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Belgrade’s Makena Morris (11) makes a play on the ball in front of Great Falls’ Hallie Thompson Saturday at the Belgrade Youth Sports Complex.
Belgrade defenseman Sydney Eastwood dribbles the ball Saturday afternoon against Great Falls.
Belgrade's players celebrate after Alessandro Pin, right, scored a second half goal Saturday against Great Falls.
Belgrade senior Sean Smith throws the ball into play Saturday afternoon against Great Falls.
Prep Soccer Roundup
Belgrade swept on senior day by Great Falls
Panthers’ girls allow 3 early goals in Eastern AA loss
Having held defending state champion Billings Skyview scoreless for more than 60 minutes a week ago, Carl Bridwell opted to stick with the same alignment. But the three-back system failed yield the same result Saturday afternoon.
Belgrade gave up three goals before 15 minutes had ticked off the scoreboard at the Belgrade Youth Sports Complex en route to a 3-1 Eastern AA loss to Great Falls on senior-parent day.
“Held them (Skyview) for 62 minutes,” Bridwell, who is Belgrade’s first-year coach, said. “It was just a very different team and a very different game plan against Great Falls today. So when we switched back to what we knew how to play, and got past that initial shock of what they did to us, we played a lot better. But we just couldn’t find the back of the net until the very end.”
Macie McElhenney scored all three of the goals for the Bison beginning in the third minute. The junior found the back of the net again in the 6th and 14th minutes.
The Panthers (2-5-1) had hoped to limit Great Falls’ opportunities with the alignment that had worked so well against Skyview. But they appeared shell-shocked after surrendering the three quick goals.
“They had a very stout game plan and it was effective in that first 10 minutes, and then we switched back to what we knew and from there possessed,” said Bridwell. “We just couldn’t finish in that final third.”
Belgrade controlled the majority of possession in the second half, and finally broke through in the 76th minute when Sarah Marshall played a through ball to Dalani Brayton, who scored on her ensuing shot.
Great Falls outshot the Panthers 23-11, and McKenzie Turner finished with 14 saves for Belgrade.
After notching a pair of wins and a tie in the first half of the season, Bridwell noted opponents are no longer overlooking the Panthers.
“I think that the other teams recognize what we’ve accomplished so far and that they’re not laxed about coming here anymore or playing us anymore,” he said. “So we have to take that into account because we were the surprise of the season to see that we could get some points off of Bozeman and some other teams.”
Belgrade returns to action Oct. 11 hosting Billings West.
“Now we just have to look forward to our next games and see what results we can get out from that,” Bridwell said.
Panthers’ boys rally, but fall to Bison 3-1
They were controlling possession and scored a second half goal to tie the match. But ultimately, a lack of composure cost Belgrade Saturday.
The Panthers played the final 31 minutes of an Eastern AA match against Great Falls down a player due to a red card, and it eventually led to a 3-1 loss on senior-parent day.
“Like I told the guys after the game, we played well,” first-year Belgrade coach Jeff DeBuse said. “But it was just our composure that kind of let us down.”
Trailing 1-0 early in the second half, senior defenseman Sean Smith was given a yellow card following an aggressive play. As he was leaving the pitch, fellow senior Nathan Haycock was given a red card by the referee.
“Sean had a hard tackle and got a yellow card. It was a really physical game and Nate was talking to the ref about the call and I don’t know what was said. But he got sent off after that,” said DeBuse. “We played one down the rest for the game and it’s just kind of tough to be able to keep playing the style that we were playing from the first 60 minutes of the game.”
The Panthers (0-8-0) managed to maintain focus long enough for E.J. Dewell to knock a shot off the cross bar in the 58th minute. Alessandro Pin gathered in the rebound and scored to knot the match at 1-1.
But after making a keeper change in the 67th minute, the Bison scored less than a minute later when Ethan Hann beat Eduardo Delgado for what turned out to be the game-winning goal. Trey Nelson had started in goal for the Panthers as Delgado, the team’s usual starting goalie, missed the first half due to another commitment.
“I don’t think it was Eddie’s fault at all. It was just the situation and they got a good look in front of the goal and the kid had a really good shot on it. Placed it really well and it went in,” said DeBuse. “It don’t think it was because of the keeper change.”
Hann also scored Great Falls’ first goal, while Corbyn Smyth sealed the victory in the 74th minute, chipping the ball over Delgado from just outside the left side of the box.
Despite the loss, Belgrade actually outshot the Bison 15-10 and had a pair of shots hit the cross bar and several others that just missed.
“We hit the cross bar and post four or five times today,” said DeBuse. “One of them has to get on the right side of the post, but it wasn’t our day.”
The Panthers return to action Oct. 11 hosting Billings West before traveling to Billings Senior the next day.
Great Falls 3, Belgrade 1
Great Falls 3 0 - 3
Belgrade 0 1 - 1
GF - Macie McElhenney (Hannah Mart), 3rd
GF - McElhenney (unassisted), 6th
GF - McElhenney (unassisted), 14th
Bel - Dalani Brayton (Sarah Marshall), 76th
Shots: GF 23, Bel 11. CK: GF 4, Bel 1. Fouls: GF 4, Bel 3. Saves: GF 8 (Jorgi Hawthorne, Rylee Shei), Bel 14 (McKenzie Turner).
GF - Ethan Hann (unassisted), 7th
Bel - Alessandro Pin (unassited), 58th
GF - Hann (unassited), 68th
GF - Corbyn Smyth (Gavin Groshelle), 74th
Shots: GF 10, Bel 15. CK: GF 5, Bel 5. Fouls: GF 7, Bel 11. Saves: GF 7 (Trevin Smith), Bel 6 (Trey Nelson, Eduardo Delgado).
Belgrade Youth Sports Complex
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RM895,500 incentives for Penang taxi drivers, school bus operators
GEORGE TOWN, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- The Penang government brings Chinese New Year joy to nearly 3,000 taxi drivers and school bus operators in the state when it announced the payment of incentives totalling RM898,500 to the group today.
Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said the group, comprising 2,342 taxi drivers and 653 school bus operators, could claim the incentives of RM300 each from 9 am to 1 pm either at Dewan Sri Pinang on Jan 26 or at the Seberang Perai Tengah District and Land Office’s hall on Jan 27.
He said the payment would be half of the RM600 incentives that had been announced by the government this year, as the other half would be paid out to the same group before the coming Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.
“I hope the incentives would be utilised wisely and would lighten the burden of the taxi drivers and school bus operators, as well as their families,” he told a press conference at his office at Komtar here.
Earlier, he held a meeting with the Penang Federation of Taxi Drivers’ Association chairman, Abdul Malik Darus and Seberang Perai School Bus Operators’ Association secretary, Lau Theng Chim.
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By now I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, but how wonderful to confirm that all the hype is justified - SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is an absolutely delightful film! It's heart-warming, witty, visually inventive and has such a wonderfully light touch about diversity. I cannot imagine a better version of Spider-man, and learning that this is based on a comic book series that pre-dates the latest live action version, I'm utterly disappointed that Sony/Marvel didn't take the bold step of using this continuity rather than reverting to the old one.
In this Spider-man story, Peter Parker dies early and his role as crime-fighting hero is taken over by a kind called Miles Morales (Shameikh Moore) - a young boy who just got bitten by a radioactive spider. Peter Parker (Jake Johnson) is around just long enough to pass on a few tips before Spidey 2.0 is joined by a bunch of other Spideys from parallel universes - including a schlubby Peter Parker (Chris Pine), a female Spidey, a noir Spidey (brilliantly cast Nic Cage!) and even a Looney Tunes Spidey! I am reliably informed that all of these are from old comic book series, and I have to say that I would pay good money to see a full length Spidey Noir movie starring Nic Cage. All the different Spideys have to team up to save the world from evil Doc Ock - both sending back all the parallel universe spideys through Ock's evil machine, before Miles can destroy it for good.
What I love about this story is that doesn't condescend to it's young audience - giving them a story that hinges on parallel universes and rather hallucinogenic depictions of what it might look like to be in an unstable environment. I also love the film's core message that anyone can be a hero - even if you haven't seen a hero on screen that looks like you before - whether because you're a girl, or an ethnic minority. In fact, anyone can be a supervillian too! Just look at female Doc Ock. It's a film that doesn't shy away from showing what it must mean to be a poor kid who gets selected for an elite school and has to leave his friend's behind. It's a film that will casually show a homeless person sleeping outside of a shiny building. And it's a film that will have a African-American/Latino kid speak to his mum in Spanish without feeling the need for subtitles. I love that courage, self-confidence and inclusion.
But most of all I just love how visually inventive this film is, and how manifestly the creators love comic books. They have a real understanding about how the flow of panels works, how we turn a page on a story, even giving Miles thought bubbles as soon as he becomes a superhero. This gives the film a wonderfully kinetic energy, real joy, and wit in also parodying the 3d blurring around its edges.
All in all, I really hope Sony/Marvel will capitalise on this film's success by continuing the Miles Morales storyline in animated form if nothing else.
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE has a running time of 117 minutes and is rated PG.
Labels: animation, bob persichetti, brian tyree henry, children, comic, daniel pemberton, hailee steinfeld, jake johnson, lily tomlin, mahershala ali, peter ramsay, phil lord, rodney rothman, shameikh moore, zoe kravitz
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Cboe Benchmark Indexes | Nov 15, 2016, 13:44 PM
Yield-Hungry Investors Explore CBOE’s Option-Selling Benchmarks During Bond Market “Rout”
By Matt Moran
Here are some highlights from recent news stories on the bond markets –
A Wall Street Journal story had the headline “Government Bond Rout Deepens on Trump’s Economic Plans,”
A Barron’s story noted that Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital, sees “a rise in bond yields that could lift the yield on the 10-year Treasury note to 6% in the next four or five years.”
A New York Times story stated that “From Indonesia to the United States, government bonds are undergoing a sharp sell-off as investors — large sovereign wealth funds and hedge funds, as well as the accounts of American retirees — restructure investment portfolios to try to capture the fruits of what they expect will be a free-spending Trump presidency.”
A CNBC headline – “'Trump Thump' Whacks Bond Market for $1 Trillion Loss.”
I recently spoke with several investors and advisors who are interested in yield-oriented investments that have the potential for positive returns in a rising interest rate environment, and there appears to be increased interest in CBOE’s option-selling benchmark indexes, such as BXM, PUT, BXR, and WPUT. www.cboe.com/benchmarks.
2016 CHARTS ON YIELD-ORIENTED INVESTMENTS
While many of the recent stories on the bond markets provide data and charts on rising interest rates, a key question for investors is – how have yield-oriented indexes and investments recently performed?
The first two charts below show comparative performance since mid-2016 for select CBOE option-writing benchmark indexes versus select fixed-income benchmark indexes.
In the chart above the percentage changes since mid-year (through November 14) were up 7% for the PUTR Index, up 4% for the PUT Index, and down 13% for Citigroup’s 30-year U.S. Treasury Bond Index. In addition, Citigroup’s 30-year U.S. Treasury Bond Index had a 17% drawdown from its July 8 peak through November 14.
In the chart below the percentage changes since mid-year (through November 14) were up 9% for the BXRD Index, up 3% for the BXMD Index, and down 5% for the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index. It is possible that indexes related to the Russell 2000 Index recently have done relatively well in part because the Russell 200 stocks tend to focus more on U.S. (rather than multi-national) markets.
The chart below shows a drop in prices for the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) from 143.6 on July 8 to 121.31 on November 14. (This chart reflects daily closing prices, but does not show total returns with reinvested dividends).
PERFORMANCE OVER MORE THAN THREE DECADES
The next two bar charts show the performance of four of CBOE’s option-writing indexes (BXM, BXMD, CMBO, and PUT) versus four “traditional indexes” since mid-1986. PUT and BXMD were the top performers on the Annualized Returns chart, while three of the CBOE indexes (PUT, BXM and CMBO) all had less volatility than the Treasury bond and stock indexes.
I been asked about these types of charts – How can the CBOE indexes have higher returns and lower volatility? Is the performance too good to be realistic? In my answers to these types of questions, I often note that the option-selling indexes have received options premiums at regular intervals, and that there generally has been an index options “volatility risk premium” by which the index options usually have been richly priced. One also might note that since mid-1986 a CBOE option-buying index, the CBOE S&P 500 5% Put Protection Index (PPUT) had annualized returns of 6.5% (lower than the annualized returns for all four option-selling indexes in the chart above).
GROSS PREMIUMS GENERATED BY OPTION-SELLING BENCHMARK INDEXES As shown in the chart below, the aggregate gross premiums in 2015 (as a percentage of the underlying value) were 39.9% for the CBOE S&P 500 One-Week PutWrite Index (WPUT) (which receives SPX options premium 52 times a year), and 20.1% for the CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Index (PUT) (which receives SPX options premium 12 times a year).
Both the chart above and the chart below are excerpted from a paper by Professor Oleg Bondarenko, An Analysis of Index Option Writing with Monthly and Weekly Rollover. (2016).
VOLATILITY RISK PREMIUM – RICHLY PRICED INDEX OPTIONS
The chart below shows that the S&P 500 (SPX) options were richly priced every year since 1990 (except in 2008). This fact could have been helpful to sellers of index options.
RESEARCH PAPERS AND MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about CBOE benchmark indexes and the volatility risk premium, please visit www.cboe.com/benchmarks and click on the research papers below. • Aon Hewitt. Harvesting the Equity Insurance Risk Premium: Know Your Options (December 2014) • Asset Consulting Group. An Analysis of Index Option Writing for Liquid Enhanced Risk-Adjusted Returns (January 2012) • BlackRock. VIX Your Portfolio - Selling Volatility to Improve Performance (June 2013) • Black, Keith, and Edward Szado. Performance Analysis of CBOE S&P 500 Options-Selling Indices. (2016) • Bondarenko, Oleg. An Analysis of Index Option Writing with Monthly and Weekly Rollover. (2016) • Cambridge Associates, LLC. Highlights from the Benefits of Selling Volatility (2011) • Fund Evaluation Group (FEG). Evaluating Options For Enhanced Risk-Adjusted Returns: CBOE Russell 2000 Option Benchmark Suite and Case Studies on Fund Use of Options (2016). • Wilshire. Three Decades of Options-Based Benchmark Indices with Premium Selling or Buying: A Performance Analysis (2016). Qualified institutional investors also are welcome to register at www.cboermc.com for an upcoming Risk Management Conference hosted by CBOE –
* RMC Asia 2016: Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2016 at the Conrad Hong Kong Admiralty, Hong Kong * RMC US 2017: Wednesday – Friday, March 8 – 10, 2017 at the St. Regis Monarch Beach, Dana Point, California.
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Considerable Churn at the CEO Spot. Are Companies Preparing for a Storm Ahead?
Employers at U.S.-based companies announced 135 chief executive officer changes last month, 8.9% higher than the 124 CEO changes announced in February, according to a report released Wednesday by global outplacement and business and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.
March’s total was 40.6% higher than the 96 CEO exits announced in the same month last year. In the first quarter, 416 CEOs have left their posts, 22% higher than the 341 CEOs who left their posts during the same period in 2018.
First quarter CEO changes are 2% lower than the 425 CEO changes announced in the previous quarter. It is the highest first quarter total since Challenger began tracking CEO changes in 2002.
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Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks
as Analyzed by a New Generation of European Scientists.
A Marie Curie Initial Training Network - Jan 2011 to Dec 2014
RiskChanges
Abstracts and papers
About Padua
WP1- Modelling changes in hydro-meteorological mul
WP2-Evaluating changes in exposed elements at risk
WP3-Development of a probabilistic risk assessment
WP4-Adapting risk management strategies to future
WP5-Establishing the risk governance framework
WP6-Network training and dissemination
ESR01
TS-4 WS2&3
RiskChanges: a Spatial Decision Support System for analysing changing hydro-meteorological risk
C.J. van Westen (1), W.H. Bakker (1), V. Andrejchenko (2), K. Zhang (1), J. Berlin (3), I. Cristal (4) and R. Olyazadeh (5)
(1) University of Twente, Faculty ITC, Earth Systems Analysis, Enschede, Netherlands (c.j.vanwesten@utwente.nl)
(2) University of Salzburg, Department of Geoinformatics , Salzburg, Austria,
(3) Technical University of Delft, Delft, Netherlands
(4) Technical University of Dortmund, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Dortmund, Germany
(5) University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Goto RickChanges Within the framework of the EU FP7 Marie Curie Project CHANGES and the EU FP7 Copernicus project INCREO a spatial decision support system was developed with the aim to analyse the effect of risk reduction planning alternatives on reducing the risk now and in the future, and support decision makers in selecting the best alternatives. The Spatial Decision Support System is composed of a number of integrated components. The Risk Assessment component allows to carry out spatial risk analysis, with different degrees of complexity, ranging from simple exposure (overlay of hazard and assets maps) to quantitative analysis (using different hazard types, temporal scenarios and vulnerability curves) resulting into risk curves. The platform does not include a component to calculate hazard maps, and existing hazard maps are used as input data for the risk component. The second component of the SDSS is a risk reduction planning component, which forms the core of the platform. This component includes the definition of risk reduction alternatives (related to disaster response planning, risk reduction measures and spatial planning) and links back to the risk assessment module to calculate the new level of risk if the measure is implemented, and a cost-benefit (or cost-effectiveness/ Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation) component to compare the alternatives and make decision on the optimal one. The third component of the SDSS is a temporal scenario component, which allows to define future scenarios in terms of climate change, land use change and population change, and the time periods for which these scenarios will be made. The component doesn’t generate these scenarios but uses input maps for the effect of the scenarios on the hazard and assets maps. The last component is a communication and visualization component, which can compare scenarios and alternatives, not only in the form of maps, but also in other forms (risk curves, tables, graphs)
Data Input demonstration
Loss and risk assessment demonstration
Cost Benefit analysis demonstration
Multi-Criteria Evaluation demonstration
Visualisation Demonstration
Copyright 2011 - ITC Enschede
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McCain calls comments by Georgia Democrat 'shocking'
Rep. John Lewis compares recent McCain rallies to segregationist ex-governor
Lewis: George Wallace "created the climate ... that encouraged vicious attacks"
McCain: Rep. Lewis' comments are "shocking and beyond the pale"
McCain now calls on the Obama campaign to repudiate the remarks
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From Rebecca Sinderbrand
CNN Associate Political Editor
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain called a statement by a Georgia congressman Saturday, which compared the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace, "a brazen and baseless attack."
Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, and Sen. John McCain traded tough statements Saturday.
Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, who has been praised by McCain in the past, issued his statement after several days of headline-grabbing anger aimed at Democratic nominee Barack Obama from some attendees at campaign rallies of McCain and running mate Gov. Sarah Palin.
"What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse," Lewis said in a statement.
"George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama," wrote the Democrat. Watch more on the rising rage at McCain-Palin rallies »
McCain has written about Lewis, praising his actions in Selma, Alabama, during the civil rights movement. The Republican nominee even said during a summer faith forum that Lewis was one of three men he would turn to for counsel as president.
But the Arizona senator blasted Lewis' remarks, and called on Obama to repudiate them.
"Congressman John Lewis' comments represent a character attack against Gov. Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale," he said in a Saturday afternoon statement released by his campaign.
"The notion that legitimate criticism of Sen. Obama's record and positions could be compared to Gov. George Wallace, his segregationist policies and the violence he provoked is unacceptable and has no place in this campaign. I am saddened that John Lewis, a man I've always admired, would make such a brazen and baseless attack on my character and the character of the thousands of hardworking Americans who come to our events to cheer for the kind of reform that will put America on the right track. Watch more on the rising rage at McCain-Palin rallies »
"I call on Sen. Obama to immediately and personally repudiate these outrageous and divisive comments that are so clearly designed to shut down debate 24 days before the election. Our country must return to the important debate about the path forward for America."
Also Saturday, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton released a statement on the Lewis comments.
"Sen. Obama does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies," Burton said. "But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night, as well as the baseless and profoundly irresponsible charges from his own running mate that the Democratic nominee for president of the United States 'pals around with terrorists.' "
Later Saturday, Lewis issued a statement saying a careful review of his remarks "would reveal that I did not compare Sen. John McCain or Gov. Sarah Palin to George Wallace."
"My statement was a reminder to all Americans that toxic language can lead to destructive behavior," Lewis said. "I am glad that Sen. McCain has taken some steps to correct divisive speech at his rallies. I believe we need to return to civil discourse in this election about the pressing economic issues that are affecting our nation."
CNN political producer Ed Hornick contributed to this report.
All About John Lewis • John McCain • George Wallace • Sarah Palin
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Gimme Noise streams the new BNLX EP, interviews Ed
Posted on November 11, 2014 by BNLX
Ed Ackerson of BNLX by Erik Hess.
City Pages Gimme Noise editor Reed Fischer did an extensive interview with Ed about the new BNLX EP (which is now streaming on Bandcamp-check it out!!!)…
Inside BNLX’s Ninth (!) EP, and Their Drone-Filled Future
By Reed Fischer Tue., Nov. 11 2014 at 9:00 AM
Between a heavy workload manning the boards at Flowers Studio, Ed Ackerson steers the punk and alt-rock group BNLX. The band has just put up its ninth EP, Flextime, and is geared for a live collaboration with Transmission DJ Jake Rudh later this month.
Streaming below, Flextime features a 20-minute drone song, a PJ Harvey cover, and two BNLX originals. Gimme Noise caught up with Ackerson to check on the status of BNLX Fest III, and learn about his run-in with Harvey many years ago. Stay tuned for a cute dog pic too.
Gimme Noise: Nine EPs has to be some sort of record. Not that we’re complaining. Anyone you’re aware of who has done as many as you have?
Ed Ackerson: And of course BNLX has also put out two albums and some other stand-alone tracks. Lots of stuff for just four years. I don’t know if anyone else has put out as many EPs specifically, but I have definitely noticed that there are now a number of other local bands who have put out numerically sequential EP releases. So perhaps we have helped set a trend of uncreative record naming! We’re trying to rectify this with our latest EP, which has an actual title.
I’ve always loved the idea of EPs/shortform releases because they give you a snapshot of a band’s development in a particular time. The nature of a full-length record is to plan and execute things more deliberately, where an EP is often something that’s a bit more tossed off or less premeditated. With BNLX I’ve tried very hard to adopt a more informal, “anything goes” attitude than I did with my previous bands, and I think that’s why this stuff is so much fun.
Name the best EP by an artist other than BNLX.
I immediately think of the Glider and Tremolo EPs by My Bloody Valentine, Watery, Domestic by Pavement, Tally All the Things That You Broke by Parquet Courts, Everything Falls Apart by Hüsker Dü, and Onwards to the Wall by A Place to Bury Strangers as great examples of how a small number of songs can create an entire universe of sound and vibe.
The drone track on your EP is incredible. Why stop at 20 minutes? Take us inside the process.
Well, if you want more, we’ve definitely got more! The drone piece was cut live here at Flowers Studio. Everyone just set up at a station with a bunch of different noisemaking devices, and we let it evolve from there. The piece on the new EP is actually the first section from a larger 70-minute piece. We found that editing it down made it more impactful, and we wanted to make sure the piece was still interesting to our fans who might not generally gravitate towards that sort of music.
Is a drone-centric side project on the way? You could call it DNLX.
DNLX!!! You know, it’s possible. We’ve really been enjoying doing this sort of open-ended, improv, explicitly psychedelic music lately. We’ve found that as a group we’re actually really good at spontaneously generating sounds that are both musical and freaky. Our participation in Drone Not Drones last winter really kicked this process off for us. Our plan is to continue to record these improv pieces over the winter, with the ultimate goal of a potential standalone release. In the meanwhile, BNLX will continue to pursue its normal concise/punk rock direction. I see the two types of expression as complementary and oddly connected to each other creatively.
Photo by Erik Hess
Jim McGuinn and Ashley Ackerson
What’s it been like letting the Current’s Jim McGuinn into the BNLX family? What sensibilities does he bring to the band?
I’ve known Jim since our earliest bands played together in college, so we go way back. Jim is another guy who has knowledge and understanding of a huge amount of music. We have a lots common ground to build on. I loved playing in both the two- and three-piece lineups of BNLX, but having Jim there on guitar now really helps us translate the mass of the recorded arrangements to the stage. Plus, he’s a really fun guy to hang out with and we’re all having a total blast playing together. His sensibilities and energy really add to what we’re trying to do.
The EP features a cover of PJ Harvey’s “This Is Love.” What’s your best PJ story?
I was bowled over by the first PJ Harvey album when it came out. I was listening to it continuously in the van while my band the 27 Various was out on tour. One afternoon we were bumming around in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before playing a show. I was walking near Harvard Square, turned a street corner, and standing in front of me were PJ Harvey and her band! Turns out they were in town playing their third-ever U.S. show. They were happy but somewhat unnerved that some American indie rocker recognized them on the street, and I was unnerved because it seemed like they’d materialized out of a dream!
They were playing at TT’s, and we were playing at the Middle East, so sadly I didn’t get to see them that time. I did see them a couple months later and then many times since. Polly Harvey is one of the greats, endlessly inspiring to us, and her drummer Rob Ellis is also a real force of nature.
Judging by the state of Cause I’m guessing no BNLX Fest this year? What’s the latest?
We actually had BNLXFest scheduled for Nov. 21-22, but there were problems with the venue. So we decided to do this Live Transmission event at the Varsity with Jake Rudh instead. We were disappointed to have to reschedule, and we had a fantastic lineup in the works, but it was unavoidable. Our plan now is to do BNLXFest III when our next full-length LP comes out, likely in early March. Live Transmission is gonna be a blast in November, and we’ll have an excuse to throw another fest in just a few months!
Transmission Live seems like a smart idea. How did you get involved and which of his song selections will make you dance?
Jake and I have been friends for ages. I think he’s always wanted to do an event like this, and he and I have talked about doing it together since we have a lot of overlapping friends and interests. The combination of the holiday weekend, BNLX’s new release, and Jake’s schedule made this a perfect time to make it happen. You know me, I don’t dance unless I’m either wearing a guitar, very drunk, or both! But Jake is into an enormous range of music and really knows his stuff, so if anyone can get me out on the floor, it’s him!
Wiggy Ackerson has been a dark horse (dog?) in BNLX. Has your new dog Beep taken to the musical lifestyle as well? Do you have photographic evidence?
Wait until you see the new video for our single “Flextime”…that’s all I can say!
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Bray Under 12 Hurlers finished the league campaign with a well-deserved win against St Maurs to finish top of their group and remain unbeaten in Dublin this year. The lads played St Maurs in their home pitch in Rush, a long journey but for once no-one got lost. Missing a number of players through injury and holidays Bray were fortunate to be able to call on two under 11s to make up the squad.
Playing into a strong breeze Bray settled very quickly and had St Maurs under pressure from the off, Sam and Philip bossed the midfield area and played good quick low ball in the dangerous forward line of Zack, Brian, Cathal and Daniel F and were soon ahead. It must be said that St Maurs keeper made some exceptional saves in the first half to keep St Maurs in the game. As the half wore on St Maurs came more into the game but the very tall and fit half back line of Tadhg and Eoin repelled a lot of the Maurs attacks. Anything that got past them was dealt with very efficiently by Aaron and Peter and Gavin in goal had a quiet game such was the protection he had in front of him. St Maurs did not give up however scoring a goal and two excellent points. The introduction of Michael, Daniel M and Riain who scored a great goal ensured Bray finished the half well and were well ahead at half time.
In the second half the wind was at Bray's backs and if anything got stronger with Bray continuing on where they left off in the first half to run out comfortable winners. This was a great performance with everyone contributing to the win. Special thanks to St Maurs for hosting us and to the referee who came in at the last minute to ensure the match went ahead.
This team have been excellent throughout the season, starting back at training in January and working hard and contributing positively in training and games throughout the season. The team have improved out of all recognition from last year and special credit must go to Terry, Brendan, John, Michael, Peter and Niall for all the work that they put into the team through the year. The team bought into what the coaches were trying to do and the coaches were very lucky to have such a hardworking group of players to work with. They have been a credit to their parents, their coaches and to the club.
Training for this group will continue until the end of November in both hurling and football.
Finally hurling by its nature is a skill based game and the coaches are asking that every member of the group continue to hurl throughout the winter to keep their skill levels up so that they are ready for the under 13 Hurling league in Dublin next year.
Entire Panel: Cathal, Rory, Fionn, Tadhg, Ben, Eoin, Sebastain, Sam, Peter, Riain, Luke, Daniel Flavin, Daniel Munro, Oscar, Philip, Aodain, Gavin, Michael, Jack, Zack and Aaron
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Book Review: Just the Facts
By Jami Deise
I knew at a young age that I wanted to write fiction. I loved to read, watch and tell stories. Plus, writing was the only thing I was any good at. But it wasn’t until high school that I realized no one was going to pay me to sit in a corner and try to write the Great American Novel. I majored in journalism, which lead to another realization: interviewing people in order to write a story was not my strong suit, either. I went into public relations and spent the first ten years of my adult life writing press releases, speeches and editorials, which were closer to fiction that I had first thought.
This career trajectory is similar to Nora Plowright’s, heroine of Ellen Sherman’s debut novel, Just the Facts. It’s 1978 and Nora has just graduated college with an English degree. Wanting to write a novel but needing a real job, she takes an entry-level reporting position at a tiny paper in rural Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Her work consists of reading the police blotter every morning and writing quick paragraphs about the most unusual crimes. But when she’s sent to cover a community meeting about a proposed new highway, she unwittingly stumbles onto evidence of government corruption. Nora is torn between her desire to write fluffy feature articles or follow the trail to a bigger news story. And while her personal life heats up, the corruption trail may also lead to personal danger.
Just the Facts is written in a very straightforward style, and every chapter leads off with one of Nora’s funny police blotter stories. It starts a little slow, as the corruption story doesn’t really take off in a big way until the second half of the book. Nora also juggles a personal life with various boyfriends and roommates. Its 1978 setting means Nora has none of the tools that has changed journalism in the past twenty years – without the internet, there’s no crush for the hour’s next headline; there’s no email, cell phones or even fax machines. Strangely, there’s also no sexism, even though journalism was a notoriously sexist field in the 1970s (Nora does have to face some antisemitism, though.) It’s curious why Sherman chose to set her story in this decade. Although some of Nora’s coming-of-age decisions are timeless, journalism in 2015 is so different from 1978, the story feels way too specific to the time period to resonate with modern readers. Furthermore, the government corruption centers on the placement of a new highway, which isn’t the sexiest (but certainly very realistic) scandal to investigate.
As someone who grew up in Maryland, though, I enjoyed the setting, and the story made me wonder whether there really was some chicanery around those highways near Glen Burnie. And reading the details of Nora’s job convinced me that I made the right decision eschewing reporting for other kinds of writing. Reporters and authors may both be writers, but their motivations and interests are not the same.
Thanks to BookSparks for the book in exchange for an honest review.
Marikyn said...
Enjoyed reading your review. Not sure if I want to read the book but liked the review.
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CHS publishes first annual Impact Report 24 October 2018
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At the Afghan peace Talks, QCG and China-Pakistan Role
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By: Halimullah Kousary, Head of Research, CAPS
The Quadrilateral Coordination Group has failed to fulfill its purpose.
Recently Mullah Haibuttullah, the Taliban’s new chief, in his first Eid message warned of continued conflict until what he called the “occupation of Afghanistan” ends. Weeks earlier, his deputy Serajuddin Haqqani referred to the Afghan government as a puppet regime and said that holding peace talks with it was futile. The Taliban’s defiance over peace talks with the Afghan government comes as a NATO summit in Warsaw is expected to reaffirm the West’s commitment to Afghanistan. The evidence strongly suggests that there is scant cause for optimism over the future of the peace talks and that the Afghan government’s efforts in the form of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) to get regional countries to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table has to date yielded no results.
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Sun UltraSPARC Rock: When is a core not a core?
Sun SME1832ABGA PG 2.2.0 UltraSPARC RK – 2007 Sample
In 2005 Sun (now Oracle) began work on a new UltraSPARC,k the Rock, or RK for short. The RK was to introduce several innovative technologies to the SPARC line and would complement the also in development (and still used) T-series. The RK was to support transactional memory, which is a way of handling memory access that more closely resembles database usage (important in the database server market). Greatly simplified, it allows the processor to hold or buffer multiple instruction results (load/stores) as a group, and then write the entire batch to memory once all had finished. The group is a transaction, and thus the result of that transaction is stored atomically, as if it were the result of a single instruction.
The RK also was designed as a 16-core processor, with 4 sets of cores forming a cluster. This is where the definition of a core becomes a source of much debate. Each 4-core cluster shared a single 32KB Instruction cache, a pair of 32KB Data caches, and 2 floating point units (one of which only handled multiplies). This type of arrangement is often called Clustered Multi-threading. Since floating point instructions are not all the common in a database system, it made sense to share the FPU resources amongst multiple ‘cores.’
The RK was designed for a 65nm process with a target frequency of 2.3GHz, while consuming a rather incredible 250W (more power than an entire PC drew on average at the time).
AMD A6-4400M – 2 ‘cores’ with shared FPU and cache – Piledriver Architecture
This should sound familiar, as its also the basis of the AMD Bulldozer (and later) cores released in 2011. AMD refers to them as Modules rather then clusters, but the principle is the same. a Module has 2 integer units, each with their own 16K data cache. a 64K instruction cache and a single floating point unit is shared between the two. The third generation (Steamroller) added a second instruction decoder to each module.
The idea of CMT, however, is not new, its roots go all the way back to the Alpha 21264 in 1996, nearly 10 years before the RK. The 21164 had 2 integer ALUs and an FPU (the FPU was technically 2 FPUs, though one only handled FMUL, while the other handled the rest of the FPU instructions) . The integer ALUs each had their own register file and address ALU and each was referred to as a cluster. Today the DEC 21264 could very well have been marketed as a dual core processor.
The SPARC RK turned out to be better on paper then in silicon. In 2009 Oracle purchased Sun and in 2010 the RK was canceled by Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison, never one to mince his words said of the RK: “This processor had two incredible virtues: It was incredibly slow and it consumed vast amounts of energy. It was so hot that they had to put about 12 inches of cooling fans on top of it to cool the processor. It was just madness to continue that project.” While the Rock (lava rock perhaps?) never made it to market, samples were made and tested, and a great deal was learned from it. Certainly experience that made its way into Oracle’s other T-Series processors.
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World War F: Weaponized Social Media in the Age of Fascism
Michael I. Niman
/ Apr. 9, 2019 12pm EST
I was blindsided a few weeks ago by a video of the New Zealand mosque massacre showing up on my screen—courtesy of Facebook. I really don’t have language to succinctly describe what it is, filmed by a self-described “fascist” hoping to pull viewers into his deranged hate-ravaged point-of-view, immortalizing the captured images of terror on his victims’ faces at the second their stolen lives flashed before them. The murderer also captured images of his victims and used them as a weaponized meme, which is now forever preserved as a cultural artifact. Making it was likely a driving force behind the massacre. This visual meme brought a white supremacist’s horrific battlefield into my home and the homes of millions of others who either willingly or unwittingly watched this horror. Welcome to World War F.
The weaponization of social media, from Israel to Iraq
In 2014 the two-millennia-old Iraqi city of Mosul, with a multicultural population of almost two million people, defended by approximately 30,000 American-trained and armed Iraqi troops, fell to a disheveled band of about 1,500 poorly armed ISIS fighters sporting a small fleet of stolen Toyota Hilux pickup trucks. But the war was essentially over before they arrived—won on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, aided by a slick viral propaganda video telling a fictitious story of an invincible army. As ISIS fighters advanced on Mosul, they posted gruesome videos from villages on their path, not unlike the New Zealand one, but peppered with beheadings.
Before reaching Mosul, their hashtag #AllEyesOnISIS topped the Arabic language trending charts on Twitter. What ISIS pulled off on social media was a virtual blitzkrieg or shock-and-awe grade terror campaign, projecting an illusion of overwhelming force. The result was as effective as a real bombardment. Iraqi soldiers and civilians in Mosul, glued to the little screens in their palms, thanks to a new cell tower network built with US aid, descended into rabbit holes of fear and terror.
Haunted by images of ISIS winning the battle before it was fought, almost all of the Iraqi soldiers defending Mosul fled before the first Toyota Hilux rolled into town, leaving the bulk of their American weapons, including six Blackhawk helicopters and 2,300 Humvees, behind. Then ISIS arrived, killed the few remaining soldiers and police officers, and posed for selfies with their spoils. The ensuing images proved powerful as visual props spread on social media, enabling ISIS to recruit 15,000 fighters from dozens of countries in the year following the capture of Mosul. War would never be the same again.
ISIS didn’t invent the strategy of weaponizing social media. Perhaps that credit goes to the Israeli military, which had been trolling social media since at least 2008. In 2012, they took their game to the next level, live tweeting and uploading a snuff video to YouTube of a drone assassination against a Hamas leader. Unlike the Iraqi soldiers in Mosul, however, Hamas had responded to the social media campaign in-kind. Both sides enlisted help from their web fans, ultimately generating a pandemic of online hate involving millions of posts. By the end of 2012, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) was running a global social media propaganda unit executing operations on every major platform. Today, hip young Israeli soldiers complete their mandatory military service as part of the IDF’s International Social Media Desk, trolling, for example, American college students supporting Palestinian rights movements such as BDS.
Sockpuppets, botnets, and trolls, oh my…
By 2016, sophisticated propagandists utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms driven by a seemingly limitless trove of data points on damn near every internet user, revolutionized social media-based psych-ops campaigns. And we got some new vocabulary words, like “sockpuppet.” That’s a human internet warrior purporting to be all sorts of folk they ain’t—like the sockpuppet operating out of St. Petersburg, Russia, who formed and facilitated the Twitter group, “@Ten_GOP,” the fake “unofficial Twitter Group of Tennessee Republicans.” At its zenith, it had 10 times the following of the real Tennessee Republican Party’s group. @Ten_GOP spread misinformation memes and incendiary stories, including 3,107 of its own psych-ops messages, while amassing and identifying 136,000 followers to use as viral vectors, retweeting the St. Petersburg messages 1,213,505 times.
One famous sockpuppet persona, the fictitious Jenna Abrams, became an American mainstream media fave. Described by the Guardian as an “all-American, Trump-loving, segregation-supporting, Confederate-defending Twitter star [who] does not really exist,” Jenna appears to be another St. Petersburg creation. As such, “She” was quoted by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, USA Today, BET, the New York Daily News, and a host of others. Once established as a lovable, personable, witty trusted young Twitter star, “her” repertoire turned socially toxic, empowering millions of other racist haters on social media.
Then there are bots, which are robotic versions of sockpuppets. They come complete with fabricated identities, like the John McCain-hating Confederate monument-loving American Trump supporter Angee Dixson, who was exposed by ProPublica as a Russian bot. Powered by artificial intelligence, bots like Angee successfully engaged with human trolls. As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump quoted such bots 150 times.
When bots tweet
Since a bot is just an algorithm residing on a computer server, it’s easier to replicate. In fact, they can be tasked with replicating themselves. Once established as a network, or “botnet,” they can almost instantly propel any tweet or post into mega-virality by robotically seeding a seemingly organic viral orgy of reposting—enough to trick social media site algorithms into seeing the messages as naturally trending, and thus, make them actually trend into millions of news and social feeds. So, when ProPublica outed the Angee Dixson bot, a replacement bot’s tweet attacking ProPublica was instantly propelled by Angee’s 60,000-strong bot cell, eventually reaching more readers than the ProPublica exposé of Angee. Welcome to the future. It’s sort of fucked.
State actors on the World War F battlefields—like Russia, Israel and China—tend to dominate our national discussion of online propaganda. They’re the virtual elephants—lumbering giants that you just can’t miss. The Israelis used glossy ads to recruit social media commandos, while the Russians, for all of their sophistication, just didn’t hide themselves well, with a bunch of Russian sockpuppets cluing investigative journalists in to their whereabouts by keeping bankers’ hours in Russian time zones. We certainly can’t claim any moral high ground against the Russians, however, as whatever they’re accused of doing, we did it to them first and exponentially more successfully using old-school tech in the 1980s, then shamelessly gloated for two decades after the USSR came apart. We’ve since meddled in their elections—shortsightedly raising Putin to power through our support of the imbecile Boris Yeltsin.
Major world powers have historically targeted each other with propaganda—and it’s easy to spot. The Russians are also suspected of using their army of sockpuppets to promote the Brexit withdrawal from the European Union, but an Oxford Internet Institute study contends that while they did exploit Twitter and Facebook during the 2016 US election, there’s no strong body of evidence that they did the same with Brexit. And while France wants to tar the popular Yellow Vest movement with accusations of nefarious Russian support, there’s still not much evidence to support that claim.
Researchers at the Oxford University Computational Propaganda Research Project argue that while governments do target the internal politics of other nations, authoritarian regimes primarily focus on targeting their own populations, with bots controlling, for example, 45 percent of Twitter activity in Russia. Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction to complaints about Facebook propaganda is to call for more government control over the internet. Appeasing governments in this way would, not coincidently, keep global markets open for Facebook, while strengthening the propaganda power of governments and preventing anymore nasty outbreaks of democracy, such as the Arab Spring.
Fear yourselves
While authoritarians use social media propaganda campaigns to target their own populations, the Oxford researchers argue, “almost every democracy in this sample has organized social media campaigns that target foreign publics,” while leaving the targeting of their own populations to “political-party‐supported campaigns.”
Looking back at our concerns over our own 2016 and 2018 elections, while Russian interference was real and documented, its impact paled in comparison to the more effective propaganda campaigns launched by Breitbart and Fox. Our myopic focus on Russia’s obnoxious sockpuppets led us to take our eyes off the larger faster harder ball on the field. World War F is global, but if you really want to fear someone, fear your fellow Americans. Fear yourselves.
State-to-state disinformation battles are not the major threat in World War F. States, almost by definition, are inherently corrupt. They jockey for leverage and advantage and are always willing to compromise their stated values or buy each other off, because they have too much vested in maintaining an orderly status quo of trade and banking. At the end of the day, they generally don’t want to blow the world up. By contrast, the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump economic policies have hollowed out much of the US, leaving economically disenfranchised communities populated by angry people poisoned by despair, and vulnerable to authoritarian and fascist leaders skilled at deploying precision propaganda to channel such anger. Unfortunately, this is what social media does best.
People are more likely to both share and react viscerally to things that anger or frighten them, as opposed to things that inspire them or give them hope. Propagandists know this. And despite decrying their own roles in spreading hate and fascism, social media executives also understand that their business model is based on clicks—and haters are the most voracious clickers. Social media executives seem remiss to mess with this metric—unless their hands are forced. Perhaps that’s why it took Facebook until March 2019 to ban white nationalism—70 years after the end of the Nuremburg trials.
Techno-utopian fascist dreams
Social media now gives the assholes who used to live in seething isolation the ability create community—online, as futurists promised. Nurtured by community, haters empower each other and make hate part of mainstream discourse. Algorithm-driven social media silos curate customized worlds where hate festers among people who all spend their lives spreading it. From Islamophobes to white supremacists to “incels” (self-described “involuntary celibate” misogynists who believe they have a right to sex with women) to ISIS—social media amplifies the ugliest voices, delivering them to your children’s bedrooms. This is World War F.
But above everything else, World War F is about bullshit. More Americans now claim to get their news on Facebook than from any other venue. During the 2016 election season, fraudulent sites and fascist posts got more Facebook reads than the top 19 news sites reporting verifiable reality put together. Why not? It makes sense. This column would be much easier to write and far more interesting to read if I could just make wild shit up. Meme factories in the business to score clicks, and propagandists wanting to manipulate you, can do just that, while journalists are limited to reporting reality. A story about the Clintons having an island of sex slaves, or running a child sex trafficking ring out of the basement of a basement-less pizzeria is a much more interesting read than me arguing that Hillary Clinton doesn’t represent working people because she was on the board of Wal-Mart.
Falsehoods are the currency of fascism. For corrupt authoritarian regimes, truth is the enemy: Truth is the weapon that, when wielded, will cut them down. For authoritarians, first and foremost, truth has to be destroyed. This is at the core of World War F.
World War F is a war on empirical reality. Unconstrained by any pretenses to accuracy, weaponized memes are engineered to excite and incite while poisoning democracies with disinformation. Algorithmic targeting coupled with data-mining and data analytics allows liars to micro-target individuals with propaganda psycho-engineered just for you. And they can micro-target the people most likely to believe their lies.
Without a shared reality, we can no longer engage in the reasoned discussions and deliberations that sustain democracy. When reason gives way to rage, people navigate solely by emotion, and too many start to speak the language of fascism.
When you promote a lie, no matter your politics, you’ve chosen your side. This is World War F. It’s a false reality fueled by Facebook, fascism and fraud. It’s entered our homes, it’s glowing in our palms, it gave us Donald Trump, Sean Hannity, Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, Jair Bolsonaro, Viktor Orbán, and Alex Jones, and it tells us we’re fucked. This is World War F. If it conquers reality, we have nowhere left to fight. If you stand up to lies and liars, welcome to the fight.
This column is an expanded version of the original which appears on Truthout.org. An online version of this column is available on dailypublic.com with hyperlinked reference links. Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and critical media studies at SUNY Buffalo State College. His previous columns are archived at mediastudy.com.
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Lars Porsena
Title: Lars Porsena
Subject: Mucia (gens), Etruscan history, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Roman–Etruscan Wars, Etruscan kings
Collection: Ancient People, Etruscan Kings
Lars Porsena from the Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Lars Porsena, in Etruscan Pursenas, (sometimes spelled Lars Porsenna) was an Etruscan king known for his war against the city of Rome. He ruled over the city of Clusium (Etruscan: Clevsin). There are no established dates for his rule, but Roman sources often place the war at around 508 BC.
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War against Rome
Lars Porsena came into conflict with Rome after the revolution that overthrew the monarchy there in 509 BC, resulting in the exile of the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus.[1] The deposed monarch, whose family was of Etruscan origin, tried and failed to retake the throne a number of times before appealing to Porsena for assistance.[2] Lars Porsena agreed to help.[3] At that time Clusium was said to be a very powerful Etruscan city.[3]
At this point, however, the histories diverge. According to most mainstream Roman accounts, including Livy, Lars Porsena attacked and besieged Rome, but was sufficiently impressed by particular acts of Roman bravery in defending the city that he chose to make peace.[4] Other accounts, however, suggest that Lars Porsena actually succeeded in subduing the city, and that the Etruscans were only driven out some time afterwards.[5] None of the accounts, however, suggests that Tarquinius Superbus was returned to the throne. Thus, if Lars Porsena did indeed capture Rome, he may have done so with the intent of controlling it himself, not restoring the former dynasty.[1][6]
Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna (1620s) by Rubens and van Dyck
Accounts of the war include a number of matters directly concerning Porsena. One story tells that, during his siege of Rome, a Roman youth named Gaius Mucius sneaked into the Etruscan camp with the approval of the Senate, intent on assassinating Porsena. However, when Mucius came into the king's presence, he could not distinguish Porsena from his secretary, who was similarly attired. Through misrecognition Mucius stabbed the secretary and then tried to flee. He was immediately captured by the Etruscans and brought before Porsena, whereupon Mucius bluntly declared his identity and his intent. He advised Porsena that he was merely the first of 300 Roman youths who would attempt such a deed, one after another until they succeeded. To prove his valour, Mucius thrust his right hand into a sacrificial fire, thereby earning for himself and his descendants the cognomen Scaevola. Astonished and impressed by the young man's courage, Porsena gave Mucius his freedom and dismissed him from the camp. According to Livy, Porsena sought peace by treaty immediately afterward.[7]
Another tale of the war concerns the Roman hostages taken by Porsena as part of the treaty. One of the hostages, a young woman named Cloelia, fled the Etruscan camp, leading away a group of Roman virgins. Porsena demanded that she be returned, and the Romans consented. On her return, however, Porsena was so impressed by her bravery that he asked her to choose half the remaining hostages to be freed. She selected all the youngest Roman boys. Afterwards the Romans gave Cloelia the unusual honour of a statue at the top of the Via Sacra, showing Cloelia mounted on a horse—that is, as an eques.[8]
Livy also recounts that during his own time, public auctions of goods at Rome were by tradition referred to as "selling the goods of king Porsena", and that this somehow relates to the war with Clusium. Livy concludes most likely it is because, when Porsena departed Rome, he left behind as a gift for the Romans his stores of provisions.[9]
In 507 BC, Porsena once again sent ambassadors to the Roman senate, requesting the restoration of Tarquinius to the throne. Legates were sent back to Porsena, to advise him that the Romans would never re-admit Tarquinius, and that Porsena should out of respect for the Romans cease requesting Tarquinius' readmittance. Porsena agreed, telling Tarquinius to continue his exile elsewhere than Clusium. Porsena also restored to the Romans their hostages, and also the lands of Veii that had been taken from Rome by treaty. Livy records that, by these matters, a faithful peace between Porsena and Rome was created.[10]
War with Aricia
In 508 BC, after the siege of Rome, Porsena split his forces and sent part of the Clusian army with his son Aruns to besiege the Latin city of Aricia. The Clusians besieged Aricia; however the Aricians sent for assistance from the Latin League and from Cumae, and the Clusian army was defeated in battle[9]
According to most accounts, Lars Porsena was buried in an elaborate tomb in (or under) the city he ruled. Porsena's tomb is described as having a 15 m high rectangular base with sides 90 m long. It was adorned by pyramids and massive bells.[11]
Lars Porsena's tomb, together with the rest of the city of Clusium, was razed to the ground in 89 BC by the Roman general Cornelius Sulla.
Fictional treatment
The story of Lars Porsenna and the Roman hostage Cloelia is the basis of the libretto Il trionfo di Clelia (1762) by Pietro Metastasio.
The French writer Madeleine de Scudéry wrote Clélie in 1661.
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842) by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) tells the legendary story of the Roman Horatius defending the bridge into Rome against Lars Porsena's oncoming Etruscan army.
^ a b Penrose, Jane. (2005) Rome And Her Enemies, Osprey Publishing. pp. 43-44. ISBN 1-84176-932-0.
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.3-7
^ a b Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.9
^ Tacitus, Histories, 3.72
^ Bird, H. W. (1993) The Breviarium Ab Urbe Condita of Eutropius the Right Honourable Secretary of State for General Petitions, Liverpool University Press. p. 73. ISBN 0-85323-208-3.
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.12-13
^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.13
^ a b Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.14
^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.19
Evans, John Karl. Plebs Rustica. The Peasantry of Classical Italy I: the Peasantry in Modern Scholarship, 1980.
Evans, John Karl. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome (Routledge, 1991)
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NY Post: Not everyone is happy that restaurants are going cashless
Apr 27, ’18 12:00 PM
By Lisa Fickensher, April 24
Cash is no longer king.
A growing number of restaurants across the country — like test locations for Starbucks and Shake Shack and the entire Sweetgreen, Dos Toros and Tender Greens chains — are no longer accepting cash.
It’s all plastic all the time.
The stores believe not dealing with cash helps move the line of customers faster.
Most people pay for their meals with a credit card anyway, the chains argue. Plus, counting the cash at the end of the day is a waste of time.
But the war on cash has sparked a backlash.
State lawmakers, a civil rights group, the National Retail Federation and a company servicing ATMs are all pushing back against the trend, claiming that refusing the greenback — on which the US Treasury writes “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private” — is simply un-American.
“I think Americans ought to have a right to pay with cash,” New York state Assemblyman Richard Gottfried told The Post. The Manhattan lawmaker circulated a memo on Tuesday to his colleagues proposing legislation requiring New York businesses to accept cash.
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Op-Ed: Innocence of Muslims and Rocks in the East China Sea
By Frank Kaufmann Sep 28, 2012 in World
New York - Individuals are increasingly empowered by information technology to govern their lives, finances, communications, and more. Instead of working with this change, governments lean increasingly toward totalitarian responses.
Large protest in Toronto held in 'abhorrence' to anti-Islam movie Special
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Christopher Stevens, the man who President Obama, in his UN speech this season says “embodies the best of America,” together with three of his colleagues were killed by armed militants in a raid of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that lasted 5 hours.
The uninhabited rocks called the Senkaku Islands in Japan,and the Diaoyu Islands in China, are at the center of violent riots in China and Japan, disrupting 40 years of normalized relations between the two countries, and threatening annual trade of $266 billion.
The murder of Ambassador Stevens has been attributed to the airing of the anti-Islam short film Innocence of Muslims, but it is better grasped by Jamie Dettner in the Daily Beast as likely planning “mixed in with opportunism,” noting “heavily-armed assailants came well equipped with rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft guns and were able to maintain sustained firefights with Libyan and American security guards at two separate locations.”
What do these two distant events, have in common apart from both having extremely destabilizing potential at global levels? It is that both events were triggered by irresponsible extremists who properly should be fully and wholly inconsequential, and now entire (powerful) nations have been dragged into enormous and deeply serious difficulties as a result. The film, Innocence of Muslims has literally nothing even remotely to do with the attitudes and opinions of 100s of millions of Americans. They reflect the addled and hate-filled impulses of an extreme fringe allowed to operate at the far and putrid periphery of America's properly upheld freedoms and rights. Similarly the furor of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands that rages now (though not without important underlying issues) was generated by the hard-line nationalist,Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara who foists his own extreme and provocative habits onto the world stage by planning to have the Tokyo municipal government buy three of the five Senkaku/Diaoyu islands from their private Japanese owner. Why? We need this? Asia needs this?
The concurrence of these two tragedies and the plain insufficiency of governments to prevent the impact of extremist provocateurs points to the flowering of trends that put us all in constant danger, and require radical reform of political structures and cultural assumptions.
At the heart of this desperate need for radical reform is a curious blend of our finest avant garde, and a concomitant loss of an indispensable rear guard. The avant garde are the relentless and lightning advances in information technology. The rear guard is the lost glue of human integration, namely the mediating institutions through which we learn the rules and dynamics of being properly human in the world.
In the past, world affairs were dominated by centralized leadership. Governments were above provocations by rabble rousers, offensive cartoons against other people’s religious founders, attention getting “pastors” from inconsequential rural churches, or even the occasional demagogue elected to local office. They preferred not to go to war over such banal provocations. Now, in the age of social media, people of no legitimate influence can cause international destabilization. Even such unthinkable historical events as the murder of a foreign ambassador.
The reason why whole governments are now susceptible and are constantly dragged into problems caused by little persons is because the concept and structure governing does not match the world created by information technology. Movies made by tiny hate-filled people arrive instantly and directly at the doorsteps of hate-filled masses. So it is that these days big, lunking, billion and trillion dollar, national administrations are simply by-passed, not consulted. Wars are started without them, by small ignorant people.
Are we hearing solutions to this systemic disorder that shows no signs of abating? No. The response by big, constantly-caught-flat-footed governments to not being invited to the latest flavor of world-hate, is to move relentlessly and aggressively toward totalitarianism. World citizens in once free countries now are spied on by their governments to unimaginable degrees, using fear and force to compel compliance and the sleepy surrender of rights by once free peoples.
The unfortunate reality is, not only is this egregious, but it doesn’t even work. The simple fact is this, the seat of world movement devolves steadily toward individual autonomy, but the governance of world movement remains centralized in an archaic, unworkable habit of rule. What needs to be addressed is a double curse. Post-enlightenment influences have had the effect of corrupting and disintegrating the mediating structures needed for stability in human affairs, and which are needed to produce qualified leaders.
The mediating structures to which I refer, weakened by the force of modernity are family, church (i.e., my own religious home in whatever religion), and neighborhood. These foundational root-homes of basic, moral and ethical education provide the natural steps and progression that teach us wholesome social integration (cooperation and care for others), expanding naturally to citizenship (a gentle patriotism), and finally even informing proper behavior in the world (i.e., beyond my country … or ethnicity).
The double curse to which I refer results in totalitarianism. With the loss of mediating structures, human affairs crack into ever more centralized governing (increasing the use of force and constantly spying on citizens), and increasingly empowered private citizens with ever greater tools for self governance and decision making. The bridge between the two, structures needed to mediate bonds of mutual care between the ruling and the ruled have crumbled away. The ruled though increasingly empowered by advances in information technology are not served nor respected, but are met with ever greater attempts at control and manipulation.
Further, without family, church, and neighborhood, people entering the ruling classes (in all arenas, politics, economics, media and entertainment etc.) grow up malformed, lacking minimal relationships to the moral and ethical foundations required for them to manage their great positions of responsibility. I learned that bullying was wrong before I left home. I learned before I left home that physical violence when I am upset or insulted is wrong. I did not need the police, an army, public service announcements, or a thousand cameras in Times Square to learn the right way to bear insult and offense, or how to share and work things out instead of fight over things.
Leadership has failed to address the causes of world problems for two reasons. 1. They are not addressing what world affairs have become, and 2. they are not looking for ways to repair and recover what has been lost and must be regained.
What the world has become is an arena of direct person to person influence, for which an entirely new set of rules for healthy governance is needed.
What has been lost is the stability provided by those mediating structures which serves to create people who can be trusted to abide mutually with minimal, healthy basics intact.
This opinion article was written by an independent writer. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily intended to reflect those of DigitalJournal.com
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TNT SHOWTIME CC (Bullet pts by AZhombre) 5/29/19
by RamblerNash on Thu May 30, 2019 12:54 am
TNT SHOWTIME CC (Bullet pts by AZhombre)
Replay: 641.715.0623, PIN CODE 409029#
AUDIO REPLAY
Ray/Tony was laughing when the call began, because Tony fell-off the call as the call started, then called back in. Last updates were over the weekend. Sat and Monday updates, and now it’s Monday. (static noise on the line, cleared up by Ray). Sat am, talked w banking source (1) Treasury didn’t tell also should start Mon on the holiday (3) gen exchanges should start this wk, (4) basic banking locations (5) our committee admin is adamant Zim…. Sun/all Parliament positions filled, Abadhi says all positions are filled with crooked politicians… Mon update. Iraq has announced the Green Zone will be open…WE DO NOT HAVE ANY 800 #’s
Tony/ so banks were excited Friday. People get a little info then run with it. Exchange itself didn’t happen. Was supposed to happen Fri, then Tues, and nothing happened. Only 5 people (been that way for years) were supposed to get the 800#’s. A bunch of people weren’t even around then and now saying they’ll give out the 800#’s. Do you think the banks are going to give them the 800# 2 or 3 days before it goes into effect? We know who’s supposed to have them. 800#’s haven’t been put out to get yet. Some gurus…..Yes there are lower denoms, showing pictures of the “coins”. Somebody asked me if I was one of the 5 people getting the 800#’s, yes. These are not international and not to be used by US citizens (lower coins, etc.), not until international. They are ready, continue to pass out the lower denoms. They are going to use the rates. Sent out 50’s, and now waiting to put out the 100 notes, no later than next week, will be the last thing prior to the rate change. The banks are “selling” them the lower denoms. The rates are going to exchange. When do they pay the people? Do they pay them at the new or old rate, tomorrow, or next month. Today came up with June the 2nd. Should be something new or different. 100 notes, no later than June the 7th, should be by Friday, but no later than June 7th. That’s what he told us 2 days ago. Today they said the 2nd. Usually have a couple of days different. Rates aren’t doing anything today. One of the large banks said today! The real key is once they put the 100 bill out!
Q U E S T I O N S WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019: https://tntshowtime.activeboard.com/t65581985/questions-for-ray-cc-052919/
AlaskaSnowman: I might have to travel to the Lower 48 before the RV. I would be in a situation where I couldn’t just leave and come back for my currency. What if I were to take just one 5k note with me: That way I would be able to exchange for enough to do a few things while in that area. Ans: T/I’d do that. You’ll still have to do the 800# with a 5k note!
Hotgirl 58: Good day Tony you spoke of the 2016 currency notes for Zimbabwe but my understanding they haven’t print any new currency note and they were using 9 including the dollar and when china helped them it’s the only one they use now. Am I wrong? Ans: T/you’re wrong. None located in the US, but some in Zimbabwe. Bank exchanged somebody 2 wks ago. No claw-back. See what happens!
Seatreasure3 Good morning Tony and Ray hope your memorial holiday was good!!! Missed our normal call, blessings to those who have served and blessings beyond to those who have made personal sacrifices with loss of loved ones. My question today is when it was a go and a bank ask for a delay after memorial holiday. Had US treasury actually given an OK that we have all been waiting for? Ans: Tony, did the Treasury say yes, and the banks turned around and said…. Yes, HSBC assumed WF responsibility and leadership. Said they would wait until afterwards. Since that happened and we talked to our people in Iraq, even they thought we should have gone, the 100 wasn’t in circulation. When the 100 note comes out, then everything is ready to go!
skiracer: Hey Tony and Ray! My gratitude to you both. You have spoken of DONG rates as $.47 – $2.23. RE: $.47: Is this the “front screen, street, market rate” that an unknowing soul off the street gets if he just walks in and presents his dong for exchange? Then please elaborate on how to get the $2.23 if you would. For example, is that a contract rate so we must use that very term? Thanks a bunch! Ans: Tony/47 cent is the rate anybody would see. Ans/ To get the $2.23 you ask for the contract rate. Hopefully you qualify.
SunStar: 1) Ray, Post RV how soon after will you kick start the banking seminars a few days, 1 week ect; and will bank seminars all start on the same day?… Ray/within days of RV live, preferably all done the same day. Tony/banks share their banking products? 13 different cities all in one day? Ray/I’m not doing it, the “hosts” are doing it. Tony/all you 13 people, I wouldn’t do it unless Ray showed up. Ray/it would be detrimental to do that. 2) Are you aware if Iraq completed the distribution of the smart cards, Visa and Master cards to all Iraqi citizens? Tony/they have a new ration card they just added some features to. My guess is yes, they haven’t revealed it or talked about it. 3) Many have thought we would RV when the Interior ministers and Defense minister were voted in, where do you stand on this topic.. Ans: Tony/always using that as an excuse to drag everything out to get completed. Distractions were the ministers.
Starseed22: From FlowerShopLady and Starseed:
No Question – but we would like to express our deep appreciation for both of you – Ray and Tony. And we would like to invite you to come up to Canada after things settle down after the RV – to beautiful Vancouver – maybe even do an Alaskan Cruise – so we can show our appreciation to you and celebrate with you here. Words will never be enough to convey our heart-felt love and gratitude for all you do – be – and are. Thank you! Ray/Canadians, we’re coming. Tony/I actually like Canada. The cleanest country I’ve ever seen. Could have a picnic in the streets because it’s that clean!
skiracer: Per your update below, do you now have “other” exchange locations on the list of banks you developed rather than banks? Thank you! Ray/only that particular bank said they’re retail locations wouldn’t be using their locations. Should have said only 1 particular bank wouldn’t use their retail locations for exchanges.
Jmatranquil: Do you now have “other” exchange locations on the list of banks you developed rather than banks? Ans:
Gilfoinaire: Heard exchanges wouldn’t take place in Canada. Tony/I haven’t heard that. Don’t know what a “private invitation” is. If you have somebody saying meet them in some hotel, you’re just as crazy as the idiots that did that with their Dinar.
DBPDinar: Tony/will work like it did last time. Sign-up on the page. When we reach the number, that’s it! Don’t know what type of facility in Vegas we’ll have. Didn’t want to go into a stadium type thing. Have breakfast, present some people, have time to get to know one another, over 4 days could do in smaller venues split-up. Tell people to sign up. If it’s 10k to 20k, I’m going to take those who contributed first. We know who’s doing it now. After all those people we’ll take the rest. Don’t know how many people. The 4 smaller events 2k people so it won’t get out of hand. Plus say “hi” to everybody. My goal is try to say “hello” to each and everyone of you.
Live Callers:
513: Cincinnati, OH. C/Doesn’t make sense we only have until June the 1st to exchange Zim. T/not one bank person has told me anything like that. Doesn’t make any sense and know bank people who said no. C/you said you know someone who exchanged Zim, and liquid? T/yes. C/Perhaps your guy has the wrong info from above. Has the base issue been resolved? T/resolved. Called them operational commands but end up being military bases. C/if they mask it that way and Iraq doesn’t complain, ok with me. Do you see any real outside dates when finalized? June 7th? T/that’s what I heard over the weekend. They are “selling” Sadam worthless souvenirs? Who does that make sense to. Hopefully by Friday. Comes from my guy over there. C/exchanging here in Canada and will be exchanging here and in the US. Any advantage exchanging Zim at HSBC rather than WF? T/no advantage, just a procedure. WF was always part of HSBC. C/appreciate you guys, listened for 9 yrs.
865/Good Question Lady! Knoxville, TN. /one bank said by…. You also said the banks were excited on Fri and Sat. T/Fri-Sat when the banks said they were scheduled to go. I could believe it by someone who said it. I hear from the top guys. This is the plan, this is what we’re doing. But when I talk to the bottom guys, they say they’re going to barbeque. They do the work, I’ll follow them. We’re not going to see it happen until the 100 Dinar note comes out. The bank may be telling them just to keep them on guard. The guy you’ll be talking with isn’t getting any info. Waiting for him to say he’s on “standby” and needs to be in in 25 min! C/Does Abadi need to be present? Yrs. ago when this was going to be done, they set up a whole area set up like Iraq, so he could go into that studio and make the announcement. C/How many more of these days, with likely Friday’s call, would tend to be at a different time. Also, any calls next week? T/we’re going to have calls between now and next week. I wouldn’t interrupt Rays traveling just to say “hi” (Ray had travel plans Fri.
707/Santa Rosa, CA. C/do “no go’s” have anything with the Cabal? T/Every week we hear nonsense! Military taking over, etc. didn’t happen over the past several administrations. When does it stop? What kind of sense does it make that jets are flying over banks for your protection? No spaceships coming down. The RV happens now, and 3 months later Trump is still the president. None of that info makes any sense. C/both of you make me feel better!
281/Houston, TX. Last Friday I was going to call in again, was really excited. If Abadi said all new ministers are “crooks”, Iran, Maliki, China, everything sounds positive but never happens. June 7th is a big deal now. It will come and be gone. Tony/I cannot guarantee any one date and time this will happen. Everybody being told something different, except last week everybody was on the same page. But we heard they skipped over the 100 denomination and when it comes out it’s a go! They have passed laws, and sooner or later it has to happen. I do know of the info we have. We’re still probably getting 20-30% of it all. We get more info. Mueller is gone and now they want to impeach Trump again. They have a plan. Was told this was a 3-month plan. We didn’t listen when in March said during the next legislative session they are going to change the Dinar. Ends June 30th. Amadi said this RV will happen “by June”. Not the end of June. Right now, all positions are filled. 4 were kicked out a week ago. An excuse was put in to complete it ASAP. They think now is the time. C/is it going to take another 6 months to find honest politicians to fill the positions? T/you’re right. Watch what they do not what they are saying. They are doing things, not just saying things. The 100 bill is the last one to go. Whether it comes out today, tomorrow, or a week from now. Pelosi says Trump is a crook. Trump says others are crooks. We’re no different. Giving them 350k each would have changed their lives (needed citizens) when they passed out 100k notes. C/I’m the only one who complains. T/
972/Danny In Dallas. Happy Guy. Wants to know how the Canadian guy has a Social Security Number! T/Everybody has a problem getting good credit, loans at 1%, etc. When somebody comes here from another country, they get gov’t assistance and file taxes, not even citizens. People sell 5k people the same social security #. Then the state says you used the wrong #, then they are given a new SS #. C/Extension of Jun 1st? T/that was yrs. ago! Somebody saying if not by June 1st, they will be seen as an “idiot”. June 2nd end of Ramadan. Going to pay people their pay-checks on June 2nd. Pay them today, before the RV is announced, or after the RV announced. Hope the RV is made by then. Haven’t heard from any of the banks this morning. C/banking locations may not be used in normal banking locations? T/no. R/he answered that earlier. Only one bank
425/Bellevue, WA. Special rates situation, but I’m going after the contract rate. Those that do it, will they be paid thru a paymaster? Can you fill me in on that? T/Can’t remember his name either. “Studley”. He did commit suicide. That group turned into the General64 group. A bunch of people who were questionable. Some were being sold back to the bank and using the money. Their group was for $18, not the contract rate. People used fake names, those people lost their Dinars. A group sent their Dinar to an overseas country, signed documents letting the “paymasters” take control over it. One paymaster told Tony I’m not giving them over $5m no matter how much they gave me. That paymaster is going to exchange. Then later figure out how much and when to pay-out everybody else. Will take just one person to file a complaint to a judge then they won’t see any of their money for years for the courts to go through it all. They will not be getting paid the same time we will. C/you’re saying it’s bogas? T/that’s bull….. the bank doesn’t know who the paymaster is. You give that info to the paymaster and pray you get your money. C/I never gave them any of my money. T/it could possibly happen you walk into the bank and then somebody will have all your banking information. C/I just gave Studley my email, but not my money. T/Gen64/Studley is no more, no problem.
XXX /? C/question on what Ray posted. Came from one bank source? R/y. C/So can’t confirm. …. T/said they were going to do it on Fri & Sat. Falusia did it only. I didn’t get the info about the 100 dinar. C/the caller who just called in negative, what good does it do? I thought this was going to be a sprint 5 yrs ago, but it a marathon and one day we’ll get there. What good does it do to complain to you guys. You have the patience of Saints. Thank you both. A great source of hope. Forgive us for murmuring. T/I want to murmur also, but the guy in the mirror won’t let me!
Tony/it is what it is. Watch what they do and not what they say. They were ready last week to go on a moments notice. Looking for (1) the 100 Dinar, (2) handing out Lower Denoms (3) Paying their below poverty people 350k (not 30.+).
Ray/we’ll try and bring you information later in the day on Fri, even if it doesn’t go
Latest Rates; Dinar: $3.50 – $4.43. Dong: $0.47 – $2.23. Zim $0.22 – $0.33 cents. Rupiah: $1.08-$1.30 ($1.20).
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Dr Jesus Lozano Fernandez
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jesus.lozano@bristol.ac.uk
I completed a B.Sc. in Biology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008), followed by an M.Sc. in Biodiversity at the University of Barcelona (2009). During my master’s degree, I worked in the Arthropod Systematics and Evolution lab under the supervision of Miquel A. Arnedo, studying the molecular systematics and phylogeographic patterns of an Iberian group of springtails. Subsequently I started a Ph.D. in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of Barcelona (2014), supervised by Professor Xavier Belles. During my PhD I tried to address questions related to the origin and evolution of insect metamorphosis. In 2015, I obtained a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in the University of Bristol. My postdoc with Davide Pisani is focused on the origins and early evolution of arthropods.
Activities / Findings
Arthropod terrestrialisation using total evidence dating and comparative chelicerate genomics
Animals have marine origins and only four lineages have adapted to life on land. These groups are the vertebrates (e.g. reptiles, mammals), molluscs (e.g. land snails, slugs), the onychophora (velvet worms) and the arthropods (e.g. insects, spiders). The water-to-land transition is referred as terrestrialisation, and is an extreme case of adaptation to a new environment.
My research is focused on the arthropod lineage, and I am interested in knowing 'how' and 'when' these organisms have colonised the land. I am particularly interested in the comparative genomics of one of the groups that conform it, the chelicerates (e.g. spiders, scorpions, mites). Chelicerates contains marine and land representatives as well as abundant terrestrial fossil record. I will combine the genomic and fossil information of these organisms to study the modifications that allowed marine chelicerates to adapt to life on land.
Molecular palaebiology
Insect metamorphosis
Webpage of Palaeobiology Research group
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Carton, R, Tanner, A, Puttick, MN, Blaxter, M, Vinther, J, Olesen, J, Giribet, G, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2016, ‘A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialisation’. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, vol 371.
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, A, Giacomelli, M, Carton, R, Vinther, J, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2019, ‘Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Reis, Md, Donoghue, P & Pisani, D, 2017, ‘RelTime rates collapse to a strict clock when estimating the timeline of animal diversification’. Genome Biology and Evolution, vol 9., pp. 1320-1328
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Giacomelli, M, Fleming, JF, Chen, A, Vinther, J, Thomsen, PF, Glenner, H, Palero, F, Legg, DA, Iliffe, TM, Pisani, D & Olesen, J, 2019, ‘Pancrustacean Evolution Illuminated by Taxon-Rich Genomic-Scale Data Sets with an Expanded Remipede Sampling’. Genome Biology and Evolution, vol 11., pp. 2055-2070
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, AR, Giacomelli, M, Carton, R, Vinther, J, Edgecombe, GD & Pisani, D, 2019, ‘Author Correction: Increasing species sampling in chelicerate genomic-scale datasets provides support for monophyly of Acari and Arachnida (Nature Communications, (2019), 10, 1, (2295), 10.1038/s41467-019-10244-7)’. Nature Communications, vol 10.
Howard, R, Edgecombe, GD, Legg, D, Pisani, D & Lozano-Fernandez, J, 2019, ‘Exploring the evolution and terrestrialization of scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) with rocks and clocks’. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, vol 19., pp. 71-86
Parry, LA, Smithwick, F, Nordén, KK, Saitta, ET, Lozano-Fernandez, J, Tanner, AR, Caron, JB, Edgecombe, GD, Briggs, DE & Vinther, J, 2018, ‘Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses – Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Exceptional Fossil Preservation Is Complex and Involves the Interplay of Numerous Biological and Geological Processes’. BioEssays, vol 40.
Lozano-Fernandez, J, Leite, D, Baudouin-Gonzalez, L, Iwasaki-Yokozawa, S, Turetzek, N, Akiyama-Oda, Y, Prpic, N-M, Pisani, D, Hiroki, O, Sharma, P & McGregor, A, 2018, ‘Homeobox Gene Duplication and Divergence in Arachnids’. Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol 35., pp. 2240-2253
Puttick, M, O'Reilly, J, Tanner, A, Fleming, J, Clark, J, Holloway, L, Lozano-Fernandez, J, Parry, L, Tarver, J, Pisani, D & Donoghue, P, 2017, ‘Uncertain-tree: Discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 284.
Puttick, MN, O’Reilly, JE, Oakley, D, Tanner, AR, Fleming, JF, Clark, J, Holloway, L, Lozano-Fernandez, J, Parry, LA, Tarver, JE, Pisani, D & Donoghue, PC, 2017, ‘Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic analyses of morphology do not generally integrate uncertainty in inferring evolutionary history: A response to Brown et al.’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol 284.
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Track and field update: 26th Feb
Ellen Harrison News indoors, juniors, Masters
Mike Strange reports on the British Under 20 Championships in Sheffield & English Masters Inter-Area Challenge at Lee Valley.
In a week when it would be very difficult to emulate the great performance by the B&W Senior Men at the National Cross Country Championships our Indoor athletes Under 20/U17/U15 youngsters enjoyed their moment of glory with their National Indoor Championships in Sheffield as did our prolific Masters Athletes who competed in the Inter-Area Challenge at Lee Valley.
In the U20 Championships and competing for the first time in her new B&W vest Caroline WALDER excelled herself with a superb lifetime pb in the Pole Vault. Cally inched up her pb by 2cm to record a great 3.55m Vault to finish 5 th in the competition and move herself to 3rd on the Club ‘all time’ U20 Indoor ranking list. Well done – a great way to christen your B&W colours. There were high hopes for another recent convert from North Somerset Emma BAKARE to Triple Jump close to 12m but unfortunately the
timetable did not allow her to compete as she also had another commitment that day. Also competing were two Higher Competition Members Multi-event athletes Jenna BLUNDELL and Rory HOWORTH. Both
competed well in the Long Jump: Rory was extremely close to his 6.63m best with a jump of 6.59m and Jenna did achieve a pb with a 5.93m performance. Jenna also competed in the 60m hurdles finishing with
an 8.53 pb clocking to take the Silver Medal in the final behind a solid 8.63 clocking in the heat.
At Lee Valley some of our leading Masters athletes Sarah EVERITT (W50); Clare JOLLIFFE (50); Henrietta ANSTEY (W45); Tony ROPER M50); Anne DOCKERY (W70) and Peter MOUNTAIN (60) kept the B&W flag
well and truly flying. Sarah competed in and won all three of her events 800m 2:32.83; 1,500m 5:17.81; 3,000m 11:13.31. A mean feat, don’t you agree? Clare came a close second her training partner the younger Sarah in two of those races :- 1,500m 5:19.57 & 3,000m 11:19.03.
Anne, a distance specialist, strangely competed in the 60m sprint where she finished with a new Over 70’s Club Indoor Record of 11.96 secs. And took the Bronze Medal before taking Silver in the 800m with a 3:22.53 clocking. Hen ran another 200m sb and looked powerful in 31.50 before she competed for the South West Vets in the 4x200m relay. Tony did compete in the 1,500m even if he was nursing an ongoing ankle problem so saved
himself a bit for the later 3,000m but never the less clocked a respectable 4:53.11. Having saved himself for the 3,000m Tony then clocked a season’s best of 10:14.10 and took the Bronze Medal also beating one of our greats from the past International Nigel GATES. Peter, an over 60, was persuaded to run down an age category with the V35 to V50 athletes in the 1,500m and the outcome was successful as he clocked 5:03.97 for a 5 sec seasons best of 5:03.97. In the later 800m Peter clocked another respectable 2:29.47.
Mike Strange – 26 Feb 2019
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Indoor Track and Field Update
World Masters Championships – Torun, Poland.
In the final Indoor Competition of the year our Masters Athletes ventured to the exceptional track facilities in Poland for their Indoor season swan-song.
As usual it was the outstanding Caroline POWELL who dominated the headlines having now moved on from her all conquering the over 60 age group to find even greater challenges at the over 65’s group. The challenge came in the shape of Canadian Karla Del GRANDE. In the heats of their 400m Caroline ran in the first heat and steamed to a new World Record of 69.77 secs whilst Del GRANDE in the second heat also surpassed the old mark with 69.98. In a momentous final they were both level at the break then Del GRANDE really moved on with an extravagant 31.35 200m but Caroline was still on her heals. That previous 200m really took its toll and the final lap was understandably 6 secs slower and Caroline smashed her earlier World Record by almost a whole second but regrettably she could not quite take the Gold Medal from Del GRANDE. Never the less her time of 68.94 secs is a European,British and B&W Club Record – well done Caroline. The Canadian was able to dominate the 200m where she powered away from Caroline to set another World Record but Caroline did take Gold in the 60m an easy win in 9.01 secs pb. Caroline also gained a Gold Medal in the O’65 4x200m Relay with the British Team so 2 Golds and two Silvers is a good haul from this very competitive World Championships.
Peter MOUNTAIN was disappointed with his M60 800m in 2:27.13 after a difficult night’s sleep but he really bounced back in the 1,500m with a magnificent sub 5 min clocking of 4:58.92 to take 6th place in his race.
Tony ROPER had been troubled with some leg muscle restrictions in earlier weeks but his 10:01.16 3,000m which beat his previous s’b by 13 secs really put paid to any doubts on Tony’s fitness in Poland. 4:47.61 was also close to Tony’s season’s best for 1,500m so he will be pleased with his fine efforts.
It was great see that our past great Hurdles International Heather ROSS W55 had returned to the competitive scene with a fine 11.11 secs for 60m hurdles 7th place in her final following a 11.15 clocking in her heat. I am sure it was also good for Heather to meet up with the other ex-Bristol colleagues at these Championships to relate the great days of Bristol glory in the UK Women’s League.
Diana CHKLER W40 who now lives in Europe also bounced back (along with Husband Alex) to clock notable times of 2:43.74 for 800m, 5:25.70 1,500m and 12:18.27 3,000m.
Ann DOCKERY who is in the O70 age group after some notable track performances earlier this year opted to run in the 6km Cross Country Champs also held in Torun. Ann did magnificently well to finish in 35:59 narrowly missing a Medal in 4th place.
International Member Jo WILLOUGHBY W55 registered another outstanding Triple Jump mark of 10.52m but sadly had relinquish the Gold Medal to the new World Record holder Neringa JAKSTIENE from the USA. Without confirmation I will assume that Jo is still recorded a new European and British Record for her Silver Medal.
These Championships were also a great re-union for our Athletes with ex-Members who have served the Club well over many years. I note the following names from the results who fill this criteria :- Alan FORSE; Brett DAVIS; Dave BROWN; Jane HORDER and James THIE with a special note for World W50 Pole Vault record holder Irie HILL the Wife enigmatic past Member Warren HILL. Memories!
Mike Strange – 10 April 2019
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On the fast track to Croft
Latest News posted 13th June 2014
Croft Circuit is revving up to host its biggest event of the year in just over two weeks’ time (28/29 June), when the all-action Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship storms into Yorkshire to deliver an irresistible dose of high-octane entertainment.
BTCC boys Tom Ingram and Adam Morgan attended the recent pre-event Media Day at the north-east’s premier motor sport venue, which is currently celebrating its 50th season, but there will be more than 30 flame-spitting machines doing battle at the end of the month!
Having been a popular stop on the schedule of the country’s biggest championship every year since 1997, the Croft event comes at a critical stage in the 2014 season with its conclusion marking the halfway stage of the campaign.
eBay Motors ace Colin Turkington leads the standings with four victories to his credit from the opening 12 races. Indeed, the 2009 champion’s BMW 125i M Sport is tipped to be the weapon of choice in Yorkshire as the Ulsterman targets more silverware in the quest to add a second drivers’ trophy to his glittering CV.
Turkington will not find it easy, however, with fellow former title-winner Gordon Shedden in hot pursuit in Honda Yuasa Racing’s striking new Civic Tourer – the first ‘estate’ car ever to triumph in the most fiercely-contested tin-top series. In characteristic BTCC fashion, the Scot sits just nine points adrift of the championship leader – and poised to pounce.
Third in the chase for the coveted crown heading to Croft is defending champion Andrew Jordan, who came out-of-the-blocks flying in the Brands Hatch curtain-raiser but conceded ground following a troubled weekend at Oulton Park last time out.
Shedden’s Honda team-mate Matt Neal was another to endure a nightmarish time of things in Cheshire – scoring a scant seven points – and he will be eager indeed to get his challenge back on-track.
Local hero Jason Plato remains well in the hunt in his MG KX Clubcard Fuel Save MG6, with team-mate Sam Tordoff – another fans’ favourite at Croft, hailing from nearby Leeds – also likely to be firmly in the mix.
Others to look out for will be the rejuvenated Rob Collard in his eBay Motors BMW, returning former champions Alain Menu (Chrome Edition Restart Racing Volkswagen CC) and Fabrizio Giovanardi (Airwaves Racing Ford Focus ST) and their respective team-mates Árón Smith – a winner at Oulton – and Mat Jackson.
Add into the melting-pot the inimitable Rob Austin (Exocet Racing Audi A4), leading rookie Tom Ingram (Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Avensis) and ex-British F3 Champion Marc Hynes (Quantel BiFold Racing MG6), and a trio of exhilarating encounters is guaranteed.
Supporting acts will include the Renault UK Clio Cup, Michelin Ginetta GT4 Supercup, Ginetta Junior Championship, Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship of Great Britain and Porsche Carrera Cup GB.
Amongst the local stars taking to the track will be Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher in one of Redline Racing’s Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars and Ginetta Junior title contender James Kellett, whose HHC Motorsport team is based just down the road from the circuit in Boroughbridge.
In a further coup, Britain’s governing body, the MSA, has selected Croft’s BTCC meeting as one of its venues to showcase its pioneering ‘Go Motorsport’ initiative – aimed at providing information about how to get involved in the sport at grass-roots level.
“The BTCC is enjoying its most competitive and enthralling campaign for many a year in 2014, and we are delighted that the championship arrives at Croft with the title battle balanced on a knife-edge,” remarked circuit manager Mike Cantelo.
“We have a series of spectacular events to look forward to here over the coming months as we celebrate our half-centenary in style – and the BTCC is a superb way to kick-start a sublime summer of sport at Croft. It is a fun and family-friendly weekend and tickets are extremely reasonably-priced. Make sure you don’t miss out!”
Tickets can be purchased in advance from as little as £11 by calling 01325 721815 or online at http://www.croftcircuit.co.uk/tickets/btcc.html
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Results of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of RusHydro
JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: MOEX, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces the results of the Annual General Meeting of shareholders (AGM) held today, June 26, 2015.
AGM approved dividend payment in the amount of RUB 0.01561855 per share;
AGM elected 13 members of the Board of Directors;
AGM elected 5 members to the Company’s Audit Commission
AGM approved amendments to the Articles of Association and other Regulations;
AGM approved participation of RusHydro in Non-Commercial Partnership Russian-Chinese Business Council (RCBC).
The AGM approved the Company’s 2014 Annual Report and annual accounting statements.
The AGM approved the following distribution of profit for 2014 (in RUB):
Retained profit for the reporting period
30,729,255,631.93
1,536,462,781.60
Accumulation fund
The AGM resolved to pay dividends for 2014 in the amount of RUB 0.01561855 per share. The dividend record date is July 7, 2015.
The AGM elected 13 members to the Board of Directors:
Artem Avetisyan, ‘New business’ division, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects;
Evgeny Dod, Chairman of the Management Board – General Director, JSC RusHydro;
Viktor Zimin, Chairman of the Government, Republic of Khakassia;
Sergey Ivanov, General Director, JSC Russian Energy Company;
Vyacheslav Kravchenko, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation;
Denis Morozov, Director from the Russian Federation in the Board of Directors of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD);
Alexander Osipov, First Deputy Minister of Development of the Far East of Russia;
Vyacheslav Pivovarov, President, Altera Capital;
Yuri Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District;
Maxim Bystrov, Chairman of the Management Board, NP Market council, JSC TSA;
Larisa Kalanda, Vice President, JSC Rosneft, acting General Director, OJSC ROSNEFTEGAZ;
Sergey Shishin, Senior Vice-President, VTB Bank;
Andrey Shishkin, Vice President, JSC Rosneft.
The AGM elected 5 members to the Company’s Audit Commission:
Natalya Annikova, First Deputy General Director for Finance and Economics of JSC Construction Department No. 308.
Denis Kant Mandal, Deputy Head of Department at the Federal Property Management Agency;
Igor Repin, Deputy Executive Director, Investor protection association;
Andrei Kharin, Deputy Head of department, Ministry of Energy of Russia;
Vladimir Khvorov, Senior Expert of department at the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
The AGM approved the appointment of CJSC PriceWaterhouseCoopers Audit as the Company’s auditor for 2015.
The AGM resolved to pay remuneration to the members of the Board of Directors based on their performance from June 27, 2014 to June 26, 2015 in the amount and under the procedure set in the Regulations on remuneration to members of the Board of Directors of RusHydro.
The AGM approved the amended Articles of Association of RusHydro.
The amended Articles of Association reflect recent changes in the Russian Civil Code as well as established corporate governance practice and are aimed at securing the rights and legitimate interests of the Company’s shareholders.
The AGM approved the new version of the following internal documents:
Regulations on procedure for convening and holding the general meeting of shareholders;
Regulations on procedure for convening and holding meetings of the Board of Directors;
Regulations on the Audit Commission;
Regulations on the Management Board;
Regulations on remuneration and reimbursement to members of the Board of Directors;
Regulations on remuneration and reimbursement to members of the Audit Commission.
The requirement to amend these documents arises from changes in the legislation, changes in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation; establish corporate governance practice and adoption of amended version of the Company’s Articles of Association.
The AGM approved participation of the Company in Non-Commercial Partnership Russian-Chinese Business Council (RCBC) under the following terms:
Entry contribution for 2015 in the amount of RUB 750,000;
Further size, procedure and schedule of membership fee and once-through contributions to be determined by the Annual general meeting of RCBC.
An agreement on establishing of the Russian-Chinese Business Council (RCBC) was signed on October 14th, 2004 during official visit of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the People’s Republic of China.
RCBC was founded to promote joint economic projects both in Russia and China and to facilitate cooperation between Russian and Chinese business community.
The Russian chapter of RCBC unites more than 50 largest Russian companies and business associations, conducting business with China. The Chinese chapter operates under the aegis of the Committee of International Trade Development Assistance and includes 40 largest Chinese companies.
The mission of RCBC is to facilitate direct contacts between Russian and Chinese entrepreneurs, to implement joint projects, to protect mutual investments and to settle corporate disputes.
At the present moment 27 large-scale Russian-Chinese projects are being implemented with direct support of RCBC with total worth of 8.9 billion dollars.
The AGM approved the liability and financial risk insurance agreement for Directors, Officers and Companies between RusHydro and OJSC SOGAZ, qualified as an interested party transaction.
The subject of the agreement is Directors and Officers liability (D&O) insurance that protects the company, its subsidiaries and managers from claims which may arise from the decisions and actions taken within the scope of their regular duties.
The Company is required to sign such agreement in order to comply with the Insurance Regulations of RusHydro.
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Enjoy Publications
Giving Back Arts+Entertainment Web Exclusives Photography
Collaborating with The Dreamer Co-op in Fresno
Nov 30, 2019 11:00AM ● By Enjoy Magazine
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Elevate & Create
Story by Rachel Trigueiro
Photos courtesy of Ellie Koleen
THE CENTRAL VALLEY is bursting with creativity, specifically Fresno.
Four friends who connected through the local group Tuesdays Together Fresno created a modern holiday artisan show that pushes the envelope. “There are a lot of holiday shows around and we wanted something different,” says jewelry designer Alana Little of Make Pie Not War. “Something holistic – not in the medicinal way, but a really special and organic event, where people can enjoy food trucks, sip locally roasted coffee, have their hair done and find super unique items.”
Passionate about bringing creativity and innovation to their hometown, Little, along with Hilary Dildine (Bleu De Toi), Erika Grubb (Erika Amalia Events) and Alex Register (KLSD) started the Dreamer Co-op in December 2017. “There’s a huge group in the city making big changes,” Little says. “Everyone is working together to make it a better place. We’re like the cheerleaders of Fresno. We love it so much.”
The heart behind the event is to elevate Fresno’s creative community and “raise the bar for shows through rad events,” Little says. This is not a typical craft show.
Every year they continue to stretch the boundaries. This year’s theme is Kinship, focusing on collaboration and innovation. “We are challenging artists to work together with other artists, to see the beauty of collaborating and the synergy that comes with that,” Little says.
Giving back is a big part of the Dreamer Co-op vision. Part of the proceeds from the show go toward a featured nonprofit. Fresno Rescue Mission is this year’s selected charity. Rescue the Children, a ministry within the Rescue Mission, is a protected, secure environment in a refurbished hotel off the 99, providing long-term services to at-risk, abused and homeless women and children.
“We love the Rescue Mission,” says Little. “They do the hard work that everyone’s afraid to do. They are helping women get their lives back or start new lives completely. It’s a really special ministry. Most of us are female and have children, so it means a lot to support them.”
At the event, the mission will have a booth educating the community about what they
do, along with merchandise and
a fun make-your-own-craft, all benefiting the organization.
“Fresno is awesome and such a fertile place for creativity,” Little says. “Our hope is that this show inspires others to think outside the box, work together and share information. I believe we are stronger when we work together.” •
Dreamer Co-op event
Dec. 7, 11am-4pm • 1742 H St., Fresno
Find them on Instagram as The Fresno Collective
Rachel Trigueiro, twin mom of four, loves adventuring with her family, especially near the beach. She holds a degree in business, but believes living in other countries and cultures offered her the greatest education. She dreamed of being a talk-show host; now, she enjoys story telling and drinking blonde coffee.
In-Print, Community, Giving Back
Non-GMO Plants for Sale w/ No Chemical Sprays
7:30am · Visalia Farmers' Market
River Parkway Trust - Bald Eagle Hike @ Millerton
8:30am · San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust, Inc.
Coyolxauhqui, Madre Cosmica Exhibition and Opening Reception at Arts Visalia
12:00pm · Arts Visalia Visual Arts Center
Art Exhibit, Andrew Shinn: Photographs
9:00am · Fresno Pacific Universtiy
Art Exhibit, Del Samatar: Monster Portraits
Fresno Pacific University Student Art Exhibit
9:00am · Fresno Pacific University
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Kamen Rider BLACK! Episode 5 - Kotaro's Run in the Labyrinth. Summary/Review
Normally, I like to write these opening paragraphs just like if I was writing a 1960's episode of Batman but today I do not. Why's that? Well, let's just say that this episode of Kamen Rider Black is sooOOOOoo special. How special? Well, it's so special that I wouldn't believe that this episode existed if I hadn't seen the episode for myself! Yeah, it's that kind of special. This is my (Kaiser Sensei's) Summary and Review of Episode Five of Kamen Rider Black. (Click on "Read More" to read this very special article).
Episode Five certainly has the most creepiest of openings that this series has to offer so far. This episode opens up with a girl named Akane, on the run from a Satanic Cult lead by Satan. Akane manages to escape though and is rescued by a random delivery man. Convenience soon kicks in as Kotaro's sister finds out that Akane is in hospital and she is the only one that has Kotaro's sister's new phone number... Yeah, that's some ultra lazy plot set up right there. Kotaro is also suspicious about the attack and is already investigating the place where Akane's from, a little village called Asahi. Once Kotaro and his sister go into the waiting room, they see a news report about how Asahi Village is going to have a World Peace Meeting... Again! Such a lazy plot device.
Kotaro and his sister go to see Akane, whom wakes up shouting and screaming in fear and passes out in shock. The Doctor then takes our heroes into another room, where he discusses that Akane is suffering from extreme shock and while this is happening Akane is walking to the roof because she is being commanded by Lucifer to go to the hospital roof and commit suicide (must be all that d**n rap music that she listens to). Akane does snap out of it but as soon as she does she is falling but lucky for her, Kotaro manages to grab her by the arm and pull her up to safety. Kotaro doesn't waste much time as he starts heading to Asahi Village to put an end to all this madness...VROOOMM!
Kotaro makes it to the village and saves a boy from a group of bullies that are terrorizing the boy's family garden. The bullies fail to show fear in Kotaro and give him some creepy Children of the Corn stares and then the rest of the villagers come and attack Kotaro in a scene that looks right out of Resident Evil 4 (you know, the good Resident Evil game). More creepy Resident Evil 4 s**t happens as Kotaro is saved due to the town bell ringing and the villagers go to pray to their lord, Lord Goat... Lord Goat? You mean all this time this guy I've been calling Satan, Lucifer, Doug, and The Devil is called... Lord Goat? They could've done something way better than that, the name Lord Goat takes away all of the seriousness and scary vibes that this episode had. Lord Goat! Lord Lazy Writing more like it (I'm probably the only one that'll chuckle at that joke).
The boy that Kotaro saved takes him to a cave where the all of the non-possessed people are and it's only one other person, the kid's grandfather. The Grandfather tells Kotaro about the village and how that he and the boy aren't possessed because they were out of town fishing for the day. Akane also happened to be visiting that day and when they got to the village that night, they were attacked by the villagers. Again, Kotaro wastes no time and finds the cave where the people are being held under Lord Goat's control... Oh, yes! The little boy from the village also decides to join Kotaro on his investigation. Things start getting a bit kinky as in the cave we have the villagers chant Lord Goat's name and Lord Goat gives them more power by rubbing his horns and ejaculating purple haze all over them or as to what I like to call it... Woodstock '88. *ba dum tish* STOP THROWING ROCKS AT ME!
Why is Lord... EEECCHH! Now I can't get the image of him stroking his own horns out of my head. But the reason why Lord... Nope, still can't get it out of my head. But why is Lor... G*D-D****T! It's going to give me nightmares now. So why is this masturbating goat man doing all this? It's because the Golgum do not like the idea of a World Peace Conference, so they are mind controlling the villagers to sabotage the event... Yeah, that doesn't make much sense to me either.
More chanting and purple vaping is happening at the cave and the little boy just happens to get possessed and attacks Kotaro. The little boy is no match for Kotaro (obviously) and Kotaro knocks him out and takes him back to his grandfather. It is also at this moment that all the clues click inside Kotaro's head and figures out that the Golgum are possessing people to try to stop the peace conference... You know, for someone that's very sharp to what is going on, he didn't figure out that the Golgum was trying to stop the Peace Conference until this point? C'mon, give me a break. They acted as if he was investigating and paying attention to what is going on and they ruin that by doing this. I DON'T LIKE IT!
Kotaro manages to get the boy and his grandfather back to their place to where the grandfather discusses a plan that he has to try to snap the villagers out of their trance. You see, the grandfather's plan is to take out his hearing aide, so he can't hear the chanting and while this is happening he is going to try to talk the villagers out of it. This leaves me confused as is it the purple haze that's supposed to possess people or the chanting? I can understand the chanting working on the people that have been possessed by the purple haze, so why would he need to go in without hearing anything if he wasn't... Aw, f**k it! I've given up on the logic of this episode.
After the planning, more Resident Evil 4 s**t happens as they are attacked by the villagers whom are donning torches and pitchforks and manages to corner down our heroes. Kotaro manages to break though them due to him waggling the joystick fast enough to break their grip... Nah, he just pushes though them and escapes. All this possession business really gets Kotaro's goat (hah) and so he changes into Kamen Rider and rushes to Lord Horn Rubber. Lord Goat is prepared as he shoots fireballs, more purple rain, and also ejaculates fire from his crotch... Yeah, I'm sure he is meant to be breathing fire but it looks like that he shooting right out of his d**k. Kamen Rider calls in for his bike, so he can get close to Lord Goat and karate chops off his horns and kicks him and Lord Flame throwing Penis is destroyed. Akane is back to normal, all the villagers are free, the peace convention happens and thus concludes the fifth episode of Kamen Rider Black.
Yeah, not the most best written episode out there with a lot of lazy and clumbsy writing, where it felt like that the writers weren't paying attention to what they were writing and just wanted to get the first draft out there. This story could've also worked and made for a very scary episode but it dropped the ball way too quickly. The one-off characters for this episode also didn't work for me as I didn't care about any of them, they just felt thrown in.
The effects in this one were decent though with the purple haze and all of the h**l fire going on but the action itself is pretty lame. The costume for Lord Goat is very cheesy though and sure he does look spooky at first glance but it wears off quickly as you notice how tame the costume is. Did they really need to make him rub his horns to make the purple haze c*m out.. I mean, come out? Couldn't they just let it fire on its own? Who am I kidding, this guy also ejaculated fire for crying out loud. Speaking of that, the logic in this episode made no f*****g sense what so ever and yes, these kinds of shows aim for more fun than logic but the logic in this episode is so broken that it felt like it was written by the Devil himself. I also didn't like how this episode was breaking it's own rules that it set up for Lord Goat. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Overall, a really bad episode of the show but if you are willing to overlook the many flaws that this episode provides then you may be entertained by this flaming garbage. I'm giving this one a 3 out of 10. This episode is h**l.
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PAUL PITSKER
1985 BA with distinction, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2018 What Lies Within, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 What’s clear now, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2010 Enigmas and Elegies, Left Coast Galleries, Studio City, CA
2006 Borderline States Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Strange Angels, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Recent Work, Swenson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 WILDlife, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY
2010 Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Salt Creek Environment: Local and Endangered, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NB
2009 La Petite, Left Coast Galleries, Studio City, CA
2008 Spirits of L.A., Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Hollywood, CA
2008 California Visual Artists, 2nd City Council Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2008 Bronze and Brushstrokes, Left Coast Galleries, Studio City, CA
2007 You Are Here, two-person show at Bandini Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 Bridge Art Fair, with Art Murmur Gallery, Miami, FL
2007 Contemporary Realism, Modern Masters Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2007 Art International, The Pasadena Center, Pasadena, CA
2006 Memorias de Comunidad, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Random Perspectives, Red House Gallery, Venice, CA
2006 Vanitas Now, Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Looking At Art, LAMAG at Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2004 In America Now, Don O’Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 Petite works, Gallery 825 Annex at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Turn It Up, The Art Coalition, North Hollywood, CA
2002 Visions International, Art Center Waco, Waco, TX
2002 To Your Credit, Eastern New Mexico University, Roswell, NM
1999 Moving Toward The Millennium, Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Tierney Brosius, Leon Higley, Lana Johnson, "Promoting the Conservation of the Salt
Creek Tiger Beetle Using the Visual Arts," American Entomologist, Vol. 60 No. 1
2009 Lynne Bahr, "Photographic Effects, Painterly Vision," Watercolor, Spring 2009.
2008 Jenica Jones, "Look Very Close," Bootleg Magazine, No. 37, August, 2008.
2008 Theo Douglas, District Weekly (cover), Vol. 1, Issue 52, Long Beach, April 2008
2008 Studio Visit Magazine No. 2, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, April 2008.
2008 Raoul De la Sota, "Spirits Of Los Angeles," City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural
Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
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Monica, CA, January, 2007
2007 Peter Frank, "Art Murmur," Art Murmur Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2002 Shirle Gottlieb, "Arresting Art," Long Beach Press-Telegram, August 23, 2002
Gottlieb, "Art that might stop you in your tracks," Beachweek, August 2002
Gottlieb, "From Metal to Print," Long Beach Press-Telegram, July 5, 2002
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Thoughts That Go Bump in the Night
"When somebody persuades me that I am wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?" John Maynard Keynes
"If you're unhappy with your life, change your thinking." Charles Fillmore
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." Eckhart Tolle
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"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
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Celebrating the Solstice!
I'm re-posting this marvelous overture to "The Bat." This is so good, on so many levels. Seems appropriate for the Summer Solstice!
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From the corner of his eye, psychologist Harry Wilson glimpsed something. The fleeting image heralds an entrance into the paranormal where Harry encounters people who have something in common despite separations in time and space. Pieces of a grand puzzle fall into place, revealing the next step in evolution for Homo Sapiens, at an inter-dimensional roundabout known as the Point.
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The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own. Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.
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George Sewell studied the nature and process of personal change for thirty years as a counselor, manager, and administrator in the field of addictive disorders including problem gambling. He is a playwright, author, and teacher. He has advanced degrees in Drama & Communications and Counseling and is a Licensed Prevention Professional and Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist. He was awarded the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Theatre (Playwriting.) His books include "The Krismere," "Habits, Patterns, and Thoughts That Go Bump in the Night," "Just the FAQ's, Please, About Alcohol and Drug Abuse" (co-author Dan Baldwin) and "A Gnome, A Candle, And Me" (illustrated by Chester Delacruz.) George lives in Bossier City, Louisiana.
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Actuating drive for surgical instruments
A surgical instrument (1) with a grip part (2), which is provided with a working part (26), which has a tool part in an end area and is provided with a slide (57). The slide (57) is adjustable in relation to the working part (26). The adjusting movement (double arrow 18) brings about a working movement of the tool part. The adjusting movement (double arrow 18) can be brought about by an actuating drive (6, 7, 8, 9, 10), which can be activated by an actuating element (38), which can be actuated manually. To attain the strongest possible actuating forces, a control means (35) is provided, which can be controlled via the actuating element (38) and by which the actuating drive (6, 7, 8, 9, 10) arranged in the area of the grip part (2) can be actuated. The actuating drive (6, 7, 8, 9, 10) now brings about the working movement of the slide (57) depending on the position of the actuating element (38) and is mechanically coupled with the slide (57) via a lever mechanism (10).
Zepf, Christoph (Durbheim, DE)
Kratt, Helmut (Spaichingen, DE)
Guel, Ilyas (Villingen-Schwenningen, DE)
ZEPF CHRISTOPH
KRATT HELMUT
GUEL ILYAS
A61B17/28; A61B17/00; (IPC1-7): A61B17/24
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LANG, AMY T
MCGLEW & TUTTLE, PC (P.O. BOX 9227 SCARBOROUGH STATION, SCARBOROUGH, NY, 10510-9227, US)
1. A surgical instrument, comprising: a grip part; a working part having a tool part in an end area provided with a slide, which is adjustable in relation to said working part and has an adjusting movement that brings about a working movement of said tool part; actuating element which can be actuated manually; an actuating drive for bringing about said adjusting movement, said actuating drive being actuated via said actuating element, said actuating drive including a lever mechanism; a control means controlled via said actuating element for actuating said actuating drive, said control element being arranged in the area of said grip part, said actuating drive bringing about the working movement of said slide depending on the position of said actuating element and being mechanically coupled with said slide via said lever mechanism.
2. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 1, wherein said lever mechanism has a support lever and a pushing lever; said support lever and said pushing lever are connected rotatably with one another via an intermediate joint; said support lever is mounted rotatably with an end located opposite said intermediate joint in said grip part and said pushing lever is connected by its end located opposite said intermediate joint with said slide in an articulated manner via a prismatic join; said support lever and said pushing lever can be brought by said actuating drive from an angular position into an at least approximately aligned position for driving said slide.
3. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 1, wherein said actuating drive has an electric motor, by which a push rod mechanically coupled with said lever mechanism can be driven.
4. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 3, wherein said electric motor is in gear connection with said push rod via a planet gear.
5. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 3, wherein said electric motor can be actuated via said control means such that said tool part can be adjusted from a starting position into an end position and vice versa.
6. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 4, wherein: said electric motor is designed as a motor operator; an adjustment path of said actuating element can be detected by means of a measuring means and transmitted to said control means; and said motor operator can be actuated by said control means such that the working movement of said slide of said working part is essentially proportional to the adjustment path of said actuating element.
7. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 6, wherein said measuring means is formed by a incremental transducer with an incremental shaft encoder.
8. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 1, wherein said actuating drive is formed by a double-acting or single-acting pneumatic cylinder arranged integrated in said grip part, and that a pneumatic control valve, which can be actuated via said actuating element, is provided as the control means for controlling the adjusting movement of said pneumatic cylinder.
9. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 1, wherein said working part is detachably connected by its said tool part with said grip part.
10. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 2, wherein said grip part has a housing, which is provided with a coupling housing for coupling with said working part.
11. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 10, wherein: said coupling housing has a closable receiving chamber, into which said working part with a guide shaft can be replaceably inserted; said slide axially protrudes from said guide shaft into said receiving chamber; said prismatic joint is provided with a ram, which protrudes into said receiving chamber and with which said slide can be engaged in a positive-locking and detachable manner.
12. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 11, wherein said receiving chamber of said coupling housing can be closed with a housing cover, which is pivotably mounted on said coupling housing, and that said working part is held by said closed housing cover in said receiving chamber.
13. A surgical instrument in accordance with claim 8, wherein different working parts with said different tool parts are provided for different intended uses, which said tool parts can be replaceably mounted on said grip part.
This application claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of DE 103 28 934.8 filed Jun. 27, 2003, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention pertains to a surgical instrument with a grip part, which is provided with a working part, which has a tool part in an end area and is provided with a slide, which is adjustable in relation to the working part and whose adjusting movement brings about a working movement of the tool part, wherein the adjusting movement can be brought about by an actuating drive, which can be actuated via an actuating element, which can be actuated manually.
Many different embodiments of surgical instruments of this type have been known. Reference is made in this connection to DE 93 07 793 U1, DE 29 71 4735 U1 as well as DE 93 17 488 U1. Further proof of the state of the art of such surgical instruments of this type can be found in these documents. Furthermore, such surgical instruments have also become known from DE 29 71 8969 with further proof
The common feature of these surgical instruments is that they have a working part, which is provided with a tool part. The tool parts may have different shapes and have different functions. For example, forceps-like tool parts are known, with which it is possible, for example, to take tissue samples. In addition, scissor-like tool parts are also known, which can be used in a similar manner to remove tissue samples or also to sever adhesions. So-called punching tools of so-called bone punches, which are used to punch out or remove projecting bone or cartilage parts, are known as other tool parts as well.
Furthermore, it is common to these surgical instruments that they have a slide adjustable in relation to the working part in their working part or at their working part. To drive the particular tool part intended, this slide is displaceable along the working part, so that the tool part performs a corresponding working movement. This working movement of the particular tool part is brought about, as a rule, by the manual actuation of an actuating element. As scissor-like gripping elements, such actuating elements may form a kind of grip part or they may also be arranged as a pivotable hand lever at a grip part.
It was now found, especially where stronger forces and/or also a higher precision are necessary during the use of a surgical instrument, that the manual actuation of these working parts always leads to unintended deflections of the tool tip with its tool part. Furthermore, rapid fatiguing of the user can be observed in case of a high repetition rate and/or when a strong force must be applied to the grip part, which is highly disadvantageous especially in case of prolonged surgical procedures.
A surgical instrument in which the working movement of the push rod and consequently of the tool is brought about by a drive is known from DE 41 06 797 A1. The cutting force is said to be automatically controlled and the user of the instrument to be relieved thereby. The drive comprises in this case an electric motor, which rotatingly drives a drive shaft via a gear mechanism. The drive shaft is provided at its free end with a pinion, which meshes with a toothed rack profile of the push rod. The rotary movement of the drive shaft is converted by this rack and pinion gear into an axial movement of the push rod. It was now found that such a rack and pinion gear is highly error-prone for strong shear forces, especially during longer operating times, and that very strong shear forces cannot be attained, because this entails a great wear of the teeth and consequently the destruction of the rack and pinion gear.
The basic object of the present invention is correspondingly to improve a surgical instrument of this type such that strong shear forces can be brought about to bring about the adjusting movement of the push rod even during longer operating times.
The object is accomplished according to the present invention with a surgical instrument having a grip part and a working part having a tool part in an end area provided with a slide, which is adjustable in relation to said working part and has an adjusting movement that brings about a working movement of said tool part and with an actuating element which can be actuated manually and an actuating drive for bringing about said adjusting movement. A control means can be controlled via the actuating element and actuates the actuating drive arranged in the area of the grip part. The actuating drive brings about the working movement of the slide depending on the position of the actuating element and is mechanically coupled with the slide via a lever mechanism.
The design according to the present invention provides a surgical instrument that can be operated in a very simple manner and with which strong working forces can be applied to the tool part at high repetition rates. It is ensured that the operator can control the surgical instrument according to the present invention during the use precisely at the work site. The operator experiences hardly any fatigue even after prolonged use, so that the surgical instrument according to the present invention with its actuating drive is especially suitable for extensive and time-consuming surgical procedures. Provisions are made for the actuating drive to be coupled with the slide via a lever mechanism. A compact arrangement of the actuating drive within the grip part is possible due to this design. Furthermore, extremely strong driving forces are available due to the lever action of the lever mechanism, which always brings about extremely strong working forces especially when the motor drive is used in a surgical instrument in the form of a so-called bone punch as a tool part, and this instrument can thus be used reliably.
Provisions may be made for the lever mechanism to have a support lever and a pushing lever, and for the support lever and the pushing lever to be connected with one another rotatably via an intermediate joint, and for the support lever to be mounted rotatably with its end located opposite the intermediate joint in the grip part, and for the pushing lever to be connected with its end located opposite the intermediate joint with the slide in an articulated manner via a prismatic joint, and for the support lever and the pushing lever to be able to be brought by the actuating drive for driving the slide from an angular position into an at least approximately aligned position. Due to the lever mechanism being designed according to the present invention as a toggle joint or toggle lever, an extremely simple design is obtained, on the one hand, and strong moving forces can be applied, on the other hand.
Provisions may be made for the actuating drive to have an electric motor, via which a push rod mechanically coupled with the lever mechanism can be driven. The actuating drive can be actuated in a very simple manner due to this design according to the present invention. The manufacture is extremely inexpensive as well. The push rod may be, for example, a threaded spindle, which is in gear connection with the intermediate joint, so that the intermediate joint is deflected by the electric motor during the rotating drive of the threaded spindle, and the support lever and the pushing lever can be brought from their angular starting position into an at least approximately aligned end position.
To prevent the electric motor from being overloaded, provisions may be made for the electric motor to be in gear connection with the push rod via a planet gear. It shall be noted here that the push rod may also be able to be deflected by a cam, and this deflecting movement is transmitted to the lever mechanism. Such a construction is also extremely compact, and strong forces can be transmitted to the slide and consequently to the tool part.
Provisions may be made for the electric motor to be able to be actuated by the control means such that the tool part can be adjusted from a starting position into an end position and vice versa. This means that the electric motor moves the tool part during the actuation of the actuating element from the starting position into a usually predetermined end position. This end position may be, for example, the closed or at least approximately closed gripped position in the case of a forceps-shaped tool part. If the tool part consists of a kind of scissors, they are brought from the opened starting position into the closed end position during the activation of the electric motor in a continuous working movement. Such an actuation can be embodied in an extremely simple manner by the control means, because ultimately only a limit stop is necessary for both directions of movement, and the electric motor only needs to be electrically reversed by the control means for these two directions of movement.
Provisions may be made for the electric motor to be designed as a motor operator, and for the adjustment path of the actuating element to be able to be detected by means of a measuring means and transmitted to the control means, and for the motor operator to be able to be actuated by the control means such that the working movement of the working part is essentially proportional to the adjustment path of the actuating element. Extremely precise handling of the surgical instrument according to the present invention is ensured by this design. Due to the proportional movement of the working part for driving the tool part, be it in the form of a scissors, a gripping forceps or even a punching tool, the necessary activities can be performed by the operator in the area of the surgery just as with a conventional surgical instrument of any type as far as the movements are concerned.
For example, the closing angle can be set precisely for the particular part to be gripped during the closing movement of a forceps-like tool part, on the one hand, and extremely strong forces can also be applied, on the other hand, in order to hold that part in an absolutely firmly seated manner if necessary with the forceps-like tool part, on the other hand. Since the actuating drive with its gear mechanism and its actuation follows the movement of the actuating element proportionally, the surgical instrument according to the present invention can thus be operated in the conventional manner because of the design, so that the operator does not require a phase of getting familiar with the use of this instrument.
Conventional electronic measuring means may be provided as the measuring means, according to which the measuring means is formed by an incremental transducer, especially an incremental shaft encoder.
As another variant, the actuating drive may also be designed as a double-acting or single-acting pneumatic cylinder arranged integrated in the grip part. A pneumatic control valve, which can be actuated via the actuating element, is provided for this type of drive for actuating this pneumatic drive or the adjusting movement of this pneumatic drive. Such a pneumatic cylinder with a corresponding actuation may be provided, for example, for a tool part in the form of a bone punch or also in the form of a forceps. The use of a pneumatic cylinder has the advantage that no proportional control needs to be provided to operate especially a bone punch or a forceps. Especially in case of use for a forceps-like tool part, the opening angle of the tool part automatically adjusts itself during the closing movement to the size of the part to be gripped, and sufficiently strong gripping forces can be applied by the pneumatic cylinder at any desired opening angle of the forceps-like tool part in conjunction with the lever mechanism. In addition, overloading of the pneumatic cylinder is not possible, so that such an actuating drive is extremely robust and has a long service life. An actuating drive in the form of a pneumatic cylinder can be used at low cost wherever proportional control is not necessary for controlling the movement process of the tool part.
To make it possible to use the surgical instrument according to the present invention with its actuating drive as variably and at as low a cost as possible, provisions may be made for the working part with its tool part to be arranged detachably at the grip part. This means in turn that different working parts with different tool parts can be replaced with one another on the grip part in a simple manner, so that only one grip part with an actuating drive is necessary for different intended uses. Extremely inexpensive manufacture is achieved as a result. Furthermore, such a design also offers advantages in terms of hygiene, because only the different working parts with their particular tool parts need to be correspondingly sterilized, while the grip part itself does not need to be subjected to such hygienic measures.
Provisions may be made for the replaceable connection of the working part with the grip part where, the grip part has a housing, which is provided with a coupling housing for coupling with the working part. Due to this two-part design of the housing with its coupling housing, it is possible to make, in particular, the coupling to the working part variable depending on the needs.
Provisions may be made in this connection for the coupling housing to have a closeable receiving chamber, into which the working part with its guide shaft can be replaceably inserted, and for the slide to protrude axially into the receiving chamber from the guide shaft, and for the prismatic joint of the lever mechanism to be provided with a ram, which protrudes into the prismatic joint and with which the slide can be engaged in a positive-locking and detachable manner. This design guarantees an extremely simple replaceability of the different working parts in a simple manner. Thus, the different working parts can be plugged or pushed into the receiving chamber in a simple manner by simply “hanging” them in, and the slide can at the same time be caused to engage the ram of the prismatic joint in a positive-locking manner.
Furthermore, provisions may be made for the receiving chamber of the coupling housing to be able to be closed with a housing cover, which is mounted pivotably on the coupling housing, and for the working part to be held by the closed housing part in the receiving chamber. Replacement of the different working parts can be carried out extremely rapidly and simply due to this design. The housing cover may be held in its closed state, for example, by a locking connection or the like.
Provisions may also be made, as was already stated above, that different tool parts are provided for different intended uses, which different tool parts can be mounted replaceably on the grip part. An extremely variable use of the surgical instrument with its actuating drive is possible due to this design.
An exemplary embodiment of a surgical instrument according to the present invention with an actuating drive will be explained in greater detail below on the basis of the drawings. The various features of novelty which characterize the invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and specific objects attained by its uses, reference is made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which preferred embodiments of the invention are illustrated.
FIG. 1 is a partial sectional view of the grip part of a surgical instrument according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a partial sectional view of the lower end area of the grip part with a flanged battery;
FIG. 3 is a perspective exploded view of the coupling housing together with the working part; and
FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the working part inserted into the coupling housing.
Referring to the drawings in particular, FIG. 1 shows a partial section of a surgical instrument 1 according to the present invention, which has a grip part 2, in which an actuating drive 3 is integrated. This actuating drive 3 comprises in this exemplary embodiment an electric motor 6, which is accommodated in the handle 4 of the housing 5 and is coupled with a push rod 9 via a gear mechanism 7 and a joint coupling 8. The housing 5 has a two-part design in this exemplary embodiment and comprises two “half shells,” of which only the rear one is visible in the drawing.
The push rod 9 is in functional connection with a lever mechanism 10, which is designed as a toggle lever. This lever mechanism 10 comprises a support lever 11 and a pushing lever 12, which are connected with one another in an articulated manner via an intermediate joint 13. At its end located opposite the intermediate joint 13, the support lever 11 is mounted rotatably in the grip part 2 or the housing 5 of the said grip part by means of a corresponding mounting pin 14.
At its end located opposite the intermediate joint 13, the pushing lever 12 has a bearing eye 15, with which the pushing lever 12 is connected to a prismatic joint 16/1 via a mounting pin 16 in an articulated manner. This prismatic joint 16/1 is in connection with a ram 17, and the said ram 17 is accommodated in a bearing bush 19 in an axially adjustable manner in the direction of the double arrow 18. This bearing bush 19 is arranged stationarily in the housing 5 of the grip part 2, as this is apparent from FIG. 1.
The push rod 9 is designed as a threaded spindle in this exemplary embodiment and can be driven rotatingly via the electric motor 6, the gear mechanism 7 as well as the joint coupling 8. A threaded block 21, which is in functional gear connection with the push rod 9 or the threaded section 22 of the said push rod, is provided between the support lever 11 and the pushing lever 12 in the area of the intermediate joint 13, which is provided with corresponding mounting pins 20 (of which only the front one is visible in the drawing) for the articulated connection of the support lever 11 and the pushing lever 12.
It is easy to imagine that during the rotation of the push rod 9, the threaded block 21 is moved in the axial direction of the push rod 9 from the starting position shown in FIG. 1 along the push rod 9 in the direction of arrow 23. Due to this adjusting movement of the threaded block 21 and consequently also the mounting pin 20, the support lever 11 is pivoted around its mounting pin 14 in the direction of arrow 24. The intermediate joint 13 with its mounting pin 20 moves on a circular path during this pivoting movement, so that the push rod 9 is deflected around the joint coupling 8 in the direction of arrow 25 and reaches the end position shown by phantom lines at the end of the movement. At the same time, the pushing lever 12 is pivoted around the prismatic joint 16, so that, on the whole, a translational motion of the ram 17 to the outside in the direction of the double arrow 18 is brought about by this toggle lever arrangement. At the end of the movement, the support lever 11 and the pushing lever 12 assume a “stretched,” at least approximately aligned position, as this is indicated by phantom lines in FIG. 1.
As is apparent from FIG. 4, this ram 17 is in positive-locking connection with a working part 26, and this working part 26 is provided at its free end with a tool part, which is not shown in the drawing. This working part 26 is inserted into a coupling housing 27, which is in turn fastened tightly to the bearing bush 19 projecting from the housing 5 axially in the outward direction.
In this exemplary embodiment, the electric motor 6 is tightly inserted with its lower end 28 into the handle 4 of the housing 5, as is apparent from FIG. 2. A rolling bearing 30, which is stationarily received in the upper end area of the handle 4, is provided in the upper end area between the gear mechanism 7 and the joint coupling 8 for the rotatable mounting of the output shaft 29 of the gear mechanism 7.
The electric motor 6 is supplied with power in this exemplary embodiment by a power storage pack 31, which is formed, for example, by rechargeable batteries. This energy storage pack 31 is replaceably inserted into a receiving housing 32, and, as is apparent from FIG. 2, this receiving housing adjoins the lower end of the handle 4 in one piece. For securing in the receiving housing 32, this housing has an opening 33 on its side, with which a snap-in pin 34 of the power storage pack 31 can be engaged in a positive-locking manner.
An electronic control means 35 (FIG. 1), which is provided with a measuring means 36, for example, in the form of an incremental shaft encoder, is provided to control the movement process of the lever mechanism 10.
This incremental shaft encoder 36 is in gear connection with an actuating element 38 designed as a pushbutton via a toothed rack 37. The pushbutton 38 can be moved against the spring force of two resetting springs 39 in the direction of arrow 40, and this adjusting movement is transmitted to the toothed rack 37. This translational motion is transmitted via the teeth of the toothed rack 37, which are not shown specifically in FIG. 1, to the incremental shaft encoder 36, and the pulse signals generated as a result are evaluated by the control means 35.
These pulse signals of the shaft encoder 36 are converted by the control means 35 into control signals for actuating the electric motor 6, which is designed as a motor operator. Provisions are made in this connection for the motor operator 6 to be able to be actuated by the control means 35 such that the translational pushing motion or working movement in the direction of the double arrow 18 of the ram 17 is proportional to the adjustment path of the pushbutton 38.
Due to this proportional control of the motor operator 6, which is provided in this exemplary embodiment, a tool part arranged at the outer end of the working part 26 can be controlled in a controlled manner and this tool part performs a controlled working movement.
Both the control means 35 and the motor operator 6 can be switched off and on via a main switch 41 provided in the rear end area of the housing 5.
The coupling housing 27 is provided to make it possible to use the actuating drive 3 arranged in the grip part 2 with different surgical tool parts or working parts. This coupling housing 27 is used to replaceably receive different working parts 26, as this is apparent as an example from the perspective exploded view in FIG. 3.
It can be recognized from FIG. 3 that in its end area located opposite the attached coupling housing 27, the bearing bush 19 has a bearing flange 42, which is designed as a square plate, and with which the bearing bush 19 can be tightly inserted into the housing 5 of the grip part 2, as this is shown as an example in FIG. 1. Furthermore, it can be recognized from FIG. 3 that the ram 17 has a cylindrical design and is plugged into the bearing bush 19. At its end protruding inwardly from the bearing bush 19, the ram 17 has multiple steps and has a mounting groove 43, which is part of a radially tapered mounting pin 44.
The prismatic joint 16/1 can be attached to this mounting pin 44 and can be mounted tightly thereon by means of a securing screw 45 (FIG. 1). At its end located opposite the mounting pin 44, the ram 17 has a mounting block 46, which protrudes into a receiving chamber 47 of the coupling housing 27 in the mounted state shown in FIG. 4. This mounting block 46 is provided with a double-T groove 48, which is open on the front side and whose function will be explained in greater detail below. Furthermore, it can be recognized from FIG. 3 that the mounting block 46 can be screwed together with the ram 17. It is possible due to this design to adapt the ram 17 to coupling elements of different designs of a working part in a simple manner by replacing the mounting block 46.
As is also apparent from FIG. 3, the mounting groove 47 has a mounting pin 51 and 52 each in its end area located opposite the bearing bush 19 in the area of its two side walls 49 and 50. These two mounting pins 51 and 52 are arranged opposite each other and protrude by about half their diameter into the receiving chamber 47 of the coupling housing 27.
Furthermore, the coupling housing 27 is provided with a housing cover 53, which is mounted on the coupling housing 27 in an articulated manner in the area of the bearing bush 19. This housing cover 53 is provided in the area of one of its longitudinal edges with a locking finger 54, which can be caused to engage a locking groove 55 of the coupling housing 27 in a positive-locking manner in the closed state.
Furthermore, it can be seen from FIG. 3 that the working part 26 has a kind of guide shaft 56, along which a slide 57 is mounted adjustably. In its end area located toward the coupling housing 27, the guide shaft 56 is provided with a mounting block 58, which is provided with two lateral mounting grooves 59 and 60. The guide shaft 56 with its mounting block 58 can be caused to tightly engage the two mounting pins 51 and 52 with these mounting grooves 59 and 60 when the mounting block 58 is inserted into the receiving chamber 47 of the coupling housing 27 in the area of these mounting pins 51 and 52.
As is also apparent from FIG. 3, the mounting block 58 has an upwardly open receiving groove 61, into which the slide 57 can be inserted. The slide 57 is provided for this purpose in its end area recognizable in FIG. 3 with a web-like bearing section 62, with which the slide 57 can be inserted into the receiving groove 61 of the guide shaft 56 fittingly, axially adjustably and nontwistably. At its free end protruding from the mounting block 58 of the guide shaft 56, the bearing section 62 of the slide 57 is provided with a radially expanded head part 63, with which the bearing section 62 can be caused to engage the double-T groove 48 of the ram 17 in a positive-locking manner when the guide shaft 56 is inserted together with the slide 57 into the receiving chamber 47.
Due to this embodiment of the guide shaft 56 with its mounting block 58, which embodiment is shown as an example, and due to the design of the slide 57 with its head part 63, this working part 26 can thus also be inserted into the receiving chamber 47 of the coupling housing 27 in a very simple manner.
Due to the positive-locking connection between the head part 63 and the receiving block 46 of the slide 17, the axial pushing movement in the direction of the double arrow 18 of the ram 17 can be transmitted to the slide 57 with an extremely small clearance. This working movement is mechanically transmitted, furthermore, to a tool part, which is arranged correspondingly at the other end of the working part 26 and which is not shown in the drawings, because numerous forms of these designs are already known from the state of the art, as was indicated, for example, in the introduction to the specification.
FIG. 4 shows the working part 26 in the mounted state. It can be recognized that the mounting block 58 with its two mounting grooves engages the two mounting pins 51 and 52 of the coupling housing 27 in a positive-locking manner. Due to the corresponding axial setting of the slide 57 in relation to the guide shaft 56, this will also become connected by its head part 63 with the double-T groove 48 of the receiving block 46 in a positive-locking manner. After the housing cover 53 is closed and the locking finger 54 snaps into the locking groove 55, the working part 26 is thus tightly secured in the receiving chamber 47 of the coupling housing 27. The tight mounting of the coupling housing 27 in the bearing bush 19 can be achieved, for example, by means of clamping screws, which, not visible in the drawing, are screwed into the coupling housing 27, e.g., from below and press the jacket surface of the bearing bush 19 seated in the coupling housing 27, so that a sufficient clamping action is generated.
Instead of the actuating drive in the form of the electric motor with its gear mechanism, which is described as an example, it is also possible to use a pneumatic cylinder with a corresponding servo valve control. The cylinder is inserted in this case into the housing 5 of the grip part 2 in the area of the electric motor 6 and is connected by its piston rod with the lever mechanism 10. The use of a pneumatic cylinder permits two basic functional positions, namely, the starting position indicated by solid lines in FIG. 1 as well as the end position indicated by phantom lines in FIG. 1, in which the two levers 11 and 12 are at least approximately aligned. This embodiment with the pneumatic cylinder as the actuating drive is not explicitly shown in the drawings.
However, it is easy to imagine that the piston rod of the pneumatic cylinder is coupled by its free end with the intermediate joint 13 of the lever mechanism 10 in an articulated manner. To make possible the pivoting movement during the working stroke of the piston rod in the direction of arrow 25, the pneumatic cylinder is mounted pivotably in the handle 4 of the housing 5. Furthermore, the receiving housing 32 is not provided in this embodiment, because the power supply or the pressure supply for the pneumatic cylinder is performed by means of an external compressor and a corresponding delivery connection. The actuating element 38 can now switch the servo valve for actuating the pneumatic cylinder mechanically or electrically. The servo valve is the control means in both cases, which is in turn actuated by the actuating element 38 and correspondingly admits the necessary system pressure to the pneumatic cylinder to move it in one direction or the other.
While specific embodiments of the invention have been shown and described in detail to illustrate the application of the principles of the invention, it will be understood that the invention may be embodied otherwise without departing from such principles.
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Nashville Symphony Releases Lineup for 2019 Community Concerts
March 25, 2019 Mary Ann Music 0
Summer tradition returns with free orchestra performances at seven area parks
The Nashville Symphony has announced the schedule for its 2019 Community Concerts series, which will showcase the GRAMMY® Award-winning orchestra in free performances at seven public parks and greenspaces throughout Middle Tennessee.
An integral part of the organization’s mission to make great music accessible to everyone in the region, the Symphony’s Community Concerts have been a local summer tradition since 1974 and annually draw thousands of concertgoers. Admission to all seven concerts is free of charge.Â
The 2019 series opens with a return to Centennial Park on June 6 as part of a special partnership with Musicians Corner. This year also features two first-time Community Concerts locations: Smith Springs Community Center in Antioch and The Estate at Cherokee Dock in Lebanon. The complete schedule is listed below:
7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 6:Â Centennial Park at Musicians Corner
7 p.m. Friday, June 7:Â Cumberland University, Lebanon
7 p.m. Saturday, June 8:Â Smith Springs Community Center, Antioch
7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 9:Â Two Rivers Mansion, Donelson
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 11:Â Historic Rock Castle, Hendersonville
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 25:Â Key Park, Lafayette
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26:Â The Estate at Cherokee Dock, Lebanon
The Nashville Symphony once again invites the public to vote on the encore selection for this year’s Community Concert series. Starting on March 25, visitNashvilleSymphony.org/CommunityConcerts to participate in the first round of voting and make your selections. Semi-final and final voting will follow in the next two weeks, and the winning selection will be announced on the Nashville Symphony’s social media platforms.
The Nashville Symphony’s Community Concert series is made possible in part thanks to support from Benefits, Inc. and The Foundry Chiropractic & Upper Cervical.
The GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony has earned an international reputation for its innovative programming and its commitment to performing, recording and commissioning works by America’s leading composers. The Nashville Symphony has released 29 recordings on Naxos, which have received 24 GRAMMY® nominations and 13 GRAMMY® Awards, making it one of the most active recording orchestras in the country. The orchestra has also released recordings on Decca, Deutsche Grammophon and New West Records, among other labels. With more than 140 performances annually, the orchestra offers a broad range of classical, pops and jazz, and children’s concerts, while its extensive education and community engagement programs reach 60,000 children and adults each year.
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'Suicide Squad' Is Awful, But Probably Not For the Reason You Think
It shouldn't come as any surprise to all of you that I didn't particularly care for Suicide Squad. In a summer of divisive movies, this one has been up there with Ghostbusters in its ability to tear the nerd community apart. On the one hand, lots of diehard DC fans clamoring for a movie about their favorite characters who aren't Batman or Superman, and on the other hand, lots of offended moviegoers who want to know what the hell they just paid fourteen dollars to see.
There are a lot of really problematic things in this movie that deserve criticism, but I can see why the DC fans like it. It's a lot more fun than anything else the DCU has put out lately, and it's refreshing to see a film set in that universe that isn't just the same two origin stories rehashed over and over. I get it. I don't like it, but I get it.
Alternately, though, while I see all the rightly criticized problems with representation in this film, that's not what bothered me most about it. I want Suicide Squad to suck because it's misogynistic, plays into all these racist stereotypes, and has the emotional depth of your average pigeon, but that's not why I dislike it. I dislike it because it's just plain not a good movie. Like, at all.
This film is bad not because of the content but because there is literally no way it could have been set up the way it was and been good. At the end of the day, Suicide Squad isn't bad because of the tired cliches, the aggressive stylistic choices, or even the lukewarm leftover villain, but because it doesn't know how movies work.
Look, I don't want to play into the whole Marvel vs. DC thing going on right now, but the easiest analogue for this movie is Avengers.
Like Suicide Squad, Avengers is a movie where the imposing, African-American, vaguely governmental badass in charge brings together a bunch of anti-social superpowered weirdos and demands that they save the world. At first the weirdos refuse and fight amongst themselves, but ultimately they do end up saving the world with the power of friendship, punching, and headshots. That's the same premise for both movies. The difference of course being that in Avengers these are the good guys and in Suicide Squad they're aggressively not.
That's not the reason why Avengers works and Suicide Squad doesn't, though. In fact, that comparison actually makes Suicide Squad sound a lot cooler than it is, like a dark mirror of Avengers. The same movie only they're all supervillains and if they make one wrong move, female Nick Fury will blow their heads off? Kind of great, when you think about it.
So the reason why Suicide Squad failed where Avengers succeeded isn't the basic concept. It mostly failed because it didn't set up the story or characters ahead of time. That's really the heart of it. While Avengers is a big team-up film, we'd already met all but one-and-a-half of the main characters* in previous films. All they had to introduce was the actual plot of the movie and the reason these characters are now being asked to team up.
This cuts out a lot of time in the movie. We're already in the universe, we're already familiar with the characters, we just jump off the helicarrier and go. That's what makes Avengers such a fun and happy movie. Because we're already familiar with and invested in these characters, we love seeing them interact. We get a little thrill about them discovering things about each other because we enjoy already knowing those things. It's fun.
Suicide Squad, on the other hand, fails in large part because it tries to introduce every single character in the movie - and there are a lot of characters in this movie - before the end of the first act. So instead of the thrill of the audience getting to see characters we already know and love interacting with each other, the audience is treated to an endless tyranny of flashbacks and backstory to underlay the character interactions of a bunch of people we only met five minutes ago.
Unless you're a diehard enough DC Comics fan to already know these characters by heart (difficult because some of them are damn obscure), the first act of the movie leaves you too emotionally drained to give two craps about anything that happens after. And that's a problem.
Obviously it's a problem when the audience doesn't care about the characters in a movie. But it's a bigger problem here because the emotional arc of the film is about this ragtag group of villains becoming a loving, dysfunctional family for each other. If we're too burnt out to care about these characters, we won't care if they care about each other, and we won't care if they die. This turns a potentially fun movie into a two-and-a-half hour death-march to the final credits.
The biggest moment when this becomes clear, the moment where I finally realized why this movie just wasn't working, comes at the very end of the film when (SPOILERS) Diablo (Jay Hernandez) goes into his final form of flame-covered skeleton in order to fight the evil sorcerer-god person. As he transforms, he basically spouts a line about how he "already lost one family" and he's not about to lose another.
This should be the emotional crux of the movie. We should be watching this with our hearts pounding, terrified that he'll be hurt or even killed in this battle, and touched that he is so moved by the other characters as to consider them his family.
Instead, I just sat in my chair and completely emotionally disconnected. This new family? Are you kidding me? This character literally met these people three hours ago. Not an exaggeration, by the way. Three hours. He has had precisely one meaningful conversation with them, and it lasted for about five minutes. The rest of the time they've been vaguely bickering and plotting to escape while he stood in the back, brooding.
And yet this movie is telling me to care about him, to care about his great sacrifice, because these people are his family now. Have I no heart?! Am I made of stone?!
Well, possibly. But more to the point, it's just not good writing. It's like this movie was written by two twelve year olds who really like superhero movies and wanted something "edgier". I'm not offended by the idea of a movie based around the bad guys, and I think there's a really interesting film buried in here somewhere. I just also think that considering how Suicide Squad was designed as a standalone film with like twelve main characters all introduced in the same movie, not using any real existing mythology from the DCU, and set in a city that's not even shown up in the movies yet, there was basically no way for this movie to work.
It's a shame.
It's a shame because there are actually parts of this film that hint at the potential for a much more interesting story. Viola Davis is, of course, stunning as Amanda Waller, and I could watch a whole movie about her unapologetically dominating her defense contracts at the Pentagon. You could have made a much better movie that was actually about her and her side of this story. We get hints here, of who she is and why she's doing this, and the philosophical underpinnings of her motivation are fascinating. But ultimately, this isn't her movie. Which sucks, because that would have been awesome.
Also on the acting side of things, the chemistry between Will Smith's Deadshot and Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was good enough to make me wonder if I should actually go back and watch their previous film, Focus. It also made me ship it, not going to lie, but really it made me interested in the character dynamic between two people who, to my knowledge, don't interact much in comics. Again, there's a really cool movie here that's centered on the two of them and their relationship.
Or, arguably, it could have been a great movie if done specifically from either one of their perspectives. Half of this film feels like it's trying to be a Harley Quinn origin story anyways, and Will Smith actually feels like he's breaking out of his rut by playing Deadshot. They both have cool perspectives on the story, but tragically the film is so stuffed with secondary characters that we don't get to explore it fully.
By and large, the acting is on-point in this movie (Jared Leto being the obvious exception). Karen Fukuhara is amazing as Katana, bringing that character to life and totally committing to the role. Hell, her character deserves her own movie, because this iteration of Katana is a fascinating and bizarre mesh of comic book stereotypes who somehow resolves into a wholly original-feeling story.
She's a vigilante who fights with a soul-stealing sword, only the sword was used to kill her husband, and now his soul is trapped in it, and she's fighting criminals in order to get vengeance for her husband's death. Also she talks to the sword sometimes because she thinks her husband's soul can hear her. And she only speaks Japanese. And she's not overtly sexualized.
I'm just saying, I am totally here for the Katana movie.
Anyway, there are a lot of good cinematic nuggets buried in this movie, but the overall film just doesn't work. Even if Jared Leto had magically turned in a good performance as the Joker, it still wouldn't be a good movie. It was never going to be a good movie. Sad, but true.
I know there are a lot of people who really liked Suicide Squad, and I'm not here to tell them that they're wrong and have bad taste. But I don't think I'm wrong either, and I don't think I'm being harsh and judgmental when I say that from a storytelling perspective, regardless of how you feel about the social and cultural implications of this movie, Suicide Squad is poorly written. It's just not well done. That offends me on a professional level. It bothers me that a movie with this big of a budget, this many great actors, and this much potential, could be so undone by such a glaring and obvious problem.
Did no one on this film stop and ask, "Hey, don't you think this movie is kind of confusing? Like, do you think we have too many characters? What if we made some stand-alone films first? They'd be cheaper, and then we'd have a built-in audience for this movie. Why aren't we doing that?" Or maybe they did ask and got shot down. I have no idea. I just know that somehow Warner Bros. spent hundreds of millions making a movie that any first-year screenwriting student could tell you was going to fall apart.
The saddest part, and arguably the biggest sign of this movie's failure to succeed on even a basic story level, is that I got this far into the review without even mentioning the villain or the plot of the film. I could have ended the whole review here without saying that the half-baked villain motivation, when combined with the already crammed character introductions of the first act, made for a climax that barely registered. Cara Delevigne does perfectly fine work as Enchantress, but no amount of writhing and aggressive voice modulation can save her character from the same problem everyone else has: too little screentime to develop an actual emotional arc.
Look. I don't hate DC. I genuinely want them to make good movies because I really love a lot of DC's characters. And right now they are absolutely crushing it with Supergirl and The Flash. I just can't help feeling like the whole movie studio is being run by people who don't know how movies work. And that bothers me.
Katana. Standalone. Movie.
*I mean, Hawkeye had a cameo in Thor and Bruce Banner both was and wasn't part of the MCU already.
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The film has a big behind-square-one from me, because I only know Enchantress from Shadowpact, where she's a good guy.
That's fair. I think we all have those "gimme" movies.
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Another clueless critic writing on something they do not understand. More useless drivel from the pen. 1. You don't compare this film to the Avengers
2. There are different ways to tell a story and setting up characters using minimal time is not a bad thing and actually fits into the story of most Suicide Squad depictions whether in animation of comics.
3. Because the characters were set up we could interact with them outside of seeing them just as villains and as human beings
4. The focus was placed where it ought to be on the squad and that is what the audience now knows about.
5. While the antagonist was a bit rushed it was still wonderful to see the antagonist be found out and have the squad pull together to eventually discover the main antagonist's intentions and also stop her.
I wouldn't really compare this film to Avengers. Honestly, the film I thought of while watching this was Guardians of the Galaxy. A bunch of criminals who don't get along at first must team up to save the world, they become friends in the end, it's based off an obscure team, and the soundtrack consists mostly of other artists' songs. Except Guardians did all those elements better; I believed it when Drax told the others "you are my friends," I cried more over Groot -- whose dialogue was limited to "I am Groot" -- more than I did for El Diablo and his pages of backstory, the world they're saving doesn't have Earth's plot armor and thus there's more tension, and the songs' placement in the movie make more sense as they're often diagetic and flesh out Peter Quill/Starlord's character and his relationship with his mother. Guardians is far from a perfect movie, but it still had more heart and soul than Suicide Squad did.
Also, a criticism of the Squad and its characters I should bring up is that their recruitment makes no sense. In the comics, the Squad is made up of villains because 1) they're sent out to do the government's dirty work while officials could claim no responsibility and 2) if they die, no one will miss them. So including people like Captain Boomerang and Harley Quinn isn't a huge stretch. In the film, however, they're supposed to be a contingency plan in case someone like Superman comes around and they're not as nice. Realistically, only two members -- El Diablo and Enchantress -- could stand up to someone on that power level. Deadshot, if given the right equipment like a kryptonite bullet, might also stand a chance, but the rest of the team, especially Boomerang and Harley, wouldn't last five minutes. So this assembly makes Waller look pretty stupid (no offense to Viola Davis; I completely agree that she's one of the best parts of this film).
A better way to do this film would be to wait until the Justice League is established, have these villains already appear in the films, and then get them together to do a black-ops mission. But now that can't happen.
Fantastic review. Despite its flaws, I actually enjoyed a lot of Suicide Squad, but I couldn't help but think about how much potential this movie had while watching it.
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On History: When Jacob Kurtzberg Became Jack Kirby
By Sean Kleefeld | Tuesday, August 29, 2017 Leave a Comment
It's reasonably well-known, at least in comics circles, that Jack Kirby was actually born Jacob Kurtzberg. But like so many other creators in those days -- Stan Lee and Bob Kane probably being the most notable examples -- Jacob Kurtzberg legally changed his name. But today's question is: when?
Fortunately, Gary Groth interviewed Jack about exactly that back in 1990...
GROTH: I understand you got a job with a small newspaper syndicate when you were 18.
KIRBY: Newspaper Features.
GROTH: What were you doing for them?
KIRBY: I was doing editorials. Like I said I did “Your Health Comes First”. I did another daily comic. On each comic strip I put a different name: I was Jack Curtis, Jack Cortez… I didn’t want to be in any particular environment, I wanted to be an all-around American. I kept Kirby. My mother gave me hell. My father gave me hell. My family disowned me.
GROTH: You actually changed your name to Kirby?
KIRBY: When I began doing the strips.
GROTH: Why did you change your name exactly?
KIRBY: I wanted to be an American. My name is Kurtzberg.
GROTH: Why didn’t you think Kurtzberg was an acceptable American name?
KIRBY: I felt if you wanted to have a great name it would be Farnesworth, right? Or Stillweather. I felt Jack Kirby was close to my real name.
"The strips" refer to some of Jack's earliest professional comics work. After leaving the Fleischer animation studios in 1936, he began working for Lincoln Features Syndicate, working on a variety of knock-off strips under a variety of pseudonyms. He went over to the Eisner-Iger Studio in 1938, and worked on both strips and books, again, under a variety of pen names. For Associated Features, he drew The Lone Rider in 1939 under the name Lance Kirby and for Fox Features in 1940, he drew Blue Beetle as "Charles Nicholas." The name "Jack Kirby" first appears in print in late 1940 as he and Joe Simon worked on Blue Bolt #5.
This would suggest Jack changed his name sometime in 1940 or later, and Mark Evanier's biography of him backs this suggestion up. In fact, he notes that he didn't change his name until after he got married in 1942 and his wife Roz had to change her name too. Further evidence in the book can be found in an October 1943 newspaper clipping that notes that the Jack Kirby who did Boy Commandos is "an army private at [Camp] Stewart, in the 845th Battalion under his real name, Jack Kurtzberg." And it stands to reason he wouldn't change his name while he was still in the army fighting Nazis, so that pushes any legal changes back to July 1945 at the earliest. Well after he'd left doing comic strips and was a marketable name in comic books.
So if we're that late into his career, and clearly throwing Jack's own recollection out of the water, that doesn't really answer much. "Sometime after 1945" still leaves almost half a century until Jack's death in 1994. I would guess that the legal name change was Roz's doing, likely after getting yet another check made out to "Jack Kirby." Their first daughter, Susan, was born late in 1945 -- did they have to change her name too, or was that something they took care of before she was born?
Here's something I don't get... If he didn't change his name until sometime after mid-1945, that would mean he worked at the Eisner-Iger studio as Jacob Kurtzberg. And yet at no point can I find any reference of Will Eisner saying, "Of course, when he worked for me, he was still going by Jacob Kurtzberg..." or anything like that. Even in Shop Talk, where the two of them are sitting together expressly talking about that studio and their time together there. Maybe my research skills aren't as sharp as they could be, but that seems like a striking omission on Eisner's part.
Unless perhaps he was going by "Jack Kirby" for several years informally, and just didn't legalize until sometime later. I know Stan Lee took this approach, changing his name decades after first using the pen name. This might account for why Jack mis-remembered when he changed his name -- everyone started calling him Jack Kirby in the late 1930s, so he was, for his purposes, no longer Jacob Kurtzberg. That it took a few more years (and probably Roz doing most of the paperwork) to get it officially changed was just some paperwork he had to sign. He was Jack Kirby regardless what it said on his tax forms.
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Supplementation of antioxidants glutathione and α-lipoic acid attenuates oxidative stress and Th2 response in allergic airway inflammation
Prabhanshu Tripathi, Smitha Nair, Naveen Arora
Allergy and Immunology Section, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi, India
Date of Web Publication 17-Aug-2013
Naveen Arora
Scientist, Room - 509, Allergy and Immunology Section, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, (Delhi University North Campus), Mall Road, Delhi - 110 007
Source of Support: This study was funded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Network Project (NWP-05), Conflict of Interest: None
Background: Inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma are characterized by chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and altered antioxidant defenses. Increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) contribute to asthma exacerbation and cell damage. Exogenous supplementation of antioxidant combinations has shown potential in asthma management. Previously, a hypoallergenic mutated glutathione S-transferase (mGST) singly or in combination with reduced glutathione (GSH) showed reduction in airway inflammation in mice model. Objective: The present study evaluates the effects of antioxidants α-lipoic acid and α-tocopherol in combination with mGST or GSH in neutralizing the oxidative stress and reducing the inflammatory responses in a mouse model. Materials and Methods: BALB/c mice were immunized and challenged with ovalbumin, treated with different antioxidant combinations by inhalation, and sacrificed to evaluate inflammation and oxidative stress parameters. Result: Treatment with GSH + α-lipoic acid showed significantly reduced total cell and eosinophil counts in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and decreased infiltration of cells into lung interstitium, compared to ovalbumin group. Also, the treatment reduced interleukin (IL)-4 and ovalbumin-specific IgE levels possibly through modulation of redox-sensitive transcription factor nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) levels. Administration of all antioxidant combinations decreased the ROS compared to ovalbumin group as indicated by reduced thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) and 8-isoprostane levels in BALF. Conclusion: All antioxidant combinations of α-lipoic acid and α-tocopherol in combination with mGST or GSH showed reduction in airway inflammation and oxidative stress in vivo, but maximum therapeutic efficacy was observed in GSH + α-lipoic acid group. Therefore, a combination of antioxidants may prevent allergic inflammation in the best possible way.
Keywords: α-tocopherol, asthma, oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species
Tripathi P, Nair S, Arora N. Supplementation of antioxidants glutathione and α-lipoic acid attenuates oxidative stress and Th2 response in allergic airway inflammation. Indian J Allergy Asthma Immunol 2013;27:19-26
Tripathi P, Nair S, Arora N. Supplementation of antioxidants glutathione and α-lipoic acid attenuates oxidative stress and Th2 response in allergic airway inflammation. Indian J Allergy Asthma Immunol [serial online] 2013 [cited 2020 Jan 18];27:19-26. Available from: http://www.ijaai.in/text.asp?2013/27/1/19/116608
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by pulmonary obstruction and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR). The inflammatory response in the lungs involves the influx and activation of cells such as eosinophils, macrophages, and neutrophils to the site of inflammation and generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS/RNS). [1] The oxidants cause endothelial barrier dysfunction, enhance AHR, and activate redox-sensitive transcription factors. [2] The reactive species cause increased lipid peroxidation, mediating direct tissue damage. Thus, oxidative stress caused by overproduction of reactive oxidants and overwhelming of endogenous antioxidants plays an important role in exacerbating the asthmatic condition. [1]
In the airways, balance between normal physiologic function and damage is determined by the redox environment maintained by neutralization of free radicals. For this, the lung maintains an endogenous defense system consisting of both enzymatic and nonenzymatic components. Quenching of free radicals/oxidants is accomplished by enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase, heme oxygenase, glutathione S?transferase, glutaredoxin, and thioredoxin. The nonenzymatic components include vitamins A and C, uric acid, and glutathione-transferase, glutaredoxin, and thioredoxin. The nonenzymatic components include vitamins A and C, uric acid, and glutathione. [2],[3] α-Tocopherol (vitamin E) present in lung lining is the most important scavenger and inhibitor of lipid peroxidation. Studies with tocopherol alone or in combination with vitamin C have demonstrated reduction in bronchial hyperresponsiveness and inflammation, low frequency of allergen sensitization, and immunomodulation. [4],[5],[6] α-Lipoic acid, another free radical scavenger, can recycle other antioxidants and also accelerate the synthesis of reduced glutathione (GSH). [7]
The GSH redox buffer serves as one of the most important defense systems of the lung. It is crucial in maintaining intracellular GSH/oxidized glutathione (GSSG) homeostasis. Any alteration in the lung redox potential influences the activation of proinflammatory transcription factors such as nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-κB) and activator protein 1 (AP-1). [8] The enzyme glutathione S-transferase catalyzes the conjugation of GSH with the electrophilic reactive compounds resulting from oxidant-mediated lipid peroxidation, thus effectively detoxifying them. Earlier studies showed that supplementation of antioxidants in combination is more efficient in reducing oxidative stress while maintaining cellular redox homeostasis (high GSH/GSSG). [2],[6] Our earlier work with the antioxidants, mutated glutathione S-transferase (mGST) and GSH, has also demonstrated a synergistic effect in ameliorating oxidative stress and airway inflammation. [9] Thus, in the present study, we have explored the effect of mGST and GSH in combination with other known antioxidants such as α-lipoic acid and α-tocopherol (vitamin E) in reducing the oxidative stress and inflammation in mice.
Animal study protocol
Female BALB/c mice (6-8 weeks old) were randomly divided into seven groups of six mice each. Group 1 mice were sensitized, challenged, and treated with phosphate buffered saline (PBS) as control. Groups 2-7 mice were given i.p. injection of 10 μg ovalbumin with 1 mg alum in 100 μl of PBS on days 1 and 14. The mice were challenged with aerosolized OVA (4 μg/mice) in saline in a Plexiglas chamber using nebulizer (Omron, Tokyo, Japan) for 30 min on days 28, 29, and 30 [Figure 1]. After 1 h of challenge, the mice were anesthetized by briefly exposing them to 3% isoflurane. Then, the mice were held in a nose-up supine position and 50 μl of the antioxidant/PBS was released into the nostrils with a micropipette. The rate of release was adjusted so as to allow the mice to inhale without trying to form bubbles. Group 2 mice served as PBS control, whereas groups 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 mice were treated with 1 μg mGST + 1 μg α-lipoic acid, 1 μg mGST + 1 μg α-tocopherol, 1 μg GSH + 1 μg α-lipoic acid, 1 μg GSH + 1 μg α-tocopherol, and 2 μg α-lipoic acid, respectively. The study protocol was approved by animal ethics committee of the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, following the guidelines of Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals, Chennai, India.
Figure 1: Female BALB/c mice were divided into seven groups of six mice each. Mice were sensitized (days 1, 14) with PBS/OVA and subjected to airway challenge with OVA (days 28, 29, 30). After 1 h of challenge, the mice were treated with PBS/antioxidants
Collection of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and blood
After inhalation treatment, the mice were sacrificed with an overdose of sodium pentobarbital on day 31 and tracheotomy was performed. Ice-cold PBS (0.5 ml) was instilled into the lungs and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was obtained by aspiration three times (total 1.5 ml) by tracheal cannulation. BALF was centrifuged, and the supernatant was collected and stored at −70°C before use. The total inflammatory cell number was assessed by hemocytometer after excluding the dead cells by staining with Trypan blue. One hundred microliters of BALF was spread on the slide, fixed, and stained with Leishman for differential cell counts. Blood was collected, and the sera were separated and used for the analysis of serum immunoglobulins.
Determination of immunoglobulins by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
OVA-specific IgE, IgG1, and IgG2a were measured in the serum by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), as described elsewhere. [10] Briefly, microtiter plates (Nunc, Roskilde, Denmark) were coated with 5 μg/ml of OVA. The plates were washed with PBS, blocked with 3% defatted milk, and incubated with mice sera for IgE (1:10), IgG1 (1:50), and IgG2a (1:50), individually. The plates were washed with phosphate buffered saline with Tween-20 (PBST) followed by PBS and incubated with IgG1-peroxidase and IgG2a-peroxidase (1:1000 PBS; BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA, USA). For IgE, biotinylated anti-mouse IgE (2 μg/ml, BD Pharmingen) was used; the plate was washed and incubated with streptavidin-peroxidase (1:1000; BD Pharmingen). Color was developed using ortho-phenylenediamine (OPD) and absorbance read at 492 nm.
Determination of cytokines by ELISA
Interleukin (IL)-4, IL-10, and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) levels were determined in BALF by ELISA using paired antibodies according to manufacturer's instruction (BD Pharmingen). Briefly, capture antibody (1:250 v/v) for each cytokine was coated separately on microtiter plates, incubated overnight, and blocked with 10% fetal calf serum (FCS). BALF samples (1:2 v/v) were added to wells and incubated for 2 h at 30°C. Biotinylated anti-IL-4 or anti-IL-10 or anti-IFN-γ was used to detect specific cytokine levels. The detection limit for IL-4 was 7.8 pg/ml, and for IL-10 and IFN-γ, it was 31.3 pg/ml.
Lungs were fixed with 10% neutral buffered formalin (pH 7.0) and embedded in blocks containing paraffin. Sections of 4 μm were cut and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H and E) or periodic acid Schiff (PAS). Twelve slides were made for each type of staining (two slides per mice) from every group and were analyzed using light microscope for antigen-induced peribronchial and perivascular inflammation. Semi-quantification of inflammation score was made on the scale of 0-4 for perivascular accumulation of inflammatory cells, followed by statistical analysis. [11] Lung inflammation score was calculated in terms of eosinophil infiltration and mucus secretion. Score 0 was assigned to no or occasional inflammatory cells, score 1 for a few inflammatory cells, score 2 for scattered aggregates of inflammatory cells, score 3 for thin layer of inflammatory cells surrounding the airways and vessels, and score 4 was given for a thick layer of inflammatory cells surrounding the airways and vessels.
Oxidative stress markers in BALF
Oxidative stress was determined by measuring the concentration of thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) spectrophotometrically. [12] Malondialdehyde (MDA) and thiobarbituric acid (TBA) react to form a product with maximum absorption at 532 nm. BALF (200 μl) was mixed with 500 μl of 10% w/v trichloroacetic acid to precipitate the protein. The precipitated protein was pelleted by centrifugation at 10,000 ×g at 4°C for 15 min and the supernatant was treated with 0.67% TBA in boiling water for 15 min. Different concentrations of MDA (Sigma, St. Louis, USA) diluted in saline were taken as the standard and incubated with 0.67% TBA in boiling water. The mixture was cooled and centrifuged at 1500 ×g at 25°C for 10 min. The supernatant was collected and absorbance recorded at 532 nm. The MDA equivalents in the samples were calculated from the MDA standards.
The concentration of 8-isoprostanes was measured using 8-isoprostane EIA kit (Cayman Chemical Company, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) as per manufacturer's instruction. Briefly, plates were pre-coated with mouse monoclonal antibody and blocked with defatted milk (Bio-Rad, Hercules, USA). After washing, 50 μl of standard/BALF sample was added to the corresponding wells and incubated for 18 h at 4°C. The wells were washed five times with wash buffer. Ellman's reagent (200 μl) was added to each well and kept in dark for 90-120 min for color development. The plates were read at 420 nm and the blank was subtracted. The concentration of 8-isoprostanes was calculated from the standard curve plotted with standard samples.
Nuclear extract preparation and NF-κB (p65) estimation
Nuclear extract of lung tissues was prepared using NuCLEAR Extraction Kit (Sigma, USA) following manufacturer's instruction. PBS-rinsed tissue (100 mg) was suspended in 1 ml of lysis buffer containing dithiothreitol (DTT) and protease inhibitors. The tissue was homogenized and the disrupted cell suspension was centrifuged at 10,000 ×g for 20 min. The pellet was resuspended in 150 μl of extraction buffer with DTT and protease inhibitor for 30 min and centrifuged for 5 min at 20,000 ×g. The supernatant was stored at −70°C as the nuclear extract.
NF-κB (p65) transcription factor was determined in the above fraction using an immunoassay kit (Cayman Chemical Company). Ninety microliters of complete transcription factor binding buffer (CTFB) was added to each well of the microtiter plate pre-coated with dsDNA consensus sequence containing the NF-κB response sequence. Ten microliters of each sample was added to the wells and incubated overnight at 4°C without shaking. Wells were washed five times with wash buffer, followed by addition of 100 μl of diluted NF-κB (p65) antibody, and incubated for 1 h at 25°C. After washing for five times with wash buffer, 100 μl of secondary antibody was added per well and incubated for 1 h at 25°C. One hundred microliters of developing solution was added to each well, and the reaction was stopped after 30 min and the absorbance read at 450 nm. The blank and positive controls were taken as supplied with the kit.
Data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation. The data were analyzed using GraphPad Prism 5.00 (GraphPad software Inc., La Jolla, USA). The sample size for each parameter tested was six mice. Statistically significant difference was determined using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison tests between ovalbumin-challenged and PBS-treated mice and the different treatment groups. P <0.05 was considered significant in all cases.
Intranasal treatment with antioxidant combinations suppresses allergen-induced inflammatory cells in BALF
BALF analysis showed increased number of total cells [(40.67 ± 2.52)× 10 4 ] and eosinophils [(15.50 ± 2.50)× 10 4 ] in ovalbumin-challenged mice than PBS control [(2.87 ± 0.31)× 10 4 and (1.31 ± 0.34)× 10 4 , respectively] [Figure 2]. Antioxidants' administration through intranasal route significantly reduced the cellular infiltration in all the treatment groups (P < 0.01). Administration of GSH + α-lipoic acid reduced the total cell [(13.37 ± 1.47) × 10 4 ] and eosinophil [(4.61 ± 0.56) × 10 4 ] count to one-third of the ovalbumin group. These values are comparable to the α-lipoic acid group [(8.42 ± 0.92) × 10 4 , (5.08 ± 1.18) × 10 4 ], which is considered as a standard antioxidant in the present study.
Figure 2: Total cell and eosinophil counts in BAL after antioxidant treatment in OVA-sensitized and -challenged mice and PBS control. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group)
Administration of antioxidant combinations reduces ovalbumin-specific IgE in sera
Ovalbumin immunization and challenge elevated specific IgE levels (0.380 ± 0.03 OD 492 nm ) than in PBS control (0.033 ± 0.014 OD 492nm ) [Figure 3]. IgE levels significantly decreased (fro m 0.262 ± 0.01 to 0.228 ± 0.016 OD 492 nm ) in different treatment groups as compared to ovalbumin-immunized PBS-treated mice. Treatment with GSH or mGST with α-lipoic acid showed IgE values (0.228 ± 0.016 and 0.237 ± 0.013 OD 492 nm , respectively) similar to those of α-lipoic acid group. IgG1 levels reduced marginally in GSH + α-lipoic acid group (0.385 ± 0.02 OD 492nm ) as compared to ovalbumin (0.43 ± 0.023 OD 49 2nm ) group. However, the change was not pronounced in the other treatment groups. Specific IgG2a levels were below detectable level in all treatment groups (data not shown).
Figure 3: Serum immunoglobulin levels in OVA-sensitized and -challenged mice after intranasal administration of antioxidants. OVA-specific IgE, IgG1, and IgG2a were measured in the serum by ELISA. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group)
Antioxidant treatment reduces Th2 cytokines in BALF
Ovalbumin-immunized PBS-treated mice showed 112.00 ± 6.00 pg/ml IL-4 levels in BALF, whereas the level in PBS control was below the detection limit (7.8 pg/ ml). Intranasal administration of GSH + α-lipoic acid and GSH + α-tocopherol decreased the IL-4 levels to approximately half (52.77 ± 4.9 pg/ml and 58.67 ± 2.52 pg/ml, respectively) of the ovalbumin-challenged PBS-treated mice [Figure 4]. IL-10 and IFN-γ levels did not change much post-treatment with any of the antioxidant combinations.
Figure 4: Cytokine profile in BALF of mice of different antioxidant treatment groups. IL-4, IL-10, and IFN-γ were determined by ELISA. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group)
Antioxidant combinations reduce airway inflammation
Ovalbumin-challenged mice showed perivascular and peribronchial infiltration of numerous eosinophils into the lung interstitium, along with narrowing of airway lumen (score 4) [Figure 5]b. Mice treated with antioxidants showed substantial reduction in cellular infiltration in airways as compared to OVA-challenged PBS-treated mice [Figure 5]c-f. Reduction in cellular infiltration in GSH + α-lipoic acid [Figure 5]e and α-lipoic acid [Figure 5]g treated mice was similar with an inflammation score of 1.5.
Figure 5: Hematoxylin and eosin stained sections of lungs showing eosinophil infiltration in different groups: (a) PBS control; (b) OVA challenged PBS treated; (c) mGST + α-lipoic acid; (d) mGST + α-tocopherol; (e) GSH + α-lipoic acid; (f) GSH + α-tocopherol; (g) α-lipoic acid; (h) inflammation score
Antioxidant combinations reduced oxidative stress significantly
Oxidative stress was assessed by measuring the markers of lipid peroxidation, such as MDA (TBARS assay) and 8-isoprostanes levels in the BALF of mice. Ovalbumin-challenged mice showed enhanced TBARS level of 2.92 ± 0.21 pM/μl. All the groups given antioxidants showed a slight decrease in TBARS levels in the range from 2.13 ± 0.21 pM/μl to 1.86 ± 0.13 pM/μl. GSH + α-tocopherol group showed the lowest TBARS level (1.86 ± 0.13 pM/μl) in BALF compared to other combinations of antioxidant(s). However, none of the antioxidant groups could achieve a reduction similar to that of α-lipoic acid group (1.39 ± 0.17 pM/μl) [Figure 6]a.
Figure 6: (a) Oxidative stress in BALF of different antioxidant treated groups, OVA and PBS control. Oxidative stress was determined by measuring thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) concentration spectrophotometrically. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group). (b) 8-isoprostanes in BALF of different treatment groups, OVA and PBS control. 8-Isoprostane was determined as a potent pulmonary vasoconstrictor using EIA kit. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group)
Ovalbumin-immunized and -challenged mice showed increased lipid peroxidation as demonstrated by high 8-isoprostanes (potent pulmonary vasoconstrictor) level (82.75 ± 4.95 pg/ml) compared to that of PBS control (22.87 ± 3.07 pg/ml) [Figure 6]b. The level of 8-isoprostanes reduced significantly in GSH + α-lipoic acid group (57.68 ± 5.37 pg/ml) than OVA-immunized and -challenged mice, whereas GSH + α-tocopherol grouP value (47.42 ± 4.86 pg/ml) was similar to that of α-lipoic acid treated group (48.95 ± 4.63 pg/ml).
Antioxidant combinations reduced NF-κB (p65) level in lung's nuclear extract
Lung nuclear extract in PBS control showed NF-κB level of 0.161 ± 0.005 (OD 490 nm ); OVA immunization and challenge significantly raised the level to 0.404 ± 0.037 (OD 490 nm ). Intranasal administration of antioxidant combinations of GSH + α-lipoic acid (0.255 ± 0.053) and GSH + α-tocopherol (0.251 ± 0.055) significantly reduced the NF-κB (p65) level in the nuclear extract of lung tissues, as compared to the ovalbumin group [Figure 7]. However, reduction in the levels comparable to α-lipoic acid group could not be achieved with any of the antioxidant combination groups.
Figure 7: NF-κB level in lung nuclear extract of different treatment groups, OVA and PBS control. NF-κB (p65) levels were determined by ELISA kit. Data are presented as mean ± SD (n = 6 mice per group)
Recent understanding of the mechanisms of allergic rhinitis and asthma and their pathophysiology have led to the concept of "united airway disease," which proposes that upper and lower respiratory tract diseases are manifestations of a single inflammatory process. The same patterns of inflammatory cells and similar cytokines and chemokines are found at both the sites. Therefore, the clinical, epidemiological, and biological data recommend an integrated management of respiratory diseases. [13] A study which assessed the inflammation and oxidative stress in upper and lower respiratory tracts showed oxidative stress markers in case of persistent allergic rhinitis, intermittent asthma, mild and moderate asthma. [14] Several other studies have implicated oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of allergic rhinitis and asthma. In the present study, the authors have intranasally administered antioxidant combinations to reduce oxidative stress in a mice model of allergic airway inflammation.
Increased ROS levels in asthmatics have been associated with causing bronchial hyperreactivity, histamine release, and mucus secretion. [2] The oxidant/antioxidant imbalance is characterized by alteration of endogenous antioxidant levels including GSH and α-tocopherol in the extracellular lining fluid. Studies with combination of antioxidants such as vitamins C and E or GSH with mGST have shown therapeutic potential in reducing oxidative stress and associated cellular inflammation. [6],[9],[10] Cho et al. have suggested the use of α-lipoic acid as an adjunctive therapy in asthma, which suppressed allergic inflammation and AHR. [15] Since oxidative stress results in alteration to the cellular GSH/GSSG levels, exogenous supplementation of GSH or its redox enzymes like GST can repair the oxidant/antioxidant balance in vivo. In earlier experiments carried out in our lab, GST allergen from Alternaria alternata was mutated at residues 21 and 27 with no effect on enzymatic activity. Further studies showed that inhalation of mGST alone had limited therapeutic effect, whereas intranasal administration of mGST along with its substrate GSH demonstrated greater efficacy in reducing oxidative stress and airway inflammation in mice. [9],[10] Thus, based on its therapeutic effect in allergic airway model, mGST was selected for further studies. The antioxidant α-lipoic acid is capable of maintaining GSH levels, thereby assisting in the maintenance of cellular redox homeostasis. [16] Vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant capable of direct free radical scavenging, was selected for its role in improving the allergic state both as an antioxidant and an immune modulator. [17] Thus, in the present study, the antioxidants α-lipoic acid and α-tocopherol were tested in combination with GSH or mGST for their therapeutic efficacy in mice model of airway inflammation.
Cellular infiltration in asthma is characterized by airway eosinophilia. Previous studies with α-lipoic acid significantly reduced eosinophils among BAL cells and also improved pathologic lesion scores of the lungs. [15] Our earlier study showed that intranasal administration of mGST + GSH in airway inflammation caused a significant reduction in inflammatory cell recruitment to the lungs. [9] In the present study, total and eosinophil cell infiltration increased after ovalbumin challenge, but treatment with all antioxidant combinations was effective in reducing inflammatory cell recruitment into the airways. The lung histopathology also showed a low score, indicating decrease in airway inflammation upon treatment.
Both airway and intravascular inflammatory cells from asthmatics are capable of producing more ROS than healthy subjects. This association between inflammation and ROS can generate a positive feedback loop, thus mediating tissue damage. [18] The presence of oxidative stress has been demonstrated by higher GSSG levels in bronchial wash and BAL in asthma patients. [19] In the present study, ovalbumin-challenged PBS-treated group showed elevated lipid peroxidation indicated by high levels of oxidative stress markers, 8-isoprostanes and TBARS. Mice treated with various antioxidant combinations showed reduction in oxidative stress, as compared to ovalbumin control.
The redox-sensitive transcription factor NFκB regulates the production of IL-4, IgE, and allergen-induced eosinophil influx. Previously, both N-acetylcysteine and a catalytic antioxidant were shown to suppress NFκB DNA binding activity and inhibit cytokines such as IL-4, IL-5, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α. [20],[21] In the present study, all antioxidant treatment groups showed decreased NFκB levels in the lung nuclear extract, which correlated with a similar decrease in ovalbumin-specific IgE and IL-4 levels.
Antioxidants can mediate their immunomodulatory effects via different mechanisms. Since the cellular redox homeostasis (GSH/GSSG) regulates signaling mechanism for many pro- and anti-inflammatory genes, external supplementation of GSH or its redox enzymes can repair the oxidant/antioxidant balance in vivo. α-Lipoic acid plays a crucial role in maintaining GSH redox buffer by recycling back GSH from GSSG and also activating phase II antioxidant enzymes involved in GSH synthesis. [22],[23] Also, α-lipoic acid is known to inhibit activation of NF-κB independent of its antioxidant property by inhibition of IκB kinase (IKK). This prevents IL-18 mediated increase in Th2 cytokines and serum IgE. [23],[24] Oxidative stress in allergic inflammation is responsible for inhibition of macrophage NF-E2-related Factor 2 (NRF2). α-Tocopherol can mitigate this inhibition and activate downstream antioxidant target genes like SOD1. [25] Additionally, α-tocopherol may act by preventing the peroxidation of arachidonic acid, thus regulating the formation of metabolites such as leukotriene B4 (LTB4) which mediate activation and recruitment of leukocytes. [26]
Therefore, we examined the effect of administration of the antioxidants α-lipoic acid and α-tocopherol in combination with GSH or mGST in a murine model of allergic airway inflammation. Our study shows that a combination of these antioxidants may prevent the allergic inflammation in the best possible way. The present study also demonstrates that combination of GSH and α-lipoic acid reduced the airway inflammation, modulated the cytokine profiles, and improved the antioxidant levels. However, additional studies are required to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of these antioxidants.
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In vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis
Jude E Okokon1, Ette Ettebong1, Bassey S Antia2
1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
2 Department of Chemistry, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
Date of Submission 07-Nov-2007
Date of Decision 17-Mar-2008
Date of Acceptance 21-Jun-2008
Jude E Okokon
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Uyo, Uyo
Objective: To evaluate the in vivo antiplasmodial activity of the ethanol leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis in the treatment of various ailment in Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in Plasmodium berghei infected mice.
Materials and Methods: The ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis (90-270 mg/kg/day) was screened for blood schizonticidal activity against chloroquine sensitive Plasmodium berghei berghei in mice. The schizonticidal effect during early and established infections was investigated.
Result: Stachytarpheta cayennensis (90-270 mg/kg/day) exhibited significant (P <0.05) blood schizonticidal activity both in 4-day early infection test and in established infection with a considerable mean survival time comparable to that of the standard drug, chloroquine, 5 mg/kg/day.
Conclusion: The leaf extract possesses significant (P <0.05) antiplasmodial activity which confirms it's use in folkloric medicine in the treatment of malaria.
Keywords: Antimalarial, malaria, Plasmodium berghei, Stachytarpheta cayennensis
Okokon JE, Ettebong E, Antia BS. In vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis. Indian J Pharmacol 2008;40:111-3
Okokon JE, Ettebong E, Antia BS. In vivo antimalarial activity of ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis. Indian J Pharmacol [serial online] 2008 [cited 2020 Jan 18];40:111-3. Available from: http://www.ijp-online.com/text.asp?2008/40/3/111/42303
Stachytarpheta cayennensis (L.C. Rich) Vahl is a weedy (and sometimes perennial) herbaceous plant from the Verbenaceae family commonly called Brazilian tea. Two common very similar species of Stachytarpheta cayennensis grow in the tropics and are use interchangeably (and share the same common names)in the herbal medicine systems of many countries, Stachytarpheta cayennensis and Stachytarpheta jamaicensis. Ethnobotanically, Stachytarpheta cayennensis is used to treat various ailments such as inflammation, pain, fever, hepatic and renal disorder, helminthiasis, constipation, hypertension, stress and diabetes. [1],[2],[3],[4] The plant is use in parts of southern Nigeria and Peru [5] for the treatment of malaria. Phytochemical studies of the plant revealed that it contains alkaloids, [6] Ipolamide, beta hydroxyipolamide and verbascoside, [7],[8] steroids, triterpenes and irridoids. [9] Stachytarpheta cayennensis has been reported to be antiinflammtory, antinociceptive, anti ulcerogenic, [8],[10],[11] antidiarrheoal [12] as well as sedative [13] and hypotensive. [14] An insignificant in vitro antiplasmodial activity has been reported of the plant in Peru. [5] The aim of the present study was to evaluate the in vivo antiplasmodial potential of Stachytarpheta cayennensis considering its wide acceptability as malarial remedy in southern Nigeria.
» Materials and Methods
Fresh leaves of Stachytarpheta cayennensis were procured at Uyo main market, Uyo - Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria in June, 2006 and authenticated by Dr Margaret Bassey, a taxonomist in the Department of Botany, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria. A voucher specimen has been deposited in the faculty of Pharmacy hebarium, University of Uyo, Uyo. The plant material was air dried at room temperature and then powdered.
Preparation of extract
The dried and powdered leaf of Stachytarpheta cayennensis (1 kg) was exhaustively macerated in 70% ethanol for 72h.The liqiud extract obtained was concentrated in vaccum at 40 o C.The yield was 0.48%. The extract was stored in a refrigerator at 4 o C until used for experiment reported in this study. The dry ethanolic extract was dissolved in distilled water to make the stock solution from which the various doses administered were prepared for use by serial dilution.
Albino swiss mice (21-28g) of either sex were obtained from the University of Uyo animal house. They were maintained on standard animal pellets and water ad libitum. Permission and approval for animal studies were obtained from the College of Health Sciences Animal Ethics committee, University of Uyo
Parasite inoculation
The chloroquine - sensitive Plasmodium berghei berghei was obtained from National Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria and maintained in mice. The inoculum consisted of 5x10 7 P. berghei berghei parasitized erythrocytes per ml. This was prepared by determining both the percentage parasitaemia and the erythrocytes count of the donor mouse and diluting the blood with isotonic saline in proportions indicated by both determinations. Each mouse was inoculated on day 0, intraperitoneally with 0.2 mL of infected blood containing about 1 x 10 7 P. berghei beghei parasitized red blood cells.
Determination of LD 50
The LD 50 of the extract was determined using albino mice by intraperitoneal (i.p.) route using the method of Lorke. [15]
Evaluation of Schizontocidal Activity on early infection (4 - day test)
Schizontocidal activity of the extract was evaluated using the method described by Knight and Peters. [16] Each mouse was inoculated on the first day (day 0), intraperitoneally, with 0.2 ml of infected blood containing about 1x10 7 P. berghei berghei parasitized erythrocytes. The animals were divided into five groups of five mice each and orally administered, shortly after inoculation, with 90, 180 and 270 mg/kg/day doses of the Stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf extract, chloroquine 5 mg/kg/day and an equivalent volume of distilled water (negative control) for four consecutive days, (day 0 to day 3). On the fifth day (day 4), thin films were made from the tail blood of each mouse and the parasitaemia level was determined by counting the number of parasitized erythrocytes out of 200 erythrocytes in random fields of the microscope. Average percentage chemosuppression was calculated as
100 (A - B/A), where A is the average percentage parasitaemia in the negative control group and B, average percentage parasitaemia in the test group.
Evaluation of schizontocidal activity in established infection (Curative or Rane test)
Evaluation of curative potential of the extract was done using a method similar to that described by Ryley and Peter. [17] The mice were injected intraperitoneally with standard inoculum of 1x10 7 P. berghei berghei infected erythrocytes on the first day (day 0). Seventy-two hours later, the mice were divided into five groups of five mice each. The groups were orally administered with Stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf extract (90,180, 270 mg/kg/day), chloroquine(5 mg/kg) was given to the positive control group and an equal volume of distilled water to the negative control group. The drug/extract was given once daily for 5 days. Thin films stained with Giemsa stain were prepared from the tail blood of each mouse daily for 5 days to monitor the parasitaemia level. The mean survival time for each group was determined arithmetically by finding the average survival time (days) of the mice (post inoculation) in each group over a period of 28 days (day 0 to day 27).
Data obtained from the study were analyzed statistically using one-way ANOVA followed by a post test, Tukey-Kramer multiple comparison test and values of P <0.05 were considered significant.
The extract (500-1000 mg/kg) produced physical signs of toxicity such as writhing, gasping, palpitation, decreased respiratory rate, body and limb tone and death depending on the dose. All the mice treated with 4000 mg/kg dose of the extract and above died. The i.p LD 50 of the extract in mice was calculated to be 938.08/kg.
4-day test
Ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis produced a dose dependent chemosuppressive effect at various doses employed in this study. The chemosuppression were 64.6, 77.42 and 78.2% for 90,180 and 270 mg/kg/day doses. The chemosupression produced by the extract were significant ( P <0.05) compared to control and comparable to that of the standard drug (chloroquine 5 mg/kg/day) with a chemosuppression of 87.8% [Table 1].
Curative test
On established infection, it was observed that there was a daily increase in parasitaemia of the control group. However, there was a daily reduction in the parasitaemia levels of the extract treated group as well as that of positive control (chloroquine).
On day 7, the average percentage parasitaemia for the groups were 7.6, 5.0, 4.6, 5.0 and 82.0% for 90, 180, 270 mg/kg/day of the extract, chloroquine and control groups respectively [Figure 1]. The mean survival time of the extract treated groups was significantly ( P <0.05) longer than that of control and was comparable to that of the standard drug, chloroquine. The values are given in [Table 2].
The results show that Stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf is moderately toxic as shown in its LD 50 value of 938.08/kg [18] and also possesses a significant ( P <0.05) antiplasmodial activity as evident from the chemosuppression obtained during the 4-day early infection test. The leaf extract also exhibited significant curative effect in established infection comparable to the standard drug, chloroquine (5 mg/kg/day) as demonstrated in the mean survival time of the mice in the extract and chloroquine treated groups. Stachytarpheta cayennensis leaf has been reported to contain alkaloids, [6] Ipolamide, beta hydroxyipolamide and verbascoside, [7],[8] steroids ,triterpenes and irridoids. [9] Antiplasmodial screening of plants have implicated alkaloids, terpenes and flavonoids in this activity. [19],[20] Although the mechanism of action of this extract has not been elucidated, some plants are known to exert antiplasmodial activity either by causing red blood cell oxidation [21] or by inhibiting protein synthesis [22] depending on their phytochemical constituents. The extract could have exerted its action through either of the two mechanisms mentioned above or by some other unknown mechanism. These compounds may be acting singly or in synergy with one another to exert antiplasmodial activity observed in this study. Thus the active principle needs to be identified.
The results of this study have shown that the ethanolic leaf extract of Stachytarpheta cayennensis possesses antimalarial activity as seen in its ability to suppress Plasmodium berghei infection in the two models evaluated. This justifies the traditional usage of this plant as malarial remedy.
The authors are grateful to Mr. Nsikan Malachy for his technical assistance.
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As applications soar, Adelphi stresses multiculturalism
Campus activity: Young visitors to 2018's College Awareness Day got a taste of Adelphi University life.
With applications to Adelphi University rising fast – and the university’s student body diversifying rapidly – the school is already reaching out to tomorrow’s multicultural applicants.
Middle and high school students from across New York City will get a taste of the suburban college experience this week, courtesy of Adelphi, which hosts its sixth-annual College Awareness Day Thursday. The event will give youngsters from 10 Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens schools a chance to interact with university students and faculty and soak up some campus life.
Designed equally to inspire and inform, the open house – tailored specifically to students in grades six through 11 – involves Adelphi faculty presentations and student-led campus tours, covering topics including admissions requirements, the application process and student activities.
The visiting middle- and high-schoolers hail from private and charter schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens – including the Bronx Studio for Writers and Artists, the Brooklyn-based High School for Medical Professions and the Queens-based Riverton Street Charter School – and a host of public junior high schools.
The annual College Awareness Day is “very popular with students and schools from New York City in particular,” according to Melinda Neus, senior assistant director of Adelphi’s Office of Admissions, who reinforced the benefits of exposing inner-city youngsters to suburban college life.
Melinda Neus: Important message.
“It’s so important for students to attend an event like this so they can gain an early understanding of the college process and the opportunities that a college education can provide them,” Neus told Innovate LI. “By offering this to students, we promote a very important message.”
To further motivate the visitors to carefully consider their futures, faculty will fill out and display “I Have a Plan” cards throughout the event, and invite the young students to personalize their own cards.
The outreach effort is in line with the positive news coming from Adelphi’s recruitment office, which reported this week that the Garden City-based university received Fall 2019 applications from 13,723 prospective undergraduates – an 8 percent increase from last year’s applications and the fourth straight year Adelphi has set a new application highwater mark.
And the 1,100 first-year students joining the campus community this fall will be “one of the most diverse classes to date,” according to Adelphi, which projects an incoming student population that’s 20.5 percent Hispanic, 14.7 percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 9.3 percent Black/African American, among other demographics.
Kristen Capezza, Adelphi’s vice president for enrollment management, counted “small classes, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support students” among the university’s many enticements.
“The continued growth in applications and enrollment is a sign of Adelphi’s increasing national appeal and recognition,” Capezza added.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cereal Bowls Promotion
By Matt MacNabbCereal, Ralston Cereal, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT
Ralston cereal followed-up their very popular 1989 Batman cereal bank promotion by packing bowls on boxes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cereal. There were four bowls in all and the best part was you could see what you were getting on the outside of the box, so there was no guesswork. These can be rather difficult to find and fetch a decent price, typically $40 to $60 loose and up to that for each box sealed.
Post Smurf-Berry Crunch Cereal Posters Promotion
By Matt MacNabbCereal, Post Cereal, Smurfs
This wonderful Smurfs cereal was described as "Fruity Sweetened Corn, Oat & Wheat Cereal". There were various Smurf-Berry Crunch promotions, but today we're going to focus on the pack-in posters. You can see by the back of this box that 4 different 11"x17" posters that could be had, one in each box.
Toy Story 4 Thinkway Interactive Drop Down Action Woody
By Matt MacNabbDisney, Pixar, Thinkway, Toy Story 4
The toy was shown and images released from the London Toy Fair. This woody with drop down action was joined by a Buzz Lightyear with similar feature and the new character from the teaser, Forky.
Cap'n Crunch Dick Tracy Door Hangers & Watch Mail-Away
By Matt MacNabbCap'n Crunch Cereal, Cereal, Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy was released in June of 1990 and it came along with huge tie-in promotions from McDonalds and Cap'n Crunch, as well as an extensive toy line by Playmates. The cereal promotion offered one of four pack-in door hangers and an opportunity to mail-away for a Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio.
Kellogg's Star Wars C-3P0's Cereal Promotions
By Matt MacNabbCereal, Kelloggs Cereal, Star Wars
In 1984 fans of all ages were introduced to Star Wars C-3PO's cereal! These little figure-eight shaped delights were produced by Kellogg's and included a handful of memorable cereal toy promotions.
This is possibly the most famous of the Star Wars cereal promotions, the cut-out masks These came in designs featuring Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Yoda, Storm Trooper or C-3PO himself.
This one is my personal favorite, the Star Wars sticker cards. I really enjoyed collecting these as a kid. You would get two stickers per box, there was a total of 10 in that promotion.
This final promotion offered a pack-in Star Wars Rebel Rocket and a mail-away for Kenner figures with 3 UPCs.
Here are a few other cool promotion items from the Kellogg's C-3PO's run, a hat, store display and some coupons.
The 1987 Kellogg's Captain Power Cereal Promotion
By Matt MacNabbCaptain Power, Cereal, Kelloggs Cereal
The year was 1987 and the Captain Power toys were the latest innovation in interactive technology. The toys came with a VHS tape that would interact with the lasers on the toys. Kellogg's ran a cereal toy promotion and one with cut-out masks on the backs of boxes. Here are some examples.
The Real Ghostbusters Cereal Box w/ GITD Slimer Door Hanger
By Matt MacNabbCereal, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters Cereal, Ralston Cereal
Here we have The Real Ghostbusters cereal box that featured the badge on the side of the box and the glow in the dark Slimer door hanger on the back. This was a cut-out toy, as opposed to the usual pack-in.
Exclusive: Disney Doorables Series 2 Includes Toy Story
By Matt MacNabbDisney, Doorables, Pixar, Toy Story 4, Toys
We're all gearing up for the wave of Toy Story toys that will be coming along with Toy Story 4 in 2019. Today, Pixar Collector has an exclusive announcement that we can share with fans everywhere.
RELATED NEWS: Toy Story Play Doh Coming in 2019
Our contacts at Disney have confirmed that Disney Doorables Series 2 will include Toy Story characters! If you're not already familiar with these super cute toys, you can still find the first series in stores.
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The popularity of the Batman franchise has forced many game developers to consider incorporating elements of Batman in their games or outright create Batman inspired movies. Over the years, dozens of such Batman inspired games have been created. From these dozens, we have decided to cull them down to four of the best Batman inspired games. Players looking to have a taste of these four games can do so at NetBet slots where all of them are available for free play.
The Adventures of Batman and Robin.
The Adventures of Batman and Robin is a run ‘n’ gun video game created by Konami. The game was first released in 1994 with more patches being added in 1995. In this game, the player assumes the role of Batman i.e. if a single player is playing. The game can also be played by two players with one assuming the role of Batman and the other assuming the role of Robin. The objective in The Adventures of Batman and Robin is to stop Mr. Freeze from implementing his plan (the plan is to freeze the city of Gotham). However, Batman and Robin’s tasks are made difficult because Mr. Freeze works with other unscrupulous elements such as the Joker, Mad Hatter and Two-Face all of whom need to be stopped.
Batman: Return of the Joker
Batman: Return of the Joker is also known as Dynamite Batman. The game is developed by Sunsoft and it can only be played by a single player. The game starts with the Joker escaping from Arkham Asylum.After escaping, the Joker joins hands with five mercenaries who are planning to destroy the city of Gotham. Before they can execute their plan, word reaches Batman (character controlled by the player) that the city of Gotham is under threat. Batman, therefore, has to act fast to save the city of Gotham by neutralizing the Joker’s threat.
Batman: The Animated Series is a branded video game from Konami which is based on the movie which goes by the same title i.e. Batman: The Animated Series. In this game, the player assumes the role of either Batman or Robin. Batman and Robin have different skill sets, Batman has special powers to use a grappling hook to scale heights. Robin, on the other hand, can walk across ceilings. However, both of them can perform wall jumps. The objective in this game is for the player (be it Batman or Robin) to save the city of Gotham by eliminating the threat posed by the Joker and his mercenary friends.
Batman: The Caped Crusader
Batman: The Caped Crusader was released in 1988 by Special FX Software. This is a single player action adventure arcade game. The player assumes the role of Batman. The objective for Batman is to save the village that he lives in. to do so, he will have to fight against the henchmen who are bent on destroying the village. Batman uses punches and kicks as his defense weapons.
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EP-72: Soul Series w/Maria Felipe- Live Your Happy: Get Out of Your Own Way & Find the Love Within
May 10, 2017 Category: Personal Transformation, Soul SessionTag: A Course in Miracles, ACIM, banish fear, encounter love, fear, God, Live Your Happy, love, Maria Felipe, personal transformation, spirituality, transformation
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For Life on Purpose Episode #72, another “Soul Series” interview, my guest is author and minister Maria Felipe, who joined me for fantastic conversation that can change lives. We discussed her unique story going from a successful (but ultimately unfulfilling) career as an actress, model, and Latina boxing and wrestling announcer to spiritual teacher and motivational speaker.
We talked about her brand new book, Live Your Happy: Get Out of Your Own Way and Find the Love Within (New World Library), in which she shares more than twenty years of experience studying and living the principles from A Course in Miracles (ACIM) including how to banish fear and encounter love.
Live Your Happy is not a philosophic explanation of the Course; it is a practical guide for living it. The book includes real-world examples from the author’s life and from her students’ experiences. In nine crystal-clear chapters, she shows readers how to get the “cuckoo voice of the ego” out of the way, connect with their “inner teacher,” and access personal power and strength.
“This book is a simple but not necessarily easy guide to learning to live your happy. I will share practical spiritual tools to get you there, along with stories of my own journey and of people I’ve counseled. I empower my clients not by telling them what to do but by helping them understand that they have the answer within,” she writes.
“I ask that you trust me and be gentle with yourself. Step by step, I will train you to listen to your right mind. In turn, you will become free to live in happiness consistently. You will even be happy when you have so-called ‘problems.’ How’s that for a miracle?”
About Maria Felipe:
A Cuban-American born in Miami, Maria Felipe stands at 5’9″ tall with a towering personality to match. Her charisma has captivated thousands of viewers across the United States and beyond, as her pursuit of an acting career resulted in dozens of appearances in national commercials, hosting successful TV shows (including World Wrestling Federation shows with live audiences of 20,000), and traveling the world as a model.
After success in her field she felt called inward, and studied to become a Reverend with Pathways of Light, an accredited religious school inspired by A Course in Miracles.
Maria is a dynamic speaker in both Spanish and English. She leads services monthly at Unity Church in Burbank, where she created the church’s first regular Spanish service, as well as performing services in English. Her talks now draw both Spanish and English speakers from all over Southern California. She also leads workshops.
Maria has created her own channel on You Tube by hosting MariaCoconut TV, a show designed to share and expand the message of love by interviewing other spiritual leaders.
Since 2013, Maria been a regular guest on Unity Radio, Awakening Together Radio, and Center Of Light Radio.
She’s also recently appeared as a motivational speaker on TV shows and news programs for Univison, Telemundo, and CNN. She has also spoken alongside prominent teachers David Hoffmeister and Gary Renard in Los Angeles, Mexico, and Greece.
People magazine once referred to Maria Felipe as “Una Campeona Sin Rival,’’ which means a champion without rival. This is an apt label for this young, vivacious and talented actress, host, and minister. And the gifts she can share with countless others continue to multiply as she allows the expression of her talents to be guided by the inner light of God.
To learn more about Maria’s work, visit: https://www.mariafelipe.org/.
More About Live Your Happy:
Live Your Happy: Get Out of Your Own Way and Find the Love Within is inspired, lively, and fun! Maria Felipe’s real-world approach to living based on A Course in Miracles will guide you toward a life released from fear and doubt and filled with joy and power.
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Home Camera Other Compact Panasonic Best Superzoom Camera with 4K Video by Panasonic, FZ1000
Best Superzoom Camera with 4K Video by Panasonic, FZ1000
7/06/2014 Camera, Other Compact, Panasonic
Panasonic has been leading the way with adoption of the highest resolution video standards, 4K, in their camera, and now you will be able to capture stunning videos with its latest superzoom offering.
The company unveiled the Lumix FZ1000, a camera it describes as "the world’s first digital compact camera" to offer 4K video recording. It will hit store shelves toward the end of July.
The FZ1000 is not really "compact" by any means, but it is comparable in size to superzoom cameras from other manufacturers such as Fuji FinePix S1 and Olympus ST-100.
The camera resembles a compact DSLR like the one by Sony, RX10 which is often considered the category winner. A versatility offered by FZ1000 is simply unrivaled when you start looking into what it can do with a price tag under $1,000
Like the RX10, Panasonic's latest features a 1-inch sensor, which the company says will help beef up low light performance. The camera's "Venus" engine also features multiple noise reduction systems to assist in this department.
The FZ1000 is mated to 25-400mm equivalent f/2.8-4.0 lens give you longer reach than Sony RX10. You're able to control that 16x optical zoom with a fine precision, owed to a 5-step speed control.
The main attraction of FZ1000 is definitely its 4K video footage. You are limited to 30fps when recording at max resolution. However, 1080p video can be recorded at up to 60fps with support of five-axis optical image stabilization.
Panasonic FZ1000 will be one of the best Bridge/Travel camera. It will soon be available for online purchase through Amazon.com. You can check the exact availability through the link below.
Feature Highlights:
8 Megapixel Hybrid Photo Frame Capture From 4K Video
Bright LEICA DC Lens - F2.8-4.0 25-400mm
Unwire your Creativity with Remote WIFI Shooting. With the Panasonic Image App, you can utilize a smartphone or tablet as a remote controller to zoom, set the focus and shoot from a distance.
Best Superzoom Camera with 4K Video by Panasonic, FZ1000 Reviewed by Brandon on 7/06/2014 Rating: 5
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5 stars, Michel Gondry
Imagine you’re able to render through a visual medium a collection of your most colorful, emotional and insightful dreams. Now imagine if those dreams came from a creative, intellectual genius like Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonardo da Vinci or Edgar Allen Poe.
Michel Gondry is to visual media what Salvador Dali is to surrealism – eccentric, unique and thought provoking; his reality, nor direction, aren’t confined to cinematic norms, weaving their way through the conscious and unconscious while visually stimulating the cerebral cortex to ask you why?
“The Science of Sleep,” Gondry’s follow up to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” isn’t as interrelated, whimsical or philosophical as the 2004 hit, but a cinematic masterpiece and oddity nonetheless.
Gondry’s film is a collection of surrealistic moments playfully woven together to reveal an adult’s version of a preteen romance – innocent, honest and awkward.
This disenchanted love story trades in every romantic cliche and every bit of sexiness to stray from the conventions of the film’s genre.
The film is set in Paris, where Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) returns to live with his mother in his childhood home, now divided into two flats, to work as a calendar artist.
His mother lives with her oddly deceitful magician boyfriend, leaving a flat to Stephane, and renting the other to Stephanie and Zoe (Charlotte Gainsbourg and Emma De Caunes).
Throughout the film, Gondry takes you through Stephane’s dreams, an unruly subconscious dominated by the irrational. His most prominent dream is his portrayal of a talk show host performing peculiar routines on a stage set in various portions of his head.
Though inwardly Stephane is brilliantly dramatic and unique, consciously he’s socially awkward, and his social ineptness becomes more evident as he tries to win the beautiful Stephanie’s affection.
Stephanie is enamored by Stephane’s innocent charm and love for the arts, but she isn’t attracted to him. She describes him in the movie as “kind of retarded.”
However, this doesn’t prevent Stephane from enticing Stephanie further into his childishly and overly imaginative psyche.
The film’s storyline doesn’t set it apart like Gondry’s earlier collaborated work with Hollywood’s most innovative and creative screenwriter, Charlie Kaufman. But, as in his earlier films, it’s more visually compelling than anything coming out of contemporary film. However, it’s Gondry’s uncharacteristic plot and sequence that sets the movie a part.
It’s as though Gondry used Jackson Pollock’s method of abstract expressionism to paint his movie. He sliced the film into perfect moments, let them drip onto the canvas that is film and created something priceless, though perhaps misunderstood.
“The Science of Sleep” is like the perfect dream. It leaves you stupefied and perplexed, wanting nothing more than to crawl back into your bed, and with eyes shut, euphorically wade through your subconscious into a world that isn’t confined to the rational.
The 2006 Spanish-language masterpiece “La science des reves” is rated R for language, some sexual content and nudity.
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Case settled over Castlebar house defects claim
Two Mayo women have settled a High Court action in which they claimed they were unable to sell their four-year-old house in Castlebar because of allegedly serious structural defects in the house.
Claire Moloney (38) and Patricia Feeley (37) had sued Erris Homes Ltd, Belmullet, Co Mayo, over alleged negligence and breach of contract in the construction of the house at Summerfield, Dublin Road, Castlebar.
They also sued engineer James Maloney, Childers Heights, Ballina, over allegedly negligently certifying the house as being built in accordance with good building practice when it allegedly was not.
It was claimed in The Irish Times report, that the house was suffering from serious subsidence after cracks and dampness appeared in its walls.
The court heard the women bought the one-year-old house for €132,000 in 2002 with the intention of selling it three years later at a profit.
When they put it up for sale in 2005, they got two offers of €210,000 but the prospective purchasers pulled out when they saw the cracks in the walls, it was claimed.
On the third day of the case last Thursday, Ms Justice Mary Laffoy was told it had been settled and she struck out the proceedings.
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Assisting Yamaha Rhino ATV Accident Victims
Have you been injured by a Yamaha Rhino ATV?
Read our ATV Rollover Blog
The law firm of Magaña, Cathcart & McCarthy represents persons across the United States who have been seriously injured in a Yamaha Rhino ATV rollover accident. We also represent parents whose children have died in accidents involving ATVs. We currently represent clients in injury lawsuits against Yamaha and are investigating further cases involving Rhino ATV rollovers. We assert that the Yamaha Rhino has inherent design defects which make it prone to rollover even in low speed turns on flat terrain. Our investigation and experts have cited the Rhino’s high center of gravity, narrow wheel base and track-width, small tires and top-heaviness as factors in the Rhino’s instability.
Drivers and passengers have been seriously injured in rollover accidents involving the Yamaha Rhino. The most common injuries have involved broken or crushed ankles, legs and feet, as well as injuries to arms and hands. Some injuries have been so severe that amputation was required. Most injuries have been sustained when a limb was trapped beneath the ATV as it rolled over. Injuries to children have been even more severe; children have been thrown from the Rhino and have been fatally crushed by the ATV as it rolled over. Other children have sustained serious brain trauma or head injuries after being thrown from the Rhino.
If you or a loved one have been seriously injured or killed in an accident involving a Yamaha Rhino ATV rollover, you are faced with the difficult decision of whom to trust. For over sixty years, the attorneys at the law firm of Magaña, Cathcart & McCarthy have been advocating the rights of victims and have developed an international reputation for achieving results for our clients.
If you or a loved one have been injured in an accident involving a Yamaha Rhino ATV, click here to contact our firm, or call 1-888-707-3053 to speak with an attorney experienced in handling ATV rollover cases. Initial inquiries and consultations are offered without charge or obligation.
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LOTOS Group
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Closer cooperation of PGNiG and LOTOS in Norway
PGNiG Supply & Trading (PST), a member of the Polish Oil and Gas Company Group (PGNiG), becomes the exclusive recipient of natural gas produced in Norway by LOTOS Exploration & Production Norge (LOTOS Norge), a LOTOS Group company engaged in exploration and production activities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Upstream activity 2019-10-02
Under contracts signed by the two companies, gas purchases will be carried out from October 1st 2019 to October 1st 2021, with an option to extend the contract term until October 1st 2025. The supply volumes will depend on LOTOS Norge’s output.
“With its immense gas and oil production potential, Norway is one of the key directions of expansion for PGNiG,” said Maciej Woźniak, Vice President for Trade at PGNiG. “The LOTOS Group is our strategic customer for gas in Poland. We are glad that we have been able to extend our cooperation to the Norwegian market. As PGNiG, we implement a strategy of diversifying natural gas supplies and we are getting ready to start importing Norwegian gas to Poland. In 2022, after the launch of the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline, we will start direct and uninterrupted gas supplies from Norway to Poland on competitive terms. The implementation of this project will also open the possibility of deepening cooperation between LOTOS and PGNiG,” added Maciej Woźniak.
“The production segment is crucial for LOTOS not only for economic reasons, but also because it ensures uninterrupted feedstock supplies from the company’s own fields. The agreement reached with PGNiG is attractive business-wise, all the more so because natural gas accounts for approximately three quarters of our output in Norway. The contract we have signed proves that Polish companies are able to build a strong position on the international commodity markets through synergies," said Tomasz Maj, President of the Management Board at LOTOS Upstream, entity responsible for the implementation of the LOTOS E&P segment’s strategy. “The current 2P hydrocarbon reserves in Norway amount to 35 mboe, of which as much as 40% is natural gas,” stressed Tomasz Maj.
The contract marks the next stage in the development of cooperation between the PGNiG and LOTOS Groups. Since 2010, PGNiG has been a strategic supplier of natural gas to the LOTOS Group, and since 2015 it has also supplied crude oil for processing at the Gdańsk refinery. In 2019, the two Groups have worked together to develop the LNG market on the Baltic Sea, offering commercial bunkering of LNG sourced from the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal in Świnoujście.
LOTOS is a Polish corporation whose business is of strategic importance to the national and European energy security, as well as to Poland’s economy. It produces natural gas and crude oil in Poland, Norway and Lithuania. The company owns a refinery in Gdańsk, one of Europe’s most advanced oil refining plants, where crude is processed mainly into high quality fuels, including the LOTOS Dynamic premium brand.
LOTOS also operates a chain of close to 500 service stations conveniently located at motorways and expressways, in all large cities and many other locations across the country. As a retailer and wholesaler of fuels, it has a close to one-third market share at home. It is also Poland’s second largest railway carrier. LOTOS is a leading manufacturer of road bitumens, engine oils and lubricants used in road vehicles, aeroplanes, trains, ships, and even military vehicles.
Polish Oil and Gas Company (Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A.) is the leader in the Polish natural gas market. PGNiG S.A. is a publicly traded company listed in the WIG 20 index of the Polish blue-chip stocks. Its business comprises exploration for and production of natural gas and crude oil, and − through its key branches and subsidiaries − the company is also active in the area of import, storage, sale and distribution of gas and liquid fuels, as well as heat and electricity generation. PGNiG S.A. holds equity interests in almost 30 subsidiaries, including providers of specialist geophysical, drilling and well services, highly valued on international markets. For more than 20 years, the company has been engaged in exploration and production operations in Pakistan. It also hold a licence in the United Arab Emirates. The PGNiG Group is the owner of PGNiG Upstream Norway, which for over 12 years has been engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. PGNiG Supply & Trading GmbH, a Munich-headquartered member of the Group, trades in natural gas on Western European markets, operating an LNG trading office in London.
External Communications Department, Grupa LOTOS S.A., ul. Elbląska 135, 80-718 Gdańsk, Poland, tel. (+48) 58 308 83 88, (+48) 58 308 72 29, e-mail: media@grupalotos.pl
Oil discovered in partnership with LOTOS E&P Norge
Drilling operations in licence PL442 in the NOAKA area in the North Sea discovered recoverable oil resources estimated at 80–200 mboe (barrels of oil equivalent). Aker BP operates the licence (90.26%)...
LOTOS at Offshore Northern Seas again
Offshore Northern Seas (ONS), one of the largest and most prestigious showcase events for the offshore oil and gas industry in the world, takes place in Stavanger, called the Norwegian capital of the oil...
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ul. Elbląska 135, 80-718 Gdańsk. The joint-stock company entered into the National Court Register, maintained by the District Court for Gdańsk-Północ, VII Commercial Division, under entry no. KRS 0000106150. Tax Identification Number (NIP): 583-000-09-60. Share capital PLN 184 873 362 paid up in full.
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The Wizard of Was
When you grow nostalgic enough about Los Angeles to write of your associations there, you think with some frequency about two men with whom you have almost nothing in common except that they typify for you the sorts of individuals who have been drawn there to live out the remainder of their life.
The two men are L. (for Lyman) Frank Baum and Wyatt Earp. At various times in your life, particularly as a student for a year or so at Los Angeles City College, you drove past Baum’s house on Melrose Avenue with some regularity. As you interest in aspects of Western history grew, you’d also drive past 4004 Seventeenth Street, where, of all remarkable places, Earp lived and died.
Baum and Earp seemed—still do—splendid examples of the sorts drawn to the energy and possibilities of Los Angeles. Earp found his way to the film studios, where he served as a consultant for producers of Western films. Each had an energy for adventure, each had aspects of political views you found repugnant when you became aware of them. Like many successful writers, Baum had the irony in his life of not being able to write off the imaginary city of Oz; his fans clamored for more to the point where Baum had money to invest in other things that were less successful.
You have no first-hand information to support your imaginative scenario that Los Angeles provided the inspiration for Oz, but thoughts of the connective tissue for your theory begin to tingle each time you say the names of the two cities in tandem. Los Angeles. Oz. Los Angeles. Oz. You can see Baum walking about the area along Melrose between Western and Vermont, lost in his Los Angeles haze, pulling into his fictional landscape individuals he must have seen around this Baja Hollywood part of the city, converting its denizens into viable characters of fantasy.
You made similar pilgrimages to places where a more contemporary individual of troubled convergences lived during his time in Los Angeles, and of course F. Scott Fitzgerald also died there, occasioning Dorothy Parker’s famed obituary, “The poor son of a bitch.”
His reasons for being in Los Angeles had directly to do with the aspects of it you’re least interested; the men and women whose lives served as magnets for individuals who wanted to try their hand at living the magical, enchanted life of a certain level of fame and affluence.
At the most basic level, the thing you least of all had in common with these individuals was the fact of your being born here and raised with the sense of them having been drawn here. You had dreams similar to all three, sought with some deliberation to write the way Fitzgerald wrote, wished to exploit the fantastic aspects of story the way Baum did, and felt somehow tied to the Western heritage of mining, prospecting, and seeking public relations type approaches to earning enough to live in enough comfort to write your way through the doldrums of emerging technique and into full productivity.
Stunning as it was to be in London, where you were able to visit such iconic places as you’d read about, and tread the same walkways as some of your heroes and heroines—“Mind you don’t step on Jan Austen.”—having grown up in the stucco and whimsy, the larger-than-life, the deliberate exaggerations, and the make-believe come to life made you suspicious of every other city you have seen. From your reading and the conversation of your parents, you knew New York had an aura, but when you first saw it, you asked yourself This is it? Boston had a cachet, and you were impressed, most notably with Fenway Park and the Commons, but no sense of historical awe. Chicago had been touted and trumpeted, but once you were there, your mind was considerably west of there. Mexico City? Ah, quite a bit like—dared you say it?—Los Angeles.
Small rural disasters in the high desert seemed more exciting than New Orleans, and long deserted ghost towns in the Panamints and Sierras held more of a sense that drama had been played out there of the sort that would be more your cup of empathy.
Perhaps it was the sense of unrealness in places such as Tonopah and Bodie and Panamint City and Virginia City that caught you as a youngster in Los Angeles, colored your visions of where a place should be and what it was. Perhaps it was your picking up the propaganda history of this incredible, intemperate, Katzenjammer Kids clump of film sets and staged scenery that made it more real for you than anywhere else.
When you were a teenager and your parents took you with them to Las Vegas, you overheard someone in one of the casinos telling a tourist they didn’t have to go to Los Angeles because Las Vegas could build a better Los Angeles, a Los Angeles where they’d want to remain.
Your classes at the university were over at six forty, which was no time to think about driving through rush hour traffic, and so you haunted such places as The Pantry on Figueroa, Philippe’s on Commercial Street, The TastyQ on Vermont, Roscoe’s Chicken ‘n Waffles, possibly Moon Fat Low in Chinatown. Maybe even the Far East in Little Tokyo. None required much driving. A leisurely dinner avoided the driving crunch, more or less opened the Harbor Freeway or the Hollywood Freeway or the Santa Monica Freeway so you could head northward with some dispatch. But it was a rare occasion when, much as you wished to be home, you’d want to stay on the freeway system, preferring instead to drive through the neighborhoods, to gape at the shadows and ghostly images, marveling at the occasional surprise of some architectural whimsicality, a monument of unselfconsciousness in this quintessential unselfconscious-and-yet-mannered place,
Street names and neighborhoods lulled you to the explorer you were when you tracked L. Frank Baum and Wyatt Earp and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their hiding places amidst the crannies and history of the past.
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BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS
CAPITALS 4
CROSBY 3
All that talk about the Penguins' offense being top-heavy? Yeah, it pretty much stayed exactly the same on Monday night. Sidney Crosby scored each and every Pittsburgh goal, matching Alex Ovechkin's hat trick, but it was that one extra from the Capitals' Dave Steckel that was the difference, giving the Capitals a 2-0 series lead heading back to the Steel City.
King Crosby scored the game's first goal in a tightly-officiated first period that "featured" seven penalties. The goal was a rare success for the strugggggling Penguin power play, which had previously been in a 1-for-24 slump. The Pens held a 1-0 lead at the intermission of a highly entertaining first stanza that had ample hits, shots, and excitement. Unfortunately, games are 60 minutes long, not 20.
Ovechkin tied it at one on a one-timer at 2:18 of the second, on a setup from Viktor Kozlov and Sergei Federov. Crosby answered about eight minutes later, putting the Penguins up 2-1. It's an early candidate for photo of the year:
But Steckel crashed the Crosby-Ovie party at the 15:49 mark with his second goal of the series, knotting the score at two going into the final period.
The third period is one that will and should haunt Penguin fans for some time, watching Ovechkin take over with two goals to put Washington in the lead for good. The crucial third Capital goal came just four seconds after an Evgeni Malkin tripping penalty; the fourth was a tough Ovechkin wrister less than four minutes later. The Verizon Center was in a frenzy, and the Penguins looked helpless, unable to capitalize on two Milan Jurcina penalties in the final frame.
Crosby once again displayed his never-say-die spirit by scoring with the extra man at 19:29 of the third, getting Petr Sykora onto the stat sheet in the process. But it was too little, too late for the flightless birds, who are searching for answers after a winless trip to D.C.
Simeon Varlamov proved that he is every bit for real with his 33-save performance, coming up huge on numerous occasions. His playoff numbers so far? 6-2, .918 save percentage, 2.37 GAA. Not bad for a 21-year-old with five career regular season starts.
On the Penguin side of things, there's ample room for improvement. Malkin was nearly invisible, save for his backbreaking penalty in the third period. Fleury and the defensive effort was generally unspectacular. The power play, although successful, look unorganized and sloppy at the wrong times. And the team got crushed in faceoffs, 38-22. Yes, this could be a short series unless things turn around quickly.
From an entertainment angle, the league has to be very happy. It was just the fourth time in playoff history that opposing players had hat tricks, and in a bit of dual history, it was the first for both Crosby and Ovechkin. To top things off, the game led the 11 PM SportsCenter, which rarely happens. There's no doubt that this series has garnered national attention. But at this point, it's wins, not attention, that matters most to the Penguins.
Capitals 4, Penguins 3 [ESPN]
Empty Netters recap [PG]
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Labels: Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Marc-Andre Fleury, Petr Sykora, Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby, Simeon Varlamov, Washington Capitals
Jeff_King_Fan said...
get ready pittsburgh sports fans, what is about to happen in this series will be epic. the penguins will win this series in 7, i guarentee it. that doesnt mean much coming from someone you dont know, but i also predicted HHH would beat randy orton at wrestlemania. so i'm on a roll.
Like I tell everyone who makes bold predictions and guarantees, if you're right, awesome and let me buy you a beer! but if you're wrong, please don't ever give your opinion again.
I have very a different idea of how this series will end and I'll leave it at that.
BurressWithButterflywings said...
I don't feel the Pens are being manhandled out there, but I would like to see a little bit more help from the supporting cast. Everyone is getting on top of Geno, but Sykkie, Cooke, Staal, Dupuis, etc. should all be getting on the stat sheet a little more often. Kunitz and Guerin as well.
Fleury wasn't at his best, but that was a winnable game and we missed a lot of opportunities to take a 2 goal lead when that may have been backbreaking to the Caps.
johnny said...
Staal is playing good two-way hockey, but it would be nice to see him end up with some assists or a goal for the effort. He's been an absolute beast on the PK so far, though.
Still, we definitely need some contributions from the 3rd and 4th lines.
steve, if i'm right, i'll accept your beer. if i'm wrong, i'll drink a zima.
nuthinhere said...
It would be real nice if the other Pens not named Crosby would like, you know, show the hell up. This is gonna be a short series if they don't. Even worse, I live in DC and I'll never hear the end of it from the fair weather hockey fans they have here.
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The John J. Repasky Award for the best decorated Fire/EMS vehicle at this year’s Sayre Borough Christmas Parade was presented to the Monroe Hose Company. Pictured here are Chief Robert Repasky, Howard Elmer Hose Company, Captain Tim Kerrick, Monroe Hose Company, and David Jarrett, Sayre Borough Manager.
Monroe Hose Company earns Repasky Award for Christmas Parade
Morning Times Staff
SAYRE — The Monroe Hose Company was the recipient of the 2019 John J. Repasky Award for best decorated Fire/EMS vehicle at this year’s Sayre Borough Christmas Parade.
The Monroe Hose Company was selected from one of 10 fire companies and EMS providers and more than a dozen pieces of apparatus that participated in this year’s parade.
The award and $200 cash prize is named in honor of longtime Sayre Borough firefighter and Borough Mayor John Repasky Sr. who passed away in July 2000.
Mayor Repasky was a longtime member of Howard Elmer Hose Company who sponsors the award each year. Mayor Repasky also served as the Grand Marshal of very first Sayre Borough Christmas Parade in 1999.
“The Sayre Borough Christmas Parade Committee would like to thank all of organizations who participated in this year’s Christmas Parade and extend a special thank you to Chief Howard Fowler and the members of the Monroe Hose Company for being part of the event,” a press release said.
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“Twelve Years A Slave” – A New Film Report
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Lcrox I was all set to shout ‘ACADEMY AWARD!’– from just hearing the initial reviews for “mink eyelashes price“. I’d been led to think it was going to be the film that would raise all of our consciousnesses to a level we had never before known. We were going to see a film about a free black man, birth-named Solomon Northup, who is kidnapped under false pretences, and soon finds that he is now a slave with a new name, Platt– far from his native home-Saratoga Springs, New York-and without much of a chance of escaping his fate. If this weren’t true, it wouldn’t work
“You’re Supposed To Be Hit!”
Of course, when you come to a film such as this one, you’re supposed to be hit with some powerful punches and character interplay that give you more than awful facts. This movie could have been so much more than it was. I saw minor artistry and tiresome sequences. I blame the director for not being able to give us the good actors here– attached to energized mink eyelashes price movements. Steve McQueen had a great opportunity to use a talented man, Chiewetel Ejiofor, to portray the slave who’d been a violinist. He’s a brave man, quite resolved to take the hell of lashings, brutal verbal assaults, and the grimness of family loss for twelve years at the hands of merciless masters.
“Yet WHERE Do WE Connect?”
There’s Lupita Nyong’o–a sexually beaten, physically battered slave– whose spirit he tries to console; she wants only to die. Yet WHERE do WE connect? It seemed to me the mink eyelashes pricemoved like this: A.) sharp harsh lashings, B.) doing field work/singing, C.) Chiewetel, comforting this slave woman, and D.) deep Chiewetel sufferings… And then again, this progression. There is a small part played by Brad Pitt that stands out with Chiewetel- as these two men slyly develop a true relationship that advances Platt to his freedom.
“Film Needs The Director!”
It is certainly true that the cruelty scenes spare no relief in assaulting the film viewer’s senses. I’m sure it all happened. But what dismayed me was how the effect was without a bit of film-making craft. I don’t think folks left the movie with any deep sense of emotional union with the sorrows they had witnessed. People were crushed by the horror they had been shown- but not in the way a story is meant to affect them. It has been said that film needs to have the director’s hand to make the whole thing work; whereas a play on stage can allow the actors to rule. I think this film had the right actors all lined up but just had the wrong director. And sadly with that director, the mink eyelashes price just failed. My grade therefore is just a FOUR.
“Is The Film Worth Seeing?”
Is the film worth seeing? It’s the kind of story that surely needs to be retold— if only to show the fortitude of one man. That’s maybe worth more than the film.
Humbler Acts, creator of “THE WIZARD’S OUTRAGEOUS SCHEME FOR STOPPING SMOKING”, reports one film every week as a relaxation from his speaking and writing on stopping smoking through dream use and Seven Forces. He’s American, English-educated, residing in St. Louis, MO (USA). He can be reached humbleracts@aol.com or telephone: 314-574-7681.
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Sunday, March 22nd: Night of 1,000 Humorous Readings with Dave Hill, Dan Abramson & Friends
Location: HiFi (169 Avenue A, Manhattan)
A monthly evening of literary humorists reading their most literary humor! Featuring short humor pieces, like the kind you find on McSweeney's or Shouts and Murmurs, read aloud by the people who wrote them. This month, in honor of our one-year anniversary, we're having an extra-large extravaganza of readings from some of the amazing guests we’ve had on the show over the past year! As always, it's free, and you can buy beers! HOSTED BY: - Brian Agler (The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Splitsider) - Luke Burns (The New Yorker, The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency, UCB Theater) - James Folta (McSweeney's, CollegeHumor, Above Average, Splitsider) GUESTS: - Dan Abramson (Editor-In-Chief, Funny Or Die; The Occasional; The New Yorker) - Kady Ruth Ashcraft (Hot Hot Phone, Above Average, Reductress) - Nate Dern (News Editor, Funny or Die; McSweeney’s; UCBT) - John Harris (Adult Swim, Pendulous Breasts Quarterly, The Onion, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker) - Dave Hill (WFMU, Tasteful Nudes) - Jackie Jennings (Reductress, The Awl, UCBT) - Langan Kingsley (McSweeney's, UCBT) - Mike Lacher (The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency) - Cathy Lew (The New Yorker; Editor, Above Average) - Seth Reiss (Late Night With Seth Meyers, McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Onion) - Melinda Taub (UCBT, Funny or Die, The Best of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)
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Artist: India Preston
Title: Interview
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Author: Owen Peters
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I am outside the Royal Academy of Art in London watching tourists enter and exit the very popular David Hockney exhibition of portraits and stills which covers his career to date. My people watching is short term as I’m meeting the young artist India Preston, who I’ve not yet met or seen. She and her family are visiting London, taking a few days out from the tranquility and home life of Rock in Cornwall which lies opposite Padstow and edges the River Camel estuary. Besides the Hockney exhibition, India is planning to visit the Royal Academy's summer exhibition which will hopefully offer a source of ideas and motivation, besides the obligatory shopping bags and bustle of Oxford Street.
Some weeks ago I had the pleasure of walking the coastline around Falmouth and St.Ives. It was whilst browsing a local art exhibition in Falmouth that one of the displays, tucked away on a side wall, demanded my particular attention. I viewed, examined, pondered, took a few notes and some truly rubbish photographs before getting into conversation with Tasmin Bough, the Exhibition Coordinator.
She told me: “'Imagine Falmouth' has been our first open submission exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery. We have been delighted by the response from local artists. Overall we received more than 200 entries from professional and amateur artists. India’s submission was representative of the high quality on show at the exhibition. We had a huge amount of positive feedback, with a number of pieces being bought. It was hard work to organise but due to popular demand and feedback we will aim to set up another show next year.”
The piece in question is perfectly titled, 'Fractured Identity'. It has a young girl in head and shoulders pose with interaction inside, outside and around her head. From semi-bricked walls, to shapes looking like jigsaw pieces, along with a flourish of emerald green as a backdrop, the work poses many questions. The portrait is looking back at the viewer looking in.
On a cool summer's afternoon we finally meet up, grab two chairs and try to secure limited privacy in the Royal Academy's cobbled courtyard.
India Preston is seventeen-years old, studying English, Spanish and a Fine Art A level at Truro School, coupled with an Extended Project Qualification in Fashion Photography.
“'Fractured Identity' is the first piece I’ve ever shown. It was accepted when I put it forward for the Falmouth Art Exhibition, 'Imagine Falmouth',” she explains.
“To be honest, I was surprised to make the final list of sixty as they had over a hundred entries for the under 18’s mixed media competition. So to have won the competition was a real shock, but I’m delighted,” she says, conveying this with a smile.
I begin with trying to unravel some of my many questions the piece poses, starting with “Who is the girl with the 'Fractured Identity'?
“It’s my sister. I set it up with a combination of digital photomontage combined with pen illustration.” India can see my furrowed brow, as I enter the world of photomontage.
“Really it’s just a process of rearranging, overlapping, replacing a set of photographs into a single composite item. The idea is the end result looks seamless,” she explains, as I nod in probably all the wrong places.
“Although I haven’t exhibited before I do have a small portfolio of pieces. They are influenced mostly by fashion and music based on friends and family. I’ve always been interested in art, drawing, designing, even from an early age. So, with my foundation course at school, I work on different projects everyday. Album covers are always interesting. I try and work out if they capture the artist's theme. I’d love to work on an album or CD covers. That would be really cool,” she enthuses.
Whilst she says music doesn’t directly influence her designs at present, it is a constant at home and at school.
“Currently I’d say The 1975 are one of my favourite bands. I was lucky enough to see them in Amsterdam recently. Amy Winehouse is an artist I love listening too. I saw the recent film biography of her life ('Amy') by Asif Kapadia. it is sad and poignant in so many ways. My mum is getting me to listen to the likes of Bjork and Kate Bush, who I really like”
I’m thinking of the pleasures which are ahead as she explores and experiences these two iconic artists. Happy days, I digress...
I take India back to 'Fractured Identity', asking what the piece is portraying. Is it carrying a message?
It’s at this point the teenager years melt away as she offers a clear vision on its structure in a mature confident manner.
“It’s based on many questions. Do our surroundings shape or restrict our identity? Especially living in Cornwall, which can sometimes be a safe and secure environment. The portrait's face is partially masked by images from around the Cornwall and Falmouth area. I’m asking if her surroundings have impacted and shaped her identity? I’m trying to show images coming into her head and outside influences which need to be dealt with every day. The portrait can be seen to both mask the identity and structure to the face. I hope when people see the piece it makes them think and maybe ask some of the questions I’ve tried to explore.”
India provides a simple a narrative to this complex, disturbing and challenging work of art, capturing a scene with so many sociological and psychological questions. I’ve viewed the piece late morning and early evening. About its light, setting, mood, I am not sure but it provokes question at each viewing.
When I learned India was seventeen I was reminded of the wonderful song 'At Seventeen' by Janis Ian. It is a song written with so much passion about the wrongs and unfairness of teenage life. It’s still a wonder how Ian captured those raw emotions at seventeen. Maybe India Preston has created something of a similar ilk, capturing a moment in time way beyond those formative years.
India says she is always open to ideas and influences to develop her own work and ideas.
“I love the work of the African artist Boris Nzebo, whose work I saw in the Saatchi Gallery, along with fashion photographer Rankin, who both offer interesting themes and ideas. Grayson Perry’s work in tapestries and ceramics definitely influenced my decision to experiment these themes as part of my current Foundation Course,”
'Fractured Identity', however, no longer belongs to India. It’s been sold.
“Yes, it is my first exhibition piece and first sale,” she says, her smile once again returning.
“I was told the buyer didn’t want to take it and hide it away in their home. They have agreed to show it at the Espressini Cafe Bar in Falmouth www.espressini.co.uk , which is great news. Obviously I appreciate the buyer and cafe owner working together so it can be viewed by customers. I hope I can get more feedback on the piece through my website.”
Before India rejoins her family to take in the Hockney exhibition I want to know what’s next. Future plans and career aspirations?
“I’m about to start applying to enrol on a foundation course at Falmouth, or possibly Oxford Brookes. This will give me a better idea on the type of Art degree I’d like to study. Fashion Photography has always inspired me. I may do something along these lines over the next couple of years.”
Whilst beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, music and art is emotive in people's likes and dislikes. Not everyone will understand or relate to 'Fractured Identities'. Some of the people who have seen the piece have described it as a changing landscape. I can go with that.
From my perspective it’s a well balanced, evocative, challenging piece of work. Although this is her first work to be shown in public it shows real talent in it’s composition, whilst asking questions of teenagers growing up in rural communities.
As Amy Winehouse once said. “If you don't throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had”.
From my brief time with India Preston I don’t believe for one moment she will miss the opportunities which undoubtedly lay ahead.
The pictures that accompany this article are 1. Fractured Identity 2. Identity Crisis 3. Gabriel 4. Projection 11.
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Originally Posted by BabyBombers
About to get 12 after shutting down the Astros.
7 IP 0 ERs 11 Ks vs Houston...
12-4 with a 3.69 ERA
What is wrong with our pitching coaches?
He's the first pitcher to 12. The last pitcher to lead MLB in wins after pitching for the Yankees was Dazzy Vance in 1924 and 1925. I typed more about it in the "Don't look now." topic.
Originally Posted by nnysiny
Cervelli has quit catching due to concussions.
https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/2...e-catching-dk/
https://www.mlb.com/news/francisco-c...tinue-catching says "Cervelli on catching: 'Motivation is the mask': Catcher disputes report that he's finished behind the plate, wants to return in familiar role."
ESPN's Marly Rivera tweeted that Boston DFAd Eduardo Nunez. He had a .548 OPS, but Devers said he learned from Nunez.
JDPNYY
I feel your pain more than my own
Originally Posted by EvanJ
I wonder what the next team will be to deal with his shenanigans?
There's a sinister plot a brewin'
07-16-19 10:31 AM #3905
JL25and3
Tends to be difficult
Darn. Having Eduardo Scissorhands on the Red Sox was like a secret weapon for the Yankees.
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“The most important thing here is to feel normal as a human being,” Cervelli said. “I haven’t been feeling normal in a long time -- I probably don’t know what’s normal. I’m not saying I feel bad ... I can be better than this.
He added: “I see my family suffering for this thing and people around me who love me they suffer a lot because they see me every day the way I wake up and the way I behave myself -- it’s not normal. So, I’m going to do this to improve and have a quality life with them. That’s the most important thing.”
“It’s easier just to throw in the towel and say, ‘Let me rest and one day, I’ll be good,’” Cervelli said. “No, I want to work [on] this thing, I want to face it and I want to fight against it, because it’s been with me for a long, long, long time. It doesn’t belong in my body or in my brain and so it’s going to go out."
Uhhh... sounds like dude needs an intervention. It's not worth it...
"My guys are savages in the box!" - Aaron Boone
San Diego's Kirby Yates got his 31st save, and he's on pace for 53. That would be tied for the sixth most in a season and tied with Trevor Hoffman in 1998 for San Diego's record. Tonight he struck out the side and lowered his ERA to 1.07. The best ERA in a season with at least 50 saves is 1.20 by Eric Gagne in 2003, so Yates is on pace to have the best ERA in a season with at least 50 saves. Gagne won the Cy Young that year.
BabyBombers
Thats pretty crazy...
What makes it even more crazy is the fact he bounced around from team to team looking very average at best for so long. Ever since he got to SD he has been getting better an better with age.
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What a dumb move by the Yankees to get rid of Dazzy. Bet you they would have beaten the Cardinals in 1926 if they had him.
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Originally Posted by HelloNewman
I always thought Vance was proof there are aliens who abduct people from their beds at night and poke and prod their bodies to study humans. And one evening shortly after being sold for some sod to Sacramento of the California Penal League, a sympathetic group of aliens abducted Vance and fixed his arm. I mean, for all intensive porpoises, he didn't really begin his march towards the Hall of Fame until he was 31.
"Be a voice, not an echo." - Albert Einstein
And then I wouldn't have had to watch that stupid Ronald Reagan movie about Pete Alexander.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- Barry Manilow
Originally Posted by ojo
Those aliens must have been hanging around the PCL in the 1920s, where they also worked on Lefty O'Doul. They turned him into an outfielder and didn't quite get him into the HOF, but it was a pretty impressive transformation.
Originally Posted by JL25and3
I don't like people calling him Pete.
Originally Posted by JDPNYY
It’s how he was known.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...lexape01.shtml
Hitman23
Do not vex me mortal
it never ceases to shock me when I see old pitching stats and guys went 389 innings in a season.
NYYFans FBB: Evil Empire
Ryan Lavarnway hit 3 home runs in 108 at-bats for SWB, who let him go. He not a former Yankee, just a former Yankee minor leaguer. Cincinnati, who struggles to score, started him yesterday. In his first MLB game of the season, he went 3-for-4 with 2 home runs, 1 double, 1 walk, and 6 RBI. It was his first multi-home run game since he hit his first 2 home runs in the same game on September 27, 2011. It was his career-high in RBI. His previous career-high was 4 which he did in that game and on September 14, 2012.
But we have Romine.
Nice! Didn’t realize he took a similar path as Vance did.
He went to bed and taken away as Leonard Comstock, carpet salesman.
Returned to earth, and woke up as Lefty O’Doul, who in 1929 (at age 32) would go on to hit .398/.465/.622. Man, Baker Bowl was an extreme hitter’s park. He hit .454/.515/.689 there that season.
Good pull. That was EvanJ-esque!
Originally Posted by Hitman23
Look at the curious two-way player, Cy Seymour. Walked a lot of batters. Struckout a lot of them, too (relatively for the era). In 1898 he won 25 games as a pitcher, and in 1905, hit .377 (one HR shy of the Triple Crown). The only other player to win more than 100 games and collect over 1500 hits? Babe Ruth.
Nothing obscure about Lefty O’Doul. Among other things, he was a key figure in bringing baseball to Japan. He’s not in Cooperstown, but he’s in the Japanese Baseball HOF.
Being on the 60 day IL for a concussion didn't stop Cervelli from being ejected for fighting.
Portbb
And Sonny Gray and Chris Archer had words in the Reds/Pirates melee last night.
wow! I’ve never heard of him. You’d think he’s be more of a part of baseball lure considering he was a two way player like Ruth.
The real question is how many innings did he pitch in a season? 600?
Yankee Tripper
Left coast
He threw a career high 356 IP in 1898 and went 25-19. He lead the league in both walls and strikeout in 1897 and 1898.
I'm guessing he was injured in 1900 because he only played 23 games and after that he appears almost exclusively as hitter. At least that's what I get out of his BR page. https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...eymocy01.shtml
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After Alex was arrested for murder, Sniffer enlists the help of Viktor to get him released. Alex hasn't been saying anything in his interrogations. When the police chief is being uncooperative, Sniffer and Viktor take it upon themselves to go the crime scene and investigate for something to help secure Alex's release. A nosy neighbour makes a call to the police chief after spying Sniffer and Viktor through the peephole going into the apartment. Viktor is reprimanded by his superior for illegally examining the apartment.
Sniffer comes in to take responsibility for the illegal investigation and tells the police chief that a large supply of heroin went missing after the murder. The killer took the stash and framed Alex for the murder. Sniffer asks for access in order to be able to find the real killer and the police chief says he'll think about it.
A man comes to Sniffer's apartment enquiring about whether his son is in jail. Before letting the man in, Sniffer takes a photo of the man's face with his surveillance system. The man claims to have been locked up in the same holding cell as Alex and that he knows who the real killer is. He offers to provide the information if Sniffer will pay him a thousand dollars. While Sniffer is away, the man pockets a silver cup. Sniffer knows the man has stolen it when he comes back with the money. After giving him the money, Sniffer is knocked out via a headbutt to the nose. The man leaves with all three of the silver cups while Sniffer is left unconscious.
Viktor tracks down the man that attacked Sniffer using the photo taken of him. When he goes to confront him, he finds the man already dead in his apartment. Police arrive and take Viktor into custody. Sniffer is advised by his doctor to take it easy and rest for ten days. Sniffer is alarmed to find that his superior sense of smell is not working after the injury.
Viktor is reprimanded once again and told to go on leave or risk being kicked out of the bureau altogether. He goes to Sniffer and together they determine that the police chief Sniffer offered to help with the case is the one behind everything and was the one who took the heroin stash. Sniffer and Viktor decide to set a trap for the police chief with the help of a tech-expert. Viktor and Sniffer don some disguises and pretend to be criminals breaking into the police chief's summer home. They install some surveillance cameras for the tech expert to record and monitor the area. They allow themselves to be spotted by Vera, the next-door neighbour, who informs the chief of the break-in. He comes immediately to check the area.
The tech expert informs Viktor and Sniffer that the camera in the house isn't working but they are able to monitor the scene through the other three installed. They are able to see that the chief hid the heroin stash in one of his bee-hives. Once the police chief spots one of the cameras he realises that this break-in wasn't the work of petty criminals. All of what he has done with the heroin was recorded and Vera sends him after the trio by saying the men had headed towards the lake. As the trio are packing up their equipment they find themselves confronted by the police chief who holds them at gunpoint. The tech expert is able to distract the chief long enough for Viktor to knock him down and punch him viciously in the nose as revenge for Sniffer's injury. The chief is arrested and the heroin is taken into custody.
Viktor is reinstated by his boss despite having broken orders once again, since at least this time he was able to catch the criminal. Alex is released from jail and tells Sniffer that the reason why he was with the dealer was because he had found the stash his mother had hidden and attempted to return it. Yulia thanks Sniffer and Viktor for saving their son.
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A hard rain’s a-gonna fall
In Red Monsoon, filmmaker Eelum Dixit takes an unforgiving look at a parched Kathmandu
NIRANJAN KUNWAR May 16, 2014
I watched Red Monsoon alone, an evening show at Civil Mall. This decision itself is an indication that the film is not meant for mass entertainment. Red Monsoon is not the film a group of friends wanting to kill time would choose haphazardly from a list of latest Nepali or Hindi releases. It is meant for those willing to give a little more, not just time or money, but a deeper engagement with the arts. It is for those willing to be patient, to perhaps even risk having a completely new experience.
A long-time project from young director Eelum Dixit, Red Monsoon, at first glance, is not very red and not so wet. The title, therefore, as part of the movie’s complexity, lingered with me as I walked out of the theater. Is it wise to have an English phrase for a Nepali-language film? The film’s style and filmmaking are already challenging. And what does Red Monsoon really mean?
“It’s about the rain not coming,” said Eelum Dixit at the 15th Mumbai Film Festival, using the dry period before the summer monsoon as a metaphor for Kathmandu’s urban youth who are waiting for something, anything, to refresh their city’s torpid air. “The thing that comes to wash away the dirt and the muck of society does not come in this film,” Dixit added. And sure enough, the film does not present any solutions. It simply portrays: Chetana (Himali Dixit), a young, free-thinking widow; Krishna (Sandip Chhetri), the deadbeat hero; and Karuna (Shristi Ghimire), a victim who dares to take a stand. Chetana stumbles into Krishna one night, and even though he is married to Karuna, Krishna can't help being drawn to her. What follows is a sequence of events that illustrates how our relationships form us and compel us to make life-altering decisions. Supporting characters Anushka (Sarita Giri), Krishna's nosy neighbor, and Babu, Karuna's brother, add charm and intensity to the film respectively.
A good film has more than one way of stirring the psyche: sometimes it’s the story that takes us to never-before-imagined worlds, widening our experience of life itself; sometimes there are characters that are impossible to forget. Then there are certain actors, and the sheer power that emanates from their expressions, that shake us. Yet these are wanting in Dixit’s debut. Dixit intended his film to act as a mirror to our society, a mirror placed squarely in front of characters facing severe difficulties in life. The actors rise to the task, but at times their characters remind us of those from so many Nepali telefilms.
In Red Monsoon, it is the camerawork that shines. The director’s theater background is apparent in the many close-ups, long shots, and actors’ intimate gazes. Soft lighting enhances the film’s delicacy, while fast-paced cuts relieve us of the tense plot, offering glimpses of Kathmandu’s streets and skies. Together, they balance the film’s serious tone.
And then there’s the music. Lochan Rijal’s original compositions and his refreshing voice are a loyal companion to Eelum Dixit’s honest, heartfelt effort.
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State and National Awards
Institutional Award
(1) 'Society' received State Award for the Welfare of Disabled Persons from Punjab Govt. during the year 1998-99
(2) National Award for welfare of disabled persons from Govt. of India 2002.
(3) His Excellency General S.F. Rodrigiues (Retd.) Governor, Punjab awarded Fund Raising Plaque of Honour – Third
Position (Population Basis) to our Distt. Branch on the occasion of Annual General Meeting of the Punjab State Red Cross Branch at Punjab Raj Bhawan, Chandigarh.
(4) His Excellency General S.F. Rodrigues (Retd.), Governor, Punjab awarded Plaque of Honour in First Aid Training - First Position (Population Basis) for the year 2007-08 to Distt. Centre, Faridkot on the occasion of AGM of the St. John Ambulance Association, Punjab State Centre held at Punjab Raj Bhawan, Chandigarh.
Individual Award
(1) Indian Red Cross Society Certificate for merit, awarded to Late Sh. Inderjit Sharma by President of India for the year 1986.
(2) Indian Red Cross Society Certificate for merit, awarded to Mrs. Harjit Kaur Brar for the year 1987.
(3) Indian Red Cross Society Certificate for merit, awarded to Mrs. Gurdial Kaur Mallan.
(4) Sh. Bhagwan Singh, blind student of Ujala-Red Cross Special School received 1st prize in National Painting Competition held during, 2007.
(5) Ms. Anchal Goyal, Mentally Retarded child of Umang-Red Cross Special School for M.R. received consolation prize in National Painting Competition held during 2007.
(6) Ms. Satveer Kaur, blind student of Ujala-Red Cross Special School for Blind children received 1st prize in National Painting Competition held during, 2008.
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- Holly Johnson
Makeup Everybody
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
- Caitlin Moran
House Separate
I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.
- Jerry Hall
Very Irregular
I have a very irregular life, and by that, I mean I do many different things with my time. No day is the same, which is great for me because as they say, 'Variety is the spice of life,' and I utterly agree and live by that statement.
- Jessica Steen
Other Very
'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.
- Kareena Kapoor Khan
Complexity Show
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
- Emeril Lagasse
Woman Repulsive
No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.
- Kim Gordon
Go Had
I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go!
- Kreayshawn
Sports Meal
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
- George Leonard
Doing Instead
Instead of doing cinnamon, nutmeg, and all those baking spices I'll have one spice that's for sweets, and that's pumpkin pie spice.
- Sandra Lee
Disheartening Out
I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - personally, I wasn't ready to get out there. I don't know. It was a pop group. Not like the Spice Girls, but when you don't have any control over anything, it's disheartening.
- Tika Sumpter
Own I Think
I think it's important for a guy to be 'protective,' shall we say, but you don't want to come off like you just rolled around in an Old Spice factory. Everyone has their own natural scent.
- Mark Ronson
Interesting Most
A different spice is the most interesting thing to me.
- Nobu Matsuhisa
Maybe Couple
Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.
- Stana Katic
Younger Movie
I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my wall and I watched the movie.
- Vinny Guadagnino
Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back.
- Melanie Brown
I'm always down for a Spice Girls reunion. I love the Scary hair and platforms. Any time of day or night I'll be there.
Guarantee Very
The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.
- Melanie Chisholm
Insane Spice Girls
Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.
Source Your
All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
- Suzanne Somers
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Masses of March 17: Second Sunday in Lent; St. Patrick, Bishop & Confessor
Start: Mar 17 2019 7:00 am
Special Mass times preceding our annual St. Patrick's Day celebration. Low Mass at 7:00am; High Mass at 9:00am. Please join us for refreshments in the hall after either Mass.
Proper on pages 345 & 1205. Preface of Lent on page 880.
March 17: St. Rose's Annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner
Start: Mar 17 2019 11:00 am
St. Rose's Annual
Day Dinner
St. Rose Parish Hall
715 Chestnut, Quincy, IL
DINNER INCLUDES:
Butcher Block's Homemade Corned Beef & Cabbage
German Sausage & Sauerkraut
All served with Mashed Potatoes, Dessert,
Tea or Coffee
(HOT DOGS ALSO AVAILABLE)
ADULT: $9.75; CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER: $5
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12:45 - 1:20 pm Irish Flute / Guitar Tony Blackford & Steve Rees
1:30 - 2:00 pm Strings / Bluegrass Newton Family Strings
2:00 - 2:30 pm Strolling Violins Vicki Daggett & Kae Blecha
2:30 - 3:30 pm Irish Tunes
3:30 - 4:00 pm Piano Mary Kay Waldhaus & Charlotte Tournear
4:00 - 4:30 pm Accordion & Vocals Jillian Miller
4:30 - 6:00 pm Irish Music Rag Tag Irish Band
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Mass of March 18: Monday of the Second Week in Lent
Start: Mar 18 2019 12:10 pm
Commemoration of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Proper on pages 349 & 1205. Preface for Lent on page 880.
Mass of March 19: St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Proper on page 1209. Preface of St. Joseph on page 885.
Mass of March 19: St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Confessor
Commemoration of Tuesday in the Second Week of Lent. St. Joseph is the Patron Saint of the Universal Church. Proper on pages 1208, 352. Preface of St. Joseph on page 885.
Mass of March 20: Anniversary of the Coronation of a Pope
Mass of March 21: Thursday of the Second Week in Lent
Commemoration of St. Benedict, Abbot. Proper on page 360 & 1213. Preface for Lent on page 880.
Mass of March 22: Friday in the Second Week of Lent
Proper on page 364.
March 22: Stations of the Cross
Start: Mar 22 2019 5:30 pm
Stations of the Cross at 5:30pm on Fridays during Lent.
Mass of March 23: Saturday in the Second Week of Lent
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Propagandist Literature [May, 1888]
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Editor : Charlotte Wilson
(1854 - 1944) : Charlotte M. Wilson was an English Fabian and anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. She remained editor of Freedom until 1895.
Born Charlotte Mary Martin, she was the daughter of a well-to-do physician, Robert Spencer Martin. She was educated at Newnham College at Cambridge University. She married Arthur Wilson, a stockbroker, and the couple moved to London. Charlotte Wilson joined the Fabian Society in 1884 and soon joined its Executive Committee. At the same time she founded an informal political study group for 'advanced' thinkers, known as the Hampstead Historic Club (also known as the Karl Marx Society or The Proudhon Society). This met in her former early 17th century farmhouse, called Wyldes, on the edge of Hampstead Heath. No records of the club survive but there are references to it in the memoirs of several of those who attended. In her history of Wyldes Mrs Wilson records the names of some of those who visited the house, most of whom are known to have been present at Club meetings. They included Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Olivier, Annie Besant, Graham W... (From : Wikipedia.org.)
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'Chants of Labor: a Song Book of the People, with Music," edited by Edward Carpenter, with a title-page drawn by Walter Crane, published by Swan Sonnenschien and Co., is a most useful addition to Socialist literature. There is a growing sense among energetic propagandists that the Cause suffers seriously from lack of the emotional element, of some efficient means of appeal to the feelings of the people. Several attempts have lately been made to introduce singing at Socialist meetings ; but one great obstacle has always been the want of a suitable song-book. Comrade Carpenter, therefore, has rendered signal service by devoting his knowledge, taste, and poetic feeling to the collection of socialist anti revolutionary verses and stirring or pathetic popular airs. Many fine old tunes have long been wedded to some ancient form of words, which nowadays has lost all gist and meaning. Several beautiful new lyrics and many rougher verses containing genuine poetic fervor have hitherto found no worthy or appropriate musical setting. Comrade Carpenter has set himself to supply both deficiencies, and with commendable success. " The book," as he writes in his preface, " is in no sense a merely ' literary ' production-but emanates rather from the heart of the people." We warmly echo its editor's wish, " May it help to give voice to those who have so long been dumb! "
The Paris Communist.-Anarchists have lately undertaken a propagandist campaign among the peasants of the country districts. The), have just issued ail earnest appeal ' From the Workers of the Towns to the Workers of the Country , (Les Travailleurs des Villes aux Travailleurs des Campagnes), pointing in the simplest terms to social revolution as the one means of deliverance alike for the half starved peasant proprietor, weighed down by mortgages and debts, and the propertyless artisan or factory hand, each being equally a victim of capitalist monopoly.
Comrade J. Sketchley, 8, Arthur Place, Birmingham, sends us two useful tracts written and published by himself. Prim 3d. each. 'The Workman's Question' and 'The Irish Question' (2nd edition). Both supply many telling facts and figures illustrating the robbery and oppression of the workers by the ruling classes of landlords and capitalists in England and Ireland.
'The Chicago Martyrs: their Speeches in Court, with a Preface and ail Extract from the Record prepared for the Supreme Court of Illinois." (International Socialist Societies of London. Price 6d. Apply for copies to H. Reuter, 101, Albert Street, Camden Town, N.W.) The preface gives a brief and clear account of the circumstances connected with the famous Chicago trial. The extracts from official documents relating to tire judicial proceedings are well selected to illustrate the prejudices of the jury, the perjury of the police and suborned witnesses, and the gross injustice of the verdict. The speeches of our murdered and imprisoned comrades are an admirable exposition of the economic and political beliefs of revolutionary Communist Anarchists.
'Was it a Fair Trial? An Appeal to the Governor of Illinois from General Trumbull on behalf of the condemned Anarchists,' is now published in pamphlet form, and can be obtained from Mrs. Lucy Parsons, Room 35, 169, Washington Street, Chicago. Price 6d. It deals in detail with the legal aspects of the Chicago judicial murders, and demonstrates the utter failure of the State prosecution to prove the existence of the imaginary conspiracy for which the eight men were condemned.
Any of our readers who want printing well and honestly done may safely go to the Justice Printery, 181, Queen Victoria Street, E.C., where or three members of the S.D.F., working for an eight hours' day at trades' union rates, undertake as much extra work as the weekly issue of Justice permits. They have lately published the two following penny pamphlets:
' John Burns' Defense at the Old Bailey, January, 1888 when he was tried in company with Cunninghame Graham for riot, etc., in Trafalgar Square on Bloody Sunday, In his usual hold and manly style, Burns claims the right of free speech and sets forth the demands of Social Democracy ; a style which gains much force in our comrade's spoken utterances from his giant voice and powerful personality.
'A Commune for London.' By H. M. Hyndman. A summary of the shameful and manifold abuses of metropolitan local government, drawn up in Mr. Hyndman's lucid and readable style, with intent to demonstrate the necessity of municipal reform on a broadly democratic basis. We utterly disbelieve that a representative Central Council elected by universal suffrage will make London much less of a hell for the mass of its inhabitants, unless its appointment is accompanied by wholesale expropriation of the appropriators of land and houses, and all other forms of social wealth; and then the relief will result from the expropriation not the Council. The real value of thin contribution to revolutionary literature lies not in the contents but in the title. Widely advertised, and noted by numbers who will never read another line of it, 'A Commune for London' supplies the English Socialist movement with a new watchword and a rousing battle-cry.
'The Deistic Pestilence,' price 1d., a somewhat halting English translation from the German of John Most. We doubt if the reproduction of this bitter tirade against Christian dogma, written many years ago, is likely to be of much service in freeing its readers' minds from the tyranny of the superstitions of today. The Secularist party and Freethinkers in general have carried on such an energetic war against the most crude and absurd dogmatic beliefs, and the results of scientific investigation have been so widely spread abroad, that the grosser forms of superstition have little hold upon the mass of English workers. The emotional element among them, now captivated by such agencies as the Salvation Army, cannot be satisfied by mere destructive criticism. The human craving for development and joy needs the appeal of a new social ideal of happy life to be attained upon earth to turn it from the old baseless dreams of heaven, which have always afforded so tempting an opportunity for the selfishness of despot and priest. The preaching of Anarchist Socialism is the best antidote to superstition.
Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism
Vol. 2 -- No. 20,
Source: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/journals/freedom/freedom2_20.html
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This material is the sole property of Scott Carle. You may not copy or reproduce it for any purpose without the permision of Scott Carle” ©1994
Orphan’s Star
Eleven planets and two asteroid belts silently orbited the sun in the hush after battle. Once verdant and green with great forests, wide plains, statuesque mountain ranges and huge oceans the fifth planet was now a wasteland. Craters covered its surface and its oceans had boiled away to small toxic lakes of hot mud. Magma and ashes were thrown high into the unbreathable atmosphere by immense volcanoes that erupted through cracks in the crust of the planet. On the night side of the planet a hazy glow could be seen that emitted from the very planet itself. A sinister light caused by the bombardment of the planet with tens of thousands of gigaton yield nuclear weapons. Where two moons used to orbit the planet there was forming a ring of broken rubble. Large chunks of the moons, some several cubic kilometers in size would in time gradually fall out of unstable orbits and impact the planet, continuing the destruction. In close orbit the remains of orbital factories, space docks, defense satellites and starships formed a dense shattered wasteland. A closer look at the debris would show not only the broken remains of the planetary defenses but also thousands of enemy warships shattered by the valiant if hopeless defense.
Hours after the more than 25,000 warships swept through the system trailing death and destruction, the silence was broken. From the debris of orbital factories with still intact sections came cries for help.
“Is anyone out there? May Day, May Day! Oh God someone please answer………”
Secret research installations on moons of the outer planets and asteroid belt sent out cautious queries.
“Tenek control this is Ifemas II……” came over a scrambled frequency. Then after a while, in a more desperate voice “This is Ifemas II addressing anyone listening. Is there anyone there?” over an unscrambled frequency.
“Dear God thank you! This is the Deneb Industries orbital platform…or what is left of it. We are running out of oxygen and power. You’ve got to come get us.”
“Deneb Industries, this is Ifemas II. What happened? What about Altair V ?”
More than a minute passed in silence, then “Ifemas II…I’m sorry…It’s….It’s gone” came back over the com in a broken voice. Almost 5 minutes passed in silence “Ifemas II, are you still there?”
Quietly “Yes.. we’re dispatching everything that can make it there. Hold on, we’ll be there as fast as we can. Listen for anyone else that might call for help.”
“Roger Ifemas II, we’re holding on.. and listening”
Thirty minutes later. “Altair Control this is the Indigo Run out of Spirus carrying cargo and passengers….”
As the hours passed, more and more radio transmissions crisscrossed the system as rescue ships from the outer planets and asteroids started to search for the few survivors, and starships called for traffic control as they dropped out of subspace. Few survivors were found and Altair’s orbital control no longer existed.
The first day of the Beta Sector territorial war the Klurian Commonwealth destroyed Altair 5 and its moons. Of the eight billion inhabitants, less than two million survived; students at universities on other planets, tourists vacationing off planet, business men and women off planet, embassy staff at Altairian Embassies throughout the empire, Altairian military personnel stationed with the empire’s armed forces on other planets, and hundreds of thousands of scientists and technicians at secret weapons research centers hidden on various moons around the outer planets of Altair’s sun. Altair 5 was one of the first targets attacked by the Klurians because it was the single biggest weapons producer in the empire. After it was destroyed, the Altairian embassy on Imperium, the capital of the empire, sent subspace messages that crisscrossed the empire and beyond to call for every able bodied Altairian man and women to assemble. Special dispensation had been given for the formation of the Altairian Guard (normally no planet was allowed to raise its own cohesive interplanetary fighting force). Of approx. two million survivors not a single person failed to volunteer, of these, 500,000 were accepted to fight as combat troops. Out of this 500,000 only about half of those first volunteers survived the war.
The people of the Empire will always honor the Altairian Guard for its ferocity and valor in battle. It carried the battle on many planets and in more than one space engagement. But emperors are a different creature altogether. Now with the war over what once was a military asset to be used was now a semi-autonomous military power unmatched in the galaxy, strong enough and tough enough to make anyone nervous. A power that makes emperors nervous is a power with problems.
In the first year of the war, a scientist speaking with a friend told about the results of his research in genetic recombination. That friend, a senator of the empire thought it important enough to approach the emperor. In less than two weeks time the scientist was installed in a lab with unlimited funds. He was no longer limited to working with animals and plants in his experiments, but now encouraged to develop specified traits in humans, traits designed to make the subjects super soldiers, assassins and spies all unmatched by ordinary humans. Eight years passed and the war ended. Nobody had expected it to end that quickly, so everyone was caught unprepared when the Klurian Commonwealth sued for peace. More than a hundred special children between the ages of six years and several months old now existed. Secrets that were easy to keep during a war become much harder to preserve in peace. The secret that he had been doing genetic experimentation with human DNA was not one the emperor wanted to get out.
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A Road Trip to the Oregon Coast Is the Perfect Weekend Getaway
A drive to the southern Oregon coast offers plenty of diversions, from wine to charming towns to elk watching
Danielle Centoni
Fall Road Trips
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue, as part of the Fall Road Trips cover story. Click here to subscribe.
We didn’t know what to expect when we rolled into Oakland, Oregon, a tiny town just a short hop off I-5 south of Cottage Grove. But we sure didn’t expect a gleaming lineup of vintage cars along the main drag, a margarita kiosk in the street, an avalanche of antique stores bringing back memories and an adorable bakery serving some of the best key lime pie we’ve ever had. We hadn’t been out of the car for more than five minutes and Oakland had charmed the dollars right out of our wallets.
This well-preserved historic town happened to be celebrating “Summer Fling,” a ’50s-themed street party and one of the many community events it puts on nearly every weekend from spring through summer. As we poked around in the shops, checked out the old-school soda fountain at Tolly’s and admired the beautifully preserved old buildings adorned with restored mural advertisements, we almost forgot this was supposed to be a pit stop, not a destination. Eventually, we pulled ourselves away and back into the car. We had a campsite on the coast to set up and we wanted to make sure we had plenty of time to savor the ride there.
Usually, we don’t relish long drives, but we were taking the gorgeous Umpqua River Scenic Byway out to the coast, a river-hugging 66-mile route steeped in pastoral Pacific Northwest beauty. It’s one of our favorite ways to reach the southern Oregon coast, whether we’re venturing to the “Banana Belt” south of Bandon, with its 200 days of sun and dramatic views from the Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor, or heading to the almost mythical landscape of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. It’s a drive that is actually relaxing, as the quiet, bucolic road, blessedly devoid of semi trucks, rolls past pastures, forests and the vineyards of the Umpqua Valley American Viticultural Area (AVA), with glimpses of anglers fishing for smallmouth bass and steelhead in the river.
The Umpqua River is a breathtaking sight along the drive. Photo courtesy of traveloregon.com
About a half hour after leaving Oakland, we were already in the cute town of Elkton. Although its population tops out at around 200, it has its own AVA, where cool-weather grape varieties like Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer and Riesling thrive. Brandborg Vineyard and Winery is perhaps the most wellknown among local wineries; its wines are on lists at some of the best restaurants in Portland, including Le Pigeon. Tasting rooms for Bradley Vineyards, Anindor Vineyards, River’s Edge Winery and Lexème Winery are big draws as well, just steps from the road. The kids, however, were much more interested in the Elkton Community Education Center, with its monarch butterfly pavilion, native plant gardens and historic Fort Umpqua interpretive center.
Monarch caterpillars live at the Elkton Community Education Center. Photo courtesy of Elkton Community Education Center
We continued on, heading west on Route 138 toward the coast until we reached the Dean Creek Elk Viewing Area, just before Reedsport, where the Umpqua River meets the Pacific Ocean. We pulled into the parking area and walked along the path, scouring the tall grasses until we saw signs of velvety antlers moving up and down as the giant beasts grazed.
Elk grazing near Reedsport
Back on the road, we made a beeline for the Eel Creek Campground, just a few miles south of Reedsport. Our cozy campsite offered the perfect jumping-off point for a weekend of dune adventures. ATV rentals and tours are nearby; the Umpqua Lighthouse is just up the road; and the John Dellenback Dunes Trail, which traverses undulating mountains of sand on its way to the ocean, starts at the campground. We’ve seen dunes before, but didn’t expect the otherworldly sea of sand that awaited us on the trail the next day. It seems the roads already traveled can still lead to surprises.
TO GET THERE
The northernmost portion of this trip is about a five-hour drive from Seattle.
Why we like it: The route crisscrosses and then hugs the wide and lovely Umpqua River the entire way, crossing over tributaries and cruising past recreation areas offering river access, if you have time for fishing or a quick dip.
Main attraction: The byway deposits travelers right in the heart of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, one of the most popular recreation areas in the state. Here you can choose your own adventure, with an array of campgrounds, ATV tours and rentals, hikes, quaint beach towns and lakes with boat and standup paddleboard rentals.
Don’t miss: The picturesque Rochester covered bridge is just a two-minute loop detour off the highway outside of Sutherlin. Take a right on Stearns Lane and follow the signs.
The Rochester covered bridge is just a short drive from Sutherlin
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Slovenian parliamentary election, 2014
Title: Slovenian parliamentary election, 2014
Subject: National Assembly (Slovenia), Slovenian European Union and NATO membership referendum, 2003, European Parliament election, 2014 (Slovenia), Slovenian parliamentary election, 2011, 2014 in Slovenia
All 90 seats to the National Assembly
46 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
Miro Cerar Janez Janša Karl Erjavec
SMC SDS DeSUS
New 26 seats, 26.19% 6 seats, 6.97%
Seats won
Seat change
New 5 4
Popular vote
298,342 178,294 88,026
Prime Minister before election
A parliamentary election for the 90 deputies to the National Assembly of Slovenia was held on 13 July 2014.[1] The early election, less than three years after the previous one, was called following the resignation of Alenka Bratušek's government in May. Seventeen parties participated, including seven new parties, some of which formed only months before the election took place. Party of Miro Cerar (SMC), a new party led by lawyer and professor Miro Cerar, won the election with over 34% of the vote and 36 seats. Seven political parties won seats in the National Assembly. Three political parties left the Assembly, including Zoran Janković's Positive Slovenia, the winner of the 2011 election. A leftist United Left party entered the Assembly for the first time, winning six seats.
2 Opinion polls
After the last election in 2011, a right-leaning five-party coalition government was formed, composing of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), Civic List (DL), Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS), Slovenian People's Party (SLS), and New Slovenia (NSi.)[2] Janez Janša, the president of the SDS, became Prime Minister.[2] Janša's government collapsed on 27 February 2013 after he was accused of corruption.[3] Janša was later sentenced to 2 years in prison, and fined €37,000.[4]
A new government was formed by Positive Slovenia (PS), the Social Democrats (SD), DL, and DeSUS.[5] PS leader Alenka Bratušek became Prime Minister.[5] On 25 April 2014, congress of Pozitivna Slovenija was held in Brdo pri Kranju. The main agenda was the election of the next president of the party. Two candidates applied for the post: previous president Zoran Janković and the incumbent Alenka Bratušek. Coalition parties SD, DL and DeSUS have threatened to leave the government if Jankovič were elected. Janković was indeed elected,[6] triggering Bratušek's formal resignation as the PM on 5 May.[7]
On 1 June 2014 president of Slovenia Borut Pahor announced the dissolution of the Assembly on 2 June and that the election would take place on 13 July.[1] Pahor's decision to call the election during a summer month triggered some opposition from civil initiatives,[8] however, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia backed the election date.[9][10]
Several new political parties entered the election, including Party of Miro Cerar (SMC) which was formally established on 2 June,[11] and Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (ZaAB), a splinter party from Positive Slovenia, that was established on 31 May.[12] United Left, Verjamem, and the Pirate Party took place for the first time in the European Parliament election on 25 May and participated in the national election as well.[13][14] Solidarity Party agreed to enter the election together with Social Democrats,[15] which earlier entered into an alliance with DeSUS, albeit with separate candidates lists.[16]
Janez Janša began serving his two-year prison sentence on 20 June,[17] which, according to the media, influenced the campaign of his party.[18]
Poll results are listed in the table below in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded. The lead column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the two parties with the highest figures. Poll results use the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. However, if such date is unknown, the date of publication will be given instead.
Polling Firm
13 Jul Election Results 34.5 3.0 20.7 6.0 0.6 10.2 4.0 5.6 6.0 4.4 5.8 13.8
13 Jul (19:00) Mediana 36.9 2.8 19.2 5.8 0.6 9.7 3.3 5.4 7.1 4.7 4.5 17.7
9–11 Jul Ninamedia[1] 31.0 3.3 26.1 8.8 — 11.5 3.5 3.5 3.9 4.4 3.9 4.9
5–11 Jul Episcentra 33.4 1.5 21.3 9.3 0.1 10.3 4.2 6.3 4.2 5.9 3.6 12.1
7–10 Jul Mediana 32.4 4.0 23.7 5.9 0.8 12.2 3.7 5.7 2.9 3.0 6.2 8.7
2–9 Jul Episcentra 33.6 1.2 24.0 8.2 0.2 10.5 4.5 6.1 2.7 5.4 3.3 9.6
6–8 Jul Ninamedia[1] 31.8 2.4 24.9 6.7 0.2 13.4 3.5 4.5 2.9 4.0 5.7 6.9
30 Jun–8 Jul Episcentra 34.5 1.9 25.5 6.9 0.4 9.8 4.3 5.4 2.5 5.0 4.0 9.0
30 Jun–5 Jul Episcentra 36.8 2.4 25.0 7.3 0.2 9.1 4.7 5.0 1.3 4.1 4.1 11.8
2–3 Jul RM Plus[1] 33.3 3.1 28.1 5.5 0.2 8.7 2.2 7.1 2.2 3.5 3.0 5.2
30 Jun–1 Jul UvNG 37.3 2.3 24.5 9.6 0.6 10.6 2.9 4.4 2.8 2.0 2.8 12.8
25–28 Jun Episcentra 37.9 3.3 25.0 5.9 0.0 9.6 5.2 5.1 1.6 2.7 5.3 12.9
23–26 Jun Mediana 33.9 — 20.6 10.5 <1.5 8.4 5.1 3.3 2.7 4.8 >9.2 13.3
22–25 Jun Ninamedia 31.2 3.8 29.5 8.7 0.9 7.2 3.0 6.5 2.6 3.6 3.0 1.7
9–14 Jun Episcentra[1] 35.2 2.0 23.6 8.1 0.7 8.4 3.2 6.8 2.8 2.5 6.6 11.6
10–11 Jun Mediana[1] 30.0 3.3 23.4 10.9 1.1 9.2 5.1 5.1 2.2 2.5 7.5 6.6
25 May EP Election — 6.6 24.8 8.1 1.1 8.1 16.6 5.5 — 29.2 8.2
15–17 Apr Ninamedia[1] — 12.7 26.7 27.4 3.2 10.4 5.9 7.2 0.7 — 5.7 0.7
8–16 Apr Episcentra[1] — 8.3 24.7 24.2 2.1 5.0 5.8 6.9 4.2[2] — 18.9 0.5
18–20 Mar Ninamedia[1] — 9.6 29.8 23.8 2.3 10.9 5.4 6.9 4.0 — 7.3 6.0
14–19 Mar Episcentra[1] — 5.7 23.8 24.0 5.5 8.0 4.2 8.4 5.9[2] — 14.6 0.2
18–20 Feb Ninamedia[1] — 11.1 24.4 23.3 2.6 15.9 7.4 9.4 — — 6.2 1.1
10–14 Feb FUDŠ[1] — 12.5 25.7 21.4 2.0 14.2 4.0 4.3 — — 16.1 4.3
24–26 Jan RM Plus[1] — 18.9 30.6 20.2 2.3 9.7 3.8 5.1 — — 9.4 10.4
13–22 Jan Episcentra[1] — 8.2 16.6 26.6 3.0 9.7 6.9 6.0 — — 22.9 10.0
14–16 Jan Ninamedia[1] — 15.0 20.9 26.7 3.4 12.2 6.8 9.0 — — 6.2 5.8
13–16 Jan Slovenian Beat[1] — 14.2 19.9 23.3 1.0 7.4 3.4 7.8 — — 22.9 3.4
20–21 Dec RM Plus[1] — 12.6 32.0 18.5 3.9 11.5 2.8 7.0 — — 11.8 13.5
9–17 Dec Episcentra[1] — 8.5 17.7 28.4 2.3 9.0 4.2 8.9 — — 21.2 10.7
4 Dec 2011 Election Results — 28.5 26.2 10.5 8.4 7.0 6.8 4.9 — — 7.7 2.3
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s This survey shows its poll results without disregarding those who are undecided or said they will abstain from voting (either physically or by voting blank). In order to obtain results comparable to other surveys and the official election results, the result shown in this table will be that obtained, with a simple rule of three, from disregarding undecided and/or abstaining voters from the totals offered in the survey.
^ a b As the sum of its constituent parties.
The Party of Miro Cerar (SMC) won a plurality in the election by a large margin with 36 seats. The only party that managed to win a higher percentage of the votes was Janez Drnovšek's Liberal Democracy of Slovenia at the 2000 election.[19] Janša's Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) came second, losing 5 seats in comparison with the 2011 election. The difference between the first two parties turned out to be higher than most of opinion polls predicted. DeSUS placed third with 10 seats, the best result in party's history. United Left won 6 seats, with tracking polls showing gaining the momentum in the last days before the election.[20] The Social Democrats lost 4 seats and obtained their worst election result.[21] New Slovenia won an additional mandate and the Alliance of Alenka Bratušek managed to win 4 seats. The Slovenian People's Party, Positive Slovenia (the winner of the 2011 election), and Civic List all failed to retain seats in the Assembly. All other parties also failed to reach the 4% threshold. Turnout was slightly below 51%, the lowest since Slovenian independence.[22] On the other hand, a record 3.9% of voters voted in the early election.[23]
In accordance with the Constitution of Slovenia, two seats are allocated to the Italian and Hungarian national communities, with one representative given to each community. Members of the Italian community elected Roberto Battelli as their representative, and members of the Hungarian community elected László Göncz. They were the sole candidates.[24]
Following the results, Miro Cerar (the likely new Prime Minister[25]) stated he perceives the large public support as a responsibility. He said he was open to enter coalition talks with all parties, except the SDS, which is "directly undermining the rule of legal institutions".[26] Zvonko Černač of SDS said in his first reaction that the party considers the election result as illegitimate, since the party president was in prison for corruption after what SDS considered a politically motivated process.[27] Karl Erjavec of DeSUS stated that the party is ready to enter the coalition talks and that they will protect the pension funds. United Left, which was positively surprised by their result, stated that they are willing to participate in a government, although they won't compromise on their political programme.[26] Dejan Židan of the Social Democrats was disappointed with the results, saying he had expected SD to score higher. New Slovenia and ZaAB both perceived their results as a success. Franc Bogovič of the Slovenian People's Party was surprised by the fact that the party missed the required 4% of the vote, albeit only barely, and stated that he will not run for the party president at the congress.[26]
International media noted that the winner of the election is a political newcomer and that his success is "punishment by voters for the traditional parties, tarnished by corruption scandals and years of economic turmoil".[28] Cerar was seen as a politician untarnished by the corruption scandals.[29] Media also noted that Cerar opposes selling controlling stakes of strategic infrastructure, such as telecoms provider Telekom Slovenia and the international airport, Aerodrom Ljubljana, and stressed that one of his main tasks will be to reduce the national budget deficit.[28] Croatian media drew parallels between Cerar and Drnovšek, hoping that Cerar will return political culture, tolerance, and mutual respect into Slovenian politics.[28][30] Jutarnji List saw the main reason for the defeat of SDS in the fact that the party has relied too much on the imprisoned party president.[28] The Wall Street Journal stated that the most likely coalition partners would be the Social Democrats and DeSUS[31] while Slovenian journal Finance suggested that the best coalition would be with the Social Democrats, New Slovenia, and ZaAB.[32] A coalition government of SMC, DeSUS and the Social Democrats was formed in September.
Summary of the 13 July 2014 National Assembly election results in Slovenia
±pp
Elect.
Party of Miro Cerar (SMC) 301,563 34.49 New 36 New
Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) 181,052 20.71 -5.48 21 −5
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) 88,968 10.18 +3.21 10 +4
Social Democrats (SD) 52,249 5.98 −4.54 6 −4
United Left (ZL) 52,189 5.97 New 6 New
New Slovenia (NSi) 48,846 5.59 +0.74 5 +1
Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (ZaAB) 38,293 4.38 New 4 New
Slovenian People's Party (SLS) 34,548 3.95 −2.88 0 −6
Positive Slovenia (PS) 25,975 2.97 −25.54 0 −28
Slovenian National Party (SNS) 19,218 2.20 +0.40 0 ±0
Slovenian Pirate Party (PSS) 11,737 1.34 New 0 New
Verjamem (VERJAMEM) 6,800 0.78 New 0 New
Civic List (DL) 5,556 0.64 −7.73 0 −8
Greens of Slovenia (ZS) 4,629 0.53 +0.17 0 ±0
Equal Land - Forward Slovenia (ED-NS) 2,125 0.24 New 0 New
Economically Liberal Party (LGS) 458 0.05 New 0 New
Party of Humane Slovenia (SHS) 85 0.01 −0.02 0 ±0
Hungarian and Italian minorities 2 ±0
Total 885,860 100.00 90 ±0
Valid votes 874,291 98.70 98.69%
Invalid / blank votes 11,569 1.31 −0.41
Votes cast / turnout 885,860 51.73 −13.87
Abstentions 827,207 48.27 +13.87
Registered voters 1,713,067
Source: Ministry of the Interior (100.00% counted.)
Vote share
Parliamentary seats
^ Znotraj DZ-ja jasna podpora, zunaj njega odzivi mešani :: Prvi interaktivni multimedijski portal, MMC RTV Slovenija
^ BBC News – Ex-Slovenian PM Janez Jansa convicted of corruption
^ a b c d
Elections and referendums in Slovenia
Parliamentary elections
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2003 (Mar)
2003 (Sep)
2010 (Jun)
2010 (Dec)
2011 (Apr)
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Elections in Slovenia
2014 in Slovenia
2014 elections in Europe
Italy, Austria, Croatia, European Union, Serbia
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European Parliament, Politics of Slovenia, Zoran Janković (politician), Politics, Liberalism
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Sri Lanka could be the only country with preferential access to India, China and Europe, provided we have GSP and finalise negotiations with China and India
Without export transformation, Sri Lanka will not be able to achieve its potential growth rate. Exports are the only way to reach 6% -7% GDP growth, says Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajith Coomaraswamy.
Increasing revenue through exports is the only way out from the debt position the country is trapped in now. “We can raise money and do our best for the country. But that is merely buying time – not solving the problem. That is the way to buy time and create space for the exporters to do their work,” he told a CEOs meeting organised by the National Chamber of Exporters last week. “Now it is up to the government to create a policy framework by giving a competitive exchange rate.”
Para tariff is one of the issues why we have not been able to penetrate regional and global supply chain which is the most dynamic component of the international trading system. When there’s para tariff between exports and imports you are not competitive. The government is taking off a lot of para tariff and with para tariff being eliminated the exporters will be able to plug into regional and global supply chains more aggressively and be a part of cross border production networks,” he added. It is encouraging that in 2017 and 2018 in absolute terms exports reached record levels and the export sector is improving. However, the sector needs to speed up while the government should show more consistency and predictability in terms of providing policy framework to build the economy, Dr. Coomaraswamy said.
The governor told the exporters to look at the massive potential in terms of markets, supply chains and regional and global production networks.
“Our potential is huge. That’s why people are going to lend 10-year money to us even now, despite all other issues. They look at the potential of the country and the access we have to large growing economies within 20 miles, access to Middle East, ASEAN, East Africa and China. We are also sitting on China’s Silk Route.”
Exports came down from 32% of GDP in 2000 to 12-13% of GDP in 2014/15. Today, Export performance is improving and the National Export Strategy (NES) would further encourage exporters to step up their exports. “In my view it is a good one. The government’s trade policy and trade agreements are encouraging. I am a big fan of trade agreements. I still have difficulty in understanding why people have such a problem with it. I mean they need to be negotiated very, very vigorously to ensure that our interests are met.”
“The Singapore Agreement is one of the best agreements a South Asian country has made. “But we have problems with it. I still have not seen anything in the agreement to say that professionals are coming. May be I am not reading it properly,” he said. He said that the discussions on trade policies and agreements should be based on evidence and facts and emotions should be kept out.
If Sri Lanka is able to complete the negotiations with China and also able to improve the goods, services and investments agreement with India, Sri Lanka would be the only country with preferential access to India, China and Europe under GSP. “Hope we will not lose GSP,” he added.
“Provided we have GSP and complete negotiations with China, there is no other country with preferential access to those three markets and there are a very few countries in the world with the location advantages we have,” he said.
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a BSD-licensed platform for games and virtual worlds
Application-Level (Addon) Messaging in World of Warcraft
Jeff Terrace
[This is a cross-post from Princeton S* Network Systems (SNS)‘s Dirty Slate Design Blog]
I’m currently working on a project called Sirikata, an open, programmable, scalable, secure, and extensible virtual world.
One aspect of this virtual environment is application-level messaging. Users can create objects in our world, and these objects can communicate with each other. To get an idea of what application-level messaging looks like, we wanted to take a look at one of the world’s biggest virtual worlds: World of Warcraft (WoW).
In WoW, users can create an “Addon”: a user-interface modification component that can add enhancements to the game. To communicate, these addons (written in Lua) have access to a function called SendAddonMessage.
WoW SendAddonMessage Function
Sends a message to the hidden addon channel.
SendAddonMessage("prefix", "text", "type", "target")
prefix: String – Message prefix, can be used as your addon identifier.
text: String – Text to send.
type: String – AddOn channel to send to. Valid types are “PARTY”, “RAID”, “GUILD”, “BATTLEGROUND”, “WHISPER”.
target: String – Used only for “WHISPER” communication – the player to whisper to.
SendAddonMessage( "CTRA", "User Data: XYZ", "RAID" );
Calling this function results in the event CHAT_MSG_ADDON being invoked on:
<target>’s client if <type> is “WHISPER” or
all clients in the <type> chat channel, otherwise
The combined length of message and prefix can be at most 254 characters (255th is the tab character used to delimit the two)
Length above 254 will disconnect you.
Example Addons
EPGP
EPGP is an Effort/Gear reward system and addon for World of Warcraft.
It is a DKP system, described below:
Dragon kill points or DKP are a semi-formal score-keeping system (loot system) used by guilds in massively multiplayer online games. Players in these games are faced with large scale challenges, or raids, which may only be surmounted through the concerted effort of dozens of players at a time. While many players may be involved in defeating a boss, the boss will reward the group with only a small number of items desired by the players. Faced with this scarcity, some system of fairly distributing the items must be established. Used originally in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Everquest, dragon kill points are points that are awarded to players for defeating bosses and redeemed for items that those bosses would ‘drop’. At the time most of the bosses faced by the players were dragons, hence the name.
EPGP uses the messaging system to send information between users of the addon about the values of loot. For example, if an item drops for the first time, the “loot master” might assign a value to the item. This value is then shared with other people using the epgp addon.
small message size
very infrequently sent
must be delivered
Gatherer is an addon for herbalists, miners and treasure hunters in World of Warcraft. It’s main purpose is to track the closest plants, deposits and treasure locations on your minimap.
In WoW, players can gather resources. The resources are spread across the world and spawn in what seems to be a randomized fashion. In fact, though, the spawn locations are actually preset, so this addon tracks the location where users find resources to make it easier to find later.
Gatherer uses the messaging system to share the location of found resources between players. For example, when you find a resource, you can have it automatically share the location with your guild members. This way, if many people in your guild use the addon, you will get a nice compiled database of resource locations.
medium send frequency
not important if messages are delayed
not important if some messages are completely lost
Recount is a graphical damage meter.
In WoW, players fight bad guys. To do this, they have to deal damage. A metric for evaluating players is to look at the amount of damage they deal per second (DPS).
Every action that players within your party take is logged, which includes actions that result in damage being dealt. However, you only get log information for players that are within a short range of you. Because of this, in some encounters, some players might be too far away from you for their actions to be logged.
To make the meter more accurate, Recount uses the messaging system to aggregate logging data about damage being done.
Medium size messages
Heavy traffic load during encounters (about 10 seconds to 6 minutes)
Latency effects instantaneous accuracy during an encounter
Syncing algorithm still works if some messages are lost
To study WoW, I wrote an AddOn called AppMsgLogger. This AddOn collects three pieces of information:
A timestamp every time the user logs in or out
For every addon message received (the CHAT_MSG_ADDON event), a timestamp, the zone the user is in, the channel it was received on (PARTY, GUILD, RAID, etc), and the length of the message in bytes
A list of the AddOns the user is running
I had several players run this AddOn for me and send me the data they collected. As a result, I have data consisting of 49 hours of time played across eight players.
Out of the 173,456 messages received, here is the breakdown of the channel they were sent on:
Battleground: 262 (0.15%)
Whisper: 1,240 (0.71%)
Party: 3,185 (1.84%)
Guild: 21,439 (12.36%)
Raid: 147,330 (84.94%)
So, only less than 1% of the traffic is unicast (Whisper) while the majority is broadcast traffic related to combat (Raid) and social organization (Guild).
Next, I wanted to look at the breakdown of message size. Here’s a histogram plotting message size frequency:
You can see in this histogram that the vast majority of messages are small (< 50 bytes), with a small cluster of messages near the maximum size of 254 bytes. This is probably because most addons use a library called AceComm which splits messages longer than 254 bytes into multiple messages.
Next, I wanted to see the distribution of messages across the different addons sending them. I matched each prefix string to its corresponding addon and plotted their message frequency:
Note the log-log scale. What we see here is that a small number of addons send the majority of messages, with a long tail of addons that send a very small number of messages.
Next, I wanted to look at how bursty the message traffic was. To get an idea, I took a single user’s 24-hour play time (over multiple sessions), strung it together, and calculated the average byte rate of each 1-minute interval (click for full size).
What you can see in this graph is that there is considerable variability: some periods show a high rate (up to 14 Kbit/s) while others show a rate of almost zero.
To put these numbers in context, I added a background color that alternates every time the user switched zones. For zones that were longer than 10 minutes, I also added the name of the zone in the center of its colored region. As expected, high-rate periods are seen during raids (Icecrown) while the user was engaged in combat. Low-rate periods are seen when the user was presumably idling in capital cities (Orgrimmar, Dalaran).
The last thing I wanted to see was what percentage of messages were wasteful. Since messages are broadcast to their corresponding channels (GUILD, RAID, etc), users in the channel will receive all messages sent to the channel regardless of whether they have an addon actually listening to a given prefix string. Since I had a mapping of prefixes to the sending addon, I calculated the percentage of messages that were received by each user with a prefix string for an addon that the user wasn’t currently running. The percentages for the users that I collected data from are as follows: 58.9%, 28.2%, 15.9%, 12.6%, 9.5%, 86.1%, 83.9%, 17.0%. Since the sample size is low and variability is high, I’d be hesitant to draw any conclusions from those numbers, but it leads me to believe that a significant amount of traffic that is broadcast is wasteful.
I hope you’ve found this analysis useful. We’ll be using some of this information as we continue to design and implement Sirikata.
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End HIV-related discrimination in schools
Sheonaidh Johnston
Posted on: November 24 2008, 02:11 pm
This World AIDS Day NAT has launched a campaign to end HIV-related discrimination in schools. We have uncovered worrying cases from around the country of children being excluded or refused places at a school solely because they are HIV-positive. We've also heard from HIV-positive teachers who have had their confidentiality broken and been discriminated against.
We want to see an end to this. Schools often don't mean to discriminate, they just don't know what to do when someone discloses their, or their child's, HIV status to them. They may not realise that having a child or teacher living with HIV at school poses no risk and that their actions are against the law. That's why we are calling on the Government to ensure schools have the information they need about HIV and how to support HIV-positive children and staff, to make sure discrimination does not happen.
We are asking the Government to:
1. Provide schools with specific guidance on their responsibilities not to discriminate against people living with HIV under the Disability Discrimination Act 2005
2. Ensure schools are maintaining the confidentiality of HIV-positive pupils and staff members
3. Provide comprehensive sex and relationship education in schools that includes the facts about HIV and teaches young people to be supportive and non-discriminatory of those living with HIV.
Add your voice to our campaign by signing our petition to the Prime Minister. Go to http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/HIVinSchools/
Please forward this on to others and help us put an end to HIV prejudice.
Find out more about our campaigns: http://www.worldaidsday.org/get-involved/campaign.aspx
Kingsley Oturu
Re: End HIV-related discrimination in schools
Reply #1 on: November 24 2008, 04:27 pm
I think its terrible that people have to disclose their status to schools. It just helps in allowing them to be further discriminated against and ostracised.
Hi. Just to clarify that people don't have to disclose their status to schools and many choose not to do so because of worries about discrimination. We don't think anyone should have to disclose their status, but we do want to ensure if they choose to do so they are met with support and not discrimination. It's appalling that schools are still refusing places to HIV-positive children in 2008. I thought that was a relic of the 80s!
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Focus on Process, Present and Play for 2020
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Verve invites you to focus on three Ps in 2020: Process. Present. Play.
First, your PROCESS (aka technique) has to be solid. Do you know what you are doing and how you are doing it? Are you deeply working your Role Prep and 7 Steps?
Second, be PRESENT when you are working. Once you have started rehearsing, focus on being present in the moment and the work.
Third, PLAY. Acting is alive and active. Have some fun and play while you are rehearsing. Let go and let it live.
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Elena Orlenova has had many exhibits of her work which have included the Bass Concert Hall at University of Texas and Lost Pines Art Center. She works in paint, illustrations, silk art and murals. Her artwork is inspired by many of the writings of her mother, a published poet. She also specializes in photo-realistic oil paintings of scenes nature which capture the spectacular up close detail.
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A blog on the Singapore and Malaysian automotive industry. Includes test drives, reviews, previews, motoring tech articles and automobile howtos
Scirocco GTS
Some cars live for ever because they are constantly reinvented. The Scirocco, a pure-bred European sports car, is one of these cars that is forever young. Presented at the 1974 Geneva Motor Show, 41 years ago, it became an icon of compact German coupés. The car caught the spirit of the age: over a million units of the Scirocco have been produced since then. Last summer a comprehensively refined generation of the sports car was launched, featuring, among other things, a completely new range of engines. Building on this, Volkswagen unveils the new Scirocco GTS - a sports car with 162 kW / 220 PS - in a world premiere at Auto Shanghai. Its engine is one of the most popular in the Scirocco range because it is sharing its design genes with the engine of the Golf GTI. A turbocharged direct-injection petrol engine that is recognised as being one of the most agile four-cylinder engines in the world. It catapults the Scirocco GTS - either with a manual gearbox or with the 6-speed DSG - to 100 km/h in just 6.5 seconds. Top speed: 246 km/h (DSG: 244 km/h). The average fuel consumption shows just how efficient the engine of the Scirocco is: just 6.1 l/100 km with a manual gearbox and similarly economical at 6.4 l/100 km with a DSG gearbox.
A legendary predecessor
The first GTS was launched in 1982. There has been a Scirocco GTS before, in 1982, and that coupé was also related to the Golf GTI of its time, both technically and visually. The Scirocco was recognisable by a strikingly designed GTS stripe (which ran all round the silhouette of the car just above the sill), its distinctive sport seats and a gear knob in golf ball design. The GTI had the same sport seats (with different upholstery) and the golf ball gear knob. Today, the situation is similar. The new Scirocco GTS will be launched in Europe at the end of May, with China following in the summer. This marks the comeback of an icon, a straight-forward, mighty fast and exclusively-equipped sports car.
GTS exterior
The Scirocco GTS will be equipped as standard with new 18-inch "Norwich" alloy wheels; the popular 19-inch "Lugano" alloy wheels will be available as an option. The red brake callipers of the GTS can be seen through the spokes of both of these wheel options. In addition, the Scirocco GTS comes with the R-Line package "Exterieur" as standard, which includes distinctive R-style bumpers (at the front with integrated fog lamps and glossy black radiator and air inlet grilles), custom side sill extensions, a roof spoiler (also R-style) and a diffuser. The wing mirror caps are painted in stylish black and, just like its predecessor, the '82 Scirocco GTS, the new model can be ordered with a sporty GTS decal for the body as an option (standard in China). This option features two decorative red stripes that run centrally from the bonnet over the roof and the boot (if the car is painted in "Flash Red" the stripes are black). The new Scirocco is also enhanced by 3D GTS logos in the radiator grille and on the tailgate. The Scirocco GTS can be ordered in six colours: "Deep Black", "Indium Grey", "Urano Grey", "Pure White", "Oryx White" and, as already mentioned, "Flash Red".
GTS interior
The interior of the Scirocco GTS is also customised, of course, and dominated by the sporty colours black and red. The customisation includes:
Decorative inlays in "Piano Black Lacquer " in the centre console and the applications on the dashboard
GTS badges on the sill panel mouldings
Customised sports steering wheel with red seams and the lower spoke finished in "Black Piano Lacquer" (with the GTS logo)
Pedals in stainless steel
Seat covers with centre panels made of a new material (with the GTS logo at the top of the backrest) and red decorative stitching
GTS package also includes the legendary golf ball gear knob
Chrome trim package (for the wing mirror and electric window switches)
Air vents and inside door handles in "Black Piano Lacquer"
Contrasting red seams for the safety belts, the handbrake lever, the gear lever gaiter, the central armrest and the floor mats
Modular infotainment matrix (MIB)
Also included as standard: The "Composition Colour" infotainment system, available for the first time in the Scirocco. This marks the debut of the second generation of the modular infotainment matrix (MIB II) in this series of sports cars.
Tailor-made customisation
As an option, the Scirocco GTS can also be ordered with black "Vienna" leather upholstery; here again the seats are customised with decorative red seams. Volkswagen also offers features such as the transparent panoramic tilt sunroof, bi-xenon headlights, a multifunction steering wheel and - as previously mentioned - the new MIB II radio navigation systems. In China the leather interior and the panoramic tilt sunroof come as standard.
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The Rachel Maddow Show : MSNBCW : November 25, 2015 6:00pm-7:01pm PST
you and your family, chris. >> you, too. >> thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. great to be with you. on the eve of the holiday break, i should tell that you as you could just tell, chris hayes was doing his show live after my show tonight, lawrence o'donnell is also going to be here live, so, officially, i know that we are sort of -- nearing the holiday break, but your holiday break does not start until after lawrence's live show is over tonight. so, buckle in. this is sometime technically part of a school night, which makes me all the more happy that you're here. in 2004, our friend al sharpton, who now works here at msnbc, al has a show here sunday mornings at msnbc, al sharpton as you may remember in 2004, he ran for the democratic nomination for president of the united states that year. al sharpton did not win that nomination, but his campaign was a hoot. and every debate he was in was a better debate and a lot more fun because he was in it. and during his campaign for the presidency in 2004, the reverend al sharpton was asked to host "saturday night live." and he said
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democratic party since 2008. and counting. a man named chris hayes today called this phenomenon and i quote, the absolute december mags of local democratic parties in red states in the obama era. absolute december mags? really? joining us now is that man, chris hayes. >> not the decimater. >> chronicler of it. >> absolutely decimation? >> i don't think that's an overstatement. i think that, well, so there's bunch of things happening, right? there's a partisan geographical realignment about the south and the south turning over to the republican party. the once solid democratic south. taken a very long time to get there. my favorite example of how long it's taken is kim davis was a democrat -- >> yes. >> until this whole thing went down, why a democrat? a local party machine that got her essentially elected with us a democratic machine and it hadn't been there since the civil war. right? so it has taken a long time and some ways that's not anyone's fault. that's kind of makes sense. i mean, the south is a conservative place. the republicans is a conservative party. kim davis should be a
democratic party since 2008. and counting. a man named chris hayes today called this phenomenon and i quote, the absolute december mags of local democratic parties in red states in the obama era. absolute december mags? really? joining us now is that man, chris hayes. >> not the decimater. >> chronicler of it. >> absolutely decimation? >> i don't think that's an overstatement. i think that, well, so there's bunch of things happening, right? there's a partisan...
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KCRG TV9 First News : KCRG : October 22, 2015 4:30am-5:00am CDT
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some parents are regretting the iowa city school board decision to alert parents about any school threat. one school has had three notifications since last week. not that long ago, at a theater not far away, ultimate movie marathon. and fans prepare for a 17 and half hour journey. good thursday morning! its 430 on october 22nd. here is a live look at . first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a pretty decent thursday. it'll be cooler than yesterday, but we won't be dodging thunderstorms again. plan on highs into the 60-65 range from north to south. our next focus remains on the storm system set to affect our weather from friday afternoon into the evening. this will be a widespread rain, with amounts of 0.25" to 0.50" likely. plan on wet football in the area for friday night! this system will be moving out just in time for the weekend with highs remaining in the 60s and lows dipping down to the upper 30s saturday night. today: partly cloudy high: 61-67 winds: e 5-10 alo: 65 dbq: 64 iow: 65tonight: mostly cloudy low: 49-55 winds: e 10-15 alo: 52
some parents are regretting the iowa city school board decision to alert parents about any school threat. one school has had three notifications since last week. not that long ago, at a theater not far away, ultimate movie marathon. and fans prepare for a 17 and half hour journey. good thursday morning! its 430 on october 22nd. here is a live look at . first, meteorologis t kaj o'mara has your first alert forecast, kaj... plan on a pretty decent thursday. it'll be cooler than yesterday, but we...
KWWL News at Ten : KWWL : October 24, 2015 10:00pm-10:28pm CDT
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voters' questions at the candidate honest assessment summit. both cuz and jindal say iowa votrs are asking for change. ted cruziow voters are facing the same challenges tat men woman across this country are, which is what we are doing isn't working. we are wages have stagnated for 20 years. working men and woman have been hammer here in iowa." bobbyjindal "voters are so republican leadadrs say one tting and then do an other when they get elected. whether its planned parenthood, whether its growning dependence on government, whether its a foreign policy or america won't stand with israel, people arefrustrated." mike huckabeeeedidn't give a specific answer to what iowa voters were asking for but says because he has been on the ground here in iowa - - he knows iowan you off in the eye, and they ant to ask you hard questioos. they don't want to let you get away with some pat political answer." in waterloo . . .jessica hartman kwwl news. at the summit -- the candidates answer questions ranging from their stae on abortion -- including how they would handle isis. meanwhile on the democrati
voters' questions at the candidate honest assessment summit. both cuz and jindal say iowa votrs are asking for change. ted cruziow voters are facing the same challenges tat men woman across this country are, which is what we are doing isn't working. we are wages have stagnated for 20 years. working men and woman have been hammer here in iowa." bobbyjindal "voters are so republican leadadrs say one tting and then do an other when they get elected. whether its planned parenthood,...
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Local News at Ten : WOI : October 23, 2015 10:00pm-10:35pm CDT
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. across the river over to hy-vee hall jackson dinner. not to mention the iowa wild game later that evening at wells fargo arena. simply put ... police say to prepare for road closures and lots of traffic. --- police also advise if you do plan on coming to the rally tomorrow ... get here early, use the parking ramps ... and prepare to walk. we have a list of all the road closures and details on both rallies in des moines kattey ortiz for local five news we are iowa. jack: we'll have details about the jefferson jackson dinner and who'll be there in your local election headquarters later in the news. later in the news. stephanie: new tonight at 10...a kidnapping and sexual assault investigation comes to a close two months later. stephanie: marshalltown police arrested the man they say sexually abused a young girl during a reception at the impala ballroom back on august 16th. in september they searched a possible subjects home and cross checked the dna, those results came back positive last week. that's when detectives went searching for victor angel- garcia. he was arrested this afternoon aft
. across the river over to hy-vee hall jackson dinner. not to mention the iowa wild game later that evening at wells fargo arena. simply put ... police say to prepare for road closures and lots of traffic. --- police also advise if you do plan on coming to the rally tomorrow ... get here early, use the parking ramps ... and prepare to walk. we have a list of all the road closures and details on both rallies in des moines kattey ortiz for local five news we are iowa. jack: we'll have details...
KCCI 8 News at Five : KCCI : October 22, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm CDT
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losing his appeal here in iowa? for the first time, ben carson tops trump in a new republican presidential poll. kcci chief political reporter cynthia fodor is live in studio with the story. cynthia: steve, no other poll has had trump down by 8 points since the real estate iowa this summer. it's ben carson's turn in the spotlight. the quinnipiac university poll shows carson with 28% support. donald trump, 20%. marco rubio, 13%. ted cruz, 10%. all other candidates in single digits. dr. carson: well, you know, it's one poll. so, when we've had several of them then i might get a little more excited. it is nice to know that people are actually listening to what i'm saying as opposed to how it's being reinterpreted. cynthia: women are especially listening, giving the doctor a lead of 33-13% for trump. men are divided as 25% back carson and 24% go with trump. >> at this point we don't know if this is a meaningful development or the next chapter in our flavor of the month series. the question now, is he emerging as a clear leader or is he a cynthia: carson seems to be a clear leader
losing his appeal here in iowa? for the first time, ben carson tops trump in a new republican presidential poll. kcci chief political reporter cynthia fodor is live in studio with the story. cynthia: steve, no other poll has had trump down by 8 points since the real estate iowa this summer. it's ben carson's turn in the spotlight. the quinnipiac university poll shows carson with 28% support. donald trump, 20%. marco rubio, 13%. ted cruz, 10%. all other candidates in single digits. dr. carson:...
Channel 13 News at 6 : WHO : October 21, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm CDT
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should run on the record. " there were people here in iowa that were hoping biden would enter the race for president... some went as far as to create a 90 second ad trying to get him to run. political director dave price joins us now to talk about what the vice president's announcement mean for those people? this draft biden movement ran ads across the country. supporters didn't want what some felt was a coronation for hillary clinton to the nomination. so they ran ads to build momentum for a biden run and publicly push the vice president. 1:22 you never quit on america and you deserve a president that will never quit on you 1:29 the ads got attention. and biden many iowa democrats. but there was a political reality to this. most top party operatives were already taken by other campaigns. many insiders doubted biden had a realistic path to victory. it's pretty late in the game to start a campaign. the vice president last ran in 2008...and didn't have a ready made organization put together that he could activate in a moment's notice. and the polls never showed a mandate for biden to run
should run on the record. " there were people here in iowa that were hoping biden would enter the race for president... some went as far as to create a 90 second ad trying to get him to run. political director dave price joins us now to talk about what the vice president's announcement mean for those people? this draft biden movement ran ads across the country. supporters didn't want what some felt was a coronation for hillary clinton to the nomination. so they ran ads to build momentum...
Today in Iowa at 5:30 : WHO : October 19, 2015 5:30am-6:00am CDT
participated in the run this year. meanwhile people in eastern iowa took to the pavement for a different reason. ... running to raise awareness of bullying. they gathered in bettendorf yesterday. the event was hosted by ''pete the purple bull,' a nationally known anti-bullying symbol. it's all in honor of national bully prevention month. the goal is to remind people of the damage bullying can do... and the importance of being respectful. sot cg kim rilye-quinn program director, qc united 35:23 we really need to make it a part of the conversation everyday. not so much bullying but it's more about how are treating each other. you know. a reminder everyday, are you being kind you know to your neighbor? uh that sort of thing. 35:38 quad cities united and alcoa sponsored the 5-k race. more than 70 people attended. the iowa hawkeyes pull into their bye week in perfect undefeated and up in the polls again. after saturday's win over northwestern the hawks have jumped to number 12. it's their highest ranking in years. things looked bleak early on in saturday's game when jordan canzeri left with a
participated in the run this year. meanwhile people in eastern iowa took to the pavement for a different reason. ... running to raise awareness of bullying. they gathered in bettendorf yesterday. the event was hosted by ''pete the purple bull,' a nationally known anti-bullying symbol. it's all in honor of national bully prevention month. the goal is to remind people of the damage bullying can do... and the importance of being respectful. sot cg kim rilye-quinn program director, qc united 35:23...
Channel 13 Live at 5 : WHO : October 18, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm CDT
...these five candidates get prime time speaking appearances at the iowa democratic party's jefferson jackson dinner this saturday night in des moines... lincoln chafee, hillary clinton, martin o'malley, bernie sanders and jim webb. they are the major democratic presidential candidates. a party spokesman told me today vice president joe biden could speak, too...if he's announced he'll run for president. and the party hasn't given biden a specific time by which he'd have to announce before the dinner starts at seven p-m. kristen welker follows the latest speculation on whether biden will run. accepting a human rights award in manhattan..... "this may be the greatest honor i have received in my public life..." vice president joe biden...made no mention of his future plans ... but did pay tribute to his late son beau....who had encouraged him to run for president. "as my son beau used to say....just keep moving forward." and while a few supporters cried -- run joe run... "run joe run...." biden stayed on message..... "nats" this comes as the vice president gave the clearest sign yet, he
...these five candidates get prime time speaking appearances at the iowa democratic party's jefferson jackson dinner this saturday night in des moines... lincoln chafee, hillary clinton, martin o'malley, bernie sanders and jim webb. they are the major democratic presidential candidates. a party spokesman told me today vice president joe biden could speak, too...if he's announced he'll run for president. and the party hasn't given biden a specific time by which he'd have to announce before the...
KCCI 8 News Close Up : KCCI : October 25, 2015 10:30am-11:00am CDT
iowa caucus process is the best way for voters to get to know him. that is all coming up right now on the news close-up. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci eight news close-up. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic.] steve: thank you for joining us. upon numbers for the public race for president in iowa are changing. ben carson is at the top of the pack with 28%. support has slipped to 20% and marco rubio has slid to the third at 13%. now pulling her the bottom, bobby jindal, my case it -- k-6, and chris christie is waiting for what he believes will be a surge here in iowa. he has been to the state plenty of times and promises before caucus day he will be very familiar with iowa voters. chris christie has support from big-name iowa republican party donors and says he will spend a lot more time in the state in weeks to come. the chief political reporter introduces us to the man from new jersey. >> i see wind power all over the
iowa caucus process is the best way for voters to get to know him. that is all coming up right now on the news close-up. >> this is iowa's news leader. this is kcci eight news close-up. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [kcci captioning is brought to you by the iowa clinic.] steve: thank you for joining us. upon numbers for the public race for president in iowa are changing. ben carson...
Today in Iowa at 5 : WHO : October 26, 2015 5:00am-5:30am CDT
domestic abuse and carrying a weapon. one iowa community spent the weekend focusing on the role fathers play in stopping violence. people in dubuque came together in hopes of making positive change. it was for the "300 men fatherhood march." it aims to reach at-risk men and kids in downtown dubuque -- a community that's seen a recent uptick in violence. although the turnout was small, organizers say their message was powerful. "it think there's a lot of reasons why we have violence, a lot of reasons why we have, uh the confusion and the dysfunctional families in our communities because men are afraid to ask for help. or they just don't. or men are trained not to ask for help...so how do we start having engaging conversations like that." some attendees pledged to spend at least fifteen minutes a week mentoring someone. more walks are planned to help that. with colder weather on the for winter. the parks department took advantage of this weekend's warmer weather to start the process. crews visited the city's 70 parks to make sure everything was ready for winter. they want everythi
domestic abuse and carrying a weapon. one iowa community spent the weekend focusing on the role fathers play in stopping violence. people in dubuque came together in hopes of making positive change. it was for the "300 men fatherhood march." it aims to reach at-risk men and kids in downtown dubuque -- a community that's seen a recent uptick in violence. although the turnout was small, organizers say their message was powerful. "it think there's a lot of reasons why we have...
KCRG TV9 News at 6 : KCRG : October 19, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm CDT
iowa's medicaid health care program. that's according to the des moines register. branstad wants to shift the program from state government oversight to private management. right now 560-housand iowans are on medicaid. senator robert hogg is the charman of the iowa sesete governmenen oversight committee. he's asking for information that documents the claims privatizing the program will save money without hurting services. duting the press conference today, branstad sad the number is from the department of human services estimate. in our vote 2016 coverage... when former president bill clinton headlines his first rally for his wife's presidential campaign, he'll do it in iowa. bll clinton fferson-jackson dinner on saturday in des moines. the event is an important stop for presidential candidates looking for support. he'll be joined by pop star katy perry, who endorsed hillary clinton earlier this year. this is video of the two of them at the final harkin steakk frfrlast year. bill clinton has taken a more active role in recent weeks in his wife's campaign. the city of cedar rapids ga
iowa's medicaid health care program. that's according to the des moines register. branstad wants to shift the program from state government oversight to private management. right now 560-housand iowans are on medicaid. senator robert hogg is the charman of the iowa sesete governmenen oversight committee. he's asking for information that documents the claims privatizing the program will save money without hurting services. duting the press conference today, branstad sad the number is from the...
KPTH (FOX)
Siouxland News at 9 on FOX 44 : KPTH : October 22, 2015 9:00pm-9:30pm CDT
by KPTH
landowners challenged whether the iowa utilities board has the power to grant eminent domain to the company that wants to build the dakota access oil pipeline. the pipeline would stretch from the bakken oil fields in north dakota... through south dakota... and it would also run from lyon county in northwest iowa all the way to southeast iowa. judge carl peterson dismissed the lawsuit... ruling the landowners have to exhaust the administrative remedies required... before they can sue a state agency. we spoke with one of the plaintiffs who owns land just west of ames. "well, we're of course very disappointed but we're resolute owners have basic rights." the judge *did not* rule whether dakota access is eligible for eminent domain. the state utilities board is holding public hearings on the pipeline... then will make a decision on whether to grant eminent domain. larry>> some siouxlanders got a chance to enjoy two passions tonight... art... and food. the sioux city art center held its "artilicious" event tonight. it combines culinary talents... hy - vee.... and a little art on the side
landowners challenged whether the iowa utilities board has the power to grant eminent domain to the company that wants to build the dakota access oil pipeline. the pipeline would stretch from the bakken oil fields in north dakota... through south dakota... and it would also run from lyon county in northwest iowa all the way to southeast iowa. judge carl peterson dismissed the lawsuit... ruling the landowners have to exhaust the administrative remedies required... before they can sue a state...
6,000 of your closest friends is no easy task... 'its a lot of work going back and forth with the iowa democratic party, working on the floor plan, how many seats we need available for each campaigns guests, how many rounds we need to put out for the dinner. set for the jefferson jackson dinner started yesterday and the staff at the iowa events center hopes to have everything ready tonight. the event is one of the largest dinners event that requires the event staff to work directly with the secret service to make sure everything runs smoothly... 'were following the lead given to us by handle their police needs and well supplement with t-shirt security. the event is something the iowa democratic party has been preparing for, for months... 'theres been a lot of work put into this.' press secretary josh levitt says only having three candidates instead of a bigger crowd is an advantage for iowa democrats... 'by having three candidates tomorrow night front and center, iowa democrats are going to be able to hear each of their visions for the future and at this stage in the game that is very important.'
6,000 of your closest friends is no easy task... 'its a lot of work going back and forth with the iowa democratic party, working on the floor plan, how many seats we need available for each campaigns guests, how many rounds we need to put out for the dinner. set for the jefferson jackson dinner started yesterday and the staff at the iowa events center hopes to have everything ready tonight. the event is one of the largest dinners event that requires the event staff to work directly with the...
KCAU (ABC)
ABC9 News at 10pm : KCAU : October 24, 2015 10:30pm-11:05pm CDT
by KCAU
espn app. >>> in the big 12, baylor beat iowa state despite scoring a season-low 45 points. their quarterback, seth russell, suffered a broken bone in his neck. he'll be re-evaluated later. they win, 45-27. >>> lsu takes on western kentucky. third quarter. brandon harris, tyrone johnson. 61 yards for the score. tigers win it 48-20. leonard fournette, 150 yards and a touchdown. tigers are 7-0. >>> couple of s.e.c. schools. tennessee and alabama. peyton manning watching his vols on his bye week lose a late lead to alabama. derek henry, 14-yard go ahedad touchdown. alabama wins it 19-14. >>> number six clemson beat up miami. the hurricanes, bless their hearts, they're just bad. deshawn watson. a little bit of a trick play here. jordan leggett. waltzes in. clemson hands miami their worst loss in school history, 58-0. >>> michigan state's connor cook, threw for 395 yards, three yards away from the school michigan state pucklls away from indiana, 52-26. hey, and the university of houston cougars remain undefeated. they won 59-10. hey, gameday, next month, memphis and houston from h-town
espn app. >>> in the big 12, baylor beat iowa state despite scoring a season-low 45 points. their quarterback, seth russell, suffered a broken bone in his neck. he'll be re-evaluated later. they win, 45-27. >>> lsu takes on western kentucky. third quarter. brandon harris, tyrone johnson. 61 yards for the score. tigers win it 48-20. leonard fournette, 150 yards and a touchdown. tigers are 7-0. >>> couple of s.e.c. schools. tennessee and alabama. peyton manning...
become something.' --carson's lead in the polls is great news for his ground team here in iowa...carson's state director ryan rhodes says taking the lead from donald trump shows carson's message is reaching iowans... 'a lot of the hard work coming to fruition a lot of people starting to get to know dr. carson and to know him is to love him really.' carson also is topping the polls with women 33 percent to trump's 13 percent....rhodes says it's all great news and proves carson's more personal approach to campaigning is leaving a mark....'the more iowans got to hear from him whether on radio or local tv or directly in their town or getting a message from him i think all of that combined shows who ben is and how hes going about it a little differently and shows in the polls. stephanie moore, channel 13 news. carson will be back in iowa this weekend. carson will be back in iowa this weekend. the a-g-r fraternity at iowa state is hosting a town hall breakfast with carson at 8... saturday morning. .the event is open to the public. donald trump has never been one to shy away controver
become something.' --carson's lead in the polls is great news for his ground team here in iowa...carson's state director ryan rhodes says taking the lead from donald trump shows carson's message is reaching iowans... 'a lot of the hard work coming to fruition a lot of people starting to get to know dr. carson and to know him is to love him really.' carson also is topping the polls with women 33 percent to trump's 13 percent....rhodes says it's all great news and proves carson's more personal...
western iowa. saturday morning looks to be the coldest morning this season with temperatures in the 30s. chances for a frost or even hard freeze will have to be monitored through the weekend. highs will only reach the upper 50s friday afternoon. next first on thirteen... the iowa supreme court is hearing arguments over whether warren county supervisors broke the law when they fired a dozen workers last year. one supervisor says the county has slashed so many jobs... that taxpayers aren't getting the services they are paying for. channel 13's aaron brilbeck has the story. for two weeks, the warren county zoning and planning office sat empty...it's sole employee was on vacation...and her 12-former colleagues were "reorganized" "reorganization is what they call it. i call it firing. they got rid of 12 employees so that they could save money, is what i've been told."the iowa supreme court is hearing arguments whether warren county supervisors broke the law when they fired the staff in march of last year without first talking with department heads or holding a public meeting. supervisor mcin
western iowa. saturday morning looks to be the coldest morning this season with temperatures in the 30s. chances for a frost or even hard freeze will have to be monitored through the weekend. highs will only reach the upper 50s friday afternoon. next first on thirteen... the iowa supreme court is hearing arguments over whether warren county supervisors broke the law when they fired a dozen workers last year. one supervisor says the county has slashed so many jobs... that taxpayers aren't...
KCCI 8 News at Ten : KCCI : October 19, 2015 10:00pm-10:35pm CDT
some fond memories and good friends here in iowa so i katy perry will be here too. she wowed the superbowl crowd this past winter. her performance in this parking lot behind the clinton headquarters at 611 5th street won't be quite as spectacular, but clinton's iowa communications director says she expects a huge crowd. >> katy perry announced her support for secretary clinton early on in this campaign and even offered to write a song. so i think these weekends are definitely about politics but i hope they are a little bit fun too. ,todd: so if you're fan of the clintons, katy perry, or all 3 , the fun starts at 3:00 and the , best part? >> it's free for everybody to come in. todd: you can rsvp for the 3 :00 rally on the hillary clinton iowa campaign website or just show up saturday. also happening at 3:00 a rally saturday, and march for bernie sanders. that event happening just east of the women of achievement bridge in the armory parking lot. it's also free and open to the public. sen. sanders: the question we have to ask ourselves, what is the state of american democracy? todd
some fond memories and good friends here in iowa so i katy perry will be here too. she wowed the superbowl crowd this past winter. her performance in this parking lot behind the clinton headquarters at 611 5th street won't be quite as spectacular, but clinton's iowa communications director says she expects a huge crowd. >> katy perry announced her support for secretary clinton early on in this campaign and even offered to write a song. so i think these weekends are definitely about...
includes the tens of thousands who've served in the wars in decade. today iowa congressman david young hosted a fair to discuss different options available for all veterans ... young and old. 8:22:49:05-8:23:09:27 "we want to set the standard here in iowa and we are hoping that we in thing...this should be a nationwide thing that we do." 20 different agencies set up shop at the pappajohn education center downtown this morning. they represented everything from healthcare companies to universities. vets we spoke to said the fair made the job of finding the right kind of help -- easy. one of the things i've found...there are a ton of resources out there...but it can overwhelming...that' s phenomenal" there's no word from the regular event in his district. what do you do when a hurricane strikes during your family vacation to mexico? jenga! our co-worker amanda vizcarra and family are doing the best they can to stay entertained in puerto vallarta after narrowly missing hurricane patricia this weekend. cyclones another week, another top 3 halloween is like a boomerang...it comes back to you
includes the tens of thousands who've served in the wars in decade. today iowa congressman david young hosted a fair to discuss different options available for all veterans ... young and old. 8:22:49:05-8:23:09:27 "we want to set the standard here in iowa and we are hoping that we in thing...this should be a nationwide thing that we do." 20 different agencies set up shop at the pappajohn education center downtown this morning. they represented everything from healthcare companies to...
KCCI 8 News This Morning at 4:30am : KCCI : October 23, 2015 4:30am-5:00am CDT
license plate is an iowa one, dmk 905. they say the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous. parents of children who go to des moines roosevelt high school received this phone message thursday afternoon from the school's principal. >> good afternoon, roosevelt families, this is mister biggs calling. as mant of you may have already learned a large number of our staff who attended a catered luncheon yesterday have become ill with that the polk county health department believes to be food poisoning. eric: in all 58 staff members became ill, forcing the school to send students home. elizabeth: so what caused the illness, and why was just the staff affected? kcci's jason rantala has more. dozens of students, waiting outside roosevelt high school thursday afternoon. as rumors swirled. >> apparently the walking taco meat was poisoned or something like that. >> students say they received the announcement after noon. >> they put in on the announcements and the second they heard school is cancelled . everyone like cheering. >> screaming, cheering, it was crazy. it means classes and sc
license plate is an iowa one, dmk 905. they say the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous. parents of children who go to des moines roosevelt high school received this phone message thursday afternoon from the school's principal. >> good afternoon, roosevelt families, this is mister biggs calling. as mant of you may have already learned a large number of our staff who attended a catered luncheon yesterday have become ill with that the polk county health department believes to...
KCRG TV9 Morning News : KCRG : October 22, 2015 6:00am-7:00am CDT
concerned about his officers' safety. the iowa city fire department says lightning strikes during tuesday's storm caused a backup in fire calls. former secretary of state and democratic presidential frontrunner hillary clinton will face house republicans today about the benghazi attack. some parents in iowa city say they have been overwhelmed with the number of alerts from the district about possible threats to schools. and some movie-goers will need the force to help them make it through a nearly 20 hour star wars movie marathon. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news morning news. plan on a pretty decent thursday. it'll be cooler than yesterday, but we won't be dodging thunderstorms again. plan on highs into the 60-65 range from north to south. our next focus remains on the storm system set to affect our weather from friday afternoon into the evening. this will be a widespread rain, with amounts of 0.25" to 0.50" likely. plan on wet football in the area for friday night! this system will be moving out just in time for the weekend with
concerned about his officers' safety. the iowa city fire department says lightning strikes during tuesday's storm caused a backup in fire calls. former secretary of state and democratic presidential frontrunner hillary clinton will face house republicans today about the benghazi attack. some parents in iowa city say they have been overwhelmed with the number of alerts from the district about possible threats to schools. and some movie-goers will need the force to help them make it through a...
Local 5 News Midday : WOI : October 23, 2015 11:00am-12:00pm CDT
probe. amanda: now here is a look at the latest iowa poll numbers on the democratic side... now that webb, biden, and chafee are out of the presidential race, only three candidates remain- hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and martin o'malley. according to a new quinnipiac poll released this morning, clinton leads with 51% among caucusgoers, with sanders not far behind at 40%, results were comparable to the bloomberg politics/des moines register poll released earlier this week with clinton at 48 % among caucusgoers, sanders not far behind at 41%. and gov. o'malley at the bottom with only 2%, both polls have hinted that the numbers may continue to shift though... amanda: according to j. ann selzer, the president of selzer & co, who conducted the iowa poll taken earlier this vice president announcement that he would not be running is "good news for in that you have vote that was with vice president biden and is now free to go someplace else." amanda: switching gears now-- to a big storm threatening the eastern coast of mexico today, amanda: hurricane patricia is now the strongest e
probe. amanda: now here is a look at the latest iowa poll numbers on the democratic side... now that webb, biden, and chafee are out of the presidential race, only three candidates remain- hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and martin o'malley. according to a new quinnipiac poll released this morning, clinton leads with 51% among caucusgoers, with sanders not far behind at 40%, results were comparable to the bloomberg politics/des moines register poll released earlier this week with clinton at...
Channel 13 News at Noon : WHO : October 20, 2015 12:00pm-1:00pm CDT
jackson dinner near the iowa events center. doors open at three p-m. a new nbc news-wall street journal poll out this morning shows 38 percent of democrats say vice president joe biden should not run for president. this comes as the pressure is mounting for him to make a decision. kristen welker has more. vice president joe biden at an event honoring the uso monday night, paying tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice... warriors have lost their lives, everyone of those warriors represents a communityhe's still keeping his political intentions close to the vest... but fueled speculation during the day....calling a meeting delaware, placing "nats" this comment: "i don't consider the republicans enemies, they're friends." which republicans tried to spin clinton who gave this response during last week's debate - when asked about which enemies she's most proud of: "probably the republicans!" a source close to biden denies his comments were in any way directed at secretary clinton watching all of it closely...secretary clinton who is off the trail this week, preparing for her testim
jackson dinner near the iowa events center. doors open at three p-m. a new nbc news-wall street journal poll out this morning shows 38 percent of democrats say vice president joe biden should not run for president. this comes as the pressure is mounting for him to make a decision. kristen welker has more. vice president joe biden at an event honoring the uso monday night, paying tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice... warriors have lost their lives, everyone of those warriors...
With All Due Respect : BLOOMBERG : October 26, 2015 5:00pm-5:31pm EDT
glide path to the nomination. we can write off new hampshire. if she loses in iowa and he beats her in new hampshire, it will be a much more difficult scenario. she will still probably be the favorite. but it will become located mark: a lot of republicans -- but it will be complicated. . mark: i heard from a lot of smart republicans today who said thanks for writing that piece. we need to get ourselves a nominee who can beat her because she will be the nominee. john: she is a general election candidate and the advantages she has, the possibility that she could get through this primary relatively unscathed while republicans fight for months, she can. be very formidable. mark: there once was a front runner named jeb but today he is down to 5% in iowa according to the latest poll. he is literally tied with rand paul, two bullet points under not sure. he seemed to be frustrated and i will use the cliche -- not to be fighting for his political life. >> i got a lot of really cool things i can do other than the at around being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compe
glide path to the nomination. we can write off new hampshire. if she loses in iowa and he beats her in new hampshire, it will be a much more difficult scenario. she will still probably be the favorite. but it will become located mark: a lot of republicans -- but it will be complicated. . mark: i heard from a lot of smart republicans today who said thanks for writing that piece. we need to get ourselves a nominee who can beat her because she will be the nominee. john: she is a general election...
Local 5 News at Five : WOI : October 28, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm CDT
braiding business, meagan forbes 8:41 iowa's licensing laws are among the worst in the country. iowa licenses more workers from travel agents to atheltic trainers to makeup artists to hair braiders. meagan forbes is aicheria bell's attorney. they made an announcement inside the iowa state capitol that they're suing the iowa cosmotology board, fighting the current licensing laws. megain 4:01 a victory in this case will help all entrepeneurs in iowa. until that happens, aicheria will braid hair on the side, hoping to keep her heritage alive, while keeping a low profile. business is just too risky. aicheria 1:45 i just want a right to make a living and not feel like i'm a criminal. amanda there are some serious penalties for violating these licensing laws... criminal penalties, that include being fined a thousand dollars for each infraction. i tried to contact the iowa board of cosmotology which is under the iowa department of public health. they said, "idph is unable to comment on pending litigation" public health officials added that the legislature did look at this issue last session
braiding business, meagan forbes 8:41 iowa's licensing laws are among the worst in the country. iowa licenses more workers from travel agents to atheltic trainers to makeup artists to hair braiders. meagan forbes is aicheria bell's attorney. they made an announcement inside the iowa state capitol that they're suing the iowa cosmotology board, fighting the current licensing laws. megain 4:01 a victory in this case will help all entrepeneurs in iowa. until that happens, aicheria will braid hair...
beaman. they are both charged with 3-rd degree burglary and 2-nd degree the. police in western iowa are looking for a suspect that hit an officer wita truck. council bluffs authorities arrested adam thomas yesterday on suspicion of fraud. but while they continued thr investigating thomas got out of a squad car and into his truck that was parked near by. an officer tried to stop him from diving away but was hit. the officer was taken to the hospital with injuries to his stomach. officials also shot at the truck...which was later found abandoned. investigators now say he could now be in a chevy malibu that he stole from his mother. thomas faces charges of attempted murr, theft, and escape from custody. if you have any information you are asked to contact authorities. authorities in pottawattamie county need the public's help finding a robbery suspect. deputies are looking for this man after he held up the farmers-merchants state bank in neola yesterday afternoon. the suspect was able to get away with an unknown amount of money in and red s-u-v. if you have an information you are asked to
beaman. they are both charged with 3-rd degree burglary and 2-nd degree the. police in western iowa are looking for a suspect that hit an officer wita truck. council bluffs authorities arrested adam thomas yesterday on suspicion of fraud. but while they continued thr investigating thomas got out of a squad car and into his truck that was parked near by. an officer tried to stop him from diving away but was hit. the officer was taken to the hospital with injuries to his stomach. officials also...
her in the states. all looking like an iowa race. if hillary clinton wins in iowa, she probably will be the nominee, pending somewhere thing. if sanders wins iowa, he could win new hampshire and then it's all crazy. the question is, what is sanders' iowa operation like? what do reliable polls say? sanders has to show some life out there. he's got to look like he has closed. mark: big news from the white house. american special ops forces, fewer than 50 according to beat ministrations, will be on the ground in syria for the first rebels.help fight isis press secretary josh earnest plated down, saying it is not part of a new -- played it down, saying it is not part of a new strategy. paul ryan in lindsey graham already questioning this decision. why is he putting the troops on the ground when he said there would be non-? because the situation is deteriorating. onis trying to get a handle a deteriorating situation. i think republicans who claim it is too little, it's not part of a conference of strategy, they got a strong point. i think the pentagon probably told the white house they ne
her in the states. all looking like an iowa race. if hillary clinton wins in iowa, she probably will be the nominee, pending somewhere thing. if sanders wins iowa, he could win new hampshire and then it's all crazy. the question is, what is sanders' iowa operation like? what do reliable polls say? sanders has to show some life out there. he's got to look like he has closed. mark: big news from the white house. american special ops forces, fewer than 50 according to beat ministrations, will be...
chosen the mid range. stacey: the chair of the iowa senate oversight committee has requested the documents used for that estimate. new at 5:00 iowa's abortion , rates are on the decline. the iowa department of public health says there were 4020 abortions in 2014. that's down from 400 -- that's down from 4423 abortions in 2013. mark: a western iowa girl is recovering after being hit by a train. it happened around 12:30 sunday afternoon in council bluffs. authorities say the 10-year-old tried to cross a set of tracks after a train passed. but was hit by another train going the same direction. family members say the girl has a wound on her head but was arrived. doctors told the girl's family she fractured her skull. she's listed in stable condition at an omaha hospital right now . thankfully, she is expected to make a full recovery. stacey: a huge tree hits the home of a des moines family who just moved in. the damage was reported this morning at 5423 southwest 16th street. wind gusts near 40-miles-per hour were reported at the time, as well as dry conditions. the parents and 4 chil
chosen the mid range. stacey: the chair of the iowa senate oversight committee has requested the documents used for that estimate. new at 5:00 iowa's abortion , rates are on the decline. the iowa department of public health says there were 4020 abortions in 2014. that's down from 400 -- that's down from 4423 abortions in 2013. mark: a western iowa girl is recovering after being hit by a train. it happened around 12:30 sunday afternoon in council bluffs. authorities say the 10-year-old tried to...
WMUR (ABC)
Good Morning America: Weekend Edition : WMUR : October 25, 2015 9:00am-10:00am EDT
by WMUR
. >> reporter: and lending her voice, too. >> reporter: at the iowa jefferson jackson dinner, hillary clinton did roar. >> we're going to build an america where a father can tell his daughter, you can be anything you want to, including president of the united states of america! >> reporter: but she doesn't quite have the nomination locked down. senator, everybody's saying it's all over, did you not get the message? just seven points behind her in iowa, bernie sanders is still on the march. >> this is a march which will end up in a year when you'll join me in the white house. >> reporter: at the katy perry concert, message -- feel the bern. clearly bernie sanders does not plan to go gently into that good 99 days until the iowa caucuses and it's going to be a tough fight, but it's hillary clinton's to lose now dan. >> for more on the race to the white house let's bring in george stephanopoulos who will be hosting this "this week" later this morning. let's talk about the republicans for a second. you have donald trump on the show this morning. one of the things that we have seen this weekend, he
. >> reporter: and lending her voice, too. >> reporter: at the iowa jefferson jackson dinner, hillary clinton did roar. >> we're going to build an america where a father can tell his daughter, you can be anything you want to, including president of the united states of america! >> reporter: but she doesn't quite have the nomination locked down. senator, everybody's saying it's all over, did you not get the message? just seven points behind her in iowa, bernie sanders is...
hampshire he can beat her. john: the key fingers iowa. iowa shey clinton wins will probably be the nominee. pending some weird thing sanders wins iowa everything is crazy. the question is what the sanders iowa operation look like? what the polls say? he has to show some life out there. the last couple of old but in way behind. big news from the white house today. american special all sources are going to be on the ground in northern syria for the first time to help rebels fight isis. the white house downplayed the significance of the move saying it's not part of any new strategy. the new speaker of the house and some of the presidential candidates are already questioning his decision. why is president obama putting 50 american troops on the ground when he said he would not to i think it's because the situation is deteriorating. he's trying to do something to try to get a handle on the deteriorating situation. i think republicans claimants too little. i think the pentagon probably told the white house they need this to make sure the airstrikes will be correlated, that this move is not nearl
hampshire he can beat her. john: the key fingers iowa. iowa shey clinton wins will probably be the nominee. pending some weird thing sanders wins iowa everything is crazy. the question is what the sanders iowa operation look like? what the polls say? he has to show some life out there. the last couple of old but in way behind. big news from the white house today. american special all sources are going to be on the ground in northern syria for the first time to help rebels fight isis. the white...
Good Morning Iowa : WOI : October 26, 2015 5:00am-6:00am CDT
trail of blood lead to the discovery of the body at 59th street trail the iowa state patrol confirms that this is a homicide investigation. the benton county sheriff's department and the iowa department of criminal investigation are actively working on the case. the iowa department of public safety is expected to release more details today. elias: new this morning, the final recommendation s from a state- legislature created education task force will be released.... elias: the final recommendation s from the secondary career and technical education task force will be released later this morning. the task force was established by the legislature in 2013. it has been looking at ways to reduce skill shortages in the work force and ensuring students have access to competitive careers and education programs. during the meeting, their final recommendation s will be approved. elias: also new this monring...the second annual senior life conference will draw hundreds of iowa seniors and caregivers to the metro. "finding purpose in retirement" is the them for this year's event being held at pr
trail of blood lead to the discovery of the body at 59th street trail the iowa state patrol confirms that this is a homicide investigation. the benton county sheriff's department and the iowa department of criminal investigation are actively working on the case. the iowa department of public safety is expected to release more details today. elias: new this morning, the final recommendation s from a state- legislature created education task force will be released.... elias: the final...
This Week in Siouxland : KCAU : October 18, 2015 9:00am-9:30am CDT
the power of the iowa caucuses the 2016 presidential campaign and iowa are connected at the hip. but there's another lesser know connection as well. it's known as the "full grassley". long before any white house hopeful talked about visiting all 99 iowa counties, senator chuck grassley was running laps around the state. he's toured town halls from inwood to glenwood. i had a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with the senator this week when he gathered with students at out time together. >> i don't think the problem is begun, i think the problem is mental health issues. if you look at the mass killing, and that's when the subject comes up most of the time. mass killings you would find except in the last several years, except in one instance, every one of the people had some sort of mental health issue. >> someone isn't going to be going to a doctor, so how do you identify? >> it's difficult without even considering what your question was, it's difficult for two reasons. number one is there is a debtor of psychiatrists and psychologists. the second thing is hipaa. and you k
the power of the iowa caucuses the 2016 presidential campaign and iowa are connected at the hip. but there's another lesser know connection as well. it's known as the "full grassley". long before any white house hopeful talked about visiting all 99 iowa counties, senator chuck grassley was running laps around the state. he's toured town halls from inwood to glenwood. i had a chance to sit down for an extended discussion with the senator this week when he gathered with students at out...
KCCI 8 News at Six : KCCI : October 19, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm CDT
lack of rain, the latest drought monitor map shows only far northeast and southeast iowa are dealing with a shortage of ground moisture. mark: that's check in with kurtis gertz and find out we might get that rain. kurtis: we have that red flag warning until 7:00. the reason that expires at 7:00 is less wind and the relative these are updating by the minute. winds gusting less than 22 miles an hour. but we are still getting gusts in the low-to-mid 20's especially in western and southwestern iowa. 75 in des moines. normal highs this time of year, 62. carol, 79 degrees. it is going to be generally dry tomorrow. there is a little bit of rain in the forecast. from the 70's to the 60's down into the 50's. noon, back up to 70 degrees. late afternoon, high of 75 degrees. a better rain chance in your 8 day forecast, coming up. stacey: a family who just moved into their first home ran for safety when a tree fell on it. that tree came down around 12:30 this afternoon right on top of this home at 5423 south west 16th. the family who lived inside said they heard a loud noise. then they noticed a
lack of rain, the latest drought monitor map shows only far northeast and southeast iowa are dealing with a shortage of ground moisture. mark: that's check in with kurtis gertz and find out we might get that rain. kurtis: we have that red flag warning until 7:00. the reason that expires at 7:00 is less wind and the relative these are updating by the minute. winds gusting less than 22 miles an hour. but we are still getting gusts in the low-to-mid 20's especially in western and southwestern...
experience for iowa drivers. kcci's mark tauscheck at the new grand prairie parkway interchange along i-80 tonight. mark: well, we've gotten used to driving on roundabouts so we should be able to adapt to this new kind of intersection called a diverging diamond. first appearing in 2010, there are now 57 in the united states, including 3 in kansas city where the dot is so pleased with them. >> the normal congestion that we used to experience there, has virtually disappeared. mark: they are building three more. the simplest explanation, get used to driving briefly on what will feel like the wrong side of the road. watch the traffic on the lower right side of your screen. when the light changes, the traffic crosses into what would traditionally be considered oncoming lanes. if they continue straight ahead, they are diverted back to their original side of the road. but if they turn onto the onramp they don't have to stop at a , second signal. in fact, there are only two places where traffic crosses at the entire intersection, a normal intersection like this would have 4 to 6. that means the
experience for iowa drivers. kcci's mark tauscheck at the new grand prairie parkway interchange along i-80 tonight. mark: well, we've gotten used to driving on roundabouts so we should be able to adapt to this new kind of intersection called a diverging diamond. first appearing in 2010, there are now 57 in the united states, including 3 in kansas city where the dot is so pleased with them. >> the normal congestion that we used to experience there, has virtually disappeared. mark: they...
ABC9 News This Morning at 6 : KCAU : October 26, 2015 6:00am-7:00am CDT
temperatures will peak in the lower 60s. iowa was back on the mainstage this weekend with the iowa democratic party's jefferson- jackson dinner in des moines. jessica rae: hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and martin o'malley all took center stage at hy-vee hall in des moines on saturday. it's the state's largest gathering of democrats sold. each candidate had their own special sections of supporters with lights, and signage and their own chants... bernie sanders caused a huge commotion when he walked through the crowd on his way up to the stage for his speech. along with the event... came a lot of pre-game action for all three candidates as they rallied support before the dinner. reporter jacob peklo from our affiliate in des moines has the story.. nats with 100 days to go until the february 1st caucus, the three remaining democratic candidates are pulling out all the stops. with an energy unparalleled to the rest of the campaign nats "katy perry" dancing...and singing get their message across. hillary clinton pulled out two of her biggest name supporters...former president bill clinton and m
temperatures will peak in the lower 60s. iowa was back on the mainstage this weekend with the iowa democratic party's jefferson- jackson dinner in des moines. jessica rae: hillary clinton, bernie sanders, and martin o'malley all took center stage at hy-vee hall in des moines on saturday. it's the state's largest gathering of democrats sold. each candidate had their own special sections of supporters with lights, and signage and their own chants... bernie sanders caused a huge commotion when he...
Channel 13 News at Four : WHO : October 23, 2015 4:00pm-5:00pm CDT
shift in yesterday quinnipiac university told us ben carson was the man to beat in iowa ... today the des moines register confirmed it. steve handelsman has the latest on who's up and who's down in the g-o-p race ... and who's dropping out of the democratic race. ben carson is on a roll. nats: cheering the retired neurosurgeon ...in kansas today ... surged to a big lead with iowa republicans, in today's bloomberg politics/des moines register iowa poll. 28%, up 10 since august. donald trump at 19, down 4. sot: dr. ben carson, republican primary candidate "every place we go we see large and enthusiastic groups of people who are anxious to have a government that is honest and decent" decency. carson speaks the language of evangelicals now backing him by almost 2 to 1. donald trump does not sot: matt lewis, the daily caller "rump has said things like he doesn't ask god for forgiveness. but iowa traditionally backs evangelical candidates... . i think ben carson fits much more in that mold than say donald trump." sot: carson in his #2 ad did you know washington was built on a swamp? carson
shift in yesterday quinnipiac university told us ben carson was the man to beat in iowa ... today the des moines register confirmed it. steve handelsman has the latest on who's up and who's down in the g-o-p race ... and who's dropping out of the democratic race. ben carson is on a roll. nats: cheering the retired neurosurgeon ...in kansas today ... surged to a big lead with iowa republicans, in today's bloomberg politics/des moines register iowa poll. 28%, up 10 since august. donald trump at...
comparison analysis. the new division here will be partnering with the iowa division of criminal investigation, the innocence project of iowa, and the midwest innoncence project to see whether similar errors have occurred in cases here in iowa. the governor saying quote: "in iowa, we have great confidence in our criminal justice system. however, even in a well-regarded system, we know issues can arise." sabrina: a death investigation continues this morning in benton county... sabrina: authorities found the body of a 26-year-old female sunday afternoon... a trail of blood lead to the discovery of the body at 59th street trail the iowa state patrol confirms that this is a homicide investigation. the benton county sheriff's department and the iowa department of criminal investigation are actively working on the case. the iowa department of public safety is expected to release more details today. sabrina: two teenagers are recovering from a saturday shooting outside of a mcdonald's in ankeny. 18 year olds nicholas culver and justin (phong-sav-von) phongsavanh suffered gunshot wounds
comparison analysis. the new division here will be partnering with the iowa division of criminal investigation, the innocence project of iowa, and the midwest innoncence project to see whether similar errors have occurred in cases here in iowa. the governor saying quote: "in iowa, we have great confidence in our criminal justice system. however, even in a well-regarded system, we know issues can arise." sabrina: a death investigation continues this morning in benton county......
KCRG TV9 News at 10 : KCRG : October 19, 2015 10:00pm-10:35pm CDT
field fires across eastern iowa today. @he fire in washington county was the result of a weekend burn, which hgh winds rekindled this morning. the fire burned a barn and a whole l of field, near 180th street and spruce avenue. no one was hurt. and a field fire in fayette county burned 120 acres. i@ happened on 30th street near the olwein municippl airport this afternoo. the fairbanan fire chief believes sparks or hot metal on a stalk chopper started the fire. no one was hurt. meteorologist joe winters joins us now. joe, winds are back doww monday provided plenty of wind across the state. those winds back down overnight and tomorrow. as a cold front approaches the wind keeping some very mild conditions in place. the weather moisture to work so any rainfall will remain scattered and on the light de. later in n he week highh fall into the middle to upper 60s which is still above normal for the late part of october. have a great night! tonight: partly cloudy low: 49-55 winds: sw 10-15tomorrow: isolated showers late high: 71-77 winds: sw 10-2 ck to you. a state review found numerous s
field fires across eastern iowa today. @he fire in washington county was the result of a weekend burn, which hgh winds rekindled this morning. the fire burned a barn and a whole l of field, near 180th street and spruce avenue. no one was hurt. and a field fire in fayette county burned 120 acres. i@ happened on 30th street near the olwein municippl airport this afternoo. the fairbanan fire chief believes sparks or hot metal on a stalk chopper started the fire. no one was hurt. meteorologist joe...
closer to the crime scene after law enforcement officers had closed it off. an iowa state patrol trooper confirmed to us, tonight, this it is a death investigation -- but we have no further information on a victim or any arrests. yet we did speak, at length, with three nenehbors. one of them told tv-9, he had his truck stolen before 4 this morning, which led to hours of searching for it before they found the truck and hauled t back home. it was at that point, what they saw on the ground led to an awful discovery. " 11:58 found the truck this morning, about 11:40, we found the blood trail and walked up on a dead lady. " " 11:04 we saw a blood trail and followedit up and found the gal dead and she was face down. very devastating, very devastating. " to repeat, a death investigation remains active on 59th street trail in the eastern part of benton county. more information as we confirm it from law enforcement on kcrg.com and our related social media sites. about a dozen calls "came in" about the death. thanks to all of you who reached out to us with information and details on what t
closer to the crime scene after law enforcement officers had closed it off. an iowa state patrol trooper confirmed to us, tonight, this it is a death investigation -- but we have no further information on a victim or any arrests. yet we did speak, at length, with three nenehbors. one of them told tv-9, he had his truck stolen before 4 this morning, which led to hours of searching for it before they found the truck and hauled t back home. it was at that point, what they saw on the ground led to...
KWWL News at Five : KWWL : October 21, 2015 5:00pm-5:30pm CDT
in a row, there was no inbetween." the iowa division of criminal investigation is looking into this incident. both police officers involve are currently on paid leave, that''s aaart of the pplice departments policy when there is an officer involved shooting. we are told the other two people who were in the car with gossman are not in custody... those two suspect names as well as the officer's names will not be released untilt e ey are interviewewd regarding the incident. we have been looking into the suspects background, and we are working on those details coming up at six... ...kwwl neww an autopsy on onathan gossman was done this morning by the state medical examiner's office in ankeny.... the shooting happened right by two daycare providers.... kwwl's amanda gilbert spoke with parents... and they say precautions were taken to make sure their kids were alright. a quiet road.... kids t tys in thhbackyards.... it's a ve been here since 1964 and once a year." but that changed when police shot and killed a man after they say he fired a gun at them. hley dye doesn't live on the street.
in a row, there was no inbetween." the iowa division of criminal investigation is looking into this incident. both police officers involve are currently on paid leave, that''s aaart of the pplice departments policy when there is an officer involved shooting. we are told the other two people who were in the car with gossman are not in custody... those two suspect names as well as the officer's names will not be released untilt e ey are interviewewd regarding the incident. we have been...
the road in mediapolis. it happened last night... in the 11 thousand block of hawk road. the iowa state patrol says 25 year old calvin cokel... of burlington... failed to negotiate a turn. that caused his jeep to roll into the ditch. cokel died at the scene. troopers say alcohol was a factor in the crash. an effort to stop an oil pipeline from being built across iowa has hit a roadblock... a judge dismissed a lawsuit designed filed by three landowners... challenging the bakken pipeline. they argued the "iowa utilities board" doesn't have the authority to grant eminent domain rights to an out of state developer. the judge ruled the plaintiffs have to take up the issue with the board first... and get it to decide of "dakota access" is considered a utility. once that's determined... the case could move forward. boone county leaders are also standing strong against the bakken pipeline... the county's board of supervisors unanimously approved a measure in opposition to the pipeline on wednesday. they cite environmental hazards... and "dakota access'" threat to use eminent domain. board membe
the road in mediapolis. it happened last night... in the 11 thousand block of hawk road. the iowa state patrol says 25 year old calvin cokel... of burlington... failed to negotiate a turn. that caused his jeep to roll into the ditch. cokel died at the scene. troopers say alcohol was a factor in the crash. an effort to stop an oil pipeline from being built across iowa has hit a roadblock... a judge dismissed a lawsuit designed filed by three landowners... challenging the bakken pipeline. they...
: 63 iow: 65 bruce and beth... one member of the iowa board of regents says they may have "dropped the ball" when they chose bruce harreld to be the next president. regent subhash sahai commented after protestors stormed the regents meeting yesterday, harreld and the entire board to step down. sahai is a doctor from webster city. he said the board may have mishandled the selection process for the new president. and he says the regents need more time and more background information before making such decisions. sahai hopes that harreld, in his words, "makes us all shine and proud of his selection." he urged the university to give the former i-b-m executive a chance, even though he has no academic leadership experience. the dubuque city council has approved an addition to an athletic building on the university of dubuque campus. our media partner k-d- t-h reports the council had to sign off on a change to the school's institutional district.. a university spokesman says the addition will create more locker room space. dubuque's planning services manager says the addition is not expected
: 63 iow: 65 bruce and beth... one member of the iowa board of regents says they may have "dropped the ball" when they chose bruce harreld to be the next president. regent subhash sahai commented after protestors stormed the regents meeting yesterday, harreld and the entire board to step down. sahai is a doctor from webster city. he said the board may have mishandled the selection process for the new president. and he says the regents need more time and more background information...
. and how his supporters in iowa the decision that silenced a months- long debate. and how his supporters in iowa are handling the blow. political fanfare... a democratic celebration is marching in to the metro. how curveball.. and why it may cause you some headaches this weekend. it's thursday october 22nd, today in iowa starts now.... sprinkles are falling early this morning. this afternoon is going to be cloudy and slightly cooler with highs in the upper 60s. a strong area of low pressure will move in from the southwest across central iowa on friday. this will bring us rain off and on throughout the day. the rain will move out by saturday with some lingering clouds and highs in the low 60s to first on 13... the draft biden movement... has been silenced. yesterday, after months of speculation, vice president joe biden announced he will not run for the democratic presidential nomination. this morning that decision has his supporters here in iowa feeling disappointed. 15:11:20--31 'selfishly i wanted to see him run for president real badly.' i think at least for me, he was the
. and how his supporters in iowa the decision that silenced a months- long debate. and how his supporters in iowa are handling the blow. political fanfare... a democratic celebration is marching in to the metro. how curveball.. and why it may cause you some headaches this weekend. it's thursday october 22nd, today in iowa starts now.... sprinkles are falling early this morning. this afternoon is going to be cloudy and slightly cooler with highs in the upper 60s. a strong area of low pressure...
CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow : CNNW : October 24, 2015 2:00pm-3:01pm PDT
important of the 2016 campaign for the democrats at least, candidates in iowa campaigning ahead of the jefferson jackson annual dinner and fundraiser in front of 6,000 people. what will we hear tonight? especially from hillary clinton and bernie sanders, as they battle it out in iowa next. (patrick 1) what's it like to be the boss of you? (patrick 2) pretty great. (patrick 1) how about a 10% raise? (patrick 2) how about 20? (patrick 1) how about done? (patrick 2) that's the kind of control i like... ...and that's what they give me at national car rental. i can choose any car in the aisle i want- without having to ask anyone. who better to be the boss of you... (patrick 1)than me. i mean, you...us. (vo) go national. go like a pro. the most advanced iphone yet. get the new iphone 6s at t-mobile. the network that's doubled its lte coverage in the past year. our new extended range lte signal now reaches twice as far as before. and is four times better in buildings. get our lowest price on iphone 6s with trade-in. zero upfront and just 5 bucks a month with jump on demand. get it now at t-mo
important of the 2016 campaign for the democrats at least, candidates in iowa campaigning ahead of the jefferson jackson annual dinner and fundraiser in front of 6,000 people. what will we hear tonight? especially from hillary clinton and bernie sanders, as they battle it out in iowa next. (patrick 1) what's it like to be the boss of you? (patrick 2) pretty great. (patrick 1) how about a 10% raise? (patrick 2) how about 20? (patrick 1) how about done? (patrick 2) that's the kind of control i...
trio headlined the iowa democratic party's annual jefferson jackson dinner... where they battled for iowan's support. many who attended the event say they already know who they will vote for ... but others hoped the speeches would help make up their mind. channel 13's reid chandler spoke with voters and joins us now in the studio with more... hy-vee hall last night was filled to the brim with iowa democrats...most of whom were there to cheer on a specific candidate... but minds aren't all made up...and some aren't even sure they'd rally behind another candidate if their favorite doesn't come out on top. what's the big difference between hillary clinton supporters and bernie sanders supporters? 19:01:00 "they're a lot more quiet laughs." - yvonne fielder -hillary supporter that's what one clinton supporter thinks about the sanders crowd... of course, sanders' supporters have their own opinions on that question. 18:57:01 "i really like that bernie isn't funded by multi-million dollar companies, and i just believe his values more than hillary supporters do." - haley wilcox - bernie supp
trio headlined the iowa democratic party's annual jefferson jackson dinner... where they battled for iowan's support. many who attended the event say they already know who they will vote for ... but others hoped the speeches would help make up their mind. channel 13's reid chandler spoke with voters and joins us now in the studio with more... hy-vee hall last night was filled to the brim with iowa democrats...most of whom were there to cheer on a specific candidate... but minds aren't all made...
work. now the proposal is on iowa state president steve leath's desk. leath pulled the plug on veishea after riots broke out in august channel 13's justin surrency joins us now with more on the proposal...justin? university officials don't know what event will replace the 92 year old tradition...they don't even know if it will replace it by the end of this year...they say veishea no longer served its true purpose and it's up to the students of today to find out what does... veisheas orgins date back to 1922 and it soon became the largest student- run organized festival in the country... but the event which originally was used as a recruiting tool for students took a turn for the worse "i was in friley hall and i watched it all from my window" with riots, students flipping cars, multiple arrests and even a murder one year... asked ourselves the tough question...is it doing what it's supposed to be and the answer at this point in time was no not really" after a spring without the 92 year old tradition in 20-15 president steven leath formed a 7 person committee to revive campus pr
work. now the proposal is on iowa state president steve leath's desk. leath pulled the plug on veishea after riots broke out in august channel 13's justin surrency joins us now with more on the proposal...justin? university officials don't know what event will replace the 92 year old tradition...they don't even know if it will replace it by the end of this year...they say veishea no longer served its true purpose and it's up to the students of today to find out what does... veisheas orgins...
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CBS 2 News @ Noon : KGAN : October 23, 2015 12:00pm-12:30pm CDT
by KGAN
won't completely get rid of the affordable care act. in iowa city... a lawsuit against the chauncey tower project in iowa city.the trinity episcopal church filed the lawsuit in june, after the iowa city city council approved the 15-story building. the church was upset over the tower's location next to it at the corner of college and gilbert streets.trinity episcopal will have 30 days to appeal the judge's ruling. there are new concerns about a multi-million dollar project on the marion's north side. side.the corridor business journal says mayor snooks bouska is concerned about the tower terrace location reserved for this 19-million dollar y-m-c-a.the mayor says that location is in the 100-year flood plain for indian creek.executive director bob carlson says it's not a concern because the new building will be elevated three feet above that level. there's some good news if you're taking the car for your weekend get-away. get-away.gas prices in iowa continue to fall.gas buddy dot com says the average price per gallon in the state is two-dollars and 41-cents. that's about eight-cents ch
won't completely get rid of the affordable care act. in iowa city... a lawsuit against the chauncey tower project in iowa city.the trinity episcopal church filed the lawsuit in june, after the iowa city city council approved the 15-story building. the church was upset over the tower's location next to it at the corner of college and gilbert streets.trinity episcopal will have 30 days to appeal the judge's ruling. there are new concerns about a multi-million dollar project on the marion's north...
Channel 13 News at 10 : WHO : October 22, 2015 10:00pm-10:34pm CDT
that silver camry... here's a picture of it.. the car has an iowa license plate... d-m-k 9-0-5. witnesses say a white woman was driving... and two black men were passengers. they're all considered armed and dangerous. if you have any information on the suspects... call the polk county sheriff's office. police in pleasant hill think a second suspect may be connected to a string of car burglaries. authorities say these two men were caught on camera trying to use stolen credit cars. they were later seen walking out with stolen merchandise. may be connected to the rash of car burglaries. if you recognize either of these men, call pleasant hill police at 2-6-5 1-4-4-4. a former ron paul campaign staffer has been convicted... and another acquitted in a case connected former state senator... ken sorenson. the des moines register reports that jurors acquitted former paul campaign chair jesse benton. he was accused of lying to f-b-i agents. former deputy campaign manager dimitri kesari was found guilty of falsifying records.. the charges stemmed from a scheme to pay sorenson for his sup
that silver camry... here's a picture of it.. the car has an iowa license plate... d-m-k 9-0-5. witnesses say a white woman was driving... and two black men were passengers. they're all considered armed and dangerous. if you have any information on the suspects... call the polk county sheriff's office. police in pleasant hill think a second suspect may be connected to a string of car burglaries. authorities say these two men were caught on camera trying to use stolen credit cars. they were...
out from the iowa caucuses. how do things stand there at this point in time? october 24. that is when we start to see the campaigns mobilize staff. couches are starting to fill up the spare bedrooms in activists homes. you are starting to see more candidate activity, more appearances. fascinating. the biggest reality check is how much can change in those hundred days. was july 16. that is probably the biggest take, everything can change. thinkat what point do you -- at what point, who do you think and win the republican primary? james: we are still try to beure out who is going to the outsider candidate, who is the insider candidate, jeb bush has a lot more camping advertising. think we are seeing the john kasich campaign right now, although they are putting more money in. this is the more maturing part of the campaign. eightk they are candidates in the state of iowa today. people that many you can make a plausible argument who could win the primary. mark: you mentioned the poll that shows hillary was a bit of a bounce. at this moment, who is the new hampshire front-runner? james
out from the iowa caucuses. how do things stand there at this point in time? october 24. that is when we start to see the campaigns mobilize staff. couches are starting to fill up the spare bedrooms in activists homes. you are starting to see more candidate activity, more appearances. fascinating. the biggest reality check is how much can change in those hundred days. was july 16. that is probably the biggest take, everything can change. thinkat what point do you -- at what point, who do you...
continues to lead the pack... the iowa democratic quinnipiac poll shows clinton with 51 - percent support. and bernie sanders trails in second with 40 percent. followed by martin o'malley with 4 percent. and tomorrow... those three will attend the annual jefferson - jackson dinner. hundreds of supporters are expected to attend the event. all the presidential candidates are holding events leading up to the dinner... including a free katy perry concert for clinton supporters. hy - vee hall. as for republicans... today is a first for presidential hopeful ben carson... he is releasing the first of his t -v campaign ads. nbc's hallie jackson reports. ben carson - now hoping the timing's right - for people to start tuning in... his campaign - out with its first ads today - seen here for the first time. one - all about uplift - the other - a smackdown. nats / ad: "washington is broken. the political class broke it! together, we can drain the swamp." carson - buying half a million dollars of adspace in the first four primary states - airing earlier than most candidates - hoping to capital
continues to lead the pack... the iowa democratic quinnipiac poll shows clinton with 51 - percent support. and bernie sanders trails in second with 40 percent. followed by martin o'malley with 4 percent. and tomorrow... those three will attend the annual jefferson - jackson dinner. hundreds of supporters are expected to attend the event. all the presidential candidates are holding events leading up to the dinner... including a free katy perry concert for clinton supporters. hy - vee hall. as...
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Women's online magazine / Home / Quality system of electric meat grinder
Quality system of electric meat grinder
Than in your diet meat dishes are not uncommon,Then the traditional meat grinder is preferable: its mechanism is simple and durable, it is designed to work with large volumes of raw materials. But the compact "station wagon" is indispensable in the event that you cook a little and do not want to keep several different appliances in the kitchen. After all, universal units also include the functions of vegetable cutters, citrus press, juicers and millers and are equipped with a whole set of necessary accessories.
Aggregate for meat eaters
For the processing of steamed meat or fish in small quantities, any quality meat grinder is suitable, especially since the operating principle for different models is the same.
There is a choice, but how to find a fail-safe unit,Which "tough" tough, wiry meat, or how to find a system of indicators of the quality of electric meat grinder? First of all, compare the power and performance of the models you like. The capacity of the electric meat grinder depends not only on the speed of its operation, but also on the ability to process small cartilages, veins, and films (this is necessary if the meat is not of the best quality).
The electric meat mincer has two indicatorsPower: nominal and maximum. In normal mode, the device works with a nominal power of 240-800 watts for different models, and the maximum - from 1000 to 2000 watts, it gives out only for a short time when it operates with a blocked motor.
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I assume that the "Paul" is Paul Soderland (spelling?). Did he have anything to use other than the information from sources mentioned in the above paragraph? It appears that the pilot's were not debriefed by the FBI except in Reno on the evening of the hijacking. And I believe a possible jump zone was worked up even before the airliner got to Reno.
I believe Paul used every tool available, why wouldn't he? the FBI has nothing to do with any of this other than being told where to look. yes, it's possible the START of finding out where the plane was started on the 24th. we read dozens of documents of changes due to new evidence be it the FDR, radar, or pilot testimony. even the testing in 72. haven't you read the documents of the FBI saying multiple times they got off the phone with Paul surrounding the dropzone or statements from the pilots? they relied on others and didn't plot or calculate anything.
Going to T bar will not resolve the problem. Tom Kaye spent a lot of time there. he doesn't believe the plane flew over the area. I also find it hard to believe Cooper was concealed in a small area surrounded by people on a daily basis. you believe he's dead, other don't. Tbar doesn't show that clue either.
Insulting others for not going there is no fair play either. you have believed Cooper landed on Cat Island for a decade and failed to search the area. it should all be buried right there in that small patch of woods? we don't really know what Paul did. we have bits and pieces of all of it.
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I didn't say that the FBI estimated the initial drop zone. And who said that anything about being "concealed in a small area surrounded by people"? Any search for Cooper today on Caterpillar Island would need such things as ground penetrating radar. If he was originally snagged in one of those man eating briar patches, part of him might still be there but would probably be under a few feet of sand at this point.
The money find at Tina Bar, which was apparently just cash in a hole without any container, is strong evidence that Cooper moved downstream from Caterpillar Island, and probably in the spring 1972 runoff.
Why don't you mention something to Georger about not insulting others? Otherwise, he would probably never think about that.
My point was Caterpiller Island is a very busy island which I imagine many people utilize the beach and the woods throughout the year. I consider it a small area when looking at maps and coverage. the chute was on his back and probably could be located with a metal detector vs ground radar along with other items on his body. the list is larger than the one's who have been to Tbar so it insults more than just Georger. Galen has been to Tbar multiple times and with someone who has studied the river and believes it was planted. Eric has been there and believes it was planted. the Army corps of engineers have been there and failed to mention the body should be close by the find. the same goes for Tom Kaye. whats funny is two people (Eric & shutter) noted everyone was in the wrong location where the money was found that has been to Tbar.
In my opinion of the area and not stepping foot on the ground can come to a conclusion that these area's are not untouched or free from curious explorer's that have ventured into the wooded area over the years. I think Cooper would be visible or artifacts with Cooper for sometime after the fact. I think if we were to give credit to a western path Eric's location would be more plausible since the area is basically off limits to the public and free from accidental findings. the odds are better in his case.
I had to tell you and Georger to knock off the attacks/insults several times prior to my getting involved in the conversation.
We need to cease all the BS. I think it's best you two stop responding to each other. posting Georger's name is hitting below the belt. this is the second time you have done this. the next hint of an argument will get a month's vacation.
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How about mentioning to Georger that he should stop posting my name. I have posted my name from time to time but it was for a specific reason.
Nope, not the same at all. your name is on the DZ, this website, this forum and was on Sluggo's website for years. you never asked once to have your name kept private or even semi-private. doesn't matter if everyone knows his name. he doesn't like it being mentioned. you have known this for as long as I have, perhaps longer. if it was reversed, I would do the same for you or anyone else on this board. it's pretty simple.
Perhaps later down the road you guys can discuss things but at the moment I think it's best to move on from this issue.
Good Nite.....
georger
It is what it is - there is nothing to discuss. Now or ever.
Its official - could see lights of Portland and specific areas.
" Contrary to our earlier belief, the crew told him that they could see the lights of Portland And other distinctive lights in that area, so given knowledge of the specific area the hijacker could very easily have made a jump to a specific location. "
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See post #4294 on the Suspects and Confessions thread for more comments on the above.
Cooper did not have any control over the flight path of the airliner. He did not specify any particular route to be flown.
Consequently, there is no way on God's Green Earth that Cooper could have jumped "to a specific location".
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Robert: He didn't need to control the flight path, he only needed to know the general area, which he likely did. If a plane starts in Seattle and is flying to Mexico City or Reno or wherever, then that path is south. By giving a specific altitude, he can have some control of the path as well. Whether or not he knew where he was going is up to interpretation, but there is a strong possibility that he could have had an idea of where he was going and a general area of where to jump and land. He would not have been able to pinpoint a drop zone, but landing in a general area was certainly possible, and if he had help on the ground, then all he needed was a general area.
Jumping "in a general area" is not jumping "to a specific location". When Cooper jumped, he may or may not have had an idea about which state he was in [Washington or Oregon], but he didn't have the means to know which city he was near.
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I hear crow tastes like chicken, is that true Robert99?
I don't know what crows taste like. Georger should be able to tell you. And you should look twice before jumping to conclusions.
NASA sky pollution surveys - Portland vs Seattle 1970. The V23 corridor between the two cities is very dark. With dark adaptation Portland would stand out ahead to pilots at 10k ft. no matter the weather. To a photometer Portland would register off scale! There is no cloud cover known on Earth that could obscure sky glow from these cities in 1970-71. Red (+5) is as high as the scale goes in 1950-75.
NASA sky pollution surveys - Portland vs Seattle 1970. The V23 corridor between the two cities is very dark. With dark adaptation Portland would stand out ahead to pilots at 10k ft. no matter the weather. There is no cloud cover known on Earth that could obscure sky glow from these cities. Red (+5) is as high as the scale goes in 1950-75.
Georger has apparently never seen a thunderstorm and his remarks about the weather are just more nonsense. For his information, thunderstorms in the USA can reach 40 or 50 thousand feet altitude and up to 70 thousand feet in other parts of the world. In fact, U-2's flying at 70 thousand feet on operational missions have had to detour around them in some parts of the world.
I'll bet the picture Georger posted was made on a clear night or nearly clear night. And if it was a "sky pollution survey" made at night, what were the frequencies that were used in the survey equipment? Were they all in the visual to the human eye range?
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13 Women On How To Change Male-Dominated Studio Culture
Why aren’t more women becoming music producers?
By Ruth Saxelby
Beats aren't gendered. So why are we still in the dark ages when it comes to gender equality in the music studio? Women represent less than 5% of music producers and engineers, something that Grimes recently highlighted in a tweet responding to a Guardian piece about the sexual assault and emotional abuse allegations recently leveraged by Kesha against Dr, Luke. Unfortunately, it's a story that's disturbingly familiar in relation to the female performer/male producer dynamic.
Yes, the music industry—like every industry on this patriarchal planet—is sexist. That is not news. But this means we're missing out on a whole world of sounds, stories, and perspectives. If you'll allow me to go a lil' Virginia Woolf for a second, if the vast majority of music that surrounds us is produced by men, then most of the music we document will be music that is produced by men, which is how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place.
The hunger for change is there, and crucially at a mainstream level: Kelly Rowland told us she couldn't be more excited to be collaborating with a woman—LA producer Tokimonsta—on her new project, and J Dilla's mom Ma Dukes reminded us that "music is universal; you don't have to speak a certain language to understand what you get from music." So what's up with our current situation? Are women simply less interested than men in being producers, or is society not providing the support? The FADER spoke with 13 producers, who also happen to be women, about the challenges faced by women in production and engineering, and what they think can be done to make things better.
Future Brown, New York
Unfortunately, the repulsive reality is women are expected to be the sexualized commercial object for sale in music, and production and engineering is rarely objectified for financial gain. [Barriers to career progression for women include] misogyny, sexism, unequal pay, alienation, pressure to sell your body for coins, pressure to make your body (rather than your music) the central focus of your career in order to survive in the industry, segregation (for example: all-female line-ups).
How to change things: My mother supported my dream, so without her, I wouldn't be answering these questions. Support is one aspect, but women should also be fearless, go forth and battle the crescendo of bullshit in their path.
Listen to Fatima Al Qadiri.
Chairlift/Ramona Lisa, New York
There are plenty of female artists out there now who are self-produced and doing cutting-edge productions to surround their own vocals or compositions, which is vital part of the musical landscape right now, but the resulting message is that the female producer is an aesthetically presented vocalist who only produces her own songs. This sets up three additional hurdles to an already challenging field, because vocal chops, aesthetic presentation, and songwriting are three separate and time-consuming skills that should in no way be prerequisite. The archetype of Male Producer (take Rick Rubin, or Phil Spector for example) is not a man who necessarily composes, sings, or looks good on camera. Quite the opposite—the Male Producer is passionate about music but not a performer, putting in years hunched behind the console in unglamorous isolation before achieving guru status. By holding up female performers as producer-icons, we could potentially be discouraging the girls who don't feel comfortable presenting themselves as visual objects from entering the field. At the moment, an artist is not as likely to bring in a woman to produce his track as a man, not because of a bias against women per se, but because on some level it's playing safe: a killer producer, history tells us, looks like a man. Also the steep minority of women producers to choose from makes it a less likely match for artists seeking it out. But Jay-Z brought in 16 year old Ebony "WondaGurl" Oshunrinde to make beats for his Magna Carta record, and hopefully more rappers will follow suit.
How to change things: For others aspiring to be the next WondaGurl, there's an uphill battle to push through to be taken seriously by clients and create a whole new archetype for girls on deck, and the ones who do will be heroes and exponentially attract others to the field. I think it's up to girls to teach themselves the skills they need and step up to the plate as musical pioneers, not up to corporate sponsorships to give handouts that emphasize that the recipient is a minority rather than as a expert. Ultimately the music has to speak for itself and make the biggest change. I really think it's only a matter of time though. I'd give it five years max till we have a top 10 track made by a female producer.
Listen to Caroline Polachek.
WondaGurl
I believe there aren't many female producer and engineers, because they find this side of the business to be mostly male-dominated and many woman do not like to have to compete with men. If you have the art of sound, and feel you can put the music together to make yourself feel good, there should be no barrier to progress in this industry. You just have to have the right team around, the music speaks for itself. I'm not sure why a woman has never won a Grammy [in this field], but I feel Missy Elliot should get a Grammy for her hard work in the industry as a producer. I would also like to win a Grammy one day, that would be so cool.
How to change things: I feel women should enter more beat battle competitions, that would be the first step in getting noticed by people from all over. There are many industry people that attend those events and that I feel would be a good place to promote yourself.
Listen to WondaGurl.
Music, despite common misconceptions, is quite conservative. The archetypes don't seem to ever really change. It's quite transparent how little the music industry formula, or major motion picture formula, has changed since the advent of the internet. It's like they are in permanent austerity mode, and so play it safe. Every year we get a diva, a dancer, a bad boy, a crooner, a girl next door, a fashion queen, a dainty songstress; all younger updates on a previous model. No room for new archetypes. The most powerful thing about hip-hop is that it has a history of setting it's own agenda and taking risks, but sadly is often also burdened with crippling gender issues. Our biggest barrier is our infatuation with these old archetypes, and a lack of insistence on establishing new ones that reflect a culture we would like to live in. That extends far beyond gender issues. We have to create new fantasies.
How to change things: I think this is something more complex than just female involvement. I think a number of people struggle to find a place within the industry due to this preoccupation with old archetypes, and insistence that people adhere to the same affected role-playing in order to be considered worthy of opportunities. Adherence to those kind of roles inherently creates barriers for people of diverse lifestyles and opinions. What distinguishes someone like Missy Elliott, for example, is that she exists outside of those narrow roles, and ultimately I think that until people insist on seeing greater diversity of style and opinion in popular music we will continue to face this challenge.
Listen to Holly Herndon.
Asma Maroof
Nguzunguzu, Los Angeles
I think a lot of girls get intimidated by such a male-driven profession. The set up for ages has been female performers and male producers, and I think people simply get used to this arrangement. A big barrier is the stigma. Like "You're good, for a girl." Having to explain yourself, simply because people aren't used to the idea of a woman being in charge.
How to change things: Simply encouragement. From friends, family, supporters, etc. That is what helped me.
Listen to Asma Maroof.
I think our culture has systematically engrained this idea that technology is more of a man's thing. Men were ones that fixed the VCR, women were the ones that watched the VHS of Titanic on the VCR. Men have to be open minded to the fact that women can make platinum selling beats in every category of music. Though women are starting to take over more music exec positions, there are still the big guys up there that may continue to undermine our ability to make quality tracks.
How to change things: It would be too easy to name things like "start school programs" or air PSAs. The reality is that there is a systematic flaw in our culture. Women need to feel proud to stand on their own and be creative without worrying about how we may be inadequate.
Listen to Tokimonsta.
There needs to be acceptance from those higher up, that this industry is both sexist and racist. I don't wanna hear none of this 'you're making a fuss over nothing' bullshit. Once we acknowledge this, things will be better.
How to change things: You can start by booking me at the same price as males, stop leaving me on the bottom of the pile, work with me, talk to me, endorse me, promote me.
Listen to Ikonika.
Anna Lunoe
Engineering and producing is a scary thing to start and a very difficult thing to stick with and excel at. Making it to the top is very competitive. A lot has already been said about the idea that women are generally less likely to initially try something for fear of judgment or failure than men and to combat this I really believe the key to change is more visible female producers. The more there are in the public space, the more young girls will see it as a option for them from a young age and find the confidence to start learning. That means we need women not only to be producing but—and this is important—to stimulate meaningful change we need them to actually rise to the top and become visible. Producers by nature aren't always visible, so that means to create most change, she must not only be a producer but also potentially have what it takes to be a performer—publicly seen and embraced. We all are aware of the standards expected of women in this area so I'll just leave that there. We need some pretty one in a million girls to help break the cycle so it truly is a numbers game: the more women going into the industry means the more women going up, and visibility is the key to change.
How to change things: It's a two prong attack: 1) Getting more girls exposed to introductory production workshops at a young age before they get into that teenage headspace of learning that they can't. 2) Developing some quality production mentoring programs that are specifically aimed at promising young female engineers to develop their skills further. This mentoring program is something I have thought a lot about initiating when I get the time and support.
Listen to Anna Lunoe.
I think there are a million reasons and it's way deeper than the "boys club" theory. I think a lot of professions are like this. Less doctors, less lawyers, less filmmakers, less directors whatever. I think it stems from society telling girls they should be wearing pink and playing with Barbies and cooking in an Easy Bake Oven. Even if they aren't specifically told these things everything leans towards it, which puts in people's heads that they aren't supposed to do such things, or it would never work or be accepted. I think it starts there. I also think that not a lot of females are mentored by the right people. I have worked with several men that started to feel threatened the second I started to get a little bit of attention. Most men get freaked out when women do things better than them or even as good as them and it goes for everything. Politics, music, business, whatever.
How to change things: Production and engineering schools should encourage women to join, maybe look at their ratio, start mentoring programs. The few women in high positions should take other women under their wing and help them. That goes for male engineers too. This all goes down to the basic bottom line of feminism in general though.
Listen to Jubilee.
UNiiQU3
Honestly I don't know why there aren't more female producers and engineers. Maybe because the industry doesn't highlight the few females that are in that profession, unlike the many males that get plenty of attention. Or maybe because some females just aren't interested. It takes more than creativity and a good ear, to be a producer and/or engineer takes time. So there's this thing called passion that you must possess.
How to change things: I think the industry should highlight the many female producers and engineers we do have in the music industry, no matter what scene they may be in, and maybe that will encourage more girls to take on the challenge. There's numerous females that work magic outside of the vocal booth—Sylvia Robinson who produced the hip-hop classic "Rapper's Delight" to Beyonce who was a producer on her I Am.. Sasha Fierce album—but that gets no praise when it should.
Listen to UNiiQU3.
There have been a fair few [female producers and engineers] actually. From Delia Derbyshire to Tina Weymouth to Susan Day to Missy to Zavoloka. Game changing birds that all the boys know about and listen to, but whose impact was/is always somehow defused by their positioning within the cultural context. Women must also take responsibility for playing the role of titty, cutie, breeder and feeder. The world isn't fair and it is a harder stance to take on than to just acquiesce, and most humans will go for the road most travelled. Humans crave validation and we all have to take responsibility for how we manifest that. The newer breed are much more computer savvy and ready to have a go on the technology (less girls who just want to have a sing).
How to change things: Stop making cheap glamour, fame and attention so desirable—but this is a crisis within society as a whole and not just this business called show. Art has children and instead of revering people like Missy, the press champions nonsense like Madonna as a modern woman—and if u look at what she has "bred," it's verging on cultural crimes against humanity. I understand that she has made money etc, but if that is the criteria then Starbucks really is God. Offer ALL your kids chemistry sets and coding lessons. There is hope because everyone has computers and it's up to the parents and the girls themselves to put in the hours to learn these things. Raise humans with the confidence and the tools to do this and we may yet advance. Recognize Missy.
Listen to Leila.
Nightwave
The road to the top is hard everywhere: music, science, academia etc. It takes a lot of work, courage and perseverance. By the time we reach true expertise in a certain field, we are usually confronted with the choice between career or motherhood and, although both are possible, I just can't imagine being able to exceed in both. I'm 31 and I don't have children (yet) because I chose to work on my music career. Tracy Emin said in an interview recently "There are good artists that have children. Of course there are. They are called men." Perhaps this is why a lot of women 'give up.' Some are scared to enter the male-dominated industry but that shouldn't be an excuse anymore. If you don't stand up for your work you won't get anywhere. This industry is hard and nasty a lot of the times, you just have to keep your chin up and create strong work that can't be ignored.
How to change things: Start young! Encourage music programming in schools or kindergardens, show how easy and fun it actually is, let them fall in love with it and pursue it as a career. Provide workshops and learning events where girls (and boys) can learn and practice for free. Encourage mentoring by other women artists. Bigger female representation in music events and in music press, without drawing undesired attention to it (less click-bait articles about the problem, more focus on the work of women producers). And if you're going to write about it, include men in the debate, we need to shift this paradigm together and work towards equality in the future.
Listen to Nightwave.
In any field that's so heavily dominated by powerful men, it's extremely difficult for women to gain respect or be welcomed, and in the music industry the sheer intimidation of how women are treated probably keeps many aspiring female producers from moving up the ladder and garnering proper attention. Whereas only 5% of high profile producers and engineers are female, there are obviously many other women still under the radar. They're out there, just not included in that noteworthy percentage, which to me is the biggest problem.
How to change things: Since power starts at the top, it would be great if both labels and high profile artists took a little more time and consideration when selecting producers, and reached out to talented women instead of cycling through the same ~10 men that are responsible for most of what you hear on the radio (also a good look for the general diversification and progression of pop music). But since that takes more time and effort and equality doesn't seem to be much of a concern to the industry higher-ups, we need to keep having this conversation and having it loud. If pop music's audience is vocal about a change needing to happen, maybe we can shake the structure from the bottom. Profiling talented female producers and engineers more frequently is a start. Profiling women in the music industry without the qualifier of "female" would be great, since female isn't a genre.
Listen to Emily Reo.
This article was updated on October 20 2017 to remove the line "We don't listen with our genitals" as that incorrectly links gender with genitalia.
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Fracking Found Responsible for Blast that Severely Burned Entire Family – No One Charged
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Perrin, TX — Two and a half years after former oil field worker Cody Murray and three family members endured severe injuries when their pump house abruptly exploded into a fireball, new studies point the finger of blame squarely at one of Big Oil’s most disputatious practices: fracking.
“It’s really incontrovertible,” asserted Murray family attorney, Christopher Hamilton, of rapidly amassing evidence hydraulic fracturing was responsible for decimating the Texas family’s pump house in August 2014. “Sometimes the science just overwhelms.”
Although studies have consistently intimated fracking practices contaminate water and spawn earthquakes of even sizable intensity, the idea fracked gas and particulates could travel through horizontal fissures underground had remained the stuff of theory.
But the studies stemming from the Murrays’ lawsuit against gas operators EOG Resources and Fairway Resources — which the Texas Tribune reports is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs — finally substantiated high-level methane contamination of the family’s well originated from a drill site hundreds of feet away.
“The timing is undeniable, the location is undeniable, the chemistry of the gas is undeniable,” Hamilton told local station WFAA. “This is not naturally occurring gas. This is gas that came from 4- to 6-thousand feet below the ground.”
In the interview, the attorney shows video of bubbling, methane-laden water — the same water that caused the 2014 blast that left Cody Murray with second- and third-degree burns over nearly one-quarter of his body. The Murrays are suing in Tarrant County District Court for $1 million in damages.
“What you can see in the video here is just super carbonated water that is saturated with methane gas that’s bubbling out of the Murray’s water,” Hamilton explains.
“This is an explosive gas. Large bubbles and pockets of this methane escaping from a water well, any sort of spark will start a fire.”
On the fateful day in 2014, Murray and his father approached the pump house on the 160-acre property outside Perrin, around 60 miles northwest of Fort Worth — but what happened next forced the former oil industry worker to react immediately.
“At the flip of the switch, Cody heard a ‘whooshing’ sound, which he instantly recognized from his work in the oil and gas industry, and instinctively picked his father up and physically threw him back and away from the entryway to the pump house,” the lawsuit states. “In that instant, a giant fireball erupted from the pump house, burning Cody and [his father], who were at the entrance to the pump house, as well as [wife] Ashley and A.M. [the couple’s minor child], who were approximately twenty feet away.”
The Tribune notes, “The blast was caused by a buildup of methane gas in the water well that caused enough pressure to send water spraying in the family’s pump house. Ashley Murray turned off the well pump and asked her husband to investigate, and when he turned it back on, the gas exploded, severely burning” the four family members.
Thirty-eight-year-old Cody received “severe and extensive” burns to the body, the court filing notes, leaving him “permanently disfigured and disabled.”
EOG Resources settled with the Murrays, but attorneys say methane and drilling chemicals leaked from a Fairway well with a faulty seal and traveled through subterranean fractures before tainting the family’s water and building up dangerous pressure at the well.
As regulator of the state’s oil and gas industry, the Texas Railroad Commission initiated an investigation of the explosion that is ostensively ongoing, but has yet to produce any results or details for disclosure to the public.
In fact, RRC thus far lists the result of its investigation as ‘inconclusive.’
“There is nothing new to report at this time,” Ramona Nye, spokeswoman for the Railroad Commission, told the Texas Tribune. “The Commission takes this and every incident we investigate very seriously.”
She added, “As with any incident, our technical experts base their work on the appropriate science and data necessary to complete a thorough and comprehensive investigation.”
Citing ongoing litigation, Fairway Resources refused to comment on either WFAA or the Texas Tribune — and family attorneys would not permit litigants to discuss the case with the media.
But, in the meantime, studies commissioned by Murray family attorneys have found conclusive evidence hydraulic fracturing is as insidious as detractors have been warning for years.
Fairway Resources drilled its JT Cook #2 well in 2013, and about a month later, the Singleton family, who joined the Murrays’ lawsuit, observed noticeably murky water coming from faucets and informed the Railroad Commission — whose inspectors rushed to deny energy production was responsible, despite tests plainly pegging fracking as the culprit.
Indeed, lawyers and investigators claim RRC recklessly ignored the Singletons’ complaint of tainted drinking water — a warning sign gas had dangerously befouled the supply.
Hamilton, the Murrays’ attorney, hired “Thomas Darrah, a geochemist at Ohio State University; Franklin Schwartz, an Ohio State University hydrologist; Zacariah Hildenbrand, chief scientific officer at Inform Environmental; and Anthony Ingraffea, a civil engineering professor at a Cornell University with expertise in hydraulic fracturing” to investigate whether that gas well had caused both families’ issues.
Darrah compared samples from local water wells with those from the Fairway well, and found, “The JT Cook #2 oil and gas well displays a geochemical match to samples of groundwater in the Singleton’s and Murray’s water wells in all of the measured data.”
READ MORE: WATCH: Cops Kick Family Off Their OWN PROPERTY So Big Oil Can Drill
Schwartz disputes the RRC findings the methane contamination could not be decisively traced to Texas’ Barnett Shale, saying the Commission did not account for “physical, chemical and isotopic processes” that alter gas underground.
Hildenbrand concluded a drilling mud additive, Chem Seal, found in the Murrays’ water emanated from the Fairway well.
“Ingraffea wrote of at least three likely pathways for gas to escape Fairway’s well,” the Tribune reports, “which he said was constructed with ‘bare-bones’ protections and operated carelessly. The well also violated commission standards, Ingraffea wrote, notably because it lacked a Bradenhead gauge, a device that could monitor pressure and help detect leaks.”
Hamilton’s panel of investigative experts aren’t the only ones calling into question the Railroad Commission’s probe — an EnergyWire investigation of the explosion and government follow-through published in June, 2016, revealed “significant gaps in the [RRC] investigation and suggest at least one potential source wasn’t fully examined.”
Further, in December 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency published the results of a much-anticipated study on the water cycle and fracking, which “found scientific evidence that hydraulic fracturing activities can impact drinking water resources under some circumstances.”
Stanford University Professor Rob Jackson — who studies groundwater contamination and who says the Railroad Commission failed even to test whether the explosion could have been related to oil and gas industry activity — told EnergyWire,
“What’s frustrating is that the Railroad Commission could figure out what actually happened. They don’t seem particularly interested, though.”
With an administration uber-friendly to Big Oil, expecting government regulators or oversight agencies to thoroughly investigate mishaps like the Murrays’ and hold the industry accountable for wrongdoing seems naïvely optimistic — even though a rapidly-mushrooming body of evidence has declared fracking an untenable practice.
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Manual Stimulation: Hoshi no Kirby (GameBoy)
I don't know about you, but something I expect from any Kirby game manual is a ton of adorable illustrations of the pink puffball himself.
Sadly, the Hoshi no Kirby instruction manual disappoints mightily in that regard.
Sure, it offers up a few nice Kirby drawings, but I thought I'd find a lot more than a few in this particular booklet.
Oh, well. It's still worth ogling. One case in point: the rather fabulous border that lines each and every page of the Hoshi no Kirby--Kirby's Dream Land elsewhere in the world--manual.
Seriously, it's bubblegum pink and it's filled with stars. What more could you ask for in this kind of situation?
This booklet is similarly filled with screenshots of the game, of course. Normally that would prompt an unenthusiastic yawn from me, but here they're colored to complement the rest of the manual's color scheme, so instead it produced a mildly appreciative nod of the head.
This next page, on the other hand, is like a stab through the heart. No one at HAL Laboratory or Nintendo could be bothered to whip up some line drawings of Hoshi no Kirby's items?
The game only has a handful, after all. Plus, I can't imagine reproducing them in illustrated form would be much of a challenge.
To be honest, the only illustrations that impress here are found on the Hoshi no Kirby instruction booklet's last couple of pages.
These pages detail the game's five stages, by the way. Speaking of which, I love their names--especially "Float Islands" and "Bubbly Clouds."
Now that you've taken a gander at the Japanese Kirby's Dream Land manual, what do you think of it?
See also: my Hoshi no Kirby review, some photos of the Hoshi no Kirby GameBoy cartridge and box, and scans of the Hoshi no Kirby Famicom manual
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Harry and Meghan: Relationship Musings
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Location: Midwest, United States
You know, I do get other people anxieties about all of this. The media and royal watchers online aren't used to a member of the royal family dating a person who already have her own media presence and who's a successful actress. Also a woman of color. Just being honest. It's something new that people find hard to get used to.
I'm sure Harry never thought he would be dating an American actress and I'm sure Meghan never thought she would be dating a very famous British prince.
It's something I'm sure the late Prince Rainier and the late Grace Kelly never dreamed of either.
You can't control fate though.
In the days of George V, and even on back, none of this would be possible.
I totally understand the anxieties and worries and we can't totally dismiss those feelings.
Isn't it beautiful that in 2017 this is all possible though? It brings a tear to my eye (being serious) that a senior British royal can be allowed to follow his heart and have his woman declare (to the world) they're in love.
"WE CANNOT PRAY IN LOVE AND LIVE IN HATE AND STILL THINK WE ARE WORSHIPING GOD."
M. Payton
Location: USA, United States
Absolutely agree with you, this is 2017 and all people should be able to follow their hearts and be with the one that they love....no doubt about it. I just feel so sorry for those stuck in a time warp and the fact that they can't move forward and be somewhat happy that finally this young man has found a woman who loves him and is willing to give up so much to be with him and take on the world regardless of the hate and vile meanness out there.
I bet his mom is watching and is in his heart making him filled with love and joy.......way to go Harry and Meghan ......
Dee Anna
Location: Here, Ireland
Originally Posted by Dman
Indeed! 80 odd years ago a King abdicated to marry a divorced woman, yet here we are, the current heir - divorced himself - married over 12 years to a divorced woman.
Time has indeed moved on. Next year, after all, all things being equal Harry will be 6th in line to the throne, one step away from no longer needing the Queen's permission to marry. Not that I see that being an issue in any event.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ..... Oscar Wilde
Originally Posted by M. Payton
Well, to be honest, some veteran royal reporters/correspondents and other royal watchers are used to the old way of royal dating and royal life. Anything new and out of the norm are seen as threatening to the royal family and tradition of the institution.
Actually, the royal family adapted to a new style of royal courtships many years ago.
When Prince Edward was dating Sophie Rhys-Jones (now the Countess of Wessex) a lot of the norms were broken. Sophie was present at the royal family side a lot. She attended various family events with the royals and she holidayed with the family on the Royal Yacht Britannia, the Castle of Mey and Balmoral. Sophie was practically a senior member of the family even before her engagement.
The royal family is actually relaxed on who and how members of the family date.
Harry is actually dating a person who have a job that requires her to be in the spotlight and have a social media presence. She's not an unknown English girl plucked from one of the counties. She's successful and accomplished in her own right. Secure in herself. An American and of mixed race.
When it comes to potential British Royal Brides, the media and royal watchers online, feel things should be more traditional.
Times have changed though and people shouldn't dismiss the change. The most important thing is that the couple is happy and in love. The royal family, their friends and other family members support them, we should too.
To be honest, what has been posted in the last two days alone is absolutely mind blowing both in volume and content. I find myself wondering how a quite lovely interview which actually says very little but introduces Meghan Markle as a bona fide "girlfriend" who said she in love, could result in such turmoil.
Many have said they see KP's fingerprints all over this. I do not, for no other reason than if there is a good way or an even better way to release information they invariably default to BP style bumbling. I do not doubt that this interview was conceived and instigated by Harry and Meghan using her PR team via VF which both Harry and William seem to trust. A trust that was obviously not misplaced since the interview was in June and there were no leaks.
The use of Meghan's PR is a master stroke as they have a proven track record of quietly and efficiently nurturing her career as a serious actress and not in the least bit "Hollywood". However, the ensuing pearl grabbing is almost as entertaining as it is gobsmacking. Anyone would think she had posed a la 'Gypsy Rose Lee' with feather fans and nothing else.
The Daily Mail et al have their knickers in a knot because Vanity Fair was chosen to scoop them and I look forward to their future published articles on the subject. But now we have the "Perfect Brigade" pulling out all the stops to insist that this is Meghan manipulating and trying to force Harry's hand because, after all, he wouldn't really marry someone like her.
I love the behind the scenes clip of the photoshoot which showed a happy, carefree and self-confident woman and showed in action the warmth and charisma that no doubt is what attracted Harry in the first place. I wish them well and hope this "romance" ends in marriage if for no other reason than I love a happy ending.
To those who feel the article was designed to steal the Cambridge's third baby thunder, I would suggest they use their fingers to count.
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." - JM Keynes
Marty91charmed
Location: Near Verona and Venice, Italy
I havent' been posting for a while due to personal issues and real life events. Anyway, I have not formed an opinion on Meghan yet or on this interview since it is a first.
By reading the negative comments over here, that's what I think: Meghan is seen as a threaten to Kate. i don't know why that absurd idea would come up, but that's my feeling.
Be assured: if she enters the BRF, Meghan will be an asset, no more, no less. She won't be Kates' competitor, as long as, some "fans" won't pit them one against the other. Bye.
"Yet, walking free upon her own estate
Still,in her solitude, she is the Queen".
W.Y.CII
Location: 。, Hong Kong
Originally Posted by Marty91charmed
...By reading the negative comments over here, that's what I think: Meghan is seen as a threaten to Kate. i don't know why that absurd idea would come up, but that's my feeling.
Somehow I feel that too.
It definitely is not about actual matter like precedence, but they would be compared together on dressing, jewelry, engagements, etc. etc. no matter on what aspects. Probably that's the reason. (and honestly I have already seen some people comparing them )
Location: Canada, Canada
I think Meghan radiated warmth and happiness in the video of the photo shoot. Her charisma reminds me a lot of Harry's and I think that they will be very good together, also in support of others and the BRF.
Serene Highness
Location: -, Netherlands
Originally Posted by W.Y.CII
Which makes me wonder just why exactly Meghan would be a threat to Catherine?
What does Catherine have that must be protected at all costs (against the 'claws' of Meghan)?
miss whirley
Location: st. paul, United States
Originally Posted by Skippy
It's not about them trying to protect Catherine, it's about trying to protect the BRF as a whole. This is a very slippery celeb slope that H&M are pushing. High risk, low reward.
Osipi
Location: On the west side of North up from Back, United States
I have a feeling that as time passes, what we're basically going to be seeing as far as Kate and Meghan is two women who become close as sisters-in-law. Of course the fashionistas will focus on the differences in looks, styles and who wore the most expensive piece of jewelry or who wore more on loan from the Queen (which is a no-brainer as Kate is a future Queen) but all of that is superficial and print to fill spaces.
Up until now, I've always seen Will & Kate & Harry as the Three Musketeers that are close and work side by side as a team. With Meghan possibly joining the troupe, I'll just have to rename them the Four Musketeers. Of course it'll take up most of the post just typing out The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of (Sussex or whatever) but I can definitely see where Meghan will be a positive addition to this foundation and its causes.
A lot of the focus recently has been Meghan's fit into the British scheme of things. That is kind of one sided in my opinion. A lot of Americans like myself hold the British and their royal family as something wonderful to know about and to follow and I think with Meghan joining the family, Americans will feel a closeness to the UK even more. I remember not too long ago that a man wrote to HM, The Queen pleading with her to take the US back which HM responded to very politely. Its comical in its own way but underlining it all is a realization that the British way of doing things with a constitutional monarchy may be the way to go when all is said and done.
American writes to the Queen asking her to take back control of the US because Presidential candidates 'aren’t up to par' | The Independent
There is a lot of divisiveness rampant in the States these days and a lot of racial tensions present and from an American point of view, to see divisiveness being thrown to the wind, a couple from both sides of the pond united with an aim towards making this planet better for all of us and the ability to overcome any obstacles that stand in their way gives us hope that if two people can do something like this, its possible that our societies can also overcome such issues also.
The wonderful love story of Harry and Meghan have so many positives to it if we look for them. Paramount at the top of the list is the happiness of the two people involved and everything else is secondary. The thing is that with looking for all the negatives surrounding this union, the things that could be the best things that happen since sliced bread get overlooked because of bias.
Nothing is ever unicorns and rainbows but as one of my favorite poster has for a signature with a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, "“If you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.” Its all how we look at something.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
~~~Ralph Waldo Emerson~~~
Would those who are 'against' Meghan for her career and any other aspect mentioned here be overjoyed when Harry would have a Catherine-like girlfriend?
Personally, from the get go, I thought Meghan was very much a Kate-like girlfriend. In fact, the closest thing to what William has found in Kate. Both women are self assured, comfortable in their own skins, home and family orientated and supportive.
Not really. I can't imagine Harry being attracted to a Catherine-type and I can't imagine a Catherine-type wanting to date Harry. But there are all different types. Camilla, Sophie, and Catherine are all very different yet they aren't pushing this celebrity slope onto the BRF. It's great that Harry and Meghan are in love but they will need to work for the BRF not the BRF working for them, this is the wrong celeb narrative to push. Like I said, high risk, low reward.
Pranter
Originally Posted by Osipi
Me too...and I said for quite awhile before he met Meghan he needs someone like Kate and not Cressida et al and I hoped he would meet her doing some sort of charity work...that he needed to find someone from outside 'his circle'
Originally Posted by miss whirley
Do you mind me asking, what does your "celebrity slope"/"celeb narrative" mean/refer to?
Cocoasneeze
Location: Somewhere in, United Kingdom
What celebrity slope is Meghan pushing on to the BRF?
I haven't seen anything celebrity from her at all.
Madame Verseau
Location: Louisville, United States
Camilla was Charles' side piece (mistress) for years during his marriage to a popular Princess Diana yet the queen signed off on that marriage. As the future king Charles would become Defender of the Faith and Head of the Church of England. Charles could have lost the throne over her, British born or not. Camilla was branded a homewrecker and worse; and there had to do some extensive image rehab for Camilla. The point is, if royal consent was obtained for the heir apparent to marry a woman with such scandal to her name, a marriage between a soon to be sixth in line to the throne and an actress with no dirt on her should not be a problem. I believe the queen would be on shaky ground to say no to Meghan given the precedent.
There are various threads/articles about the difference between royalty and celebrity so we shouldn't veer too off topic. But a thread like this When Did The "Celebrification" of Diana Begin? might be interesting read if you're so inclined.
wyevale
Location: pinner, United Kingdom
it's about trying to protect the BRF as a whole. This is a very slippery celeb slope that H&M are pushing. High risk, low reward.
AMEN.. this is the real problem,that those [largely from abroad] cannot see, or 'don't have a problem with'...
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Objective - To determine the prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.n Methods - Data were analyzed from 22 patients (7 males, 15 females) with type 1 diabetes aged 7 to 29 years who were under follow up at SVIMS, Tirupati. Antibodies to thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO) were measured in all patients. The mean age was 14.2 years (min - max 7-29 years), and mean duration of diabetes was 5.3 years (min - max 0.1-22 years). Results - Nine (41 %) patients, had elevated (>18A U/ml) anti-TPO levels. While 8 of 15 girls (53%) were positive for anti TPO antibodies only 1 out of 7 boys (14.2%) were likewise positive. Eight of the nine (88.9%) patients who were positive for TPO antibodies also had a goiter while only 2 of the 13 (15.4%) patients lacking TPO antibodies had a goiter (p<0.001). Using TPO as the serological gold standard for the diagnosis of thyroid autoimmunity, the sensitivity and specificity of clinical goiter presence in identifying underlying thyroid autoimmunity was 88.9% and 84.6% respectively. Of the 9 patients who were positive for anti TPO antibodies, 7 (78%) had biochemical evidence of hypothyroidism. All of them were girls. However only two had frank hypothyroidism (both had TSH > 50 IU/ml). Conclusions - Thyroid autoimmunity and consequent hypothyroidism is common in type 1 diabetes thus emphasizing the importance of screening.
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KU basketball snowbird picks ‘Hawks over heatwaves
By Sara Shepherd
Kansas basketball snowbird Rosalie Gerstner, Ness City, walks arm-in-arm with her grandson Brian Gerstner, Baldwin City, as the two make their way to Allen Fieldhouse prior to tipoff of the Jayhawks' game against the Horned Frogs of TCU on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. For years, Gerstner would make the 300-mile trip from Ness City for the home games, but now retired, has decided to rent an apartment in Lawrence during basketball season.
Rosalie Gerstner and her grandson Brian Gerstner sing the Alma Mater prior to the Jayhawks' tipoff against TCU on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at Allen Fieldhouse.
Retiree Rosalie Gerstner doesn’t head south to escape the blustery Western Kansas winter. She heads east — for Allen Fieldhouse.
For five years Gerstner made the 300-mile drive from her house in Ness City to nearly every Kansas University men’s basketball game, spending the night with her daughter in Ottawa or son in Baldwin City before hitting the road back home. Three years ago, she transitioned from basketball commuter to basketball snowbird.
Now, Gerstner, 80, rents an apartment from October to April and stays the whole winter. When the Jayhawks’ season is over it’s home to Ness City, where she grew up and raised her family and where her other three children still live.
“I thought it was something I would enjoy doing,” she said of buying her season tickets after her husband died nine years ago. “I fully intend to do it, really, as long as my health holds out.”
Florida? Pshaw.
It’s got nothing on Lawrence’s retirement scene, where Gerstner’s between-games social calendar is packed with women’s basketball and volleyball games, KU Athletics events, Welcome Club gatherings, Road Runners Club events, tai chi, bridge, mahjong and coffee with new friends.
Inside her studio apartment off Sixth Street, the decor is nearly all crimson and blue.
A recent visit found Gerstner in the middle of a busy week. The previous night she went to Hawk Talk, and that night was the women's basketball game.
“Aaaand,” she says, “Friday night is the ‘Jayhawkers’ at KU.”
From a photo- and memorabilia-strewn card table by the door, Gerstner plucks a snapshot of herself with basketball player Justin Wesley, which she hopes he’ll sign for her at the film screening. Wesley, who plays Wilt Chamberlain in the "Jayhawkers" movie, is expected to be on hand with the rest of the team.
Even to “little old ladies” like herself, the young basketball players are always so kind and nice, Gerstner said.
Gerstner thinks there must be other basketball snowbirds in town, but she isn’t sure who they are. If she meets any, she said, she might try organizing watch parties for out-of-town games.
Who needs palm trees, anyway?
From her seats in the rafters of Section 16, Gerstner loves the noise of the crowd inside Allen Fieldhouse. And the video before the players are introduced never gets old.
“That,” she said, “is by far the best.”
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Josh Galler 5 years, 10 months ago
awesome story
Elias Dunlavy 5 years, 10 months ago
im jealous of this lady. rock chalk
Lori Tilson 5 years, 10 months ago
Dan Burns 5 years, 10 months ago
Rosalie, don't worry... there are hawk fans down here in S Florida as well, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Univer...
Tony Bandle 5 years, 10 months ago
That kind of fan dedication deserves a mention in the Booth Hall of Fame.
Another great fan is 90 year old Kathryn Krehbiel who, with her son and family friends, does a same day round trip from Moundridge, Kansas to Lawrence to see virtually every game at Allen, a tradition that has gone on for over two decades.
The fact that she has suffered from strokes as well as her ability to walk has been severely limited, does not stop her. As long as her wheelchair stills rolls, she will keep on cheering the Hawks. As a side note, she is an ardent supporter of the Pep Band who serenades her after the end of every game.
The examples shown by these two great fans should be an inspiration to us all and a reminder of just what a blessing it is to be a Jayhawk!!
Dennis Acheson 5 years, 10 months ago
Snowbirds in Arizona who loves the hawks. RCJGKU.
Damian Glaze 5 years, 10 months ago
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Werner Gilles
Rheydt/Rheinland 1894 -
After World War I Gilles became a student of Walther Klemm's at the "Weimarer Akademie", but in 1919 he transfered to the newly founded "Bauhaus", where he attended Lyonel Feininger's class. Until 1923 the artist remained registered at this art and design school. During this time Werner Gilles was friends with Gerhard Marcks and Oskar Schlemmer. In 1921-22 Gilles decided to travel to Italy for the first time. Werner Gilles post-graduate life was marked by continuous moves: Between 1925 and 1930, after a further trip to Italy, he stayed in Düsseldorf, Paris and Berlin.
During his first trip to the Italian island of Ischia in 1932 Gilles discovered the things that inspired his imagination for painting: the unification of antique Paganism and western Christianity of past and present.
Werner Gilles discovered the central subject of his pictures. In his oil paintings and his watercolors Gilles depicts the buoyant and the threatening sides of this primordial landscape and captures its basic nature in ever new variations, which are created outside in the open countryside. Gilles' favourite themes came to fruition in two Orpheus Cycles in 1947-49 and in the watercolors illustrating the "Tibetan Book of the Dead" painted in 1950.
His late works combined various stylistic impluses. Werner Gilles early southern landscapes of the 1920s were based on the painting techniques of the "Murnauer Schule" and the "Blauer Reiter". Towards the end of the 1930s a classical formal language can be observed in his drawings and paintings. During and after the war his works were determined by simplifying stylisations of objects and figures and an increasing planeness of composition. From 1951 Gilles spent his winters in Munich and his summers on the Italian Island of Ischia.
Werner Gilles died on June 23, 1961 in Essen, Germany.
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Oskar Schlemmer
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Werner Heldt
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Under the Never Sky
by Veronica Rossi
Buy Under the Never Sky on Amazon
Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of survival in the outer wasteland–known as The Deathshop– are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathers can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild–a savage–and her only hope of staying alive.
A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile–everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help, too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world that’s harsh but often beautiful.
Every once in a while, you’ll read a book description and melt. You’ll get all excited and feel happy inside, and the weird cover that has nothing do to with the plot won’t even phase you at all. You will buy said book, rush home, and devour it immediately.
Under the Never Sky is one of these books.
Aria’s world is quite arteficial; all civilized people live in enclosed cities. To escape the, well, confinement of these cities, people travel to the Realms; virtual worlds that are, as they say, ‘better than real’ , where there is no pain, risk, or fear.
Perry’s world is a bit simpler. All people who are not living in cities have formed tribes, reverting to an almost animalistic way of life. Their goal is simply to survive. But in the process of their unlikely evolution, many of these Outsiders have somehow developed their senses extraordinarily– to the point of being able to sent emotions and hear things miles away.
After a not-so-accidental accident in her not-very-accident-prone home, Aria is banished from the city of Reverie, and thus, the only life she has ever imagined.
After making a seemingly harmless mistake with not-really-harmless people, Perry has put someone’s life in danger– this person being, quite possibly, the only one he actually loves.
In this collision of worlds, Aria and Perry are forced to adapt, conspire, and stand each other in the short time they both have to earn redemption. Easy, right? Wrong. Very, very wrong.
Especially under the Never Sky.
Rossi’s world building is amazing. I loved the clash of civilization versus freedom, rules versus instincts, illusions versus reality. The tribes, the Croven particularly, were fascinating– not to mention a little creepy. The Aether (although it was never properly explained, which ticked me off), was captivating. Another aspect I really like was the way Rossi described language; she made it sound beautiful without uttering a word: ‘It was Perry’s language but harsher. Edged where it should have been smooth.’
I felt really satisfied with the characters when I finished Under the Never Sky. This is a very rare occurrence, and I feel quite pleased that it was accomplished. I really think that Aria and Perry evolved and came out of most of their prejudices. This being said, I thought that Aria was a true snob when she first met Perry; all she did was complain, bitch, and feel sorry for herself. Quite frankly, I imagined her whining in an English accent. This was very amusing; I do suggest it.
Some other characters I absolutely love include Roar, Cinder, and Liv. Roar is a sort of atypical pretty boy. He’s in love, despite the circumstances, and Perry’s best friend. He’s quite funny… delightful, actually. Cinder is your classic scrawny, skimpy kid… but with a big, bad secret. He is definitely a handful, and I can picture him breaking hearts when he’s older. Oh, yeah! There should be a spin-off series about Cinder, for sure! And as for Liv… well, she isn’t exactly a character in Under the Never Sky… but I hope she is in the next book.
Oh, and Perry, of course! Perry has a very interesting perspective. His philosophies are simple, yet they have huge meanings. He is hardworking, frank, and a man of few words… quite a cute character, if I do say so myself.
Aria thinks he’s cute, that’s for sure. The romance between the two main characters is very well written and realistic. It has verrrrry slow onset– which is great, because it allows the first three quarters of Under the Never Sky to be very action/adventure-y, and the last 25% of it to be believable. I loved how the characters knew the extent of their feelings, but also realized that they had duties and responsibilities that were more important than their emotions. That’s true strength, right there.
As I said before, the only real issue I have with this Under the Never Sky is the science behind the Aether. Apparently, the Aether is some kind of blue, lightning-like energy that flows through the sky, scorching the earth during storms. Since the Unity (Yeah, what is that, anyway?), Aether storms have become more violent and destructive, causing the death of entire tribes… okay, so we’ve got some weird-coloured lightning that kills lots of people. Believable, ain’t it? Especially since we never find out key ideas such as where it came from in the first place.
In order to redeem herself for not explaining the Aether phenomenon, Rossi masterfully explains other technicalities in detail. One of my favourites is her account of a certain part of the brain.
Last but not least, I need to mention the ending. THE ENDING. The freaking ending! Dang, if that’s not a twist, then I don’t know what is. I mean, suspense much?
So, Under the Never Sky merits 4.5/5 stars. This is a post-apocalyptic dystopian that you do not want to miss, lest you be scorched unrealistic lightning. So, shoo! Buy and read!
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Percival Samuel Lancaster Thorne - who were his parents?
by Meriel W » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:02 pm
Mystery Gt Gt Grandfather Percival S. L. Thorne had Sophia Thorne, “single woman” as his mother. He was born 29 Nov 1821, according to TWO baptisms.
Bapt 1: Percival Radstock Thorne 40 Nov 1834, St Leonard’s Shoreditch. This baptism has a strange note that Mother was now married to Thomas Joseph Pritchard. Reference to this marriage 1829 at St Michael’s, Wood St has been found, but T J Pritchard disappears afterwards.
Bapt 2: Percival Samuel Lancaster Thorne 15 May 1837 at St John , Horselydown, Southwark, Surrey. In this record Sophia Thorne was a “single woman”. Their address was in Back St at this time. Both baptisms state the identical birth date.
Percival married Jane Isabella Boxshall at the latter church 24 Aug 1846. The Boxshall family history has been traced a long way. It would appear that Sophia Thorne probably died later the same year. Percival and Jane had four children: William whose subsequent life is uncertain, Jane Isabella, my Gt grandmother who married William Gough, Percival Samuel who died as an infant and Esther who had two marriages to a wheelwright and then a blacksmith. The families remained in the Surrey area.
Percival worked as a clerk all his life when the rest of the family were labourers or artisans. How did he get his education? One family rumour found amongst my old mother’s few contributions to our family history knowledge has a mystery aristocrat in the family line. Was Sophia a maid or a prostitute? Who were her parents? She certainly cared about her son.
Can anyone help me sort out this brick wall? Maybe it will just remain that way for ever.
Meriel W
Re: Percival Samuel Lancaster Thorne - who were his parents?
by JMcK » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:37 pm
My first instinct is that you should look closely at the Radstock name
and in 1841 there is Lord and Lady Radstock with staff at Portland Place, Marylebone. He is 50 and she 35.
There are a LOT of newspaper articles concerning the varioius Lords R. It would appear the 1841 succeeded to the title as the 2nd Baron in 1825 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W ... n_Radstock
As to why he would be rechristened Samuel Lancaster - perhaps the Radstocks asked her to change his name? did money change hands? Did Sophia have a new 'protector'?
JMcK
by Meriel W » Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:20 am
Thanks for the idea. I have been trying to sort this guy for years. The name Percival was used by subsequent generations, so he was perhaps remembered kindly. He was only 40 when he died. I will have a Radstock hunt. I did find a Samuel Lancaster of about the correct age who married the daughter of the Lord Mayor of London and then went back to the family home in Yorkshire. One of his relatives started schools for the underprivileged - thought maybe Percival must have received an education of some sort to end up a clerk. He had a smart signature at his marriage. The mystery marriage of Sophia is less than helpful. Sophia was not a very common name, but she remained in the shadows.
by JMcK » Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:06 am
i see the marriage of Sophia Thorne to Thomas Joseph Pritchard in 1829 is in Pallot's indexes. Where did they get it from? It must be somewhere!
by Meriel W » Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:30 am
I have hunted in all directions for this marriage, but so far no luck. One presumes the Pallots records were based on actual church records. Cannot decide if Thomas Pritchard skipped off and married someone else, maybe died or just faded out of sight. There were several Thomas Pritchards in London at that time. The fact he is not mentioned in any other family details suggests he was not part of the family for long. There is one 1841 census record that has a Sophia Pritchard as a servant in Camberwell. Another possibility.
I have obtained the death certificate for Sophia Thorne. She died 22 April 1846 aged at 6 Lemon St. Ruptured blood vessel of the lungs. (Maybe due to TB???) She was a single woman. There were so few women in London at that time called Sophia Thorne I feel it is probably correct.
So she would not have been at her son's wedding in the August. Sometimes it was not recorded that a parent was deceased on the church records.
As regards Sophia's birth - there was a possible 28 Feb 1794 -baptism at St Mary Newington, Surrey. So that was in Southwark where most of her activities seemed to happen. Parents in this record - Peter Thorne and Mary.
The mystery remains! Thanks so much for your help.
by JMcK » Wed Apr 25, 2018 10:51 am
Of course there is the marriage of a Sophia Thorne to Joseph Whittaker in 1817, saint Benedict’s city of London, witnesses David and Elizabeth whittaker. Looks like all sign,
Same Sophia or a different one???
The other odd thing is that despite having Percival baptised twice. She didn’t do the first until he was 13. Do you think there is an earlier one you are missing?
by ianbee » Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:18 am
Meriel W wrote: I have hunted in all directions for this marriage, but so far no luck. One presumes the Pallots records were based on actual church records.
According to FamilySearch, St Michael Wood Street with St Mary Staining
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/St ... _Genealogy
"Christenings 1663-c1895, Marriages 1674-1754, 1813-1895, Burials 1813-c1853 destroyed by enemy action, 1940, but see coverage of marriages in Boyd and Pallot indexes."
Check that of course.
ianbee
by Meriel W » Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:03 am
Thanks JMcK - Yes I had investigated the Whittaker marriage but came to the conclusion it was a different Sophia Thorne (Maybe the only other one in London at that time?) There are later census records for that family.
The two baptisms is certainly strange. I have hunted all over for one in 1821, but no sign of one so far. Both baptisms clearly have an identical birth date. Why Sophia decided to give her son two different names is a real puzzle.
Thank you Ianbee for that information. It does at least explain why there are missing records regarding the marriage. The Pallots record is better than nothing. It does not clarify what happened to Thomas J Pritchard. He does get that mention in the first baptism. Perhaps he died. I cannot spot a relevant death yet. Sophia also reverts to her original surname for the second baptism. Unless a DNA match throws up a Thorne connection, and that would still not show a father's name for Percival, I think the mystery will remain. The family remained in the St John's Horselydown & Southwark area. Not spotted any workhouse record either.
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Beijing warns residents after off-the-charts smog
BEIJING (AP) &mdash Beijing chools kept children indoors and hospitals saw a spike in respiratory cases Monday following a weekend of off-the chart pollution in China's smoggy capital, the worst since the government began being more open about air-quality data.
City authorities, who began releasing figures about some of the worst kinds of pollutants early last year, ordered many factories to scale back emissions and were spraying water at building sites to try to tamp down dust and dirt worsening the noxious haze hanging over the city.
Demand spiked for face masks an air purifiers, and hospitals saw surges of up to 30 percent in residents seeking help for breathing problems, state-run media outlets reported. Schools in several districts were ordered to cancel outdoor activities such as flag-raisings and sports classes, and in an unusual public announcement,Beijing authorities dvised all residents to "take measures to protect their health."
"It's really terrible. I'm extremely upset, but there's really nothing much I can do," said a Beijing resident out for a morning stroll. Like many Chinese, the man would give only his surname, Kang.
Another man, a 60-year-old retiree surnamed Chen, said his elderly relatives had moved to stay with family members outside the city to avoid the pollution.
"I'm in pretty good shape, but the older folks have a lot of problems with their hearts, breathing, and high blood pressure," Chen said.
Levels of PM2.5 particle pollution over the weekend reached the highest levels since th Beijing government egan publicly releasing figures following a public outcry. In separate monitoring by the U.S. Embassy, level were at 886 micrograms per cubic meter in a reading that was labeled "beyond index."
By Monday, levels had declined to about 350 micrograms on the Beijing government scale — down from a high above 700 but still way above the level of 25 considered safe by the World Health Organization.
PM2.5 are tiny particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in size, or about 1/30th the average width of a human hair. They can penetrate deep into the lungs, and measuring them is considered a more accurate reflection o air quality han other methods.
Th Beijing Shijitan Hospital eceived 20 percent more patients than usual at its respiratory health department, Dr Huang Aiben aid. Most patients were coughing and sought treatment for chronic bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory illnesses, Huang said.
"Because these dust particles are relatively fine, they can be directly absorbed by the lung's tiny air sacs. The airway's ability to block the fine dust is relatively weak and so bacteria and viruses carried by the dust can directly enter the airway," Huang said.
Huang said exposure to such high levels of pollution over the short term can cause bacterial and viral infections, and prolonged exposure could result in tumors.
Beijing's air started to worsen on Thursday, and Beijing's monitoring center said the pollution was expected to linger until Tuesday.
Weather conditions are a factor, as a lack of wind means pollutants can easily accumulate and fail to dissipate, said Pan Xiao Chuan, a professor at Peking University's public health department.
"Recent pollution doesn't mean there is an increase in the discharge of pollutants," he said.
The government started publishing PM2.5 readings last year after public demands for more detailed air quality data, prompted in part by a Twitter feed from the U.S. Embassy that reported readings from the building's roof. A growing Chinese middle class has become increasingly vocal about the quality of the environment. Hourly air quality updates are now available online for more than 70 cities.
Air pollution is a major problem in China due to the country's rapid pace of industrialization, reliance on coal power, explosive growth in car ownership and disregard for environmental laws. It typically gets worse in the winter because of weather conditions and an increase in coal burning for heating needs.
Several other cities, including Tianjin on the coast east of Beijing and southern China's Wuhan city, also reported severe pollution over the last several days.
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Good News Florida Marlins
Sometimes it helps to step back for a little perspective. It’s May 4th and the following list of facts bodes well for the 2009 Florida Marlins:
The Marlins have been in 1st place all year.
The Marlins, along with 4 other teams, have played the fewest number of home games going into tonight’s home game [9].
The Marlins just completed their most difficult stretch of road games for the season.
25 year-old Josh Johnson is one of the best pitchers in MLB and has an ERA of 0.4 in 3 starts at home this year. Johnson is starting tonight.
When 22 year-old Chris Volstad was pulled on April 19th after completing only 4.1 innings, it was the first time he was pulled before completing 5 innings [injury aside] in 20 major league starts. The most earned runs he has allowed in those 20 starts is 4. In 8 of those starts, he has given up 1 or no runs. Did I mention he’s 22? The Yankees would offer Volstad the Kingdom of Tonga if he were a free agent today.
25 year-old Anibal Sanchez had 3 good starts to begin the year, and has struggled in his last two. In one of his two bad outings, he gave up 6 runs to the Mets in the first inning and then pitched 5 scoreless innings.
The Marlins fielding has not been the problem which was feared before the year began. The Marlins rank 8th in National League fielding statistics. Hanley Ramirez has yet to commit an error.
The Marlins bullpen has not been the problem which was feared before the year began. They currently rank 10th out of 16 National League teams. However, Renyel Pinto, Kiko Calero, Dan Meyer and Leo Nunez all have ERA’s at or below 3.00, and Hayden Penn has been very effective with the exception of one outing against the Phillies.
The Marlins rank 4th in runs scored in the National League despite Hanley Ramirez not having a home run since April 10th and Dan Uggla’s and Cameron Maybin’s batting averages hovering around the Mendoza line.
Jorge Cantu, who has continued where he left off last year [the Marlins MVP], is 2nd in the NL in RBI’s and was just named the NL Player of the Week.
The Florida Marlins currently rank 21st in MLB attendance [there is a 9 team buffer between us and the bottom], with an average of 23,663. This is not a typo or a lie.
So cheer up Marlins fans, with the talent on this team and the new Ballpark on the horizon, these are the best of times. Unless of course, Emilio Bonifacio doesn’t stop striking out, then all is truly lost.
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Y’know, ever since the Girardi/Fredi-Hanley-Danny-Ani-and-Josh crew came aboard in 06 (geez, has it been that long?) I have been happy as a clam watching this team. It’s a combination of their youth, talent, outlook and low payroll. All of it adds up to zero baggage, lots of drama on the field but not much off of it, and a ton of guiltless enjoyment. (If the Yankees would trade Tonga for Volstad, they’d give a borough for an A-Rod with no past.) Anyways, the joy hasn’t worn off for me, even with the less-than-ideal home ballpark, the low-ish playoff prospects 06-08 and now the more serious, potentially choke-inducing expectations of today, since it’s their sacred duty to repeat the six-year itch and win the Series in 09.
Great reading of their season so far.
Florida Marlins should be always competitive enough to keep pace with the others. I really like them; they’ve always been my favourite teams in MLB. Just read about them here:
http://www.marlinshome.com
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All things Disney take over ballroom for week 5 of 'Dancing With the Stars'
The cast of Season 27's "Dancing With the Stars" are shown in the opening sequence for week five's "Disney Night." (KABC)
By Cari Skillman
LOS ANGELES -- It's Disney Night on Season 27 of "Dancing With the Stars," and over the years fans have always loved these performances.
The professional dancers go all-out to choreograph and create magical moments to familiar Disney songs. Many of the couples made a trip to Disneyland and California Adventure during the week and while that may have cut into some rehearsal time, it looked like everyone was thrilled to take a quick break to visit the Happiest Place on Earth.
Here's a rundown of the night's scores, from highest to lowest:
Juan Pablo Di Pace- 29 out of 30
J.P. admitted the perfect score he earned in week three got in his head a little bit. Last week's 8s brought him back to the real world. He was thrilled to see Disney Night because he's been a card-carrying Disney super fan since he was a kid. Juan Pablo actually wanted to be a Disney animator. He embraced the character of "Gaston" from "Beauty and the Beast" and Cheryl Burke did masterful choreography (again) for their Viennese Waltz. When the routine was over, host Tom Bergeron said it is one of his favorites in all 27 seasons. Head judge Len Goodman liked the gusto and zest of the dance. Bruno Tonioli thought J.P. nailed the character and both his style and the amount of content was spot on. Carrie Ann Inaba told Juan Pablo he had flair for days, as well as momentum and finesse.
Alexis Ren- 29 out of 30
Alexis got her first 10s and highest score to date for a fluid, flowing Foxtrot to a tune from "Pocahontas." She blushed several times before and after the performance when producers/judges/Tom all hinted that Alexis and her pro partner Alan Bersten might be becoming a couple. Len called it a well-crafted routine with no stressing and messing about. Bruno thought the dance was lyrical, flowing and gorgeous. Carrie Ann said the routine made her believe in fairy tales and thinks this is Alexis' best dance of the season.
Milo Manheim- 27 out of 30
Milo and Witney Carson channeled Mr. Incredible and Elasti-girl to perform a Quickstep to that film's soundtrack. No surprise he's a huge Disney fan - he got his show biz start on Disney Channel and the film "Zombies." Their trip to the amusement park included a ride on the Incredibles own roller coaster. Witney knew Milo could handle this dance because the 17-year-old has so much energy. Bruno agreed, calling the routine a blockbuster and gave them a 10. Carrie Ann was right behind with a 9 and thought the dance was full of life. Len agreed there was a lot of "zippity doo dah" to the dance but not enough body contact.
DeMarcus Ware- 26 out of 30
DeMarcus is still nursing a dislocated finger but his real pain was in last week's scores. The pro athlete doesn't let a bad week get him down and used it to motivate him for learning the Charleston. Lindsay Arnold had lots of fun choreographing a very physical routine with her "Hercules." We've never seen lifts like this! And to top it off, Lindsay's shoe broke at the beginning of the dance but she soldiered on! Carrie Ann said DeMarcus's athleticism and grace shined through and this was a breakthrough routine. Len thought it felt like a Disney movie, which leaves you feeling great at the end. Bruno thought this was Ware's most complete performance to date.
Mary Lou Retton- 25 out of 30
Mary Lou made a promise to herself this week: she was not going to be so hard on herself. Sasha Farber's Contemporary routine let her work through a few things. They danced to "Reflection" from "Mulan," and Mary Lou said the lyrics are spot on for her. She is feeling more confident and her self-esteem is rising. Retton broke down in tears after the routine and said it's been hard for her to show her vulnerability but she's getting there. Carrie Ann said she lives for these kind of "real" moments on the show. Len called the dance gentle, understated and fluid.
Evanna Lynch- 24 out of 30
Evanna said being in jeopardy last week freaked her out. She said it felt like she was teetering on the edge of a cliff. Keo convinced her to harness that fear and put it into their Jazz dance to the music from "Tangled." Speaking of fear, Keo's kryptonite is roller coasters. So of course, she took him on Big Thunder Railroad! Len softballed his review of their routine, calling it nice and well-danced, but not spectacular.
John Schneider- 24 out of 30
John has been worried about the Quickstep since the beginning of the season. He's the oldest person in the competition and knows the Quickstep is, well, quick! He was pleased to have a song he's loved since childhood, "I Wanna Be Like You" from "The Jungle Book." Len thought Emma Slater's routine was full of energy and content. Bruno said it was a proper, recognizable Quickstep. And Carrie Ann said it was his best performance yet.
Bobby Bones- 21 out of 30
Bobby was bummed about his scores last week, but said he loved the dance. He even got a good job tweet from MC Hammer after his routine. It's a 180 this week with the Waltz. Sharna Burgess told him he needs to be elegant and graceful. Both Sharna and Bobby were excited about their song: "Part of Your World" from "The Little Mermaid." Sharna considers herself to be Ariel in real life.
Joe Amabile- 17 out of 30
The "Bachelor" favorite wanted to make the point that he is taking this competition seriously and he's working hard to learn his dances. Jenna Johnson told him she sees growth and challenged him with a fast Jive to a new song from the upcoming animated movie "Ralph Breaks the Internet." The judges gave words of encouragement as well, with Len saying every time Joe gets knocked down, he dusts himself off, comes back and gives it his all. Carrie Ann saw a vast improvement and Bruno sensed a faint glimmer of hope.
At the end, Tom and Erin Andrews went through the motions of naming two couples "in jeopardy" but hey, it's Disney Night, we can't end on a bad note. So no one was sent home!
Next week will see some Halloween fun!
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Parents pleading for help after hit-and-run driver fatally strikes man walking dog in Philadelphia
By Katie Katro
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are still searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a man walking his dog over the weekend.
Family members have identified the victim as 26-year-old Michael Canals.
Action News spoke with Canals' parents who are mourning the loss of their son.
Family identifies man killed by hit-and-run driver while walking dog in Philadelphia
"Please have compassion and come forward, please," said Jackie Canals, Mike's mother.
Michael Canals. Photos provided to Action News by family.
Canals, who worked for the music venue, "The Met Philadelphia," was walking with his dog Rosie when they were both struck by a Pontiac minivan while crossing the street along the 700 block of West Berks Street on Saturday afternoon.
His parents said Canals was a graduate of Drexel University and loved music and Rosie, who was recently rescued. Rosie also died in the accident.
"We're going to bury Rosie with Mike," said Jackie Canals, Mike's mother. "She's going to be buried with Mike because that's what she would have wanted, she loved him so much, and she was so grateful to him."
Philadelphia police investigate fatal hit-and-run involving man walking dog. George Solis reports on Action News at 10 on Oct. 26, 2019.
Police did recover the van, a blue and green Pontiac Montana minivan, two miles from the scene, a short time later at 2100 East Cambria Street, but said the vehicle's owner was not the driver.
Puppy playing with lighter sets fire to apartment in Australia
"We need help identifying the person that was in the van, driving the van, please come forward," said Michael Canals, Mike's father.
Canals' parents said there will be a tribute held for him at The Met on Friday at 4 p.m.
Anyone with any information is asked to call police at 215-686-TIPS.
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“An extraordinarily excellent advocate”Legal 500 2020
"Brilliant on his feet … very bright and a real fighter"Chambers & Partners 2019
"A real expert when it comes to complex legal issues"Legal 500 2018
David Allen QC
Year of Call: 1990
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David Allen QC is described by solicitors and clients as a “truly brilliant”, “top quality”, “heavyweight” commercial silk who is “regularly sought out for his formidable advocacy” as well as his “quick, clear and thoughtful advice.“
He is renowned as a strategist and tactician in commercial litigation and as a top echelon advocate who is “spectacular to watch on his feet” being “punchy, robust and assertive” whilst at the same time being “very engaging, very influential and highly persuasive.” His peers rate him highly and have said that he is a ‘one-off’ who “takes innovative points and hits upon cracking ideas that no one else has thought of.”
His expertise in commercial litigation is broad and deep. His clients include domestic and international corporations, oligarchs, shipping magnates and celebrity Olympic athletes. He has been lead counsel in some of the largest commercial law cases involving issues of agency, fraud, copyright, construction (including all aspects of engineering and design), libel, product liability, ship, oil rig and Super-Yacht disputes, commodities transactions, energy, insurance, professional liability, sale of goods, sporting disputes and Share Purchase Agreements.
Most of his cases are subject to English proper law but he is used to dealing with cases which are subject in whole or in part to foreign proper law (most recently Danish and Venezuelan law). He has frequently been asked to provide evidence to foreign courts on questions of English law. David has led other QCs as well as teams of junior barristers on larger cases and acts alone on smaller cases and when advising.
Some examples of recent cases include:
LCIA arbitration: acting for Austrian listed company in $multi-million dispute with US software supplier
French Court of Appeal: advising French Court on meaning of English law relating to termination of commercial agency agreement.
Commercial Court: acting for US company against Nigerian interests securing English jurisdiction, obtaining Freezing Orders, securing Mandatory Injunctions, committing contemnors to prison for contempt of court and denying access to frozen funds in Switzerland for payment of legal costs.
Commercial Court: acting for a well-known broker in claim against a well-known Super Yacht owner on sale.
LMAA arbitration: successfully resisting Share Purchase Agreement claim by Russian companies against Ukrainian companies on the sale of steel plants.
LCIA arbitration: successfully acting for Russian owner of Super Yacht in an action alleging breach of copyright and contract.
Advising celebrity Olympic athlete on issues of libel and harassment
Court of Appeal: successfully acting for traders regarding transshipment of cargo at sea
LCIA arbitration: acting for listed company in $multi-billion dispute concerning oil and gas rights in the middle east
Commercial Court: resisting action by fraudster for equitable compensation in consequence of improperly obtained Freezing Order
LCIA arbitration acting for Saudi interests against South American state entity in dispute over offshore drilling contract.
LCIA Arbitration: acting for Ukrainian interests in SPA case concerning a group factory sale.
David is a quadruple graduate and multiple academic and advocacy award winner. His science qualifications are a bonus in many cases and it is often said that he is someone who “offers extra value by virtue of the fact that he is not only a barrister but also someone with qualifications in material sciences and engineering.”
He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, is frequently appointed as an Arbitrator (sole and panel) and sat as a part-time Judge of the Crown Court for over a decade. His book with Professor Dignam on ‘Company Law and the Human Rights Act’ forms part of the basis of the United Nations Judicial Training Programme.
Selected cases:
Saab & Anor v Angate Consulting Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 1558 (Comm) this commercial court judgment makes important findings with respect to the nature and scope of (a) contractual duties of confidence, and (b) the public interest defence / defence of iniquity.
IMS SA v Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd [2018] EWHC 894 (Comm) succeeded in the Commercial Court before Males J in their action for IMS S.A. and others claiming US$5,800,000 from Capital Oil and Gas Industries.
Apache Beryl I Ltd v Marathon Oil UK LLC [2017] EWHC 2504 (Comm) acted for US oil company to obtain expedited hearing where partners were blocking a sale of assets and sell by date was approaching.
Fiona Trust and Holding Corp v Privalov [2016] EWHC 2657 (Comm); [2016] EWHC 2451 acted as lead counsel for Sovcomflot at end long running dispute concerning alleged loss of a chance damages claim.
Tidewater Marine International Inc v Phoenixtide Offshire Nigeria Ltd [2015] EWHC 2748 (Comm) long running series of cases involving the unlawful interference with the payment of money under a third party contract involved 15 applications to court for injunctions and committal proceedings.
Spectra International Plc v. Hayesoak and Others [1997] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 153 (CLCC Bus. List) (Carriage of Goods, applicability of RHA limitation provisions to parties in string carriage contracts)
Injunctions & Arrests
Yukong Line Ltd. of Korea v. Rendsburg Investments Corporation of Liberia, The Times, 22nd October 1996 (CA) (The power of a court to compel a Mareva defendant (now a freezing order defendant) to answer questions concerning the substantive dispute at interlocutory hearings in circumstances where the defendant would not be giving evidence at the substantive hearings (decided prior to the Human Rights Act 1998, albeit the European Convention on Human Rights featured on appeal)
The Marel [1994] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 624 (CA) (Marine insurance, perils of the sea)
Bates v. Barrow Ltd. [1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 680 (Comm.) (Illegality, insurance contracts, retrospective interpretation of statute, construction of the Financial Services Act)
Colonia v. Amoco Oil [1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 570 (Comm.) (Marine Insurance, claims by assignment)
John Wyeth & Brothers Ltd. v. Cigna Insurance Company of Europe SA/NV and Ors [2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. IR 420 (CA) (New York law litigation insurance/reinsurance, whether excess layers liable where primary layers exercised "buy-out" clause, whether assured in breach of maintenance clause, apportionment of costs between insurers, whether product liability cover excluded by efficacy clause in excess policy)
Audrey Jones and (2) Roger Jones v. Congregational and General Insurance plc (2003) The Times, July 7, 2003 (QB) (Fraudulent insurance claim - statutory interpretation of Access to Justice Act 1999 - whether fraudulent publicly funded claimants can receive statutory protection against enforcement of costs orders)
Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co. v. Bovis Lend Lease Ltd. (No. 2) [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 494 (Assured reaching settlement agreement with third party including claims and counterclaims, whether the Assured’s loss had been ‘ascertained’ – a case creating “Ground breaking insurance law”)
Andrew Knudtzon v. Michael James (on behalf of himself and Lloyd’s Underwriters) [2008] (following a large incident in a refrigeration plant, David successfully defended the claim for an indemnity by demonstrating that the loud "bang" and rush of air heard and felt by witnesses was not an ‘explosion’ within the meaning of the policy.
Biffa waste Services v. Outokumpu Wenmac AB The Times, November 21, 2008 [2008] EWHC (TCC) and [2008] EWCA Civ 1257 (Court of Appeal). David successfully overturned a decision by Ramsey J. holding his clients vicariously liable in tort for burning a waste plant down. The judgment deals with two of the most important aspects of tort law for commercial lawyers namely: (a) the doctrine of vicarious liability; and (b) the doctrine of non-delegable or strict liability for so called ‘extra hazardous’ acts.
Balmoral Group Limited v. Borealis A/S and others [2006] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 629 (One of the largest product liability cases in the Commercial Court, David led the case for the Defendants successfully defending a claim exceeding £50 million plus costs. The case concerned the international Sale of Goods, deciding UCTA reasonableness, whether goods at a holding depot were in the course of international carriage, applicability of UCTA to a foreign law contract, inter-relationship of sections 14(2) and 14(3) UCTA, incorporation of standard terms and conditions after trading has commenced, remoteness of damage when loss is increased by a subsequent change in legislation, evidence required to prove corporate losses.)
Jurisdiction/Conflicts of Laws
Balmoral Group Limited v. Borealis A/S and others [2006] EWHC 2531 (Comm.) (Procedure, indemnity costs application, whether a party is liable to pay costs on the indemnity basis as a consequence of unreasonable expert evidence produced by it.)
Balmoral Group Limited v. Borealis A/S and others [2006] EWHC 2228 (Comm.) (Procedure, whether the trial judge can extend time for an application to the trial judge for permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal)
Lumberman’s Mutual Casualty Co. v. Bovis Lend Lease Ltd. (No. 1) [2004] EWHC 1614 (Comm) 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 494 (Commercial Court Practice – transfer of actions into and out of specialist lists – the Civil Procedure Rules – overriding objectives)
Neo Investments Inc. v. Cargill International S.A. [2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 33 (Comm.) (Practice - principles for striking out a claim under CPR 3.1 and 3.4 and the interrelationship between those provisions and CPR 51-PD-19)
Glencore International A.G. v. Metro Trading International Inc. [1999] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 632 (Com. Ct.) (Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Schedule Articles 17, 21 and 22, whether English or French Court first seized, whether French Bank bound by exclusive jurisdiction clause, whether English proceedings should be stayed)
O T Africa Line Ltd. v. Vickers Plc [1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 700 (Comm.) (Mistake by solicitor when accepting an offer on behalf of a client to settle a case - whether there was a binding contract when the offer was accepted)
Hewett & Co. and Anor. v. Sinclair Roche & Temperley and Anor. [1997] 2 W.L.R. 401 (CA) (Documents held by one solicitor to another’s order - whether there was a breach of undertaking when photocopies were retained by the second solicitor - whether compensation payable under the Solicitors Act 1974)
Yukong Line Ltd. of Korea v. Rendsburg Investments Corporation of Liberia (No. 2) [1998] 1 W.L.R. 294 (Com. Ct.) (Piercing the corporate veil, consideration of the "sham" doctrine, whether a director was personally liable under a contract, agency, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty)
Skandia Property (UK) and Anor. v. Thames Water Utilities Ltd. The Times, 7th September 1999 (CA) (Whether a Claimant could recover damages following tortious damage in circumstances where the loss claimed occurred as a consequence of non negligent but incorrect professional advice given to the victim of the tort as a consequence of the tort)
Zodiac Maritime Agencies Limited -v- Fortescue Metals Group Limited [2010] EWHC 903 (Comm) David Allen Q.C. appeared in this dispute before the Commercial Court (Steel J) which arose out of the termination of a Consecutive Voyage Charterparty.
Nippon Yusen Kubishiki Kaisha v. Golden Strait Corporation (THE “GOLDEN VICTORY”) [2007] UKHL 12, [2007] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 14 (House of Lords) (Leading case on damages flowing from a repudiatory breach of long term charterparty)
Nippon Yusen Kubishiki Kaisha v. Golden Strait Corporation (No. 2) [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 443 (Comm); [2005] 2 LLR 747 (Court of Appeal) (Damages: repudiatory breach of charterparty in 2001 – outbreak of war in 2003 - whether the charterparty war clause served to cap damages, the date for assessing damages in contract - leave granted to House of Lords)
Nippon Yusen Kubishiki Kaisha v. Golden Strait Corporation (No. 1) [2003] EWHC 16 (Comm) (Construction principles, charterparty, repudiatory breach)
Academic Qualifications and Academic Prizes
David Allen was born in 1963 and is a quadruple graduate. He was first awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours in Building Economics (Faculty of the Built Environment). During his first degree he studied mathematics, statistics, economics (macro and micro), computer programming, law, accounts, material sciences and engineering. Upon graduation David was awarded two prizes, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Prize and the WM Law Memorial Prize for best results in law and for "The Most Outstanding Contribution to Building Economics". David’s second degree was in Law. He was awarded the degree of LLB with Honours (Faculty of Law). Upon graduation, he was awarded two prizes, the University Prize for best student and the Northern Rock Prize for the highest law degree results.
David has also been awarded two Masters Degrees. He was first awarded the degree of Master of Laws (LLM - Faculty of Law) with Merit by King’s College London in International Comparative Commercial Law. David was subsequently awarded the degree of Master of Arts (MA - Faculty of Law) with Distinction in Criminology and Criminal Justice by King’s College London.
Professional Qualifications and Professional Prizes
David qualified as a Barrister in 1990 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008. Since pupillage, he has always practised in commercial law from these chambers. He was awarded an Entrance Scholarship by the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn (of which he is a Member) and the Inns of Court School of Law Scholarship. He was awarded the Gray’s Inn International Mooting Prize in competition against other Members of Gray’s Inn and representatives of Pepperdine University, California, USA. He is by examination and experience a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
David was invited to sit on the Commercial Court Guide Consultative Committee (2005-2006) and since 2011 has sat on the Commercial Court Users’ Committee. He has for many years been a member of The Commercial Bar Association – COMBAR.
In 2005, David was appointed as a part-time judge of the Crown Court ("Recorder") and sits a minimum of 3 weeks a year in that capacity. David is frequently appointed as Arbitrator (panel and sole) and has recently published four Awards. He is an author and lecturer in law.
David Allen QC has accepted appointments to sit as arbitrator for 20 years. He has been appointed as both a sole and panel arbitrator following ad hoc agreements and through appointing bodies such as the LMAA. He was elected as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (based on his experience and examination performances) and sits every year as a part-time Crown Court judge.
David Allen QC is identified by the independent legal directories as a leader in energy law, oil and gas sales, long term contracts, joint venture agreements, power station and refinery disputes, commodities trading, shipment and carriage disputes. Solicitors, clients and his peers have described his attributes in the most recent publications of Legal 500, Legal Expert, Chambers and Partners, Chambers Global and Legal Week in the following ways:
"He is a strong advocate and tribunals find him interesting and engaging." "He is a great cross-examiner. He is really excellent and very committed to his clients."
"A fearless advocate who has good courtroom presence and exudes confidence." "A great cross-examiner who is very well prepared, very committed to his clients and exactly what you want in a silk."
"David Allen QC adopts a direct, no-nonsense attitude." "He's a great cross-examiner who is very well prepared and very committed to his clients, which is exactly what you want in a silk."
"David Allen fights cases in a clear and determined way, and has a good rapport with clients."
"Brilliant on his feet." "Very user-friendly."
"Hard-working, very bright and a real fighter." "Pugnacious and effective, he fights cases in a clear and determined way."
‘An extraordinarily excellent advocate and devotes himself 110% to any case he is on.’
‘Strong in both shipping and commodities.’
‘An impressive advocate with excellent technical knowledge.’
‘Has a confident and assertive manner.’
‘Direct, to the point advice, a robust advocate, and a down-to-earth and friendly QC.’
‘An extraordinarily excellent advocate.’
‘A tough shipping and commodities barrister.’
‘He is very able.’
‘A real expert when it comes to complex legal issues.’
‘An excellent barrister and advocate, his desire to win is most impressive.’
‘A highly knowledgeable commercial silk who is known for his excellent advocacy.’
"A breath of fresh air. He has a positive attitude and the ability to find and shoot the 'silver bullet'."
"A very good advocate who is very confident on his feet." "David is very impressive. He is hardcore and in control."
A real streetfighter and the barrister you want on your side against a difficult opponent.
The barrister you want on your side when youre up against a difficult opponent.
"He is spectacular to watch on his feet, as he's very engaging, very influential and highly persuasive. He's a tactician who is very good at analysing the position and advising which steps to take to get the best result. He's very passionate about what he does and aggressive when he needs to be."
"A strong advocate, he has a no-nonsense but pleasant attitude."
"A personable chap and a really aggressive cross-examiner, I want him on cases that require someone really robust."
His advocacy is superb and he leaves the other side no chance of a successful outcome.
One of the few top-quality commercial silks, who truly understands his clients’ businesses.
Very highly regarded.
"A very strong and highly persuasive advocate."
"He's robust, very commercial, direct and can deal with difficult opponents." "He is good in a fight and his written work is very good."
A powerful and persuasive advocate who excels in complex matters
Truly brilliant
“Delivers advocacy which is sharp and cutting.”
"He is very industrious and great fun to work with. Not frightened of ramming his points home, he gets things across well."
A highly knowledgeable insurance silk with a reputation for sharp and cutting advocacy.
"He works with experts in fields as diverse as stress cracking, physics and corrosion - he has very good technical knowledge himself."
A commercial silk with noted expertise in shipping and commodities disputes. He is increasingly recognised as a go-to barrister for complex property damage disputes, and offers extra value by virtue of the fact that he is not only a barrister but also someone with qualifications in material sciences and engineering.
"He is highly knowledgeable and highly effective."
“David Allen QC is a “heavyweight commercial silk who is regularly sought out for his formidable advocacy and his “quick, clear and thoughtful” advice”.
“David Allen is outstanding in every respect.”
His peers rate David Allen Q.C. because he “takes innovative points and hits upon cracking points that no one else has thought of.” He handles commercial cases involving the engineering side of oil rigs, other offshore structures and pipelines.
"a direct advocate who quickly separates the wheat from the chaff”
Much of his allure comes from the fact that he "evinces great assurance under pressure, and is someone who will take on difficult cases and do a good job”
“David Allen QC is very knowledgeable with a brilliant understanding of energy companies”
Commentors note his good work in handling a dispute between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Edmiston & Company of the sale of the superyacht ‘Darius’”
“… one of the stars of the shipping bar … highly thought of by solicitors”
David Allen Q.C.’s recent efforts include acting on a dispute over commission arising out of the sale of the mega-yacht 'Darius'. He is widely respected for his capabilities in all manner of commercial disputes.
“David Allen Q.C. is known for his advocacy before arbitration tribunals. An expert when it comes to complex technical issues, he was recently the leading defence counsel in a three-month Commercial Court trial concerning the international sale of goods.”
… viewed variously as a “punchy”;“robust” and “assertive” counsel David Allen is admired for his fight and capability in court …
“An exceptional performer and a delight to be against …”
“Pugnacious and sound, he behaves properly before the tribunal, he is fair in not seeking to argue bad points but never compromises his integrity or that of his client’s case”
“… Sources viewed him as straightforward, down to earth and sensible …”
“His shipping, commodities and insurance abilities run in parallel with his abilities in product liability, construction and professional negligence…”
“A sound choice for commercial cases that incorporate construction and engineering concerns such as those relating to oil rigs and other offshore structures.”
“..Highlighted by sources as a pragmatic advocate … frequently instructed in offshore construction cases.”
"… recognised for his technical flair and deep experience in the domestic and international upstream oil and gas and maritime spheres.”
David Allen QC has extensive academic and practical experience of the energy sector and particular knowledge of drilling operations. He is highly in demand as demonstrated by his involvement in numerous high-value disputes such as Global Oil v Maersk.
"I've seen him on some bad cases that he's made a brilliant job of."
David Allen QC is joint author with Professor Alan Dignam of the leading Butterworths publication "Company Law and the Human Rights Act", foreword by Lord Hoffmann. Reviewed by the Cambridge Law Journal, November [2001] pp. 628-629 "thoroughly researched and highly informative book… From the historical survey in Chapter One to the list of comparative sources of case law and materials in the final chapter, the authors show the breadth of their interest in the subject and, aided by the clear and readable style in which the book is written, manage very successfully to share that interest with the reader." and by Public Law [2001] Winter pp. 824-826 "This excellent and highly readable book is really two books in one volume…Company lawyers will find reading this book a truly rewarding experience."
This work remains a core authority on the corporate applications of the ECHR forming, for example, the basis of the United Nations Judicial Training Programme on the application of human rights to companies.
David Allen QC and Jason Robinson successfully apply on behalf of the shareholders of FBME Bank for an order that two former Scotland Yard police detectives and private investigators are in contempt of Court
Saab v Dangate Consulting Ltd & Ors [2020] EWHC 48 (Comm) Following her Ladyship’s judgment in June 2019 ([2019] EWHC 1558 (Comm)), Mrs Justice Cockerill has found that the two former Scotland Yard police detectives and private investigators are in contempt of Court for failing to deliver up all confidential documents obtained by them during […]
David Allen QC and Jason Robinson successfully represent shareholders of FBME Bank in their breach of confidence claim against private investigators
Saab v Dangate Consulting Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 1558 (Comm) The Commercial Court (Cockerill J) has handed down judgment in Saab v Dangate Consulting Ltd & Ors [2019] EWHC 1558 (Comm), finding that two former Scotland Yard police detectives, who worked as private investigators, breached contractual duties of confidence owed to shareholders of FBME […]
Members publish specialist energy law resource for Practical Law
David Allen QC, Jason Robinson, and Henry Moore have published a specialist Oil & Gas Practice Notice for the launch of Practical Law’s new Sectors project. The new Energy Sector contains resources written by a range of experts in the law of energy and natural resources, and covers matters ranging from M&A to decommissioning. To […]
David Allen QC and John Bignall win in the Commercial Court for IMS S.A. and others v. Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd.
[2018] EWHC 894 (Comm) David Allen QC leading John Bignall succeeded in the Commercial Court before Males J in their action for IMS S.A. and others claiming US$5,800,000 from Capital Oil and Gas Industries. Access bank alleged that cargoes of oil, loaded and discharged by the Claimants at the direction of Capital had been misdelivered […]
Expedited trial order for Apache Corp
Apache v Marathon [2017] EWHC 2258 (Comm) David Allen QC acting for Apache Corp USA later leading Jason Robinson and Henry Moore succeeded in obtaining an order for an expedited trial before Males J to resolve joint venture partner disputes prior to a long stop date in a purchaser’s put and call option agreement. In […]
The Falkonera (Court of Appeal)
On 5 June 2014, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal of the Owners of Falkonera, a very large crude carrier (VLCC) against the judgment of Mr Justice Eder. David Allen Q.C. and N.G. Casey of 7 King’s Bench Walk acted for the successful respondent Charterers. Charterers had chartered Falkonera on amended BPVOY4 terms. Under […]
Tidewater Marine International Inc v PhoenixTide Offshore Nigeria Limited [2013] EWHC 2960 (Comm)
The Commercial Court dismissed an application by PhoenixTide to stay or dismiss proceedings brought by Tidewater in London and served on PhoenixTide in Nigeria on the grounds that the proceedings disclosed no reasonable cause of action, did not arise out of agreements containing exclusive jurisdiction clauses and on the grounds of forum conveniens. Burton J […]
Falkonera Shipping Co. v Arcadia Energy Pte. Ltd
Falkonera Shipping Co. v. Arcadia Energy Pte. Ltd [2012] EWHC 3678 (Comm.) (20 December 2012) David Allen QC led Noel Casey in this case before Eder J. successfully claiming that the Owner of the Falkonera had unreasonably refused Arcadia’s requests to transfer crude oil in a ship-to-ship transfer operation from one VLCC to another VLCC. […]
7KBW Team – The Lawyer “Case of the Week”
£100 million Product Liability Claim dismissed – Kingspan v Borealis To view the article click on the link below. http://www.thelawyer.com/case-of-the-week-product-liability/1012657.article
Kingspan v Borealis
David Allen QC, James Brocklebank, Sushma Ananda, and Elizabeth Lindesay acted for the Defendants, Borealis A/S and Borealis UK Limited in a product liability and misrepresentation claim brought by various companies in the Kingspan Group. The claim, said by the Claimants at the start of the trial to be worth in excess of £100 million, […]
Balmoral Group Limited v Borealis (UK) Ltd
David Allen, Charles Holroyd and Benjamin Parker were involved in this leading case on the seller’s obligations as to the quality of goods supplied under international sale contracts. One of the largest product liability cases in the Commercial Court, David Allen Q.C. led Charles Holroyd for the Defendants, successfully defending a claim exceeding £50 […]
Boris Berezovsky & Petersham Holdings Limited -v- Edmiston & Company Limited & Merle Wood & Associates Inc
[2010] EWHC 1883 (Comm) Stephen Hofmeyr Q.C. and N.G. Casey; David Allen Q.C. acted for the 1st and 2nd Defendants respectively. Were the defendant yacht brokers the “effective cause” of the sale of the super yacht Darius by Petersham Holdings Limited (“Petersham”) to Paragon International Limited, the corporate vehicle of the Al Futtaim family of […]
Zodiac Maritime Agencies Limited -v- Fortescue Metals Group Limited
[2010] EWHC 903 (Comm) David Allen Q.C. appeared in this dispute before the Commercial Court (Steel J) which arose out of the termination of a Consecutive Voyage Charterparty. Details of the case can be found here.
Highland Crusader Offshore Partners Lp And Others -v- Deutsche Bank Ag And Another (Commercial Court)
[2009] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 61 David Allen QC – Conflict of laws — Jurisdiction — Non-exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of England — Respondent commencing proceedings in Texas — Applicant commencing proceedings in England — Whether anti-suit injunction should be granted
Biffa Waste Services -v- Outokumpu Wenmac AB
[2009] BLR 1; [2009] 3 WLR 324; [2009] QB 725; [2008] BLR 155; The Times, November 21, 2008 David Allen Q.C. successfully overturned a decision by Ramsey J. holding his clients vicariously liable in tort for burning a waste plant down. The judgment deals with two of the most important aspects of tort law for […]
“Golden Victory” Nippon Yusen Kubishiki Kaisha -v- Golden Strait Corporation
[2007] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 14; [2005] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 443 (CoA); [2003] EWHC 16 (Comm) David Allen – Damages: repudiatory breach of charterparty in 2001 – outbreak of war in 2003 – whether the charterparty war clause served to cap damages, the date for assessing damages in contract Charterparty (Time) – Damages – Each party […]
Balmoral Group Limited -v- Borealis A/S and others (Costs)
[2006] EWHC 2531 (Comm) David Allen, Charles Holroyd – Procedure, indemnity costs application, whether a party is liable to pay costs on the indemnity basis as a consequence of unreasonable expert evidence produced by it.
Balmoral Group Limited -v- Borealis (UK) Ltd
[2006] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 629 David Allen, Charles Holroyd and Benjamin Parker were involved in this leading case on the seller’s obligations as to the quality of goods supplied under international sale contracts. One of the largest product liability cases in the Commercial Court, David Allen Q.C. led Charles Holroyd for the Defendants, successfully defending […]
T & N Ltd And Others (No 2)
[2006] 1 WLR 1792 David Allen – Conflict of laws – Tort – Choice of law – Foreign tort claims – Asbestos-related tort claims brought against companies in United Kingdom and United States – Relevant acts or omissions committed in United States before commencement date of statute governing choice of law – Resulting damage occurring […]
Lumbermen Mutual Casualty Co –v- Bovis Lend Lease Ltd
[2005] 1 Lloyds Rep 494; [2005] Lloyd’s Rep IR 74; [2005] 2 All ER (Comm) 669 Gavin Kealey Q.C. and David Allen – Impact and enforceability of global settlements in liability insurance and reinsurance. Insurance (construction of professional liability policy) – Assured reaching a settlement with third party – Settlement encompassing claims and counterclaims – […]
Audrey Jones and Roger Jones -v- Congregational and General Insurance plc
The Times, July 7, 2003 (QB) David Allen acted in this Fraudulent insurance claim – statutory interpretation of Access to Justice Act 1999 – whether fraudulent publicly funded claimants can receive statutory protection against enforcement of costs orders
Jones And Another -v- Congregational And General Insurance Plc
[2003] 1 WLR 3001 David Allen – Legal aid – Costs – Order against assisted person – Claimants funded by Legal Services Commission bringing fraudulent claim – Claimants ordered to pay defendant’s costs – Whether power to make costs order against funded litigant without means – Access to Justice Act 1999 (c 22), s. 11(1)
Nippon Yusen Kubishiki Kaisha v. Golden Strait Corporation (No. 1)
[2003] EWHC 16 (Comm)
John Wyeth & Brothers Ltd. -v- Cigna Insurance Company of Europe SA/NV and Ors
[2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. IR 420 Dominic Kendrick Q.C. led David Allen in this case, which arose in the wake of the collapse of the largest single UK group action, concerned the interface between London market product liability insurance and US ‘duty to defend’ type insurance.
Neo Investments Inc. -v- Cargill International S.A.
[2001] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 33 David Allen was involved in this matter concerning principles for striking out a claim under CPR 3.1 and 3.4 and the interrelationship between those provisions and CPR 51-PD-19 Practice – CPR 51-PD19 – CPR 3.9 – Application to lift stay – Application to strike out – Dispute under contract for […]
Skandia Property (UK) and Anor. -v- Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
The Times, 7th September 1999 David Allen was involved in this matter concerning whether a Claimant could recover damages following tortious damage in circumstances where the loss claimed occurred as a consequence of non negligent but incorrect professional advice given to the victim of the tort as a consequence of the tort
Glencore -v- Metro and Itochu Petroleum C. (S) Pte Ltd. & Banque Trad-Credit Lyonnais
[1999] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 632 Dominic Kendrick Q.C. and David Allen and Richard Southern acted in this matter – Contracts for sale of cargo of oil contained exclusive English jurisdiction clause – Plaintiffs claimed against defendants in conversion – Bank brought proceedings in Paris to recover proceeds of sale – Third party proceedings brought in […]
Glencore International A.G. –v- Metro Trading International Inc. ; Itochu Petroleum Co. (S) Pte. Ltd. and Singapore Petroleum Co. and Banque Trad-Crédit Lyonnais (France) S.A. (Third Party)
[1999] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 632; [1999] 2 All ER (Comm) 899 Dominic Kendrick Q.C. led David Allen; and Richard Southern acted in this matter involving Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Schedule Articles 17, 21 and 22, whether English or French Court first seized, whether French Bank bound by exclusive jurisdiction clause, whether English proceedings […]
“Rialto” Yukong Line Ltd. Of Korea –v- Rendsburg Investments Corporation Of Liberia And Others (No. 2)
[1998] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 322; [1998] 1 WLR 294; [1998] 4 All ER 82 David Allen acted in this matter involviong – Piercing the corporate veil, consideration of the “sham” doctrine, whether a director was personally liable under a contract, agency, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty Agency – Charterparty – Unnamed principal – Charterparty signed […]
Hewett & Co. and Anor. -v- Sinclaire Roche & Temperley and Anor.
[1997] 2 W.L.R. 401 David Bailey and David Allen acted in this matter involving documents held by one solicitor to another’s order – whether there was a breach of undertaking when photocopies were retained by the second solicitor – whether compensation payable under the Solicitors Act 1974 Solicitor – Costs – Lien – Plaintiffs having […]
Bentley And Another -v- Gaisford And Another
[1997] 2 WLR 401; [1997] QB 627; [1997] 1 All ER 842 David Bailey and David Allen – Solicitor – Costs – Lien – Plaintiffs having lien over client’s documents for unpaid fees – Client terminating retainer and requesting transfer of documents to defendants – Undertaking to hold documents to plaintiffs’ order – Defendants copying […]
Spectra International Plc -v- Hayesoak and Others
[1997] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 153 David Allen acted in this Carriage of Goods matter, applicability of RHA limitation provisions to parties in string carriage contracts Carriage by road – Limitation of liability – RHA conditions – Sub-bailment – Goods stolen from defendants’ lorry – No contract between plaintiffs and defendants – Whether defendants could rely […]
Margereson -v- J W Roberts Ltd Hancock -v- J W Roberts Ltd
(1997) 6 Re LR 74 David Allen – Negligence – Duty of care – Asbestos – Factory owners duty – When arising
O T Africa Line Ltd. -v- Vickers Plc
[1996] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 700 David Allen acted this matter involving a mistake by solicitor when accepting an offer on behalf of a client to settle a case – whether there was a binding contract when the offer was accepted Contract – Settlement – Rescission – Negotiations for settlement of claim in dollars – Defendants […]
Bates and Others –v- Barrow Ltd. and Others; Ansell And Others
[1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 680 Dominic Kendrick and David Allen acted in this matter involving Illegality, insurance contracts, retrospective interpretation of statute, construction of the Financial Services Act Reinsurance – Stop-loss policies – Illegality – Insurers not authorized under Insurance Companies Acts to carry on insurance business in the U.K. – Plaintiffs claimed under policies […]
Colonia -v- Amoco Oil
[1995] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 570 David Allen acted in this Marine Insurance case, claims by assignment. Insurance (Marine) – Cargo – Co-assured – Assignee – Damage to cargo – Cargo shipped from defendant’s refinery to ICI – Cargo contaminated – Defendants settled ICI’s claim and cargo insurance assigned to defendants – Whether defendants entitled to […]
“Marel” Lamb Head Shipping Co. Ltd. and Others –v- Jennings
[1994] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 624; [1992] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 402 David Allen acted in this marine insurance case concerning perils of the sea. Insurance (Marine) – Perils of the sea – Vessel insured with defendants – Vessel sank while on a voyage from Greece to Belgium – Whether loss of vessel caused by perils of […]
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TRAVELLING LIGHT (Signed by the photographer)
Published: University of Kwazulu - Natal Press, Scottsville, 2004
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109 pages, chiefly black and white plates, charcoal paper covered boards, a fine copy in the dust jacket.
Inscription on the title page reads: Best Wishes Pual Weinberg, 2013
Paul Weinberg is a South African-born photographer, filmmaker, writer, curator, educationist and archivist. He began his career in the late 1970s by working for South African NGOs, and photographing current events for news agencies and foreign countries.
He was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that gained local and international recognition for their uncompromising role in documenting apartheid, and popular resistance to it. From 1990 onwards he is increasingly concentrated on feature rather than news photography. His images have been widely exhibited and published, both locally and abroad. He also initiated several major photographic projects, notably Then and Now, a collection of photographers from the collective photographic movement of the 1980s, Umhlaba, a project on land and The Other Camera about vernacular photography in South Africa.
In 1993 Weinberg won the Mother Jones International Documentary Award for his portrayal of the fisherfolk of Kosi Bay, on South Africa’s north coast. He has taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University, and Masters in Documentary Arts at UCT. He currently works as an independent curator, archivist and photographer. http://paulweinberg.co.za/about/
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Importance of the Georgia Guard
Sen. Jack Hill
Effingham Herald
Updated: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:22 a.m.
Return of Georgia Guard Units from Afghanistan reminds us of the vital role the Guard plays in the military reach of the United States. The Springfield unit and the Glennville units, as part of the 48th Brigade recently returned from a second deployment to a Middle East area where the United States is actively involved in fighting ISIS and terrorism.
These citizen soldiers gave up as much as 13 months of their lives to deploy to a dangerous part of the world and fill a vital role in the war on terrorism. Georgia’s National Guard sent 2100 troops in this latest conflict.
There are approximately 14,000 Army and Air Guardsmen and women serving in uniform in Georgia today. Since 9/11, some 21,000 Georgia Army and Air Guardsmen have deployed to the Mideast. Most (11,000) of these Guardsmen are “traditional” or part-time military men and women and hold civilian jobs or are students. Today, there are still 500 Guardsmen deployed around the world in Kosovo, Europe, the Pacific and the southwest border.
The Guard serves both state and federal missions
The missions of the Army and Air National Guard extend across Georgia and Guardsmen are called to state active duty whenever hurricanes or state emergencies call for their assistance in personnel and equipment. The Air National Guard even flew disaster relief supplies to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
The Army and Air Federal missions can extend around the world with Army Guard units called to active duty in a number of contingencies over the past 3 decades and the Air Guard’s missions routinely extending to the four corners of the globe.
The Guard’s key role in national defense
My years in the Guard left me with several positive impressions of Guardsmen who quietly go about serving in both state and federal capacities and at the same time maintaining a citizen occupation. I would submit that these very special individuals succeed in both worlds.
There was a time when the National Guard played a very minimal role in national defense. They were poorly equipped, but that has changed over the years and today, the National Guard is not only better equipped, but plays a key role in supplementing the active force in military commitments around the world.
Attributes of a Guardsman
My years in the Guard showed me several qualities that Guardsmen seemed to share. These are:
➤ Leadership
➤ Maturity
➤ Ingenuity
➤ Experience
➤ Perseverance or stick-to-it-ness
This resourcefulness has been greatly used in deployments to the Middle East and in the interactions with local indigenous communities, The “real world” experience of Guardsmen pays huge dividends in meeting these missions.
I found virtually every Guardsman to be uniquely special. The qualities we see in Guardsmen are also seen and valued by employers and that is why you see these individuals succeeding in both arenas.
Why do Guardsmen seem to have these attributes? Well, when you look at the Core Values of the Army and the Air Force, you can grasp a little of why those qualities exist and are so valued in the business and professional environment.
Army core values
➤ Loyalty
➤ Duty
➤ Respect
➤ Selfless service
➤ Honor
➤ Integrity
➤ Personal courage
Air Force core values
➤ Integrity first
➤ Service before self
➤ Excellence in all we do
Issues for those
serving in the Guard
A Guardsman gives up a lot to serve. There are weekends and training segments that often exceed two weeks yearly. More and more deployments extend for one year and more. The men and women of the Guard miss many special days, family events and business and job opportunities. (Most employers value Guardsmen as leaders in their businesses and support the Guard’s mission.)
That is getting harder to do given the extended deployments that have evolved as a mission of the Guard. Its active role in National Defense means deployments now often extend over holidays. Serving in today’s National Guard is a real life, real time experience where Guardsmen are held to the same standards as active duty personnel and they excel at their duties. Today, the Guard is a full partner with the active force and the pressure on Guardsmen has never been more intense.
We owe a great debt to Guardsmen who are balancing military duties with job and personal responsibilities. It takes an unusual person, truly unique, to succeed at all of these assignments. But as said earlier, “all Guardsmen are special.”
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Slider 0.60.0 incubating
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Slider is a YARN application to deploy existing distributed applications on YARN, monitor them and make them larger or smaller as desired -even while the cluster is running.
Clusters can be stopped and restarted later; the distribution of the deployed application across the YARN cluster is persisted -enabling a best-effort placement close to the previous locations on a cluster start. Applications which remember the previous placement of data (such as HBase) can exhibit fast start-up times from this feature.
YARN itself monitors the health of 'YARN containers" hosting parts of the deployed application -it notifies the Slider manager application of container failure. Slider then asks YARN for a new container, into which Slider deploys a replacement for the failed component. As a result, Slider can keep the size of managed applications consistent with the specified configuration, even in the face of failures of servers in the cluster -as well as parts of the application itself
Open-Source Development
Apache Slider is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by Apache Incubator.
Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.
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TROY, New York (WABC) -- Investigators are still at an upstate New York apartment house where four bodies were found in a basement apartment, but they aren't releasing many details.
Authorities believe the deaths are suspicious.
The bodies were discovered Tuesday afternoon in a basement apartment in Troy, a city near Albany.
Investigators said the property manager found four people unresponsive in the unit and called for help.
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The Ray Carney Absurdity
Pondering an upcoming essay around the theme of why underground film and other movements fail, I encounter the recent drama amidst the so called “indie film” world, this involving Ray Carney who has been a pioneer and vocal stronghold in supporting real cinematic arts versus the assembly line entertainment fluff outputted by Hollywood. And doing so as a professor at Boston University, some saying among the top film prof’s in the country for so strongly advocating Art over Hollywood. Apparently a rarity in academia. And Carney has been faced with hardships within his academic home, BU related to his views.
A taste of Ray:
It is a wholesale failure of the educational system to educate and inspire a generation of students with a vision of the possibilities of art. When colleges and universities show movies “students want to see” or organize courses around popular TV shows or incorporate the trash of the Internet into the curriculum, they are denying students their legacy. It takes a lot of knowledge and effort and learning to be able to grapple with Shakespeare or Mozart — or Cassavetes or Bresson! The students are being denied the opportunity to obtain that learning. The universities are conspiring with the culture of sales and hucksterdom rather than offering a way out of it. That is the story of American education in the arts and humanities. And it’s a tragedy. If the students understood how they are being cheated, they would be picketing in the streets.
So, this recent letter from filmmaker Mark Rappaport, whom Carney has always praised highly, has been riding the intranet waves in recent days, leaving one to wonder if the constant fight has taken a toll, mentally, on Carney to the point of taking absurd actions against the very same films he once cherished and supported.
AN OPEN LETTER FROM MARK RAPPAPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL FILM COMMUNITY
To all filmmakers, film critics, film archivists, film academics, curators, festival directors, and film enthusiasts everywhere—
I am writing to you because something very unforeseen, very unexpected, and most unpleasant recently happened in my life,
When I moved to Paris seven years ago, I had to decide whether or not to take with me copies of my films, video masters, early drafts of scripts, duplicates of reviews and announcements, etc. When I mentioned this to Ray Carney, tenured professor at Boston University and author of several books on John Cassavetes and who also claims he is “generally recognized to be the leading scholarly authority on American narrative art film,” he eagerly offered to hold all of my materials. I accepted his offer, with the understanding that he would return them to me upon request and that they remain at BU. Five years later, in 2010, I requested the return of some of my video masters to make copies of them for various film archives in Europe. Carney duly returned those video masters to me. They were in excellent condition.
Since that time, various companies have expressed interest in streaming my films, and UCLA, in conjunction with The Sundance Institute, have volunteered to archive video masters of Sundance alumni films. In early April, I made several requests to Carney for the return of my materials. I sent Carney several e-mails (to various e-mail addresses), and I called his home and office and left numerous messages. Carney ignored all of my attempts to reach him. As a result, I hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts, where a judge issued a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against Carney. The court entered a default against Carney (who had not responded to my complaint) and ordered Carney to return the materials to me, or else be held in contempt of court. After that, Carney hired a lawyer who stated Carney intends to defend his conduct by arguing that I “gave” him the materials outright as “a gift.”
There is much at stake here for me. Without the digital video masters, my films, everything prior to 1990, Casual Relations, Local Color, The Scenic Route, Impostors, Mark Rappaport—The TV Spin-Off, Chain Letters, plus the High-Definition version of Exterior Night, cannot be made available for streaming, commercial DVDs, video-on-demand, or any electronic delivery system down the road. My life as a filmmaker, my past, and even my future reputation as a filmmaker are at stake. I gave Carney no rights to my materials except the right to hold them and return them to me on request. His lawyer has refused to disclose the current location of my materials.
Carney tried to cast doubt on the truthfulness of the inventory I presented. Furthermore, under oath, he stated “some of the items I received I no longer have because I gave them away to third parties. I discarded other items due to the degraded and unusable condition they were in when I received them. Finally, I discarded other items at later dates after they were worn-out by the normal wear and tear of being used.” This is sworn statement from Carney who, earlier, on his website bragged, “Mark is a great friend and gave me almost everything he owned when he left New York for France… So I am now the ‘Mark Rappaport Archive.’ I have the largest collection of material by him in the world: file cabinets and storage bins full of amazing things: production notebooks, film prints, rough drafts, revisions, scripts, film stock, DVDs, tapes, notes, jottings, journals, etc. etc. etc. It’s a dream come true for me and one of the major film collections by one of the world’s greatest artists. All being preserved for posterity at any cost.” http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/aboutrc/letters57.shtml (PLEASE NOTE: If this interests you, go to the website before this entry is removed.)
Elsewhere, he describes me as “a genuine national treasure.”
The judge, at a pre-trial hearing, demanded that Carney supply the court with a full inventory of what he still had, what he gave away, and what he destroyed. Carney subsequently delivered a full inventory—which included absolutely everything I gave him. None of it had been given away or destroyed. Although he clearly had perjured himself, I was ecstatic to learn my materials were intact. After four and a half months of this, Carney got in touch with me to propose a deal, saying, “I sincerely wish you well and I am sorry this issue has come between us.” “I am willing,” he writes, to “ship everything back for a modest consideration, simply to cover my costs and the time and trouble of having stored the material for the past seven-and-a-half years.” In return for my own films, I was to pay him $27,000! Some may call this extortion, I call it merely outrageous. Just to put it in perspective, that would equal 3 years of the monies I get from Social Security. To continue the suit to trial would have cost me about the same amount, in addition to the thousands I had already spent. I couldn’t afford to continue.
Just when I filed for a dismissal of the suit, Carney demanded back, because he claims they were part of “the gift” I gave him, the video masters that he returned to me in 2010—namely From the Journals of Jean Seberg, Postcards, Exterior Night, and John Garfield.
I’ve heard somewhat similar stories from other filmmakers, although none quite as breathtaking as this.
For a variety of reasons, I think this is a cautionary tale you might consider emailing to colleagues, friends, and acquaintances who are interested in the conservation and protection of works by non-mainstream filmmakers, film preservation in general, and archiving not just films but film-related artifacts of the recent past by independent filmmakers. Please feel free email this letter, post this on Facebook pages, and submit it to various blogs.
If you want to write about this situation, I have much more information.
Mark Rappaport
marrap@noos.fr
Prof. Carney has seemed to have gone into hiding after these alleged revelations have surfaced, and some, most notably filmmaker Jon Jost, colleague/friend of Ray, has suggested perhaps a sort of breakdown, mental or otherwise, may have occurred as repeated efforts by Jon to help resolve, buffer, or simply understand the situation, have all gone unanswered.
Glancing at a larger picture, a broader view, I think about the idea of collapse, in particular the “end days of arts”, where eventually everything gets streamlined into one channel – such as a single FM hits only radio station recycling the same song shuffle over and over.
The end of arts single channel system, comes to full fruition, when the margins begin bickering with one another, or begin losing it altogether, sucked into single channel behaviors – behaviors which Ray Carney’s alleged “pay me 27 grand for your rights back” attack , seems to suggest.
“The margins define the page”. – Hal Hartley.
And when the margins go, guess what you got left. Carney was a significant voice from the margins. Though a few of the artists here on AVA have spoken with Ray casually and personally in the past in positive, enlightening talks, his attention or care towards this margin, AVA, is negligible. But being the said significant voice in the larger picture, makes this an important matter to resolve, and understand, for the sake of everyone swimming around in the sidebars of the last gasp single channel nearing environment.
Jon Josts open blog post.
Carney internet letter PDF
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Posted in Uncategorized and tagged mark rappaport, ray carney on September 13, 2012 by Ferguson Ulrich. 3 Comments
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matthew topartzer says:
this is an interesting post, and i read most of it until i got the gist. . .
from my experience, because of the over-documentation of the times, and the over-gentrification of contemporary living. . we are starting to see who the real artists are. . . and it’s not the darlings of the past, the ray carneys, or the bob dylans, or anybody who had in previous years pretended to be the keepers of the flame. . . it’s often ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances. . . which happens to be a hard pill to swallow for those who are social climbers. . . it’s like the french revolution mixed with contemporary art. . .
i remember that tony conrad [the filmmaker and musician] used to have a picture of himself on his myspace page holding up a sign that said something like “down with the social climbers” and this was in the 60’s when everybody was doing it. . . well, now he’s a professor with tenure at SUNY Buffalo. .
anyways, i’ve ribbed him from time to time, and i spammed his myspace page saying something like “well, now you make art for social climbers” – just one of the many bastard moments of mine. . .
but anyways, people should stop complaining about the state of art [let alone the economy] if they think art is all about social climbing, tenure and fame. . . .
even though i disagree with your angle regarding my film, i am at least refreshed that it’s not about first impressions. . . which are undoubtedly overrated. . . .
take it easy, matt
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Dao Klien says:
You Carney apologists are the worst. Carney has always been a self aggrandizing bullshiter.
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The Great Christmas Pudding Wars
By Jack Eason Last updated Jul 23, 2019
With Christmas day barely a month away, celebrity chefs and supermarket chains here in the UK are already sparring with each other for the consumer’s hard earned UK pound.
Now read on…
“A rare Heston Blumenthal Christmas pudding for Waitrose is open for bids on eBay, but it’s not the only supermarket Christmas fare that’s whetting gastronomes’ appetites.”
Every year there’s something, isn’t there? A decade ago it was Delia Smith, boldly introducing the nation, Walter Raleigh-like; to the notion of fresh cranberries in a sauce we could make ourselves rather than buy in a jar. Sales of the acidic dark-red fruit promptly trebled, triggering shortages up and down the land.
Five years later, it was Nigella Lawson. She praised goose fat as essential for perfect roast potatoes. A fortnight afterwards, Tesco and Waitrose said sales had doubled, while Sainsbury’s and ASDA reported mere 70% spikes.
Logically, as we slide ever further down the celebrity-endorsed slope, this time around it’s not an ingredient but a product baring Heston Blumenthal’s name. “The must-have pudding for 2011. Sold out in 99.9% of stores. In original sealed box.”. Time left: 9 days.” As G2 went to press, the bidding stood at £77.
Admittedly, this prince among puddings serves 10-12 people. And it is, if we believe its creator, “very special . . . As it cooks, the essential oils from the orange peel infuse the nuts and fruit from the inside out.” But £77, you’ll agree, is a lot to pay for something that retailed at £13.99 (already a pretty penny to pay for a pudding).
“We’ve sold tens of thousands,” says the supermarket, adding that while there were “around 2,000” in stores at the start of the weekend, “they’re being snapped up very quickly. We always thought it would do well; it’s a modern twist on an old favourite, from one of our food ambassadors. But even we have been slightly surprised.”
Delia, Waitrose’s other “food ambassador”, is doing all right too. Her £10 DIY Christmas cake kit “perfect for first-time bakers who don’t want a cupboard full of half-used jars, and enjoy baking but don’t have the time” – is currently flying off the shelf every seven seconds. It can only be days before it shows up on eBay too – maybe for £26, which is what the ingredients would cost individually.)
The moral of all this, of course, is that we really, really care about our Christmasdinner. Also, some of us are gullible enough to swallow anything. If you’re in the former category but not the latter, a tip: the Christmas pudding that won this year’s ‘Which’ magazine’s taste test comes from Lidl. And it costs £2.99.”
Whatever happened to the family tradition of all gathering round, helping your mother stir the mixture, with tiny hands adding the ingredients and the odd few silver coins before your mother put the delicious concoction away to mature. Remember the joy you all felt when she triumphantly brought it out on Christmas day for the family meal to the applause of all seated around the table and when your father lit the alcohol? Remember that wonderful sight of the blue flames licking their way around and down the sides of the pudding? I do.
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Drinking filtered coffee could cut your risk of type 2 diabetes by 60%
Drinking filtered coffee could cut your risk of type 2 diabetes by 60% because ‘the papers may catch molecules that can affect your blood sugar levels’
The diets of 842 people in Sweden, half of whom had diabetes, were compared
Filtered coffee gave a lower risk of diabetes while boiled coffee did not
Boiled coffee is when coffee is added to water and is not the same as instant
Scientists said molecules called diterpenes are removed by the filter paper
Drinking filtered coffee could cut your risk of getting type 2 diabetes, a study has shown.
Researchers say the papers which the coffee is strained through catch molecules that may affect blood sugar levels.
Scientists compared the effects of filtered and boiled coffee – when ground beans are added directly to the water.
No other types of coffee – including instant – were analysed in the research, which tracked hundreds of volunteers for seven years.
Participants who drank up to three filtered coffees a day were 60 per cent less likely to get type 2 diabetes, compared to boiled coffee fans.
Drinking filtered coffee either made manually or with a machine could cut your risk of type 2 diabetes by 60 per cent compared with boiled coffee, a study has shown
Co-author of the study, Professor Rikard Landberg, said: ‘Our results now clearly show filtered coffee has a positive effect in terms of reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.’
But Professor Landberg added that boiled coffee does not have this effect. Despite having no proof, he also said espressos would be similarly useless.
It is unclear whether instant coffee would be more similar to filtered or boiled coffee because it was not studied.
Instant, where boiling water is added to coffee granules, is the most common type consumed by coffee drinkers in the UK.
Filtered coffee refers to methods in which finely ground coffee beans are placed in a filter, and then water passes through, either in a machine or manually.
WHAT ARE THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF COFFEE?
Scientific studies into the health effects of coffee are being done all the time and have, in the past, claimed the drink brings fairly big health benefits.
Reduces early death risk
Research by the National Cancer Institute in the US last year found people who drink six or seven cups of coffee each day were 16 per cent less likely to die from disease within a 10-year period than those who didn’t.
Less likely to get depression
Another study, done by the Harvard School of Public Health, found that women who drank four or more cups of coffee per day were 20 per cent less likely to suffer from depression.
Women have higher pain threshold
British scientists at Goldsmiths, University of London, found women who drank coffee – 250mg of caffeine, to be precise – tended to have a higher pain threshold than those who didn’t.
Lower type 2 diabetes
The Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee last year said it had trawled through nearly 30 studies of almost 1.2million people to find drinking three or four cups of coffee each day could slash the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 27 per cent.
Boiled coffee is when coarsely ground coffee beans are added directly to the water. This method also includes Turkish and Greek coffee.
The study, by Chalmers University of Technology and Umeå University, involved 842 people from the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden.
Sweden is one of the countries with the highest filtered coffee intake worldwide. Some seven per cent of their population has diabetes.
Half of those who took part had developed type 2 diabetes by the end. The findings were published in the Journal of Internal Medicine.
Blood samples which had been collected at the start of the study in the 1990s were analysed using a technique called metabolomics.
Metabolomics makes it possible for doctors to identify the blood concentration of specific molecules, including diterpenes.
It means researchers don’t need to rely solely on participants’ food and drink diaries, which are often inaccurate.
Professor Landberg and colleagues found 32 markers in the blood were strongly linked to filtered coffee and 24 to boiled coffee.
With the use of these markers, the researchers were able to show that people who drank filtered coffee were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Diterpines were only found in the blood of boiled coffee drinkers, while filtered coffee drinkers had higher levels of phenolic compounds, which have antioxidant properties.
Diterpenes, naturally present in coffee, have been linked to high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and heart and vascular diseases.
It is possible diterpenes also negatively influence how sugar is metabolised in the body, disrupting how sugar is managed in the body.
The authors concluded: ‘Our study supports a protective role of habitual intake of filtered coffee on type 2 diabetes development.’
Previous studies have shown boiled coffee increases the risk of heart and vascular diseases and high ‘bad’ cholesterol due to the presence of diterpenes.
Professor Landberg said: ‘It has been shown when you filter coffee, the diterpenes are captured in the filter.
‘As a result, you get the health benefits of the many other molecules present, such as different phenolic substances.
‘In moderate amounts, caffeine also has positive health effects.’
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EPA smears former employees who criticized the agency
Newly revealed documents show the EPA orchestrated a smear campaign to discredit the criticism of employees who left the agency as Trump-era policies took hold.
As the Trump administration's assault on science drove career civil servants to sound the alarm about what was going on during the early months of the Trump presidency, the EPA joined forces with the White House, the Republican National Committee, and right-wing media to launch a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting the departing employees, new documents reveal.
The documents, obtained through a lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), show that the EPA's press office orchestrated "distasteful disinformation campaigns directed against distinguished public servants," said PEER general counsel Paula Dinerstein.
With employees going public as they left the agency, the EPA fought back by disseminating false information in an attempt to refute the negative claims being made about the Trump-era changes at the EPA.
Two of the employees targeted by the disinformation campaign were Michael "Mike" Cox, who resigned after 25 years as a climate adviser at the EPA, and Elizabeth "Betsy" Southerland, who retired from her post as a senior executive after 30 years at the agency.
When Cox resigned in March 2017, he wrote a public letter to then-EPA Director Scott Pruitt in which he blasted the Trump administration's anti-science agenda and ripped into Pruitt for "denying fundamental climate science," making "indefensible budget cuts," "appointing political staff who are hostile to the EPA," and failing to understand "what we do at the EPA."
"The policies this Administration is advancing are contrary to what the majority of the American people, who pay our salaries, want EPA to accomplish, which are to ensure the air their children breath is safe; the land they live, play, and hunt on to be free of toxic chemicals; and the water they drink, the lakes they swim in, and the rivers they fish in to be clean," Cox wrote.
The letter was featured in an April 2017 column in the Washington Post that made clear that Cox's views "reflect the disgust and frustration among the agency employees he left behind" when he resigned. Citing interviews with remaining staffers, The Post described a workforce "demoralized" by the anti-science sentiment espoused by Trump and Pruitt.
Southerland retired four months later and released a statement denouncing recent EPA policies and actions. In it, she warned that the agency had adopted "an industry deregulation approach based on abandonment of the polluter pays principle that underlies all environmental statutes." The day after she retired, The Post interviewed Southerland and published an article describing her criticism of the agency.
Responding to the public criticism, then-EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox told the Los Angeles Times in October 2017 that "despite the faux outrage, both employees will receive their six-figure taxpayer-funded pension and we wish them the best."
Neither of the former EPA employees are making a six-figure pension salary — but they say the outrage is very real.
When contacted by the Post, the EPA did not have an explanation for why the agency released false information about Southerland and Cox in the wake of their criticism. However, emails obtained by PEER as part of a lawsuit give an indication of what EPA leadership was thinking at the time.
As one EPA representative wrote in an email describing their approach to dealing with Southerland's criticism, "we wanted to get in front of it all instead of having another controversy like the Mike Cox stuff."
The documents also reveal an extensive effort to dig up information about the former employees that could be used to discredit their critical public statements. They also show that the EPA reached out to news outlets that might be sympathetic, and even involved the Republican National Committee's "war room" in the orchestrated smear campaign against the two employees.
At one point, Wilcox — the former EPA spokesperson — sent a "pitch" to the right-wing "Hot Air" blog, which ended up publishing an article featuring many of the talking points Wilcox suggested. The article, which was then circulated by the RNC's "war room," disparagingly suggested that Southerland should "[turn] down all those sweet taxpayer funded retirement benefits" if she was really that unhappy with the EPA.
"These documents confirm what I suspected: Political appointees in the Administrator's Office decided to discredit me as soon as my retirement speech was publicly released," Southerland said.
While miscalculating the pension payments earned by Southerland and Cox may seem like an oversight, in this case it appears to be part of an intentional effort to spread disinformation to reduce the impact of their criticism.
"EPA’s gross miscalculation of the retirement benefits of Dr. Southerland makes one wonder if this is yet another attack on career SES [Senior Executive Service] and an attempt to influence public perceptions about federal workers as being overpaid and pampered," Bill Valdez, president of the Senior Executives Association, told The Post. "Calculating retirement benefits is a straightforward, easily understood formula that all agency human resource offices can do accurately within minutes."
Unfortunately for those trying to smear the two former employees, the EPA ended up discrediting itself as soon as Pruitt took the reigns. His scandal-plagued tenure at the EPA show that everything Southerland and Cox criticized about his leadership was true — and as these new documents reveal, even an orchestrated disinformation campaign couldn't cover it up.
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On November 15, 2015 in Denver, Colorado the Denver Broncos Quarterback Peyton Manning made NFL history yet again. During the Kansas City Chiefs VS Denver Broncos game Manning completed a 4-yard pass early in the first quarter. This 4-yard pass put Manning at 71,838 yards passing for his career and set the new record for that category.
Peyton Manning passed the previous record holder Brett Favre. Manning also has an opportunity to pass Favre in another category as well, all-time regular-season wins at 186. Manning will have 187 regular season wins with his next victory.
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Week 3 of the NFL season was one of the most unpredictable so far this season. It also so more controversy over the replacement referees. It was a very exciting group of games, so let’s take a look at 2centsworthofsports.com’s top 3 stories from this week in the NFL.
The Replacement Refs Blow The Game For The Packers
The replacement referees have been atrocious the season. They have missed many calls and made wrong ones as well. On Monday Night the stand in refs made the worst call of the season. In closing seconds of the final quarter with the Packers leading the Seahawks 12-7 the unthinkable happened. Seahawks QB Russell Wilson completed a pass to Wide Receiver Golden Tate for the win, or did he. What actually happened was Packers Defensive Back M.D. Jennings intercepted the pass and had it wrestled away from him by Tate while on the ground. The play was reviewed referee Wayne Elliot who stated ”the ruling on the field stands”. The Seattle faithful loved it but NFL fans everywhere were outraged. This seasons referee’s have been horrible and until the lock out ends with the veteran refs we might be seeing a lot more games end this way.
Many Strong Teams Upset By Unlikely Foes
The season has only seen a few up sets during the first two weeks of play. Week three brought with it many upsets. The lowly Jaguars defeated the Colts on the road by a score of 22-17, outscoring the Colts 19-3 in the second half. The Chiefs defeated the Saints in overtime 27-24. The Bengals beat the Redskins 38-31, with excellent play from their QB Andy Dalton who threw for over 300 yards and had 3 TD passes. The Titans stunned the Lions 44-41 in overtime. The 49ers were defeated in the Metro dome by the Vikings 24-13. The Steelers lost to the aiders 34-31, even though “Big” Ben Roethlisberger had a great game with 384 yards passing and 4 TD’s. It was a wild and crazy Sunday. Who know maybe we will see more of this as teams that have been lower level become stronger and more competitive.
Matt Schaub Takes An Illegal Hit And Losses Part Of His Ear
On Sunday afternoon the Houston Texans came into Denver to face the Broncos. What happened would be one of the most gruesome sights in recent memory. The Texans QB Matt Schaub dropped back for a pass and was tackled by two Broncos Defenders simultaneously. His helmet popped off and he immediately grabbed his ear. When he removed his hands from his head he was missing a chunk of the upper portion of his ear. Schaub showed his toughness and continued to play throwing for almost 300 yards and had 4 TD passes. The Texans won the game by a score of 31-25.
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