.pdf
Raley, R. Kelly. and Bumpass, L. (2003). The topography of the divorce plateau: Levels and trends in union stability in the United States after 1980. Demographic Research, 8, 245 – 259.
If you can unpack this into three graphs, white, black and hispanic, it can explain additional details such as why unmarried childbirth is increasing among Hispanics and getting close to 1990s black rates. In addition, grouping Hispanics into whites understates something, which I am not sure what it is.
My Whites are non-Hispanic here.
OK, (Now we do the usual tango between an engineer who does statistics and a liberal sociologist)
Isnt the employed men/100 women an intermediate variable, not a starting point of an analysis? Meaning that it tells me nothing because it is a variable at a middle level.
In my mind, Cognitive ability distribution (two or more curves differentiated by race) -> High school/college graduation rates/probabilities (again, more distributions) -> Employment outcomes at 18 and above -> Distributions of marriageable men/women at 18 and above -> children born in two person married households/female led household -> children graduating high school college-> ad-infinitum.
You are picking a graph at the middle of this non-linear problem with tremendous feedback loops to argue women are not marrying because of unavailable men. I give kudos to you for decomposing and showing differences by race, but the root variable is something else. Genetics and heritability is much more important in the whole dynamic loop.
jeanbean
great and helpful piece, thank you!
minowarrior
I am glad that this is not just picking on black women like the usual narratives does.You did miss the fact that white and other non-white women are marrying employed black men leaving even less for black women. The intermarriage rate for black men in measured by the 2008 census was 22% v 9% for black women. If poor white women have less options, I am sure they will turn to poor black men. I live in a Midwest college town surrounded by poor rural communities and the black male interracial cohabitation & marriage rate in this area is higher than the rate of black couples. The future looks much dimmer for black women in this area.
Hey, I want to jump in this race! Intermarriage rate for Asians is 27% with men having 16% interracial marriage rates whereas for women, it is 36.6%. The future for Asian men is dimmer.
I am part South Asian & I am going to call bullshite on your attempt at Oppression Olympics. The marriage rate for black women is much lower than Asian men. Asian American women may be outmarrying more but Asian American men do not have centuries of racist ideology that deems them unmarriageable because of they are hyper-sexual, immoral, ugly, fat, rude, unladylike, bad mothers and lazy. Asian American men have a much higher incomes than black women and can pursue white women, Asian immigrants, other women of color and even, gasp, black black women!
I see that you are congratulating CEPR inclusionist for making fun of Lowrie on twitter Re: Latino poverty rates for families (21.5%):
It would have taken a few minutes to decompose the poverty rates for married Latino couples with families :
1. First-generation Hispanic immigrants and their families now comprise 9 percent of the U.S. population but 18 percent of all poor persons in the U.S.;
2. Nearly 50% of the first generation Hispanic immigrants lack a HS diploma
3. First generation Hispanic immigrants work in very large numbers in Construction and services industry
4. 2007-present recession resulted in significant loss of jobs and increase in poverty.
The 21% poverty number can be directly related to first generation immigrants in and out of jobs. It changes nothing for the existing legal residents and citizens. They have a sub-10% poverty rate.
If anything that tweet argues AGAINST import of large number of ill qialified immigrants to US; instead of being in poverty in Central America, they will be in poverty in US.
I forgot to add a reference for my comment;
http://npc.umich.edu/publications/u/2011-20_NPC_Working_Paper.pdf
You can work through all the numbers from Table 2, Page 24 of that report to demonstrate that the poverty of married Hispanics is correlated with Generation 1 poverty.
“Outmarrying”? 🙂
szopeno
Well, this isn’t something new, right? I mean, I’ve been reading on “missing black males” for many years now, including blogs such as Steve Sailer’s or west hunter:
http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/missing-black-men/
Neither, Cochran, nor Steve is the origin of the “bulge” of black women of marriageable age, which is presented here as original research, and is attributed to be a lead to the reason for lack of marriage.
W.E.Dubois studied the effects of Low Sex Ratios on a Community In his (1899) “The Philadelphia Negro,” where he presents one of the first comprehensive studies of a minority group that explains its deviance from the majority. Du Bois first introduces the gender imbalance in the 7th Ward of Philadelphia in Chapter 5 of The Philadelphia Negro. According to the data available to Du Bois and his research assistants about the city, the African American population in 1890 was skewed in sexual distribution, with about 4 women for every 5 men between 20 and 55.
One would think that a sex ratio like this would lead to all men being married – but the research shows otherwise. Du Bois found in his research in Philadelphia, sex ratios this low lead to a lower incidence of married males. he presence of this large number of males with tremendous sexual competitiveness and no pressure to tie their fates to individual women increases the proportion of out-of-wedlock births. Du Bois even noted the persistence of out-of-wedlock births-> to children who behaved even more as adults, and tremendous increase in teenage birth, unmarried births, and lack of male employment (Chapter 5 and 6).
Today, the African-American community in the United States has an adult sex ratio that is comparable to that of Philadelphia in 1890. Although boys outnumber girls at birth 103 to 100, a normal ratio worldwide, high death, incarceration and substance abuse rates among African American males have worked to lower ratios post-adolescence(Mathews, 2005, Massey, 2007). Sex ratios for the community in 2006 vary from 0.85 to 0.82 between 20 and 55.
If you do a literature search in google, you hit more than 3000 publications explaining this skewed sex ratio. Foremost causes are teenage-adult incarceration rates, drug use, and undercutting of employment opportunities due to lack of high school, blue collar jobs, and immigration.
In summary, there is nothing new, close to 115 years of research, it has been shown to be an outcome, and not a cause. Using this to demonstrate that people cannot marry because there are no men, are devious, at best,.
Du Bois, W.E.B.The Philadelphia Negro.
Philadelphia, PA: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, 1899.
Massey, Douglas.Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System.New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007.
Mathews, TJ, and BE Hamilton.
Trend Analysis of the Sex Ratio at Birth in the United States.
National Vital Statistics Report, Washington, DC: National Vital Statistics, 2000.
Med Anthropol Q. 2004 Dec;18(4):405-28.
Marriage promotion and missing men: African American women in a demographic double bind.
Lane SD, et al.
4 men for 5 women, obviously.
You lost me at “presented here as original research.” Follow the two links to Wilson. This is an update using new data.
well, it is pity that you stopped reading there. Reading Du Bois (1899), and then Cochran/Harpending (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/163075/Oakland.roughdraft.pdf) would give an answer to many of your questions. Taking down Hymovitz on twitter is easy, but understanding why it is what it is, needs knowledge of genetics, statistics, math and understanding past literature.
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greekt
Well, I never thought of it that way. I basically marry who I love. I did notice that when you are happy with a black male that is not wealthy and very educated it does not shelter you from the social ills that impact you before that black male that came into your life. Its post antebellum and hopefully blacks women and men will embrace one another and put family first, or fall for nothing.
I do feel that in a way it is like slavery days and we as black women suffer more when we are not easily coerced outside of black social groups, where as the person looks like us and has same educational attainment etc.
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Its post slavery days, this article shouldn’t be relevant but in a way it truly is very relevant, even in 2015.
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The Top 10 Best Family Activities in Saint Lucia
The Caribbean island of St. Lucia’s crystal-clear turquoise water, beautiful beaches and lush rain forest awash with flora and fauna add up to family vacation perfection. Further, the Pitons, twin volcanic plugs that dramatically rise from the sea, will take your breath away.
If you’re looking to relax and re-charge, St. Lucia is the place to do it. But for families seeking a more active holiday, go beyond the beach with family-friendly adventures on and around the stunning island.
1. Soak in the Mud
St. Lucia is a volcanic island and the village of Soufrière (French for sulfur) is home to a drive-in volcano. Take a guided tour and gaze at the steam puffing out of the crater. Hold your nose, as a potent smell of sulfur laces the air.
Don’t miss the opportunity to get dirty in the mud baths. You will dunk and roll in the tepid, mineral-rich mud, decoratively painting your face before showering off under the refreshing cascade of a waterfall.
2. Zip-line in the Rain Forest
For thrill-seekers who are at least 50 inches tall, an exhilarating zip-line adventure in St. Lucia’s verdant rain forest will get the adrenaline pumping. Adventure Tours St. Lucia’s canopy tour provides unforgettable views to a soundtrack of tropical birds and tree frogs. Daredevils must wear close-toed shoes, so leave the flip-flops behind.
3. Learn to Make Chocolate
St. Lucia is famous for its delectable chocolate. The volcanic soil, warm temperatures and shady rain forest are fertile ground to grow top-quality cacao beans. The beans are made into a chocolate that would make Willy Wonka’s mouth water.
No trip to the island is complete without sampling these tantalizing temptations, but confirmed chocoholic families may want to go deeper and try a hands-on chocolate workshop. Several venues, including Caribelle Batik, offer family-friendly chocolate laboratories run by professional chocolatiers. You’ll sample a variety of irresistible bonbons as you learn how this island’s sweetest treat is made.
4. Sail Like a Pirate
Sailing the dazzling Caribbean waters that surround St. Lucia shouldn’t be missed. Take the experience up a notch with a pirate-themed cruise. Sea Spray Cruises Pirates’ Day Adventure was created especially with kids in mind. You’ll sail in a Spanish Galleon ship stopping at kid-approved sites along the way. Stunning views of the deep-green Pitons add to the scenery, and a casual onboard lunch will tempt even the fussiest appetites. Keeping with the theme, the crew stays in character and the kids may choose to dress up as pirates. There’s even time for a swim before the day is finished.
5. Splash at the Water Park
Get wet at this obstacle-style, in-water playground. At Splash Island Water Park, kids may jump on the inflatable trampoline, climb the monkey bars, swing like Tarzan and slide on the colorful play equipment. The water park is conveniently located in Rodney Bay Village, which is close to many resorts. You must be at least six years of age and 3 ½ feet tall to participate.
6. Stroll through Gardens
Diamond Falls and Botanical Gardens is wonderland of thriving flora. Birds and butterflies are attracted to the rich plant life, so expect a colorful show. It’s a lovely spot for a nature-filled stroll. After you smell the flowers, don’t miss the majestic Diamond Waterfall and the steaming mineral baths.
7. Watch the Island’s Artisans at Work
If you’ve got crafty kids, a stop at Caribelle Batik is a must. Housed in a Victorian-style mansion nestled among tropical gardens, this working batik studio is a feast for the eyes. Watch the craftspeople as they create colorful designs on fabric using a wax and dye technique. Several noted artisans and a chocolate maker also have studio space here, creating a profusion of artistic energy. The boutique is the place to purchase a colorful dress, pants or purse, all handmade on the premises.
8. See Whales and Dolphins Play
For families with an interest in marine life, dozens of species of whales and dolphins frolic in St. Lucia’s clean waters. Captain Mike’s friendly crew will help you spot these sea creatures in their natural habitat when you board a whale or dolphin-watching cruise. Commonly seen whales include pilot, sperm and humpback. Don’t be surprised to see spinner, bottlenose and Fraser’s dolphins swimming in their pods.
9. Find Your Balance on a Segway Tour
Take a guided tour on an eco-friendly Segway. Lucian Style offers complimentary hotel pick-up, so it’s hassle-free. Families with children ages six and older can enjoy an introductory lesson on this motorized two-wheeled personal vehicle followed by a spin around the practice track. When everyone is ready, it’s time for a gentle glide on the groomed nature trail. You’ll enjoy panoramic views and refreshments along the way.
10. Shop ‘til You Drop
The bustling Saturday market in Castries, St. Lucia’s capital, is homegrown commerce at its finest. You’ll find a mish-mash of items for sale including a rainbow of farm-fresh fruits, exotic spices, hand-woven straw articles and dime-store trinkets.
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Did You Know? – Another Random Fact Feast!
September 10, 2013 September 4, 2013 fasab Factoids 17th Century, 180th meridian, 1959, 1987, Aladdin, Alaska, alcoholic variation, Aleutian Islands, America, beer, boardgame, bodybuilders, Boston, Boxing Day, byte, C-3P0, Chinese, Chinese boy, Chinese Checkers, cigarettes, civilized world, computer, conserve gas, December 26th, Did You Know, easternmost, education, Entertainment, esophagus, fact, facts, gasoline rationing, gatorade, George Howard Monks, gray, Great Gettysburg Reunion of 1913, hair, hair color, hair follicle, Halma, hatchet, helicopter pilot, hip-shaking dance, Hop ’n Gator, horse, hotel, Hydrogen gas, ice, information, invented, Japanese, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Josh Muszynski, Kevin Peter Hall, launched, least dense substance, man-made satellite, Mechta, melanin, merengue, Misc, Miscellaneous, Moon, movie, natural rubber, new york, nibble, northernmost, orbit around the Sun, patent, peace, Pi, pigment cells, predator, primary source, producers, R2-D2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, rebuilt, regiments, Second World War, Southeast Asia, state, stomach, Super Bowl trophy, surgeon, Sweden, Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights, Tiffany & Co, tires, trivia, United States, USSR, value of pi, Visa, vomit, westernmost, whisking motion
Random fact feast it is.
Another selection of hopefully interesting facts that you didn’t know you didn’t know.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark there is a
wall carving of R2-D2 and C-3P0 behind the ark
Chinese Checkers is not Chinese.
It was created in America to circumvent the
patent for a popular boardgame called Halma,
invented by a Boston surgeon named George Howard Monks.
In the 17th century,
the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places.
Today, to 1.2411 trillion.
Technically speaking, Alaska is the northernmost,
westernmost, and easternmost state of the United States.
Parts of the Aleutian Islands cross over the 180th meridian.
The original story from “Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights” begins,
“Aladdin was a little Chinese boy.”
There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice;
it is rebuilt every year.
In 1959, the USSR launched a craft called the Mechta towards the Moon.
It missed, and instead became (inadvertently) the first
man-made satellite to go into orbit around the Sun.
It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years,
there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.
In the 1987 movie ‘Predator’, the character of the Predator
was originally set up for Jean-Claude Van Damme
to play a martial-arts fighting Predator.
However the producers realized much of the cast
were bodybuilders over 6 feet tall (and Van Damme was clearly smaller)
so they cast the enormous 7’ 21/2” Kevin Peter Hall
so that the Predator could realistically physically dominate
the film’s human characters.
Interestingly Hall also appears in the movie
as the helicopter pilot at the end.
Gatorade’s inventor later created an alcoholic variation,
Hop ’n Gator
— essentially, lemon lime Gatorade mixed with beer.
At the Great Gettysburg Reunion of 1913,
two men purchased a hatchet,
walked to the site where their regiments had fought,
and buried it.
Though it’s rarely used,
the word referring to half a computer byte
is a “nibble.”
Because of the angle at which its esophagus enters its stomach,
the horse is physically unable to vomit.
The reason why hair turns gray as we age
is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die,
which is responsible for producing “melanin”
which gives the hair colour
Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world,
at 0.08988g/cc
The purpose of gasoline rationing during the Second World War
was not to conserve gas, but to conserve TIRES.
The primary source for natural rubber at the time was Southeast Asia,
much of which was under Japanese control.
The concept of Boxing Day, which is on December 26th,
was to give boxes of food and clothing to the poor.
It is now viewed in some countries as a time
to get merchandise from stores at reduced prices
Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible
for making the Super Bowl trophy
The world’s most expensive cigarettes.
In 2009, Josh Muszynski used his Visa to buy cigarettes.
Due to a Visa “glitch,” he was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
To be exact: $23,148,855,308,184,500
The popular hip-shaking dance, the merengue,
got its name from the whisking motion required to make meringue.
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I don’t know what it is, but I can’t resist using that “May The Force Be With You” thing on this date. Sorry, but you’ll probably see another version of it next year if we’re all still around in the blogshpere.
But to get on with today’s real business, I do have another quiz for you.
The usual random selection and also as usual you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Q. 1: What word links vacations to the phonetic alphabet?
Q. 2: What is the collective noun for a group of owls?
Q. 3: ‘PL’ is the international car registration for which country?
Q. 4: What city is also known as the ‘City of 72 Nations’ ?
Q. 5: What is the highest score that can be awarded by a figure-skating judge?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 6 d) 8 e) 10
Q. 6: For what operation on the brain was Antonio de Egas Moniz of Portugal awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 1949?
Q. 7: Who was prime minster of China under Chairman Mao?
Q. 8: Which literary characters set out on a journey from the Tabard Inn, Southwark?
Q. 9: What is the brightest star in the night sky?
Q. 10: Spain has many famous ‘costas’. A point for each one of the following you can name correctly the four below and a bonus point if you get them all.
Costa _ _ _ _ _ _
Costa _ _ _ _ _
Q. 11: What name links the writers Kipling, Conrad and Heller?
Q. 12: As well as being a girl’s best friend Diamonds are a form of which chemical element?
Q. 13: What is the difference in paddles between canoeing and kayaking?
Q. 14: In which country is Liberation of Saigon Day on April 30 a public holiday?
Q. 15: What is created when the loop of a meander of a river is cut off and the river diverted on a different course?
Q. 16: The number of voting representatives in the House of Representatives was fixed by law in 1911 at what number?
Q. 17: What color is a Welsh poppy?
a) Blue b) Yellow c) Red d) White
Q. 18: How many valves does a trumpet have?
Q. 19: Which is the only American state to begin with the letter ‘P’ ?
Q. 20: Which band were Living Next Door to Alice in 1976?
A. 1: Hotel.
A. 2: A parliament.
A. 3: Poland.
A. 4: Tehran.
A. 5: The correct answer is c) 6.
A. 6: Prefrontal lobotomy.
A. 7: Chou En-Lai (or Zhou Enlai).
A. 8: The pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
A. 9: Sirius (The Dog Star).
A. 10: The correct answers are Costa BLANCA, Costa BRAVA, Costa DORADA, and the Costa DEL SOL
A. 11: The answer is ‘Joseph’. Joseph Conrad, Joseph Heller and although he was much better known as Rudyard Kipling his first name was also Joseph.
A. 12: Carbon.
A. 13: Canoe paddles have a single face and Kayak paddles a double face.
A. 14: Vietnam.
A. 15: Oxbow Lake.
A. 16: The number of voting representatives in the House of Representatives was fixed by law in 1911 at no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 states.
A. 17: The correct answer is b) Yellow.
A. 18: A trumpet has 3 valves.
Q. 19: Which is the only American state to begin with the letter ‘p’?
A. 19: Pennsylvania.
A. 20: Smokie.
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Community • Market Street
The Woodlands Madewell in the Mix at Market Street
The Woodlands Market Street, great things come in threes, where the women’s fashion boutique Madewell has opened, joining newcomers Elaine Turner and Calypso St. Barth in the shopping and entertainment destination’s elite boutique scene of more than 70 upscale retailers and restaurants.
Madewell is a collection of well-thought-out women’s clothes that speak for themselves. Each piece in the Madewell muse has just the right touch of glam, while taking a trendy approach on comfortably cool clothes mixed with modern attitude. It’s an edgy take on casual with a few vintage details and a modish twist. Great style, attention to detail clothes and affordable prices go a long way for those seeking a versatile “goes with everything” wardrobe.
Madewell hits the mark when it comes to jeans, priding themselves as jean makers first, who also know a thing or two about dresses, lush leather goods, super soft tees, fleece and an entire look book of versatile style. This jean junkie boutique is the perfect addition to Market Street, rounding out the retail scene with its own funky flare. Madewell is centrally located between Crú Wine and Food Bar and Sur la Table.
For more information on these and other shopping and dining spots at Market Street, visit www.marketstreet-thewoodlands.com.
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The Woodlands Oktoberfest 2011
The Woodlands Oktoberfest 2011, benefiting The Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation, will be held October 14 – 16, 2011, at beautiful Town Green Park on the banks of The Woodlands Waterway, centrally located in The Woodlands, Texas.
The dates and times for this third annual Oktoberfest celebration are as follow:
Friday – October 14th – 6pm – 9pm
Saturday – October 15th – 12pm – 9pm
Sunday – October 16th – 12pm – 6pm
What’s new this year? Glad you asked! We are bringing more elements of fun and education to this year’s event, including:
BEER– We will have traditional “biergartens” where you can sample the finest of Oktoberfest brand beers. While there, you can participate in many fun games and activities. In addition to these biergartens, we will have a “Craft Beer” Tent where we will feature specialty brews. In this Craft Beer Tent, we will have a special stage, where local breweries will provide fun and interesting information about their specialty brews.
WINE– new this year, we will have a “Winery” Tent that is dedicated to wine vintners who will feature labels of their signature wines. In this tent, you can sample these specialty wines as well as purchase bottles of your favorite wine. In addition, we will have a special “Winery” stage where the wine vintners will provide fun and interesting information about their specialty wines.
FOOD– We will have a large food area that will feature area restaurants with their specialty chefs on hand to provide small bite size portions of their signature food. There will also be a voting system in place, where festival patrons choose their favorite chef/restaurant, and the one with the most votes receives a special prize to feature in their restaurant throughout the year. In addition, we will have a “Foodie” Stage where local chef’s will provide fun and interesting information about their specialty food items.
Music– on our Main Stage, we will have classic Oktobefest music earlier in the day, followed by popular music as our headlining acts later in the day.
VIP– We have created a wonderful package that will allow you to have a fantastic VIP experience.
Oktoberfest will be held rain or shine.
A portion of the proceeds will go to The Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation raising funds for student scholarships benefitting local students and their families.
Visit Michele Flory at www.MicheleFlory.com for more information on The Woodlands community.
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The Pavilion Ranks No. 2 in the World for Concert Ticket Sales
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion ranked second in its listing of the top 100 amphitheaters in the world based on the number of tickets sold through the third quarter of the year, according to Pollstar magazine, the concert industry’s leading trade publication. The Pavilion’s ticket sales totaled 307,489 for shows played between January 1 and September 30, 2010.
“We have had an incredible year so far, including an extremely busy month in September. The quality and variety of shows we have presented has been fantastic,” said Pavilion President and CEO Jerry MacDonald. “I attribute the high ranking to a relatively strong Houston market and our booking partnership with Live Nation. The Pavilion is a great way to experience concerts and our location is one of the keys to our success.”
So far this season, The Pavilion has had six sold-out concerts including Buzzfest XXIV May 2, Jimmy Buffett May 20, Jack Johnson August 18, John Mayer September 5, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers September 24 and Rush September 25.
Upcoming concerts at The Pavilion include Maroon 5 October 22, Buzzfest XXV October 23 (already sold out) and Lady Antebellum November 6, as well as the 15th Annual Children’s Festival November 13 and 14. For more information, visit www.woodlandscenter.org.
Source: TWT
2nd Annual Oktoberfest Set for September 24-26 At Town Green Park in The Woodlands
The 2nd Annual Oktoberfest, presented by The Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation, is set for September 24-26 at Town Green Park in The Woodlands.
Oktoberfest will feature live entertainment, a delicious selection of German food including bratwurst, sauerkraut and strudel, beverages and a kid’s activity area. Oktoberfest beer mugs and souvenirs will also be available for purchase. Tickets are $10 for ages 10 and older and free for ages 9 and younger. Sponsorships are available for organizations, companies and individuals wanting to participate.
Oktoberfest proceeds will go to The Woodlands Rotary Club Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization raising funds for scholarships benefiting local students and their families.
For more information about Oktoberfest, please visit the official website at www.oktoberfestthewoodlands.com.
Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, called Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious and open to all cultures, races and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary’s main objective is service – in the community, in the workplace and throughout the world.
The Woodlands Rotary Club is the largest service club in South Montgomery County and has given out almost $1,000,000 in scholarships in its 34 years of service.
For more information about The Woodlands Rotary Club, please visit www.woodlandsrotary.org.
Waterway Square Restaurants Featuring “Summer of Savings” Program
The seven restaurants in The Waterway Square District, located on and near Waterway Avenue in The Woodlands Town Center, have launched a 14-week program of special offers and discounts beginning June 8 and extending through September 13, 2009. The restaurants participating in the program include Américas, Baker Street Pub & Grill, Crush Wine Lounge, The Goose’s Acre, Hubbell & Hudson, Rio24 Cigars & Premier Bar and Which Wich.
“The summer months are the perfect time for residents and visitors to sample the new restaurants in The Waterway Square District and enjoy the Fountains at Waterway Square, shopping and entertainment in Town Center,†said Susan Vreeland-Wendt, director of marketing for The Woodlands Development Company (TWDC). “And with special offers like two for one entrées, it becomes even more appealing. There will be a new “surprise†offer revealed every week for 14 weeks.â€
Approximately 10,000 “Summer of Savings†discount cards are being distributed by the “Waterway Square Team†of high school students at concerts at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and throughout The Waterway Square District. “Look for young people in Waterway Square t-shirts passing out these valuable discount cards during the coming weeks,†Vreeland-Wendt said.
“You can also log on to www.thewoodlands.net to either activate your card, or register for all the discounts. Once you register, you will receive an e-mail each week with a surprise discount offer. Print out the e-mail and take it with you to participating Waterway Square restaurants. It couldn’t be any easier to enjoy all the savings being offered by these seven fabulous venues.
“We want everyone to have the opportunity to experience the new urban vibe of The Waterway Square District,†Vreeland-Wendt said. “It’s the place to be this summer and beyond.â€
For more information about the “Summer of Savings†program, log on to www.thewoodlands.net and click on the Waterway Square Discount Card icon on the home page.
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As a leader in early childhood education in the SE, Childcare Network is currently seeking qualified Bus Drivers for our schools. Join our team of caring adults who help us meet our corporate promises of being “The Working Parent’s Best Friend”. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective at each school is to provide a fun atmosphere that supports the education and safety of the children in our care. Salary: Based on experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance all available on a pretax basis, 401K, childcare assistance, paid holidays, paid sick time, paid vacation time, and tuition assistance.
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Title Cook
As a leader in early childhood education, Childcare Network is currently seeking a Cook for one of our schools. Join our team of caring adults who help us meet our corporate promise of being “The Working Parent’s Best Friend”. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective at each school is to provide a fun atmosphere that supports the education and safety of the children in our care. Childcare Network will be holding a hiring event at our Ft Walton Beach location on Jet Dr on 7/11/2019. Click here for more information and to register Salary: We offer competitive pay based on experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision available on a pretax basis.Life Insurance, 401K, childcare assistance, paid holidays, paid sick time, paid vacation time, and tuition assistance.
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As a leader in early childhood education, Childcare Network is currently seeking a Cook for one of our schools. Join our team of caring adults who help us meet our corporate promise of being “The Working Parent’s Best Friend”. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective at each school is to provide a fun atmosphere that supports the education and safety of the children in our care. Salary: We offer competitive pay based on experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision available on a pretax basis.Life Insurance, 401K, childcare assistance, paid holidays, paid sick time, paid vacation time, and tuition assistance.
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As a leader in early childhood education, Childcare Network is currently seeking a Cook for one of our schools. Join our team of caring adults who help us meet our corporate promise of being “The Working Parent’s Best Friend”. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective at each school is to provide a fun atmosphere that supports the education and safety of the children in our care. THIS LOCATION WILL BE HOSTING AN OPEN HIRING EVENT FOR BOTH ROANOKE CHILDCARE NETWORK LOCATIONS. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO RSVP TO THE EVENT! Salary: We offer competitive pay based on experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision available on a pretax basis.Life Insurance, 401K, childcare assistance, paid holidays, paid sick time, paid vacation time, and tuition assistance.
As a leader in early childhood education in the SE, Childcare Network is currently seeking qualified Bus Drivers for our schools. Join our team of caring adults who help us meet our corporate promises of being “The Working Parent’s Best Friend”. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective at each school is to provide a fun atmosphere that supports the education and safety of the children in our care. THIS LOCATION WILL BE HOSTING AN OPEN HIRING EVENT FOR BOTH ROANOKE CHILDCARE NETWORK LOCATIONS. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO RSVP TO THE EVENT! Salary: Based on experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance all available on a pretax basis, 401K, childcare assistance, paid holidays, paid sick time, paid vacation time, and tuition assistance.
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Parties sign agreement on security arrangements
Parties signing Agreement On Outstanding Issues of Security Arrangement in Khartoum/Alhadi Awari/Eye Radio/July 6, 2018
Peace partners have signed an agreement on transitional security arrangements on Friday in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Known as agreement on outstanding issues of security arrangements, the deal has mainly three parts.
These include the permanent Ceasefire, pre-transitional period, transitional period and mechanisms of the security arrangements.
Under the permanent ceasefire, the parties shall observe the Khartoum declaration signed by president Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar last month, as well as the December 2017 Cessation of Hostilities agreement.
In observing this provision, they shall immediately release the prisoners of war and detainees under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC.
The article also asserts that no revenge or vengeance or retribution of any kind of violation is allowed under any circumstances.
While implementing the ceasefire, the agreement states that free movement of South Sudanese citizens, Commodities and services shall be guaranteed by the parties and humanitarian corridors for relief shall be immediately opened.
The agreement also outlines activities the parties are obliged to undertake within eight months of a pre-transitional period once the implementation officially commences.
These include immediate demilitarization of civilian areas such as schools, service centers, occupied houses, IDP camps, villages, churches, mosques and livelihood areas, among others.
Secondly, disengagement and separation for forces and collection of long and medium-ranged heavy weapons.
Thirdly, they shall canton and assemble their forces inaccessible areas at the present barracks and sites under the supervision of the current monitoring bodies of 2015 peace deal.
The third part which is on transitional period states that all collective heavy and medium-range weapons shall be disposed of and shall be determined by a joint Defense Board.
Under this arrangement, throughout the period, training of personnel selective for the military, police, security, and program of Disarmament Demobilization and Re-integration shall continue for personnel.
On this, the parties shall build a national army, police, security and other forces that shall be completed and deployed throughout the country at the end of a three-year transitional period.
On mechanisms of implementing the security arrangements, the parties shall form a joint Defense Board to jointly exercise command and control of all the forces.
Furthermore, the peace parties shall form a joint technical security committee that shall constitute half of the members from the Transitional Government of National Unity and the half from the opposition groups collectively.
Eight of the members shall be from TGoNU and five from SPLA-IO and the three others shall come from the other opposition groups.
According to the agreement also, a joint military ceasefire commission shall be formed at national, state, county, Payam, and Boma levels.
Finally, the current ceasefire monitor- CTSAAM shall be restructured and reconstituted to be known as Ceasefire Transitional Security Arrangement Monitoring and Verification Mechanism-CTSAM-VM which shall be led by Uganda and Sudan.
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"OutDaughtered" Stars Struggled With Infertility But Ended Up With Six Daughters: How They Are Raising Their Girls
July 26, 2018 15:28 By Fabiosa
If you’re a fan of reality TV shows that focus on parenting, then you’ve probably heard about OutDaughtered, a hit TV show produced by TLC. Do you know the story of the Busbys, the family that stars in the show? It’s quite fascinating and unique!
Публикация от Adam and Danielle Busby (@itsabuzzworld) 3 Июл 2018 в 8:21 PDT
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Adam and Danielle Busby's daughters
The show stars a family that is the only one of its kind in the United States. Adam and Danielle Busby are parents of the only all-girl quintuplets in the country! The girls are a little older than 3 years now, and the couple also has an older daughter, Blayke, who turned 7 this year.
Публикация от Adam and Danielle Busby (@itsabuzzworld) 26 Июн 2018 в 12:37 PDT
Adam and Danielle Busby had long wanted to have a baby, but they struggled with infertility. Thanks to successful treatment, they gave birth to their first daughter in 2011. The couple made the decision to have more children, and they had to undergo treatment for infertility again. Daniele became pregnant in 2014, and this time, the lucky parents were in for a surprise…
Публикация от Adam and Danielle Busby (@itsabuzzworld) 17 Июн 2018 в 4:58 PDT
We can only imagine their reaction when an ultrasound revealed they were expecting quintuplets!
Публикация от Adam and Danielle Busby (@itsabuzzworld) 11 Май 2018 в 7:29 PDT
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Danielle gave birth to the girls at 28 weeks, which is considered premature. The babies had to spend a couple of months in the NICU until they got well enough to go home.
Публикация от OutDAUGHTERED ON TLC (@outdaughtered) 6 Окт 2016 в 2:06 PDT
You can say the Busbys have their hands full, but the mom and dad enjoy every minute of it. The girls are only three years old, but they have already started to show their own unique personalities.
The family sticks to a schedule to keep their household running smoothly. Also, 7-year-old Blayke helps her parents with her younger siblings.
Parenting seems like a full-time job in itself, especially if you have six kids, but Adam and Danielle actually work. Adam is an account manager, and his wife works as an independent beauty consultant. It looks like they took the skill of maintaining work-life balance to a whole new level!
READ ALSO: Webb Quads: The Story Of Rare, Naturally-Conceived Identical Quadruplets That Gained Internet Fame
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May 31, 2019 6:15PM PT
Why Trump’s Latest Tariff Threat Against Mexico Has the Shoe Industry Worried
By Samantha McDonald, Barbara Schneider-Levy
President Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexico has already set off another selling wave on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing more than 350 points today.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, the president vowed to slap a 5% tariff on all imports from the United States’ southern neighbor unless it took measures to stop the influx of Central American migrants illegally crossing the border. The duties would go into effect on June 10, and the rate could increase up to 25% if the White House’s policy demands fail to be met.
Shortly after the announcement, trade organizations, including the Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America and the American Apparel & Footwear Association, spoke out in opposition to Trump’s move, particularly in light of his previous threats to increase duties on footwear imported from China.
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Matt Priest, president and CEO of FDRA, said in a statement today, “The President’s most-recent announcement on Mexico threatens further harm to U.S. footwear consumers and companies. The value of U.S. footwear imports from Mexico jumped 20% in 2018 to $500.2 million, the second-biggest year on record. Mexico serves as a strategic sourcing location for certain brands wanting to make quality leather shoes close to market. Adding higher costs on these shoes from Mexico not only raises rates, but it will start to limit product we see on store shelves. The shoe consumer is losing across the board if we see higher tariffs, and there is nowhere around it.”
Individual businesses — particularly those that have parts of their supply chains in Mexico — were also troubled by the news. Among them was Berkshire Hathaway Shoe Holdings Inc., which has been sourcing shoes in the country since the mid-1970s. (The Greenwich, Conn.-based company is the parent of nearly two-dozen brands, including Born, Sofft, Carolina Boots and Kork-Ease.)
“The potential for this escalating tariff on goods imported from Mexico will definitely be a disruption,” said president and CEO Jim Issler. “If the tariffs continue to increase, it will be a further imposition on the American consumer and a fragile industry concerned about the pending Chinese tariffs. There is no doubt that this is a situation that we would like to avoid and hope that negotiations will begin immediately to resolve this issue.”
After trade negotiations with Beijing fell apart early this month, Washington increased levies from 10% to 25% on $200 billion worth of Chinese products. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative also released a separate list of imports, including footwear, that could be hit with another proposed 25% hike in tariffs. Companies whose supply chains are based in China have already begun the process of relocating to nearby countries or are considering hiking prices for consumers in order to meet costs.
Footwear firms that manufacture or source materials in Mexico are still assessing their options.
Direct-to-consumer brand Thursday Boot Company produces the majority of its boots in León, a city in the central state of Guanajato, and does not expect an immediate shift in production back to the U.S. because there are still higher-quality factories in Mexico.
“We consider ourselves lucky to have a strong set of high-integrity and level-headed partners in Mexico with whom we are collaboratively working to ensure we do right by each other and our customers,” CEO Nolan Walsh told FN.
However, he added: “Macroeconomic and regulatory uncertainty are some of the hardest factors to take account for in planning. While our partners in Mexico are worried, and reasonably so, there is also a potential scenario in which — even if there are tariffs for products coming from Mexico — there will still be an acceleration of brands producing in Mexico due to the trade war with China. At the end of the day, net profit margin is relatively low in footwear and retail generally; therefore, it is difficult for both brands and manufacturers to take the margin haircut, and unfortunately customers are likely going to end up paying higher prices.”
Canaccord Genuity analyst Camilo Lyon also explained the potential impact of the threatened tariffs on publicly-traded U.S. footwear companies, such as Steven Madden Inc.
As Lyon explained to FN, Steve Madden — which recently started transitioning a portion of its footwear production from China to Mexico — could seek support from factories, retail partners and, if necessary, through pricing. (The company has previously indicated that it would have to raise prices in order to accommodate the rising levies on Chinese goods.)
“While tariffs on Mexico might make us rush to stockpile good tequila, we believe the impact to [Steve Madden’s] business is small,” Lyon shared. “That said, tariff noise is loud and certainly could impact consumer spending in a broader way if pricing actions by all companies affected ensue. In our view, the threat to consumer demand is the one we are more concerned by.”
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Home » The Best And Most Beloved Dentists In Pop Culture
When it comes to pop culture, we’re all used to see the doctor portrayed as a hero on television, or the enduring journalist that never gives up in pursuit of a story.
But how often do you see your trusty dentist portrayed as the protagonist, or at least not the bad guy? You wonder why there’s a misconception and fear about going to the dentist, and we actually may have Hollywood to blame in some cases!
For example, in a Disney classic Toothless, the dentist is portrayed as uncaring and cold. This kids film is doing no favors to those in the dental industry!
While dentists may not be highlighted as often as superheroes or the lovable talking dog, that’s not to say that they haven’t had their fifteen seconds of fame. Below are our favorite instance where dentists were highlighted in pop culture. Let us know if you have any other examples that we’ve forgotten!
Our favorite dentists in pop culture
While obviously not integral to the plot of the movie Finding Nemo, the opening scene takes place in a dentist’s office where you can overhear banter about instruments being used. But then again, if that dentist wasn’t portrayed poorly on film, maybe we wouldn’t have ever lost Nemo!
In the fun film Horrible Bosses, lead actress Jennifer Aniston plays a scandalous dentist who needs to reign in her forward behavior.
Finally, in the classic Little Shop of Horrors, Steve Martin plays the infamous Orin Scrivello in the musical adaption of this cult classic. This all-time favorite actor plays a patient who goes to visit the dentist (here played by John Shaner).
If you are ever interested in exploring all films that feature dentists or dentists, Wikipedia has a fantastic list for you here!
Dentists aren’t just portrayed in film, either. They’ve also have had their time in the limelight in the music industry. Superstars like Lady Gaga (with a track called Teeth) and Death Cab for Cutie (with a song called Cooked Teeth) brought some toothy smiles to our faces here at Dr. Ku’s office. These popular songs are on top of all the children’s songs about brushing your teeth and going to the dentist. Thankfully, the children’s songs are much more positive and encourage children to practice good oral health.
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Artist pages: chronological sorting?
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Which sorting type would you prefer for artist pages?
Chronological (most recently joined bands appearing first) 48% [ 117 ]
Alphabetical (current sorting) 35% [ 85 ]
I don't care either way 17% [ 40 ]
Crone of War
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:58 pm
This has been requested by a few people, and I think it makes sense... but others have objected, saying that people would be disorientated by the change.
So I thought I might as well make a poll and see the public opinion on this (for once ).
The chronological sorting (actually, reverse chronological) would be based on the activity years of the artist for the band, so most recent bands would appear first, and oldest bands last. For example, on Steve DiGiorgio's page, the bands on the "active bands" tab would be listed in this order (with the album list remaining in normal chronological order under each band);
Ephel Duath (2011-present)
Synesis Absorption (2010-present)
Charred Walls of the Damned (2009-present)
Sadus (1984-present)
His other bands, having no years set, would show up beneath these bands in alphabetical order. This would encourage people to enter the dates even more.
Another example would be Dio:
Heaven and Hell (2006-present)
Black Sabbath (1979-1982, 1991-1992)
Dio (1982-2010)
Rainbow (1975-1978)
So.. What do you think? I'll be reading comments too but please vote in the poll. Thanks.
Von Cichlid wrote:
I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well.
Markeri, in 2013 wrote:
a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old
Thashierthanthou
Not Semi-Witty Enough for his Own Title
Location: Mushroom Kingdom
Allow me to quote Blind Guardian for this- "The jester's tears, they are inside me, apathy's, the script for my requiem."
opet is tree metal! there early albums talk about trees!
They should have talked about why failsafeman sucks!
Alhadis
Madder Max
While I didn't initially care, after seeing for myself how oddly arranged the bands were on artist pages, I've changed my mind... It now feels like bands are missing for the first time when opening a familiar artist's profile, fully expecting "Blind Guardian" or "Black Sabbath" to appear where the B-entries are...
Seriously? Seeing Demons & Wizards and its multitude of 2 albums before seeing Blind Guardian bothers you?
Just feels kinda haphazard, especially in the case of longer artist pages.
Also, the bands that artists have been in the longest are often the ones they're most famous for playing with, which would be logically listed at the bottom... Just feels... odd, somehow.
(... or to answer your question as succinctly as possible: yes. )
Yeah, I have to agree with Alhadis here, actually...with an alphabetic list I can know exactly where I need to find any one of, for example, Bob Macabre's silly projects, as long as I know the name. If I wanted to quickly find a band there if the list was in chronological order, I'd have to either scroll through the whole list, or search the project itself to find out when it was formed.
The current formatting seems more convenient for finding information on artists whose projects one isn't already familiar with, which is probably the majority of situations when one takes into account the sheer number of MA's artists with >1 project.
Similar to the subnavigation used in band discography lists, except the user's last picked option could "stick" between pages, saving the need to revert to the user's preferred setting (since people seem fairly divided between two camps, here).
Fairly divided? I see a minority of alphabetical-preferring people myself so far.
As to have both... it would require more complexity, since this information is cached server-side.
Doesn't matter. Can still have the elements output to the page in chronological order and use JavaScript to arrange the items alphabetically from the document's onLoad handler.
...Fine, you code it.
Fuck yeah, showtime. *kicks open Notepad++*
... actually, give me 10 minutes. Remembered I still haven't finished Photoshopping these two shirt designs I'm fixing up for Viral Load. ;p
droneriot
Location: Spahn Ranch
Oh, when you said "most recent bands" in the chat I assumed it would be sorted by the latest release of each band. Going by join date seems weird to me. I cite myself as an example. I started Black Tribe in 1994, and The Continuum in 2000, so Black Tribe would appear after The Continuum in the last. However, Black Tribe was active far longer than The Continuum and thereby has more recent releases, so it would seem odd to me that a band that has releases just a short while ago come after a band that didn't have a release in ages. I think sorting by most recently active band (as in releasing stuff) would be far better than sorting by most recently joined band, just using the example above. Probably a lot harder to code, though, I dunno. Just my two cents.
Black Tribe Official - Deleted for the hate speech of a GG Allin cover
Entkustete Art - Black metal logos & art
John Gill Historical Archives - Movie & TV reviews
I prefer chronological sorting anyway, but from early times to most recent activities.
ENKC
Wait... we can do polls on this forum? THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
But in all seriousness, I approve of either A) reverse chronological or B) a choice of both.
John_Sunlight wrote:
Gif logos are a rare and special thing. They should be reserved only for truly exceptional and rare and special and important bands, bands like Blind Guardian and... Blind Guardian. This should be in the rules.
OpsiusCato
Mexican Metal Inquisition
legacy4 wrote:
I second that motion.
Uncolored, commenting on Erosion of Humanity's allergies wrote:
Your house in Chicago is possessed by Unholy Virus
PhilosophicalFrog, making accurate statements as usual, wrote:
Opsius is Metal as fuck.
Wouldn't it be possible to have both? Then you'd have a sorting button that switches between "alphabetical" and "chronological".
Alphabetical (current) layout would be the same as the one now.
Chronological switches to this type of layout. Replace the columns "Band - Country - Genre" with "Year - Band - Release - Role" and as a bonus all can be sorted individually.
Last edited by kingnuuuur on Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:23 pm, edited 2 times in total.
I think I'd actually slightly prefer alphabetical by a very slim margin, but with sorting by chronology hopefully influencing people to enter active dates more my vote would go to that. Your second example seems a bit awkward to me though. I'd think it'd be more like this:
The difference being that they're sorted by the last date with the beginning date of that time period being what gives the precedence. Right now it looks like you were planning to rank them by the most recent beginning date. This way you'll get which bands they most recently played in instead of which bands they most recently joined. I think...
It's pretty much impossible to sort in the way you describe for Dio, I'm afraid...
deadnews
i voted alphabetical but it would be nice to have more options...
nothing wrong with metal-archives as-is, more options are nice until they clutter the page
please keep the default listing alphabetical for non-members and new users§
Evenfiel
Heavy Metal Hunter
I voted "I don't care either way", but I would like to change to "Alphabetical". It doesn't look like you can change your vote.
I'd rather keep it the way it is, and allow the user to change it to chronological or reverse chronological if he wants to.
Huh? I can change my vote. You don't see the radio button at the top?
Morrigan wrote:
That's weird, the "allow re-voting" option is checked... might be a phpBB bug.
I've already bitched (:P) on the other thread, but if you are gonna do the chronological thing, please take into consideration having both in the future (also for band members, sorting them by instrument and then name). Pleeeeeeaaaasseeeeee
Here's my whining from the other thread:
I can't be positive as I hate chronological sorting for things that don't start with a date, it's messy for the user to see. Same thing happens with bands lineup: past members are a mess when the band has had a lot of them. They should be sorted by instrument, then by name. As for bands, by name. It's also a big mess when the years info is present for some bands and not for some others and then we have some artists sorted by date and some other sorted by instrument. Why not have them all sorted by instrument? (same thing applies for the new proposed sort order for bands). Seriously, who looks for the dates before the instrument or the band? If you want to see if your favorite guitar player played in band X (because you once heard he did), you would search by instrument and then by his name, you don't say "hmm, I think he may have played during 1999 before Ron Nobody but of course after Derek Somebody".
Sorry if it sounds rude, but I hate the way artists are sorted, it's just different in every band and it irritates me
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Svanhof
If both cannot be had, I'd prefer reverse chronological.
Guys your are torturing me with every new reply I read in this thread
HouseSpiders
Heavy Metal C-3PO
Alphabetical order would be easier.
How did you put a poll in your topic?
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Well, she's the admin of the site...
HouseSpiders wrote:
Secret ninja magic.
hey! the thread is also a sticky!
BTW, I've just realized that this is a public thread
LegendMaker
FYI, I can't seem to be able to change my vote either. I guess the feature might indeed have an issue.
I voted "I don't care either way" initially, but I'm more leaning towards "Chronological" now. Ideally, I'd prefer a proportional classification, with the bands the guy contributed to the most or for the longest at the top, and then organized in chronological order from there. But I don't think it's possible, or at least practical, to set up an automatic sorting system and expect it to give fine-tuned results that make perfect sense in every particular case.
Same goes for the sorting-by-instrument suggestion mentioned: yes, it's pretty awkward to have some line-ups that start with the drummer, or have the lead vocalist in the middle etc. But I realize expecting you guys to come up with a magical script that would know exactly how to prioritize between band members in most situations might be wishful thinking (I'm no script expert, though). Even with a script, I'm sure we'd still have awkward line-ups like, say, A) John Doe - Triangle, Vocals (lead) on track 42; B) Lloyd Singer - Vocals (lead) except on track 42; C) Soul Von Theband - Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards. What would be nice would be the option to manually fix the order for line-ups (a slow and tedious process, sure, but worth a shot).
Osore wrote:
I would like to hear some recommendations of black metal bands/albums that sound depressive, yet sad and melancholic at the same time.
Uncolored
Death Metal Fundamentalist
I voted for chronologically but I'd prefer the oldest band first. in any case that's a very useful feature
Germaniac wrote:
Caller Of The Storms may be black, but he has an aryan heart.
SatanHussein wrote:
my dream is to organise a funeral doom festival and sell my stockpiles of antidepressants at the merch stand
false_icon
Voted for alphabetical, but both would be better - with an additional setting in the profile to choose which you prefer.
Ishida Ira wrote:
To separate art from entertainment doesn't make sense anymore.
my trade list
false_icon wrote:
That would sound like a nice compromise; being able to choose alphabetical or chronological via profile. The one that wins this poll could be set default.
A profile setting would kick ass
Oh, damn
joppek
Location: Suomi Finland Perkele
hey wrote:
i take it the info is stored in a single text field rather than as separate years for joining/leaving?
in that case, could you not regex for what comes after the last dash (-) and sort by that?
All the best bands are affiliated with Satan. -Bart Simpson
Because I have a countable number of brain cells, I voted for Alphabetical, assuming that 'artist pages' meant band search pages.
But after removing the dunce cap, reverse chronologically is really the most logical way of looking at a musicians band resume. Starting with the most relevant information (ie current projects) seems extremely intuitive to me.
I don't understand why Dexter is talking about instrument sorting, when Morrigan's examples show that the lists will be comprised of bands?
The only problem is, as Dexter correctly stated, is that if the joining and leaving dates of bands aren't present, then this sorting method becomes non-existant. One solution to this is giving priority to a band in an artists career that have concrete dates of join/leave. My example will use Dio albums and I will pretend that his Black Sabbath join and leave dates are missing:
Black Sabbath(N/A)
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mini-review game: non-metal edition (read OP before posting)
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grauer_mausling
Still Walking - Throbbing Gristle (20 Jazz Funk Greats)
well... Let me first say that I am a bit into ambient and also industrial (but more the "rocky" industrial stuff mainly) but this... phew.. hard to call it music in a any form (imo). Static "noise" with a thin pulsing beat and some occassional bleeps with some mudded female spoken voice in the background later. I know that tastes differ and there is much stuff others enjoy which I don't but this? Man, do you really listen to this with pleasure? Anyway - each to thier own.
Okay - I stay electronic but a bit more, hmm, accessible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFbmQkTBulQ
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Is my track going to be forgotten?
oh... I just took the last link I could found and that was the link posted by Scorntyrant. But now that I look at it I see that you were earlier and Scorntyrant kind of overran you.... However I only noticed it now. :/
Scorntyrant
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Tears for fears - "mad world".
Tears for Fears were always kinda riding on the coat-tails of the more experimental members of the post-punk/New-wave scene in my opinion. In that sense I tend to think of them in the same sense as Spaundau Ballet and Orchestral manoeuvre's in the dark - they "stood on the shoulders of giants" as they say. Unlike, say, New Order or Gary Numan, their sense of having developed from the punk scene was kinda questionable. But that said, I always liked their lyrics. "Mad world" and "Shout", their 2 most well-known songs, demonstrate a certain desperation and pathos very much in line with their Thatcher-ear British background.
Maethelvin - Delight
Also pretty cool. Major flashbacks to Detroit techno circa 88-89, Italian disco, and early-90's pop-house crossover like black box etc (but minus vocals). I'm a really big fan of that 4/4 driving "Motorik" beat that you saw cross over from Krautrock to Disco in the 70's, and while this is a bit self-conscious in a way it nails that beat pretty well.
Keeping with the 80's theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGDJmSr ... re=related
Mike_Tyson wrote:
"I think the average person thinks I'm a fucking nut and I deserve whatever happens to me."
"My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality."
Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:38 pm
Scorntyrant wrote:
... it nails that beat pretty well.
If you're interested in more of that "modern nostalgia 80s electronic music", you could try out these two quite decent compilations. I spin them quite constantly and enjoy them a lot:
http://www.amazon.de/Futurecop-presents ... 124&sr=8-3
http://www.amazon.de/Valerie-and-Friend ... 6&sr=301-1
gonna skip your song's review for now as it was my turn just recently...
dystopia4
Thumbman
Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope
Despite hearing about these guys many, many times, I've never bothered to check them out. I'm really not sure what to make of this. There is a dirty dance beat that persists throughout. The main thing I dislike is the vocals, especially at the beginning of the song. The kind of sneering dirty vocals - just rubs me the wrong way. They get a bit better as the song goes on, especially when they go towards a more anthemic style. In the end, I don't think I'd ever really listen to this, but I don't think it's bad and I understand the appeal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0Vde0tBOA
FlaPack
Steve Von Till - Running Dry
Not a bad Neil Young cover but when you cover a legend you are going to be compared to the legend (and all the nostalgia and rose colored glasses that entails). I think if I had never heard the original I would have had a better reaction to the song. Von Till has a pleasant enough voice (maybe too pleasant for my preferences when it comes to this type of music). It's strong and considerably lower than Young's on the original. He uses a similar shimmery chorused out guitar tone to the original but adds a clean acoustic that I feel is a nice addition. My main problem with the recording (again completely due to having listened to the original more than a few times) is that it has a completely different feel to it. Von Till's clean, low tones, the clean production and the reduced violin part give the song a much more solid feel than the original. For me, part of the beauty of Young's version comes from the thin production, his higher pitched quavering voice and that sad spindly violin throughout the song. Along with the self loathing lyrics the effect is one of a hollow desperate man who despite trying to move on could crumble at any moment. Von Till's version is much stronger and seems less vulnerable to me but I'm probably overthinking things due to my fondness for the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH9MhovIY9g
Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam
Hey, that was great. Musically it reminded me of Dylan and a bit of old Springsteen stuff however it got some kind of odd- and eerieness due to the lyrics.
So I think about the big one, WWIII
Would we ever really care, the world had ended?
You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight
I think about that big red button and I'm tempted
Stuff like that really appeals to a side in me and the sole, calm acoustic guitar music seems more fitted than any other style of music to underline it. Have to look more into Mr. Ritter's music, I guess.
here's another one for you guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spBzB5P5n-U
grauer_mausling wrote:
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, the album from which that song comes, is a perfect example of a great EP that was bloated into a mediocre full length. I love the first 6 tracks. Unfortunately he put 14 songs on the album and none of the rest are memorable (at least for good reasons).
oneyoudontknow
Cum insantientibus furere necesse est.
Vanilla Muffins - Mike Tyson
This release is from the year 2000? That is actually a kind of surprise, because from the mere sounds it could have been considerably older. Quite cool stuff actually... and according to Wikipedia 'pop-punk'. Nice drive, nice rhythms, a lot of characteristic punk elements and it is basically what you get when you buy a punk album. Well crafted and balanced. I am not too much interested in punk, but I can enjoy it now and then.
my contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImA-uXu5Vhg
My website which contains reviews as well as interviews:
http://adsol.oneyoudontknow.com/index.php/wiki/A_dead_spot_of_light
Some analysis on the metal scene (data taken from the Metal Archives):
http://oneyoudontknow.com
ghostandthesong - "ou inme"
Nice, I like this. Shades of "kiss me, kiss me, kiss me" era Cure coming through in that early part.Then morphs into some semi funky basslines along the lines of Jesus Jones or EMF, but keeping the slightly odd (Japanese?)vocals. Remind me of when I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8uniITqqB8
The_Great_God_Pan
Christian Death - Romeo's Distress
This isn't bad but I wouldn't know how to classify it though. I find the production to be a bit weak but I guess it suits the purpose this kind of music has. I haven't made any reading on the band but they sound British to me. A bit happy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqYRBTmGk_o
The World/Inferno Friendship Society - I'm Sick of People Being Sick of My Shit
Yess, I love this band. They're kind of like a punk band with orchestral/swing influences, although that description doesn't give them justice. I first became aware of them when I was 14 through their collaboration with Leftover Crack (which is great, by the way). This probably isn't the song I'd choose by them if I were to post one of their songs, but it's still great. It features old timey influences very prominently (I want to say swing, but I don't really know what I'm talking about with these kind of genres.) Anyway, the songwriting is good, the piano backbeat is catchy, almost sounding a bit like ska or reggae. Both the female and male vocals are very well done. The occasional guitar leads and organ appearances are a nice touch. The horns are awesome. Good band, good song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkjNg_Rbulw
The_Great_God_Pan wrote:
hehe, you'd probably be the first person ever to describe Christian Death as "a bit happy" considering their sagas of drug addiction and suicide. U.S Deathrock/Goth from 1982, which explains the thin productions somewhat. Interesting band, although I only really like the first 3 albums - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Death
Star Fucking Hipsters : "Snitch To The Suture"
I like the blittle "good time" riff that starts the song and recurrs in the middle and again toward the end of the piece. Most of the song has a bouncy ska-punk feel to it, reminding me a little of a band like Less than jake or something, but a bit less exciting. They seem to share LTJ's occasional affinity for heavier stuff, as suddenly in the last twenty seconds this tune goes into a slower, distorted section with screaming and a flurry of tremolo lead that turns into a bit of a wild solo. Not much else to say...I didn't much care for the vocals, and the last few seconds seemed to actually be the beginning of a completely different tune. I tapped my feet to the rhythm though, so it wasn't all bad...just nothing I'd return to, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rceSnGUKUvU
Hush! and hark
To the sorrowful cry
Of the wind in the dark.
Hush and hark, without murmur or sigh,
To shoon that tread the lost aeons:
To the sound that bids you to die.
Seasons Of The Wolf - Interstellar
up until the vocals came in, I was thinking I heard this on a porno once. Once they did come in, I realised it was during the "introspective" scene in an 80's action movie. You know, the bit where the hero thinks he's failed and is drowning his sorrows, and then the love interest comes in and shows him there is still hope by showing some pg-13 sideboob or back-nudity during the soft-focus lovemaking scene. I guess its like a kind of Hard Rock, if you removed the elements that could be described as "hard" or "rock".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6umd14j52w4
FateMetal
Sol Invictus - Do and Say
Such a bleak and haunting piece. I am new to this sort of music, neofolk it's called, but this has a dark yet subtle appeal that possibly anyone could easily enjoy. He sings "love is here to stay" with such a heavy tongue of doom making it sound more like an eerie presage than a genial declaration.
The music isn't too cluttered but drones on incessantly, giving it a sort of unique "heaviness" and the melodies are distant but constant and repeating in a well dressed folky manner.
Happy to have found this one! Great stuff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRbMKPdq5Aw
Robert Plant - Song to the Siren
Well, what can you say about Mr Plant's vocals. I'm sure that there are many of us who grew up listening to his voice as one of the first experiences of the power rock music has to take us out of our suburban wasteland existence and show us something OTHER. something that lifts you out of yourself. In this piece its somewhat strange, being so much later than the glory years of Led Zeppelin. there is more of a restrained and somewhat age-wearied tone to the song, but still infused with poignancy and yearning. A very nice song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karRE54L ... re=related
SleightOfVickonomy
Dead Can Dance- Xavier
The kind of song that takes your breath away because of is sheer delicacy and wounded beauty. The lyricism is fraught with religious imagery and yet kept open enough to all manner of interpretation. The music is as fitting as you can get. It works mostly because it has such depths of evocation yet comes off as a complete picture that didn't have to strive so hard to make its elements fit. This is pure genius. A brilliant work of art worth revisiting over and over again. Dead Can Dance is severely underrated but maybe should remain so because as precious as this is, I'm not too keen on sharing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6C_zj2g5I
Belastbar
The Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
Oh, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. A friend of mine gave me the album as an mp3 a few years ago, but i did not like it at first. I only knew Bullet on Butterfly Wings and thought the whole album would consist only of "annoying grunge-rock". However, it has grown on me since then.
The track I am reviewing here is one of the quieter ones on the album, although it has one hard rockish motif that returns several times throughout the song. I like this change of dynamics, but i can't quite get into the song as a whole. I wouldn't say it doesn't have a buildup into a climax, but this structure does not seem to be interconnected with the single parts. The quiet part is just going along quiet, the loud part is just going along heavy, and in the end there is a heavier part than before, but that's all that happens.
Conclusively, I must say i never got into Mellon Collie as a whole. There's a fair share of songs that i like, but also many ones I skip while listening to it. Perhaps the album is too long for the attention span of a guy in the 21st century. Perhaps it's just too long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dJLKBSRZw
Schnuckenack Reinhardt - Nur nicht aus Liebe weinen
Alright, a bit out of my element here, but I'll give it a shot. This mixes a lot of genres together. The sorrowful violin in the beginning made me think this was going to be a straight up classical peice, but I was soon surprised to hear a bouncy (almost comical) bass line. However, there are elements of classical throughout.There were some bluesy elements in here, some jazz(ish) sort of stuff. One section had classical/jazz (not entirely sure which) guitar, and at the ending it has someone singing in Spanish (I'm pretty sure that's the language). This was a really weird matching of elements, but still somewhat interesting and well done. Pretty decent, not sure I'd go back to it, but I can definitely appreciate stuff like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njYf72fCOAA
Blaak Heat Shujaa - High On Altitude
I heard a couple tracks from these guys a year or so ago but never followed up. Glad you posted it. Psych rock from France if I remember correctly. Love the guitar licks near the beginning. It's got that Dick Dale thing going on for a bit with the the slow bass driven build up and then the guitar comes in all whahed out with these eastern sounds. Sweet. Really dig the intro. The remainder of the song is fairly run of the mill modern psych rock that gets a little heavier and fuzzed out near the end before that whahed out guitar comes back in for a solo. I thought they could have done more with that solo but not bad. I like the bass tone. The drums and vocalist don't stand out much. All in all, I dig. I'll have to look into them more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8Q6hisODo
Frank Black - Freedom Rock
This song somehow gives me a really happy vibe, I didn't do any research on it, but if I'm not mistaken this is the singer in The Pixies. The lyrics are interesting and the production sounds really 90's. The drums have some nice fills and you can hear a piano here and there. The riff during the verse is really catchy and I can't seem to get it out of my head now.
It's a nice song overall.
Something from the 90's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b5dFLeB-qI
Blind Melon - Mouthful Of Cavities
Well damn. This is SO much better than the their horrible single (No Rain), which admittedly is my only real exposure to Blind Melon. This is very classy, with what can only be described as a beautiful acoustic, and lengthy but welcomed introduction accompanied by wistful, yet somehow melancholic vocals. This sets the mood perfectly for this lush track to truly unfold at it's own pace, with accomplished grace and power. The way this swells slowly, but with strong purpose is amazing, and the addition of those angelic female vocals adds even more colour and depth. There is an edge of tragedy about this though, covered with the sheen of sunshine, but it is there none the less, as it cannot fully be hidden. Quite good stuff.
The title of this song has been miss spelled by the uploader, but that is only a minor worry.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:56 am
Frontline Assembly - "Discention"
I'm not all that familiar with FLA's later work, but their earlier albums are some pretty class EBM. And so is this. It's a classic FLA-sounding track with a catchy bassline, pounding industrial drumbeats and uber-distorted vocals, but there's more of a techno element and a few glitchier, distorted sounds. It does add to the FLA sound, and the softer section around 2:20 serves really well to lead into the next section. There's always some great background atmosphere going on and a few passages of what sounds like a processed guitar, so this pulls of the excellent feat of being complex but still really memorable at the same time. The mastering isn't the best, because it sounds a bit too rough and overly distorted (yeah, I know it's industrial, but this is really clipping on my speakers), but I like it anyway. Hits the perfect sweet spot between aggression and melody. Will probably have to check out Artificial Soldier sometime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Oh_r-n94uY
Richard Hawley - Leave Your Body Behind You
Where to start? This song is pretty fucking good. I had never heard about this artist before so it's a good introduction, the atmosphere it creates is beautiful with some very nice melodies added to it, it can even sound frantic at times. The highlight of the song are definitely the vocals, though I wouldn't know how to describe them, I'd say it sounds like an old man. The voice kinda reminds me of Johnny Cash but not quite so. I will definitely check more into this band. This song just makes me want to light up, lie down, relax and just let it take me anywhere. Great, great song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45g4Yz4YfaQ
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:05 am
The Offspring - "All I Want"
Woohoo, Crazy Taxi! I used to be quite the Crazy Taxi master back in the day. Man, that takes me back. Anyway, this is a very short (under two minutes) speedy punk blast. I've never really liked Dexter Holland's vocals, and his usual tuneless yelp is in place here, stopping me from enjoying it as much as I could, and the monotonous drums also drag it down. There are some pretty catchy and good guitar riffs, fast but melodic. Nothing too technically special, but hey, it's punk. To be honest, this song is probably only saved by sheer energy and catchiness. Definitely gives off that "anthem" vibe of not giving a fuck and wanting to do your own thing, which I can never resist, especially with the backing vocals on "IT'S ALL I WAAAAAANT!". Good when I'm in the mood, and definitely good for ramping a taxi off a speed bump, but doesn't quite hold together when I'm not.
Here's something while I grapple with the question of which mini-review thread to post Ulver's post-black metal stuff in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_z-Qaaero
P.S. YA YA YA YA YA! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
That Offspring reminds me of crazy taxi, too.
Public Image Ltd. - Careering
Man, it's been a long ass time since I listened to PIL. I liked them a bit when I was younger, found out about them through the Sex Pistols connection, who I was obsessed with when I was 13/14. This is a cool song. The minimal electronic/ambient in the background really sets the atmosphere. The vocal lines are quirky, but very memorable. The way they linger over the minimal music really makes the track. The processed (or programmed) drumming is very interesting, the snare has a really good timbre. This is a good song for sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UImc6kvYlpk
Morning Glory: "Poets Were My Heroes"
Well, this is a bit nutty. Starts off with a gentle piano and group-sung vocals, and I was expecting this tune to remain this way. i thought, "it sounds like england in the late 60s/early 70s". Then heavy guitars kicked in and we were introduced to a kind of lumbering hard rock song with progressive tendencies in the instrumentation. The vocalist reminded me of someone, but I can't really place him...it's as though I've heard him before in a different band. He has a pretty cool voice with a bit of a snarl to it and could be in any number of notable hard rock bands from the late 90s. That "duh duh--duh duh" riff gets a little boring after a couple of minutes, but after the second..chorus, I guess you could call it...they bring in a bizarre noisy solo that I rather liked. The last minute features a very bombastic symphonic climax that took me by surprise....even with the minimal keyboard backing throughout the tune I did not expect it to turn into something so grandiose. I kind of appreciate how this song's a bit all over the place yet seems rather seamlessly integrated. Pretty interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHWYi1_koyk
Boodrock - Breach Of Lease
Jesus christ. If you ever read this Abom, thank you! This was fucking awesome. The slow build up was intense, because you knew good to great things were around the corner. It grows like a shadow crawling along a wall, softly but steadily, edging closer, and those vocals! He does remind me of Dio slightly, but really that is unimportant because these guys shine with a masterful ebb and flow of song craft. Tasteful bass and drum interplay take front and center stage, weaving beautifully about each other in a dance of rhythmic wonder, while those haunting, ghostly keys form a ethereal undercurrent of mystic enthrallment. There is a cyclic nature to this track, but it's so organic that you become lost in it's meandering nature, and truly absorb it. Seventies rock at it's most sublime, and captivating best. It's such a magnificently warm journey, swelling and fading into itself with ease and skill. Bloody fantastic.
This is much more modern, but I have become somewhat obsessed with it.
TheMizwaOfMuzzyTah
Location: the emerald forest
Alice In Chains - All Secrets Known
Black Gives Way to Blue was a decent album. This is one of the better songs on the album. It's filthy, it's heavy, but somehow it maintains a somewhat mellow atmosphere. I also love the wailing vocal effect in all of its glory, and the strange blues flavor that is hard to detect but certainly present. Good song. I liked Acid Bubble the best off of this album. Could be too dirgy for some, I suppose. Still miss Layne at the helm, though. Great fucking guitar tone. They always had that fat Les Paul sound, though.
Off of one of my favorite albums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-MCPaoHIE
MetalCuresHeadaches
Cypress Hill-Spark Another Owl
Rap and Hip-Hop have not been on my playlist for some time now, but I surely remember these guys and "Insane in the Brain" from when I was younger.
Very mellow and chill, and surely lends itself to toking. I felt like the opening, with all it's chimes and coughing, could have been the intro for a bizzare ambient track, and even though it's almost 4 minutes long, but I honestly felt like it sorta ended right as it got going. Definetely have me in the mood to revisit the urban section of my iTunes.
For my go, I present a gift i found on a distro. I couldn't find a video on Youtube where you could actually understand him over the guitar, so I linked to the BandCamp. (Track 2 is a favorite, but pick one that hits your fancy): thehomelessgospelchoir.bandcamp.com
islwnd wrote:
Grow the fuck up and mind your own business.
@ Crushed Revelation:
Man, I'm so glad you got into that. They really are one of my favourite 70s hard rock bands, and as you've probably noticed I listen to loads of stuff from this scene/time period. The first three albums are loaded with huge, sometimes really doomy songs like this one, with great organ playing and vocals in particular. Some real swaggering numbers too, of course.
Thanks for taking this; thought this thread was going to die on my post there!
The Homeless Gospel Choir track 2
This was hard to get through, I found the guys voice intensely annoying and I wanted to strangle him the whole time. I have come across roaming bands of young hobo traveling kids that play many different variations on folk music and this guy seems like he *boooo* pays rent and works at a pet store somewhere. I hate lyrics that are supposed to make you go "yeah man, I really know what he's talking about" or when some dumbass wino shit-liberal literature reading folk repeats the line about where he wants his girlfriends face to disappear, they'd laugh in a stupid voice then repeat the line ironically then laugh themselves. They got a connection, man. Whatever warbles he has in his voice is supposed to accentuated by the commercial jingle jolly nature of the music, as if it says "I know the world is horrible but I can just make fun of it and show my greater understanding through not caring". It is douchey. I hated this music horribly.
This isn't much better but I love it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XiKfcPmaY
ExNoctemNacimur
The Dots - Helen in Your Headphones
For me, this kind of music is the gold standard for bands that may have a couple of hits and then disappear off the face of the earth. It's the kind of song my mother would have "Grooved" to had she been 30. It's annoying, it's repetitive and weird. The vocals are bad - really bad. They don't do anything for the song. In addition, the keyboards sound like something that could have come out of a children's television show. I generally like 80s New Wave, but really, this crap is awful. (written after first listen).
After playing the song 3 times, it's annoyingly catchy. God I hate you Varth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuGzJVKtW6g
DeathForBlitzkrieg
A Dead Man's Robe
Black Veil Brides - Fallen Angels
Not as bad as I imagined upon reading the band moniker, but well, it's completely shallow music. Take a modernized Kiss outfit, an unremarkable singer, suger-coated dual guitar melodies and a chorus to shout along with and there you have Black Veil Brides. No wonder the song has 14 million views, everything about is streamlined to be enjoyed by everyone. I enjoyed it to some extent, too, but I wouldn't listen to it a second time, because it would already bore the hell out of me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmK-ukwTfUA
And now... it might satisfy to dream eternally.
Colour Haze - Tempel
reaction on the first part was "no wonder you can hear so many people talking - this is boring as fuck". Then the Kyuss riffs start up and things improve. It's actually a pretty sweet jam and the location is awesome - looks like that would have been a nice way to spend an afternoon, playing/listening to some tunes up on the headland over the ocean, smoking joints and drinking a few brews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWW-XsIAoFc
Gary Numan and Ade Fenton: "Healing"
I'm quite familiar with a few Gary Numan albums now, but this is much more modern, I think, and definitely unknown to me. It's noisy, alienating, kind of danceable. I didn't really enjoy it as much as, say, The pleasure Principle or Replicas and so on, but i guess it was interesting. Luckily the song is short and doesn't overstay its welcome, because there isn't much going on. In fact, Numan seems to have gone further down into alienation than ever, doing away wit the catchy (if sometimes somewhat wrong-sounding) pop melodies of old and replacing them with a kind of thudding monotony. Vocals sound very detached, processed and make me think of some kind of robotic insect. This was a strangely ugly piece of music without being particularly harsh. It was interesting but I don't really imagine I'd return to this. I miss the melody of the old days, i guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbOz_LqPSAE
@Scorntyrant: I thought that Gary Numan song was awesome. I have no experience with him, but that song was cool and weird as hell.
Yeah, I'm a massive Numanoid - I have every album on LP, seen him live 3 times and I have a bunch of live boots/concert DVD's. All his 90's and later stuff sounds quite a lot like early NIN, so nothing at all like Telekon or the Pleasure Principle. Still great though.
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Sacha Cohen Appears to Expose Elite Pedophile Ring While Filming in Vegas and the FBI Ignore It
Matt Agorist December 27, 2018 7.3k Views
Editor's Note: There's nothing funny about what Cohen did. Pedophilia, the engaging of children for sex, and child trafficking is not a laughing matter but a criminal one. In my opinion, Cohen crossed the line and is soliciting for such, not merely an attempt at "comedy." The fact that the FBI failed to even investigate this though is a dereliction of duty on their part, as well as local Vegas Police.
During the filming of Sacha Baron Cohen ’s latest show, Who is America? , the actor got Dick Cheney to autograph a waterboarding kit, uncomfortably tested Roy Moore with a ‘pedophile detector’, and got Republicans to endorse the arming of kindergartners. However, while filming in Las Vegas, as Cohen played an Italian playboy called Gio Monaldo, his uncomfortable antics seemingly revealed an elite pedophile ring.
While playing Monaldo, Cohen asked the hotel concierge to procure him a small child for sex — to which the concierge quickly abides.
“We wanted to investigate how does someone like Harvey Weinstein gets away with doing what…get away with criminality, essentially. And the network that surrounds him. We decided that Gio would interview a concierge in Las Vegas,” said Cohen in an interview with Deadline.
As Cohen spoke to the concierge at the hotel, he confessed to sex with children and the concierge did not waiver. Instead, he tells Cohen how to cover it up and notes how they know people who can “silence” the boy.
“During the interview, I revealed that basically Gio has molested an eight-year-old boy,” he continued. “Now, mind you, this is extreme comedy and we thought that the guy would leave the room. Instead, this concierge stays in the room and I go, listen, you’ve got to help me get rid of the problem. This guy starts advising Gio how to get rid of this issue. We even at one point talk about murdering the boy, and the concierge is just saying, ‘well, listen, I’m really sorry. In this country, we can’t just drown the boy. This is America we don’t do that,’” said Cohen.
Instead, according to the concierge, they had lawyers who could make the boy never talk again.
After he gets the concierge to agree to help cover up the molestation of an innocent young boy, Cohen then asks him if he can get him a “date” with another child.
“And then at the end of the interview I say, listen, I want to go out and celebrate now. Can you get me a date for tonight? He says, ‘what do you mean, a date?’,” Cohen explained to Deadline.
“I go, you know, like a young man. He says, ‘well, what kind of age?’ I say, lower than Bar Mitzvah but older than eight. And he says, ‘yeah, I can put you in touch with somebody who can get you some boys like that,’” Cohen said.
And just like that, a pedophile ring was accidentally uncovered in Las Vegas.
While this shock comedian normally takes the insane footage from his show and throws it out on the airwaves, this time, it was so damning, he went straight to the FBI.
Cohen said he turned it over to the FBI “because we thought, perhaps there’s a pedophile ring in Las Vegas that’s operating for these very wealthy men,” he told Deadline. “And this concierge had said that he’d worked for politicians and various billionaires.”
Despite allegedly having video that showed a hotel concierge claim he could not only silence child victims of sex abuse, but procure child prostitutes and has done so for “billionaires and politicians,” according to Cohen, “the FBI decided not to pursue it.”
With such horrific allegations, allegedly captured on video by Cohen, one would think that the FBI would be all over this case. However, it appears that the opposite has happened.
As TFTP has reported time and again, these pedophile rings almost always get traced back to elite politicians and billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein. But, when it comes time for Epstein and other convicted child predators like former congressman Anthony Weiner and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to be held accountable for their crimes, they are given sweetheart deals by the system and do less time than people caught with marijuana.
Article posted with permission from The Free Thought Project
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Acclaimed actors to perform solo plays during Summer Arts
July 2, 2019 .Reading time 1 minute.
Join CSU Summer Arts for an evening of solo plays by acclaimed actors Kayla Kearney and Robert Lee Hart at 7 p.m. Friday, July 5, at the John Wright Theatre.
University Theatre to offer original concept on African-American musical, ‘Carmen Jones’
May 2, 2019 .Reading time 5 minutes.
University Theatre will present their first-ever African-American musical “Carmen Jones” on May 3 – 11 in the John Wright Theatre. This Fresno premiere is directed by Professor Thomas-Whit Ellis and will feature an all African-American cast.
Theatre for Young Audiences to perform two free showings of ‘The Super Cilantro Girl’
“The Super Cilantro Girl: Three Stories of Juan Felipe Herrera” revolves around the lives of a family of migrant workers: twelve-year-old Esmeralda, her younger brother Juanito, Papi, and Mamá. After years on the road, full of hard work and adventures, the family can finally settle down.
Experimental Theatre Co. tackles love in the age of social media with “subText”
Even though everybody on the planet is just a text away, getting your message across has never been more complicated.
Small town life takes center stage in Lanford Wilson’s drama, ‘Book of Days’
When murder roars through the town, Ruth Hoch begins her own quest to find truth and honesty amid small town jealousies, religion, greed, and lies.
Lia Christine Dewey, Student of Distinction
For Theatre Arts student Lia Christine Dewey, the accolades keep coming as her final semester at Fresno State nears completion.
In her first attempt writing as a theatre critic, Theatre Arts student Lia Dewey found herself at the top of the region and among four finalists who will compete at the national level at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
The Contemporary Dance Ensemble presents, ‘Moving Through the Static’
“Moving Through the Static” is under the artistic direction of Kenneth Balint and runs February 15 – 23, 2019 in the John Wright Theatre in the Speech Arts building on the campus of Fresno State.
Fresno State Grad Designs Her Perfect Career
Before ever setting foot on the Save Mart Center stage for her graduation, Maggie Srmayan had her first professional job lined-up. After receiving her Bachelor’s Degree on Friday afternoon, she packed her car and headed down to Los Angeles to start work on a short film that Monday morning.
Children inspired as audience grows for Christmas opera ‘Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena’
The opera that Fresno State commissioned, workshopped and performed in 2016 titled “Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena” has now been seen by over 15,000 people across the country, according to Dr. Anthony Radford, Fresno State professor of voice and opera. “This holiday season it was performed for the first time at Coker College […]
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The Atheist Voice
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Why Won’t the University of Notre Dame Allow an Atheist Group to Form on Campus? October 14, 2011 Hemant Mehta
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Why Won’t the University of Notre Dame Allow an Atheist Group to Form on Campus?
By Hemant Mehta
According to Notre Dame, all official student organizations must adhere to the University’s mission:
“A club’s purpose ‘must be consistent with the University’s mission… No organization, or member of any organization on behalf of the organization, may encourage or participate in any activity which contravenes the mission of the University or the moral teaching of the Catholic Church.”
It’s a private university. They have a right to do that. But I cant understand their logic.
If groups have to follow the moral teachings of the Catholic Church, is it weird that they allow a Jewish Club on campus? What about the Muslim Student Association?
Why do other private, religiously-affiliated schools allow atheist groups on their campus? (DePaul University, near where I live, has a fantastic group.)
And if they allow groups like those — and I think they should — they why did Notre Dame reject an atheist group from forming on campus?
The Student Activities Office (SAO) denied the club official recognition last year, citing a contradiction between Notre Dame’s mission and the intended purpose of the club.
In the club’s current proposed constitution, the mission is specified as “to provide a forum for students to discuss philosophical, scientific, religious and political topics free from [in]tolerance.”
The constitution said the club would create this venue by holding regular discussions, inviting guest speakers to campus to participate in academic conferences and forums.
[Senior Stephen] Love said official recognition is important because it would provide funding to make this program a reality.
“We want to form an official club so we actually have official meeting rooms and we’d get some University funding so we could bring in guest speakers to come in and spur debate,” he said.
Love said this dialogue would be open to the religious as well as nonreligious students on campus.
“We technically have a secular agenda, but we want people from all different faiths to come and discuss,” he said. “That’s how you advance your ideas, by having them challenged.”
Unless the Church refuses to have its beliefs challenged — and I doubt they would ever admit that — I don’t see why this goes against the school’s mission.
So the school created another hurdle for the atheists:
“For this proposed club, the approval of Campus Ministry is necessary to be considered a club,” the letter stated. “Upon review of the materials submitted, Campus Ministry indicated they would not approve this club.”
Love said he disagreed with the department designation.
“I don’t know where they got that, that Campus Ministry is the appropriate department,” he said.
But the Campus Ministry was perfectly fine with the Muslim group?! Someone explain that to me…
Even without the school’s approval, though, Love and other students have been holding meetings regardless. The group is pretty strong, actually!
“We’ve been meeting underground this whole time,” he said. “When it started it was just a couple of friends and I, but within two or three weeks, just by word of mouth, it went from five to 10 then 30 to 40, and we haven’t even made an active effort besides one small advertisement in The Observer … Now we have 40 or 50 on the email list.”
With an established “unofficial” membership, would-be club vice president Love and president Brian Robillard reapplied for club status last month. The new application has received approval from the Philosophy Department and is awaiting SAO review.
That is awesome. There’s no reason they should be denied approval. Notre Dame is probably just too worried that an atheist group might gain some traction and get too many people to think critically. Can’t have that in a college setting, can we?
To the Atheist, Agnostic and Questioning Students: If you need a speaker this year, let me know. I’m not that far away and I’ll come for free 🙂
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Hemant–your offer to be their speaker (gratis) was the antidote to the bitter taste of ND’s bias. Awesome.
deityfree
I suspect possible reasons to be:
Fear of a negative reaction from the community, both social and economic
Fear of the potential erosion of traditional religious indoctrination
Football to beat their brains out, yes. But open discussion, no. Ultimately, they cannot take it.
Gregory Marshall
What do you expect out of a university named after a French cathedral that calls themselves the “Fighting Irish”.
I fully agree with deityfree that they probably fear negative reaction from the community and in particular from the increasingly conservative hierarchy of the church they are associated with.
Also a difference between an “Atheist, Agnostic and Questioning Students” and a Muslim or Jewish group is in the latter two the Jewish and Muslim members were likely never Catholic. In a questioning group at a Catholic university, a fair number of the members are going to be officially ‘Catholic’.
Joshua Zelinsky
I understand this. Catholicism in its modern forms has very little objection to Judaism and only a bit more to Islam. Atheism is a much more severe disagreement with Catholic beliefs.
So if they don’t mean “contravenes” but rather “severely contravenes” then this sort of thing makes more sense.
(I also agree with the commentator Erp above about how many of the self-identified atheists were probably labeled Catholic or were some form of Catholic previously which makes this more awkward than the Jewish or Muslim groups.)
Nordog
Ah, you do know what “Notre Dame” means, don’t you?
At least they’re not like BYU where you’d get kicked out of school if you were an open atheist.
Don’t forget: Fear of a negative reaction from the alumni association. At my college, it only took a single threat of canceled donations to spur the administration into acting. Undergraduate students’ complaints went mostly ignored, unless they were related to a donating alumnus.
Beth Riches
I’m a resident of South Bend. I find this somewhat puzzling, because the university has been open to rather controversial events such as a Hitchens debate, a Sam Harris debate (which I attended), “The Vagina Monologues,” and an LGBT film festival. Then there’s the daddy of them all, President Obama giving the commencement speech in 2009. For many of these things, the big brouhaha came from two sources: alumni and the diocese. The president of Notre Dame, Father Jenkins, stood by all his decisions to allow these events to take place. I can also tell you that donations have not suffered. Their latest donation push got them over $5 billion in just over 4 years, or something like that.
A supposed negative reaction from the community is not a factor. Catholic residents get their undies in a bundle over stuff like this, but Notre Dame is the biggest employer in the county, so there is never going to be a huge backlash against the university, or some sort of boycott against sporting events. Just not going to happen. Home football games bring in over $6 million per weekend to the community.
I’m going to guess that the main push against the group is coming from the diocese. However, Father Jenkins has stood up to them before. I hope he will do so this time.
Give me a heads-up if you come down to speak. I’ll do my best to get tickets to see you!
Bob Becker
You hit the key word: fear.
“Our Lady”, meaning Mary. It’s the name of many churches and universities, not just the famous Gothic, flying-buttressed cathedral in Paris.
Reginald Selkirk
Muslim Student Association a ‘well received’ club at Notre Dame
Christians, Jews, and Muslims have the same religious heritage in Abraham. I cannot see them allowing a Buddhist group.
Abcdeh
A friend of mine suggested, “I was thinking that, in order to get their foot in the door at ND, the student atheist group should consider changing their name to something like “Student Alliance for Science and Reason”; “Student Theological Debate Society”; or “Students for Theological Diversity”. These ideas might seem like selling out, but once the club obtains funding, it can invite whoever they want to speak; and everyone will quickly understand that this is essentially an atheist group. I think that for groups like this, which are clearly the victims of discrimination, it might be better to play the game and win acceptance gradually.”
I don’t like that “fighting Irish” nickname, and I really hate the logo of a leprechaun with his fists up. Talk about ethnic stereotyping! I sometimes hear people complaining about sports teams that calls themselves Indians, Redskins etc or use demeaning images of Native Americans, and I certainly understand how that is offensive, but it’s funny how no-one ever picks up on the “fighting Irish” thing.
Richard Wade
These stories about religious colleges resisting accepting an atheist club seem to be forming a general pattern:
1. Club applies to college Administration for acceptance.
2. Silence for several weeks.
3. Club inquires about application.
4. Admin. says the deadline has passed for this semester.
5. Club resubmits application early.
6. More silence.
7. Club inquires much sooner this time.
8. Admin. says they are “reviewing” the application and the club’s statement of purpose.
9. Club inquires every day.
10. Admin. issues a terse denial of acceptance without explanation.
11. Club demands explanation.
12. Silence.
13. College newspaper reports the club was denied acceptance without explanation.
14. Admin. issues a lame, transparent, self-contradicting rationalization for the denial.
15. Second college newspaper article makes Admin. look like hypocrites and bigots.
16. Story begins to leak out to local newspapers and the blogosphere.
17. Admin. sheepishly grants club acceptance.
18. Club becomes popular, successful, brings college status with sought-after speakers.
19. Admin. pretends they were supportive of the club all along.
20. Repeat the entire process at college just down the road.
They do have weekly zen practice mentioned at the Campus Ministry site
http://campusministry.nd.edu/ecumenical-interfaith/buddhist-resources/
Though no Buddhist student group that I can see. The four non-Catholic religious groups are Jewish, Muslim, Southern Baptist, and Orthodox. (I must admit a bit of concern about a group that calls itself Militia of the Immaculata)
Lynn David
Notre Dame has had Monastic Interreligious Dialogues which have included Buddhist groups
Jeffrey Handy
All they are doing is calling attention to a matter that would not otherwise get any. If they had done the right thing by the tuition-paying students, they’d have simply approved it and no one would be the wiser. Because they rejected it, they will now be scrutinized on both sides of the argument. It was a shortsighted decision.
Oh well then. Looks like that’s one college I’m not applying to…
Mark (a christian name)
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20 Outdoor Adventures Close to Home
by Jocelyn Tatum
There are more than 70 lanes of bicycle and horseback riding trails that allow locals to access the entire city along the Trinity River. But, what happens when locals want to veer off the well-paved path and take in the outdoors outside of the invisible walls of the city? I did just that my sophomore year in college when I jumped on my new Trek mountain bike and started riding to the closest trail. Once out of Overton Woods, my small vision of Fort Worth opened up to a panoramic view of a new world outside. So I kept pedaling. And pedaling. That's when I discovered Fort Worth's boundless backyard. This would be how I spent most of my summer days after that. My favorite spot was west from my entry point in Benbrook where I would stop at a waterfall to think about life. Quiet. After a moment there, I would exit the woods and wind through a trail surrounded by tall golden grass and summit at Benbrook Lake. This article is meant to expand your boundaries as mine were once expanded, as described by Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar: "I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.""
Here is a list of activities, both on and off of the Trinity River in Fort Worth's wild backyard. The local land is calling you, and this thoughtfully compiled list will help you find it.
Hike DinosaurValley's Summit
Strenuous with rewarding scenery, this hike through the massive hills south of Fort Worth near Glen Rose summits into an overlook of the trickling Paluxy River, yet it is only an hour long. Beginners can hike with state park ranger Jenn Menge, who even guides hikers through the shallow river. Be prepared to take off shoes and cut loose. Hikes are 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings.
1629 Park Road 59, Glen Rose, Texas 76043, tpwd.texas.gov
Roam the LBJNational Grasslands
Located in the Great Plains section of North Texas, just one hour north of Fort Worth near Decatur, the everyday person can roam free like they did in the old Wild West free of charge, unlike in state parks. Campers can park and set up in any of nearly all the 20,309 acres available. Visitors often drive around and explore as if this were their own private ranch. Think of it as a vast playground for outdoorsman looking to get away in the North Texas wild.
FS 904, Alvord, Texas, 76225
Take a Backpack Adventure in Bluff Dale
Emory Richey operates a campsite on his family's vast ranch, tucked between Granbury and Stephenville on 377 near Bluff Dale. Each of the three campsites has roughly 100 acres for campers to explore. Also included at each is a primitive restroom, picnic table and fire pits. The Paluxy River runs by one campsite, referred to as Brookside, providing a watering hole for swimming or fishing. If you don't have a tent and other camping gear but want to try camping, Emory has a teepee set up on one campsite complete with an air mattress and a shower. The camper will still need to bring "simple stuff" like a flashlight. Explorers will find vast flats with native grasses, and a pecan tree grove that runs along the river that moves into hills covered in trees. An "ecosystem orchard," where all of the plants support the others, allows campers and visitors to pick fruit to eat. And if the camper wants to get rid of modernity entirely, they can park near the entrance and hike into the campsite. Emory will be there to greet you and make sure your needs are met. "You can't see the closest person. It is a lot more private. You have freedom," he says.
hipcamp.com/discover/texas/ecorich
Fly-Fish in Your Backyard
Some of the best fly-fishing in the country is right here in Fort Worth on the Trinity River, according to avid fisherman Stephen Woodcock. Last year, Stephen traveled the world and made sure he fly-fished in nearly every spot he and his wife stopped, but his best fly-fishing was on the Trinity River, catching 22 bass (not trout) in four hours. "I have fly-fished for 25 years, and it is still one of my most memorable experiences." Wednesday nights, Stephen conducts free fly-fish-tying classes at Backwoods on Foch Street. No experience needed. He also provides tips on how to enjoy the Trinity River, which can be fished nearly year-round due to milder temperatures in Fort Worth. You don't need expensive rods, reels or gear to get amazing experiences like Stephen's out of the Trinity River.
1013 Foch St., Fort Worth, Texas 76107, backwoods.com
Hike Eagle Mountain Park
Some hikers, joggers and nature observers may appreciate this park because not only does it have 400 acres of land, most of which has been untouched, but it also prohibits bicycles. This is good news to those who spook at bikers whizzing by like at busier state parks in the area. The park has six short yet connected trails that line and provide views of the beautiful and nearby Eagle Mountain Lake.
11601 Morris Dido Newark Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76179, trwd.com
Climb the HistoricGrain Silos
Now the world's tallest indoor/outdoor climbing gym, complete with an outdoor climbing wall standing 100 feet tall with walls 8-inches thick consisting of concrete and reinforced steel, the North Texas Outdoor Pursuit Center was once an unused storage for grains in case of famine, cold stints or drought. Considered a "historic treasure," two surviving grain silos still stand only yards from the old town square in Carrollton, 45 minutes northeast of Fort Worth. The facility is designed to simulate any intense outdoor experience for any everyday person. They offer courses for beginners and those wishing to expand their knowledge. These are held indoors on one of the 100-foot walls or out in the Texas wild. "You can train for Yosemite right under a roof," COO Ben Wright said.
1003 4th Ave., Carrollton, Texas 75006, northtexasopc.net
Trace John Graves" EpicJourney on the Brazos
Fall 1957, author John Graves took his famous trip down the Brazos River and stopped by Rochelle's Canoe Rental to visit. He documented this in his memoir later turned classic, Goodbye to a River. Meanwhile, Ms. Rochelle (as she prefers to be called) and her son still run and operate the canoe and kayak rental their family started 50 years ago in Graford, Texas. Her husband's family has owned and preserved the property along the historic area for 100 years. "We are in the beautiful Palo Pinto County Mountains." Visitors can trace up to 40 miles of the very trip John Graves traveled, and Ms. Rochelle said it is just as quiet and primitive an experience as the one Graves took more than 60 years ago. "People will say, "Oh yeah, my grandfather took me here," and they will be up there in age." Ms. Rochelle and her son rent canoes and kayaks and go over the journey intensely offering a map, what they need to bring, and places to stop and/or sleep if they prefer not to take the 10-mile day trip, which takes about eight hours, including a picnic lunch. When the trip is over, Ms. Rochelle and her son pick the group up and bring them back to Rochelle's place. They are open March through the end of November, and the water is best when North Texas receives rain in spring and later in the fall. Visitors don't need a guide because the water runs quietly and smoothly and only goes one way. "It is a lazy, scenic river." All visitors have the option of a day trip, overnight, two nights, or a week's vacation, which is 10, 20, 30 or 40 miles along the Brazos, just 1 hour 20 minutes west of Fort Worth. Ms. Rochelle recommends reading Graves" account before embarking on this unforgettable journey.
7024 N. Farm-to-Market Road 4, Graford, Texas 76449, rochellescanoeandkayakrental.com
Paddle and Kayakon the Trinity
Family-owned (and Austin-based) retailer Backwoods offers kayak, paddleboard and canoe rentals on the Trinity River at Panther Island from March until the end of November. Kayaks and SUPs (stand-up paddle boards) are launched in knee-deep water at Panther Island. Renters can choose to paddle self-guided or take customized tours, and packages can be created for groups of 10 or more. Bonus, dogs can join too as long as they wear Ruffwear Float Coats (available for $5 from Backwoods).
480 North Taylor St., Fort Worth, Texas 76102 backwoodspaddlesports.com,Paddleboards start at $15/hr
Visit Cedar Hill StatePark After Dark
See Cedar Hill State Park under the moonlight during this roughly one-hour program guided by state park interpreters. Listen to the sounds of nighttime critters like owls, coyotes and bobcats and gaze at the stars while exploring Penn Farm inside Cedar Hill State Park. Interpreters also encourage guests to look for scorpions and other bugs under black lights. The Cedar Hill State Park has overnight campgrounds complete with 350 campsites. It's located southeast of Fort Worth just south of Interstate 20 in Cedar Hill.
1570 W. Farm-to-Market Road 1382, Cedar Hill, Texas 75104, cedarhilltx.com
Zipline at DFWAdventure Park
Next to the Texas Motor Speedway just north of Fort Worth, a massive, outdoor zipline offers an opportunity for thrill-seekers. Four towers are spread far apart through roughly 100-foot trees that form a large square. Instructors assist guests on the descent end and on the receiving end. "Plan to spend half a day outdoors on the ziplines," general manager Jonathan Edwards said. He said the height and speed can make it scary at first, but it's an opportunity to overcome fears after flying through trees (that are cut back for safety).
13055 Cleveland Gibbs Road, Northlake, Texas 76262, dfwap.com/zipline
Scale a Boulder at Eisenhower State Park
The coolest part about scaling this boulder is it overlooks the placid Lake Texoma. The least cool part is that it is made mostly of sandstone and limestone so the rocks can easily break, so bring a crash pad. There are also many cliffs and caves to explore. Bring swimsuits for a cooling dip afterward in the blue water. This lake also features several beaches to relax after the climb.
50 Park Road 20, Denison, Texas 75020,tpwd.texas.gov
Horseback Ridein Rockwall
This is not the pokey type of trail riding most people are used to. Chisholm Trail Rides, a family-owned operation in Rockwall, offers open trail riding where riders can fly into a full-blown cantor and jump their horse whenever the terrain allows. The guides will give the visiting equestrian a lesson first to make sure they have the skills to do this safely. They provide horses of all different levels and breeds. Owner Laura Smith says their "step up" horses are more trained, need fewer cues, and are naturally faster. It doesn't take much for this horse to take off running with the slightest clampdown from the rider. Be ready to ride the horse through water, over bridges, through flatlands and into wooded areas. And they offer this experience to beginners. "We are truly the only open walk/trot trail riding around," Smith says. Rides are split for dual levels on their privately owned trails so beginners can ride with their more advanced friends. The coolest part - 90 percent of the horses at Chisholm Trail Rides are rescued from dire situations that owner Laura and her cowboys rehab back to health.
1068 Frontier Trail, Rockwall, Texas 75032, chisholmtrailrides.com
Jump in Tonkawa Falls
Former President George W. Bush retired in these parts because of its beauty. The capacious hills in Crawford, one hour south of Fort Worth, even claim rock-climbing spots with water features like Tonkawa Falls. Climbers say it is never crowded and it's "low key" because it is one of the lesser-known climbing retreats. Scenes include water, caves and meadows. Also, a 14-foot waterfall charges into a swimming hole below. When the creek dries up in the summer, visitors may also view petroglyphs dating back hundreds of years. The Tonkawa Indians inhabited the area for centuries before white settlers arrived in North Texas.
540 E 5th St., Crawford, Texas 76638, mountainproject.com/area/106992314/tonkawa-falls
Climb Penitentiary Hollow
Because most of the climbing here is what they call "top rope," beginners are welcome. Top rope climbing or "top roping" means the climber is safely attached to a rope anchored at their summit. The climbing haunt has pleasant views of Mineral Wells from any height. But local avid rock climber and REI staff member Mary Hanna Tyer warns visitors that they need 100 percent competency to climb this hollowed-out 30-foot wall. She recommends a crash pad. And because of the type of rock - a limestone conglomerate - the rock can come loose easily. Rangers are known to shut down climbing at any sign of moisture. In the last few years, bolts were added to make access much easier. There's also a beach for a post-climb swim.
100 Park Road 71, Mineral Wells, Texas 76067, tpwd.texas.gov
Explore Lake MineralWells State Trailway
If you're looking for a place with proximity but not exclusivity, then this is the spot for you. Only 45 minutes west of Fort Worth just past Weatherford, this trailway has more than 20-miles long and 10-feet wide of hiking trails, most of which are open to bicycles and horses. While hikers may not see towering mountains, they do pass serene, remote rolling hills, watersheds, creeks and bridges. It has four trailheads that offer paved parking, drinking water and restrooms. Beware: This trail can become cramped on good weather days.
Mountain Biking Trails
Marion Sansom Park
Elevation Gain: 275 feet
This is a backpacker, trail runner or more advanced mountain biker's dream right in the middle of Fort Worth by Lake Worth. Lisa Uranga, avid mountain biker and founder of the club Dirtside Sisters, says this space is different from all other trails in North Texas because of its unique terrain and elevation. It has more exposed rock, making it more technical, and some loose stones going downhill for thrill-seekers wanting more of a challenge. For trail runners, hikers and bikers looking for intensity, the climbs are steep here. And the payoff is panoramic sights that overlook Lake Worth. Uranga's advice is to go in cooler temperatures - it's hotter and muggier than most parks in the summer.
6952 Cahoba Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76135, fwmba.org/sansom-park-trail
Isle Du Bois
This trail, tucked in Ray Roberts Lake State Park, is only one hour north of Fort Worth, where adventurers can camp, hike, bike, or backpack. Isle Du Bois takes the outdoorsman through Eastland Cross Timbers and Blackland Prairie by the sparkling lake. After a difficult ride or hike, many have been known to find the little beach off of the lake and jump in. It's also wooded throughout the whole trail so it stays cooler in warmer months. Trees with exposed roots offer a challenge.
100 Public Works Highway 4137, Pilot Point, Texas 76258,tpwd.texas.gov
Quanah Hill
The Weatherford Mountain Biking Club scored a licensed agreement with the city that's a 100-acre piece of property in Weatherford. It also acquired authority to move dirt into trails - two of three phases are complete. WMBC president Larry Colvin said it should end up with seven miles of trails for mountain bikers, trail runners and hikers alike. A demanding 140 feet of elevation separates the lowest and highest spots. Colvin says the hill has had nearly 12,000 visitors in just one year.
810 W. Lake Drive, Weatherford, Texas 76087,wmbctx.org/trail.html
Knob Hills Trail
This 10.6 miles of trail near Roanoke loops around Lake Grapevine through wooded areas, over small hills and by prairieland (total of six loops). Some mountain bikers go for the variety of terrain - roots, rocks, grass, gravel and short climbs and descents that bikers can fly down with their head down. A few man-made features like bridges and teeter-totters make it more exhilarating for mountain bikers. And it's all one way for those who don't like two-way traffic. The trail can be used for trail running or walking too.
Highway 377, Roanoke, Texas 76039. Find Knob Hills MTB Trail on Facebook.
Area mountain bikers call this the mecca of mountain biking in the metroplex because it has so much trail, roughly 23 miles of one-way single track broken into two loops so they don't have to worry about oncoming traffic. It has beautiful views of Lake Grapevine. Cyclists are sometimes riding along the water. It is almost entirely wooded, providing shade and roots for added challenge. There are different trailheads you can start from and park. Most start at Murrell Park because it is at the center of the trail. "If you are starting from the middle and headed east, it is more of an intermediate loop - it is more flowy. If you head northwest, it is more technical and rocky," cyclist Lisa Uranga said.
3600 Pilot Point, Grapevine, Texas 76051,lake-grapevine.com/north-shore-trail
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Why didn’t Iraq demand weapons inspectors go into America?
Continuing the theme of the week of the UK’s relationship with America. I thought I’d talk today about freedom as it’s being imposed on Iraq.
An interesting paradox this which is going to be interesting to watch. Values are not absolute. And while we would like to think we know what is and isn’t acceptable the variety is actually quite staggering. IN the UK it seems almost impossible that the death penalty will ever come back however in America it is a completely different situation.
How does the international community decide which set of values to impose? Of course it doesn’t. It gives the people democracy and then sits back and waits for democracy to work its magic.
The question is how are a set of people who have been oppressed for years and therefore have a values system that appears to be completely out of whack with my western culture supposed to make the decisions that America wants them to make?
What if the Iraqi people democratically elect a leader who hates America and wants to build Nuclear weapons so that America thinks twice before wondering in to their country again?
Could America justify going in and stopping them? Well they couldn’t claim they were freeing a people from oppression. Except I suppose themselves.
I always expected a move prior to the conflict in Iraq which never materialised. Why didn’t Iraq demand weapons inspectors go into America?
It would have been quite easy to convince the UN that Iraq believed it was under threat from America. That their president who was not elected democratically*, was stockpiling weapons in preparation for an invasion of their county. All of that was true so why weren’t weapons inspectors sent to America?
In the end this sorry state of affairs has resulted in the end of one hateful oppressive regime, lets hope with the American presidential election coming up another one can be toppled.
George W. Bush represents might is right not might for right.
* Whatever you believe about what happened in Florida there is no denying that Al Gore received 539,898 more votes than George W. Bush in the election but only because the American “democracy” doesn’t believe in 1 person 1 vote Bush was elected. Honestly tell me that if you heard this weird system happening in some other country you wouldn’t be thinking that the UN would be going in to demand a recount.
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Topic: Saratoga Special
Author Topic: Saratoga Special (Read 105 times)
heavylifting
Surfing the web at Hogville.net
Saratoga Special
Is the name of a stakes race, but is also the name of a newspaper published by Joe and Sean Clancy that is distributed for free during the Saratoga race meet.
Is published most -- but not all -- racing dates and contains entries, results, picks and feature articles on the racing scene there. About the only thing it doesn't have is past performances.
There was a huge uproar a few years ago, when in the wake of what I will discretely refer to as "the Indian Charlie incident," NYRA banned the ontrack distribution of all free publications. That was soon overturned after a minor backstretch rebellion. The Saratoga Special, now in about its 15th or so year of publication, has become a staple of the scene up there and has served as the launching grounds for several writers and assorted personalities.
Well worth a look if you're not familiar with it.
A digital version of the print copy can be accessed online at this address -- https://thisishorseracing.com/news/index.php/multi-media/print
The opening day issue is attached hereto.
HawgWild
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Left lane, Hey!? Where’s my hammer?
Re: Saratoga Special
That's a pretty substantial publication to be offered daily and free. Thanks.
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cram224
What was "The Indian Charley Incident"? I've had him write stories about my family and myself. All was very funny all though he could get on some peoples nerves.
Quote from: cram224 on July 11, 2019, 11:28:50 am
It was about 4 or 5 years ago, maybe longer, he made some derogatory comment about Mexicans, so there was a lot of ballyhoo about that and NYRA banned distribution of his sheet from the track. Then (and this must have come from their legal dept.), they banned all such free publications from distribution on track property. Since The Special is nothing at all like Indian Charlie, people were up in arms, and NYRA (rightfully) retracted the ban on The Special. I mean, come on, NYRA advertises in The Special; they're going to advertise in it and then ban it? Cooler heads prevailed, thankfully.
You can't get more apple pie than Joe and Sean Clancy.
ghostzapper
All-American Hogvillian
Quote from: heavylifting on July 11, 2019, 12:46:45 am
Was unaware. Thanks for sharing.
cbhawg03
His beef with Dale Romans (??) was hilarious though. Very entertaining to say the least
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Embarrassing Treasures
Evoking bygone amusements and guilty pleasures
May 17, 2014 by Amy
Family Affair Friday(ish): Season 3, Episode 9, “Albertine,” 12/2/1968
Written by: Ernestine Barton. Directed by: Charles Barton. (Any relation? I don’t know; information about Ernestine Barton is scarce.)
We open once again in the twins’ classroom. We’ve been here a lot lately, haven’t we?
While the teacher’s back is turned, Jody is fondling a baseball, which his friend Peter wants to see.
The baseball’s route goes through Albertine, who sits between the boys.
Unfortunately, Albertine drops the ball, which clatters to the floor.
Miss Cummings is ticked.
She’s clearly having a bad day.
Like the good boy he is, Jody confesses that the ball is his. After the crisis passes, Jody sends a friendly smile Albertine’s way, but she ignores him. He and Buffy exchange bemused looks.
This expression has meme potential.
After school, Jody retrieves his baseball from the teacher and explains its provenance: Willie Mays hit it foul at a Mets-Giants game Jody and Bill were attending, and Bill caught it. (Later, we’ll learn that he also got Mays to autograph it.)
Miss Cummings must be a baseball fan because she decides to go easy on Jody.
Before he leaves, she asks him how the new girl–Albertine–is getting along. Jody says he doesn’t play much with girls, other than Buffy, but he’s noticed Albertine sitting by herself a lot.
When the twins arrive at home, they are surprised to see Albertine in the lobby.
Albertine says she’s waiting for her mother, who’s attending an adults-only party upstairs until 5 o’clock.
Well, that sounds plausible.
She notes that she only has to wait alone because her father is out of town.
The next day at school, the twins join Albertine at lunch time.
Buffy is jealous that Albertine is eating “jelly bread.” The twins have to make do with roast beef. (I think the presence or absence of protein is a class indicator. Remember the “bread and sugar” gang?)
They are surprised that Albertine knows how to play chess. Uncle Bill and Mr. French play, but the game is beyond the twins’ intellectual capabilities. (In some episodes, it seems like “pin the tail on the donkey” would be beyond their intellectual capabilities.)
Albertine says her father, a world-champion chess player, taught her the game.
When they find Albertine in the lobby again that afternoon, the twins marvel that her mother attends so many parties.
They suggest that she come upstairs for a chess match with Mr. French, and Albertine agrees.
“Oooo-eeee!” Albertine exclaims upon seeing the Davis apartment.
Buffy introduces her to Mrs. Beasley, and Jody shows her the bridge model he made.
When he mentions that Bill is overseas a lot, Albertine says her dad is, too…because he flies airplanes…and he was a hero in the war. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
“Which war?” Jody asks.
“You know, the war,” Albertine replies.
Seeing Jody’s autographed baseball, she also claims that her dad is a big league player.
If you aren’t starting to feel uneasy about Albertine’s father, you haven’t watched much TV.
French and Albertine have their match. He’s surprised when she makes a move that exposes her queen.
I know nothing about chess, but that sounds bad.
Bill and The Bowed One come home in time to see the match’s suspenseful conclusion.
French is stunned when she declares checkmate.
The twins fill Bill in about Albertine’s chess champion father and his many achievements. Albertine clams up, however, when Bill asks his name.
Trying out one of her psychology class words, Cissy speculates that Albertine is suffering from delusions.
As Albertine says goodbye to the twins, her tales grow even taller: Her family has a big car and a Japanese chauffeur, and her neighborhood is blocking off the street to celebrate her father’s impending return from out of town. She also says her father loves kids like Bill does–it’s touching that she picked up on that so fast.
The next day after school, Albertine leaves for home before Jody can give her his baseball–he wants her ball-player father to autograph it.
The twins convince French to swing by Albertine’s place on the way home. How they know where she lives, I have no idea.
Once they are in the general vicinity, they ask the first black kid they see how to find Albertine.
He points out where she lives, but he is amused when the kids start bombarding him with questions about Albertine’s amazing father.
(It seems like French should have twigged to what was going on at this point and found a way to avoid the unpleasantness to come.)
“Albertine don’t have no father,” he tells them.
The twins refuse to believe that Albertine’s father abandoned his family a long time ago.
“Man, has old Albertine been laying it on you!” the neighborhood youth chuckles.
Because Buffy doesn’t speak jive, French has to translate this into “telling a falsehood.”
When poor Albertine emerges from her building, the boy mocks her cruelly.
He laughs about her “Chinese chauffeur.” He also says “ooo-eee” at one point. Must be a favorite neighborhood expression.
That guy’s a real jerk. He reminds me of almost every kid in my elementary school.
That night at dinner, the kids struggle to understand what happened.
Bill says Albertine wanted a father so badly that she made one up. He also suggests that they avoid mentioning the subject at school and just treat Albertine normally.
Buffy says that if she had to make up a father, she would make up one just like Bill and Mr. French. Aww. I saw the Bill line coming, but it’s sweet that she included French.
TV’s first same-sex parents?
Albertine fails to show up for school the next day, but later the kids see her waiting in the lobby.
Albertine is unresponsive, and Cissy cautions that maybe she would rather be alone.
“Nobody would rather be alone,” Buffy says.
Jody, much too loudly, adds, “We don’t care if her father ran away.” Ouch.
That night, Buffy and Jody pour out their feelings to Bill.
This is an unusual camera angle.
They wonder whether Albertine couldn’t just adopt Bill, as they did. Bill tries to explain that he can’t do much to help Albertine, but eventually they convince him to try talking to her.
When Albertine sees Buffy and Jody at her door, she recoils in horror.
I know some Family Affair haters who would react the same way, for different reasons.
Albertine’s mother demands to know why Bill is at her door.
He’s understandably sheepish, admitting that the situation is none of his business, but explaining that Buffy and Jody have been worried about Albertine.
Mrs. Smith is shocked to learn that Albertine has been playing hooky from school for a week. Getting her daughter an education is very important to her.
(The Smith apartment proves one thing: Family Affair green transcends racial and class lines.)
Mrs. Smith reveals that her husband left the family because he couldn’t handle being unemployed while his wife earned money doing laundry. She also says that it was a doorman at a building where she worked who taught Albertine chess.
(For reasons that aren’t clear to me, she specifies that the doorman was a foreigner. Maybe he was Albertine’s inspiration for the Japanese chauffeur?)
Bill asks to speak to Albertine, and Mrs. Smith agrees.
Bill compliments the girl on her “garden,” but she says it’s just a kitchen–an old, dirty kitchen.
Bill says he understands how she feels about not having a father because Buffy and Jody don’t have a father or a mother. He talks about how unprepared he was for raising children when the twins arrived and how helpless he felt hearing them cry at night. All he could do was love them–the same way Albertine’s mother loves her.
Albertine doesn’t say anything, but she seems to think about his words.
The next day, Buffy and Jody come home from school in a good mood. Albertine came back to school and said hi to them.
When French wonders if that’s a major development, Bill says it’s a start.
This is a nice episode that handles potentially sensitive issues with grace. It’s one of many episodes exploring the diversity of New York City. These “Buffy and Jody meet the poors” episodes have the potential to come across as patronizing, but the show’s heart is clearly in the right place. The fact that Buffy and Jody have lost their parents gives them some kind of kinship with kids in other rough situations.
The show has really progressed in its use of African-American actors since Season One, when it was rare to see one, let alone hear one speak a line.
Continuity Notes
Jody’s bridge is a call-back, and we get another French reference to “the playing fields of Eton.”
Guest Cast
Peter: Mike Durkin. Albertine Smith: Alycia Gardner. Mrs. Smith: Mittie Lawrence. Roy: Theodore Miller. Miss Cummings: Joan Vohs.
No one here had a very long TV career. Mittie Lawrence’s most visible role was in Funny Girl as Barbra Streisand’s personal assistant. She’s most familiar to me, though, from an Adam-12 Christmas episode–the one where the kid wanted a dump truck. Lawrence was the life partner of prolific character actor Robert DoQui, who also made one Family Affair appearance.
Posted in Family Affair, Television
Tagged 1960s, Anissa Jones, Brian Keith, Classic Television, Family Affair, Johnnie Whitaker, Johnny Whitaker, Kathy Garver, Nostalgia, Sebastian Cabot, Television
May 4, 2014 by Amy
Spin Again Sunday: The Bionic Woman (1976)
Last week, we explored the game inspired by that 1970s icon, the Six Million Dollar Man. This week, we turn to the fairer electromechanical sex.
This Week’s Game: The Bionic Woman.
Manufactured by: Parker Brothers.
Copyright Date: 1976.
Recommended Ages: 7 to 12. (Curious that Parker Brothers recommended the Six Million Dollar Man game for ages 7 to 14. Perhaps they figured that girls mature earlier and set aside toys like this at a younger age.)
Box: My copy is a bit faded, but the color scheme is vivid greed and hot pink. We get a pretty close-up illustration of Jaime Sommers, along with her “autograph.” The action scene seems to show her trying to capture a mountain lion with a wispy net. I wonder what that mountain lion ever did to her.
Game Board: It’s disappointingly generic–trails of white dots and pink lines across some forested terrain. Looking closer, you can see some situations crying out for bionic attention, including a power plant inferno.
There’s also this train derailment.
Object: “Jaime Sommers, the Bionic Woman, needs your help. She must travel by airplane, helicopter, and automobile to carry out many dangerous adventures. Your job is to help Jaime through these adventures and assist her whenever you can. If you cover a lot of territory and complete the Top Secret Assignment…you may win the game.”
Game Play: I’ll try to make this as simple as possible, which is more than I can say for Parker Brothers.
That’s a lot of words.
All players start at “H.Q.,” and receive an Adventure Card telling them where to go and how many points they will earn.
These cards make you understand how tough Jaime’s life must be. She not only does standard superhero stuff like stopping runaway school buses, but must also be on call to repair faulty hospital equipment.
Players head to the space on the board that corresponds to their adventure number. They can either travel by “automobile”–following the white circles; by “helicopter”–sliding up or down the pink lines; or by “airplane,” which requires landing on an Airport space by exact count and then moving to any other Airport space.
When you complete your adventure, you can accept your points or take a double-or-nothing gamble that requires rolling 7 or higher. Then you start a new adventure. When a player rolls double ones or sixes, their mission becomes a Special Assignment, which earns 50 bonus points. After players have completed four Special Assignments, the next double ones or sixes trigger a Top Secret Assignment. That carries 100 bonus points, and its completion ends the game. Since the player with the most points wins, getting the Top Secret Assignment is usually the deciding factor.
Six Million Dollar Shout-Out: Sometimes, instead of an adventure card, players receive a “Steve Austin Assists” card. The idea that Jaime requires this assistance seems a little sexist. And since Steve only lets you double-roll one die, his help isn’t worth much.
Game Pieces: Regular plastic pawns. There are also white plastic clips players attach to their cards–one clip designates a Special Assignment; two clips indicate a Top Secret Assignment.
My Thoughts: I would have been thrilled to receive this game in 1976. I don’t think I would have played it much, though, after scanning those intimidating instructions. If anything, my friends and I might have come up with our own simplified scenario.
Bonus Feature: For a show that only lasted two years, The Bionic Woman inspired many toys. Kenner’s Jaime doll was surprisingly ugly, but it was fun to open her leg panels to see her bionic parts. And, as you can see here, her bionic side and her feminine side co-existed happily.
She had many cool accessories (the dome house!), documented on the fun site Retrojunk.
Other Spin Again Sunday posts you might enjoy:
Posted in Spin Again Sunday, Toys
Tagged 1970s, Bionic Woman, Board Games, Classic Television, Collectibles, Games, Lindsay Wagner, Nostalgia, Retro, Vintage, Vintage Board Games, Vintage Toys
Family Affair Friday: Season 3, Episode 8, “The Unsound of Music,” 11/18/1968
Written by: Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson. Directed by: Charles Barton.
This is the first Family Affair episode whose original air date falls after my birth. I don’t think I was watching much TV my first few days, though.
We open in a nightclub, where a red-haired woman is singing.
Or at least lip-syncing awkwardly to what may or may not be her own voice.
Hey, it’s that lady who was on Match Game sometimes–presumably when Fannie Flagg wasn’t available.
Here, her name is Julie Madden, and it seems she’s one of Bill’s squeezes. When she finishes her set and joins him, they reminisce about the times they’ve shared in London, Paris, Madrid, and Acapulco.
Unlike some of Bill’s girlfriends, she shows an interest in his kids. She wants to know if Jody still likes finger-painting and Buffy still has the “funny-looking doll with the glasses.” (Bill, who has strangely specific ideas of age-appropriateness, says boys give up finger-painting around age 6, and Buffy will probably give up Mrs. Beasley at age 10.) He encourages Julie to come and visit the kids soon.
The next morning at breakfast, Bill gives Cissy an autographed copy of Julie’s latest album.
Cissy, who has entered her unfortunate side-bow period, observes with a trace of snarkiness that Julie has been making a comeback lately. Bill responds that he didn’t know she ever left.
Here’s the album, in all its “living stereo” glory.
Buffy is taken with the idea of being a recording artist and asks Bill if he would be proud of her if she was a famous singer. Unwisely, he says yes. (With “I’m always proud of you” he might have saved himself some trouble.)
That day in school, Buffy is so excited about music class that she’s singing under her breath before the music teacher even arrives.
When the teacher does show up (for what she calls the children’s first music lesson–don’t you think they would have been having music class throughout the school year?), she announces that she’s forming a girls’ glee club.
Buffy can’t wait to show off her skills.
Unfortunately, when the class starts singing “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean,” we find out that Buffy has no skills.
Miss Cummings’ face says it all.
In fact, she finds Buffy’s singing so offensive that she asks Buffy to step out into the hall with her for a moment. That’s never good.
Miss Cummings explains that Buffy’s singing is off-key, and that when one person sings off-key, the “harmony of the composition is destroyed.” She suggests that Buffy just move her lips while everyone else is singing.
Harsh.
A miserable Buffy gets through music class and, surprisingly, still tries out for the girls’ glee club after school. She’s unsuccessful, of course.
She asks French if he thinks Julie Madden used to “mix everyone up” with her singing when she first got started.
French says it’s possible; no one achieves instant perfection.
Tucking Buffy in that night, Bill notices how sad she is.
When he asks her to smile, this is the best she can do.
When she asks Bill if he still likes her, even though she didn’t make the glee club, he has a cute response: “Yeah. I even sort of love you.”
He tries to get her to shake off her defeat, but when she can’t, he promises to try to get her into the glee club. (That’s his second mistake in this episode.)
He arranges for Julie to teach her, but Buffy doesn’t improve with teaching.
We’ll let French’s face sum things up this time.
It’s amusing to watch Anissa Jones try to sing as badly as possible.
When Bill comes home, Julie tells him that Buffy is a hopeless case.
It’s up to Bill to break the news to Buffy.
After he explains that everyone has different talents, and that lots of people can’t sing, Buffy seems to accept her limitations.
Well, that wrapped up quickly. What do we do with the 12 minutes we have left?
Actually, Buffy is still a bit upset, as we see at school the next day when she mopes on the playground.
Jody, in supportive brother mode, tries to comfort her.
He tells her that he can sing, and since she’s his twin, she should be able to sing, too.
When he demonstrates his singing, it attracts the music teacher’s attention. She seems strangely excited about singing that is passable at best.
She wants Jody to sing a solo at Parents’ Night. This not only adds salt to Buffy’s wounds but upsets Jody, as well. He doesn’t want to be a “sissy” and sing with the glee club girls.
With Buffy willing but unable to sing and Jody able but unwilling, Bill finds himself at a loss.
He asks French what “the child-raising books” say about such a situation. (It amuses me that French is the keeper of “the child-raising books.”)
Bill tells Jody he doesn’t have to sing, but Bill would be proud of him if he did. As needy as these kids always are for approval, it’s no surprise that Jody gives in. He doesn’t really seem to mind much, since he’s grinning by the end of the scene.
At least I think this is a grin.
Buffy is feeling better, too. The music teacher has given her a role in the Parents’ Night concert–as page-turner at the piano.
The night of the show, after the be-sashed glee club performs, Buffy introduces Jody for his solo.
He screeches out a tune called “Every Little Boy Can Be President.”
If you asked a little kid to come up with a song about U.S. presidents on the spur of the moment, it might resemble this annoying ditty. George Washington…Thomas Jefferson….Abe-Abe-Abraham Lincoln…cherry tree…log cabin. It ends with several shrill repeats of the question “Why not me?” I was asking “Why me?” by the end.
(It would be fun to think that seven-year-old Barack Obama saw this episode when it originally aired. Unfortunately, he was living in Indonesia at the time.)
I like the way Brian Keith looks proud but slightly bemused by Jody’s performance.
The episode ends with Buffy asking whether anyone ever made the cover of a record album by turning music pages.
This episode feels choppy, with everyone’s problems resolving more quickly and easily than they should. I suppose it was just an excuse for Johnny Whitaker to sing that dreadful song, which was released as a single.
Continuity Note
Bill mentions Buffy’s ballet performance as Little Red Riding Hood.
Inconsistency Alert
We’ve heard Buffy sing before. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as her efforts in this episode.
Julie Madden: Kaye Stevens. Miss Scranton: Irene Hervey. Miss Cummings: Joan Vohs.
When I was a kid, I would see people like Kaye Stevens on game shows and wonder what they were famous for. Well, according to her 2011 obituary, Kaye Stevens “performed a solo cabaret act at some of the most celebrated clubs and showrooms in the nation, including Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and the Plaza Hotel’s Persian Room in New York City.” She often performed with the Rat Pack, and she helped Bob Hope entertain the troops in Vietnam. She also had a five-year stint on Days of Our Lives in the 1970s. Later in life, she was active in Christian ministries.
Irene Hervey in her heyday.
Irene Hervey was the mother of another nightclub singer, Jack Jones. Hervey appeared in feature films such as Destry Rides Again in the 1930s, then transitioned into B movies and television. She had a recurring role as Aunt Meg on Honey West. A year after this episode aired, she received an Emmy nomination for a guest appearance on My Three Sons.
Bonus Feature
I’m really sorry that Johnny Whitaker’s song from this episode isn’t on Youtube. If you really want to hear him sing, though, there’s always this.
Tagged 1960s, Anissa Jones, Brian Keith, Classic Television, Family Affair, Johnnie Whitaker, Johnny Whitaker, Kathy Garver, Kaye Stevens, Nostalgia, Sebastian Cabot, Television
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Montpelier | Article about Montpelier by The Free Dictionary
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(mŏntpēl`yər), city (1990 pop. 8,247), state capital (since 1805) and seat of Washington co., central Vt., at the junction of the Winooski and North Branch rivers; inc. 1855. The economy is dominated by state government and insurance industries. It is also a trading center in a lumber, granite, and winter resort area. Granite is processed, and there is light manufacturing. Vermont College of Norwich Univ., New England Culinary Institute, and the state historical society are there. The city has maintained a 19th-century charm; of interest are the state capitol and federal courthouse. It is the birthplace of Admiral George DeweyDewey, George
, 1837–1917, American admiral, hero of the battle of Manila, b. Montpelier, Vt., grad. Annapolis, 1858. He saw active duty in the Civil War and rose in the navy in service and rank, becoming chief of the Bureau of Equipment in 1889, president of the Board of
..... Click the link for more information. . Surrounded by mountains, Montpelier has an excellent view of Mt. Mansfield, the highest point in the state.
Montpelier,
estate, central Va., near Charlottesville; formerly the home of President James MadisonMadison, James,
1751–1836, 4th President of the United States (1809–17), b. Port Conway, Va. Early Career
A member of the Virginia planter class, he attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), graduating in 1771.
..... Click the link for more information. . The brick mansion was built c.1760 by Madison's father. Altered and enlarged by later owners, it has been restored (completed 2008) to its appearance when Madison lived there. Madison and his wife are buried nearby. The estate, which is maintained by the Montpelier Foundation, is a National Historic Landmark.
a city in N central Vermont, on the Winooski River: the state capital. Pop.: 7945 (2003 est.)
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New ventures, new vehicles: a number of reinsurers have found innovative ways to team up with hedge funds and other investors to tap into fresh capacity while taking some risk off their books
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Lake Effect Kid (Demo)
Produced by Fall Out Boy
Album CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration
Lake Effect Kid (Demo) Lyrics
[Intro: Clinton Sparks]
Clinton Sparks! Fall Out Boy!
[Verse 1: Patrick Stump]
Sometimes when I'm in heaven
I get forgetful of the earth, woah
Until I hear you bickering like boys and birds
The heat is on, gate's open, the shade is down
[Pre-Chorus: Patrick Stump]
I got a pocket full of deadliness
Opium den mother forget my head
At the dead-end called unsteadiness
Boxed blondes have less fun
[Chorus: Patrick Stump]
Boomerang my head
Back to the city I grew up in
Again and again and again and again
Forever a lake effect kid
I've got the skyline in my veins
Forget your night times
Summer love on a gurney with a squeaky wheel
And joke us, joke us
'til Lakeshore Drive goes back into focus
I just wanna come back to life
Spark until you hit or give your woman love
Boxed blondes have less fun, fun
Back to the city I grew up in (to the city I grew up in)
About “Lake Effect Kid (Demo)”
“Lake Effect Kid” was a previously unreleased Fall Out Boy demo that appeared on the CitizensFOB mixtape. The track featured lyrical themes that were common to the band’s early back catalogue, such as a loyalty to their hometown, combined with themes that would later appear on their 2008 studio album Folie à Deux, such as celebrity and drug use.
Ten years after the song’s initial demo release, a studio version appeared on the band’s 2018 EP Lake Effect Kid.
The song title refers to “Lake Effect Weather”, a weather phenomena in which warm water from lake regions evaporates in cold air and is deposited as snow in nearby areas. This phenomena is common in the Great Lakes region of America, where the band’s hometown of Chicago is located.
"Lake Effect Kid (Demo)" Track Info
Written By Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley, Patrick Stump & 1 more
Additional Mixing Clinton Sparks
Drums & Percussion Andy Hurley
Vocals Patrick Stump
Narration Clinton Sparks
Interpolated By
Lake Effect Kid by Fall Out Boy
CitizensFOB Mixtape: Welcome to the New Administration Fall Out Boy
3. ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac (Demo)
4. Lake Effect Kid (Demo)
5. I Don’t Care (27) (Demo/Snippet)
6. Catch Me If You Can/Proclamation of Emancipation (Demo Mashup)
7. Bounce (Snippet)
8. First Timers (Snippet)
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10. Nearly Witches (Demo)
11. I Kissed a Boy
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13. Homecoming (Snippet)
14. Take My Hand (Machine Shop Production)
16. Cookie Jar (Snippet)
17. Oh, Dakota (Snippet)
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20. About A Girl (Snippet)
21. We Believe In (Barack Obama)
22. Interlude
23. Mixtape (Snippet)
25. America’s Suitehearts (Demo Snippet)
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SunPower to Build 1.7 Megawatts of Solar Power Systems for Rancho California Water District
TEMECULA, Calif., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Rancho California Water District (RCWD) and SunPower Corp.(Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) today announced that SunPower will design and construct solar power systems totaling 1.7 megawatts at two RCWD facilities. The systems are expected to save the district approximately $8.5 million in electricity costs over the next 25 years. In 2009, SunPower designed and built a 1.1-megawatt solar system for RCWD’s Santa Rosa Water Reclamation Facility in Murrieta, Calif.
Under this new agreement, SunPower will build a 1.1-megawatt SunPower T0 Tracker system at the district’s Senga Doherty Pump Station in Murrieta. The Tracker positions SunPower solar panels, the most efficient solar panels available on the market today, to follow the sun’s movement during the day. This increases sunlight capture by up to 25 percent over conventional fixed-tilt systems, while significantly reducing land use requirements.
At RCWD headquarters in Temecula, SunPower will construct a 610-kilowatt solar parking canopy structure, providing both shade in the parking lot and solar electric power for RCWD’s facility.
The systems will be funded with qualified energy conservation bonds (QECBs), which are issued by the state ofCalifornia and are designed to provide low-interest financing to promote the use of renewable energy in state, local, and tribal government facilities. RCWD will own the renewable energy credits associated with the systems.
“The system that SunPower completed for us in 2009 reliably delivers significant monthly savings on our electricity costs, which we pass on to our customers,” said Andrew Webster, RCWD’s chief engineer. “As a result, we chose to work with SunPower again when we expanded our commitment to solar power, and further maximize our savings and the environmental benefits for our community.”
“With SunPower systems operating at more than 20 water agencies, representing approximately 19 megawatts in total, our experience and ability to deliver guaranteed performance sets us apart,” said Jim Pape, president of SunPower’s residential and commercial business group. “We applaud RCWD’s leadership in taking advantage of the QECB program. Clean, reliable solar power makes good sense today for public agencies and our environment.”
Construction on the two systems is expected to start this summer and be completed by the end of the year.
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Homenewslocal-nc“Carolina Prize in Writing” Contest: Accepting Submissions from Writers of All Ages
“Carolina Prize in Writing” Contest: Accepting Submissions from Writers of All Ages
May 17, 2018 Donna Campbell Smith local-nc, state-nc
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By Donna Campbell Smith
The Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers’ Guild is sponsoring its third-annual FCAC Writers’ Guild Carolina Prize in Writing contest. The contest is open writers of any age and location for previously unpublished (this includes online publication) poetry, short stories, and essays or creative non-fiction.
This year two prizes will be awarded: one for prose and the other poetry. Each prize will be $100, publication in the 2019 issue of County Lines: A Literary Journal, and two copies of the journal. Up to five honorable mentions may also be named. Honorable mentions will receive publication in County Lines and one free copy.
Entry Fees are $10 for each submission. You may enter as many times as you wish at $10 per entry. Entries and payment must be postmarked by August 15, 2018.
All submissions should be blind (no identifying info) but accompanied by a cover sheet with the title of the piece and writer’s contact info. We will reject any entries with offensive language or derogatory comments toward any person or group.
Poems: Maximum 30 lines excluding the title (1-3 poems will count as one entry) single spaced.
Prose: Double spaced, 12-point font, Maximum 1500 words. One prose piece is one entry.
Submit your contest entry by email to FCACCarolinaWritingPrize@gmail.com. Mailed hard copies are not being accepted. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2018. Write checks to the Franklin County Arts Council with “Contest entry” in the memo. There will be no refunds. Mail checks to PO Box 758, Louisburg, NC 27549. You may also pay using the Paypal button at FCACARTS.ORG.
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Donna Campbell Smith, an author based in Franklinton NC, worked in the horse industry for over thirty years as an instructor, trainer, breeder, and writer. She has an AAS Degree in Equine Technology from Martin Community College and is a certified riding instructor. Smith has written four non-fiction books on equine management: The Book of Donkeys, (The Lyons Press 2016) The Book of Miniature Horses (The Lyons Press 2005), The Book of Draft Horses (The Lyons Press 2007), and The Book of Mules (The Lyons Press 2009. All her books are available at Amazon.com or ask for them at a bookstore near you. Donna is a member of Franklin County Arts Council. Visit her website at www.donnacampbellsmith.com.
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Student Punished for 'Implied Threat' After Putting High School on Craigslist
Jennings Brown
Filed to: CraigslistFiled to: Craigslist
Screenshot: Facebook
While some of his classmates wanted to execute senior pranks that would potentially disrupt classes, Missouri high school student Kylan Scheele opted for some tomfoolery that was a little more chill.
“Other people were going to release live mice or, you know, building a beach in the front lobby area,” Scheele told Kansas City’s Fox affiliate. “And I thought let’s do something more laid back, so I just decided to post the school for sale.”
Scheele listed Truman High School for the reasonable price of $12,275 on Craigslist. His post described the building as a “Huge 20+ room facility” and listed the following selling points, among others:
“Newly build football field.”
“Newly added 4 modern day rooms.”
“Next to Walmart for convenience.”
“Huge parking lot, great for partygoers looking for somewhere to park.”
“Bigger than normal dinning room.”
“Reason for sale is due to loss of students coming up.”
“Named after hometown resident U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his family.”
But while Scheele’s internet high jinks didn’t cause a headache for school janitors or violate any health codes, that “loss of students” comment concerned school administrators enough that they took action.
“I decided to say the reason we’re selling this is because of ‘the loss of students,’ because the senior class is graduating,” said Scheele.
Independence Police Department detectives investigated the Craigslist ad and decided not to pursue criminal charges, but told Scheele to remove the post and suggested he speak with school administrators.
But that didn’t seem to help much. Scheele told the local news outlet that the administration suspended him for the remainder of the school year and is not allowing him to walk in his graduation this weekend. The school, it seems, saw the post as an “implied threat,” albeit not a credible one. According to a statement from a Independence School District:
Out of an abundance of caution, administrators and police investigated and determined there was not a credible threat. A student who makes a real or implied threat, whether it is deemed credible or not, will face discipline. Due to the heightened concern nationally with school violence, we have extra police officers for the remainder of the school year and will have additional officers at graduations for all of our high schools.
“They tried to relate it back to all the recent school shootings and everything—they tried tying it back to that,” Scheele told the Fox 4 Kanas City. “But I don’t see how it was a threat at all.”
Scheele’s mom Denetra Clark is trying to see the bright side of the school district’s decision. “He’s going to get his diploma no matter what,” Clark said. “But maybe the party will start sooner.”
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The Global Nutrition Report is the world’s foremost account on the status of malnutrition around the world. Each year, it acts as a stock take on the world’s nutrition – globally, regionally, and country by country – and on efforts to improve it. It tracks progress on global nutrition targets, ranging from diet-related non-communicable diseases to maternal, infant and young child nutrition.
2018 Global Nutrition Report
The 2018 Global Nutrition Report convenes existing processes, highlights progress in combating malnutrition, and identifies gaps and proposes ways to fill them. Through this, the report helps to guide action, build accountability and spark increased commitment for further progress towards reducing malnutrition much faster.
It is researched, analysed and written by the Chairs of an Independent Expert Group (IEG) of world-leading academics, researchers and government representatives. The IEG is consulted on, inputs into and reviews the report. A wider Stakeholder Group – drawn from government, donor, civil society, multilateral and private sector organisations – provides strategic leadership of the report.
The Global Nutrition Report can provide journalists with a wide range of reliable statistics and evidence on malnutrition around the world. We can also arrange interviews with experts across the sector.
New experts appointed to lead the Global Nutrition Report
Dr Renata Micha and M.G. Ventakesh Mannar have been appointed as the new Co-Chairs of the world-renowned Global Nutrition Report.
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The co-chairs of the Global Nutrition Report’s Independent Expert Group will finish their term at the end of 2019, and will be passing their roles to new co-chairs.
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Postmortem
The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person’s obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.
Actors : Charlie Sheen, Dave Anderson, Gary Lewis, Ian Hanmore, Ivana Milicevic, John Yule, Leigh Biagi, Michael Halsey, Phil McCall, Stephen Docherty, Stephen McCole
Director : Albert Pyun
Crimson Tide
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Thriller
The Borderland
A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
Country: France, Hong Kong
Wild Things 2
Sequel to the hot film Wild Things, Wild Things 2 sees teenage bad girls Maya and Britney go on a sex and killing spree to win millions.
Single AF
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Count Yorga, Vampire
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica’s just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
Brace for Impact
When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist’s brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and secretly begins investigating the crash.
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she’s to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she’ll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley’s Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London’s population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.
Country: UK, United Kingdom, USA
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Soft Deceit
An attractive cop is assigned the task of tracing millions of dollars of stolen church funds. The thief, is locked up in prison, and the plan is to break him out, and follow him to the hidden money. When she falls for the convict, things get complicated. The ex-boyfriend cop is jealous and suspicious.
Blood Father
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
CIA: Comrade in America
A young Aji Mathew is a communist who goes the whole nine yards for the ideologies he believes in. When the girl he loves leaves to the US out of the blue and her parents fix her wedding, Aji is left with just a fortnight to reach the country albeit with no passport or visa. How far he is willing to go for love forms the plot.
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Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Vulnerability identifier: APSB17-15
Priority: See table below
CVE number: CVE-2017-3068, CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070, CVE-2017-3071, CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074
Platform: Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Chrome OS. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime 25.0.0.148 and earlier Windows, and Linux
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Adobe recommends users of the Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime for Windows, Macintosh and Linux update to Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.171 via the update mechanism within the product [1] or by visiting the Adobe Flash Player Download Center.
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[1] Users who have selected the option to 'Allow Adobe to install updates' will receive the update automatically. Users who do not have the 'Allow Adobe to install updates' option enabled can install the update via the update mechanism within the product when prompted.
These updates resolve a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-3071).
These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-3068, CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070, CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074).
Adobe would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for reporting the relevant issues and for working with Adobe to help protect our customers:
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Mateusz Jurczyk and Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero (CVE-2017-3068)
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Not your average cows or forage
Oct. 23, 2018 08:00 AM
By Mike Rankin
Once you talk and listen to Tom Kestell, it won’t be something you’ll soon forget. His years of feeding a herd of dairy cows that now annually averages over 45,000 pounds of milk per cow have armed him with a large arsenal of experiences and knowledge that he readily shares.
Kestell farms with his wife, Gin, and his son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Jennifer; they operate a family dairy in Waldo, Wis. The farm isn’t one of large freestall barns and bunker silos, but rather consists of an updated tie stall barn and six tower silos. It is what’s inside that barn and silos — 85 outstanding cows and great forage — that distinguish Kestell’s Ever-Green-View Farms from the rest of the pack.
Kestell, along with his nutritionist of 30 years, Steve Woodford, talked to an overflow crowd of people from the Forage Seminar Stage at World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis.
Though many components are responsible for achieving a nearly 46,000-pound herd average, Kestell puts cow genetics and consistently high-quality forage at the top of the list.
“High quality doesn’t mean rocket fuel,” Kestell said. “We like our alfalfa in the 160 to 190 relative forage quality (RFQ) range. The key is to give cows a consistent forage ration. We even chop all of our forages, both alfalfa and corn silage, at about the same length so that the cows can’t sort anything,” he added.
“Anytime you insult the cow’s digestive tract, you insult the production,” said the owner of the highest producing dairy herd in the nation. “Moldy or other low-quality feed, whether it comes off the top of a bunker silo or from any other source, is going to hurt you every time, and it’s really hard to make up that production.”
Kestell has six upright silos; this is largely because it gives him the ability to segregate forages by quality and feed it to the appropriate livestock group. “If we get hay rained on or it gets too mature, we aren’t locked into feeding it to the milking herd,” Kestell said.
The strait-shooting dairyman is also vigilant about knowing the quality of his forage.
“I think that as an industry we don’t do a good enough job sampling our forages,” Kestell noted. “I like to load one forage component into the mixer, run it for a few minutes, then take my sample from that.”
Kestell’s cows get a 60 to 70 percent forage ration that consists of high-chop corn silage, alfalfa haylage, and about 4 pounds (as fed) of alfalfa baleage that is used to topdress the total mixed ration (TMR), which is fed in the barn. Kestell equated putting baleage on top of the TMR to putting sprinkles on your ice cream. “The cows just love it,” he explained. “But 8 pounds would be too much.”
The Wisconsin dairyman likes to grow pure alfalfa that is chopped and put in a silo or in-line wrapped as baleage. He also has some pure grass fields that he harvests and feeds to dry cows and calves.
“There’s nothing special about the feed ration other than the forage is consistently high quality,” said Woodford, the long-time nutritionist. “The ration is about 16 percent protein, 27 to 29 percent neutral detergent fiber (NDF), and 5 percent fat.”
High-chop corn
In recent years, Kestell has gravitated toward 100 percent brown midrib (BMR) corn that is chopped at a 34-inch height. The resulting corn silage averages 31 to 35 percent NDF, 40 to 41 percent starch, 64 to 70 percent NDF digestibility (30 hours), and over 40 percent starch.
“When we went to high-chop corn silage, the cows gained about 4 pounds of dry matter intake (DMI) and about 10 pounds of milk per cow per day,” Woodford said. “Because the corn silage is so high in starch, we only feed about 8 to 10 pounds (dry matter) of high-moisture corn per cow.”
Kestell harvests all of his cornstalks, which are round-baled and in-line wrapped. During the following spring, these stalks are then processed and deposited on top of alfalfa windrows before chopping. It is this feed that is used for heifers. “It’s more work, but it brings the protein level down from 22 to 17 percent,” Kestell explained.
Defying the average
Woodford readily admitted that he has learned a lot from working with Kestell’s cows during the past 30 years than Kestell has learned from him.
Tom Kestell (left) and Steve Woodford (right) have a laugh while talking about feeding Kestell's high-producing herd during World Dairy Expo.
“I don’t think it’s possible to have forages that are too good — too low in fiber or too high in digestible fiber,” Woodford said. “The goal is to maximize rumen fermentation, and it’s much easier to add energy than replace low NDF digestibility.”
“These cows are consuming nearly 70 pounds of dry matter per day,” Woodford said. “That puts them well off of the average curve that most feed ration models are built from. If I follow the feed ration models for Tom’s cows, then I’ll be wrong. Tom’s cows are far better at digesting forage and utilizing starch than the average cow,” he added.
Woodford feels that by Kestell selecting for high genetic merit cows over the years, he is by default also selecting for higher biological efficiency when it comes to digesting feed. “It can’t be explained any other way, otherwise we wouldn’t be getting the volume and quality of milk out of the amount of feed they’re currently eating,” he opined.
Based on some recent University of Wisconsin research, Woodford explained that each cow seems to have its own unique rumen microbial population, some of which are better than others. “I think that helps to explain what we’re dealing with here,” he said. “These cows, in addition to having good genetics, are far better than most at digesting feed and turning into milk.”
“Tom’s herd average has been going up about 1,200 pounds per year, so in five years he should be at 50,000 pounds,” Woodford said.
He then concluded by asking, “What kind of forages will we need to support that kind of milk production? Somehow, we will need to improve ration quality to keep pace with livestock genetics.”
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