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Dublin Editors
In Profile : Tony Cranstoun
Posted on February 3, 2014 by John Murphy in Uncategorized
This Thursday see the latest in our In Conversation events and the first get together of 2014. This time we are delighted to welcom BAFTA and ACE winning editor Tony Cranstoun. One of the leading cutters operating in Ireland and the UK.
Here’s Tony talking about editing
and a longer audio piece for the SDGI
Tony’s list of credits is extensive and mightly impressive and in advance of Thursday event we are going to give a little flavour of just some of the stuff Tony was worked on.
I GIVE IT A YEAR
Newlywed couple Nat and Josh are deliriously happy despite their differences, though friends and family aren’t convinced that they can last. With their first anniversary approaching and attractive alternatives in the mix, can they last?
Directed by Dan Mazer
DEATH OF A SUPERHERO
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon
From the depths of suicide and depression to the heights of new beginnings, marriage proposals, and homecomings. The Bass Player explores Niall McKay’s relationship with his Jazz musician father, Jim, who in the 1970’s raised his two young sons on his own in Dublin. This film questions what is means to be a son, a husband and a father.
PERRIERS BOUNTY
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
A FILM WITH ME IN IT
A broke, jobless actor and a broke, jobless screenwriter set out to make a movie and then find that life starts imitating art.
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two come back together. On the way he discovers France, bicycling, and true love, among other things.
THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN’S APOCALYPSE
The notorious fictional town of Royston Vasey is under threat and its inhabitants are forced to leave.
The disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Bailey sets off a two-year search during which her family will go through unimaginable pressures. What happened to Amber?
WHEN HARVEY MET BOB
Part 2 – Part 3
In October 1984, rock musician Bob Geldof is appalled by the misery of starving Ethiopians as seen on television and persuades his pop musician friends to record the million-selling charity single ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’. Bob goes to Ethiopia and, horrified at the scale of the famine, plans a global rock concert to be staged simultaneously in England and America the next summer. He brings in hard-headed rock promoter Harvey Goldsmith who provides a realistic anchor to Bob’s idealistic wish-list of performers. Preparations are fraught with arguments, and Bob is especially disappointed not to secure Bruce Springsteen, in anticipation of whose services he postponed the event. After addressing his old school, where he was less than academically bright but hopes to inspire the students, and with five days before the big event, Bob gets involved with the complicated matter of financial logistics and organizing international broadcasts but gets Prince Charles and Princess Diana to attend simply by asking them. Finally the day of the concerts arrives and, as Paul McCartney sings ‘Let it Be’, Harvey and Bob know that they have triumphed. The show over, the two men sit alone to reflect on matters.
Controversial Drama which chronicles the lives of Stuart and Vince, and also 15 year old Nathan who is in love with Stuart
An abrasively eccentric forensic psychologist aids in the solving of difficult police cases.
(1995) Ep 3.2 – “Best Boys”
“Bill Preece (John Simm) is a runaway from a childcare facility who finds work in a local factory. He has no place to stay so the foreman, Stuart Grady (Liam Cunningham), offers him his sofa for a night.
A dispute with the landlady leads to her being killed and Bill soon drags his new friend into a spiral of crime. He especially wants to exact revenge against those he feels treated him badly as a foster child.
Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) soon realizes that two people are committing the murders, though he believes the perpetrators to be a man and a woman..
THE FORSYTHE SAGA
Before the Bradys, the Carringtons, the Ewings, the Forresters, the Abbots, there were…. the Forsytes. A highly charged miniseries at the turn of the century London that follows the intrigues and scandals of a landed middle class family… and the one woman who will turn their world upside-down.
Soames Forsyte, a landed lawyer and a man of property is immediately smitten with the penniless pianist Irene Heron and determines to marry her. Initially reluctant, Irene is eventually pressured by her stepmother into accepting but it does not take her long to realize that her artistic temperament does not suit with her husband’s possessive nature. After four years of unhappy marriage, her only comfort is her husband’s cousin June Forsyte, a vivacious and free-spirited individual engaged to Philip Boissiney, a rising architect. But when Boissiney finds himself drawn to Irene’s quiet, enigmatic grace and she to him, things will never be the same… A man of property is always sensitive to the dignity of his own position and Soames will never relinquish what he once possessed.
THE ROYLE FAMILY
A British sitcom about a family going through everyday life in the Royle family house.
An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transsexual taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.
An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s.
Tagged Bob Geldof, Harvey Goldsmith, Ian Fitzgibbon, Irene Heron, Stuart Grady, Tony Cranstoun
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The Sainte Catherines
Hometown: Montreal, Quebec Current Label: Fat Wreck Chords Websites: Official Website
MySpace Profile
Band Members: Hugo - Vocals
Pablo - Bass
Fred - Guitar
Louis - Guitar
Rich - Drums
Marc - Guitar
The Sainte Catherines Bio:
The Sainte Catherines have been around since 1999 and are the first band Fat Wreck Chords has ever worked with from Quebec. Montreal to be exact, sacre bleu! Their Fat debut, Dancing For Decadence, is a perfect representation of their hard-working, hard-drinking, hard-hitting brand of punk rock. People call them crusty, punk, metal, hardcore…whatever, but they sarcastically describe themselves as “Motley Crue taking a bath with Tragedy while Hot Water Music argues with Leatherface about the state of punk rock.” At least we think it’s sarcastic…?
A more accurate description would have to include the fact that this is a band that is truly living among the activist/punk community. Guitarist Fred is employed full-time by Greenpeace, Marc tracks punk bands at his home studio, Bassist Pablo works at Montreal’s most renowned punk record shop, and so on. Shoot, singer Hugo is a Janitor for crying out loud, and you can’t get more punk than that! Hugo explains their bands’ involvement, “It’s just natural for us because we all share the same punk rock ideals and desire to make things better. I think it’s really weird when bands in this scene don’t have that set of beliefs.”
The French-Canadians not only have golden hearts, but iron wills. They’ve toured in 9 different countries and have more than 400 shows under their collective beret. Tours with bands like Against Me!, Leatherface, The Lawrence Arms, Strike Anywhere, etc. With the impending release of their new record the band is poised for many months of the same. They’ve already scheduled some shows with the Subhumans and have a nice long tour of European squats lined up in support of the new tunes.
The band insisted they record the new album in Montreal in an effort to capture all the scum and revelry that is their hometown. A city that has recently given birth to booming metal and indie scenes, The Sainte Catherines wanted to make sure Montreal gets its punk rock propers. On top of that, they enlisted the help of Alex Newport, who specializes in heavy rocking and has worked with bands like At The Drive In, Sepultura, The Locust, Melvins, and more. The end result is a vicious punk LP that has The Sainte Catherines and their three ripping guitars (that’s right, three guitars) firing on all cylinders. Frontman Hugo says, “It’s classic punk rock: fast, angry, melodic, and fun. And we did it right for the first time!”
Now you see why we wanted to work with these wacky bilingual punks? They’re a dynamic band made up of very dynamic people. On top of the compelling lives they lead, they also have a Country/Western side project called Yesterday’s Ring that plays sold out shows in Montreal. Totally weird, but lovable dudes, through and through. Be sure to see these road-ready punks when they come through your town and have a listen to their newest full length, Dancing For Decadence!
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Manipulating HTML elements
Responsive Website Basics: Code with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Universidad de Londres
4.5 (3,241 calificaciones) | 93K estudiantes inscritos
Curso 1 de 6 en Responsive Website Development and Design Programa Especializado
In this course you will learn three key website programming and design languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You will create a web page using basic elements to control layout and style. Additionally, your web page will support interactivity. At the end of the course, you will be able to: 1. Define the purpose of HTML, CSS and JavaScript 2. Make a simple web page using HTML 3. Use CSS to control text styles and layout 4. Use CSS libraries such as Bootstrap to create responsive layouts 5. Use JavaScript variables and functions 6. Manipulate web page content using JavaScript 7. Respond to user input using JavaScript In this course, you will complete: 2 assignments writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript, each taking ~1 hour to complete 4 quizzes, each taking ~20 minutes to complete 1 programming exercise~30 minutes to complete multiple practice quizzes, each taking ~5 minutes to complete Participation in or completion of this online course will not confer academic credit for University of London programmes.
Jquery, Html, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CCS)
4.5 (3,241 calificaciones)
Bright instructors delivering succinct and interesting content, with quick-paced videos and quizzes make a great learning experience. I am really impressed! Thank you, University of London people!
It's very good for beginner who already have hands in programming. it gives very basic and important concepts about HTML, CSS and javascript. it also gives a brief history of internet and HTML.
Beginning JavaScript
Welcome to the third module of 'Responsive website basics'. <p>In this module we will write simple JavaScript programs and learn how to write programs that can respond to user input such as clicking on HTML elements. We will also take a look at JavaScript functions and use jQuery to manipulate web pages.</p>Finally, you will learn how to write your own javaScript functions including anonymous functions. <p> Looking forward to working with you this week! <p> - Matthew and Marco
Manipulating HTML elements9:57
Dr Matthew Yee-King
Dr Marco Gillies
Dr Kate Devlin
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Hello, we've started to look at JavaScript.
We've got the basic concepts, and we're creating little bits of interactivity,
but all our interactivity's basically been showing alerts or
printing things out to the console.
None of it has actually done anything to the webpage itself.
Now, what I want to start on today is looking at how we actually
manipulate the elements of the HTML to sort of change what they're doing.
So let's look at a very simple example.
Back to our sort of, world's most basic webpage.
We've got a hello, and I'm gonna click on this again, and
this time, rather than being out of alert to print something out,
I've actually changed the HTML element,
where the text of the h1 has gone from being hello, to being goodbye.
Still pretty basic, but actually it's a massive leap in terms of what we can do
because, it shows that we you can now start to change the webpage
in real time based on user interaction, without having to reload the webpage.
So let's have a look at how we do that.
So this is the script, it's starting to get a little bit more complex, and
the first thing I want to point out is this, and I'll explain what it is.
Now, JavaScript has a lot of built in functionality that allows you
to manipulate the web page, but sometimes it's not the easiest to use.
And in fact, most people who write a lot of JavaScripts,
don't use the directly, the built in JavaScript functionality.
They use what we call library, so existing sets of code that are built on top of
JavaScript, and provide easier functionality instead of extra bits of
functionality than the language itself, and that's what we're going to do.
We're going to use a library called jQuery.
All it really is, is it's just another bit of JavaScript.
A very big and complex bit of JavaScript, but
another bit of JavaScript that you can add to your webpage, and
that gives you a lot of power, lots of extra bits of code that you can access,
and it makes it easy for you to manipulate the webpages you want to.
So that's what we have here.
This line here, is simply adding in jQuery our,
this library is a JavaScript file.
The tag is called a script tag, we'll see that later,
but what this particular script tag is doing
is just bringing in some extra JavaScript and adding it to the webpage.
And the most important, the main attribute,
well the only attribute we've got here, is this source attribute.
That sim is the source attribute of an image.
So we're getting an external file, but in this case, what we have is not
an image file but a .js file, which means it's JavaScript.
I'm loading it from a web page, so this is the permanent hosted version of jQuery.
So, you can just download it all the time without having to include it in your
own sites, but sometimes you might want to include it in your own sites,
in which case you don't bother with the full URL.
You just have it there, but you need to make sure that this file,
a copy of this file is on your server.
The only thing I'll say here is that we've got this .min thing,
well actually I'll look at the full title to just explain it a bit.
It's called jQuery, that's the name of the library.
You see that a lot.
This bit is the version, it's actually very important
to be aware of the version of the library your're using.
It's constantly updating and changing so, if you want to
really control and know that it works and that some new version hasn't broken,
changed the functionality and broken your code.
You need to make sure you're looking at a specific version.
So this was the latest version at the time I wrote this, a couple of weeks ago,
and so, by the time you're doing this course,
there will probably be a newer updated version.
And this bit here is min, that means it's minified.
What that means is that JavaScript files can become quite big, and
if as you write JavaScript, just as you write html, you might leave some space,
put in some carriage returns to make it easy to read.
That's all very good practice to make great readable code, but
it does increase this file size.
So, there's this special program which will take JavaScript,
which is nicely formatted and readable, and
crunch it down by reducing all the white space, shortening the variable names.
So it's as small as it can possibly be.
So, once we got this library installed, then we can
access functionality in this library, and this is what we're doing down here.
Just as we have with previous examples, you've got onclick attributes and
we've got some code, a line of coding that onclick attributes, and this is some code
that's using jQuery, and I want to go through that in quite a lot of detail.
So, here is that, that line of jQuery code and I'll explain it bit by bit.
The first thing to note is this dollar sign.
This dollar sign is actually short hand for jQuery.
You could actually write out jQuery, but most people don't.
It's just a short hand, it just makes it a very short, simple thing to type.
It doesn't make your code overly long, and
this shorthand is,
what it is, is it's actually a function, and
we can kind of tell it's a function because it's got brackets and an argument.
So it actually looks like the function's the only thing that makes it look strange
is it's got this odd name and dollar sign, but
a dollar sign is a valid name for function.
The argument of the function is actually a css selector.
So if you remember from the last module,
the css selector is a way of accessing certain elements of a web page,
and in this case, we're using the hash or pound sign, and
that means it's the id of a particular element.
So, we're selecting an element by an id,
and we can see that we've given our h1 the id title.
Now, that JQuery
supports any kind of css selector, so you could select it by a particular type,
tag type like h1, or a particular class, but
if you want one specific element accessed, then you would normally use an id.
Then we're calling a function html.
Now this is like we saw in the last video.
We're calling a function on an object.
In the last video, that object, we had the name of the object, console.
In this case, the object is actually what the function is returning to us.
So, that function $("#title"),
that gives us an object, which represents the html tag.
So we've actually got the html tag back, and what that allows us to do
is call a function on html, and what that function, that function is called html.
What that means is that we're changing the body, the html body of the element.
So, all of the html code that's contained in the elements is being changed.
Now, at the moment that is just some text, it's just hello, but
it could have further tags in it including other tags.
And finally, we've got an argument to this function html, and
that is what we want to set the html content in the tag to.
So we're gonna, change the html content of the tag, and
we wanna change it to Goodbye.
Again, I could include tags in there, I could include a link for example, but
at the moment it's just text.
So, we're getting rid of the old content of the tag,
and we're putting in Goodbye, so we're replacing it.
So that's what this line of code does.
It grabs, it uses jQuery to grab hold of our html element, and
cause a function which changes the content of our html element, and
it changes it to Goodbye, because that's the argument of our function, and
just to look at that again, if I refresh when I click, it changes to Goodbye.
And, to look at it in context again, just to remind ourselves where it is,
we're putting that in the onclick, so it's responding to onclick.
So we've now, in this video, made a big leap forward.
We can now really create interactive webpages where the content of the webpage
changes as you interact with it, and responds to user interaction.
This is a very, very powerful feature and basically for the rest of this MOOC,
and for large chunks of the following specialization we're gonna
make use of this in order to create rich interactive web experiences.
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Harmony Brewing Pizza, Plus Beer of the Week
Desde: Behind the Mitten
de John Gonzalez
Hablar, #behindthemitten, #harmonyeastown, #harmonyhall, #michiganbeer, #pizza
John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman of MLive and radio show "Behind the Mitten" interview Heather Van Dyke-Titus and Barry Van Dyke about what's going on at Harmony Brewery in Grand Rapids.
Harmony recently came in at No. 4 on our search for Michigan's Best Pizza.
Heather and Barry also talk about Harmony Hall, located on GR's West Side, which just celebrated its one-year anniversary.
Beer of the Week is the Grand Pumpkin, which is available at both breweries.
More on ... Más informaciones Harmony Brewing at https://www.facebook.com/harmonybrewingcompany/?ref=page_internal
Michigan's Best Pizza List Top 12 at http://www.mlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2016/10/pizza_top_12.html#0
More on Harmony Hall at https://www.facebook.com/harmonyhallgr/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
More on BTM at https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
John Gonzalez 92 followers Follow Following
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Local Music News
MMAs 14: Ira Losco Triumphs in Major Categories
It has definitely been a week to remember for Ira Losco, Malta’s representative at the 2002 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, having been appointed as co-host of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest alongside Gianluca Bezzina and Moira Delia, and thus given the opportunity to perform a multitude of tracks as a guest performer including; What I’d Give, Me Luv U Long Time, L-Aħħar Bidwi F’Wied il-Għasel, Let Her Go and Fever.
Last night though, will definitely have been the cherry on the cake with Ira swooping three (3) major accolades during the Malta Music Awards; Best Solo Artist, Best Music Video, Best Album, and ultimately missing out on Best Song, that going to ‘The Runaway’ by Red Electrick. The evening, one which will surely be recognised in the history of the local music scene featured a series of performances from artists such as; Sophie, Norbert, Andi, Winter Moods, Gaia Cauchi, The Crowns Airport Impressions and of course, Ira Losco and Airport Impressions.
Best Band: Red Electrick
Best Solo Artist: Ira Losco
Best Music Video: Me Luv U Long Time - Ira Losco
Best Song: The Runaway - Red Electrick
Best Album: The Fire - Ira Losco
Best New Artist: Plan Zero
International Achievement Award: Gaia Cauchi
Recognition Award: Gillian Attard
The winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, recipient of the International Achievement Award in 2013, was re-awarded with the prestigious accolade for the second year running, following her outstanding achievement on foreign waters. On the other hand, her vocal coach and co-writer of ‘The Start’ was given a recognition award for supporting the local music scene in the best possible manner noting that the oustanding talent of prodigies such as Veronica Rotin, Shauna Vassallo, Gaia Cauchi and most recently, Federica Falzon. TVM will be airing the Awards Ceremony in due course. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for more of the latest news.
Source: MMM / escflashmalta.com / G Stellini (Photo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o9sgAHsTN4
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Flashback to Taylor Swift's First Album Drop
This is what the star looked like when she released her debut studio album
By Madeline Boardman
August 25, 2017 at 12:24 PM EDT
11 Years of Taylor Swift
Kevin Mazur/WireImage; Jason Squires/WireImage; Michael Buckner/Getty Images
On October 24, 2006, Taylor Swift released her first studio album. Sixteen years old at the time of the record’s release, Swift led the project with the singles “Tim McGraw,” “Teardrops on My Guitar,” “Our Song,” “Picture to Burn,” and “Should’ve Said No.” The self-titled Taylor Swift introduced the blonde teenager as a guitar-playing country crooner, leading to a nomination for New Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, a nomination for Favorite Country Female Artist at the 2007 American Music Awards, a Breakthrough Video of the Year win for “Tim McGraw” at the 2007 CMT Music Awards, and a Horizon Award win at the 2007 Country Music Association Awards. In the years since, Swift has dropped four studio albums, transformed her style, and transitioned into a pop megastar. In honor of Swift’s new album, Reputation, see photos of the star in the months around her album debut, ahead.
CMT Music Awards on April 10, 2006
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41st Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on May 23, 2006
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40th Annual CMA Awards on November 6, 2006
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Detroit Lions vs. Miami Dolphins Thanksgiving Day Game on November 23, 2006
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2007 CMT Music Awards on April 16, 2007
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Performing in Kansas City on May 11, 2007
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Academy of Country Music New Artists' Show Party for a Cause on May 14, 2007
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CLASSIC MOTORING EVENT NEWS
Brought To You by CLASSIC CHATTER
Ferrari Fever As Salon Privé Unveils Full Concours Masters Line-up
Thursday 31st August - Saturday 2nd September | Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
Concours Masters to showcase key models of Ferrari’s 70-year history
From the oldest-surviving UK-delivered Ferrari to latest LaFerrari Aperta
Highlights include the third-ever 250 GT LWB California Spider, a one-of-16 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Competizione and a prototype F40
Headline sponsors Chubb Insurance to support both Salon Privé Concours events
Derek Bell hosts ‘my time with Enzo’ at Dick Lovett/Ferrari Financial Services-sponsored Gala Dinner
Head Judge Derek Bell MBE joined by Coldplay’s Guy Berryman - an avid Ferrari fan
The first UK event to host two consecutive Concours competitions, Salon Privé is delighted to announce the full line-up for its Concours Masters ‘Tribute to 70 Years of Ferrari’ celebration.
Paying homage to arguably the world’s finest automotive manufacturer, Ferrari, on its 70th anniversary year, Salon Privé has attracted some of the most significant and rarest models from Maranello to the lawns of Blenheim Palace, all of which will be on display throughout Saturday 2nd September.
Highlights for the inaugural Concours Masters ‘Tribute to 70 Years of Ferrari’ include eight special 250 variants – the company’s most successful early model line – as well as rarely-seen prototypes, ex-Formula One racers and some of the most iconic modern ‘pin-up’ Ferrari supercars. With over 50 Ferraris confirmed for next month’s event, competition will be fierce as owners vie to take home the prized awards, including People’s Choice, Owners’ Choice, and Ladies’ Choice.
Next week’s inaugural Concours Masters will showcase a timeline of Ferrari’s illustrious history, from the previously announced 1949 Ferrari 166 Inter Coupe – the oldest-surviving UK-based Ferrari – to the latest Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta, which was built to celebrate the marque’s 70th anniversary.
On display is one of the 209 examples of the 2016 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta, a car so exclusive that lucky owners had to be invited by Ferrari to purchase. An even more exclusive version of the LaFerrari hypercar, the Aperta has a removable carbon fibre roof with a soft-top. Although at a glance the two models may look very similar, a myriad of design differences were necessary to make the open-top version as efficient as the coupé, including re-profiling the front wings to accommodate a revised door opening angle. The example at Salon Privé was the first one officially imported into the UK.
With no less than eight 250s confirmed, including the striking 250 Lusso once owned by Steve McQueen and a California Spider, the upcoming Ferrari event is set to be a showstopper. Lusso, meaning Italian for luxury; this 1963 Maronne Brown Ferrari 250 Lusso certainly lives up to its luxury-themed name. Once owned by one of the most important Sixties actors and automotive legends, Steve McQueen, it will travel to join the celebration and take part in the Concours Masters centerpiece.
Other 250-themed highlights include a 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider by Scaglietti. Often referred to as the ‘holy grail’, and one of the most beautiful cars to come out of Maranello, the California Spider had the performance to back-up its road presence. With style icons and celebrities such as Brigitte Bardot, James Coburn and Alain Delon all previous owners, it continues to turn heads after almost 60 years. This car is the third-ever chassis of 50 ‘LWB’ models built, and rarer still is one of 14 LWB California Spiders built during 1958.
Shown for the first time at any event in over 40 years, Concours Masters will host a special 1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta. Sold new in Switzerland in 1962, the original owner specified it with features that are unique to this car, including a full-width front bumper, two-tone paint finish and narrower wheels and tyres. After years of obscurity, when it had lost many of the special details, it was found and purchased by its current owner in 2013, who then entrusted it to DK Engineering to carry out a full ground-up restoration to original, period-perfect condition.
Two Competizione, race-prepared, and homologated Ferraris are also confirmed to attend, including a 1972Ferrari 365 GTB/4 (Daytona) Competizione. This example, a second series variant, retains the aluminum bonnet, boot lid and doors of earlier cars but features a stronger steel body. Hugely successful in the period, Daytona Competiziones filled the top five positions in their class for the Le Mans 24 Hour Race in 1972, and repeated class wins there in 1973 and 1974. One of just 16 officially-sanctioned examples made from the factory, the Daytona Competizione is even rarer than the legendary 250 GTO.
Joining it is one of 50 1995 Ferrari 348 GT Competizione models made. Built to meet homologation regulations, the GT Competizione has a more powerful engine and tuned exhaust system and is 120 kg lighter than the standard 348 thanks to Kevlar doors, sills, and bumpers. It also features F40-style bucket seats, modified brakes, suspension and subframe as well as lightweight Speedline wheels. On display will be car number 41 of 50, one of just eight right-hand-drive examples built – making it one of the rarest 348 Ferraris ever made.
No Ferrari event is complete without a Ferrari F40 – often regarded as the very epitome of a supercar – and Salon Privé has managed to lure a factory prototype out of hiding. This 1987 Ferrari F40 Prototype includes features that eager Ferrari connoisseurs would spot, including different wing mirrors, five vents instead of four, different Kevlar used for the tub and luxury quilted headlining.
Once its test work was completed, this car was gifted to the then Motorsport Director of Ferrari and the F1 Team Manager, Marco Piccinini by Enzo Ferrari himself. Remaining with Piccinini until 2016, when it was purchased by its current owner, this example benefits from being Ferrari Classiche certified and is in original, unmolested condition.
The first event of its kind, the Salon Privé Concours Masters is designed to employ a more relaxed and subjective approach to judging compared to the traditional scrutiny of most Concours events. The key judging team, comprising of avid Ferrari fans and owners, historians and ex-racers, including Head Judge Derek Bell MBE, alongside Coldplay band member Guy Berryman, supermodel Yasmin Le Bon and Ferrari historians Keith Bluemel, Tony Willis and Marcel Massini. The team of 11 judges will have 25 awards to present on Saturday 2nd September, including the highly-coveted People’s Choice, Owners’ Choice, and Ladies’ Choice.
“It’s taken over 12 years to nurture relationships with the world’s top Ferrari collector to get to this point; a dedicated Ferrari Concours attracting a global audience, not to mention the first-ever Concours Masters,” said Andrew Bagley Salon Privé Managing Director & Concours Chairman. “2017 is set to be a landmark year for Salon Privé, not only with the introduction of Concours Masters – allowing us to be the UK’s first event to hold two consecutive Concours competitions – but also to celebrate one of the most special sports car manufacturers, Ferrari, on what will be its 70th anniversary.”
A full list of entries is as follows:
1949 Ferrari 166 Inter
1952 Ferrari 342 America
1953 Ferrari 166 MM PF Berlinetta
1953 Ferrari 250MM
1953 Ferrari 250 Inter-Europa Vignale Coupe
1956 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta TdF
1956 Ferrari 500 Testarossa
1957 Ferrari 500 Testarossa Competition TRC
1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider
1961 Ferrari 250 GTE Series 1
1961 Ferrari 400 Superamerica SWB Coupe Aerodinamico
1962 Ferrari 250 GT SWB
1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso
1965 Ferrari 330 GT Series 1
1965 Ferrari 275 GTS
1966 Ferrari 330 GTC
1966 Ferrari 365 California Spider
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4
1969 Ferrari 365 GT 2+2
1971 Ferrari 246 GT Dino
1972 Ferrari 365 GTB/4C Daytona
1974 Ferrari 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer
1985 Ferrari 288 GTO
1987 Ferrari F40 Prototype
1990 Ferrari F40 Michelotto
1990 Ferrari F40 GT
1991 Ferrari 642 F1
1994 Ferrari 348 Challenge
1995 Ferrari 348 GT Competizione
1996 Ferrari F50
1996 Ferrari F355 Challenge
1997 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta
2005 Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
2007 Ferrari 612 Sessanta
2008 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2015 Ferrari 458 Speciale 'Tailor Made'
2015 Ferrari LaFerrari
2016 Ferrari FF
2016 Ferrari F12 TDF
2016 Ferrari LaFerrari Aperta
2017 Ferrari F12 70th Edition
Further information on the upcoming Concours Masters and Chubb Insurance Concours d’Elégance events can be found here.
Tickets for Salon Privé 2017 are on sale now
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The torn fragments of the world slowly stitch themselves together again, and in the rubble you hear them say: Why Are You Here?
(fiction) by Zephronias Sun Jul 07 2019 at 5:40:28
Wait--
I don’t remember much of the hospital stay.
I remember thinking it was just another part of the Shady Oaks facility, except no, there was an ambulance ride somewhere in the mix, which meant I was out.
Freedom! I remember thinking, and the thought causing me to giggle to myself.
I remember having cold compresses packed all over me, and trying to scream from the pain of it. The cold was biting, gnawing, and while I realize now it was just bringing be back down to normal, I was certain they were killing me.
I remember, for a delirious and triumphant while, thinking the fever was my power returning. I always burned hot when throwing lightning around, so clearly this was a good thing. I tried to tell the hospital staff, the ER Doctors and the ICU staff that. “No, don’t, this is good.” But I don’t remember if I actually said it, or if I only thought about saying it.
And I remember, as soon as my fever broke and I was awake enough, that I tried to make a break for it. I didn’t get far; I fell out of bed and couldn’t pick myself back up, and over the intercom I heard a voice say, “code Falling Star” and I had no idea what it meant. Several hospital staff members hoisted me back on the bed, made sure nothing was broken, then locked me in the cloth wrist restraints again.
“My doctor tried to kill me,” I tried to tell anyone who came near me. “He poisoned me.”
“I'm sure he didn't,” they would say. Or, “don't worry buddy, you're gonna be fine.” Or “if that was true, would you be here?”
Eventually, my rambling protests annoyed someone enough for them to shut me up.
“Patient is agitated and uncooperative,” a doctor said. I was still too fuzzy to tell if they were talking to someone else, themselves, or me. “Prior history of violence and diagnosis of schizophrenia. Chemical restraints have been authorized."
Chemical restraints? I thought, alarm cutting through the fog in my head. Images of being dipped in acid or kept in a tank of colorful fluids flooded my mind, and when they grabbed me, I started screaming and biting anything within reach.
But all they did was give me an injection, and as had happened so often as of late, I sank fitfully into a peaceful sleep.
Proctor immediately had all my meds pulled.
“Unfortunately, NMS is a rare, yet incredibly severe side effect from the typical antipsychotic medications,” Proctor was saying.
I was back in my room. Same old little cell. Same old Basco, checking my temperature. Same old Proctor hanging out in the doorjamb. Same bed, same shadow on the wall, same choir of muffled voices in the other rooms. I was cocooned in a blanket, impersonating a miserable burrito.
“Brandon?” said Proctor. “Did you hear me?”
“I don’t feel good,” I tried to say. It came out slurred and almost unrecognizable as English.
“I’m aware,” he said. “The sedatives should be wearing off soon.”
“I almost died,” I said.
“You had a very severe reaction,” he said diplomatically.
I snorted. Of course he wouldn’t apologize for trying to kill me. Why should he? He was the one in charge. He was one trying to kill me.
“Thorazine is obviously off the table,” he went on.
“Good!” I said. That time, the word came out sounding somewhat human.
“We’re going to be trying a newer medication with you,” he went on. “Paliperidone. This one has a much smaller chance of NMS-- the sickness you experienced-- and should hopefully react a little better with your condition.”
That all sounded well and good, until a few days later, I couldn’t stop drumming my hand. I didn’t even realize I was doing it at first, not until it started hurting. When I actually took a moment to look at it, I saw I had bruises forming along the knuckles and side from hitting things.
“That’s not good, is it?” I said to Darren.
“No it is not,” he agreed. He spoke to Proctor and my medication was pulled again.
From then on, it was a guessing game. Russian roulette with prescription medication. My doses and brands were altered regularly; like the Abilify made me nauseous at a half dose and faint at a full-- literally faint. I’d be walking to the commons and then find myself waking up on the floor. Prolixin didn’t work at all until we hit the full dose, and when we did, it made it easier to think clearly, but also sent me into mood swings. One second, I'd be manic-- running around the forum, starting painting projects and singing under my breath silly songs from old Disney movies-- then I'd be in my room, curled up in bed in the depths of depression again, but worse, unable to find the motivation to even move. If Darren hadn't made me, I probably would have never gotten up during those times. Proctor wanted to ride it out for a while, see if I adjusted, but after the second week I tried hanging myself with the bed sheets during a low point.
I got myself taken off Prolixin and put on suicide watch while Proctor tried to sort me out.
After that, the rest of the failed prescriptions were uneventful. Either they either didn’t improve my condition, or they fucked me up in some way that wasn’t worth it. Sometimes they started out promising, but then Proctor upped my dosages and they overshot and made me worse.
“Alright,” Proctor said after the latest failure, “We’ll be starting another one tomorrow.”
“Of course we are,” I said, sitting up in bed. We were in my room, where we normally had our post-failure chats. Behind him, taking up most of the wall, was a tall shadow.
The shadow was as annoyed as I was, I could feel it. This was an improvement from the hatred that normally radiated from them, so I wasn't too concerned. Loudly, in case it could hear my thoughts, I thought to it, you and me both, buddy.
Proctor was still talking. “This one is supposed to be helpful for people with schizophrenia that resists other medication. It also reduces suicidal ideation, so hopefully we won't have another incident.”
“Yeah,” I said, not believing a word of it. “Uh-huh. Sure. Hey, if this one’s so good, why didn't we just start with it?”
“Because it can have very serious side effects. For this one, you’ll need regular blood tests to ensure your white cell counts are within a healthy range.”
I didn't remember what white blood cells did or why they were important, so this didn't bother me too much. Blood was red, so the red ones were the important ones, right?
I shrugged. “Cool with me,” I said.
“Excellent. I've already contacted your parents and have gotten their permission as well. Before we give you the medication, though, we’ll need a blood sample to establish a baseline.”
Darren, who had been waiting in the doorway, stepped in, empty syringe in hand.
I sighed. What was the use in fighting? I fell backwards in bed and stuck out my arm.
“Go for it,” I said, throwing my other arm over my eyes dramatically. “Drain me.”
Proctor sighed, but all he said was. “I appreciate your cooperation.”
They took my blood.
“We’ll begin treatment tomorrow,” he said. “Provided nothing is amiss in the blood results. After that, you’ll likely have blood tests every other day to start.”
I rubbed my wrist. The skin there was bruised and dotted with little pinpricks from so many injections.
“Swell,” I mumbled. “Just swell.”
It was the Clozapine that did it.
They gave me the first shot, tested some blood, and found it fine.
The muffled talking in the other rooms grew quiet.
A few days later, they upped the dose. Another blood check, and I was fine.
I stopped hearing the spiders.
A week went by, then another, then another. No sudden spaz attacks, no sudden onslaught death by brain-catching-fire. No uncontrollable head or hand banging, no suicidal depression, not even any weight gain.
Slowly but surely, I went painfully sane.
I stopped seeing the grinning shadows, and I stopped seeing the spiders. Eventually, I stopped seeing Dog, too.
It was as though a fog had been lifted. Like a film over my eyes had been removed. I'd been watching the world underwater, and only now had gotten on goggles.
Of course there were no giant talking spiders: not only did spiders not have mouths or vocal chords to speak English, they would have left webs all over the place. The shadows couldn't be stuck in the walls: shadows had no physical body, and therefore couldn't get stuck. If they had, then what? The people who painted the walls just left them in there? Hardly likely.
Bit by bit, my foggy, fear-filled world chipped away by that kind of skewed-yet-logical logic.
Proctor wasn’t trying to kill me, nor was anyone else. Why would they? If too many people died in a hospital, they’d lose their funding and my parents would sue. If he was trying to kill me, why do a series of medications instead of just shooting me? Why bother talking to me at all? Iotech was real, but they were a regular corporate conglomerate, known for making TVs and household appliances. Nobody on their CEO page was named Simon or Brandenburg-- Vincent showed me once on his cellphone. Dogs couldn't walk through walls. Bugs couldn't teleport beneath furniture. There was no such thing as monsters.
The world, once dark and full of terror, was open. Not the best, perhaps, but far less a horrifying place than it had been. Nobody was trying to kill me, nobody wanted to hurt me. The opposite in fact; I was literally surrounded by people who wanted nothing more than to help me, financed by a family who, after years of estrangement, still wanted me to be with them. I had been so afraid that without Dog, without my bugs, stripped of the imaginary friends I had given myself I would be left with nothing, but I wasn't. I wasn't alone.
I could have wept.
My old life came back to me slowly, memories focusing and sharpening by the day. It helped that Vincent kept bringing in photo albums and yearbooks and junk my parents sent in.
My name wasn't Alan, my name was Brandon. I grew up in San Pablo, in a nice house with an in-ground pool. We didn't have dogs growing up, just cats. My parents' names were Lydia and Leonard Fischer. They were both still alive, still married, and still living in the house I grew up in. She was an attorney, and he was a professor of literature at the local university.
Laura showed me them on her phone, once, during a one-on-one. Morgan, my little sister, had a public account, and I saw them without me, smiling at the camera. Candid photos of them at a party. Short videos of their-- our-- cats playing around.
“Brandon?” Laura said. “You’re crying.”
“I’m fine,” I said.
It was true. I was fine. For the first time in a long, long time, I was fine.
I lost track of the days, but I think I was about four months in when things went to shit.
I was stable. I was in Proctor’s office, during our session, sitting across from him.
"Well Brandon,” he said. “We’ve had a few bumps along the way, but you're done well, all things considered." He smiled and sat forward in his chair. "I'm proud of your progress, and I’m proud of you."
It was disgusting how much that praise meant to me. "Thank you," I said.
"I don't want us to get ahead of ourselves, but I'm seriously considering the possibility of outpatient therapy."
I sat up straighter. "They're going to let me out of here?"
"Not yet," he said. "A few more weeks of observation. Perhaps a month. I've contacted your family and they want to come visit you during that time. If they feel that you're ready, then they'll take you home. It would be a conditional release; if you stopped caring for yourself to our satisfaction or to the satisfaction of your local psychiatrist, then you would be either sent back here, or to a facility closer to home."
My heart stopped, I'm sure it did. "And if they don't? If my family doesn’t think I’m ready? If they don’t want me?"
He started cleaning his glasses. "Depending on how you fare, we could consider legal action to get you deemed for to care for yourself, but that's a last resort." He put his glasses back on and smiled. "But I fully believe your family will be as proud of your progress as I am."
Despite the confidence in his voice, I wasn't so sure. While my memories of my family were still foggy around the edges, I seemed to recall leaving on really bad terms.
"I don't know," I said miserably, sinking back into the chair. "I was a piece of shit."
He glowered. "That is a negative thought."
"But it's true."
"Whatever questionable behavior you may have done, whatever terms you and your family departed on are in the past. You may have a lot to make up for, but you're better now."
"Yeah. Yeah, I guess."
But I couldn't shake the cold, heavy feeling in my gut.
The day after my session with Proctor, Darren found me with the others at the TV corner.
"He's crazy," Jake the Biter said.
"No, it's magic," said Frank.
"I was a wizard, once," said Michael.
"Don't change the subject," Jake said. "Bill Murry is insane. He belongs in here with us. All of this is in his head. Maybe even the end is, too. Who actually gets the girl at the end? It's too TV."
"But it is TV," I said.
"Brandon," Darren said.
"It's magic," Frank said. "I bet that Ryerson guy is a wizard. He's doing it. Gonna teach Murry a lesson."
Darren touched my shoulder. "Brandon. Visitor."
I looked at him, shocked. "Now?"
He nodded and looked around. "Come on," he said.
I got up and followed him. We went to my room first; I insisted. I wanted to look at least semi-presentable. I put on the only good shirt I had and tried to pick the stray lint off it. No use; my hands were shaking too much and it was taking too much time.
Was it my family? I was too afraid to ask. Proctor said they wouldn't be here for a while, right? But what if they'd come early? What if it was a test, a way to catch me unprepared? Where those thoughts too paranoid? What if that's what they were checking for?
I tried to button up my shirt. It was more difficult than usual.
I wondered if it would be my father. To my faulty memory, he had been a hard man to deal with. My mother had been the soft touch of the two. What if it was my sister? i hoped it was. I'd liked her...
I finished making myself look as nice as I could. My head spun while my body followed Darren to the common room.
The table area was mostly clear, but for a few people nearest the cafeteria-part. There was a man sitting at one of the cafeteria-like tables in the visiting area part, closer to the hallway that led to the exit. His back was to me, and I hoped something about him might trigger a memory, but there was nothing familiar about him at that angle. Just the backside of a gray suit. To my surprise, there was a kid sitting at the same table, across from him, turned towards me, though he was looking the other way.
My mouth was dry.
“Do I just--?”
Darren patted my shoulder and gave me a thumbs up.
“Don’t worry, bud,” he said. “You’ve got it. You want me to stand with you?”
I was tempted, but shook my head. “No. Thanks though.” I took a deep breath and started over.
The boy saw me first. When he did, he pointed me out to the seated man, then rose to his feet. Before I had made it across, the boy rushed up to me, all confidence, and said, "are you Brandon?"
"Yes?" I said. Was this a relative I had forgotten? Some little cousin? Couldn't be a nephew-- too old to be Morgan's. And someone would have told me if my parents had adopted--
The boy wrinkled his nose and tilted his head slightly, as though he were inspecting a dog turd.
"You're painfully normal," he said eventually.
"Thanks," I said. I gave him a shrug and a smile. "Better that than the alternative."
The boy made a frustrated noise between a sigh and a groan, then turned on his heel. He trekked back to the table with the seated man and said, "This one's boring."
"What did I tell you about behavior?" said the man.
I frowned. His voice achingly was familiar, but I couldn't place it. Was this an uncle I didn't remember?
The boy straightened his posture. His face went expressionless, and his voice was flat and neutral when he said, "my apologies sir."
I blinked. Though all he'd done was shift his posture and inflection, it was a strange and radical change.
“Noted,” said the man. His voice was driving me nuts, and I kept waiting for him to turn around to see me, but he didn’t. “Sit and be silent,” he told the boy.
The boy obeyed and sat primly at the table, hands folded, back ramrod-straight.
“So, hi,” I said to his back. I moved towards him, thinking maybe he’d stand up and shake my hand or something. “Did my family send--”
The man turned a little, and I saw his face.
For a split second, the world was made of glass. It was a frozen, perfect instant of absolute, gut-wrenching clarity.
“Hello, Brandon,” said the man. He gestured to the space at the table across from him.
“Please. Have a seat.”
“No,” I said again, a little louder.
“I just want to talk to you.”
I was a hair away from screaming. From frothing at the mouth and screeching to the heavens, clawing out the eyes of anyone near me. I was so close to turning and running away, howling down the halls and back into the safety of my room, but the boy was suddenly beside me. He latched onto my arm with unexpected strength and said, “Don’t freak, freak.”
He spoke the words quietly. I almost didn’t hear him, and I was right there. “The old man just wants to talk,” he said. “If you have a meltdown right now, they’ll never let you outta here.”
Something about the boy’s words cut through the glassy-eyed panic. I stared at him, and he looked back at me with gray-blue eyes that, for some reason, looked startlingly familiar. I couldn’t explain it, I had no idea why, but something about them set off that monkey-brained fight or flight response.
I squeezed my eyes closed and ground my teeth, trying to squash back the scream building in my throat.
The boy laughed. “That’s the spirit. Come on, now.”
He took my arm and guided me to the empty place at the table. I sat, hating everything, hating myself, hating him for existing-- except he didn’t exist. I was in the commons room, hallucinating. I was delusional. This was all in my head, and Proctor needed to up my dosage right now.
Simon Brandenburg, founder of Iotech Industries, evil pseudo-immortal scientist and my old boss, smiled at me and said, “Hello Alan. You don’t look at all like I remember you.”
“Simon.” I managed, half-choking on the word and the hate behind it.
“And you’re Brandon. Brandon Fischer.” He said the name thoughtfully, as though he were tasting it. “I think I preferred Alan.”
“You can’t be here.” I said.
“I didn’t expect to find myself here, either,” he said, drawing out the sentence like a fine cigar. His smugness. How could I forget how smug he was? The fake-jovial-fatherly tone he used to manipulate people, manipulate me-- but no. No, no. Not me. Alan. I was Brandon.
“No,” I said a little louder, losing control. “You can’t be here!”
“Alan,” he said sternly. “Do not—“
“You don’t exist!” I half-shouted. I slammed my hands onto the table and stood. “You’re not real!”
“Smooth,” said the boy beside me.
I noticed that the security staff was starting to look at me. I sat back down and hissed to Brandenburg, “You’re not real.”
“What makes you say that?”
“Because I’m not Alan. Alan isn’t real. My name is Brandon.”
He looked at me levelly. His expression was blank.
“It is!” I said. “I was confused before. I’m not Alan.”
“You’re correct,” Brandenburg said. He shrugged and smiled. “I have no idea where Alan Jacob Campbell is. He’s been missing for the better part of a year. We’ve been looking for him on and off, never losing interest in him entirely, you see, but we started directing our attention. . . inwards, you could say.”
He glanced at the boy, who laughed. I nearly jumped; the kid had a smoker’s cackle, a hoarse, deep laugh belonging to someone with twenty years on him and a pack-a-day habit.
“However,” Simon continued, “There have been new developments. We need Alan."
“He isn’t real!” I hissed, trying to keep my voice low. My world was unravelling and my literal nightmare was trying to act like this was some kind of lunchtime chat.
“He is,” Simon said. “I don’t know how, and frankly I don’t particularly care how, but you’ve managed to peg on to him through some sort of empathic or telepathic link. The boys in the lab will figure it out in time, I’m sure, but for now, we need you to come with us and give us all the information you have regarding Alan’s whereabouts.”
“No,” I said. “This isn’t happening.”
“You know where he’s at,” Simon said.
“No, I don’t.”
“You know where he’s been, then. It’s a start.”
“This is insane. I am insane. I--” I blinked, then grinned. I said cheerfully, “I already knew that, but now I’m really-really insane. But I can fix it! You have to go now. You have to leave. I have to leave.”
I got up.
“Brandon--”
“Nope!” I said, turning away. “Nuh-uh. Not acknowledging you.”
“Well, you kinda are,” said the boy.
“I can’t hear you.” I started walking for my room. Proctor’s office was by the exit gate, and I didn’t want to be there when they left. It would feel too much like they were chasing me, or caging me in the corner.
Which just showed how bonkers I was, because of course they weren’t going to leave through the gate. They were delusions. Delusions didn’t need the gate. But all the same, I made for my room.
“I will give you time to decide,” Simon said to my back. “But know that we won’t wait long.”
I floated through the hallway, feeling washed out of existence. I half expected all the old delusions to start up then and there, all at once. A swarm of spiders crawling out from beneath the bed, Dog walking past the door, voices telling me to burn things.
But it was just me, alone in my room.
I shut the door behind me and leaned my back against it. Then, without noticing I was doing it, I slid down until I was crouched on the ground.
It was impossible.
Simon wasn’t real. The boy wasn’t real. They couldn’t be real, because if they were, that meant everything was real. Alan, Iotech, the monsters, the bugs, the void. All the horrible nightmare shit I’d spent weeks trying to get out of my head was real, all the fears I’d finally overcome-- it was all true.
I had to tell Proctor.
I don’t remember getting up, I don’t remember making my way through the facility, and I don’t remember going to Proctor’s office. But the next thing I knew, I was standing in his open doorway.
I watched my hand on the door frame and felt like it belonged to someone else
“Dr. Proctor?” I said.
He was seated at his desk, laptop open, several file folders and papers spread across the tabletop. He paused when he heard me.
“Brandon?” he said. Something in my face or voice gave me away; his expression flashed straight through confusion and into concern. “What’s wrong?”
I opened my mouth to tell him.
I didn't want to.
I wanted to pretend it all away. I was ! I was clear! I was going home! Why? Why did this happen to me? What did I do wrong to deserve it?
Proctor waited, his brow furrowing slightly.
"Brandon?"
I had to.
The words pried themselves from my jaws.
"I-- I don't want to-- I mean, I know it's not--"
My hands were trembling. Pressure built behind my eyes, and I felt like I would collapse any moment into tears.
“Brandon,” said Proctor. “It’s okay. Take a breath.”
I gulped down air and said, "I saw Simon Brandenburg."
Proctor carefully closed his laptop.
"You . . . saw him," he said slowly.
"The man who visited. Just now? That wasn't my parents' lawyer. It was him. He told me. He told me everything was real. He told me Alan is real, and that means the monsters, and the lab, and the shadows--"
I was weeping. Tears streamed down my face and I couldn’t stop them.
"My medicine is working," I said, voice thick. "I haven't seen anything. I'm clear. But he was still here and he said it was true."
My voice broke, and I couldn't speak anymore.
Proctor sighed and said nothing. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes, pinching at the bridge of his nose.
"You don't believe me," I said.
Resignation, the understanding that the exact thing I had feared was coming true, became man enormous and crushing weight in my chest, threatening to suffocate me.
“I believe you're upset,” he said. “I believe you saw something that upset you.”
“You don't believe me.”
“Brandon,” he said. “Who do you think granted him clearance? Mr. Demetradze spoke to me before he was allowed to see you. We talked for over an hour about you and your situation; his credentials were all good.”
"What about the kid?" I said.
Proctor looked at me, frowning. "Kid?"
"A boy. He had a boy with him, ask the guard."
"Can you describe him?"
I wanted to pull out my hair. "Check the security cameras," I said. "Little blond kid. Looked like he was dressed for church-- white shirt, pressed pants. Does that sound like something an attorney would do? Just bring their kid along?”
"Brandon, I’m disappointed."
I froze.
"You've made tremendous progress," he said. "But your paranoia appears to have been triggered."
No. No. No no no no--
"Forget it,” I said. “It's fine. Forget the kid. It was bring your kid to work day or something. It's fine."
"It's fine. There's no Simon. He just looked like him."
No no no, I thought. Don't start me over. It's fine. I'm fine.
"I'm fine," I said.
“We’ll stick with the Clozapine,” said Proctor. “Adjust the dose.”
“You've changed your mind,” I said, unable to hide the misery in my voice. “You're not going to let me go home.”
“This isn’t the end, Brandon,” he said, rising from his seat. “This is just another bump in the road.”
He put his hand on my shoulder, and I took a deep, shuddering breath.
“Alright,” I said, nodding. “Okay.”
He escorted me down the hall, back to the commons. Brandenburg-- or was it Demitri-something? Demitrizad? Demetradze?-- and the boy were gone.
I floated through the rest of the day, alternating bouts of jittering panic with fugue-like disinterest. Evening came, then dinner. I barely registered both, though at one point I found myself carrying my empty plate and tray to the stack by the kitchen door, so at some point I must have eaten. After dinner, we all had a couple hours of free time, which I spent the entirely of pacing back and forth around the commons. Nobody batted an eye. Then came room time, and all the patients were herded into our rooms.
Lights out wasn't actually for another hour after room time, but I turned mine out and tried to get some shut-eye anyway.
It didn't work.
I tossed. I turned. I stared at nothing until my eyes adjusted near-perfectly to the darkness, to the point where it almost felt like the lights were still on. On the bedside table, the little radio-clock they gave me told me the time in obnoxiously bright red numbers.
I turned away from it, trying to block out the light that, in reality, was nothing, but at the moment felt insanely strong.
In my head, the conversation with Simon played on repeat, over and over and over. It felt unreal. Like it had happened to someone else, and I’d heard it second hand.
It didn't happen, obviously. Proctor was right. I'd met with my family's lawyer and blown it somehow. Who knew what I’d been doing to the poor man? Ruining my chances at leaving, clearly. Raving at him like a lunatic about Simon when he was probably trying to talk to me about my family.
“Hey,” said a voice that I was pretty sure wasn’t actually there.
I could just imagine it: some random lawyer who maybe bore a passing resemblance to my imaginary nightmare sitting awkwardly while I banged on the table and yelled at him. No doubt he’d called my parents as soon as he could and told them not to bother.
“Hey!” said the voice, a little louder.
This time, something in the quality of it got my attention and made me think it might be real. I sat up.
The room was empty, and the door was closed and locked; all the patient rooms were locked after nine. Sometimes they did a security check, but they normally just peeked through the little windows on the door.
“Hello?” I said watching the door, wondering if the night guy was talking to me from the hall.
There was a blur to the right of me. Deep shadows in the already-dark room shifted and moved, a dark splotch of blackness in the blue-gray dark that swam from the corner into the middle of the room.
I frowned. Was this a delusion, or was this just my eyes playing tricks on me in the normal way?
I was still trying to decide when out of the dark spot stepped a little boy. His features were hard to make out, even with my night-adjusted eyes, but based on the whiteness of his shirt and lightness of his hair, I guessed it was the same boy who'd been with Brandenburg earlier.
"Oh,” I said, feeling oddly relieved. "Delusion. Got it."
I fell back into bed.
"Hey!" the boy said. "Get up!"
"Nope," I said, resolutely looking at the wall, my back to the kid.
"I broke in here to talk to you!" he said.
"Oh yeah?" I said. "How? Did you break in? You stepped out of the dark just then. My brain is making this up, and now it's trying to explain how it's actually all possible--"
"Augh, forget it!" the boy snapped. "Let's cut to the chase. I know you know where Alan is. I need you to tell me."
"This isn't happening," I said. "None of this is happening. Goodnight, delusion."
I turned away from him and got myself back snugly under the covers.
"Are you kidding me?" the boy said. I felt him tugging at the covers, trying to pull them off. "Get up, you idiot. I'm breaking you out of here. Isn't that what every crazy in this place wants?"
I sat up. "I am not crazy," I said. "Case in point, I know that you aren't real. I know this is all some kind of extended delusion. I know that tomorrow I am going to see my doctor and ask for a higher dose of Clozapine, and then I will never see or hear you again. So one more time, goodnight."
I went back to bed.
"Why would I be in your head?" said the boy. "What, you imagine kids a lot, freak?"
"Hey, shut up!" I sat up again and chucked a pillow at his head.
He dodged it easily. "Then just tell me where Alan is,” he said. “You don’t want the old man getting his hands on him, do you? You know he’d cut him up for parts. Just tell me where he’s at, and I’ll get him first.”
“Why?” I said. “Don’t you work for Iotech, too?”
He glared at me. “None of your business. Just tell me where he’s at, and I won’t rip your head off.”
He growled something under his breath and made a short, quick gesture with his hand.
The room began to shake.
My head began to hurt. There was a familiar, painful noise ringing in my ears, drilling its way into my skull, and I looked at the boy in horror.
“You’re not.” I said.
Even as I said it, he began to transform. Unnatural darkness spread from his left eye, covering part of his face. Chunks of his hair where the darkness touched changed into strange, ghostly waves, like pitch-black flame. The darkness spread down his neck, beneath his shirt, and then down his arm. His left arm elongated, broadened, shifted and changed until it was an enormous, crystalline claw. It looked too large to lift, too big to be controlled by a spindly little kid, but he did so easily.
“Now,” he said, raising the claw like he was going to attack me. “Tell me where he’s at.”
“I don’t know!” I shouted. I scrambled backwards on the bed, looking around wildly for any way to escape, or anything to attack him with.
“Liar!" the boy snarled. "You have his memories!”
“I don’t know where he’s at now! I’ve been here! He could be anywhere!” The clock radio was just within reach. I grabbed it and hurled it at the boy’s head. There was no hope of hurting him, but if he was distracted--
Before I could bolt, he shifted slightly to the side, and the clock went sailing past his ear. He never removed his eyes from mine.
“Pathetic,” he said. “I hope the real thing’s not as disappointing as you.”
He made a rolling motion with his head, like he was stretching his neck.
An odd lump was on his back. I didn’t remember seeing it before. As I watched, still wondering how to get past him to the door, the lump swelled visibly, bulging beneath his polo.
There was the sound of tearing cloth, and the lump on his back was visible; like his face and arm, it was that pitch-black color, the same oily, shining black as the void creatures.
It ripped open.
I watched, stunned, as sticks-- sticks?-- sharp looking, jagged spikes pierced through the lump on the boy’s back, sprouting like bamboo. The cluster of sticks drew up taller and taller, nearly bumping into the ceiling, but before they did, they bent at round joints that suddenly swelled into existence. The spikes bent, creeping downward, even as their roots at his back kept growing until I finally understood what I was looking at.
Spider legs.
The boy had jagged, trunk-like spider legs coming from his back, each ending in a blade-like point.
I opened my mouth to scream, and nothing came out.
He looked up and laughed.
"So," he said, his spider limbs stretching around the room, lifting him up into the air slightly, "I'm going to ask you one more time. Where is Alan? if you tell me, then I'll let you live."
I gaped. I stared at him in open-mouthed shock. I think I was trying to scream, but all that came out were strangled squeaks and little gasps.
The boy frowned. He leaned in closer, moving himself to be eye-level with me.
“Talk!” he said.
I tried very hard not to have a heart attack.
This isn’t real, it’s in my head! This isn’t real, it’s in my head! This isn’t real--
The boy tore at his hair with his human hand and dragged his hand down his face. There came a low, rumbling sound from his chest that was powerful enough to shake the metal frame of the bed, and I realized distantly that he was growling like an animal.
“Fine!” he snapped. He kept agitatedly running his human hand over his head, through his human hair and the shadow-fire part. “Fine!”
He looked up at me. “I’ll just take you with me. We can figure it out later.”
Two of his spider legs flew forward towards me.
I screamed and slammed myself back against the wall, desperate to get away from them. The nearest one rammed me in the chest with enough pressure to wind me. I thought for sure that it would go straight through, pin me like a bug on a card, and break into the plaster of the wall.
“Relax,” the boy said. “It won’t hurt. I’m going to carry you out. Hold still--”
The sound of glass breaking interrupted us.
The boy's human eye flicked to the door, and for half a heartbeat, we stood in mutual, silent confusion.
"That's not me," he whispered.
His eyes widened suddenly.
"Wait, no--"
Suddenly, the boy staggered, and his spider leg fell away from me. He clutched his head and glared at the wall to the side.
“Dammit!” he said, panting. “Not now!”
I wanted to ask what he meant, but before I could, his spider arm hit me in the chest again.
"Shh," he hissed.
He made a gesture with his human hand and the spider leg pinning me went wobbly, transforming from hard and blade-like into a void-material tendril. It wrapped around my arm, spiraling unevenly from just below my armpit all the way down to my wrist.
“We need to go. Now,” he said. “If you scream, you’ll die.”
I opened my mouth, saw the look on his face, then closed it.
It’s in my head, it’s in my head, it’s in my head--
The boy, satisfied that I wasn’t going to start howling, backed away from me, his spider legs crouching in the cramped room. Then, without ceremony or even any visible effort, he stepped backwards through the wall behind him.
I stared. The wall was empty except for the single black tendril sticking out of it, the one latched onto my arm.
The tendril gave a little tug, pulling me off the bed, to my feet, and the boy's head popped back through the wall.
"Come on!" he said. "It’ll notice us."
"What will?" I whispered.
"Come on," he said, phasing back out through the wall.
The tendril dragged me to the wall, then into the wall. I stumbled forward and found myself in the hall, the boy there waiting for me.
"What the hell?" I hissed.
"What?" The boy said, peering ahead. "Don't tell me Campbell hasn't figured out how to do that yet. Even the dog knows how."
Before I could actually answer, he turned away, yanking on my arm and pulling me after him down the hall. His spider legs lifted and tucked together, away from the walls and floor, and it reminded me of ladies lifting their skirts before walking through puddles.
"It doesn't know where we are yet," he whispered. We crossed into the empty common room. "If we can just--"
The pain hit us at the same time. Blaring, brain-splitting, worst-headache-in-your-life pain that I had come to associate with only one thing.
Void creatures.
We both staggered. I braced against the wall for support, and the boy dropped to one knee where he was. It was only for a second-- we both seemed to adjust almost immediately, and were already picking ourselves back up, but before he could say or do anything, a black blur of motion swept him off his feet. The spider boy went tumbling awkwardly to the floor, spider legs sprawling in ways I thought would cause them to snap in half.
The creature that hit him didn’t look strong. It was smaller than any void creature I’d seen-- the size of a grade schooler, an early grade schooler. It was humanoid in that it was upright and had two legs, but that's where the resemblance ended. It was unnaturally thin and covered in overlapping armor-like plates of chitin. Its head was large, flat, and roughly shaped like a shovel spade, which split open flat-wise to reveal an inordinate number of teeth that really shouldn't have been able to fit. It had no hands or claw, just two enormous, scyth-like blades at the ends of small arms, and behind it were two enormous dragonfly-like wings.
It opened and closed its mouth, making small shrieking noises, and its slobber fell to the ground, leaving bubbling pool of melted linoleum where it landed.
The boy, back on his feet now, screamed-- not out of fear, but out of anger. He charged the creature, black fire in his monster-claw, and the creature went to meet him. The two became a dark tangle of limbs and blades and claws, diving over and under one another, bouncing off the walls, each trying to hurt the other while avoiding getting hurt themselves.
I reached for my own power on instinct and found absolutely nothing. Not only was there nothing to reach, but I had the sinking suspicion that even if there had been some secret well of power inside me, I wasn't doing the actual reaching part properly. I'd lost the knack for it-- if I'd ever had it to begin with.
So I stood there stupidly while the two of them fought like ferrets across the common room.
At one point, the spider boy managed to hurl the void creature off him, just for a moment, but that was all it took. He held up his massive monster claw and it caught fire, lighting like a torch. Except it wasn’t on fire, I realized. He was holding fire. Strange, black fire that appeared dark, but lit the area around them, casting deep, yet oddly-muted shadows across the room.
While the creature was getting back onto its feet, preparing to charge, the boy made a swift gesture. He threw the black fire the way I-- the way Alan-- threw electricity, with more bombastic results.
The monster shrieked and fell, a huge chunk of its chest missing. Just gone-- vaporized.
He stood over the smoldering corpse of the void creature, a monstrous, many-legged silhouette in the pale light from the windows, and smiled.
"I'm not crazy," I said, my voice faint to my ears. There was no relief in it, no joy. If I was sane, then that meant every horrible thing I'd encountered was really real. That the world was just as dark and frightening as I'd thought it was.
"Nope," he said, stepping off the corpse. "You're completely bugnuts. But when it comes to the Iotech stuff, you're right."
He peered over the monster’s body, then kicked it for good measure.
“I hate these things,” he said. “If there’s one around, there’s a dozen. They hate me more than they hate Campbell.”
He strode towards me, and for a confused second, I wondered how we had come to be the same height, but then he was offering me his hand-- his human hand-- and helping me off the ground. I hadn’t even noticed my legs buckling beneath me. When I stood, they felt weak and jelly-like, and the air in the room felt thick with heat.
“Hey, wait,” the boy said. “Don’t freak out on me, okay? Or freak out later. Come on. I can't phase you out of the whole building, so you'll have to walk."
I nodded like that made sense and let him lead me along. What was the point in fighting? I'd been right. Monsters were real, Iotech was evil, and spider boys existed, even on Clozapine, and there was nothing I could do about it.
We were just starting to make our way across the commons when another void creature sprang from the empty nurse's station.
It looked like some gigantic animal -- a bear, maybe-- had been swimming in oil and was now dripping it everywhere, except the drops never actually left it, just hung from its not-skin until being absorbed again. It stood in front of us, barring the way to the exit.
"Aw, shoot," said the boy. With a small motion, he conjured more fire into his monster fist and charged the creature.
Do I do that? I thought, watching the two of them fight and not really seeing it. I never noticed making and kind of movement with my hand when I summoned lightning, but maybe I did and just didn't notice. Maybe he didn't notice when he did it. Or maybe I didn't notice because I wasn't actually Alan--
The two went barreling past me, and one of the boy's spider legs shoved me to the side, just in time to avoid being run over.
"Are you crazy?" he snarled. He and the creature were locked together, and he was punching its soft, slimey head with his monster-arm. It didn’t appear to be doing any good. "Don't stand there! Get out of the way!"
It struck me then that I was just standing there in the middle of a commons like an idiot.
I ran towards the exit, the one near Proctor’s office, and before I got there, a dark form blurred out of the hall, hitting me in the chest and knocking me on my ass.
Another void creature. Oily black, its carapace shining in the weak light. It looked like a giant, tape-wormy bug, but its back shell was spiny and spiked, putting me in the mind of a stegosaurus. In front, it had enormous mandibles and mole-like nostrils, and no eyes to speak of.
I scrambled backwards across the floor,trying to get away from the creature. It lifted its head, its nostrils flaring, and it lifted itself up, like a snake about to strike, and for a moment, I was certain I was about to die.
Then the void creature did something no void creature had ever done to me before.
It turned away.
It skittered past me on hundreds and hundreds of centipede legs that propelled it across the floor and up the wall, then farther up until it was crawling upside down on the ceiling. It darted lighting fast to where the boy and the other monster were battling, and it appeared to watch them attentively. The moment the two disengaged, it leapt down onto the boy's back and sunk its fangs into his shadow-side shoulder. He swore and raked its face with his monster claw, convincing it to let go.
“Another?” I shouted.
"They really don't like me," he said.
The boy lashed out his arms, and black fire flew from him in a crescent barrier, knocking back one void creature and burning the other to a crisp. Instead of appearing injured, the boy laughed and ran to the other two again, streams of fire slithering up his monster-arm like a serpent. He launched himself at the remaining monster, flying across the room on spider legs, while his human legs kicked the creature's head.
He didn’t stop or slow down, and the void creature was too stubborn or stupid to think to run. The boy crashed into it, then kept on going, straight into the wall partitioning the commons from the cafeteria. They burst through the wall of the cafeteria like it was made of crate paper and rolled onto the ground, a tangled mess of spider legs and bird talons. A shrieking alarm went off. I don't know if their tussle and the boy’s fire had triggered the fire alarm, or if it had triggered some until-then silent burglar alarm, but the shrill sound of sirens filled the air, mingling with the growls, grunts, roars, and curses.
But the exit was clear. The security gate was smashed open, and the wall beside it was torn open, revealing electronic innards. The exposed wires buzzed and sparked occasionally, and I made sure to give them wide berth on my way out.
I almost felt bad leaving the boy behind, but he'd seemed like he was capable of taking care of himself-- besides, what could I have done? I had no powers, no bugs, no Dog. It rankled me to think it, but I was the useless one in the equation. The grade schooler had a better chance of getting out of there in one piece than I did.
My heart did a strange little skip when I crossed the threshold of the exit hall. I’d been waiting for this moment for months, but this wasn’t at all how I’d been expecting to go.
I hadn't seen much of the other side of the exit in my stay at Shady Oaks. The hallway with the gate was actually a bottleneck entrance: just past it, the room opened into a proper lobby lit by strong moonlight, with a reception desk and sofas along the wall for people waiting their turn. The windows there were as big as the ones in the commons, but without bars, and outside I could see a pathway to the nearly-empty parking lot. The rest of the facility was so modern, all neutral colors and clean edges that the lobby doors were different enough to be noticeable. My mind stuck on the difference, focusing on the rounded tops, the dark wood grain, the heaviness of the metal handle when I tried to open it.
They were locked, of course. Because why wouldn't they be? Hardly anything could be easy. I turned to look for something to open it with-- probably nobody left the key lying around, but maybe something to break the door knob.
So preoccupied was I that I almost tripped over the next void creature.
I felt my foot hit something hard, and I stumbled, almost falling over the hissing lump. Like the others, this one was small-- about cat-sized, but instead of being speedy, it lumbered along like a fat raccoon. Honestly, I thought to myself that if need be, I might actually be able to take it on. But it didn't come to that. The creature lifted its armored, mousey nose, wiggled at me, then turned its attention to the gate.
I wondered briefly if I should try to stop it, then decided against it. The kid could wipe the floor with it, and besides, who knew if it had something tricky up its sleeve, like acid spit or something?
I toyed with the idea of waiting there until the police arrived. Just sitting there in one of the sofas until the SWAT team blew down the doors and stormed in. Maybe if I was lucky, they'd arrest me and send me to a nice safe cell.
Then, the already dim room darkened. I glanced up at the lights on instinct, but then remembered they weren’t actually lighting the room and looked at the window. Outside, a huge void creature-- the kind I was used to dealing with-- was sliding up the windows, blocking out the moonlight. All I saw was its black, serpent-like silhouette as is slid upwards and out of sight, somewhere on the roof.
In the next room over, I heard the sound of breaking furniture. Somewhere outside, police or fire truck sirens were screeching.
I ran back through the broken gate.
“Hey, kid?” I hollered, standing halfway in the commons.
“Little busy!” he called back. Strewn around the room were several more dead void creatures in varying size and shape, most I hadn’t seen before, like they’d snuck in when I was gone. At his feet was a bigger, tentacled one that, as I watched, he punched into the carpet with his monster fist, driving his fist through it until his knuckles were touching the floor.
“What?” he snarled, whirling on me. The ink-like blackness covering his face shone sickly in the weak light.
“Big one on the roof,” I said.
“Ugh.” He sounded annoyed. “I’ll take care of it. Get out of here before the cops show up.”
“Where is everyone?” said my mouth before my brain could stop it.
The boy glowered at me. “How should I know? Stop wasting time.”
Then he went to the closest wall and stepped through it. In the place where he passed was a dark, shadowy splotch roughly his size. Then, with viper-swiftness, the splotch travelled upwards, then vanished into the seam where ceiling met wall.
“Great,” I said. “Leave me here.”
There was a loud crash from the lobby.
I ran back, some small, more intelligent part of my brain asking me why the hell I was doing that and why I wasn’t running opposite the danger, and saw yet another monster.
The creature, rhino-like and scaled, but skittering around of insect legs, shook its one-eyed head, clearly irritated. To the side, the double doors to the outside had been knocked inward. The creature scratched angrily at the splintered remains of the doors, then, without paying me any notice, it turned around and ran back out through the open doorway.
Through the windows, I saw as it leapt from the steps leading to the facility and, in mid air, lost its shape. It melted, becoming liquid-like and small, and it hit the sidewalk with a loud splat and sank like a draining puddle into the cracks in the concrete.
Of course, I found myself thinking. I started breathing irregularly through my nose-- not quite laughing yet-- and stopped myself.
No. No time for that. I had to get out of there first.
I strode to the door with the confidence of a madman and went down the steps, past where the void creature had splattered and vanished. I chose a direction at random, and walked.
I gained speed as I went, starting at a brisk walk, then job, then a flat run. I ran and ran, pounding the pavement, nearly running into people, dashing across at crosswalks when it looked like traffic was clear, not even waiting for the lights.
At every step, I expected something to happen. Kept waiting for the feeling of claws raking across my back, for teeth at my throat, for the warning spike of pain telling me void creatures were near.
But there was nothing. Just the cold night air hitting my own heat from running. The feel of my lungs and throat burning-- when was the last time I’d run? Exercised at all? Before Shady Oaks. No wonder this was difficult.
I was a few blocks away when I fell apart. Not physically, though I almost wished it had been. Everything that had happened hit me at once, this time without that numbness from earlier. My heart raced. My hands, my arms, all of me that should shook with adrenaline and what felt like the sheer force of my blood pumping through them.
It was then that I stopped running, afraid suddenly of falling. I slowed to a jog, then walk, feeling awkward, as though I were being watched, as though I’d forgotten how to swing my arms or move my legs. Where was Iotech? Where was the kid? The monsters? Were they tearing into unsuspecting police and firemen right then, or had they all left, following the boy?
I tried to wrap my mind around the consequences of it all, and couldn’t. Every time I latched onto an idea, it slipped away. Had I forgotten my meds? Or was this normal post-traumatic-monster-attack thinking? It was easier to turn my mind to thinking about thinking and small worries than it was to think about the actual monster problem. The Iotech problem. The everything-is-bad problem.
Meds. I needed them. I didn’t want to be too crazy. Crazier than reality already was. Where would I even get my meds now? The kid said he wasn’t with Iotech. Iotech had meds up the whazoo, but they probably wouldn’t share if this was some kind of inner-department covert ops--
And this was the hamster wheel of thought I was running on when the truck hit me.
There wasn’t pain, at first. Just surprize. I was suddenly in the air, then I was upside down, and then the sky was above me.
Then the pain hit.
Not a lot of it. I tried to move my head and couldn’t. And it was hard to see; each of my eyes seemed to be trying to focus independently on different things, which wasn’t translating well. There probably should have been more pain. I remember wondering about that, then figuring the adrenaline was holding it off for me.
Above me, a guy was suddenly there, looking down at me. Then he went away, though I heard him talking to someone. Probably on a cellphone, but what did I know?
Somewhere in my head, there was room to be indignant.
I'd made it through all that, all the monsters and monster-boys, the conspiracies, the fucking Thorazine, and this was how I died? Hit by a car? By someone who, based on the concern in his voice didn't even want to kill me? Not even a proper assassination!
It was frustrating. Absolutely humiliating. So I was glad I lost consciousness when I did so I wouldn't have to deal with the situation anymore.
I’m not really one for churches.
My mom liked to go when I was little, but it was a big megachurch whose pastor was arrested for some kind of tax evasion or something. It was big and modern and didn’t have anything churchy about it because it was rented out by a school the church owned, which due to some kind of weird loophole was still a nonreligious public school. The point is, even the one church I went to didn’t look churchy, just like a big community center.
So when I woke up, standing in the Temple, I didn’t know what to make of it.
I was in a garden. A small, flower-filled garden. Not just little ground growing flowers, but big flower bushes as well, mostly blue and pink hydrangeas as tall as I was. There was a tiny creek paved in white bricks that ran through it, and a little bridge that went over it. I looked up, expecting sunlight, but saw a huge stained-glass ceiling, angled in such a way that I knew there was a tower above me. Steeple. Whatever-- and that the room I was in was round.
I followed the white brick path over the bridge and wound through more tall flower bushes, red and pink ones I had no name for, and eventually to a doorway.
I was about to walk through when, upon crossing the threshold, I realized what I was seeing.
I stopped to gape.
The room was enormous and long and massively tall, like an old school cathedral. High, vaulted ceilings, elegantly sculpted pillars, and ornately patterned stained glass windows on both sides of the walls. But that wasn’t what had me staring.
Light poured into the room.
Streams of softly illuminating, liquid-like light chugged fluidly through the windows, transparent-yet-visible, colored by the pieces of glass. The light fell to the floor, but it didn’t; it pooled into the gently wafting waves of orange, yellow, and red light already there. The few blues and greens were quickly blended in with the rest of the colored light, and the whole room glowed with the warm colors. The entire room was flooded by at least two feet of liquid light. Even as I stood in the doorway between the garden and the light-room, the clean, daylight-looking white light from the garden room poured into the light-room like a wave of clear-white water.
I didn’t feel it. I was standing right in the rush of it, the mini water-fall that started around hip deep and poured down to meet the rest of the light-water, and I felt nothing, not even the rush of air.
When I stepped back into the garden room, it all stopped. There was no liquid light, just the normal sort you don’t really notice. From in the garden room, the next room just looked like a normal room. It was only when I entered again that I could see the flood of light.
After a long while, I bent down and touched it.
There was nothing to feel.
I waved my hand back and forth, noticing dimly that my arm and clothes were stained with blood from the accident.
“Are you going to be playing in the light for the entirety of your stay?” said someone ahead. “If so, we may be in more trouble than I had imagined.”
The voice was male. Deep, clear. There was something commanding and articulate about it, though it hadn’t spoken much.
The voice immediately set me on edge. It sent every hair standing on the back of my neck. I tore my eyes away from the light and towards the source of the voice.
At the far end of the room, there was a stepped platform and lectern, the sort an orator might address the rest of the room from. Behind the podium was a massive rack of candles.
A hooded figure stood on the platform, its back to me.
With no other choice presenting myself, I waded through the light towards him.
As I grew closer to the figure and the candles, I started catching glimpses of shadows out of the corner of my eyes. When I turned my head to see them, they were gone.
“You’ll only strain your neck,” the figure said, still facing away from me. “Your sight is clearer than most of your kind, but that will not serve you when those you would see wish to remain hidden.”
I stopped swiveling my head, and I stopped walking several feet from the dais.
“What is this place?” I said.
The figure turned to me. Solid shadow in the form of a pitch-black mannequin-- no face, no features, no hair. It wore equally black clothing-- some kind of open robe, the sort that almost touch the floor-- and it was so dark that I had trouble discerning where the cloth began and the person ended. If it did end.
Maybe it's just like that, I thought, a little nauseated. It wasn't wearing clothes, its body was just shaped that way.
"At last," it said, relief and frustration mingling in its booming voice. "Finally."
It smoothly glided down the steps towards me, as though it were hovering instead of walking.
A little ways before me, just as I was starting to get the urge to back away, it stopped.
"Now we can talk," it said.
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Operations and Efficiency
Bridging the Gap Between Administrators and Faculty With an Intercultural Perspective
Catherine Koverola | Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Cambridge College
Finding points of understanding and mutual agreement is absolutely essential to overcoming the sometimes significant barrier standing between faculty and administration.
At any gathering of higher education administrators, the conversation inevitably turns to the topic of faculty. You hear comments on faculty’s lack of appreciation of institutional financial pressures (“Can’t you just increase class size?”), or the need to be nimble (“Two years of planning doesn’t constitute nimble!”), how online teaching really can be effective, how not being in compliance with federal regulations really does have consequences—faculty please select your textbooks on time—on and on goes the list.
Similarly, at a faculty meeting you will hear faculty protest over the latest administrative edict and incursion upon what is deemed academic purview. Here are just a few examples: they (administrators) just don’t understand the slippery slope of their decisions, their decisions are watering down academic rigor, they are interfering with our choice of pedagogy by demanding we increase class size, they are violating our academic freedom, they are pressuring us to take on online learning when it can’t possibly be as good as face to face and so forth.
For anyone wanting a good laugh over this sad state of affairs, my favorite parody on the topic is Straight Man by Richard Russo. The setting is a nondescript unionized mid-size public institution, but the characters and the dynamics they play out are lived out in virtually every higher education institution in North America. The characters may have different names than the ones at your institution, but you will recognize them all and undoubtedly recognize yourself as well.
Conflict between higher education administrators and faculty is by no means a new phenomenon, but it is deeply unfortunate. So often such conflict and misunderstanding impedes much needed institutional change that could significantly benefit students. Further, with increasing fiscal pressures, these conflicts can actually threaten the very viability of an institution. The value of having a mutual understanding between these two key constituent groups is self-evident.
So I pose the question: could an intercultural perspective be useful in understanding these conflicts?
When we consider two disparate cultural groups, they may have significant differences in their values, beliefs, customs, language and communication patterns, to name just a few. The result of these differences and a lack of understanding can lead to a process of “othering,” where one group views the “other” as different, perhaps as threatening and dangerous, or simply as bad. The Other is rarely viewed as good or as a group that one should approach. The human tendency with othering is to demonize and cast aspersions, thereby securing the safety and security of one’s own cultural group. This concept of othering has recently been increasingly raised in discussion about Black Lives Matter.
In fact, those who dare to enter the space of dialogue with the Other are often viewed as traitors to their respective group. I have observed faculty be accused by other faculty of brown-nosing when they engage in honest dialogue with administrators in an effort to build bridges. Similarly, administrators who manage to develop good relationships with faculty are often cast by their administrative colleagues as “too faculty friendly.”
I posit that by framing these differences between administrators and faculty as intercultural differences we can provide neutral scaffolding from which to facilitate discussion and develop shared understanding. Further, an examination of perceived cultural differences will inevitably elucidate areas of common values and beliefs. The differences will often reveal themselves in the interpretation and living out of these values, which are essentially cultural customs, language and communication patterns.
It is useful to examine an increasingly common source of intense conflict between administration and faculty—the decision to teach out a program. Typically, this is announced by an administrator. The impacted faculty members (who may in fact be losing their positions) are not surprisingly the most enraged. These faculty members rally their colleagues to mount public outrage and loudly claim that the administrators are out of touch and making cold calculating budget decisions. They are interfering with faculty decision-making and if they had just resourced the program appropriately none of this would have happened. A few faculty members will point to certain administrators as having a vendetta against them or their program.
The administrators huddle together and consider damage control. Privately, in hushed tones, they talk about how out of touch the faculty are with the fiscal realities. If only the faculty had listened before when they were asked three years ago to look at the declining enrollments and market forces at play, if only they had made curricular changes to bring the program into a competitive market space, how could they not see this coming? Then the most disgruntled senior administrator (usually a former faculty member themselves) mutters an ultimate othering comment about “those entitled faculty.”
An intercultural examination of this scenario involves looking systematically at the cultures of both administrators and faculty with respect to the program. Consider the following analysis of values and beliefs:
Values about Programs
Administrator: programs should be consistent with institutional mission, meet relevant external professional/disciplinary standards evidence of academic rigor to serve students well, and be fiscally viable.
Faculty: programs should be consistent with mission, be academically rigorous, and serve students well.
Beliefs about Programs
Administrators: the current need for programs is subject to market forces and competition. Scarce institutional resources need to be allocated based on current and projected future directions. Programs that are not fiscally viable as evidenced by enrollment as well as revenue/expense ratios that need to be examined, modified to become viable, or taught out.
Faculty: programs that have inherent historical value to the institution deserve additional resources to make them viable. Programs that are adequately resourced will always do well and are inherently valuable; there will never be a need for a teach-out of certain programs.
A quick look at both the differences and similarities reveals where there is common ground between the two groups. It also reveals how the action plan that would follow from the respective values and beliefs would differ for the two groups. A potentially fruitful approach could be to dialogue about how the outcomes will differ depending upon the values and beliefs of the constituent group. Neither group is bad, nor wrong—the groups are simply different and guided by their respective culture.
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Monica Steele 2016/01/27 at 9:45 am
This actually makes a lot of sense, and I think smart professionals on both sides of the divide (unfortunately it is a fairly large divide in many cases) will take ideas like this to heart. It’s hard to let go of the ideologies central to each culture, but no one is served by stubbornness, least of all students.
Catherine Koverola 2016/02/07 at 8:24 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more–it’s the students who are ultimately harmed when the divide between administration and faculty persists. I have found however, that among some administrators and faculty that when individuals take the time to understand the culture of the other that shared understanding can arise. Have you had any experience with this kind of intercultural communication with these two groups?
Wendy Deen 2016/01/27 at 4:31 pm
It’s a bit maddening to be part of these kinds of discussions and conflict over and over again, especially when you look at the split of values and ideas above and see that institutional mission is still at the top of everyone’s list. We’re all working toward the same goals ultimately, and though we may have different ideas about how to get there, if we persist is upholding this false dichotomy of faculty versus admin, we’re not going to get anywhere.
I have found that trying to focus on the shared institutional mission as a starting point together with the concept of the different cultures of administrators and faculty can be a good way to move the two sides towards a mutual understanding. This notion of different cultures can help both constituents feel less defensive and open to trying to understand the perspective of the other. Have you had a similar experience?
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Emergence and evolution of an interaction between intrinsically disordered proteins
Greta Hultqvist ,
Emma Åberg,
Carlo Camilloni,
Gustav N Sundell,
Eva Andersson,
Jakob Dogan,
Celestine N Chi,
Michele Vendruscolo ,
Per Jemth ,
Uppsala University, Sweden;
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom;
Technische Universität München, Germany;
Stockholm University, Sweden;
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland;
Research Article Apr 11, 2017
Cited 10
Protein-protein interactions involving intrinsically disordered proteins are important for cellular function and common in all organisms. However, it is not clear how such interactions emerge and evolve on a molecular level. We performed phylogenetic reconstruction, resurrection and biophysical characterization of two interacting disordered protein domains, CID and NCBD. CID appeared after the divergence of protostomes and deuterostomes 450–600 million years ago, while NCBD was present in the protostome/deuterostome ancestor. The most ancient CID/NCBD formed a relatively weak complex (Kd∼5 µM). At the time of the first vertebrate-specific whole genome duplication, the affinity had increased (Kd∼200 nM) and was maintained in further speciation. Experiments together with molecular modeling using NMR chemical shifts suggest that new interactions involving intrinsically disordered proteins may evolve via a low-affinity complex which is optimized by modulating direct interactions as well as dynamics, while tolerating several potentially disruptive mutations.
Proteins are an important building block of life and are vital for almost every process that keeps cells alive. These molecules are made from chains of smaller molecules called amino acids linked together. The specific order of amino acids in a protein determines its shape and structure, which in turn controls what the protein can do. However, a group of proteins called 'intrinsically disordered proteins' are flexible in their shape and lack a stable three-dimensional structure. Yet, these proteins play important roles in many processes that require the protein to interact with a number of other proteins.
At multiple time points during evolution, new or modified proteins – and consequently new potential interactions between proteins – have emerged. Often, an interaction that is specific for a group of organisms has evolved a long time ago and not changed since. As intrinsically disordered proteins lack a specific shape, it is harder to study how their structure (or lack of it) influences their purpose; until now, it was not known how their interactions emerge and evolve.
Hultqvist et al. analyzed the amino acid sequences of two specific intrinsically disordered proteins from different organisms to reconstruct the versions of the proteins that were likely found in their common ancestors 450-600 million years ago. The ancestral proteins were then ‘resurrected’ by recreating them in test tubes and their characteristics and properties analyzed with experimental and computational biophysical methods.
The results showed that the ancestral proteins created weaker bonds between them compared to more ‘modern’ ones, and were more flexible even when bound together. However, once their connection had evolved, the bonds became stronger and were maintained even when the organism diversified into new species.
The findings shed light on fundamental principles of how new protein-protein interactions emerge and evolve on a molecular level. This suggests that an originally weak and dynamic interaction is relatively quickly turned into a tighter one by random mutations and natural selection. A next step for the future will be to investigate how other protein-protein interactions have evolved and to identify general underlying patterns. A deeper knowledge of how this molecular evolution happened will broaden our understanding of present day protein-protein interactions and might aid the design of drugs that can mimick proteins.
While the majority of proteins fold into well-defined structures to function, a substantial fraction of the proteome is made up by intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) (Uversky and Dunker, 2012). These IDPs, which can be fully disordered or contain disordered regions of variable size, play pivotal roles in biology, usually by participating in protein-protein interactions that govern key functions such as transcription and cell-cycle regulation (Uversky et al., 2008; Wright and Dyson, 2015). IDPs are present in all domains of life, but they are more common and have a unique profile in eukaryotes as compared to archea and bacteria (Peng et al., 2015). One particular problem with analyzing structure-function relationships in IDPs with regard to evolution is that IDPs appear to evolve faster than structured proteins and are more permissive to substitutions that do not apparently modulate function in either a positive or negative way (Brown et al., 2011). In addition, insertion and deletion of amino acids are more common in IDPs (Brown et al., 2010; Light et al., 2013), further complicating structure-function analysis. Thus, while analyses of protein sequences have shed light on the evolution of IDPs, few biophysical studies have directly addressed the evolution of IDPs on a molecular level.
Here, we use an ‘evolutionary biochemistry’ approach (Bridgham et al., 2006; Harms and Thornton, 2013; McKeown et al., 2014), in which phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral sequences is combined with biophysical experiments (Figure 1), to reconstruct the evolution of a particular protein-protein interaction. This interaction involves disordered protein domains from two different transcriptional coactivators: (i) the molten-globule-like (Kjaergaard et al., 2010a) nuclear co-activator binding domain (NCBD) present in the two paralogs CREB-binding protein (CREBBP, also known as CBP) and p300, and (ii) the highly disordered CREBBP-interacting domain (CID), found in the three mammalian paralogs NCOA1, 2 and 3 (also called SRC1, TIF2 and ACTR, respectively). The interaction between CID from NCOA3 (ACTR) and NCBD from CREBBP represents a classical example of coupled folding and binding of disordered protein domains (Demarest et al., 2002).
General approach to investigate the evolution of a protein-protein interaction involving intrinsically disordered domains.
Multiple sequence alignment forms the basis for the phylogeny, which is used to predict ancient variants of two interacting protein domains, CID and NCBD, respectively. The ancient variants are then resurrected by expression in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. Finally, the resurrected as well as present-day variants of CID and NCBD are subjected to biophysical and computational characterization to assess the evolution of structure-function relationships.
The two paralogs CREBBP and p300, as well as the three paralogs NCOA1, 2 and 3, likely result from whole genome duplications. In general, a gene family is created by speciation events and genomic duplications. The general conclusion is that the ancestral vertebrate(s) went through two rounds of whole genome duplications (denoted 1R and 2R, respectively) prior to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and that teleost (bony) fish experienced a third whole genome duplication (3R) (Hughes and Liberles, 2008; Van de Peer et al., 2009). Thus, if no gene losses had occurred, vertebrates would have four copies and teleost fish eight copies of every gene. Genomic duplications are beneficial for inventing new biochemical functions (Ohno, 1970; Näsvall et al., 2012). Therefore, the abundance of new genes following whole genome duplications creates multiple possibilities to evolve new functions on a large scale through point mutations and natural selection, and the 1R and 2R genome duplications have likely contributed to the broad repertoire of IDPs in vertebrates.
In the present paper, we track the evolutionary history during 600 million years (Myr) of two interacting IDPs, the older NCBD domain and the younger CID domain, with regard to sequence, affinity and structural properties. The two domains established a molecular interaction involved in regulation of transcriptional activation in the lineage leading to present day deuterostome animals, and may serve as a paradigmatic example of evolution of protein-protein interactions involving IDPs.
Reconstruction of ancient sequences
As a first step in our study, ancestral versions of the amino acid sequences of the NCBD domain of CREBBP/p300 (NCBD) and the CID domain of NCOA (CID) were reconstructed by phylogenetic analyses (Figure 2, Figure 2—figure supplements 1–4 and Figure 2—source data 1 and 2) using a maximum likelihood method (Materials and methods). This analysis shows that NCBD is older than CID, as NCBD can be traced in deuterostomes, protostomes (including extant arthropods, nematodes and molluscs) and cnidarians, but not in more distantly related eukaryotes such as the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis. Hence, NCBD arose in the animal lineage as a domain within the ancestral CREBBP/p300 protein. CID, on the other hand, appeared as an IDP domain within NCOA after the split of deuterostomes and protostomes, since it could not be identified in protostome NCOA. Furthermore, CID was present in an early deuterostome, before the first whole-genome duplication (1R), since it could be traced in extant sea urchins and acorn worms, in addition to vertebrates. Thus, we conclude that the CID/NCBD interaction emerged at the beginning of the deuterostome lineage around the Cambrian period, an era with a very dramatic evolutionary history.
Reconstruction of the evolution of the interacting NCBD and CID domains.
(A) Sequence alignments of extant and reconstructed ancient NCBD (top) and CID domains (bottom). The positions of helices are according to the NMR structure of the complex between extant CREBBP NCBD (blue) and NCOA3 CID (yellow). Free NCBD (protein data base code 2KKJ) and the CID/NCBD complex (1KBH) are NMR structures, whereas the picture of free CID is a hypothetical modified structure made from the NCOA1 CID/NCBD complex (2C52). The first residue in the NCBD alignment is referred to as position 2062 in the text and the first residue in the CID alignment as 1040. The color coding of the sequences reflects similarities in chemical properties of the amino acid side chains and is a guide for the eye to see patterns of conservation. (B) Schematic tree of life with selected animal groups depicting the evolution of the NCBD domain (blue) in both protostomes and deuterostomes and the CID domain (yellow) in the deuterostome lineage only. See Figure 2—figure supplements 1–4 for detailed alignments and trees.
For the oldest reconstructed version of NCBD, deuterostome/protostome (D/P) NCBD, there were several relatively uncertain positions with regard to amino acid identity (Figure 2—source data 1). This was experimentally resolved by testing the effect of alternative residues at these positions in the context of one of the most likely D/P variants. The first position included in the NCBD domain (2062) was particularly problematic in this respect, with several amino acid identities with similar and low probability: Ile (0.19), Val (0.16), Thr (0.15), Met (0.13), etc. In addition, the probability numbers at this position were very sensitive to which extant sequences were included in the phylogenetic analysis. Because of this and to avoid a hydrophobic side-chain at the N-terminus, we chose Thr at position 2062 as the ‘wild type’ ancestral NCBD (referred to as D/P NCBD in the paper).
Do the intrinsically disordered domains in NCOA and CREBBP have a higher amino acid substitution rate than the ordered domains?
Previous studies have suggested that the amino acid sequence of IDPs display a higher substitution rate (following selection) than those of ordered proteins (Brown et al., 2011). Although limited to two proteins, NCOA and CREBBP/p300, our data set allowed comparison between ordered and disordered regions within the same protein and during time. We therefore assessed the number of substitutions in selected ordered and disordered domains, respectively, in both NCOA and CREBBP/p300. Clearly, amino acid sequences within linker regions between interaction domains have evolved such that no sequence similarity can be detected in most cases. For example, outside of the interacting regions of CID and NCBD, as defined by the NMR structures, it is impossible to align the sequences, even for closely related species. Thus, the domain boundaries were defined based on sequence conservation and available crystal or NMR structures. Based on how well we could define these boundaries and the confidence in the resurrection, which in some cases was low due to poor alignment quality, we selected four folded CREBBP domains (HAT, KIX, RING/PHD, TAZ1) and one folded NCOA domain (Pas-A) for the analysis. To make the comparison between folded and disordered protein interaction domains simple, we used the same alignments and phylogenetic trees used to reconstruct ancient CID and NCBD domains and reconstructed other domains from NCOA and CREBBP/p300, respectively. We then counted the number of amino acid substitutions and insertions/deletions in a particular sequence as compared to its predecessor. Thus, for domains from the CREBBP lineage, we compared the 1R/2R sequence with the D/P sequence, the ancestral fish/tetrapod (F/T) CREBBP with the 1R/2R, and present day human and zebrafish CREBBP with F/T CREBBP (Figure 3). In general, the amino acid substitution rates in NCOA and CREBBP/p300 are higher for all domains during the early times of animal evolution and up to the common ancestor of fish and tetrapods 390 Myr ago. Within CREBBP, the substitution rate of NCBD is similar to those of the ordered histone acetyltransferase (HAT) and RING/PHD domains, whereas KIX and TAZ1 have remained more conserved. For NCOA3 it was more difficult to define domain boundaries and we only compared CID to one folded domain, Pas-A. The overall substitution rate is only slightly higher for the CID domain, and the two domains have similar profiles. Thus, for CID and NCBD, functional constraints of the domains rather than disorder per se is probably determining amino acid substitution rate, similarly to a subset of disordered regions highlighted in earlier studies (Brown et al., 2011, 2010, 2002).
Amino acid substitutions in different domains in CREBBP/p300 and NCOA as a function of time.
The predicted ancient sequences for distinct domains in CREBBP/p300 (A and B) and NCOA (C) were used to calculate the number of substitutions and indels between each evolutionary node (Deuterostome/protostome, D/P; 1R; 2R; Fish/tetrapod, F/T; and present day) in a particular lineage (human and zebrafish CREBBP and human and zebrafish NCOA3, respectively). The alignment and trees used to resurrect HAT, KIX, RING/PHD and TAZ1 were the ones optimized for NCBD. Similarly, the alignment and trees used to resurrect Pas-A were the ones optimized for the CID domain. The number of substitutions plus indels were normalized against the number of amino acid residues in each domain and the accumulated fraction of sequence changes plotted versus historical time. Both 1R and 2R occurred around 450 million Myr ago and the distance between them in panel C (10 Myr) is arbitrary.
Structural context of the CID and NCBD sequences
To bring the analysis from the sequence level to the structural level, we considered the NMR structures of extant mouse CREBBP NCBD in complex with human NCOA1 CID (Waters et al., 2006) and NCOA3 CID (Demarest et al., 2002), respectively. A structural alignment shows that the NCBD domain aligns well in the two complexes but that only the first α-helix (Cα1) of NCOA1 CID and NCOA3 CID occupy similar positions (Figure 4). In fact, the third α-helix (Cα3) of NCOA1 CID aligns with the second α-helix (Cα2) of NCOA3 CID, while Cα2 of NCOA1 CID is non-binding and split into two smaller α-helices. The first α-helix of NCBD (Nα1) interacts with Cα1 in both complexes, but the conformation of the third α-helix (Nα3) is slightly different in the two complexes. Residues forming the Nα1/Cα1 interface in the CID/NCBD complex are conserved in the deuterostome lineage, while Nα3 has accumulated five substitutions (Figure 2A).
Structural alignment of two CID/NCBD complexes.
(A) Superimposition of the structures of two complexes solved by NMR: CREBBP NCBD (Light blue)-NCOA1 CID (Yellow) (2C52) and CREBBP NCBD (Dark blue)-NCOA3 CID (Red) (1KBH). The complexes contain a hydrophobic core formed by residues from the respective protein domain. (B) Superimposition of NCBD from the complexes shows that in particular Nα1 and Nα2 align very well. (C) Superimposition of the NCBD-bound conformations of NCOA1 CID and NCOA3 CID. Whereas Cα1 from both complexes align well, the C-terminal regions of the CID domains occupy different positions.
Determination of affinity between ancient and extant CID/NCBD variants
The next step in our approach was to ‘resurrect’ the sequences identified through our evolutionary analysis to analyze their biophysical properties. In these experimental studies, ancient and selected extant variants of CID and NCBD were expressed in E. coli, purified to homogeneity (see Materials and methods) and subjected to binding studies using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) to monitor changes in affinity over historical time. Strikingly, the affinity of deuterostome/protostome (D/P) NCBD for 1R CID, which is the oldest CID domain that we were able to resurrect with good confidence, was relatively low (5 µM) as compared to younger NCBD variants (Figure 5A and B, Table 1). Importantly, all tested ancestral D/P NCBD (Thr2062) variants measured with 1R CID yielded a relatively low affinity (Kd values = 1.5 to 18 µM). The Kd values for D/P NCBD with Ile and Val at position 2062 were 2.0 and 2.2 µM, respectively, which is very close to that of 'wild-type' D/P NCBD with Thr2062 (3.0 µM) (Figure 5A and Figure 6). Thus, our conclusions in the paper hold irrespective of the nature of the amino acid residues at the uncertain positions in D/P NCBD.
Biophysical characterization of ancient and extant CID and NCBD domains.
(A) Affinity of CID/NCBD complexes was measured by isothermal titration calorimetry (three examples are shown including the low-affinity D/P NCBD, 1R CID interaction). (B) The affinities (Kd values) were normalized against the interaction between extant human NCOA2 CID and p300 NCBD. The relative affinity for D/P NCBD, 1R CID was calculated using the average Kd values of all D/P NCBD variants (5 ± 2 µM). (C) Propensity for helix formation for ancient and extant CID domains as measured by circular dichroism at 222 nm upon addition of the helix stabilizer 1,1,1-trifluoroethanol. (D) Global stability of NCBD domains as measured by circular dichroism at 222 nm (reflecting the fraction folded NCBD) upon addition of the denaturant urea. Hsa, Homo sapiens; Dre, Danio rerio (zebrafish); Pme, Petromyzon marinus, (sea lamprey); Dmel, Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly).
Characterization of alternative variants at position 2062 in D/P NCBD.
Isothermal titration calorimeter and circular dichroism experiments of D/P NCBD with (A) Ile and (B) Val at position 2062. See Figure 5A for Thr2062 and Table 1 for Kd values.
Equilibrium dissociation (Kd±standard error) values for the interaction between NCBD and CID variants as determined by ITC.
Hsa NCOA1 CID
(SRC1)
(TIF2)
(ACTR)
Fish/Tetrapod NCOA3 CID
2R CID
2R CID N1043S
2R CID G1080S
1R CID S1058N
1R CID S1078Q
Hsa p53TAD
Hsa ETS-2 PNT
Kd ( µM)
Hsa CREBBP NCBD 0.33 ± 0.039 0.13 ± 0.011 0.35 ± 0.031 0.65 ± 0.024 0.38 ± 0.020 84 ± 2.3 0.76 ± 0.071
Hsa p300 NCBD 0.18 ± 0.015 0.071 ± 0.010 0.11 ± 0.010 0.28 ± 0.012 0.22 ± 0.024 9.2 ± 2.2 1.5 ± 0.077
Dre CREBBP NCBD 0.29 ± 0.032 0.23 ± 0.013 0.63 ± 0.057 0.57 ± 0.025
Pma NCBD 0.19 ± 0.023 0.044 ± 0.017 0.23 ± 0.030 1.0 ± 0.10
Dmel NCBD 5.2 ± 0.20 22 ± 1.6 37 ± 2.8 4.1 ± 0.93 9.7 ± 1.6 No detectable binding
Fish/Tetrapod
CREBBP NCBD 0.41 ± 0.040 52 ± 5.2 1.3 ± 0.083
1R/2R NCBD 0.11 ± 0.042 0.045 ± 0.018 0.23 ± 0.040 0.28 ± 0.021 0.290 ± 0.035 0.33 ± 0.023 0.20 ± 0.016 0.22 ± 0.027 0.24 ± 0.024 0.25 ± 0.021 34 ± 4.0 nM 0.85 ± 0.046
1R/2R NCBD
N2065S 0.11 ± 0.020 0.15 ± 0.013 0.13 ± 0.012
N2065S K2107R 0.18 ± 0.021 0.160 ± 0.011 0.17 ± 0.023 0.13 ± 0.018
D/P NCBD 1.5 ± 0.088 0.52 ± 0.032 5.0 ± 0.22 3.0 ± 0.13 3.9 ± 0.16 4.8 ± 0.20 5.5 ± 0.21 43 ± 3.9 1.4 ± 0.051
D/P NCBD T2062I 2.0 ± 0.2
D/P NCBD T2062V 2.2 ± 0.6
D/P NCBD P2063L 7.7 ± 0.53
D/P NCBD Q2088H 1.5 ± 0.080
D/P NCBD
Q2088N 2.2 ± 0.070
D/P NCBD H2107Q 18 ± 1.2
Hsa CREBBP NCBD A2106Q 0.10 ± 0.02
Hsa CREBBP NCBD Y2108Q 0.21 ± 0.06
Hsa CREBBP NCBD A2106Q/Y2108Q 0.22 ± 0.06
Already around the time of the two vertebrate-specific whole genome duplications (1R and 2R, respectively), NCBD had evolved an affinity toward the CID domain similar to that found today (∼200 nM). All tested alternative variants of 1R/2R NCBD, 1R CID and 2R CID yielded Kd values in the same range (100–300 nM) (Table 1). Moreover, the affinities between extant NCBD domains and human CID domains were found to be surprisingly similar across several species. For example, CREBBP NCBD from sea lamprey and human, respectively, has similar affinity toward human NCOA3 CID. We also determined the affinity between ancient and extant NCBD domains and extant versions of other protein ligands for NCBD, namely the disordered transactivation domain (TAD) of human p53 (p53TAD) and the globular pointed (PNT) domain from human ETS-2. In contrast to the CID domain, the affinities of p53TAD and PNT, respectively, were similar for ancient and extant NCBD (Table 1).
Structural stability of ancestral and extant variants of CID and NCBD
The NCOA3 CID domain from human displays a high degree of disorder (Ebert et al., 2008; Kjaergaard et al., 2010b) and all tested CID variants in the present study displayed a strikingly similar far-UV CD spectrum, typical of IDPs (Figure 7A–C). However, the propensity to form α-helices may differ between variants, which could result in higher affinity (Iešmantavičius et al., 2014). Addition of 1,1,1-trifluoroethanol (TFE) induces α-helix formation and can be used to experimentally assess the α-helical propensity of any given polypeptide when there is a helix-coil equilibrium (Jasanoff and Fersht, 1994). TFE titrations (0–50%) were performed for ancient and extant CID domains (Figure 5C and Table 2). The similar shape and midpoints of the resulting sigmoidal curves (reflecting the helix-coil transition) demonstrates that the overall α-helical propensity for ancient and modern CID variants is virtually identical. Increased α-helical propensity would likely have increased the affinity for NCBD (Iešmantavičius et al., 2014), but at the cost of lower plasticity and flexibility. We note, however, that the stability for individual α-helices as predicted by the software AGADIR (Muñoz and Serrano, 1994) has changed during evolution. For example, α-helix 1 of CID from human NCOA1 and 2 displays a higher α-helix propensity than α-helix 1 from human NCOA3 and the ancestral versions (Figure 8). Such local changes in α-helical propensity is a likely route to evolve an optimal affinity for short recognition motifs, which are common in intrinsically disordered regions (Fuxreiter et al., 2004).
Far-UV Circular dichroism experiments.
(A–C) CD spectra of CID variants display a profile typical for disordered proteins. (D–E) CD spectra of NCBD variants show a qualitatively similar shape for all variants. (G–I) Thermal denaturations of NCBD variants show a similar apparent non-cooperative transition.
The helical propensity of CID variants as predicted by AGADIR.
(A) CID domains from extant human NCOA1, 2 and 3. (B) Ancestral CID domains: 1R, 2R and the fish/tetrapod ancestor.
Equilibrium parameters for CD-monitored trifluoroethanol (TFE) induced helix formation of CID variants determined in 20 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, at 25°C.
CID variant
[TFE]50%*
[TFE]50%†
mD-N†
(%−1)
1R‡ 8.5 ± 1.3 7.6 ± 2.3 0.15 ± 0.02
2R 10.7 ± 0.9 12.0 ± 0.2 0.22 ± 0.01
Fish/tetrapod NCOA3 9.9 ± 0.7 10.0 ± 0.6 0.17 ± 0.01
Hsa NCOA1 -§ -§ 0.15 ± 0.03
Hsa NCOA2 9.5 ± 1.7 -§ 0.11 ± 0.02
Hsa NCOA3 5.6 ± 1.5 6.5 ± 0.9 0.18 ± 0.01
*The mD-N value was shared among the datasets in the curve fitting; mD-N = 0.17 ± 0.01 %−1.
†Free fitting of both [TFE]50% and mD-N.
‡1R, the node around the time of the first whole genome duplication in the vertebrate lineage; 2R, the node around the time of the second whole genome duplication in the vertebrate lineage; Fish/tetrapod, the node where fish diverged from tetrapods; Hsa, Homo sapiens; Dre, Danio rerio (zebrafish); Pme, Petromyzon marinus, (sea lamprey); Dmel, Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly).
§Not well determined in the curve fitting.
While extant mammalian CREBBP NCBD has a small but well-defined hydrophobic core, it is a very dynamic protein domain in the absence of a bound CID domain as previously shown by NMR measurements (Ebert et al., 2008). We were therefore particularly interested in whether the global stability of NCBD changed when CID was recruited as binding partner. CD spectra (Figure 7D–F) and thermal denaturations (Figure 7G–I) were similar for all NCBD variants. The most ancient D/P NCBD variant was slightly less stable than historically subsequent variants in the deuterostome lineage, as determined by the midpoint from far UV CD-monitored urea denaturation experiments (Figure 5D and Table 3). However, despite high precision in experimental data, the broad unfolding transition of small protein domains such as NCBD leads to low accuracy in the estimates of the free energy of denaturation. Therefore, we refrain from making strong conclusions regarding the stability despite a clear shift in the urea midpoint for unfolding.
Equilibrium parameters for CD-monitored urea denaturation of NCBD variants determined in 20 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1 M TMAO at 10°C.
NCBD variant
[Urea]50%*
△GD-N*
(kcal mol−1)
[Urea]50%†
△GD-N†
D/P‡ 2.4 ± 0.4 1.5 ± 0.3 2.2 ± 0.2 0.56 ± 0.04 1.2 ± 0.2
D/P T2062I 3.3 ± 0.3 2.0 ± 0.3 3.4 ± 0.1 0.70 ± 0.08 2.4 ± 0.3
1R/2R 4.4 ± 0.3 2.7 ± 0.3 4.4 ± 0.1 0.67 ± 0.05 3.0 ± 0.3
Fish/tetrapod CREBBP 4.0 ± 0.3 2.5 ± 0.3 4.0 ± 0.1 0.62 ± 0.05 2.5 ± 0.2
Hsa CREBBP 3.8 ± 0.3 2.3 ± 0.3 3.7 ± 0.2 0.46 ± 0.09 1.7 ± 0.4
Hsa p300 4.4 ± 0.3 2.7 ± 0.3 4.4 ± 0.3 0.66 ± 0.17 2.9 ± 0.8
Dre CREBBP1§ 3.4 ± 0.3 2.1 ± 0.3 2.2 ± 1.6 0.33 ± 0.16 0.7 ± 0.6
Pma 4.1 ± 0.2 2.5 ± 0.3 4.2 ± 0.6 0.50 ± 0.22 2.1 ± 1.0
Dmel 1.6 ± 0.5 1.0 ± 0.3 2.6 ± 0.4 1.2 ± 0.7 3.3 ± 1.9
*The mD-N value was shared among the datasets in the curve fitting; mD-N = 0.61 ± 0.05 kcal mol−1M−1.
†Free fitting of both [Urea]50% and mD-N
‡D/P, Deuterostome/protostome node; 1R/2R, the node(s) around the time of the two whole genome duplications in the vertebrate lineage; Fish/tetrapod, the node where fish diverged from tetrapods; Hsa, Homo sapiens; Dre, Danio rerio (zebrafish); Pme, Petromyzon marinus, (sea lamprey); Dmel, Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly).
§The bony fish lineage experienced a third whole-genome duplication and has two variants of CREBBP NCBD.
NMR and molecular modeling of ancient and extant CID/NCBD complexes
We next asked what happens on a molecular level when a new binding partner is recruited. To shed light on this question, we first subjected two ancient complexes (1R CID with D/P NCBD and 1R CID with 1R/2R NCBD, respectively) and one extant complex (human NCOA3 CID with human CREBBP NCBD) to NMR experiments and then used the chemical shifts assigned for Cα, Cβ, H and N as restraints in molecular dynamics simulations using Metadynamic Metainference (Bonomi et al., 2016a, 2016b), a recently developed scheme that can optimally balance the information contents of experimental data with that of a priori physico-chemical information.
Structural ensembles based on molecular dynamics simulations and NMR chemical shifts were obtained starting from the two available NMR structures, mouse CREBBP NCBD in complex with human NCOA1 CID (2C52) (Waters et al., 2006) and NCOA3 CID (1KBH) (Demarest et al., 2002), respectively. By using Metadynamic Metainference simulations (see Materials and methods), three complexes were analyzed: (i) 1R CID with, D/P NCBD, (ii) 1R CID with 1R/2R NCBD and (iii) extant human NCOA3 CID with CREBBP NCBD (Figure 9). The NMR data used as restraints in the simulations were of high quality and the peak assignment was close to 100% for all the three complexes (Figure 9—figure supplement 1 and Figure 9—source data 1). Comparison of the structural ensembles for the three complexes and their relative free-energy projections indicates that evolution of higher affinity correlates with a somewhat reduced conformational heterogeneity (Figure 9A). Indeed, the free-energy surfaces as a function of the fraction of the overall helix-content and the radius of gyration (Rg) show that the ancient complex is slightly less structured and more compact, with an average helical fraction of 0.41. This is reflected in the ensemble with more disordered N- and C-terminal helices for CID and a more disordered C-terminal helix Nα3 for NCBD. The younger 1R/2R complex is a little more structured in particular with respect to the C-terminal helix of NCBD, with an average helical fraction of 0.44. The extant human complex, finally, is again slightly more structured at the N- and C- terminal helices of CID, with an average helical fraction of 0.47. These results were confirmed by an independent analysis of the chemical shifts by δ2D (Camilloni et al., 2012a) (Figure 9B) that shows how the terminal helices obtain more structure in going from the ancient (blue), via the 1R/2R complex (green) and to the extant human complex (red); yet, the helix content of the second helix of CID decreases. The increase in helical structure at the terminal helices corresponds to a decrease in the average fluctuations as was confirmed by the analysis of the root mean square fluctuations (RMSF) (Figure 9C). The changes in the helical structure have an effect in terms of inter-domain contacts. Indeed, the most ancient complex appears to have more but less populated contacts than younger complexes, in line with a marginally more disordered interface (Figure 10). During evolution, the total number of possible contacts between the domains decreases while the average population of the formed contacts increases. To visualize the extent to which different residues in NCBD interact in the respective CID complex (most ancient, 1R/2R, and extant CREBBP NCBD/human NCOA3 CID), the normalized number of interface contacts per residue was analyzed (Figure 11). In this analysis, we also included two other complexes involving extant CREBBP NCBD, those with p53TAD and the ‘interferon regulatory factor (IRF) interaction domain from IRF-3’ (denoted as IRF-3 in the paper), respectively. Overall, the main effect observed along the evolution of the CID/NCBD complex is a decreased fraction of contacts formed by N-terminal residues correlating with increased helical structure of the N-terminal helix of CID (Figure 9) and an increased fraction of contacts formed by C-terminal residues of NCBD, correlating with increased helical structure of this region (Figure 9). In the C-terminal, there is an increase in fraction of contacts in particular at position 2108 that joins Arg2104 in binding Asp1068 from CID, and at position 2105 whose side chain forms multiple hydrophobic contacts with CID. However, there is a decrease in fraction of contacts at position Gln2103 while other positions show a less clear trend reflecting the complexity of the changes in the interaction surface. Of note is the similarity of the interface used by NCBD to bind CID with that of the NCBD/p53TAD complex, where for example Arg2104 makes a salt-bridge with Asp49 while the Tyr2108 makes a hydrogen bond with the backbone of Met44, and its difference with the structurally distinct NCBD/IRF-3 complex, where the same two residues are exposed to the solvent.
The CID/NCBD complex displays minor structural changes upon evolution.
(A) Free-energy surfaces (in kJ/mol) as a function of the fraction of helix content and the Rg, for the most ancient complex (D/P NCBD and 1R CID), the 1R/2R complex and one extant complex (human NCOA3 CID/CREBBP NCBD). For each free-energy surface, the position of the minimum and a set of representative structures are shown: CID in yellow and NCBD in blue. N- and C- termini (NT and CT, respectively) are labeled for the central ensemble. (B) Per residue helix population of the protein ensembles of the most ancient (blue circles), 1R/2R (green squares) and extant (red bars) variants as predicted by δ2D from the chemical shifts. (C) Average root-mean-square fluctuation for the three variants showing a weak correlation between historical age and conformational heterogeneity of the complex.
Contact analysis for ancient and extant CID/NCBD complexes.
The probability contact maps are shown for each pair of residues for (upper left) the most ancient complex (1R CID and D/P NCBD), (upper right) the 1R/2R complex and (lower right) the extant NCOA3 CID/CREBBP NCBD complex. Inter-domain contacts are framed by gray rectangles. Given two residues in a certain conformation, a contact is defined as a distance within 0.5 nm (excluding hydrogen atoms). Lower left panels: The total number of inter-domain contacts (left) and the inter-domain average contact formation (right) are reported as the number of residues with a contact populated more than 5% and the average over population for the same contacts, respectively.
NCBD Interface contact analysis.
The normalized number of interface contacts per residue is calculated from the simulations of the three historical CID/NCBD complexes (upper three panels) and compared with two extant complexes formed by CREBBP NCBD and alternative protein ligands, p53TAD (pdb code 2L14) (Lee et al., 2010) and a binding domain from IRF-3 (pdb code 1ZOQ) (Qin et al., 2005), respectively. In the IRF-3 complex (bottom panel), NCBD adopts a distinct tertiary structure as compared to complexes with CID and p53. The Gly-Ser residues at the N-terminus of the NCBD sequences result from the expression construct used in the study.
The role of positions 2106 and 2108 in NCBD for increasing the affinity for the CID domain
The Metadynamic Metainference analysis highlighted a few positions that appeared prominent in the evolution of higher affinity in the CID/NCBD interaction and in particular position 2108, where the Q2108Y mutation makes the interaction stronger. To test this result and further probe the less conserved region at the end of Nα3 in NCBD, we made the two reverse mutations in human CREBBP NCBD (i.e. A2106Q, Y2108Q and the double mutant A2106Q/Y2108Q) and measured the affinity to human NCOA2 CID using ITC (Figure 12). The A2106Q mutation did not change the affinity for NCOA2 CID. The Y2108Q and the double mutation A2106Q/Y2108Q resulted in a slightly lower affinity (twofold) toward NCOA2 CID (Table 1), in support of the simulation. However, the mutations made the NCBD protein less soluble, which led to precipitation and less reliable data due to ill-defined native baselines in the titration experiments. Nevertheless, the limited effect of these reverse mutations in one extant complex underscores the high degree of plasticity in this region of the CID/NCBD complex and illustrates the permissive nature of IDPs toward mutations.
Isothermal titration calorimeter experiments between human NCOA2 CID and 'reverse mutants' in human CREBBP NCBD.
(A) A2106Q, (B) Y2108Q and (C) A2106Q/Y2108Q. Below are CD spectra of the respective NCBD variant.
Analysis of the convergence of the simulations.
Free-energy plots along the dRMSD collective variable for the second half of the simulations are shown for (A) the most ancient complex (1R CID and D/P NCBD), (B) the 1R/2R complex and (C) the extant NCOA3 CID/CREBBP NCBD complex. The solid black curve is the final free energy obtained by averaging over the second half of the simulations. Overall, all the simulations are converged within 3 kJ/mol.
We have used evolutionary biochemistry to reconstruct the evolutionary process by which the interaction between two disordered proteins has emerged from a low-affinity complex. By identifying and resurrecting the early ancestor partners, we show how a combination of direct interactions and structural heterogeneity contributed to optimizing the affinity of the CID/NCBD complex. In accordance, we observe a remarkably high tolerance to mutation in the interface of this particular protein-protein interaction in extant complexes. For example, in NCBD there are a number of substituted residues at the end of Nα3 forming the interface to CID, (Figure 2A). For the CID domain, there are also non-conserved residues in the CID/NCBD interface, for example Phe1055 in NCOA1 CID, which is Ala in NCOA2 CID, Leu in NCOA3 CID and Leu in the ancestor. Moreover, Lys1059 in NCOA1 CID forms part of the interface in the complex (PDB code 2C52), whereas the corresponding position in NCOA3 CID is a solvent exposed Thr (the ancestral residue) (PDB code 1KBH). In NCOA2 CID this residue is a Phe, which is likely part of the hydrophobic core of the NCBD/NCOA2 CID complex. A third non-conserved interacting residue is position 1053 in Cα1. Here, the ancestral residue is Asp, while in the human domains it is Val in NCOA1 CID, Tyr in NCOA2 CID and His in NCOA3 CID. These are all examples of substitutions, which could be expected to have a large impact on the protein-protein interaction and also on the structure of the complex. Nevertheless, these mutations in the CID domain have minor impact on the affinity for NCBD, illustrating the high tolerance to mutations in IDPs such as the CID domain, with regard to affinity. The tolerance to mutation is also reflected in the surprisingly similar affinities of human NCBD for CID domains from sea lamprey, zebra fish and human, respectively (Table 1). Based on the two available NMR structures of CID/NCBD complexes (Figure 4), one explanation is that the CID domain may adopt distinct conformations in the C-terminal region (corresponding to Cα2 and Cα3 in 1KBH) depending on amino acid sequence; however, the most populated simulated structures (Figure 9) are all relatively similar to the 1KBH structure. Some structural features appear important for maintaining the CID/NCBD interaction. We have previously shown that the initial native contacts formed during the binding reaction between human NCOA3 CID (ACTR) and CREBBP NCBD are made between residues in the respective α1 of the two domains (Iešmantavičius et al., 2014; Dogan et al., 2013). Both Cα1 and Nα1 contain leucine-rich motifs, which are very common in protein-protein interactions (Kobe and Deisenhofer, 1994) and which are conserved in the CID/NCBD interaction (Figure 2). In contrast, in extant fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), a proteostome, the NCBD domain is preserved but, similarly to D/P NCBD it has a low affinity for the human CID domains (Table 1). The leucine-rich motif in Cα1 is mutated in fruit fly NCBD (Figure 2) and the C-terminal region is more similar to D/P NCBD. Thus, it is likely the combination of several amino acid substitutions, affecting both direct interactions and structural heterogeneity, that made the 1R/2R NCBD a high-affinity CID binder.
On a functional level there is much more to the interaction than affinity, for example cellular concentrations, solubility, spatial organisation of the proteins and competing ligands. NCBD is particularly interesting in this respect because it has several physiological ligands including the PNT domain from the transcription factor ETS-2 (Jayaraman et al., 1999), IRF-3 (Lin et al., 2001), and p53TAD. Any mutation that increases the affinity toward the CID domain must maintain the affinity for the other ligands. Intriguingly, in the complex between CREBBP NCBD and IRF-3 (Qin et al., 2005), NCBD adopts a completely different conformation as compared to the conformation with CID domains and p53TAD (Lee et al., 2010). Furthermore, NMR and folding experiments suggest that NCBD can adopt two different conformations in absence of ligand, one of which is the CID-bound conformation and the other possibly the IRF-3 bound conformation, although this has not been experimentally confirmed (Kjaergaard et al., 2010a, 2013; Dogan et al., 2016). Such functional conformational heterogeneity in NCBD would obviously put extra constraints on the evolutionary process. With these observations in mind, we note that the affinity of the extant human PNT domain of ETS-2 is similar for ancient and extant NCBD domains (∼1 µM, Table 1). Although we have not resurrected the ancient versions of the PNT domain, these results suggest that the PNT/NCBD interaction was present before, and preserved during the evolution of the CID/NCBD interaction. Consistently, the PNT domain is present in protostomes (e.g. D. melanogaster), while the CID domain is not. We observe a similar pattern for the affinity between extant human p53TAD and ancient and extant human NCBD variants. The limit to a further increase in affinity between CID and NCBD in the animal lineage leading to the species that experienced the 1R whole genome duplication could well be due to constraints imposed by the ancient versions of PNT, IRF-3 and p53TAD. On a residue level, it is clear that NCBD employs distinct residues for the interaction with IRF-3, which allows this interaction (and the alternative conformation of NCBD) to coexist with those of CID and p53TAD (Figure 11). For CID and p53TAD, similar residues have been used throughout evolution for interactions, albeit with different relative influences.
Ancestral sequence resurrection
CREBBP and p300 nucleotide sequences were downloaded from the Gene tree ENSGT00730000110623, automatically generated by Ensembl (Flicek et al., 2013) (www.ensembl.org). This collection was complemented with hits from tblastn (RRID:SCR:011822) searches from preEnsembl (RRID:SCR_006766) (pre.ensembl.org), EnsemblMetazoa (RRID:SCR_000800) (metazoa.ensembl.org), NCBI (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) (Metazoa specific searches), Skatebase (RRID:SCR_005302) (Wang et al., 2012) (skatebase.org), JGI Genome Portal (RRID:SCR_002383) (Grigoriev et al., 2012) (genome.jgi.doe.gov), MOSAS amphixus (http://mosas.sysu.edu.cn/genome/), EchinoBase (RRID:SCR_007441) (http://spbase.org) (Cameron et al., 2009), Japanese lamprey genome project (http://jlampreygenome.imcb.a-star.edu.sg/) (Mehta et al., 2013) and OrcAE (http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/orcae/) (Sterck et al., 2012). The same was done for NCOA1, 2 and 3 (Gene tree ENSGT00530000063109). A number of cycles with alignments and maximum likelihood tree analysis were performed to detect erroneous sequences or alignments. The erroneous sequences were manually edited where possible, by for instance removing or adding exons. If manual editing still did not result in a good alignment for that individual gene, the sequence was removed from the analysis. Sequences shorter than 500 amino acids were excluded from the CREBBP analysis (the whole length of the protein is roughly 2400 residues), while sequences shorter than 300 amino acids were excluded from the analysis for the roughly 1400 residues long NCOA proteins. Sequences lacking a complete NCBD or CID domain were also removed. The final sequences were aligned at Guidance (Penn et al., 2010) (guidance.tau.ac.il) using MAFFT (RRID:SCR_011811) and ClustalW (RRID:SCR_002909) with the codon model, and Muscle with amino acid model. The best alignment according to guidance alignment score was MAFFT and this alignment was therefore used for the continued analysis. Less reliable residues according to guidance (confidence score below 0.5) were masked as X. Masking residues is preferable to removing whole columns since more good data will be retained in the analysis (Privman et al., 2012). All columns without a guidance confidence score, as well as regions with few aligned sequences were also removed with Gap Strip/Squeeze v 2.1.0, which kept columns with less than 95% gap. The amino acid and nucleotide models that best describe the resulting alignment according to the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) (Schwarz, 1978), calculated with Mega 5.2.2 (Tamura et al., 2011), were JTT+ G+ I and GTR+ G+ I, respectively for CREBBP. For NCOA, the best amino acid model was JTT+G. Using the alignment, maximum likelihood (ML) trees were calculated both for the best nucleotide and amino acid model with PhyML3.0 (Guindon et al., 2010) with SPR and NNI tree improvement and with SH-aLRT branch support, which has been shown to perform better than traditional bootstrap. The cnidarian species were chosen as outgroups for the CREBBP tree and non-chordate deuterostomes as outgroups for the NCOA tree. The branches in the tree generated by amino acid alignment follow what has previously been suggested for the evolution of species (Letunic and Bork, 2011) and whole genome duplications, while a few branches in the nucleotide tree diverge from the species tree. Our conclusion is therefore that the amino acid model and tree best describe the actual evolution and further analyses were performed using this tree. For ancestral sequence reconstruction, it is very important to have the correct alignment and therefore we cut out the NCBD and CID domains, which should be resurrected, as well as 30 adjacent amino acid residues and realigned the respective set of sequences with MAFFT, Muscle, ClustalW and PRANK with the codon model at Guidance. Sequences that did not have a confidence score above 0.5, for example the urochordata (tunicates) were removed from the CREBBP tree. The final alignments contained 181 CREBBP protein sequences and 184 NCOA protein sequences. The highest guidance alignment score for both the NCBD and CID domains, respectively, were obtained with Muscle. However, for NCBD we obtained an even better alignment score by manually editing the alignment (alignment score of 0.97 versus 0.96 and lowest column score 0.85 versus 0.76). The manually edited NCBD alignment and the CID alignment (Figure 2—figure supplements 1–2) were inserted into the respective original full length protein alignments and together with the previously obtained ML trees were used to resurrect the ancestral sequences at Mega 5.2.2, which uses an ML method that correctly deals with indels (Hall, 2011).
Expression and purification of protein domains
The cDNA corresponding to the most likely sequences at each evolutionary node (for both NCBD and CID) were purchased and subcloned into the pRSET vector used previously for expression of both NCBD and CID variants (Dogan et al., 2012). All NCBD and CID variants were expressed and purified as previously described using nickel affinity and reversed phase chromatography (Dogan et al., 2012). The selected nodes were (i) the fish/tetrapod (CREBBP NCBD and NCOA3 CID), (ii) 2R, (iii) 1R and (iv) deuterostome/proteostome (D/P), respectively. When the probability of the resurrected amino acid was lower than 0.7 (Figure 2—source data 1 and 2) a construct with the second, third etc. most likely amino acid was produced to investigate possible effects of a different amino acid. In all cases in the present work, there was no significant effect of alternative residues (Table 1, Figure 6). The numbering of residues for CID domains is according to the splice variant NCOA3-002 (ENST00000371997) and the numbering of residues for NCBD domains according to human CREBBP. The PNT domain of ETS-2 and p53TAD were expressed and purified as previously described (Dogan et al., 2015).
Binding experiments using ITC
All ITC experiments were performed in 20 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl. Protein concentrations were measured either using the absorbance at 280 nm and calculated extinction coefficients or (if the variant lacked Trp and Tyr residues) with a direct detect IR spectrometer. The ITC measurements were performed at 25°C on an iTC200 (Malvern instruments) according to the instructions of the manufacturer. For each experiment, the respective NCBD and CID variant was dialysed against the same buffer to minimize artifacts due to buffer mismatch. The baseline of the experimental data was adjusted to get the lowest possible chi value in the curve fitting. For all high-affinity interactions (Kd<1 µM), good baselines were obtained and the binding stoichiometry was generally around 1. For the low-affinity interactions (Kd = 1–10 µM), only one baseline was obtained and the stoichiometry thus not well determined. For certain variants, the ITC measurements were repeated twice with the same sample (i.e. a technical replication) and in two cases the experiments were repeated with new samples (biological repetition). Both the biological and technical repetitions yielded highly similar results. ITC experiments are very sensitive to factors such as buffer mismatch and experiments with poor baselines jeopardizing curve fitting were excluded from the study. In the cases where a certain amino acid position was reconstructed with low probability (<0.7), the most likely variants were subjected to ITC experiments to rule out that the uncertainty affected the conclusions. For example, seven different variants of D/P NCBD were made and their affinities reported in Table 1. Three additional variants of 1R CID were also tested with D/P NCBD with virtually identical Kd values. In the case of D/P NCBD/1R CID, the average value of all 10 reported Kd values in Table 1 (5.1 ± 1.6 µM) were used to calculate the relative affinity shown in Figure 5B. Importantly, all variants tell the same story, namely that the affinity between 1R/2R NCBD and 1R CID (and 2R CID and later variants) is significantly higher than that between the ancestral D/P NCBD variants and 1R CID.
Urea and TFE experiments
All experiments were performed in 20 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl. Circular dichroism (CD) experiments were performed on a JASCO-810 spectropolarimeter with a Peltier temperature control system. Far-UV spectra of NCBD and CID variants were recorded from 260 nm to 200 nm at 4°C using 30 µM protein. To assess the global stability of NCBD, urea (0–8 M) was added to protein (30 µM)-buffer solutions containing 1 M trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) at 10°C and the CD signal at 222 nm was measured by taking the average of 61 individual recordings at each urea concentration. To assess the helix propensity of CID variants 1,1,1-trifluoroethanol (TFE) was added to protein (30 µM)-buffer solutions at 25°C and the CD signal at 222 nm was measured by taking the average of 61 individual recordings at each TFE concentration. Data from the urea and TFE experiments were fitted to the equation for a two-state process (folded state in equilibrium with the denatured state) to obtain the midpoint of the transition and the associated cooperativity factor (m value) (Fersht, 1999). Regarding the TFE titrations (little difference between variants) and urea titrations (perhaps a small difference), selected experiments were repeated (for example the D/P NCBD variant). The reported standard errors in Tables 2 and 3 come from the curve fitting but in this type of biophysical experiments, which we perform routinely in the lab, such errors are generally very similar to the error from three independent experiments. Figure 5D contains data from two independent experiments for urea-induced D/P NCBD denaturation, showing the high precision in these types of experiment. The largest source of error for the transition midpoint in this type of experiment is the concentration of TFE or urea, which are both determined with high accuracy. The urea concentration is double checked by measuring the refractive index. The largest source of error in the free energy of unfolding △GD-N derives from the error in the mD-N value (describing the 'cooperativity' of the transition). The error in the mD-N value is large because of the small size of the proteins in the present study, resulting in short baselines and low accuracy in the parameters derived from the curve fitting. However, similar to the ITC experiments, the results are clear insofar that there are only small insignificant differences between most variants. The D/P NCBD (and D. melanogaster NCBD) have a slightly lower midpoint for urea denaturation, and lamprey NCBD a slightly higher one, but given the error associated with mD-N, and the lack of well-defined baselines (due to the broad transition), we do not stress this apparent difference in △GD-N as a major finding.
The respective CID and NCBD domains were expressed as unlabeled (in rich medium) and 15N-13C doubly labeled (in minimal medium containing 15NH4Cl and 13C-D-glucose). Purification was as previously described for unlabeled protein (Dogan et al., 2012). After purification, the samples were lyophilized and stored at −20°C. Prior to use the lyophilized samples, they were dissolved in a buffer containing 10 mM sodium phosphate pH 6.8, 150 mM NaCl and dialyzed against the same buffer overnight at 25°C. Protein complexes were formed by titrating saturating concentrations of the unlabeled (CID or NCBD) to labeled fractions (NCBD or CID). The final NMR samples contained 300–500 µM of the labeled protein (bound) to which 0.01% NaN3 and 5% D2O was added. NMR experiments were acquired on Bruker 600, 700 and 900 MHz spectrometers equipped with triple resonance cryogenic probes at 25°C. For assignment purposes, standard 3D HNCACB and 15N-resolved NOESY-HSQC (Cavanagh et al., 2007) were recorded. All experiments were processed with NMRPipe (Delaglio et al., 1995) and analyzed with CcpNmr (Vranken et al., 2005). The backbone chemical shifts were used in the simulations as described in the next section.
Ensembles determination
Structural ensembles of the CID/NCBD complexes were obtained using Metadynamic Metainference (Bonomi et al., 2016a, 2016b). Prior information contained in the Charmm22* force field (Piana et al., 2011) with explicit solvent. Chemical shifts (Cα, Cβ, N and H) were included using Metainference in its Gaussian form (Bonomi et al., 2016a) using CamShift (Kohlhoff et al., 2009; Camilloni et al., 2012b) over N = 10 replicas, r. The Metainference energy was calculated as:
E=∑r=1N{Eff+kBT∑i=1Nd[(fi(X)−di)22σr,i2+0.5log2πσr,i+0.5logσr,i]}
where the first term is the sum the over the replicas and the second term is the sum over the experimental data. Eff is the energy of the force-field, kBT is the Boltzmann constant times the temperature, f(X) is the calculated chemical shift averaged over the replicas, d is the reference experimental value, σ is the error estimated on-the-fly that includes the standard error of the mean resulting from the averaging over a finite number of replicas as well as the error estimate for random, systematic and the intrinsic error of the forward model (i.e. CamShift). All simulations were run in GROMACS (Pronk et al., 2013) using PLUMED 2 (Tribello et al., 2014). Van der Waals and Coulomb interactions were implemented with a cutoff at 0.9 nm, and long-range electrostatic effects were treated with the particle mesh Ewald method on a grid with a mesh of 0.1 nm. All simulations were carried out in the canonical ensemble at constant volume and by thermosetting the system using a stochastic velocity rescaling (Bussi et al., 2007). The starting conformations were taken from the available NMR structures (PDB code 1KBH and 2C52) and mutated accordingly using Scwrl4 (Krivov et al., 2009). The structures were solvated with 5000 water molecules and ions were added to neutralize the total charge. Two preliminary 100 ns long simulations were run for each structure to equilibrate the system. Metadynamic Metainference simulations were performed using 10 replicas. The sampling of each replica was enhanced by Parallel Bias Metadynamics (Pfaendtner and Bonomi, 2015) along five collective variables (CVs) namely, the helix content of CID, the helix content of NCBD, the radius of gyration of the complex, the dRMSD from 1KBH calculated using only the Cα carbons and the AlphaBeta collective variable defined as one half of the sum over all residues of one plus the cosine of χ1 angles for all hydrophobic residues, except alanine. Gaussians deposition was performed with an initial rate of 0.2 kJ/mol/ps, where the σ values were set to 0.2, 0.1, 0.01, 0.05, and 0.5 for the five CVs, respectively. In order to keep under control the convergence of the simulations, we rescaled the height of the Gaussians using the well-tempered scheme with a bias-factor of 16 (Barducci et al., 2008). Furthermore, in order to limit the extent of accessible space along each collective variable and correctly treat the problem of the borders, intervals were set to 8–28, 18–38, 1.2–1.6, 0–0.6 and 0–24 for the five CVs, respectively (Baftizadeh et al., 2012). We set the bias as constant outside a defined interval for each CV. Each replica has been evolved for 150 ns. The sampling of the 10 replicas was combined using a simple reweighting scheme based on the final bias B where the weight of a conformation is given by w=exp(+B(X)/kBT), consistently with the quasi static behavior at convergence of well-tempered metadynamics. An analysis of the convergence of the simulations is shown in Figure 13.
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The authors pose a very interesting and important question regarding the evolution of IDPs that participate in protein-protein interactions. They combine systematic assessments of sequence alignments with ITC measurements and MD simulations to arrive at some interesting insights regarding the differences between the ancient and extant sequences, especially in relation to the impact of the differences on protein-protein interactions. Overall, this is an interesting study
This manuscript needs major revision to be seriously considered for eLife. Both reviewers agree that the big picture gets lost in the maze of all the details about specific residues and that we think this can potentially be remedied with some clever restructuring. The figures too need a lot of work. Many of the figures are just background figures and can be moved to the supplemental materials section. We find that the main assertions of the paper that hang mostly on the molecular dynamics simulations, could be better validated and are therefore not well supported. The MDS themselves suffer from a major drawback, which is the assumption that the reconstructed complexes have the same structure as extant ones. As a control, it might make sense for the authors to anchor their choice of structures in a suitable alignment of the structures adopted various bound IDPs as a function of sequence distance to establish the rationale for their assumption.
1) We urge caution regarding making pronouncements about the evolution of IDPs. I am familiar with the work that's been cited. Some skepticism regarding these pronouncements might be warranted. And indeed the authors are well poised to test the specific validity of the oft-quoted pronouncement regarding IDP evolution. They could set up a comparison between their two IDP sequences and two autonomously foldable counterparts of equivalent molecular weights. In fact, they can perform internal comparisons between the IDRs and well folded domains of NCBD.
2) There is a second refrain that is often made in the field of IDPs that this work is perfectly situated to test and critique. It is often stated, without compelling evidence, that the sequences of IDPs evolve rapidly (cf., the citations to the evolutionary work made in the manuscript). However, it is also argued that the amino acid compositions show greater conservation than the actual sequences. To what extent is this separation between the degree of variation / composition true in the current exercise and what do the comparisons between the variations of composition vs. sequence tell us about the evolution of biases that determine the properties of CID and NCBD?
3) The interpretation of the metadynamics results raises some questions. The data in Figure 12 are used to assert that CID/NCBD complexes "become less dynamical upon evolution". I see a different and potentially more interesting interpretation and would like the authors to consider this option as an alternative – at least as a comparative alternative. It appears, to the naked eye, that the projected free energy surface undergoes a bifuraction to generate bistable states as the sequences become more recent. Indeed, this bifurcation is manifest along the dRMSD axis and not along the Rg axis, which is not unreasonable. The simplest way to approach the bistability analysis is to fit a mixture of Gaussians to the free energy projection along the dRMSD axis and perform a numberical analysis of the quality of the fit using a K-L measure of divergence from a unimodal vs. a bimodal distribution. If the best description is a bimodal one, then it is likely that the ancient sequence sets up the symmetry breaking to generate a bistability that is adopted by the more recent sequences. As an additional point, the statement regarding increased heterogeneity (one should really call it this and not talk about dynamics because the use of the word dynamics without annotation by timescales is unsatisfying) needs to be quantified. There are several groups that have put forth elegant ideas for quantifying conformational heterogeneity. Stultz's group has used an information theoretic approach, Papoian's group has used a contact-based approach anchored in the tenets of spin glass theory, and Pappu's group has used an approach based on comparative assessments of dihedral angle distributions. The latter's PHI parameter seems well suited for making the point that the authors make in the current manuscript.
4) There is a potentially erroneous simplification that bears scrutiny. The authors focus on the evolution of the affinity of CID-NCBD interactions. However, these affinities need to be placed in the broader context i.e., in the context of the affinity of NCBD for other ligands. The authors touch upon this in the Materials and methods section where they note that "any mutation that increases the affinity toward the CID domain must maintain the affinity toward other ligands". I think this logic need closer quantitative scrutiny. The overall sentiment of specificity being determined by the collection of comparative affinities is spot on. However, if the affinity ∆G were to change for one complex, and the affinities for the other complexes remained invariant, then the specificity will change through evolution because the collection of ∆∆G values will be such that a change in the affinity for one complex, while keep all others fixed will change the vector of ∆∆G values, thus increasing the specificity of NCBD toward the CID domain and away from the others. Is this the idea that the authors wish to communicate? If yes, then the onus is on them to provide an evolutionary trace that shows how ∆∆G changes as a function of mutations thus highlighting the impact of mutations on altered specificities without altering a whole host of affinities. On the other hand it is conceivable that the affinities change and do so in concert to ensure a conservation of specificities and this would point to neutral drift.
5) The general comment about taking on lots of contacts that are weak within the ancient complexes that are swapped for fewer, tighter contacts does not appear to be supported by substantive quantitative analysis. This could be remedied in a revised version.
6) The figures in the paper should be improved. We understand that eLife doesn't have strict limits on figure number, but I think the authors should carefully edit the figures. Some of them (e.g. Figures 3, 4, 5, 6) aren't readable because of the volume of data shown. These are probably better left for the supplement, and sensible summaries/reductions could be made into main figures (e.g. a sparser tree, etc.). Additionally, figures are cited in a non-linear order in the text and this is not acceptable. Ideally, the reader can move from one figure to the next, with minimal jumping around. Figure 2 is of very poor quality and none of the details are discernible. The color-coding of the positions in the alignment has to be properly explained. These alignments appear to be qualitative in that they lack the necessary quantitative annotation and an accompanying statistical model to provide one with a quantitative sense of the quality and or significance of the alignments. The same critique applies to Figures 3 and 4. We fully recognize the challenges posed by Figures 5 and 6. However, the criticism of a lack of clarity and illegibility stand for these figures as well. The average reader will not see any point to this figure. If it has to be included in the current format, then it has to go to the supplementary material. If it has to be included in the main text, then it needs a lot of work in order to make it legible. Additionally, a detailed caption will be required to walk the reader through the details.
7) The MDS are based on two structures of extant complexes. The authors find that the ancient complex has more plasticity in the MDS. This could be an artifact of the assumption that the ancient complex has an identical structure as the two extant ones. This concern is especially salient because the authors discuss at various points the fact that other complexes formed by these proteins have different structures. Ideally, the ancient complexes would have structures, too.
8) The conclusions based on the MDS are not corroborated with any experimental data. I know the authors tried with the two mutants they made, but the results there were inconclusive. None of the other experiments the authors did really supported the MDS, either. I think they need something (H-D exchange, light scattering, etc.) to validate the conclusions of the MDS.
[Editors' note: further revisions were requested prior to acceptance, as described below.]
Thank you for resubmitting your work entitled "Emergence and evolution of an interaction between intrinsically disordered proteins" for further consideration at eLife. Your revised article has been favorably evaluated by Aviv Regev (Senior editor), a Reviewing editor, and two reviewers.
The manuscript has been improved but there are some remaining issues that need to be addressed before acceptance, as outlined below:
I have no major concerns. All of the issues that I raised have been addressed satisfactorily with considerable additional work. My hunch about possible bifurcations in the free energy surfaces of recent proteins has been properly invalidated by additional simulations that improve the statistical convergence. The new free energy surfaces reveal an interesting trend that is well supported by the experiments. The NMR data provide a very nice addition and helps make a complete story. I am fully satisfied and was always keen on seeing this published. This should, in my view, happen post haste.
1) The authors add an analysis of evolutionary rates in different domains of CREBP and NCOA. They conclude "…for CID and NCBD, functions of the domains… is probably the determining amino acid evolution rate." I don't think the authors have done enough to justify this conclusion (or any conclusion about evolutionary rate). They measure the rate of accumulation of nonsynonymous substitutions and indels. This quantity is related to evolutionary rate but does not take into account the mutation rate, which can differ between loci. Typically, the dN/dS statistic is used to account for mutation rate (for a primer see http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v16/n7/full/nrg3950.html). This is a serious technical flaw that must be amended.
2) To deal with problems related to the MD simulations, the authors have included NMR chemical shift information in the simulations. This is a welcome addition, but I couldn't figure out from the text in the Results or the Materials and methods exactly what NMR data was collected. Is there data for all complexes shown in Figures 10/11? Please clarify.
3) A second issue related to the NMR data is that the data are unavailable/not shown in a figure or supplementary table. I would have liked to be able to examine the chemical shift data (e.g. of the ancient vs extant complexes), and also would have appreciated some principled commentary on the quality of the data. I'm not a structural biologist, so I can't provide specific guidance on what exactly might be shown. Thus, I'll leave it to the other reviewer/the editor to decide whether this request is a reasonable one.
4) On the Results section, the authors state "Overall, the main effect observed… is an increase in the strength of the contacts formed by the C-terminal residues." I have two issues with this statement. First, what the authors actually measured was the normalized number of contacts in the simulations. Can the strength of the contacts actually be inferred by the number of contacts in the simulation? If so, it might help the less specialized reader to point this out and cite a reference for them to examine. If not, then the statement should be amended. The second issue I have is that the data seem more complex than the picture painted by this sentence and the next section of the results. For example, position 2105 has a big change but isn't discussed. Also, several positions in the N-terminus also undergo changes in the number of interface contacts. How should the reader think about those changes? Are they unimportant for some principled reason? Or, have the authors just chosen to avoid commenting on them for the sake of brevity?
5) Related to point #4, one of my original concerns was that the conclusions of the MD simulations were not corroborated with experimental data. I appreciate that the authors collected NMR data, which made the MD simulations more accurate. However, they didn't address my original concern which was that the conclusions of the MD simulations aren't well corroborated. The analysis of the mutants, which appeared in the original submission, remains only partially convincing. Additional data to support the conclusions of the MDS (e.g. testing more hypotheses arising from the MDS by mutagenesis, etc.) would make the paper stronger.
While we have performed NMR experiments in the revised version to back the simulations, we want to stress that the main conclusions of the paper regarding for example affinity are based on experiments and not simulation. We have also toned down the conclusions from simulation.
We have chosen to keep the discussion about specific residues in the Discussion section since we think they exemplify well how permissive this particular IDP interaction is to apparently "rough" mutations.
This is a very interesting suggestion and we have now performed such a comparison between disordered and ordered domains within NCOA and CREBBP/p300, respectively. The results are presented in a new Figure 3 and a new paragraph in the Results section. In conclusion, there are differences in the apparent rate of residue substitution between the analyzed domains, but it is not clear if they relate to protein disorder: two out of four tested domains in CBP/p300 have a similar rate as NCBD and one ordered domain in NCOA has a slightly lower rate than CID. For NCOA, difficulties in assigning reliable domain borders precluded a deeper analysis.
We are also more cautious regarding statements about IDP evolution in general in the revised version, since the present study focus on details of a particular interaction rather than a large scale assessment of evolution rates in IDPs.
Looking at the same well folded and disordered regions within NCOA and CREBBP that we used to address point 1 we observe no clear difference in conservative versus non-conservative substitutions for ordered and IDP domains, respectively. For three domains (CID in NCOA3, PHD and KIX from CREBBP) there might be a bias towards more non-conservative mutations in early evolution as compared to HAT, NCBD, TAZ1 (CREBBP) and Pas-A (NCOA3). However, it is not straightforward to define a conservative mutation since every mutation is context dependent.
Regarding composition, we analyzed it for the ancient and modern variants in the CREBBP and NCOA3 lineages, respectively. With a few exceptions, the compositions are very similar for all domains analyzed.
However, in both these cases the data sets are limited and we would rather not draw any conclusions since the study is not designed to address these questions. We think that the experiments better reflect any changes in properties in CID and NCBD (or lack thereof) during evolution.
The reviewers raise a very important point. By repeating the simulations and this time including the information from NMR chemical shifts, we found a very simple answer. First of all the overall differences between the three complexes are reduced as compared to our initial simulation. So, even if the extant complex in the new simulation is less heterogeneous from a structural point of view than the most ancient one, these differences are much smaller than previously observed. Furthermore, and more important, a more detailed analysis of the ensembles resulted in very localized differences corresponding to the amount of helical structure of the N- and C- terminal helices of CID and of the C-terminal helix of NCBD. This result was confirmed by an independent analysis of the chemical shifts based on an analysis using the δ2D software. Given the current better understanding of the structures and dynamics we have redrawn the free energies as a function of the helix content (new Figure 9). This perspective shows a single well defined minimum that is shifted towards slightly larger values in terms of helical fraction.
The overall aim of the research programme is indeed to monitor changes in specificity for competing ligands over evolutionary time.
The present manuscript describes our first resurrection of an ancient protein-protein interaction and, since this is a major undertaking, inclusion of more ligands is beyond the scope of the present paper. Therefore, in this manuscript, we cannot provide change in specificity as a function of mutation (or time) for competing ligands. However, we have included a few present day versions of competing protein ligands and we observe similar affinities between for example extant PNT domain and ancient and extant NCBD, respectively.
Thus, what we want to communicate here is the increase in affinity between CID and NCBD while retaining the affinity for the other ligands (based on the extant versions of p53TAD and PNT). We believe this increase in affinity for CID reflects an adaption to a functional affinity given the concentrations of each component, including proteins competing for the interaction. The specificity, i.e., the relative affinity will increase for CID during this period as compared to the other NCBD ligands, but since we have not resurrected PNT and since each historical variant of CID/NCBD involves several mutations we cannot easily quantify ddG as a function of time or mutation but, as for now, prefer a qualitative assessment (Discussion section). It is very clear that key mutations occur between the last common ancestor of deuterostomes (e.g. vertebrates) and protostomes (e.g. insects) and the two whole genome duplications (1R/2R) in the vertebrate lineage, and from then on the affinity has been maintained among vertebrate species.
In order to address points 5, 7 and 8 we have expressed and purified 13C/15N double labeled CID and NCBD, respectively, for the three complexes characterized by simulation, i.e., two ancient and one extant: 1R CID + D/P NCBD, 1R CID + 1R/2R NCBD and human NCOA3 CID + CREBBP NCBD. The latter one is the same as previously studied by Wright's and Teilum's groups but our constructs are shorter as a result of the phylogenetic analyses. Celestine Chi (new author added to the manuscript) performed NMR experiments to obtain backbone chemical shifts for the three complexes. The chemical shifts were then used to determine new ensembles of structures for the three cases implementing chemical shifts as restraints in the simulations and to cross validate the results using an independent analysis of the chemical shifts based on δ2D. Thus, all the analyses have been repeated showing results qualitatively consistent with those obtained before when employing only MD simulations, but with less marked differences among the three cases. In particular with respect to the contact analysis we have focused it more on the inter-domain regions, because the differences in the intra-domain contacts reflect only the new finding of the slightly increased helix content observed in the extant complex.
We fully agree and these figures were included in the main text only because we were prompted to include them upon submission to eLife. In the revised version we have moved all the detailed alignments and tree figures back to the supplementary section and linked them to Figure 2, which contains the alignments of resurrected and a few selected extant sequences as well as the simplified tree. The previous Figures 3–6 are now called Figure 2—figure supplements 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, and we have added captions to Figure 2—figure supplements 3 and 4.
Regarding the point that the alignments lack quantitative annotation: We have used state of the art alignment programs but determining the quality of an alignment is notoriously difficult. Currently, the best measure of the quality of an alignment is how good phylogenetic tree it produces. The alignments used throughout this paper produce phylogenetic trees that recapitulate species evolution demonstrating that the alignments are of good quality.
Regarding Figure 2 we apologize for the low quality, which we hope is fixed now (our original figure was of high quality but must have been corrupted along the way). The color coding is now explained in the legend.
Regarding the order of the figures; the figures are now cited consecutively in the text. However, we need to reference back to Figure 5 several times because we think it is valuable to keep the experimental data for binding and stability of the different variants in the same figure.
The simulations have been repeated and now including the chemical shifts as structural restraints in the molecular simulations in order to test better the possibility of observing alternative bound states upon evolution. The resulting ensembles are actually now more similar among each other and more extant-like (to the NCOA3 CID/CREBBP NCBD complex, 1KBH). The differences are essentially related to an increase of the helix content at the N- and C- termini of CID and at the C-terminus of NCBD, in agreement with an independent analysis of the chemical shifts based on δ2D.
See replies to point 5 and 7.
This analysis was added as per request from the first round of reviewing (from reviewer #2?). What we intend to shed light on is not evolutionary rate in the sense mutation rate in the DNA (including the dN/dS ratio) but indeed the rate of accumulation of nonsynonymous substitutions and indels, following selection. Thus, reviewer #3 is correct that we have not used the proper nomenclature. We now explain in the text what we look at and we refer to this as 'amino acid substitution rate', which we understand is the correct term when assessing the changes in amino acid sequence following selection.
Yes, we included chemical shifts for the three distinct complexes in Figures 10/11. This has been clarified in the text.
This is indeed a reasonable request and we have included a new supplementary Figure, Figure 9—figure supplement 1 and a supplementary table that are both linked to the existing Figure 9. The table provides all chemical shift data for the three complexes and the figure shows HSQC spectra for the most ancient complex and for the modern human complex, respectively.
First point; we have rephrased the sentence and removed (the wrong use of) “contact strength”.
Second point; yes we have avoided going into too much detail but agree that position 2105 should be included in the discussion. We have thus extended the discussion to better account for the differences observed at the N-terminus and at positions 2103 and 2105.
We certainly agree that the simulations could be further tested. However, given the quite extensive effort of collecting NMR data we think that further validation is beyond the scope of the current study as detailed below.
The results of the two positions studied by “reverse mutagenesis” (2106 and 2108) likely reflect an inherent property of the system, namely that mutation perturbs not only the local environment but may have allosteric effects and also change the ground states of the protein-protein interaction (i.e., free and bound states). Thus, there is a considerable risk that further testing by site-directed mutagenesis will be inconclusive and not easy to interpret. In other words (and as discussed in the paper), the surprisingly small effect of the Y2108Q mutation in human CREBBP NCBD could be a result of a structural re-arrangement of the CID/NCBD complex. Because of this any further testing of the MD simulations will be a project in itself (involving extensive mutagenesis as well as NMR experiments) and we therefore hope that you will find our current effort sufficient to warrant publication.
Greta Hultqvist
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
GH, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review and editing
greta.hultqvist@pubcare.uu.se
The authors declare that no competing interests exist.
Emma Åberg
EÅ, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology
Carlo Camilloni
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Department of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
CC, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Methodology, Writing—original draft, Writing—review and editing
Gustav N Sundell
GNS, Formal analysis, Investigation
Eva Andersson
EA, Investigation, Methodology
Jakob Dogan
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
JD, Formal analysis
Celestine N Chi
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
CNC, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing—review and editing
Michele Vendruscolo
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mv245@cam.ac.uk
Per Jemth
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Per.Jemth@imbim.uu.se
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This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council.
Jeffery W Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute, United States
Accepted: March 28, 2017
Accepted Manuscript published: April 11, 2017 (version 1)
Version of Record published: May 5, 2017 (version 2)
Version of Record updated: February 12, 2018 (version 3)
© 2017, Hultqvist et al.
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This week, I must comment about what the health and wellness community has been buzzing about since earlier this week when Paula Deen announced her Type II Diabetes diagnosis. Before I begin my rant, I first want to say that I am not feeling completely disheartened with Ms. Deen, I’m sure this is a lot for her to deal with. HOWEVER, the way she is handling the public announcement is, frankly, irresponsible and off-putting.
Deen claims that she didn’t want to come forward with her diagnosis (that she’s known about for 3 years) until she had something a substantial solution to the disease to offer to the public. Well, I guess it’s shame that the best solution for Diabetes completely conflicts with her public persona/career… And what might that solution be, Ms. Deen? NOT waiting-to-announce-until-you’ve-partnered-with-and-are-getting-paid-for-promoting-a-prescription-Diabetes-medication BUT RATHER changing your diet and lifestyle!
How frustrating watching her chat with Al Roker on The Today Show, touting that her diagnosis has very little to do with her lifestyle. This would have been such a great opportunity for a popular public figure to really make a positive impact on the lives of fans and the general public! Sure, this would require a change in recipes and thus a change in her “butter-filled” TV show persona. But how great for the community to hear a public figure own up to lifestyle contributing to illness followed by making positive lifestyle changes to prevent the illness from getting worse! It wouldn’t take much, Paula Deen. From what I’ve been reading, I’m not the only one who’s lost respect for the Food Network star…
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Supervalu is shrinking the size of its business and its headquarters staff. So is its Eden Prairie corporate campus next on the chopping block?
Supervalu cuts may open up space (update)
By: Chris Newmarker March 26, 2013 3:38 pm 0
The company leases its 345,000-square-foot headquarters, at 7075 Flying Cloud Drive in Eden Prairie, from Malvern, Pa.-based Liberty Property Trust. (File photo)
Nearly 40% of Eden Prairie work force to be cut
That is one of the major questions left hanging after Supervalu’s Tuesday announcement that nearly 600 of the 1,500 workers it has in Eden Prairie will be let go through October.
The mass layoff — one of the largest so far this year in Minnesota — is across the board and involves jobs from finance to human resources to information technology to marketing, according to the state Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED).
Supervalu already has its former 163,000-square-foot headquarters, at 11840 Valley View Road, listed for sale with CBRE. But even its present 345,000-square-foot headquarters, which it leases at 7075 Flying Cloud Drive from Malvern, Pa.-based Liberty Property Trust, may be too large for about 900 workers.
The rule of thumb years ago used to be one employee for every 250 square feet of office space; now it is as low as 185, said Jim Vos, principal with the Minneapolis office of Cresa.
“It’s hard to imagine they need even 250,000 square feet,” Vos said of Supervalu.
Supervalu’s lease with Liberty runs through April 2015, said Supervalu spokesman Jeff Swanson.
“We are committed to the Twin Cities and anticipate keeping our headquarters in Eden Prairie. We will continue to evaluate the most efficient operations for our business including our office space,” Swanson said in an email.
Dave Jellison, senior vice president and city manager for Liberty’s Minnesota office, said Tuesday that he has not heard yet from Supervalu about its plans for the Flying Cloud Drive operations. Liberty paid $23 million in 2007 for the building — a former Best Buy headquarters that had been owned by Minneapolis-based Hoyt Properties.
“We’re kind of waiting for the dust to settle, and see what they need going forward,” Jellison said of Supervalu.
Vos thinks it possible that Supervalu might go the route of Best Buy, which announced last month that it is cutting 400 jobs at its Richfield headquarters. Best Buy has been leasing out unused space at its four-building, 1.45-million-square-foot headquarters campus.
Now unused space could be opening up in Eden Prairie. A letter Supervalu filed Tuesday with DEED listed 587 employees in the city affected by the cuts, with layoffs starting May 25 and running through early October.
The southwest Twin Cities office market, which includes Eden Prairie, already has several large blocks of vacant space, according to Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq’s Compass report from January. The report said, “Downsizing at Supervalu could have negative future effects on the Southwest office market if it results in some of the company’s product vendors reducing their local presence.”
Supervalu plans to cut a total of 1,100 positions — about 600 of them corporate positions that are mostly in Eden Prairie, said Supervalu spokesman Mike Siemienas. The rest of the jobs are spread across the United States.
Most cuts involve existing workers losing their jobs rather than open positions not being filled, Siemienas said.
Siemienas said the job cuts are what the company needs to move forward since a consortium, led by New York-based Cerberus Capital Management, acquired Albertsons stores that it did not already own, as well as chains including Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaws and Star Market stores.
After the sale, Supervalu’s annual revenue was halved to around $17 billion, with the company retaining about 35,000 of what was a 130,000-member workforce and retail chains including Cub in Minnesota.
Supervalu has more than 8,000 workers in Minnesota — 2,700 of them not involved in store-level positions.
Supervalu CEO Sam Duncan in a news release described the layoffs as a “necessary next step in the rebuilding of our business.”
“This move is an important part of our strategy to be more focused and efficient in our operations, including how we staff and support our three business units going forward,” Duncan said.
The Supervalu job cuts represent about 1 percent of the more than 51,000 jobs inside Eden Prairie — a city of more than 61,000, according to the Metropolitan Council’s community profile.
Supervalu already let go of 200 Minnesota corporate office workers last year.
Offices supporting Cub Foods at 421 S. Third St. in Stillwater are also included in the present round of job cuts. Supervalu’s nearly 2 million-square-foot distribution center in Hopkins, its largest in the nation, is not affected.
A PDF of Supervalu’s letter to the state is available here.
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Art Galleries Join Earthquake Relief Effort
The fundraising exhibition ‘I’m Not Alone’, organized by Mojdeh Art Gallery in Tehran to support the victims of the earthquake in western Iran, raised 1.3 billion rials ($32,660) in two days.
The 7.3-magnitude earthquake that jolted Kermanshah Province and the regions bordering Iraq on November 12 claimed 436 lives, injured 9400 people and left thousands homeless and in urgent need of lifesaving support.
In a statement on November 15 the gallery manager, Mojdeh Tabatabaei, invited artists to bring their artworks to her gallery to be sold along with her own treasure trove of artworks in support of the quake victims, Honaronline reported.
Many artists including Nasrollah Afjei, Kourosh Shishehgaran, Ali Shirazi, Nasrollah Moslemian, Nasser Oveisi, Bahram Dabiri and Javad Bakhtiari responded and brought their paintings, sculptures and photos for the sale.
All the exhibited artworks were priced at one third of their actual value to help encourage buyers.
Tabatabaei says the exhibition has been welcomed both by buyers and the artists. In a related gesture Dena Art Gallery in Tehran launched an innovative project for three days (November 17-19) to help the fundraising movement. The gallery presented artworks to buyers in exchange for tents to be sent to the quake-stricken regions.
The Tehran-based Saless Art Gallery, located at No. 148, between Iranshahr and Mahshahr streets, Karimkhan Ave., will hold a book and artworks exhibit on November 21, to help the victims of the deadly natural disaster. The event will be held in the presence of writers and artists.
Jam Art Gallery in Shiraz, in collaboration with Tar-o-Poud and Sarvenaz galleries, has invited artists to bring their artworks for sale to help the quake-afflicted people in western Iran.
The fundraising program is slated for November 22. The gallery is at No. 225, between the 7th and 9th alleys, Shahid Rabbani Blvd., before Abolkalam Square.
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Four Still Dead in Ohio
by Bob Fitrakis
Back when “tin soldiers and Nixon” were “cutting us down” in 1970, a group of Ohio State University students and campus activists started an underground newspaper in Columbus. Driven mostly by the murder of four students at Kent State – Allison Krause, Jeff Miller, Sandy Scheuer and Bill Schroeder – shot during a demonstration that was opposing President Nixon’s illegal attack on Cambodia and the Vietnam War, the Columbus Free Press was born.
Not surprisingly, the Free Press was the first western newspaper to expose Cambodia’s killing fields thanks to international law professor John Quigley’s reporting from Southeast Asia. In the first issue of the Free Press, the October 11, 1970 issue, a Free Press opinion attacked a special grand jury’s decision not to indict Ohio National Guardsmen for the Kent State killings.
The Free Press wrote at the time: “The jury conveniently disregarded the FBI report which stated that the guardsmen were not ‘surrounded,’ that they had tear gas, contrary to claims of guardsmen following the shooting.” The Free Press went on to point out the obvious facts: “…a film of the shootings shown on a northern Ohio TV station on the night of May 4th the slope, then turning, kneeling, firing a volley, and rising to fire a few more scattered shots before regrouping and going over the hill. Panic may have aided in the shootings, but it was not the cause.
THE GUARDSMEN FIRED ON ORDER, and the men who gave the order and the others who carried it out are free.” Of course, the same could be said of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who waged an illegal war against the people of Iraq and murdered over a million civilians, yet still walk free. And the war endured under President Obama. The Kent State precedent of letting known murderers move among us set the stage for the smiley-face pro-torture policies of the Bush years.
Former Free Press Editor Steve Conliff did his best to bring Governor James Rhodes to justice for inciting the National Guard to violence against peace demonstrators. At the 1977 Ohio State Fair, Conliff pied Big Jim, exemplifying the underground press motto – If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own. Hardly the people’s tribunal longed for by the Free Press staff, but nevertheless, great political theater. Local Free Clinic physician Pete Howison performed an experiment at Conliff’s trial, proving that pie-ing did not constitute a violent assault. Conliff was found not guilty.
Rhodes was pied by proxy again in 1990 on the 20th when his statute, then on the Ohio Statehouse grounds, took a direct hit to the face by a strawberry cream pie, thrown by Howison. A photo of the red goop symbolically dripping down Rhodes’ face appeared in the next Free Press issue. In 1992, the Free Press moved into an East Broad Street office that had an unusual wall in the back erected only three-quarters of the way up to the ceiling. When the office started leaking after a rainstorm, I climbed over the wall to determine the damage. Ironically, I found the original ACLU legal files containing documents from their lawsuit against the National Guardsmen at Kent State. The morgue photos of the dead students are seared into my brain.
When Jim Rhodes died, the Free Press made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from his FBI file. Here we learned the dirty truth of Rhodes’ ties to the mob and the FBI’s use of that information, some would call it blackmail, to win concessions from the governor. As the Free Press wrote in 2003, a January 14, 1963 memo noted that: “He [Rhodes] is completely controlled by an SAC [Special Agent in Charge] contact, and we have full assurances that everything we need will be made available promptly. Our experience proves this assertion.”
The FOIA file revealed that the SAC contact was none other than Robert H. Wolfe, publisher of the Columbus Dispatch. Dispatch reporter Bob Ruth had earlier disclosed to the Free Press that Rhodes had run a gambling operation in the OSU campus area. His headquarters during the 1930s was allegedly Gussie’s State Tavern, across the street from the law school. Serendipitously, the building would later house the shop Tradewinds, one of the early headquarters of the Free Press.
The FBI would cut the corrupt numbers man Rhodes all the slack he needed because: “He is a friend of law enforcement and believes in honest, hard-hitting law enforcement. He respects and admires [the] FBI.” In 2007, the Free Press decried “The lethal media silence on Kent State’s smoking guns” in an article I co-wrote with Harvey Wasserman. When tape-recorded evidence surfaced 37 years after the fact proving the original Free Press editorial to be correct, the mainstream for-profit corporate media, including the Dispatch, ignored it.
Rhodes’ good friends in the FBI had in their possession a tape that documented that the guardsmen were ordered to fire. Prior to the shootings, Terry Strubbe, a Kent State student had hung a microphone out of his dorm window and captured 20 seconds of sound, including the gunfire. In an amplified version of the tape, a Guard officer is heard shouting: “Right here! Get set! Point! Fire!” Those, like the Free Press, who argued that there was an order to shoot the students were dismissed per standard mainstream media protocol as “conspiracy theorists.” It’s never too late to embrace the truth.
Rhodes was a mobster being blackmailed by the FBI who agitated his guardsmen against the students and was in the middle of a heated primary campaign for U.S. Senate. The day before the shootings, Rhodes is on record stating that student peace demonstrators were the “strongest, well-trained militant revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America. They’re worse than the brown shirts and the Communists and the night riders and the vigilantes. They are the worst type of people that we harbor in America.”
The Free Press demands a Truth Commission on the Kent State shootings. Let all sides present their evidence, even the well-trained propagandists and coincidence theorists who specialize in blaming the victims, usually for political or monetary gain. Four remain dead in Ohio and justice remains unserved.
May 16, 2018 /by Fitrakis
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The Other Side of the News October 6, 2017 – An interview with Ajamu Baraka
Bob Fitrakis talks with Ajamu Baraka on the state of the world and the effect of neoliberalism on our society including the drug war, prison industrial complex, the economy and black liberation.
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October 9, 2017 /by Fitrakis
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August 16, 2017 /by Fitrakis
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by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Angst, fear and loathing are the overwhelming emotions six months into the disastrous Trump presidency. Just exactly who, or what, do we have at the helm of the United States Ship of State, and the little red button that could end life as we know it? This month’s Free Press cover depicts a Trump regime floundering in rough sea waters, with the Don confident, but clueless.
The planet and its leaders are watching in horror as the ship appears to be capsizing. Trump and his fools enrich themselves, all the while gleefully decimating domestic social programs, dooming the environment and destroying our nation’s relationships around the world.
Charles Wince, the artist, is asking: just who is steering this ship of fools?
A buffoon? A bully? An oft-bankrupt billionaire businessman? A Benito Mussolini in the making?
Simply put, what we have is an international criminal hell-bent on continuing his crime spree within and without his corrupt administration. Making the world safe for oligarchy.
Casinos, luxury hotels equals Money laundering
Let’s see, casinos, pricey real estate, the Russian mob, the U.S. mafia…hmmm. One plus one plus one equals money laundering.
The notorious meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and assorted Russian operatives spawned new allegations and suspicions that the Trump family colluded with Russian intelligence to try to gain electoral victory over Hillary Clinton. The details remain murky but the truth is likely more diabolical.
Not that Clinton wasn’t busy demonizing the Russians and using the Clinton Foundation for political pay-offs.
The meetings with Putin’s comrades and Trump’s entourage, may indicate the President may merely be a bagman and money washer for the Russian mafia.
This perception is magnified by Trump’s unprecedented refusal to release his tax forms, which may indicate his net worth to be largely in rubles.
Trump has a long history of involvement with the Russian government. Trump’s first visit Russia was in 1987 at Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubin’s invitation.
Craig Unger’s New Republic article, Trump’s Russian Laundromat essentially argues that Trump’s money laundering for Russian mobsters is what propelled his worldwide real estate empire.
Trump’s closely-held private real estate holdings, according to Unger, provide the perfect resources for illegal money laundering. Unger cites “…a flow of highly suspicious money from Russia.” He points out that, “Over the past three decades at least 13 people with known or alleged links to Russian mobsters or oligarchs have owned, lived in, and even run criminal activities out of the Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Many used his apartments and casinos to launder untold millions in dirty money.”
Business Insider noted that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Department Of Justice (DOJ) recently settled a major money laundering case involving a real estate company owned by the son of powerful Russian government official Pyotr Katsyz, former Vice Governor of the Moscow region. Katsyz’s son Dennis owns the real estate company Prebezon, that was accused of laundering millions of dollars through New York City real estate when the case was “unexpectedly settled two days before going to trial in May,” according to Business Insider.
The attorney representing the Katsyz family was none other than Natalia Beselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump, Jr. on June 9, 2016, to allegedly disclose damaging information concerning Hillary Clinton. She was described as a “Russian government attorney” in Trump Junior’s emails. Democratic House Judiciary Committee members sent a letter to Sessions inquiring about Beselnitskaya’s involvement in the settlement.
Also in attendance on June 9 was Renat Akhmetshin, described by CNN as “a U.S. citizen lobbyist promoting Russian interests and a former Soviet military officer” and Aras Agalarov, owner of the Crocus Group, a Moscow-based property company .
The mystery man, or 8th person who emerged at Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians, turned out to be Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze, a Crocus Group Vice President accused of laundering more than $1.4 billion into the U.S. from Eastern Europe. Kaveladze allegedly used 2,000 shell companies to launder money into the U.S..
Essentially, Trump, Jr.’s meeting was a perfect Russian triumvirate representing an alleged money launderer, the Russian military and and a pro-Putin oligarch.
If Trump is to be impeached and his clumsy cover-up of Russian ties revealed, it will be because the laundered money was easy to follow from the election tampering to Putin meddling.
Forget about the Russians, Trump supports American-made election riggers
While Trump’s apparent law-breaking focuses on the Russians, his primary anti-American assault is his bogus Election Integrity Commission led by Kris Kobach, whose Crosscheck program stripped countless non-millionaire citizens from the voter rolls in at least 30 states, critical to putting Trump in the White House. The man who rigged Ohio’s 2004 election, Ken Blackwell also serves on the Commission.
As Americans we cannot allow this high-tech Jim Crow destruction of the electoral process to lead to a permanent, one-party dictatorship.
This official lynch mob must be replaced by a national commission to promote universal hand-counted paper ballots and universal automatic voter registration, with legally protected, transparent voter rolls.
At least now the media and establishment have to admit U.S. election systems can be, and have been, hacked — a fact the Free Press has investigated and reported for over 15 years.
Resign or be convicted
All of this raises the blackmail issue. Which foreign entities, including crime syndicates, have information to compromise Trump and his close personal entourage?
It’s not just the Russian connections we should be investigating. As The New Yorker pointed out, “Throughout the Presidential campaign, Trump was in business with someone that his company knew was likely a partner with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.”
Trump’s “Trump Tower Baku” was a failed luxury hotel project in Azerbaijan, considered one of the world’s most corrupt nations. His partner was Zaya Mammadov, a billionaire oligarch tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who worked as the Azerbaijan Transportation Minister for $12,000 a year.
The Guardian reported in mid-June that “Donald Trump — like Richard Nixon” is now “under investigation for obstruction of justice.” There is already speculation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is also investigating Trump’s alleged money laundering.
Trump has questioned Mueller impartiality regarding the Russian investigation and has contemplated firing Mueller in perhaps his own version of Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” when he fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
Donald Trump must resign the presidency by August 9, the anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and the resignation of Richard Nixon.
In Trump’s brief tenure, he’s already fired James Comey, the FBI Director, for failing to pledge personal loyalty. Trump went on to try to intimidate Comey by suggesting he might have “tapes” of their conversations. The Washington Post reported that Trump then tried to get CIA director Mike Pompeo and Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats to kill the FBI investigation into Trump’s Russian connections.
Trump’s coverups must stop. If, by the time this issue comes out, he hasn’t resigned, he needs to resign or be convicted.
Demand Trump Resign on National Nagasaki/Nixon Day
To prevent nuclear war, ecological collapse, economic ruin and the Jim Crow destruction of our democracy, August 9 has been designated for demonstrations to demand Trump’s resignation.
Rallies are already in the planning stages in California and Ohio. Demonstrators are encouraged to wear orange jump suits and t-shirts, and yellow wigs or hats, in solemn evocation of the likely upcoming indictments of Trump and his mafia family, Russian and otherwise.
A demonstration at the “mushroom cloud” peace statue in Santa Monica, California, to be broadcast and/or podcast on Pacifica/KPFK radio, will highlight a national call for Trump to step down in the face of his proven, highly destructive inability to lead the country, and amidst his alien, illegal assault on American democracy.
Group photos with a “RESIGN” signs are also encouraged.
Please notify us through colsfreepress@gmail.com about upcoming events.
Originally published here: http://freepress.org/article/orange-new-orange-president-should-be-behind-bars
July 31, 2017 /by Fitrakis
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Bob Fitrakis On WVKO Radio Columbus Series Audio 2012 Archive, Youtube Bonus at end
Fight Back Podcast Nov. 11, 2012
Bill Baker talking about Charter passing against fracking in MANSFIELD, OH 1.03 BILL OF RIGHTS ARTICLE 1
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Fight Back Podcast November 24, 2012
Naked Short Selling, Brown Saddle Films, Christina Copeland
The Wall Street Conspiracy – Trailer The Naked Truth: Investing in` the Stock Play of a Lifetime Hardcover – February 15, 2008 by Mark Faulk (Author)
Fight Back WVKO Podcast November 17, 2012
Bill Baker Charter amendment in Mansfield Against Article 1 sec. 1.03 Bill Of Rights Anti-Fracking activist. Home Rule by Existing Ohio Law
Karl Rove Melt Down, Election Summary, Jim Hettle
and Mary Beth Bryan Working on documentary incl. Romney
Jill Stein Green Party Presidential candidate, Command Central
Voting Intricacies
Fight Back WVKO Podcast, October 27, 2012 Romney Family investments in voting machines
Fight Back WVKO Podcast, October 06, 2012
Special Guest Ass’t Professor Of Economics, Dr. Fadel Kaboub from Denison University
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Fight Back WVKO Podcast, September 29, 2012
Brian Clash live. Terri Jameson Domestic Relations Juvenile court candidate.40:45> Gerry Bello Sept. 27, 2012 Free Press Article, “Vote counting company tied to Romney”
Cheri Honkala, VP Candidate For The U.S. Green Party 2012
Fight Back WVKO Podcast October 20, 2012
Kelly Nyks, “Split, A Deeper Divide“, Gerry Bello, Political analysis (31:37), John Wellington Innis, Edited Version, “Free For All” (34:25), Discussion of Michael Connell, (52:04), ‘Point Of Sale’ (POS) attack. Romney and voting machines.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast Sept. 15, 2012
Michael Alwood standing in for Peter Navarro Film Producer, official site “Death By China” Free on youtube. Know Drones 47:58 Nick Mottern.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast Setp. 8, 2012 Bob talks to Senior Editor of the Columbus Free Press, Harvey Wasserman about Husted, Ohio SOS, bans Sunday voting and voter suppression.
Fight Back, WVKO Podcast Sept. 1, 2012 (Starts 11:12) Tom Over, live at the republican convention.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast Aug. 18, 2012 (Starts 8:20) Elections and Voting, Wisconsin Guests (Dennis Kern, John Washburn) Ohio Dem. Dennis Liberman removed from office (by Jon Husted Ohio SOS) for promoting weekend voting.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast Aug 11, 2012 Fighting The War Party, Richard Ehrbar III (L) – Candidate for Congress, Ohio District 3, Bob’s Opposition candidate.
FightBack WVKO Podcast August 4, 2012 (starts at 6:25)
Columbus City Council Mis-Representation, Reflex, Carpet Baggers, Hiroshima, Nagasaki memorial 62nd, No Drones, 51:47: Dave agin’ Obama and dems, Obama agenda, Workers and voting rights.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast July 14, 2012 (Starts 9:30) (Starts 9:43) Re-examining Lucasville, OH longest prison uprising in U.S. Ben Turk Redbird prison abolition. Live call from prison, Siddique Abdullah Hasan (Carlos Sanders) | Justice for Lucasville Lucasville Five.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast July 21, 2012 (Starts 7:43) Prison Industrial Complex Derrick Jones and Natural, movie “The Great Incarcerator”
Fight Back WVKO Podcast July 28 2012 (starts 7:20) Dell Perry, local Musician, Producer, Then (38.50) R.P Ericksen author “The Left Has Always Been Right”.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast May 19, 2012 Front Street with host Charles Traylor,
Fight Back WVKO Podcast May 26, 2012 Rob Kall, Chief editor OpedNews.com, (21:12) NATO Summit, Chicago coverage from Freepress Photographer, Christopher Coston. COINTELPRO worldwide campaign fighting U.S. policy opposition. Trayvon Martin discussion caller. Bob Bennett, Wally O’Dell (Diebold) mention. Infoshop Event.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast June 6, 2012 Sean Gilbow, 1851 center, Donald Goldmacher, Bay Area Activist “Heist, The Movie” Public Employees, School Districts for profit.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast June 9, 2012 Dr. Bob and Cliff Arnebeck, Richard Charnin, Scott Walker Recall (WI), Pattern: Exit Polls adjusted to match “outcome”. Harvey Wasserman calls in. Barbara With, Sheila Parks.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast June 23, 2012 Dr. Bob, Michael Alwood and Cliff Arnebeck, Campaign For America’s Future, Van Jones about Obama’s knowledge of election rigging. Judith, Texas Strike Force, WI robocalls, Michael Connell deposition, death (42:20). After Conf. Posse to Crossroads, 43:30. Letter from Bob Bauer, Jill Simpson and Don Seigelman, Max Cleland, Georgia election corruption. Rove fired from Whitehouse, 2007.
Fight Back WVKO Podcast May 12, 2012 Fascism, Corporatism, Socialism, Trotsky, Michael Alwood, Steve
Fight Back WVKO Podcast May 5, 2012 Bill Baker, Frack Free Ohio, Preferred Fluids, TX, President Speaking in Columbus
Fight Back WVKO Podcast July 7, 2012 Bob, Michael Alwood, AEP, Global Warming, Weather Mods, Full Spectrum Dominance, Nick Mottern: KnowDrones
June 24, 2017 /by Fitrakis
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Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour – 01.12.17
THE DONALD TRUMP SHOW has now moved to prime time as The Donald turns his first press conference into a hilarious un-reality show of abject absurdity and terror.
Co-author BOB FITRAKIS join filmmakers JiM HEDDLE & MARY-BETH BRANGAN to review the data on why this is the product of yet another stolen election that had nothing to do with the Russians.
We’re then joined by the great investigative journalist KARL GROSSMAN to tell us about the SHUT-DOWN OF INDIAN POINT and other nuclear/Solartopian realities we can expect with The Donald.
January 14, 2017 /by Fitrakis
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The Race For Prosecutor
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What Really Happened at Jill Stein’s Green Party “Wrong City” Rally
So the corporate media indulged itself with the idea that Green Party candidate Jill Stein flew to the “wrong city” for a Friday rally at Capital University in central Ohio. Her lateness was in the headline, lead and conclusion of every mainstream article about the September 2 event.
As usual, they ignored the real story.
Jill originally had a speech scheduled in Cincinnati, which was moved, although the tickets weren’t. So she was in Covington, Kentucky about a half-hour before the scheduled noon start of her talk at Capital, where Harvey is in his thirteenth year of teaching (primarily UC200: Cultural and Ethnic Diversity).
No big deal. Jill hopped into a Lyft and headed north. Estimated time of arrival: about 2:30.
Compare this to when Hillary Clinton appeared in Columbus on July 31, 2016 at Ft. Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, arrived two hours late, and a dozen people had fainted in the heat in the meantime. Although the Dispatch reported on it, the article did not emphasize her lateness in the headline or lead. Buried in the middle of the article, it read: “Several in the Ft. Hayes crowd had to be treated by paramedics as they waited on the newly-anointed Democratic nominees, who were about two hours late – in part because they stopped for Grandpa’s Cheese Barn along Interstate 71 near Ashland.”
Meanwhile, Harvey told Jill’s crowd of about 100 (many of them his students) that she was on her way and took orders for pizza. Since the local media craves the details, here they are: seven cheese pies, seven with onions, peppers and mushrooms, and one vegan (for Harvey, Suzanne and two other takers) with tofu and no cheese. (Total price: $220, Harvey’s most memorable campaign donation).
We then opened the mic. Among others, long-time Green Party activist Anita Rios spoke. So did Bob, Ohio Green Party Co-Chair, candidate for Franklin County prosecutor, a professor at Columbus State Community College, and Editor of the Columbus Free Press/www.freepress.org. Bob and Harvey have co-authored seven books on election protection, dating back to the 2004 theft of the presidency by George W. Bush and Karl Rove.
At one o’clock we switched over to Harvey’s iPhone. One of Harvey’s students hooked us up to the PA and we played the Jill Stein campaign theme song, followed by a good long session from the Grateful Dead.
It was a gorgeous Friday afternoon on the large lawn at a lovely liberal arts college. People sat, talked and stretched out. Thanks to the modern miracles of the telephone, texting, email and social media, the crowd grew by half.
A klatch of about a dozen libertarians hovered in the background wearing Gary Johnson t-shirts. We asked them if it was true that Johnson, who advocates legalization of pot, had promised not to smoke it while in the White House. We told them that was a mistake.
When Jill arrived she was greeted by Capital’s much-loved President Beth Paul. Back in 2008, the school hosted an appearance from candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin. George H.W. Bush and other presidents, ex-presidents and candidates—-including Barack Obama—-have appeared here.
When Bob finally introduced her, we had a rested, happy crowd of enthusiastic students, locals and Green Party volunteers. Jill spoke of the Green New Deal and her plan to put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work to create a clean energy economy by 2030. She asked the student crowd how many had taken out student loans and more than half raised their hands. The crowd roared approval when she announced she would cancel all student loan debt, which affects 43 million Americans.
What should have been the lead was Stein’s call to cut the U.S. military spending in half. She pointed out that our nation has 900 military bases all over the world. Other than the U.S., all the other nations on the planet combined have only 30 military bases outside their borders.
We took questions after Jill’s speech, then a group photo, and a long selfie line. A good time was had by all.
By the time Jill hopped in Anita’s car to head to Cleveland for her next gig, this time just a half-hour late, the media had filed its story, but obviously missed an excellent rally.
The media are also misrepresenting Stein’s official ballot status: A Dispatch article Monday, September 5, said: “Green Party nominee Jill Stein is on track to make it in at least half [of the state ballots].” At the time the Dispatch published this AP report, Stein was already on the ballot in 41 states and likely to end up on at least 45 states, or 95 percent of the states. Only in South Dakota is she not on the ballot by name or as a write-in, and in only three states is she certified as a write-in only – Indiana, North Carolina and Georgia.
September 9, 2016 /by Fitrakis
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Ohio Green Party delegates Bob Fitrakis and Philena Farley at the Green Party national presidential nominating convention
More than a few have wondered why the Green Party headed for Houston in August to nominate Jill Stein for President. I heard a few press observers note that maybe it was because Houston is one of the hottest and most polluted cities in the nation – perhaps more in need of Stein’s proposed Green New Deal than any other major U.S. city.
The reality is that the national Greens chose Houston because the state Party there practices thoroughgoing grassroots democracy. Simply put, Houston’s state Green Party had the best proposal. The Ohio Greens had proposed Toledo and were a finalist, with a vision of the Cleveland fascistic Republican convention contrasted with adecentralized democratic meeting in the city that is, for all practical purposes, a suburb of Detroit.
Prior to the Saturday, August 6 nominating convention, there were no major questions outstanding. Stein was the presumptive nominee, had chosen her Vice President, and her platform was clear. This is despite the fact in the past few months, Stein had offered Bernie Sanders to be the Green Party presidential nominee (with Stein as VP), and offered former Ohio State Senator, Sanders supporter, and renegade Democrat Nina Turner a spot as her running mate.
There was also talk of Cornel West as a VP candidate. But in the end, Stein turned to a stalwart human rights activist with ties to the Black Lives Matter movement to balance the ticket and reach out to the Party’s growing minority base, Ajamu Baraka.
The two most fiery calls to action during Stein’s nomination process were from the always eloquent Cornel West and YahNe Ndgo. Ndgo, as if conjuring up the spirit of “criticism/self-criticism” from the 1970s, appealed far more to the primarily white 200 or so Green Party delegates than the numerous Bernie-or-Bust observers, who broke into frequent chants of “Jill! Not Hill!”
There was some tension in Stein’s nominating process when presidential hopeful Sedinam Kinamo Christin Moyowasifza-Curry immediately objected to the Alabama delegation casting their votes, because she claimed she had not been invited to that state. Moyowasifza-Curry has argued vigorously for the Green Party becoming a minority-led vehicle to advance issues of concern to people of color.
Although there were frequent procedural objections from the floor by Moyowasifza-Curry, Stein easily won the nomination. The platform that, among other things, calls for reparations for African Americans, passed with little debate and only one dissenting vote.
The Ecological Economics amendment placed the Green Party firmly on the record as a Left eco-socialist party, reading in part: “…The Green Party seeks to build an alternative economic system based on ecology and decentralization of power, an alternative that rejects both the capitalist system that maintains private ownership over almost all production as well as the state-socialist system that assumes control over industries without democratic, local decision making…” and “…“addresses the economic inequalities, social inequalities, and productivism of both capitalism and state socialism and emphasizes grassroots democracy in the workplace.”
The platform also included the Green Party’s commitment to election integrity, calling for the end to all privately-owned proprietary computer codes in the U.S. electronic voting process.
A highlight of the convention was a livestream by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy in Britain. He spoke to the crowd about movements like the Green Party and how they keep American politics “honest.” He repeated his assertion that asking people to vote between Trump and Clinton is like asking people to choose between “cholera and gonorrhea.” Both Assange and West argued that the legendary “triangulation” of the Clintons, while they govern from the corporate center, is fanning the flames of right-wing takeovers to hold the Left at bay.
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If a belief is taken beyond the safety of rational thought, it’s then an act of faith. Brave and bold, but delusional. I’d argue that medicating is well down this path – devoutly taking risks with side-effects, perhaps even shortening lifespan, yet ‘smoke and mirrors’ is a fair description of the governance in clinical research. A blog on a fabricated conclusion in an NHMRC sponsored study is linked, and my notification of the misconduct to the publishing Arthritis Care & Research journal editor Dr Gary Firestein was never acknowledged. Likewise concerns about deception in drug trial PRO-HEART (linked) to the manager of research also went unanswered, but are now subject of a Freedom of Information legal demand for disclosure.
A third matter is detailed below, and these were chosen from this site’s 43 posts to submit to Public Library of Science as a manuscript exemplifying medical research scams. Publication assistant Rebecca Green replied that “unfortunately such a paper would fall outside the scope of PLOS Medicine“. Dirty research can’t be retracted, furthermore making the case for a multitude of scandals won’t be published. Enough to shake one’s confidence in the system? Have heart, the BMJ may come to the party.
Impunity in both corrupting the medical evidence base and inappropriate commercial allegiance has led some to crossing of the boundary from immoral to illegal. ‘Dog and pony show’ is another idiom pertinent to NHMRC funded program BackTrack. Managed by qualified dogcatcher Bernie Shakeshaft, their modus operandi is to attend a rural court where juvenile offenders have run out of warnings, and are due for detention. An alternative offer is made for these feral kids to voluntarily labour on a remote farm, where they’ll also be taught to handle dogs. This goes down well with the Magistrate “… if I can forward them to a structured program like BackTrack, I certainly feel like there would be less recidivism.” In 2013 while Bernie’s brother, University of NSW (UNSW) Prof Shakeshaft, was on the NHMRC council their grant application “This study quantifies the benefits/costs of combining cognitive-behaviour therapy with a community-reinforcement strategy to reduce substance-related harms among young Indigenous Australians” was approved for $386771. A year later Bernie took off on a study tour of the USA, Canada and Italy. Bernie’s been done for Driving Under the Influence, so has learnt by experience the perils of alcohol abuse. But he’s naïve about CBT, and the majority of incarcerated kids aren’t Indigenous. This is revealed in a book submitted by Helena Pastor for her PhD by observation from the local Uni. An excerpted page Wild_Boys_—-_(Pg_253) describes physical abuse and isolation from both social workers and community elders.
The majority of finance comes from the philanthropic Vincent Fairfax Foundation. So besides taking Aboriginal kids away from their community support, these souls are in Christian hands. This situation is ongoing, not some historical ‘taking the children away’. Barnaby Joyce redirected $200k from Indigenous Affairs to these criminals (harsh? The AFP described the affair as ‘fraud’, which I understand to be a crime).
A report was produced, ‘The Feasibility of Embedding Data Collection into the Routine Service Delivery of a Multi-Component Program for High-Risk Young People’ *, which described their use of a routine survey. This sufficed for NHMRC, whose Ethics & Governance dept disclaimed accountability for their spend of our funds “…allegations of misconduct would need to be addressed by raising your concerns with the research institution through which the research was conducted.” Director of Integrity at UNSW, Bronwyn Greene, has been working on her answer to this since May 5th. So too has bureaucrat David Baragry, whose previous diplomatic statement was careful not to tread on toes in Canberra: “The Ombudsman has the discretion not to investigate certain complaints… respects the role, expertise and decisions of the NHMRC and … tends to consider only questions related to the NHMRC’s administrative processes.” Then Minister for Science & Research, SEN Kim Carr, recognizing the need for an Office of Research Integrity left the task to the key funding bodies NHMRC and Aust Research Council to establish an independent review body. They did so, but within their own organisations. This Committee, ARIC hasn’t replied either. In its first year 2011 it accepted only one complaint against its NHMRC parent, then rejected all allegations but for a procedural matter regarding sending of a letter. It’s not listed under https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about/nhmrc-committees but buried as a paragraph in the NHMRC Annual Report – the latest stating on pg98 that one matter was dismissed, and another is an ongoing investigation. That’s about all they have to show in five years (check the reports for yourselves: search for nh15, nh162, nh166, nh169 & nh172). The cries of dissent are more voluble – links available from http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/plagiarismfraud.html are a start.
19th Oct update: After the UNSW and ARIC four missed dates that they’d offered as targets for a response, it’s obvious that this will be stonewalled rather than whitewashed. Pity, since we miss out on the comedic material unearthed by America’s ORI being taken to court by a fraudster… “Dr. Sauer admitted that the images in his publications and grant applications were knowingly and intentionally falsified, but denied culpability, claiming that a member of an anti-gene technology activist group had falsified Dr. Sauer’s data in order to subvert gene-technology research. As evidence for his claim, Dr. Sauer submitted an uncorroborated declaration purportedly by an individual named “Rune Dreser,” who allegedly stated that he had hacked into Dr. Sauer’s computers and altered Dr. Sauer’s research results. The declaration, written in German and purportedly notarized by a notary in Germany, did not contain the notary’s name, and the signature of the notary was illegible. Noticing this irregularity, the HHS attorney for ORI emailed the notarial office in Germany to inquire about the authenticity of the notarization. The director of the notarial office responded that the notary seal and signature were most likely forgeries. ”
1st April: comedy gold from UNSW – when offered right-of-reply to a manuscript documenting their history of research misconduct eg harbouring of Khachigian, they came back with a ‘Strictly Confidential’ status report (which said that nothing had been done yet, after 9 months).
* Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 208; doi:10.3390/ijerph14020208
The Ombudsman’s office has replied through Ellisha Hill who “decided an investigation is not warranted“. Grounds for this abdication were: UNSW should address concerns itself; evidence of misconduct was lacking; and NHMRC disinterest should be appealed through their Commissioner. Your taxes at ‘work’!
Then came a PR stunt – the ‘BackTrack Boys’ flick. Watch it, and consider the alt explanation of a scam (see youtu.be/BtlCUJhNC78?t=464 where the boys are offered out as labour, gaining no credentials under Bernie’s custody)
posted August 4, 2017 at 10:54 pm by fnmyalgia Reply
Closeout: UNSW have sent a strictly Confidential report confirming prima facie case for fraud by deception, but forgiving the Shakeshafts for their error. A QC has advised me that the ‘iniquity rule’ may apply, if the situation is sufficiently serious, rendering their beg for secrecy worthless.
Considering https://t.co/nKmVz4jDdq UNSW’s oversight of an atrocity, I’ll share their letter with anyone who requests it. Their Ethics dept needs to be in court.
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75187 BB-8 - UCS or not?
TheBrickPal USAMember Posts: 45
September 2017 in The Database
Hello, everyone! Today I am bringing up a subject that could determine the future of one particular set in our database.
As you may know, 75187 BB-8 is a large-scale droid set that was just released on September 1st. However, even though we currently have it under the Last Jedi subtheme, there is no doubt there are huge differences between it and the other six minifig-scale sets in the wave. That begs the question... should we label it an Ultimate Collector Series set?
It is a large-scale, System-built figure done in the style of 10225 R2-D2, a UCS set from 2012.
Like R2, it is built in a similar scale, has a display plaque, and includes the minifig version of the titular droid as well.
Unlike other recent UCS sets, it does not have a gold badge on the box, and is available in most retail locations rather than only at shop.LEGO.com and LEGO Brand Stores.
While released alongside the first wave of Last Jedi sets, BB-8 does not only go with this new film but is representative of the entire sequel trilogy. So, is the Last Jedi subtheme really the most appropriate place for it?
We are aware of the attachments many may have to the UCS series, as well as what may qualify as a set and what doesn't (just look at Assault on Hoth). However, through your opinion we can come up with a designation that most can agree with.
So the real question is - The Last Jedi, or Ultimate Collector Series?
Molican GermanyMember Posts: 29
It's a modular, like Market Street!
Really? I thought it was a BrickHead, myself!
I would vote for putting it under the UCS sets. Mainly because R2-D2 is already there, and as TheBrickPal said, other than the UCS label, it is very similar in presentation.
Coolguy5000 Ireland Member Posts: 1,514
I would put it under UCS.
Do all UCS-tagged sets have the gold badge or other UCS-identifying markings on the box? If no, I would tag BB-8 as UCS, because of the plaque, the minifig and the stand. But it's just a little too big to count as a BrickHead(z) ;)
On the other side, Anios BB-8 is the real US one...
SMC UKMember Posts: 1,629
All I know is this set will remain built unlike any other Last Jedi set I get. Does that make it UCS no but it is clear that it sits next to R2D2 nicely so sure why not.
Molican said:
All UCS sets since the 2014 Sandcrawler have had the badge.
Matt89190 UKMember Posts: 278
Why does this merit a topic? As many others have stated, this clearly in't a UCS set, and there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. It comes in regular packaging, with no UCS badge on the box as has been the trend in recent years, and in case anyone is thinking of the Falcon being a new trend; the box doesn't look like that either. The plaque doesn't fit with the style of the ones in literally every UCS set. I will concede that Lego are probably torn between wanting it to fit with the R2 and not wanting to take attention away from the Falcon, so they went with this kind of in-between.
Still not a UCS.
UCS.
It it has a plaque like some UCS sets. It is a large single model like others in the series. It is not scaled the same as the other non ucs sets (i.e. minifig scale).
I know now it does not have a badge and therefore is not officially a ucs set. But it has the qualities of one which is how the database has classified previous non ucs sets.
@Matt89190 Why so aggressive? I think I made it clear that we know BB-8 is officially NOT a UCS set. But it does deserve to be grouped with them, for technical purposes, due to its style, quality and other reasons stated in the first post. No evidence? I gave it.
Also, who are the many others thinking it shouldn't be labelled as such? Most of what I see in this thread (and article comments) so far suggests otherwise.
This topic has merit; it's a healthy debate.
xwingpilot UKMember Posts: 797
No UCS badge on the box but clearly a UCS set like many others without badges in the Brickset database. As has been said already, it has the stand and the plaque and is large-scale. Looks great next to the UCS R2-D2 too:
TheBrickPal said:
Really didn't mean to come off as aggressive; sorry! There's been a lot of talk about such things either in the Falcon rumours or SW discussion at one point (I forget which), so I'm just a little tired with the whole debate! I do apologise - reading that back, I did come off a tad harsh, but it genuinely wasn't meant that way.
I do, however, stand by the last bit about TLG being torn and going for a kind of middle ground.
LEGO evidently does not consider it an Ultimate Collector's Series set, as others have stated, so I would be hesitant to designate it a UCS set in the database. There is some room for debate concerning earlier sets as the UCS range was not truly defined until 2014 but it is now quite clearly branded and that branding is absent from #75187 BB-8.
Having said that, I absolutely agree that the new set includes a number of features which we can associate with the Ultimate Collector's Series. I imagine it lacks the branding simply because LEGO thought it was worthy of selling alongside standard retail sets to the widest possible audience.
Matt89190 said:
No apology needed! I totally agree. In the end, it all boils down to personal preference.
It's not a UCS until LEGO says it is 15 years from now in a Design Video celebrating its line of SW scale droids.
It needs friction pins.
meandonlyme Member Posts: 16
It is as much a UCS as 10225 R2-D2.
Not UCS. The designation should come from LEGO, not fans.
If it does have the UCS tag attached to it, then so should any other sets that are like Obi-Wan's Starfighter and Naboo Starfighter, these are both UCS so others similar to those should be included. Also why not apply it to other non-UCS sets like the Helicarrier, Tumbler, Disney Castle, Haunted House, Helm's Deep, etc that some people think are UCS based on size, a plaque, etc. It becomes meaningless if fans get to say what is what, and there will never be consensus.
BooTheMightyHamster Northern edge of London, just before the dragons...Member Posts: 1,281
It's your toy - call it what you like!
BooTheMightyHamster said:
That's fine for individuals. But the question is about the database.
The question is really should the database be based on actualities/facts or should it be based on feelings?
UCS sets are very diverse, the only common thing that differentiate them from regular sets is that LEGO refer to them as UCS.
OrmskirkBricks England, UKMember Posts: 265
If I was a UCS-Only collector would I buy this set? Yes I would!
It would display well with other UCS sets, esp given the plaque, display stand and scale of the set.
Is it an official UCS set? - nope.
For some reason, Lego omitted this from the UCS family. Maybe an error, maybe so other UCS sets could be produced under the UCS budgets internally...I would imagine the Falcon absorbed a lot of time/money within the Lego group.
But, as always in life the answer is 42.
4 u 2 decide...
CCC said:
I tend to agree with this, although given that the infamous poster produced by LEGO a while back retro-fitted the UCS designation to a number of sets which were never identified by LEGO (or the fan community) as UCS at the time of their release and lack many features characteristic of UCS models (plaque etc.) I don't think that LEGO necessarily know what's UCS either....
drdavewatford said: by
Or that what qualifies a set as a UCS set changes through time.
A similar argument could be made to remove the UCS tag from the UCS Hoth set. It is officially a UCS set, but it seems many AFOLs hate it being one. It's a rehash of old sets, it's a play set not a display set, the plaque, ...
Would users of the database be happy if that was removed based on feelings, even if it ultimately leads to an inaccurate database?
Here is the sort of mess the database would be in if fans were allowed to decide what is UCS or not. Italics are their quotes.
https://brickset.com/sets/list-18823
46 UCS sets so far ... UCS's have only been associated with Star Wars, Batman, DC Comics Super Heroes, & Marvel Super Heroes
Most UCS's are Direct To Consumer sets so I might as well include this set. While not a UCS, it's still big enough to act like one. (Diagon Alley)
2013 starts with another branching off! In fact, this year has a whole bunch of branching off! Anyways, the first DC Comics Super Heroes "UCS" is this set right here. (Arkham)
What did I say? A second branching off of "UCS" in the same year! (Orthanc)
What do you have it, 2014 starts with a branching off as well with The Simpsons!
Wow! Yet another branching off this year! This "UCS" gives us our first boat set for the title. (Sea Cow)
The last thing 2014 brought us was an actual UCS from DC Comics Super Heroes. So, it does make it in the line-up of themes with UCS's (Tumbler)
Marvel decides to make a UCS set this year with this right here. Right now, it's the only UCS Marvel set but, of course, it could still change. (Helicarrier)
2016 kicks off relatively alright with this Ghostbusters set. It's nice that we get another branched off "UCS". Plus, this is the third biggest LEGO set made! (GBHQ)
2016 also gives us another DC Comics Super Heroes UCS! (Batcave)
And so we come to present day. This time, Pirates Of The Caribbean comes back from the dead along with this ghost ship in this set! (It's amazing how many branching offs we've had in about 4 years!) (Silent Mary)
Ninjago City, Minecraft The Village and The Mountain Cave, Disney Castle, Silent Mary, GBHQ, Batcave, Quik-E-Mart and Simpsons House, Helicararrier, Tumbler, Sea Cow, Orthanc, Arkham, Diagon Alley, ..
If Silent Mary is UCS, then why not Destiny's Bounty (and Imperial Flagship)? Diagon Alley but not Hogwarts Castle? Why not all the Modulars, the Old Fishing Store, Big Ben, Taj Mahal, Tower Bridge, etc ...
Drmnez USA, Planet earth Member Posts: 851
Bb8 is not. There really is no debating it. If you still insist... Does the #10187 vw beetle count as a ucs? It's a large set with a plaque??
Additionally, if we just get to pick what counts as ucs' I think that #10228 haunted house should be a modular
Drmnez said:
And also add #10241 Maersk Line Triple-E. It meets the large set and a plaque reasoning.
No, that's clearly a plaque-less UCS set! It needs the side technic pins to be a modular. Unless you claim it is pin-less modular as it needs to have a plaque to be a UCS ... :-)
I would like to submit #3429 Ultimate Defense to the debate. It is very extremely ultimate.
One way to maybe appease most people would be to have the UCS label only applied to sets that have that badge on them. Hopefully everyone can agree that a set with the UCS label on is a UCS set (whether you think the set ought to be or not is another discussion).
Then also have another label, USC-like, or something similar, for sets that the database maintainers think are like UCS sets.
This would solve the issue for old sets that maybe Lego should have put the label on, and solve it for sets that look like UCS sets but are not.
Of course the argument will move to should it be classified as UCS-like, but hopefully less so as it is more clearly based on the maintainers decisions.
I dont think it needs to be such a black and white question. We could have a third option of 'Quasi-UCS' sets, including all the ones which are "near misses" like @CCC listed.
MaffyD said:
I'd really wonder whether that is a useful tag to have. Someone still has to decide whether or not to include the tag in the database, whether this should or that should. If it is just based on number of parts, then it is simple (but there is the argument about how many parts are needed). If it is based on getting a certain number of hits for different attributes, then what are those attributes going to be? Number of parts, contains a plaque, licensed or not, not minifig size, display rather than play, ... These are all debatable to some extent (How many parts to be UCS? What shape plaque? Is Ninjago Movie licensed? Is DS minifigure scale or not? Is DS or EV or Ninjago City for play or display?
And then does anyone really care if The Silent Mary is a "near miss UCS" set but the Imperial Flagship isn't? Or Diagon Alley is but Ninjago City isn't?
Addicted2Oxygen said:
One way to maybe appease most people would be to have the UCS label only applied to sets that have that badge on them.
It is not the badge as such, but whether or not LEGO says they are. Early sets didn't have the badge, but had the branding printed on the box/manual. Some didn't have even that but appear on LEGO lists / posters of UCS sets. There can be no denying they are officially UCS if LEGO says they are. If LEGO puts out a new poster with UCS sets on it and BB-8 appears on it, then the designation should be updated, even though at present they have not used the branding.
I'm with CCC on this. Until such time as Lego retrospectively says it's a UCS, it's not.
I also don't see what benefit there is in creating a third category for "Non UCS Non Star Wars but large sets", when it's really quite simple already in the database to search for large sets:
Home > Browse > Sets > Normal
Sort by Number of pieces (desc)
Then filter by theme or tag or year as desired.
(I have also always been a bit dubious about the merits of the Advanced Models theme but that's a whole other can of worms :-)
Atbricks Ontario, CanadaMember Posts: 4
Interesting discussion point. It's a slippery slope though. My 2 cents: Do not label as UCS as TLG have not labelled it as such. There are a few UCS Bricklists out there, folks can use their own criteria for Bricklists.
als-1971 uk derbyshireMember Posts: 69
I don't care if its ucs or not but it is on display with my other ucs sets and it looks like it belongs there.
dougts Oregon, USAMember Posts: 4,114
The problem with going by the box labeling is that several of the SW UCS sets were not labeled such in the box, but clearly are. Should we remove them from the UCS list?
so LEGO's own inconsistencies and lack of clarity is why this conversation exists in the first place
regarding BB-8, I really don't care. But judging by its characteristics, it is much much more similar to a SW UCS set than it is to a SW non-UCS set
darkstonegrey USAMember Posts: 15
Not until TLG officially designates it as UCS - when concerning any set, SW or otherwise.
Just because it has a sticker plaque doesn't mean it's a ucs and is a lame reason to have it be. My batpod is more of a ucs than bb8 and if the label denotes ucs then we need to include the ucs vw beetle and the ucs triple-e into the conversation.
darkstonegrey said:
So I guess we need to remove 10188, 10212, 10221, 10227, 10236, and 10240 from the UCS list then.
shaase Member Posts: 15
For me it comes down to three criteria
The Box/Instructions states it UCS
The Set comes with an UCS plaque
It's number in the 10xxx
I know everyone has their own opinion and the a true UCS is a display model; but leave it to yourself to decide what is UCS. Some of the sets consider UCS others would not and I'm OK with that.
Per your guidelines, Please make sure the DB is updated to remove the UCS tag from 10188, 10236, 10240, and 10221.
Bobflip Member Posts: 462
Maybe it's just CS because they don't think it's U enough, so then it's not eligible for the badge and branding.
Fauch FranceMember Posts: 2,251
the question then would be, you are looking for the BB8 set, to which star wars category do you instinctly go to find it?
Fauch said:
2017 releases?
MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Member Posts: 977
Better add the Dreamliner in there as well...
I tend to use the search function.
I don't have a horse in this race, as I have three categories I define my criteria on: Have, Want, Don't Care. I'm trying to find options that others might want.
The idea of finding it by year is all very well and good until we're 5 years down the line and we can't remember (or new people have yet to find out) which year it was released in and have pages and pages to look through, even when sorting by parts or filtering by sequel trilogy or whatever.
I don't care how Lego have categorised it, as they're inconsistent at best and ignorantly divisive at worst. If we have a tag that not many people use, then so be it - it's exactly a massive overhead to just have it hanging around, and if it's not useful, delete it. As to what might go in such a tag, I'd say all of them. ALL OF THEM! Anything that has ever been considered a 'near miss' or even a 'near near miss'. But not anything @CCC suggests, just because :-P (joking).
The idea of finding it by year is all very well and good until we're 5 years down the line and we can't remember (or new people have yet to find out) which year it was released in and have pages and pages to look through, even when sorting by parts or filtering by sequel trilogy or whatever
But as Dr Dave says, if you're looking for info on BB-8 wouldn't you just search for BB-8??
Or if you're looking for large Star Wars sets, search for Star Wars and sort by parts descending.
I think I must be missing the point of what a tag would achieve here?
omnium Brickenham, UKMember Posts: 740
I really really don't have a horse in the race... but I see what people are getting at.
At the end of the day, for me, UCS is a label that LEGO have come up with and have applied it illogically. The logical part of me says the database should only have the UCS tag on sets LEGO have deemed to be UCS.
But I know there are a group of sets that are for "collectors" and fit a certain pattern. And many of those aren't necessarily Star Wars, and are not labelled UCS.
LostInTranslation said:
But BB-8 isn't a large set, so it would be way down the list.
I think people who consider BB-8 a UCS style set are considering it on many parameters, not size, but the display stand, the plaque, the style, and so on, making it something that collectors would display.
That same definition fits sets like the BatMobile which isn't "UCS" but is that sort of display piece that people keep on a shelf to show people.
I have no idea what to call such a tag, except "detolf" springs to mind :-D
The main set I, as a collector, have displayed for the last year or so, is Ragana's Magic Shadow Castle. Should that be labelled as a collector's set just because I think it's a worthy display item? What constitutes a display item will differ for each person.
Is the plaque the main point of debate? Why not just do a "Plaque" tag then?
The main set I, as a collector, have displayed for the last year or so, is Ragana's Magic Shadow Castle. Should that be labelled as a collector's set just because I think it's a worthy display item?
Ultimately, just about every LEGO set is a collector's item :-)
What constitutes a display item will differ for each person.
Indeed! You can see from above responses that the criteria for "UCS" varies. It's a vague concept that LEGO have not nailed down well at all.
It's one of the main criteria. But some people think UCS should only apply to Star Wars too, for example. I think a "Plaque" tag a good start.
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Q. 5: What’s the term for water induction process in plants?
Q. 6: In which American state is Cape Canaveral, a launching site for space travel?
Q. 7: This metal is the main element in Bronze and constitutes approximately 10% of Yellow Gold, what is it?
Q. 8: What does the ‘E’ represent in the equation E = MC2?
Q. 9: Which bird turns its head upside down to eat?
a) the stork b) the albatross c) the flamingo d) the swan
Q. 10: LOT is the national airline of which country?
a) Peru b) Lithuania c) Poland d) Latvia
Q. 11: What are the two major groups of islands off the north-east coast of Scotland?
Q. 12: ‘Richard Hannay’ is the chief protagonist in what John Buchan novel?
Q. 13: What is the name of Caractacus Potts’ 12- cylinder, eight-litre, supercharged Paragon Panther?
Q. 14: As well as being the first woman mayor in England, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify in which profession?
Q. 15: What general name is given to a female donkey?
Q. 16: What name is given to the natural grassland area of southern Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay?
Q. 17: According to legend, which creatures did Saint Patrick banish from Ireland?
Q. 18: What is an estate, large farm or ranch called in Spanish-speaking countries?
Q. 19: Who is the wizard in The Hobbit?
Q. 20: From which country does Samba dancing come?
A. 1: No.
A. 2: The Pig.
A. 3: Buenos Aires In Argentina.
A. 4: The correct answer is c) bird eggs.
Q. 5: What’s the term for water induction process in plants
A. 5: Osmosis.
A. 6: It is in Florida.
A. 7: It is Copper.
A. 8: The ‘E’ represents ‘Energy’.
A. 9: The correct answer is c) the flamingo.
A. 10: The correct answer is c) Poland.
A. 11: They are the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands.
A. 12: The 39 Steps.
A. 13: It is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
A. 14: As a doctor.
A. 15: A Jenny.
A. 16: The Pampas.
A. 17: Snakes.
A. 18: It is called a Hacienda.
A. 19: Gandalf.
A. 20: Brazil.
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The Financial Data and Technology Association is a trade association.
As Members of the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), companies and their representatives agree to endorse and to follow the aims and values of the Association.
Meet FDATA Directors
FDATA has an increasingly global presence with established chapters in Europe and North America, and new ones forming in Australia/New Zealand and India.
Summit & Awards
2019 – Summit & Awards
2019 – Enter the awards here
2018 – Summit and Awards
2018 – Images
2018 – Review
September 20, 2018 by andy andy No Comments
Leading Fintech Trade Association Launches North American Arm
FDATA-North America to Advocate for Open Banking Rules in Canada, Mexico & the United States
Sept. 20, 2018, Washington, DC— The Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), which played a pivotal role over the last five years in crafting the design and implementation of open banking standards in the United Kingdom and in Europe, announced today the launch of a North American arm, FDATA North America. FDATA North America will advocate for the adoption of open banking frameworks in Canada, Mexico, and the United States and will encourage global standards for consumers to access and share their financial data safely and securely with whatever providers they choose.
North American policymakers and industry participants have begun an earnest dialogue about open banking. FDATA North America will work with lawmakers, regulators, financial institutions, and other industry and consumer stakeholders to advance and implement this framework. Gavin Littlejohn, who led the organization during the implementation of PSD2 across Europe and the launch of Open Banking in the United Kingdom, is the group’s global chairman and Steve Boms, who serves on the board of FDATA Global and has been an
outspoken advocate for the fintech industry, will act as executive director.
FDATA North America members include Equifax Canada, Intuit, Kabbage, Morningstar, Moven, Onist, Questrade, Quicken Loans, and Envestnet Yodlee, among others.
“Our members provide technology-based products and services that make it easier for individuals, families, and small businesses to make smarter financial decisions. To fully realize these benefits, however, consumers must be able to decide how to access and share their data.” explained Boms. “Our goal is to develop a framework within North American markets that balances safeguards with consumers’ rights to have access to these third-party tools.”
“With FDATA as the fintech industry leader since 2014, Europe has made great strides in advancing open banking rules,” said Littlejohn. “For the sake of both consumer choice and global competition, North American policymakers now must catch up. Our North American advocacy efforts, though nascent, have already been incredibly impactful. We have been pleased with our initial engagement with U.S., Canadian, and Mexican government officials. There’s a
strong will and desire to bring the open banking revolution in North America.”
Littlejohn, based in Edinburgh, is a tech entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Money Dashboard, a personal finance software company. He’s led FDATA since it’s inception in 2014. Boms, a former U.S. congressional staffer, has led global advocacy efforts for equity options exchanges, large U.S.-based financial institutions, and leading fintech firms.
August 13, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
FDATA partners with Robo-Advice 2018
FDATA has been named as a media partner for the 2nd UK Robo Advice and Digital Wealth Summit.
The digital transformation of the financial services industry is continuing apace, and robo-advice and digital wealth management are a fast-growing part of this digital transformation. Originally conceived as a means of extending financial advice to the mass market, the technology’s real potential lies in its use being extended to insurance, pensions and other sectors. As robo-advice matures and expands from innovative start-ups to incumbents who are increasingly adopting or integrating the technology into their business models, having a clear perspective, not only of how the market is developing and where the opportunities will lie in the future, but also of regulatory expectations, will become increasingly critical. The latter point is particularly relevant given the FCA’s recent, multi-firm review of automated investment services.
Attendance at the second edition of the UK Robo Advice and Digital Wealth Summit, which is to take place on 20th September in London, will therefore be invaluable for both incumbents and start-ups that want to know how to adjust their business models to take full advantage of the significant opportunities presented by robo-advice and digital wealth management. This year’s conference will also involve a keynote address by the FCA’s Anna Wallace among many other high-level speakers.
Key discussion areas include:
Robo-advice: progress so far and opportunities ahead
Meeting the developing expectations of regulators
Robo-advice in the UK: a country specific perspective
Customer acquisition and engagement
Increasing the granularity and quality of advice
Outlook for robo-advice in the pension and insurance sectors
Robo-advice from two different angles: established financial institutions and fintech start-ups
Anna Wallace, Head of Department, Innovate, Financial Conduct Authority
Helena Morrissey DBE, Head of Personal Investing, Legal & General Investment Management
John Barrass, Deputy Chief Executive, PIMFA
Giovanni Dapra, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Moneyfarm
Andrew Firth, Chief Executive, Wealth Wizards
Adam French, Co-founder & Director, Scalable Capital
Michael Gruener, Managing Director & Head of EMEA Retail Business, BlackRock
Jack Knight, Deputy Chief Executive, Investment Association
Tomasz Krzywicki, General Counsel (Europe & US), Wealthsimple
Hemal Mehta, Founder and Chief Executive, AtomInvest
Janine Menasakanian, Head of Distribution Strategy, Personal Investing, Legal & General Investment Management
Kevin Mountford, Chief Executive, Raisin UK
Uday Nimmakayala, Chief Executive, WealthObjects
Joe Parkin, Head of Wealth and Retail – UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands, iShare
Darren Philp, Head of Policy, Smart Pension
Romi Savova, Chief Executive, Pension Bee
Joe Seunghyun Cho, Co-founder and Founding CEO of LATTICE80, Chairman at Marvelstone Group
David Stevens, Life Advice Director, LV=
Daniel Tammas-Hasting, Managing Director and Founder, RiskSave
Daniel Thomson, Digital Product Owner – Retail Investments, Lloyds Banking Group
Christopher Truce, Head of FinTech, Saxo Bank Group
Caroline Vaughan, Head Of New Business, Innovate Finance
Delegate Fees:
Delegate fee: £595 + VAT
Small company and Fintech rate £199 + VAT
Register here or by emailing bookings@cityandfinancial.com
July 4, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
FDATA Europe Analysis of PSD2 Implementation Challenges V2
FDATA Europe – Assessment of the Challenges in PSD2 Implementation V2
This report catalogues some of the technical challenges encountered by Third Party Providers (TPPs) during their initial connections with the Open Banking Directory and in particular thereafter with the API connections identified in a technical workshop organised by FDATA .
May 4, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
FDATA, EMA, techUK, UK Finance publish voluntary guidelines
FDATA, together with the Electronic Money Association, techUK and UK Finance, have published a set of voluntary guidelines and encouraged market behaviours under PSD2 in the ‘transitional period’. You can download them below.
Voluntary-Guidelines-and-Encouraged-Market-Behaviours-Under-PSD2-FINAL
Open Banking: FAO CMA Proposed amendments to the Agreed Arrangements
This paper sets out a number of amendments to the Proposed Amendments to the Agreed Arrangements to fulfil the objectives of the Retail Banking Market Investigation Order 2017.
Open Banking: Proposed amendments to the Agreed Arrangements
UK’s Open Banking Project Expanded
Open Banking Standards to Expand Functionality and Cover all PSD2 Products
The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), the body set up by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to enable a new, secure way for customers to take control of their financial data and share it with organisations other than their banks, today announces a series of important enhancements to its original scope as set out in the CMA Order (published in August 2016).
As referenced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Autumn Budget today, the OBIE has now been asked by the CMA9 and Her Majesty’s Treasury to create open banking standards for all payment account types covered by the European Union’s second Payments Services Directive (PSD2). This means customers using credit cards, e-wallets and prepaid cards will also be able to take advantage of open banking services. In parallel, the CMA has today approved amendments to the agreed arrangements under the CMA Order, to include a programme of enhancements to ensure that Open Banking delivers maximum benefits for retail customers and SMEs.
The Open Banking project was created in 2016 by the CMA to bring competition and innovation to the personal and small business current account markets. The CMA mandated the nine largest current account providers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the ‘CMA9’) to create the OBIE and work with it to build a common set of API standards that would allow regulated companies safe and secure access to their accounts with the explicit permission of the customer.
The enhancements announced today will build on the core requirements of the CMA Order, which come into force in January 2018, and form a programme of releases throughout 2018 and into 2019.
Imran Gulamhuseinwala, Trustee of the OBIE, said:
“This is a truly innovative project and the UK is leading the world in opening up the banking system to new services and, ultimately, re-shaping it around the customer. Key to any innovation is the process of discovery and it became clear through the second half of 2017 that there is much more the OBIE could do to drive adoption of Open Banking and create a richer environment for new services. These enhancements should give even greater confidence to the FinTech community to seize the opportunity to participate fully in the financial services ecosystem.
“They will create standards for future dated, recurring and international payments as well as all the payment and product types covered by PSD2. These enhancements will maximise the benefits of open banking services for the customer. The OBIE will continue to work with the CMA, HMT, CMA9 and other stakeholders to drive this forward.”
Adam Land, Senior Director at the CMA, commented:
“Today’s announcement is a major milestone in the delivery of open banking, which will transform UK banking for retail customers and small businesses. This will make it easier for customers to manage their money, find the best deal for their needs and avoid overdraft charges.
“There is huge interest globally in the way that UK regulators have worked together with the banking industry, the FinTech sector, consumer groups and others to drive this project forward at pace. This plan, which the CMA has approved today, is both deliverable and bold in scope.”
The full details of the enhancements will be made available today on the Open Banking website which can be accessed here.
A copy of the CMA’s Notice of approval of changes to the Agreed Timetable and Project Plan will be made available today on the CMA website which can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/review-of-banking-for-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-smes-in-the-uk.
April 17, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
FDATA paper – right of EU passport under PSD2
This note aims to address some of the market confusion in relation to the rights of firms to move between EU jurisdictions when performing operations related to the second EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
FDATA – EU Passport under PSD2 – April 2018
March 14, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
RTS deadline
The Regulatory and Technical Standards (RTS) of PSD2 have been published in the Journal of the EU.
This starts the clock on an 18 month compliance timescale, meaning that RTS will be in force on 14th September 2019.
The publication can be viewed here.
January 13, 2018 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
FDATA WELCOMES THE START OF OPEN BANKING
Leading fintech trade association calls launch “the first waypoint on a long journey”
The Financial Data and Technology Association, the leading advocate of open banking in the UK and around the world, has welcomed the parallel implementation of PSD2 across Europe, and the launch of Open Banking amongst the large banks here in the UK.
FDATA, which is chaired by Gavin Littlejohn, who represents the fintech industry on the Open Banking Implementation Entity Steering Group, was set up by six fintech companies in 2014 at the request of HM Treasury, and has been working directly with government, regulatory authorities and financial industry stakeholders in our mission to open up Britain’s financial sector to the benefits of financial data and technology.
FDATA has members from across the financial sector who provide innovative financial applications and services to empower personal and small business consumers to make better decisions and take fuller control of their financial lives across all their bank accounts, credit cards, loans and investments.
PSD2 and Open Banking empower the customer, through his or her explicit consent, to ensure that their chosen third party provider can access their data, make payments and provide them with innovative financial solutions.
Commenting on today’s launch, FDATA Chairman Gavin Littlejohn said:
“This is an important day for consumers and small businesses. From today, PSD2 gives consumers the right to share their payments data with their chosen third party app without any lingering fear that they are breaching the terms of their bank account, and those third party providers are being brought into a regulated environment to further increase consumer protection. And, in the UK, the delivery by the nine largest current account providers of a common Open Banking standard has provided the opportunity to reduce fragmentation, enhance innovation and provide additional security measures for the whole ecosystem.
“The standardisation of Open Banking delivery will see the continued expansion of fintech companies, models and products, and this is an extremely exciting time for the consumer and for UK plc.
“However, Open Banking in the UK is merely the first waypoint on a long journey. The scope of this launch – only current accounts and only from certain banks – is limited, and customers will only experience the full benefits when the scope is expanded.
“FDATA has successfully campaigned to get us this far, and we will now campaign with renewed vigour to bring all financial products, from all over the world, into a standardised open banking system.
“The drive towards open banking has been, and will remain, customer outcome led. The fintech industry exists because customers required better outcomes. Today is the day where consumers of financial technology in the UK can know for sure that they are being listened to.”
November 10, 2017 by fdataros fdataros No Comments
Open Banking 2020-2030 Summit
FDATA is hosting a Summit in December to chart the Open Banking journey to 2030.
Open banking is the midwife of innovation. It is driving innovation at a breathtaking rate. The consumer tools of the future have not yet been invented. This is the fintech revolution in action. But the journey is long, and we’ve barely left the start line. So where do we go next? How do we get there? What scope of data can we expect to access? What technology will take us there? How can we bring the whole world along for the ride? And what will open banking in 2030 look like?
Join us for a day of expert speakers, lively panels and Q&A as we chart the journey to 2030.
More information and booking details can be found here.
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UK Open Banking – Setting the Record Straight February 19, 2019
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Archangel (2005 film)
Archangel is a television adaptation of the 1998 novel of the same name by Robert Harris. Made by the BBC in 2005, it was filmed in the city of Arkhangelsk.
Ian La Frenais
Dick Clement
Yekaterina Rednikova
March 19, 2005 (2005-03-19)
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An English expert on Soviet history, Dr. Christopher[1] 'Fluke' Kelso (Daniel Craig), is in Moscow for an academic conference on Joseph Stalin. After the conference, Papu Rapava, an old man, says that he has important information for Dr. Kelso.
In Hotel Ukraine, where Kelso is staying, Rapava recounts in detail how he, as a young security guard in 1953, witnessed the death of Stalin. He saw Lavrentiy Beria steal a key from Stalin as he lay dying in his Middle dacha. Beria and Rapava drove to Stalin's private quarters in the Kremlin and Beria opened a safe. In the safe was a red folder which Beria removed and later placed in a metal tool box at his mansion. He instructed Rapava to dig a hole in the yard in which this box was buried.
Believing this folder to contain Stalin's notebook, Kelso sees this as an opportunity to write a book based on the personal writings of the late Soviet leader. He tells Rapava that it would be worth a lot of money and would help Rapava reconcile with his estranged daughter. Rapava leaves while Kelso's attention is elsewhere. The next day, a reporter called RJ O'Brian (Gabriel Macht) turns up and recognises Kelso. Kelso begins his research in earnest, visiting a library to get information and eyewitness accounts of Stalin's death. He engages with a young librarian, Yelena, who provides him with the address where Beria used to live.
Kelso goes to Beria's former mansion, now in a state of disrepair. By accident, he discovers the key Beria took from Stalin. He finds the yard has already been excavated and the box is gone. He visits Vladimir Mamantov (Lev Prygunov), a powerful politician (and former KGB agent) who leads the Communist Aurora movement. Kelso invites Mamantov to talk about the notebook, but Mamantov denies knowledge of it. Kelso leaves, unconvinced by Mamantov's denial. Soon Kelso becomes aware that he is being followed.
Coming across a matchbook in his hotel room, Kelso goes to the advertised night club. Again he meets O'Brian. Kelso has asked to speak with Rapava's daughter, Zinaida (Yekaterina Rednikova), who works as a high-class prostitute to fund her law studies. He asks to speak with her father again and, after Kelso agrees to pay for her assistance, she takes him to her father's apartment block. Kelso finds Rapava murdered in the bathtub. As he is leaving, Kelso is mugged and beaten by hooligans. Despite Kelso's appeals for help from the police, he ends up being detained as a suspect. The FSB soon become involved as they are interested in what Kelso is doing. They arrange for him to be released without charge. The agent in charge, Suvorin, introduces himself, revealing that Kelso's actions led to the death of Rapava. Mamantov was aware of only one witness who knew about the notebook. Suvorin advises Kelso to leave Russia.
Zinaida tracks down Kelso. She found a note from her father telling her that Kelso has information for her. She tells him of their estrangement and asks why her father would contact her after so many years. When she says that she doesn't want to speak to her father, Kelso has to break the news to her that Rapava is dead. She takes Kelso to an old garage owned by her father in a search for more clues. Kelso finds a Makarov pistol and the tool box but before they can look inside, O'Brian turns up again. O'Brian wants a share of what they have found. In the tool box is the journal of a young woman called Anoushka from Archangel, who was selected to work for high-ranking Communist Party officials in Moscow.
Zinaida translates Anoushka's writings and learns that the woman took care of Stalin. She writes of a different, humbler aspect to Stalin, different than the brutal dictatorial nature he demonstrated to others. One night she observes his cruelty when she sees that he forces officials to dance for him. After this, she voluntarily dances for Stalin. Pages have been torn from the journal. O'Brian presses Kelso on the book's authenticity. Kelso is convinced it is genuine. Other papers found in the red folder contain reports from the NKVD and medical records. From other information known from that time, they conclude that Anoushka may have been the mother to an heir of Stalin. O'Brian deduces that the story continues in Archangel and makes plans for them to travel. When O'Brian leaves the room, Kelso and Zinaida plot to leave him behind and travel to Archangel together.
Zinaida plans a brief stop at her apartment to get her savings. An intruder waits inside but they make their escape and continue travelling north. Angered by their betrayal, O'Brian discusses his own travel plans with his colleague, Louise.
Suvorin confronts Mamantov about Rapava's murder at a book signing, but Mamantov has a watertight alibi. Suvorin's boss is outraged at O'Brian's breaking news report about Stalin's secret notebook. He orders Suvorin to talk with O'Brian.
Reaching Archangel, Kelso asks at the local records office about past party members. A male clerk, Tsarev, tells them that Anoushka's mother is still alive and living locally.
Kelso and Zinaida leave the records office, returning to their hotel. As they are getting closer, Kelso notices two policemen checking O'Brian's car and the pair are chased. Just before the police catch them, a car arrives and an assassin fatally shoots both policemen. Returning to the hotel unmolested, Kelso and Zinaida discover O'Brian waiting. Meanwhile, Suvorin is questioning Louise about O'Brian and she gives him the information he wants.
At the home of Anoushka's mother, it is revealed that Anoushka returned home pregnant, and died two days after she gave birth. Her baby boy was adopted by a local couple who lived in the forest.
In Moscow, Suvorin is again summoned to speak with his boss. Plans to have the military transport Suvorin to Archangel are under way. His boss cites the reasons for the importance of the notebook.
Kelso questions O'Brian about his sources and how he always seems to find them. Kelso appears suspicious of O'Brian's answer. When Zinaida comes out of the house to smoke a cigarette, she and Kelso discuss what they know. Zinaida agrees to remain with the mother so that Kelso and O'Brian can travel in order to find the child, now a man. Kelso also wants to keep an eye on O'Brian. The mother has revealed that her husband once tried to find his grandson. He left the house but never returned. Kelso and Zinaida believe that Anoushka met the same fate.
While the men are away, the local police arrive at the house and arrest Zinaida for murdering the two policemen. Before they arrest her, she manages to hide her father's Makarov pistol and some money.
Kelso and O'Brian begin their journey but fall foul of a road trap which stops the car. As they review their predicament, a man watches them from a nearby hill. Kelso is convinced the man is Josef, Stalin's son by Anoushka. They agree to go with him to prove they are not a threat to him.
Suvorin arrives by helicopter and gets an update from Lev, the local Militsiya captain. Suvorin examines the dead policemen and concludes that it was an execution carried out by a hitman and not a "call girl" or a "history professor"[2] He asks to speak with Zinaida. Suvorin assures her that she will not be hurt by the Militsiya as he has established that she did not kill the two policemen.
At a remote cabin, Kelso and O'Brian are presented with a large suitcase. On opening it, they discover relics from the past that belonged to Stalin as well as identity papers of others who came before them. These people wrote confessions and died. An old man who chops logs for Josef states that Josef's time is nearing.
Kelso asks Josef about his adoptive parents. The father, when drunk, would beat Josef. He died falling into one of his own traps while drunk and the mother was too old to work. Josef suggests that he killed the woman as a kindness. Kelso offers Josef a photograph of his birth mother but Josef says that he has picture of his real father and they are enough. Josef plies the men with vodka. In a menacing tone, Josef encourages Kelso and O'Brian to dance for him, just as his father did.
The next morning, Kelso awakes to discover Josef has gone. He and O'Brian make their way to the car to get a message out. Elsewhere, Suvorin is met by Major Kretov, with a squad of Russian Special Forces. Their mission is not immediately evident but Suvorin joins them. Finally O'Brian manages to get a signal with his satellite communications device and he begins a broadcast from the forest. Kelso tries to stop him and they struggle. The special forces arrive at the cabin and kill the old man. Kretov is aware of the satellite transmission by O'Brian and he informs Suvorin. Josef kills a guard left by the special forces transport. Soldiers capture Kelso and O'Brian and bring them to Kretov. Suvorin makes a move to protect the two men by threatening to kill Kretov. Kretov reveals that even if he is killed, his men will kill Kelso and O'Brian.
Suddenly, the group comes under attack from Josef. Suvorin orders Kelso and O'Brian to run for their lives. Suvorin accompanies them but Kretov shoots him in the back as they make their escape. O'Brian is caught in a bear trap and Kelso helps him remove it. Kretov kills the limping O'Brian. Kelso falls into a nearby river and takes refuge under the dock. Kretov runs onto the dock and raises his weapon just as Josef shoots him. Kelso escapes in a small motorboat.
Back at the cabin, Josef shaves and dresses, producing a striking resemblance to his father.
Kelso reaches a harbour and gets a lift in a truck to the mother's house. He learns that Zinaida is with the Militsiya. The old woman gives him Rapava's Makarov pistol. Kelso finds Zinaida at the police station. He pays Lev a huge bribe for her release. Kelso tells her that they must travel to the Kremlin because Mamantov wants Kelso alive. En route to the train, they watch O'Brian's broadcast on a television set in front of a small crowd.
On the train, Kelso tells Zinaida that Mamantov wants a credible person to reveal Anoushka's notebook and the existence of Josef. He tells her that Papu Rapava died because he wanted Zinaida to have the wealth from the notebook to stop her prostitution. Kelso tells her they will go to the American embassy in Moscow and he invites her to go with him to New York. She confesses that her father never held or loved his children. He taught her and her brother to be tough, never show fear and only trust themselves.
As they settle down in a compartment for the rest of their journey, the assassin shows up and demands the notebook. He takes Kelso to see Mamantov. Mamantov explains how he planned for Kelso to come to Moscow to speak at the conference, discover the notebook and reveal Josef to Russia. Kelso believes Josef to be unstable and that Mamantov might be his first victim. A hand resting on Mamantov's shoulder is Josef's and Mamantov believes Josef supports him.
Back in the compartment, Kelso tells Zinaida about his meeting with Mamantov and that they must get off at Vologda, the next station. As they are pulling in to the station, a huge crowd is there to greet the arrival of Josef. Kelso tells her to go to Moscow and get on a plane to anywhere. He is going to authenticate the notebook for Mamantov. He meets Louise and tells her that O'Brian is dead.
Kelso wants her cameraman to broadcast his speech and he begins to expose the corruption of the people who want Josef to rule over Russia with the same brutality as his father. Mamantov's henchmen interrupt him, kicking and beating him to the ground.
From above the crowd, Zinaida draws her father's Makarov and kills Josef.
DVD credits order
Daniel Craig as Professor Christopher Kelso
Yekaterina Rednikova as Zinaida Rapava
Gabriel Macht as R.J. O'Brien
Konstantin Lavronenko as Josef
Lev Prygunov as Vladimir Mamantov
Alexey Diakov as Suvorin
Ludmila Golubeva as Vavara
Igor Filipov as Major Kretov
Claudia Harrison as Louise
Valery Chernyak as Old Papu
Igor Chernawsky as Yakov
Leonids Lencs as Militia Captain
Aris Rozentals as Gregor
Jelena Soldatova as Masha
Kristina Brize as Young Zinaida
Anatoly Putnya as Zinaida's brother
Jonas Tamulevicius as Commando #1
Stanislav Samuchov as Commando #2
Leonidas Kotikas as Commando #3
Andrei Riabokon as Commando #4
ReviewsEdit
Brian Gallagher wrote on MovieWeb: "the thriller has something for everyone: The game of Craig, a mysterious story, lively dialogues, some action and romance."[3]
^ He reveals his name at the press conference for Josef.
^ Translated by on screen captions.
^ MovieWeb.com Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
Archangel on IMDb
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List of monochrome and RGB palettes
For a full listing of computer's color palettes, see List of color palettes.
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This list of monochrome and RGB palettes includes generic repertoires of colors (color palettes) to produce black-and-white and RGB color pictures by a computer's display hardware, not necessarily the total number of such colors that can be simultaneously displayed in a given text or graphic mode of any machine. RGB is the most common method to produce colors for displays; so these complete RGB color repertoires have every possible combination of R-G-B triplets within any given maximum number of levels per component.
For specific hardware and different methods to produce colors other than RGB, see the List of 8-bit computer hardware palettes, the List of 16-bit computer hardware palettes and the List of video game console palettes. For various software arrangements and sorts of colors, including other possible full RGB arrangements within 8-bit color depth displays, see the List of software palettes.
Each palette is represented by a series of color patches. When the number of colors is low, a 1-pixel-size version of the palette appears below it, for easily comparing relative palette sizes. Huge palettes are given directly in one-color-per-pixel color patches.
For each unique palette, an image color test chart and sample image (truecolor original follows) rendered with that palette (without dithering) are given. The test chart shows the full 256 levels of the red, green, and blue (RGB) primary colors and cyan, magenta, and yellow complementary colors, along with a full 256-level grayscale. Gradients of RGB intermediate colors (orange, lime green, sea green, sky blue, violet, and fuchsia), and a full hue spectrum are also present. Color charts are not gamma corrected.
These elements illustrate the color depth and distribution of the colors of any given palette, and the sample image indicates how the color selection of such palettes could represent real-life images. These images are not necessarily representative of how the image would be displayed on the original graphics hardware, as the hardware may have additional limitations regarding the maximum display resolution, pixel aspect ratio and color placement. For simulated sample images for notable computers, see the List of 8-bit computer hardware palettes and List of 16-bit computer hardware palettes articles.
Monochrome palettesEdit
These palettes only have some shades of gray, from black to white, both considered the most possible darker and lighter "grays", respectively. The general rule is that those palettes have 2n different shades of gray, where n is the number of bits needed to represent a single pixel.
Monochrome (1-bit)Edit
Monochrome graphics displays typically have a black background with a white or light gray image, though green and amber monochrome monitors were also common. Such a palette requires only one bit per pixel.
Where photo-realism was desired, these early computer systems had a heavy reliance on dithering to make up for the limits of the technology.
In some systems, as Hercules and CGA graphic cards for the IBM PC, a bit value of 1 represents white pixels (light on) and a value of 0 the black ones (light off); others, like the Atari ST and Apple Macintosh with monochrome monitors, a bit value of 0 means a white pixel (no ink) and a value of 1 means a black pixel (dot of ink), which it approximates to the printing logic.
2-bit GrayscaleEdit
In a 2-bit color palette each pixel's value is represented by 2 bits resulting in a 4-value palette (22 = 4).
2-bit dithering:
It has black, white and two intermediate levels of gray as follows:
A monochrome 2-bit palette is used on:
The Monochrome Display Adapter for the IBM PC
NeXT Computer, NeXTcube and NeXTstation monochrome graphic displays.
Original Game Boy system portable videogame console.
Macintosh PowerBook 150 monochrome LC displays.
Commodore Amiga with A2024 monochrome monitor in high-resolution mode.[1]
The original Amazon Kindle
The original Wonderswan
The Tiger Electronics Game.com portable videogame console
In a 4-bit color palette each pixel's value is represented by 4 bits resulting in a 16-value palette (24 = 16):
4-bit grayscale dithering does a fairly good job of reducing visible banding of the level changes:
MOS Technology VDC (on the Commodore 128 with monochrome monitor)
Amstrad CPC series with a GT64/GT65 Green Monitor (16 unique green shades)
Amstrad CPC Plus series with the MM12 Monochrome monitor (16 shades of grey)
Some Apple PowerBooks equipped with monochrome displays like the PowerBook 5300
In an 8-bit color palette each pixel's value is represented by 8 bits resulting in a 256-value palette (28 = 256). This is usually the maximum number of grays in ordinary monochrome systems; each image pixel occupies a single memory byte.
Most scanners can capture images in 8-bit grayscale, and image file formats like TIFF and JPEG natively support this monochrome palette size.
Alpha channels employed for video overlay also use (conceptually) this palette. The gray level indicates the opacity of the blended image pixel over the background image pixel.
Dichrome palettesEdit
16-bit RG paletteEdit
Main article: RG color space
Additive RG Additive RG color palette
16-bit RB paletteEdit
Additive RB Additive RB color palette
16-bit GB paletteEdit
Additive GB Additive GB color palette
Regular RGB palettesEdit
Here are grouped those full RGB hardware palettes that have the same number of binary levels (i.e., the same number of bits) for every red, green and blue components using the full RGB color model. Thus, the total number of colors are always the number of possible levels by component, n, raised to a power of 3: n×n×n = n3.
3-bit RGBEdit
3-bit RGB dithering:
Systems with a 3-bit RGB palette use 1 bit for each of the red, green and blue color components. That is, each component is either "on" or "off" with no intermediate states. This results in an 8-color palette ((21)3 = 23 = 8) that have black, white, the three RGB primary colors red, blue and green and their correspondent complementary colors cyan, magenta and yellow as follows:
The color indices vary between implementations; therefore, index numbers are not given.
The 3-bit RGB palette is used by:
The ECMA-48 standard for text terminals (sometimes known as the "ANSI standard", although ANSI X3.64 does not define colors)
Teletext Level 1/1.5 Teletext.
Videotex
TRS-80 Color Computer (in graphics mode, only 4 colors can be displayed simultaneously from fixed 4-colors palettes)
The original NEC PC-8801 up to the MkII
The original NEC PC-9801 with original 8086 CPU before the VM/VX models
All Sharp X1 models before the X1 Turbo Z
The Sharp MZ 700
Fujitsu FM-7, FM New 7, FM 77 before the FM77AV
The Macintosh SE with a color printer or external monitor
The SECAM version of the Atari 2600
The Color Maximite, a PIC32 based microcomputer
Systems with a 6-bit RGB palette use 2 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (22)3 = 43 = 64-color palette as follows:
6-bit RGB systems include the following:
Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA) for IBM PC/AT (only 16 colors can be displayed simultaneously)
Sega Master System video game console
GIME for TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (only 16 colors can be displayed simultaneously)
Pebble Time smartwatch which has a 6-bit (64 color) e-paper display
Systems with a 9-bit RGB palette use 3 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (23)3 = 83 = 512-color palette as follows:
Atari ST (Normally 4 to 16 at once without tricks)
MSX2 computers (up to 256 at once)
Sega Genesis video game console (64 at once)
Sega Nomad
TurboGrafx-16 (NEC PC-Engine)
The NEC PC-8801 Mk II SR and later models (8 of them at once)
The Mindset computer
12-bit RGBEdit
Systems with a 12-bit RGB palette use 4 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (24)3 = 163 = 4096-color palette. 12-bit color can be represented with three hexadecimal digits, also known as shorthand hexadecimal form, which is commonly used in web design. The palette is as follows:
12-bit RGB systems include the following:
Amiga OCS/ECS (32, 64, or 4,096 colors)
Apple IIgs Video Graphics Chip (3,200 colors)
Atari STe (16 colors)
Sega Game Gear (32 colors)
Hi-Text Level 2.5+ Teletext
Neo Geo Pocket Color (147 colors)
Atari Lynx (16 colors)
NEC PC-9801 VM/VX models typically equipped with a NEC V30 or better, but before the PC9821 Series.
The Sharp X1 Turbo Z Series
Fujitsu FM-77AV
The Amstrad CPC 664Plus, 6128Plus and GX4000 (32 colors)
NeXTstation Color and NeXTstation Turbo Color
The Allegro library supported in the (legacy) version 4, an emulated 12-bit color mode example code ("ex12bit.c"), using 8-bit indexed color in VGA/SVGA. It used two pixels for each emulated pixel, paired horizontally, and a specifically adapted 256-color palette. One range of the palette was many brightnesses of one primary color (say green), and another range of the other two primaries mixed together at different amounts and brightnesses (red and blue). It effectively reduced the horizontal resolution by half, but allowed a 12-bit "true color" in DOS and other 8-bit VGA/SVGA modes. The effect also somewhat reduced the total brightness of the screen.[2]
Systems with a 15-bit RGB palette use 5 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (25)3 = 323 = 32,768-color palette (commonly known as Highcolor) as follows:
15-bit systems include:
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (256 colors)
Truevision TARGA and AT-Vista graphic cards for IBM PC/AT and compatibles, and NU-Vista for Apple Macintosh
Later models of Super VGA (SVGA) IBM PC compatible graphic cards
Nintendo Game Boy Color/Advance/SP/Micro pocket videoconsoles
Nintendo DS (2D output)
Neo Geo AES/Neo Geo CD videogame consoles (4096 colors)
The Sega 32X Addon for the Mega Drive/Genesis
Systems with an 18-bit RGB palette use 6 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (26)3 = 643 = 262,144-color palette as follows:
Video Graphics Array (VGA) for IBM PS/2 and IBM PC compatibles (256 simultaneous colors from a palette of 262,144)
Atari Falcon (256 colors)
Nintendo DS (3D output and 2D blended output)
Used internally by many LCD monitors
Often known as truecolor and millions of colors, 24-bit color is the highest color depth normally used, and is available on most modern display systems and software. Its color palette contains (28)3 = 2563 = 16,777,216 colors. 24-bit color can be represented with six hexadecimal digits. This is approximately the number of individual colors the human eye can distinguish within the limited gamut of a typical display[citation needed].
All 16,777,216 colors (downscaled, click image for full resolution).
The complete palette (shown above) needs a squared image of 4,096 pixels wide (50.33 MB uncompressed), and there is not enough room in this page to show it at full.
This can be imagined as 256 stacked squares like the following, every one of them having the same given value for the red component, from 0 to 255.
The color transitions in these patches must be seen as continuous. If you see color stepping (banding) inside, then probably your display is using a Highcolor (15- or 16- bits RGB, 32,768 or 65,536 colors) mode or lesser.
Red = 0
Red = 85 (1/3 of 255)
Red = 170 (2/3 of 255)
Red = 255
All 16,777,216 colors in the same pattern as the other RGB palettes above (downscaled, click image for full resolution).
This is also the number of colors used in true color image files, like Truevision TGA, TIFF, JPEG (the last internally encoded as YCbCr) and Windows Bitmap, captured with scanners and digital cameras, as well as those created with 3D computer graphics software.
24-bit RGB systems include:
Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (256 or 262144 colors)
Truevision AT-Vista graphic cards for IBM PC/AT and compatibles, and NU-Vista for Apple Macintosh.
The Philips CD-i
Some newer graphics cards support 30-bit RGB and higher. Its color palette contains (210)3 = 10243 = 1,073,741,824 colors. However, there are few operating systems or applications that support this mode yet. For some people, it may be hard to distinguish between higher color palettes than 24-bit color offers. However, the range of luminance, or gray scale, offered in a 30-bit color system would have 1,024 levels of luminance rather than the 256 of the common standard 24-bit, to which the human eye is more sensitive than to hue. This reduces the banding effect for gradients across large areas.[3]
Non-regular RGB palettesEdit
These also are full RGB palette repertories, but either they do not have the same number of levels for every red, green and blue components, or they are bit levels based. Nevertheless, all of them are used in very popular personal computers.
For further details on color palettes for these systems, see the article List of 8-bit computer hardware palettes.
4-bit RGBIEdit
The 4-bit RGBI palette is similar to the 3-bit RGB palette but adds one bit for intensity. This results in each of the colors of the 3-bit palette to have a dark and bright variant giving a total of 23×2 = 16 colors.
This 4-bits RGBI schema is used in several platforms with variations, so the table given below is a simple reference for the palette richness, and not an actual implemented palette. For this reason, no numbers are assigned to each color, and color order is arbitrary.
Note that "dark white" is a lighter gray than "bright black".
The 4-bits RGBI palettes are used by:
Color Graphics Adapter, with brown instead of dark yellow). On CGA, setting a color "bright" added ⅓ of the maximum to all three channels' brightness, so the "bright" colors were whiter shades of their 3-bit counterparts. Each of the other bits increased a channel by ⅔, except that dark yellow had only ⅓ green and was therefore brown instead of ochre.
The CGA palette was the default for EGA, VGA and Microsoft Windows 3.x (on the IBM PC and compatibles), although other palettes were available.
MOS Technology VDC (on the Commodore 128)
ZX Spectrum (with two black, black with bright is the same as black without bright)
Sharp MZ 800
3-level RGBEdit
The 3-level ('not' bits) RGB uses three level for every red, green and blue color components, resulting in a 33 = 27 colors palette as follows:
This palette is used by:
The Amstrad CPC 464 series of personal computers excluding the Plus models (up to 16 colors simultaneously)
The Toshiba Pasopia 7
3-3-2 bit RGBEdit
The 3-3-2 bit RGB use 3 bits for each of the red and green color components, and 2 bits for the blue component, due to the lesser sensitivity of the common human eye to this primary color. This results in an 8×8×4 = 256-color palette as follows:
This palette is used by
The MSX2 series of personal computers.
Palette 4 of the IBM PGC (palette 2 gives 2-3-3 bit RGB and palette 3 gives 3-2-3 bit RGB).
VGA built-in output of the Digilent Inc. NEXYS 2, NEXYS 3 and BASYS2 FPGA boards.
The Uzebox gaming console
SGI Indy 8-bit XL graphics
The Tiki 100 personal computer (only 16 colors can be displayed simultaneously)
Wear OS smartwatches with ambient displays (only 16 colors can be displayed simultaneously)
Most modern systems support 16-bit color. It is sometimes referred to as Highcolor (along with the 15-bit RGB), medium color or thousands of colors. It utilizes a color palette of 32×64×32 = 65,536 colors. Usually, there are 5 bits allocated for the red and blue color components (32 levels each) and 6 bits for the green component (64 levels), due to the greater sensitivity of the common human eye to this color. This doubles the 15-bit RGB palette.
The 16-bit RGB palette using 6 bits for the green component:
The Atari Falcon and the Extended Graphics Array (XGA) for IBM PS/2 use the 16-bit RGB palette.
It must be noticed that not all systems using 16-bit color depth employ the 16-bit, 32-64-32 level RGB palette. Platforms like the Sharp X68000 home computer or the Neo Geo video game console employs the 15-bit RGB palette (5 bits are used for red, green, and blue), but the last bit specifies a less significant intensity or luminance. The 16-bit mode of the Truevision TARGA/AT-Vista/NU-Vista graphic cards and its associated TGA file format also uses 15-bit RGB, but it devotes its remaining bit as a simple alpha channel for video overlay. The Atari Falcon can also be switched into a matching mode by setting of an "overlay" bit in the graphics processor mode register when in 16-bit mode, meaning it can actually display in either 15- or 16-bit color depth depending on application.
Color palette comparison side-by-sideEdit
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Basic color palettesEdit
0x0 0x1 0x2 0x3 0x4 0x5 0x6 0x7 0x8 0x9 0xA 0xB 0xC 0xD 0xE 0xF
0x0 0x1 0x2 0x3 0x4 0x5 0x6 0x7
0x8 0x9 0xA 0xB 0xC 0xD 0xE 0xF
Color values in bold exist in 2-bit (four color) grayscale palette. Color values in very bold exist in 1-bit, monochrome palette.
In 4-bit RGBI, dark colors have 2⁄3rds intensity of the bright colors, not 1⁄2.
Advanced color palettesEdit
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Color Lookup Table
Computer display
Indexed color
List of home computers by video hardware
Palette (computing)
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Magic-kyun! Renaissance (マジ★きゅんっ！ルネッサンス, Maji-kyun! Runessansu) is a Japanese media mix franchise by Sunrise, Pony Canyon, and Broccoli. A PlayStation Vita game was released on September 21, 2016, a manga series began serialization in the November 2016 issue of Sylph, which began serialization on September 22, 2016, and an anime television series produced by Sunrise began airing on October 2, 2016 and ended on December 25, 2016.
マジきゅんっ！ルネッサンス
HuneX
Otome game
Hajime Yatate
Junta Mio
ASCII Media Works
September 22, 2016 – present
Mitsue Yamazaki
Tomoko Konparu
Go Sakabe
Crunchyroll[1]
Tokyo MX, KBS, Sun TV, TV Aichi, AT-X, BS11
Main charactersEdit
Kohana Aigasaki (愛ヶ咲 小花, Aigasaki Kohana)
Voiced by: Sayaka Senbongi[2] (anime)
The protagonist of the series. A second year student who wanted to transfer to Hoshigei High to be like her mother, Sakura Aigasaki. She is kind, friendly, and an amateur in making flower arrangements, but is working hard.
Teika Ichijoji (一条寺 帝歌, Ichijōji Teika)
Voiced by: Yūichirō Umehara, Sayaka Kaneko[2] (child)
A result-oriented, stoic singer who is a second year student. He is known as the "King" with the top singing skills in the school. He acts cool, but underneath his façade, he carries a passionate heart. He is under pressure from his father and his two older brothers to live up to the noble Ichijoji family name. He is childhood friends with Aoi, but at Hoshigei High, they are rivals fighting for the top spot. In episode 1, he declares Kohana as his rival due to their families' history, but as the story progresses, his feelings change.
Aoi Suminomiya (墨ノ宮 葵, Suminomiya Aoi)
Voiced by: KENN[2]
An aloof calligrapher who goes his own way. He is a second year student who slouches, rarely talks, and is a genius in his own world. He is usually indifferent towards other people and the finer details, but once he becomes interested in something, he will become completely absorbed in it. He is childhood friends with Teika, but they are rivals fighting for the top spot at school.
Rintaro Tatewaki (帯刀 凛太郎, Tatewaki Rintarō)
Voiced by: Yūki Ono, Tomoko Tsuzuki[2] (child)
A handsome sculptor who makes everyone around him happy. He is a third year student who is cheerful, energetic and attentive, and popular with his classmates. Despite his small size frame, he is able to make giant sculptures with a chainsaw or chisel. His hobby is cooking. He respects and looks up to his grandfather, a master sculptor. He looks after Monet, his younger cousin whom he bakes sweets for.
Louis Anjo (庵条 瑠衣, Anjō Rui)
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano, Marina Inoue[2] (child)
A sexy dancer who loves to flirt. He is a third year student who is indiscriminately kind to everyone and puts those around him in a good mood. He is always making jokes, but he hides his anguished feelings. He hardly ever takes things seriously and has dancing abilities that captivate anyone that watches.
Monet Tsukushi (土筆 もね, Tsukushi Mone)
Voiced by: Shouta Aoi[2]
An up-and-coming painter full of wisdom. A confident and slightly cheeky first year student, he is shy and sensitive to the words of others, but once he's opened his heart to someone, he gets needy. He is known as the "Monochrome Prince" for his monochrome paintings. Although he is still a student, his paintings are highly regarded. He has an older twin brother who is also a painter. He is Rintaro's cousin and has a pet hedgehog named Rin.
Kanato Hibiki (響奏 音, Hibiki Kanato)
Voiced by: Takuya Eguchi[2]
A kind-hearted cellist who is accepting of everyone. He is friendly and can't leave those in need alone. He is a first year student, an athlete, and he loves basketball. He is the oldest among the five of his siblings. His music has a warm tone to it.
Supporting charactersEdit
Juri Chikamatsu (近松 珠里, Chikamatsu Juri)
Voiced by: Junko Minagawa[2]
A second year student who is Kohana's roommate and friend. She is an actress and also writes plays.
Chieri Todo (陶堂 千彫, Tōdō Chieri)
Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi[2]
A teacher at Hoshigei High. He is the teacher of Kohana, Juri, Teika, and Aoi's class. When he was a student at Hoshigei, he participated in the Art Session with Sakura Aigasaki and Masana Ichijoji.
Runo Tsukushi (土筆 るの, Tsukushi Runo)
Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro[2] (game)
Monet's twin brother who is also a painter.
Yuzuru Chitose (千歳 弓弦, Chitose Yuzuru)
Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino[2] (game)
Masana Ichijoji (一条寺 雅声, Ichijōji Masana)
Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki[2]
Teika's older brother. When he was a student at Hoshigei, he participated in the Art Session with Sakura Aigasaki and Chieri Todo. He is a trustee of the school.
Shinra Ichijoji (一条寺 神楽, Ichijōji Shinra)
Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa[2] (anime)
Teika's older brother. He is a trustee of the school.
Sakura Aigasaki (愛ヶ咲 さくら, Aigasaki Sakura)
Voiced by: Yukari Tamura[2] (anime)
Kohana's mother who specialized in flower arranging and died in an accident when Kohana was a child. She is a world-renowned Artista and an alumna of Hoshigei.
Academy Principal
Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka[2] (anime)
Though a name has never been given or mentioned, he is the principal of the Hoshigei academy. He is solely responsible for picking the members of the Hoshigei Festival Committee. He also is responsible for choosing who comes into, stays, and/or leaves the Hosigei Academy.
Video gameEdit
A Cero C PlayStation Vita game was released on September 21, 2016. The game was developed by HuneX and produced by Broccoli. In the game, the player takes the role of Kohana Aigasaki, whose name can be changed. The game features full voiced characters except for Kohana. The opening theme for the game is titled "Magical Flower" and is sung by Yūichirō Umehara, KENN, Yūki Ono, Wataru Hatano, Shouta Aoi, and Takuya Eguchi under the name ArtiSTARs.[3]
A 13-episode[4] anime television series produced by Sunrise began airing on October 2, 2016 on Tokyo MX, Sun TV, KBS Kyoto, TV Aichi, and BS11. The anime is directed by Mitsue Yamazaki with an original concept by Sunrise's Hajime Yatate. Kairi Yura serves as the original character design with Kumi Ishii adapting the designs for the anime. The opening theme is titled "Magic-kyun! No.1" (マジきゅんっ！No.1☆) and the ending song is titled "Please kiss my heart". Both songs are sung by ArtiSTARs. Crunchyroll holds the rights to stream the anime.[5]
Official English title[a]
Original Japanese title[6]
Insert song(s)[6]
"Sparkling Blooming Renaissance"
"Kira Kira Hanasaku Renassansu" (きらきら花咲くルネッサンス) "Art Session!!!!!!!" by ArtiSTARs
"Walk in the lonely night" by Teika Ichijōji (Yūichirō Umehara) October 2, 2016 (2016-10-02)
Kohana Aigasaki transfers to Hoshinomori Magical Arts High School. On her first day, she walks around the school and observes different students with their specialties. She comes across Teika Ichijoji, who shows her to the dorm rooms. Kohana then meets her roommate, Juri Chikamatsu. Later, she encounters Teika again. To thank him for earlier, she gives him a small bouquet of flowers she arranged, before telling him that she has yet to make any sparkles. After giving the flowers to Teika, Kohana witnesses the production of her first sparkles. The next day in class, Kohana is placed in a committee to prepare for the Hoshinomori Summer Festival, Hoshi Fest for short. Upon learning her full name, Teika declares her to be his rival.
"I Can Only See You"
"Kimi shika... Mienai" (君しか……見えない) "My world, Your world" by Aoi Suminomiya (KENN) October 9, 2016 (2016-10-09)
After class, Kohana learns from Juri that the Aigasaki and Ichijoji families are enemies. She then goes to the Hoshi Festival House to attend the Hoshi Fest Committee meeting. On the wall inside the building, Kohana sees a framed picture of her mother from when she used to be a student at the school. Entering the conference room, she finds that only she and Teika are showing while the other members are not there. Teika, losing patience, asks to choose new members, better candidates for the festival. However, Kohana suggests talking to the members and convincing them to attend. Teika agrees, on the condition that Kohana does it. He tells her to start with Aoi Suminomiya, knowing that Aoi will be uninterested. Meeting with Aoi, Kohana is greeted with a slash of paint to her face as she opens the door. Aoi tells her he is trying to write something, but he does not know what it is yet. He also reveals that his ability to see sparkles has been lost. Over the course of a few days, Kohana helps Aoi with his sparkles and tidies his workplace. She decides to make a flower arrangement to help support him. On finishing the arrangement, he is able to see the sparkles. He writes "Bright Light" and hangs the paper on the wall next to Kohana's flowers. Though Aoi has yet to write what he wants, he says that he is closer to finding what it is. The next day, Teika is surprised to see Aoi attending the meeting with Kohana.
"Inspiration in an Album"
"Akogare wa Arubamu no Naka ni" (憧れはアルバムの中に) "Walk in the lonely night" by Teika Ichijoji (Yūichirō Umehara) October 16, 2016 (2016-10-16)
Kohana is selected to do an arrangement of her specialty to everyone. She looks for inspiration in her mother's flower arrangement album and decides to do one of her mother's arrangements. When she does her demonstration, there are no sparkles. She is given a second chance, but she feels discouraged and confused. Afterwards, Teika confronts her, saying that her arrangement was unimpressive and that her position in the Hoshi Fest Committee is in danger. Kohana refutes him and says that someone like him would not be able to understand her struggles. Todo, her teacher, gives Kohana a key to the room her mother used to do her flower arrangements. She attempts arrangements again, finding success in putting what she wants to say in her arrangement: that she is happy to be at Hoshigei, gets to see her friends' sparkles every day, and looks forward to the future. She finishes the arrangement, and it produces sparkles that turn into a huge cherry blossom tree, which shoots to the sky and makes a hole in the roof. The petals falling from the tree inspire Louis Anjo and Kanato Hibiki to join the Hoshi Fest meetings.
"Dancing on the Moonlight"
"Tsuki no Hikari de Odorosete" (月の光で踊らせて) "Step of Happiness!" by Louis Anjo (Wataru Hatano) October 23, 2016 (2016-10-23)
Kohana is at a Hoshi Fest meeting when Teika brings up a dance that is held every year after the festival. Upon learning that the committee members lead the dance, Kohana admits that she does not know how to dance. Kanato suggests that Louis teach her, as Louis is a dance major, but Louis evades the proposal. Kohana gets a book from the library about dancing and goes out into the courtyard to practice. Louis notices her and helps her practice, and she assumes that he loves dancing. Teika appears and explains that Louis no longer dances anymore and he failed to graduate the year before. After that, Louis coolly walks away. He gets a nightmare about his past, haunting him about his complicated relationship with dancing. Later, Louis sees Kohana dancing again and he gracefully teaches another lesson. Kohana tells Louis that she will enjoy dancing and that he always looks like he is dancing no matter what he is doing, from playing basketball to walking. Her simile and excitement reminds Louis of his own excitement he felt when he began dancing, and he reaffirms his love for dancing.
"I Just Can't Ignore You, Senpai!"
"Hottokenaissu yo, Senpai!" (放っとけないっすよ、先輩！) "Rainbow Star" by Kanato Hibiki (Takuya Eguchi) October 30, 2016 (2016-10-30)
Kohana is made responsible for responding to the concerns and complaints in the opinion box set up at school. Though the surprising number of opinions initially makes her uneasy, Kanato agrees to help her sort through them. Kohana learns that Kanato has a cello recital approaching and offers to let him practice, but Kanato assures her that he will be fine. They address the various concerns one after another with vitality and success. Later, Kohana spots Kanato staying up late to practice the cello. Trying to be considerate of his upcoming recital, Kohana offers to handle the rest of concerns alone, but Kanato says he will accompany her on the last issue: investigating a mysterious ghost reported to be seen throughout one of the school buildings. The investigation is a success, and the committee gains a good reputation from Kohana and Kanato's work. To thank Kanato, Kohana listens to him play his cello.
"Blown by a Mischievous Wind"
"Itazura na Kaze ni Fukarete" (いたずらな風に吹かれて) "Shiny Color" by Monet Tsukushi (Shouta Aoi) November 6, 2016 (2016-11-06)
Kohana and the rest of the committee begin practicing for the collaborative Art Session. Todo instructs them on the secret of the Art Session: to make their hearts one. With no clear understanding of what they are meant to do, they search for a solution using a variety of methods. Monet Tsukushi studies them with confusion and curiosity from afar. With persuasion, he agrees to draw the Hoshi Fest pamphlet cover art, as none of the members can draw well. In Monet's art studio, Rintaro Tatewaki asks Monet if he actually wants to draw with color and not only monochrome drawings. Monet brushes Rintaro off and confirms that he wants to continue painting monochromatic paintings and study abroad. He meets Kohana in a garden, when she reveals that she kept one of his colorful drawings he lost. Kohana tells Monet that she likes the drawing and can sense how happy he was when he drew it. The next day, the Hoshi Fest is playing volleyball and Monet joins them to keep their streak going. Monet realizes that he truly wants to use colors and express himself. He thanks Kohana for her support. At the next meeting, Monet attends and brings Rintaro with him.
"Shining Like the Sun"
"Taiyō Mitai ni Kagayaite" (太陽みたいに輝いて) "Sweets à la mode" by Rintarō Tatewaki (Yūki Ono) November 13, 2016 (2016-11-13)
The Hoshi Fest Committee has finally gathered all of its members and is making steady progress. Rintaro must take an exam for third year students that will determine his future at the school and as an artist. While the other members continue to work, Rintaro learns that he failed the exam and must take a retest. At the next meeting, Rintaro informs the members that he failed the exam and has to take it again. If he fails the exam again, he may drop out from the school. He then requests that he wishes to focus on sculpting and asks to take time off from the committee. Kohana visits Rintaro while he works on a new sculpture assignment in studio and Rintaro tells her about his grandfather, a master sculptor and that his reason for sculpting is to make people smile. A few days later, Rintaro is still working on his assignment which is an owl sculpture based on the owl sculpture at the school his grandfather made. He goes to the owl to take a break from his work. Kohana finds Rintaro looking at the owl and they talk about Rintaro's gratefulness to being accepted by the committee. To thank Kohana for visiting him and bringing him food, Rintaro carves her a small owl out of wood. Kohana's smile reminds Rintaro of his reasons for sculpting, and his motivation leads him to finish his sculpture. However, Rintaro fails the makeup exam. He goes to the committee to both apologize and thank them for their support before he drops out by making macaroons. The members, feeling sad, are reluctant to eat the macaroons, but Louis encourages everyone to eat. When they eat the macaroons, sparkles appear. Realizing that Rintaro's magical art is baking, Rintaro and the members present macaroons to the principal. The principal declares that Rintaro has passed the exam and thus does not need to drop out. The committee celebrates Rintaro's return with a party and look forward with enthusiasm to the future together.
"The Light Out of Reach"
"Todokanu Hikari" (届かぬ光) "Kimi to Iu Hikari" (キミという光, lit. "The light known as you") by Teika Ichijōji (Yūichirō Umehara) November 20, 2016 (2016-11-20)
Summer has arrived. The Art Session has changed due to Rintaro's switch in majors from sculpting to baking, so the committee goes to the venue to practice. Back at the Hoshi Fest house, Kohana has one last lesson in dancing from Louis. After the lesson, Louis asks Kohana to be his partner for the last dance. Rintaro appears and requests Kohana to be his partner for the last dance. Following Rintaro, Kanato enters the room and approaches Kohana, also asking to be her partner. Monet then makes his request too. Louis, Rintaro, Kanato, and Monet argue about the last dance. Aoi overhears the argument and asks what is going on. Kohana says that they are discussing the last dance, and Aoi asks Kohana if she would like to be his partner. The boys, unsure on how the settle the matter, agree to put the discussion on hold to lessen the burden for an even more confused and overwhelmed Kohana. While walking with Juri, Kohana and Juri notice Teika running and how he looks more exhausted than usual. The next day is the day before the Hoshi Festival. Masana Ichijoji and Shinra Ichijoji visit the school. They meet with Teika and question him about the Art Session and Kohana. After the meeting, Teika and Aoi meet and Aoi expresses his concerns for Teika's well-being. Teika dismisses Aoi's concerns, saying that he is neither in pain nor that he finds the pressure of the Ichijoji name overwhelming. Continuing to walk, Teika notices Kohana in a building practicing her flower arrangements. He comments that her light is bright and clear and that he could never be able to make light like hers. To celebrate the finishing of the preparations, the committee members have a party. Kohana shares her excitement for the Art Session and the others comment on her sensitivity to their Light of Arte. They also recognize Teika and Kohana's leadership. Teika is taken aback at their praise and reminds everyone to be prepared for the Art Session. Teika leaves, but Kohana follows him after noticing his pained expression. Kohana finds Teika singing in the courtyard and calls out to him. They talk, and Teika shares that he is expected to be a prodigy, so he does not let people see him practice. He affirms that he is fine, but Kohana is skeptical. As Teika walks away, Kohana calls out to him again, this time telling him that she loves his singing.
"The Festival of Miracles and Magic"
"Kiseki to Mahou no Fesuta" (奇跡と魔法のフェスタ) "Art Session!!!!!!!" by ArtiSTARs November 27, 2016 (2016-11-27)
It is finally the day of the Hoshi Festival. Kohana and the committee do final checks on the festival locations and make any last-minute arrangements. Kohana and Aoi talk about Teika and Aoi assures her that Teika has changed a bit thanks to meeting her. Kohana visits the theater cafe Juri is working at and then has to help a lost child. At the Hoshi Fest house, the members are getting ready to go to the venue and notice that Kohana is late. En route to the venue, Kohana meets Masana and Shinra. Masana and Shinra confront Kohana about the feud between the Aigasaki and Ichijoji families, but Teika steps in before they can talk further. Teika ends the discussion by telling his brothers that the families' feud does not involve Kohana and that the Art Session is not his alone. Kohana and Teika arrive in time, and the Art Session is a success. After the session, Masana and Shinra talk to Teika and acknowledge his work and encourage him to follow his own path. Kohana dances with each of the members at the dance party. When it comes to decide who to dance with for the last dance, Kohana is still undecided. Before she can choose, Teika takes her hand and leads her to dance. The others, while disappointed, let Teika dance with Kohana. Meanwhile, the principal is admiring the statuary created at the Art Session, but notices that it slightly breaks. The night ends with the Hoshi Fest Committee taking a group photo together.
"A Heart-Pounding Summer Holiday"
"Tokimeki Samaa Horidei" (ときめきサマーホリデー) "Kimi ni Maji Kyun!" (キミにマジきゅんっ！, lit. "Magic Kyun for you!") by ArtiSTARs December 4, 2016 (2016-12-04)
Kohana and the rest of the committee arrive at a villa on the beach to celebrate the end of the Hoshi Festival. With sidelong glances, their languid advisor Todo watches them excitedly frolic about as they spend the day playing and eating on the beach. After getting ready to view fireworks, Kohana finds a greenhouse, the place where memorial trees are planted after each Hoshi Festival by the committee members. She finds Todo in the greenhouse and he tells her stories of her mother Sakura from when they were students. He tells her that Sakura helped their committee keep going with her attitude and belief, how he met Sakura, and how she helped him find inspiration for his pottery. Kohana and Todo exit the greenhouse and find the committee waiting for them. On the beach, the committee views and creates their own fireworks. When the fireworks end, they reflect on their time together. With the Hoshi Festival over, the committee is to disband, but they admit that they would like to remain together. The next day, the committee plants their memorial tree. They then propose that they would like to create a Hoshigei event committee with them as the members and Todo as the advisor. Their proposal is accepted for consideration.
"You Are the Prince of Destiny"
"Anata wa Unmei no Ōji-sama" (あなたは運命の王子様) - December 11, 2016 (2016-12-11)
The Hoshigei event committee proposal has been accepted, and the members' first assignment is a Halloween party. The committee must put on a play for the Halloween event, so Juri, whose major is acting, is called in to assist. Juri presents an original play written by her based on the Sleeping Beauty tale. Juri casts Kohana as the princess and the boys as princes, but still needs to decide on the prince of destiny, the prince who breaks the princess's curse by kissing her. To choose the right person, Juri holds auditions based on competitions and earning points. Teika, Aoi, Louis, Kanato, Monet, and Rintaro all want the role of the prince of destiny. The audition consists of a running race, a penalty shoot-out, an archery contest, a table tennis match, an intelligence quiz, balancing, rock climbing, horseback riding, chopping wood, sewing, caring for animals, and improvising the kissing scene with stuffed animals as the princess. Finally, Juri declares that any one of them would be a good fit for the role and lets a game of Old Maid decide the actor. Teika wins the game, thus getting the role. The next day while practicing, Kohana feels faint. When she creates a flower arrangement, her sparkles freeze and she faints. She awakes immediately, but the principal and Todo arrive. The principal informs Kohana that she has to leave Hoshigei.
"The Sleeping Princess of the Frozen Forest"
"Touketu Mori no Nemurihime" (凍れる森の眠り姫) - December 18, 2016 (2016-12-18)
The principal explains his reasoning for asking Kohana to voluntarily leave Hoshigei: Kohana's sparkles have become snowflakes, and students with snowflake shaped sparkles have extraordinary talent and sensitivity to the Light of Arte. With these qualities, these types of students are more likely to intensively devote themselves to their art, putting themselves at risk in the process. The principal instructs Kohana to avoid using her magic for her safety. Kohana disbelieves the claims, saying that she is not special, has no talent, and would not destroy herself. Kohana heads back to the dormitory by herself to rest and her friends agree to do what they can to restore her Light of Arte. They research using numerous sources to find information. Alone, Kohana's fears of not being good enough claw at her mind. She goes to the tower and attempts to create a flower arrangement to get her sparkles back so she can stay. However, her efforts are in vain. Her irregular magic causes large, thorny vines to cause the stairs in the tower to break and collapse. Kohana's friends notice that she is missing and search around the school to find her. The collapse of the stairs in the tower cause Juri and Teika to go there. They find Kohana lying unconscious under vines. Kohana is taken to the nurse's office. She has no injuries, but she will not wake up. In her mind, her doubts and suspicions continue to convince her that she is not valid by her mother or friends without magical arts and that she is replaceable and not needed. Her friends wait by her side and declare that they will not give up on her.
"Magic-Kyun For You!"
"Kimi ni Maji Kyun!" (キミにマジきゅんっ！) "Walk in the lonely night" by Teika Ichijōji (Yūichirō Umehara)
"Dear my special" by ArtiSTARs December 25, 2016 (2016-12-25)
Not wanting to leave Kohana alone, Kohana's friends agree to take turns watching over her for the night. While they watch for her, they each share their private feelings for her: Rintaro confesses that he learned that there is more than one way from her and he wants her to smile for herself. Kanato confides that he was always expected to look after others and his younger siblings and it made him happy to be the one taken care of. Louis concedes that he loves dancing thanks to her and that she is irreplaceable. Monet admits that he became more open to people because of her. Aoi reveals that he had been lonely since parting with Teika as a child, but now he is no longer alone and neither is she. Teika accepts that he has changed and she gave him recognition.
A manga written by Hajime Yatate and drawn by Junta Mio began serialization in the November 2016 issue of Sylph.[7] A gag, 4-koma manga version of series, titled "Kohana to Yukai na ArtiSTARs-tachi" (小花と愉快なアルティスタたち) is serialized online for free at Ponimaga official website and is drawn by ImoUto.[8]
^ All English titles are taken from Crunchyroll.
^ "Crunchyroll Announces Winter 2017 Anime Lineup". Crunchyroll. January 20, 2017. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Sayaka Senbongi, Katsuyuki Konishi Join Magic-kyun Renaissance Anime Cast". Anime News Network.
^ "主題歌試聴". マジきゅんっ！ルネッサンス. Project マジきゅんっ！. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ "ッサ TVアニメ「マジきゅんっ！ルネンス」 Blu-ray&DVD 第7巻". マジきゅんっ！ルネンス. Project マジきゅんっ！. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ "Crunchyroll Adds Yuri!!! on Ice, Monster Hunter Stories, Tōken Ranbu: Hanamaru, Show By Rock!!#, Magic-kyun Renaissance, More". Anime News Network. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
^ a b "マジきゅんっ！ルネッサンス" (in Japanese). Project Magic Kyun!. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
^ "ゲームやTVアニメと合わせて楽しもう☆ 『マジきゅんっ！ルネッサンス』コミカライズ！". Sylph (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ "マジきゅんっ!ルネッサンス「小花と愉快なアルティスタたち」". Poni Maga. Pony Canyon, Inc. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
Official website ‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
Official game website ‹See Tfd›(in Japanese)
Magic-kyun! Renaissance (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Magic Kyun! Renaissance at The Visual Novel Database
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Stiction
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Stiction is the static friction that needs to be overcome to enable relative motion of stationary objects in contact.[1] The term is a portmanteau of the words static and friction,[2] perhaps also influenced by the verb stick.
Any solid objects pressing against each other (but not sliding) will require some threshold of force parallel to the surface of contact in order to overcome static cohesion. Stiction is a threshold, not a continuous force.
In situations where two surfaces with areas below the micrometer scale come into close proximity (as in an accelerometer), they may adhere together. At this scale, electrostatic and/or Van der Waals and hydrogen bonding forces become significant. The phenomenon of two such surfaces being adhered together in this manner is also called stiction. Stiction may be related to hydrogen bonding or residual contamination.
AutomobilesEdit
Stiction is also the same threshold at which a rolling object would begin to slide over a surface rather than rolling at the expected rate (and in the case of a wheel, in the expected direction). In this case, it's called "rolling friction" or μr.
This is why driver training courses teach that if a car begins to slide sideways, the driver should try to steer in the same direction as the slide with no brakes. It gives the wheels a chance to regain static contact by rolling, which gives the driver some control again. An overenthusiastic driver may "squeal" the driving wheels trying to get a rapid start but this impressive display of noise and smoke is less effective than maintaining static contact with the road. Many stunt-driving techniques are also done by deliberately breaking and/or regaining this rolling friction.
A car on a slippery surface can slide a long way if the driver "locks" the wheels in stationary positions by pressing hard on the brakes. Anti-lock braking systems use wheel speed sensors and vehicle speed sensors to determine if any of the wheels have stopped turning. The ABS Module then briefly releases pressure to that wheel to allow the wheel to begin turning again. Anti-lock brakes can be much more effective than cadence braking which is essentially a non-automatic technique for doing the same thing.
ExamplesEdit
EngineeringEdit
Stiction refers to the characteristic of stop and start type motion as a force overcomes static friction and causes a part to accelerate under dynamic friction, but the force cannot keep up with the speed of the moving part so the part tends to stop again until the force catches up, and it happens repeatedly. Stiction is a problem for the design and materials science of many moving linkages. This is particularly the case for linear sliding joints, rather than rotating pivots. Owing to simple geometry, the moving distance of a sliding joint in two comparable linkages is longer than the circumferential travel of a pivoting bearing, thus the forces involved (for equivalent work) are lower and stiction forces become proportionally more significant. This issue has often led to linkages being redesigned from sliding to purely pivoted structures, just to avoid problems with stiction. An example is the Chapman strut, a suspension linkage developed by Colin Chapman of Lotus cars.[3]
Surface micromachiningEdit
Stiction or adhesion between the substrate (usually silicon based) and the microstructure occurs during the isotropic wet etching of the sacrificial layer. The capillary forces due to the surface tension of the liquid between the microstructure and substrate during drying of the wet etchant cause the two surfaces to adhere together. Separating the two surfaces is often complicated due to the fragile nature of the microstructure. Stiction is often circumvented by the use of a sublimating fluid (often supercritical CO2, which has extremely low surface tension) drying process where the liquid phase is bypassed. CO2 displaces the rinsing fluid and is heated past the supercritical point. As the chamber pressure is slowly released the CO2 sublimates thereby preventing stiction.
Precision boringEdit
Many components will lock together with stiction even though they have sufficient theoretical clearance.
Polished glassEdit
Polished glass is especially prone to stiction.
Hard disk drivesEdit
In the context of hard disk drives, stiction refers to the tendency of read/write heads to stick to the platters. Stiction is a result of smoothness and is exacerbated by humidity and other liquids condensing at the head-disk interface. Once the heads have stuck to the platters, the disk can be prevented from spinning up and can cause physical damage to the media and the slider. Other forces considered as responsible for stiction include electrostatic forces.[citation needed]
In the early models of hard disk drives, stiction was known to cause read/write heads to stick to the platters of the hard drive due to the breakdown of lubricants used to coat the platters. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, as the size of hard drive platters decreased from the older 8" and 5.25" sizes to 3.5" and smaller, manufacturers continued to use the same calendering processes and lubricants used on the older, larger drives. The much tighter space caused much higher internal operating temperatures in these newer smaller drives, often leading to an accelerated breakdown of the surface lubricants into their much stickier components. When the drive was powered off and would cool down (for example at the end of the day when a user went home and shut off their PC), these now-broken-down lubricants would become quite viscous and sticky, sometimes causing the read/write heads to literally stick to the platter. One response to this problem was to remove the affected drive and strike it gently but firmly on the side, then try to start it while connected to but not necessarily fitted inside the machine. This might break the heads free for long enough to spin up the drive and recover the data from it without powering it down. Once started, it would continue to run indefinitely, but might not start again if powered down. Instead of tapping the drive, rotating it sharply by hand could start it. In most Maxtor hard drives, if the heads are stuck to the platters, the drive might make "music" from either the heads trying to move or from the platters trying to spin up.
Modern hard drives have mostly solved the stiction problem by using ramps to "unload" the heads from the disk surface on power-down. These ramps ensure the heads are not touching the platters, which not only prevents stiction but also keeps abrasion from kicking up microscopic particulates that can later contaminate the drive mechanism. Parking the heads in this manner also allows the voice coil actuator to be shut down to save power, so the heads are also frequently unloaded when the drive is idle. A competing solution is based on laser textured landing zones near the ID of the platter where no data are stored. The heads are parked in that zone, and the actuator is latched until the next start-up. The landing zone consists of a controlled array of nanometer-level 'bumps' on the disk surface produced during manufacturing of the disk using a local substrate melting process employing suitable laser-based equipment. The method was pioneered by IBM around 1995 and is still widely in use in most desktop and server class HDDs.[4]
Digital storage tapesEdit
Stiction may also manifest itself on computer tapes (9 track tape etc.). The magnetic surface of the tape would be heated against the read head in the tape deck, and when the tape stopped moving would cool slightly and "glue" onto the read head. This could be avoided by configuring the software so that the tape could be read continuously.[5]
Amateur astronomyEdit
The term "stiction" has come into use in amateur astronomy circles to describe a characteristic of Dobsonian style altazimuth telescope mounts. These mounts can resist initial movement by the user, making it difficult to track an object in the sky. There is backlash; breaking this resistance requires enough force to cause the observer to overshoot the object.
StereolithographyEdit
Typically the phenomenon occurs when “green” epoxy photopolymer components are left in direct contact with each other. If left long enough it appears that “cross-linking” of the polymer takes place in the region of contact. This effectively “welds” or more appropriately “glues” the parts together. This issue can have a significant impact on models where testing of kinematics are required. To avoid stiction in stereolithography clean and more importantly fully cure all geometry prior to assembly.
BiologyEdit
Stiction happens with the human body in situations where two surfaces press together to the point any lubrication is excluded, such as in ball joints for hip replacements or in post-operative patients using smooth plastic dilators.
Blish lock
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^ "Stiction". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
^ Ludvigsen, Karl (2010). Colin Chapman: Inside the Innovator. Haynes Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-84425-413-2.
^ A new laser texturing technique for high performance magnetic disk drives, Baumgart, P.; Krajnovich, D.J.; Nguyen, T.A.; Tam, A.G.; IEEE Trans. Magn.
^ Discussion by data recovery firm
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Author: Burhan Ghalioun
The Idlib offensive
Nourishing Syria's terrorist tree
Tahrir al-Sham will not be subdued by the destruction of Idlib over the heads of its inhabitants, or by the sacrifice of millions of civilians. As Russia and Assad tighten the noose, we need to realise that the war on terror cannot be won by outdoing terrorists in the slaughter of civilians, argues Burhan Ghalioun, former SNC chairmanMore
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Mendacious diplomacy
As the war in Syria rolls on and civilians continue to die, caught in the deadly crossfire of a multi-front conflict, the Syrian military and political opposition – bowing to intense international diplomatic pressure – has been dragged into political negotiations that lack the minimum conditions for success. Essay by Burhan Ghalioun, former chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National CouncilMore
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There is much discussion in the West about a political solution to the conflict in Syria. But the reality is that the world is looking the other way, continuing to nurture the illusion that something is being done at international level and that the Syrian people have not been abandoned. A critical contribution to the debate by Burhan GhaliounMore
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Optical mouse
A Microsoft wireless optical mouse
An optical mouse is a computer mouse which uses a light source, typically a light-emitting diode (LED), and a light detector, such as an array of photodiodes, to detect movement relative to a surface. Variations of the optical mouse have largely replaced the older mechanical mouse design, which uses moving parts to sense motion.
The earliest optical mice detected movement on pre-printed mousepad surfaces. Modern optical mice work on most opaque diffusely reflective surfaces like paper, but most of them do not work properly on specularly reflective surfaces like polished stone or transparent surfaces like glass. Optical mice that use dark field illumination can function reliably even on such surfaces.
1 Mechanical mice
2 Early optical mice
3 Modern optical mice
4 Light source
4.1 LED mice
4.2 Laser mice
5 Power
6 Optical versus mechanical mice
Mechanical mice[edit]
Main article: Mechanical mouse
Though not commonly referred to as optical mice, nearly all mechanical mice tracked movement using LEDs and photodiodes to detect when beams of infrared light did and didn't pass through holes in an incremental rotary encoder wheel. Thus, the primary distinction of “optical mice” is not their use of optics, but their complete lack of moving parts to track mouse movement, instead employing an entirely solid-state system.
Early optical mice[edit]
An early Xerox optical mouse chip, before the development of the inverted packaging design of Williams and Cherry
The first two optical mice, first demonstrated by two independent inventors in December 1980, had different basic designs:[1][2][3] One of these, invented by Steve Kirsch of MIT and Mouse Systems Corporation,[4][5] used an infrared LED and a four-quadrant infrared sensor to detect grid lines printed with infrared absorbing ink on a special metallic surface. Predictive algorithms in the CPU of the mouse calculated the speed and direction over the grid. The other type, invented by Richard F. Lyon of Xerox, used a 16-pixel visible-light image sensor with integrated motion detection on the same chip[6][7] and tracked the motion of light dots in a dark field of a printed paper or similar mouse pad.[8] The Kirsch and Lyon mouse types had very different behaviors, as the Kirsch mouse used an x-y coordinate system embedded in the pad, and would not work correctly when the pad was rotated, while the Lyon mouse used the x-y coordinate system of the mouse body, as mechanical mice do.
The optical sensor from a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer (v. 1.0A)
The optical mouse ultimately sold with the Xerox STAR office computer used an inverted sensor chip packaging approach patented by Lisa M. Williams and Robert S. Cherry of the Xerox Microelectronics Center.[9]
Modern optical mice[edit]
Microscope photograph of the IntelliMouse Explorer sensor silicon die
Modern surface-independent optical mice work by using an optoelectronic sensor (essentially, a tiny low-resolution video camera) to take successive images of the surface on which the mouse operates. As computing power grew cheaper, it became possible to embed more powerful special-purpose image-processing chips in the mouse itself. This advance enabled the mouse to detect relative motion on a wide variety of surfaces, translating the movement of the mouse into the movement of the cursor and eliminating the need for a special mouse-pad. A surface-independent coherent light optical mouse design was patented by Stephen B. Jackson at Xerox in 1988.[10]
The first commercially available, modern optical computer mice were the Microsoft IntelliMouse with IntelliEye and IntelliMouse Explorer, introduced in 1999 using technology developed by Hewlett-Packard.[11] It worked on almost any surface, and represented a welcome improvement over mechanical mice, which would pick up dirt, track capriciously, invite rough handling, and need to be taken apart and cleaned frequently. Other manufacturers soon followed Microsoft’s lead using components manufactured by the HP spin-off Agilent Technologies, and over the next several years mechanical mice became obsolete.
S5085 optical sensor IC die (CMOS sensor + driver)
The technology underlying the modern optical computer mouse is known as digital image correlation, a technology pioneered by the defense industry for tracking military targets. A simple binary-image version of digital image correlation was used in the 1980 Lyon optical mouse. Optical mice use image sensors to image naturally occurring texture in materials such as wood, cloth, mouse pads and Formica. These surfaces, when lit at a grazing angle by a light emitting diode, cast distinct shadows that resemble a hilly terrain lit at sunset. Images of these surfaces are captured in continuous succession and compared with each other to determine how far the mouse has moved.
To understand how optical flow is used in optical mice, imagine two photographs of the same object except slightly offset from each other. Place both photographs on a light table to make them transparent, and slide one across the other until their images line up. The amount that the edges of one photograph overhang the other represents the offset between the images, and in the case of an optical computer mouse the distance it has moved.
Optical mice capture one thousand successive images or more per second. Depending on how fast the mouse is moving, each image will be offset from the previous one by a fraction of a pixel or as many as several pixels. Optical mice mathematically process these images using cross correlation to calculate how much each successive image is offset from the previous one.
An optical mouse might use an image sensor having an 18 × 18 pixel array of monochromatic pixels. Its sensor would normally share the same ASIC as that used for storing and processing the images. One refinement would be accelerating the correlation process by using information from previous motions, and another refinement would be preventing deadbands when moving slowly by adding interpolation or frame-skipping.
The development of the modern optical mouse at Hewlett-Packard Co. was supported by a succession of related projects during the 1990s at HP Laboratories. In 1992 William Holland was awarded US Patent 5,089,712 and John Ertel, William Holland, Kent Vincent, Rueiming Jamp, and Richard Baldwin were awarded US Patent 5,149,980 for measuring linear paper advance in a printer by correlating images of paper fibers. Ross R. Allen, David Beard, Mark T. Smith, and Barclay J. Tullis were awarded US Patents 5,578,813 (1996) and 5,644,139 (1997) for 2-dimensional optical navigational (i.e., position measurement) principles based on detecting and correlating microscopic, inherent features of the surface over which the navigation sensor travelled, and using position measurements of each end of a linear (document) image sensor to reconstruct an image of the document. This is the freehand scanning concept used in the HP CapShare 920 handheld scanner. By describing an optical means that explicitly overcame the limitations of wheels, balls, and rollers used in contemporary computer mice, the optical mouse was anticipated. These patents formed the basis for US Patent 5,729,008 (1998) awarded to Travis N. Blalock, Richard A. Baumgartner, Thomas Hornak, Mark T. Smith, and Barclay J. Tullis, where surface feature image sensing, image processing, and image correlation was realized by an integrated circuit to produce a position measurement. Improved precision of 2D optical navigation, needed for application of optical navigation to precise 2D measurement of media (paper) advance in HP DesignJet large format printers, was further refined in US Patent 6,195,475 awarded in 2001 to Raymond G. Beausoleil, Jr., and Ross R. Allen.
While the reconstruction of the image in the document scanning application (Allen et al.) required resolution by the optical navigators on the order of 1/600th of an inch, implementation of optical position measurement in computer mice not only benefit from the cost reductions inherent in navigating at lower resolution, but also enjoy the advantage of visual feedback to the user of the cursor position on the computer display. In 2002, Gary Gordon, Derek Knee, Rajeev Badyal and Jason Hartlove were awarded US Patent 6,433,780[12] for an optical computer mouse that measured position using image correlation. Some small trackpads work like an optical mouse.
Light source[edit]
LED mice[edit]
The blue-LED-based V-Mouse VM-101
Optical mice often used light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for illumination when first popularized. The color of the optical mouse's LEDs can vary, but red is most common, as red diodes are inexpensive and silicon photodetectors are very sensitive to red light.[13] Other colors are sometimes used, such as the blue LED of the V-Mouse VM-101 illustrated at right.
Laser mice[edit]
Although invisible to the naked eye, the light produced by this laser mouse is captured as the color purple because CCDs are sensitive to a broader light wavelength range than the human eye.
The laser mouse uses an infrared laser diode instead of an LED to illuminate the surface beneath their sensor. As early as 1998, Sun Microsystems provided a laser mouse with their Sun SPARCstation servers and workstations.[14] However, laser mice did not enter the mainstream consumer market until 2004, following the development by a team at Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, led by Doug Baney of a laser-based mouse based on a 850 nm VCSEL (laser) that offered 20X improvement in tracking performance. Tong Xie, Marshall T. Depue, and Douglas M. Baney were awarded US patents 7,116,427 and 7,321,359 for their work on low power consumption broad navigability VCSEL-based consumer mice. Paul Machin at Logitech, in partnership with Agilent Technologies introduced the new technology as the MX 1000 laser mouse. This mouse uses a small infrared laser (VCSEL) instead of an LED and has significantly increased the resolution of the image taken by the mouse. The laser illumination enables superior surface tracking compared to LED-illuminated optical mice.[15]
Glass laser (or glaser) mice have the same capability of a laser mouse but work far better on mirror or transparent glass surfaces than other optical mice on those surfaces.[16][17] In 2008, Avago Technologies introduced laser navigation sensors whose emitter was integrated into the IC using VCSEL technology.[18]
In August 2009, Logitech introduced mice with two lasers, to track on glass and glossy surfaces better; they dubbed them a "Darkfield" laser sensor.[19]
Power[edit]
Manufacturers often engineer their optical mice—especially battery-powered wireless models—to save power when possible. To do this, the mouse dims or blinks the laser or LED when in standby mode (each mouse has a different standby time). A typical implementation (by Logitech) has four power states, where the sensor is pulsed at different rates per second:[citation needed]
11500: full on, for accurate response while moving, illumination appears bright.
1100: fallback active condition while not moving, illumination appears dull.
110: standby
12: sleep state
Movement can be detected in any of these states; some mice turn the sensor fully off in the sleep state, requiring a button click to wake.[20]
Optical mice utilizing infrared elements (LEDs or lasers) offer substantial increases in battery life over visible spectrum illumination. Some mice, such as the Logitech V450 848 nm laser mouse, are capable of functioning on two AA batteries for a full year, due to the low power requirements of the infrared laser.[clarification needed]
Mice designed for use where low latency and high responsiveness are important, such as in playing video games, may omit power-saving features and require a wired connection to improve performance. Examples of mice which sacrifice power-saving in favor of performance are the Logitech G5 and the Razer Copperhead.
Optical versus mechanical mice[edit]
The Logitech iFeel optical mouse uses a red LED to project light onto the tracking surface.
Unlike mechanical mice, whose tracking mechanisms can become clogged with lint, optical mice have no moving parts (besides buttons and scroll wheels); therefore, they do not require maintenance other than removing debris that might collect under the light emitter. However, they generally cannot track on glossy and transparent surfaces, including some mouse-pads, causing the cursor to drift unpredictably during operation. Mice with less image-processing power also have problems tracking fast movement, whereas some high-quality mice can track faster than 2 m/s.
Some models of laser mouse can track on glossy and transparent surfaces, and have a much higher sensitivity.
As of 2006[update] mechanical mice had lower average power requirements than their optical counterparts; the power used by mice is relatively small, and only an important consideration when the power is derived from batteries, with their limited capacity.
Optical models outperform mechanical mice on uneven, slick, soft, sticky, or loose surfaces, and generally in mobile situations lacking mouse pads. Because optical mice render movement based on an image which the LED (or infrared diode) illuminates, use with multicolored mouse pads may result in unreliable performance; however, laser mice do not suffer these problems and will track on such surfaces.
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^ John Markoff (February 21, 1983). "In Focus: The Mouse that Rolled". InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 5 (8): 28. ISSN 0199-6649.
^ Sol Sherr (1988). Input Devices. Academic Press. ISBN 0126399700.
^ Liz Karagianis (Fall 1997). "Steve Kirsch". MIT Spectrum.
^ "Portraits of MIT-Related Companies: Infoseek, Santa Clara, CA". MIT: The Impact of Innovation. MIT. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
^ Richard F. Lyon (1981). "The Optical Mouse, and an Architectural Methodology for Smart Digital Sensors". In H. T. Kung; Robert F. Sproull; Guy L. Steele (eds.). VLSI Systems and Computations. Computer Science Press.
^ Stan Augarten (1983). State of the Art: A Photographic History of the Integrated Circuit. Ticknor & Fields. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-89919-195-9.
^ "Xerox Mousepad". Digibarn.com. Retrieved 2010-05-29.
^ Lisa M. Williams (aka L&LL) and Robert (Bob) S. Cherry, U.S. Patent 4,751,505 Optical Mouse.
^ Stephen B. Jackson, U.S. Patent 4,794,384 Optical Translator Device.
^ "Microsoft Press Release, April 19th 1999". Microsoft. 1999-04-19. Archived from the original on 2011-11-28. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
^ US 6433780, "Seeing eye mouse for a computer system"
^ Winn L. Rosch (2003). Winn L. Rosch hardware bible (6th ed.). Que Publishing. p. 756. ISBN 978-0-7897-2859-3.
^ Computer Engineering Tips – Mouse Archived May 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 31 December 2006.
^ "Logitech MX1000 Laser Cordless Mouse". CNET. November 4, 2004. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
^ Comparison of optical, laser, and glass laser mouse. Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ Glass laser mouse by A4Tech. Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Avago Technologies Announces Miniature Laser Navigation Sensors for Mouse Applications". January 28, 2008. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
^ "Logitech Darkfield Innovation Brief" (PDF). Logitech. 2009.
^ Certain models of Targus mice work this way.
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What is the EOL on my EndRun product?
At EndRun, End-of-Life (EOL) means end of the production life cycle. We continue to provide free technical support (by phone or email) for as long as you own an EndRun product. As of 2019, we are still providing free support for products that we shipped in 2001.
How are upgrades handled and what do they cost?
Software upgrades for all our products are freely available for download from our website at: www.endruntechnologies.com/support/software-upgrades.
I haven't upgraded my firmware for a long time. Can I upgrade straight to the latest version without installing subsequent versions first?
Current products (Sonoma, Meridian II, Tycho II, RTM3205) can be upgraded to the latest version of firmware straight from any older version. However, if you have modified either /etc/profile or /etc/rc.d/rc.M and your Linux Root File System (RFS) is prior to version 2.20 then please contact Support (support@endruntechnologies.com).
Legacy products (Tempus LX, Unison, Meridian, Tycho, RTM3204) can also be upgraded to the latest version of firmware straight from any older version. However, if your RFS is prior to version 2.60 then please read this.
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Do I have to pay a monthly cell phone service fee to use your CDMA products?
No. Our CDMA-synchronized products merely receive the timing signals that are freely transmitted from basestations and which are used by the mobile handsets for synchronization. Since our units only receive the timing data and do not transmit any information, no subscriber fee is required to use our instruments.
Do I set my calibration delay to positive or negative to compensate for the antenna cable?
The answer is positive because there is a delay between the antenna and the receiver.
Think about it like this: The antenna receives the time data x nanoseconds before the receiver. Therefore, the receiver is behind the antenna by x nanoseconds. By entering a positive delay, the clock will be advanced x nanoseconds to compensate.
Do your CDMA products work with PCS or cellular and what is the difference?
The difference between PCS and cellular is the frequency band. PCS frequencies are at 1960 MHz and cellular frequencies are at 881 MHz. All our current CDMA-synchronized products use a dual-band CDMA receiver and can receive either cellular or PCS signals. Some of our earlier products use CDMA at cellular frequencies only.
How do I know if I am in a CDMA coverage area?
CDMA coverage is throughout the USA, China, Korea, India, Japan and elsewhere. The best way to know if you have CDMA coverage is to find someone with a CDMA cellular or PCS phone and see if it indicates any signal level at all. Our products work in very poor signal level conditions.
If you are unsure that you have the appropriate CDMA coverage contact us. Also, since we offer a 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee there is no risk in trying it out. We have shipped thousands of units throughout the world and our return rate has been less than 1%.
How much longer will CDMA be around?
In the United States, we expect Sprint to provide CDMA service through 2020 and beyond. Sprint CDMA coverage is extensive as shown in this coverage map click here. Verizon will discontinue CDMA cell phone service by the end of 2019 but will continue service to M2M systems through 2022. Coverage post-2019 is unknown. For background and details, click here.
If the CDMA signal level is weak, does that affect the timing accuracy?
No. If the unit is able to acquire and decode the data, the accuracy is just as good as with a strong signal level. There is no gradual degradation of timing accuracy. The time data encoding scheme ensures that if the data is decodable, it will be valid.
The unit is able to receive and decode data even with very poor signal levels. It only has to be able to decode one low-speed CDMA channel, unlike cell phones that need to decode multiple high-speed data channels.
Since the timing accuracy in a CDMA-synchronized clock varies, why is the frequency so stable?
Unlike the timing outputs, the 10 MHz frequency output is not affected by propagation delay. Since both the basestation and the EndRun unit are stationary (they don't move in relation to each other) the frequency is extremely accurate, to parts in 10 to the 12th over 24-hour averaging times. On rare occasions, a basestation might experience a GPS outage, as when the GPS antenna is damaged. Under these conditions the basestation's GPS receiver would go into a holdover mode and its frequency could drift up to about a part in 10 to the 10th over 24 hours. An outage is rare, and one lasting 24 hours would be very rare.
Note that the requirement to maintain basestation synchronization during long GPS outages requires that each basestation have at least one high performance GPS time receiver controlling either an ultra high stability quartz oscillator or a rubidium vapor atomic frequency standard. Since it is very difficult to meet this performance using quartz oscillators, most base stations have rubidium units and redundant GPS receiver/oscillator units are common.
Why does the timing accuracy on a CDMA-synchronized clock vary?
CDMA basestation transmissions must be synchronous with UTC to within 10 microseconds, typically much better - less than 1 microsecond. This variation is due to the possibility that a basestation might have a GPS outage, a rare occurrence. Under these conditions the basestation must stay within 10 microseconds of UTC for as long as 24 hours. This ensures the smooth operation of the CDMA telecommunications system.
Our products are synchronous with the CDMA basestation transmissions from one to tens of microseconds, depending on location. This variation depends on the propagation delay from our receiver to the basestation. The propagation delay is about 5 microseconds per mile (about 3 microseconds per kilometer). In an urban environment, there are many basestations and you would probably be within a mile of one. Therefore the accuracy of the unit would be within 5 microseconds of the CDMA transmissions and typically within 6-7 microseconds of UTC. Our main facility is located in an urban environment and our products test here to within 2 microseconds of UTC. This is very typical for an urban environment.
In suburban or rural areas the basestations are spaced further apart. This increases the propagation delay and therefore the accuracy of the unit degrades. At our suburban test facility the units are synchronous with UTC to within 20-25 microseconds. At our rural test facility the best-case accuracy we have seen is 30 microseconds and the worst-case is nearly 90 microseconds. That would put the received basestation at nearly 18 miles away!
If you know approximately how far away the basestation is from your location you can eliminate this propagation delay component by using the CAL command via the serial I/O port. Refer to the user's manual for more details.
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French oil and gas company Total said on Tuesday that it had taken stakes in two solar power start-ups via its $150 million Total Energy Ventures venture capital fund as it expands in renewable energy.Reuters | February 03, 2016, 15:27 IST
PARIS: French oil and gas company Total said on Tuesday that it had taken stakes in two solar power start-ups via its $150 million Total Energy Ventures venture capital fund as it expands in renewable energy.
Total said the deals involved no more than 15 percent of Tanzania- and California-based Off Grid Electric, and California-based Powerhive.
Total did not disclose the value of the deals, but a spokeswoman said they would typically be worth between $1 and $5 million. Total Energy Ventures has stakes in some 20 firms.
"Their systems are expected to speed up electrification in Africa and could be as much a game changer as mobile phones were in their field," Total Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said in a statement.
Both start-ups offer solar power for use in areas with little or no access to electricity power grids, especially in emerging markets such as Africa.
Off Grid Electric develops and distributes home solar systems and battery storage to power small appliances, while Powerhive develops and operates solar power microgrids with battery storage and local distribution.
Total said in September that it planned to invest $500 million per year in new energies including solar and biomass to take advantage of the growing market. Renewables make up 3 percent of Total's current portfolio and are expected to reach 10 percent by 2030.
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By Kadish Morris
Laure Prouvost’s Brexit-Fuelled Art on the Underground
‘You are deeper than what you think’ is the French artist’s first UK public art commission
Witness the visceral and lively work of Laure Prouvost’s Art on the Underground commission and alternate between roister and rumination. On view until 15 December 2019 across 270 London train stations, ‘You are deeper than what you think’ is the French artist’s first UK public art commission and, as with all of her work, it mingles images with words, animating heavy subject matter with a light touch. In this instance, the Turner-prize winning artist has been inspired by London Underground’s history of graphic design – such as its iconic Johnston typeface – and her ongoing preoccupations, most notably the Grand Ma figure, who appears in many of her works.
Laure Prouvost, ‘You are deeper than what you think’, 2019, installation view. Courtesy: Thierry Bal
Looking at the cover of one of the six million tube maps printed with the words, ‘In grand ma’s dream this map would always be with you and would resist the passing of time’, it would seem that Provoust is trying to have a conversation with passengers. A series of macro and micro installations are spread across the capital’s stations and feature posters, digital screens and hand-painted signs, many of which are site-specific. For example, a 20-metre text which declares ‘Ideally these words would pause everything now’ is overlaid on painted clouds; it pronounces itself boldly at East London’s Stratford station below a view of an almost-summer sky. The artist tells me the work is about Brexit. This is further emphasized by an energetic live performance by a London-based choir who sing: ‘Oh stay with us, the party has just begun.’ ‘I’m singing from a European point of view, stay a little bit longer, we could make it work’ explains Provoust.
Discussing the merits of creating work that will be seen by millions of people, Provoust says: ‘For me, it’s an opportunity to communicate an idea gently.’ A station is an environment in which we are incessantly told where to go, where not to stand, how to behave. At times, Provoust appropriates the same instructional language. At Heathrow Terminal 4 underground station, for example, a poster states: ‘You are going in the wrong direction’ but rather than being directed by an anonymous and impersonal guide, we are chauffeured by the artist’s voice: humorous, lyrical and proudly bilingual.
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Main image: Laure Prouvost, ‘You are deeper than what you think’, 2019, installatin view. Courtesy: Thierry Bal
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I, Alexa Tatiana, mother of the 8th y.o boy Kirill Aleksa. I want to tell you our painful story … The TROUBLE has come to our house … which has changed our life, and we are forced to ask the world to help my Son! After undergoing a coma for some unknown reason we can't cure him for 3 years now!!!
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It’s all good
I’ve been feeling a little sorry for myself lately.
I banged up my foot while working on some brick and stone work in the backyard with my sister Therese and I’ve been limping around ever since. When she went down to the basement to get some wood to finish a project, she came up with a sad look on her face and said, “Water is backing up in the basement.”
In my world, one bad thing is about all I can handle at one time.
Then I watched the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
There was fighting on the Gaza Strip, wildfires in California, plane crashes and a seemingly endless list of horrifying news.
That’s when I realized how lucky I am.
I’m retired, so I have been watching TV and reading while my foot heals. I have big garbage cans, so I skipped taking them out to the curb this week. And right now, the plumber is here to clean out the drain in the basement so I will soon be able to hobble down there and do a load of laundry. (Yes, Therese, my plumber came on the same day I called for service.)
All the projects my sister left for me to complete will get done eventually, just at a slower pace. And soon I’ll get around to vacuuming and cleaning up the mess we always make when she comes here for a work weekend.
So I am counting my blessings, praying there will be peace in the Middle East in my lifetime, and hoping California gets plenty of rain.
Meanwhile, I’m off to the library to stock up on books.
Just for the taste of it
Post this as a win against technology.
For weeks, I have been trying to download a coupon sent by Coca-Cola as a reward for saving points from 12 packs I buy.
Nothing worked.
Finally, the “help” center said I would have to contact the email administrator.
Has anyone ever tried to find an email address for gmail? And if you have one, could you please pass it along.
I never found it. But Coke refused to help me anymore until I had contacted gmail and set things right in my inbox.
With both me and my sister Therese hitting the research, we still couldn’t figure it out. But we fiddled with some settings, canceled a default email, and I emailed the Coca-Cola people that I had indeed contacted the administrator and everything was dandy now.
Turns out, I was right.
It took them three days, but today I got a link to download the coupon and it worked.
Did I find the Help Center helpful? No. But at least this is mission accomplished and the evil technology has been vanquished but will certainly regroup and live to fight another day.
As a bonus, Therese figured out how to make folders in gmail, which I had been told was impossible. It’s as if we became IT people overnight.
Well, maybe only she did. But I still type faster than she does.
Ever since a crew of roofers descended upon my house last week, I’ve been looking up — and around and down. And I’ve been noticing all the things I don’t usually notice.
I’ve noticed there are a couple of houses in the neighborhood that really need new shingles. Now that I sit smugly protected by 30-year shingles, I pity those whose shingles are curling and crumbling. And my newly tuckpointed chimney is a thing of beauty to behold.
A couple houses in the neighborhood are getting new siding. One even had a new walkway installed. Good for you all you home improvers.
There has been all sorts of upheaval on city boulevards. The trees that tipped in the last big storm are gone, but their roots and the surrounding ripped-up sod remain as reminders of what once was there.
On Cass Street, a fir tree has completely died. It’s sporting not a single needle. I noticed this because I had to dig up my weeping pussy willow recently which had mysteriously died along with my two purple sand cherry bushes. So my house is handsomely topped off but the yard looks a bit bare as I search for replacements for the dearly departed.
Meanwhile, I’m relaying brick paths and preparing to lay a stone patio in the backyard.
I laugh when people ask how retirement is going because I’ve never been busier. There aren’t enough days in the week to accomplish all the projects I have lined up. I now wonder how I managed to live my life when 40 hours of the week was devoted elsewhere. How did I find time to grocery shop, mow the lawn and do the laundry?
Well, I’ve got a table to refinish so I’m off to the garage. Be sure to look up at your roof to check to see that it’s got you covered. I don’t want to be the only protected one when the next storm hits.
Still not the retiring sort
It’s taken me a while to get the hang of this retirement gig.
A year ago, when the La Crosse Tribune decided it was time for me to retire, I was not prepared to make the transition. Though forced furloughs, layoffs and belt tightening had led me to believe I wouldn’t make it to age 65, I was still not prepared to be among the ranks of the unemployed at age 58.
A year later, I have adjusted well, but it’s difficult to think of myself as a retiree. It’s great to hang out at auctions, work on yard projects, and finally clean out the basement. But a part of me still yearns for that first moment on the phone when I would say, “Hi, this is Geri Parlin. I’m a reporter for the La Crosse Tribune.”
From the moment I set foot in the Tribune newsroom, I never wanted to be a reporter anywhere else. It was everything I dreamed it would be and more.
Of course, nothing remains the same and life is not static, so my work life changed along with everyone else’s. Facebook and Twitter and bad business decisions have made life as a newspaper reporter — or any reporter — a difficult thing indeed.
Still, there are some things that feel unfinished. I had stories in an ideas folder that have never been written. I had followups I wanted to do on interesting topics.
And I wanted to interview Sandra Lee.
I first started pursuing Lee years ago when I discovered she attend the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. A hometown girl on the Food Network? She was mine.
Turns out, she was definitely not mine.
For a couple of years and through a couple of assistants and road blockers, I sent email after email imploring her to do an interview.
I knew why she didn’t want to chat with me. There was some bad family history with La Crosse. But for the sake of the interview, I would have let that be.
Certainly, I’ve interviewed much bigger names. Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was a delight and so personable. Graham Nash was a vulgar disappointment. Norm Abram was as cool on the telephone as was on TV.
So why not Sandra Lee.
When I finally gave up pursuit, I wrote a column much like this one saying I was giving up. No more emails, no more phone calls, no more wasting time on someone who didn’t want to talk.
That’s when she reached out to me by email, supposedly horrified that I couldn’t get through to her.
Hope renewed, I was once more in talks with her staffers who assured me they would make this happen.
But it never did. After months and months of her unavailability, I gave up trying.
But she’s still on TV and I just saw her throwing a football with a nephew and mentioning her time spent in Wisconsin.
So I’m munching on sour grapes for lunch and promising myself that from now on I’ll flip the channel after the “Barefoot Contessa” finishes her food tips. I won’t let it slip into the next show, which features Lee.
I can’t make her do an interview, but I can turn her off. And that’s what I’m doing from now on.
This is Geri Parlin. I am not a reporter for the La Crosse Tribune. But I am consumer with a television and I just flipped the channel to HGTV.
S’mores, siblings and so long
Anyone else notice the incessant Dairy Queen commercials for s’mores? It seems like they are on at every commercial break.
So it’s maybe not so surprising that my sister Therese asked me if I would like to have s’mores when I came to visit over the Fourth of July.
“We could build a bonfire and toast marshmallows,” she said, knowing I am not a lover of evenings outdoors with the bugs.
“I haven’t had s’mores in 40 years,” I said. “I’m willing to give it a try.”
Well, the bugs were out in force, the fire was much too hot, but that first gooey bite was worth the effort. With bombs bursting in air all around us, we munched our way back to childhood memories and then doused the fire to go sit in the air conditioned house.
The next day, we were having a going-away gathering for my sister Kathy and her family as they were bound for Texas where her husband had found a job. We all brought our own food to grill, but in the aftermath of much munching and visiting, my sister Peggy said, “I brought the makings for s’mores.”
Well, I’m polite, so out of concern for Peggy’s feelings, I had my second s’more in 40 years.
I’m guessing it will be a good long while before I have another s’more. I don’t build bonfires in my tiny backyard and I can’t remember the last time I bought graham crackers and marshmallows.
Still, just biting into one all these many decades later brought back memories of camping with my family, hikes up bluffs, and long car rides to just about every state park in Minnesota.
I hope Kathy carries some of those Same memories with her to Texas. It might make her feel a little bit closer to all of us when the Lone Star state feels just a little bit lonely.
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Saturday Morning Post-SFRA Links! All! Tabs! Closed!
* SFRA is over, but ICFA season has only just begun! The theme for ICFA 2019 is “Politics and Conflicts” and the special guests are Mark Bould and G. Willow Wilson.
* And keep saving your pennies for SFRA 19 in Hawaii! Stay tuned for more information soon.
* Ben Robertson put up his SFRA talk on the MCU and abstraction as well as his opening statement for the Avengers vs. Jedi roundtable (which coined the already ubiquitous term “naustalgia”). My opening statement was this image, more or less…
* Other piping hot SFRA content at #SFRA18! It was a great conference.
In the process of his SF reading @pefrase throws off the deep key to all post-70s cop shows: “All Cops Are Bastards, Except Us.” That is: they must concede obvious corruption of the system, but posit a fantasy space of exception, of nobility and decency, inside it. #SFRA18
Echoing Mark Bould’s own Pilgrim speech from two years ago, Freedman notes the irony of science fiction studies becoming “respectable” at the moment the humanities and the academy writ large find themselves under cataclysmic, existential attack. #SFRA18
* The Economics of Science Fiction.
* A book I’m in won a Locus Award: Check out Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler! Congratulations to Alexandra and Mimi.
* Black Women and the Science Fiction Genre: an interview with Octavia E. Butler from 1986.
* CFP: TechnoLogics: Power and Resistance. CFP: Childhoods of Color.
* The early career academic: learning to say no.
* The Humanities as We Know Them Are Doomed. Now What? Jobs Will Save the Humanities.
* Revised Course Evaluation Questions.
#RevisedCourseEvaluationQuestions
Your professor appeared to conceive of the seminar as
1) a psychoanalytic session
2) a Reddit thread
3) an opportunity to talk about themselves
4) a lawsuit waiting to happen
— Jan Mieszkowski (@janmpdx) June 25, 2018
* Essentially total victory for John McAdams over Marquette at the WI Supreme Court. I don’t talk about “Marquette stuff” on here because of the slippery nature of my status as an agent of the university, but noted for history. More here. Marquette “agrees to comply” but doesn’t concede wrongdoing.
“The undisputed facts show that the university breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract’s guarantee of academic freedom,” states the ruling, written by Justice Daniel Kelly.
* Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union. So good.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
– waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
– promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
— Anton Troynikov (@atroyn) July 5, 2018
– living five adults to a two room apartment
– being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you
* Since it isn’t, a simple question arises: where’s all the fucking money? Piketty’s student Gabriel Zucman wrote a powerful book, The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2015), which supplies the answer: it’s hidden by rich people in tax havens. According to calculations that Zucman himself says are conservative, the missing money amounts to $8.7 trillion, a significant fraction of all planetary wealth. It is as if, when it comes to the question of paying their taxes, the rich have seceded from the rest of humanity.
* If Elon Musk can save the trapped Thai soccer team though I’ll definitely forgive him for everything else, for at least a couple weeks. In the meantime…
* Trump’s ethnic cleansing operation is blowing past boundaries that would have been considered utterly sacrosanct only a few years ago. The Trump administration just admitted it doesn’t know how many kids are still separated from their parents. “In hundreds of cases, Customs agents deleted the initial records in which parents and children were listed together as a family with a “family identification number,” according to two officials at the Department of Homeland Security.” The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. Toddlers representing themselves in court. USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force. Trump’s Travel Ban Has Torn Apart Hundreds of Families. Trump’s catch-and-detain policy snares many who have long called U.S. home. At 9 He Lost His Mom to Gang Violence. At 12 He Lost His Dad to Trump’s Immigration Policies. After being released from custody in El Paso on Sunday, the parents have now learned the whereabouts of their children, a shelter director said. But there are more hurdles before they’re reunited. Lawful permanent resident freed nearly three weeks after arrest. Sick Child Couldn’t Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom. Painful memories of Michigan for immigrant girl, 7, reunited with mom. The Awful Plight of Parents Deported Without Their Children. From behind bars, a father searches for one of the 2,000 kids still separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Dad, I’m Never Going to See You Again. Feds failing to put migrant parents in touch with separated kids. Former Seattle Chief Counsel sentenced to 4 years in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft scheme. “At night, Andriy sometimes wakes up screaming in the bunk bed he shares with his mother and baby brother.” “My Whole Heart Is There.” “My son is not the same.” “Are You Alone Now?” There was a pilot program. Transport Fees. A Migrant Mother Had to Pay $576.20 to Be Reunited With Her 7-Year-Old Son. Letters from the Disappeared. Listen. Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant’s Daughter Up for Adoption, ACLU Says. A New Border Crisis. Separated Parents Are Failing Asylum Screenings Because They’re So Heartbroken. A Twitter Bot Has Joined the Immigration Battle to Fight ICE With Facts. A Twitter Bot Is Posting the Names and Locations of Immigrant Detention Centers Across the U.S. Over the course of three weeks, a major U.S. defense contractor detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with no kitchen and only a few toilets. The Immigrant Children’s Shelters Near You. Supreme Court just wrote a presumption of white racial innocence into the Constitution. The Trump administration is not answering basic questions about separation of migrant families. Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up. This is what Trump and ICE are doing to parents and their children. A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century. It’s only going to get worse. Torn apart. Don’t you know that we hate you people? (Only) 17 states sue Trump administration over family separations. News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. We might not even have ever known. New 1,000-Bed ICE Lockup Set to Open on Site of Notorious ‘Tent City’ in South Texas. Potemkin camps. Research suggests that the family of Anne Frank attempted to escape to the U.S., but their efforts were thwarted by America’s restrictive immigration policy. Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum. We’re Going to Abolish ICE. Woman Climbs Statue of Liberty to Protest Family Separations, Island Shut Down. How to Abolish ICE. And just for fun: ICE Training Officers in Military-Grade Weapons, Chemical Agents. Dogsitting.
I can’t tweet everything I know. Some of it is off-the-record. Some of it is uncorroborated. Some of it is embargoed until we publish.
But I can tweet this: this thing where the government took children from their parents atthe border? It’s more horrific than we have imagined.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) July 6, 2018
* The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.
* I’ve Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year. Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.
* I feel pretty confident the buried story here is that Trump blackmailed Anthony Kennedy by threatening to destroy his son’s life; I suppose it’ll all come out during Truth and Reconciliation in the 2040s. Anyway this is just about the final end of America, buckle up.
* Down we go.
* All of American history fits in the life span of only three presidents.
* Trump Confidant Floats Crazy RBG-For-Merrick-Garland SCOTUS Swap. I am a huge proponent of this deal but you’ll have to confirm Garland first. You understand.
In that spirit, an out-of-the-box solution for desperate times: Trump should name Knicks owner James Dolan to replace Anthony Kennedy as a justice on the Supreme Court, forcing him to sell his ownership of the Knicks. Outlandish? Perhaps. But worse than what we have now? 4/17
— danielbenaim (@danielbenaim) July 5, 2018
* How democracy ends.
* There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed. Donald Trump, the resistance, and the limits of normcore politics.
* What can we learn from 1968?
* Trump Inauguration Day rioting charges against 200+ people abruptly dropped by U.S.
* A major Republican leader in the House has been accused of facilitating the sexual abuse of huge numbers of children in his previous career as a wrestling coach. No, not him, this is a new guy.
* Clown car.
* Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers.
* Been Down So Long It Looks Like Debt to Me.
* In the richest country in all of human history.
* A country of empty storefronts.
* $117,000/year is now considered low income in San Francisco. Class and America.
* How Flint poisoned its people.
* The thing about peace.
* ‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans. With special appearance by Obama Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner!
* Onward to Venezuela!
* Sure, why not.
* Twilight of UW.
* Rosa Parks’s Arrested Warrant.
* The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars.
20 years next year I faced a media backlash that still affects my career today. This was the place I almost ended my life. It’s still hard to talk about. I survived and now this little guy is my gift for survival. Would this be a good story for my solo show? Lemme know. pic.twitter.com/NvVnImoJ7N
— Ahmed BEst (@ahmedbest) July 3, 2018
* Every parent’s secret suspicion confirmed: She was worried how a ‘teacher of the year’ treated her 5-year-old son. So she made a secret recording.
* Lows of 80 degrees and higher, now commonplace, were once very rare. They occurred just 26 times from 1872 to 1999 or about once every five years. Since 2000, they’ve happened 37 times or twice every year on average. Probably nothing.
* It’s So Hot Out, It’s Slowing Down the Speed of Stock Trades.
Yesterday was Africa’s hottest reliably measured temperature in recorded history: 124.3°F (51.3°C) in Algeria
Africa has 16% of the world's population—and produces just 3.8% of all greenhouse gases.
Climate change is fundamentally a story of injustice.https://t.co/UuNTd0aDGt
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) July 6, 2018
* Flood insurance is completely broken.
* Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now.
* @jack is a collaborator.
* Facebook destroyed online publishing, then quit the business.
* The US Left Has Only Four Tendencies.
* Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read.
* Doesn’t seem like a great sign, no.
* A great ideas as long as you know nothing about either writing or computers.
Turns out that’s an easy question to answer, thanks to MIT research affiliate, and longtime-critic of automated scoring, Les Perelman. He’s designed what you might think of as robo-graders’ kryptonite, to expose what he sees as the weakness and absurdity of automated scoring. Called the Babel (“Basic Automatic B.S. Essay Language”) Generator, it works like a computerized Mad Libs, creating essays that make zero sense, but earn top scores from robo-graders.
To demonstrate, he calls up a practice question for the GRE exam that’s graded with the same algorithms that actual tests are. He then enters three words related to the essay prompt into his Babel Generator, which instantly spits back a 500-word wonder, replete with a plethora of obscure multisyllabic synonyms:
“History by mimic has not, and presumably never will be precipitously but blithely ensconced. Society will always encompass imaginativeness; many of scrutinizations but a few for an amanuensis. The perjured imaginativeness lies in the area of theory of knowledge but also the field of literature. Instead of enthralling the analysis, grounds constitutes both a disparaging quip and a diligent explanation.”
“It makes absolutely no sense,” he says, shaking his head. “There is no meaning. It’s not real writing.”
But Perelman promises that won’t matter to the robo-grader. And sure enough, when he submits it to the GRE automated scoring system, it gets a perfect score: 6 out of 6, which according to the GRE, means it “presents a cogent, well-articulated analysis of the issue and conveys meaning skillfully.”
* Winners of the 2018 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest.
* Pruitt 2024!
* Utter lawlessness.
* In 1934, an American professor urged that Jews be civil — to the Nazis.
* California reconsiders felony murder.
* Scholarship for dark times.
* William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it’s appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie.
William Shatner kicks off July 4th by implying that UW-Madison & Penn should consider firing 2 kid lit professors for disagreeing with him about whether it's appropriate to note racism in Little House of the Prairie. @uwmaaup stands with @BrigField, @clfs_uw, and @Ebonyteach! pic.twitter.com/g8T9fm1V3R
— UWM AAUP (@uwmaaup) July 4, 2018
* Six decades after being told her mother was dead, she found her — 80 minutes away and 100 years old.
* Between 1984 and the mid-1990s, before better HIV drugs effectively rendered her obsolete, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She buried more than three dozen of them herself, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
* How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups’ Harassment of Students and Faculty.
* Video games and fatphobia.
* A location scout’s view of California.
* Not all heroes wear capes: How an EPA worker stole $900K by pretending to be a CIA agent.
* How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column).
* Reality Winner pleads guilty.
* When copyright goes wrong, EU edition.
* Academic minute: Geoengineering.
* Anglo-Saxon Studies, Academia and White Supremacy.
* The Millennial Socialists Are Coming. How Ocasio-Cortez Beat the Machine. A Conversation with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power. Next: Julia Salazar Is Looking to Land the Next Blow Against the New York Democratic Machine. The socialists are coming! But huge, if true.
optimism watch: I think things are going to get so terrible in the next few years, and so quickly, that we will have full blown socialism in the US by the time my kids are grown. We just have to survive and destroy Trumpism.
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) June 28, 2018
* The clearest lesson, which holds now as it did then, is that to rearrange international order in an egalitarian way, you need an egalitarian and internationally oriented domestic politics in the richest and most powerful countries. Otherwise, your best-laid plans can be scuttled by something like what happened then—the neoliberal revolt of capital, the crushing of the labor unions, the turn to the construction of the current international regime of relatively free flow of goods, services, and capital, but not people. Today’s nationalist revolts, most notably the catastrophe in the United States, are another body blow to progressive internationalist aspirations. Ironically, they are directed in part against some of the pieties of the neoliberal order—although certainly not in any constructive or progressive direction.
* A Subreddit Dedicated to Thanos Is Preparing to Ban Half of Its Users at Random.
* lol
* Hard pass, thanks.
* The UK is committing national suicide to satisfy a laughably illegitimate referendum that never should have happened in the first place and no one is going to stop it.
* Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?” The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind.
* If there is hope, it lies with the Juggalos.
* Luke was a Boomer.
It is tragic. I’m not a method actor, but one of the techniques a method actor will use is to try and use real-life experiences to relate to whatever fictional scenario he’s involved in. The only thing I could think of, given the screenplay that I read, was that I was of the Beatles generation—‘All You Need Is Love’, ‘peace and love’.
I thought at that time, when I was a teenager: ‘By the time we get in power, there will be no more war, there will be no racial discrimination, and pot will be legal.’ So I’m one for three. When you think about it, [my generation is] a failure. The world is unquestionably worse now than it was then.
* The first superhero movie is more than 100 years old.
* Rest in peace, Harlan Ellison. Rest in peace, Steve Ditko.
* Anatomy of a superhero.
* NASA’s Policies to Protect the Solar System From Contamination Are Out of Date. We’re not going to is the thing.
* Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal.
* Man suspected of killing 21 co-workers by poisoning their food.
* There could be as many as 7000 tigers living in American backyards.
* “When I Was Alive”: William T. Vollmann’s Climate Letter to the Future.
* Remembering Google Reader, five years on.
.@Google killed its Reader in 2013 because RSS as a format gives readers agency, doesn't track browsing to sell ads, and lets the user chose what they want to read. As opposed to algorithmic personalisation which siloes us into increasingly homogenous demographics for advertisers https://t.co/YAThAP6bdO
— Luc Lewitanski (@LucLewitanski) July 2, 2018
* Very cool: If you use Gmail, know that “human third parties” are reading your email.
* A classic edition of “our brains don’t work”: that’s because your freaking visual system just lied to you about HOW LONG TIME IS in order to cover up the physical limitations of those chemical camera orbs you have on the front of your face.
* Sports corner! The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap. A Literary Lineup for the World Cup. We Timed Every Game. World Cup Stoppage Time Is Wildly Inaccurate. Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”
* Physics says that our perception of smoothly flowing time is a cosmic accident. So why do we think the future always comes after the past?
* A Dunbar number for place: At any point in life, people spend their time in 25 places.
* Some monkeys in Panama may have just stumbled into the Stone Age. Don’t do it, guys, it’s not worth the hassle.
* I was basically my own editor for 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And then the publisher decided he didn’t like what he saw.
* Life as a professional dungeon master.
* Naked Japanese hermit forced back into civilization after 29 years on deserted island.
* An Oral History of ASSSSCAT.
* Peyton Reed (director of Ant-Man and the Wasp) remembers writing Back to the Future: The Ride.
* The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA, July 7, 1978.
* Readystolen.
* Someone in the club tonight is stealing my ideas.
* The arc of history is long but seriously they really took their time with this.
* What should we read if we want to be happy?
* And Incredibles 3 looks wild. Don’t miss Old Man Incredible! I’m here for it.
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Samsung Galaxy S10, S10 Plus And S10e Now Official
Vanshika Malhotra
South Korean tech major Samsung has been making headlines for its new members in the Galaxy S series for a long time. Now, after multiple leaks, speculations and what not, the new Galaxy S10 series has hit the stage at the Samsung Unpacked event in San Fransisco.
As part of the Galaxy S series’ 10-year anniversary, Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S10, the Galaxy S10 Plus, and the Galaxy S10e for us to adore:
The Samsung Galaxy S10 has a couple of highlights I would like to focus on; first is the equipment of the Infinity-O AMOLED display rated at 6.1-inch, supporting HDR 10+ and really thin bezels.
The second highlight is the presence of the Ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner, making the smartphone the company’s first to come with one.
The smartphone is powered by an 8nm Exynos 9820 processor and also has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor variant, available in selective markets. The Galaxy S10 comes in two RAM/ROM variants: 8GB/128GB ($899) and 8GB/512GB ($1,499).
The camera department acts as another highlight, comprising of three cameras at the back (12MP wide-angle lens, 16MP ultra wide-angle lens, and 12MP telephoto lens) featuring Dual Pixel, OIS, Dual aperture and LED flash. Upfront, there is a 10MP snapper with dual pixel and 4K UHD video recording. The Galaxy S10 also supports various AI-enabled features for improved photography.
The device is backed by a 3,400mAh battery with wireless charging 2.0 and wireless charging PowerShare for charging other devices wirelessly. It runs Android 9.0 Pie with the company’s OneUI on top.
The Galaxy S10 has Blue, Green, Black, White, and Pink colors.
The elder sibling to the Galaxy S10, the Galaxy S10 Plus shares most of the specs with it except for a couple of changes; it has a bigger 4,100mAh battery and a whopping 12GB RAM/1TB ROM ($ 1,599) configuration, expandable via a memory card.
Other two RAM/ROM options include 8GB/128GB ($999) and 8GB/512GB ($1,249).
It goes without saying that the display is bigger, spanning 6.4-inch and the device supports dual front cameras (10MP and 8MP).
Additionally, the Galaxy S10 Plus comes in Blue, Green, Black, White, Pink, Black Ceramic, and White Ceramic color variants.
The Galaxy S10e is the younger sibling of the Galaxy S10 with a 5.8-inch Infinity-O AMOLED display and the same processor as the latter.
It will be available in two RAM/ROM configurations: 6GB/128GB ($749) and 8GB/256GB ($849).
It comes with two cameras at the back, rated at 12MP and 16MP with OIS and a 10MP front shooter.
The Galaxy S10e gets its fuel from a smaller 3,100mAh battery also with support for wireless charging 2.0 tech and wireless PowerShare. It too runs Android 9.0 Pie with OneUI on top.
Additionally, there is a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, with Blue, Black, White, Yellow, and Pink color options available.
All three smartphones come with IP68 certification for water and dust resistance, improved Bixby with remapping option, and support for Face Unlock feature.
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Sacramento Sheriff’s Department Asks for Help Identifying Robbery Suspects
Posted 3:51 PM, March 6, 2017, by Genny McLaren
(Courtesy: Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department)
SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help identifying two robbery suspects.
The two suspects entered the Stop and Shop convenience store on Madison Avenue near Hillsdale Boulevard just after 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 8.
One of the suspects had a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, according to detectives. Both suspects went behind the counter and took money and liquor.
The first suspect is described as a black man in his 20s, he’s about 5-feet-8-inches tall and weighs about 165 pounds. He was seen wearing a black hooded jacket with yellow eyes on the front, jeans and a black beanie.
The second suspect is described as a black man in his 20s, he’s about 6 feet tall and weighs about 200 pounds. He was seen wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt with San Francisco in white writing, a plaid shirt, tan pants and a black beanie.
Anyone who recognizes the suspects is asked to call the sheriff’s department at (916) 874-5115 or Crime Alert at (916) 443-HELP.
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Strangers help deliver baby on side of the road after dad crashes car
Posted 8:50 AM, November 7, 2017, by Tribune Media Wire
SAN DIEGO –A baby was born on the side of a San Diego road after the father crashed their car as they were rushing to the hospital, according to KSWB.
The father, Hongwei Zhang, was apparently on the way to the hospital just before 3 a.m. when he crashed the minivan after exiting Interstate 5, San Diego police Officer Tony Martinez said.
Two strangers then stopped to help the couple and called 911, according to Scirpps Hospital officials.
Ying Shi gave birth to a baby girl, Anna, alongside the road. The baby is in good health, according to a statement from the couple:
“First of all, as Christians we want to thank God for keeping us safe through all of this. Next, we want to thank all of the people who gave us help. When this happened, we thought we were all alone. But very quickly, a woman stopped to help us and called 911. Then a man stopped to assist. They were both complete strangers but they stopped to help us anyway. We are grateful to all of the paramedics who took good care of us and the baby. We are so very grateful to everyone who came to our aid and kept us safe. We are also thankful for all of the doctors, nurses, midwives and staff members at Scripps who have provided excellent care to us. Our new daughter, Anna, is doing wonderful thanks to all of them.”
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Electrical Design of Commercial and Industrial Buildings – Glossary
120/208-volt, 3-phase, 4-wire, wye system
A distribution system generated with three individual sine waves separated by 120 electrical degrees that are identified as phases A, B, and C. One leg of each of the three phase coils is electrically connected to the others at a common point, forming a wye, which when grounded, becomes the fourth wire (or neutral) in the system. This allows for each of the three individual phase voltages to supply 120 volts to the grounded point, while the line voltage across each of the phases produces 208 volts. The line-to-line voltages can supply both 208-volt 3-phase and 208-volt single-phase. Because the three individual phases each can supply 120 volts, this system is commonly used in commercial office applications where 120 volts is desired because the 120-volt loads can be balanced across each of the three phases.
A distribution system generated with three individual sine waves separated by 120 electrical degrees that are identified as phases A, B, and C. One leg of each of the three phase coils is electrically connected to the others at a common point, forming a wye, which when grounded becomes the fourth wire (or neutral) in the system. This allows for each of the three individual phase voltages to supply 277 volts to the grounded point, while the line voltage across each of the phases produces 480 volts. The line-to-line voltages can supply both 480-volt 3-phase and 480-volt single-phase. This system is commonly used in commercial applications where 480 volts is required for machinery loads and in applications to serve 277-volt lighting loads.
A/B switching method
A dual switching method to control lighting that reduces the connected lighting load by at least 50 percent, maintains reasonably uniform illumination, and helps meet mandated lighting energy requirements.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
An organization that oversees the development of standards created by manufacturers throughout the industry to promote safety and other standards.
area category method
A lighting design method that designers can use to meet man-dated lighting energy codes. In this method, the designer assigns a maximum allowable watts per square foot level to specifically define areas to provide adequate luminance for the primary function of the occupancy type. This method allows for maximum power levels in any one space to be exceeded when other spaces can be designed at lower allowed levels. The net result is that total power used does not exceed the calculated maximum allowed value. (See also complete building method.)
balanced distribution
An electrical distribution system in which the ungrounded conductors carry equal currents. In distribution systems that also include a grounded conductor, the grounded conductor will carry the imbalance of the currents in the ungrounded conductors.
The circuit conductors between the final overcurrent device protecting the circuit and the outlet(s) [100].
A switch installed to override any automatic lighting shut-off device (e.g., time clock).
C value (for conductors)
Multipliers that have been developed for conductors that are derived by including both the resistance and the impedance of a conductor (X/R) installed in electrical systems. These multipliers are used in short-circuit calculations and result in calculation of more accurate short-circuit current values.
color rendering index (CRI)
The ability of a lighting source to correctly represent an illuminated object in relation to natural daylight.
complete building method
A lighting design method used to meet mandated lighting energy codes by calculating the maximum allowable lighting power for a facility based on a maximum allowable watts per square foot value; a basic design method not suitable for areas with specialty lighting. (See also area category method.)
The use of computers and design software to aid in the design of drawings, objects, shapes, and other items.
A complete set of building plans which can be made available to all relevant parties providing an estimate for or performing work on a given project.
continuous load
A load where the maximum current is expected to continue for three hours or more [100],
counter electromotive force (CEMF)
An induced voltage that results in a force opposite in direction to the applied voltage; in AC circuits with magnetic properties (such as motors and transformers), this induced voltage can cause the circuit current to lag the applied voltage, resulting in lower power factor values.
demand factor
The ratio of power consumed by a system at any one time to the maximum power that would be consumed if the entire load connected to the system were to be operating at the same time.
effective grounding path
A grounding path of low resistance that ensures, either through raceway methods or additional wiring methods, that the operation of protective devices will occur to isolate a faulted system and thus protect personnel from the dangers of electrical shock or explosion.
Electrical Apparatus and Service Association (EASA)
An organization that provides information and education about sales, service, and maintenance materials for motors, generators, and other electromechanical equipment.
equipment grounding conductor
The conductive path installed to connect normally non-current-carrying metal parts of equipment together and to the system grounded conductor, to the grounding electrode conductor, or to both [100],
A developed table that lists details about the specialized equipment that is to be incorporated into a design plan.
foot candle
(fc) A measurement of illumination intensity. One foot candle is the intensity of light on a surface 1 foot from a lighting source of 1 candlepower.
general purpose branch circuit
A branch circuit that supplies two or more receptacles or outlets for lighting and appliances [100].
ground fault
A condition in which high levels of current could flow when an ungrounded conductor accidentally comes in contact with a grounded reference. (See also short circuit.)
grounding electrode
A conducting object through which a direct connection to earth is established [100],
grounding electrode conductor
A conductor used to connect the system grounded conductor or the equipment to a grounding electrode or a point on the grounding electrode system [100].
The raceway designated on a plan as the one that carries branch-circuit conductors back to the serving source (such as a panelboard).
Illuminating and Engineering Society of North America (IESNA)
An organization that works with manufacturers, designers, architects, consultants, electrical and building contractors, and suppliers with regard to lighting systems.
A momentary high level of amperage flowing in a circuit such as those associated with motorized equipment loads.
isolated ground (IG)
An additional equipment grounding conductor that, when installed, provides for the grounding of equipment separate from a grounding method that uses an approved raceway method; typically used for electrically sensitive equipment in computer applications and medical facilities. When isolated grounding is provided through the use of receptacles, the receptacle must be identified on the design plan as “IG.”
lighting branch circuit
A branch circuit that serves only lighting.
lighting energy-saving devices
Devices such as multiple switches, time clocks, and occupancy sensors that can achieve lighting energy savings.
lighting fixture schedule
A document included with the lighting design plan that lists the specific information for the lighting fixtures in a facility.
Components such as branch circuits, switching devices, and energy-saving devices that are associated with lighting fixtures and their control.
A set of calculated values that determine the demand factor for a system and that reflects a more true value of power utilized at any one time compared to calculated values determined during design.
lumens per watt (lm/W)
The ratio of light output (lumens) to input power (watts).
luminance level
The amount of light projected on a work surface.
main disconnecting means
The main device that disconnects the supply conductors from all sources of supply.
manufacturer electrical specification sheet
Information provided by a manufacturer that lists specific details about the product; these specification sheets are often used to obtain information about motorized equipment and lighting fixtures.
multiwire branch circuit
A branch circuit that consists of two or more ungrounded conductors that have a voltage between them, and a grounded conductor that has equal voltage between it and each ungrounded conductor of the circuit and that is connected to the neutral or grounded conductor of the system [100].
National Electrical Code (NEC)
Regulatory code published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA); also known as NFPA 70.
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)
A trade association that provides standards for the electrical manufacturing industry including the generation, transmission and distribution, control, and end use of electricity.
A device that detects the presence of personnel in a space by passive infrared or ultrasonic methods; when used in a lighting system, the sensor switches lighting fixtures on and off as occupants enter or exit the space to help save energy.
Operation of equipment in excess of normal, full-load rating, or of a conductor in excess of rated ampacity that, if it persists for a sufficient length of time, would cause damage or dangerous overheating. A fault, such as a short circuit or ground fault, is not an overload [100].
panel schedule
An illustration of key panelboard information showing how branch circuitry is distributed, number of phases, voltage, and size in amperage; panel schedules are completed by hand calculation or by computer software.
plan check engineer
An engineer who performs building and plan examinations for construction or alteration of industrial, commercial, and residential structures and determines compliance with applicable codes, laws, and regulations.
point-to-point method
A calculation method to determine the available short-circuit current values at any point in a system.
programmable lighting controllers
Microprocessor-based lighting controllers that can be programmed; their use results in greater lighting energy savings.
An enclosed channel of metal or nonmetallic materials designed expressly for holding wires, cables, or busbars [100].
Raceway legend
A table developed by an electrical designer that illustrates information about raceways installed for a project
receptacle outlet
An outlet where one or more receptacles are installed [100].
reflected ceiling plan
A plan that illustrates only the location of lighting fixtures and the ceiling type in which they are to be installed.
separately derived system
A premises wiring system whose power is derived from a source of electrical energy or equipment other than a service. Such systems have no direct electrical connection. including a solidly connected circuit conductor, to supply conductors originating in another system [100].
service entrance conductors
The conductors from the service entry point to the service main disconnecting means. These can be installed as part of an overhead-type installation or in underground conduits.
A dangerous condition in which circuit conductors contact each other and reduce the intended ohmic resistance of the circuit; often referred to as a line-to-line or line-to-neutral short. (See also ground fault.)
short-circuit calculations
A set of calculated values that determine available short-circuit currents.
single-line diagram
A simple diagram (also called one-line diagram) that illustrates all the information and requirements of an electrical distribution system.
spacing criteria
Mounting height ratios provided by the lighting fixture manufacturer used in calculations to determine proper mounting distances between lighting fixtures (also called row and column spacing criteria).
step-down transformer
A transformer that delivers a different utilization voltage; typically used in commercial applications to lower a 480/277-volt service to 120/208 volts for office spaces.
An electrical cabinet, or cabinets (depending on the electrical requirements), that has provisions for the service entrance method, utility metering, and overcurrent protective devices that serve distributions to equipment.
transformer impedance rating
A voltage drop rating for a transformer given in a percentage (Z) of the full load voltage.
utility metering equipment
The components that make up the parts of an electrical cabinet used solely for the purposes of utility metering, such as kilowatt-hours/demand, meter testing points, and current transformers.
A loss of voltage on a conductor resulting from the length of the conductor, its resistance, and the amperage imposed on the conductor.
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A statewide blueprint for maintaining and sustaining public outdoor recreation resources to meet the demands of Georgia’s diverse and growing population. The plan, which is updated every five years, keeps Georgia eligible for federal support through the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The 2017–2021 Georgia Outdoor Recreation Plan launched earlier this fall and will be completed by October 2016 when Governor Deal submits it to the U.S. Department of Interior for their approval. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources oversees the development of the outdoor recreation plan through an extensive public engagement process. The 2017–2021 update will:
Address previous plan priorities of CONSERVATION; HEALTH and WELLNESS; and ECONOMIC VITALITY.
Examine a new challenge faced by many public recreation providers: how to operate with less dependence on tax-based fund support.
GA has received $85 million in LWCF grants and leveraged these matching funds to over $170 million in city, county and state park investments.
95% of GA’s cities and counties have improved their quality of life and economic vitality via LWCF projects.
The current unmet demand for park and recreation improvements in GA exceeds $123 million.
Inventory of existing public park and outdoor recreation supply (city, county, state & federal);
Analysis of national and state trends in demographics, funding and recreational preferences;
Survey of public perspectives regarding outdoor recreation via a statewide public opinion survey, stakeholder engagements, focus groups and public input meetings;
Establish priorities for action that will become the criteria for awarding future LWCF grants.
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Federal unions monitoring workforce as agencies roll back Executive Order provisions
Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, details how his organization is observing the court-ordered repeal of President Trump’s workforce measure, and what it means for the employees […]
Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, details how his organization is observing the court-ordered repeal of President Trump’s workforce measure, and what it means for the employees they represent.
A federal court struck down several key provisions of the President’s workforce executive order. According to GovExec, the Office of Personnel Management told agencies to comply with the court’s order to roll back the controversial rules. As the rules are scrubbed from the executive branch, federal employee unions are keeping their eye on agencies to see if any problems arise. “It’s been a mixed bag actually, several of the agencies where we represent employees actually demonstrated that they are willing to pull back… but then [we have] the Department of Health and Human Services, they’re not complying at this point,” said Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union. “It is my understanding that they do not intend to comply. They are, as I understand it, suggesting that their bargaining proposals were arrived at independent of the executive orders.”
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Anonymous "Fan" Makes Defeminized AVENGERS: ENDGAME Edit Because He Sucks
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Are You Being Watched By a Giant?
It’s embarassing to admit—but, hey, I’ll admit to just about anything short of impure thoughts in putting together this blog—that at one point in my young life I was afraid of a water tower.
Every so often back in my preteen days in the late ’60s and early ’70s the family would pile into the auto and trek from suburbia into the city to visit grandma, my dad’s mother, at her shotgun house off Oak Street, not far from the old Louisville incinerator.
I hated these trips because everything about my grandma’s home and neighborhood creeped me out; everything was different from the suburban brightness, openness and spaciousness I was used to. The darkness of the home’s interior, the cramped living room with a shaft of light coming through the front window barely illuminating the ancient bric a brac, such as the old early 1950s TV (long unworking) with its tiny round screen and behind it on a tall spindly wooden shelf an old set of encyclopedias dating from the 1920s and 30-year-old pictures of relatives (one of whom—my father’s sister—had left the home back in the 1940s and simply vanished off the face of the earth). Yet, there she was, a long-lost member of the family staring right at me. In a sitting room further back of the house toward a kitchen was an old Victrola from the 30s, with Al Jolson and Vaughn Monroe 78s and some weird generic albums of carillon performances and such bought from thrift department stores for $1.99—still with the tag on. In the kitchen was a fascinating faded browning color reproduction of a painting of a 30’s vintage girl in a one-piece swimsuit in a diving pose on a seaside boulder. I never quite understood that one. It seemed to add an element of sexuality in a house that otherwise seemed to me dark and lifeless, with a quality resembling Mrs. Haversham’s time-stands-still home in Dickens’ Great Expectations.
And, sad to say, in my young shallow ignorance, I was not too crazy about grandma either. She was chubby, dowdy and seemed to always wear the same long conservative brown dress. She looked to me like W.C. Fields in drag, with glasses and a wig. She was standoffish, mild, out of touch with current culture; and was not one to spoil her grandkids. She was a God-fearin’ woman, the product of poverty and thrift, and me and my sister were too young to understand any of that.
She wasn’t anything like my mom’s mother. By contrast, my other grandma was a hip, lively swinger. She didn’t look her age, not yet anyway (alcoholism would later take care of that), she dressed brightly, wore pants, drank and smoked and cussed and showered me and my sister with anything we wanted anytime we wanted it. She had a chintzy cool loungey bar in her basement, with lighted bar signs for atmosphere, no less. She even let me taste beer when I was 10. She had Elvis Presley records. We liked her.
I’ve sidetracked a bit in reminiscences here, but what I was driving at is that the old neighborhood of my dad’s mother symbolized to me at the time everything that was menacing about the big, rusty crumbling old city.
And on the trip to that shotgun house we would always approach a railroad track and to the left of that, towering and glowering above an old brick factory building was a rusty bulbous old water tower. Whenever we approached those tracks, my head went down below the window. You see, I didn’t want to see that tower, or it to see me.
In my childlike imagination, there was something creepy about that hulking steel tower, which still stands today, as though a retro space ship from H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds had descended and extended its landing gear.
So to wrench this whole thing inartfully back to the point, I’ve come to discover that there are still all kinds of creepy roadside giants scaring kids all over America.
There are so many from coast to coast, in fact, that one wonders if they’re tied together somehow as part of some New World Order plot to take over America.
I’m talking about the giant lumberjacks and the giant muffler men.
While searching Google Images looking for art to post on my Mega Super Mammoth MP3 Blog List page, I stumbled onto a bunch of pictures of giant lumberjacks.
The more I looked, the more astounded I was at the sheer number of these things towering over restaurants, campsites, gas stations and other venues across the continent—such as this mammoth dude who watches over Bangor, Maine. A great website called Roadside America even has a running catalog online of these tacky fiberglass giants, which even includes their repair or disrepair status. It even includes updates on giant roadside men who have been destroyed, moved, damaged or even repurposed.
Another big category of giant roadside behemoths is the so-called muffler men. For some reason, muffler and auto shops have been big adherents of the giant-man-as-advertising idea. This fellow to the right who graces lovely Jersey City, New Jersey, appears to once have been a Paul Bunyan converted into a muffler man.
I guess a giant man is supposed to mean that your muffler shop is more “manly” than your competitor’s.
And when I say coast to coast, I mean it. There are giant lumberjacks stretching from Bangor, Maine to the east to California redwood country on the west and all the way to points south such as Albuquerque, New Mexico, Flastaff, Ariz., and Raleigh, N.C. And, of course, there are some in Canada, too.
Most of them seemed to be based on Paul Bunyan and some even include his trusty companion ox, Babe.
A lot of them seem to have been repurposed. Where once sat an ax handle in their palms now sit giant mufflers. With a little repainting, a lumberjack can morph into a grease jockey.
These are just a few of the lumber-giants I pilfered off the web. Most of the pictures can be credited to Roadside America.
This gargantua towers over Munice, Indiana, though one worries that even he would be no match for the apparent tornado that seems to be forming behind him.
The Lake George resort area of New York state appears to be gound zero for creepy giants. There are so many of these fiberglass dudes in the area that we might well assume that this town is perhaps the epicenter of the giant man invasion to come. This fellow wields an ax, evidently daring put-putters to send a ball rolling between his legs. Though distracting, I doubt that mini-golfers feel intimidated. But mark my words and mark me well, this big guy remembers. And he will get you.
Here’s another Lake George lumberman who seems to be a little more up to date, what with the chainsaw and all. Evidently, this guy has met with a great deal of disrepair of late. Just like his buddy, he will not forgive humanity for that. So beware.
This lumberjack is stuck up on a pole soaking in the rays and dry air of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He guards what is no doubt a fine purveyor of gourmet truck stop fare.
This guy seems to be stuck out in the middle of nowhere in Aline, Oklahoma, safeguarding whatever town there might be.
By now, you’re probably noticing a great similarity in the face and body designs of these giants. I’m sure there’s a story in this that I haven’t researched. It appears that a company mass produced these things as promo-advertising gimmicks. If I find out more I’ll add that info here.
This guy, like so many, appears to have been demoted from lumberjack to friendly tire-store salesman. No doubt he met a giant woman while he was in the Yukon who married him then dragged his now-domesticated ass back to Wilson, North Carolina, to get a “real” steady job selling tires at White’s. He might look friendly, but he’s forcing that smile.
And there are a lot more where these came from.
I have no ending for this—just a word of advice: Steer well clear of these lumberjacks, but if you must get up close to one treat him with respect and make sure the ax doesn’t move.
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Danielle Colby Cushman Married, Husband, Children, Age, Net Worth, Bio
One interesting thing about reality TV shows is that it connects real-life artists with their audiences who are often their fans and celebrities like Danielle Colby Cushman have been able to soar high in every way possible through this exclusive genre.
The American burlesque dancer, reality TV personality and fashion designer is best known for her appearance on the History reality show American Pickers.
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Biography, Age
Danielle Colby Cushman was born in Davenport, Iowa of the United States, on December 3, 1975. She belongs to the White-American ethnicity and holds an American Nationality.
Although she was raised by her mother Sue Colby who happens to be a member of Jehovah witness, Cushman revealed that life while growing up was rough. She had once revealed that she was sexually molested by a grown man while she was still very young. She, however, did not reveal who the man is neither did she speak about her father. There is equally no information about her educational life but career-wise, she began as a dancer with a musical and dramatic show called Burlesque. At that time, she worked with great American dancers like Margaret Moran Cho and Angel Cecelia Helene Walker better known as Satan’s Angel. in fact, her association with these two inspired her to become a burlesque dancer and as a result of that, she founded a professional burlesque team of nine performers called Burlesque Le Moustache and then named herself Dannie Diesel.
A few more years later she owned her own professional dance group known as Dannie Diesel’s Bump ‘n’ Grind Academy which is also located in the Rogers Park, near Chicago. Together with her friend Mike Wolfe, she developed the concept of American Pickers which premiered on History Channel on January 18, 2010, and became the top-rated non-fiction series of 2010.
Dannielle also owned and operated a retro clothing boutique called a 4 Miles 2 Memphis. The boutique is located in the Wicker Park area of Chicago and it was opened in January 2010 and when asked how she got all the talent she simply said her interest in burlesque dancing started at around 10 to 12 years old.
Danielle Colby Cushman’s net worth is $1.5 million, an amount she earned from her successful dancing career, reality television shows, and her magnificent boutique. The elegant roller dorby queen with a perfectly suited athletic figure all covered with tattoos always thinks of herself as an artist who would use her boutique as a channel to exhibit her personality.
Like the reality TV personality that she is, Danielle is active on almost all social networking sites like the Facebook Instagram and Twitter. She often posts picture updates about her daily activities on her social accounts. She has a huge number of followers on her Twitter account.
Danielle Colby Cushman Married, Husband, Children
Danielle Colby Cushman has been married twice. The first was with Kevin Colby in 2004. Although they had two children together, her marriage with the tattoo addict was short-leaved, thanks to her career as a TV personality which always keeps their relationship apart. Speaking during an interview with WQAD-TV, she revealed that her ex-husband was unable to deal with her notoriety and fame.
A few years later, Danielle met and fell in love with a French artist and graphic designer Alexandre De Meyer. They got married on February 14, 2015, and lived together with her two kids happily ever since then. However, there were rumours that she was dating her best friend Mike Wolfe but in reply to this allegation, she openly explained that Mike has been her friend for over ten years, even before they began their show together.
Danielle Colby with her lovely children
Dannielle is also rumoured to be in a romantic relationship with Jeremy Scheuch but there is no proof that this is true. In addition to this, it is better to say that Dannielle has a straight sexual orientation until she says or proves otherwise.
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Quick Facts about Danielle Colby Cushman
Full Name Danielle Colby
Date of Birth 1975 /12 /03
Nickname Danielle Diesel
Birthplace Davenport, Iowa, U.S.
Height: 5 feet 9 inches (1.75m)
Ethnicity White
Religion N/A
Profession Burlesque dancer and TV personality
Hip Size: 40 inch
Waist Size 28 inch
Eye colour Blue
Hair colour Black
Body Build Athletic
Spouse Kevin Colby (div.), Alexander De Meyer
Education N/A
Online Presence Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Sun Sign Sagittarius
Net Worth $1.5 million
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Brandon Andrew Clark: 5 Things To Know About The Man Charged In Bianca Devins’ Death
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Hailey Baldwin Shows Off Her Bikini Body During Sunny Stroll With Justin Bieber — New Pics
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Alyssa Norwin
Following Justin Bieber’s latest drama with Taylor Swift, the singer stepped out with wife, Hailey Baldwin, who looked hotter than ever in her skimpy red bikini.
Hailey Baldwin, 22, isn’t afraid to show off her rock hard abs, and she was at it once again while out and about with hubby, Justin Bieber, 25, and another pal in Los Angeles on July 2. Hailey rocked a red bandeau bikini top with nothing covering it up for the stroll. She paired the skimpy bathing suit with a pair of oversized jean shorts, along with slides and her hair in a messy bun. Meanwhile, Justin covered up a bit more in a baggy white t-shirt and cut-off khaki shorts. The pair seemed unbothered by the latest drama they’ve been caught in the middle of recently.
It all started on June 30, when news broke that Scooter Braun, Justin’s longtime manager, had acquired Taylor Swift’s old label, Big Machine Group, from Scott Borchetta for $300 million. Taylor took to Tumblr to reveal her frustration over the deal — she was upset that Scooter, who she labeled as a ‘bully,’ would now have the rights to the masters that she left behind when she left Big Machine in 2018. Taylor explained that Scott had given her a chance to earn the masters back herself, but it came with a negotiation that she wasn’t willing to make: She would have to record six new albums on the Big Machine label in order to earn back the rights to each of the previous albums she had released. Unlike Scooter, Taylor was never given the opportunity to simply buy the masters outright, according to her lawyer.
Taylor posted about the situation on Tumblr in order to expose an issue she’s seen come to light in the music industry, regarding how hard it is for artists to own the rights to their own work. In her post, she explained that when she made the decision to leave Big Machine, she knew Scott would sell her masters one day, but she didn’t expect it to be to Scooter, because she claimed Scott knew how she felt about him.
Along with her post, the 29-year-old shared a photo that Justin posted to Instagram in 2016, which showed him FaceTiming with Scooter and another one of Scooter’s clients, Kanye West. At the time, Justin had captioned the photo, “Taylor Swift what up.” Taylor said that the taunting image was Scooter’s way of “bullying [her] online” after Kim Kardashian “orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call [between Taylor and Kanye] to be leaked” on the Internet. She also slammed Scooter for allowing Kanye to feature a naked image of her in his music video for “Famous.”
Since Justin’s Instagram was used in Taylor’s post, he decided to weigh in on the feud himself and stand up for Scooter. At first, his message seemed like an apology — he took full blame for posting the “insensitive” message and FaceTime screen shot — but in the end, it was simply a way to defend Scooter and accuse Taylor of “crossing the line” and “trying to get sympathy.” Hailey showed her support for Justin by commenting on his post, “gentleman,” and she’s clearly continued to stand by him in the days since.
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Camila Cabello & Shawn Mendes Look Flirty At 4th Of July Pool Party 4 Wks. After Her Split — Watch
Rain At Trump’s 4th Of July Parade Reveals His Bald Spot & Twitter Is Cracking Up
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Samantha Wilson and Alyssa Norwin
Donald Trump celebrated Independence Day with a military parade that dragged massive tanks through the streets of DC, but it was his messed up hair at the event that had everyone talking!
The Fourth of July in 2019 was marked not just by fireworks and American flags in Washington, DC, but by a full military parade at the behest of President Donald Trump. Following the lead of autocracies like North Korea, the president co-opted the annual fireworks show on the National Mall to command a parade of tanks down the streets of the United States capital. His “Salute to America” was a sight to behold. The weather did not hold up for the event, either, and when rain poured down, Trump’s hair got messed up, and revealed a bald spot at the back of his head! When he turned his back to cameras filming the event, the bald spot was totally visible on television, and people on Twitter could not stop cracking up.
The event also included appearances by B-2 stealth bomber and F-22 fighter jets, the famed Blue Angels… and Air Force One. Before a massive, 30-minute fireworks display, the president also gave a speech to a crowd of supporters from the steps of the Lincoln memorial. The speech also assured that he would get mocked on social media, as he referenced airports while discussing the American Revolution. Of course, there was no air travel during the 1700s, so this was a majorly glaring error.
Trump’s paradge was plagued by problems from the beginning. First and foremost, nobody wanted it to happen besides Trump himself. The Council of DC, which crafts city laws, tweeted on July 2, “We have said it before, and we’ll say it again: Tanks, but no tanks.” They cited a Department of Defense memorandum from March 2018 that said that year’s Veteran’s Day parade could not include tanks; “consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.” There was also the fact that Trump clearly knew nothing about the tanks that he demanded tear up the streets.
.@realDonaldTrump would not like this picture of his shiny bald spot from his hamster cage at #TrumpParadeFail today. Please do not #retweet. pic.twitter.com/fH04mxGprH
— Angela Gyetvan (@notgyet13) July 5, 2019
@realDonaldTrump Your bald spot stood at attention today #TrumpParadeFail pic.twitter.com/Iz4rsSdyAb
— Marcy Roberts🐶🐱#VetsResistSquadron (@mommydog67) July 5, 2019
In an interview from the Oval Office on July 1, Trump commented that “You’ve got to be pretty careful with the tanks because the roads have a tendency not to like to carry heavy tanks so we have to put them in certain areas but we have the brand new Sherman tanks and we have the brand new Abrams tanks. We have some incredible equipment, military equipment on display — brand new. And we’re very proud of it.” Yes, the US operates M1 Abrams tanks, but WWII-era M4 Sherman tanks have not been operated since the 1950s.
Trump has wanted a military parade of his own since attending France’s Bastille Day celebration in July 2017, where he told President Emmanuel Macron, “We’re going to have to try to top it.” His plan was scrapped in summer 2018, though, when it was estimated that the parade would cost $100 million and wreak havoc on the streets of DC. None of that apparently matters this year, though, because Trump put on what he called “the show of a lifetime,” despite the protestations of Congress and local authorities. A White House aide told USA today that just the cost of shipping the tanks to DC cost $870,000.
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Sponges and corals: Seafloor assessments to help protect against climate change
by Sandrine Ceurstemont
<h2>Sponges and corals: Seafloor assessments to help protect against climate change</h2><br /><p>Deep-sea sponges – aquatic invertebrates that spend their lives attached to the seabed and are found in almost all areas of the deep ocean – have been particularly neglected when it comes to research and conservation. But they are an important component of their ecosystems.</p> <p>‘Given their huge filtering capacity and their pronounced role in pumping and cleaning the ocean, sponge grounds have an effect on ocean health,’ said Professor <a href="https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Hans.Tore.Rapp">Hans Tore Rapp</a> from the University of Bergen in Norway.</p> <p>But studying sponges is not easy. Found at depths of up to 4,000 metres, sponges are hard to access and most cannot handle exposure to air which makes it difficult to conduct lab experiments.</p> <p>Telling species apart is tricky too because many have limited distinguishing features. ‘Nowadays a combination of morphological information and DNA has made things a bit easier but it is still a challenging and very time-consuming task,’ said Prof. Rapp.</p> <p>Professor Rapp and his colleagues are identifying different species for a wide-ranging project called SponGES. The scientists are investigating sponges’ ecological functions, how these animals can be used in biotechnology as well as the resilience of their ecosystems.</p> <p>‘We will be using modelling tools to look into the future, to see how these sponge grounds will be impacted by climate change or any kind of stressors,’ said Prof. Rapp.</p> <p><img class="@alignleft@" title="Scientists want to understand how fragile cold-water coral ecosystems are being affected by sectors such as deep-sea mining. Image credit - © Changing Oceans Expedition 2012 (cruise JC073)" src="https://horizon-media.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/IMCEUpload/forkbeardcropped.jpg" alt="Scientists want to understand how fragile cold-water coral ecosystems are being affected by sectors such as deep-sea mining. Image credit - © Changing Oceans Expedition 2012 (cruise JC073)" width="1900" height="1425" /></p> <p><strong>Sponge genomes</strong></p> <p>So far, the scientists have discovered more than 30 new species of sponges and produced the largest sponge genomic data sets ever, which should reveal how different species and populations are related. They also performed experiments in the lab to investigate their ecosystem functions, such as how they absorb and turn carbon and inorganic nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus into nourishment for the rest of the habitat.</p> <p>Now they are conducting experiments on the seafloor. ‘(We are) looking at sponges in pristine areas then comparing how they function in areas that are more impacted, whether it's from oil and gas or mining,’ said Prof. Rapp.</p> <p>The project is also taking a novel approach to drug discovery. The chemicals that sponges use to defend themselves could potentially be used to treat cancer and infectious diseases.</p> <p>Sponges are typically ground up and tested to identify compounds that could be used to develop drugs. The project, however, is trying to zero in on the genes involved in making these compounds so that it can sustainably produce them in the lab.</p> <p>‘We've already identified some of the gene sequences that are related to the production of anti-cancer compounds,’ said <a href="https://www.fau.edu/hboi/mbbr/spongebio.php">Dr Shirley Pomponi</a> from Florida Atlantic University in the US and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who is leading the biotechnology arm of the project.</p> <p>Dr Pomponi and her project colleagues are also one step closer to creating bone implants that make use of sponge architecture. Sponges produce microscopic skeletal elements, or spicules, made of biosilica that are the building blocks of their structures. Biosilica has been found to induce bone-forming cells to produce more bone. The scientists therefore hope to make implant scaffolds with bone-forming cells.</p> <p>They achieved a breakthrough by creating a cell line in the lab from deep-sea sponge cells, which Dr Pomponi claims is the first time this has been done for any marine invertebrate.</p> <p>Dr Pomponi says the cell lines are exciting as they will enable the scientists to study how sponges produce their skeletons as well as their defensive chemicals. The team is focussing on how to produce biosilica and these chemicals in tissue culture, she says.</p> <p><strong>Endangered</strong></p> <p>Results from the project are already being recognised by policymakers too. Sponge grounds have now been included in the Norwegian Red List for endangered habitats, for example.</p> <p>‘We are now also contributing to getting sponge grounds into the management plan for the Nordic Seas,’ said Prof. Rapp.</p> <p> <div class="quote-view quotesBlock quote_horizontal"> <div class="quotesTop"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_top.png" alt="" title="" /></div> <p>‘We will be using modelling tools to look into the future, to see how these sponge grounds will be impacted by climate change or any kind of stressors.’</p> <blockquote><p>-Prof. Rapp, University of Bergen, Norway</p></blockquote> <div class="quotesBottom"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_bottom.png" alt="" title="" /></div> </div> </p> <p>In addition to sponges, other elements of deep North Atlantic ocean ecosystems need to be better understood. To tackle this, a project called ATLAS is undertaking the biggest assessment of the area to date.</p> <p>The deep Atlantic is home to a number of vulnerable ecosystems, says Professor Murray Roberts from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, the project coordinator.</p> <p>‘We need to understand the corals, the sponges, the clams, we need to understand the seamounts,’ he said.</p> <p>‘And critically we need to understand how industry active in these areas already, and proposing to increase its operations, could impact these systems.’</p> <p>The project is monitoring the deep ocean by using climate-monitoring instruments, along with new equipment such as sensor arrays to measure carbon dioxide and acidity to provide regular readings for the first time which will be made publicly available.</p> <p>The new information will help to better understand the physics of the ocean such as <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/warmer-saltier-polar-water-could-change-global-ocean-currents.html">circulation</a> patterns, for example, so that changes can be predicted.</p> <p>The project has published 49 scientific papers, revealing, for example, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35057">how corals on the seafloor are nourished in an environment where there is little food available</a>.</p> <p>Simulations showed that water currents interact with coral mounds, which can grow hundreds of metres tall to draw organic matter down to them from the surface.</p> <p>‘It’s an amazing example of ecosystem engineering on a scale we've never really seen before,’ said Prof. Roberts. The scientists will follow up by taking measurements in the field to see if they agree with their model.</p> <p><img class="" title="Image credit - Horizon" src="https://horizon-media.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/IMCEUpload/sponges-factoid-982.jpg" alt="Image credit - Horizon" width="982" height="304" /></p> <p><strong>Fisheries</strong></p> <p>Another aspect of the project involves bringing together different sectors that use the ocean, such as fisheries and oil and gas companies, to plan out marine space in a more sustainable way. ‘It’s like town planning in a sense for the oceans,’ said Prof. Roberts.</p> <p>The team’s goal is to make sure that ocean activities are sustainable and that ecosystems are preserved.</p> <p>They have been working with multinational oil and gas companies, for example, to assess the areas in which they operate, where there are vulnerable ecosystems such as sponge grounds and coral reefs. The impact of climate change also needs to be addressed.</p> <p>‘With warming of the Atlantic Ocean and gradual acidification, areas that have been protected are going to end up as unsuitable for the very things that they've been closed to protect,’ said Prof. Roberts.</p> <p>Based on scientific findings from the project, the team plans to come up with management strategies for sectors such as deep-sea mining and renewable energy where growth is forecast. The team also developed new models showing the distribution of deep Atlantic species which will provide a good starting point.</p> <p>‘We have a much better understanding of how likely it is that vulnerable species occur in areas that industries are looking to exploit,’ said Prof. Roberts. ‘We're (now) taking that into industry and policy.’</p> <p> <div class="moreInfoBlock"> <h3>Sponges: survivors of the sea</h3> <p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/animal/sponge-animal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sixteenth-century naturalists</a> considered sea sponges to be plants, they are actually animals that live attached to surfaces in tidal zones or areas as deep as 8,500 metres.</p> <p>Sea sponges are filter feeders that can survive for long periods without food, such as during the <a href="https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/04/23/secrets-of-our-ocean-planet-the-not-so-simple-sea-sponge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lightless polar winters</a>. Some sponges can also live for hundreds of years. A specimen the size of a minivan, believed to be centuries to millennia old, was discovered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/28/sea-sponge-the-size-of-a-minivan-discovered-in-ocean-depths-off-hawaii" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2,100 metres below the ocean surface in Hawaii</a> in 2016.</p> <p>Sponge cells are like stem cells – sponges can regenerate an entire body from just one cell. Sponges themselves have no internal organs. Instead, their entire body processes oxygen and nutrients.</p> <p>Most sponges feed and breathe by extracting nutrients and oxygen floating in the water<strong>. </strong>Water enters a sponge’s pores and passes through the intricate canals and chambers that form its body. Special cells lining the inside of a sponge’s body capture food particles and keep the water constantly circulating.</p> <p>About <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/4-new-species-of-killer-sponges-discovered-off-pacific-coast-1.2615509">140 species</a> of known sponges – most of them deep-sea dwellers – are carnivorous. They trap tiny crustaceans and larvae with microscopic hooks and digest them – cell by cell – over <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25436-flesh-eating-sponges-are-beautiful-but-deadly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">several days</a>.</p> </div> </p> <p><em>The research in this article was funded by the EU. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.</em></p> <br /> <img src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-40077089-1&cid=sponges-and-corals-seafloor-assessments-to-help-protect-against-climate-change&t=event&ec=republish&ea=read&el=sponges-and-corals-seafloor-assessments-to-help-protect-against-climate-change&cs=republish&cm=republish&cn=republish&cm1=1" /> This post <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/sponges-and-corals-seafloor-assessments-help-protect-against-climate-change.html">Sponges and corals: Seafloor assessments to help protect against climate change</a> was originally published on <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/">Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission</a>.
The glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi, found on the Scotian Shelf, is one of about 8,500 sponge species that is known to exist. Image credit - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Little is known about deep ocean environments. But scientists focussing on the depths of the North Atlantic are now learning more about their ecosystems - including the role of vast sea sponge grounds – and how to safeguard them against the effects of climate change and industry.
Deep-sea sponges – aquatic invertebrates that spend their lives attached to the seabed and are found in almost all areas of the deep ocean – have been particularly neglected when it comes to research and conservation. But they are an important component of their ecosystems.
‘Given their huge filtering capacity and their pronounced role in pumping and cleaning the ocean, sponge grounds have an effect on ocean health,’ said Professor Hans Tore Rapp from the University of Bergen in Norway.
But studying sponges is not easy. Found at depths of up to 4,000 metres, sponges are hard to access and most cannot handle exposure to air which makes it difficult to conduct lab experiments.
Telling species apart is tricky too because many have limited distinguishing features. ‘Nowadays a combination of morphological information and DNA has made things a bit easier but it is still a challenging and very time-consuming task,’ said Prof. Rapp.
Professor Rapp and his colleagues are identifying different species for a wide-ranging project called SponGES. The scientists are investigating sponges’ ecological functions, how these animals can be used in biotechnology as well as the resilience of their ecosystems.
‘We will be using modelling tools to look into the future, to see how these sponge grounds will be impacted by climate change or any kind of stressors,’ said Prof. Rapp.
Sponge genomes
So far, the scientists have discovered more than 30 new species of sponges and produced the largest sponge genomic data sets ever, which should reveal how different species and populations are related. They also performed experiments in the lab to investigate their ecosystem functions, such as how they absorb and turn carbon and inorganic nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus into nourishment for the rest of the habitat.
Now they are conducting experiments on the seafloor. ‘(We are) looking at sponges in pristine areas then comparing how they function in areas that are more impacted, whether it's from oil and gas or mining,’ said Prof. Rapp.
The project is also taking a novel approach to drug discovery. The chemicals that sponges use to defend themselves could potentially be used to treat cancer and infectious diseases.
Sponges are typically ground up and tested to identify compounds that could be used to develop drugs. The project, however, is trying to zero in on the genes involved in making these compounds so that it can sustainably produce them in the lab.
‘We've already identified some of the gene sequences that are related to the production of anti-cancer compounds,’ said Dr Shirley Pomponi from Florida Atlantic University in the US and Wageningen University in the Netherlands, who is leading the biotechnology arm of the project.
Dr Pomponi and her project colleagues are also one step closer to creating bone implants that make use of sponge architecture. Sponges produce microscopic skeletal elements, or spicules, made of biosilica that are the building blocks of their structures. Biosilica has been found to induce bone-forming cells to produce more bone. The scientists therefore hope to make implant scaffolds with bone-forming cells.
They achieved a breakthrough by creating a cell line in the lab from deep-sea sponge cells, which Dr Pomponi claims is the first time this has been done for any marine invertebrate.
Dr Pomponi says the cell lines are exciting as they will enable the scientists to study how sponges produce their skeletons as well as their defensive chemicals. The team is focussing on how to produce biosilica and these chemicals in tissue culture, she says.
Results from the project are already being recognised by policymakers too. Sponge grounds have now been included in the Norwegian Red List for endangered habitats, for example.
‘We are now also contributing to getting sponge grounds into the management plan for the Nordic Seas,’ said Prof. Rapp.
‘We will be using modelling tools to look into the future, to see how these sponge grounds will be impacted by climate change or any kind of stressors.’
-Prof. Rapp, University of Bergen, Norway
In addition to sponges, other elements of deep North Atlantic ocean ecosystems need to be better understood. To tackle this, a project called ATLAS is undertaking the biggest assessment of the area to date.
The deep Atlantic is home to a number of vulnerable ecosystems, says Professor Murray Roberts from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, the project coordinator.
‘We need to understand the corals, the sponges, the clams, we need to understand the seamounts,’ he said.
‘And critically we need to understand how industry active in these areas already, and proposing to increase its operations, could impact these systems.’
The project is monitoring the deep ocean by using climate-monitoring instruments, along with new equipment such as sensor arrays to measure carbon dioxide and acidity to provide regular readings for the first time which will be made publicly available.
The new information will help to better understand the physics of the ocean such as circulation patterns, for example, so that changes can be predicted.
The project has published 49 scientific papers, revealing, for example, how corals on the seafloor are nourished in an environment where there is little food available.
Simulations showed that water currents interact with coral mounds, which can grow hundreds of metres tall to draw organic matter down to them from the surface.
‘It’s an amazing example of ecosystem engineering on a scale we've never really seen before,’ said Prof. Roberts. The scientists will follow up by taking measurements in the field to see if they agree with their model.
Another aspect of the project involves bringing together different sectors that use the ocean, such as fisheries and oil and gas companies, to plan out marine space in a more sustainable way. ‘It’s like town planning in a sense for the oceans,’ said Prof. Roberts.
The team’s goal is to make sure that ocean activities are sustainable and that ecosystems are preserved.
They have been working with multinational oil and gas companies, for example, to assess the areas in which they operate, where there are vulnerable ecosystems such as sponge grounds and coral reefs. The impact of climate change also needs to be addressed.
‘With warming of the Atlantic Ocean and gradual acidification, areas that have been protected are going to end up as unsuitable for the very things that they've been closed to protect,’ said Prof. Roberts.
Based on scientific findings from the project, the team plans to come up with management strategies for sectors such as deep-sea mining and renewable energy where growth is forecast. The team also developed new models showing the distribution of deep Atlantic species which will provide a good starting point.
‘We have a much better understanding of how likely it is that vulnerable species occur in areas that industries are looking to exploit,’ said Prof. Roberts. ‘We're (now) taking that into industry and policy.’
Sponges: survivors of the sea
Sixteenth-century naturalists considered sea sponges to be plants, they are actually animals that live attached to surfaces in tidal zones or areas as deep as 8,500 metres.
Sea sponges are filter feeders that can survive for long periods without food, such as during the lightless polar winters. Some sponges can also live for hundreds of years. A specimen the size of a minivan, believed to be centuries to millennia old, was discovered 2,100 metres below the ocean surface in Hawaii in 2016.
Sponge cells are like stem cells – sponges can regenerate an entire body from just one cell. Sponges themselves have no internal organs. Instead, their entire body processes oxygen and nutrients.
Most sponges feed and breathe by extracting nutrients and oxygen floating in the water. Water enters a sponge’s pores and passes through the intricate canals and chambers that form its body. Special cells lining the inside of a sponge’s body capture food particles and keep the water constantly circulating.
About 140 species of known sponges – most of them deep-sea dwellers – are carnivorous. They trap tiny crustaceans and larvae with microscopic hooks and digest them – cell by cell – over several days.
The research in this article was funded by the EU. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.
Why meerkats and mongooses have a cooperative approach to raising their pups
Raising children can be a tough job, especially when doing it alone, but some animals like meerkats and mongooses work together to raise their young. Studies of these cooperative creatures are revealing how this highly social behaviour evolved and is shedding light on the roots of our own species’ collaborative abilities.
Which climate innovations will really limit global warming?
From a chemical-free spray that turns sand into lush green land, to a caterer who serves planet-friendly dishes, and from technology that makes stronger concrete with less cement, to insect farms that produce fish food and fertilisers, there is no shortage of ideas to reduce emissions. But which ones work best?
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Welcome to House of Solo’s ‘love’ issue for Spring/Summer 2018. You’re probably wondering what’s happened to the magazine: that extra weight you’re handling is the result of nearly 100 extra pages that have been lovingly incorporated. That’s 100 pages more of slick photography, fashion-styling innovations, and insights into creative people’s lives.
Who are some of those creatives? We’ve singer Freya Ridings talking to Francesca Tirpak about her ‘lightening-bolt moments’, and Adam French’s guitar obsession; actor Marcus Scribner’s inspiring philanthropy, and fellow actor Karamo Brown’s ‘culturally relevant conversations’. Find out the type of person Tove Styrke is yearning to work with - and be humbled by the story of one singer-songwriter who signed a deal, before losing the deal, before being made homeless, before signing a deal again…
Underlying all these interviews and photoshoots is the idea of love: that emotion that compels us to do things we can’t ultimately explain but which we’re passionate about. The emotion that jettisons singers onto an often raw songwriting plain, where their love for music compels them to open up to all their personal experiences. Why do actors immerse themselves in an industry that has supreme peaks and deep troughs? Because of a compulsion to act, fuelled by love.
Find what you love doing, and who you love doing it with, and share that love around. It’s the only way to move on in this mad, mad world.
House of Solo, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: you’ve over 300 pages of glossy goodness and nearly 40 interviews in one print-perfect package... Here’s to magazine amore.
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Changing things around: Dramatic aspect in the Pericope Adulterae (Jn 7:53–8:11)
Piet van Staden
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 71, No 3 | a3071 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i3.3071 | © 2015 Piet van Staden | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
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In this article the transactional model of narrative as expounded by Louise Rosenblatt, supported by an analysis in terms of dramatic aspect, is employed to show how the interpolated scene in John 7:53–8:11 (known as the Pericope Adulterae and hereafter referred to as PA) functions as a pivot of power in the gospel. The content of the scene, as well as its placement within the gospel, serves to promote an aesthetic reading that focusses attention on the experience during the reading event. Awareness of sensations, images, feelings and ideas from past experiences, as well as the sounds and rhythms of the words become important. The reader responds to the aesthetic transaction, the various elements of total experience, rather than simply to the text, during and after the reading event.
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Glimpsing Gowanus in a Loft-Sized Camera Obscura
Allison MeierFebruary 22, 2016
‘Camera Obscura/Gowanus’ at Gowanus Loft (gif by the author, via The Vanderbilt Republic/Vimeo)
In the 19th century, a seaside resort vacation wasn’t complete until you visited the local camera obscura and marveled at the surrounding beach and ocean projected through a pinhole. The technology of the camera obscura is ancient, going back beyond Aristotle, although it’s only recently that people have started building room-sized experiences with the optic trick, which uses sunlight to shine an upside-down view of the exterior (unless you add a mirror to flip it). Currently, the Gowanus Loft in Brooklyn is hosting Camera Obscura/Gowanus by George Del Barrio and Ashton Worthington, where, like those Victorian bathers decades ago, you can experience the strange wonder of the inverted outside world. Instead of sand and water, it’s the industrial scene of the elevated F/G train tracks, and the roads below.
‘Camera Obscura/Gowanus’ at Gowanus Loft (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Unlike Del Barrio’s previous Photographic Monument projects through the Vanderbilt Republic, such as last year’s collaboration with Colin Bowring to illuminate the underside of the elevated train bridge, the technology behind Camera Obscura/Gowanus is relatively simple. Anyone can build a camera obscura (National Geographic has a succinct video tutorial online); it’s just a matter of blocking out the light while leaving a pinhole that pierces through, and setting up a surface onto which the light passing through it can reflect.
On entering the Gowanus Loft, you’re submerged in darkness. The by-reservation visits are a recommended 45 minutes. This is to allow your eyes to adjust, as what first feels like near pitch black slowly reveals a room filled with camera obscuras in all corners. The largest consumes three walls, with the dominating lattice of the elevated bridge on which trains silently go by; smaller pinholes can be discovered around corners, some showing the top of a building, or just the sky.
Del Barrio and Worthington are hardly the only artists to work with the camera obscura. Zoe Leonard’s “945 Madison Avenue” on the fourth floor of the Whitney Museum’s former building was a highlight of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Land artist Chris Drury built a series of outdoor camera obscuras out of natural materials like cedar logs and stones. The Photographers Gallery in London had one installed on its top floor in 2012, and in 2013, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder installed Topsy-Turvy in Madison Square Park, which included a portal to view the surrounding Flatiron District. Marja Pirilä has built camera obscuras out of snow, and incorporated them as settings into her photographs, a process also used by Abelardo Morell for his “roomscape” photographs. There’s something about this unexpected contrast between the interior and exterior world that we find endlessly fascinating.
A camera obscura in the 1914 ‘Optic Projection’ (via Wikimedia)
A 19th-century camera obscura in New York City’s Central Park (via New York Public Library)
The camera obscura reached the height of its popularity as an attraction in the Victorian age, where the wonder at scientific innovation coincided with a rise in tourist mobility. They were especially common at seaside resorts in Great Britain — according to the site for the Edinburgh Camera Obscura, the Victorians especially enjoyed “spying on courting couples.” The Dumfries Museum in Scotland has the oldest continuously operating camera obscura, dating to 1836, while an elaborate one from 1892 on the Isle of Man has 11 lenses. The camera obscura eventually migrated around the world, often built of temporary material that could easily be transported, although some were intended to be more permanent. You can still visit one in San Francisco from 1946 that’s shaped like a giant camera.
What makes each camera obscura experience special is the way it changes how visitors see a familiar environment. In Gowanus, it lets viewers appreciate the small movements of a Brooklyn neighborhood, whether the winding path of a train that seems suspended in the sky, or a lone pedestrian ambling through the early light of morning.
The 1946 Camera Obscura in San Francisco (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)
Camera Obscura/Gowanus continues through March 2 at the Gowanus Loft (61 9th Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn).
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New York: The Cloisters
A couple of days ago we spent a lovely (albeit freezing) day seeing the Metropolitan Art Gallery, starting with its smaller and less visited gallery at The Cloisters. The Met is divided into two properties, the enormous building in Central Park and the much, much smaller Cloisters, located at the northern end of the Manhattan.
Many of the ‘Top Things to do in New York’ articles I’d read mentioned The Cloisters but didn’t really describe it in much detail. Our friend Sean wanted to go so we agreed to meet there at 10am.
It really was a long subway ride north – by the time we got to the right stop pretty much everyone had gotten off except a bunch of old ladies. There’s an elevator specifically for the Cloisters and Tryon Park from the station platform and it goes a surprisingly long way up through the hill. We walked out and into Tryon Park, a truly gorgeous stretch of landscaped gardens that was glowing with colour in the morning sunshine. We really picked a good time to see the city – I can’t imagine any other season being so visually impressive.
See what I mean? Beautiful!
The Cloisters building is relatively new, but is built to resemble a medieval cloisters and contains many elements that are genuinely antique. Old doors, stained glass windows, alter pieces and furniture are built into the structure and compliment the quite impressive collection of medieval art and artefacts. Impressive in terms of quality, not quantity – but I quite liked being able to peruse in detail a small but excellent collection.
The effect of the building somewhat spoiled by the bus stop and street lights.
They have some astonishingly well preserved tapestries – in fact you may well recognise this one, which is part of a set that tells the story of a unicorn being hunted and caught.
Poor, sad unicorn!
There were some really incredible books that were about 1000 years old, hand written (obviously) by monks and the writing and illuminations are so perfect that it is no wonder their art was preserved for holy subjects almost exclusively.
Another charming aspect of the building was the medieval garden, in which grew medicinal plants and edible herbs. It was arranged and tended beautifully. There were quince and fig trees and even the remains of hops vines.
My garden dreams of gardens like this.
There was a special exhibit there when we visited. The choir from Salisbury Cathedral in the UK had collaborated with an artist to record a special musical piece where the artist had recorded each member of the 40 strong choir individually then each voice was played at the gallery through an individual speaker. This meant we could walk between the speakers and hear what each voice sounded like and how the rest of the choir sounded to each member. It was amazing. The song was written in the middle ages by one of the most famous composers of the genre (don’t ask me who) and was very complex and extraordinarily uplifting. You could see everyone in the room being overcome by the beauty of the music.
The music was so right for the setting. A shame I can’t really convey it in a blog.
I’ll leave you with one last image, from a tapestry that was ancient. However I couldn’t help the fact that, because it looked rather cartoonish and I was surrounded by American accents, I could almost hear the two other characters saying in sad, Californian teenage voices to Jesus “OMG… you’ve got like… holes in you,” and Jesus, equally bewildered, replying “Like, yeah, god, I know… bummer.”
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Beautiful Miss Black!
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Aw, thanks! I really do think this is the best time of year to be here, so colourful!
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Hikurangi Cannabis Company
Hikurangi helping write global cannabis industry standards
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Ruatoria-based Hikurangi Cannabis Company has been in Rome this week participating in an international standards setting meeting for the cannabis industry.
ASTM International, a global industry standards body with 30,000 members worldwide representing more than 20 industry sectors held a workshop in Rome under its technical committee D37 on Cannabis. The group of 600 industry experts are working to develop standards for cannabis products testing and production processes across the globe.
The group aims to meet the needs of the legal cannabis industry by addressing quality and safety issues through the development of classifications, specifications, test methods, practices, and guides for cultivation, manufacturing, quality assurance, laboratory considerations, packaging, and security.
“The meeting revealed how much work there is to do within particular areas of the industry and that there is real commitment from around the world to build common standards that are meaningful and achievable for both the industry and regulators” said Hikurangi CEO Manu Caddie.
Hikurangi CEO Manu Caddie presenting at the ASTM workshop attended by 65 members of the D37 Cannabis Committee. Most attendees were from North America and Europe.
The objective of D37’s Workshop on Advancing the Field of Cannabis through Standardization, held at the Rome Marriot Park Hotel, was to explore creation of new, fit-for-purpose industry standards. International liaisons responsible for updating the D37 Committee on developments in their regions were appointed during the workshop. Mr Caddie was invited to present on the New Zealand regulatory situation and appointed to provide ongoing liaison between the Committee and New Zealand members.
Hikurangi plant scientists Dr Alvaro Vidiella and Irene Lopez-Ubiria prepared a presentation for the workshop to propose a methodology for characterising cannabis varieties. At present no global standard exists for the classification of cannabis plants and this is a critical requirement for Hikurangi as the company builds a genetics databank over coming years of plant varieties from global and local sources.
“At present there is no universal method for characterising cannabis plants and varieties” said Mr Caddie. “A number of organisations use their own ‘standards’ to characterise the cannabis material they are working with. Some of them are probably doing a very good job creating really good standards. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that many of these standards becomes public and keeping them secret doesn’t engender confidence in the process or products. Even if these processes became public, the quality would be unlikely to be as good as if the whole industry works together to create standards that would be useful for everyone and at the same time it would make life better for patients/consumers and the regulators.”
Topics for the workshop included updates from regional representatives, presentations by academics, consultants and company representatives on analytical laboratory accreditation, methods for analysing cannabis extracts, industry terminology issues, reference materials for analytical testing and an overview by Canadian cannabis company Aurora on staff training, safety and compliance.
Mr Caddie said one of the most useful and provocative presentations proposed a new set of legal classifications for cannabis.
“We all got quite animated in the last session of the workshop led by Darwin Millard, an extraction expert from New York, who presented a proposal for doing away with ‘hemp’ as a legal term for low-THC cannabis” said Mr Caddie.
A slide from the presentation by Darwin Millard from Phytologix Solutions proposing new categories for classifying cannabis in regulations based on what the plant is intended to be be used for.
Mr Millard suggested cannabis terminology should be based on what the plant is being cultivated for and regulations appropriate to the purpose would then apply. Where more than one purpose is intended, then the regulatory standards for purpose with higher standards would be required.
“There was quite a lot of support for this approach and I think we’ll see ongoing discussion about how such a framework can be refined and eventually find its way into the regulations in some jurisdictions.”
A number of subcommittees exist under the D37 Committee, these committees address specific segments within the general subject area covered by the technical committee. D37 currently has the following sub-committee that any member is free to join and contribute to standards development within:
Indoor and Outdoor Horticulture and Agriculture
Processing and Handling
Security and Transportation
Personnel Training, Assessment, Credentialing
“I was really impressed with the participatory structure of ASTM in general and D37 in particular” said Mr Caddie. “Everyone gets a voice and vote, and if there are topics you’re passionate about that aren’t being addressed then you can establish a new sub-committee.”
Mr Caddie said the democratic nature of the organisation required ongoing participation to ensure it continued to establish, test, review and improve standards necessary to ensure high quality, safe and effective products and services within the legal cannabis sector.
“Ensuring there is consistency and transparency within this industry is critical, we need the highest standards and it is better that those are negotiated amongst the experts who use them than to have inappropriate standards imposed by others.”
ASTM provides a forum for the development and publication of international voluntary consensus standards for materials, products, systems and services. ASTM’s volunteer members represent producers, consumers, government, and academia from more than 140 countries who develop technical documents that are the basis for manufacturing, management, procurement, codes and regulations for dozens of industry sectors. Industries covered by ASTM standards include aerospace, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, energy, food processing and health care.
Individuals and companies involved in the cannabis industry can join ASTM here.
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How is it possible to be a baronet and not a peer?
I probably still haven't grasped what peerage really entails. Wikipedia says:
The Baronetage of Nova Scotia (a British hereditary title, but not a peerage) had been devised by King James VI of Scotland in 1624 as a means of settling Nova Scotia. Except for Sir Thomas Temple, almost none of them came to Nova Scotia, therefore they are counted as British, not Canadian.
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I now see that I should have researched more. But I was told (incorrectly) that, while in France pairs de France were rare, in England all nobles were peers. The question received negative rating. Should I delete it? It would destroy the answerer's high rated reply! – Ludi Sep 12 '17 at 13:16
No, don't delete it. – KorvinStarmast Sep 12 '17 at 13:42
Kind of the same way it is possible to be a person and not a rock; the definitions are mutually exclusive. – Mark C. Wallace♦ Sep 12 '17 at 23:25
@MarkC.Wallace thanks, I understood it already. – Ludi Sep 13 '17 at 6:26
The ranks of the UK peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
A baronetcy is an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown, and (with a couple of exceptions) is the only British hereditary honour that is not a peerage.
Baronetcies were originally introduced in England during the 14th century. They were used extensively by King James I/VI as a means of raising funds or incentivising other projects - like the settlement of Nova Scotia.
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Note also that Peers could sit in the House of Lords, baronets were commoners and could only sit in the House of Commons if Elected. – eques Sep 12 '17 at 14:20
Do (Duke) Men (Marquess) Ever (Earl) Visit (Viscount) Boston (Baron). – Pieter Geerkens Sep 12 '17 at 19:11
@PieterGeerkens We had a similar mnemonic, except Baron was "Belfast" rather than "Boston". :) – sempaiscuba♦ Sep 12 '17 at 19:18
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2015 Proceedings
The combined proceedings for 2015 are available online, ISBN 9780853163404. You can also find videos of the paper and keynote presentations on our youtube account.
@proceedings{ICLC2015,
title = {Proceedings of the First International Conference on Live Coding},
editor = {McLean, Alex and Magnusson, Thor and Ng, Kia and Knotts, Shelly and Armitage, Joanne},
isbn = {9780853163404},
publisher = {ICSRiM, University of Leeds},
We have also archived individual papers as PDF files, with web versions for those prepared using our Markdown template:
Alan Blackwell. Patterns of User Experience in Performance Programming
This paper presents a pattern language for user experiences in live coding. It uses a recently defined analytic framework that has developed out of the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations and related approaches. The focus on performance programming offers particular value in its potential to construct rigorous accounts of the experiences of both performers (the live coder) and audiences. Although developed as an account of live coding, the findings promise to be relevant to a wider range of performance programming contexts, which could benefit from analysis in terms of live coding, if a systematic framework of this kind were available. The paper provides a detailed analytic commentary, drawing on the broadly diverse body of prior live coding practice, but using music live coding as a central running example. The findings demonstrate the advantage of rigorous analysis from an independent theoretical perspective, and suggest the potential for future work that might draw on this pattern language as a basis for empirical investigations of user experience, and as a theoretical grounding in practice-led design of new live coding languages and tools.
Charlie Roberts, Karl Yerkes, Matthew Wright and Joann Kuchera-Morin. Sharing Time and Code in a Browser-Based Live Coding Environment
We describe research extending the live coding environment Gibber with affordances for ensemble, networked, live coding performances. These include shared editing of code documents, remote code execution, an extensible chat system, shared state, and clock synchronization via proportional-integral control. We discuss these features using the framework provided by Lee and Essl in their 2014 paper Models and Opportunities for Networked Live Coding.
PDF archive | Web version
Marije Baalman. Embodiment of code
The code we read on the screens of a livecoding performance is an expression of our compositional concepts. In this paper I reflect on the practice of livecoding from the concept of embodiment as proposed by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch (1991): how we as coders embody the code, how machines can embody code, and how we inevitably need to deal with the physicality of the machines and our own bodies that we use in our performances, and how we adapt both our machines and bodies to enable our performances.
Adam Parkinson and Renick Bell. Deadmau5, Derek Bailey, and the Laptop Instrument -- Improvisation, Composition, and Liveness in Live Coding
Dance music superstar Deadmau5 and the improvising guitarist Derek Bailey represent, through their writing and practice, two very different approaches to performing live. By critically considering the practice of live coding in relation to these divergent approaches, we discuss live coding with regards to where the liveness lies and how the laptop and software are treated as a musical instrument. Each practice uses the laptop as a musical tool in a very different way. Live coding uses the laptop as an instrument in a manner that draws upon the techniques and strategies of free improvisation, in contrast to Deadmau5’s notion of laptop as playback device and the live performance as spectacle. We discuss Deadmau5’s practice in relation to Francisco Lopez’s notion of the possibilities of electronic performance, and ideas about labour and liveness.
Emma Cocker. Live Coding/Weaving — Penelopean Mêtis and the Weaver-Coder’s Kairos
Drawing on my experience as a critical interlocutor within the Weaving Codes, Coding Weaves project (2014 — 2016, http://kairotic.org/), in this paper I propose potential points of connection between Ancient weaving and live coding, considering both practices through the prism of the Ancient Greek concept of technē, a species of tactical knowledge combining the principles of mêtis (cunning intelligence) and kairos (opportune timing). Specifically, this enquiry addresses the human qualities of attention, cognitive agility and tactical intelligence activated within both live coding and live weaving, arguing that such practices might have potential as ‘practices of the self’, as a means for cultivating a more critical mode of human agency and subjectivity.
Giovanni Mori. Analysing Live Coding with Ethnographical Approach
In this article, I will analyse live coding technique under the magnifying lens of Ethnography. Using this perspective, I will try to delve into three main aspects: the effect on the audience/performer interaction of the screen projection during performances; the relationship between “hacker’s ethic”, borrowing a Pekka Himanen’s definition, and live coders community; how some researchers are trying to establish contacts between formal and informal music milieu. In my view, an Ethnographical approach can help people interested in live coding to contextualise some implication of this technique’s internal dynamics. Additionally, this perspective can be useful to build a bridge between some academic and non-academic computer music contexts, using live coding as glue between them.
Tim Sayer. Cognition and Improvisation: Some Implications for Live Coding
This paper explores the perception that live coding is a “real-time” improvisatory activity. It posits the notion that because live coding requires less complex motor skills than instrumental improvisation it may be less susceptible to the influence of mechanical modes of musical expression. This hypothesis will explore the concept of goal states, models of memory and the function of reflexes and reactions as a means of mapping this territory and will provide a framework to understand the various perceptual domains with which a coder engages during a live extemporised performance. This exploration will engage in a comparative discourse relating live coding to instrumental improvisation, as a point of departure for the understanding of cognitive functioning in this rapidly developing performance paradigm.
Nick Collins. Live Coding and Machine Listening
Live coding control of machine listening processes, or more radically, machine listening control of live coding, provides an exciting area of crossover between two research frontiers in computer music. This article surveys the state of the art, and reports a number of experimental projects that point to potentially productive further directions.
Giovanni Mori. Pietro Grossi's live coding
Pietro Grossi has been one of the first pioneers in computer music in Italy. His work, however, is still quite underconsidered because his art’s concepts was judged utopistic, without a connection with contemporary cultural manifestations and harshly anti-academic. Instead, in my opinion, it seems to be now the right moment to revalue his work, in order to understand from where some computer music practices have their roots. In this article, I compare the concepts and the work methods developed by Grossi to those employed by live coders. My aim is to demonstrate that the Italian composer’s concepts were not only ahead of his time but also anticipatory of future developments.
Iván Paz. Live Coding Through Rule-Based Modelling of High Level Structures: exploring output spaces of algorithmic composition systems
Live coding commonly takes pieces of code from algorithmic composition systems. However, sometimes algorithmic generators either do not consistently show high-level properties, like dramatic transition among parts, or simply, our aesthetic criterion prefers some particular cases among all the possible. In such cases it is useful to have tools for exploring the output space of generative systems, in order to identify and categorize outputs with specific properties. This paper presents an approach to creating linguistic rules out of human-evaluated patterns and their potential uses in live coding to create high-level structures. The methodology starts with a set of sampled examples from an algorithmic system that are evaluated by the user through qualitative linguistic variables. Then, the examples along with the user's evaluation are analysed through an inductive and rule extraction methodology. For a particular example case, these rules are extracted and evaluated. Its application then as information used for writing code on the fly, as well as its implementation in the form of filters or generators is presented.
Felienne Hermans and Rico Huijbers. Coda Lisa: Collaborative Art in the Browser
This paper introduces Code Lisa: a collaborative programming environment in the browser that allows users to program one cell in a grid of cells. The cells can react to each other, but also to the environment, represented by sensor values on an EV3 Lego Mindstorms robot. By programming reactions to each other and to the sensors, a group of Coda Lisa users can together create a living, interactive art work. Users program the cells using JavaScript, and can experiment locally with their cell in a live editor created for this purpose, which shows a preview of the cell's behaviour. Once ready, the cell's program can be submitted to the server so it can be rendered in the shared grid of cells, by a second Coda Lisa client application: the viewer. In addition to the implementation of Coda Lisa, this paper also describes several plans for future development.
David Ogborn and Shawn Mativetsky. very long cat: zero-latency network music with live coding
very long cat are a new network music duo combining tabla and live coding, rehearsing and performing via the Internet, and employing an eclectic range of techniques and technologies. The specific structure of the ensemble’s network music setup, with one musician live coding and monitoring their own performance with a calibrated delay, allows both musicians to experience each other’s performances as synchronized. This poster focuses on the evolving technical configuration of this hybrid ensemble, with an emphasis on the constraints imposed by the insistence on “zero latency” in a live coding ensemble (some sound transformations are not feasible, and others are implemented in a characteristic way).
Timothy Jones and James Noble. def Gribber = (Grace + Gibber)
Grace is a new object-oriented education programming language that we are designing. One of the Grace implementations, Hopper, is an interpreter that runs on top of JavaScript. Gibber is series of libraries that support real-time audio processing, and also a simple livecoding interactive development environment, also on top of JavaScript. In this demonstration, we will present Gribber, a web-based IDE that incorporates the Hopper interpreter into the Gibber IDE, and so gives Grace live access to the Gibber audio libraries. Because of Hopper's continuation-passing design, Gribber programs can appear multi-threaded, apparently running one or more loops in parallel, each pseudo-thread generating sound and graphics in simultaneously. We will demonstrate how Gribber can be used for BALSA-style algorithm animation, and Sorting Out Sorting style algorithm races.
James Noble. Physical Livecoding with littleBits
littleBits (littleBits.cc) is an open-source hardware library of pre-assembled analogue components that can be easily assembled into circuits, disassembled, reassembled, and re-used. In this demonstration, we will show how littleBits --- and the KORG littleBits SynthKit in particular --- can be considered a physically-embodied domain specific programming language, and thus how assembling or improvising music with littleBits circuits is a tangible form of livecoding.
Shawn Lawson. Performative Code: Strategies for Live Coding Graphics
Performing real-time, live coded graphics requires a streamlined programming environment, efficient implementation techniques, improvisatory inventiveness, a tuned ear, and above all, aesthetic sensibility. The performer must not only pull together these concepts, but maintain an awareness and forethought, of the graphical results of and performance expectations of the live coding environment.
James Mooney. Hugh Davies’s Electroacoustic Musical Instruments and their Relation to Present-Day Live Coding Practice: Some Historic Precedents and Similarities
The purpose of this paper is to present the self-built electroacoustic musical instruments of Hugh Davies (1943-2005) to the international live coding community, and to propose points of similarity between Davies’s practice and present-day live coding practice. In the first part of the paper, the context within which Davies’s instrument-building practice developed, in the late 1960s, is outlined, and a number of specific instruments are described. Aspects of Davies’s performance style, repertoire, and the ensembles with which he performed are discussed, as are activities such as instrument-building workshops and public exhibitions of instruments, in which he regularly participated. In the second part of the paper, four areas of connection with present-day live coding practice are suggested. Respectively, these focus upon live coding’s status: (1) as part of a long historic tradition of live electronic music performance (as opposed to electronic music constructed in the studio); (2) as a practice in which the performer him or herself builds the apparatus (whether physical or code-based) through which the music is mediated; (3) as an improvised or semi-improvised art-form in which music is developed in real time, within a framework bounded by material or quasi-material constraints; and (4) as a community of practice with a distinct agenda of promoting understanding through engagement. This paper is presented as a case study in exploring live coding’s historic precedents, and as a contribution toward situating live coding within a broader historical, cultural context.
Geoff Cox. What Does Live Coding Know?
Live coding can be seen to reflect contemporary conditions in which our lives seem to be increasingly determined by various scripts and computational processes. It demonstrates the possibility for more expansive ideas that emerge in the uncertainties of improvised performance. This paper further situates the practice of live coding in the context of artistic research and the notion of ‘onto-epistemology’. One of the challenges, it is argued, is to bring code back into the frame of ‘material-discursive’ practice so that code can be understood for what it is, how it is produced and what it might become. This is arguably the critical task of live coding: to expose the condition of possibility in this way; in other words, to remain attentive to the contradictions of what constitutes knowledge in contested fields of practice, and to demonstrate modes of uncertainty in what would otherwise seem to be determinate computational processes.
Chris Kiefer. Approximate Programming
Approximate programming is a novel approach to live coding that augments traditional programming methods with methods of generating and editing code through realtime numerical processes, using an underlying system that employs representations and transformations from gene expression programming. It aims to provide a hybrid environment where code can be created and modified expressively with multiparametric controllers, and well as with conventional text editing tools. It does this while aiming to keep the code as the central point of representation in the system. Two case studies are presented where the system has been used in live performance for musical improvisation and then for generative audiovisualisation. Initial trials of the system highlight its strengths as an embodied method for control of complex code structures, and as a novel method for combining low-level conceptual structures into higher-level forms. The case studies show two key limitations of the system, with challenges in comprehension of the final code output in text form, and difficulties arising from the highly nonlinear nature of the input-output mappings. Initials solutions are presented in the form of a GUI system for interacting with code in tree representation form.
Steven Tanimoto. Livesolving: Enabling Collaborative Problem Solvers to Perform at Full Capacity
Collaborative problem solving is a key methodology for tackling complex and/or contentious problems. The methodology is supported by computer and communication systems that bring human solvers together with computational agents and provide clear protocols for exploring and rating alternative solution approaches. However, these systems can be challenging to use due not only to the complexity of the problems being solved but the variety of abstractions involved in managing the solution process, e.g., problem representations, collaborations, and strategies. This paper offers new ideas to help the human users of such systems to learn and work more effectively. It also suggests how problem solving may sometimes be carried out in performance contexts similar to those of livecoding improvisational music. Most important here is the identification of seven forms of liveness in problem solving that may heighten a solving team’s sense of engagement. Common themes among them are increasing solvers’ awareness and minimizing latency between solver intentions and system responses. One of the seven livesolving forms involves solvers in tracing paths within problem-space graphs. This and the other six forms derive from experience with a system called CoSolve, developed at the University of Washington.
Alan Blackwell and Samuel Aaron. Craft Practices of Live Coding Language Design
This paper reflects on the development process of two Live Coding languages, Blackwell’s Palimpsest and Aaron’s Sonic Pi, from the perspective of practice-led arts and craft research. Although informed by prior research in education, music, end-user programming and visual languages, these projects do not apply those principles through conventional software engineering processes or HCI techniques. As is often the case with practice-led research, the development process itself provides an opportunity for reflection on the nature of software as a craft – both for live-coding researchers, and for users of the live-coding systems that we create. In reflecting, we relate our own practice to recent perspectives on software as material, and on the role of craft as an element of interaction design research. The process that we have followed to support this analysis could be applied by other developers wishing to engage in similar reflection.
Felienne Hermans and Tijs Van Der Storm. Copy-Paste Tracking: Fixing Spreadsheets Without Breaking Them
Spreadsheets are the most popular live programming environments, but they are also notoriously fault-prone. One reason for this is that users actively rely on copy-paste to make up for the lack of abstraction mechanisms. Adding abstraction however, introduces indirection and thus cognitive distance. In this paper we propose an alternative: copy-paste tracking. Tracking copies that spreadsheet users make, allows them to directly edit copy-pasted formulas, but instead of changing only a single instance, the changes will be propagated to all formulas copied from the same source. As a result, spreadsheet users will enjoy the benefits of abstraction without its drawbacks.
Sang Won Lee and Georg Essl. Live Writing: Web Based Text Editor for Asynchronous Playback of Live Coding and Writing
We introduce Live Writing, asynchronous playback of a live coding performance or, more generally, writing. The concept of Live Writing is realized in a web-based application which logs every keystroke that a writer makes and let the writing later playable by the audience or the readers in real-time. The goal of Live Writing is twofold. One, it aims to support collaboration between musicians by reproducing a live coding performance based on keystroke data logged in the platform. This offers a new way for a live coder to archive live coding music and to communicate with others in asynchronous fashion. Two, it aims to transform written communication into a real-time experience so that a writer can display a writing to readers in a real-time manner as if it is being typed in front of the readers. We explain the design and the implementation of the system and demonstrate two different use cases of the system: live coding and writing.
Jun Kato, Tomoyasu Nakano and Masataka Goto. TextAlive Online: Live Programming of Kinetic Typography Videos with Online Music
This paper introduces a web-based integrated design environment named “TextAlive Online” that supports creating Kinetic Typography videos synchronized with songs available online. It is the hybrid of a content authoring tool and a live programming environment. Through its development, we investigate the interaction design that most benefits from the interactive user interfaces used by designers and programmers, as well as the collaborative nature of the open-source culture on the web. This system is accessible at textalive.jp and the interactive “live” version of this paper is available at textalive.jp/paper.
David Ogborn, Eldad Tsabary, Ian Jarvis, Alexandra Cardenas and Alex McLean.. Extramuros: making music in a browser-based, language-neutral collaborative live coding environment
The extramuros software was developed to explore live coding and network music, bringing live coding musicians together around shared text buffers. Originally developed to support a globally distributed live coding ensemble, the extramuros software has found additional application in projecting laptop orchestra performances to remote sites, in zero-installation workshop and performance settings, and in facilitating the efficient display of code by an ensemble. As the software works by connecting shared text buffers to audio programming languages through specific network connections augmented by pipes, it is a language-neutral approach. This paper describes the overall architecture of the extramuros system, relating that architecture to perennial network music concerns for bandwidth, security, and synchronization. Examples of early use in workshops, rehearsals and performances by laptop orchestras and other small telematic ensembles are discussed, leading to a concluding discussion of directions for future work.
Nikolai Suslov and Tatiana Soshenina. From Live Coding to Virtual Being
The self-explorative, collaborative environments and virtual worlds are setting up the new standards in software engineering for today. In this, live coding is also required in reviewing as for programmers and as for artists too. The most popular live coding frameworks, even being built by using highly dynamic, reflective languages, still suffer on tight bindings to single-node or client-server architecture, language or platform dependence and third-party tools. That leads to inability nor to develop nor scale to the Internet of things the new created works using live coding. In the paper we introduce the prototype of integration of object-oriented language for pattern matching OMeta onto Virtual World Framework on JavaScript. That integration will allow using the live coding in virtual worlds with user-defined languages. Also we explore the possibilities of a conformal scaling of live coding in the case of augmented reality systems and Internet of things. In summary, the paper describes the efforts being done for involving virtual worlds architecture in live coding process. All prototypes that are described in the paper are available for experimenting with on Krestianstvo SDK open source project: http://www.krestianstvo.org
Carolina Di Prospero. Social Imagination
This is a short paper that proposes an approach to the activity of live coding as an artistic configuration constituted in a creative practice from improvisation, openness and constant exploration. I just want to share some thoughts about sociability in live coding, in terms of “imagined community” (Anderson 1991) to address this collective aspect. The approach is anthropological, through ethnographic field work from which the method seeks to explore some combination between a scope, actors and activities and a cut of reality that encompasses practices, values and formal rules. The aim of the ethnography is to address the distinction: “between the real and the ideal culture, between what people do and what people say they do, and hence between the field of practices, values and rules” (Guber 2001). This work seeks to provide some characterization of a collective artistic expression in constant process, which mediates and constitutes sociability and subjectivities in a sociotechnical context.
Charles Hutchins. Live Patch / Live Code
Modular synthesiser live-patching has gradually been accepted into the big-tent of live coding practice, due to a number of natural similarities to computer-based live coding. These similarities especially include flexibility, complexity and sudden stops. In my own performance of live-patching, I have sought out other areas of digital live coding practice to apply to the modular synthesiser. These include starting from a blank slate, showing my cables (sometimes with projection), graph changes and the use of conditional triggers to create audio events.
Antonio Goulart and Miguel Antar. Live Coding the computer as part of a free improvisation orchestra of acoustic instruments
In this paper we present our experience of having a live coder amongst acoustic musicians in a free improvisation orchestra. The acoustic musicians in the orchestra had no previous experience with live coding. We will discuss all the difficulties we experienced and the process for overcoming them, illustrating our observations with audio excerpts from some of our recorded sessions. We will also go through a discussion about the nature of the instruments and raise the question of how deeply the musicians should understand code in order to effectively interact in the free improvisation context. Finally we propose a piece for live coder and orchestra that artificially explores the different dimensions of an orchestra session.
Antonio D. Carvalho Jr, Sang Won Lee and Georg Essl. SuperCopair: Collaborative Live Coding on Supercollider through the cloud
In this work we present the SuperCopair package, which is a new way to integrate cloud computing into a collaborative live coding scenario with minimum efforts in the setup. This package, created in Coffee Script for Atom.io, is developed to interact with SuperCollider and provide opportunities for the crowd of online live coders to collaborate remotely on distributed performances. Additionally, the package provides the advantages of cloud services offered by Pusher. Users can share code and evaluate lines or selected portions of code on computers connected to the same session, either at the same place and/or remotely. The package can be used for remote performances or rehearsal purposes with just an Internet connection to share code and sounds. In addition, users can take advantage of code sharing to teach SuperCollider online or fix bugs in the algorithm.
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Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching: the Ehri et al (2001) and C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analyses by Rhona Johnston, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Hull
Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching: the Ehri et al (2001) and C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analyses
Rhona Johnston, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Hull
In a recent article, Castles et al (2018) have concluded that there is insufficient evidence as yet to determine whether the synthetic phonics approach is superior to the analytic phonics approach, citing the meta-analyses of Ehri et al ( 2001) and C.Torgerson et al (2006).
Studies of synthetic versus analytic phonics teaching
The experiments comparing the effectiveness of synthetic versus analytic phonics teaching by Johnston and Watson (2004) were carried out on children in their first year of school (equivalent to kindergarten in the U.S.). Johnston and Watson’s (2004) synthetic phonics approach was taken from the method used in Austria, as described by Feitelson (1988), where sounding and blending was introduced at the start of reading tuition. Children learnt to read and spell very much better when taught by the synthetic phonics method compared with the typical analytic phonics method used in Scotland.
When the UK Education Select Committee recommended to the government that it consider introducing the synthetic phonics method into schools in England, it referred to it as ‘phonics first and fast’. A later introduction of sounding and blending means that other methods are used first, approaches which often undermine the synthetic phonics approach. Therefore, in order to examine the evidence supporting the effectiveness of the method, only studies where the synthetic phonics method was introduced in kindergarten should be examined.
Meta-analyses of phonics teaching
a) Ehri et al (2001)
It should be noted that Ehri et al’s (2001) analysis compared synthetic phonics programmes with those containing unsystematic phonics or no phonics (page 400), not analytic phonics, which is systematic. They did compare the effect sizes for synthetic phonics (d=0.45) and larger-subunit programmes (d=0.34), which was not statistically significant. However, in the UK analytic phonics is taught at the grapheme to phoneme level, after establishing an initial sight word vocabulary, so it is not a larger subunit approach in the early stages. In Scotland, the approach traditionally progressed to teaching sounding and blending at the end of the first year at school. In our research, the defining feature of synthetic phonics was that sounding and blending should be taught right from the start.
An examination is made here of all of the kindergarten studies using synthetic phonics included in Ehri et al (2001), with the exception of one study that did not measure word identification so cannot be directly compared to Johnston and Watson’s (2004) experiments (see Table 1). It should be noted that two of these studies carried out phonological awareness training prior to teaching participants to read via synthetic phonics (Blachman et al, 1999; J.Torgesen et al, 1999, see Notes 1 & 2). These studies have very low effect sizes at the kindergarten post-test. When these data are included (see column 3) the mean effect size is low (0.28). A different picture emerges at the next post-test, after synthetic phonics teaching had commenced, see column 4. When these data points from these two studies (see column 5) are used, a mean effect size of 0.49 is found.
The two studies by Johnston and Watson (2004) comparing synthetic phonics teaching with the analytic phonics approach used in Scotland yielded large effect sizes (see Table 2); these studies were not included in the Ehri et al (2001) meta-analysis. In the Clackmannanshire study (Experiment 1), over a 7 year period the effect sizes for word identification versus chronological age increased year after year (Johnston, McGeown and Watson, 2012).
Table 1 Effect sizes for word identification scores from kindergarten synthetic phonics studies included in Ehri et al (2001); synthetic phonics versus little or no phonics teaching
Table 2 Effect sizes for word identification scores from Johnston and Watson’s (2004) studies comparing synthetic and analytic phonics teaching
b) C.Torgerson et al (2006)
This meta-analysis was designed to compare synthetic with analytic phonics teaching, so included only 3 studies; it also deselected any studies which were not randomised controlled trial studies (unlike Ehri et al, 2001). They included Experiment 2 from Johnston and Watson (2004).
However, one of the studies included was an unpublished one that had an incorrect implementation of the synthetic phonics method (50% of the taught words were silent ‘e’ words, which cannot be accurately blended by initial readers). Furthermore, C.Torgerson et al (2006) put into the analysis the post-test data from the trained items, where there was a difference favouring analytic phonics, not the data from the untrained items, where there was no difference.
C.Torgerson et al (2006) also included the J.Torgesen et al (1999) study, but put in the kindergarten data from when the children were largely being taught phonological awareness. At this stage, the embedded (not analytic) phonics control condition included a lot of word reading, whereas the PASP method did not. It can be seen that when the children were exposed to the synthetic phonic element of the programme, the effect size in favour of the method was much greater (see Table 1).
We have published our critique of the C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analysis in our book Teaching Synthetic Phonics, and the relevant section can be read online, page 14:
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=WOOICwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA14
The US National Reading Panel meta-analysis reported in Ehri et al (2001) included studies with a late implementation of synthetic phonics teaching, an approach which is not compatible with the method used by Johnston and Watson (2004). Even when the studies of synthetic phonics that started in kindergarten were examined, two of them were found to have a late introduction of sounding and blending for reading as phonological awareness was taught first. In both cases, the introduction of synthetic phonics later on led to a very large increase in effect size. No study in this sub-analysis self-identified itself as having an analytic phonics control condition. Furthermore, the comparison in the meta-analysis between synthetic and large subunit phonics does not encompass the analytic phonics approach used in the UK for the initial teaching of reading.
A close examination of the C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analysis shows evidence of multiple errors in the selection of the studies to be included and in the selection of the data entered into the analysis. The number of studies included was also too small to allow for a meaningful meta-analysis.
It cannot be concluded that these two meta-analyses showed evidence against the superiority of the synthetic over the analytic phonics method.
The synthetic phonics method as implemented in our studies involved, right from the start of school, children learning a small number of letter sounds and using that knowledge right away to sound and blend the letters to find out how to pronounce unfamiliar words. They
then rapidly learnt more letter sounds and continued to use the strategy. We found that these children had much better reading and phonological awareness skills than those taught either by analytic phonics, or by analytic phonics plus phonological awareness (Johnston and Watson, 2004, Experiment 1, the Clackmannanshire Study). Unlike broad-based meta-analytic comparisons, there was strict control of the new printed words used to teach all of the groups compared in our studies, so issues of pace of print exposure between studies do not arise. Furthermore, we have demonstrated that the early rigorous start of synthetic phonics teaching led to the children making increasing gains in reading ability compared with age long after the intervention ended (Johnston et al, 2012).
Blachman, B., Tangel, D., Ball, E., Black, R., & McGraw, D. (1999). Developing phonological awareness and word recognition skills: A two-year intervention with low-income, inner-city children. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 11, 239–273.
Castles, A., Rastle, K, and Nation, K (2018) Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Vol. 19(1) 5–51.
Ehri et al (2001) Systematic Phonics Instruction Helps Students Learn to Read: Evidence from the National Reading Panel’s Meta-Analysis. Review of Educational Research,71, No. 3, pp. 393–44.
Feitelson, D (1988) Facts and fads in beginning reading: A cross-language perspective. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Johnston, R.S and Watson, J. (2004) Accelerating the development of reading, spelling and phonemic awareness. Reading and Writing, 17 (4), 327-357.
Johnston, R.S, McGeown, S, and Watson, J. (2012) Long-term effects of synthetic versus analytic phonics teaching on the reading and spelling ability of 10 year old boys and girls. Reading and Writing, 25, part 6, 1365-1384.
Johnston, R. and Watson, J. (2014) Teaching Synthetic Phonics, 2nd edition. Sage (Learning Matters): London.
Torgesen, J., Wagner, R., Rashotte, C., Rose, E., Lindamood, P., Conway, T., & Garvan, C. (1999). Preventing reading failure in young children with phonological processing disabilities: Group and individual responses to instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 579–593.
Torgerson, C., Brooks, G., & Hall, J. (2006). A systematic review of the research literature on the use of phonics in the teaching of reading and spelling (Research Report RR711). U.K. Department for Education and Skills. Retrieved from http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/14791/1/RR711_.pdf
1Blachman et al (1999) ‘From February to May (Semester 2) of kindergarten, treatment children participated in 41, 15 to 20 minute phonological awareness lessons (adapted from the shorter, 28 lesson program used in Ball and Blachman, 1991), delivered over an 11 week period to small, heterogeneous groups of four or five children. Classroom teachers and their
teaching assistants were responsible for teaching all of the lessons. Each lesson followed the same daily format: (1) a phoneme segmentation activity (called say-it-and-move-it) in which children learned to move disks to represent the sounds in one-, two-, and three phoneme
words spoken by the teacher, (2) a segmentation-related activity, such as grouping words on the basis of shared sounds (e.g., hat and hot go together because they share the same initial sound), and (3) one of a variety of activities to teach the letter names and sounds of eight letters (a, m, t, i, s, r, f, b).
Grade 1, for the treatment children ‘Instruction in phoneme analysis and blending skills….Children were taught to pronounce as a single unit a consonant (continuant) followed by a vowel. To begin, the teacher represented this strategy on the board as follows:
The teacher pointed to the first letter, and the child was taught to produce that letter’s sound and hold the sound until the teacher’s finger reached the second letter. When her finger touched the second letter, the second sound was produced and held. With each successive practice opportunity, the length of time between sounds was decreased until the two sounds were pronounced as a single unit. By adding final consonants (initially, stop consonants) and
pronouncing the whole word, a set of real words was built (e.g., sat, sam). Words containing new short vowels were also introduced in this manner.’
2J.Torgesen et al (1999) PASP (Phonological awareness plus Synthetic Phonics) condition. Started in Semester 2 of Kindergarten. ‘This group received the Auditory Discrimination
in Depth Program as developed and outlined by Patricia and Charles Lindamood (1984). The program provided explicit instruction in phonemic awareness by leading children to discover and label the articulatory gestures associated with each phoneme. This discovery work was followed by activities to build skills in tracking the phonemes in words using mouth-form pictures, colored blocks, and letters to represent the phonemes in words
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January 17, 2019 / 6:04 PM / 6 months ago
Hungarian Jews split about Danube search for Holocaust victims
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary’s largest Jewish organisation on Thursday asked Israeli and Hungarian authorities to suspend a search for the remains of Holocaust victims in the Danube riverbed, saying the dead should be left in peace.
At the request of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, an Israeli team this week began mapping out the floor of the Danube in Budapest in search of the remains of Holocaust victims murdered on the riverbank by Hungarian fascists in 1944 and 1945.
“Disturbing the resting place of the dead is a complex and sensitive matter,” the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities, or Mazsihisz, said on its website.
“Bones have probably scattered in the 75 years and could have been washed as far downstream as the Black Sea ... searching for them is needless, and breaches the peace and dignity of the dead, Jewish or Goyim. It breaches the Halacha (Jewish religious law).”
More than half a million Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust, including thousands shot on the riverbank by the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross party, which briefly ruled Hungary towards the end of World War Two.
In 2016, after some Jewish remains were uncovered from the riverbed during the renovation of a Budapest bridge, the victims were honoured in a symbolic burial by all Jewish congregations. Mazsihisz says that was sufficient.
But Orthodox and Hasidic Jews asked the Israeli volunteer group ZAKA to look for more remains. ZAKA plans to return to Budapest with divers in February.
ZAKA’s project leader, Ilan Berkovich, said the project would go on unless the Orthodox and Hasidic communities said otherwise.
“I guess (the Mazsihisz complaint) has more to do with the internal politics of those groups; we try not to be involved.”
The Hasidic Unified Hungarian Israelite Congregation (EMIH), which plans to transfer the remains to Israel, said this week that it was “righteous” to transfer the dead to a new grave if the previous one had been flooded.
A spokesman said EMIH considered it a moral obligation to give a full burial to any remains still in the river.
It is not the first issue to split Hungary’s strong and vibrant community of about 100,000 Jews: a planned new Holocaust museum in Budapest, which EMIH owns but Mazsihisz and others criticised, was also a bone of contention.
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One and a half years after demonetisation, DCCBs still reeling from its aftershockshttps://indianexpress.com/article/business/banking-and-finance/one-and-a-half-years-after-demonetisation-dccb-district-cooperative-central-bank-nabard-5128632/
One and a half years after demonetisation, DCCBs still reeling from its aftershocks
DCCBs (district cooperative central banks) — there are a total of 31 in Maharashtra — sit at the apex of the cooperative credit structure and disburse crop loan directly to village level credit societies.
Written by Parthasarathi Biswas | Pune | Updated: April 8, 2018 1:20:03 pm
District Central Cooperative Banks (File Photo)
More than 16 months after the Narendra Modi-led central government withdrew the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes from circulation, a group of district cooperative central banks (DCCBs) in Maharashtra are still fighting to exchange some of the demonetised currency in their possession. In the last week of March, one of them, the Pune District Central Cooperative Bank (PDCCB), received a major relief from the Supreme Court, which provisionally allowed it to show the Rs 22.25 crore in demonetised notes as ‘cash in hand’ and not as losses, as had been instructed by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). But the fight is far from over.
The DCCBs
DCCBs — there are a total of 31 in Maharashtra — sit at the apex of the cooperative credit structure and disburse crop loan directly to village level credit societies. Of the nearly Rs 54,000-crore crop loan that is disbursed in Maharashtra almost every year, about 40 per cent is extended by these banks. A majority of their beneficiaries are small and medium farmers, who find it difficult to obtain credit from regular commercial banks.
The board of directors of DCCBs are elected from village-level societies. In Maharashtra, Congress and NCP have control over majority of these banks.
Other than crop loans, these institutions also serve as bankers to rural industries like dairies and sugar mills. Teachers of primary schools, workers of sugar mills and other industries have their salary accounts with these banks.
Demonetisation woes
Eleven DCCBs, including eight in Maharashtra, have been claiming that they together are in possession of about Rs 147 crore in old demonetised currency which the Reserve Bank of India has refused to exchange. These banks are claiming that this money was deposited to them before the November 8, 2016 decision to demonetise high-value notes.
The genesis of the problem lies in a November 14, 2016 circular issued by the RBI which barred the DCCBs from exchanging or depositing old currency notes. The terse circular did not give any reasons for this decision, which came as major setback to most of the DCCBs. Given their extensive rural footprint, these banks were obviously the first preference of rural populations to exchange their currency.
It was estimated that by November 14, the DCCBs in Maharashtra had already seen a deposit of over Rs 2,000 crore. The Pune bank itself had reported around Rs 600 crore in demonetised currency.
While the RBI had not explained the rationale for its decision, during the hearing of the court cases, it said that accounts in these banks did not adhere to the KYC (Know Your Customer) norms set by it. KYC, which is established through various identity documents, is required to ascertain that the account holder is bona fide.
The demonetisation decision was followed by a stringent scrutiny of accounts in all the banks to identify fictitious or suspect accounts. The district cooperative banks had faced the most stringent checks during this time, with multiple central investigating agencies like the CBI, Enforcement Directorate, and Income Tax department conducting search operations at these banks. The management of DCCBs say not more than two per cent of their accounts would have KYC issues. Most of such accounts had been non-functional for a long time, they claimed.
Legal reprieve
In January last year, the Supreme Court allowed these banks to exchange their demonetised currency, but only after a rigorous scrutiny of their accounts. The green signal from the RBI, to exchange the old currency, did not come before June last year. In the intervening time, NABARD had conducted at least four inspections of these banks, and did not find any major defalcation or fraud in the monies deposited.
RBI’s green signal for the money exchange came with a rider, though. It said old currency deposited with these banks before November 8, 2016 would not be eligible for exchange. This is the money that is currently lying with them. In January this year, NABARD sent a letter to these banks, asking them to show the demonetised currency in their possession as losses for the current financial year. The banks refused to do so, saying it was not their fault. PDCCB chairman Ramesh Thorat said his bank had taken about Rs 20 crore to deposit in the currency chest but was refused as the chest did not have space.
The banks knocked on the doors of the court once again, and as of now, the Supreme Court has stayed the directive of NABARD. The matter will come up for hearing soon and banks are hopeful of a positive decision. In the meanwhile, most banks are ruing the business losses they have suffered, including the extra interest they have to pay to their customers.
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Mosevic Makes Sunglasses From Recycled Denim Jeans
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The first thing that Mosevic wants you to know about its "Solid Denim" eyeglasses is that they're not a gimmick. "Zeiss polarized lenses are offered with a graduated tint," Jack Spencer, who co-founded the firm, told Ecouterre. "The frames are contoured by adding more layers of denim where the frames rest on your nose and at the hinge. The temple arms are reinforced with a steel wire so that they do not lose their shape and they are connected to the frames with sturdy five-barrel hinges." A year after a Kickstarter campaign gave the company the jump-start it needed, Mosevic is launching "Worn," a line of frames crafted entirely out of discarded blue jeans.
Like all of Mosevic’s wares, every one of the new pieces is hand-made in the company’s workshop in Cornwall, England. Layers of denim are infused with a “carefully selected” resin for stability and robustness. “Yes, it really is denim all the way through,” Spencer said.
Mosevic isn’t precious about the denim it reclaims, which makes for a motley array of fabrics with diverse hues and gradients. “Every single pair is unique,” Spencer said. “Expect flashes of color and an explosion of texture!”
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The first batch from “Worn” comprises six silhouettes, from the cat’s-eye-shaped “Halley” to the classic-square “Burnell.”
It’s worth noting, however, that practically bespoke doesn’t come cheap. Prices start at £139 for a single pair, or about $204 in American greenbacks.
Still cheaper than Hamilton tickets, though.
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Like all of Mosevic's wares, every one of the new pieces is hand-made in the company's workshop in Cornwall, England.
Layers of denim are infused with a "carefully selected" resin for stability and robustness.
"Yes, it really is denim all the way through," Spencer said.
Mosevic isn't precious about the denim it reclaims, which makes for a motley array of fabrics with diverse hues and gradients.
"Every single pair is unique," Spencer said. "Expect flashes of color and an explosion of texture!"
The first batch from "Worn" comprises six silhouettes, from the cat's-eye-shaped "Halley" to the classic-square "Burnell."
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Perfect Wives
Author: Emma Hannigan
ISBN10: 144472620X
Genre: Womens Fiction
Published: April 1st 2013 by Hachette Books Ireland
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When actress Jodi Ludlum returns home to Ireland to raise her young so in the leafy South Dublin village of Bakers Valley, she's determined to shield him from the media spotlight that has dogger her throughout her glittering career. Even if coming home means leaving her husband - and waking old ghosts. Meanwhile, Francine Hennessy, queen of the coffee mornings, was born and raised in Bakers Valley. She takes pride in juggling her children, her beautiful home and her high-powered career. But behind closed doors, Francine's life is crumbling around her. As Jodi struggles to keep her secrets to herself, and Francine comes to terms with some life-changing news, the two become unlikely friends. When they do, they quickly discover that there's no such thing as the perfect wife, or the perfect life - but sometimes it's better to be happy than to be perfect.
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Tokyo governor defends venue relocation plans
By JIM ARMSTRONG
HaraldBloodaxe
“Expenses can be 30, 40, 50 times more than the original plan," Masuzoe said.
Then the original plan was a fiction.
What a surprise - the Tokyo Olympics are going to be a huge white elephant, bonanza for politicos and the construction yakuza shell companies, but a millstone around the neck of the taxpayers in the aftermath of failed Abenomics.
Whoever could have predicted that?
Alphaape
In a way this makes sense. Why should the Tokyo/J-Gov build a center in the area to conduct such activites as the equestrian (horse) events in an area that after the games are gone, will not have the demand for such a venue. If I am not mistaken, golf will be part of the games so why would you want a golf course in the middle of Tokyo?
Cut costs, move some events to other areas that are close, and make sure the transportation piece can support it.
For the rest of the J-people, this should be a lesson. Just because they can promise you (government) one thing, keep in mind "the house always wins" and nothing is for free.
rickyvee
after japan co-hosted the world cup, quite a few of those stadiums turned out to be white elephants (it's been reported that japan and south korea were countries that wasted the most money hosting a WC). so i applaud what masuzoe is trying to do. who cares if some of the 28 venues need to be moved further out. it's a small inconvenience for a few athletes but a major money saver to taxpayers in japan.
Going over proposed budgets h'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........WELL DUH!
Going over budget is a Japanese Olympic sport! Here Budgets are made to be broken, and by HUGE margins, 100% over, NOT ENOUGH!, 200% were getting close but the powers that be prefer 300-500% over budget in most cases!
Just like when they make new highways(aqualine anyone!) or bullet train lines, the BS numbers of users they trot out are always of the highest fiction & combine that with the usual MASSIVE cost overurns.............
Well we all know the story! I hope the Olympics get yanked, that would be great for Tokyo & Japan!
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M3M3M3
I'm all for trying to save the taxpayers some money, but there does come a point when you are pulling a bait and switch on the IOC. I don't know if we have gone beyond that point yet but Tokyo won the games based on the actual proposal they put forward, not some TBD proposal. The ultimate savings for taxpayers would have been to not bid for the games in the first place.
That being said, I think it's time for the olympics to be hosted by a country rather than a single city. Hosting in a single city seems a bit antiquated when most people are watching on TV.
Scrote
There's zero chance of getting the athletes 50 km away to Saitama in 30 minutes. Unless a fast rail line is built, but that would cost more than building the sports facility in the original location and couldn't be finished in time. Or maybe they will close the expressways to all but olympic traffic.
Often these reports cite rising labour costs as a reason why costs have doubled or tripled from the original estimate. Have the salaries of construction workers doubled? I don't think so. Are the construction companies colluding to rig bids and raise costs? Certainly.
Hear hear. If the interests of taxpayers are your motivation, don't bid for this guaranteed lossmaker in the first place.
AlphaApe: "Cut costs, move some events to other areas that are close, and make sure the transportation piece can support it."
Agree that costs need to be cut, but here's the rub: Matsuzoe says, "If the right transportation system is in place", correct? How much do you want to bet his suggestions are the stepping stone for plans to rush new shinkansen lines or pour a bunch of money into transportation infrastructure, ultimately costing more? You can bet that if he chooses some place further south of Tokyo in or towards Nagoya suddenly they'll be a demand that the maglev line be completed by 2020, meaning a WHOLE lot more money to get it done.
tokyoclambake
I sure hope they aren't thinking about the Seibu lines going to Saitama-from personal daily experience I can say they are often thwarted by wind, rain, heat, loud fart, dirty look, etc. I agree with Scrote; unless they are building something new or closing expressways, it's not gonna happen.
This is pretty damn rude! The main platform of the Olympic bid by Japan was the fact the have venues close to the athlete's village and now, six months later, the truth is coming out and they don't have venues close to the athlete's village? The Olympics should be stripped from them for lying to achieve them!
Cricky
At least he is trying to be sensible, he is trying to clean up the mess he inherited not initiated. Probably would rather not have this on his plate at all.
It's a sensible decision and show some quality leadership which is lacking in Japanese politics.
Alex Einz
I gotta say that even though this guy seemed like a sleaze before the elections, he actually seem to be genuinely caring for Tokyo and its residents with regards to current and future planning and exercising almost business like caution about future budgets. I quite like his plan to develop more cycling facilities and now this discussion. Seems like a bit of fresh air after that money embezzling right wing madman that was in the help for way too long
FightingViking
Time to let Madrid get the Olympics - they already have everything they need.
tapetptape
There is a suitable golf course right on the edge of Tokyo Bay in Shin Kiba called Wakasu Golf Links. Over 7000yds from the tips Strong cross winds and with deeper rough and narrow fairways, they could easily use this course - and apparently considered it....but have now decided to choose a course in Saitama instead. You gotta think that we will be hearing more and more about venues being moved out of greater Tokyo area at this rate...still 6 years away!
smig1975
lots of hosts budgets soar, Olympic , world cup whatever , politicians can't help lying to get the games.
As for making (significant ) changes to the bid , well that sounds like its a new bid & should be taken as one . At best its dishonest & amateurish , really think the games should be taken away if its big changes :-( Not fair on other bidders .
Kazuaki Shimazaki
I understand where this guy is coming from, but there IS such a thing as commitment. This man is putting what's left of Japan's reputation on a platter.
When you agree to do an Olympics, you are paying through your nose in exchange for fame. So let's not be cheap if you are going to do one at all.
Of course, I'm not saying cost control shouldn't be exercised. Just that promises shouldn't be broken.
SaitamaRefugee
Actually, it already possible to get to Saitama in under 30 minutes or so. The Takasaki and Utsunomiya lines only take 24 minutes to get from Saitama Shintoshin（Super Arena）to Ueno, and the lines are being extended down to Tokyo station, which will make it even faster to get Saitama from central Tokyo
ThonTaddeo
The number-one way to prevent costs from rising -- and it isn't even close -- is to use existing ssports facilities rather than build new ones. And every world-class city (of which Tokyo is one) already has such facilities. The 1954 Olympic Stadium, the Tokyo Dome, Jingu -- these are all high-quality venues that can and should be used. Instead almost everything is in Odaiba, an area with little flavor or culture but rife with construction projects that politicians going back before Ishihara have been itching to develop and make money from.
But existing facilities in the "real" Tokyo wouldn't be profitable for the construction industry and the politicians, now would it?
I'm also wondering about how much money is being taken up by the National Police Agency and their over-the-top "security" which has heaped insane costs onto many recent international gatherings, sporting and otherwise, including the 2002 World Cup.
Another entrenched organization siphoning taxpayer money.
And still no talk of moving the games to October when people will not be passing out from heatstroke? (And if "Cool Biz is still in effect, people will even be passing out indoors.) It makes Sports Day, October 10, which celebrates the perfectly-timed 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, look like a cruel joke.
TokyoGas
Expenses can be 30, 40, 50 times more than the original plan
Everyone who worked on the plan should never be allowed to work in accounting again. I have never heard of any project diverging that far from the original estimate.
jerseyboy
Tokyo won the right to host the 2020 Olympics last year with a promise to deliver a compact games, with 28 of the proposed 33 competition venues within five miles (8 kilometers) of the village.
But Japanese Olympic organizers said they are reviewing their venue plans because of concerns over rising costs. Japan has already informed the International Olympic Committee about its intention to review and revise its plans.
So, putting the two statements together, and it is clear that Japan did it's usual sand-bag job to win the bid. It has been less than a year, but costs are already rising by a factor of up to 50 times????? Tokyo won the bid on two false premises -- the compact games and its being able to demonstrate the "recovery" in Fukushima. Slick marketing, but shameless.
"The IOC, under new President Thomas Bach, is currently looking at ways of reducing the costs of hosting future Olympics. Several cities declined to bid or have dropped out of the race for the 2022 Winter Games because of financial concerns."
What would the IOC do if no cities submitted bids for the 2022 Winter Games? Would they beg?
'''every thing is under control""said Mr.abe to the rest of the world. why such discussion starts now, why not before the Olympics bid. and how can you change the plan which you promised and explained on the world forum for wining the Olympics bid. remember that the Olympics committee rejected plans from other countries against the original Japanese Olympics plan.
tinawatanabe
remember that the Olympics committee rejected plans from other countries against the original Japanese Olympics plan.
I've heard that every country makes some changes. As long as the concept of the original plan is maintained, I think it's fine.
gelendestrasse
Aug. 1, 2014 01:38 am JST
I'm all for changing the plan and keeping some of the historic sites undamaged. The IOC and Abe need to be flexible. It's not like they can put the sailing competition in Tokyo, can they?
Jeff Huffman
The bulk of Summer Games events are track and field. There is already a more than adequate stadium from the '64 games that just needs to be refurbished. Look at the LA Coliseum - built for the 1932 games, modernized for the 1984 games and still home to USC football. T&F isn't that big in Asia anyway, so Tokyo has no justification for building a new and larger capacity stadium that will sit unused for probably 350 days a year after the games.
Similarly, I believe facilities for gymnastics, volleyball, basketball already exist with, again, the latter pretty much a non-starter in Japan, the JBL notwithstanding, so a new gym is not needed.
I suppose a new pool and diving area will need to be built. What they will be doing for the rafting events, I don't know. Including those events was one of the stupidest moves by the IOC as those facilities are as useless as bobsled and luge runs once the games are over.
And since the sailing events will be, presumably, somewhere on Tokyo Bay, the idea that events will be no more than 30 minutes from the Olympic Village is a lie. In fact, it will probably be easier to get to events in Saitama than inside Tokyo itself.
toshiko
Ater Olympic is over, what kind of organization will pay user fees for these new facilities?
Michael Net Work
Aug. 1, 2014 04:31 pm JST
Japan did a bait and switch it seems. Anyone can see that Japan had already thought of everything before they entered the bidding process. Let's see how this plays out.
Fadamor
Tokyo won the bid with a specific description of how things would be arranged. Any change to how things will be arranged after the bid is won has to be approved by the IOC before the host country can act on the change.
Alphaape:
" In a way this makes sense. Why should the Tokyo/J-Gov build a center in the area to conduct such activites as the equestrian (horse) events in an area that after the games are gone, will not have the demand for such a venue "
Err.... why? Because that was the promise with which they got the games in the first place. Since when is "bait and switch" accepted business practise?
The whole original bid was scam, but they signed it and now should live with it.
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Interactions of a hemidesmosome component and actinin family members
Annette M. Gonzalez, Carol Otey, Magnus Edlund, Jonathan C. R. Jones
Journal of Cell Science 2001 114: 4197-4206;
Annette M. Gonzalez
Carol Otey
Magnus Edlund
Jonathan C. R. Jones
Hemidesmosomes are multimeric protein complexes that attach epithelial cells to their underlying matrix and serve as cell surface anchorage sites for the keratin cytoskeleton. Two hemidesmosome components, the α6β4 integrin heterodimer and a human autoantigen termed BP180, are transmembrane proteins that link the extracellular matrix to the keratin network in cells. Here, we report that actinin-4, an actin-bundling protein, is a potential binding partner for BP180. Using yeast two-hybrid, we have mapped the binding site for BP180 to the C-terminal region of actinin-4. This site contains two EF-hand, Ca2+ regulation domains and shares 87% sequence homology with the same region in actinin-1. Consistent with this, BP180 can bind actinin-1 in both the yeast two-hybrid assay and in immunoprecipitation assays. To determine whether the EF-hand domain is a consensus binding sequence for BP180, we tested whether other proteins with this domain bind BP180. None of the proteins tested including calmodulin, with 4 EF-hand domains, and myosin regulatory light chain, with 1 EF-hand domain, interacts with BP180 in yeast two-hybrid system and immunoprecipitation studies, suggesting that the interaction between BP180 and actinin family members is specific. We have compared the distribution of actinin-1 and actinin-4 with that of BP180 in MCF-10A and pp126 cells. Surprisingly, BP180 localizes not only to sites of cell-substratum interaction, but is also present at sites of cell-cell contacts where it co-distributes with both actinin-1 and actinin-4 as well as other adherens junction proteins. In oral tissues, BP180 is present along the basement membrane and at cell-cell contact sites in basal epithelial cells where it co-distributes with adherens junction proteins. Since BP180 antibodies inhibit association of junction proteins at sites of cell-cell contact in oral keratinocytes, these results suggest that BP180 may play a role in establishing cell-cell interactions. We discuss a role for BP180 in crosstalk between cell-matrix and cell-cell junctions.
Human autoantigen
hemidesmosomes
actin cytoskeleton
The hemidesmosome is a multimeric protein complex that provides stable cell attachment to the underlying matrix of epithelial cells (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jones et al., 1998). At the ultrastructure level, the hemidesmosome appears as an electron dense structure whose cytoplasmic plaque serves to anchor keratin-type intermediate filaments to the cell surface (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jones et al., 1998). A number of components of the hemidesmosome have been identified and these include at least two cytoskeleton linker proteins, a 230 kDa human autoantigen termed BP230 (BPAG1) and plectin, as well as two transmembrane protein complexes, the α6β4 integrin heterodimer and a second human autoantigen called BP180 (BPAG2) (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jones et al., 1998; Klatte et al., 1989; Rezniczek et al., 1998).
BP180, also known as collagen XVII, was first identified using sera of patients suffering from bullous pemphigoid, a blistering skin disease (Giudice et al., 1992; Jones et al., 1998). It is a type 2 transmembrane protein whose N-terminus resides in the cytoplasmic plaque of the hemidesmosome (Hopkinson et al., 1992). The extracellular domain of BP180 is composed of a series of collagen-like repeats that are separated by linker regions (Giudice et al., 1992; Li et al., 1993). Like other collagens, BP180 exists as a trimer and it has now been established that the extracellular domain of BP180 contributes to the structure of anchoring filaments observed in the lamina lucida of the basement membrane zone (Balding et al., 1997; Bedane et al., 1997; Hirako et al., 1996).
Evidence from analyses of the skin of patients suffering from bullous pemphigoid and generalized atrophic epidermolysis bullosa (GABEB), a genetic blistering skin disease, indicate that BP180 plays an important role in hemidesmosome assembly and adhesion of the epidermis to the dermis (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jonkman et al., 1995). In bullous pemphigoid, autoantibodies against a non-collagenous extracellular epitope in the BP180 molecule are believed to be pathogenic and induce dysadhesion of the epidermis (Giudice et al., 1993; Liu et al., 1993). Moreover, epidermal cells in GABEB patients carrying mutations in the gene that encodes for BP180 have a reduction in the number of hemidesmosomes, leading to tissue instability (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jonkman et al., 1995).
BP180 has multiple binding partners in the hemidesmosome. The cytoplasmic domain of BP180 can interact with BP230 and the β4 integrin subunit, whereas the extracellular domain can interact with the α6 integrin subunit (Aho and Uitto, 1998; Borradori et al., 1997; Hopkinson et al., 1998; Hopkinson and Jones, 2000). In this study, we focused our attention on identifying novel binding partners of the cytoplasmic domain of the BP180 molecule. Using yeast two-hybrid technology we have identified actinins as binding partners of BP180. This finding was surprising since BP180 had been thought to be present exclusively at hemidesmosomes, where it links to intermediate filaments. Conversely, the actinins are microfilament-associated proteins that are found in adherens junctions at sites of cell-cell interaction and in focal contacts at sites where cells abut their substrate (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Burridge and Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, 1996; Jones et al., 1998). However, in this study we show that BP180 is not only found at sites of cell-substrate interaction but also is concentrated at regions of cell-cell-contact, where it co-distributes with and can interact with a number of adherens junction proteins. Moreover, we present evidence that BP180 is involved in establishment of intercellular junctions and can play a role in cell-cell interactions.
Cell culture and transfection procedure
MCF-10A and pp126 cells were cultured as detailed previously (Goldfinger et al., 1998). Cells were maintained for 72 hours on 22 mm glass coverslips. They were transfected with 4 μg of plasmid DNA using the calcium phosphate protocol (Sambrook et al., 1989). At 24 hours following transfection cells were harvested for immunoblotting or processed for immunofluorescence microscopy (see below).
Yeast two-hybrid assay
An MCF-10A cDNA library was prepared according to the Two-Hybrid cDNA Library Construction Kit protocol (Clontech Labs Inc., Palo Alto, CA). cDNAs encoding portions of BP180, actinin family members, calmodulin and α6-integrin were amplified using RT-PCR from MCF10A mRNA using specific forward and reverse primers containing engineered restriction sites. Murine myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC) was a gift from Rex Chisholm (Northwestern University). These fragments were digested with the appropriate enzymes, isolated from an agarose gel using the QIAquick gel extraction kit (Qiagen, Charworth, CA), and ligated in frame into digested yeast expression vectors pACT2 or pAS2-1 (Clontech Labs Inc., Palo Alto, CA). Individual clones containing these constructs were grown in selective media and DNA prepared from the clones using a Wizard mini prep kit (Promega, Madison, WI). All constructs were sequenced to ensure that the cDNAs were in frame and without error using Big Dye automated sequencing reagents (PE Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) on an ABI Prism DNA Sequencer (Foster City, CA).
DNA preparations were used to transform the yeast strain Y190, according to protocols outlined in the Matchmaker Two-Hybrid System 2 Manual (Clontech Labs). Transfected colonies were selected by growth in medium lacking leucine, tryptophan and histidine (Leu–/Trp–/His–) but containing 25 mM 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole (3-AT). The latter was used to inhibit low levels of ‘leaky’ expression of His3p in the reporter yeast strain. To monitor transfection efficiency of both plasmids, the transfected yeast were also plated onto Leu– medium, Trp– medium or Leu–/Trp– medium. At 7 days the number of colonies growing on both the Leu–/Trp– and Leu–/Trp–/His– media were scored. Yeast colonies growing on both Leu–/Trp–/His– and Leu–/Trp– media were also spotted onto nylon filters and flash frozen in liquid nitrogen. To detect activation of the reporter gene lacZ and resulting expression of β-galactosidase, the filters were placed on Whatman paper soaked in a solution containing X-gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-D-galactopyranoside). A binding domain plasmid (pVA3-1), containing a cDNA encoding murine p53, and an activation domain plasmid (pTD1-1), containing the SV40 large T-antigen coding sequence, were used as part of our control studies (Clontech Labs).
Recombinant protein preparation
The cytoplasmic domain of BP180 (residues 1-461), actinin-4 (residues 1-884), actinin-1 (residues 1-892) and MRLC (residues 1-172) were prepared as 6× His-tagged recombinant fusion proteins in E. coli. The relevant portion of BP180 was generated by RT-PCR using MCF10A mRNA and the BP180 cDNA fragment was cloned in frame into the pET 32 vector (Novagen, Madison, WI). This construct was sequenced to confirm that the reading frame was maintained and that the sequence was correct. E. coli were transformed with the BP180 construct and were subsequently induced to produce recombinant protein by the addition of isopropyl-β–D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG) to the medium. The cells were lysed and extracts were incubated overnight in a 6 M urea buffer. Cell extracts were passed over a His.Bind Resin column (Novagen, Madison, WI) and bound fusion protein eluted in an imidazole elution buffer in the presence of 6 M urea. The eluant was dialyzed against 10 mM Tris buffer (pH 7.5) overnight at 4°C, concentrated by lyophilization and resuspended in sterile H2O. The purity of the recombinant polypeptides was assessed by visualizing the protein samples by SDS-PAGE and by Western blotting.
To generate HA-tagged proteins, actinin-4, actinin-1 and MRLC, pACT2 constructs were used as DNA templates since the pACT2 vector contains a hemagglutinin sequence (HA) upstream of the cloning site. Vector-specific forward and sequence-specific reverse primers were used to generate cDNAs for actinin-4, actinin-1 and MRLC containing the HA sequence at the 5′ end. The PCR products were purified and cloned in frame into the pBAD-TOPO vector (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). Constructs were sequenced as described above to ensure that sequences were correct and that inserts were in frame. E. coli were transformed with appropriate constructs and expression of recombinant protein was induced by adding 2% arabinose to the medium for 3 hours at 37°C. Cells were lysed, centrifuged and the supernatant was passed over a His Bind Resin column (Novagen). Proteins were eluted in an imidazole elution solution and eluates were dialyzed overnight and processed as described above.
Green fluorescent protein (GFP) and HA-tagged constructs
cDNA’s encoding full-length actinin-4 (residues 1-884) and truncated actinin-4 (residues 1-813) with the HA tag incorporated at 5′ end, were cloned into pCR3.1-Uni vector (Invitrogen). In addition, actinin-4 cDNA cloned into the pEGFP-NI vector (Clontech) was used in some transfection studies.
A mouse IgM monoclonal antibody (1804b) against the N-terminal domain of BP180 was prepared as described (Hopkinson et al., 1992; Riddelle et al., 1992). J17 rabbit antiserum was generated against the same BP180 domain (Hopkinson et al., 1992). The rabbit C-terminal antiserum generated against the C-terminal domain of BP180 was obtained from Kim Yancey (NIH, Bethesda, MD). Monoclonal antibody HA.11 against the HA epitope tag was obtained from BAbCO. The actinin-4 polyclonal serum was a generous gift from Setsuo Hirohashi (Honda et al., 1998). The mouse monoclonal antibody against actinin-1 was purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. The p120 antibody was obtained from BD Transduction Laboratories. The E-cadherin monoclonal antibody was generously provided by Kathy Green (Northwestern University).
Gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting and immunoprecipitation
Recombinant proteins, bacterial and mammalian cell extracts were solubilized in sample buffer (8 M urea, 10% β-mercaptoethanol, 1% SDS, 10% glycerol in 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 6.8) and were subjected to SDS-PAGE using 7.5-10% acrylamide gels (Laemmli, 1970). For western immunoblotting, proteins separated on gels were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes that were then processed with antibody as described elsewhere (Harlow and Lane, 1988). S-tag peptide fusion proteins were visualized with S protein conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (Novagen).
For immunoprecipitation studies using recombinant proteins, approximately 1 μg of actinin-4, actinin-1 or MRLC protein and BP180 fragments were mixed together in 500 μl of 1× ‘immunoprecipitation buffer’ (25 mM Hepes pH 7.5, 1% Brij 97, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.2% SDS and protease inhibitors). After a 2 hour incubation at 4°C, J17 antiserum against BP180 was added to a 1:100 dilution and incubated at 4°C for a further 2 hours. Subsequently, 50 μl of protein G agarose (Gibco/BRL, Gaithersburg, MD) were added to the mix for an additional 1 hour. The protein G agarose was collected by centrifugation, washed four times in buffer and then solubilized in sample buffer. The resulting protein solution was processed for western immunoblotting as detailed above.
In the case of pp126 cells, extracts were prepared using immunoprecipitation buffer, which was then processed as described above, with one exception, the extracts were passed through a 22 gauge needle prior to addition of antibody.
Immunofluorescence microscopy
Cells, grown on glass coverslips, were fixed for 1 minute in 3.7% formaldehyde and then extracted in 0.5% Triton X-100 at 4°C for 7 minutes. Single and double-label immunofluorescence were performed as detailed previously (Riddelle et al., 1992). After mounting, coverslips were viewed on a Zeiss LSM510 confocal microscope, fitted with appropriate filters for visualization of GFP as well as fluorescein and rhodamine-conjugated probes (Carl Zeiss, Thornwood, NY). Controls for immunocytochemistry included omission of primary antibodies or use of irrelevant immunoglobulin (IgG) to determine non-specific binding of secondary antibodies.
Oral tissues were rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen and cryosections 5-6 μm thick, were prepared on a Tissue-Trek cryostat (Miles Laboratories Inc., Elkhart, IN). Sections were then placed on microscope slides and fixed for 5 minutes in acetone at –20°C. Samples were air-dried and processed for double-label immunofluorescence as described above.
Antibody blocking assays
A polyclonal antibody against the C-terminal extracellular domain of BP180 was added to pp126 cells maintained in low calcium medium at a final concentration of 50 μg/ml for 24 hours. Rabbit IgG serum was used as a control. Calcium from a 100X stock was added to each dish to a final calcium concentration of 2.0 mM in the presence of BP180 antibody or control IgG. After 4 hours, cells were processed for immunofluorescence as described above. Rabbit IgG was visualized using a fluorochrome-conjugated secondary anti-rabbit goat antibody.
BP180 interacts with actinin family members
In this study, it was our initial goal to use the yeast two-hybrid technique to identify novel binding partners of the cytoplasmic domain of the BP180 molecule. To do so, a library was constructed using MCF10A cell cDNA cloned into a pGAD vector containing the GAL4-activating domain. We chose MCF-10A cells for this purpose since they express all of the known components of hemidesmosomes and assemble mature hemidesmosomes in vitro (Stahl et al., 1997). A BP180 cDNA encoding amino acid residues 1-517, cloned into the pAS2-1 vector containing the GAL4 DNA binding domain, was used as ‘bait’.
The bait and the MCF-10A cDNA library were co-transfected into the Y190 yeast strain and the transfected yeast were plated onto restrictive media. Yeast colonies able to grow on the media were analyzed further for β-galactosidase activity. Approximately 20 clones that turn blue were characterized at the molecular level. One such clone contained a cDNA insert encoding residues 708-813 of an actinin isoform termed actinin-4 (Honda et al., 1998) (Table 1). We decided to focus on this clone because we were intrigued by the possibility that BP180 might interact with the actin cytoskeleton. To confirm that BP180 and actinin-4 specifically interact in the yeast two-hybrid assay, we prepared an actinin-4 cDNA encoding the same residues (703-813) by RT-PCR using mRNA prepared from MCF-10A cells. This cDNA was cloned into a pACT2 yeast expression vector. Following co-transfection with a pAS2-1 vector containing a BP180 cDNA, the transfected yeast grow on restrictive medium and turn blue in the β-galactosidase assay (Table 1). Control transfectants including those co-expressing either actinin-4 or BP180 in combination with α6 integrin, p53 or large T-antigen do not grow on Leu–/Trp–/His– medium and fail to turn blue under the same conditions (Table 1).
Our yeast two-hybrid assay reveals that a fragment of 110 amino acids in the actinin-4 molecule can interact with the cytoplasmic domain of BP180. This fragment contains two EF-hand domains and shows considerable homology with other actinin family members (Fig. 1). We therefore tested the possibility that actinin-1, an actinin isoform expressed by epithelial cells, can interact with BP180 (Otey et al., 1990). An actinin-1 cDNA encoding residues 708-850 was generated by RT-PCR using mRNA isolated from MCF-10A cells and cloned into the pACT2 vector. Yeast co-transfected with this actinin-1 construct and BP180/pAS2-1 grow in restrictive media and turn blue in a β-galactosidase assay (Table 1).
Amino acid comparison of actinin-4 and other EF-hand proteins. The region in actinin-4 that interacts with BP180 is conserved among actinin family members and contains two EF-hand domains. The schematic includes a comparison of the BP180-binding sequence in actinin-4 and the comparable EF-hand domains in actinin-1, calmodulin and myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC).
Because the region of actinins that shows interaction with BP180 contains two EF-hand domains, we next evaluated the possibility that the EF-hand domain possesses a consensus-binding site for BP180. To do so, we tested whether proteins that contain different numbers of EF-hand domains show interaction with BP180 in the yeast two-hybrid system (Table 1). We chose calmodulin, which contains four such domains, and myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC) with one EF hand domain for these assays. Both calmodulin and MRLC were cloned into the pACT2 vector and transfected into yeast cells containing the BP180/pAS2-1 construct. The co-transfectants are unable to grow on restrictive media and do not turn blue in the β-galactosidase assay indicating that there is no interaction between BP180 and the EF-hand domains of either calmodulin or MRLC (Table 1).
To provide additional evidence for interaction between actinin family members and BP180, we prepared recombinant proteins of full-length actinin-4, actinin-1, MRLC and the cytoplasmic fragment (residues 1-461) of BP180 in bacteria. All proteins were His-tagged and were purified by column chromatography. In addition to the His tag, the recombinant actinin-4, actinin-1 and MRLC were tagged with a hemagglutinin (HA) epitope that is recognized by monoclonal antibody HA.11. The BP180 fragment was fused to an S-tag peptide that binds ribonuclease S-protein. The actinin-4, actinin-1 or MRLC and BP180 recombinant proteins were mixed in Hepes-buffered saline containing a cocktail of protease inhibitors. Proteins were precipitated by the addition of a 1:100 dilution of antiserum J17, which was generated against the N-terminus of BP180 (Hopkinson et al., 1992). Precipitated proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE, and transferred to nitrocellulose. The filter was probed with HA.11 antibodies, which recognize the HA epitope on the actinin-4, actinin-1 or MRLC polypeptides. Actinin-4 is co-precipitated by the J17 antiserum when mixed with purified BP180 cytoplasmic domain but is not co-precipitated by J17 antibodies when incubated in the absence of BP180 protein (Fig. 2Ai, compare lanes 1 and 2). Similar results were obtained when actinin-1 was mixed with the BP180 fragment (Fig. 2Aii). By contrast, MRLC is not co-precipitated by the J17 antiserum when mixed with purified BP180 cytoplasmic domain and is not co-precipitated by J17 antibody when incubated in the absence of BP180 protein (Fig. 2Aiii). S-protein binding was used to confirm successful precipitation of BP180 polypeptide (Fig. 2B).
Immunoprecipitation studies indicate that BP180 can bind actinin-4 and actinin-1 but not MRLC. Approximately 1 μg each of either HA-tagged actinin-4 (Ai), actinin-1 (Aii) or MRLC (Aiii) were incubated with a purified S-tagged BP180 fusion polypeptide in Hepes-buffered saline with 1% Brij 97 and 0.2% SDS at 4°C for 2 hours. As a control, tagged BP180 polypeptide was omitted from the immunoprecipitation mixture (Ai-iii, lane 2). A polyclonal antiserum against the BP180 cytoplasmic domain was added to the protein mixture for an additional 2 hours, followed by the addition of protein G-agarose beads (Life Technologies/BRL). The precipitated proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane. The blot was probed either with HA.11 antibody directed against the HA tag (A) or an alkaline phosphatase-conjugated S-protein that binds S-tag peptide fusion proteins (B). In lane 1 in Ai, the HA.11 antibody recognizes a single polypeptide, indicating that actinin-4 has been precipitated with BP180. Similar results were obtained when BP180 was precipitated from the BP180/actinin-1 mix (lane 1 in Aii). By contrast, MRLC was not precipitated from the MRLC/BP180 mix as indicated by the absence of a band in lane 1 in Aiii. No protein is recognized by the HA.11 antibody in Ai-iii lane 2, indicating that actinin-4, actinin-1 or MRLC were not precipitated by the BP180 antiserum. The enzyme-linked S-protein in B recognizes the immunoprecipitated BP180 polypeptide in Bi-iii lane 1. Molecular mass markers indicated on the left of the upper panels are as follows: from top to bottom 172, 111, 79, 61, 49, 36 kDa.
Actinin-1 co-precipitates with BP180 from pp126 cells
To provide evidence that BP180 and actinin family members associate in vivo, we undertook immunoprecipitation studies (Fig. 3). Extracts of pp126 oral keratinocyte cells were prepared from cells maintained in medium containing reduced levels of calcium or cells ‘switched’ to medium containing 2 mM calcium for 4 hours. Antibodies against BP180 specifically precipitate actinin-1 from extracts of cells maintained in medium containing 2 mM calcium but fail to precipitate actinin-1 from pp126 cells from cells grown in low calcium medium (Fig. 3). By contrast, actinin-4 is not precipitated by BP180 antibodies from extracts of pp126 cells regardless of medium conditions (not shown).
BP180 can co-precipitate actinin-1 from pp126 cells. Extracts of pp126 cells were prepared from cells maintained in medium containing low calcium (lanes 1,2) or cells which had been switched into medium containing 2.0 mM calcium for 4 hours (lanes 3,4). A polyclonal antiserum against the BP180 cytoplasmic domain (J17) (lanes 1,3) was added to the cell extracts which were incubated for 2 hours. No antiserum was included in the extracts shown in lanes 2 and 4. Subsequently protein G-agarose beads were added and, after an additional 2 hours, the beads collected. Precipitated proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE, transferred to nitrocellulose membranes and processed for immunoblotting using an actinin-1 monoclonal antibody (top). The same immunoblot was then probed with the BP180 antiserum to ensure that BP180 protein had been successfully precipitated (bottom). Note that actinin-1 at 100 kDa is precipitated with BP180 in lane 3 only. An unknown protein recognized by the actinin-1 probe is indicated by an asterisk in lanes 1 and 3 in the top panels. Molecular mass markers indicated on the left of the upper panels are as follows: from top to bottom: 172, 111, 79, 61 kDa.
Actinin family members co-distribute with BP180 at sites of cell-cell contact
Actinin-4, actinin-1 and BP180 fail to localize at regions of cell-cell interaction in pp126 oral keratinocytes when the cells are maintained in medium containing reduced levels of calcium (Fig. 4). Actinin-4 shows concentration at the cell edges in ruffled membranes while actinin-1 localizes to focal contacts at the base of the cell and cortical microfilament arrays (Fig. 4A,B). By contrast, BP180 is found in streaks and arcs at the basal surface of the cells (Fig. 4C). In pp126 cells that have been ‘switched’ to medium containing 2 mM calcium for 4 hours prior to processing for immunofluorescence microscopic observation, all three proteins appear at cell-cell contact sites (Fig. 5). Moreover, in pp126 cells under these conditions BP180 co-localizes with both actinin-4 as well as actinin-1 at such sites (Fig. 5A-C and D-F, respectively). BP230 and plectin, two hemidesmosome proteins, fail to localize at sites of cell-cell contact in high calcium but instead distribute at the basal aspect of cells where they adhere to substratum (not shown).
Sub-cellular distribution of actinin-4, actinin-1 and BP180 in pp126 oral keratinocytes maintained in low calcium medium. Cells were processed for immunofluorescence microscopy and labeled with antibodies against actinin-4 (A), actinin-1 (B) and BP180 (C). Actinin-4 localizes to the cell-edge in membrane ruffles in A while actinin-1 is present in focal contact-like structures and along the cortical microfilament cytoskeleton in B. By contrast, BP180 localizes along the basal aspect of the cell (C). Bars, 10 μm.
Increasing the concentration of calcium ions in the medium induces co-localization of BP180, actinin-4 and actinin-1 at cell-cell contact sites in pp126 oral keratinocytes. pp126 oral keratinocytes were ‘switched’ to medium containing 2.0 mM calcium for 4 hours and then were processed for double-label indirect immunofluorescence microscopy using a combination of antibodies against actinin-4 and BP180 (A,B) or actinin-1 and BP180 (D,E). Both actinins and BP180 co-distribute at cell-cell contact sites (arrows in A-E). The overlapping staining patterns appear yellow in the overlays (C,F). Bar, 10 μm.
We have compared the localization of BP180 with both actinin-1 and actinin-4 in a second epithelial cell line. In MCF-10A cells, BP180 stains in arcs and streaks at the substratum attached surface of the cells (Fig. 6B,E, long arrow). Along this surface of the cell there is no obvious co-distribution of BP180 with either actinin-1 or actinin-4. However, BP180 also shows concentration along regions of cell-cell contact consistent with a previous report (Kitajima et al., 1994) (Fig. 6B,E, small arrows). We observe such intercellular BP180 distribution with two different antibody probes against the N-terminus of BP180. Actinin-4 and actinin-1 also localize at sites of cell-cell interaction and their distribution overlaps with that of BP180 (Fig. 6A,B). This is most clearly seen in the overlays of the staining pattern where cell borders appear yellow where BP180 co-distributes either with actinin-4 or actinin-1 (Fig. 6C and F, respectively).
BP180 co-distributes with actinin-4 and actinin-1 at cell-cell contact sites in MCF-10A cells. MCF-10A cells were processed for double-labeling using antibodies against either actinin-4 (A) or actinin-1 (D) in combination with an antibody preparation against BP180 (B,E). BP180 co-localizes with actinin-4 at sites of cell-cell contact (arrows in A,B). This appears yellow in the overlay of these images (C). Actinin-1 and BP180 also co-distribute at cell-cell contact sites (arrows in D,E). The areas of co-localization appear yellow in the overlay of the images (F). There is no obvious actinin-4 or actinin-1 where BP180 is found along sites of cell-substrate interaction (B,E, long arrows). Bar, 10 μm.
Our immunofluorescence observations provide evidence that actinin-1 and actinin-4 are found at the cell surface in two distinct epithelial cell populations (Fig. 4; Fig. 6). By contrast, workers in a previous study suggested that actinin-4 localizes exclusively to the nucleus in certain breast epithelial cells (Honda et al., 1998). Thus to resolve these conflicting results we transfected MCF-10A cells with an expression vector encoding GFP-tagged actinin-4. The product of the transgene localizes to sites of cell-cell interaction on the surface of the transfected cells (Fig. 7A). We see little, if any, protein in the nucleus. To rule out the possibility that the GFP tag influences the localization of actinin-4, we also transfected MCF-10A cells with HA-tagged actinin-4 (Fig. 7C). The expressed fusion protein targets to the cell surface rather than the nucleus. Interestingly, we have observed only nuclear localization of actinin-4 when we induce expression of a truncated HA-tagged actinin-4 cDNA encompassing residues 1-813 in MCF-10A cells (Fig. 7E).
The fate of the product of actinin-4 transgenes in transfected MCF-10A cells. MCF-10A cells were transfected with constructs expressing full-length actinin-4 fused with a GFP-tag (A) or an HA-tag (C). In E, cells were transfected with a truncated actinin-4 (residues 1-813). At 24 hours after transfection, cells were processed for immunofluorescence microscopy. HA.11 antibody was used to visualize HA-tagged actinin-4 in transfected cells in C,E. Full-length actinin-4 is absent from the nucleus but instead distributes to sites of cell-cell contact as well as in the cytoplasm (arrows in A,C). By contrast, truncated actinin-4 localizes exclusively to the nucleus (E). B, D and F show phase contrast images of the cells. Bar, 10 μm.
Our finding that under certain circumstances, BP180 is present at sites of cell-cell contact, where it associates with adherens junction proteins, is consistent with a study in which it was shown using yeast two-hybrid technology that BP180 can bind the adherens junction protein p120 catenin (Aho et al., 1999). The latter workers, however, provided no evidence for such an association at the morphological level. Thus to extend their observation we prepared both MCF-10A and pp126 cells for double-label immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies against the N-terminal domain of BP180 and monoclonal antibodies against p120 catenin (Fig. 8). These antibody preparations generate overlapping staining patterns at cell-cell contact sites in both cell types (Fig. 8). The overlay images in Fig. 8C,F show yellow staining where cells contact each other. In the case of the pp126 cells, the cells were switched from their normal medium to medium containing 2 mM calcium for 4 hours before the cells were fixed and processed for immunofluorescence in order to allow cells to establish cell-cell junctions. Moreover, we also processed oral tissues for double-labeling with antibodies that recognize BP180 and p120 catenin. Antibodies against BP180 produced intense staining along the basement membrane of oral epithelia. p120 catenin was absent from these sites (Fig. 9, arrow). However, BP180 was also present at cell-cell borders where it co-distributed with p120 catenin (Fig. 9, arrowhead). Similar observations were obtained with actinin probes (data not shown).
BP180 co-distributes with p120 catenin in MCF-10A cells and pp126 oral keratinocytes. The localization of p120 catenin and BP180 proteins was assessed in MCF-10A cells and pp126 oral keratinocytes maintained in 2.0 mM calcium for 4 hours. Cells were processed for double-label indirect immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies against p120 catenin (A,D) and BP180 (B,E). p120 catenin is present at cell-cell interaction sites in both cell types (short arrows in A,D) where it co-distributes with BP180 (short arrows in B,E). This is demonstrated by the yellow color in the overlays in C and F. Although BP180 antibodies also stain along the basal aspect of MCF-10A cells (long arrow in B) and in pp126 cells (long arrow in E), p120 catenin is absent from these sites (A,D). Bar, 10 μm.
BP180 co-distributes with p120 catenin, at sites of cell-cell contact in oral tissue. Tissues were processed for double-label indirect immunofluorescence microscopy using antibodies against BP180 (in red) and p120 catenin (in green). The overlay of the images generated is shown. The area indicated by the arrows toward the left-hand corner of the micrograph is shown at higher power in the inset. BP180 distributes along the basement membrane (arrow) and along lateral surfaces of basal oral epithelial cells (arrow head) where it co-distributes with p120 catenin as demonstrated by the yellow color. Bars, 20 μm.
Does BP180 play a role in cell-cell interactions?
Our studies demonstrate that BP180 is present in cell-cell contacts and we next wished to determine whether BP180 plays a functional role at such sites. Thus we made use of an antibody that recognizes the extracellular domain of BP180 in an attempt to block BP180’s function. pp126 cells maintained in low calcium were pretreated with a C-terminal antibody against BP180. After 24 hours, cells were switched to high calcium for 4 hours and labeled with either p120 catenin or E-cadherin monoclonal antibodies as markers of adherens junctions. In untreated cells and cells treated with control immunoglobulin, p120 catenin and E-cadherin have a sharp, linear distribution along borders of contacting cells (Fig. 10A,B, arrow). By contrast, p120 catenin fails to show the same pattern in cells that were treated with the C-terminal antibody against BP180 (Fig. 10C, arrow). Rather, in BP180 antibody treated cells, p120 catenin is organized in arrays that are perpendicular to cell-cell contact sites. In BP180 antibody treated cells, E-cadherin is diffusely localized (Fig. 10E).
BP180 modulates establishment of cell-cell junctions. pp126 cells maintained in low calcium medium were treated with either control IgG or an antibody against the C-terminus of BP180 for 24 hours and then switched to medium containing 2.0 mM calcium. After 4 hours, cells were processed for confocal immunofluorescence microscopy using an antibody against p120 catenin (A,C) or E-cadherin (B,E) together with a secondary antibody to identify bound BP180 antibodies (D,F). In cells treated with control IgG, p120 catenin and E-cadherin staining is linear and is concentrated along sites of cell-cell contact (A,B). In cells treated with the BP180 antibody, p120 catenin appears in a punctate pattern in rows perpendicular to cell-cell contact sites (C), whereas E-cadherin shows a diffuse staining over the cell surface (E). D and F show that BP180 antibodies bind at cell-cell contact sites. Bar, 10 μm.
BP180 is a major structural element of hemidesmosomes where it associates with not only the α6β4 integrin heterodimer but also the BP230 component of the hemidesmosome plaque (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jones et al., 1998; Hopkinson and Jones, 2000). BP180 mediates keratin cytoskeleton association with the cell surface in epithelial cells via such interactions (Borradori and Sonnenberg, 1999; Jones, et al., 1998; Hopkinson and Jones, 2000). Therefore, it was a surprise that during the course of the present studies we identified two microfilament associated proteins, namely actinin-1 and actinin-4, as binding partners of BP180. Nonetheless, our immunochemical studies clearly support the idea that BP180 and actinin family members show association in vivo. Indeed, we have observed overlapping staining patterns of antibodies against BP180 and actinin family members at sites of cell-cell contact in two quite different epithelial cells types, namely the oral keratinocyte line pp126 and the mammary epithelial cell line MCF-10A, as well as in oral epithelial tissue. This is not the first time that the existence of BP180 at cell-cell binding sites has been reported. In particular, Kitajima et al. showed that in keratinocytes the localization of BP180 can be modulated by the concentration of calcium of the medium in which the cells are maintained (Kitajima et al., 1994). We have confirmed and extended this observation. In medium containing low levels of calcium, under which conditions keratinocytes fail to make extensive cell-cell contacts, BP180 localizes at the basal aspect of the cell at cell-matrix contact sites. Both actinin-1 and actinin-4 fail to co-distribute with BP180 at these sites. These morphological observations are supported by immunoprecipitation studies since BP180 antibodies fail to precipitate actinins from extracts of such cells. However, upon ‘switching’ the cells to medium containing calcium levels of 2 mM, cell-cell junctions form with BP180 distributing to these sites along with actinin-1 and actinin-4 and to regions of cell-matrix interaction that lack any apparent actinin. Moreover, BP180 antibodies precipitate actinin-1 from extracts of the switched cells. That actinin-4 is not precipitated under these conditions suggests that actinin-1 may be the preferred BP180 binding partner in vivo.
One surprise of our study was that actinin-4, like actinin-1, is present at cell-cell contact sites both in MCF-10A cells and the ‘switched’ oral keratinocytes. This finding is inconsistent with a previous study by Honda et al. in which it was reported that actinin-4 is a nuclear protein (Honda et al., 1998). To address this apparent discrepancy we expressed full-length actinin-4 in our epithelial cell populations. This confirmed our antibody labeling experiments in that the protein product of the actinin-4 transgene primarily targets to the cell surface and is absent from the nucleus.
Interestingly, as part of our analyses of actinin-4 distribution in various cells, we discovered that a truncated version of actinin-4 lacking the last 71 amino acids at the C-terminus of the molecule localizes exclusively to the nucleus. In light of these observations, we suggest that certain cancer cells, including those in which actinin-4 was first described, may process actinin-4, causing it to move to the nucleus (Honda et al., 1998). This would explain the localization data presented by the later study, although, to date, we have been unable to confirm that cancer cells express such a truncated actinin-4 molecule (data not shown).
One question that our study clearly raises relates to why BP180 is found at sites of cell-cell interaction. One possibility is that BP180 molecules at cell-cell borders may be in transit to the basal surface of cells where they become incorporated into hemidesmosomes. In this scenario, the association of BP180 with microfilament-associated protein at lateral cell surfaces may reflect the involvement of cellular motility machinery in BP180 movement between cell membrane domains following its synthesis and processing. At lateral cell surfaces, actinins may provide part of an anchorage site or act as a ‘sink’ for newly synthesized BP180 protein. In other words, actinins may be playing a role as general scaffolding proteins for molecules such as BP180, as previously suggested (Parast et al., 2000).
We also speculate that p120 catenin may play an important role in the mechanism via which BP180 becomes directed to lateral cell surfaces. Previous workers have provided evidence from a yeast two-hybrid screen that BP180 and p120 catenin interact (Aho et al., 1999). Here we show that p120 catenin and BP180 co-distribute at cell-cell contact sites. Since p120 catenin binds to BP180 at a domain that is necessary for the targeting of BP180 to hemidesmosomes, we propose that by binding to BP180, p120 catenin inhibits BP180 incorporation into hemidesmosomes and, together with the actinins, tethers BP180 at cell borders. However, if this is the case, this is not a generalized phenomenon for hemidesmosomal proteins since BP230 or plectin, two cytoplasmic proteins of the hemidesmosomal plaque, are not found at sites of cell-cell contact in pp126 cells that are maintained in medium containing 2.0 mM calcium under which conditions cells assemble extensive intracellular junctions (not shown). Instead, both plectin and BP230 remain concentrated at sites of cell-substratum interaction in such cells.
Of course, in addition to transiting through lateral cell surfaces, BP180 may actually contribute to the structure and/or stability of cell-cell interactions. There is certainly precedent for this from the studies of other transmembrane, collagen-related proteins. For example, collagen type XIII, which, like BP180, is oriented with a type 2 topography in the plasma membrane, is believed to play a role in stabilizing cell-cell junctions (Hagg et al., 1998; Peltonen et al., 1999; Snellman et al., 2000). Moreover, there is evidence that three other type 2 membrane proteins that possess collagen-like extracellular domains, namely, the type 1 macrophage scavenger protein receptor (MSPR), MARCO (a macrophage receptor with collagenous structure) and ectodysplasin are involved in cell-cell binding (Elomaa et al., 1995; Ezer et al., 1999; Kodama et al., 1990). In particular, MSPR and MARCO mediate cell-bacterial interactions whereas ectodysplasin appears to distribute along cell-cell contact sites, where it interacts with the microfilament cytoskeleton (Elomaa et al., 1995; Ezer et al., 1999; Kodama et al., 1990). Indeed, in the studies we present here we provide evidence that BP180 plays an active role in establishing cell-cell interactions. In particular, an antibody against the C-terminal domain of BP180 appears to inhibit incorporation of adherens junction proteins into assembling junctional complexes.
In summary, we have identified new potential binding partners of a major structural protein of the hemidesmosome. That these partners are members of a family of actin binding proteins that fail to localize to hemidesmosomes provides an indication that BP180 is somewhat promiscuous with regard to its cytoskeleton connections. Remarkably, this mirrors the apparent promiscuity of the α6β4 integrin heterodimer which, in the hemidesmosome, is involved in tethering the keratin cytoskeleton to the cell surface whereas, in certain cancer cells, it associates with the microfilament cytoskeleton network (Rabinovitz and Mercurio, 1997). Indeed, BP180 is one of an increasing number of proteins whose cytoskeleton allegiance may be modulated in quite a precise fashion and that may play a role in crosstalk of cell-matrix and cell-cell junctions.
This work was supported by grants to J.C.R.J. and A.M.G. (DK60589 and DE12328) from the NIH. We thank Setsuo Hirohashi for generous gifts of antibody, Susan Hopkinson for the yeast library and help in mastering molecular techniques and Rex Chisholm for the MRLC clone. We are grateful for the technical assistance of Xiang He.
Accepted August 31, 2001.
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Leaving Union Station, Los Angeles
With its upholstered sleeping berths, a dining car with wide tables, picture windows and white tables clothes, a glassed-in observation car and an historic route with stops at evocatively-named locales like the Mojave Desert, Canyon Diablo and Dodge City, one expects to meet passengers on Amtrak’s Southwest Chief of a certain elegance and sophistication. At least a cut above the folks crammed into an airliner, were they can get across the county for $500, not the $1300 I paid to get from Los Angeles to Boston this February. But there was not an ascot to be seen or even a pair of pressed pants or a tucked-in shirt. Just about everyone came dressed for a shopping trip to Walmart, except for at least a dozen Amish couples, the men in shaggy chin beards and baggy shirts, the women in starched bonnets and long, drab dresses.
At dinner on the first night, I sat next to George, an elderly man in a gray sweatshirt, and across from an Amish couple, Dave and Martha. The couple had picked up a train in San Diego and then the Chief in LA. They had come out from Ohio, Dave said, “To get my wife worked over in Tijuana.”
Amish humor, with a kind of sexual innuendo. Not what I expected; maybe the Amish are changing. So I let out a little laugh.
“Yup,” Dave said, “She had to have work done on her back.’
I wished I hadn’t laughed.
Martha spent a lot of effort on her steak dinner (they both ordered the steak well done), eating her salad at first with her fingers and then slicing her roll down the middle, made a butter-and-steak sandwich with it, wrapped it in a napkin and took it with her.
George, a retired music teacher from Rockford, Ill., did not bother to avoid stating the obvious: “You’re Amish, right?”
Dave was very matter of fact — probably got this question a lot, people who looked at them as a foreign specimen that they could examine. I heard a man across the aisle from me at breakfast who never took off his baseball cap question the young Amish man at his table endlessly about his work and his clothes and his hair, the young man answering everything with great patience.
Dave did the same thing for George, describing how he used a diesel generator for his woodworking shop and smiled wryly about what would happen if his area lost power. “Yup, I’d be able to keep making my furniture, but if there’s no electricity for everyone else, then they aren’t going to be interested in buying my furniture.” He seemed to be saying, hey, don’t think we’re all that independent from the outside world
Dave and Martha skipped dessert and left no tip, leaving me sitting next to George, who ate his Salisbury steak at a glacial pace while he told me about his old friend who was such an accomplished trombone player that he played for decades with the Boston Pops and Boston Symphony, prompting a small world moment because I would certainly heard have him play 20 years ago at a symphony concert.
“He just retired,’ George said, “and hasn’t picked up the trombone since.”
When I got back to my sleeping cabin, the porter had made the up the lower bunk, so it was to bed kind of early for me, a chance to spend a few hours with Jim Harrison’s “The Great Leader,” which he bills as a faux detective novel because the real mystery is not the bad guy that retired UP detective Sunderson pursues, but is the only mystery worth a great book and a great writer, the mystery of himself, a man my age, recently retired as an investigator and three years out of a divorce.
“No matter how much he wanted to nail Dwight committing a felony,” Harrison writes, “to do so illegally would be a curse to carry the rest of his life since he was a memory junkie and never forgave himself for anything.”
And this, about his pal – and psychological opposite — Marion: “Marion was totally without self-concern, thinking that as a human he was essentially a comic figure.”
I suspect Marion may have taken a few long-distance trains trips himself.
(Writing this in the lounge on Friday night with a Jack on the rocks and surrounded by Amish families playing cards and not drinking Jack. I feel a little sacrilegious drinking so close to them.)
I liked sleeping on a moving object, secure in my berth, knowing when I awoke I would be closer to home without making any effort. I woke up around 4 and looked out the window to see pockets of white glowing between boulders in the high California hills. Then rock-and-rolled back into a shallow slumber and got up to a red sunrise and an announcement breakfast was being served in the dining car.
Two men of heft joined me at my table, men so wide that I worried that they couldn’t get their arms free to down their breakfasts of omelets, grits and sausages. They were brothers and retired, from what they never said, and had been visiting a sister in California and travelled almost always by rail because they had the time and liked the food, which did not speak well for their taste in food, which was below average diner fare (and I like good diner grub) with the additional benefit of being served just this side of room temperature.
The oldest brother — gray goatee, glasses, 250 pounds — had one great interest that morning: to find out how much it would cost him to upgrade from a sleeper berth to a so-called bedroom, which has the advantage of having its own itty-bitty bathroom. He had made many calls to Amtrak to get an answer and finally, he said, “a girl in customer service named Julie” (turned out to be the name of the automated Amtrak voice) told him he had to talk to our conductor, who just happened to be walking by just then.
The brother told his tale, explaining he probably didn’t really want to upgrade, just wanted to find out the cost because “I don’t have anything else to do.”
Day Two: Sandia Mountains, N.M.
Yes, the conductor said, there was time a couple years ago when he could book the upgrade, but said Julie was wrong, that authority had been taken from conductors and only someone back in Amtrak central could do it now.
“One hand doesn’t know what’s the other hand is doing,” announced our waitress and this statement, rather than annoying everyone, pleased them because it confirmed what us geezers believe — the world has gone to hell since we gave up running it.
What you do over of these long train trips is try to keep yourself occupied between meals — reading, checking the smart phone, watching the scenery — unless you are Amish. They had many friends on board to talk to and play cards with.
Then you eat.
At lunch, I was paired again with George, the retired music teacher. George likes trains and has ridden most of them, taking trips on lines about to go defunct just so he can say he rode them. He knew the full history of rail in the 20th and 21th centuries and told it all in a slow-and-low Midwestern voice while spending an inordinate time preparing his cheeseburger and then waiting until at least the Nixon years to take his first bite and finished the treatise while compressing vanilla ice cream between his lips, which made me want to run back to my berth to see if I had any drugs that wipe out bad memories.
After seeing hundreds of desperate-looking homes in New Mexico – run-down trailers, tiny stucco cottages, shacks of plywood and corrugated metal, like I had once seen on a hillside in Quito — it came to me that I not seen a single human in those beat-down neighborhoods. Plenty of cars and pickups, from junks to spanking new, and the detritus of attempts at a life, like I have seen in many a Maine yard; plastic toy ‘cars’ faded from red to salmon, swing sets next to rusted appliances, but no people. So I keep a lookout for and finally saw someone, a man with a long never-trimmed gray beard and a head of wild hair to match, dressed in orange and yellow shirt and a windbreaker, walking slowing — an aged hippie, a grateful Dead fan, a believer in marijuana, likely living off disability or his old lady who worked in a nursing home. There is time on a four-day train trip to let the train wheels do the spinning rather than your thoughts and wait to see what hours of having nothing to do will produce: might be a reverie about an old hippie in the desert.
Just before dinner I joked on the phone to my wife that I bet I get stuck again with George, who admitted such was the case when the waitress led him to my table that night: “Stuck with me again.” Which did not stop him from saying things such as ‘they were going to shout down the I & O because the track maintenance was too high, but then and SJT out of Milwaukee started up a commuter service and …”
I ate my gloppy and lukewarm veggie lasagna fast, washed it down with another Jack, skipped dessert and pardoned myself while George was still doing painstaking surgery on his chicken leg. He used to take these trips with his wife, he said, but she died four years ago from cancer. That explained a lot about the poor fellow, but I had listened – well, at least was present for — three straight meals, nodding kindly. Where was the fascinating retired Joyce scholar I expected to share a bottle of Malbec with and together get melancholy over the last scenes in The Dead?
Warren Zevon’s “Nighttime in the Switching Yard” would have the right background music for passing through Hutchinson, Kansas rail yard, with what seemed liked a dozen trains holding a whistle-blowing competition. The soothing rocking of the first night was gone; now the off-kilter tracks were sending the train left and right so violently that I wished I was wearing a helmet to protect my noggin from the hard plastic moldings a few inches from the head of my bunk. Instead, I wrapped my head in a pillow and eventually normal rocking resumed and the whistle contest was down to once every few minutes. I fell asleep planning to have the continental breakfast so I could escape George before he would be even have been served his hot breakfast.
At midday on Saturday, the Chicago skyline showed up and the Southwest Chief leg of the trip was over. Time for a Chicago hot dog and fries at the station and one more night, this time on the Capitol Limited, through Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and into DC. George had got off in Chicago and my dining mate for the remaining meals was an Amtrak official who rides the routes to talk to passenger about their experiences. Like everyone else I met, he knew a lot about trains, but he had the excuse of that being his job. The others liked trains the way I like baseball, my friend Dave likes fishing and my wife likes gardening. I just hope that I would not talk continuously about why Ricky Henderson was the best leadoff man ever to someone who thinks Fenway Park has swing sets and slides.
From D.C.’s glorious Union Station to a prosaic last leg to Boston onboard the high-speed Acela train, crowded with 20-somethings headed back home after a weekend in Washington, Philadelphia or New York.
Into Back Bay on a cold, dark night, up the escalator and the relief of seeing my Naomi waiting at the top for me. All that was left was a three-hour drive home to the middle of Maine.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Star Jason Momoa Comments ‘I Love You Madly’ on On-Screen Khaleesi Emilia Clarke’s Instagram
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Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa left the most swoon-worthy comment on Emilia Clarke's Instagram photo.
Just days after HBO aired the show's final episode, Clarke took to Instagram to promote her interview with The New Yorker, in which she goes into detail about her experience as the Mother of Dragons. But little did we know was that her former co-star was going to hit up the comments section to let his feeling about Khaleesi's fate be known.
“Baby that episode killed me,” Momoa wrote, referring to the Game of Thrones series finale. He then added four heart eye emojis before commenting again, "I love you madly."
Earlier this week, the Aquaman actor livestreamed his reaction over Daenerys Targaryen's shocking death—and let's just say was not happy Jon Snow stabbed her in the back. As fans know, Momoa played Clarke's onscreen husband, Khal Drogo, in Season 1 before he was killed off and the love between them is still VERY real.
"F--k you! F--k you, punk!" he exclaimed. "Let me get this s--t straight. You're going back to what the f--k you did in the first place and you killed Khaleesi. Oh my god… We're gonna go to the bars and we're gonna get in a fight."
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Metric variation of the tibia in the Mediterranean: implications in forensic identification
Kranioti, Elena F., García-Donas, Julieta G., Karell, Mara A., Cravo, Liliana, Ekizoglu, Oguzhan, Apostol, Mario, Cunha, Eugenia (2019) Metric variation of the tibia in the Mediterranean: implications in forensic identification. Forensic Science International, 299 . pp. 223-228. ISSN 0379-0738. (doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.03.044) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Ancestry estimation from skeletal remains is a challenging task, but essential for the creation of a complete biological profile. As such, the study of human variation between populations is important for the fields of biological and forensic anthropology, as well as medicine. Cranial and dental morphological variation have traditionally been linked to geographic affinity resulting in several methods of ancestry estimation, while the postcranial skeleton has been systematically neglected. The current study explores metric variation of the tibia in six Mediterranean populations and its validity in estimating ancestry in the Mediterranean. The study sample includes 909 individuals (470 males and 439 females) from Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Turkey. The sample was divided in two subsamples: a reference and a validation sample. Multinomial regression models were created based on the reference sample and then applied to validation sample. The first model used three variables and resulted in 57% and 56% accuracy for the two samples respectively, while the second model (6 variables) resulted in 80% and 74% respectively. Classification between groups ranged from 28% to 95% for the reference sample and from 15% to 91% for the validation sample. The highest classification accuracy was noted for the Greek sample (95% and 90% for the reference and validation sample respectively), followed by the Turkish sample (74% and 78% respectively). The Spanish, Portuguese and Italian samples presented greater morphological overlap which resulted in lower classification accuracies. The results indicate that although the tibia presents considerable variation amongst neighbour populations is not suitable as a sole skeletal element to separate all groups successfully. A combination of different skeletal elements may be required in order to achieve the levels of reliability required for forensic applications.
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Forensic Anthropology, Ancestry, Skeletal Variation, Tibia, Mediterranean
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1991 Rugby World Cup Final
This is a third in a series of posts that share and discuss some historical data from rugby union football.
This post looks at data collected in real-time from the 1991 Rugby World Cup final between Australia and England. Australia won the game 12-6. The game was played at Twickenham and was refereed by Derek Bevan of Wales.
A transcript of the hand notation is available for download here RWC1991. The methods used are described in this post.
Data from the whole game:
Pens/Fks Conceded
Stoppages for Injury
By team, by half of the game:
Ball in Play time and Elapsed Time
Ball in Play
(BiP)
Percentage of Game BiP
Game Total
Performance Ratios
In previous posts I have looked at two ratios:
Kicks: Passes
Lineouts: Scrums
In the 1991 Final these ratios for England were:
and for Australia:
A Phenomenology of Moments
The transcribed record of the game (RWC1991) offers an opportunity to undertake the discussion of tactics some years after the event. In doing so I am keen to explore how performance analysts might use insights from descriptive analysis, Mongin’s (2009) game-theoretic analysis, the work of Kiser and Welser (2007) on analytic narratives and game theory and from exciting developments in presentation in the Snow Fall Project (2012).
The 1991 Final is an aggregation of events that has a rich time series of data to explore. I thought I would use this post as an opportunity to account for how I compiled these moments.
There were 121 activity cycles in the game (60 first half, 61 second half). (An activity cycle is defined as play between the referee’s whistles or the start of action without a whistle when the ball was introduced into play, for example, a scrum.)
I noted game actions in the following ways:
Time, Activity Cycles and Other Information
Scoring Sequence
By minute, by half. Home team first (England):
England’s kicks in the game:
I tried to record accurately who (shirt number) kicked the ball, when, at what time in the game. I notated if a player kicked with his left foot. I recorded kick off and restart kicks too. In the final, I noted one kick by a forward Wade Dooley in 27th minute in the first half. From these notations, my record of Jonathan Webb (shirt number 15) is:
kicked the ball 16 times in the game (9 first half, 7 second half). 2 of his sixteen kicks were left footed. He was successful with two kicks at goal (22nd and 31st minutes of the second half) and missed two kicks at goal in the first half (36th and 41st minutes).
Rob Andrew (shirt number 10) kicked 31 times in the game (13 first half, 18 second half).
No England player kicked the ball in the last seven minutes of the game.
In all my hand notation activities I was keen to record the number of passes and phases of play in a game. My coaching interest was in continuity of play and so this was a very important measure and one to which I paid very close attention as I was recording events in real-time.
My record of the final for England is:
I notated 172 passes for England (66 first half, 106 second half) in the game. The first phase play England had was in the 6th minute of the first half. This was a three phase play notated 4/4/0. There was a four phase play in the 13th minute 2/D/1/5 in which the second phase involved a drive by a player but no pass. Towards the end of the half (37th minute) England had a five phase play but conceded a penalty on the fifth phase.
England’s kick to pass ratio in the second half was 0.26 which is a fascinating ratio given England’s pattern of play in games leading up to the Final. The Wikipedia record notes:
England had reached the final by playing an attritional, forward dominated game, but appeared to respond to heavy public criticism from David Campese and rejected this style of play in the final. They chose to play a more expansive and open game, but failed to master it in the short time they had to practice it. The change in approach and the hope that this might unsettle the Australians proved flawed.
The site for the 2015 RWC has this retrospective too.
In the second half England built a six phase play in the 30th minute that became more dynamic in the fourth and fifth phases (two sets of four passes). Australia conceded a penalty in the sixth phase and Jonathan Webb kicked a goal from it to make the game 6-12.
This phase was notated as 1/D/1/4/4/P. In the Pens/Fks conceded notation Australia is recorded as conceding the eighth penalty/free kick of the second half and there is a note (a tick) to confirm that a goal resulted and there is confirmation in the kicks record for Jonathan Webb. There is a note too of Michael Lynagh (Australian shirt number 10) kicking the ball for the restart and it going long into the England 22.
For England, my record for the lineouts was:
This record notes 14 first half lineouts and 11 second half lineouts. My aim was to record the sequence of lineout throws, where the ball ended up after the throw, the type of lineout (variation) and the time in the game. From this record England threw the ball into the first three lineouts of the game. The ball went to the back twice and to the middle once. Note that here the number in the brackets relates to lineout position not shirt number. In the final quarter of the game, England only used two man lineouts. The ball went to the front jumper on three of the four occasions. England did not have a lineout put in from the 9th minute in the second half until the 29th minute.
England had an overall Lineouts:Scrums ratio of 1.56.
In the Final, England had the following scrum record:
Englad put the ball into four of the first five scrums. In this record the link between scrum 4 and 5 in the first half indicates that the scrum was reset. In my record I wanted to keep a record of discrete scrums as each attempt to feed the scrum was potentially and activity cycle when using real-time hand notation. In the second half England put the ball into 7 of the first 10 scrums in the half.
Penalties/ Free Kicks Conceded
I have been interested in the discipline each team shows in regards to the laws of the game. In the Final, England’s record was:
This game was refereed by Derek Bevan (Wales). It is interesting that the first two penalties were awarded against England. After conceding their fourth penalty in the 26th minute (from which Australia scored) of the first half, England went 29 minutes without conceding another penalty. Australia scored from the second penalty in the second half (27 minutes) and this took the game score to 3-12.
I was interested in the affect stoppages for injury had on a game and so kept a record of these incidents at a time when replacements were only allowed for injury. (The Replacement of injured players was added to the 1968-69 Laws. Tactical substitutions were introduced in 1996 (three replacements).) In the Final, England had four stoppages for injury:
This record uses the player’s shirt number and the time in the game of the stoppage. There were stoppages for injuries to three backline players in the first half (Simon Halliday (14), Rob Andrew (10) and Jeremy Guscott (12)) and a forward in the second half (Jeff Probyn (3)).
Moving to a Phenomenography of Moments
Philippe Mignon has a fascinating way of looking at historical data ( A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Waterloo Campaign and Some Comments on the Analytic Narrative Project). He uses military data to investigate whether outcomes might have been different. I think his insights and the availability of phenomenographic enquiry (Marston, 1981) to research living memory can add a new dimension to the analysis of performance.
My aim in sharing these data is to provide a resource to investigate the possibility of accounting for performance and establishing ideal types of performance … and hopefully stimulating the development of analytic narratives.
I am imagining an outcome that looks like the remarkable New York Times Snow Fall Project (2012).
I wonder whether any of this resonates with you too.
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Police Lies – Sewer Plant Smells
Kelly Burke September 8, 2017 September 11, 2017 Georgia Laws, Liberty, Uncategorized
Last week I wrote about a case where police officers sat around and conjured up a way to avoid the Fourth Amendment. Today I write about when prosecutors and the court determine to do their best to deprive a citizen of the right to a fair trial.
Williams was a in training to do his job as a federal law enforcement officer when he assigned to live temporarily in Georgia. Williams was a veteran and had a Florida drivers license. He was stopped in Georgia for allegedly speeding when the discussion came up about his lack of a Georgia drivers license. The officer did not write a speeding ticket but did write a ticket for driving without a license, although Williams showed his Florida license. The officer suggested that Williams go get a Georgia license, which Williams did the same day, and Georgia even waived the fee since Williams was a veteran.
When Williams went to court, the prosecutor said “Ah hah! Since you got a Georgia license, you admit that you violated Georgia law that requires you to get a license if you live in Georgia more than 30 days!” Williams, without a lawyer, asked for a trial and the court convicted him, despite Williams never having a driving offense and despite the prosecutor changing the charge, mid-trial, from “no license” to “driving without a Georgia license after living in the state for more than 30 days.” The trial judge convicted Williams.
Fortunately the appellate court saw through the charade that the DeKalb Recorders Court (the equivalent of a traffic court) had perpetrated. The appellate court chastized quite fiercely the prosecutor and judge for this miscarriage of justice, pointing out five different times when the government or court could have done the right thing and dismissed this case.
“The state has the power to take liberty, but commensurate with that power is the duty to do justice,” Judge Michael Boggs wrote, citing Wesley v. State, 225 Ga. 22 (1969). “Justice was denied … in this case, and accordingly, the judgment of conviction is reversed.”
One of the inherent flaws in our criminal justice system is when prosecutors, and judges, become part of the “team” and think that convicting citizens is their job. The job is to do justice. Prosecuting someone because there is a statute somewhere that might appear to make their conduct criminal is just as indecent as not doing ones job at all. I call it the sewer effect.
When you work at the sewer plant, everything smells. – Kelly Burke (2010).
For those that need an explanation, when you work at the sewer plant, you might not notice when something smells bad, even at home. If you work at the courthouse all the time, and all you see is “bad people”, you think everyone is bad; you see cops doing “God’s work” and believe cops all the time; and you work with “good people” (prosecutors and judges) and tend to favor them. The best way to avoid that trap is term limits, but I only hear term limits when it comes to the legislative branch. I say term limits for everybody. But I’m obviously in the minority.
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The northern rainforests of the Congo Basin comprise the second-largest collection of rainforests in the world, second only to the Amazon in South America. Along with the mighty Congo River, the Shanga and Mambili help to drain this basin and provide access to hidden gems of the forest—the wealth of endemic wildlife and some of the world’s last flourishing Pygmy settlements.
Odzala-Kokoua National Park is in the northern region and was officially proclaimed a park in 1935 by the French administration, making it one of the oldest in Africa and one of the least disturbed. There is rich ecological diversity here among the steep hills and dense forests, swamps, and some grassy clearings where wildlife often congregate. Hundreds of birds fly through the lofty, thick foliage, reaching up to the blue heavens. The vibrant red tails of the African grey parrots pop against the green trees. The Lekoli and Kokoua rivers give life, fed by often abundant rains, making this a fertile area where monkeys, buffaloes, antelopes, and crocodiles make their home.
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Billy Wharton
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1 2011 YDS Winter Conference
2 Socialist Party USA support for OWS
3 Left Forum 2012
Billy Wharton is the co-chair of the Socialist Party USA and the editor of The Socialist and the Socialist WebZine[1].
His articles have recently appeared in the Washington Post, Monthly Review Webzine, Dissident Voice, The Indypendent, Common Dreams and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Billy Wharton lives in the Pelham Bay section of the Bronx.[2]
2011 YDS Winter Conference
On the weekend of March 18th-20th, 2011, the Young Democratic Socialists held their annual Winter outreach conference "Their Crisis, Our Pain: The Democratic Socialist Response to the Great Recession". Cornel West "will be the featured speaker on Saturday the 19th, and we will also host John Nichols, Bertha Lewis, Mark Engler, and Dan Cantor from the Working Families Party.
Other listed speakers included Komozi Woodard, Corey Walker, Fabricio Rodriguez, Christian Parenti, Stephanie Fairyington, Christine Kelly, Sheila Collins, Billy Wharton, Liz Shuler, Martin Weinstein, Michelle O'Brien, Skip Roberts, Joseph Schwartz.
Panels on race, the environment, organizing, and other topics will allow participants to learn from and communicate with fellow activists on some of the most important domestic and international issues. The event is perfect for both newcomers to Democratic Socialism/YDS, as well as activist veterans.
Add your name to the list here and you'll be notified when online registration goes live. Invite all your friends!
Location, Bayard Rustin High School 351 W 18th St New York, NY 10011.[3]
Socialist Party USA support for OWS
Members of the Socialist Party of New York City were arrested October 2, 2011, during a march over the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street demonstration. Arrestees included Billy Wharton, co-chair of the Socialist Party USA, Lawrence Rockwood, chair of the Socialist Party of New York State, Kristin Schall, chair of the Socialist Party of New York City and SP-NYC members Nick Pelman and Nick Daka. The group faces misdemeanor charges for disorderly conduct and one felony charge for criminal riot. Court dates are set for mid-November.
The march and action on the Brooklyn Bridge were a part of the ongoing occupation of Downtown Manhattan by the activist group Occupy Wall Street. Socialist Party USA members have actively supported this occupation since its inception and will continue to collaborate with all those interested in challenging the power of the richest 1% and Wall Street.
“The media has claimed that the protesters have no demands”, said Billy Wharton, co-chair Socialist Party USA. “Socialists have demands. We want a democratic society – we demand healthcare for all, the right to a good job and to live in a peaceful, non-militaristic world. That’s what we were marching over the Brooklyn Bridge for.”
The five arrested socialists join dozens of other Socialist Party USA members who have participated in direct actions since the economic crisis began in 2008. These actions have challenged anti-union legislation, have opposed budget cuts and have called for an end to war and occupation.[4]
Left Forum 2012
Party Building and Organizing on the Left
This is a round table dialogue with various parties on the Left. It is a discussion that will look at the rewards and challenges of building a party of the Left, areas of common experience and difference with other Leftists, and how future action may be structured to assist our party building efforts.
Chair: Stephon Boatwright
Speakers: Billy Wharton, Socialist Party USA, Peter Ikeler, Socialist Alternative, Libero Della Piana, Communist Party USA Michael Hirsch, Democratic Socialists of America, Larry Holmes, Workers World Party, Ahmed Shawki, International Socialist Organization, Juliet Ucelli, Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
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↑ YDS website, Spring Conference, Their Crisis, Our Pain: The Democratic Socialist Response to the Great Recession, accessed Feb. 23, 2011
↑ LINKS. Eyewitness reports: The 99% occupy Wall Street; The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge; Unionists join in, Oct. 3. 2011
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Utah’s Novel Plan For Medicaid Expansion Opens Door To Spending Caps Sought By GOP
Utah’s proposal to limit federal and state funding on Medicaid is a radical change. Anti-poverty advocates are concerned that caps could limit how many people are enrolled and restrict services. They also worry other states would adopt a similar plan.
By Phil Galewitz February 14, 2019
(Caitlin Hillyard/KHN illustration; Getty Images)
Utah this week became the 35th state to approve expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, but advocates for the poor worry its unusual financing could set a dangerous precedent and lead to millions of people losing coverage across the country.
That’s because the plan includes unprecedented annual limits on federal and state spending.
Those restrictions would be a radical change for Medicaid. Since it began in 1966, the state-federal health program for low-income residents has been an open-ended entitlement for anyone who meets eligibility criteria. State and federal spending must keep pace with enrollment.
Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, is concerned that the state and federal Medicaid funding caps can limit how many people are enrolled and what services they receive. She said no state has before tried to cap its own funding.
“This is a way for the state to look like it’s doing expansion when they are really doing very little,” she said.
If Utah’s plan is approved, Alker added, other states that have already expanded Medicaid and some that are considering it will likely seek to strike a similar deal.
Limiting spending on Medicaid has been a longtime goal of fiscal conservatives, but opposition to the idea helped blow up Republican efforts to repeal and replace the ACA in 2017.
Also fueling criticism: The law signed by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday expands Medicaid only to people earning up to 100 percent of the federal poverty level instead of the 138 percent mark set by the ACA and approved by Utah voters in a referendum supporting expansion in November. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have refused in the past to accept that condition.
The proposal also includes a work requirement for adults who gain coverage through the expansion.
Utah’s proposal needs federal approval, and state officials said they hope to have that in time to expand Medicaid to 90,000 adults on April 1.
The state expects to adopt annual spending caps after negotiations with the Trump administration.
Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump tried to cap federal Medicaid payments as part of their health law repeal efforts in 2017. But that move met stiff opposition from Democrats, hospital and patient advocates and some Republican lawmakers. They warned it would lead to cuts in benefits and enrollment.
Utah’s proposal to limit federal spending was necessary to get the Trump administration to approve its application to only partially expand Medicaid, the state’s top Medicaid official said.
“We were looking for a way to make our waiver more attractive to the federal government,” said Nathan Checketts, Utah’s Medicaid director.
He said the Trump administration last year was skeptical of the state’s proposal to expand Medicaid to adults with incomes below 100 percent of the federal poverty level — about $12,500 annual income for an individual — instead of 138 percent of the poverty level, about $17,000 in annual income. That’s because it would mean higher federal spending, since people earning between 100 percent and 138 percent of poverty would be eligible for federal subsidies to help pay for premiums for insurance they buy on the ACA exchange.
By capping funding at a negotiated per capita rate, the federal government could better control its spending, Checketts said.
Under Trump, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has not approved requests by Arkansas and Massachusetts to get the higher federal match rate for partial expansion.
CMS, Checkett added, has been open to a deal since after Election Day. “They’ve become more receptive to our request than they were last year, but there are no guarantees,” he said.
Under the proposed deal, the federal government would pay 90 percent of the costs for anyone coming into Medicaid through expansion — the rate set by the ACA. In traditional Medicaid, the state receives a 70 percent federal match.
The federal spending cap would vary based on how many people are enrolled under expansion. If the costs for covering the expansion population exceeded the federal spending cap, the state could limit how many people it enrolled, Checketts said.
The law also includes a state funding cap so Utah officials can limit enrollment if spending were to exceed the budget, Checketts said. The federal government would also have to approve a state spending cap.
“The state has to balance its budget every year, and this allows the state to align its budget and a certain amount of money to put toward this population and not any more,” he said.
If CMS does not grant the waiver for a partial expansion, the bill requires the state to establish a full expansion in 2020.
Jessie Mandle, senior health policy analyst for Voices for Utah Children, an advocacy group, said the plan is tough to swallow for advocates who have been fighting for expansion for more than six years.
“This will create more barriers and restraints to care,” she said. “This was not the way voters chose to expand.”
Utah’s plan to seek a per capita spending cap comes even though the state’s per capita Medicaid spending is among the lowest, according to a report last year by the Utah Foundation, a nonpartisan research group.
The average cost for each Medicaid enrollee in Utah was $5,326 in 2014, the most recent year for which that figure is available, the report found. That number was the 10th lowest in the United States.
Nationwide, Utah also had the lowest percentage of its population enrolled in Medicaid as of 2016, the report said.
Phil Galewitz: pgalewitz@kff.org, @philgalewitz
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10 of the Kardashians' Biggest Blowout Fights of All Time
posted by Rose Wythe - Jun 21, 2019
The Kardashian-Jenners have been involved in their fair share of public blowouts, ranging from inner-family feuds (remember the time Kim told Kourtney she was the “least exciting to look at,” and told her she didn’t want her at her photoshoot?!) to more public fights (P!nk got into it with the family after criticizing the famous reality stars for the way they showcase their bodies). After last night’s episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” (which detailed the cheating scandal between Kylie’s former BFF Jordyn Woods and Khloe’s baby daddy, Tristan Thompson), we decided ot take a look back at some of the most explosive Kardashian fights and list them here. Scroll on!
1. Kim Tells Kourtney She Doesn’t Need Her at the Photo Shoot
Kim tried to plan a meeting to schedule around an upcoming photoshoot, and Kourtney tried to put in her two cents, suggesting she do it in the morning. Kim clearly didn’t appreciate Kourtney chiming in to a conversation between her and Kris, and it caused Kim to go ballistic! Kim let Kourtney know that she did not want her to be part of the photoshoot, and as Kourtney exited the room, Kim announced that Kourtney is the “least exciting to look at,” putting the nail in the coffin.
2. P!nk calls out Kim for naked photos
“It may not ever bring you as much 'attention' or bank notes as using your body, your sex, your t**s and a***s, but women like you don't need that kind of 'attention.'” Clearly P!nk was not a fan of Kim utilizing her bodily features to attract attention on the internet, and made this public on Twitter. P!nk was asked about the incident by Andy Cohen, but she dodged answering him. Then, Kim had other celebrities throw shade in her direction. Looks like not everyone will raise their glasses to the super family.
3. Was Drake’s “In My Feelings” a shot at Kim?
In Drake’s 2018 summer banger, “In My Feelings,” it is believed that the “Kiki” he mentions refers to Kim, who is often called the nickname by family members. Fans across the world jumped at the idea of a possible affair between Drake and Kim after the song was released, but Kim and Kanye have fired back on Twitter towards the Canadian-born rapper.
4. Handling [Chelsea] Handler
The Kardashian sisters were not fans of Chelsea Handler comparing them to Donald Trump, but it seems as if now Kim has changed her stance and they are on good terms. However, Khloé still has beef with Chelsea: She told Andy Cohen that she is not a fan of people who talk behind their backs while trying to act like nothing's wrong when they see them in person. Looks like the sisters have differing opinions on the matter.
5. Kourtney Cannot Hold Back Tears During Intense Therapy Session
Kourtney attended a dramatic therapy session in which she revealed a disconnect between her and her sisters. She expressed how Khloé and Kim do not have her back and shed quite a few tears doing so. Although she is constantly traveling to see her ex and is constantly late to TV shoots and meetings, Kourtney let out her emotions.
6. Kim’s Bentley Was Stolen By … Her Brother?
Rob Kardashian apparently did not feel it was necessary to tell his older sister that he was taking out her new Bentley for a spin, and Kim completely freaked out when she noticed her whip was missing. It was quite a scene when Kim was standing with a police officer describing her missing Bentley, just to come across her younger brother at the wheel. Rob saw it as all fun and games, but it was more than enough to drive Kim crazy and see her anger be unleashed on the youngest of the siblings.
7. Khloe Talks Her Way into Being Uninvited from Kim’s Wedding
Kim found out Khloé had been talking about Kris Humphries behind her back, and it made Kim upset. Although their marriage only ended up lasting 73 days, Kim clearly was not happy with the idea of Khloé being skeptical about her getting married to the former NBA player. Is Khloé a genius for forecasting the eventual fallout of the marriage? Because it certainly seems like she sniffed it out ahead of time. Kim ended up “uninviting” Khloé from the wedding after the conversation out of frustration.
8. Kris Gives Kim an Earful After Finding Out About Her Helping Caitlyn Get Ready for the ESPYS
Khloé decided it was a good idea to call her mother with Kim after she heard that Kris may be upset with Kim. Apparently, Kim helping Caitlyn get ready for the ESPYS made her a “traitor” to the family and disloyal to the woman who birthed her. These claims had Kim and Khloé in shock, and even Foodgod (AKA Jonathan Cheban) was baffled by the situation. Apparently, Kris being on good terms with Caitlyn does not mean that Kim had the freedom to assist her parent without consent from other family members, and Kris couldn’t hold back the tears.
9. Caitlyn’s Book Has the Family Fuming!
The Secrets of My Life was meant to expose the hidden truths of Cailtyn Jenner’s life to the world, but it turns out that her family was very displeased by a lot of what was written about them. Kris went off on a tangent about how Cailtyn came across as lying in the book. Kris was very upfront about how much the book made her upset and vocalized this to her kids, not holding back one bit.
10. Kourtney Refuses to Be on Kim’s App and the Bad Blood Spills
Kim clearly credits all of Kourtney’s fame to herself and was wildly upset when Kourtney refused to be a part of her game. Kourtney said that if Kim phrased her involvement as a “favor,” then she may have taken part as a character. Kim wanted her game to “mirror her real life,” which would clearly include all the sisters, and Kourtney’s refusal to participate had negative effects on Kim’s realistic app. Whether or not Kourtney owes Kim a “favor” for her sister’s assistance in her fame, it was clear that Kourtney wanted no part of the app and Kim had to do some maneuvering to get her way.
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Ajax newborn photographer – Ajax lifestyle session – Ajax, Ontario
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Check out these SCRUMPTIOUS twin girls and their big sis in this lifestyle session in their home. Absolutely precious.
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A bit more about Ajax, Ontario
“In 1973, the Town of Ajax conducted a survey of potential transit ridership in Ajax. This led to the creation of Ajax Transit with bus service beginning in 1973 under a contract with Charterways Transportation Limited, which operated service using a fleet of school buses, with heaviest ridership between the Pickering Beach area and downtown Ajax.
In the late 1970s, the town brought the operations in house and began operations on the Elm, Duffins, and Beach routes, which exist to this day. In the early 1980s, the Harwood, Westney Heights, and Village routes began service. Service on the Puckrin route began in the late 1980s.
In 2001, Ajax Transit and the neighbouring Pickering Transit were amalgamated into the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority (APTA), which operated under the joint ownership and oversight of Ajax and Pickering.
In 2006, APTA was amalgamated into Durham Region Transit along with the other municipal transit services in Durham Region.
Road transportation in Ajax is dominated by Highway 401, which runs east–west through the town, dividing it in half. Access to Highway 401 both east and west is available via Westney Road and Salem Road. Only four streets allow transportation from the north end of town to the south end of town by crossing over or under Highway 401. These streets are (from west to east) Church Street, Westney Road, Harwood Avenue and Salem Road. Lakeridge Road crosses the highway, but it is traditionally held to be the border between the towns of Ajax and Whitby. Notable streets that run parallel to the highway are (from north to south) Taunton Road, Rossland Road, Kingston Road (Highway 2) and Bayly Street. At Salem Road is where Highway 401 narrows down to 3 lanes each way causing a severe traffic bottleneck eastbound during rush hours and special holidays due to increase travel to Ottawa and Montreal.
The closest international airport to Ajax is Toronto Pearson International Airport, located 50 kilometres to the west in Mississauga.”
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FIC: Crossing Lines (SGA Gen) - River's Run My Flow Of Ideas
Tags: fan fiction, john sheppard, rodney mckay, stargate atlantis
Subject: FIC: Crossing Lines (SGA Gen)
Title: Crossing Lines
Category: Angst, emotional h/c, episode tag.
Word Count: ~3100
Rating: T
Characters: Sheppard and McKay
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Anything upto and including Miller's Crossing.
A/N: Although there was plenty to spur my slasher side in Miller's Crossing (seriously, Rodney walked into John's room like he did that everyday and John didn't bat an eye that he didn't even knock) but this one is gen. Thanks as always to Koschka for the quick beta.
Summary: So many choices, so many consequences, so many lines crossed, and for some, there was no crossing back. Which was why Rodney would be haunted in the night by one hundred and fifty thousand faceless dead, and why John would always be haunted by the dying face of the one. Tag for Miller's Crossing.
by liketheriver
That’s all it had taken, just one statement from McKay, for John to walk through the gate and back to Earth. When Rodney had showed up with those words on his lips and a look of distraught determination on his face, John had stood and headed immediately toward the door to his office where McKay stood.
“What’s happened?” He was expecting another Wraith Hive ship on the way, or ZPM on the verge of implosion, or… hell, any number of other disasters.
But when Rodney blurted, “Jeannie’s been kidnapped,” and Sheppard took in the civilian clothes, the backpack, and another emotion in the scientist’s eyes that he was seeing more and more often… guilt… he knew he was heading through the gate. “Sam’s convinced the SGC I can skip the midway quarantine since we just got a clean bill of health last night from our post-mission physicals. And since you were cleared, as well, I was hoping…”
“When do we leave?” he asked, making his way at a quick pace down the hallway.
“Ten minutes. Is that enough time to gather a few things you’ll need?”
Stopping at the split off between the gateroom and the hallway that led to the rest of the city, John could see even that amount of time was too much in Rodney’s opinion. “Give me five,” he compromised and skipped on the toothbrush and change of underwear he could pick up back on Earth and instead went in search of the one thing they couldn’t get back there‒ Ronon.
That’s all it had taken, just one statement from McKay and Sheppard had crossed over into another galaxy. And it had just taken another one from the same man to have him crossing over into territory that had his stomach tied in a permanent knot.
When Rodney had told John he wanted to let the Wraith feed on him, Sheppard’s decision had been instantaneous and nothing, not even McKay’s anger or sulking or the thought that he might never speak to John again was enough to change his mind. John had put too much time and effort, too much of himself, into keeping Rodney alive over the years to have him just offer himself up to a Wraith as a midnight snack. He could understand Rodney’s position, could sympathize, but even though he knew there was a good chance he was condemning McKay’s sister to death, he couldn’t bring himself to let Rodney make that sacrifice.
Lt. Colonel John Sheppard could justify the hell out of why he wouldn’t let Rodney follow through with his plan. McKay was their best and brightest. The expedition needed him now more than ever, especially considering the threat of the Wraith and Replicators. The security of Atlantis was their top priority and Dr. Rodney McKay was key to that security.
But if John were honest with himself, the initial response had been a lot less strategic and a lot mores selfish. Carson, Elizabeth… he’d be damned if he added Rodney to the list of friends, of family, that he’d lost. And as much as he tried to use the strategic arguments to convince Rodney to meet his personal agenda, he finally pulled the rank card and flat out said no. Not that he was fooling himself into thinking that alone would keep the physicist from trying. McKay was a stubborn son of a bitch even on a good day, and when his logic was clouded by emotions…
That was the only reason Sheppard could come up with for why Rodney went into that building where he was abducted without waiting for John and Ronon to back him up. Hell, McKay going in first, without even a fucking gun, just convinced John he wasn’t thinking straight and it was up to him to make sure Rodney didn’t do anything rash, like swapping his life for his sisters. Which was why Sheppard had the lab where the Wraith was being held locked down before going to talk to Wallace. Because if McKay was nothing else, he was persistent to an infuriating fault.
Looking across the table where they sat in the cafeteria back on Atlantis, Sheppard knew that Rodney wasn’t about to let this go, either. And maybe that wasn’t a bad thing. Given the way McKay had looked at him when he realized what had happened with Wallace in the lab back at the SGC, John wasn’t sure the scientist would be able to meet his eyes again much less talk. But a week with his sister’s family must have had the relief John had seen in Rodney’s face winning out over the shock and the uneasiness at what John had done that had also been flickering there. And McKay strolling into Sheppard’s room upon his return, like it was any other day on Atlantis, and asking John to grab something to eat, which was the man’s answer to everything, had been the reprieve John had been hoping for.
“Something wrong with your sandwich, McKay?”
“What?” Rodney glanced up from where he was picking pieces of crust off the bread. “Oh, no. I just ate so much tofu based meats at Jeannie’s that I think my body may be rejecting the real stuff.”
John’s lips curled at the thought of Rodney sitting with a week’s worth of vegetarian meals in front of him, politely complimenting his sister for every single one. “Make any midnight runs for McDonald’s?”
“She kept hiding the keys to her new car,” he sighed.
“Doesn’t that thing just have a pushbutton start?”
“Son of a bitch!” Rodney grumbled with a shake of his head. “I could have been eating Quarter Pounders with Cheese instead of tofu strata.”
Sheppard’s grin just spread. “It probably did you some good.”
McKay shrugged. “It made Jeannie happy, and Caleb.”
Taking a bite of his own sandwich, John observed, “That’s what’s important. Isn’t it?”
“I suppose,” McKay relented. “Although I wish they had just let me buy them two cars and eat what I wanted… and have a good stiff drink.”
“Did Jeannie lock the liquor cabinet, too?” John asked with an amused raised eyebrow.
“It was probably for the best. After everything we’d been through, I doubt I would have stopped after one.”
Sheppard knew that feeling all too well. The only thing that had kept John from nursing a hangover the next day had been the fact that he’d been too exhausted to get drunk. He’d being awake for too long, going through corporate paperwork, searching for clues to McKay and Jeannie’s whereabouts, and then the adrenaline of the rescue only to find out that they were nowhere out of the woods yet, that the hard part had just begun. By the time it was all over, the first beer he’d had with Ronon in the hotel bar had wiped him out and he’d gone back to his room and collapsed to sleep until it was time for the final debrief and trip back to Atlantis.
But John tried to keep the conversation light. “Afraid you’d make a fool of yourself in front of the family? Start singing the Canadian national anthem with a tofurkey on your head?”
“Afraid I’d slip up and tell Jeannie what really happened,” he mumbled.
Sheppard’s sandwich froze in midair. “You didn’t tell her?”
“Not everything. Not what I was going… or what you… did.” He couldn’t imagine how Jeannie would have reacted to that news, but John doubted it would be with enthusiastic approval, so it was probably for the best that McKay had withheld that information.
When John simply nodded in understanding, Rodney dropped his sandwich back to his plate, and finally met Sheppard’s eyes. “I brought a bottle of whisky back with me. You want some?”
“God, yes.”
The balcony they went to was one that gave them a view of two of the visible moons, and they were sitting with their backs to the wall, halfway through the bottle, when Rodney finally said, “He really wasn’t a bad guy.”
Sheppard didn’t have to ask who Rodney was talking about. He knew all too well, because he’d been thinking the same thing even before he went to talk to Wallace. Truth was, he’d been counting on that fact.
“No, he wasn’t.”
John had told himself before he walked into the room where Wallace was waiting that there was a line he wouldn’t cross. He’d told himself he wouldn’t ask the man to give himself up to save Jeannie, but he knew, if push had come to shove, he probably would have. He’d presented the facts, guilted the hell out of him with a few photographs, and waited to see if the man had a soul after all. Ends up he did, maybe more than John did himself.
McKay took another drink straight from the bottle and passed it over to Sheppard. “I mean, sure he kidnapped me and my sister, intentionally injected Jeannie with nanites, and nearly killed her as a result. But his heart was in the right place.”
With a shrug that dragged his shoulder along Rodney’s, John took another drink himself. “Can’t say as I’d have done any different if I’d been in his shoes.”
“Can’t say as you didn’t.” McKay held Sheppard’s gaze for a few seconds before staring up at the moons.
John let his own eyes follow up to the sky. “I couldn’t let Jeannie’s family go on without her. Not if there was a chance to stop it.”
Rodney’s eyes never left the heavens. “It means a lot to me, you know, that you care enough about Jeannie and her family to do something like that.”
“There’s more to Jeannie’s family than just Caleb and Madison, and there were more reasons than the welfare of the Millers to keep her alive.” John took another drink, because, really, if not for the booze, he doubted he would have admitted as much as he had already. “And if you ever suggest doing something like you did again, I’ll kick your ass until you’re the one with two broken legs.”
With a roll of his head along the wall they were leaning against, McKay snorted. “You had no right to stop me. It was my choice. I was the one who would have had to live with Jeannie’s death hanging over my head.”
“And who do you thing would have had to live with your death hanging over his head if I’d let you?”
“This wasn’t your fault, John.”
“Maybe not, but it wasn’t your fault either.”
“But I dragged Jeannie into it when I started emailing her…”
“And you dragged me into it when you told me what you wanted to do. You tell me you plan to kill yourself; I’m going to stop you. Get used to it.” John slammed the bottle back into Rodney’s chest. “Actually, don’t get used to it because it’s never going to happen again. Am I clear?”
Rodney gave him a condescending grin. “Turnabout’s a bitch. Huh, Sheppard?” The smile remained even as he took another swig.
“Don’t try to turn this around on me, McKay. We’re talking about you.” Taking the bottle, John lifted it to the smirk on his own lips. “You should like that; it’s your favorite topic.”
“Not tonight.”
“How selfless of you.”
Rodney snorted again. “You stopped the only selfless act I’ve ever attempted.”
“That’s not true,” John argued, but when McKay just stared at him blandly, John frowned. “Not entirely, anyway.”
Seemingly satisfied, Rodney turned his attention back to the stars with a sloppy twirl of his hand. “It would have been a good way to go. Noble. Self-sacrificing. It would have been a hell of way to be remembered.”
“I don’t think Jeannie would have liked to remember you that way. Ever stop to think how she would have felt to wake up and find out what you’d done?”
“It would be a better way to remember me than as the man who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the Pegasus Galaxy.”
“Rodney,” John sighed exhaustedly, “we’ve been over this before. You can’t blame yourself for what the Replicators have done.”
“But if we had just left their planet when we had the ZedPM…”
Sheppard cut him off. “Did you hear what you said? We, McKay. You want to take the blame, fine. But that means you’re blaming me, too. Is that what you want to do?” When Rodney remained silent, John asked warily, “Rodney?”
“We… we should have thought things through a little better before turning the kill switch back on in the Replicators.”
“We don’t always have the luxury to think things through,” John sighed.
“Did you have that luxury back at the SGC with Wallace?”
John had thought about it, no doubt, even given their limited time frame. And there had been plenty of reasons not to approach Wallace. But every one of them went out the window when he remembered Rodney standing there offering to sacrifice himself for his sister. When he got down to the heart of the matter, the fact was Jeannie didn’t deserve to die. She had done everything in her power to help Wallace and, while McKay may have unintentionally brought her onto the businessman’s radar, Wallace was the one who took her, Wallace was the one who infected her with the nanites, and Wallace was the one who could make it right. More than that, Wallace was the one who should make it right. Sheppard had just presented him with the chance to do that.
“I don’t regret talking to him, Rodney.” He might have regretted that it had come to that, that he was the one to do it, but in the end, Jeannie had lived and so had McKay. “He was the one who screwed up in the first place and he knew it.”
“He’s not the only one.” Rodney shook his head. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes on this expedition since we first arrived in Pegasus, haven’t we?”
Sheppard looked into the blue eyes staring at him, pleading with him to… what? Agree? Disagree? Clarify which because he really wasn’t sure?
“Yeah, we have. But we always did it with the best of intentions.”
“Just like Wallace,” Rodney observed.
“Just like Wallace,” John agreed.
McKay leaned his head back again and closed his eyes. “He wasn’t a bad guy.”
“He’d lost everything… everything except what made him want to do whatever it took to save his daughter. He just took that same resolve and applied it to righting a wrong, applied it to saving Jeannie. He’d crossed a line and he was willing to do whatever it took to cross back over.”
“He wasn’t a bad guy,” Rodney repeated.
John looked at the bottle in his hand, considered taking another drink, then decided against it. It’s not like he could dull away his memories of watching the Wraith feed on Wallace anyway. Just like he doubted Rodney would numb the guilt associated with the deaths on the worlds destroyed by the Replicators. So many choices, so many consequences, so many lines crossed, and for some, there was no crossing back. Which was why Rodney would be haunted in the night by one hundred and fifty thousand faceless dead, and why John would always be haunted by the dying face of the one. But as long as he could still see the face of the man sitting next to him in the light of day, John thought it might be okay. It sure helped him to think that he’d made the right choice when he crossed through that doorway and presented Wallace with the situation they were facing.
“He wasn’t a bad guy,” Sheppard admitted. “And neither are we.”
There was a lot to be said about doing things for the right reasons, listening to your gut, your heart, even when your head was telling you something else.
“You think?” McKay asked with more than a little desperation in his voice.
“I know it.” And he did, without a shadow of a doubt.
“I think I might know it, too.”
John raised his eyebrows at the less than confident concurrence. “Way to be decisive, Rodney.”
“Well, the last time I made a decision you shot it down.”
Sheppard was unfazed by the grumpy response. “That’s because it was a shitty decision. I hold veto authority over shitty decisions.”
“And that’s another thing; you seem to be under some delusion that you outrank me somehow…”
John cut him off before he could get into that. “Would you rather I had said yes?” Rodney went silent with his mouth still open. “Just waltzed you right in there, slapped you on the shoulder, and told the Wraith to chow down?” McKay’s mouth snapped shut and John snorted. “You should be thanking me for exercising my veto rights.”
“Thanks.” Sheppard’s smug grin wavered when Rodney clarified. “Not for saying no, but for finding another… alternative.”
“I wish I could have thought of another one. Because you’re right, Rodney; Wallace wasn’t a bad guy.”
John thought now would be the time to take that next drink, but McKay stopped the bottle before it could reach his mouth. “Neither are you, Sheppard.”
“You think?” John asked with a bit of skepticism.
But this time the doubt, the indecisiveness, in Rodney’s answer was gone. “I know it.”
That’s all it had taken, just one statement from McKay to loosen that knot a little bit that had seemingly taken up permanent residence in John’s gut. A lot of people might not have considered Rodney’s opinion that critical, but John wasn’t a lot of people. And given the fact that the next time Sheppard had to cross a line, chances were good McKay would be taking the steps right along with him, it meant a hell of a lot to him.
Sheppard gave a small smile to mirror McKay’s and recapped the bottle, deciding that is was his drinking buddy more than the drinking itself that he’d really needed tonight. Rodney’s brow crinkled at the act, as if John meant to call it a night, but when Sheppard set the whisky aside, shifted comfortably beside him, and returned to watching the skies, McKay did the same.
Sure, John found that one statement of faith nice, but the companionable silence spoke volumes of its own.
Besides, with McKay, the quiet was always a nice change of pace.
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Oh, good tag River, good tag. The ending of this episode just floored me in so many ways, but I think you put things in a good perspective. As always, your characterizations and dialogue is spot on, and that end bit with the two on the balcony is just perfection.
Best lines:
“Way to be decisive, Rodney.”
“That’s because it was a shitty decision. I hold veto authority over shitty decisions.”
I hear you about the slashy moments though. I'm one of those types that normally doesn't see it while watching, but I could see it plain as day in those two key scenes between them last night. Again, lovely tag, just lovely.
I had absolutely no clue that ending was coming, and it was wonderful! And the slashy moments have been coming left and right this season, they honestly seem more believably in love than Rodney and Katie ever have and have more chemistry on screen than any space bimbo they could throw at John. *G* Thanks so much!
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CELTIC-L July 1993
Kilkelly
ICEBERG <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 20 Jul 93 10:16:00 WET
A Chairde,
I confirm that the second song Joe Murphy referred to is "Kilkelly". It was
written by an American named Peter Jones.
This song can be found on a double CD : "Bringing it all back home" collecting
songs related to the Irish emigration in America. This CD - which was released
in october 1991 - was taken from a BBC Northern Ireland/RTE TV Series of the
same name.
I bought it in Dublin's Fair City (where the girls are so pretty), in november
Artists appearing on the CD are - interalia - Mary Black, Ma/ire Ni/
Bhraonai/n, Maura O'Connell, Liam O'Flynn, De Danann, Philip Chevron (from the
Pogues), Dolores Keane, Ricky Skaggs, The Everly Brothers, Emmylou Harris etc.
About "Kilkelly", here is what can be read :
<<130 years after his great grandfather left the small village of Kilkelly in
County Mayo (to emigrate to the USA), Peter Jones found a bundle of letters
sent to his great grandfather by his own father in
Ireland. The letters tell of family news, births, deaths, and bad harvests.
They remind the son that he is loved, missed and remembered by his family in
Ireland. The final letter informs him that his father, whom he
has not seen for 30 years, has died, the last link with home is broken.>>
The version of the song is that one Patrick told about, that is by Mick Moloney,
Jimmy Keane and Robbie O'Connell. It was recorded in the Harbour Lights in New
York in February, 1990.
Yves SAGNIER
STNA,246 rue Lecourbe
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‘Roseanne’ Revival Lampshades Dan’s Death in First ABC Trailer
One wouldn’t necessarily expect the Conner family to take stock of the Oscars, but Roseanne is officially going for gold. The 90th Academy Awards brought our first look at ABC’s upcoming Roseanne revival, and John Goodman’s miraculous return has not gone unnoticed.
Ahead of its March 27 premiere, Roseanne revealed its first official 2018 footage with a new Oscars trailer. In it, the ABC comedy naturally pokes fun at the infamous series finale in which Goodman’s character Dan was revealed to have died of a heart attack. Otherwise, little else has changed for the series, including its title comedienne’s infamous laugh.
The 2018 revival will reunite original stars Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Johnny Galecki, Michael Fishman and Lecy Goranson. Sarah Chalke will also return in a new role, joining Ames McNamara (Darlene and David’s son, Mark), Shameless star Emma Kenney (Darlene and David’s daughter, Harris), Jayden Rey, director John Pasquin, producers Bruce Helford, Whitney Cummings and Tony Hernandez, and co-executive producer Sid Youngers.
We’ll see if Roseanne lives up to the original on Tuesday, March 27, so stay tuned.
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Thursday of week 4 of Lent – Gospel
Commentary on John 5:31-47
Today we continue with yesterday’s words of Jesus to the Jewish religious leaders. Jesus re-affirms that God himself is the witness – in four ways – to the truth of all that Jesus says:
The testimony of John the Baptist, although that was only human testimony (vv.33-34).
The works of Jesus give clear testimony of the divine origin of all that Jesus does. “The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.” The leaders could not see this but the crowds often testified to it with enthusiasm. (v.36)
The Father himself has given testimony, although that has not been seen directly by some of the Jews. “The Father who sent me has testified on my behalf but you have never heard his voice nor seen his form.” (Is this a reference to Jesus’ baptism or to the Transfiguration?) (vv.37-38);
A careful reading of the scriptures will show they give testimony to Jesus. “You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want to come to me to have life.” This is clearly shown later on by Jesus when explaining the scriptures to the two disciples on the way to Emmaus. (vv.39-40).
Although Jesus clearly comes in the name of his Father, he is not accepted or believed in.
Yet some individual will come in his own name and they will accept him. Further they keep looking into their own traditions rather than looking further to someone who clearly comes from God.
Jesus will not accuse them before his Father. Moses, in whom they claim to believe, will be their accuser. “If you have believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how can you believe what I say?” By “Moses” is meant the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch and whose authorship is attributed to Moses, although we know now by the dating of the various parts that this could not be possible. It was common in ancient times to attribute the authorship of a work to a well-known personality.
How much of all this applies to us? Where do we ultimately put our faith? In the Christ of the New Testament or in a Jesus we have tailored to our own wants? How familiar are we with the Word of God in the New (and Old) Testament? Where do we clearly see the Risen Jesus bringing God into our lives every single day?
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2017 Chrysler 200 Earns Five-star Safety Rating From NHTSA
November 23, 2016 The 2017 Chrysler 200 has earned a five-star overall safety rating from NHTSA. The front-wheel-drive (FWD) version merits five stars. The all-wheel-drive Chrysler 200 has not been rated. Five stars is the highest possible safety rating given by NHTSA.
2017 Chrysler 200 Fact Sheet
September 1, 2016 With highway fuel economy of 36 mpg, 60 available safety and security features, an available, best-in-class all-wheel-drive system, easy-to-use, state-of-the-art technology and a starting U.S. MSRP of just $21,995, the Chrysler 200 is a car that customers will be proud to own, at a price they will appreciate.
New 2016 Chrysler 200S and 300S Alloy Editions Highlight Avant-garde Style Through Industrious Material and Finish Selections
February 4, 2016 Adding to the 2016 Chrysler 200S and 300S models’ athletic styling, segment-exclusive technologies and driver-focused appointments, the new 200S and 300S Alloy Editions further the Chrysler brand’s color and material leadership and Detroit-born style with trendsetting finishes that include Dark Bronze and Titanium.
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December 10, 2015 The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) today announced the 2016 Chrysler 200 and the all-new 2016 Fiat 500X merit Top Safety Pick+ ratings for 2016. The 200 mid-size sedan and 500X small crossover also earned the distinction in 2015. Top Safety Pick+ is the highest rating given by the IIHS.
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September 22, 2015 Chrysler Six, Airflow, Imperial, New Yorker, 300 and Town & Country are just some of the nameplates that mark the rich history of the Chrysler brand. 2015 marks the 90th anniversary of Chrysler, which was founded on June 6, 1925, by Walter P. Chrysler. Chrysler represents more than a brand – it symbolizes the people behind the products, and the influence of its founder can still be felt today.
2016 Chrysler 200 Sedan: Captivating Drivers and Passengers
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June 23, 2015 The year 2015 is the Chrysler Brand’s 90th year and to celebrate the brand is producing limited edition 90th Anniversary models that offer more standard equipment and value for customers.
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June 4, 2015 Exquisite style meets exceptional performance this summer when the all-new 2015 Chrysler 200 brings test drives to a mall near you.
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May 21, 2015 May is college graduation season and many recent graduates are in the market for their first new car. The all-new 2015 Chrysler 200 offers grads the perfect combination of style and clever features that make drivers proud to own the car, while offering the safety and security features and value that give parents peace of mind.
The 2015 Chrysler 200 Springs Forward with Two New Interior Choices
April 8, 2015 The award-winning 2015 Chrysler 200 rolls into spring with two new interior options, giving customers more choices in the mid-size sedan segment.
Rocky Mountain Automotive Press Association Names 2015 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel ‘Truck of the Year’ and 2015 Chrysler 200 ‘Car of the Year’
April 8, 2015 The Rocky Mountain Automotive Press (RMAP) kicked off the Denver Auto Show by announcing the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel was named “Truck of the Year” and the 2015 Chrysler 200 captured its “Car of the Year” award.
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March 16, 2015 Editors at Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com honored four FCA US vehicles with seven “top 10” awards for 2015. The all-new 2015 Jeep® Renegade has been named one of KBB.com’s “10 Favorite New-for-2015 Cars” and “10 Best All-Wheel-Drive Vehicles Under $25,000.”
All-New 2015 Chrysler 300 Wins Top Honor as “Car of Texas” From the Texas Auto Writers Association
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New Multicultural Marketing Campaign for All-New 2015 Chrysler 200 Features Actor Gael García Bernal
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This Guy Accidentally Created a Viral UFO Hoax and Made a Fool Out of the Media
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If you recently read a super legit, well researched article or watched a video about a strange ball of light over somewhere in Australia, you can thank Johnson Thompson, who was just trying to learn After Effects. Apparently he tricked a lot of people, including some real life journalists, into thinking it was more than just editing magic, and there was in fact a real UFO over Canberra. #justjournalismthings
Hoax of The Day: 'Phuc Dat Bich' Just Trolled The Entire Internet
Via Guardian
Phuc Dat Bich is a phucing liar.
The man who claimed Facebook was deleting his profile every time he updated it to his unfortunate-sounding name now tells Guardian Australia he made the whole thing up.
His real name is Tin Lee, a 23 year old living in Melbourne.
The trickster fooled the people of the Internet and countless publications (including Cheezburger) with a Facebook post lamenting his name.
He had this to say about his hoax in a Facebook post, which now seems to have been deleted:
"What started as a joke between friends, became a prank that made a fool out of the media and brought out the best in the people who reached out to me. It didn't bring out the anger and darkness that we often see on the internet, but it brought a levity and humanity in a time we need it most.
"Out of this ordeal I've concluded not to trust the credibility of the media, it's twisted by the hungry journalists who mask the truth ... It goes to show that an average joe like myself can con the the biggest news sources with ease."
What a Bich.
Fail of the Day: Brian Williams Misremembers Helicopter Story, Twitter Responds By Meme-Shaming Him
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Remember that time Brian Williams was shot down in a helicopter in Iraq?
Well now neither does Williams, and he is apologizing publicly for the erroneous story which he has been telling for years after being called out by some of the troops who actually were in the attack.
Sorry dude, I don't remember you being on my aircraft, said Lance Reynolds on Facebook. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.
He brought up the story in a news segment Friday about a tribute to a retired soldier at a New York Rangers game.
But crew members told the military news site Stars & Stripes that this never happened, and Williams issued a retraction.
I made a mistake in recalling the events of 12 years ago, Williams said on NBC Nightly News Wednesday. I want to apologize.
The soldiers of the 159th Aviation Regiments Chinook which was actually shot down claim Williams was in a helicopter that arrived an hour later.
I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another. Williams said.
He later elaborated and apologized further in a Facebook comment:
You are absolutely right and I was wrong. In fact, I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake, especially since I found my OWN WRITING about the incident from back in '08, and I was indeed on the Chinook behind the bird that took the RPG in the tail housing just above the ramp.
Now people on Twitter have started a hashtag to shame him called #BrianWilliamsMisremembers, in which he claims he was part of some other major historical events.
“Sorry dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft,” said Lance Reynolds on Facebook. “I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”
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Home > Journal list > Polymer Journal > Vol.49 No.9 (2017) > pp.649-654
Regioselective halogen–magnesium exchange reaction of a bithiophene derivative bearing methoxy and pyridine groups at the β-position and Kumada coupling polymerization
Koji Takagi1, Ryo Kouchi1 and Junpei Kawai1
1Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan
We have previously reported the synthesis of a polythiophene derivative (P2′) bearing pyridine and methoxy groups at the β-position, but the halogen–magnesium exchange reaction of the monomer did not proceed in a regioselective manner and resulted in a twisted polymer conformation. In the present paper, the halogen–magnesium exchange reaction of 4-(5″-hexylpyridine-2″-yl)-3-methoxy-2-(5′-bromothiophene-2′-yl)-5-bromothiophene (M3) and its Kumada coupling polymerization and optoelectronic characterization were investigated. The reaction of M3 with i-PrMgCl·LiCl gave a Grignard monomer (GM3a) in 79% yield, with the halogen–magnesium exchange reaction occurring exclusively at the bromine atom neighboring the pyridine group. Reflux temperature was required for the Kumada coupling polymerization of GM3a using Ni(dppp)Cl2 to proceed smoothly (72% conversion after 24 h) due to the sterically hindered monomer structure. On the other hand, the conversion of GM3a remained at 15% without the addition of LiCl. The number-average molecular weight of the tetrahydrofuran-soluble fraction of the regiocontrolled oligo(bithiophene) (P3′) was 2900 because of its poor solubility. Ultraviolet–visible and cyclic voltammogram measurements indicated that compared with P2′, P3′ has a more planar conformation, an increased highest occupied molecular orbital energy level and a narrower bandgap energy. A non-covalent S···O interaction was assumed to cause the planar conformation, which was supported by theoretical density functional theory calculations.
Received: April 29, 2017 , Revised: June 08, 2017
Accepted: June 08, 2017 , Published online: July 19, 2017
© 2017 The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
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Duration of second session of Majlis to be reduced
The General Purpose Committee of People’s Majlis has voted to reduce the duration of the second session of the People’s Majlis for the current year.
The General Purpose Committee passed the decision with the majority vote during the committee meeting held last Tuesday.
The Majlis Regulation states the second session of the Majlis as June to end of August.
General Purpose Committee has amended the regulation and cut down the duration of the second session from June to August 16.
The duration of the third session has also been amended from August 27 to end of November, instead of the usual October 1 to end of November.
The work of the Majlis is carried out in three sessions. No amendment has been made to the duration of the first session of the Majlis.
Majlis is scheduled to vote on the two amendments this Wednesday.
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We were trying to decide what I was going to talk about next, because as much as I love to talk about food you probably had enough already.
The Hayes Theatre Co was the selected topic, and I am quite happy about it because I learned some things I had no idea. I came across this name a few times this year but all related to the shows that were on, so I didn’t had a clue about the story behind it.
The theatre under that name is new the actual building has a long life history being the home for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company for 12 years.
In 2013 the not-for-profit organization Independent Music Theatre* (IMT), formed by local cabaret and music theatre specialists, created the Hayes Theatre Co to be the home of music theatre and cabaret in Sydney.
The idea needed funding and the group opted out for crowdfunding. The pledge was of AU$25 thousand, and by the end November 2013 they had collect AU$ 37 thousand.
From Hayes Facebook page
IMT has been awarded the tender for the venue by the City of Sydney, with a specific remit to provide a home for small-scale musical theatre and cabaret. An intimate experience is what the Hayes Theatre wants to offer by presenting various performances that goes from children’s production to re-imagined classic musicals.
The name ‘Hayes’ is a tribute to Nancye Hayes an Australian actress, singer, dancer, choreographer and director. Nancye began her career in JC Williamson’s production of My Fair Lady in 1961. However, it was the title role in Sweet Charity in 1967 that established her name. An outstanding artist who also starred at Little Night Music, Pippin, Irene, Annie, Chicago, Sweeny Todd and Nine.
It is worth saying that Sweet Charity was on Hayes for about a month with all presentations sold out!
To make sure that its compromise in offering a variety of performances is achieved an artistic panel was created to examine and also encourage submissions for presentation. With all the big Broadway musicals hitting Australian shores this year, the Hayes Theatre is working to complement the musical scene.
Right now you can watch the Drowsy Chaperone, a Musical Within a Comedy, on until April 6. Check out what is coming soon on the Hayes Theatre official page.
*Independent Music Theatre is a collaborative partnership between organisations that currently present or facilitate music theatre, cabaret and small-scale musicals in Sydney and across Australia. The artistic group includes Luckiest Productions: David Campbell, Lisa Campbell and Richard Carroll; Neglected Musicals: Michelle Guthrie; Squabbalogic: Jay James-Moody and Jessica Burns; Neil Gooding Productions: Neil Gooding; and independent producers Michael Huxley and Simone Parrott.
Tags: Drowsy Chaperone, Hayes Theatre, IMT, Sydney Musicals
Written by: Samira Sarraf
Copyright © 2019 Marcus Rivera
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To: Lisp
Subject: f.y.i., to appear in SIGART
From: Masinter.PA
Date: 10 June 1981 8:24 am PDT (Wednesday)
Interlisp-D: Further steps in the flight from time-sharing
The Interlisp-D Group
Cognitive and Instructional Sciences
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The Interlisp-D project was formed to develop a personal machine implementation
of Interlisp for use as an environment for research in artificial intelligence and
cognitive science [Burton et al., 80b]. This note describes the principal
developments since our last report almost a year ago [Burton et al., 80a].
Principal characteristics of Interlisp-D
Interlisp-D is an implementation of the Interlisp programming environment
[Teitelman & Masinter, 81] for the Dolphin and Dorado personal computers. Both
the Dolphin and Dorado are microprogrammed personal computers, with 16-bit
data paths and relatively large main memories (~1 megabyte) and virtual address
spaces (4M-16M 16 bit words). Both machines have a medium sized local disk,
Ethernet controller, a large raster scanned display and a standard Alto keyboard
and "mouse" pointing device.
Both the internal structure of Interlisp-D and an account of its development are
presented in [Burton et al, 80b]. Briefly, Interlisp-D uses a byte-coded
instruction set, deep binding, CDR encoding (in a 32 bit CONS cell) and
incremental, reference counted garbage collection. The use of deep binding,
together with a complete implementation of spaghetti stacks, allows very rapid
context switching for both system and user processes. Virtually all of the
Interlisp-D system is written in Lisp. A relatively small amount of microcode
implements the Interlisp-D instruction set and provides support for a small set of
other performance critical operations. The at one time quite large Bcpl kernel has
been all but completely absorbed into Lisp, for the reasons outlined in [Burton et
al, 80b].
Interlisp-D is completely upward compatible with the widely used PDP-10
version. All the Interlisp system software documented in the Interlisp Reference
Manual [Teitelman et al., 78] runs under Interlisp-D, excepting only a few
capabilities explicitly indicated in that manual as applicable only to Interlisp-10.
The completeness of the implementation has been demonstrated by the fact that
several very large, independently developed, application systems, such as the
KLONE knowledge representation language [Brachman, 78], have been brought
up in Interlisp-D with little or no modification. Interlisp-D is in active use by
researchers (other than its implementors) at both Xerox PARC and Stanford
University and is now approaching the level of stability and reliability of
Interlisp-10.
The performance engineering of a large Lisp system is distinctly non-trivial. We
have invested considerable effort, including the development of several
performance analysis tools, on the performance of Interlisp-D and, as a result,
seen its performance improve by nearly a factor of five over the last year.
Although relative performance estimates can be misleading, because of variation
due to choice of benchmarks and compilation strategy, the overall performance of
Interlisp-D on the Dolphin currently seems to be about twice that of Interlisp-10
on an otherwise unloaded PDP KA-10. Although this level of performance
makes the Dolphin a comfortable personal working environment, we have
identified a number of improvements which we anticipate will further improve
execution speed by between 20% and 100%.
Machine independence
Another major thrust has been to reduce the dependencies on specific features of
the present environment, so as to facilitate Interlisp-D's implementation on other
hardware. Dependencies on the operating system have been removed by
absorbing most of the higher (generally machine independent) facilities provided
by the operating system into Lisp code. Gratuitous dependencies on attributes of
the hardware, such as the 16-bit word size, have been removed and inherent
ones isolated. In addition to an abstract desire for transportability, our sharing of
code with other Interlisp implementation projects provides a on-going motivation
for this effort.
Extended functionality
The principal innovations in Interlisp-D, with respect to previous
implementations of Interlisp, involve the extensions required to allow the
Interlisp user access to a personal machine computing environment.
Network facilities
While network access is a valuable facility in any computing environment, it is
of particular importance to the user of a personal machine, as it is the means by
which the shared resources of the community are accessed. Over the last year,
Interlisp-D has incorporated both low level Ethernet access and a collection of
various higher level protocols used to communicate with the printing and file
servers in use at PARC. It is now straightforward to conduct all file operations
directly with remote file servers. This both allows the sharing of common files
(e.g., for multi-person projects, such as the construction of Interlisp-D itself),
permits a user to move easily from one machine to another, and eliminates any
constraints of local disk size. We have also begun to investigate the possibility
of paging from a remote virtual memory elsewhere on the network. This would
not only allow completely transparent relocation of a user's environment from
one machine to another, but would open up a variety of interesting schemes for
distributing a computation across a set of machines.
High level graphics facilities
Interlisp-D has always had a complete set of raster scan graphics operations
(documented in [Burton, 80b]). More recent developments include a collection of
higher level user graphics facilities, akin to those found in other personal
computing environments. The most important of these is the Interlisp-D window
package. This facility differs in spirit from most other window systems in that,
rather than imposing an elaborate structure on programs that use it, it is a self
consciously minimal collection of facilities which allow multiple programs to
share the same display. Although some mechanism is necessary to adjudicate a
harmonious sharing of the display, we feel that higher level display structuring
conventions are still an open research question and therefore should not yet be
incorporated into a mandatory system facility. The window package does provide
both interactive and programatic constructs for creating, moving, reshaping,
overlapping and destroying windows, in such a way that a program can be
embedded in a window in a completely transparent (to that program) fashion.
This allows existing programs to continue to be used without change, while
providing a base for experimentation with more complex window semantics in the
context of individual applications.
One such existing application is a display based, structural program editor. This
editor, in contrast to the character orientation of most modern display based
program editors, is the result of marrying display techniques (selection and
command specification by pointing, incremental reprinting, etc) with the
structure orientation of the existing Interlisp editor. Indeed, the two editors are
interfaced so that the considerable symbolic editing power of the existing editor
remains available under the display based one. Although our initial experience
has been positive, the user interface is under continued revision as we gain
further experience with this style of editing.
The area in which we anticipate most future development of Interlisp-D is the
personal computing facilities, such as graphics and networking, and their
integration into Interlisp's rich collection of programming support tools. While
radical changes to the underlying language structures are made difficult by our
desire to preserve exact Interlisp compatibility, we also expect some language
extensions, including some form of object oriented procedure invocation.
One of the great strengths of Interlisp has been the many contributions made by
its active, critical user community. We are hopeful that the recent commercial
availability of Interlisp-D to other sites, and the consequent growth of its user
community, will be a similar source of long term strength and, in the short term,
significantly accelerate the pace with which Interlisp evolves away from its
time-shared origins into a personal computing environment.
Brachman, R. et al.
KLONE Reference Manual. BBN Report No. 3848, 1978.
Burton, R. et al.
Overview and status of DoradoLisp. Proceedings of the 1980 Lisp Conference,
Stanford, 1980a.
Papers on Interlisp-D. Xerox PARC report, SSL-80-4, 1980b.
Teitelman, W. et al.
The Interlisp reference manual. Xerox PARC, 1978.
Teitelman, W. and Masinter, L.
The Interlisp programming environment. IEEE Computer, 14:4 April 1981, pp.
The members of the Interlisp-D group are Beau Sheil, Bill van Melle, Alan Bell,
Richard Burton, Ron Kaplan and Larry Masinter.
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The Jobs That Robots Will Never Be Able To Do The advancement of technology means elimination of human error and an increase in efficiency - so what is stopping us from automating the world around us completely? It is the fact that there are some......
iRobot 2.0: How the company set itself up for its next-gen robots iRobot launched the Roomba S9 and Braava Jet M6 with plans for a lawn mower on deck. It took a lot of IoT, data science, product design, and cloud to make it all happen....
The rise of robots-as-a-service Just as cable companies include set-top box costs in their monthly bill, robot makers will sell subscriptionss of hardware/software bundles.Read More...
Why won't we let robots into our homes – and our hearts? Last week, Anki, creator of adorable robots that are part toy, part virtual assistant and part pet, went out of business. “It is with a heavy heart to inform you that Anki has ceased product development and we are no longer manufacturing robot...
MIT’s new AI for robots can ‘feel’ an object just by seeing it Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a brand new AI that can feel objects just by seeing them – and vice versa. The new AI can predict how it would feel to touch an object, just by loo...
Here's how you can profit from the rise of the robots ROBO Global, the company behind one of the stock market's top robotics-focused exchange-traded funds, just launched a health-care fund to capitalize on a more specific trend in the space....
‘Robots’ Are Not 'Coming for Your Job'—Management Is Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time, ‘robots’ are not sentient agents capable of seeking out and applying for your job and then landing the gig on its comparatively superior...
Robots reviewed my resume and they were not impressed According to my — not super scientific — calculations, LinkedIn users have a median average of 630 connections. But I only have 106. Unsurprisingly, I never cared much for maintaining LinkedIn profiles and resumes. I got my first freelance writing jo...
Will robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits Robots will take our jobs in name only. They are actually fragmenting them in a way that undermines our ability to find full-time work, warns Annalee Newitz...
These 'cathartic' stress robots can take a beating Whether it's a meditation app or looking at puppy videos, much of today's technology focuses on replacing your negative feelings with positive ones. But what if you want to act on all your feelings of anger, sadness and anxiety -- in a heal...
The Robots Want to Steal (the Boring Parts of) Your Job MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson on why the Westworld dystopia is (hopefully) far off and why you should never use a telepresence robot to tell someone they’re dying....
Amazon might start using robots to box your orders A few weeks ago, Amazon said it will be at least 10 years before the company is running fully-automated warehouses. But partial automation is already underway. According to Reuters, Amazon is considering installing two machines at dozens of warehouse...
This designer wants to make robots less scary Humans have a weird relationship with robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. We’re simultaneously delighted and appalled by their capabilities and autonomy. When we see what the latest inventions can do to make our lives easier, we im...
Walmart's Robots Don't Appear to Be Going Over So Great With All of Its Workers Retail giants are increasingly turning over jobs and tasks performed in the past by human workers to a growing workforce of robots. A new report on this automation of jobs by Walmart says it’s led to a greater sense of tedium and unease among some hu...
How to outfox the robots reading your resume There are more resumes to compete against. Here's how to tailor your resume to take advantage of the algorithms that reject and choose candidates....
Personal robots won’t catch on until they become more than a novelty Last month, another well-funded social robot startup, Anki, closed its doors for good. And it wasn’t the first. In March, Jibo, which had received $73 million in funding, announced that it was shutting down its servers. Over the past few years, we’ve...
How bacteria could improve soft robots E. coli is bad when it contaminates your food, but it can actually be good for robots. Scientists say synthetic bacteria could eventually repair a robot, generate energy, or detect chemicals in the environment....
CDC: U.S. measles cases climb to 1,077 Measles cases continue to pile up in the United States, as the nation has now reached 1,077 cases, which are spread through 28 states, according to the CDC....
How to Climb Across Monkey Bars Monkey bars were hard enough when I was a kid. But this week I tried them again, older, wiser, and with more muscle than I had back in the day. And you know what? They’re still really, really hard....
Robots may be delivering your Domino's pizza Domino's announced Monday it is teaming with robotics company Nuro for a pilot program in Houston later this year. ...
Astronauts, not robots, essential to getting answers on the moon The scientific legacy of the Apollo program, including the first manned mission to the moon, is considerable. But there's a lot lunar scientists still aren't sure of -- questions unanswered and models in need of tweaks....
These Lego Star Wars Droids Might Be the Toy Robots Everyone's Been Looking For Consumer-focused robots have been having a bit of a hard time in recent years. Just last week, Anki, maker of the adorable Cozmo and Vector bots, was the latest robot maker to go under as consumers hesitated to spend $250 on an automaton that didn’t ...
Robots are breaking out of their cages on the factory floor, and here's what they are doing As companies aim to increase production, the demand for large-scale industrial robots is accelerating. Yet their interactivity with co-workers could introduce the possibility of injury. One company is planning to change that....
Jumping ant robots use teamwork to overcome obstacles If you've ever marveled at a team of ants working together to carry a huge morsel of food or navigate around objects, you've seen how effective a collective intelligence made up of simple individual units can be....
Want to build robots and invent stuff? Here's where to start Ever wanted to design and build machines instead of buying them? Start here, with Hannah Joshua’s 10-part series that aims to give you all the skills to make a robot and much more...
Delivery robots will soon be allowed on Washington sidewalks Washington has become the eighth state to greenlight the use of delivery robots on sidewalks and crosswalks. Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill yesterday, following support from Starship Technologies, which specializes in autonomous last-mile and lo...
MIT algorithm helps robots guess where humans are going next Automation is increasingly a reality in the workforce, and that means robots working alongside humans. But there's a problem: robots are often lousy at predicting where humans are going, leading them to either freeze up or risk collisions with t...
Recycling Centers Roll Out AI-Trained Robots Recycling facilities are deploying artificial-intelligence-guided robots, which can sort streams of waste more quickly and accurately than human workers....
Fiction: Love, Sex and Robots Collide in a New Ian McEwan Novel “Machines Like Me” asks if synthetic humans could spark enlightenment or ease pain — and whether it’s a good idea to invent stuff that could eat your lunch....
Robots for the elderly must be designed with care and respect Many countries around the world have ageing populations and a growing prevalence of dementia. Japan, in particular, is a “super-ageing” society, with a population getting older faster than anywhere else in the world due to long life expectancy and lo...
Global Stocks Climb After S&P 500 Record Stocks rose after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell hinted at a possible interest-rate cut later this month to support the U.S. economy as global growth slows....
Daredevils climb skyscraper with explosives French climbing experts Group F swing high above the streets of Seoul, South Korea, to install a $6 million fireworks display on one of the world's tallest buildings, the Lotte World Tower....
On two wheels, ‘The Climb’ rides through Cannes as a hit One of the breakouts at the Cannes Film Festival is a comedy about a male friendship that developed over many years and hundreds of miles on their bikes...
Temperatures will continue to climb in Arizona TUCSON – It’s heating up here in Southern Arizona. Cloud cover that was around this morning has mostly pushed east. Additionally, scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across Southern Arizona this afternoon and evening. These sho...
Yankees don’t want Red Sox’s uphill climb to get easier It must feel like requiring two tanks of gas to complete your journey when your competitors require only one. Or needing two cans of Red Bull. When you stagger out of the gate, fully righting yourself constitutes a very difficult task. The Red Sox, w...
Here's how much it could cost to climb Mount Everest The business of climbing Mount Everest generates more than $300 million a year, but experts say it could be in jeopardy. Garrett Madison, Madison Mountaineering and mountain guide/climber, and CNBC's Robert Frank join "The Exchange" to discuss t...
Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed In 2018, researchers at MIT and the auto manufacturer BMW were testing ways in which humans and robots might work in close proximity to assemble car parts. In a replica of a factory floor setting, the team rigged up a robot on rails, designed to deli...
LG's custom chip is made to power AI in appliances and robots For the last few years LG has been pushing integration of AI features in all kinds of products with its ThinQ brand, and now it's designed custom hardware to enable on-device AI processing in "future robot vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refr...
Soccer-playing robots take the field in annual competition These soccer stars are very dependable — if not a little robotic — on the field. The 2019 RoboCup, the world’s largest annual robotics competition, kicked off Thursday in Australia with robot teams from 30 countries vying in events including soccer, ...
Robots To Take Over 20 Million Jobs, Worsening Inequality: Study Robots are expected to take over some 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide by 2030, extending a trend of worsening social inequality while boosting overall economic output, a new study shows....
Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children A new study demonstrates, for the first time, that “social robots” used in support sessions held in pediatric units at hospitals can lead to more positive emotions in sick children. Many hospitals host interventions in pediatric units, where child...
How Amazon Cloned a Neighborhood to Test Its Delivery Robots Amazon used cameras, lidar, and aerial photography to build a highly detailed digital map of a Seattle suburb, where it is testing Scout, its delivery robot....
Rise of robots could eliminate 20M manufacturing jobs by 2030 The rise of robots, artificial intelligence, energy storage, automation and machine learning could eliminate 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030, a new study by Oxford Economics found....
'Love, Death and Robots' gets a second season on Netflix with a new director Netflix announced today that its out-there, adult-oriented animated anthology series Love, Death and Robots will be coming back for another season. The show's second go-round will be helmed by supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, best known...
iRobot unveils Roomba s9+ and Braava jet m6 robots that clean together iRobot has launched two new robots, the Roomba s9+ robot vacuum cleaner and the Braava jet m6 robot mop, that can clean sequentially as a team.Read More...
Anki, Maker of Adorable Robots That Don't Do All That Much, Abruptly Shuts Down Robotics company Anki, the manufacturer of an adorable line of tiny home robots like Cozmo and its bigger brother, the $250 Vector, has unexpectedly and abruptly folded, Recode reported on Monday.Read more......
These tiny robots tackle tasks in groups, just like insects On its own, a single ant can only accomplish so much, but you toss it into the mix with a couple hundred of its peers and suddenly the capabilities of the group are exponentially greater than the sum of its parts. Could the same be true of robots? So...
Bike and Snake: Meet the robots that will keep Norway's gas flowing A magnetic robot resembling a mini quad bike and a four metre snake-like machine are among the new tools that Norway, Europe's second-largest gas exporter after Russia, says will help cut maintenance time at its gas plants and keep supplies flowing....
Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines now Journalism is hard. Hours of research and writing culminate with publishing a piece with little more than blind faith that it’ll be well-received. Most aren’t. And for those that flop, it’s typically the headline we start with when trying to diagnose...
Robots to install telescopes to peer into cosmos from the moon As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting astronauts....
Simpler, air-powered soft robots could help with space exploration Soft robots promise a kinder, gentler approach to automation, but they're frequently hamstrung by complexity, costs and the need for wires. Thankfully, Harvard researchers have found a way to simplify matters. They've developed a softrobo...
Amazon's warehouse robots won't replace humans for at least a decade Are you worried your job is going to be taken by a robot? You needn't be if you work for Amazon, which has dismissed the idea of fully-automated warehouses becoming a reality any time soon. According to Amazon's director of robotics fulfilm...
5 of the smartest people in AI teamed up to make awesome robots An all-star team consisting of five of the brightest minds in AI today revealed the launch of Robust.AI, a new startup devoted to revolutionizing the robotics industry. According to a job posting on the company’s website, the company intends to creat...
The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs, Seller of Automation Equipment Says Sometimes the pitch-perfect example that just totally proves your argument falls directly into your lap approximately two days after you need it to.Read more......
Stocks climb for 3rd day in a row, erasing Monday’s plunge Stocks marched higher for the third day in a row Thursday, erasing the big plunge they took on Monday on worries about the worsening trade fight between China and the U.S....
Tuesday Forecast: Temperatures continue to climb TUCSON – The heat is on! Today’s daytime high in Tucson will top out at 102 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Today’s average high in Tucson is 101 degrees, so temperatures are expected to be slightly above average. Dry air is now filtering in...
Utah man dies during Mount Everest climb A 55-year-old Utah man died after reaching the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the fourth person to die on the world's tallest peak this climbing season, Nepali officials said....
S&P 500, Dow climb as health insurers, financials gain The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday to close at record highs as health insurers gained after the Trump administration scrapped a plan designed to rein in prescription drug prices, while financial shares climbed with bond yields....
More Greenpeace activists climb on BP drilling rig after arrests Greenpeace activists climbed back on a drilling rig on Friday to keep it from heading to a BP oilfield in the British North Sea, hours after police removed protesters who had boarded the vessel days earlier....
60 Second Pro - Simon Yates explains how to tackle a big climb "Simon Yates of Mitchelton-Scott gives his top tips about how to tackle a big cycling climb in the latest edition of Eurosport\u0027s 60 Second Pro series."...
Stocks' Climb Continues as Inflation Remains Just Right U.S. stocks are hitting records again after a monthslong drought, powered by fresh signs that the domestic economy is perking up without spurring a jump in inflation....
Oil prices climb as U.S.-Iran tensions mount Oil prices rose on Monday to extend gains from last week, bolstered as tensions remain high between Iran and the United States after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said "significant" sanctions would be announced on Tehran....
U.S. Import Prices Climb More Slowly Than Expected Prices of foreign-made goods imported to the U.S. rose in April at their slowest pace in three months, a sign that a strong dollar may be contributing to low U.S. inflation....
DeRozan: I was 'sacrificial lamb' in Raptors' climb DeMar DeRozan, who was traded from the Raptors to the Spurs for Kawhi Leonard last offseason, feels like he was the "sacrificial lamb" for Toronto to get to this point....
Asia stocks climb pre-G20, oil up on U.S.-Iran feud Stock markets in Asia inched higher on Monday on hopes that U.S. and Chinese leaders will be able to get trade talks back on track this week, while oil prices bounced on political tensions between Tehran and Washington....
10-year-old girl is youngest to climb El Capitan: 'I did it to have fun' The 10-year-old girl who just became the youngest person to conquer one of the world’s most challenging mountain climbs said Thursday, “I did it to have fun.”...
Health-care costs for retirees climb to $285,000 The amount is up slightly from $280,000 in 2018. While the annual increase slowed over the last two years — 3.6 percent compared with 12.2 percent from 2015 to 2017 — the amount still poses a challenge for many in retirement....
Why putting googly eyes on robots makes them inherently less threatening At the start of 2019, supermarket chain Giant Food Stores announced it would begin operating customer assisting robots -- collectively dubbed Marty -- in 172 locations across the East Coast. These autonomous machines may navigate their respective sto...
Dream of Ubiquitous Social Robots Still Aren't Coming True Hopes that the tech industry was on the cusp of rolling personal robots into homes are dimming now that several once-promising consumer robotics companies have shut down....
Ford tests package-carrying robots for driverless delivery Ford would like to deploy Digit delivery robots as early as 2021, alongside the planned introduction of its autonomous vehicle fleets to ferry people and packages around the clock....
The fight against childhood blindness could lead to eagle-eyed robots Imparting vision upon machines has been a massive, multi-decade undertaking by the scientific community. And while the acuity of today's state-of-the-art computer systems can match or exceed a human's high-resolution optical anatomy, traini...
Synthetic fiber 'muscles' could lead to brawny robots and prosthetics Most attempts at giving robots muscles tend to be heavy, slow or both. Scientists might finally have a solution that's both light and nimble, though. They've developed fibers that can serve as artificial muscles for robots while remaining...
MIT researchers taught robots to link senses like sight and touch MIT researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a predictive AI that allows robots to link multiple senses in much the same way humans do. “While our sense of touch gives us a channel to feel the physical ...
Amazon’s one-day delivery service depends on the work of thousands of robots This week, Amazon unveiled a new warehouse robot named Pegasus. The suitcase-sized robot is used to sort packages at dozens of the company's sprawling distribution centers....
Facebook Research is developing touchy-feely curious robots As a social media platform with global reach, Facebook leans extensively on its artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems to keep the site online and harmful content off it (at least, some of the time). Following its announcement at the st...
| Ronaldo takes on robots and aliens in comic book series Cristiano Ronaldo may be known more for his superhuman scoring skills but the Portuguese star has now created a comic book series where he turns into a superhero...
MIT CSAIL’s AI system lets wearers control robots with their biceps Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) describe a system that lets wearers control robots with arm muscles.Read More...
As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines Workers at the some of the retail giant's stores said they had long expected the robots would take their jobs one day. But they hadn’t expected this middle period, during which they have to work side by side with machines that can be brittle, clumsy ...
Robert Downey Jr. launches a coalition to clean up the earth using AI and robots Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man may have met his end in the Marvel cinematic universe, but the movie star wants to keep doing things that one might associate with his on-screen persona, genius billionaire Tony Stark. The actor announced that he’s launch...
'Things are changing so fast': the benefits and dangers of robots in the UK workplace Politicians, trade unionists and experts have set out to learn more about the new industrial landscape“We are under the threat of closure all the time,” says Andrew Peters without a hint of fear in his voice.As though repeating himself for the hundre...
Nano-robots and VR for refugees: EPSRC 2019 winners – in pictures An image of a Syrian refugee using virtual reality to help researchers design a shelter has been chosen as the winner of the 2019 national science photography competition organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The compet...
Robots, war, climate: is apocalyptic rhetoric dangerous for Democratic candidates? Critics say that warnings of impacts of automation, nuclear catastrophe and environmental collapse outlined by several candidates are not politically helpful, and even dangerousRobots replace truckers, sparking a protest movement that snowballs into ...
Forget rampant killer robots: AI’s real danger is far more insidious AI isn’t going to crush us underfoot, but it does harbour a threat that makes Terminator look innocent: entrenching human biases and turning them against us...
AI Weekly: Amazon’s robots could cut delivery times, but eliminate jobs Amazon's increasing investment in robotics and automation got a lot of attention at its re:MARS conference. What impact might it have on its workforce?Read More...
Young New Yorkers bring robots, and a glimpse of the future, to UN Headquarters Tiny balls moved along a series of automated Lego robots, as young students from New York explained to United Nations staff the inner-workings of simple motors and engineering. ...
Walmart has unleashed an army of robots in stores, with mixed results Some workers feel devalued. Customers are sometimes startled by the machines — some even kick them. And the robots themselves can be brittle, clumsy and easily baffled....
Ford wants to use walking robots to help self-driving cars deliver packages Auto giant Ford is teaming up with a robotics company to create an autonomous robot that works with self-driving cars to deliver packages. ...
Boxing with giants: Italy's packing robots are not just cardboard cutouts Amazon's new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes every hour. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week....
Nils Nilsson, 86, Dies; Scientist Helped Robots Find Their Way He was part of a Stanford team whose work in artificial intelligence has found its way into smartphones, Siri and other hallmarks of the algorithmic age....
Robots conduct daily health inspections of schoolchildren in China Thousands of preschools in China are using robots to give students heath checks. Each morning they examine pupils looking for signs of contagious diseases...
How long does it take to get to Mars? While it may be shorter than you think, NASA's trying to figure out how to further shorten the trip in order to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. ...
Trump: ‘We'll be going to Mars very soon’ President Trump said Monday that the United States will be “going to Mars very soon” as he announced new cooperation between the U.S. and Japan in sending humans to space, though he did not give a timetable....
If we sent astronauts to Mars right now they’d almost certainly die Mankind seems destined to one day set foot on Mars. NASA and other space agencies around the world are already making big plans for sending humans to the Red Planet, but we’re not nearly ready to actually stick human travelers in a ship and sen...
Black bear tried to climb into woman’s car in Rhode Island Don’t pick up hitchhikers. Even furry ones. A woman in Rhode Island found herself in the frightening position Tuesday of having to deny a ride to an overly friendly bear — who appeared intent on getting in her car, officials said. The curious b...
First Black Woman To Climb Mount Everest Says It "Needed To Be Done" The business executive who became the first black African woman to climb Mount Everest said Wednesday that knowing her climb would be in the record books helped her push on to the top....
Djokovic concedes he has mountain to climb at French Open World number one Novak Djokovic has enjoyed two good weeks on red clay but admitted that winning a second French Open title would be a tall order after a crushing defeat by Rafael Nadal in last week's Italian Open final....
Oil prices climb on tropical storm and geopolitical tensions Oil prices hovered near six-week highs on Friday and was on track for a weekly gain as U.S. oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output because of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East....
Oil prices climb as U.S. equities rally, rig count drops Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday ahead of a U.S. holiday, after falling steeply a day earlier as worries about a slowing global economy outweighed a decision by OPEC and allies to extend crude output cuts....
Monday Forecast: Temperatures will continue to climb this week TUCSON – It will be dry this week, but by the end of the week we will see a shift. Mid-level moisture will start moving into eastern areas near the Arizona/New Mexico border and in the White Mountains. A slight chance of thunderstorms will be p...
Lumber Prices Climb on Cutbacks at Canadian Sawmills Lumber prices continued their sharp climb in June after North America’s largest producer said it would close one mill in British Columbia and eliminate a shift at another....
Spain says 52 migrants climb fence into its African enclave LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Spanish authorities say 52 migrants have climbed a guarded fence to gain entry into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco. An official with the Spanish Interior Ministry in Melilla says four police office...
Stocks Climb Ahead of Central-Bank Meetings U.S. indexes edged higher ahead of central bank policy meetings around the world as investors continue to bet the Federal Reserve will slash interest rates this year....
Eiffel Tower closed after man tries to climb Paris landmark Firefighters at scene as intruder seen dangling near top of towerThe Eiffel Tower has been evacuated after a man tried to scale it.The man could be seen dangling just below the third and highest level of the structure. A rescuer dressed in red could ...
| Sherpa completes record 23rd Everest climb For the hardy few, climbing Everest is a bucket-list feat of endurance and danger, but Kami Rita Sherpa's 23rd record summit was just another day at work....
Nepal marks first Everest climb in deadly season Nepal has commemorated the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest more than 60 years ago amid a climbing season marred by the highest death toll in four years. (May 29) ...
Bank Stocks Climb on Mexico Tariff Delay Stocks of large commercial lenders rose after the U.S.’s decision to hold off implementing trade tariffs on Mexican imports brightened investors’ economic outlook....
Give Us Your Pikes Pike Hill Climb Predictions It feels like the Indy 500 wasn’t all that long ago. Le Mans was two weeks ago. The Nurburgring 24 was just 7 days ago. Now it’s time for another event to equal those in historical significance, the 97th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill C...
Shares in big banks climb as Fed approves capital plans Shares in the S&P 500 bank index rose 2.6% on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve approved the capital plans of the biggest U.S. banks, giving them a clean bill of health....
Oil prices climb as Middle East tensions simmer Oil prices climbed on Monday as tensions remain high between Iran and the United States, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying "significant" sanctions on Tehran would be announced....
The robots are definitely coming and will make the world a more unequal place | John Naughton New studies show that the latest wave of automation will make the world’s poor poorer. But big tech will be even richerSo the robots are coming for our jobs, are they? Yawn. That’s such an old story. Goes back to Elizabeth I and the stocking frame, i...
I spent a day eating food cooked by robots in America's tech capital Vivian Ho befriended an electronic arm and grappled with a defunct tea maker during a trip through Silicon ValleyAround the world, an industry has emerged around automating food service through robotics, raising questions about job security and mass ...
This video shows the impressive tech behind robots walking on rough terrain While robots taking a tumble is pretty funny, watching how these humanoid machines figure out how to walk autonomously without falling is absolutely fascinating. In a new video, the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) showcased a...
CORRECTED-Boxing with giants: Italy's packing robots are not just cardboard cutouts Amazon's new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes every hour. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week....
6 surprising ways robots (and their anuses) are helping people live and work How many times in the past week do you think your life was affected by a robot? Unless you have a robot vacuum cleaner, you might say that robots had no real impact on your life. But you’re wrong. Let’s take a look at some of the ways robots are bein...
Reconstruction and robots: can Tokyo 2020 live up to 1964’s Olympic legacy? The Japanese capital’s futuristic first Games in 1964 set a dazzlingly high bar it will struggle to reach next yearロボットと復興：東京2020大会は1964年の東京オリンピックを上回れるかThere is a simple riposte to anyone who doubts an Olympics can truly transform a city: Tokyo. When...
YouTuber known for 'shitty robots' turns Tesla Model 3 into pickup truck Why wait on Elon Musk to deliver your perfect vehicle when you can just make one yourself? YouTuber and inventor Simone Giertz needed a truck to carry materials for her creations, but didn't want a gas-guzzling pickup. So the 28-year-old robotic...
US Navy tests underwater robots that recharge by eating fish faeces The US Navy has built a device for charging underwater robots that gets its energy by digesting fish faeces and other organic matter on the sea floor...
Does mars really have a face on its surface? NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft snapped a shot of what appears to be a humanoid face on Mars that some claim is an alien artifact. What's really going on? ...
How to detect life on Mars When MIT research scientist Christopher Carr visited a green sand beach in Hawaii at the age of 9, he probably didn’t think that he’d use the little olivine crystals beneath his feet to one day search for extraterrestrial life. Carr, now the science ...
Stock markets climb despite disappointing jobs report data Topsy-turvy thinking is back in style on Wall Street. Bad news on Friday — that the US economy only added 75,000 jobs last month, sorely short of the 175,000 analysts expected — was hailed as good news on Wall Street, with traders betting that the lo...
Global stocks fall, dollar, yields climb as Fed rate cut seen less likely Global equity markets declined for a second straight day on Thursday while the dollar and bond yields rose after comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell caused investors to alter expectations for a rate cut by the central bank this year....
Mount Everest: Sherpa breaks own record after 24th climb Kami Rita has extended his own record by successfully ascending the world's tallest mountain for the 24th time. The Nepalese Sherpa guide says he wants to climb the Everest one more time before retiring....
10-year-old girl becomes youngest to climb El Capitan’s 3,000-foot ‘Nose’ An amazing 10-year-old girl rock climber has become the youngest person to conquer El Capitan’s notorious 3,000-foot “Nose” in Yosemite National Park. Selah Schneiter — who is just 4-foot-2 and weighs 55-pounds — reached...
Global stocks fall, dollar, yields climb as Fed seen less likely to cut rates Global equity markets dipped for a second straight day on Thursday and the dollar and bond yields rose as the Federal Reserve was now seen as less likely to cut U.S. interest rates this year in the wake of comments from Chairman Jerome Powell....
Friday Forecast: Temperatures continue to climb across Southern Arizona TUCSON – Temperatures are bouncing back to average. This warming trend is courtesy of a ridge of high pressure, which will continue to develop and amplify. This system will build through Mexico and Texas. Today’s forecast high will peak at 96 degree...
Tuesday Forecast: High temperatures continue to climb this week TUCSON – It’s going to be another hot day across Southern Arizona. In Tucson, conditions will remain dry this afternoon and temperatures will remain near average for late-June standards. Today’s daytime high in Tucson will peak at 102 deg...
Measles cases continue record climb, reaching 764 in 23 states The number of confirmed U.S. measles cases this year has climbed to 764, the highest total in 25 years, federal health officials announced Monday. ...
Stocks climb on trade, rate cut optimism; yuan falters European shares followed Asian stocks higher on Monday after the United States shelved plans to impose tariffs on Mexico and as investors anticipated lower U.S. interest rates when the Federal Reserve meets next week on the back of poor jobs data....
Bettel Seeking Tuesday Climb after First Round at Auburn Regional UK Athletics OPELIKA, Ala. – Kentucky women’s golfer Leonie Bettel will have ground to make up in her quest to advance past this week and on to NCAA Championships. The UK senior endured a difficult day on the course with a tournament-opening 83 (11-...
As temperatures climb, there's a new federal push to keep workers safe With global temperatures rising, there's greater health risks for outdoor workers. Proposed legislation could protect them from heat-related illness. ...
10-Year-Old Girl Becomes Youngest Person On Record To Climb El Capitan When I was 10 years old, my most impressive athletic feat was playing basketball during recess with the bottoms of my zip-off pants bagged around my ankles and not tripping all over them that often. Colorado resident Selah Schneiter has me pretty sou...
Environmental activists climb aboard Equinor drilling rig in Arctic Greenpeace activists on Monday climbed aboard a Seadrill drilling rig commissioned by Equinor to explore for oil and gas in the Norwegian Arctic, the group told Reuters....
Yankees climb into first place as Gio Urshela walk-off caps rally In the bottom of the ninth of a tie game on Friday night in The Bronx, with the winning run 90 feet away, the Yankees had just who they wanted at the plate: Gio Urshela. The improbable new hero for the Yankees delivered yet another huge hit, this one...
New U.S. Diabetes Cases Are Declining as Obesity Rates Climb. Officials Don’t Know Why (NEW YORK) — The number of new diabetes cases among U.S. adults keeps falling, even as obesity rates climb, and health officials aren’t sure why. New federal data released Tuesday found the number of new diabetes diagnoses fell to about 1...
It Takes 2 Months To Climb Mount Everest. A US Climber Did It In 2 Weeks. Nearly as difficult as summiting Mount Everest for Roxanne Vogel was coordinating in a mere number of hours her trip home, a task like something out of a "Mission Impossible" movie mixed with......
Airbus deliveries climb in H1, sources say, leaving production challenge Airbus deliveries rose about 28% in the first half to just under 390 aircraft, putting the planemaker on course to beat crisis-hit Boeing in 2019 but handing it a record production task in the second half, industry sources said....
US measles cases climb to 704 as the disease spreads among unvaccinated people Nearly three-quarters this year's 704 measles cases in the U.S. occurred in unvaccinated people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said....
Global stocks climb with bond yields on trade optimism Equities around the world rose on Monday while U.S. Treasury prices fell as risk assets were in demand after the United States shelved plans to impose tariffs on Mexico, easing worries the global economy would face another trade war....
Mitsubishi earnings climb on rising sales, cost controls Despite solid gains for the recent fiscal year, Mitsubishi forecasted that operating profit will decline 19 percent in the new fiscal year while net income will drop 51 percent. ...
Plane passengers panic, climb onto wings after emergency landing Passengers on an Aer Lingus plane that made an emergency landing opened emergency exits and climbed out onto the wings after the pilot told them to disembark quickly — mistakenly thinking he meant evacuate, according to a report. After the London-bou...
Re-Cycle: The diabolic climb which made Magni bite the pain away "In the latest of our Re-Cycle series, Felix Lowe looks at the history of the iconic climb which plays host to the opening time trial of the 2019 Giro d\u0027Italia. Used sparingly, the punchy climb to the San Luca Sanctuary above Bologna has neverth...
US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-S&P 500, Dow climb as health insurers, financials gain The Dow and S&P 500 rose on Thursday to close at record highs as health insurers gained after the Trump administration scrapped a plan designed to rein in prescription drug prices, while financial shares climbed with bond yields....
Invert Robotics raises $8.8 million for inspection robots that cling to non-metallic surfaces Christchurch, New Zealand-based Invert Robotics, a startup developing climbing robots that can cling to non-metallic surfaces, has raised $8.8 million.Read More...
Are robots sexist? UN report shows gender bias in talking digital tech Why do most voice assistants have female names, and why do they have submissive personalities? The answer, says a new report released on Friday by UNESCO, the UN’s Education, Science and Culture agency, is that there are hardly any women working in t...
Ford Partners With Robots Maker Agility Robotics In Mobility Service Push Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it is partnering with walking robots maker Agility Robotics to assist self-driving delivery vans drop packages at the doorsteps of people's homes. Ford's move into......
Tech firms vying to sell drones, robots and other unmanned systems to the military FLIR systems recently set up an Arlington-based headquarters to be closer to its Pentagon customers following a series of acquisitions in the unmanned systems space....
Robert Downey Jr. reveals plan to save the planet with robots and advanced technology Robert Downey Jr. is taking a page out of Tony Stark’s book to save the world. He says we can use robots and other tech to reverse climate change. ...
This fake video perfectly imagines what will happen when the robots decide to fight back Over the weekend, another of those freaky videos showing humans putting a human-esque robot through its paces began to explode in popularity, for reasons that — in case you haven’t seen the video above yet — only reveal themselves s...
How iRobot used data science, cloud, and DevOps to design its next-gen smart home robots iRobot has used its new design, software, and data science strategies to expand into new areas, using an approach to the smart home that is different from its big tech rivals....
Ford Is Working on Package-Delivering Robots That Fold Up Inside Self-Driving Cars These days, we keep hearing automakers talk about all the partnerships they’re forming for autonomous cars, car sharing, large-scale electrification, and just general “mobility solutions.” A lot of it is bullshit meant to make the companies appear on...
What Does Veronica Mars Want? That's a Key Question of the Revival Veronica Mars is at a crossroads. We're talking about Kristen Bell's main character at the heart of Veronica Mars. When the miniseries--season four if you will--kicks off on Hulu, the......
Send Your Name to Mars with the 2020 Rover If you’ve ever yearned to travel to Mars, now is your chance. Well, okay, you can’t travel to Mars, but your name can, and that’s as close as you’re ever going to get....
Mars has a brand new crater, and it sure is pretty Mars, like any other rocky world, has its fair share of craters. These scars of ancient impacts give the dusty surface of the planet some serious personality, and sometimes it’s easy to forget that new craters can happen right before our eyes. ...
Mars has meteors to thank for its wispy clouds Mars isn’t exactly known for being a cloudy place. It’s dry, dusty, and barren, but the planet does indeed have a bit of cloud cover. Figuring out why those clouds exist and where they came from has posed a challenge for scientists, but a...
Trump Brain Status: Man From Mars Here’s a new and important message from the president of the United States regarding the mysteries of the universe and his burning desire to plumb the depths of outer space....
Amazon's re:Mars serves up AI inspiration The burgeoning world of AI has generated a whole host of serious challenges, as well as skepticism about its business value, but Amazon's new conference serves as a reminder of why it generates so much excitement....
At re:MARS, Amazon sells itself as an AI innovator As the major cloud providers compete for customers with a growing number of AI services, Amazon is attempting to bolster its reputation in the field....
Pikes Peak Hill Climb Champion Carlin Dunne Passes Away Motorsport can be fatal. As much we try to forget the reality of it, there are days when it comes staring at back at you. In a tragic turn of events, Ducati racer Carlin Dunne had a fatal crash at the......
UPDATE 1-Environmental activists climb aboard Equinor drilling rig in Arctic Greenpeace activists on Monday climbed aboard a Seadrill drilling rig commissioned by Equinor to explore for oil and gas in the Norwegian Arctic, the group told Reuters....
More Millennials Are Dying ‘Deaths of Despair,’ as Overdose and Suicide Rates Climb There’s been a marked uptick in so-called deaths of despair—those involving drugs, alcohol or suicide—among millennials over the last decade, according to a new report released by public-health groups Trust for America’s Healt...
Greenpeace activists climb Sydney Harbour Bridge in climate protest Police arrested 13 people on Tuesday after they scaled the Sydney Harbour Bridge to demand Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison take emergency action to address climate change....
Oil prices climb amid fall in US stockpiles, Middle East worries Oil prices rose over 1% on Wednesday to hit their highest in nearly a month as widely-watched data showed U.S. crude stockpiles fell more than expected, underpinning a market already buoyed by worries over potential U.S.-Iran conflict....
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver Has Tips for Those Who Want to Climb Mt. Everest Safely Mount Everest is no longer just a mountain, John Oliver said on Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight. These days it has become everyone’s go-to metaphor for a significant challenge and one that everyone wants to cross off their bucket list, w...
Oil prices climb amid fall in U.S. stockpiles, Middle East worries Oil prices rose over 1% on Wednesday to hit their highest in nearly a month as widely-watched data showed U.S. crude stockpiles fell more than expected, underpinning a market already buoyed by worries over potential U.S.-Iran conflict....
Asian shares climb, wager all on dovish Fed, trade hopes revive Asian shares hit five-week highs on Wednesday as investors hoped the Federal Reserve would follow the lead of the European Central Bank and open the door to future rate cuts at its policy meeting later in the day....
Man tried to climb White House fence, assaulted police officer, authorities say A suspect was stopped by Secret Service agents Friday night as he allegedly tried to climb over a White House security barrier, according to reports. ...
Oil prices climb as OPEC extends cuts, but demand worries persist Oil gained on Tuesday as producer club OPEC agreed to extend supply cuts until next March, although prices were pressured by worries demand could ease amid hints of a slowdown in the global economy....
Global stocks climb on muted trade hopes, dollar slips World equity markets rebounded on Friday from the previous day's sharp fall, after U.S. President Donald Trump said complaints against China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd might be resolved within the framework of a Sino-U.S. trade deal....
Adam Scott has made long climb back to golf’s elite DUBLIN, Ohio — A year ago, Adam Scott was in a bad place. Twelve months later, he’s in a much better place: In position to win the Memorial Tournament. The moral to Scott’s story is perseverance. Playing in last year’s Memorial at Muirfield Village, ...
US Treasury yields continue surge following biggest weekly climb in three months U.S. Treasury yields continued to rise Monday after the 10-year note posted its biggest weekly climb since April following better-than-expected inflation data....
EMERGING MARKETS-Latam currencies climb to 15-month high on Fed optimism Latin American currencies scaled a 15-month high on Friday as hopes of an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month boosted investor confidence, while stock indices in the region were subdued. MSCI's index of Latin American cu...
Wall Street stocks climb, dollar drops on rate-cut optimism U.S. stocks edged higher and the dollar fell as hopes rose for an imminent interest-rate cut, while oil futures were little changed as supply worries triggered by a tropical storm were offset by signs of a global surplus for several months....
Global stocks climb on muted trade hopes, sterling yo-yos as PM May quits World stocks edged higher on Friday and oil prices bounced after comments by President Donald Trump encouraged hopes of progress in U.S.-China trade talks while British Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation briefly sent sterling fluctuating wildly...
China's June crude oil imports climb as new refineries spur demand China's crude oil imports on a daily basis in June rose 15.2% from a year earlier, customs data showed on Friday, as the start up of new large-scale refiners spurred demand for feedstocks....
Man scales London's Shard skyscraper in apparent free solo climb A man has climbed The Shard in London, seemingly achieving the ascent without aids of any kind. The well-known landmark is the highest tower in the European Union....
Mitch McConnell Leads the Pack in Race to Climb the Farthest Up Trump's Ass Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is leading the three-man race to become Trump’s favorite set of anal beads. So far, after two years in office, the race to be Trump’s whipping boy has been a three-way tie between California Rep. Devin N...
Global stocks climb on trade, rate cut optimism; yuan falters Asian shares, European and U.S. stock futures rose on Monday after the United States shelved plans to impose tariffs on Mexico and as global investors hoped for lower U.S. interest rates on the back of lackluster jobs data....
Climb down a 256-foot tunnel to explore Egypt's Bent Pyramid Egypt has opened a tunnel into the 'bent pyramid' for tourists to explore two chambers in the 4600-year-old structure. ...
Meat Prices Are Set to Climb as Swine Fever Claims China's Hogs U.S. meat suppliers say they expect China’s outbreak of African swine fever to lead to higher prices for pork and bacon, and eventually to push up meat prices globally....
UPDATE 1-Airbus deliveries climb in H1, sources say, leaving production challenge Airbus deliveries rose about 28% in the first half to just under 390 aircraft, putting the planemaker on course to beat crisis-hit Boeing in 2019 but handing it a record production task in the second half, industry sources said....
Fitbit results beat Street as demand for wearable devices climb Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc reported better-than expected first-quarter results and reaffirmed its full-year revenue forecast on Wednesday, as it sells more smartwatches and wearable devices that track health at affordable prices....
World stocks climb, dollar dips in wake of U.S. payrolls report Global equity markets climbed on Friday, buoyed by a U.S. payrolls report that blew past expectations, while the dollar weakened after comments on inflation from some Federal Reserve officials....
Shamorie Ponds faces steep NBA draft climb; Knicks not yet involved CHICAGO — St. John’s star guard Shamorie Ponds was supposed to work out for the Knicks last spring, but a conflict arose with another NBA team and he never got the chance. Disappointed by his reviews, Ponds wound up pulling his name from the draft an...
This seafood restaurant’s latest catch: Chinese robots that greet customers and deliver food. A newly opened Delaware seafood restaurant has a unique item on its menu: robot servers. The machines are the latest example of intelligent machines working in the restaurant industry....
Amazon is releasing a high-end Echo speaker in 2020 and working on home robots, report Amazon is reportedly working on a new Echo speaker with improved sound quality, competing with Apple's HomePod and premium Sonos speakers. ...
Buzz Aldrin says humans really need to move to Mars Buzz Aldrin believes its high-time humans were sent to Mars. The 89-year-old Apollo 11 astronaut argued that the US should be working towards “the great migration of humankind to Mars,” as a matter of the “ultimate survival” of humanity, in an op-ed ...
Japan gets ‘all clear’ to mine Mars’ moon Japan is ready to mine Mars’ largest moon after successfully completing all of the compulsory “space contamination” paperwork. Japanese space agency JAXA hopes to travel to the Mars moon, drill into it and then bring a piece of it b...
Sand on Mars moves in ways not seen on Earth A University of Arizona team created the most detailed analysis of sand movement on Mars with NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data, finding it’s out of this world. ...
Mission to Mars: The complete guide to getting to the Red Planet Humanity's first Mars mission will need a big rocket, lots of free time, reliable team mates and lots of NASA cash. Here's our 5-step plan to get people to the planet and back...
Meteors explain Mars' cloud cover New research suggests the wispy clouds found 18 miles above the Marian surface are made of icy dust produced by meteors hitting the Red Planet's atmosphere....
Researchers have found new way to bring oxygen to Mars One of the biggest issues with putting astronauts on Mars for any length of time is the planet’s weak atmosphere and the lack of oxygen needed to sustain life. Astronauts would need to wear spacesuits almost constantly to live and work on Mars....
Take a Moment to Admire These Passing Clouds on Mars Life can be stressful and full of toil. To ease your tortured mind, we present to you some stunning photographs of clouds on Mars, recently taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover.Read more......
Everyone Needs a Good Pillow—Even Astronauts Bound for Mars Sure, long-haul space travel demands a solid vehicle and ample food. But to stay sane during those lonely days, you might just want a good ol' pillow....
We don’t know enough about space radiation to send people to Mars Mankind seems destined to one day set foot on Mars. NASA and other space agencies around the world are already making big plans for sending humans to the Red Planet, but we’re not nearly ready to actually stick human travelers in a ship and send them...
Dust storms may have stolen all of Mars' water In May 2018, Opportunity had been doing science on Mars since 2004, and there was no reason to think that the plucky rover wouldn't carry on. Then, a dust storm hit that completely obscured the planet from view. After fine dust coated Opportunit...
Water on Mars Provides Hope for Human Habitation The first sample of dust and soil analysed by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover in August 2012 was found to contain a substantial amount of water. This discovery provided new hope that a manned mission to Mars would be able to succeed. Scientists have conf...
Most Convincing Evidence Yet that Mars Supported Life A lot of intriguing evidence has been collected over the years in support of the idea that life once existed on Mars. No definitive proof has been found, in the form of indisputable fossil evidence, for example. But it is known that Mars was once a w...
The Mars Rat and Other Unexplained Features on the Martian Planet In September 2012, a photograph snapped by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity caught the attention of Internet sleuths everywhere. This picture appears to show a large rat hiding among some Martian rocks, and after its release it quickly went viral. The ima...
New Mars rover discovery hints at life, but we’re not there yet NASA’s Mars missions have provided mankind with a wealth of knowledge about our dusty orange neighbor, but signs of life have been hard to come by. We know that Mars was one probably very, very wet, and that it likely had a more robust atmosphe...
Mars Science Lab launch delayed two years NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington....
Mysterious white light spotted on Mars NASA has released a photo taken by its Curiosity rover that shows a mysterious, unexplained white light on Mars. The black-and-white raw image was taken by the rover’s right “navcam” (which acts as sort of an eye) on June 16, 2019, ...
The essential Veronica Mars case files After a short time in streaming limbo—thanks for nothing, go90—Veronica Mars arrives on Hulu Monday, July 1. Running for three seasons on UPN and The CW, the series followed the scholastic and investigative exploits of the titular Veronica Mars (Kris...
Why Veronica Mars Is Still Worth Watching, 15 Years Later Veronica Mars has been on a hell of a ride. The beloved, short-lived TV series debuted in 2004, telling sun-drenched teen noir stories about a high school girl who solved mysteries in her spare time. Starring Kristen Bell as the eponymous troubled am...
Mars may have hosted life before Earth: study A new study suggests that life may have existed on Mars hundreds of millions of years prior to its emergence on Earth. The Red Planet may have been ripe for life as early as 4.48 billion years ago, after “life-inhibiting meteorites stopped stri...
Water on Mars is probably too cold and salty for life as we know it Even if there is water on Mars’s surface it may be too cold and salty for life as we know it to survive there – so there is no risk of contaminating Mars with Earth microbes...
UPDATE 2-Fitbit results beat Street as demand for wearable devices climb Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc reported better-than expected first-quarter results and reaffirmed its full-year revenue forecast on Wednesday, as it sells more smartwatches and wearable devices that track health at affordable prices....
GLOBAL MARKETS-Wall St stocks climb, dollar drops on rate-cut optimism * Graphic: World FX rates in 2019 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh (Updates after U.S. market open, adds commentary, changes byline, previous dateline LONDON)...
Mini John Cooper Works GP prototype takes on Goodwood hill climb Disguised version of upcoming 300bhp hot hatchback makes first UK appearance following debut at the Nurburgring 24 hour race Mini's upcoming John Cooper Works GP hot hatchback has made its UK debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. A camoflagued pr...
Oil prices climb on improving U.S. demand signs, OPEC agrees to meeting date Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Thursday on signs of improving demand in the United States, the world's biggest crude consumer, and as OPEC and other producers finally agreed to a date for a meeting to discuss output cuts....
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks climb on muted trade hopes, dollar slips World equity markets rebounded on Friday from the previous day's sharp fall, boosted after U.S. President Donald Trump said complaints against China's Huawei Technologies might be resolved within the framework of a Sino-U.S. trade deal....
Wells Fargo champ Max Homa completes two-year climb out of ‘dark’ times CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In his own words, Max Homa had “some serious scar tissue,’’ on the PGA Tour. Two years ago, as a PGA Tour rookie, Homa failed to make the cut in 15 of the 17 tournaments he played in and was relegated to trying to fight his way back...
Exclusive: Watch Game of Thrones' Ice Wall Climb Come to Life in Storyboard Form Great visual storytelling starts with visuals to explain the storytelling. Storyboards, for example, are used to convey the drama and how the action of a scene is going to unfold long before cameras start rolling. A new book called Game of Thrones: T...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks climb on muted trade hopes, sterling yo-yos as PM May quits World stocks edged higher on Friday and oil prices bounced after comments by President Donald Trump encouraged hopes of progress in U.S.-China trade talks while British Prime Minister Theresa May's resignation briefly sent sterling fluctuating wildly...
Volkswagen's All-Electric Prototype Officially Annihilated the Goodwood Hill Climb Record The Goodwood Hill Climb is an extremely short run, as hill climbs go, but Volkswagen and racer Romain Dumas now owns the official record for fastest time in history run up the driveway. Running the same Volkswagen ID. R that he used to break the Pike...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks climb on trade, rate cut optimism; yuan falters Asian shares, European and U.S. stock futures rose on Monday after the United States shelved plans to impose tariffs on Mexico and as global investors hoped for lower U.S. interest rates on the back of lacklustre jobs data....
Giro d’Italia: Pello Bilbao breaks clear on final climb to win stage seven • Spanish rider attacks 1.5km from finish in L’Aquila• Valerio Conti in pink after uneventful day in pelotonSpain’s Pello Bilbao claimed the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia on Friday, an undulating 185km ride from Vasto to L’Aquila.The Astana ride...
Asteroids, research, robots: Poll shows Americans don't want a space program focused on moon Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos. ...
Japan edge battling Scotland as VAR controversy mars win "Japan scored twice in the first half in a 2-1 win over Scotland, a result that leaves Shelley Kerr\u0027s side\u0027 hopes hanging by a thread at the women\u0027s World Cup."...
Curiosity is entering what may be the best area to find life on Mars Clay on the Martian surface may be able to sustain and nourish microbes, and the Curiosity rover has just rolled into an area on Mars that’s chock full of it...
This New Veronica Mars Trailer Has So Many Gasp-Worthy Moments After 12 years away from TV, did you expect Veronica Mars to have anything but an explosive return? E! News has your exclusive first look at the new key art and trailer for Hulu's Veronica......
What Will Happen in Veronica Mars Revival That'll Cause a Strong Fan Reaction? Kristen Bell is getting prepared for you, dear reader, to finally see the return of Veronica Mars. Bell returns as the titular character in an eight-episode miniseries that is sure to......
Mars invades: Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds' goes interactive Twenty-first-century Londoners will be transported back to the late 19th century of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" to join a fight for survival after a Martian invasion in an interactive experience featuring theater and virtual reality and holog...
Dunkin’ Hepatitis scare mars National Doughnut Day in NJ Customers at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New Jersey may have been exposed to Hepatitis A after a worker at the shop tested positive for the communicable disease, a report said Friday — which happens to be National Doughnut Day. The employee at the doughnut s...
Researcher claims life may still exist on Mars, but it’s probably hiding As far as we know, there’s no life that currently exists on Mars. Missions to the Red Planet have yielded tantalizing clues that life may have existed at some point in the past, but no living organisms have ever been spotted by any rover or oth...
Trump Gets Trolled After Tweeting That the Moon Is Part of Mars Donald Trump has left people astonished with his knowledge of space and the universe and has become a laughing stock yet again after he claimed that the Moon is a part of Mars....
Hulu will stream the first three 'Veronica Mars' seasons on July 1st You won't have to twiddle your thumbs while you're waiting for Hulu to premiere the Veronica Mars reboot. The newly Disney-controlled service has announced that it'll offer the first three seasons of the mystery-solving show beginning...
PSA: The Original Run of Veronica Mars Hits Hulu July 1st Detectives are the best. Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, Batman. And, of course, Veronica Mars, the legendary Kristin Bell heroine who starred in several seasons of stylized teen television from creator Rob Thomas, along with a movie reboot and an upcom...
‘Fettuccine’ rocks could be ‘obvious sign of life’ on Mars The search for life on Mars may come down to whether the Red Planet is more like Olive Garden than the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. According to a new research paper published in the scientific journal Astrobiology, rocks that look like the Italian pasta...
SpaceX beginning to tackle some of the big challenges for a Mars journey Enlarge / A rendering of what a Super Heavy Starship launch would look like. (credit: SpaceX) Earlier this month, the principal Mars "development engineer" for SpaceX, Paul Wooster, provided an update on the company's vision for getting to the Red ...
Crash mars finish as Teunissen edges Sagan "Mike Teunissen pipped Peter Sagan on the opening stage of the Tour de France after an incident-packed finale saw a large chunk of the peloton wiped out by a huge crash."...
Mars crew could 3D-print skin and bones for injuries A journey to Mars will take several years, and humans won't be able to turn back if an astronaut suffers a burn or a bone fracture. Which is why scientists at the University Hospital of Dresden Technical University have now produced the first bi...
California researchers have found a new way to bring oxygen to Mars One of the biggest issues with putting astronauts on Mars is the weak atmosphere and the lack of oxygen needed to sustain life. Astronauts would need to wear spacesuits almost constantly to live and work on the Red Planet. However, a team of research...
Scientists work out way to make Mars surface fit for farming Aerogel sheet mimics Earth’s greenhouse effect and could help to create fertile oasesFor future astronauts bound for Mars it will surely rank as a positive: when they sit down to dinner on the barren red planet, they should at least have plenty of gr...
Methane gas found on Mars hints at possibility of life NASA’s Curiosity Rover has discovered that Mars is emitting methane gas — lots of it — and that could be a sign that life is thriving somewhere in the Red Planet, a report on Saturday said. The startling readings arrived back on E...
First teaser for Veronica Mars revival is everything we loved about the series National Treasure Kristen Bell is back as everyone's favorite PI in Hulu’s miniseries of Veronica Mars. Marshmallows, rejoice, for Hulu has dropped the first teaser for its miniseries revival of Veronica Mars. Based on the footage, it looks like a ...
Unique chance to confirm there is methane – and perhaps life – on Mars NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected methane on Mars, and we may be able to confirm the signal because gas-measuring satellites were monitoring the same region...
All female Mars colony possible using frozen sperm, says study Scientists find frozen sperm exposed to zero-g could go where no man has gone beforeAll-female astronaut crews could reproduce in space without the help of accompanying men, scientists have suggested.A study has found that frozen samples of sperm exp...
Americans believe asteroid monitoring more important than Mars trip The poll comes as the White House pushes to get astronauts back on the moon, but only about a quarter of Americans said moon or Mars exploration by astronauts should be among the space program’s highest priorities....
Evidence of Major Cataclysm on Mars Which Would Have Destroyed any Life Analysis of data collected by the Mars Curiosity Rover revealed evidence of a past cataclysmic event that would have ended all life on the surface of the red planet. The event could have involved intense volcanic activity, or been the result of a mas...
Americans aren’t interested in the Moon and Mars—and that’s understandable Enlarge / Mars or the Moon? It’s a debate that has bedeviled NASA for decades. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Nearly two years ago, Vice President Mike Pence made the administration's space policy official, saying NASA would re-focus its pr...
New Mars crater exposes mysterious darker material The Red Planet was hit by an asteroid sometime within the past three years and the resulting crater has exposed a "darker material" underneath Mars' reddish dust that is currently perplexing scientists....
DNA Sequencing Microchip Could Detect Earth-Like Life on Mars Conditions on Mars are harsh. Its atmosphere is made up mostly of carbon dioxide and is 100 times thinner than Earth’s. Temperatures on the surface can plummet to minus-126 degrees Celsius. But the environment below the Martian surface may be similar...
GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares climb, wager all on dovish Fed, trade hopes revive Asian shares hit five-week highs on Wednesday as investors hoped the Federal Reserve would follow the lead of the European Central Bank and open the door to future rate cuts at its policy meeting later in the day....
Ducati Rider Carlin Dunne Dead After Pikes Peak Hill Climb Crash Everything was smiles in the Ducati pit on Sunday morning. The newly unveiled Streetfighter V4 motorcycle was wheeled out of its pit stall and greeted to cheers as it lined up at the start line. Carlin Dunne had qualified the pre-production bike on p...
The Pentagon’s Defense to Criticism of Troops Painting the Border Wall: It’s ‘Anti-Climb’ Paint Days after the Department of Homeland Security told Congress it needed U.S. troops to paint the southern border wall with Mexico to “improve” its “aesthetic appearance,” the Pentagon claimed Friday the maintenance assignment w...
How will Mars explorers stop earthly viruses infecting the red planet? The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsDuring our visits to Mars, what, if anything, are we doing to prevent our bacteria, viruses and ...
The Return of Veronica Mars: 5 Reasons the Hulu Revival Won't Disappoint Veronica Mars was--and still is--very much an anomaly. The beloved series survived by the skin of its teeth for three seasons on two different networks from 2004-2007 and remained a hot......
Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive Mars’s surface is not suitable for life because of its low temperatures and constant radiation bombardment, but just a few centimetres of aerogel could fix that...
Mars rover's large methane discovery excites scientists Curiosity’s record-breaking measurement fuels speculation it is from microbial MartiansNasa’s Curiosity rover has detected its largest belch of methane on Mars so far, fuelling speculation that the robot may have trundled through a cloud of waste gas...
Donald Trump Trolled On Twitter After He Says Moon Is A Part Of Mars US President Donald Trump has left people astonished with his knowledge of space and the universe and has become a laughing stock yet again after he claimed that the Moon is a part of Mars....
Life on Mars? Sorry Brian Cox, that’s still science fiction | Philip Ball The utopian vision of humans colonising the red planet to solve our energy and population crises is a misguided fantasyWho said this? “I’ve been having to say everywhere I go that there is no planet B, there is no escape hatch, there is no second Ear...
Scientists Develop Material to Create Habitable Areas on Mars Mars’ surface, as far as we can tell, is not habitable to humans—it’s far too cold. But eventually, humanity would like to put an outpost on the planet. That will require warming things up a bit, but how?Read more......
Hulu solves the mystery of when it will stream the first 3 seasons of Veronica Mars Back in September, Hulu announced that it was planning to bring back cult classic mystery show Veronica Mars for an eight-episode revival season, which we eventually learned would be released on July 26. That announcement also included a reveal that ...
Fly off to Mars at Kennedy Space Center’s Astronaut Training Experience As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the Moon, Florida’s Kennedy Space Center has opened up its Astronaut Training Experience to the public....
Violence mars voting in India's eastern battleground state India's battleground state of West Bengal took the center stage in the fourth phase of a staggered general election on Monday after clashes broke out between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and a regional bloc....
Asteroids hitting Mars could have made hot rain fall for decades Asteroids hitting the surface of Mars billions of years ago would have produced enough energy to vaporise ice, creating clouds of hot rain that took decades to clear...
We used to be friends: Veronica Mars is back in the first full season 4 trailer Enlarge / Hulu also distributed this poster for the new season. (credit: Hulu) As the premiere for a new season of fan-darling-TV-series-brought-back-from-the-dead Veronica Mars draws closer, Hulu has released the first full trailer for the show. P...
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The Rolling Stones: A potted history part four
Welcome to the fourth part of my potted travail through the history of the Rolling Stones; part of a series I originally put together for God Is In The TV in 2012 for the band’s 50th anniversary.
Feel outraged or elated at the events, albums and singles I’ve put in or left out of my exhaustive list – feel free to comment or spark a debate. Starting with Exile On Main Street and ending with the best pruning, peacocking rock ‘n roll single of the 80s, Start Me Up, this next set of choice picks marks one of the bands most dry-periods, one in which the quality fizzles out and the hits start to wane.
31. Exile on Main Street, Rivera ‘s Sunset Strip style.
Moving ‘en masse’ to the south of France, The Rolling Stones left the UK for tax purposes in the spring of 1971. Turning their back on “dear old Blighty” and the unfavorable “83%, rising to 98%, tax on unearned income”, the band members scattered themselves liberally, from St. Tropez to Vaucluse. Despite his predilection for heroin, Keith Richards remained the driving force behind the bands next album, Exile On Main St. – so named for its’ non-specific but universally generic allusion that every city in the USA had one.
His decadent Nellcôte Chateau would become the main hub for the album’s recording – though a number of tracks are saved from previous sessions at various times, including those laid-down at the Sunset Studio in L.A during 1969 – after a fruitless search in Cannes and Nice for suitable facilities failed to offer any viable solutions. Using the groups recently purchased Mighty Mobile eight-track unit, Richards persuaded his compatriots to use his extravagant, Villefranche Bay, pile and its’ labyrinth of rooms and corridors in the basement to experiment with both resonance and acoustics; which at times gives the album a disconnected vibe, as each musical part bleeds or drifts into a cyclonic whirl – for the most part this method works quite well.
If Sticky Fingers was, in part, imbued with the diaphanous acid-country of Gram Parsons than Exile owes homage to the rousing gospel liturgy-like performances of Billy Preston. Turned-on to Preston’s reverence by The Beatles, who brought the celebrated organ and piano player in to their set-up to ease the tension during their break-up album Let It Be, the Stones produced their most sagacious spiritual opus.
Beset by the usual traumas and lack of cohesion, Mick Jagger and Richards grew even further apart. Recently married to his Nicaraguan beauty, Bianca, Jagger was perusing with the intellectual and arty elite in Paris whilst his erstwhile musical partner was caught-up in various drug-related scrapes and japers. Yet Richards went through one of his most creative epiphanies as the bands helmsman, steering them through those turbulent times. He even got to sing lead on his horn-blasting paean, Happy.
Swelling to a double album, Exile is an exhaustive travail that encapsulates every facet of the Stones sound to date; paying tribute to the blues, Stax soul, country, bluegrass and “Honky Tonk” bawdry rock and roll. Languorous and, even, lumbering throughout, the LP exudes a tone of free-spirited looseness. Perhaps the most popular track, Tumbling Dice, is a case in point with its’ laid-back demeanour and ‘boogie woogie rocking and a reeling’ meandrous rhythms. Originally recorded years before under the title of Good Time Woman, and destined for Sticky Fingers, its’ reformation suited Exile better.
Arguably in his element, Jagger’s rubber-necked pouts and ‘down south’ Orleans’ twang swaggers over a bounty of both heralded brass (Casino Boogie, Loving Cup, Rocks Off) and gospel “yeah-yeah” (I Just Want To See His Face, Soul Survivor, Shine A Light), all complimented by a choice chorus of hallowed backing singers – which included Dr. John on the beatific folk ballad turned “praise be” eulogy, Let It Loose.
Those usual themes of the romanticized America of yore permeate, with the guaranteed cast of miscreants, losers in love, gamblers, vagabonds and drug addicts. However, social and political comments are cryptically woven into many of these mythic narratives, with the old country and blues feel of Sweet Black Angel alluding to the activist, reformer, and member of Communist Party USA, Angela Davis who had been implicated and arrested for her part in the fateful and tragic Marion County Courthouse Incident, in which the 17-year old African American student Jonathan Jackson took control of a courtroom and armed the black defendants that were on trail and took the judge and three female jurors hostage. A subsequent escape ended in a number of fatalities of both sides. Davis was accused of supplying the weapons involved (true she owned the sawn-off shotgun), and due to the laws of “implication and by association” in the US a warrant was issued for her arrest. On the run for a while, Davis appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list. She was eventually tried in 1970 and give a rough ride; finally imprisoned but cleared of all charges two –years later when a huge outcry helped to quash her conviction.
Passing between the moods of an Alabama church service and ‘Basement Tapes’ ala The Band and Dylan, Exile On Main St. marked the Stones nadir; with, apart from Goats Head Soup, every subsequent release failing to match or live up to this double album. Turbulently gathered together in what should have been the height of dysfunction and failure, the band managed to knock-out one of their most revered achievements – and gave Primal Scream a career off the back of it.
The unfortunate fall-out from Exile saw both Richards and his bode, Anita Pallenberg, busted for dealing heroin. And whilst the groups feigned, gilded “pirate king”, readily admits to his and Anita’s worrying habit, allegations of supplying where probably disingenuous and fatuous. Lucky to escape a lengthy jail term, the pair were banned from entering France for two-years. Richards thumbed-it to L.A, where he finished all of Exile’s mastering and production, before embarking on new adventures.
32. “The Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise Tour 72.”
“The Stones’ big, ugly 1972 tour started on June 3. You can see how a sensitive person like Keith might need medication, but none of this stuff cheered me up. I hoped for better things. The idealism of the 1969 tour ended in disaster. The cynicism of the 1972 tour included Truman Capote, Terry Southern (would have included William S. Burroughs if the Saturday Review had come up with Bill’s price), Princess Lee Radziwill, and Robert Frank. Featured sideshows on the tour involved a traveling physician, hoards of dealers and groupies, big-sex-and-dope scenes. I could describe for you in intimate detail the public desecrations and orgies I witnesses and participated in on this tour, but once you’ve seen sufficient fettuccine on flocked velvet, hot urine pooling on deep carpets, and tidal waves of spewing sex organs, they seem to run together. So to speak. Seen one, you seen ‘em all. The variations are trivial.”
Stanley Booth, Keith: Standing in the Shadows.
Maybe stretching the exuberance and indulgences a little far, nonetheless the respected music writer, Stanley Booth conveyed and summarized the apodictic debauchery of the Stones in 1972.
Their “S.T.P’ tour (Stones Touring Party) was indeed glutinous and like something from the last days of Sodom & Gomorrah; an inter-state rollercoaster of live dates in which the band hardly steeped out of the limo, hotel and venue to take in their surroundings.
The prelude or benchmark for all subsequent big business and mythical rock ‘n roll tours, this caravan of friends, hangers-on, lawyers, doctors, celebrities and counter-culture vagrants, all climbed onboard the groups juggernaut of excess. Christ! They even had the ultimate status symbol of pomposity and flamboyance…the private jet!
The effete age had began, their musical direction and agenda poised and aimed at the repetitive mantra of fun, fun, fun!
33. Goats Head Soup, recipe for distraction.
As the first The Rolling Stones tenure drew to a close and a new epoch approached, the now appellate “Greatest Rock ‘n Roll band in the world” could look back proudly on a fruitful career – despite the smack, in-fighting and tragedies of course. From 1962 to 72 they’d released ten, mostly, omnivorous and stunning albums and a staggering forty-five singles; many of which didn’t appear on the albums.
Their next stormy chapter would mark the end of their most productive period.
Sounding like a playful allusion to Satanism (again!) or a sub-Saharan delicacy, Goats Head Soup is a strange heady brew that has more in common with Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed than with their last magnum opus, Exile On Main St.
In an exile funk, arguably of his own making, Richards’ options of residency were limited. Booted-out of France, non-grata for tax purposes in the UK, and out-staying his welcome in the States, it was either the “yodel-leh-hee!” skiing ranges and mountains of Switzerland or…the pleasurable oasis of Jamaica. Yep, Richards and his debacle settled in that winter of 72 upon the island, setting up base at Kingston’s Dynamic Sound Studio.
Remarkably, the evident aroma of the local intoxicates didn’t seem to upset the bands flow; if anything they wrote and recorded far too many tracks. The old magic returned as Jagger settled down and began strumming the opening chords of the Gram Parsons-esque Winter; a number first conceived during sessions for Sticky Fingers.
Hustling that now synonymous Louisiana drawl and salacious swagger, the album opens with a voodoo raunchy skulk across St. Louis cemetery on Dancing With Mr. D. Heard crackling and seeping through in a state of efflux, the chiming funk-fried presence of Billy Preston can be heard playing the clavinet on both this nod to mortality and the rest of the LP.
Recalled for a second time, alongside Richards’s right-hand sax man and friend Bobby Keys, he joined an exotic mix of percussionists to add a certain reverent tone and mood that sways between the reflective beguilement of 100 Years Ago, and the “urban R&B” Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker); a song in which Jagger interweaves the tall tales of a boy mistakenly shot dead by US cops, and a 10 year-old girl who dies of a drug overdose in a sleazy back alley.
34. Angie.
The saddening end of an affair, whispered, wooed and echoed in pained resonance by Jagger, whose spooky warbled vocals are a result of consciously leaving the ghost-track guide on the recording. Written and dreamt-up by Richards, Angie has been misconstrued as a tribute to his, yet unborn child, Angela, or fatuously claimed to be a reference to Bowie’s, than wife, Angie. Hell, it’s even been suggested that Richards wrote this song about the actress Angie Dickinson, though there is no evidence that the two met or enjoyed any kind of liaison.
In his recent biography, Richards laughs of any of these ideas, maintaining that the Angie of the title was a reference to his rehabilitation from heroin abuse – though he did get back on it a short time later. But then he also muses that Angie just happened to chime with the melody he composed, and that it could easily have been Diane.
35. Relax, It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll.
The basic premise of the Stones 12th album was to give their critics, especially the punctilious music writer Lester Bangs, the bird-finger salute.
Bangs’ condemnation at the paucity and profligate decline of the group was particularly scathing – quite justified in some respects – and only increased with each new release.
Incredulous at the growing derision and, as they viewed it, over-analyzing of their music, this album makes no bones about its regression back into the rock ‘n roll womb, albeit a version of that initial scene performed by a languid miscreant bunch of lolloping posers.
The self-titled track and single from, It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (And I Like It), was strangely – so it’s claimed by Richards – conceived by a testy Jagger, and recorded with his new “soul mate” Bowie as a rough demo. Such was the internal drift between the Stones creative partnership that Jagger often composed and thrashed out ideas away from Richards. During this particular break in communications, Richards was hanging out with The Faces lead guitarist and crow-haired sporting Ronnie Wood at his London studio. Wood had begun recording a solo LP, and had asked along both Richards and Mick Taylor to add a touch of sleazy blues. Whilst at one of these relaxed sessions, Jagger dropped in and cut a version with Woods and, Small Faces/Faces drummer, Kenny Jones, but also produced another version with his comrades at a later date (Woods again played on this, contributing the rhythm guitar part on the 12-string). Regardless of who had their paws on it, It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (And I Like It), is a stereotypical Stones pruning swaggered anthem, one that leans very heavily upon the strutting glam-rock pout of T-Rex.
Geographically separated, and as usual, saber-rattling with the establishment, the band pushed-on, even though by now Richards’s increasing drug-fueled skirmishes looked certain to scupper any attempts to successfully record.
To top it all, Taylor’s growing resentment at the lack of credit and acknowledgement for his contributions set the ball in motion for his resignation from the band a year later. Yet despite his disgruntlement, Taylor hung-on in there, playing on a majority of the albums ten-songs but not the title track single; even though he appears in the video.
Without their due-diligent and overseeing producer, Jimmy Miller, the production fell to the self-aggrandizing, “Glimmer Twins” pairing of Jagger & Richards. Miller, a stalwart member of their inner circle and sometimes sobering force for good, had finally succumbed to his drug habit (picked-up whilst working with the band) and left, leaving the pair to take control for the first time since Their Satanic Majesties Request – we all know how that turned out!
36. Fool To Cry.
Rather than head back out onto the open road to promote It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll, our effete troubadours continued to record whilst the going was good; much, as it turned out, to the exasperation of Mick Taylor who decided to call it a day.
The leading single from their back-to-back Musicland studios recorded album, Black And Blue – an LP remembered more for its initial S&M bruised and battered female model fronted campaign, than for the music -, ‘Fool To Cry’ has all the traits of a Philly soul balled, as reworked by Bowie on Young Americans.
Both this oozing sentimental number and the album had a gestation period before being released in 1976; tour commitments and the release of a compilation prolonged the wait.
During recording sessions the band auditioned a wealth of guitar talent that included Harvey Mandel (Canned Heat for a while, and John Mayall) and Wayne Perkins (Alabama session man from the Muscle Shoals stable), as Taylor finally quit. Both made it onto various songs with Mandel playing on the final cut of Fool To Cry. Ronnie Wood, the former Faces lead guitarist and occasional stand-in for the Stones, eventually slipped into the permanent role; his baptism of fire being on the super group’s 1975 “Americas“ tour (one that was fueled “purely” by Merck’s pharmaceutical “grade A” cocaine, or so Richards claims).
Rumors run wild of course, but Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton were, at least, muted as possible replacements for Taylor, though a lack of collaborating evidence and scant details can only consider these choices as wishful thinking.
Easily the best track from the, largely berated LP (or as Lester Bangs surmised, “This is the first meaningless Stones album, and thank God!”), Fool To Cry is a more confident and mature record, which seemed ill at odds with their quasi-funky and lumbering black-rhythmic postulations and posing.
37. Miss You.
Released in advance of the Stones 1978 album, Some Girls, the pruning Chic-esque ‘Miss You’ single is the aspirational Studio 54 sounding big idea of Jagger. Initially borne out of an unrehearsed jam with Billy Preston, the slickly smooth, effete doo-wop walk through Manhattan was recorded on the same day as their future hit, Start Me Up – at this point in its more unfamiliar reggae style.
Despite their “irrelevant” tag from certain critics and loss of direction, the “jet-set dinosaurs” sailed straight to number one in the States. As an extension of Jagger’s new found love for New York clubs and debauched nightspots, Miss You was also released as a extended 12” dance remix; the bands first.
38. Some Girls have all the luck.
Constantly heralded – through a strangulated trumpet admittedly – as a “return to form”, Some Girls is still a hard sale for anyone who isn’t a die-hard fan. Especially as we’re told that the group had adopted the punk and club trends of the times, and merged them with their celebrated rock ‘n roll template.
A broken record in itself, Richards Toronto drug bust in 1977, and consequential long-running court battle travails, had left a heavy burden on his creative partner Jagger; the album’s Beast Of Burden written as a understated thank you to the pouting front man for shouldering the on-going stress that was caused by his various run-ins with the authorities.
Thankfully, Richards was eventually spared a stretch in a Canadian institution for rehabilitation in New Jersey. Until this weight was lifted, the reality of prison was almost certain, the dread hanging over Richards whilst he took part in recording this LP.
Undoubtedly a salacious and suggestive love letter to the city that had left indelible impressions on both Jagger and Richards, Some Girls often references and bounces off the street-level sounds of New York; though there are also excursions to the deep south.
It’s rather surprising to hear that this Americas flavored LP was in fact recorded at the Pathé Marconi Studios, Paris – another hunting ground for Jagger.
Boosted by Jagger’s growing confidence as a guitarist, the band now boasted a new three-pronged attack, and more pure, live feel, vibrated with Richards recently acquired MXR reverb-echo pedal – something he could buy even more of now they’d signed a massive new deal with EMI.
Never afraid to upset the general public, contentiously Some Girls features a provocative – though many would say offensive – selection of tongue-in-cheek lyrics that goad and poke fun at their own stereotypical machismo.
The leading, lazy R&B, self-titled anthem is itself a Lothario suggestive whirl around the globe; Jagger offering an insiders guide to what women crave. A certain questionable line about “black girls” upset both civil rights and feminist groups collectively.
That controversy was carried over on the male prostitute theme of When The Whip Comes Down; a Midnight Cowboy meets the street-beat hustling rock of Springsteen ode to finding “ones” place in the world: “Yeah mama and papa told me I was crazy to stay/ I was gay in New York, I was a faggot in L.A.”
Though not so much for reasons of poor taste, or for the raucous banter, the Peter Corriston designed cover sparked numerous threats of lawsuits from the stars of TV and film that featured in the original artwork. Lucille Ball, Farah Fawcett, Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe all took extreme umbrage at their inclusion: neither had they been asked for permission or did they wish to have their images connected to the perceived hard-drinking, drug-addled and loose morals of the worlds most notorious rock band.
Regardless of “so-called” hip allusions to the sounds emitting from the “Big Apple”, and the UK punk scene, Some Girls is waywardly off the pace and sounds like a lackluster attempt to catch hold of the bandwagon as it passes by.
39. Emotional Rescue.
Blessed by the Pope himself, the charmed life of the Stones 17th album, Emotional Rescue, defied the critics harsh reactions; hitting the no.1 spot (first time since Goats Head Soup in 1973) in both the UK and US.
An often-derided companion to Some Girls, this ten-track song catalogue is a combination of session material from 1978 and 79, with leftovers making it onto the next LP, Tattoo You.
A cleaner Richards now struggled to wrestle control back from Jagger. Non-pulsed by the loose-lipped lothario’s increasing adoption of disco, and domineering leadership choices (both creatively and financially) Richards grew adrift from his sparring partner. An eventual war of words between the “Glimmer Twins” spilled over into the press, as Jagger began to pursue projects and a solo career outside the confines of the band. Interpreted as a curtain-call dig at his compadre, Richards All About You balled is a one-man soliloquy about his two most personally turbulent relationships with Jagger and Anita Pallenberg – by now separated for good, as the lolloping guitar-slinger fell head-over-heels for his new muse, Patti Henson. Unfortunately the songs Dylan-esque vocals start to sound like whining as the song drags on unabated.
Acrimony aside, the fruits of their labor proved to be very productive. Emotional Rescue, in my own humble opinion (one that seems contrary to “party line”), is a much better record than Some Girls, both with production (much more clarity and sparkle) and with the choice of material.
The leading single, Emotional Rescue, is itself an odd bedfellow of Miss You. Only it’s a much better song. Hypnotic and pliable, yet far less cavalier and aimless than the latter, Jagger oozes an amorphous falsetto performance that aches of grand Casablanca Records allusions, and sends shivers down those sauntering spines. This was the exact sort of direction Richards wished to avoid, and in most cases he was right to, though not this time as Emotional Rescue is the most impressive, if not soporific, disco merger by the group.
Other highlights include the Blondie-esque, stuttering, She’s So Cold (another single in its own right) and good-time reggae noodle, Send It To Me; both decent enough efforts with the overall album’s sound having a greater flow and pop sensibility.
Rightly so, the band were given an expiated kicking over their ill-conceived themes on the South American politico paean, Indian Girl. Jagger’s drippy crooning languidly weeps over a faux-Latin American styled score of Mariachi and marimba. His tone can’t help but be condescending, especially as he travels through a litany of revolutionary hotbeds, from Nicaragua to Cuba, cynically preaching to an orphan girl that,“Lesson number one that you learn when you’re young/Life just goes on and on getting harder and harder.” Cheers for that advise Mick!
Lump in the fatuous funk saunter, Dance, and snotty cock-sure mock punk of Where The Boys Go – Jagger’s corny patter is neither hip or ironic – and you’ve got a hard sale, yet Emotional Rescue doesn’t suck as much as Some Girls; a suspect recommendation I know, but nevertheless a thumbs-up.
40. Start Me Up.
Like a timely injection (sorry Keith, no offence) of pure adrenalin and “spunk” straight into the Stones fading pulse, ‘Start Me Up’ was their 80s version of Brown Sugar: a resonating, prowling anthem and kick-back to the power of rock ‘n roll. And boy did they need this single!
Roughly laid-down as reggae jammed ditty back during sessions for Black And Blue, and worked on constantly throughout the next five-years, Start Me Up reprieve from the vaults was down to the bands engineer Chris Kimsey, who unbeknown to the band stripped it down to its bare roots and turned it into a straight rocker – the reggae elements were entirely removed. Legend and infamy has it that upon hearing this cut, Richards remarked he’d heard the familiar melody and riff on the radio already. Kimsey was asked to wipe it, but he held his nerve and finally convinced the band it was a winner.
Turn it up and let it roar.
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MOORLACH UPDATE — 2018 Top 20 Veto Worthy Bills — September 13, 2018
September 13, 2018 September 26, 2018 John MoorlachAB 1184, AB 1231, AB 186, AB 1884, AB 1947, AB 2361, AB 2601, AB 3034, AB 3080, FlashReport Publisher, Jon Fleischman, SB 1014, SB 1085, SB 1100, SB 1172, SB 174, SB 320, SB 328, SB 822, SB 826, SB 835, SB 836, SB 964
For the fourth year in a row, I’ve been asked to partner with a fellow Republican Legislator to provide the 20 worst bills that made it to the Governor’s desk by the conclusion of the Legislative Session that are begging for his veto (see MOORLACH UPDATE — 2017 Top 20 Veto Worthy Bills — September 22, 2017).
The best advice I could give the Governor is that he veto every bill I voted against and consider vetoing those where I laid off (abstained). But, that won’t happen. In fact, he will sign the majority of the bills provided below in the FlashReport. Governor Brown has until September 30th to veto, sign or ignore, thus putting into law, what seems to be at least 1,000 bills that flew out of the Senate and the Assembly Chambers during the last two weeks of August.
Brown was quick to sign a few bills, so SB 100 was not included in our compilation. Obviously, the list could be much, much longer. But, again, I would refer you to those that I voted “No” on. I’ll try to keep you current over the next two weeks as to how many of the top 20 were vetoed in future UPDATEs.
FlashReport 2018 Top Bills
Worthy of Governor Jerry
Brown’s Veto
http://www.flashreport.org/blog/2018/09/13/flashreport-2018-top-bills-worthy-of-governor-jerry-browns-veto/
Introduction from FlashReport Publisher Jon Fleischman
Since 2006, the FlashReport has presented for your viewing displeasure the worst pieces of legislation sitting on the governor’s desk. Of course, there are a great many bills on the governor’s desk – most of them worthy of a veto. Thus the task of trying to cull through those bills and single out just the twenty worst is not easy. This year’s list comes to us courtesy of both State Senator John Moorlach and Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez. I will add that this session in particular was over-the-top with noxious legislation, and limiting this list to twenty bills was no easy task. – Flash
The FlashReport Top 20 Bills Worthy Of The Governor’s Veto
As compiled and described by Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez and State Senator John Moorlach.
California has critical managerial and spending problems which the legislature continues to ignore. However, Sacramento continues to produce bills that don’t solve the pressing fiscal concerns facing this state. Here are 20 bills, in alpha-numerical order, which we believe the Governor should veto (and, yes, we could provide you with 20-plus more). His denial of implementing these proposed laws would show Californians that he’s serious about leaving a significant legacy after serving 16 years as governor.
1) AB 186 (Eggman) Effectively legalizes the use of illegal, injectable narcotics by authorizing sanctuaries for “safer drug consumption programs” as “overdose prevention programs” within the City and County of San Francisco. Permits supervised injection services for adults who can then consume pre-obtained drugs, use sterile consumption supplies, and obtain referrals to addiction treatment. But, assisting is condoning.
2) AB 1184 (Ting and Chiu) Imposes a tax of up to 3.25 percent on each ride provided by a self-driving or driverless vehicle — even though no self-driving or driverless cars offering ride-sharing are in existence. “If it moves, tax it” (satire from President Ronald Reagan).
3) AB 1231 (Weber) Provides for automatic salary increases of 5% for each support staff employee of the California State University after completion of the first year in a position and each year thereafter if the employee meets the standards for satisfactory job performance. This sidesteps collective bargaining and mandates that these salary increases be included within current and future collective bargaining agreements. So much for the overused “meet and confer” argument and trying to prevent tuition increases.
4) AB 1884 (Calderon) The plastic straw ban. Would prohibit a facility where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws unless requested by the consumer. Fining food servers for prematurely giving plastic straws?
5) AB 1947 (Low) Bans the practice of paying petition circulators per signature by making it a criminal offense to pay initiative, referendum, or recall petition circulators based on the number of voter signatures obtained. Makes proponents liable for a fine of up to $25,000, or a year in jail, or both. When did paying commissions become a crime?
6) AB 2361 (Weber) Requires the Regents of the University of California to record and publicly report specified information about service work performed by a contractor pursuant to an outsource contract, including employee pay and benefit information. Disqualifies contractors who fail to provide this information, or who provide false information, from bidding on any UC contract for two years. UC management believes this hamstringing mandate will increase its operating costs by $26-$75 million per year over the next three years. Why do this to a system that has an unrestricted net deficit between $19 and $38 billion? Can you say “tuition increases”?
7) AB 2601 (Weber) Adds charter schools to the list of schools that must provide instruction on comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention. Really? What about focusing on the three R’s?
8) AB 3034 (Low) Makes supervisory employee units of the San Francisco BART District subject to the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, which generally governs collective bargaining for local governments. That would allow unfair labor practice charges to be filed at the union-friendly Public Employment Relations Board, rather than in Superior Court. Can you say “Who’s your Daddy?” The public employee union stranglehold continues to get tighter with each passing year, as BART management did not make this request and opposes it.
9) AB 3080 (Gonzalez Fletcher) Significantly expands employment litigation and will increase costs for employers and employees by banning settlement agreements for labor and employment claims, as well as arbitration agreements made voluntarily as a condition of employment. It would likely be preempted under the Federal Arbitration Act, thereby delaying the resolution of claims. Banning such agreements benefits the trial attorneys, not the employer or employee.
10) SB 174 (Lara) Provides that a person, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, is eligible to hold an appointed civil office if the person is 18 years of age and a resident of the state, and may receive any form of compensation associated with carrying out the duties of that office that the person is not otherwise prohibited from receiving pursuant to federal law. So much for “citizen” involvement.
11) SB 320 (Leyva) Requires certain public university student health centers to offer abortion by medication techniques. The College Student Health Center Sexual and Reproductive Health Preparation Fund will be established to solicit at least $9,600,000 in private funds by January 1, 2019 to theoretically cover the costs of this mandate. This, again, forces taxpayers with a different perspective to condone behavior that they disagree with.
12) SB 328 (Portantino) Prohibits middle schools and high schools (including charter schools) from beginning their school day before 8:30 a.m. Provides an exception for rural school districts. But, this is a local control issue. School district boards can determine the start times that their constituencies wish.
13) SB 822 (Wiener) Imposes net neutrality rules recently repealed by the Federal Communications Commission on internet service providers. However, the requirements go much further than no blocking, no throttling, and no paid prioritization. The World Wide Web should not be regulated by a patchwork of state governments. Period. Under the U.S. Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause, the federal government and Congress have this under control and can and will regulate as necessary. Hopefully, such actions will be as little as possible, so we don’t lose the freedom of the web.
14) SB 826 (Jackson) Imposes gender-based quotas on boards of directors for private California-based corporations. Requires a minimum of one female on the board by the end of 2019. Increases the minimum number to two female directors if the corporation has five authorized directors or to three female directors if there are six or more authorized directors by the end of 2021. “Female” means an individual who self-identifies her gender as a woman, without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth. And the author said with a straight face, “It’s not a quota.” California’s corporations should benefit from the value of women directors because they want to, not because they have to.
15) SB 835 & SB 836 (Glazer) Bans all smoking, including e-cigarettes in “state park units.” Includes all parks, public campgrounds, state coastal beaches, monument sites, landmark sites, and sites of historical interest established or acquired by the state. Would require posted signs and possible designated areas exempt from the ban. Isn’t allowing drug addicts to shoot up in the middle of San Francisco, but not using tobacco (which is legal) in state parks and beaches going too far?
16) SB 964 (Allen) Requires CalPERS and CalSTRS to publicly report on the climate-related financial risks in their portfolios, along with an analysis on how their funds align with the Paris climate agreement and California’s climate policy goals. Legislatively mandated divestment or investment micro-management imposed on pension system Chief Investment Officers is unacceptable. Smart money invests for value, not the politically mandated fad of the day, which is usually a money loser (something these two systems do not need at this dire point in their history).
17) SB 1014 (Skinner) Basically requires Uber and Lyft drivers to purchase zero-emission vehicles. Again, one wildfire wipes out all gains from GHG cuts. But yes, regulate Uber & Lyft cars because all their drivers can afford zero-emission vehicles. Besides, they might be out of jobs anyway if these companies have to designate them as employees.
18) SB 1085 (Skinner) Requires public employers to grant a leave of absence to their employees to participate in union activities without loss of compensation or benefits. Guess who is bitter about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus decision?
19) SB 1100 (Portantino) Raises the age to purchase all legal firearms from 18 to 21. Californians are already barred from purchasing handguns until age 21. Why postpone yet another constitutional right based on age? Go defend your country in war at 18, but not your family when you return?
20) SB 1172 (Beall) Exempts the High-Speed Rail Authority’s property acquisitions, plans, and construction contracts from oversight by the State Public Works Board, Department of General Services, and Department of Finance. Eliminates review and approval steps to accelerate the timeline for obtaining property appraisals, initiating eminent domain proceedings, and starting construction. Less oversight for a boondoggle? How tone deaf does the Authority get?
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Moscow Exhibition
Manmohan put on record by the primary witness,
Manmohan Singh as a man who rightly deserved the ridicule he
aroused in the general population’s minds. I was particularly curious at the reactions
of his family.
Instead I found
that Sanjaya Baru, far from showing the man to be a silent robotic personality,
had held up an image of a Brutus – like tormented tragic hero, with a
tremendous amount of turmoil in his heart.
Baru actually
portrays him as an extremely deserving Prime Minister of India who is trapped
in his own sense of what’s right and what’s wrong and thus becomes an object of
contempt and gains the notoriety of destroying the magnificent stature of the
office that he held.
He defends Dr. Manmohan Singh and it is UPA chief Sonia
Gandhi and her gaggle of yes-men who are shown up in a poor light. The book does not
disparage him in any manner. It tries to
explain plainly the power equation between Sonia Gandhi and Dr. Manmohan Singh
but does not sensationalize the issue. It only re-affirms what the Indian
public knew to be true.
Dr. Manmohan Singh
is shown, regrettably, as a helpless, clueless shadow – puppet of Sonia Gandhi
who almost arouses our sympathies because of his ineffectiveness in functioning
as the Prime Minister of India. This
sad truth was simply being put on record by the primary witness, ie, Sanjaya
Baru, to this political drama.
Baru tell us that
Dr Singh was terrified of losing his place in the scheme of things if he did
not kowtow to the High Command, Sonia Gandhi. For Dr. Singh, the Gandhi family
came first, followed by the political party, prime minister’s office and,
lastly, the country.
He was anxious of not
getting into Sonia Gandhi’s bad books, and always insisted that on no account
was his importance to be broadcast over and above that of the First Family. He
chastised Baru on one occasion for handing him the credit for a particular
event. He knew that Sonia Gandhi wanted the credit for it to be given to her
son Rahul.
Perhaps the
treatment meted out to former Congressmen Narasimha Rao and Sitaram Kesri forced
Dr. Singh to act in this manner. Both these stalwarts had stood their ground on
several issues against Sonia Gandhi and their importance in the political arena
was erased. Narasimha Rao was treated as
a complete outcast and she refused permission for his last rites to be
performed in the capital, where all past prime ministers of the country had had
their funerals. Sitaram Kesri, the president of the Congress party before Sonia
Gandhi, was literally thrown out of power to make way for Sonia Gandhi.
Another mistake
that Dr Singh made was to think that that no matter what his cabinet did, he himself
would remain with a clean image. This was perhaps his vital failing. A Prime Minister of a democracy
cannot remain submerged in filth and not get mud on his face.
Corruption on a massive scale as is seen in
the various scams like the 2G scam, the Coalgate scam, the spectrum allocation
spam, the Commonwealth Games scam and other scams during that era thrived
merrily under his very nose and he remained a silent bystander. His uprightness
and principles did not do the country any good as his party men carried on the
plunder of the nation in various guises.
There is no denying that the leadership of
Forensic forensic Accountant in India. The research of
Legislative all around perceived, unbending and thought about
This need to consider here might be applied
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Roz Morris
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on January 8, 2014
‘First he hears sounds; urgent and deep, like a heartbeat in the ground’
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative environment – perhaps to connect with a character, populate a mysterious place, or hold a moment still to explore its depths. This week it’s my turn on the decks – with the Undercover Soundtrack for Lifeform Three
Soundtrack by Boards of Canada, Peter Gabriel, Enya, Vangelis, Gabor Presser, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Lifeform Three is a fable in the tradition of Ray Bradbury, set in the near future, where global warming has shrunk the landmass and the countryside has been sacrificed for buildings and roads. One valley remains, of woods, trees and meadows, and is now kept as a theme park – The Lost Lands of Harkaway Hall. My main character, Paftoo, is a groundsman there. He’s the odd one out; the only soul who’s uneasy in a world that everyone else accepts. You could say he lives in a utopia – but to him it’s a dystopia.
Music became the story
I knew the emotional beats of Lifeform Three before I knew the story. They came to me as pieces of music, a chain of albums and tracks that suggested the landmarks of the novel. I would load them into my MP3 player and take them running, puzzling over them as I pounded out the miles.
Paftoo is a bod – an artificial human who’s programmed to do menial tasks. To keep him efficient, his memory is regularly wiped, but he has inklings of other memories. We meet him after such an event (known as a ‘sharing’). My first beat was that state of newness, a world shining and fresh where you go out and do your tasks, content with simple instructions. In the beginning, Paftoo doesn’t even know his own name until he realises the sole of his boot has a number – 2 (his name is an alphanumeric, short for Park Asset Field Redo Bod 2).
Boards of Canada’s album Music Has The Right To Children told me the innocence of new, eager eyes, especially this track, An Eagle In Your Mind.
The novelty doesn’t last long. There’s a wildness in Paftoo and by the end of his first day, he’s made the others wary of him. He’s also frustrated. But worse is to come when night falls. While his companions go dormant and lifeless, Paftoo starts to dream.
Again, the idea came as a feeling from music – Peter Gabriel’s soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ suggested a tingling in the nerves, a meaning that must be grasped.
First he hears sounds; urgent and deep, like a heartbeat in the ground
The dream sequence was choreographed to that album. It starts with a sense of unease, then that beat gallops in like the thing you knew was coming.
Horses, flashing across the green hills in glorious gallop. Necks reaching, tails streaming. Riders on their backs, urging them faster.
Paftoo opens his eyes, shocked. He knows he’s not supposed to dream. He also knows that nobody rides horses now. They’re untamed animals in the fields (and known as Lifeform Three). But at the same time it makes perfect sense in his restless soul. From that moment, Paftoo has a mission. Every night, he goes looking for clues that might explain why he has these dreams and what happened to him before his mind was wiped. By day, he struggles to hide his true nature in case he’s wiped again.
Old memories
In a small way the story is autobiographical. In winter 1995 I acquired a horse, which had been an ambition since I was a kid. Like the horse Paftoo later befriends, my horse was enormous, black and alarmingly excited to be alive – especially with the frost nipping his clipped skin. I was laughably incompetent on his back, especially when trying to stop him. While sceptical (and wise) folk waited for me to give up and sell him, I was determined to persevere. If I couldn’t handle my dream, what did that make me? That first winter, Enya’s Anywhere Is was in the charts. I wasn’t a fan of her music, but when I came to write Paftoo’s attempts to tame a horse I listened to Enya to capture that time. For some reason Caribbean Blue with its waltz rhythm brought back the sense of a wondrous adventure, the tentative courtship of a wild creature and the sense of being alone on a dumb-headed quest for something inexplicable and ideal.
A song called Caribbean Blue that takes me back to an English winter, riding horses? Like dreams, Undercover Soundtracks have a logic of their own. Or I take no notice of lyrics.
During the writing, my soundtracks had to become a time machine. Those first days with my oversized horse were, as you can probably see, long ago. Reader, I kept him, and he was now reaping the arthritic rewards of a vigorous life. I was having ghastly conversations with the vet because if her treatments didn’t work it was time for the gun. I clung to those music tracks to help me give his glory days to Paftoo while the real situation seemed so hopeless. Thankfully, he rallied and we gallop on (on a good day).
Lost humanity
The horse awakens Paftoo’s sense of the natural world, which humanity seems to have lost. Again, music already contained what I needed to say. Vangelis’s Pulsar was the thrill of galloping feet
‘gathering up the miles and throwing them out behind’.
Electromantic La Baletta No 2 – by the Hungarian composer Gabor Presser had feisty, fertile joy, like a primitive spring ritual. It smells of untamed hair and corduroy. And whoever said electronic music lacked a soul? Both these tracks are entirely electronic, made from circuits and wave generators, yet they bound and leap like wild animals.
Past, people and a vanished time
But there’s a lot more to Paftoo’s quest than riding and nature. They are merely the beginning; the gateway to a profound discovery of his own past and the people and creatures he loves. Now I’m trying to avoid spoilers, but I can say that the more he recovers, the more he stands to lose and the more desperate his day life becomes. This impossibility was exquisitely insisted in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending.
The piece was written in 1914 and 1920, in an England changed forever by the first World War. That period would also be the heyday of Harkaway Hall, the mansion that used to stand at the heart of the Lost Lands, where Paftoo now struggles to keep his memories. The Lark Ascending seems to say that what will be lost is more than just the loves of a few souls in a little story; it speaks for the loss of time, grace, of fallen walls in overgrown woods, bumps under the turf in an empty field. That violin seems to be shrilling from the skies: it won’t last. We won’t last. And how can Paftoo save it?
Roz Morris is, of course, your host on The Undercover Soundtrack. Find out more here, connect on Twitter as @Roz_Morris and on the writing advice blog Nail Your Novel. Her first novel was My Memories of a Future Life (Soundtrack here) and Lifeform Three is now available in all formats, including print.
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‘Urgent and deep, like a heartbeat in the ground’ – Roz Morris
My new novel isn’t set in the world of music and none of the characters are musicians. It’s a quirky take on the future dystopia/utopia, with a smattering of Arcadia too – misty woods, abandoned towns, a forbidden life by night; the scent of bygone days; and an enigmatic door in a dream. Behind the scenes, though, music did all the early work for me. The first, rough outline came to me from favourite tracks by Boards of Canada, Peter Gabriel, Vangelis, Enya, Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Hungarian electronica composer Gabor Presser. As I built the story I listened to them repeatedly, and now each of them represents a landmark on my main character’s journey. Join me here on Wednesday, when I’ll explain the Undercover Soundtrack for Lifeform Three.
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The Undercover Soundtrack – Jennifer Scoullar
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Undercover Soundtrack on July 4, 2012
‘An enigmatic contradiction; fragile but powerfully emotive’
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to tap into a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week’s post is by Australian environmental fiction author Jennifer Scoullar @pilyara
Soundtrack by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Hugh McDonald, Sara Storer, KT Tunstall, Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Natasha Bedingfield
I love an eclectic range of music – rock to folk to soul. But with my new novel Brumby’s Run, I was drawn to the music of the Australian outback. The novel is set amongst the hauntingly beautiful ghost gums and wild horses of the high country, and I wanted music that would bring me close to my setting.
Songs from the land
To begin with, I immersed myself in the music of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Aboriginal man sings songs about identity, spirit and connection with the land. Born blind, Gurrumul grew up as a member of the Gumatj clan on Elcho Island, off the coast of tropical Arnhem Land. He speaks little English. His sound is an enigmatic contradiction, fragile but powerfully emotive and it affects me in a way no other artist does. The transcendental beauty of his voice was a perfect inspiration for writing about the wild Australian alps.
Music helped with characterisation too. One of my characters is an indigenous man named Bushy. Several songs allowed me to flesh him out – helped me picture him in my head. The first is Diamentina Drover. This song was written by Hugh McDonald of the band Redgum, and is a bush classic. While on a train ride up to Brisbane in Queensland, Hugh met an 80-year -ld man who explained how he had worked for 50 years as a drover on the Diamentina River, and he wrote this song about him. The second is Buffalo Bill by Sara Storer. Storer is a storyteller par excellence. Her songs paint a vivid and realistic portrait of life in the bush – a sweet country sound with a subtle steel in the lyrics. The simple but poignant words and melody of these two songs were perfect catalysts for my imagination.
Another character, a feisty young woman named Charlie, was partly inspired by KT Tunstall, in particular her song, Black Horse and a Cherry Tree. (Okay, I know … she’s Scottish) Tunstall says the song is about having to dig incredibly deep to find out who you really want to be – perfect for Charlie. I also love the acoustics and her super-gutsy performances.
Paul Kelly, Australia’s master singer-songwriter, was a constant soundtrack in the latter stages of the manuscript. Many wonderful Brumby welfare organisations are drawing attention to the plight of Australia’s wild horses. I’ve dedicated my book to them. Songs like Kelly’s From Little Things (Big Things Grow), capture the sense of this swelling grass roots movement. I’ve included a link to Archie Roach and Sara Storer doing a wonderful cover of this ballad. In addition I listened to a lot of songs about horses. To finish I’ve included a link to Natasha Bedingfield’s Wild Horses.
Jennifer Scoullar has always harboured a deep appreciation and respect for the natural world. She lives with her family on a property in the southern Victorian ranges. Her house is on a hill-top, overlooking valleys of messmate and mountain ash. Horses have always been her passion. She grew up on the books of Elyne Mitchell, and all her life she’s ridden and bred horses, in particular Australian Stock Horses. Her first published novel Wasp Season, is an environmental thriller. Her second published novel Brumby’s Run was released by Penguin Australia on July 2 2012. Jennifer is on Twitter as @pilyara
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‘An enigmatic contradiction; fragile but powerfully emotive’ – Jennifer Scoullar
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Uncategorized on July 2, 2012
It was hard to choose a quote to introduce this week’s Undercover Soundtrack. Jennifer Scoullar’s novel about Australia’s Brumby horses and the people who live among them has a soundtrack of many moods – from the intensely spiritual to the raucously rocking. She has also dedicated Brumby’s Run to causes that protect wild horses. In the end, ‘fragile but powerful’ seems the best way to do it justice. Join me here on Wednesday for her Undercover Soundtrack
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HomeSportsLiverpool wallop Watford 5 nil as Mane, Virgil score twice
Liverpool wallop Watford 5 nil as Mane, Virgil score twice
February 28, 2019 Sports
Liverpool celebrate
Jurgen Klopp feels Liverpool proved some doubters wrong after they turned on the style to crush Watford at Anfield and stay top of the Premier League.
The Reds had dropped six points in their previous four top-flight games but two goals each by Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk, as well as another from Divock Origi, helped them to their biggest win of the season.
“You know what was written and said about us. It is of course not right,” Klopp told BBC Sport afterwards.
“These boys are outstanding and today they showed so much passion.”
With 10 games of the league season left, Liverpool stay one point clear of nearest rivals Manchester City, who beat West Ham 1-0 on Wednesday.
Klopp’s side were 2-0 ahead in 20 minutes as Senegal forward Mane headed the first before doubling the lead with an outrageous backheel, Trent Alexander-Arnold providing both assists.
Mohamed Salah hit the post before Divock Origi beat Ben Foster at his near post to make it 3-0.
Van Dijk scored two late headers, including one from another Alexander-Arnold assist.
Rampant Reds back in the groove
Klopp went on the pitch at the full-time whistle to applaud Liverpool’s fans and headed back to the dressing room with a huge smile and his arm draped around Alexander-Arnold’s shoulder.
The 20-year-old England defender marked his return to the side, after being left out of Sunday’s draw at Manchester United, with an outstanding performance as poor Watford were put to the sword.
Alexander-Arnold’s pace caused the Hornets’ defence all sorts of problems while Adam Masina had a torrid time at the hands of Salah.
This was a timely return to winning ways for Liverpool after one win in their previous five league and cup games.
Mane’s header set them on their way but it was his second which showed Liverpool had their swagger back – a spectacular backheel past Foster.
Origi has been a spectator for most of the season, but with Roberto Firmino missing because of an ankle injury, the Belgium forward marked his rare appearance with a right-foot finish in front of the Kop.
Before this game, Van Dijk had scored one goal for his club this season but found the net twice in the space of three minutes as Watford caved in.
Liverpool will face tougher opponents during the run-in, while they will be replaced at the top of the table on Saturday if City avoid defeat at Bournemouth as Klopp’s side are not in action until Sunday at Everton.
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However, there is fresh optimism at Anfield after a resounding win.
“We have 69 points,” added Klopp.
“We could have had 75 but we are having a really good season. Let’s enjoy the ride and see where it takes us.”
Another Anfield thrashing for Watford
Watford have had a terrific season under Javi Gracia, the Spaniard guiding the Hornets to a ‘best of the rest’ seventh spot in the table and a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals.
Yet they were blown away by Liverpool in such a manner that Wolves, who were not playing, moved ahead of them because of a superior goal difference.
Watford’s last three visits to Anfield have resulted in 5-0, 5-0 and 6-1 defeats.
This was their seventh loss in eight top-flight games against the ‘big six’ this season – and they rarely looked like getting back into the match once Mane headed Liverpool in front inside 10 minutes.
Troy Deeney spent most the night helping out in defence as Watford were overwhelmed by the home team.
“Our target was to win but when you find an opponent like Liverpool then it’s very hard to get the points,” said Gracia.
“It’s important to be calm and keep confidence in ourselves now because our levels have been good.”
Their next away game is at Manchester City on 9 March. Liverpool will hope Gracia’s side can give a better account of themselves at Etihad Stadium than they did at Anfield.
Man of the match – Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool).
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Liverpool are now unbeaten at Anfield in the Premier League in their past 35 matches, the first side in the competition to reach this number of matches without defeat since Manchester City in December 2012 (37 games).
Watford have become the first side in Premier League history to concede at least five goals in three successive away matches against a single opponent in the competition.
Sadio Mane’s double for Liverpool were his 13th and 14th Premier League goals of the season.
Divock Origi has had a hand in 11 goals in his past 18 Premier League starts for Liverpool (seven goals, four assists).
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An active volcano
PML-Q President Ch Shujaat Hussain has rightly drawn attention to the ill-judged official policy to tackle the discontent in Balochistan. This has provided India an opportunity to fish in troubled waters but, strangely, while evidence of its involvement in the province as well as FATA has been found, the matter has never been raised at international forums like the UN. On the other hand, New Delhi raises a hue and cry against Pakistan every time there is trouble there, even when it has had no role in fomenting it. The lapse needs to be explained to the public. However, the most important point that comes out of the interview that Ch Shujaat has given to The Nation is the need to grant the people of Balochistan their due rights. If they were to be treated fairly in the exploitation of the province's resources and given their legitimate rights, not only would that strengthen the federation, but there would also be little likelihood of an outside power playing its dirty tricks. He was absolutely right in saying that "the active volcano" of Balochistan was a political issue that ruled out the military option. The wrong government approach is a constant source of turmoil and has resulted in incidents of killing in the past as well as now. The government seems to be toying with the idea of convening an all parties' conference to go into the issue and come up with a solution. But the recommendations of the Balochistan parliamentary committee already exist, and while Ch Shujaat was its chairman, nothing was done to implement them. He had better explain the reasons that prevented him from doing so. As the PML-Q President pointed out, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had hailed these recommendations and one expected they would be put into effect. The political leadership should realise the dangers of prolonging the issue in a country that is beset with so many other problems, economic, social, law and order, militancy, etc. There is no logic in foot dragging.
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Dr Farooq Hassan
Sovereignty at stake
Wajahat Latif
Unobtrusive government
Dr A.H. Khayal
Israelcracy
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For smooth sailing
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No longer great
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Steven Spielberg to Direct Bradley Cooper in ‘American Sniper’
Steven Spielberg to Direct Bradley Cooper in American Sniper
— May 2nd, 2013
in Casting News
Steven Spielberg is teaming up with actor Bradley Cooper for American Sniper, which will be the director's next movie.
The action project is based on the autobiography of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a Texas native who racked up the most confirmed sniper kills by anyone in U.S. military history. Tragically, the sniper was killed by a fellow veteran at a shooting range in February.
Jason Dean Hall (Spread, Paranoia), is writing the screenplay adaptation, with Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan producing alongside Steven Spielberg and Bradley Cooper. Shooting is tentatively scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2014.
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Steven Spielberg was previously set to make Robopocalypse as his next film, before the project was put on indefinite hold by DreamWorks in January.
Bradley Cooper is currently shooting American Hustle for director David O. Russell in Boston. He returns as The Wolfpack leader Phil in the comedy franchise finale The Hangover Part III later this month.
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