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A Poltergeist’s “Game” Takes a Dark Turn in the Sinister Short EMMA
@G9Burkart
This inventive short-form frightfest from writer-director Mike Castro has an interesting origin story — it began as an entry in a short film competition coinciding with David F. Sandberg’s hit prequel ANNABELLE: CREATION, but production was delayed in its final days, when an illness suddenly befell lead actress Chelsea Camp.
Fortunately, Camp recovered, and production commenced again — though sadly not in time to meet the submission deadline for the original contest. But Castro saw this as an opportunity to spend more time honing the production and fleshing out the main concept behind EMMA.
The result is a tight, quirky and darkly comic tale depicting a day in the life of Sara Jacobs (Camp), who oddly enjoys “playing” with what seems to be a mischievous entity haunting her new house. But as she soon discovers, the mysterious tenant is playing for keeps.
Watch it below — and pay close attention to the clues:
Here’s a cool footnote: that extra time spent on EMMA ended up paying off in other ways, as it was soon featured on Film Shortage, where it caught the attention of Hollywood producers. Castro is now working out a feature-length version of the main premise, so hopefully we’ll see that project in development in the near future.
You can see more horror, thriller and comedy shorts from Castro and his colleagues on the YouTube channel Journey’s End. They have many more projects in the pipeline, so keep a close watch!
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This 2 Minute Horror Short Will Make You Rethink that Uber Ride!
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The Boparan Charitable Trust » About Us
Set up in 2009, we have undergone massive transformation, priding ourselves on being one of the country’s most efficient charities. Our streamlined application process means that once fully completed applications are received, they are individually reviewed
within a 14 day period, by our specialist board and Trustees, allowing us to reach out to those children most in need of our help and support.
Every family receives a personalized response from the Trust following the outcome of its review. One thing for certain the Boparan Charitable Trust, might be a relatively young charity but with its efficiencies and big heart, we hope to make a difference to children’s lives in the UK.
Antonio Boparan Head Trustee
I set up the charity several years ago with the aim of helping as many children and young people as possible. We have come a long way and I am proud of the work we have achieved. On behalf of the families we’ve helped, thank you. Your support, commitment and compassion for our charity are very much appreciated.
Baljinder Boparan Trustee
As a trustee, I have always wanted to do more than just sit behind a desk. I am passionate about the work of the Trust and take pride in being part of the weekly application review panel. In addition to playing my part towards fundraising for the Trust, completing the Birmingham Half Marathon in 2013 and more recently the Birmingham 10km in 2016 and our very first firewalk.
Professor Sir Keith Porter Trustee
I am both delighted and privileged to be able to accept an invitation to become a Trustee of the Boparan Charitable Trust. There are a considerable number of children and families who have benefited from their prompt response at times of need and crisis and I look forward very much to working with them to promote and expand their scope of work."
Lesley Williams Governance & Applications
I get to see how important our work is for supporting and changing the lives of disadvantaged and disabled children in the UK. We pride ourselves on being there for them at the earliest opportunity, always being available at the end of the phone.
Holly Moulton Events, Online & Social Media
My role is to create and support amazing events and challenges for the Trust. When not in the office you will find me either jumping out of a plane, working on our website or social media sites all in the name of helping to change the lives of some amazing little stars.
Our Volunteering Stars
Alecia Volunteer
Alecia joined us in 2016 on an exchange programme from Canada, she spent time with the events team and also took part in our superhero fundraising abseil.
Hannah Volunteer
Before heading off to University Hannah joined our team for the summer, she went off to exhibitions speaking about the work of the Trust and was also instrumental in the roll out of our CRM System.
Dan Volunteer
Dan, helped with our five a-side football tournament and also assisted our applications manager with processing applications.
Sophie Volunteer
Final year student at Derby University helped with the development of our graphic design team and provided valuable support in creating print collateral for our events.
Jade Volunteer
First year at University and Jade joined us for her placement. Working alongside the events team she got to grips with branding and also print collateral for the Trust.
Volunteering Help Us...
We cannot survive without the amazing support of volunteers, if you could spare a few hours a week. Please get in touch and help us to transform young lives.
The Boparan Charitable Trust.
We are a registered charity in England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland (no 1129992).
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Astronauts sneak space to sip vodka
12th February, 2016 by Arabella Mileham
Astronauts on the International Space Station allegedly have “hidden pockets” inside their space suits that allow them a sneaky sip of vodka after a long day in space.
According to BBC science presenter Dallas Campbell, as reported in the Evening Standard, “thoughtful Russia engineers” have been thought to fill these hidden pockets with “pouches of vodka”. It apparently follows a long tradition of booze on the Mir Space Station, in which Russian cosmonauts would have a bottle of cognac at their disposal, as these were believed to “stimulate the immune system… and keep organs in tone”.
Apparently the policy of prohibition on board the International Space Station, as advocated by Nasa, did not go down well with the Russians, hence the potential for secreting a secret stash in the suit itself.
However, the UK Space Agency (UKSA), which is charting the progress of Britain’s first European Space Agency astronaut Major Tim Peake, who is currently orbiting the earth living and working onboard the International Space Station, apparently told the Evening Standard astronauts are allows to take treats on board – and neat spirits were allowed.
Booze in space has a long tradition – in the 70s, NASA developed packaging for sherry that could go into space (although it never actually made it into orbit) while Islay distillery Ardbeg sent a vial of neat whisky into space in 2011 to test the affect of gravity on maturation. Last August Japanese spirit company Suntory followed the Scotch distillery’s move, sending six of its whiskies to its experiment module on the International Space Station.
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More info on Stellar classification
Secchi classes
Harvard spectral classification
Conventional and apparent colors
Yerkes spectral classification
Spectral types
Class O
Class F
Class G
Class K
Extended spectral types
Hot blue emission star classes
Class W: Wolf-Rayet
Classes OC, ON, BC, BN: Wolf-Rayet related O and B stars
The "Slash" stars
The Magnetic O stars
The "class" OB
Cool red and brown dwarf classes
Class T: methane dwarfs
Class Y
Carbon related late giant star classes
Class C: carbon stars
Classes MS and SC: intermediary carbon related classes
White dwarf classifications
Non-stellar spectral types: Class P & Q
Spectral peculiarities
Photometric classification
Memory-beta
Variable star
List of most luminous stars
List of brightest stars
Planetary nebula
Stellar classification: Wikis
Categories: Stars > Stars by spectral type > Stars by luminosity class > Hertzsprung-Russell classifications > Classification systems
In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure of the temperature in this chromosphere. Light from the star is analysed by splitting it up by a diffraction grating, subdividing the incoming photons into a spectrum exhibiting a rainbow of colors interspersed by absorption lines, each line indicating a certain ion of a certain chemical element. The presence of a certain chemical element in such an absorption spectrum primarily indicates that the temperature conditions is suitable for a certain excitation of this element. If the star temperature have been determined by a majority of absorption lines, unusual absences or strengths of lines for a certain element may indicate an unusual chemical composition of the chromosphere.
Most stars are currently classified using the letters O, B, A, F, G, K and M, where O stars are the hottest and the letter sequence indicates successively cooler stars up to the coolest M class. According to an informal tradition, O stars are "blue", B "blue-white", A stars "white", F stars "yellow-white", G stars "yellow", K stars "orange", and M stars "red", even though the actual star colors perceived by an observer may deviate from these colors depending on visual conditions and individual stars observed. This non-alphabetical scheme has been developed from an earlier scheme using all letters from A to O, but the star classes were reordered to the current one when the connection to the star's temperature became clarified, and a few star classes were omitted as duplicate of others. (The mnemonic "Oh, be a fine girl/guy, kiss me" is sometimes used.)
In the current star classification system, the Morgan-Keenan system, the spectrum letter is enhanced by a number from 0 to 9 indicating tenths of the range between two star classes, so that A5 is five tenths between A0 and F0, but A2 is two tenths of the full range from A0 to F0. Another dimension that is included in the Morgan-Keenan system is the luminosity class expressed by the Roman numbers I, II, III, IV and V, expressing the width of certain absorption lines in the star's spectrum. It has been shown that this feature is a general measure of the size of the star, and thus of the total luminosity output from the star. Class I are generally called supergiants, class III simply giants and class V either dwarfs or more properly main sequence stars. For example our Sun has the spectral type G2V, which might be interpreted as "a 'yellow' two tenths towards 'orange' main sequence star". The apparently brightest star Sirius has type A1V.
1 Secchi classes
2 Harvard spectral classification
2.1 Conventional and apparent colors
3 Yerkes spectral classification
4 Spectral types
4.1 Class O
4.2 Class B
4.3 Class A
4.4 Class F
4.5 Class G
4.6 Class K
4.7 Class M
5 Extended spectral types
5.1 Hot blue emission star classes
5.1.1 Class W: Wolf-Rayet
5.1.2 Classes OC, ON, BC, BN: Wolf-Rayet related O and B stars
5.1.3 The "Slash" stars
5.1.4 The Magnetic O stars
5.1.5 The "class" OB
5.2 Cool red and brown dwarf classes
5.2.1 Class L
5.2.2 Class T: methane dwarfs
5.2.3 Class Y
5.3 Carbon related late giant star classes
5.3.1 Class C: carbon stars
5.3.2 Class S
5.3.3 Classes MS and SC: intermediary carbon related classes
5.4 White dwarf classifications
5.5 Non-stellar spectral types: Class P & Q
6 Spectral peculiarities
7 Photometric classification
During the 1860s and 1870s, pioneering stellar spectroscopist Father Angelo Secchi created the Secchi classes in order to classify observed spectra. By 1866, he had developed three classes of stellar spectra:[1][2][3]
Class I: white and blue stars with broad heavy hydrogen lines, such as Vega and Altair. This includes the modern class A and early class F.
Class I, Orion subtype: a subtype of class I with narrow lines in place of wide bands, such as Rigel and γ Orionis. In modern terms, this corresponds to early B-type stars.
Class II: yellow stars—hydrogen less strong, but evident metallic lines, such as the Sun, Arcturus and Capella. This includes the modern classes G and K as well as late class F.
Class III: orange to red stars with complex band spectra, such as Betelgeuse and Antares. This corresponds to the modern class M.
In 1868, he discovered carbon stars, which he put into a distinct group:[4]
Class IV: red stars with significant carbon bands and lines (carbon stars.)
In 1877, he added a fifth class:[5]
Class V: emission-line stars, such as γ Cassiopeiae and β Lyrae.
In the late 1890s, this classification began to be superseded by the Harvard classification, which is discussed in the remainder of this article.[6][7]
The Harvard classification system is a one-dimensional classification scheme. Stars vary in surface temperature from about 2 to 40 kK (2,000 to 40,000 Kelvin). Physically, the classes indicate the temperature of the star's atmosphere and are normally listed from hottest to coldest, as is done in the following table:
Temperature[8]
(Kelvin)
Conventional color
Apparent color[9][10][11]
Mass[8]
(solar masses)
Radius[8]
(solar radii)
Luminosity[8]
(bolometric)
Fraction of all
main sequence stars[12]
≥ 33,000 K blue blue ≥ 16 M☉ ≥ 6.6 R☉ ≥ 30,000 L☉ Weak ~0.00003%
10,000–30,000 K blue to blue white blue white 2.1–16 M☉ 1.8–6.6 R☉ 25–30,000 L☉ Medium 0.13%
7,500–10,000 K white white to blue white 1.4–2.1 M☉ 1.4–1.8 R☉ 5–25 L☉ Strong 0.6%
6,000–7,500 K yellowish white white 1.04–1.4 M☉ 1.15–1.4 R☉ 1.5–5 L☉ Medium 3%
5,200–6,000 K yellow yellowish white 0.8–1.04 M☉ 0.96–1.15 R☉ 0.6–1.5 L☉ Weak 7.6%
3,700–5,200 K orange yellow orange 0.45–0.8 M☉ 0.7–0.96 R☉ 0.08–0.6 L☉ Very weak 12.1%
≤ 3,700 K red orange red ≤ 0.45 M☉ ≤ 0.7 R☉ ≤ 0.08 L☉ Very weak 76.45%
The mass, radius, and luminosity listed for each class are appropriate only for stars on the main sequence portion of their lives and so are not appropriate for red giants. A popular mnemonic for remembering the order is "Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy, Kiss Me" (there are many variants of this mnemonic). The spectral classes O through M are subdivided by Arabic numerals (0–9). For example, A0 denotes the hottest stars in the A class and A9 denotes the coolest ones. The Sun is classified as G2.
Classifications in the Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra[13][14]
I A, B, C, D Hydrogen lines dominant.
II E, F, G, H, I, K, L
III M
IV N Did not appear in the catalogue.
O Wolf-Rayet spectra with bright lines.
P Planetary nebulae.
Q Other spectra.
The reason for the odd arrangement of letters is historical. An early classification of spectra by Angelo Secchi in the 1860s divided stars into those with prominent lines from the hydrogen Balmer series (group I, with a subtype representing many of the stars in Orion); those with spectra which, like the Sun, showed calcium and sodium lines (group II); colored stars whose spectra showed wide bands (group III); and carbon stars (group IV).[15] In the 1880s, the astronomer Edward C. Pickering began to make a survey of stellar spectra at the Harvard College Observatory, using the objective-prism method. A first result of this work was the Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, published in 1890. Williamina Fleming classified most of the spectra in this catalogue. It used a scheme in which the previously used Secchi classes (I to IV) were divided into more specific classes, given letters from A to N. Also, the letters O, P and Q were used, O for stars whose spectra consisted mainly of bright lines, P for planetary nebulae, and Q for stars not fitting into any other class.[13][14]
In 1897, another worker at Harvard, Antonia Maury, placed the Orion subtype of Secchi class I ahead of the remainder of Secchi class I, thus placing the modern type B ahead of the modern type A. She was the first to do so, although she did not use lettered spectral types, but rather a series of 22 types numbered from I to XXII.[16][17] In 1901, Annie Jump Cannon returned to the lettered types, but dropped all letters except O, B, A, F, G, K, and M, used in that order, as well as P for planetary nebulae and Q for some peculiar spectra. She also used types such as B5A for stars halfway between types B and A, F2G for stars one-fifth of the way from F to G, and so forth.[18][19] Finally, by 1912, Cannon had changed the types B, A, B5A, F2G, etc. to B0, A0, B5, F2, etc.[20][21] This is essentially the modern form of the Harvard classification system.
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram relates stellar classification with absolute magnitude, luminosity, and surface temperature.
The fact that the Harvard classification of a star indicated its surface temperature was not fully understood until after its development. In the 1920s, the Indian physicist Meghnad Saha derived a theory of ionization by extending well-known ideas in physical chemistry pertaining to the dissociation of molecules to the ionization of atoms. First applied to the solar chromosphere, he then applied it to stellar spectra.[22] The Harvard astronomer Cecilia Helena Payne (later to become Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin) then demonstrated that the OBAFGKM spectral sequence is actually a sequence in temperature.[23] Because the classification sequence predates our understanding that it is a temperature sequence, the placement of a spectrum into a given subtype, such as B3 or A7, depends upon (largely subjective) estimates of the strengths of absorption features in stellar spectra. As a result, these subtypes are not evenly divided into any sort of mathematically representable intervals.
O, B, and A stars are sometimes misleadingly called "early type", while K and M stars are said to be "late type". This stems from a early 20th century model of stellar evolution in which stars were powered by gravitational contraction via the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism in which stars start their lives as very hot "early type" stars, and then gradually cool down, thereby evolving into "late type" stars. This mechanism provided ages of the sun that were much smaller than what is observed, and was rendered obsolete by the discovery that stars are powered by nuclear fusion. However, brown dwarfs, whose energy comes from gravitational attraction alone, cool as they age and so progress to later spectral types. The highest mass brown dwarfs start their lives with M-type spectra and will cool through the L, T, and Y spectral classes.
The conventional color descriptions are traditional in astronomy, and represent colors relative to the mean color of an A class star which is considered to be white. The Apparent color[9] descriptions is what the observer would see if trying to describe the stars under a dark sky without aid to the eye, or with binoculars. The table colors used are D65 standard colors, which is what you would see if the star light would be intensely magnified and projected onto a white paper, then observed in ordinary daylight.[24] Most stars in the sky, except the brightest ones, appear white or bluish white to the unaided eye because they are too dim for color vision to work.
Our Sun itself is white. It is sometimes called a yellow star (spectroscopically, relative to Vega), and may appear yellow or red (viewed through the atmosphere), or appear white (viewed when too bright for the eye to see any color). Astronomy images often use a variety of exaggerated colors (partially founded in faint light conditions observations, partially in conventions). But the Sun's own intrinsic color is white (aside from sunspots), with no trace of color, and closely approximates a black body of 5780 K (see color temperature). This is a natural consequence of the evolution of our optical senses: the response curve that maximizes the overall efficiency against solar illumination will by definition perceive the Sun as white. The sun is known as a G type star.
The Yerkes spectral classification, also called the MKK system from the authors' initials, is a system of stellar spectral classification introduced in 1943 by William Wilson Morgan, Phillip C. Keenan and Edith Kellman from Yerkes Observatory.[25] This two-dimensional (temperature and luminosity) classification scheme is based on spectral lines sensitive to stellar temperature and surface gravity which is related to luminosity (whilst the Harvard classification is based on surface temperature only!). Later, in 1953, after some revisions of list of standard stars and classification criteria, the scheme was named MK (by William Wilson Morgan and Phillip C. Keenan initials).[26]
Since the radius of a giant star is much larger than a dwarf star while their masses are roughly comparable, the gravity and thus the gas density and pressure on the surface of a giant star are much lower than for a dwarf. These differences manifest themselves in the form of luminosity effects which affect both the width and the intensity of spectral lines which can then be measured. Denser stars with higher surface gravity will exhibit greater pressure broadening of spectral lines.
A number of different luminosity classes are distinguished:
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Brown dwarfs
White dwarfs
Red dwarfs
Subdwarfs
("dwarfs")
Subgiants
Bright Giants
Supergiants
Hypergiants
magni-
tude
(MV)
0 hypergiants
I supergiants
Ia-0 (hypergiants or extremely luminous supergiants (later addition)), Example: Eta Carinae (spectrum-peculiar)
Ia (luminous supergiants), Example: Deneb (spectrum is A2Ia)
Iab (intermediate luminous supergiants)
Ib (less luminous supergiants), Example: Betelgeuse (spectrum is M2Ib)
II bright giants
IIa, Example: β Scuti (HD 173764) (spectrum is G4 IIa)
IIab Example: HR 8752 (spectrum is G0Iab:)
IIb, Example: HR 6902 (spectrum is G9 IIb)
III normal giants
IIIa, Example: ρ Persei (spectrum is M4 IIIa)
IIIab Example: δ Reticuli (spectrum is M2 IIIab)
IIIb, Example: Pollux (spectrum is K2 IIIb)
IV subgiants
IVa, Example: ε Reticuli (spectrum is K1-2 IVa-III)
IVb, Example: HR 672 A (spectrum is G0.5 IVb)
V main sequence stars (dwarfs)
Va, Example: AD Leonis (spectrum M4Vae)
Vab[27]
Vb, Example: 85 Pegasi A (spectrum G5 Vb)
"Vz", Example: LH10 : 3102 (spectrum O7 Vz), located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.[28]
VI subdwarfs. Subdwarfs are general represented with a prescript of sd or esd (extreme subdwarf) in front of the spectra.
sd, Example: SSSPM J1930-4311 (spectrum sdM7)
esd, Example: APMPM J0559-2903 (spectrum esdM7)
VII white dwarfs. White dwarfs are represented with a prescript wD or WD.
SB, SB1, and SB2. These classes does not indicate luminosity class, but points to the object being a spectroscopic binary. Where SB is for spectroscopic binary, SB1 is a single-lined spectroscopic binary, and SB2 is a double-line spectroscopic binary.
Marginal cases are allowed; for instance a star classified as Ia0-Ia would be a very luminous supergiant, verging on hypergiant. Examples are below. The spectral type of the star is not a factor.
Marginal Symbols
G2 I-II The star is between super giant and bright giant.
O9.5 Ia+ The star is a hypergiant star.
M2 IV/V The star is either a subgiant or a dwarf star.
The following illustration represents star classes with the colors very close to those actually perceived by the human eye. The relative sizes are for main sequence or "dwarf" stars.
The Morgan-Keenan spectral classification
Main article: O-type main sequence star
Class O stars are very hot and very luminous, being bluish in color; in fact, most of their output is in the ultraviolet range. These are the rarest of all main sequence stars. About 1 in 3,000,000 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class O stars.[nb 1][12] Some of the most massive stars lie within this spectral class. Type-O stars are so hot as to have complicated surroundings which make measurement of their spectra difficult.
O-stars shine with a power over a million times our Sun's output. These stars have dominant lines of absorption and sometimes emission for He II lines, prominent ionized (Si IV, O III, N III, and C III) and neutral helium lines, strengthening from O5 to O9, and prominent hydrogen Balmer lines, although not as strong as in later types. Because they are so massive, class O stars have very hot cores, thus burn through their hydrogen fuel very quickly, and so are the first stars to leave the main sequence. Recent observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that planetary formation does not occur around other stars in the vicinity of an O class star due to the photoevaporation effect.[29]
When the MKK classification scheme was first described in 1943, the only subtypes of class O used were O5 to O9.5.[30] The MKK scheme was extended to O4 in 1978,[31] and new classification schemes have subsequently been introduced which add types O2, O3 and O3.5. O3 stars are the hottest stars.[32]
Examples: Zeta Orionis, Zeta Puppis, Lambda Orionis, Delta Orionis, Theta¹ Orionis C, HD 93129A
Main article: B-type main sequence star
The Pleiades open star cluster with many bright B stars
Class B stars are extremely luminous and blue. Their spectra have neutral helium, which are most prominent at the B2 subclass, and moderate hydrogen lines. Ionized metal lines include Mg II and Si II. As O and B stars are so powerful, they only live for a very short time, and thus they do not stray far from the area in which they were formed. These stars tend to cluster together in what are called OB associations, which are associated with giant molecular clouds. The Orion OB1 association occupies a large portion of a spiral arm of our galaxy and contains many of the brighter stars of the constellation Orion. About 1 in 800 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class B stars.[nb 1][12].
Examples: Rigel, Spica, the brighter Pleiades, VV Cephei B, Algol A
Main article: A-type main sequence star
Class A stars are amongst the more common naked eye stars, and are white or bluish-white. They have strong hydrogen lines, at a maximum by A0, and also lines of ionized metals (Fe II, Mg II, Si II) at a maximum at A5. The presence of Ca II lines is notably strengthening by this point. About 1 in 160 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class A stars.[nb 1][12]
Examples: Sirius, Deneb, Altair, Vega
Main article: F-type main sequence star
Class F stars have strengthening H and K lines of Ca II. Neutral metals (Fe I, Cr I) beginning to gain on ionized metal lines by late F. Their spectra are characterized by the weaker hydrogen lines and ionized metals. Their color is white. About 1 in 33 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class F stars.[nb 1][12]
Examples: Alrakis, Canopus, Procyon
Main article: G-type main sequence star
The most important class G star to humanity: our Sun. The dark area visible in the lower left is a large sunspot.
Class G stars are probably the best known, if only for the reason that our Sun is of this class. About 1 in 13 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class G stars.[nb 1][12]
Most notable are the H and K lines of Ca II, which are most prominent at G2. They have even weaker hydrogen lines than F, but along with the ionized metals, they have neutral metals. There is a prominent spike in the G band of CH molecules. G is host to the "Yellow Evolutionary Void".[33] Supergiant stars often swing between O or B (blue) and K or M (red). While they do this, they do not stay for long in the G classification as this is an extremely unstable place for a supergiant to be.
Examples: Sun, Alpha Centauri A, Capella, Tau Ceti
Main article: K-type main sequence star
Class K are orangish stars which are slightly cooler than our Sun. Some K stars are giants and supergiants, such as Arcturus, while orange dwarfs, like Alpha Centauri B, are main sequence stars. They have extremely weak hydrogen lines, if they are present at all, and mostly neutral metals (Mn I, Fe I, Si I). By late K, molecular bands of titanium oxide become present. About 1 in 8 of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class K stars.[nb 1][12] There is a suggestion that K Spectrum stars are very well suited for life.[34]
Examples: Alpha Centauri B, Epsilon Eridani, Arcturus, Aldebaran, Algol B
Main articles: Red giant and Red dwarf
Betelgeuse is a red supergiant, one of the largest stars known. Image from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Class M is by far the most common class. About 76% of the main sequence stars in the solar neighborhood are Class M stars.[nb 1][nb 2][12]
Although most Class M stars are red dwarfs, the class also hosts most giants and some supergiants such as Antares and Betelgeuse, as well as Mira variables. The late-M group holds hotter brown dwarfs that are above the L spectrum. This is usually in the range of M6.5 to M9.5. The spectrum of an M star shows lines belonging to molecules and all neutral metals but hydrogen lines are usually absent. Titanium oxide can be strong in M stars, usually dominating by about M5. Vanadium oxide bands become present by late M.
Examples: Betelgeuse, Antares (supergiants)
Examples: Proxima Centauri, Barnard's star, Gliese 581 (red dwarf)
Examples: LEHPM 2-59 [35], SSSPM J1930-4311 (subdwarf)
Example: APMPM J0559-2903 (extreme subdwarf)
Examples: Teide 1 (field brown dwarf), GSC 08047-00232 B [36] (companion brown dwarf)
A number of new spectral types have been taken into use from newly discovered types of stars.
Spectra of some very hot and bluish stars exhibit marked emission lines from carbon or nitrogen, or sometimes oxygen.
Main article: Wolf-Rayet star
Artist's impression of a Wolf-Rayet star
Class W or WR represents the superluminous Wolf-Rayet stars, notably unusual since they have mostly helium in their atmospheres instead of hydrogen. They are thought to be dying supergiants with their hydrogen layer blown away by hot stellar winds caused by their high temperatures, thereby directly exposing their hot helium shell. Class W is subdivided into subclasses WN (WNE early-type, WNL late-type) and WC (WCE early-type, WCL late-type, and extend class WO), according to the dominance of nitrogen and carbon emission lines in their spectra (and outer layers).[37]
WR spectra range is listed below:
WN[37]
WNE (WN2 to WN5 with some WN6)
WNL (WN7 to WN9 with some WN6)
Extended WN class (WN10 to WN11), was created to encompass the Ofpe/WN9 stars.[37]
WN/C, and intermediate class between the nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich WR stars.[37]
WC[37]
WCE (WC4 to WC6)
WCL (WC7 to WC9)
WO (WO1 to WO4)
W: Up to 70,000 K
Example: WR124 (WN)
Example: Gamma Velorum A (WC)
Example: WR93B (WO)
Intermediary between the genuine Wolf-Rayets and ordinary hot stars of classes O and early B, there are OC, ON, BC and BN stars. They seem to constitute a short continuum from the Wolf-Rayets into the ordinary OBs.
Example: HD 152249 (OC)
Example: HD 105056 (ON)
Example: HD 2905 (BC)
Example: HD 163181 (BN)
The slash stars are stars with O-type spectra and WN sequence in their spectra. The name slash comes from their spectra having a slash.
Example spectra: Of/WNL[28]
There is a secondary group found with this spectra, a cooler, "intermediate" group. They are found in the Large Magellanic Cloud and have a designation of Ofpe/WN9.[28]
They are O stars with strong magnetic fields. Designation is Of?p[28]
Main article: OB star
In lists of spectra, the "spectrum OB" may occur. This is in fact not a spectrum, but a marker which means that "the spectrum of this star is unknown, but it belongs to an OB association, so probably either a class O or class B star, or perhaps a fairly hot class A star."
The novel spectral types L and T were created to classify infrared spectra of cool stars. This included both red dwarfs and brown dwarfs which are very faint in the visual spectrum. The hypothetical spectral type Y has been reserved for objects cooler than T dwarfs which have spectra that are qualitatively distinct from T dwarfs.[38]
Artists vision of an L-dwarf
Class L dwarfs get their designation because they are cooler than M stars and L is the remaining letter alphabetically closest to M. L does not mean lithium dwarf; a large fraction of these stars do not have lithium in their spectra. Some of these objects have masses large enough to support hydrogen fusion, but some are of substellar mass and do not, so collectively these objects should be referred to as L dwarfs, not L stars. They are a very dark red in color and brightest in infrared. Their atmosphere is cool enough to allow metal hydrides and alkali metals to be prominent in their spectra.[39][40] Due to low gravities in giant stars, TiO- and VO-bearing condensates never form. Thus, larger L-type stars can never form in an isolated environment. It may be possible for these L-type supergiants to form through stellar collisions, however, an example of which is V838 Monocerotis.
L: 1,300–2,000 K, dwarfs (some stellar, some substellar) with metal hydrides and alkali metals prominent in their spectra.
Example: VW Hyi
Example: 2MASSW J0746425+2000321 binary[41]
Component A is an L dwarf star
Component B is an L brown dwarf
Example: LSR 1610-0040 (subdwarf)[42]
Example: V838 Monocerotis (supergiants)
Artists vision of a T-dwarf
Class T dwarfs are cool brown dwarfs with surface temperatures of between approximately 700 and 1,300 K. Their emission peaks in the infrared. Methane is prominent in their spectra.[39][40]
T: ~700-1,300 K, cooler brown dwarfs with methane in the spectrum
Examples: SIMP 0136 (the brightest T dwarf discovered in northern hemisphere)[43]
Examples: Epsilon Indi Ba & Epsilon Indi Bb
Class T and L could be more common than all the other classes combined if recent research is accurate. From studying the number of proplyds (protoplanetary discs, clumps of gas in nebulae from which stars and solar systems are formed) then the number of stars in the galaxy should be several orders of magnitude higher than what we know about. It is theorized that these proplyds are in a race with each other. The first one to form will become a proto-star, which are very violent objects and will disrupt other proplyds in the vicinity, stripping them of their gas. The victim proplyds will then probably go on to become main sequence stars or brown dwarf stars of the L and T classes, but quite invisible to us. Since they live so long, these smaller stars will accumulate over time.
See also: Sub-brown dwarf
The spectral class Y has been proposed for brown dwarfs that are cooler than T dwarfs and have qualitatively different spectra from them. Although such dwarfs have been modelled[44], there is no well-defined spectral sequence yet with prototypes, and no certain example of class Y has yet been seen.[45]
Y: < 600 K, ultra-cool brown dwarfs (theoretical)
As of early 2009, the coolest known brown dwarfs have estimated effective temperatures between 500 and 600 K, and have been assigned the spectral class T9. Three examples are the brown dwarfs CFBDS J005910.90-011401.3, ULAS J133553.45+113005.2, and ULAS J003402.77−005206.7.[46] The spectra of these objects display absorption around 1.55 micrometers.[46] Delorme et al. has suggested that this feature is due to absorption from ammonia and that this should be taken as indicating the T-Y transition, making these objects of type Y0.[46][47] However, the feature is difficult to distinguish from absorption by water and methane,[46] and other authors have stated that the assignment of class Y0 is premature.[48]
Carbon related stars are stars whose spectra indicate production of carbon by helium triple-alpha fusion. With increased carbon abundance, and some parallel s-process heavy element production, the spectra of these stars are becoming increasingly deviant from the usual late spectral classes G, K and M. The giants among those stars are presumed to produce this carbon themselves, but not too few of this class of stars are believed to be double stars whose odd atmosphere once was transferred from a former carbon star companion that is now a white dwarf.
Main article: Carbon star
Originally classified as R and N stars, these are also known as 'carbon stars'. These are red giants, near the end of their lives, in which there is an excess of carbon in the atmosphere. The old R and N classes ran parallel to the normal classification system from roughly mid G to late M. These have more recently been remapped into a unified carbon classifier C, with N0 starting at roughly C6. Another subset of cool carbon stars are the J-type stars, which are characterized by the strong presence of molecules of 13CN in addition to those of 12CN.[49] A few dwarf (that is, main sequence) carbon stars are known, but the overwhelming majority of known carbon stars are giants or supergiants.
C: Carbon stars, e.g. R CMi
C-R: Formerly a class on its own representing the carbon star equivalent of late G to early K stars. Example: S Camelopardalis
C-N: Formerly a class on its own representing the carbon star equivalent of late K to M stars. Example: R Leporis
C-J: A subtype of cool C stars with a high content of 13C. Example: Y Canum Venaticorum
C-H: Population II analogues of the C-R stars. Examples: V Ari, TT CVn[50]
C-Hd: Hydrogen-Deficient Carbon Stars, similar to late G supergiants with CH and C2 bands added. Example: HD 137613
Main article: S-type star
Class S stars have zirconium oxide lines in addition to (or, rarely, instead of) those of titanium oxide, and are in between the Class M stars and the carbon stars.[51] S stars have excess amounts of zirconium and other elements produced by the s-process, and have their carbon and oxygen abundances closer to equal than is the case for M stars. The latter condition results in both carbon and oxygen being locked up almost entirely in carbon monoxide molecules. For stars cool enough for carbon monoxide to form that molecule tends to "eat up" all of whichever element is less abundant, resulting in "leftover oxygen" (which becomes available to form titanium oxide) in stars of normal composition, "leftover carbon" (which becomes available to form the diatomic carbon molecules) in carbon stars, and "leftover nothing" in the S stars. The relation between these stars and the ordinary M stars indicates a continuum of carbon abundance. Like carbon stars, nearly all known S stars are giants or supergiants.
Examples: S Ursae Majoris, HR 1105
In between the M class and the S class, border cases are named MS stars. In a similar way border cases between the S class and the C-N class are named SC or CS. The sequence M → MS → S → SC → C-N is believed to be a sequence of increased carbon abundance with age for carbon stars in the asymptotic giant branch.
Examples: R Serpentis, ST Monocerotis (MS)
Examples: CY Cygni, BH Crucis (SC)
Main article: White dwarf spectroscopy
Sirius A and B (a white dwarf of type DA2) resolved by HST
The class D is the modern classification used for white dwarfs, low-mass stars that are no longer undergoing nuclear fusion and have shrunk to planetary size, slowly cooling down. Class D is further divided into spectral types DA, DB, DC, DO, DQ, DX, and DZ. The letters are not related to the letters used in the classification of other stars, but instead indicate the composition of the white dwarf's visible outer layer or atmosphere.
Examples: Sirius B (DA2), Procyon B (DA4), Van Maanen's star (DZ7)[52], Table 1
The white dwarf types are as follows:[53]
DA: a hydrogen-rich atmosphere or outer layer, indicated by strong Balmer hydrogen spectral lines.
DB: a helium-rich atmosphere, indicated by neutral helium, He I, spectral lines.
DO: a helium-rich atmosphere, indicated by ionized helium, He II, spectral lines.
DQ: a carbon-rich atmosphere, indicated by atomic or molecular carbon lines.
DZ: a metal-rich atmosphere, indicated by metal spectral lines (a merger of the obsolete white dwarf spectral types, DG, DK and DM).
DC: no strong spectral lines indicating one of the above categories.
DX: spectral lines are insufficiently clear to classify into one of the above categories.
The type is followed by a number giving the white dwarf's surface temperature. This number is a rounded form of 50400/Teff, where Teff is the effective surface temperature, measured in kelvins. Originally, this number was rounded to one of the digits 1 through 9, but more recently fractional values have started to be used, as well as values below 1 and above 9.[53][54]
Two or more of the type letters may be used to indicate a white dwarf which displays more than one of the spectral features above. Also, the letter V is used to indicate a variable white dwarf.[53]
Extended white dwarf spectral types:[53]
DAB: a hydrogen- and helium-rich white dwarf displaying neutral helium lines.
DAO: a hydrogen- and helium-rich white dwarf displaying ionized helium lines.
DAZ: a hydrogen-rich metallic white dwarf.
DBZ: a helium-rich metallic white dwarf.
Variable star designations:
DAV or ZZ Ceti: a hydrogen-rich pulsating white dwarf.[55], pp. 891, 895
DBV or V777 Her: a helium-rich pulsating white dwarf.[56], p. 3525
GW Vir, sometimes divided into DOV and PNNV: a hot helium-rich pulsating white dwarf (or pre-white dwarf.)[57], §1.1, 1.2;[58][59] These stars are generally PG 1159 stars, although some authors also include non-PG 1159 stars in this class.[57][60]
Finally, the classes P and Q are occasionally used for certain non-stellar objects. Type P objects are planetary nebulae and type Q objects are novae.
Additional nomenclature, in the form of lower-case letters, can follow the spectral type to indicate peculiar features of the spectrum.[61]
Spectral peculiarities for stars
Blending and/or uncertain spectral value
Undescribed spectral peculiarities exist
Special peculiarity
Composite spectrum
Emission lines present
"Forbidden" emission lines present
"Reversed" center of emission lines weaker than edges
Emission lines with peculiarity
Emission lines with P Cygni profile
Spectral emission that exhibits variability
NIII and HeII emission (for element name followed by roman numeral see spectral line)
f*
NIV λ4058Å is stronger than the NIII λ4634Å, λ4640Å, & λ4642Å lines[62]
SiIV λ4089Å & λ4116Å are emission in addition to the NIII line[62]
Weak emission lines of He
((f))
Displays strong HeII absorption accompanied by weak NIII emissions[63]
((f*))
((f+))
WR stars with emission lines due to hydrogen.[37]
WR stars with hydrogen emissions seen on both absorption and emission.[37]
He wk
Weak He lines
Spectra with interstellar absorption features
Enhanced metal features
Broad ("nebulous") absorption due to spinning
Very broad absorption features due to spinning very fast
A nebula's spectrum mixed in
Unspecified peculiarity, peculiar star.
Peculiar spectrum, similar to the spectra of novae
Red & blue shifts line present
Narrowly "sharp" absorption lines
Very narrow lines
Shell star features
Variable spectral feature (also "var")
Weak lines (also "wl" & "wk")
d Del
Type A and F giants with weak calcium H and K lines, as in prototype Delta Delphini
d Sct
Type A and F stars with spectra similar to that of short-period variable Delta Scuti
If spectrum shows enhanced metal features
Abnormally strong Barium
Abnormally strong Calcium
Abnormally strong Chromium
Abnormally strong Europium
Abnormally strong Helium
Abnormally strong Mercury
Abnormally strong Manganese
Abnormally strong Silicon
Abnormally strong Strontium
Abnormally strong Technetium
Spectral peculiarities for white dwarfs
Uncertain assigned classification
Magnetic white dwarf with detectable polarization
Magnetic white dwarf without detectable polarization
Spectral peculiarities exist
For example, Epsilon Ursae Majoris is listed as spectral type A0pCr, indicating general classification A0 with strong emission lines of the element chromium. There are several common classes of chemically peculiar stars, where the spectral lines of a number of elements appear abnormally strong.
Stars can also be classified using photometric data from any photometric system. For example, we can calibrate color index diagrams of U−B and B−V in the UBV system according to spectral and luminosity classes. Nevertheless, this calibration is not straightforward, because many effects are superimposed in such diagrams: interstellar reddening, color changes due to metallicity, and the blending of light from binary and multiple stars.
Photometric systems with more colors and narrower passbands allow a star's class, and hence physical parameters, to be determined more precisely. The most accurate determination comes of course from spectral measurements, but there is not always enough time to get qualitative spectra with high signal-to-noise ratio.
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^ Revised MK Spectral Atlas for Stars Earlier than the Sun, W. W. Morgan, H. A. Abt, and J. W. Tapscott, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago and Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1978.
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^ Checking the yellow evolutionary void. Three evolutionary critical Hypergiants: HD 33579, HR 8752 & IRC +10420
^ http://spacefellowship.com/2009/08/10/on-a-cosmological-timescale-the-earths-period-of-habitability-is-nearly-over/
^ Optical Spectroscopy of 2MASS Color-Selected Ultracool Subdwarfs, Adam J. Burgasser et al., 2006
^ Astrometric and Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Brown Dwarf Companion to GSC 08047-00232, G. Chauvin et al., 2004
^ a b c d e f g Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars, Crowther, Paul A., 2007
^ Outstanding Issues in Our Understanding of L, T, and Y Dwarfs, J. D. Kirkpatrick, April 2007, arXiv:0704.1522. Accessed on line September 18, 2007.
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The Close DAO+dM Binary RE J0720-318: A Stratified White Dwarf with a Thin H Layer and a Possible Circumbinary Disk DAO type White Dwarf.
The Spatial Distribution and Kinematics of Cool Metallic Line White Dwarfs, has DAZ and DBZ spectrums
A K-Band Spectral Atlas of Wolf-Rayet Stars, has WC, WN, and WO spectrums
Properties of the WO Wolf-Rayet stars, has WO spectrum ranging from WO1 to WO5
Spectral Types for Hipparcos Catalogue Entries
[1], has the luminous subclasses.
Discovery of a Very Young Field L Dwarf, 2MASS J01415823-4633574, J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al.
Stellar Spectral Classification, Richard O. Gray and Christopher J. Corbally
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In astronomy, stellar classification is a way of grouping stars by temperature. Star temperature can be measured by looking at its spectrum, the type of light that the star shines.
Stars are also grouped into spectral types or classes by color. In general, a star's temperature determines its color, from red to blue-white. Spectral types are named with a letter: M, K, G, F, A, B and O. M stars are the coldest stars and O stars are the hottest.
The closest star to the Earth, the sun, is a class G star.
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Classification of Stellar Spectra: Some History
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''Stellar Atmospheres; A Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperature in the Reversing Layers of Stars'' - Stellar Atmospheres; a Contribution to the Observational Study of High Temperatu
Outstanding Issues in Our Understanding of L, T, and Y Dwarfs - Outstanding Issues in Our Understanding of L, T, and Y Dwarfs
Detection of non-radial g-mode pulsations in the newly discovered PG 1159 star HE 1429-1209 - Detection of non-radial g-mode pulsations in the newly discovered PG 1159 star H
Mapping the Instability Domains of GW Vir Stars in the Effective Temperature-Surface Gravity Diagram - Mapping the Instability Domains of GW Vir Stars in the Effective Temperature-Sur
A Determination of the Local Density of White Dwarf Stars - A Determination of the Local Density of White Dwarf Stars
Physics of white dwarf stars - REVIEW: Physics of white dwarf stars
A proposed new white dwarf spectral classification system - A proposed new white dwarf spectral classification system
A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs - A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs
The Extent and Cause of the Pre-White Dwarf Instability Strip - The Extent and Cause of the Pre-White Dwarf Instability Strip
The Colour of Stars - Colour of Stars
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Development Update: Week of June 25-29
Updates include: Recasting bug hits "Life Is Wild," "Moonlight," "Private Practice" and "Reaper," ABC keeps "Football Wives" warm, Jason O'Mara to topline ABC's "Life on Mars" import plus the usual mix of casting news.
Cable Ratings Round-Up (Week of June 18-24): TNT's 'Closer' Opens on Top
Plus: the second weeks of ABC Family's "Kyle XY," FX's "Rescue Me," HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" and "Big Love" fall from their respective openers.
MTV Introduces WannabemadE.com, Giving Viewers the Tools to Embark on Their Own Personal Development Journeys
The new season of MTV's "Made" will premiere on Saturday, June 30th beginning at 12pm ET/PT with a special three hour event.
BET Networks' 'July Jump Off' Is Blazing Hot with Five New Original Shows
The newcomers include "Hell Date," "Take the Cake," "Baldwin Hills," "Socially Offensive Behavior (S.O.B)" and "Hot Ghetto Mess."
Jessi Peralta and Jesús Solorio Are Eliminated on "So You Think You Can Dance"
FOX details the latest "So You Think You Can Dance" elimination.
Fallen Returns to ABC Family for a Special Television Event Beginning Friday, August 3
"Fallen" will return to ABC Family for a "Fallen Trilogy Weekend" on August 3 thru 5, 2007, beginning with the encore presentation of Part One.
Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached - Live, Extended and Uncensored DVD Goes Platinum! Marks Comedy Central Home Entertainment's(R) First Platinum Award for Stand-Up DVD Release
This is the first time a stand-up DVD release from COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment has been certified platinum.
Dotcomedy Launches 'Viewer-Made' Videos
In addition, the site also now features code that allows visitors to embed all original DotComedy videos and all user-generated content on their blogs, profiles and personal websites.
Bravo's New Docu-Series "Welcome to the Parker" Turns Spotlight on Five-Star Celebrity Haven -- the Parker Palm Springs Resort, Premiering July 26 at 11 PM ET/PT
Each one-hour episode follows the "inherent drama, exhausting lives and complicated relationships between the top-notch hotel staff and their exacting and sometimes very particular guests."
'Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane' Follows the High-End, High-Octane Life of Mogul, Model, Mom - Kimora Lee Simmons
Style's new reality series "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane" will premiere with a special one-hour episode on Sunday, August 5 at 8:00/7:00c.
According to Jim Picked Up for a Seventh Season on the ABC Television Network
"This season will top all the rest," said co-star Jim Belushi. I'm thrilled to continue this seventh season with these extended families."
Bravo's Docu-Drama "Flipping Out" Delves Into High Stakes, High Drama World of Colorful Los Angeles Home Flipping Premieres, Tuesday, July 31st at 10pm ET/PT
The series follows the antics of one of Los Angeles' most colorful real estate speculators, Jeff Lewis.
CBS Reveals the Identities of the 14 New Houseguests Competing in "Big Brother 8"
On premiere night, the houseguests will learn that "some of them will be sharing the house with an enemy, a rival or someone with whom they have unfinished business -- in short, someone from their past who they had hoped never to see again or someone with whom there is an extreme amount of tension."
The Futon's First Look: "Skip Tracer" (CBS)
The Futon's First Look: "Cane" (CBS)
Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina and Michael Keaton Lead International Cast in TNT's Gripping, High-Powered Cia Drama the Company, Three-Week Television Event Premiering August 5
Directed by Emmy-winner Mikael Salomon and adapted by Ken Nolan from the best-selling historical novel by Robert Littell, the mini-series follows "a game played over four decades, from the rainy streets of Berlin to the shores of Cuba, from secret revolutionary gatherings in Budapest to high-level meetings in the halls of Washington and Moscow."
A Faux Psychic Detective and His Straight - Laced Best Friend and Partner Solve Crimes for Cash in the Hilarious Hit USA Network Series Starring James Roday and Dulé Hill
Bonus features for "Psych's" first season DVD set include a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes, a blooper reel and exclusive character profiles.
Comedy Central(R) and CTV Deal for Laughs with Multi-Platform Content Deal for Comedy Central's Program Library
The deal provides CTV access to all Comedy Central programming, featuring more than 200 hours of current series, including full episodes of its hit originals.
Sleuth Turns Up the Heat This July with Action, Adventure, and Big Laughs
Sleuth details its July programming highlights.
Choose Horror Over Hawaii for a Killer Chiller Summer!
Chiller details its July programming highlights.
Suzanne Patmore-Gibbs Promoted to Executive Vice President, Drama Development, ABC Entertainment
Ms. Patmore-Gibbs has served as senior vice president, Drama Development, ABC Entertainment, since June 2004.
Quick Take for Tuesday, June 26, 2007 - (Based on Fast Affiliate Ratings)
ABC spins the numbers for Tuesday, June 26.
Espn, ABC and Nba Expand Relationship in Eight-Year Agreement
Under the terms of the new deal, the NBA will deliver content for 17 ESPN platforms, including: ABC, ABC HD, ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN2, ESPN2 HD, ESPNEWS, ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes, ESPN International, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com, ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile Publishing, ESPN Mobile TV, ESPNU and ESPN podcasts.
A&E Real Life Series - the First 48 & Swat Return for Sixth and Third Seasons Respectively
Season six of "The First 48" and season three of the "SWAT" franchise will both premiere on Thursday, July 12th at 9:00PM and 10:00PM ET/PT respectively.
Molly Shannon ('Year of the Dog,' 'Saturday Night Live') to Star in the Lifetime Original Movie 'More of Me,' the Quirky Tale of a Woman Who Discovers a Unique Way of Coping with the Stress and Demands of Modern Life
The original movie, due this fall, is "a whimsical, lighthearted and touching comedy about an overworked and overextended wife, mom and career woman who splits into three separate versions of herself with distinct personalities in order to manage her chaotic life."
Fashion Rocks, an Entertainment Special Celebrating the Best in Fashion and Music, Will Be Broadcast Friday, SepT. 7 on the CBS Television Network
Jeremy Piven hosts the special, which will include performances by Aerosmith, Alicia Keys, Avril Lavigne, Carrie Underwood, Fall Out Boy, Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Ludacris, Martina McBride, Santana and Usher.
Who Cares About Girls: Slave Girls of India Premieres as Highest Rated News Documentary Special in Oxygen History
Oxygen spins the numbers for Sunday, June 24.
Oxygen Launches "Create-A-Series Comedy Competition"
"SNL" vet Molly Shannon will judge the contest, the winner of which will get ten to thirteen episodes, three to five minutes in length, that will air on SheDidWhat.tv.
Spielberg on Spielberg Premieres on Tcm Monday, July 9
The 90-minute special, which features exclusive and detailed interviews with arguably the most popular and influential director of his time, is produced by Richard Schickel, who created similar programs on Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese.
Disney Channel Rates as the No. 1 Basic Cable Network in Total Day in Tweens 9-14 for the Fourth Week Running
The Disney Channel spins the numbers for the week of June 18-24.
'Army Wives,' Most-Watched Series in Lifetime Television's 23-Year History, Now the Year's #1 New Cable Drama Dominating Households, W18-34, W18-49 and W25-54
Lifetime spins the numbers for Sunday, June 24 and Monday, June 25.
The Futon's First Look: "Football Wives" (ABC)
The Futon's First Look: "Cashmere Mafia" (ABC)
Stargate Sg-1's Series Finale Triumphs
Sci Fi spins the numbers for Friday, June 22.
We TV's Bridezillas Scores All Time Highest Rated We TV Original Telecast in Network History
WE: Women's Entertainment spins the numbers for Sunday, June 24.
'America's Got Talent' and 'Dateline NBC' Are the #1 and #2 Shows of the Week, as NBC Finishes #2 for the Week in 18-49 and Total Viewers
NBC spins the numbers for the week of June 18-24.
CBS Wins Its Fourth Consecutive Summer Week in Viewers
CBS spins the numbers for the week of June 18-24.
Primetime Ratings Report for the Week of June 18, 2007
ABC spins the numbers for the week of June 18-24.
Media Alert: Date Change for TNT's Saving Grace
The Holly Hunter-led newcomer will now follow "The Closer" at 10:00/9:00c starting July 23, shifting "Heartland" to 8:00/7:00c that same night.
Adult Swim Expands Programming to Seven Nights a Week Starting Friday, July 6
To kick off Adult Swim's first Friday ever, the network will run a "Family Guy" marathon, 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. (ET, PT).
TBS to Bring New Definition to Comedy with TBS in Hd
The channel, due to launch on Sunday, September 1, will simulcast the east coast feed in high definition.
Directors Mark Waters and Eli Roth to Serve as Guest Judges "On the Lot"
Waters will guest on the Tuesday, June 26 episode, which will spotlight six comedy short films; and Roth will guest on the Tuesday, July 3 episode, which will spotlight six horror-themed films.
AMC Expands Mad Men Offering with Exclusive Multiplatform Access
The network will offer all of its episodes On Demand in both SD and HD format the day after it premieres on linear, and will feature exclusive content on Broadband including exclusive outtakes, interviews with the cast and crew and behind-the-scenes snippets.
Fresh Air and Big Laughs Collide with "Comedy Central Park Friday Night Stand-Up" Premiering Friday, July 6 at 9:30 P.M. on Comedy Central(R)
Tune in at 9:30 p.m. for "COMEDY CENTRAL Presents Greg Giraldo," followed by "Dave Attell Insomniac Tour Featuring Sean Rouse, Greg Giraldo and Dane Cook" at 10:00 p.m.
New Zealand Funny Folk Land at Comedy Central(R) the Network Television Premiere of "Flight of the Conchords" Debuts Friday, June 29 at 11:30 P.M.
Comedy Central will encore the group's original HBO half-hour special on Friday, June 29.
TV Land and the City of Honolulu to Honor Elvis Presley with Life-Sized Sculpture on July 26, 2007
The statue will grace The Neal S. Blaisdell Center, formerly The Honolulu International Center, the site of Elvis' 1973 Aloha from Hawaii concert.
The Futon's First Look: "Hell on Earth" (The CW)
The Futon's First Look: "Aliens in America" (The CW)
Smash Hit 'Army Wives,' the Highest-Rated Series in Lifetime Television's 23-Year History, Marches to New Ratings Records
Lifetime spins the numbers for Sunday, June 24.
USA Network Ignites New Original Series 'Burn Notice' with First Ever Commercial-Free Airing Presented by DirecTV
The commercial-free premiere sponsorship package with DirecTV includes all marketing efforts from on-air and online to paid media and promotions.
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[tuesday, september 25, 2018]
Updates include: Justin Cornwell to star in NBC's "The InBetween"; TBS's "Twenties" sets principal cast; and Pop passes on comedy pilot "The Demons of Dorian Gunn."
Tonight on "Dancing with the Stars," ABC Announces the Cast of Celebrity Kids for Upcoming "Dancing with the Stars: Juniors," Premiering Sunday, Oct. 7
This season's lineup of celebrity kid dancers includes a Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated actor, a professional skateboarder, an ABC comedy star, a runway model, two Disney Channel stars and the youngest boy to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
"Monday Night Football" Helps ESPN Win the Night in Households, Viewers and All Key Male and Adult Demos
ESPN spins the numbers for Monday, September 24.
FOX Gives Straight-to-Series Order to Animated Comedy "Bless the Harts," To Air During the 2019-2020 Season
The voice ensemble includes Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell and Ike Barinholtz.
Binge the New Season of CBS All Access' "No Activity" Beginning Thursday, Nov. 22
The show's second season debut marks the first time CBS All Access has released an entire season of an original series at once.
Grammy(R)-Nominated Artist Lil Yachty to Star in "How High 2" - Sequel to Iconic Stoner Film Set to Premiere on MTV in Spring 2019
Lil Yachty plays "Roger, an entrepreneur and the younger brother of one of the protagonists from the original film.
Smithsonian Channel(TM) Relives an American Scandal with "The Lost Tapes: Clinton Impeachment"
The latest installment airs Monday, October 29 at 9:00/8:00c.
Video: "Mo Amer: The Vagabond" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Arab-American comedian Mo Amer brings his worldly experiences to his debut Netflix Original stand-up special, premieres October 8.
CBS Television Studios Extends Overall Deal with Robert and Michelle King for an Additional Three Years
"We couldn't be more delighted to continue our relationship with the fantastic people at CBS Studios," said Robert and Michelle.
"The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" to Air Live on Midterm Election Night Tuesday, November 6 at 11:00 PM ET on Comedy Central
This marks the eighth time "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" has aired live.
Monday's Broadcast Ratings: NBC Opens Season on Top with "The Voice," "Manifest"
The Peacock kicks off the 2018-19 season in front among total viewers and adults 18-49.
TV One's True Crime Mondays Premieres Mid-Season Return of "For My Man"
In its fourth season, the series features the salacious and shocking stories of women convicted of crimes committed in the name of love.
"Making a Murderer Part 2" Launches Globally October 19
Netflix presents the highly-anticipated second chapter of the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning original documentary series.
Video: "Wild District" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Jhon Jeiver, a lethal guerrilla fighter, arrives in Bogotá escaping from his past, and tries to reinsert himself in society while looking to reconnect with his long lost family.
Iconic Sports Journalists Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer to Provide Commentary and Analysis for "Thursday Night Football" on Prime Video in More Than 200 Countries and Territories
Prime Video customers can choose between the FOX broadcast with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, and three separate Prime Video exclusive audio streams.
CMT Honors Country Music Icon Loretta Lynn with "Artist of a Lifetime" Award Presented by Ram Trucks at This Year's All-Female "Artists of the Year" Celebration
Sissy Spacek will bestow the award to Lynn, who joins previous recipients of the honor including Shania Twain (2016), Kenny Rogers (2015), and Merle Haggard (2014).
Music Icon Mariah Carey and an All-Star Collaboration from benny blanco with Halsey & Khalid Announced for the "2018 American Music Awards"
Hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross, Awards," the world's largest fan-voted awards show will broadcast live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 9 on ABC.
Updates include: Hulu's "Veronica Mars" confirms initial returning cast; Zoë Kravitz to star in Disney's "High Fidelity"; and Domhnall Gleeson tapped for HBO's "Run."
Video: "Strange Times" - Stand Up Comedy Special Trailer - Netflix
Joe Rogan's new stand-up comedy special streams October 2 on Netflix.
"The Sentence," A Searing Look at the Consequences of Mandatory-Minimum Sentencing for One Family, Debuts Oct. 15 on HBO
Rudy Valdez's directorial debut draws on hundreds of hours of footage to tell the story of a Michigan woman who was sentenced to 15 years for crimes committed by her late boyfriend, following a family in crisis as it struggles to obtain her release.
FOX Teams Up with Kennedy Center's Turnaround Arts for #EmpireStarGivesBack Social Campaign
Turnaround Arts empowers struggling schools with innovative arts programs and arts-based learning across subject areas as a strategy to help address broader school challenges and close the opportunity gap.
Video: "Wanderlust" - Official Trailer - Netflix
In an attempt to revive their dwindling sex lives, Joy and Alan, a married couple in a small English town mutually agree to sleep with other people.
Tamron Hall Syndicated Daytime Talk Show Cleared on the ABC Owned Television Stations Group for Fall 2019
Last month the company announced that it is working with Hall to create and develop a daytime talk show for the syndication marketplace that will be hosted by the award-winning TV anchor and journalist.
CBS All Access Announces New Straight-to-Series Order for "Why Women Kill" from Marc Cherry
The series details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, each dealing with infidelity in their marriages.
Hulu Renews "Harlots"
The streaming service has renewed "Harlots" for a third season of eight episodes.
Lifetime Sleighs the Holidays "It's a Wonderful Lifetime" Programming Slate
Look for "'Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion" on Thursday, November 22 featuring Hilarie Burton, Tyler Hilton, Danneel Ackles, Antwon Tanner and Stephen Colletti.
Calling All Voters: Bravo Media Announces Fifth Annual "The Real Housewives Awards" on BravoTV.com
Starting today until October 28, fans can vote for their favorite housewives' style, shade-filled moments, most memorable wigs and more on BravoTV.com/RHAwards or the Bravo Now app.
Comedy Central Signs Production Pact with Bill Burr and Al Madrigal Production Banner All Things Comedy, Encompassing Original TV Series and Three One-Hour Specials
The first one-hour special under the deal, "Bill Burr Presents Paul Virzi: I'll Say This," premieres November 2 on Comedy Central.
Netflix's New Original Doc Series "ReMastered" Launches Globally October 12
Each of the eight tracks of "ReMastered" seeks to reveal answers about seminal events in the lives of artists such as Bob Marley, Johnny Cash, Jam Master Jay, Sam Cooke.
Sunday's Broadcast Ratings: NBC Tops Charts with "Sunday Night Football"
The Peacock takes home top honors among total viewers and adults 18-49.
Ovation TV Partners with the Actors Studio for New Episodes Of "Inside the Actors Studio" to Premiere in Fall 2019
James Lipton, the series' creator, original host and executive producer, will turn the microphone over to a number of rotating guest hosts, who are in consideration now by the network and The Actors Studio.
Video: "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Academy Award winner Morgan Neville tells the provocative story of legendary director Orson Welles during the final 15 years of his life, when he struggled to make a Hollywood comeback with one last radical gamble.
The People Have Spoken! Top Five Finalists Announced for All Categories of "The E! People's Choice Awards," Chosen by the Fans
Finalist voting for the 43 categories across movies, television, music, and pop culture runs today through Friday, October 19 at 11:59pm ET.
Pop TV's Flagship Original Series "Schitt's Creek" Returns This Winter with a Holiday Episode on Dec. 19 and Season Five Premiere on Jan. 16
As a gift to the fans, Pop TV has released every episode of Seasons 1-4 on its "Pop Now" app for iOS, Android and Roku devices.
Saturday's Broadcast Ratings: ABC, FOX Share Demo Crown with College Football
The Alphabet however edges the evening among total viewers.
College Football Week 4: ABC's "Saturday Night Football" Leads in Prime-Time
ESPN spins the numbers for Saturday, September 22.
Friday's Broadcast Ratings: "Dateline" Sparks Another NBC Victory
The Peacock takes home top honors in total viewers and adults 18-49.
Updates include: Kenan Thompson to lead "Saving Larry" for NBC; Laurie Holden to recur on FOX's "Proven Innocent"; and Michaela Watkins to visit "Search Party" at TBS.
FX Networks Bringing "What We Do in the Shadows" and "Archer" to New York Comic Con
FX will present an exclusive screening of its new vampire comedy "What We Do in the Shadows," followed by a spirited discussion with Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi and Paul Simms.
Josh Segarra, Michael-Leon Wooley, Katerina Tannenbaum, and Tia Carrere Join RuPaul Charles in Netflix Comedy Series "AJ and the Queen"
The series is written by Michael Patrick King and RuPaul Charles who will both serve as executive producers.
Video: Sony Crackle Releases Season Three Trailer and Key Art for Original Drama Series, "StartUp," Set to Debut with All 10 Episodes on Thursday, November 1
Joining the talented ensemble this season are Academy Award-winner and guest star Mira Sorvino, as NSA Agent Rebecca Stroud who has come to investigate ArakNet.
"Mysteries of the Abandoned" Returning for Season Three Tuesday, October 2nd at 9PM on Science Channel
The series features stories behind some of the world's most amazing engineering marvels, why they were built, and why they were eventually no longer of use.
"Saturday Night Live" Adds Ego Nwodim as Featured Player
"SNL" also added Alan Linic, Alison Gates, Eli Mandel and Bowen Yang as writers.
Video: YouTube Original Series "Wayne" Debuts Teaser Trailer for New Action Comedy Series
The series will launch on YouTube Premium in January 2019.
"Queen of the World," Landmark Documentary on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Debuts Oct. 1, Exclusively on HBO in the U.S.
The documentary tells the story of how the Commonwealth and its growth have been a central focus and passion throughout Her Majesty's life.
Video: "Battlefish" - Official Trailer - Netflix
Off the coast of Oregon, fishermen are taking to the high seas to cash in on the world's most valuable fishery: albacore tuna.
Melissa Joan Hart & Sean Astin to Star in "No Good Nick," A New Live Action Comedy Series for Netflix
The series revolves around a family that welcomes a 13-year-old into their family before realizing she is a street-smart con artist with a secret agenda.
A&E Network Orders 450 Additional Hours of "Live PD" - #1 Series on Cable Friday and Saturday Nights - From MGM's Big Fish Entertainment
Totaling 450 hours, the deal extends the series' run into 2019, with the new order bringing the number of commissioned episodes to 293 to date.
Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: CBS, "Big Brother" Top All-Repeat Competition
The Eye's summer mainstay is the only original last night.
Video: "Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh" - Date Announcement - Netflix
Adam Sandler's new comedy special comes to Netflix on October 23.
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Tag archive for ‘Donald Trump’
By Brandon Jones On Thursday, December 19th, 2019
House Democrats impeach, may block Senate trial, attack Tulsi Gabbard for ‘Present’ vote
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Trump for “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress”, without any Republican support. As the process moves forward, House More...
By Brandon Jones On Saturday, November 16th, 2019
Democrats now claim Trump guilty of bribery after focus group testing
Democrats are changing the language they use to describe the allegations against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently conducted focus groups More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
CNN whistleblower Cary Poarch is a Bernie Sanders supporter who captured network’s political and racial bias on camera
Undercover recordings made by an whistleblower capture CNN employees casually confirming the network’s anti-Trump bias and show company president Jeff Zucker telling top news executives to focus solely on More...
By Butter Bracco On Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
Survey: College students very divided over being ‘Proud to be an American’
While the majority of Republican college students are very proud to be an American, according to the results of a new College Fix survey, only 8% of Democratic college students are “very proud to be an American.” The More...
By Brandon Jones On Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez details ‘Just society’ with full welfare for illegals, rent control, lowering poverty levels
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has published new economic policies as part of her “just society,” including allowing illegal immigrants the same welfare benefits as U.S. citizens. The New York rep has published More...
CNN manufactures ‘Joker’ plot points to link film to Trump
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By Brandon Jones On Monday, October 7th, 2019
Audio, emails confirms Ukraine operative Artem Sytnyk worked with DNC to sabotage Trump, help Hillary Clinton win
The Blaze released an audio recording of Artem Sytnyk, Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, admitting that he tried to boost the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton by sabotaging then-candidate More...
By Brandon Jones On Saturday, October 5th, 2019
Celebrities rally ‘Impeachment Task Force’ with Alyssa Milano, Rosie O’Donnell to attack Trump’s propaganda machine
Celebrity elite are organizing to protect Democrats and use social media to rile the impeachment movement of President Trump. According to a Newsweek report, a group called The Democratic Coalition has created More...
By Brandon Jones On Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
Bernie Sanders exits 2020 Election race to have emergency heart surgery
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was hospitalized Tuesday night in Las Vegas after experiencing discomfort in his chest. “During a campaign event yesterday evening, Sen. Sanders experienced some chest discomfort. More...
Bernie Sanders rolls out ‘Fight For Us’ ad campaign with over $1 million buy in Iowa
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By Brandon Jones On Thursday, September 26th, 2019
President Trump lands trade deal with Japan
The U.S. and Japan on Wednesday signed a limited trade deal that will eliminate tariffs and expand market access on farm, industrial and digital products. While the deal does not address the auto industry, President More...
President Trump takes aim at California emission rules, will improve price and safety
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday his move to end California’s authority to institute emission regulations that are stricter than federal rules, a move that comes as the president continues to roll back More...
By The Dispatch On Friday, September 13th, 2019
Myanmar military drops charges against Pastor Hkalam Samson
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 9, a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) officer dropped a lawsuit against Kachin pastor Hkalam Samson. The lawsuit surrounded comments that Rev. Samson More...
Trump asylum rules backed by SCOTUS upending 9th circuit court block
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court supported the Trump administration’s immigration policy again, ending the block by leftists, fighting to oppose the asylum rules across the southern border, the implementation More...
By The Dispatch On Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
Charges against anti-Trump ‘Flagburner’ Joey Johnson dropped
The District of Columbia Attorney General today filed papers dismissing all charges against Gregory “Joey” Johnson. Johnson was arrested after he burned two American flags on July 4, 2019 in front of the White More...
By The Dispatch On Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Ben Shapiro: President Trump is right about China
President Trump’s latest foray into the world of international economics — his ongoing trade war with China — has been widely derided by his critics. It’s been derided on the grounds that More...
By The Dispatch On Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Hurricane Dorian becomes Category 5 storm, pummeling the Bahamas
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By Brandon Jones On Saturday, August 31st, 2019
Myanmar military sues Rev Hkalam Samson for his sanctions remarks to President Trump
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 26, a Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) officer filed a lawsuit against an ethnic Kachin pastor for the comments he made during a meeting with President More...
By The Dispatch On Friday, August 30th, 2019
New York Man, Jesse Blake Charged with Threats Against The President Of The United States
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jesse Allen Blake, age 24, of Waverly, New York, was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 22, 2019, with threats More...
By Guest Author On Monday, August 26th, 2019
The US/Mexico Border Wall: Where we stand
There are a lot of words that the media synonymises with US President Donald Trump. One of the most famous is “wall,” immortalised in such rally chants as, “Build the wall! Build the wall!” The wall in question More...
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Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler1
M, #362171, d. 24 January 1815
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Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler was the son of Piers Butler and Mary Mandeville.2 A settlement for the marriage between him and Elizabeth Nevil was made on 9 August 1796.1 He died on 24 January 1815.1
He was educated in 1789 at Trinity College, Dublin University, Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandG, a Fellow Commoner.1 He was styled as 6th Viscount of Galmoye, in co. Kilkenny [I., 1646] on 9 August 1796, despite the attainder of the 3rd Viscount.1 He was commissioned in 1798, in the service of the Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment.1 He lived at Garrendenny Castle, County Laois, IrelandG.1 He lived at E. T. M. Ville, Clonmel, County Tipperary, IrelandG.1
Children of Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler and Elizabeth Nevil
Piers Theobald Butler2 d. 19 Aug 1824
Garret Butler+2 d. 1860
Theobald Butler+2 d. 1885
William Butler+2 b. 1804, d. 1848
Garret Nevil1
Garret Nevil lived at Marymount, County Kilkenny, IrelandG.1 E.1
Child of Garret Nevil
Elizabeth Nevil+2 d. 7 Dec 1853
Elizabeth Nevil1
F, #362173, d. 7 December 1853
Elizabeth Nevil was the daughter of Garret Nevil.2 A settlement for the marriage between her and Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler was made on 9 August 1796.1 She died on 7 December 1853.1
From 9 August 1796, her married name became Butler.
Children of Elizabeth Nevil and Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler
Piers Theobald Butler1
M, #362174, d. 19 August 1824
Piers Theobald Butler was the son of Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler and Elizabeth Nevil.2 He died on 19 August 1824, without issue.1
He was styled as 7th Viscount of Galmoye, in co. Kilkenny [I., 1646] on 24 January 1815, despite the attainder of the 3rd Viscount.1
Garret Butler1
Garret Butler was the son of Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler and Elizabeth Nevil.2 He married Ellen Burke, daughter of Edmond Burke, on 24 April 1841.1 He died in 1860, without male issue.1
He was styled as 8th Viscount of Galmoye, in co. Kilkenny [I., 1646] on 19 August 1824, despite the attainder of the 3rd Viscount.1 He petitioned the Crown for recognition of his right to the peerage.1 On 29 June 1828 this petition was accepted by the Law Officers, but for the attainder (which they recommended to be reversed and the peerage to be revived in his favour).1 He lived at Garrendenny Castle, County Laois, IrelandG.1
Children of Garret Butler and Ellen Burke
Elizabeth Butler2
unknown daughter Butler2
Alda Butler2
William Butler1
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William Butler was born in 1804.1 He was the son of Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler and Elizabeth Nevil.2 He married Maria Theresa Meredyth, daughter of Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth, 8th Bt. and Maria Nugent, on 22 April 1834 at Old CHurch, St. Pancras, London, England.1,3 He died in 1848.1
He was admitted to Gray's Inn on 6 January 1832.1 He lived at Ashfield Hall, County Carlow, IrelandG.1 He lived at Rathillig, Slievemargy, County Laois, IrelandG.1
Children of William Butler and Maria Theresa Meredyth
Maria Elizabeth Butler+2 d. 24 Nov 1871
Piers Mandeville Butler2 b. c 1838, d. 9 Feb 1857
[S4567] Bill Norton, "re: Pitman Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 April 2010 and 19 April 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Pitman Family."
Maria Theresa Meredyth1,2
F, #362177, b. 1795, d. 7 March 1892
Maria Theresa Meredyth was born in 1795.2 She was the daughter of Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth, 8th Bt. and Maria Nugent.1 She married William Butler, son of Edmond Theobald Mandeville Butler and Elizabeth Nevil, on 22 April 1834 at Old CHurch, St. Pancras, London, England.1,2 She died on 7 March 1892.1
From 1833, her married name became Butler.
Children of Maria Theresa Meredyth and William Butler
Piers Mandeville Butler1
M, #362178, b. circa 1838, d. 9 February 1857
Piers Mandeville Butler was born circa 1838.1 He was the son of William Butler and Maria Theresa Meredyth.2 He died on 9 February 1857, at sea on board Sir William Williams on the way home from Tasmania, unmarried.1
Maria Elizabeth Butler1
F, #362179, d. 24 November 1871
Maria Elizabeth Butler was the daughter of William Butler and Maria Theresa Meredyth.2 She married John N. Kilkelly on 20 August 1867.1 She died on 24 November 1871.1
From 20 August 1867, her married name became Kilkelly.
Children of Maria Elizabeth Butler and John N. Kilkelly
John Piers Butler1
unknown son Kilkelly1
John N. Kilkelly1
John N. Kilkelly married Maria Elizabeth Butler, daughter of William Butler and Maria Theresa Meredyth, on 20 August 1867.1
He lived at Upper Mount Street, Dublin, County Dublin, IrelandG.1 He lived at Drimcong, Moycullen, County Galway, IrelandG.1 He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D.)1
Children of John N. Kilkelly and Maria Elizabeth Butler
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Home Headlines & Breaking News Bostoner Rebbe Yerushalayim Shlita Responds to FM Lieberman
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Bostoner Rebbe Yerushalayim Shlita Responds to FM Lieberman
YWN-ISRAEL published a message from the Foreign Ministry, sharing Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s vision of “The meaning of Israel as the State of the Jewish People”.
Following is a response in the form of an open letter from the Bostoner Rebbe of Yerushalayim Shlita.
Open Letter from the Bostoner Rebbe shlit”a:
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in his statement said, “Eretz Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.”
These very words show how this government and its representatives are going back to the years of the Cold War when the only nations in the United Nations that did not mention G-d were the Soviet Union bloc and the State of Israel. Note that Lieberman does not mention G-d, nor can he bring himself to say the word Torah – only “the eternal Book of Books” – and we all know Torah is much more than just a book. His use of the word book, without mentioning G-d, strongly implies that it was written by man.
I agree with Lieberman that the Torah is eternal, but not because the Jewish People made it so, but rather because it was handed down to us directly from Hashem on Mount Sinai before they ever arrived in Eretz Yisroel.
Furthermore, in direct contradiction to Lieberman’s statement that “Eretz Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped” the Torah says otherwise. “I shall take you to me as a people and I shall be a G-d to you” (Shmos 6:7). As explained by Rabbeinu Bachya and the Ohr HaChaim, this becoming of a people occurred with the Giving Torah at Sinai, well before the nation entered Eretz Yisroel.
Without a belief in Torah from Sinai, Jews would not have survived the Diaspora and sadly those Jews and their children who are disconnected from Torah are being lost to the Jewish Nation today.
The Zionistic founders of Israel, even those who were non-observant, recognized that Shabbos and Torah are integral to the existence of the Jewish People as a nation. President Shimon Peres, one of the few remaining founders of the State of Israel, alluded to this yesterday when he said, “In my days in the Knesset, I would have never approved of labeling someone a criminal just for studying Torah. Additionally, Former Justice Minister Yaakov Ne’eman once quipped to me at his home, “The founders of the State thought they were creating a state of educated Maskilim (enlightened Torah scholars) and what they have developed instead is a state of Israelis who are uneducated in Judaism and ignorant in Torah.
May the Knesset members of the Jewish People come to their senses and recognize the centrality of Torah to continued Jewish existence so that the State of Israel will be able to continue to exist as a Jewish State.
With Torah Greetings from Yerushalayim
Grand Rabbi Mayer Alter Horowitz
Bostoner Rebbe – Yerushalayim
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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You should have used a picture of the rebbe, in part since there are so many Bostonner Rebbes, its hard to remember which is which.
Mark Levin February 26, 2014 12:36 am at 12:36 am
git g’zugt!
1. This is the one from Yerushalayim, Reb Mayer the son of Reb Levi Yitzchok ztl.
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#1: It was changed at your behest.
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Pomegranate juice — product description on
Pomegranate juice has long been considered the «king of vitamins.» Hippocrates treated juice grenade gastric ailments, nervous disorders and fever.
Pomegranate juice has long been considered the «king of vitamins.»
Hippocrates treated juice grenade gastric ailments, nervous disorders and fever.
Pomegranate juice contains many vitamins C and B, organic acids, minerals and enzymes, potassium, antioxidants and coumarins.
Pomegranate juice increases hemoglobin, restores the body after surgery, helps with anemia, heart disease, kidney problems, gastritis, colitis, general exhaustion, colds, sore throat, cleanses blood vessels, regulates appetite and improves digestion.
Pomegranate juice can be canned and freshly squeezed.
Canned pomegranate can be directly pressed and reconstituted, whole and diluted, with or without preservatives.
Directly squeezed juices obtained directly from fresh fruit; such products can be made only at the place of harvest and in limited time.
Have recovered juices more difficult and long way to the consumer.
After all, they are not made from the fruits or vegetables themselves, but from concentrated juices, which are obtained from fresh fruits with the help of a number of operations. Such products go through a lot of hands: manufacturers of concentrated raw materials, intermediaries who store, transport, blend and sell concentrated juices, and finally, a company that appears on the packaging as a manufacturer: it’s the manufacturer who adds specially prepared drinking water to the concentrate.
Of course, as a result of numerous manipulations, the reconstituted juices lose some nutrients and nutrients. It is not just incorrect, but illegal, to call reconstituted juice a product of direct pressing, although some manufacturers are wrong.
The taste and color of pomegranate juice (especially freshly squeezed) may differ slightly depending on which what sort of pomegranate it was squeezed out.
Especially curative are fruits with dark maroon grains, and the juice from them turns out to be more sweet.
You can even squeeze the juice from the pomegranate without having a juicer: it is enough to stretch the ripe fruit in the peel with your hands, and when the grains burst, cut off the crust and squeeze out the juice.
People with high acidity of the stomach better to drink pomegranate juice, diluting with water or other juice: its beneficial properties will not disappear, and the stomach will not suffer.
In addition, the fixing properties of pomegranate juice, which help with diarrhea, in a person with healthy digestion, especially when consumed in large quantities, can provoke constipation.
Pomegranate juice goes well with carrot and beetroot.
Especially this cocktail is useful for pregnant women.
Fruit wine is made from pomegranate juice in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Israel.
Liqueurs, punches, cocktails, syrups are also made from it (the most famous of them is Grenadine — added to various cocktails).
In the eastern and Caucasian cuisine, various sauces and gravies are prepared from pomegranate juice, including Azerbaijani narsharab (it is boiled pomegranate juice).
The meat pickled in pomegranate sauce becomes unusually juicy and tender, acquires a delicate pomegranate flavor.
Freshly squeezed pomegranate juice is especially good in the pomegranate season — from September or October to January.
Choosing canned pomegranate juice is worth a look at it. composition.
If manufacturers are not cunning, they will accurately indicate whether the juice is diluted with water or that it is directly squeezed juice, and whether preservatives, dyes, and sugar are used.
Direct-pressed whole juice should be produced in a place where pomegranate grows (that is, for example, in Azerbaijan or Armenia, and not in Moscow and not in Saratov).
The word should be written on the bottle the juice, but not nectar (the last in Russia is marked by highly diluted juices).
Production date must correspond to the season of garnets (from September to January).
The color of the juice should be red-maroon, very rich. It looks translucent in the sun, small particles and sediment are allowed, but sometimes it is completely clean.
Too light and red color of the juice indicates that it is diluted with water. At the same time, too brown would indicate that the juice is either made from crusts, or — from rose hips.
If there is a sediment on the bottom, it should have a pink color, and when shaking the container, it will completely dissolve in the juice.
If you buy fresh juice, it is advisable to squeeze it with you.
The shelf life of an open bottle with canned pomegranate juice is no more than a day.
Fresh juice is desirable to use even faster.
November has come — the last month of autumn, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You can be sad as well.
Pomegranate is a whole vitamin-mineral complex. In the pomegranate juice found unique.
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What could possibly replace artificial intelligence?
There is no doubt as to the fact that AI would be replacing a lot of existing technologies, but is AI the ultimate technology which humankind can develop or is their something else which has the potential to replace artificial intelligence?
strong-ai prediction
GJZ
$\begingroup$ Artificial Intelligence is a broad field that is comprised of various conceptual aspects. $\endgroup$ – quintumnia Dec 9 '16 at 11:01
By definition, artificial intelligence includes all forms of computer systems capable of completing tasks that would ordinarily warrant human intelligence.
A superintelligent AI would have intelligence far superior to that of any human and therefore would be capable of creating systems beyond our capabilities.
As a consequence, if a technology superior to AI were to be created, it would almost certainly be created by an artificial intelligence.
For the purposes of mankind, however, superintelligent artificial intelligence is the ultimate technology due to the fact that it will be able to surpass humans in every field, and, if anything, replace the need for human intelligence.
In our past experience, intelligence has been the most valuable trait for any entity to manifest - for this reason, in an anthropomorphic context, we can predict that artificial intelligence will be the ultimate achievement.
The main reason why we will certainly not be able to replace superintelligent AI is that it will surpass us in every respect - if there is ever any replacement, it will be created by the AI similarly to the way we may create an AI that replaces us.
GJZGJZ
$\begingroup$ Who's gonna invent the test program to test whether any given "AI" is "superintelligent"? :) Who would write that program? quasi-superintelligent AI? humans? how can humans write a program to check if something is smarter than humans? $\endgroup$ – Erik Kaplun Dec 14 '16 at 16:16
$\begingroup$ That is funny @ErikAllik. Unfortunately for us, we will know immediately once an AI becomes superintelligent. $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 14 '16 at 16:17
$\begingroup$ How will we know that? Is there a measure for intelligence? $\endgroup$ – Erik Kaplun Dec 14 '16 at 16:18
$\begingroup$ Consider this story about AI mentioned by Stephen Hawking @ErikAllik: $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 14 '16 at 16:19
$\begingroup$ Humans create superintelligent artificial intelligence. The first question they ask it is whether there is a God. A bolt of lightning strikes the plug so that the AI cannot be disabled and it responds "There is now." $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 14 '16 at 16:21
A new physical lifeform could outperform and replace artificial intelligence when it has feedback from organism (its body) to its design information (replacement of genes).
This evolution is expected because:
Artificial intelligence will redesign its own software very soon in its evolution. After that, it will be restricted by the performance of the available hardware and communication speed between parts. Therefore it will design better processing hardware for itself, to run its next generation.
To squeeze most processing power out of a given amount of resources (matter, energy) and circumstances (temperature, radiation) the design has to be small (material resources and delay of interconnections), energy efficient (heat evacuation), and adapted to the kind of functions used by the software (hardware architecture).
To tackle this profoundly, artificial intelligence will design the new hardware at atom by atom scale. This leads to new problems of natural degradation by radiation, atomic decay and other quantum-mechanical problems and opportunities. The solution of these new problems is redundancy and the ability to repair degraded parts by atomic-level machinery. This atomic level repair machinery is the same machinery which builds and extends the hardware for new individual artificial intelligence systems. Since this feature is there, it can, and will, also be used to restructure parts of the hardware while it runs to integrate (compile) knowledge in hardware (more efficient).
The machinery to build and maintain such hardware could be inspired by the biological machinery which will be understood by the system by then. However, when the artificial intelligence refactors these principles with full understanding and anticipation, the resulting "hardware" will be quite different from the old biological machinery and very different from the static silicon based processor structures.
The main differences are:
The design information will be available, relating the features of the realization with design choices. This provides direct feedback from performance of the realization (the hardware, the body) to the design information. That augments the design information for designing new generations. This feedback channel is the main difference between the new machinery and biological life. Once that exists, it will be used for everything, not only for processing hardware for artificial intelligence.
The new design described here is basically processing hardware rather than a body for fighting and propagating (although the eternal fight for resources will not end with the dawn of artificial intelligence).
It will use more compact molecules because it is designed rather than evolved blindly. (The current biological life uses monster-molecules evolved by random changes until one or other corner of the molecule has the right shape to catalyze a specific chemical reaction).
Since parts of the hardware can be restructured while the system runs, the distinction between hardware and software will become very fuzzy (as in biology).
The drastic increase in efficiency and evolution speed let it outperform the old biological life (which lacks design and feedback) and outperform artificial intelligence (which was not integrated in matter).
When this stage is reached, the systems will look like a natural, intelligent, propagating life-form and therefore supersede the stage of artificial intelligence running on human-made processing hardware.
This answers the last part of the question: "... or is their something else which has the potential to replace artificial intelligence".
Luc ClaeysLuc Claeys
$\begingroup$ Artificial intelligence can be so intelligent for the very reason that it is not constrained by its biology. $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 16 '16 at 7:40
$\begingroup$ No matter how intelligent the system, it will be constrained by its hardware (biology or other material structure). Physical restrictions impose small sizes to reduce the propagation time of signals between parts (speed of light). The original answer is edited to clarify that the new atomic level machinery is the hardware of the artificial intelligence rather than a body and that knowledge gets integrated in the hardware. Remark that I answered the second part of the question: ".. is their something else which has the potential to replace artificial intelligence". $\endgroup$ – Luc Claeys Dec 17 '16 at 14:14
$\begingroup$ That entirely fails to clarify why a lifeform based on genes would be any more effective than extremely efficient self-replicating and self-improving (at a much faster rate) hardware. $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 17 '16 at 14:48
$\begingroup$ A superintelligent AI would develop something similar to the concept of computronium, as outlined in The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan. This material would be able to concentrate the largest physically possible amount of calculation capability in a given area. $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 17 '16 at 14:50
$\begingroup$ This would be the theoretically most efficient (and therefore completely irreplaceable) configuration of particles possible for the purpose of intelligence. No lifeform of any kind can compete with that. $\endgroup$ – GJZ Dec 17 '16 at 14:52
In order for something to replace AI, it would need to out perform AI. AI currently uses number systems to represent information and logic to perform operations. So the replacement would need to be based off of something more efficient than numbers and logic. Some sort of super-logic. Or something similar to intuition and instinct which do not require linearly figuring things out.
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The Way of the Red Man (1910)
Adventure, Short | 7 July 1910 (USA)
An Indian farmer and his wife protect and secrete a gambler who has injured a cowboy in a fight over a game of cards. The gambler repays the Indian by stealing the affections of his wife, a... See full summary »
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An Indian farmer and his wife protect and secrete a gambler who has injured a cowboy in a fight over a game of cards. The gambler repays the Indian by stealing the affections of his wife, a beautiful Indian woman of eighteen. Great is the dismay of the Indian on finding his wife in the arms of the white man whom he has befriended. His first thought is to kill the destroyer of his home, but he decides to give the squaw to the gambler and when she attempts to take her infant the Indian interposes. "You take the squaw, the child stays with me." Five years later we see the effects of the union between the gambler and the squaw. He has become a confirmed drunkard and the squaw through abuse, neglect and hardship is dying. The Indian learns of this and his manner of vengeance is unique and gives this picture story name, "The Red Man's Way." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis
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LIVE: Project VO (JPN/FIN/GER) / Émilie Payeur (CAN) / Jukka Kääriäinen — Natalia Castrillón Duo
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ÉMILIE PAYEUR (CAN) /
PROJECT VO (JPN/FI/GER) /
JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN — NATALIA CASTRILLON (COL) DUO
Wednesday, August 14, at 19:00
ÉMILIE PAYEUR (CAN)
Émilie Payeur is a multidisciplinary artist from Montreal, Canada, mainly active in experimental music and visual arts. Her music, often described as minimalist and sometimes harsh, is mainly based on the no-input technique and on risk-taking. In her visual work, she is interested in the traces she perceives as remnants of actions from the past; also in the manipulation of reality, of others views and her own view. Emilie has a master’s degree in electroacoustic music composition from the Université de Montréal and her work has been performed all over the world and has received numerous awards, both in Canada and internationally.
Émilie is a member of Dead Squirrels (noise music trio), Kohlenstoff Records (label and experimental music collective), Projet K (experimental ensemble), Moshi Moshi (experimental and Kawaii audio/visual trio) and Jeunesse Cosmique (music label and cosmic family). She also plays in the Giri Kedaton Gamelan. Émilie’s performance at Akusmata will be an attempt at going somewhere else musically speaking and hopefully magic will happen.
PROJECT VO (JPN/FI/GER)
Rieko Okuda, keys
Antti Virtaranta, double-bass
Project VO (JPN/GER/FI) is an improvising duo between double-bassist Antti Virtaranta and pianist Rieko Okuda. Since their first album, glass hopper, 2012, they have continued expanding their creative ways of navigating the free improvisation landscape. The combination of piano and bass has taken Project VO on a sonic journey that keeps pushing them constantly to new directions.
Japanese-born pianist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Rieko Okuda, have made a name among new generation of the Berlin improvised scene. She settled in Europe after MA in piano at Juilliard School of Music in New York. In the USA she worked with saxophonist and a bandleader Bob Mintzer at first, following stints with Jon Faddis and John Fedcheck. Joining a band of alto-saxophonist Marshall Allen of Sun Ra Arkestra followed, for two years, working also with Elliot Levine, cellist of Cecil Taylor, and Calvin Weston, drummer of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time Band. In Berlin, she develops projects with double-bassist Antti Virtaranta with whom she plays in Project VO and Akvariettrio. Her another piano trio is called Cleaning Each Other, as much as collaborations with musicians like Audrey Chen, Els Vandeweyer, Susanne Zapf, Yuko Kaseki, Axel Dörner, Norbert Stammberger, and Otto Szabolcs Horvath, a.o.
Antti Virtaranta is a Finnish bassist and composer. He began his music journey at 17 years old focusing on Jazz music, attending University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Quickly he was introduced to free jazz and experimental electronic music, and this changed everything. He moved to Berlin to join the vibrant scene of improvisers, starting projects with many musicians and developing his own sound. Currently he is focused on expressing his voice in music and sound through composition and improvisation. Using his influences from jazz and rock music and self-taught contemporary music, his musical language is formed. Nowadays, his focus is on concepts and compositions for solo bass and solo electronics, and using non-conventional notations. These ideas develop and are imposed into the small groups (duos and trios) and larger ensembles that he is involved with to create instant composition in his varying projects, which include collaborations with dancers and visual artists, on top of the numerous musicians he works with.
JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN – NATALIA CASTRILLON DUO
Jukka Kääriäinen is a finnish musician specialised in experimental and free improvised music. Jukka’s instruments vary between plain acoustic and prepared guitar to back bag of pedals, live-electronics and bowed electric guitar. Jukka has toured many European countries such as Italy, Hungary, France, Germany, Russia and Estonia. Alongside solo concerts Jukka has been collaborating with musicians like Teppo Hauta-Aho, Emilio Gordoa, Mikko Innanen, Kalle Kalima, Paul Pignon, Harri Sjöström, Jone Takamäki, Roomet Jakapi, and Pauli Lyytinen.
Natalia Castrillón is a versatile harpist from Colombia interested in improvisation and the experimental sound possibilities of the pedal and lever harp. She has collaborated with artists from different music genres and disciplines such as theatre, dance and contemporary improvised music. Natalia plays actively in different projects that include Latin American, West African, World, and Experimental Improvised Music. She graduated from Caldas University (Colombia), and also studied harp, chamber music, symphony orchestra, music theory and ear training at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). In addition, she worked as a music and harp teacher at Fundación Nacional Batuta in Colombia.
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In politics as in porn, everything now has to be kinda keyword searchable. So everybody has to fall into some sort of niche and if you're not doing it yourself then someone else is going to do it for you.
— Jon Ronson, "Joe Rogan Experience #995 - Jon Ronson"
There's no value to reaching across the aisle. There is no currency for that, there is no incentive.
— Jeff Flake, 60 Minutes
Skittish fish asking a genie for a wish.
— Phrase from dinner party game "poop smoothie"
“The tactics that were used completely backfired,” said Mr. McConnell. “Harassing members at their homes, crowding the halls with people acting horribly, the effort to humiliate us really helped me unify my conference.
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The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside.
— "Bohemian Grove," Wikipedia
According to our head of conservation, American singles are basically shelf stable.
— Jamie Lausch Vander Broek, "You Can Check Out An Actual Cheese Book At This Michigan Library," Saveur
Was about more than the pursuit, and the preservation, of riches. They were also confederates in a more ambitious project: creating the myth.
— Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and David Barstow, "11 Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Trump’s Wealth," The New York Times
A great anecdote leaves them competing to tell a better version of the same thing.
— Chuck Palahniuk, "Joe Rogan Experience #1158 - Chuck Palahniuk"
I don't think the guy with the business-card cannon has ever been to an actual networking event.
— New Yorker cartoon Lily put on top of my buisness card pile
He died doing what he loved. Always gotta remember that.
— Lily on a dead moth
Teenagers huh?
— Lily on plants in her way
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Your menus would go on into the menu collection, and your name would be stripped from them, and you wouldn't live on into the future.
— Thomas the librarian in NYPL's Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Room
David and Cecil Rosenthal, brothers in their 50s...“They were what we call ‘shomerim,’ people who guard the religion even for the rest of us who don’t go all the time,” said Mr. Solomon, who is related to the brothers by marriage.
— Simon Romero, Jennifer Medina and Timothy Williams, "Tree of Life Synagogue Victims Remembered as Guardians of Their Faith," The New York Times
He was, as Stalin was later to say to the Yugoslavs, insubordinate, but a winner.
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
A piano with three giant keys.
— Lily's great sculpture idea
It's like riding a bike I havn't learned yet.
Mao simply collapsed the distinction between reading about stirring events and actually living through cataclysm.
— Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, on Mao "when we look at history we adore the times of [war] when dramas happen one after another... which makes reading about them great fun... Human nature loves sudden swift changes."
Genealogy is a contact sport.
— Curtis Rogers, "Genetic Genealogy," 60 Minutes
The world will little note, nor long remember.
— Abe Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address," Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum
I didn't know I'd be good at it, but it just felt right you know?
— Lily on Birdly®
They both gave, I think that's the thing.
— Lily on "Fruit and Other Things" by Lenka Clayton and John Rubin, and "8th Street Water Cube" by Matthew Manzo, GBBN
This one has caught the imagination of the world, unfortunately.
— Trump via "In Shift on Khashoggi Killing, Trump Edges Closer to Acknowledging a Saudi Role," The New York Times
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It couldn’t be easier to get to ConFuzzled! Whether you’re arriving by car, train or plane, the NEC’s transport links mean you’ll only be a few minutes from the UK’s largest furry event.
View the NEC Site Map for a more detailed view of the surrounding area, including road, rail and airport connections.
Take Junction 6 exit from the M42, and follow the signs for the NEC. The road bears around to the right and at the first roundabout, the Hilton is on your immediate left.
Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel
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B40 1PP Crowne Plaza NEC
Pendigo Way
B40 1PS
There is parking space for up to 600 cars at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The concession rate for convention attendees is £4 per entry/exit. This rate extends to the early arrival and late departure days, and is also available to attending only guests. Please note, cars are parked at owners own risk.
Arriving by Train
The closest train station is Birmingham International (BHI), which is a 10 minute walk from the hotel through the NEC (see below). The station is just a 10 minute connection from the major rail hub of Birmingham New Street Station (BHM) which is easily accessible from most major stations across the UK.
You can plan and book your journey in advance at National Rail Enquiries.
Arriving by Plane
The closest airport is Birmingham Airport (BHX), which operates a selection of direct flights from mainland Europe, as well as connecting flights from a number of international destinations.
Walk from Birmingham Airport and International Train Station to Hilton
From the airport, take the skyway rail to Birmingham International Railway
From Birmingham International Rail Station, simply follow the directions toward the NEC, clearly sign posted with a large red banner
Head down the escalators, and as you enter into the NEC, take an immediate right
Head down the stairs/ramp towards the main exit
Once outside, cross the road and follow the signs towards the Hilton Metropole, which is situated to the left
Arriving by Coach
A number of competitive coach services such as National Express and Megabus are available to Birmingham City Centre. From here, you can either catch a train, as detailed above, or you can catch the number X1 West Midlands National Express bus service, either of which will take you to Birmingham International Station (BHI).
Hilton Shuttle Service
There is a 24 hour complimentary Hilton Shuttle service for residential guests, available from Birmingham International Airport/Train station. The service leaves the hotel on the hour, and half past the hour, with a 10 minute run to the airport pick up/drop off point.
The bus service does not automatically run at non peak times so guests are advised to use the courtesy phone on the concourse of Birmingham International Train Station, located just to the right of the newsagents. Once your pick up has been scheduled, you need to make your way down the escalators to the taxi rank, and wait by the first white bus stop.
Please note this service is run by the hotel, not the convention, and the hotel retain the right to withdraw the service at any time, or refuse travel.
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JORDY KERWICK: I LOVE YOU. WHAT’S YOUR NAME.
Interview: Colt Seager
BMW Art Guide film series: Museum Brandhorst — a museum of contemporary art within the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
Interview: Heath Newman
DIDI ROJAS — YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE
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«My goal is to give my audience a possibility to interpret my paintings through the prism of their own personal experience.»
Maja Djordjevic Belgrade, Serbia. Tell us about yourself. How did your work in art start? Hello dear ABSTRACT, my name is Maja Djordjevic. I love to paint, sing and entertain myself. An unwritten rule in Serbian primary schools is that there is always one person in each class who is really good at painting
Cosmic Shoutout at QB gallery
In nineteen Suzanne Duchamp received a birthday present from her brother Marcel. The gift was an instruction; to hang a geometry book onto a clothesline, on the balcony of her Paris apartment. He wanted the theorems to “get the facts of life” by being exposed to the sun, the rain, the wind and the frost.
David von Bahr’s studio
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Friends of Marvin Gardens at Rod Barton gallery
Rod Barton is pleased to announce the group show of new paintings “Friends of Marvin Gardens” featuring the works of Melissa Brown, Meg Franklin, Alicia Gibson, Susumu Kamijo, Anthony Miler, Adrianne Rubenstein and Jennifer Sullivan. The show acts as a microcosm of the activity of painters within a vibrant and transactional collaborative environment that avoids
Luce Gallery presents Astonishing Alterations for the Anterograde Amnesic
Luce Gallery presents Astonishing Alterations for the Anterograde Amnesic the second solo show by Peter Mohall at the gallery. The Brushstrokes painting series where the compositions are made through a plurality of identically molded brushstrokes is an examination of the aesthetic consequences of repetition. Recently, the series has evolved into included not only multiplied identical brushstrokes
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Tearing Out His Own Tongue
Posted on October 7, 2017 by agallix
“Poor Andrew [Brownlow] spoke from the very thing he hated. On the day of the revolution his first job would be to tear out his own tongue.”
– Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album
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London’s Outrage
Posted on July 5, 2012 by agallix
Here is my first interview with Jon Savage. It appeared in 3:AM Magazine in June 2002:
London’s Outrage Andrew Gallix interviews Jon Savage
3:AM: You were about 23 when punk came along. When did you first hear about it and why did it appeal to you so much?
JS: Being a pop fan from the year dot: I was a teenager at the height of the mid-60s pop explosion. Wanting to rock and there being no rock. The countdown to punk was very simple: Nuggets (1972) and Hard Up Heroes (1973) rekindled interest in the hard, mutated sixties pop that you could buy in Rock On [Ted Carroll’s record shop] in 73-75 (ie Yardbirds, Kinks, Who, Them etc). Patti Smith’s Horses. Charles Shaar Murray’s article about the Ramones (November 75). The Ramones’ first album (April 76). Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel”.
3:AM: I believe you were training to become a solicitor in 1975: did punk save you from a life of tedium like bank clerk Mark Perry, for instance?
JS: Yes. It enabled me ultimately to quit the law and enter the media — another kind of hell but not that particular kind of hell.
3:AM: Unlike Mark Perry, you graduated from Cambridge University. Did your social/intellectual background prevent you from feeling totally integrated within the new scene or, on the contrary, did it help you better understand its numerous influences and appreciate it even more?
JS: Um, I would have to say that despite the influence that those three years of University might well have had on me, you would have to place 13 years of growing in Ealing, and another 8 of being a teenager in Kensington and wandering around central London. I’m a West Londoner and was acutely aware of my pop-saturated environment. So for me not to be fascinated by punk would have been stranger. Plus there is the emotional element (oh sorry, because I have a brain I’m not supposed to have any emotions) and I was totally pissed off, isolated and alienated, in 1976.
3:AM: Why did you pick up a pen rather than a guitar? Did you ever consider forming a band?
JS: No, because to be in a band, in 1977, was to go up and down the country in a van getting spat at. I don’t think so. Plus, I was working in the lawyers’ office at the time and so was unable. Steven Lavers and I had a concept band called Para — I was Para Noia and he was Para Normal — but that’s all it was. If I had been in the same situation 12 years later (like Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne) then I would have no doubt started tinkering around with samplers.
3:AM: When did you start your fanzine London’s Outrage? Were you directly influenced by Sniffin’ Glue? What were your favourite fanzines?
JS: London’s Outrage was done at the end of November 1976: went to see The Clash, saw The Sex Pistols, and did it in two days. I was highly influenced by Sniffin’ Glue, Who Put The Bomp, Bam Balam, and, on the visual side, Claude Pélieu and John Heartfield.
3:AM: Could you tell us about how you produced London’s Outrage, how it was distributed and how many copies you sold?
JS: 50 copies xeroxed. 1000 copies printed. Distributed through Rough Trade — the first one, I might add. All sold. London’s Outrage 2 (all photos and montage set in Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grave and Notting Dale) — only 50 copies xeroxed and sold.
3:AM: I was surprised to discover that Sniffin’ Glue actually had an office: did you also have a professional approach to your zine? Did you ever consider turning London’s Outrage into a more commercial proposition like Jamming, for instance?
JS: No. I always disliked Jamming because I hated The Jam and the whole point of fanzines was to construct a new verbal / visual language, not to ape the existing music media. I also thought Sniffin’ Glue lost its edge when it got ‘professional’. Plus I thought Danny Baker was an idiot, unlike Mark Perry for whom I have great respect.
3:AM: “Outrage” was a punk buzzword like “boredom” or “anarchy”, but why exactly did you call your fanzine London’s Outrage?
JS: It was already on the Sex Pistols’ flyer (for the Notre Dame Hall gig) that I converted for the front cover. Easy.
3:AM: In a TV programme a few years ago, you spoke of the influence of Sheperd’s Bush on the Sex Pistols and of Notting Hill / Ladbroke Grove on The Clash: what impact did London have on the punk scene?
JS: Well, it started in London, didn’t it? This is too wide a question. The answers are in England’s Dreaming. The one thing I would say was that London was so decrepit that 15-25 year olds could leave home and squat or find cheap flats. Obviously, this is no longer possible.
3:AM: What were the punk years like for you on a day-to-day basis? Did you hang out at Louise’s [where the Pistols and the Bromley Contingent used to hang out] in the early days?
JS: No.
3:AM: Were you a regular at The Roxy [London’s first exclusively punk club]?
JS: Yes.
3:AM: Did you shop in Sex, Seditionaries, Acme Attractions, Boy or Beaufort Market [all on London’s King’s Road]?
JS: Yes. In a way that was my introduction because I shopped in Acme and must have been to Sex before I heard the British punk groups. I didn’t shop in Boy because I thought it was naff. My friend Poly Styrene had a stall in Beaufort Market, so I used to hang out there.
3:AM: Who were your favourite bands? Do you still listen to some of them today?
JS: Ramones, Sex Pistols, early Television, early Clash, The Adverts, The Buzzcocks, The Saints, Wire, Penetration, The Slits, Siouxsie, Subway Sect, The Prefects, X-Ray Spex — the distaff side. Still listen to them today, not all the time, but I still like the energy, the humour and the strong emotions. I hated The Jam and The Stranglers: ghastly retro rubbish, old information. The point about punk was that everything should be new.
3:AM: In England’s Dreaming, you claim that punk’s gay roots were hidden as soon as the movement went overground: how important were those roots?
JS: As important as they are throughout the history of popular culture and artistic movements: damn near central. Many of punk’s original participants were gay, and much of the original aesthetic was also. There is much about this in England’s Dreaming. Gay involvement in pop culture is always downplayed, if not ignored, by scared and insecure het boys who can’t admit that much of what they love comes from queers. Well it does, so get used to it.
3:AM: How did you graduate from the world of fanzines to the weekly music press, Sounds, Melody Maker and later The Face?
JS: Quick pick up of anyone on the scene who had a brain in early 1977: in my case, thanks to Dave Fudger and Vivien Goldman. For the rest of it, read Paul Gorman’s In Their Own Write.
3:AM: How did you get on with other young, hip gunslinging punk rock critics like Tony Parsons, Julie Burchill, Caroline Coon, John Ingham or Jane Suck?
JS: This is the bitching question, right? Pass.
3:AM: Much of what you have written (on Joy Division, for instance, or the intro to The Manual) is punk-related: is it still very much an influence for you?
JS: Well, obviously. It’s not like I’m sitting here with spiked up hair or bondage strides, but I do not regret any aspect of my involvement with punk at all and despise those who, in order to achieve some illusory ‘adulthood’, deride their adolescent ideals. I think that successful adulthood depends on the integration of youthful ideals with mature experience of the world.
3:AM: Where does your obsession with pop culture (from Picture Post Idols to house music through The Kinks) come from?
JS: Being a sentient being with quivering antennae in early sixties suburbia. The Beatles hit hard, and then I saw the Kinks on the telly in summer 1964 and couldn’t believe that boys could look like girls and make such an unholy racket. Compared to the other great option, sport, this mix of glamour and perceptual subversion was so much more attractive. Football: just a bunch of people in bad clothes running round in the rain, getting shouted at. I still loathe sport culture, not the sport. I was 10 in 1963, so the whole parade of sixties pop was unfurled before my greedy eyes. I couldn’t get enough of it.
3:AM: How did you come to write The Faber Book of Pop with Hanif Kureishi?
JS: His idea. A good one, as it happens.
3:AM: Did you like him as a writer?
JS: I liked Buddha, didn’t like Intimacy at all. Ultimately, we both want quite different things.
3:AM: Why do you think it took so long for punk to have an impact on British fiction?
JS: Because fiction always lags behind music. And because the literary ‘scene’ in England is SO vile. Example: when in 1975, I left university for the world, my guides were not Martin Amis or Ian McEwan, but Patti Smith and The Ramones. They told me all I needed to know, not the overhyped products of an incredibly small, and inward-looking clique.
3:AM: Who are your favourite contemporary British writers?
JS: I don’t think in these terms. All my reading is concentrated on my work which is at present located in the 1930s.
3:AM: How did the British Film Institute’s Never Mind the Jubilee punk season come about?
JS: I was asked by Hilary Smith (National Film Theatre Head) and I said yes. I knew most of the footage because of the research I’d done for England’s Dreaming and Arena’s Punk and the Pistols programme.
3:AM: What impact do you hope it will have? Punk is often seen retrospectively through the black and white photos of the music press: maybe these films will show how colourful it really was? It might also prove once and for all that there were no mohicans back in 77…
JS: Well that’s a start! I think seeing beyond the clichés presented by lame thirty/fortysomethings (example: Never Mind the Buzzcocks — a total travesty; another example, the super-straight Nick Hornby) is extremely important: punk was wild, outcast, vicious and protective at the same time. It wasn’t boring, and it wasn’t straight (I don’t mean this just in terms of sexuality, but in a perceptual sense). It did not, initially, reinforce the dominant values. So if you’re pissed off, you might pick up some tips. You might find a bunch of outcasts coming together curiously uplifting. There is, also, some great music there (and that’s where I came into all of this). Otherwise: punk is dead. It was 25 years ago: half an adult lifetime. Bye bye.
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A Flighty Mind Might Be Going Somewhere
Posted on February 20, 2012 by agallix
Hanif Kureishi, “The Art of Distraction,” The New York Times 18 February 2012
…If you’re writing and you get stuck, and you then make tea, while waiting for the kettle to boil the chances are good ideas will occur to you. Seeing that a sentence has to have a particular shape can’t be forced; you have to wait for your own judgment to inform you, and it usually does, in time. Some interruptions are worth having if they create a space for something to work in the fertile unconscious. Indeed, some distractions are more than useful; they might be more like realizations and can be as informative and multilayered as dreams. They might be where the excitement is. …A flighty mind might be going somewhere.
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Chalkboard: Dallas Cowboys Continue to Struggle Closing the First Half
Posted on December 12, 2013 by agarda
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”
– Auric Goldfinger from the James Bond novel Goldfinger
It’s a saying so true that during the Cold War, spies operating in Russia integrated it into what they called the “Moscow Rules.”
Someone should let the Dallas Cowboys know though because we’ve seen three instances of making some poor choices at the end of the first half which have resulted in big problems later.
Last time we looked at this, it was during a two-minute drill at the end of the first half against the New Orleans Saints.
Then, the Cowboys were down—as they were Monday night against the Chicago Bears—and went to the air, leaving a ton of time on the clock for Drew Brees to add some extra points on the board and essentially put the game away.
In the aforementioned Bears game, the Cowboys did it again—this time down just 17-14.
As with the Saints game, the Cowboys received the ball with under two-minutes to go.
They still had two of three timeouts as they set up for the beginning of their drive on their own 29-yard line.
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(1:27) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short left to D.Bryant to DAL 39 for 10 yards (T.Jennings; M.Wright).
While Dallas has shown itself to have a lot of bad habits, you can give them credit for one thing—they didn’t leave the backfield empty.
The Cowboys line up with running back DeMarco Murray in the backfield, and four receivers wide—two on either side of the line.
The left side consists of tight end Jason Witten just off tackle and receiver Dez Bryant along the sideline.
Unfortunately, it’s obvious from the snap that Murray isn’t getting the ball. There’s no fake or play-action, so the linebackers know right away that they can drop into coverage. In fact one of the three linebackers sneaks up to the line of scrimmage prior to the snap—so you have to imagine they knew the pass was coming anyway.
Given what we’ve seen of Dallas’ tendencies, that’s no shock.
DeMarco Murray is ignored by the defense for the most part as he slips out on a short route. The most attention he gets is from a safety creeping up after the snap.
The receivers to the right of the line head out on deeper routes, while Witten drags across the middle.
Bryant runs a short hook route along the left sideline.
While it’s great that Murray is out there, not using him to fool the defense makes it too easy on them.
After all, with 70 yards to go in 90 seconds or so, a defense is pretty sure a throw is coming—even with two timeouts.
Because the defense doesn’t need to give the run a thought, they are in perfect position to cover.
As you can see in the accompanying screen grab, The coverage is very good because nobody is worried about playing the run. Instead all they need to focus on are the receivers and the far safety (all the way at the left edge of the screen grab) can just hang back and contain.
The only person with even a little room is Bryant, because the corner is so concerned with Bryant’s speed that he has given him a nice cushion.
Even then, when the pass is completed, it takes a huge effort on the part of Bryant for the team to gain a first down.
Worse, he ends up hurt and, because it is within two minutes, the Cowboys have to squander one of their timeouts.
Perhaps if the team hadn’t had to waste one of their timeouts, head coach Jason Garrett and offensive coordinator Bill Callahan might have run the ball a few times. Maybe they wouldn’t have abandoned the run again since it had been so effective (Murray had 13 carries for 99 yards at the half).
(1:13) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short right to J.Witten.
The Cowboys once again line up with four wide—this time in trips right (three receivers on the right side of the line) and with Bryant once again on the far left side.
Murray is in the backfield as well, and it does look like he could be set to run the ball.
The Bears are set in their 4-3, the corners in single coverage. The corner on Bryant plays press off the line, to negate the receiver’s speed while the other corner leaves a bit of a cushion.
Again the ball is snapped and, again, it is immediately obvious this is a pass play.
The linebackers drop into coverage. This time out, Witten is open, though there are defenders right there. He drops the ball, one he should have caught.
Two things stand out.
First, it’s bitter cold. The announcers mentioned the temperature several times and it hovered around 7 degrees with the wind chill. When it’s that cold, not only do your hands feel like popsicle but the ball is hard as a rock.
Not an easy catch, especially on a literal frozen rope.
While you understand the decision to throw because of how far the offense has to go, you have to wonder if a shorter pass or a run might have been a better decision. The team still has plenty of clock left and a running back averaging 7.6 yards per carry.
Instead we see a route which is no more than 11 yards at the most, in brutal conditions to catch balls in.
Which is my second point. In these conditions, with a running back who is breaking off big yards, why are you throwing?
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(1:10) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short left to D.Murray.
This time out, the Cowboys set up with just three wide receivers with Witten joining Murray in the backfield.
If you’re interested in tipping off that you’re passing, a tight end lining up in the backfield is a good way to go.
Again, we’ve got plenty of clock to call for a run, and a timeout, but the Cowboys want the ball in the air.
This time the play is a good one, it’s just executed badly.
Murray squirts out on a short out. The defense has once again dropped back with the receivers going long, so Murray ends up wide open with nobody around him for ten yards.
He gets to the end of his route and stops—
—and quarterback Tony Romo overthrows him.
Romo didn’t like that, something which announcer Jon Gruden said was probably because Murray may have drifted in the route once he got open.
And sure, Murray should have been more still perhaps but it’s not like Romo threw to a spot where Murray wasn’t or Murray ran the wrong route. The pass was in the area—it was just too high and too hard.
So as much as Murray should have sat down when he finished his route, Romo needed to take something off the pass. It’s cold, people are dropping passes and it’s a running back he’s targeting.
You take something off the throw. That wide open there is zero reason to rocket the ball into the receiver.
(1:05) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short right to T.Williams (Z.Bowman).The Cowboys run basically the same formation as they did previously and you can see the Bears defense jumping up and down as they recognize it.
This time though, Murray actually stays in to block. Witten heads out on a route, but the Bears are not fooled and blanket him.
Romo has time and chooses to go to rookie Terrence Williams, who is coming back to help him out along the sideline. Cornerback Zack Bowman makes a nice play and bats the ball down.
The Cowboys have to punt.
Interestingly, Romo misses Miles Austin on a “go” route out of the slot.
Austin isn’t wide open but he does have a couple of steps on the coverage. Romo could have hit him with a long pass rather than try to force the throw into tighter coverage.
It could be he was worried about the deep safety, but it’s the sort of pass Romo can make so it’s surprising he didn’t take a shot given they needed a first down.
Even if Williams had caught the ball, he would have been short of a new set of downs.
The Cowboys are forced to punt and five plays later, the Bears score—arguably putting the game away.
Dallas never regained any real momentum on offense. After running the ball 13 times for 99 yards in the first half, Murray only runs five more times, though he gained 47 yards doing so.
The Cowboys had too many three-and-outs, rarely burned any clock and kept giving the Bears good field position.
Sure, the defense was horrible—the Bears never had to punt—but the offense absolutely didn’t help them out.
If you look at the game and want to find a tipping point, it looks to me that it’s easy to find.
Once again the poor play-calling prior to halftime, which led to a last second score by the opposing team, seems to be the beginning of the end.
Andrew Garda is a member of the Pro Football Writers Association. He is also a member of the fantasy football staff at FootballGuys.com, the NFL writer at CheeseheadTV.com and an NFL Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report. You can follow him at @andrew_garda on Twitter.
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Chalkboard: Josh Gordon’s 95-yard Touchdown vs. Jacksonville’s Cover-2
Posted on December 4, 2013 by agarda
Suffice to say that when a wide receiver drops 261 yards and a pair of touchdowns on your head, a secondary had better take a close look at the film to see what went wrong whether their team won or not.
That Josh Gordon destroyed two defenses in a row at least might offer some comfort. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Pittsburgh Steelers both got torched by Gordon for 200-plus yards in back-to-back games—the first time in NFL history that has happened.
Gordon ran a variety of routes Sunday, but the one which killed Jacksonville most consistently—and the one which burned them for a 95-yard touchdown—was the simple “dig” route Gordon ran.
Virtually every time he went out on that route, not only did he catch the ball, but the catch resulted in a big chunk of yards.
The problem was that he was able to repeatedly find the open space between the cornerback and the safety. The coverage never seemed to tighten up, so Gordon and quarterback Brandon Weeden kept exploiting it.
The Cover-2 is a pretty simple zone defense. In it, the linebackers often drop back into coverage in the middle of the field (on occasion one might rush the passer, but often it is left to the four linemen), the corners spread wide and the safeties drop back—each taking one half of the field.
If the receiver crosses out of the corner’s zone, the safety on that side will pick him up. Of course if the safety is too deep, a large open space can develop between the zones—which is what Gordon was taking advantage of.
This time out, Gordon (red highlight) and Weeden saw the Jaguar defense dropping into the Cover-2.
The “dig” is a pretty straightforward route. It’s really a straight route for anywhere from 10 to 20 yards, then the receiver crosses in (towards the ball) and moves through the middle of the field.
There are primarily three windows you can hit the receiver in (as illustrated below) although Gordon and Weeden were doing their damage in the first window pretty much all day. I don’t think I saw Weeden even bother hitting Gordon in the middle of the field or all the way across it.
Since Gordon was so open for that first window, so often, why mess with success?
The problem is, because that’s how they ran it every time, Jacksonville safety Guy Winston is pretty sure it’s coming.
He hovers, and spies on Gordon as the receiver runs his usual 15-yard route, settling at the 20 yard line, where Weeden delivers ball.
Honestly it doesn’t even look like he’s subtle about where it’s going. While you can’t see Weeden’s eyes, and therefore can’t be 100 percent sure, his head never swivels off of Gordon.
Everyone knows where this is going.
Winston has two choices. He can get on Gordon and try to jar the ball loose, at best breaking the pass up, at worst tackling him immediately. Or he can try to jump the route and attempt to intercept the pass.
He chooses the second option. That aggressiveness isn’t a bad thing for a safety and if he makes the pick, he could actually take the ball back for six points.
However, he misses it and—well you can see what happens.
Here’s where the gamble comes in when you go for the pick, not the play. There is nobody behind Winston. As the safety, he is the last line of defense. Everyone else you see trying to get Gordon is at a huge disadvantage, coming from behind and across the field.
Look at that open green space.
Nobody is catching Gordon on that play.
Not #27, Dwayne Gratz who is trailing. Not #37, rookie Johnathan Cyprien who has a bad angle coming across the field and trailing.
In this case, when Winston rolled the dice, they came up craps and wiped the table.
Gordon’s touchdown gave the lead (28-25) with under four minutes to play.
Unfortunately for the Browns, the defense couldn’t hold and Cleveland lost a tough one.
The Jaguars may have won the war, but their secondary is still wondering how Gordon single-handily won so many individual battles.
Andrew Garda is a member of the Pro Football Writers Association. He is also a member of the fantasy football staff at FootballGuys.com and the NFL writer at CheeseheadTV.com. You can follow him at @andrew_garda on Twitter.
Posted in X's & O's | Tagged Brandon Weeden, chalkboard, Cleveland Browns, cover-2, dig route, football, Guy Winston, Jacksonville Jaguars, Josh Gordon, nfl, touchdown | Leave a comment
Chalkboard: Case Keenum’s Mad Scramble and 42-yard Touchdown Pass
Posted on November 19, 2013 by agarda
Oftentimes choosing which play I break down is difficult. We can pick out a dozen plays on any weekend and make an argument for or against breaking any of them down.
Sometimes they leap right out at you.
Two plays did that this week, but by now we’ve all read enough about the Carolina-New England pass interference penalty (and a wide open Danny Amendola) to have our fill.
The other play not only was amazing on its own merits, but even more so in the face of the benching of the quarterback involved later on.
Houston Texans quarterback Case Keenum has looked very good since taking over for an imploding Matt Schaub in Week 7. Since then he has completed 55.5 percent of his passes for 992 yards, eight touchdowns and one interception.
Considering he was undrafted in the 2012 NFL draft and spent that year on the practice squad, that’s pretty impressive.
As was his scramble and touchdown pass.
The play took place on a 3rd and 1, with 12:09 left in the second quarter.
The Oakland Raiders are clearly thinking run and with Ben Tate and a fullback lined up in the backfield as well as an extra tight end to the right side.
Another tight end, Garrett Graham, is to the left and behind the line of scrimmage. The Raiders have a defender on him because he could go either out on a route or block easily.
It’s a tight offensive formation, built to run and the Raiders react accordingly, with ten players in the box, eight of which are on the line of scrimmage.
Graham goes in motion though, pulling a defender with him to the right side of the formation. Again, this absolutely signals run to the defense as the formation is now heavily stacked to the right side.
Even when the ball is snapped, the offensive line blocks to its left, away from the way the runner would go, thereby selling the run even more.
Keenum snaps the ball and instead of handing it off, drops back.
Graham ignores the defender in front of him and appears to move to the second level to block.
With Graham going out, defensive end Lamarr Houston plunges into the backfield unchecked and Keenum is forced to leave the pocket very early.
While Houston is chasing Keenum down, the quarterback keeps his eyes downfield, clearly looking to throw if he can. He gets outside quickly too—Houston is immediately a step behind and therefore is at a bad angle of attack.
The result is that when Keenum cuts towards the sideline, Houston can’t react quickly enough and dives at the quarterback, hoping to trip him up.
He misses though, and Keenum is able to get to the sideline, set and throw the ball downfield.
Meanwhile, Graham, having also ignored defenders at the second level, has gone out on a “fly” route and managed to get behind veteran free safety Charles Woodson.
UPDATE POST-ALL22 VIEWING
Now that All-22 Coaches film is out, Wodson’s actions become much clearer, as I assumed they would.
On the play, Graham’s route stops at about the 25-yard line., where he turns a bit towards the right sideline. Woodson is about five yards beyond him and closer to the sideline and both players drift back towards the play as Keenum scrambles.
Once Keenum eludes Houston, Graham turns and sprints upfield. Woodson, who has moved towards the play sees this and tries to turn, stumbling as he does so.
That momentary delay allows Graham to get to top speed before Woodson can accelerate. All things being equal, Woodson does an excellent job catching up to Graham and the pass.
Woodson he goes from five yards behind Graham and catches up to him, though that is also in part because Graham slows down to catch the ball.
However, he doesn’t get there quickly enough and Graham makes the catch for the touchdown.
The play is the result of some great work by the quarterback. Keenum doesn’t panic, doesn’t try to force something. He scrambles, keeps his eyes downfield looking for Graham and then decisively delivers the ball when he see Graham break free.
Of course, it’s help by an over-committed Raiders run defense, but we shouldn’t take anything away from the excellent play by Keenum.
Which makes his benching for Schaub all the more perplexing.
He did throw an interception early but he was hit while he threw, resulting in a wobbly and off-target pass. It was also his first interception this season.
Keenum also fumbled the ball in the third quarter, though Graham recovered it.
It could also be that before he was yanked, he had directed three series where he went three downs and out. When he was removed the Texans were behind 28-17, but at that point doesn’t the defense hold some responsibility? They’re the ones letting up 80-yard touchdown runs.
However, those are the moments you want to find out about your young quarterback. Can he bounce back? Can he lead the team from behind?
Instead you stick in a quarterback who had been horrendous when starting this season and manage to show that with one more pass attempt, he can throw for less yards.
Keenum gives you mobility Schaub will never have and while he is young, brings a poise to the pocket which was lacking prior to his first start.
Coach Kubiak is unimpressed by your antics Keenum….
It’s hard to look at the game completely and see what head coach Gary Kubiak was seeing, or understand why Schaub was plugged back in.
Did they lose every game Keenum started? Yes, but looking at his run, that’s as much an indictment of an under-performing defense as it is Keenum—perhaps more of one.
Keenum will get the start but we got no real clarity from Kubiak’s explanation of going to Schaub, so it’s not beyond belief that it could happen again.
If he does, it might be Kubiak—not Schaub—who gets booed by the crowd and yelled at by Andre Johnson.
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Chalkboard: Dallas Cowboys 2 Minute Drill vs New Orleans Saints
I nearly called this, “How to Telegraph Every Play in a Panic.”
Because the more you look at the Dallas Cowboys’ 1st half 2-minute drill last Sunday against the New Orleans Saints, the more you wonder how it a team with so much time on the clock can sabotage themselves.
Near the end of the first quarter, Dallas was trailing New Orleans 21-10. The Saints had just scored a touchdown but there was plenty of ballgame left and the Cowboys had 1st and 10 at their own 20 yard line after the ensuing kickoff.
In order to fully set the stage, you need to know a few other details.
At this point in the half, quarterback Tony Romo had thrown for 12 yards on six attempts. Running back DeMarco Murray had been much more effective with 11 carries for 80 yards and a touchdown.
Also, the Cowboys would get the ball back at the start of the second half.
While the Cowboys trailed by 11 points, there was ample time to get going.
You wouldn’t have known it by what happened on this drive.
(1:32) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass short right to J.Witten to DAL 28 for 8 yards (C.Lofton).
Now, as announcer Chris Collinsworth mentioned in the broadcast, the formation Dallas is in here is the one they used to beat the Minnesota Vikings the previous week.
The thing is, the Saints’ defense is much better than the Vikings this season and more than likely they’d watched the tape of that drive. Also, there should be a different mindset driving 80 or 90 yards with 2 minutes to go in the game versus less than 2 minutes to go in the first half.
Still, the play is a good start. The receivers on the right run vertical routes, which clears out the underneath for Jason Witten, who cuts outside and away from his defender for a nice 8-yard gain (highlighted in green again).
Now the flipside to this—and the staff should have seen this—is that every receiver is well covered. With an empty backfield, the Saints can just lay back and wait for the inevitable throw and what’s more, the safeties can hover and wait to see where Romo is looking. They don’t have to worry about the running back eating up yards.
This will come up again shortly.
2-2-DAL 28
(1:09) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short middle to T.Williams (C.White).
The Cowboys set up for second down in the exact same formation, including the empty backfield.
Now, with the time left, you can understand not using Murray out of the backfield on a run. Dallas has no time outs and can’t burn much clock.
By the same token, not having Murray back there at all once again opens things up for the secondary, especially the safeties.
Dez Bryant is up top and runs a “go” route, while Witten is lined up off the left tackle and runs a “post.” In the slot between them is Cole Beasley who just runs a short hook.
On the right side of the line, receiver Dwayne Harris also runs a short hook.
The green highlighted route is rookie Terrance Williams, who is lined up on the far right outside. Williams had been targeted twice to this point, but had no catches.
Unlike the first play, which utilized the outside receivers to clear traffic away for the underneath route, Williams’ route takes him right into the middle of the defense.
There are no receivers clearing out the area and because there is zero run threat, the safety is just hanging out there waiting on the pass.
The above screen grab has the defenders general area of coverage in red, with the relative area of effect for the receivers in yellow.
Romo has a great option—two in fact—but either has predetermined Williams is the guy to go to or completely misses both Witten (wide open just past the 40 yard line) and Beasley (open short).
It’s possible he saw Beasley and opted to not go short, which given the time is understandable to a point.
How he missed Witten is a mystery—until you look at the All-22, particularly the end zone angle.
At most, Romo throws a cursory glance towards his left, more of an attempt to look the safety off than a check to see if anyone was open.
Going back to the previous screen grab, you can see that Bryant is perfectly covered up top (with one safety in place to help) and Harris is equally covered on his short hook.
Williams is not open either and is bracketed by cornerback Corey White low and a safety over the top.
That doesn’t stop Romo who is lucky he isn’t picked off by White or the safety, Rafael Bush.
Even if Williams had made the catch, he’s in the middle of the field with no time outs.
Witten is open along the side and could have easily made the catch and continued out of bounds. Or you might as well have run the ball, picked up the first and hurried up to the line. Just like you would have if Williams had caught this ball.
(1:04) (Shotgun) T.Romo pass incomplete short middle to C.Beasley (C.White).
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
An empty backfield, five wide receiver set. The defense is once again able to allow their safeties to hang back and allow the play to form before needing to react.
Keep in mind that at this point, not even thirty seconds has elapsed. The Cowboys have no timeouts, sure, but the Saints do and the Cowboys are not managing the clock.
An efficient offense could move the ball, including runs and short passes, without timeouts. We see guys like Drew Brees, Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers do it all the time and sometimes they even run the ball.
There is no efficiency in this drive, no working the sidelines, no moving the chains. So here they are on 3rd and 2, and in this situation they chose to just try to get the first down on a short slant to Beasley.
As they were clearly not trying to hit a home run, why not have Murray in the backfield to give Romo more options, give the defense more to think about it or perhaps even give the ball to your running back, who has been averaging 7.3 yards-per-carry.The play itself features three deep routes, Witten on an “in” route and Beasley on his slant.Once again though, the routes of the other receivers don’t help clear the way for Beasley and, in point of fact, Witten’s route brings up a defender into the area Beasley is going into.Theoretically, the idea might have been that Witten pulls coverage with him in the opposite direction Beasley is going in while the vertical routes open up the sideline.Witten doesn’t run his pattern quick enough or Romo hurries the play. He certainly had time to let Beasley get a bit further on his route, enough time for Witten to pull his defender away. Either way, the pass is deflected by White again and the Cowboys are forced to punt.Not even 30 seconds have elapsed. The Saints get the ball back on their own 31 yard line with 53 seconds left and then show the Cowboys how to run an efficient offense.Sure, they have timeouts to burn, but they attack the inside, don’t get cute and concentrate on picking up yards.If you give Brees a minute and three timeouts, you get this. If you want to know what the tipping point for this game was, folks you’re looking at it.Although there is a strong argument to be made that poor playcalling and obvious formations by the Cowboys in the plays leading up to the Saints’ last first half possession played their part.Andrew Garda is a member of the Pro Football Writers Association. He is also a member of the fantasy football staff at FootballGuys.com, the NFL writer at CheeseheadTV.com and an NFL Featured Columnist at Bleacher Report. You can follow him at @andrew_garda on Twitter.
Posted in NFL Football, Uncategorized, X's & O's | Tagged Cole Beasley, Dallas Cowboys, Darren Sproles, Demarco Murray, Dez Bryant, Drew Brees, football, Jason Witten, New Orleans Saints, nfl, Terrance Williams, Tony Romo | 1 Comment
Chalkboard: Adrian Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings’ Run Blocking
Posted on November 8, 2013 by agarda
There’s no doubt that Adrian Peterson is one of the greatest running backs of all time and we saw more evidence of that Thursday night against Washington.
As good as Peterson can be though, he’s even better when his offensive line is blocking. During long stretches of Thursday night’s game, that wasn’t the case, but really that just highlighted how good he was.
And how much more impressive he is when the blocking is there.
Today, we’ll break down two of Peterson’s big runs from Thursday night.
18-yard Touchdown Run, 5:17 1st Quarter
This run was largely one which happened because of Peterson’s speed and elusiveness. Once he was at the second level, tacklers just couldn’t get a bead on him.
That said, for several runs prior to this Peterson had been struggling because the offensive line just couldn’t make the blocks he needed.
On this play, he got the sort of support he got more frequently during his 2012 NFL campaign.
Peterson lined up well in the backfield with fullback Jerome Felton set forward and to his right and quarterback Christian Ponder under center.
Tight end John Carlson and receiver Greg Jennings are also to Peterson’s right—the formation is heavily weighted right.
At the snap, as announcer Mike Mayock mentions, center John Sullivan steps forward to engage the defensive lineman directly in front of him.
There are a few things also worthy of note but not brought up on the broadcast. The left side of the line—left tackle Matt Kalil and backup center/guard Joe Berger do an excellent job sealing off the rush on that side and clearing the run lane.
Wide receiver Jerome Simpson (near the bottom of the screen) also gets out and sets up a nice block.
Sullivan passes off the defender he initially engages in to right guard Brandon Fusco, then steps out to pick up an incoming linebacker, Perry Riley.
Both sides of the line do a really nice job creating space, though Peterson himself shows off his vision and ability to “get small” in order to get through the sliver of space in front of him.
Once he gets to the second level, Peterson cuts the run outside to his left and turns on his speed. A few bad angles by tacklers later and he’s chalking up his eighth touchdown.
16-yard Run, :41 1st Quarter
Another solid example of good blocking came at the close of the 1st quarter.
The Vikings were on their own 43-yard line on second down with five yards to go.
Peterson had just caught a pass for five yards and the Vikings were driving down the field attempting to respond to a Washington touchdown.
The Vikings went four wide, spreading the defense and trying to keep them from stacking eight or nine men in the box in case Paterson ran. Peterson is the lone back, with no blockers or anyone else in the backfield save Ponder, who is in the shotgun.
Spreading the defense out gives the offensive line a better advantage in numbers—with receivers on either side of the line going out, there will only be the front four of Washington’s 4-3 clogging up running lanes.
The linebackers will probably initially hold off to drop into coverage, only stepping up when Peterson is well on his way to the hole.
As you can see after the snap, the offensive line does a great job of holding off the pass rush, save for Sullivan who has a little bit of an issue with his buddy from the touchdown run, Perry Riley.
Save for that, though, you can see that the line is firing out and has the defensive line on it’s heels. And since the defense was spread out, there is a spare offensive lineman—guard Brandon Fusco.
As you can see on the screen-capture, Fusco immediately gets to the second level and is in perfect position to throw a block at either of the linebackers there—both of whom are still hesitating to make sure the hand-off really happens and isn’t a play-action.
You can also see receiver Greg Jennings just off the left tackle, moving out as if going on a route. That holds a linebacker in place but also will allow Jennings to block for Peterson momentarily.
Sullivan shoves Riley out of the play as Peterson heads to the “6” hole, just off the right tackle, where receiver Joe Webb is blocking as well.
Note that Fusco and Jennings are now about to engage the linebackers in preparation for when Peterson reaches the second level.
As it stands, there is nobody in position to stop him the running back from doing so either.
Once Peterson gets through the hole, the blocking up ahead by Fusco and Jennings—as well as the receivers on the far edges of the play—allow him to have multiple choices and angles to take the ball.
This is where Peterson is most dangerous, at the second level with open space. He’s a pain to bring down at or behind the line but when he has space and speed he’s an absolute nightmare.
With a safety coming up to fill the gap to his right, Peterson wisely follows his blockers, which gives them about six more yards before he is brought down.
There’s a lot that Peterson can do on his own, but the difference between when he has to, versus when he has solid blocking is phenomenal.
When the Vikings offensive line can fire out and hit their blocks, Peterson goes from “dangerous” to “potentially lethal to the opposition.”
Posted in Writing, X's & O's | Tagged adrian peterson, brandon fusco, football, john sullivan, minnesota vikings, nfl, run blocking | Leave a comment
Chalkboard: How Andy Dalton Got Sacked in OT against Miami
While it’s been a week since the Miami Dolphins upset the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday Night Football, a lot of the actual game has been lost in the tumult of the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin imbroglio.
The play we’re looking at today is the one which ended the game—the sack by Cam Wake of Andy Dalton in overtime.
This had not been Dalton’s best game—all the more shocking given the tear he had been on the previous few weeks. Dalton seemed out of sync with his receivers, held the ball too long and made some very poor decisions when he did get the ball out.
The Dolphins did an excellent job keeping him under pressure.
In overtime of the 20-20 game, the Dolphins had pinned the Bengals back on their own eight yard line. Dalton had thrown two incomplete passes before the final play. Miami brought five pass rushers on the first play, but only three on second down, choosing instead to blanket the receivers.
After two failed passes, Dalton was faced with a 3rd-and-10 in his own end—not the best situation to be in. We can debate the wisdom of the first two plays all we want—personally I think they were questionable at best—but regardless, the Bengals were in a hole.
The Bengals, having to throw, set up with four receivers wide and Cedric Peerman the lone running back.
Meanwhile, the Dolphins aren’t trying to hide anything—they’re coming for Dalton, hard. He’s going to need to get the ball out quickly if he’s to avoid a fatal sack.
On top of that, the secondary is largely playing well off the receivers. They don’t care about the short pass on 3rd-and-long—they don’t want to get beat deep.
In the end the Dolphins only rush five, but the Bengals’ offensive line is immediately on its heels.
Wake slides over to engage with second year guard Kevin Zeitler.
Zeitler holds him up for a moment—
—but then lets Wake break inside.
Instead of controlling and maneuvering Wake where he wants him to go, he allows Wake to dictate where his path will be. Leaning into the block as Zeitler does, he lacks the leverage to hold Wake and on top of it, he hasn’t shifted with Wake and is no longer in front of him.
Since we don’t know the call and responsibilities on the field it’s hard to kill Zeitler too much—he might have expected help from Peerman, who stepped up to the right to hold off another incoming Dolphin.
However, his technique looks pretty shoddy and he was just plain overmatched by the quicker and stronger Wake.
Meanwhile, Dalton may have very little time to react to all this, but he compounds Zeitler getting beat in several ways.
First of all, Dalton is very clearly looking left for either A.J. Green or Mohamed Sanu.
It’s probably Green, since Sanu is open very quickly and Dalton is obviously waiting for whomever he is looking at to break free—Green is well covered during the play. On top of it his route takes him right into the teeth of the coverage covering tight end Jermaine Gresham.
It’s safe to assume that perhaps the read is Sanu and that Green and Gresham are supposed to clear coverage out. Again though, this play needs to come off quickly and Dalton needs to see up front that there is no way he will have the time to wait for that play to develop.
You can see Dalton is sacked and all three receivers are still covered.
While he’s staring Green down, he’s also missing Marvin Jones open across the middle.
It could be that by the time Jones really got separation that Dalton is already about to get creamed by Wake, but I question the logic of going deep—a pattern you have to wait on—when you’re at your own eight yard line in an obvious passing situation.
It seems to me—and of course, this is speculation—that Dalton would see Wake and the Dolphins preparing tobring the house and adjust to a quicker route.
Get the first and keep going down the field. You have time, there’s no need to go for it all.
Of course, we can ask a similar question of offensive coordinator Jay Gruden. You have six minutes. Why go for it all on every down?
This was one of the worst series of play selections I saw all weekend and I still can’t figure why anyone would call the plays Gruden did in that position.
The second, and more important point is, Dalton cannot take that sack. Even if he thought he was out of the end zone, he has to get rid of the ball or move out of the pocket.
He has a second—albeit a split-second—where he can step to his right and stretch the play out.
Instead he turtles and gives up the sack.
The best case scenario is you end up punting from the one. The field position—and here again is the problem I have with the play selection—is going to be great for the Dolphins.
You can’t do that in overtime. You just can’t.
Well, you can—but it ends much like it did in this game.
Posted in Writing, X's & O's | Tagged Andy Dalton, Cam Wake, cincinnati bengals, football, jay gruden, Kevin Zeitler, miami dolphins, nfl, thursday night football, X's & O's | Leave a comment
Chalkboard: Packers Jordy Nelson’s 76-yard Touchdown Highlights Chemistry with Aaron Rodgers
Posted on October 29, 2013 by agarda
Bromance! Rodgers and Nelson are a match made in NFL production heaven. (image via SI.com)
It’s taken place quietly, but this season has shown the NFL that there are few—if any—better quarterback/wide receiver combinations in the NFL than the Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers to Jordy Nelson.
That was on constant display Sunday night when the Packers—minus three key pieces in Jermichael Finley, Randall Cobb and James Jones—took the field and appeared to have not even missed a beat.
Yes, props need to go to Jarrett Boykin and Myles White, two players who were an afterthought going into the season and Eddie Lacy, who has given this team a legitimate ground game.
Still, it was Nelson who Rodgers looked too most in the game and Nelson who caught all but one pass thrown his way.
Rodgers knows where Nelson is, where he will be and that if he puts the ball anywhere near Nelson, the receiver will catch it. We saw it all day Sunday, just as we have all season.
Nelson’s 76-yard touchdown in the second quarter was a great example of all of the above, but also featured an interesting defensive shift which Rodgers saw and was able to take advantage of.
The play takes pace on a 3rd-and-6 in the second quarter with the game tied 10-10.
The Packers set up with four wide receivers and just fullback John Kuhn in the backfield. White is in the slot (or “Y”) position, while Boykin is lined up at flanker (or the “Z”). Both are off the line of scrimmage.
On the far side (top of the picture), tight end Andrew Quarless is lined up at split end (or “X”). Jordy Nelson is lined up on the line in the spot where the tight end would normally be, which might be part of the reason why the pass works so well.
The Vikings are lining up in their 4-3, despite defensive end Everson Griffin up and walking around. He eventually settles inside, though he remains upright without his hand in the dirt.
As Rodgers snaps the ball, all four receivers head out on routes, as well as Kuhn. The Packers keep nobody back to help protect Rodgers so the line has to hold up and Rodgers needs to get the ball out as soon as possible.
Kuhn runs a screen while Quarless clears out the cornerback with a short slant in. Boykin runs a post route while White goes underneath with a short slant.
Nelson also appears to run a post, though his cut is very shallow, so he might have been running a go and just adjusted to Rodgers as he ran.
Meanwhile, when the ball is snapped the Vikings run what I call a “ripple stunt.” A regular old stunt is when two players on the defense (usually defensive linemen but sometimes they involve linebackers or defensive backs) trade roles in the hopes that the offense will be confused, making it easier for the defenders to beat them and get after the quarterback.
This particular stunt is what’s sometimes referred to as cross-rushing—when a defensive lineman drops back and a linebacker charges forward hoping to take the offensive line by surprise.
I call this a ripple stunt because it involves three players in a sort of waterfall effect.
Griffin drops back to the linebacker position while strongside linebacker Chad Greenway shifts to the right and middle linebacker Erin Henderson blitzes. If you’re wondering where the other outside linebacker is, it looks as though he was replaced on this play with an extra defensive back. No. 35, Marcus Sherels is lined up across from White and blitzes.
Which is a gamble anyway because it leaves White completely uncovered. If Sherels doesn’t get to Rodgers in time—and he doesn’t—Rodgers has an outlet for the first down anyway.
It’s not a bad stunt as far as gambles go, but it has one (other) fatal flaw.
Looking at the left side of the above screen-capture, you can see how far Greenway has to go to get in position to cover Nelson.
All things being equal, Greenway does a good job getting over to Nelson, though his momentum is moving in the wrong direction and his back is to Rodgers.
Still, he’s where he is supposed to be.
Here’s where that remarkable chemistry between Rodgers and Nelson comes in.
Nelson knows he essentially has Greenway beat. He knows the ball will be coming quickly and he has to be ready.
Meanwhile, Rodgers likely read the coverage shift as soon as the snap went off (assuming this isn’t something he saw in film study last week) and loved the mismatch of a linebacker on Nelson. He also knows that the sooner he gets the ball into Nelson’s hand, the better.
So Rodgers gets the ball out quickly and Nelson is ready for it when it rips past Greenway’s ear.
Because Greenway’s momentum is going the wrong direction, he loses precious moments as he tries to adjust.
Meanwhile, Nelson accelerates and few bad angles and missed tackles later, he’s in the end zone.
This was just one example of the synergy that Nelson and Rodgers have. The first touchdown Nelson caught was much the same sort of throw—pinpoint accurate and on a rope.
Rodgers knows he can throw it that way to Nelson because he knows Nelson will make that catch happen 99 times out of 100.
As for the Vikings, this is the sort of gamble which can pay off big but when it goes wrong, it really stings. While the real kill-shot was probably the 93-yard punt return touchdown by Mycah Hyde two minutes later, this was the play which really seemed to open up things for the Packers’ offense.
In a close game a gamble like that can turn things in your favor. In this case, it started an avalanche of momentum that spelled doom for the Vikings.
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19th Annual Flutie Golf Classic Recap
September 17, 2018 October 16, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Uncategorized 19th Annual Flutie Golf Classic, 98.5, 98.5 The Sports Hub, Alan Seymour, Alexa Flutie, APEX, Billy Flutie, Bob Socci, Brae Burn Country Club, Charles Hirsch, Dan Alperin, Danny Fortier, David Morris, Doug Flutie, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Flutie 5K, Flutie Fellow, Flutie Foundation, Flutie Golf Classic, Golf Ball Cannon, Ian Sumner, Jayme Parker, Jeff Fortier, Joe Fortier, Nationwide Hole in One, NBC Sports Boston, NESN, Nick Savarese, Nicole Guglielmucci, Ryan Fortier, Sean MacLaughlin, Special Olympics, Steve Burton, Tom E. Curran, TripAdvisor, Tyler Lagasse, Waban, WBZ
Below is my video recap of the 19th Annual Flutie Golf Classic as well as the script. I was there for my Flutie Fellowship, and I had a blast.
The 19th Annual Flutie Golf Classic took place at the Brae Burn Country Club this past Monday, September 17. The turnout was great and the foundation raised lots of money. Golfers arrived ready for a fun day of golfing, a buffet-style dinner, silent auctions, and more. Golfers checked-in outside the clubhouse, then they got into their golf carts and they were off.
Tyler Lagasse, Special Olympics golf silver medalist who was sponsored by the foundation, stayed at Hole 1. This was a team tournament, so the place where longest drive of the four team members landed is where everyone took their second shot. Tyler would drive a ball for each group. That way, if a team didn’t like their drives, they could use Tyler’s.
This year, Doug Flutie insisted on golfing the entire course rather than staying at one hole, so he joined a team with his family members to compete.
There were many other people out golfing, including Steve Burton of WBZ, Tom E. Curran of NBC Sports Boston, Charles Hirsch of Special Olympics, Jayme Parker, formerly of NESN, Sean MacLaughlin of APEX, David Morris of TripAdvisor, Dan Alperin and Bob Socci of 98.5, Alexa Flutie’s husband Ian Sumner, other family of Doug including Billy Flutie, Danny Fortier, Jeff Fortier, Joe Fortier, and Ryan Fortier, former Flutie dad of the year and Doug Flutie’s long-time friend Alan Seymour.
On the 15th hole, Nationwide Hole in One provided golfers with their “Golf Ball Cannon”. They charged $20 per shot, but if all four golfers in a group made the green with the cannon, it was an automatic eagle, and the closest golfer to the pin would win a ticket package, where they could buy 2 tickets to any sporting event, play, or concert of their choice!
We did not capture the winning shot on camera, but we know that the winner had shot the ball within 59 inches of the pin!
After the tournament, everyone returned to the clubhouse to chat, enjoy appetizers and bid in the silent auctions. At around 6PM, they served dinner, and Nick Savarese of the Flutie Foundation as well as Doug Flutie himself gave us an update on the foundation and how Dougie is doing. After that, Tyler Lagasse went up as a guest speaker with an inspiring speech about autism. Tyler and I helped the foundation’s Nicole Guglielmucci hand out the awards, and we said our goodbyes.
I had a blast at the event, and I’m also looking forward to the 19th annual Flutie 5K in just two weeks! Time has really flown by. It feels like I just emceed the 18th annual a couple months ago, and I was invited back to emcee again this year. Feel free to stop by and say hello at the 5K.
Day 5 in Seattle: Final Round/Week Recap for 2018 Special Olympics USA Games Level V Golf Tournament
July 7, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized Brock Aoki, Colin Weston, Deborah Horne, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Eagles Talon, ESPN, Flutie Fellow, Flutie Foundation, Husky Stadium, Jen Lada, Josh Vorensky, KIRO 7, ModGolf, Mount Rainier, Opening Ceremonies, Peter Condon, Scott Rohrer, Seattle, Seattle 2018, Space Needle, Special Olympics, Special Olympics USA Games, Thomas Cleek, Tyler Lagasse, Willows Run, Willows Run Golf Club
Scott Rohrer (right) with the other top 5 golfers: Brock Aoki (far left), Peter Condon (left), Thomas Cleek (middle), and Tyler Lagasse (far right)
For the 3rd and final round on the 4th of July, Scott Rohrer started the day with a solid lead. His playing partners for the day, Peter Condon of Washington was 7 strokes back and Thomas Cleek of Missouri was 8 strokes back. Tyler Lagasse was also 8 strokes back and started on hole 2, just 1 hole in front of Scott in the shotgun start.
All the golfers were strong off the tee from the beginning and early on it was Scott’s strength as it had been for most of the 3-day tournament.
The greens seemed to be playing even tougher on this final day as it had been mostly dry and sunny on day 2 and it was a very clear and sunny day right from the start of the day 3. It showed, as Scott and his partners struggled with putting on the 1st green and it continued for Scott for the first 8 holes. It showed in his scores as he started double bogey, bogey, bogey on the first 3 holes and was 5 over as he waited to tee off on the Par 3 9th hole with Tyler putting for birdie on the green of the same hole.
Tyler came out on fire, playing aggressive and with confidence and was even par through his first 7 holes with a birdie on 4 to offset his bogey on 2, his first hole of the day. Since the tee box was moved closer on the 8th hole to make it a par 3 hole for the tournament, holes 7, 8, and 9 were all par 3’s so Scott’s group had caught up to Tyler’s and Scott was waiting for them on the 9th tee box as Tyler sunk his birdie, making him one under.
At this point in the round, Scott knew he was not playing his best and seeing Tyler’s birdie probably got his competitive juices flowing, especially after he had just bogeyed hole 8.
Scott then hit his tee shot on the 9th green landing his ball about 5 feet away from the hole. Scott let himself know and everybody in the crowd know that he was still fighting for gold as he fist pumped and yelled “boom” as he did on all of his big successful putts in this tournament.
That was the start of a tournament clinching stretch of holes from 9 through 16. On the 10th hole, Scott pitched in for eagle from deep rough over the high mound of the back of the green. Scott was so far away from the hole that we could only capture the ball popping up in the air and rolling into the hole as you heard Scott and then the crowd, roar.
At that point it was clear it was going to be Scott’s day to win Gold for the 3rd straight Special Olympics USA Games. After the very exciting and momentum changing 9th and 10th holes, Scott had only 2 bogeys for the rest of the day. He finished the last 4 holes with birdies on 15 and 16. As he approached his putt on 18, he walked with confidence knowing he had the lead on his two playing partners for the day and that his par putt on 18 was likely for the win.
I watched Scott beam with pride as he spoke to Jen Lada of ESPN first. He wanted to give me the first interview but I was happy to wait, watch, and learn as Jen with her producer Josh Vorensky and the ESPN camera crew conducted their interview for the station’s Special Olympic coverage. Jen pointed Scott in my direction after her interview was finished and he was happy to speak to me.
Tyler Lagasse had won silver for the 3rd straight Special Olympic USA games, 6 strokes behind his friend and first round partner Scott Rohrer. Scott’s finish was too strong for Tyler to catch up. Tyler was still all smiles because he loves the game and he gave it his best effort to go for Gold. I met with him after his round was over.
I had an unbelievable week with Scott and Tyler. Without them and the Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism who sponsored all 3 of us, none of the experiences I had would have been possible.
I started my journey in Seattle with a tour of Eagle’s Talon where Tyler and Scott would battle it out with the other Olympians for 3 straight days. My tour included the Hole 3 green known for its beautiful view of Mount Rainier. It was too overcast to see the mountain that first day but over the next several days while following the games, the sky cleared up and Mount Rainier slowly came into view.
Me at Hole 3 of Eagles Talon during my Day 1 tour. It was overcast, so I could not see Mount Rainier.
Me at Eagles Talon on my final day in Seattle with Mount Rainier behind to my right
My week kind of went the same way as I came into the week unclear on what I would do and how it would come together.
But in the end, each day I grew as a reporter and as a person looking up to Tyler and Scott as I learned of their stories and how they have achieved so much by working so hard. Over the week I had time with Deborah Horne of KIRO 7 news who put my dad and I on the air. I got to cheer the athletes at Husky Stadium for an unbelievable Opening Ceremony. That same day, I had the chance to visit the Space Needle in Seattle Center. On my last day I met and interviewed with Podcaster Colin Weston of ModGolf. I also even learned a few tips directly from Jen Lada of ESPN.
But this trip was about all the inspirational athletes I saw at the Opening Ceremonies and especially about Tyler and Scott because they were why I was in Seattle. To me it was fitting that on the last day as Scott and I reached the 3rd hole for the last time that Mount Rainier was visible for the first time all week. These golfers had reached yet another summit and I got to share the experience with them. They have inspired me and many others to keep pushing to be the best you can be.
Behind the scenes, this trip was not easy for me and at times I got very frustrated when things did not go as I expected. However, just like for Tyler and Scott on the golf course, I was able to find focus on camera. Now I know I have to keep working to improve my skills to be the best me I can be. With this life changing opportunity to be a Flutie Fellow covering such an exciting national event and travel to Seattle for the first time, I am one step closer to reaching my goal to become a Professional Sports Broadcaster.
Below are the final results of the Special Olympics USA Games Level V Golf Tournament:
Note: Divisions M01-M03 are High Performance (Blue Tees), the rest of the golfers (M04-M07) teed off from the White Tees.
This post is also available on the Flutie Foundation Blog
Day 4 in Seattle: Round 2 Recap from the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games Level V Golf Tournament
July 4, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized Brock Aoki, Chris Lussier, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Eagles Talon, Flutie Foundation, Golf, Massachusetts, Missouri, Peter Condon, Rhode Island, Scott Rohrer, Seattle, Seattle 2018, South Carolina, Special Olympics, Special Olympics USA Games, Thomas Cleek, Tony Marino, Tyler Lagasse, Utah, Washington, Willows Run, Willows Run Golf Club, Willows Run Golf Complex
If there was only one thing I could say to describe the current state of the USA Games Level V Golf Tournament, it would be that this is still anybody’s game. The Flutie Foundation sponsored golfers, Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer, came to Seattle as the heavy favorites to win gold and silver medals, and Scott is currently leading the tournament by seven strokes. But Peter Condon of Washington, Brock Aoki of Utah, and Thomas Cleek of Missouri among other golfers have challenged Tyler and Scott through 2 days on a course with greens playing very fast causing many 3-putts and few 4-putts.
Peter Condon is currently in 2nd (+22) after shooting an 82 (+11) in both rounds. Tyler Lagasse is tied for 3rd with Thomas Cleek, and Brock Aoki is in 5th after starting Round 2 as the leader. However, Cleek, Lagasse, and Aoki are all within two strokes of 2nd place.
Scott Rohrer (middle) with his Round 2 tee-off group, including Thomas Cleek (left) and Chris Lussier (right)
Unlike Day 1, Tyler and Scott were not paired up. Tyler was paired with Tony Marino, and they started on Hole 3. Scott started on Hole 2 with Chris Lussier and Thomas Cleek.
Despite facing more putting challenges than yesterday, Tyler Lagasse did well again today, shooting an 86. “There were some putts that just didn’t break the way I wanted them to and other times it was just a case of the yips” (Tyler Lagasse). He had some very strong moments, like his birdie on the par 5 hole 11, and an excellent par save on Hole 18, which he said was his best hole.
On hole 18, his drive did not reach the fairway but he made 2 great shots to reach the green in 3 shots despite the long yardage he had to make up on the long and difficult 566 yard par 5 hole.
Tyler’s 2nd shot on 18 after failing to reach the fairway with his tee shot
Tyler did have some very nice drives and had little difficulty sticking the green when he needed to. He pulled out the driver more often, trying to play more aggressively than yesterday. I asked him why he used his driver more and he said, “I just had to be aggressive, I was getting a little bit emotional, I just wanted to push myself to be the best I can possibly be.”
Scott Rohrer played even better than he did in round 1, shooting a 76 (+5) to take the tournament lead. In response to my question about how he thinks he did today vs. yesterday, he said, “I played a lot better than yesterday, I’ve improved somehow over the past day.” He was very consistent, making par on each of the first three holes. Like Tyler, he birdied the 11th. However, he has no doubt in his mind that his best hole was hole 1, which due to the shotgun start on hole 2, he actually ended his round on hole 1. He had a huge drive on the 386 yard par 4 that nearly landed the green in one. He says it was his longest drive in the two tournaments he has played at Willows Run.
For some video footage from the day, including my stand-up live from Willows Run and my interviews with Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer, see below:
Although Scott Rohrer has a 7-stroke lead, we have learned from this week to expect the unexpected and that the leaderboard can shuffle around very quickly. Someone who is in 4th or 5th right now could be the leader in their division by the end of the final round on the 4th of July. Who will take home the gold? Will Scott hold on to the lead for his third straight gold medal at the USA Games, or will Tyler or someone else catch him?
This post is also available on the Flutie Foundation blog.
Day 3 in Seattle: Round 1 Recap from 2018 Special Olympics USA Games Level V Golf Tournament
July 3, 2018 July 3, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized Brock Aoki, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Eagles Talon, ESPN, Facebook, Facebook Live, Flutie Fellow, Flutie Foundation, Maine, Massachusetts, Scott Rohrer, Seattle, Seattle 2018, South Carolina, Special Olympics, Special Olympics USA Games, Travis Curtis, Tyler Lagasse, Willows Run Golf Club
Immediately following round 1, I reported via Facebook Live. See video below.
Also, after the round, Flutie sponsored golfer and 2nd after round 1 golfer, Tyler Lagasse, had his article featured on ESPN.
Late last night (July 2nd) I created a more detailed round 1 recap as a video report that focuses on Flutie Foundation-supported Tyler Lagasse of Special Olympics Massachusetts and Scott Rohrer of Special Olympics South Carolina.
The voiceover text and video are below.
It was cold and damp as the golfers waited in their carts to begin. The carts were used to speed up pace of play. Tyler won the toss to tee off first.
Both Tyler and Scott bogied on the first hole as their nerves seemed still high for the start of the tournament. They both bounced back in Hole 2, with Tyler just missing a birdie and Scott making one from a couple feet away.
One of Scott’s most challenging holes was the Par 4 3rd hole. He took a penalty stroke for hitting out of bounds but recovered with a solid 2-putt to finish the hole.
Both parred the 4th hole with each of them coming within a foot of a birdie on 10 foot or more putts.
On hole 5, Tyler just missed par but still gained a stroke on Scott, who just missed his bogey putt.
On the 7th hole par 3, Scott came within inches of a birdie off a putt of over 20 feet and then Tyler’s par putt almost rimmed out but went in.
Hole 8 was shortened to Par 3 and they both parred, but it was their partner, Travis Curtis from Maine that dazzled on the Par 3 9th with a near hole in one.
On hole 11, both Tyler and Scott had chances for eagles with very long drives and solid shots with Scott landing on the green in 2 and Tyler on the back fringe. Tyler’s eagle shot got him within 10 feet but on his birdie attempt he rolled past the hole by a few inches. Scott’s birdie attempt reached the lip of the hole. A good hole for both golfers and the start of a strong back 9 stretch for Scott as he played 1 over for the final 8 holes.
Hole 12 was a very strange hole as Travis Curtis called for a rules official as his ball appeared to land in a divot-like hole on the green. Then there was a loud plane soaring over us as well. Tyler 4 putted the hole for a double bogey but then picked up his play and went 2 over on the last 6 holes.
On 13, all three golfers hit strong off the tee and landed within feet of each other. On Tyler’s second shot he landed at the very back of the green. Tyler’s putting came back strong when he hit a 50 foot putt within inches of the hole almost making a birdie and tapped in for par as did Scott.
On 14, Scott made a very exciting 20 foot putt for birdie, pumping his fist as the ball dropped in the hole. Tyler had a 3 foot birdie putt lip out of the hole after a tremendous tee shot but had to settle for a par tap in.
On 15 and 16, the tee shots of Tyler and Scott landed really close like they had on 13. Their scores were close too, as Scott had par and a bogey and Tyler was close to matching it, just missing a par putt on 16 to go bogey and par.
Hole 17 is Eagle’s Talon signature hole. It’s a par 3 over a lot of water and the tee was moved up. The green has 3 levels making putting difficult. Travis Curtis had his birdie putt just missed from 10 feet go in and out of the hole. Scott and Tyler each had very long putts for birdie and left themselves about 3 feet on either side of the hole. All 3 golfers got par.
The long par 5 18th hole was an adventure for all 3 golfers starting with Tyler’s tee shot got a lucky bounce off the cart path to avoid landing in a hazard area. Travis Curtis ended up with a 9 after getting in trouble with the water. In the end, both Tyler and Scott had 1 foot putts to end the round with a par but Scott’s putt just lipped out. Still, both golfers finished strong and within 2 strokes of each other. They hope to carry their momentum into tomorrow.
After the first round, Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer are 2nd and 3rd on the Special Olympics USA Level V Golfer leaderboard. I had the chance to talk to both Tyler and Scott moments after they signed their scorecard. Even though my cameraman (my dad Ken) had his first technical difficulty with one of my interviews, the audio came through for you to enjoy. I also had the chance to quickly speak to the Round 1 Leader, Brock Aoki.
This post can also be seen on the Flutie Foundation blog.
Day 2 in Seattle: Opening Ceremonies and Exploring the City
July 2, 2018 July 2, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized CBS, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Eagles Talon, Facebook, Flutie Fellow, Flutie Foundation, Husky Stadium, IMA, KIRO 7 News, KIRO TV, Mod Pizza, Nick Savarese, Opening Ceremonies, Parade of State Delegations, Scott Rohrer, Seattle 2018, Space Needle, Special Olympics, Special Olympics USA Games, Travis Curtis, Tyler Lagasse
I truly enjoyed my first full day here in Seattle. After a nice complementary breakfast from our hotel, we left for Opening Ceremonies. We stopped by the IMA building to grab our press passes and video bib, and my dad and I met some of the other press members at the Special Olympics. After we had our passes, we found a place to park our car, and we arrived at Husky Stadium just in time for the Parade of State Delegations.
Me posing with the husky in front of Husky Stadium at University of Washington.
I watched with excitement and pride as all the athletes marched into the stadium with their home state teams. I was even able to spot Tyler Lagasse in the group of Massachusetts Olympians. Tyler was also able to take a picture with Scott Rohrer, who despite being Tyler’s biggest rival, is also a good friend of Tyler’s.
Elite Level V golfers Scott Rohrer (left) and Tyler Lagasse (right) take an Opening Ceremony selfie together
After the ceremonies were over, I met briefly with with Tyler and his coach George and confirmed the three-some including Tyler, Scott, and Travis Curtis of Maine will all tee off on Hole 1 at Eagle’s Talon at 8:30 as part of a shotgun start for Level V golfers.
After the parade, we decided to go inside for food and shade, as it was getting warmer as the sun had come out. We couldn’t find food right away, and we wanted to find some USA Games merchandise, so we stepped outside the stadium for a minute. We filmed the 1st part of our Facebook Live video. If we had left even a few minutes later, we wouldn’t have been seen by the local CBS station, KIRO-TV (Channel 7 on most Seattle TVs). After seeing us film our live video, they decided to interview us about my coverage of the games and my Flutie Fellowship. They wanted to know my story and decided broadcast part of our interview with the news station and it aired on both the 5PM and 11PM news on July 1st. I was very excited to learn that they found my story interesting enough even with so many talented athletes to cover. We watched the report from our hotel room at 11:15 (see below) and we were told that the news story will also be posted on the station’s website
Just when we were about to leave to go find food in the city, we saw a room full of people who had pizza! It was perfect timing as we had searched at least half the stadium looking for pizza stands that were open. Although the pizza was technically for volunteers only, they let me have two free slices, and I gave out my business cards to all of them. They even let us stay to film the 2nd part of our live video.
After that, we headed back to the IMA to stop by the media room one more time.
We decided to stick around, as George, Tyler’s coach, wanted us to meet Tyler and Scott. George said they could meet at the media room after Opening Ceremonies ended. Scott had other plans he could not change, but we met with George and Tyler to discuss what kind of coverage we were going to do during the tournament. We wanted to make sure that our plans would not have a negative impact on Tyler or any of the other golfers.
After Opening Ceremonies, we went into the city to explore. We started our journey in Seattle at the iconic Space Needle, which was open despite construction that had the restaurant closed and parts of the observation deck blocked off.
We still got an amazing view and some nice pictures at the top of the needle.
After seeing the Space Needle, we were still hungry. We decided to get pizza again but this from Mod Pizza at Seattle Center, an indoor food court/plaza that also included a monorail station. They made our pizzas very quickly, and they came out great. I really enjoyed my time in the city. But now, it’s all about the athletes. We will be live from Redmond at Willows Run tomorrow. We can now officially say, “Let the games begin!”
This article is also available on the Flutie Foundation Blog.
Day 1 in Seattle: Touring Willows Run Golf Course
July 1, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized Eagles Talon, Golf, Scott Rohrer, Seattle, Seattle 2018, Special Olympics, Special Olympics USA Games, Tyler Lagasse, Willows Run Golf Course
I landed this afternoon in Seattle and after settling into the hotel, I decided to check out the Willows Run Eagles Talon golf course ahead of the level 5 Special Olympics USA golf tournament. When I arrived, I received a warm welcome from the staff. They gave my father the keys to a golf cart so we could tour the 6,800 yard 18-hole golf course that the Level 5 golfers will be competing on from July 2nd through July 4th. We made several stops along the course to take pictures and make a video (see below):
This post is also featured on the Flutie Foundation blog
Special Olympics 2018 USA Games Golf Preview: Lagasse, Rohrer Battle For Gold Once Again
June 28, 2018 July 1, 2018 22robertsa Golf, Special Occasions, Special Olympics, Uncategorized Autism, Deb Lagasse, Doug Flutie, Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, Flutie Foundation, Golf, Jeff Rohrer, Joel Murray, Nick Savarese, Scott Rohrer, Special Olympics, Tyler Lagasse
Starting with the Opening Ceremony this Sunday, July 1st, I will be in Seattle to cover the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games on behalf of the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism. As a member of the press, I will follow golfers Tyler Lagasse of Massachusetts and Scott Rohrer of South Carolina. Both golfers are sponsored by the Flutie Foundation this year and as a member of the autism community, I am honored to report on these two amazing golfers and inspiring individuals.
Tyler and Scott have finished 1st and 2nd in each of the last two Special Olympics USA Summer Games (New Jersey 2014 and Nebraska 2010). Look for daily updates on Boston Sports Mania and on Flutie Foundation social media including their blog.
Read below to learn more about Special Olympians Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer.
A Brief Golf History: Tyler Lagasse
Tyler is a 31-year old autistic adult from Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. He began golfing in 2003 and has traveled to Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, Nebraska, and several other places for Special Olympics tournaments. He is a member of the Special Olympics hall of fame, won an honorary ESPY in 2017, and was even featured on a Golf Channel program in 2010. He co-authored a book about autism with his mom, published in 2015 called What Do You Say?: Autism with Character. Several times including 2014, along with a few other Special Olympics golfers, Tyler has been invited to the Pro-Am, a PGA event.
Tyler has never competed before on the 2018 Special Olympics course, Willows Run, but he has plenty of experience on 18-hole courses. At the 2017 Pro-Am tournament, he played a round with a personal best score of 70, par for the 18 hole course. He won silver at the 2008 Special Olympics National Golf Invitational in Florida as well as each of the last two USA Summer Games. While Tyler has never won gold on the national stage, he is hungry for his first gold medal. This past week, Tyler noted, “I want that gold medal so badly, I want to do whatever it takes to get it, because I may never have this opportunity again. To me as well as many others coming to Seattle, this is MY Olympics”. Tyler is clear very competitive but in the book he co-authored with his mother Deborah Lagasse, golf is also therapeutic for Tyler.
“Golf sometimes makes me come face to face with my demons inside. I consider golf a tool for dealing with adversity because I have faced endless adversity all my life; most of us do sometimes. Golf also helps me feel good about myself, tests my resilience and mental toughness. I learned so much about myself through golf and it’s given me an identity, something that fits my personality and golf has allowed me to put my personality on display” (Tyler Lagasse). Tyler also writes about every golf tournament in great detail so he was even able to provide me with some of his previous USA Games and Pro-Am stats. He is proud to be sponsored by the Flutie Foundation. “They’ve come out of their way in helping me surpass my fundraising goal for this year’s USA Games. I thank them for their support because they see me as a talented individual rather than one living with autism. And they see the gift that autism has, and that gift is hope” (Tyler Lagasse).
Tyler will be competing starting Monday July 2nd in the Level V Golf Tournament and his biggest competitor in this tournament will likely be Scott Rohrer, who is also being sponsored by the Flutie Foundation.
A Brief Golf History: Scott Rohrer
Scott Rohrer is an autistic adult from York, South Carolina. He has golfed for 20 years and he was 7 when he started. Scott had a personal and Special Olympics best of 71 (-1) in the opening round of the 2010 USA Games. He topped that score at the 2015 Los Angeles World Games. When another golfer beat that record, he only did better the next day. He scored a 60 on a par-66 course to break the Special Olympics World Record. He finished the tournament at a Special Olympics best -12. He has won 7 gold medals on the national stage, including a gold medal in each of the last two USA Games tournaments. Tyler Lagasse earned the silver medal in both of those tournaments. Scott has won medals at other tournaments as well including a bronze medal at the 2014 World Golf Cup.
Scott works on a tree farm with his dad, Jeff in York from Monday to Thursday each week but spends the weekend on the golf course. His golf games against his dad are pretty close but he usually out-drives his dad. His mom Elizabeth is his caddy. Scott can be very streaky. He came back from a triple bogey and bogey to start the day to score a second straight 75 on Day 3 of the 2010 USA Games. Golf brings Scott out of his shell, and people who play with him see him as a competitive golfer not as someone with autism who plays golf.
The big stage as Willows Run is set and now the question is will Scott Rohrer win another gold medal or will Tyler’s hunger and competitive spirit help lead him to victory and his first gold?
Previous Competitions Between Tyler and Scott
Scott won gold in this tournament, shooting 71-75-75, while Tyler won silver, shooting 79-78-75.
2012 Pro-Am (Stats courtesy of Tyler Lagasse)
Tyler came in 3rd overall playing with Gary Woodland, shooting a 58 (-13). Scott shot a 64 (-7) playing with Brendan Steele.
Scott won gold for the 2nd consecutive USA Games tournament, shooting 76-78-78. Tyler won silver again, shooting 84-81-88.
Tyler came in 4th overall playing with Tommy Gainey, shooting a 55 (-16). Scott was not far behind, shooting a 59 (-12) with I.K. Kim.
Tyler (with Rod Pampling) and Scott (with Scott Langley) tied for 4th with a 52 (-19).
The Tournament Venue: Willows Run Golf Complex
Willows Run is located in Redmond, Washington, about 20 minutes from downtown Seattle. It includes two 18-hole courses, Eagles Talon and Coyote Creek, both of which are par-72 courses, just like the course that the 2010 USA Games golf tournament was held on. Special Olympics Level V golfers will be competing on Eagles Talon from 8:30 AM-3:30 PM every day from July 2-July 4. The course is over 6,800 yards in total and has a lot of long and narrow tree lined holes so hooking or slicing off the tee could definitely be dangerous. The greens are playing fast, even though it’s been wet the last few days.
For more information on Willows Run, see my article from the day I arrived when I toured the course. (video below)
Other Level V Golfers To Watch For
There are 12 golfers participating in the high performance stroke play Level V competition, including Tyler and Scott. I have provided a little information on the other golfers in their competition below.
There are two divisions within the Level V high performance competition. Both divisions compete in the same pool, but Division 2 golfers are ranked separately for medals. Tyler and Scott are Division 1, while some of these other golfers are Division 2. Also, the expectation is the each day will begin with a shotgun start so that more golf is ongoing at once, starting at 8:30 AM.
Garrett Stortz, Alaska
Stortz joined Special Olympics in 2007, participating in field hockey. He eventually switched to his favorite sport, golf. He is a member of Division 2 in the high performance stroke play competition. He is eager to represent Alaska in the USA Games. Special Olympics has changed his life as he has met many new people who share his passion for golf. Stortz also participated in Level V Golf at the 2015 World Games in LA and the 2014 USA Games. He won the Division 2 gold in 2014 and Division 2 bronze in 2015.
Joel Murray, Louisiana
Murray is a longtime Special Olympics golfer who will be part of Division 2 in the Level V high performance competition. He has been invited to the Pro-Am before and was not far behind Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer the last time he competed in a Special Olympics national tournament (Nebraska 2010). He had a personal best 18-hole score of 73 in Nebraska and won gold in a lower division. He will also be competing in the Level V tourney in Seattle. Murray is a longtime Special Olympics golfer. Murray won the 2009 National Golf Invitational Level V Play and had the lowest score in Pro-Am history in 2013.
Travis Curtis, Maine
Curtis joined Special Olympics Maine in 2007. He will be participating in Division 1 of the Level V High Performance competition, but he has also played Unified golf in the past. He came close to a medal at each of the last two USA Games and is hopeful that he can bring a medal home from Seattle. He has won gold in the state competition each year since he started in 2007.
Thomas Cleek, Missouri
Cleek has been a multi-sport Special Olympian for over 10 years. He won gold in a lower division in the 2014 USA Games, where he last played on the national stage, but this year Cleek will be part of Division 1, where he will have tougher medal competition like golfers Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer. Can he take home a medal as he moves up into the highest division?
Chris Lussier, Rhode Island
Nicknamed the Mayor, Lussier has been competing in many sports for team Rhode Island over the last 10 years. He has also competed in unified competitions with his dad as his partner. They have developed a closer bond by competing together. Chris also met his girlfriend, Amy, and many other friends from Special Olympics. He won gold in the Level III Unified golf competition back in 2014. He also won a medal in golf at the 2010 USA Games, and he even won gold in the unified golf competition at the 2011 World Summer Games. This year, he will compete in the 2nd division of the Level V high performance individual stroke play competition.
Miles Stroud, Texas
Stroud has participated in multiple sports at Special Olympics for ten years. He says his favorite sport is definitely golf though. Miles has a handicap of 9.2 as he enters the 2nd division of the Level V high performance individual stroke play competition. He is a huge fan of all Texas A&M sports, and he cheers for the Aggies in his down time. He won gold as a part of Division 4 of the Level V competition at the 2012 Special Olympics National Golf Invitational with a 72-hole score of 301. Will Stroud take home a medal in Seattle as part of Division 2?
Brock Aoki, Utah
Aoki has been golfing since age 6 or 7, and will compete in Division 1 of the Level V High Performance competition. He plays golf in nearly all his free time, though he has just started a full time job as a chef. He may be dedicated to golf, but can he keep up with the scratch golfers in his division such as Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer?
Tony Marino, Utah
Marino started competing in Special Olympics at age 13. He will compete in Division 2 of the Level V High Performance competition. Marino has played as far away as China in Special Olympics golf. Marino was paired up with Tyler Lagasse in the Opening Round of the 2008 National Golf Invitational, and they got along well. Tony has also been a coach for Special Olympics. Marino is happy to travel around the world and participate in multiple sports thanks to Special Olympics.
Grace Anne Braxton, Virginia
Braxton is a long time Special Olympics golfer and swimmer. She has participated since 1981, and that was before Tyler Lagasse or Scott Rohrer was born. She was ranked #1 among female Special Olympic golfers in the world in both 2007 and 2011. She won the Division 2 gold at the 2010 USA Games and has participated in the World Games in 1991, 2007, and 2011, and won gold in both 2007 and 2011 when she was ranked #1 among females. She also participated in golf at the 2014 USA Games. Braxton will participate in the Division 2 High Performance Individual Stroke Tournament again this year in Seattle. Will she take home another medal?
Peter Condon, Washington
Condon has been playing golf since 2006. He will be part of Division 1, Tyler Lagasse and Scott Rohrer’s division, in the Level V High Performance Individual Stroke Tournament. Condon has loved golf ever since he started and is eager to participate in his home state in this year’s USA Games. The question is, has he played on Willows Run before, and will home state advantage help him win a medal in a division that includes some of the country’s best?
Stay tuned for updates live from Seattle as the story unfolds.
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Tennis legend Martina teams up with Laureus Academy Member Kip Keino
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Laureus World Sports Academy Members Martina Navratilova and Kip Keino joined together at the Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) in Nairobi, Kenya, to celebrate a new milestone in the history of this remarkable Laureus-supported community sports project.
Just days before she leads a team of climbers up 19,341 ft (5,895 metres) Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise funds for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, Martina and legendary Kenyan runner Kip announced the launch of a new MYSA Curriculum which will be a major aid in the training of the next generation of community leaders in Africa.
The curriculum has been funded by Laureus and developed in partnership with Active Communities Network in London. It covers all aspects of MYSA’s work and provides the basis for a training programme which will be used to teach local MYSA staff to do their job well and to train organisations from other countries to learn about and replicate what MYSA does.
Martina said: “Laureus has been supporting the idea of using sport to make a difference in young people’s lives for ten years. We have seen for ourselves what a difference it can make to the lives of individuals and communities, but we can do more. To support a plan that can train leaders from across Africa to set up and run successful Sport for Good projects in their own countries is a sure way to magnify the success of what can be achieved. This is great news and I am so proud to be here to launch the MYSA Curriculum.”
Martina, who finished radiotherapy treatment in June following breast cancer, will lead a group of 27 climbers, including German Paralympic cyclist and Laureus Friend and Ambassador Michael Teuber and British Olympic badminton star Gail Emms up Mt Kilimanjaro from December 6-12. Some of the funds from the climb will be used to support projects such as the MYSA Curriculum and other Laureus projects in Africa.
Kip Keino said “Martina has enormous passion about the work of Laureus and I am honoured to be with her today to mark this significant step in the growth of the Sport for Good movement in Kenya and Africa. Mathare has been twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and now in co-operation with Laureus it can become a beacon of hope for other countries in Africa.”
Martina also announced that Laureus has commissioned a report to be published in the New Year which will explore how sport can be more extensively used to solve some of the most pressing social problems affecting the continent and achieve key development goals. Reflecting the voice and experience of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, the Laureus World Sports Academy and key stakeholders and opinion formers, both inside and outside sport, it will set out the challenges which must be overcome to expand the use of sport in tackling the challenges faced by African nations.
Martina said: “Sport can be part of a bigger solution to the problems of Africa. This report will be a start, a big start, but it is only a start. I call upon all the governments in Africa to open their eyes and see how grass roots sport really can change their world.”
Laureus has been supporting community sports-based projects across Africa since its inception. Over the years, it has become much clearer that sport for good has the potential to tackle social challenges and achieve key development goals in a more extensive way in some African countries than it currently does.
Based in one of the largest and poorest slums in Nairobi in which HIV/AIDS and other diseases are widespread, the Mathare Youth Sports Association project has pioneered the use of football as a tool to encourage co-operation and raise self-esteem in the young people of the community.
Each year MYSA organises thousands of matches for around 20,000 young people, playing in over 1,000 leagues. Success is measured not just by the goals scored in matches, but by the work the young people do in cleaning up the slums. MYSA has been supported by Laureus since 2000.
Martina added: “I’ve been to many projects but the kids in Africa and in Kenya particularly have so little. I’ve spent a lot of time there and I’m always amazed by the attitude of the people in Kenya and Tanzania, where Kilimanjaro is. It’s great to be involved in these projects where very little goes a long way. And so it’s almost ridiculous not to do something. And so I’m glad that I can help a great, great project by climbing Kilimanjaro to raise funds.
“Climbing Mt.Kilimanjaro is part of my approved treatment. Basically I’m cancer free now and you’re encouraged to be very active during radiation and after radiation. The more in good shape you are, the better you will deal with the treatment and also of course hopefully will keep it from coming back. And so it’s life as usual.”
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Sovereign Remedies’ recipe for success: host a James Beard House dinner
in Asheville food and drink / Asheville News — by Jason Sandford — October 2, 2019
Asheville’s Sovereign Remedies restaurant took a team to New York in the summer of 2018 to serve up a dinner at the famed James Beard House. Here’s a recounting.
Chef Graham House of Sovereign Remedies restaurant and cocktail bar in Asheville preparing plates for a James Beard House dinner in the summer of 2018./ photo by Jason Sandford
NEW YORK CITY – The dinner started with a kiss.
Chef Graham House, briefly alone in the quiet kitchen, moved through his final preparations. Piles of peppers, glowing with the very essence of summer green, crowded a counter. Plates sat stacked, ready to be decorated and deployed.
Anticipation hung in the air as House’s fiancé, Veronica Ahumada, arrived with last-minute encouragement, sealed with a kiss. She moved to the dining room. He tied on his apron.
This was a big night for House and his crew. He and his core team of Melissa Hsu, Philip Bohoeffer, Charles Lee and Charlie Hodge, who opened Sovereign Remedies restaurant in downtown Asheville with his partner Sunil Patel in 2014, were stepping onto a renowned stage. They would be serving a dinner, titled “Modern Appalachia,” at the famed James Beard House in New York City.
They were representing a restaurant working hard to garner as much notice for its food as it had for its cocktails. They were representing a city still yearning for ever-wider recognition for its farm-to-table food and its unique take on Appalachian cuisine.
Could one dinner do all this? Charlie Hodge wasn’t sure about all that. His real goal, he told me, was to simply keep building his restaurant family by having them all pull together toward a common goal – serving up an impressive dinner on a big stage.
It’s not an exaggeration to describe as Herculean the effort it takes for a local, independent restaurant to stage a dinner at the Beard House. Schedules must be arranged, menus written, food procured, accommodations secured, transportation nailed down.
Hodge and House certainly knew what they were taking on. House meticulously scouted locally sourced ingredients for the dinner, just as he always does for the restaurant, while Hodge nailed down other logistics. To be sure all the food they’d be using was as fresh as possibly, Hodge and House decided to rent a truck and drive up to the big city themselves rather than ship it some other way that would be out of their control. Hodge had to find and rent accommodations for his crew for a few days. The James Beard Foundation kicks in a modest stipend, but there’s no money to be made at the dinner for a restaurant owner – the endeavor, in fact, will cost Hodge thousands of dollars out his own pocket.
Charlie Hodge, owner of Sovereign Remedies restaurant, (second from left) mixes up a drink at the dinner his crew served at the James Beard House in NYC./ photo by Jason Sandford
Still, cooking a dinner at the famous Beard House opens a new level of recognition for an emerging chef like House, and the payoff can be equally extravagant. Catch the eye of the right foodie, critic or Beard Foundation supporter (or Instagram influencer in this day and age), and you’re off and running. A James Beard Award nomination, not mention a full-on award, is worth its weight in gold.
The goal of a Beard House dinner, though, is not winning an award. It’s about networking (just about all of Asheville’s best known chefs have cooked at the Beard House, and several have one or more James Beard Award nominations.) It’s forging a unit that execute a dinner at a high level, night in and night out. It’s a right of passage.
“We have a tight crew and we’re getting to that higher level” of top-notch execution night in and night out, House tells me. “We’re not going to stop pushing.”
I am humbled and honored every time I have the chance to cook at the James Beard House. James Beard himself was a catalyst to telling the world (in a time before the hype of food TV and celebrity chefs) that American food is a real thing and that we deserve a place at the international table in terms of our high quality restaurants, food and recipes. So to be able to cook in his kitchen where so many other incredible chefs have also cooked is one of the highest honors a chef can have. I have so many friends and chefs I look up to that have cooked there. It’s really amazing to think about all of the talent that has passed through this hallowed kitchen. –Chef William Dissen, The Market Place
Charlie Hodge has built community wherever he’s been. He’s worked in the bar business for more than two decades. After working with two friends to open a successful nightclub in Portland Oregon, he opened seven more programs during his eight-year stay there, including the renown Clyde Common in the Ace Hotel (listed in David Wonderich’s Best Bars). He helped organize the Portland Bartenders Guild.
When he arrived in Asheville, Hodge had a singular vision: open a sun filled café featuring a botanical-rich craft cocktail bar, that gives a chef and supporting farmers full reign to express what’s happening on the farm right alongside perfecting the crafts of fermenting, preserving and curing.
Hodge explains this all to the small crowd gathered this summer night for the Beard House dinner, and they’re listening closely. The name “Sovereign Remedies” itself is significant, Hodge says, noting that in the poverty-stricken hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, families had to be self-sufficient. So early settlers learned how to create their own medicine, their own sovereign remedies, from the biodiversity that surrounded them.
At the farmers market in the River Arts District, Chef Graham House picks out fruits and vegetables that he’ll use in his cooking at Asheville’s Sovereign Remedies restaurant./ photo by Jason Sandford
In House, Hodge found just the right chef partner to see through that vision. The two connected in 2016. Hodge grew up in Brevard, where nature’s bounty was literally right outside his front door. That’s where he first learned to forage and to love fresh veggies.
House went on to spend a decade honing his style at world-renowned restaurants around the world. His stops included Osteria Del Bouche in Lake Como, Italy, Redd in Yountville, Calif., and 4th & Swift in Atlanta. He also worked as the executive sous chef at Prospect in San Francisco under chefs Nancy Oakes and Pam Mazzola.
House’s reverence for local, seasonal produce and agriculture shows in his veggie-forward dishes and aesthetically bold presentation. He’s also adept at fermenting, dehydrating and pickling techniques that aim to use all parts of the vegetables he’s working with. And though House does not consider himself a “vegetarian chef,” he admits that meat and other proteins are usually after afterthought when it comes to dreaming up a dish.
When I met House at the River Arts District farmer’s market before the big dinner, he moved quickly to sample vegetables and chat with farmers. He tells me he just shows up, grabs what looks and tastes the best, and goes from there. “I rarely come up with a menu more than a week out,” he says.
“It’s the best, creatively. I would rather approach it that way, rather than having my mind made up, especially when you’re dealing with vegetables.”
The dining room is starting to buzz as House and his crew send out the first plate, stone fruit and peppers with peanut milk, cucumber, purslane, and angelica. It comes after the crowd of about 75 have already enjoyed a round of drinks and hors d’oeurves, such as fried squash blossoms and crispy chicken skins with chile honey and sumac, in a little garden.
The James Beard Foundation is based at the historic James Beard House between 6th and 7th avenues in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. James Beard, an early champion of local markets, hosted the first TV food program in 1946 and wrote several cookbooks that influenced a generation of chefs. The history of the place is as tangible as any of the food served there.
Guests first walk through the Beard House kitchen to meet the chef and watch the team work. A reception on the ground floor garden follows, before diners walk up to the second-floor dining room to enjoy a five- or six-course meal with wine pairings. A brief question-and-answer period ends the night. At the reception outside, a handful of Asheville folks connect while admiring the effort that’s gone into pulling it all off.
One of Chef Graham House’s creations for the Sovereign Remedies dinner at the James Beard House: summer squash with okra, sour cherries, Chicken of the Woods mushrooms and daylily butter./ Photo by Jeff Gurwin courtesy of James Beard House
Inside, the dinner plates arrive on the table at a steady pace as attendees (members of the public paid $175 a ticket) savor every bite and get to know one another around a circular tables seating eight to 10 people each. Eating, chatting, commenting on the flavor combinations – it’s a foodie’s dream come true.
The dinner menu is summer, embodied, with its foraged mushrooms and tomatoes and okra and more. (More food photos of the dinner here.) Folks are full and a little tipsy when Hodge, House and the team come out to take a bow and thank the group for attending. It’s a beautiful night.
Cooking at the beard house was something that I’ll remember forever. I got to cook with one of my best friends, Billy Durney, and a crew of some of New York city’s best chefs. Missy Robbins had just won the Beard award for New York, and Mark Ladner was also a Beard winner, along with Mark Iacono of Lucali Pizza in Brooklyn. I love Italian food more than most things, and we did an “Italian smokehouse” theme. It was so amazing to rub elbows with that crew in Mr. Beard’s house and that awesome kitchen (everyone says it’s small, but it’s not at all) in that beautiful city is something I’ll never forget. … And there’s a bathroom made of all mirrors. You gotta go see that if anything. -Chef Elliot Moss, Buxton Hall
After the dinner, the crew gathers at a dive bar somewhere nearby to have a Pickleback shot and a beer. Hodge was exhausted. Happy, but exhausted. With the dinner over, he’d accomplished everything he’d set out to do. His restaurant family made it through the fire.
When I spoke to house a month or two after the event, he shared that same sentiment.
“I feel like we turned some heads, and I think it will be good for us in the long run,” House said. “I think we’re getting closer” to that every elusive goal of consistent quality served regularly at a very high level. “You just put your head down and work your ass off.”
The menu for Modern Appalachia at the James Beard House, August 2018
Crispy Chicken Skins with Chile Honey and Sumac
Fried Squash Blossoms
American Pig 22-Month-Aged Prosciutto
Celtuce Toasts with Milkweed and Rosebud Capers
Sovereign Remedy Signature Cocktails
Stone Fruit and Peppers with Peanut Milk, Cucumber, Purslane, and Angelica
(Drink: My Name is June: Serviceberry with Shiso and Copper & Kings American Brandy)
Tomato with Garlic Scapes, Melon, Marigold, and Sunflower
(Channing Daughters Cabernet Franc Rosato 2017)
Summer Squash with Okra, Sour Cherries, Chicken of the Woods, and Daylily Butter
(Granbazán Etiqueta Ámbar Albariño 2016)
American Pig Porchetta with Fairy Tale Eggplant, Whipped Grits, Amaranth, and Green Tomato
(Tenuta Santori Rosso Piceno Superiore 2015)
Corn with Blueberries and Chanterelle Mushrooms
(Sovereign Amaro)
Editor’s note: Charlie Hodge invited my wife and I to attend the Sovereign Remedies dinner at the James Beard House, an honor that we considered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hodge supplied us the tickets and accommodations for our weekend stay, and for that, we are forever grateful.
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How soldier guitars, culture and faith paved way for Bougainville’s peace
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The trailer for Will Watson’s documentary on Bougainville peacemaking, Soldiers Without Guns.
FILM REVIEW: By David Robie
While a gripping film about the apocalyptic Bougainville war, or more accurately the peace that ended the decade-long conflict, opened in cinemas across New Zealand last week, an island roadshow has been taking place back in the Pacific.
Initiated by the United Nations, the roadshow – featuring Bougainville President Father John Momis, many of his cabinet members and UN Resident Coordinator Gianluca Rampolla – is designed to help prepare the Bougainvillean voters to decide on their future.
This future is due to be put to the test in a referendum on October 17 in the crucial political outcome of an extraordinary peace process that began in chilly mid-winter talks at Burnham Military Camp near Christchurch in July 1997.
The vote is already four months delayed, partly due to spoiling tactics of Peter O’Neill’s Papua New Guinean government which would avoid the vote if it could.
The Bougainville referendum roadshow … speaking to the women. Image: Bougainville News
In any case, the vote is not binding and the O’Neill government may not even honour it, even if there is an overwhelming vote for independence in the island with a population of 250,000.
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The choice is simple: Voters will be asked to choose between greater autonomy and full independence. The vote is expected to favour independence.
Also at stake is the future of the Panguna – once the mainstay of Papua New Guinea’s economy and now abandoned because of the environmental devastation caused by the huge Australian-owned copper mine – and the right of a people to choose their own destiny free from rapacious foreign extraction industries.
After almost 10 years of civil war when an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people lost their lives through the actual fighting between the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) and other armed groups and the Papua New Guinean military, and through deaths from lack of medical treatment and starvation as a result of a military blockade around the island state, a breakthrough was achieved in New Zealand.
Training a child to play shoot … a scene from both Hakas And Guitars and Soldiers Without Guns. Image: Freeze frame from Hakas And Guns trailer
Exhausted by the deadlock, the deprivations of the war and 14 failed attempts at negotiating a peace, talks in the bitter cold at Burnham sparked off the long journey for a lasting peace. As former North Solomons provincial government official and a peace process officer Robert Tapi recalls:
The silent majority of Bougainvilleans were tired of war and longed to return to normal village life. Women’s groups, church groups and chiefs increased the pressure on both the BRA and the PNG-backed Bougainville Transitional Government to negotiate for peace.
On all sides, the likely cost of victory was proving too high. The moderate revolutionary leaders realised that even if they did “win”, they “would inherit a hopelessly divided society”.
The first meeting resulted in the Burnham Declaration of July 18, 1997, which urged the leaders to call a ceasefire and for the establishment of an international peacekeeping force with the withdrawal of the PNG Defence Force.
Following the Burnham Truce and the endorsement of a Truce Monitoring Group (TMG) in Cairns in November 1997, a further Burnham meeting in January 1998 produced the Lincoln Agreement and paved the way for the Ceasefire Agreement in Arawa on April 30, 1998.
The success of the breakthrough in Burnham and the following meetings was thanks to the inclusion of women’s groups, churches and local chiefs as well as the political opponents, meeting on neutral territory and with New Zealand not intervening in the talks. Also helpful was then Foreign Minister Don McKinnon’s friendly and chatty style with the delegates, which boosted Bougainvillean morale.
“Land is our heartbeat” … women played a key role in the Bougainville peace – and the documentary. Image: Freeze frame from Soldiers Without Guns
Filmmaker Will Watson stepped up to tell the extraordinary New Zealand peacekeeping story initially through an award-winning 2018 documentary for Māori Television, Hakas And Guitars, following up with this year’s feature film Soldiers Without Guns.
He had been monitoring the war and aftermath while a journalism student and began to put together a project team in 2005. Ironically, due to funding and other obstacles, it took him 13 years to complete the feature film – longer than the actual war.
A couple of years later, in 2007, he had a film crew on the ground in Bougainville to carry out interviews and gain invaluable footage. His documentary is an inspiring and fitting tribute to the innovative “guitars, waiata and wahine” approach of the NZ-led peacekeeping force.
Soldiers Without Guns poster at the Civic premiere in Auckland earlier this month. Image: David Robie
By concentrating on a strategy of winning the hearts and minds through hundreds of kilometres of foot slogging treks to villages and communicating directly and honestly with ordinary people, the soldiers gained the trust of Bougainvilleans from all sides.
It was a courageous and insightful decision by the first mission commander, Brigadier Roger Mortlock, now retired, to go to Bougainville without weapons and guarantee the peace. He had experienced a UN peacekeeping failure in Angola and was determined this mission would succeed.
Bougainville … a long history of struggle against the Australian-owned Panguna mine and for independence. Image: Freeze frame from Soldiers Without Guns
Another key factor in the success was Major Fiona Cassidy, an Army public relations manager at the time, and her ability to communicate in a meaningful way with the Bougainvillean women in what is a matriarchal society.
In a recent RNZ Pacific interview, she admitted finding the challenge a bit “scary”:
“When you looked at the country brief, you knew that you were not going into a benign environment. It actually was hostile. So it was a little bit scary thinking, ‘Okay, we’re going to a country which has been at war for so long, it still isn’t stable, and we’re going in unarmed.'”
During the start of the Bougainville war, I was head of the journalism programme at the University of Papua New Guinea and reported the first year of the conflict in a cover story for Pacific Islands Monthly. As part of this, I revealed how a New Zealand environmental consultancy unwittingly became a catalyst for fuelling the conflict.
I wrote in my 2014 book Don’t Spoil My Beautiful Face: Media, Mayhem and Human Rights in the Pacific:
Apart from convoys with soldiers riding shotgun and yellow ochre Bougainville Copper Limited trucks packed with security forces sporting M16s, you would hardly guess that a guerrilla war was in progress near the Bougainville provincial capital of Arawa. But once you reached the sandbagged machinegun nest in Birempa village at the foot of the rugged mountain jungles of the Crown Prince Range, the tension started to rise.
Scanning the dense vegetation for a sign of the militants of the Bougainville Republican Army (BRA)—known as Rambos in the first year of the decade-long civil war – the Papua New Guinea Defence Force soldier manning the machinegun didn’t notice the irony of the T-shirt he was wearing.
“Mine Of Tears” … a t-shirt popular early in the Bougainville war. Image: David Robie
Scrawled across his chest were the words MINE OF TEARS, a word play on the title of Richard West’s 1972 book River of Tears: The rise of Rio Tinto-Zinc Mining Corporation. The book was an expose of the mining operations by BCL’s parent company CRA Limited of Australia—a subsidiary of Britain’s Conzinc-Riotinto—and it had already become the “Bible” of the many of the militants.
At the time I was reporting on the fledgling war for a cover story featured by Pacific Islands Monthly in its November 1989 edition entitled MINE OF TEARS: BOUGAINVILLE ONE YEAR LATER. No other journalists were on the ground at the time, and the only other people staying at the small hotel in the port town of Kieta were soldiers, some cradling guns on their knees when having dinner. The atmosphere was surreal and ghostly in those early days.
The problems of Bougainville cannot be divorced from the rest of the country, or even from the rest of the Pacific. At stake are the crucial issues of a conflict between Western concepts of land ownership and indigenous land values, the equity between the national government, provincial administration and the traditional landowners, and a choice between genuine sovereignty over resource development projects or dependence on foreign control.
For those of us who have had some involvement in the Bougainville war bearing witness, Will Watson and his crew deserve huge praise for bringing this story to the big screen, and honouring New Zealand’s contribution to peace – Australia couldn’t have done it – and providing hope for Bougainville’s future.
With luck, the island will become independent and bring some meaning to all that terrible loss of life and deprivation.
Soldiers Without Guns, documentary, 92min. Director Will Watson. Narrated by Lucy Lawless.
Professor David Robie is director of the Pacific Media Centre. This review is republished from Pacific Journalism Review with permission.
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+ Roger Stone Indicted, Arrested
( 12 ) / #Mueller #Roger Stone #Trump
-Roger Stone Indicted, Arrested
/ #Mueller #Roger Stone #Trump
Roger Stone can add an indictment from the Special Counsel’s office to his highly-checkered resume.
CNN:
Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump’s opponents at the direction of “a senior Trump Campaign official.”
The indictment’s wording does not say who on the campaign knew about Stone’s quest, but makes clear it was multiple people. This is the first time prosecutors have alleged they know of additional people close to the President who worked with Stone as he sought out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“After the July 22, 2016, release of stolen (Democratic National Committee) emails by Organization 1, a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization 1,” prosecutors wrote.
Stone was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at his home in Florida, his lawyer tells CNN. He was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
The special counsel’s office said he will appear before a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at 11 a.m. ET.<
We will see how far Stone’s “I’ll never testify against Donald Trump,” proclamations will go. Also of note, while the indictment details many activities of Stone’s during the campaign, Mueller is only charging offenses that occurred during the investigation. As we have learned, probably best to let this latest blaring headline breathe a bit before making wide-sweeping proclamations of its importance.
Like that’s going to happen.
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+ BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce
-BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce
The Wall Street Journal is reporting:
BuzzFeed is planning to lay off about 15% of its workforce, according to people familiar with the situation, as the company seeks to reorient itself in a shifting digital-media landscape.
The cuts could affect around 250 jobs, the people said. The firm, among the most high-profile digital-native publishers, also is looking to realign its resources to invest more in promising areas of the business like content licensing and e-commerce, one of the people said.
(Featured image is a screenshot of Buzzfeed’s front page menu.)
+ Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Remains- For Now
( 5 ) / #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #TransgenderTroops
-Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Remains- For Now
/ #LGBTQ #SCOTUS #TransgenderTroops
The Supreme Court today voted 5-4 to allow the Trump administration’s restrictions on transgender troops to be implemented while the matter is battled out in lower courts. The five conservative justices, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, voted to grant the government’s application to stay a nationwide injunction on the restrictions.
The justices lifted nationwide injunctions that had kept the administration’s policy from being implemented.
It reversed an Obama-administration rule that would have opened the military to transgender men and women, and instead barred those who identify with a gender different from the one assigned at birth and who are seeking to transition.
The court’s five conservatives–Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh–allowed the restrictions to go into effect while the court decides to whether to consider the merits of the case.
The liberal justices–Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan–would have kept the injunctions in place.
The Court also turned down a request by the government to hear the matter on its merits, despite the lower court not having ruled yet. So, while the “ban” will go into effect, the controversy is not dead. The litigation in the lower courts will continue.
The policy, announced on Twitter by President Trump and refined by the defense secretary at the time, Jim Mattis, generally prohibits people identifying with a gender different from their biological sex from military service. It makes exceptions for several hundred transgender people already serving openly and for those willing to serve “in their biological sex.”
Challenges to the policy have had mixed success in the lower courts. Trial judges around the nation issued injunctions blocking it, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is expected to rule soon on whether to affirm one of them.
The administration had also asked the justices to immediately hear appeals, an unusual request when an appeals court has not yet ruled. The court turned down those requests.
The Supreme Court’s rules say it will review a federal trial court’s ruling before an appeals court has spoken “only upon a showing that the case is of such imperative public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice and to require immediate determination in this court.”
So, while the “ban” will go into effect, the controversy is not dead; the litigation in the lower courts will continue.
UPDATE: Some reports indicate that one injunction remains in place which prevents the immediate implementation of the ban.
From Mark Joseph Stern, lawyer and writer for Slate:
Here is the injunction that remains in place. The Trump administration may try to argue that it doesn't apply to the current "Mattis policy," but by its own terms, it obviously does. https://t.co/fnNeFbT955 pic.twitter.com/do3kT6Kvmk
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 22, 2019
+ Video: January 21
( 0 ) / #Music
-Video: January 21
/ #Music
I present the best song ever written about the 21st of January.
Phil Pritchett – January 21
Or if you just want to listen to it, the acoustic studio version is good.
+ What Happened To The 15-Hour Workweek?
( 53 ) / #work
-What Happened To The 15-Hour Workweek?
/ #work
We wanted something else more:
Well, one explanation is that there are simply more things to want. A supermarket today has thousands of options, and there will always be more things than we can afford.
Advertising—which appears on billboards, in trains and trams, on our smartphone screens, or cleverly disguised as a blog post—is now impossible to escape from, and it exposes us to a never-ending stream of products we didn’t know we needed.
These are well-known complaints. However, there’s another important and poorly understood reason for want expansion. Keynes thought that once our needs were fulfilled, it wouldn’t make sense to work more. However, it turns out that there is a certain need that requires an infinite supply of money to satisfy: the need for social status.
This ties into my writing on the UBI and why I don’t think it would end work as we know it. People will work so they can live around other people that work. So that their “station” is with those that also work.
If we had a 15-hour work week, how would we differentiate ourselves from the people that are only willing to work 15 hours a week?
+ The Pending Discovery of Alex Jones
( 3 ) / #alex jones #First Amendment #Infowars #Sandy Hook
-The Pending Discovery of Alex Jones
/ #alex jones #First Amendment #Infowars #Sandy Hook
I’m not even going to pretend that this possibility doesn’t warm the cockles of my heart.
A judge in Connecticut has granted the families’ discovery requests, allowing them access to, among other things, Infowars’ internal marketing and financial documents.
The judge has scheduled a hearing next week to decide whether to allow the plaintiffs’ attorneys to depose Jones.
The plaintiffs include the parents of five children who went to the school as well as family members of first-grade teacher Victoria Leigh Soto and Principal Dawn Hochsprung, according to a statement from the plaintiff’s attorneys.
There is still quite a bit of doubt that the lawsuit will be successful, as defamation suits have a high burden to clear for public media figures like Jones. Jones and his attorney are claiming everything done by InfoWars is covered by the First Amendment, and they have plenty of precedent to stand on. Still, the fulcrum point of any civil action as to whether it is going anywhere or not is discovery, and having probing eyes into his operations is something Alex Jones cannot be happy about. Scrutiny and conspiracy is something Alex Jones is more accustom to subjecting others too. We already know, from Jones’ own lawyer in his divorce and custody case, that “he’s playing a character” on air, allegedly, so no surprises like that will be shocking. More interesting to some, however, will be the financials, plus the fact that if Jones is found not to comply it could cause even further legal complications. Laying bare the inner working of the InfoWars grifting machine will make Jones’ detractors happy, and if nothing else should be rather entertaining. Who knows what might come of it. We will see.
+ The First Day of Amendment 4 for Re-enfranchised Voters
( 3 ) / #Amendment 4 #disenfranchised #felons #Florida #Voting rights
-The First Day of Amendment 4 for Re-enfranchised Voters
/ #Amendment 4 #disenfranchised #felons #Florida #Voting rights
Tuesday, 9 January 2019, is the first day that some felons in Florida who previously had their voting rights removed can register to vote again under the effects of Amendment 4. The question is how exactly is that going to work?
For all the uncertainty surrounding the launch of Amendment 4 in Florida, there’s no question that hundreds of thousands of convicted felons previously unable to participate in the state’s elections will be able to register to vote come Tuesday.
It’s what will happen after they register that remains unclear.
Despite assertions from Amendment 4 advocates that the changes to Florida’s Constitution are self-implementing, incoming Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated his belief Monday that the Legislature must pass a bill to help guide the Division of Elections as it verifies the eligibility of newly registered voters. An estimated 1.2 million people are expected to regain the right to vote Tuesday as the amendment takes effect, and it’s up to the state to verify whether any of those newly registered voters are ineligible due to a disqualifying criminal offense.
For now, in order to ensure that no one is disenfranchised while the state determines how to comply with Amendment 4, the Division of Elections has stopped running new voters through its felony database. That means those who believe their rights have been restored can register to vote and likely begin participating at the very least in local elections.
This being Florida, there are more than a few concerns with implementation:
But it also means that it could be weeks or even months before the state notifies any of those new voters if they’ve been deemed ineligible. And it would potentially compound any controversy should the Legislature take a restrictive interpretation of the amendment.
+ Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency
( 32 ) / #Cyntoia Brown
-Cyntoia Brown Granted Clemency
/ #Cyntoia Brown
Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s outgoing governor, has granted Cyntoia Brown full clemency.
In 2004, Brown was a 16-year-old living with a man named Garion McGlothen. McGlothen raped and abused Brown; he also forced her into prostitution. It was during this time that she met and then killed Johnny Allen, a man who had raped her. Prosecutors ignored both Brown’s age and the lifetime of abuse she had endured, charging her as an adult and pursuing the maximum possible punishment for her having killed Allen. Prosecutors insisted that Brown had not feared Allen, as she had claimed, and was in fact in no danger. The jury went with the prosecutors, sentencing Brown to life in prison. A Supreme Court decision later clarified that sentencing juveniles to life in prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment, but after an appeal based upon that clarification, Tennessee’s Supreme Court confirmed that Brown would have to serve at least 51 years of her life sentence before she would be eligible for parole.
Brown was the focus of a documentary called Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story and subsequently became a cause for some celebrities, including Rihanna and Kim Kardashian-West. Brown’s case then became a flashpoint in arguments about how the American justice system valued lives, with numerous critics observing that whereas the justice system often bends over backward to excuse away crimes committed by men, it offers no such leniency otherwise. This, then, serves as a step in the right direction.
Brown will be eligible for release on August 7, 2019.
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Project ED/70/26
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Nigeria - Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (Novembre, 2001)
Letter of transmission of the Instrument of Ratification of Nigeria of the Regional Convention on the Recognition of Studies, Certificates, Diplomas, Degrees and other Academic Qualifications in Higher Education in the African States
Nigeria - Instrument of Ratification of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
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Instrument of accession signed by Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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[Regional Study of Water Resources in the Chad Basin] - Amendment no. 1
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Hip-Hop Gets Sexy: Lil Kim’s “Hardcore” Classic
November 12, 1996 an album would drop and literally change the presence of the female rapper forever. That album was Lil Kim’s debut, Hardcore.
I remember I wanted this album solely because I was in love with Lil Kim. Her look, her voice and when those photos dropped, SON! I wanted to know everything about her in real life! As a young teen, Lil Kim was my first Sex Symbol. Yeah, we already had Janet, Halle and J. Lo in 1996, but Kim’s aura to a young teen that still technically hadn’t lost his virginity yet was mind blowing! When I seen Kim; I wanted her. Like I wanted to do nasty secretive things to her. I hadn’t thought that deep into my sexual wheelhouse before I saw and heard her.
The Junior Mafia album was the prelude. If we are all in the interest of keeping it real right now, we know that album was only copped because of Biggie and Kim. No one cared about Cease and the crew. A high demand was in place for Kim off of 2 verses and when they announced Kim was dropping an album, the energy of the female rapper changed forever.
Hip-Hop had Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Salt N Pepa and Yo-Yo already, but none of them really pushed sex the way Kim would do it. Kim had me wanting to know what she felt like when she delivered her skillfully crafted bars.
When she said things like:
Got buffoons eating my pu$$y while I watch cartoons
With hardcore flows to keep a ni**a d**k rock
Rather count a million while you eat my pu$$Y [Junior Mafia Album]
Hen rock the shots of liquor, it makes me cum quicker
Make him an example with this pu$$y sample
Now watch mama, go up and down d**k to jaw crazy
Uhh! Say my name baby (okay)
Before you nut, I’mma dribble down your butt cheeks
Make you wiggle, then giggle just a little
I’m drinkin babies… [OMFG!!!]
THE ORIGINAL NOT TONIGHT!!!!…..NI**A!!!
My only response was: B**CH! YES PLEASE!!!! I’ll do all that! Just give me a chance!!!
Needless to say the conviction in her delivery made me a believer. There was nothing like this in rap music ever before and although many have mimicked and rehearsed, there is still nothing comparable to this debut album.
Christopher Wallace [Album], Cameron Giles [Crush On You] and Jermaine Dupri[Not Tonight] lobbed several lyrical assist to Kimberly Jones and she slam dunked it into what would be a culture and game changing album. From the lyrics to the videos, Kim became the only woman that hip-hop cared about. She gave us attitude, charisma, gangsta and sex and we couldn’t get enough of that.
To me, this album is a great example of talent meeting skill-set. Kim has natural talent and she aligned herself with people with great talent and lyrical skill. When that happens, you polish your talent and boost your lyrical ability. This isn’t rare for male or female artist; Just read credits. You can make an entree yourself or you can help create a meal. Fans want meals; And 20 years later, you can feast on this album and get all those same feelings you had when you first heard it.
Hardcore is a classic album because of everything and everyone that comes after it. If Kim doesn’t put out hardcore, there is no rivalry with Foxy Brown. There is no Trina, Khia, Jackie-O, Early Iggy Azalea and of course Nicki Minaj. If Hardcore doesn’t come out we probably wouldn’t be as interested in a woman rapping about how good her “stuff” is and not because it’s over saturated content. You can even make the argument that the female rapper doesn’t evolve and has layers before Hardcore drops. No, this isn’t the first rap album by a woman, but it is one of the most important for the movement of women in hip-hop.
Salute to Lil Kim and her classic debut album Hardcore. Hip-Hop wasn’t sexy until November 1996.
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December 14, 2019 barryh1 Comment
The first two verses of Leonard Cohen’s lyrics in the track ‘Everybody Knows’ seem an apposite comment on the recent UK General Election.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Here’s the rest, or listen here.
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you’ve done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
Gweneral Election, leonard cohen, music, UK
The Flip
One thought on “Everybody Knows”
Jane Fritz says:
I ❤️ Leonard Cohen. His poetry and music say it all pretty well perfectly. He also had a song whose refrain ends with “There’s a crack, there’s a crack, in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” We’ve got to live in hope, although at the moment it’s not easy.
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Alex Liddi: Proceed to Level 202 Scan (Dean Palmer comp)
jemanji
... I knocked off the Liddi "POTD" in a cursory fashion, having watched him for one game and having spent about 10 minutes thinking about him.
Liddi fanboyz were quick to declare unto me the Cheney word more perfectly, notably Lonnie and Malcontent. Lonnie assures me that the Wells-type scatter chart doth not apply, and Malcontent presses the differences with just as much gusto:
If you let go of Liddi's April and look at his season in progress, Liddi was much better than his overall season suggests, his post April OPS was .857 (compared to his overall .821), his strike out rate was 25.9% instead of 27%. In fact, his strike out rate fell every month:
APR 35.9%
MAY 28.0%
JUN 27.0%
JUL 25.9%
A/S 23.4%
That's pretty dramatic progress, it doesn't exactly make him Dustin Ackley, but those last 2 months and change hold real promise if he can maintain and build on them.
And I have to disagree with the Adrian Beltre comparison, in his worst season, Beltre struck out 118 times, that's likely to be a career low over a full season for Liddi. I like Matt Williams a bit better for comparison. Still not enough strike outs, but he had percentages near 25% early (ages 21-23) and relied almost exclusively on his impressive power for production neither walking, hitting for average, or stealing bases, which also figures to be Liddi's most likely route to being a productive hitter.
All points cheerfully conceded. With Beltre we were just tossing out the .260-25-90 idea, nothing more.
Williams also averaged only 118 K's per year over his career, so if we're seeking greater precision in our hitting comps, then Dean Palmer is probably the prototype.
Palmer batted .250/.325/.475 over his career, 60:160 EYE, providing 30 doubles, 30 homers and not much else. He was a fine ballplayer.
Or, a bit more modest, within this template, is our original Jose Valentin statline -- 120 to 140 strikeouts, 30 homers and 25 doubles.
=== EYE Ain't Everything, Dept. ===
For those amigos riding minors K/BB a bit too hard, consider Dean Palmer's minor league EYE ratios. He fanned 558 times vs only 160 walks in the minors, batting only .242 there.
Retreating to K% as such is too simplistic, because if Palmer had chosen to walk more, he'd also have fanned more. The point is, the EYE is 0.30 -- in the minors -- with tons of whiffs and a .240 batting average.
Also in the majors, at Liddi's age exactly, the Rangers let Palmer flail away for a .181 AVG in 300+ at-bats. The next year he was also a .229 hitter with an embarrassing EYE.
But it didn't mean that Palmer was hopeless: the next year, at age 24, he slugged .503 with 33 homers in the AL. He finished his career averaging 33 homers per 162 games.
Alex Liddi is the same type of hitter as Dean Palmer, and probably ahead of him on an age-arc basis.
=== Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO, Dept. ===
Though Mr. Liddi is certainly not devolving as a ballplayer, that is.
The progression throughout the year is a point I hadn't noticed, and is a huge chip in his favor. As we're sitting here talking about it, Liddi looks better and better to me.
As with Casper Wells, you're talking about a player whose physical attributes give him an unfair advantage. IMHO that has the effect of increasing his chances of winning.
You can compare a 94 mph pitcher and an 88 mph pitcher. The slop-baller simply has to execute everything perfectly to the Nth degree -- his footwork, his leveraging, his game plan, etc etc. However, the Michael Pineda type can be sloppy and it can still work out for him.
Alex Liddi has a linebacker's lean body mass, and he moves extremely well at 3B, and that means he just doesn't have to put a perfect swing on the ball like Ichiro and Ackley and Seager do. Liddi is a "horseshoes and hand grenades" athlete.
Suppose that Alex Liddi is Dean Palmer.
Do you want that at 3B? Thirty homers, a slick glove, and other than that --- > mostly a .240 hitter with a bunch of strikeouts?
I'll take him over Chone Figgins and a .188/.241/.243 pitcher's line. As Earl once put it, sort of, "Once every fifteen at-bats, Dean Palmer did a whale of a lot to win me a ball game."
DoTD Kyle Seager at SS - Dr's Prognosis
Oh yeah, TW relieves now
paracorto (not verified)
Golden Sombrero for Alex !
I was afraid that sooner or later it would have happened. Glad however it happened now like it happened once early this season in AAA. Deserved lesson I guess and now it's important to watch if he's able to leave it behind his back and rebound immediately as required.
When I used BRef to check
For Liddi comps, Palmer came up, but my first instinct was "Palmer was too good" but looking at the stats, if Palmer was too good what was I thinking with Williams, I'll buy Palmer, really he's a perfect match since every season was a roll of the dice, with seasons ranging from a .736 OPS up to 1.086 without much consistency throughout his career, Liddi will live and die by his BABiP.
moethedog
Liddi-like 3B guys:
Gary Gaetti, minus his outlier '88 season: Hit .250 or so, and had 16-30 homers (give or take), struck out 80-120 times as a full time player.
Gaetti might be a Liddi IF the kid doesn't fully pan out but still contributes.
Liddi's downside is totally not making it in the majors. I don't see that happening.
If Gaetti is the low mid-range projection, that ain't bad.
Brandon Inge, except with more power isn't a bad comparison for Liddi's low-range MLB projection. Well, Inge came up way late (at 22 he was playing A ball) and never hit homers in the minors. Inge wasn't bad for a few years....and Liddi is 4 levels ahead of him at the same age and has power Inge never dreamed of.
Mariner Jim Presley came up in '84 at the age of 22. Played 70 games.
Over the next 3 seasons, as a fulltime 3B, he hit .262-.308-.460, struck out 429 times, walked 114 times and hit 79 homers.
Liddi like? Maybe.
Pagliarulo in '86 and '87 hit .236, K'ed 231 times and hit 60 taters. Struck out 2.5 times more than he walked. He was a valuable Yankee, OPS+ing 110 and 105 in those seasons.
If Liddi can approach 30 homers and field 3B, then he can hit .240 and strike out 130 times AND still be a quite valuable player.
Dean Palmer, as a 23 and 24 year old, may be the best template but he isn't the only one.
Can a bonking, low-ish average, K'ing 3B be productive? It's been done before and Liddi is in that mold.
And if Liddi can be a 30 homerun 100+OPS+ 3B guy, then you just love a 35 double 100OPS+ Seager at SS.
Good as gold bets? Perhaps not, but it looks less unlikely all the time.
Lonnie of MC (not verified)
Honking my own horn...
...but somebody has to :)
Here's a piece I did on Liddi back in March of 2010: Linkedy-doo-dah
Check out those hit location charts, it's absolutely eye-opening!
ghost (not verified)
Still don't buy all the defensive ++++s
I get that he has tools Doc, but I still see a TON of errors and general mistakes on his defensive resume. If you're right and he's better defensively than his reputation suggests...(and that's entirely possible), then these comparisons are encouraging, but Brandon Inge would have been a below-replacement-level player if he hadn't been a +15 rrun defensive infielder in his prime. Gary Gaetti would have been somewhat useful, but no more so than, say, Ron Coomer or Dave Magadan if he didn't play good D as well as hit for occasional power. A utility infielder and that's all. All of your comps were tgood players...all of them were good to great fielders. IBIWISI with Liddi.
Hack (not verified)
Was Dean clean
My only problem with using a Dean Palmer as a comp is that in the time Palmer played, and in Texas at the same time as a Canseco and Palmeiro, can you trust his spike in power was natural?
Now I don't think there is any proof Palmer used steroids, and I'm not sure it matters in the discussion of Alex Liddi, but if his minor league numbers show low walks, high K's and a mediocre batting average and he worked his way into some power and production. Was it experience or medication that brought the power into his equation?
I think Gaetti is the comp unless Liddi really just needs time to develop into who he can really become.
My guess is, he wasn't
Which then moves the 6'1", 175-lb Palmer closer to Liddi's natural size and power, doesn't it?
From a physical standpoint, Liddi *is* Palmer *assuming* roids -- and then plenty...
Good stuff Hack ...
Natural, easy PWR is a sine qua non
My $0.02 on Gaetti, one of my fave players, BTW ...
Definitely see the idea, an 0.4'ish EYE, a 100 type OPS with 25 homers and ... a really tough ribbie man in high-leverage situations ... a ballplayer who was better than his stats indicated...
Personally don't fancy Gaetti as a comp, because am not sure that you could learn much about Liddi's forward arc there...
What we need is huge, powerful, VERY high strikeout guys on the infield IMHO... we want guys who literally weigh 225-245 lbs because the natural, easy power is an indispensible part of the evolution...
Or not :- )
As much as I hate to say, Mike Schmidt is first in that line. And he was a lousy player at 22-23.
Think I'll pinch that for the front page....
... and just claim I wrote it.
Brav-OH!
Did you plot those graphs yourself, or what?!
... check out the deep-CF shots. At age 19, was it?
That declining K% chart is key
That declining K% chart gives me more hope about Liddi than anything I've seen yet. It's even monotonic!
But I'm still mostly with Ghost -- Liddi's not my first choice, but it's way better to have attractive options than none at all.
1. Vinnie C improves his 3b defense (not out of the question)
2. F.Martinez lives up to his scout loooove
3. Liddi minimizes enough of his faults to have a decent career
or, maybe we take everything we love about Kyle Seager except make him 2-3 inches taller and 10-20 lbs. beefier -- now that could be your third-sacker of the future.
Last night, another example of what we're both talking about
Two screaming meemies --- > well off to his glove side.
Liddi effortlessly pounced over like a tiger on a monkey, snagged them with a calm look on his face...
Second one he hopped up and threw the runner out by a mile. But the first one simply rolled out of his glove as he got up ... about 30 seconds until he found it ... then he fired over like Michael Pineda and still almost got the guy.
Seager would have touched neither ball; Liddi was scored one error and one putout.
I'll take the learning curve, if you give me the natural gifts. :- )
Monotony is a founding principle at SSI
Though Liddi-Seager-Franklin-Triunfel-Catricala-Martinez is not exactly monotonous.
Is it just me, or is the traffic jam starting to look grotesque?
"As much as I hate to say, Mike Schmidt is first in that line."
Mine too. It's a very hazardous thought and I'm a little ashamed just to think it but if ever we've to dream then let's dream high !
Coming back to earth however is really bizarre how the 3B position for the future M's switched in a few months from below-0 to Seager, Liddi, Franklin, Triunfel, Martinez and Catricala - as pointed out by you
Ditto! Schmidt is a great
Ditto! Schmidt is a great age/arc comparison.......at this point. I didn't mention Schmidt because he's the greatest 3B ever and tossing his name out was likely to ruin my point.
I personally think Pags and Presley are nice comps. I wasn't so interested in body size matches, but in likely Liddi growth.
I want to see lots of a Liddi/Seager left side of the IF in the next few days and in ST. I am quite intrigued by that. I suppose Franklin could have something to say about that in ST and I love Ryan's glove but I'm interested in the experiment.
I remember that Bill Russell became the Dodgers' full-time SS in '72 then Cey and Lopes came aboard a year later. Add Garvey, who became a starter at 3B in '72 then got bumped to first when Cey came up and you had a terrific infield for nearlly a decade.
I see some of that happening here, perhaps. BTW, more and more, I see Russell as the lowside template of Seager at SS. Russell was an adequate glove, mediocre might be the word, and a 90-ish OPS+ stick (which was pretty good for SS's in the 70's).
Seager may be that adequate SS glove with a pretty good SS stick. The key, of course, is his being the adequate glove. Nothing has shown me yet that he isn't. I'll keep watching, though.
:daps: keep it comin' Paracorto
I flat-out love the way you say what's on your mind, from dugout view, without regard to whether the editors will like it or not.
Keep the spikes high, bro'.
As soon as we say that
Lurkers will put us down for 500 homers out of Liddi :- )
Jimmy Presley was the very first name I thought of too Moe ... a bit before most of these kids' time, wasn't it?
Caveat Emptor.....
Those hit location charts were created from minorleaguesplits.com back when it was a functioning website. The guy who put it all together threw out the warning that the locations are subject to whoever reported them to begin with, so, buyer beware!
What is legitimate about those charts though is that they show just how much Liddi uses the entire field.
Grotesque?
The "traffic jam" is one of the most beautiful things that I have seen in many years of tracking the Mariners minor leagues. For the first time in we actually have viable options at multiple positions.
The downside of having all those options is that someone is going to slip through the cracks because of disuse, or what not. Don't be entirely surprised in the next year or two if Matt Mangini is killing it for another team, or Liddi, or, or, or, or...
Wow! Great stuff Lonnie.
Wow! Great stuff Lonnie. WAY ahead of the curve!
Tacoma Rain
Who's Edgar?
So Doc, if Liddi is the next Pressley... the question is who is the next Edgar from your list
Seager and Liddi
The MLB immediate need at midsummer was 3b (the Ms were still "in the race" but Figgy was killing them), and the org viewed Seager, not Liddi, as the best immediate hope in the minors to fill it capably (as in, at least David-Bell-ishly), so they brought him up to Tacoma to see what he had, and the only way to get him time at 3b was to move Liddi somewhere else. So Liddi to SS. That's exactly when it happened.
I do not think it was a recognition of Liddi's defensive skills. It was a way to keep Liddi on the field while they groomed Seager for a 3b audition.
My sense is that the org now views Seager as having failed his everyday-3b audition, and is now grooming him for a super-utility role.
Therefore, Liddi at 3b and Seager at SS in the current audition.
G_Money
Liddi is kinda fascinating. He's nowhere near done growing into his game. 26 year old Liddi could be a terror - I just don't know that we have 4 years to give him.
I comped him to Tony Batista as Doc did (.250/.300/.450 career, .270/.320/.520 up years), and I like the Gaetti comp quite a bit too, but that doesn't mean that's his limit. He's never gonna have a high average; he's not Frank Thomas, and most large humans with huge strike zones wind up with low averages. It's just the nature of the game, and his swing isn't built for pepper, it's built for mashing. His skill-set as shown is somewhat limiting on the upper-end, though as a truly young player his skillset isn't carved in stone.
But once you determine who you think Liddi is going to be (and as a 30 2B / 30 HR man in AAA at 22, there's a lot to like production-wise), you need to determine if you're keeping him or selling him.
Our traffic jam currently looks like this:
3B - Seager, Liddi, Martinez, Catricala (doubtful), Tenbrink (more doubtful), Miller or Franklin (whichever can't make it at SS), Proscia (AA next year), Triunfel (he'll be gone soon) and growing.
Somebody out of that group is gonna work out. The key is to choose the right one.
I think Seager is a utility man for a bit, re-emerging as a starter later in his career. Catricala is moving to the OF, I believe, and Tenbrink when he comes back as well (think of him as a potential Casey Wells shortly). Like I said, I don't see Triunfel sticking around much longer - he'll be moved for somebody's moderate bullpen arm or something.
I think Martinez has the inside track as he's a key piece that Jack traded for. But 3B right now, long-term, looks to me like Liddi (one option left), F-Mart (several) and Miller (just getting started).
I don't expect to give Liddi the job. That doesn't mean he can't take it - he's in prime position to show he can do what it takes.
~G
merks
Alex Liddi = Michael Morse
As far as build is concerned. Both are large men but Liddi's power is much more extreme.
Did the M's ever consider Morse for 3rd base when he was here?
"I do not think it was a recognition of Liddi's defensive skills
That's right, initially at least. But Liddi kept on to play SS for 24 games, even after Seager had left and with LRod and Kazmar in the roster. However the point is that in those 24 games he did not embarass himself.
Morse played everywhere
Merks,
Morse played everywhere in Tacoma and in his first go around in Seattle he was evenprimarily a SS. After that he played 3B, COF and 1B.
He wasn't very good anywhere, although I thought him decent in the OF and at 1B.
I also thought that with more 3B time he could have been adequate there.
It seemed to me that the knocks on Morse were that he had no "natural" position and that he was tall and big but didn't seem to be a power guy. His skill set, getting on base, didn't seem to match his body type. The poweer came, though, didn't it.
We moved him way too early, considering that he was up 4 seasons in a row and hit decently or better in the first three, all cups of tea.
Consider that in '09 we opened with Morse in Tacoma and Bad Wlad patrolling LF in Safeco. Egads, man. the horror, the horror! Endy Chavez was our next LF'er. And then we trade Morse (hitting .312-.370-.481 and beginning to show some AAA power for the first time) to Washington for Ryan Langerhans who had hit .167 and .234 in the two previous years.
This was disasterous GM'ing and talent evaluation. Not only did we over project Wlad, Chavez AND Langerhans, but we hugely underpredicted Morse. 0 'fer 4!
I think you could make this an 0 'fer 5 if you include the M's front office confidence in Saunders as a factor in this move.
This was a Star Trek moment: "Beam me up Scotty, no intelligent life here."
Never seen Guernica?
Can't a traffic jam be both beautiful and grotesque? :- )
Grotesque that Brian Giles should have played as many AAA games as he did, behind the 1990's Indians... Beautiful of course for us writing POTD after POTD on 30 to 40 different legit M's prospects...
It goes without saying that
... Liddi wasn't moved to SS because of any possibility of his becoming a shortstop.
But guys like Troy Glaus and Adrian Beltre wind up filling in at SS, here and there, precisely because their remarkable 3B play makes a SS-bandaid something that is feasible.
Like the Morse comp, with an asterisk
*Morse was kind of a 60 HIT, 60 PWR guy in my opinion... Liddi more of a 50 HIT, 70 PWR type.
Always liked the shape of Morse's swing and the way he could cover the baseball. Liddi is cut from a different cloth as far as the HIT tool; Liddi looks like a mistake hitter to me, and we don't mean that in a bad sense.
But yeah. There are all kinds of similarities between the two players. Good stuff Merks.
I really like that Dean
I really like that Dean Palmer comp as an upside scenario. Thats pretty much perfect skills-wise and age-wise.
I'm not very high on Liddi personally, but Palmer is a great comp.
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HIGH-GEAR DRIFTER
A TALLER TOP GEAR RATIO MAKES FOR EASIER HIGHWAY RUNNING IN THE VDJ TROOP CARRIER.
WORDS & PHOTOS MARK ALLEN
IT STARTED with a squeak. Many thousands of kays ago the 2011 VDJ78R developed a small squeak from where the clutch fork rides on the pivot ball. It was initially ignored, replaced by turning the radio up. However, the cacophony coming from the mighty Troopy every time the clutch lifted became too much to ignore – there’s only so far you can free-roll with your foot on the clutch. The annoyingly squeaky part wouldn’t cost much to repair or replace, but the whole gearbox needed to be removed to get to it.
The Troopy only had about 60,000km, but with the gearbox out it seemed appropriate to slot in a new clutch; and, just to lighten the wallet further, it also seemed the right time to change the fifth gear ratio to help with long-distance mile munching. There was a fair amount of procrastination in the ensuing months about the type of clutch to use, as well as whether or not to re-gear the box via one of two methods.
OTHER than wanting a heavier-duty clutch with a higher clamping pressure, the major concern was to end up with a foot pedal that wasn’t too heavy or too hard to push in. Many questions thrown at sales staff, owners and anyone else that has ever owned an aftermarket clutch returned mixed answers as to the pedal feel and useability of clutches.
The clutch needed to be easy to use in a daily-driven vehicle (both on- and off- road) and be able to be slipped if needed (even though it’s not good for them) and not take up in an instant. While the V8 diesel only has a moderate power upgrade via a chip and exhaust, the standard clutches are well-known for not handling too much of a power increase without slipping – this one was slipping slightly, most notably while taking off from a start and towing. It required extra clamping pressure to help handle towing camper trailers and caravans, as well as any future (higher) power upgrades to be thrown at it.
The long search led to NPC Performance Clutches, which manufactures a massive 1300Nm clamping pressure plate and replaces the OE flywheel with its own custom 10-inch billet-steel flywheel unit to achieve superior figures. The pressure achieved at the pressure plate fingers is 1300Nm, so the clutch can theoretically handle a twisting pressure (force or torque) of 1300Nm. Comparatively the standard clutch and pressure plate only have to hold back 430Nm of force from the standard engine. That means the NPC unit has roughly three times the amount of clamping pressure than OE.
Some people suggested this was overkill and too expensive, but you’re getting a new custom flywheel to suit the clutch and pressure plate. Right from the get-go the pedal felt slightly lighter than the standard feel, and that easy pedal pushing, combined with the ease of use (it can be slipped if needed) and massive extra clamping pressure, has proven it was worth the extra cash.
GEARED DOWN
STANDARD gearing in my Troopy saw it clocking 2200rpm at 100km/h and 2500rpm at 110km/h; compared to the Terrain Tamer kit returning just 1800 and 2100rpm at 100 and 110km/h. That confirms the theoretical reduction of 400rpm.
BOX RE-GEAR
FIFTH gears on pre-2017 V8 70 Series Cruisers are notoriously short, returning a relatively high-revving and loud longdistance highway drive experience. In 2017, Toyota saw fit to change the 70 Series box ratios of second and fifth cogs by seven and 15 per cent respectively. A later model (than the 2011 Troopy) box could’ve done the job, but there was little reason to change second gear, as it was already low enough and useable enough for towing and general off-road work.
Enter Terrain Tamer’s modified ratio gear set kit, which leaves second as standard but changes fifth gear by more than 20 per cent. The complete gear set is a one-piece unit comprising first to fifth, plus reverse cogs, and it’s manufactured in Japan utilising hardened steel with a Rockwell rating of 62 – that means it’s damn hard and of high quality.
A gearbox mob pulled down the old ’box and stuffed it full of the new Terrain Tamer kit, which effectively changed fifth cog from 0.881 to 0.736 to provide a theoretical change of about 400rpm. That 400rpm may seem like a minimal drop, but the longterm fuel savings will have a positive impact on the bank balance. The noise difference makes it worth it, too; given 70 Series are commercial vehicles with little to no soundproofing as standard. Obviously this lowering of revs can’t ever convert the Troopy to a 200 Series luxo-barge, but it has helped considerably. The downsides: any upping of gear ratios puts more stress on the driveline, with the potential overgearing making the engine labour.
This can cause higher fuel usage and less ability to use that higher gear-set if the engine can’t deliver enough torque at the right revs. Given the LC has a DP Chip that can be turned off, the engine could be tested close to standard (other than the three-inch Taipan XP exhaust system and 33-inch rubber).
Indeed, the engine struggled slightly on long and steeper hills, on the highway at 100km/h and 110km/h.
There were occasions when a downshift to fourth was required, which wasn’t the case with standard gearing where fifth was capable. With the DP Chip turned back on and set at position three (which was deemed safe and reliable via the installer), to return 131kW and 747.5Nm, there was little need to fiddle with the gearstick over the same roads.
Towing a camper or caravan would need more downshifting than normal, and that’s where even higher returns of safe tuning will help. That leaves you with a taller fifth that can be used most of the time, but with the occasional downshift to prevent labouring.
While the mods mightn’t pay for themselves for a very long time, the pleasure and security of a quieter cabin via the lower revving engine, as well as a huge clamping pressure clutch with soft feeling pedal, was well worth it.
To date, since fitting the fifth gear upgrade and driven almost 3000km, I’ve managed a fuel consumption average of 13.6L/100km from the big Troopy. While nothing fantastic, what is surprising is that it’s a full 1.0 to 1.5L/100km better than I’ve ever achieved prior to the change. That driving has been predominantly at highway speeds (100 to 110km/h) making most use of the fifth gear change. Obviously, the more it can be used (at highway speeds), the more savings you’ll achieve. Lower speed driving in lower gears will make no difference, neither will 4x4ing.
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Vancouver Sun article with Maria Hudspith speaking on the draft BC Provincial Pain Strategy
B.C. aims to implement provincial pain strategy: patients' advocate
Maria Hudspith says input included initiatives and policies that have worked elsewhere, including Australia, which has a national pain strategy.
The British Columbia government is working on a provincial pain strategy that would provide greater access to services for chronic conditions such as arthritis, back pain and fibromyalgia, the head of a patients’ advocacy group says.
Maria Hudspith, executive director of PainBC, said a draft strategy has been completed for Health Minister Adrian Dix after consultations by his ministry with her group, patients, clinicians, researchers and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C.
Hudspith said input included initiatives and policies that have worked elsewhere, including Australia, which has a national pain strategy.
The strategy would set out guidelines for treatment and establish a connection between family doctors and other experts dealing in chronic pain and the use of opioids.
Ontario and Quebec are among provinces that have made investments in treating chronic pain by teams of experts such as primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physiotherapists and social workers as patients’ groups work to create co-ordinated pain management services.
“We are seeing provinces in different stages of development and we are the most far along in terms of having the most comprehensive strategy that I’ve certainly seen,” Hudspith said of B.C.’s draft pain strategy.
The Health Ministry said it is continuing to consult with stakeholders but did not provide details about its plans.
Researchers, clinicians and patients gathered in Vancouver last week as the annual Canadian Academy of Health Sciences called for a national pain strategy that would ensure regulatory standards are in place.
Hudspith said a national strategy would provide common policy standards for all patients.
“My worry is that we’re going to see this huge disparity across the country, where in B.C. we eventually get our provincial strategy and we have a lot of movement and positive change here but many other provinces, they have nothing.”
Health Canada said it is committed to working with the community though Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor has not committed to a national pain strategy.
“The minister of health has asked departmental officials to consider a task force on pain to identify strengths, challenges and gaps in prevention and management of chronic pain in Canada,” the department said in a statement.
Continue reading this story in the Sun.
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Dear Mr. McCain
2,060 Views | 44 Replies | Last: 1 yr ago by Another Bear
B.A. Bearacus
I'm so sad that we lost you. You were taken too soon. You were a true American patriot and I bow my head in honor of you service to our country. You put your country before yourself and with your loss America itself died a little today. RIP.
OBear073akaSMFan
In reply to B.A. Bearacus • 10:04p, 8/25/18
B.A. Bearacus said:
I'm so saddened by your loss. You were taken too soon. You were a true American patriot and I bow my head in honor of you service to our country. You put your country before yourself and with your loss America itself died a little today. RIP.
RIP Mr. McCain. A true American Hero!
sycasey
I disagreed with much of his political worldview . . . but there were also plenty of times he stood on principle and did the right thing, so I respected him for that. If most of the Republican Party were more of his temperament I think we wouldn't be in our current mess.
And of course his military service was unimpeachable.
One of his finer moments:
Hard to imagine a current Republican candidate shutting this crap down like McCain did.
okaydo
My condolences to his mom. It must not feel right to outlive your kid.
bearister
Nothing could fundamentally lay bare the difference in character between John McCain and tRump better this:
"Senator John Sidney McCain III was asked what he wants on his tombstone.
It was January 2015, and the Arizona Republican had just become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He was as the N.Y. Times says after his death at age 81, after a battle with brain cancer "a proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency."
His answer to the N.Y. Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg:
"He served his country."
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside
"On the shores of a still and peaceful lake on the edge of downtown Hanoi, the inscription on a faded monument stands as a reminder of a violent event 51 years ago," Reuters reports.
The sculpture, which depicts an airman with his hands above his head in front of a broken plane wing, says: "On Oct 26, 1967, at Truc Bach Lake, the military and people of Hanoi arrested Major John Sidney McCain, a pilot of the American Navy's air force."
Several U.S. citizens living in the Vietnamese capital visited the monument with tributes. "Most brought flowers. One man offered a folded U.S. flag." Axios
Cody Keenan, speechwriter for President Obama from 2007 through now, tweets:
"Met John McCain once. I was a 22 year old senate intern waiting for an elevator. The doors opened, and he and another GOP senator were inside. I apologized and said I'd [wait] for the next one, but McCain told me to hop on."
"'Who do you work for,' he asked. 'Ted Kennedy, sir.' 'He's a good man,' McCain said. 'Without him, we're lost.'"
"The other Senator scoffed in disgust and got off the elevator at the next floor. While he was still in earshot, McCain raised his voice a little and said, 'Don't mind him. He's an icehole.'"
Senator McCain passed away nine years to the day after his friend, Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy." Axios
From "The True Nature of John McCain's Heroism"(2017):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-true-nature-of-john-mccains-heroism
"In 1968, less than a year after his Navy bomber was shot down, the imprisoned McCain was abruptly offered unconditional release by the North Vietnamese, perhaps because his father had just been named the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. McCain was still badly crippled from his crash and the poor medical treatment that followed, yet he adhered to the P.O.W. code of honor and refused to be repatriated ahead of American prisoners who had been in captivity longer than he. His refusal was adamant. His guard told him, "Now, McCain, it will be very bad for you." He was tortured for his defiance, and ultimately spent more than two years in solitary confinement. The abuse, combined with the after-effects of his injuries, left him physically marked. He could have avoided it all, but out of loyalty and - one has to name it - love for his comrades, he chose not to."
Another Bear
Best line I read today, "McCain wasn't bipartisan. He was a partisan but a decent one." Like others, rarely agreed with him but respected him for being forthright and a stand-up, country-first American. Also he didn't demonize the other side of the isle.
Nice story here: What it tells us that John McCain drank vodka with Hillary Clinton
It says quite a bit that MeCain requested Obama eulogize him.
blungld
In reply to sycasey • 12:11p, 8/26/18
sycasey said:
That is what I believe real American exceptionalism looks like: two good men making their case, running their campaigns on real principles and setting an example for people of character in this country.
I hope we return to honor and goodness soon.
In reply to blungld • 12:29p, 8/26/18
blungld said:
....I hope we return to honor and goodness soon.
We will be well on our way to doing that when we cast every member of the tRump Crime Family into the dustbin of history.
concordtom
In reply to bearister • 12:41p, 8/26/18
bearister said:
I would cut some slack for Baron.
He hasn't taken any role or spoken an opinion in any of it. So far.
But, yeah, I can't decide who comes off as a more despicable persona: Donald Sr or Donald Jr.
And Ivanka is a total rich b**** kiss a**. Complicit.
Anyone else see this documentary by an heir of the Johnson & Johnson fortune?
In reply to blungld • 6:05p, 8/26/18
And I'll also say that it's not perfect: in stopping the "Obama is an Arab" talk he kind of inadvertently suggests that he's a "good family man" BECAUSE he's not an Arab. I don't think that's what he meant, but it could be interpreted that way.
Still, he moved in right away to put a stop to that talk, and I respect him for having that impulse. I don't think our current President has that impulse.
Sadly predictable...and on queue...
Fox News Disables Comments on YouTube Videos About John McCain's Death As Its Supporters Viciously Attack Deceased Senator
The far-right commenters were malicious in their attacks.
Bobodeluxe
you gots to be hatin' them A-rabs in Murkuh ...
McCain on Obama (Oct 16, 2008). May the dignity and decency of this man be once again found in the GOP.
In reply to B.A. Bearacus • 7:45a, 8/27/18
Just to add in context, this was just a couple weeks before the November vote between McCain and Obama.
Amazing when you compare to tactics today.
Trump sucks d***!!!!!
As I said elsewhere, Trump elevates McCain from mere common Senator to George Washington.
Anyone who votes for trump again has lost sight of the big picture in favor of us-vs-them-ism.
Us = Americans
Us = Humanity
The founding fathers spoke in terms of humanity, not just "us".
Trump and his brain washed zombies are small minded and myopic.
Anarchistbear
In reply to concordtom • 8:43a, 8/27/18
Check out where you live. There are probably some near you.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-2016-voting-precinct-maps.html
The letter was delivered and read aloud Monday by McCain's friend and former aide, Rick Davis.
"My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,
Thank you for the privilege of serving you and for the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably against them.
I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventures and friendships enough for ten satisfying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else's.
I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America's causes liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people brings happiness more sublime than life's fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.
'Fellow Americans' that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world's greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.
We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening.
I feel it powerfully still.
Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.
Farewell, fellow Americans. God bless you, and God bless America"
McCain voted for the Trump agenda 83% of the time. Even in death he is saddled to his high horse.
In reply to Anarchistbear • 5:34p, 8/27/18
Anarchistbear said:
At least he got in tRump's head. That's worth something.
BearNIt
Apparently Rep Inhofe thinks that it is partially a dead man's fault that the White House can't get the flag lowering right. Per Inhofe, said the former GOP presidential nominee was not "courteous" to Trump.
I guess fighting for your country, being a prisoner of war, serving in Congress, and running for President of the United States of America means nothing. Talk about being tone deaf.
In reply to BearNIt • 6:06p, 8/27/18
I think he and the Trumpkins are more brain dead than tone deaf. That's how you form a cult.
p.s. McCain was still a GOP and while he gets a pass in death for having principles and taking a country-first stance...he also wanted to win badly and brought in Sarah Palin. Many believe that opened the flood gate to the extreme right kooks, deep state dingbats, Alex Jones and the Qanon idiots.
FWIW, only four GOP senators voted against Trump more than McCain.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
You're right, BA, McCain was the biggest midget in the GOP circus. Only 83% with Trump. I will miss him 17%.
At one time he deserved the maverick title but not since 2008. By elevating the know nothing moron Palin to VP he legitimized both stupidity and birthed the nativist Tea Party wing that led to Trump. Is it any wonder Palin was an early Trump endorser? Can we also recall the dog whistles Palin-as McCain's surrogate- delivered against Obama in 2008 regarding his association with terrorists while "decent" John McCain stood silent.
McCain is a product of our half a$$ed media who thinks anyone who would have a drink or associate with them must be " a decent human being."
Maggie H:
"When Kelly called the president at 7 am and told him he needed to let the staff take care of the McCain issue, the president wouldn't budge. A frustrated Kelly went to senior staff mtg and said the week would go ahead as planned...
Some Trump advisers egged him on as he watched lengthy tributes to McCain on TV and got angry, but a group including Sarah Sanders, Kelly, Bill Shine and even Pence and Bolton got him to sign off on a new plan by afternoon."
Trump honors true hero.
kjkbear
Joined: Sep 3, 2017
I like McCain as I liked George McGovern. As senators who got some of us to have better aspirations than we might have had if they had not served.
In reply to Another Bear • 7:49p, 8/27/18
Another Bear said:
With regard to Palin, I have always had deep respect and affection for any woman that can bring the mother f'ing ruckus. There is a certain part of me that wanted McCain to win because during the Holiday Season those drunk fightin' Palins would have come tumblin' out of the White House doors onto the lawn and be hair pullin', scratchin', bitin', eye pokin', hair pullin', crotch kickin' and sucker punchin' in the mud and the blood and the beer. Total missed entertainment opportunity.
Agreed, Willow rutting in the bushes with a marine during the Easter Egg Roll would have been a unique White House moment.
In reply to kjkbear • 8:04p, 8/27/18
kjkbear said:
Some of you young'ins might be unaware that in 1972 Neil Young wrote War Song in support of George McGovern's Presidential Campaign. At the time I bought the 45 RPM single. The lyrics:
In the morning when you wake up
You've got planes flying in the sky
Flying bombs made to break up
All the lies in your eyes
There's a man says
He can put an end to war
They shot George Wallace down
He'll never walk around
Our mines are sleeping in the sea
Blow those bridges down
And burn that jungle down
And kill those Vietnamese
The song:
In reply to B.A. Bearacus • 3:29p, 8/28/18
This will considerably diminish the band of brothers Rudy threatens will take to the streets should tRump get impeached.
Gotta love a guy who sticks it to an enemy even in death.
McCain's Pallbearer Choice is Final Dig at Putin, Trump
"Even in death, John McCain has one final burn planned for two of his biggest foes Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a moment when much of the world will be watching," Politico reports.
"The Republican senator from Arizona, who planned his own funeral, chose Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as one of the dignitaries to carry his coffin to the front of the Washington National Cathedral at Saturday's memorial service."
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The Faculty of Science
Erik Sandblom
erik.sandblom@bioenv.gu.se
Visiting Address: Medicinaregatan 18A , 41390 Göteborg
Department of Biological & Environmental Sciences (More Information)
Visiting Address: Medicinaregatan 18 , 413 90 Göteborg
About Erik Sandblom
Our lab has a broad-ranging interest in comparative physiology and animal ecophysiology, particularly as it relates to fish. Most of our current work revolves around questions related to cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, and we are particularly interested in the physiological responses and adjustments to environmental factors including temperature, oxygen availability and salinity. We also work within a more applied line of research, studying stress and welfare of farmed fish in aquaculture. Most of our work is performed at the level of the intact animal, often including advanced surgery and in vivo instrumentation, and in combination with various biochemical and pharmacological approaches. Our labs’ research currently follows three separate, yet related, pathways as outlined below.
Physiological plasticity and adaptation to chronic warming
Climate change is predicted to continue with increasing average temperatures, as well as stronger and more frequent transient heat waves. This will have a profound impact on ectothermic animals such as fish where the body temperature and metabolism is directly determined by the ambient temperature. Current hypotheses suggest that limitations in cardiorespiratory oxygen transport may be a key limitation in ectothermic animals at elevated temperature, but current evidence is conflicting and knowledge about the capacity of the cardiorespiratory system to adjust to long-term warming via acclimation and genetic adaptation is still limited. In this project, we study thermal tolerance and cardiorespiratory function in wild Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) that live and reproduce in the chronically heated ‘Biotest enclosure’ located in the Baltic Sea off the nuclear power plant in Forsmark in Sweden. Cooling water from the nearby nuclear reactors has been directed to the 90 hectare enclosure since 1980, keeping water temperatures 5-10°C above ambient for over 30 years, but at otherwise similar abiotic conditions as the surrounding archipelago. Thus, this experimental facility presents a unique model of future climate warming in aquatic ecosystems and provides great opportunities to study biological responses of fish to chronic warming. By comparing fish from the Biotest enclosure with a reference population from the nearby archipelago where the temperature is normal, we can address mechanisms of physiological thermal plasticity and genetic adaptation. The project is performed in collaboration with SLU, Institute of Coastal Research.
Stress physiology and welfare of fish in aquaculture
Aquaculture is the fastest growing food-producing sector worldwide and has recently received increased priority in Sweden. However, an increased awareness has grown regarding the need to secure the welfare and health of farmed fish. For example, a major current challenge for the industry is to find ethically acceptable methods to handle, immobilize and kill large numbers of fish during slaughter and harvest, and the welfare implications of varius practices and methods routinely used are poorly understood. Moreover, a big challenge when studying fish in aquaculture is that fish do not always dispaly obvious external signals and behaviours when welfare is compromised under routine aquaculture conditions. Consequently, welfare recommendations are often based on subjective conclusions, rather than on reliable and quantifiable physiological markers of stress. In this project, which is a collaboration with SLU, we specifically focus on the two dominating aquaculture species in sweden; Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). To better assess the welfare of these animals in situations relevant to aquaculture, we utilize a suite of physiological indices such as cardiovascular and gastrointestinal variables, as well as blood samples for stress hormone and hematological analyses from live fish. We also use state-of-the-art blood flow telemetry systems and heart rate loggers to analyze physiological responses of free-swimming fish in aquaculture settings in collaboration with partners from the industry. This allows us to address the welfare implications of common rearing situations, and to identify and quantify stressful events in farming and slaughter situations that can be targeted to improve welfare. For more information, see the project web page.
Interacting environmental stressors and mechanisms of acclimation
Climate change does not only involve chronic warming and an increased incidence of heat waves, but also expansion of hypoxic zones and altered salinity of aquatic ecosystems. While each of these stressors are challenging for fish, their negative effects may be counteracted by physiological plasticity (e.g., acclimation), which can provide resilience. However, as highlighted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it is not known whether and how acclimation to one stressor alters the sensitivity and response to another. We have, therefore, now started the challenging task of analysing the complex interactions between multiple environmental stressors at different time scales.
Interested in joining our group?
Prospective post-docs are highly encouraged to contact Erik so we can discuss available possibilities. There may be various opportunities to apply for national or EU post-doc funding to contribute to ongoing projects in the lab, or to develop your own project within the broad research themes of the lab.
Exam project students at all stages (BSc to MSc) are also welcome to contact me for further information on currently available student projects.
Erik Sandblom (Professor, PI)
Andreas Ekström (Post-doc)
Tristan McArley (Researcher/Post-doc)
Daniel Morgenroth (PhD student)
Per Hjelmstedt (PhD student SLU, co-supervision)
Current main funding sources: The swedish Research Council; The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS); MoRE2020, Region Västra Götaland.
Remote physiological monitoring provides unique insights on the cardiovascular performance and stress responses of freely swimming rainbow trout in aquaculture
J. Brijs, Erik Sandblom, Michael Axelsson, Kristina Sundell, Henrik Sundh et al.
Scientific Reports, Journal article 2019
Cardiac mitochondrial plasticity and thermal sensitivity in a fish inhabiting an artificially heated ecosystem
Nicolas Pichaud, Andreas Ekström, S. Breton, F. Sundstrom, P. Rowinski et al.
Socially induced stress and behavioural inhibition in response to angling exposure in rainbow trout
Magnus L. Wallerius, A. Grans, Barbara Koeck, David Berger, Erik Sandblom et al.
Fisheries Management and Ecology, Journal article 2019
Can ' t beat the heat? Importance of cardiac control and coronary perfusion for heat tolerance in rainbow trout
Andreas Ekström, A. Grans, Erik Sandblom
Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systems and Environmental Physiology, Journal article 2019
Hemodynamic responses to warming in euryhaline rainbow trout: implications of the osmo-respiratory compromise
Daniel Morgenroth, Andreas Ekström, P. Hjelmstedt, A. Grans, Michael Axelsson et al.
Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal article 2019
Prospects and pitfalls of using heart rate bio-loggers to assess the welfare of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in aquaculture
J. Brijs, Erik Sandblom, Malin Rosengren, Kristina Sundell, C. Berg et al.
Aquaculture, Journal article 2019
Effects of coeliacomesenteric blood flow reduction on intestinal barrier function in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss
Henrik Sundh, A. Grans, Jeroen Brijs, Erik Sandblom, Michael Axelsson et al.
Journal of Fish Biology, Journal article 2018
The final countdown: Continuous physiological welfare evaluation of farmed fish during common aquaculture practices before and during harvest
Jeroen Brijs, Erik Sandblom, Michael Axelsson, Kristina Sundell, Henrik Sundh et al.
Oxygen- and capacity-limited thermal tolerance: Blurring ecology and physiology
Fredrik Jutfelt, Tommy Norin, Rasmus Ern, Johannes Overgaard, Tobias Wang et al.
Journal of Experimental Biology, Editorial letter 2018
Editorial letter
Seawater acclimation affects cardiac output and adrenergic control of blood pressure in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)-implications for salinity variations now and in the future.
Erika Sundell, Daniel Morgenroth, Jeroen Brijs, Andreas Ekström, Albin Gräns et al.
Conservation physiology, Journal article 2018
Simultaneous biologging of heart rate and acceleration, and their relationships with energy expenditure in free-swimming sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
T.D. Clark, Erik Sandblom, S.G. Hinch, D. Patterson, P.B Frappell et al.
Journal of Comparative Physiology B, Journal article 2010
Cardiac responses to anoxia in the Pacific hagfish, Eptatretus stoutii.
G.K. Cox, Erik Sandblom, A.P. Farrell
Regulation of metabolic energy supply and demand of the heart during hypoxia exposure in tilapia
B. Speers-Roesch, Erik Sandblom, G.Y. Lau, A.P. Farrell, J.G. Richards
American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, Journal article 2010
Cholinergic and adrenergic influences on the heart of the African lungfish (Protopterus annectens)
Erik Sandblom, Albin Gräns, Henrik Seth, Michael Axelsson
Nervous and humoral catecholaminergic control of blood pressure and cardiac performance in the Antarctic fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki
Erik Sandblom, Catharina Olsson, W. Davison, Michael Axelsson
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, Journal article 2010
Fish cardiorespiratory physiology in an era of climate change
Anthony P. Farrell, E.J. Eliason, Erik Sandblom, T.D. Clark
Canadian Journal of Zoology, Review article 2009
Nutrient-induced gastrointestinal hyperemia and specific dynamic action (SDA) in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) - Importance of proteins and lipids
Henrik Seth, Erik Sandblom, Michael Axelsson
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Ramifications and possibility of a diet consuming exclusively of human semen
Semen is a thick, nutritious liquid, rich in vitamins (such as C, B12), amino acids, lipids, monosaccharides (fructose), et cetera. Can semen's ability to fulfill the needs of human organism provide enough essential nutrients to keep the body alive and functional? And if so, would it be a healthy life?
Can a glass of ejaculate a day keep The Reaper/doctor away? If not, how long could a person survive on a "diet" like this?
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$\begingroup$ Don't know why this one was down-voted. Up-voted to offset. This is a question concerning human biological processes, despite unsettling implications to some responders. $\endgroup$ – MCM Sep 5 '12 at 15:06
$\begingroup$ Right, I do realise that semen content varies, also, question that should have been asked is 'roughly, how long one can take that diet [I mean - is it more like 3 weeks or 3 months - or else] and what exactly is most likely to cause death'. I should be more specific. Thanks for help however, kind sir MCM - and, can't vitamin K be manufactured by intestinal flora? $\endgroup$ – Arwil Sep 5 '12 at 15:28
$\begingroup$ @MCM it may concern human biological processes, but it's not relevant for anything. I don't see how this is any more valuable than any other "how long can I live eating only X" almost all of which are simply rhetorical "just curious" questions with nothing particularly useful about them. $\endgroup$ – Ben Brocka Sep 18 '12 at 14:37
$\begingroup$ I downvoted because the question as phrased is not suitable for this site. Asking "what is the nutritional content of human semen" would be more appropriate for a biology forum. In what possible context would you be confronted with a situation where you had to survive on male ejaculate? $\endgroup$ – Poshpaws Sep 18 '12 at 15:11
$\begingroup$ I agree the question is not the best, but it is not a topic forbidden in the FAQ, and it is an answerable question that doesn't require an extended conversation or a book's worth of text. While it would have been nice to have the question phrased better, as Poshpaws suggested, not everyone will think in that manner - and I don't see why they should be excluded. Once a question like this has been asked and thoroughly answered, then it can serve as a reference for future questions. $\endgroup$ – MCM Sep 18 '12 at 15:21
No, you cannot live off of semen.
A source from Columbia.edu:
A typical ejaculation fills up about one teaspoon; the actual amount is determined by a man's age (younger men usually make more semen), when he last ejaculated, and how long he's aroused before ejaculating, among other factors. Contrary to what you've heard, semen is not loaded with calories. Each teaspoon of ejaculate has about 5 - 7 calories and some 200 - 500 million sperm. Since sperm make up only about 1 percent of semen, what accounts for the other 99 percent? Well, its other ingredients include:
Fructose sugar
Ascorbic acid (a.k.a., vitamin C)
Phosphate and bicarbonate buffers (bases)
Can swallowing semen enrich a protein poor diet? Unless you're gulping gallons of it each day, it's no substitute for real nutritious cuisine!
From a non-academic, but apparently well-informed source, semen contains:
Semen contains only 15 calories and boy does it have a lot of stuff in it. So let's have a look. Ejaculate contains ascorbic acid, blood-group antigens, calcium, chlorine, cholesterol, choline, citric acid, creatine, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), fructose, glutathione, hyaluronidase, inositol, lactic acid, magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, purine, pyrimidine, pyruvic acid, sodium, sorbitol, spermidine, spermine, urea, uric acid, vitamin B12, and zinc.
I've highlighted the nutritionally-relevant ingredients. You'll notice that there is some overlap - with the Columbia source. What you won't notice, though, are the rest of the Essential Vitamins and Minerals:
Vitamin B2 (riboflavin, vitamin G)
Vitamin B3 (niacin, vitamin P, vitamin PP)
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, or pyridoxal)
Vitamin B9 (folic acid, folate, vitamin M)
Vitamin D (ergocalciferol, or cholecalciferol)
Vitamin K (naphthoquinoids)
Chloride (Cl−)
Chromium (Cr)[4]
Cobalt (Co) (as part of Vitamin B12)
Copper (Cu)
Iodine (I)
Iron (Fe)
Nickel (Ni)
Sulfur (S) numerous roles[5]
I should also mention that the specific amounts of each ingredient will vary from person to person, as diet can play a major role in flavor resulting from the changed nutritional content (i.e. - higher fructose levels).
As perhaps the most reliable source I could find, there is a Wikipedia article with references concerning the makeup of human seminal fluid and has this information:
amino acids, citrate, enzymes, flavins, fructose (2–5 mg per mL semen,3 the main energy source of sperm cells, which rely entirely on sugars from the seminal plasma for energy), phosphorylcholine, prostaglandins (involved in suppressing an immune response by the female against the foreign semen), proteins, vitamin C
acid phosphatase, citric acid, fibrinolysin, prostate specific antigen, proteolytic enzymes, zinc
It echoes the other sources closely, and still yields insufficient evidence that a person could live off of semen exclusively.
As for how long you can live? From a Scientific American article concerning starvation there have been confirmed instances of hungers strikes lasting up to 40 days. Assuming you could consume enough semen to sustain your body's daily Caloric requirements, you would die of malnutrition eventually. Scurvy - the inadequate intake of Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - would probably be the culprit, as deficiency becomes clinical in 1 to 3 months with the later stages of Scurvy being: "...more severe and life threatening; common manifestations include generalized edema, severe jaundice, hemolysis, acute spontaneous bleeding, neuropathy, fever, convulsions, and death."
Assuming that there is enough Vitamin C in semen, you would die of other deficiencies. Since Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) is water-soluble (is not stored in your fatty tissues), not found in semen at all, and the body only reserves about a month's worth, after 30 days you would start to experience Beriberi - which is only slightly less fun than Scurvy.
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$\begingroup$ An impressive answer. However, that first constituent from the second source - "aboutonia". I can find no trace of a definition for this. All Google results seem to point back to this source, it isn't in my dictionary and it doesn't generate any hits at PubMed. Presumably it was originally "Ejaculate contains about [something].." but I can't come up with a candidate that explains the "onia" $\endgroup$ – Alan Boyd Sep 5 '12 at 15:31
$\begingroup$ @Alan Boyd - I wouldn't be surprised if they meant albumen, or something similar. It's not the greatest source, but there weren't any "hard" sources for the nutritional content of semen like journal articles or studies. There's supposedly a 2004 study out of Sydney, but I couldn't find it. $\endgroup$ – MCM Sep 5 '12 at 16:09
$\begingroup$ @Arwil - Vitamin K can be manufactured by intestinal flora, yes, but not in the amounts necessary to sustain human life. My personal opinion is that you wouldn't live for much more than a month. There have been hunger strikes for as long as 40 days, but if the semen didn't contain enough Vitamin C then Scurvy would kill you in a few weeks. Edit: Also removed "aboutonia" since it's not a real compound. $\endgroup$ – MCM Sep 5 '12 at 16:17
$\begingroup$ I see. So, summing up, consumption of significant amount of semen, sufficient to postpone suffering from malnutrition and scurvy, can probably lead to about 2 months of not so quality life, ending in agony of 'deficiency-based' diseases, such as beri-beri. Thanks a lot, you really did a tremendous job! $\endgroup$ – Arwil Sep 5 '12 at 17:34
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Forecast: UK snap election to be won by Johnson’s Conservatives
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In the United Kingdom’s snap elections, called to resolve the Brexit crisis, the victory of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is forecast by British sociology centre YouGov.
British-Canadian news agency Reuters reported on Tuesday, December 11, that the 28-seat Conservative margin of victory predicted by pollsters YouGov, down from 68 two weeks ago, is narrow enough that the firm said Johnson could fail to win an outright majority.
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NCAA Football Super Series (2019 version)
By JCRGraphix, September 20, 2019 in Concepts
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mmmmm..... bacon
Location:Grand Rapids, Michigan
Up next we have the University of New Jersey Mallards. They use their blue and green jerseys equally for home games.
Location: Clifton, New Jersey
Type: Public University
Major Rivals: New Jersey State, Rutgers
National Championship Runner-Up: 2 2007, 2009
And their rivals, the New Jersey State Nighthawks...
New Jersey State University
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Major Rivals: New Jersey, Philadelphia State
And with that, everything from here on out is brand new!
Up next we have the Bandits of New York State. I always wanted to make raccoon logo, so this was the perfect opportunity.
New York State University
Major Rivals: Brooklyn, Staten Island
National Championship Runner-Up: 1 1981
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Trashpandas!
And to finish off the Atlantic-8, we have the Staten Island Flying Dutchmen
University of Staten Island
Location: Staten Island, New York
Type: Private University
Religious Affiliation: Roman Catholic
Major Rivals: Brooklyn, New York State
National Championships: 1 2002
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16 hours ago, Bomba Tomba said:
Last two look like the Celtics and Lakers
New York vs Boston with Celtics and Lakers colors.. Let me grab the popcorn
Next we head to the Gulf Coast Conference...
Up first, we have an HBCU, the Alabama Tech Patriots.
Alabama Institute of Technology
Location: Prichard, Alabama
Major Rivals: Mobile State, Huntsville
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I just read through... everything, and it's glorious. Jeez, Louise. The only three comments I have, in reverse chronological order:
1. If you look at real life HBCUs, all but a handful use animal mascots and nicknames, and all but one use easily definable and drawable mascots and nicknames (the one exception being Aggies). Patriots doesn't really fit with the rest of the pack, but that's personal opinion.
2. Bandits for a university founded so long ago seems a bit out of place, although the logo absolutely fits both the name and "Old institution trying to connect and modernize" (I assure you this is meant in the best of ways). We're talking about a school that would have been founded only 30 years after Cornell, and which would be an old standard of American education. Again, personal opinion, but maybe something to consider.
3. The Brooklyn (College) Bulldogs already exist, but that may have been intentional (it only caught my eye because the others are fictional and I'm from Brooklyn).
I apologize if this comes across as overly critical. I've loved every single concept in this thread (and the other threads of yours I poked around at after), seriously!
2 hours ago, Big Yellow Flag said:
That's some great feedback! Because our benevolent and omnipotent mods killed the Sports Fan Fiction forum, I can't do too much history, but all of these schools have some.
1. Good point, the "history" behind this decision is that the university was founded by African-American WWI vets (hence "Patriots") that wanted a university where young African-Americans could learn technical trades at the same or higher level than Georgia Tech for example.
2. The school used the "Mohawks" as their mascot until the early 1980s when students took a vote to change it to the Bandits.
3. That's an oversight on my part! I didn't know that was their moniker, but perhaps in this reality, they became a major university...
Again, I really appreciate the feedback, and I will add a little more history with each one...
Up next we have a southern Catholic school, once known as the Notre Dame of the South. The Reds have had the same basic look for the last 70 years, but changed their logo from a Native American based logo to a block letter logo in the 1990s. They had a long standing rivalry with LSU, being from the same city, but when the Super Series was created and LSU was not promoted, that rivalry cooled off a bit. It's always a high point on the schedule though each year!
Baton Rouge University
Major Rivals: Shreveport, LSU
I went back and added all of the National Championship and runner-ups. I will be making a graphic for this later...
1 hour ago, JCRGraphix said:
1. Makes a lot of sense! I figured based on all the info you have that there was a reason behind it, but it struck me as different enough to comment.
2. See above. Do you have crazy spreadsheets or something with all this written out? You definitely have the details somewhere, I'm curious how much is written out.
3. I assumed it was, but one never knows! It's really a great look (yours far more than theirs), and you can't be expected to know the nicknames of every tiny DIII CUNY school.
Seriously, great work! Absolutely love the BR mix for the Reds, ingenious.
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Location:Houston
What if you add some fan fiction-y elements, but hide them under spoiler tags, so it's not dominating a page by taking up 20 paragraphs of space?
Personally, I think the fan fiction stuff should be judged on a case-by-case basis, or at least allowing those who obey the spirit of this forum (by, you know, actually posting designs and logos and uniforms and graphics) to include fan fiction-y elements in their posts. THIS series 1000% qualifies under the design part, and the fan fiction stuff would only enrich the solid WORK that's been done. I realize, mods, that it's a slippery slope, filled with cluelessly naive newbies greasing themselves up and attempting to run uphill, but I really miss some of the deeper details on teams we used to have that actually made the design choices more meaningful. I think putting all fiction elements under spoiler tags would keep the clutter out, but still make it available for those interested in such things.
Thanks guys! I have a spreadsheet as well as a word document for each conference, and that's what I've been working with.
So for those following along, here is a graphic with the national champions on it. This is artistically important because it shows the outline of the trophy...
Each year beginning in 1963, a game was played for the National Championship with all the teams competing part of the FCD (Football Championship Division). In 1978, it became Division I while smaller schools made up Division I-A and Division I-AA. In 2006, it became the Football Super Series and the name has stuck.
Up next we have the Central Texas Devils. After using a knock-off of the Duke Blue Devils logo for several years, the university went through a brand refresh in the early 2000s and again in 2012 to their current look. The Devils have absolutely no white on their uniforms, instead wearing their silver uniforms on the road.
Central Texas University
Location: San Angelo, Texas
Major Rivals: San Antonio, Augusta
Poor Maryland State. The only (unless I'm miscounting) two-time runner-up without a championship. Lots of one-appearance teams who look like they had a great QB or RB for a couple of years and achieved heights never reached before or since. I guess by this point, if you fancy yourself a good team, you've won at least one championship.
Just now, darkpiranha said:
That's kind of what I figured. That's how it goes in the real word. I guess UPU would be like an Alabama. Anyways, back to designs...
Another HBCU, the Hialeah State Herons have worn the double-blue color scheme since their inception. In addition to the Super Series playoff, the Herons take part in an annual yearly half-game length scrimmage tournament and festival with fellow HBCUs Alabama Tech, Alabama Christian, and Mississippi Christian that features an alumni game and marching band showcase. In addition to being an HBCU, Hilaeah State has a rich history of Hispanic student-athletes as well with several stars of Cuban descent.
Hialeah State University
Location: Hialeah, Florida
Major Rivals: Mississippi Christian, Miami
Arizona Tech vs. Western Texas:
AZ TECH vs AZTECS
Up next are the Knoxville Knights. The University of Knoxville has an interesting history as it was once part of the University of Tennessee, but split in 1861 due to differences of opinion during the Civil War to become a Private University. Because of this split, Vols fans have always had a deep hatred of Knights fans referring to them as traitors. It is still a heated rivalry despite Knoxville moving up to the Super Series.
University of Knoxville
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Major Rivals: Nashville, Tennessee
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2 hours ago, JCRGraphix said:
Maybe my favorite one yet! Huge fan of everythin goin on here!
Also really enjoy seeing each teams eras, the dynasties of the Super Series.
I wonder if you could throw together a page with all the logos next to each other, or maybe some uniform matchups or something.
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That Knights logo is absolutely terrifying!
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Trenton Dam: Constructed 1949-1953
By United States. Bureau of Reclamation
CHAPTER III--DESIGN
9. Hydraulic Requirements. - In accordance with flood control regulations of the Flood Controls Act # December 22, 1944, and field working agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Engineers dated October 26, 1954, capacities for dead storage, irrigation storage, and flood control storage were established for
Trenton Dam and Reservoir. Discharge capacities of regulating structures were specified and allocations in the reservoir were made as follows:
Water surface Storage,
Purpose elevation acre-feet
Flood control 2752.0 to 2773. 0 133,800
(initially)
Irrigation storage 27.10.0 to 2752. 0 116,100
(normal water (initially)
surface)
Dead storage Streambed to 27.10.0 4, 100
(invert of canal
outlet)
Total storage to elevation 2773.0 (top of gates in closed
position) 254,000
Surcharge above elevation 2773.0 107,670
Total reservoir capacity at maximum water surface
elevation 2785.0 361,670
The limiting water surface elevation of 2797.0 that would cause no property damage was determined for the town of Stratton, located about 8 miles upstream from the dam. However, some measures would be necessary for protecting the water supply wells and sewage treatment plant against pollution or damage when this water surface is reached. A maximum allowable reservoir water surface elevation of 2785.0 was established by allowing 12 feet below the limiting elevation for backwater conditions and aggradation of the stream channel.
An irrigation outlet was required for supplying 300 second-feet of water to the Meeker Irrigation Canal with canal water surface at elevation 2705.0. A river regulation outlet was required with a discharge capacity of 1,000 second-feet at reservoir water surface elevation 2720.0. Economic and physical feasibility studies were made to determine whether these requirements could best be met with one or two outlet structures. There will be no demand for discharge into the canal during the nonirrigation season, but discharges for river regulation may be required at any time.
For flood control, a spillway was required having a discharge capacity of 10,000 second-feet, the safe channel capacity of the river, with the reservoir level at normal water-surface elevation 2752.0. The spillway structure was to be capable of regulating the discharge to a value not exceeding the safe channel capacity until the reservoir water surface is above elevation 2773.0, the top of the flood control pool. An elevation of 2710.00 was required for the sill of the outlet works in order to maintain the dead storage at that elevation.
10. Flood Routing. - A final flood routing using a flood hydrograph provided by the hydrologists and based on a spillway discharge curve determined by a model test gave a maximum reservoir water surface elevation of 2785. 6, a surcharge of 113,420 acre-feet, and a total reservoir capacity of 370,000 acre-feet. (See fig. 7.)
In making flood routing studies, an inflow hydrograph having a peak discharge of 295,000 second-feet and a 3-day volume of 396,000 acre-feet was routed through the reservoir. At the start of the routing, one-half of the flood control storage was considered as filled. Outflow was limited to the safe channel capacity of 10,000 second-feet until the flood control storage space was filled. For the study, various schemes and
sizes of spillways for several heights of dams were used. Cost studies were limited to dam heights no greater than those fixed by the maximum allowable reservoir water surface elevation.
(a) Tailwater Computations.— A tailwater curve was computed for the Republican River below the dam site for both the present and improved channel conditions. The values of Manning's coefficient of roughness "n" used for these computations are indicated
Flow Present Improved
Channel 0.030 0.025
Overbank 0.075 0.045
These values are based on measurements made from the 1935 flood, which had a discharge of 200,000 second-feet.
11. Economic and Other Considerations. - Comparative cost estimates were made involving various schemes in which the location of the spillway with respect to the dam, the length of the spillway, the type of spillway, and the method of operation of the spillway gates together with the resulting height of dam were compared on the basis of the total cost of the dam. The location of the spillway with respect to the earth dam was given consideration in an effort to determine a location that would be the most economical and suitable on the basis of the geological characteristics of the foundation material. Gated and ungated spillways were studied in combination with gravity and slab and buttress overflow crests, as was also the effect of the method of operating the gates to control the spillway discharge.
The method of connecting the concrete spillway structure to the earth dam was given special consideration, and the following designs were investigated:
(1) A counterforted wall separating the earth dam from the spillway structure.
(2) Gravity abutment sections at both sides of the spillway structure, which would permit the embankment to be constructed to a low elevation at the spillway structure, increasing in height to the dam crest elevation at the outer end of the abutment sections.
(3) Slab and buttress abutment sections on both sides of the spillway structure designed for increasing heights of embankment as in the gravity abutment section design. This was the scheme adopted in the final design.
Consideration was also given to schemes combining the river outlets with the spillway in place of the construction of a separate river outlet works.
In each of the schemes investigated, full consideration was given to the safety of the project, the geological limitations of the site, and the accepted structural and hydraulic design standards.
12. River Diversion Plan. - Studies made with a 10-year frequency flood having a peak flow of 5T, 000 second-feet and a volume of 61,000 acre-feet, indicated that a flood of this magnitude could not economically be diverted through a diversion tunnel or conduit. Therefore, it was decided to leave a gap in the dam embankment for the river flow while the major portion of the embankment was being constructed. The gap had 4 to 1 side slopes and sufficient width to permit the passage of the 10-year flood without flooding the railroad or interfering with construction activities. Closure of the gap and diversion through the spillway was not permitted until the entire embankment, except that portion used for temporary diversion, had been completed to elevation 2760, and construction of the spillway had advanced to such a stage that it could be used for diversion.
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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land: Accompanied ...
Por Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
In one instance, being obliged, for the completion of observations, to stop for a week on the top of Ben Lomond (Van Diemen's Land), I experienced the hot wind at the altitude of 5002 feet. At my depot, 3000 feet lower to the windward, this wind was not felt; hence the hot wind is not confined to any particular altitude, but exists sometimes as a surface wind, and at other times as a wind moving above the ambient air.
From personal observations, it appears not less evident, that as this wind is felt in one locality, and not in another, within the zone or track of its course, so its movement is not always parallel to the earth's surface, but at different angles of inclination: thus, in the valley of the Tamar, Van Diemen's Land, the hot wind was felt on several occasions at Break-o'-day and in Campbeltown, but not in Launceston, though the locality offers no obstruction to the progress of a wind.
The stratum of air immediately overlaying the surface of the country swept by the hot wind is generally of a highly rarified character, and produces all the known phenomena of the Mirage.
The air of the upper stratum is, on the contrary, of prodigious density and great refracting power. Thus, three thermometers exposed to the action of the vertical rays of the sun, one covered with black wool, another with an equal quantity of white, and a third blackened with lamp-black, indicated the following temperatures: —
Before the Hot Wind.
The two thermometers covered with wool
showed a difference The thermometer blackened for solar radiation The thermometer in the shade The wet thermometer Pressure reduced to zero of temperature
The hot wind, then, according to the numerical elements which observation furnishes,
Impedes the calorific effects of solar rays;
Decreases their intensity;
Increases the temperature of the ambient air;
Increases the temperature of the hygrometer;
And, finally, increases the atmospheric pressure.
The influence of this wind on vegetation, both indigenous and exotic, is extremely injurious. All the grammar and leguminosce are parched by it, and the fruit of the Ficus australis, as well as that of the vine, is destroyed. The red and blue grape commonly lose their colour and their watery elements; the green leaves turn yellow and wither; the quality of the crops is generally deteriorated, and whole fields of of most promising wheat and potatoes are often laid waste.
Its effects on the human constitution partake sometimes of the character of those produced in Egypt by the sirocco or simoom; a feverish heat and determination of blood to the head; and, in those subject to disorders of the lungs, a restrained action in breathing, at times bordering on suffocation, are symptoms confined to the whites alone: the suppressed perspiration, or rather its rapid evaporation, the relaxation of the muscles and vessels, inflammatory attacks, affections of the glottis, and ophthalmia, are common both to the aborigines and European races. The lastnamed disease, called in Australia, "the blight," presents symptoms identical with those observed in the ophthalmia of Egypt.
From the circumstance of my being unassisted in my observations of all the various meteorological phenomena which are commonly associated with the hot wind, some allowance will I hope be made for the incompleteness of this notice. Such as it is, it will afford sufficient ground for venturing upon an analysis, and for tracing at least the proximate cause, or causes, of the properties which the hot wind of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land uniformly displays.
Thus the circumstances of its velocity and its motion, whether rotary or ricochet, by which impalpable particles of earthly matter are raised in the air, combined with the mineralogical and physical character of the particles thus raised *, will lead us to the solution of the question respecting the high temperature of the hot wind: for when we consider the power of absorption of solar heat possessed by that dense medium of floating particles, and their power of radiation towards the earth, we have a full explanation of the anomalous.fact, that with the decreased solar intensity, as shown by the blackened thermometer, there was a considerable increase of heat in the ambient air.f
• In tailing from New Zealand to New South Wales, in the "Justine," I was prevented making the harbour of Port Jackson for two successive days by the violence of the hot wind. The distance from the shore, on the parallel of Sydney, was sixty miles, and the heat ex. ceeded 90°. The lee sails and reefs of the "Justine" were covered with a quantity of impalpable dust, which was at first mistaken for ashes; but, on examination, proved to be a sand, containing one-fourth of aluminous and three-fourths of siliceous and metallic matter. Those who shape their course to the East Indies by way of Cape Verd Islands may have seen the same efFect produced by the north-east African hot wind.
\ That keen observer Humboldt, reflecting upon the anomalies of the temperature of Mourzouk in the Fezan, as stated by Ritchie, and
But the fine bodies floating in the air are endowed with other properties besides that of increasing, by absorption and radiation, the solar heat: they are susceptible of acquiring an electric property, by means of friction, pressure, contact, or caloric.
Now, the motion of the wind, and the solar action, combine all these means and necessary conditions to the full developement of that electricity, which, once effected, becomes again a cause of the extreme dryness of the hot wind; for electricity promotes evaporation (Volta, Saussure); and the observed disappearance of clouds and vapours, with the drying up of the watery elements in leaves or tender plants and fruits, are but modified effects of that evaporation.
The zone, then, of this hot wind may be looked upon as a huge electric apparatus, highly charged, and endowed, not with a capacity for moisture, but xcith the power of dissolving moisture, in whatsoever form it is collected.
Under the head of rain, it will be proved that the hot wind begins only to show a capacity for moisture, and an increase in saturation, when the southerly current interposes between it and the sun, and when heat, light, and motion, the necessary conditions of electricity, are interferred with.
Nor is the deleterious effect of the hot wind on human constitution a phenomenon more inaccessible to analysis than are the causes of its heat and dryness: for when we bear in mind the fine particles of dust floating in the air, we can readily explain, by their highly electric state, the causes of ophthalmia, and its inflammatory character; and when we add to what has been said already, that, at the altitude in which the hot wind is at times seen moving, a proportional increase of carbonic acid in the atmosphere is found (Saussure), and that, in the deflection of the wind to the surface which follows, this amount is added to that which is left unconsumed by the crisped vegetation, the farther causes of the deleteriousness suggest themselves in the origin of the new and noxious gaseous compounds which a disturbed economy of nature has necessarily entailed upon the atmosphere.
corroborated by Captain Lyons, said, "Mais l'air de l'oasis de Mourzouk n'est il pas constamment charge' de poussiere, de petits grains terreux qui s'echauffent bien autrement que l'air, et qui par leur rayonnement rlevent la temperature dea basses couches de l'atmosphere ?" — Asie Centrale, vol. iii. p. 177.
But New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land are not the only countries where the hot wind is felt: in other parts of the world that phenomenon is attended with aggravated effects, both on animal and vegetable life.*
No datum, however, is as yet offered, by which one could legitimately indulge in a theory concerning the origin of this remarkable meteorological phenomenon: neither is there a sufficient collection of facts and observations to bear out the tempting and inviting conclusion, that the winds similar to the hot wind of New South AVales and Van Diemen's Land, which have been observed, partly by myself, partly by others, in Egypt, Abyssinia, Syria, Arabia, Bombay, Diabekir, Persia, California, and Atacama, are associated by a common origin, or belong to a common system of atmospheric circulation.
ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE.
As regards the subject of atmospheric pressure in New South Wales, it is to be regretted that the ba
• Vide, Edin. Cabinet Library, Africa, p. 414. et seq. ; Denham's Travels, Edin. Cabinet Library, Arabia, vol. i. p. 68.; Beeloochistan, by Pottinger; Bruce's Travels, vol. vi. pp. 466. 494. 3d edition; Burckhardt, Malcolm, Morier, and Lamartine (in the MS. of Falih Jalla), Voyage en Orient.
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Alex Neilson's peripatetic travels through the musical landscapes of this isle and beyond seem to have reached some kind of milestone with "I Grew From A Stone To A Statue". A summation to date of his musical praxis and a vertiginous launch pad into a number of possible futures. Joining him are a number of fellow travellers who share his love of song and a restless frustration with the limits imposed by that or any other form. It's difficult to avoid hackneyed Q Magazine vernacular such as "supergroup" when writing about a coming together such as this but given the way talent attracts talent that was always going to be the case. Lavinia Blackwall, whose fearless improvised vocals have electrified other of Alex's projects, Trembling Bells and Directing Hand, also plays harp, psaltery and organ. Michael Flower plays guitar, never sounding more like the Leeds Takashi Mizutani than he does here. Possibly straying furthest from familiar territory is Glaswegian singer/songwriter Alasdair Roberts, who also plays guitar and shares vocals with Lavinia on the traditional "Polly On The Shore". The music they create frequently wrong foots the listener with folk and rock references before tearing down with iconoclastic fervour all the associations of those song-based, narrative-driven, vocal-centred forms.
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Is China's SPR soaking up all the oil?
With OPEC pumping oil at record levels, the market appears to be awash with crude — at least on paper — but it is doing very little to cool down prices that are edging closer to their all-time high of $147 per barrel. Why?
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With OPEC pumping oil at record levels, the market appears to be awash with crude — at least on paper — but it is doing very little to cool down prices that are edging closer to their all-time high of $147 per barrel.
JP Morgan analyst blames lack of data from emerging markets for the disconnect.
“Unfortunately, market participants tend to fixate on areas where there is good transparency and regular data flows, such as the U.S. and the OECD,” says Lawrence Eagles, a JP Morgan analyst, in a note to clients. “In reality, these areas are in a mature and contracting demand phase — the major changes in demand in the past 10 years have all taken place in the more opaque emerging markets.”
The biggest culprit may well be China as it builds its strategic petroleum reserve (SPR).
Since late last year, China has begun to use two bases of the second phase of the strategic reserve in the country’s northwest – Dushanzi in Xinjiang region and Lanzhou in Gansu province.
An estimated 17 million barrels of crude oil, or around 190,000 barrels a day, have flowed into both commercial and strategic tanks in Dushanzi and Lanzhou, industry sources told Reuters.
The International Energy Agency said in its February report up to 79 million barrels of new storage could be available in 2012 in China, which would imply an extra 220,000 bpd of crude demand, should China decide to fill the reserve steadily during the year.
Showing no signs of slowing down, on Friday the world’s second largest consumer announced it was building a storage facility in northeastern Jinzhou city — one of eight bases comprising the second phase of the SPR.
According to JP Morgan’s calculation, the oil markets may be as tight as the oil market peak in 2008.
That could be further exacerbated as China could soak up 350,000 bpd for the rest of the year.
“Supplies look as if they will get modestly easier over March, April and May, but not significantly if China looks to fill its SPR. And if that is the case, there is unlikely to be much respite in the oil price without OPEC pumping more oil.”
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How these two women are bridging a gap between the construction industry and new technology
Since being paired at Next 36 in 2013, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake have been working to change the way the construction industry shares data in cities across Canada and in the U.S.
Rick Spence
Across the globe, thousands of millennials are starting businesses on the premise today’s smartphone technology can create new value and disrupt entire industries.
Most of these digital revolutionaries will fail, for the usual reasons: they lacked industry contacts, targeted the wrong market, underestimated users’ resistance to new technology, or couldn’t raise capital in a saturated ecosystem.
But Kitchener, Ont.-based Bridgit has found the formula for disrupting markets. Through deep industry knowledge, a tight focus on customer value, and sheer hard work, its founders — Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake — are changing the way the construction industry shares data across Canada and in major U.S. cities.
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It’s a mission Lake, 24, has taken personally since she began working in construction while studying structural engineering at Western University in London, Ont. “I showed up on a job site with my iPhone, and got handed a clipboard,” she recalls. The hundreds of inputs required in a major construction project were still being recorded on paper, Excel spreadsheets and Post-It Notes, making sharing this information difficult and costly.
Lake, met Brodie, a 25-year-old Ivey Business grad from Western, when they were first chosen for the 2013 cohort of the Next 36, a Toronto-based program that tries to turn deans’-list undergrads into high-impact entrepreneurs. The selected participants were divided into teams and challenged to come up with an app-based business idea in 12 hours. Lake proposed that the construction industry needed a mobile-data overhaul, and Brodie soon agreed. Their quick consensus proved an advantage: They spent the next few hours calling 20 industry contacts, who confirmed this was a problem worth solving.
Then the real work began. Brodie and Lake drove around London “crane-hunting,” seeking construction sites where they could talk to managers and workers about their data-sharing problems. “We interviewed more than 500 people,” Brodie, Bridgit’s CEO, says. Unlike many teams in the Next 36 program, Bridgit didn’t have its own software expert. With a limited coding budget, Brodie says, “we had to make sure we got it right the first time.”
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After one or two false starts, they focused on deficiency management. No construction project is complete until every finished element is inspected for conformity to plan. There may be thousands of dings, scratches, and mistakes that subcontractors must rectify before a job is finished. Managing these scattered, dog-eared deficiency lists is difficult and time-consuming; developers and contractors agreed a better system was needed.
Bridgit’s solution is Closeout, a mobile app that helps construction teams better manage deficiencies. Everyone can access the list in real time, see what needs fixing, and submit photos when the work is done. Lake, Bridgit’s chief revenue officer, says Closeout helps construction projects get finished sooner and subcontractors get paid faster. She cites one developer that, using Closeout, reached the substantial completion stage on time, “with a deficiency list of zero,” for the first time, and saving $500,000.
Closeout also helps developers collect better data, to better understand and control costs. This sticky benefit means clients grow dependent on the data from Closeout – and encourage its adoption throughout their organizations.
Bridgit now has more than 100 clients paying fees of between $1,000 and $3,000 a month. Active in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary, it is now signing customers in New York, Miami, Chicago and Seattle. Bridgit has enjoyed double-digit growth every month since the beginning of 2015, Lake says.
When it comes to selling, Lake and Brodie say the hardest part isn’t pitching; it’s getting appointments. In the early days, they attacked that problem by making 100 calls a day. Once they get in front of decision-makers, they say their platform’s easy-to-use interface and clear value proposition turn prospects into buyers.
But construction is a local industry, so each new city means starting all over with cold calls and emails. Fortunately, says Lake, “Referrals start happening, and every subsequent sale gets easier.”
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But even great products need help to succeed. Bridgit has been part of the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, where tech-industry mentors help founders hone their products and raise early-stage capital. Last year, it participated in the C100’s “48 Hours in the Valley” tour of Silicon Valley, as well as Waterloo’s Communitech Rev, a six-month accelerator that focuses on revenue growth. “Rev gave us good practical stuff: how to hire sales people, build a sales model and structure teams,” Lake says. “We went into Rev with just me doing sales, and left it with a sales team of five.”
In their quest for resources, Brodie and Lake enter pitch contests, hoping to meet prospective advisors, prospects or team members. They also win a lot. Last year they snared the $15,000 first prize from the inaugural C100 Startup Challenge in Toronto, and a $25,000 second prize from Rev’s “Centre Stage” competition. In December, Bridgit was one of 11 companies picked from 450 applicants to pitch in San Francisco at Google for Entrepreneurs’ Demo Day for women-led businesses. Not only did Bridgit finish first, but that win created a buzz that led to a $2.2-million funding round.
As women in a male-dominated industry, Lake and Brodie insist they have never encountered any gender-related obstacles in the construction sector. Selling value trumps sexism, says Brodie: “How often does someone walk into your office and ask how they can help you do your job better?”
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Sprints or a Kanban?
There seems to be some confusion that using Sprints or a Kanban is a competition of sorts with "one being better than the other". Might as well argue whether a hammer is better than a saw. Anytime someone gives a blanket statement that "one is better than the other" it means they misunderstands both.
Sprints are more suitable to complex problems that a cross-discipline team will swarm on to solve. Complex work has "unknown unknowns" that require experimentation and defy planning and estimation. The time-box is a limit of time that is established to touch base with the business side and to replan our next move on a complex mechanic.
A Kanban, a way to visualize a lean flow, is used for complicated work. Complicated work has "known unknowns", like creating levels and characters for a game with established mechanics. The variations are manageable. It is more predictable and uses hand-offs of work through a flow.
Using Sprints to manage complicated work results in batched work and an artificial division through sprint planning and review. It hides discipline inefficiencies and leads to split stores which create no value individually. Imagine the cost of buying a house if every one was a custom concept home built by a guild of craftspeople.
Using a Kanban to manage complex work results in turbulent flow that either creates inefficiencies and a lack of transparency or artificial deadlines to call things "done" when they really aren't. Kanban doesn't handle the back-and-forth of exploration very well. This creates debt and can limit the creative potential of a game. It's why we don't use an assembly line to design a new car.
I often see Kanban used for complex work because there is still an "upfront planning" mindset that thinks a new uncertain game mechanic can be broken down into bite-sized discipline centric steps and pushed though the teams. Sprints are abandoned because the developers cannot be trusted to take larger goals and break down the work as they see fit.
Choose the best tool for the work. Wielding a hammer with great skill to cut long pieces of wood into smaller ones isn't as useful as using a saw.
Department Silos Can Kill
In 2002, GM engineers discovered that the ignition switches on some low-cost cars had understrength springs. As a result, a heavy keychain or knee-bump could switch the ignition for those cars off.
It was considered a rare occurrence and not exceptionally dangerous.
Before the defected part was recalled in 2014, it was blamed for over 120 deaths. Many of those who had died were young; parents had bought the low-cost cars for their children, considering them safe.
The systemic reason for GM ignoring the severity of the problem was that the engineers who designed the ignition switch were not familiar with how the ignition switch impacted other components of the vehicle. They weren't aware that switching off the ignition disabled the power steering and airbag deployment circuits. Disabling power steering and airbag deployment was a deadly combination.
Unintended component interaction is why I discourage the creation of most component teams. Graphics teams, physics teams, audio teams, etc. all sound efficient and they are efficient in creating graphics, physics and audio systems, but the cost of late integration and the emergent systemic problems is too great.
Players want games, not components, but at least our mistakes don't kill them.
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It's not about open space vs. offices
There's an endless debate about what office configuration is best. After working with hundreds of teams over the past decade as a coach, I have the answer:
There isn't a best configuration.
The debate should be about how we can improve effectiveness as a team. We need to communicate quickly, across disciplines and also get into the flow of our work.
Think of a team having a nervous system. To much noise can be like a convulsion. To little communication can be like paralysis.
Experiment. Explore. Regularly decide as a team how you can improve your effectiveness by tweaking your space.
Fighter Aircraft and AAA Games
When I worked on fighter aircraft, I witnessed the harm that a lack of communication caused. The shining example was the F-22, which had contractors in over 30 states working (to spread congressional support) with classified protection in place. If I wanted to speak with an engineer who wrote the firmware for a board I was working on, there was a week's delay in arranging the call on a scrambled phone line with a security officer present to ensure we spoke about nothing too specific.
That was a joy. It's no wonder the F-22, which was so late and expensive to build and maintain, was cancelled after a small fraction planned were built.
Fast forward 30 years and I'm working with a publisher on a large franchise game that has six studios and hundreds of developers working on the next iteration. There are language and time-zone barriers, and most of the studios are organized by discipline silos that have limited communication locally. Because it's a billion dollar franchise there are armies of project managers pumping out reams of documents that lay out a clockwork plan, defined to the hour level, about how the project will be executed.
It's the same as previous iterations, where the plan eventually fails to execute and a lengthy period of crunch and feature compromise is hit at the end. Just like the F-22.
Large games and government projects can work. They require breaking down silos and educating everyone about the entire system, not just their part. We want to, as General Stanley McChrystal puts it, "fuze generalized awareness with specialized expertise". We want hundred of people making the right decisions for the whole, rather than relying on just a few.
Agile can help, but too many times we see cross-functional swarming teams formed under rigid hierarchies of management that results in these teams working on their "parts" with a limited "need to know" about what the others are doing.
It takes a much deeper organizational change than with just development. It's not a development problem alone.
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A challenge to climate science deniers
Sou | 10:29 PM Go to the first of 101 comments. Add a comment
Anthony Watts, who runs the climate conspiracy blog WUWT, tries to make a living from a couple of sources these days. One relies on science and the hard work of scientists to forecast weather. Anthony puts all his faith in models, piggy backing on the efforts of scientists to sell his weather wares.
The other source of his income is rejecting the work of those same scientists. He earns a few bucks from denying climate science.
If you think that's odd, well he's not the only one. There are a few science denying weather people in the USA who make a living regurgitating the weather forecasts of NOAA and science from NASA, while denying the science itself. Joe Bastardi for example.
Today Anthony is claiming that it's not true that 97% of the scientific literature that looks at the causes of global warming attributes it to human activity (archived here). This is despite the fact that there are a number of studies that have provided evidence of this. He hasn't put forward any evidence disputing this number. Nor would he (or could he). Anthony Watts is in the disinformation business, not the information business. He thinks it quite sufficient to repeatedly claim something is "bogus" for his readers to believe it's bogus. He thinks that if he tells a lie often enough, there will be some people foolish enough to believe him. And he's correct. There are people in the world who are so keen to "believe" him, that they'll put their own willingness to believe the lie ahead of the welfare of the human species and every other species on the planet. They'd rather see the world as we know it end than "believe" climate science.
So I am issuing a challenge.
Update: After four days, not one person has come close to accepting the challenge. Not one. Not even the vaguest of attempts. No-one will be surprised at that.
Sou 11 October 2015
The challenge to deniers
My challenge to deniers is to come up with a number, and back it up with evidence. If you think Anthony Watts is correct, then what do you say is the proportion of scientific papers on the subject, that show that it's human activity that is causing global warming?
And the second part of the challenge is, if you don't believe that it's the extra CO2 in the atmosphere that's causing global warming - if you don't "believe" in the greenhouse effect (which Anthony now it seems, doesn't any longer) - then what has caused this?
Data source: GISS NASA
Needless to say, whatever you as a science denier put forward, it must be backed up with credible evidence. An impossible task, you'll find.
Posted by Sou at 10:29 PM
Labels: denier challenge, denier deception
jon October 7, 2015 at 11:06 PM
They are not going to take your challenge. 1. They can not. 2. They don't need to take it. At least, while there are journalists using the "balance" theory for interviews. They don't have to provide a credible alternative theory, because they are going to find channels to disseminate their misinformation without creating anything sensible as an "alternative theory".
Funk October 8, 2015 at 2:23 AM
Haven't you heard? The cause of the second part of your challenge is scientists fudging the numbers to keep the grant money rolling in.
Apparently, they believe that a few billion $ divvied up among 10,000 or more climate researchers is somehow making them all fabulously wealthy while the several trillion $ in profits generated annually by the fossil fuel industry distributed among a few thousand major stockholders is mere pocket change and not worth lying to keep it flowing.
caerbannog October 8, 2015 at 9:05 AM
(Resubmitted minus a couple of stupid typos)
And the lion's share of that few billion goes into designing/building supercomputers and designing/building/launching research satellites. Subtract that out of the mix, and the climate-scientists' share of all that juicy grant funding shrinks even more.
I guess that depends on the country and the instituton. In my country, as a teacher in a public university, if you get funding, you can hire other researchers for your group, you can buy computers, laboratory material, books or travel to meetings (limited expenses, no 4 * hotels allowed). The thing that you are NOT allowed to do with research funding is receiving it in your bank account. The relevance of research funding for your personal incomes is exactly void.
P October 8, 2015 at 6:43 AM
Sadly I have to agree with jon. Egos often trump commonsense, as we are all aware, so all the mental effort and billions of words already expounded on this subject shows no sign of diminishing as the disaster evolves....An acceptance of basic physics and a daily visit to The Keeling Curve is all that's required to see the reality of the dire situation we are in so there is really no excuse for deliberate ignorance or a "balanced view" anymore.
john byatt October 8, 2015 at 9:14 AM
check out jo nova and the NEW SCIENCE nuttery series, real facepalm stuff
Same Ordinary Fool October 8, 2015 at 9:46 AM
For the second part, a litany of previous skeptic attempts to do the same thing can be read from the titles of Skeptical Science Arguments. This is the story of the opposition.
It's the sun, cycles, faulty temperature records, cosmic rays, Urban Heat Island, Little Ice Age, ocean, dropped stations, aerosol thinning, microsite influences, climate regime shift, land use, methane, albedo, solar cycles, it's unpredictable, CFCs, drop in volcanic activity, global brightening, ozone, satellite microwave transmissions, waste heat, satellite error, overestimated, only a few degrees, headed into cooling, soot, internal variability.
This second part isn't a reasonable "challenge", because it asks for too much. It asks in a barely-serious way for a Final Solution that would incidentally overthrow 150 years of science. Which we know isn't going to happen.
The proposal comes off as a disparagement, because it is excessive. A "put up or shut up". Which of course it is. Fair game. It reflects reality.
The problem is that it takes away from the very real practical use of the first part as a challenge. Because the 97% is so easy to refute, therein is an argument for its own legitimacy.
The skeptics need only go thru that 97% that are 'AGW' papers and find some 'skeptic' papers, to prove it wrong.
This would be much easier than it was for the original researchers, since the skeptics wouldn't have any of the limitations originally imposed to assure a 'fair' result.
For example, they could start with any lists of skeptic (or otherwise) scientists, who objected to how their abstracts were classified.
They could look at the papers rated 'skeptic' and see which papers they cited, and which papers cited them.
They could also look for the same in skeptic papers not in the study, because they were older or newer or didn't meet the criteria.
The skeptics could go to their own lists of skeptic climate scientists, and see if any of their papers were included in the 97%.
Andy Skuce at Skeptical Science makes this point, about how easy it should be to falsify the 97%. According to him some skeptics have already started lists of supposed exceptions. Which could be a starting point...
And there's presumably the option of a skeptic crowdsourcing effort among, say WUWT readers, to find exceptions. The manpower available would be more than enough.
And from an assembly of all the possibilities, could be chosen those abstracts in the 97% that shouldn't be there...
Apparently this still hasn't been done, several years later. Seeing that something so easy to falsify is still standing is arguably proof itself of the robustness of the "97%". Q.E.D.
Magma October 8, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Seeing that something so easy to falsify is still standing is arguably proof itself of the robustness of the "97%"
That seems like a reasonable argument to me, but it may hide a subtle warmist flaw that only a Galileo or a Feynman could spot.
Same Ordinary Fool October 8, 2015 at 4:38 PM
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"...[He] played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for heliocentrism." Wikipedia
He was there at the BEGINNING.
Climate Science's Galileo should be someone who was there at the BEGINNING.
Maybe Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927)
"...in 1896 he was the first scientist to attempt to calculate how changes in the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect." Wikipedia
I fully acknowledge that my ideas could be taken apart by everyday lesser mortals.
But I am confident that today I needn't worry about exposure by any nouveau climate science Galileo. Because the "97%" of climate scientists consensus means that we are at the END of the developing acceptance of Anthropogenic Global Warming.
I do concede that it could be a denier aligned with the 3% skeptic climate scientists who invalidates my arguments. But this wouldn't be someone from the front of a new movement, it'd be someone allied with the rump end, the last hold-outs...of the existing one.
Climate science abusing deniers, when they appropriate Galileo to their side, show a similar willingness to abuse history.
jgnfld October 8, 2015 at 6:23 PM
The "Galileo Gambit" is well recognized as false reasoning. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit
In that vein, the "debunking" of the 97% consensus is an almost perfect example of the scholasticism that produced much of the opposition to Galileo. All Galileo ever asked of his opponents was to look rather than to "know" beforehand. All his opponents ever did was to deny there was any need to look.
Any REAL Galileo or Feynman would suggest meeting actual scientists and asking. For example, our resident deniers could attend an AGU meeting or even simpler go to some research universities in their regions and have coffee in the relevant lounges.
Like the cardinals of old, however, actually looking is not their style. At some level, they know going that route will show them wrong and their need to win politically overrides any need at all to examine the subject objectively.
Millicent October 8, 2015 at 10:46 PM
What cracks me up about Galileo vs Religion case is the similarity to Darwin vs Religion centuries later. The second case is largely erased from denialist history because some prominent deniers are on the wrong side of that one.
For the next bloggie awards denialist websites should be in the comedy section: I could vote for them then.
jrkrideau October 9, 2015 at 3:32 AM
The Galileo Gambit
They made fun of Galileo, and he was right.
They make fun of me, therefore I am right.
And Galileo was not right. He "knew" heliocentrism was correct but his actual theory was wrong. That's part of what got him into trouble with the Church. If you are advancing a controversial theory, some proof is useful; his theory predicted one tide a day.
The Church could have handled heliocentrism, it did not affect any core doctrine. They just needed a good enough theory.
Oh and slandering the reigning (and extremely paranoid) pope was not a good idea. Actually I don't think he was slandering the pope but the pope thought he was.
Millicent October 9, 2015 at 7:37 AM
It seems that getting their science from the bible is still causing some people a few problems. Chris McCann of the eBible fellowship admits it was ‘surprising’ the world did not end on 7 October but says they will ‘keep studying the Bible’ for clues
jk-- Which part of Galileo's theory was wrong? He had a mystical attachment to circular orbits, I know, which isn't quite right, but he was right a lot more than he was wrong.
Magma October 9, 2015 at 8:30 AM
Mainly that Galileo ignored his contemporary Kepler's hypothesis of elliptical orbits, and that he proposed an explanation for tides that doesn't work (I haven't looked into the latter).
Bert from Eltham October 9, 2015 at 1:49 PM
Just from memory the mathematics of epicycles was so well refined and developed that it could predict better than the heliocentric model with elliptical orbits in its infancy let alone circular orbits.
The old trap of using arbitrary variables without any underlying mechanism to fit data. Fitting high order polynomials to short noisy data is just mathturbation.
This goes for Fourier Analysis of Climate data and models to try to omit partial derivatives. If I can call it that! More mathturbation.
Unless you know and understand the mechanisms behind your so called Fourier Analysis you will always find lovely coefficients that fit your delusions. Factor X is one delusion that comes to mind.
As far as tides go the hand-wavy argument about the two bulges in the oceans is wrong. The two tides per day were explained to me when I was a young lad thus: The ocean nearest the Moon is attracted by the Moon and leaves the Earth behind. The Earth in turn leaves the Ocean opposite the Moon behind. This is sort of correct?
No it is simply because of the warping of space time causing a gravitational gradient. This was not fully understood until Einstein came out with General Relativity.
palindrom October 9, 2015 at 9:54 PM
Bert, that's a very astute parallel between empty curve-fitting and epicyclic theory. Ptolemy's actually was quite a bit better-behaved because the planetary orbits are in fact nicely periodic.
As for the tides, it's true that Einstein pushed the conceptual model of what's going on in gravitation far beyond what Newton could, but there really isn't anything in the theory of the tides that can't be done perfectly well in the weak field, i.e. Newtonian, limit.
Now, GPS timing and navigation, that's another matter!
jrkrideau October 10, 2015 at 3:04 AM
I don't remember all the details as I am more of a behavioural scientist than a physical one. As magna and Bert from Elthan point out the epicyle argument alone was a problem although I think people studing astronomy knew the epicycle theory did have problems but seemed to work better.
For a relatively quick and fun read see https://thonyc.wordpress.com/. He covers a lot of the scientific controversy as well as some of the political. The entire Transition to Heliocentricity thread covers a lot of the issues.
For real details you would probably have to read one or two of:
De Santillana, G. (1955). The crime of Galileo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Drake, S. (1970). Galileo studies: Personality, tradition, and revolution. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Drake, S. (1980). Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
and quite likely
Wootton, D. (2010). Galileo: Watcher of the Skies (First Edition). Yale University Press but I am only on Ch. 2 so I am not sure.
I think that De Santillas ( 1955) is essential as he covers the policial issues leading up to Galileo's trial and these are key to understanding what happened.
One of the real problems for Galileo was that when he published his new book Pope Urban (VIII?) thought that he was being mocked as “Simplissimus” in the book.
Bert from Eltham October 12, 2015 at 9:39 AM
palindrom you are quite correct that Newton's laws are adequate for astronavigation of Nasa's space probes. You must forgive me for being a forgetful old fart.
The perfect invisible spheres that the epicyclic theory postulated as a mechanism that the planets rode on had a bit of a problem with Jupiter's moons. I think the Pope refused to look at these moons through Galileo's telescope as they were just artefacts!
I also watch with interest your very good efforts at debunking all the denialists and fellow DK nutters at other comment threads ie the Guardian. Bert
Kevin O'Neill October 8, 2015 at 3:30 PM
You might as well ask Richard Tol to #FREEtheTOL300
marke October 9, 2015 at 12:56 PM
what do you say is the proportion of scientific papers on the subject, that show that it's human activity that is causing global warming?
There's the rub.
I'd say pretty close to 0 percent.
Sou October 9, 2015 at 1:57 PM
And that's why you are known here as a science denier, marke. You provide no evidence to back up your dumb claim that there are no scientific papers on the subject that show it's human activity that is causing global warming.
All it takes is one paper to show you are wrong. But I can produce a report referencing oodles of papers to show you are wrong.
http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
(I wonder. Perhaps English is not marke's first language. It could be he's trying to act the joker, given his bolding of the word "show". His poor command of the English language caused his "joke" to miss the mark - whatever mark he was aiming at.)
Never underestimate the ignorance stupidity and malice when blended with self righteousness! The delusional god botherers in the poorly educated states of 'merica are full of this obscenity.
I have a very long list somewhere of all these cretins who were found wanting after sinning. Yet they re-emerge as 'saved' by their fictitious god that 'forgave' them.
The Earth was meant to end AGAIN yesterday!
These denialists are in the same category as far as I am concerned. Feckless fuckwits that are either deluded or out to delude you.
My generation was the first en masse to rebel against the 'establishment'. We stood there and said 'fight your own fucking wars'. I still remember the look on their faces while they mumbled treason, cowards etc.
And 'they' saw that education was not 'good'. So the last decades have been spent in many countries to reduce education to the absolute lowest common denominator 'fit only for mindless consumption!' after 'slaving for a minimum wage.'
The battle plan is to get a bit more than 50% of the population undereducated so they will vote against their own best interests.
I personally think that humanity is better than this. If it is not then they are like the turkeys looking forward to Christmas.
This is how I still feel after all these years of trying not to become cynical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw7Uw0BDspM
marke October 9, 2015 at 6:24 PM
The point being " close to zero".
Most of the papers referenced in the' 97% surveys' simply refer to CC, sometimes as an accepted fact, sometimes not so clearly.
It is undoubtedly a difficult concept to prove and to summarize that in a single paper.
And I'd rather hoped you would point me to that one paper.
What "one paper"? I've already pointed you to hundreds of papers. Are you so incapable of doing your own research? Looks to me you're regressing to utter nutter land and are on the wrong blog. Try Prison Planet or one of the creationist blogs. They are more your speed.
I've already pointed you to the AR5 report. There are lots more IPCC reports, which show categorically that humans are causing global warming and have references to lots of papers. Given your past performance, I don't believe you have even opened one of those reports. Are you saying now that you can't read or that you can't understand what you read or that you refuse to read (or maybe don't know how to follow a hyperlink)?
Your statement that there are "zero" papers has already been disproven. It's nonsense. You seem to have shifted from a position of so-so lukewarmer denialism to utter nutter ignoranamus-style denialism. Since Google is beyond you, and you've shown little evidence of being able to do your own research, here are some older papers for you, to get you started:
Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? Wallace S. Broecker (1975)
Svante Arrhenius on atmospheric CO2 and water vapour (1896)
Guy Stewart Callendar (1938) - The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature
The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change by Gilbert N. Plass (1956); Tellus Vlll
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment - Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel President's Science Advisory Committee (to Lyndon B Johnson, 1965) ; Appendix by Roger Revelle et al
The Bakerian Lecture.-On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction. By John Tyndall 1861
You are talking through your hat, marke, if you think that there are "zero" papers that show that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that adding CO2 to the air adds to the greenhouse effect. The IPCC report and most scientific papers have what's called a list of references. That's how you find lots more papers on the subject.
cRR Kampen October 9, 2015 at 8:01 PM
Articles in 'The Astrophysical Journal' simply refer to gravity, always as an accepted fact, so marke would deny the existence of gravity through perusing the magazine.
marke could as easily "prove" there is no consensus on evolution by looking in biology journals and finding that most articles "merely" accept evolution.
For your edification, marke, a competent peer reviewer will not let slide simple invocation of contentious theories as correct in a scientific paper. ONLY if there is consensus will that be allowed.
It seems to me that marke has decided to show his gratitude for Sou's recent intervention on his behalf by going into full out troll mode.
Sou October 9, 2015 at 10:44 PM
Yes - it's a classic example of concern trolling, typically used by people lacking backbone.
I am not sure if marke is lacking backbone. He is certainly lacking any point.
When will he actually make a point of any substance worth thinking about?
I'd have thought that the authors who credited their own papers as supporting AGW theory would know better than Marke what their papers said.
jgnfld October 10, 2015 at 12:40 AM
Milicent...
Actually looking in the real horse's real mouth is something a denier would never engage in.
HORSE'S TEETH
In the year of our Lord 1432, there arose a grievous quarrel among the brethren over the number of teeth in the mouth of a horse. For thirteen days the disputation raged without ceasing. All the ancient books and chronicles were fetched out, and wonderful and ponderous erudition such as was never before heard of in this region was made manifest. At the beginning of the fourteenth day, a youthful friar of goodly bearing asked his learned superiors for permission to add a word, and straightway, to the wonderment of the disputants, whose deep wisdom he sore vexed, he beseeched them to unbend in a manner coarse and unheard-of and to look in the open mouth of a horse and find answer to their questionings. At this, their dignity being grievously hurt, they waxed exceeding wroth; and, joining in a mighty uproar, they flew upon him and smote him, hip and thigh, and cast him out forthwith. For, said they, surely Satan hath tempted this bold neophyte to declare unholy and unheard-of ways of finding truth, contrary to all the teachings of the fathers. After many days more of grievous strife, the dove of peace sat on the assembly, and they as one man declaring the problem to be an everlasting mystery because of a grievous dearth of historical and theological evidence thereof, so ordered the same writ down.
—Francis Bacon, 1592 (?--author and date attribution debated).
Magma October 10, 2015 at 2:24 PM
@ jgnfld: that is an early 20th century satirical piece.
But in a related vein, that Aristotle claimed that men have more teeth than women is easily verified.
"Males have more teeth than females in the case of men, sheep, goats, and swine; in the case of other animals observations have not yet been made: but the more teeth they have the more long-lived are they, as a rule, while those are short-lived in proportion that have teeth fewer in number and thinly set." (Aristotle, History of Animals, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson translation)
Aristotle is wrong for all the species he mentions, and there is no difference between male and female dentition with the exception of large tusks in boars. Nor does the number of teeth:life expectancy correlation hold.
dhogaza October 11, 2015 at 1:58 PM
The "show me the One True Paper" gambit is a common one among some denialists, Marke is not saying anything new. Those making the gambit are probably aware that AGW is built on several foundations, including the physics of CO2 and electromagnetic radiation, quantification of human-caused CO2 emissions, quantification of CO2 sinks including the ocean and vegetation, evaluation of positive and negative feedbacks, etc, etc. No "One True Paper" exists that covers the wide range of information that leads to the conclusion that anthropogenic emissions of GHGs are significantly warming the planet.
It's a stupid "gotcha" attempt that no one interested in the actual science of climate change would ever ask.
Hi Bert,
That's strange, but from my viewpoint all the righteousness seems to emanate from those who would save the world, and save it now(!!).
I'm more of the viewpoint that we'd better understand what is happening, what we are doing, and what we should be doing before leaping in, boots, slogans, and all. No righteousness on my part, just questions.
If it were not for the doubting voices raised, we'd likely all be embroiled in a world wide carbon trading economy run by the World Bank, the UN, and Goldman Sachs.
I don't know about you, but I'm glad we have avoided that so far.
And, in the meantime, understanding and technology advances.
Your implied personal incredulity is a logical fallacy, marke. It's Telltale Technique No. 2 of climate science denial.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/22/opinions/cook-techniques-climate-change-denial/
Just because you don't accept science and "have questions", it doesn't mean there aren't sufficient answers to act. It's been clear for decades that putting more and more greenhouse gases in the air is going to cause harm. And it's increasingly clear that it is already doing so. It is equally clear that we must act now. It's hopefully not too late to stop 3 degrees of warming, though it's probably too late to stop 2 degrees of warming.
True. And if not for the (industry funded) "doubting voices" raised about the cancer-tobacco connection, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people need never have died rather appalling deaths.
Well that's strange, rightneousness don't emanate from the maffia much, whodathunk!
Bert from Eltham October 10, 2015 at 8:13 PM
Can we say marke does not exist as his/her scratching's are barely lucid. Bert
cce October 9, 2015 at 8:53 PM
I suppose it's telling that "saving the world" from climate change is considered a lesser goal than saving the world from markets that might address climate change. When controlling externalities, markets suddenly become hopelessly corrupt, but when controlling the rest of the economy, they are "efficient."
Mal Adapted October 10, 2015 at 12:02 AM
CCE, who is saying markets are "hopelessly corrupt" when controlling externalities? AFAICT, much of the resistance to a carbon tax, as an efficient way to internalize climate-change costs of fossil-fuel use, are from small-government types who don't believe in externalities anyway.
cce October 10, 2015 at 12:21 AM
marke is saying that.
Mal, an international carbon trading market will not work ( currencies, economic cycles, Greece, hard to monitor, hard to measure, easily rorted, bureaucratic playground, multinational finance companies).
It can be made to appear to work, for 50 years or so, as were the various versions of communism.
A regional tax (ie, for each currency/economy) may work.
Re free markets? Think unintended consequences:
Increased CO2 output per unit by manufacturing in China.
Steel, 2.8 times, cast iron 4.1x, polypropylene 18.4x.
cce October 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM
Markets=communism. Got it.
Also, I was going to get out of bed this morning, but fear of unintended consequences convinced me not to.
cce, I tried to find a reference but I couldn't, but I do understand that most people die in bed so staying in bed can also have I intended consequences. Catch 22?
Millicent October 10, 2015 at 6:10 PM
Lets stop and think for a moment what the consequences - unintended or not - of climate change denial are. I wonder how many billions of people have to be placed in harm's way before deniers worry about what I am sure every one of them will claim were 'unintended' consequences.
But I'd imagine the lawyers will tell them that they were not unintended consequences, they were known consequences. Its not black helicopters that deniers should be worried about, its lawyers empowered by the hatred of all humanity. The only defence deniers will have will be the impossibility of getting a fair trial, and I doubt anyone will give a damn about that.
Good point Catmando. Perhaps skeptics should argue for some kind of suspended animation machine to prevent anything unexpected from happening. The machines could run on coal, because burning fossil fuels is the one thing in the universe that we don't have to worry about.
Mal Adapted October 11, 2015 at 7:11 AM
Marke, I don't advocate a carbon trading market. As a US citizen, I support a Hansen-style "fee" (i.e. tax) and dividend plan. I'd tax fossil fuel production at the mine, wellhead, or port-of-entry, at a rate proportional to carbon content. I'd also impose a Border Tax Adjustment (i.e. tariff) on imported goods proportional to the carbon emitted to make them.
I'd make the system revenue neutral, by giving every federal tax filer an equal share of the revenue in an annual check. That means, of course, that those who use more fossil energy in absolute terms than the national average would pay those who use less. That would provide extra incentive for everyone to use less, in addition to the price signal at the gas pump or in the utility bill.
The tax would not need to internalize the full cost of climate change, but only enough of it to eliminate the price advantage fossil fuels have over carbon-neutral sources. Market forces would then drive the transition to a carbon-neutral economy to completion.
There's much more to be said, of course. I Am Not An Economist, so I'm happy to leave the details to them. See www.carbontax.org.
I should also state that I'm not optimistic that my country's political system can get a carbon tax right. One can always hope, though, and commenting on blogs is "free".
bratisla October 10, 2015 at 12:42 AM
HS, but in the mood of this blog : what's bothering me now is that I thought France was more or less rid of hardcore denialism (some luckwarmers were there, but at least you did not need to rebutt the same stupid memes over and over and over again).
And then, this month : denialism makes front cover of a hardcore right-wing (but mainstream) newspaper - Valeurs Actuelles, usually publishing about how the "socialist" government will destroy our country, or about the islamic threat (nope, not the islamist threat as one would have thought ...) ; a denialist book from a weather forecaster (just like Wattsie) got also published out of nowhere. Just before the COP21 conference in Paris. And out of nowhere the deniers are back in the newspaper site comments in force ...
It stinks from miles away a think tank hidden move to sink COP21 and France president (with a presumaly left-wing leaning), it could be interesting to see if it happens elsewhere in the world. The surge of denialism, I mean.
Treesong October 10, 2015 at 12:51 AM
marke's latest is so jaw-droppingly crazy that I have to wonder if there's any point in keeping him around in hopes that he'll say something useful.
George Montgomery October 11, 2015 at 11:02 AM
Responses to your challenge will be fall into the 8 letter word category as typified by the classic cryptic crossword clue - Across 1. …. (8) or "clueless"
Here's my CHALLENGE - one time, just ONE TIME, I would like to see a "believer" precisely define EXACTLY what is meant by this 97% consensus - and THEN to back up the SPECIFIC consensus study that supports that conclusion. (After all, it is those who make a claim like "97%" that should back it up with specifics and details).
So for example, which words in the brackets below would be the right ones to choose to complete this sentence:
97% of climate scientists believe that the current warming trend will (possibly/probably/almost certainly) continue for (several years/several decades/ indefinitely), and that human activities cause (some/a significant amount/more than half/nearly all) of this warming, and since this warming (may/is likely to/will almost certainly) result in (difficult, but manageable/dire, and irreversible) consequences, then it is (worth considering/absolutely necessary) to make (some, significant, drastic) changes to our global energy policies (withing a few decades, within a few years, immediately).
I sincerely doubt that anyone will take me up on this challenge - which I will then accept as a tacit admission that the science is NOT settled, and the debate is NOT over - as it is certainly important to narrow this statement down considerably before we undertake drastic changes that are likely to have consequences of their own.
But maybe I'm wrong - so please, if someone knows of a consensus study out there that is more specific, please show it to me. For example, is there some study that shows that 97% of climate scientists believe that:
...the current warming trend will almost certainly continue indefinitely and that human activities cause nearly all of this warming, and since this warming will almost certainly result in dire, and irreversible consequences, then it is absolutely necessary to make drastic changes to our global energy policies immediately.
numerobis October 11, 2015 at 12:34 PM
Are you for real?
The Cook paper is here, you can read it yourself:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024;jsessionid=EABD7E1BE0256E1071C4FC99E3BA6263.c1
I'll help you out. Table 2 defines the terms. Section 3 states the results. Categories 1, 2, and 3 are the numerator in the 97%: papers whose abstract states or implies that global warming is anthropogenic. Categories 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 are the denominator: all papers that have some position. Category 4 is the no-position category. So, of the papers that claim some position in their abstract, over 97% state or imply that global warming is caused by humans.
If you find this a surprising finding, just replicate the study. It's not hard: just download a bunch of papers and read the abstracts. Time consuming, sure, so you might want to just chose a random subsample.
Last time I looked, the criteria used by the Cook paper was to determine whether those papers that expressed an opinion on climate change accepted that the warming would continue and that human activity was a "significant" factor. There are very little specifics there - certainly none that would narrow down the sample sentence I gave to one that would indicate urgent action is needed.
Which is why I'm sure you declined my challenge - since I don't think you could show me some hair-raising "nearly all", "almost certain" and "dire consequences" statement that could in any way be supported by that study. Hence, that's the reason why several papers from known skeptics got included in that 97% amount on the Cook study, since even skeptics who question the urgency and intensity of the warming still believe that it is likely to continue, is some cause for concern, and that human activity is some significant factor - albeit on a very wide and as yet indeterminate range.
Sou October 11, 2015 at 12:49 PM
You clearly are as unfamiliar with any of the consensus studies as you are with climate science, Michael. I'd guess you get your denial from denier blogs and don't read science. You are unfamiliar with HotWhopper, too. Try using the search bar up top and look for "scientific consensus" or "97%". You'll find your challenge has been met here a lot more than once. Just as it's been met in the literature and on blogs all over, many more times than once.
What is equally clear as you being a fake sceptic, is that you are a wimp, not willing to take up the challenge. All denial, no effort, no research, no knowledge.
George Montgomery got it right.
Oreskes04 - tested the consensus position as described in the then most recent IPCC report: "the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: “Human activities … are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents … that absorb or scatter radiant energy. … [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. She tested the hypothesis by "by analyzing 928 abstracts, published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, and listed in the ISI database with the keywords “climate change”". 75% of abstracts either explicitly or implicitly accepted the consensus position. 25% did not state a position. She found no scientific papers that rejected the consensus. In other words, of the abstracts that took a position, all 100% accepted the consensus.
Doran and Zimmermann (2009) did an opinion survey rather than look at papers. Of the experts who took part (ie climate scientists who are actively publishing), 97% said "yes" to the question: "Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?".
Anderegg et al (2010) did a study of climate scientists who have published 20 or more climate science papers, and tested the proportion who were convinced by evidence vs those who were unconvinced by evidence re the IPCC AR4 statement: "it is “very likely” that anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for “most” of the “unequivocal” warming of the Earth's average global temperature in the second half of the 20th century". They found that 97-98% agree with the IPCC.
Cook et al (2013) did a similar study to Oreskes, but with more abstracts covering more years (back to 1991). They found that of the papers that took a position, 97.1% supported the consensus "that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW)". They also did a survey of the authors of those abstracts and found that 97.2% of authors endorsed the consensus.
If you weren't a fake sceptic, you could do your own research and see what the scientific consensus is, just like the above people did. You could either look at scientific papers or ask climate science researchers.
That was my challenge.
You don't get to issue a challenge until you've met mine. Not here at HotWhopper.
In other words, putting aside any other issues that there may be with the Cook study (a much longer discussion), even if I accept that it shows that 97% of climate scientists believe that SOME warming will continue, and that human activity is a SIGNIFICANT contributing factor - is that supposed to be enough information on which to base making drastic changes to our energy policies?
For most national leaders, I would think not. Certainly, I would want to know more about how much warming was projected and how much of that warming could realistically be affected by any drastic changes I made - which would certainly be much less if the "significant" contribution by humans was closer to 20% than 90%. After all, if something close to half the warming is caused by other factors, than we also need to project what is likely to happen as a result of those other factors - since it very will could be that our human caused warming is actually offsetting what might otherwise be some catastrophic future cooling!
So aside from your ad hominems, you naturally cited studies (with which I am familiar) that use some descriptors like "significant" or "most" to describe the warming. The problem I have is that these studies are often cited by folks who represent them as meaning something that they do not - which is to conclusively prove that urgent action is needed, and that significant changes to our global energy policies that result in lower CO2 emissions will save us from dire consequences that will most certainly follow if we do not take that action.
Even if the claim that "most" of the warming is human caused is correct - that's still a wide range of possibilities. For example, if 55% of the warming is human caused and 45% if caused by other factors, then even if we changed what we do, the earth would continue to warm because of those other factors, just at a slower rate.
Also, the "most" descriptor is "mostly" used with regard to the past warming. The question of future warming is also one that relates to issues of climate sensitivity based on how various feedbacks would affect that warming, as I'm sure you are aware. Hence I would naturally expect scientists to have greater uncertainty about their projections the further into the future we go, given those uncertain variables.
But Sou, thanks anyway for the effort - it was appreciated. However, as you were clearly unable to specifically define a detailed statement that is both supportable by any consensus study that would also justify urgent changes to our energy policies (also known as - "my challenge") - then I will accept your surrender, as stated, as a tacit admission that the debate is not over and the science is not settled.
Michael Davison: I challenge you to find me a formal study showing a 97% consensus among engineering papers that fossil fuels can be used to perform work. Go ahead, find me one.
Until then, surely it would be folly to put in over $500 billion in annual subsidies for mining fossil fuels, when the science isn't even settled as to whether they can be used for anything!
What a rude man is Michael Davison. First he comes barging in arms flailing with his CHALLENGE, being too wimpy to meet the challenge I laid out.
Next, when he's shown to be wrong, when his ignorance is laid bare, does he offer an apology? Does he admit he was wrong? Nope. In an about face, he claims he knew all along what the consensus studies were showing. He seems to meekly accept the consensus that we're causing global warming, but then launches into denial of the need to mitigate. That's probably where he's really coming from. He doesn't want anyone to take action to slow global warming. A warped version of free market ideology? Does global warming threaten his view of how his world should be?
BTW - flattery will get him nowhere. He implies he regards HotWhopper as the last word on science, but it's not. (He wrote: "I sincerely doubt that anyone will take me up on this challenge - which I will then accept as a tacit admission that the science is NOT settled, and the debate is NOT over ".
The fact that humans are causing global warming is "settled science". There is a lot of science that isn't settled, which is why research continues (duh!). However the greenhouse effect has been accepted as real for a very, very long time. You'll be hard-pressed to find any scientist who disputes it.
I don't believe Michael when he says he "would want to know more about how much warming was projected...". If that were true he could easily find out just by reading science. Ergo, it's not true. He's behaving like a typical climate science denier. All shout, no substance. Scrambling to pretend he's still on high ground. He's not. His belated, grudging "thank you" notwithstanding.
(Michael's organ grinder must be quite talented. He can construct whole sentences, though they don't make a lot of sense.)
Sou - I truly interested in knowing what you think is accomplished by your proclivity to make multiple derogatory personal statements about me? Is based on a desire to inflict pain in the mistaken belief that I would somehow take offense (I don't)? Is it based on the belief that such statements bolster your status among other here (I doubt that it would, but if so, it would reflect poorly on them)? Is it based on the notion that such statements enhance the credibility any other points you made in your post?
It really is fascinating, so if it's not to much trouble, I would love to know what truly is your motivation for this.
PS - pardon the grammar mistakes on my last post - it's getting late for me. But feel free to use that as ammo on your next reply, if you are so inclined.
Which statements of fact do you think are derogatory? The fact that your comments don't make sense? The fact that you wimped on the challenge? The fact that you don't mean what you write when you claim you want to see projections (which are all there in the literature for you to see if you wanted to)? The fact that you are behaving like a typical science denier?
Let me know which statement you find derogatory and I'll explain why I'm willing to say what I think.
Meanwhile, you can mull over your own derogatory comments when you arrived here shouting your "challenge". I don't need to ask you to explain your motivation. It's as clear as the motivation for conspiracy theories we see every day on denier blogs.
PPS - let me approach this another way. So let's accept what you claim as the consensus is correct - that 97% say humans cause "most" of the warming, and that, therefore, humans do indeed cause "most" of the warming. This still does not address my question or my challenge, unless you think that this statement alone is one that is sufficient enough to justify drastic energy policy changes.
What is meant by most? Is it 51%? Is it 99%? Is it some unknown range between those two?
Does that matter? I would think so, since if we make drastic changes i would be under the belief that the benefit of making those changes justifies the cost. But what if our contribution to the warming is closer to 51% than 99%, and then even after we make those changes, the 40-49% of warming caused by other factors still occurs?
And perhaps our focus all along should therefore have been on mitigation rather than on preventing the unpreventable.
I eagerly await finding out what kind of personal insults you will substitute as an answer to those questions this time.
The 97% consensus paper I linked to above; if you continue to refuse to read it, I can't help you.
As for how much warming humans are responsible for, it's likely somewhere between 90% and 110% of the warming.
The IPCC report is fairly clear: the warming attributed to anthropogenic influences alone is similar to the warming that's actually seen. The underlying natural trend is probably negative, but could be slightly positive -- regardless of the sign it's an order of magnitude smaller than the trend attributed to human activity.
There's a number of studies that all find similar results despite using different techniques, so that gives pretty good confidence. Research continues on getting the precision down, but it's quite clear now that it's way more than half the warming.
Numerobis - thank you for the informative reply. With regard to your statement that the human responsibility for the warming was "somewhere between 90% and 110% of the warming", I would be interested in knowing the source of that information, particularly if the claim is that this is also part of the "consensus", since at those levels then one could expect significant benefits from - and therefore a justification for - making drastic changes to our energy policies.
Like I said - you're in no position to make a challenge. And contrary to what you claimed, I have answered your questions. You might not want to accept the answers, but they are all there and in some detail. It's one thing I'm known for - answering dumb questions from science deniers.
You, on the other hand, refuse to read the science. From IPCC AR5: "The best estimate of the human induced contribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period."
In other words, all of the (net) warming since 1950 has been caused by us.
Stop acting dumb, quit the tone trolling, and do some research.
Before I respond to any of your shouted challenges, here's another one for you or anyone reading. How many of the 5 telltale techniques of climate change denial has Michael used? There's at least two: the strawman logical fallacy and "impossible expectations".
https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_FINAL_full.pdf
Page 48: "It is extremely likely that more than half of the observed
increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to
2010 was caused by the anthropogenic increase in GHG concentrations and other anthropogenic forcings together (Figure 1.9).
The best estimate of the human induced contribution to warming is
similar to the observed warming over this period. GHGs contributed a
global mean surface warming likely to be in the range of 0.5°C to 1.3°C
over the period 1951 to 2010, with further contributions from other
anthropogenic forcings, including the cooling effect of aerosols, from
natural forcings, and from natural internal variability (see Figure 1.9)."
As Figure 1.9 shows, natural forcings and natural internal variability are basically zero, with error bars out to 0.1C. So basically all the warming is anthropogenic.
For the full list of references, you need to dig up the WG1 report. There's been quite a few studies on this precise issue.
Michael Davison is simply trolling, slightly more literate sounding but every bit as scientifically ignorant as your garden-variety troll.
Yeah, I'm assuming the goal posts will have moved by the time there's a reply.
For example, from the Cook study grouped the papers analyzed into three categories:
1 - Papers explicitly stated humans are the primary (greater than 50%) cause of recent global warming. Total = 1.6%
2 - Papers explicitly stated that humans contributed to the warming, but did not specify that amount. Total = 23%
3 - Papers implied that humans contributed to the warming, but again, did not specify how much. Total = 72%
So yes, 1.6 + 23 + 72 rounds up to 97%, but what statement can really be justified about the "consensus" opinion on the level of human contributions based on the above data?
Numerobis - thanks for the citation to the IPCC study, which does support the levels that you cited in your earlier reply. However, as stated, it would be even more meaningful if it could be shown that this "90-110"% range you cited was also part of the consensus.
With reference to your other comment - that's not moving the goal posts as it's what also said in my last response - which I followed up with data from the Cook study to reference exactly what I meant. So I guess my question boils down to this - is there a 97% consensus that supports the same ranges that you cited, and referenced to the IPCC report?
BTW - by far the greatest uncertainty in projections is the uncertainty about the actions that societies will take to mitigate. Will we act quickly enough to reduce CO2 emissions?
At the moment, with current pledges, we have improved, but are still on track for unsafe warming - 3.5 °C of warming by 2100, with a range of uncertainty of 2.1 – 4.6°C (and it doesn't stop there). It's not too late, provided deniers efforts to keep us in the smog age don't delay things.
https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/scoreboard/
IMO if we don't act in a planned way, and warming continues unabated, then economies will suffer (civil unrest, drought, famines, floods, rising sea level etc). That will most likely reduce emissions a lot, and put a lid on total atmospheric CO2. But the cost will be huge. Much greater than the cost of shifting to clean energy.
Michael Davison - you've been told what the different consensus studies were assessing. If you are not happy that they are answering your own specific question, then do your own study. All it takes is a bit of work. It's not rocket science, and you never know, you might even learn something about climate. (Which is undoubtedly one of the main reasons you and other deniers daren't do it.)
Which brings us back to the challenge in the original article. Not a single person who denies the scientific consensus - that we are causing global warming - has attempted to do any research to determine the level of consensus for themselves. Michael is just doing what deniers typically do - fudging and avoiding the issue. The issue being that we need to continue to take action to reduce CO2 emissions.
Sou, I note that on more than one occasion you have said that I was in "no position" to make a "challenge" - while at the same time, you, more than anyone, have provided multiple replies to my challenge.
And what else is it - if not the ability to generate replies - that puts someone in a position to be able to make challenges?
I therefore would be remiss if I did not once again express my gratitude, since more than anyone else, you have thus elevated me to that lofty position! And who knows, perhaps on one of your future replies you may even hit upon some definitive answer to my challenge with a supportable and specific consensus statement that would also clearly justify making immediate and drastic changes to our energy policies.
The evidence is all there. It's compiled in scientific journals and consolidated in the IPCC reports.
Which only goes to show that no amount of evidence will persuade a hard core climate science denier that it is necessary to do what governments, businesses and individuals are doing - working to reduce CO2 emissions.
I think that, like other deniers who've commented at HotWhopper before, Michael just wants to have the last word. And what a silly word it is.
Governments are working to develop and implement policies to make short, medium and longer term changes and shift away from fossil fuels. Michael insists on calling that "immediate and drastic changes" as if they are going to shut down all coal plants tomorrow and ban all petrol-fueled vehicles today.
That's nuts, but typical of the run-of-the-mill denier.
Michael's deleted comment has been moved to the HotWhoppery.
Michael, just out of interest: are you a Jeremy Clarkson fan?
jgnfld October 11, 2015 at 8:29 PM
Let's change the wording a bit:
For example, from the Biology study grouped the papers analyzed into three categories:
1 - Papers that explicitly stated evolution is the primary (greater than 50%) cause of natural variation. Total = probably about .1%
2 - Papers that explicitly stated evolution contributed to natural variation, but did not specify that amount. Total = maybe 5%
3 - Papers that implied that evolution contributed to natural variation, but again, did not specify how much. Total = 94%
So yes, .1 + 5 + 94 rounds to 99%, but what statement can really be justified about the "consensus" opinion on the level of evolutionary contributions to natural variation based on the above data?
Or Michael could simply hop on over to the nearest research university and have coffee in the relevant faculty lounge and ask around. But we know he would never do that.
Jammy Dodger October 11, 2015 at 9:42 PM
"Here's my CHALLENGE - one time, just ONE TIME, I would like to see a "believer" precisely define EXACTLY what is meant by this 97% consensus - ..."
And there it is. The wriggle room, shouted in CAPITALS, to refuse to accept anything given in reply because it does not define EXACTLY what is meant by 97% consensus. This is the setting of impossibly high criteria that cannot be met, backed up by the ridiculous notion that Davison is the only arbiter of what constitutes an EXACT answer.
As I do not (often) indulge in ad-hominem: .
"I sincerely doubt that anyone will take me up on this challenge ..."
I think a few have taken up the challenge and more than met it. (If you drop the stupid criteria).
Thanks to the people who have done this and have the patience to deal with the grinding, relentless refusal of deniers to offer honest discussion.
numerobis October 12, 2015 at 12:17 AM
Oh, I was wrong, the goalposts didn't move. It's just that all the evidence anyone had provided got thrown out and the original question repeated as if nothing had happened.
Jammy Dodger October 12, 2015 at 12:35 AM
numerobis
The goalposts were never put up in the first place.
Michael's latest deleted comment has been moved to the HotWhoppery. Sou
You could use the normal emphasis available (bold, italic, underline) like most people do. It seems to be a trait of deniers to use capitals.
Your attempts to justify your requirement of an exact definition are just weak. The Cook paper specifies that very carefully. Your ruse to extend it to dire predictions and policy is just transparently you trying to raise straw arguments. You are just trying to cause confusion.
"We examined a large sample of the scientific literature on global [climate change], published over a 21 year period, in order to determine the level of scientific consensus that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW)."
The comment to which Jammy was responding was also deleted. It held nothing new. (It was not worth my time relocating it to the HotWhoppery.)
Jammy - I didn't know bold was an option in this chatbox, although it must be as I see you have a way of doing that.
I agree, there are some questions answered by the surveys, but there are also some that are not - and those unanswered questions, in my view, relate to the differences between dire predictions that would necessitate urgent action, as opposed to more moderate levels of concern and/or uncertain ranges of estimated human contributions, that would indicate more study is needed before we start making significant, and perhaps consequential, changes.
Or to put it another way, the consensus has been cited by the President and Sec. of State to meant that there is a 97% consensus that the earth is warming (agree), that it is human caused (agree with a caveat) and is "dangerous" (would love to bold that last word if I knew how). So does the consensus study show this - that 97% of scientists think there is any level or urgency or danger over this issue?
It would be great if someone could back that up, as I see this representation frequently, and I don't see the source for that in any of the consensus studies.
On a final note, if this comment is deleted and/or moved, then it will be my last reply to anyone.
Michael, go read the IPCC reports before making any more uninformed comments. The consensus studies that I'm aware of were mainly to let people know that scientists agree we are the cause of the current warming. Almost half Americans wrongly think that there is disagreement among scientists on that point. There is none to speak of. Once a person understands that almost all experts agree that it's us, studies show that they are more able to accept the science. If you want to know the proportion who think it will be dangerous, ask them yourself or read the literature. When you find out it's most experts (which it most likely is), then going by your form here, your next quibble will be "how dangerous".
From the FAQ of WG2 AR5:
FAQ 5: Can science identify thresholds beyond which climate change is dangerous?
Human activities are changing the climate. Climate-change impacts are already widespread and consequential. But while science can quantify climate change risks in a technical sense, based on the probability, magnitude, and nature of the potential consequences of climate change, determining what is dangerous is ultimately a judgment that depends on values and objectives. For example, individuals will value the present versus the future differently and will bring personal worldviews on the importance of assets like biodiversity, culture, and aesthetics. Values also influence judgments about the relative importance of global economic growth versus assuring the well-being of the most vulnerable among us. Judgments about dangerousness can depend on the extent to which one’s livelihood, community, and family are directly exposed and vulnerable to climate change.An individual or community displaced by climate change might legitimately consider that specific impact dangerous, even though that single impact might not cross the global threshold of dangerousness. Scientific assessment of risk can provide an important starting point for such value judgments about the danger of climate change.
We are on pace to warm ten times faster than any time in the past 65 million years. Think about it. What value do you place on the world as you know it? Any? Some? None at all?
The melting of WAIS is now probably unstoppable - it just depends on how quickly you are willing to let it add to the sea level.
Do you care? Is your cosy (make-believe) world more important to you than the fate of your fellow humans? Is it more important to you than the fate of other species? Are you even aware that our fate depends on the fate of the world and other species? Or are you so wrapped up in not shifting to clean energy that you're willing to doom future generations?
Like I say. You've been around climate stuff for long enough to know better. So stop behaving like a denier troll and go and learn something about it. Start with the IPCC reports. There is no grand climate conspiracy.
(You are a guest here.Calling your host a liar is not good form. Nor is repeated denier trolling. Nor is tone trolling or complaining about moderation. Nor is promising "goodbye" and then returning. Read the comment policy.)
Bert from Eltham October 12, 2015 at 10:34 AM
We could call him Dame Nellie Melba! She was renowned for her repeated 'final performances'. Bert
Yep - so predictable. Happens almost invariably with people who cross the line.
Michael's very last HotWhopper comment has been posted at the HotWhoppery. . He spat the dummy, probably because he had a desperate need to play the martyr. He can - just not here. His (petulant) show is over.
Let's get back to science.
Correction: the very last comment that's going to be published.
I take everyone's point, however Michael won't be responding, so I'm deleting the final few comments and closing the thread. If I come across anyone doing another study of consensus, I'll let you know.
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Dark days ahead - rise above despair
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My first reaction on hearing of Donald Trump's probably victory was an emotional jolt, accompanied by the physical sensation of nausea. This is despite the fact that I was partly prepared. I was at a meeting in a tiny town in rural New South Wales, with a number of other people from various walks of life.
Internet reception was patchy (very poor Optus coverage) and I had to take the laptop outside to learn what was happening. When I came back to the meeting and told everyone that Trump was the likely next US President, people were shocked and dismayed. There were comments about Nazi Germany, melting away of life savings, and concerns about how the Putin-Trump relationship would adversely affect global stability, particularly in regard to China. (Australia's security and place in the world is now under threat, and we will need to adapt and find new allies.)
Looking over Twitter and elsewhere on the Internet, I see people looking to blame the Democrats for nominating Hillary Clinton. That's not fair in my view. She would have been the most qualified, capable President in decades - and maybe forever.
What's happened in America is no different to what's been happening around the world. The population is getting dumbed down - or more accurately, people are dumbing themselves down, voluntarily. In Australia, people elected the right wing populist Tony Abbott, wanting - hoping - to believe his lies and succumbing to to the unreasoned fear he incited. In Britain the people voted to shut the doors and kick out everyone who wasn't umpteenth generation English. And now the US people want to build a wall between the US and Mexico, close the borders, stop trading internationally, let people die in the streets without health care, and expel everyone who isn't an umpteenth generation American.
With more than seven billion people now on our planet - trying to shut out the world is not only unrealistic, it's a recipe for disaster on a massive scale. (It's as if we cannot cope with the massive rise in population, and the global freedoms we've achieved with fast travel and rapid transport and open borders, and don't "believe" any of that has happened.)
Why? Is it envy? Is it misplaced greed? Is it fear and hatred of all that is different? Is it an inability to adapt to the world we've created? There've not been any major wars or threats in recent decades, so is it that people are bored and looking for change in their otherwise small and dreary lives?
There is a large segment of the population who have unmet (and unrealistic) expectations. People who've never felt real fear and miss it, so they grab hold of imaginary fears and take them on as their own. Despite the general standard of living rising all over the world, a lot of people may have had the expectation that they would get rich or wealthier than they have. Many people are no better off than they were some decades ago - or don't recognise that they are. A plasma or LCD television isn't enough. Fox tells them they have been deprived and the plebs lap it up.
Victoria tweeted a quote from Carl Sagan's 1995 book: "The Demon-Haunted World" in which he foresaw the catastrophe we are now on the brink of.
"I have a foreboding of an America..
..we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition & darkness."
- Carl Sagan#ElectionNight pic.twitter.com/VakVilGK91
— Victoria (@victoriavarone) November 9, 2016
When much of the media doesn't do it's job, and uncritically put forth disinformation, and sufficient people don't rebel against this affront to their intelligence - this is what happens. Instead of leaders we elect populist conmen like Donald Trump and Tony Abbott (most are men, but there are some women as well).
All I can say is that it's important to get past the despair that is natural when you see the future crumbling. It's important to rise above it and keep fighting for justice and to protect the future - for coming generations and for all life species. We are facing dark days ahead and probably dark years. There may be widespread civil unrest and possibly major wars. Women and minority groups will have their rights removed. Asylum seekers from war torn countries will have nowhere to go. There will almost certainly be economic upheaval. There will most certainly be more weather and ecological disasters. At the very least we need to document what we, as humans, are doing. And by that I mean what all of us are doing, including the people who voted for chaos and upheaval and regression.
It's obvious that as a species we are not capable of learning from mistakes of the past. That doesn't mean that none of us can learn from our species' mistakes. And it doesn't mean that future generations won't learn from the mistakes made in the twentieth and twenty first century.
So keep your chin up. Don't just ride it out, but keep working for what's right and good. Despite what Americans have just done, there is a lot of good in the world.
Sorry for what reads like a sermon. I feel a tiny bit better for having got that off my chest. I'd love to see your thoughts on what has just happened, and what you plan to do about it.
Labels: disaster preparedness, Trump
john November 9, 2016 at 8:39 PM
I cried today.
I honestly we are moving into an area that has not happened for over 73 years.
We now have in most of the western countries a movement toward the politics of blame and hate this really upsets me because this is not healthy for society
You have two choices here, mate: You can either wallow in despair over situations you believe in but can't actually prove, courtesy of an ideology which survives on unsupportable discrimination and false premises, or you can undertake a thorough objective self-introspection which will ultimately free you from the shackles of the very kind of ignorance you rail against. As I told some of my fiercest critics yesterday, you may thank me one day for this advice: https://climatecrocks.com/2016/11/09/couple-a-things/comment-page-1/#comment-87184
Jammy Dodger November 11, 2016 at 4:40 AM
@Russell Cook
I am not sure what your posts are about. Is that an arrogamce I detect in your idea that people will thank you for your advice? I did not detect much content either. Were you reaaly saying that peopke should know the facts before coming to a conclusion?
Perhaps I have missed your point. Or it is very banal.
https://m.popkey.co/c21e18/a0G0k.gif
@Jammy Dodger: I thought my comment at ClimateCrocks was quite clear, along with the follow-up one I placed there. But if you require an even shorter confirmation - yes, I'm really saying people should know the facts before coming to a conclusion. Every fear now emanating from enviro-activists (who are not climate scientists) about Trump's evil ways, how global warming is primarily caused by human activity and how skeptic climate scientists' words are lies purchased and orchestrated by coal & oil companies are all beliefs which implode under intensive examination. Since enviro-activists believe these things rather than know the facts about them, it's no surprise so many are so despondent. What I suggested, in the simplest terms, is for the despondent to examine ALL the facts with an open mind. Upon doing so, they will realize just how extensive the misinformation has been about Trump, the climate and skeptic climate scientists, and they will then be freed from an ideology which only showed them a false, gloomy picture of the world as opposed to the way it really is.
@Russell
Yes I understand now. We cannot come to a conclusion till we know ALL the facts. Not until we have hunted in every corner of the internet for ebery crazy conspiracy and started to believe them. We have to acquire that wisdom first.
Sounds more like a case of setting impossible expectations that can never ne met.
Hint re poor coverage there is the original company that actually gives coverage so move to it.
Sou November 9, 2016 at 8:58 PM
Thanks John. I was with the original for a while, but the Virgin deals I got are much better value, and the reception is good in most places :)
And i am honest I had tears to think this is the way the world is heading it is not healthy
You are not alone, John, with your concern. See here and here.
As people we will not learn - don't recognise good times for what they are, and refuse to accept there are enough challenges ahead without adding the harm that Trump will foist on the world.
cRR Kampen November 9, 2016 at 9:14 PM
My thoughts on this are well known.
My cynicism was realism and not totally despaired.
Having been up front if not behind enemy lines for a long time, I might now adopt 'despair' and see about planning for the remainder of my existence in some safe place on the globe if there be any. Very sparsely populated place, very high latitude.
Thinking of saying the final bye to y'all.
Sou November 9, 2016 at 10:35 PM
I hope that comment isn't what it sounds like, cRR. Do get help if you need it - talk to friends or family, or to someone at Lifeline or the equivalent service where you live.
cRR Kampen November 9, 2016 at 11:34 PM
Oi, I see what you read... No, I'll be taking my life. Oops!! I mean, I'll be taking my life into my own hands... or something :)
What I said is, in a way, worse, Sou. E.g. for you and I have tears in my eyes for this:
What I meant was something like bye to Hotwhopper, Klimaatverandering.nl, the Rabett etc and all those other places that have been talking the exact same talk as of before and since the publication of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'.
You see, I hold these sites, my friends and allies, in considerable part guilty of ending the planet.
By doing dialogue, feeding only the merchants of doubt, for a quarter century now, every day again.
By deleting posts of, or banning those few who call climate revisionism what it is: criminal.
Yes I abhor violence and will never plea for violent revolution. I believe in education and Hotwhopper has certainly done a great job on this.
But I do not believe in debating thugs. I do not believe in dialogue with outright criminality. And I do not believe in an electorate polling 77% for climate change measures and at the same time re-electing the coal shill government.
The day I get some recognition for my stance is the day the coral has gone. But by then I will have moved on. With my life, my existence, on what is left of my planet (I annexed it a few months ago).
As a last straw for you all - try to be angry at me, please, prove me wrong, kick my ass, show me what you got except constant dialogue with or about the Ideology of Plunder. But I'll be watching the Keeling Curve.
Bernard J. November 10, 2016 at 1:20 AM
[Part I]
For the record, I'm effectively in the same boat as cRR.
I've been working ITRW for a while now to increase resilience both in my own personal sphere and in my local community, at the expense of my previous engagement online, and I'm at the point where I'm mulling over whether to make the break completely. Many have commented to me (especially off-line) that I've been growing progressively more pessimistic about our fate over the last 5-6 years, and nothing that has materialised in that time has given me the slightest pause in that evolving outlook.
It's patently apparent to those who actually look that the human societies that are driving the global economy are led and supported by people who are unable to grasp the significance of our collective impact on the planet, and/or who are insufficiently stirred to moderate their own gain so that all people, including poor people and unborn people, may have similar future opportunties for a modest but fulfilling life.
It's the Tragedy of the Commons writ large, with an extra serving of lizard-brain xenophobia, egocentrism, and conservatism thrown in. The rust-belting of USAdian society (and indeed, around the world) over the last three or four decades is a symptom of the planet's limits to growth. Yep, what many from Malthus to the Club of Rome have spoken of. The loss of fisheries and the extinctions of many other taxa, the pollution of the land and seas and air, and the warming of the planet, are all further pieces in the tower we've built or ourselves and that is coming precariously close to tumbling. Those who point to China's growth as evidence that thermodynamics don't apply to human economies are missing the point that it was one of the last untapped corners of the planet, and that it had the luxury of abundant and very cheap labour combined with pliant aquiescence to a dictating government. And their economic behemoth is fast approaching its own wall. - and don't think that the Chinese don't know it: ponder on what the military, geopolitical, and economic implications are of their activity in the South China Sea and elsewhere.
It takes a lot of self-discipline and social-awareness for a species to act cohesively when danger approaches. Humans could potentially have emulated the best aspects of eusociality, but instead we're behaving like stampeding sheep happy to cast the fringe-dwellers to the wolves.
[Part II]
We've had several recent path-changing pivots in Western democracy. The interference of the rightful election of Al Gore in 2000 was probably the biggest missed opportunity for a livable future, and the single-vote majority win of Tony Abbott to knock over Malcolm Turnbull in 2009 changed the face of the climate change mitigation conversation in Australia at a time when it mattered, which had a profound impact on other countries around the world. Trump's election is the final nail in the coffin: any (distant?) future redirection toward serious efforts to stop fossil carbon emissions will be too little too late. Four years of Trump is enough to effectively hammer the lid shut, and even if he didn't ride out two terms there is enough momentum now with the Republicans' complete control of both Houses to ensure that he would be replaced by fossil-fuel friendly types who will ape his biocidal ideology.
Make no mistake, any modest advances that Obama made are gone. He will have no lasting legacy except in the memories of some, and a Nobel paperwight for his desk at home. Obamacare is toast, and Keystone may well get another guernsey. And if cheap(ish) carbon from the tar sands is flung into the market, the race will be on for every competing joule of oil and coal and gas too, no matter the state of "grassroots" uptake of renewables. At this point the only events that I can see that might appreciably diminish another decade of profligate human carbon emissions are a serious third World War with nuclear weapons included, or a global mega-pandemic 'flu or similar.
We are the choir, but unfortunately the masses have remained at home with 'reality' TV turned up to full volume and have been deaf to the singing. And now they've changed the channel to the biggest (un)reality character of them all. It's effectively over for a future benignly-livable planet, and now it's about how a semblance of something vaguely resembling a somewhat cohesive society might be salvaged. All I can usefully do now is to try as much as I am able to make it as (relatively) painless as possible for my family, friends and community, and hope (selfishly…) that the worst of the future isn't focussed here. I've made location choices to help in that, and I do hope that my actions radiate out to synergise with others' efforts elsewhere, but I have the foreboding of the bowl of petunias rather than the guileless optimism of the whale.
cRR Kampen November 10, 2016 at 2:36 AM
Read those first lines of part I and recognition of that is tearing me up again. Barely saved mine and damages are still to be assessed and may still prove to be fatal.
jrkrideau November 9, 2016 at 9:44 PM
Apparently the Republicans now control the House and the Senate as well as having a (possibly) Republican president.
I wonder if this means that some Republican politicians will now have to behave responsibly? They have seemed to do nothing but obstruct government---the need to do something constructive will require a complete change of mindset. I wonder if they are capable of it.
It will be enlightening to see if the Republicans can overcome their internal bickering and get something done, or if there will be ongoing infighting between the hard right extremists, the populists, and the traditional conservatives (if there are any of those left).
One of the early challenges will be the delayed nomination for the Supreme Court. How far will the GOP go to set back social justice, womens' rights etc?
Getting out of NATO, the UN, the UNFCCC, and various trade agreements etc will be challenging, as will winding back environmental legislation and cutting climate and weather services (and research). (As for building a wall across the Mexican border...)
The wall across the Mexican border would also require a wall across the Canadian border to stop Mexicans flying to Canada and entering from there.
Nick November 10, 2016 at 9:16 AM
Nigel, given the abundance of hydrocarbons in leaky pipelines or on trains from 'Canadia', I think excavating a trench and filling it with burning oil will be a cheaper solution than a wall for the US' north border...
Millicent November 9, 2016 at 9:48 PM
Here in the UK Brexiters will be delighted - they now have something they can blame for the collapse of the UK economy other than themselves. That is except for Nigel Farage who has had a hand in both disasters.
Eric Worrall November 9, 2016 at 9:58 PM
Cheer up Sou, the climate crisis might be dead, but there are plenty of other superstitions which you can champion.
Millicent November 9, 2016 at 10:15 PM
Any chance you will publish your long list of Nobel prizes so we can all recognise how superior your scientific genius is to the rest of the scientific establishment?
Eric Worrall November 9, 2016 at 10:21 PM
At least I don't tell porkies about receiving a Nobel Prize, like Michael Mann did.
I'll answer the question as you appear unable to: you don't have any Nobel prizes. Lets try again and see if you are capable of answering a straight question: what scientific awards have you got?
So lets get this straight: despite your claiming to know better than every prestigious scientific organisation on this planet, your actual scientific 'genius' is so limited that the last time you got an award was when Miss awarded you a gold star at school.
Thats called an "argument from authority" Millicent.
No its not. I have not made any statement about climate science at all. I am making a statement about you.
Eric has all the hallmarks of a typical right wing authoritarian follower. He rejects experts and people who know a subject deeply, and fawns on cranks and conspiracy theorists - what Bob Altemeyer calls "scumbuckets". It's no surprise that he'd fall for a conman like Donald Trump.
bill November 9, 2016 at 10:51 PM
Ah, not only an idiot, but a gloating idiot. Charming. I think we should certainly expect the morons to strut around like they're running the show for a while. And then expect them to run science, the economy, the community, the environment, the whole shebang... into the ditch. Don't expect a Dunning-Krugerite to grasp the concept of a Pyrrhic victory
Jammy Dodger November 9, 2016 at 10:52 PM
And even if it was an argument from authority? There is nothing wrong with listening to an authority when it is, um, well, an authority. A prestigious, scientific organisation falls into this category, unless you are a science denier. What you are missing Eric Worrall is when the appeal is to a bogus authority.
But I am enjoying this. He doesn't contradict anything that I said at 10.34, his only objection is a conclusion that I did not make. That's something to treasure for future use.
Lars Karlsson November 10, 2016 at 2:01 AM
Eric, you might be able to kill climate science in the US, but that will not change the physics.
Bellman November 10, 2016 at 2:14 AM
I get that you are happy with Trump's position on climate change and you say on WUWT "The victory of President Trump is a gift not just for America but for the world." as a result
But are you really happy with all of Trump's other policies and personality traits, or do you just consider them a price worth paying to end the "climate movement"?
Jp November 10, 2016 at 5:18 AM
"argument from authority".
Unless one is also an expert, deferring to authority is the only logical course of action. Only in denier-land is listening to those who have the least expertise considered commonsense. In denier-land being a Dunning-Kruger is probably looked on as a badge of honour.
Having seen a medical specialist who tells him he should seek treatment for a particular health issue, Eric Worall walks out of the hospital and spots a gardener pruning the rose. "He looks like a knowledgeable man" he says to himself, and seeks a second opinion. The gardener tells him there's nothing to worry about.
What are the chances of a happy ending in this allegory.
Re-reading my reply, "pruning the rose" sounds funny. Of course it should have been "roses", but then again this is denier-land, so maybe there was only one rose growing in the entire hospital grounds.
"the climate crisis might be dead.."
Well a little trolling is to be expected. The climate change denier talking points have not changed in years, and I don't think a pseudo-scientific US President will change that.
The US is not the center of the world. The US abandoning commonsense won't mean the rest of the world will.
Eric pops up to remind us that he thinks the real world exists merely in his head...yes, Eric, elect someone who denies physics, and physics will be gone. It makes perfect sense.
MostlyHarmless November 10, 2016 at 6:07 PM
No-one needs to be a qualified practising scientist to criticise (or applaud, for that matter) scientists. Just an analytical mind and some scientific training, or even a good scientific education. Millicent is clearly putting words in Eric's mouth - an old trick, and deplorable.
"So lets get this straight: despite your claiming to know better than every prestigious scientific organisation on this planet" - no he's not, and never has. Childish rubbish like that says more about the sayer than the target. Straw men are on the move in this thread. They're very flammable, and easily demolished.
Debate is healthy. What amounts to name-calling and invective has no place in any discussion forum.
This post concerns serious political implications for the US. No-one commenting here is an experienced political guru, nor a politician of any kind, to my knowledge. So scientific qualifications are needed to criticise the work of scientists, but none to criticise political policies and politicians?
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Matthew 7:3-5, King James' Version, 1611
Sou November 10, 2016 at 6:47 PM
I don't think Millicent or Eric were talking about politics in this particular branch of the discussion. It was about Eric's opinion about climate science and global warming.
MH - talking of straw men, have you any comment on Eric, in his OP, referring to climate change as "superstition"?
Millicent November 10, 2016 at 6:56 PM
"It was about Eric's opinion about climate science and global warming."
Eric may have thought that but I never even mentioned the topic. I was focused entirely on Eric's delusions of scientific genius. Sadly Eric had urgent business to attend to so I was never able to ask him whether he thought his genius would be widely recognised within his own lifetime, or if he thought the Natural History Museum in London would be replacing its statue of Darwin with one of Eric in due time.
Ah :)
BBD November 10, 2016 at 8:19 PM
MostlyTrollish
Debate is healthy.
Misogyny is not. Racism is not. Mendacity is not. Climate change denial is not.
Trump indulges freely in all of the above. One does not need to be a politician or pundit to see this. Nor is it a matter for debate as it is established fact.
Li D November 10, 2016 at 10:53 PM
BBD. Agree. There are certain
unhealthy things not to be sampled. A nibble of a choclate is acceptable. A dabble into racism or misogyny
has consquences far exceeding
any brief strange pleasure derived from doing so.
I worry when debate is unhealthy. When there is a characterisation of balance
where none exists.
Where genuine expertise is assigned to a position equal
with naivete, bullying, and
sometimes paranoia.
Its tricky. Debate is healthy,
even nessessary.
Ideas should be challenged to
establish strengths and weaknesses within them.
I get the feeling often that
challenge is not done for these reasons, but simply for
the apoearance of challenge alone.
NoNotThatBob November 11, 2016 at 3:43 AM
"Any chance you will publish your long list of Nobel prizes so we can all recognise how superior your scientific genius is to the rest of the scientific establishment?"
The "Scienctific Establishment" has generated many more incorrect ideas than correct ones. Even Nobel Prize winners can be wrong.
Probably true NotThatBob. That is how science works -put up an idea and then try to knock it down. Rhe difference is the ingredient of looking for the answer with genuine curiousity. And some of the ideas survive to become the accepted consensus.
There are those who are not genuinely enquiring. And that is the idea of comparing fake sceptics efforts with the scientific establishment.
Lars Karlsson
"you might be able to kill climate science in the US, but that will not change the physics."
It is "the physics" that continues to undermine the politicised 'science' supporting the CAGW dead end.
Climate Science will thrive.
BBD November 11, 2016 at 4:47 AM
Hardy har-har.
Let's have some references then. Published papers only, not cobblers on denier blogs.
@NotThatBob
The physics undermines the climate science? That is an enormous claim. Could you give one example of what you mean?
Millicent November 11, 2016 at 5:40 AM
Be careful now: we shouldn't mock people who in a more rational world would be referred to as 'the patient'.
Mike Smith November 11, 2016 at 5:46 AM
Eric Worrall, don't troll poor Sou. Can't you tell a death rattle when you hear it.
Can't you tell a death rattle when you hear it.
Wow, a competition to see who can be the most detached from reality. Go nutters!
Oh I love it. Poor Eric has got his 'friends' to come over and 'sort us out'. Its magical.
@BBD
I could not think of a suitable reply to that inanity. But I think you nailed it.
Do you get the impression that the contrarians are feeling emboldened by the election of Trump? As if the election result somehow changes the laws of physics.
jp & Jammy Dodger
"Unless one is also an expert, deferring to authority is the only logical course of action."
And 'authority' is not determined by the number of scientists supporting a popular hypothesis, but how well that hypothesis is supported by observation.
It is a pity that this analysis of competing hypotheses has been placed in the 'political' domain, where, it appears, no scientific debate is possible.
"There are those who are not genuinely enquiring. And that is the idea of comparing fake sceptics efforts with the scientific establishment."
Presumably jp's 'Allegory' portrays a 'fake' sceptic?
A medical specialist diagnoses a 15 yo girl's health issue, and prescibes a course of treatment.
Reading the prescription, the girl tells the specialist that two of the drugs are contraindicated.
She is evidently sceptical of his expertise.
What are the chances of a happy ending to that scenario?
Would a specialist accept contradiction from a patient merely because she has been 'genuinely enquiring' with regard to her condition?
"What are the chances of a happy ending to that scenario?"
If she then runs off to a new age healer or similar fraud then virtually nil.
Where is your example of physics undermining climate science?
Authority is determined by having some expertise in the subject. Observations on their own cannot constitute authority.
Yes, that is the fake sceptic in JP's allegory.
I think Millicent pointed out the wealness of your allegory so I do not need to add to that.
D- for effort.
Phil Clarke November 11, 2016 at 8:10 AM
Alas, poor Worrall, a change of occupant in the White House does not wipe out over a century of sound science, thousands of studies and the conclusions of every national science academy in the world. If the Donald withdraws America from the Paris agreement, the climate crisis, will be alive, and kicking. And, while he may not be around to see it, history will judge President Trump as the man who grabbed the planet by the genitalia and f**ked it.
A few observations for the understandably despondent. Around 0.2 million more Americans voted for Mrs Clinton than supported Mr Trump. I'm not arguing that this makes the result illegitimate, both sides fought under the same rules, however viewed as an opinion poll, it is a fact that more people favoured Clinton's vision for the country over Trump's. And the low turnout means that only about one in four people of voting age were sufficiently fired up to got off their large American bottoms and express support for the Dumpster.
I am not at all optimistic, I regarded Trump as a joke right up to the last few days, well the joke's on us. I'm working through the stages of grief, but neither am I as gloomy as some. The appropriate response, it seems to me, is to organise and resist.
Nil Desperandum.
@ NoNotThatBob
"And 'authority' is not determined by the number of scientists supporting a popular hypothesis, but how well that hypothesis is supported by observation."
The number of scientists supporting a hypothesis does not cause a hypothesis to be correct, but you should expect a hypothesis that is correct to result in more scientists supporting it.
"It is a pity that this analysis of competing hypotheses has been placed in the 'political' domain, where, it appears, no scientific debate is possible."
It will good to see Trump removing all politics from the debate.
"Reading the prescription, the girl tells the specialist that two of the drugs are contraindicated."
How does she know the drugs are contraindicated? Is it because of expert opinion or because because of something she's read on a website?
A superstition is defined as a widely held but irrational belief. I'm not sure that it qualifies as 'widely-held' however it seems to me that a belief that Worrall's absurd, ridiculous, risible, ludicrous, fictional headlines to his WUWT filler pieces bear the flimsiest remote connection to reality is arguably a textbook case.
@Jammy
That's just the clowns doing the warm-up act. It gets much better.
In a few years time these people will have a lot more to be in denial about.
Jpio November 12, 2016 at 2:04 AM
Mostlyclueless says,
"So scientific qualifications are needed to criticise the work of scientists, but none to criticise political policies and politicians?".
Sorry, but that's such a dumb argument to make. The wrong-ness of it should be obvious to anyone who actually thinks.
You don't need any expertise to judge someone's character. If you're a woman and the candidate talks about overturning Wade vs Roe by installing more conservative judges and re-criminalizing abortion, you don't need any expertise to know how that will affect you. If you're concerned about climate change and you believe what the experts are saying you don't need any expertise of your own to see the negative consequences of having an idiot for president who thinks that it's all a hoax perpetrated by the chinese and pledges to dismantle institutions studying climate science and global accords. And if you're a moderate muslim or a mexican you don't need any expertise to feel insulted.
The comparison is so stupid, it's amazing any intelligent person would make it, and even more amazing that you were so confident making it you even added a biblical quote.
even more amazing that you were so confident making it you even added a biblical quote.
God probably told him to do it.
"Let's have some references then. Published papers only, not cobblers on denier blogs."
I am not a Climate Scientist. So to determine an expert's competence:
1. I choose a paper in which the expert has made an observable prediction;
2. I determine whether that prediction has indeed been fulfilled.
How about the Daddy of 'em all. Hansen's presentation to Congress.
He makes a clear prediction and all the data required to test it are readily available for downloading.
Hansen defines three Scenarios: A, B, and (you guess):
A assumes that growth rates of trace gas emissions typical of the 1970s and 1980s will continue indefinitely;
B has decreasing trace gas growth rates, such that the annual increase of the greenhouse climate forcing remains approximately constant at the 1998 level;
C drastically reduces trace gas growth between 1990 and 2000 such that the greenhouse climate forcing ceases to increase after 2000.
Hansen then provided a graph of the annual temperature anomaly for each of these Scenarios, against which one can plot the actual anomalies of one's choice, and compare actual versus the three predictions.
As these trace gasses have not been reduced since 1988, we should find the actual anomalies are up there with Scenario A, or at worst B.
Currently, however HADCRUT4 and GISS are each closer to Scenario C - drastically reduced trace gasses.
Either Hansen displayed a limited grasp of atmospheric physics, or he lied to Congress.
@ Jammy Dodger
"The physics undermines the climate science? That is an enormous claim."
Not really. Climate Science is in error because most Climate Scientists are inept with regard to Physics (and Maths).
Unfortunately, Cosmology and Astrophysics are a greater draw.
Is that all you can come up with?
Not even an example?
@ Millicent
I asked:
"What are the chances of a happy ending to that scenario?
Would a specialist accept contradiction from a patient merely because she has been 'genuinely enquiring' with regard to her condition?"
Your reply:
"If she then runs off to a new age healer or similar fraud then virtually nil."
No coconut for a non sequitur, I'm afraid.
Have another go.
MostlyCluelesss says, "No-one needs to be a qualified practising scientist to criticise (or applaud, for that matter) scientists. Just an analytical mind and some scientific training."
Only one probem with that. The weak, illogical reasoning that is demonstrated here and elsewhere is strong evidence that an analytical mind is a rare thing in denier-land.
But what MostlyClueless says helps to explain why so many denier D-K's are emboldened to attack climate scientists.
We have idiots with no understanding of proxy data or any aspects of climate science who think they're qualified to attack Michael Mann's hockey stick, which has been reproduced by different teams using different methods and data. Strangely enough, no denier can bring themselses to ask the obvious question of why their side seems incapable of producing a graph which doesn't show a hockey stick, which would be the best way to debunk it.
_ idiots who will cite the 'pause' as an argument against global warming with no understanding of statistics, whether it's genuine or not, and even if real, whether it means anything in terms of the long term trend.
_ idiots who attack adjustments to the temperature data without any understanding of the reasons behing those adjustments.
_ idiots with no understanding of ecology and no observations of their own, but who sneer at evidence presented of different species shifting habitats because of climate induced stress.
And on and on it goes...the most clueless idiots who think they understand the science better than the climate scientists.
I appreciate it is not a non-sequitur. But then I understood the connection.
Do try again.
"Authority is determined by having some expertise in the subject.
Observations on their own cannot constitute authority."
F for comprehension.
Try taking it for granted that the scientists are experts in the subject to which the hypothesis relates. (Oh. Just to clarify further, it is popular with the expert scientists.)
"I think Millicent pointed out the wealness of your allegory so I do not need to add to that."
No, she didn't. See above.
@NoNotThatBob
"No coconut for a non sequitur, I'm afraid. Have another go."
I'm sorry but I'd expect even a ten year old to understand that if you want to claim an argument is invalid then you would have to show why it is an invalid argument. Are you nine years old or just stupid?
NoNotThatBob November 12, 2016 at 10:18 AM
@ Bellman
"The number of scientists supporting a hypothesis does not cause a hypothesis to be correct, but you should expect a hypothesis that is correct to result in more scientists supporting it."
An hypothesis that is 'correct' (i.e., it has been verified to be true), is a theory. And indeed, that usually results in most scientists supporting it.
"It will good to see Trump removing all politics from the debate."
It would be better to see Trump removed from all politics.
"How does she know the drugs are contraindicated? Is it because of expert opinion or because because of something she's read on a website?"
The expert doesn't know how she knows, he knows only that she is right.
thefordprefect November 9, 2016 at 10:07 PM
It will not be long:
Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave
Worrall - electing a person who does not understand science does not make global warming disappear.
It will just allow you to say more frequently that there is no research showing climate change, when the research/satellites/data gathering gets consigned to the scrap heap.
The world will still get polluted, species will die, land will get inundated (or not - only time will tell and then it will be too late!!!)
Many countries with no environmental (green) laws can produce cheap products, but the locals seem to suffer with polluted lives. (india and china are examples)
At least it's now clear who won the Cold War: Russia.
Ah, for a 'like' button!
Verytallguy November 9, 2016 at 11:39 PM
numerobis November 10, 2016 at 6:40 AM
I'd say China.
@Nigel Franks
Did you write a book along these lines?
Not me. I'm just reporting what I saw in Marty McFly's sports almanac.
MostlyHarmless November 9, 2016 at 10:52 PM
Trump's a chump, and a dangerous one at that.
But just listen to yourselves! "Oh my God, we're doomed. The sky's gonna fall!"
Sou said in a reply "Getting out of NATO, the UN, the UNFCCC, and various trade agreements etc will be challenging, as will winding back environmental legislation and cutting climate and weather services (and research). (As for building a wall across the Mexican border...)"
....but of course, none of us know what'll happen over Chump's presidency.
Trump comes over as a brash, self-contradicting idiot with half a brain. He's playing to the masses, and can't possibly mean most of what he says. He tells all the possible supporting groups just what they want to hear. They won't pick up on the fact that his promises are often mutually exclusive, and totally clash. It's the behaviour of a despot, with many historical examples.
The other half of his brain is low cunning - he's not at all stupid. He can't be - he'll have the top job.
Sou said in a reply "As people we will not learn - don't recognise good times for what they are, and refuse to accept there are enough challenges ahead without adding the harm that Trump will foist on the world."
That's the wisest statement you've ever made Sou. Take it up to the word "ahead", and it stands on its own as part of my own philosophy.
Best of luck to all you poor Yanks, from a sympathiser on the best side of the pond.
It's true - we don't know what Trump will or won't do. One thing about the future is that it's hard to predict :)
What I will predict is that the people who chose him will not blame Trump for failing to deliver what they voted him in to deliver (whatever dreamt up fantasies those may have been). They'll find someone else to blame for his perceived failures.
Just like they ignored the mixed messages coming out of his mouth over the years and the danger he poses to their (and our) world.
A British EU exit campaign truth becomes a whopper in only a few weeks.:
Chris Grayling, the Tory Cabinet member and prominent Brexit campaigner, has said the idea of spending millions a week on the NHS instead of the EU was only “an aspiration” – despite a slogan being written in massive letters on the side of the Vote Leave battle bus suggesting £350 million a week could be diverted from the EU to the NHS.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon even accused Vote Leave leader Boris Johnson of misleading the public by “driving around the country in a bus with a giant whopper painted on the side”.
Trump says he wants to not only stop, but reverse immigration from Mexico. Th economies of the SW states would likely collapse without cheap immigrant labour.
Similar stupid and dangerous proposals over here, about Eastern European immigrants. Apparently, they're "taking our jobs" (jobs most British workers don't want) AND "all claiming state benefits". They can't be doing both. Right-wing opinions from those in government, and many (very, very far from all) citizens, usually clash, often to the point of absurdity.
The vast majority of immigrants come here to work. Statistics prove that. The British economy depends on them. The American economy does too.
BTW, to put things straight here, I'm a sceptic - small "c". Everyone should be sceptical of everything they're told or read. While I do read many Sceptical blogs, as a sceptic, I'm sceptical of everything I read there too. A little downturn in monthly satellite data of global sea-level or temperature, and the cries of "See - told you so" flood the comment threads. Straw-clutchers, many of 'em.
I was born in a small South Wales mining village, probably the only one you've heard of. I'm a socialist and proud of it. Always will be. By the people and for the people.
The need for change and the clinging to hope for a better future is a powerful force.
We are seeing a polarising of views across the world, driven, I believe, in large part by the internet. Talking to people who share your view, no matter how extreme, empowers you, makes you think you are right, and in greater number.
You see this daily on WUWT (and denialist blogs). Denizens answering the dog-whistle and cheering on each other in the echo-chamber. To enter it is akin to entering Carol's rabbit-hole. It is that far from reality.
When it comes to Brexit, your comment Sue that, "In Britain the people voted to shut the doors and kick out everyone who wasn't umpteenth generation English." - if you forgive me - is very simplistic. It was MUCH more complicated than that. You wouldn't know unless you have an unelected bureau/technocrat such as Junker laying down the law and telling nation-states what to do. If he had been an elected politician subject to the disdain of the electorate then fine. But of course if that were the case then he wouldn't have been so dictatorial, so QED. Sovereignty, or the lack of it, and the undemocratic nature of the EU structure was the reasoning behind Brexit. Plus of course we never wanted to belong to a federal Europe, we had been sleep-walked into it. The greatly increased number of member states made it's "one-size-fits-all" MO unfit for purpose. The plain fact is that economically the EU does/is not work/ing. Ask the Greeks.
I also think that there is a new phenomenon - well not new to AGW deniers - the invention of facts to suite an ideology. You know - "its a big fraud", a la Roberts, Goddard/Heller and Ball the other day. Trump's said CC science is a hoax, as well as other things, which sane people know to be bizarre. One of which - that the election system is rigged has instantly been seen a lie - but they'll still believe that if he's just a one-term president.
Harold November 10, 2016 at 3:41 AM
"Sovereignty, or the lack of it, and the undemocratic nature of the EU structure was the reasoning behind Brexit." No, that is only a small part of the story. That is the motivation behind a few of the Brexiteers, but the vote was won not on the issue of sovereignty but on fear of immigrants, worry about being left behind by globalisation and wanting to kick out at the establishment. Young people wanted to stay, old folks wanted to leave. It was a hankering after some ideal version of the past. The very same things were apparent in the USA election.
Sou November 10, 2016 at 4:12 AM
From where I sit a long way away, envy, fear, irrational nostalgia, and xenophobia are some of the main emotions driving this worldwide move to self-destruction and worship of ignorance. That and a lack of understanding of what makes the world work these days, now that distances have shrunk while population has exploded and poverty is being reduced worldwide.
Tadaaa November 10, 2016 at 9:24 AM
@ Sou
the sovereignty argument in Brexit was a total sham and a nonsense - we always had sovereignty
and easily demonstrated by the classic "bait and switch" tactics Farage used when interviewed on the BBC on Sunday
he was be "schooled" by Gina Miller - the lady who took Article 50 to the Lords - on the subject of Sovereignty - and she explained to farage that, as the Lords said it rests with parliament (they giveth and they taketh away our rights)
what did Farage due, he knew he was talking crap, he just switched it to the "sovereignty of the people"
but that was not what he had been saying for the last 20 years - a grubby fraud and the Brexit project built on lies and wishful thinking will inevitably fail
what did Farage do
"No, that is only a small part of the story. That is the motivation behind a few of the Brexiteers, but the vote was won not on the issue of sovereignty but on fear of immigrants, worry about being left behind by globalisation and wanting to kick out at the establishment. Young people wanted to stay, old folks wanted to leave. It was a hankering after some ideal version of the past. "
I disagree, certainly not "hankering ....".
The lack of a say in the direction we were being taken was THE story in my experience.
That has been at the rump of disaffection of the EU before worries about immigrants and loss of jobs poisoned things further.
That was the core of it.
People need to be able to go to the polls every 5 years and give their verdict on the ruling class.
The EU does not allow that. No matter what MEP you put in.
Immigrants were merely the straw that broke the camels back.
Please define "a few", and what was your personal experience of brexiteer's motives?
I can only speak as I find.
Of the people I talked to prior to the vote, all gave the reason as lack of proper democratic process, and only one wanted to remain.
Oh, and somehow "old People's" opinion doesn't count as much as the young?
It's called democracy.
Tadaaa November 10, 2016 at 10:42 AM
The problem that the remain campaign had to overcome - and ultimately failed to
Was the inherent hypocrisy of it - especially with it being led by Cameron
Cameron/ Osborne where guilty throughout their time in parliament of peddling myths, half-truths and simple lies about the EU
Of buying into the anti EU mantra that came day in day out from 90% of the UK press - whether it had any merit or not
The EU was used a pawn in the political Westminster game - a game for one thing, and that is power
The EU was like the girl that is told repeatedly she is ugly, to the point that even she believes it
May - a supposed remainer peddled the myth on the NHS health tourism - a myth that the figures simply do not support simply because it support her own political agenda
Everyone in the establishment knew Boris Johnson spent his early years as a Telegraph EU correspondent making up stories about straight bananas/cucumbers, that EU was forcing us to change our chocolate to “vegelate”
“Then came the biggest whopper of all: “Delors plan to rule Europe” ran a front-page headline in the Sunday Telegraph in May 1992, just ahead of the Danish referendum on the Maastricht treaty. Nobody could follow that except to say it was untrue, and based on thin ideas floated at a casual briefing, but denials came too late for Danish voters, who said “no”. Many attribute that to Johnson’s story.
Rebutting a Johnson myth was a thankless task and the commission itself was powerless to fight back “because what we said wasn’t funny”, as one spokesman put it at the time. Refuting the condoms story, one spokesman resorted to profanity, telling the Sun it was “bull****”. “Otherwise,” he said, “I’d never have got my point of view in.”
Johnson’s half-truths created new reality, as I discovered while trying to untangle council directive 73,241, which set out rules on quantities of vegetable fat versus cocoa fat. Because Britain used more vegetable fat than other countries, a lowly official suggested Britain call its chocolate “vegelate”: hence the myth. There was no serious plan and no compulsion. It was what Johnson himself might describe as “piffle”.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...ro-myth-brexit
The EU developed a sceptical science style myths buster page see here
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
the myths go back to the 90’s, none came to pass
no organisation could survive that onslaught from the cabal of tax avoiding expat billionaire media barons
But over the years the mud stuck, and a large section of the remain camp (Cameron et al) were guilty of either actively throwing the mud – or enabling it by simply standing by and saying nothing to defend the EU where it was required
So they simply came over as hypocrites – the public saw thru them
And the EU was fatally flawed in many people eyes, and brought zero benefit to the UK – which we know now not to be true because the UK government had to underwrite the Nissan deal
So it was not even a matter of weighing up the pros and cons (the EU is not perfect and off course there are cons, the question is/was “do the cons outweigh the pros”)
but all we got was the cons
But we live in a post truth world
Sou November 10, 2016 at 11:03 AM
Replace the EU with the UN and you the fake bogeyman that many Americans and climate science deniers have created/bought into. There's got to be an "enemy" for people to blame for their imagined woes, and plenty of people working to manufacture them.
Guess what will happen when Trump decides not to completely dismantle "Obamacare" after all? It won't be the GOP or Trump at fault, it will be irrationally blamed on the Democrats and Obama.
"The lack of a say in the direction we were being taken was THE story in my experience."
How do you have a lack of say Tony? The EU is a democratic institution. You vote for its members of parliament, and you vote for your domestic government that then supplies its leader to the European Council and a representative to the Council of the European Union. Seems pretty democratic to me.
"People need to be able to go to the polls every 5 years and give their verdict on the ruling class."
I'm puzzled by this. They do. See above.
"Immigrants were merely the straw that broke the camels back."
Why? And do you mean non-EU migrants or EU migrants? You do know there's a refugee crisis going on, don't you?
"Of the people I talked to prior to the vote, all gave the reason as lack of proper democratic process, and only one wanted to remain."
This sounds a bit like the One True Scotsman Fallacy but OK. What would you/they call a "proper" democratic process?
"It's called democracy."
That's definitely the One True Scotsman Fallacy! Democracy is not one thing.
Bellman November 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM
This discussion demonstrates the main problem I had with the referendum. It was a simplistic non-specific question with only two answers. It's impossible to say why anyone voted the way they did, but everyone has now been given a blank cheque to argue that whatever direction they want to take is "the will of the people" and anyone who suggests differently is betraying the people.
Jammy Dodger November 10, 2016 at 11:53 PM
@Bellman
I think you areistaken to suggest that everyone claims it is "the will of the people". There was a clear answer to a Yes/No question abd no-one disputes that. You are right that it was too simplistic a question for such a serious issue.
mistaken and and
Millicent November 11, 2016 at 12:30 AM
The problem is that - like the Trump campaign - the Brexit campaign was fundamentally dishonest. The Brexit camp never tried to sell the UK public the reality of what Brexit would mean. They did not try to sell it because they knew they would never win the referendum on that basis. How can anyone claim that the referendum gives them a mandate for a form of Brexit that the Brexiters knew would never get voted for?
@Jammy Dodger
"I think you are mistaken to suggest that everyone claims it is "the will of the people". "
I didn't say "everyone", but its a phrase that has been used many times recently, especially in the context of the judgement that it will have to be approved by parliament.
"There was a clear answer to a Yes/No question and no-one disputes that."
I dispute that it was a clear answer. Slightly more people voted for the option to leave the EU than to remain. It's still not clear what leaving the EU means (as in the distinction between "hard" and "soft" Brexits), and there's no way of knowing if the result would have been different if a more explicit question had been asked.
You said everyone has been given a blank cheque to say it is the will of the people. I think that is close enough for my point.
It was a clear answer in the sense that with a Yes/No answer there can only be an absolute result. I agree it is not the clear mandate Exiters claim.
Sorry, my mistake - I did say everyone.
Though I meant everyone has been given permission to us the term, not that everyone has been saying it.
The referendum was not binding. At least that's what Parliament was told before they agreed to it. Cameron committed the government to accepting the result but that is not binding on Parliament.
IMO the MPs don't want to vote on it. By the time a vote on article 50 gets to Parliament, they won't be able to rely on the figures from the referendum. Since then we've had the backpedaling on the £350 million for the NHS, the leaders of Brexit revealing that they don't have a plan, the pound being trashed, the taxpayer on the hook for guarantees to Nissan... The MPs are going to have to judge the mood of their constituents very carefully as more young people become eligible to vote and the bitter taste of Brexit gets stronger.
BTW, only an anecdote but... I live in France and a number of UK expats voted for Brexit because of immigration. Now they've realised that they're immigrants and that their UK pension has lost about 20% of its value. At least when they are forced to return to the UK they'll be able to benefit from the extra funding given to the NHS won't they?
Very well said, Sou.
At least after the EU vote I could see some grounds for optimism, but with Trump I can only despair. The only crumb of comfort I can see is that we have until January before he takes power and anything could happen before then.
"What's happened in America is no different to what's been happening around the world."
That's true as far as the way voters are behaving. But there is one big difference with Trump is that he will be running the most powerful country in the world. He can literally end the world on a whim.
"The population is getting dumbed down - or more accurately, people are dumbing themselves down, voluntarily."
I wonder if that is true, or is it that the majority have always been dumb, but up to recently have tended to accept the wisdom of others. Now people seem to want politicians who speak their language, and tell them what they want to hear.
Germans in the 1930s wanted someone who "spoke their language". Now it's people want someone to tell them their ignorance is to be worshipped and knowledge despised. And yes, most people aren't all that clever. Clever people forget that, and many aren't aware of it (being always surrounded by smart people).
Bellman November 11, 2016 at 12:21 AM
"Germans in the 1930s wanted someone who "spoke their language""
Maybe, but I get the impression that Hitler was far more articulate than Trump. Trump seems to be popular among the sections of the US because he speaks like an internet troll, and they interpret that as not speaking down to them. Hitler gave the impression of being a deep intellectual as well as appealing to their worst prejudices.
jrkrideau November 11, 2016 at 8:45 AM
An interestingly different point of view. :)
Crazy as it may seem, Trump’s win may be a chance for the US to redeem. And for the world to heave a huge sigh of relief.
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201611091047256607-trump-wins-us-presidential-election-sigh-of-relief/
And much of the comment re Hilary seems reasonable---unfortunately Trump looks even worse and more dangerous.
Brandon R. Gates November 10, 2016 at 2:15 AM
I really hate it when I'm this frikken wrong: http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2016/10/where-are-clowns.html?showComment=1477371323003#c7767224083774458759
I also don't like being embarrassed on behalf of my entire country.
Don't worry, don't be embarassed. This is a planetary wave of insanity and the empire is just another country that has fallen.
Very relevant elections in EU countries next year, including my own (Netherlands). Germany, France. All are on the brink of falling, I think the Front National will win France next year, for instance.
Thanks. Not exactly the sort of consolation I'd want, but it is something. Righteous fury is looking like a valid coping mechanism at the moment.
MostlyHarmless November 10, 2016 at 6:19 AM
Don't take it to heart: It was Yogi Berra who wisely said:
"Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future."
CRR surely Wilders has no chance of getting a majority? Is he still pretending that Islam practices a "convert them or kill them" policy?
I don't understand how people can fall for that. Why did Islam only start implementing this policy now, giving us time to develop nuclear weapons and create huge armies and arsenals?
And I really can't imagine how a religion like that could get off the ground. All religions start with one person. They don't exist in a vacuum but perturb the existing order. Look what happened to Jesus, even though he preached love and goodwill etc, he got stomped on pretty quickly and most of his disciples came to a sticky end too. So imagine the response of the authorities to someone who preached,"Convert or die." And, in practice, it's not really an attractive message to preach, telling people that they have to kill their families and friends if they don't join up. Also imagine the difficulties of trading with other people... killing all the ones who won't convert will get you blacklisted in no time at all.
It's a paradox: we have science and information advancing at exponential pace and at the same time we have a problem with the spread of disinformation dumbing down the gullible and the unthinking almost instantly through the internet. In the old days, the self-serving media,cranks and Dunning-Krugers of all sorts only had a small sphere of influence, but now they can reach any imbecile who's got a computer or smart phone. And talking about Dunning-Krugers and purveyors of disinformation, I see that Eric Worrall has paid us a visit. How blessed we are.
CCHolley November 10, 2016 at 5:26 AM
Reading Greg Laden's Blog made me feel a tiny little bit better. But, that of course, isn't saying much because I'm starting from the depths of despair. Anyway, check it out. It might help. Or it might not.
Seemed similar to taking comfort that the French Resistance existed during WWII :(
cRR Kampen November 11, 2016 at 7:48 PM
That, it did. Or the Partisans.
Ray November 10, 2016 at 9:10 AM
As an American (maybe even just as an educated human being), I am saddened that someone who is so prone to hurling demeaning insults at anyone and everyone and who spouts numerous conspiracy theories, all the while seeming to have any substantial knowledge or expertise in much of anything, can rise to be the most powerful person in the world. His stated positions, along with the positions of many of those in the Republican Party, make me concerned for the future of my children.
MWS November 10, 2016 at 1:40 PM
Why not? George W. Bush became President.
Ray:
That is not the most worrying thing about Trump's personality.
Have you heard the story Selina Scott tells?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdCZEFueoy8
"Thats called an "argument from authority" Millicent."
Yep, that'll be the principle of schooling.
You did go to school Eric? University maybe?
Then why did you bother as you seem to have such contempt of "argument from authority".
Without it we'd have got nowhere as a species.
Just what was it Newton said?
Google it if you don't know.
Just like you do for your *science*.
Ceist November 10, 2016 at 8:06 PM
The argument from authority fallacy refers to arguing from false authority, not legitimate authority. The deniers can't get their logical fallacies right.
PG November 10, 2016 at 10:02 AM
Just an hour ago I was crossing a street in NYC near my hotel on W77th Street.
An elderly woman in front of me was crossing too slowly on her walking frame. The countdown on the pedestrian lights had started so I slowly walked behind her. Then she stopped halfway so I walked in front and asked if she was OK. She said I was thinking about what happened last night. Isn't it awful?
Despite it being peak hour there were no cars near the crossing and she safely continued her pained journey.
That is sad. The result was all you were afraid of and warned us about, PG.
Jammy Dodger November 10, 2016 at 10:12 AM
Oh dear. It's started already.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-climate-skeptic-to-lead-epa-transition/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share
I think that was written pre-election. I don't think his actual team has been announced yet, Jammy. Nor his actual policies, now that he and the GOP will be forced to make real decisions, not just get enough people to elect them.
We do not have time for more hopeful illusions, Sou.
His 'actual policies' are already clear as a bell.
Real decisions for Exxon and coal, there is no more to it.
Bert from Eltham November 10, 2016 at 3:54 PM
We should all just keep the same mindset we have as in the past, evidence based decision making. Panic or despair will stop any possible corrective action.
Here is something a bit higher. 5MB
http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2016_07/HHneb_NII.jpg
It is the Horse Head and Flame Nebulae in Orion in very deep NII narrow band. It was taken with 3nm NII filter and an F3 600mm FL optic. The signal to noise of this system is about as good as it gets. The exposures were 19x32 min. There is a lot of very faint monatomic Nitrogen visible due to the forbidden emission line of N[II]. Bert
Thank you Bert. That is just beautiful, and uplifting.
malamuddy November 10, 2016 at 7:04 PM
I understand the pain and despair that commenters above feel. I felt physically ill when I first saw that Trump was on his way to the White House. The loss of momentum in the race to counter global warming is horrendous itself without adding Trump’s appointments to the Supreme Court, the encouragement of extremist race groups (David Duke from the Klan and in Australia, Pauline Hanson et al were delighted), the winding back of education, scientific research, environmental protection and other social goods.
But what helped me to get a grip was Naomi Klein’s piece in the Guardian. She takes a broader view than just our concerns for global warming issues and points to a way forward that holds promise for a range of difficult issues directly related the dominance of neo-liberalism as the framework under which Western society has operated, almost subconsciously and virtually unquestioned since the 1980’s. Two quotes give the flavour of the piece, but the whole article is worth the read (Google It was the rise of the Davos class that sealed America’s fate).
Here is what we need to understand: a hell of a lot of people are in pain. Under neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatisation, austerity and corporate trade, their living standards have declined precipitously. They have lost jobs. They have lost pensions. They have lost much of the safety net that used to make these losses less frightening. They see a future for their kids even worse than their precarious present… For the people who saw security and status as their birthright – and that means white men most of all – these losses are unbearable.
Neo-fascist responses to rampant insecurity and inequality are not going to go away. But what we know from the 1930s is that what it takes to do battle with fascism is a real left. A good chunk of Trump’s support could be peeled away if there were a genuine redistributive agenda on the table. An agenda to take on the billionaire class with more than rhetoric, and use the money for a green new deal. Such a plan could create a tidal wave of well-paying unionised jobs, bring badly needed resources and opportunities to communities of colour, and insist that polluters should pay for workers to be retrained and fully included in this future.
We should not think that the 25% of the American population who voted for Trump is made up of stupid people. With little help from dysfunctional press they had a choice between the hell of more neo-liberalism or the illusory promises of a smart fascist demagogue. What we need now is smart analysis and determined action against the real issues we face. People like Naomi Klein, Elizabeth Warren, Wayne Swan and Bill Mitchell in Australia can be lodestars to help us do this.
Malamuddy - lots to reflect upon. Thanks.
I agree that not everyone who voted for Trump was stupid. They had their various reasons. Interestingly, from the exit polls, there was a big shift to Trump in those who have some college/associate degree, not so much those who didn't. There was an increase in white male voters who presumably don't mind a bit of predatory sexual behaviour. And there were a lot of women who don't mind it either (though no significant increase). There was indeed an increase for Trump from people earning less than $30k.
From the exit polls: one take - and another way of looking at it.
Trump voters might not be all stupid and they would have had different reasons, but IMO their voting behaviour was stupid. Some would argue that so was the non-voting behaviour of all those who didn't bother to vote.
I'm not as optimistic for getting a workable solution to reducing the broadening gap between rich and not rich. Any such effort would need to also make the poor and not rich wealthier.
It would be wonderful. However it's not a simple task, and if someone ever comes up with possible solutions then whatever option is chosen will have consequences, not all of which will be desirable (or vote-catching).
Small steps are definitely possible, like taxing higher incomes more and taxing lower incomes less. Getting the balance right is tricky.
Many on the lowest incomes don't pay tax, so part of the effort would be into increasing the wages of the lower income earners. This can be done (eg via minimum wage mandates) but isn't easy and can have consequences on the size of the labour force. So then it's about increasing employment e.g. by spending more on infrastructure development and maintenance.
Ironically, models are often used to help try to work all this out:)
I still don't buy stupid, even for "voting behaviour". Misinformed perhaps, ill-considered maybe,but they were faced with a Hobson's choice (if that means what I think it means). The neo-liberalism of all the other Republican candidates who lost to Trump in the primaries were all neo-liberals of varying degrees. I believe that they were rejected because Republican voters knew that they have suffered from that approach. Trump stood outside this approach, or rather he had no discdernible approach but that was his point of difference. Sanders offered a rational alternative and was wildly popular but still lost to the Democratic machine. Trump was the last option standing and many people took it, including well educated folk and many fundamental christians, both groups quite possibly with their fingers crossed that he is not as bad as the press painted him. Many of those who did not vote, for instance many Sanders supporters, may have concluded that there was simply no rational alternative on offer.
If (say) Elizabeth Warren runs in 2020 a rational alternative will exist. Let's hope she does.
Sou November 10, 2016 at 10:25 PM
I wonder if the process of getting down to two candidates (effectively) is the best way to go. It would be interesting to see what might happen if there was preferential voting instead of first past the post, and more candidates stood, including multiple candidates from the major parties. That might get over some of the apparent problems.
The main difficulty I could see with that would be winnowing down the list of candidates to a reasonable number (say no more than 10). It would be a complete shambles if the number looked like a typical Senate ticket in Australia :( (The ballot paper can stretch for metres in some states.)
Tadaaa November 10, 2016 at 11:59 PM
well I have just heard on the BBC news that one of his appointments in a finance is an ex Goldman Sachs banker
so I would not hold my breath
What worries me is that Greece was falling prey to fascists, then elected the left-wing Syriza party instead. That they then just dumped all the progressive economic promises.
Similarly France got in a socialist government at a time when otherwise LePen might win. And the socialist government implemented austerity.
It seems like the left is excessively prone to just dumping its entire agenda at the first sign of doing anything that might affect the plutocrats -- even when they have widespread popular support.
@numerobis
Yes. The impotence of the left is curious.
yes the period since early 2000 has seen any progressive response from the left evaporated
a chance maybe after the 2007/8 crash - but amazingly Cameron was able to blame the Labour government and the populace bought it hook line a sinker
that must have flagged with the Kippers - that say something long and loud enough and people will believe anything
the bankers won the argument, and it looks like they still are winning
I'm not as optimistic for getting a workable solution to reducing the broadening gap between rich and not rich.
Well both the French and Russian Revolutions worked for a while. Had both not been faced with implacable opposition one of them might have even worked.
I rather doubt it but one might have succeeded.
The Sagan quote is such a powerful observation.
Somewhat like a kick in the shin,
it immediatly confronts ones own
tendancies to slip, to get lazy.
To start down that path.
I believe a strong community is one that builds bridges, not walls. Builds trust not fear.
Encourages integrity and openness and humility.
I dont understand the reasons why
Americans have done this.
It seems like a move of self betrayal.
Thanks to many commentators above, and to Sou. Reading others
thoughts helped clarify a new
sense of resolve.
cRR Kampen November 11, 2016 at 12:35 AM
So the Australian electorate polled 77% for climate change mitigation measures and chose the coal shill govt for its second term at the same time of this poll.
And the US electorate was abhorring corporatism and it chose, it THUS chose, totalitarian corpocracy: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/08/trump-transition-lobbyists/ .
There's this phenomenon called 'dumbing down', through media etc. It is no fault of lobbyists or media. It is utter disinterest of most of the electorate in anything that affects their lives except, of course, the number of hours per week of celebrities crying on tv they might be able to view.
Has anyone ever registered the absurdity of all that spam around everywhere? The psychological pressure, what say I, the terror of this mass propaganda? The critics of corporatism, do they see it, maybe? I'm the first again, no? It's no fun to be a member of somewhat more advanced species either. In the Reich of the Blind One-Eye is paria.
Dano November 11, 2016 at 1:54 AM
When I put my ecologist's hat on, I think of the inevitable decline of our numbers. It will happen. Likely this event will speed that up quite a bit.
What is important is how we decline - will it be a hard landing or a soft landing? Having people like this in power means it will be a hard landing. Our numbers are too large - we haven't evolved or adapted any sort of mechanism to deal with all these people. We have nothing, not even history, to help us.
That is: to me, this is simply inevitable. I was hoping I didn't have to live through it.
:o\
“She would have been the most qualified, capable President in decades - and maybe forever.”
It’s rather shocking that you say this. It raises the question about whether you know Hillary’s record.
Our hatred for the Clinton’s isn’t misguided. She’s been terrible for America. That’s got to count for something. You clearly don't give us any credit at all (read on).
You also missed it when you wrote “the US people want to build a wall”. Only some US people want this (a decided minority). What we really want is legal immigration (versus illegal) and there is nothing wrong with that. Mexico has refused to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
I’m not happy that illegal immigrants receive far more benefits then I do (self-employed, still with no health insurance). The injustice is very obvious to those that live here.
I totally support legal immigration, just like every country does. But illegal? No.
“There’ve not been any major wars or threats in recent decades”. What? You can’t be serious. America has launched MASSIVE wars on other nations and countries. Do I really need to list them, or are you just being facetious?
What is amazing to me is how intellectual have apparently had no idea what is going on in the world. I’ve long read where you live in your own bubbles and now it does appear that it’s all true - you’ve no real idea what has been happening.
Here’s another one: “Despite the general standard of living rising all over the world”. Simply NOT TRUE. How can you even say this? Right here in America, it has declined, but in poor countries it’s much worse and not getting better.
You seem to be really out of touch on these topics, and having respected you for years, I’m asking how can this be?
There is a LOT of suffering and displacement in the world, but let me mention America. Our standard of living has declined, homelessness has increased and the ability to simply make ends-meet is very difficult for many newly “poor”. Many people have to work 2 or even 3 jobs to survive. My own business (self-employed) has declined by over 95%, I have not made a single dime after expenses and costs of doing business in over a year and I work non-stop, 7 days a week.
I represent what has happened to millions of Americans. We are none to happy about all of this. But we are far from alone, it’s a part of the driving force for global migration, all the “things” you somehow overlooked, war, poverty, oppression, suffering, hunger. You write about climate but apparently know nothing about all these other critical topics.
We’re not in a catastrophe now that Trump is elected (I did not vote for him), we are simply in a new chapter where the American Empire will be reexamined. All this ridiculous panic I’m seeing is quite absurd and misguided. He’s not even in office. The so-called “liberal left” is over-reacting, badly.
Trump is certainly a conman, but so was his opponent. She represented deep corruption and deceit while pretending she was innocent (examine her record). Trump didn’t bother to engage in this pretense which is what appealed to millions. I don’t support Trump, but neither do I fear Trump.
You mention learning from the mistakes of the past. We just demonstrated that here in America. The Clinton’s were terrible mistakes and we rejected this, selecting the ONLY candidate left. Not because he was better or more qualified, because he’s not. Because he was the only other “choice” left to us. We had NOTHING to do with that either - that was the script given to us as voters.
Both of the political parties made MASSIVE mistakes when it came to these two candidates, and those that they swept aside, leaving us with nothing but Hillary or Trump. We saw through that - and rebelled. Quite simply, this is a “fuck you” vote for the rampant lies and corruptions and deceit of government and the media, of which Hillary herself was very much a part of.
Trump was in the end, after all their shenanigans and deceptions, the only choice we were given. So now you want to blame us for what they did? You understand nothing.
OK @Anonymous1. So you were left with no choice because all choices were awful. So why are people so cock-a-hoop at electing Trump? Why did you not abstain? Or vote for a no hope candidate?
I did abstain. My vote was to not vote because I reject the process, but this isn't about me and will lead to distraction, so I won't discuss this further.
Why are people so cock-a-hoop? I had to look that up.
Well, probably because of what I already said, this was a "fuck you" vote to the establishment and many of us feel, very long overdue. They stupidly gave us the chance to turn over their applecart — their agenda, their elitism, their notions for the country and even the world. The US government does not represent most of us, not at all. We have long disagree with their direction and policy but have never had an opportunity like this to actually change anything. So we took it, for good or for worse, but frankly, we’ve absolutely had it.
If Hillary was elected, civil war would have come. And that would have torn the country apart and even much of the world in the end.
They grossly miscalculated the anger here and the hatred for Hillary, but more then all that, they forced a choice on us by their ridiculous nomination process that transpired (collusion of deceit and deception by all involved), none which should have ever transpired. But it did and we responded.
Both candidates were horrible and we do know it. There aren’t as many dyed red supporters for Trump as there are people simply demanding change. We rejected the status quo in the only way offered to us. It should be obvious that this is their fault. Yes, we chose, because we HAD to, but not before they had already chose before us all along the way.
Now to your last question. If I voted, the no hope candidate vote would be a personal choice, but would pretty much ensure that nothing would change, the status quo would be maintained, Hillary would be anointed, foreign wars and aggressions would continue and so forth. It would be a wasted vote as far as "who got elected", but even so, a conscientious vote on who you thought should be elected. The outcome would probably have been different, but that's what's great about the process and how it is supposed to work - it's up to you to decide on your vote, nobody has to vote or be forced to vote for someone they don't want.
I think this demonstrates how things are supposed to work and that's another point everyone is missing - democracy actually, finally worked for once in this country. We voted for a wildcard. We didn’t like the candidates left to vote for, but we definitely want a change. Hillary represents everything we’ve come to hate and despise and it was deemed worse then what we dislike and despise about Trump. But these idiots only gave us these two “choices”. They royally screwed up and now the whole world knows it.
It does appear there are different realities for different people.
On poverty - as I've said, the growing gap between rich and poor is real, but world poverty is shrinking: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/17/aid-trade-reduce-acute-poverty
By a major war I meant like WWII, not a single country incursion like into Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea or Iraq.
Hillary Clinton is a lot cleaner than many other politicians. She has more relevant experience (and done very well) than almost any other Presidential candidate in history. Her problem is that her record is transparent, plus she's a woman and women aren't forgiven perceived errors like a man is, plus she gets paid to speak and doesn't deserve it like a man does, plus anyone who wants to can find lots of lies about her that they can choose to believe.
The "establishment" = "them". I don't recall the Bush family being considered the "establishment". The "them" notion is highly selective as a bogeyman. It's what I hear from the Occupy crowd who rail against injustice, hard left unionists who see each and every business as a faceless evil, and lots of people who carry a big log on their shoulder and want to blame someone else. If they can't find an individual or obvious group they blame it on "them" or "the establishment", whatever they think that is.
Johnny Vector November 11, 2016 at 8:17 AM
Okay, Anonymous, let's take your first testable claim: "Mexico has refused to stem the tide of illegal immigration."
Why do you suppose that is?
Possibly because we did it for them?
The fact is that since 2007 the net amount of illegal immigration has been slightly negative. You can look it up at the Pew Research Center; they have a nice graph.
So. Your very first testable claim is false. You may want to check the sources of your other claims. It seems you have been lied to.
I can't seem to get the 'reply' in the right spot, so forgive me.
I lifted this from another site simply for easy reference, I don't agree with Blum on everything.
This certainly qualifies for major war and threats added up - especially if you happened to live there:
Since the end of World War 2, the United States has:
Attempted to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, most of which were democratically-elected.
Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.
Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.
Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.*
Plus … although not easily quantified … has been more involved in the practice of torture than any other country in the world for over a century not just performing the actual torture, but teaching it, providing the manuals, and furnishing the equipment.
There are tens of millions of dead now at the hands of America. Surely this qualifies a major threat. There are of course, many, many more sources that can be used to demonstrate what America has actually done to numerous other countries. Surely you must all be aware of this.
As for the woman comment Sou, sorry, I don't buy it. Irrelevant to the vast majority of us. We could care less about gender, it's meaningless in this context (and in most contexts to be honest). Qualifications, record, integrity, honesty, those are the things that mattered in this election. Trump had none of these either, but neither did Hillary. Being a woman meant nothing except to other woman who thought it means something. Not to the rest of us, we don't care one way or the other if the President is a man or a woman. Why should we?
Hillary clean? Well, only if you say so, but we don't think so, not even close. One of the most corrupt, dirty politicians America has had to endure. We're hoping (still) that she will be imprisoned. This is a very widely held hope in America, represented by many millions of people who have quite enough of the Clinton Dynasty.
Her speaking fees are interesting. Read the speeches. I read several. Pretty obvious that she's just a paid whore (sorry, but you brought it up). Not only were they absurd figures she was paid, look at who paid her. You don't honestly believe that this was all to listen to the sound of her voice, do you? It's part of the American process of paid politicians, which is another reason why her donors are now going ballistic, having given her hundreds of millions and now she's not headed to the office. Oops! America is bought and paid for, but you really should know this.
Bush was very much establishment, widely despised for his policies and practices, very much a "them". Surely you've heard of the Bush Dynasty too by now? It was real and still is. It had a lot to do with the "hanging chad" overthrowing the election in Florida too. I didn't realize you didn't know this. I guess as a non-American you might not realize what it's like here.
Johnny - no reason to make this about me, because it's not. Mexico is responsible for the people coming across their land and borders. They're simply not interested in doing much about it. As for your Pew comments, we could do this all day, in a tit-for-tat claim of who is right:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/17/illegal-families-surge-across-border/
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-census-latinos-20150708-story.html
Yet even more telling is this, from 2014:
http://www.pewresearch.org/data-trend/society-and-demographics/immigrants/
Hardly "slightly negative" when you realize that this information is dated by a couple of years and does not match other reports. The flood pre-election was quite extreme, literally a river of people coming across.
I support immigration - but not illegal immigration. But as I said, this isn't about me, I now believe this is really about all of you and your misconceptions about what is happening in the world, and especially here.
IIUC the USA establishment wants illegal immigrants. If they really were a problem the matter would have already been solved some time in the last few decades. But your companies need a source of cheap and easily intimidated workers to keep wages low and a scapegoat to keep the increasingly unwanted American workforce distracted.
America is in decline - every dog has its day after all
The 20th century was the American century as the previous few belonged to the UK and the Empire
The sad thing is for me is that some idiots in the UK haven't got the message yet,
I suspect it will take some Americans the next 100 years for this reality to sink in
Ceist November 11, 2016 at 11:03 AM
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” H.L. Menken (1920)
Susan Anderson November 11, 2016 at 3:44 PM
Sou, you are right about Hillary, but Comey put his thumb on the scale and the rumor mill was powerful and entrenched (a quarter century of well financed opposition work).
People in blighted neighborhoods don't care about world poverty. They aren't thinking about other people who don't have clean hot and cold running water. They just want the better times back. They don't realize the people they're voting for are the prime culprits, they just feel invisible. Their pastors tell them what to think and apparently the gospels don't register.
Anonymous, you have said more clearly than I could, and with the benefit of being a local, what I was trying to get at earlier.
Not to discredit in any way the value of Hotwhopper, which has taught me so much about climate change and its deniers, on this site we tend to see the American elections through a climate warming lens. Certainly, Trump's success spells enormous trouble and disruption to the world's efforts to survive that crisis, but it fits within a broader context that Anonymous is alluding to in her posts. Part of that context is that the Trump voters were not stupid people. They have been misled by experts, people who are able to sell their skill in creating doubt, misdirecting and lying for enormous amounts of money to those who are rich enough to hire them. A second part is that they were offered, through the machinations of the neoliberal system, a very shitty choice, with not much good on either side.
As Ricky Gervais (who is a genius just masquerading as a comedian) said, many of the people who voted for Trump are victims too, and they will suffer more than most.
It's interesting. Anonymous claims he supports immigration, just not illegal immigration. Twice. And apparently he has thoroughly convinced himself that this is what he thinks, presumably because being against immigration would make him a racist or something.
In fact, he's convinced himself so well that he doesn't even notice that the the first two links he provides to back up his concern talk only about "immigration", and the third one (the only one with real data) has exactly the same data I provided. Data that clearly shows the illegal immigrant population in the US has been declining since 2007. It does also show that legal immigration has been net positive, but that's not supposed to matter to him. If it's only illegal immigration that concerns you, then you should be happy with the current pattern. So Anon (and millions like him) are either lying about what kind of immigrants they don't want, or they're too convinced they're right to even read the graphs in their own evidence.
jqb November 12, 2016 at 7:29 AM
There's no point in debating Anonymous's cloud of dishonest Gish Gallop drivel. I would note that Trump said "Mexico is sending us ...", with no mention of legal vs. illegal. The majority of illegal immigration consists of expired visas of people who entered the U.S. legally.
It’s rather shocking that you say this.
I would agree that she does not have a great record and I'd suggest that she along with several other US Cabinet Minsters and Presidents are good candidates for a war crimes tribunal but she was an experienced government operative who probably knew how to get the various arms of government to more or less work.
Trump is going to be lucky not to get lost getting to the White House unless he has a good driver.
As someone pointed out about the Chinese Communist Party cursus honorum is such that most if not all US presidents look completely unprepared for senior office. Obama probably would have been considered a good candidate for a provincial post of some kind. GWB as a village administrator. And so on.
We're friends with some of the local clerks at our Safeway and we were chatting about the election. One is our age (~30ish) and couldn't understand why we voted for Clinton. I told her who trump plans to head the EPA and what that means for climate change, more specifically, Ocean Acidification and she didn't believe me at first! She thought I was trying to scare her! I explained that look this is real, I've been out and measured it myself, there are parts of the ocean that dissolve plankton and those parts are growing in response to CO2 emissions. Lot's of her friends are fishermen and that's when it hit her that hey maybe wiping out the base of the food web isn't going to be good. It's almost like half the people in my cohort said f**k it to critical thinking skills and didn't even think twice about what voting for trump means.
"I've been out and measured it myself, there are parts of the ocean that dissolve plankton and those parts are growing in response to CO2 emissions"
Really? Do you know what plankton is? Where are these areas, what was the measured pH and temperature, and who's actually observed plankton "dissolving"?
Marco November 11, 2016 at 9:33 PM
You can start with this paper, incredulous "MostlyHarmless":
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1785/20140123
Not that you will accept anything it says - after all, it contradicts your beliefs - but lurkers here may be interested to see it isn't just plankton that is in trouble *already*.
They're called pteropods, and you're welcome to read all the papers that have come out of the lab here.
https://www.uaf.edu/sfos/research/major-research-programs/oarc/publications/
Marco - don't make assumptions about my reaction to a paper, or what I believe, or what my beliefs are, and don't label me. You don't know what my beliefs are. Your reply demonstrates ignorance, aggression, and scientific xenophobia. Not good traits for someone commenting on this blog IMHO. Argue with what I say, not what you think I might say.
Thank you, Anonymous, for a polite response I shouldn't have to say that here. The point I was perhaps clumsily trying to make, is that of observation. I've been studying the effect of increasing CO2 on ocean chemistry for years. Early studies of the effects of decreased pH on gastropods and similar were fatally flawed. Researchers. to save time, increased pH by adding hydrochloric acid to sea-water. The results didn't reflect increased pH from CO2 at all.
Currently, research is done much more carefully, usually with air enriched with appropriate concentrations of CO2 passed over the surface of water in temperature controlled tanks.
Yes, pteropods do exhibit shell-thinning when pH is reduced in this way. But it's never been observed in the ocean, and never will be. Increases in atmospheric CO2 to 600ppm or higher will take decades at least. The life-span of plankton right up to creatures with shells is from days to months. Unless they adapt by genetic mutation, and there's some evidence that they will, to some extent do so, their exo-skeletons or shells will become slightly thinner with each generation. Dissolution of an alarmist myth, let's say.
"MostlyHarmless" = mostly lying.
You don't know what my beliefs are.
We have a pretty good idea. And as you have just discovered, mouthy denialism here is a risky business. You never know who the next anon is going to be.
Dissolution of an alarmist myth, let's say.
You won't find many (any?) marine biologists who would agree with this bit of denialism.
Go ahead and try. I'm sure anon. will be interested to see the published studies you reference. Likewise Marco and myself.
Go on, back up your denialism with some actual science.
In case you are unsure of how to produce a referenced argument, here's an example:
See eg. Veron (2008) Mass extinctions and ocean acidification: biological constraints on geological dilemmas (emphasis added):
The five mass extinction events that the earth has so far experienced have impacted coral reefs as much or more than any other major ecosystem. Each has left the Earth without living reefs for at least four million years, intervals so great that they are commonly referred to as ‘reef gaps’ (geological intervals where there are no remnants of what might have been living reefs). The causes attributed to each mass extinction are reviewed and summarised. When these causes and the reef gaps that follow them are examined in the light of the biology of extant corals and their Pleistocene history, most can be discarded. Causes are divided into (1) those which are independent of the carbon cycle: direct physical destruction from bolides, ‘nuclear winters’ induced by dust clouds, sea-level changes, loss of area during sea-level regressions, loss of biodiversity, low and high temperatures, salinity, diseases and toxins and extraterrestrial events and (2) those linked to the carbon cycle: acid rain, hydrogen sulphide, oxygen and anoxia, methane, carbon dioxide, changes in ocean chemistry and pH. By process of elimination, primary causes of mass extinctions are linked in various ways to the carbon cycle in general and ocean chemistry in particular with clear association with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The prospect of ocean acidification is potentially the most serious of all predicted outcomes of anthropogenic carbon dioxide increase. This study concludes that acidification has the potential to trigger a sixth mass extinction event and to do so independently of anthropogenic extinctions that are currently taking place.
Beliefs have no place in science
Citing "beliefs" in a discussion about scince hits the denier bullsh1t bingo-meter pretty hard
"Yes, pteropods do exhibit shell-thinning when pH is reduced in this way. But it's never been observed in the ocean, and never will be."
Yes, because it's not like we haven't found undersaturated waters with respect to aragonite nosirreee those conditions don't exist in the ocean.
"Increases in atmospheric CO2 to 600ppm or higher will take decades at least."
Again, undersaturated waters already exist. I'm curious as to why you think we should expand these areas.
"The life-span of plankton right up to creatures with shells is from days to months. Unless they adapt by genetic mutation, and there's some evidence that they will, to some extent do so, their exo-skeletons or shells will become slightly thinner with each generation. Dissolution of an alarmist myth, let's say."
You know, I don't really know what to say to this level of denial. I suppose you could ask the Taylor Shellfish hatchery what they think, but I don't think you would like the answer.
Sou is sounding her death rattle. Trump won the election, partly on a promise to cancel the Paris treaty and kill the Clean Power Plan. There was no talk of climate all during the presidential debates. That's how far off the public's radar the issue is.
@ Mike Smith
Trump won the election, partly on a promise to cancel the Paris treaty and kill the Clean Power Plan. There was no talk of climate all during the presidential debates.
I don't think I understand this. He won partly on a promise that was never mentioned?
Of course from the little I noticed there did not seem to be any serious policy discussion about anything.
BTW the USA is not the entire world. It could just get sanctioned/boycotted by everyone else who actually is doing something about Global Warming. Unlikely, I admit, but possible.
"Sou is sounding her death rattle". Hogwash. Despite my disagreement posted here in this thread on this particular article she's written, Sou is hardly going to go away as you allege. And I sure as hell hope not, she's very, very good at what she does.
Trump didn't win because of his promises to cancel the Paris treaty - that is simply in your head. He won for entirely different reasons.
Sou is right about the disinformation denialists who still refuse to see climate change for what it really is. You're simply wrong about all of this, including your comment about "no talk of climate all during the presidential debates".
I specifically remember both Hillary and Bernie and Trump making their individual points on their positions on the climate topic during their speeches - so you are simply deliberately trying to spread false information here. Suggest you go watch the recorded videos on the candidates and nominees and correct your claims.
"no talk of" during the debates is correct ... there was extremely brief mention by Clinton during her opening remarks. Trump didn't mention it at all. And Trump didn't win because of promises to destroy the environment and all of human civilization, but he did promise it and is already carrying through via Myron Ebell, and he will be aided by Lamar Smith and Ted Cruz. Mike is right that the climate is off the radar ... Sou doesn't even mention it, nor do the people protesting in the streets, nor even Bernie. All the talk is about Trump fomenting xenophobia ... which, while true, is a side show, a campaign strategy to get elected.
D.C.Petterson November 11, 2016 at 12:07 PM
This is how I feel. I don't know if it's obscure, but it's the best I can do.
There is also this.
I need time to process.
Well to start with the Trump Transition Team is planning to:
• [open] onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters
• rescind the coal mining lease moratorium
• eliminate the .. "Waters of the US" rule
• scrap the Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan
• scrap the Clean Power Plan
None of this bodes well for clean air or water, or the climate.....
Right. Why does an article on a climate blog not even talk about the climate. People are in denial. Myron Ebell, Lamar Smith, and Ted Cruz will run climate policy. Don't Sou and others understand what this means? Despair is a rational response.
Tried to drop in a comment and it disappeared, so all I have to say, really, is what a mess, keep the faith, and here's hoping. Others will cover the basics, but with Trump supporting Putin (and indebted to Putin-related oligarchs to the tune of hundreds of millions), withdrawing support from NATO and canceling the Iran deal, Europe is vulnerable
And anybody who doesn't respect and appreciate Sou is fooling themselves or gullible to others who have fooled them.
Somebody pointed out that weak leaders sometimes start wars to gin up support. All too likely.
Arms suppliers (and prisons) had a decent uptick in share prices on the announcement of Trump's win. Look forward to more war and gaol time. Not guns - traders figured the threat of constraints on gun ownership had lifted.
https://www.rt.com/usa/366176-prison-stocks-gun-stocks-trump/
Millicent November 11, 2016 at 10:43 PM
We always know when the Argentine economy is in trouble - the Falkland Islands become an issue again.
cRR Kampen November 11, 2016 at 10:53 PM
Malvinas.
he has one hell of a "suckers list" too, must worth a few quid
what would a snake oil salesman give for access to that!!!!
Why are you talking about these secondary matters o a climate blog when we are faced with a federal government that will accelerate global warming at a breakneck pace? People are in denial, but this spells the end of human civilization.
I live in the country that Trump's friend Newt calls "a suburb of St. Petersburg".
Really comforting...
Sou, you might want to review these videos and posts.
Americans have long known that the Clinton's were extremely corrupt. They've always managed to escape prosecution (letting others go to prison), but maybe not this time:
http://survivalacres.com/blog/rigging-the-election/
This is irrefutable proof that Hillary and the Democrats were involved in election rigging. I hope it leads to some real prosection, finally.
http://survivalacres.com/blog/hillary-clintons-direct-ties-to-terrorism-saudi-arabia-isis/
The Clinton's have been accepting money from foreign governments, the "pay to play" scandal and much more. This is only "news" to those who didn't already know, but it goes all the way back to Bill's time in office too.
The U.S. is responsible for ISIS. There are also ties to Obama and his knowledge.
http://survivalacres.com/blog/huma-abedin-ties-to-terrorism/
Huma was Hillary's right hand.
Millions of Americans have known for years that our goverment was hopelessly corrupt and has been lying to us incessently. I don't publish much on the specific details, but these will give you a definite start on how bad it's gotten and how it has affected the entire world.
If it was Hillary on Tuesday, it would have already been blood here. Even the protests now occurring aren't entirely real, some of these people are part of the damage control being performed by the Democratic Party (some are are sincerely upset, so I'm not trying to say it's all false).
Those Americans that do not know of Hillary's corruption have generally refused to educate themselves. The American media has long been in the pocket of the Clinton's. Take a look at this for some idea on how deep these connections went: http://survivalacres.com/blog/images/media-hillary.jpg
There's definitely enough evidence of the Clinton's corruption to convince anyone if they would just look. They cheat - everywhere they go and are directly responsible now for the deaths of millions in my opinion.
I believe that the so-called "Left" is having their false hopium bubble popped (even among climate scientists) which in my opinion, was always false anyway. Others believed Hillary would represent them (gender, equality, etc.) and they may have even not cared about their corruption.
We did, so the undesirable "outsider" got the chance, ie., the "hand-grenade option" was taken.
Marco November 12, 2016 at 4:55 AM
survival acres, I took a look at one of your links, and quickly found that Snopes already handled that:
http://www.snopes.com/huma-abedin-ties-to-terrorists/
And to top things off, your link
http://survivalacres.com/blog/images/media-hillary.jpg
merely shows that most newspapers preferred Clinton. How is this *any* evidence that the media has long been in the pocket of the Clinton's?
And then there's this, too:
http://www.snopes.com/2016/10/19/scott-foval-reportedly-fired-from-political-organization-over-sting-videos/
Well done Marco. I looked at one link and saw a cobbled together amateurish video trying to whip up a conspiracy. I guess the accusation could beafe that I do not really look. It is too boring to wade through the conspiratorial sludge. So thank you for digging further on our behalf.
It is strange how these people define irrefutable proof.
@Survival Acres
I feel really bad about not looking at your "evidence". I really do. But why is it people like you just point to several hours of viewing and cannot summarise your story? I am not interested in sitting through lengthy videos that are somewhat incoherent and end up having nothing of substance to say.
Life is too short to spend listening to another crackpot 3 hour conspiratorial rant.
You ahould be able to say the kernel of what you have to say in 2 or 3 sentences. If you cannot that is a red flag to any bullshit detector.
You cannot be serious. That smacks of astounding laziness and is the reason why people won't believe - they want it both ways. "Do the work for me" and then "I won't believe it anyway".
That is not a credible defense. It speaks volumes about your character and integrity.
So here is the "kernal" - Hillary cheated. She's lied through her entire life. Millions have died as a part of her polices and deceptions. We put a stop to their stupid ambitions.
But you still won't believe it because you're simply unwilling. The unwilling are almost always wrong.
Where do you stand on biterism Survival Acres? Do you believe Obama was born in the USA?
Doh. birtherism
We'll, I guess asking you to actually LOOK at the video evidence that was clearly recorded was just too much, huh?
The Snopes claim your alleged is listed as "unproven" as the Congressional investigation has not even begun. Or whatever investigation is finally done. So your point is simply false.
Moreover, my post was not really about Huma, but she is definitely directly tied in to the campaign rigging as Hillary's right hand. The rigging you refuse to look at.
Your choice, but Hillary supporters are in massive denial about who she really was and what she's done and been involved in. I've not even scratched the surface of her actual record.
The facts are the facts. It's just easier for people to deny them to investigate.
Fortunately, others have, and they've shared their research and investigation to the world. You don't get the privilege to pick and choose what you want to believe and then declare yourselves right while keeping your head in the sand.
The Democratic Party chose Hillary long before anyone else (illegally, as it turns out) and their continued endorsement was an abdication of journalistic responsibility. Unfortunately for America, this deception lead to a lot of misunderstandings that wound up backfiring in the end.
That is not the behavior of a free and honest press. But it's what we've got.
Go ahead and congratulate yourselves that you've "disproven" what you refuse to investigate, it will only convince others who will do the same.
The U.S. is responsible for ISIS
Of course it is. My own theory, well substantiated of course, is that George W. Bush was an Al Qaeda agent-in-place.
I mean, it is hard to imagine anyone doing almost everything Osama Bin Laden wanted unless he was such an agent.
Use the word "Crusader" in a speech about Muslims. Not even a Dog Whistle! Just a really good way to raise Muslim paranoia
Invade Afghanistan when the Taliban were willing to dicker about surrendering Bin Laden.
Massively screwup invasion.
Invade Iraq based on no credible evidence.
Massively screwup said invasion.
Create social and political conditions favouring jihadists. I mean do you think those Abu Ghraib photos were an accident?
Abolish Iraqi army and randomly arrests Iraqi officers and put them all in the same prison.
Don't forget exclude all former Baath Party members so every influential Sunni in Iraq is pushed into the arms of the opposition. wtg Dubya.
From https://elections.uslegal.com/violations-of-election-laws/
2 USCS § 441h provides that no person who is a candidate for Federal office or an employee or agent of such a candidate shall fraudulently misrepresent him/herself or any committee or organization under his or her control as speaking or writing or otherwise acting for or on behalf of any other candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof on a matter which is damaging to such other candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof; or willfully and knowingly participate in or conspire to participate in any plan, scheme, or design to violate this provision.
The Federal Election Campaign Act also provides that no person shall fraudulently misrepresent the person as speaking, writing, or otherwise acting for or on behalf of any candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof for the purpose of soliciting contributions or donations or willfully and knowingly participate in or conspire to participate in any plan, scheme, or design to do so.
Pursuant to 18 USCS § 594, whoever intimidates, threatens, coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose, or of causing such other person to vote for, or not to vote for, any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, at any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing such candidate, shall be fined or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
All which are clearly recorded on the videos you refuse to watch.
I think you just confirmed my point.
Oh, I do not refuse to watch your videos. I choose not to. (And I did look at part of one of them ).
Rise above despair? Your comment doesn't even mention global warming. Lamar Smith runs science in the House, Ted Cruz runs it in the Senate, and Myron Ebell runs it in Trump's transition team -- these are all extreme GW deniers. It's game over. People who understood the risk of Trump/GOP control stayed in their towers when they should have been out screaming their heads off before the election. It's all too late now.
Ted Cruz runs it in the Senate, and Myron Ebell runs it in Trump's transition team -- these are all extreme GW deniers.
This indeed is terrifying but we need to remember most of the EU, Australia, Canada, China[1] and most other countries understand the danger.
Does anyone know where India stands at the moment?
To a certain extent we need to ignore a totally insane US Government and encourage everyone else to take strong measures to deal with Global Warming, including recommending sanctions/boycotts against the USA if it is too blatant.
1. I realize that not all of China's actions look good but I suspect that the Chinese leadership understand the issues and are trying to balance mitigating global warming and getting lynched by an unhappy population
Personally the only change I see is only that politicians are now talking stupid and acting stupid whereas before they talked some sense and acted stupid. iirc Obama signed off on Arctic oil exploration even while he was at the Paris conference. Here in the UK the Cameron government talked like climate hawks, cut back heavily on renewables and passed legislation making them required by law to maximise fossil fuel extraction.
The Chinese must be delighted: they can point to how democracy has failed the entire human race at a crucial hour.
"the Chinese can point to how democracy has failed the entire human race at a crucial hour."
I was thinking just the same thing
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Grassroots movements aren't built by social media. Grassroots movements aren't created by news coverage or celebrity endorsements or the speeches of politicians. Grassroots movements are built by passion and commitment. There was plenty of both on display this weekend as determined members of the Justice for Sylas protest kicked off their demonstration in front of the Fort Lauderdale Florida police headquarters. Even after heavy rain prompted the police who surrounded the protest to leave their posts, the demonstrators stayed and used a nearby bus platform to shield their signs from the rain.
Somewhere between 10 and 15 demonstrators gathered directly in front of the City of Fort Lauderdale Police Department. Most who gathered at the protest yesterday were friends and family members of Amanda Mercer, whose dog Sylas was killed by a still-unidentified Fort Lauderdale police officer back in March. Journalists from at least a half dozen local news agencies were invited to the event and declined to attend - most simply discarding their invitations without reply. "It doesn't matter [how many people show up]," Mercer told a Puppycide Database Project volunteer at the scene of the demonstration. "We will be back here next year and every year after that until something changes."
Mercer works as a veterinary technician, and her dog Sylas was a docile Argentinian Dogo who was good with children and who donated blood for critically injured dogs at Mercer's clinic. There are no reports of Sylas ever having injured a human being.
On the day of Sylas' shooting, three police officers forced their way into Amanda Mercer's home looking for her brother, who was involved with a domestic dispute with his wife. Mercer's brother did not live at her home, but police suspected that he might of fled there despite a strained relationship. There was no search warrant; even so, police told Mercer's fiancee that he could not refuse to allow them to search the house. It is not clear if Mercer's brother was suspected of a felony charge at the time of the search, but even if he was there was no evidence that he was at the Mercer home and he was not observed fleeing there by police or witnesses.
According to the Mercers, the police were informed that a dog and an infant child were home at the time of the search. Mercer's fiancee was forced to wait outside the home during the search and was not allowed to secure the dog or his child before police entered. Police would later dispute that they were aware Mercer's 1 year old daughter was on the scene, a claim made hard to believe by the prevalence of rattlers, pacifiers and baby food containers that litter the home of any new parent. "The entire police report is filled with lies," Amanda Mercer told our volunteer at the scene of the protest. Both police and the Mercer family agree that a single police officer, known only as "Officer Ramos", opened fired on Sylas shortly after entering the house - and only a few feet away from the Mercer's infant daughter (who was, fortunately, not shot). Neither Ramos or any of the other officers were bitten by Sylas.
The Mercer family has filed a complaint alleging unnecessary use of force, and hopes that the Civilian Review Board might provide some form of vindication. However, the Civilian Review Board has no authority to discipline officers. The Fort Lauderdale Police Department's own internal investigation exonerated "Ramos" without any form of punishment and did not bother to communicate the results of their investigation to the Mercer family. Until the next opportunity presents itself to force the Fort Lauderdale Police Department to investigate an officer shooting that involved an infant in the line of fire and left a dog dead and a family devastated, the Mercers, their friends and supporters are committed to making their voices heard.
Toward the end of the day, a sudden thunderstorm left demonstrators soaked and shivering. Among those who stuck it out was a young girl who brought a small dog and a large sign with a message more chilling than the wind and rain: "It could be your pet next".
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Undivine Comedy
Life in a comedy studio
Currently running, but on hiatus
The Most Traditionalist
Sitcom, Randomness, Story Arcs, Dialog
Undivine Comedy is a comedy written by The Most Traditionalist. It is his first attempt at writing a comedy and is now his most longest one, with drafts of every chapter being written all the time.
It is most notable for the characters and is noted for seeming having no plot. (IT HAS SOME STORY ARCS PEOPLE AND PLOTLINE A IS LIFE IN THE STUDIO!!!!!!!!) In response to the criticism, the author did nothing and decided to get his revenge on them someday for not noticing the story arcs planned in the chapter list.
There are a total of 100 and more planned chapters to be published. These are posted on the topic as list of contents along with the character list.
Also, the author may occasionally pull in people or characters from different places (comedies, video games or real life, even.) to fulfill purposes in the comedy.
The comedy revolves around daily life in a comedy studio located on an island, much like a sitcom, only with a dash of Bionicle elements.
Trad is the henpecked author of Undivine Comedy. He is a Toa, or a Matoran (it is never specified which is his species) . His element is unknown, and he wields a katana. He has a very short temper, especially with Bayonetta and her shopping sprees.
Bayonetta is a dark witch from the video game 'Bayonetta'. She is obsessed with shopping and shoes. As in the game, she wields four guns. She constantly irritates Trad with ridiculous demands.
Gali is the Toa of Water. She is a self-professed feminist, but rarely shows it. This could be due to her wanting to get out of marriage. Her lovers are Kopaka and Denath.
Kopaka is the Toa of Ice. He speaks in exclamation points, question marks and periods. However, it is shown that he can speak, only that he rarely does it due to the volume of his voice.
Vakama the resident Turaga, he is very cranky and everything gets on his nerves. Like a certain chef, he curses a lot. He had once a disastrous affair with an undine.
Takanuvais the baby. He plays with dollies,and is very childish. He will cry when provoked.
Buddle is a Matoran obsessed with bubbles. Although seemingly dumb, he sometimes show moments of intelligence.
Bob IIis a descendant of the original cookie obsessed Bob. However, he shows an interest in baking cookies, which are unfortunately horrible, due to the 'special ingrediemts' he puts in them.
Alors and Rolas are a pair of inventors. They are identical twins and one of them is evil. However, as they constantly switch personalities, there is no use in differentiating them.
Denath is a Turaga of Magnetism who wields an energized protodermis launcher which he doesn't know how to use, causing him to be blasted into ashes. He used to be Gali's suitor, but now is a part of the love triangle of Gali.
Linkttt is very nosy and is very untrustworthy. He meddled with Trad's dimensional portal device and meddled with Bayonetta's rituals. He is a part-time comedian.
Jalla 199 is a Ta-Matoran who has the strangest dreams.
Diablo 117 is a human. Enough said. He will be a new character.
GLaDOS. Enough said. A new character.
Hapori Dume rules over Paradiso and for reasons unknown, he wants to take over the Studio.
Angels, Paparazzi, Evil Spellcheckers, Area 51 personnel, pointless and stupid ads are Hapori Dume's minions. Most of them are rather stupid, but some are rather clever.
Critics from the comedy critics club have praised this comedy for it's memorable characters, but have noted some of the jokes seem old and that there was no plot. The comedy's villian's minions originally included some lawyers, but due to criticisms, the author has changed them into area 51 personnel and paparazzi.
Running gags Edit
Some running gags include:
- Hapori Dume getting fried.
- Linkttt messing with things without the owner's permission.
- Jalla199 having the most strangest dreams and nightmares.
- Bayonetta's shopping sprees.
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British Esports Association
Women in Esports
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Meet our Advisory Board
Meet our Game Advisers
Events for 8th September 2019
StarLadder CSGO Major
5th September 2019 - 8th September 2019
StarLadder presents the 15th Major tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. For the first time ever, the event is coming to Berlin. The final part of the tournament will be held from 5th to 8th September 2019 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.
DreamHack Montreal 2019
GirlGamer Seoul
The GIRLGAMER Seoul Festival is an exciting and unique event celebrating the competitiveness of women in esports. The tournament will see players battle it out at the Nexon Arena stage, where they will compete in League of Legends.
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The Rt. Hon. Ed Vaizey
The British Esports Association, the not-for-profit national body set up to support grassroots esports, appointed the Rt. Hon. Ed Vaizey as Vice Chair.
Ed worked as Culture Minister between 2010 and 2016, and most recently was the Member of Parliament for Didcot and Wantage from 2015 to 2019.
In November 2019 he announced he would not stand for re-election to focus on his passion for the arts and creative industries.
Ed is a big advocate of the video games industry in Britain, having secured tax breaks for game development studios, and has been recognised by GamesIndustry.Biz as one of the 100 most influential people in the British games industry.
Gary Tibbett
Projects executive
Gary Tibbett is Projects Executive at the association and is currently working on an unannounced initiative. He also assists school and college liaison officer Alice Leaman to help teams in the North of the UK join the British Esports Championships, as well as support future tournaments and help teachers learn about esports.
He has been involved with the British Esports Association since its pilot Championships for schools and colleges two years ago, having worked as a lecturer in nextgen animation and VFX at Sunderland College, who won the pilot and went on to win the 2018/19 Overwatch Championships grand final.
Gary has worked as a games lecturer for four years and also has a background as a character animator. He’s currently a games development lecturer at Middlesbrough College, where he works three days a week, and is also a big fan of League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
Gary said: “I am passionate about esports and how it can bring people together and look forward to working with the British Esports Association. It is my goal to show everyone how great the esports talent pool is in schools and colleges – and to help students secure a career in esports.”
Justin 'KingJae' Nelson
Street Fighter V/Tekken/FGC
Justin is a Tekken and Street Fighter player, Twitch partner and Xsplit brand ambassador. He has won several tournaments including EGX.
Mark McCready
Scotland representative
Mark McCready works for the British Esports Association part-time as its Scotland representative.
He helps teams in Scotland enter the British Esports Association and liaises with Scottish sports and education stakeholders who require esports support.
Mark also helps our projects executive Gary Tibbett and school and college liaison officer Alice Leaman reach teams the Northern part of England, as well as offer support for national and international pilots and tournaments.
Through his experiences at Queen Margaret University, Mark expanded into the esports scene and gained two years of experience by coordinating his own tournaments and events. His career started with his own events platform in early 2018 and he later became the events manager at Esports Scotland towards the end of 2018, where he has experience coordinating events at Resonate Total Gaming and Season 2 of the Scottish Esports League.
Student representative (NUEL)
Josh is focused on giving people their first opportunities to participate in esports and help them develop their talents. He founded the National University Esports League (NUEL), the UK’s inter-university esports tournament, in 2010, which has grown into one of the largest participation esports leagues in the UK.
Josh is also one of the founding members of University Esports Masters (UEM), the European group of university esports leagues working together to grow the collegiate scene within Europe and organise the annual continental championship.
David Yarnton
Director, Gfinity/Edge Esports
David Yarnton has been involved in the video games industry for over 30 years and was a founding director of Gfinity, the first company to launch a dedicated esports arena in London.
David is involved in the esports industry with a couple of digital start-ups including Edge Esports, and prior to that was a senior executive with Nintendo for 17 years, most recently in charge of their business in the UK & Ireland, having moved here with the company from Australia in 2003.
He has been on a number of industry boards and is currently chairman of the esports sub-group of UKIE (UK Interactive Entertainment, the only trade body for the UK’s games and wider interactive entertainment industry) as well as being founder and chairman of the British Inspiration Awards, an organisation that helps recognise and celebrate British creative achievements.
Mary Antieul
Tournament provider (GAME/Belong/Insomnia)
Mary Antieul oversees esports strategy, operations and partnerships at GAME across the Belong arenas and Insomnia Gaming Festival. She has worked in the gaming industry for over ten years and has significant experience within gaming retail, in building and sustaining gaming communities and delivering exciting competitive experiences for gamers.
Mary’s focus is to encourage the growth of the grassroots scene through competition and supporting infrastructure.
Tobin 'Racerz' Leigh
Tobin ‘Racerz’ Leigh is a professional Forza player for Lazarus Esports. He has been competing for 4 years and has won an array of titles across the franchise. Most notably however, he and his Lazarus team finished second in the ForzaRC Invitational 2019. Since joining the British Esports Association, Tobin has conducted numerous talks throughout the UK and has got involved in several of our initiatives.
Check out our interview with Tobin here.
Ryan 'Wok' Liu
Ryan got involved with the UK StarCraft II scene in 2015 by first joining UK-based team Forged Force Gaming (FoFoG) and competing in epic.LAN’s. As he became more familiar with the scene, he noticed that it lacked a well ran online community. He began with reconnecting everyone through running the UKSC2 discord and also recruiting like-minded people to help out and also start the @UKSC2 Twitter. This initiative has helped grow the StarCraft II community in the UK.
James 'Governor' Gove
James is an ex-UKLC player now hosting a talk show for the league. He previously played for Enclave, Barrage and Raise Your Governors. In 2018 he was shortlisted in the UK Esports Awards Player of the Year category. Since then James has made himself a staple of UK League of Legends over his player/hosting career.
Nick Egan
Nick Egan is the co-owner and founder of PS4 racing league One Hub Racing, which runs competitive championship seasons around the latest F1 video game. Huge Formula One fan with a heavy investment into the F1 Gaming community.
Ryan Merrick
Having begun playing in 2005, Ryan has played through, RuneScape 2, Old school RuneScape, RuneScape 3 (Evolution of Combat update), DarkScape and Dead Man Mode. He has kept up to date with Old School RuneScape through all updates and held a quest cape through every new quest release and has taken part in PvP and PvE, solo and within clans.
Matthew 'Re4Matt' Jones
Matt “Re4Matt” Jones, has been a part of the Minecraft community since it’s launch, playing, watching, and creating, for years. Being on multiple build teams, and playing in PvP tournaments across the years, he has a wealth of knowledge about the game due to his many years of experience with the game. Outside the game, he studies esports at university and plans to be an entrepreneur within the industry.
Belal 'Krook' Chilenge
Belal Chilenge is a well known member and social media manager in the Overwatch community, having worked with the 7Lions Team UK Overwatch World Cup Team in 2019, as well as currently working as social media for Overwatch Contenders team and gaming organisation, Triumph.
Jack 'Expired' May
Being in the game from the start of 2016, Jack ‘Expired’ May has been heavily involved with Brawlhalla’s community. From working on over 150 tournaments to helping build the game’s largest community Discord. In late 2019 he was offered the role of Brawlhalla Guardian and has been working with Ubisoft since.
Terry 'Servitude' May
Having volunteered at a host of gaming events and an advocate for the charity SpecialEffect, Terry integrates work with play whenever possible while having recently career-changed to a 3D digital design studio.
As Main Tank and shot caller for “Brutal Base”, who scrim and compete at Masters/Grand Masters level, Terry also spends time theorycrafting unusual team compositions to challenge the Overwatch meta.
Jack 'Wacko' Middleton
Jack has over 3 years of Battle Royale experience. He started competing in Apex Legends when it was released in February and was then approached by Penta Sports at the very beginning of the game to build a roster for them. His team placed 8th in the first $500,000 Apex Legends International event under Penta Sports and is now competing under Team Reciprocity.
Phillip Russell
As an adviser for Project CARS 2, one of the games being used in the inaugural British Esports Championships, Phillip is an aspiring pro sim racer and and has made it to some of the biggest online and live finals in Europe.
Benjamin 'BenTM' Rogers
Former Head Coach for Dignitas & Tribe Gaming. Current manager for the UK National team & Personal Manager for UK Esports player of the year ‘19 “ThunderStruck
Steven Cook
Steven has played Smite since the Beta which was launched approximately 5-6 years ago. He has managed and coached various Smite teams though this time with varied levels of success at their respective levels, most recently with his team (Emrys) narrowly missing out on promotion to the Smite Minor League by 1 point. He has seen a lot of changes both positive and negative in this time to the game, however the most recent changes announced for the 2020 competitive season has him VERY excited for the future of Smite!
Benedict 'Mrkcool' Ward
As one of the youngest pro Vainglory esports players to play in the scene at around 13 years old back in 2015, Benedict (right) was one of several up and coming players showing the world that age doesn’t matter.
He’s taken part in several top-tier tournaments including the Vainglory European Winter Championship. His father Andrew Ward (left) has also kindly agreed to offer a parent’s perspective for the British Esports Association’s future coverage. Benedict still plays the game today but under an alias.
Josh 'Citrus Empire' Leighton-Laing
A former music student at the University of Hull, Josh “CitrusEmpire” Leighton-Laing is a content creator, moderator and freelance graphic designer within the Vainglory community.
Having been involved with Vainglory since 2015, Josh has developed strong ties with the developers and the competitive scene, and is a strong advocate for the British esports scene as a whole.
Vash 'Lyonia' Thapa
Vash “Lyonia” Thapa has been in the UK competitive Overwatch scene for 3 years, playing in events such as Insomnia and Epic.LAN where he came second rather than coming second and also winning the spring season of Belong’s Arena Clash with his team, the Stratford Spartans. He coaches teams and individuals that want to take part in grassroots esports in his free time and is part of the Arena Clash community.
Christopher 'Sharixx' Marshall
Sharixx is a Hi-Rez Studio’s SMITE Moderator and SMITE Partner, currently managing the Pittsburgh Knights Community Clan in game, working closely with the Knights to embrace and grow the SMITE community.
Tommey 'Tommey' Trewen
Tommey is a professional Call of Duty player currently residing with Fnatic.
He has won a host of tournaments and has played for a string of well-known esports teams over the years, including Millenium, Team Vitality and Team Dignitas.
Read our interview with Tommey here.
Luke 'Mal3ficarum' Bull
Arena of Valour
Luke has been a streamer and shoutcaster for three years now and currently sits in the top 1% of European players in Arena of Valor at the moment. Outside of gaming he is a qualified personal trainer and has been involved in the fitness industry for seven years.
Alex 'Levy' McCullough
Alex has played Battalion 1944 since release, travelling to events and following the scene closely, whilst working full-time in esports in London.
He’d love to see the game build a strong UK grassroots community over the coming year
Reece 'Sabrewolf' Dos-Santos
Reece “Sabrewoif” Dos-Santos is a journalism student, tournament organiser and one of the main community figures within European Pokken.
As well as being a competitive player, he’s also the owner of the European discord server for Pokken Tournament. Prior to this he was a writer, analyst and coach for League of Legends.
Harry 'Lethal' Thomas
Harry has been involved in Halo esports for the past 15 years and has competed in nearly 100 events. He has a substantial number of tournament wins under his belt and competed in established orgs such as Dignitas, Infused, 4 Kings and Reason Gaming.
He currently freelances as a professional caster/analyst for the Halo esports scene and has worked with ESL and Gfinity at previous events. He has a strong desire to push the UK esports scene forward with his vast knowledge and experience.
Michael is a freelance writer and journalist currently working for multiple websites and companies in the esports space, including UKCSGO and Esports Insider.
He follows the UK CSGO scene very closely.
Liam Whitehead
Liam is a mod on the UKDOTA Reddit page, has been at admin at epic.LAN and runs the UKDOTA Open every three months.
He’s well-known in the UK DOTA scene and is keen to push UK esports forward.
Lisa 'Skurli' MacLean
Lisa first started playing Gears of War campaign and then moving onto multiplayer when Gears Ultimate was released. Since then she has been a fan of the Gears Competitive scene and was also the tournament admin for Gears of War 4 events in 2018 with EGL. Now she is the Gears 5 tournament manager for EGLs online tournaments.
Alexander 'Raven' Baguley
Hearthstone’s competitive scene has grown and grown over the past few years, and Raven has been involved in it from both a caster and player perspective.
He’s cast events such as Dreamhack Winter, Asus Rog 24 Hour Play It Cool Marathon, WCA EU Qualifiers and more, and has played for Torpedo in the ESL UK & Ireland Premiership.
As the Head of Social Media & Community Management at Jellymedia, Graham works first hand on PES League, the global PES esports platform.
Having been a lifelong PES player, Graham has a working knowledge of every iteration over the 20-year history of the series. He has been directly involved with the development of the global PES League since it’s inception, and is also a presenter/caster on the PES League Twitch streams and Regional/World Finals.
Adam Fitch
Player Unknown's: Battlegrounds
Adam isn’t particularly known for his PUBG gameplay, he’s more so known for providing insights into the game for publications such as Red Bull and breaking stories that players and fans alike need to know for Esports Insider.
Rams 'r2k' Singh
Rams has been in the world of esports for 20+ years and it all started with Quake 3, and continues to watch Quake Champions closely. Outside he teaches at the University of Chichester for esports and is a Level 2 Badminton Coach for Worcestershire & West Midlands.
Ted 'TotesTedley' Allen
Ted has been playing Rainbow Six Siege since it’s release in 2015, taking it more seriously and following the competitive scene since early 2018. Since then, he has become much more involved in not only the pro league community but also the passionate amateur scene.
Earlier this summer, he became the R6 Team Manager for ImPerium, a semi-professional worldwide organisation, with the Rainbow Six team based in the USA . Since then, he has helped the team grow, progress and compete in various leagues and ESL tournaments. This has really helped him also build a network and meet so many people within competitive siege.
Mike 'Gregan' Ellis
Mike ‘Gregan’ Ellis, Renault Sport Team Vitality’s Rocket League Team Manager. He has helped British Esports with the sports/esports activity week at West Ham and also was interviewed by the Association for this piece on the importance of sports, physical activity and wellbeing in esports.
Brian 'Brian' Thomson
Brian is a professional Street Fighter player currently representing Fierce Esports. He has won many tournaments including the Gfinity Elite Series and has placed highly in multiple major events.
Bradley Thomas Stafford
Super Smash Bro's Melee
Having been an active tournament attendee and organiser for eight years, Bradley is experienced in competitive Smash Bros Melee.
He’s part of tournament organiser Team Heir which runs the largest European Melee tournament each year. He’s also worked as a tournament admin at DreamHack’s first Melee event: Dreamhack London.
Sami Cetin
Super Mario Kart SNES
I run the Super Mario Kart SNES Time Trial World Rankings website since November 1998: http://www.mariokartplayers.com/smk/. I update it weekly ever since and we have more than 1000 players globally from all around the World on both PAL and NTSC versions. I am also a current Time Trial World Record Holder of Mario Circuit 1, which is the first race track Super Mario Kart and the entire Mario Kart Franchise and ranked #1 in the UK Overall. I also Tweet Super Mario Kart SNES Time Trial and Multiplayer Competition news regularly on @SamiCetinSMK.
Charlie Smith
Charlie is a former competitive player, league administrator, and tournament organiser for the European Team Fortress 2 scene; he has been involved with TF2 for over half a decade and worked in administrative positions for half that time. Outside of playing, he is currently studying Computer Game Technologies, specialising in Games Research surrounding esports.
David Hollingsworth
David has written for several publications and brands over the years, including Esports News UK and more recently ESL UK.
He’s a guild leader and a fountain of competitive World of Warcraft knowledge.
Lee 'WOTBoys' Townsend
An avid gamer since the early 90’s, Lee discovered World of Tanks in 2013 and was hooked! He attends Tankfest each year and events for WoT whenever possible. Gamescom, ESL One, Pro League and Epic Lan are events on his calendar throughout the year.
Professor Andy Miah
Professor Andy Miah, co-chair of the Esports Industry Collaboration programme at the University of Salford Manchester, has been researching into the relationship between digital technologies and sport.
He is in the school of science, engineering and environment, and has worked globally to position esports within conversations about the future of digital leisure and physical activity. He has also worked with the International Sports Federation and the International Olympic Committee to build relationships between esports and sports.
J.Miller
Super Smash Bros for Wii U
J.Miller is regarded as one of the best Super Smash Bros for Wii U players in Britain.
He took part in the eGgames medal-based tournament in Rio alongside running alongside the Olympic Games last summer.
Read our interview with J.Miller here.
Dr Maria Stukoff
Director, Maker Space, University of Salford
Dr Maria Stukoff is a director at Maker Space at the University of Salford, a new digital technology hub set up to foster real-world STEM skills. She is the co-chair of the Esports Industry Collaboration programme building industry partnerships including non-endemic brands, and is also a board member at #InnovateHer, empowering girls to be tech and industry-ready. She is also a Games Skills Council member at ScreenSkills.
Maria is well known for her work in the videogame industry in her former role as Head of PlayStationFirst, the Academic Development Programme at Sony Interactive Entertainment. She was also a founding member of the Next Gen Skills Academy.
Senior Lecturer, University of Chichester
Ramesh Singh, also known as Rams or r2k, is a senior lecturer in esports at the University of Chichester. He is a former pro player with an extensive track record, having won several tournaments in Quake 3 and participated in other games including Trackmania, Battlefield and others for teams such as Dignitas.
He has also worked as a host and on events for companies such as Razer, Ginx TV, HyperX and Scan Computers.
Ceirnan Lowe
Ceirnan “Excoundrel” Lowe is an esports broadcaster with over four years experience in the UK esports industry, covering multiple titles as a colour caster.
He previously studied medicine at university but have left the field and found a home within the esports industry. He has cast a host of games from League of Legends to Hearthstone and Vainglory, for a range of companies.
Ryan Hart
Content creator, host, pro gamer
Ryan Hart is one of the most well-known UK players in the fighting game genre, having won over 450 tournaments.
The former professional Street Fighter player is a four-time Guinness World Record holder, two-time Evolution world champion and the most successful UK esports player to date. These days he works as a content creator and host.
Yinsu Collins
Yinsu is an esports journalist specialising in League of Legends. Having delivered International coverage, she also focuses heavily on finding stories from the UK LoL scene through exclusive columns with Excel Esports as well as shedding a light on the ongoings at grassroots and university level.
James 'Bakery' Baker
James Baker is a professional Heroes of the Storm player who plays as team captain for one of the most well-known organisations: Team Dignitas.
Read our interview with Bakery here.
David 'Davebtw' Bytheway
As the first British FIFA esports player signed to a football team, David joined Wolfsburg last year and has taken part in several high-end FIFA tournaments since.
Check out our interview with Davebtw here.
Michael O'Dell
Rogue chief gaming officer
Michael O’Dell (aka ODEE) is the chief gaming officer at Rogue. He is also the founder of long-running esports organisation Dignitas, and previously managed its professional esports teams. He is a veteran of competitive gaming and a keen supporter of the growing industry.
Team Dignitas was founded in 2003 having started out in Battlefield 1942, and has grown to produce top sides across multiple titles including League of Legends, CSGO, Rocket League and more. Dignitas was acquired by US NBA basketball club The Philadelphia 76ers in 2016, later rebranded to Dignitas and ODEE stepped away from the organisation in 2019 to join Rogue.
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Natacha Jones
Championships Project Manager
Natacha Jones is an experienced esports producer and observer who holds the role of Championships project manager at the British Esports Association.
She looks after the British Esports Championships for schools and colleges, working alongside school projects lead Tom Dore, epic.LAN and our team of admins.
Over the past few years, Natacha has built up some impressive experience within UK esports. She was project manager for the King of the North gaming festival, president of the University of Manchester Esports Society and has also been working as a freelance esports observer and producer. In January 2019, Natacha was promoted at the NUEL to creative director.
Andrew Nixon
Sheridans Lawyer
Andrew heads up the sports and esports team at the entertainment and media firm Sheridans. Andrew acts for a wide range of stakeholders within the esports industry, including rights holders, leagues, teams, game developers and individual esports talent.
He has also spoken at various esports and sports conferences on esports, across a variety of issues, including regulation, player welfare, governance and the commercialisation of esports and content licensing. Andrew’s background is in traditional sports sector, acting forgoverning bodies, rights holders, sports data companies, sports clubs, sports agencies, sponsors and individual athletes. Andrew is also a non-executive director of Table Tennis England and sits on the editorial board for Law in Sport.
Dominic Sacco
Dominic has an extensive background in video games trade journalism, having worked at NewBay Media on games industry publication MCV and as editor of tech trade title PCR.
He founded his own publication Esports News UK in 2015 to cover the UK League of Legends scene and other esports games in the UK, conducting player interviews, match reports and covering news.
Dominic is responsible for content on the British Esports Association website, internal and external communications, handling public queries and works with marketing and PR on the association’s messaging.
Alice Leaman
School and college liaison officer
Alice has service and hospitality experience as well as close ties with the British Esports Association. She has been volunteering for British Esports for more than a year, having helped with the pilot Championships and Season 1 and 2 as an admin.
Alice looks after schools and colleges in the North of the UK.
Tom Dore
Head of Education
Tom is leading our exciting schools project as Head of Education, looking at launching esports leagues in schools and colleges throughout the UK.
Currently still working at a school in Bath, he is an experienced teacher and educator with over 17 years experience in different leadership roles across a full spectrum of state and independent schools. He has also worked as an associate for PIXL, the national partnership of over 2,500 schools in the UK. He is passionate about supporting young people and enabling them to achieve success both inside and outside the classroom.
If you are a student or teacher and are interested in taking part in the schools/colleges league, please visit our Championships hub here or email Tom here.
Head of skills
Dave has 15+ years experience advising the education sector including government, professional institutions and employers about skills both in the UK and internationally.
At British Esports he is head of skills and offers us support on relationships with various colleges and educational organisations.
In 2017 Dave co-founded an international edtech company to look at enhancing the skills required for global projects like the China Belt and Road.
Dave also holds numerous executive roles across tech as an investment and skills adviser.
Morgan Ashurst
Morgan boasts a host of marketing and content experience, having worked as digital content manager at Riot Gaming and most recently as senior marketing executive at system builder Fierce PC, where she headed up the Fierce Esports brand and its teams.
She is also a former Call of Duty pro gamer, having competed at LAN events since the age of 16 and was featured in a Channel 4 documentary, Vice article and campaign for Belong and Activision.
Elliot Bond
Elliot has been building PCs and playing games from a young age, and is currently a high-ranked Champion 3 Rocket League player who has Grand Champion in his sights this season.
He joined British Esports from Mallinson Sport Centre at Highgate School in London, where he worked as commercial and enterprise duty manager focusing on tournament, project and client management.
Elliot looks after schools and colleges in the South of the UK.
Adam Leadercramer
Director and Company Secretary
Adam is a Partner and the Head of Digital Media/ Technology at Onside Law, a boutique law firm based in London and specialising in the sports, esports and media sectors.
He acts for a broad range of clients within these sectors including governing bodies, teams, individuals, established brands and start- up/growth businesses.
Chester King
British Esports was founded by Chester King of the International Group. Chester received authority from the UK Government to establish the association in January 2016.
Chester has a 23-year background in traditional sports, with Stoke Park (owned by International Group) running the pre-wimbledon tennis event The Boodles, as well as working for the Football Association, Lord’s and the Rugby Football Union.
Chester also founded The eGames initiative, a separate international medal-based esports tournament which ran its showcase in British House alongside the Rio Olympics.
Rob has impressive experience in esports coaching, having worked with ManaLight, a former esports organisation who made it to several UK finals in League of Legends.
He is helping to shape British Esports’ education and membership offerings, and is working closely with the Enemy of Boredom initiative backed by the Prince’s Trust.
Rob is passionate about UK esports and also helped with the association’s kids’ esports club at Maida Vale Library.
Carleigh Morgan
Carleigh Morgan is a former Fulbright scholar and a currentPhD candidate at King’s College London.
Her dissertation explores the cybernetic sutures between bodies and machines, with particular emphasis on the diagrams of legibility that encode gamers as programmable and readable by computer technologies. Pro gamers feature centrally as part of this work, and many hours of research involve interviewing players, streamers, sports psychologists, physiologists and sports managers to develop a broad understanding of the training regimens of top gamers.
In 2016 she graduated from the MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory at King’s College, London with a Distinction and is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Digital Culture. She also works with Women in Gaming as well as the Institute for Esports Research Portal, and has written about the legal rights of esports players for various publications, including Motherboard.
Mark Candella
Broadcaster (Twitch)
As the second executive from Twitch on British Esports’ Advisory Board, stepping in for Chris if he’s unable to attend a board meeting (and vice versa), Mark Candella is the firm’s Director of Strategic Partnerships.
Craig Fletcher
Multiplay founder
Having run his first online gaming league (over dialup modem) and “LAN party” in 1994, Craig then founded Multiplay in 1997 as a games-orientated event management company, with a primary focus on running LAN events and the very early days of esports.
He is responsible for the Insomnia series of events, which now take place at the Birmingham NEC several times per year and attract thousands of visitors. Multiplay was sold to GAME in 2015, and Craig now sits as part of the retailer’s senior executive team, where he leads the group’s transformation strategy around esports and competitive gaming.
Heather Dower
Presenter, caster and host
Heather is well-known in UK esports having worked with the likes of Ginx TV, Multiplay and others, hosting the likes of the Daily Download show, Insomnia esports tournaments and more.
The presenter, caster and stage host joined the board in September 2017. She said: “I have always believed that esports is a powerful space that can be used to enrich the community, something I will endeavour to do as a part of the association.”
Darren Newnham
Biz dev/consultant
Darren “Slammer” Newnham is a gamer, esports fan and business development professional who has brought years of commercial and corporate experience (from Disney, SEGA and O2) to teams, players and brands.
Currently head of Nexus, his own esports business that brings teams, organizations, brands and players together. He cut his teeth in esports with the largest global esports teams: Fnatic.
Darren can often be found on a PUBG map, on BF1 with friends or still tanking a few LFR groups in WoW. He started gaming back in the days of 486 PCs and Duke Nukem 3D ladders on Compuserve on a 14k dial up modem (yes he’s that old)!
Andy Payne
OBE, Chair
Andy is an experienced video games entrepreneur of 32 years, having run Mastertronic from 1988 to 2015.
He chaired games industry trade body Ukie from 2005 to 2015 and is still a board member. He is a board advisor at games developer Bossa Studios and a founder of games industry charity GamesAid.
Andy was a founder of mobile and tablet specialist AppyNation and Gambitious, a crowdfunding platform for games and movies. He is also chair of Esports specialist EGL, founder of simulation specialists Just Flight and a VP of games charity Special Effect.
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Listed Buildings in Llansawel, Carmarthenshire
II Barn Range at Cilwenau Uchaf
Cilwenau Uchaf is situated on the N side of the B4337 1.5 km W of Llansawel. The barn range is on the W side of the farmyard some 40 m from the modernised farmhouse.
II Bethel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, including Vestry to Right
Located at the N end of Bethel Terrace. Large graveyard opposite.
II Bridge over River Morlais
Located in centre of Llansawel village over River Morlais.
II* Castle Green including Front Railings and Gate
Situated in village centre S of Castle Terrace opposite the Angle Inn.
II Dovecote at Edwinsford
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The dovecote is on the opposite
II* Edwinsford Home Farm
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The Home Farm is on the opposite (N
II Former Town Hall
On B4337 in centre of Llansawel
II Pont Melindwr
Situated at S end of Llansawel village, carrying the B4337 over River Melindwr.
II Schoolroom in grounds of St Sawel's Church
Situated in graveyard, slightly to SW of parish church.
II St Sawel Parish Church
Situated on S side of village in large graveyard.
II Sundial
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The sundial stands immediately NE
II Telephone Call-box outside Village Hall
Situated just inside boundary of village hall against parapet wall of listed bridge.
II The Coach House- no description available 3/12/2004 RM
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The Coach House is situated to the E
II* The Dairy
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The Dairy is situated on the opposi
II Tre-Glog
Reached off lane to Acheth-isaf, shortly after its junction with the B4310 between Abergorlech and Llansawel.
II Ty Peggi
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. Ty Peggi is situated on the oppo
II Walled Garden at Edwinsford
Edwinsford is reached off the B4337 between Llansawel and Talley and is situated on the banks of the River Cothi which is the boundary between the two communities. The walled garden is immediately
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Tag Archives: United States
Casting calls for Sony Pictures feature film ‘Fury’ starring Brad Pitt and Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf, Jon Bernthal, Brad Pitt, and Logan Lerman at National Training Center to prep for “Fury”.
Le Grisbi Productions and QED International are now in pre-production on the epic Sony Pictures World War II drama feature film “Fury,” which stars Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, and Jon Bernthal. The film’s twelve-time Casting Society of America Artios Award nominated casting director in Los Angeles has sent out casting calls for co-starring and supporting roles, as well as smaller speaking roles. The extras will be hired throughout production which will take place in London, UK beginning late-September. The actors cast in the United States, even the smaller speaking roles, will be flown to the United Kingdom for shooting, all expenses paid. However all actors hired must provide the proper paperwork to be legally eligible to work in the United Kingdom
Sony Pictures “Fury” Casting Calls
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Sony Pictures talent search for boy to play lead role in ‘Heaven is for Real’
“Heaven is for Real” stars Greg Kinnear and Kelly Reilly as Colton’s Parents.
Roth Films/Real Heaven, Inc. in association with Wheelhouse Entertainment are in pre-production on the Sony Pictures true-story feature film “Heaven is for Real” based on the New York Times best-selling book written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. The book has over 7 million copies in print, and has sold over 1 million eBooks. Casting directors across the United States and Canada are conducting a massive talent search for a 6-8 year old boy to play the role of Colton Burpo. They are considering new talent with no experience or training required. Filming will take place this summer in Canada, so as not to interfere with schooling.
Sony Pictures “Heaven is for Real” Talent Search
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National Talent Search for 10 year old girl to star in FOX Searchlight film ‘iOrigins’
The beautiful and talented Brit Marling plays the adult female lead role.
FOX Searchlight Pictures in association with Artists Public Domain will begin production on the futuristic sci-fi drama feature film “iOrigins” in January, 2013. The shooting locations will be in Los Angeles and in the country of India. The casting directors based in New York City are conducting a national talent search for a girl who can play a 10 year old to star in the film. They are seeking a girl of “Indian descent, a beautiful wild child”. The character speaks English not so well and doesn’t have the American mannerisms that a 10 year old who went to schools in the states would have. Interested talent can submit an audition video to be considered.
FOX Searchlight “iOrigins” National Talent Search
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Open casting calls for indie film ‘Something Whispered’ starring Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. will play a man who saves his family from slavery in 1850.
The independent feature film “Something Whispered” is filming around the New Haven, Connecticut area and Northeastern Connecticut from late September to mid-November, 2012. There are two open casting calls scheduled for locals to work as fully paid background performers on the shoot. The casting director in Connecticut is seeking Caucasians, African Americans or Africans at least 18 years of age and able to portray ages 18 to 60. Both SAG-AFTRA members and non union people are welcome to attend. No prior experience working as a film extra is necessary.
Indie Film “Something Whispered” Open Casting Calls
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Disney Channel hit comedy series ‘Austin & Ally’ season two auditions
Laura Marano and Ross Lynch have shown fantastic chemistry in “Austin & Ally“.
The hit multi-camera 1/2 Hour Disney Channel sitcom “Austin & Ally” is back for it’s second season and the casting directors are holding auditions for co-starring, guest-starring and day player roles. In addition, general background performers are being cast throughout the season. “Austin & Ally” officially premiered on December 4, 2011. Casting for the series regulars were conducted during a national Disney Channel talent search around the United States.
Disney Channel “Austin & Ally” Auditions and Casting Calls
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The Hallmark Channel casting extras for Michael Landon Jr’s ‘The Confession’
Award winning actress Sherry Stringfield for this second movie in the trilogy.
The Hallmark Channel telefilm “The Confession” is currently shooting in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area and extras are needed for scenes being filmed March 14th, 16th, and 20th, 2012. The movie is based on the second novel of “The Heritage of Lancaster County” trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Beverly Lewis. The first movie, “The Shunning” made its World Premiere, Saturday, April 16, 2011 on Hallmark Channel.
Hallmark Channel’s “The Confession” Extras Casting
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Auditions and casting calls for Lifetime’s new series ‘The Client List’
Golden Globe Award Nominee Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in “The Client List“.
“The Client List,” Lifetime’s new original drama starring and executive produced by Golden Globe Award nominee Jennifer Love Hewitt is currently auditioning talent in Los Angeles for series recurring roles, guest stars, and day players. Extras, stand-ins, and photo doubles are also being cast to work on the show. Although the story takes place in a town in Texas, the show is actually filmed in the Los Angeles area.
Auditions for Lifetime’s “The Client List”
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Ten splendid objects
By: Justine Olsen
Curator decorative art and design Justine Olsen chooses her top ten objects exhibited in European Splendour: 1500–1800.
The objects below are mainly decorative and through them we see changes in style, materials, and techniques. They offer a valuable insights into a bygone age and highlight the impact of religion, trade, culture, and the way European society viewed itself.
1. The Orphrey cross
Maker unknown, Orphrey cross (link is external), Italy,1400-1500, silver, silver gilt, copper, silk, linen. Bequest of Mrs Alec Tweedie, 1946. CC BY-NC-ND licence (link is external). Te Papa (PC000795)
This is a rare work of craft, a religious object too, made for ceremonial splendour over 500 years ago.
Embroideries, wall paintings, and stained-glass windows enriched the religious experience in late medieval churches.
Created to honour God, they also reminded worshippers of the principle message of the Roman Catholic Church – Christ’s death for the salvation of mankind.
This cross was once the central image on a priest’s chasuble as he celebrated Mass, its golden gleam a signal of the divine and a reminder of the church’s wealth.
A plaque above the head of the crucified Christ is inscribed ‘INRI’, the Latin acronym for ‘Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews’ – a gospel reference for those few who could read.
The embroidery was probably made in a workshop attached to a monastery or convent; goldsmiths and embroiderers were also part of religious orders.
Gilded silver and copper wire, and silk thread are the main components of this work.
The 11th-century Benedictine monk Theophilus described how fine wire was made by pulling metal rods through a tool called a draw plate.
It was a time-consuming and methodical process. Eventually the wire was wrapped around silk thread for the careful work of embroidering the divine image.
This meticulous task was often carried out by unmarried women from noble families who had found refuge in Italian nunneries.
2. Embroidered Picture
Artist unknown, Embroidered picture, silk and linen, about 1640, England. Bequest of Mrs E G Elgar, 1945. Te Papa (PC000806)
Two figures at a well, the English oak and chestnut tree with a squirrel and scavenging dog, may at first glance suggest a charming English pastoral scene.
But look closely and you will see a halo around the head of the central figure. The image is in fact a reminder of the gospel story of Jesus converting the Samaritan woman at the well, transporting this textile into the realm of religion.
It’s a cue too that in England religious embroideries were made for the home, rather than the church, following the period of religious upheaval known as the Protestant Reformation.
Embroideries like this were replicated due to the use of pattern books available at the time.
Much like Protestant texts, they were able to be circulated because of the advance of the printing press. Reproduction aided the transmission of information, style, and meaning.
Domestic textiles were among the most valued works in the home during the 17th century, with needlework carrying out the important function of decorating clothing, furnishings and wall hangings.
3. Apostle spoon
Artist unknown, Apostle spoon, silver gilt, burr wood, about 1650, Europe. Purchased 1963 (GH002263)
This is a type of christening spoon that was given to a godchild, symbolising the hope of a spiritual and prosperous life.
Saints were carefully depicted in the terminal of the handle. In this particular example it is Saint Andrew, the patron saint of medicine, who holds a staff and a book of the Gospel.
By the mid 17th century, silver and gold objects were visible in the homes of the new elite in European society. Though the Protestant Reformation meant that precious materials were employed less frequently in church ceremony, Spanish conquests in South America ensured a ready supply of gold and silver for domestic use.
4. Lace edging
Maker unknown, Lace edging, linen, bobbin lace technique, 1700s, Belgium, Gift of Mrs G Acland Allen, 1955. Te Papa (PC000334)
In 1668, the French nobleman Marquis de Saint-Maurice described the lace he had bought for his family at a gathering of the French court at Versailles:
‘For myself, my wife, my daughter and children, it cost me nearly 4,000 livres, and in my opinion, I have never spent money to such little purpose; I console myself that amongst the mad it is necessary to be mad oneself.’
Delicate, versatile, and alluring, lace has a vital role in the history of dress and luxury. It was worn by both men and women, and caught the imagination of royalty – as seen in the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603) and Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796–1817) within this exhibition.
In the 1500s and early 1600s, fine lace was subject to ‘sumptuary laws’ designed to restrain extravagant consumption and reinforce social hierarchies. And yet its irresistible beauty overcame restrictions through the evolution of local industries.
From cut-work to needlework and bobbin lace, designs and production spread. Venice, Flanders, and Valenciennes were among the pre-eminent producers while the development of printed patterns helped too. And while this bobbin lace predates the lace worn during the time of the Marquis de Sainte-Maurice by 50 years, you can see the imaginative and delicate qualities that remained so appealing.
5. Sterling silver toilet box, mirror, and brushes
I L, Toilet Box, 1691, sterling silver, Bequest of Lady Vivien Younger, 1958.
In the late 1600s, the rituals of grooming and dressing underpinned courtly life.
The flamboyance of the French court of Louis XIV (reigned 1643–1715) pervaded high society throughout England and the continent, and dress and adornment took on an ever-increasing role.
This silver toilet service – a box, brushes and mirror – would have indicated the wealth and status of the noblewoman whose bedroom it adorned.
Looking at the service, we know that it was made in London – the stamp of the leopard’s head with the sterling silver stamp of the lion passant guardant (silhouette of a lion with his face towards the viewer) certifying its quality (92.5% pure silver). But the marks provide more clues about the maker: a fleur-de-lis emblem, which was used by Parisian silversmiths, appears below the initials ‘IL’.
Thousands of French Protestants, known as Huguenots, took refuge from religious persecution in England in the late 1600s and 1700s. In 1689 the new English Bill of Rights proclaimed religious tolerance towards Protestants and London attracted their skills – silversmiths and silk weavers were needed to support an increasing wealthy society.
The effect of religious persecution and the movement of skills continues to be felt today.
6. Still life
Artist unknown, Still life, oil on canvas, 1650–1700, Germany, Gift of Dr G F V Anson, T V Anson, H V Anson and Mrs F S Maclean, 1943. Te Papa (1943-0007-1)
This still-life painting offers a glimpse of domestic life 400 years ago.
It’s a German scene about personal possessions, production, and lifestyle.
Within this resplendent dining setting, we can see food for the table and vessels designed for the occasion. Together, they reflect prosperity, the growth of the cities, and desire for comfort and display.
Two German objects dominate the scene: a Westerwald jug on the left and a Roemer glass on the right.
The salt-glaze stoneware jug was a product of the Rhineland. Made from local clays, its durability and ornamental appeal satisfied European taste. Decorated with incised designs, the jug includes a silver-mounted handle with lid – a signal of its prestige at the time.
Roemers are green wineglasses also popular in the Rhineland. This example is studded with prunts shaped as raspberries – motifs that were not only decorative, but also helped the wine drinker maintain a good grip. It’s a large, stylish glass for festive and daily use.
Taking central place are the most prized objects in the scene – lobster from Norway, the most valuable crustacean in Europe, displayed around a Chinese porcelain dish.
By the 17th century, exotic Chinese porcelain was the most desirable of goods in Europe.
The decoration and shape of this dish suggests it could be Kraak porcelain intended for export to the West. It was made in Jingdezhen, which mass-produced porcelain for the local and international market.
The painter treated his images with care. Look closely and it feels like you can almost reach out and touch the objects.
7. Armchair
Artist unknown, Armchair, oak and wool, about 1690. England. Bequest of Mrs E G Elgar, 1945 (PF000047)
The exuberant baroque style arrived in England through the patronage of monarchs Charles II (reigned 1660–85) then William and Mary in 1689.
Its flamboyant and ornate variety of architecture, fashion, and decorative arts was expressed principally through the French court of Louis XIV (reigned 1643–1715).
Furniture design was very much part of this fashionable elitism.
Chairs were largely the preserve of the wealthy, reflecting the status of the individual while also beginning to offer comfort through upholstery.
There are elements of this chair that show how keenly the baroque style played a part. The front horizontal leg-support, or stretcher, is carved in a foliage scroll pattern – a decorative device adopted by the French court.
Symmetry holds the design together, as the scrolls and plant-like features elegantly roll across the stretcher.
How was this style accessible to craftspeople at the time? Printed books helped circulate such designs, ensuring fashion was up to date, a little like internet media today.
8. Francesco Avelli da Rovigo dish
Francesco Avelli da Rovigo, Dish, tin-glaze earthenware, 1530–35, Italy. Purchased 1983 with Charles Disney Art Trust funds. Te Papa (CG001495/a)
Ceramics were part of the splendid domestic settings of Italy’s urban elite during the Renaissance period.
The display of objects ensured an extravagant scene of metalwork, glassware, carvings, furniture, textiles, and ceramics.
Families involved in commerce and civic duties commissioned such work from many of the best artists and craftspeople.
We know this astonishing dish was created by the celebrated artist Francesco Avelli da Rovigo of Urbino, thanks to the signature on the back.
The dish was probably part of a large set. It is an example of maiolica decoration, where costly tin oxide provided an opaque white surface on which to paint colourful, complex scenes.
Mythological stories were frequently used, reflecting the era’s rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
In this dish Zeus is depicted as a swan seducing Leda; it was a scene commonly used by artists of the time, including Leonardo da Vinci.
We also see a heraldic coat of arms within the decorative scheme. The eagle splayed with its head to its right suggests the dish may have been commissioned by the Borghese family, one of the most prominent families in central Italy.
9. Lacquer cabinet
Artist unknown, Cabinet on stand, wood, lacquer, abalone, shark skin, brass, about 1690, England. Bequest of Mrs E G Elgar, 1945.Te Papa (PF000039)
Trade with Japan in the 1600s brought to the European market the unique style of Japanese lacquer. This glowing, hard material, similar in look to today’s plastics, was extracted from the lac tree and then processed into red or black lacquer varnish. It was applied to cabinets and coffers for the West, which were decorated in the so-called international style or Namban.
Te Papa’s cabinet on stand displays the Namban style through the geometric borders, shell inlay, and a decorative technique called hiramaki-e (literally, ‘sprinkled picture’). A polychromatic effect is achieved by sprinkling gold and silver dust on the lacquer before it dries. This can be seen on the inside panels of the cabinet’s doors, where meandering vine tendrils are framed by painted decoration.
Such cabinets were intended to store precious objects, indicating a private display of wealth, an interest in the Orient, and collecting.
10. Blue and white vase
Artist unknown, Vase, tin-glaze earthenware, about 1750, Bristol. Purchased 1975, with Charles Disney Art Trust funds. Te Papa (CG001231)
Blue and white porcelain may seem ubiquitous today, but in Europe during the 1600 and 1700s the allure of this oriental style led to extraordinary results.
European trade with China, the main source of porcelain, inspired fashionable collecting: its exotic beauty led the English Queen Mary II (reign 1689–94) to decorate rooms at Hampton Court and Kensington Palace with fine ceramics.
By the 18th century, attempts to emulate Chinese porcelain led to success at Meissen, Germany. British factories also attempted to reproduce porcelain, using a tin-glaze earthenware, soft paste, then hard paste.
This vase sits at a time of transition. Made in Bristol, it shares with Chinese models the characteristic cobalt blue glaze over a white ground. Its depiction of a country scene locates it in England, an enormous cultural shift for an object whose origins lay in the Far East.
European Splendour: 1500–1800 is on at Te Papa until 26 Feb 2017
*Most of the works in the exhibtion were gifted to the national collection from New Zealanders whose ancestors were part of that distant world.
In: Art, History
Tagged: design, embroidery, European Splendour, furniture, lace, lacquer, oil painting, Orphrey cross, porcelain, silver, top ten
Isaac du Toit
Thank you for the most interesting post. I look forward to being able to view the exhibition. I’d be intrigued to know more about Mrs E G Elgar and what else she may have donated to the museum too…
Thank you for sharing these spectacularly beautiful objects. It has certainly made me feel that a trip to Wellington to view the exhibition would be worth doing.
Wendy Lee
Just a few days ago I was at the French national ceramics museum at Sevres and saw really beautiful to glaze/faience wares. Although not porcelain such works have a lustre and incredible whiteness that is fantastic, particular those from Strasbourg
The tin-glaze on the vase shares a similar bluish tone as the imported Chinese porcelain of the period. Look at this tea bowl seen on collections on line which also appears in ‘Splendour’.
http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search?searchTerm=CG001702%2FAA-AB+-+XA-XB&scope=all
Justine Olsen
Lovely to contemplate each of these pieces. Thank you
Barbara Brookes
Hi Justine
Apologies for the pedantry, but I’m afraid your ‘porcelain vase’ is no such thing. As you know, tin-glazed earthenware isn’t porcelain, being composed of different sort of clays, fired at a much lower temperatures and, unlike most porcelains, lacking translucency. I suspect too that your urn-shaped Bristol ‘vase’ is better described as a jardinière or cachepot.
It’s hard to differentiate these things in New Zealand where we don’t have the collection resources of the V&A or the NGV, so I think it’s important to identify these little details correctly.
As you will see in the caption below the image, that the blue and white vase is indeed tin-glaze earthenware. Apologies from the web team for the title that was misleading. It has since been corrected.
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Convention Youth Press College Access, Affordability Theme
By Andrew Ujifusa on September 5, 2012 8:51 PM
Charlotte, N.C.
A big theme theme of Tuesday night's Democratic Convention speeches, college access and affordability, continued Wednesday afternoon as a battery of speakers extolled the virtues of President Barack Obama's actions to widen higher education opportunities at the Democratic National Committee Youth Council.
The council, which consists of Democrats under age 36, heard from Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a teacher at a Virginia community college, and others who stressed that young people, particularly those who are the first in their families to go to college, should be freed to pursue their ambitions instead of crushed by debt and blocked by barriers to college.
Recall that last week in Tampa, my colleague Alyson Klein wrote a blog item about the Washington-based Young Invincibles, a nonprofit, non-partisan group seeking to expand opportunities for younger Americans, and an event they held at the Republican Convention. According to Alyson's count, there was only one self-identified Republican in attendance.
Noting that many African-Americans, Latinos and students from the "wrong side of town" are unaware of why college is an option for them, or told that it isn't realistic, the DNC's senior advisor for Hispanic affairs, Juan Sepulveda, told the council, "It killed me how many times we are still hearing those stories."
Sepulveda, who was told twice by his high school guidance counselor that the colleges and graduate schools he wanted to attend were beyond his reach, hailed San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro's efforts to broaden educational access, a topic Castro stressed heavily in his Tuesday keynote.
Referencing Barack and Michelle Obama as well as herself and her husband, Biden told the council that none of them could have attended college without school loans and grants. But she tacked on a cautionary note that even for Pell Grant and other aid recipients, they still were responsible for their own success: "You still have to earn that GPA. You still, in many cases, have to work."
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Urban Health Program’s 2018 Meet & Greet Series
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An Anatomy of YYC Burger Week
YYC Burger Week, the little event that could. Founded by Sabahat Naureen (First Founder), myself as @calgarydreamer (co-founder) and Chris Karaplis, the mysterious promo shy man in the shadows, we were all former Montrealers who had found our home, and our hearts here in Calgary. But as much as we did, it didn’t seem to be enough to simply just be here. We had to help, but just didn’t know how.
The YYC Burger Week Logo
In 2012, while on a routine visit to Montreal, Sabahat had visited Montreal, and partaken in their own Burger event. It was an in-house event, dedicated to simply self-promotion of the restaurants with a competition aspect. However, as I understand it, there was no charity aspect. With that, a light bulb went off in her head, and she came back wondering about how to make this event come into fruition in Calgary. Finding that no one else was even thinking of a similar idea, she started to put out little feelers here and there to assemble a team to organize the event. Seeing a kindred spirit, and a burger lover myself, I was the first volunteer right away.
I’ve known Sabahat and Chris for almost a year by then. Sabahat and I were members of the Yelp Elite, assembled by our friend and current world traveler Wendy Peters, and Chris had attended as Sab’s date often. I had no idea who the heck was the people I would meet at the first meeting, and was shocked to find out that it was them. That January 2013, the work began. We managed to assemble 16 restaurants and parlay what strengths we had into a city wide festival. Sabahat was always stronger in terms of openness and self-promotion, but I was the one who had the restaurant connections, and usually preferred to be the overall support as well. More importantly, I had a good working relationship with the chefs which we all ran with. Chris, ever hiding in the background and preferring anonymity, designed the back end with the initial website and voting system.
We hemmed and hawed, Sabahat ever being the most ambitious one (I believed we needed months to prepare… we actually managed to get 95% of the work done in WEEKS). We all agreed, there was no way on earth we were going to promote a chain like McDonald’s and the like, and wanted to highlight the local talent and the best that Alberta agriculture had to offer. We designed a system of 16 restaurants being voted in by the public and hoped that by making the voting a little annoying (needing a unique email per vote) that it would reduce the cheating. We contacted 8 local charities (it would have been 9 as we almost signed up 18 restaurants, but we just couldn’t wait any longer for their legals).
The 2013 Nainalicious Winning Burger
Despite that, we were still pretty new at this sort of game. Understandably, some restaurants had considered us to be questionable as it was the inaugural year. Some were just too busy, although even now we would LOVE to see them enter and we would gladly invite them again and again. But then there were the one or two who were actually pretty insulting. I’ve heard some rumors that a few thought they weren’t invited because I disliked them personally. Nope, if anything, there were simply too many restaurants that we sent invites in 2 waves, with a 3rd had it been necessary. Once the initial 16 spots were full, it was done. But then again, that’s the name of the game really.
The competition started, and it wasn’t without a few hiccups, but with such fantastic people as Anju’s Roy Oh (missing you this year), downtownfood’s Darren Maclean, Notable’s Michael Noble and more, it came across as a triumph. Still there were a few more problems, but it was a great week.
In the end? We raised over $6300 in a week of burger frenzy. We were a bit too ambitious in terms of charitable givings as we had tried to promote EIGHT charities at once. To try to spread the funds evenly, we partnered them with 2 restaurants each, one that we considered a heavyweight to every newbie, but it didn’t work entirely the way we wanted. Still, everyone got a lot of promo, and we had cemented ourselves as part of Calgary history, even if just for a brief blip in time. More importantly, a great story came about as little Naina’s Kitchen, the smallest and the least known of all 16 places, came out the 2013 Champion. Looking at owner Erin’s face was worth it all, and we couldn’t have been more pleased.
This year, it was much easier, but far more ambitious. We asked over 50 restaurants to join, but put in a caveat that it was a first come first serve basis. Originally we were shooting for 20, with only 2 categories in the $10 and $15, but as the names came in, we soon found that would be impossible. We ended up selecting 30 competitors, and learned from the previous year to ensure a great selection for our participants by adding the $20 category. Again, we also dared the chefs to come up with something unique, something special. It had bothered us a little that in Year One, many of the restaurants simply put up an existing burger on their menu up for the challenge. But this year? They REALLY stepped up, with so many imaginative takes on burgers made of elk, bannock, cranberries, sprouts, hemp, lobster, pork, beef of all sorts and cuts, foie gras, ramen, bao, mac n’ cheese, pepper steak, ahi tuna and more. It always surprises me by the creative energy of our chefs, and how wonderful it is to be a part of that scene in our small way. And to help promote such creativity, we created the Burger Ambassadors, comprised of some of the best food writer, personalities and bloggers in Calgary. They’ve done a great job, and their comments have help the diners choose their preferences.
Blowfish Sushi Lounge’s Ramen Burger
We also started looking for funding again, since we thought that it might not be as hard as last year, but was surprised that it was actually even harder as our contacts for many organizations had changed, and had to re-justify ourselves. More so, while YYC Burger Week came about, so did literally dozens of other new food festivals, and we ended up having to compete ourselves in a much bigger forum.
But as a wise man once said… the universe will listen. Things will work out somehow.
It did. We still worked on everything, and refused to compromise on our principals to promote Alberta restaurants, talent and produce. I wager that if we were willing to do so, funding would probably would have been a lot easier, but then, what would have been the point? We are CALGARY STRONG. It’s our home, and we wanted dearly to be at the heart of it all. More importantly, we found ourselves ever more in love with our city, and found inspiration in the people that united for those shining moments after the Floods. There would be NO compromise.
The team also expanded this year, with great new members joining in. Wanda Baker, noted food blogger of Baker’s Beans, came in with her knowledge and experience, and insight on how to approach matters while ensuring that the t’s were crossed and the i’s were dotted. Trevor Gibbons, our surprise Unofficial Judge in the Bacon Suit in 2013, also leaped in, and brought in a new energy and great ideas to promote our festival. More members with unique strengths still joined in, and now we number 11 strong. It’s a great team, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
With those skills, connections and energy, and the excited inclusion of ATB Agriculture, we found our little festival now stood toe to toe with some of the best festivals in the city. To date as I write this, there has been literally THOUSANDS of tweets, and who knows how many people out there roaming the city, discovering new and old restaurants for the first time, and personally challenging themselves to try all THIRTY burgers (for those who are doing so, I recommend our next festival YYC Soup and Salad Week…). We’ve been in tv, radio, print, and online all over the city. The restaurants are being lauded, tried out and challenged creatively in a fun and unusual way. And at the heart of it all, the 3 charities chosen this year will greatly benefit from the exposure and the funds.
So that’s really that for now. YYC Burger Week is almost at it’s 1/2 way point, and we’re seeing such an incredible energy through the city as people run into the restaurants with their passports. We love it. I love it.
To Calgary, from the 3 founders and the 8 new committee members, this is our labour of love, and our gift to the city. And we can’t wait until 2015.
Bon Appetit. And don’t forget to stamp your passport and VOTE by RATING your favorite burgers!
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My (Left) Flank Steak, as inspired by Alberta politics
I’m a political junkie, and I’m proud of it. I’m a small c conservative who loves the banter, the arguments, the manipulations and the games played in the seats of power. I always followed the Canadian and the American political scene intensely with glee and utter fascination.
But admittedly, I never did follow Alberta politics until the last election when Ralph Klein left, making one of the most interesting contests ever in recent memory. Just like every other Albertan, I was engrossed with the personalities involved, such as PC Leader (now Premier) Alison Redford, the energetic if political neophyte Danielle Smith, the ever determined Raj Sherman of the Liberals, and the one who piqued my interest despite a losing cause, Brian Mason of the NDP.
When considering that the NDP probably will be elected in Alberta maybe sometime in my great grandchildren’s lifetime (when oil has turned to god knows what), I have to admit that Brian Mason, has been doing an especially good job campaigning and fighting in the opposition for someone who is representing a party that is perpetually perceived as an underdog.
When he spoke, he came across as knowledgeable, feisty, a little hot tempered, and forceful to me, all good qualities for a leader. I do applaud his work and, last year, before the election vote, I was inspired to make a dish based on what I saw in him for my Kingsland Farmer’s Market blog in 2012.
I asked among my friends for their take on him. Fortunately for me, quite a few of those friends are as equally passionate about food as they are about politics. With that in mind, I took a small poll. First and foremost, I needed some sort of protein to represent Mr. Mason. I automatically disqualified chicken, turkey and lamb. Chicken and turkey definitely didn’t suit Mr. Mason’s style and was too much a bad joke as well. Pork? Nope, Mr. Mason was not piggish whatsoever. And then, my left-leaning foodie friend Tracey metaphysically slapped me across the head with a spiritual trout, and reminded me that only Canadian, particularly Alberta BEEF will do (hey take a look at their site for some awesome ideas! http://www.beefinfo.org).
Ok, that was that, but then what? Was there a particular cut that would be right? He just didn’t strike me as a Prime Rib kinda guy. Ribs was a possibility, because as the leader of the 4th place party, I’m sure he had to have taken some political punches to the chest. But then it struck me, only FLANK steak will do. Tough on the outside (before cooked of course), yet when treated well, becomes tender as well. And in strategic terms, I like the notion that a leader, who debates from the left, maybe even the left FLANK (?), would be well represented.
Ok, now the cut was chosen. How to pick the rest…. and with memories of the hot, passionate debates of the late NDP leader Jack Layton and the party colours, I decided that the orange Habanero pepper would be perfect. But, I can’t have it TOO hot, or else I would roast those who would dare this recipe alive. And with that, and also to complement the orange Habanero with the something sweet that would proudly show the NDP colours, roasted Orange bell peppers. Perfect… and without further ado… may I introduce to you all, and to Mr. Brian Mason, honorable leader of the Alberta NDP, my homage dish to him. The Brian Mason Hot Left-Flank Steak with a Grilled Orange Pepper Mix and White Rice. To all of you Lefties, Righties, and hopefully the fun people at the http://www.eatwriteretreat.com will get a chance to enjoy it!
What you would need:
Serves about 3-4, takes about 12 min or so to prep, but at least 9 hours to prepare.
¼ red onion, chopped
1 SMALL habanero chili pepper and dice it as best you can
1 tbls fresh thyme leaves
½ cup diced cilantro leaves
1 tbls honey
½ olive oil (I prefer extra-virgin)
1 ¼ pounds flank steak (Hoven Meats have a wonderful flank steak btw, hint hint)
The night before, grab the Flank steak, and with a hammer or heavy flat object (I use my heavy iron frying pan, “Mr. Softee” personally because the larger surface can get all of the meat evenly) and pound it a few times on both sides. Don’t do it TOO many times, because you just want to tenderize the meat, not break it apart, not unlike a coalition government.
Add the garlic, onion, lime juice, jalapeno, thyme, cilantro, oil, and honey and blend it in a bowl or a blender until everything is well mixed together, just like the left wing of the opposition.
Marinate the flank steak with 1/2 of the puree in a resealable plastic bag at least 9-10 in the refrigerator. Reserve the rest of the puree to use later as a sauce. This MUST be done. Not only will the meat absorb the flavor, but most importantly, the marinate will tenderize the steak even more. Here’s some great tips on how to grill a marinated steak from Canadian Beef!
When ready to cook, take the steak out onto a plate, and let it rest an hour before serving.
Preheat a grill to a medium fire and cut the orange bell peppers into slices.
Just before you’re about to toss the steak into the fire, add some sea salt, and normally cook the flank to medium-rare. I find that cooking this cut to well-done will pretty much turn the flank steak into a well marinated piece of leather. A rule of thumb? 4 minutes per side is about right. Add the bell peppers as well on the side (or wherever on your grill that you have enough space)
Let the meat rest for a few min just to let the juices flow. Grill the peppers until it starts to char a little. This will release the natural sugars in the peppers, and make them sweeter than just plain ol’ peppers.
Once all the blood has stopped, start to slice the steak against the grain into 1/8 to 1/4 inch slices, and brush or pour the remaining marinade over the meat.
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'It's changed who I am': Calgary mom shares words of wisdom for Mother's Day
Eva Ferguson, Calgary Herald
Since the start of her young, complex life, innocent little Ruby de Boer has presented her mother with a whirlwind of emotional highs, terrible lows, medical challenges and fears she had no idea she would ever be strong enough to face.
“All of it, it’s changed me. It’s changed who I am. And it’s given me the perspective to understand and to know that the most important thing you can ever do with your children is to be present, to be in the now.
“Don’t worry so much about the future all the time, you never really know what the future will bring.
“Just live in the moment with them, always.”
Stacey de Boer gave birth to her daughter just three years ago, after an uncomplicated pregnancy and a healthy baby boy four years earlier.
But from the moment Ruby arrived, de Boer knew something wasn’t right.
The baby girl was hardly crying, she was having trouble breathing, her heart was struggling.
Within hours, doctors discovered Ruby’s esophagus was attached to her airway; she could hardly get air, she couldn’t eat.
Yet she survived a high-risk surgery, giving her the ability to breathe on her own.
“I remember sitting in the waiting room, waiting for doctors to come and tell us whether she’d be on a ventilator for the rest of her life or not,” de Boer said.
“It was such amazing news. We were so happy, so grateful that day.”
But not long after, yet another major challenge. Ruby was diagnosed with a rare condition called “goldenhar syndrome,” which can be associated with severe skeletal and spinal irregularities. It was the unusual curvature of her spine that was essentially compressing her vital organs.
By the time she was two, Ruby would be in a full body cast, as doctors worked to align her hips properly with her pelvis and spine.
Yet she recovered and learned to walk, even run soon after.
Ruby de Boer, 3, and her mother Stacey pick dandelions behind the Alberta Children’s Hospital on Friday, May 12, 2017. Ruby, born with a rare condition, has spent the past two months confined to a halo traction device designed to gently pull her head upwards and gradually straighten her spine, so the girl and her family will spend Mother’s Day in hospital. KERIANNE SPROULE/POSTMEDIA
“To see her playing, running around with her older brother, that was another amazing milestone,” de Boer said.
“It’s funny, because you expect to just bring your baby home and have them learn to crawl, to walk, to run like any other child.
“But when you’re faced with challenges like this, you appreciate the milestones so much more.
“And that brings so much happiness to us as a family. Whenever Ruby reaches another one, we are so happy, so grateful.”
De Boer hopes for yet another milestone this June when Ruby will be free of the halo traction she’s been confined to for the past two months.
Once installed, a circular metal band — or halo — uses a pulley system and opposing weights to gently pull Ruby’s head upwards and gradually straighten her spine.
But in spite of her unjust fate, Ruby is a delightful bundle of joy and energy, much of it thanks to her mother’s undying strength and positive attitude.
“I’ve definitely had difficult times, times when I am really sad, that my child has had to go through so much.
“But I know I have to do my job. I have to do everything in my power to be as strong as I can for her. She needs more than anything for me to be strong for her.”
De Boer credits much of her strength to her husband, Mike, and Ruby’s older brother, Theo, 7, who continues to support his sister with a maturity well beyond his years.
And she admits there are many days when Ruby’s surprising strength rubs off on her, too.
“She’s so amazing, so funny, so strong and so determined. A true warrior.”
The de Boer family spent Mother’s Day like they do every day, in the hospital, focusing only on what they are grateful for — each other.
eferguson@postmedia.com
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CPL commish pleased with first year of soccer for Canadians
Todd SaelhofMore from Todd Saelhof
Updated: November 3, 2019 7:31 PM MST
Canadian Premier League pools resources for best international talent
Pro soccer back in Ottawa? Group hoping to field team in 2020 CPL season
Cavalry FC star Joel Waterman headed to MLS
CPL Commissoner David F. Clanachan at ATCO Field at Spruce Meadows in Caglary on Friday, November 1, 2019. Cavalry FC take on Forge FC in the second leg of the CPL championship game on Saturday. Jim Wells/PostmediaJimWells/Postmedia
In most soccer leagues around the world, Cavalry FC wouldn’t have had to play the last two Saturdays to chase the crown.
It would’ve already been in hand.
That’s because — unlike the CPL — most leagues don’t have a final round to determine its champion. They go with whichever club put up the best regular-season record.
And in the Canadian league’s first season — which just wrapped up in Forge FC’s favour on Saturday — that would’ve been Cavalry, with its 19-4-5 mark.
It’s a tough rule to swallow if you play for, coach, back or work for the Calgary club.
But that’s the rules of this unique, upstart league, and don’t go expecting a change in the way the CPL crowns its king.
“We wanted to make sure we kept as many teams in it when we reset (for the fall schedule), so it created this idea of a two-leg final,” said CPL commissioner David Clanachan. “Talking with some of the Canada Soccer board members, they’re telling me there’s a huge interest around the globe right now for this two-leg final. Most competitions have gotten rid of it.
“I think we’re on the right path. It could potentially change over time, but I think it works very well.”
While he may not have full support of such a formula, nobody can run down what Clanachan & Co. have accomplished in the CPL’s inaugural campaign.
Word is the future looks bright thanks to a solid start.
The original seven teams appear to be in good health, as does the league.
Expansion is at hand — think Fraser Valley, Mississauga and Ottawa — so growth is inevitable.
There’s talk of fielding a national women’s league in the future.
And the mandate of improving Canadian soccer is in full swing.
“We’re most proud of the players,” Clanachan said. “We had over 110 players for the first time earning a paycheque playing football.
“We’ve got clubs that have over 80% Canadian players starting games. We said we wanted a 51% (Canadian player-ratio) rule in place, and we far exceeded that. We’ve got under-21-year-old Canadian players playing and they’re playing meaningful minutes in the league. Those are all things we told Canada that had to be part of this league.”
To boot, the commish pointed to the success of Cavalry in the Canadian Championship, falling just shy of the final after a riveting effort against the eventual-victor Montreal Impact. He recalled, as well, how York9 nearly ousted the Impact in the third round.
“And I look at Forge going two rounds in the CONCACAF Nations League and nearly winning the second round,” Clanachan continued. “We’ve had two players (including Cavalry goalkeeper Marco Carducci) getting called up to the (Canadian) men’s national team. We’ve had four or five other players that were called up to their national squads.”
Clanchan did say he’s working with four different schedules for next season in an effort to improve that aspect of the league.
“If you asked me what’s your greatest criticism of what you’ve done in the league office this year, I would say that we put our clubs, our coaches and — more importantly — our players through a very, very tough start to the season. We packed a ton into that first part of the season until the first of July. And it didn’t get much easier after that.
“But otherwise, I think we’ve done a great job of marketing the league,” Clanachan added. “I think we have people falling in love with the game that weren’t necessarily dyed-in-the-wool football fans before. I think we’re being admired by other leagues around the world.”
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies Maps
Rave in the Redwoods
Zombies in Spaceland
Shaolin Shuffle
Andre Wright, Poindexter Zittermann, Sally Simpson, Aaron "A.J." Jordaniels, Kevin Smith (easter egg)
Bear Lake Summer Camp,[1] Redwood National and State Parks, Northern California, United States of America
Sometime in the 1990s - 3:30:14am
Survive against the limitless waves of the undead.
Recover a piece of the Soul Key.
Zombies, Slashers, Sasquatches, Skeletons, Super Slasher
Console codename
cp_rave
Multiplayer map
Mini-map
"Rave in the Redwoods, the next thrilling chapter of the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare zombies experience, continues the macabre narrative while transporting players into a new decade: the 1990s. Willard Wyler, the enigmatic movie director villain, returns and has trapped the protagonists inside another one of his twisted horror films. The four playable characters from the original story also return, but with fresh, over-the-top roles, as they learn more about Wyler's evil plot while fighting all-new varieties of the undead in an abandoned, lakeside summer camp where zombie ravers have taken over and turned the grounds into a techno-fueled illusion. Rave in the Redwoods is a tense, spooky thrill ride with shocking twists, surprises, and a slew of new Easter eggs for players to discover."
Rave in the Redwoods is the second Zombies map Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and part of the Sabotage map pack.[2] The map was released on January 31, 2017 for the PlayStation 4, and on March 2, 2017 for Xbox One and PC. It is set at Bear Lake summer camp, which has been taken over by a massive rave party, and features a new Wonder Weapon, the Vlad, an explosive tip crossbow and four new melee weapons. The map features Kevin Smith as a special guest star.
Gems are small collectables, similar to Tokens from the previous map, that allow the player to obtain several different traps from the totem poles found around the map. To activate each totem pole, a total of three gems must be used.
Compared to Zombies in Spaceland, this map is slightly larger. Unlike the previous map, this map has no starting weapon.
Bear Lodge Edit
The player will spawn on the first floor of the Bear Lodge, where four melee weapons can be picked up, as well as an M1 next to the Spiked Bat. Across from the cabinet containing the four Vlad crossbows is a door that heads into the basement, but it cannot be accessed until the power has been turned on. Up 'N Atoms can be found on the front porch next to the Machete. The fireplace across from the stairs can be used to enter Rave Mode. The Ring memento can be placed on the edge of a table near the fireplace.
When the power is turned on, three doors open in the Bear Lodge. The first door is the trapdoor leading into the spawn room. The second is a door to the right of the Golf Club, where Mule Munchies can be found. The third and final door can be found next to the M1 and Spiked Bat, which opens the second floor of the Bear Lodge. Here, the player can use three ziplines to get across the map if each area containing an end points of each zipline is opened up. A Magic Wheel location can be found on the balcony with the zipline that heads to the Trading Post/White Tail Beach area. The player can also find the Ghost 'N Skulls 2 arcade machine by a pool table. The pool table is where the player can place the 8-Ball memento. A Volk and Tuff 'Nuff can be found in the bunk room, as well as one of the parts of the boat engine.
Mess Hall Edit
The buyable barrier next to the fireplace at the Bear Lodge will bring the player down a path that leads to the Mess Hall. On the path, the player can find the Waterfall trap, which can be activated for 750 points, and the Rewind challenge station, as well as Blue Bolts to the left of the door that heads into the Mess Hall's kitchen. Inside the Mess Hall is another piece of the boat engine, which can be found leaning on one of the posts in the center of the room. An empty picture frame can be found, where the Rhino Tiki Mask can be placed. The Pacifier can be placed on the bar inside of the room.
Outside the Mess Hall is a Magic Wheel, as well as a fire pit, a souvenir totem pole and a wooden walkway that heads over to the Camper Cabins. On the walkway is another Volk wallbuy, and a potential spot for an animal statue. To the right of the main exit of the Mess Hall is a wooden bridge that can be opened for 1250 points, which heads down to the White Tail Beach. A small swamp can be found to the right of the wooden bridge, where a storm drain can be opened, which heads over to the Trading Post. The Golden Frog memento can be placed to the left of the sewer pipe, as well as the Shovel memento, where it can be placed in a grave found in the swamp.
Camper Cabins Edit
Following the wooden walkway from the Mess Hall brings the player over to the Camper Cabins. Here, the player can find an RPR Evo wallbuy, as well as another barrier that heads up to the second level of the area. An animal statue can be found on a picnic table to the right of the RPR Evo. The Black Hole challenge station can be found on the path if coming from the Mess Hall.
In the second area, another Volk wallbuy can be found, as well as Racin' Stripes, which can be found on the balcony of the cabin overlooking the lower area, as well as another spot for an animal statue, which can be found on the railing of the balcony across from Racin' Stripes. The Transponder challenge station can be found between two cabins. A cabin can be entered at the far end of the cabins, where the player can place the Boots memento if the player has obtained it. A door leading into the Old Marvin Mine can be found near the buyable barrier closest to the fire pit.
Old Marvin Mine Edit
The Old Marvin Mine consists of two levels. The top level is where the two doors into the mine connect, as well as three different pathways down to the lower level can be found. One of these pathways is a wooden staircase, where an animal statue can be found.
On the lower level is where the player can find another souvenir totem pole, Bang Bangs and an HVR wallbuy on the minecart. A tunnel in the mine heads into the basement of the Bear Lodge, where the power switch is located. Turning it on will open the trapdoor leading back into the Bear Lodge. A throwing knife game can be played, and the Smiley chainsaw can be obtained next to the game if the player has completed the map's main easter egg in that same game. A Magic Wheel spot can be found in here as well.
Thunderbird Amphitheater Edit
The buyable barrier on the front porch of the Bear Lodge will take the player down a branching path, where another souvenir totem pole can be found. Going down the left path will bring the player to the Trading Post, while taking the right path will bring the player to the Thunderbird Amphitheater. Here, a Magic Wheel spot can be found, as well as a large fire pit.
Adventure Course Edit
The 1000 point door in the Thunderbird Amphitheater will bring the player to the bottom of the Adventure Course. At the bottom of the course is a swamp area, where Bombstoppers can be found. Ascending the course, the player can find another animal statue spot and an NV4. A wooden bridge leading upwards is next, where a small hole in the bridge will bring the player back into the swamp area if they fall in it. After the bridge is a rock wall, where a Reaver wallbuy can be found, as well as another animal statue spot. The player can climb up the rock wall to get back up to the top of the course. A branching path can be found here. To the right will bring the player towards the Recreation Area, while heading left will take the player to the Archery Range.
At the Archery Range, the player can find another RPR Evo wallbuy, as well as the Wood Chipper trap, which can be activated for 750 points. The Arrowhead memento can be placed on the bar of the booth at the range.
Recreation Area Edit
The Recreation Area is a circular area consisting of a central DJ booth, a couple other smaller booths and a trailer. In the trailer, the player can find a Type-2, as well as another animal statue spot next to it. In order to get into the lower level of the Recreation Area, the player must buy one of the two 1250 point doors near the trailer or the 1250 point door at the bottom of the rock wall. Here, the player can find the final boat engine part leaning against the booth, as well as another souvenir totem pole, Quickies, a Karma-45 behind the burning man statue and another Magic Wheel spot. The player can use the DJ booth as a trap, which will attract zombies to the front of the booth, where they will be killed shortly by the music. The second entrance into the Old Marvin Mine can be found across from the sloped road barrier.
Trading Post Edit
The Trading Post can be accessed from the path branching off from the Thunderbird Amphitheater, the path by the wooden bridge by the Mess Hall or the sewer pipe in the swamp by the Mess Hall. Going down the path by the Mess Hall, the player can find a fire pit along the way, as well as the Log Swing trap, which can be activated for 350 points. Here, the player will head to the docks area of the Trading Post, where an animal statue can be found, another Reaver wallbuy, and Trail Blazers inside the building. The docks area contains the boat that heads to Turtle Island. The Fish memento can be placed at the end of the long dock.
The Trading Post over by the Thunderbird Amphitheater contains the Armageddon challenge station. Inside the Trading Post, a cash register, which acts as the map's bank can be found. Continuing through the building will take the player over to the boardwalk by the White Tail beach, where the player can find a small gazebo containing a Fate and Fortune machine and a KBS Longbow to the right of the door. The Binoculars memento can be placed on the bench directly in front of the doorway. Heading left on the boardwalk heads over to a 1250 point barrier, which heads over to the sewer pipe. On this path, an HVR can be found.
White Tail Beach Edit
A 1250 point barrier can be found by Trail Blazers, which heads down onto the beach. The boardwalk by the other trading post has a staircase and a hole on the railing which heads down onto the beach. On the beach, the player can find Slappy Taffy, as well as an Erad next to it. Several canoes by the door by Trail Blazers houses the final animal statue spot. A small dock can be found, where the player can head into the water. When in the water, the player moves slower. A small floating platform can be found in the water, where a Magic Wheel spot can be found. The player can "feed the fish" for 750 points on the platform, causing several piranhas to jump around all of the water, killing any zombie that enters the water and damaging any player in the water as well.
Turtle Island Edit
Turtle Island can be accessed once the player has collected all three parts of the boat engine. A boat can be found on the docks by the Reaver wallbuy. A projector reel can be found to the right of the door where the boat is found. Entering the boat will take the player to Turtle Island. Here, several rocks can be found all around the beach area of the island. A set of stone stairs can be found, which takes the player up to the cabin. Outside the cabin is another fire pit, as well as the final projector reel and the zipline which takes the player back to the docks. Inside the cabin is where the player can place the two reels onto the projector, which will allow the player to access the Pack-a-Punch Machine. Kevin Smith can also be found, where the player can talk to him.
Weapons Edit
Starting Weapons
Fragmentation Grenades
Off-Wall Weapons
M1 - 500 points
Hailstorm - 500 points
Banshee - 750 points
Reaver - 1250 points
Karma-45 - 1250 points
Erad - 1250 points
RPR Evo - 1250 points
HVR - 1250 points
KBS Longbow - 1250 points
NV4 - 1500 points
Volk - 1500 points
Type-2 - 1500 points
KBAR-32
R-VN (added via update)
X-Eon (added via update)
G-Rail (added via update)
FHR-40
VPR (added via update)
Trencher (added via update)
Raijin-EMX (added via update)
Mauler
Auger (added via update)
Atlas (added via update)
DMR-1
Trek-50 (added via update)
Proteus (added via update)
Rack-9
M.2187 (added via update)
MacTav-45
S-Ravage
Kendall 44
UDM (added via update)
Stallion .44 (added via update)
Spartan SA3
P-LAW
Repulsor
Black Hole Grenade
Cluster Grenade
Concussion Grenade
Plasma Grenade
Bio Spike
Candy Perks Edit
Up 'N Atoms - 500 points (solo), 1500 points (co-op)
Racin' Stripes - 2000 points
Slappy Taffy - 2000 points
Bombstoppers - 2000 points
Tuff 'Nuff - 2500 points
Bang Bangs - 2000 points
Blue Bolts - 1500 points
Mule Munchies - 2000 points
Trail Blazers - 1500 points
Quickies - 3000 points
Soundtrack Edit
These songs can only be heard at the dance party in the Recreation Area, and on Turtle Island during the boss fight.
Alien Sex Fiend – Now I'm Feeling Zombified (1990)
Aphex Twin - Digeridoo (1991)
The Crystal Method - Busy Child (1997)
Electrotete - I Love You (Cubic 22 Mix) (1992)
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (1991)
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash (1990)
John Beltran - Blue World (1995)
The Prodigy - Climbatize (1997)
The Prodigy - Your Love (1991)
Rabbit in the Moon - Out Of Body Experience (Phase 3, Burning Spear) (1994)
Second Phase - Mentasm (1991)
SL2 - On A Ragga Tip (1992)
Stereo MC's - Elevate My Mind (1990)
Tournesol - Interplanetary Zonecheck (1995)
Achievements/Trophies Edit
Trophy Level
Locksmith In Rave in the Redwoods, recover the piece of the Soul Key. 15
Super Slacker In Rave in the Redwoods, unlock Kevin Smith. 15
Stick 'em In Rave in the Redwoods, earn 100 kills with an upgraded crossbow. 15
Hallucination Nation In Rave in the Redwoods, stay in Rave Vision for 5 minutes after scene 10. 15
Tables Turned In Rave in the Redwoods, kill the Slasher with his own weapon. 30
Rave On In Rave in the Redwoods, find the hidden song. 15
Ride For Your Life In Rave in the Redwoods, ride every zipline. 15
Scrapbooking In Rave in the Redwoods, complete your photo collection and mementos. 30
Pump It Up In Rave in the Redwoods, Pack-a-Punch a weapon. 15
Top Camper In Rave in the Redwoods, earn all camp badges. 15
Opening Scene Transcript Edit
Opening Scene Transcript
The tagline "Previously in Zombies" appears on a black screen, followed by a brief recap of the opening scene of Zombies in Spaceland. At the end, the UFO is seen destroyed, and Poindexter runs up to the portal of Spaceland to grab a piece of the Soul Key. Immediately, the four actors are teleported away by another portal.
In real life, Willard Wyler bangs his fist on the movie projector as he expresses frustration.
Wyler: Damn it! Hmm, no matter. The Rave will surely end their silly little existences once and for all.
Wyler laughs maniacally as lightning strikes are heard. The scene switches to inside the movie "Rave in the Redwoods", at a rave party which is seen from a distance. The text "North West, USA - 1990s" appears in the left corner. Various ravers are seen partying at the area, with lights coming from all directions.
The scene then changes to a first-person perspective of a zombie, which slowly walks toward the party from the woods. Two ravers are pulled into the bushes, while another is caught by surprise as a zombie eats him alive. The ravers begin to scream in terror, as they panic and run, but are soon overwhelmed by the undead horde. As the party dies down, the camera moves to the right and focuses on a raver zombie, who awakens and turns, letting out a roar.
The scene switches to inside a wooden cabin, where a portal appears, and the four actors are teleported in, now with new outfits of the 90's.
Sally: No, no, no! Where the hell are we now, vatos?!
Poindexter walks up to a calendar on the wall with the words Radical 199X written on the top center.
Poindexter: I think the other question is, when the hell are we?
Sally: We're not in the 80's anymore, dude.
A.J.: Yo, how about, WHO the hell are we?
Andre looks at his outfit.
Andre: Grunge? Really?
A.J.: Haha, looks like I got your old gig, Andre.
Poindexter: I don't know about you guys, but at least we're not in that demented theme park anymore.
Sally: Yo shut up, eh? I heard something.
Zombie growls are then heard outside.
Andre: Aww shit man, we got zombies again?
A.J.: You've got to be kidding me, man!
Zombies begin to gather up, as their silhouettes appear on the windows of the cabin, banging on the glass as the screen goes black.
Ending Scene Transcript Edit
Ending Scene Transcript
Andre picks up the piece of the Soul Key. Immediately, the four actors are warped out of the movie by another portal. The scene changes to a subway train in operation. The view zooms in on one of the train cars, as the four actors are warped in, though only their silhouettes are seen as they appear to be wearing 70s' outfits.
Poindexter: We did it!
A.J.: Did what exactly?! We're still not back in the damn theater.
Sally: Where the hell are we now?!
The train then slowly stops, and the actors exit the train, with weapons armed while 70s' disco music plays in the background.
Andre: Alright, I think we about to get a whole lot mo' funky.
Rave in the Redwoods layout.
Rave in the Redwoods poster.
Concept art Edit
Slasher concept art.
Sasquatch concept art.
Call of Duty® Infinite Warfare – Rave in the Redwoods Trailer
Call of Duty® Infinite Warfare – Rave in the Redwoods Intro Video
The Old Marvin Mine was known as the Old Hudson Mine prior to being changed.
If the player looks at the boat used to get to Turtle Island with the integrated sights found on the X-Eon, it will be highlighted orange like an enemy.
When the boat is viewed highlighted, the player can see that the propeller on the boat doesn't move.
↑ https://twitter.com/CallofDuty/status/823680437100740608
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRhcF0hS9M
List of Maps in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Breakout · Crusher · Frontier · Frost · Genesis · Grounded · Mayday · Precinct · Retaliation · Scorch · Skydock · Throwback · Zombies in Spaceland (ZM)
Dominion · Neon · Noir · Renaissance · Rave in the Redwoods (ZM)
Archive · Excess · Scrap · Turista · Shaolin Shuffle (ZM)
Bermuda · Ember · Fore · Permafrost · Attack of the Radioactive Thing (ZM)
Altitude · Carnage · Depot 22 · Heartland · The Beast from Beyond (ZM)
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Industry Supports California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Recommends Staying the Course | May 11, 2017
Industry Supports California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Recommends Staying the Course
More than 150 companies and organizations back the pivotal clean economy policy
Sacramento—As California policymakers consider options to extend the state’s landmark climate change laws to 2030 and beyond, today 155 businesses and industry groups said they strongly support the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) in a letter to Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.
First implemented in 2011, the LCFS requires California fuel providers to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels at least 10 percent by 2020, by phasing in less carbon-intensive fuel technologies. The letter demonstrates the depth and breadth of business support for the LCFS, which creates jobs and rewards innovation while slashing greenhouse gas emissions and improving air quality. In just five years—2011 to 2016—the LCFS helped inspire a 57 percent uptick in the use of clean fuels in California. More than 300 companies in the clean transportation technology industry now employ more than 25,000 workers in California, as CALSTART showed in a report released in 2016.
“The LCFS is spurring the growth of a cleaner fuels industry and creating new jobs in California,” said John Boesel, president and CEO of CALSTART, a consortium of clean transportation technology companies that organized the letter. “We have been seeing a steady expansion of the low carbon fuels industry in California.The LCFS is working and should be continued and strengthened.”
Signatories to the letter include clean fuel producers, vehicle manufacturers, and vehicle fleet operators. In the letter, signatories lauded the LCFS because it provides the incentives needed to invest in new clean vehicle and fuel technologies today in order to bring down the costs for all Californians in the future.
The state’s flourishing clean economy was a major focus of the letter. As indicated in the letter, the LCFS has supported the development of over 20 low-carbon fuel plants throughout the state, with additional facilities on the horizon. Since 2011, $1.6 billion has been invested in clean fuels production under the LCFS.
“The LCFS credits provide an important source of revenue for CR&R’s anaerobic digester facility,” said Paul Relis, senior vice president of CR&R Incorporated, a supportive business. “This facility is producing the cleanest transportation fuel available to address nitrogen oxide and criteria emissions and short-lived climate pollutants in Southern California.” Based in Orange County, CR&R is one of California’s largest waste and recycling collection companies and is the first in California to produce renewable natural gas from organic material diverted from landfills and inject it into the pipeline.
With the LCFS, California is on track to meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets enshrined in the state’s landmark climate change laws including AB 32 and more recently, SB 32. Signatories also note the LCFS has been a vital tool for bringing clean, low carbon transportation to California’s disadvantaged communities and that the policy improves air quality in areas like the San Joaquin Valley and the South Coast Air Basin, two regions that suffer from the nation’s worst air quality. The policy has already helped California avert 26 million tons of carbon pollution and $2 billion in avoided public health impacts.
“The LCFS is a critical incentive driving heavy-duty truck and bus fleets toward zero-emission vehicles,” said Macy Neshati, senior vice president of BYD Heavy Industries, a California manufacturing company. “To date, BYD has created more than 600 vehicle manufacturing jobs in California to meet strong demand for zero-emission vehicles.”
Companies signing the letter emphasized that the LCFS is good for their customers. According to a recent report, the LCFS will save California consumers $1,210 to $1,530 in annual fuel costs while encouraging new mobility options and more alternative fuel choices. Love’s Travel Stops, a truck stop and convenience store chain, and Trillium CNG, a leading provider of renewable natural gas for natural gas vehicles, both relyon the LCFS to commercialize cleaner, more modern fuel.
“Love’sand Trillium CNG strongly support California’s LCFS program,” said Bill Cashmareck, president of Trillium CNG. “It allows our companies to continue to invest with confidence in renewable natural gas, creates good paying jobs that support our business, and allows us to deliver clean burning fuels to the state of California.”
View the complete letter and full list of signatories here.
MEDIA CONTACT: Ryan Schuchard, rschuchard@calstart.org, 626-744-5606
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Stories About Circumcision: When one parent has religious reasons to do it, and the other has philosophical reasons not to.
May 20, 2016 Camille Williams 1 Comment
This is the third installation in a series about circumcision. Click here to read the introductory post about my perspective and experience on this topic as a midwife and mother.
Now grab a cup of tea, or whatever you like, and settle in with this interview with the mother of a 10-year-old son. It was a rich discussion that brought up a lot of interesting points about the challenges of bicultural marriage, the mind-body connection, memory and trauma, and unresolved inner conflicts.
Tracy (names changed for privacy) is an American educator from a self-described “hippie family.” She married Lamine, a Muslim man from Mali, Africa (now amicably divorced). Islam is one of the two major religions that has male circumcision as one of its tenets (the other, of course, is Judaism). They had a son together. Lamine wanted him circumcised, Tracy didn’t. Here’s what happened: Continue reading →
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Stories About Circumcision: A Tale of Two Brothers
August 27, 2015 Camille Williams 10 Comments
This is the second post in the series on circumcision. The first explores circumcision in general and tells the story of my first experience with it as a nursing student, and how I counsel expectant parents now as a midwife. To read it, click here.
Julie (name changed for privacy) is a 40-year-old mother of two boys, ages 11 and 7. Her older son was circumcised, and her younger son was not. She agreed to talk with me about her experience and how she and her husband made both decisions. Continue reading →
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Stories About Circumcision: One Midwife’s Perspective
Circumcision can be a touchy subject. Parents are in the unenviable position of having to make this important and permanent decision for their sons with a lot of conflicting information. Those who choose to fully investigate the issue find an overwhelming spectrum of opinions amidst the facts, and most will encounter heated debate in the media, their social circles, or even within their own families. They hear from staunch defenders on medical, cultural, or religious grounds. They hear from others who consider the procedure unnecessary but relatively benign. They hear from those who see it as a human rights violation, ethically no different from female circumcision common to other cultures.
As you may have guessed, I am among those who hopes cultural change will make circumcision a distant memory. In the future, I suspect we will all be scratching our heads in disbelief that this is what we used to do to almost all our baby boys. Continue reading →
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Homeless Guy Eats Crap
Homeless Guy Eats Crap is a YouTube video that went viral due to the channel Mega64, who turned it into a big inside joke. It got to the point where they even broadcasted it live at E3 2015 during Rooster Teeth’s livestream on the show floor. The short video consists of a homeless man begging for change, and eventually, a man gives him a sack of fudge. The man eats it, only to discover it’s something else. The video lives on in infamy within the Mega64 fanbase, with numerous people attempting to recreate it.
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Area 51-Chan
Area 51-Chan is a character created by webtoon Merryweather Comics who is the personification of Area 51. In response to the Storm Area 51 Facebook meme event planned for September 20, 2019, Area 51-Chan will try to convince you that she has no aliens and shouldn’t be raided, and that only idiots believe in aliens.
June 26, 2019 by Real Human Bean
Mr. Plinkett
Harry S. Plinkett is a senile old man portrayed by Rich Evans and Mike Stoklasa for Redlettermedia, a YouTube film review channel. The character appears in two different continuities. Evans portrays him in Half in the Bag while Stoklasa portrays him (voice only) in Plinkett Reviews. The character achieved massive fame online for his series of reviews for the Star Wars prequels. Evans’ Plinkett is more of a confused and slightly off old man getting his VCR fixed by the Lightning Fast VCR Repair Men while Stoklasa’s is a full on serial killer pervert. Since Stoklasa’s Plinkett never appears on-screen, this guide will be based off of Evans’ version.
Lightning Fast VCR Repairmen
Half in the Bag is a film review series by YouTube channel RedLetterMedia hosted by Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman. The series is unique in its sitcom-like production, with a storyline fueling the reviews. In the series, Mike and Jay play two inept VCR repairmen trying to fix Mr. Plinkett’s VCR player.
June 5, 2019 by Real Human Bean
John Blyth Barrymore in 07/27/1978
John Blyth Barrymore is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Zeke in the 1970s television series Kung Fu, but he has gained meme popularity due to his role in the Lasagna Cat video 07/27/1978, where he speaks for an hour in one uninterrupted take analyzing a Garfield comic strip where Garfield steals Jon Arbuckle’s pipe.
Jeff the Killer is a classic meme originating from a creepypasta post in 2008. He is a young boy who, after being badly beaten and burnt, goes insane, cutting his eyelids and mouth and becoming a deranged serial killer. He tells his victims “Go to sleep” before murdering them.
Shadman
Shadman is the Internet persona of illustrator Shaddai Prejean. He runs the website Shadbase, which is infamous for its illustrations of various cartoon/video game characters. He is the subject of various memes and ridicule and his real-life look is the one he features in his Twitch streams. Just him mentioning a beloved character is enough for people all over the Internet to cry “Shadman no!”
September 9, 2018 by Real Human Bean
Todd and Aaron
Todd and Aaron are Internet personas performed by Rocco Botte and Shawn Chatfield as part of Mega64, a video game-themed comedy group. Todd and Aaron host the annual Game Awards for Mega64, a parody of other game awards where the two use their obnoxious fratboy personalities to satirize the average gaming audience. They were even featured on the VGA’s in 2007 and produced a commercial for it.
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
The “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme came from an episode of 30 Rock, where 55-year-old private investigator named Lenny Wosniak (Steve Buscemi) goes undercover as a high school student. Make sure to get two skateboards for this costume, one to casually hold under your arm and another to sling over your shoulder like a cool kid.
January 29, 2018 by Real Human Bean
Sam Hyde (TED Talk)
Samuel Whitcomb Hyde AKA Sam Hyde is an Internet comedian. He co-created the sketch comedy group Million Dollar Extreme, which had a short-lived [adult swim] show called World Peace. MDE’s most famous skit involves Sam sneaking into a TED Talk conference at Drexel University and giving a satirical ironic TED Talk proposing a “2070 Paradigm Shift” in a full makeshift Centurion outfit. This guide is for that outfit.
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From Foal To Finish Line™: Good Magic
GOOD MAGIC, a chestnut colt by Curlin out of Glinda the Good by Hard Spun, was a $1 million session four sale topper purchased by agent Mike Ryan for E5 Racing.
“He’s as good a Curlin as you’ll see,” said Ryan in a Bloodhorse news story. “Curlin is Curlin. In my mind he’s as good as Tapit.”
Good Magic has an A Classic Champion Thoroughbred Profile® and he was one of my best of sale picks. Here’s the video of Good Magic in the auction ring:
Good Magic’s sire, Curlin, was an outstanding racehorse that compiled an 11-2-2 record in 16 career starts with $10,501,800 in career earnings.
Curlin did not start as a two-year-old. But, at the age of three, Curlin was 6-1-2 in nine starts with $5,102,800 in earnings including wins in the Rebel Stakes (G3) and Arkansas Derby (G2) en route to a third-place finish in the 2007 Kentucky Derby (G1). He went on to win the Preakness Stakes (G1) and he finished second in the Belmont Stakes (G1).
Other important stakes wins include the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), twice, Dubai World Cup (G1), Stephen Foster Handicap (G1), Woodward Stakes (G1), and the UAE Jaguar Trophy Handicap.
In his first five crops as a stallion, Curlin has sired the 2013 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Palace Malice and the 2016 Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Exaggerator. In addition, Curlin produced the classic-placed runners Good Magic (second, 2018 Kentucky Derby), Tenfold (third, 2018 Preakness), Ride On Curlin (second, 2014 Preakness), Keen Ice (third, 2015 Belmont) and Irish War Cry (second, 2017 Belmont).
Won at two
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Stakes (G1, 8½ f, defeating Solomini, Bolt d’Oro, Givemeaminit, The Tabluator, Hollywood Star, Firenze Fire, Hazit, Free Drop Billy, U S Navy Flag, Golden Dragon, Bahamian)
2nd at two
Champagne Stakes (G1, 8 f, to Firenze Fire, defeating Enticed, Kowboy Karma, Hazit, Honorable Treasure, Aveenu Mulcainu, Full of Run, Bahamian, Stronger, Master Manipulator, Blame It On Honey)
Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1, 8½ f, defeating Flameaway, DQ-Sporting Chance, Free Drop Billy, Blended Citizen, Kanthaka, Tiz Mischief, Marconi, Zing Zang, California Night, Gotta Go, Machismo, Determinant, Arawak)
2nd at three
Kentucky Derby (G1, 10 f, to Justify, defeating Audible, Instilled Regard, My Boy Jack, Bravazo, Hofburg, Lone Sailor, Vino Rosso, Solomini, Firenze Fire, Bolt d’Oro,
3rd at three
Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2, 8½ f, to Promises Fulfilled, Strike Power, defeating Machismo, Marconi, Gotta Go, Storm Runner, He Takes Charge, Peppered)
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Engineering Climate Data Sets (Opens in a new Window)
Engineering Climate Datasets contain: Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Files, the Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Datasets (CWEEDS) and the Canadian Weather Year for Energy Calculation (CWEC) dataset. The IDF dataset contains short duration rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) statistics. Data are presented as tables and graphs for various locations across Canada. CWEEDS provides hourly and long-term weather conditions at monitoring stations across Canada with at least 10 years of records between 1998 and 2014. CWEC datasets contain 12 calculated "Typical Meteorological Months" selected from a 30 years of records, including daily global radiation, dry-bulb temperature, dew-point temperature and wind speed.
List of Near Real Time Monitoring Stations (Opens in a new Window)
List of Near Real Time Stations is a database of weather stations that contains data for variables that include climate variables (air temperature, precipitation, etc.), water temperature, groundwater elevation and stage/flow for various station locations across Newfoundland and Labrador. Data is displayed in graphical, mapped, tabular, and camera image formats and updated every two hours. Hourly, daily, and monthly climate data are also available.
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment, Water Resources Management Division
MSC50 Wind and Wave Climate Hindcast (Opens in a new Window)
The MSC50 Wind and Wave Climate Hindcast provides hourly wind and wave time series data from climate hindcast models. These hindcasts cover the Canadian Maritimes, North Atlantic basin, Northeast Pacific Ocean, and Arctic Ocean for the historical period 1954- 2015. Data are available in tabular and GIS formats.
Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) and Snow Course Data and Products (Opens in a new Window)
Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) and Snow Course Data and Products is an interactive map that allows for data retrieval of snow, precipitation, and temperature for Alaska, Northwest Canada and the Western US. Historical data are available as point and gridded data.
Natural Resources Conservation Service
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Arctic Portal (Opens in a new Window)
The Arctic Portal is a comprehensive gateway to Arctic information and data on the internet, increasing information sharing and co-operation among Arctic stakeholders and granting exposure to Arctic related information and data. The interactive map allows user to select and view specific layers of climate variables, including boreholes, permafrost classification, permafrost extent, details on the active layer, sea ice extent, and historical climate. Additionally, static maps of sea ice, flora and fauna are available for download.
Arctic Council
BC Agriculture Water Calculator (Opens in a new Window)
The BC Agricultural Water Calculator uses 10 years of historical climate data, from 2001 to 2010, to calculate how much water farmers should need for their farm in the "new climate normal", which farmers can reference in their water licence applications. Government of BC staff involved with water authorizations also use this calculator when reviewing applications. Data are available for individual land parcels in tabular format.
Government of Canada, Government of British Columbia, Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia, Investment Agriculture Foundation, Okanagan Basin Water Board
BC Climate Explorer (Opens in a new Window)
The BC Climate Explorer is an independent, open-source data visualization project using BC's Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification (BEC) units. The goal is to help British Columbians - citizens, professionals, and public servants - to understand their changing local climates using both historical and projected future climate information. A wide range of variables is available, including temperature, precipitation, season length, frost, moisture deficit, humidity, and calculated indicators at monthly, seasonal, and annual resolutions. Data are displayed as raster data and are available for download in tabular, polygon, or raster file formats.
BC Climate Explorer
CC-Bio: Maps and Data (Opens in a new Window)
CC-Bio is a project to predict potential effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of a large range of plant and animal species from Quebec. CC-Bio supports regional strategies of adaptation to climate change in the field of biodiversity conservation. Advanced statistical techniques are used to develop quantitative models representing the complex relationships between species distributions and environmental variables, including climate. The website modeling results for 681 species of amphibians, birds, and plants for which potential effects of climate change have been analyzed are available for view. Results for 84 tree species have not yet been made public (for these species, contact rine.perie_at_mrnf.gouv.qc.ca).
Université du Québec à Rimouski, Ouranos
Climate data – High resolution projections (Opens in a new Window)
Climate data - High resolution projections contains high resolution climate change data focused on Ontario. The dataset contains the 50th percentile high resolution probabilistic projections of annual averaged temperature and precipitation over Ontario, covering the 1970s, 2030s, 2050s, and 2080s. Data are provided in partnership with the University of Regina and York University. Data are available for download in tabular and gridded formats
Government of Ontario, University of Regina, York University
Climate Portraits (Opens in a new Window)
Climate Portraits contains historically observed and future modelled climate indicators for various regions of Quebec for 2041-2070 as well as 2071-2100 horizon years. Moderate and high emissions scenarios are available and indicators can be mapped, graphed, or presented in tabular form. Indicators are reported as annual and/or seasonal averages over the horizon period, and include: average, maximum and minimum daily temperature, total precipitation, freeze-thaw events, growing degree days, days over 30C, and maximum 5-day precipitation. Projected climate indicators are compared to historical observations graphically and in tabular form. Data is available for download in csv and json formats.
Ouranos
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LG Electronics Collects Record Number Of Awards At CES 2020
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LOTUS NAMED AS ‘LUXURY BRAND OF THE YEAR’ AT PRESTIGIOUS LUXURY BRIEFING AWARDS 2019
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(Hethel, UK – 29 October 2019) – Lotus has won the prestigious ‘Luxury Brand of the Year’ award at the annual Luxury Briefing Awards 2019. The car maker was honoured at a gala ceremony staged at The Savoy, London in front of more than 350 VIP guests.
Founded in 1996, Luxury Briefing provides industry reports, analysis and expert opinion across all sectors of the luxury industry. ‘Luxury Brand of the Year’ is one of the top awards and chosen by the organisation’s board of directors. In selecting Lotus, Sir Eric Peacock, Chairman of Luxury Briefing, said Lotus has “revolutionised and disrupted its sector by blowing away all boundaries and limitations with an energetic burst of innovation and repositioning”.
Praise was given for ongoing enhancements to the Lotus brand, which to date have included a new corporate identity, new ‘For the Drivers’ brand tag line, and a complete overhaul of its digital presence. Sir Eric acknowledged Lotus’ commitment to top-level motorsport through the Evora GT4 Concept, the Premier League football partnership with Norwich City, and a collaboration on elite cycling performance through the expanding Lotus Engineering consultancy.
However, what excited the Luxury Briefing team most was the launch of the all-electric Lotus Evija hypercar. Sir Eric called it “a game-changer of a new car” which had raised the brand’s global profile massively. It marks the start of an ambitious and exciting new product plan that will grow the brand over the next decade.
Phil Popham, CEO, Lotus cars, collected the award and commented: “We are a performance car company with bold ambitions for the future, so to be recognised and honoured as a luxury brand at this stage of our journey is a fantastic achievement. This award is for everyone in the Lotus family around the world who is working tirelessly to grow our brand and achieve new levels of success. I’m confident it will the first of many from outside the automotive sector.”
Other brands recognised at the awards include Princess Yachts, Hennessey XO, Selfridges, Fortnum & Mason, Timothy Oulton, Creed Boutique, Aston Martin and Bentley.
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VIDEO: UK Alumni Association Honors Great Teachers
On Saturday, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association presented its 2015 Great Teacher Awards to six recipients at a recognition dinner.
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Muslim Students, Faculty Reassured of Inclusion
The University of Kentucky Muslim Student Association, an organization with a sustained 43-year history on campus
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STEAM High School Students Gain Unique Experience Interning at UK
In any given program and semester, college students are leaving the classroom, and often times campus, to get a glimpse of the professional world or their future career by interning.
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UK Confucius Institute Brings Exhibit, Symposium With Focus on Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
An exhibition and symposium at the University of Kentucky will explore the experience of Jewish refugees in China.
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Finding Faults: Inside Sean Bemis' Research
Sean Bemis put his hands together side by side to demonstrate two plates of the earth’s crust with a smooth boundary running between them. But that boundary is not always smooth and those plates do not always sit together neatly, which makes the earth’s crust a dynamic and complex surface.
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Growing & Strengthening: Two New Faculty Members in Hispanic Studies
Mónica Díaz and Matt Losada join the ranks of respected instructors and researchers in the Department of Hispanic Studies with a wealth of publications and teaching experience, as well as interest in Interdisciplinarity.
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Biology Professor Helps Bring New York-based Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Therapeutics Company to Lexington
Gismo Therapeutics Inc., a New York-based biotech startup, has recently relocated its company to the University of Kentucky Advanced Science and Technology Commercialization Center, a business incubator housing new and emerging technology-based companies on UK’s campus.
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Sleep Study: Sociology's Mairead Eastin Moloney Interviewed for Live Science
A recent online article contemplated what life might look like if there were a cure for sleep, and the possible sociological impacts that would follow.
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A&S Distinguished Professor Lecture
This Spanish–Moroccan war, known in Spain as the War of Africa, was a colonial military operation that resulted in the surrender of the city of Tetouan. A political victory with no tangible gains, the African War formed part of a persuasive rhetoric and a stirring propaganda used by the Spanish government to heighten the national pride of the people. The patriotic delirium surrounding this war marks the beginnings —and also the death throes— of Spanish colonialism on Moroccan territory in modern times. Spain’s military intervention in Morocco inspired an abundant literature whose aim was to glorify the war. Professor Rueda examines one-act plays on the topic of the War of Africa to reveal how war was staged and orchestrated politically through theatrical and musical performance. Burlesque musical re-presentations of the War of Africa reinforce collective yet conflictive notions of national identity, still unresolved at the threshold of Modernity, while exposing Spain’s impracticable political aspirations to regain its lost colonial power and the nation’s hesitancy to refashion itself as a modern nation.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
UKAA Auditorium @ WY Young Library
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Chemistry's John Anthony Named ACS Editor's Choice
A paper by John Anthony, professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry and faculty member of the Center for Applied Energy Research, has been recognized as the American Chemical Society's Editors' Choice.
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Computer experts discuss the legal aspects of hacking, security risks, and how dangerous hackers can be. 25:25
Ron Carey, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, on the future of labor unions in the United States. 19:33
Jack Newfield
Frontline journalist Jack Newfield previews the upcoming PBS documentary, "JFK, Hoffa, and the Mob." 10:59
Sol Wachtler Scandal
A panel anaylzes Judge Sol Wachtler's arrest for harassment and extortion. 17:45
Alan Dershowitz discusses Woody Allen, his clients Mike Tyson and Leona Helmsley, and his book, "Contrary to Popular Opinion." 22:34
Violent Crime and the Police
A panel of legal experts discusses violent crime and the challenges facing the legal system. 08:21
Rising Incarceration Rates
A panel discussion about rising incarceration rates and the inadequacy of rehabilitation programs. 17:40
Ron Wikberg
Former convict and author Ron Wikberg reflects on the inadequacy of the criminal justice system. 05:57
Rudy Giuliani defends his actions at a demonstration by police officers protesting Mayor Dinkins' proposed Civilian Complaint Review Board. 14:29
Mayor David N. Dinkins
Mayor David N. Dinkins defends his Civilian Complaint Review Board and deplores an ugly demonstration by off-duty policemen. 13:41
'Ivan the Terrible' Appeal, Pt. 1
Fredric Dannen and Tom Teicholz debate whether Nazi guard John Demjanjuk should be acquitted. 13:06
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Lawrence Otis Graham, Pt. 2
Attorney Lawrence Otis Graham recounts his experience posing as a busboy at a Greenwich Country Club. 01:43
Peter Berle
Peter Berle, president of the National Audubon Society, on supply and demand, energy policies, and the importance of conservation. 09:39
BCCI Indictments, Pt. 2
The conversation with financial experts Marie Brenner, Rory O'Connor, and Alan Friedman regarding the BCCI scandal continues. 10:02
In the final part of the conversation, financial experts speculate on future indictments in the BCCI case. 09:45
BCCI Indictments
Three financial experts look closely at the BCCI scandal and indictments. 11:15
Curtis Sliwa Shooting, Pt. 2
Continuing the discussion of Curtis Sliwa's shooting, reporter John Miller expresses concern that Sliwa is spinning the story for publicity. 12:28
Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa and reporter John Miller describe Sliwa's shooting and their belief that John Gotti's people were behind it. 11:53
Michael Milken Case
Journalists Jesse Kornbluth and Sander Vanocur discuss Kornbluth's new book about the case of Michael Milken, "Highly Confident." 12:58
Timothy Phelps
Author Timothy Phelps examines the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas story in his book, "Capital Games." 14:35
Albert Krieger
Gotti defense attorney Albert Krieger comments on his client's sentence to life in prison without parole. 18:35
Gotti Trial Verdict
Albert Krieger, John Gotti's defense attorney, and a panel of legal experts examine Gotti's sentence to life in prison. 20:07
Black Males in America
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Rodney King Verdict
A panel considers the acquittal of the four policemen who beat Rodney King. 37:24
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Mike Tyson Sentence
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WNBC reporter John Miller describes covering the trial of mob boss John Gotti. 14:00
Gotti Trial Continues
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New Jersey's AIDS Policy
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Mafia experts discuss the news that John Gotti's second-in-command, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, has turned state's evidence. 21:39
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Among patients with a recent hospital stay, the number of patients at this agency that were re-admitted to the hospital was worse than expected and the number that went to the ER without being re-admitted was worse than expected.
Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod.
Visiting Nurse Association of Cape Cod. High expectations for quality of care rendered, which is exactly what you want in an employer. Team mates are all high quality, experienced nurses with excellent clinical skills, and you should be, too.
Pay rate is better than average, but, again, it should be, because you are employing quality nurses, and it shows. Not a lot of consistency with staffing patterns, which leads to a lack of continuity with patients. Perhaps hook up per diems with specific case mgrs so that the same group of people are generally seeing the same patients?
Just a thought. My team leader changed frequently, and I didn't feel like any of the latter team leaders really knew anything about me. I understand that the agency is going through a period of growth and transition, but if you want to keep those quality nurses, it would be good to try to make the per diems a m ore integral part of the team.
Ok pay, but not worth the unsafe. You may meet some wonderful people but they are well trained to watch out for themselves. MNA for some but not all and they too will turn a blind eye to suit their needs.
Everything else!!! They will throw you under the bus without blinking an eye. The bottom line is their reimbursement and NOT patient safety. Flexibility of hours, good money if you don't count the hours completing documentation after doing visits. I rarely see the other nurses, I never see any supervisors, and trying to get hold of an You are essentially on your own.
People who are in positions that really SHOULD be supporting the nursing staff believe, and are treated by mgmt as, the real star players in this business. For example, in-house call-center personnel inevitably respond to all calls for advice or help in any given in-home situation with the instruction to "call the doctor. What I am often looking for is another nurse to run something by, and it's clear that the call center is not interested in that. I love my job, and I love my patients, but sometimes, it would be good to have another person to discuss things with.
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May 5, Pros High expectations for quality of care rendered, which is exactly what you want in an employer. Cons Not a lot of consistency with staffing patterns, which leads to a lack of continuity with patients. Advice to Management My team leader changed frequently, and I didn't feel like any of the latter team leaders really knew anything about me. Flag as Inappropriate Flag as Inappropriate. Jan 31, Doesn't Recommend.
Pros Ok pay, but not worth the unsafe. Cons Everything else!!! Advice to Management Get rid of management and start over, this place is a disasterous, unsafe, unprofessional mess. See Our Latest Jobs. May 4, Pros Flexibility of hours, good money if you don't count the hours completing documentation after doing visits. Advice to Management People who are in positions that really SHOULD be supporting the nursing staff believe, and are treated by mgmt as, the real star players in this business.
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You may meet some wonderful people but they are well trained to watch out for themselves. Home Health Agencies. Specially trained teams offer intravenous therapy, wound care, ostomy care, pain management, care, oncology, palliative and hospice care, mental health assessments, telemonitoring and maternal and child health. Doesn't Recommend. I love my job, and I love my patients, but sometimes, it would be good to have another person to discuss things with.
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Arson Blamed For Loss Of Elephant Statue
By Dana Kozlov July 29, 2018 at 7:23 pm
Filed Under:arson, Dana Kozlov, Elephant Statue, Fire, Local TV, Northlake
CHICAGO (CBS)—Northlake is sometimes called “The City of Friendly People,” but not everyone in the town is so kind.
A popular statue in suburban Northlake has been targeted by an arsonist, who burned it down one recent night.
The life-sized African elephant statue had been in the community for more than three decades before it was destroyed by a fire.
The statue, known as “Broccoli” to Northlake residents, is especially significant to Tim Saenger, whose family owned the statue for years.
He spoke to CBS 2’s Dana Kozlov on Sunday.
His father had cancer and thought selling the elephant would help pay his medical bills, so the city stepped in and bought it in 2016.
The beloved sculpture will now only live on in memory.
Surveillance video captures a man’s multiple attempts to light it on fire until it finally starts burning.
Saenger was out of town when the statue burned down, and neighbors reported nothing unusual that night.
Neighbor Jennifer Serpee was shocked to see the elephant gone.
“Why would—I’m at a loss—at a loss,” she said.
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Chinese Art Critic Li Xianting: Collecting Chinese Contemporary Art Is A Kind Of “Cultural Creation”
“Godfather Of Chinese Contemporary Art” Advocates Collections Develop To Ensure Art Can Be Seen In China
"The Godfather of Chinese contemporary art," Li Xianting (Photo: ArtZine China)
At recent events like the Global Collecting Forum and the Songzhuang Art Festival’s Conference of Collectors of Chinese Contemporary Art, a major topic of discussion among Chinese scholars and art critics has been the need for Chinese collectors of contemporary art (and Chinese museums and galleries) to acquire more top-quality pieces while educating the public on the history, subject matter, figures and current state of Chinese contemporary art.
At the Songzhuang Festival, Chinese art critic Li Xianting — who has been called the “Godfather of Chinese Contemporary Art” — gave a speech in which he said collecting Chinese contemporary art is a form of “cultural creation” which requires the urgent attention of Chinese collectors. Since the breakout of Chinese contemporary art in the late 1970s and its development over the years, the majority of major works of art have been acquired by Western collectors, and although that is changing gradually as Chinese buyers amass their own collections, Li still sees disequilibrium in the global marketplace. By building collections of Chinese contemporary art now, and continuing to patronize Chinese artists in the same way the Medici family did in Renaissance-era Italy, Li feels that Chinese art can reach the Chinese people themselves by building a new form of aesthetic education while stemming the flow of artwork out of the country.
Artxun (Chinese) posted the entirety of Li’s speech today. Translation of excerpts by ChinaLuxCultureBiz team:
Collection is a kind of cultural creation, and in collecting contemporary art one must face value standards, but value standards in a progressing era are of a very uncertain ideological form, and collectors — through their behavior — have to confirm whether they’re actually qualified to become the builders of value standards in the era in which we live. Every major collector who made an important contribution to art history, such as the Renaissance-era Medici family or the Guggenheims, Ludwig II…the famous American and Italian Guggenheim museums, and Germany’s Ludwig Museum — named after these collectors — because of these people and places collecting artwork, some of these works of art have become critical elements of art history.
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The Feast of the Rosary has a bit of an evolving history! The natural progression of Our Lady’s feast is a wonderful proof of her love and protection of her children that she so loves. Dates and details can be so boring, so bear with me through this, because there are many important dates and events that mark the way to the Feast of the Holy Rosary being established.
The right to celebrate the Feast of the Rosary, which occurs on October 7th during the Month of the Holy Rosary, was first granted to the Dominicans, (the Friar Preachers), because of their propagation of the devotion of the Rosary to defeat the Albigensian heresy, as revealed by Our Lady to St. Dominic .
We should note here that it was only granted to the Dominicans at this time, though the devotion to the Rosary was being spread very rapidly.
The next step, after the victory at the Battle of Lepanto on Oct 7, 1571, Pope St Pius V instituted the festival of ‘Mary of Victory'(Our Lady, Queen of Victory). The victory of the battle is credited to the recitation of the Rosary by the men on the ships and galleys (to whom Don Juan of Austria gave each man a rosary) and by the Pope himself and others who were celebrating the Festival of the Rosary at that time.
For that years festival, Pope St Pius V, who before he was elected to the Papacy, was also himself a Dominican Friar and loved the Rosary, had asked all the faithful to pray their Rosaries for the intention of success of the Holy League in defeating the Ottoman Regime.
Next, Pope Gregory XIII, in 1573, set the Festival of the Rosary as the First Sunday in October, to be celebrated in those churches with an altar or Chapel of the Rosary.
In 1671, on the hundredth anniversary of Lepanto, the celebration was extended to Spain and all her dominions.
Then, Pope Clement XI, after the defeat of the Turks in 1715 in Belgrade, ordered the Feast to be celebrated by the whole church. His intention was:
“that the hearts of the faithful might be thereby incited to the greater veneration of the Blessed Virgin, and that the grateful remembrance of the help received from above might never pass away.”
In 1887, Pope St Pius X returned the Feast of the Holy Rosary to October 7th.
There are more dates and events of course, but these are the main ones to let you see the progression. A bit more research would show the transition of the name of the feast from Our Lady of Victory to the Feast of the Holy Rosary, but I will leave this research task to a more educated history buff than myself. 😉 For more information, consider these books:
For the Mass of the Feast of the Rosary: 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal
The most complete book of devotion: Secret of the Rosary
G. K. Chesterton’s famous poem about Lepanto
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Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity, life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. It is thought to have originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day, incorporated some of the traditions of Samhain. The evening before was known as All Hallows’ Eve and later Halloween. Over time, Halloween evolved into a secular, community-based event characterized by child-friendly activities such as trick-or-treating. In a number of countries around the world, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people continue to usher in the winter season with gatherings, costumes and sweet treats.
Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction during the long, dark winter.
One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween.
To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other’s fortunes. When the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them during the coming winter.
By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain probably explains the tradition of “bobbing” for apples that is practiced today on Halloween.
On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III (731–741) later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make November 2 All Souls’ Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saints’ Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.
HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN
HALLOWEEN COMES TO AMERICA
Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included “play parties,” public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other’s fortunes, dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland’s potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today’s “trick-or-treat” tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or mirrors.
In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes. Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything “frightening” or “grotesque” out of Halloween celebrations. Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.
By the 1920s and 1930s, Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague Halloween celebrations in many communities during this time. By the 1950s, town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated. Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow. Today, Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it the country’s second largest commercial holiday.
TODAY’S HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS
The American Halloween tradition of “trick-or-treating” probably dates back to the early All Souls’ Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called “soul cakes” in return for their promise to pray for the family’s dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as “going a-souling” was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and money.
The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.
HALLOWEEN SUPERSTITIONS
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their way back to the spirit world. Today’s Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt.
But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that today’s trick-or-treaters have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or exploding, the story went, represented the girl’s future husband. (In some versions of this legend, confusingly, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away symbolized a love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if a young woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. Young women tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on the floor in the shape of their future husbands’ initials; tried to learn about their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their shoulders for their husbands’ faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut-hunt would be the first to marry; at others, the first successful apple-bobber would be the first down the aisle.
Of course, whether we’re asking for romantic advice or trying to avoid seven years of bad luck, each one of these Halloween superstitions relies on the good will of the very same “spirits” whose presence the early Celts felt so keenly.
FAMOUS GHOSTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
As with other cultures, tales of spooky visitors from the grave abound throughout American history. Some famous anecdotes relate the sighting of dead shipmen and another involves the portrait of a forgotten beauty, but many of the enduring ghost stories are about the famous men and women who have passed through the White House. With reports of Dolley Madison scaring Rose Garden workers, Andrew Jackson haunting his bed in the Rose Room and Abraham Lincoln’s lingering presence, the White House may be home to more than the incumbent president and his family.
On December 31, 1812, the beautiful and vivacious Theodosia Burr, wife of wealthy Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina, left her husband’s plantation and sailed north on the Patriot to visit her beloved father, the famous Aaron Burr, in New York City. In early January the vessel was accosted off Cape Hatteras by ships of Great Britain, then at war with the United States, but was permitted to proceed on its journey. The Patriot was never seen again nor, with any certainty, was Theodosia. An angry storm that very night swept the coast of North Carolina. Some say that during the gale pirates boarded the Patriot, removed all valuables, forced passengers and crew to walk the plank, then sank the ship. But legend persists that Theodosia survived, that she was cast ashore in a small boat onto the Outer Banks, bereft of all possessions except a portrait of herself, and that, with her sanity completely gone, she was thereafter cared for by a Banker fisherman and his wife.
The ghost of Abigail Adams has reportedly been seen hurrying toward the East Room of the White House, which is where she used to hang her laundry.
The years went by. In 1869 the strange woman became ill, and a doctor from Elizabeth City was called in to attend her. He did what he could, but it was clear that she had not long to live. As he was leaving the sick room, the poor fisherman’s wife told the doctor that, as she had no money, he would have to choose something from the house for his pay. When he replied that he would like to have the handsome portrait hanging on the wall, the afflicted old woman sprang from her bed. “It is mine! You shall not have it! I am on my way to visit my father in New York, and I am taking this picture of his darling Theodosia!” With that, she grabbed the canvas, rushed through the door, ran down the surf, and walked into the ocean.. The next day, the portrait washed up on the beach. It is fact, not legend, that the doctor took the picture from Nags Head to his home in Elizabeth City, that a descendent sold it an art dealer who in turn sold it to a member of the Burr family, and that it exists today.
GHOSTS OF THE USS CONSTELLATION
Sitting proudly at rest in Baltimore Harbor, the USS Constellation emits an aura of peace of and security. Where once men died under the hail of grapeshot, children now walk. During her 175-year history, much blood has flowed over her wooden beams. So what or who, among the countless who have met death on her deck, was the ghostly apparition that was photographed in the forecastle in 1955? Lt. Cmdr. Allen Ross Brougham, USN, the man who snapped the photo, believes it is a captain returning to inspect his ship. Hans Holzer, a professional ghost hunter and author, says it could be any one of three spirits “haunting the old ship.” To a Catholic priest who came face to face with the ghost, it is an old salt, unwilling to leave the beloved sea. Legends of ghosts and other strange occurrences have long been told about the United States Navy’s first ship. But the first indication that they were more than the reminiscences of old sea dogs came at 8 bells on a cold December night in 1955.
Commander Brougham had his camera set. Waiting patiently, he allegedly caught the ghost forever on film. At 11:59:47 P.M., to be exact, the Navy officer “detected a faint scent in the air-a certain something not unlike gunpowder.” Then before him, he said, appeared a “phosphorescently glowing, translucent ectoplasmic manifestation of a late Eighteenth Century or early Nineteenth Century sailor, complete with gold stripe trouser, cocked hat and sword.” He barely had time to snap the shutter before the eerie figure vanished, he said. A few years later, repairmen heard strange moans and cries coming from below the decks, but every time they went to investigate they found nothing.
In Hans Holzer’s book, Portal to the Past, reference is made to the experience of a Catholic priest who visited the Constellation in 1964. When the priest arrived, there was no member of the Maryland Naval Militia to take him aboard for a tour. So he went below by himself. While wandering beneath the deck, he said, he was startled by an old sailor who volunteered much information about history of the ship and the proper names for the equipment. After thanking his guide, the priest went above deck where he met several of the regular tour guides. He congratulated them for having such a knowledgeable man as the one who led him around. The real guides were horrified. “We have no one below,” they protested. In haste, the guides and the priest rushed down the narrow stairway, but the old guide had vanished into the air.
Sybil Leek, the famous English witch, once paid a visit to the stately ship. She claimed she picked up vibrations from three spirits; a captain, a sailor and an apprentice seaman, who had all died violently. Which one of these denizens of the spirit world was the one photographed, if any, is unknown.
SARAH SOULE
Ghost ships, in the mythology of the sea, are almost as plentiful as barnacles on a rock. One of the most celebrated is the phantom schooner of Harpswell which was seen by many people, usually in the late afternoon, fully rigged and under sail; a breathtaking sight, though apt to vanish without warning in a shimmer of light or a sudden rising of fog. This vision has been immortalized in the poem The Dead Ship of Harpswell, by John Greenleaf Whittier, whose opening lines are as follows: What flecks the outer gray beyond The sundown’s golden trail? The white flash of a sea-bird’s wing, Or gleam of slanting sail?
The period around 1812 was a splendid time for industrious young men to make a legitimate fortune on the high seas. A couple of boys barely into their twenties could prosper trading cod and lumber for the rum, molasses and coffee of the Indies, which was precisely the career George Leverett and Charles Jose envisioned when they set out from Portland, Maine. Their destination was the Soule Boatyard in South Freeport and their mission was to arrange for the building of their own new vessel. However, shortly after arriving in South Freeport they met the lovely Sarah Soule, fell violently in love with her, and out of sorts with each other. Perhaps because of his Portuguese blood, Jose pursued her more hotly, though in the end it was George Leverett she preferred. After a bitter argument, during which Charles tried to hurl George into the Royal River, the friendship between the two men ended. Charles disappeared and George proceeded with construction of the ship. When she was finished, he appropriately named her Sarah and prepared for his wedding to Sarah Soule.
Ill fortune arose on every side. At first there were strange obstacles in the wedding preparations. Then Captain Leverett found it oddly difficult to line up a crew. Still, he was a determined young man and, at last, with his bride in his house and a crew on his ship, Leverett sailed into Portland harbor to take on cargo for the West Indies. At the same time, there arrived a curious black craft which flew no flag and was outfitted with cannon. The ship was the Don Pedro Salazar and her captain was none other than Leverett’s former partner and romantic rival, Charles Jose.
Much like a storm cloud on the horizon, the Don Pedro trailed the Sarah south. As the voyage progressed the Sarah’s crew grew more and more uneasy and petitioned Captain Leverett to head for Nassau to report the menacing pursuer to the British Admiralty. He never reached the harbor. As soon as the Don Pedro saw what course Leverett was taking, she opened fire, killing all but Leverett and severely damaging, though through some miracle, not sinking the unarmed Sarah. Still blinded by jealousy and seeking murderous revenge, Jose could have tortured the survivor in a variety of traditional methods. However, Jose, after looting the ship, chose only to tie Leverett to the foot of the Sarah’s mainmast and head him out to sea. It was then that Leverett experienced an extraordinary phenomenon. Helpless as he was and facing certain death and destruction on an unmanned and shattered vessel, he still was possessed by a strange notion that the ship was under control. Indeed the dead crew began to rise up and take their posts one by one. Sails were set and the ship’s course was turned toward home. Captain Leverett, at this point, understandably lost consciousness.
On a bleak November day people on Potts’ Point saw a fully rigged yet tragic wreck sailing with uncanny accuracy along the unmarked channel. Suddenly the ship came to a full stop without benefit of an anchor. A pale and silent crew lowered an apparently unconscious man into a boat, rowed him ashore and laid him on a rock, his log book beside him. Without even the squeak of an oar-lock, the ghostly sailors returned to the ship just as a heavy fog suddenly blanketed the harbor. When it had lifted the ship was gone. The unconscious man was soon recognized as George Leverett and it is said that he recovered at least enough to relate this tale, though he surely never went out to sea again.
The last sighting of the Sarah was in the 1880s on a crystaline summer afternoon. A guest seated on the piazza of Harpswell House looked seaward toward the horizon in time to see a wondrous vision. A great schooner, under full sail, her canvas gilded in the sun, was heading slowly for the harbor. He summoned a friend, but when they looked again the ship had vanished. Believers say that the magnificent wreck and her ghostly crew, weary from wandering, had reached home port for the last time.
Dorothy “Dolley” Madison was the wife of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States. She is known as the woman who turned the new nation’s capital at Washington, D. C. from a dull swamp into a high-society social scene. Dolley served as the official White House hostess while her husband served as Secretary of State. Dorothea Paine “Dolley” Madison was one of the most popular first ladies to have presided in the White House. She was born in 1768 and became the wife and the young widow of John Todd, a Quaker lawyer of Philadelphia. 1794, at the age of twenty-six, she married James Madison, who became, in 1809, fourth president of the United States.
Dolley’s wit and charm and her ability to remember faces endeared her to everyone. But she never liked to be crossed, as the legend of her ghost bears out. When the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson occupied the White House, she ordered gardeners to dig up the familiar Rose Garden. They never turned a spade. Dolley Madison had planned and built the garden! Her ghost arrived in all her nineteenth century to upbraid the workmen for what they were about to do. The men fled. Not a flower was disturbed and Dolley’s garden continues to bloom today as it has for nearly two centuries.
ANDREW “OLD HICKORY” JACKSON
The Rose Room is believed to be one of the most haunted spots in the White House. It contains Andrew Jackson’s bed, and if we are to believe testimony of those who have felt his presence, “Old Hickory” himself still dwells in his former bed chamber. And well he might. In 1824 Jackson ran for president against John Quincy Adams and two other candidates, garnering the most popular and electoral votes, but not a clear majority; the election was decided by the House of Representatives, which chose Adams. In 1828 Jackson finally won the presidency, but he never forgot nor forgave his enemies. Bitterly resentful over his earlier defeat, he removed two thousand former office-holders, replacing them with his own appointments.
Twenty years after Jackson’s death, Mary Todd Lincoln, a devout believer in the spirit world, told friends that she’d heard him stomping through the White House corridors and swearing. Still settling old scores?
JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS
President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, were the first occupants of the White House. During Adams’ presidency (1797-1801), the capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington, a struggling hamlet built mostly in a swamp. Pennsylvania Avenue was unpaved, and frequent rains turned it into a quagmire. Although the White House itself was only half finished, Mrs. Adams cheerfully tolerated the noise and confusion of workmen coming and going. She was as fond of pomp and ceremony as Martha Washington had been, and, in spite of the inconveniences, held memorable receptions and dinner parties. Indeed, her invitations were highly coveted. But one immediate problem presented itself-where to hang the family wash. The White House was inadequately heated, and a number of rooms were cold and damp. Mrs. Adams finally decided that the East Room was the warmest and driest place in her august home, and that’s where the clothesline was strung. The first lady has never forgotten. The ghost of Abigail Adams is seen hurrying toward the East Room, with arms out stretched at if carrying a load of laundry. She can be recognized by the cap and lace shawl she favored in life.
Although Abigail Adams is the “oldest” ghost ever to have been encountered at the White House, she is by no means the only former occupant to occasionally wander its halls and great rooms. The home of the American chief executive has been the site of so much intense life it seems only appropriate that from within its walls come stories and legends of presidents and first ladies who linger…after life.
From Classic American Ghost Stories edited by Deborah Downer. Copyright 1990 by Deborah Downer. Available for direct purchase from August House Publishers. Contact 1-800-284-8784 ororder@augusthouse.comfor more information.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865), is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union during the Civil War and beginning the process that led to the end of slavery in the United States. He is also remembered for his character, his speeches and letters, and as a man of humble origins whose determination and perseverance led him to the nation’s highest office.
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Although the last Rebel troops would not surrender until May, the Civil War was effectively over. The Union had held. But, a weary President Abraham Lincoln would not live to see the triumphant march of the Army of the Potomac through the streets of Washington. Just five days later, on April 14, 1865, he was shot by a Southern sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, in Ford’s Theater. He died the next day.
Psychics believe that President Lincoln has never left the White House, that his spirit remains to complete the business of his abbreviated second term and to be available in times of crisis. For seventy years, presidents, first ladies, guests, and members of the White House staff have claimed to have either seen Lincoln or felt his presence. The melancholy bearing of Lincoln himself, and several instances of eerie prescience on his part, only add to the legends of the Great Emancipator’s ghost. The lanky president had paid fanatical attention to even the most minute details concerning the Civil War and felt personally responsible for its outcome. His background was Southern, leading some critics to accuse him of traitorous acts. Mary Todd Lincoln had brothers who fought for the Southern cause.
By the time of his 1864 reelection, deep lines etched his face and heavy black circles underlined his eyes. During his five years as commander in chief, he had slept little and taken no vacations. There may have been more to his sadness than even he would admit. Lincoln dreamed of his own death. Ward Hill Lamon, a close friend of the president’s, wrote down what Lincoln told him on an evening in early 1865: “About ten days ago I retired very late…,” the president told Lamon. “I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a deathlike stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. “There, the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room. No living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed alone…I was puzzled and alarmed. Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, some gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face covered, others weeping pitifully. “‘Who is dead in the White House?’ I demanded of one of the soldiers. ‘The President,’ was his answer. ‘He was killed by an assassin.’” It was not the first time Lincoln “saw” his own death. Soon after his election in 1860,he’d seen a double image of his face reflected in a mirror in his Springfield, Illinois, home. One was his “real” face, the other a pale imitation. Lincoln’s superstitious wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, did not se the mirror images, but was deeply troubled by her husband’s account of the incident. She prophesied that the sharper image indicated that he would serve out his first term. The faint, ghostlike image was a sign, she said, that he would be renominated for a second term, but would not live to complete it. President Lincoln’s morose acceptance of his own mortality was never more apparent than on the morning of his tragic visit to Ford’s Theater. He summoned the Cabinet to the Council Chamber. The president’s face was grave. “Gentleman,” he began “before long you will have important news.” The Cabinet members pressed him to reveal what information he had, but Lincoln demurred. “I…I have no news, but you will hear tomorrow.” He hesitated, his chin cupped in his bony hands. “I have had a dream, the same dream that I have had three times before. I am in a boat, alone on an ocean. I have no oars, no rudder. I am in helpless. Adrift.” The president seemed to be speaking as out of reverie. He scanned the questioning faces before him, then stood up and shambled out of the room. It was possibly the strangest Cabinet meeting ever called by a president of the United States. That night President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head with a single bullet fired from a derringer as he watched Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater. He died at 7:22 the next morning, April 15, 1865.
A train bore Lincoln’s body home to Springfield. That solemn procession has given rise to another president legend surrounding Lincoln. Each year, on the anniversary of that journey, so the story goes, two ghost trains slowly travel the rails between Washington and Illinois. Aboard the first train a military band plays a funeral dirge. Before the smoke of the locomotive clears, a second steam engine follows silently behind, pulling a coach bearing a coffin containing the body of President Lincoln. The ghost trains never reach Springfield. The shock felt by the nation upon the death of its sixteenth president took years to wear off. Children, too young to have understood the implications of the tumultuous years of the Civil War, saw their parents’ bereavement and wanted to learn more about the man from Illinois. Newspapers responded to this need by reprinting numerous stories about Abraham Lincoln’s early years. Most were true. Others contained more fable than fact.
It is true that tragedy had stalked Lincoln long before his first presidential term. His beloved mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when her son was nine. When Lincoln’s first love, Ann Rutledge, died of typhoid fever, he lapsed into a melancholy that may have led to his emotional breakdown a few years later. In 1842, at the age of thirty-three, Lincoln married Mary Todd, but the union was not a particularly happy one. Mary had a mercurial temperament and a strong belief in the supernatural. It was her influence that led to her husband’s interest in spiritualism, though he always regarded it with some skepticism. The Lincolns had three sons, but only Robert Todd lived to adulthood. Edward died at age four and young Willie succumbed to a fever during his father’s first term as president. Lincoln was shattered by Willie’s death and often visited the crypt where the child was buried. He would sit for hours, weeping copiously. At Mrs. Lincoln’s urging, seances were held at the White House with the hope of communicating with their dead sons. The results of these seances were not entirely satisfying, and it’s believed that Lincoln attended only two of them.
During the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, however, a member of the household staff claimed to have seen Willie and to have conversed with his spirit. In the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency (1963-69), Lynda Johnson Robb occupied the room where Willie had died, and later, where the autopsy on Abraham Lincoln had been performed. This was also the room in which President Truman’s mother died. Mrs. Robb wrote to the authors of this book that, although she’d never seen a ghost in the White House, “I did live in a room where lots of sad things took place!”
Liz Carpenter, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson, told author John Alexander that Mrs. Johnson believed she’d felt Lincoln’s presence one spring evening while watching a television program about his death. She noticed a plaque she’d never seen before hanging over the fireplace. It mentioned Lincoln’s importance in that room in some way. Mrs Johnson admitted feeling a strange coldness and a decided sense of unease. This disquieting apprehension has been felt by others. Grace Coolidge, wife of Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth president, was the first person to report having actually seen the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. She said he stood at a window of the Oval Office, hands clasped behind his back, gazing out over the Potomac, perhaps still seeing the bloody battlefields beyond.
The ghost of Lincoln was seen frequently during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, when the country went through a devastating depression then a world war. When Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was a guest at the White House during that period she was awakened one night by a knock on her bedroom door. Thinking it might be an important message, she got up and opened the door. The top-hatted figure of President Lincoln stood in the hallway. The queen fainted. When she came to she was lying on the floor. The apparition had vanished. Eleanor Roosevelt used Lincoln’s bedroom as her study. Although she denied seeing the former president’s ghost, she admitted to feeling his presence whenever she worked late at night. She thought he was standing behind her, peering over her shoulder. On one occasion, Mrs. Roosevelt’s secretary, Mary Eben, encountered Lincoln’s ghost sitting on the bed in the northwest bedroom. He was pulling on his boots, as if in a hurry to go somewhere. The startled young woman screamed and ran from the second floor. Other staffers of that era said they’d seen Lincoln lying quietly on his bed of an afternoon. Seamstress Lillian Rogers Parks detailed in her autobiography a mystifying experience that she had one summer day in that same northwest room. It had just been freshly painted and she was putting it back in order. The White House was almost empty because the Roosevelts had gone to Hyde Park, taking most of the maids with them. As Mrs. Parks worked, she kept hearing someone coming to the door, but she never saw anyone. In fact, the second floor was deserted. After an hour of listening to the tromping, Mrs. Parks went searching for the source. On the third floor she found a houseman. She asked him why he kept pacing the second floor. He shrugged his shoulders. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. “I haven’t been on that floor. I just came on duty. That was Abe you heard.”
During Harry S. Truman’s administration, his daughter, Margaret, slept in that area of the White House and often heard rappings on her bedroom door late at night. Whenever she checked, no one was there. She complained to her father and he said the “noises” must be due to dangerous settling of the floors. He ordered the White House completely rebuilt. It was a propitious decision. The chief architect, Major Gen. E. Edgerton, told President Truman that the building had been in danger of imminent collapse! Had the ghost of Lincoln tried to warn the Trumans that the president’s home was ready to fall down?
Thirty years after the rebuilding of the White House, the Lincoln Bedroom was till regarded as a spooky place. Susan Ford, daughter of President Gerald Ford, said publicly that she believes in ghosts and ruing her stay in the White House she had no intention of ever sleeping in that room. Stories of a ghostly President Lincoln wandering the corridors and rooms of the White House persist, but are not officially acknowledged. The gangly prairie lawyer with the black stovepipe hat and the long, sad face was the kind of man around whom legends naturally collect. If one were to believe in ghosts, one would have to believe that the benevolent spirit of Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, still watches over the nation he fought so gallantly to preserve.
“The Other Tenants at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” is an excerpt from Haunted America by Michael Norman and Beth Scott. It appears here courtesy of Tor Books.
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Posted by Darrell Selby on January 16, 2020 at 5:07 am
This is therefore a contrasting of the risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation in ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. (NASDAQ:ZIOP) and ChromaDex Corporation (NASDAQ:CDXC). The two are both Biotechnology companies that compete with one another.
Valuation and Earnings
Gross Revenue Price/Sales Ratio Net Income Earnings Per Share Price/Earnings Ratio
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. 5 0.00 160.87M 0.67 7.67
ChromaDex Corporation 4 0.00 42.23M -0.56 0.00
Table 1 demonstrates ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. and ChromaDex Corporation’s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Table 2 provides us the return on assets, net margins and return on equity of both businesses.
Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. 3,264,473,710.91% 112.8% 100.1%
ChromaDex Corporation 1,009,707,345.07% -139.4% -73.4%
Risk and Volatility
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc.’s 2.61 beta indicates that its volatility is 161.00% more volatile than that of Standard & Poor’s 500. ChromaDex Corporation’s 34.00% more volatile than Standard & Poor’s 500 volatility due to the stock’s 1.34 beta.
10.3 and 10.3 are the respective Current Ratio and a Quick Ratio of ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. Its rival ChromaDex Corporation’s Current and Quick Ratios are 3.3 and 2.4 respectively. ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. has a better chance of clearing its pay short and long-term debts than ChromaDex Corporation.
The Ratings and Recommendations for ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. and ChromaDex Corporation are featured in the next table.
Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Rating Score
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. 0 0 1 3.00
ChromaDex Corporation 0 0 1 3.00
The upside potential is 31.18% for ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. with consensus price target of $6.5. ChromaDex Corporation on the other hand boasts of a $6 consensus price target and a 36.99% potential upside. The results from earlier shows that analysts belief suggest that ChromaDex Corporation seems more appealing than ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
The shares of both ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. and ChromaDex Corporation are owned by institutional investors at 51.3% and 19.9% respectively. ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc.’s share held by insiders are 0.3%. Competitively, 2.4% are ChromaDex Corporation’s share held by insiders.
In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.
Performance (W) Performance (M) Performance (Q) Performance (HY) Performance (Y) Performance (YTD)
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. -0.96% 23.44% 11.93% 22.86% 58.77% 175.94%
ChromaDex Corporation 5.08% 28.36% -4.14% -6.93% 18.42% 11.52%
For the past year ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. has stronger performance than ChromaDex Corporation
ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc. beats ChromaDex Corporation on 10 of the 11 factors.
ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on acquiring, developing, and commercializing a portfolio of cancer therapies that address unmet medical needs through synthetic immuno-oncology. The company, through its collaboration agreement with Intrexon Corporation, holds certain rights to IntrexonÂ’s synthetic immuno-oncology platform for use in the field of oncology, which includes a clinical stage product candidate, Ad-RTS-IL-12 evaluated for the treatment of metastatic melanoma, unresectable recurrent or metastatic breast cancer, and Grade III malignant glioma (GBM). Its synthetic immuno-oncology platform employs an inducible gene-delivery system that enables controlled in vivo expression of genes that produce therapeutic proteins to treat cancer. The company, under its license agreement with The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, along with Intrexon hold license to certain technologies relating to novel chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies, non-viral gene transfer systems, genetic modification and/or propagation of immune cells and other cellular therapy approaches, Natural Killer cells, and T cell receptors. It also has a research and development agreement with the National Cancer Institute utilizing Sleeping Beauty System to generate T cells receptors for the treatment of solid tumors. ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
ChromaDex Corporation, a natural products company, discovers, acquires, develops, and commercializes patented and proprietary ingredient technologies. The company offers bulk raw materials for use in dietary supplements, food, beverages, and cosmetic products; Nicotinamide riboside (NIAGEN), a vitamin found naturally in milk for enhancing cardiovascular health, glucose levels, cognitive function, and anti-aging effects; Pterostilbene (pTeroPure), a polyphenol and antioxidant used in health related fields; and Immulina, a spirulina extract and compound, which is used for improving human immune function, as well as developing Pterostilbene and caffeine co-crystal ingredients, and anthocyanins ingredients. It also provides reference standards, materials, and kits to conduct quality control of raw materials and consumer products; and fine chemicals and phytochemicals for research and new product development applications. In addition, the company offers a range of contract services, including routine contract analysis for the production of dietary supplements, cosmetics, foods, and other natural products, as well as elaborate contract research for clients in these industries; and consulting services in the areas of regulatory support, new ingredient or product development, risk management, and litigation support, as well as product regulatory approval and scientific advisory services. Further, it assists customers in creating processes for manufacturing of natural products using green chemistry, as well as developing quality verification seal program, phytochemical libraries, plant extracts libraries, and databases for cross-referencing phytochemicals. The company markets and sells its products directly in the United States and Canada; and through distributors in Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Mexico. ChromaDex Corporation is based in Irvine, California.
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17 New Images from THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
by Matt Goldberg September 19, 2011
What I saw of The Adventures of Tintin at Comic-Con got me interested in the flick, but between this flick and War Horse, Spielberg is really banking on his name carrying these movies at the box office (at least in their opening weekend). They’re both set in the middle of a competitive December and neither one has big-name stars (Daniel Craig plays the villain in Tintin, but he’s motion-captured and his character looks nothing like him). I don’t know how Tintin will do at the box office (my prediction is that it will flop domestically but kill internationally where people have actually read Serge’s Tintin comics [Correction: it’s Hergé, further proving that I am a person who has never read the comics), but I’m just hoping it’s a good, old-fashioned adventure flick.
17 new images from the film have landed online and while they give a sense of the tone, it’s crucial to see what motion-capture movies look like in, well, motion. Hit the jump to check out the images. The film also stars Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost. The Adventures of Tintin opens in 3D on December 23rd.
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Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures Present “The Adventures of Tintin” directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish. Starring Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot,” “Defiance”) as Tintin, the intrepid young reporter whose relentless pursuit of a good story thrusts him into a world of high adventure, and Daniel Craig (“Quantum of Solace,” “Defiance”) as the nefarious Red Rackham.
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“His name will be inscribed on the roll of true-hearted patriots”
Posted in Media, Memory by Andy Hall on April 19, 2011
In my recent post on the Lincoln assassination, and the common dismissal of John Wilkes Booth as a “madman” whose actions are both inscrutable and unconnected to the Confederate cause, commenter Corkingiron asked about how Booth’s actions were received at the time, in the South. It’s a great question; the American Experience documentary I cited in reply suggests that condemnation of Booth’s act was immediate and universal.
In fact, it was not.
Vicki Betts, an indefatigable researcher, responded with a quotation from the journal of Kate Stone, a Louisiana woman who had evacuated to Tyler, Texas during the war. “All honor to J. Wilkes Booth, who has rid the world of a tyrant and made himself famous for generations,” Stone wrote. “What torrents of blood Lincoln has caused to flow, and how Seward has aided him in his bloody work. I cannot be sorry for their fate. They deserve it. They have reaped their just reward.”
We’ve seen before how open dissension was little tolerated in Confederate Texas; it’s difficult to know what the private thoughts of many Texans were. But sentiments like Kate Stone’s were openly and floridly expressed. It must be remembered that, at the time, Texas was mostly still in Confederate hands. Galveston, before the war the largest city in the state, was blockaded but would not capitulate until mid-June. Houston had taken on the appearance of an armed camp. That spring the local press was full of articles extolling the patriotic virtues of the South, the imminent (and inevitable) collapse of the Union war effort, and crack-brained plots to win the war. How much of this passionate-but-deeply-unrealistic optimism was sincere, based on Texas’ isolation from the main theaters of war east of the Mississippi, and how much was simply intended to keep up the spirits of the population, is hard to say.
But there was no hesitation at openly praising the actions of Booth and his conspirators. Here are two pieces from the Galveston Daily News, published soon after the news of the assassination became known in the state. An unsigned editorial from April 27, 1865 sees in Booth’s actions the hand of Providence:
On the 4th of March Abraham Lincoln made his inaugural address. He reviewed briefly the condition of the country and congratulated his people upon a “speedy termination of the rebellion.” Not content with the modest rejoicing that would have characterized a magnanimous mind, with the self-complacency of a narrow spirit he arrogated to himself the language of scripture. “Woe to a nation by reason of its sins! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!” Our country was bleeding and suffering from the war that his party waged against it, and with deliberate malice he gloated over our sufferings and visited them upon our own heads. We were the “wicked men” and he, forsooth, was the instrument designed by Providence for our punishment. On the 14th of April Abraham Lincoln was weltering in his life blood, and the words sic semper tyrannis were ringing his death knell. In the plenitude of his power and arrogance he was struck down, and his soul ushered into eternity, with innumerable crimes and sins to answer for. At the hands of an injured patriot he received his death stroke, and the very words that he had used in the exultation of his inauguration, were prophetic of his own fate. “But woe to the man by whom the offence cometh!” Out of his own mouth he was condemned. He had arrogated one of the attributes of Divinity. He had seized the sword to execute what he presumptuously imagined to be his mission, and had spread desolation and destruction among an unoffending people. In the height of his fame and success, retributive justice demanded an account of his stewardship and took his soul to the bar of the Most High. We accept this result as one of the inscrutable decrees of Providence. We accept it, because we know that the Creator works out His problems for wise, and great, and good purposes. We do not propose to speculate upon the probable results of Lincoln’s death. No one can estimate the influence of a single man upon the destinies of a nation, and no one can say whether Lincoln’s death be for the weal or woe of our nation. Providence takes care of those things, and to his will we submit.
We would not like to think that our government was privy to the deed, or approved it. A so-called assassination is regarded with horror by all enlightened people, and our government must be too high-toned and dignified to descend to such means of ridding itself of its enemies. Nevertheless we would have no obloquy cast upon the name of the man who committed the deed. Inspired by patriotic impulse, and believing that he was ridding the world of a monster, his name will be inscribed on the roll of true-hearted patriots, along with Brutus and Charlotte Corday. Caesar was struck down by the hand of an assassin whose name glows along the page of history with even more brightness than that of the man he laid low. It was the principle on which he acted that has caused history to point out Brutus as the model of a patriot and the same principle will cause the name of J. Wilkes Booth to illustrate a high type of patriotism in coming years.
We do not believe that one man is necessary to the existence of a nation. Another may rise to fill Lincoln’s place; but, nevertheless, the work has been done, and its fruits will be produced in due season. Not long since we were speculating upon the probable results of Lincoln’s re-election and expressed the belief that before the expiration of his term he would assume despotic power, unless events intervened that were “impenetrable to human prescience.” We again say, that the results of his death are impenetrable to human foresight. We must wait ans see. It does look to us, however, as if an avenging Nemesis had brought swift and inevitable retribution upon a man stained with so many bloody crimes. He had not only gloated over our suffering, but was preparing new measures of vengeance to mete out to us. In the very midst of his headlong career, he was arrested by the imperious hand of fate. He sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind.
The quote from Lincoln’s second inaugural address (“Woe to a nation by reason of its sins. . . .”), taken from Matthew 18:7, is accurate, but the speech’s tone is violently misrepresented. “With deliberate malice he gloated over our sufferings,” really? “He had arrogated one of the attributes of Divinity.” Are you kidding me? This is, after all, the same speech in which Lincoln famously closed, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” This is misrepresentation on a scale that would embarrass Andrew Breitbart.
The April 27 editorial was, at least, constrained in its glee. Not so a contribution published a few days later. From the Galveston Daily News, May 2, 1865:
Lincoln and Seward more than all others had placed themselves (as they doubtless thought) out of harm’s way. They had incited all the worst passions of the people; for many years they had stirred the popular mind of the North against the South; they enjendered [sic.] and fostered a spirit of deadly hate of one section towards the other, more intense than that of Carthage against Rome, and finally seized the reins of government and plunged the nation into civil war more horrid and cruel than any that has hitherto marred the pages of ancient or modern history. They have eclipsed the tyranny of a Caligula, Herod or Zero [sic., Nero]; They have without shame or remorse trampled upon the laws and constitution of their own section and set at defiance every principle of right, justice and equity, human or divine; they subsidized and prostituted the Christian religion to their infamous scheme of subjugating us who are as much entitled to life, liberty and free government as themselves, compelling the expounders of the Divine oracles to pray publicly for Abe Lincoln and his fell [foul?] purposes of subjugation, murder, arson and robbery of the free and enlightened people of these Confederate States. They have made very many women widows, and children fatherless. They have reduced our once fruitful and happy land, the abode of high civilization and a refined intelligence, to a heaping ruins and pyramids of chimneys, leaving only the sky and the land in their wake; they have driven thousands of our helpless women and children from their homes and domicile in a country that they have desolated with fire and sword, the starve and perish by the inclemencies of the season. They have transported our men and women to their northern frontier, and incarcerated them in loathsome prisons, loaded them with chains, and assassinated many of them in prison for pretended offenses, causing many more to die of want; they have daily insulted them with the epithet of traitors, and refused to exchange them according to the usages of civilized nations, and all this for doing their duty to their country as soldiers.
They have subsidized the mercenary hordes of Europe and America, and armed out own slaves for our destruction, and led them into our fair land for the purpose of committing the worst atrocities such as this page would blush to contain – and for four long years they have enacted this human tragedy, with a fiendish satisfaction that would have made a Herod or Nero blush for shame. The wonder is that some avenging hand did not overtake these enemies of the human race ere this! But at last that terrible retribution, which is sometimes slow but always certain, has fallen upon the doubly guilty in the form of the assassin’s hand, and these enemies of human liberty are hurled from a life they had made ignominious to one unknown to us. Their successors can never bring the concentrated powers against us that those tyrants have; and methinks I see, in the distant horizon of the North, the dark and sombre cloud, which has lingered over us for four long gloomy years, beginning to break, and the Star of Peace, darting a few feeble rays, that tells us of the approaching halo, that may soon spread joy and gladness over our once happy but now afflicted country.
The tyrants that afflicted us are gone; history will reward them with a place amongst the enemies of the human race, and to those that wielded the implements of death against these human monstrosities, will be awarded a place amongst the chivalric and heroic benefactors of mankind – to rank not as assassins, or murderers, but benefactors of mankind.
Their successors will be admonished by their merited fate, and the proud motto of illustrious Virginia will ever stand as the death knell in the ear of tyrants – “Sic Semper Tyrannis.”
J.S.R.
Lincoln may have been dead, but irony was very much alive; immediately following this essay was a two-column notice, published by the headquarters of General Magruder, listing the names and descriptions of 69 Confederate deserters and offering a $30 bounty for the capture of each.
Image: Interior of Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C., by A. R. Waud, April 1865. Waud’s annotations, intended for engravers, include descriptions of colors, the measurement of 11 feet 6 inches from the rail of the presidential box to the stage, and, “spot on which the man jumped.” Library of Congress.
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focusoninfinity said, on April 19, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Lincoln’s guard at the theater: when the assassination took place; the guard was absent, yes? Was the guard a uniformed soldier, a civil servant, or what?
Now it would not surprise me if Lincoln told the guard to take a break, but I never heard that excuse offered. Nor have I ever read the guard was punished for his absence. Was he? Who was he, what happened to him? Presumably he was prior vetted, so he clearly was not in on the deadly deed? Did this result in better presidential security at theaters, such as two guards?
When President Taft visited Wilmington, N.C., in the early 1900’s, all the published pictures I’ve seen him in, he’s in a big open car. However we have a picture of him passing below our 11 South Third St., Wilmington porch in a horse drawn phaeton wagon with the top down, two Marines (looking sharp!) either side, looking out (but not up). Apparently this was pre-Secret Service, so Lincoln’s assassination did not cause a switch from military to Secret Service.
Wonder if some newspaper interviewed Lincoln’s absent guard in his old age: did he have regrets, etc?
Andy Hall said, on April 19, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Whole story here:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Lincolns-Missing-Bodyguard.html
corkingiron said, on April 21, 2011 at 9:39 am
Thanks Andy – a great deal of food for thought here. For the nonce, methinks the purple prose o’erwhelms.
Andy Hall said, on April 21, 2011 at 9:55 am
Apart from the explicit endorsement of assassination, the rhetoric and words in these pieces could be lifted straight from any Southron Heritage website today. It’s a matter of continued wonderment to me that even the verbiage is almost unchanged after a century and a half.
Foxessa said, on April 23, 2011 at 10:56 am
What can one do in the face of such — what can we even call it? non-comprehension?
Love, C.
Andy Hall said, on April 23, 2011 at 8:17 pm
There’s a well-known lobbyist in DC who, as leader of his SCV camp, is alleged to have held secret meetings in the back room of the Wok-n-Roll Restaurant at 604 H Street NW — not because he and his buddies like Asian food, but because of its connection to the Civil War — and not in a good way. Now that’s effed up.
Bob Huddleston said, on April 25, 2011 at 10:56 am
An interesting comment on this is in “Mysteries and Conundrums,” the fine blog from the folk at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP: http://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/brutus%E2%80%99-judas-willie-jett-%E2%80%93-part-2/
Scroll down to see the marker erected in the 21st Century where Booth was killed.
Andy Hall said, on April 25, 2011 at 10:58 am
Sadie said, on April 28, 2011 at 1:27 pm
I just wanted to express my gratitude to you for your blog and your efforts to present the events and causes of the War with truth and clarity. My interest in the War has been renewed and reinvigorated by the 150th anniversary, but I am growing increasingly frustrated and frightened by the lack of interest and ignorance of many Americans which in turn allows the revisionists to spread their falsehoods and twisted interpretations of historical facts. I fear a future in which the true heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy of the War is either forgotten or corrupted beyond recognition. It pains me to know that there are still people in this country who teach others to disrespect such great heroes as Grant, Sherman, and Lincoln. Such distortions of the truth disrespect all the people on both sides of the conflict, and it makes me very sad.
It is the efforts of scholars and enthusiasts such as yourself which will prevent such an outcome, so please keep up the good work! I would love to contribute to the effort to renew interest in the War and its participants and to educate people about its true causes and outcomes. Do you have any advice for others who would like to help in this effort?
Sadie, thanks very much. I appreciate your thoughts.
I’m actually very optimistic about the CW Sesquicentennial. It’s not going to be a smooth ride, and we’ve already seen contentious disputes over what should be commemorated, and how. That’s not gonna change, but it does get the discussion going among the general public, and that in turn will lead (I think) to a broader understanding of the conflict generally. And that is the real success of the sesquicentennial.
I’m not good at giving advice; I once told someone to stick a knife in an industrial, restaurant-style toaster to get out a burning slice of bread. (Never occurred to me he didn’t realize I was joking.) But I’d say, first and foremost, make yourself and those around you informed consumers of history, just like you’d want to be an informed voter, or and informed car shopper. Go back to the original sources and see what people were saying at the time. Do some digging yourself. Find a blog where comments are encouraged — and civil — and wade in. Visit an historical site and ask lots of questions. Stream Ken Burns on Netflix. As Nike says, “just do it.”
Sadie said, on May 3, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Thank you for your response, Andy. I’m doing a lot of reading right now, every well-reviewed book on the War I can get my hands on so that I can speak and write of the War and its participants with a solid factual foundation. I hope that you are right about the sesquicentennial. Perhaps I am too much of a pessimist, but when I see the blatant falsehoods perpetuated against figures like Grant (see some of the comments on the Salon.com article by Joan Waugh on May 1, linked to by “Of Battlefields and Bibliophiles) I am both enraged and disheartened. I am not sure how those of us interested in respecting the truth can counter the willful ignorance of those determined to besmirch the memories of many who fought for the Union cause.
Michael Rodgers said, on April 29, 2011 at 3:34 am
In The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Edited by Philip Van Doren Stern, the editor wrote, introducing what he calls Lincoln’s “Last Public Address”:
“Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox on April 9. Lincoln returned to Washington where a great celebration of victory was being held. On the evening of April 10, a group of people had come to the White House to serenade him, but he had declined to speak to them at any length, saying that if they would return the next night he would prepare an address for the occassion. He wrote out this speech carefully and read it from a roll of manuscript while standing in one of the windows of the White House. It is not a speech of victory, but a serious analysis of reconstruction plans, particularly as they were being carried out in Louisiana. In the speech, Lincoln prepares to go over the head of Congress to take the issue direct to the people. Among the crowd standing on the White House lawn was John Wilkes Booth, who was reputedly so enraged at what the President had to say about giving the vote to the Negroes, that he swore that this was the last speech Lincoln would ever make.”
In the middle of the speech Lincoln says:
“The amount of constituency, so to speak, on which the new Louisiana government rests, would be more satisfactory to all if it contained 50,000 or 30,000 or even 20,000, instead of only about 12,000, as it does. It is also unsatisfactory to some that the elective franchise s not given to the colored man. I myself would prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent, and on those who serve our cause as soldiers.”
and later he says:
“[By sustaining the new government of Louisiana, we] encourage the hearts and nerve the arms of the 12,000 to adhere to their work, and argue for it, and proselyte for it, and fight for it, and feed it, and grow it, and ripen it to a complete success. The colored man, too, in seeing all united for him, is inspired with vigilance, and energy, and daring, to the same end. Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps toward it than by running backward over them?”
Michael, good to hear from you. Your blog is missed.
Yes, I was aware of this speech. It’s perhaps the best single example of how Lincoln’s views changed over time, and suggests how he had to struggle to balance his own, personal views with what was politically practical and doable, that served the national interest overall. You often hear the Southron crowd say, “but Lincoln was a racist!,” and cite this or that quotation from him, in isolation. It’s really a childish approach to a complex and evolving process that changed throughout his life, and was shaped as much by events around him, as he shaped national events himself.
JJ Mercer said, on November 4, 2018 at 12:53 pm
Hello, my name is JJ Mercer and I am a senior at Huntington High school in West Virginia. I’m doing a research paper on John Wilkes Booth and his crime against President Lincoln and was wondering if I could ask a couple questions about Booth. If you get a chance could you answer these?
How would Booth’s name be remembered differently if he was able to assassinate the President while the war was still going on?
What could have happened if Booth would have kidnapped instead of kill Lincoln?
Was Booth expressing patriotism by killing Lincoln for the South, or was he out of his rights?
How would Booth react if he saw how the country was today?
Was Booth’s murder more against the individual of Lincoln or the Union?
Andy Hall said, on November 4, 2018 at 5:24 pm
Hello, JJ. Thanks for your questions.
1 How would Booth’s name be remembered differently if he was able to assassinate the President while the war was still going on?
I don’t think he would have been remembered very differently than he is now. The assassination, coming as it did just a few days after the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, added a particular poignancy to Lincoln’s death, but I don’t think he would be seen very differently.
2. What could have happened if Booth would have kidnapped instead of kill Lincoln?
That is an interesting “what if,” but it’s hard for me to see how that would have happened. The conspirators that Booth gathered around him were all marginal people, misfits and not terribly competent. Lewis Paine follow through on his attempt to kill Secretary of State Seward, but the man designated to kill Vice President Johnson backed out at the last minute. If they had managed to capture Lincoln alive, my guess is that they would have been very quickly tracked down and captured, even more quickly than they were after the assassination.
3. Was Booth expressing patriotism by killing Lincoln for the South, or was he out of his rights?
Booth was a Confederate sympathizer, but during four years of conflict he never quite managed to get himself into a CS uniform. I think as the war wound down and the Confederacy was collapsing, Booth was increasingly fixated on need to do something, anything, to change that outcome. It’s not surprising that as a famous actor, and one well-versed in Shakespearean drama, he saw himself as Brutus, who would save the Republic from what he saw as a dictator. He was an unhinged narcissist who was apparently genuinely shocked to learn from newspapers after the assassination that he was not being hailed widely as a great hero.
4. How would Booth react if he saw how the country was today?
Booth would be shocked and astonished at many things about the United States today, as anyone from the 1860s would be. By most accounts, Booth’s harebrained kidnapping plot only galvanized into an assassination after the news of the surrender at Appomattox, when he heard Lincoln announce his support for voting rights for African-American veterans who had served in the war. I think it is fair to say that Booth would be stunned and enraged at the social and cultural diversity in all aspects of American life today, as troubled and fraught as they are.
5. Was Booth’s murder more against the individual of Lincoln or the Union?
Booth fixated on Lincoln as the root of his (and the South’s) troubles, and failed to recognize that Lincoln was simply the head of a much larger government and nation. In the same way that he saw himself alone as the savior of the South by killing Lincoln, he assumed that the president was the sole person responsible for the nation’s conduct of the war, and by removing Lincoln he might reverse that. He was wrong.
JJ, while you may not have time to get into these for your current project, if you want to pursue this futher I’d recommend this book by James Sawnson:
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln’s Killer
Also, this episode of The American Experience:
https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-the-assassination-of-abraham-lincoln/
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Mr. Izquierdo said “part of the companies belonging to CRESO underscores our support for sport and human values conveyed practice thereof, as are results oriented, spirit of excellence and continuous improvement. We are honored to continue supporting promising young sport from an entity that is engaged in making their goals and dreams, while to position our country internationally. “
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Two police officers from Southern California allegedly purchased firearms that are not available to the general public, and resold them. The officers are accused of dealing guns without a license, and are scheduled to appear in court next month.
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Lightning Professional $75
Lightning Essentials (up to 5 users) $25
Salesforce has a variety of other packages, including:
Service Cloud
Sales + Service
Community Cloud
Health Cloud
Financial Services Cloud
Some packages are alternatives to Sales Cloud and some can be added to Sales Cloud. For example, CPQ, Quip and Marketing Cloud can all be added to Sales Cloud.
Salesforce.org provides free and/or deeply discounted licenses to certain categories of organizations such as 501(c)(3) corporations and B corporations.
All editions of Salesforce have a minimum of 1GB of data storage or 20MB times the number of users, whichever is higher.
Lower editions of Salesforce have 10GB of document storage or 612MB times the number of users, whichever is higher. Enterprise Edition and higher have the 10GB base or 2GB times the number of users.
Each record in most Salesforce objects is deemed to use 2 KB of storage. Additional data storage can be purchased in 50 MB or 500 MB increments. Additional file storage can be purchased in 10GB increments.
Microsoft has two main versions of its product, Microsoft Dynamics CRM (on-premises or private cloud) and Microsoft Dynamics 365 (cloud) — the focus of this comparison.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is multi-tenant at the application level, but single tenant on the database level — each account has its own SQL Server database.
Microsoft follows an agile release cycle for CRM and targets two to three releases annually with service updates as required. Microsoft has a What’s New page with a link to a downloadable release notes PDF.
Update: Microsoft has announced that Dynamics 365 will move to a twice-yearly update schedule.
For the most part, these new releases are fully transparent with respect to existing customizations. Customers do not have to pay extra for new releases.
Dynamics 365 for Sales pricing is as follows:
Edition Per User Per Month Cost
Dynamics 365 Team Member $10
Dynamics 365 for Sales Professional $65
Dynamics 365 for Sales Enterprise $95
Customer Engagement Plan $115
Microsoft Relationship Sales (Minimum of 10 users) From $135
Microsoft also offers the Dynamics 365 Plan for $210 per user per month.
A downloadable PDF explains licensing in detail.
Quantity discounts are available. In addition, Microsoft has a combined SKU that bundles its LinkedIn title with its customer engagement plan.
Customer Engagement also includes Portals, which can be used for customer service, portals, communities, forums, etc.
Data Centers and Status
Salesforce’s service is collocated in multiple, top-tier global data centers. Salesforce publishes its data center security information on its trust.salesforce.com site.
Salesforce does not own the data centers in which its customers are hosted. According to Salesforce, “We’ll continue to work with a variety of infrastructure technology vendors and partners across its own data centers, as well as new public cloud-based data centers, in order to deliver the best service possible to customers.”
Salesforce.com does not have a publicly accessible Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Microsoft has a Trust Center site for Dynamics 365 and other product lines. The site provides information on security, privacy, compliance, transparency, and data center geographic regions.
Microsoft has an SLA which defines “downtime”. It also lists percentage services credits for months during which availability falls below 99.9%.
Microsoft has its own data centers:
Region Datacenters
Australia Australia East (New South Wales)
Australia Southeast (Victoria)
Asia Pacific East Asia (Hong Kong)
Southeast Asia (Singapore)
South America Brazil South (Sao Paulo State)1
Canada Canada Central (Toronto)
Canada East (Quebec City)
Europe North Europe (Ireland)
West Europe (Netherlands)
India Central India (Pune)
South India (Chennai)
Japan Japan East (Tokyo, Saitama)
Japan West (Osaka)
North America Quincy, WA
Blue Ridge, VA
United Kingdom (UK) UK South (London)
UK West (Cardiff, Durham)
Mobile Device Support
Salesforce mobile device platform is called The Salesforce Mobile App. Salesforce publishes an app for iOS and one for Android.
Using the Salesforce Mobile Platform, Salesforce apps can be built and customized and then deployed to the mobile devices.
Microsoft offers both iOS and Android apps. The mobile app can be configured to display specific forms, fields and entities, including custom entities.
Third Party Ecosystem
Sometimes, business requirements drive the need for functionality that is only offered by third parties. Both Microsoft and Salesforce allow for running third party applications natively on their platforms.
Salesforce manages its own third-party application site, the AppExchange. The AppExchange also has applications from salesforce.com’s internal, Salesforce Labs.
All applications must be certified and pass a periodic security check. All AppExchange applications are installed with the same sequence of clicks.
Some of the apps are free and some are paid. Not all applications are compatible with all editions of Salesforce. For example, many apps require Lightning Professional or higher.
Microsoft’s exchange is called AppSource. This site spans different Microsoft product lines including Dynamics 365, Power BI, Office 365 and Azure. Microsoft also has an internal app development team similar to Salesforce Labs.
Sales & Delivery Channels
For organizations that are considering both vendors, the way each product is sold factors into the close-up evaluation and buying process.
Salesforce is sold directly via a team of Account Executives and people in other named sales roles. Account Executives normally team up with a Salesforce partner when implementation services are requested by a prospect. Salesforce partners do not receive commission on license sales, even for deals they source.
Depending on the size of the company, a new customer will either be directed to an inside salesperson or a dedicated new customer resource as the first point of contact.
The inside salesperson gets a Microsoft partner involved with potential deals that represent over a minimum annual subscription revenue. A Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider that is brought into a deal by an inside salesperson or who initiates a deal, receives a margin on the sale. Microsoft offers one level of margin for the first year subscription revenue and a lesser margin for subsequent years’ subscription revenue.
Major account deals are handled directly by a Microsoft outside salesperson.
Implementation Partner Selection
Selecting the right partner can be as important a decision as selecting the right vendor. Increasingly, CRM implementation partners are specialize in specific industries. Example industries are: healthcare & life sciences; financial services; manufacturing; high tech; and non-profit.
It’s important to find the right partner in terms of skills, responsiveness, geography and approach. In the end, it’s the partner that you will hold responsible for making your organization’s CRM dreams come true.
While CRM Switch does not provide CRM implementation services, we have a network of reputable Salesforce and Microsoft partners we’ve worked with to successfully implement CRM technology for our customers.
Login and Password Security
Data breaches are on the forefront of many IT executives’ minds. It’s important to take a close look at technology vendor security models and options. Here’s a high level overview.
Salesforce defaults to two factor authentication for all users for org access. After a new user’s initial login, each time the user tries to login from an unrecognized computer or device, Salesforce emails or texts a verification code to the user. The user must key in the verification code in order to log into Salesforce. This two factor authentication can be overridden by the setting of Trusted IP Ranges by an administrator.
In Lightning Enterprise and higher, certain IP ranges can be restricted from login access altogether, as defined within user Profiles.
Salesforce offers an app called Salesforce Authenticator which is available for iOS and Android. This app provides a greater level of security than email or SMS based two factor authentication.
Salesforce allows for setting password policies, including: password expiration duration; how many old passwords are remembered; minimum password length; password complexity.
Salesforce supports authentication via identity providers such as Active Directory with the implementation of single sign-on (PDF).
Microsoft Dynamics 365 users login via a Microsoft Office 365 account.
An administrator can set up multi-factor authentication for users in the Office 365 administration area.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 can be synchronized with Active Directory.
With a subscription to Azure Active Directory Premium, access to Dynamics 365 can be limited to users with trusted IP addresses.
UI & Navigation
The user experience is in transition for both vendors. Salesforce is moving from Classic to Lightning Experience. Microsoft has introduced a new UI, beginning with Sales Hub.
In both cases, one of the drivers was creating a consistent user experience across the desktop and mobile devices.
In August, 2015, Salesforce announced a redesigned platform called Salesforce Lightning. One component of Lightning is a refreshed user interface.
Lighting became available in the Winter ‘16 release. However, it will have been several years from the announcement before all of Salesforce’s customers have switched to the new platform, as Salesforce has been gradually releasing functionality to match what is available in “Salesforce Classic”.
The screenshots in this blog post are Lightning only.
Salesforce displays different objects as tabs across the top part of the screen. Each group of users who are in similar roles can have their own set (or sets) of tabs, as defined by “Apps”. An App is a collection of tabs that appears on the screen in a specific order. The App Launcher displays the apps that are available to a user.
When a tab in an app is clicked, the default list is Recently Viewed records for the object.
There is a global search box at the top of the browser window.
Record Navigation
Within each record, there is a Details tab that displays fields for the current record (and optionally fields from a parent record). The Related tab displays snippets of records from child objects. Activity information is in a separate section on the right side of the screen.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 displays permissioned functional areas of the application across top part of the screen. These areas are accessible by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the Sales menu.
Once an app has been selected, a user can click on the app name and see categorized entity links. Custom entities also appear on this screen. Depending upon security, permissions and configurations, more or fewer icons will appear.
Recently Viewed Record Within an Entity
A user can see recently viewed records within an entity.
Related Record Lists Within an Entity Record
A user can see categorized, related lists within an entity record.
After an entity is selected, a filtered list of records within the entity, based on a View, is displayed. Users can select any system View or personal View and then optionally pin a View in order to make that View “stick”.
A Create button on the right side of the command bar allows users to quickly create new records without having to first navigate to an entity.
Once an entity, such as Accounts, is selected, a user can search within that entity using the search box, which is located to the top right of the list of records.
There are two main sections to a record, Detail and Summary. There are twist down controls for each.
Record Summary Section
Record Detail Section
In the upper right of the screen, up and down arrows allow a user to go to scroll through other records within the current View.
Microsoft has introduced a new user interface called Sales Hub. The UI includes a vertical navigation bar.
Variable Screen Layouts
At some organizations, not all users should see the same set of fields or have the same set of choices when editing a given record. Variable screen layouts allow for enhancing and restricting layouts on a per role or even a per user basis.
In Lightning Enterprise and higher, there can be variable screen layouts per user based on the layout that is assigned to that user’s profile for a given object.
Multiple Record Types can also be created for objects. A Record Type can be associated with a specific screen layout and it can also dictate which picklist values are available in certain fields or which Sales Process users need to follow in the case of Opportunities.
The Record Type for a record is automatically enforced or is user selectable at the time of record creation. Depending on permissions, the Record Type can be changed after a record has been created.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 allows for variable screen layouts by user. Different users can see different sets of fields in a record, as dictated by users’ functional roles within a company, for example.
There can also be different screen records based on type of record.
Example Use Case: Variable Layouts
A scenario for variable screen layouts is when only customer service users should have visibility to a customer’s credit limit and other financial information.
During the CRM planning phase, CRM Switch works with each department to ensure the selected system will providing only the information they need, formatted in the best way for viewing and editing.
It’s important for CRM users to be able to personalize their application experience beyond what an administrator configures and delivers to them.
Salesforce users have a wide variety of settings available via a left hand set of twist-down menu options.
Microsoft allows users to set a number of personal options, including their default pane and tab, their time zone and their currency.
Point & Click Configuration and Customization
There are subtle differences in the types of fields that can be added to each application.
In Salesforce, an administrator can add new fields to an object via point-and-click. Field types include: Auto Number; Formula; Roll-up Summary; Lookup Relationship; External Lookup Relationship; Checkbox; Currency; Date; Date/Time; Email; Geolocation; Number; Percent; Phone; Picklist; Multi-Select Picklist; Text; Text(Encrypted); Text Area; Text Area (Long); Text Area (Rich); Time; URL.
Custom objects can also be added. A custom object can either have a lookup relationship with a parent object or a master-detail relationship. A many-to-many relationship between objects can be set up using a custom “junction” object.
In Microsoft Dynamics 365, a System Administrator or System Customizer can add new fields to an entity via point and click. Custom field types are: Single Line of Text; Option Set (pick list); Two Options; Image; Whole Number; Floating Point Number; Decimal Number; Currency; Multiple Lines of Text; Date and Time; Lookup.
New entities can also be added. An entity can be related to another entity or entities as one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many.
There is also definable Relationship Behavior. Behavior can either be Parental or Configurable Cascading. There are a number of options related to the latter:
Example Use Case: Customer Surveys
One example of a custom object or entity is Customer Survey Results. Let’s say you want to send a customer a satisfaction survey link within each customer service “case closed” email. The link goes to a survey page.
Customer survey responses are stored in a custom entity or object in CRM that’s linked to the Account. This means visibility and reporting across all accounts and survey responses.
Advanced Development & APIs
Often, a business requires modifications to an out of the box CRM configuration that go well beyond what can be accomplished with declarative tools. ISVs build entire applications on top of CRM platforms. Here’s an overview of what Microsoft and Salesforce offer.
In the Enterprise and Unlimited editions, Salesforce allows for advanced customizations using Apex, Salesforce’s proprietary development language, as well as Visualforce, which is used for custom user interface design. Apex is also the language used for creating Triggers.
Advanced development for Salesforce is in transition between traditional Apex + Visualforce and the new Lightning components.
Salesforce Enterprise and Unlimited have multiple APIs. APIs include SOAP Web Services, REST, a Bulk API and a Metadata API. Code examples in the API documentation are Java and C#, but the APIs can be called from a number of client side languages, including Ruby, PHP and Perl.
Salesforce provides a sandbox environment in Lightning Enterprise and higher for developing and testing customizations and code. Lightning Enterprise’s included, developer sandbox can be created as a snapshot of the production org, but the sandbox does not inherit production data. It has a 200 MB storage limit. A full sandbox, which does inherit all data, is available for an additional monthly fee for the Enterprise Edition and higher. Another paid option is the developer pro sandbox, which has a 1 GB storage limit.
Salesforce also leverages the Eclipse open source IDE.
Microsoft provides an SDK for advanced development and integrations.
Developers can write applications and server side extensions. Developers can also write client side application extensions. A developer can add JavaScript to add functions for when specific events occur on Microsoft Dynamics 365 forms. REST and SOAP endpoints are provided. The REST endpoint can be used for create, retrieve, update and delete from JScript and Silverlight web resources.
Developers have the ability to create custom business logic, workflow assemblies, and plug-ins. Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Microsoft Office Outlook can also be customized by a developer.
Visual Studio is needed for writing custom code and integrations, as .NET is used in Microsoft-supplied code libraries.
Microsoft Flow has integration between Dynamics 365 and over 300 premade integrations.
Search & Views
With many CRM users accustomed to the power of Google and Bing type search capabilities, it’s more important than ever for CRM vendors to offer a similar search experience.
Salesforce has stated that they pride themselves on a powerful global search. When a user enters a full text or partial text (wildcard) string in the Search box, Salesforce parses through all text fields (as well as several other field types, such as phone and email) within a standard set of objects, such as Accounts and Contacts. Search results are grouped by object.
A Search All link allows a user to expand the search across all objects, including Activities and Attachments.
Chatter feeds can also be searched for the same full or partial text string using the Search Feeds button.
Filter fields can be added to the search results for any object so that users can narrow the results of a global search. An administrator can add any fields from an object as filter fields within the search results for that object.
In Salesforce, Views can be used to create multi-condition, dynamic searches. Views only allow for filtering on fields within an object. Reports can be used to to view records based on cross-object filters.
Microsoft Dynamics 365, has a global search box in the top right of the user interface.
Microsoft Dynamics 365’s Advanced Find allows users to search across any field within an entity and also across entities. An Advanced Find can be used one time only or saved as a View.
Duplicate Detection and Merge
Duplicate records can diminish the user experience. Excessive duplication can decrease the overall success of a CRM implementation.
In Salesforce, duplicate rules work in conjunction with matching rules to prevent users from creating duplicate records.
A matching rule determines whether the record a user is creating or updating is similar enough to other records to be considered a duplicate. A duplicate rule tells Salesforce what action to take when potential duplicates are identified.
Custom duplicate and matching rules can be created.
Based on an alert, a user can merge up to three matching records into one. Salesforce provides a “stare and compare” interface for selecting the most appropriate field data for the Master Record (winning record) from each of the matching records. The losing record or records go into the Recycle Bin.
In Microsoft Dynamics 365, duplicate detection runs as a background job. Duplicate Detection Rules are definable by an administrator.
An entire entity or a subset of records within an entity can be checked for duplicates. After a duplicate detection job has completed, the user receives a notification email and can also check for the job results.
Duplicate Detection Rules are also run when a record is manually added or is imported. If a suspected duplicate is added based on a Rule, a dialog pops up to inform the user that they may be creating a duplicate.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 allows duplicate detection to be enabled for custom entities.
In Microsoft Dynamics 365, two records can be merged into one using a stare and compare interface. The “losing” record is marked as Inactive.
Workflow & Processes
Process automation can enforce company procedures and standards. Automating processes improves employee productivity. Both products have multiple options for building processes.
Salesforce offers Workflow Rules, Flows and Process Builder. The later has a graphical component.
A Process can be triggered by a change to a record, an event or another Process. Actions happen automatically, be based on a set of conditions being met, or be based on a formula that evaluates to true. Actions can be immediate or based on a schedule.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 has four types of processes: actions, business process flows, dialogs and workflows.
Business process flows provide users with visual guidance through a series of steps and can prompt users to update certain fields at each step in the process.
Process flows are cross-entity, which means that a process can flow across Leads, Opportunities, Quotes, and custom entities, for example. Processes offers stage gating, which means that specific record updates need to occur in order for a user to be able to progress to the next stage in the process.
Processes are assigned to users based their Role, which means that salespeople only see sales processes, for example. Based upon permissions, users can switch processes (e.g. a new opportunity versus a renewal opportunity that may have different business processes).
CRM Switch has developed a Best Practice Accelerator Kit which can be installed/configured on a number of CRM platforms. It provides instant automations and data validation benefits.
Reporting is an area that CRM vendors are continually working to improve in order to meet customer expectations.
Salesforce report creation begins with the selection of a Report Type. There are standard and custom report types. Custom report types allow an administrator to define which objects to display to users when they create reports and to also define relationships among these displayed objects for cross-object reporting. Up to four objects can be associated with a Custom Report Type.
The Salesforce report writer is drag and drop. It includes filters as well as row and column groupings. Fields from a report’s objects, as defined by a Report Type, can be clicked and dragged by a user to add columns and to create groupings.
Reports can have associated charts. The Chart Editor allows for defining a chart type and chart data points.
In Lightning Enterprise and higher, reports can be automatically delivered via email on a scheduled basis to licensed Salesforce users. Report data appears within the body of an email as formatted text.
Lightning Professional and higher include Customizable Dashboards. Multiple collections of report-based charts can be arranged on a tab as different Dashboards. Salesforce has a default Adoption Dashboard which provides information about what extent different users are using the application.
Also in the reporting category, Salesforce has Forecasting functionality. Quotas can be set per salesperson, and then Opportunity forecast categories can be correlated with quotas, by time period.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 has a Report Wizard for creating new reports. A new report can be based on an existing report. Reports can be filtered based on existing Saved Views or new filters can be added during report creation.
Reports allow for a Primary record type and a Related record type.
Groupings and columns can be selected by clicking on boxes in the Lay Out Fields dialog.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 allows for a number of dashboard formats to be selected.
Microsoft Dynamics 365’s dashboards are real time and can be surfaced in any entity within the application. Each module has a default dashboard.
Another form of reporting is integrating Views with Excel.
Further reporting with business analytics/intelligence is available through PowerBI with many templated reports. For many customers, this is included in their Office 365 subscription.
Sales users of CRM, in particular, spend much of their day in email. It’s important to sales and other users to not only be able to log inbound and outbound emails, but to also have a scaled-down CRM experience within their email client. As such, there should be an assessment as to how a prospective CRM system integrates with a company’s standard email client(s).
Salesforce provides a free plugin for Microsoft® Outlook® called Lightning for Outlook. Microsoft Outlook on the web, Outlook 2016, Outlook for Mac 2016, and Outlook 2013 are all supported.
Salesforce Lightning for Gmail is offered in the Chrome store.
Lightning Sync, for synchronizing Contacts and Events, is available for both Microsoft Exchange and G Suite.
Salesforce also provides a form of universal email integration called “Email to Salesforce”. Each org has its own defined Email to Salesforce address, which, when BCC’d on sends or on forwards of inbound email, will automatically associate sent/received emails with Lead or Contact records in Salesforce that have a matching email address.
Microsoft offers an add-in called Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Outlook. With this add-in the full capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics 365 are available inside Outlook.
Users can automatically track all email and appointments within Outlook. The Set Regarding drop down list presents a user with the things the user is mostly likely to be working on. With one click, a user can link their activities (tasks, emails, appointment etc) to any record in CRM.
Users can convert emails to records, such as Opportunities, in CRM. Users can also access email templates and CRM custom fields from within Outlook.
Email Merge
For many users, being able to create email templates rather than always composing an email from scratch is a big time saver. CRM is a convenient platform from which to send templates with merged customer or prospect data.
Salesforce allows administrators and users to create email templates. Templates can be text, HTML, or they can be defined using Salesforce’s Visualforce markup language. A template can be used to send a single email to a Lead or a Contact. A view can be used to send an email to multiple recipients.
Email merges can be sent through Salesforce’s servers or through an External Email Service—Outlook or Gmail.
There is a daily email limit of 5,000.
In Microsoft Dynamics 365, email templates can be created by users or administrators. Template-based emails can be sent to one or more records in a view by selecting some or all records in the view and then selecting Send Direct Email from under the ellipsis.
There are a number of use cases for generating documents from CRM. One is creating a report that displays rows from multiple child records. Another is merging pricing tables and other data into long form proposals.
Salesforce relies on third party applications such as Conga Composer and Nintex for merging data into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 allows for exporting select records from a view to Excel Online for inline editing, Excel as a static worksheet, or as a dynamic PivotTable or a worksheet that’s linked back to the source data.
Upon opening dynamic workbooks, all data is refreshed.
A mail merge can be done using a Word template.
Data Import Tools
Salesforce’s Import Wizard allows for importing a list of records into the Lead object. Records can also be imported as Accounts and Contacts in a single operation.
In Lightning Enterprise Edition and higher, an application called Data Loader can be used for importing data into any Salesforce object. The Data Loader has a graphical user interface, but can also be run in command line mode, which supports using relational databases as sources and targets.
Microsoft Dynamics 365’s Import Data Wizard allows for importing data to any Record Type in the database.
Web Lead Capture
Sometimes, marketers want a quick way to capture “Contact Us” form submissions into a CRM system.
In Salesforce, a wizard allows an administrator to generate “Web-to-Lead” HTML based on selected Lead fields. This HTML can be added to any website, where formatting and validation rules can be applied.
Lead capture can be accomplished in Microsoft Dynamics 365 using the Portals functionality.
Email Marketing and Marketing Automation
Many organizations evaluate email marketing and marketing automation systems alongside their CRM evaluations.
Through the acquisition of ExactTarget, which had previously acquired Pardot, Salesforce offers both email marketing and marketing automation solutions as part of its product family. The ExactTarget, Buddy Media and Radian6 acquisitions were blended into Marketing Cloud. Marketing Cloud is generally positioned as a B2C solution. Pardot is generally positioned as a B2B solution.
After relying on third party marketing automation applications since inception of the CRM product, Microsoft released Dynamics 365 for Marketing in 2018.
The marketing product connects to LinkedIn, which Microsoft also owns. LinkedIn integration required the paid Lead Generation capability of LinkedIn to capture leads.
Customer Service / Case Management
Case management can be thought of as trouble tickets or other support/service requests that teams needs to process. This functionality is important to manufacturers, software developers and service providers.
Salesforce.com offers Case management in its standard Sales Cloud in the Professional Edition and higher. Features include Web-to-Case, Email-to-Case and Customer Communities.
Communities is the Salesforce portal offering. There is an additional cost for Communities.
Since Salesforce has built-in email services, threaded email communications between a Case owner and a customer, within a Case, can be set up without any external components.
Salesforce.com offers enhanced customer service functionality as part of the Service Cloud. The Service Cloud is a more expensive user license ($135 per user per month for the Enterprise Edition) that adds a number of components, including an Agent Console view, CTI, Community, Knowledge, Social, Live Agent, Social Networking Integration and Contracts & Entitlements (SLAs).
Microsoft offers Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Customer Service as well as Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Field Service. Customer Service includes Cases, Service Calendar and Queues. Field Service includes optimized scheduling, service agreements, inventory management and mobile device access.
Microsoft also offers portals, which can be used for customer and employee self service and more. Portals is included in Microsoft’s Customer Engagement Plan.
Many organizations are looking to reduce the number of fields on web forms. They also want to minimize data entry for salespeople.
Salesforce recently retired their proprietary Data.com record enrichment product. Salesforce now recommends selecting a third party data enrichment tool from the AppExchange.
There is a free version of InsideView for higher editions of Microsoft Dynamics 365 called Insights.
Example Use Case: Big Data and CRM
Another value our consulting customers have found is the ability to find potential Leads by identifying new companies and contacts.
When big data is connected to CRM, a sales team that’s expanding their efforts toward a new industry can use the connection to search for companies in their geographic area by industry. They can then populate CRM with lists of Leads or Contacts. Records include full name, email address and phone number.
One of the ways that AI or machine learning can be applied to CRM is to guide users to take actions that will have higher probabilities of successful outcomes, based on the past outcomes of similar activities.
Salesforce offers Sales Cloud Einstein, which can, among other things, predicts which leads and opportunities are most likely to convert.
Einstein, in conjunction with Salesforce Inbox, automates the creation of new contact records and roles.
Einstein, which includes Salesforce Inbox, costs $50 per user per month.
In September 2018, Microsoft announced AI and mixed reality business applications for Microsoft Dynamics.
Salesforce’s enterprise social networking and collaboration platform is called Chatter. Licensed Salesforce users are automatically Chatter users. Each Salesforce org also comes with 5,000 Chatter Free users (for internal users) and 50 Chatter External users.
Files and links can be associated with Chatter posts. Chatter feeds can be enabled for any object. Up to 20 fields per object can be tracked. When a field is tracked, changes to that field update the Chatter feed for that object.
Each user can select from a variety of Chatter email notification options, based on their personal preferences.
Salesforce allows for the creation of Chatter Groups. If a Group is made private, people outside the organization, such as customers, can be invited to the Group and can log in using a Chatter External user license.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 has Posts capabilities. Each app has its own Posts area, in which users can create new posts and reply to as well as like existing posts.
Dynamics 365 can be connected to Yammer.
Why ESN?
Enterprise social networking is often not a part of a CRM evaluation process. However, for some organizations, ESN can produce big dividends. Here is a use case for a client we worked with recently.
The client’s sales and product development teams often collaborate during the sales cycle for custom developed products.
A salesperson gathers requirements from the prospect. They then ferry information back and forth with product development before developing a quote. The questions were:
1. How can this be done more efficiently?
2. How can communication threads and documents be more easily visibile to others in the organization, including sales management and manufacturing?
Enterprise social networking can allow users to link comments, questions, answers, files and open tasks to leads and to sales opportunities.
Anyone in the organization can look at a sales opportunity can see a record of all items that relate to that opportunity.
For companies that collaborate internally to make a sale or service a customer, enterprise social networking may well be a hidden CRM gem.
Online Help & Training
Salesforce.com provides a Help & Training console to licensed Salesforce users and administrators. The console includes a searchable knowledge base, FAQs, documentation, videos and other resources. Help & training is a part of the Salesforce Trailblazer Community site which also includes Answers, collaboration (Chatter), Ideas, user groups and known issues.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 has a community site that’s part of a larger community site that covers all Dynamics lines. The site offers blogs, videos, community conversations, a knowledge base and other resources.
Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce conference is held in San Francisco in the fall. This conference is for customers, partners and ISVs.
Microsoft’s annual tech conference, held in the fall, is called Ignite.
CRMUG Summit is a CRM specific conference that is held in the fall.
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The Daily Philistine – January 6th – John Blanche and Jenny Owen Youngs
January 6, 2017 April 9, 2017 Posted in The Daily PhilistineTagged Batten The Hatches, Coyote, Jenny Owen Youngs, John Blanche, The Daily Philistine, The Golden Throne, Warhammer 40000Leave a comment
Picture of the Day – John Blanche’s ‘The Emperor’ or ‘The Golden Throne’ Or Whatever The Hell It’s Called
I’m returning to my nerd roots for the end of the week. That’s right, I’m doing Warhammer art. Specifically, my favourite of all John Blanche’s many creations. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s Blanche – it doesn’t seem erratic enough to be one of his, but I can’t find any other artist to credit, and the internet has told me that it’s his, so, whatever.
My first exposure to the intensely, extravagantly dark and dystopian universe of Warhammer 40,000 was when I received the 3rd edition starter box for Christmas as an eleven-year-old. This was back in, Christ, 1999, literally in the last millennium. I opened the book and the first full-page illustration, just a couple of pages in, was this gorgeous, Gothic depiction of The God-Emperor of Mankind, a being of overwhelming psychic power with the frail physical form of a human, who had been betrayed and mortally wounded by his favourite son. He had spent the last ten THOUSAND years as an unconscious, slowly-rotting corpse, tied into an unfathomable contraption that pumped ichor and foul blood around his carcass in a desperate bid to keep the last, tiny whisper of life in his veins, that he could continue to suffer overwhelming agony in the name of holding back unstoppable tides of insane, Lovecraftian daemons from engulfing all of humanity.
Ludicrous existential nightmares aside, this painting was so striking, so intense that I fell in love with it straight away. The uncountable machines and cables pinning every part of his body, disappearing into the endless darkness. The helmet, a relic of his former days of glory. The gaunt, unmoving rictus on his face, the skulls of fallen heroes covering the plinth beneath his throne, the tattered scrolls of litany and legacy. The noxious fumes swirling about the whole scene, poisoning the air.
Blanche can be a controversial artist, but this piece is almost perfect, I feel, in capturing the essence of what makes the world of Warhammer 40,000 so captivating. It’s chilling, enormous and completely mysterious. My adolescent self couldn’t get enough of it.
There’s been a “Special Remastered Edition” of this painting in the years since, with the face replaced by a more skeletal visage, and for my money the new version is greatly inferior. The skull oversells the “living corpse” aspect (as if any part of the original image could be more oversold to begin with) and the original remains the definitive version for me.
Music of the Day – Jenny Owen Youngs’ ‘Coyote’
Spotify Link: Jenny Owen Youngs’ ‘Coyote’
(Note: The Spotify version is the best.)
Ah, J.O.Y. Such an incredible talent. I first heard her stuff on MySpace. Yes. MySpace. About twelve years ago. A few of my classmates liked her, too, and one of them was kind enough to “legally” “buy” her first album, ‘Batten The Hatches’, and then “legally” “give” me a “copy” on a “flash drive”. Look, I love supporting up-and-coming artists but her stuff wasn’t out in the shops and we were teenagers, give me a break.
Her most popular song back then was ‘Fuck Was I’, which is also incredible, but I always felt like ‘Coyote’ was like, you know, it was, like, totally, like, speaking to me? But on, like, a totally deep level? Nowadays I just like the kooky lyrics and the jaunty piano.
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What Milton Friedman Knew . . . And Understood
Posted by Dan Cirucci at 11:15 PM
Great Photos: Chris Christie's Summer Tax Relief Tour
Politicians from Maine to Miami and from Seattle to Sarasota could learn a lot from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
Because no one stays closer to the people than Christie does.
Christie has held nearly 100 up close and personal meetings with the ordinary, everyday taxpayers of his state since taking office less than three years ago.
Christie understands his constituents. His listens to the people. He cares about them. He responds to their needs and concerns. He never forgets that government serves the people and not the other way around.
These photos were taken by Tim Larsen of the Governor's office at a town hall event on the beach in Manasquan, N.J. on July 16. The Governor continues to travel throughout the state as part of his Endless Summer Tax Relief Tour. It's part of an ongoing strategy to take critical issues directly to the people.
And nobody does it better than Chris Christie.
This is just another reason why he remains the single most compelling public servant in America today.
Posted by Dan Cirucci at 4:02 PM
Labels: Budget, Christopher Christie, New Jersey, State Spending, Taxes
Iran Divestiture Signing Hailed By Sen. Kean
Legislation authored by New Jersey Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean, Jr. (R- Union) denying public contracts to contractors that do business in Iran has been signed by Governor Christie.
Formerly S-1304, the new law forbids awarding state and local public contracts to any person or entity that invests in Iran's energy or finance sectors.
"Those who invest in sectors of the Iranian economy that strengthen President Ahmadinejad's dictatorial regime are financially supporting a state sponsor of terrorism and human rights abuses," said Senator Kean. "New Jersey has a long and proud history of supporting the international community's efforts to combat oppression, torture, and terrorism by hitting rogue regimes where the pain is most acute: their treasuries. This law builds upon that tradition."
Kean noted that the United States government has a similar contracting ban in place at the federal level, as do a variety of allied nations. Kean's legislation was signed on the same day that the Obama Administration announced additional U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and financial sectors.
"Iran is a major threat not only to our security, but to that of our allies like Israel," he stated. "Any person or entity who turns a blind eye to that threat should have no claim to public dollars in New Jersey."
Labels: Christopher Christie, Iran, Kean, New Jersey
Christie Signs Bill Prohibiting Investments In Iran
Today, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law S-1304, legislation denying state and local public contracts to any person or entity engaged in investment activity in the energy or finance sectors of Iran. In July 2010, President Obama signed into law the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Investment Act, giving authority to state and local governments to prevent or discontinue contracting with companies that do business in Iran. S-1304 implements this authority at the state and local levels in New Jersey.
The federal government’s action to authorize sanctions against Iran came in response to Iran’s continued pursuit of an illicit nuclear program, unconventional weapons development, a deteriorating human rights situation, and support for international terrorism. With this law, the State of New Jersey is bolstering the United States government’s stand in support of the rights of the people of Iran and against the dictatorial regime and the economy on which it relies.
BILL SIGNED:
S-1304/A-2164 (T. Kean, Sweeney/McKeon, Bramnick, Jasey, Singleton, Vainieri Huttle, Quijano, Ramos) – Prohibits State and local public contracts with persons or entities engaging in certain investment activities in energy or finance sectors of Iran.
Labels: Christopher Christie, New Jersey
Dragon Spectacular Brings Philly Gal Home, 9/12 - 16
Michael Latini, an accomplished puppeteer from Philadelphia, is coming home to perform in front of family and friends as one of the stars of the highly-anticipated How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, coming to Wells Fargo Center for seven performances from Wednesday, September 12 through Sunday, September 16.
"I am so excited to be bringing this one of a kind event to Philadelphia. How to Train Your Dragons Live Spectacular is an amazing technical feat of theater that will entertain young, old, and everyone in between! How can you go wrong with massive animatronic flying dragons, fire ball explosions, football field sized projections, and a cast of 20 performers from around the world!" said Michael Latini, in anticipation of the upcoming run.
Latini grew up in Warminster, PA, north of Philadelphia, and attended Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. After graduating in 2001 with a BFA in Metals, Jewelry and CAD/CAM, he followed his dream of performing and building puppets. Since then, Latini has attended multiple puppetry workshops and conferences, becoming a skillful and talented puppeteer.
In 2003, he worked as the Build Manager as well as played the Audrey II puppeteer for the Little Shop of Horrors First National Tour in New York, NY. By 2006, Latini co-founded and became the production manager of Monkey Boys Productions (www.monkeyboysproductions.com) a puppet production company in Bristol, PA.
Now with 20 years of entertainment experience, Latini has become an expert puppeteer in over a dozen live family shows, including Walking with Dinosaurs, The Arena Spectacular, for the 2008-10 international tour. As a lead puppeteer, Latini rotated and controlled the auxiliary movements for 10 animatronic, life-sized dinosaurs. Over the years, Latini has built numerous puppets for shows such as Disney channel’s children television series Johnny and the Sprites and Monkey Boys Production of Go Diego, Go Live! for its national tour in 2006.
Show times for How To Train Your Dragon at Wells Fargo Center are Wednesday, September 12 at 7 p.m.; Thursday, September 13 at 7 p.m.; Friday, September 14 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, September 15 at 11 a.m., 3 p.m., and 7 p.m.; and Sunday, September 16 at 6 p.m.
Tickets are available now exclusively through Comcast on line at ComcastTIX.com, by phone at 1-800-298-4200 or in person at the Wells Fargo Center box office.
Comcast-Spectacor (comcast-spectacor.com) is the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers (NHL), the home arena for both the Flyers and the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, the Wells Fargo Center, and four Flyers Skate Zone community ice skating and hockey rinks. In addition, Comcast-Spectacor is also the principal owner of Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly management field with more than 100 facilities throughout the United States and Canada; Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage service provider; New Era Tickets, a ticketing and marketing company for public assembly facilities; Front Row Marketing Services, a commercial rights sales company; FanOne, a digital fan marketing company; and Paciolan, the leading provider of venue enablement, ticketing, fundraising and marketing technology solutions.
Posted by Dan Cirucci at 10:49 AM
Labels: Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia
Christie Announces Nominations, Appointments
New Jersey Governor Christie has filed the following nominations and direct appointments with the State Senate and Secretary of State’s Office. The Governor’s nominations are subject to the advice and consent of the State Senate.
Atlantic County Board of Taxation
Nominate for reappointment Theresa Prendergast, CTA (Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic)
Nominate for reappointment Harry Brown (Margate, Atlantic)
Nominate for reappointment John W. Collette, Jr. (Mays Landing, Atlantic)
Nominate for reappointment William J. Polistina (Galloway, Atlantic)
Nominate for appointment Gregory S. Sykora (Somers Point, Atlantic)
Fish and Game Council
Nominate for appointment Cathy Lynn Blumig (Somerset, Somerset)
Nominate for appointment Joseph G. DeMartino (Lanoka Harbor, Ocean)
Tidelands Resource Council
Nominate for reappointment the Honorable Martin L. Pagliughi (Avalon, Cape May)
Nominate for reappointment Mary Pat Robbie (Marlton, Burlington)
Nominate for reappointment Stuart C. Challoner (Island Heights, Ocean)
Nominate for reappointment the Honorable Robert C. Neff, Jr. (Little Silver, Monmouth)
Nominate for reappointment Thomas C. Voltaggio (Cherry Hill, Camden)
Nominate for reappointment Lloyd H. Tubman, Esq. (Flemington, Hunterdon)
Nominate for appointment Philip J. DiBerardino, Sr. (Margate, Atlantic)
Nominate for appointment Robert Kiejdan (Northfield, Atlantic)
Nominate for appointment Martha Maxwell-Doyle (Little Egg Harbor, Ocean)
Nominate for appointment Joseph A. Grabas, CTP (Freehold, Monmouth)
Nominate for appointment C. Brad Schoening (Little Silver, Monmouth)
DIRECT APPOINTMENTS
Rockland-Bergen Bistate River Commission
Appoint Roy D. Ostrom (Upper Saddle River, Bergen)
Interagency Council on Homelessness
Appoint Matthew A. Reilly (Mount Laurel, Burlington)
Appoint Mary Fran McFadden (Jackson, Ocean)
Appoint Sidney Blanchard (Scotch Plains, Union)
Appoint Karen Olson (Summit, Union)
Appoint Arnold C. Davis (Moorestown, Burlington)
Appoint the Honorable Dana L. Redd (Camden, Camden)
Appoint Maria Del Mar Lopez (Warren, Somerset)
Appoint Frank A. Cirillo (Trenton, Mercer)
Appoint Julia Meredith Orlando, CRC, Ed.M., MA (Oradell, Bergen)
Appoint Robert F. Guarasci (Paterson, Passaic)
Appoint Jill Rottmann, Esq. (Roselle Park, Union)
Appoint Constance Mercer (Lawrenceville, Mercer)
Appoint Reverend Kent R. Pipes (Hainesport, Burlington)
Appoint Alison Recca-Ryan, LCSW (Solebury, Pennsylvania)
Appoint John J. Monahan, LCSW (Ewing, Mercer)
Governor Christie also filed the following nominations with the State Senate on Thursday, July 26, 2012. These nominations were confirmed by the New Jersey State Senate on Monday, July 30, 2012.
Gloucester County Board of Taxation
Nominate for appointment Jill S. McCrea (Sewell, Gloucester)
Nominate for appointment Elizabeth S. Rogale (Glassboro, Gloucester)
Posted by Dan Cirucci at 9:44 AM
Must See Video: The Real Obama Record Revealed!
In 2008 , facing historic economic problems the country turned to a man who few people knew and who's resume would shed little light on his capabilities. Barack Obama was in his first term as a US Senator, he had no private sector experience, no executive experience, he had never created a job or run a business, never been put in a position where he had to make difficult decisions on behalf of others.
Instead of basing their decision on Barack Obama's record America was instead taken in by his ability to deliver grand speeches in which he made even grander promises. When President Obama took office in January 2009 America was in recession but despite his promises his policies have made the situation worse and have delayed the recovery that so many Americans are desperately waiting for. Three and half years later we find nearly 24 million Americans either our of work or underemployed. We have seen 42 straight months of unemployment over 8% despite promises that a nearly 800 billion dollar stimulus would prevent us from even reaching that threshold.
We are a nation in crisis manifested by the countless families who are struggling with making ends meet, families who have seen a 40% decrease in their net value over the past 4 years and parents who are worried that the American Dream will not be realized for their children and grandchildren.
America is tired of the empty rhetoric and the broken promises of the last four years and this November they will finally have a record to judge the President on and that record will demand accountability. America needs a leader, someone with the vision and experience to understand what needs to be done, someone who knows how to create jobs and get the economy back on track. Mitt Romney is that person.
Although we are in no way affiliated with the Romney campaign we wholeheartedly believe that he has the experience, knowledge and expertise to restore to America those principles and policies that will rejuvenate our economy, put people back to work and return America to her rightful place as the shining city on a hill and the hope of the earth.
Labels: 2008, 2012, Budget, economy, jobs, Obama, Presidency, Romney
Christie Hails Passage Of Constitutional Amendment
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie applauded the State Legislature Monday for following through with their promise to send the question of judicial pension to New Jersey voters.
Governor Christie released the following statement regarding today’s bipartisan, decisive and overwhelming passage of a amendment to restore common sense to judicial pensions:
"Rarely has the public seen such unanimity between the legislative and executive branches that the judicial branch was dead wrong. I congratulate the legislature for their decisive, bipartisan action that lives up to the promise of our historical pension and benefit reform by making sure everyone is treated fairly. I pledge to do all I can this fall to ensure passage of this amendment to our constitution and truly believe that New Jersey voters will deliver the same message of fairness to the judiciary as well."
Labels: Christopher Christie, Judges, Law, Legislation, New Jersey
Have You Tried A Maid-Rite Meal? You Should!
While driving home from Hilton Head along I-95 we discovered the Maid-Rite Diner.
We stopped at the Maid-Rite in Wilson, North Carolina at Exit 121 of I-95.
Maid-Rite hamburgers are truly unique. They're sort of a cross between a traditional burger pattie and an old-fashioned Sloppy Joe.
The sandwich, the fresh aromatic fries, the thick, rich shake -- all were great. And the service was quick, efficient and caring.
Maid-Rite began in Iowa but now there are dozens of Maid-Rite diners in 11 states and the operation is still growing.
Here's how it all began: In 1926, way back before Facebook, and even before TV, people just didn't know how to waste time. But, being really bored paid off for butcher Fred Angell.
He worked to get just the right combination of a special cut and grind of meat and a selected blend of spices. When a deliveryman tasted Fred's new creation, he said, "This sandwich is made right."
With that, the Maid-Rite was born.
Fred was quite a sandwich maker but not much of a speller.
Maid-Rite's select line of seasoned loose meat sandwiches are made from 100% USDA midwestern fresh ground beef served on a fresh steamed white or wheat bun, with your choice of ketchup, mustard, onion and pickles.
They're wonderful!
Labels: dining, fast food, food, Restaurants
The Plan That Worked? CBS: "Worst 'Recovery' Ever!"
Labels: America, business, economy, jobs, Obama, Romney
Small Businesses To Obama: Yes We DID Build It!
“Over the last week, small-business owners across the country have spoken out against President Obama’s belittlement of their success and accomplishments. While President Obama puts his faith in government, entrepreneurs and innovators deserve a president like Mitt Romney – who puts his faith in them.” – Ryan Williams, Romney Campaign Spokesman
Over The Last Week, Small-Business Owners Have Sent A Clear Message To President Obama – We Built Our Companies:
Lou Ramos, A 64-Year-Old Hispanic Veteran From Florida Who Owns An Information Technology Company, Said President Obama’s Comments Made Him “Almost Throw Up.” “Lou Ramos, a small business owner from Tampa, will be at his local event. He owns an information technology and computer training company called Value Enterprise Solutions, Inc. and he said the president’s comments made him ‘almost throw up when I heard it.’ Ramos is a 64 year old Hispanic veteran, serving in the military from 1973-97, including two tours at the Pentagon, and he said he did read and watch all of the president’s comments in context, not just the two sentences continually highlighted by the campaign.” (Shushannah Walshe, “Romney Camp Continues ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Attacks With Swing State Events,” ABC News, 7/25/12)
Snoopy’s Hot Dogs Co-Owner Larry Cerilli: “We Did Create This Business And We Are Insulted…” LARRY CERILLI: “We both decided to put that sign up. It was a knee jerk reaction that I am glad I did. It was an answer to we did create this business and we are insulted, and I stand by it.” (WNCN-TV, 7/24/12)
Seek Careers Co-Founder Carol Schneider: “For Lack Of A Better Word, A Dumb Thing To Say. … It Got My Ire Up.” “Forty-one years ago, Carol Schneider, 75, and a neighbor founded Seek Careers/Staffing of Grafton. Schneider said she eventually became a sole operator in 1980 and for several years didn't take a salary. The firm now employs 60. She said Obama's comment ‘was, for lack of a better word, a dumb thing to say.’ ‘It got my ire up,’ said Schneider, who added that she puts in an 80-hour workweek.” (Bill Glauber, “Rhetoric Heats Up Over Obama 'You Didn't Build It' Quote,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/24/12)
Rob Gettemy – An Entrepreneur From Iowa – Said President Obama’s Comments Gave Him “A Deep Concern” That A President “Could So Misunderstand What’s Made America Great.” “Rob Gettemy of Marion, who said he has either been working for an entrepreneur, operating his own businesses or teaching entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa for more than 20 years, said his reaction to Obama’s comment was ‘a deep concern more than anything that an American president – this could sound harsh – could so misunderstand what’s made America great.’” (James Q. Lynch, “Romney Campaign Highlighting Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Comment,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, 7/24/12)
JFP Owner Juan Ponce, On President Obama’s Comments: “Like Someone Just Slapped Me In The Face...” JUAN PONCE: “It’s almost like someone just slapped me in the face and my father and now he’s a liar. That it wasn’t me that built this company.” (WTVD-TV, 7/25/12)
Dave McArthur, Co-Owner Of McArthur’s Bakery In Missouri, Said President Obama “Doesn’t Have A Clue.” “Dave McArthur, a co-owner of McArthur’s Bakery, asserted that small business is being “crushed by big business” and out-of-touch governments on all level. ‘Washington, especially this president, doesn’t have a clue,’ McArthur declared.” (Jo Mannies, “Area Small Business Owners Bristle Over Obama's 'You Didn't Build That' Remark,” St. Louis Beacon, 7/25/12)
Business Owner Kevin Ressler – A Registered Democrat From Florida – Said He “Took Offense” At President Obama’s Remarks And Would Not Vote For The President In November. “In West Palm Beach, registered Democrat Kevin Ressler, who owns a marble restoration and maintenance business in Boca Raton, said he ‘took offense’ to the president’s remarks and won’t be voting for him this year after doing so in 2008.” (George Bennett, “‘You Didn’t Build That’ Fight Heats Up In Florida With Romney Attacks, New Obama Ad,” Palm Beach Post, 7/25/12)
John Eldred, President Of Midwest Tape, Said He Took President Obama’s Comments As A “Personal Insult.” “‘To say I didn't build this, I take as a personal insult,’ said John Eldred, president of Midwest Tape, a wholesaler of DVDs and CDs based in Springfield Township.” (Tom Troy, “Area Business Owners Bash Obama's Remarks,” Toledo Blade, 7/26/12)
Eldred: “[President Obama] Has No Idea About What It Is To Run A Business, What It Is To Put Everything That You Have On The Line, To Risk Your Home For What You Believe In.” (WTOL-TV, 7/25/12)
Nicole Goolsby, Owner Of North Carolina-Based Rion Homes: “President Obama’s Comments Were An Insult To The Sweat And Sacrifice That I Have Put Into My Business.” “Nicole Goolsby, 48, started her small business, the Cornelius, N.C.-based Rion Homes, 12 years ago after taking out a $15,000 loan on her credit card and setting up a desk in her bedroom. … ‘President Obama’s comments were an insult to the sweat and sacrifice that I have put into my business in an effort to build a better life for my children and my community,’ Goolsby said Wednesday a ‘We Did Build This’ event sponsored the campaign for Obama’s GOP opponent, Mitt Romney.” (Carmen Cusido, “Charlotte-Area Small Business Owners Tell Obama: Yes We Did,” Charlotte Observer, 7/26/12)
Main Line Engineering President Ted Delgaizo: “I Felt Like He Was Mocking Small Business Owners And Saying That The American Dream Is Not About Small Businesses And The Individual, But About Government.” “Ted Delgaizo, president of Main Line Engineering in Uwchlan, said he was insulted by the president's comments. ‘I felt like he was mocking small business owners and saying that the American dream is not about small businesses and the individual, but about government,’ Delgaizo said.” (Eric S. Smith, “Supporters Rally For Presidential Candidates In West Chester,” West Chester Daily Local, 7/26/12)
Labels: America, business, capitalism, economy, jobs, Obama, Romney
The Real Story Behind The Clinton/Obama Facade
After four years of trillion-dollar deficits and anemic economic growth, it’s clear President Obama would love to run on President Clinton’s record in office. But no amount of showmanship can paper over the differences between these two presidents. Americans deserve a president willing to run on his own record, not the record he wishes he had.” – Ryan Williams, Romney Campaign Spokesman
Today, The Obama Campaign Will Announce That President Clinton Will Deliver A Speech At The Democratic National Convention:
Former President Clinton Will Deliver A Prime-Time Speech At The 2012 Democratic National Convention. “Former President Bill Clinton is set to play a central part in the Democratic convention, aides said, and will formally place President Obama’s name into nomination by delivering a prime-time speech designed to present a forceful economic argument for why Mr. Obama deserves to win a second term.” (Jeff Zeleny, “Bill Clinton To Have Key Convention Role,” The New York Times, 7/29/12)
But President Clinton And President Obama Haven’t Always Been Allies – They Routinely Questioned Each Other’s Qualifications And Achievements:
Former President Bill Clinton, On Barack Obama’s Qualifications For President: “When Is The Last Time We Elected A President Based On One Year Of Service In The Senate Before He Started Running?” ROSE: “You want to say to the voters if they are prepared to choose someone with less experience but perhaps other qualities -- as you’ve said, gifted in politics.” CLINTON: “Very gifted.” ROSE: “... intellect, then they are rolling the dice is what you are saying.” CLINTON: “Well ...” ROSE: “They are rolling the dice about America if they don’t choose the person who has had the kind of experience you are talking about.” CLINTON: “It’s less predictable, isn’t it? I mean, when is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running, and he will have been a senator longer by the time he is inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time, you don’t have time to do much else.” (PBS’s “Charlie Rose Show,” 12/15/07)
President Clinton Suggested Obama Voters “Were Willing To ‘Roll The Dice’ On The Presidency.” “Former President Bill Clinton made an unusually direct attack Friday night on Senator Barack Obama, one of his wife’s leading rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, suggesting that voters who would support someone with Mr. Obama’s experience were willing to ‘roll the dice’ on the presidency.” (Patrick Healy, “Bill Clinton Says Obama Isn’t Ready,” The New York Times, 12/16/07)
In 2008, Candidate Obama Suggested That President Clinton Had Failed To Change “The Trajectory Of America” In A Way Republican Presidents Had Achieved. “For the past two days, it’s been the Democrats. In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal’s editorial board on Monday, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said that under Reagan the GOP was the ‘party of ideas.’ Of Reagan, he said he ‘changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way Bill Clinton did not.’” (Amy Chozick, “Obama, Clinton Battle Over Reagan,” The Wall Street Journal, 1/18/08)
And While The Obama Economy Has Left Millions Of Americans Struggling, President Clinton Presided Over Economic Growth And Balanced Budgets:
Since President Obama Took Office, The U.S. Economy Has Lost 473,000 Jobs. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, 7/26/12)
Under President Clinton And A Republican Congress, The U.S. Economy Created 22.7 Million New Jobs. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, 7/26/12)
Since President Obama Took Office, The Unemployment Rate Has Remained Above 8% For 41 Straight Months. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, 7/26/12)
Under President Clinton And A Republican Congress, The Unemployment Rate Fell From 7.3% To 4.2%. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov, 7/26/12)
The White House Announced The “Budget Deficit Will End Up At $1.2 Trillion” For 2012 – The “Fourth Consecutive Year Of Trillion Dollar-Plus Deficits.” “The latest budget figures from the White House predict this year's federal budget deficit will end up at $1.2 trillion. That would make the fourth consecutive year of trillion dollar-plus deficits during President Obama's administration.” (Andrew Taylor, “Administration Projects $1.2T 2012 Budget Deficit,” The Associated Press, 7/27/12)
Under President Clinton And A Republican Congress, Federal Budgets Were Balanced. “Democrat Bill Clinton was president the last time the federal budget was balanced, and Republicans controlled Congress.” (Jim Dexter, “CNN Fact Check: The Last President To Balance The Budget,” CNN, 2/3/10)
Labels: Clinton, Democrat Party, Democrats, Obama
How Obama Insulted Every Small Business Everywhere
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. But President Obama's comments show that he just doesn't understand who the real job creators are. How can he help small businesses, like those in Ohio, when he doesn't even recognize their value?
Labels: America, business, capitalism, economy, jobs, Obama, Ohio, Romney
Chick-fil-A: Here's What You Can Do To Help
Labels: America, fast food, food, freedom
Pastina? Cheesesteaks? Pizza? THIS Is The Place!
Some people believe you have to go to South Philly (or at least to Center City) to find a great cheesesteak.
Not necessarily so.
Real Philadelphians know that you can find a good cheesesteak in outlying neighborhoods or even in the burbs if you know where to look.
And in South Jersey, Ragazzi is where you should look.
Ragazzi is at 44 Route 70 East in the Marlton Greene Shopping Center not far from where Route 70 and Route 73 intersect.
People have voted Ragazzi's chicken pastina soup the best in South Jersey. The simplicity of the soup is what makes it so appealing. It's fresh, flavorful and nourishing. And Ragazzi sells this soup -- and sells more of it -- every day in response to a huge, continuing demand.
The Ragazzi soup bowl overflows (there's no skimping at this place) and you'll find yourself slurping up every bit of it. We promise!
And the cheesesteaks (and chicken cheesesteaks) are packed.
Look at the actual photos of the chicken pastina soup and the chicken cheeseteak above. This is the real deal.
Plus, the pizza's great, too -- and cooked to order.
Ragazzi boasts a full Italian menu. Ragazzi Restaurant & Pizza is family owned and operated. The family has been serving the Marlton area for over 27 years, the last 11 years at this location.
Ragazzi offers a clean, comfortable and friendly environment and they are open seven days a week offering both dine-in and take-out service. Plus, you'll get great value for your dining dollar.
We only recommend what we've tried and what we honestly love.
Ragazzi's is a winner!
Photos copyright 2012 by Dan Cirucci.
Labels: Cheesesteaks, food, pizza, Restaurants, South Jersey
Cream Donuts: Are These The Very Best Ever?
Do you like cream donuts?
I'm talking fresh, authentic donuts covered with powdered sugar and loaded with rich white sugar cream. These donuts are full and plump. The sweet cream bursts out when you cut them in half or tear them apart or simply (and more likely) bite into them. There's so much cream you'll smear your mouth and lick your fingers. The dough is light and airy and cradles the cream with loving kindness.
These donuts are so damned good you won't want to share them.
But if you try to eat them secretly or privately, you'll probably get caught. To begin with, their sugary scent is intoxicating -- like a sweet blossom calling you in the morning. Others will surely know what you're up to. And then, once you even touch one of these chubby babies you're talkin damaging evidence: the telltale signs of powdered sugar everywhere. And we haven't even gotten to the icy cream left behind on your pesky, sticky fingers.
Whoffing down one of these is a major commitment.
Now, I've tried donuts just about everywhere I've been -- all over the USA.
And I'm telling you these are the best I've ever found.
You can get them for a buck each in South Jersey at Randolph's Bakery, two locations:
101 East Main Street 300 East Greentree Rd.
Maple Shade Marlton
Don't delay. Hurry on over!
Photo copyright 2012 by Dan Cirucci.
Labels: fast food, food, South Jersey
We Built It. We Love It. And We'll Reclaim It!
Labels: America, business, capitalism, economy, jobs, Romney
Buy Your Romney 'Built By Us' Gear Now!
Here's a special message from Tagg Romney:
I'm glad but not surprised my father stood up for American businesses in light of President Obama's recent "you didn't build that" remark.
Dad understands success is not the result of government, it's the result of hardworking people who take risks, create dreams, and build lives for themselves and their families.
That's what the Built By Us collection of shirts, pins and other gear is all about. Built By Us is a rallying cry, and also a celebration of the people who truly make America work.
Check it out at: http://store.mittromney.com/collections/built-by-us/
You deserve credit for your success and to be proud of it. And with every Built By Us Collection item you purchase, you'll be helping my dad and Republicans nationwide win in November. I think we can all agree we need a President who embraces success, instead of demonizing it.
Dad's the man for the job.
Tagg Romney
Video: Why Hasn't Obama Visited Israel? Why . . . ?
President Obama is quite a world traveler. But not to Israel. An oversight? Or an indication? According to a front-page story in the Washington Post two weeks ago, Obama has pursued a strategy of putting “daylight” between the U.S. and Israel. He’s traveled to the Middle East multiple times — to accept an award in Saudi Arabia, to give a major speech in Cairo, to hold town hall meetings in Turkey — but never stopped to visit our closest ally in the region.
Labels: Israel, Jews, Middle East, Mideast, Obama
We're Welcoming Visitors From All Over The World!
During the past week we've welcomed visitors from all over the world and have tallied nearly 3,000 page views. And, we're attracting more than 19,000 page views per month.
Here are the top ten countries last week as represented by page views:
Labels: blog, Internet
Our Top Five Stories Of The Past Week
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Labels: Movies, Obama
Fascinating, Little-Known Facts About Texas
As many of you know, we are honorary Texans and have been for quite a few years.
We are so proud to be part of the great Lone Star State.
We've been to Texas many times -- San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin and many points in between -- and we are also delighted to count many Texns among our dear friends.
The fine web site I Am A Texan (www.iamatexan.com) has cataloged many fascinating facts about Texas. Here are a few of them:
1. From Beaumont to El Paso it's 742 miles
2. But from Beaumont to Chicago it's 770 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos , TX July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston was the only hotel in North America built over water. It was later destroyed by Hurricane Ike.
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston .
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America .
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. The worst natural disaster in US history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island .
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston ," but the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
Visit I Am A Texan for more Texas lore.
Labels: America, Texas
Update On Pennsylvania Voter ID Law, Et. Al.
A special message from the Independence Hall Tea Party Association:
Dear Members and Friends,
Just in: Contempt of Congress AG Eric Holder has ordered the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate
Pennsylvania's newly enacted Voter ID law--adding an additional hurdle for the law to overcome if it's to be implemented on election day, Tuesday, November 6.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/163500696.html
The timing of the investigation is quite suspect since a Commonwealth Court hearing challenging the law began in Harrisburg this Wednesday, July 25.
The hearing, expected to last 5-7 days, is open to the public. (We encourage you to attend if possible--details below.)
And what usual suspects do we find standing behind the lawsuit? Why the
American Civil Liberties Union and their allies, of course.
The Voter ID law, which enhances voter integrity by making voter fraud more difficult to conduct, was signed by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this year. Its passage has obviously frightened the Obama administration and its cohorts.
In other matters: Association member Barb Campbell has forwarded a general request by Gov. Mike Huckabee to make Wednesday, August 1, 'Chick Fil-A Appreciation Day.'
In line with our Black Friday BuyCott (2011) and Whole Foods BuyCott (2009), we'll call this our 'Chick Fil-A BuyCott, 2012.'
In Gov. Huckabee's own words:
"....The goal is simple: Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick Fil-A on Wednesday, August 1....
"This effort is not being launched by the Chick Fil-A company....
Simply affirm [your] appreciation for a company run by Christian principles by showing up on Wednesday, August 1 or by participating online--tweeting your support or sending a message on Facebook."
Commonwealth Court Hearing on Voter ID
When: Ongoing.
Where: Courtroom 3002, Pennsylvania Judicial Center, 601
Commonwealth Ave., Harrisburg, PA.
Who: Hearing before Judge Robert Simpson and open to the public.
We'll try to arrange car pools for those who are interested in
attending. Please let us know if you are driving and would like
company or are in need of a ride by calling 215.663.1983.
Chick Fil-A BuyCott
When: Wednesday, August 1, during restaurant hours.
Where: Your neighborhood Chick Fil-A.
Hope to see you!
On behalf of the Association Board,
Teri Adams
Labels: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, votes
Video: Jewish Voters Turning Away From Obama
The first in a series of ads by the Republican Jewish Coalition, highlighting the real stories of real people who give voice to the nagging doubts that many in the Jewish community feel about President Obama.
Labels: Israel, Jews, Obama, Republican Party
Disney On Broadway? Yes, If The Show Is Newsies!
The cast of Disney's Newsies perform "King of New York" on Broadway in New York City. Visit http://www.newsiesthemusical.com for ticket and performance information!
We've never been fans of Disney on Broadway.
We've always felt that Disney is Disney and Broadway is Broadway: Two different kinds of stories, two different types of music, two different sorts of entertainment.
To us Disney always meant a genre rooted in fantasy and the tales of storybooks. So we skipped Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King and the other Disney musicals on Broadway. Enjoyed the movies, no need to see the live show.
But now there is a new Disney musical on Broadway that changes all that.
Yes, it's a re-working of a Disney movie. But it's a movie you've probably never heard of or seen. And no, it's not a fantasy tale. Rather, it's based on actual real-life events.
The show is called Newsies, it's at the Nederlander Theater on Broadway and it's absolutely wonderful.
Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies revolves around the plight of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy who leads a ragged band of teen aged "newsies," who dreams only of a better life far from the hardship of the streets. Newsies are the guys who used to hawk newspapers on street corners, shouting headlines and charming potential buyers. They thrived in the age of tabloids, a time when print was king.
The story takes flight when publishing titans Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense. Then, Jack finds a cause to fight for and rallies newsies from across the city to strike for what’s right.
Of course, there are a few twists and turns (and some disappointments) along the way as this pioneering labor/management struggle ensues. And there's a bit of romance, too as Jack captivates the gorgeous and savvy newspaper reporter, Katherine Plummer.
Newsies is a fast-paced show with with jaw-dropping choreography, catchy songs by eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and a book by Harvey Firestein that theatergoers of all ages can enjoy.
Yes, this is a feel-good family musical. But it's also actually meaningful and uplifting because it's anchored in a strong story with solid values. The show not only introduces Newsies to a new generation but also pleases fans of the original 1992 film which did not get nearly enough attention when it was released. The Broadway production also includes many of the songs from the movie as well as new tunes and an added love story between Jack Kelly and the new character Katherine Plumber.
As Jack Kelly, Jeremy Jordan proves once again that he is one of Broadway's brightest new stars. This young man is incandescent on stage and when he sings "Santa Fe" at the end of of the first act he brings the house down. In her Broadway debut as Katherine, Kara Lindsay wows the audience with "Watch What Happens." She's a charmer. And Capathia Jenkins as Medda Larkin makes the whole stage sway with a ragtime beat as she performs "That's Rich."
Christopher Gattelli's inventive choreography is thumpingly athletic and leapingly airy, all at the same time. And Jeff Calhoun's direction is snappy without being breathless.
With a cast of 33, a multi-story scaffolded set, imaginative backdrops and evocative lighting, this is big, Broadway musical production at its very best.
At the performance that we attended, the SRO audience howled with delight.
Go. See. Enjoy. And take the whole family!
Labels: Broadway, Manhattan, Music, newspapers
How Obama Committed A 'Fatal Political Blunder'
A thoughtful young man by the name of Andre Watkins sends along these cogent thoughts about Presidents Obama's infamous "you didn't do that" remarks:
The President has accomplished something truly remarkable with this speech: he managed to take a fact that is mundane and inarguable and turn it into a potentially fatal political blunder.
When individuals (whether successful or unsuccessful) pay their taxes, they do so with the weary hope that the government they are supporting will be a careful and honest steward of their contribution by: establishing justice (legal and regulatory systems), insuring domestic tranquility (law enforcement), providing for the common defense (military), and promoting the general welfare (public utilities, efficient and effective education system, a solvent social safety net).
It is when the government violates that trust by instituting an arbitrary and corrupt tax code, special interest spending, irresponsible entitlement promises, and wealth redistribution that “We the people” begin to question the legitimacy of our social contract.
Luckily, whether one builds a business with one’s own two hands or one utilizes the “general welfare” promoted by the government, the Constitution guarantees that no person will “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The Founders understood that property ownership (including land, a house, a business, a car, a bank account, a retirement plan, etc.) is essential for the preservation of liberty.
What is concerning about the President’s remark is that it gives many people the impression that he discounts the importance of the “right to property.” It is universally agreed that property can only be “built” within the context of the “general welfare.” No rational person would argue the contrary. So why would the President bother wasting valuable campaign time stating the obvious?
Because he is complicit (along with many in the government from both parties over many decades) in abusing the trust of the people by twisting the tax code, passing debt along to future generations, spending trillions on special interests, creating and expanding insolvent entitlement programs, punishing success in the name of fairness, and shielding individuals from the natural consequences of their freely chosen decisions.
Thus, to disguise his guilt, he points to justifiable government interventions (roads, bridges, the internet, fire departments) in the hopes we will forget about the burdensome, ineffective, corrupt monstrosities that are the Stimulus Package and Obamacare.
The current President is not the first such offender, but there is a rising belief in America that he may be one of the worst.
In November, We the People, speak.
Labels: America, business, capitalism, economy, jobs, justice, Law, Obama
Video - New Musical 'Chaplin' Headed To Broadway
From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn't stop talking about—Charlie Chaplin.
The brand-new 22-person musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius who forever changed the way America went to the movies.
Chaplin features music and lyrics by Christopher Curtis and book by three-time Tony Award® winner Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Christopher Curtis.
Acclaimed director/choreographer Warren Carlyle (Finian's Rainbow, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway) directs and choreographs the production.
And the show stars Rob McClure. McClure originated the role of Chaplin at La Jolla Playhouse (Craig Noel Award winner). Most recently in New York, Rob received raves for another title role, leading the cast of Where's Charley? at Encores. A two-time Barrymore Award winner, Rob starred on Broadway as Princeton/Rod in the Tony Award® winning musical Avenue Q. He made his Broadway debut in the 2002 Broadway revival of I’m Not Rappaport alongside Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen.
Chaplin opens on Broadway on Monday, September 10, 2012; previews will begin Monday, August 20, 2012. Get tickets today: http://chaplinbroadway.com/tickets/how-to-buy/
Labels: Broadway, Manhattan, Music, New York
Must See: Passionate Speech Brings House To Its Feet
Labels: America, Budget, Congress, economy, jobs, Legislation
They All Agree: Obama Economy Is NOT Recovering
The Economist: “The American Economy Slowed Sharply In The Second Quarter, Adding To The Weakest Recovery Of The Post-War Period.” “If recent data left any doubt, America's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) dispatched it this morning: the American economy slowed sharply in the second quarter, adding to the weakest recovery of the post-war period.” (“Low And Slow,” The Economist, 7/27/12)
Los Angeles Times: “U.S. Economic Growth Slowed Further In The Second Quarter…” “U.S. economic growth slowed further in the second quarter as consumers cut back on spending and businesses curbed their investments, the government reported Friday.” (Don Lee, “Economic Growth Slows As Consumers Pull Back,” Los Angeles Times, 7/27/12)
The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein: “The Numbers … Aren’t Very Good. And They’re Coming After A String Of Even Worse Numbers.” “The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that real GDP grew at an annualized rate of 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2012. … The bad news? The numbers, 1.5 percent and 2 percent, aren’t very good. And they’re coming after a string of even worse numbers.” (Ezra Klein, “The Economy: Still Not So Good,” The Washington Post’s Wonk Blog, 7/27/12)
Fox News’ Stuart Varney: “A Sharp Slowdown For The Economy In This Election Year.” VARNEY: “OK, well everybody is asking the same question: does this mean an election year recession? And the answer is, probably not. But does it mean a sharp slowdown for the economy in this election year? And the answer is definitely yes.” (Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” 7/27/12)
Varney: “A 1.5% Growth Rate Is A Very, Very Slim Growth Rate Indeed.” (Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” 7/27/12)
BNP Paribas Chief Economist Julia Coronado: “We Have An Anemic Recovery With Really No Momentum.” (Shobhana Chandra, “Economy In U.S. Grows At 1.5% Rate,” Bloomberg, 7/27/12)
AEI’s James Pethokoukis: “The U.S. Economy Is Not Doing Fine.” (James Pethokoukis, “Sickly Second-Quarter GDP Report Puts U.S. Economic Recovery — And Obama’s Reelection — In Jeopardy,” American Enterprise Institute, 7/27/12)
California State University Channel Islands’ Sung Won Sohn: “Not Enough To Take Care Of New Workers Coming Into The Labor Force, Let Alone Rescue The Unemployed.” “An economy growing at a 1.5% pace is consistent with a monthly growth of less than 100,000 new jobs, said Sung Won Sohn, an economist at Cal State Channel Islands. ‘That's not enough to take care of new workers coming into the labor force, let alone rescue the unemployed,’ he said.” (Don Lee, “Economic Growth Slows As Consumers Pull Back,” Los Angeles Times, 7/27/12)
Zacks Research Director Sheraz Mian: “Internals Point To Worrisome Trends That Do Not Look Very Favorable For Growth Outlook In The Coming Quarters.” “The GDP reading is better than expected, but the report's internals point to worrisome trends that do not look very favorable for growth outlook in the coming quarters.” (Sheraz Mian, “How Good Is The GDP Report?,” Zacks.com, 7/27/12)
First Trust Advisors Chief Economist Brian Wesbury: “This Is Really In My Opinion Disappointing.” WESBURY: “Martha, we have called the economy the plow-horse economy. It ain't going to win the Preakness, obviously, but it ain't going to keel over and die. It's sort of chugging along, and this is really in my opinion disappointing.” (Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” 7/27/12)
Labels: business, economy, jobs, Obama
Army-Navy Philly Matchup 9/30; Tkts. On Sale 8/3
Army-Navy will commemorate the 79th meeting of the two soccer teams when the rivalry continues as they converge at PPL Park in Chester, PA, Sunday, September 30, 2 p.m.
“The Army-Navy rivalry is one of the most storied traditions in all of college sports, and for us to have the privilege to compete in one of the newest and most exiting Major League Soccer stadiums will be a thrill for our players. To play in front of some the most dedicated sports fans in country will truly make this event a memorable experience for our cadet-athletes. It will also be a tremendous showcase for college soccer. I’d like to thank everyone at the Philadelphia Union for helping to organize this event.” said Army Head Coach Russell Payne
Army posted a 7-10-1 overall record and finished sixth in the Patriot League with a 2-4-1 mark in 2011. Army will look to improve on one of their strongest seasons with a deep and talented class of 2013 in-coming freshmen.
"The Navy men's soccer program is thrilled to be able to play Army this year at PPL Park. Both programs have come miles these last few seasons and I'm sure are looking forward to showing their overall quality and level at such an excellent venue. The game certainly promises to be highly competitive and a great advertisement for Patriot League men's soccer" said Navy Head Coach, Dave Brandt.
Navy owns a 38-27-13 series advantage against Army. The Midshipmen have won three games in a row in the series, all coming by 1-0 scores. Last year's Navy squad went 7-7-5 overall on the season. Head Coach Dave Brandt will return 17 letter winners and nine starters from that squad.
“We’re excited to bring another world class event to PPL Park”, said Nick Sakiewicz, Philadelphia Union CEO & Operating Partner. “Not only are we able to continue the storied history of Army-Navy sporting events in the Greater Philadelphia Region, but we are part of a new tradition in soccer that we look forward to having fans enjoy for years to come, in the beautiful setting of PPL Park.”
Tickets go on sale Friday, August 3 and exclusively online through ComcastTIX.com. Tickets for general admission are $18, which includes parking. Reserved seats, located in sections 126-128, are $28, which includes parking. Tickets can be purchased online at ComcastTIX.com, by phone at 1-800-298-4200, or in person at the PPL park box office.
Keystone Sports and Entertainment LLC and Global Spectrum have partnered with the Philadelphia Sports Congress and Brandywine Conference & Visitors Bureau to promote this event.
PPL Park, which was constructed from 2008-10 and cost $120 million to build, is a state-of-the-art 18,500-seat Major League Soccer stadium that serves as the Philadelphia Union's home facility and sits on the banks of the Delaware River. The stadium is ideally located about 15 miles from downtown Philadelphia. The stadium features a natural grass pitch, 30 luxury suites, sideline roofs to provide protection from the elements, expansive grass areas and large promenades surrounding the stadium for tailgating and outdoor music festivals and a state-of-the-art LED scoreboard.
Labels: Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia, Sports
Oceanfront: Christie Again Challenges Dems On Taxes
Labels: Budget, Christopher Christie, Corzine, Democrat Party, Democrats, Legislation, New Jersey, Taxes
Poll: Romney Pulls Ahead; Closing In On 50%
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney attracting 49% of the vote, while President Obama earns support from 44%
Labels: Obama, Polls, Romney
Obamanomics, Year 3.5: Yet More Bad News!
USA Today: “Second-Quarter Growth Barely Half The Pace Earlier In The Year…” “The U.S. economy slowed in the spring, with second-quarter growth barely half the pace earlier in the year, the government reported today.” (Tim Mullaney, “Economy Weak In Second Quarter, GDP Grows At 1.5% Rate,” USA Today, 7/27/12)
USA Today Headline: “Economy Weak In Second Quarter, GDP Grows At 1.5% Rate” (USA Today, 7/27/12)
Wall Street Journal: “U.S. Economic Growth Pulled Back Further During The Second Quarter…” U.S. economic growth pulled back further during the second quarter of the year as consumer spending slowed--a reading that suggests domestic fiscal worries may becoming a more significant drag.” (Eric Morath and Sarah Portlock, “U.S. Growth Slows In 2nd Quarter,” Wall Street Journal, 7/27/12)
Wall Street Journal Headline: “U.S. Growth Slows In 2nd Quarter” (Wall Street Journal, 7/27/12)
The Associated Press: “The Slowest Growth In A Year…” “The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.5 percent from April through June, as Americans cut back sharply on spending. The slowest growth in a year adds to worries that the economy could be stalling three years after the recession ended.” (“Economic Growth Slowed To 1.5 Percent Rate In 2nd Quarter, Slowest In A Year,” The Associated Press, 7/27/12)
The Associated Press Headline: “Economic Growth Slowed To 1.5 Percent Rate In 2nd Quarter, Slowest In A Year” (The Associated Press, 7/27/12)
The New York Times: “The United States Economy Grew By A Tepid 1.5 Percent Annual Rate In The Second Quarter…” “The United States economy grew by a tepid 1.5 percent annual rate in the second quarter, losing the momentum it had appeared to be gaining earlier this year, the government reported Friday.” (Shaila Dewan, “U.S. Economy Slowed To A Tepid 1.5% Rate Of Growth,” The New York Times, 7/27/12)
The New York Times Headline: “U.S. Economy Slowed To A Tepid 1.5% Rate Of Growth” (The New York Times, 7/27/12)
CNN Money: “Down Significantly From A 2% Rate In The First Three Months Of The Year.” “Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic health, grew at an annual rate of 1.5% from April to June, the Commerce Department said Friday. That's down significantly from a 2% rate in the first three months of the year.” (Annalyn Censky, “GDP Report: U.S. Economy Slowed In Second Quarter,” CNN Money, 7/27/12)
CNN Money Headline: “GDP Report: U.S. Economy Slowed In Second Quarter” (CNN Money, 7/27/12)
Reuters: “The Weakest Pace Of Growth Since The Third Quarter Of 2011…” “U.S. economic growth slowed as expected in the second quarter as consumers spent at their slowest pace in a year, potentially pushing the Federal Reserve closer to pumping more money into the economy. Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.5 percent annual rate between April and June, the weakest pace of growth since the third quarter of 2011, the Commerce Department said on Friday.” (Lucia Mutikani, “Wary Consumers, Trade Curb U.S. Growth In Q2,” Reuters, 7/27/12)
“Limited Scope For Growth To Bounce Back In The Third Quarter.” “Recent economic data ranging from employment to manufacturing suggest limited scope for growth to bounce back in the third quarter.” (Lucia Mutikani, “Wary Consumers, Trade Curb U.S. Growth In Q2,” Reuters, 7/27/12)
Wall Street Journal: “The Second-Weakest Rebound Of The Post-World War II Era…” “The current economic recovery is less robust than initially thought and — through its first two-and-half years — the second-weakest rebound of the post-World War II era, according to data the Commerce Department released Friday.” (Eric Morath And Sarah Portlock, “Current Recovery Second Slowest Postwar Rebound,” Wall Street Journal, 7/27/12)
Financial Times: “Confirms The Loss Of Momentum In The World’s Largest Economy Since The Spring…” “The figure, which was broadly in line with market expectations, confirms the loss of momentum in the world’s largest economy since the spring and is not fast enough to bring down high unemployment.” (Robin Harding, “US GDP Growth Rate Slows To 1.5 Per Cent,” Financial Times, 7/27/12)
Enoforcement Chiefs: Obama Border Policy = Chaos
Sen. Jim Sessions hosted a news conference with top officials from two unions that represent U.S. immigration law enforcement agencies.
ICE agent Chris Crane is President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the union representing America's more than 7,000 ICE agents and personnel. Border Patrol agent George McCubbin, III is President of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing America's more than 17,000 border agents and personnel.
From Sen. Sessions' remarks (forthcoming in a video tomorrow):
"The Administration claims it has diligently enforced immigration law and that the border is 'more secure than ever.' But those on the front lines know this to be untrue. They see the violence, chaos and lawlessness. They have lost confidence in the leadership of their agencies...
As you will hear today, this administration has engaged in a sustained, relentless effort to undermine America's immigration laws. They have handcuffed and muffled those charged with protecting the public safety and the integrity of our borders. Such action has not only weakened our security but our democracy...
All Americans, immigrant and native born, will have a better future if our nation remains unique in the world for the special reverence it places in the rule of law and fairness in our immigration system."
Labels: America, Congress, Mexican, Obama, Senate
They DIDN"T Build That? Mr. President, Yes They DID!
President Obama’s comments denigrating the effort and accomplishment of American business owners have struck a chord around the country. It is clear that this President doesn't understand how our economy works. Mitt Romney knows we should celebrate the work of people who start and run enterprises, not devalue that work by giving credit to ‘somebody else.’ Government isn’t responsible for the success of our small businesses – the American people are.” –Amanda Henneberg, Romney Campaign Spokesperson
Visit The New Romney For President Website: “Built By Us”
Business Owners And Entrepreneurs Across The Country Continue To Speak Out, Telling President Obama That Their Success Was “Built By Us”:
Roswell, New Mexico-Based Realtor Jim Mannatt, On President Obama’s Comments: “We Didn’t Build It? Well I’m Trying To Figure Out Who Did.” “Obama, touching on the government’s role in aiding entrepreneurs, said at the campaign stop, ‘Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.’ ‘We didn’t build it? Well I’m trying to figure out who did,’ said Jim Mannatt, owner of Mannatt and Co. Realtor.” (Julia Bergman, “GOP Holds ‘We Did Build This’ Rally,” Roswell Daily Record, 7/26/12)
Anna Mills, President Of The Toledo Real Estate Investors Association, Noted That She Was “The One That Took All The Risk. I’m The One That Works 16 To 20 Hours Still Today.” “‘I'm the one that took the risk. I'm the one that works 16 to 20 hours still today, even though I'm retirement age,’ [Anna Mills, president of the Toledo Real Estate Investors Association] said. ‘Without all these regulations, without all these taxes, small businesses – I – could hire more.’” (Tom Troy, “Area Business Owners Bash Obama's Remarks,” Toledo Blade, 7/26/12)
Randy Bowen, Owner Of A Street Food Stand In New Hampshire, Called On President Obama To “Stop This War On Capitalists.” “One of the highlighted speakers in the event was Randy Bowen, owner of the street-food stand ‘Sausage Express,’ which has operated for 10 years off North Main Street in its location in the Home Depot parking lot. ‘It may not look like much of anything but I borrowed from my parents. I mortgaged my house. My wife and I worked 16 hours a day for two years and we've cut it down to 10 hours a day,’ he said, standing before his stand with a bright white-and-green umbrella overhead. … ‘Mr. President, stop this war on capitalists.’” (Samantha Allen, “Mitt Romney Supporters Make Pitch For Small Businesses,” Foster’s Daily Democrat, 7/26/12)
Erin Decker, An Entrepreneur From Kenosha, Wisconsin: “We Decided To Do It Because We Wanted To Live The American Dream.” “Erin Decker, owner of Double Decker Automotive in Kenosha, said her family didn’t receive government assistance when she and her husband decided in 2006 to open their own business. Decker was pregnant with their second child at the time, already a mother to a 3-year-old. Still, their family took the risk, she said. ‘We decided to do it because we wanted to live the American Dream,’ Decker said. That dream required hard work and devotion every day working long hours to make their business successful, she said.” (“Sen. Alberta Darling, Small Business Owners Blast Obama,” Menomonee Falls Patch, 7/25/12)
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For many years he served as a Lecturer in Corporate Communication at Penn State University. A former President of the Philadelphia Public Relations Association (PPRA) he has lectured at Rowan University, Temple University, The College of New Jersey and Arcadia University. He has conducted workshops on public relations for thousands of participants throughout the nation and has taught countless others the art of public speaking. He has also advised numerous lawyers, judges, public officials and political candidates.
Cirucci is a prolific writer and his op-ed pieces have appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, Courier-Post and other publications.
A native of Camden NJ, Cirucci is a former President of the Philadelphia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Cirucci served as Associate Executive Director of the Philadelphia Bar Association for nearly 30 years. He currently serves as Chair of Penn State University's Professional Advisory Board for the Corporate Communication major at Penn State Abington.
He received his MA degree from Rowan University and his BA from Villanova University. He has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Rowan's public relations program and was inducted into the Philadelphia Public Relations Hall of Fame in 2003. He received the E. A. "Wally" Richter Leadership Award from the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section. The Award is the Section's highest honor. He has also been honored by numerous other local, state and national groups.
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Commissioning Guidance on Improving Nutrition and Hydration (NHS England)
Posted on October 9, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary It is estimated that one-third of patients admitted to hospitals or living in care homes are malnourished (or at risk of malnourishment). Malnutrition affects more than three million people in the UK, and has remained an ongoing concern in … Continue reading →
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More on the NHS Culture of Openness: Lessons From Two Francis Inquiries (Department of Health)
Posted on February 13, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The Government has published a report explaining progress in the NHS since the Francis Inquiry report (February 2013) . It supports the full adoption, in principle, of Freedom to Speak Up review recommendations to protect whistleblowers who raise legitimate … Continue reading →
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Watershed Changes in NHS Culture Since February 2013 (Department of Health)
Summary February 6th 2015 marked the second anniversary of publication of Sir Robert Francis’s Inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. Full Text Link Reference Francis two years on: What’s changed in the NHS? London: Department of Health, February 9th … Continue reading →
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More on Barriers to Effective Whistleblowing (BBC News / Patients First / Health Select Committee)
Summary Whistleblowers who “speak out” about their concerns concerning care standards in the health service may still face obstacles, problems and intimidation, despite recent progress in the creation of a more open and transparent NHS culture. Patients First has submitted … Continue reading →
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Guidance on Nurse Staffing Levels (BBC News / NICE)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released guidelines for hospitals in England on safe staffing levels for nurses. The draft guidelines, and the extensive research behind them, were unveiled earlier in May 2014. The ratio of … Continue reading →
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Fit and Proper Persons Test Regulations / Statutory Duty of Candour / Fundamental Standards (Department of Health)
Summary Directors of NHS providers will have to meet a fit and proper person test from October 2014, subject to parliamentary approval. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) can insist on the removal of directors who fail this test. Statutory Duty … Continue reading →
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Government Response to the House of Lords Select Committee Report on the Mental Capacity Act (Ministry of Justice / Department of Health)
Summary The government, with partners, has considered the recommendations made by the House of Lords. This response report defines a system-wide programme planned for 2014 to 2015 (and beyond) on improving implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Full Text … Continue reading →
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Wednesday, 15th February, 2017 10.00 am
Agenda reports pack PDF 4 MB
Venue: The Executive Meeting Room - Third Floor, The Guildhall. View directions
Contact: Joanne Wildsmith, Democratic Services Tel: 9283 4057 Email: joanne.wildsmith@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Apologies for Absence, Declarations of Interest and Introductions
Apologies for absence had been received from Councillor D Jones, Councillor R Brent, Dr Hogan, Sue Harriman, Ruth Williams and Dianne Sherlock.
There were no declarations of interest.
Minutes of Previous Meeting - 30 November 2016 PDF 95 KB
RECOMMENDED that the minutes of the Health & Wellbeing Board held
on 30 November 2016 be agreed as a correct record.
RESOLVED the minutes of the Health & Wellbeing Board held on 30 November 2016 were agreed as a correct record to be signed by the Chair.
Portsmouth & SE Hants CCG Operating Plan 2017-19 PDF 3 MB
Innes Richens will present the CCG's two year Operating Plan, which is brought for the information of the HWB.
RECOMMENDED that the CCG's Operating Plan 2017-19 be noted.
Innes Richens presented the CCG's Operating Plan 2017-19; these plans had been required annually and would form part of the national NHS process and now cover a 2 year period of operation. This was produced for the 3 CCGs in the Portsmouth & South East Hants area, in recognition of how much is planned together. The Plan sets out the key expectations in the delivery of the HIOW Sustainability & Transformation Plan (STP) and showed delivery on national indicators and the collective work that had taken place on the Portsmouth Blueprint. The document set out the financial challenge ahead.
HWB members asked questions including:
· The structure of joint committees and governance arrangements; there would be joint planning of the allocation of resources and there is a shared integrated commissioning unit.
· Would a more accessible version of the plan be made public? This had been designed for a specific purpose so did not lend itself well to public readership but the CCGs did try to share the information within its own publications and websites.
· Was there a concern regarding the number of GPs reaching retirement? Innes did not believe that Portsmouth has a greater number of GPs reaching retirement than the national average, but the concern is that the demand for their services is increasing and thereby their workload.
· Was a 'channel-shift' approach being adopted at GP surgeries to help reduce their workload? On-line appointments and some prescriptions were offered.
· How the current situation with Harry Sotnick House was affecting discharges from hospital and was their sufficient capacity elsewhere? It was reported that Harry Sotnick House had voluntarily suspended the block contract following last year's Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection and in the meantime other care home providers had been used as there is capacity in the city, and the squeeze point was actually in domiciliary care which was being looked at.
· Whilst care home places are available are they affordable? Innes confirmed that the spend had decreased over the last year but there is an increase for domiciliary care.
· What public consultation is taking place? Innes reported on the engagement of views and 'The Big Conversation' and the use of social media, including seeking opinions on issues such as the use of regional centres.
· The historical poor performance of transfers from QA Hospital's A&E Department within 4 hours and if this was improving? Peter Mellor responded that there is the need to prevent the numbers of people needing to go to A&E which should be addressed in the Operating Plan, and for the hospital the flow of beds (and reliance on discharge rates) remained of concern with the relevant agencies continuing to work together. It was also noted that there had not been a noticeable change in demand for A&E services despite the consolidation of walk-in services. Healthwatch Portsmouth had visited QA Hospital in November to look at the discharge process and would be following this up with meetings with former patients to discuss their experiences, and this ... view the full minutes text for item 3.
Future in Mind Transformation Plan PDF 89 KB
The Revised Future in Mind Transformation Plan (Refresh) is attached for the information of members and will be presented by Stuart McDowell from the Integrated Commissioning Service.
RECOMMENDED that the Future In Mind Transformation Plan (Refresh) be noted.
Future in Mind LTP Refresh (Appendix) , item 4. PDF 828 KB
Stuart McDowell, Senior Project Manager (and CAMHS Commissioner) from the Integrated Commissioning Service, reported on the development of the 'Future in Mind' report and Transformation Plan. He reported that there is £406k p.a. funding over the next 5 years. He circulated a progress report which was in the form of a recent presentation and the following issues arose during discussion of the 8 priority areas:
Priority 1 - Early help service implementation
Relate had been successful in the tendering process with their consortium bid. Stuart reported that this new self-referral service would be officially launched the following week and this would include advertising of the service in schools. Councillor Vernon-Jackson was concerned by the gap in provision since Off the Record closed in December with the need for confidential counselling for young people and he asked that the Elm Grove provision (as well as the main base at Cosham) receives publicity.
Priority 2 - Communications
It was important to ensure the young people and parents are aware of the services available and how to access these, and they are being involved in the process such as the development of the central website. Councillor Vernon-Jackson again asked that the Elm Grove service be promoted and he was concerned that the services may not be available at the best times for teenagers. Alison Jeffery asked that there be liaison to ensure that family support services at PCC are also included with communication about service options.
Priority 3 - Whole Schools Strategy
Sarah Christopher, a SENCO lead, had been recruited to develop this strategy and to look at capacities at schools in the city and the demand for specialist CAHMS services. Dr Horsley asked if mapping was also taking place regarding preventative work and resilience.
Alison Jeffery said that while schools made their own decisions about how best to prevent problems and promote resilience, the Children's Services Department was strongly championing the strategy within the newly formed Portsmouth Education Partnership. Resilience was seen as a key factor in promoting better attainment and would be included within a new education strategy for the city. A key element of the emotional well-being strategy was the promotion of restorative practice within schools, as an approach for resolving conflicts.[1]
Priority 4 - Implementation of Specialist Perinatal Support Service
This regional support was for all ages of mothers, and a successful bid had brought in extra funding to this area which had previously been a gap in support. This would be delivered by Southern Health running from March. Alison Jeffery stressed the need for a joined up approach with midwifery and health visiting services.
Priority 5 - CYP IAPT
This work was for the collaborative training and upskilling of the CAMHS workforce. There would be liaison with the service in Oxford. It was also reported that there had been recent changes at senior management level in CAMHS which had delayed progress. Alison Jeffery suggested that within the resource constraints it would be very helpful if some workers ... view the full minutes text for item 4.
Date of Next Meeting (for information)
Please note that the next HWB meeting is taking place on Wednesday 21st June at 10am in Conference Room A, Floor 2 of the Civic Offices.
It was noted that the next meeting of the Health & Wellbeing Board would take place on Wednesday 21st June at 10am in Conference Room A in the Civic Offices.
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David Harris, Denton, Evilena Protektore, Latvia, Lynn Seaton, Paul English, Peter Rioux, Rich DeRosa, Sweetwater Grill and Tavern, University of North Texas Jazz Studies
By Kathy Edwards McFarland
Evilena Protektore
Latvian jazz vocalist Evilena Protektore will perform at Sweetwater Grill and Tavern, 115 S. Elm Street, on Tuesday, November 12. She will be playing with Lynn Seaton (bass), Peter Rioux (piano), and Rich DeRosa (drumset). There will be two sets from 7-9 PM.
In addition to the Sweetwater performance in Denton, she will volunteer her time to do a workshop for the UNT Music Business and Entrepreneurship departmental class on Wednesday, November 13 at 11-11:50 in the College of Music Recital Hall.
Evilena Protektore and Lynn Seaton met during his semester teaching and performing in Latvia as a Fulbright Scholar. They recorded three tunes together including “You Don’t Know What Love Is”: available on video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7LJSbbi-UQ
She is coming to the USA to record a collaboration with Paul English, Lynn Seaton, Rich DeRosa, and David Harris in Houston.
About Evilena Protektore
Evilena Protektore is a jazz singer from Latvia, graduated from Jazz Department of Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music with a Masters degree and stayed there as a jazz vocal teacher. She spent a year studying in Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia (Italy) with Prof. Maria Pia de Vito and taking part in a vast number of projects with local musicians, and half a year in Hannover (Germany) with Prof. Romy Camerun. In 2016 received a Nic Gotham prize for the contribution to jazz music and jazz life in Latvia.
Protektore participated in various festivals and projects: “Jazz in Latvia” compilation album, “Pori Jazz” (Finland), “Limassol Jazz” (Cyprus), “Live in Blue Bay” (Ukraine); and contests: Riga Jazz Stage (Latvia), “Nomme Jazz” (Estonia) and got a Grand Prix award at “JazzVoices 2014” (Lithuania).
Evilena has collaborated with Lynn Seaton (USA), Rob Duguay (CA), Inga Berzina (Latvia), Serge Junior Robinson (United Kingdom), Tommaso Troncon (Italy), Fil Straughan (UK), Andreas Stefanou (Cyprus), Andreas Rodostenos (Cyprus), Nicolas Tryphonos (Cyprus), Leonid Nesterov (Cyprus), Tie Pereira (Brazil), Aviv Kohen (Israel), Gilad Abro (Israel), Anne Geertsen (DK), Onur Mulayim (TR), Gianmarco Tommai (IT), Federico Santoni (IT), and K.Trio (NL).
More photos are available here: https://www.evilena.lv/en/#media/photo
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Duncan Stephen
I am a → User experience researcher and digital consultant based in Edinburgh.
This is a → Personal blog about design, motorsport, politics, music and life.
Archive — March 2019
Photo — 2019-03-30
It just so happened that my passport needed to be renewed this month. So I’ll have this burgundy European Union document for the next 10 years.
Duncan Stephen .net
Welcome to my new home. Read full article
Every so often I hear a piece of music that turns my understanding of music upside down. Scott Walker made one of those tracks. I knew I had to investigate further. Read full article
I had a fabulous day at the Service Design Academy bootcamp yesterday.
It’s part of the PDA in Service Design. I never thought I’d be a student again. But I’m loving the opportunity to get stuck in and get talking to like-minded peers from other organisations.
It’s great to be back in Dundee again too! Looking forward to seeing what day two has in store.
Distilling our ideas
The view from my hotel window
The more things change, the more they stay the same — Why power units don’t have too much influence in F1
For all the intrigue, the evidence of winter testing and the first race of the season actually suggests that not much has changed in F1’s pecking order. This shows how the influence of power units over a team’s performance has been grossly overstated. Read full article
The fall and rise of the Bull Ring — Brumpic
An incredible set of photographs documenting life around Birmingham’s Bull Ring shopping centre, its decline, demolition, and rebirth.
The web we broke — Ethan Marcotte
A sobering summary of WebAIM’s accessibility analysis of the top 1 million homepages. In short, the picture is much worse than we might have hoped or expected.
…we’ve created a web that’s actively excluding people, and at a vast, terrible scale. We need to meditate on that.
Note — 2019-03-14
I was sorry to hear about the death of Charlie Whiting, Formula 1’s race director, less than 24 hours before he was due to oversee the first session of the season.
Charlie Whiting has been one person in the FIA I have always respected. It was very difficult to question his judgement, and you rarely heard anyone ever seriously question it.
We saw Charlie Whiting addressing fans when we went to the Belgian Grand Prix last year, and he seemed happy to be speaking to fans and telling them more about the sport and his job.
It has seemed, from my distant vantage point, that the FIA have had trouble finding a successor to Charlie Whiting in the role of race director. He has held the job since 1997. I couldn’t tell you who was the race director before him, and it’s difficult to imagine who it will be after him. They are big shoes to fill.
The game changed and they didn't: The true cause of Williams' decline — Dieter Rencken — RaceFans
An excellent analysis setting the decline of Williams into a historical context. Dieter Rencken traces the decline back to 1998, the commencement of the first Concorde Agreement following Bernie Ecclestone’s acquisition of Formula 1’s commercial rights. This is when Bernie Ecclestone began acting in his own interests, and not that of the teams.
That certainly explains why the number of independent teams has decreased since then. The remaining teams, as Dieter Rencken notes, have changed their business models to adapt to the modern commercial realities of the sport.
Williams’s dogged determination to stick to the same business model it had in the 1980s and 1990s may be seen as noble by some. But increasingly it’s being shown to be foolhardy.
Claire Williams may refuse to allow Williams to be a B-team. But let’s not forget that Frank Williams first entered F1 with a customer chassis. Why should they continue to tie their own hands?
See also: Williams have hit a new Lowe
30 years of the world wide web
Today the world marks the 30th birthday of the web. I could have said ‘celebrates’ instead of ‘marks’. But despite — or perhaps because of — the fact that it’s the most revolutionary advance in communications of our lifetime, the mood seems reflective rather than celebratory. Read full article
Chuka Umunna reminds us that centrism is not liberalism — Jonathan Calder, Liberal England
I’ve viewed the formation of the Independent Group with a mixture of interest, mild hope, and mild horror. Chuka Umunna’s latest vanity missive has tipped the balance further towards the horror end.
Chuka Umunna wish to bring in compulsory national service for 16-year-olds is a reminder that proclaiming you are in the centre does not make you a Liberal.
Amid Brexit, supported by the leadership of both the Conservatives and Labour, both of those parties are moving in ever-more extreme directions. With extremist views on the rise, I had begun to think of myself as a moderate. But the ‘moderate’ tiggers are little more appealing.
This is a reminder that liberalism isn’t merely moderate or centrist. It is a distinctive worldview. This reminds us of how liberalism should sell itself.
Both the Conservatives and Labour are authoritarian parties. Our job as liberals is to rail against those tendencies, not to split the (often very little) difference between them.
Could Brexit break the BBC? The tensions, the bewildering question of ‘balance’ — and how to get it right — Mark Damazer, Prospect Magazine
An impressively thoughtful piece from the former Radio 4 controller, on why the BBC is struggling to remain unbiased amid Brexit.
One senior presenter put it like this: “We should encourage debate… while being more militant about our core approach—that we are fact-based, and question and test all sides of the debate. We should not be doing vanilla ‘on the one hand’ versus ‘on the other hand’ journalism. I am sympathetic to the arguments about the danger of ‘false equivalence,’ and think we should be clear about the weight of arguments. But if a substantial number of people believe, so to speak, that bananas are blue we have to treat that seriously. Seriously, but robustly.”
This article also briefly covers some of the limitations of TV news bulletins, and explains why in some aspects radio performs better. I do find it difficult to watch a bulletin like the 10 O’Clock News (I think I even watched the piece he mentions from Mansfield, with my head in my hands). In that format, it is impossible to cover anything in real depth — and that seems to be the true problem at the moment.
Stop talking about testosterone — there’s no such thing as a ‘true sex’ — Katrina Karkazis, the Guardian
A reminder that this is way more complicated than many people would like you to believe.
I hate to be that guy, but the latest update to the Pocket Casts Android app has completely destroyed it.
Overnight, the player widget was erased. But worse still, all the playlists I have created have disappeared and there appears to be no way of recreating them. The playlists feature has vanished. There is a mysterious new ‘Filters’ option that I can’t make head nor tail of. Whenever I try to create a new filter, it crashes.
I’d move to Google Podcasts, but that doesn’t support playlists either… Ugh.
Williams have hit a new Lowe
It would have been an embarrassing start to the year by anyone’s standards. But for a team like Williams, it has been utterly mortifying. Formerly known as Williams Grand Prix Engineering, this team has always taken a great pride in its engineering excellence. In the past couple of years, that reputation has been shattered. Read full article
Halogen — Kelly Moran
I was introduced to Kelly Moran by her first album on Warp Records, Ultraviolet, released a few months ago. For some reason (OK, maybe the Warp thing) I had assumed it was electronic music. So I was astonished to learn from this video that it’s actually a live prepared piano. Stunning stuff.
From that, I moved on to watch a performance of an older track, Limonium. Although short, it is perhaps even better than anything on Ultraviolet. One to watch no doubt, and I’ll certainly be investigating her back catalogue.
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August 18, 2012 Dan O.
See, those kids who talk to dead people aren’t so weird after all! Haley Joel Osment is jumping in the air somewhere right now.
The small New England town of Blithe Hollow comes under siege by the undead. Only a misunderstood local boy, Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has the ability to speak with the dead, is able to prevent the destruction of his town from a centuries-old witch’s curse. He’ll also have to take on ghosts, witches, zombies and worst of all, the moronic grown-ups. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.
Maybe I was all alone in a boat by myself back in 2009, but I really just did not like Coraline. There was something about it that just didn’t work and I felt it was just too scary and serious to be considered a kids flick. This one follows in the same exact steps as that one except it has the one key ingredient that always makes these films work: the fat kid. More on that later, though. Let’s start with the positive things that came before he arrived.
The animation for this flick, is exactly what you would expect from the animation studio Laika. Even though I may have disliked a lot about Coraline, I still thought that they had plenty of eye-candy to help me get through, and that’s exactly what we have here but probably used a lot better in the terms of 3D. It was a really neat thing to see stop-motion animation done in a 3D way, and it added some real color and zaniness to this final product, as if it was one of the horror films that it was making fun of in the first place. Needless to say, the kids will love how much shit is constantly popping out at them (not literal shit, but you get my drift), but the parents will also be able to appreciate a 3D used right and almost not feel like their over-priced $13 dollar ticket will go to waste. Actually, if you add the kid’s ticket as well it’s going to be a lot more so it’s a good thing that it at least delivers or there’s going to be a loud of pissed-off parents.
Another element of this film that separates itself from Coraline, is that there is loads and loads of amounts of comedy to be had here, which really took me by surprise considering how much I actually laughed. There’s a lot of goofy sight-gags that you have to look closely to see and there’s a lot of jokes that only true horror movie fans will get, but what separates this film from all the other animated films that have come out in the last 2 years or so, is that is able to make almost any movie-goer laugh. Have a couple of kids? They got their fart jokes and slapstick. Got a bunch of grumpy adults? They have their sly humor and wit about a dark situation that somehow makes it lighter. Got a horror movie lover out there? They got the movie references. Have you average, movie-goer that just wants to laugh and have a good time? They got plenty of jokes that will work and make you laugh, as they did onto me. You’ll be surprised by how far this film goes with it’s comedy but it works, and instead of just dropping out pop-culture reference after pop-culture reference like we see in Shrek films, we get the type of comedy where goofy things happen, all for a reason. And that’s funny enough as it is.
Problem with a lot of this comedy is that it comes in a little too much. I get that the film wanted to always keep things light and humorous, even when it get dark and scary as hell, but they could have at least slowed down a bit and let some scenes just play out in a very serious matter. Sounds pretty strange that I would actually want a funny film to stop it’s humor for a bit and just be serious with us, but it gets to the point of where you can’t pay attention to what’s going on with this story and what’s on-screen because you’re constantly just waiting for another funny quip to come right through. Strange complaint, I know.
Another complaint about this film I had was that it take a bit too long to get where it exactly needed to go. With these films, you know exactly what’s going to happen from start to finish, which means that it better hurry it’s ass up by keeping us entertained. This film definitely keeps us entertained for the most part, but doesn’t really hurry it’s ass up either. The film just sort of just takes it’s time with it’s awfully predictable story, which doesn’t really work when you have something as conventional as this. Two very weird complaints, I know, but this is not necessarily the most normal film out there either and I think that’s all because of Norman himself.
Kodi Smit-McPhee seems like a great choice as Norman because the kid has always been type-cast as these weirdo-types and gives Norman a whole lot of boyish sympathy, that’s easy to fall for and stand behind; Anna Kendrick voices his older sister who is always bitching and trying to impress a hot dude around her; that hot dude I’m talking about is Casey Affleck as an older brother of somebody and shows he’s got great comedic timing with a weird, scratchy voice like his; and Christopher Mintz-Plasse proves he can be funny, but not as a nerd as the school bully here. Everybody else from this talented ensemble is fine, but when it comes right down to it, nobody stands in the way of the fat one.
I don’t know who this kid is and I don’t know if I have ever seen him ever before, but Tucker Albrizzi absolutely nails every line he has the token fat sidekick, Neil. Neil is such a great character right from the start because he’s fat, a nerd, and doesn’t get along with most kids, but still has a big heart and you can feel that from Albrizzi’s voice and just how they make this character look. Honestly, you cannot say that the picture of Neil in this movie just doesn’t want to make you pinch his cheeks or feed him some Cinna Buns. Every time this kid just about opens his mouth, it’s a piece of comedy that works and thank the lord for Albrizzi, because he makes everybody in this flick seem like a bunch of rookies, even though he’s only 13 years old. Kids got a bright future and I hope he keeps it going. Then again, I have never seen him before or if he can act well, but I know the kid’s got a great voice for animated characters that’s for damn sure.
Consensus: ParaNorman may not be the best animated flick all year, but is still a hell of a lot better than Coraline, the film that came before it with a playful sense of humor that can have anybody who sees this laugh, and a talented voice cast that milks all of the lines for all that they got.
7.5/10=Rental!!
7-7.5/10
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Two Tickets For... says:
We completely agree with you on Coraline. It just wasn’t for us. But we’re excited to see ParaNorman because of most of the things you mentioned. (Andrew’s Note: I’m particularly looking forward to the horror movie nods and how many I’ll recognize.)
Great review Dan!
Thanks! I hope you see the horror references that I found, as it adds a lot more of a fun spin on the final product.
deerinthexenonarclights says:
I agree with you that this is probably the Laika film that kids will prefer but for me Coraline is the obvious preference. The comedy here, while fun, was very cliche seen it before stuff whereas the story and semi-serious scenes were quite interesting; so I really wish that it had spent more time on that stuff than it did the light entertainment. Though I did still like it and think it does a good job of introducing kids to horror, so there’s that.
Aside from that I think you summed up my thoughts better than I did; nice one Dan.
Thanks man! I’ll give yours a look myself but for me, this was a better trip than Coraline. Way better trip.
wordschat says:
I still want to see this, it just looked so charming in the previews plus I have the collectors drink cup. I switch those things around for the bathroom sink cup; Ice Age, ParaNorman etc. I missed Coroline maybe I should see it too. Thanks for the review.
Coraline bothered me but thankfully, this is a lot better. Thanks!
Paul Secada says:
This flick had me curious ever since I saw a making of in Los Angeles.
It seems like a kid’s flick that can attract an older audience without it being too childish. Can’t wait to see it now. Love the review!
It isn’t that childish and if you listen closely, you may be able to find some dirty references here and there for an older crowd. Just maybe though. Thanks Paul!
It kinda has a Shrek feel in terms of material aimed at adults here and there. I can’t wait to watch it though!
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Lyrics for San Clemente’s Not the Same, Mr Nixon You’re to Blame (by Barbara Foster)
September 19, 2016 Digital Citizen 7 Comments
So, someone found a popular song for which lyrics were not online! And it was on my site, of a song for which I posted a video! At their request, I typed out the lyrics and they are below the video.
Sing along folks cause it’s a great singalong tune!
There was a town, so quiet and still
Then came the folks, from Capitol Hill
San Clemente’s not the same
Mr Nixon, you’re to blame!
You made our town , your summer home
You crowned it with, the Capital dome
You took a step, out on the beach
Now Cotton’s Point, is out of reach
At nine we used, to close the bar
That was OK, with F.D.R.
Oh Mr Nixon, you’re so great
But must your guest, stay out so late?
Before we close, I’d like to say
Oh, neighbour we’d, like you to stay
But would you take, us off the map
And give us back, our noon day nap
Mr Nixon, you’re to blame…
What beautiful lyric writing! To start out with a first verse that opened the story, but also served as a repeatable chorus! You try writing a story where the intro can be repeated to finish off each section!
San Clemente’s Not the Same, Mr Nixon You’re to Blame!
August 2, 2013 August 2, 2013 Digital Citizen 7 Comments
Just watched Our Nixon on CNN, and my favourite part was this little rag at the end! A cute little ditty by sung by Barbara Foster and written by Myron Ace, its theme denounces the Washington/political tourist crowd that bombarded San Clemente after Richard Nixon moved to San Clemente’s coastal hamlet and bought the Cotton’s estate. To this day the home is still known as the Western White House.
I don’t think this song has ever gotten the attention it just got now on CNN! I get the feeling it’s gonna be sung a lot more often now with its catchy chorus of “Mr Nixon, you’re to blame” and Nixon’s image associated with the Watergate Scandal that seemed like everybody around Nixon went to jail for except Nixon.
Mr Nixon, you’re to blame… Mr Nixon you’re to blame…
Of Love Universality, Cross-breeding and Interracial Relationships
May 28, 2010 May 28, 2010 Digital Citizen Leave a comment
Technology exists today that you can monitor brain activity associated with being in love. However, up until recently, most of the studies have been done in the Western world, which is only a minor part of the world. So is love truly universal as the idealists would have you believe, or is it cross-cultural and different among cultures like so many things are? I mean, different cultures don’t express love the same ways. They don’t court mates in the same ways. They don’t assign roles or values in love the same ways. In fact, I doubt you could find anything universal about love across all cultures.
But good news. No. Great news!
Love is truly universal!
Dr Art Aron, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook university in New York, and graduate student Xiaomeng Xu, have shown love to be universal by brain activity (Tara Parker-Pope, NY Times blog). Brain activity is the thing that counts when it comes to being able to scientifically define love. For all the talk of feelings and the heart, that’s all metaphors. Brain activity is where it’s at.
They measured and mapped brain activity of people in different cultures claiming to be in love, shown pictures of their loved ones, and did this for some over an 18 month period as relationships sometimes changed. What they got were some “very clear patterns”, according to Dr Aron. However, he cautions against being able to predict the future of relationships on differences on brain patterns seen among those who stayed in and fell out of love during the time they were monitored. Seems the patterns were an indicator of the present state, and not good enough to predict whether the state would persist or degrade in the future.
Still, it is great to be able to scientifically say love is truly universal among humanity!
Yet, despite all this, I cannot help but think of the paradoxes of racism and interracial relationships which I had seen and felt ever since I was a Vietnamese refugee child in Canada. Interracial relationships have generally been taboo in North America. Sure, there are enough people who accept it, though I will save stories of experiments I’ve done which have shown far fewer would embrace it than accept it in others in some places. In other words, I don’t care if someone else does it but not me. But interracial relationships are still taboo. In Nova Scotia, where I live, an interracial couple has been twice subject to hate crimes in early 2010 (CBC). It was the actions of a few, not representative of a community who rallied around the couple, but those actions don’t come out of nowhere without others someone having propagated the sentiments in the guilty in the first place.
Anyhow, what I’ve long wondered is this. I see people cooing and getting giddy over cross-breeds of dogs, cats and other animals all the time. It’s exotic and prized. Yet, two people of the same species, and we are all homo sapiens, who differ in skin colour, aren’t approved to be able to love each other and be with each other?
You tell me how this makes sense.
It’s just as paradoxical as why tanning is so cool, but being brown naturally and longer than a few weeks at a time is not.
Tell me how that also makes sense.
But tragically, that’s what makes us human and not Vulcans.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Reading Level: 7.9
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Money Is Not a True Motivator for Tech Hires
Manish Chowdhary, founder & CEO of GoECart, said that he bases his way of hiring on Daniel Pink’s studies. Pink, author of The Truth of Motivation, researched behaviors to figure out what really motivates employees. “He was trying to dispel certain myths that...
Dealing with Mistakes
Raj Dandage, along with his partners Ash Nadkarni, and Anagha Nadkarni created AppGuppy, a way to let anyone make their own mobile app within five minutes and five steps, and to distribute it outside of app stores. He was one of the lucky presenters at NY Tech Meetup...
Choosing Misery Over Boredom
Adda Birnir, co-founder of Skillcrush, chooses misery over boredom. For the last two years she has run a client services company along with her partner Jennifer McFadden. She talked about her experiences with startup failure, just before she went on stage at NYU’s...
NYTW: The Small Event before the Big Event – NYTM
When Jennifer Shaw went to her first NY Tech Meetup, a 25,000 member non-profit organization that supports the growing NY technology community, she felt displaced. While several thousand of the members, the managing director Jessica Lawrence and the NYTM’s...
Andrew Wong Takes Organizing Entrepreneur Events to the Next Level
Andrew Wong, a startup entrepreneur-organizer, said that starting NY Business Entrepreneur Network changed his life. “It allowed me to interact with so many people and I learn new things every day. These things changed my personality, changed career path.” Now...
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Let’s keep things rolling with a look at likely Eastern Conference playoff teams and the rest of the field:
Meaningful Offseason Moves
Signed Amar’e Stoudemire to a 5-year $100 million deal.
Released Chris Duhon, signed Raymond Felton for 3-years, $21 million.
Drafted Andy Rautins and Landry Fields
Acquired the rights for Jerome Jordan (currently in Europe)
Sign-and-Traded David Lee to Golden State for Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf, Kelenna Azubuike and a 2011 second-round pick
Why the Knicks are Relevant
When I wrote my Atlantic preview, I commented “the Knicks were becoming a run-and-gun at the end of last season, but they had already dug themselves into a hole when it came to their record and chance for a playoff berth.
And then they grabbed Amar’e. And then they got David Lee to agree to a sign-and-trade for Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf, Kelenna Azubuike and a 2011 second-round pick.
They dropped some old bodies (Al Harrington, Tracy McGrady, Eddie House and Sergio Rodriguez) and they added Andy Rautins, Landry Fields, Patrick Ewing Jr. and Roger Mason Jr.”
I’ve watched a few Knicks pre-season games, and the Knicks provided glimpses of promise from those new players.
And Amar’e looks good. Darn… darn good.
If the Knicks can get their hands on ‘Melo, and I feel like its possible that they do, they’re suddenly a threat. If CP3 joins the party, they’re serious contenders.
Released Luke Ridnour, signed Keyon Dooling for 2-years, $4.1 million.
Traded Charlie Bell and Dan Gadzuric to the Warriors for Corey Maggette
Drafted Larry Sanders
Signed Drew Gooden for 5-years, $34 million.
Re-signed John Salmons for 5-years, $40 million.
Traded 2012 second-round pick to the Nets for Chris Douglas-Roberts
Performed a sign-and-trade with Darnell Jackson to the Kings for Jon Brockman
Signed Earl Boykins for 1-year, veteran’s minimum.
Why the Bucks are Relevant
They were 46-36 last year, even though they lost Andrew Bogut in April.
They took the Hawks to seven games in the first round last year, arguably wearing said Hawks down, leading to a Magic second round sweep.
Bucks fans enjoyed a surprising intensity from their team on the defensive end, where they lead the league in holding opponents to the fewest shots per 100 possessions.
Assuming the Bucks can keep moving in a positive direction, they should be a playoff team, and that’s before factoring Bogut back into the picture, or the fact that Jennings and Salmons are still getting better, or considering the additions of Maggette and Gooden.
Signed Shaun Livingston for 2-years, $7 million
Re-signed Tyrus Thomas for 5-years, $40 million
Traded Tyson Chandler and Alexis Ajinca to Dallas for Matt Carroll, Eduardo Najera and Erick Dampier
Signed Dominic McGuire for 1-year, minimum
Signed Kwame Brown for 1-year, veteran’s minimum
Why the Bobcats are Relevant
The Bobcats made it to their first Playoffs last year, going 16-7 in the last stretch of their season. It wasn’t the kind of ball that made anyone overly nervous, but it did show that the Bobcats were heading in a positive direction with MJ at the helm and Larry Brown serving as the head coach.
Now, see, in my opinion, Larry Brown is the key to success in Charlotte. This is the kind of coach that can bring out talent in guys that most people don’t think twice about.
This is a good thing because – and I don’t want to be negative about this but – I think he’s going to need to. The Bobcat roster is nothing to be too concerned about (Gerald Wallace, Stephen Jackson, Eduardo Najera, Kwame Brown), but I have a feeling that if Coach Brown can bring these guys up, that may be enough to get them to the postseason.
And now the rest…
At a glance, it’s hard for me to decide which conference is stronger overall, though I suspect there are plenty of people with strong opinions. What I will say is that I feel the East is a bit weaker when it comes to the teams in the middle, and weaker still when it comes to teams at the bottom.
On the upside, they still largely have the core set of guys that took them to the playoffs last year…
On the downside, they did not look good – at all – in said playoff run. I originally had this team as heading to the playoffs again, but then I started to realize that while the Hawks stayed pretty well the same from last year to this, teams like the Bobcats and Bucks are more likely to be getting better than this aging Hawks squad.
On the upside, the Sixers drafted maybe the best overall player for what they were looking for. It already appears that Evan Turner is set to become the next Doug Collins disciple. Beyond that, Andre Iguodala had a monster summer playing with the FIBA National team. He’s a player who looks to be coming into his own offensively.
On the downside, it’s not guaranteed that all these pieces will in fact come together. Doug Collins has recently taken some time away from the Sixers to evaluate recurring headaches and migraines. I certainly hope nothing serious is going on there, but even if he’s able to re-join the team soon and not experience any more symptoms, he’s still got a lot of proverbial headaches to deal with.
On the upside, they landed Derrick Favors, signed a new coach in Avery Johnson and allowed Brook Lopez to go play for the FIBA Championship (and he had a solid summer doing so).
On the downside, I’m still of the mindset that the Basketball Gods are hazing Mr. Prokhorov. The Nets attempted to get every meaningful free agent available over the summer and got none of them.
At least they get to look forward to moving to Brooklyn next year.
On the upside, they have a 7 foot sharp shooter in Bargnani to go along with Calderon, Jack and Barbosa. I think Raptors fans may be in for a long season, but at least there should be some occasional high scoring affairs to enjoy.
On the downside, the Raptors lost Bosh to the Heat and had to admit defeat on the Turkoglu experiment before shipping him off to Phoenix. At the moment, there is no clear candidate on the Raptors roster to replace either player.
On the upside, the additions of Greg Monroe, Terrico White and Tracy McGrady is a good bit of help for a team that was struggling with with injuries to Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva last season. Having that entire group of players together and healthy is a positive thing for the struggling Pistons.
On the downside, it’s not really clear if that’ll be enough, as no one player among that group appear to be poised to really dominate this season.
On the upside, there’s still a professional basketball team in Indiana. No, really, that was a big issue this offseason. The Pacers nearly needed to close up shop at their current venue before an agreement was reached to keep the team at Conseco Fieldhouse.
On the downside, the Pacers overall salary is hovering right up next to the league’s salary cap, and the team doesn’t have the means to go above it. The team you see take the floor pretty well *has* to be the team to play out the season, injuries be damned.
It’s a rough time for Pacer Basketball.
On the upside, Gilbert Arenas has notably pointed out that this is John Wall’s team now, and ultimately, he’s right. The Wizards may well be the most promising of the rebuilding teams, insomuch as they probably have the best single talent in Wall, but…
On the downside, they’re still a long ways off from relevancy, especially considering that Arenas appears to have checked out.
On the upside, The Cavs have themselves a new GM in Danny Ferry and a new – and very talented – coach in Byron Scott. They also picked up Ramon Sessions and Ryan Hollins. They also are a team that’s playing against incredibly low expectations, which means they stand a solid chance to surprise people.
On the downside, well, you know…
With Stoudemire, Knicks hope for shot at playoffs (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
NBA Season Preview: The Miami Heat and 40 Storylines For The 2010-11 Season (bleacherreport.com)
Miami Heat, the Team To Beat: A Ranking of Eastern Conference Teams (bleacherreport.com)
Knicks, Nuggets Trade Talks Heating Up? (bleacherreport.com)
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Request approval of Meeting Minutes from April, 13 2017
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Julian Miller for the Hawaii Sand Festival for a Sand Castle/Sand Art Contest at Hanalei Bay Beach, Hanalei (Makai), Hanalei, Kaua‘i, Tax Map Key: (4) 5-5-001: seaward of 011, 012, & 013.
Request for Consent to Mortgage Between Alternative Energy Marketing, Inc., and First Hawaiian Bank, Mortgagee, and Extension of Lease Term Pursuant to Act 207, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, General Lease No. S-3875 Alternative Energy Marketing, Inc., Lessee; Amendment of Lease to Include Updated Provisions Relating to Assignments, Subleasing and Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Requirement under General Lease No. S-3875, Waiakea, South Hilo, Hawaii, Tax Map Key: (3) 2-2-050:093.
Set-Aside to the Water Board of the County of Hawai‘i for the Waikoloa Reservoir #1 and Grant of Perpetual, Non-exclusive Easement to the Water Board of the County of Hawaii for Access and Appurtenant Waterline Purposes; Issuance of Construction and Management Right-of-Entry to the Water Board of the County of Hawai‘i, Waimea, South Kohala, Hawai‘i; Tax Map Keys: (3) 6-5-001: 020 portion and 047.
Set Aside to County of Maui for Community Center Purposes, Kaupō, Hāna, Maui, Tax Map Key: (2) 1-7-002:015.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Save Honolua Coalition for Hōkūleaʻs Worldwide Voyage to Mālama Honua Event Parking Purposes, Līpoa Point, Honolua, Maui, Tax Map Key: (2) 4-1-001:010.
Amend Prior Board Action of April 27, 2001, Item D-1, Resubmittal – Set Aside to the Department of Transportation, Airports Division for Airport Purposes, Kahana and Māhinahina 1,2, and 3, Lāhainā, Maui, Tax Map Key: 4-3-01: 68 and Por. 31.
The purpose of the amendment is to authorize the issuance of a management right-of-entry permit to Department of Transportation – Airports Division pending the issuance of an executive order effecting the set-aside and to update the Tax Map Key numbers of the subject lands; Kahana and Māhinahina 1, 2, and 3, Lāhainā, Maui, Tax Map Keys: (2) 4-3-001:031, 068, 073, 074 and 075.
Grant of Two (2) Perpetual, Non-Exclusive Easements to Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Oceanic Time Warner Cable LLC for Utility Purposes, Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit; Moanalua, Honolulu, Oʻahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 1-1-003: portions of 003, 205, and 212, and (1) 1-2-021: portions of 035, 036, and 037, and portion of Kalihi Stream.
Set Aside of State Lands to Department of Agriculture for Agricultural Purposes Pursuant to Act 90, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003; Issuance of Immediate Management Right-of-Entry to DOA, Honoʻuliʻuli, ʻEwa, Oʻahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 9-1-031:001.
Rescind Prior Board Actions of April 15, 1966, Item F-41, Request for Immediate Right-of-Entry and Related Perpetual Non-Exclusive Easements for Pole Lines and for Petition to Land Court for Designation of Easements, Hālawa, Oʻahu; and June 16, 1967, Item F-27, Request to Amend Previous Board Action Covering Application of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Island of Oʻahu.
Grant of Perpetual, Non-Exclusive Easement to Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. and Hawaiian Telcom, Inc. for Utility Purposes, Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit, at Hālawa, ʻEwa, Oʻahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 9-9-010:054 portion.
Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to Association of Apartment Owners of Kahana Sunset, for Emergency Repair of Undermined Seawall; Temporary Installation of Sandbags; ʻAlaeloa, Kaʻanapali, Maui, Tax Map Key: (2) 4-3-003 seaward of 015.
Minor Repairs and Improvements to an Existing Boat Slip and Platform Structure; and Declare the Project Exempt from the Requirements of Chapter 343, HRS, and Title 11, Chapter 200, Hawaii Administrative Rules for NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries at Māʻalaea Small Boat Harbor, Maui, Hawaiʻi.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Research Permit to Dr. Christopher Bird, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, and Dr. Robert Toonen, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi, for Access to State Waters to Conduct Intertidal Biodiversity Survey Activities.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Native Hawaiian Practices Permit to Kanoe’ulalani Morishige, Nā Maka o Papahānaumokuākea and University of Hawaiʻi, for Access to State Waters to use Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Examine Intertidal Ecosystems Activities.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Conservation and Management Permit to Commanding Officer Kurt Dreflak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ship Ruben (Lasker), for Access to State Waters to Conduct Shipboard Support Activities.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Research Permit to Michelle Heupel, Australian Institute of Marine Science, for Access to State Waters to Conduct Research Activities to Characterize Elasmobranch Species Richness.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Research Permit to Anke Kuegler, University of Hawai‘i, for Access to State Waters to Characterize Humpback Whale Use and Population Status.
Request for Authorization and Approval to Issue a Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Education Permit to Mr. Nathan Eagle, Honolulu Civil Beat, for Access to State Waters to Provide Online Content Related to PMNM.
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Authorize Public Auction of a Lease for a Boat/Trailer Storage Facility and Parking Purposes. Situated at Honokōhau Small Boat Harbor, North Kona, Island of Hawai’i, Hawai’i, Tax Map Key: (3) 7-4-008:003 (Portion).
Repair of Existing Loading Platform Structure; Reimburse Applicant for Costs to Repair Existing Loading Platform Structure; And Declare Project Exempt from Requirements of Chapter 343, HRS, And Title 11, Chapter 200, Hawaii Administrative Rules for Maka Kai Charters, Inc., Slip No. 99, Māʻalaea Small Boat Harbor, Island of Maui, Hawaiʻ
Conservation District Use Application (CDUA) HA-3793 to Construct a Single-Family Residence and Associated Improvements by William Meurer Located at ‘Opihikao, Puna, Island of Hawai‘i, Tax Map Key: (3) 1-3-004:008.
Issuance of a Revocable Permit to KCLC Corporation for Office and Warehouse Space to Operate a Stainless-Steel Equipment Refurbishing Business, 3219 Ualena Street, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Tax Map Key: (1) 1-1-14: 1 (Portion).
Issuance of a Revocable Permit for an Office Space for Administration, Briefing, Training and Breakroom for United States of America, General Services Administration for and on Behalf of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Molokaʻi Airport, Tax Map Key: (2) 5-2-04: Portion of 8.
Issuance of a Revocable Permit for Additional Storage Space for United States of America, General Services Administration for and on Behalf of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Molokaʻi Airport, Tax Map Key: (2) 5-2-04: Portion of 8.
Issuance of a Revocable Permit for Land to Accommodate the Expansion of a Flight School and Tour Office Operation, Hawaii Pacific Aviation, Inc., Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole, Tax Map Key: (3) 7-3-43: Portion of 40.
Issuance of a Revocable Permit for Space in a Cargo Building and Adjacent Ramp Space for an Air Cargo Operation, Aeko Kula, Inc., Līhuʻe Airport, Tax Map Key: (4) 3-5-001: 008.
Issuance of a Revocable Permit for Land for Equipment Parking, Garden Isle Disposal, Inc., Līhuʻe Airport, Tax Map Key: (4) 3-5-01: Portion of 8.
If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e. sign language interpreter, wheel chair accessibility, or parking designated for the disabled) please contact staff at least 72 hours prior to the meeting so arrangements can be made: 587-0400.
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“Boycotting South African Businesses Not Solution To #Xenophobia” – Ycee
Nigerian rapper and singer, YCee says boycotting South African businesses operating in Nigeria isn’t the solution to the ongoing xenophobia.
For a while now, Nigerians have been gruesomely murdered or badly treated in South Africa but the ugly scenario took a uglier turn some days ago and has continued with several reports, videos and photos from South Africa showing brutal attacks of Nigerians and other Africans in the country.
Following the renewed attacks on compatriots in South Africa, Nigerians at home and some abroad are advocating the boycot of businesses owned by South Africa like MTN, DSTV, Shoprite, operating in Nigeria.
However in a tweet on Tuesday, YCee says that is not the answer as these businesses are also means of livelihood to many Nigerians employed there.
For YCee, it is the government’s duty and obligation to bring xenophobia to a halt.
He said:-
“Everyone screaming boycott this and that forgetting that these businesses here are still employment opportunities.
The solution behind this lies in diplomatic conversations! It is the government’s obligation and duty to take immediate action. ”
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EGEB: Expected US coal retirements surge, Europe could get 100% electricity from wind, NYC solar
Phil Dzikiy
- Jul. 9th 2019 8:29 am ET
@phildzikiy
In today’s EGEB:
The newest FERC energy infrastructure update reveals even more coal retirements.
A new study claims Europe could get 10x of its electricity needs through onshore wind alone.
Solar installations pick up in New York City.
Cleaning up China’s air pollution can increase solar output.
Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Energy Infrastructure Update for April 2019, released last month, revealed that renewable capacity in the US surpassed coal for the first time. And the newest update reveals a large increase in expected coal plant retirements, just a month later.
Whereas the previous report revealed that 13,992 megawatts of coal capacity were set to be retired by May 2022, the newest FERC update now expects 17,054 MW of coal to be retired by June 2022. That’s a 3,000+ MW expected decrease in coal capacity, in an extra month’s time.
It’ll be interesting to see just how many more coal retirements will be expected within the next three years as these monthly updates continue.
Wind Potential
A new study published in Energy examines the overall potential for onshore wind energy in Europe. This is far from an original concept, but the researchers claim that “Despite this focus, previous estimates appear to have underpredicted both the amount of available future wind capacity as well as its performance.”
CarbonBrief took a closer look at the study, which claims Europe’s electricity needs could be met more than 10 times over if the continent reached its full potential with onshore wind. Such wind farms could be built on nearly a quarter of Europe’s total land, even excluding zones within certain distances of cities and settlements.
The researchers note that “generating 100% of Europe’s power from wind would not actually be feasible due to social, economic and political constraints,” which seems a bit odd, considering this study believes it can be done 10x over. Even a tenth of that isn’t possible? Nevertheless, the continent seems in great position to benefit from wind, and this doesn’t even include offshore wind or, obviously, solar power.
NYC Solar
The New York Times has a report on solar installations in New York City. Whereas Queens and Staten Island are solar leaders in the city, Brooklyn is catching up.
The borough has historically been held back by its flat roofs — solar panels generally need to be angled to capture light and the city’s building codes require that firefighters must have enough room to maneuver on roofs. But recent developments, like the “canopy” system sold by Brooklyn SolarWorks, have offered more people a way in.
Government incentives for installations and access to community solar are also seen as key in bringing more solar energy to New Yorkers.
Clear China
Air pollution is bad in a number of obvious ways, but one less obvious way is how it decreases the effectiveness of solar panels. This is especially true in a place like China, which is the world leader in solar installations (at least 130 GW) and many areas with smog problems.
A new study published in Nature Energy estimates that solar PV potential decreased “on average by 11–15% between 1960 and 2015.” So cleaning up that air won’t just help the health of millions of Chinese:
The relationship between observed surface radiation and emissions of sulfur dioxide and black carbon suggests that strict air pollution control measures, combined with reduced fossil fuel consumption, would allow surface radiation to increase. We find that reverting back to 1960s radiation levels in China could yield a 12–13% increase in electricity generation, equivalent to an additional 14 TWh produced with 2016 PV capacities, and 51–74 TWh with the expected 2030 capacities. The corresponding economic benefits could amount to US$1.9 billion in 2016 and US$4.6–6.7 billion in 2030.
EGEB
Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political roundup/analysis of news about green energy, such as wind, solar, sustainable technology, and electric vehicles.
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Phil Dzikiy is an Editor/Writer with Electrek/9to5Mac. Tips: phil@electrek.co
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Palestinian girl fatally shot at Israeli checkpoint
Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 30 January 2019
A still from an Israeli police video shows an officer handcuffing Samah Mubarak after she was shot and incapacitated, as a soldier points a rifle at her, at al-Zaayim checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, 30 January. The 16-year-old, who died of her injuries, appears to have received no first aid.
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian girl at al-Zaayim checkpoint in the occupied West Bank east of Jerusalem on Wednesday.
Israeli police claimed that Samah Zuhair Mubarak attempted to stab a security guard at the checkpoint before she was fatally shot.
The Palestinian Authority health ministry gave Mubarak’s age as 16, and media reported she was in the 11th grade.
No Israeli soldiers were injured during the incident, as in many previous cases in which an alleged Palestinian attacker was killed.
An Israeli police spokesperson tweeted a photo of the knife he claimed Mubarak had carried:
Female terrorist armed with knife attempted to stab security personal at security crossing azaim, Jerusalem. Terrorist shot. Units at scene. pic.twitter.com/Xn9LaJ5CB5
— Micky Rosenfeld (@MickyRosenfeld) January 30, 2019
Israeli police also released an edited video said to show parts of the incident.
Attempted stabbing attack in JLM: A 16 year old attacker, a resident of the West Bank, arrived at the az-Za'ayyem checkpoint and attempted to stab the security personnel with a knife. Quick response by the forces managed to neutralize her pic.twitter.com/vUO6vYcm1w
— Israel Police (@israelpolice) January 30, 2019
The video shows a person wearing all black and carrying a backpack approaching the checkpoint.
It then shows an altercation from a distance in which a person appears to stumble or lunge forward, and then fall backwards onto the ground as if shot.
The video is edited such that it does not show what happened in the seconds prior to the altercation and shooting.
It also shows a soldier handcuffing the clearly incapacitated Mubarak who is lying on the ground while another soldier points a rifle at her.
Medical aid denied
In many cases of alleged or actual attacks by Palestinians against Israeli soldiers, occupation forces have habitually used unnecessary lethal force – extrajudicial executions – against persons who presented no imminent threat or had ceased to present a danger.
“In some cases, Israeli officials have said Palestinians appeared to have carried out attacks or attempted to do so in order to be shot dead by Israeli security forces, as a form of ‘suicide by cop,’” the Times of Israel stated after Wednesday’s shooting.
Local media reported that Israeli forces prevented first responders from providing first aid to Mubarak after she was shot.
None of the images released by Israeli police or those circulating on social media and seen by The Electronic Intifada appear to show any examination of Mubarak by medical personnel or life-saving efforts taking place.
Medical care is habitually denied or actively prevented for Palestinians shot by Israeli occupation forces.
In reference to such incidents in the past, Amnesty International has stated that it is “a basic duty under international law to provide medical aid to the wounded, and failure to do so – especially intentional failure – violates the prohibition on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.”
This video shows soldiers looking through Mubarak’s school bag after she was shot and finding only school books:
#شاهد لحظات إعدام جنود الاحتلال للشهيدة الفتاة سماح مبارك "16 عاما" الحافظة لكتاب الله على حاجز الزعيم شرقي القدس، وهي طالبة كانت تحمل حقيبتها المدرسية. pic.twitter.com/SOp37jN6Fq
— وكالة شهاب (@ShehabAgency) January 30, 2019
Israeli forces took Mubarak’s body away in an ambulance to an unknown location, Ma’an News Agency reported. Israeli forces habitually withhold bodies of Palestinians killed during alleged attacks, preventing their families from burying them according to tradition.
Family shocked
A family member told Palestinian media that following the killing of Mubarak, Israel detained her father Zuhair Mubarak after summoning him for interrogation at Ofer military prison.
“We knew that Samah was going to school, and we were surprised by the news of her death. We do not know any other details about what had happened at the checkpoint.” the family member added.
Mubarak’s family is originally from the Gaza Strip, but lives in the occupied West Bank town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, where her father moved at the age of 18.
She is the third Palestinian child to be killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of 2019.
“Samah has a childish personality, she has no extremist thought or ideology, she comes from a religious family, we are all religious, and she would not do what Israel claims,” Samah’s uncle, Fathi al-Khalidi, told the publication Donia al-Watan.
Fatal tear gas canister
Meanwhile in Gaza on Tuesday, 47-year-old Samir Ghazi al-Nabbahin died from injuries he suffered during Great March of Return protests last Friday.
The Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said that al-Nabbahin was hit in the face with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli occupation forces.
On 14 January, another Palestinian in Gaza, 13-year-old Abd al-Raouf Ismail Salha, died from injuries sustained when he was shot in the head by an Israeli tear gas canister days earlier.
Al-Nabbahin was buried on Wednesday amid scenes of anguish:
قطاع #غزة يودع الشهيد سمير النباهين (47) عاماً والذي ارتقى بعد إصابته بقنبلة غاز بالرأس أطلقها الاحتلال شرق البريج. pic.twitter.com/0u5btxlmMw
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) January 30, 2019
بكاء أطفال الشهيد سمير النباهين خلال وداعه وتشييعه وسط قطاع #غزة اليوم. pic.twitter.com/KpZVKIz1kU
At least five more Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire on Tuesday as they participated in a weekly march in the north of Gaza against Israel’s maritime blockade of the territory.
Tamara Nassar contributed research.
Samah Zuhair Mubarak
al-Zaayim checkpoint
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Samir Ghazi al-Nabbahin
Perpetual murder
Permalink Nestor Makhno replied on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 14:49
It goes on and on. The world is doing nothing. Still how long the Palestinians have to suffer murder, injustice and the violations of their basic rights by the cruel zionist ideology ? When this will end?
Permalink Martin O'Brien replied on Thu, 01/31/2019 - 22:32
Given that "Israel" is a criminal as well as an illegitimate state, whose fault is it that the crimes go on and on? In the well-ordered world provided for by the United Nations Charter, as in any individual well-ordered country, every criminal is entitled to be stopped, investigated, judged and punished. If this doesn't happen, all crimes that the criminal commits subsequently are the fault not only of the criminal but also of all those who are responsible for ensuring that justice is done. In this case we are talking about every member-state of the United Nations and particularly the five permanent, veto-empowered members of the Security Council. We must put pressure on them. It is they who are chiefly responsible for destroying the benefits of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "Israel" cannot destroy justice, peace and decency, even though it is doing its best to do this. But the Security Council can. It has this intention and will succeed unless every decent person makes their voice heard and their refusal to be robbed known.
Permalink Sean Breathnach replied on Sat, 02/23/2019 - 15:58
Very little can be done in the security council, while Israel is been protected by the US. The veto must go, otherwise the Palestinians will never get justice.
The end of the vetopower
Permalink Nestor Makhno replied on Sun, 02/24/2019 - 02:41
I presume that ending the vetosystem in the UNSC will be nearly impossible. I think we should hope and work that public opinion in the US will change dramatically and that the politicians come under an unbearable pressure. Public opinion is changing in the US, however very slowly. There are now a few really progressive members in the house of representatives who have the courage to speak out.
Ali Abunimah 17 January 2020
German crackdown on Palestine defenders prompts UN warning
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ECPR Joint Sessions
Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz
The Quadric Nexus of European Minority Politics
Robert Sata
Workshop National Minorities between Protection and Empowerment: Contemporary Minority Politics in Europe
Nationalism is an essential characteristic of our modern world, yet the status of national minorities remains a challenge for both domestic and international actors. This paper is led by an intention to construct a normative framework of majority-minority relations that moves beyond minority protection towards minority empowerment. Since ethnic relations are characterized both as intra- and inter-state relations, identity-based politics is among the nationalizing/home state of the majority, the minority, the kin-state or lobby actor of the minority, and the actors on the international level. Inter-group interactions within this quadric nexus have to face three strategic dilemmas in order to avoid breakout of violence: information failures, credible commitment problems, and the security dilemma that can all be overcome only with the involvement of a third-party actor such as Europe. Securitization of inter-ethnic relations is a dead-end because employing the conflict prevention perspective can only lead to ‘negative peace,’ while the internationalization of minority rights can both promote an active role for outside actors, as well as influence what type of strategies are available to other actors. As such, it is not domestic but international instruments that have the greatest promise for minority empowerment that can be achieved only if minority accommodation is based not on discretionary domestic policies and ad-hoc compromises to maintain international stability, but on considerations of justice. I argue that (internationally provided) minority rights provide for both a process of multicultural appreciation among the groups and for the strengthening of the unity of the polity. Unfortunately, Europe seems to shy away from its role in interethnic policy making and European standards are often interpreted only as minimal forms of minority protection. The most important promise of today’s increased emphasis on pluralism and divided sovereignty is that it provides for a greater discursive space for minority empowerment.
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