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Deaf East Brunswick HS Teacher Wins Request For Graduation Accommodation
By: Daniel Yadin
In: Archive
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ–Richard Koenigsberg has been a teacher at East Brunswick High School for thirty years, where he is an award-winning educator of sociology and film.
He has also been deaf since the age of nineteen.
For much of his teaching career, Koenigsberg says his disability has not been a significant hinderance to his job– Koenigsberg reads lips and uses normal verbal skills, and previous East Brunswick Board of Education administrations had been accommodating of his needs.
That all changed four years ago, when new administrators, who, in Mr. Koenigsberg’s words, had “no understanding of my being profoundly deaf,” took over.
Koenigsberg sued the Board of Education and filed charges with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, which ended with a settlement requiring the Board of Education to provide him with a Computer Assisted Real-Time Translation (CART) reporter.
The CART reporter shows text on a screen, typed in real time by a stenographer, and, as per the January 2015 settlement, must be provided at all meetings that Koenigsberg is contractually required to be at.
The CART services is also to be provided "during additional meetings at the discretion of the Administration provided they are requested by Complainant in a timely fashion."
Wanting to support his students who were graduating, Koenigsberg requested to have a CART reporter present for the high school's 2015 graduation ceremony, where the speakers would be too far away from him use lip-reading.
These requests, made repeatedly since January 9, 2015, were either ignored or plainly denied.
Koenigsberg views this as an act of discrimination, and he reached out to the state's largest newspaper for help.
“I mostly teach seniors who are graduating and they always ask me to attend. I enjoy seeing them graduate and sharing this experience with them," Koenigsberg explained to the Star-Ledger's Karin Price-Mueller.
"From my point of view this is an act of discrimination since I am being deprived of the same experiences as my hearing colleagues," Koenigsberg said.
Curiously, he was assigned to proctor exams on the day of East Brunswick’s 2015 graduation, and therefore could not attend. But Koenigsberg diligently requested a CART reporter far in advance for the 2016 ceremony.
Superintendent Victor Valeski responded that, "although the district provides CART services for professional development and meetings as specified in the agreement, there is no requirement to provide CART services for the graduation ceremony."
Koenigsberg wrote back to Valeski requesting reconsideration, writing that “I should be afforded the same opportunity as the hearing staff to participate and have the same experience as my colleagues… The legal agreement states that I have the right to request CART for other events as they occur."
After not receiving a response from the administration, another request for a CART reporter was filed, to which Koenigsberg was recommended to review the settlement agreement.
Frustrated, Koenigsberg contacted Price-Mueller for help. Her "Bamboozled" series, which also appears on the paper's website NJ.com, focuses typically on helping consumers get answers and justice.
The newspaper contacted the district, left messages for Superintendent Valeski, and submitted an Open Public Records Act request asking for district emails and documents relating to the CART request and graduation.
In response, the administration began reviewing its options for hearing-impaired accessibility, including making all of graduation closed-captioned on a jumbo screen.
After students started a petition in support of the cause, the district gave up on the battle, and approved the request for Koenigsberg.
"I am happy that the administration will do the right thing in providing accommodations for me," said Koenigsberg. "However, it is disappointing to me that I had to get Bamboozled to advocate for me in getting the administration to listen to me."
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Osinbajo, Tinubu Vote In Lagos, Express Satisfaction Over Conduct
ASIWAJU BOLA TINUBU AT UNITY 47, ALAUSA IKEJA, LAGOS. PHOTO: AKINOLA ARIYO
By; RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE, Lagos
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu were among the early voters at their different polling unit, express satisfaction over the conduct of the election.
While the Vice President cast his vote at Polling Unit 033, ward 4, Victoria Garden City in Etiosa Local Government Council area at about 10.00am, the APC national leader performed his own at Polling Unit 047, Ward 3, Ikeja at 11:20am said
Speaking with journalists shortly after casting his vote, Osinbajo urged Nigerians to come out enmasse to exercise their civic responsibilities.
He emphasised that Nigerians have the right to determine their leaders in a free and fair election.
“I think it is deeply satisfying. Of course there are home owners, there are those who are renting, there are staff and security but everybody has the right to vote.
The vote of the vice president is not in anyway more important than the vote of the security man watching over us here, that is the beauty of democracy,” Osinbajo said.
Similarly, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the elections, said he would accept the result of the presidential election even if it did not go the way of the party.
Tinubu was, however, upbeat about his party’s chances of winning the elections.
“If my party is voted out in this election, I will accept it because it is the people’s verdict, that is their decision. Any democrat that cannot accept a result from a free and fair election is not worthy of that name.
As a true democrat, you must be able to accept the results of a free and fair election.
“The election has been successful so far, so good. It has demonstrated the resilience of the people and like the President has said; we have chosen the best way in a difficult way.
Our correspondent who went round some of the local government areas, reported that the election was peacwful in the state.
He however noted that the process started late in some polling units due to late arrival of INEC Officials and security personnel.
For instance at Polling Unit 012 in ward “C” APAPA Iganmu LCDA, voting started about 11.00am due to late arrival of security agencies.
As at time our correspondent arrival the centre at about 9.30 am, the INEC Officials, party agents and the prospective voters were already on ground while non of the security operatives were present.
The agents of the All Progressive Party (APC) Durojaye Samiat, Ododomu Meyin of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Toyin Adefuwa of Nigeria Peoples Congress (NPC) in a chat condemned the non presence of the security agents.
They noted that the attitude of the security operatives may force some of the electorates to loss confidence in the process and go back home.
In a telephone chat with the Police Public Relations Officer Lagos Command CSP Chike Oti and that of INEC Mr. Femi Akinbiyi, they urged the electorates to be patience that the security personnel were on their way.
They could however not give a cogent reason on the delayed arrival.
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CSM, Diversity Institute Coordinate Discussions on Race, Law Enforcement on Dec. 10
The College of Southern Marylands Institutional Equity and Diversity Office in partnership with the Diversity Institute at CSM are presenting Justice in America: Dialogue on Race and Law Enforcement, from 6 to 8 p.m., Dec. 10 at the colleges Center for Business and Industry, BI Building, Room BI-113, 8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata.
The dialogue is designed to engage the community by asking questions and sharing feedback to gain a deeper understanding and work toward justice for all.
We want to continue to engage our community and build on the difficult conversations that have started this fall so that our community can examine these social issues, discuss the intersection of race, public policy and the law in the wake of Ferguson and similar tragedies that have impacted our community and the nation, said CSM Institutional Equity and Diversity Associate Vice President Makeba Clay. Earlier in the fall, the Diversity Institute had also presented A Community Conversation: Searching for Justice and Understanding, which included a panel discussion with youth, parents, law enforcement, educators and community leaders. It is important that as we engage in these poignant conversations that we seek ways to move forward together as a community, said Clay.
Facilitators from the Community Mediation Center of Calvert County and St. Marys County Government will provide support at the Dec. 10 event in guiding small group breakout sessions to discuss current events and how these could impact the community locally. After these conversations, the group will reconvene for a summary and potential next steps.
For information, contact Program Coordinator Mari Canizales at mcanizales@csmd.edu or 301-934-7659. For information on the Diversity Institute, visit http://www.csmd.edu/DiversityInstitute/.
Justice in America: Dialogue on Race and Law Enforcement. 6-8 p.m., Dec. 10. College of Southern Maryland, Center for Business and Industry, BI Building, Room BI-113, 8730 Mitchell Road, La Plata. The Institutional Equity and Diversity Office at the College of Southern Maryland, in partnership with the Diversity Institute at CSM, presents a community conversation with small group discussions surrounding current events in Ferguson, Staten Island and other locations, and the impact on the local community. Mari Canizales, 301-934-7659 or mcanizales@csmd.edu.
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Pristine dive sites in North Sulawesi spared
North Sulawesi, including areas of outstanding natural beauty above and below sea level such as Bunaken National Park, Lembeh Strait and Bangka Island, has been spared an environmental tragedy. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment recently announced that a gold mine operation, which was threatening to dump millions of tons of waste into the sea in North Sulawesi, will not be allowed to do so. British-registered “Archipelago Holdings” gold mine (operating locally as “MSM”), threatened to dump up to 1,500,000 tons of ground up mining waste into the sea, between the award-winning Bunaken National Park and the famous Lembeh Strait.
Marine biologists acknowledge that North Sulawesi is the centre of marine bio-diversity on the planet. It is now a popular destination for discerning dive tourists, earmarked to become a World Heritage Site.
The North Sulawesi Watersports Association (NSWA), which represents many of the area’s dive resorts, helped achieve this important victory in the protection of a unique marine habitat. The NSWA launched a local media campaign to raise awareness of the threat, even presenting the case to representatives of the Indonesian Parliament.
The Ministry’s announcement comes as welcome news for sustainable development. However, concern still remains about how the gold mine will dispose of its waste. It is believed that it is now planning to dump it on land, but this could lead to new threats. Local environmentalists are worried that toxic bi-products of the mining process could end up in the area’s water, creating a health risk to the local population. Also, that an earthquake, in this seismically active area, could trigger a landslide. (A recent earthquake in Papua led to a deadly landslide at another mine.)
To support the continuing campaign or read more on this story, visit www.divenorthsulawesi.com. Alternatively contact Richard Parks at RP Marketing in the UK; email rpmarketg@aol.com.
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Home News KAR POWER Barge Yet to Arrive in Ghana
KAR POWER Barge Yet to Arrive in Ghana
Dr. Kwabena Donkor, Minister for Power
Information available to The Chronicle from Turkey indicates that the 225 Megawatts KARPOWER Barge is yet to set sail for Ghana, contrary to reports making the rounds that she is only two (2) days from berthing at the Tema Fishing Harbour, where a base has been prepared for her.
The humongous engineering structure, the size of the Accra Shopping Mall, was only moved from the quay after commissioning, in order to create space for other bigger vessels to berth at the position she was occupying.
The Chronicle’s deep-throat source in Turkey intimated that as at Monday, 2nd November, 2015, the Ghanaian authorities were seeking partnership for the provision of fuel, on which the power barge would run, upon arrival at the fishing harbor’s man-made semi submerged maritime structure, to prevent her from drifting to shallow ground.
The Chronicle’s investigations revealed that immediately after the commissioning ceremony, a Ghanaian reporter, without further consultation with the authorities, pushed the story that the power barge was on its way to Ghana. A renowned international bank is said to be ready to facilitate the fuel provision, but are skeptical, hence requesting for a well-rehearsed agreement.
The country was last week awash with joyous reports that at long last, the Turkish power barge, which is expected to add 225MW of electricity to the national grid, has finally set sail last Tuesday and expected to spend ten days at sea, and per this calculation, she is expected in the country by Thursday.
When the media contacted the Power Minister, Dr. Kwabena Donkor on the new development, as to the doubts surrounding the barge’s sail, he referred to his ministry’s public relations officer, who was not available for comments.
The government, in order to solve the power crisis, which has bedeviled the nation, contracted KARPOWER for the supply of two emergency power plants with the capacity of producing 225 MW each.
The first one was expected to be in the country in April 2015, but due to unexplained reasons, the arrival date was shifted to September. Just last week, the supposed good news came that the power barge had set sail from the Turkish port of Istanbul on Tuesday 27th of October, only for it to emerge that the generating plant is still moored in the partly European and partly Asian country of Turkey.
The Chronicle has, however, established that if the fuel problem is solved, the barge would begin her journey to Ghana this week, with the support of a speed boat.
Dr. Donkor, who few months ago, literally placed his head on the chopping block that he would resign from office as minister if by the end of this year the power crisis had not abated, last week said at Dawa, in the Greater Accra Region that, the power barge is expected to enter Ghanaian waters in 15 days’ time.
That statement, connoisseurs believe is too vague, considering the fact that the power barge would be entering the country through the western frontier and travel another distance to the Tema Port.
Source: The Chronicle
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By Rob Morgan
My, how times have changed! Mainline denominations are ordaining homosexuals, the media relentlessly pushes the gay agenda, and public schools are introducing homosexually-friendly texts to the same classrooms that jettisoned Bibles a generation ago. Once Christians were viewed as healthy, and homosexuals were considered immoral. Now Christianity is viewed as dysfunctional, and homosexuality is fashionable.
Case in point: Don Pritchett, Christian software developer in Washington, was recently denied as a mentor in “Big Brothers” because of his biblical standards. They didn’t want him “Christianizing” young people. Yet “Big Brothers” now welcomes homosexuals as participants in its mentoring program for boys.
Homosexuality may be the most definitive moral issue of our times, and it’s important to know what the Bible says. What are God’s thoughts on this? Are we willing to uphold His values?
Genesis 1 and 2 are foundational for understanding the Bible’s views on human sexuality. Here God created a pattern of one man/one woman coming together in a covenant-marriage. From the beginning God ordained that the human race be procreated by men and women in loving, marriage relationships.
Sexual activity outside marriage is consistently viewed as unholy in the scriptures. It isn’t just homosexuality the Bible condemns. Ephesians 5:3 says there should not even be a hint of sexual immorality among us. But when we narrow the subject to homosexuality, we find exactly seven passages in the Bible on this topic.
What God Says
Genesis 19:1–11
This is the ageless story of Sodom. God’s two angelic emissaries, appearing, it seems, as healthy young men, entered the city to rescue Lot from impending judgment. When the men of Sodom encircled Lot’s house making homosexual advances, the angels struck them with blindness. Shortly afterward, there fell the judgment of a holy God.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
The Levitical laws were given as Israel grew into a nation under a form of government called theocracy—a society in which the government was headed by Jehovah and administered through a judge or king appointed by Him. Since these were national laws for Israel, we shouldn’t interpret them as if all the details are required of us today. We don’t stone those who pick up sticks on the Sabbath, for example.
But the moral underpinnings of these laws flow from the righteous character of God, and the principles of sexual morality found here are based on timeless ethical principles corresponding to His holy nature.
Judges 19:22–30
This shocking story resembles that of Sodom. A Levite took a live-in woman, a concubine. That was legal in those days but unacceptable in God’s eyes. While traveling in Judah, they came to the village of Gibeah where an old man put them up for the night. The men of the city encircled the house, wanting to sodomize the young priest. As a result, this city, too, faced judgment, not from fire and brimstone this time, but from the disciplining sword of Israel.
Romans 1:18–32
This passage spells out the five downward steps of societal decay. The first is a rejection of creationism (vv. 18–20). That leads to widespread idolatry (vv. 21–23), followed by unbridled sexuality immorality (vv. 24–25). This gradually deteriorates into the “homosexualization” of the culture (vv. 26–27).
The final stage is total moral collapse as the society becomes filled with every kind of wickedness, greed and depravity (vv. 28–32). This is the Bible’s description of a nation that descends step-by-step into moral and spiritual ruin, and it’s frightening to chart America’s place on the list.
1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Be not deceived: neither fornicators (the sexually immoral), nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (male prostitutes), nor abusers of themselves with mankind (homosexual offenders)…shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Timothy 1:9–11
The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient…for them that defile themselves with mankind (sodomites)…and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.
What We Conclude
These are our Lord’s seven words on the subject. So what conclusions can we draw?
The Bible Is Clear
It seems clear to me that the Bible consistently condemns interpersonal sexual activity outside marriage. The foundational passage in Genesis 1–2 provides a starting place for understanding this.
Temptation Not Sin
It’s important to remember, however, that temptation is not sin. In each of these passages, the emphasis is on homosexual activities. It’s possible for men and women to feel both homosexual and heterosexual temptations in a confused, sex-saturated culture like ours, yet resist them. We must avoid temptation whenever possible and we must carefully guard our thought-life, but we also know that temptation isn’t sin till we give into it.
Genes Are No Excuse
Many Christians believe that homosexual tendencies are produced solely by one’s environment, but others believe we may have been genetically damaged by the course of sin in human history. Yet this is no excuse for sinning.
Psychologists Minirth, Meier and Wichern put it this way in their Introduction to Psychology and Counseling: “Genes can predispose one individual to getting drunk more readily than someone else, but those genes do not magically get that person to drink alcohol. Genes may give some males fewer androgens than others, but genes do not force anyone to engage in homosexual behavior.”
Deliverance Available
God can free anyone struggling with the temptation and sin of homosexuality. As we saw earlier, some in the Corinthian Church had been involved in homosexuality. But they had been washed, they had been justified, they had been sanctified. The gospel of Christ has enough power to change any soul and to rescue from every sin.
Takes a Community
Breaking free from homosexuality requires the power of the blood of Christ, the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit. It often requires counseling with wise Christians with a biblical approach to psychology. It involves the support of one’s Christian friends and church. But the gospel is powerful enough to pull down strongholds. As Wesley said: “He breaks the power of cancelled sin and sets the prisoner free.”
We must also remember that our primary job as Christians is to love people whatever their behavior. When we think of what happened to the gay Wyoming student who was tied to a fencepost and pistol-whipped to death in Texas, it makes our blood boil. While we make no apology for opposing pre-marital, extra-marital, post-marital and gay-oriented sex, we are vitally concerned about the wellbeing of those who engage in these activities. We deeply love them.
Expect Opposition
Nevertheless, Christians are going to be persecuted over this issue and increasingly accused of “hate-crimes” against homosexuals. The cultural elitists in our society will be vicious in attempting to intimate, marginalize and silence us. But the authority of scripture, not political correctness, governs our thinking. Jesus said that if they hated Him, they will hate us too.
Everyone Vulnerable
Here’s a final conclusion: We are all sinners. Each of us is capable of any sin, given the right circumstances. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. We have fallen short of His glory. Yet Jesus loves us.
Whatever our sins, whatever our past, whatever we’ve done, He died to redeem us. We are saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves, it is a gift of God; not of works, lest any one should boast. As we work with those struggling with this issue, we do so as redeemed sinners seeking to help other sinners.
I suggest we adopt a different tone on this issue than what the world expects. Let’s be both logical and loving. Both courageous and caring. Both truthful and tender-hearted. Let’s be bold in our beliefs and broken-hearted in our attitudes. Let’s make sure our people understand the Bible’s teaching on this subject. Let’s proclaim the truth and love the tempted. Then let’s open our doors for a coming flood of redeemed sinners of every sort—men and women who have been washed, who have been sanctified, who have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the power of our gospel.
Article adapted from Contact magazine, March 2004.
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ROOM MATES – A Kendall Ryan New Release
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Unrest in Balochistan
THE incident of kidnapping of John Solecki, head of the UN refugee agency in Quetta, by unknown miscreants on Sunday, reflects poorly on the law and order situation in the provincial capital. The gunmen followed Mr Solecki, who was heading for his office, and opened fire on his vehicle on reaching Chaman Housing Society that resulted in the death of his driver. The gunmen afterwards took Mr Solecki to some unknown location. Though the law enforcement agencies have arrested 15 persons thought to be involved in the incident, no clues to the identity of the kidnappers or indicating the place where Mr Solecki is kept could be found. Given the history of violence in the region, one cannot help but think of elements like religious extremists, some militant group with a nationalist agenda, and lastly a foreign hand. Whoever the culprits, the motive and the intention is the same, of spreading terror among the people and destabilizing Pakistan. The ease with which the miscreants picked up John Solecki and killed the driver is another factor that should be given serious thought. For one thing, it shows that even lives of such high profile persons are not safe, and for another it points to the strength these non-state forces have been gaining over time. Along with this, the rising incidents of targeted killings, mostly with a sectarian tinge, also evoke concern. A few days back a businessman was shot dead just for being a member of some religious sect. Besides, cases of torture and killings of media persons keep on happening quite frequently. The pity is that the heavy presence of the FC in the province have failed to stop the menace. However in the larger context, it all boils down to the government's strategy of bringing normalcy to the province. Cases where hardcore terrorists are involved in brutal killings merely to create unrest, the government must rein in with an iron first. But in order to find a permanent solution to the ills that plague Balochistan, the government would have to adopt the approach of dialogue and socio-economic development of the province, something it promised after coming to power. Sadly enough the government's subsequent indifference only roused passions not only among the nationalists, but the general population as well. Unless the government fulfils its promises, peace in the region would remain an elusive ideal. Meanwhile, all efforts should be concentrated on Mr Solecki's recovery, who was on a vital mission of providing shelter to the internally displaced persons. The police, along with the intelligence apparatus in the area, should join hands to bring the culprits to book.
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Key topics in economics made accessible for students with hearing & vision disabilities
The National Council for Educational Research and Training and Raised Lines Foundation, IIT Delhi have partnered to develop a thorough package for teachers on key topics in Economics for students with vision and hearing disabilities in classes 11 and 12.
Lack of accessible textbooks and other learning materials in subjects like science, technology, engineering and math is a major barrier that students who are blind and low vision face in India. This is a barrier that Raised Lines Foundation (RLF), Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is working towards bridging.
In another crucial step in this direction, RLF has collaborated with the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to develop a comprehensive package on key topics in Economics as well. This is for teachers teaching classes 11 and 12 as well as students. The package is accessible for teachers and students with vision and hearing disabilities in inclusive school settings.
We have been working with the NCERT on various books for Science and Math. Usually we design for children, but this package is for teachers with vision and hearing disabilities as well as for students who are blind and hard of hearing. The main challenge we faced was to design a package that could be adapted for both disabilities. – Lipika, Design Lead, Raised Line Foundation
The package aims to:
Facilitate understanding amongst teachers to teach Economics to all senior secondary students, including people with vision and hearing disabilities.
Create an enabling condition for these students to opt for the subject at the senior secondary stage by building the confidence and competence of teachers with such disabilities.
Detailed package
The package includes videos showing classroom processes and a manual with Braille and tactile diagrams. The experiments are subtitled so that students who are deaf and hard of hearing can understand them as well. “In the videos a few exemplar methodologies like teaching through case study, mini seminar, auctioning out event in actual classrooms have been demonstrated”, adds Lipika. “The manual has a detailed process for using activities and tips for inclusion of students with vision and hearing disabilities”.
The package has been published and will be distributed to schools by the NCERT after collecting the required data. RLF held a workshop with special educators from the National Association for the Blind (NAB), New Delhi, National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH) in Dehradun, and Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC) in Mumbai for inputs in developing the package.
“This will open doors to more blind students”, believes Prashant Ranjan Verma, General Secretary, NAB. “Lack of availability of books in these subjects affects the education and career prospects of blind students and even blind schools discourage them from taking these up. Creating raised diagrams is is expensive and not many organisations are doing it. This is a step in the right direction”.
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Masters (Honours) Research Opportunities
Select a research stream below to view the current opportunities and projects on offer at NICM Health Research Institute.
To register your interest in a project, please contact the lead supervisor. For information about applying for higher degree research and scholarships, please contact the Graduate Research School.(opens in a new window)
For any other queries, please contact Professor Jerome Sarris, NICM Deputy Director and Director of Research.
Healthy Women
The women's health program at NICM covers menstrual health of young women, pregnancy, infertility, menopause and gynaecological disorders.
Aim/s
Supervisor/s
The role of acupuncture and complementary therapies in weight loss in breast cancer survivors
To describe the prevalence of use of complementary therapies to manage weight gain in breast cancer survivors.
To conduct focus groups/interviews of BC survivors to assess feasibility and acceptability of acupuncture for weight loss.
Professor Caroline Smith
caroline.smith@westernsydney.edu.au
Dr Carolyn Ee
carolyn.ee@westernsydney.edu.au
Development of a treatment protocol for pre birth treatment (PDF, 104.61 KB) (opens in a new window)
To undertake focus groups with pregnant women to explore their views towards pre-birth acupuncture.
To develop acupuncture treatment protocols for cervical ripening for women.
Dr Mike Armour
mike.armour@westernsydney.edu.au
Dr Debra Betts
d.betts@westernsydney.edu.au
The role of acupuncture with achieving weight loss prior to gynaecology surgery (PDF, 87.99 KB) (opens in a new window) To undertake a feasibility randomised controlled trial of acupuncture compared with a wait list control.
Professor Caroline Smith caroline.smith@westernsydney.edu.au
Acupuncture to treat sleep disorders during pregnancy: development of a treatment protocol (PDF, 77.9 KB) (opens in a new window)
Sleep disorders are common during pregnancy. During the first trimester there is increased daytime sleepiness, as well as total sleep time. Rising hormone levels during this period may partially account for these changes. During the second trimester there is an increase in night time awakenings. Compression of the bladder, as a result of increasing uterine size, means more frequent urination. Other factors such as heartburn and increasing fetal movements may further fragment sleep. During the third trimester, physical changes cause significant discomfort and can impair the ability to fall asleep, as well as maintain sleep. Recently, disturbed sleep has been regarded as a potential pathological agent in disorders of carbohydrate metabolism and gestational diabetes.
Acupuncture has been used to treat sleep disorders in non pregnant populations. This study will examine the feasibility of conducting research using this treatment with pregnant women, and develop a treatment protocol for use in future clinical studies.
Complementary therapies to assist with anxiety disorders in young women
To undertake a literature review of CM modalities used to assist with managing anxiety
To examine women's interest to participate in a clinical study
Provision of health information to women on CM To examine health literacy and decision making regarding women's health
Developing, implementing and evaluating a model of care for integrative women's health in an academic clinic
Involves conducting a systematic reviews
Qualitative research on how to integrate well-evidenced complementary therapies into routine care for female reproductive health (pregnancy and birth/fertility/gynaecology)
Dr Carolyn Eecarolyn.ee@westernsydney.edu.au
Cochrane systematic review: Chinese herbal medicine for female sub-fertility To investigate evidence of effectiveness and safety on use of CHM for female sub-fertility conditions Associate Professor Xiaoshu Zhu
x.zhu@westernsydney.edu.au
The role of non-pharmacological interventions to reduce anxiety and stress in pregnancy among high risk pregnant women
One in three women will experience anxiety during their lifetime. Anxiety conditions can happen at any time, but women are more likely to experience these conditions during pregnancy and following having a baby (the perinatal period). Anxiety is a serious disorder with documented adverse impacts on the mother, her family and on child development in the longer term. Stress during 12 months prior to the birth of a baby is an independent risk factor for preterm birth.
Current interventions to manage anxiety in pregnancy frequently lack evidence of effectiveness. In addition treatments can have short term efficacy, and treatment compliance can be impacted by concerns about stigma, doubts that therapy will help, a lack of trust, and low motivation to use current options. This project would undertake a review of the evidence of non-pharmacological interventions, and feasibility studies with women regarding their participation in future studies involving these interventions.
A smartphone application (mHealth) to treat period pain using acupressure and self care: a randomised controlled pilot study Period pain is the most common gynaecological complaint with up to 75% of women reporting period pain during some stage of their life. Period pain impacts on many aspects of life, resulting in increased absenteeism from work or university, reduced participation in sport and social activities and reduced academic performance. Current treatments either have limited effectiveness or the side effects are unacceptable. Acupuncture is effective in reducing period pain, however the monetary and time commitment can be prohibitive for many women. Acupressure, the application of finger pressure also reduces pain, and has the advantage of being self administered, is easily taught and involves no cost. In recent years, the use of smartphones and smartphone applications (apps) has increased rapidly with more than 165,000 mobile health apps on the market. Apps are a promising tool for people with a diverse range of health conditions and may be particularly useful to guide and support individuals in self care strategies. A novel app to deliver acupressure and self care has been developed by an international team of experts working in this area. We have been approached to collaborate in an Australian setting.
m.armour@westernsydney.edu.au
Understanding health seeking behaviour in women with Vulvodynia
Vulvodynia is characterised by vulvar pain lasting at least three months, and occurs without clear identifiable cause. The pain is often described as burning, cutting, or aching. This pain can greatly interfere with a woman's life; particularly impacting sexual function, social interactions with friends and family, mood, and their ability to function to their full capacity at work. Despite the negative impact of the condition on health and wellbeing, women with vulvodynia tend to delay seeking help for their pain. When they do seek help, women often visit multiple health professionals with little success with managing this pain. Common healthcare professionals these women see include general practitioners, gynaecologists, psychologists, and physiotherapists. Understandably, this process of seeing multiple healthcare professionals can be very costly.
To date, no studies have investigated the health-seeking behaviour that Australian women with vulvodynia display. We do not know how many health professionals these women see, nor the type of health professional they are consulting in order to find relief from their pain. Furthermore, no studies have investigated the direct and indirect costs that vulvodynia has on the lives of women in Australia.
Complementary and integrative therapies in women's health centres in NSW: a mapping survey Women are frequent users of complementary therapies, and some complementary therapies have shown promise in treating women's health conditions such as premenstrual syndrome. Indeed, complementary therapies are beginning to be integrated into conventional health care. Some women's health centres have included complementary therapies such as acupuncture and naturopathy in their model of care. This project involves a mapping survey of women's health centres in NSW and will describe the complementary therapies that are currently provided, the credentialing process for practitioners, the reasons for not providing complementary therapies (if none are provided), and the funding model for provision of complementary therapies. The findings from this project will directly inform the model of care for an academic integrative medicine clinic at Western Sydney University.
Dr Carolyn Eec.ee@westernsydney.edu.au
Acupuncture for weight loss in PCOS: a Delphi study Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common female reproductive health problem. Weight gain is common and exacerbates all the features of PCOS, and even modest amounts of weight loss can improve PCOS features. Acupuncture is a potentially efficacious adjunctive treatment for weight loss when provided alongside standard lifestyle interventions, and may act by reducing appetite and normalising the sympathetic nervous system. However, the most effective dose of acupuncture for weight loss in PCOS is unclear. This project aims to achieve consensus amongst acupuncture practitioners on the optimal dose of acupuncture for weight management in PCOS, using the Delphi consensus method. Findings will inform practice as well as the optimal dose to be used in a randomised clinical trial of acupuncture for weight loss in PCOS. Dr Carolyn Ee
c.ee@westernsydney.edu.au
Healthy Minds
The neurological and mental health program at NICM focuses on the prevention and treatment of dementia and neurocognitive decline and improvement of mental health in response to integrative medicine treatment.
Complementary medicine use by people living with dementia When conventional therapies are limited people living with chronic diseases such as dementia use a wide range of complementary medicines. The aim of this project is to assess the global prevalence of complementary medicine use by people living with dementia.
Dr Genevieve Steiner
g.steiner@westernsydney.edu.au
Professor Dennis Chang
d.chang@westernsydney.edu.au
Indigenous bush medicines as a source of anti-inflammatory compounds for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
To determine the potency of a variety of extracts from indigenous bush medicines to down-regulate the LPS, IFN-γ -induced production of free radicals (superoxide and nitric oxide) and pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and TNF) in immortalized murine microglia (anti-inflammatory potential).
To fractionate potent extracts and ultimately isolate the active compound, and determine its / their chemical structure (s) using modern analytical and spectrometric methods.
Professor Gerald Muench
g.muench@westernsydney.edu.au
Dr Erika Gyengesi
e.gyengesi@westernsydney.edu.au
Effect of acupuncture on neuroplasticity
Professor Alan Bensoussan
a.bensoussan@westernsydney.edu.au
Functional connectivity in older adults
Neuroplasticity is thought to be one of the mechanisms behind cognitive reserve – the reason why cognition declines in some people and not others as we age. This project will identify neuroplastic mechanisms by exploring how task and resting-state brain networks change with age.
Electrophysiological correlates of decision making strategies in older adults
Older adults tend to use strategies that emphasise task accuracy over speed, where young adults, typically do the reverse, emphasising speed over accuracy. There are distinct changes in brain function with age, but it is unknown whether any of these changes are actually due to the task strategy, rather than age-related pathology. This project will explore this important question by assessing differences in the brain function that underpins decision-making strategies in young and older adults.
Electrophysiological biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease
This project will triangulate data from a range of sources in order to identify novel, inexpensive, yet widely available biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Applicants with a back ground in neuroscience, anatomy and physiology, medical science, or computer science would have a distinct advantage.
Using plasma concentrations of a standardised multi-herb formula to assess trial medication compliance Assessing drug plasma concentrations provides an objective measure of compliance in clinical trials. This pharmacokinetic project will assess the plasma concentrations of a multi-herb formula in samples collected from people with mild cognitive impairment participating in a clinical trial.
Healthy Lives Through The Cancer Journey
The cancer care program at NICM focuses on understanding how integrative medicine may assist with cancer management and side effects of conventional cancer treatment.
Chinese herbal medicine for lung cancer: a systematic review To understand overall research strengthen in the field. Associate Professor Xiaoshu Zhu
Acupuncture for cancer-related symptoms: protocols and safety considerations (PDF, 95.64 KB) (opens in a new window) To create protocols for the acupuncture treatment of cancer-related symptoms and document any safety considerations for specific symptoms.
Dr Suzanne Grant
s.grant@westernsydney.edu.au
Associate Professor Xiaoshu Zhu
Exploring evidence of safety of use of Chinese herbal medicine for women with breast cancer (PDF, 95.78 KB) (opens in a new window) To evaluate the contents of phytoestrogens in defined Chinese herbal formula.
Associate Professor Chun Guang Li
c.li@westernsydney.edu.au
Anti-cancer actions of Chinese herbal medicines
Dr Henry Liang
h.liang@westernsydney.edu.au
Associate Professor Qihan Dong
q.dong@westernsydney.edu.au
The cardiovascular and metabolic health program at NICM focuses on understanding how integrative medicine can assist with the prevention and treatment of various cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
In vitro activity of the Chinese medicinal herb, Nao Xin Qing for the treatment of stroke (PDF, 127.12 KB) (opens in a new window)
To assess the antioxidant activity and effect on endothelial dysfunction of the components of the standardised herbal extract, NXQ.
To determine the synergistic or additive nature of these components.
Dr Sai Wang Seto
s.seto@westernsydney.edu.au
Regulation of tight junction proteins claudin and occludin by herbal medicine in endothelial cells This in vitro study will assess the action of herbal medicine on the expression of tight junction protein critical to the blood brain barrier function.
Effects and mechanism of actions of herbal medicines in vascular reactivity This project will investigate the vascular effects of Chinese herbal medicines for the treatment of hypertension, stroke and/or diabetes-related vascular complications using both ex vivo and in vivo models.
Effects and mechanism of actions of herbal medicines in neurovascular unit (NVU) This study aims to develop novel herbal formula for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, such as stroke, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. The effects and mechanisms of action of herbal preparations will be assessed using a co-culture model of neurovascular unit.
Association between vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids with cognition assessed by a computerised battery To determine the association between vitamin D and omega-3 status and cognition as assessed by a computerised battery and EEG testing. Serum vitamin D and fatty acid status will be measured and vitamin D and omega-3 intake from foods will be assessed by a validated food frequency questionnaire.
Nutrient supplementation and complementary medicine use in people with type II diabetes This project will assess the use of nutritional supplements and complementary medicine practices by people living with type II diabetes. Professor Dennis Chang
Synergy of natural products This research is linked to an ARC funded project to investigate the synergy of natural ingredients in modulating cell functions. The project will focus on anti-inflammatory cell signalling mechanisms, and involve cell culture and bioassay techniques. The student will be supervised by a team of experts including senior researchers and postdoctoral fellows. Associate Professor Chun Guang Li
Combined effects of curcumin and resveratrol on endothelial cell survival against oxidative stress This study aims to investigate the combined effects of curcumin and resveratrol in the protection of the endothelium against oxidative stress using cellular assays and animal models.
Dr Xian (Phoebe) Zhou
p.zhou@westernsydney.edu.au
Policy and Evidence Translation
The integrative medicine policy and evidence translation at NICM focuses on working with government to build appropriate policy frameworks and improving integrative healthcare practice by translating high-quality research into relevant guidleines and practice protocols.
Practising Chinese medicine in non-private practice (PDF, 101.26 KB) (opens in a new window) To explore the work experience of TCM practitioners who work in other than private practice settings, focusing particularly on the benefits and dilemmas of working in an integrated team and working with clients who do not pay directly for service.
Complementary and integrative therapy education for medical doctors and allied health in Australia: a scoping review Complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutritional supplements and yoga, are used by more than half of the population. Research shows that patients frequently fail to disclose complementary therapy use to their health professionals, which may lead to harm. Health professionals such as GP's are well placed to advise patients on potential risks and benefits of complementary therapies in order to facilitate informed choice, however there is no systematic training in undergraduate or postgraduate curricula which allows doctors to perform this.
This project is a scoping review of current educational offerings which provide basic training to medical doctors and allied health professionals (such as nurses and pharmacists) in Australia. The aim of the project is to map the current state of complementary and integrative medicine training in Australia, identify gaps, and propose methods to address these gaps. The outcome of this project will inform a systematic and national approach to equip doctors and allied health professionals in quality patient care, by facilitating informed choice and reducing complications from undetected interactions and inappropriate use of complementary therapies.
Other emerging areas of complementary medicine research
NICM is also involved with a number of other areas of research including the identification of bioactive compounds found in natural products and complementary medicine approaches to addressing other common and problematic medical conditions. As with all other concentrations of research, these projects can have a focus of laboratory based work, clinical research, increasing an understanding of complementary medicine use or translating research into policy and practice.
Development of new metal-based derivatives of natural products for medical applications
Dr Feng Li
feng.li@westernsydney.edu.au
Australian medical honey and propolis - chemistry and bioactivity The student will join a well-established research group at NICM to study Australian medical honey or propolis. This industry project will involve characterisation and identification of active molecules in Australian honey or propolis and study their antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities. The research will enable the student to develop advanced analytical skills and bioassays to gain practical experience in solving real-world problems. Students with a strong chemistry background are encouraged to apply. Dr Li has conducted a number of research projects supported by ARC, NHMRC and various funding bodies, with more than 150 publications and 30 PhD and MSc competitions. There are strong links/collaborations between research theme groups at NICM.
Bachelor of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Master of Chinese Medicine
Higher Degree Research Opportunities
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GA – Successful outcome for client charged with public order offence
Facts: remaining on inclosed land without lawful excuse and resisting officer in execution of their duty
GA was charged with remaining on inclosed land without lawful excuse and resisting officer in execution of their duty.
GA attended a WestConnex construction site in Newtown, in Sydney’s inner west, in October 2016 to protest the 16.8 billion dollar urban motorway project. GA was sitting on the ground with a group of protesters, when fencing was erected around them and a temporary construction zone was established. A Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) authorised representative entered the area and asked protestors to leave.
A police inspector informed the protesters they would be committing an offence for remaining on inclosed land if they did not leave the area. GA remained inside the restricted area and riot police suddenly appeared. The riot police grabbed GA and she was placed under arrest. GA was escorted away and forcibly pushed into the back of a police van.
Outcome: Unlawful arrest with civil claim against police pending
O’Brien Criminal and Civil Solicitors successfully represented GA at Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney’s CBD to take judgement for a costs application, with respects to GA’s resist arrest charge. We successfully made oral submissions and were granted the costs application to a quantum of only 1/3 of GA’s total costs.
Furthermore, it was found that the arrest was unlawful, and the relevant officers did not comply with s 202 of the Law Enforcement Powers and Responsibilities Act 2002 (NSW). This will put GA in a great position for a civil claim against police and we look forward to proceeding with this.
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A few quick thoughts on Sailor Moon Crystal Episode 1
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal just débuted in Japan (and across plenty of websites for us non-Japanese people to enjoy too), and I know there's plenty of fans of the Sailor Scouts around here - so here's a few of my thoughts on Sailor Moon's shiny new adventures! (Spoilers beyond the cut!)
Overall, despite the hang ups I had going into the series - mainly that it was really hard to give up the nostalgia for the old animé and the English dub (as cut up and bastardised as it was), and I wasn't too keen on the new artstyle that skewed closer to Naoko Takeuchi's original manga - but I really enjoyed Episode 1. It's still Sailor Moon, in so much that it's pretty transformation sequences and ridiculously cheesy plots to take over the world from the bad guys, and a whole lot of campy fun. But anyway, thoughts!
There seems to be a lot more foreshadowing of Serena's Usagi's (I CANNN'T HELLLP IIIIT) true nature as the Princess of the Moon in this version compared to the earlier episodes of the original Animé. We see a lot more of Usagi and Mamoru and glimpses of her dreams of the moon than what I can remember of the old show.
Speaking of foreshadowing, we also get a lot of mentions of Sailor V - I know the first episode of the series mentioned her a bit, as it's a Sailor V game Usagi plays at the arcade, but we get a lot more of her in Crystal. It's nice to see Minako a bit more, considering it'll be a while before Sailor Venus actually enters the scene.
The opening is awesome, and I can't stop relistening to Moon Pride on the NicoNico archive. It's no Moonlight Densetsu, and I kinda miss the more abstract, freakier version of the opening that the original animé had, but it's energetic, funky and perfect for Sailor Moon. Revo continues to be great! I didn't really like the ending song though, it's a bit slower and ballad-y - but it's alright.
Aside from those though, the music in the episode itself is kinda sparse, so it's hard to give much of an opinion - but the choral music for Sailor Moon's transformation sequence and when she uses her Moon Tiara Magic (dammit) Moon Tiara Boomerang were really cool.
I think the art style works a bit better in motion that it looks in the promo art - and although the character's faces aren't as overtly emoted as they were in the original series, they're not as blank as I feared they would be. There's some nice little moments that touch on the extravagant reaction animations that were a hallmark of the first series' goofier moments, but it's much more subdued here and fitting of the aesthetic the show's going for - hopefully we get more of this throughout Crystal.
I know it's my problem being hung up on it, but man, it's really jarring seeing Naru/Molly and Umino/Melvin and not instantly hearing their DiC-dub voices in my head. Apart from that, the voice acting seemed good, as far as I can tell - I'm still not particularly familiar with watching a lot of undubbed Animé, so I'm by no means an expert. Apparently only Usagi's voice actress is unchanged from the original cast, but everyone sounded fine. I like Luna's Japanese voice a lot!
I can't really say much about the story because, well... it's not just the same story (Usagi discovering her power and foiling Jadeite's really dumb nefarious plan to steal people's energy through... discount jewellery), it's basically an almost literal shot-for-shot remake of the original Animé's first episode. I know Crystal is meant to follow the manga a lot more closely than the original series did, and the opening is obviously going to be very similar as it's how the manga itself starts out, but I wasn't honestly expecting it to be so similar to the first Animé. It was great from a nostalgia perspective - it was basically Sailor Moon's equivalent of a HD remaster - but hopefully Crystal will do more of its own thing as it progresses soon enough, as the original series began to diverge from its roots very quickly.
Tuxedo Mask is still as hilariously useless as I remember. I love it. Although in the original I don't remember him bumping into Usagi outside the arcade whilst wearing his Tuxedo. Your 'disguise' is already laughably ineffective already, Mamoru, why are you running around in your Tuxedo in broad daylight too!?
AMI TEASE FOR NEXT EPISODE!!!! Yay. I love Ami, she's my favourite Sailor Scout (honestly, it's mainly because my favourite colour is blue so the blue haired, water themed Sailor was my go-to pick. I was a pretty simply pleased kid.) - but it might just be my memory playing tricks, or did Usagi have a few episodes on her own in the original before Sailor Mercury showed up? It seems like Crystal is getting straight to her, which is great in my books.
So yeah, overall Episode 1 was a really fun re-introduction to all things Sailor Moon for me, even if it was a little weird to see basically the identical episode from the original again just in the new style. It's going to be killer waiting 2 weeks for the next episode though - bi-weekly, why!? Why!? I want mah Sailor Moon fix, now!
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal airs on the first and third Saturday of every month at 7pm JST, with subtitled simulcasts airing on Hulu, Crunchyroll and (thankfully, because otherwise it seems IMPOSSIBLE to watch this series in Europe without a VPN) NicoNico. You can still watch the archive of Episode 1 for free for the next two weeks here. Did you like it? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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Home Reviews World War Z Review
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Ahh, a good old zombie horde game you can take on with friends. With a love for Left for Dead, I was really ready to enjoy some zombie killing in taking on my World War Z review.
While I did have some fun here, there are a few issues that the game suffers from that hold it back from being anything that special however. Although, it’s got enough good points to make it worth a try.
World War Z is a third-person co-op shooter by Saber and Mad Dog games. And available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC right now. For those fans of taking on waves of the undead with friends, it could be one for you.
How Does World War Z Play?
World War Z is your standard, cover-based team shooter. Teams of up to four players make their way through level maps the range in size and style, based in locales from across the world.
The game works in the tried and tested, push forward and hit objectives as they are presented, whilst smashing through seemingly endless hordes of zombies.
There are also special types of zombies, that are bigger, stronger, faster, and attract other zombies.
It’ll feel familiar, and the game is served by embracing its love of set pieces, rather than trying too hard to be something it isn’t.
Locations vary from large, open, overground streets, frozen lakes (complete with crashed planes), to very cramped and crowded buildings, subways, and… of courses there is a mall.
All of the zombies are often moving so fast that it is hard to really get a look at them, but this lends them, a visceral, animalistic quality.
The brutes are imposing, armoured, with a few exposed spots to attack, there are also screamers, often viewed from afar, that are taller, leaner, but mostly because of their role, are easier to take down.
Your mission with all of the visceral, violent goings-on happening, is to move from point A to point B, pressing switches, preparing fixed point defences, and waiting for one AI or another to open a shutter.
Or to silence an alarm… you get the gist.
There are no new ideas here in terms of objectives, but they are at least, always leading to the next mass horde fight.
Presentation And Graphics
The game gives you the opportunity to choose several locales, all of which are well presented.
Each has its own distinct flavour, whilst the characters feel a little defined, the designs are cool, but some of them seem a little too stereotyped.
That said the characters can all use all the (somewhat for show) classes, it wasn’t entirely clear in the solo campaign what the difference was, beyond a few minor, and arbitrary things.
The odd perk, or unlock notwithstanding, I could have simply just had the fixed characters, with fixed skills.
The menus are simple, but effective, with some nice sound work, but where the game really excels is the sheer size of the hordes you face.
We aren’t talking forty, or fifty, we are talking hundreds of zombies. All moving towards you as one, literally piling up on each other to reach high levels. Pouring over the walls of buildings, much as we see in the film of the same name.
World War Z is split into two very different modes. The main campaign in which players are tasked with making their way through the various scenarios.
Here you are trying to survive, fending off the endless hordes, whilst managing the various traps, and special weapons.
The second mode is the versus multiplayer mode, which had sub-modes in my experiences. A standard “most kills wins” team mode. Which plays like a hybrid of gears of war, and the Division, but doesn’t give you any breathing room as zombies spawn in map too.
Then there is also a capture the flag/king of the hill mode, where players have to control and area. Which basically, over and over, became about moving to a point before it became the hill, and capturing it, before being overwhelmed either by the AI horde, or the other players.
The balance is a real issue here, where you level up by achieving kills both in multiplayer versus and the campaign. Players who have been at the game for a long suddenly have a distinct advantage against newer players.
In the early days of the game, it already began to show, as some players are spawned with far more devastating weapons and better defence than their newer counterparts.
Should You Play World War Z?
Our 4th highest award. Uncommon games would traditionally score around 7/10. See more on our review system created by gamers here.
The strong suit of this game is its campaign, the versus modes need some work, but actually, this game is a lot of fun, it is fast, frenetic, and slightly unnerving when the horde sprints at you that is.
I would recommend talking to friends who you’ve played Left 4 Dead with, as this certainly scratches that itch.
There is obviously the imbalance in multiplayer to consider when picking this up. It lets the game down somewhat. Plus, most of what you will learn about the various characters is achieved through minor unlockables.
World War Z doesn’t disguise its combat focus, but it doesn’t need to. For the most part that is enough.
Gamers how would suit this game
Left 4 dead, vermintide, and even gears fans may enjoy this lavishly violent shooter, it has all the potential to be something special but falls just a little short of perfect for its genre.
A few quality of life improvements will go a long way to making this game that little bit better
The Bugs
Great presentation Poor versus balance The odd bit of AI teammate
dumb-ness
LOTS of zombies Overly standard gameplay
Genuinely fun
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About this review
Game Reviewed: World War Z digital edition, provided by the publisher.
Review Format: Xbox One,
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In Praise of Youth
Posted by janiallan in Age, Friendship, Jani Allan, My Grilling Life, Youth
Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident and riches take wings. The only certainty is ageing. Getting older is like being fined for something you didn’t mean to do. Since I am on the wrong side of twenty-five. All right, thirty-five. I find myself in a curious situation. With one or two exceptions, I am not, it seems capable of friendships with people of my age. They are secure and boredom flourishes when you feel safe. It is a symptom of security. When they invite you for supper they show off relentlessly. “He buys all my clothes for me. Do you like this ring? He chose the diamond. Had it reset. He won’t let me cook. He does it all.” You are forced to take a tour of the house, each room accompanied by a before and after explanation. “THAT over THERE was a tiny little window and then we decided to OPEN IT ALL UP…” etc etc . You sit on the patio with self-pity rising inside you like a pair of wings. You have no-one in your life who buys you clothes or cooks for you.
I have yet to find an American chum who can be counted on for a jorl. (And yes, I do request acknowledgement for the fact that I coined the phrase jorl. (*Not to be confused with jawl which rhymes with brawl.) They are not up for midnight jaunts to the local pub for ‘one and done’ after a shift because they are watching re-runs of EastEnders. They don’t drink because they are diabetic and in any case the sulfites in wine gives them a headache. They have one small sherry before supper. They don’t eat giant slices of pizza because it gives them acid reflux (whatever that is) and too much salt causes oedema. Being with people of my age depresses me. People of my age are knitting bootees for their umpteenth grandchild. They are always going in for colonoscopies. They refuse to come with me to see Pink Floyd. (“Are you nuts? The traffic will be impossible!”) The only thing they exert is caution.
My co-workers, on the other hand, are more fun. They live life at a helter-skelter pace, go kayaking in the moonlight, drive to New York or Atlantic City on a whim – even if it’s raining shuttlecocks. One pretty boy insists that when he is a famous model, he will buy me a baby blue Rolls-Royce. Or is it a Bentley? Optimism such as this is marvellous to be around. As the old German proverb goes “Youth is a period when we believe many things that are not true, in old age we doubt many truths.”
According to the Seven Essene Mirrors of Relationship about which Gregg Braden writes so eloquently, the mystery of the Third Mirror has to do with reflections of loss. “As you journey through the waking dream that is your life, pieces of you may be lost, innocently given away or taken away by those who have power over you. These portions of you are your compromises, exchanged for surviving your experience of life.“
The pattern of losing, giving away or having it taken away is a path I know well.
To the degree that you have experienced losses to survive, there remain emptinesses waiting to be filled. The voids are like empty charges. When you encounter someone with a charge complementing parts of you that have been lost, their charge is a gift from the universe.
My bestie is a kid about a third of my age who succeeded where many others failed. He inspired me to write this little blog. The friend who understands you creates you.
He is a brilliant linguist, recently graduated, and has the kind of poetic soul, limitless curiosity about the world and compassion that men will grow to envy. Despite the fact that we have never met – he is almost in constant motion – now in Genève, now in Jerusalem, soon in Spain – but a recent kindness was putting a prayer for me in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
I have pondered often on our friendship. Perhaps he is the embodiment of the Third Essene mirror. He brings to my life that which I have lost, given away, had taken away from me or forgotten within myself.
Perhaps I find companionship with the young moderns because in the end youth has to do with spirit, not age.
As Henry Miller remarked “Men of seventy and eighty are often more useful than the young. Theirs is the real youth.”
Conversation Envy
Posted by janiallan in Charlton Heston, Jani Allan, My Grilling Life
Anaïs Nin once observed that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
I have pondered this for some time and am bound to disagree. Life shrinks or expands, at least to me, in proportion to one’s conversations.
Last night I had an acute episode of Conversation Envy.
I can tolerate the drivel most of the time, but deep down I secretly yearn for a philosophical argument and a fresh point of view with the odd bon mot thrown in the mix to keep things fresh.
Living in a blaze of obscurity has its drawbacks. One is the quality of chat to which one is exposed.
Quentin Crisp said that the key to speaking with style is to command of a vocabulary large enough to give you both flexibility and precision in expressing yourself. The more words you have the more accurate and entertaining will be your self-portrayal in conversation.
Recall the startled bemusement of Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain in “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.” “Good heavens. For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it!”
These days one is engulfed in incoherence. Grammatical errors aside (“Between you and I”, problems with “infer” and “imply”, “flout” and “flaunt”), there is a paucity in topic matter.
Last night I was waiting on a table of distinction. Both elegant women wore the kind of important necklaces that one can only buy at the Metropolitan Museum store: heavy amber beads and interesting silver.
The men were straight out of Renoir’s Boating Party.
At the end of the evening I had occasion to be near their table. Their conversation stopped me in my tracks.
One of the men suggested that love, like evil, is a mystery.
There was mention of ‘meaningless malevolence’ and references to the Classics. They may have quoted Yeats and TS Eliot. There was objection to using the word ‘apartheid’ in contexts other than the South African one.
I did know what I was hearing, however. The quartet was engaged in mental callisthenics and the exchange of ideas.
I yearned to partake of this conversational feast.
I was having an attack of Conversation Envy!
One of the chaps, Michael Curtis, was talking about a piece he had written for American Thinker and how he had titled it “When will Irish Eyes be Smiling on Israel.”
I was engrossed.
Usually I don’t bother to eavesdrop on conversations. They are invariably as useless as wet newspaper. Most of what passes as conversation flows as swiftly as papier-mâché. No one really listens to anyone else and if you try it you will see why. There is a difference between conversation and speech. People have not lost the power of speech. They have lost the art of conversation.
Things are more interesting when a couple has a row. Then there are little popcorn bursts of truth. There is also a chance of collateral windfall. An arguing couple once stormed out of the restaurant forgetting a bottle of Dom Pérignon.
The kitchen staff talk about sex and mime unspeakable things with rolling pins or French loaves. The bus kids talk about surfing and how they did/are going to do Molly this weekend. The other servers talk about what a bitch that woman on 45 is and how they will never serve her again. Or they rat each other out: “Whose job was it to do lemons? Who hasn’t done their side work?”
I have one or two friends with whom I discuss what other people like to call Conspiracy Theories.
But in the main I am a conversational anorexic.
When I was a journalist, I had unfettered access to interesting people. I interviewed Charlton Heston once at the Hyde Park Hotel in London.
“Mr Heston,” I said, “My friend Elaine and I have had a crush on you since we were 13.”
“Where’s your friend Elaine,” was his wry response.
During the lunch gabfest he told me that his life’s philosophy was based on Winston Churchill’s exhortation to never give up.
He leaned towards me and in pure Churchillian metre he intoned
“Never, never give up. Never, ever, ever, give up…”
Political Correctness and the fear of treading on sensitive corns has all but bandaged conversazione. One certain way to prevent conversation from becoming boring is to say the wrong thing, but who has the brass ones to do so these days?
I want to sit at a table and listen to people sbottonarsi as they say in Italian – open up. Or mettere in piazza – make public those things that are private. I want a grand buffet of conversation. I would like to discuss The Waste Land. T E Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Andy Warhol’s From A to B and Back Again…
As Schopenhauer wrote in “Our Relation to Others”: Politeness is a tacit agreement that peoples’ miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
I am tired of politeness and weary of anaemic conversation. Come sit here and talk to me….
Manners Maketh the Man
Posted by janiallan in Jani Allan, My Grilling Life, Paula Deen, Table manners
From an early age I was taught the importance of good table manners.
“Show me a man’s table manners and I’ll tell you who he is,” my mother averred.
I wasn’t allowed to do the boarding house reach across the table. I wasn’t allowed to hold my knife like a pen. I was taught to sip soup using the spoon to scoop from the side of the bowl opposite you.
I was never, ever allowed to place my elbows on the table. Burping was something only babies did. I was brought up on Genevieve Antoine Dariaux’s ‘Elegance’ and Debrett’s Correct Form.
It pains me to report that In America table manners are as rare as unicorn droppings.
With the exception of about half a dozen people, most people eat rather unattractively.
From the moment the bread basket arrives I can tell who he/she is: they proceed to cut the rolls with the butter knife.
She orders the grilled shrimp.
My mind goes into picture postcards. I remember going to Norman’s Prawn in downtown Johannesburg on Sunday nights I would get taken there by a rich Greek boyfriend and we would order a dozen (each) prawns with piri piri sauce. The entire meal was eaten with our fingers.
I watch her desperately attempting to fastidiously dissect the shrimp with a knife a fork. When I suggest kindly that she eats them with her fingers, that I will provide her with a finger bowl she looks suspicious. Perhaps she thinks I am offering to give her a manicure.
He offers her an oyster. She reaches over the table (that would be the boarding house reach) and with her expensive bangles jangling, she skewers one on her fork.
Oysters should not be pierced with a fork. They should be allowed to slide down the throat by tipping the head ever so slightly. Those who request HP/Tabasco/horseradish/cocktail sauce – you don’t really like the snotty delicacy. Just own up! Don’t try and disguise their taste.
Purists will eat oysters with a squeeze of lemon juice. Possibly a drizzle of mignonette.
When it comes to eating meat – Americans zig zag. Emily Post gave it the name “Zig Zag” but it could also be called slice and switch.
Europeans will cut a piece of meat and place the tines of the fork into the meat and convey the piece of meat to the mouth.
Americans pin their meat down with a fork held in a fist (or like a pencil), they will then saw away at it. They then put the knife on the plate and pick up the fork with their right hand.
This cut and switch, according to Darra Goldstein, a professor at Williams College is a French thing which dates back to the early 18th century and is an attempt to pretend fancy manners. Anna Post suggests that since violence was part of the weft and weave of the American tapestry, lowering the knife, was therefore a sign of trust.
That’s giving it too much intellectual justification. Zig zagging is both unattractive and labour intensive.
Restaurants have long been the scene of social exhibitionism – and therefore anxiety.
“In restaurants,” writes Martin Amis “my father (the novelist Kingsley Amis) always wore an air of vigilance, as if in expectation of being patronised, stiffed, neglected or regaled by pretension.”
It is here that one is put to the torture of listening to people discussing the relative merits of West Coast oysters as opposed to East Coast oysters and how they can tell precisely to the minute how much time has elapsed from the oyster being shucked until it arrived in front of them.
It is here that new money and old flesh will happily pay $20 for a child-sized portion of pasta. It is here that a couple of radishes, served on a bread board with a little kosher salt and butter clock in at $7.50.
As Kingsley Amis put it in his novel ‘The Biographer’s Moustache’, this is food ”whose pleasure is small and whose cost is great.”
Despite being menacingly well-groomed, a woman who doesn’t know how to eat elegantly is compromised.
Recently I portered the aforementioned radishes to such a menacingly well-groomed woman. I placed the worn wooden board in front of her. The trio of radishes trembled slightly. She looked at me with disbelief.
“This….uh…what…uh…”
Then she commenced to survey the table.
“Why…what….why would they serve the radishes like this? Why wouldn’t they cut them up….something…anything.” I hovered solicitously.
She suddenly became annoyed.
“This is too much hard work. Take them away and slice them for me.” Her mouth shut tight like a sprung trap.
As Joseph Epstein observed ”One knows one is in the presence of decadence, with a reverse snobbish twist, when people start ordering in restaurants food that would certainly disappoint them if it were served to them at home.”
This current decadence – the high prices make for the decadence – is possibly as a result of fancy food fatigue. Foodies are tired of food that has been gussied up, sautéed and marinated and mounted as if it were an assemblage in the Tate.
The rage for comfort food, offal and, yes, radishes is the new snobbery. In the new inverted snobbery it is not only acceptable, but desirable to announce that one’s son or daughter is going to the CIA. Not the Central Intelligence Agency. The Culinary Institute of America.
This week I had the pleasure of ‘taking care of’ two young moderns of the culinary world, Kyle and Amber. Kyle is a chef and instantly endeared himself to the kitchen by bringing a six-pack of fine ale. “I work at a BYOB establishment and I figured they might like something.”
Given the high heat and humidity in the kitchen his thoughtfulness was especially appreciated. Both he and his pretty girlfriend are foodies. They ordered the lamb chops rare and didn’t have a single life-threatening food intolerance. (“I’m pomegranate pip intolerant. There are no pomegranate pips in the salmon, are there?” I heard this week.)
When it was time to order dessert they ordered three. Their presence in the restaurant was cold cloth to a fevered brow.
Finally, no blog worth its weight in air guitar etc etc would be complete without mentioning the demise of Paula Deen. She is currently on an apology tour for having said the ‘n’ word some thirty years ago.
George Carlin said it best:
Political correctness is America’s newest form of intolerance, and its especially pernicious because it comes disguised as tolerance. It presents itself as fairness, yet attempts to restrict and control people’s language with strict codes and rigid rules. I’m not sure that’s the way to fight discrimination. I’m not sure silencing people or forcing them to alter their speech is the best method for solving problems that go much deeper than speech.
Zou Bisou Bisou
21 Friday Jun 2013
Posted by janiallan in Charles Saatchi, Death, Jani Allan, My Grilling Life
If there were flags they would be flying at half mast in the little river town in which I live.
I would rather write something amusant about the restaurant – I really would. But André’s passing has touched us all.
André was a chef who ran a little place in the next town. Actually, he did more than that. He ran the town.
A Frenchman with a porcelain complexion and periwinkle blue eyes, he had a coterie of admirers, the likes of which I haven’t seen since Gaetan DuVal ruled the roost in Mauritius.
Despite being twice their age, André would party with them until rosy-fingered dawn drew back the coverlet of night.
I remember dancing at his seventy-fifth birthday and thinking that I had underwear older than most of the people there. He would come to the restaurant and bring Billecart-Salmon champagne and eat like a bird. He always offered me a glass.
He called me Coco because I used to wear a Coco Chanel brooch.
He was like a Pied Piper. The jeunesse dorée trailed him and sat at his knees and learned from him. He was both wickedly naughty and fiercely kind.
He would turn up at parties parenthesized by a pair of glamorous girls or boys. I used to pester him to marry me. “Ah oui! Maybe when I am zeventy-six,” he would laugh.
For more than a quarter of a century he was mentor to our executive chef.
Occasionally he would make a guest appearance at our resto and cook. He claimed his bread pudding was the best in ze world.
Perhaps it was.
During Hurricane Sandy, we all converged on the chef’s house. He had electricity and we didn’t. As always André was the magic that kept us mesmerized. He would stay overnight, but then leave. He knew that one must maintain one’s mystique.
I would see him at the odd supper party. He was always the one to bring the most interesting salad and have the most interesting stories to tell. Stories about his life in France. He knew what chic was. He knew how to behave. He studied people. Once when I was setting up a party he said:
“You should not put ‘im on zis table. Zees people are not the zame people as zose peeple.” I knew exactly what he meant.
Of course he could be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, but who worth their salt isn’t?
When cancer threatened to overwhelm him, the river town banded together. Within a couple of days enough money was raised to fly André back to Nice. He died four hours after touching down in France. His sister was holding his hand when he passed.
Somehow André’s passing has muffled us all in a cotton wool of grief.
Why, not ten days ago, he came to the restaurant. When it was time for him to leave, he had to make a sixteen point turn to exit. He bumped into a flashy BMW with his old battered jalopy.
With a shrug and a giggle he drove off.
We will continue to swap André stories for years. He was an original. A kind of French Quentin Crisp.
I pray that death came to him like a delicious sleep with the fragrance of magnolia blossoms.
Finally, no column – oops – blog – would be worth its weight in air guitars if it didn’t mention the Lawson/Saatchi spat.
Many years ago I had a fiery relationship with an Italian. The rows, which took place in Italy, Mauritius and Africa were Wagnerian. I would lock him out. He would climb over the wall. There were guns involved and broken noses.
I would call my mother sobbing hysterically.
“It sounds quite romantic to me,” she said placidly. “You don’t understand! He is pazzo – MAD!” I would shriek.
Many years later, I was in an abusive marriage. I became cowed and frightened. Even my tone of voice altered.
I determined that I would write about my experience to encourage other women trapped in abusive relationships to leave, to seek help and support.
Many years later, I am entrapped in a mule-like existence. I have to earn my living by dint of physical labour. The abuse is now ambient.
I wouldn’t mind Charles Saatchi – or any other seriously wealthy man – clapping his pudgy hand over my mouth – if it meant going home to a Knightsbridge townhouse with original Paul Klees, a butler and a housekeeper.
The wheel has turned full circle.
Germs, Gross and Abuse
Posted by janiallan in Jani Allan, My Grilling Life
Cape Talk, Cruelty to animals, iPhone, McDonalds, Michael Douglas, Pom, Taco Bell, United States
The three words I see most in America are ”Made in China.” The three words I hear are ”Ew. How gross.”
In the same week that Michael Douglas overshared with us about why he has cancer, we read that a Taco Bell employee was fired for licking a ziggurat of taco shells.
The general response to the former was mild, but the latter caused outrage among the chefs.
How disgusting. I wouldn’t want to eat anything someone had licked.
But, said I, the devil’s advocate, what about when you kiss someone?
Oooooh that’s different.
Gross is a blanket term that covers everything except things that I find gross. My grossometer is clearly out of whack.
Gross can even refer to a colour. As in ”How gross are those orange sweat pants.”
I can’t get a handle on what Americans find disgusting and repulsive. Or what they find abusive.
As far as I can tell they are horrified by dogs anywhere near the restaurant. Yet they are OK with changing a baby’s diaper on the banquet in full view of other diners. They are perfectly OK with belching and Chaucerian farts.
There is a frenetic germophobia in the restaurant where I work.
The servers have elaborate methods of marking their water glasses. Perish the thought you could accidentally swig from someone else’s glass. EW. They are constantly wiping their hands with sanitizer.
They are horrified at the thought of picking a napkin off the carpeted floor….horrified by putting a basket of rolled up silverware on the floor….it’s in the basket not on the floor for heaven’s sake. Yet they will prod every bread roll in the oven before putting it in a basket to be served.
In America even the wafers at Roman Catholic churches come in sterilized, sanitized little sachets. They want to meet their Maker. But not yet.
As for going to the supermarket – the trolleys are equipped with hand sanitizers and the proadeuce (sic) has to be approached with tongs and plastic gloves and little sheets of paper. I can remember buying fresh bread in South Africa when the warm loaf wore a little paper cummerbund and nothing else.
I stopped going to a local hairdresser a few years ago because they wouldn’t allow me to bring a three-pound Pomeranian who sat in her travelling bag.
There is a clear dividing line between disgusting and unattractive.
Once I saw a large woman doing her business in Victoria Road Clifton. I found that disgusting.
I find people peeing in public disgusting. I find people who hold their knives as though they are expecting to be attacked by a street gang deeply unattractive. As for people who attempt to eat artichokes with a knife and fork – they are just plain silly. Slum prudery, Henry Higgins would have called it.
Then there’s Abuse. Abuse is another can of haricots entirely.
You are not allowed to call someone Chinese. That’s abuse. They have to be referred to as Asian. (Not oriental. That’s a rug.)
You are not allowed to say someone is fat. They are heavy. Calling them fat is abuse.
Which brings me to my little adventurette this week.
Those who have the slightest acquaintance with me will know that I prefer – no FAR prefer- most animals to humans. During my career as a hackette, I have championed the cause of the Lipizzaners (when it seemed that the dressage school would have to shut down because of lack of funds), I have worked – actually people are always said to ”work tirelessly” aren’t they- for Domestic Animal Rescue Group. Together with Ahmed Aloudien we spotlighted the horrors committed on horses during gang initiation in the Cape. The Cape Horse Protection Society garnered considerable support by my bullying listeners on Cape Talk and pointing out the connection between cruelty to animals and murder.
Since coming to States I have written extensively about the decimation of wildlife in Africa.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated,’ Gandhi once said.
When a man wantonly destroys a work of art, we call him a vandal. What then, do we call a man who cuts the legs off a horse – or gouges the eyes out of a cow.
What do we call soi-disant ”war veterans” in Zimbabwe who are shooting, snaring , spearing and using landmines to destroy herds of elephant and the endangered Black rhino, cheetah, leopard, antelope and giraffe?
Once, when I had a guest slot on a New York Radio Show with Barry Farber, I called Johnny Rodriguez of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force to talk about the mutilation of rhinos.
After the show Bah Fah (as I call him) shook his head sadly.
“They don’t even know where Zimbabwe is. Nor do they care….”
More recently I was introduced to Bill Smith of Main Line Animal Rescue.
MLAR have a huge celebrity support base whose main purpose is to draw attention to the horrific puppy mills (or Poppy Meals as Cesar Milan pronounces it.) The conditions in which animals are kept in dark barns in wire cages no bigger than shoeboxes and forced to breed leaves this hackette at a loss for words, so gut-wrenching it is.
The worst offenders are the Amish in Lancaster County who make millions of dollars a year by selling puppies to pet shops. It is my fervent hope that there will be a special place in hell for these who regard animals merely as cash crops.
I give you this potted history of my involvement and love of animals merely as the backstory.
I have rotten luck with men, but I have been blessed with three Pomeranians. Two are retired American champions. To say that I dote on them is an understatement. They eat only organic chicky wicky, organic broccoli-woccoli and drink Poland Spring distilled water. (Heaven’s I would never give them tap water!)
While I wear schmattas from the Gap, in the winter they have real shearling coats. They have miniature Ugg boots and Italian harnesses.
I spend $80 per Pom for their grooming. (My blow out costs a mere $35….)
They have a sheepskin staircase so that they can ascend and descend from my bed as and when.
I fear I am over-egging the omelette….but I need you to get the Polaroid.
Sunday morning, before work, I raced to the local market to buy some of the aforementioned organic, cage free, no steroids or hormone-fed chicken breasts for the pups.
As is my habit I took all three with me. Breeze sits in a carrier on the front seat, China is on the back seat on a sheepskin pillow and bossy Molly is on my lap.
I parked the car in the shade and left it running with the aircon on high. It was so cold, the Poms teeth were practically chattering. I was gone for all of 10 minutes.
When I returned there was a fat – oops – heavy woman in plaid Bermuda shorts standing a short distance away from my little car. Actually from the back her bottom looked like a covered wagon.
“Its abuse!” she was nasally whining into her iPhone. “Its gross abuse! There’s no other word! The woman has turned up now so I don’t know what she’ll do…but its GROSS and its ABUSE.” Her eyes were flat and malevolent. I felt as though I was being watched by something I had just put in in the garbage.
It took me a few moments to understand that she was calling the police because I was, in her view, abusing my pets by leaving them in the air-conditioned car.
You can’t make this stuff up.
“If you’re concerned about animal abuse, perhaps you should investigate the puppy mill industry ma’am,” I suggested politely.
Privately I thought that given that she had a girth the size of a redwood tree, she was abusing not only the McDonalds, but the Pizza Hut and both Ben and Jerrys. But what do I know?
I drove off and left her still yakking away to the police.
As someone famously said ”You cannot underestimate the intelligence of some people.”
Oh the Sweet Agony…
It’s a deep mystery to me how people can be so categoric and decisive about what they eat for their appetizer and their entrée, but when it comes to dessert they lapse into a coma.
Thus I will take an order which goes something like this.
“I will have the watercress salad but NO endive and the dressing on the side” (Don’t you love it when they deconstruct a dish?)
“Then I will have the pasta, but the peas must be on the side. Oh and I’ll have a cup of coffee now. Decaf and regular. And be sure to pour the regular in first.” (You’re joking me right?) “I want milk and not cream. Do you only have Splenda? Don’t you have Sweet and Low?”
The tuna must be seared (this is said threateningly) “or I won’t eat it”. The New York strip steak must be medium to medium rare…Actually more on the rare side. NO butter on the asparagus but I want pommes frites with mayonnaise. The bronzino (a Mediterranean sea-bass) must be feelaid (sic) because she can’t stand the little face looking at her.
“Are you sure there won’t be any bones? I am allergic to bones!”
I go to the computer and type in a modification: Allergic to bones. There are snorts from the chef.
The strip steak comes out as per order but the eyes roll back.
“Oh ew! That’s far too bloody!”
This means that the strip must be taken to the executive chef, the kitchen must be notified that there is a reheat for position one on 43….it’s a megillah.
The evening goes according to plan. They have finished their bottle of Moët (without leaving a thimble for me), and I have been instructed to open their dessert wine.
Now comes the part of the script where I say
“Would you like to see the dessert tray?”
The tortuous ritual that follows is as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony.
The response to “Would you like to see the dessert tray?” is complete silence.
There is an exchange of coy glances.
Finally ”Well we’ll LOOK!” Mrs Queen for the Day allows.
I return with the heavy ornate silver tray on which are seven desserts.
“May I tell you about them …er…sir….ma’am?”
Sir and Ma’am have locked fingers and are gazing into each other’s eyes. I am seeing a pair of humans morph into llamas.
“May I…?”
“Oh Hon! Here’s the tray!” she squeals. The llama has morphed into Miss Piggy.
“Are they fresh?” she demands bossily.
I explain that they have been made on the premises by our pastry chef who used to work at the Algonquin in New York. He is known for his fabulous creations.
I then proceed to give a brief description of every dessert.
After I have done so, there is more silence. In fact the silence is as thick as a roux.
More glances are exchanged. Deep. Meaningful. Glances. I could polish the fish-knives on the Titanic while waiting for them to come to a decision.
My eyes dart around the room. I take mental polaroids. The bloke at 45 is scribbling in the air (or having a petit mal seizure) which I take to mean he wants the check.
The people outside are waiting for their first course to be cleared. The octogenarians on table eighty want another bottle of wine opened.
All of which is as irrelevant as last winter’s magazines left in a dentist’s office.
The couple who have skewered me with the lance of their indecision have my full attention.
“What do you think, hon?”
Hon! You’re not torn between the whether you want the Hermes or the Kelly bag.
You’re not even torn between a Lamborghini or a Ferrari.
This is a $7.50 pudding!
“I’m OK….I’m quite full.”
“REALLY? You don’t want to share one with me?”
“Well maybe I’ll have a bite….”
“Well then YOU pick….”
“No, YOU pick….”
“No, its your birthday….YOU pick…”
She sighs like a tiny pair of bagpipes.
“What’s that one again? And what’s that? What’s THAT one?”
This is when I have to call on my acting skills to recite the whole tray again.
Finally they decide on a desert. I order it on the computer and then go and wait for it in the kitchen.
I am verbally abused by the garde manger, a fearless deity in the culinary world.
“Why you here so soon? Hnh? HNH?? I ponch (punch) you if you come here too soon….”
That’s one option. If I wait too long to pick up the dessert from the line it is
”Why you so late? How long will you take to learn. Burra!”
Usually I am able to impersonate a server adequately. I feign interest and do a lot of solicitous hovering.
Believe it or not, I have met and become friends with some of the people I wait on. But these are the ones who know that I am their server, not their servant.
When it’s time for the dessert ritual I give thanks that I do not sell real estate, merely puddings.
If there is such agonising about whether to have a scoop of ice-cream on the pear and ginger tart or whether to have it plain, can you imagine the fresh hells that a realtor must go through?
Fifty Shades of Grey – Laters
We first met our hero and heroine in 2012 when their bedroom exploits captivated the proletariat. Why, Mrs James, your egregious little Fifty Shades of Grey did for women’s abuse what Pretty Woman did for prostitution! It made it hip! It made it glam! You capsized everything Germaine Greer (that Ozzie with the towering intellect – ever heard of her?) fought for.
But thirty years have passed.
When Anastasia first met Christian it was in a steel and glass temple. His desk was so large the Windsors could have sat at it comfortably for high tea.
She remembered his parthenon of gleaming teeth, his copper mane (and matching bush). She remembered the way he made her inner goddess fist pump the air….and of course she remembered the Room of Pain. The paddles, whips, riding crops and feathery bits…
She was reluctant to rendezvous with him after all these years. But he was his insistent self. He tracked her down to the council house she was happy to call home.
Besides she had to know. She had spent the last thirty years agonizing about why she had let him demean her so thoroughly. Was it his looks? His civility? His wealth? His power? Was it the seductive way he said ‘Laters’?
She remembered the first time he had surprised her in the hardware store where she worked. Her mouth had popped open and she couldn’t locate her brain or her voice. Her legs felt like Jello….
She remembered how his sculptured, sensual lips were always curled in amusement, or nipped into a pinch or her favourite – and probably his – when they were pressed in a hard line.
Oh the way his eyebrows semaphored up and down! The way his pants hung off his hips! The sound of him ripping the cover off a condom!
How many times did she hear that….(and we have to read it).
She had to do it.
She put on her support stockings – the one’s that made her varicose veins hardly noticeable. She squeezed into her Spanx. The exertion made her a little breathless.
After feeding Tibbles the cat, she put on her night-driving glasses and eased herself gingerly into her Peanut Butter Cruiser – as she fondly called her PT Woody. Since the hip-replacement she had to be careful not to make any sudden moves.
The city was like a strange creature infested with electric lights. Funny how she used to think it exciting and mysterious. Now it was the habitat of vagrants with the stench of defeat heavy in the air.
She stepped into the diamond glass building, but there was no glossy blonde secretary to show her to the elevator. Instead a sullen woman in a dusty cardigan and thick specs said ”Mr Steel has been waiting for you. In here.”
“In Here” was a cubby-hole next to the boiler room.
Anastasia looked around the grubby office. A fly-spotted ceiling fan lazily stirred the humidity.
Her entrails rumbled ominously. She popped a Tums into her mouth. These days her stomach bothered her.
“Ana! Ana my dear! You look as marvellous as the first time I met you!’
The man shuffling towards her looked like an insect that had spent the last twenty years in formaldehyde. The copper mane? Anchovies on a boiled egg. The parthenon of porcelain were now toast points.
He placed a kiss on her mouth. It felt like an empty glass.
“What happened…why….you were so….rich?”
“Oh there was a spot of bother with the stock exchange, some bogus charges of embezzlement….nothing serious…More importantly you’re here!
“I can still make your inner goddess do the merengue…you’ll see!”
The stethoscope of her imagination allowed him to show her into a small, less opulent “Room of Pain.” It was more of a ticket booth, if the truth be told. Grey tottered after her on his Zimmerframe, his neck craned forward like those hundred year old tortoises in the Seychelles do when you offer them a cabbage leaf.
“Gladys! Bring my oxygen will you?” He quavered. His voice was like a dry cork twisting against an old bottle.
While he planted wet-liver kisses on her Pancake makeup, he attempted to do battle with her Spanx. His arthritic hands, which once were so deft at tying her up in metaphorical – and literal knots – were impotent. Lycra 1. Grey 0.
Slowly, like espresso seeping through a sugar cube, the realization began to emerge: he was creepy then and he was creepy now.
It was the glitter of money and fast cars and expensive presents that had made it irresistible…that made it fodder for talk at restaurant tables…
She had to extricate herself. Eradicate the memory. Expunge it. Delete it.
Ecstasy must be paid for. Its inevitable price is that it always comes to an end. Good ecstasy and bad ecstasy. The Grey episode in her life, she now knew was bad ecstasy.
For too long sex had played its moonshine tune across the great divide between them.
It used to be said that America has passed from barbarism to decadence without ever becoming civilised.
It is my contention that readers of the SOG series yank readers from innocence to debauchery and thence deep perversion without ever knowing romance. The soul doesn’t have a chance.
As someone once said: Love doesn’t seek to dominate. It seeks to cultivate.
Knowing when to exit is the mark of a social aristocrat.
Whether it be your rented apartment, a relationship, a visit with friends. Or a restaurant.
The Germans have an expression torschlusspanik – the direct translation is door-shutting panic. This is the panic that accompanies the sound of the park gates clanging shut leaving you trapped inside.
But there are other reasons for not exiting when you should.
A few years ago I moved into an apartment on the river. Actually it wasn’t an apartment as much as a couple of rooms in a big house. The bossy landlady told me many times how God had blessed her with a country estate and a Bentley.
The word on the street was that it was a hefty injury claim that she had been blessed with, but that is neither here nor there.
Ms. Bossy would barge into my bedsit several times a day on the flimsiest of pretexts.
I didn’t have the bottle to ask her not to, since I was worn down by various circumstances. Besides, I liked the river view.
When the river was about to break its banks she summoned a couple of nuns to pray fervently that God wouldn’t let the house be flooded – as it had been twice before. Just to be safe, she recruited all able bodied in the neighbourhood to move her furniture, while she reclined on the couch like an odalisque issuing instructions. “Take that UP. Not, not that one THAT ONE! Be careful! That vase belonged to my granny!”
By noon the next day the house was under six feet of water. It took an act of God to make me leave.
I know half a dozen women who are in toxic relationships yet they don’t leave. It is as though they are in a lukewarm bath. Even if it’s lukewarm it’s better than getting out.
Bertold Brecht said it better. ”Love is like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone…what is left tastes bitter. ”
In an entirely more perfidious category are those that Douglas Adams calls cluns – people who just won’t go.
These are the people who, after a dinner party in Islington have the host call a black cab and then plant themselves in the hallway going on and on about “have you seen old so and so” while the cabbie waits with its meter running.
These are the people who, after a barbecue in Bantry Bay, stand about chin-wagging until the apricot sun has slid into the sea. The leftover koeksusters have been put in Tupperware and goodbyes have been said. Arrangements have been made ”We’ll see you in Mauritius in September. Orssimm!”
But no one actually gets into their cars. Well, not until they hear a distant sound of what sounds like a shot going off.
In the restaurant business we also have cluns.
Emblematic of their MO is that they arrive an hour late. The kitchen is about to close. There are no remaining guests in the restaurant.
When I go over and tell them about the oysters and so on they look as though they have swallowed a bee.
“Oh we’d like a little time before we order!” says Mr. Über Clun.
“Decant the wine,” he orders. Then he turns to his guests.
“I hope you don’t mind such a BIG wine…” all oleaginous charm.
There the trio sit, eating as slowly as arthritic tortoises.
The gabfest goes on two and half hours. I will check, but I’ll swear there are no donkeys with hindlegs left in New Joisey.
Did you know Anthony Weiner is running for Mayor or New York…you know the one that tweeted pictures of his crown jewels….yes! And what about the Governor of New Jersey’s lap-band surgery…
The Mexicans in the kitchen are playing on their iPhones. Three servers plus the blonde hostess. That makes seven people whose lives have been put on hold while they talk fluent drivel.
The grill has been scrubbed and the charcoal’s embers are glowing. The kitchen is pristine. The kitchen staff have long gone to commence drinking tequila shots at the local dives.
Hoping they won’t say yes, I show them the dessert tray. They say yes.
The dessert is untouched for 15 minutes while they argue about whether the Holland Tunnel is better than the Lincoln to get to Long Island.
Finally, when I deliver the check, Mr. Über Clun examines it as though he were a customs inspector.
The music has been turned off, the lights turned up and the candles blown out, and yet they are reluctant to get up to go.
“We must do this again!”
The men traipse out without glancing at us.
The woman makes shanti signs with her hands.
“I’m sorry…we really kept you for so long….” she says.
All I can manage is a small smile, tight as a pickle jar lid.
These are the people who must surely earn themselves a little pied a terre in Dante’s Inferno – the ones who subject people like us to their long goodbyes.
Bling on Steroids – The Great Gatsby Revisited
Posted by janiallan in Jani Allan, My Grilling Life, The Great Gatsby
Far be it from me to posture as a movie critic. As far as I know there is one movie critic in South Africa, viz Barry Ronge. But since this little blog is about my current grilling life, it would be remiss of me not to tell about my adventure of going to the movie theatre this week.
The buffet of entertainment in New York is, these days, above my means. Recently a friend went to see the Rolling Stones. The tickets were $300.
The only way you don’t spend money in the US is if you stay in bed. Going to New York or even Philadelphia involves mucho dinero.
I long ago resolved only to go and see people who are likely to shuffle off this mortal coil sooner rather than later. (Note to self: must save up for tickets for Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.)
But last night, by happy chance, a chum and I were able to go to see The Great Gatsby.
The cocktail sherpa and the food porter.
He came to collect me in Miss Ross, as we call his car. We were anxious not to be late, but we needn’t have bothered. There were the obligatory seventeen forthcoming attractions. We sat in a near deserted cinema while our fellow movie-goers were tucking into boxes of popcorn the size of telephone booths.”We could have had an appetizer”, groaned Tom aggrievedly. Later “We could have had an entree!”
And still later “We could have had dessert!”
Finally the extravaganza commenced. I winced immediately. Are movies these days made for the hearing impaired? Why, when Daisy ripped off her necklace the sound of the pearls rolling over the parquet were like ballbearings on a bathroom floor.
For what my budgie-seed opinion is worth, Luhrmann’s interpretation of this great story set in the Jazz Age with its Shakespearean themes – impossible love, incorruptible dreams etc etc – was reduced to a brash 100% singing 100% dancing extravaganza in a heaving sea of champagne.
Tennis courts of Tiffany, tons of dazzle, a giddy torrent of feathers and flim-flam, but with all the depth and charisma as the enamel on a tin tray.
I am rather keen on Scott Fitzgerald and didn’t care for the liberties Luhrmann takes with the book.
Even the fact that Nick Carraway is supposed to be a poor cousin, but somehow can afford several servants and expensive psychotherapy annoyed me. But then maybe that’s just me being Miss Crankypants.
Why, we had to wait for half an hour before DiCaprio even made an appearance – and how exaggeratedly theatrical it was. Strings swelling to Rhapsody in Blue…blinking harbour lights in the distance and so forth.
Like all movies that are jammed with special effects – the 3D made me feel slightly bilious. As endless as Gotterdammerung, it was the kind of spectacle that almost made your eyes want to throw up.
Baz Lurhrmann needed someone to tell him ‘Enough! STOP already!’. Being cool is sometimes as effective as being hysterical but it’s less noisy.
Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D…JZ…Mr Beyoncé….(sic).
What happened to being authentic to the time period?
What’s next? Schindler’s List with a rap music soundtrack.
Listen here Adolf…whattcha gonna do….here’s an idea baby…World War 2!
When Mia Farrow played Daisy, in the 1974 version, Robert Redford’s enchantment/fixation with her seemed more plausible. Miss Mulligan I am afraid, has a pretty face but all the acting skills of a wet sock. She’s not capable of igniting a cigarette, let alone a life-long passion.
(Actually it was more a desire for another possession, rather than love, if you ask me, but maybe I’ve just been watching too much Dr Phil.)
She either looked vaguely agonised or vaguely….well vague. Tobey Maguire, as the narrator, had the fresh unspoiled look of a slightly inebriated undergraduate, most of the time. It was his job to carry the movie. Even he looked exhausted by the end of it.
Leonardo diCaprio was predictably delicious in a series of ice-cream coloured suits, but it seemed to me that he was trying desperately hard to play Gatsby like Robert Reford playing Gatsby. He used the term ‘old sport’ at least a hundred times. Each time was more cringe-worthy than the last.
Auld Spaut. Erld Spert. Owl Spowt…etc etc.
As for the casting of Meyer Wolfsheim as a sinister Gupta – sorry I really can’t keep up – what is the politically correct term?- was downright offensive and if anything, another form of racial stereotyping.
Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s thuggish husband, had curious triangular shaped eyes and bulging cheeks -possibly too much Perlane?
He looked like a tomato struggling for self-expression.
His mistress Myrtle wasn’t intriguing enough and his passion for her not believable. I recalled Karen Black playing a smouldering Myrtle and how when she said ‘he makes me feel as though tiny fishes are swimming in my veins’ you tingled right along with her.
In the end Gatsby is a novel about the excesses of an era, the last fling of the dragon’s tail.
While I deeply admired the hurricane of Tiffany jewels, the mansions (large enough to house the entire Mormon Tabernacle Choir) the Birnam Wood of peonies, and the intricate topiary in those endless emerald gardens, I left the theatre feeling as though I had overdosed on sequins and Moet.
Perhaps I have finally turned the corner.
I could hardly wait to get home and steam mop the kitchen floor – the new normal for me.
My Gay Life
gay, jewish, Karl Lagerfeld, Michaelangelo
Jani Allan celebrates gay and Jewish identities in this satirical piece. Allan has long been considered a gay icon for her style and witty Sunday Times columns. She has been well versed in Jewish life having spent most of her life in Sandton and for her marriage to Gordon Schachat.
The tragedy of my life – well one of them – is that I wasn’t born gay or Jewish.
Both are clubs with desirable benefits.
Ever seen a Jewish person down-and-out? My point precisely. Being Jewish means that you are part of a global family that takes care of their own. If you find yourself in a foreign country (assuming you are Jewish) there will be someone’s darling Auntie Bertha who will ask you over for Shabbas.
“Are you messhuga? We won’t hear of you staying in your hotel room!”
Are you the marrying kind? Mrs Levy will arrange a social introduction and the next thing you are married to a plastic surgeon, driving an SLK and ordering your chef to making matzo balls for Friday night.
Any old Tom, Dick or Harriet can join Match.com to find a partner. The only qualifier is that you should have a pulse.
Jewish dating: Jani Allan and her husband, Gordon Schachat.
Jewish people have a far more rigorous quality control process. Try and join J-Dating and you will see what I mean.
Jewish people are achievers. They always know someone who can ‘hook you up’ whether it’s with a part for your BMW, tickets for the Rolling Stones or a timeshare apartment in the Bahamas.
Gay people have a similar support system. If you have the slightest talent (assuming you are gay), you will be ‘hooked up’ with a dance teacher, modelling agent or interior designer. By next Tuesday Nate Berkus will give you a make-over on his show. You will get free facials forever (or as long as you live) you will be asked to co-host ‘The View’ with Barbara Wawa.
I rest my Louis Vuitton.
I live in a area gayer than Fire Island and from what I witness in the resto, being gay is the pink passport to a life of glamour and devotion.
(Actually, It remains a deep mystery to me why gay people are so keen to get married. Courtship is to marriage what a witty introduction is to a dull volume. But that’s another topic for another Mcblog.)
I can’t say that I have investigated this with the thoroughness of a burglar twisting the dial of a safe, listening for the locks to click and reveal the combination, but it seems to me that when gay people commit themselves to a relationship they Commit.
I have seen gay couples grow together and stay together. I could give you the names of five gay couples who are joined at the hip. And, at least from my ringside seat, appear to be happily so.
The Friends of Dorothy who come into the restaurant bring expensive champagne and tip generously.
They are meticulously groomed. They wax, exfoliate, pluck and moisturize far more than I do. Their faces are clean as china plates.
Jani Allan had a cross-dressing part in Pieter-Dirk Uys’ movie ‘Going Down Gorgeous.’
They appear interested in each other. Either that or they are listening to accounts of the misfortunes of others at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. (Nothing shortens a dinner date like the aforementioned.) Gay men text internationally in the middle of the night to discuss Kim Kardashian’s flowered frock and whether Tisci was too outre…or not outre enough.
Gay people have a sense of occasion. Every anniversary is marked by some show of devotion. Both partners invariably wear matching Tiffany rings and/or bangles. They have a Shi Tzu (or three) and speak to them on the telephone when they’re away from home. (Haven’t you seen ‘Best in Show?’)
To be a lesbian is even more desirable. It is having all the benefits of being a gay man, without the stress of having to maintain a ripped body and a beach to cancer tan.
I have seen lesbians who are heavy as boarding house dumplings gaze with adoration at each other, proving that if not blind, love is at least slightly myopic.
I know gay couples who have nursed each other through lazik surgery and chemotherapy. I know a gay couple who have remodelled a marvellous historic farmhouse, restoring it to its authentic beauty.
See what happens when a straight couple just has the builder in to pave the pool area…one partner invariably leaves to take up residence at a hotel for the duration.
In the restaurant you can tell who is heterosexual: the straights are always consulting their iPhones or looking at the door as if Katy Perry were expected to walk through any minute. (Or as they like, ungrammatically, to say here ‘momentarily.’)
Of course she has had the mandatory (in the Yooessay) boob enhancement and so much botox that her eyebrows are like those of a startled Kabuki dancer. But she is a nurtured woman. She is the embodiment of her husband’s success. Who cares if the relationship is more or less – more more than less – platonic. She is, as Germaine Greer wrote all that time ago, the dead heart of the family, spending her husband’s earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps and watches the television.
Then there is the issue of creativity. More often than not, the gay gene is twinned with the artistic one. If Michaelangelo were straight the Sistine Chapel ceiling would have been painted a serviceable grey and done with a Renaissance roller.
If Karl Lagerfeld were straight…well lets not go there.
Gay people have their own language (cf Friends of Dorothy)….Jewish people lapse into Yiddish. Straight people just have “amazing.”
Perhaps, as Dotty Parker said ‘Heterosexuality is not normal it’s just common.
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The Rise of Liberal Religion, by Matthew Hedstrom (2013)
By Christopher Babits
In this history of popular religion and spirituality, Matthew Hedstrom argues that books and book culture were integral for the rise of liberal religion in the twentieth century. After World War I, a modernizing book business and an emerging religious liberalism expanded the spiritual horizons of many middle-class Americans. The new spiritual forms of twentieth-century liberalism incorporated psychology, mysticism, and (to a lesser extent) positive thinking in their works. Hedstrom, like sociologist Christian Smith, believes that liberal religion achieved a stunning cultural victory after World War II.
Two key developments led to the rise of liberal religion: the embrace of the marketplace and the creation of middlebrow reading culture. In the 1920s, liberal Protestants turned to the marketplace, but on their own terms. They wanted people to read right. Middlebrow reading required that one read earnestly, intensely, and with purpose. Many liberal Protestants thought that this manner of reading would improve people. Middlebrow reading norms also required individual autonomy and expertise. Religious and cultural leaders carefully shepherded readers by offering comfortable — but limited — freedom to act as guided consumers. In other words, religious leaders still hoped to shape the purchases that laymen and laywomen made and the book industry complied.
The First World War destroyed the faith Americans had in simple notions of progress. In response to this crisis, liberal Protestant leaders, executives of the American publishing industry, and other cultural figures collaborated on a series of new initiatives to promote the buying and reading of religious books. These initiatives included the Religious Book Week, the Religious Book Club, and the Religious Books Round Table of the American Library Association. Major publishing houses, like Harper’s and Macmillan, established religious departments for the first time.
Religious Book Week Poster from 1925. Via Library of Congress.
In the interwar years, religious reading became a national concern as the United States faced the threat of fascism. Religious groups like the Council on Books in Wartime and the Religious Book Week campaign of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) promoted reading. Hedstrom shows the widespread appeal of the Council’s slogan, “Books as Weapons in the War of Ideas.” The Second World War, for these groups, was not only an ideological battle, it was also a spiritual struggle for the soul.
US Government Poster from 1942. Via Library of Congress.
Harry Emerson Fosdick. Via Wikipedia.
After the war, Americans continued to turn to books for spiritual guidance. And the increasing belief that the United States was a Judeo-Christian nation formed the foundation of what Hedstrom calls “spiritual cosmopolitanism.” Letters to Rabbi Joshua Loth Liebman and Harry Emerson Fosdick, two of the most popular post-World War II authors of liberal religion, display Americans’ newfound eagerness to read religious and spiritual works from authors of other faiths. These letters also provide keen insight into who was reading spiritual books and why and how they were reading them. Many Americans were religious, even if they were not attending church on Sundays. Readers of middlebrow religious culture were trying to grapple with religious questions about the Second World War, morality, and spirituality. Fosdick and Liebman helped them find answers.
The Rise of Liberal Religion is revisionist history in the best possible sense. By emphasizing “lived religion,” or the spaces where religion is practiced and faith is formed, Hedstrom shows that the numerical decline of mainline Protestant churches and churchgoers matters less than previous historians insisted. In addition, Hedstrom challenges the master narrative that conservative Christianity dominated the post-World War II religious landscape. Despite this, readers might find a few shortcomings. First, Hedstrom makes too many sweeping declarations about liberal religion after the 1950s. For example, he points to Americans’ incorporation of yoga as a form of spiritual cosmopolitanism, but it is not clear that liberal religion in the U.S. made a conscious effort to incorporate yoga into its practice. More important, Hedstrom provides little evidence about the lived religious experiences of women, African Americans, and Native Americans. He asserts that middlebrow reading provided women agency, but the evidence from women themselves is somewhat thin. By emphasizing the vitality of liberal religious experience, Hedstrom has set a new agenda for the cultural history of U.S. religion, but that cultural history will have to incorporate more of the population of the faithful for it to have a real impact.
Matthew Hedstrom, The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2013)
You may also like these reviews by Christopher Babits:
Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self, by Jessica Grogan (2012)
Age of Fracture, by Daniel T. Rodgers (2011)
And Robert Abzug’s discussion of William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience.
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The Bishops Homily – 5th Sunday Ordinary Time
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5th Sunday Ordinary Time
Cycle B | 4 February 2018
Job. 7: 1-4;6-7
I Cor. 9: 16-19; 22-23
Mk. 1: 29-39
INTRODUCTION: Let us focus on our 2nd reading from Paul’s magnificent I Cor. Our passage has to do with a theme that is central to every baptized Christian: EVANGELIZATION.
Listen now to what Paul says to his little Church of Corinth: “If I preach the Gospel, there is no reason for me to boast, for an obligation has been imposed on me and woe to me if I do not preach it.”
Basically, Paul is explaining himself to his audience. He is telling what he is about — identifying around which everything in his life revolves. What is it? Preaching the Gospel!
(1) Gospel, “euangelion” in Greek, good news in English, would have a lot of resonances to Paul’s audience depending on their cultural background. To the Jews among his audience, the word would have echoes of Is. 52:7, “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news,” referring to the victory of Israel about its liberation from captivity. His Gentile audience from the Graeco-Roman world, would have heard the Emperor’s announcement of a military victory.
After a successful campaign, the Emperor would send evangelists who would carry the good news of a victory in battle. Bringing the two together, Paul is talking about the declaration of a victory which brings with it liberation from captivity. What does that mean for Paul? It means the dying and the rising of Jesus.
On the Cross Jesus faced down the powers of this world, both visible and invisible. He allowed them to wash over him and overwhelm him. But then in the Resurrection, he broke and conquered them. There is no better symbol of the oppressive power of Rome than the Cross. If one gets into its way, that is what they will do to you and they terrified the world. Jesus on the Cross is overwhelmed by the dark powers of the world but in the Resurrection he breaks and relativizes them.
Paul’s message, “I preach nothing but the Cross.” He is holding up high the Cross because a great victory has been won and now we are liberated from the powers. In another passage, he says in Col. 2:15 “The dominions and powers he rubbed of their prey; put them in public display, led them away in triumph.” He is referring something the people of his time would have known: the victory parade of a Roman general in which the leaders of a conquered people would be paraded publicly in chain.
(2) How edgy this is that Christ has won victory over sin, death, evil spirits and now, like a conquering General, he makes a public show of them. I got them in chains; they did not get us in chain. That is the Gospel: a victory that has brought about a liberation.
Clearly this liberating victory is what Paul’s life is all about. It is his obsession, his preoccupation. It is what drives him on and on. Woe to me if I don’t evangelize! Note how outward looking this is! The Church by its very nature evangelizes It goes out to the world with this good news.
Think of Paul from Tarsus, educated in Jerusalem, how small space he was moving about! Once he meets Jesus, he starts moving around the world as fast and as far as the technology of the time could take him. He ended up in Rome but he longed to go as far as Spain! To put this a bit up to date, Francis wants a missionary church rather than a self preferential church.
(3) How does Paul do his evangelizing work? I make myself a slave to all so as to win over for Christ at least some, if not as many as possible. I move in to their space: weak, Jews, Gentiles, like Francis Xavier when he was in India or the Jesuit Mateo Ricci in China.
CONCLUSION: What lessons can we draw from this?
(1) We need to organize ourselves and everything we do across Evangelization. Nothing in our lives is more important than announcing the victory of Jesus.
(2) We should think of others not as objects to be used but rather as masters. What an opportunity for evangelizing.
(3) Father the Pauline instinct: going into their shoes; stooping down to the person you want to evangelize! These are theoretical and practical guides for evangelizing.
Most Rev. Antonio R. Tobias, DD
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Stars Fight Resigning Oakland City Attorney Who Wants Out! Fraud, Corruption Still There!!
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Resigning Oakland City Attorney Wants OUT!!! Can’t Dodge Fraud, Corruption Charges!
Crooked, soon to be former crooked Oakland City Attorney John Russo, being forced to resign from a constant three year barrage of fact laden reports of fraud and corruption by Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim, is one of three finalists for the Alameda city manager position sources have confirmed. You can view the 2009 video of Oakland City Attorney John Russo’s Political Suicide- Must Resign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIU4CDoLnI
For years Russo has been avoiding criminal and civil charges of extrinsic fraud and corruption, among others in the al-Hakim insurance case, has been dodging rumors for weeks that he is feuding with new Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and looking for ways to leave his post. Now, however, it turns out that at least part of that rumor is true: Russo applied for the Alameda job after the recruitment period opened Feb. 1. Alameda City Council interviewed six candidates and unanimously selected three finalists during a closed-door session Feb. 19. The candidates will be reviewed by three advisory panels that will help the council make its final decision.
Oakland City Attorney Fraud, Solicitation Perjurious Testimony in Affidavits for Gang Injunction!
The leak of information on Oakland City Attorney John Russo’s extrinsic fraud, subornation of perjurious testimony and solicitation of perjurious testimony in witness affidavits for the Oakland Gang Injunction litigation is turning into a flood as there appears to be truth in the allegation. It has been rumored that witnesses complained that the affidavits were prepared for their signature without their approval containing inaccurate information, misleading facts, and mis-characterizing statements that were maliciously, willfully and intentionally false. Witness could not change the affidavit and felt they were slighted and perhaps retaliated against when they complained about it. There were other complaints about Russo’s tactics in recent matters as well.
The shyster City Attorney was involved in fabricating and planted that fabricated evidence in the al-Hakim insurance case file, gave the case file to the defendants for nearly a year, and then gave the altered case file to a judge for trial without notifying the court!
al-Hakim filed a complaint with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, State Assemblyman Sandre Swanson, Alameda County Supervisor Kieth Carson, Oakland California Mayor Ron Dellums, Oakland City Administrator Dan Lindheim, Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby, Oakland City Councilpersons Desley Brooks and Larry Reid’s offices against Oakland City Attorney John Russo, Mark Morodomi, Randy Hall, Janie Wong, Anita Hong, Sophia Li, Demetruis Shelton- current President of the National Bar Association, Elizabeth Allen, Erica Harrold, Michele Abney, Eliada Perez; former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams; former Oakland City employee Pat Smith; Stephan Barber and others of the law firm Ropers, Majeski; Ronald J. Cook, Randy Willoughby, Alex Stuart, Annette Bening’s brother Bradley Bening and others of the law firm Willoughby, Stuart & Bening; for constructing fraudulent fabricated evidence in 1999 and planting that evidence favorable to the defendants in the case files SIX years AFTER the case was closed; engaged in spoliation of remaining evidence in the court files from 1991; and fostered witness testimony based on this planted evidence in the al-Hakim v CSAA and the underlying Rescue Rooter case that was created thru EXTRINSIC FRAUD with accompanying testimony procured thru admitted suborned and solicited perjurious acts by John Russo and others, they engaged in actions to destroy the litigation of al-Hakim’s legal case; they engaged in actions to coverup their unlawful acts.
“Video of Oakland City Attorney Gives Defendants Case File, Doesn’t Tell Court or Plaintiff’s- Given To Stephan Barber and Law Firm Ropers Majeski”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_nsgmN44w
This comes on the heels of a very embarrassing, very public spat with new Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Russo taking personally abusive verbal shots at each other with Russo scorning the mayor for what he called a risky legal relationship with another attorney and Quan firing back at Russo for releasing his legal advice to the media before discussing it with her.
“Russo Tends to Attack by Press Release” Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
“The problem is that John Russo tends to attack by press release,” Quan said, and complained that he issued his letter while she was still in Washington, D.C., where she attended U.S. Conference of Mayors meetings and also met with White House officials.
Quan said Russo had created a conflict of interest by releasing his advice to the media when he did. “As the City Attorney giving advice to the Mayor, he has the duty of confidentiality and the duty of loyalty to his client. He broke that confidentiality by his actions,” Quan said in a written statement. “This is exactly why the Mayor’s Office and the City Council Offices have considered seeking independent, outside counsel. The City Attorney is the City’s only attorney,” Russo wrote in the letter he released.
Quan denied sharing any confidential city information with an attorney and friend who has been advising her, saying City Attorney John Russo’s suggestion that she may be spilling secrets was “frankly, insulting.”
That claim is false according to him, as Russo did not bring his concerns to Quan privately before alerting the media — Russo argued in a letter he sent to Quan, other city leaders and local media that the city attorney is the mayor’s only permissible attorney, so any information Quan shares with anyone other than Russo and those in his office — is not protected and can be subpoenaed, threatening the city’s standing in a host of legal scenarios and taking on another attorney, especially one connected to a fight against the city, is breaking the City Charter and creates a conflict of interest.
“We have a city attorney who is elected and so sometimes has his own political agenda,” Quan said.
“I’m caught in the middle, and I’m sorry about that.”
“This is a uniquely obnoxious violation of the charter because he’s in the middle of this,” Russo said. “I should be able to brief (Quan) on the strengths and weaknesses of our cases. If she’s going to turn around and give that to our opponents, how am I supposed to do my job?” “What the mayor has done here,” Russo added, “is put my office in a very awkward position where we’re not sure we can give confidential information to Mayor Quan. You should never be in that position with the CEO of the corporation.” “Violation of the City Charter is a crime,” Russo wrote in closing. “It is now incumbent on you to uphold your oath to defend the Charter.”
Quan, a longtime adversary of Russo from his days on the Council, feels concerned as the public see’s Russo has overstepped his boundary by pursuing the injunction without endorsement from the city council or the mayor in his continuing quest to be the De-Facto mayor. There is a question about what is the authority of the city attorney to bring these cases without the authorization of city council and the Mayor.”
Video of Oakland City Attorney John Russo’s Political Suicide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzqh6Uvc09U
Link’s to articles mentioned:
Quan Responds to Russo Attack http://www.box.net/shared/k45m8tbfpq
Russo Siegel Dispute http://www.box.net/shared/hur1ebj5tv
Russo Open Media Letter to Quan http://www.box.net/shared/giiqrdivif
Quan Responds to Russo on Gang Injunction http://www.box.net/shared/2a15lejred
Russo Attacks Quan’s Conflict of Interest http://www.box.net/shared/u5nuy8qa54
City Manager Deborah Edgerly v. City of Oakland http://www.box.net/shared/ytkcx2qxa2
al-Hakim, Marshawn Lynch and Leon Powe to Help Poor, Under Served Youth
al-Hakim has mobilized attorney’s to represent these poor, under served youth and secured ALL-Americans, NFL All-Pro, NBA World Champions, North Oakland residents, Oakland Tech High School and U. C. Berkeley classmates Marshawn Lynch and Leon Powe along with several native Oakland celebrities to join national celebrities in this fight! Through the collaboration of the individuals, Powe’s “Fresh Start Oakland”, Lynch’s Fam1ly F1rst”, the Aaron & Margaret Wallace Foundation, and others, we will provide the much needed alternatives to these profiled youth to succeed in life and not be eliminated from it because some developers want their families property and them out the neighborhood.
Here’s some links to Leon Powe’s “Fresh Start Oakland”
http://www.freshstartmentoring.org/index.html
and Marshanw Lynch’s “Fam1ly F1rst”
http://www.famf1rst.com
Here’s a link to Marshawn’s run in the Seahawks upset NFL Western Division Playoff game victory between World Champion New Orleans Saints against Marshawn’s Seattle Seahawks that has been called the GREATEST RUN IN NFL PLAYOFF HISTORY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GD5EUVIvWo
Not to be out done, here is Leon’s Boston Celtics Championship Special on ABC-TV
http://www.youtube.com/v/gunuRcWWlRM
WE MUST ACT NOW to end this travesty ASAP!
Oakland Marijuana Ordinance
There’s also a marijuana ordinance in front of city council that is endorsed by “Johnny Potty” Russo. He picked up that handle because of his penchant for doing video interviews in the restroom “potty” with another man, not to mention the weed endorsement. Does the citizens of Oakland really want a crooked City Attorney who drives around with his kids in the car without their seat belts on, wants to legalize smoking weed and gives video interviews in the bathroom with another man? The unfortunate part about this episode is Mayor Quan’s adviser has also been busted for marijuana so everything is up in smoke!
A court hearing that could result in the implementation of the injunction is scheduled for February 16, 2011 before admitted and convicted liar, the embattled Judge Robert Freedman.
Judge Robert Freedman’s Misconduct Warranted His Removal from Office
al-Hakim filed a formal complaint on April 11, 2008 and April 14, 2008 with both the Judicial Council and Superior Court against Judge Tigar for his attempt at provoking al-Hakim at a side bar during trial. al-Hakim received a one sentence response dated September 26, 2008 from Victoria Henley stating that “your submission does not provide a basis for commission proceedings”. al-Hakim received a letter dated April 15, 2008 from then Presiding Judge Yolanda Northridge acknowledging receipt of the complaint referring the matter to the Supervising Judge, Robert Freedman for review but has gotten no response as promised.
No one should be surprised because Judge Freedman has had his own well documented problems with honesty by willfully and intentionally filing false, perjurious and deceiving documents and affidavits regrading the timeliness in the administration of his duties in order to get paid and was issued a public reprimand.
In June 2007 The Commission on Judicial Performance publicly censured Alameda Superior Court Judge Robert J. Freedman for violating rules of conduct by failing to decide cases on time and falsely swearing that he was keeping up with time limits.
Judge Freedman’s misconduct was of such gravity as to warrant his removal from office, the commission said, but the presence of mitigating evidence justified reducing the punishment to a “severe public censure.” You can read and/or download the article on Judge Freeman’s Censure at: http://www.box.net/shared/5n0tt72rbt
The commission adopted factual findings made by a panel of special masters, who found by clear and convincing evidence that Freedman delayed rulings in 21 of the 23 cases over which he was charged in a notice of formal proceedings last May.
It also agreed with the panel that Freedman, as accused in the notice, regularly signed and submitted false salary affidavits to the county during times when he was aware his rulings were overdue. He has a checkered past in al-Hakim’s case as well.
At one hearing in that matter he openly stated bias, prejudice, voiced a fixed opinion of al-Hakim and having an improper ex-parte communications regarding al-Hakim and his case while using such information to hold al-Hakim to a higher legal standard than that of the opposing counsel in the case as a guise for sanctioning al-Hakim for it. al-Hakim is convinced and Freedman’s three years of delay demonstrate that he will not seriously review nor is he capable of impartially or fairly judging this matter, even for review.
Russo’s Interest in Real Estate Firm
Is there any truth to the allegation that Russo has an interest in a real estate firm? It is widely acknowledged that the Gang Injunctions are nothing but another tool for developers to continue exercising gentrification of the Black/Latino Communities unopposed because of the apathy and lack of leadership in defending their rights from the so-called leaders! Where are the national groups that alleges to stand for Civil Rights when the minority communities are being raped and “Okey Doaked” by the “white liberal” defenders of the public trust?
The Merits of The Gang Injunction
The University of California, Berkeley – School of Law’s Center for Criminal Justice cites nationwide statistics that overwhelming prove Gang Injunctions are ineffective in all jurisdictions.
The following are but a few reasons cited by the legal community on why Russo’s proposed injunction should not be granted:
· At a time when California’s budget is in a record crisis, does Oakland have resources to waste on an injunction that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to enforce yet will not bring about positive crime reduction results?
· The injunction would increase the distance between police and communities, does not focus on rehabilitation, reasons why youth join gangs, jobs or education which youth of our state so desperately need. Study after study has shown that rehabilitation is over ninety percent effective for this age group.
· A federal judge who is monitoring Oakland police reforms heavily criticized the police department at a hearing and <a href=”http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_16105984?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com“>threatened to take it over, the Tribune reported. Judge Thelton Henderson, who is monitoring the OPD because of the Riders scandal, threatened to put the department in “receivership.” If that were to happen, the judge would appoint an overseer who would have power over Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts. The judge is upset that the Oakland Police Department has still not instituted the police misconduct reforms that it agreed to several years ago. A Legal Settlement is a contract – breach of which by OPD opens the city up to even more money damages.
· In light of the above, if Russo has his way, the police will undeservedly regain power; usurping Federal power, creating a “Fiefdom” for Russo. A failed police department does not deserve to continue down a path of destruction – that is why the Federal Government stepped in to begin with. If the Rider’s Settlement is not given effect – the entire trial was for naught -yet another waste of taxpayer dollars.
· The named defendants in the injunction are guilty until proven innocent. This turns the US Constitution upside down. An injunction is simply not necessary because Police need only a reasonable suspicion to stop and frisk a suspect – not the higher level of probable cause. Reasonable suspicion and closer ties to the community is what is needed to bring about crime reduction and community building. An injunction is lazy police work; overkill – unnecessary and has a counter-effective result by tearing down the very community it is supposedly there to clean up.
· The injunction will not result in safer streets but creates unfettered power in John Russo’s office. Further, an injunction opens the communities up to profit mongers such as real estate developers like John Russo’s family business owners. At a time when Oaklanders are losing their homes to foreclosure at record numbers, their interests rather than big business should be put first.
D. A. & Oakland City Attorney Fraud Victim Forcibly Removed from Courthouse Building Threatened With Arrest
The following letter is from Alameda County District Attorney and Oakland City Attorney fraud victim Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim to an over 40 year personal friend and family client, the Honorable Judge Leo Dorado regarding an encounter with District Attorney henchman Bob Connor whom forcibly removed al-Hakim from the Rene Davidson Courthouse building and threatened to arrest al-Hakim if he ever returned. Connor is very well known to both parties.
al-Hakim has filed a formal complaint against the Alameda County District Attorney office and the City Attorney’s John Russo of Oakland and Jayne Williams of San Leandro and their City Attorney’s office administrations including the law firm of Meyers Nave, on June 7, 2010. After several conversations with the Alameda County District Attorney office, District Attorney Nancy O’Malley assigned the case to Assistant District Attorney Kevin Dunleavy. After his review and several more conversations with al-Hakim, Dunleavy decided to assign the case for investigation. You can read more on the filing of the complaint and the District Attorney Investigates City Attorneys John Russo, Jayne Williams, Meyers Nave Corruption Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/sjgi7ynhgh
al-Hakim also filed the complaint with Oakland City Auditor Courtney Rudy, long rumored to be Russo’s love interest, only to have her refuse to investigate the complaint, though she is compelled to do so by the passing of Russo’s “Oakland ROAR” anti-corruption program. The program was alleged to revive the confidence of the citizens of Oakland in the City Administrators. She received the 200 page complaint with audio CD as witnessed by the voice mail message left for al-Hakim by her assistant Joe Macaluso. You can view, listen to, and/or download the letters to Ruby and Macaluso’s voice mail here:
City Auditor Courtney Ruby Responds to Russo Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/pdi4kxel16
City Auditor Courtney Ruby’s Second Respond Russo Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/5a5ndkbmrb
Macaluso’s voice mail
http://www.box.net/shared/99x0fxv996
Download now or listen on posterous
10.mp3 (55 KB)
al-Hakim will petition President Obama and U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder to expand the initial investigation of a complaint filed in 2005 by demanding a change in this criminal, tactical policy of isolation, victimization, criminalization and the attempted entrapment of the victim, including the use of government initiated, Nixon era “White House Plumbers” and CoIntelpro style dirty tricks! This civil conspiracy has brought into play County and Sate Agencies to further it’s continued investigation of al-Hakim whom the defense admitted in 1998 has been surveilled for years and continues today with the compromising of many agents and informants covers due to their sloppiness. These actions of Dunleavy, and Connor are just the latest example of the continuing efforts of law enforcement to silence and eliminate al-Hakim as their adversary when he has caught and exposed them as they have been entrapped in their own crimes!
After the encounter with Connor, al-Hakim spoke with District Attorney Matt Golde and Dorado regarding his treatment and called O’Malley to voice his extreme concern wherein he received a return call from Dunleavy. The recorded conversation with Dunleavy regarding the encounter with Connor and the investigation can be listened to and/or downloaded at:
Kevin_Dunleavy_Removed_from_DA_Office_11-22-10.mp3 (1422 KB)
Here’s Dunleavy’s second call stating the he will speak with the Department of Child Support Services attorney that had to admit in court several times that they and the D. A.’s office had committed fraud, embezzlement, and theft against al-Hakim and his family. When al-Hakim refused to pay for the D. A.’s fraud, they attempted to extort the money from him by suspending his drivers license and revoking his passport!
Kevin_Dunleavy_2_cal_Harvey,_I_wont_interact11-24-10.mp3 (349 KB)
After no response from the D. A.’s office, the following letter of today ensued.
TO: The Honorable Leo Dorado FAX #: 510 891-6336
Judge of Superior Court NO PAGES: 2
1221 Fallon St., Department #5
cc: Matt Golde (510) 667-3146, Ivan Golde (510) 444-1369
FROM: Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim
RE: District Attorney Forcibly Removing Me from Courthouse Building, Threatened with Arrest if Returned and Response to Formal Complaint Served and Filed June 7, 2010
Dear Judge Dorado,
First, let me say “Happy Holidays” to you and the family! I know that everyone must be doing great, and since the kids are not getting any younger, I guess you and I can not be 21 any longer! What’s this I hear about you having hip replacement and moving to Juvenile Court? We have some catching up to do, which was part of the reason I was coming to see you when I was removed from the courthouse building!
I have awaited your response to our last conversation and the results of your inquiry into the District Attorney’s actions wherein hopefully we could meeting to discuss the above very serious concerns.
It is unfathomable that such a thing could happen in today’s highly charged racial, political, and law enforcement versus community interactive environment, especially in Oakland and Alameda County where deadly force seems to be the rule rather than the exception. We have also discussed my previous interaction with officer Bob Connor during my Oakland Police Burglary case which you are aware of and know that he is not someone I trust or would interact with in any manner. He clearly tried to put me in harms way where I could/would have been killed! I made it clear then that I never intended to speak or have any contact with him ever again in life.
To allow the D. A.‘s office to handle me and my complaint in such a Gestapo fashion and to use you as a ruse is unacceptable, needs to be investigated, the responsible parties held accountable and punished. I have yet to receive any response from Nancy O’Malley. Clearly something must be done as I have waited for you to get back to me to move this process forward. There is no circumstance or law that can justify this use of force, intimidation, and threat of imprisonment under the guise and color of law!. You know that I will not allow this continuing injustice to go on unnoticed so, what time is best for you since I want to meet as soon as possible!
We are all very busy, and especially this time of year, but I have been speaking to the D. A.’s office about this matter since June of this year with the above results. The matter of the fraud and corruption committed by the District Attorney and Oakland City Attorney and I are not going to magically disappear so let’s address it and move on.
I have litigation that was to be filed in November the day of my being forcibly removed from the court house and threatened with arrest if I returned. I was unable to complete that filing, wherein the D. A.’s office has compromised these suits and this issue also must be corrected ASAP!
Please respond with a time ASAP and I will accommodate that time and it can be after working hours or the weekend, if it’s best for you. We have some catching up to do anyway.
Thank you and I welcome and look forward to your immediate response with the furthering of the litigation and resolution of this ongoing case.
al-Hakim has over 70,000 signatures and implores everyone to click on any one of the links and sign the Petition To The Honorables President Barack Obama and United States Attorney General Eric Holder to raise it’s investigation of corruption involving Attorney General Jerry Brown, Oakland City Attorney John Russo, former Oakland and current San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams, former District Attorney Tom Orloff, and current District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley.
You can view, listen to, and/or download the following related documents or audio files:
Judge Dorado Responds to D. A.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/4ai0vr2s5j
City Administrator Dan Lindhiem Respond Russo Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/yfyvhaug0l’
City Administrator Dan Lindhiem Post Russo Complaint Meeting.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/6gj1ae9pa4
D. A. O’Malley Responds to Russo Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/pdquncg8x6
County Presiding Judge Rolfenson Responds to Russo Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/n8xxh4a93e
County Presiding Judge Rolfenson Discards Formal Complaint- Maggie Takeda Voice mail
MaggieTakedaReCall8-24-10-3-54.mp3 (328 KB)
County Presiding Judge Rolfenson Receives Formal Complaint Maggie Takeda email
http://www.box.net/shared/2fqsl69z79
al-Hakim’s Notice to Russo of Action.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/lnvn6kn92k
Russo Responds to Formal Complaint.pdf
http://www.box.net/shared/dz72had
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Occupy Oakland; Free Tickets to: Goapele; Omar Sosa; Average White Band; Tank; David Grisman Quintet; Rachelle Ferrell; Hot 8 Brass Band; Fela!; Amiri Baraka, and Ishmael Reed Band; The Velveteen Rabbit; Colors of Christmas; Business Strategic Plan; YOUR Free Food Program; Entertainment Jobs Nov-Dec. 2011
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Television / feature film production company is seeking a Creative Executive. Must have one to two years’ experience in TV. Responsibilities include script coverage, compiling writer/director/actor lists, research and writing detailed notes. Must be familiar with TV writers and showrunners and the general TV development landscape. Executive will be expected to bring in projects and work across both TV (scripted and reality) and Features. Will also assist two senior development executives with some administrative tasks (scheduling/research) when necessary. Send cover letter and resume totvfilmexecjob@gmail.com
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Free Tickets to Great Shows! Ise Lyfe; Omar Sosa; Average White Band; Tank; David Grisman Quintet; Leela James; Rachelle Ferrell; Hot 8 Brass Band; Fela!, Produced by Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith; Amiri Baraka, Roscoe Mitchell and Ishmael Reed
Ise Lyfe, Thurs., 11/3 @8 pm, Yoshi’s- Oakland, 510 Embarcadero W, Oakland Ca 94607;
Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet, Fri. and Sat., November 4-5, 2011, 10:00 pm, Yoshi’s- Oakland, 510 Embarcadero W, Oakland Ca 94607;
Leela James, Sat & Sun., 10/28-29 @10 pm, Yoshi’s- San Francisco,1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco;
Average White Band (AWB) Wen., 11/9 @10 pm, Yoshi’s- Oakland, 510 Embarcadero W, Oakland Ca 94607;
Rachelle Ferrell, Sun. 11/6 @7pm, The Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102;
Hot 8 Brass Band, Mon. 11/7 @8 pm, ,Yoshi’s- San Francisco,1330 Fillmore Street, San Francisco;
Fela!, Produced by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, 11/15 – 12/11 @8pm, Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94102 The tickets will be awarded via our Text, Twitter or website, so DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, and if you haven’t already, you should join us on:
Ise Lyfe
Hometown spoken word and hip-hop artist One night only – Live Band
“Yes No Maybe” by: Ise Lyfe
One of the nation’s greatest young performers and writers performing live at the legendary Yoshi’s Jazz Club. Paying homage and adding his twist to the classic and powerful music of Fela Kuti, Nina Simone, Gil Scott Heron, Tupac Shakur, and Billie Holiday.
“Essentially, these five artist best represent the core of my artistic inspiration and embody a standard of both content and skill that I am always aspiring for. I’m excited to be performing back in myhometown at such a great venue to honor these giants.”
– Ise Lyfe
Recently appointed Commissioner of Arts and Cultural Affairs in his hometown of Oakland, CA, Ise Lyfe is one of the nation’s premier Spoken Word Artist and Emcee’s. His 2006 debut album, ”spreadtheWord” allowed him to mettle with a national audience, and the release of his second LP, “Prince Cometh” received rave reviews from critics and fans alike. Unaffected by the sophomore jinx theory, it’s safe to say the response across the board was nearly 100% positive…
Ise first gained national recognition competing in national poetry slam competitions in his late teens. In 2001 he won the National Poetry Slam Competition, skyrocketing his popularity amongst the ever growing Spoken Word/Hip-Hop Theatre audience. He has been featured on Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on HBO. He has also shared the stage with Gil Scott-Heron, Dave Chappelle, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, E-40, Harry Belafonte, Mos Def, Malcolm Jamaal Werner, KRS-One, Martin Luther, Saul Williams, Ben Harper, Erykah Badu, Zion I, and The Coup to name a few.
However, Ise Lyfe is simply different than anyone else in his genre or league of peers. Period.
Just in his twenties with nearly ten years of national and international stage performing and recording experience, he transcends the common narrative on and off stage. An award winning poet, emcee, performer, and educator, this young man is sure to be the impact we all speak of wanting, but rarely see realized….
Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet
Friday, November 4, 2011 and
Omar Sosa Quartet
Five-time GRAMMY-nominated composer and pianist Omar Sosa returns to Yoshi’s Oakland with his regular rhythm section of Childo Tomas from Mozambique on electric bass, and Marque Gilmore, now from Stockholm, on drums and electronics, plus special guest saxophone and flute player from Cuba, Leandro Saint-Hill. Leandro was part of the groundbreaking recording sessions at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City in 2008 that resulted in two GRAMMY nominations for Omar’s genre-bending CD release, Across The Divide.
At Yoshi’s Oakland, Omar will be featuring new material from his current recording-in-progress, entitled Afri-Lectric. This CD project is loosely inspired by the music of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue recording, and evolved from a commission Omar received from the Barcelona Jazz Festival to prepare a tribute to the famous CD on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
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Taxon: Crataegus punctata Jacq.
Amygdaloideae
Maleae
Malinae
Hort. bot. vindob. 1:10, t. 28. 1770
6 (4 active, 3 available) in National Plant Germplasm System (Map)
Autonyms (not in current use) and synonyms:
(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym)
(=) Crataegus punctata var. aurea Aiton
(-) Crataegus punctata var. punctata Jacq.
dotted hawthorn (Source: BSBI) - English
dottedthorn (Source: F WVa) - English
hillside hawthorn (Source: F GPlains) - English
white hawthorn (Source: F Penn) - English
prickhagtorn (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Ontario]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina (w. & c.), South Carolina (w.), Tennessee, Virginia]
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) URL: www.skud.info
Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1972. Woody plants of Maryland
Browne, E. T. & R. Athey. 1992. Vascular plants of Kentucky: an annotated checklist
Chester, E. W. et al. 1993-1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:175.
Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana.
Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa
Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541
Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. Note: reduces Crataegus collina Chapm. to synonymy under C. punctata
Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants
Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois.
Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas
Phipps, J. B & M. Muniyamma. 1980. A taxonomic revision of Crataegus (Rosaceae) in Ontario. Canad. J. Bot. 58:1651.
Phipps, J. B. et al. 1990. A checklist of the subfamily Maloideae (Rosaceae). Canad. J. Bot. 68:2224.
Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
Rhoads, A. F. & T. A. Block. 2000. The plants of Pennsylvannia. An illustrated manual
Scoggan, H. J. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. 1978. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2.
Voss, E. 1972-. Michigan flora.
Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Dicots&FamilyID=Rosaceae&GenusID=Crataegus&SpeciesID=punctata target='_blank'
2018. Oklahoma vascular plant database
Check other web resources for Crataegus punctata Jacq. :
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Crataegus punctata cultivars
Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?100506. Accessed 17 January 2020.
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Xi Jinping to visit Myanmar – for the first time in 19 years
FAO is to hold a seminar in Ashgabat on raising funds from the Green Climate Fund
The international conference devoted to the neutrality of Turkmenistan will be held In Kabul
The European Union will continue its strategic cooperation with Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan intensifies work in the field of human rights protection in 2020
Ashgabat Decor Studio offers a master class for adults and children
The Health for All: the WHO Global Film Festival
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser expressed hope for armistice
Georgian company delivered large-capacity cargo via the Caspian sea to Garabogaz
Japanese experts will conduct business consulting at a GTL plant in Akhal
US Department of Agriculture: in Central Asia, a boom in domestic consumption of cotton
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Energy and synergy: a young Turkmen singer – about his vision of the path to success
GlobalFest in New York appreciates Iranian musician
Animation classics in a concert version of the string orchestra
The Beatles – on the Ashgabat stage
Turkmenistan wrestler – bronze medalist of international tournament in Turkey
Ashgabat to host bowling competitions among foreigners
IOC has made a decision to hold the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in South Korea
Media accreditation to the Asian Futsal Championship opened
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Turkmen environmental activists to meet with Georgian colleagues
Create your campus of the future: participate in the UN competition
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ORIENT Website now has a VR Code: towards Comprehensive Digitalization
Progress affects all aspects of our lives and lately there has been so much talk about the need for speedy digitalization of not only the economy, but also all areas of human activity.
But what is hidden behind the word “digitalization”? In simple terms, this is the development of the field of information and communication technologies, which includes television, the Internet, the IT sector, software, this is an economy that is fully integrated with digital technologies, these are services that are completely “tied” to the Internet. All that modern man cannot do without.
New technologies are rapidly spreading in most countries of the world, and Turkmenistan was no exception. In recent years, the country has seen rapid growth in the digitalization of the economy, mainly in areas such as electronic commerce, financial technology, and manufacturing. Elements of the digital economy are increasingly present in every person’s daily lives.
Only some 45 years ago (and by historical standards this period is very short), the first purchase was made using the barcode applied to the packaging of the goods. But pretty soon, the amount of information that this code is capable of containing has ceased to satisfy humanity and already in 1994 the Japanese company Denso-Wave introduced a QR code (from the English Quick Response Code) that quickly gained popularity around the world and became widely used in all countries without exception. In addition to trade, the QR code, in particular, has become indispensable in the field of tourism and museum business.
But progress cannot be stopped, and in 2010 the Chinese company VR Code Technology officially introduced the first VR code. The two letters of the abbreviation stands for Visual Recognition, i.e. a completely new code is called the “Visual Recognition Code”. Compared to the QR code, the VR code holds a huge amount of information, becoming indispensable in areas such as exhibitions, trademark promotion, advertising, tourism, product certification, medicine, agriculture, the media and many others.
The new VR code is perfectly recognized by eye, which is reflected in its name and is many times faster scanned by special devices.
To date, the developer of this innovation owns 199 patents related to the invention of VR-code. The new code is already used by millions of individuals, more than eighty thousand enterprises in many countries, among which there are world-famous companies. The IX BRICS Summit, held in China, made full use of VR code technology in its work.
And therefore, we are especially pleased that one of the first companies in Turkmenistan, which was assigned its own VR code, was the ORIENT website of Media-Turkmen news agency.
The new code has already been posted on the main page of the site and with its help you can quickly and easily install the mobile version of the ORIENT.TM application on your smartphone or tablet and always stay up to date with the latest events in Turkmenistan and around the world.
You should not waste time downloading bulky news sites, because the ORIENT.TM application is the shortest way to the latest and most up-to-date information.
Viktor KARDASHOV
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The most popular technologies of the past year
ORIENT presents a selection of the most popular innovative technologies of
Georgian company delivered large-capacity cargo via the Caspian sea to Garabogaz 18.01.2020
Japanese experts will conduct business consulting at a GTL plant in Akhal 17.01.2020
US Department of Agriculture: in Central Asia, a boom in domestic consumption of cotton 17.01.2020
Turkmenistan intensifies work in the field of human rights protection in 2020 17.01.2020
Xi Jinping to visit Myanmar – for the first time in 19 years 17.01.2020
Medicinal plants – in the medical science of Turkmenistan 17.01.2020
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GlobalFest in New York appreciates Iranian musician 17.01.2020
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The Health for All: the WHO Global Film Festival 16.01.2020
Italy will provide a loan to Afghanistan for the railway construction 16.01.2020
Berkarar ferry marks the fifth anniversary of its first voyage to Azerbaijan 16.01.2020
Pakistan: no delay in TAPI gas pipeline project realization 16.01.2020
Hamdullah Mohib, Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser expressed hope for armistice 16.01.2020
American political scientist stresses the unprecedented regional consensus behind behind Afghan peace push 16.01.2020
Afghanistan AIMAG-2017 Asian Games Berdimuhamedov Caspian region Caspian Sea Central Asia China CIS concert culture ecology Economy Energy EU Europe Events Exhibition export festival football forum Gas Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Iran Kazakhstan New Year oil President President of Turkmenistan project Rally Russia Russian Federation Silk Road Society sport TAPI Technology Turkey UN USA Uzbekistan Weightlifting World Cup
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A Moment of Grace: Will Two New Cardinals Rise to Support the Dubia?
Maike Hickson September 8, 2017 70 Comments
The death of Carlo Caffarra, the beloved dubia Cardinal, has left an additional empty place in the group of the original four who presented their concerns to the pope concerning Amoris Laetitia. So much so, in fact, that one of the pro-papal apologists, Dr. Austen Ivereigh, even put on Twitter this somewhat breezy comment: “Only two of the four dubia cardinals alive.” (I will leave out here Dr. Ivereigh’s more explicitly demeaning comment about Cardinal Caffarra himself on the very day of his death.)
One could well imagine (but I do not claim any intimate knowledge here) that these two deaths might have left Cardinals Raymond L. Burke and Walter Brandmüller so discouraged that they doubt whether they would even be able to proceed with the final step of their promised public procedure – namely, the fraternal, public correction of Pope Francis – perhaps along with asking him to make an explicit Papal Profession of Faith. However, this moment of understandable discouragement could actually turn out to be a moment of Grace.
Let us now remember, for example, St. Joan of Arc. When, during the military battles for the political freedom of France, she thought that she was losing her battle, something happened that almost miraculously turned things around. Therefore, she has been for me, for quite a while now, an inspiration. As I wrote in May of 2016 about St. Joan of Arc:
She is our saint. She will help us continue this combat against the siege and occupation of Rome and against this seeming occupation of the Seat of Peter itself by a man who now even seems to contradict God’s Laws. Saint Joan will give us the spirit to try the impossible, to be forceful and strong when God’s truth is undermined, and, yet, to keep true charity. She will give us the strength to fight when all seems to be against us, when the Powers That Be seem to have all that they need to accomplish their maneuvers. She will teach us that he will finally win who is with God, and not against Him. She will teach us that the saints are with us, and, most of all, the Heavenly Mother.
So, if now the four dubia Cardinals seemingly are losing their own battle, if they are deeply discouraged and disheartened by the loss of two of their comrades-in-arms, what if God were to send them two new comrades? What if that painful event of the loss of two devout and loyal cardinals now unexpectedly inspired others to follow in their footsteps?
Not long ago, after Cardinal Joachim Meisner had died, we published our story about the (now widely-contested) “Müller Conversation in Mainz” concerning word we had received that Müller was dismissed for resisting the ongoing papal agenda of reform. Following this article, I wrote Cardinal Gerhard Müller a personal note. In this personal note, I told him that additional sources who claimed knowledge of the events described in our story had come to our attention, sources who were almost immediately hindered by a lawsuit meant to intimidate and to silence them. (Just this week, another person, Thomas Shirrmacher, a Protestant philosopher and theologian who knows Francis well, said that he believes Müller was dismissed in large part because of his public opposition to female deacons – one of the key points of contention mentioned in our story.) I also said that we trusted that the fuller truth would come out at some point in the near future. (There is more to say about this story, but not now.) And then I said:
We can assure you that we only wish to know the truth. The only reason why we published the now quite contested story was that we considered these “five points” of your dismissal [by Pope Francis] as being so important for the whole Church. Should there be truth in these five points [to include the ordination of female priests] – in whatever concrete context they then appeared – whether during the last audience or at another time – then you yourself would be duty-bound to inform the whole Catholic world about it and to warn us about it. Female priests and married priests mean a protestantization of the Catholic Church.
After asking Cardinal Müller whether he should not also tell Catholics that Amoris Laetitia does indeed contain statements – such as the novel claim that, sometimes for the good of the children, intimate relations (more uxorio) might have to be allowed and maintained, even though the couple is “remarried” and divorced; or that “no one is condemned forever” – that are also heretical and thus detrimental to the salvation of souls, I came to a concluding invitation to Cardinal Müller:
Therefore, I call upon you – in honor of Cardinal Meisner – clearly to assist the three dubia cardinals and to request from Pope Francis to clarify the dubia, and, yes, to sign the dubia yourself.
I never received a reply from Cardinal Müller or his secretary concerning this personal request, although I had received correspondence and even telephone calls from them on more than one occasion in the past.
But perhaps others will be more successful in this matter. For example, I recently felt inspired to see that Professor Ettore Gotti Tedeschi – the former President of the Vatican Bank and an eloquent defender of Catholic truth – just gave a small interview (concerning the sudden death of Cardinal Caffarra) in which he seems to go into that same direction, even though he did not mention, much less propose, any specific names. Here is the important portion – to include some beautiful words about Cardinal Caffarra himself – of that 6 September Italian report, as it was translated by OnePeterFive‘s generous contributor, Mr. Andrew Guernsey:
[Question:] Do you have a personal memory to tell about Cardinal Caffarra?
[Ettore Gotti Tedeschi:] “I have more than one, but many are private and I do not have the right to share them. I will try to remember something about him that honors his memory, without any indiscretions. Caffarra was appointed at the end of 2003 to replace the great Cardinal Biffi. A few months after Biffi’s retirement, in his hermitage above Bologna, I went to see him [Biffi] with my wife and two daughters. We stayed with him for almost three hours, and asked him what he thought of his successor. He told me not only that he himself had named him, but also that no one could be better or more appropriate than Caffarra to lead the Diocese of Bologna. He also told me that he wanted to abstain from any kind of presence in Bologna in order to avoid the risk of misunderstandings of interfering with a person of whom he had absolute esteem and consideration. Since then, I have encountered Cardinal Caffarra several times after the publication of the dubia, [and] the only sentiment that I can make public was his enormous suffering, his love of the Church and the figure of the Pope. Caffarra was a holy man, when he talked about serious things, which made him suffer, he talked about them as someone who has confidence in God, who speaks to God, and above all, listens to him. I do not want to say more.”
[Question:] He [Caffarra] had signed the dubia precisely about Amoris Laetitia. He dies after [Cardinal] Meisner, who was also a signatory to the letter to the Pope. But does the Church, which asks for greater clarity about the Apostolic Exhortation, remain alive?
“In this sense and in this regard, Cardinal Caffarra will remain an example of ‘priestly responsibility,’ an example of virtue worthy of a possible process of future beatification. But I can answer a “trick” question. Now, as I see it, Cardinals Burke and Brandmüller ought to devote more efforts, with superior commitment, to Meisner and Caffarra’s memory. And I hope that two other well-known holy Cardinals (living and working) are available to make up for the work of the two deceased cardinals, replacing them with the commitment to ask for clarity for the good of souls. But now I would like to ask IntelligoNews readers to remember Caffarra with a Requiem. Needless to say, he will protect us from where he is, as he did until yesterday here on earth.” [emphasis added]
Here, Professor Gotti Tedeschi may be suggesting that he has two specific cardinals in mind who, in his opinion, should now fill the empty lots of Cardinals Joachim Meisner and Carlo Caffarra. However, he does not specifically name these names. It is interesting to note, in this context, that Gotti Tedeschi will soon, on 14 September, participate at a Summorum Pontificum conference in Rome with exactly those same two cardinals whom I have had in mind: Cardinals Robert Sarah and Gerhard Müller. Is it hoping for too much that he might now use this occasion to ask them whether they would not actually do that: join ranks with the now possibly discouraged, remaining two dubia cardinals, and to do it especially for the sake of Catholic truth and for the salvation of souls?
What do these cardinals still have to fear if, at this point, nearly everything seems to be lost? When those who try to uphold the traditional moral teaching of the Catholic Church – not only about marriage, but also about contraception, homosexuality, abortion and much more, as Professor Josef Seifert has just pointed out – are being increasingly punished and humiliated? For what are we still truly waiting? Until no one is left to come forth and speak up?
Therefore, I ask our dear readers to send many prayers to heaven that God may inspire two cardinals – whoever they be – to give new courage to the faithful Catholic world and especially to the two remaining dubia cardinals, so that finally a public fraternal correction of Pope Francis may take place, for his own greater good, and the good of the Catholic Church.
Our Catholic Faith is filled with miracles and great surprises. Let us just think of Lepanto in 1571! Let us not forget the 1920 Miracle of the Vistula! Our Lady surely will help us in this moment of distress. And St. Joan of Arc, too.
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Many snappy returns
Jesse Fanciulli
The math game and sexy “nightie thing” would have been great Christmas presents for a kid who can’t multiply or a wife who prefers garter belts to flannel.
But they weren’t good gifts for Greeley resident Daniel Cardenas, who knows what six times eight equals, and Brush resident Brenda Patten, who rebuffed her husband’s pleas to model the lingerie.
Daniel and Patten were among hordes of shoppers who spent Friday buying discounted holiday merchandise and returning gifts.
By midmorning, the clothes that didn’t fit, boring toys and home decor of the Chia Pet breed were piling up in return bins. Daniel’s Twist and Shout multiplication game and Patten’s black lace teddy were among the rejects.
“I didn’t need it because I know my math,” said Daniel, 14, who wasn’t sure whether his godfather or grandmother gave him the battery-operated multiplication tutor. “This is the lamest present ever.”
Whoever was responsible might find some solace in the fact Daniel had to calculate how many miniature cars he could buy with the $17 he got for returning his educational game at Target.
At the Greeley Mall, Patten, a 32-year-old Realtor, stood in line at Victoria’s Secret to exchange her present.
“It is one of those really sexy nightie things, and I’m kind of conservative so I’m taking it back,” Patten said.
But for all the rejected gifts, there were many questionable presents that stayed with their intended owners.
Consider the half-dozen Christmas vacuum cleaners that Sears electronics salesman Pat Malone sold to romantically challenged husbands and boyfriends.
No one returned a vacuum-cleaner as of 11 a.m., Malone said.
People who got engagement rings for Christmas also seemed glad to keep them: Nolan’s and Gordon’s jewelers reported no returns.
Renee Block, a saleswoman at Gordon’s, said she’s seen a couple unlucky chaps return diamond rings in the past six years.
She remembers helping one particularly stoic customer.
“He took it pretty well,” Block said. “He wasn’t crying or anything.”
Patten’s husband didn’t cry, either. But he wasn’t happy his wife didn’t like her Christmas present as much as he did.
“He kept saying, ‘Well can’t you just wear it once?'” Patten said. “He was very disappointed.”
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Weld has new alert system
Early in the morning on July 3, a rural Evans woman came home to discover her 5-year-old son was gone. She hurriedly called 911 for help.
Her call prompted the first use of the new Weld County Reverse 911 System; the message of the missing boy was sent to 747 residents in the area over phone lines in just 90 seconds. Although the incident tuned out to be a nonemergency – the boy just accompanied his father to work that morning – law officers found it was a good test for the new reverse 911 system.
The first many people heard of reverse 911 was probably last summer when huge forest fires closed in around mountain homes west of Denver. The reverse 911 automatically called thousands of residents in the area and told them they had to leave. It undoubtedly saved lives.
Weld County now has that ability. The software has been installed in the dispatchers’ computer systems, and 80 percent to 90 percent of Weld County residents are now within reach of the new system.
It can be used to warn people about hostage situations, tornadoes, missing children, SWAT activity, hazardous material warnings and many incidents that can help the public or get help from the public, Weld County commissioner Dave Long said.The system can contact thousands of residents, through their home phones, within minutes.
According to Long, the 911 Emergency Board in the county started looking at the benefits of a reverse 911 system months ago.
It costs Weld County $4,000 per month for a company called Intrado to operate the system. If a reverse call-up is initiated, it costs the local agency about 23 cents per 30-second call. One thousand calls to warn people of a tornado warning would then cost the agency $230. Weld County would bill specific police agencies that request the reverse calls.
The fees for operating the system are paid through a 50-cent-per month fee already added to local residents’ phone bills, according to the 911 board president, Greeley Police Capt. Mike Savage. He said that 50-cent charge was initiated years ago, when the county launched the original 911 system.
Long was also quick to point out that the reverse 911 system can only be launched by law enforcement, emergency services or Weld County Dispatch. “The public can’t directly launch a reverse 911 system,” Long said. “That has to be done by those in charge of the emergency.”
Greeley police spokesman Sgt. John Gates said the system can be customized to reach a specific area of land phones. It won’t work on cell phones or pagers. And it won’t work if the resident’s phone blocks calls. But it will warn people with unlisted numbers, even those who have enrolled on the Colorado No-Call List.
Specific houses also can be deleted from the calling list. “If we have a hostage situation and we feel we need to warn or evacuate the neighbors, the system can alert all those neighbors, but not call the house where the hostage is being held,” Gates explained.
Although the system already has passed a test with the calls of the missing boy last week, a more formal test will be launched at the end of July or in early August. A simulated emergency will show how well the test works or if there are problems.
Training for dispatchers and other people to operate the system will continue next week. By the end of the month, most of the necessary employees will be able to work the system within minutes.
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"Haywood, Harry"
"Japan"
International affairs 1
Bassett, Theodore 1
Berry, A. W. 1
Ford, James W. 1
Harlem Section of the Communist Party 1
Workers Library Publishers, Inc. 1
Is Japan the Champion of the Colored Races?
Workers Library Publishers, Inc., American, founded 1930
Bassett, Theodore
Berry, A. W.
Briggs, Cyril, Nevisian, 1888 - 1966
Ford, James W., American, 1893 - 1957
Haywood, Harry, American, 1898 - 1985
Harlem Section of the Communist Party, American
H x W: 7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in. (19.5 x 13 cm)
Memorabilia and Ephemera-Political and Activist Ephemera
Japan, Asia
China, Asia
Rome, Italy, Europe
Berlin, Germany, Europe
A pamphlet produced by members of the Harlem Communist Party. The pamphlet is black print on yellowed paper. The front cover features the title: [Is / Japan / the / Champion / of the / Colored / Races?] and a drawing of a military aircraft dropping bombs. The bottom has a black border that contains the text: [The Negro's Stake in Democracy / 5¢ / Issued By The Negro Commission National Committee C.P. U.S.A.] The interior has eight articles totaling forty-seven pages. The back cover is an advertisement for the book [Negro Liberation].
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the family of Dr. Maurice Jackson and Laura Ginsburg
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Washington (D. C.) 1
Bonds, Antonia 1
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Carla Brown 1
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Graham Family 1
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Jordan, Pia 1
Kelly Family 1
Kittrell, Marco 1
Lathan, Zora 1
LeBouef, Clayton 1
Mangum, Lateef 1
McQueen, Nicolle 1
Great Migration Home Movie Study Collection
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WHUT Howard University Television
Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)
Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of District of Columbia
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The Great Migration is a unique, ongoing digitization service program that partners the National Museum of African American History and Culture with individuals and organizations across the United States to preserve their important analog audiovisual media. While major motion picture film and television historically lacked diverse representation, black history was instinctively being preserved in everyday home movies. Today, these personal narratives serve as an invaluable tool for understanding and re-framing black moving image history, and provide a much needed visualization of African American history and culture.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Supported by the Robert Frederick Smith Fund of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Collection is available online for open research.
The collection contains 39 digitized home movies, 41 digitized home videos, and 2 digitized audiotape recordings. However, as an ongoing project the scope of the collection will continue to increase over time. The scope will be updated as is appropriate.
The content of the collection consists predominantly of amateur recordings created by families to document their lives. This includes major life events, such as birthdays, as well as family vacations and holidays. Additionally, the collection includes footage produced by professionals for broadcast on television. This particular footage entered the collection through partnerships with other memory institutions.
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Amateur films
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Rockies grab final game in San Diego series
Posted Aug 12, 2019 1:55 PM
SAN DIEGO (AP) — It has been a while since the Colorado Rockies played a game like this one.
Yonder Alonso hit his 100th career homer during Colorado's four-run sixth inning and German Márquez pitched eight strong innings for the Rockies, who beat the San Diego Padres 8-3 Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak.
The Rockies won for just the seventh time in 26 games. They are 13-31 since June 21.
"That's how you win. You get good starting pitching and timely hitting," manager Bud Black said. "That's what happened today. Obviously, the goal is to make that happen tomorrow; good pitching and timely hitting, and we just haven't had that for the greater part of a month."
Márquez (11-5) gave up three runs and five hits, struck out nine and walked two. He also hit an RBI single in the sixth and had two sacrifice bunts.
"I thought German was outstanding," Black said. "Again, he found his breaking ball. I thought in the middle innings, about the fourth, fifth, sixth, really, really good breaking ball. They were swinging at the ball down below the zone, so that was telling me that out of the hand it was looking like a strike and it was diving down below the zone."
Márquez said his mindset was "to keep the ball down and go as far as I can."
The right-hander improved to 3-0 against San Diego this season and 7-3 on the road overall.
"He's especially tough away from Coors Field," Padres manager Andy Green said. "It's a four-pitch mix. He was comfortable today on the mound. He threw the ball well for them. We took some good swings off of him early and it took us a while to finally mount some decent at-bats later in the game."
Francisco Mejía homered in the second and rookie Josh Naylor connected in the third to give the Padres a 2-0 lead that Alonso erased in the sixth.
Alonso, the brother-in-law of Padres slugger Manny Machado, homered to right with Charlie Blackmon aboard after a leadoff single. It was Alonso's second tying two-run shot in two games, his 10th homer overall this season and third with the Rockies.
"I'm just happy that we got a win," Alonso said. "A very important win, a win that kind of just cuts off that slide. Just a great job by Márquez."
Craig Stammen (6-6) then replaced Dinelson Lamet and allowed Ryan McMahon's double and Ian Desmond's go-ahead single. Stammen got two outs before Márquez singled to center to bring in Desmond.
The Rockies added two runs in the ninth off Carl Edwards Jr., who made his Padres debut. Desmond and Tony Wolters hit consecutive RBI singles.
San Diego rookie Fernando Tatis Jr. went 0 for 4 to end his 14-game hitting streak.
Lamet allowed three hits in five-plus innings. He struck out seven and walked three.
Naylor has played well since being recalled from Triple-A on Aug. 1, a day after outfielder Franmil Reyes was traded to Cleveland in a three-team deal.
"Seeing pitching every day, you get in a groove and you see the baseball more consistently," Naylor said. "You can read depths better, instead of coming off the bench."
Rockies: RHP Peter Lambert (2-3, 6.87 ERA) is scheduled to start Monday night in the opener of a three-game home series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who counter with RHP Merrill Kelly (7-12, 4.52 ERA).
AROUND THE MAJORS SUNDAY
Masahiro Tanaka and Aroldis Chapman combined on a four-hitter, Brett Gardner had an RBI double, and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 Sunday to end a two-game skid.
Tanaka allowed three hits while pitching into the ninth inning, walking none and striking out four. The right-hander was pulled after Brandon Drury singled to begin the ninth. Chapman earned his AL-leading 31st save in 36 opportunities. Toronto's stretch of 15 straight games with a home run ended, as did New York's nine-game streak of multi-homer efforts.
Kevin Pillar hit a tiebreaking triple that scored Evan Longoria with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning, closer Will Smith followed with a two-run single in his first career at-bat and the San Francisco Giants rallied to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-6. Scooter Gennett homered into McCovey Cove and Mike Yastrzemski also went deep to help the Giants take three of four from the Phillies.
Justin Turner hit two of Los Angeles' four homers, and Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched seven scoreless innings of five-hit ball in the surging Dodgers' 9-3 victory over the Diamondbacks. Turner and Cody Bellinger hit back-to-back homers in the first inning as the Dodgers finished 8-2 on a 10-game homestand with yet another dominant performance
Ryan Yarbrough came within an out of his first career shutout, Eric Sogard hit a solo homer and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Seattle Mariners 1-0. Yarbrough retired his final 14 batters and struck out eight while throwing 8 2/3 innings of three-hit ball, but he was replaced after 99 pitches by Emilio Pagan for the final out.
The Atlanta Braves' bullpen overcame the residue of a punctured fire extinguisher, with four relievers combining to pitch three nervous innings and finish off the Miami Marlins 5-4. The win came less than 24 hours after the Braves allowed seven runs in the final three innings of a 7-6 loss.
Asdrubal Cabrera hit a tiebreaking two-run double against his former team and the Nationals bullpen finally locked down a lead in Flushing, lifting Washington over the streaking New York Mets 7-4. Nationals star Juan Soto sprained his ankle on Cabrera's bases-loaded hit in the seventh inning and left the game.
Kris Bryant capped Chicago's four-run seventh with a three-run homer, and the Cubs rallied to beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 on Sunday for a split of their four-game series. Ian Happ added a solo drive in the eighth as the NL Central leaders recovered after falling behind 3-0 in the fifth.
Mike Minor struck out 11 in eight innings, and the Texas Rangers beat Jordan Lyles and the Milwaukee Brewers 1-0 to avoid a series sweep. Minor allowed four hits and walked one. José Leclerc finished the four-hitter for his eighth save, securing Texas' second win in six games.
Hunter Dozier and Jorge Soler each homered twice and the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 10-2 for a split of the four-game series between the worst teams in the AL Central.
Anthony Bemboom hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning after Kole Calhoun's solo homer tied it in the eighth, leading the Los Angeles Angels past the Boston Red Sox 5-4 for a split of their four-game series. Shohei OhtaniNhad three hits with a two-run single for Los Angeles.
Rio Ruiz hit a two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning to carry the Baltimore Orioles past Houston 8-7, ending the Astros' eight-game winning streak in stunning fashion. After Houston scored three runs in the top of the ninth to go up 7-5, the Orioles answered in the bottom half against closer Roberto Osuna. A sacrifice fly by Chris Davis preceded Ruiz's clutch home run.
Chris Bassitt threw seven sharp innings, Matt Olson homered and the Oakland Athletics beat Lucas Giolito and the Chicago White Sox 2-0. Bassitt permitted four hits, struck out seven and walked two. Olson, Robbie Grossman and Chad Pinder had two hits apiece for the Athletics, who are fighting for position in the AL wild-card race.
Carlos Santana hit a grand slam in the 10th inning, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Minnesota Twins 7-3 to win the four-game series and forge another tie for the AL Central lead. Santana also had an RBI single in the third.
Lane Thomas hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning, Paul Goldschmidt and Dexter Fowler also homered, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-9. St. Louis rallied from an 8-4 deficit to sweep the three-game series and move into second place in the NL Central, two games behind the Chicago Cubs.
Chadron State football camp day two video notebook
By: Dave Collins
Eagle Radio Sports Director
Chadron State hit the practice fields on a muggy Saturday morning for day two of fall drills. Check out today's video clip notebook and follow along with me on Twitter for reports, videos, photos and interviews throughout fall camp: @DMCbroadcasting
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Home » Science » Biology » What is the Difference Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
What is the Difference Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
by Lakna
The main difference between biotic potential and reproductive potential is that biotic potential is the maximum reproductive capacity of a population under optimal conditions, whereas reproductive potential is the relative capacity of a population to reproduce itself under optimal conditions. Furthermore, the components of the biotic potential include potential natality, survival potential, nutritive potential, and protective potential. On the other hand, the reproductive potential of a population is a function of biomass, sex ratio, maturity at age, realized fecundity and gamete viability.
In brief, biotic potential and reproductive potential are two measurements used to describe population growth. Further, these two measurements depend on the birthrate and mortality rate.
Key Areas Covered
1. What is Biotic Potential
– Definition, Features, Importance
2. What is Reproductive Potential
3. What are the Similarities Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
– Outline of Common Features
4. What is the Difference Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
– Comparison of Key Differences
Biotic Potential, Exponential Growth, Logistic Growth, Population Growth, Reproductive Potential
What is Biotic Potential
The biotic potential is the maximum reproductive capacity of a population under optimal conditions. Especially, it only occurs when the environmental conditions are very favorable for population growth. Thus, a population exhibits its highest fertility in the biotic potential. For instance, in biotic potential, the population shows its highest birthrate and the lowest mortality rate. Therefore, the vital index of the population in biotic potential has the highest possible value.
Vital Index = (number of births/number deaths)*100
Figure 1: Exponential Growth of the Human Population
Furthermore, the components of the biotic potential include potential natality and survival potential. Here, potential natality is the scientific term for birthrate, which is the upper limit to biotic potential in the absence of mortality. On the other hand, survival potential accounts for the number of gametes surviving, which is the reciprocal of mortality. In the absence of mortality, the biotic potential is equal to the reproductive potential.
Moreover, nutritive potential and protective potential can be the other two components of biotic potential. Basically, the nutritive potential is the ability to acquire and use food for growth and energy. Meanwhile, the protective potential is the ability of the organism to protect against dynamic factors of the environment while assuring successful fertilization and permitting care of the young.
What is Reproductive Potential
The reproductive potential is the relative capacity of the population to reproduce itself under optimal conditions. Generally, environmental resistance restricts the full expression of the biotic potential of a population as any condition can inhibit the increase of the population in number. That means; both, the resources and geographical area, essential for the unrestricted growth are limited for the population. Hence, the population tends to show a logistic growth.
Figure 2: Logistic Growth
Moreover, logistic growth occurs in a stable population in a particular geographical area. Therefore, the habitat approaches to its finite carrying capacity. Here, the carrying capacity is the maximum number of a population, which can be sustainably supported by the environment. On that account, the type of growth in the reproductive potential shows an S-shaped growth curve, which plateaus at the carrying capacity. But, the biotic potential exhibits an exponential population growth, and produces a J-shaped curve.
Similarities Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
Biotic potential and reproductive potential are two types of measurements of population growth.
Both depend on the birthrate and mortality rate of the population.
Difference Between Biotic Potential and Reproductive Potential
The biotic potential is the maximum reproductive capacity of a population under optimal conditions, while the reproductive potential is the relative capacity of a population to reproduce itself under optimal conditions.
Determining Factors
The components of the biotic potential include potential natality, survival potential, nutritive potential, and protective potential, while the reproductive potential of a population is a function of biomass, sex ratio, maturity at age, realized fecundity and gamete viability.
Survival Potential
Survival potential is considered in the biotic potential, while survival potential is not considered in reproductive potential.
Degree of Fertility
A population shows its highest fertility at biotic potential, while the population shows lower fertility in reproductive potential.
Type of Population Growth
The population growth is exponential in biotic potential and produces a J-shaped curve, while the population growth is logistic in reproductive potential and produces an S-shaped curve.
Resources are unlimited in biotic potential, while resources are limited in reproductive potential.
Competition to Habitats
There is no competition for occupying habitats in biotic potential, while there is a competition for occupying habitats in reproductive potential.
Biotic potential occurs while establishing a population in a new habitat, starting from a very small number of individuals. In contrast, reproductive potential occurs in a stable population, which occupies a fixed geographical space.
In conclusion, the biotic potential is the maximum reproductive capacity of a population under optimal conditions. Therefore, the resources and the habitat is unlimited for the population. On that account, the population exhibits its higher fertility rate, leading to an exponential growth of the population. In comparison, the reproductive potential is the relative capacity of the population under optimal conditions. However, resources and geographical area are limited for the population growth. Thereby, the population exhibits a logistic growth. Also, it occurs in a stable population fixed to a particular geographical area. Hence, the main difference between biotic potential and reproductive potential is the type of measurement of population growth.
1. Hadi, Ghassan. “Biotic Potential.” LinkedIn SlideShare, 1 May 2014, Available Here.
2. “Reproductive Potential.” Reproductive Potential, Scottish Government, St. Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG Tel:0131 556 8400 [email protected], 8 Dec. 2009, Available Here.
3. Cornell, Brent. “Population Growth.” BioNinja, Available Here.
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The How, Why, and Where of Duke Nukem in Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
21.02.2017 /in Uncategorised /by kbajan
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition arrives on April 7th and, as we’ve mentioned before, there’s lots of new content to enjoy. New Echo maps, the all-new Overkill campaign mode, and the upgraded visuals are just a few of the additions that make this the definitive Bulletstorm experience. On top of all that, we’re especially excited about the Duke Nukem’s Bulletstorm Tour add-on, which is free when you pre-order! With this add-on, you’ll be able to play the full Bulletstorm campaign as Duke, complete with all-new dialogue from the voice of Duke himself, Jon St. John! We’ve asked some of the people close to the project to help us delve a bit deeper into the idea of including Duke in Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition — especially how and why it happened. As for the “where”? Well, we’ll get to that too.
Let’s start with the how — how does Duke Nukem end up in Bulletstorm? It all began with the goal of giving players something new, and rewarding players who support the game early by pre-ordering. Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is all about delivering brand new content and upgrades, but what about those players who pre-ordered? What could we do for them? The teams at People Can Fly and Gearbox Publishing began to toss around ideas. Gearbox Publishing Brand Manager Jeff Skal remembers: “The original idea was pretty simple: what if we gave the players an awesome Duke Nukem Multiplayer skin? But then we thought, ‘Why stop there? A skin? We can do better than that!’”
The idea grew and evolved until a skin became what amounts to an enhanced campaign experience — the story of Bulletstorm viewed through the eyes of The King himself. With that, the team at People Can Fly set about creating an entirely new Bulletstorm experience. The process wasn’t easy though, and as Jeff notes, these kinds of things can be tricky:
“Once we landed on adding Duke to the game, the next challenge was figuring out how all the pieces fit together. As you might imagine, there are some unique challenges that come to the surface when you try to swap out just about any protagonist with Duke — but especially when you're throwing him into an intense, personal story like Bulletstorm's.”
The idea seems unconventional, and it is. But when we really thought about it, it made so much sense. Duke Nukem and Bulletstorm are kindred spirits after all – both are “say whatever’s on your mind, action-packed, roller coaster rides”. On top of that, Duke knows a thing or two about being in hostile situations where only his wits and a giant gun stand between him and certain annihilation. Would Duke and the Bulletstorm crew play nice and get along? Only one way to find out.
Ultimately, the whole idea was to introduce even more fun into Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, and Jeff agrees, adding Duke is a great way to do that:
“The end result is pretty entertaining: He finds himself on this trippy journey on a weird planet, wondering why everyone keeps calling him 'Gray,' and in typical Duke fashion, can't help but try to be the hero — dropping one-liners all along the way.”
The simple answer to this question is “everywhere”. As we mentioned, Duke appears as a part of the Duke Nukem’s Bulletstorm Tour add-on, but this is more than just an add-on; this is your chance to play the Bulletstorm campaign as Duke. This means that Duke is truly everywhere, and with that all-new dialog we mentioned earlier, you can bet that there won’t be a dull moment. How happy are we to be bringing Duke Nukem to Bulletstorm? Take it from Jon St. John, the voice of Duke — “Happy isn’t even close…thrilled is more like it! It’s already one bad-ass game, and now that you can play it as Duke, it even bad-assier!” Those were our sentiments exactly, which is why Jon was tapped to record all-new dialogue that is quintessentially Duke. Jon recounts:
“I was very excited about it. In fact, after they showed me some actual gameplay and cutscenes where I heard the main character Grayson’s lines, I couldn’t wait to get into the studio and record some of those hilarious, and shall we say “colorful” lines myself!”
“Colorful” is a great way to describe Duke Nukem’s Bulletstorm Tour. Not only in terms of the dialogue, but also in the sense that playing as Duke puts a new spin on an already entertaining campaign. It’s a perfect example of why Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is more than just a remaster — it’s a reinvention. New content, newly updated visuals, and extras like Duke Nukem’s Bulletstorm Tour prove that this is absolutely the definitive Bulletstorm experience. Visceral, no-holds- barred gameplay is back, and now you can experience it as The King!
Bulletstorm: full clip edition announcement
It’s been a while since the last blog post so let me give you a quick overview on what happened to People Can Fly. It was quite a ride!
We have worked on multiple games, wrapping up projects with Epic games and ramping up two internal games. We grew from almost 40 to more than 80 developers. We’ve been working hard and I want to thank all People Can Fly team members for what they’ve been able to accomplish. Today, I am proud that we can finally talk about it and show what we’ve done to gamers and funs around the world.
People Can Fly and Gearbox Publishing are pleased to announce Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition as the critically-acclaimed shooter comes to PlayStation® 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 7, 2017 in stunning ultra-high resolutions! Updated with hi-res textures, increased polygon counts, sterling audio, smoother framerates, and running in up to 4K resolution on PC and PS4, this upgraded version of the game comes with all of the previously-released DLC along with all-new content. Also for the first time ever, players who pre-order the game will get the chance to play as the iconic Duke Nukem in Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition.
Step into the boots of Grayson Hunt after a crash landing on an abandoned resort planet forces him to make a hard choice: survival or revenge. An exiled member of the elite assassin group Dead Echo, Grayson’s blind desire for vengeance finds his crew stranded on Stygia where he can finally confront the commander behind his betrayal—or get his team off the planet alive. Battle your way through throngs of Stygia’s mutated inhabitants, performing masterful kills throughout the single-player campaign—or one of 30 competitive score-challenge or 12 co-operative multiplayer maps—using Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition’s unique “Skillshot” system that rewards you for executing the most creative and deadly kills imaginable.
Set to launch on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, and Windows PC on April 7,2017, Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition is the definitive Bulletstorm experience, including:
All previously-released content including all maps, modes, and more on your favorite modern platform
New Overkill Campaign Mode where you can blast your way through the campaign by starting with an unrestricted arsenal of weapons and Skillshots
Five brand-new levels for the score-based Echo Mode, where you can showcase your skills
Improved presentation featuring updated models, environments, and animations all running at a smoother framerate than ever before
Fast-paced gunplay with unique kick, slide, and leash combos
Newly remastered audio effects
The option to play through the entire Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition campaign as Duke Nukem, featuring a fully rerecorded script and brand-new lines from the original voice of Duke, with your pre-order
For the latest news on Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, follow us on Twitter (@Bulletstorm) and “Like” the Bulletstorm Facebook page!
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Cryo-electron Microscopy
A Nobel Laureate’s views on creating Meaning from Data
4 October 2017 5 October 2017 Peter James Thomas Biology, data science, machine learning Cryo-electron Microscopy, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, nobel prize, Richard Henderson, structural biology
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Praise for the Praiseworthy
Today the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry were announced [1]. I was delighted to learn that one of the three new Laureates was Richard Henderson, former Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge; an institute universally known as the LMB. Richard becomes the fifteenth Nobel Prize winner who worked at the LMB. The fourteenth was Venkatraman Ramakrishnan in 2009. Venki was joint Head of Structural Studies at the LMB, prior to becoming President of the Royal Society [2].
I have mentioned the LMB in these pages before [3]. In my earlier article, which focussed on Data Visualisation in science, I also provided a potted history of X-ray crystallography, which included the following paragraph:
Today, X-ray crystallography is one of many tools available to the structural biologist with other approaches including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy and a range of biophysical techniques.
I have highlighted the term Electron Microscopy above and it was for his immense contributions to the field of Cryo-electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) that Richard was awarded his Nobel Prize; more on this shortly.
First of all some disclosure. The LMB is also my wife’s alma mater, she received her PhD for work she did there between 2010 and 2014. Richard was one of two people who examined her as she defended her thesis [4]. As Venki initially interviewed her for the role, the bookends of my wife’s time at the LMB were formed by two Nobel laureates; an notable symmetry.
The press release about Richard’s Nobel Prize includes the following text:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for the development of cryo-electron microscopy, which both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules. This method has moved biochemistry into a new era.
Electron microscopes were long believed to only be suitable for imaging dead matter, because the powerful electron beam destroys biological material. But in 1990, Richard Henderson succeeded in using an electron microscope to generate a three-dimensional image of a protein at atomic resolution. This breakthrough proved the technology’s potential.
Electron microscopes [5] work by passing a beam of electrons through a thin film of the substance being studied. The electrons interact with the constituents of the sample and go on to form an image which captures information about these interactions (nowadays mostly on an electronic detector of some sort). Because the wavelength of electrons [6] is so much shorter than light [7], much finer detail can be obtained using electron microscopy than with light microscopy. Indeed electron microscopes can be used to “see” structures at the atomic scale. Of course it is not quite as simple as printing out the image snapped by you SmartPhone. The data obtained from electron microscopy needs to be interpreted by software; again we will come back to this point later.
Cryo-EM refers to how the sample being examined is treated prior to (and during) microscopy. Here a water-suspended sample of the substance is frozen (to put it mildly) in liquid ethane to temperatures around -183 °C and maintained at that temperature during the scanning procedure. The idea here is to protect the sample from the damaging effects of the cathode rays [8] it is subjected to during microscopy.
A Matter of Interpretation
On occasion, I write articles which are entirely scientific or mathematical in nature, but more frequently I bring observations from these fields back into my own domain, that of data, information and insight. This piece will follow the more typical course. To do this, I will rely upon a perspective that Richard Henderson wrote for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science back in 2013 [9].
Here we come back to the interpretation of Cryo-EM data in order to form an image. In the article, Richard refers to:
[Some researchers] who simply record images, follow an established (or sometimes a novel or inventive [10]) protocol for 3D map calculation, and then boldly interpret and publish their map without any further checks or attempts to validate the result. Ten years ago, when the field was in its infancy, referees would simply have to accept the research results reported in manuscripts at face value. The researchers had recorded images, carried out iterative computer processing, and obtained a map that converged, but had no way of knowing whether it had converged to the true structure or some complete artifact. There were no validation tests, only an instinct about whether a particular map described in the publication looked right or wrong.
The title of Richard’s piece includes the phrase “Einstein from noise”. This refers to an article published in the Journal of Structural Biology in 2009 [11]. Here the authors provided pure white noise (i.e. a random set of black and white points) as the input to an Algorithm which is intended to produce EM maps and – after thousands of iterations – ended up with the following iconic mage:
Reprinted from the Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 166. © Elsevier. Used under licence 4201981508561. Copyright Clearance Center.
Richard lists occurrences of meaning being erroneously drawn from EM data from his own experience of reviewing draft journal articles and cautions scientists to hold themselves to the highest standards in this area, laying out meticulous guidelines for how the creation of EM images should be approached, checked and rechecked.
The obvious correlation here is to areas of Data Science such as Machine Learning. Here again algorithms are applied iteratively to data sets with the objective of discerning meaning. Here too conscious or unconscious bias on behalf of the people involved can lead to the business equivalent of Einstein ex machina. It is instructive to see the level of rigour which a Nobel Laureate views as appropriate in an area such as the algorithmic processing of data. Constantly questioning your results and validating that what emerges makes sense and is defensible is just one part of what can lead to gaining a Nobel Prize [12]. The opposite approach will invariably lead to disappointment in either academia or in business.
Having introduced a strong cautionary note, I’d like to end this article with a much more positive tone by extending my warm congratulations to Richard both for his well-deserved achievement, but more importantly for his unwavering commitment to rolling back the bounds of human knowledge.
If you are interested in learning more about Cryo-Electron Microscopy, the following LMB video, which features Richard Henderson and colleagues, may be of interest:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017.
Both Richard and Venki remain Group Leaders at the LMB and are actively involved in new scientific research.
Data Visualisation – A Scientific Treatment.
Her thesis was passed without correction – an uncommon occurrence – and her contribution to the field was described as significant in the formal documentation.
More precisely this description applies to Transmission Electron Microscopes, which are the type of kit used in Cryo-EM.
The wave-particle duality that readers may be familiar with when speaking about light waves / photons also applies to all sub-atomic particles. Electrons have both a wave and a particle nature and so, in particular, have wavelengths.
This is still the case even if ultraviolet or more energetic light is used instead of visible light.
Cathode rays are of course just beams of electrons.
Henderson, R. (2013). Avoiding the pitfalls of single particle cryo-electron microscopy: Einstein from noise. PNAS This opens a PDF.
This is an example of Richard being very, very polite.
Shatsky, M., Hall, R.J., Brenner, S.E., Glaeser, R.M. (2009). A method for the alignment of heterogeneous macromolecules from electron microscopy. JSB This article is behind a paywall.
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tony hart
HIASir Anthony Harttony hart
Sir Anthony Hart Q.C.
Tony Hart Q. C. died today.
I came to the Bar in 1983 and shortly after , I attended a Bar dinner at Malone House. Tony was at my table. Having just taken Silk , he was in good form and excellent company.
He attended Portora Royal School and Trinity College and came to Belfast to study for his Bar exams. He told me that he took digs in the north of the city near Belfast Royal Academy. He was an accomplished rower and kept up the interest long after he stopped participating.
I got to know him better when he became Recorder of Londonderry. Fearsome to those who were unprepared, he was a scrupulously fair man .
Our paths crossed often. From a hard fought discrimination case in Londonderry to R v Howell and Stewart in Coleraine, he was , almost always, a model of what a judge should be.
The late John Cushnahan and I had endured a contentious Crown Court trial. The accused appealed. John could not do the appeal. His replacement phoned me on the Sunday before the hearing. “I’ve read the transcript, Tony forgot to remind the jury about the standard of proof”. I’ve no doubt that was because of the mayhem of the three way fight that was going on. I made my best efforts in front of their Lordships but a new trial was ordered.
In the Howell and Stewart trial he was at the top of his form. His directions to the jury were bomb proof. He said to them “ask yourselves this question, were they in it together?” They jury agreed that they were.
Crown counsel sometimes had access to the judge’s chambers for entirely appropriate reasons. In private conversations, he often praised my opponent , only minutes after giving them a severe time.
He was kind to me, providing me with references , when asked. He entrusted his daughter to me , for work experience.
Someone organised a memorial lunch for the late Judge Foote. I suspect the late John Creaney. It was held in Nick’s Warehouse [where else?] Also present were me, Malachy Higgins. Donnell Deeney’s brother and a few others. After some refreshments, the topic of Restorative Justice was raised. I asked Tony if , under this system , he would be ‘An Recorder’ or the ‘Continuity Recorder’. His reply was “Bar Library humour can be patchy”.
Tony was a model of what it was to be a public servant. His management of HIA was exemplary after the pigs’ trough of Bloody Sunday. He wrote the definitive history of the Bar in Northern Ireland.
He dedicated it to :
“the memory of those members of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland who lost their lives upholding the rule of law”
That would be Tony.
I offer my condolences to his family.
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christine smithHIAjoseph aikenkincoraMI5rucsecretary of state for northern irelandsistony hart
The HIA Inquiry
One of the enduring allegations of the last forty years has been that the state’s security agencies have been complicit in the sexual abuse , and possibly the murder of children. Kincora is the outstanding example but maybe not the only instance. In GB a major inquiry is about to start. It will not deal with Kincora. So , what next? The inquiry in Banbridge, chaired by Tony Hart, has been lumbering on for months. If you think that it is going to cut a swathe through the state , think again. Allegations have already been made against “prominent members of the community” , his words, not mine. The result? Anonymity orders. You are not allowed to know who these people are. This , despite social media naming one such person, an elected public representative, frequently. What is the point of these King Canute orders? “BP” , who says that she is a victim of this public representative , and is badly affected by something, wanted legal aid to pursue her complaint against one of these “prominent members” The court of appeal has refused her assistance. Would the decision have been different if the accused was not a “prominent member of the community” but Fred Bloggs? The smell from this is awful. if you think that there is the remotest chance of the Hart Inquiry getting anywhere near the truth, read sections 10 and 22 of the Act, which created the Inquiry. The state ensured, before a witness was called that it was protected. Beating up dead priests is just an obscene sideshow. Shame on all those who are participating in this farce.
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Advanced notice of next Bleep
February 1, 2010 Phonopsia Leave a comment
I’m most pleased to be returning to Bleep 43, playing alongside the inimitable Terrence Parker for the fifth time, at Corsica Studios in Elephant and Castle on Friday 16th April, 2010. This is the night I’ve played at the most and the headlining DJ I’ve played with most, so it feels exceedingly comfortable. I’ll be playing an extended set as well.
If that weren’t enough, we’ve got Europe’s leading booty turntablist, another chance to see Donato Dozzy, and Mika Vanio playing live on a fantastic Funktion 1 rig. I’ll post further details as they’re released.
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Sorry I’ve been quiet around here lately. Blog posts go down as micro-blog posts go up, it would seem. If you haven’t already got it, I’m talking most of my nonsense over here now.
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November 25, 2009 Phonopsia 2 Comments
My Thirty Five mix is featured on the Bleep 43 podcast this week. While there, make sure to check the excellent Orphan live set and Dan Bean’s interview with Juan Atkins, which has generated some lively discussion from Detroit house and techno legends in the comments.
Emote Control
This is a new mix of moody music from the past, with a decent amount of ambience and some guitars. Light on the mixing. Just over an hour. Download here.
Depeche Mode – Sibeling [Sire Records]
Mara Carlyle – Pianni [Accidental Records]
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Vladislav Delay featuring Lucio Capece at Union Chapel
November 13, 2009 Phonopsia Leave a comment
Before I delve in, I have to say how delighted I was to return to such a beautiful and lovely sounding venue – particularly when the stage was flanked with two proper stacks of Funktion 1 sound. We’re lucky to have a chance-taking venue of this calibre in London, particularly when it has to share its time with religious duties. But to get to the point without further delay (geddit?), here’s my report on Vladislav Delay‘s visit to Union Chapel.
Sasu Ripatti and Lucio Capece performed about an hour’s worth of material from Tummaa. It was very live. Most of the music originated from an alto saxophone without a neck, with various mouthpieces attached to it and a bizarre assortment of bespoke mutes on the other end – to the extent that there was hardly ever any recognisable saxophone in the mix. When the mouthpiece wasn’t being used for blowing, Lucio Capece made odd clicks and other percussive noises with it. He also abused the mutes for all manner of unexpected output.
These were strange mutes. One looked like a hollowed-out telephoto lense attached to a paper towell roll. They were variously tapped with mallets, bowed and things were shoved in them. In one of the oddest perversions of instrumentation I’ve ever seen, he covered one of the mutes on a bass clarinet with a circular piece of paper, balanced a tiny ball in the middle and kept it levitated with constant exhalation. The ball rattled around atop the floating sheet next to a microphone, but it’s hard to know exactly what this sounded like relative to the final output. I imagine he must have been breathing circularly to pull this off. Indeed, a lot of the time he seemed to be producing constant sound, so that he was achieving something more like a bagpipe or a didgeridoo than a saxophone/clarinet.
Not that you could really hear what it sounded like, since all of this was sampled, effected and often completely removed from the mix in its unadulterated form. It was basically the source of almost every sound that came out of the Ripatti’s laptop, save some bizarre percussive pops/clicks that looked like they were coming from the naked skeleton of an autoharp and some other pad thing he was tapping on from time to time.
What was amazing about this was how much it resembled the sounds of the album, since nearly all of it seemed to be generated, modified, sampled, sequenced, arranged and dubbed in real time. It seemed like Ripatti had some kind of Kaos pad type of thing that he would tremolo things up with as they were recorded and he would actually play a lot of the percussive bits himself. In short, it’s hard to know who made what at which point. I’ve seen similar performances where a lot is left to chance and improvisation, which can be excellent, but I was unprepared to hear something so similar to Tummaa, achieved in such an imaginative, unusual and genuinely live way. It was captivating.
There did seem to be a couple of pre-recorded bits, but from what I could tell they were just the bits that would have come from a keyboard, and there was no keyboardist. This was about .1% of the total music played, and no slight on what they did. Oh, and on the last or next-to-last track Lucio Capece had some bizarre arcane wooden box with some vaguely accordian-esque properties, routed through his own tiny mixer. This was really cool too. I’d love to know what the front of the box looks like and what the hell it was.
I’m also just remembering that during the first track there were a lot of people walking back in to the chapel from the bar and some of their footsteps and a cough from the audience were captured by on-stage microphones and wound up in the mix. This was really intriguing to hear, as they were just building up the sounds that would form the beginning of the set and it felt like the acoustics of the building were becoming a part of the music itself.
My only complaint is that I couldn’t recognise Toive in what they played. It’s my favourite song from the album (one of my favourites of the year full-stop) and I was really looking forward to hearing that kick come in, as it has a huge impact in contrast to an album’s worth of ambience. It’s possible that it was played, but I didn’t spot it, for whatever that’s worth. Anyway, this is a very minor complaint and we left very happy. It was a great performance that will sit nicely beside my other great memories of the Union Chapel.
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Madlib – Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite [Stones Throw]
Madlib – Beat Konducta Vol. 6: Dil Withers Suite [Stones Throw]
It’s criminal that I haven’t bought Donuts yet.
Felix’s Machines
November 3, 2009 Phonopsia Leave a comment
They call ’em “music making sculptures”, I call ’em robots.
Evidently Felix is collaborating with Plaid now as well. Link courtesy of DJ Toilet.
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Concerts, Film/Video, New/Reviews
Vladislav Delay stuff
I’ve been meaning to write up this album for a while now, as it’s not leaving my mp3 player any time soon, but I’ve just caught up on some reading and noticed that it’s already received an excellent treatment from Toby @ Bleep 43.
In case you missed my tweet the other day, there’s also a fantastic video for Toive up on Vimeo that is totally worth checking.
I’ll surely have more to report on Vladislav Delay later this month, following their gig @ Union Chapel on 12 November (tickets still seem to be available).
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Steve Reich, Bang on a Can + London Sinfonietta @ RFH
November 1, 2009 Phonopsia 2 Comments
Earlier this evening I returned to the Royal Festival Hall for the first time since its major refurbishment a couple of years ago. Steve Reich was performing in person, as he did when I last saw Music for 18 Musicians at the Barbican three years ago. At 73, I’m stunned that he can still manage to play such demanding stuff, but he seemed to have no problem on the piano and also performed Clapping Music to open things up.
The show properly got going with Mark Stewart‘s performance of Electric Counterpoint – one of my favourite Reich compositions. It’s a piece that Reich wrote for Pat Metheny in 1987. It’s performed by recording up to ten guitars and two electric bass parts, with the 11th part added live. The song is most notably sampled in The Orb’s “Little Fluffy Clouds” and it’s quite ear-opening to hear the work in its entirety if you’ve only heard the sample of it before. What really surprised me about seeing it live was the remarkable amounts of bass in the delayed swoops of guitar that return throughout. This also revealed how good the acoustic refurbishment has been. It sounded great.
Next up, Bang on a Can All Stars played Sextet, which I’ve not knowingly heard before. I’m very surprised it’s not on the 5-disc Phases box set, but I suppose that’s already pretty full of good stuff. I’m rectifying this presently by picking up the mp3 release (can’t go wrong for $6).
Sextet is quite melodically complex and he does some unconventional things like bowing vibraphone to produce slow attacks and longer sustains from percussive instruments (see 2:15 in the video below). Who’d have thunk of bowing a percussive instrument? It must take a great deal of skill. It’s crazy to watch and sounds great, particularly when one bowist starts a beat or two behind the other, adding depth and duration. They also bang mallets together, use two enormous bass drums and generally do stuff to make a six-person performance produce a much wider range of sounds than you’d typically get from six instruments. I can’t wait to hear this again and feel lucky to have heard it in such an excellent acoustic space.
It’s all been said before about Music for 18 Musicians. A “joy machine” is exactly right. It’s nearly overwhelming hearing and seeing it performed live. Unfortunately this time I got a bit distracted towards the end so it lost some of its impact, but the first half of it was an intense, immersive, moving experience like few others. It’s without question one of the best pieces of music ever written.
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October 23, 2009 Phonopsia Leave a comment
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Nuba Tuba
I’ve finished a new track called Nuba Tuba. It’s the first thing I’ve made public in three years. Hannah’s the only person who’s heard it so far, but I reckon it’s pretty done.
No idea how to characterise it in a word. The beat is fast electro with intermittent tribal drums and the melodies probably just sound like melodies that I’d do. There’s some dubby keys (I guess???) with lots of synthy stuff around it and a pretty big bassline that wound up sounding a bit like a tuba to me.
It’s encoded at 192 Kbps mp3 until I figure out what I’m going to do with it and the other music that I’ve been sitting on. I may post that other sat-on stuff up in similar quality mp3 soon too.
Anyway… grab it here.
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Railways To Build Walls Along High-Speed Corridors, Generate Revenue Through Ads
The Indian Railways is considering a proposal to generate revenue through advertisement on walls along the tracks on high-speed corridors, sources have said, amid a push by the national transporter to boost its non-fare earnings.
In talks with contractors, who can deliverer pre-fabricated walls, the railways plans to generate revenue through advertisement to recover the cost of the build. Sources said the idea is to share revenue with contractors, thus enabling the railways to get the walls built at minimum cost.
“With the plan for the Delhi-Mumbai high-speed corridor underway, the need for such walls is imperative for issues of safety. We are mulling the option of generating revenue from them through advertisement as they are high density areas and will get maximum exposure. Pilot projects are already underway and we are hoping to put up walls across the network starting with urban areas,” said one of the sources.
The railways is trying to boost non-fare revenue through right-of-way charges, advertising, land monetisation, catering and parking amid intense competition from airlines and road transport to carry passengers and goods.
Not just revenue, the wall will also help the railways maintain safety on tracks, get rid of encroachers, reduce interference with cattle or other disturbances.
Officials in the ministry also said that various options are being assessed such as a proposal to build sound-proof walls to reduce sound pollution in areas with railway tracks. A pilot project implemented in the South Delhi area around a busy railway track has shown that such walls reduce sound of approaching trains by around 20 decibels.
The walls to be built around 7-8 feet high will have the option of selling space both outside and inside portions of the wall.
The building of these walls is the first step towards converting the Delhi-Mumbai corridor into a high-speed zone, and track changes allowing express trains to run at a maximum speed of 160km per hour.
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Actress Mary Uzochukwu’s Road to Stardom
The Nigeria movie industry, popularly referred to as Nollywood, is fast growing to the level where fledging actresses are coming up to reshape its narrative with their skills. Among such prolific talents, is the young, beautiful and gorgeous Mary Uzochukwu. A budding talent, who has expressed her passion for storytelling and grand interpretation of scripts.
Uzochukwu is a multi-faceted actress, whose skills transcend movie acting and script interpretation, and reaches out to other human endeavours including academics.
A graduate of The Polytechnic, Nekede, Mary, as she is popularly called, took up acting, her childhood passion, and is fast turning it to a goldmine with her flawless delivery and down to earth presentation.
She has ever since featured in different movies as lead actress and also in supporting roles. Among the movies she has featured in are Traditional Bondage, Palace on Fire, The Other Day, The Festival Night and others.
The actress, who is a material for a long time to come in the movie industry, is a known for her doggedness and unique acclimatization ability. He is a toast for any filmmaker who wants only the best, and nothing but the best
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Nigerian Movies Generated N7bn in Cinemas in 2019 – NVFCB
The National Film and Video Censors Board says Nigerian movies generated nearly between N6.4bn and N6.7bn at cinemas nationwide in 2019.
According to the body responsible for the regulation of movies in Nigeria, it was evident that the sector was going massively. The Executive Director, Adedayo Thomas, said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday.
“The box office generated almost N7bn in 2019. Between N6.4bn an N6.7bn was generated. But from information at our disposal, money generated from DVD sales may have been higher. This is because less than 20 percent of the population is watching cinema,” he said.
According to the body responsible for the regulation of movies in Nigeria, it was evident that the sector was going massively. The Executive Director, Adedayo Thomas, said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Sunday. [SaharaReporters]
Quite a number of movies were released in 2019 with most of them making big bucks running into hundreds of millions. From Merry Men 2, The Bling Lagosian and Living in Bondage, the sequel, these movies left Nigerians going spending a huge chunk of their cash at the cinemas.
Justin Bieber Says He’s Been ‘Recently Diagnosed with Lyme Disease’
Justin Bieber has come out to announce that he is battling Lyme disease.
The made this known via his Instagram page on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, while dispelling the rumours that the reason behind his frail look is because of the use of hard drugs.
“While a lot of people kept saying Justin Bieber looks like shit, on meth, etc. they failed to realize I’ve been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that but had a serious case of chronic mono which affected my, skin, brain function, energy, and overall health.
“These things will be explained further in a docu series I’m putting on YouTube shortly.. you can learn all that I’ve been battling and OVERCOMING!! It’s been a rough couple years but getting the right treatment that will help treat this so far incurable disease and I will be back and better than ever NO CAP,” he wrote.
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is an infectious disease caused by the Borrelia bacterium which is spread by ticks. The most common sign of infection is an expanding area of redness on the skin, known as erythema migrans, that appears at the site of the tick bite about a week after it occurred.
Jason Momoa Steals Show at Golden Globes with His Tank Top Fashion
If there’s one person who can singlehandedly save every award show, it’s America’s sweetheart, Jason Momoa. Whether he’s simply playing with his own hair, rocking a scrunchie, or just being a hunky muscular dude, he can truly turn even the most cringeworthy ceremony into a monumental night. And he didn’t disappoint at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards.
Jason literally showed up in a tank top, and the internet is thirstier than ever. I mean, the man looks like he could crush Kronk from The Emperor’s New Groovewith his pinky finger. This is an absolute joy. Please enjoy the internet losing their minds over this very large man’s beefy, exposed arms:
All day today: “It’s the roaring 20s, men should start wearing three-piece suits everywhere”
Tonight: “Jason Momoa wearing a tank top to a black tie event is the future we want”
— Matthew Phillion (@mattphillion) January 6, 2020
OK but can we talk about #JasonMomoa stripping down to a tank top at the #GoldenGlobes. 👀🥵
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— PrettyLittleThing (@OfficialPLT) January 6, 2020
My sexual orientation is Jason Momoa in a tank top at the Golden Globes pic.twitter.com/h0wwCl47Oa
— Sam Stryker (@sbstryker) January 6, 2020
One person even pointed out that this is the dude equivalent of taking your bra off at the end of a stressful day, which just makes it even more legendary.
jason momoa almost immediately removing his jacket and chilling in a tank top is the dude equivalent of people with breasts taking their bra off as soon as they get home and I respect it #GoldenGlobespic.twitter.com/KSQozQqKHD
— Kay Taylor Rea (@kaytaylorrea) January 6, 2020
You have to stan this beautiful, VSCO girl of a man.
Haha! #JasonMomoa is wearing a tank top (and a scrunchie) at the#GoldenGlobes. I love how he really doesn’t give AF.pic.twitter.com/iBXwNkM9Pp
— Roy Sexton (@roysexton) January 6, 2020
As if the simple existence of his muscles wasn’t enough, it appears that Jason only took his blazer off to give it to his chilly wife, Lisa Bonet. I’m not crying! You’re crying!
Jason Momoa is in a tank top because he gave his blazer to his wife Lisa Bonet as she was probably cold and he is a wonderful, lovely man. Also, dem arms. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/hb3WkDZIpH
— Laarni Ragaza (@LaarniRagaza) January 6, 2020
Unfortunately, he did not present in said tank top, keeping the velvety blazer for that moment, and this is a disappointment that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Jason Momoa is next…please let him still just be wearing his tank top #GoldenGIobes pic.twitter.com/LyHvUGIJso
— Jeni DeGroot (@JeniDegroot) January 6, 2020
But, to be honest, his full outfit (tight black tank + buttery smooth blazer is pretty incredible, too. So I really don’t think we have anything to complain about, blazer, no blazer, no shirt, snowsuit, whatevs. Thank you for existing, Jason.
Courtesy: Cosmopolitan
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Care to new immigrants and refugees
The Canadian Medical Association supports development of clinical best practice guidelines for the provision of care to new immigrants and refugees.
National recognition of physician administrators/executives
The Canadian Medical Association supports national recognition of physician administrators/executives with initiatives designed to recognize and support their contributions.
Clinical care for physician administrators/executives
The Canadian Medical Association recognizes the importance of continued involvement in the provision of clinical care for physician administrators/executives, and encourages organizations employing these physicians to provide clinical practice opportunities.
International commercial surrogacy
The Canadian Medical Association supports advocacy efforts to increase awareness of the physical and mental health risks associated with international commercial surrogacy.
Opioid overdose prevention supplies available in publicly accessible locations
The Canadian Medical Association supports making naloxone and other opioid overdose prevention supplies available in publicly accessible locations.
The Canadian Medical Association encourages medical licensing bodies to require registrants to have training in cultural awareness.
Management of chronic pain in older adults
The Canadian Medical Association supports increased approval and funding of pharmacologic options for the management of chronic pain in older adults.
Nutritional guidelines in Canadian schools
The Canadian Medical Association supports mandatory adherence to national or province/territoryspecific nutritional guidelines in Canadian schools, including a means to monitor and report school compliance.
Federal Genetic Non-Discrimination Act
The Canadian Medical Association urges provincial and territorial governments to support the Federal Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (Bill S-201) by enacting corresponding legislation that echoes privacy protection.
Victims of human trafficking
The Canadian Medical Association supports increased physician awareness and education in identifying and supporting victims of human trafficking.
Federal excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and artificially-sweetened drinks
The Canadian Medical Association calls on the federal government to implement a federal excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and artificially-sweetened drinks sold in Canada to subsidize healthier food options.
Antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial resistance surveillance
The Canadian Medical Association calls on the federal government to use Canada’s term as G7 President in 2018 to add antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial resistance surveillance as part of their agenda.
Lack of access to insured health services
The Canadian Medical Association calls on governments to address the lack of access to insured health services for those residing in Canada, regardless of immigration status.
National guide on levels of medical intervention
The Canadian Medical Association will develop a national guide on levels of medical intervention for use across the continuum of care.
A review of Canada’s medical liability system
The Canadian Medical Association supports a review of Canada’s medical liability system and an evaluation of alternative models.
Mandatory labelling, warnings and a recall system for prescription pharmaceuticals
The Canadian Medical Association calls for mandatory labelling, warnings and a recall system for prescription pharmaceuticals sold in Canada that contain gluten and/or priority allergens.
Awareness of the difference between financial/insurance advisers
The Canadian Medical Association will work with stakeholders in medical education to encourage awareness of the difference between non-commissioned financial/insurance advisers employed by national and provincial/territorial medical associations and commissioned financial/insurance advisers employed by banks and other corporations.
Electronic portal for medical organization
The Canadian Medical Association will create an electronic portal to allow medical organizations to upload their contact information.
Transferability of existing medical data
The Canadian Medical Association calls on governments to ensure improved accessibility and transferability of existing medical data residing in electronic health records across provincial/interprovincial interfaces.
The Canadian Medical Association recommends that MD Financial Management Inc. provide information regarding socially responsible investing when marketing and advising on its investment portfolios.
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Young Driver – Joshua’s First Driving Lesson
Did you know that with Young Driver, children under 17 and as young as 5 can learn to drive? Children over 10 can learn to drive in a brand new Vauxhall Corsa! 5 – 10 year olds can also learn to drive in specially designed cars called ‘Firefly’.
In exchange for an honest review, me and my family were invited to come and check out Young Driver for ourselves, Joshua was even offered a lesson! With over 60 UK venues, we knew there would be one local to us.
Over the weekend we headed to the Trafford Centre for Joshua’s lesson. When we booked we were asked to arrive 15 minutes before our slotted time so we were there nice and early. Joshua was extremely excited. As he is 6 years old, Joshua would be driving the ‘Firefly’ car.
The ‘Firefly’ cars are electric two-seater cars that feature independent suspension, disc brakes, twin electric motors and rack and pinion steering – making them drive and handle just like real cars on the road. The cars have an adjustable driver’s seat and youngsters can be accompanied by a parent or sibling.
The car does has a remote control cut off switch in case of emergency that parents can press, also the Firefly has a top speed of 10 mph.
The first 5 minutes of the lesson consisted of a briefing and demonstration with an instruction. They asked Joshua to get in the car and they adjusted his seat. After talking about the pedals and the steering they were off!
Joshua and the instructor traveled around a realistic road system, complete with road signs. The instructor explained to Joshua he needed to adhere to the road signs such as Stop and Give Way. Once Joshua had the hang of the steering, the instructor jumped out and Daddy jumped in!
Joshua had lots of fun! Since as long as I can remember he has been car mad, at the age of two he knew car makes and models. He would point them out as they drove passed. He loves toys cars and still plays with them now, so this was a big treat for him. At the end of the session, Joshua was awarded with his very own Young Drivers Driving Licence which was a great touch and Joshua thought it was amazing.
He was definitely in awe of the older children, once your older than 10 you can drive a brand new Vauxhall. He had his eye on this one pictured below. He said he will be back for his 10th birthday!
Young Driver sessions are great for any youngster that loves cars and can’t wait to get behind wheel. Young Driver offers something that children wouldn’t see possible, driving! They make it fun but also safe. They offer gift vouchers which is fantastic as I think these lessons would make great present.
To find out more information on Young Driver and all that they offer, see here.
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Home » Areas of Study » Religious Studies
Jerusalem is one of the most important spiritual centers in the three largest monotheistic religions. The city is infused with religious history, making it the perfect setting for understanding the intricacies of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity – and the dynamic interplay between these religions. Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School (RIS) programs provide deep insight into the historical, theological, and philosophical roots of these religions.
All courses are open to both undergraduate and graduate students:
The Body in Jewish Thought
Religion in the Holy Land: The Role of Faith in Peace & Conflict
Archaeology of the New Testament
Literary Arabic (graduate only)
Birthright Israel: Israeli Multiculturalism
Individual summer semester graduate courses are also available through our study abroad program.
Individual Undergraduate Courses
Provided as examples only and subject to change:
The Battle over the Bible: The Bible in the Eyes of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Radical Islamic Movements in a Changing Middle East
After Nazism: The Philosophy of Identity and the Jewish Conflict with the West
Famine and Feast: The Bible from Literary and Other Perspectives
Feminist Judaism: Theory and Practice, Contemporary Issues, and Ideas
From Jewish Jesus to Christianity
Culture of Conflict: The World of the Talmud
Belief and Ritual in Islam
Hasidism: From Mystic Fraternity to Reactionary Movement
Jewish Experiential Education
Middle Eastern Christianity as a Minority under Islam: Politics and Religion in Historical Context (7th to 14th Centuries)
Bible and Babel: Studies in Biblical Narrative and the Ancient Near East
Religion and Conflict in the Middle East: A Jewish Perspective
Marriage and Sexuality in Ancient Judaism
A History of Jewish Mysticism
Original Sins: Genesis and Its Ancient Interpreters
As an undergraduate student, you can choose to tailor your courses to suit your academic interests, selecting from among RIS courses and English-taught courses in the HebrewU Faculty of Humanities, including courses taught by the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Department of Comparative Religion, and the Department of Jewish Thought.
Jewish Studies (M.A. or non-degree)
The Bible & the Ancient Near East (M.A. or non-degree)
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (M.A. or non-degree)
Biblical Hebrew Semester Courses
Literary Arabic Semester Courses
Non-Degree Graduate Studies
As a graduate student studying abroad with us from another institution, you can also choose to tailor your courses to suit your academic interests in a study abroad program or as a visiting research student, selecting from among RIS courses and English-taught courses in the HebrewU Faculty of Humanities, including courses taught by the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, the Department of Comparative Religion, and the Department of Jewish Thought.
Additional Areas of Study
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A Historical Sketch of PAAM
Early Missions to Asia and the Pacific
The UCC ministry with PAAM has its roots in Congregational traditions and missions at the beginning of the 19th century. The UCC American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM, which later became the UCC Board of World Ministries, UCBWM), sent missionaries to Hawai’i in 1820 and continued missionary activities to peoples of the Pacific sphere (Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Samoans, Filipinos, etc.) up to the turn of the 20th century. Among the first Asian churches established in American in the 19th century are the San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Diego Chinese Congregational Churches, the First Chinese Church of Christ in Hawaii and the Hilo (Chinese) United Community Church.
Later migrations of Asian and Pacific Island peoples slowly gave birth to more Asian and Pacific Islander churches in the continental USA and Hawaii. These included Taiwanese, Samoans, Koreans, Asian Indians, Marshallese, Kosraean, Pohnpeian and Chuukese.
The Early Years of PAAM
Conversations about organizing a UCC Asian American caucus began in 1972 when Methodist Bishop, Roy Sano, shared the experience of the United Methodist Asian American Caucus to the Council of Japanese American Churches in a meeting held at the Sycamore Congregational Church in Northern California. The council voted to explore the possibility of establishing a caucus to relate Asian American concerns to the national level of the UCC and later voted to provide funds for Mary Tomita and Julia Estrella to attend the 9th UCC General Synod in St. Louis to raise Asian American concerns and explore funding for a national organizing fathering of a UCC Asian American caucus.
At the Synod, funding was secured from Dr. Charles Cobb, Esecutive Director of the Commission for Racial Justice (CRJ). A task force was subsequently established for the organizing conference. This was headed by Ben Fujita together with Mary Tomita, Julia Estrella, Rev. Kay Sakaguchi and many others. Dr. Teruo Kawata, from the UCC Christian Life & Leadership, was seconded as staff to the task force. These efforts had the valuable support of Rev. George Nishimoto (Council for Church & Ministry, Church Vocations Secretary), Rev. Garry Oniki (former Executive Director, the UCC Copmmission for Racial Justice) and Rev. Dr. Mineo Katagiri (assist to the UCC president at that time)
Focus & Vision of PAAM
The organizing conference was held at the YMCA in San Francisco in April, 1974 with over 100 people participating from five regions including Pacific Islanders. The conference agreed to call the organization “Pacific Islanders & Asian American Ministries” and articulated the following vision:
To promote the leadership and identities of Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans in order to empower them and their churches in the United Church of Christ.
To identify concerns of PAAM ethnic groups and advocate strategies for developing solutions
To recognize and celebrate the unique insights and contributions of Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans in the life of the United Church of Christ.
To encourage Pacific Islanders and Asian American of all ages to affirm their unique ethnic and cultural identities and to develop their theologies.
To facilitate the involvement of Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans in instrumentalities, agencies, task forces, conferences, associations and all other settings of the United Church of ?Christ
To combat institutional racism and promote pluralism within the United Church of Christ in the struggle for justice towards the goal of reconciliation of all peoples.
The early meetings of PAAM were focused not only for fellowship but was also an Opportunity for sharing justice issues and spiritual concerns: e.g. issues in bilingual churches, local church leadership development, Christian Education and worship resources from our diverse heritages, discrimination of Koreans in Japan, human rights issues in the Philippines, etc.
One important contribution was made by Miya Okawara, who served as the editor of the National PAAM Newsletter for the first 18 years, as a dedicated volunteer. The newsletter became a voice for PAAM regarding peace and justice issues.
PAAM in the United Church of Christ
In 1975, the 10th UCC General Synod recognized the Pacific Islander & Asian American Ministries (PAAM). In 1983,m the 14th General Synod created the Council of Racial and Ethnic Ministries (COREM).
COREM provided a place where the UCC’s racial and ethnic groups can collaborate and develop a common agenda regarding the mission life of the church and advocate for racial/ethnic concerns within the UCC. In its decision making capacity, COREM is comprised of 10 persons who meet regularly. Two persons represent each of the five groups: the Council for American Indian Ministries (CAIM), Council for Hispanic Ministries (CHM), Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice (MRSEJ), Pacific Islanders & Asian American Ministries (PAAM), and United Black Christians (UBC). COREM played a key role in writing the UCC Mission Statement which was adopted at the 18th General Synod.
PAAM also participated in the October 16-17, 1992 UCC Commission for Racial Justice Drafting Committee in proposing the pronouncement calling for the UCC to be a Multiracial and Multicultural Church. This was adopted in the 19th General Synod meeting in Sat. Louis, MO on July 15-20, 1993.
In 198j9, The General Synod gave the responsibility for implementation oof the proposal for action: The UCC, with PAAM Implementation Committee. The primary purpose for action was to advocate for justice for Marshallese and other Micronesians who have been victims of nuclear testing and we continue to be advocates for this cause. Those who were initially appointed, and stayed until its end, were David Hirano, Wallace Ryan-Kuroiwa and Federico Ranches. At the closing ceremony at the National Office on February, 2005, Lese Tuuao and David Hirano pass the documents on to the Collegium’s Associate General Minister, Edith Guffey, who in turn passed it on to the PAAM Moderator, Rev. Norma DeSaegher.
The organization and Ministry of PAAM has helped Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders be more visible in all setting of the UCC ministry. From leadership participation to the establishment of new PAAM UCC congregations. To date there are more than 200 PAAM churches nationwide and more are still in the process of joining the UCC. PAAM is organized into 6 regions comprising of Hawaii, Norther California Nevada, Southern California Nevada, Pacific Northwest, Midwest and East.
We have been blessed with the dedication, vision and
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From Sun news services — Sep 28th, 2000
'I've read about all those people who have to contribute to stay. I've stayed there and didn't contribute anything. In fact, I took some linen.'
-South Carolina football coach Lou Holtz, on his night at the White House
Sleeping network
Tom FitzGerald in the San Francisco Chronicle: "NBC delayed Stacy Dragila's decisive pole vault so long Monday night that the suspense was right out of Hitchcock - as long as you were in the bathroom when a Visa commercial scooped the network and congratulated Dragila on her gold medal."
Who were USC's first Olympic gold medalists in track and field?
See you in hell
When Rick Neuheisel was coaching at Colorado he called for a fake punt late in the 1996 Cotton Bowl game against Oregon, when the Buffaloes beat the Ducks, 38-6.
Neuheisel told Bud Withers of the Seattle Times that he got memorable messages from Oregon fans. "I got one from a priest," he said. "He told me I was going to rot in hell."
Fred Kelly in the 110-meter high hurdles and Alma Richards in the high jump in the 1912 Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
Boy, talk about wimps
There were 45,653 fans on hand, but 20,000 missing for the Bengal-Jaguar game in Jacksonville last week, prompting Jaguar Coach Tom Coughlin to say:
"I can't for the life of me understand where the others were."
Said Ron Borges of the Boston Globe: "Probably boarding up their homes, since there was a hurricane hitting at game time."
Extra-strength Crest
Art Thiel of the Seattle-Post Intelligencer, writing from Sydney: "It's been hard to top the excuse offered last year by a banned international cyclist: Someone sabotaged his toothpaste with a performance-enhancing drug.
"But he lost the lead in the category of drug-induced whoppers at these Olympic Games after a coach from Uzbekistan was busted at the airport packing 15 vials of human growth hormone. Sergey Voynov said it was to to help cure his baldness.
"So the standards C.J. Hunter, the U.S. shotput star, must meet in the Summer Games' most pervasive competition - the drug alibi tournament - are high."
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1920 - A Chicago grand jury indicts eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series, known as the "Black Sox Scandal." White Sox owner Charles Comiskey immediately suspends the eight players.
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Feature| December 01 2010
The glass that cheers: Phenolic and polyphenolic constituents and the beneficial effects of moderate red wine consumption
Alan Crozier
University of Glasgow, UK
Gina Borges
Danielle Ryan
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Biochem (Lond) (2010) 32 (6): 4–9.
https://doi.org/10.1042/BIO03206004
Alan Crozier, Gina Borges, Danielle Ryan; The glass that cheers: Phenolic and polyphenolic constituents and the beneficial effects of moderate red wine consumption. Biochem (Lond) 1 December 2010; 32 (6): 4–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/BIO03206004
Red wines, moderate consumption of which is associated with beneficial effects on health, including a reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease, contain a rich diversity of simple and complex (poly)phenolic compounds. Subtle changes in the polyphenolic profile occur during maturation of the wine which affects its colour and taste. Although the protective effects of red wine consumption have been linked with resveratrol and procyanidins, the identity of the compounds involved remains unclear.
© 2010 The Biochemical Society
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Family & Relationships How My Marriage Changed After a Stroke
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After getting married , many people choose to change their surname. Some take their spouse's last name, and some couples combine surnames. Same-sex marriage is legal in the United States, but laws regarding name changes weren't automatically updated to apply to same-sex couples.
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When my husband and I said, “I do” on November 2, 2001, we meant every word of our marriage vows. We repeated the words after the pastor with no doubt in our minds that we would spend forever together. When it got to the “for better or for worse” part of the vows, we said them with the better part sounding much easier than the worse. He was 27 and I was 22. We were at the young age where we felt like we were invincible and the worse part wouldn’t apply to us.
Fast forward 11 years and two kids later to 2012. We had land, a roof over our heads, jobs which gave us enough and a happy little family which provided us much joy. Life often got overwhelming with two young kids and busy days dropping them off at daycare, school and going to work, but we really couldn’t complain. Then, bam. June 6, 2012 happened. I had a major brain stem stroke and overnight wasn’t able to walk or talk. The world as we knew it crumbled and we didn’t know if it would ever be the same again.
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After some time in the ICU and speech therapy, I was able to say short, simple sentences. We had no idea what my physical prognosis would be. Would I be dependent on my husband for every little thing? I had nightmares of him leaving me in a nursing home and never seeing him again. I didn’t want to be a burden on him or my two children, so I gave him permission to leave me. He could find another woman who could give him everything when I might not be able to give him anything at all. With tears streaming down his face, he told me he wasn’t going anywhere. The “for worse” was here and he was stepping up to the plate.
For 12 weeks, I stayed in the hospital learning what I needed to help my speech get better and to walk again. He worked, took care of the kids and came to see me almost every day in the hospital. I know he was exhausted, overwhelmed and scared. He never showed it. We’d have date nights on Wednesdays where he would be the one to give me a bath. It may not sound romantic, but I cherished those times with my husband.
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The real work began when I came home. I had changed, not just physically, but emotionally as well, which many people don’t realize can be is one of the effects of a stroke. My personality changed. I had pseudobulbar affect due to the stroke affecting my brain stem. I’d cry or laugh at the drop of a hat. My temper was super short and I had intense anxiety. Cognitively, I wasn’t as sharp as I once was. There were many frustrating moments dealing with the kids. Life was not a piece of cake and we had our share of challenges, but because we loved each other, we never gave up. We worked hard and communicated better than we did before the stroke. We were closer than we ever had been.
It’s been seven years since the stroke. My kids are teenagers, full of hormones and attitude. My husband and I are ready to celebrate our 18th wedding anniversary. Things are still hard and our lives have been affected in ways we never would have imagined. But we’re working on it all daily and we’re in it for the long haul. The stroke made us work harder at our marriage, but I tell you, it’s worth it.
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Pedophile allowed to work in kindergarten
November 15, 2007 by John Guilfoil
In a case of “are you effing kidding me,” a convicted German pedophile was sentenced to do volunteer service in a German kindergarten. According to Reuters, the man will be back in court next week after allegedly abusing two children there.
The man was allowed to work as a janitor at the Evangelical Kindergarten St Petri in Melle, near the northern city of Osnabrueck, because a court worker missed three prior pedophilia convictions on his record, said Alexander Retemeyer, spokesman for the Osnabrueck prosecutor’s office.
The man, identified only as A.B., had been sentenced to 720 hours of community service earlier this year for working on the sly while collecting welfare payments.
“The colleague didn’t pay attention and didn’t see he had a sexual conviction, so she allowed him to serve in a kindergarten,” Retemeyer said. “She didn’t read the file.”
The convictions dated from 1988-1990, Reuters reported.
Police arrested the man after the head of the kindergarten reported he had fondled himself in front of two children.
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This is a 2-hour session that is an expansion to “Holistic Database Security” presentation to help you secure your database from attacks.
We will examines common errors in the design of databases that can compromise the security of the system.
We will be covering a ddatabase architecture that separate data from code that also helps trace bottlenecks.
We will be covering limiting access paths to data thereby implementing part of the trusted path.
We will covering how to handle errors in your code.
One of the first thing an attacker will try to generate is error messages to learn about your system. These error messages can tell the attacker what database and version you are running, and is their sql injection attack properly constructed.
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In 1987 Robert’s boss called him into his office and told him that he is now their Oracle Wizard then handed him a stack of Oracle tapes Since then, Robert has worked exclusively as an Oracle database designer, developer and Database Administrator and project manager.
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Korg SP250 Review – Is The SP250 A Good Choice?
With the SP250, Korg has set out to make one of the finest portable keyboards available today. Thanks to the loads of cutting-edge innovations the company managed to include in this piano, they have delivered. The SP250’s RH3 graded hammer action keyboard with multi-velocity keys is one of the finest keyboards on the market today, and the rich piano sounds are extraordinarily realistic. In this Korg SP250 review we’ll take a look at the key action, sound quality, and features of the SP250 to see what makes it such a popular choice for musicians today.
Korg SP250
Korg's finest RH3 Graded Hammer action offer three response curves to match any playing style
Multi-velocity grand piano sound captures the entire dynamic spectrum of a true piano performance
Thirty on-board sounds- organs, strings, choirs, guitars, e-pianos, etc. - two may be layered together
Dual Headphone outputs; 2 x 10cm speakers in bass reflex chamber with 22 watts total power
Selectable Reverb and Chorus effects; transposes to any key/pitch; includes stand and pedal
Korg has equipped the SP250 with their finest keyboard, the RH3 graded hammer action keyboard. Not only does it provide plenty of realistic resistance, the keyboard also comes with three different response curves to match any playing style. The Korg SP250 also has fully velocity-sensitive keys and a powerful sound engine that is able to produce the entire spectrum of notes based on how hard the key was struck. This is a powerful feature that not many digital keyboards have.
The SP250 is an expensive instrument. It comes with many powerful features that set it apart from the competitors, but there are still plenty of other affordable keyboards such as the Casio PX-150 that are a great option if you are on a budget. If you can afford the price tag, however, the SP250 is hard to beat. The SP250 also does not come with an extremely large amount of extra settings and features, though it does have 30 different high-quality voices for you to choose from.
The SP250 has a powerful sound engine and a great piano sound, able to replicate all of the nuances you get with an actual hammer striking a string. What really sets it apart though, is the fact that its keys are able to completely detect exactly how hard they were struck and the sound engine is then able to produce a note whose tone and volume perfectly matches how hard the key was struck.
While many keyboards are able to produce a few variations in tone, the SP250 is able to replicate a full range of tones, notes and volumes, making it extremely realistic sounding. Add to this 30 different voices, most of them near the same level of quality, and the sound of the SP250 is one of the best you will find.
The Korg RH3 graded hammer action keyboard is the best keyboard that the company has ever produced. The key action is extremely realistic, providing an increasing level of resistance as you go from higher to lower notes, just like what you would experience on an acoustic piano, as well as three different response curves to match your style of playing and hold the note for precisely the right amount of time.
Playing on the RH3 keyboard is absolutely incredible and is certainly one of the most innovative keyboards around today.
Other useful features of the SP250 include its dual headphone jacks that are ideal for student/teacher use, two resonating 22 watt total power speakers, selectable reverb and chorus effects, 30 on-board sounds that can be layered together, stereo outputs that allow you to connect the piano to external recording or speaker systems, MIDI connectivity, and a folding stand that also houses the piano’s sustain pedal.
The SP250 has a sound quality and key action that is practically unrivaled among digital keyboards. The innovations that have gone into making this piano feel and sound just like a quality acoustic are astounding, making it a real pleasure to play. At 71 pounds, the SP250 is not extremely portable, but it is compact enough to be transported should the need arise. If you are looking for a keyboard that is equipped with the finest key action and sound quality you can find then the SP250 is a great digital piano to purchase.
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You are here: Home / Articles / Watch Brands & Horology / Monthly Roundup / Monthly News Roundup: Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Hublot, George...
Monthly News Roundup: Audemars Piguet, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Hublot, George Daniels and Roger Smith, Speake-Marin, MB&F, Arnold & Son, Jaquet Droz, Grieb & Benzinger, Chronoswiss
by Elizabeth Doerr
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph
* Hong Kong’s Watches & Wonders will be upon us at the end of September and for it Audemars Piguet announces a new Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph outfitted with a peripheral oscillating weight that is visible through the dial. Available only in a limited edition of 50 pieces, it is housed in a 44 mm forged carbon case with a black ceramic bezel, crown and buttons and is set to retail for $273,200.
For more information, please visit www.audemarspiguet.com/en/go-offshore and watchesandwonders.com.
Clive Owen wearing his Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Grande Tradition à Tourbillon 43 on ‘The Tonight Show’
* Jaeger-LeCoultre friend of the brand Clive Owen has been spotted wearing a platinum Master Grande Tradition à Tourbillon 43 during promotion for his new series The Knick; here we see him on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. Set in downtown New York in 1900, The Knick is a Cinemax doctor drama series.
Hublot Dallas Cowboys limited edition Classic Fusion in 45 mm titanium case
* In its unending quest to participate in the world’s biggest sporting arenas, Hublot has now signed an exclusive deal with what is unquestionably the most famous American football team: the Dallas Cowboys. The partnership begins with three limited-edition Dallas Cowboys-branded timepieces (Classic Fusion and King Power) inspired by the team’s corporate colors of blue and silver. Celebrating the Cowboys’ five Super Bowl wins, the Cowboy star replaces the “5” on each dial, with the women’s timepiece boasting a star set in diamonds.
These special editions will be available exclusively at retail locations in the Dallas area, Hublot’s Dallas boutique and a new pop-up location in the Cowboys’ Owner’s Lounge at AT&T Stadium. Hublot is now the “naming rights partner” of the VIP parking entrance, and Hublot clocks will adorn the stadium walls, while the jumbotrons above the field will feature an Hublot clock for pre-game countdowns. hublot.com/en/partners/dallas-cowboys
MusicMachine 2 by MB&F for Reuge
* MB&F presents MusicMachine 2, an ultra-modern music box created in cooperation with Reuge. This spaceship-inspired object plays theme songs from Star Wars and Star Trek, but instead of the same three rock tunes that MusicMachine 1 offered, it boasts a new selection of rock classics from the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Clash (very good taste –ed). mbandf.com/machines/performance-art/musicmachine2
Pierce Brosnan wearing his Speake-Marin Resilience on USA Today’s ‘Talking Tech’
* During a brief video interview this week on USA Today‘s “Talking Tech,” actor Pierce Brosnan was spotted wearing his Speake-Marin Resilience as he explained his fondness for Instagram. www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2014/08/26/pierce-brosnan-on-how-to-get-10000-followers-on-instagram-save-the-world-4-times/14534125/
Arnold & Son UTTE tourbillon
* Arnold & Son releases two new versions of the UTTE tourbillon, an exceptionally clean and thin tourbillon with an off-center time display. The new versions include red gold or palladium cases, which measure 42 x a shockingly thin 8.34 mm, making this one of the thinnest tourbillon watches on the market. The appearance of technical wizardry is enhanced by the large spherically formed tourbillon whose cage measures an impressive 14 mm. Taking up almost half of the 32 mm that the movement measures, the effect is nothing short of dramatic. www.arnoldandson.com/home/instrument-collection/utte/
Grieb & Benzinger Blue Dragon Imperial
* Grieb & Benzinger presents a special unique piece called Blue Dragon Imperial, which features a fully skeletonized dragon within a movement that seems to float within the white gold case framed by 66 Princess-cut diamonds. The blue platinum-coated movement is a very rare specimen indeed: it is an original blue movement made by Charles Oudin in about 1820 specifically for the Chinese market.
Jaquet Droz Grande Seconde Quantieme Ivory Enamel
* Jaquet Droz releases the latest iteration of the Grande Seconde Quantième Ivory, originally introduced in 2011, whose beautifully finished movement now incorporates a silicon balance spring. While a look through the transparent case back reveals sheer modernity, the front remains traditional and typical of the brand. This watch is available in 39 or 43 mm case sizes in red or white gold. The dial is grand feu enamel. Watch this interesting TheWATCHES.TV video to see more: www.thewatches.tv/en/editorial/jaquet-droz-grande-seconde-quantieme/.
The Daniels Millennium watch
* A Daniels Millennium watch came up for auction at Bonhams a few weeks ago and proceeded to set a world record for the sale of one of these rarer-than-rare timepieces. Made in an edition of only 50 pieces between 1998 and 2001, the Millennium watch was a collaboration with Roger Smith and is the only serial timepiece that George Daniels ever created. The original yellow gold automatic timepieces sold for £30,000 upon release. The Bonhams lot went for £146,500. www.rwsmithwatches.com
Chronoswiss Sirius Lion Heart
* On the occasion of the grand opening of its new headquarters in Lucerne, Switzerland, Chronoswiss announced the charity auction of a 44 mm red gold hand-enameled and -guilloche timepiece called Sirius Lion Heart in October. All proceeds from this watch will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in Switzerland. www.chronoswiss.com/en/lion-heart.html
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Scrooge 6: Disney’s A Christmas Carol
November 30, 2014 November 30, 2014 | Rachel's Reviews
Jim Carrey as:
Ghost of Christmas Present
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Gary Oldman as:
Jacob Marley
Tim’s voice is provided by Ryan Ochoa.
Colin Firth as Fred
Bob Hoskins as:
Mr. Fezziwig
Robin Wright Penn as:
Fan Scrooge
Cary Elwes as:
Dick Wilkins.
Mad Fiddler
Businessman #1
Guest #2
Portly Gentleman #1
I already mentioned in my ‘Family Movies I Like that Others Do Not’ post that the Disney 2009 version of a Christmas Carol I really enjoy even though many others do not. Hopefully here I can explain a little bit more thoroughly why it works for me even if it is not perfect.
Differences-
The biggest difference is this is the only stop motion animated version so it has the feel of an animated film with the realism of live action. For what is basically a ghost story I think it works very well.
I think shots like this are beautiful
I love the scenes where we are flying through London although some go on a bit too long (As I have said I have a weakness for characters flying in movies. I almost always love it) .The colors are bright and the way it uses shadows and light is very beautiful.
Another big difference is this version tries to stay extremely close to the text. There are passages such as the men joyfully shoveling snow off the rooftops that is almost never included but it is here.
I also love in that same scene when they are flying past a steeple and cross we hear ‘hark the herald angels sing’ and Scrooge (in a direct quote from the book) justifies his lack of faith in Christ by asking the spirit about poor people on the sabbath day. (the same man who suggested workhouses and prisons is condemning the church for being closed on sabbath day! See he’s rationalized his lack of need for faith and Christ’s grace. It reminds me of how the Pharisee’s question Christ in the Bible)
““You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,” said Scrooge. “Wouldn’t you?”
I have never seen a version that includes this but it is crucial to understanding the message I believe Dickens meant behind the story that not just shutting out Christmas, but rationalizing away Christ made Scrooge cold.
The Spirit says in response
““There are some upon this earth of yours,” returned the Spirit, “who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”
That is such an important moment in the story and almost never included.
Anyway, other differences is that 6 actors portray most of the characters Jim Carrey ( who plays Scrooge remarkably straight), Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes. All are very good in their differing roles.
Another difference is it sticks close to the book in its portrayal of Scrooge. I went back and read the novella before starting the project and there is absolutely no attempt by Dickens to soften Scrooge or make him sarcastic. I don’t mind when versions do this but it is not canon. Listen to how Dickens describes Scrooge:
” Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.”
I mean the rooms get colder when he enters. He is a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner” (again making the religious fall a part of his bitterness and anger). I actually think this version captures that Scrooge extremely well.
It is perhaps a more enjoyable movie when we think of it as telling a ghost story and less of a Christmas story. They include Marley’s jaw coming off and ignorance and want is dark and quite scary.
Strengths- As I said the closeness to the book is a real strength. I also like the performances and I know some hate the stop motion look but I think it is beautiful. The music by Alan Silvestri is wonderful including the closing credits song by Andrea Boceli- God Bless Us Everyone.
I wish more people had seen it because I would have loved to see what Zemeckis could have done with other classic stories like Jane Eyre using this medium.
There are many moments which the film gets right that few do.
I love that it is Tiny Tim’s declaration of Christ that first moves Scrooge. Nothing else has but as soon as he hears Bob talk of Tim he worries and begins to feel again.
“Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.”
A lot of versions skip over this line trying to appeal to those of all faith but it is a loss in my opinion because can a nice pleasant holiday really be enough to get someone to change? No it is a higher religious conversion, a higher meaning to life and goodness, that prompts Scrooge to repent his ways.
I also like the way the appearance of all 3 spirits is very close to the descriptions in the book. This and the Muppets I believe come closest to the ethereal quality of Past. He looks like a candle, which is creative.
The ending is good when Scrooge see’s his body on the bed and is desperate for some sense of feeling at this death. Then we see the couple who is grateful the death gives them more time to pay back their loan (something often skipped) and then the Cratchit’s mourning the loss of Tim.
Weaknesses- Trying no doubt to appease modern viewers they do spend a bit too long in segments zipping through London. Particularly at the end when they are chased by black horses carrying a hearse it goes on too long and gets old. I typically fast forward that segment.
Also I don’t see why for the pawn shop scene Scrooge needs to be shrunken down with a high pitched voice. Another ploy I suppose to appease modern viewers.
It can be pretty dark and scary for kids so it will depend on your child’s tolerance for those kinds of films. The scene where Present dies is like no other version. It is very scary but I think it is cool. Like I said if you look at it as a ghost story (which it is) like Corpse Bride or something like that than it is less upsetting. But it is the area where the movie takes chances. It embraces Christmas Carol as the ‘scary ghost stories and tales of the glory of Christmases long, long ago’.
And I know for some who aren’t as in love with the book as I am the strict adherence may be a problem. They want a more nuanced, softer Scrooge than the book gives us. It quotes a lot from the text and makes no attempt like in Muppets or other versions to explain things in a modern way.
So all in all, I know it isn’t perfect but I really like it. It’s a definite part of my holiday viewing and I appreciate all the hard work which went into making it accurate, heart felt and visually captivating. Others do not care for it but that’s their opinion and this is mine. 🙂
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It’s a decent adaptation at most.
RIP Bob Hoskins!
RIP Bob Hoskins for sure. I’m glad you reminded me of his fairly recent passing.
I liked this even better this watch through but I realize I’m in a minority on that one. I’m glad you see it as decent. It definitely is. I’d still give it a solid B. We all have those films we respond to that others dont. I know it isnt perfect but I like it. 🙂
So many beloved celebrities died this year; it’s sad 🙁 .
It’s too flashy…the moments when they are actually focus on the characters, they can be good (especially Cratchit is done very, very well, perhaps the best performance ever, but sadly wasted in this movie). Some of the effects (especially when the floor just vanishes) are very impressive. But what is, for example, the point of the giant chase scene at the end? It drags, and has nothing to do with the story.
Add to this the usual “uncanny valley” motion capture often creates, plus, it seems like they didn’t do the scenes with all actors together…they never really look each other in the eyes, which results in the “dead eye” effect which really kills some of the scenes (obviously other film maker learned from it and opted to let the actors act together instead of going for the gimmick of having one actor playing different roles).
I think it angers me because it could have been good if they had put the story first and added the special effects only where it makes sense, but they put the special effects first, which drowned out the story. So in a sense it is not the worst adaptation out there, but it might be the most frustrating one, because so much potential got wasted…and in a way, this offends me the most. Not the B-Movie which might be bad, but in which everyone gave his very best, but high budget movie which tries to distract the audience with special effects.
Yeah the chase scene goes on too long but other than that I didnt have the same problems you did. I actually thought they made eye contact fine. The special effects weren’t a barrier for me or frustrating. I agree the zooming through city is too long but easy for me to ignore. It didnt drown out the story for me. Different tastes I guess
One nice thing is those flashy sequences are all in the same spots so easy to fast forward over which is what I do when I normally watch. I feel like they put in that stuff to appease people less interested in the story but they shouldn’t have.
Still lots of choices were right on. I love when Crachit is crying right in Scrooge’s face. I don’t see how the special effect sequences waste the good sequences. They are entirely separate in my mind. It’s kind of like I didn’t care for the narrative device in Book of Life but I can separate that out from the strong sections.
Like I said i love that the sabbath day section is included and almost never is. I like when the versions remember this is a religious conversion not just a christmas conversion.
But the flashy segments move it from an A to a B but dont discount the whole film for me, but just my opinion.
They pull me out of the narrative, so they are a Problem for me.
That’s too bad. I didn’t find them that distracting just too long
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Acoustic Emission-Based Grinding Wheel Condition Monitoring Using Decision Tree Machine Learning Classifiers
D. S. B. Mouli
K. Rameshkumar
Part of the Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering book series (LNME)
Condition monitoring has emerged as an important technique in manufacturing industries for predictive maintenance and on-line monitoring of the processes and equipments. Due to the availability of sensors and signal processing technology, implementing condition monitoring systems in a manufacturing environment has become easy. In this paper, grinding wheel conditions in a surface grinding process are predicted with a simple decision tree-based machine learning classifier using time-domain acoustic emission signature. A grinding wheel attachment is designed and fabricated for capturing acoustic emission (AE) signal from the grinding wheel. Grinding wheel conditions are established using grinding wheel life cycle plot by monitoring surface roughness produced by the silicon carbide grinding wheel for the entire grinding cycle. AE signals were captured using the experimental set-up established for this study and statistical features are extracted from transients of AE. Classification and regression trees (CART) are used for establishing a correlation between AE features and grinding wheel conditions. The performance of the CART algorithms is evaluated using Gini index, towing and maximum deviation split criterions. Results indicate CART algorithms are efficiently predicting the grinding wheel condition with good accuracy.
Grinding Condition monitoring Acoustic emission Decision tree
This research is supported by Directorate of Extramural Research and Intellectual Property Rights (ER & IPR), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), ERIP/ER/0803740/M/01/1194, 13 January 2010.
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The sun rose on a clear late November morning. In this part of the world, the November sun is weak, but not as weak as it will be in a few weeks’ time, when the land will be deep within the throes of winter. This is period of transition. The last hurrah of fall’s harvest runs up against the first snow. This is the time when the final acorns fall and the deer become crazed with the rut. It is also the time when the woods fill men dressed in bright orange vests and jackets and the guns crack away and the deer fall.
On this particular November morning, the sun rose over a heavy frost. Sun shone over a gray woods covered in tiny ice crystals. The naked trees and the leaves on the ground looked as if they had been made from kind of delicate glass that could break at the slightest jarring.
But as the sun rose, the frost dissipated. The blue jays began to flit from tree to tree, screeching out their harsh winter calls as they searched for food in the undergrowth. Gray squirrels emerged from their dreys and from their little retreats in hollow trees. No lovers of the cold, they welcomed the warming rays and the retreat of frost.
Two squirrels squabbled in an ancient red oak. One had been poaching acorns on another’s land, and the rightful owner of the red oak began to attack the intruder. The intruder would have fought back, but his mouth was holding a big red oak acorn. And he was left with the dilemma of either fighting back or dropping that purloined nut.
But as the two raced around the top of the red oak, the poacher wasn’t playing close attention to the branches on which he was proceeding, and it wasn’t long before he found himself on a narrow branch that hung over a dense thicket of beech saplings. He could not just leap to another tree. He would fall to the thicket, and from there he would have to work his way out. He would likely lose his acorn in the fall, so to cut his losses, he dropped the acorn and charged his opponent on the branch before him. The owner was so taken aback by the poacher’s courage that he nearly fell out the tee escaping him, so the two continued to fight on and on.
The red oak acorn fell down among the beeches, which lay naked in the November morning sun. It rolled down among the little skeleton trees, coming to a stop up against what appeared to a gray boulder.
But as the acorn rolled up against the boulder, the boulder moved, revealing that this boulder had head and a black nose and rotating ears.
The head was also adorned with antlers. Twelve points in all.
The boulder in the beech thicket was actually a massive white-tail buck. Next spring, he would be six years old, and for the third rut in a row, he was the dominant buck in this densely-forested ridge country. He’d first dodged bullets as a button buck, and after narrowly avoiding an arrow flung from a tree stand in the October of his second year, he became wise to the ways of man.
Whenever their scent floated on the air, he knew to find a thicket and lay low as if he were a fawn that had been left behind by his mother on a warm summer day. Somehow, he knew that men could not see him if he laid low in a thicket. He had seen men walk by him many times, often passing within feet of where he lay.
He also knew that when the guns were fired on that Sunday before the opening day of rifle that the next day, he’d have to stick to the thickets as much as possible. There would be many men wandering the woods the next day and every day into the next week or so, and even though the intoxicating scent of doe estrus was all around him, he would stick to running the does at night only.
All during the previously day, the rifles blared from every old farmstead and hunting cabin in the district, and the great buck knew to run the does hard that night. He mounted one that night and guzzled a few red oak acorns before the dawn began to break. His appetites were not quite sated, but he was comfortable and relaxed in his little hideaway.
It was not long before he heard the roaring of ATVs running up logging road 50 yards to the east. The hunters were arriving. He knew that one hunter would wander down to the old meadow beyond the oak trees. In August, the hunters would come and plant clover in that meadow, and the clover would soon grow. And deer love the taste of clover. They will come from all around to eat it, and the great buck was no exception.
But he knew better than to go there now. After all, he had first been shot at as a button buck when he wandered from his mother side to eat clover in that same meadow, and he knew that nothing good could come from wandering down there when the men were hunting. There would surely be a man there now with his gun trained over the clover should any stupid buck step out into range.
The great buck soon settled down and began to sleep. His sleep was not sound. His nose was pointed into the wind, and his ears continued to rotate at the slighted twig snap. He ignored the squirrels fighting above him. He had learned long ago to pay attention only to the warning calls of squirrels, for they very often announced the arrival of man. But all their other sounds were malarkey and moonshine and the nattering of foolish people.
As the morning wore, the sun began to warm the eastern side of the ridge, and out of that eastern side came a small band of does and fawns. They marched down the forest trail toward the red oak trees. Perhaps there were still some acorns on the ground.
The does and fawns moseyed their way through the oak grove. The dominant doe would stand alert every thirty seconds or so to smell the wind or rotate her ears. The scent of man was heavy in the forest. She was nervous.
One of the doe fawns was in heavy estrus and whenever she stepped, her estrus scent wafted out toward the thicket where the great buck lay hidden. He was upwind of the does, so they couldn’t smell him, but he could smell them. And it was driving him crazy to smell the little estrus doe, but he knew that must only run does at night. It was just too dangerous for him to pursue her now, even though she was only 50 yards away.
The acorn pickings were slim, and the does wandered off. They knew there was sweet clover just beyond the oak forest. And so they meandered off in that direction and were out of the great buck’s view.
He would hunt that little sweet doe down tonight but now was the time to lay low as if he were fawn himself. Lie low and live. Libido can wait.
The sun moved across the bright November sky. A murder of three crows flitted among the trees, cawing and cackling as they searched for food. Every once in a while, a gun would be fired in the distance. Another deer shot or shot at. Gut piles for crows and ravens. The crows and ravens lived for this time of year, as did the coyotes. The crows and ravens ate the gut piles during the day, while the coyotes ate them at night. The coyotes also dispatched any wounded deer, and the mere scent of deer blood in the air tended to drive them into a frenzy of salivating fury.
The great buck knew these things, yet he held to his post. And he tried to sleep. He eventually started dreaming, and a buck this time of year can only dream of does and sweet estrus scent and mounting. He dreamed of the little doe who just passed him. He dreamed of the big doe he mounted the night before. He dreamed of the doe he mounted when was just a spikehorn, a big old bitch of a doe that slapped him with her hooves when they were finished.
His slumber was interrupted when he heard the sound of deer hooves on beech leaves. He raised his massive head to look behind him, but being upwind of the hoofbeats meant that he couldn’t smell the coming deer. He could tell it wasn’t a doe. It was a buck, and from the sound of the hooves on the leaves, it sounded like this buck wasn’t being as cautious as he needed to be. He was stepping high through the taller beeches behind the great buck’s thicket.
The approaching buck kept on coming, but he soon caught scent of the great buck and adjusted his approach. He came across the great buck’s scrapes, and he knew that he’d better adjust course.
The great buck knew the intruder was coming, but he knew the intruder had to be one of the weakling bucks he’d driven off earlier that month. He’d chased off a four-point, a spikehorn, several spindly three-pointers, and a stupid little six-point. He didn’t know which of the rogues would be coming, but he knew that if he had to fight tonight while running the does, he could take any of them.
The approaching buck adjusted his entire route. He moved fifty yards out from the beech thicket and then began his approach to the oak grove. He was hungry. He had been chasing does all night, and he was famished. Acorns would surely do the trick. The approaching buck had five points on his antlers. He had started with six points in October, but in all the warring he had done since then, he’d broken a point off his right antler.
It was his third winter, and he thought he knew it all. He’d beaten all these lesser bucks, and he was second only to the great buck in his status here. He knew enough to avoid the great buck, and he thought he knew enough to avoid hunters. He’d spent his first two winters in the heavily gunned country along the river, and he’d moved up into the ridges where there were fewer hunters and more acorns.
And sweet clover.
Every night, he came to the meadow to eat clover and spar with the lesser bucks. He’d come to regard clover as the finest thing a deer could eat. He craved it, and though he knew the scent of man would occasionally waft through on the breeze, he wasn’t particularly cautious.
He came to the oak grove and ate a few acorns, but then he caught the scent of the little estrus doe. It was wafting in from the meadow. Clover and mating in the same morning were a prospect that the six-pointer just could pass up, so he began his approach to the meadow.
The great buck watched all of this from his position in the beech thicket. He knew that this six-pointer was about to make a big mistake. The great buck settled down in the thicket again, rotating his ears toward the meadow.He knew the sound of gunfire would be piercing the air at any second.
Five minutes passed, then ten. Then fifteen. At nineteen minutes, the shot rang out.
And then came the rush of hoofbeats. The does came running first through the oak grove as they charged through beeches onto the game trail that would take them to the opposite ridge.
They were panicked, but they would soon be safe.
Then came the six-point. Red blood was trickling down his leg as he bounded in the same direction. He was hit at the tip of the shoulder blade. The blade had reflected the bullet away from his vital organs, and so the only injury he had was a bullet wound on the shoulder. It was bleeding now, but it was likely that he’d recover
The six point ran and ran beyond the thickets of beech and cross three ridgetops before he dropped down in a thicket of greenbrier and tried to lick his wound.He had survived a hunter’s bullet. He was a lucky buck.
The great buck continue his long wait. He knew it wouldn’t be long before the hunter came to track the blood trail, and he knew the best thing to do was to stay put.
But he also knew that blood drew in coyotes, and the last thing he wanted was to be caught lying down when a pack of those blood-crazed fiends arrived on the scene.
He waited for an hour. Then two. Then three. The sun was beginning course way off the west now. He wondered why the man who shot the gun hadn’t come traveling down the blood trail by now.
As he waited, the wind began to kick up. A cold front was moving in. He could smell snow coming. Snow would make scenting harder. He hoped he could catch up to that little doe before the snow made her trail to hard to track down in the wind.
And then he caught the fainted scent of a coyote prowling.
It was a half mile away, but he knew it would be long before it caught scent of the blood and came this way.
He now knew he had to move. He knew of another thicket along the creek. It was a thick stand of red cedar trees, and when the snows got heavy, it was his winter bedding ground.
But to get there he had to cross a logging road, and for a few seconds he would be exposed to any hunters traveling along it.
But he had not heard any ATVs or human steps in that direction all day.
He knew he would have to risk it, and it seemed to a safer bet than hoping that coyote didn’t catch the scent of deer blood.
He stood up and rotated his ears in each direction. He smelled the air, and then began his bounding leaps toward the creek and the logging road.
He knew he couldn’t stop and smell as he made his descent. He had to make this journey in one good rush. If he stopped to scent the air, he could be asking to be shot.
So he kept on going.
He decided that he would stop and smell when he got to the logging road. That way, he’d know if a human was stalking along the creek, and if one were, he’d take game trail off the side of the logging road that would lead him into the cedar thicket from the opposite side of the creek. The trail’s creek crossing was surrounded by fallen cedars that were lying from bank to bank, so it would be impossible for a hunter stalking the creek to see him cross there.
He made it to the logging road. He stepped out into the middle of it, rotated his ears in both directions and tried to catch any scent in the air. It appeared to be all clear.
Until he caught movement out of the corner of his left eye. He turned his head to look at he movement.
It was a boy, not even as tall as a man, standing on the logging road not thirty feet in front of him. The boy was wearing an orange jacket.
And carrying a .243 rifle.
The great buck did not know what to do at this moment. For the first time in his life, he was paralyzed with fear. He could not make himself move.
But he knew he had just made an awful mistake.
The boy had shot two deer before. He’d taken an old, toothless doe the previous November, and then he’d dropped a button buck later that winter in a neighboring county.
He had shot numerous rabbits, squirrels, and grouse in his years as a boy hunter. He knew how to use the weaponry. He knew how to kill.
Every bit of his training had brought him to this moment, a moment that all hunters hope for:
The moment when one of those big boys messes up.
He could not believe his eyes for a few seconds. How could such a buck come running down to him and then stand before him broadsided on a logging road?
But the boy didn’t have time to let his mind register. He raised the rife and followed the creases on the great buck’s shoulder until he knew he was aiming at the heart.
He squeezed the trigger.
The bullet pierced the great buck’s hide. It blasted a hole in his heart, and he fell to the ground as the bullet came out the other side.
The great buck was dead.
Killed by a boy.
The boy could not believe what had just happened.
He walked slowly toward the mountain of deer flesh that lay before him. He touched the body with the tip of his rifle. He looked up to the sky as if to give thanks to some deity or to the forces of nature.
Then he ran his hands down the neck of the great buck. He felt the coarse hair down his neck, which made a kind of mane, and then he gently touched and counted the buck’s tips.
A cool, wet sensation graced the back of the boy’d neck. Snow was starting fall.
He thanked the buck for giving him his flesh, and he remembered an old German tradition that his grandfather had told him. When a man kills a deer, he should put a green twig in his mouth as the “last bite.” That last bite will nourish the deer’s spirit as it ascends to the next realm.
He thought it silly, but then it seemed oddly appropriate. He walked down to the cedar thicket and cut a twig off with his pocket knife. He placed the twig in the buck’s mouth.
He stood there in awe. He had an odd feeling of both pride and sorrow. Pride that he’d managed to take such an awesome beast but sorrow in that he’d taken the life of such an animal.
Suddenly, he heard the roar of an ATV coming up behind him. It was his father.
As the father approached the scene on the logging road, he knew what had just happened.
“Did ya get a deer?” The father asked as he shut down the engine.
“I guess so.”
“I’ll say…”
The father looked over the deer and counted the points of his antlers.
“He’ll dress out over 200 pounds. We’ll be eatin’ good this winter!”
He looked into his son’s eyes. He knew exactly how the boy was feeling.
The father spoke to him now:
“There is pride in taking a buck like this, but it’s also a sad thing. I bet that ol’ boy has been running this woods here for five or six years. You don’t get that big by bein’ stupid.”
“No sir.”
“I see ya did the old German thing with the last bite. Good idea. Always respect what you kill. You took a life, and that is a great responsibility. And I couldn’t be prouder of ya, even if you don’t always brush your teeth!”
“Just remember what I said about how huntin’ is mostly luck. You have to have the skills, but you’d better hope for luck. You got lucky this evenin’.”
“Did I ever! I can’t believe he just stood there and let me shoot him.”
“Deer are funny things. Maybe he was too embarrassed to have you walk up on him like that. And he just didn’t want to run.”
The father and the boy began to dress the deer, and the boy asked the father if he’d been able to find the deer he shot that morning. He said that he had only found the traces of blood and that he was sure he’d shot too high.
“Need to work on sighting in that rifle more. I’ll get him next time. Boy, them deer guts sure do stink. Them coyotes will be eatin’ good tonight!”
“They sure will!”
And the great buck was dressed and then hauled out the forest.
The boy pan-fried the buck’s heart in butter and ate it that night. His body would become steaks and burgers and venison jerky and sausage. A taxidermist would mount his head and neck hide into a trophy, which would be displayed in the living room. This deer would be honored.
The coyotes did come in on the gut pile that night and they fought and growled and whined over it all night long. There were six of them. And when the morning sun came over the snow-covered land the next morning, nothing was left for the crows and ravens.
And when deer season ended that year, the biggest buck killed by anyone in the county was the twelve-pointer dropped by a fourteen-year-old boy on a logging road. The only other buck that came close was an eleven-pointer that was dropped out in a hayfield along the river.
When the spring came, the doe that had bred with the great buck on the night before his death dropped two fawns. One was a buck, and one was a doe. The little doe fawn had a bad habit of leaving the thickets where her mother left her when she went to graze, and when she was only two weeks old, a coyote caught her standing up in the middle of a game trail. He made short work of her.
Her brother grew strong on his mother’s milk, and by the time October rolled around, he was a strapping little button buck. He romped and played with all the other fawns, and by now he was taking longer and longer journeys from his mother.
One late October evening, he wandered out into the clover meadow. He stopped to graze the sweet clover, and then he felt the oddest sensation. Something was watching him.
He looked up at a tree across the meadow. He saw nothing. But he kept looking.
He then saw the slightest movement and realized he wasn’t alone.
He just didn’t know what he was looking at.
He stomped his feet and let out a little wheezing bark and paced back and forth in hopes that he would make the tree creature move. But it never did.
And this frustrated him so. He wander back towards the oak forest. His nose caught the oddest scent. It was man, but was it man in the tree?
The man in the tree was the boy who had taken the great buck the previous November. This was his first time out with a bow. He wasn’t about to shoot a little button buck.
They don’t get big by being stupid, but they don’t get big if you don’t let them live.
He marveled at the beauty of a little deer in the autumn forest and wondered if that little buck was any relation to the one he’d taken last year.
He breathed in the autumn air and waited for the deer to arrive.
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Dateline—Liberated Paris
The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press
Ronald Weber
Vividly capturing the heady times in the waning months of World War II, Ronald Weber follows the exploits of Allied reporters as they flooded into liberated Paris after four dark years of Nazi occupation. He traces the remarkable adventures of the men and women who lived, worked, and played in the legendary Hôtel Scribe, set in a highly fashionable part of the largely undamaged city. Press jeeps and trailers packed the street outside, while inside the hotel was completely booked with hundreds of correspondents. The busiest spot was the dining area, where the clatter of typewriters combined with shouts of correspondents needing hot water to brew coffee from military powder. But the basement-level bar was the hotel’s top attraction, where famed war correspondents like Ernie Pyle, Walter Cronkite, A. J. Liebling, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner, Lee Miller, Marguerite Higgins, Irwin Shaw, Edward Kennedy, Charles Collingwood, Robert Capa, and many others held court while in the company of military censors and top brass. Weber uncovers the struggles between correspondents and Allied officials over censorship and the release of information, the heated press chaos surrounding the war’s end, and the drama of the second German surrender orchestrated by the Russians in shattered Berlin. The elation of total victory was mixed with the abrupt emptiness of a task finished. While work on the Continent remained for journalists, it now dealt with the slog of the occupation of Germany rather than the blood and glory of war. Yet Weber shows there were many reasons to carry on after VE Day in this delightfully entertaining account of the hotel where correspondents were regularly briefed on the war and its aftermath, wrote their stories, had them transmitted to international media outlets, and rarely neglected the pleasures of a Paris reborn until December 1, 1945, when the Hôtel Scribe was officially vacated by the American military.
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Subjects: History / Military / World War II
Ronald Weber is professor emeritus of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His books include The Lisbon Route, Hired Pens, Hemingway’s Art ofNonfiction, The Literature of Fact, and News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars, which sets the stage for Dateline—Liberated Paris. He has held research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Freedom Forum for Media Studies at Columbia University and has been a Fulbright lecturer in Europe. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Prologue A Hotel like No Other
Part I: Arriving
Chapter 1 The Canadian Connection
Chapter 2 Jeeping to Paris
Chapter 3 Mon Général
Chapter 4 PROs Move In
Part II: Staying
Chapter 5 Liberation Revels
Chapter 6 Good Quarters
Chapter 7 An American Crossroads
Chapter 8 The Hottest Noncombat Spot
Chapter 9 The Great Parisian Magnet
Chapter 10 Latecomers
Chapter 11 Upstairs
Chapter 12 Downstairs
Part III: Leaving
Chapter 13 Jeeping to Berlin
Chapter 14 Last Scrap of the Press
Chapter 15 The Guns Were Still
Chapter 16 Snafu Revisited
Epilogue A Hotel like Any Other
An inventive take on WWII nonfiction, Ronald Weber’s Dateline—Liberated Paris: The Hotel Scribe and the Invasion of the Press focuses on the Allied reporters who swept through the halls of the famous Hotel Scribe after the liberation of Paris. The Hotel Scribe was a landmark of 1940s Paris, its wooden bar a famous watering hole for war correspondents such as Ernie Pyle, Walter Cronkite, Marguerite Higgins, and Ernest Hemingway as they battled fitful typewriters and jumped through censorship hoops to send news of the waning war to their respective outlets. The corridors and dining halls of the hotel come alive on the pages, as do the streets of Paris as correspondents stretch their legs along the spared streets, recounting memorable museum visits and encounters with Picasso. VE-Day is portrayed in all its tearful, joyous glory, the streets filling with citizens celebrating the final breath of the war. Brimming with memorable anecdotes, photographs, and newspaper excerpts, Dateline—Liberated Paris is a love letter to the golden age of journalism set in the city of lights
— Foreword Reviews
Keen to attach a coveted “Liberated Paris —” dateline to their dispatches, five Canadian newsmen threaded jeeps through French crowds “mad with happiness” on Aug. 24, 1944. Their destination: the fashionable (and aptly named) Hôtel Scribe, the newest Allied press camp on the march from Normandy to Berlin. Though Nazi propaganda officers had abandoned the hotel only earlier in the day, the journalists succeeded in broadcasting word of the city’s impending deliverance from the rooftop that night. As recounted in historian Ronald Weber’s immersive “Dateline — Liberated Paris,” the Canadian reporters were the vanguard of an offbeat invasion force: By two months after D-Day, more than 900 Allied scribes had been accredited to cover the European theater. . . . Short of food, cigarettes, coal and public transport, Paris in the post-liberation period lacked “virtually everything needed for everyday life,” Weber writes. “Yet what it singularly had was itself, the magnificent and largely undamaged city that appealed as much as ever to the Western mind and imagination.”
The book profiles the well-known correspondents, as well as the lessor known. The book also profiles the brave and resourceful women war correspondents, such as Helen Kirkpatrick, Marguerite Higgins, and Ernest Hemingway’ then-wife, Martha Gellhorn, and his future wife, Mary Welch. . . . “Dateline Liberated Paris” is a well-researched book that covers how World War II was covered by the men and women war correspondents.
— The Washington Times
Paris’s luxury Hotel Scribe bursts to life in Weber’s engaging behind-the-scenes tale of its starring role as communications central for war correspondents at the end of WWII. This well-researched profile of the legendary establishment captures the euphoria of war reporting, picking up where the author’s last book (News of Paris) ends. Drawing on articles, letters, and journals from literary luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway, A.J. Liebling, and Janet Flanner, Weber reveals how these writers pursued their work and took their pleasure. Most daring are the female correspondents such as Helen Kirkpatrick, who traveled with a French armored division, and Iris Carpenter of the Boston Globe, who joined a French Resistance group for “nocturnal ‘Hun hunting.’ ” In Part I, the Occupation ends and newspaper writers angle for a scoop. Part 2 evokes the sounds of clacking typewriters as correspondents fill the reception area and the basement bar, and the book closes with the hotel’s evacuation, during which writers decamped to Berlin. There are anecdotes and titillating details galore—Charles Collingwood is described as receiving guests to his room at the Scribe in a red silk dressing gown, surrounded by Picasso paintings he’d won playing poker. This story of remarkable, brave reporters is a colorful and satisfying historical treat.
— Publishers Weekly
As WWII reached its final months in Europe, there was another invasion of Paris, by the Allied reporters who occupied the aptly named Hotel Scribe . . . Among those correspondents were Ernest Hemingway, Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, Janet Flanner, Charles Collingwood, Ernie Pyle, Martha Gellhorn, and Marguerite Higgins. . . . Weber skillfully depicts the frenzy and fraternity of this singular press camp, where journalists often clashed with military officials and censors but all were united by a common cause and energized by the thrill of victory.
When Andy Rooney reminisced about the Hôtel Scribe and the liberation of Paris, a wistful look would come into his eyes. He would deliberately elongate the double “e-e” sound in the French pronunciation of “Scribe,” savoring the memory. And what a memory! Rooney was a young reporter for Stars and Stripes when the Allied press corps descended on the City of Light in late August 1944. Then a teetotaler, Rooney decided to celebrate Paris’s liberation by uncorking a bottle of wine. How many hundreds, nay thousands, of bottles of wine and liquor were uncorked at the Scribe during the late summer and fall of 1944?
As Ronald Weber reminds us in his delightful Dateline—Liberated Paris, the great wartime photographer Robert Capa said of those heady days in Paris: ‘Never were there so many who were so happy so early in the morning.’
It wasn’t all toasting and boasting at the Scribe bar. As Weber relates, correspondents were engaged in often-vicious battles for big stories and exclusives. Given primitive means of transmission, there was no guarantee that their bosses would actually see their stories. Rooney’s big exclusive—he was an eyewitness to the 2nd French Armored Division’s leading-edge assault into the capital—never reached his editors at Stars and Stripes.
Fortunately, most stories composed in and around the Scribe got through. Even casual WW II buffs will enjoy Weber’s charming account of the tug-of-war between correspondents and Allied military officials played out in ‘a great city where everybody is happy,’ as the New Yorker’s inimitable A. J. Liebling put it.
— Timothy M. Gay, author of the Pulitzer-nominated Assignment to Hell: The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A. J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle
Richly researched and lucidly written, Dateline—Liberated Paris is an important and convincing work that commands the attention of those captivated by one of the momentous events of World War II: Paris’s liberation from Nazi oppression.
— John Romeiser, University of Tennessee Knoxville
A lively account of journalists in Paris after its liberation in World War II and the role of the Hôtel Scribe in bringing them together. Ronald Weber tells fascinating stories about the many legendary journalists who lived and worked at the Scribe under military censorship.
— Julia Kennedy Cochran, author of Ed Kennedy’s War: V-E Day, Censorship, and the Associated Press
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Book review: Chris Heffer , Frances Rock , & John Conley (eds.), Legal-lay communication: Textual travels in the law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 332. Hb. £68.
Kate J Haworth
Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Languages & Social Sciences
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Language in Society
https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740451700032X
The final publication is available via Cambridge Journals Online at
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Haworth, Kate J. / Book review: Chris Heffer , Frances Rock , & John Conley (eds.), Legal-lay communication: Textual travels in the law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 332. Hb. £68. In: Language in Society. 2017 ; Vol. 46, No. 3. pp. 433-435.
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Cathy Bow
College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society
Research Active Lecturer, College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society
Cathy Bow is a research associate in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. A linguist with research experience in both descriptive and applied linguistics, Cathy moved to Darwin to develop and manage the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages, and has also developed a Digital Language Shell for sharing Indigenous languages online. She is interested in the ways in which digital technologies interact with Aboriginal language practices, and is working on a PhD in this area through CDU and ANU.
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language Social Sciences
linguistics Social Sciences
resources Social Sciences
cultural heritage Social Sciences
orthography Social Sciences
missionary Social Sciences
Sustaining Australian Indigenous languages - how can technology help?
Bow, C.
Project: HDR Project › PhD
2 Conference Paper published in Proceedings
2 Other types of outputs
Choreographies of Magic and Mess: AusSTS in Melbourne and Darwin
Macdonald, J., Howey, K., Spencer, M., Bow, C., Schuberg, E. L., Norrington, L. R. & Campbell, M. J., 21 Aug 2019
Research output: Other contribution › Other types of outputs › Research
Diverse socio-technical aspects of a digital archive of Aboriginal languages
Bow, C., 2019, In : Archives and Manuscripts. 47, 1, p. 94-112 19 p.
Observing and Respecting Diverse Knowledge Traditions in a Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Materials
Bow, C. & Hepworth, P., 7 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship. 3, 1, p. 1-36 36 p.
Digital futures for bilingual books
Bow, C., Devlin, B. & Christie, M., 2017, History of bilingual education in the Northern Territory: People, programs and policies. . Devlin, B., Disbray, S. & Devlin, N. (eds.). Singapore: Springer, p. 347-353 7 p. (Language Policy; vol. 12).
Towards a unique archive of aboriginal languages: A collaborative project
Bow, C. & Mamtora, J., 3 Apr 2017, In : Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association . 66, 1, p. 28-41 14 p.
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Andrew Barron public CV
Andrew Barron
ARC Future Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences
Emailandrew.barron@mq.edu.au
Dr Barron is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Deputy Head of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University. He is a neuroethologist, which is a discipline of neuroscience studying the neural mechanisms of natural animal behaviour. Most of his research focuses on insects, especially honey bees. Using advanced techniques to visualise, manipulate, map and record from the insect brain Barron’s team has made important contributions to the understanding of fundamental behavioural systems such as cognition, navigation, social behaviour and learning and memory.
He also conducts research to improve honey bee health and welfare. He is studying how bees and bee colonies are impacted by pesticide and disease stressors, and how to best intervene to help bee colonies under stress.
Understanding animal minds
What is it like to be a bee? Are simple animals like insects cognitive and reflective entities, or are they more like robots: simple reflexive stimulus-response entities? Studying animal behaviour combined with studies of the mechanisms supporting behavioural capacities will give critical understanding of the nature of animal minds.
Modelling the insect brain
The insect brain is a complex cognitive microprocessor. This project combines experimental neuroscience with computational and mathematical modelling to explore the circuits and systems of the insect brain function and generate behaviour.
Honey bee health and welfare
This is not an easy time to be a bee. Pesticides, diseases, habitat degradation and climate change are all piling stressors onto honey bees. Honey bee colonies are failing at such levels there is concern we may not have enough bees to pollinate our food crops. This research program explores how we can best support bee health in the current challenging environment.
Department of Zoology, PhD, University of Cambridge
Natural Sciences, First Class Honours, University of Cambridge
Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Australian Research Council
President, Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY OF THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Vice-President, Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY OF THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Treasurer, Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, AUSTRALASIAN SOCIETY OF THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Fullbright Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois
Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney
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Bees Medicine & Life Sciences
Honey Medicine & Life Sciences
honey bees Agriculture & Biology
bee Earth & Environmental Sciences
honey Earth & Environmental Sciences
Apoidea Agriculture & Biology
Apis mellifera Agriculture & Biology
foraging Agriculture & Biology
ActiveAI - active learning and selective attention for robust, transparent and efficient AI
Barron, A. & Philippides, A.
Centre for NeuroRobotics plan A': matching funding for an international collaborative project
Barron, A.
An analysis of the distribution of degrees of intelligence across animal groups
Protecting vulnerable Australian honey bees
A new understanding of complex systems through study of self-assembled swarm architecture in ants
Reid, C. & Barron, A.
A comparison of honeybee (Apis mellifera) queen, worker and drone larvae by RNA-Seq
He, X. J., Jiang, W. J., Zhou, M., Barron, A. B. & Zeng, Z. J., Jun 2019, In : Insect Science. 26, 3, p. 499-509 11 p.
drones (insects)
queen insects
A maternal effect on queen production in honeybees
Wei, H., He, X. J., Liao, C. H., Wu, X. B., Jiang, W. J., Zhang, B., Zhou, L. B., Zhang, L. Z., Barron, A. B. & Zeng, Z. J., 8 Jul 2019, In : Current Biology. 29, 13, p. 2208-2213 9 p.
maternal effect
Effects of thymol on European honey bee hygienic behaviour
Colin, T., Lim, M. Y., Quarrel, S. R., Allen, G. R. & Barron, A. B., 25 Apr 2019, In : Apidologie. 50, 2, p. 141-152 12 p.
Apoidea
parasitic mites
Varroa destructor
Honey bees increase their foraging performance and frequency of pollen trips through experience
Klein, S., Pasquaretta, C., He, X. J., Perry, C., Søvik, E., Devaud, J. M., Barron, A. B. & Lihoreau, M., 1 May 2019, In : Scientific Reports. 9, 1, p. 1-10 10 p., 6778.
Long-term dynamics of honey bee colonies following exposure to chemical stress
Colin, T., Meikle, W. G., Paten, A. M. & Barron, A. B., 10 Aug 2019, In : Science of the Total Environment. 677, p. 660-670 11 p.
Australian Award for University Teaching
Andrew Barron (Recipient), 2012
Centre for Visual Science New Initiatives Fellowship
Prize: Other distinction
school research
Excellence in Research in Science and Engineering: Highly Commended
Faculty of Science Teaching Award
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13 Invited talk
6 Membership of committee
2 Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Australian Neuroscience Society Annual Scientific Meeting
Andrew Barron (Organiser)
Beecon
Andrew Barron (Invited speaker)
Animal Consciousness Conference
Re-use and Evolvability Workshop
International Congress of Neuroethology (Event)
Andrew Barron (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
The Connectomic Revolution: What the Insect Brain Can Tell Us About Ourselves
Ten years after the crisis, what is happening to the world’s bees?
Andrew Barron & Simon Klein
What it is like to be a bee: insects can teach us about the origins of consciousness
Andrew Barron & Colin Klein
Do Honeybees Feel? Scientists Are Entertaining the Idea
Insects could shed light on evolution of consciousness
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The ability of active versus passive coping tasks to predict future blood pressure levels in normotensive men and women View Full Text
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Susan S. Girdler, Alan L. Hinderliter, Kimberly A. Brownley, J. Rick Turner, Andrew Sherwood, Kathleen C. Light
Casual blood pressure (BP) after a 2-year follow-up interval was determined in 40 normotensive men and women (20 Blacks and 20 Whites), who had been initially tested for cardiovascular responses to a variety of active and passive coping tasks, including active speech, passive speech, reaction time, and forehead cold pressor tasks. Stepwise multiple regression analyses were used to identify the best model for predicting follow-up BP. Average systolic blood pressure (SBP) level during cold pressor stress was the single most powerful predictor of casual SBP over 2 years even after controlling for initial resting SBP. Other predictors of follow-up SBP were initial SBP, parental history of hypertension, and heart rate and SBP during passive speech (final model R(2) = .78). For follow-up diastolic blood pressure (DBP), the only significant predictors were initial DBP and male gender. These results contribute to a growing body of literature that suggests that cardiovascular measures observed during stressors have predictive validity above and beyond that of traditional predictor variables. More... »
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« C.S. Lewis în limba română
The Theme of Love in C.S. Lewis’ writings, especially in “The Four Loves” (II) »
04/11/2013 de scriptorie
Titlul original: The Four Loves
Autor: C.S. Lewis
Localitate: New York
Editura: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Articol de Valentin Teodorescu
C.S.Lewis starts The Four Loves confessing that when he first tried to write this book, he had a wrong image (or rather a very simplistic image) of the subject.
It seems that the-view he had then is common among Christians; before I read his book I had the same image too: the idea that the only true love is the love that gives, because the love of God is a Giving love (a Gift-love by definition). For that reason – in that perspective – we really love just in so far as our love resembles that Love which is God. In that respect, when we tell to our beloved: „I need you, I cannot live without you”, we do not really love him (or her). The real love is that love which says: I do not need you, I can live without you; in fact, exactly because I can live without you, and I am a complete person, perfectly fulfilled in my relationship with God, I can enter in a love relations hip. The goal in that relationship will be not to find my fulfillment, not to receive something (I am already fulfilled by God), but to give, to make the other happy.
This image is not bad (in fact the final arguments of C.S.Lewis are very close to these ideas), but it is not perfectly good because it is not complete. The reality of love is more complex – says Lewis. It is difficult, in his opinion to affirm that the Need-Love is not a real love, firstly because our love for God is – more than everything – a Need-Love. We come to God utterly aware that our whole being is one vast need, crying out for Him when we need forgiveness or support in our tribulations, or many other things.[1] On the other side, even in our daily situations, it is difficult, for example, to affirm that a child’s love for his mother, which is more than anything else a Need-love, is not a real love.
Thus, understanding the complexity of the situation, Lewis begins to analyze more deeply five kinds of loves: Loves for Sub-Human, Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity (Agape). In this essay, my interest will be especially focused on the last two kinds of love, Eros and Charity. But I will present also shortly the first three kinds of love, in the measure in which to understand them is absolutely necessary for a better comprehension of the last two loves.
As we will see, Charity (Agape) still remains the most important love; but the other four loves will be also accepted as true loves. In that way God’s Creation (in the area of affections) will be honored and redeemed.
1) Loves for the Sub-Human
Describing the Loves for Sub-Human, Lewis begins with a distinction between two Kinds of Sub-Human Loves. (The Sub-Human love is not the love for humans or even for animals, but the love for things; for that reason we may call them rather pleasures than loves. But in any case, they resemble very much the human loves). These types of Sub-Human loves are the Need-pleasures and the Pleasures of Appreciation.
An example of the first would be a drink of water. That is a pleasure when we are thirsty. But usually no one would drink a glass of water just for the fun of the thing. And in generally, as soon as we drink the water, this need-pleasure will disappear.
An example of the second would be the unsought and unexpected pleasures of smell – for example the breath from a garden with roses: We were in want of nothing, completely contented before it – the pleasure is an unsolicited, super-added gift.[2]
When Need-pleasures are in question, we tend to make statements about ourselves in the past tense: „I wanted that”. When Appreciative pleasures are in question, we tend to make statements about the object in the present tense „How lovely the smell is„.
The Need-pleasures – although not despised once we have had them – they certainly „die on us” with extraordinary abruptness, and completely. In the same way Need-loves, like the Need-pleasure, will not last longer than the need.
The Pleasures of Appreciation are very different. They make us feel that something has not merely gratified our senses, but claimed our appreciation by right: the rose deserves our full attention (the object of our interest itself is important); in drinking the water only our sensation matters (our thirst was satisfied), not the water itself. There is in the Appreciation’s pleasures (and in their correlate love), even from the beginning, an invitation to disinterestedness.[3] (Even if I like the rose, that does not mean that I want to posses it too).
Lewis shows us in a relevant example how these two loves function (and in addition to these loves, a third one, the Gift-love):
„Need-love says of a woman ‘I cannot live without her’. Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort and protection – if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist, even if not for him”.[4]
After discussing the nature of the Sub-Human loves – from a necessity to define some important terms which will be used in the following chapters of his book –, Lewis starts to present the four loves for the human: Affection (storge), Friendship (philios), Being in love (eros), and Charity (agape).
2) Affection
Affection is the humblest and the least discriminating love. It is manifested as a warm comfort of being with those people (or pets) who are familiar, even if they are very different from oneself. Affection teaches us to appreciate people whom we would not have chosen. For example we may say that we have chosen our friends and the woman we love for their various excellences: goodness, frankness, beauty, intelligence or wit. But it had to be a particular kind of wit or of beauty or of goodness.
The special glory of affection is that it can unite people who, if they had not found themselves put down by fate in the same community, would have had nothing to do with each other.[5]
The interesting fact about this love is that it has a somehow paradoxical definition: it is a Gift-love, but in the same time a Gift-love who needs to be needed.
An evident example in that sense i s the love of a mother for her children: she gives birth, gives suck, gives protection; in that respect she has a Gift-love. In the same time, sometimes she must give birth or die, or to give suck or die. And generally, a mother „needs to give” not only in the human world, but wherever in the living world (the animal world). In that respect her love toward her children is a Need-love too.
However, the Affections are not enough in themselves. Because they are in a sense Need-loves, they can be easily distorted.[6]
For example, we feed our children in order that they may feed themselves; we teach them in order that they may not need our teaching. The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in the state where he no longer needs our gift. Thus, the heavy task laid – upon Gift love in Affection is that it must work towards its own abdication. The instinct of Affection is to desire the good of its object, but only the good it can itself give.
For that reason a higher love is necessary – a love, which desires the good of its object, from whatever source that good comes. Otherwise the ravenous need to be needed will gratify itself either by keeping its objects needy or by inventing for them imaginary needs. Exactly this kind of distortion we can see in the mother of Michael, (in The Great Divorce), whose love for her child became obsessive and idolatrous, being „ready to have rather her brat in hell with her than to know him happy in Heaven but without her”.[7]
The same distortion of the Affection-love we can see in Till We Have Faces where Orual loves her sister Psyche with an Affection-love which she realizes only at the end that was selfish. This egoism can be shown by the fact that, in a subtle way, she is ready to rather separate her sister from the divine love – and in fact from Joy – than to lose the possibility of being with her and expressing toward her her own affection.[8]
3) Friendship
Lewis describes the friendship love as being the least natural, the least biologically necessary from the loves .
Friends are absorbed not in each other like lovers, but in a mutual interest. Friendship is the least jealous of loves, because its circle is not restricted to two; each new friend adds to the pleasure of all. [9] The very condition of having friends is that we should want something else besides friends: Where the answer to the question „Do you see the same truth?” would be „I see nothing and I don’t care about the truth; I only want a friend„, no Friendship can arise; though affection of course may; There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about. And friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing.[10]
An interesting thing about Friendship is the fact that when two people who discover that they are on the same road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass into erotic love. Unless they are physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later.
And conversely, erotic love may lead to friendship between lovers.[11]
Another interesting difference between Eros and friendship is that if Eros wants naked bodies, Friendship wants naked personalities. A real friend ship presupposes mutual openness. One of the great problems in the marriage of Jane and Mark Studdock (That Hideous Strength) is the fact that they stopped to be open to each other, to be friends; each one tries to have his own separate life.[12]
Like all loves (except Charity), friendship can be distorted; the shared interest itself may be dangerous or evil, or the interest may turn to a collective arrogance and isolation if the group takes pleasure in the exclusion of others, becoming an inner ring. That Hideous Strength provides a good example of what can be a good friendship (the group from St. Anne), and what can be a distorted and demonic friendship (the group from Belbury), when the shared interest of a group i s good or on the contrary, is evil.
4) Eros
4.1 Definition and clarifications; Eros and Venus
Lewis means by Eros that state which is called „being in love”.
It is important to understand that he makes here a distinction between Eros and what we usually mean by eroticism. Eroticism or Sexuality (which Lewis calls Venus) is not equivalent with Eros.
The sexual experience (Venus) can occur without Eros (being in love). In fact the history shows that the times and the places in which the marriage depended on Eros were as mall minority. In the same time, Eros includes many other things besides sexual activity. In fact, very often in the beginning Eros is simply a delighted preoccupation with the Beloved – a general preoccupation with her in totality. A man in this state really has not leisure to think of sex. He is too busy thinking of a person. The fact that she is a woman is far less important than the fact that she is herself. When at a later stage the explicitly sexual element awakes, he will not feel that this had all along been the root of the whole matter.
The difference between Venus and Eros is that Venus, the sexual desire, wants the thing in itself; Eros wants the Beloved. Without Eros sexual desire, like every other desire, is a fact about ourselves. Within Eros it is rather about the Beloved. It becomes almost a mode of expression, a metaphor.[13]
As we saw in the discussion about the loves for Sub-Human, in our love for another person (Eros) we meet all three types of love: the Need-love, the Gift-love and the Appreciative love.
What Eros is doing is to transform a Need-pleasure in the most Appreciative of all pleasures. The nature of a Need-pleasure is to show us the object solely in relation to our need. But in Eros, a Need at its most intense, sees the object most intensely as a thing admirable in herself, important far beyond her relation to the lover’s need.
Thus, Eros transforms a Need-love into an Appreciative love. And if Eros becomes in that way an Appreciative love, it is easy to understand why it naturally becomes also a Gift-love: when we really appreciate somebody it is easy to understand why we are so willing to offer him (or her) the best we have. In that respect Lewis’ idea that „Eros obliterates the distinction between giving and receiving”[14] becomes clear. It is natural both to desire and to be willing to offer when we admire someone.
4.2 The danger in Venus; the spiritual significance of Venus
Lewis considers that the greatest danger in Venus is that of taking it too serious; or in any case, with a wrong kind of seriousness. He felt that in his times people used to take Venus with a „ludicrous and portentous solemnization”.
On the contrary, in his opinion nothing is more needed in that respect than a roar of old-fashioned laughter. The motive is that „if we banish play and laughter from the bed of love, we may transform Venus in a false goddess”. That happens because Venus is a „mocking, mischievous spirit, who makes game of us”. When all external circumstances are fittest for her service, she will leave one or both lovers totally indisposed to it. Those who took her too serious will then be terribly frustrated; Those who deified her will have a lot of resentments, self-pities, suspicions and wounded vanities.
But sensible lovers laugh; they know that this is all part of the game.
It seems that is one of God’s jokes that a passion so apparently transcendent as Eros should be linked in incongruous symbiosis with a bodily appetite which, like any other appetites, „reveals its connections with such mundane factors as weather, health, diet, circulation an digestion. That is a continual demonstration of the truth that we are composite creatures: ‘rational animals’, akin on the one side to angels, on the other to tom-cats.”[15]
But Lewis considers also that there is a spiritual signification behind Venus that is very serious. In the very act of love we are not merely ourselves; we are also representatives. In us all the masculinity and femininity of the world, all that is assailant and responsive, are momentarily focused. The man ” does play the Sky-Father and the woman the Earth-Mother; he does play the Form, and she Matter”.
However, one should give full value to the word „play”. A woman, who accepted as literally her own her extreme surrender in Venus, would be an idolatress, offering to a man what belongs only to God. And a man would be a blasphemer if he arrogated to himself the sort of sovereignty to which Venus for a moment exalts him.
But in any case, these observations send us- in Lewis’ opinion – to the Christian mystery of marriage. Here we arrive to the well-known ideas from Ephesians that the husband is the head of his wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church.
In That Hideous Strength, one ofthe greatest problems that Jane Studdock should solve when she enters under the authority of God (Maledil), is to accept to be submissive to her husband- even if he does not deserve in fact her submission.[16] On the other side Mark, her husband, reali zes – after he escapes the demonic power of N.I.C.E. – that he neglected his wife, that he took for granted as his own possession, „a beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear”[17]. In other words he experiences „the humility of the lover”, discovering that he loved Jane at that moment but also that he no more deserves her love and patience. In that respect Lewis agrees here with Paul’s advises to husbands and wives in Ephesians 5.
However, this position does not necessary excludes the point of view which sees these commandments given to husbands and wives in the context of the calling to reciprocal submission (Eph 5:21).
Craig Keener observes that Christ’s love is explicitly defined in this Pauline passage not in terms of His authority but in terms of His self-sacrificial service (Eph 5:25-27). Paul calls the husband to serve her wife as Christ served the Church.[18] In fact, Lewis observes that: „the husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the Church – and give his life to her” (his underlining). His comment on this verse is that „the husband’s headship then is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be – in the context of a good marriage –, but in him whose marriage is the worst marriage possible, a marriage seen most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him”. „For the church has no beauty but what the Bridegroom gives her; He does not find, but makes her lovely.”[19]
4.3 The danger in Eros; Eros as a means of’Approach
The danger in Eros has for Lewis a certain similarity with the danger in Venus: to take it too serious. Eros tends sometimes to an obsessive preoccupation with the Beloved which can be an obstacle to the spiritual life.
In fact- as Lewis will explain later, when he will discuss about Charity – the danger will be not necessarily the fact that we love the other too much; rather that we tend to love him idolatrously. That means that we may love him too much in proportion to our love to God; but – as Lewis explains – it is the smallness of our love to God, not the greatness of our love for man, that constitutes the inordinacy.[20]
„There is grandeur and terror in Eros”. An example is very relevant in that respect. Everyone knows that it is useless to try to separate lovers by proving them that their marriage will be an unhappy one. This is not because they will disbelieve that. Even if they believed, they would not be dissuaded. For it is the mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the beloved than be happy on other terms. Eros never hesitates to say in situations like this „Better be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they will break together.” If the voice within us does not say this, it is not the voice of Eros.[21]
It is in this grandeur and beauty of Eros that the seeds of danger are concealed. He has spoken like a God. His total commitment, his reckless disregard of happiness sound like a message from heaven.
And yet it cannot, just as it stands, be the voice of God Himself. For Eros, speaking with that very grandeur and displaying that very transcendence of self, may urge to evil as well as to good. The love which leads to cruel and perjured unions, even to suicide-pacts and murder, may be Eros in all hi s splendor; ready for every sacrifice except renunciation. For that reason, says Lewis, we must not give unconditional obedience to the voice of Eros when he speaks most like a God.
But neither must we ignore or attempt to deny the god-like quality. This love is really and truly like Love Himself. In it there is a real nearness to God (by Resemblance); but not, therefore and necessarily, a „nearness of Approach”. However, Eros may become in us even a means of Approach. His total commitment is a paradigm or example – built in our natures – of the love we ought to exercise towards God and Man. In that way, Eros gives content to the word Charity (agape). It is as if Christ said to us through Eros: „Thus, just like this, not counting the cost, you are to love me and the least of my brethren.”[22]
It is very relevant in that sense the signification of the personage Psyche in Till He Have Faces. Beyond the fact that she is a Christ-like figure in the novel, she also represents „the perfect humanity”: by her total love and obedience toward her lover, Eros, and by her longing for the eternal realm „where beauty, truth and love are not corrupted as they are on earth”[23] The typological analogy between Eros-love and Charity-love, and the idea of Eros as a means of approach are even more clear when we understand that in the novel the god Eros is only a metaphor for God.[24]
In any case, some people – with Eros as their fuel – will enter in the married life. As we will see later, in the married life Eros will never be enough; it will survive only if it is continually chastened and corroborated by higher principles.
As we already saw, the real danger is that Eros, honored without reservation and obeyed unconditionally, becomes a demon. (In The Great Divorce it appears as a manipulative tragedian, a personage who is in fact only a mask of a real person; But a mask with such a force that in the end it devours its owner).[25] Lewis develops this idea more clearly: he considers the real danger in the marriage is not so much the fact that the lovers might idolize one another. In fact, he observes that „the deliciously plain prose and businesslike intimacy of married life render it absurd”.[26] Even in courtship he questions whether anyone that has felt the thirst for the uncreated or ever dreamed of feeling it, ever supposed that the Beloved could satisfy it. The real danger seems to him not that the lovers will idolize each other, but that they will idolize Eros himself. That idolatry can be seen very clear when the pair says to one another: „It is for the love sake that I neglected my parents, left my children, cheated my partner, failed my friend at his greatest need.”[27] Somehow, love seems to be a kind of god who can legitimate all kind of ugly acts, that we would never have accepted in any other situations.
And what is stranger than everything is the fact that Eros, whose voice seems to speak from the eternal realm, is not himself necessary permanent. He is notoriously the most mortal of our loves. And what is baffling is „the combination of his fickleness with his protestations of permanency”.
Because to be in love is both to intend and to promise lifelong fidelity. As Chesterton pointed out, those who are in love have a natural inclination to bind themselves by promises. Love songs all over the world are full of vows of eternal constancy. (The Christian law is not forcing upon passion of Eros something which is foreign to that passion’s own nature: it is only demanding that lovers should take seriously something which their passion of itself impels them to do ).[28]
But – as we know –, „Eros is driven to promise what Eros himself cannot perform”. We all heard of people who are in love again every few years; each time sincerely convinced that „this time it’s the real thing”, that their wanderings are over, that they found their true love and will them selves be true till death. And unfortunately even between the best possible lovers Eros i s intermittent. When they are in passion, it is very easy for them to be altruists, to consider personal happiness a triviality and to plant the interests of the other in the center of their being. But after a time the old self returns – as after a religious conversion.
These lapses are common in a marriage. But they will not destroy a marriage between „decent and sensible” people. The couples whose marriage will be endangered and possibly ruined by these lapses are those who idolized Eros. They thought he had the power and truthfulness of a God. When this expectation is disappointed, they throw the blame on Eros or, more usually, on their partners.[29] Some good examples in that sense could be Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, whom that „deification” of Eros made them to commit adultery, and in the end to commit suicide. Another example (this time from reality), is the Romantic poet Shelley, who – for similar reasons – destroyed his wives (one of them committed suicide).
But Christian lovers know that in reality, Eros – having made his gigantic promise and shown them in glimpses what its performance would be like –, has „done his job”. He made the vows; it is they who must keep them. It is they who must labor to bring their daily life into a close accordance with what the glimpses have revealed. And all good Christian lovers know that „this program, modest as it sounds, will not be carried out except by humility, charity and divine grace”.[30]
[1] C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves, (New York: Harcourt, Inc. 1991), 3.
[2] Ibidem, 10-11.
[3] Ibidem , 12-16.
[4] Ibidem, 17.
[6] Margaret Patterson Hannay, C.S. Lewis, (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981), 221.
[7] C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, (HarperSanFrancisco: Zondervan Publishing House, 200 I), 97- 104.
[8] C.S .Lewis, Till We Have Faces, (New York: A Harvest Book, 1984), 304-305.
[9] M.P. Hannay, C.S. Lewis, 221; C.S.Lewis, The Four Loves, 61.
[10] C.S.Lewis, The Four Loves, 66.
[11] Ibidem, 67.
[12] C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength, (New York: Simon & Schuster , 1996), 13, 72-73.
[13] C.S.Lewis, The Four Loves, 91-95.
[15] Ibidem, 100.
[16] Lewis, That Hideous Strength, 117 , 316.
[17] Lewis, Ibidem, 380.
[18] Craig Keener, Paul, Women & Wives, (Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1992), 158-169.
[19] Lewis, The Four Loves, 105.
[20] Ibidem, 119, 122.
[21] Ibidem, 106-107.
[23] M.P. Hannay, C.S. Lewis , 124, 125.
[24] C.S.Lewis, Till We Have Faces, 304.
[25] Lewis, The Great Divorce, 117-127.
[28] C.S.Lewis, Mere Christianity, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 98.
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Publicat în 1991, Articole tematice, C.S. Lewis, Cărți de referință, Harcourt, Recomandări, Valentin Teodorescu | Etichetat Affection, agape, Charity, eros, friendhsip, Gift-love, Need-loves, Need-pleasure, philios, storge, Sub-Human, That Hideous Strength, The Great Divorce, Till We Have Faces | 2 comentarii
pe 11/11/2013 la 11:42 | Răspunde DanutM
This is a CS Lewis season. So, here is another text on Lewis, this time Valentin Teodorescu’s review of the author’s book The Four Loves.
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A good dog accidentally shot his owner in the chest
By Amanda Luz Henning Santiago 1 year, 2 months
While driving to the New Mexico desert for a jackrabbit hunting trip with his trio of dogs, Tex Harold Gilligan was shot by none other than his dog Charlie.
Charlie, the 120-pound Rottweiler-mix was sitting in the front seat of the car when he got his foot caught in the trigger of Gilligan's gun, accidentally shooting a round into his owner, according to ABC News.
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“It went through my ribs my lung and busted up my collarbone on the right side," Gilligan told ABC News. "I had a gaping hole, you know, and a lot of blood there too.”
Upon realizing that he had been shot, Gilligan called 911, and was airlifted to the hospital shortly after his call.
“The incident left him with three broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken scapula,” Kelly Jameson, a spokesperson for New Mexico's Doña Ana County Sheriff's office, told ABC News.
Despite being in critical condition, one of Gilligan's primary concerns after he was shot was making sure that all of his dogs were OK.
The three pooches were taken to a county shelter following the shooting, but Gilligan asked that his pups be removed from "doggy jail" —even Charlie, local KRQE News reports.
The faithful dog owner initially told authorities that he shot himself by accident, but later admitted Charlie had unintentionally pulled the trigger, ABC News reports.
“[Charlie] did not mean to do it,” Gilligan, who quickly forgave his pup, told ABC News. "He's a good dog."
Gilligan was treated for his bullet wound and has since been moved out of intensive care, according to KRQE. And, we're assuming that Charlie is fine, if not a little embarrassed by his misstep, no pun intended.
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TOPICS: Go-Jek, ethereum, New Mexico, Accidental Shooting, Culture
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Balloon-borne electron telescope with scintillating fibers
Shoji Torii, Jun Nishimura, Katsuaki Kasahara, Nobuhito Tateyama, Tadahisa Tamura, Kenji Yoshida, Takamasa Yamagami, Shigeo Ohta, Mitiyoshi Namiki, Tadashi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Murakami, Toshinori Yuda
We describe a new balloon-borne cosmic-electron telescope that incorporates a trigger system and an imaging calorimeter. It is designed to observe high-energy electrons with an energy greater than 10 GeV. The rejection of the background protons is performed by using the trigger system in real time and the off-line analysis of three-dimensional shower profiles observed in the imaging calorimeter. The calorimeter consists of scintillating-fiber belts, emulsion plates and lead plates (approximately 8r.1.thick in total). In order to observe the direction of showers, two belts in each depth are set at right angles with each other. Image intensifier is used to amplify the number of photons from scintillating fibers, and CCD camera is attached at the output window of the image intensifier. The telescope was launched at Sanriku Balloon Center, and it was flown for 12 hours at the level altitude. By preliminary analysis, we observed about 700 electrons over 10 GeV under 4g cm -2 of average residual atmosphere. The flux of electrons is consistent with previous observations.
Brian D. Ramsey, Thomas A. Parnell
Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions - Denver, CO, USA
Duration: 1996 Aug 5 → 1996 Aug 7
Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions
Image intensifiers (electron tube)
Torii, S., Nishimura, J., Kasahara, K., Tateyama, N., Tamura, T., Yoshida, K., ... Yuda, T. (1996). Balloon-borne electron telescope with scintillating fibers. In B. D. Ramsey, & T. A. Parnell (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (Vol. 2806, pp. 145-154)
Balloon-borne electron telescope with scintillating fibers. / Torii, Shoji; Nishimura, Jun; Kasahara, Katsuaki; Tateyama, Nobuhito; Tamura, Tadahisa; Yoshida, Kenji; Yamagami, Takamasa; Ohta, Shigeo; Namiki, Mitiyoshi; Kobayashi, Tadashi; Murakami, Hiroyuki; Yuda, Toshinori.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. ed. / Brian D. Ramsey; Thomas A. Parnell. Vol. 2806 1996. p. 145-154.
Torii, S, Nishimura, J, Kasahara, K, Tateyama, N, Tamura, T, Yoshida, K, Yamagami, T, Ohta, S, Namiki, M, Kobayashi, T, Murakami, H & Yuda, T 1996, Balloon-borne electron telescope with scintillating fibers. in BD Ramsey & TA Parnell (eds), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. vol. 2806, pp. 145-154, Gamma-Ray and Cosmic-Ray Detectors, Techniques, and Missions, Denver, CO, USA, 96/8/5.
Torii S, Nishimura J, Kasahara K, Tateyama N, Tamura T, Yoshida K et al. Balloon-borne electron telescope with scintillating fibers. In Ramsey BD, Parnell TA, editors, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Vol. 2806. 1996. p. 145-154
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Specific reactivity of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylanilide anions and its application to benzylation reagent
Tomoyuki Yamada, Shiori Tsukagoshi, Osamu Kitagawa
The reaction of methyl iodide with an anilide anion prepared from 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylanilide and NaH in CH3CN gave N-methyl anilide (N-alkylation product) as a major product, while in the reaction of benzyl bromide with the anilide anion in DMF, O-benzyl imidate (O-alkylation product) was obtained with almost complete selectivity. The treatment of O-benzyl imidate with alcohols and carboxylic acids in the presence of trifluoromethane sulfonic acid gave benzyl ethers and benzyl esters, respectively.
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Yamada, T., Tsukagoshi, S., & Kitagawa, O. (2017). Specific reactivity of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylanilide anions and its application to benzylation reagent. Tetrahedron Letters, 58(4), 317-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.12.009
Specific reactivity of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylanilide anions and its application to benzylation reagent. / Yamada, Tomoyuki; Tsukagoshi, Shiori; Kitagawa, Osamu.
In: Tetrahedron Letters, Vol. 58, No. 4, 25.01.2017, p. 317-320.
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Yamada T, Tsukagoshi S, Kitagawa O. Specific reactivity of 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylanilide anions and its application to benzylation reagent. Tetrahedron Letters. 2017 Jan 25;58(4):317-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.12.009
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Article| April 04 2011
Runx1 modulates adult hair follicle stem cell emergence and maintenance from distinct embryonic skin compartments
Karen M. Osorio
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Karin C. Lilja
Tudorita Tumbar
Correspondence to Tudorita Tumbar: tt252@cornell.edu
J Cell Biol (2011) 193 (1): 235–250.
https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201006068
related: Wnt sends mixed signals in the skin
Karen M. Osorio, Karin C. Lilja, Tudorita Tumbar; Runx1 modulates adult hair follicle stem cell emergence and maintenance from distinct embryonic skin compartments. J Cell Biol 4 April 2011; 193 (1): 235–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201006068
Runx1 controls hematopoietic stem cell emergence and hair follicle stem cell (HFSC) activation and proliferation in adult skin. Here we use lineage tracing and mouse genetic manipulation to address the role of Runx1 in the embryonic development of HFSCs. We find Runx1 is expressed in distinct classes of embryonic skin precursors for short-term HF progenitors, adult HFSCs, and mesenchymal progenitors. Runx1 acts in the embryonic epithelium for timely emergence of adult HFSCs and short-term progenitors, but is dispensable for both of them. In contrast, Runx1 is strictly needed in the embryonic mesenchyme for proper adult HFSC differentiation and long-term skin integrity. Our data implicate Runx1 in epithelial cell adhesion and migration and in regulation of paracrine epithelial–mesenchymal cross talk. The latter involves Lef1 and Wnt signaling modulation in opposing directions from two distinct skin compartments. Thus, a master regulator of hematopoiesis also controls HFSC emergence and maintenance via modulation of bidirectional cross talking between nascent stem cells and their niche.
The embryonic factors regulating adult-type stem cell (SC) emergence during morphogenesis and the long-term impact of these factors on adult homeostasis are largely obscure (Slack, 2008). The organ rudiments can arise from distinct short-lived “primitive” progenitors before or in parallel with the emergence of long-lived “definitive” adult tissue SCs (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008; Lepper et al., 2009; Messina and Cossu, 2009). Adult blood SCs are set aside during morphogenesis to regenerate the tissue later on in life and their emergence is controlled by a master transcription factor, Runx1 (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008). Hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) originate in the embryonic hair placodes, and acquire some adult-type characteristics before birth (Levy et al., 2005; Nowak et al., 2008). Here we use Runx1 as an entry point to examine the mechanisms controlling the embryonic development of adult mouse HFSCs.
The skin epithelium—epidermis, HFs, and sebaceous gland (SG)—is made of keratinocytes, whereas the skin mesenchyme (dermis) is made mainly of fibroblasts (Blanpain and Fuchs, 2009). Mouse hair development begins in the embryo and occurs in three waves forming: (a) guard hairs (embryonic day [E] ∼14.5), representing only 2–10% of the mouse pelage; (b) auchene and awl hairs (∼E16.5); and (c) zig-zag hairs (postnatal day [PD] ∼0; Schneider et al., 2009). Due to these waves there is a mix of HF developmental stages (placode, germ, and bulbous peg) in embryonic skin (Fig. S1 A). By birth all HFs are specified and continue to mature up to PD8 (Paus et al., 1999; Schmidt-Ullrich and Paus, 2005). The bulbous peg contains the matrix (M), a class of short-lived HF progenitors (Legué and Nicolas, 2005), which proliferate and differentiate pushing cells upward to generate the inner layers (ILs) of the HF: the hair shaft, and the inner root sheath (IRS). These are surrounded by the outer root sheath (ORS), where adult HFSCs cluster in the hair “bulge” zone (Fig. S1 B; Fuchs, 2009). PD17 marks the end of hair morphogenesis and the start of the first adult hair cycle. This occurs in cyclic and relatively synchronous phases of degeneration and apoptosis (catagen), rest and quiescence (telogen), and growth and proliferation (anagen; Schneider et al., 2009). Signals from the dermal papillae (DP), a mesenchymal hair structure, and the environment activate HFSCs to migrate down and regenerate the matrix (Blanpain and Fuchs, 2009; Zhang et al., 2009).
Several molecular players such as Bmp, Wnt, and Lhx2 regulate both morphogenesis and adult hair cycle (Schneider et al., 2009). Conversely, Sox9, NFATc1, and Stat3 regulate adult HFSCs but not hair morphogenesis (Sano et al., 1999; Vidal et al., 2005; Horsley et al., 2008; Nowak et al., 2008).
Few transcription factors have been shown to regulate both blood and HF-differentiated cell lineages (DasGupta and Fuchs, 1999; Kaufman et al., 2003). Previously we showed Runx1, a blood master regulator, to be important in adult HFSC activation, proliferation, and hair homeostasis (Osorio et al., 2008; Hoi et al., 2010), while others also found it important in the terminal differentiation of the hair shafts (Raveh et al., 2006). Here we find embryonic Runx1 expression in distinct skin compartments essential for proper development and long-term integrity of skin and HFs. Runx1 modulates Lef1 and Wnt signaling in a paracrine fashion and in opposing directions from the epithelial versus mesenchymal skin layers by de-regulating expression of secreted Wnt-regulatory molecules.
Runx1 is dynamically expressed in the skin epithelium and mesenchyme during HF development
Previously, Runx1 was reportedly expressed in mouse skin mesenchyme at E14.5 and E18.5 and in HFs at E18.5 (Raveh et al., 2006). We reexamined in detail Runx1-LacZ embryonic skin (North et al., 2002) and in addition performed antibody staining at E12.5, 13.5, 14.5, 16.5, and 17.5. Not previously reported, at E12.5 we found rare X-Gal+ cells localized to the single layer of ectoderm surrounding the body, whereas later on we detected some X-Gal+ cells in the epithelium of hair placodes and germs (Fig. 1 A). The X-Gal signal was strong in cells of the upper HF and weak and sometimes absent (especially in the placode) in the lower HF. As previously reported (Raveh et al., 2006), the bulbous peg showed strong X-Gal in centrally located cells that were likely the precortex and preIRS (Fig. 1 A, right). From E14.5 to E17.5, we found X-Gal+ cells in the mesenchyme including the dermal condensate and papillae, made of fibroblast (Fig. 1 A), as reported previously (Raveh et al., 2006). LacZ also colocalized rarely in the dermis with markers for blood and endothelial cells (Fig. S3). Immunofluorescence with a Runx1-specific antibody previously generated (Chen et al., 2006) confirmed the Runx1-LacZ skin expression pattern (Fig. 1 B).
Runx1 expression in the embryonic epithelium largely resembled (although was generally broader than) that of ORS and bulge markers Sox9 and NFATc1 (Vidal et al., 2005; Horsley et al., 2008; Nowak et al., 2008; Fig. 1, C, D, and D′; and unpublished data). Thus, developing HFs expressed Runx1 highly in the upper zone thought to contain precursors of adult HFSCs, and weakly in the lower follicle likely including the prematrix cells, which generate the first differentiated hair shafts. Moreover, unlike adult skin (Raveh et al., 2006; Osorio et al., 2008), embryonic skin showed Runx1 protein expression in the mesenchyme.
Lineage tracing shows that Runx1-expressing embryonic cells contribute to postnatal mesenchymal skin and distinct epithelial HF lineages
To understand the fate of embryonic Runx1-expressing cells, we performed lineage-tracing experiments during hair morphogenesis. We used Runx1-driven CreER-expressing mice (Samokhvalov et al., 2007) inducible by tamoxifen to turn on the Rosa26 (R26R) reporter (Soriano, 1999) and express stably LacZ in Runx1+ cells and their progeny. Tamoxifen injected daily for 2, 3, and 4 consecutive days in pregnant females resulted in weak X-Gal staining 2 d after last injection. By PD0 the X-Gal+ cells were still scarce in HF epithelium, suggesting rare cells labeling in the hair rudiments (Fig. S2, A and B; and Fig. 2 D). Mice injected 3x (E12.5, 13.5, 14.5; Fig. 2 A) showed X-Gal labeling in many upper dermal cells, DP (10% of HFs), and HF epithelium (7% of HFs; Fig. 2, B–D, n = 3 mice). CreER recombinase reportedly works 6–36 h after tamoxifen injection (Zervas et al., 2004) and most likely labeled HFs of the first hair morphogenetic wave (placodes and germs), and some placodes of the second wave, typically ongoing at ∼E16.5 (Fig. S1 A). All labeled HFs detected at PD0 showed patches of X-Gal+ and X-Gal− cells, supporting the polyclonal HF origin (Fig. 2 D). In summary, Runx1+ hair placode cells marked skin progenitor cells that by birth contributed progeny to the HF epithelium, DP, and upper dermal cells. The Runx1-CreER allele appeared highly inefficient in the HF and DP, but showed considerable efficiency in the upper dermis.
The distribution of the rare X-Gal+ cells in the HF epithelium in thin and thick 90-µm sections at PD0 could be classified in three main labeling patterns: (1) exclusive ORS pattern (35% of all labeled HFs); (2) exclusive matrix and inner layer (M/IL) pattern (18%) with any X-Gal+ cells in the lower bulb and matrix cells, the hair shaft, inner root sheath, inner preSG, and/or hair canal (the inner portion of the infundibulum); and (3) complex pattern (38%), which was a combination of both M/IL and ORS (Fig. 2, D and G). The remaining 10% labeled HF were hair pegs that had not yet developed distinguishable inner layers by this developmental stage (Fig. 2 G and Fig. S2 C).
By PD5 HFs differentiated and produced M/IL with distinct hair shafts (Fig. 2, E and G). The frequency of labeled HFs was 5–9% (Fig. 2 C, n = 2 mice and ∼1,870 HFs). Complex patterns remained roughly the same as for PD0 analysis (∼42% of all labeled HFs), while exclusive ORS patterns increased to ∼56% (Fig. 2 G). This increase was likely due to the contribution of X-Gal+ cells detected in the hair pegs at PD0 to the ORS of the PD5 HFs. In contrast, the frequency of the M/IL-exclusive pattern dropped to ∼2% (Fig. 2 G), likely because many of these lineages appeared to be shed at PD0 into the squames of the epidermis through the hair canal (Fig. 2 D). Moreover, X-Gal+ cells were exclusively present in the hair canal in nearly 3x more HFs at PD5 than at PD0 (3% vs. ∼9%; Fig. S2 D). This was likely because X-Gal+ cells from the M/IL (detected at PD0) had been pushed upward by newly generated X-Gal–negative cells from underneath (by PD5), without concomitant self-renewal of the matrix cells. When counted overall, 98% of labeled HFs contained ORS labeling at PD5 and 56% was exclusive ORS labeling. Exclusive ORS labeling persisted at late stages of HF morphogenesis as shown by X-gal analysis at PD13 (Fig. 2 F, left; and Fig. S2 E). In conclusion, Runx1+ progenitor cells from the early embryonic HF morphogenesis (placode and germ) contributed cells to ORS and/or to M/IL, two lineages considered independent during distinct times of morphogenesis (Legué and Nicolas, 2005; Nowak et al., 2008; and see Discussion). The ORS contribution was most substantial and persisted through late stages of postnatal morphogenesis.
Runx1+ HF cells increased in numbers by late embryogenesis (Fig. 1), and we marked them by tamoxifen injections at E14.5, 15.5, and 16.5 (Fig. 2 A, right). By this time HFs of the second hair growth wave were predominant and reached the placode and germ stages, whereas the few HFs of the first wave were in the early hair peg stage (Fig. S1 A). Because of prolonged Cre activity (see above and Zervas et al., 2004), some advanced pegs and bulbous peg (from ∼E17.5–18.5), including cells of the precortex and preIRS, were also likely labeled.
In PD0 mouse skin from the late induction scheme we detected 18% X-Gal+ HFs (Fig. 2 C, n = 3 mice, 1,300 HFs; Fig. S1 B, bottom). Similar to the early induction, the PD0 dermis also showed X-Gal labeling that was largely lost by PD5 (Fig. S2 F). In the HF epithelium we detected complex labeling pattern (65% of all labeled HFs), M/IL-only (27%), and ORS-only (7%) (Fig. 2 H). When considered together, 93% of all late-labeled HFs showed contribution from the Runx1+ progenitor cells to the M/IL compartments. The distribution of the three HF-labeling patterns remained roughly the same at PD0 and PD5 (Fig. 2 H, red bars). An interesting side observation was the high frequency of HFs with X-Gal+ cells in the hair canal (∼30% of all labeled HFs; Fig. S2 D). In addition, while X-Gal labeling generated by early injection remained strong and relatively constant from E17.5 to PD0 to PD5, the late induction X-Gal labeling was markedly reduced from the dermis and HFs (Fig. 2 C, Fig. S2 F; n = 2 mice, 1,200 HFs), suggesting that the late-embryonic cells were shorter-lived cells (some of which were already part of the precursors of the inner layers) than the early Runx1+ embryonic cells.
In summary, these lineage-tracing experiments can be interpreted as follows: (a) early embryonic Runx1+ epithelial cells were HF progenitors that contributed most substantially to the ORS and were stably maintained during postnatal morphogenesis; (b) Runx1+ epithelial cells from late HF morphogenesis contributed substantially to M/IL, which generated the first hair shaft and inner layers, and were massively lost in postnatal morphogenesis (see Discussion); and (c) early but not late Runx1+ mesenchymal cells showed contribution to the upper dermis and to the DP during postnatal morphogenesis.
Runx1-expressing embryonic cells are precursors of adult HFSCs
To ask if adult HFSCs originate in embryonic Runx1+ cells, we assessed the contribution of Runx1-CreER–marked embryonic cells to the adult skin. We injected mice with tamoxifen during the early (E12.5, 13.5, 14.5) and late (E14.5, 15.5, 16.5) stages of embryonic hair morphogenesis and examined the skin in adulthood up to 8 mo after several adult hair cycles (Fig. 3 A). In both schemes, X-Gal+ dermal cells were much diminished relative to morphogenesis (compare Fig. 3 B with Fig. 2 B; and see Fig. S2 F). X-Gal was also in some DP cells (Fig. 3 C, f), and in rare HF cells (∼7–10% of HFs) both at telogen and anagen (Fig. 3, C and D). In telogen HFs, the X-Gal+ cells were in the bulge ORS (Fig. 3 C, a and c), the inner nonproliferative bulge layer (Fig. 3 C, b), the infundibulum, and the SG (Fig. 3 C, d and e, respectively). In anagen HFs (PD26-PD31), X-Gal+ cells were detectable in the infundibulum, bulge, and bulb (matrix and the differentiated ILs including the newly generated hair shaft; Fig. 3 D). Quantification of these patterns is shown in Fig. 3, F and G. In addition, skin in anagen at ∼PD240 after several hair cycles showed persistent X-Gal labeling in the bulge, ORS, and M/IL, demonstrating the long-term self-renewal ability of the early Runx1+ embryonic cells from the hair placodes (not depicted). As seen before in morphogenesis, early Runx1+ embryonic HF cells or progenitors had a better survival rate into adulthood when compared with the late Runx1+ embryonic HF cells (Fig. 3 E). Taken together, these data demonstrated that emerging precursors of adult HFSCs from the developing hair rudiments expressed Runx1.
Delayed HF morphogenesis in Runx1 epithelial skin knockout
To test the role of Runx1 in the embryonic epithelial HF cells, we analyzed the embryonic skin phenotype of K14-Cre;Runx1Fl/Fl conditional knock out (cKO) mice (Vasioukhin et al., 1999; Growney et al., 2005). These mice grow hairs by PD9, but showed a prolonged first telogen (Osorio et al., 2008). Embryos and newborn pups looked normal in size and appearance and were born at expected ratios (unpublished data). E12.5 K14-Cre;R26R reporter mice showed targeting in ∼50% of the skin epithelium (unpublished data). Furthermore, K14Cre;Runx1Fl/Fl E16.5 skin showed no Runx1 staining in the fraction mice that was further analyzed (Fig. 4 A).
HF counts on skin sections stained with β4-integrin to reveal the basal layer and the ORS (Fig. 4 A), hematoxylin and eosin for contrast (not depicted), or alkaline phosphatase to mark DP and dermal condensates (Fig. 4, B and C) showed fewer follicles in Runx1 cKO than wild-type (WT) control littermate (Fig. 4 D). At E16.5, WT skin had many hair placodes and germs (second hair growth wave) and few hair pegs (first hair growth wave at this age; Schneider et al., 2009). There were 45% fewer follicles per field of view (FOV) in the cKO skin at E16.5 but not at PD0 (Fig. 4 D), indicating a delay in hair placode formation. Moreover, mathematical analysis of these data suggested that HFs were also impaired in their down-growth from placode to hair germ (Fig. S2, G and H). In conclusion, Runx1 loss in the early embryonic epithelium impaired timely hair placode formation and hair germ down-growth, and resulted in delay of hair morphogenesis, largely overcome by birth.
Runx1 loss impairs keratinocyte adherence and migration
Placode formation requires downward migration of epithelial cells, which polarize their cytoskeleton and invade the underlying dermis. Cells in the cKO hair germs appeared more crowded and lacked the regular tiled-pavement WT appearance (Fig. 4, E and M, and quantified in F; see also Materials and methods). This phenotype could not be explained by a potential increased proliferation of cKO cells at E16.5 (Fig. 5). Furthermore, cells in the placodes of cKO stained less with phalloidin, which marks polymerized actin filaments, and this was especially prominent at the placode leading edge (Fig. 4 M). Together, these data suggested potentially impaired downward migration and adhesion of epithelial cells in skin tissue upon Runx1 loss.
Runx1 is required for cultured keratinocyte long-term survival and proliferation (Osorio et al., 2008). To determine if Runx1 also played a role in keratinocyte cell adhesion we plated freshly isolated skin cells on different ECM factors: fibronectin (FN), collagen 1 (Col-1), and poly-d-lysine (PDL). By 24 h Runx1 cKO and WT keratinocytes attached similarly on all substrates tested (Fig. 4 I), but cKO cells showed a higher fraction of cells with larger overall area (defined by phalloidin staining; Fig. 4, G and J). This effect was also seen upon plating on mouse embryonic fibroblast layers (Fig. 4 H and unpublished data).
To test cell migration defects we performed in vitro scrape-wound closure assays on monolayers of primary keratinocytes freshly plated onto a collagen matrix. We photographed the wounded area using phase-contrast microscopy at 0, 8, 12, 24, and 31 h after wounding (Fig. 4 K and unpublished data) and found that the distance between edges decreased faster in WT than in KO (n = 4 WT and 4 cKO mice; Fig. 4, K and L, top graph). This was true even in the presence of mitomycin C, a potent inhibitor of cell proliferation (Fig. 4 L, bottom graph). Therefore, Runx1 loss impaired cell spreading and migration in vitro, which correlated with the detected high density of cells in the cKO hair germ in vivo.
De-regulated Lef1 and Wnt signaling pathway in Runx1 epithelial knockout skin
Next we tested the status of HF developmental signaling pathways such as Shh, Bmp/Tgfβ, Wnt, FGFs, and TNFs (Schmidt-Ullrich and Paus, 2005; Schneider et al., 2009). We FACS purified α6-integrinhigh, α6-integrinmedium (HF cells), and α6-integrinnegative (dermal cells) from E16.5 skin (Fig. 1, C and D). QRT-PCR and immunofluorescence of sorted cells confirmed, respectively, the expression of Runx1 mRNA, and a hair specific marker (keratin 17) in these populations (Fig. 6 B and unpublished data). QRT-PCR analysis of HF developmental factors (Nakamura et al., 2001; Andl et al., 2002) revealed significant changes of FGFRII, Wnt10a, and Lef1 in cKO versus WT sorted α6-integrinmedium cells (Fig. 6, A and C). Moreover, immunostaining of skin sections revealed down-regulation of Lef1, a transactivator of Wnt target genes, itself a Wnt-signaling target (Andl et al., 2002; Lowry et al., 2005) in cKO HFs (Fig. 6, D–F, K). These data suggested that Runx1 expression is required directly or indirectly for maintaining high levels of Lef1 in the skin epithelium. Intriguingly, in all four cKO mice analyzed Lef1 immunostaining signal was reduced not only in the skin epithelium, but also in many of the dermal cells adjacent to the HF (Fig. 6, D–F). This suggested a broad paracrine effect of Runx1 on Lef1 protein in both the epithelium and the adjacent mesenchyme. Furthermore, crossing the K14-Cre;Runx1Fl/Fl with reporter BAT-GAL mice, which carry LacZ downstream of an engineered Tcf/Lef enhancer (Maretto et al., 2003), showed broad down-regulation of Wnt signaling in E18.5 cKO skin in HFs at all distinct developmental stages, and this down-regulation extended into the dermis and DP (Fig. 6, G, I, and J). HF and epidermal differentiation lineage markers characteristic to skin were normal at E16.5 and PD9 (Fig. 7), ruling out that lower BAT-GAL signal in the embryo was due to absence of specific hair lineages that normally show high BAT-GAL activity. All these data suggested that Runx1 loss in the epithelium results in a generalized decrease in Lef1 protein and in canonical Wnt signaling in both the epithelial and mesenchymal compartments of the skin, and that Runx1 controls the epithelial–mesenchymal cross talk from the epithelium.
Runx1CreER targets Runx1 mainly in the skin mesenchyme and impairs adult HF maintenance
Next we asked if Runx1 might also work from the dermis to regulate the epithelial–mesenchymal cross talk. Dermal cells in the HFSC environment work as support or niche cells both in vitro and in vivo (Watt and Hogan, 2000; Fuchs, 2009). Runx1 was highly expressed in the embryo dermis (Fig. 1 A) and was turned off by PD8 (Raveh et al., 2006; Osorio et al., 2008). Runx1CreER embryonic activity was efficient in the skin dermis (Figs. 2 B and 3 B), but highly inefficient in the epithelium (7% of total HFs, which showed mostly rare labeled cells; Fig. 2 C). This allele was designed to result in a nonfunctional truncated Runx1 protein (Samokhvalov et al., 2007). Thus, we reasoned that a Runx1CreER/Fl induced with tamoxifen in embryogenesis (E12.5, 13.5, and 14.5) would generate an essentially mesenchymal Runx1 knockout. As expected, Runx1 staining appeared largely diminished in dermis but not in most HFs at E18.5 (Fig. 8 A). Further analysis of a Runx1CreER/Fl;Rosa26R mouse confirmed these results, and tracked the postnatal and adult fate of the Runx1 mutant skin progenitor cells (see following paragraphs).
The Runx1CreER/Fl-induced mice were born, but were generally cannibalized by their mothers, except one who survived to PD10 and showed a marked pigmentation of the skin and delay in hair shaft emergence (Fig. 8 B). To examine the skin phenotype in adulthood we grafted newborn Runx1CreER/Fl;R26R and littermates Runx1Fl/+ (WT) control skin, as well as control Runx1CreER/+;R26R skin induced with tamoxifen in utero (see Materials and methods) onto nude (immune compromised) mice (n = 4 Runx1CreER/Fl; R26R n = 2 control Runx1Fl/+;R26R). We again found a delay in hair shaft emergence and fewer HFs in induced Runx1CreER/Fl relative to control skin at 14 d post-grafting (PG; Fig. 8 B).
Next we analyzed Runx1 mutant and control skin at various stages for the distribution of X-Gal+ cells. As expected, we found many X-Gal+ cells indicative of CreER activity in a large fraction of dermal cells in skin sections from E18.5 and PD10 mice, lost by 90 d PG from both mutant and control mice (Fig. 8 C and unpublished data). In grafted Runx1CreER/Fl;Rosa26R-induced skin the X-Gal+ epithelial HF cells were found in ∼10% of Runx1CreER/Fl and ∼8% Runx1Fl/+ skin at PG37–56 (Fig. 8 E). Thus, skin progenitors tracked here survived into adulthood in the absence of Runx1 and were found in roughly comparable numbers in the different skin compartments. Rare exceptions of over-proliferation, likely attributable to local skin injury and inflammation, are not shown.
The skin and HFs appeared normal at E18.5 in Runx1CreER/Fl but by PD10 the shafts appeared bent in the hair canal, the skin was markedly pigmented, and the SGs enlarged (Fig. 8, B and C). By telogen the HFs of the Runx1CreER/Fl-grafted skin (post-grafting PG39) displayed even larger SGs, which eventually became cyst-like looking structures filled with sebum that lacked the bulb and bulge HF regions (Fig. 8 D and Fig. S4), while some skin regions lacked the HFs altogether (Fig. 8 C, PG93). The preferential differentiation of Runx1-expressing progenitors to SGs was also supported by our counts of X-Gal+ cells in induced Runx1CreER/Fl;R26R-grafted skin during anagen (PG37–39). These counts revealed higher X-gal+ cell numbers (relative to Runx1CreER/+ controls) in the upper HFs (SG and hair canal) at the expense of the hair bulb (lower ORS, matrix, and inner layers; Fig. 8 E).
The conversion of HFs to enlarged cystic SGs in the adult hair cycle (but not in morphogenesis) is reminiscent of the adult phenotype of a transgenic mouse expressing the K14-ΔN-Lef1 allele in the HFSCs from embryogenesis to adulthood (Lowry et al., 2005). Consistent with this observation, Lef1 immunoreactivity was increased in the E18.5 Runx1CreER/Fl skin mesenchyme, as well as in the upper hair epithelial compartment (normally containing the SC compartment with Sox9high, NFATc1high, Runx1high, and Lef1low expression; Fig. 8 F) and remained high in the bulge (a compartment normally negative for Lef1), at PD10 and PG37–39 grafted skin (Fig. 8 F). The generalized up-regulation of Lef1in the HFs (not confined to the 10% HFs lacking Runx1 in the epithelium) pointed to a paracrine effect of Runx1 in the mesenchyme to control Lef1 expression in the epithelium starting in embryogenesis and persisting into adulthood.
Because generalized increase Lef1 expression might impact on Wnt signaling, we generated Runx1CreER/Fl;BAT-GAL Wnt signaling reporter mice and induced Runx1 loss with tamoxifen at E12.5, 13.5, and 14.5. X-Gal signal was strikingly increased in both the mesenchymal and the epithelial compartment (Fig. 8, G and H; n = 2 WT and 2 Runx1CreER/Fl).
Because Runx1 is absent in adult mesenchyme (Raveh et al., 2006; Osorio et al., 2008), it was not surprising that induction of the Runx1CreER/Fl mice with tamoxifen at PD21 resulted in normal-looking skin later on in life (Fig. 8 H and unpublished data). In summary, loss of Runx1 in the skin embryo mesenchyme resulted in preferential differentiation toward SGs over hair bulb lineages and eventually loss of HFs. Given the similarity with previously reported Lef1 and Wnt mutant phenotypes (Gat et al., 1998; Merrill et al., 2001; Andl et al., 2002) and the de-regulation of Lef1 and Wnt signaling described here, it is likely the latter are major factors in mediating the role Runx1 plays in the embryonic skin mesenchyme.
Runx1 interaction with Lef1 and Wnt-signaling pathway
To understand how Runx1 loss induces opposing effects on Wnt signaling from the two skin compartments we performed QRT-PCR (SA-Biosciences) microarrays (n = 2 for each comparison). We compared epidermis or dermis from E18.5 embryos in which Runx1 was deleted either in the epithelium via K14Cre (cKO) or in the mesenchyme via Runx1-CreER (iKO). Data analysis was performed using the SA-Biosciences software, from which scatter plots for each comparison are presented in Fig. 9 A. As expected from the paracrine effect induced by Runx1 loss, we found that both the mesenchymal and the epithelial compartment from the two types of knockout skin showed transcriptional changes (Table S1). Dermis of the mesenchymal KO (iKO) showed mRNA up-regulation of Wnt16, a secreted activating ligand that is likely to elicit a broad effect on neighboring cells. The epidermis seems to respond to the Runx1 loss in the mesenchyme by mRNA up-regulation of several secreted activating molecules such as Wnt11 and Wnt5a, in conjunction with Fzd4 receptor, Wisp1, and Nkd1. All of these changes combined are consistent with the general BAT-GAL up-regulation detected in ikO skin (Fig. 8 G). In the epithelial Runx1 KO (cKO), in which BAT-GAL was down-regulated (Fig. 6), activating molecules such as secreted ligands Wnt11 and Wnt2b were down-regulated along with the Fzd4 receptor. The dermis responded to loss of Runx1 in the epithelium by up-regulating Wnt inhibitory molecules such Sfrp1, Apc, Gsk3β, and Nlk (Ishitani et al., 1999; Chien et al., 2009), and by down-regulating activating Wnt factors Bcl9 (Kramps et al., 2002) and downstream target Foxn1 (Balciunaite et al., 2002). The changes in mRNAs for many Wnt regulatory secreted molecules explain the paracrine effect Runx1 has from either of the two skin compartments. Not all the genes that significantly changed in our QRT-PCR analysis were consistent with the corresponding BAT-GAL signal for each type of Runx1 knockout (Table S1). For example, a few Wnt activators were up-regulated in the iKO and vice versa, some Wnt inhibitors were up-regulated in the cKO. This might suggest that compensation mechanisms could be triggered to counteract the effect of Runx1 KO in the skin, and might explain why some of the phenotypes described here (such as HF developmental delay in cKO) are transient. Alternatively, some of the molecules detected here (such as Wnt or Sfrp) can play opposing effects on Wnt signaling depending on the context (Chien et al., 2009). Clearly, more is to be learned about the interaction of these molecules in skin homeostasis.
Finally, we performed luciferase Wnt reporter assay in cultured keratinocytes transfected with a Runx dominant-negative form, Runt-domain (Sakakura et al., 1994; Hoi et al., 2010) fused with myc-tag and GFP and placed in a CMV expression vector (Hoi et al., 2010). Indeed, using previously generated Wnt assay DNA constructs (Zhou et al., 1995; Korinek et al., 1997; Gat et al., 1998) we found that Runt reduced the luciferase signal induced by ΔN-βcatenin and Lef1 action on a TOPFLASH reporter assay (Fig. 9 C). This suggested that appropriate levels of Runx1 activity might be important for amplifying Wnt signaling in conjunction with the core components of the canonical pathway.
Here we ask if the master regulator of hematopoietic SC emergence, Runx1 (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008), plays a role in the development and maintenance of adult HFSCs. We show by expression analysis and lineage-tracing experiments that Runx1 is expressed during embryogenesis in: (a) short-term HF progenitors that make the first hair shaft; (b) precursors of adult HFSCs; and (c) skin mesenchyme progenitor cells (Fig. 10 A). Runx1 expression in the skin epithelium modulates development and timely emergence of all the early precursors of hair lineages including those of the adult HFSCs, but is dispensable for the formation of all of them. In contrast, Runx1 expression in the embryonic skin mesenchyme is dispensable for early morphogenesis, but is crucial for specifying competent adult HFSCs that can be properly differentiated and maintained later on in postnatal life. Therefore, Runx1 works both in the SC environment (skin mesenchyme) and within the adult HFSCs precursors to set up the proper development and long-term function of adult HFSCs. Runx1 orchestrates cell adhesion/spreading and migration in epithelial cells and impacts Wnt signaling and Lef1 expression in opposing directions from the two skin compartments (Fig. 10 B).
Runx1 expression marks distinct precursors of adult HFSCs and short-term progenitors in the earliest stages of embryonic hair development
Previous genetic labeling tracked the fate of epithelial HF cells during morphogenesis, homeostasis, and injury (Legué and Nicolas, 2005; Levy et al., 2005; Nowak et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2009; Legué et al., 2010). Single-cell lineage tracing in postnatal morphogenesis showed exclusive labeling of either ORS or M/IL cells (Legué and Nicolas, 2005), suggesting that these are independent lineages at discrete stages of morphogenesis. Furthermore, Sox9-Cre marked bulk ORS cells, which did not contribute to the differentiated HF lineages matrix (M) and inner layers (IL) by PD7 (Nowak et al., 2008). In this context, our data in which we detect a large fraction of HFs labeled in early embryonic morphogenesis presenting either ORS or M/IL labeling by PD0, suggested that Runx1 was expressed in the distinct progenitors of these two lineages. In the future, using more specifically expressed factors, such as the ORS marker Sox9 or the early bulge marker NFATc1 (Horsley et al., 2008), would allow better resolution of the two populations likely existent in the hair placode.
Our genetic marking proved that the late Runx1+ embryonic cells have a lower survival rate than the early Runx1+ progenitors, as shown by the drop in total number of X-Gal+ HFs by late postnatal morphogenesis and in adulthood. Thus, most late cells contribute exclusively to hair morphogenesis (Fig. 10 A), resembling the “primitive” short-lived progenitors described for hematopoiesis (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008), whereas most early cells contribute progeny to adult hair homeostasis and long-lived HFSCs. Our detection of ORS-exclusive patterns throughout morphogenesis suggested that at least a fraction of the ORS/bulge cells might remain unused in morphogenesis for later use in adult homeostasis as stem cells.
Adult types of slow-cycling HFSCs were proposed to emerge at ∼E18.5, when HFs are already well formed (Nowak et al., 2008). Our study establishes the existence of a population of Runx1-expressing HFSC precursors largely committed to ORS and adult homeostasis at the earliest stages of hair morphogenesis in the hair placode. This provides another developmental example, in addition to that found in muscle and blood (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008; Messina and Cossu, 2009), in which the adult SCs emerge as independent lineages in the early tissue rudiments (Slack, 2008). Perhaps this developmental mechanism is common among SCs of regenerative tissues.
Embryonic Runx1 works in the epithelium for timely HF development and in the mesenchyme for adult HF integrity
When we delete Runx1 in the HF placode, the emergence of both short-term HF progenitors and precursors of adult HFSCs from the single layer of ectoderm is delayed. This is reminiscent of the role Runx1 plays in adulthood for timely induction of adult HFSC activation and hair regeneration (Osorio et al., 2008; Hoi et al., 2010). Wnt signaling plays important roles in HF morphogenesis and SC activation (Schneider et al., 2009). Thus, the down-regulation of Lef1 and Wnt reporter Bat-Gal in the epithelial cKO Runx1 skin might explain the delay in HF induction.
The skin mesenchyme is an important HFSC niche component (Schmidt-Ullrich and Paus, 2005; Plikus et al., 2008) and Runx1 is expressed there in embryogenesis but not in adulthood (this paper; Raveh et al., 2006; Osorio et al., 2008). Surprisingly, our deletion of Runx1 in the skin embryonic mesenchyme resulted in relatively normal morphogenesis, but induced a generalized defect much later in the adult epithelial skin. This included severe defects of the hair shaft propensity to span the skin surface and preferred differentiation toward SGs at the expense of the hair bulbs. Eventually this resulted in the regional loss of HFs later on in life, which were replaced by sebum-filled cysts. Given the similarity in this phenotype with a Lef1 epithelial transgenic mouse (Merrill et al., 2001), it appears relevant that Lef1 was up-regulated in skin in the mesenchymal Runx1 mutant. As seen in the epithelial knockout, the effect of Runx1 loss on Wnt signaling was not only confined to the Cre-targeted cells, but also spread out in the neighboring cells. In the HF epithelium the ectopic high expression of Lef1 was especially striking in the Runx1highSox9high upper HF compartment where the precursors of adult HFSCs likely reside, which normally express low levels of Lef1. This ectopic expression was maintained in adult HFSCs. Thus, it appears that Runx1 might work in the embryonic mesenchyme to repress noncell-autonomous Lef1 function in the precursors of adult HFSCs for their normal lineage differentiation and maintenance in adulthood (Fig. 10 B).
Our findings show that Runx1 loss perturbed the bi-directional balance of epithelial–mesenchymal interaction in the skin by playing antagonistic and paracrine effects on the Lef1 protein level and Wnt signaling in the two skin compartments. How can such complex function be achieved? Runx1 is known to work as a context-dependent transcriptional activator or repressor (Dzierzak and Speck, 2008). In fact, we found a different set of mRNAs of specific Wnt pathway members changed upon Runx1 loss in the epithelium versus the mesenchyme. Significantly, many of these factors are secreted molecules that can act as either activators or inhibitors on their mother cells and on neighboring cells, explaining the noncell-autonomous role of Runx1 in regulating Wnt signaling. The combined cell-autonomous and noncell-autonomous action of Runx1 appears critical to achieve the appropriate balance of Lef1 levels and Wnt activation in specific regions of the skin. These regional microenvironments orchestrated by Runx1 in the skin are critical for proper regulation of HF development, and for timely HFSC emergence, differentiation, and long-term maintenance.
Mouse work was approved by the Cornell University Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. K14-Cre/Runx1Fl/Fl mice were generated as described previously (Osorio et al., 2008). Runx1+/LacZ mice were maintained in the C57BL6 background. To generate K14-Cre;Runx1Fl/Fl; Bat-gal reporter mice we crossed an F2 generation of Runx1Fl/Fl; Bat gal+ to K14-Cre. Selection of the reporter cKO was based on genotyping for lacZ, K14Cre, and Runx1Fl/Fl (North et al., 1999; Vasioukhin et al., 1999; Growney et al., 2005). Control mice were WT littermates.
Lineage analysis studies and X-Gal staining
Runx1CreER males were mated to R26R females. Day of plug was counted as E0.5. Females received one daily injection for three consecutive days of tamoxifen (16 µg/g body weight) and progesterone (8 µg/g of body weight). At day 19.5 females were sacrificed, and pups were surgically delivered and transferred to foster mothers or sacrificed for tissue analysis. For 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indoxyl-β-d-galactopyranoside (X-Gal) staining, 10-, 20-, 50-, and 90-µm skin sections were fixed for 1 min in 0.1% glutaraldehyde in PBS, washed 3 × 1 h in cold PBS with 0.01% of NP-40 and 100 mM of sodium dexycholate. After incubation in X-gal solution (North et al., 1999) at 37°C for 12–16 h, slides were rinse in PBS and incubated for 3 h in 1 M NaCO3. Then the slides were washed in PBS, counterstained with hematoxylin, and mounted in 70% glycerol.
Nu/Nu females were anesthetized with avertin and injected with the pain reliever ketoprofen. Each female received a piece of skin from newborn Runx1CreER/fl;Rosa26R or Runx1CreER/+;Rosa26R mice that were induced with tamoxifen from E12.5 to E14.5. Graft was secured with bandages and gauzes. 2 wk after grafting the bandages were removed.
Histology and immunofluorescence
Immunofluorescence and hematoxylin and eosin staining (H&E) of skin tissue were described previously (Tumbar et al., 2004; Tumbar, 2006). In brief, the skin tissue was collected and embedded in freezing media (OCT), frozen on dry ice, and kept at −80°C for long-term preservation. Frozen skin sections were cut with a Microm HM550 (Richard-Allan Scientific), collected on slides, fixed, and stained. For alkaline phosphatase staining frozen tissue was fixed for 5 min in 2% formaldehyde, washed with 100 mM Tris-Base buffer 9.5, and incubated for 30 min in NCIB/DAB substrate. MOM Basic kit (Vector Laboratories) was used for mouse antibodies. Nuclei were labeled by DAPI. For S-phase labeling, BrdU (Sigma-Aldrich) was injected i.p. at 25 µg/g body weight in saline buffer (PBS) to pregnant dams. Females were sacrificed 3.5 h later and tissue was processed for further analysis (n = 6 cKO and 6 WT). Staining of skin sections was described previously (Tumbar, 2006).
Antibodies for immunofluorescence were from (1) rat: α6- and β4-integrins (1:150), BrdU (1:300; Abcam), α4-integrin (CD49, 1:200; Millipore), VCAM-1 (CD106, 1:200; BD), FITC-conjugated F4/80 (1:50 and 1:62; BioLegend), PECAM-1 (CD31, 1:100; BD), CD34 (1:150; eBioscience), biotin-conjugated CD45 (1:50; BD); (2) rabbit: β-Gal (1:2,000; Cappel), keratin 5 and keratin 17 (1:1,000; Covance), E-cadherin (1:500), LEF1 (1:700; Cell Signaling Technology), Runx1 (1:4,000; T. Jessel, Columbia University, New York, NY), Sox9 (rabbit, 1:500; M. Wegner, Erlangen-Nürnberg University, Erlangen, Germany), Ki67 (1:100; Novocastra), AE13 (1:50; Immunoquest), GATA3 (1:100; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), NFATc1 (1:25; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.), vinculin (1:100), phalloidin-TRed (1:250); (3) mouse: Hsp47 (collagen, 1:50–1:1,000; none worked), SMA (1:50; Thermo Fisher Scientific); and (4) hamster: FITC-conjugated CD11C (1:50; eBioscience). Secondary antibodies coupled to the following fluorophores: FITC, Texas red, streptavidin-conjugated Texas red, or Cy5 were purchased from The Jackson Laboratory. A detailed antibody staining protocol was described in a recently published methods paper (Tumbar, 2006).
Attachment and cell migration studies
Newborn skin was treated with dispase overnight at 4°C. Keratinocytes were isolated by treating the epidermis with 0.1% trypsin for 15 min at room temperature, followed by cell filtration and cell counting using a hemocytometer. For more details see Tumbar (2006). Cells were plated onto collagen 1, fibronectin, and poly-d-lysine–precoated microslides (Cell Signaling Technology). For attachment studies, 8-well microslides were used. In brief, 100,000 live cells were plated per well (n = 5 WT and 5 cKO) and 24 h later cells were fixed in 4% PFA and stained with vinculin, phalloidin, and DAPI. The total number of cells was counted per well in 24 pictures at 10x for each well (2 wells per sample) and analyzed using ImageJ (n = 5 WT and 5 KO).
For migration studies, 4-well collagen-precoated microslides were used. One million cells were plated per well and 36 h after plating a small scratch was made with a pipette tip. Pictures were taken at different time points after the wound. Wound healing was analyzed using ImageJ.
Image acquisition and processing
Image acquisition was performed with a fluorescent Nikon microscope equipped with a Retiga Exi camera (MVI) using the IP-Laboratory software. Transmitted light microscopy images were collected using phase-contrast objectives and rings. When direct comparisons of fluorescence signal levels were needed, wild-type and knockout skin were processed side by side and images were collected the same day, using constant exposure times. Images were imported in Adobe Photoshop, assembled in montages, and enhanced for levels, brightness, and contrast simultaneously to preserve the differences in signal observed in the original data. Images were then cut and transferred in Adobe Illustrator for montage assembly.
QRT-PCR and flow cytometry analysis (FACS)
For flow cytometry cells were isolated from E16.5 back skin stained with phycoerythrin (PE)-labeled α6-integrin (CD49f) antibody (BD), as described previously (Tumbar et al., 2004; Tumbar, 2006). Live cells were those excluding propidium iodide (PI; Sigma-Aldrich). Flow cytometry was performed using BD FACS Aria at Cornell. RNA isolation from sorted cells and RT-PCR of cDNAs were described previously (Tumbar, 2006; Waghmare et al., 2008). RNA for the SA-Biosciences arrays was isolated using Trizol from E18.5 skin that was separated into epidermis and dermis with dispase treatment (Tumbar, 2006). We prepared cDNA using a Superscript III reverse-transcription kit (Invitrogen) and used the equivalent of 1 µg of mRNA per QRT-PCR array plate. QRT-PCR was run with a single-color thermocycler (Bio-Rad Laboratories) and analysis of the Ct values and fold change was performed with the SA-Biosciences proprietary software. Experiments were run in duplicate and three housekeeping genes were used for normalization (Table S1).
Oil Red O staining
10–40-µm-thick frozen tissue sections were incubated for 2 min in hematoxylin and washed in H2O. Slides were incubated in Oil Red working solution (stock solution 0.3% wt/vol diluted in isopropanol, working solution 3:2 ratio of Oil Red [stock solution] to distilled water) for 10 min, rinsed in distilled water, and mounted in 70% glycerol.
Wnt reporter assay
TOPFLASH luciferase assays were done on skin keratinocytes (Merrill et al., 2001). One day after plating in a 24-well dish at 2 x 104 per well, cells received 0.2 µg of DNA transfected via Transfectin (Bio-Rad Laboratories). The following constructs were used for transfection: TOPFLASH, FOPFLASH, K14-ΔNbcat, K14-Lef1 (Zhou et al., 1995; Korinek et al., 1997; Gat et al., 1998; Merrill et al., 2001), CMV-Myc-RUNT-GFP, CMV-GFP-Myc (Hoi et al., 2010), and Renilla. On d 2 cells were cotransfected with either TOPFLASH or FOPFLASH and (1) Renilla; (2) Renilla, K14-ΔNbcat, K14-lef1, and RUNT; or (3) Renilla, K14-ΔNbcat, K14-lef1, and GFP-MYC. 48 h after transfection the cells were harvested and prepared with the Promega Dual Luciferase Reporter Assay System kit for measuring luciferase activity.
Data are shown as averages and SDs or SEM. t tests analyses were done with Excel 2008 (Microsoft).
Online supplemental material
Fig. S1 is a schematic of hair morphogenesis and mature hair organization. Fig. S2 shows lineage tracing in morphogenesis and developmental HF delay in Runx1 cKO skin. Fig. S3 shows colocalization of Runx1-expressing cells with dermal markers. Fig. S4 shows phenotypic analysis of Runx1CreER/Fl;Rosa26R during hair morphogenesis and adulthood. Table S1 shows the analysis of Wnt-signaling SA-Biosciences QRT-PCR arrays.
We thank Elaine Fuchs, Nancy Speck, Hans Clevers, and Igor Samokhvalov for mice and/or DNA constructs; James Lee Smith for cell sorting; Valerie Horsley for critical reading of the manuscript; and David McDermitt for technical assistance with skin grafting.
This work was funded by grants from NIH/NIAHMS RO1AR053201 and NYSTEM C024354.
The authors declare no competing interest.
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Marín-Padilla
Cbfa2 is required for the formation of intra-aortic hematopoietic clusters
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Runx1 expression marks long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells in the midgestation mouse embryo
Hair follicle stem cells are specified and function in early skin morphogenesis
Cell Stem Cell.
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Waghmare
Y.V.
H.N.
Runx1 modulates developmental, but not injury-driven, hair follicle stem cell activation
Müller-Röver
Van Der Veen
Handjiski
A comprehensive guide for the recognition and classification of distinct stages of hair follicle morphogenesis
Plikus
Maxson
Chuong
Cyclic dermal BMP signalling regulates stem cell activation during hair regeneration
Raveh
Levanon
Negreanu
Groner
Dynamic expression of Runx1 in skin affects hair structure
Mech. Dev.
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Sakakura
Yamaguchi-Iwai
Hagiwara
Growth inhibition and induction of differentiation of t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia cells by the DNA-binding domain of PEBP2 and the AML1/MTG8(ETO)-specific antisense oligonucleotide
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Samokhvalova
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Cell tracing shows the contribution of the yolk sac to adult haematopoiesis
Tarutani
Keratinocyte-specific ablation of Stat3 exhibits impaired skin remodeling, but does not affect skin morphogenesis
EMBO J.
https://doi.org/10.1093/emboj/18.17.4657
Schmidt-Ullrich
Molecular principles of hair follicle induction and morphogenesis
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The hair follicle as a dynamic miniorgan
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Origin of stem cells in organogenesis
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Generalized lacZ expression with the ROSA26 Cre reporter strain
Nat. Genet.
https://doi.org/10.1038/5007
Epithelial skin stem cells
Methods Enzymol.
Defining the epithelial stem cell niche in skin
Vasioukhin
The magical touch: genome targeting in epidermal stem cells induced by tamoxifen application to mouse skin
Chaboissier
Lützkendorf
Cotsarelis
Ortonne
Schedl
Sox9 is essential for outer root sheath differentiation and the formation of the hair stem cell compartment
B.L.
Out of Eden: stem cells and their niches
Bansal
Quantitative proliferation dynamics and random chromosome segregation of hair follicle stem cells
https://doi.org/10.1038/emboj.2008.72
Zervas
Cell behaviors and genetic lineages of the mesencephalon and rhombomere 1
Cheong
Ciapurin
Distinct self-renewal and differentiation phases in the niche of infrequently dividing hair follicle stem cells
Lymphoid enhancer factor 1 directs hair follicle patterning and epithelial cell fate
https://doi.org/10.1101/gad.9.6.700
Abbreviations used in this paper:
conditional knockout
dermal papillae
HFSC
hair follicle stem cell
hematopoietic SC
inducible knockout
outer root sheath
postnatal day
post-grafting day
sebaceous gland
© 2011 Osorio et al.
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Table S1 (Excel)
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Runx1 expression in the epithelial and mesenchymal skin compartments during embryonic HF development. (A) Skin sections from Runx1-LacZ reporter mice at E12.5 and E17.5 stained with X-Gal (blue) and hematoxylin (purple). (B–E) Runx1 immunofluorescence staining of embryonic skin (arrows), Sox9, and NFATc1 expression in the upper follicle (n = 3 WT and 3 Runx1 cKO mice). (D) Serial sections of Runx1 and Sox9 show colocalization of these factors in the HF. *, hair germ; Epi, epidermis; Der, dermis. Bars, 10 µm.
Mesenchymal skin and epithelial HF contribution from embryonic Runx1-expressing cells. (A) Scheme of tamoxifen inductions and sample collection. (B) 50–90-µm skin sections showing efficient X-Gal dermal labeling in mice induced with tamoxifen at E12.4–E14.5 (early). (C) Plot showing the X-Gal labeling efficiency from early and late induction schemes at dates indicated. Minimum of two mice and 100 follicles counted per stage. (D–F) X-gal–stained skin section (25–50 µm) from mice treated as shown in A, sacrificed at different time points. (G) Quantification of patterns in D and E from early labeling show distribution of X-Gal+ HFs in categories labeled exclusively in the outer root sheath (ORS), inner layers and matrix (M/IL), and in both (com, complex). n = 2 mice and 200 X-Gal+ HFs. (H) Same as in E, except shown next to late labeling counts (see A), and without immature HFs (pegs). t test: ***, P ≤ 0.007; **, P < 0.05; *, P ≤ 0.09. Bars, 10–50 µm.
Embryonic Runx1-expressing cells contribute to HFSCs and mesenchyme in adult skin. (A) Scheme of tamoxifen inductions and long-term skin analysis. (B) Runx1-expressing cells contribution to the mesenchymal compartment. 50–90-µm skin sections showing X-Gal labeling from mice induced with tamoxifen early and sacrificed at times indicated. (C and D) Skin sections from mice injected early in embryogenesis and sacrificed at time points indicated, stained with X-gal (blue) and hematoxylin (purple). Note X-Gal+ cells in the bulge (Bu), infundibulum (Inf), sebaceous gland (SG), and dermal papilla (DP) and the adult dermis (Der). (E) Fraction of total X-Gal+ HFs in mice treated as shown in A, and sacrificed at postnatal days indicated (PD). n > 2 mice and 1,200 HFs per time point. (F and G) Distribution of X-Gal–labeling patterns in adult HFs at stages indicated. Bars, 10–50 µm.
Runx1 epithelial loss impaired in vivo HF morphogenesis and in vitro cell migration and adhesion. Skin sections from E16.5 Runx1 cKO mice (K14-Cre; Runx1Fl/Fl) and wild-type (WT) littermates immunostained for Runx1 and β4-integrin (A), and for alkaline phosphatase and S-red at E16.5 (B) and PD1 (C). Note fewer HF in cKO skin. (D) Average number of HFs per field of view (FOV); P = 0.02 at E16.5 (n = 4 WT; 630 HFs/130 FOVs and n = 3 cKO; 347 HFs/140 FOVs) and at PD1 (n = 4 WT; 794 HFs/71 FOVs and cKO n = 4; 562 HFs/59 FOVs); P = 0.04. (E) Keratin 5 staining revealed abnormal hair germ morphology in cKO skin (F) Left: an average of ∼13 cells/placode was found in both WT and cKO skin; ∼27 cells/germ in WT, and ∼33 cells/germ in cKO (n = 45 HFs, and n = 3 mice, P = 0.01). Middle: reduced germ size area in cKO skin (P = 0.0004), but no difference in placode. Au: arbitrary unit. Right: cell density plot shows a higher number of cells per area in cKO skin; error bars were calculated using a propagation of uncertainty test. (G and H) Fluorescence image of freshly isolated skin keratinocytes at 24 h after plating onto collagen (G) or mouse embryonic fibroblasts (H), or different ECM factors (I): Col-1, collagen 1; FN, fibronectin; PDL, poly-d-lysine. Note on FN fewer cKO keratinocytes than WT (P = 0.05). (J) Left: keratinocytes that remained round 24 h after plating scored as “not spread.” Right: sub-classification based on surface area (WT: n = 1,299; and cKO: n = 1,352 cells). Runx1 cKO samples have more large cells; *, P < 0.009. (K and L) Phase-contrast images show freshly isolated skin keratinocytes plated for 24 h on collagen, scratch-wounded and quantified for gap size (white bar). P = 0.08, top and 0.04, bottom. MytC, mytomycin C. (M) Skin sections at E16.5 stained with phalloidin to detect actin polymerization status in the hair placode. Note higher signal at the leading edge of placode in WT when compared with cKO. Bars, 20 µm.
Loss of Runx1 in the epithelium causes mild proliferation defects. (A and C) Immunofluorescence image showing embryonic hair germs stained for Ki67 (A) and BrdU (C). (B) Percentage of BrdU+ cells of total sorted from E16.5 skin and spotted on slides showing ∼28% reduction in cKO α6-integrin+ epithelial cells. n > 3 WT and cKO mice and >250 cells counted per population. P ≤ 0.05. (D) Average number of BrDU+ cells per germ in E16.5 skin 3.5 h after BrdU injection. P = 0.01. n > 100 germs WT and cKO. Epi, epidermis; Der, dermis. Bar, 10 µm.
Factors involved in hair morphogenesis are de-regulated in Runx1 cKO skin. (A) Summary of known HF morphogenesis factors (Nakamura et al., 2001) tested in C by QRT-PCR analysis of skin sorted α6-integrinmedium and α6-integrinnegative cells (n = 2 mice per genotype). *, P < 0.06; **, P < 0.006. (B) Same as C but for Runx1 mRNA. Note high expression of Runx1 in the α6-integrinmedium, which indicates enrichment in HF cells over the epidermis. (D–F) Immunofluorescence E16.5 skin images reveals reduction in Lef1 signal in cKO dermal and epidermal skin at all developmental stages analyzed. (G, I, and J) E18.5 BAT-GAL mouse skin showed reduced X-Gal staining in both epithelial and mesenchymal cKO skin when compared with WT. (H) Quantification of G (n = 2 WT and cKO; 300 HFs). (K) Quantification of Lef1 staining from images like D and E (n = 3 WT: 687 HFs and n = 3 cKOs: 248 HFs). **, P ≤ 0.007; *, P = 0.09. Epi, epidermis; Der, dermis. Bars, 10–50 µm.
Normal expression of HFSCs and hair markers in Runx1 cKO. (A–F) Skin sections from WT and Runx1 cKO embryos at E16.5 immunostained for indicated markers. n = 3 WT and 3 cKO mice. Epi, epidermis; De, dermis. Bars, 10 µm. (G) PD6-9 skin sections from WT and Runx1 cKO littermates stained for indicated differentiation markers show normal expression. See Fig. S1 B for HF lineage reference. Bars, 10 µm.
Runx1 is essential in the embryonic mesenchyme for long-term maintenance of adult HFs. (A) E18.5 skin largely lacks Runx1 staining in the mesenchyme of Runx1CreER/Fl;R26R mice when compared with control littermate. (B) Runx1CreER/Fl and littermate control mice at PD10. Newborn skin at 14, 22, 37, and 93 post-grafting (PG) onto Nude mice. (C) Skin sections from Runx1CreER/Fl;Rosa26R mice at time points indicated stained with X-Gal and hematoxylin. Note strong X-Gal staining in the upper dermis surrounding the HFs and bent hair shafts and regional loss of HFs by PG93. (D) Oil Red O and hematoxylin-stained skin images from Runx1CreER/Fl and WT littermates at time points indicated. Note enlargement of SG at PD10 and cyst formation with loss of the lower HF structures (bulb/bulge). (E) Quantification of X-Gal+ labeling patterns in distinct HF compartments as indicated. Note increase in SG contribution at the expense of bulb. *, P ≤ 0.004. Inf, infundibulum; SG, sebaceous gland. (F) General increased Lef1 staining in Runx1CreER/Fl (mesenchymal KO) skin at E18.5, PD10, and PG37. Note ectopic Lef1 expression in the bulge at PG37. (G) Increased Wnt signaling in Runx1CreER/Fl mice; BATGAL mice showed in X-gal–stained embryo skin. (H) Phenotype summary of Runx1CreER/Fl induced mice. Bars, 10 µm.
Runx1 molecular interaction with the Wnt-signaling pathway. (A) Wnt signaling SA-Bioscience QRT-PCR array on dermis or epidermis from E18.5 embryos with epithelial knockout (cKO) or inducible mesenchymal knockout (iKO) are shown as scattered plots of fold changes normalized to three housekeeping genes for KO vs. WT littermate controls. Red dots are up- and green dots are down-regulated genes. (B) Select list of genes up-regulated on average by greater than twofold by SA-Biosciences software analysis (see Table S1) in each type of KO and skin compartment when compared with the corresponding WT control. (C) Wnt luciferase reporter assay in keratinocytes transfected with DNA constructs indicated at bottom. Note lower activity induced by the Runt domain.
Figure 10.
Model of Runx1 lineage contribution and function during HF morphogenesis. (A) Lineage tracing suggests Runx1-expresing embryonic cells contribute to: (a) the short-term differentiated HF lineages during morphogenesis; (b) the adult HFSC compartment; and (c) the skin mesenchyme. The embryonic mesenchymal population is largely diminished in adulthood. (B) Reciprocal Runx1 targeting in the mesenchyme and epithelium during embryogenesis de-regulates Lef1 and Wnt signaling in opposite directions and has an effect on HFSC differentiation and long-term maintenance in adulthood.
RUNX1 cooperates with FLT3-ITD to induce leukemia
Runx1–Cbfβ facilitates early B lymphocyte development by regulating expression of Ebf1
The Runx1 Transcription Factor Inhibits the Differentiation of Naive CD4 + T Cells into the Th2 Lineage by Repressing GATA3 Expression
Wnt sends mixed signals in the skin
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Irie man Sherwin, you never told me about your career as a party wig model in Japan!
Seen at Daiso in Cupertino. I can’t tell if the guy is a light-skinned black guy, a dark-skinned Japanese guy (more likely a Korean or Pilipino model then), or something Blackface-like going on with the makeup. I also can’t tell if it’s racist or not. I just feel like it’s what conservative Japanese businessmen think of as a “crazy party wig” when most of us probably know at least one guy that just looks like that normally.
Or are one of the tons of guys that just looks like that normally.
Posted via tumblr: http://ift.tt/1oSTu9U published on March 24, 2014 at 12:55AM
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tumblr: humansofnewyork: “I was Defensive Player of the Year.”
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“I was Defensive Player of the Year.”
Posted via tumblr: http://ift.tt/Ny4n2L published on March 20, 2014 at 12:13PM
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tumblr: Public Restroom Mirror of Affirmation: An Unfortunate Series of…
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Public Restroom Mirror of Affirmation: An Unfortunate Series of Events (a photo essay)
When I got into the office on Monday morning, I was greeted by these Post-It shenanigans on my monitor (and yes, that reads #sorryimnotsorry because even on paper, we use hashtags in Silicon Valley). Nice cheerful start to the morning, right?
Then, I walked into the women’s restroom around noon and found these Post-Its along around the mirror…
“Be your own valentine all year round!”
(Thinking: Okay, maybe just a stupid thing some sappy girl did for Valentine’s Day…)
“Smile ☺ You Are L♥ved!”
(Rather than a public restroom, seems like a daily affirmation more appropriate to have on the mirror in your own private home— you know, the one into which you say, “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”— but okay, it’s still a nice sentiment…)
“Bring one of these Post-Its to someone who needs it!”
(Yeah, that’s not going to happen— I don’t do chain letters, even if they’re on Post-Its…)
“Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.”
Okay, now you’re just being unreasonable.
Posted via tumblr: http://ift.tt/1jAw6hq published on February 12, 2014 at 09:20PM
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tumblr: Because of my carpal tunnel, I usually sleep with wrist splints…
Because of my carpal tunnel, I usually sleep with wrist splints on— plain black with velcro wrap-around closures. However, I forgot to bring them with me and since she had carpal tunnel surgery awhile ago and therefore doesn’t use them anymore, I’ve been borrowing my mom’s wrist splints while visiting home. For some reason, my mom’s wrist splints look like this, which we’ve decided look like:
Some weird Victorian-age lace-up wrist corset contraption,
If black, as if they would fit right into some goth club look,
Or if a darker, more earthier/natural color, something someone would wear to a Renaissance Fair as part of their archer costume (credit this one to Sean).
Whatever— they still do the job 🙂
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This is why people hate us
December 9, 2013 sindy 2 Comments
This stupid hoax reminded me of a real incident/interaction with a Google employee:
Back in September, I was lucky enough to be able to go to the Oddball Comedy Festival when it came to the area, specifically at Shoreline Amphitheatre, literally a stone’s throw away from the main Google campus (or headquarters, for grown-ups and/or people outside of tech) in Mountain View. I got to sit back and just focus on laughing for several hours after what has been and continues to be an incredibly difficult year. It was great, point blank, period. (Especially Chris D’elia, whose Comedy Central special recently premiered.)
Afterwards, my friend and I calmly strolled out of the outdoor venue, along with the other 22,000+ people that were there. As we were leaving, I commented to my friend that I was impressed with how orderly and efficiently such a large number of people were emptying out into the parking lot, streets, and other surrounding areas and it reminded me of how New Yorkers made me proud on 9/11 by just starting to calmly walk north as Armageddon was practically unfolding around them. A nearby woman who apparently overheard me turned to me and said, “Well, a lot of us are from Google, so we’re really smart.”
I just ignored it and started walking away from her, pushing through the crowd a bit to hasten the process. About 10 minutes later– during which my friend and I had fallen silent– I turned to my friend to comment on how obnoxious that woman and her comment was and how I couldn’t get it out of my mind now– he concurred. Now, my friend and I are both Stanford alumni, just like the Google founders and an overwhelming percentage of their employees, with him also having been a star NCAA athlete and me having been plenty recruited by Google, but both of us were just disgusted by the whole exchange. We still can’t get it out of brains.
So FYI, to anybody who has ever been lucky enough to be part of any type of “elite” group– this is why people hate us. Stop being assholes about it.
2014-01-07 UPDATE: I realize that potential future employers, including Google, may find this post and other tweets and such where I lament the “tech dude/brogrammer asshole” culture that has become somewhat of an epidemic in Silicon Valley. Whether you’re a recruiter, engineering team manager, or CTO of the hot new startup, if you’re turned off by this post and think I’m being overly negative, then we probably wouldn’t work well together anyway. When you are lucky enough to become part of any “elite” group, there will always be people with a chip on their shoulder for whatever reason and therefore find some excuse to hate on you. However, perpetuating whatever negative perception people already have by intentionally boasting about your elite status and/or even just encouraging a mindset that would result in thinking the above comment is a natural and appropriate thing to say, especially to strangers, is definitely NOT something of which I want to be a part. If you work hard and get the word out while still exercising humility, your work should be able to stand on it’s own– you shouldn’t have to get on a soapbox to tell everyone how great you are. Believe it or not, you can be confident and proud of your accomplishments without being an asshole.
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My newest nemesis: the Key Master arcade game. Essentially, a techie version of the classic claw arcade game, spent entirely too much money playing this game before & after #EndersGame. The machine actually takes $20 bills, but think of the ROI if you actually won the iPad at the top?!
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Dark Knight Rises, Colorado Shooting & Violence in Entertainment
July 22, 2012 sindy Leave a comment
I loved The Dark Knight Rises— I thought all 2 hours and 45 minutes of it was gripping and had great twists and turns, surprising even someone like me who has been keeping up with all the pre-release buzz, news and teasers. Overall, it was an excellent finish to an excellent trilogy. (And I hope all the talk about rebooting the series already is just that– talk. Can’t we just take a moment to enjoy the long-awaited arrival of this film?)
However, the recent shooting at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at a suburban Colorado movie theater raises some interesting questions– and not just about gun control. It’s hardly worth a “spoiler alert” to say the movie contains a lot of violence– if you’ve been paying any attention to all the press for the movie, you’ll know the much-advertised, primary antagonist of the film is the diabolical, masked Bane, one of the most violent, cold-blooded and ruthless villains in the DC universe (and the wonderful Tom Hardy’s portrayal of the character is much truer to the comic book and therefore, much more frightening than the almost farcical version in 1997’s Batman & Robin). As comic book fans know, Bane’s intelligence and cunning only make him that much more terrifying and dangerous– after all, he’s the only man to have “broken the Bat”*. His role in the story and the sheer scale of his nefarious plans up the ante considerably when it comes to violence.
So, there was one particular scene in The Dark Knight Rises where guns are being wildly shot in a crowded place during which I couldn’t help being reminded of the shooting in Colorado (there’s more than one of these scenes in the movie so I can’t even remember which specific one it was– just my immediate reaction). I don’t really subscribe to the much-debated idea that violence in entertainment somehow promotes violence in real life, especially among young people (think video games like Doom and Marilyn Manson being blamed for the 1999 Columbine High School massacre), but those who do often blame and point out the popularity and commercial success of movies like those in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy or, little more than a decade ago, The Matrix films. They say that, in addition to the large amount of it, the way in which that violence in such entertainment is depicted glorifies it and thereby promotes it. For example, Batman may have a strict “no guns, no killing” rule, but certainly those around him don’t always follow that rule, so there’s always plenty of both– and often more. And though Batman isn’t an alien or superhuman– ridiculously athletic, highly trained, and combat clever as hell, but still just a “normal” human being– he’s still kicking a lot of ass and taking a lot of names. After all, despite their efforts at diplomacy (how many times have we seen the “Superman achieves global nuclear disarmament” storyline?) and the admittedly key ability to outwit their opponents, superheroes ultimately win through the use of physical force– not non-violent protests, marches, or civil disobedience. And in the end, watching superheroes like Batman– the very definition of the “good guys”– beat up a bunch of bad guys is incredibly violent, but also incredibly satisfying (hello, they’re the bad guys?!) so there is certainly some glorification in that.
But long before there were riveting “Army of One” commercials, even before someone hit someone else for the first time so they could steal the Coke bottle to mash up their vegetables, humans have been telling fantastic tales of battles, wars, and ultimately, warriors– both fictional and real. And while violence continues to exist as part of the human condition, we will need warriors– in fact, heroes– to meet those challenges to not just protect themselves, but those around them as well. They fight so we don’t have to and certainly, there is and should be glory in that and those stories should be told, including on the screen. Of course, not every movie is so cut and dry on X being good, Y being bad, and therefore, standing on moral high ground when it comes to X having to beat the crap out of Y, not to mention all the collateral damage. And of course, with media, a lot of it has to do with context and tone: do we see at least some of the ugly, bloody, grotesque side of violence or do people bounce back like cartoon characters? Is the music– or any music at all– appropriate for what’s happening on screen? A violent rape is graphically depicted in the 2002 French film Irréversible, but I don’t think anybody who has seen it– and it is so powerful that many cannot tolerate just watching it– would say the act is in any way glorified. Even in comedy, violence can be put into a context in which we know not to take it as seriously, that we don’t have to be realistic here because the entire situation is absurd.
I suppose the real question is whether highly increased, repeated exposure to such violence in media– all of it or just the stuff you think glorify it– desensitizes us, especially people like teenagers who are either too young or otherwise so impressionable that they become swept up in romanticized depictions of violence and suddenly, moral high ground isn’t so important anymore. How exciting was it to watch Neo and Trinity blow that building and those Agents to pieces to rescue the beloved Morpheus? Yes, even in the fictional sense, they didn’t really do that since they were in the Matrix and nobody really died because those Agents were just computer programs, but that kind of goes along with my point, right? Such key plot points allow us to justify and reconcile such violence by “good” people. So, if we consume more and more of such violent media, does that subconsciously encourage us to lose touch with the horrifying reality and consequences of such events, thereby, if not promoting, at least justifying and distancing ourselves from the reality of more and more violence?
Yet, as I watched The Dark Knight Rises, rather than distancing myself from it, I felt like the realism provided by the high quality of the production intensified the seriousness and impact of what we were seeing. Perhaps more than any news coverage short of actual footage of the shooting could, the added drama created through movie magic somehow makes up for the fact that you’ve temporarily suspended your disbelief. You know it’s just a movie, but what you’re seeing is such a well-made dramatization that the terror of such a moment is really driven home and has the added benefit of not requiring the exploitative and tasteless showing/viewing of the tragic and ugly deaths of real people. Essentially, just the news of the shooting still fresh in my mind changed my visceral reaction to seeing the fictional presentation of a similar event– while I might have been more apathetic or, for the most part, unaffected by such a scene before, the experience and perhaps my outlook on such violence were fundamentally changed, much like how most of us felt and perhaps still feel about anything related to airplane/air travel safety and terrorism in the wake of 9/11 (think how sensitive Americans were about just seeing or not seeing the Twin Towers in the New York City skyline in movies released shortly after the attacks).
In the end, it’s a bit of a “chicken or the egg” problem– does watching “glossy” depictions of violence in popular entertainment and media promote violence in real life? Or do such realistic and/or dramatic depictions discourage such violent acts by giving us a “harmless” way to experience the severity and horror of such events? Considering all those “bombs bursting in air” in the lyrics to our national anthem alone, from music (in addition to the obvious, think lyrics to the popular French-Canadian children’s song “Alouette”) to movies, from books to TV (they get away with showing some truly sick stuff in countless police procedural and “true crime” shows), from Internet videos to even commercials (think the heavy amount of cartoonish violence in Super Bowl commercials), one thing is certain: depictions of violence are an essential part of the human art of storytelling. While some may like to think of violence in entertainment and media as something new– an unfortunate sign of modern times– we’ve actually been riding this cycle of violence from the very beginnings of human history and culture.
* On the name “Bane”: the film’s timing provides a nice little accent to the amusing coincidence that the character’s name is a homophone of Bain Capital, the frequently mentioned center of the Romney news story that just won’t die– with a pre-emptive apology for the pun, some might say one of the “banes” of the Romney campaign.
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Supersolar – Review
Robot squid space aliens
Supersolar is an isometric action game by Babadokia games, in which you pilot a spaceship in a mixture of dungeon crawling exploration and space shooting, set in a science fiction universe.
The story of Supersolar is, An alien bio-mechanical race has invaded our Solar System from a massive gateway through time and space, which is sitting in Earth’s orbit. An army of AI drones arrive through the portal, and humanity’s defenses are devastated. The last capital ship, Nebula Zero, retreats in the Oort cloud, searching for an old, lost gunship, the only weapon capable of integrating alien technology and using it to close the gateway.
Space is pretty dense
The ship that you pilot, as mentioned in the lore of the game, can be customized using the alien technology, meaning that as you play and explore, you will come across new equipment to outfit your ship in the fight against the bio-mechanical menace, you start off with a blaster and a laser, the blaster is your primary weapon causing medium damage, with a high fire rate and a decent clip size before cooldown, whereas the laser has a much shorter range, duration and a higher cooldown, but the tradeoff is that it is much more powerful than the blaster, the full game will also include rockets and cannons among other upgrades, however for the demo the blaster and laser are all you will have access too.
Graphically the game is quite impressive, made in the Unreal 4 engine, everything in the game has that sort of glossy sheen, the art style has vibrant colors and some interesting designs, especially with the robotic space squid, which is not unique to Supersolar by far, but it moves fluidly and is well implemented, also being the largest enemy that appears in the demo means that you’ll be able to see a lot more detail in it then with the tiny AI drones, the level designs also look quite nice with a lot of detail and stuff going on, however this does sometimes backfire as with so much on screen sometimes it’s hard to tell what is and is not on the same level as you, in terms of exploring and combat.
Intergalactic shipping yard?
Gameplay wise, you move your ship around with the WASD keys, W for forward, S for backward and the A/D keys allow for left and right strafing, the mouse is used to aim your weapons and change the direction of you ship, so you could just use the forward movement and handle all directions with the mouse, however in a fire fight the strafing and retreating are ideal for avoiding damage whilst still inflicting damage on your enemies, also integral to avoiding damage are the boost and spin moves, both of these are used with the space key, the space key when moving forward will allow you to boost, which can be used to perform a hasty retreat or close the gap so your laser can cut through them, whereas if you are strafing and press the space key, you will instead perform a spin maneuver, this is used to avoid incoming enemy fire, as your shield and weapons all require cooldowns sometimes it’s best to just boost away, wait for the ship to ready itself and then come back in and pick off some more units.
Sound wise, you get all the classic laser and explosive noises, ironically they are nothing out of this world, but they get the job done, and music, the demo only has one piece of music, but it is suitably energetic enough for flying through space blowing up bio-mechanical alien invaders.
Fire the lazers!!!
Overall Supersolar looks great, and plays well, with only the demo level available at the moment it’s hard to really gauge how good the game will be, being an opening tutorial level the main focus is on showing you how to control your ship, which is nothing new if you’ve played an isometric shooter before, and it would have been nice to see and use a ship customization or two, but with the gameplay that is currently available it looks like Supersolar is shaping up as quite a fun little adventure.
In coffee terms, Supersolar is like a high-end instant coffee you can prepare at home, it looks like coffee, smells like coffee and has all the right flavours, really the only thing that separates it from a cafe coffee is the budget, (and some might say the care that went into making it, especially if your barista is just looking for a paycheck and has to rush your coffee out before it’s finished due to a demanding board of directors hoping to make this next coffee another quick seller before moving on to the next without skipping a beat).
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward *** (of 4)
African American Literature, America, Book Reviews, FICTION, Prize Winner
A fighting pit bull in southern Louisiana gives birth to puppies. A black family is squeaking by: Daddy drinks too much; Skeetah only cares about China, the pit bull; Randall is desperate for a basketball scholarship; Junior just wants to play; Momma died right after Junior was born; and Esch is fifteen-years-old and pregnant. It is hurricane season in the south and while several storms that have preoccupied Daddy have petered out or veered off course, he remains focused on the next one, Katrina. Jesmyn Ward has put to paper voices of the overlooked in America. Think of them as Faulkner’s dark-skinned brethren. The plot builds like a hurricane: slow, swampy, and an occasional puff of air suggesting more ominous events to come, which is to say, it takes some work to keep reading. When the storm strikes, however, it comes with a viciousness and accuracy that is devastating and captivating. Winner of the National Book Award.
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson **** (of 4) Hitler’s Furies by Wendy Lower *** (of 4)
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Blog Competitions English Premier League Jermaine Jenas comments on Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen
Jermaine Jenas comments on Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen
Saikat 19 September, 2019 English Premier League, Tottenham
Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder turned popular football pundit Jermaine Jenas has criticised Christian Eriksen for his performance against Olympiakos.
Spurs threw away a two-goal lead and were forced to settle for a point in their Champions League Group B opener in Greece on Wednesday night.
Eriksen, whose future at Spurs remains uncertain, was very poor during the game and came under strong criticism from the fans and pundits.
“He’s unrecognisable tonight. He’s had a couple of moments where the manager has had a look and you can tell he’s thinking we need to get him off here,” Jenas said on BT Sport 2.
“You have bad games as players, he has had many great games for Tottenham over the years but he’s sticking out like a sore thumb with how bad he is playing tonight.
“He’s getting the simple things wrong and that’s the worrying thing. He just looks shattered.”
The 27-year-old lost possession more times against Olympiacos (22) than any other player on the pitch, which shows how wasteful he was.
Eriksen has started in three Premier League games this season, and further two have come from the bench.
Over the years, the Danish international has proved his class for Tottenham. However, he has started the season poorly, and against Olympiakos, he was simply awful.
It is indeed a surprise that he lasted the full 90 minutes. He couldn’t find his passing radar on the night and gave the ball away cheaply on multiple occasions.
While it remains unclear whether Eriksen will stay at Spurs beyond the January transfer window or next summer, the Danish midfielder must rediscover his old form quickly if he wants to keep his place in the side.
Mick Quinn comments on Newcastle striker Joelinton
Eintracht Frankfurt vs Arsenal confirmed starting line-ups
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Abdulkadir Elshafie
Professor.
Alkaline-biosurfactant-biopolymer process and its potential for enhancing oil recovery in Omani oil field
Al-Ghailani, T., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Joshi, S. J., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A. & AL-Bimani, H. E. D. A., Jan 1 2018, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers, Vol. 2018-March.
Alkalies
Biodegradation of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide hpam using bacteria isolated from omani oil fields
Al-Moqbali, W., Joshi, S. J., Al-Bahry, S., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Elshafie, A., AL-Bimani, H. E. D. A., M. Al-Hashmi, A-A. & Soundra Pandian, S. B., Jan 1 2018, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers, Vol. 2018-March.
Polyacrylates
Draft genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis AS2, a heavy crude oil-degrading and biosurfactant-producing bacterium isolated from a soil sample
Al-Sayegh, A., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Joshi, S., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A. & Al-Bemani, A., Sep 1 2017, In : Genome Announcements. 5, 39, e00969-17.
Bacillus subtilis
Enhanced oil recovery using biotransformation technique on heavy crude oil
Al-Sayegh, A., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S., Aug 1 2017, In : International Journal of GEOMATE. 13, 36, p. 75-79 5 p.
Isolation and characterization of biopolymer producing omani aureobasidium pullulans strains and its potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery
Elshafie, A., Joshi, S. J., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., AL-Bimani, H. E. D. A., M. Al-Hashmi, A-A. & Al-Mandhari, M. S., Jan 1 2017, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Oil and Gas India Conference and Exhibition 2017. Society of Petroleum Engineers, p. 583-593 11 p.
The potential of indigenous Paenibacillus ehimensis BS1 for recovering heavy crude oil by biotransformation to light fractions
Shibulal, B., Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Joshi, S. J., Feb 1 2017, In : PLoS One. 12, 2, e0171432.
Paenibacillus
Bioremediation of heavy crude oil contamination
Al-Sayegh, A., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Joshi, S., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A. & Al-Bemani, A., 2016, In : Open Biotechnology Journal. 10, p. 301-311 11 p.
Environmental Biodegradation
Injection of biosurfactant and chemical surfactant following hot water injection to enhance heavy oil recovery
Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Hadrami, H., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S., Mar 1 2016, In : Petroleum Science. 13, 1, p. 100-109 10 p.
water injection
oil recovery
Potential in heavy oil biodegradation via enrichment of spore forming bacterial consortia
Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Hinai, B., Joshi, S. J., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Al-Sabahi, J., Dec 1 2016, In : Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 6, 4, p. 787-799 13 p.
Production, characterization, and application of bacillus licheniformis W16 biosurfactant in enhancing oil recovery
Joshi, S. J., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S., Al-Bahri, A. & Al-Mandhari, M. S., Nov 23 2016, In : Frontiers in Microbiology. 7, NOV, 1853.
Lipopeptides
Wettability
Production and application of schizophyllan in microbial enhanced heavy oil recovery
Joshi, S. J., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. S., Al-Hashmi, A., Samuel, P., Sassi, M., Al-Farsi, H. & Al-Mandhari, M. S., 2016, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia, OGWA 2016. Society of Petroleum Engineers
Sizofiran
Characterization of cellulase enzyme produced by chaetomium sp. Isolated from books and archives
Al-Kharousi, M. M., Sivakumar, N. & Elshafie, A., 2015, In : EurAsian Journal of BioSciences. 9, p. 52-60 9 p.
endo-1,4-beta-glucanase
Leguminicolous fungi associated with some seeds of Sudanese legumes
Abdulwehab, S. A., El-Nagerabi, S. A. F. & Elshafie, A. E., Oct 1 2015, In : Biodiversitas. 16, 2, p. 269-280 12 p.
Microbial enhanced heavy crude oil recovery through biodegradation using bacterial isolates from an Omani oil field
Al-Sayegh, A., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S., Sep 16 2015, In : Microbial Cell Factories. 14, 1, 141.
Oil and Gas Fields
Sophorolipids production by Candida bombicola ATCC 22214 and its potential application in microbial enhanced oil recovery
Elshafie, A. E., Joshi, S. J., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bemani, A. S., Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Maqbali, D. & Banat, I. M., 2015, In : Frontiers in Microbiology. 6, NOV, 1324.
Heptanes
Application of molecular biology methods in identifying biosurfactant producers from oil contaminated sites
Al-Bahri, A. K., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Joshi, S. J., Apr 1 2014, Biotechnology and Conservation of Species from Arid Regions. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Vol. 2-2. p. 527-540 14 p.
Biosurfactant mediated microbial enhanced oil recovery and potential for application in some omani oil fields
Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Joshi, S. J., Apr 1 2014, Biotechnology and Conservation of Species from Arid Regions. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Vol. 2-2. p. 471-487 17 p.
Biosurfactant production by Bacillus subtilis B30 and its application in enhancing oil recovery
Al-Wahaibi, Y., Joshi, S., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Shibulal, B., Feb 1 2014, In : Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. 114, p. 324-333 10 p.
Bacilli
Endophytic fungi associated with endogenous Boswellia sacra
El-Nagerabi, S. A. F., Elshafie, A. E. & Alkhanjari, S. S., 2014, In : Biodiversitas. 15, 1, p. 24-30 7 p.
Indigenous bacterial consortia from oil wells and their role in In-Situ microbial enhanced oil recovery
Al-Maaini, R. A., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bimani, A. S., Joshi, S. J. & Al-Alawi, W. J., Apr 1 2014, Biotechnology and Conservation of Species from Arid Regions. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Vol. 2-2. p. 455-470 16 p.
Microbial enhanced heavy oil recovery by the aid of inhabitant spore-forming bacteria: An insight review
Shibulal, B., Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Joshi, S. J., 2014, In : The Scientific World Journal. 2014, 309159.
Microbial enhanced oil recovery at high salinities using biosurfactant at lower concentrations
Souayeh, M., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A., Joshi, S., Al-Hashmi, A. & Al-Mandhari, M., 2014, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2014: Driving Integrated and Innovative EOR. Society of Petroleum Engineers, p. 207-213 7 p.
Optimization of a low-concentration Bacillus subtilis strain biosurfactant toward microbial enhanced oil recovery
Souayeh, M., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A., Joshi, S., Al-Hashmi, A. & Al-Mandhari, M., Sep 18 2014, In : Energy and Fuels. 28, 9, p. 5606-5611 6 p.
Potential of microbial biotechnology in heavy oil enhanced recovery
Al-Hinai, B. S., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bemani, A. S. & Joshi, S. J., Apr 1 2014, Biotechnology and Conservation of Species from Arid Regions. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Vol. 2-2. p. 495-505 11 p.
Biological activities of Boswellia sacra extracts on the growth and aflatoxins secretion of two aflatoxigenic species of Aspergillus species
El-Nagerabi, S. A. F., Elshafie, A. E., AlKhanjari, S. S., Al-Bahry, S. N. & Elamin, M. R., Dec 2013, In : Food Control. 34, 2, p. 763-769 7 p.
Biosurfactant production by Bacillus subtilis B20 using date molasses and its possible application in enhanced oil recovery
Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bemani, A. S., Joshi, S. J., Al-Makhmari, H. S. & Al-Sulaimani, H. S., Jul 2013, In : International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation. 81, p. 141-146 6 p.
Fractured carbonate reservoirs sweep efficiency improvement using microbial biomass
Al-Hattali, R., Al-Sulaimani, H., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S. J., Dec 2013, In : Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 112, p. 178-184 7 p.
Sugar (sucrose)
Microbial consortia in Oman oil fields: A possible use in enhanced oil recovery
Al-Bahry, S. N., Elsahfie, A. E., Al-Wahaibi, Y. M., Al-Bimani, A. S., Joshi, S. J., Al-Maaini, R. A., Al-Alawai, W. J., Sugai, Y. & Al-Mandhari, M., Jan 2013, In : Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 23, 1, p. 106-117 12 p.
Microbial Consortia
New record of Ganoderma colossum associated with Sclerocarya birrea dieback
Elshafie, A. E., Al-Bahry, S. N., El-Nagerabi, S. A. F. & Al-Kindi, K. K., Dec 2013, In : Australasian Plant Disease Notes. 8, 1, p. 85-87 3 p.
Sclerocarya birrea
Eucalyptus robusta
Delonix regia
Residual oil recovery via injection of biosurfactant and chemical surfactant following hot water injection in middle east heavy oil field
Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Hadrami, H., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S., 2013, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Heavy Oil Conference Canada 2013. Vol. 3. p. 1794-1805 12 p.
Biomonitoring marine habitats in reference to antibiotic resistant bacteria and ampicillin resistance determinants from oviductal fluid of the nesting green sea turtle, Chelonia mydas
Al-Bahry, S. N., Al-Zadjali, M. A., Mahmoud, I. Y. & Elshafie, A. E., Jun 2012, In : Chemosphere. 87, 11, p. 1308-1315 8 p.
Ocean habitats
Ampicillin Resistance
Effect of Hibiscus sabdariffa extract and Nigella sativa oil on the growth and aflatoxin B 1 production of Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus strains
El-Nagerabi, S. A. F., Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E. & AlHilali, S., May 2012, In : Food Control. 25, 1, p. 59-63 5 p.
Hibiscus sabdariffa
Aspergillus flavus
Aspergillus parasiticus
Improving sweep efficiency in fractured carbonate reservoirs by microbial biomass
Al-Hattali, R., Al-Sulaimani, H., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A. & Joshi, S., 2012, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2012, OGWA - EOR: Building Towards Sustainable Growth. Vol. 2. p. 515-526 12 p.
Physicochemical and microbial characteristics of locally processed green waste composts
El-Nagerabi, S. A. F., Elshafie, A. E. & AlRawahi, H. S., Mar 2012, In : Compost Science and Utilization. 20, 2, p. 120-127 8 p.
chemical property
Residual-oil recovery through injection of biosurfactant, chemical surfactant, and mixtures of both under reservoir temperatures: Induced-wettability and interfacial-tension effects
Al-Sulaimani, H., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Ai-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A., Joshi, S. & Ayatollahi, S., Apr 2012, In : SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering. 15, 2, p. 210-217 8 p.
Aflatoxin B1 Contamination of Traditionally Processed Peanuts Butter for Human Consumption in Sudan
Elshafie, S. Z. B., ElMubarak, A., El-Nagerabi, S. A. F. & Elshafie, A. E., Jun 2011, In : Mycopathologia. 171, 6, p. 435-439 5 p.
Antibiotic resistant bacteria as bio-indicator of polluted effluent in the green turtles, Chelonia mydas in Oman
Al-Bahry, S. N., Mahmoud, I. Y., Al-Zadjali, M., Elshafie, A., Al-Harthy, A. & Al-Alawi, W., Mar 2011, In : Marine Environmental Research. 71, 2, p. 139-144 6 p.
Chelonia mydas
bioindicator
Opportunistic pathogens relative to physicochemical factors in water storage tanks
Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Victor, R., Mahmoud, I. Y. & Al-Hinai, J. A., 2011, In : Journal of Water and Health. 9, 2, p. 382-393 12 p.
Experimental investigation of biosurfactants produced by Bacillus species and their potential for MEOR in Omani oil field
Al-Sulaimani, H., Al-Wahaibi, Y., Al-Bahry, S., Elshafie, A., Al-Bemani, A., Joshi, S. & Zargari, S., 2010, SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2010, OGWA - EOR Challenges, Experiences and Opportunities in the Middle East. p. 378-386 9 p.
Bacterial flora and antibiotic resistance from eggs of green turtles Chelonia mydas: An indication of polluted effluents
Al-Bahry, S., Mahmoud, I., Elshafie, A., Al-Harthy, A., Al-Ghafri, S., Al-Amri, I. & Alkindi, A., May 2009, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 58, 5, p. 720-725 6 p.
Coastal sewage discharge and its impact on fish with reference to antibiotic resistant enteric bacteria and enteric pathogens as bio-indicators of pollution
Al-Bahry, S. N., Mahmoud, I. Y., Al-Belushi, K. I. A., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Harthy, A. & Bakheit, C. K., Dec 2009, In : Chemosphere. 77, 11, p. 1534-1539 6 p.
Enterobacteriaceae
Leaf decomposition in a mountain stream in the sultanate of Oman
Al-Riyami, M., Victor, R., Seena, S., Elshafie, A. E. & Bärlocher, F., 2009, In : International Review of Hydrobiology. 94, 1, p. 16-28 13 p.
decomposition
Viability of multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria in distribution lines of treated sewage effluent used for irrigation
Al-Bahry, S. N., Mahmoud, I. Y., Al-Khaifi, A., Elshafie, A. E. & Al-Harthy, A., 2009, In : Water Science and Technology. 60, 11, p. 2939-2948 10 p.
Accumulation of metals in the egg yolk and liver of hatchling of green turtles Chelonia mydas at Ras Al Hadd, Sultante of Oman
Al-Rawahy, S. H., AlKindi, A. Y., Elshafie, A., Ibrahim, M., Al Bahry, S. N., Al Siyabi, S. S., Mansour, M. H. & Al Kiyumi, A. A., Aug 15 2007, In : Journal of Biological Sciences. 7, 6, p. 925-930 6 p.
Egg Yolk
Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella spp. from human and non-human sources in Oman
Al-Bahry, S. N., Elshafie, A. E., Al-Busaidy, S., Al-Hinai, J. & Al-Shidi, I., Jan 2007, In : Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 13, 1, p. 49-55 7 p.
Biodegradation of crude oil and n-alkanes by fungi isolated from Oman
Elshafie, A., AlKindi, A. Y., Al-Busaidi, S., Bakheit, C. & Albahry, S. N., Nov 2007, In : Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54, 11, p. 1692-1696 5 p.
Mycoflora and aflatoxins in soil, eggshells, and failed eggs of Chelonia mydas at Ras Al-Jinz, Oman
Elshafie, A., Al-Bahry, S. N., AlKindi, A. Y., Ba-Omar, T. & Mahmoud, I., Dec 2007, In : Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 6, 2, p. 267-270 4 p.
egg shell
Diversity and trapping efficiency of nematophagous fungi from Oman
Elshafie, A. E., Al-Mueini, R., Al-Bahry, S. N., Akindi, A. Y., Mahmoud, I. & Al-Rawahi, S. H., 2006, In : Phytopathologia Mediterranea. 45, 3, p. 266-270 5 p.
Arthrobotrys oligospora
nematophagous fungi
Panagrellus redivivus
A new species of Navicella from Costa Rica
Elshafie, A. E., Aptroot, A., Al-Bahry, S. N. & Al-Kindi, A. Y., Jun 30 2005, In : Sydowia. 57, 1, p. 19-22 4 p.
Hyalin
Coprophilous Mycobiota of Oman
Elshafie, A. E., Jul 2005, In : Mycotaxon. 93, p. 355-357 3 p.
new record
Myxogastrea
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How do you simplify #(m-2)/(m-5)*(m+5)/(m-2)#?
Algebra Rational Equations and Functions Multiplication of Rational Expressions
Stefan V.
You cancel out the terms common to the nominator and to the denominator.
Notice that you initial expression has #(m-2)# as the numerator of the first fraction and as the denominator of the second fraction.
This means that you can cancel out this term to get
#cancel(m-2)/(m-5) * (m+5)/cancel(m-2) = color(green)((m+5)/(m-5))#
And that is how your simplified expression looks like.
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Weather in Sanpete
Sanpete County Average Temperatures
Sanpete County enjoys a pleasant and healthful climate. Clear skies prevail most of the year. The four seasons are colorful and distinct. Snow College Weather Information
Winter Climate
The winter months in Sanpete can be cold, however, the average temperature during December, January, and February is between 35 and 40 degrees. The average precipitation is between 1.2 and 2.3 inches. The mountains that surround Sanpete County help protect the county from extreme weather.
Photo by Pat Johnson.
Spring Climate
You can tell when spring is almost here because the farmers begin tilling and planting their crops. If you look closely you can see the baby lambs and calfs that dot the pastures. Temperatures during March, April, and May average between 48 and 69 degrees with precipitation between .03 and 1.8 inches.
Photo Courtesy of Snow College.
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Summer Climate
Summer is beautiful in Sanpete. Average temperatures during June, July, and August range from 80 to 88 degrees, but it is not uncommon to see some days top 100. Precipitation averages between .08 and 1.1 inches. On hot days, the mountains become a great get-a-way from the warmer valley temperatures.
Average Frost Dates: May 24th & Sept. 23rd Growing Season: 123 Days Snow College
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Fall Climate
Fall is wonderfull in Sanpete, especially in the canyons. Some of the most spectacular fall colors can be seen from Skyline Drive during late September and early October. Average temperatures during September, October, and November range from 77 to 48 degrees. Precipitation increases from 1.0 to 2.8 inches.
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December Moon in Taurus: the Vagabond
Acheron, Ceremony, Country, Forgetting, Justfriendistan, Lethe, Memory, Miserere, Rejection, Taurus, Vagabond, Wanderer, Warrior
“The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.” Umberto Eco.
“The bull of the herd had stepped into the white foaming brook, and went forward slowly, now striving against, now giving way to his tempestuous course; thus, no doubt, he took his sort of fierce pleasure. Two dark brown beings, of Bergamasque origin, tended the herd, the girl dressed almost like a boy.” Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, Second Sequel, The Wanderer And His Shadow, Aphorism §295, ed. Darryl Marks, trans. H. Zimmern, P. Cohn, Everlasting Flames, 2010.
The naming of Moons of course connects them to what we’re doing down here. Inverting European and North American names or leaving names behind completely in the Northern Hemisphere might do for some, and continuing such traditions as Yule and Easter in their opposite seasons doesn’t seem to have disturbed capitalism or hurt anybody, but the entertaining possibility exists that seasons and customs merely refine what we’re doing and feeling, and we’re actually all doing more or less the same thing. It might at least be said that we are all subject to universal influences on our mental health, which fall into cyclical patterns we all engage with in similar ways, if at different times. Two distinctive things we all have in common with the Vagabond are the balancing of the desire to forget and the inability to remember, and the experience of being utterly alone.
The best moments of your life are the hardest to remember, because your language did not impose you on them, but rather from the bottom up, your spirit was dissolving into a belonging in something beyond, something almost magical, a connectedness which drew its miraculous energy from you, which could only last an instant and might never emerge again from the objective definition of your existence, but which in a flash of awareness revealed the reality of being alive instead of dead. Ceremony is of course your best method of putting your memory back in that transcendent self you own abstractly as yours. But what of the wooden hands of the cellist, the traffic vibrations and the halitosis of the singer behind you, and your own, for that matter? Is solitary meditation the only way to engage in a ceremony of connection? Must we wash our hands of others lest we forget who we are? Would such uncleanliness truly be the opposite of authenticity? Is there an important lesson in equanimity to be gained from the Vagabond’s stoical existence?
The danger we sense is real: the most vividly lived moments of our past are most challenging to relive, because they include the best, which we can seldom recall in all their complexity, and the worst, which can traumatically reconstruct themselves viscerally in the most unwelcome way. We even judge the good in the context of the meaning of the bad, and we think to free our good selves from shame by working on our shadow, but the judgment our insight passes on the self-as-other is so vivid in its remorseless negativity that compulsively as we might train ourselves to disbelieve, we are built to forget, and it is easier to disbelieve what is forgotten. The shadow of the Vagabond in sidereal Taurus falls across the June Solstice and the river of Hades he approaches in the Bardo, the River of Forgetting.
If you have the good fortune to withdraw from the everyday, just for one night at the right time of the year, and in your nearest dark sky, you can realize the connection of above and below, as it was known by the prehistoric people who lived under the Milky Way, as it was once known under rural skies by the swagman, and as it has now been forgotten in urban lanes by everyone: when the Milky Way arcs overhead from horizon to horizon in either of the two configurations which are so formed, its bearings link all Warriors or Wanderers camped on their river, Acheron or Lethe. My Acheron crosses Eastern Australia to Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast, but my Lethe arcs over Central Australia to the Kimberley and beyond through Timor Leste and Western China to Siberian Omsk. I am proud when I am on the Lethe to project over the horizon the kin of my spiritual sisters of Wurdi Youang. Detroit’s Lethe arcs over the Caribbean to Brazil, and a shout-out wells up in my heart to all countrywomen, and tonight, fellow Vagabonds!
Not everyone is summoned by a divine voice to sacrifice his son, as was the Patriarch of all of the religions of The Book, and of socialism and humanism, in all their woeful, forgetting folly. If the nearest you can now approach to such grief, mysterious atavistic Vagabond of our cosmic loneliness, as you stare over the Atacama Desert, is not quite being able to erase the memory of rejection, the clinical name healers give the extinction of a divine voice and the reduction to dust of every monolithic monument to human immortality since the dawn of civilization, you are as blessed as you seem to believe yourself, blessed to have heard the voice, blessed to have been spared its demand. Charismatic though our inner voices may be, the gods are bent on the narcissistic autonomy they enjoy in our submission to their resentful, perfectionist control.
The Vagabond is the avatar of all who throughout history and before it have gratefully accepted country as more real than landscape and real estate: the ancestral, the migratory, the rejected, the enslaved, the dispossessed of everything but kinship and the meaning of ceremony and song. He and they enact the memory we share eternally of what remains of creation to be forgotten. What more could there ever possibly be, than broken, throbbing hearts crying, “Please don’t climb my rock,” and protected by them in a world of liars, charlatans, scammers, hostage-takers, people-smugglers, bullies, creeps and bogeymen, the laughter and tears of children?
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Gawker 2.0 - This Dog Don't Hunt
There's a classic saying in sales. It refers to an entity - product, service, cause, or idea - which can't be unloaded, not at any price.
That saying is: This dog don't hunt.
And that seems the right way to capture the pickle Gawker 2.0 is in.
As the New York Post reports, the once profitable and influential digital native tabloid can't get a second life started. From the get-go, when purchased by Bustle Digital Group (BDG), it has had problems attracting and retaining editorial talent.
More recently, the powers that be postponed, perhaps forever, the relaunch originally scheduled for September. In addition, all members of the staff have been laid off. That wipe-out includes editor in chief Dan Peres.
Those of us who understand media trends sensed there was no future for any version of Gawker. The whopper of the $140 million jury verdict in "Hulk Hogan v. Gawker" scared the jesus out of out-there media. They got it how many ways the law could be interpreted and how subjective juries could be.
Also, digital native media had been maturing. Snarky was ancient history. The demand has been for a less outrageous tone and more substance. That could be why the cool but buttoned-down Axios is thriving.
Meanwhile, the Gawker layoffs increase the glut of editorial talent on the street. When GenZ comes to me about career advice I indicate it can be useful to kick off a communications career in editorial. But simultaneously set in play plans to migrate to public relations or marketing communications.
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Posted by Sandra Lawrence on February 22, 2016
Image: Paul Lindus
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a good costume must be in want of adventure…
Halfway through Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, heroine Elizabeth Bennet takes a vacation with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner to the Derbyshire Peaks, home to a certain Mr Darcy. Before visiting the fictional Pemberley, Miss Bennet enjoys “the celebrated beauties of Matlock, Chatsworth, Dovedale, or the Peak”. It’s an odd episode, and one so very specific about the places the party visits it’s clear the author knew exactly what she was talking about.
All these places are still visitable – and, indeed, are visited, by thousands each year. But I was curious. All of these places – often outdoor, and requiring of vigorous exercise to experience – would have been done by Elizabeth – and, of course Austen herself – wearing flimsy, Empire-line Regency costume. How would wearing such inefficient clobber have affected the way these two ladies, real and imagined, enjoyed their visit?
Which led me to wonder further: Could dressing like a Regency traveller give unfamiliar insight to familiar great houses and towering peaks?
It is not the object of this work to give a description of Derbyshire, nor of any ofthe remarkable places through which their route thither lay; Oxford, Blenheim, Warwick, Kenelworth, Birmingham, &c. are sufficiently known.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
We ‘sufficiently know’ most of these even now – great houses, dreaming spires and even what was then a novelty: industry. Birmingham’s steam-fuelled blast furnaces, mechanised cotton mills and chemical factories would have been tourist attractions. Health and Safety could whistle.
I can’t help suspecting Blenheim, the first stop on my journey, might have inspired Austen to create Mr Darcy’s terrifying relative Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s country pile Rosings, and much of that feeling comes directly from my visit…
This kind of place was way above the social station of the
Image:Paul Lindus
Bennet family. Mr and Mrs Gardiner, as ‘gentlefolk, would have applied to the housekeeper to be shown around the state rooms much as we might walk around a National Trust property, but they would not have been welcomed as invited guests. Then, as today, this was the home of the aristocracy, and Elizabeth in her respectable but decidedly home-made clothes would have known her place.
Perhaps it was the prim day dress, bonnet and gloves ensemble that lent a self-consciousness Lizzie must have felt walking up those great golden-stone steps. I felt genuinely small in comparison to the sheer splendour of the massive columns, ornate carvings, towering ceilings and very finest of fine art.
It was spectacular. It was also slightly intimidating, a sensation I have never experienced walking round a stately home in modern mufti, and it gave me a little shiver. As did the massive banqueting table and fabulous painted ceiling.
A much smaller space gave the biggest shiver of all; this time a delightful one. The exquisitely-painted Indian Room’s glass-panelled doors look out across the grounds, enjoying an intimacy that conjures lazy afternoon tea for visiting ladies of leisure. The murals arrived in 1820, so Lizzie would have just missed them; the room was called The Stone Gallery in her day.
No claim is laid that Austen enjoyed a cuppa here, perhaps she never did, but as I sipped champagne, chose one of the 14 blends of tea and nibbled the delicate finger sandwiches and cakes of the Winston Tea (named for Blenheim’s most famous resident, Sir Winston Churchill) I couldn’t help dreaming that maybe, just maybe, she sat here too.
The cable car operator called the day ‘murksome’. Matlock’s Heights of Abraham, named for the scene of Wolfe’s Battle of Quebec, were so shrouded in wet, white fog there was no view whatsoever. Inclemency notwithstanding, by the early 19th Century Matlock’s views were a major draw.
The Great Rutland Cavern was opened to the public in 1810. Doughty travelers were lowered in buckets into what was still a working lead mine, frocks, bonnets n’all for a penny.
It was another penny if you wanted to go up again, this vital information not advertised on the way down. I was relieved to find the service is no longer provided; a walk-in entrance has been made instead. The Great Masson Cavern, opened in 1844, does, however, boast a round, ‘candle’ chandelier hanging from its roof, demonstrating the kind of light 19th Century tourists would have experienced.
As every visitor to Derbyshire knows, the weather changes by the hour. The following day the sun was shining, the grass glowing, the rivers sparkling and the blue skies above Dovedale warm and inviting. There’s no argument as to why Elizabeth and her family would have fallen in love with the soft, rolling hills, their mellow grey, dry-stone walls and woolly white lambs. It’s enchanting.
Many scholars have argued Bakewell, four miles from Chatsworth House, was the inspiration for the village of Lambton, where Lizzie stays before her visit to Pemberley. The town remains compact, gorgeous and, apart from the constant traffic, not unlike Jane Austen would have known it, with tiny courtyards, meandering alleys and what seems like dozens of bakeries, each claiming to be the one and only home of the original Bakewell pudding.
I was entranced to find a ribbon shop in a pink, half-timbered courtyard that would have kept Kitty and Lydia in enough lace to drive Mr Bennet to distraction. Lunch was at Byways, a cute 17th Century tearooms serving such enormous portions it provided evening picnic too, the solicitous staff donating a most un-Regency plastic box to transport it in.
Like Lizzie herself, I was rather nervous of visiting the great house at Chatsworth. Despite being named in the novel, it’s often regarded as the model for Pemberley, and the view that greets one’s carriage (or in my case, car) as it turns the corner still catches the breath.
I chose my grandest dress for the occasion, a gold-striped, paper-satin affair, though the wind got the better of my hair. I’m guessing Lizzie would have had a lady’s maid. I met one, actually, a costumed guide in a bedroom, though I would have needed a time machine to make use of her services, since she was from the 1890s. Once again I felt self-conscious, detained by curious members of the public, but the staff were unsurprised. “We get a lot of people dressing up,” one steward told me. “We had a couple from Australia recently, on their honeymoon, in full costume.”
Like Elizabeth, I toured the parts of the house open to general inspection, pausing, as she did, at a window to enjoy its prospect.
“And of this place,” thought she, “I might have been mistress.”
Sadly I had no such illusions.
At last, the Peaks themselves. Bleak on the sunniest day, their stark beauty is captivating and awesome in equal measures. Elizabeth Bennet would have worn kid-leather ankle boots. Mine were somewhat sturdier. We come from namby-pamby times, and I was just about to clamber about over rocks in a frock. And a Bonnet. Which refused to stay on in the gale-force wind. Happily the Air Ambulance charity shop in Bakewell keeps a supply of hatpins in a drawer. “We don’t get much call for them,” said the lady behind the counter as I bought three. I guess not.
Spencer buttoned, bonnet pinned, shawl clasped, parasol clutched, I tramped over thin soil, through sparse bracken, past uninterested sheep stolidly chewing on whatever sheep chew that high up. Smooth, round rocks I might have skipped over in jeans became awkward obstacles, shallow pools of rainwater major hazards. Once again I admired the hardiness of our 19th Century forebears, determined to enjoy the sights of England in spite of their clothes.
Then the top. And that view. Gosh, the Peaks are inspiring, whatever period you live in.
A version of this article by Sandra Lawrence first appeared in British Heritage magazine.
If you would like to syndicate this story or commission Sandra to write something similar please contact her at the following address, missing out the obvious gap…
sandra@ sandralawrence.com
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Lovely post! Can you please tell me the name of the shop that is in the pink half timbered building in Bakewell. I can’t get the image to enlarge to be able to read the name. I will be in Bakewell (all of the way from California) in May and I would love to see this building while I’m there!
Sandra Lawrence says:
Yes, it’s called Corvette Silo.
http://limpingchicken.com/2014/07/15/meet-corvette-silo-the-deaf-woman-who-runs-a-craft-shop-in-bakewell-derbyshire/
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October 31, 2019 onefrombills
WORLD BOWLING APPOINTS NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Andrew Oram spoke at the 2019 World Bowling Congress in Las Vegas
Credit: Terence Yaw, ABF-online
LAUSANNE, October 31 – World Bowling has appointed Andrew Oram as its new Chief Executive Officer of the organisation. Oram joins World Bowling following a short-term contract which was implemented prior to the World Bowing Women’s Championships held in Las Vegas in August where Sheikh Talal Mohammed Al-Sabah was elected for a second term as President at the 2019 Congress.
A former professional athlete, Oram moved into the sports broadcast industry before occupying the position of TV and Broadcast Director working within International Federations of Olympic sports in Lausanne, Switzerland.
World Bowling President Sheikh Talal Mohammed Al-Sabah says “We are delighted to have Andrew on board. He brings with him a diverse skill set and experience in the commercial and media sectors of high-performance sport. We look forward to working with him in this next and crucial phase for World Bowling.”
Oram says “I thank World Bowling President and the Executive Board for this opportunity. Over the past months I have been incredibly impressed by the level of passion and commitment shown by all the athletes and their member federations in showcasing the sport of bowling and I very much look forward to working with all of them as we aim to bring the sport to new audiences, locations and fans.”
About World Bowling: World Bowling is the governing body for the sport of tenpin bowling and heads 114 national federations from five confederations. Bowling is played in the Asian Games, the Pan American Games and The World Games and the Asian Indoor and Martial Art Games.
For more information on World Bowling, visit WorldBowling.org or please contact: World Bowling Media Department, Telephone: +41 78 830 3651; Email: media@worldbowling.org
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Stripe.js and JSONP
Alex MacCaw on September 7, 2012
We recently shipped a new version of Stripe.js, the JavaScript library behind pretty much every Stripe transaction. The library is in charge of taking credit card data, submitting it to Stripe’s servers and then returning a token which can be charged. This rewrite of Stripe.js comes with a bunch of new improvements, and all existing Stripe.js users have been automatically upgraded behind the scenes.
Stripe.js’s history is an interesting example of how the web works in practice: technologies being repurposed for unexpected use-cases. I thought it’d be interesting to illustrate how this played out.
Initially, when we were building Stripe.js, we implemented network calls using iframes. Iframes were, of course, never intended for use with cross-domain requests. However, HTML5 added support for postMessage, which enables two cooperating pages to communicate. This isn't quite enough, though—IE6, as usual, doesn’t support postMessage. It turns out that you can still make the iframe hack work by using a non-obvious shared channel: the iframe’s src property—and, in particular, the anchor fragment.
This is what the first version of Stripe.js did. What it lacked in elegance it made up for in compatibility. Still, it meant that we had to serve our iframe code from api.stripe.com, which was somewhat inelegant. The underlying code was hacky and awkward to maintain.
The standards of the web progress slowly, but they do progress. Back in 2005, a couple of people from Tellme Networks wrote a W3C working group note with the catchy title of Authorizing Read Access to XML Content Using the <?access-control?> Processing Instruction 1.0, which introduced a concept of access control declarations to XML and HTTP. This went through a few versions over the years (by 2007, it was Access Control for Cross-site Requests). Today, this has become CORS, or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing.
Supporting CORS is pretty simple—a matter of adding a few HTTP headers. Browsers will automatically prefix Ajax requests to third party servers with a OPTIONS request, verify that the CORS headers are present and valid, and then send the actual request.
CORS has begun to achieve widespread adoption: most major browsers now support it, Amazon just added CORS support to S3, and YouTube turned it on a few months ago.
With the rise of JavaScript applications, it’s clear that all APIs should now support CORS: if you’re providing an HTTP API, it’d be strange not to support the primary language of the web. As such, we’ve recently enabled CORS support in Stripe’s API, and anyone can now make cross-origin requests to Stripe.
Unfortunately, that’s not quite enough for Stripe.js. IE6 and IE7 both lack CORS support, while IE8 and IE9 have broken implementations. IE10 is the only version with a non-buggy CORS implementation. Obviously, compatibility is paramount for Stripe.js — we want to support all major browsers, right down to IE6—and so we needed to look elsewhere.
And so we return to using web technologies in unintended ways: JSONP. JSONP is a really neat and simple hack, and works in pretty much every browser under the sun. It involves creating a <script> tag that loads an API endpoint, and which in turn returns some JSON wrapped in a function call.
We decided to use JSONP for the Stripe.js rewrite. Adding support to our API took a few steps. First, we had to ensure that any responses to requests with callback query parameters were wrapped in a JSONP callback. Next, we had to make sure that JSONP responses always returned a 200 HTTP status code, with the real status code present in the response body. Lastly, since JSONP only supports GET requests, but our API uses a variety of request methods, we had to implement HTTP method override support with a _method query parameter. Rather than clutter our API code, we implemented all of this as middleware atop the API logic itself.
With this in place, we rewrote the Stripe.js client library in CoffeeScript, and conducted a huge amount of testing in every browser we support.
So, at the end of the day, what are the advantages of this new release?
First off, Stripe.js is now about half its previous size, which saves time and bandwidth for our users. It now works when loaded with file:// URLs, which was a frequent complaint of those hosting development locally.
On the Stripe end, we were able to eliminate a lot of complexity and code required to support iframe tunneling. All in all, a pretty good refactor.
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Is The Lack Of Defensive Linemen Draft Prospects Visiting The Steelers A Sign?
While it’s not advisable to read too much into the pre draft visitors that the Pittsburgh Steelers have hosted so far in the month April, the lack of defensive end prospects on that list that would fit the defensive system is a bit surprising. Could this mean that the Steelers feel more comfortable at the position than most of us outsiders believe they are?
As of right now, Steve McLendon, Cameron Heyward and Cam Thomas appear to be the only locks to make the 2014 roster. In addition, it still looks like there’s a pretty good chance that Brett Keisel might be back for one more season as well. We won’t likely know for sure, however, until after June 1st, but I wouldn’t bet against that happening. If indeed Keisel is re-signed, that would lock up four spots of a potential six.
So what about Nick Williams, Brian Arnfelt and Hebron Fangupo? Where do those three players stand as it relates to 2014? Williams was a seventh round draft pick last year and was lost during the 2013 pre season to a knee injury. Surely they’re not ready to give up on him already. He would be the fifth defensive lineman if Keisel is indeed brought back. As for Arnfelt and Fangupo, they both surely would have the upper hand initially over any rookies that come in via the draft, right?
Remember, the Steelers normally only like to dress five defensive linemen for games and with that said, we also know how hard it is for rookies on defense to see playing time during their first season. When was the last time a rookie defensive lineman played more than 225 snaps during a season? 2001?
So far, Notre Dame defensive lineman Stephon Tuitt is the only player the Steelers have had in for a visit that would really fit as a 5-technique defensive end. Yes, they’ve also had Pittsburgh defensive tackle Aaron Donald in for a visit, but why wouldn’t they being as he doesn’t count as one of their allotted 30 visitors from outside of the area? Unless they draft Tuitt, Minnesota defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman or Notre Dame nose tackle Louis Nix III in the first two rounds, they might not draft a defensive lineman at all until day three, right?
We’ll continue to monitor the Steelers remaining visitors over the course of the next few weeks and while it won’t mean much if a few defensive lineman don’t come to Pittsburgh, it could be a signal that that position just isn’t a big priority for them this time around.
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Growers for the first time will receive a minimum of $2.60 per kilo for pods from the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
Buyers and sellers agree to a $2,600 per metric ton base
By STiR (coffee and tea magazine) staff
Chocolate and coffee are both $100 billion global industries facing a pricing crisis.
In June, the two largest cocoa-producing countries jointly announced they would no longer sell their raw product for less than $2.60 per kilo. The suspension of sales by traders and processors for 2020-21, announced by Le Conseil du Café-Cacao (CCC) and the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), was endorsed by the Ghana Cocoa, Coffee and Sheanut Famers Association (COCOSHE) and Ghana Civil-Society Cocoa Platform (GCCP). Together these organizations, which harvest and process 65% of the world’s cocoa, convinced buyers to agree to a price floor.
Negotiations were lengthy and difficult but in July agricultural commodities trader Cargill, citing concerns about the long-term sustainability of cocoa production, agreed to price minimums for cocoa grown in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
“We applaud the willingness of both governments to set a minimum floor price for cocoa beans and affirm our commitment to do more to ensure that this measure leads to sustainable increases in farmers’ incomes,” said Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate.
The decision was praised by the International Cocoa Organization, which represents cocoa consuming and producing countries.
Three years ago the price of cocoa abruptly fell 30% and remained below the cost of production for many months, driving farmers into dire poverty and eventually disrupting supplies. Cocoa that sold for $15,000 per ton in 1972, has steadily declined as competing buyers drove price down to an average $2,400 per ton. Producers receive only 6% of global sales. The cycle is familiar to coffee growers who receive an estimated 10% of global sales and are currently experiencing decade-low prices.
In a media release, COCOSHE wrote that “The world needs to wake up and acknowledge the reality of the massive wealth inequality which is entrenched within the multi-billion-dollar international cocoa industry. We the cocoa farmers, who form the foundation of the industry, also earn the least share of the industry wealth.”
Coca farmers are proceeding with caution, seeking mechanisms to curb imbalances that often result occur as rival suppliers circumvent minimums.
COCOSHE observed that attempts to regulate market forces often fail, at times leading to worse conditions in the long run. “There is a long history of failed intervention in commodity markets, including cocoa, where price legislation resulted in excess supply/production, lowered demand, and an upsurge in stocks,” it stated.
Cargill is optimistic the price floor will hold: “Our vision is for a thriving cocoa sector for the benefit of future generations: a system that will enable cocoa farmers and communities to flourish, while ensuring long-term commercial success in line with our sustainability initiatives.”
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Research ArticleCancer
Prostate cancer cell–stromal cell crosstalk via FGFR1 mediates antitumor activity of dovitinib in bone metastases
Xinhai Wan1,*,
Paul G. Corn1,*,
Jun Yang1,
Nallasivam Palanisamy2,
Michael W. Starbuck1,3,
Eleni Efstathiou1,4,
Elsa M. Li Ning Tapia1,
Amado J. Zurita1,
Ana Aparicio1,
Murali K. Ravoori5,
Elba S. Vazquez6,
Dan R. Robinson2,
Yi-Mi Wu2,
Xuhong Cao2,
Matthew K. Iyer2,
Wallace McKeehan7,
Vikas Kundra5,8,
Fen Wang7,
Patricia Troncoso9,
Arul M. Chinnaiyan2,
Christopher J. Logothetis1 and
Nora M. Navone1,†
1Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
2Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
3The Rolanette and Berdon Lawrence Bone Disease Program of Texas, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
4University of Athens Greece School of Medicine, Athens 11528, Greece.
5Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
6Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires–National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET-IQUIBICEN), Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina.
7Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, IBT-Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
8Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
9Department of Pathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
↵†Corresponding author. E-mail: nnavone{at}mdanderson.org
Science Translational Medicine 03 Sep 2014:
Vol. 6, Issue 252, pp. 252ra122
Xinhai Wan
Department of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and the David H. Koch Center for Applied Research of Genitourinary Cancers, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Paul G. Corn
Jun Yang
Nallasivam Palanisamy
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Michael W. Starbuck
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The Importance of Employee Breaks
by Grace Ferguson
Giving employee breaks shows that you care about their well-being.
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1 Why Employees Should Get Away From Their Desks for a Lunch Break
2 Federal Requirements for Breaks and Meals During the Workday
3 Texas Workforce Lunch Requirement
4 OSHA Break Requirements
Small businesses tend to have a fast-paced environment. Employees have little time to take breaks, and when they do, they sometimes don’t get to enjoy it. An August 2011 study conducted by Right Management says that one-third of workers eat lunch at their desk daily while 16 percent hardly, if ever, take lunch. This can be a hazardous practice. Employee breaks are important for various reasons.
Increases Productivity
There is a general belief that employees who take regular breaks are more productive. According to CareerBuilder.com, workplace psychologist Dr. Janet Scarborough Civitelli says the marginal returns are reduced when the brain is required to exert continuous pressure during an eight-hour shift. Following a break, your employees are geared up to work again, significantly boosting their performance level. This rejuvenation enables them to complete their tasks more accurately, leading to fewer errors. Increased productivity is a win-win situation for your employees, your business and your clients.
The mind can only take so much before it becomes overloaded by too much data or activity, which can ultimately lead to stress. Regularly skipping a lunch break can cause stress and fatigue to sneak up on the employee, resulting in a sudden loss of zeal for his job duties. Stressing about an issue at work can cause the employee to display negative behavior, such as irritability and hopelessness. Once stress begins to build, the employee should take a quick break away from the issue and revisit it once his mental state is intact again. He can use the break to take a stroll away from the workplace, a quick nap, talk to friends, eat a healthy snack or meditate in the break room or somewhere private.
Lowers Physical Ailments
ABC World News says a survey by the American Journal of Epidemiology revealed that sitting for lengthy time frames, such as longer than six hours per day, can cause the individual to be 18 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease, obesity and diabetes than someone who sits for less than three hours per day. Talking breaks can relieve the eyestrain that generally results from staring at the computer screen for too long, and performing some stretching exercises may help the employee to shed unwanted pounds and improve blood circulation.
Federal law does not require you to give employee breaks; however, some states make it mandatory. Under federal law, if you choose to give short breaks, typically lasting five to 20 minutes, it is regarded as paid time. Further, federal law requires employers to give nonexempt nursing mothers reasonable break time for nursing and breast-pumping purposes. Some states, including Texas, follow federal breaks laws, while others have their own provisions. For example, in Colorado, employers must give paid 10-minute rest breaks for each four-hour work period. The state may also make lunch period mandatory. Lunch periods typically last 30 minutes to an hour and this is generally regarded as unpaid time unless the employee works during lunch in which case it is regarded as paid time. Check with your state’s labor department for rest and meal period policies to ensure compliance.
Even when breaks are not required by law, many employers choose to give them because of their benefits. In many cases, employers give full-time employees at least two paid 15-minute breaks for the day; the employee is not paid for excess time taken.
CNN Living: Why Taking Lunch Makes You a Better Employee
U.S. Department of Labor: Work Hours-Breaks & Meal Periods
Right Management: One-Third of Employees Lunch at Their Desk
ABC World News: Standing Question-Could Sitting Too Long at Work be Dangerous?
Texas Workforce Commission: Fair Labor Standards Act - What It Does and Does Not Do
U.S. Department of Labor: Wage and Hour Division-Minimum Length of Meal Period Required Under State Law For Adult Employees in Private Sector
U.S. Department of Labor: Wage and Hour Division-Minimum Paid Rest Period Requirements Under State Law for Adult Employees in Private Sector
U.S. Department of Labor: Wage and Hour Division-State Labor Offices
Grace Ferguson has been writing professionally since 2009. With 10 years of experience in employee benefits and payroll administration, Ferguson has written extensively on topics relating to employment and finance. A research writer as well, she has been published in The Sage Encyclopedia and Mission Bell Media.
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Why Employees Should Get Away From Their Desks for a Lunch Break
Handle Excessive Talking at Work
Federal Labor Laws for Ambulance Personnel
Time Worked & Labor Laws
Examples of Scenarios of Dealing With an Unhappy Employee
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Gunfight: The B-52 MiG Kills of Linebacker II.
Posted on January 1, 2015 by tomdemerly in In History // 29 Comments
A North Vietnamese MiG-21, NATO codename “Fishbed”, at the military museum in Hanoi, Vietnam. This aircraft is attributed to a pilot named “Major Pham Tuan” and credited with several kills including a B-52 on December 26, 1972 during the Linebacker II strategic bombing campaign. Major Tuan went on to become the first Vietnamese in space and was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal. There is no U.S. evidence to support the Vietnamese claim of a B-52 victory by Tuan.
Aerial gunnery is an antiquated concept in modern air combat.
In the age of cruise missiles, stealth and BVR (Beyond Visual Range) engagements the idea of aviators dueling with guns at close range is largely obsolete.
So it was on Christmas Eve, 1972 above Hanoi, North Vietnam. A massive bomber force of B-52G and tall-tailed, big-bellied B-52D’s streamed toward Hanoi for the relentless pounding of North Vietnam called Linebacker II.
The idea, perhaps tacitly, was to force the North Vietnamese back to the bargaining table at the Paris Peace Talks. Nixon had issued an ultimatum earlier in the month. He directed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to warn Hanoi that if they didn’t return to the negotiating table in Paris within 72 hours North Vietnam would face “grave consequences”. Those consequences were to be administered by the B-52 Stratofortresses from Andersen AFB in Guam and Utapao Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand. Christmas was coming, the budget for bombing was running out and a new Congress would soon sit. They threatened to end the Vietnam Conflict with legislation instead of lethality.
For the 43rd, 72nd and 307th Bomb Wings of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command it was crunch time. Get the job done or lose the job to the new Congress.
The B-52 is a horrific weapon in its tactical/conventional role. It has struck terror in the enemy from the Viet Cong to the North Vietnamese to Saddam’s Republican Guard and to Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda at Tora Bora. To this day the Stratofortress serves as a capable “bomb truck” that can loiter above troops in contact and drop precision guided weapons designated by ground forces or other aircraft and obliterate entire grid squares with hell-thunder carpet bombing. The few people who have survived a B-52 strike describe it as an unimaginable cauldron of deafening noise. The earth heaves in fatal seizure as fire and shards of red-hot shrapnel fill the air like a plague of Satan’s locust. After B-52 strikes in the Gulf War thousands of Saddam’s “elite” Republican Guard abandoned their weapons and marched south with their hands in the air. Such is the terror of the thundering death rained from the stratosphere without warning by the B-52.
Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) photos show one of the Linebacker II targets after a raid.
Strategic aerial bombing had come a long way, or so we thought, since WWII. Especially according to the Strategic Air Command and their original boss, General Curtis LeMay.
LeMay nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki and gone on to preside over the formation of a nuclear deterrent force that was trained to race over the North Pole and attack Russia. LeMay’s doctrine of high, fast nuclear megadeath even gave brief life to the new XB-70 Valkyrie triple-supersonic high altitude bomber. But the Valkyrie died in a midair collision over the western U.S. desert during a publicity photo shoot soon after LeMay had been put out to pasture in retirement as think tanks began to envision a different kind of air war, a tactical air war with strategic goals that mixed bargaining table with bombing runs to leverage compliance through diplomacy along with carpet bombing.
So that night, in the skies above Hanoi, bombers designed to attack Russia from high altitude after racing over the arctic were now raining iron bombs on the North Vietnamese in a series of raids that looked more like the B-24, B-29 and B-17 missions in WWII than some futuristic vision of air war.
And the North Vietnamese were ready.
Old ideas die hard in military doctrine so, while the XB-70 had no provision for self-defense machine guns like the ancient B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator and B-29 Superfortress from WWII, the B-52 retained at least lip service to self defense in the form of a tail gunner. He manned a deadly quadruple stinger of four .50 caliber machine guns aimed remotely from his cupola in the tail of the Stratofortress. Most of the time he was a bored passenger in the back of the B-52 on a bombing mission, but during Linebacker II, he would earn his pay, and his gunpowder.
The tail gunner’s station inside a Boeing B-52D Stratofortress. The four rear-facing Browning .50 caliber machine guns were below the gunner and aimed remotely, similar to the configuration of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress in WWII.
Air defense above Hanoi was interlaced with guns, missiles, radars and MiGs in a lethal gauntlet bent on decimating the American bomber streams. It was the “flying telephone pole” SAM missiles the American bomber crews feared the most. Not the MiGs. The Soviet Built SA-2 Guideline missile was a morbid predator of American bomber crews. Beginning in a glowing flash from its launch rail tens of thousands of feet below, the SA-2 SAM flying telephone pole would arc upward toward the bomber stream as the B-52 tail gunners watched helplessly. They hoped the missiles would run out of fuel, fail to track accurately and fall away. Most of the time they did. But not always. When I visited Hanoi in 2002 government officials proudly showed me the helmets of downed B-52 crewmembers in a glass case and touted the wreckage of a B-52 stuck in a lake in the center of Hanoi as a great monument to the Communist victory in the “American War”.
The North Vietnamese were good at using their SAM missiles. The Russians had taught them. During Linebacker II they would launch over 1,000 of them. And along with the low and medium altitude flak and high altitude SAM missiles came another threat- Communist MiGs.
The MiG-21 and MiG-17 are both capable interceptors, especially the ‘-21, NATO codename, “Fishbed”. They can both get into the air quickly from airfields around Hanoi and, if they survive fratricide from the SAM missiles buzzing upward like angry bees from a broken hive, it is easy for them to find the B-52’s. Both MiGs bristle with cannons and the MiG-21 can mount Atoll air-to-air missiles, a capable knock-off of the American Sidewinder. They are a genuine threat to the B-52’s raining dynamite-death on Hanoi.
This night 22 “Big Belly ‘D’s”, B-52D Stratofortresses with their distinctive high tail and sinister camouflage cloak over a gloss-black belly, will hit the steel mills at Thai Nguyen near Hanoi in the hopes of further destroying the Communist infrastructure. This bomber stream will launch from Thailand, in much the same way as B-29’s launched from the Marianas during WWII.
A large-tail, big-belly B-52D model at Utapao, Thailand during Linebacker II.
Inside the tail of the B-52D named “Diamond ‘Lil”, aircraft number 55083, USAF Airman 1st Class Albert Moore from San Bernadino, California will be manning the Browning quad .50 caliber machine guns. He is only 18. Almost exactly like his forefathers in the tail of the B-17 Flying Fortress or a B-24 Liberator, Moore’s task is lonely and tedious. It is over half a football field from where Moore sits at his gunnery station in the tail (actually, behind the tail) of the B-52 to where the flight crew, navigator, bombardier and radioman sit. In between them are tons of high explosives packed into the aircraft, up to 88 general-purpose 500 pound bombs.
If the mission succeeds the 22 tons of bombs they are carrying will turn Thai Nguyen railway into a moonscape. Tonight the B-52 Moore is flying in is call sign “Brown Three”.
The mission was relatively routine even following bomb release. Then it changed.
Moore saw a fast moving, green blip on his radar screen. It arced from upper left toward center. The radar contact was low, below the bomber stream. Moore noticed it at the 8:30 position of his screen, ascending on what appeared to be an intercept vector.
It is coming to kill them.
The B-52 is absurdly vulnerable to fighters. Without an escort shield like the B-17’s and B-24’s had in world war two from their P-51 Mustangs, the B-52’s over Hanoi were lumbering sky-cows ripe for a MiG slaughter. It’s takes a few grid squares to turn a B-52. In formation at night, that is impossible without the risk of midair collision. It is easy to imagine the North Vietnamese MiG pilot racing up to decimate the B-52’s must have known this would be easy. With the massive heat signature from eight engines on the B-52 and its non-existent maneuverability the MiGs could be… almost leisurely in their predation.
Photo attributed to be “Major Phạm Tuân”, a MiG-21 pilot credited with an air-to-air kill of an American B-52.
We don’t know what happened inside the cockpit of the MiG-21 that lit up Airman Moore’s radar screen that night. To this day the Vietnamese are guarded about many aspects of the “American War”. But it is easy to imagine the MiG pilot arming his Atoll air-to-air missiles, cheap flight gloves covering an index finger moving to the trigger on the center of the MiG’s control stick. Left hand continuing to advance the throttle. Climbing, climbing… ahead and above the night sky framing the giant swept wing bombers that grow larger in the MiG’s windscreen by the second…
Moore calls the contact to the rest of his crew over the intercom inside the B-52. He sees it is climbing to kill them, and realizes he is their only hope. Whether it is B-52’s and MiGs over Hanoi in the 20th century or stones and cavemen, it is all the same, one man will die, one will live. These next few seconds will decide.
The pilot takes what evasive maneuvers he can, wagging the B-52 slightly in the night sky. It is a useless gesture against the nimble MiG, like a goat tied to a post before a tiger.
The 18-year old Moore orders chaff and flares, countermeasures designed (quite poorly) to confuse the MiG’s ability to use radar or infra-red heat signature to lock onto the B-52 for a missile shot or a cannon pass. The bright magnesium flares rocket outward from the B-52 in an arcing fan, swirling in its vortex to create a dazzling display that ruins the MiG pilot’s night vision of the giant bomber. Clouds of metallic confetti chaff fill the air like a panicked buffalo emptying its bowels after a lion’s pounce.
The chaff and flares do nothing.
Hauntingly, the MiG seems to dangle motionless on the radar screen behind the B-52. It is beginning to match speed and altitude. For a firing solution. Moore knows what he must do to save the airplane and crew.
Unlike the gunners in a B-17 or B-24 during WWII the gunner in a B-52 does not hold onto the gun itself. He does not feel all of the recoil from the big Browning .50 caliber machine gun in his spine. He does not swing the barrel of the machine gun against the maelstrom slipstream through an open window in the bomber. He likely never even sees the plane he is shooting at. It is only a blip on a radar screen, like an early video game. Moore controls the four .50 caliber machine guns from his station slightly above and behind the guns. The four guns are mounted in a large gimbal. He moves the gimbal with his gun controls, anticipating the path of the oncoming MiG.
Moore angles his shot down and left of his B-52. He must fill the sky with hot lead in the flight path of the MiG and hope it flies into his bullets.
He will have one chance before the MiG has an opportunity to fire on the wallowing Stratofortress.
Clamping down on the trigger control the four big Brownings buck underneath Moore, rocking back and forth from their recoil and sucking in belts of bullets through a metal feed rail. Given the airspeed of the B-52, the ballistic trajectory of the bullets and the angle, closure rate, speed and altitude of the MiG this is, literally, a longshot.
His first burst misses.
Moore steadies himself as though it mattered in the wagging tail of the squirrely B-52. He sends another streak of .50 cal tracers arcing in front of the MiG.
The wreckage of a B-52 downed during the “American War” by North Vietnamese remains in a lake in the center of Hanoi as a memorial.
Time is running out. The MiG will attack in the next few seconds. Moore has one final chance. He fires his longest burst, thousands of rounds going through the feed rails, into the four guns and arcing into the night sky. The gun barrels begin to overheat. He is running low on ammunition.
Airman Moore cannot see what happens through his canopy, but on his radar screen the MiG seems to glow… even brighter. The radar contact “…grows to three times its size” Moore would write in his after-action report.
In the tail of another B-52 Tech Sgt. Clarence Chute sees the MiG get torn apart when its flies through the death-ray arc of Moore’s bullets. Chute, the only eyewitness to the MiG kill, later wrote, “Several pieces of the aircraft exploded, and the fireball disappeared in the under-cast at my 6:30 position.”
There is no official record of who was flying the MiG-21 that attacked Moore’s B-52. The North Vietnamese did not acknowledge the loss. The pilot of the MiG remains anonymous, a flyer doing his deadly job. When I asked about the loss of MiG pilots during Linebacker II on a visit to Hanoi the government appointed guides feigned misunderstanding of my question. They only mentioned there were “…many heroes…”
For his incredible aerial gunnery, gallant and courageous defense of his aircraft and crew, and calm repose under imminent attack Airman 1st Class Albert Moore was awarded the Silver Star, the third highest award for valor in the U.S. military. Moore’s aerial victory was one of two by B-52 gunners during Linebacker II. About a week earlier USAF Staff Sergeant Sam Turner had also downed a North Vietnamese MiG-21 with the tail gun of his B-52.
By December 29, 1972 the U.S. Air Force was running out of targets for their B-52’s. Strategic bombing operations north of the 20th parallel were stopped. Industrial targets in North Vietnam were in ruins. But still the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fought on. On January 2, 1973 peace discussions in Paris resumed. It is widely believed among U.S. experts, and staunchly denied by Vietnamese experts, that the Linebacker II strikes forced the North Vietnamese back to the bargaining table.
Regardless of the political ramifications of Linebacker II it would remain one of the largest strategic bombing campaigns in history, and depending on whose metric you use, the most successful. It was also the last bombing campaign in which U.S. heavy bombers shot down enemy aircraft using guns in an air-to-air engagement, and the B-52 Stratofortress remains the largest aircraft in history to have shot down another aircraft in flight using guns.
Alert 5 contributor Tom Demerly has traveled to all seven continents and written for numerous publications including Outside magazine. He still can’t fly anything bigger than a Cessna.
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27 Comments on Gunfight: The B-52 MiG Kills of Linebacker II.
Jack Sandmeier, MSgt, USAF Retired // January 1, 2015 at 20:52 // Reply
I was stationed at Utapao AB when Airman Moore shot down his MiG-21 and watched him paint his kill on his B-52.
tomdemerly // January 1, 2015 at 23:00 // Reply
Jack, that is incredible. There is nothing more exciting than when someone who was there for these stories reads what we write. Thank you very much Sir. Appreciated.
Martin Taylor // January 1, 2015 at 22:45 // Reply
I was assigned on Guam during this time frame
Martin, you guys were part of history and did an incredible job during a difficult time. Thank you Sir, very much. Tom D.
Charlie Leeder // January 2, 2015 at 12:45 // Reply
Really interesting read. Thank you Tom. If you have any further stories from this era i would be very grateful to read them. Do you or have you written any books on this subject matter?
Mick T. // January 2, 2015 at 17:59 // Reply
TOMDEMERLY, would you consider doing a story on the downing of “Spectre 22” and subsequent rescue “The Easter Egg Hunt”. She was an AC-130 that was shot down in 1972 a few weeks prior to “Bat 21”. My cousin was a gunner on that flight and was the most severely injured of the crew.
Paul M // January 3, 2015 at 14:29 // Reply
I was up there, out of Guam, a few of those nights as a B-52 CP at the time. Flew a big-belly mod with 108 five hundred pounders. I recall the MIG calls off of “Bullseye”, which our Nav quickly plotted. Thankfully Airman Moore was handling them. Good read, thanks.
Jim Ward // January 4, 2015 at 18:35 // Reply
Who was Aircraft Commander for these two MIG kills.
John Dean // January 13, 2015 at 19:17 // Reply
I was a B-52 flight simulator operator (4017th Combat Crew Training Squadron (CCTS) at Castle AFB, CA leading up to Linebacker II. Trained many of the Pilots and Cos. I am proud of all of our BUFF crewmembers, and proud to have been involved in this campaign that I believed won this war for the United States, “Fly, Fight, Win!”
Steve DeFord // August 22, 2015 at 13:42 // Reply
I spent 12 months on “The Rock”, 6 months at utapao and 3 months at Kadena working on this system (and these same planes). I thoroughly enjoyed this detailed account of how this system really worked. We always wondered if it would really work as designed.
PaulB // December 30, 2015 at 22:05 // Reply
I. Was. At. U_Tapao. During. LB. 2. Worked. At. Bomber. Ops. Lost. A lot. Of. Sleep. We. Worked. All night and tried. To. Sleep. In the day.
Stanley E. Allen // December 31, 2015 at 20:41 // Reply
During the eleven years I was a B52 tail-gunner (TG) our standard combat ammo load for the FCS using the .50 cal. M3 Browning machine gun was Armour Piercing Incendiary (API); we NEVER carried tracer ammunition; tracer ammo is highly unreliable because the weight of the projectiles is constantly diminishing as the phosphorous burns up. The author was misinformed about the TG watching tracers go through the night sky. Another thing is that the TG would have been using only radar at night, not the periscope. Without external light on the Mig the periscopic sight would have been useless.
Chief Master Sergeant Stanley E. Allen, USAF, Retired
James F. Horvath // January 21, 2016 at 02:28 // Reply
I was tdy to NKP during Linebacker II flying C-130’s. I remember Christmas morning before dawn on the flight line getting ready for our mission. Two contrails were visible lit by the dawn heading back to Utapao. B-52’s flew in cells of three. Then a single contrail. Then another set of two. The whole crew just stood there and watched in silence, contemplating what these guys had just been through and knowing that a lot of them had bought the farm or were being captured at that moment.
Later there was a story that one of the buffs made it back to Thailand before everyone bailed out of the damaged plane over the base. One of the crew hailed a taxi and arrived at the front gate carrying his helmet. Was this true?
Doug Drewry // January 21, 2016 at 17:08 // Reply
It was agreat story if not entirely accurate, I guess in the name of entertainment. I totally agree with the gentleman above, we flew only API. The truth is a B52, especially the “D” model was not an easy target and certainly not a sitting duck for either fighters or SAMs. The reason why there were only two confirmed shoot downs of MIGs (by the way there was also a third but it lacked independent confirmation) was because of the BUFs abilities. First the truth is that a B52 at altitude can easily out turn a fighter and especially the MIG21. The fighter has two attack choices, missles or guns. The missles were fairly easily defeated with a combination of Electronic Countermeasures (ECM), aircraft manuevering, and the CHAFF and Flares in combination. The second approach regures the fighter to get within gun firing range. Its not impossible to make a head on or frontal approach but the likelyhood of hitting the target is very very small considering the closing speeds and the actual firing time available and the likelyhood of making a “kill” shot on a BUF is even smaller. This drives a fighter into flying a pretty classical pursuit curve; a closing path on the target from approx the 5 to 7 o’clock position. Can be from high or low or even level but essentially because both aircraft are moving it ends up looking like a cone behind the target. The simple truth is the attacking fighter is within firing range of the B52 considerably before the B52 is in range of the fighters guns or cannon because of physics and unlike thye bombers of WWII, the radar guided and controlled guns on the BUF are very accurate. Nothing but kudos to Al and Sam and to Pat Bardsley who didn’t get confirmation. The rest of us were never fortunate enough to have a MIG pilot aggressive or foolish enough to make the attempt. Incidentally the BUFs defenses were generally very effective against the SAMs as well. Especially the “D” model tall tails which carried better ECM. The largest problem over Hanoi was not the number of airplanes in the air so much as the VC defense of vollying all their launchers as fast as they could be reloaded. Unfortunately with massive numbers of SAMs in the air at once, the guys simply ran out of places to turn without running into another one.
Gtt52 // May 19, 2016 at 15:03 // Reply
FYI – in the wee morning hours of 12-24-1972, 15 B-52Ds out of U-Tapao attacked a target 17 miles south of the Chinese border, northeast of Hanoi. We were the last bomber in the stream and as we crossed the coastline inbound, our gunner reported 4 bandits at our 6 o’clock. Halfway to the target, our EWO reported they had locked onto us with their airborne radar. All along Red Crown discounted our radio transmissions reporting our “bandit” company. After several bomb strings crossed the target, our gunner yelled: “They’re coming in!” as our bomber shook frm our 50s firing back. We dropped our bombs and as we rolled our of our post target turn, the EWO reported a lock-on at 3 o’clock that maneuvered into a tail attack. Immediately the EWO had another lock-on at 9 o’clock with the same sequences of events. With each new attack, our gunner responded with a shower of lead! During this time Red Crown had pulled his head out of his ass and was finally vectoring Navy F-4s towards us. After numerous single ship attacks, the Migs knocked it off as they were surely warned of the approaching F-4s. During our evasive maneuving from continuous Mig attacks, we had been separated from the other bombers. One of the F-4s reported he had a “lock-on” and requested from Red Crown for permission to fire. After our EWO confirmed he wasn’t locked onto us, we were screaming “FIRE!” However Red Crown directed the F-4 to close and make a visual ID of the target. Between 2 and 3 in the morning, at 35,000′ deep inside of North Vietnam, Red Crown directed our supersonic fighter to make a visual ID on the enemy’s supersonic Mig. YGTBSM! Naturally the Mig broke contact and lived to fight another day. You will never see anything about this bombing mission because the Migs were Chinese as our EWO confirmed by the frequency of their airborne radar. BTW – our gunner reported at two of the targets disapating on his radar scope. But in the “American way,” unless you have a witness – it never happened. May God bless all of our warriors still in the fight against evil.
Jim // August 6, 2016 at 03:46 // Reply
Hate to burst bubbles, but with all wars, the truth comes out later when each side gets to examine the actual records of the other. The NVPAF didn’t lose any aircraft to B-52’s, and no aircraft to any causes on the time and dates provided by the BUFF crews.
Oscar Larsson // October 19, 2017 at 11:33 // Reply
Well look at that, yes, communists never lie about their losses do they?
The NV”P”AF are of course lying, what else can you expect from Red Nazis.
Furthermore, as they started the war of agression against South Vietnam, they got almost what they deserved.
A B83 of course being what they really deserved. And still do.
Well, it is never to late…
gb // September 10, 2016 at 09:32 // Reply
would be an interesting and well written article, if the rhetoric didn’t make it almost un-readable at some points. Patriotism (something I normally call nationalism, but some unwritten law prescribes that yankees are patriots while others are nationalists) is good until it messes up basic reasonable concepts – for example, the Mig interceptors which, according to the author were targeted by their own SAM systems – it’s awfully disrespectful both to the truth and the men who fought there. North vietnamese air force sparingly used its small fighter force, well knowing that it could be wiped out in a single engagement by the massively greater numbers the USAF/NAVY sported. Hence, they deployed interceptors only when there was a high chance of success and low risk (in fact, unescorted B-52s made a good reason to launch missions). Sams and MiGs were equipped with IFF transponders. Also, NVAF planners would carefully avoid risk to their limited machines and trained crews. But the message you people keep repeating, it’s still that “whoever fights against the US are always savages people, employing obsolete tech with no regards to human lives, not even theirs as they shoot down their own people”. It’s ridiculous, and more ridiculous is that there’s many folks around the US believing that. NV crews fought and sacrificed their lives because of love for their country and people, because a B-52 dropping a full bomb load over Hanoi is a horrible threat to the lives of the people down below, military and civilian alike. Servicemen from every country do that, sacrifice themselves because it’s their duty to their people. This needs to be reminded, and respected.
Yes, if a country, as North Vietnam did start a war of agression, they will have to take the well deserved consequenses.
(If that is a problem for the communists living in hanoi they should take it up with their leaders, who are responsible for causing the bombings by starting the war.)
They almost did.
The deserved consequenses of course being a b83 at max yeild.
Gtt52 // September 10, 2016 at 10:37 // Reply
(gb). Although I agree with a large portion of your statement, I dare predict you have never shared the grave responsibility of eliminating “one’s enemy!” It is easy for “the protected” to espouse such noble observations over Warriors’ perceptions. However when it comes “nut cutting time,” you had better not be thinking of the enemy as “Mother Theresa!”
“THE ONLY PURPOSE FOR WAR – IS TO WIN!
Anonymous // September 28, 2016 at 10:21 // Reply
As an engineer with the manufacturer of the A3A/MD9 tail defense system for the B52 I spent many a night preparing it for flight test the next morning. Including its two radars, its turret and optical drive electronics, it had over 500 vacuum tubes. When it was designed and built transistors were not yet available that could their work.
Doug // September 28, 2016 at 12:49 // Reply
It’s amazing how many times guns have been removed from airplanes because it’s antiquated only to have the combat crews wish later they still had them. Or how many times they have been reinstalled. Over the horizon kills are great but doesn’t always work with closure happening all the time. All it takes is one more bad guy than the missles you have…
MSGT Jerry Cochrane // October 16, 2016 at 15:16 // Reply
I was an Instructor Gunner at Castle AFB, CA and taught both Al Moore and Sam Turner in the academic phase of becoming gunners. I remember them both and will always be proud of their contributions. During my 143 missions over South Vietnam,,North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, I never had to use my guns on the enemy…but I trust I would have defended my aircraft and crew as well as did Al and Sam. God bless all of our crewmembers in SAC and all other sister organizations. MSGT Jerry Cochrane.
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William E Dorn // August 4, 2019 at 17:40 // Reply
Entries say the B-52 D with the taller tail had better ECM than the later short tail G model. Please clarify.
Doug Drewry // August 4, 2019 at 21:27 // Reply
The D model was equipped with more antennas and specialized ECM gear to deal with the SAM threats. The G models had not received the same mods and upgrades so they did. It have the same level of defensive capability as the D’s. In addition the gunner provides another set of eyeballs outside the aircraft to visually see the threat and call for evasive maneuvers vs the G model where the gunner sat up front in the cave with the EW.
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The term ‘IP’ has emerged from general obscurity in the Chinese tech market to become one of the hottest buzzwords over the past few years.
While China has historically been notorious for weak intellectual protection, tech giants and startups alike are beginning to tap into the all-valuable IPs behind gaming, film, TV and a wealth of other copyrighted content. It’s reflective of two emerging trends in the Chinese market: tech companies are expanding aggressively into entertainment or cultural sectors, and good content is scarce and in high demand.
China’s gaming industry was of the first to know the importance of IP. A handful of big tech companies, including Tencent, Sohu and NetEase, have seen a large portion of their revenue generated from a small number of game titles in the past years.
By 2015, established Chinese tech companies, especially the giants, have entered almost all entertainment sectors including book publishing, television, film production and distribution, online video production, and anime & cartoons.
While online piracy is still a big problem on the Chinese web, companies are increasingly taking legal or other measures to protect the rights to their originally developed or licensed content.
Tencent: From Gaming to Every Other Sector
So it’s not surprising that Tencent, the social network giant with gaming accounting for its largest revenue source to this day, was one of the first tech companies to tout the importance of intellectual property. If gaming can monetize on hundreds of millions users, adaptations based on already-popular games are a no-brainer.
In recent years Tencent tapped into almost all other non-gaming entertainment sectors, including the movie market which has been growing rapidly alongside the competing effort from Alibaba.
In September 2014 Tencent unveiled the Movie Plus program (our translation) to adapt popular games, books and anime titles of their own to movies by partnering with Chinese film production companies and other industry institutions. The program started with seven titles, four games, an anime, Roco (a role-playing social network for children), and one novel by Nobel laureate Mo Yan, which was signed by Tencent’s online publisher.
In 2015 Tencent unveiled two companies, Tencent Pictures and Penguin Pictures, for producing and distributing movies and online videos. Tencent Pictures’ in-house studios produce movies adapted from games. Penguin Pictures, which is managed by Tencent’s online video division, produces online shows. The first online drama series to be launched is based on Ghost Blows Out the Light, a best-selling novel first published on online publishing platform Qidian.com.
Tencent poached core team of Qidian.com, who created the online fiction publishing model which is widely adopted across China, in 2013. The company would later acquire Cloudary (or Shanda Literature), the largest online original works publisher consisting of Qidian and several other online publishing sites, in late 2014.
Apart from exploiting copyrighted materials of its own, Tencent also acquires rights to and develop games based on movies, television series, anime and even variety shows. The company has developed a social music game based on reality singing competition show The Voice of China, which is part of The Voice franchise. In 2013 the company hired Peter Chan, a well-know Hong Kong film director, to help develop a game based on Tian Ya Ming Yue Dao, a popular Wuxia novel.
LeTV: Exploiting Existing Rights
LeTV, one of the leading online video and smart TV companies, granted game developer LineKong exclusive rights to develop online games based on some of its drama TV series in which the former owns rights.
LeTV is well known for acquiring a large number of TV drama series rights at relatively low prices before online video became mainstream in China. The company now also produces original drama series and other shows.
LineKong has developed a game based on The Legend of Zhen Huan, a hugely popular TV series that had brought LeTV a lot of money by simply reselling it to television stations and other online video sites.
In early 2015 LeTV announced that LineKong would begin developing a game based on a new drama series, which was still under production at the time, by the same team that produced The Legend of Zhen Huan.
(Update: LeTV has recently rebranded as LeEco.)
Huayi Brothers: from Movie to Gaming
Huayi Brothers, one of the leading film production companies, has invested in a bunch of game developers since 2010 that include OurPalm, YINHAN Games and Yingxiong.
After Shen Mo, a game developed by YINHAN Games in which Huayi Brothers has a controlling stake, began generating meaningful monthly income, Huayi Brothers started production on a movie spin-off.
The company saw over one third of its total revenue in the first three quarters of 2015 from online entertainment, primarily from gaming.
Conventional Drama & Film Production Industries: Extra Money
Developing a television series and a game in unison is a model that has been accepted by many in the conventional television and film industries.
Now it’s common to see a drama series or variety show being promoted together with an identically themed game. Online viewers are able to download the accompanying game through ad links, and TV viewers can scan a QR code shown on the screen to find it.
Image Source: Mi Yue Zhuan, an online game based on an identically-themed TV Drama.
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[Q&A] Thoughts from the Closet: On Being Bisexual, Coming Out to Tibetan Family Members and Reasons for Hope
December 30, 2017 February 20, 2018 tibetanequalityproject LGBTQ, Q&A, Tibet, Tibetans
A few days ago, I received the following heartfelt email. Although unexpected, it was truly encouraging hearing from a fellow LGBTQ Tibetan back in India. I’d like to thank Tae Yen (a pseudonym), who wishes to remain anonymous, for the message and the illuminating conversation.
From India, 20 years old, apprentice at a tattoo studio and learning tattooing. I knew that I had things for the same gender since pre school, I was keen on being paired with girls more than guys for school projects. I asked my mother if it’s ok to find girls beautiful? She had an idea as to what I was indicating and she told me that it’s ok. She acknowledged me with terms, lesbian and gay. I searched, and I grew up. I had celebrity crushes, basically girls. I like a girl for now but I can not let my family know. I lost my mother when I was in my teens, if she was here it would’ve been easier.
Well, I’m not ashamed of my sexuality. While being queer is hard for many in India, it is especially so in a Tibetan family where understanding “love regardless of gender” is tough. But I’m proud of my tomboy self. I respect my androgynous side and with great acceptance, I accept myself as bisexual. My friends are aware of my sexuality and they’re supportive. Hope I’ll be out of the closet soon, properly.
The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Expresses Support for LGBTQ Relationships
November 1, 2017 March 1, 2018 tibetanequalityproject Gyalwang Karmapa, LGBTQ, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetans
In 2015, when The 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje visited Princeton University, he was asked to share his own views on gay, lesbian, and transgender relationships. Gyalwang Karmapa emphasized the fact that all relationships are valid if based upon trust and real affection and also mentioned that there isn’t a strong reference or guidance for lay people regarding homosexuality in Tibetan Buddhism. Continue reading →
Reaching Out to LGBTQ Tibetans
October 30, 2017 January 13, 2020 tibetanequalityproject LGBTQ, Tibet, Tibetans
It is not easy being an LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual) Tibetan. Our community has hardly been conducive to LGBTQ+ voices, and the obvious lack of representation and awareness discourages many from living their truths. That is not to say a lot of Tibetans in exile have not rapidly come around to accept a wide range of gender and sexual identities. However, there is still a lot of prejudice and ignorance around LGBTQ+ issues that give rise to discrimination and the marginalization of LGBTQ Tibetans.
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Important words to keep in mind. 🙏🌈 Repost @tenzin_mariko_official ・・・ Love who you want, be who you want and surround yourself with people who you want. Never Change! For you are wonderful, beautiful and unstoppable. Go on and nothing can ever stop you from being the person who you want to be. Never forget that. And Remember LOVE IS LOVE 💕 BE YOURSELF! #lgbtq #pride #loveislove #transgender #tibetan #colorful
It is important for all of us to acknowledge the ways in which we fail to protect and often shame the most vulnerable among us, especially in cases of gender-based violence. So thank you to Mingyur and his father Rigdzin for speaking out courageously, and thank you to TCHRD (Tibetan Centre for Human Rights & Democracy) for raising awareness. Link to video: bit.ly/36zyG2a Repost @ten2084 ・・・ Thanks to everyone for your kindness and support. I look forward to seeing the hard working victims of violence feel relief from their pain, and know they are respected in our community as survivors and people who are capable of being our leaders. Thinking especially of the elder grandmothers and mothers we saw in TCHRD’s interviews 🙏🏽 ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A link to my segment is on my ig profile. I also want to say that I think it’s important for survivors to be able to name what happened to them honestly, no matter how difficult it might be to hear. In my case, I think of acknowledging that the vast majority of my community members did not stand with me, and some even attacked me. I don’t hold a grudge here, but I am upset for the pain it caused my family. This aside, I want to acknowledge that my Achas and Jholas, thinking especially of the aunties, all have experienced their own violence and lack of mercy and understanding being shown to them, much less support. So this is how the cycle of abuse continues, and our healing is delayed. In this sense, I feel no desire for anyone to feel ashamed. No one needs to show their face or make a video to prove they have healed or they are strong. Tibetan survivors of community violence are incredibly strong, as many have to experience a sense of terrible isolation and misunderstanding. I am sure these dialogues will continue, and I hope these Momo las, Amalas, bhumo and bhu and also Jholas who were victimized notice our community atmosphere improving and feel healing in their hearts. - *For any non Tibetans reading this, note that this message is not open to academic analysis. My life has already been written about with errors in an academic publication.
Digital art by Yangchen Lhamo (they/she) @windh0rse that shows glimpses of a young queer womxn’s life. Image title: Hey are you straight Image description: A digitally drawn collage with an earthy color scheme. There’s a potted plant whose stalks are falling to one side, computer pop ups with a meta image of the artist drawing this collage, and a text that says “I’ve liked you for the longest time, but didn’t want to make our friendship awkward. I guess I feel emboldened to write this cus we’re miles apart and in college, and for transparency.” —— Author’s note: I was inspired by pop up windows seen in vaporwave aesthetic, and decided to fill in the “screen” with glimpses of my life. This somehow morphed into a collage because aesthetic. . . #lgbtq #queer #tibetan #lgbtqtibetan
Really appreciative of Machik’s continued embrace of LGBTQ+ Tibetan identities. Repost @machik_online ・・・ Since the first day Machik‘s work began in a remote mountain community in Tibet, we have held steadfastly to the belief that every being should be treated with equal respect, dignity and empathy. We have always stood on the side of growing more love and creating more spaces for meaningful engagement in Tibet and the world — together with and for people of all backgrounds. More than 20 years into our work, we remain fiercely committed to these core values. And to mark our transition into the third decade of work for Tibet, we are excited to share this new edition of the Machik logo, based on the pride flag colors (Philadelphia flag which includes people of color). When we talk about Tibet, we want to see and remember all Tibetans, inside and outside Tibet, who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ communities. At Machik, we mean to include everyone and anyone who hopes to see a stronger future for Tibet. We hope you will join us in embracing and sharing this transformative symbol of love for Tibet and the world. #machik #machikweekend #tribecalledmachik #lgbtq #lgbtqtibetan #tibetan
Thank you @shamphel for sharing your story. It is disheartening to hear how others within our community so willingly engaged in homophobia. We can all learn from your courage to be unapologetically yourself. All expressions of gender and sexuality are valid, and we should celebrate those differences because they make us more resilient as a community. 🏳️🌈💕 —— Repost @youthoftibet ・・・ “I grew up with a lot of female cousins in Nepal and we would play with barbies and what not. We were kids and at that time no one really said anything. I guess it also made me a bit more feminine. As I got older though and started school here in the states, I got taunted a lot for my femininity.I think it started in 5th grade, “you’re gay” is what I got. I didn’t even know what it was. Got home, googled it and was still confused. It became more realistic in middle/high school. You start getting feelings for the same sex then you get the taunts from the other kids and you feel alienated. I was super insecure and it almost broke me apart. I would tell my mom that kids would bother me at school and not just my regular school, there were also the Tibetan kids at Tibetan school. Even some adults who have called me a faggot. One advice my mom gave me is to just ignore them and they’ll get tired. And it worked, after ignoring all those people, the taunts stopped around when I graduated high school. I focused more on my career instead and met like minded people which helped me grow both personally and emotionally. Friends who give great advice and have their shoulders ready to lean on whenever needed. The funniest thing now is that, some of the kids who have “bullied” me try to be friends. It’s like they want to be in your inner circle but forget what they have done in the past. I mean, I can be very petty but when someone is friendly and I’ve noticed that they have changed, I can be friends with them. Will I be super close to them? Probably not but everyone changes when they grow up. I mean God knows how much I have put my parents through but at the end of the day they make sure that I am loved.” - Shamphel, 28 . . . #ourstories #lgbtqstories #tibetanstories #tibetan #lgbtq #gay
Happy National Coming Out Day! Today, we’re celebrating LGBTQ Tibetans who are out, and those who are still discovering their sexuality and/or gender identity. Coming out is a very personal journey, and especially challenging for those brought up in conservative circles. It is still a radical act that is much needed, although safety should be prioritized above everything else. Come out on your own terms, and never feel compelled to do so due to pressure. Here’s @denzinima who relished being able to express more parts of themselves after coming out. #india #lgbtq #gay #tibetan #nationalcomingoutday
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India Might Not Be Able To Defend Itself From Pakistani Missiles
A nuclear expert from Moscow says despite heavy investments in developing anti-ballistic missile systems, India may not be able to fully defend itself in a conflict from strikes by Pakistani missiles.
“Even in 10 years and with the huge budgets that India plans to spend on the development of nuclear weapons and capabilities, it is difficult to imagine it will be able to defend its territory from possible strikes from Pakistan in case of conflict,” said Petr Topychkanov, a senior researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Centre’s Non-Proliferation Programme. Talking about ‘Non-Proliferation and Strategic Stability in South Asia: A Russian Perspective’ at the Strategic Vision Institute (SIV) which is an Islamabad-based think tank specialising in nuclear issues, Mr Topychkanov said that despite largescale cooperation between India and Israel for the development of a ballistic missile defence system and Indian efforts for acquiring S-400 defence systems from Russia, “India is very far from developing any system that could effectively defend itself from a Pakistani missile”.
Last Sunday India tested an Advanced Air Defence (AAD) interceptor missile and is working on developing a multi-layer ballistic missile defence system and Pakistan has expressed concerns over the test. It is feared that the development of anti-ballistic missile systems may give Indian strategists a false sense of security when contemplating military action against Pakistan with the belief that they can take care of an incoming missile. The possession of such a system could also increase pre-emption tendencies among Indian military planners. Pakistan experts also feel that with the short missile flight time between India and Pakistan, it will be impossible for intercepting incoming missiles. Talking about India’s candidature for the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Mr Topychkanov said the world will be cautious about India. The nuclear waiver given to Indian became a very important part of the lesson for the international community because Delhi did not give a lot in exchange, it didn’t change policies and approaches,” he said.
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When it was getting the waiver from NSG following an India-US Civilian Nuclear Agreement, India had committed that it will separate its civilian and military nuclear facilities in a phased manner, place civil nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, sign and adhere to IAEA’s additional protocol, continue its unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing, work with the US for the conclusion of the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), refrain from the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology to states that do not have them and support international efforts to limit their spread, introduce comprehensive export control legislation to secure nuclear material and adhere to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and NSG guidelines.
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Susan Boyle To Headline BBC Proms in the Park On The Titanic Slipways
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Globally acclaimed singer Susan Boyle is to headline this year’s BBC Proms in the Park, which returns to the Titanic Slipways in Belfast on Saturday 14 September.
Tickets for BBC Northern Ireland’s biggest orchestral music party of the year will be available on a first come, first served basis from 9am this Friday (June 21).
You can apply for up to four tickets per applicant. A charge of £2.50 will apply per ticket to cover handling and on-site verification costs.
To find out more about how to get tickets for this year’s Proms in the Park event go to bbc.co.uk/ni
Susan Boyle will be accompanied by the Ulster Orchestra, under the baton of David Brophy, with further performances from renowned Australian Tenor, Mark Vincent; pianist Elizabeth Brauss, one of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists; acclaimed violinist Ziyu He; local musician Tom Myles, and the New Irish Chamber Choir.
Susan Boyle said: “I am absolutely thrilled to have been asked to join this year’s BBC Proms in the Park in Northern Ireland and can’t wait to perform for you all with the Ulster Orchestra on the historical Titanic Slipways. It will be magical.”
BBC Proms in the Park, presented by Noel Thompson and Marie-Louise Muir, remains one of BBC Northern Ireland’s most ambitious, and popular outside broadcasts. Approximately 10,000 people are expected to attend the event at the Titanic Slipways, Belfast, which is supported by Belfast City Council.
Now in its 18th year, BBC Proms in the Park Northern Ireland will be part of broadcast celebrations to mark the Last Night of the Proms, and will link music-making festivities at London’s Royal Albert Hall with BBC events around the UK. The BBC Proms is the largest classical music festival in the world, with more than 80 concerts across eight weeks from July 19 – September 14.
Viewers at home will be able to join in the excitement, with the BBC network television services linking with the Titanic Slipways, offering coverage of key moments from the evening’s entertainment. Highlights programmes will be recorded for later transmission on BBC NI television, BBC Four and the BBC iPlayer. Selected extracts from the Titanic Slipways will also be available on BBC You Tube and the entire concert will also be broadcast live throughout the evening on BBC Radio Ulster for audiences at home and around the world.
Peter Johnston, Director BBC Northern Ireland, said: “Proms in the Park remains one of our most ambitious and popular outside broadcast events. We are planning a great evening of music-making and entertainment. The Titanic Slipways will provide a stunning backdrop for our concert and the conclusion of the BBC Proms season. And we will be bringing this entire spectacle to a wider audience at home and around the world on BBC radio, television and online.”
Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor John Finucane said: “Proms in the Park is always a great event for the city, and a fantastic opportunity for some of our finest local musicians to enjoy the spotlight alongside international stars. It’s also a fantastic showcase for Belfast with Titanic Quarter providing a unique and impressive backdrop, and I’m sure that this year’s Proms will be another great draw for music-lovers from across the city and beyond.”
For more information visit the BBC Proms in the Park website at: bbc.co.uk/promsinthepark
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Random Rambles, USA
Woodstock in White
Well I came across a child of God, he was walking along the road
And I asked him, tell where are you going, this he told me:
Well, I’m going down to Yasgur’s farm, going to join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land, set my soul free
~ Joni Mitchell (performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), ‘Woodstock’
I’m not goin’ back
to Woodstock for a while,
Though I long to hear
that lonesome hippie smile.
I’m a million miles away
from that helicopter day
No, I don’t believe
I’ll be goin’ back that way.
~ Neil Young, ‘Roll Another Number (For the Road)’
Hippies are squares with long hair
And they don’t wear no underwear
Country rock is on the wane
I don’t want music, I want pain!
~ Dictators, ‘Master Race Rock’
I still have a few posts in mind about my New York trip early this year. Regrettably, in my quest to stay relatively, ugh, “contemporary” on TGTW, my then-recent adventures in the States were soon smothered on my return to Korea by all my aimless driftivating and pointless rantifying on these garlic-scented shores.
But damn it, it was a rough day at school again yesterday; I need me some Americana . Today (a rainy Saturday) I’m heading into Busan to revisit the U.N. War Cemetery (one day I’ll get around to writing that place up) — before I go, I’m going to finally share a few pictures from my Woodstock trip with Kate on January 13 and 14.
Also, I had a pleasant evening last night looking at a ton of clips from the legendary concert, putting together a short set of classic performances. Fun! The word Woodstock has become a lazy shorthand for mud and brown acid and naked hippies and lazy, rambling sets — but there was some terrific, energetic playing and a ton of passion on that stage!
First off, take a look at this line-up! Hendrix! The Who! Joplin! The Dead! Sly! The Band! Sha-Na-Na! Etc! Etc!
And then a quick challenge: can you spot the spelling mistake in the plaque?
He really should have started it all over again
It was a heck of a road trip. New York State is BIG — almost twice the size of South Korea — and we were driving through the Catskills in Kate’s van for several hours. Woodstock (the festival) was actually held 43 miles from Woodstock (the town), after a lot of last-minute venue-shuffling and panic. Reassuringly, there were no THIS WAY TO WOODSTOCK signs en route; the roads were quiet, the villages slumbering, the afternoon grey and chilly, with glimpses of mountains and snow through the low cloud.
I suspect that we were far from the first clueless flower children to come pilgrimaging into “town” in a van, flowers in our hair and love in our hearts (sadly only good coffee in our bloodstreams). Even when we reached Bethel, pretty late in the day, we had no clear idea where to find the famed Max Yasgur dairy farm site.
When we did luck upon it, it was rather a different scene from those vividly coloured bacchanalia from August 1969 captured in the Woodstock movie (I haven’t watched it since late-night TV in the 70s):
Looking into the famed field
The plaque dates from 1984:
A splash of colour in an icy and monochromatic landscape:
Two hippies refusing to let the dream die
No weather for doves (actually it’s a catbird!)
The adjoining Bethel Woods Center of the Arts opened in 2006. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young returned for a show.
Peace & Speed. A Classic Mix.
I predict a poor crop
We hung around the fence a little while, the only pilgrims that bleak afternoon. It was hard to get a good idea of the scale with the limited views, hard to picture the field choked with half a million mystery tramps. It was exciting, though. During my punkish youth I went through the standard phase of sneering at anything as ludicrously hippie as Woodstock. And now I love a lot of the acts that played there!
Life is weird. Still sneering, though, just with better targets.
While we were there, absorbing the vibe and the lethal chill, another car pulled in. The woman was very excited to learn I was from Brisbane — she knew someone from there, and immediately got on the phone to check if we might be connected.
There are over 2 million people in Brisbane, but I did not sneer, I promise. It was cold, I was at Woodstock, with a really cool flower child, and my face had contorted into a crude, frozen replica of a smile.
Well, we got going, got lost, got lost again, back and forth and in and through and around the village of Woodstock, where we had a great Mexican dinner at a colourful and laid-back beer joint, and then more fruitless driving in search of somewhere to crash. At one place, an old woman with a dog came to the door, asked if we had a reservation, and when we said no, turned around and disappeared into the darkness without a word.
Not yer classic Woodstock behaviour — or is it?
On the highway, the motel parking lot was empty but for two cars, but the sign on the office door said NO VACANCY, and nobody answered the bell.
We ended up at a great cheerless motel-chain box handing over a hundred bucks. The dream was over.
Morning was great, though. Back into town…
Woodstock Guitar
..for French toast and terrific coffee at a cafe with framed photos of The Band and Dylan from when they called the place home in the late-60s.
Then some browsing along the craftsy, woodsy, touristy-in-Summer-I’ll-bet main drag of Woodstock before we hit the highway again for the drive home:
Here’s my pick of the Woodstock crop:
Joe Cocker. A last-minute addition, he had to be helicoptered to the venue. Great air guitar, tie-dye, sideburns. And best Beatles cover ever? Definitely best boots ever:
The Band. They were touring their Music from Big Pink album. Sound and vision are out of sync, but it still rocks:
Creedence. Saturday night headliners. A HUGE band at the time, but had to delay their Saturday night headline after the Dead sprawled on too long, and John Fogerty declined to have this footage and a few others included in the movie. Says bassist Stu Cook:
There were probably no great performances. But in our set I think we probably played 75, 80 percent on the money. We definitely should have been included in the film. It was a huge mistake.
Santana. I’m not a fan (just never heard much) but this ROCKS — and check that drummer, Michael Shrieve, only 20 years old! Santana (the man) had dropped acid, expecting a later set. Consequently he was peaking during this song, and the contortion on his face is from trying to stay focused:
Canned Heat. This is great 12-bar head-banging blues. Check that awesome, moving moment when the fan jumps on stage, possibly the hardest anyone’s worked to bum a cigarette in recorded history:
Crosby, Stills & Nash. Only their second live performance and they were apparently very nervous. Young joined them later in the set:
The Who. Bathed in eerie light, Daltry is in fine, fringed form, and Moon is a joy to watch as always:
~ And that’s all the Goat wrote
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Love those pictures of small town Americana, in the snow, so romantic….ps what’s the spelling mistake? I am too cold and tired to figure it out…
Thanks, Penny. I’ll give ya a hint: Well, they tease him a lot, ’cause they got him on the spot…
Phil D says
Well, it certainly looks to have stood the test of time better than Haight-Ashbury…at least when I was there in ’97. It’s a total shithole..
Yeah, H.A. in ’93 was a bit grim as well.
Woodstock (town) was cute and artsy, but you and I probably couldn’t afford to live there. Reminded me a bit of an upmarket Nimbin — a way upmarket Nimbin…
Goat, you’ve done well with this one. I reckon I could write a post in the reply! Nice choices! I’d have to throw in Hendrix taming an apocalyptic wall of feedback during ‘Star Spangled Banner’ as a highlight. How many years ago was that? I’m still astonished!
The Who were at the top of their game in that era and it’s a pity a release of their set hasn’t been done. I like how Daltrey went for the frills of the time, but Townshend had the white boiler suit with Doc Martens! They also had the sonic demolition going on. Just one listen to ‘Sparks’ from Woodstock in ‘The Kids Are Alright’ movie had me hooked. The sound whilst he reapplies his guitar strap is similar to a dinosaur in its death throes!
Don’t laugh, but I saw Joe Cocker playing at the Grand Prix in Melbourne. I was staring at him trying to comprehend it was the same bloke in that iconic Woodstock footage! Incredible performance (back then, not so much at the Grand Prix!) with a voice of anguish to go along with those magnificent boots!
Yeah, I could go on, but I better stop before I fill your page! Great photos again and regarding the sign. I’m not sure what spelling mistakes are in there, but I reckon John Sebastian might be feeling a little aggrieved!
Yeah, I just watched that ‘Sparks’ bit and it was great fun. Loved the interplay between Pete and Keith. They didn’t have much of the hippie ethos on display (despite Roger’s jacket)!
I love the first couple of Cocker albums. A bit like Rod Stewart, he let a phenomenal talent go to waste, but didn’t seem to care beneath the torrent of money raining down.
You’re right with J.S. of course. Reminds me of the story I read recently of the tattooist inking “Stan’s Slaves” across TWO biker chicks’ chests!
joshbakerwriter says
I am guessing that Johns Sebastian’s last name is misspelled. But look at the rest of that lineup!
Agreed: there was something there for everyone! I’d love to know the story behind Sha-Na-Na’s inclusion, however. I suppose in the early stages they were worried they might not be able to pad out three days’ worth of entertainment!
ranu802 says
I like the photographs.
Cheers, Ranu!
am says
Wow. There was something deeply peaceful about seeing you and Kate exploring in the vicinity of Woodstock and seeing the snow-covered field at Max Yasgur’s farm. Although I wouldn’t want to go back in time to those days for anything, it is healing to see these photos from the present. Especially the double portraits of you and Kate and the one of Kate with the wheel sculpture. Thanks so much for the photos and the music videos. (I did catch the spelling error on the plaque).
1969. My boyfriend was drafted into the Army that spring. We were 19 years old. The war was supposed to be winding down, but the worst was still to come. What happened at My Lai only came to public light in November 1969. Before he left for basic training in May, we had seen The Band at Winterland in San Francisco, one of their first concerts as The Band. The last time he came to see me before he went for basic training, I heard “Bad Moon Rising” begin to play on the radio as he arrived at my parents’ house. I had dropped out of college to be with him and was hoping that we would live together sometime soon, never dreaming he would be drafted.
He and his friends in Army helicopter mechanic training in Virginia during the summer of 1969 considered going to Woodstock that weekend. I wonder how things would have been different if they had. He had seen no way out of the Army as a conscientious objector because he was a high school dropout and had been a drug dealer and didn’t want to go to prison or Canada. He liked the music of Jimi Hendrix and The Band and Creedence Clearwater. He played guitar and harmonica. He was a surfer. He liked Bob Dylan’s music. He didn’t want to go to Vietnam and almost didn’t. That’s a long story. He was against the war, as were many draftees.
In 1970, a few months before he returned from Vietnam, I drove up to San Francisco alone to see that Woodstock film for the first time. I loved Santana and had heard them at outdoor concerts previously. The Woodstock footage of them is classic. Mike Schrieve and Carlos Santana and his band at that time were life-affirming in the midst of war.
Then there was Country Joe and the Fish. I loved their music. Take a look at the man at 1:15. I can’t know for sure, but he sure looks like a veteran to me.
And Jimi Hendrix, another Army veteran (along with Jerry Garcia):
It was the footage of Jimi Hendrix and that of Janis Joplin that I found the most moving on the first viewing of the Woodstock film. Seeing Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix brought me to tears, and I wasn’t sure why. Within two months after I saw the movie, they were both dead.
The morning that Richard returned from Vietnam in December of 1970 was the first time we ever heard “Me and Bobby McGee.” We were driving out to the ocean to see Richard’s family when the song came on the car radio. At first I couldn’t figure out how I could be hearing Janis Joplin because she was dead, but I found her voice to be the only reassuring voice I heard that day. Richard’s brother had given us some acid to take. It was nightmare acid. The war never left Richard. Coming home from the war never really happened.
Hard to believe that the United States continues to be involved in war.
On the other hand, what would we do without the music that continually evolves and move us?
Yes. Peace. Didn’t expect to write so much.
Am, first off, don’t worry about writing too much — this is one of the best comments I’ve ever had on here! Also, it happened to arrive (yesterday) on my birthday, and added to the unexpectedly “Woodstockian” flavour of my “celebrations” (which I’ll write up in my next post). I think we people for whom music is far more than mere jingles or background noise or fashion, for whom it’s a crucial part of life itself, are really lucky. I often complain/rant to Kate about the dire state of the “music” over here (manufactured cutesiness, professional cookie-cutter assemblages of screeching, soulless she-dolls and preening haircuts with legs) — in fact she can often hear it for herself as I skype from cafes where it’s on constant rotation. I am so glad I was born in the west, for all its faults. I love how you/we can remember the songs that were key parts of the milestones of our lives. You can’t just play songs like that as background ornamentation — you have to listen…
Also: what a life you’ve had! Lots of tragedy but a lot of joy.Thanks for sharing that very moving story. I think you’re right about the young guy in the clip — I also love the part where everyone stands up and claps along. It was very insightful to hear from you about the part that concert (and the movie and its wider presence as a defining event) played in your life even though you didn’t attend. I seem to find myself increasingly looking for some kind of affirmation that my life is something worth celebrating each time a birthday comes around (and may they keep on coming around for a while more). Last year I found that Stones song resonating as I camped on the little mountain. This year, because of that post, and reassessing some of the music I used in it — and then your comment — it was other great bands, the joy of making and listening to music. For example, I’d never really thought about Canned Heat except as this biker band (incarnations of them used to tour Aust years ago). But that moment in the clip where he hugs that guy: magic. I’m listening to them afresh now.
Thanks for the nice comment about Kate and I. She dug it. We’re thinking about revisiting in Summer.
Finally, at the bottom of this page there are several fun reminiscences from attendees back in ’69 that you’ll enjoy:
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/music0_woodstock.html
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Glenn Beck continues crusade to co-opt Dr. King
Glenn Beck is either a liar or was simply mistaken when he claims that he got the date confused. The date is August 28, the same day as the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington. This is the date that Beck picked for his “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington DC. Beck says he had no idea the date is a sacred day for civil rights leaders, and that it was pure coincidence he’ll rally that day.
Civil rights leaders don’t buy it, and neither do I. The provocative, over-the-top, incendiary talk show host doesn’t do anything by accident. He always has a keen eye on what will shock, grab, and infuriate the biggest number of persons. This always ties in to his eternal hunt for ratings, ratings, and more ratings. That’s the mother’s milk of cable talk gab shows. Beck has done it better than most.
He has the other eye just as firmly on President Obama, or rather dredging up anything that can belittle, ridicule and mock an African-American president. There’s no better way to do that than by tarnishing a day that for a half century has been nearly universally recognized as the day that the entire nation and world was riveted by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights battles in America. Beck knew what he was doing when he picked the date, and the day won’t pass without Beck and speaker after conservative speaker invoking the name of King and the civil rights movement to tout a hands off government, unchecked free markets, non-interference in the affairs of private business, and their phony color blind notion of civil rights. The day also won’t pass without Beck and other speakers making the preposterous claim that if King were alive today he’d be quite comfortable at their rally. There’s nothing new about this shameful twist of King’s legacy by conservatives.
With King safely off the American scene for nearly two decades, Republicans in the mid 1980s eagerly grabbed at King’s famed line in his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington in August 1963, in which he called on Americans to judge individuals by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Those sentiments prove, Republicans claimed, that King would be on their side against affirmative action.
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During the fierce wars over affirmative action in the 1990s, King’s words were even more shamelessly used to justify opposition to affirmative action. That was just the starting point for falsifying and then repackaging King to suit the GOP.
Starting with Reagan, Republican presidents realized that they could wring some political mileage out of King’s legacy. They have recast him in their image on civil rights, and bent and twisted his oft times public religious Puritanism on morals issues to justify GOP positions in the values wars that they wage with blacks, Democrats and liberals. Even conservative black evangelist jumped into the act, and staged a vigil at King’s gravesite to protest gay marriage, the implication being that King being a good Baptist minister would know about have opposed gay marriage. Coretta Scott King dispelled that by repeatedly issuing statements saying that she was a staunch backer of gay rights, and so would King have been.
Their distortion wouldn’t have been possible if some of King’s pronouncements did not parallel GOP positions on crime, marriage, the family and personal responsibility. Republicans carefully cobbled together bits and pieces from King’s speeches and writings during the 1950s and early 1960s on values issues to paint King as anti-big government, anti-welfare, and tough on black crime, as well as an advocate of thrift, hard work and temperance.
The snippets of conservative thinking in King’s early musings on the black family, economic uplift, and religious values blended easily with the social conservatism of many blacks. And this was more than enough for Republicans to say he’d be a big player on the GOP team. Beck and company merely picked up on this historically distorted and much manufactured view of King to justify their embrace of him.
Beck’s best efforts, though, to stir and keep his legion of tea party cohorts stirred into frenzy wouldn’t get to first base if millions didn’t genuinely loathe Obama’s policies and even him and just as firmly believe that he has turned government into a Frankenstein monster to tax them out of their gourd to create endless social programs that benefit minorities at the expense of hard-working whites. This is exactly how hate groups, the legion of anti-Obama Web sites and bloggers, and radio talk jocks craft the reason for the anger and alienation that many whites feel toward health care and, by extension, Obama. This translates to even more fear, rage and distrust of big government.
The march then is an outrageous and cynical ploy to hammer Obama. Even better Beck can have it both ways. He can knock everyone else for playing the race card with Obama, while playing it hard himself with the March. Leave it to Beck to find the perfect way to dishonor King.
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Kavanaugh calls Kennedy a 'mentor' and a 'friend' in opening statement
By John Bowden - 09/04/18 07:40 AM EDT
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President Trump Donald John TrumpLev Parnas implicates Rick Perry, says Giuliani had him pressure Ukraine to announce Biden probe Saudi Arabia paid 0 million for cost of US troops in area Parnas claims ex-Trump attorney visited him in jail, asked him to sacrifice himself for president MORE's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, will stress the importance of judicial independence and teamwork during his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing Tuesday.
In the statement, excerpts of which were released by the White House, Kavanaugh stresses that he has worked to not favor prosecutors or defendants in his career, and assures senators that he will not decide cases based on policy positions.
"A good judge must be an umpire — a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy. … I don’t decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. I am not a pro-plaintiff or pro-defendant judge. I am not a pro-prosecution or pro-defense judge. I am a pro-law judge," he says in the remarks.
"To me, Justice Kennedy is a mentor, a friend, and a hero," Kavanaugh added of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose seat he has been nominated to take on the court.
"As a member of the court, he was a model of civility and collegiality. He fiercely defended the independence of the Judiciary. And he was a champion of liberty," Kavanaugh added.
Kavanaugh, who was nominated by Trump in July to succeed Kennedy, is set to face senators at his confirmation hearing Tuesday, where he will be introduced by several top Republicans including Ohio Sen. Rob Portman Robert (Rob) Jones PortmanSenate approves Trump trade deal with Canada, Mexico Republicans brush off Trump's call for impeachment dismissal GOP leadership: There aren't 51 votes to dismiss Trump articles of impeachment MORE and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Kavanaugh also appears to offer laurels to Democrats in his opening remarks and praises Merrick Garland Merrick Brian GarlandThe Trumpification of the federal courts Juan Williams: GOP are hypocrites on impeachment Finding an animating issue is Democrats' biggest 2020 challenge — not Trump MORE, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, who was unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court during former President Obama's last year in office.
"I have served with 17 other judges, each of them a colleague and a friend, on a court now led by our superb chief judge, Merrick Garland," Kavanaugh says.
"If confirmed to the court, I would be part of a team of nine, committed to deciding cases according to the Constitution and laws of the United States," he added. "I would always strive to be a team player on the team of nine."
Democrats had sought to block or delay Kavanaugh's nomination following the guilty plea of Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, last month on charges of tax and bank fraud after Cohen implicated the president in a hush money scheme before the 2016 election.
Every Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter to Chairman Chuck Grassley Charles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleySenate begins preparations for Trump trial Big Pharma looks to stem losses after trade deal defeat Appeals court skeptical of Trump rule on TV drug ads MORE (R-Iowa), urging him to delay the nomination over the development.
Democrats need one Republican vote to stop Kavanaugh's nomination in the Senate, assuming that every Democratic senator votes against his nomination.
— This report was updated at 7:58 a.m.
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Since 1989, Mark Farina has been traveling the globe performing at literally hundreds of shows a year, sometimes DJing both of his preferred styles in two different rooms at the same party. At other events, he’s been known to play extended sets that l..
“I look at my job as a modern day traveling minstrel, to bring new music to as many places as I can, and expose obscure records that, otherwise, might go hidden.” While Mark Farina may be able to sum up his job description in a sentence, there is much more to be written.
Mark developed his musical tastes in Chicago – listening to house music on the radio, living in one of the country’s most primordial breeding grounds for house. Around ’88, while record shopping at Imports, Etc., he met Derrick Carter and a friendship began. “I just ended up there between classes, I ended up buying his picks. He steered me toward the cutting edge House producers of the time.”
“I started playing when I lived with my parents and didn’t have any bills to pay so I could just buy records. My intentions were never to just make money, it’s nice, but it’s kind of turned into a job by accident – it was a hobby that turned into a job.”
Living together and working on tracks together along with Chris Nazuka, they utilized the tight connections between the Detroit and Chicago scenes. Fondly, Mark remembers hanging out listening to Detroit Techno classics – Model 500, Derrick May – eating bologne sandwiches on white bread and drinking Kool-Aid out of a paper cup, prepared by none other than Chef Saunderson himself. In ’89, they signed on Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records under the Symbols in Instruments moniker and produced a landmark track called “Mood”. “Mood” sold 35,000+ copies in the US and the UK. This record was the first ambient house track ever made and, accordingly, it has taken its position as a classic. The same year, The Face magazine published their year end Top 50 with “Mood” ranking above pop anthems by Dee-Lite and The Pet Shop Boys.
“I used to do mixes with Derrick on the radio at Northwestern, we’d make it at the house and listen to it on the lake where they filmed ‘Risky Business’. We would drive around and listen 89.3 WNUR; they had a policy, guest DJs didn’t have to be students.” Eventually, the University changed their policy and only students were allowed to DJ.
When Farina first started wandering from his passion for the purist forms of House into what grew into one of his trademark styles, Mushroom Jazz, he was playing the main room in a club in Chicago and got demoted to the B-room after playing too many Martin Luther King Jr. samples. Mark experimented with a deeper style, dropping De La Soul, disco classics and other stuff that wasn’t being played in the main room. However, in 1992, Mark found a welcome place for his collection of downtempo tunes accompanied by a small run of mix tapes entitled “Mushroom Jazz”. Originally launched as a cassette series, the Mushroom Jazz tapes grew from the first Chicago run of 50 copies each…on to the next stage, where 500 copies of several volumes were easily distributed and sought after. As the Acid Jazz boom began, he perfected his sound and fused the newest tracks from the West Coast’s jazzy, organic producers with the more urban sounds he had championed in Chicago. While the predominant musical force in SF was still dark, dubby House and Wicked-style Breaks, the city embraced the downtempo movement with a healthy bunch of live bands and DJs generating the tunes.
Mark Farina, along with partner, and manager, Patty Ryan-Smith, created the now legendary weekly club in San Francisco, Mushroom Jazz, in 1992. Every Monday night the crowd slowly germinated – from 100 for the first few months to 600-700 two years later. As time passed, Farina and Patty put their energies into another project, the first Mushroom Jazz interactive CD-ROM for Om Records. After a three year run, where the club had established a fanatical, cult-like following for Farina and the Mushroom Jazz sound, the club closed its doors and transformed into a CD series and accompanying tours.
Since 1989, Mark Farina has been traveling the globe performing at literally hundreds of shows a year, sometimes DJing both of his preferred styles in two different rooms at the same party. At other events, he’s been known to play extended sets that lasted over eight hours. In his House sets, Mark is known for his uniquely effortless journeys on the jazzy side of Chicago House, mixed up San Fran style.
This wandering record minstrel has played to incredible crowds all over the globe. Consistently drawing new fans to his style of chunky-funky rhythms and deep underground house, Mark plays upwards of 200 shows to over one million (1,000,000) club goers per year. Voted in the top 20 DJ’s in the world by MUZIK and BPM Magazine, his taste making skills continue to turn the heads of seasoned veterans as well as youngsters just getting into the music.
On CD, Mark has recorded both of his dominant musical personalities. His first mix, ‘Mushroom Jazz’ on Om Records, is defined by a hip-hop sub-groove with jazzy, dubby elements in the downtempo range. It was followed by ‘Seasons’, a critically acclaimed House mix. An Imperial Dub mixed CD, a guest slot in the pedigreed ‘United DJs of America’ series, ‘Mushroom Jazz 2’ (Om Records) and ‘San Francisco Sessions, Vol. I’ (Om Records) and Mushroom Jazz 3 (Om Records) to round out the Farina catalog. His past release “Connect” walks the line of San Francisco deeper and the bumpin’ funky house sound of Chicago. Now, in November of 2002, Mark Farina releases his much beloved fourth volume of Mushroom Jazz.
Christian Martin’s love affair with electronic music began in 1995, as an early attendee at Southern California’s legendary Moontribe full moon desert parties. After absorbing late 90’s club life in New York, London, and Los Angeles, Christian settled..
Christian Martin’s love affair with electronic music began in 1995, as an early attendee at Southern California’s legendary Moontribe full moon desert parties. After absorbing late 90’s club life in New York, London, and Los Angeles, Christian settled in San Francisco in the spring of 2000. He started playing records in 2002 under the tutelage of his brother, Justin Martin, armed with a stack of Justin’s old vinyl and used Technics 1200’s from Sammy D.
In 2003, inspired by the massive desert soundsystems of old, Christian founded the dirtybird soundsystem. Along with co-founders Justin Martin, Worthy, and Claude VonStroke, dirtybird’s Sunday afternoon BBQ’s have quickly become a Golden Gate Park institution.
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Magenta Divine
Sample from the Pattern book of Sam Hill, 18thC Soyland clothier. From Calderdale Council’s site.
They say “blood will out”, and so it seems to have proved.
We broke the last brick wall in my family tree a few months back. Names included: Lister, Smith, Dawson and Crabtree; a long line of wool weavers, clothiers, and mill-owners in Longwood, near Huddersfield, and in Halifax. My surname should have been the clue – “Lister”, meaning “dyer” is a West Riding wool trade name, dating back to the Middle Ages.
Except, I was brought up with the story that my great grandfather, John Lister, was a Leeds foundling who randomly chose the name “Lister” when he was nineteen. In fact, his father, Tom Lister, a “press setter” (cropper in the woollen mills), died when John was very young. His mother Hannah Lister nee Smith, re-married – her second husband was a Birmingham-born blacksmith, Charles Deeley. On Censuses, John appeared with his step-father’s surname, sometimes misspelled as “Daley”, to compound the confusion, so we had been unable to find a “John Lister” of the right age, at the right place. Which, in turn, made us assume he was not lying about being born a foundling with a different name.
It appears he was brought up partly by Hannah and Deeley and partly by his much older sister, Elizabeth Helen Gillespie, nee Lister. He was not with the Gillespies on any Census night but years later told family they brought him up (although he also told people they were randomers who fostered him – not relatives).
Knowing this, research led me to my wool trade ancestors – the entire paternal line of my paternal grandfather were in the West Riding wool trade, as far back as we can trace, at the moment. The Listers were Halifax weavers/small clothiers. Alternate generations, the eldest sons seem to have been croppers. Croppers were the elite of the wool trade; their job so skilled it added huge value to the cloth. They were the men put out of work by the frame cropping machines in 1812. Halifax and Huddersfield croppers were the backbone of the Luddite movement. It is possible the Listers were on one side of the Luddite struggle; whilst the more prosperous Smiths and Dawsons were on the other.
I know, from records, my grt grandfather x 5, Ely Crabtree was a weaver, as well. But have yet to find out much about the Crabtrees.
A woollen weaver might call himself a clothier if he completed roughly one piece a week and took it to the Cloth Hall. According to ulnage rules, we know most woollen pieces were over twenty yards in length; varying according to spec.
Many small clothiers were also small farmers, with a few acres. The Smiths and Dawsons appear to have been clothiers, then manufacturers, on a grander scale. In the 19thC, my great grandad X 4, Thomas Smith went into business with a clothier neighbour called Hanson, and they manufactured “Fancy Woollens”. At an earlier date, his father seemed to have been trading with a clothier family called the Dawsons – indeed Tom’s wife was one Betty Dawson, also from Longwood. Tom and Betty were Non-Conformists, like many in the West Riding, and are buried at Salendine Nook Baptist church.
Some clothiers kept records of their output and from these records, we know that they might weave anything between four and nine yards or so a day – when they had time to weave. This might add up to thirty or more pieces per year, given there were times in the year when weaving was not a priority; farm-work was. (Incidentally, warps were usually sized outdoors, from pegs in walls and seems to have gone on outside whatever the weather).
These larger scale clothiers/mill-owners like the Smiths and Dawsons would manufacture some pieces for themselves but also buy pieces from smaller weavers.
Reading “Some Aspects of the 18thC Woollen & Worsted Trade in Halifax”, Ed. Frank Atkinson, Halifax Museums, 1956, I stumbled on this reference to familiar names. In the Day Book of John Sutcliffe, clothier, 1791:
Sold Messrs Dawson & Smith
1 Dble Russel @ 62 shillings
Ditto @ 72 shillings
1 Sat.quild lasting @ 63 shillings
Ditto @ 75 shillings….
I can’t say for sure the Dawson & Smith that Sutcliffe transacted with were my great x 5 grandfathers – but it seems more than possible.
According to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary:
“Russell. A ribbed or corded fabric formerly in use”.
And according to the Glossary in the Atkinson Book:
“Lasting: Kind of durable cloth”. (As in “everlasting”). I’m guessing this was likely to be woollen, as this is what these weavers were generally working with. “Quild” may be “quilted”, or it could refer to some kind of surface patterning? I am not sure.
These are pieces bought by Dawson and Smith from Sutcliffe; Sutcliffe, in turn, commissioned various weavers to make them; procured the wool, had combers comb it, hand-spinners to spin it and supplemented that by buying machine spun yarn as well.
Lastings and russells were made from a combed warp and weft. “Stuff” was fabric made from combed warp and weft, and “cloth” when it was from carded fibres. According to E.Lipson in “The History of the English Woollen & Worsted Industries” (1921). Interestingly, another ancestor, Halifax wool weaver William Lister, is described in one parish record as “stuff maker”. Combed wool was premium value and quality and used in some of the high-end pieces, but sometimes just made a good warp. But by no means always : many cloths had a carded warp, which might scare modern handweavers but seems to have been done.
For at least two generations the Dawsons and Smiths specialised in weaving various forms of combed or carded wool into “Fancy Woollens”, although some family members, like David Dawson, seem to have branched out into the dye-house.
Also in the village of Longwood along with the Smiths, were Dawson cousins; some clothiers, some small farmers, butchers, and inn-keepers.
I have not been able to pin this down yet, but a preliminary search makes me think my great grandmother X 4 Betty’s cousin, was the Longwood dyer, David Dawson.
Next time my kids moan about the smell from my dye-pots, I will tell them about David Dawson’s son, Dan. Because it’s all in the genes, you know….
Dan was about twenty years old, in 1860, and started messing around in the kitchen at home, trying to perfect his idea for making a chemical dye. Most hand-spinners, weavers and dyers have heard of William Perkins, the pioneer of aniline dyeing, who took the world by storm with his synthetic mauve dye. In the scintillatingly titled ‘Chemistry, Society & Environment’, By Colin Archibald Russell (Royal Society of Chemistry), on Google Books, I found this titillating glimpse into one of my relative’s kitchens:
By 1863-1864, not more than five artificial dyes were available, namely Mauve, Aniline Blue, Magenta, Imperial Violet and Phosphine. Modest weights were produced at the beginning. Production often started in household equipment, as with Dan Dawson, who dried Magenta in a domestic oven ca. 1860 (Specks of Magenta appearing on bread for weeks afterwards)…
I have been dyeing for over thirty years but never used synthetic dyes. One of the things that makes me vain and proud is getting a good, true red from madder – a fine and subtle art, and not straightforward – as opposed to the dirty brick red it likes to dye wool. An hundred years before I was born, Dan Dawson was also in search of a good red, in his home kitchen. Finding something about that sends chills down my genealogical spine!
This also means that, whilst I could write you a book on natural dyeing in maybe a fortnight I have always known nothing and cared less about synthetic dyes, and feel embarrassed to have been so dismissive of them!
A little Google fu, so far shows me some fascinating insights. In any history of synthetic dyeing, the early names to conjure with are William Perkins, and two German dyers, Heinrich Caro and August Wilhelm von Hofman. In a footnote, to ‘Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms’, by Johann Peter Murmann, (Google Books) Dan pops up again, when the author is discussing the close relationship between German and English pioneers of dyeing:
A good example is Dan Dawson. After founding a dye firm in Great Britain, Dawson, at age thirty-eight, decided to let his brothers run the business while he went to the University of Berlin in 1874, to study with Hofman…
Dan’s firm went from strength to strength as he worked on new processes, and developed different colours, moving beyond his original experiments with Magenta, to Soluble Blue, Chrysoidine and Bismarck Brown. These latter clearly showing Hofman’s influence. He also seems to have received patents for various processes for fixing (mordanting) the new dyes on cotton fibre – always a trickier process than wool, as dyers here will know.
His factory became known as Colne Vale Dyeworks, and was in Milnsbridge, Huddersfield. By the 1880s, Dan Dawson’s sons were setting up dye factories in Philadelphia although were bankrupted by a hike in import taxation on some of their raw materials. The Huddersfield dyeworks continued, though. His relative, my great uncle X 4, Dawson Smith, had emigrated to America in 1860 where he fought with distinction for the Union, ran woollen mills in Indiana, and eventually re-trained as a lawyer and become the County Attorney. It seems these wool trade Longwood Smith and Dawson lads ran between two countries; some settling in America, with their cutting edge expertise and some returning to Yorkshire. In later years, Dan travelled extensively in Europe. My great grandmother X 2, Hannah Smith, seems to have married cropper Tom Lister, and made it as far as Leeds and that was it; despite eventually having two brothers in the US, and several cousins and nephews. It may be from hearing tales of the “rich” mill and dyework owning relatives that my great grandad formulated the story he was in later years to tell his wife and his six children – that he was a foundling who randomly settled on the name “Lister” after visiting mill-owners. Although the story as he told it was that they were not relatives, just people he was scamming. Most good liars have an element of truth in there to lend their stories some realism, and after three generations were confused by John’s tale, we have at last found the truth.
As a printer, he worked with colours (my father longed to train as a lithographer, remembering childhood visits to the printing shop). Magenta is rather important in printing. Maybe some of those colours John Lister used, were related to the synthetic dyes his family developed? People always wondered where he got the capital to start his business, and maybe – just maybe – there is an element of truth in the story about the expedition to con a mill-owner. Even if estranged from his mother, John may have met his Smith and Dawson relations at some time in childhood.
Myself, I will stick with my natural dyes but maybe from now on, have more appreciation for those chemical ones, as well.
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8 thoughts on “Magenta Divine”
Lindsay Dawson January 20, 2018 — 7:24 PM
I have stumbled upon your very interesting blog pages after googling further information on my family history. I am fascinated and really appreciative of all of your incredibly well researched work as I’m descended from the Dawson family of Huddersfield. Namely David and Selinah / Sam (Dan’s brother) and Sarah / Dan (my great grandfather) and Daisy. I have returned to my family history just recently following a DNA result which has put me in touch with descendents of 2 other of Sam and Sarah’s sons who emigrated to New Zealand at the turn of the century. I’m really excited to have found all of this incredible and fascinating information, thanks so much for sharing this online. I’m very happy to share further info on the Dawson’s from what I’ve discovered although it sounds like you’re much further ahead than me! Thanks very much again.
Tracey Tanner October 23, 2013 — 3:37 AM
WAGES OF WOOL-COMBERS.—We understand that the master- manufacturers of Keighley have reduced the wages of their wool- combers one farthing per Ib., with the understanding that they shall be advanced again as soon as any perceptible improvement in trade will justify such a step. The prices of weaving were also reduced at the same time from 6d. to 3d. per cut. We are sorry that the manufacturers should have thought it necessary or advisable to reduce the wages of their servants, because a reduction even to this small extent inflicts a hardship upon the poor weaver or comber ranch greater than the advantage derived by the consumer, or even the manufacturer himself; and the demand for goods is seldom increased by the fall in prices,-— Leeds Intelligencer.
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knotrune July 8, 2013 — 3:29 PM
Fascinating 🙂 I read an interesting book recently about Perkin’s mauve:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mauve-Invented-Colour-Changed-World/dp/0571209173/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373297030&sr=1-1&keywords=mauve
It was very interesting, one of the things I was shocked by was the Victorians’ use of these chemical dyes as food colourings without checking they were safe! Your comment about the magenta bread reminded me 🙂 Also some of the dyes seem to have been dangerous to wear next to the skin.
theknittinggenealogist July 8, 2013 — 3:35 PM
And the thought of bits of it being in their bread for weeks, made me wonder, as I know some aniline dyes contain some form of arsenic, I think? Apologies for linking to The Daily Mail, but this is an interesting article!
knotrune July 9, 2013 — 9:23 AM
Scary! I pinned the article to remind me to exercise caution before buying anything green and Victorian (I collect Victorian clothes and textile related stuff, don’t want to be the most recent victim!) And of course, when uranium was discovered, that must have health benefits, it glows 🙂
Chrissy July 7, 2013 — 6:26 PM
I loved reading this, I have a Crabtree in Mum’s side. She came from Luddendenfoot. Joe Crabtree married Maude Buckley (my Great Aunt) in st Mary’s church Luddendenfoot in December 1921
There seem to be a lot of Crabtrees up that way, and around Heptonstall too, I’ve noticed. Not sure where mine come from prior to around 1800. Lovely you enjoyed reading it as I enjoyed writing it!
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Pence Promises Governors a ‘Historic’ Infrastructure Plan
February 24, 2019 February 23, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff
by Fred Lucas
Vice President Mike Pence on Friday told a gathering of state governors that the Trump administration is working with Congress on what he called a “historic” infrastructure program that would both reduce red tape and provide more federal funding.
Addressing the governors at the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, Pence did not specify a price tag for the infrastructure plan.
“I’ll make you a promise, and we’ll ask for your help, that in this Congress, we’re going to pass historic infrastructure legislation,” he said.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump called for an infrastructure plan of about $1 trillion that would include public and private funding.
Such a project should not be a heavy burden on taxpayers, said Paul Winfree, director of economic policy at The Heritage Foundation.
“If the Trump administration wants a legacy moment on infrastructure, it must include regulatory improvements that have long-lasting impacts on the way we build everything, from roads and bridges to pipelines and ports,” Winfree told The Daily Signal.
The Heritage Foundation earlier this month issued a report calling regulatory reform a key element of future infrastructure projects.
“Unleashing the private sector and focusing federal spending strictly on projects that are federal in nature will ensure better stewardship of taxpayer money and meet the infrastructure needs of Americans across the country,” Winfree added.
Governors from across the nation are in Washington this weekend for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. Republican and Democratic governors associations concurrently are holding their respective gatherings in the nation’s capital as well.
Pence said the Trump administration has already given states more control over land management and allowed states to open up more natural resources to development, which should streamline construction projects.
The vice president said the infrastructure bill being drafted would cut red tape so states could build major projects, such as roads and bridges, faster and more efficiently.
He said the legislation is being discussed with congressional leaders from both parties, and asked the governors for their help in pressing lawmakers to act.
“We need your voices at the table about what those needs are,” Pence said.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, a Democrat and current chairman of the National Governors Association, struck a note of bipartisan optimism, noting that he had worked with Pence when the vice president was governor of Indiana.
“We’re encouraged, knowing that someone who sat in the governor’s seat continues to reach out to us, both when we agree and when we disagree,” Bullock said at the luncheon at the vice president’s residence. “Together, we can certainly jump-start the wheels of cooperative governing again.”
Later Friday, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, who has a $300 million infrastructure plan in his state, spoke of the need for federal assistance.
He said the vice president told him an infrastructure bill is “going to happen this year.”
“I hope that’s the case, but we’re tired of waiting for the federal government, in terms of infrastructure,” Hutchinson said at a Politico forum with the governors, held at Microsoft’s Washington headquarters, across the street from the Marriott Marquis hotel, where the governors’ conference is taking place.
“I say that respectfully, because I think that is something we ought to have bipartisan agreement on. We couldn’t wait. Their infrastructure bill will be patterned after matching funds from the states,” the Arkansas Republican said.
“This $300 million infrastructure bill will meet our needs, but also give us a reservoir,” Hutchinson said. “If an infrastructure bill is passed in Washington, we can make our matching funds and help us expand even to a greater extent our bridges, our infrastructure, our roads in the state.”
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Battleground States
The 2020 Campaign Will Be ‘Nastiest in American History,’ Steve Bannon Says
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The 2020 presidential election will be the nastiest in history, Steve Bannon said Friday in St. Louis.
Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, made the remarks in a speech at The Schlafly Eagle Council co-sponsored by The Gateway Pundit. The story is available here from The Gateway Pundit.
Do you think it’s been unpleasant and nasty to date? You haven’t seen anything. The 2020 campaign will go down as the most vitriolic and nastiest in American history. It’s very simple. We win, we save the country.
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Of the fifty states that make up the United States, a total of 17 decide the presidency. Over time, the voters of these states support both Republicans and Democrats, “swinging” the outcome of a contentious national election to one Party or the other. The struggle for political victory in these states can be heated and confrontational – with rival candidates and their supporters spending vast sums and deploying thousands of activists and advocates to earn the votes of the citizens there, which is why they are called The Battleground States.
Under the current “all-or-nothing” electoral college voting system, 33 states – with their 341 electoral votes – have a reliable history of voting for Republicans or Democrats. Republicans can count on 159 electoral college votes, and Democrats bank on 182 electoral college votes, which leaves 197 in the Battlegrounds.
Meshawn Maddock, co-founder of Michigan Trump Republicans, said last week:
Ultimately, Donald Trump is President because he was the only man in America prepared to call out the hypocrisies and self-serving absurdities of the American political establishment.”
In 2020, Donald Trump is going to win reelection because he’s the only one who can stop those destructive elements from coming back with a vengeance. Every one of the Democrats competing to run against him would be an utter disaster for Michigan.
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A Year of Reading Prairie
Posted on December 3, 2019 | 18 comments
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” –Jane Austen
December is here, and my bookshelves are overflowing. Some books are stacked on the floor; other shelves have two rows of books instead of one. And yet…. my Christmas list includes more books. Where will I ever put them all?
I’ve tried to pare down some of my inventory. But when I get to my prairie books, the winnowing stops. I thumb through old favorites. Sigh over a few that I’ve skimmed and want to spend more time with. I run my fingers over their book jackets and add them to the piles of books already on (and under) the nightstand.
By reading these field guides and coffee table books and essays on the tallgrass, I’m building my relationship with the prairie. That feels good, especially on a day this week when 60 mph winds roared across the tallgrass and kept me indoors.
When I was an independent bookseller, I believed for every question, there was a book that might help me wrestle with the question—even if the answers were still fuzzy. As a prairie steward and naturalist, I love the wide range of literature that helps me explore the natural world. You too?
As 2019 draws to a close, it’s time to take an annual romp through my prairie bookshelves together. The books below are not a comprehensive reading list by any means. Some of the prairie books I own are out on loan and don’t appear here; some of them are temporarily out of sight (likely in that pile by the coffee table) or being used as coasters (!!!). I didn’t have room to include books on gardening with native plants, like the passionate A New Garden Ethic by Benjamin Vogt or Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home…. or even the biographies of prairie heroes, such as Arthur Melville Pearson’s excellent book on George Fell, Force of Nature. These books that follow also have more to do with prairie plants than other members of the prairie community (so no field guides given here on butterflies, mammals, dragonflies–another bookshelf full of great reads to discuss on a different day).
All are ones that as a prairie enthusiast, prairie lover, and prairie steward I spend a lot of time browsing, recommending, or giving as gifts. They focus specifically on prairie history, prairie restoration, and prairie plants. Ready? Let’s go!
Is that a prairie plant—or a weed? I get this question a lot. And the answer isn’t always as simple as you’d think. When I first hiked the tallgrass prairie in 1998, I didn’t know foxtail grass from Canada wild rye. I’m still learning my plants. As I wrangle with questions about tallgrass prairie plant ID’s, I look to great field guides like the Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers Falcon Guide (Doug Ladd and Frank Oberle) (available new and used in several editions). My copy, which replaced a falling apart earlier edition, is dogeared fromuse in the field. Ditto for my well-thumbed Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb. An updated edition is available now, although I’d find it difficult to trade my old annotated one in. I appreciate Newcomb’s for general wildflower ID, in the prairie, woodlands, and wetlands.
I’m a big fan of Andrew Hipp’s Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges. His easy-to-use guide, with the smart drawings by the talented Rachel Davis, give me hope that maybe this season I’ll learn a few more members of my prairie, wetland, and savanna community. Sedges are hard.
The book behind Andrew’s is Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest by Sylvan Runkle and Dean Roosa. My first edition is long out of print, but the awesome folks at University of Iowa Press published a second edition with better photographs; check it out here. Short ethnobotanical stories for each prairie plant make this book a winner, with a bit of explanation on plant scientific names.
If you’re really serious about learning your grasses and wildflowers—and you live in the Chicago Region—you’ve probably already purchased Gerould Wilhelm and Laura Rericha’s Flora of the Chicago Region.
With 3,200 plant species in the 22-counties it covers described along with each plant’s neighboring plant associations, insect associations, and “C” value (plus some awesome illustrations), this unique book belongs on every prairie steward’s bookshelf. At $125, the holidays are a good time to put it on your wish list. My copy weighs 10 lbs, so I get a good workout just carrying it around. After a morning taking notes in the field, I sit down at the kitchen table and browse through its pages. The essays and other auxiliary matter are absorbing reads for anyone who loves prairie.
Sure, you can use the excellent, free iNaturalist app on your cell phone for basic prairie plant ID. I use it too! But there is no substitute for a good field guide.
In preparation for the spring season, I’m working on prairie seedling ID. Like sedges, those new shoots and leaves are a challenge to figure out. Sure, some seedlings are distinctive from the start, like prairie alum root or wood betony. But the grasses? Tough.
Two books have been particularly useful to me this year: The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest by Dave Williams (another great Bur Oak book) and the Prairie Seedling and Seeding Evaluation Guide (Paul Bockenstedt, et al.) I picked up the spiral edition of Prairie Seedling on a visit to University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum Bookstore on a whim, and was glad I did.
The Tallgrass Prairie Center’s guide has color photographs that highlight the critical points of identification, as well as seed sizes and characteristics. Take a look.
The Prairie Seedling guide’s spiral format makes it easy to use in the field, and its nod to look-alike plants are a useful tool. Although not comprehensive, it has a solid 54 prairie plants and 26 weed species.
If you love the tallgrass prairie—but are more interested in its stories than figuring out the plant names—-the best place to begin is with John T. Price’s edited volume, The Tallgrass Prairie Reader. Price presents essays on the prairie chronologically from the 19th to 21st Century. To read the almost 400 pages from start to finish is to begin to understand how people have viewed prairie over time—and how our ideas about prairie have changed. (Full disclosure: I’m delighted to have an essay in this compilation.)
Another of John Price’s books, Not Just Any Land, explores our relationship to prairies through personal experiences. Paul Gruchow also loved the tallgrass prairie and wrote volumes about it; his Grass Roots: The Universe of Home (Milkweed) includes the iconic essay, “What the Prairie Teaches Us” that I’ve read aloud and shared with numerous nature writing classes, my prairie volunteers, and my tallgrass ecology students.
Another of Gruchow’s marvelous books, Journal of a Prairie Year is a series of reflections and hikes on the prairie, month by month. I re-read it every year. Other books that explore our relationship with prairie include William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth, specifically focusing on Chase County, Kansas; Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie, with Paul Johnsgard’s passion for prairie birds front and center; Buffalo for the Broken Heart which tells of Dan O’Brien’s work with bison and prairie in the Black Hills; and two books of spiritual essays, Jeffrey Lockwood’s Prairie Soul, which includes an exploration of religion and science, and my own By Willoway Brook, which I wrote on prayer as I was beginning to explore the Schulenberg Prairie at The Morton Arboretum.
Tom Dean and I released a reflective book of full-color photographs and essays this spring that explores the connections between people and prairie: Tallgrass Conversations: In Search of the Prairie Spirit. Short “conversations” are paired with images of prairie as we explore how the prairie has much to tell us about wonder, loss, home, joy, change, restoration, healing, and more.
Tom and I are both big Paul Gruchow fans, so you’ll see Gruchow’s influence in the book. There’s a little poetry in the pages as well.
Images have a lot of power to engage people with the tallgrass prairie. In the books below, the photographs and drawings make a compelling combination. John Madson and Frank Oberle team up for the Nature Conservancy’s Tallgrass Prairie; Aimee Larrabee and John Altman put their talents to work in the gorgeous coffee table book accompanying their PBS documentary, Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie; the incredibly talented artist Liz Anna Kozik puts a new twist on prairie restoration in her Stories in the Land; and Michigan’s prairies get a shout-out in the lovely Prairies and Savannas in Michigan by Ryan O’Connor, Michael Kost, and Joshua Cohen.
Prairie aficionado? Plant nerd? Either way, these three books below on prairie ethnobotany — how people have used plants over time—will absorb you for hours on end. Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel Moerman is a compilation of the human uses of 4,000 plants, including many of the prairie, by specific tribes. Fascinating reading! Kelly Kindscher’s dynamic duo Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie and Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie are geared toward the prairie plants of Kansas, but I find plenty of useful information when I teach prairie ethnobotany in Illinois. Plus, all three books give you a glimpse of a different time, when we were tightly connected to prairie as our grocery store, pharmacy, hardware store, craft supply, and love charm shop.
What if you’re just beginning your journey to know and understand the prairie? These three books are a good place to start. The Tallgrass Prairie: An Introduction assumes no prior knowledge of the prairie and invites the reader to explore, engage with, and build a relationship to this amazing landscape of home. I wrote it for my new prairie volunteers, prairie visitors, and friends and family members that were intrigued by the prairie, but didn’t want a long or complex read. Like longer books? Richard Manning’s engrossing Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie is a satisfyingly deep dive into the subject, as is the poetic and beautifully written Where the Sky Began by the late John Madson.
For the prairie steward, restoration landowner, or prairie volunteer in your life who is serious about restoration and management techniques, check out these three books: The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest (Daryl Smith, Dave Williams, Greg Houseal, and Kirk Henderson) is one of my go-to guides when I’m trying to figure out what to plant, herbicide, burn, or collect next. The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States is a terrific guide from the generous and inimitable blogger (The Prairie Ecologist) and Nature Conservancy’s Director of Science in Nebraska, Chris Helzer. I learn a lot from Chris! Stephen Packard’s and Cornelia Mutel’s edited volume of essays, The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook is a classic, and one of the first books I purchased on prairie almost 20 years ago (there’s a newer edition available now) .
There are beautiful prairie books for young readers.
I confess I enjoy reading them myself. I love Carol Lerner’s out-of-print Seasons of the Tallgrass Prairie, which has solid information for elementary aged kids and up. Look at the page on deep roots, as one example.
Claudia McGehee’s A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet, (a beautiful Bur Oak book shown next to Carol’s book on the left), is not just for kids. Check out this entry for the letter “X.” Wow.
Any children’s book that has a sphinx moth and eastern prairie fringed orchid on the same page has my heart. ♥
These are just a few of the books I turn to in order to deepen my relationship with native plants and the tallgrass prairie. These books have been mentors, friends, and companions in the field. They are a way to connect with prairie when the cold winds and weather keep me inside with a hot beverage and a warm afghan. They remind me that others are musing over the same questions I have about prairie ID and prairie stewardship; they help me feel companionship as I hike the prairies and reflect on how others have experienced them over time.
This list is not exhaustive by any stretch of the imagination. Rather, it is presented here for your enjoyment and discovery. Maybe some will end up on your bookshelves!
What prairie books do you reach for? Drop me a note here so we can share book recommendations.
Wahoo! Books are so much fun…
…especially on a cold December day. Don’t you think?
The opening quote is from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Although her most famous line is likely “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” I prefer her quote about books. Read more about Jane Austen here.
All non-book photos copyright Cindy Crosby and listed here (some photos appeared previously): unknown seedhead, Belmont Prairie Nature Preserve, Downer’s Grove, IL; staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina), Schulenberg Prairie, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; road to Thelma Carpenter Prairie, Nachusa Grasslands, Franklin Grove, IL; Carolina saddlebags in May (Tramea carolina), Ware Field, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), Wolf Road Prairie, Westchester, IL; big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Will County, IL; wahoo (Euonymus atropurpureus), Schulenberg Prairie Visitor Station, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL.
Please join me for these upcoming classes and talks!
Sunday, December 8, 2-3:30 p.m.: Tallgrass Conversations at Prairieview Education Center, 2112 Behan Road, Crystal Lake, IL 815-479-5779 Book signing after the talk! $5 per person, registration recommended, details here.
Saturday, February 22 —Writing and Art Nature Retreat — at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL. Details and registration information here.
Tallgrass Prairie Ecology online wraps up this month! Watch for the next online course in March. Register here.
Nature Writing Workshop: on-line and in-person begins March 3, 2020. Register here.
Find more at www.cindycrosby.com
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Posted on July 16, 2015 by Tyler Schirado
As the Golden Age of Television continues to catch the attention of our eyeballs it’s come to that point in the year where we must celebrate the best of the best of the best. This morning the Television Academy Chairman and CEO Bruce Rosenblum along with Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) and Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance) announced the 67th Emmy Awards nominations.
Although a strong case was made for returning series such as Game of Thrones, which snagged 24 nominations, newcomers Transparent (11 nominations), Better Call Saul (7 nominations), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (7 nominations) found promising recognition.
Shows that met their final seasons such as Mad Men (11 nominations) and Parks and Recreation (3 nominations) earned a respectable number of nods, while shows like American Horror Story: Freak Show (19 nominations), The Big Bang Theory (6 nominations), and Modern Family (6 nominations) continue to receive accolades for reasons that make my brain hurt. I’m at least glad to see Silicon Valley take the place of TBBT for Outstanding Comedy Series.
Netflix continues its hot streak in both drama and comedy categories with House of Cards (11 nominations) and Orange is the New Black (4 nominations). The video streaming service in total earned itself 34 nominations, while FX gained 38, ABC 42, Comedy Central 25, AMC 24, and Fox 35. But the real story here is the fact that HBO has completely run the gambit on the competition with 126 nods.
What I’m most shocked about is how Fresh off the Boat received nothing, especially with how much praise Constance Wu received for her portrayal of Jessica Huang.
The 67th Emmy Awards telecast airs live coast-to-coast on Sunday, September 20 (8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT) on FOX from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
And your 67th Emmy Awards nominations are:
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series
Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)
Kyle Chandler as John Rayburn (Bloodline)
Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood (House Of Cards)
Jon Hamm as Don Draper (Mad Men)
Jeff Daniels as Will McAvoy (The Newsroom)
Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan (Ray Donovan)
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series
Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon (Empire)
Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison (Homeland)
Robin Wright as Claire Underwood (House Of Cards)
Viola Davis as Annalise Keating (How To Get Away With Murder)
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
Tatiana Maslany as Sarah, Alison, Cosima, Helena, Rachel and Krystal (Orphan Black)
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or A Movie
Timothy Hutton as Russ (American Crime)
Ricky Gervais as Derek (Derek Special)
Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini (Houdini)
David Oyelowo as Peter Snowden (Nightingale)
Richard Jenkins as Henry Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge)
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell (Wolf Hall)
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie
Felicity Huffman as Barb (American Crime)
Jessica Lange as Elsa Mars (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith (Bessie)
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Nessa Stein (The Honorable Woman)
Frances McDormand as Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge)
Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street)
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson as Andre Johnson (black-ish)
Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc (Episodes)
Don Cheadle as Marty Kaan (House Of Lies)
Will Forte as Phil Miller (The Last Man On Earth)
Louis C.K. as Louie (Louie)
William H. Macy as Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman (Transparent)
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish (The Comeback)
Lily Tomlin as Frankie (Grace And Frankie)
Amy Schumer as Amy (Inside Amy Schumer)
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope (Parks And Recreation)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as President Selina Meyer (Veep)
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
The Amazing Race (CBS)
Dancing With The Stars (ABC)
Project Runway (Lifetime)
So You Think You Can Dance (FOX)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Voice (NBC)
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central)
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
Late Show With David Letterman (CBS)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
Outstanding Limited Series
American Crime (ABC)
American Horror Story: Freak Show (FX Networks)
The Honorable Woman (SundanceTV)
Olive Kitteridge (HBO)
Wolf Hall (PBS)
Outstanding Comedy Series
Louie (FX Networks)
Parks And Recreation (NBC)
Silicon Valley (HBO)
Transparent (Amazon Instant Video)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
Veep (HBO)
Outstanding Drama Series
Downton Abbey (PBC)
Game Of Thrones (HBO)
Orange Is The New Black (Netflix)
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
Drunk History (Comedy Central)
Inside Amy Schumer (Comedy Central)
Key & Peele (Comedy Central)
Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Outstanding Television Movie
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Curtain, Poirot’s Last Case (Acorn TV)
Bessie (HBO)
Grace Of Monaco (Lifetime)
Hello Ladies: The Movie (HBO)
Killing Jesus (National Geographic Channel)
Nightingale (HBO)
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
Ben Mendelsohn as Danny Rayburn (Bloodline)
Jim Carter as Mr. Carson (Downton Abbey)
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister (Game Of Thrones)
Alan Cumming as Eli Gold (The Good Wife)
Michael Kelly as Doug Stamper (House Of Cards)
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Joanne Froggatt as Anna Bates (Downton Abbey)
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister (Game Of Thrones)
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen (Game Of Thrones)
Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris (Mad Men)
Uzo Aduba as Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren (Orange Is The New Black)
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series
Alan Alda as Alan Fitch (The Blacklist)
Michael J. Fox as Louis Canning (The Good Wife)
F. Murray Abraham as Dar Adal (Homeland)
Reg E. Cathey as Freddy Hayes (House Of Cards)
Beau Bridges as Barton Scully (Masters Of Sex)
Pablo Schreiber as George “Pornstache” Mendez (Orange Is The New Black)
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series
Margo Martindale as Claudia (The Americans)
Diana Rigg as Lady Olenna Tyrell (Game Of Thrones)
Rachel Brosnahan as Rachel Posner (House Of Cards)
Cicely Tyson as Ophelia Hartness (How To Get Away With Murder)
Allison Janney as Margaret Scully (Masters Of Sex)
Khandi Alexander as Maya Pope (Scandal)
Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series
“Do Mail Robots Dream Of Electric Sheep?” written by Joshua Brand
“Five-O” written by Gordon Smith (Better Call Saul)
“Mother’s Mercy” written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game Of Thrones)
“Lost Horizon” written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner (Mad Men)
“Person To Person” written by Matthew Weiner (Mad Men)
Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series
“Eldorado” directed by Tim Van Patten (Empire)
“Mother’s Mercy” directed by David Nutter
“Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken” directed by Jeremy Podeswa
“From A To B And Back Again” directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
“The Knick” directed by Steven Soderbergh
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Andre Braugher as Captain Ray Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
Adam Driver as Adam Sackler (Girls)
Keegan-Michael Key as Various characters (Key & Peele)
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)
Tituss Burgess as Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Tony Hale as Gary Walsh (Veep)
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
Niecy Nash as Denise “Didi” Ortley (Getting On)
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy (Modern Family)
Allison Janney as Bonnie (Mom)
Kate McKinnon as Various characters (Saturday Night Live)
Gaby Hoffmann as Ali Pfefferman (Transparent)
Jane Krakowski as Jacqueline Voorhees (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Anna Chlumsky as Amy Brookheimer (Veep)
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
Mel Brooks as Mel Brooks (The Comedians)
Paul Giamatti as Juror #10 (Inside Amy Schumer)
Bill Hader as Host (Saturday Night Live)
Louis C.K. as Host (Saturday Night Live)
Bradley Whitford as Marcy (Transparent)
Jon Hamm as Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
Christine Baranski as Dr. Beverly Hofstadter (The Big Bang Theory)
Gaby Hoffmann as Caroline Sackler (Girls)
Pamela Adlon as Pamela (Louie)
Elizabeth Banks as Sal (Modern Family)
Joan Cusack as Sheila Jackson (Shameless)
Tina Fey as Marcia (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series
“Episode 409” written by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik (Episodes)
“Alive In Tucson (Pilot)” written by Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth)
“Bobby’s House” written by Louis C.K. (Louie)
“Two Days Of The Condor” written by Alec Berg (Silicon Valley)
“Pilot” written by Jill Soloway (Transparent)
“Election Night” written by Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche
Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
“Alive In Tucson (Pilot)” directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
“Sleepover” directed by Louis C.K. (Louie)
“Sand Hill Shuffle” directed by Mike Judge (Silicon Valley)
“Best New Girl” written by Jill Soloway (Transparent)
“Testimony” directed by Armando Iannucci (Veep)
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or A Movie
Richard Cabral as Hector Tonz (American Crime)
Denis O’Hare as Stanley (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Finn Wittrock as Dandy Mott (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Michael Kenneth Williams as Jack Gee (Bessie)
Bill Murray as Jack Kenninson (Olive Kitteridge)
Damian Lewis as Henry VIII (Wolf Hall)
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie
Regina King as Aliyah Shadeed (American Crime)
Sarah Paulson as Dot & Bette Tattler (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Angela Bassett as Desiree Dupree (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Kathy Bates as Ethel Darling (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
Mo’Nique as Ma Rainey (Bessie)
Zoe Kazan as Denise Thibodeau (Olive Kitteridge)
Outstanding Writing For A Limited Series, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
“Episode One” written by John Ridley (American Crime)
“Bessie” written by Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois, and Horton Foote
“Hello Ladies: The Movie” written by Stephen Merchant, Gene Stupnitsky, and Lee Eisenberg
“The Honorable Woman” written by Hugo Blick
“Olive Kitteridge” teleplay by Jane Anderson
“Wolf Hall” written by Peter Straughan
Outstanding Directing For A Limited Series, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
“Monsters Among Us” directed by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
“Bessie” directed by Dee Rees
“The Honorable Woman” directed by Hugo Blick
“Houdini” directed by Uli Edel
“The Missing” directed by Tom Shankland
“Olive Kitteridge” directed by Lisa Cholodenko
“Wolf Hall” directed by Peter Kosminsky
Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program
Tom Bergeron (Dancing With The Stars)
Jane Lynch (Hollywood Game Night)
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn (Project Runway)
Cat Deeley (So You Think You Can Dance)
Anthony Bourdain (The Taste)
Outstanding Structured Reality Program
Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network)
MythBusters (Discovery Channel)
Property Brothers (HGTV)
Shark Tank (ABC)
Undercover Boss (CBS)
Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program
Alaska: The Last Frontier (Discovery Channel)
Deadliest Catch (Discovery Channel)
Intervention (A&E)
Million Dollar Listing New York (Bravo)
Naked And Afraid (Discovery Channel)
Wahlburgers (A&E)
Outstanding Variety Special
Bill Maher: Live From D.C. (HBO)
The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS)
Louis C.K.: Live At The Comedy Store (LouisCK.net)
Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen (HBO)
The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special (NBC)
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek To Cheek LIVE! (PBS)
Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series
Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special
The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (NBC)
Key & Peele Super Bowl Special (Comedy Central)
Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series
“Show 11040” directed by James Hoskinson (The Colbert Report)
“Show 20103” directed by Chuck O’Neil (The Daily Show With Jon Stewart)
“12 Angry Men” directed by Amy Schumer and Ryan McFaul (Inside Amy Schumer)
“Show 4214” directed by Jerry Foley (Late Show With David Letterman)
“Show 203” directed by Dave Diomedi (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon)
Outstanding Directing For A Variety Special
“Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live In Concert” directed by Natalie Johns
“The Kennedy Center Honors” directed by Louis J. Horvitz
“The Oscars” directed by Hamish Hamilton
“The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special” directed by Don Roy King
“68th Annual Tony Awards” directed by Glenn Weiss
Again, the 67th Emmy Awards telecast airs live coast-to-coast on Sunday, September 20 (8:00 PM ET/5:00 PM PT) on FOX from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Source: Emmys
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Debby Moore has had over 32 years’ experience in Texas Public School Education as a district administrator for Administrative and Student Services, as a campus administrator for elementary and secondary levels, as counselor for special and regular education at all levels, as a behavioral specialist, and as a regular and special education teacher. Although Debby retired in December of 2010, she continued to serve in several interim school district positions such as Director of Elementary Operations, COO of Human Resources, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, and Director of Student Services. In June 2013, Debby formed Texas School Procedures, LLC.
Responsibilities at the District administrative level included developing and overseeing district guidance and counseling programs, writing district regulations, forms, and letters, training and overseeing district discipline guidelines and other operational procedures for administrators, overseeing district safety programs, handling parent complaints and grievances, and chairing expulsion hearings. Over her years of service to public education and during retirement, she has presented staff development for teachers, counselors and administrators at local, regional, state, and national levels.
Debby has been married for 30+ years to a very loving and supportive husband. Her immediate family includes two sons, three inherited sons, one daughter through marriage, and six very special grandchildren. Debby loves spending time with their pets (Bailey, a rescued cocker spaniel, and LiLo, a rescued calico cat), researching, writing, and reading. Binge-watching various detective/crime series (particularly British) on Netflix has been a well-guarded secret to this point.
Rich Claypool
CFO and Operations
Rich has served in customer service and sales positions in various industries before joining Texas School Procedures from the very beginning in June of 2013. Rich was instrumental in developing the behind-the-scenes core set-up and operations of the company with company attorneys and establishing business procedures to ensure smooth operations and functioning of the company. He continues to serve in the capacity of managing all operational aspects of TxSP and as liaison to subscribing districts providing all “vendor” documents.
Rich is the proud father of one daughter, Dilyn, and will tell anyone that she is his number one priority. They enjoy being outdoors and doing anything athletic together such as swimming, hiking, running, biking, paddle boarding, fishing, camping, and kayaking. He is a very involved parent and always attends any school activity or parent conference and has supported her outside activities of karate, dance, basketball, and softball, to name a few.
Rich is also an advocate of animals and rescues his fur pets from organizations that take in forgotten animals off the streets. He currently has Kong (a “pitte”) and Bruiser (a “chiweenie”) that he adopted from South Side Street Dogs, a non-profit vegan Animal Rescue out of Houston, Texas.
Nancy Rouse
Customer Service and Website Administrator
Nancy Rouse is a retired Texas educator and Technology support staff member with 35 years in education. Her roles in Texas schools have been varied and include teaching, mentoring, instructional specialist/designer, and management of technology systems. In addition to educating district teachers in current software, she also became a subject matter expert on teacher web page development using Lotus Notes and became the District Lotus Notes Administrator and Webmaster. During this time, Nancy helped transition to a new email system as the Microsoft Exchange Administrator and helped usher in and manage a new phone system for the district as Microsoft Lync Administrator.
It was Nancy’s stent as District webmaster where she first met Debby Moore, a colleague. Debby was developing policies, regulations, and procedures for the school district and Nancy created a website to house the “Regs” and became invaluable in editing and posting the documents. In 2016, shortly before retiring, Nancy was again approached by Debby, this time to join TxSP to edit documents and help manage the new TxSP website. So impressed by the regulations and best practices that were being developed, Nancy has continued to support her in this capacity as a valued customer service representative and document and website manager.
Nancy has three grown sons, two daughters in law, and four grandchildren – three boys and finally, a girl. She enjoys her most precious gift, her family, and the time spent with them vacationing, hunting, fishing and laughing.
Tracy Laborde
Customer Service & Project Management
Tracy Laborde has over 20 years of professional communications, project management and client relations experience. A University of Texas at Austin graduate, Tracy left Texas and started her career in Atlanta, GA. There she worked at Turner Broadcasting in their educational outreach department where she supported taking CNN, and other Turner programming, and developing course curriculum and support material for schools across the country. Her final years in Atlanta were with Coca-Cola Enterprises where she was a communications manager for their change management team; focusing on a system-wide software implementation.
Tracy returned to Houston in 2006 and worked for University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center until 2018 where she spent most of her years building a project management team to support the MD Anderson Cancer Network, a program that collaborates with hospitals and health systems in Texas, the nation, and the world to improve the quality and accessibility of cancer care and research.
Currently, Tracy is on leave from TxSP and is enjoying traveling full-time with her husband, daughter and dog anywhere that the wind blows; or that her husband’s job takes them. Embracing every adventure, small or big, is what she and her family enjoy doing these days; and they do it all across the country living in an RV (aka tiny house on wheels).
Dr. Karin Holacka
Contributor, Consultant, and Trainer
Karin serves TxSP as a consultant and educational partner supporting with process design, training and district connections. She is the founder, owner, and chief consultant for BLUE Jean Educational Consulting with over 25 years of experience in public education. She has a reputation for being a visionary leader, strategic thinker and engaging facilitator.
Karin started her career as a classroom teacher for students in grades 5, 6 and ESL. However, a majority of her career (19 years) has been in educational leadership serving as an assistant principal, principal, executive director, area superintendent and superintendent. In addition to her years of service in a wide array of school districts, Karin has also held an executive leadership position within a regional education service center and is an adjunct university professor in the area of educational leadership. Karin has experienced opportunities ranging from school/district turnaround to facility planning and construction. However, her areas of interest and strength are in curriculum and instruction, leadership development, and organizational improvement and planning.
Karin has been married to her husband, Jim, for 23 years. They have 3 wonderful sons, 2 special daughters-in-law, and 1 perfect granddaughter. Karin loves dogs, movies, traveling, writing, and spending time with family and friends. Her favorite sport is soccer and hopes to one day fulfill her dream of being a published author.
César Castro
César I. Castro was born in Veracruz, Mexico and immigrated to Texas at the age of 12. One year later, he was the first in his family of four to become one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. He graduated from Plano East Senior High School and attended Tarrant County Community College.
Besides being fluent in English and Spanish, César is also fluent in American Sign Language and has volunteered teaching the bible in the deaf community since 2010. He has worked for various school districts in office assistance administration and translation. He now has his own translation business and continues to support districts and Texas School Procedures in providing accurate Spanish translations so that parents can be partners in their student’s education and students have access to documents in Spanish while they are learning English.
At the age of 26 he married his beautiful wife, Monique Castro, a certified A.S.L. interpreter, and moved to Fort Worth, TX. Together they participate in the Local Design and Construction Department of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which builds and maintains Kingdom Halls (centers of worship) and aids in disaster relief efforts in the U.S. branch territory. Together, they have two puppies Sonny (Mut) and Jojo (Yorkie Pomeranian mix). They love camping trips and swimming at a lake, river, or beach.
Dr. Glenda Boyer
Dr. Boyer has worked as an educator, school counselor, student assistance coordinator, licensed counselor/supervisor, trainer/consultant, and adjunct teacher in DFW area with over 30 years of combined experience. She currently has a private practice in the Denton area, working with children, adolescents, and their families, as well as adults and couples. Consultation with educators, professional development for school counselors, and adjunct teaching at area universities are also a large part of her professional life. Glenda has been with Texas School Procedures from the beginning providing training and consultation to counselors and developing counseling presentations for the site.
Glenda’s passion is working with children and adolescents and consulting with others who share the same passion – sharing from her experience and learning the needs of counselors and their students in educational settings. Play interventions with children, hands-on activities for curriculum-based support groups, crisis response, suicide prevention, bullying prevention, and counselor self-care/burnout prevention are just a few of her current interests in working with counselors in school settings.
Personal time includes time with friends and family and a small family ranching operation. Glenda has two sons and one daughter as well as a daughter-in-law and son-in-law and five grandchildren. In her spare time, she maintains close to 400 acres in West Texas where she is the proud “parent” of 30 to 40 head of cattle.
Dr. Sandra McCoy-Jackson
Contributor, Consultant & Trainer
In 2017, Dr. McCoy-Jackson became the Superintendent in Sanger ISD. Under the leadership of Dr. McCoy-Jackson: In 2018, all campuses achieved “Met Standard” while earning 4 Distinctions and earning a “C” rating: In 2019, the district received a “B” rating. In addition, Sanger ISD was selected by the Texas Education Agency to receive a Pre-K Grant for $750K.
Before becoming Superintendent, she served as an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in Duncanville ISD and Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning in Brazosport ISD.
Dr. McCoy-Jackson also held the position of Director of Elementary Student Services, Director of Student Community Partnership, Principal and Assistant Principal in Allen ISD. Dr. McCoy-Jackson received her under-graduate degree from East Texas State University, now Texas A & M – Commerce, in Elementary Education/English. Dr. McCoy-Jackson has also obtained 2 Master’s Degrees from National-Louis University – Chicago, Illinois one in Reading and the other in administration. Dr. McCoy-Jackson was awarded her doctorate in Educational Leadership in December 2008 from Nova Southeastern University – Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Basic Ideas for the study of language
Brain - Mind - Consciousness - Communication - Language
I learnt - fifty years ago - that we became "human" by growing a big brain, which allowed us to develop language, thinking and consciousness. Is the big brain really all we need?
27 The ape that spoke : (John McCrone) About 100 000 years ago, Homo sapiens - true modern humans - appeared on the scene. Homo sapiens was a puny creature compared to the Neanderthals who happened to be the dominant species of hominids at the time, and they did not even measure up in brain size having a cranial capacity of about 1,500 millilitres compared to 1,600 millilitres for the Neanderthals. Yet despite this, Homo sapiens took over the world. The Neanderthals were shoved aside, the last few disappearing about 30,000 years ago while Homo sapiens spread rapidly to fill every corner of the planet.
Is the big brain really all we need to invent toolmaking and language? In the last twenty years I came to realise that it is not individual brain-power that drives the evolution of homo sapiens, it is the shared brain-power of communication, social intelligence.
NewScientist 17 May 2008 Editorial: ...what the Cambridge archaeologist Colin Renfrew calls "the sapient paradox". Evidence suggests that the human genome, and hence the brain, has changed little in the past 60,000 years. Yet it wasn't until about 10,000 years ago that profound changes took place in human behaviour: people settled in villages and built shrines. Renfrew's paradox is why, if the hardware was in place, did it take so long for humans to start changing the world? His answer is that the software - the culture - took a long time to develop. In particular, the intervening time saw humans vest meaning in objects and symbols. Those meanings were developed by social interaction over successive generations, passed on through teaching, and stored in the neuronal connections of children.
Social Interaction - Meaning - Culture - Cognitive Linguistics
How culture made your modern mind Andy Coghlan
IT IS one of the hottest questions of our time: how did our cognitive abilities explode, leaving other animals for dust intellectually? Now a new explanation is emerging. Controversially, it challenges the idea that biology alone is what drove the evolution of intellectual skills. What if we acquired abilities such as the capacity to invent, converse or work in unison as a result of a continual process of cultural cross-fertilisation with the world we inhabit, and through the way we interact with other people and material things?...around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago, the biology and structure of our brains stopped changing and other factors began to take over as the main driver of human development. For this to happen, however, the biological groundwork needed to be in place, they say. One of those biological foundations may have been the gradual expansion of working memory, which eventually enabled us to retain memories from the past, recognise objects in the present and plan ahead and conceive of a future (see "We're streets ahead"). The second was the emergence of a "theory of mind", which is the realisation that other creatures are intelligent and capable of independent thought and intention. It derives from the activity of "mirror" systems in the brain which enable an observer to feel the experiences of others, and to divine their intentions and motives.
Zoltan Kövecses: Language, Mind and Culture
Oxford University Press 2006
p.3: What relationships hold between cognitive system, language, and culture? It seems useful to assume that all the three concepts have somehow to do with meaning - either with its creation, its communication, or human beings acting on meaning. We can assume as relatively safe starting point that meaning in its different facets is a crucial aspect of the mind, language, and culture.
Kövecses 327: An Account of Meaningful Experience: We make use of a relatively small number of cognitive processes in making sense of experiences. We categorise the world, organize our knowledge into frames, make use of within-frame mappings (metaphor), build image-schemas from bodily experience and apply these to what we experience, divide our experience into figures and grounds, set up mental spaces and further mappings between them in the online process of understanding, and have the ability to skillfully and creatively integrate conceptual materials from the mental spaces that is set up. We do not do most of this in a conscious way; our cognitive system operates unconsciously most of the time. It is these and some additional cognitive processes that participate in our unconscious meaning making activity.
Brain - Mirror Neurons :
Neurolinguistics - Ramachandran - Iacoboni
Mind - Working Memory - Teory of Mind : ToM - Dunbar - Singer
We need a new way of thinking about language and thought. I found it in a new branch of linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics. Among the many books that my thinking profited from ( Lakoff , Johnson , Varela ) the most helpful is "From Molecule to Metaphor" by Jerome A. Feldman ( Feldman )
An Introduction to some new tools for the study of language:
Jerome A. Feldman
Feldman7
The Embodied mind
One simple insight has driven much of the scientific study of how the structure and function of the brain results in thought and language.
Human language and thought are crucially shaped by the properties of our bodies and the structure of our physical and social environment. Language and thought are not best studied as formal mathematics and logic, but as adaptions that enable creatures like us to thrive in a wide range of situations.
...multimodal nature of language: Because language is complex, linguists have traditionally broken its study artificially into levels or modules given names such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon, semantics, discourse, and pragmatics. Most linguists specialise in the study of just one level or at the border between two adjacent and subfields. Such focused studies have told us a great deal about language and are still the norm.
However, the real languages embodied, integrated, and multimodal. When your doctor asks you to lift your leg, your understanding involves a rich interaction among many neural systems. There is systematic structure to how all these components fit together to constitute language. The rules of patterns of language are called constructions. Constructions integrate different facets of language - for example, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax. The request construction might specify a grammatical form, and intonation pattern, pragmatic constraints, and the intended meaning.
Feldman 15-38
The information processing perspective: Neuroscientists speak of neurons as processing information and communicating by sending and receiving signals. They also talk of neurons as performing computations. In fact, neural computation has become the standard way of thinking about how the brain works. But neurons are just cells, tiny biological entities that are alive and function by means of chemistry. Why can he say that neurons process information and perform computations?
19 Communication and co-ordinated evolution: Communication between cells is a major revolutionary advance and a prerequisite for the appearance of multicelled creatures like ourselves. Individual cells survive by carefully controlling their internal chemistry and it goes against their nature to allow outside agitators. Of the 4 billion years since life began, about two thirds was required to evolve the simplest multicellular organism and their coordination mechanisms. The basic mechanism of the communication is molecular matching...the emission and subsequent recognition of a signal molecule is the simplest form of communication among living things.
20 But communication requires more than just having cells recognize things in their environment that are either good or bad for it. Communication occurs only when the sender and receiver agree on the nature of messages.
This inherently requires co-ordinated evolution. We can often ignore considerations of the physical details and study communication from an information processing perspective, which specifies what counts as an input signal, output signal, recognition, reaction, memory, learning, communication, and so on. The information processing perspective is crucial... as we look at yet another kind of cell: the neuron.The idea of cells communicating information using small molecules as signals is also the necessary first step in making sense of neural computation. But before we turn to neural information processing, we need to understand more about information processing.
21…one crucial point here is that the information processing perspective is always metaphorically imposed - it is one way of understanding a complex system in terms of something completely well-defined and very well understood. There is no abstract information in the neurons themselves; like amoebas, neurons are cells that work through chemistry.
Feldman 95
Embodied Concepts: The first seven chapters summarised our magnificent neural machinery, how it develops, and how it can be studied as an information processing system. Almost all of that discussion applies to animals in general and there is much more to be learned by studying animals as information processing systems, adapting to their environment and goals. But this book is about one special adaptation, language, that is unique to humans. Human conceptual systems are inextriably linked to language.
Cognitive Scientists:
Leonard Talmy : Cognitive Semantics -
Leonard Talmy: Cognitive Semantics: an Overview
Introduction: The linguistic representation of conceptual structure is the central concern of the two-to-three decades old field that has come to be known generally as "cognitive linguistics". This field can first be characterized by contrasting its "conceptual" approach with two other approaches, the "formal" and the "psychological". Particular research traditions have largely based themselves within one of these approaches, while aiming -- with greater or lesser success -- to address the concerns of the other two approaches.
The formal approach focuses on the overt structural patterns exhibited by linguistic forms, largely abstracted away from or regarded as autonomous from any associated meaning. This approach thus includes the study of syntactic, morphological, and morphemic structure. The tradition of generative grammar has been centered in the formal approach. But its relations to the other two approaches have remained limited. It has all along referred to the importance of relating its grammatical component to a semantic component, and there has indeed been much good work on aspects of meaning, but this enterprise has generally not addressed the overall conceptual organization of language. The formal semantics that has been adopted within the generative tradition has largely included only enough about meaning to correlate with the formal categories and operations that the main body of the tradition has focused on. And the reach of generative linguistics to psychology has largely considered only the kinds of cognitive structure and processing that might be needed to account for its formal categories and operations.
The psychological approach regards language from the perspective of general cognitive systems such as perception, memory, attention, and reasoning. Centered in this approach, the field of psychology has also addressed the other two approaches. Its conceptual concerns in particular have included semantic memory, the associativity of concepts, the structure of categories, inference generation, and contextual knowledge. But it has insufficiently considered systematic conceptual structuring -- the global integrated system of schematic structures with which language organizes conceptual content.
Michael Tomasello:
Books by Michael Tomasello:
Michael Tomasello
The Cultural Origins of HUMAN COGNITION
Harvard Univ. Press 2000
Tomasello1
Tomasello201
Constructing a Language:
A Usage-Based Theory of Language Aquisition
Harvard 2003
pg 1: INTENSION-READING - THEORY OF MIND - CATEGORISATION - GRAMMATICALISATION
pg 8: THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE
George Lakoff: University of California -Berkeley
George Lakoff: Philosophy in the Flesh - Preface
Cognitive Scientists have shown me, that studying the functioning of our brain-mind can teach us deep insights on the Perennial Question: Who are we?
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Exclusive: Volkswagen to buy 20% of Chinese battery maker Guoxuan amid electric push - sources
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG is set to take a 20% stake in Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Guoxuan High-tech Co Ltd, two sources told Reuters, as the German firm accelerates its electric push into the world's largest auto market. The deal would mark Volkswagen's first direct ownership in a Chinese battery maker and comes as the Wolfsburg-based automaker strives to meet a goal of selling 1.5 million new energy vehicles (NEVs) a year in China by 2025, including plug-in hybrid cars. The top foreign automaker in China plans to acquire the stake in Shenzhen-listed Guoxuan via a discounted private share placement in the coming weeks, the two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Polish watchdog fines Volkswagen over 'dieselgate' scandal
Poland's consumer watchdog UOKiK said on Wednesday it was fining Volkswagen more than 120 million zlotys ($31.6 million) for misleading customers about the emissions of its vehicles. The fine, the biggest ever given by the regulator for violation of consumer rights, is the latest chapter in a global emissions cheating scandal that has cost Volkswagen about 30 billion euros in fines, vehicle refits and legal costs, and also triggered a global backlash against diesel vehicles. "False information in advertising materials caused misinformation - they referred to Volkswagen's pro-ecological attitude, when in fact the cars were not environmentally friendly," UOKiK president Marek Niechcial said in a statement.
The Not-So-Irreversible Renault-Nissan Allliance
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Renault SA pledged back in February to make its 20-year-old Alliance with Nissan Motor Co. “irreversible,” after the shocking arrest of the French carmaker’s boss Carlos Ghosn on charges of financial misconduct exposed deep rifts on both sides.That goal now looks further away than ever, with Ghosn’s dramatic escape to Lebanon and his repeated denials of the charges reopening old wounds, and neither firm succeeding in bridging the political and governance divide between France and Japan.The Financial Times reports that Nissan is ramping up contingency plans in case of a breakup — which, while financially painful and costly for both sides, shouldn’t be ruled out. With both Renault and Nissan under new management, and advocates of closer integration on the wane, time is running out to prove that this isn’t an alliance in name only.The spectacle of Ghosn holding court for several hours in Beirut last week was a grim reminder of the Alliance’s fragility. Whether you believe in his conspiracy narrative or not, the political meddling clearly ran deep: Ghosn pointed to France’s doubling of its voting rights in 2015 as the seed of Japanese resentment against Paris’s out-sized influence within the partnership. The fact that Paris was dreaming of a full-blown merger, while the Japanese wanted nothing of the sort, shows that the fundamental issues around control and governance go well beyond Ghosn.Renault Chairman Jean-Dominique Senard’s efforts to show that the Alliance is bigger than the man who forged it haven’t really paid off, either. Conversations about how to save the partnership have failed to get past the question of whether it should become more equitable: Renault, in which the French state has a 15% stake, owns 43% of Nissan, while Nissan owns 15% of its partner. Nissan has sought more sway in the alliance, including a reduction in Renault’s stake, given the Japanese company’s bigger size and superior earnings performance in recent years (though the latter has started to tail off). Meanwhile, Renault’s bungled attempt last year to strike a deal with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV managed to both annoy the Japanese and benefit its French arch-rival Peugeot SA, the company that Fiat is now set to merge with.Politics and governance are one side of the equation — but what about money? It seems strange to let a corporate partnership fall apart after 20 years when it’s clearly been a financial success. Renault and Nissan’s Alliance sells over 10 million cars a year, almost on par with industry leaders Volkswagen AG and Toyota Motor Corp., and they’ve been avidly working together to find more synergies. The companies said in 2018 that their annual cost savings would exceed 10 billion euros ($11.1 billion) by 2022. In an industry that’s facing growing spending requirements amid the shift to electric cars, that’s an obvious advantage.But even the financial benefits of the Alliance require a harmonious partnership. To achieve those savings, Renault and Nissan need to ramp up common manufacturing platforms and roll out more jointly-developed projects. The companies have pledged to build two-thirds of all cars sold on common platforms and three-quarters of all cars sold using common power-trains (up from one-third) by 2022. That looks hard in an environment where, according to the FT, the view inside Nissan is that the relationship is “toxic.” And the fact that both Renault and Nissan have recently moved to replace their CEOs shows how tough the post-Ghosn era has been.Today, the best argument for keeping the Renault-Nissan Alliance together, like many an unhappy marriage, is the cost of breaking it up. At a time when national pride is trumping economic self-interest, that’s not good enough. Until those in charge can prove there is an incentive in closer cooperation, it will be hard to convince stakeholders on both sides that this is an irreversible alliance.To contact the author of this story: Lionel Laurent at llaurent2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at mpozsgay@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Brussels. He previously worked at Reuters and Forbes.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinionSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
VW, Nissan Chase African Market Where Car Loans Are Rare
(Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG and Nissan Motor Co. are among automakers planning new plants in Ghana to target West Africa’s 382 million people. Their challenge: Finding banks that will offer loans to make new cars affordable.In a country where about 70% of imports are second-hand, new car ownership is rare, said Believe Alorbu, who sells older models shipped from the U.S. at half the price of a new one.“People will sometimes leave the plastic wrapping on their seats” when they buy new cars, she said at her dealership in the capital, Accra. “Even if the government increases tariffs on used cars, people will still not be able to afford new ones if they don’t get access to financing.”Less than 5% of new car sales are financed by banks, according to the Ghana Automobile Dealers Association. In some cases, lenders demand employers agree to redirect part of the purchaser’s salary toward the debt, or that the owner take out insurance to cover a default. Interest rates of 22%-30% also make loans “largely” unaffordable, said Koketso Tsoai, an auto-industry analyst at Fitch Solutions.Once their facilities are running, VW, Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan, and possibly Renault SA will need to contend with second-hand cars like those sold by Alorbu. Ghana’s government is trying to make it more attractive with planned import duties on second-hand cars of 35%, from 5%-20%, and fiscal incentives that improve as the companies move from assembly to local production, with tax holidays of as long as 10 years. It has also pledged to promote regional exports.“We don’t look at it only for today,” Nissan Africa Chairman Mike Whitfield said by phone from Cairo. “We continue to see Africa as the last frontier left in the automotive market, West Africa being a key part of it.”About 10% of West Africa’s population are able to spend more than $11 a day, according to data compiled by World Data Lab. It is this group that the industry is targeting on a continent that adds some 10 million new consumers annually. By 2030, Africa’s middle- and upper-income class is expected to exceed 300 million of the world’s 4-billion consumer market, the data shows.‘Huge Opportunity’Standard Bank Group Ltd., Africa’s largest lender, is also preparing for future growth by replicating its South African car-financing business in other parts of the continent, including Ghana.About three quarters of auto loans still go to companies, Patrick Koduah, head of vehicle and asset finance at the company’s Stanbic Ghana unit, said in an interview. “There’s a huge opportunity to grow personal demand.”About 30,000 passenger vehicles were imported into Ghana in 2018, according to estimates from Fitch Solutions. Ghana had 7,073 new vehicle registrations in 2018, of which 4,268 were passenger cars, according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers.While the government has said its auto-incentives program would include the creation of an asset-based vehicle financing component, a trade ministry spokesman couldn’t provide details on how it would work.Pan-African lender Ecobank Transnational Inc. said in an email that the average car loan in Ghana amounts to $30,000. Banks typically demand a high down payment and limit loans to no longer than five years if they do grant credit, while dealers sometimes allow buyers to spread repayments over six months.More than 90% of new vehicle sales in South Africa, the continent’s biggest market, are probably financed, Thomas Schaefer, the head of Volkswagen’s local unit, estimated. The country had a penetration rate of 132 passenger cars per 1,000 people in 2019, compared with 22 per 1,000 people in Ghana, according to Fitch Solutions.“If I would take out the financing options in South Africa, our market would disappear,” Schaefer said.The Wolfsburg-based carmaker plans to start a ride-hailing service in Accra, modeled after a similar one in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, to ensure its output is absorbed.Regional Gateway“The assumption is that in Africa, out of the more than 1 billion people, there are only about 100 million people who can afford a new car, but you may have a couple 100 million people who need to go from A to B and a bit of money in their pocket,” said Schaefer. “You need to tap into this market.”Nissan sees its assembly plant starting by the end of the year, depending on when Ghana’s auto-policy is signed into law. Volkswagen plans to start by April. Toyota, which described Ghana as “an extremely important market in West Africa,” declined to share details about its strategy.Ghana won’t be the first country to position itself as a gateway to West Africa. Nigeria announced a very similar policy in 2013. However, after a change in government and years in the legislative system, President Muhammadu Buhari rejected the bill in July last year. Automakers have also signed agreements with Ivory Coast’s government.“Ivory Coast has already taken some steps in the right direction, which aim to limit the import of used vehicles,” said Leonce Yace, managing director of Ivorian lender NSIA Banque. The company, one of the key players in vehicle finance in the country, saw a 41% year-on-year increase in auto loans in 2019.“It is not about who should be the hub, it’s about who offers the best deal,” said Chris Ndala, managing director of CICA Motors Liberia, a subsidiary of the French group CFAO SA.The car companies are beginning small in Ghana, with 5,000 units a year or less, and are expected to partner with local firms.“We’ll all go as the business and the market goes,” Nissan’s Whitfield said. “The critical thing is that it’s starting.”Alorbu, the second-hand dealer, doesn’t see the used-car business getting displaced anytime soon.“They make it sound like used-car dealers are the enemy, but we are helping the consumer,” she said. “If the government is not ready or willing to provide financing, selling new cars will be a problem.”(Adds detail of tax incentives in fifth paragraph)\--With assistance from Tsuyoshi Inajima, Leanne de Bassompierre and Ekow Dontoh.To contact the reporter on this story: Yinka Ibukun in Accra at yibukun@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Andre Janse van Vuuren at ajansevanvuu@bloomberg.net, ;Stefania Bianchi at sbianchi10@bloomberg.net, Vernon WesselsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
SK Innovation plans second EV battery plant in U.S., expansion in Hungary
LAS VEGAS/SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Innovation Co Ltd plans to build a second electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in the United States and is considering expanding another factory in Hungary to meet soaring demand for EV cells, its chief executive told Reuters. Kim Jun also said he expects more Asian manufacturers to make batteries in the United States instead of importing them to avoid tariffs and meet demand from U.S. automakers locally. SK Innovation's second plant at its under-construction production site in the U.S. state of Georgia could have a capacity equivalent to 10 GWh, Kim said, declining to identify customers.
Volkswagen's 2019 vehicle deliveries slightly above 2018
Volkswagen Group said on Thursday its vehicle deliveries last year were slightly above the previous year's level, revising up an earlier forecast which predicted 2019 sales would be level with the year before. Volkswagen chief executive Herbert Diess issued the revised forecast during an investor presentation in New York. Volkswagen is due to release 2019 earnings on March 17.
Volkswagen seeks damages from Prevent in ongoing legal dispute
HAMBURG/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen is seeking more than 100 million euros ($112 million) in damages from former supplier Prevent, it said on Tuesday, adding it had filed a first claim for one of its subsidiaries. The row dates back to 2016, when suppliers ES Guss and Car Trim stopped supplies shortly after being acquired by Prevent in a bid to raise prices, causing production losses at six of Volkswagen's factories in Germany. Volkswagen has filed a first claim for its Skoda unit with the Brunswick regional court, it said, adding that the Dresden higher regional court would determine which courts are responsible for further damage claims.
German Car Production Drops to 23-Year Low on Waning Exports
(Bloomberg) -- Want the lowdown on European markets? In your inbox before the open, every day. Sign up here.German car production fell to its lowest in almost a quarter of a century as Europe’s biggest economy suffers from the fallout of a global trade war.Automakers including Volkswagen AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG produced 4.66 million vehicles in German factories last year, the weakest since 1996. The country’s VDA car lobby, which published the figures on Monday, said the 9% decrease was a result of waning demand from international markets.The industry is set for more tough times this year. The VDA predicted global car deliveries will drop to 78.9 million vehicles from 80.1 million in 2019.Germany’s status as a global manufacturing powerhouse has been built on the carmaking industry, but pollution concerns -- intensified by Volkswagen’s 2015 diesel-cheating scandal -- trade conflicts, and slowing economies have all weighed on demand. Daimler, Volkswagen and parts supplier Continental AG are slashing jobs to cut costs.At the same time, the industry has to spend billions of euros to develop cleaner vehicles, self-driving features and counter the emergence of ride-sharing services like Uber Technologies Inc., which has a market value equivalent to Daimler.Germany is particularly exposed to regulatory demands for cleaner vehicles because brands such as BMW, Porsche and Audi focus on power and performance. That prods the country’s automakers to explore unusual projects.At the CES electronics show in Las Vegas, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz unveiled a concept car inspired by the film Avatar. The electric-powered vehicle features lateral crab-like movement and biometric controls to allow “human and machine to merge.”Germany’s domestic autos market grew 5% last year after buyers registered 3.6 million new cars, the VDA said, the most since 2009. However, the industry body has said the market is likely to contract this year and has predicted that job losses will accelerate amid the transition to electric cars, which require fewer parts and less labor to assemble.The country cemented its recently acquired lead over Norway as Europe’s biggest electric-vehicle market after selling 63,281 e-cars last year, according to latest data from the country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority, or KBA.(Adds global forecast in third paragraph, Mercedes concept car in seventh)\--With assistance from Oliver Sachgau and Chris Reiter.To contact the reporter on this story: Stefan Nicola in Berlin at snicola2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rebecca Penty at rpenty@bloomberg.net, Andrew NoëlFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Tesla Appears to Turn a Corner, Lifting Valuation to $80 Billion
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. is back on top -- this time, it seems, with some real staying power.The Model 3 maker delivered a record 112,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter and has begun production at a new factory near Shanghai. With the stock soaring to close Friday at an all-time high, Tesla’s market capitalization finished the week just short of $80 billion -- more than double Ford Motor Co.’s stock value. And the Model Y, its next crossover SUV, is slated to launch this summer.“Tesla is close to escape velocity,” said Gene Munster, managing partner of the venture capital firm Loup Ventures. “Demand for electric vehicles is real, and people are stretching to buy a Model 3. Everything is beginning to gel.”That’s saying a lot for a company famous for taking big steps forward, only to then slip steps back. Take 2019: after finishing strong the year before, Elon Musk decided to dismiss 7% of the workforce. First-quarter deliveries were dismal. Customers and employees alike were whipsawed by a shifting retail strategy, and the chief executive officer remained a magnet for controversy.But after years of drama, there’s a growing sense among investors that Tesla is finally hitting its stride. The company reported a surprise third-quarter profit in October and the shares have been on a tear ever since.Established automakers have taken their shots at Musk with so-called “Tesla Killers,” but no serious competition has materialized thus far. U.S. sales of General Motors Co.’s fully electric Chevrolet Bolt plummeted 47% in the fourth quarter and finished down down 9% for the year.During Tesla’s last earnings call, Musk said he thinks the upcoming Model Y will outsell the S, X and 3 combined, without giving a time frame. He announced plans in November to build a third auto factory, near Berlin -- the backyard of German automakers BMW AG, Daimler AG and Volkswagen AG, whose initial electric offerings haven’t drawn much demand.China, the world’s largest auto market, is the big wild card for this year. Tesla said Friday that battery production for its cars there began in late December.Local pack supply is the gating factor standing in the way of the plant boosting output. Tesla said it’s already managed to assemble almost 1,000 cars that are ready for sale. With more battery production, it will be capable of 3,000 a week, according to the company.“Shanghai deliveries should be the next catalyst to drive volume growth,” Ben Kallo, a Robert W. Baird analyst with the equivalent of a buy rating on Tesla, wrote in a report. “Importantly, the factory appears to be ramping faster than we expected.”In 2012, the year Tesla launched the Model S sedan, the company delivered just 2,650 cars. Seven years later, that was up to 367,500 -- 138 times as many.Loup Ventures’ Munster said Tesla should meet what he says are Wall Street’s expectations for 2020. Analysts on average are predicting 463,000 deliveries for this year -- another 28% annual jump.“If Tesla can successfully launch the Model Y,” he said, “they will have fully arrived.”To contact the reporter on this story: Dana Hull in San Francisco at dhull12@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Trudell at ctrudell1@bloomberg.net, Anne ReifenbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
Volkswagen starts settlement talks with German consumer groups over diesel scandal
Volkswagen on Thursday said it was in talks to discuss a settlement with German vehicle owners who are suing the carmaker over excessive pollution caused by VW's diesel cars. In 2015 the carmaker admitted to using manipulated engine management software to mask excessive pollution levels in its diesel cars, sparking a raft of prosecutions and lawsuits that have led to at least 30 billion euros in legal costs and fines. "Volkswagen and the Federation of German Consumer Organisations vzbv have agreed to enter into discussions regarding a possible settlement," the carmaker said.
Volkswagen ahead of schedule in electric cars production
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Friday that it would reach a key target in the production of electric autos earlier than previously anticipated. The German automaker will have produced one million electric vehicles by the end of 2023, two years ahead of schedule.
Tesla Is the Decade's Best-Performing Auto Company
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Among the biggest surprises of the past decade was the initial public offering of the Palo Alto company that outperformed every automaker from Detroit to Toyota City to Wolfsburg and is now the undisputed champion of total return, sales growth and long-term shareholder value. That would be 10-year-old Tesla and its zero-emission, battery electric Model S, X and 3 vehicles. Co-founder Elon Musk may be the most-ridiculed and penalized chief executive officer since the Securities and Exchange Commission made him pay a $20 million fine for misleading tweets last year. His antics obscure the essential reality that Tesla is gaining confidence among customers and investors because they hold the fossil-free future in their hands, and find it more thrilling and profitable than the latest iteration of hydrocarbon.The Model 3 now outsells every vehicle from Germany or Japan in the U.S. luxury entry category, and Musk last month said his company had received more than 200,000 pre-orders three days after unveiling the Cybertruck. Such assurance is the constant element driving Tesla to a record $413 a share this month, or a $73 billion valuation that is greater than all but Toyota ($230 billion) and Volkswagen ($98 billion) among 38 automakers across the globe. Tesla is worth 37% more than General Motors and is almost twice the value of Ford Motor Co. ($37 billion) because nothing gets stock pickers more excited than unprecedented growth. Since the first Model S was purchased in 2012, Tesla sales have increased 52 times while the rest of the industry has averaged 46%. On Wall Street, most analysts remain unimpressed. Jim Chanos, a frequently cited short seller, told Hedgeye Risk Management last month that his Kynikos Associates “are still bears” and that Tesla is “one of our biggest and our best short positions.” Greenlight Capital, the hedge fund led by David Einhorn, repeatedly insists Tesla's “wheels are falling off.” Einhorn told Bloomberg News in May he will continue his short selling because the electric-car company faces “a stream of unending losses.”Tesla earned $1.86 a share in the third quarter, exceeding the most optimistic forecast and the consensus estimate for a 24-cent loss.While Tesla bears get the most attention in media reports -- stories about Tesla that reference Einhorn are at least 10 times more numerous on the Bloomberg terminal than articles on enthusiast Cathie Wood -- stock market bets against Tesla plummeted to the lowest percentage since the company's IPO in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. People who sell Tesla using borrowed stocks in an arrangement that lets them buy the shares back at lower prices are becoming scarce. Such Tesla short-selling as a percentage of shares traded is down to 9.2%. The ratio was almost 30% in June and higher than that for any company in the S&P 500 index a year ago. During the past six months, Tesla appreciated 85% and would be the best performer in the S&P 500 if it was included. It's also No. 1 among its 38 peers in the Bloomberg Intelligence Global Automobile Index.The prevailing assumption that Tesla is the most volatile auto stock is belied by data showing just the opposite. Tesla gained 22% this year, more than the 14% average for the 10 largest automakers. Tesla was No. 1 last year with a 7% total return (income plus appreciation) when its competitors lost 16%. Over the past two years, Tesla is No. 1 with a 31% return when its peers lost 4%. Since 2017, Tesla is No. 1 with a 99% return when the industry gained 24%. Anyone who purchased Tesla when it went public in 2010 has a bonanza of 1,190%. The auto industry during the past 10 years appreciated 158%, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. No automaker can match Tesla's growth. After increasing 10 times since 2014, Tesla revenue will advance an additional 14% in 2019, 21% in 2020 and 18% in 2021, according to 27 analysts contributing their forecasts to Bloomberg. The average growth for the 10 largest auto makers will be 1%, 4% and 3% for the comparable periods. Yet more analysts recommend selling Tesla than buying its shares, and 481 companies in the S&P 500 have more favorable analyst recommendations than Tesla, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The declining favorable analyst consensus for Tesla since 2011, from 4.3 to 2.78, is similar to projections about another company 10 years after its IPO: Amazon, the sixth-highest rated company in the S&P 500 today. But at the beginning of 2007, Amazon's consensus rating had declined to 2.5, almost half its current 4.86, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.The comparison is appropriate, says Cathie Wood, chief executive officer of Ark Investment Management, a Tesla shareholder. Musk faces the same skepticism about his ability to create value that buffeted Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos during Amazon's first decade as a public company. “The same thing was happening with Amazon for years,” she told CNBC in February. “We were considered crazy, and yet now it seems so obvious. I think the same is going to be true of Tesla.” Wood has a target price of $4,000 a share for Tesla. \-- With assistance from Shin Pei.To contact the author of this story: Matthew A. Winkler at mwinkler@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Katy Roberts at kroberts29@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Matthew A. Winkler is Co-founder of Bloomberg News (1990) and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus; Bloomberg Opinion Columnist since 2015; Co-founder of Bloomberg Business Journalism Diversity Program in 2017. During his 25 years as Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News was a three-time finalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and received numerous George Polk, Gerald Loeb, Overseas Press Club and Society of Professional Journalists and Editors (Sabew) awards.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Volkswagen takes one-two punch in Australia with fine, lawsuit
The federal court fined Volkswagen a record sum for breaching Australian consumer law by making false representations about compliance with the country's diesel emissions standards. The fine exceeded the A$75 million the company said it had agreed to with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Volkswagen said it was undecided on whether to appeal the court decision and would make an announcement in the coming weeks.
Australia watchdog warns large fines the norm after Volkswagen case
The head of Australia's competition regulator on Friday said a record fine of A$125 million (66.1 million pounds) imposed on Volkswagen AG was just a taste of what companies could expect in the future. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Rod Sims told reporters the agency would be using its new expanded powers to punish illegal activity with the largest fines possible. "Companies can expect the ACCC to be seeking much higher penalties in future," said Sims.
Australia fines Volkswagen record $86 million for emissions breach - regulator
The penalty amount is the highest ever ordered by the court for contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said in a statement on Friday. ACCC said the German automaker admitted that it switched to two different software modes for testing and driving conditions, thereby not disclosing the original level of nitrogen oxide emissions.
Australia fines Volkswagen record $86 million for emissions breach: regulator
Volkswagen attracts bids for MAN Energy Solutions unit - sources
Volkswagen has attracted bids from Europe's Innio, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy and U.S.-based Cummins for its MAN Energy Solutions, which makes diesel engines for ships and power generators, people close to the matter said. Innio, formerly known as Jenbacher and owned by buyout group Advent, as well as the two other bidders last week made bids for the VW unit, which could have a valuation of 1.5-2 billion euros ($1.7-$2.2 billion) in a potential sale, they said. Other bidders such as Hyundai Heavy are no longer in the running, they added.
Volkswagen attracts bids for MAN Energy Solutions unit: sources
Volkswagen has attracted bids from Europe's Innio, Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy and U.S.-based Cummins for its MAN Energy Solutions, which makes diesel engines for ships and power generators, people close to the matter said. Innio, formerly known as Jenbacher and owned by buyout group Advent, as well as the two other bidders last week made bids for the VW unit, which could have a valuation of 1.5-2 billion euros ($1.7-$2.2 billion) in a potential sale, they said. The divestment is part of Volkswagen's efforts to slim down and simplify the group which has 12 brands, trucks, buses, motorbikes, cars and electric bicycles as part of its business.
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Panarat Thepgumpanat
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai health officials are stepping up monitoring and inspection at its airports for the new mystery virus from China ahead of Lunar New Year, when Chinese visitors flock to the Southeast Asian country, a health official said on Wednesday.
The procedures comes days after a Chinese woman was quarantined in Thailand with the mystery strain of the coronavirus, in the first instance of its detection outside of China.
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause infections ranging from the common cold to SARS.
The World Health Organisation has said there may have been limited human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus in China within families.
Authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan confirmed on Wednesday that a married couple were among 41 people diagnosed with pneumonia believed to be caused by the new virus.
The prospect of human-to-human transmission of a new virus has put Thai authorities on alert.
The president of the Tourism Council of Thailand told Reuters on Wednesday that about 800,000 visitors from China were expected to visit the country over the Lunar New Year holiday later this month.
The Public Health Ministry has increased its monitoring at four airports that have daily flights from Wuhan - Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueng, Chiang Mai and Phuket - and any airports that receives charter flights from the city.
Preliminary lab tests cited by Chinese state media showed the 41 pneumonia cases in Wuhan, where one patient has died, could be from a new type of coronavirus. There have since been no new cases or deaths, Wuhan health authorities said on Tuesday.
“Usually there are 1,200 arrivals from Wuhan in Thailand, which can go up to 1,500 to 1,600 during Lunar New Year, so we will increase personnel,” Thai Disease Control Department Director Sophon Iamsirithaworn told Reuters on Wednesday.
“Currently, officers are working 24 hours in three shifts of 5 to 6,” he said adding that two infrared thermal scan machines were being used, with two in reserve.
Memories remain fresh in Asia of a 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which emerged in China and killed nearly 800 people worldwide.
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Weekly notes on women in tech, venture and the startup world (Issue 2)
Raquel Wilson Jul 3, 2018
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The Agenda: Kenya, robots & mini VCsWeekly notes on women in tech, venture and the startup world (Issue 2)
Raquel Wilson
Did you enjoy the first installment of “The Agenda”? I’ve spent several weeks thinking about creating a way to share all the goodies I discover on women doing #BOSS things across tech–as both founders and funders–but let fear hold me back for while. However, June turned out to be a good month for releasing fears and “saying yes” to all the things that scared me.
In the month of June alone, I published the first issue of “The Agenda”, created a WhatsApp group for female founders in Africa and a second WhatsApp group for women working remotely globally. It took me a moment to “just do it” but it’s done and I’m happy to see so many women coming together to learn and share. Thank you for joining us.
Here’s what’s been captivating me this week:
WHAT KENYA NEEDS
The Financial Times published its “Investing in Kenya” special report. Similar to the “Investing in Senegal” report released in April of this year, the Kenyan version takes a look at booming sectors, the political climate and insight from insiders on the financial growth of the nation. Highlights from the report include a deep dive into what kind of investors the country needs by BASF’s Juliana Rotich and a podcast with OpenWorld founder Dorcas Muthoni discussing starting young as an entrepreneur and avoiding corruption. Here’s the full list of featured articles in the report. (Some articles behind a paywall.)
The Future is...Female in Character
There has been a lot of chatter around gender and racial bias in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Which is expected considering machines can only learn what we teach them and we live in a world full of inequities. As Quartz wrote, “When computers learn human languages, they also learn human prejudices,” and VentureBeat says, “The future of AI may be female, but it isn’t feminist.”
Artificial intelligence and robotics may intend to free us from many human limitations, but it seems that gender stereotypes are not one of them.
From naming conventions for robots and devices to appearance and job loss, the articles make a convincing argument for why more women and people of color need to be encouraged to get involved in the research and development of AI as well as its influence on society.
There are a few communities and organizations working to make sure diverse voices are heard in the sector. If you are working in AI or ML you may be interested in joining Black in AI or Deep Learning Indaba.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the future of AI and ways to deter bias in machines. Send me a tweet and tell me know what you think. #theagenda
Girls are VCs too
Have you met Taarini Dang? She’s a two time founder, author, Google Female Founders Summit speaker, venture capitalist and...she’s 14! While in the seventh grade, Taarini started her company Million Champs to help one million young entrepreneurs start businesses by 2028, and her venture capital firm, Dang Capital, has already raised $100,000 USD, but she plans to increase fundraising efforts in order to take the fund to $1 million USD. “When I was 8,” she says, “my mom told me that girls with dreams become women with visions.” Taarini’s vision? “I want to change the world.”
Thanks again for joining me. If you know anyone interested in the latest on women doing #BOSS things in tech, venture and the startup world, be sure to share “The Agenda” with them. See you next week.
You shine, we all shine,
If you are interested in joining the Female Founders Africa WhatsApp group, let me know.
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TBC welcomed Professor David Francis Urrows, Associate Professor of the Department of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Urrows was working on a research project about the history of pipe organ in China, from 1600 to the present. He was investigating existing and ongoing developments in pipe organ construction, installation, and its listening-culture in China as well as the increase in awareness of the instrument and its unique repertory. The research is not restricted to the religious use of pipe organ, and includes also its use in conservatories and concert halls.
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