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Geek Errant
Questing to find the most entertaining and interesting bits of culture that it can. And then bringing them to you.
Geek Errant Recommends: Hamilton
November 10, 2016 Conor Recommends 0
Stories are great. Not all stories get the audience they deserve though. Every week, Geek Errant is going to pick one Book, Game, TV Series or Film and give it the spotlight. Some of these will be very niche, something that only a few people will ever care about. But that’s why they matter.
Everyone deserves to get their story heard.
How would you like to feel good about America again?
Now i’m not talking about American culture like Burgers and Fries, Superheroes and intrenched social division, No. That was earlier this week.
I’m talking the mythological America. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. All the bits people braved the seas out of hope for.
Hamilton is for you.
It’s a musical created by, and starring, Lin Manuel Miranda. It started on Broadway! That’s American for a start. But this is a Musical tracking the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers. Even more Americana!
And then we get to the rub. This isn’t your standard Sondheim fare. No Fairy tales here. Instead, a blend of hip hop and show tunes creates an electrifying experience.
The music is good.
The Lyrics are better.
With references to classic hip hop happening as often as nods to Rogers and Hammerstein, Miranda creates a whirlwind story. The action tracks Alexander Hamilton from his humble beginnings as an immigrant from the Caribbean to the heroism of the American Revolution, to the struggles of the Founding of the nation and on until Hamilton’s story reaches a compelling end.
As Hamilton’s story is told, so is the story of America. It’s a fascinating tale, with a perfect mix of humor, romance and heatbreaking tragedy.
If you can’t name your founding fathers off by heart (Not Unlikely) then don’t worry. There are added story beats and references for those up to date on their history, but it’s not essential.
The show has a way of simplifying and mythologising the story, so it’s incredibly easy to follow, even for Yankophobes.
There’s a lot here to remind you that America has always been grubby and ridiculous. Same as everywhere else. But the myth of America, that great unfinished symphony, is on full display. Anyone can make something of themselves there. Especially Immigrants. They get the job done.
It’s a timely reminder.
Now, the Broadway show is a little out of the way for most people, and the London Show is in the middle of pre-production. So actually seeing a live performance might be tricky.
The visual aspect of the musical is impressive, but the musical performances in the cast recording are equally superb.
Luckily almost the entire show is available on Spotify.
Or you know. Youtube.
And if, for some reason, you hate musicals, then The Hamilton Mixtape being released on December 2nd may be for you.
A remix of many songs from the play, re-recorded by a wealth of talent including The Roots, Kelly Clarkson, Sia, Regina Spektor and Busta Rhymes. A more palatable way for the less theatrically inclined to appreciate this great work.
Now, Enjoy a very fun version of my personal favourite track.
Hamilton Mixtape
Lin Manuel Miranda
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Macon: Hearings regarding hunting regulations
Commissioners will hold two public forums to hear from Macon-Bibb County residents regarding a proposed hunting ordinance. The ordinance would amend County Code to prohibit the firing of rifles within 250 feet of a residence in Macon-Bibb County. You...
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The City of Atlanta Department of Public Works announced that the Office of Solid Waste Services will be closed Monday, January 20, 2020 in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.
Macon: Tax Commissioner S. Wade McCord helping raise money for breast cancer education, screening, and treatment
Macon-Bibb County Tax Commissioner S. Wade McCord is spearheading an initiative to assist the Georgia Center for Oncology Research and Education, Inc. (Georgia CORE), which uses the proceeds of the sale of the Breast Cancer License Plate to help women...
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Oconee State Bank (OTCQX: OSBK) today announced the addition of Extra Special People, Inc. Executive Director, Laura Whitaker, to its board of directors.
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Safe Systems, a national provider of fully-compliant IT, compliance and security services for community banks and credit unions, has issued a new white paper: "
For the fourth time, author and keynote speaker, Belinda Goodrich, achieves Amazon best-selling status.
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About the Pledge
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Global Magnitsky Awards: Courage Under Fire Award to Jamal Khashoggi
Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, colleagues, dear Hatice,
The last prize this evening is a prize for courage.
We are celebrating a virtue – that is acquired. Courage is not innate or inherent. We are not born courageous. We become courageous; or some of us do. As a result of circumstances. But also as a chosen path. Some of us make the choice to be courageous when many others choose to turn away, turn around, look away, ignore or stay silent.
Jamal Khashoggi, the unassuming, polite, kind and curious man. He chose to be courageous. A journalist, high-profile, well respected intellectual in his home country Saudi Arabia, he was well connected with establishment figures. At various points in his career, close even to the Saudi administration and to the Saudi Royal Court. Circumstances did not force him to be courageous; he actively chose to be courageous. In 2013 he had watched, followed closely, the Arab Spring – the revolt of populations against the autocrats, dictators; against their corruption, their injustice. When he then confronted another wave of personal attacks – the cancellation of his column in Saudi newspaper al-Hayat, banned from writing, appearing on television, and attending conferences – in 2017, he chose to leave – not to run – but as he explained in his first piece for the Washington Post because he could no longer be silent!
He left in order to speak out. He chose self-imposed exile over an authority-imposed silence.
Some choose to be courageous – to overcome fear, to risk danger and to face suffering. Jamal Khashoggi did just that. In leaving, he lost his wife who was forced to divorce him; he lost access to his children, some of whom were then subjected a travel ban. Many in his extended family and friendship network turned their backs on him.
He lost status. Income. Possessions. Security. In exile, he found little income. No personal security. He experienced loneliness and deep sadness. And still he turned down invitations to return to Saudi Arabia; refused the money, the job offers, the promises of high status. Instead, he chose to speak out. And to write. And to demand. Then too he chose to be courageous when many others turned away, looked away, stayed silent.
Jamal Khashoggi dared to dream; to dream of dignity for his people, for his country, for his region. He dreamed of a platform for Arab voices – the creation of an independent international forum, isolated from the influence of nationalist governments spreading hate through propaganda. With his newly found friends, he planned new projects to counter State propaganda on-line; he imagined means of expanding democracy in the Middle East.
Philosophers tell us that true courage is put to the service of others, without self-interest, is guided by a sense of justice. To be courageous, truly, is to do what is right.
Jamal, the unassuming, polite, kind journalist – close to the political system of Saudi Arabia – chose justice over his personal interests. He chose democracy and freedom for the people of the Middle East over his status and security. And for that he became one of those whom the Saudi regime sought to silence.
On October 2nd, he was murdered. Lured into the Saudi Arabia consulate on false pretense, on his own, armed only with his pen, his kindness and his politeness, Jamal was confronted by Saudi officials, part of a killing team of 15. They strangled and asphyxiated him. They dismembered him. They then disposed of his body. A killing for which the State of Saudi Arabia is responsible.
Friends, this is a prize for courage – Jamal’s courage. Understanding what is right but opting to not do right – that is just the opposite of courage. And we have seen so much of it, the opposite of courage – in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. So by celebrating Jamal’s courage, we are denouncing too its very opposite; we reject the complicity, the silence, the apologists, the eagerness to move on, that has been exhibited by so many powerful actors. We reject the despicable self-interest that is driving so many to trample on values, valor and justice.
By celebrating Jamal’s courage, we denounce not only the actors in his murder but the cowards that have failed to act in its aftermath. And we stand with Jamal against them – as we stand with the people of Lebanon and Iraq, Bahrain and Egypt, who are daring to dream, daring to act on their dreams – demanding an end to the hatred, the propaganda, and corruption. Who are calling for justice.
And in honoring Jamal’s courage, we also celebrate Hatice’s courage. Jamal dreamed also a new life. With his Hatice, his soulmate, companion, soon to be wife, they together had dared dream of a new life together.
Tonight, we also celebrate Hatice – for her courage – the courage of those left behind and who continue the fight for justice. Whose voice and acts ensure we do not forget. That we remember.
And that we continue to fight for what is right.
Agnès Callamard
Director, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression; Special Adviser to the President, Columbia University
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Burkina Faso, Colombia and Russia punish killers of journalists. But it is not enough.
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Religious Leaders from the Middle East and North Africa develop a regional strategy to prevent and counter incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes
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Conflating a Journalist’s Criticism with Terrorism
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Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark
With over 40,000 students and more than 9,000 employees, the University of Copenhagen is the largest institution of research and education in Denmark. The purpose of the University – to quote the University Statute – is to ’conduct research and provide further education to the highest academic level’.
Approximately one hundred different institutes, departments, laboratories, centres, museums, etc., form the nucleus of the University, where professors, lecturers and other academic staff, as well as most of the technical and administrative personnel, carry out their daily work, and where teaching takes place.
Københavns Universitet Alumni
(Anna) Charlotta Thörn
Copenhagen Area, Capital Region, Denmark
Drug Safety Associate hos Astellas Pharma
University of Copenhagen 2007 — 2013
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Veterinary Medicine
Lund University 2005 — 2005
English Language and Literature, General
MalmöBorgarskola 2001 — 2004
Astellas Pharma April 2015 - Present
Timeline Bioresearch AB / Pipeline Biotech A/S June 2014 - April 2015
National Food Agency, Sweden June 2013 - June 2014
Salfarm August 2012 - April 2013
University of Copenhagen 2010 - 2012
Veterinary Medicine, In Vivo, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Pathology, Animal Behavior, Ethics, Animal Welfare
(Merete) Elisabeth Sørensen
Office Manager/PA at area9 learning
Metropol 2014 — 2016
Århus Katedralskole
A. Charlotte Fabricius
Ledelseskonsulent at Gladsaxe Kommune
cand. jur. (LLM)
Arbejdsmiljøkursus
Baccalaureate, Math/English
Gladsaxe Kommune May 2014 - Present
... March 2014 - May 2014
SKAT February 2013 - February 2014
... March 2012 - February 2013
Self-employed 2001 - July 2012
Powerjobsøgerne December 2011 - June 2012
JØP, Juristernes og Økonomernes Pensionskasse August 1991 - January 2000
Det danske Voldgiftsinstitut/Voldgiftsnævnet for Bygge- og Anlægsvirksomhed December 1987 - July 1991
Arbejderbo Amba April 1984 - December 1987
Organizational..., Portuguese, Internal Communications, Translation, Political Communication, Corporate Communications, Intercultural..., Strategic Communications, English, Contracts, Policy Analysis, Danish, Politics
ALAN HARD
Student at Københavns Universitet
Københavns Universitet 1994 — 2019
ANDREA BORTOLOTTI
Bologna Area, Italy
Production Team Leader in New Cars Project presso Ferrari
Università di Bologna 1998 — 2004
Ingegneria Gestionale vecchio ordinamento
Esami nell'ambito del progetto Erasmus, Ricerca Operativa, Environmental Science and Technology
Nicolò Copernico Castelmaggiore Bologna
Ferrari April 2013 - Present
Ferrari February 2010 - March 2013
Ferrari February 2009 - February 2010
Ferrari March 2005 - February 2009
VPM, Automotive, Process Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Product Development, Process Improvement, Project Management, Industrialization, Problem Solving, Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Automobile, FMEA, Vehicles, Analytic Problem Solving, KPI Implementation, Quality Auditing, DMU
Nyuddannet cand.soc.
Roskilde Universitetscenter 2012 — 2015
Master of Science (MSc), Socialvidenskab & Arbejdslivsstudier, Kandidat
Freie Universität Berlin 2013 — 2014
Udveksling, Statskundskab & Sociologi, Kandidat
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Antropologi, Bachelor
Western University 2011 — 2011
Udveksling, Filosofi & Sociologi, Bachelor
Krogerup Højskole 2009 — 2009
FTF September 2015 - Present
Ældre Sagen April 2014 - September 2015
First Hotel Skt. Petri October 2010 - August 2014
Ramboll Management Consulting January 2013 - June 2013
PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Gender Identity, Interviews, Media Ethics, Microsoft Word, Gender Analysis, Analysis, Data Analysis, Observation, Quantitative Research, Business Ethics, Sociology, Office Administration, Methodology, Gender Mainstreaming, Statistics, Participant Observation, Microsoft Office, Qualitative Research, Social Sciences, Management Consulting, Cultural Anthropology, Social Skills, Gender Equality, Sociological Theory, Gender Studies, Research
Aage Hansen Jensen
Aage T. Andersen
IT chef
Cand. Polit., Statistik, kvantitative metoder
Grindsted Gymnasium 1983 — 1986
Studentereksamen, Mat. Samf.
University of Copenhagen, Centre for Social Science Computing, Samf-IT, KU September 2011 - Present
AataCon (own company) 1995 - Present
University of Copenhagen, Center for Samfundsvidenskabelig IT, SAMF-IT May 2011 - August 2011
Københavns Universitet, SAMF-IT, IBT October 2004 - April 2011
IBT - Center for Anvendt Datalogi 1991 - 2004
LISREL, SAS, Windows, Databases, SQL, Problem Solving, Operations Management, Management, Excel, Policy, Process Management, Security, Writing, Quantitative Analysis, Change Management, HTML, Data Processing, Statistics, Analytics, Business Strategy, Statistical Modeling, Data Analysis, ITIL, Business Intelligence, Economics, Data Mining, Architecture, Editing, Analysis, SPSS, Microsoft Office, SAN
Aaron Huang
Trainee at aPureBase
Master of Science (MSc), Biology-Biotechnology
aPureBase September 2015 - Present
University of Copenhagen April 2014 - September 2014
Dragonfly Sciences, Inc. December 2010 - July 2011
L'Oreal November 2009 - January 2010
Western Blotting, Cell Culture, ELISA, Quality Control, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Manufacturing, Lifesciences, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, HPLC, Research, Biotechnology, Microsoft Office, PCR, Immunology, Data Analysis
Aaron Wan
Student at Den Kgl. Veterinær og Landbohøjskole
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 2009 — 2010
Msc, Environmental Management and Sciences
Den Kgl. Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole 2008 — 2010
Aase Bak
Central Region, Denmark
Head of Communication, Aarhus BSS
Cross Media Communication
Danmarks Journalisthøjskole 1990 — 1994
Bachelor's degree, Journalism
Århus Statsgymnasium 1983 — 1985
Næshøjskolen 1973 — 1983
Kommunikationsgruppen
Aarhus Universitet 2011 - Present
Aarhus University 2010 - 2011
Danmarks Radio 2005 - 2011
Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet October 2004 - 2010
Danmarks Journalisthøjskole 2002 - 2004
Stickelbergs Bureau 1999 - 2002
Horsens Folkeblad 1995 - 1996
Vendsyssel Tidende 1994 - 1994
Online Communications, News Writing, Editing, Public Affairs, Press Releases, Public Relations, Media Relations, Politics, Communications Planning, Corporate Communications, Internal Communications, Crisis Communications, Danish, New Media, Corporate Social..., Journalism, Online Journalism, Storytelling, Internal & External..., Newsletters, Organizational..., Political Communication, Strategic Communications
Aase Hill Madsen
Psychologist at Psykologisk Konsultation
Master's Degree, Clinical Psychology
Aase Højlund Nielsen
Brussels Area, Belgium
EU adviser at Central Denmark EU Office
MA, History
Aarhus Universitet 1990 — 1991
Exam.art., Archeology
Attractor Rambøl Management 2011 — 2012
Project manager, Systemic project management
Mannaz 2009 — 2009
The Open University 2014 — 2017
Master’s Degree, Systems Thinking in Practice
Central Denmark EU Office July 2008 - Present
European Commission (DG COMM) March 2007 - Present
North Denmark Brussels Office January 2008 - February 2008
The Danish School Museum August 2004 - December 2007
Danish School Museum 1999 - 2002
University of Copenhagen January 1997 - July 1997
Danish National Museum July 1996 - June 1997
Public Relations, Analysis, Teaching, International Event..., Event Planning, French, Policy Analysis, Project Coordination, Social Media, European Union, International Relations, Danish, Intercultural..., Event Management, History, Research, Politics, Strategic Communications, Project Management, Museums
Aase Nissen
Chief Consultant at Danish Cancer Association
Danish Cancer Society October 2007 - Present
Public Health, Cancer
Aase Solvej Hansen
Associate professor at University of Copenhagen
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1973 — 1978
Master in Food Science
University of Copenhagen August 1989 - Present
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University 1985 - 1989
Schulstad Bakery 1978 - 1985
Protein Chemistry, Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Experimental Design, Chemometrics, Science, Chromatography, Scientific Writing, Food Science, Analytical Chemistry, Fermentation, Food Chemistry, Food Microbiology, Sensory Evaluation, Food Technology, HPLC
Aase Thusholt-Madsen
fhv budgetchef at Fødevareministeriet
cand jur
Fødevareministeriet September 2008 - Present
Abbas Sadeghi
System developer at PBJ A/S
Candidat, Computer science
Datalogi Institut
Master's degree, Computer Programming
PBJ Consult A/S November 2010 - Present
ScanJour October 2006 - October 2010
Telerik Controls, Enterprise Architecture, WCF, Visual Studio, Web Services, XML, LLBLGen Pro, Agile Methodologies, Test Driven Development, Infragistics, Oracle, Databases, XSLT, PL/SQL, ASP.NET, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, SOA, SQL, LINQ, C#, Scrum, TFS, Software Development, JavaScript
Abdalla Ali
Research Consultant hos University of Copenhagen
Abdallah Abdulrahman
Stud.pharm and Sales Representative at Humac A/S
Master of Pharmacy (cand.pharm), Pharmaceutical Sciences
Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.)
Frederiksberg Tekniske Gymnasium 2009 — 2012
Higher Technical Exam, Chemistry
Humac A/S July 2014 - Present
YouSee January 2013 - December 2013
deichmann a/s March 2011 - January 2013
Pharmacology, Medicinal Chemistry, Customer Service, Sales, Pharmaceutics
Abdi-karim A.
Management Consulting Professional
Abdiwahab Abdi
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College 2006 — 2009
Frederikssundsvejens Skole 1999 — 2005
FADL March 2010 - Present
Wisesport Aps February 2005 - June 2005
Microsoft Office, Highly Adaptable, Teamwork, Hospitals, Healthcare, Priority Management, Public Health, Research, Analysis, Medicine, Teaching, Clinical Research, Customer Service
Abdu Kedir
Copenhagen University 2009 — 2011
MSc, Economics
Addis Ababa University 2004 — 2006
MSc, Economics (Economic Policy Analysis)
Center for Alcohol and Drug Research,Aarhus University August 2012 - Present
Adama University September 2006 - September 2008
Economics, Analysis, Qualitative Research, Teaching, Stata, Statistics, Data Analysis, Quantitative Research, Research, Econometrics, SPSS
Abdul Ghafar
PhD Student at University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki 2011 — 2012
MSc Food Tehnology, Food safety, Dairy Microbiology
Erasmus Mundus Food of Life, The science of Animal derived foods
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad 2008 — 2010
MSc (Hons) Food Technology, Food Science and Technology
BSc (Hons) Agriculture major subject: Food Science and Technology, Agriculture and Food Science
University of Helsinki January 2013 - Present
University of Helsinki January 2013 - May 2013
Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland September 2011 - December 2012
Food Microbiology, Dairy, Agriculture, Food Science, Research, Microbiology, Food, Food Packaging, Science, Polymers, HACCP, R&D, Food Chemistry, Food Processing, Food Technology, Sensory Evaluation
Abdulfatah Adam
M.Sc, Environmental and Resource Economics
SQL, International..., Natural Resource..., Research, Project Planning, Analysis, Stata, Organizational..., Econometrics, Statistics, Health Economics, Public Policy, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Financial Analysis, SPSS, Economics, SAS, Ecosystem Services, Project Management, Ms Access, R, OxMetrics, NGOs
Abdullah Simsek
post doc at University of Copenhagen
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History
University of Copenhagen March 2012 - Present
Academic Writing, Quantitative Research, Scientific Writing, Theory, Qualitative Research, University Teaching, Sociology, Science, Literature Reviews, Social Sciences, Statistics, Lecturing, Anthropology, Field Work
Sealand Region, Denmark
Ph.D., History, Turkey, Islam, Modernization, Ottoman Empire, Middle East
University of Copenhagen July 2010 - February 2011
Abe Stegenga
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
Working Student at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Erasmus University Rotterdam 2015 — 2016
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Financial Law
Exchange, International Law
Utrecht University 2011 — 2015
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Utrecht Law College
CSG Bogerman College 2005 — 2011
Atheneum, Economics & Society
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer August 2015 - Present
L'Oréal September 2014 - January 2015
Universiteit Utrecht September 2013 - September 2014
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek July 2014 - August 2014
AIESEC The Netherlands January 2014 - July 2014
Ebbinge & Company January 2013 - July 2014
Rechtswinkel Utrecht February 2013 - February 2014
Universiteit Utrecht September 2013 - December 2013
Rechtswinkel Utrecht September 2012 - February 2013
Landelijk Aktie Komitee Scholieren June 2009 - February 2011
Abel Valenzuela García
Sevilla Area, Spain
Biólogo, Bioinformático, Investigador
posgrado, Genómica, Proteómica y Bioinformática
Sevilla 1995 — 2000
Licenciado, Biología
University of Copenhagen September 2012 - January 2014
Desfufor April 2010 - May 2010
GAPC November 2008 - January 2009
Alcance June 2008 - August 2008
The British School January 2008 - June 2008
Avalgar / Absoluta April 2006 - March 2007
Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa March 2005 - September 2005
Fundació Pere Tarrés July 2004 - August 2004
University of Barcelona March 2001 - December 2002
Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Scientific Review, Teaching, Molecular Biology, Teamwork, Python, Design of Experiments, Object Oriented..., Unix, Writing
Abigael Smith
Research Assistent
Cand. Psych., Psychology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Psychology
Copenhagen Child Anxiety Project September 2013 - Present
Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Treatment, Psychology, Psychological Testing, CBT, Psychotherapy, Research, Adolescents, Mental Health, Mental Health Counseling
Abigail Healey
Partner at Addleshaw Goddard
Bachelor's Degree, Law
Addleshaw Goddard August 2008 - Present
Bird & Bird July 2007 - August 2008
Mayer Brown September 2003 - June 2007
Mayer Brown September 2001 - September 2003
Legal Advice, Dispute Resolution, Social Media, Data Privacy, Privacy Law, Litigation, Defamation
Abigail Josephsen
Media and Communications Consultant hos KFUMSpejderne i Danmark
Mag.art Comparative Literature
Danmarks Journalisthøjskole
Social media in Strategy and Communications
Besttellers 2012 — 2013
Storytelling classes, module 1-4
KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark 2014 - Present
Columbus A/S 2012 - 2013
Infomedia 2009 - 2012
Save the Children Youth - Denmark 2007 - 2008
Ledernes Hovedorganisation 2006 - 2006
Universitetsavisen 2005 - 2006
Humanist 2003 - 2004
Video Production, Creative Writing, Social Media, Newsletters, Storytelling, Communicaitons, Press, Annual Reports, Journalism, Web-based Communication, CSRs, Public Relations
Abirami Srivarathan
Student Worker at University of Copenhagen
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
Syddansk Universitet / University of Southern Denmark 2012 — 2015
Bachelor's degree, Public Health
Herning Gymnasium 2009 — 2012
University of Copenhagen September 2015 - Present
University of Southern Denmark March 2015 - Present
University of Southern Denmark August 2014 - October 2014
Statens Institut for Folkesundhed March 2014 - June 2014
Rehabliteringscenter Herning June 2010 - August 2012
Global Health, Health Promotion, SAS programming, Research, Health Education, Cpr Certified, Biostatistics, Nutrition, SPSS, Community Health, Epidemiology, PowerPoint, Public Health, Public Speaking
Abraham Noriega pujol
Barcelona Area, Spain
Consultant en Accenture
Proyecto Final de Carrera, Fibra optica
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 2003 — 2007
Ingeniero Tecnico de Telecomunicaciones, Sistemas Electronicos
Semestre Economia
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1998 — 2003
Accenture 2007 - Present
Grupo Fideliter December 2006 - December 2007
SAP, Consultoría de..., SAP ERP, Análisis de negocio, SAP SRM, SAP FICO, Mejora de procesos de..., Sistemas de..., Procesos de negocio
Adam Abdel Khalik
Head of section at Ministry of Justice
Justitsministeriet/Ministry of Justice September 2011 - Present
Greenlandic Press Complaints Commission April 2013 - Present
The Immigration Appeals Board January 2015 - June 2015
University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law September 2014 - June 2015
Rigspolitiet October 2013 - September 2014
The Prime Minister's Office, The Office of The High Commissioner of Greenland June 2011 - August 2013
Rigspolitiet January 2012 - June 2013
Union of the lawyers and economists employed by the Danish government in Greenland January 2012 - May 2013
Prime Ministers Office June 2011 - June 2011
Prime Minister's Office February 2010 - June 2011
Administrative Law, Civil Litigation
Adam B. V. Diggle
Senior Manager, Business Finance at Novozymes
Københavns Universitet / University of Copenhagen 2007 — 2010
Master's degree, Economics
Copenhagen Business School 2008 — 2009
M.Sc., Finance
Bachelor's degree, Economics
Amtsgymnasiet i Paderup 1999 — 2002
Mathematical Student
Novozymes April 2013 - Present
Novozymes March 2012 - April 2013
Novozymes North America Inc. September 2010 - February 2012
Novo Nordisk A/S January 2010 - December 2010
Novozymes A/S December 2008 - August 2010
Novo Nordisk IT (NNIT) January 2006 - October 2008
Netværket af Ungdomsråd (U-Nettet) 2003 - 2005
Project Planning, Project Management, Organizational..., Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Business Analysis, Change Management, Valuation, Management, Finance, Financial Modeling, Strategy, People Skills, Forecasting, Analysis, Business Strategy
Adam Bak
Museumsinspektør / Curator at Nationalmuseet Kongernes Jelling
Master's degree Cand.Mag, Modern culture and cultural communication and mediation, B+
Århus University 1999 — 2002
Bachelor's degree, Prehistoric archaeology and the history of ideas, B+
Nationalmuseet - Kongernes Jelling April 2015 - Present
BK 2013 - April 2015
Lamont Street Advisors September 2012 - November 2012
Vester VovVov 2008 - 2012
Visual Arts, Arts Administration, Contemporary Art, Museums, Art, Teaching, Fine Art, Art History, Art Criticism, History of Art
Adam Bank Lentz
Fuldmægtig (Head of Section) at Miljøministeriet
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2009 — 2011
M.S., Agricultural and Applied Economics
M.S., Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
BSc, Natural Resources
Copenhagen Business College 2006 — 2007
HD Part 1, Business Graduate Diploma
Miljøministeriet November 2014 - Present
Danish Energy Agency December 2012 - October 2014
SKAT December 2011 - September 2012
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign January 2010 - August 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign August 2009 - May 2011
De Studerendes Råd, Det Biovidenskabelige Fakultet October 2005 - September 2006
Naturstyrelsen October 2003 - May 2004
Admiral Danish Fleet July 2002 - April 2003
Statistics, Policy, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Research, Analysis, Environmental Awareness, Stata, Natural Resources, Environmental Policy, Water Quality, Ecology, Matlab, Policy Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, ArcGIS, Economic Research, Economics, Agriculture, GAMS, Public Policy, Quantitative Analytics, Qualitative Research, GIS, Natural Resource...
Adam Bertelsen
MD at Region Sjælland
Cand. Med.
Adam Cerny
Student ve škole Københavns Universitet
Adam Drewes
Writer, freelance editor, teacher & curator
Master, Comparative Literature
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2005 — 2007
Forfatterskolen 2000 — 2002
Nordvestsjællands HF & VUC August 2014 - Present
Freelance teaching June 2011 - Present
Uldum Højskole September 2011 - June 2012
Freelance 1999 - 2012
Grundtvigs Højskole March 2011 - June 2011
Gyldendal 2010 - 2011
Danmarks Radio January 2002 - July 2003
Daghøjskolen Arena January 2001 - January 2002
Adam Fink
HRD Manager at Novo Nordisk A/S
Master's Degree, Organizational Psychology
University of Victoria 2008 — 2008
Exchange student, Psychology
BSc, Psychology
BA, Sociology
Novo Nordisk A/S, Corporate People & Organisation March 2013 - Present
Novo Nordisk A/S, Global Marketing July 2012 - March 2013
Novo Nordisk, DFP Site Danmark August 2011 - June 2012
Novo Nordisk, DFP Site Danmark August 2010 - July 2011
Novo Nordisk, DFP Site Danmark, People & Organisation August 2009 - July 2010
Novo Nordisk, DFP Site Danmark, People & Organisation February 2009 - June 2009
Mercuri Urval August 2006 - August 2008
The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) August 2005 - August 2006
Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen February 2004 - January 2005
Staff Development, Employer Branding, Constructive Feedback, Organizational Design, Performance Management, Change Management, Personnel Management, Human Resources, Organizational..., Project Management, Learning Management, HR Consulting, Talent Developer, Executive Coaching, Organizational..., Leadership Development, Talent Management
Adam Frederik Nissen Feldt
Digital Communications Manager at Haldor Topsøe A/S
Cand.mag., Comparative Litterature
Roskilde University 1991 — 1996
BA, Danish/Philosophy of science
Rungsted Gymnasium 1986 — 1990
Hørsholm Skole 1977 — 1986
Haldor Topsøe A/S August 2014 - Present
Chr. Hansen A/S September 2008 - July 2014
Forest & Landscape Denmark March 2008 - August 2008
The Danish Institute for Human Rights January 2003 - February 2008
The Danish Centre for Human Rights September 1996 - January 2003
Online PR, CMS, Publishing, Crisis Communications, Communications Strategy, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Social Media, Publications, New Media Strategy, Digital Strategy, Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Strategic..., Content Strategy, Intranet, Editing, Digital Communication..., Online Communications, Web Analytics, Online Marketing, Digital Communication, Internal Communications, Content Management, Web 2.0, Newsletters, Press Releases, Web Content Management, Google Analytics, Web Project Management, Web Strategy, Social Media Monitoring, Strategy, Content Development, SEO, Strategic Communications, Social Media..., Journalism
Adam Fussing Clausen
København, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark
Stud. jur. hos Folketingets Ombudsmand
Kandidat i jura
Ordrup Gymnasium 2006 — 2009
Gymnasieeksamen, Matematik-kemi-fysik
Folketingets Ombudsmand October 2012 - Present
Egemar & Clausen January 2011 - March 2012
Adam Goldschmidt
Zug, Kanton Zug, Switzerland
Group Legal Counsel, PhD at Pacorini Metals AG
University of Southern Denmark 2010 — 2013
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Shipping Finance Law
Industrial PhD, Business Course for Industrial PhD fellows
Audience before the High Court, Denmark 2003 — 2005
The Danish Bar and Law Society 1999 — 2001
The Danish Bar Exam
Masters of Law (LLM)
Pacorini Metals AG May 2015 - Present
Swiss Cargo Line, Swiss Chemical Tankers & Enzian Ship Management April 2014 - May 2015
Copenhagen Business School June 2013 - April 2014
Maersk Line October 2013 - March 2014
Maersk Broker January 2007 - August 2013
University of Southern Denmark January 2011 - August 2011
Svitzer A/S - Maersk Group May 2005 - December 2006
Danish Freight Forwarders' Association / International Chamber of Commerce DK January 2003 - April 2005
Krasnik & Partners Law firm /Svejgaard Galst Law Firm September 1998 - December 2002
Law School, University of Copenhagen September 2000 - May 2001
Negotiation, Dispute, Freight Forwarding &..., Insurance Law, Commercial Litigation, Contract Law, Maritime Operations, Litigation Management, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Contract Negotiation, Dispute Resolution, Container, Legal Risk Management, Shipping Finance Law, Legal Writing, Legal Advice, Competition Law, Towage & Salvage, Transportation Law, Maritime Law, Freight Derivatives, Freight, Shipbuilding
Adam Holm
Tvanchor at Danish Broadcasting Corp.
Ph.D., History
DR - Danmarks Radio 2007 - Present
DR 2006 - Present
DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) 2005 - Present
Danish Broadcasting Corp. 2006 - 2012
Newspapers, Editing, Editorial, Broadcast, Radio, Broadcast Journalism, Interviews, Radio Producing, Newspaper, Storytelling, Breaking News, Online Journalism, News Writing, New Media, Reviews, Journalism
Adam Jon Kronegh
Researcher / Dokumentalist Rigsarkivet Denmark
Rigsarkivet - National Archives of Denmark 1999 - Present
Real Estate Development, Genealogy, History, Historical Research, archives, Archival Research, Research, Lecturing, Archives, Probate research, Public Administration, Special Education, Data Analysis
Adam Kristensson
Lund, Sweden
Postdoctoral fellow at Lund University
Postdoctoral fellow, Aerosol Physics
The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University 2000 — 2005
PhD, Aerosol Physics
Lund University August 2011 - Present
Lund University March 2009 - July 2011
Copenhagen University September 2005 - February 2009
Ship emissions, Environmental Science, Data Analysis, Climate Change, Science, University Teaching, Research, Scientific Writing, Spectroscopy, Experimentation, New particle formation, Physics, Scientific Computing, Nanotechnology, Matlab, Climate, Simulations
Adam Leth
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet 2015 — 2019
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), IT and Economics
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics
Øregård Gymnasium 2010 — 2013
Studentereksamen, International Politik og Økonomi, Samfundsfag A, Matematik A, Erhvervsøkonomi C
Oure Idrætsefterskole 2009 — 2010
Afgangseksamen, Windsurfing, sejlads og ski
IKEA Group July 2014 - Present
Bar 10 July 2014 - Present
Viva Tours March 2014 - August 2014
Slopetrotter Skitours January 2014 - March 2014
Viva Tours October 2013 - November 2013
Park Bio August 2011 - June 2013
Adam Michaëlis
Stipendiat / Internship programme at Norrbom Vinding
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Jura
Duke University 2014 — 2014
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Law
Københavns Retshjælp (Copenhagen Legal Aid) June 2014 - Present
Norrbom Vinding I/S March 2014 - Present
Elmer & Partnere A/S August 2013 - February 2014
Advokatfirmaet Jon Palle Buhl September 2012 - August 2013
Contract Law, Tax Law, Legal Advice, Employment Law, Legal Research, Public Law, Administrative Law
Adam Murad
Freelance hos Justitsministeriet/Ministry of Justice
Kandidat, Mellemøststudier
Institut for Sprog, Forsvarsakademiet 2010 — 2012
Sprogofficer, Arabisk
Handelshøjskolen i Århus / Aarhus School of Business 2007 — 2010
Bachelor's degree, Business/Corporate Communications
TV2 NEWS 2012 - Present
Justitsministeriet/Ministry of Justice December 2010 - Present
FSB, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2012 - 2013
Forsvaret 2010 - 2012
Adam Paulsen
postdoc hos University of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark January 2009 - Present
Research, Microsoft Word, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Training, PowerPoint, Photoshop
Adam Puchalski, Ph.D.
Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland
Associate at Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak sp.k.
Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2010 — 2015
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Commercial law
University of Warsaw 2009 — 2010
Postgraduate Studies, Capital Market Law
University of Florida 2008 — 2009
Postgraduate Studies, American Law
Master's Degree, Law
Master's Degree, International Relations and Affairs
LLP Erasmus, Law
Greenberg Traurig, LLP May 2012 - Present
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP August 2009 - May 2012
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP October 2008 - July 2009
Gide Loyrette Nouel September 2008 - September 2008
Corporate Governance, Securities Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, European Law, Legal Research, Commercial Litigation, Legal Advice, Competition Law, Corporate Law, Cross-border..., International Law
Adam Páez de la Cadena Ljoså
Educated Film Editor
ECAM 2009 — 2012
Diploma in Audiovisual Editing, Film Editing
Strix Television April 2015 - April 2015
Strix Television January 2015 - April 2015
Endemol Shine UK September 2014 - January 2015
FILM MAKER ApS September 2014 - November 2014
Strix Television June 2014 - August 2014
Det Danske Filminstitut June 2014 - August 2014
Shoot Happens May 2014 - May 2014
DR - Danmarks Radio April 2014 - May 2014
Metronome March 2014 - March 2014
Strix Television November 2013 - February 2014
Television, Digital Media, Pro Tools, Music Videos, Storytelling, Documentaries, Avid Media Composer, Premiere, Media Production, Short Films, Video Production, Video, Creative Writing, Post Production, Photography, Broadcast, Journalism, Editing, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, After Effects, Directing, Video Editing, Film Production
Adam Romeo Giuricin Engel
PostGraduate student of International Human Rights Law
MSSc, International Security and Law
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History and Political Science
EU delegation to the United Nations April 2014 - August 2014
Danish Demining Group January 2014 - May 2014
Institut for Statskundskab, SDU May 2013 - May 2014
Master of International Security and Law May 2013 - May 2014
SISLO 2013 - February 2014
Netværk for Strategiske Studier 2012 - February 2014
Frihedsmuseet 2009 - 2012
International..., law and policy, Public Relations, Strategic Communications, Foreign Policy, Organizational..., Political Science, Rule Of Law, Policy, Public Policy, European Union, NGOs, human rights, Project Management, United Nations, Public International Law, International Human...
Adam Sander
Postdoc at Center for medical parasitology
PhD, Molecular Genetics and Medical parasitology
Cand.scient, Molecular Biology
Centre for Medical Parasitology, Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology January 2013 - Present
Centre for Medical Parasitology, Copenhagen University September 2007 - May 2011
Depeartment of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen May 2006 - May 2007
Biochemistry, Sequence Analysis, Molecular Genetics, Vector Cloning, Protein Expression, Cell Biology, Immunoassays, PCR primer design, Protein Purification, Genetics, real-time PCR, PCR, Sequencing, Molecular Biology, Protein Chemistry, Protein Production, Vaccines
Adam Sheridan
Industrial PhD Student | Danske Bank | University of Copenhagen
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics
MSc, Economics and Finance, GPA 11.8 (12.0 scale)
BSc, Economics, First Class Honours
Danske Bank September 2015 - Present
Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen February 2015 - August 2015
TransferWise July 2014 - October 2014
Centre for Market and Public Organisation July 2013 - September 2013
Undergraduate Students July 2012 - October 2012
The British Society for Rheumatology July 2009 - March 2010
Stata, Corporate Finance, Finance, Corporate Governance, Economics, R, Applied Economics, Auctions, Microeconomics, Derivatives, Econometrics, Asset Pricing, Statistics, Macroeconomics, Risk Management, LaTeX
Adam Sierakowski
Southern Region, Funen, Denmark
Associate Research Fellow at University of Wollongong
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mathematics, GPA 4.0/4.0 (foreigncredits.com)
Master of Science (MSc), Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, GPA 4.0/4.0 (foreigncredits.com)
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics & Applied Mathematics, GPA 3.9/4.0 (foreigncredits.com)
University of Wollongong July 2012 - Present
University of Ottawa February 2012 - June 2012
University of Toronto, Fields Institute August 2009 - January 2012
University of Copenhagen March 2009 - July 2009
Theory, LaTeX, Statistics, Physics, Science, Mathematical Modeling, Algorithms, Applied Mathematics, Scientific Computing, Lecturing, Python, Computer Science, Programming, Numerical Analysis, MySQL, Theoretical Physics
Adam Steen Petersen
Application Specialist at LEO Pharma A/S
Master of Arts (M.A.), History
Aalborg Universitet 2010 — 2012
Master's degree, Culture, Communication and Globalization - International Relations and the Global Order
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History
LEO Pharma A/S September 2015 - Present
Krigsvidenskab.dk December 2013 - Present
Ferring Pharmaceuticals April 2014 - July 2015
Statens Arkiver October 2012 - March 2014
Royal Danish Defence College September 2012 - February 2013
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. September 2011 - August 2012
Vesthimmerlands Museum April 2009 - April 2011
Forsvaret February 2007 - May 2007
Foreign Languages, International..., Security, History, International Relations, Information Retrieval, Records Management, Archives, Politics, Political Science, Foreign Policy, Arms Control, Intercultural..., Diplomacy, English, Analysis, Research, Organisational Skills
Adam Victor Bøje Meier
Student at Universiy of Copenhagen
Bachelor's degree, Music Theory and Composition
Berklee College of Music 2010 — 2012
Master, Orchestration for Film and TV, A
Nærum Gymnasium 2004 — 2007
Niels Brock
Victor Meier Music March 2014 - Present
Gamemasterz 2013 - Present
Dubberman March 2011 - Present
Sound of Virtue January 2010 - February 2014
Audio Resort 2010 - 2011
Film Scoring, Ableton Live, Mastering, Web 2.0, Logic Pro, MIDI, Singing, Crowdfunding, Songwriting, Music Industry, Audio Engineering, Pro Tools, Music Education, Cubase, Piano, Recording, Choral, Audio Editing, Sound, Drums, Audio Post Production, Percussion, Strategic Communications, Music Theory, Social Networking, Sound Design, Composition, Guitar, Orchestral Music, Music Production, Sibelius, Music, Studio Recording, Sound Editing, Film
Adam Wolf
Adm. Direktør, Danske Regioner
Ecole nationale d'Administration 1989 — 1990
Diplôme International d'Administration Publique
Master's degree, Political Science and Public Administration
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Executive Education Certificate
Danske Regioner 2012 - Present
Bestyrelsesforeningen July 2014 - Present
Tilsynet med Efterretningstjenesterne January 2014 - Present
KORA - Det Nationale Institut for Kommuners og Regioners Analyse July 2012 - November 2014
Danish Court Administration November 2005 - March 2012
Ministry of Finance, Denmark August 1997 - October 2005
Danish Embassy, Washington D.C. January 1995 - July 1997
Prime Minister's Office, Denmark March 1991 - January 1995
Public Policy, Government, Organizational..., Strategic Communications, Politics, Analysis, Public Sector, Economics, Public Affairs, Political Science, Policy, Public Administration, Policy Analysis, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Business Strategy, Public Relations, International Relations
Adan Khan
Ørestad Gymnasium 2010 — 2013
STORIES PRODUCTION May 2014 - Present
MHAKstudio April 2013 - Present
Adary Saleh
Vastra Gotaland County, Sweden
Cand.Pharm at apotek hjärtat
Pharmaceutical 2006 — 2012
Master's degree, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Husum Apotek 2011 — 2011
Bachelor's degree, Pharmacy
Apotek Hjärtat March 2014 - Present
Laboratory Animal..., Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacovigilance, ICH guidelines, IC, Drug Delivery, Clinic Pharmacy, GMP, HPLC, Pharmaceutical Research, Clinical Trials, Pharmacology, LC-MS., Clinical drug trials..., Chemistry, Formulation, GC
Addie Frederiksen
Leder af Forebyggelsesområdet, Frederiksberg Kommune
Henley Business School 2005 — 2009
2009, MBA in project management
MPH, master of public health
The School of Advanced Nursing Education at Aarhus University 1997 — 1998
Diploma in education and teaching, education and teaching
Herlev Nursing School 1986 — 1989
Frederiksberg Kommune December 2013 - Present
Hillerød hospital November 2008 - November 2013
Helsingør Kommune May 2003 - November 2008
Helsingør Kommune June 2001 - May 2003
Helsingør Kommune April 1999 - June 2001
Gentofte Hospital July 1998 - April 1999
Hillerød Hospital January 1994 - July 1998
Hvidovre Hospital September 1990 - January 1993
Gentofte Hospital August 1989 - August 1990
Project Management, Organizational..., Public Sector, Change Management, Team Leadership, Executive Coaching, Policy, Leadership Development, Management Consulting, Government, Coaching, Teaching, Project Planning, Performance Management, Danish, Program Management, Governance, Analysis, Business Strategy
Addie Nina Olsen
IT developer at Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen
PhD, Protein chemistry and molecular biology
MSc, Biology
Himmelev Gymnasium 1992 — 1995
Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen September 2008 - Present
Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Copenhagen May 2006 - September 2008
Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, Genomics, Sequencing, SharePoint, Laboratory Automation, PCR, C#, Data Analysis, Sequence Analysis, Programming, Databases, Bioinformatics, Gel Electrophoresis, Quality Assurance, Validation, Microsoft Office, Biochemistry, Genetics, Science, DNA extraction, Protein Chemistry, Genotyping, DNA sequencing, DNA, Molecular Biology
Adela Stefan
Research Assistant at Open Society Foundations
Master's Degree, Master of Social Science (Media and Global Communication), 5 (Thesis: Eximia cum laude approbatur)
Master's Degree, MA in Film Studies/Media Studies, 11.6
Bachelor's Degree, BA/BSc in Film, Radio and Television & Business Studies, A
Arcada University of Applied Science 2008 — 2009
Bachelor's Degree, BA/BSc in Media Culture & International Business, 4.5
Andrei Saguna National College 2002 — 2006
High School, Natural Sciences, 9.80
RIPE Network project funded by Open Society Foundations February 2015 - Present
Elisa March 2014 - October 2014
UNIC - International Union of Cinemas September 2013 - January 2014
University of Helsinki January 2013 - July 2013
Romanian National Television - TVR July 2010 - January 2011
Technological Innovation, Market Research, Social Research, Disruptive Technologies, Analytics, Qualitative Research
Adeline Wilson
Hørekonsulent at CSUSlagelse
Cand. Mag., Audiologopæd
CSU-Slagelse December 2012 - Present
Center for Læseforskning April 2009 - June 2011
Center for Grundskoleforskning May 2010 - May 2010
Audiology, Danish, Speech
Aditya Sankar
PhD researcher at Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other
Masters by Research (M.Res), Cancer Biology, Merit
SASTRA University 2005 — 2009
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Biotechnology, CGPA 8.9/10 - First Class with Distinction
Biotech Research and Innovation Centre, University of Copenhagen September 2012 - Present
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna, Austria March 2012 - August 2012
EMBL September 2010 - September 2011
Medical Research Council April 2010 - September 2010
Cancer Research UK December 2009 - April 2010
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research December 2008 - May 2009
EPFL June 2008 - September 2008
Project Planning, Teaching, Cancer, Life Sciences, qPCR, Genomics, Cell Culture, PCR, Molecular Cloning, Lifesciences, Research, Science, Western Blotting, Reconstructive Surgery, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, genome engineering, Cell Biology
Adja Madjiguene Diallo
Frederiksberg, Region Hovedstaden, Denmark
University of Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar 2008 — 2010
Diplome d' Etudes Approfondies, Plant Biology
University of Cadi Ayyad 2004 — 2007
Maitrise, Biotechnology applied to plant breeding
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Genetics
Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles Senegal January 2011 - Present
Genetics, Polyploidy, SAS, Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, Research, ASReml, GenAlex
Adriaan de Boer
Vurderingsekspert at Lauritz.com
Mag.art., Art History
VUC Hillerød 1994 — 1996
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem (The Netherlands) 1989 — 1991
Vrije Kunst
Marcus College, Stedebroek (Holland) 1980 — 1986
HAVO / VWO
Lauritz.com April 2015 - Present
Auktionshuset ApS July 2012 - March 2015
Lauritz.com November 2011 - July 2012
Auktionshuset Hørsholm July 2008 - October 2011
University of Copenhagen August 2006 - June 2009
FOF Nordsjælland February 2008 - June 2008
Art Education, Art History, Teaching, Fine Art, Visual Arts, Curating, Photography, Art, History, Painting, Contemporary Art, Museums
Adrian Adler Berg
Studerende ved Københavns Universitet
Bachelor's degree in law, Faculty of Law
Falkonergårdens Gymnasium 2010 — 2013
English, Social Science
Customer Service, PowerPoint, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Negotiation, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Public Speaking, IT, Research, Management
Adrian Friis
Sales & Product Specialist at NordicCell
Master of Science (MSc) in Geography and Geoinformatics, Economic and development geography
Ecole Européenne de Bruxelles 1 1991 — 2003
Københavns Erhvervsservice
Embassy of the Republic of Benin in Denmark August 2013 - August 2013
VEKO 2008 - 2011
Leslie & Clark 2007 - 2007
Siemens Belgium July 2003 - August 2003
Customer Service, Management, Analysis, Political Science, Budgets, Intercultural..., International Relations, Project Management, Danish, PRINCE2, Qualitative Research, NGOs, Policy Analysis, European Union, Social Media, Public Administration, International..., GIS, Microsoft Excel, Sustainable Development, Research, English, Project Planning, Business Analysis, Corporate Social..., Microsoft Office, Economics, Teamwork, Public Policy, Politics, Project Coordination, Event Planning, ArcGIS
Adrian Knudsen
teacher hos Valby10
Zahles seminarium og Københavns universitet 1992 — 1997
Valby-10 August 2005 - Present
Bop sound August 1997 - Present
Saxophonist, composer
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18: The Retreat House
The objective was to design a retreat house for a retired couple in their ancestral village somewhere along the eastern coast of Andhra Pradesh—some 20 km from the coast.
The main challenge of the project was to create a house that blends in the middle of a village with some of its homes dating back to the late 19th century. Though the village stopped growing since Independence, it exhibits remarkable consistency in terms of how the houses were carved out of larger walled compounds. None of the houses open to the narrow streets directly; instead, they connect to the open spaces they demarcate within the compound. The volumes exhibit a definite geometry with scope for additive growth without losing their relationship with open space.
With the objective to retain this spatial quality, the house is conceived as a series of enclosed rooms, some open to the sky and some roofed, and the building exhibits a clear hierarchy through scale depending on their intended use.
The houses in the village seem to be well preserved in spite of the hot and humid climate. The houses have mud walls with lighter roofing. Keeping this in mind, we propose to use exposed brick as a principal material with wood as the secondary material.
These two materials define the expression of the project.
18: The Retreat House, 2016-19 © Studio MADe
Model, the Retreat House © Studio MADe
Location: Bhatlapennumarru, Andhra Pradesh
Typology: Retreat House
Collaborators: Madhusudhan Chalasani, Mario Galiana Liras, Vamsi Kundanam, Manish Kumar, Bharat Kumar, Prathyusha Viddam, Bob Peniel
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06: Between Walls
The School of Planning and Architecture campus at Vijayawada
Poredi, Shantanu, and Manisha Agarwal. The School of Planning and Architecture campus at Vijayawada. MO-OF/Mobile Offices, 2018.
Social Labyrinth/Student Housing
Poredi, Shantanu, and Manisha Agarwal. Social Labyrinth/Student Housing In The School of Planning and Architecture campus at Vijayawada. MO-OF/Mobile Offices, 2017.
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Steve Jobs’ family have provided the following statement:
Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.
We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.
CEO Tim Cook just issued the memo below internally to the company:
Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email rememberingsteve@apple.com. No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
“No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.”
Disney CEO Bob Iger:
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an “original,” with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Laurene and his children during this difficult time.
The following should be attributed to AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson:
“We are saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was an iconic inventor, visionary, and entrepreneur, and we had the privilege to know him as partner and friend. All of us at AT&T offer our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife, family, and his Apple family.”
Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman:
“Steve defined a generation of style and technology that’s unlikely to be matched again. Steve was so charismatically brilliant that he inspired people to do the impossible, and he will be remembered as the greatest computer innovator in history.”
Dick Costolo, Twitter chief executive:
“Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn’t just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.”
Om Malik, GigaOm founder:
“For many of us who live and die for technology and the change it represents, he was an example of what was possible, no matter how the chips were stacked against you. Jobs put life and soul into inanimate objects. Everyone saw steel, silicon and software; he saw an opportunity to paint his Mona Lisa. People saw a phone; Steve saw a transporter of love. People saw a tablet; he saw smiles and wide-eyed amazement. They made computers; he made time machines that brought us all together through a camera, screen and a connection.”
“The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”
“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve’s wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.”
“I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts are with his family and the whole Apple family.”
“From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met. On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.”
“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”
Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park)
(Hybrid Theory writing session, Apple Computer, circa 1998)
My family’s first computer was an Apple (a IIe, I think). I remember learning to type on it, playing a game that calculated your words-per-minute. My mom was studying to be a court reporter, and she could type very quickly; I would peck at letters with my two index fingers as fast as I could to see if I could get a score half as good as hers.
At the time, my Dad worked in aerospace engineering, and was impressed with the durability of the computer at work, so he decided to get one for the house. The whole family shared time on it, working and playing. I remember using it to write reports, and play games like LOGO, Loderunner, and Gold Rush. As I got older, my interestes changed, and my time on the “Macintosh” was eclipsed by a Nintendo, and later a Sony Discman.
In college, I was reintroduced to Apple in a new way. Having spent years honing my skills drawing and painting, I hadn’t yet had the chance to bring those illustrations into the computer. At Art Center, there was a computer lab–a huge underground complex of rooms filled with computers. And the computer of choice for the designers and artists at Art Center was Apple. I loved the design, inside and out, and it seemed built for making art. And once it was my computer for art, it became my computer for music.
It’s hard to think of all the ways that Steve Jobs’ vision has built a foundation for the products on which I work and create: Apple products have been used in making every piece of music Linkin Park has ever written, every album cover or poster we have ever designed, and all our music videos, ads, LPTV, and websites.
From the creation of our songs, art, and videos to the devices our fans enjoy them on, Steve Jobs’ vision has made an indelible imprint on everything we do. Multiplying that out into all the other bands and artists in the world who also use Apple products to write and record their songs or edit videos, movies, TV shows, art and photos, it’s hard to imagine anyone who has played a bigger role in shaping the world of modern art and music.
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Γιατί η δύναμη της φαντασίας όταν εξερευνηθεί και μετουσιωθεί σε πραγματικότητα γίνεται επαναστατική.
Όπως θα έχεις ήδη μάθει ο ιδρυτής της Apple Στηβ Τζόμπς πέθανε πριν λίγες ώρες.
Το νέο της αναγγελίας του θανάτου του όπως ήταν αναμενόμενο διαδόθηκε σε χρόνο ρεκόρ από τα παραδοσιακά αλλά κυρίως από τα ψηφιακά μέσα.
Συντέλεσε άλλωστε καθοριστικά στην παγκόσμια ψηφιακή υφή της πραγματικότητας μέσα στην οποία κυκλοφορούμε σήμερα.
Υπάρχει κάτι σχεδόν κυτταρικά δημοκρατικό στην αμερικάνικη επιχειρηματική κουλτούρα δημιουργίας προϊόντων πάσης φύσης.
Από το χάμπουργκερ και τη κόκα κόλα μέχρι τα windows, το i-phone και το facebook ο μέσος αμερικάνος και κατ’ επέκταση ο παγκόσμιος καταναλωτής τους πείθεται παρ’ ολη την απόκλιση στις τιμές πως αυτό το προϊον είναι κάτι μαζικό, δεν κρύβει κανένα ελιτισμό, τον αφορά και του ενορχηστρώνει την καθημερινότητα με ένα τρόπο που του επιτρέπει να διατηρεί την ψευδαίσθηση πως αυτό που κατέχει κρύβει μιαν ασύγκριτη δύναμη.
Την δύνατότητα να του εξασφαλίσει τη δικιά του προσωπική έκφραση (παρ’ όλο που το ίδιο το κατέχουν εκατόμμυρια άλλοι).
Η επιτυχία βέβαια του Τζόμπς ήταν πως κατάφερε να εγχύσει σε όλο αυτό το κολοσσιαίο επιχειρηματικό οικοδόμημα που έφτιαξε κάτι από την μεταφυσική ορμή της νεοτητάς του, αυτή την κυκλωνική διάθεση αλλαγής του κόσμου που είχε ως όραμα όταν ξεκίναγε και που τελικά παρατηρώντας τι άφησε πίσω του νιώθεις (ακόμα και αν δεν ανήκεις σε αυτό που ονομάζουμε apple groupies) πως το κατάφερε και το κατάφερε συγκλονιστικά.
Νομίζω πως ο Τζόμπς υπήρξε πάντα ένας εξερευνητής. Και αν θυμηθούμε αντίστοιχες περιπτώσεις από την παιδική μας ηλικία όταν αρχίσαμε να συνειδητοποιούμε τι μας αρέσει και τι μας συγκινεί αυτό που ονομάζουμε εξερευνητής κατέχει κεντρική θέση έχω την αίσθηση.
Ο εξερευνητής είναι ο αρχετυπικός ρομαντικός. Όσα κυβικά προσωπικής ιδιοτέλειας και να κουβαλά ύπαρχει κάτι βαθιά ρομαντικό σε αυτή την αναζήτηση μέσα στο άγνωστο μέχρι να ανακαλύψει αυτό το οποίο ψάχνει. Οτι και να είναι αυτό.
Ο Τζόμπς πέτυχε να επηρεάσει με την αχαλίνωτη φαντασία του εκατομμύρια ανθρώπους παγκόσμια. Και το κατάφερε με ένα τρόπο ύπαρξης θετικό.
Στο μέλλον έχω την αίσθηση πως θα αποτιμηθεί ως ένας από τους μεγάλους επιδραστικούς της πρώϊμης φάσης της αρχής της ηλεκτρονικής εποχής.
Μπορεί να μη πρόλαβε να ζήσει πολύ άλλα για όσο έζησε κατάφερε να ορίσει την εποχή στην οποία δραστηριοποιήθηκε.
Με την απελευθερωμένη μουσική της αχαλίνωτης φαντασίας του.
Άλλο ένα χαρακτηριστικό που σε κάνει να καταλαβαίνεις πόσο βαθιά επιδραστικός είναι κάποιος είναι οι αντιδράσεις όσων επηρέασε όταν αυτός πεθάνει.
Παρατηρώντας απ’ την ώρα που έμαθα την είδηση την μάζα των ανθρώπων που εκφράζουν τα συναισθηματά τους μέσα από τα social media για το θάνατο του ιδρυτή της Αpple μου έχει κάνει εντύπωση η ποικιλομορφία τους.
Τech geeks, συγγραφείς, fashion people, pornstars, εικαστικοί, στελέχη επιχειρήσεων, hipsters, media people (από το Vanity Fair μέχρι Τα Νέα Του Ψαροντούφεκου;-) και γενικότερα κάθε πιθανή και απίθανη φυλή εκδηλώνει με τον τρόπο της τη θλίψη της για την απώλεια του Τζόμπς.
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το πρώτο διαφημιστικό της Apple
η θριαμβευτική επιστροφή του στην Apple το 1997
το κλασσικο (πια) iPod
το iPad, το τελευταίο του δημιούργημα
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Trump Jr. tells Senate he wanted Russian dirt on Hillary to judge if she was ‘fit’ to be president
07 SEP 2017 AT 11:26 ET
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Donald Trump Jr. met behind closed doors with Senate investigators on Thursday, where he told them that he met with Russian government officials in 2016 to seek damaging information on Hillary Clinton because he was concerned she might not be fit for the office of the presidency.
“To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out,” said Trump Jr., whose statement was leaked to the New York Times. “Depending on what, if any, information they had, I could then consult with counsel to make an informed decision as to whether to give it further consideration.”
Trump Jr. said that nothing came out of his June 2016 meeting with Russian officials, and he denied that he colluded with the Russian government to undermine Clinton’s candidacy. He also argued that he was too overwhelmed and inexperienced to show better judgement about meeting with a officials from a rival government whose goal was to meddle in the American political process.
“I had never worked on a campaign before and it was an exhausting, all-encompassing, life-changing experience,” he said. “Every single day I fielded dozens, if not hundreds, of emails and phone calls.”
Trump Jr. took the meeting with Russian government officials after being contacted by Rob Goldstone, a publicist for the Kremlin-linked Agalarov family that has worked with Trump for years. Goldstone billed the meeting as involving a “Russian government lawyer” who wanted to give him damaging information on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as part of the Russian government’s efforts to help his father’s campaign.
Trump Jr. responded enthusiastically to Goldstone’s meeting proposal by saying, “I love it!”
During his testimony, Trump Jr. defended saying that he “loved” the idea of Russia helping his father’s campaign spread dirt on Hillary Clinton.
“As much as some have made of my using the phrase ‘I love it,’ it was simply a colloquial way of saying that I appreciated Rob’s gesture,” he said.
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Clean energy advocates need to speak up if they want black lawmakers to hear them
By Brentin Mock on Oct 20, 2014
Here’s a quick summary of last week’s series on the debate over “net metering” — allowing people who install solar panels on their rooftops to sell unused electricity back to the grid:
A political resolution has been circulating that would blunt the growth of solar distributed generation — a cleaner energy system than our current, centralized, coal-dependent one — that seems to have originated with ALEC, a lobbying group notorious for shunning civil rights laws and environmental regulations.
That resolution was presented by Edison Electric Institute, an association electric utility company shareholders, to a coalition called the National Policy Alliance, which represents black elected officials across the nation — and that occasionally meets with President Obama.
The National Policy Alliance adopted the ALEC/Edison resolution, accepting the highly debatable argument that net metering will undoubtedly raise the electric bills of low-income households and African Americans. In an interview, NPA’s executive director Linda Haithcox, she doubled-down on that belief.
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While writing that series, I found other examples of how the ALEC/Edison anti-net metering resolution is being used in political channels, particularly among those that purport to represent black people’s best interests. The National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), for instance, also passed a similar resolution during its latest annual legislative conference. The resolution carries some of the same basic language as the ALEC version (ALEC, which is short for American Legislative Exchange Council, focuses on state legislators).
The chair of NBCSL’s Transportation and Environment committee, Florida State Rep. Joseph Gibbons, wrote an op-ed recently making the same claim that homes that generate electricity from their own solar energy equipment will mean financial burdens passed on to non-solar, African-American households. His argument was imported to Wisconsin, where another African-American state legislator, Sen. Lena C. Taylor, published it as a criticism of policies passed by Milwaukee’s city council to help expand solar net metering.
And it’s not just African-American politicians who are tripping over this. Monica Martinez, a former Michigan Public Service Commissioner, also wrote an op-ed that’s been circulating with the same ideas about raising energy rates, except for Latino households. (It was submitted to Grist to print. We turned it down.)
So what’s up with this? What is it about making it easier for Americans to transition to cleaner energy that some black and Latino politicians are just not getting?
There’s a few things to remember here when considering those questions:
One, there’s nothing unique about black and Latino policymakers that makes them allergic to clean energy policies. There are plenty of white policymakers who do the same, and they’re financially and politically backed by the same entities: utility companies, the fossil fuel industry, ALEC and similar cohorts.
Of the electric utility lobby’s top twenty donor recipients in Congress in 2014, only two are people of color, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2012, it was just Clyburn and Obama; in 2010, it was Clyburn alone. Of Edison Electric’s top 10 donor recipients in Congress, again, it’s just Clyburn. You might be thinking, “Somebody needs to holla at Clyburn.” That’s fine. Just so long as somebody also hollas at all the other non-Clyburn, non-black Congress members getting Edison and utility money as well.
The second thing to remember is that not all black lawmakers oppose net metering. Plenty of black organizations, including the NAACP, know better, as do most black Americans. And there are many black lawmakers also committed to expanding clean energy. I covered the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative conference last year and saw the bulk of them rise to applause when EPA Chief Gina McCarthy made a surprise visit to announce her clean energy plans. At this year’s conference, Congressman Keith Ellison accepted a challenge from the Hip Hop Caucus to work to stop Congressional Black Caucus members from accepting fossil fuel money.
That being said, there seems to be another reason why black lawmakers are taking their cues from the fossil fuel industry on energy: Green groups and clean energy companies don’t appear to be reaching out to black politicians as aggressively as their fossil-fuel counterparts.
When you look at the advisory boards and funders of those associations that represent black public officials, you see a whole bunch of corporations of every stripe, including a whole bunch of polluters:
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s corporate advisory board has Duke Energy, which is fighting solar in North Carolina, and Exelon, a nuclear energy giant that solar advocates at DC Solar United Neighborhoods are fighting over the company’s proposed merger with DC utility PEPCO.
The CBC Foundation’s 2012 Annual report lists among its top donors Exxon Mobil, Walmart, McDonald’s, American Petroleum Institute, BP, Chevron, Duke Energy and General Electric.
The list of member corporations for the National Black Caucus of State Legislators includes a whole slew of fossil fuel utility and energy companies, including Edison Electric.
The National Organization of Black County Elected Officials held its annual conference in April, with top sponsorship from Edison and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
But who is at these tables to counter these fossil fuel companies? You’d be hard-pressed to find the names of any clean energy companies, major green NGOs, or environmental foundations on any of those lists above.
All of those groups also get funding and have board representation from foundations that deal with fighting poverty and poor health. But they are far outnumbered by the representation of fossil fuel companies, which seem to only bring up black health and poverty at their own convenience. When it comes to solar energy, they too often are bringing them up with misleading information.
It would be great if environmental justice organizations were at these tables, but they are already overwhelmed with their work in grassroots communities. Lobbying “grasstops” organizations like National Policy Alliance is mostly outside their bailiwicks, but they don’t have the funding to take it on even if they wanted to. The major green NGOs and foundations should be at these tables, but to do that, the green NGOs need the kinds of staffs that have people who can be most effective in these policy talks.
This is why diversity matters. The question for major environmental groups is whether they know the issues of African-American communities well enough to even approach tables like the National Policy Alliance. Are the green groups participating in the conferences and confabs where African-American political issues are being discussed and prioritized?
According to the Green 2.0 report, a comprehensive study on diversity among environmentalists released over the summer, this is one of the green organizations’ biggest weaknesses. The report found that “few of the organizations studied collaborate with ethnic minority or low-income institutions or groups,” and that they “are less likely to collaborate with low-income organizations than with ethnic minority organizations.” And yet the fossil fuel industry seems to have no problems making inroads with organizations that represent both low-income households and communities of color.
The green NGOs will often say they are not funded to do that kind of outreach. If that’s the case, then I see what environmental justice guru Robert Bullard meant when he recently made the case for diversifying funding for green causes. Wrote Bullard, shortly after the People’s Climate March:
This “call for funding diversity” must not be limited solely to grassroots community groups and environmental and climate justice leaders. Clearly, we need our mainstream environmental organization friends and allies in the philanthropic community who supported the People’s Climate March to join us in supporting the recommendations for diversifying funding and building an infrastructure of “grassroots” efforts, ethnic-based networks, and regional environmental and climate initiatives—better known as the Climate Justice Movement.
Without diverse funding and diverse staffing, the green movement will continue to find it difficult to get through to black lawmakers, whom the fossil fuel companies have no qualms about engaging. The Green 2.0 report offers recommendations for resolving these diversity problems, and Green 2.0’s partnership last week with Guidestar, the organization that collects information on other nonprofits nationally, should go a long way in helping track progress there. But until more is done here, I expect more resolutions like the one on net metering to continue finding easy passageways to the domains of black elected officials.
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Laurie Oakes
1943 - | Victoria | Political reporter
Oakes is considered by many to be the greatest political news breaker in Australian journalism. Appointed Canberra Bureau Chief of The Sun News Pictorial at 25, his scoops have made and broken political and bureaucratic careers and altered the course of Australian governments. His crisp, fearless writing and vast contact base enabled him to break news in radio, television and newspapers. He is the only journalist to have pre-empted an entire federal budget and his history-changing revelations range from the 'Gair Affair' in 1974 the Kirribilli agreement of 1988 and the 2010 election leaks.
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By MICHELLE GRATTAN
Laurie Oakes had a crucial influence on two federal elections. Early in his career, his revelation that the Labor government planned to appoint DLP senator Vince Gair to a diplomatic post to boost its upper house numbers set in train events leading to Gough Whitlam calling the 1974 election.
Four decades on, Oakes’ reports of leaks from the Rudd camp against Julia Gillard undermined her campaign and, arguably, cost her majority government.
In between, a stream of dramatic exclusives had major political consequences. When his competitors struggled to get tidbits, Oakes obtained the entire 1980 budget, putting it to air on the Sunday before its Tuesday delivery. This unprecedented, sensational story not only turned the real event into something of an anticlimax, but sparked damaging speculation about who might be undermining who in the government. Years later Oakes revealed that his cameraman Phil Lorant had acted as intermediary between the leaker and Oakes, who was given the document for only 15 minutes to dictate into a tape recorder.
Reporting is often a race; in 1976 Oakes had some unusual competition. He’d uncovered the fact that Labor had tried to get money for its 1975 campaign from Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Socialist Party. Unbeknown to Oakes, a person he had spoken to alerted Rupert Murdoch – who knew independently of the affair – that Oakes’ story was about to appear in the Melbourne Sun News Pictorial (not then a Murdoch paper). Murdoch had the presses stopped while the front pages of his Daily Telegraph and The Australian were remade. But Oakes won the race to print.
In the early days of the Howard government, Oakes’ revelations of rorting of parliamentary entitlements led to ministerial and staff resignations and a crisis for the fledging administration. Later in the Howard years he broke the story of Liberal president Shane Stone’s withering letter to the PM saying the government was seen as mean and tricky.
For Oakes personally, one of the most difficult stories was calling out Cheryl Kernot after her supposedly tell-all book, highly critical of Labor, failed to mention a central factor in her defection from Democrats to the ALP – her affair with senior Labor minister Gareth Evans. While the intersection between public and private spheres made his disclosure controversial, Oakes had a compelling argument that the circumstances meant the affair was highly relevant to the politics.
His news breaking reputation ensured Oakes became a go-to person for those with a big story to get out. When Andrew Wilkie decided to quit the Office of National Assessments in protest over the Iraq war, he left his card in Oakes’ letterbox with a note asking him to call.
Born in 1943, son of an accountant, Oakes studied Arts at Sydney University where he edited the student newspaper Honi Soit, first with Bob Ellis (later a well-known writer) and then, after beating Ellis at an election, solo. He was on a teacher scholarship but after reading a biography of renowned American publisher William Randolph Hearst, Oakes decided journalism “sounded like fun”. Hearst was the inspiration for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and Oakes was sometimes called “Citizen Oakes’’ by friends.
His first newspaper job was at The Daily Mirror in Sydney. At 25, he was appointed head of the Melbourne Sun’s Canberra bureau in 1969. National politics was in flux: the long term conservative government was in decline; Whitlam was starting his ascendancy. Change was in the air in the Canberra Press Gallery too; Oakes was part of a new “hungry’’ generation of journalists who would document one of the most exciting decades of federal politics.
Melbourne’s Sun, a huge-circulation tabloid that took politics seriously, was a great platform and Oakes’ reporting ensured it was a must-read for the political class. But by the later 1970s Oakes was ready for a move. He started a newsletter, “The Oakes Report’’, and soon was persuaded into television, working first at Ten (1979-84), before moving to Nine, then in its heyday. There he had the ideal mix for many years: reporting on the nightly news, a feature interview for the prestigious Sunday program, and a column in The Bulletin.
Oakes’ strengths have always been his contacts, his attention to detail, and his ability to understand the wider context of individual events. Asked the story he’s proudest of, he names the 1974 Vince Gair appointment, to which he brought Sherlock Holmes-like deduction. He’d heard from a bureau colleague that a government appointment was in the air, but contacts were unwilling to say anything more than it was “big, big, big’’. Asking himself what could be that “big, big, big’’, Oakes concluded it had to be something affecting the government’s Senate numbers, and from that he guessed that Gair was the obvious target. He rang around putting the proposition to sources (the last being Gair’s wife) as something he knew, rather than surmised.
As a commentator Oakes is respected as tough but fair-minded; he can be scarifying but never uses a “scream’’ as an attention-seeking device. His very arrival can inspire fear in politicians. Seeing him (unusually) sitting at the media table when she addressed the National Press Club just before calling the 2010 election, Julia Gillard knew she was in for a bad moment and remarked on his presence. With a strong bulldust detector, Oakes has spiked more than a few politicians’ stunts over the years.
In television, Oakes brings the eye for detail that marks his writing, which in later years has been a weekly column for News Corp papers. He pushes the deadline because he is always after the last fact; he’s competitive and secretive (cameramen can be sent out for shots not knowing what the story is). But he never assumes he knows it all, carefully watching what competing stations are doing. He’ll continually refine and sharpen the edge of a story, always looking for the best angle, writing for impact while maintaining accuracy. Cameramen get exhausted looking for the shots, but they always want to work on Oakes’ stories because he gets the most out of their shots. In Nine’s Canberra office Oakes is high maintenance but revered.
Oakes has become one of the best known “brands’’ in Australian journalism. But he has never been part of the modern drift to self- centred “celebrity’’ journalism. His career has had a remarkable consistency in a changing industry, across platforms and through the years. His own story is one of notable power, used responsibly for the public good. His accolades include the 2010 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, the 2010 Gold Walkley and a Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.
Michelle Grattan is a Media Hall of Famer, veteran Canberra political correspondent, Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award winner and the 1988 Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.
Laurie Oakes with Gough Whitlam. Courtesy News Corp/Newspix.
Laurie Oakes with Bob Hawke. Courtesy News Corp/Newspix.
Laurie Oakes with Paul Keating. Courtesy News Corp/Newspix.
Courtesy News Corp/Newspix.
Remarkable Times: Australian Politics 2010-2013, Laurie Oakes, Hachette, 2014.
On the Record, Laurie Oakes, Hachette, 2010.
Power Plays, Laurie Oakes, Hachette, 2008.
'Laurie Oakes said one word and I tumbled out of the hammock', Garry Linnell, Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax, 4 August 2017.
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COQUINA Synonyms & Definition
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It’s time to make connectivity smarter
By Nic Elliott, CTO, Evolving Networks.
14 Aug 2017 Posted in Software Defined Networking Networking
Take a moment to perform a mental tour of your own house. As you pass from one room to the next, how many of the things you own are connected? Of course, there’s your smartphone that might be lying on your bedside table, but what about the smart TV in your living room, the wireless speaker in your kitchen or perhaps even the smart car parked on the drive way?
What do these things all have in common? What makes them “smart”? They are all enhanced by software, software that helps them deliver new functionality to users in an effort to make our lives easier.
Now look at the business side of things. Consumer technology has a lot to answer for, but in a good way. It has given users an appreciation of connectivity — we certainly take it for granted, expect it even, and often is only really thought of when it’s not working. In the business world, the same is true; we expect to be able to access our emails, work remotely and use various systems and software to make us more efficient. As a result, connectivity is fundamental to the survival of any business.
So why shouldn’t it be smarter, too? Why can’t we apply the “smart” lesson that consumer technology is teaching us? Is it time to look beyond the confines of leased lines and traditional carriers?
Taking a step back; good internet connectivity is critical for every business, regardless of what industry you’re in. In the past, connectivity was more important for businesses with a strong e-commerce focus or those that relied on it to reach customers. Now, however, everybody needs it — to reach those customers, sell products, connect remote teams together, give staff access to company apps and systems. In addition, organisational requirements have changed. There’s now an increased need for high performing, high capacity and low latency connections that will effectively deliver data, voice and even video to where it needs to go.
For users of this connectivity, it’s a given. But for organisations and IT managers it is an ongoing challenge to make sure the business is properly supported. Enter multi-line aggregated connectivity. Initially seen as a stop-gap technology, aggregated connectivity takes traditional broadband circuits, such as ADSL or FTTC, and, when necessary and available, Ethernet circuits, including FTTP, and brings them together as a single virtual connection.
And the thing is, it’s no longer seen as a stop-gap technology. It delivers real benefits to organisations of all sizes. Bonded ADSL, for example, offers increased bandwidth and capacity, normally impossible with individual ADSL lines, enhancing data throughput speeds and application performance. This is ideal for businesses with sites in poorly served areas, with substantial bandwidth requirements, or which need more cost-effective connections than leased lines. It also delivers built-in resilience. Simply put, the more lines the aggregated connection includes, the lower the chance of all of them failing at once. This built-in resilience is further enhanced by bonding diverse connection types.
And it’s here that software can play a role in making business connectivity smarter. As well as aggregating multiple lines, the software overlay technology can bring even more benefits. Overall, software can solve any issues and increase the quality of the connection. By extension it can improve the quality of the user experience, which is an essential factor for organisational IT teams. What’s more, various network functionalities such as quality of service (QoS), compression and advanced packet management are abstracted from the underlying circuits thanks to a network fabric that sits on top.
Connectivity and performance is already monitored to ensure that issues are picked up quickly, but it also means that when it comes to resilience there will be seamless failover if one of the lines goes down. With a normal, single line sources from one ISP, if it goes down, the entire business experiences downtime. Not so with aggregated connectivity.
The software also plays a vital role in prioritising traffic; ensuring that voice traffic (for VoIP systems) can be given precedence over other data. For businesses with high download requirements this means never dropping a VoIP call when an employee elsewhere using the same internet connection tries to download a large file. It can also be used to prioritise other packets of data, such as those needed to view content heavy web pages, so that sites load that much faster, giving a better browsing experience to members of staff.
The software overlay model can be extended even further, delivering on the promise of SD-WAN, ideal for multi-site businesses, connecting users, offices and different sites. It’s far more flexible, more cost-effective and more resilient than MPLS and provides stable low latency connections that are much quicker to deploy than traditional leased lines.
In today’s environment of software-defined everything, why not connectivity? Whether it’s a single site or a multi-location business, connectivity can stand to benefit from the use of software to make it smarter, more resilient and deliver better quality.
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Posted on March 27, 2019 by stchucky
Bortemus Balch – Spied’jjer Merdokk was a Class Four criminal and under no circumstances permitted to set foot on the Pinian Brotherhood’s sovereign flatworld, although he couldn’t have said why since he’d never even conspired to commit a crime here – sat back and gathered his thoughts while the other three grazed steadily at cakes and drinks.
“The Tanturians,” he said, “can’t be given full Corporate membership and knowledge. They’re too dangerous. And the High Council branch that deals with things on this level has realised it, way too late, and that’s why they’ve closed the book on you.”
“We met the Tanturians,” Gartuda Felhbron objected. “They were … fine, they were as creepy as any other selachoid aquatic, but they weren’t particularly advanced, and didn’t seem unduly hostile,” he acknowledged the Fliei with an apologetic flick of his ears. “Except where your people were concerned.”
“Harmless enough at their current level,” Bortemus said. “But they reached that level frighteningly fast. And now…”
“Oh, I see,” Felhbron said suddenly.
“Yes,” Felhbron replied. “While the Tanturians were dumblers, unaware of the true extent of the Cosmos and the urverse beyond, they were fine. They were busy working their way through their little technological revolution and couldn’t do any harm to anyone – mostly because they didn’t know there was anyone out there. Now they’ve been introduced to the rest of us and given Corporate technology, they’re apparently a threat again.”
“Something of an understatement,” Bortemus began.
“But at the same time, you showed up and armed their competitor-species, putting a slave revolt and a protracted war on the table,” Felhbron went on. “You’re performing the role of the Firstmades or the MRA here, keeping the Tanturians contained and calling down the wrath of the dread Ghåålus upon yourself. I’d be very surprised if the High Council even acknowledges your situation, let alone agrees to help you.”
Bortemus didn’t bother to hide a grimace. “You do see,” he admitted. “Yes, the High Council blundered by letting the Tanturians have Corporate tech. But I was the solution to their problem. A solution they could put all the blame on,” he turned to Team Member 7. “There’s only one problem with that.”
“An innocent species is trapped in the middle of this theological and political mess” 7 said. “And risks extermination if you withdraw your aid.”
“Correct,” Bortemus said. “An understatement, again, but-”
“There are many dangerous species in the Corporation,” 7 looked back at Bortemus over the lip of her glass of Skeg’s. Her eyes were as chilly and colourless as the liquor. “The Damoraks and Time Destroyers alone are extremely powerful, completely hostile, and more advanced than any but the other Elder Races … and of those, only the Molren do anything to keep them in check. And even they do not do much.”
“The Master Races account for a large and powerful faction in the High Council,” Bortemus agreed, “but they are kept in check. The Damoraks and the Time Destroyers are ancient, they’ve been around forever, and they’re part of the tapestry because they were the ones who started weaving it in the first place. They’re normalised. They are dangerous, but they play the game,” he looked at the two Corporate lifers. “The Tanturians won’t play the game. Their patron Ghåålus doesn’t play the game. He tears the game apart and devours it.”
“And they have taken your Corporate membership package technology,” Volun told them.
“So what if they have?” Felhbron scowled. “Our tech is non-military.”
“It is true,” 7 added. “The standard Corporate offering is specially designed to account for dumblers at a wide range of developmental and hostility levels, as well as technical aptitude. There is nothing in the package that can pose – or be altered to pose – a danger to the newcomer species. Let alone anybody else.”
“It’s not enough,” Bortemus insisted. “If you think the Tanturians evolve fast, you should see how fast they adapt. It’s imperative, even for those who delude themselves that they can be the Tanturians’ allies, to … hold them back. To keep them from finding out too much about the urverse. This is why the Zerf’s Cosmos case has such potential for disaster.”
“I have to say, this sounds like Fliei propaganda,” Team Member 7 said.
“Entirely understandable Fliei propaganda,” Felhbron put in, flicking his ears again. “But … yes, it sounds a lot like overblown scaremongering.”
“And yet Fliar – Tantur – is in lockdown,” Bortemus said. “If it’s a normal contact event with your run-of-the-mill aggressive aquatic jerk species, why all the secrecy?”
Gartuda and 7 exchanged uncomfortable glances.
“There could be any number of reasons…” Felhbron said weakly.
Bortemus shrugged. “The Purifying Fire haven’t sent destroyers into Zerf’s Cosmos because of the unprecedented High Council attention that has already been brought to the area,” he said. “It seems unlikely the Ghååla of Farrendohr would object to the sort of witness-cleansing the MRA would implement, but the High Council is now obligated to care. And too many people, on too many levels, know about this for the Purifying Fire to be an entirely reasonable solution anyway. They still might try it, on some scale, because they’re not an entirely reasonable group … but it’s unlikely to be a standard mop-up job.”
“They’ll turn on you, wipe you out?” Felhbron asked. “I mean, they’ll destroy Merdokk Industries?”
“Their holdings on Tantur, at the very least,” Bortemus said. “I’d like to prevent that, if it’s at all possible.”
“It seems unlikely these MRA extremists will attack the High Council or their representatives in Zerf’s Cosmos,” Team Member 7 pointed out.
“They won’t have to,” Bortemus replied. “If it comes to that, and the Purifying Fire sends in an agent to wipe out the Fliei and any other people in the area sufficiently separated from whatever lofty and secret High Council task force is currently on Tantur … then the High Council will also withdraw. The MRA lofty-and-secrets in the High Council will see to it.”
“Leaving the Tanturians isolated, but in possession of Corporate technology and knowledge they otherwise wouldn’t have had,” Felhbron said. “And the Fliei extinct, at least as a free species.”
“Along with any sentient dumblers within a hundred thousand light-years,” Bortemus added. Gartuda looked shocked, but Bortemus noted that 7, an altogether cooler head, merely looked grim. “Absolute firebreak demolition is the only way to be sure,” he confirmed her evident guess. “Who knows whether the Tanturians have been chatting with any of them? They could be lying to you. And all of it too late,” he finished, “since now they know about the rest of the urverse.”
“And you on the hook for all of it,” Felhbron said.
“Sooner or later, someone in a position to make a call is going to realise all this,” Bortemus told them. “And then there will be no stopping it. I have come to you in the hope – the very, very slim hope – that we can get out in front of this and bring about the optimal solution.”
“Which is?” Felhbron prompted.
Bortemus allowed himself a tiny internal sigh of relief. “The Tanturians contained,” he said, counting on his fingers. “The Fliei safe. The Purifying Fire out of Zerf’s Cosmos. The High Council rid of this political and theological headache,” he raised his lower left hand and added a final digit. “And Merdokk Industries still intact.”
“How the Hell are you going to do all that, Bort?” Felhbron asked in clear fascination.
“Ah, well,” Bortemus smiled and picked up a cake. “I’m not. The Corporate High Council is going to help me.”
As he’d predicted, this declaration at once deepened the suspicions that Felhbron and Team Member 7 held, and intensified the fascination the Molran, at least, was feeling. The Uternlan, also as predicted, simply looked sceptical.
“And why would we do that?” Gartuda asked.
Bortemus popped the cake into his mouth and chewed while pulling his data pad from his pocket and folding it out to display configuration in the middle of the table. “Alright,” he said, “this is the information I’ve gotten from Fliar – or more specifically the Tanturian Assembly of the Greater Seas. This information was gathered … I want to say ‘the old-fashioned way’, but that wouldn’t be doing it justice.”
“What do you mean?” Felhbron was scowling again.
“After the onset of Tanturian hostilities against the Fliei,” Bortemus said, “and their resistance, Merdokk Industries made some attempts to get eyes and ears under the water. Unfortunately, they were detected and their security destructs detonated,” he went on. “Wouldn’t do to let the sharks get Merdokk tech as well as Corporate.”
“The Tanturians were capable of finding our surveillance devices?” Team Member 7 asked.
“They were once they’d adapted the protoelectronic mapping package from the Corporate membership offering,” Bortemus replied. “I told you, they’re resourceful. After that, the Fliei themselves took charge of intelligence gathering and sent several agents into the oceans posing as slaves. Not all of them returned.”
They leaned over the display and Bortemus began calling up data.
“What…?” Felhbron murmured.
“As you can see,” Bortemus said, “since the Corporate data blackout, Fliar’s sea level has risen almost a hundred metres, which I probably don’t need to tell you is staggering. Even more anomalously-”
“-The ice caps have not reduced in size,” Team Member 7 said, a hint of exasperation entering her voice. “Why did you not start with this information?”
“I have a certain amount of experience in negotiations with hostile organisations,” Bortemus replied calmly. “If I’d sat down and shown you this data without appropriate preparatory steps, you would not have accepted its authenticity.”
“I do not accept its authenticity now,” 7 declared.
“Then it hardly matters that we had a nice lunch first,” Bortemus retorted, “does it? Regardless,” he went on before 7 could rally, “I am not expecting you to believe it – I am simply reaching out in the hopes that you will take the logical step. I will provide you with all this data and the High Council can independently verify it from behind their blackout. Chances are, they already know anyway. Hard to miss a change like this.”
“I still do not understand how-” 7 insisted.
“The important thing,” Bortemus said, “is that the High Council will be looking for a solution and they’re already more than halfway there. All you need to do is tell them the truth – not that the things I’m telling you are actually happening, but that I have told you about them.”
“Confirming that you know what’s going on and data containment has been lost,” Felhbron completed the thought. Bortemus pointed at him approvingly. “And that you’re ready to take full responsibility for the Tanturians, if the High Council can ensure the survival of the Fliei.”
“Yes,” Bortemus said. “If I’m lying about what the Tanturians are doing, the High Council need not do anything. They will tell you that you were right to come to them, that I am pushing some kind of agenda or scam, and they’ll take it from here. If I’m telling the truth about it … they’ll do the same thing.”
“The High Council will not take the Fliei,” 7 said, continuing to stare at the data. “What could they possibly do? Data containment is already lost. If the so-called Purifying Fire has secret high-level High Council sanction, then nothing we say will prevent them from restoring secrecy by any means necessary.”
“Nothing – except that Spied’jjer Merdokk is willing to take the fall for the entire Tantur situation,” Bortemus said.
“And why would they believe that?” 7 asked.
“They can’t afford not to,” Bortemus pointed out. “Look at those readings. The Tanturians are on the cusp of becoming something … awful.”
Felhbron was looking at the data. “How much longer will Merdokk Industries military technology stand against them?”
“I have no idea,” Bortemus replied. “They shouldn’t even have been able to do that with the equipment they were given, and yet here we are.”
“And if they defeat the Fliei, they might end up being able to salvage a not-inconsiderable amount of your – Merdokk Inddustries tech as well,” Felhbron said. Bortemus nodded. “What about the Purifying Fire?”
“I might be able to stop one of their agents,” Bortemus said, although this felt closer to a lie than anything else he’d told them so far. “But if the Tanturians have already eradicated the Fliei, and taken on some additional military technology, and then a Damorak exterminator turns up … we’ll be looking at a perfect intersection of factors. It will accelerate the Tanturians onto the Corporate interdimensional stage so hard, it will sweep pretty much everyone but the Elder Races down into the orchestra pit.”
The Tanturians, Bortemus tried to explain, had taken the Standard 3 Aquatic Environment Diplomatic Team’s membership package and dismantled the environmental cleansing generator that was intended to help filter pollutants from the water. When they’d put the thing back together, it had begun fabricating breathable Tanturian water from the planet’s air and above-the-surface land resources. Then they had made half a million more of the machines.
He scarcely understood the mechanics of it himself, so it wasn’t easy.
“At a certain point,” he said, “the sheer mass of the expanding aquasphere would cause tectonic shifts and that would be the limit. That limit should have been reached already,” he called up some more data. “Unfortunately, as part of your adorable ‘come on out and meet the gang’ initiative, you also gave them simplified schematics for space vessels – complete with gravity plating.”
The Tanturians had taken that technology, dismantled it, and repurposed it into some kind of intricate buttress network – a second planetary crust, of sorts, suspended in the oceans and supporting the impossible weight of the swiftly-growing seas. Within another ten years, they wouldn’t need to risk coming up against Merdokk Industries guns in their primitive, water-heavy flying machines. Fliar would be entirely covered in ocean, and the Tanturians would be able to swim right into the mountain nation-state of the free Fliei, and devour them.
“How far can they take this … aquaforming?” Felhbron asked. “Surely they’re limited by the raw elements available…”
The Tanturians, even before he’d known their dark secret, had been an enigma to Bortemus. They were a ferociously intelligent species, and their hostility – even adjusting for the superstitious way they were portrayed in Fliei culture – was nothing short of awe-inspiring. And yet, for all their intellect and their immediate grasp of situations and their potential, they were as blind as most other species.
They hadn’t known about the remaining free Fliei in their mountain homes, and if Fliei history was any indication they’d been more or less content to continue living a life of peaceful terrorising oppression in the dark oceans, more or less indefinitely. Fliei philosophers referred to it as ‘the landbound divide’, a two-way perceptual disconnect that served to help the Tanturians forget about the Fliei, and also lull the Fliei into a false sense of security.
It seemed counterintuitive to Bortemus at first, because the Tanturians had come up on land and found the Fliei in the first place. Either that, or some unfortunate Fliei submarine explorers had found the Tanturians. The facts were lost in the blood-clouded waters of history. Either way, why would the sharks subsequently ignore the possibility that there might be more colonies of the loathsome landbound creatures hidden in the mountains, or in deep, dry caves?
Ultimately, it all came down to the divide. Land was land, to the Tanturians. And that applied to anything that wasn’t underwater. Plains and mountains, caves and sky, space … these were all simply massive concepts, and the Tanturians had never really needed to care about them. Until they did.
It had required an adjustment, a radical push to force Tanturian thinking beyond the aquasphere and onto land. After they’d first ventured up on land and found a sentient species of air-breathing creatures they could enslave, they’d adjusted their thinking as much they felt they needed to. Then the concept of space had borne fruit – the Corporation, a dazzling array of alien creatures from the airless gulf that was in turn beyond the waterless gulf they’d only just begun to fit into their worldview. And beyond that, a realityless gulf filled with other universes.
And so they had adjusted again. But they had also closed in on themselves. Tightened their ranks. They’d become more ‘them against the urverse’.
They’d become more them.
And they had taken the tools of their new enemies, because everything that wasn’t a Tanturian was an enemy, and they had begun to work on fixing an urverse they had concluded was in need of fixing.
“Who knows?” Bortemus replied wearily. “I don’t think the mere lack of water molecules will hold them back, since the Cosmos is full of raw materials and the fabrication technology is there. It’s possible, once they reach a certain altitude, the water will freeze. Turning Fliar into an ice ball with a shark-infested liquid mantle. Then they can fly to the next planet in the Cosmos and start on that one,” he shrugged again. “Or they’ll solve the ice problem like they solved the mass one,” he continued. “Maybe a ceiling of ice will allow them to trap heat and keep the water liquid to ever greater heights. They might adapt thermal tech or harness stellar radiation. Just continue expanding. There are water planets much larger than Fliar – or Tantur, as I suppose we would have to call it then.”
“You have to call it that now,” Team Member 7 said firmly. “It is on the Corporate census.”
“With all respect to the Fliei,” Felhbron added.
“I have read studies on aquaforming, as master Felhbron calls it,” Team Member 7 went on. “In the interests of creating extended safe habitats for Standard 3 aquatic environment sentients, the technology is in development. It was only thought to be feasible on worlds or in Dimensions with a very specific set of physical properties – as you say, there are worlds of greater size with Standard 3 aquatic environments, but they exist in Dimensions with physical laws that allow them to exist. The adaptation of aquaforming for use in other environments – even on such a scale as a single stellar-gulf ballworld – is a dramatic development.”
“You’re not kidding it’s dramatic,” Felhbron said.
“I imagine there are specialists trying to figure out exactly what the Tanturians are capable of, and what they’re going to do next,” Bortemus told them. “And all I can tell you is those specialists will never get it right. Because not even the Tanturians know what they’re going to do next. They have the stimulus-response model of a raw nerve, or a – a coiled aactur event. Whatever acts on them next is going to be what dictates their response and the next stage of their development.”
“But with no way for us to control their direction,” Felhbron said grimly.
“Oh, for a time I have no doubt they will seem entirely governable,” Bortemus replied. “Predictable, even. They will wait to see what the different alien groups’ intents are. But when they finish wiping out the Fliei, they will begin work on their next enemy.”
Gartuda Felhbron and Team Member 7 looked at one another.
“What do you want us to tell the High Council?” Felhbron asked.
“Nothing but what I have told you,” Bortemus assured them, “true or otherwise. Tell them that I am looking for a way to restore the hallowed silence and minimise the offence Merdokk Industries has unwittingly committed. And that I want the High Council to guarantee the survival of the Fliei with sponsorship at the highest possible level.”
Felhbron whistled through his teeth. “That’s a long shot.”
“And nothing you could not have demanded of them directly,” 7 said, “by sending all of this data using a protected delivery protocol to a contact point in the Diplomatic Team Coordination Offices.”
“That’s true,” Bortemus said, and then grinned. “But ask yourselves – does that sound remotely my style?”
Bortemus and Volun stood on the headland, the sunny vault of Heaven’s sky above them and the picturesque landscape and almost-as-attractive citadel stretching out ahead.
“The High Council will not take the Fliei under their protection,” Volun said calmly. “Will they?”
“No,” Bortemus replied. “I don’t expect they will. The safest and most politically expedient approach for them will be to either let the Purifying Fire destroy you, or leave you to drown on Fliar when it becomes Tantur in truth as well as in the eyes of the Corporate bloody census.”
“To drown if we are lucky,” Volun amended.
They stood again in silence for a short while.
“The Uternlan, 7, still suspected you of having other motives for contacting them directly,” Volun said next.
“I’m sure she did,” Bortemus replied in faint amusement. “But I’m also pretty sure Felhbron had me even more accurately figured out,” Volun looked at him with curiosity apparent in his strange Fliei face, and Bortemus smiled. “The contact team members are invested in the world they know as Tantur,” he explained. “They may not have been involved in contacting your people, but they don’t really believe anything we said about the Tanturians, either. It’s all just folklore to them. Folklore wrapped around their job. They’ll relay my message – not just to the secret High Council halls where the action will be decided, but through their own delightful bureaucratic channels as well.”
“You are hoping that they will render the situation still more public and visible by their actions,” Volun said. “Making it more difficult for the Master Races to orchestrate a secret genocide.”
“Nobody wants a secret genocide,” Bortemus said vaguely.
“Pecha-Balch?”
“To be honest,” Bortemus said more loudly, “I’m just hoping to delay the Damoraks for a few more months.”
“I think perhaps there was more to it than that,” Volun said.
“You know me well, Volun,” Bortemus said approvingly. “I suppose you could say I decided to talk with the Council people because I was actually trying to talk myself into something. Convince myself that the course I’d already decided on was the only one available.”
This seemed to satisfy Volun. “Are we going to take the AktaTech Acquisitions and Marketing shuttle back to The Centre?” he asked. “Or are you going to try to steal the Destarion while you’re here?”
Bortemus turned and stared at the big shaggy Fliei. “How did you know about that?” he demanded with a genuine laugh of surprise and delight.
“I read about it in the guide book of myths and legends and of the history of the Four Realms,” Volun said, and shook himself with a rattle of beads. “It is all just folklore to me. Folklore wrapped around my job,” he added, a little smugly.
Bortemus shook his head and laughed again. “My family used to tell me lulltime stories about the Godfang when I was a child,” he reminisced. “Sadly, as much as I am itching to explore that particular piece of folklore, I suspect you know as well as I do that the Godfang vanished at the same time three of the Four Realms did,” he said. “Along with almost all of the Burning Knights,” he added, “a notorious force of Brotherhood peacekeepers … although from the tall tales my family told me, what they generally kept was the opposite, and they had a solid supply. The Knights and the Godfang being gone are the only reasons I’m daring to show even this much of my face here. The whole lot of them vanished when I was a baby. The Four Realms has just been Heaven for as long as I’ve been alive. The Destarion, alas, isn’t here for me to steal.”
“There are stories that she is still in the gulf below this world,” Volun said. “Between Heaven and the Rooftop of the great Castle.”
“If she is, my teams have never been able to find her,” Bortemus said with a sigh. “And neither have any of my crafty, ambitious relatives.”
Once again, Molran and Fliei stood in the warm, sweet-scented perpetual daylight and watched the jewel of the Pinian empire shine.
“You still intend to do this,” Volun said. Bortemus nodded. “And sooner rather than later,” the Fliei added.
“Sooner rather than later,” Bortemus agreed. “While it’s still possible. It’s the only way.”
“The Master Races, your Ice Wall, the Gods,” Volun said quietly. “The dread Ghåålus. They will all come for you.”
“Maybe they will,” Bortemus smiled. “There’s not really a solution to the Ghåålus part of it. The Infinites will do whatever They do, and the damage I have done to the Tanturians is already enough to damn me. Quite literally. They won’t forgive, so He won’t. But if I act fast, I might just be able to keep hold of the MRA. Keep Merdokk Industries out of the Purifying Fire’s path. Keep the Ice Wall…” he faltered, then let his smile widen again. “Keep the Ice Wall behind me and the High Council gnawing on itself.”
“Some of those you would fool are Gods,” Volun said, “are They not?”
“Well, that’s the thing about Gods,” Bortemus smiled again, and gestured at his grey face. “Do you think this would fool a God?”
“From what I have learned, pecha-Balch, I tend to doubt it.”
Bortemus spread his hands and turned in a little arc. “Doesn’t look like this particular God is overburdened with giving a damn,” he said, “does it?” he turned back to face the scenery, his smile fading. “So what makes you think any of the others do?”
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Home Sports Football Head Coach Donald Hill-Eley Secures First Win Of The Season with Alabama...
Head Coach Donald Hill-Eley Secures First Win Of The Season with Alabama State
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HOUSTON — After 67 text messages, Alabama State University interim head coach Donald Hill-Eley was able to sit back and relax after watching the Hornets come-from-behind for a 23-16 victory over Texas Southern University at BBVA Compass Stadium Saturday afternoon.
“It’s been a long week,” Eley said. “It’s been a long week, we are drained. The players responded when we got down 14 points, and you get the feeling of here we go again. But the kids kept fighting and fighting, and they found a way to win. It was good to see them playing for them, and it was good to see them win going into the bye week.”
Alabama State (1-5, 1-2 SWAC) trailed for much of the first half before Darryl Pearson, Jr. lofted a ball to Willis White over the middle for a 67-yard touchdown pass to give Alabama State a 20-16 lead with just six seconds left in the third quarter.
After a Hunter Hanson 40-yard field goal extended the lead to 23-16 with 4:14 remaining in the contest, it was the Hornet defense that came up big in the final seconds. Ronnie Scott knocked the ball out at the last second on third down, it was TJ Presley who intercepted the ball at the goal line to end the contest.
“It was a big kick,” Eley said. “The kid has a strong leg and a strong leg for this division, and we know he can kick it. He came to me before the game started and said he could make it from 51, and I told him I didn’t ask him how far you could drive. But he went out there and knocked it through.”
The momentum of the game swung when the Hornets called a fake punt in the third quarter when Chett LeVay took the snap and ran around right end for 47 yards. That led to a Hanson 28-yard field goal that trimmed the lead to 16-13 and set the stage for the rest of the game.
Pearson came off the bench to throw for 126 yards on 9-of-11 passing while running for 22 yards. The duo of Pearson and Kobie Jones connected with 11 different receivers, with six different players each catching a pair of passes.
Alabama State outgained Texas Southern 264-261 on the day, led by a defense that forced two turnovers and recorded five sacks on the day. Malik Bridgers led Alabama State with eight tackles, while Darron Johnson had seven. The defense recorded 11 tackles for loss on the day.
Alabama State returns to action October 28 against Alabama A&M at the Magic City Classic.
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AcupunctureAlternative TherapiesAlternative YouChinese MedicineConditionsDisabilitiesWomen's Health
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New York, NY – In an effort to provide respectful, high-quality medical services for women with physical disabilities and chronic conditions, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine is teaming up with the Initiative for Women with Disabilities (IWD) Elly and Steve Hammerman Health and Wellness Center at the Hospital for Joint Diseases to offer acupuncture to its patients for pain management.
The IWD was founded in 1997 because “there was a need for women with disabilities to get gynecological care,” said IWD Director Judith Goldberg. When IWD patients started asking for the addition of an acupuncture program in 2001, the New York branch of Pacific College joined forces with IWD. Now, student interns supervised by Licensed Acupuncturists from Pacific College have clinical rotations three times a week treating IWD patients for pain.
Since its inception, the program has been very popular. There is currently a waiting list of 80 people for the acupuncture program. Over the course of fourteen weeks, a patient may receive as many 20 treatments.
“This treatment helps me a lot with my pain,” one patient said. “The people are also very caring and loving. This has helped my back pain decrease.”
Acupuncture has been cited by the World Health Organization to treat more than 43 conditions, including headaches and migraines, back pain, osteoarthritis, and constipation. According to a 1997 National Institutes of Health panel, “One of the advantages of acupuncture is that the incidence of adverse affects is substantially lower than that of many drugs other accepted medical procedures used for the same conditions.”
The IWD patients seem to agree.
“My back pain seems better, less muscle spasm, and my ankle movements have improved a great deal,” one IWD patient said. “I personally would refer anyone to try the natural healings of acupuncture treatment. I am feeling wonderful.”
For more information on IWD’s use of acupuncture, please contact Pacific College at (800) 729-0941 – www.PacificCollege.edu
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Podtalk: Programs Manager Ana Wright on Opening of New ‘Chicago Filmmakers’ Home
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CHICAGO – One of the gems of the local cinema scene is the organization known as Chicago Filmmakers. Their 43 year old mission? To make the world of filmmaking available to anyone who wants to learn, thereby allowing new and diverse voices to emerge. Chicago Filmmakers recently moved into their ultimate home, a converted fire station in the Edgewater neighborhood, which is ideally located and suited for any local resident to learn the nuts and bolts of moviemaking, or to take in their screen offerings. Ana Wright is the Programs Manager for the nonprofit center.
Podtalk: Joe Minoso for ‘Alonso, The Dream and the Call’
Alonso, The Dream and the Call
Ben-Hur Uribe
Joe Minoso
NBC-TV
Tambiria Perry
Tim Kazurinsky
CHICAGO – He has portrayed the reliable firefighter Joe Cruz for six seasons on NBC-TV’s “Chicago Fire”… Joe Minoso both plays that role and actually lives in Chicago now. Before his stint on “Fire,” he had completed a short film for local filmmaker Ben-Hur Uribe, “Alonso, The Dream and the Call,” which has just been released for Amazon Prime download.
Interview, Audio: Monica Raymund of ‘Chicago Fire’ Debuts New Film ‘Tanya’ on Aug. 1, 2017
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Female Filmmakers Night
Gabby Dawson
Hidden Tears Project
Kiah McKirnan
Midwest Independent Film Festival
Theater, TV, DVD & Blu-Ray
CHICAGO – TV fans know Monica Raymund as paramedic Gabby Dawson on the long-running “Chicago Fire.” But the talented actor is expanding her range, debuting her first film as director, “Tanya,” at the Midwest Independent Film Festival on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017. The short film – written by Sam Forman – will be part of “Female Filmmakers Night” at the Midwest Indie, and is part of Raymund’s involvement with Hidden Tears Project, an organization dedicated to raising consciousness by creating media on gender inequality, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Film News: ‘For Grace’ is Top Film at 2016 ‘Best of the Midwest’ Awards Night
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David Pasquesi
For Grace
Robert Putka
T.J. Jagodowski
TJ & Dave
CHICAGO – On Tuesday, December 6th, the Midwest Independent Film Festival gave out their 2016 “Best of the Midwest” Awards with a ceremony at Rockit Bar & Grill in Chicago. Best Feature honors went to “For Grace,” directed by Mark Helenowski and Kevin Pang. Best Female Actor was Amy Frazzini of “Guidance,” Best Male Actors were T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi of “T.J. & Dave,” and Best Screenplay was Robert Putka of “Mad,” among other categories.
Film News: ‘Animals’ is Top Film at ‘Best of the Midwest’ Awards Night
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Maura Kidwell
CHICAGO – On Tuesday, December 2nd, the Midwest Independent Film Festival gave out their 2014 “Best of the Midwest” awards with a ceremony at The Underground Nightclub in Chicago. Sweeping Best Actor, Director and Feature Film was the Collin Schiffli-directed “Animals,” starring and written by David Dastmalchian.
Interviews: Backstage with ‘Chicago Fire’ at 2012 Best of the Midwest Awards
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The Second City
CHICAGO – When putting on an awards show in Chicago, getting local talent to hand out awards was as easy as calling the production of “Chicago Fire,” currently filming here. The 2012 Best of the Midwest Awards in December had “CF” cast members David Eigenberg and Christian Stolte to present accolades, and comedy improvisor Susan Messing won Best Actress at the event.
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Podtalk: Jon Heder for ‘When Jeff Tried to Save the World’ at Music Box Theatre, Dec. 6, 2018
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CHICAGO – When your first major role was as the title character in ‘Napoleon Dynamite,’ the way through the rest of your career is paved with gratitude. Actor Jon Heder portrays another title character in his latest film, “When Jeff Tried to Save the World” – co-written and directed by Kendall Goldberg – and creates another memorable role. Heder and Goldberg will make an appearance on behalf of the film on Thursday, December 6th, 2018, at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. For more information and tickets, click here.
Interview: Director Pat Healy of ‘Take Me’ at Chicago Critics Film Festival on May 15, 2017
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Interviews: Red Carpet Premiere of Made-in-Chicago Film ‘Landline’
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Slideshow: Red-Carpet Portraits at 52nd Chicago International Film Festival for Local Films
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52nd Chicago International Film Festival
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CHICAGO – The 52nd Chicago International Film Festival wrapped last week, but the Red Carpet presentations continued right up to that end date. The Chicago connections films, either made in the area or by Chicago filmmakers or actors, had two major Red Carpets, and HollywoodChicago.com was there to capture them. Actors and filmmakers from the new films “Middle Man” and “Imperfections” were there.
Interviews: Director, Cast of ‘Mind Over Mindy’ Has Chicago Gala Screening on Sept. 19, 2015
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Patio Theater
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Sole Productions
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CHICAGO – Director Robert Alaniz is a throwback to the maverick film director that completes his projects through hell or low budget. His latest film is his seventh as writer/director, called “Mind Over Mindy.” Larry Thomas – who portrayed the “Soup Nazi” on “Seinfeld” – is part of the cast that will join Alaniz at a Chicago Gala Screening of the film at the northwest side’s historic Patio Theater on September 19th, 2015.
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Nevermind - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/nevermind
Also found in: Dictionary, Acronyms, Wikipedia.
1. Disregard that; don't worry or bother yourself about it. A: "What did you say?" B: "Never mind, it wasn't important."
2. Especially not, considering what was just said. He can barely write a coherent email, never mind an entire book!
See also: mind, never
it don't make (me) no nevermind
slang I have no preference. A: "Where do you want to go for dinner?" B: "It don't make me no nevermind—wherever you want to go."
See also: make, nevermind, no
(It) makes no difference to me.
and (It) makes me no difference.; (It) makes me no nevermind.; (It) don't make me no nevermind.
Inf. I really do not care, one way or the other. (The first one is standard, the others are colloquial.) Bill: Mind if I sit here? Tom: Makes no difference to me. Bill: What would you say if I ate the last piece of cake? Bob: Don't make me no nevermind.
See also: difference, make, no
1. Don't worry about something, don't trouble yourself, it doesn't matter. For example, Never mind what I said, it wasn't important, or Never mind, you can always take the driver's test again. This expression employs mind in the sense of "care about something," a usage dating from the late 1700s.
2. Also, never you mind. Don't concern yourself with that, it's none of your business, as in Never you mind where I plan to buy the new TV. [Early 1800s]
1 used to urge someone not to feel anxiety or distress. 2 used to suggest that a problem or objection is not important. 3 also never you mind used in refusing to answer a question. 4 used to indicate that what has been said about one thing applies even more to another.
never ˈmind
1 (especially British English) used to tell somebody not to worry or be upset: You failed your driving test? Never mind, the best drivers always fail the first time.
2 used to suggest that something is not important: This isn’t the place I wanted to take you to — but never mind, it’s just as good.
3 used to emphasize that what is true about the first thing you have said is even more true about the second: I never thought she’d win once, never mind twice!
It don’t make (me) no nevermind
phr. It doesn’t matter to me. Go ahead! Do it! It don’t make me no nevermind.
It don’t make no nevermind
See It don’t make me no nevermind
phr. Forget it.; It doesn’t matter anymore. Never mind. I forget what I was going to say.
Used to tell someone not to be concerned or worried.
1. Don't bother: I was hoping for some help, but never mind, I'll do it alone.
2. Not to mention; and certainly not: I can't tread water, never mind swim.
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On a recent afternoon inside 606 Studio, the sprawling headquarters for Grohl's band Foo Fighters, Grohl and Novoselic, while slumped on a couch near the same soundboard that they used to record "Nevermind," reminisced with producer Butch Vig about how they made the album that forever changed their lives and the music world.
Grohl, Novoselic reminisce about 'Nevermind'
Just as the news of Winehouse's death led to a rekindled interest in her music (sales of Back to Black spiked posthumously) and I re-heard the album, enjoying not just the very popular tracks, Rehab and You Know I'm No Good, but also others, such as Tears Dry On Their Own, Wake Up Alone and the title track, Back to Black, the alert on Nevermind's upcoming 20th anniversary revived my interest in Nirvana's music.
Nevermind, because come Tuesday it will all be over and someone else will be in the hotseat.
Bush words of wisdom
"Classic Rock Albums: Nevermind Nirvana" is just short of the music CD itself in fully understanding the album that made the grunge movement of the early nineties so memorable.
Classic Rock Albums Nervermind Nirvana
Nevermind that the Working Title pie banked $26.5 million in just 10 days in the U.K.
'Bean' there, done that
Their 1991 album Nevermind topped the Billboard chart and has since sold more than 10m copies worldwide, but Bradfield is not a fan.
Nevermind the influence... Bradfield goes solo with Nirvana attack
(Nevermind their score on the SATs.) Not only is this book informative, it's fun.
Moyer, Homer E. The R.A.T.; real-world aptitude test
Their album Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson's Dangerous off the number one slot.
Nevermind that this theory was contrary to everything ever written about economics.
Here's to the New New Economy
In a 1995 appearance on ABC radio, he objected to published research questioning the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, charging its author with "aiding and abetting...efforts to kill people." Nevermind that the author, Dr.
Show Me the Documents
Saltas says he got a phone call from a USOC lawyer saying, in effect, nevermind.
USOC ruffled by rings parody
Nevermind Atlantis And the promise Of moving pictures, A candle lit In the window Of our conscious minds.
A psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop
Nevermind about the J F Kennedy mural, the one I think should have come to light is the Great Western Railway one.
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never marry for money, but marry where money is
never mind something
never miss a trick
never put off until tomorrow
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
never send a boy to do a man's job
never set foot in (some place)
never speak ill of the dead
never tell tales out of school
never the twain shall meet
never thought I'd see you here!
never tire of (something)
never tire of doing something
never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you
never whistle before you are out of the woods
never whistle till you are out of the woods
never whistle until you are out of the woods
never would have guessed
never you mind
never/not look back
nevertheless, she persisted
new ball game
new broom
new broom sweeps clean, a
New brooms sweep clean
new lease on life, a
new off the irons
new one on
new pastures
new phone, who dis
new standard
new to (all (of)) this
new to the game
Never-Ending International Workcamps Exchange
Never-Ending Pie-Throwing Robot
Never-Ending Radical Dude
never-endingly
never-exceed speed
never-failing
Never-Married Women
Never-Never
Never-Never Country
never-outs
never-say-die
never-say-diely
Never-thriving
never-to-be-forgotten
Neverending Loop
Neverending White Lights
Nevermelting Ice Crystal
Nevermind (album)
Nevermore (band)
Nevernet
Neverov, Aleksandr
Neverov, Aleksandr Sergeevich
Neverovskii, Dmitrii
Neverovskii, Dmitrii Petrovich
Nevers, Ernie
Neversink Valley Area Museum
Neverthelater
nevertheless she persisted
Neverwinter Vault
Nevew
Nevezha, Andronik
Nevezha, Andronik Timofeevich
Nevezhin, Petr
Nevezhin, Petr Mikhailovich
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NEWS YOU CAN USE! Brief Blurb
US Power Companies under frequent Cyber-attacks
Now would be a good time to stock up on generators, shotguns, and beef jerky. 🙂
Chinese Hacker’s have backdoors into US Law Enforcement
I personally have no issue with China, however it’s insane for a nation’s (in this case the US) infrastructure and products to largely be made not only outside said Nation, but by a country that openly does not have the best interest of the US in mind.
How the hell is it allowable for everything you get in Walmart and Target to be made in China? Could it be because companies that had their start in the US, and make their money from the US, feel they owe no allegiance to the US in terms of maintaining a strong economic base or paying taxes in the areas they are generating revenue. Increasingly companies view governments, meaning the people, as a means to an end, a sponge they can squeeze when they require lubrication.
And if that sounds vulgar, it is because what companies are doing through lobbying and buying of representatives and mandating of laws… is vulgar.
And bringing it back to a tech bent, IBM/Lenovo is virtually a Chinese company and our Government Infrastructure and Security is dependent on Chinese made computer hardware such as this. How is that conducive to security?
In such an environment China would be stupid not to take advantage of the US’s desire to put greed and low cost above security and a stronger domestic economic base.
Am I advocating buying American? I’m advocating something even more radical. I’m advocating buying and producing locally. I’m advocating the ability of a family to support themselves, regardless of what another City or State or Country does.
I’m advocating a return to local farmers, and local tailors, and local manufacturers.
Radical, isn’t it? 🙂
Okay, that’s all the time for now. More NEWS YOU CAN USE later.
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THE SEARCH ENGINE WARS!? Google vs. Scroogle!??
“There above the dead man’s torn body, man fought with demon under the pale light of the rising moon, with all the advantages with the demon, save one. And that one was enough to overcome all the others. For if abstract hate may bring into material substance a ghostly thing, may not courage, equally abstract, form a concrete weapon to combat that ghost”
—from SKULLS IN THE STARS by Robert E. Howard
One of the best search engines, and my search engine of choice Scroogle.org, and the one I’ve been recommending to people for years, has finally closed up shop.
Scroogle News Story
Owned by privacy advocate Daniel Brandt, Scroogle offered search results gleaned from Google, but minus that site’s cookies and tracking features. So Scroogle more correctly was a search engine plug-in or cleaner; acting as a buffer between Google and the end user. Almost like a proxy.
Google was never happy with Scroogle. And almost from the first the non-profit Scroogle was subject to a variety of questionable harrasment style incidents. From someone buying up Scroogle.com and turning it into a porno site, so heaven help the unwary person looking for the Scroogle search engine, and forgetting to add the Org.
Of late the cold war between Google and Scroogle has escalated into a hot dispute, with Google actively barring traffic for extended periods of time to any of Brandt’s Scroogle servers. Necessitating frequent messages to users that ‘search results are not available and try again in 10 minutes’.
However the final straw came with concentrated, and very proficient denial of service attacks effectively shutting down Brandts Scroogle.org site. After days of fighting Brandt has officially announced he is closing down Scroogle.org and all his related sites and servers.
It’s a devastating blow to privacy advocates everywhere, as Brandt was also responsible for other sites such as Wikipedia Watch.
And the first argument I oft here from the uninitiated is “it’s Google’s info, they should be able to block who they want”. But that’s the rub, the info does not belong to Google, much like Scroogle they are middlemen redistributing other peoples’ site links and info. Scroogle had as much right to re-disseminate that info, as did Google.
But the larger question I have is why would hackers, an anti-big business, pro personal-privacy, bunch… attack the non-profit Scroogle. The simple answer is… they wouldn’t, they would attack Google rather than Scroogle… unless (like the speculated reasons behind Linux open-source attacks) they were hired to attack Scroogle.
Do I think someone paid to setup the pornographic domain Scroogle.com to scare people away from adopting or visiting Scroogle.org? Let’s put it this way, now that Brandt’s Scroogle.org has closed up shop, the pornographic Scroogle.com has also closed up shop.
Do I think someone hired hackers, to commit a crime by performing a DDOS (Distributed Denial Of Service) attack on Scroogle? In effect attacking and shutting down a non-profit company.
Well it happened, so yes I do think it was paid for and premeditated.
And who do I think was behind driving Brandt’s Scroogle.org out of business? The same people you think.
It sends a troubling message across the board and one that will have to be addressed by all of us sooner rather than later. These bullies can’t keep taking our collective lunch money. 🙂 .
In the interim here are a couple quick search engine alternatives to the now departed Scroogle.org. The best way I can see to honor Scroogle’s passing is by having even more people avoid using Google.
Scroogle.org may be dead, but its message seems to have spread to many Google alternatives.
The search engines are:
DUCK DUCK GO– Award winning search engine, it’s quick and easy to use but its results aren’t as accurate as Google’s results. Takes a bit more searching, but I personally don’t mind. Plus that Duck is just sooo CUTE! (Did I say that out loud? Doh!)
YIPPY– My backup search engine is Yippy.com, formerly called Clusty.com. Works great and is as accurate as Google.
A few others are:
IXQUICK
Both of the above are owned by the same Dutch company and I’m still testing them, so the jury is out, but so far so good.
Pages helpful in researching this article were the following:
Scroogle demise News Story written by Kelly Fiveash
Search engine alternatives by Chetan Pinto
Well that's all for now folks. Come back tomorrow for more news you can use! 🙂 .
“Kane fought with his arms and his feet and his hands, and he was aware at last that the ghost began to give back before him, that the fearful laughter changed to screams of baffled fury. For man’s only weapon is courage that flinches not from the Gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.”
brandt, bullies, clusty, courage, ddos, demons, domain, duckduckgo, google, hackers, News, Nonprofit, not for profit, open source, privacy, public interest, right, robert e. howard, scroogle, search engine, skulls in the stars, solomon kane, wars, yippie
Epsilon Data Leaks
If you’ve done any business on line, such as buying flowers or books or utilizing job search sites among other activities, more than likely you’ve received an email from various companies saying your data has been exposed.
The official story is Epsilon, the uber-firm, that contracts with major firms to handle their email correspondence, and by its own estimation sends out 40 Billion email messages on behalf of its powerhouse clients, among them Target, Walgreens Citigroup, was hacked and the email addresses for the clients of these vast firms were… siphoned off.
It amounts to easily millions upon millions of affected customers. And right now all Epsilon is admitting to is the theft of email addresses. Though logically it would occur to me that any hacker group adept enough to smash, hopefully stringent security, walked away with a lot more than just email addresses, up to and including real names, full addresses, and credit card #s for a start.
This is the problem with consolidation, with a monopolistic mindset. Increasingly all our data is congregated through a single provider, which also as this example shows translates into a single point of failure, a potentially catastrophic failure.
So instead of the bad guys having to hack 200 different companies, in the age of information consolidation, and monopolistic data aggregation, all they have to do is get by one company’s defenses… and everything comes tumbling after.
This latest, and arguably greatest, data leak, reinforces the need for more checks and balances, and better and more stringent privacy and information controls. And indeed less consolidation of same. Instead of companies outsourcing everything to increasingly fewer providers, bring these sensitive data services back in house. And besides abuse from without, I’m also concerned of the potential for abuse from within. All that data and info, subject to a single company’s policies can be an unpleasant personal liberty nightmare waiting to happen… again.
I think in an age of FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE and TWITTER we may need to recognize the obvious detriments to such easy dissemination of information and perhaps be a bit more wary about what we share and why. And more importantly what is done, and who controls the things we share. Perhaps be more aware that what we give up in exchange for this ease of online dialog may be nothing less… than ourselves.
Something to consider.
2011, April, citigroup, corporate, data, data breach, epsilo, facebook, hacker, hackers, insecurity, leaks, monopolies, security, twitter, youtube
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A polyhex is a plane figure composed of n regular hexagons joined at their edges, in the manner of a regular hexagonal tessellation.
Polyhexes have perhaps achieved their greatest utility in organic chemistry, where they can be used to represent various configurations of aromatic hydrocarbons, but are also often employed in puzzles, logic games, and other recreational mathematical pursuits. A more speculative application of the first several orders of free polyhexes can be found in Patrick Mulcahy's article The Hexagonal Geometry of the Tree of Life, available as a PDF file in our Hexagonal Library.
hexagons, geometry, combinatorics
The permutohedron
Permutohedron of order 2. a line segment
We seem to have fallen a bit behind in terms of keeping this site updated with RELEVANT MATHEMATICAL INFORMATION about hexagons. This is a deficit we're looking to correct as soon as possible. First up, let us consider the permutohedra. We at HEXNET.ORG have been meaning to write something about permutohedra for a couple of years now, but have never really found a good opportunity to so. WE WILL NOT EXPEND GREAT EFFORT DOING SO NOW. It will suffice to merely describe the concept in conjunction with some helpful imagery, which will hopefully serve as a useful foundation for further geometrical observations and investigations in the near future.
geometry, hexagon, symmetry, math, permutohedron, truncated octahedron, permutohedra
2010 crop circle roundup
As the harvest season draws nigh on to a close here in the northern climes, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at the year's HEXAGONAL CROP CIRCLES.
Now, I try not to get overly woo-woo here, so let me preface my remarks by assuring you, the gentle reader, that, pending the advent of more compelling evidence, I continue to maintain a strict agnosticism towards the phenomenon of crop formations. But I am comfortable making at least the following two assertions on the subject:
1) There are at least some crop formations from the past thirty years that simply were not made covertly, at night, by a small group of people with boards and crap. Not all of them, maybe not even most of them, but definitely some of them.
2) There is a spectrum of possible explanations for these formations between and beyond the false dichotomy of "pranksters running around fields at night with boards and wires" versus "zOMG ALIENS!" usually put forward by mainstream media and other consensus-reality-builders in our society.
Indeed, as an aside, I would like to point out that I find it highly unfortunate that both crop circles and the more well-documented UFO phenomenon have come to be associated, for little reason, with theories of extraterrestrial visitation. In the case of UFOs, the subjects are conflated so completely that you often hear people asking if one "believes in" UFOs, when they actually mean "Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth in nuts-and-bolts spacecraft from other star systems?" Which are obviously two completely different questions. (And how one could possibly "not believe" there are flying objects that are not, in fact, "identified," is itself utterly beyond my comprehension.) In the case of UFOs, at least there are actual apparent flying vehicles involved, so I can understand the conceptual leap. I have never understood at all how extraterrestrial speculation came into the crop circle issue, except by association with UFO culture, and a general lack of imagination as to the different ways intelligence may manifest itself in this universe. I mean, it could be extraterrestrials. It would be interesting if it were. But this is certainly not by default assumption, nor is it even remotely high on my list of plausible explanations.
geometry, overmind, gaian intelligence, weird
The way of the tau
An astute reader recently brought to my attention the nascent movement afoot to replace π in common usage with the number now unfortunately known as 2π—viz., 6;349419 (dec. 6.283186):
Pi Is Wrong! - By Bob Palais
The Tau Manifesto - By Michael Hartl
(For a reasonably convincing argument on why the letter τ (tau) in particular should be adopted for this value, please read Mr. Hartl's manifesto.)
The fundamental point here is that, in trigonometry and all other manner of angle-measuring endeavors, what we care about is the radius of a circle, not its diameter. The one follows from the other to be sure, but at the end of the day the diameter is more usefully considered twice the radius than the radius is half the diameter. A circle is a circumference around a center—it is the measure of this distance between center and circumference that is elemental to the idea of a circle, not the rather incidental fact that its full width is twice that same distance.
geometry, circles, pi, tau, trigonometry
Dozenal tau unit circle
This is a unit circle diagram using both dozenal notation (as with elsewhere on this site, using "A" and "B" for ten and eleven) and the newly proposed circle constant τ (tau), which is equal to 2π. The advantages of τ over π are numerous and obvious—instead of a full circle of arc being two of anything, it is just one τ. Put another way, τ is simply the number of radians in a circle.
geometry, circles, dozenal, pi, tau, trigonometry
Euclid IV.15: To inscribe a regular hexagon in a given circle
By Euclid
NOTE: I have transcribed and edited this from various ancient translations of Euclid, augmented and tempered where necessary by at least the structure of more modern versions. I am pretty sure there are no errors in it. This is of course only one of many interesting Euclidean propositions involving hexagons, and for anyone reading this who does not in fact own a copy of Euclid I highly recommend purchasing one right now. Thank you.
Let ABCDEF be the given circle. It is required to inscribe an equilateral and equiangular hexagon in the circle ABCDEF.
geometry, circles, hexagon, constructive geometry, euclid
A Series of Cubes
geometry, numbers, centered hexagonal numbers, cubes, hex numbers, mathematics
Constructing a Regular Hexagon
geometry, circles, constructive geometry, regular hexagon
Geometry of Circles by Philip Glass
The following video came to my attention recently. It presents, in my view, a perfect example of the sort of world-class hexagonal education we once provided our children in that bastion of cultural exceptionalism known as the 1980s, and which seems sadly lacking from today's undoubtedly clever yet somehow less challenging children's programming:
hexagons, geometry, circles, philip glass, sesame street, television
Symmetry group of a regular hexagon
In this image we see the symmetry group D6 of a regular hexagon. The hexagon can be rotated six ways, and reflected six ways. Note that any combination of two or more of these operations will still result in one of these twelve configurations.
hexagons, geometry, symmetry, dihedral, group theory
Hexagonal projection of the platonic solids
In this diagram we see that four of the five platonic solids can be projected in two dimensions as hexagonally-symmetric figures. The hexahedron, octahedron, and icosahedron can all be orthographically projected as regular hexagons, and the dodecahedron can be so projected as a somewhat lopsided yet equal-angled hexagon (not shown), or as a hexagonally-symmetrical dodecagon (shown here). The tetrahedron—or "freak" polyhedron if you will—can of course be projected as an equilateral triangle, which although not truly hexagonal is still of the same general angular family.
geometry, polyhedra, platonic solids, projection
An Introduction to Hexagonal Geometry
The following is a brief survey of some elemental properties of hexagons, and why they might be useful. It is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject. My specific concern here is with the mathematical properties of hexagons, and, to an extent, their role in the natural world. I have avoided discussing hexagons as they pertain to human culture, religion, history, and other "local" concerns, though there are many fascinating instances of hexagonality and sixness in these areas, and they will no doubt be treated more fully elsewhere at another time.
hexagons, geometry, circles, six, symmetry, trigonometry, math, tessellation, polytopes, triangles
Close-packing of spheres
This diagram illustrates both the hexagonal close-packing (left) and face-centered cubic (right) systems for the close-packing of spheres in Euclidean 3-space. Note the hexagonal symmetries of both arrangements. Both can be assembled using the same hexagonally-packed layers—they differ only in how the layers are stacked together.
In each hexagonally-packed layer, there are gaps left between every three spheres. Spheres from the next layer are placed in these gaps. In any given layer, however, one has a choice of which gaps to fill with spheres—only half of the gaps can have spheres in them, since a sphere placed in any particular gap precludes a sphere from being placed in any of the three gaps immediately adjacent to it. Thus, in the hexagonal close-packing system, layers are stacked such that the spheres in each layer align with the spheres two layers below it. In the face-centered cubic system, layers are stacked such that the spheres align with the spheres three layers below it.
geometry, hexagonal, close-packing, face-centered cubic, hexagonal close packing, spheres
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diamond sutra
graham spiral
crop formation
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Top 10 Things to do on St. Patrick’s Day for a Local.
March 13, 2018 – Culture, Events, Festivals, Performing arts
Awh, Paddy’s day. The event which brings thousands of tourists to our emerald island. As beautiful as it is, we know how hard it is to escape the cheer and Leprauchans around every corner.
Well, fear no more! We are here to guide you through the ruckus of Paddy’s day, and give you insight on the most stunning events taking place over the week.
1. THISISPOPBABY presents ‘Where We Live’
WHEN? March 6th – 18th.
WHERE? The Complex Theatre
Surrounding the theme of our home, ‘Where We Live’ is offering a kaleidoscope of stories about what it feels like to live in Dublin today. Through an array of plays, immersive exhibitions, incendiary talk series, poetry, film and music, the two-week event is packed with arty and educational nights performances of every kind.
If this doesn’t make you feel a little prouder of the Paddy in you, I don’t know what will.
For all show listings, click here.
2. Guinness presents – ‘Guinness Supper Club’
WHEN? 15th & 16th of March.
WHERE? Guinness Storehouse
Celebrating the Irish creators and innovators across the world who are making great things happen; the Guinness Storehouse, together with St. Patrick’s Festival, is welcoming home an internationally acclaimed Irish chef. The one-off Supper Club series sees a collaboration between the Guinness Storehouse and Ian Doyle, Head Chef of Oaxen Krog, Stockholm, formerly of Noma – two forces known for their dedication to their craft and quality.
The menu will feature the very best Irish meat and seafood, paired with bold tasting beers and served up with great conversation, live music, contemporary storytelling and all the magic that can be expected from Home of Guinness and St. Patrick’s Festival.
The evening will culminate in the world-famous Gravity Bar, where the H&G Creations (YAS!) will decorate the interior to a dazzling work of art, allowing guests raise a glass and celebrate St. Patrick’s Festival overlooking the Dublin skyline.
The perfect excuse to indulge oneself in numerous pints of Guinness with no judgment. Dream.
3. Dublin Bay Prawn Festival
WHEN? 17th – 19th March.
WHERE? Howth Village.
Apologies to all the Vegans out there, but we couldn’t NOT put this on the list.
Are you a foodie? Well then, get ready to drool; Dublin Bay Prawn Festival is coming, offering samples of delicious fresh food and craft beer whilst enjoying free music and entertainment, from cooking demos to wine tasting.
Howth’s finest restaurants, bars, and cafés will host a variety of amazing food experiences at the Harbour Festival Food Village serving the freshest, most delicious seafood, cooked every way imaginable, including a selection of special Dublin Bay Prawn dishes.
UGH, I CAN FEEL THE FOOD KOMA ALREADY.
4. Herstory presents: ‘Suffragette Walking Tour’
WHEN? 15th & 16th of March 5:00 pm – 18th-19th of March 11:00 am
WHERE? Dublin City Hall
Need an excuse to continue the celebration of International women’s day? Look no further than the herstory of the Suffrage walking tour, highlighting some of the key figures and events are undertaken by very courageous women in their efforts to win equality for women.
This is a chance for you all to find a role model outside of the Kardash sisters and Gemma Collins, don’t miss out.
5. Shamus (1958) (film)
WHEN? 19th March 3:00 PM
WHERE? Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
This rarely seen drama, made in 1958, is a tale about a tail – a monkey’s tail – which appears on orphan boy, Shamus, when he steals an evil leprechaun’s pot of gold. Shamus wanders woefully, tail in tow, around the streets of Belfast before stowing away on a ship to Liverpool where he is befriended by a wholesome English family who is enchanted by his quaint and lovable ways. Set against a colorful backdrop of 1950s Belfast streets bustling with life this quirky and rarely-seen film is about an unusual child’s search for happiness and home.
Any excuse to go to the IFI, am I right?
Click here for ticket information.
6. Ireland in Full Colour
WHERE? The Palatine Room, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin 7.
St. Patrick’s Festival welcomes this opportunity to continue the dialogue of the #IAmIrish Project. The project initiated by Lorraine Maher in conjunction with the London Irish Centre, addresses the diversity of Irish identity and how we can challenge perceptions of what it looks like to be Irish.
Jim Carroll of Banter and more recently RTE, will host a panel of speakers who will share their stories and experiences of what is or was like growing up in Ireland, the diversity of Irish identity today and what the future might look like for people of mixed Irish heritage.
Challenging perspectives through storytelling, discussion and performance, this is bound to be a beaut.
To find out more, click here.
7. Lavender Walk: Tour of Historic Gay Dublin
WHEN: 19 March, 12:00 PM.
WHERE: Starting at Trinity College, Front Square.
Join the ultimate walking tour of historic gay Dublin hosted by well-known civil rights activist and historian Tonie Walsh, as he trawls the socio-cultural and political life of LGBT Dublin, from St. Patrick’s proposition by a band of randy sailors in the 4th century to decriminalization of male homosexuality and the advent of marriage equality in the 20th century. Expect two hours of education, illumination and possibly a little titillation.
Occasional yelps of “YAAAS BITCH!” is encouraged throughout the tour to add additional ambiance.
To join the walk, click here.
8. Dublin: A Year in Words – Poetry and Spoken Word Trail
WHEN? 18th March
WHERE? Starting point: St. Patrick’s Park, Dublin 8 – meeting outside The Blossom Tree café, 1pm-5pm.
Celebrate the breadth and diversity of the city’s living poets on a curated trail, based on the poet’s own work and the places that inspire them. In collaboration with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and their video series Dublin: A Year in Words, enjoy exceptional performances from an array of emerging and established poets including Natalya O’Flaherty, Phil Lynch, Erin Fornoff, Dagogo Harte, Dairena Ní Chinnéide and Abby Oliveira. Host, the charismatic poetician John Cummins will regale anecdotes along the way!
9. Street Carnival; Festival Big Day Out
WHERE? Merrion Square, Dublin 2
OK, we know this might be a little touristy, but who can resist a street carnival?!
Merrion Square will be taken over by bursting with street theatre, music, aerial performances, workshops, Irish Language activities and of course a festival Céilí.
Pilot a spaceship across the galaxy in Defender Run or shoot down aliens in the Space Invaders gallery in the interactive Reality Arcade inspired by classic retro games where it’s up to you to bring the games to life.
Enter a world of fantasy and be inspired by mysterious storytelling by torchlight, shadow puppets, illustration and an exciting adventure puzzle room where Dublin UNESCO City of Literature’s Citywide read ‘Making Millions’ will come to life in a Georgian House.
Prepare to have your mind blown while experimenting with cutting-edge technology in the Science Foundation Ireland science zone and marvel at skilled jugglers, illusionists, theatrical wizardry.
FIERCE AMOUNT OF CRAIC! Find out more here.
10) Leprechaun Chase 2018
WHERE? Blackrock Park
Have you ever dreamt of chasing a leprechaun? Well, your dream is about to become reality.
The Leprechaun Chase kicks off at 12 noon at the Bandstand in Blackrock Park. Grab your bestie put on your finest festive outfit and chase our Leprechauns about 1.5km around the park on the hunt to find their pot of gold AND lose a few pounds.
Can you cope? Because we cannot.
Get in touch today,
for your free consultation
Deirdre
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IEET > Vision > Contributors > HealthLongevity > Enablement > Dick Pelletier > Futurism > Innovation > Implants
2013-2063: trekking through the next 50 years
Dick Pelletier Aug 27, 2013 Ethical Technology
Positive futurists believe we will see more progress during the next five decades than was experienced in the last 200 years. In The Singularity is Near, author Ray Kurzweil reveals how science will change the ways we live, work, and play. The following offers some of the incredible possibilities we can expect.
2013-2023 – More people become techno-savvy in a fully-wired world. Smart phones, the Internet, global trade and automatic language translators give birth to a humanity focused on improving healthcare and raising living standards. Stem cell and genetic engineering breakthroughs emerge almost daily.
Technologies that recognize voice, gestures, and predict our thoughts are replacing the keyboard and mouse; and by decade's end, simulated holograms, indiscernible from reality will appear as interactive characters, bringing friends, relatives, and associates into our get-to-gathers without need to travel.
2023-2033 – Biotech, personal nanofactories, automated systems make life healthier, easier. Doctors direct stem cells to regrow worn tissues, bones, muscles and skin. By late 2020s, nanorobots maintain health throughout the body; and by reprogramming faulty DNA, these 'bots have eliminated humanity's most dreaded scourge – aging. Age is now important mostly as an indicator of life experience.
Nanofactories began appearing in homes in late 2020s and quickly became indispensable. These replicator machines rearrange atoms from supplied chemicals or inexpensive waste materials and create food, clothing, medicine, and most household essentials; or another nanofactory, at little or no cost. On voice command, desired product appears within minutes. See artist rendition here.
Automated systems, such as personal avatars that help manage the maze of new technologies, and household robots, which assume food prepration, cleaning, and security duties have eliminated most of life's drudgeries. Affordable robots now surpass cars as the most indispensable family acquisition.
2033-2043 – Driverless cars, 'sky cars', and brain science advances create a Sci-Fi-like world. Collision-proof cars have reduced auto accidents to near zero. Flying cars, powered by superconductive electro-magnetic drive, travel streets and highways, and can also rise silently in the air and glide to destinations. Rides are safe, both in the air and on the ground, with quantum GPS technology.
Neuroscientists made huge strides during the 2030s in better understanding the human brain. By adjusting neurons, doctors can increase joy in marriages and friendships, and diminish hate in criminals. This new mind science has enhanced happiness levels, while lowering crime and violence worldwide.
2043-2053 – Merging with machines becomes reality, signaling the end of human death. Physicist Paul Davies, in his book The Eerie Silence writes that humanity's future lies in transitioning into non-biological beings. "Biological life is transitory," he says, "It is only a fleeting phase of evolution."
By 2050, a few bold pioneers began replacing biology with stronger non-biological muscles, bones, organs, and brains, created in nanofactories. Merging with machines demonstrated the advantages of living in non-biological bodies and convinced more people to choose this powerful option.
Non-bio bodies can auto-repair themselves when damaged; and in a fatal accident, consciousness and memories can be transferred into a new body. By 2050, death has become no more disruptive than a brief mental lapse. Most people are not even aware they had died. Say goodbye to the Grim Reaper.
2053-2063 – Influenced by Moon and Mars forays, a new era of space exploration infects humanity. Recognizing that a single-planet species cannot survive, experts believe exploring the high frontier and promoting a mass space exodus is necessary for humanity to continue its successful evolutionary path. Terraforming efforts have provided Earth-like environments in our space colonies, encouraging more people to live offworld. By 2063, Moon population stands at 5,000, Mars, 20,000.
The coming five decades promise to change our lives beyond the wildest imaginings of science fiction. Clearly, the road to this vision winds around unknown, and possibly even dangerous turns, but strong public interest suggests that this positive future could become your reality by 2063. Comments welcome.
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Dick Pelletier
Dick Pelletier was a weekly columnist who wrote about future science and technologies for numerous publications. He passed away on July 22, 2014.
Dick always sounds a bit too optimist to me, but that’s is the right spirit!
I imagine a similar timeline, but stretched two or three times.
Giulio Prisco Budapest Aug 27, 2013
I love Dick’s article’s because they are stripped of politics and the like, and to be honest, I am a techno-optimist who thinks the future will bring with it cyborg gadgets (not made in human sweatshops, but by unconscious robots) the ability to upload information to ones brain so that we are all experts, even experts in what we teach our children: sharing. And sharing is what politics is really about 😊
Kris Notaro CT Aug 27, 2013
“By adjusting neurons, doctors can increase joy in marriages and friendships, and diminish hate in criminals. This new mind science has enhanced happiness levels, while lowering crime and violence worldwide.”
Am I the only one finds this somewhat disturbing?
schopenbecq Aug 27, 2013
In their recent ground-breaking book, Enhancing Human Capacities, co-authors Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen, and Guy Kahane explore how society will benefit when we use technology to alter moods, boost memory, and increase intelligence levels; along with the ethical concerns these technologies raise.
Kahane says scientists are discovering new behavior-altering procedures that make us more likeable, sociable; open to other people’s views; and will curb many of our desires for vengeance and violence.
Drugs that affect our moral thinking and behavior already exist, but we tend not to think of them in that way. Prozac lowers aggression and bitterness, making people more agreeable. Oxytocin increases feelings of social bonding and empathy while reducing anxiety.
Some question, though, whether society will want a pill that would make them morally better. Being more trusting, nicer, and less aggressive could make people more vulnerable to exploitation.
However, proponents believe the benefits are too important to ignore. Pursuing these technologies holds great promise to curb crime and violence throughout the world, improve personal and career relationships, and raise happiness levels everywhere.
Dick Pelletier Aug 27, 2013
I personally think that the major game changer will be either enhanced human minds (either through mechanical/chemical enhancement, improved social networking, or genetic improvement), or smarter than human AI.
The Law of Accelerating Returns goes on steroids when we get enhanced intelligence (which may very well think of a way to further enhance intelligence). By the way, this is slowly happening now, but you can expect to see it vastly increase in the next decade or two, throwing off the entire above timeline (as is fitting for the concept of the Singularity).
dobermanmac Aug 28, 2013
A lot of interesting comments and after making my own study regarding exponential growth I tend to agree 100% with Ray Kurzweil and feel it is not a case of if we make the types of progress Ray refers to but how quickly and my feeling is that based on the ever accelerating rate of progress he is very likely not far out on his estimates. I find it odd how even though I am sure everyone here understands the difference between linear and exponential even I personally find it hard not to think in a linear fashion. I think the interesting thing to me was that when I compiled a list of breakthroughs a couple of years back at http://drjohnty.com/Exponential_Growth.html I found it hard not to consider the degree of progress in the 20th century as having a bearing as far as the degree of progress on the 21st century and clearly that is not the case based on the first thirteen years and the vast rate of progress.
DrJohnty Aug 28, 2013
I rather agree with dobermanmac - I see a Human Brain Power explosion coming soon, a bio-intelligence Singularity.
China is investing $250 billion per year in higher education
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/business/chinas-ambitious-goal-for-boom-in-college-graduates.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
a large percentile of their massive graduate and PhD population will be engineers, with entrepreneurial training. Innovation will accelerate.
hankpellissier Aug 28, 2013
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
IEET Link: https://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brin20110410
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2011/04/difference-between-science-fiction-and.html
Why are SF and Fantasy so often grouped together? Obviously, because they share readership and so are placed together in bookstores. And… heck… some of us write both! Still, there are very real differences.
Look, fantasy is the mother genre—e.g. Gilgamesh, the Illad, Odyssey and most religions. Sci Fi is the brash offshoot. All literature has deep roots in fantasy, which in turn emerges from the font of our dreams.
Having said that, what is my definition of the separation? I think it is very basic, revolving around the notion of human improvability.
“Do you believe it is possible for children to learn from the mistakes of their parents?”
For all the courage and heroism shown by fantasy characters across 4000 years of great, compelling dramas—NOTHING EVER CHANGES! Aragorn may be a better king than Sauron would have been. Hurray. Fine. But he’s still a freaking king. And the palantir on his desk that lets him see faraway places and converse with viceroys across the realm is still reserved for the super elite. No way are we going to see mass-produced palantirs appearing on every peasant’s tabletop from Rohan to the Shire. (The way our civilization plopped such a miracle on YOUR tabletop.)
It never even occurs to Aragorn or Gandalf to give the poor the godlike powers they themselves get to wield… let alone provide them with libraries, running water, printing presses or the germ theory of disease. Only little Peregrin Took seems to get a glimmer of an idea in that direction. The only character who briefly ponders possibilities, and he’s soon bullied out of it.
Fantasy has its attractions. Something about feudalism resonates, deep inside us. We fantacize about being the king or wizard. Heck it’s in our genes. We are all descended from the harems of the guys who succeeded at that goal. The core thing about fantasy tales is that, after the adventure is done and the bad guys are defeated… the social order stays the same.
It may be the natural genre… but should we be proud of that?
Science fiction, in sharp contrast, considers the possibility of learning and change.
Not that children always choose to learn from their parent’s mistakes! When they don’t, when they are obstinately stupid and miss opportunities, you can get a sci fi tragedy… far more horrible than anything “tragic” in Aristotle’s POETICS. Aristotle says tragedy is Oedepus writhing futilely against fate. A sci fi tragedy portrays people suffering, same as in older tragedies… but with this crucial difference— things did not have to be this way. It wasn’t “fate.” We—or the characters—could’ve done better. There was, at some point, a chance to change our own destiny.
One type of tragedy makes you weep—hey, Oedepus is powerful stuff. But for millennia the deep moral lesson—the thing taught in all “campbellian myths”—is that resistance is futile. The overall situation, the rule of fate, remains the same.
The other type of tragedy—the new kind—is a cautionary tale that may change your decisions. It may alter destiny.
You can see why the absurd old farts who inhabit most lit departments hate science fiction. SF considers it possible that the eternal “verities” and relentless stupidities praised by Henry James might someday be obsolete! If we make kids who are better than us (our goal, duh?) then their Startrekkian heirs will still have problems. Why insist that our descendants have to fret over the same ones? Can’t they assume the solutions we find, take them for granted, and move on to new, interesting issues of their own?
Isn’t that what we did?
The implicit assumption in most fantasy is that the form of governnce that ruled most human societies since the discovery of grain must always govern us. And when a fellow like Tim Powers resists that assumption, he is writing science fiction, whether or not there are pirates, or wizards or demons.
Anne McCaffrey says “Never call me a fantasy author! I write science fiction!” Indeed. Despite the dragons and lords and medieval craft and renaissance fair stuff… her characters have heard of flush toilets and universities and democracy…
...AND THEY WANT THOSE THINGS BACK! They want starships. And Anne is going to let them earn those things. They will get them back, and move on. And she is a science fiction author.
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Cuckoo Hill
Cuckoo Hill, Harrow/Hillingdon
An undulating and upmarket locality situated between Eastcote Village and Pinner
Cuckoo Hill rises gently from Pinner Green in the north to just over 200 feet above sea level in the vicinity of the recreation ground (shown in the photograph above*) and the western end of the road called High View. From this elongated brow it then slopes down to the River Pinn in the south.
Archaeologists have detected traces of the south-western end of Grim’s Dyke at Cuckoo Hill, beyond which the medieval earthwork seemed to split into several branches before petering out in Ruislip and Eastcote.
Until the Ruislip Enclosure Act of 1804, Cuckoo Hill marked the eastern edge of Ruislip Common, which was then an uninhabited wilderness. Cuckoo Hill Farm was at that time the property of the Eastcote heiress Elizabeth Rogers, who also owned several other farms in the parish. The farmhouse is still standing, although in altered form and hemmed in by even more spacious properties. Its location is marked by a big pink pin on the map below.
The Metropolitan Railway curved around the northern slope of the hill in 1887, when the line was extended to Rickmansworth from its earlier terminus at Pinner. However, it was not until the late 1920s that most of Cuckoo Hill was consumed by suburban development, some of it distinctly grand, with detached houses built along roads planted with flowering trees. The advertising for the Cuckoo Hill estate, built by W Telling of Eastcote, described the properties as “the City Man’s Dream.”
David Chambers founded the Cuckoo Hill Press in 1959 at his home in Cuckoo Hill Road. He made his first press himself and has printed numerous illustrated books of the highest quality.
On the south-eastern slope of the hill, West Lodge primary school opened on 1st January 2009 following the amalgamation of West Lodge first and middle schools.
Until recently the UK branch of the Sathya Sai Education in Human Values Trust was based at The Glen in Cuckoo Hill. This detached house was sold in 2010 for £705,000.
The Victorian/Edwardian writer and critic Barry Pain lived at The Circuits, Cuckoo Hill. The house, which was demolished in 1957, had been drolly named by a previous owner, Judge Alderson. The Circuits is now the name of the residential cul-de-sac that replaced the house and its grounds.
Postcode area: Pinner HA5
* The picture of Cuckoo Hill open space on this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Marion Phillips, at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any subsequent reuse is hereby freely permitted under the terms of that licence.
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Were any of the historical figures of the American Civil War close at West Point?
I know many of them went to West Point around the same time. Do we know about their collegiate interactions with each other? Were Lee and Grant friends? Did Stonewall ever prank Custer?
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BoddTaxterBoddTaxter
Lee was 15 years older than Grant, and likely never met him before the war; however Lee was the Superintendent from 1852 to 1857 so would have been known of by virtually every military officer in U.S. service at that time. Grant was at the Academy three years ahead of Jackson, so it is doubtful they were buddies but certainly would have known each other. Sherman was two years ahead of Grant at the Academy, so likely missed Jackson there but would undoubtedly have known him in military service due to his long career prior to the Civil War.
Custer pranked everybody, but only entered the Academy in 1857 and graduated in spring 1861.
Note that both the U.S. military establishment and the Academy itself were very much smaller than today. Graduating classes sizes from Westpoint in the first half of the 19th century were only a few dozen; the size of a small high school today. Only in 1900 was the authorized enrollment at WestPoint increased to 481
Pieter GeerkensPieter Geerkens
However, as my Colonel put it one day, once a Pointer, always a Pointer <ring knock> – CGCampbell Mar 21 '16 at 12:57
Grant, Jackson and Lee all served in the Mexican War of 1846-1848. So too did Pickett and IIRC Longstreet. Lee (a captain at the time) was on Winfield Scott's staff, the others not. Lee would probably have known of them if he did not know them personally, though Lee had attributed to him a laconic response at Aptomattox when Grant mentioned that they had met some years before. "I don't recall" or something like that. – KorvinStarmast Mar 22 '16 at 16:47
General Grant: 'I met you once before, General Lee, while we were serving in Mexico, when you came over from General Scott's headquarters to visit Garland's brigade, to which I then belonged. I have always remembered your appearance, and I think I should have recognized you anywhere.' 'General Lee, 'I know I met you on that occasion, and I have often thought of it and tried to recollect how you looked, but I have never been able to recall a single feature.'" At Appomattox – KorvinStarmast Mar 22 '16 at 16:55
Union General Custer met captured Confederate General Rosser after a battle and hugged him, because they had been close friends at the Academy. Before the Rebellion, Union General Hancock and a Confederate General opposed to him at Picket's Charge were close friends.
Future Union General George Crook and future Confederate General John Bell Hood were close friends in Oregon before the Rebellion.
Union General Phillip St. George Cooke (not the Confederate General Philip St. George Cocke) was the father in-law of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart.
And so on and so on. Many examples.
CGCampbell
Lewis Armistead and Hancock were close friends before the war. Armistead served in Pickett's division at Gettysburg. – KorvinStarmast Mar 24 '16 at 14:10
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Why are the ceilings so high in older houses?
The majority of multi-storey houses built before World War II have ceilings higher than nowadays. Today, the standard is about 2.4m, but in the 19th century or the first half of the 20th century it was commonly about 3m high. Why? It's counter-intuitive: in earlier times, the technology was less capable of building high rises, so rather lower ceilings would have been expected.
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Robert SkarżyckiRobert Skarżycki
Actually, I speculate your intuition may be backwards on this. High-rises are expensive. If you're going to build a lot of them, you want more bang for your buck. For a 22.5 m high-rise, 3m ceiling gives you about 7 floors. 2.4m ceiling gives you about 9 floors. Two extra floors is a lot more area from which to recuperate the costs of building. 3m was probably somewhat standard before high-rises were common, so when they were first built they matched this standard before they became more common and efficiency was required. – called2voyage Dec 14 '16 at 17:45
As a pure guess, perhaps it has something to do with the methods of lighting. Prior to electric lighting, they'd be using gas and oil lanterns and candles, all of which give off smoke, hot air and other vapors. High ceilings would help keep this away from the people in the rooms. – Steve Bird Dec 14 '16 at 18:37
Do you have a source for the claim that the majority of pre-WWII houses had high ceilings? I think it's possible that you're seeing selection bias: just as today, higher ceilings were a sign of wealth, and fancier houses would be more likely to survive, perhaps being remodeled instead of torn down. – jamesqf Dec 14 '16 at 19:07
I know the old people in New York City call high-ceiling apartments "Pre-war apartments." I think this might be limited to a 1900-1940 USA urban trend. – axsvl77 Dec 14 '16 at 21:47
@jamesqf I have been to plenty of old, "popular" (i.e. cheap) houses and flat buildings in Spain and they mostly had high ceilings, with most exceptions being isolated country cottages in the colder mountain areas (which needed to keep exposed surface down to minimize heat losses). – SJuan76 Dec 15 '16 at 8:47
Smoke. The high ceilings provided somewhere for it to dissipate above mouth and eye level.
It's rather hard to imagine how prevalent smoke was before mid-20th century. Not only was tobacco smoking widespread, but also the use of candles and oil lamps. Open fires for heating and cooking contributed much less, as almost all smoke went up the chimney.
pjc50pjc50
Spot on. Also, note the prevalence of wall vents in those earlier houses. – Miner_Glitch Apr 28 '18 at 5:29
I have heard a couple of theories, here there are:
Because older construction technologies were worse1 than modern ones.
And this meant that the section of walls that you could remove (for example, to leave space for a window) was more limited. So, the only solution for providing better illumination and ventilation was to make the windows taller, which did require taller walls.
Because it was (sometimes) more efficient.
In warmer climates, with no A/C systems, a high ceiling allowed hot air to rise, leaving a (slightly) colder one at the people level. It was specially useful for the last story of the buildings to provide insulation from the heat radiating from the ceilings. Of course, I would like for examples of these only in warmer countries.
Of course, I am letting out monumental buildings (churchs, cathedrals, palaces) because these were often designed with the idea that the high ceilings would enhance the importance of the building.
1IMHO, not because the knowledge did not exist but because only a handful of buildings were designed by well formed architects; e.g. Gaudi designed exceptional facades because he designed his buildings so the facades would not bear the weight of the building, giving him greater freedom
More mundane buildings with a modest budget would be designed by architects with less formation who would rely in making almost every single wall a load wall.
An example of high-ceiling traditional houses designed for warmer climates are the Queenslander style houses in Australia. (tse2.mm.bing.net/…). Often built up off the ground, with open verandahs and the average ceiling height is 14' +, with an extended gap between the actual roof and interior ceiling - they can be opened right up and allow a lot of airflow and are surprisingly cool in summer (with 40 + degree days). I grew up in one. They are light and airy. – user17382 Dec 15 '16 at 3:09
A high ceiling allowed for better air flow, made rooms feel less crowded, made rooms feel more grand and in the hot summer months the difference in temperature between the ground and the ceiling is about 4 degrees Celsius. Furthermore it reduces noise between floors so its actually ideal for both homes and "high rises".
Also 3 metres isn't very high and 2.4 metres is actually quite a low ceiling, many Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian homes have ceilings around 3-5 metres high.
anonanon
Sources would improve this answer. – Lars Bosteen Aug 20 '18 at 4:31
Aside from smoke ventilation and cooling, the miasma theory of disease was prominent in the 19th century. Higher ceilings allowed for cleaner air, which was seen as desirable for health.
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Mike Veale resigns following allegations of serious misconduct
We learned yesterday that Mike Veale, chief constable of the Cleveland Police, resigned on Friday after less than a year in the post.
The Telegraph reports that he is facing an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), following allegations by two female officers that he had engaged in “inappropriate behaviour” toward them.
Readers may remember Veale from his days as chief constable of the Wiltshire Police, notable for the shambolic Project Conifer, in which the late Sir Edward Heath and others were investigated based on allegations of Satanic sexual abuse by a woman whose memories had emerged under hypnosis. At the time, Veale distinguished himself by telling a Daily Mail reporter that the claims against Heath were “120% genuine”.
In November 2016 we wrote about the concerns expressed by Dr Richard Hoskins (then known as Rachel Hoskins), a leading criminologist and specialist in ritual sacrifice who called some of the evidence being examined by Wiltshire Police “fantastical”, and a “catalogue of fabrication”.
At that time, The Guardian wrote,
(Dr Hoskins) wrote: “I have exposed a catalogue of fabrication at the heart of two major inquiries. Worse still, Operation Conifer ploughs ahead. People remain accused of things that simply never happened. Wiltshire Police insist that not all their evidence is based on claims of ritual abuse. We will see. But those cases that are based on this pernicious fallacy must be closed immediately.” …
Hoskins said she was taking the unusual step of disclosing her findings because she was concerned the police do not want to hear what she has said and will not pass her report on to senior MPs on the home affairs select committee, or the accused.
Yesterday, Hoskins commented on Twitter,
Links to Robert Green
Almost a year after Hoskins expressed concerns about Operation Conifer, in October 2017, the Sunday Times reported that Veale had sought advice from conspiracy theorist and Hollie Greig hoax promoter Robert Green.
Mike Veale… emailed Robert Green, of Warrington, two weeks ago in response to an email Green had sent him. Veale wrote: “As ever thank you Robert.”
The words suggest the pair had communicated previously and will cast fresh doubt on the evidence that Veale’s force has gathered.
…Green is an activist closely involved with fraudulence [sic] allegations in Scotland in the so-called Hollie Greig case, in which claims that a girl with Down’s syndrome had been abused were found to be false. He was jailed for 12 months in 2012 for harassment.
At the time, the blog BarthsNotes revealed,
Mr Veale was thanking Mr Green “for an email in which he expressed his glee at the Mail on Sunday‘s front-page splash about how Operation Conifer’s findings were to be passed on to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Green’s email and Veale’s reply were published on a Hollie Greig conspiracy website”.
Green confirmed in an email to BarthsNotes that he and Veale had been in “regular contact”, and that he had been feeding Veale material about Heath gleaned from the infamous “RAINS list” compiled by Dr Joan Coleman.
On 10 October 2017, the Telegraph reported that Veale was facing calls for an inquiry over why he’d shown an early version of the Operation Conifer report to Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen:
Mike Veale, who is overseeing the £1.5 million investigation into allegations Heath was a paedophile, is accused of handing the report to Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire.
Some details said to be contained in the report were subsequently leaked to newspapers.
Bridgen, who had previously offered his support to Veale, calling him a “courageous and honest” police officer, described the contents of the report as “credible and disturbing”.
However, James Gray, Conservative MP for North Wiltshire, who had previously referred to Operation Conifer as an “idiotic waste of public money”, called for an explanation of the leak to Bridgen. For his part, Veale did not deny that Bridgen had seen the draft report, but said it had been shown to “a number of trusted stakeholders”.
The final report of Operation Conifer drew the conclusion that, had Heath been alive, he could have faced interview under caution regarding seven allegations.
Veale said at the time, “The report does not draw any conclusions as to the likely guilt or innocence of Sir Edward Heath. I am satisfied there are compelling and obvious reasons to investigate allegations made against Sir Edward Heath”. In the final report, no references can be found to ritual abuse, Satanic or otherwise.
Wiltshire Police faced heavy criticism for its handling of the case, under Veale’s stewardship.
The mysterious death of a mobile phone
Fast-forward a year, and in September 2018 we find Veale facing the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which stated he “has a case to answer for alleged misconduct for providing and maintaining an inaccurate account of how damage to his work mobile phone was caused”.
While Veale initially claimed that the phone had been damaged when he’d dropped it in a golf club car park and then accidentally run over it, he later admitted to IOPC investigators that he had damaged the phone when he’d swung a club at his golf bag in frustration at a bad shot.
According to the IOPC report,
On 23 November 2017, the IOPC received an anonymous typed letter dated 25 October 2017. This letter alleged that Chief Constable Veale and a Conservative MP had collaborated in leaking information about Operation Conifer, an investigation into alleged child abuse by Sir Edward Heath, in an attempt to boost public opinion of Chief Constable Veale.
The letter alleged that Chief Constable Veale had spoken directly to one journalist on a number of occasions, and had told the MP that “he was going to cover his tracks by destroying his phone so records of contact between him and [name redacted] could not be traced.”
As BarthsNotes pointed out, it seems likely that the journalist in question was Simon Walters of the Mail on Sunday, who ran the first story in which Veale was quoted as saying that the allegations against Heath were “120 per cent” convincing. The MP, as mentioned above, was likely to have been Andrew Bridgen.
The IOPC report states that Deputy Chief Constable Paul Mills, who was Veale’s immediate subordinate, recalled his boss’s original version of how the phone was damaged:
…[S]ome time on the morning of 23 September 2017, the force media team made [DCC Mills] aware that there had been a significant leak of information from the Operation Conifer report. He stated that he tried to reach Chief Constable Veale via phone from around lunchtime that day, and throughout the afternoon into the early evening, but he did not answer. He stated that this was out of character for Chief Constable Veale, as he usually came straight back to him. He stated that it was “clearly challenging” not to be able to speak to Chief Constable Veale, as he wanted to discuss the scale, extent and consequences of the leak.
He stated that on the morning of 24 September 2017, he saw that Chief Constable Veale had sent an email from an iPad to the Chief Officer group at 6.05pm on 23 September 2017, explaining that his phone had been “ran over by an unsuspecting vehicle”.
The “significant leak of information” turns out to have been the Sunday Times article which revealed that Veale had been receiving advice regarding the Heath investigation from Robert Green.
Following its investigation, the IOPC concluded that the damage to Veale’s phone had been accidental, but that he had lied about the cause of damage to his phone as he had been embarrassed about losing his temper.
In the wake of Veale’s resignation from the Cleveland Police, we’ve begun to hear rumblings on Twitter that he was forced out due to his “courageous stance” during Operation Conifer.
Cue the inevitable cries of “stitch-up!”
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72 thoughts on “Mike Veale resigns following allegations of serious misconduct”
Cue various conspiracy promoters (no names although Andy Decline comes to mind) that Mike Veale was investigating the ” 788 – 790 Finchley Road, Pandoras Box ” and the Freemasons set him up.
What was “the biggest cover-up in political history” re Mr Wedger?
Obviously it’s one that we don’t even know about.
Nepha felt better says:
This is all very entertaining to those of us who enjoy your witty belittling of idiots like Wedger and Green but it’s also frightening to think that Veale was in a position of authority.
Thanks for this detailed update, EC. Excellent work as usual. I can’t figure out whether Veale is evil or just monumentally stupid, though seeing as he was so ready to believe everything that the known SRA hoaxer Robert Green told him – in an investigation into, er, SRA – I’m erring towards the latter. Either way, it’s a depressing picture of our police service if Veale, Wedger and Savage are the kind of people who get promoted to positions of authority. (By the way, does anyone recall the name of that other “ex-detective” who did interviews promoting the Hampstead hoax back in 2015? He was based in Spain, if memory serves.)
Can someone tell Wedgie that the past participle of speak is spoken, not spoke? Thank you
“Andy Decline” 🤭
Ooh, there’s dissension in the ranks, it seems 🤭
Hagwatch says:
Yes dear, course you have. Bless
The Blunderful World of Disney says:
‘I am facing possible imprisonment’ 🤭
https://angelascaches.org/the-book-of-esther-for-those-with-ears-to-hear
Angela’s been “speaking the truth”? I must have missed that. Does anyone have a link?
The only things she says that are true are those that have been told to her in strict confidence.
Mark Trellis says:
Ray Savage? Wadnt he another over 100% confident one, 110%?
Stan Butler says:
I assume Mike Veale resigning means he keeps his fat pension.
It’s brilliant isn’t it?. Sometimes I even amaze myself.
(editor: it’s from Michael of the Mouse Family. GOS drunk again?.Go home)
I wonder if we should believe these allegations “120%”?.
I doubt evil but I think he may be one of those very “Christian” officers with a tendency to believe in claims of SRA.
Call me spooky or even an old witch but I said on another forum that Mike Veale ( he is innocent of course as allegations are just that: not proved) seemed an odd Chief Constable as he was incredibly neat and groomed and “boasted” of how he worked out at a gym. He seemed very pleased with his appearance.
I thought “you have a sort of aura and a tendency to believe these rather weird and exaggerated claims about someone like Ted Heath but you are in a position where you could easily be accused yourself”. No-one is untouchable.
And thus it came to pass..
Flags, dragons?. What’s Zara on about?
“ALSO many will be instantly TRIGGERED by the mention of the JEWS as the people she wanted saved”.
Announcement : Medic and smelling salts please to Aisle 6..an elderly pensioner by the name of John Paterson has fainted.
Well, there HAVE been instances of child abuse by wealthy people (like Jimmy Savile, though it didn’t come out till after he was dead). I would have thought it was unprofessional to discuss an ongoing investigation though. Aren’t the police supposed to keep such matters confidential?
surreal hustle says:
Interesting piece with some backstory in Teeside News, identifying those who supported Veale’s appointment who were sceptical and unhappy.
According to their reporter Mike Brown;
“Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said Mr Veale’s resignation “was all but inevitable”.
“This is why I refused to get involved in the appointment process only a small number of months ago,” he added.
“To appoint someone under investigation and under such a dark cloud nationally was more than a mistake – it was reckless and incompetent. I said this at the time but was shouted down by the Police Commissioner.
“The Chief Constable merry-go-round must come to an end and our Police Commissioner must resign.”
Mr Houchen said Mr Coppinger is “incapable of carrying out the role that he holds”.
“I have today written to the Home Secretary to request an urgent meeting to discuss whether the force as we know it should continue in its current form,” he added.
Mr Coppinger told Teesside Live he won’t be resigning.”
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/how-teesside-reacted-chief-constable-15712153
The comment section may get interesting
Perusal of these stories may be of interest 🙂
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/all-about/barry-coppinger
This piece caught my eye
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/tees-mayor-new-cleveland-police-14217382
Of course Veale is facing allegations and has not been convicted of any crime, however I fully support the Mayor Ben Houchen and Simon Clarke MP in voicing concerns regarding Veale.
Perhaps some helpful person might like to forward them a link to the Hoaxtead blog pages illuminating the friendly communications between Veale and Robert Green?
Bigears says:
Oh noes,keep it down about dragons,it risks awakening the orange one who must be obeyed.She`s only just bored herself to sleep,give us a break.
Could she be thinking of a white truce flag? That’s just me surmising but I’m probably wrong.
She doesn’t half pick them. The Book of Esther is a historical account of political machinations in the Persian court. There is a good message in it of not feeding others to a crocodile in the hope it will eat you last, but God is not mentioned at all in the non-Apocryphal versions or the original Hebrew. So does this mean the Oldcastle Horror has been practicing her necromancy with a CATHOLIC BIBLE!!! 👿👿👿
The idea is that if a person is publicly named as an abuser, this will encourage other victims to come forwards. Sometimes this has worked, but unfortunately it has also encouraged fantasists and crooks to concoct ludicrous stories for personal gain.
Paul Gambaccini is actually trying to get a law through Parliament, that prevents people being named. I agree with him actually, and as you say, it does encourage fantasists, who don`t need any encouragement at all. Bill Maloney loves that kind of thing doesn`t he. You only have to look at what he did to Andrew Ash who had already admitted on Panorama that he made it all up. Maloney was positively reveling in what Ben Fellows was telling him, also the former MP from Birmingham, that story was all over Sky News. and now there`s Otherwise Known as Nick who has a trial coming up in March I think, that should be very interesting indeed. I`m just wondering if Mike Veal will join forces with John Wedger and have mugs and tee shirts made with his face on it.
I hope he didn’t bang his head……..again
Noooo, she’s referring to the flag of His Royal Blandness, King John of the Wanoa dynasty.
*Wanker
Bloody spellchecker
Well, they’re a right pair of mugs, so that would be apt.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, Angela. You must really like prison food!
He does have a web site, blog, thingy, whatever.
https://cosmicrf.wixsite.com/crfdn
I’m not sure why though, maybe as a service for those who need something less exciting than watching paint dry.
Devine’s not happy about the above comments. Look like this one could run and run 😆
The full post:
Yes Paul Gambaccini was treated very badly in what amounted to a fishing expedition.
In cases where the Police discover credible evidence of abuse in an institutional setting, they should make contact with possible victims in an appropriate way, rather than creating a media circus.
Either she likes prison food or she really thinks she will in the clutches of the person she claims is the head Satanist. Maybe this is one of her fantasies: Angie Power Disney in “Fifty Shades of Grey Hair”. It certainly won’t be like that Angie – It’ll be boring, and you’ll wonder why you threw years of your life away on such a daft obsession.
Is that meant to be seductive – has she been sending him unsolicited bikini shots too?
She actually has, yes! 😂
It’s that bloody cat again.
Yes, I think it’s one thing to take a slightly mocking stance, but I agree. I find it very disturbing that some of those in positions of high responsibility can be of this calibre.
Heath’s godson Lincoln Seligman said: “Either the man is a fool or he’s a knave. It’s also possible that he started off this inquiry as a fool but became a knave during the course of it.’’
I think if such a link exists Tinribs that it could only be found somewhere on the WayWayWayWay-BackMachine
That 1834 ‘United Tribes’ flag has come to fill the role of the Ghost Shirt in these mook’s Ghost Dance belief system.
Indeed EC, i find it quite frightening really that people in positions of power can and have fallen for stories we usually find being spouted by random online fruitloops.
“Deliberately faking poor grammar and spelling to gain credibility with ordinary people”.
Apparently that’s a bad thing when other people do it.
Why on earth does Angie think that Zara supposedly “faking poor grammar and spelling” would somehow gain her credibility with “ordinary people”?
We could build quite a nice selection of mugs if we so wished to.
Perhaps Angie has no fear of prison as she is a qualified Super Soldier that has the skills to break out of even the most secure SuperMax style prison.
LOL, I guess we were both typing our comments at the same time there SC. Must get the I.T guys here at GCHQ to set up some alert for when two operatives are commenting on the same subject matter at the same time.
A bar-room lawyer pontificates says:
I’ve been browsing Facebook’s terms & services and they are far more strict than I thought. What stands out is that all the members of Hoax Mob (c) breach those terms almost daily yet we all know how incredibly difficult it is getting offending material removed even though there are some successes.
What stands out even more is that Facebook clearly breaches their own terms by not sticking to them. Take the example below which is sort of cleverly worded but in fact a bit too clever. It infers it will remove defamatory material but attempts a get-out clause by saying material may not be defamatory in certain locations. But Facebook can be accessed worldwide and in every country no matter what controls are put in place. Basically Facebook’s claims are disingenuous and that’s one thing Judges hate and usually rule against. When you enter into an agreement (which is what using Facebook is) you agree to honour the spirit of that agreement as well and although tricky wording is often used in contracts it can also make an agreement null & void (of course it takes great legal minds and a top QC to arrive at that position)
The Syrian boy who was bullied in an on-line video is attempting to sue Facebook and Tommy Robinson but because they are appealing for money I’m not sure that will eventuate. I would suggest his lawyer should sue Robinson first which would be easily won and then take on Facebook. Facebook will be like Google who are rapacious and will toss $Millions to defeat a claim just as they do in Australia where defamation law has established that entities like Google are publishers but they will still put plaintiffs through the mill until the bitter end even though they will inevitably lose. But the law will catch up with that but it will take time.
The problem is that politicians are so behind the times with all this, apart from some notable exceptions who generally are not the ones in power. A government is always more powerful than a corporation such as in France which is still battling with Facebook & Google over protections for French citizens throughout the world while FB etc make incredible demands of total freedom. They aren’t winning but these things drag on for years.
I think the fly in the ointment for FB etc is the real problem of how they police their own terms which is by using ‘monitors’ in countries like the Philippines, India and so on (virtually no western countries bar token monitors in Ireland etc). While it’s great numerous Asian people can make a living (?) some have pointed out the difference in cultures makes it difficult for those monitors to judge standards. Even the Philippines being almost a 90% Catholic country affects the way they think and they may find a post far more offensive than an Indian monitor given the loosely worded (apparently) rules they are given when they have 5 seconds to scan a post.
I reckon it will all come crashing down at some stage but these Net entities are so rich it won’t matter to stock holders.
I might add (I’ve gotten away with so much while the Cat is out shopping) that the famous case of Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick established in 2002 settled that an action could be taken out in the plaintiff’s country of residence ( Australia in this case) which set a precedent and of course precedents can be cited in countries that build on English law.
But it’s incredibly complex, takes a fortune and of course, Joseph Gutnick, the winner in the case is a mega – millionaire. But Angela Daisy Power – you need to lawyer up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_%26_Co_Inc_v_Gutnick
A Shurely Shome Mishtake Moment:
“Norma Stephenson, who chairs the Police and Crime Panel involved in appointing Mr Veale, said: “There was nothing to indicate Mike’s tenure would end like this when he was interviewed.
“It’s clear evidence that the new department [Directorate of Standards and Ethics] is working well.”
marktrellis says:
Maybe she also thinks he is drop dead gorgeous and it tickles her to be next to him like this. Sooo inverted, and in plain sight, eh, people?. People are mysteries, really.
You know, chronic head injury could explain a great deal.
So it’s true – China really is taking over 🤭
They don’t exactly shout about that form either. Defamation isn’t even a reporting category that comes up when you report a post. I assume you had to search for that via one of their many help pages and that you only found said help page via a Google search (they don’t even have links to most of them on their own site).
I bet you were in your cups when you wrote that.
Siouxie Zoo says:
Here’s a video of Veale posted in October 2016:
At 7.50 in he tells two deliberate lies as described in this Daily Mail article by Guy Adams:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4979330/False-claims-police-chief-obsessed-Ted-Heath.html
i.e.:
“The video, which remains online, began with Veale saying he wanted to ‘set the record straight’ about Heath and ‘ensure that the current facts are entirely and unequivocally clear about this case’.
In particular, the £150,000-a-year police chief wanted to address two highly important matters.
‘Fact!’ he said. ‘As part of Operation Conifer we have not spoken to the witness known as Nick.’
‘Fact!’ he continued. ‘Recent media coverage… referred to satanic ritual sexual abuse. Let me be clear: this part of the investigation is only one small element of the overall inquiry and does not relate to Sir Edward Heath.’
The 51-year-old Chief Constable of Wiltshire was, in other words, using a formal PR statement to declare that two major aspects of embarrassing recent newspaper reports about Operation Conifer were entirely false.”
Wrong video, I don’t know where that one came from?
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It’s because you’ve been posting the playlist link, not the link to a specific video.
Oh that’s bizarre…
The vide is on youtube, it’s called “Open letter from Chief Constable Mike Veale – Operation Conifer” and it was posted by Wiltshire Police on 2 Dec. 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/user/WiltsPolice/videos
Thank you Tinribs. Sorry for making a mess of the comments.
Did they ever find anyone responsible for Pratersons ‘assault’?
The last I heard, he was saying that the police had dismissed the case and he was unhappy about it.
ouchies…
They don’t tend to do that often…
Crikey I haven’t seen him speak before. Not someone I’d like to run into in a dark alley.
As for the one you mistakenly linked to- what an odd affair that is. That guy is well spoken and seems intelligent but it’s all about, as far as I can figure, something to do with 5G street lights and local residents with children whose noses have been bleeding.
The local council deny the claims and the mad driving it has just been restrained in court from harassing council members.
the problem with the chap commentating is that he assumes the viewer knows all about their claims when it’s very difficult to track down what it’s all about.
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Norma Stephenson is an interesting person.
She is someone who has been quite open about her history of suffering from a gambling addiction the 1970s.
I have admiration for anyone who has suffered from being in the grip of an addiction and who has been able to turn their life around.
With regards to Norma Stephenson this of course raises the issue of whether she at some point received support from a counsellor, therapist, mentor, GA sponsor or some other person who cultivated in her a belief in SRA. Just wondering what could have happened to put the idea in her mind that Mike Veale was a trustworthy person.
The below article states that Stephenson got “support” for her gambling addiction but does not go into details.
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/councillor-calls-more-help-gamblers-14962268
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/17340230.i-lost-a-months-rent-in-one-go-councillor-speaks-out-about-gambling-addiction/
Stephenson says that she worked part time in a mental health unit when she was addicted to slot machine gambling.
It may be that she received “support” from colleagues in the MHU and that one or more of the colleges was, or went on to be, SRA believers.
Personally I think it is a real shame that someone who has done a lot of good work to raise the issue of gambling addiction, something I believe is a very serious issue in need of addressing nationally, had had her credibility damaged by her association with Veale.
I have met some really wonderful, caring, decent doctors and other professionals who believed in SRA because they had been hoodwinked by the usual suspects, many of whom appear very credible and properly qualified to those unfamiliar with the satanic panic,
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2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Top 150
September 8, 2017 | 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Rankings | 13 Comments
We’ve reached the halfway point in my rankings and it’s time to approach the finish line. I will keep updating this with info for players as Friday progresses but I wanted to get the top 150 out as soon as possible. Also, sorry for the delay, but the RCL’s will launch this coming Monday in the afternoon. I’ve had a few technical difficulties setting it up but that should be taken care of by then. For those who haven’t seen them, here are my top 50 and top 100 rankings. Without further adieu, here is my top 150:
101) Sean Monahan – Monahan starts a group of players who are fairly consistent and lack penalty minutes. He’s scored 27 goals each of the last two seasons with 30+ assists. The reason I dropped him lower is that his playing time is actually going in the wrong direction. Monahan is fine across the board outside of penalty minutes but I don’t really see much upside. I couldn’t put him lower than this though.
102) Ryan O’Reilly – The bad news for RoR’s fantasy value is that it’s very unlikely he averaged 21:28 again with Disco Dan out of Buffalo. The good news is that it shouldn’t drop that much, the system change should help him and his shot rate is peaking. O’Reilly scored 20 goals and 35 assists last season in 72 games with 26 of those points on special teams. If things broke right, I think O’Reilly gets into the 65-70 point range. You’ll be lucky to get 10 penalty minutes from him but O’Reilly is safe with some upside.
103) Jordan Eberle – I had a very tough time ranking Eberle. My hope is that his power play role increased in New York. The shot rate should be average and his high floor (something like 20+30) keeps him in this range. If everything broke right, Eberle could push 65+ points playing with Tavares.
104) Brandon Saad – This may be too high for Saad given that he’s poor at penalty minutes and was never good on the power play. If he takes the best of the last two seasons, Saad can be a 30+30 player with three shots per game and a solid plus-minus. Just make sure you’re already covered in terms of penalty minutes and power play points.
105) Mats Zuccarello – Zuccarello is coming off a nice season with 15 goals, 44 assists and an average shot rate. It sounds crazy to say but of the previous guys in this tier (Zucc ends the group), he may have the highest upside in terms of point total. With Shattenkirk in the fold, the Rangers power play should improve quite a bit. Assuming his shooting percentage goes to career norms, low 20’s in goals with 40+ assists with slight upside from there is realistic. Given that his plus-minus is solid every year and the penalty minutes aren’t a disaster, I’m starting to convince myself as I’m writing this that he needs to move up when I update my rankings!
106) Kyle Turris – Like Galchenyuk, Turris’ shot rate fell quite a bit but a high shooting percentage led to him scoring 27 goals. The 40 assists from 2014-15 seems like a fluke at this point but Turris is another guy who could be 30+30 while being solid in the other categories.
107) Brayden Schenn – Schenn’s success will come down to two things: can he improve his even strength play in St. Louis while sustaining his power play prowess? Schenn could end up being a top 75 player if things broke right or he can become a bottom end hold if the power play points drop off significantly. I expect him to settle somewhere close to where he’s been in Philly, hence this ranking.
108) Corey Perry – As much as his game has fallen off, this is probably too low on Perry. The goals dropped all the way down to 19 but he also had a career low shooting percentage? Is that the player he is now? Possibly, but if it bounces back at all, the high penalty minutes and average shot rate make him a top 100 player with 55 points. I’m definitely not targeting him anywhere but he’s a nice fit to all rosters, especially those short on penalty minutes.
109) Charlie Coyle – Coyle had his breakout last season with 56 points yet only 9 came on the power play. His shot rate has also improved in every season so if the power play points come around and he continues to grow, 65-70 is within reason.
110) Kris Letang – With word coming out that he’ll be ready to start the season, Letang is going to go up 50ish spots when I update my rankings. I just can’t bring myself to put a guy with his injury history in my top 50. He’s elite in all 6 categories but the downside is far too great to justify a pick in the first four rounds anymore.
111) Jonathan Quick – Quick hasn’t topped a .918 sv% in any of the past five seasons. There is no debate over who I think is the most overrated player in the NHL. The goals against average will be above average and he should have the volume if he can stay healthy but I don’t think the Kings are going to improve much, if at all. I expect him to be long gone at this point and that is fine with me.
112) Thomas Greiss – Greiss was a mess at the end of last season but should be the starter opening night for the Islanders. I expect his numbers to settle in around his averages since coming to New York: a .918 sv%, 2.45 GAA and a solid win total. He’s far from a world beater but if you miss the wave of #2 goalies, you could do worse than Greiss as a bottom end #2.
113) Cory Schneider – Last year was an epic disaster but before that, Schneider was a top 7 goalie for 3+ years. I’m not predicting that again because the team in front of him is bad and in an awful division but Schneider should get his save percentage back above league average. That alone would make him a #2 goalie.
114) Alexander Wennberg – Everything for Wennberg’s fantasy value comes down to whether or not he starts to shoot the puck more. If he gets it to at least two shots per game, he could be a top 100 fantasy player. If Wennberg stays below 1.5, he’ll struggle to make the top 150. I think we see some progress but not as much as some hope.
115) Jaden Schwartz – Schwartz set a career high with 36 assists last season and was +14, his fourth straight year of being +8 or better. Otherwise, it’s a very average stat line. There is some potential upside if Schwartz becomes more of a focal point on the power play this year but I have my doubts. He’s very safe but boring.
116) Logan Couture – Couture had a solid season in 2016-17 after being riddled by injuries in 2015-16. Couture scored 25 goals and added 27 assists in 73 games with an average shot rate. What’s the dream scenario? Couture gets back to three shots per game and instead of getting 4 power play assists, he gets back to 15+. Then we are looking at a top 50 player. What scares me is that his linemates don’t belong on a second line and he’s not giving you penalty minutes.
117) Mark Stone – Stone is another glue guy who isn’t going to do anything spectacular but won’t hurt you anywhere outside of potentially shots. He’s either had 60 points or played at a 60 point pace for three straight years so while he doesn’t do much else, Stone is worthy of a pick in this range.
118) Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Last year was the year from hell for OEL and the majority of Coyotes players. I think we see Arizona improve by a decent margin this year and a lot of it comes from Ekman-Larsson. Two seasons ago, OEL had 55 points, 96 PIM and over three shots per game. That’s a true #1D. While I think the penalty minutes should come back down towards 50, the rest of those numbers are attainable. I won’t necessarily predict that but I hope people are off him completely after he burned so many fantasy owners last season.
119) Duncan Keith – Tons of assists, good plus-minus, average every else. Keith is a #2D year in and year out, not much else to say about him.
120) Drew Doughty – Another clear #2D, just in different ways than Keith. Doughty will chip in 10-15 goals but with 30ish assists. Everything else will be average or better making him an incredibly safe pick. Just don’t expect a repeat of 2015-16.
121) Kyle Okposo – Somewhat of a forgotten man in Buffalo, Okposo is thankfully healthy going into the season after an illness ended his year prematurely. Like the rest of their forwards, Okposo should benefit from the improvement on the blue line and the coaching change. He’s not going to be great in any category but he should be solid across the board.
122) Rickard Rakell – Rakell broke out last season scoring 33 goals in 71 games. I’m not fully buying in because of an absurd shooting percentage but Rakell should play at a 30 goal pace this year. The penalty minutes won’t be there but the minutes should increase and his shot rate has improved every season.
123) Nico Hischier – I don’t love Hischier for this season but I can’t put his upside lower than this. My concern is that John Hynes eases Hischier in and lets Zajac or Henrique play with Hall to start the year. I’m all in long term but I’ll probably pass on him in redrafts with the intention of trading for him midseason if it looks like his role is going to increase.
124) Derek Stepan – As mentioned in the OEL blurb, I’m starting to like the Coyotes to be respectable this season. Rick Tocchet comes in and should open things up compared to Tippett. Stepan’s point per game rate was actually the lowest in five years last season but that shows you how high his floor is (55 points in 16/17). 20+40 with a solid shot rate should be in the cards.
125) Max Domi – Last year brought a sophomore slump for Domi but he still played at a 52 point pace, the same as his rookie year. Having a center like Stepan to play with should elevate his game and with the high penalty minute upside, I’m buying Domi stock again.
126) John Carlson – Another player with a disappointing 2016-17, Shattenkirk’s arrival hurt Carolson’s production at the end of the season but thankfully Carlson won’t have to deal with him anymore. I assume he’ll get back on PP1 which gives him 50+ points with elite power play totals.
127) Justin Faulk – The one concern with Faulk is that he’s always had a horrible plus-minus. My hope is that Carolina’s vast improvement will fix that. Faulk is a lock for 15+ goals and an incredible shot rate for a defenseman. I would be perfectly content with Faulk as my #2.
128) Vincent Trocheck – Trocheck failed to take a step forward last season but still totaled 54 points, 43 PIM and almost 3 shots per game. The 24 year old will play a ton of minutes giving him a very high floor. Trocheck doesn’t have a super high ceiling but should be a plus player in all categories.
129) Brendan Gallagher – Another bounce back candidate, Gallagher’s 2016-17 was filled with injuries and disappointment. I’m buying into the breakout this year. In 2015-16, Gallagher had 40 points in 53 games with an elite shot rate and solid penalty minutes. I fully expect him to play with Patches and Galchenyuk giving him that type of upside. Regardless, it should be an elite shot rate with solid contributions everywhere.
130) Bo Horvat – I wrote a Bo Horvat sleeper post. Dr. Bo is ready to make some noise!
131) Ondrej Palat – The return of Stamkos should make a lethal power play get even better. Palat finally has a big power play role and his shot rate finally jumped to respectable levels last season. Very good assists, solid PIM and a good plus-minus seem likely.
132) Nick Foligno – Foligno’s last three seasons have seen him hit his ceiling, his floor and a relative middle ground. Everything really comes down to his shooting percentage. Foligno has shot anywhere from 8 to 17% which is the difference between 20 and 30 goals. 25 assists should be expected (2014-15 was a fluke) but solid to great penalty minutes and very good power play points should be in the cards.
133) Shea Weber – The goals, power play points and shots should be elite for a defenseman. Everything else is up in the air, but his lack of assists (25 last season) drags him down into bottom end #2 territory.
134) Dmitry Orlov – Gamble time! Orlov is poised to play on the first pair at even strength for the first time in his career giving him additional minutes. Orlov should also play more minutes on the power play. Those two factors alone have me excited. Now add that Orlov should have a great plus-minus, solid penalty minutes and his shot rate jumped significantly last year and I have the excites. You won’t have to take him this early but I want to be clear that I want Orlov everywhere for the upside.
135) Bryan Little – Injury concerns keep Little down here but 47 points in 59 games is no joke. You’ll need to be covered in PIM and shots but Little should score at a terrific rate playing with the elite Winnipeg wingers.
136) Matt Duchene – Duchene should pay off this ranking even if he isn’t traded. Like a lot of players in this section, I’m simply dismissing last season for Duchene. 20+30 is easily attainable and there’s massive upside from there no matter what team he’s on.
137) J.T. Miller – Stepan’s departure clears the way for Miller to become a top 100 player. Miller was quietly solid last season with 56 points and a +17 rating. He also had only 7 PPP giving him great upside in terms of points. The problem for Miller’s fantasy value is his shot rate is very poor and the penalty minutes vary from year to year. I would not be surprised if Miller pushed 70 points if things broke right but the downside is much larger for him than most players in this range because of the lack of contributions in the extra categories.
138) Kyle Palmieri – Palmieri proved that his breakout in 21015-16 wasn’t a fluke scoring 26 goals and 27 assists. His contributions are plus across the board and there’s some extra upside here if Hicshier is great right away. Palmieri is a safe pick that fits all teams in the middle rounds.
139) Tyler Toffoli – I’ve never been a big fan of Toffoli in terms of fantasy hockey. He’s never been a good power play player, the penalty minutes aren’t there and a lot of his value comes from his plus-minus. Toffoli should get back to 25+25 with an above average shot rate and good to great plus-minus.
140) Henrik Zetterberg – Zetterberg was a monster last season despite the fact that Detroit fell off tremendously. My concern is that his shot rate keeps trending in the wrong direction and if he loses 14 assists (the drop from 2015-16 to 2016-17), he’s barely ownable in 12’ers. The good news is that Zetterberg is coming off a 68 point season and should have a full season of playing with Mantha, a duo that dominated for stretches. It’s very assist heavy but Zetterberg hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down outside of the drop in shots.
141) Radim Vrbata – Vrbata had a great season last year with Arizona scoring 20 goals and 35 assists with an above average shot rate. He moves to Florida where he’ll probably play with Trocheck on the second line and on the point of the first power play unit. With little penalty minutes, there’s a realistic scenario where Vrbata is cut from your team a month into the season but he also could become a top 100 player if the power play total increases.
142) Roberto Luongo – See below
143) James Reimer – I’m intentionally putting these two back to back because if I’m taking one, I definitely want the other. If healthy, I expect each goalie to get 30+ starts so there is more value in the sum of the parts than the individuals. Since I expect Florida to bounce back, the wins should be there and both goalies could give you a boost in save percentage. They should combine to a solid #2 with an outside shot of being a bottom end #1.
144) Kyle Connor – More high upside plays! I’m banking on Connor playing his way onto the second line. No matter who that is with (Little and Wheeler probably), he’s in the perfect spot to succeed. Connor has all of the tools to be a great goal scorer with his speed and puck handling. If it looks like Connor will start in the bottom six, I will drop him down to being a late round gamble, but if he’s getting top six time, it wouldn’t shock me if he pushes for the Calder.
145) Patrick Marleau – Toronto paid Marleau a large amount of money for his age 38-40 seasons. In San Jose last season, Marleau scored 27 goals with a solid shot rate. There’s a good chance he plays with Matthews at even strength and this ranking is solely on that assumption. It probably won’t be great in any category besides goals but Marleau would have 30 goal potential playing on the top line.
146) Mike Smith – Calgary’s blue line is as good as it gets in the league. In comes Smith to be the #1 goalie behind that excellent group. Smith has been an average or worse goalie throughout his career but the upside is through the roof in this situation. The downside is that Calgary finds a new stopgap before one of their prospect goalies is ready and Smith becomes a backup. If I can get Smith as my #3, I’d do it on every team, but I wouldn’t want him as my #2 everywhere solely because of the risk.
147) Mika Zibanejad – Like Miller, Zibanejad now gets a bigger role as he moves into the #1C spot for the Blueshirts. My hope is that his shot rate gets back to average like it was in 2015-16 and that his power play points increase with Shattenkirk’s arrival. If that happens, he could push a top 100 player, but the poor penalty minutes and the lack of an elite category keep him down here.
148) Jacob Trouba – Trouba made nice incremental increases across the board in year three. If everything goes right, he could have a year like Dougie Hamilton did last year which makes him a #1D. All of the categories should be plus which is why I’m a big Trouba fan this year. He may not top 40 points (I expect 45ish) but that is enough to make him a #2.
149) Torey Krug – I am guessing people will be down on Krug because of McAvoy’s arrival but I don’t think it’s going to hurt him at all. Krug had 40+ assists for the second straight year with great shots and special teams points. He’s incredibly safe but has some upside if his shot ever manages to find the back of the net with any consistency.
150) Patrick Maroon – His point total will probably be the worst out of anyone in the top 150 but Maroon had 27 goals and 95 PIM last season. Getting to play with McJesus does wonders and also assures Maroon a solid plus-minus as well. He’s poor on the power play and the shot rate is only average but you can’t ignore those goals and penalty minutes.
That’s all for now guys. I’ll be back on Monday previewing the St. Louis Blues. As always, feel free to ask any questions or leave any comments below. Thanks for reading, take care!
Alex Galchenyuk, Alexander Wennberg, Bo Horvat, Brandon Saad, Brayden Schenn, Brendan Gallagher, Bryan Little, Charlie Coyle, Corey Perry, Cory Schneider, Derek Stepan, Dmitry Orlov, Drew Doughty, Duncan Keith, Henrik Zetterberg, J.T. Miller, Jacob Trouba, Jaden Schwartz, James Reimer, John Carlson, Jonathan Quick, Jordan Eberle, Justin Faulk, Kris Letang, Kyle Connor, Kyle Okposo, Kyle Palmieri, Kyle Turris, Logan Couture, Mark Stone, Mats Zuccarello, Matt Duchene, Max Domi, Mika Zibanejad, Mike Smith, Nick Foligno, Nico Hischier, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Ondrej Palat, Patrick Marleau, Patrick Maroon, Radim Vrbata, Rickard Rakell, Roberto Luongo, Ryan O'Reilly, Sean Monahan, Shea Weber, Thomas Greiss, Torey Krug, Tyler Toffoli
September 8, 2017 at 9:03 am (link)
Whats your point total thoughts on Gallagher? can he reach 50?
@jon: As long as he’s healthy I expect him to get there
Galchenyuk was previously ranked 96. Will that be updated on the Top 100 or will someone else slide into the Top 150? These lists are great by the way thanks for taking the time to put them together.
September 8, 2017 at 11:08 am (link)
@David: Damn it, thanks for catching that. There’s always one name I somehow duplicate going through this process. Someone else will slide up, I’ll get to it when I get a chance, I’m absolutely swamped at the moment. No problem, I appreciate you taking the time to look at it and comment on them!
Quick Sycamore says:
September 8, 2017 at 2:25 pm (link)
I’ve never joined one but maybe this is the year? I don’t know much about them though, do you just use this website?
September 10, 2017 at 5:29 pm (link)
@Quick Sycamore: Please do! It’ll go through a major website, probably ESPN, but you find the leagues through a post on this website that will more than likely go up tomorrow afternoon. Tonight I am finishing the writing for the top 150, I’ve been swamped with weddings this weekend.
@Viz: Ah weddings. So much fun, but so much work. And I think I will give the RCL a shot.
@Quick Sycamore: Yep, I had two on Saturday so it’s been hectic. Excellent, you should! The post will now launch tomorrow, had some issues but should be set now.
Tweak says:
September 10, 2017 at 10:29 am (link)
Hey Viz, your work is always super helpful at draft time.
I did a shits and giggles draft yesterday and came up with this:
C – Mark Scheifele (Rd2)
C – Eric Staal (Rd11)
LW – Nikolaj Ehlers (Rd6)
LW – Jeff Skinner (Rd7)
RW – Nikita Kucherov (Rd1)
RW – Blake Wheeler (Rd3)
D – Kevin Shattenkirk (Rd5)
D – Shayne Gostisbehere (Rd9)
D – Dmitry Orlov (Rd14)
D – Ivan Provorov (Rd15)
G – Devan Dubnyk (Rd4)
G – Robin Lehner (Rd8)
BN – Tkachuk (10), Mantha (12), Spezza (13), Hellebuyck (16)
I think I did fairly well, decent bench, maybe light on D.
Looking forward to RCLs, hopefully I can make it to a draft.
@Tweak: How many teams? Overall I really like it, nice combination of upside with safety. I wouldn’t worry too much about the defense.
@Viz: It’s a 12-teamer, so nothing super deep.
I feel okay with the team, but I had Granlund and Drouin sniped the pick before mine in consecutive rounds.
I think Hellebuyck is kind of a forgotten man this year. He was fairly well-touted, if I remember correctly. Certainly, Hutchinson wasn’t supposed to be a hindrance to him starting. Winnepeg should continue to improve and I would hope Hellebuyck with them.
No Avatar says:
@Tweak: They did bring in Steve Mason too. I have no idea how it works out.
@Tweak: I like the gamble on Hellboy as your third goalie. They did bring in Mason but he has nowhere near the upside Hellboy does. I wouldn’t expect a full breakout but there’s a good chance he gives you decent value.
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Home News WeRobotics to use drones to curb mosquito populations
WeRobotics to use drones to curb mosquito populations
By Malek Murison -
WeRobotics is using drone technology to deliver sterile mosquitos to areas impacted by high numbers of the flying insects. The aim is to bring down the mosquito population and reduce the number of people killed by diseases they carry.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that diseases carried by mosquitos kill 725,000 people every year. Malaria is responsible for the vast majority of deaths, but the ever-present flying insects also carry dengue fever, the Zika virus, yellow fever and encephalitis.
Plenty of techniques are already deployed to bring this number down, from simple nets and vaccinations, to attempts to stop the mosquito population at source. One of the most common approaches is the mass spraying of areas with insecticides – but this is inefficient and expensive, not to mention the environmental damage it does and the fact that mosquitos are quickly able to develop resistance to the chemicals.
Read more: IBM using IoT, cloud and AI to track and prevent Zika
Introducing sterile mosquitos
One method of controlling the mosquito population is to introduce sterile males into the equation. Although this will cause a short-term spike in mosquito numbers, it’s only the females that bite humans. The aim is that sterile males will continue to compete for mates, crowding out rivals for female attention and eventually reduce overall numbers.
The biggest challenge is finding an effective way to deliver these sterile mosquitos into areas of need, which are often remote and poorly served by transport infrastructure. Until now, most of the legwork has been done by scientists carrying backpacks full of bugs. But now, a company funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), WeRobotics, is assigning drones to the task.
Read more: How drones are helping hurricane recovery efforts
Drone delivery with a difference
WeRobotics’ mosquito drone delivery project is being tested at the prototype stage in South America. The ability to fly and control the drone is the easy part. More challenging is the storage of hundreds of thousands of mosquitos and their smooth release into the wild.
“Mosquitoes are very fragile animals,” said WeRobotics cofounder Adam Klaptocz. “If you put hundreds of thousands of them into a very small box, they’re going to damage themselves, and damaged mosquitoes will not be able to compete with wild mosquitoes.”
The first step toward ensuring the mosquitos aren’t damaged in transit is to keep them sedated. To do that, they are kept inside pre-cooled container between 4 °C and 8 °C.
The next hurdle is to figure out a way to release them without simply dropping them all at the same time.
“We tried different systems to get the mosquitoes out of the holding canister, including vibrations and a treadmill,” said Klaptocz. “Right now, we’re using a rotating element with holes through which individual mosquitoes can fall.”
After the mosquitoes have fallen through the rotating element, they spend a few seconds in a secondary chamber to acclimatize to the air outside before being dropped from the drone.
The WeRobotics drone, equipped to transport mosquitos (Credit: WeRobotics)
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Out in the wild
Sterilized male mosquitos will be parachuted into the wild as soon as late 2017, as the WeRobotics team conducts its first experiments with the new drone system. The next step, according to Klaptocz, will be to run “controlled tests, where we mark the insects, release them, and recapture them in traps to measure whether they’re healthy or not”.
Another factor will be education. The company is well aware that flying drones over rural communities and releasing more mosquitos into the wild without explanation won’t do them any favors.
“We’re trying to control disease vectors,” Klaptocz said. “But practically, what we’re doing is releasing a whole bunch of mosquitoes into communities and flying drones over them. Engagement with these communities has to be done from the beginning, by talking to people and involving them in the process.”
Read more: IoT, drones could save rhinos from poaching in South Africa
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Malek Murison is a writer, editor and tech journalist based in London. www.malekmurisonmedia.com
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A city-center pastor speaks from the intersection of life and faith.
On July 18, 2019 By thallfpcp
I’ve been at our church’s camp this week, and some of the counselors have been sharing the ways they’ve been blessed by campers, and how they have been a blessing in return.
One counselor told me how he had his kids each make a paper heart that said, “I love you,” and then give them to someone else. One young camper refused to take part. He’d made a heart, but had written the words “I don’t love” on it. The counselor knew the back story behind the hurt, and was determined to show the child the love of Jesus Christ. But how?
Just then, a girl came up and gave her paper heart to the boy. He held it up proudly. He kept it with him the rest of the week; put it under his pillow when he slept. It turned out to be the just the opening the counselor was praying for.
The Gospel of John says that Jesus recruited his disciples in a seemingly random, serendipitous way. “Come and see,” he told some men who happened to be walking behind him.
I wonder why we make things in the church so hard. We worry what we’ll say to non-Christians, when what is most needed is a heart for love. We think in terms of programs, when paper hearts will do. Could church be as simple as, say, hanging out with a hurting child?
Come and see.
Masters of our fate
Taking losses home
Can you eat your way to joy?
Sign of Immanuel
You were a child once too
PAH on Fourth great
janicekblog on Mission and rest
thallfpcp on Caffeine and the Spirit
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Irish Folk Art Project
Recording 18th and 19th Century Folk Art in Ireland
Irish Folk Art in the Field
Folk Art in Tipperary
Post medieval folk art is an important yet under studied aspect of Irish cultural history and archaeology. The majority of the surviving examples consist of eighteenth and nineteenth century stone sculpture, a large percentage of which relates to decoration found on funerary monuments. A significant sub-set of non-funerary stone folk art also exists scattered around the country and it is this group that is the focus of this study.
Non-funerary stone carvings depict a wide range of secular imagery such as human faces, animals and themes from Irish folklore. They are found in varying locations ranging from walls of vernacular cottages, farm buildings , bridges, estate houses and follies.
The Irish Folk Art project was set up in 2016 with the aim of recording the surviving examples of Irish folk art and identifying the names and stories of the people who created them. To date the project has identified and surveyed folk art in Counties Tipperary, Limerick, Wicklow and Galway.
Cat with two tails Roches Street Limerick
Stone head in outhouse wall at farm near Preban Co Wicklow
Fethard Folk Art Plaques
In 2016 the project received a grant from Rosin O’Grady, the Heritage Officer of Tipperary County Council. The grant money was used to survey eight pieces of sculpture from South Tipperary using photogrammetry. The results of the photogrammetry and the folk art survey will be made available through this blog, public lectures and publications.
If anyone knows of any carvings they would like to include in the survey please contact us at irishfolkartproject@gmail.com.
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Home Latest News Tour News Gary Hurls himself into Kenyan contention
Gary Hurls himself into Kenyan contention
West Waterford’s Gary Hurley has made a significant jump up the leaderboard on moving day at the Challenge Tour’s season opening event, the Barclays Kenya Open.
Hurley fired a fine five-under-par 66 to move up 23 places into a tie for 8th on seven under for the Championship.
He made the turn in 35 with two birdies and just the one dropped shot coming in a quiet outward half. That was until, for the second day in succession, the fireworks began on the start of his back-nine.
Hurley nailed another eagle three at the reachable par-5 10th, and adding two more birdies before the finish, now sits just five strokes off the lead with a round to go in Nairobi.
Having made a little under eight thousand euro on the Challenge Tour last year, a big day tomorrow could prove a major turning point in Gary’s fledgling career.
Two shots adrift of Hurley sits Northern Irishman, Michael Hoey, after a slow day today at Muthaiga Golf Club. Hoey returned two birdies and just the one bogey en route to a one-under-par 70, good enough for a share of 19th.
One shot back, Cormac Sharvin enjoyed a better day, moving up ten places into a tie for 27th after a productive three-under-par 68 sees him at -4 for the tournament.
They’ll have it all to do to catch, Sebastian Soderberg however, who is in pole position to claim a historic double at the Kenya Open after carding a third round of 66 to take a two-shot lead into the final day.
The Swede, who triumphed at neighbouring Karen Country Club in 2016, is seeking to become just the second person in the tournament’s 50-year history to win at both Nairobi courses, with England’s Maurice Bembridge currently the only player to achieve the feat way back in 1968 and 1969.
Following a sublime second round of 65 yesterday, the 27 year old played patiently over the front nine today, bagging birdies at the 504-yard par five fourth – where he is a combined four under par after three attempts this week – along with the par four ninth to move one clear of the rest of the field.
After an eagle at the tenth and further gains at the 12th and 13th Soderberg pulled away from his nearest challengers, and despite dropping a shot at the 16th he goes into the last round two clear of Germans Max Schmitt and Philipp Mejow.
With Soderberg’s sole European Challenge Tour victory coming in Kenya, he admits the country has a special place in his heart – and is somewhere where he seems to play his best golf.
“Kenya has always treated me well,” he said. “I don’t really know what it is about here, but I always get some good feelings each time I come back.
“Although it is a different course to where I won I always seem to get the numbers right with the distances eventually. The ball can go really far here so you need to be careful with your calculations!
“I am very pleased with how today went. It was a really solid round overall and I had a very good stretch in the middle which came from an eagle just after the turn.
“It wasn’t the best finish but overall I am very pleased with the last few days.
“The greens were definitely getting trickier. They were really firming up today and sometimes it looked as if it was going to be really fast, then it wasn’t, and I did feel like I was struggling a little bit with the speed of the greens today. Fortunately I did make a couple of good putts as well.
“I didn’t really think about him [overnight leader Max Schmitt] and I just tried to build on my score from yesterday. I wasn’t hitting the ball very well on Thursday but I started hitting it better yesterday and I am just going to just try and keep doing what I’m doing.
“It is a really big event and I’ll try to not let that affect me tomorrow.”
Overnight leader Schmitt and fellow countryman Mejow are closest to Soderberg at ten under par overall, while two shots further behind
them are Sweden’s Simon Forsstrom, Italy’s Lorenzo Gagli, Chile’s Nico Geyger and England’s Max Orrin.
The rounds of the day came from South Africa’s Oliver Bekker and Sweden’s Oscar Lengden, who both carded eight under par scores of 63 to climb into the top ten ahead of the final day in East Africa.
Gary Hurley
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TableLayout support Follow
ofer nivy
Any plans to integrate TableLayout (http://www.clearthought.info/software/TableLayout) into the UI Designer?
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:51:57 +0300, ofer nivy wrote:
Any plans to integrate TableLayout
(http://www.clearthought.info/software/TableLayout) into the UI Designer?
Probably not, the IDEA GUI designer works with its own Layout managers...
I suggest you to take a look at JFormDesigner (www.jformdesigner.com),
it's the best GUI designer I'v ever seen.
I can confirm that: I've never seen a better GUI designer. It's as polished
in GUI building as IDEA is in Java code editing :).
A lot of people are saying that GUI builders are bad, but this one is clearly
not. JFormDesigner is how the IntelliJ GUI Builder should look like.
When JetBrains started it's own GUI Builder, I hoped it will be something
as good as the Java code editor. Unfortunately it turned out not to be as
good, and many said that such a task might be impossible.
JFormDesigner is the prove that it's possible, and you don't even need a
big team for this :).
Ahmed.
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:25:42 +0000, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
I can confirm that: I've never seen a better GUI designer. It's as
polished in GUI building as IDEA is in Java code editing :). A lot of
people are saying that GUI builders are bad, but this one is clearly not.
I see they now list: Non-Commercial license available.
Thats nice to see....
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 02:45:34 +1300, Mark Derricutt wrote:
Ok so it wasn't what I thought, just a cheaper licence for non-commercial
apps...
>> I see they now list: Non-Commercial license available.
Ok so it wasn't what I thought, just a cheaper licence for
non-commercial apps...
It's a little bit expensive for only a GUI Builder (for the occasional Swing
programmer), but the trial version is fully functional, so one still can
get an impression about how it works.
AFAIK it's (or it was) a one man show, and that's pretty impressive, considering
how polished that tool is.
I will have a look at the tool.
Glen Stampoultzis
Wow... very nice. JetBrains should just license this thing. It's so easy and quick to use.
TableLayout is my favorite layout manager.
I think a GUI designer based on this could be very useful.
Even without a GUI designer, TableLayout is easy to use for very complex
layouts.
If there were a visual tool that would show the row and column
boundaries and allow you to drag them to make fine adjustments, that
would be extremely useful.
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Across the Universe :: Out There Somewhere [Chapter Forty-Nine]
I should hear some screaming at the end of this chapter. We might be heading into something that's been HEAVILY requested soon. ;) But I'm just guessing.
Jonathan had finally accepted that the boy was not an escaped prisoner from Leavenworth. Which was fortunate, because Martha had started calling him ‘Clark’, and he knew full well that once she named a living thing, she meant to keep it. That she’d chosen her own maiden name just made it more obvious.
That didn’t change the fact that the boy’s face was plastered all over the town. He had to reject Martha’s initial plan of telling people her cousin’s son was visiting. Not even a haircut and an old pair of Jonathan’s glasses would make an adequate disguise. They had to hide him, and that would’ve been more difficult if they didn’t grow most of their own food and have plenty stored away. Young men ate a lot, and someone would’ve noticed the Kents hauling home twice the groceries. Luckily he was content with the bounty of their garden, though the pantry and freezer were starting to look less well-stocked. And Martha, glad of his appreciation, was baking almost daily to feed his sweet tooth.
There were more disquieting ramifications. Since the boy wasn’t a prisoner, the Army had to want him for some reason. Maybe something to do with the fact that he was incredibly strong, incredibly fast—as he’d proved catching a glass Jonathan dropped all the way across the room—and could apparently hover, but only when he wasn’t thinking about it. Jonathan felt uncomfortably like he was living in a Stephen King movie he’d seen once, with a little girl who could do miraculous and dangerous things. And a whole bunch of shady government types hunting her. In the film there had been a kindly old farm couple who’d given the girl and her dad shelter.
Jonathan was also aware that the husband of the kindly couple had gotten shot in the film. But he also wasn’t about to let a bunch of soldiers trot onto his land and yank someone off his property without a warrant. And the boy, now that he let himself grow to know him, deserved to be protected. Whatever the Army had going on, Clark was an innocent in all senses of the world.
There was a charming boyishness about him, and the open delight he showed in almost everything was infectious. Whether it was the simple miracle of a flower opening, or the pattern of fox tracks in the soft mud at the edge of the pond, or even just the bright spots of color that shone through the sun-catchers Martha had hung on the bay window, Clark seemed to fall in love with every new thing he encountered. Such open-armed joy couldn’t be resisted. It was like he’d never been outside before, never done anything.
Some of that was probably the amnesia, but Jonathan got the feeling that the boy really didn’t have much experience of the world. Some people would be shy, frightened by so much newness. Others would turn bitter; Jonathan had seen that often enough, the instinctive resistance to change and novelty that made men hard-hearted and stubborn. Clark had none of that. He wanted to embrace the whole world and love every second of it.
He worked like a demon, too. Jonathan only had to show him how to nail up one board, and then Clark gleefully replaced all the damaged ones in the outbuildings in the course of one day, a job that would’ve taken Jonathan at least a weekend to complete. He hummed while he worked—and he must’ve had a radio, wherever they’d kept him, because the songs he hummed were familiar. Martha liked to sing while she cleaned, and Clark picked up on her favorite songs, too, singing them pitch-perfect after one hearing. He picked up on cleaning, too, and he thought it was fun to scrub the baseboards and the crown molding. Heck, he could reach the latter just by standing on tiptoe. Martha even let him wash her precious china that had been handed down from her grandmother, once he’d proven his delicate touch with the ordinary plates.
Odd, that for all that strength and air of inexperience, Clark wasn’t clumsy. Distracted, sometimes, though downright graceful when he paid attention. Jonathan would’ve expected him to clomp through the house like a young ox, but he took an almost exaggerated care around anything fragile. Jonathan saw why when they were cutting up the fallen branches for firewood.
A simple mistake. Clark had been steadying the branch while Jonathan cut it with the chainsaw, and Clark’s ball cap had blown off. He reached to grab it, missed, grabbed again, and Jonathan had jerked the saw back when he saw how close Clark’s hand was to it. Before he could shout a warning, the hat dropped onto the saw and was flung aside with a new nick in its rim. Clark grabbed the saw itself.
Jonathan automatically cut the power, dropped the saw, and grabbed for the handkerchief in his pocket, ready to tie a tourniquet around the boy’s arm. But what should’ve been mangled fingers was just an ordinary hand … and the saw’s chain was in pieces. “Um,” Clark said, with a woebegone look.
“Huh. So I guess we can add invulnerability to your list of quirks,” Jonathan had said with more aplomb than he felt. Calling them quirks seemed less intimidating than saying powers, although superhuman powers was certainly what they were. And Clark was torn about them. On the one hand he was proud as any young man might be of his abilities; on the other he was almost embarrassed by them, since they marked his otherness so clearly. At times he reminded Jonathan of a dog he’d once owned, a lurcher, half farm collie and half greyhound. When the pup had been old enough to finally get all four feet moving in the same direction and in some kind of cohesive rhythm, he’d been fast as greased lightning. Nothing was as pure an example of joy as watching that dog light out for the horizon … and nothing was as apologetic as the expression on the same dog’s face when he turned up back at the house after going missing for two days, having outrun his knowledge of the territory. It must’ve been something, to have an engine running like that inside and not be able to quite control it.
Jonathan was nonchalant about Clark’s abilities to make him more comfortable, showing him how to put a new chain on the saw. And then they cut up the rest of the downed tree limbs, though at Jonathan’s gentle suggestion Clark simply snapped a few of the branches to length. Only the ones that were less than a foot thick, though.
They went inside for a hearty lunch, salad and leftover baked chicken. As always, Clark set to with a will, drinking glass after glass of milk alongside it. “Thank you, Ma,” he said when she set a stack of cookies on his napkin. “This chicken is even better the second day.”
She laughed, and patted his shoulder. “Why thank you, son,” she said.
Meanwhile Jonathan wondered when she’d become Ma instead of Mrs. Kent. He suspected the easy way his wife said ‘son’ might have something to do with it. Clark tended to call him by the respectful ‘sir’ … but come to think of it, that’s what he’d always called his own father. While he was looking thoughtfully at the boy, Clark beamed a quick grin at him, the easy smile that so often graced his features, and Jonathan felt something that had little to do with conscious thought decide that yes, this one would make a fine son. Strength tempered by kindness, handsomeness softened by a total unawareness of his own looks, friendly courtesy and a willingness to help: what more could a father want?
Well, besides knowing who on earth the boy really was, and where he’d come from, and how he managed to do the amazing things he could do.
The radio was on, and between songs there was a few minutes’ worth of talk. Local updates, the weather forecast, and then news of the wider world. When the broadcaster said, “No new word from New Krypton,” though, Clark reacted as he had to nothing else.
All of a sudden he’d gone from sitting at the table to standing up, staring at the radio with a fierce intensity. The boy was almost trembling, and with that powerful a reaction Jonathan wondered for a brief moment if he might have actually been a soldier.
“What is it, Clark?” Martha asked.
The boy blinked. “Nothing. I … all of a sudden I remembered all those people on that planet out there. I’d forgotten that, too.” He sat back down, looking sheepish, and cleaned his plate studiously.
Jonathan just watched him, aware that Clark had just lied to them for the first time, but not sure why.
The soldiers were still hanging around Smallville like a stubborn stain, their target uncaught. They were now making systematic searches of abandoned buildings around town and in neighboring areas. And Lois was going predictably stir-crazy.
Even with a two-week-old infant demanding the majority of her time and attention, Lois was restless and curious. She did about as well being cooped up in the house as a certain well-bred working collie of Lana’s former acquaintance. The dog, which had belonged to a friend’s family back in high school, had been injured and forced to rest as an indoor companion for several months. To an animal accustomed to patrolling a large acreage, moving livestock, chasing vermin, and occasionally following the kids on long horseback rides and camping trips, it had most likely been a short season in Hell. Lana remembered one day toward the end of the dog’s convalescence when she and her friend had come home late to find him on top of the refrigerator. To this day she had no idea how he’d managed that.
Lois would probably start running up the walls soon. The weather didn’t help, high summer in the Midwest bringing the endless whine of crickets and cicadas, dull heat thudding down during the day and slacking off a little at night with a breeze. Impossibly wide blue skies and all sorts of things that Lois might actually like to get out and do, but she couldn’t risk being seen. Not even when they were invited out to lunch at dozens of houses by people who wanted to coo over baby Connor, whose birth during the storm was already becoming a front-porch classic tale.
At least one thing had alleviated her boredom a little: at the news of the escaped prisoner, Pete had finally come out to Kansas and brought his security detail with him, for added protection. Lois had rolled her eyes at the pair of them when he walked through the door, picked Lana up, and swung her around twice, Lana yelping in protest that was only half-felt. The younger woman was kind enough to plead exhaustion and go to bed early, which let them go to bed early.
It was very good to have him home again.
The next day Lois had set about picking his brain, much to Pete’s amusement. She knew he and Lana couldn’t discuss anything critical when they talked on the phone or online, nothing that might make anyone listening in suspect that they had anything to do with her disappearance. So Lois had been starved for news. Pete wasn’t privy to everything the military was up to, but he had spent his time in Congress making friends on both sides of the aisle. He knew that more humans had been smuggled back to Earth, which Lois knew had been planned and had told Lana about. But the most momentous development shocked them both.
“There’s been an attempted coup, possibly more than one,” Pete said, swirling lemonade in a tall glass beaded with condensation. “We’re deep into their systems that we can monitor a lot of their holographic communications, not just what’s transmitted back and forth to our internet. And it was your boy’s uncle, Zor-El, who tried to kill the Supreme Chancellor.”
A bright spark of hope flared in Lois’ chest, then faded. For one minute she’d almost believed … but then she knew better. “He failed,” she said softly. So it really had started; the first casualty in the rising unrest had been Kal-El’s uncle. The thought brought tears to her eyes. In some ways, Lois felt as though she herself was responsible for the loss. Maybe if she hadn’t involved Kal-El, hadn’t taunted Zor-El that night, it would have been someone else. But then, stroking the fine black hair on Connor’s head protectively, she couldn’t find herself regretting a moment of her time on New Krypton. Any moment she spent with her son’s father.
And in that instant something else occurred to her, like a finger of ice down her spine. “What about Alura and Kara? And Kal-El’s parents? Are they all okay?”
“Alura repudiated him over a month before the attack. She’s safe, and now working within the Council itself. We suspect she may have joined the Rebellion. An awful lot of information comes our way now. But there’s more.” Lois sighed in relief, but there was no respite.
Pete looked away, out the big front window toward the lawn edged with flowers he and Lana had to have planted together. A peaceful little world, here, but little. And now he and Lana were involved with something much, much bigger. The reason why would’ve dumbfounded quite a few of his colleagues on Capitol Hill, and most of the people Lois knew as well. It was, quite simply, the right thing to do.
“What else?” Lois asked, leaning forward in her impatience. Connor mumbled at the jostling, and she quickly soothed him, but her eyes stayed fixed on Pete.
He was looking worried. “Trouble on New Krypton. New ordinances, new restrictions. New warships. Someone decided to do something bold, and evacuated the last of the hostages all at once. No smuggling, either, they built a ship in secret. It landed in China … wow, probably the same time that little guy was making his debut.”
“How on earth could anyone build a ship in secret?” Lana wondered.
“There were ways,” Lois said, thinking. “They hadn’t completely terraformed the planet yet, so they weren’t using most of its surface. Someone smart, someone adventurous, could’ve found a place where no one else would conceivably go. And there were Kryptonians like that. It’s mostly the older generation who were hidebound. The younger ones, the ones who never set foot on Old Krypton, they might try something like that.”
“We don’t know who piloted the ship,” Pete said. “The military does, but they’re treating it as top-secret. And the pilot isn’t in custody, either. They’re going nuts, every one of my contacts’ contacts is in full lockdown—they call it maximum pucker factor. I have no idea how they’re conducting a search in China, but they’re doing it somehow. The last thing they want is for a Kryptonian to get killed on Earth. That’d really damage chances of peace with whatever regime comes after Zod.”
Lois flared her nostrils. Neither of them had any idea how creepy the Supreme Chancellor was. Lois had never even met him in person and the sound of his name made her skin crawl. Probably in part because he’d likely have her incinerated if he ever found out about the hybrid baby in her arms.
Speaking of men who disapproved of her choices…. “Exactly how deep is my father in all of this?” Lois asked.
Pete and Lana shared a look, and Lois just arched an eyebrow. “That deep, huh?”
Finally Pete said, “Lois, he’s the vice chief of staff, and he’s personally headed the project that receives the returning hostages. He’s about as deep as it gets. One good thing, though. None of my contacts ever mentioned so much as a hint about him looking for you.”
“Good,” Lana said decisively.
“I still don’t like having the military in town,” Pete said. “Even if these are the MPs from Fort Leavenworth and not the regular infantry you would’ve been around most of the time, it just feels like a clock ticking toward countdown. But we can’t get you out, either, Lois. There are roadblocks and searches all over eastern Kansas. Whoever this guy is, they want him bad.”
Lois scowled, squeezing Connor just a little closer. She’d outrun one danger just by staying free this long: her father couldn’t force her to have an abortion once her son was born. But he could still try to take Connor away … and he might do it, too, even though he had to know she’d do her damnedest to claw his eyes out before she let it happen.
One way or another, she had to get out of his reach.
General Lane knew his daughter’s undaunted will very well. He felt the steel of it at the bottom of his own soul every day. What he couldn’t understand was how the hell one naïve alien was managing to hide from him. He had men on the ground all over the eastern half of Kansas, checking every empty building, roadblocks everywhere within three hours’ drive of the crash site … and still nothing to show for it.
They’d found the crash site before any curious yokel with a camera phone, thank God. He hadn’t even needed to use his backup plan for containing the event. Forget weather balloons and Russian satellites. The best way to hide a UFO these days was put some soldiers around in cheap rubber masks and weird-looking suits, then a couple more in plainclothes with videocameras or scripts. Make sure at least one was a good-looking woman in tight-fitting civvies, and anyone who stumbled on the scene would think ‘movie set’ before ‘alien invasion’.
The site itself had been deserted, way out in the middle of some fields, and first the storms, then the supposed prisoner search, kept people from wandering from their homes. They’d had it all to themselves and hauled every single scrap away—except for one thing: the pilot.
Some of his aides speculated that the boy might be dead. Either injured in the crash and crawled off somewhere, or succumbed to one of the Earth microbes the Kryptonians at the salt mine were so paranoid about. Sam didn’t believe it for an instant. There’d been blood on the ship’s console, ceiling, and door, but not a mortal amount. And the blood trail leading away disappeared quickly. Search dogs tried valiantly to follow the scent, but storm runoff and roads had slowed them.
Sam had a great deal of respect for those dogs and their handlers. When the girls were still little, he’d adopted a retired shepherd named Nero who’d been a search dog. Damned smart animal, by the end of the first week he could ask the dog, ‘Where’s Ella?’ and be guided straight to his wife, or ask for the girls by name and get taken to them. He wasn’t a pet, he was the guardian of the family and their property, and when they had to ship out overseas and leave him behind both girls had cried. Hell, Sam had shed a tear or two himself. He’d made sure Nero went to a family who would take good care of him, and they’d had four years. More than most military families got in one place.
So he knew, when the dog teams had trailed for over eighteen miles and come up dry, that it wasn’t their fault. The alien had to’ve masked his scent somehow, and the obvious way would be by getting into a vehicle. He might’ve climbed into the bed of a briefly parked pickup truck, or hitched a ride somehow. He certainly looked human enough, and people in this area were trusting. The boy might’ve already slipped through the net Sam was trying to draw tight around him.
But consider: the trail was eighteen miles long, and the alien was injured. He could not have covered those miles as fast as Sam himself could. Assume a walking pace, because they’d found no indications that he’d fled at speed. Most of the time he’d been going through cultivated fields, turning along roads only at the last stretch. So, three miles an hour? Maybe as little as two, in places. Anywhere between six and nine hours walking, while Sam’s team was getting into position. Road blocks had been in place within two hours, and Sam had set the spacing generously, based on the assumption that the alien might acquire a car and drive it at maximum speed. Once they knew that he’d been walking through fields for hours—be generous, assume a fast walk of four miles per hour, and it still meant he was on foot for at least four and a half hours—it was impossible that he could’ve gotten beyond the roadblocks.
Unfortunately, no one could maintain roadblocks on major highways for more than a day. Vehicles were traveling freely again, but the posters were up in every truck stop and rest area. There was a handsome reward for information, too. Someone would’ve seen the alien if he’d traveled. Therefore, he was still somewhere in the irregular rectangle marked out on Sam’s map. Somewhere in those five or six counties was one otherwise ordinary-looking teenage boy, who might cause a major diplomatic incident by getting his naïve self shot. Or falling down a well, or getting attacked by some farmer’s dogs, or even just sleeping in wet clothes and getting hypothermia. New Krypton had far fewer natural hazards than Earth.
General Lane was hoping that he was lying low in an empty barn somewhere. If the alien had found shelter with some civilian, he might’ve convinced them to hide him. It was a possibility Sam had to consider; the damned boy was charming enough to have bedded his daughter.
They couldn’t simply start kicking doors in. There had to be some reasonable suspicion of the alien’s presence to make a search lawful. While within the Army itself certain rights and rules were suspended for the sake of expediency, when dealing with the general public and not in a state or martial law, they had to be more cautious. The very freedoms they fought to protect were part of the reason why the boy remained hidden, and the paradox gave Sam a moment of sardonic amusement.
He’d find him, sooner or later. The posters were everywhere, there were generous rewards on offer, and the alien couldn’t get far without human help. Sooner or later, human nature would be a reliable ally. Someone would turn him in—out of fear of the false story, or greed for the reward money. Soon they’d have him safely in custody.
Memory was a funny thing. He remembered pale green skies, a painted canyon, clothes much thinner than the soft woven stuff he had on, cars that flew in the air. And faces, so many faces, none of them with names. A woman, the recollection of whom made his chest tighten. And a bearded man whose image sent chills into his heart.
Words for things always came to him in Jonathan and Martha’s language, English. All the common everyday objects he knew now. And when they gave him a word he lacked, he could feel its rightness as something he’d known before. But now he was getting terms in another tongue. He understood the meaning of kehgier as a verb meaning to make, to cause, sometimes to do, and he could even conjugate it properly. But it had come to his mind as part of an idiom, and he knew somehow that it was not a word in any language these people had ever heard of. He also knew the names for things he saw in his dreams in the same foreign languages. The structures he saw in those dreams looked more grown than built, and were made of crystal, not wood or brick; they were different enough that he couldn’t call them houses even in his mind. They were rurrelahso, a word he would’ve translated as buildings or dwellings.
Alone in his room, he pushed all those thoughts away and focused on the one thing that gave him comfort. Neither Jonathan nor Martha had ever seen it: a simple crystal necklace, which had been wearing wrapped around his forearm underneath his shirt when they found him. What it meant, he couldn’t quite remember, but it was important. And it had something to do with the woman whose face he saw in dreams, the one whose name he’d spoken when he first met Jonathan and Martha. Lois.
He held the necklace carefully wrapped about his hand while he slept. Maybe if he was lucky, the sense of its meaning would return to him in the same haunting dreams that teased his mind with glimpses of his forgotten past.
And to those who lack the courage
And say it's dangerous to try
Well they just don't know
That love eternal will not be denied
I know you're out there somewhere
Somewhere, somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I'll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
And somehow I'll return again to you
~The Moody Blues, I Know You're Out There Somewhere
[Yes, LS readers, you DO know this song! ;)]
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April 1, 2019 by KingSigy
I saw a lot of fun games and spoke to a bunch of great people this weekend, but the real winner of PAX East 2019 was my mother. Now a retired nurse, my 65-year-old mother decided she would come to PAX for a day to see what all the fuss was about. She recently bought a Switch and is a huge fan of Animal Crossing, so there was bound to be something here for her. Turns out there was quite a bit.
In one of the coolest moments that we sadly can’t show, Destructoid’s own Jonathan Holmes chatted with my mom while she played Mortal Kombat 11 on Switch. When they walked into the demo booth, even the Nintendo rep was surprised she was there for such a violent title. As she explained to Holmes, she played them when I was just a child, so she eventually grew to like it.
When I caught back up with her, she was tagging along with my sister to try out Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. I did manage to capture that, which you can see below. She’s not very good, but by god does she do her best…right up until the demo kiosk crashed. I guess she was showing up the audience too much, so the PlayStation couldn’t handle it.
My sister and mom also checked out Yoshi’s Crafted World, though my mom did not understand how to play it. Funny that she can grasp Mortal Kombat, but not Yoshi. I guess when you’re more interested in eviscerating opponents than throwing eggs, you’ll learn to adapt.
We all had a fun day on the town, checking out new games and reliving old classics. While my mom may not return to PAX, she had a great time seeing how technology has progressed in the 27-years since the original Mortal Kombat released. Also, I can confirm that MK11 runs very smoothly on Switch. It’s really quite the showcase for how powerful Nintendo’s device is. It’s a hell of a port.
Posted in Gaming, Op/Ed, pax, Personal, Real Life
Tagged blog, family, games, life, opinion, relationships
The day I started writing for Destructoid as staff was a dream come true. The culmination of years of studying, writing and honing my skill, finally publishing a review for potential millions to see was enough to bring me to tears. I had achieved the goal I set out for myself all those years ago.
Then a few months later, reality crashed into me. I had been working as a per diem employee at a homeless shelter when a very unfortunate incident happened. I ended up losing my job due to management’s decision right before December. While becoming unemployed at any point is unfortunate, doing so right at the peak of the holiday season is disastrous.
I wasn’t completely up shit creek, money wise, so I decided to start fresh at the beginning of the New Year. I would have the best possible chance to get my resume seen if I applied while employers were actively looking for new recruits. Sadly, as of the time of this writing, I am still unemployed. The magnitude of my situation at the homeless shelter has finally sunk in and I realize that I’m going nowhere and fast.
You’d think achieving two dream positions (working directly to help people and being a video game “journalist”) would see me elated, but that isn’t the case. I’ve slowly been running out of money and nothing seems to help. I’ve tried being an Uber driver, but apparently there aren’t a lot of people in Connecticut in need of chauffeuring. I’ve been constantly putting out applications, only to get rejections from basically everyone (including an unpaid internship!).
A few years back, I found myself in a somewhat similar situation. I left a job with my friend’s dad to obtain a personal training certification, which I successfully did. After that, I started on the job hunt only to get nowhere. Employers wanted me to have previous client bases while individual people wanted me to have experience in training. It was a ridiculous catch 22 that I couldn’t find an answer for.
Still, to this day, I cannot obtain work at any commercial gym. It makes me wonder what the value of education is. I took a big risk and it failed, but why did I even do that? I wanted a change of careers to something I enjoyed, but I guess that is too much to ask of the world. It feels like all of my choices are wrong.
Really, what is next for me? I’m 29 years old, sitting at home wasting away and getting nowhere in life. I don’t have money to return to school, I’m slowing depleting my funds on medicine and cellphone bills and I have little to show for it. It’s great that I’m able to engage with the gaming community on a larger level, but that doesn’t pay the bills. Why does everything have to come down to the almighty dollar?
How do people cope with the realization that their lives are nothing? When all you do is wake up, go to work, come home, eat and sleep, what is the point of life? Is there no possible career option that allows me to simultaneously enjoy what I do and earn a living? While I am always going to be grateful to Destructoid for giving me the chance to finally live out my aspirations, it’s looking more and more likely that I’ll never be able to turn this hobby into a job.
It hurts so much to write that, but it is the truth. I’m lost in a state of arrested development and I’m not sure how else to proceed. I just want to become something important to the world, but that doesn’t seem likely. For me, toiling away in obscurity until I inevitably die might be the only path.
Really and truly, I am just looking for possible options. Where is the flaw in my logic? What is preventing me from becoming successful? How do I accept reality and become a mindless drone? How do other people manage to find consistent work that lets them be independent?
Posted in Gaming, Op/Ed, Personal, Real Life
Tagged depression, gaming, introspective, journalism, life, op/ed, opinion, personal, sadness, sorry
November 26, 2016 by KingSigy
For anyone who has read my recently posted review of Dragon Ball Fusions, you’ll note that I closed out my piece with a little tangent about how I disliked modern JRPGs. I’m not sorry I wrote that, as I feel it helps one understand my frustrations with Fusions. The game does literally nothing to break the typical mold of JRPGs and it suffers for that.
One thing that seems to be misunderstood is my attitude towards the genre, as a whole. I don’t dislike every JRPG ever made, just most of them after Chrono Trigger. As a matter of fact, I’m going to now explain why Final Fantasy IV’s remake is one of the best examples of the genre and how Fusions and Bandai Namco could (and should) learn a thing or two from Square Enix’s past.
The opening of Final Fantasy IV immediately breaks the stereotypes of the genre. You aren’t playing some prophesized hero on a quest to save the world from an ancient evil; you’re a man who begins to question the morality of the orders he is being given. That insecurity leads to you being stripped of your position and sent on a tedious (and ultimately terrible) mission.
After falling from grace and hitting rock bottom, Cecil (the main character) vows to travel the world and help others in need. This goal thrusts him into an adventure that has a few twists and turns and introduces an incredible cast of characters along with some innovative and thrilling combat mechanics.
With age, I’ve grown to understand why people enjoy turn based RPGs. Having that layer of strategy and tactics play out in a manner with which you are given limited control is an extra challenge on top of any difficulty selection (with which the remake of Final Fantasy IV offers two options). You can’t predict the future with 100% accuracy and any mistakes lead to emergent gameplay in the style of damage control. Failure to come back from the brink of death leads to a game over, but succeeding brings an incredible sense of accomplishment.
The thing is, most modern JRPGs do very little to distinguish each of their battles. Dragon Ball Fusions, as a matter of fact, is basically the same exact game for 90% of its playtime. You can approach every single battle with the same team of people and never even come close to losing. Some side quests offer up variety, but holding victory to different stipulations shouldn’t be relegated to optional content. A game should be challenging the player every step of the way.
Final Fantasy IV does exactly this. The default difficulty definitely makes things easy, but you are constantly faced with enemies that have weaknesses to different magic attacks or require you to play defense with certain characters. A lot of the bosses are resistant to magic or physical attacks and the rotation of your party members help switch up tactics without lecturing the player with dialog boxes.
Even the animations of the enemies can clue you in as to what needs to be done. One of the main bosses, Rubicante, will move his cape and that lets the player know physical attacks are now diminished in effectiveness. Of course, the only way to discover this is by trying things out, but the game gives players the freedom to learn these nuances on their own instead of throwing an utterly baffling amount of information at the player and then hiding important details in a “tips” menu.
Then there is the active time battle system, which forces you to think on your feet. Sure, the characters won’t be moving on their own and everyone goes in a turn, but failing to select an option within a reasonable time limit will grant the enemy a chance to retaliate. You can’t just sit around and think forever, something that modern JRPGs have regressed back to.
One of the coolest additions to the remake (and even the PSP port) is the auto battle option. Grinding was worked into the design of older JRPGs because of the lack of technology powering them. Making a long and meaningful game on the NES was an arduous task without raising the difficulty. While removing grinding would have been preferable, having the auto battle for easier encounters removes a tremendous amount of tedium.
Let’s say you don’t gel with the combat or find it tedious; that can be understandable with the length of a lot of JRPGs. Final Fantasy IV’s story moves at such a brisk pace that I was able to complete in 20 hours while undertaking numerous side quests. I was never bored, I constantly felt the severity of the situation at hand and I had concern for the characters in my party. When certain events would strip me of some of my party members, I got legitimately sad.
Newer JRPGs don’t do this often. Most of the time, you have a group of people who never face any consequences. They don’t die, never get called away or come under ailment; they are basically terminators. Everything that happens in battle doesn’t matter, because they will always be there for you. I usually get pissed off because the party size is arbitrarily limited and I can’t use them all at once.
Final Fantasy IV may be a bit too happy about shifting around the dynamic of your group, but at least you never feel like anyone is being wasted. This is also putting aside how some events in the plot permanently remove members from the game, even if they still exist in the story. I’d really hate falling in love with Tellah, for example.
Still, the constant drive to keep the plot moving and have you seeing new things is refreshing. A lot of big budget games, let alone JRPGs, pad the length of their runtimes with meaningless content to justify a higher price point. Reaching the finish line feels like busy work instead of having the game motivate you to complete it.
Now are there any examples of modern JRPGs I enjoy? Sure, quite a few. I’ve always been into Kingdom Hearts, but that is possibly the best example of mixing wonder and joy together with two gigantic corporations collaborating. Having Disney’s dream filled worlds collide with the battle systems of Final Fantasy is so crazy and extreme that it balances out into fun. The combat also reminds me a lot of Diablo, in some bizarre manner.
Xenoblade Chronicles is also one of my favorite Wii titles, even if that deviates incredibly from the typical JRPG mold. It borrows heavily from World of Warcraft or even Final Fantasy XII, but it has an ever expanding world that is densely populated with believable characters. Maybe the sidequests are totally pointless, but the game doesn’t offer harsh punishments for failure to save or prepare; you’re allowed to make some mistakes and keep going.
Tales of Vesperia was a game I bought on a whim after conversing with an old friend. He was a huge fan of the series and I loved the presentation aspect, but it left me feeling indifferent. The combat is pretty awesome, almost mimicking Street Fighter with combos and special moves, but the characters and elongated plot don’t do the game favors. Instead of being concise and giving the player forward momentum, the game has a tremendous amount of detours for characters to doubt themselves, almost once an hour. It really drags at the end.
Lost Odyssey is also great, but it suffers from the limitations of the Xbox 360. Being one of the first “next-gen” RPGs, the game utilizes the Unreal engine to push HD graphics. That requires a lot of disc spinning, so the load times are absolutely horrendous. Random battles take about 20-25 seconds to load and most of the game is waiting around for things to start. The combat is great and the story is incredibly deep, but even it falters with Disc three being worthless. Why are children so hard to write?
For the rest of my experiences with games, I just see the same kind of crap. Infinite Undiscovery was a borderline embarrassing waste of potential and Final Fantasy XIII is the worst example of that particular series. The newer Star Ocean titles also play things incredibly save and do nothing to push their settings; they just expect space to be awe-inspiring by itself.
That loss of wonder and excitement is what makes something like Dragon Ball Fusions feel so disappointing. It may not be a bad game and has some pretty complex battle mechanics, but it doesn’t really respect the players time and input. The game tasks you with suffering through the same encounters and plot points until it ends and gives you nothing in return.
Maybe I’m comparing apples and oranges here, but I just want my playtime to feel like it mattered. I know that is getting caught up in an arbitrary definition, but older games usually put more of an emphasis on world building and player involvement. I just want to see that return to JRPGs, instead of the influx of bloated games with little originality.
Tagged 2d, 3D, 3ds, blog, discussion, dragon ball, final fantasy, games, japanese, jrpg, old-school, op/ed, opinion, pc, ps1, remake, retro, rpg, snes, square enix
Doing the right thing doesn’t always bring peace. When you’re a homeless person with a record, any threat to your safety becomes a threat to your life. Even if you know you’re breaking rules and causing trouble for others, when you lose the comfort of your safety net, all bets are off. Without a bed to sleep in, you might as well lie down and die.
Last night, I was assaulted by one of the men at the homeless shelter where I work. He had continuously broken our curfew rule and he wasn’t happy when I suspended him. Giving him a slight benefit of the doubt (and not wishing him to freeze out in the cold), I granted him permission to grab some of his belongings. Even if he was lying to me and himself, I wouldn’t want to bring harm to him.
Sadly, he didn’t feel the same way about me. I was helping another resident and his man turned around and slugged me. He got in a few more hits before I even realized what had happened. I’m thankful that someone else was in the room with me, or else I may have eventually retaliated and caused a serious problem.
What strikes me the most is the fear I saw in that man’s eyes. As he knocked me over and proceeded to walk towards me, I could see a killing intent beaming from his pupils. If I were a weaker person, I may have died in that room. While it frightens me to the very core of my being, it also makes me terribly sad that some people feel the need for physical violence.
When the world doesn’t go your way, resorting to such hostility isn’t going to solve your problems. You’re refusing to look in the mirror and see that your own behavior is causing your misfortune. I won’t claim I’m a saint, but I’m not the reason you lost everything in your life.
I do feel somewhat responsible, but mostly that I let such a violent man back into the shelter. I should have known this would occur; the guy had a history of coming in drunk and mouthing off to staff. He clearly has no respect for anyone, let alone himself. I can’t escape the thought that one of my female staff members could have been injured due to his guy’s belligerence.
I am mostly sharing this story, though, so that I don’t forget that moment of shock and horror. Certain events shape our lives and while I don’t intend on becoming a victim, I’m not going to shake this off like an accident. To walk past this like I’m some tough, emotionless robot is the wrong thing to do.
I also want everyone on this site to know that I feel stronger in my resolve to speak my mind. I may have taken a few hits to my face, but if your first hit doesn’t count, then expect me to keep ticking. I guess I’m a literal tank as I don’t even have any bruises or cuts.
Some of you may take issue with my articles, but your retorts lack substance. You’re dealing quick blows in a gut reaction without weight. You need a clear mind before you can harm me and your reasoning needs to be sound. Sure, I have my biases when it comes to some games, but I’ve do my research before posting.
I may have made mistakes in the past, but that isn’t happening anymore. I know who I am and what I’m setting out to do; I wish the naysayers would do the same. Be more constructive with your criticism, because my plate armor isn’t even going to kink when you strike.
And to the people that do enjoy my work and support me; I extend a tremendous thank you. As with this assault, I’m grateful that some people are able to put aside their own bullshit and reveal the beauty inside. I didn’t even need to exchange words to get their help and that overwhelms me.
Like I’ve said, I’m not saint, but I would have never thought others would put their own safety on the line for me. Clearly, I’ve done something right by them and I’m doing something right by you. Thank you so much for everything. Your kind words and continued support mean a lot to me.
Posted in Gaming, Op/Ed, Personal, Real Life, Uncategorized
Tagged assault, attack, editorial, fear, homeless, op/ed, operation hope, personal, real life, shelter, strength, survive, work
August 16, 2016 by KingSigy
Just last Friday, I made my debut as a DToid staff member with my review of Brut@l. I found it to be rather mediocre, but at least acknowledged the game was well made. I, sadly, did not finish the game before posting the review, but I stood with conviction in my verdict.
Not one to let stones be unturned, I plugged away at reaching the finale to see if my opinion on Brut@l would change; overall, I’d say no. In a few ways, yes, but not for the better.
The biggest issue with Brut@l is that the camera is just too finicky. Since the game deals with permadeath, failing to make it across a gap results in an instant game over. It feels cheap and out of the players hands when that happens.
Another problem comes from the randomly generated dungeons. Since there aren’t any pre-determined setpiece moments, a lot of the game just blends together. If you speedrun through (skipping all the upgrades, enemies and collectibles), you could finish the game in an hour, but most people won’t be able to do that.
The combat is too simplistic to remain fun for long. The enemies start ramping up in hit points and your weapons fail to get any stronger, unless you’re lucky enough to have the game grant you a tome for a stronger weapon.
You can, eventually, unlock talismans that grant you small buffs, but even that is dependent on the randomizer. Having so many options out of your control just makes for a really frustrating experience.
I’d be more forgiving if the game had occasional boss battles, but the only such moment occurs on the final floor. When I, eventually, got there, I was a little thrilled. It was finally something different in the game.
Sadly, the joy ended almost immediately upon tackling the boss. He’s pretty easily disposed, but monotony sets in and the game falls into a groove that isn’t very much fun.
You enter a small room with the boss sitting on a perch. He summons a wave of monsters which you then need to dispose of. After that, you collect an ASCII letter (in this case, a special V) and repeat the process.
Once the two waves are down, you can lower a crossbow that then shoots off one of the three heads on the boss. He then destroys the crossbow and flies off. Now you have to repeat that process two more times.
Or stand like an idiot because your inventory is full and you can’t pick up the damn item to initiate the wave!
I’m fine with the game encouraging more exploration, but why does it take 26 floors to finally have this happen? Why weren’t there more boss battles peppered throughout the game? Having one every five floors may be a bit excessive, but every 10 wouldn’t be so bad.
For that matter, why is 26 the floor limit? Why wasn’t more care put into distinguishing the level design? I know something like The Binding of Isaac is based around randomly generated floors, but the pool that Isaac draws from to create levels is pretty varied. Brut@l’s is not.
Sometimes you can get four levels in a row that all have the same beats. A poisoned floor, bottomless pits and locked chambers that require you to destroy a wave of enemies; it’s just boring after an hour or two.
As a matter of fact, I almost feel like giving the game a five is being generous. Sure, everything works, but it’s so devoid of creativity that it almost feels insulting. Why would you spend $15 on a game that couldn’t be assed to create fully developed levels?
Again, the concept is sound. I don’t mind tinkering around with core mechanics that can change up on each playthrough, but those mechanics need to be very solid. When combat devolves into just mashing Square and jumping away, your game has failed.
I’m sure Brut@l has fans out there, but I don’t see what they do. The art style is the most realized thing in the entire package; everything else feels like half measures thrown in a big pot and set on low heat.
Still, I did actually finish the game. I won’t let something defeat me. I can’t say the same for others. That’s why I won’t change my original review score. Everything I originally said still stands.
Without abusing save game backups, most people are not going to finish Brut@l. I guess the game lives up to it’s name, but it could do with a lot more polish.
Tagged brut@l, destructoid, dtoid, final thoughts, indie, op/ed, opinion, ps4, Review, stormcloud games
Sigy Says – Ridge Racer: Unbounded Review
I’m not quite sure what I expected with Ridge Racer: Unbounded. The title sounded cool and I had heard decent things a few years back, but I never realized that Namco Bandai had tried their hand at a Burnout game. When I first loaded the game, I was delighted that this was taking a more destructive approach to racing.
After I finished the first event, I knew something was very wrong. The previous Ridge Racer games were all about speed. Tight turns, tighter controls and hilariously awful translations; that is what gave Ridge Racer its charm. All of that gets thrown out the window for Unbounded in an attempt to modernize the series.
Ridge Racer Unbounded (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC [Reviewed])
Developer: Bugbear Entertainment
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
MSRP: $9.99 (on PC), $29.99 (Consoles)
For starters, the graphics are darker and more realistic than ever before; the pace has been slowed a bit and the cars feel far too weighty. Drifting, which is an integral part of the track design, is so fucking busted that I nearly quit in fury a few times. Busted explains a lot of things with Unbounded, but it applies more to the controls then the arenas you’ll be tearing apart.
The newest addition with Unbounded is the destructible environments. I have to give credit where credit is due; Unbounded does offer an impressive amount of course carnage. While the props are basically made of styrofoam, your car can glide through things and not immediately crash. Sadly, that’s about the only decent thing in the tracks.
As for regular buildings, your car typically gravitates towards them. Barely clipping them will usually cause your car to smash up, but sometimes you go flying through the air or spinning in circles. While that should be realistic, the game has an awful tendency to reset your car before your crash site. This causes a tremendous amount of wasted time in Time Attack events and often causes you to lose up to 7 places in race mode.
These should be fun, but the physics and AI of the game are so borked that I couldn’t wrap my head around them. At times, you fly out of the gate and pass everyone with ease. Other times, the opponents are beyond hard and you’ll hardly catch them. Sometimes you’ll smash through highlighted objects only to immediately crash once the automated cutscene ends. You’ll even make jumps only to see your car barrel rolling through the air, despite not clipping anything.
There is also some horrible graphical glitch that causes constant flickering for upwards of 15 seconds at a time. It obscures some of the track and leads to wiping out or missing turns. It also looks terrible and gives me a headache, but that may be a personal issue.
What isn’t personal is information about your cars. The stats are shown before you decide on your vehicle, but they aren’t really reliable. Maybe this is more down to individual playstyles, but the car with the highest speed stat should be the fastest one on the track.
There are also some cars that are carbon copies of others (excluding the pointless DLC) and others, still, that have mostly the same stats, but are higher in key areas. It makes certain cars completely worthless after reaching higher driver levels.
Then there is the lack of course diversity and the general sluggishness to the controls. It just doesn’t feel pleasant to play Ridge Racer: Unbounded. I had fun, at times, but not enough for me to recommend this to anyone. The lackluster campaign and hilariously anti-climactic ending just rub salt in the wound.
The online portion is completely non-functional. From the sound of what it included, it could have remedied this package. Racers were given the ability to customize events and challenge others worldwide. While it may have been frustrating to deal with the controls, I could see smashing people into walls as being a blast.
Still, that doesn’t work. Namco Bandai shutdown the servers in 2015 and have basically cut the game in half. The price tag, at least, reflects the lack of multiplayer, but it still sours the overall package. Having courses made by other players would be outstanding, even if the game feels rushed and sloppy.
It doesn’t help that there isn’t a split-screen mode at all. I know PC games typically don’t offer split-screen, but even the console ports of Unbounded lacked the feature. In other words, the multiplayer was basically a bulletpoint on features for the game. No one actually cared about molding it into a celebrated feature (something that should be sorely missed upon it’s closure).
Overall, I just wouldn’t bother playing this. Unless you just have a fondness for the Ridge Racer name, there isn’t much here that hasn’t been done better in other racers. Unbounded mostly made me pine for a new Burnout or to return to Burnout: Revenge. Even the crappy portable Burnout games are better than this drivel.
Went wrong somewhere along the line. The original idea might have promise, but in practice the game has failed. Threatens to be interesting sometimes, but rarely.
Tagged bandai, brooding, discussion, dtoid, funny, gaming, joke, mcgee, modern, namco, old-school, op/ed, pc, port, ps3, racing, Review, ridge racer, serious, useless tags, who cares, xbox 360
Sigy Says – Heretic Review
I was a big fan of Doom growing up in the 90’s, but I somehow missed out on all of the “Doom Clones.” I had a demo CD for the Mactintosh version of Star Wars: Dark Forces and I played a lot of Goldenye 007 on N64, but I never really played anything else like Doom.
One of the friends I made in middle school introduced me to Heretic and HeXen, but I couldn’t find copies for a reasonable price. Instead of borrowing or bootlegging the game, I decided to just wait until I had enough money in the future (which never seemed realistic at the time).
Flash forward to today and I’ve somehow managed to have Heretic on my Steam account for 5 years without playing it. I had forgotten about the QuakeCon pack from 2011 that included every iD title from that moment. Much to my surprise after having a Doom craze, I had some more Doom to explore.
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (PC [Reviewed], Mac OS)
Developer: Raven Software
Publisher: id Software
Released: December 23, 1994 (March 31, 1996 for Shadow of the Serpent Riders expansion)
Calling Heretic a “Doom clone” is doing the game an injustice, but it certainly has a lot of game feel similar to Doom. Almost every weapon is a reskin from Doom 2 and most of the monsters share similar properties to enemies seen in Doom. The designs are incredibly different (and really diverse), but it’s hard to initially get out of your mind that Heretic is just Doom with a different coat of paint.
Eventually, you start to pick up on some of the changes that developer Raven Software has crammed into Heretic. For starters, this is the first FPS I can think of with an inventory system. It allows for the level of challenge to be ramped up since the player can constantly hold a source of health on them.
Not only that, but you can carry around various power-ups to use in sticky situations. Other shooters at the same time forced you to utilize anything you picked up then and there; Heretic puts more control into the players hand with the inventory system.
It is a bit annoying how you need to scroll through and additionally select an item before using it, but I’ll let that slide due to the release date (1994). That something so genre bending was even pulled off on the Doom engine is just awesome, let alone how chaotic it makes combat feel.
Each weapon has a different ammo type. It solves the mini issue Doom suffered with having the pistol and chaingun share ammo; getting the chain gun made the pistol redundant. In Heretic, every weapon feels valuable at any given time. Even the dinky starter mage staff can become awesome with the correct power-up.
What isn’t so hot is how predictable the game becomes. At first, you’re not quite sure where to expect enemies to spawn from. Walking down corridors has walls dropping and enemies flying at you from all sides. By the time you reach the third episode, you’ve seen basically all of the tricks Heretic is ever going to throw at you.
That may have more to do with the original game only being 3 episodes, but episodes 4 and 5 really suffer from a lack of creativity. They are definitely difficult and well built (better than the rest of the game, even), but it feels dull after having played through 24 maps with similar layouts.
This is coupled with how the level design tends to have a lot of dead ends that require you to return to a centralized location. I’m guessing this was a precursor to the level design in the sequel, HeXen, where every map has a hub world. It does lend to some insanely confusing layouts, though.
The sound design is also pretty lackluster compared to Doom. On its own, the music is okay and the monsters sound like monsters, but nothing is distinct and most of the enemy sounds play at the same volume. It doesn’t feel as immersive as Doom, nor does it help the player distinguish which enemy is in an area with them.
The overuse of the first boss is also pretty lame. Maybe that is down to me playing on the second hardest difficulty, but I do wish there was more diversity in the boss encounters. Facing three of those floating giant skulls level after level becomes grating.
With all of that said, I still found Heretic to be really enjoyable. It contains enough originality that any comparison to Doom sounds nitpicky. Sure, Doom may be an overall more polished and enjoyable game, but that doesn’t make anything done in Heretic not worth seeing. Heretic is also considerably harder, so Doom veterans will be in for a treat.
Getting the game running on modern operating systems is also a breeze. Since id Software released the Doom source code a long time ago, any modern Doom source port works with Heretic. You can boot up zDoom and get Heretic going in any manner of resolution you want. Full mouse look is enabled and keys can be rebinded to whatever your fancy is. There is even support for internet play, which is pretty damn awesome.
It also doesn’t hurt that the current price is exceptional. $5 for a game that will take around 6-8 hours to finish is just solid value. If you want to spring a bit more, you can get the rest of the series on Steam for $5 more. That includes Heretic, HeXen and HeXen II. That’s a lot of classic first-person shooter action for a small chunk of change.
However you slice it, Heretic is pretty good. There are definitely things that Raven Software could have done to distinguish it from the crowd, but for a first attempt from an unknown developer, you could do worse. For the price, you’d be hard pressed to find much worse, though.
A solid game that definitely has an audience. Might lack replay value, could be too short or there are some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.
Tagged 2d, classic games, demons, first person shooter, fps, hell, heretic, id software, mac os, ms-dos, old-school, pc, raven software, retro
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No One Can Explain Exactly What Happened With These F-18s At Laguna Seca [Update: Now We Know]
Filed to:Racing
GIF via IMSA
Two F-18E Super Hornet fighter jets flew over Laguna Seca before this weekend’s IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge race, and they got very close at the end. Some fans reported to Jalopnik that they saw the planes touch wings. Others merely say a chunk of plane came off mid-air. Have you found a plane part somewhere in the hills around the track? We’d love to know. [Update: Wing touch confirmed! See update below.]
You can’t see anything too suspect on the broadcast, as everything’s a bit too far to get a close view or even the sound of two planes clunking wings mid-air. However, the two F-18s do get pretty close towards the end of this clip. It’s unclear whether they actually touched, however.
There was a lot of chatter after the fly-by that something at least fell off the F-18s. Witnesses at the track also say that a military helicopter appeared shortly after the mystery chunk flew off. Many figured the helicopter had to have been looking for that piece of plane.
One fan responding to driver Sage Karam was hilariously prescient with his remarks on the flyover:
We reached out to IMSA, whose spokesman did not know of any issues with the F-18 flyover. Clearly, whatever may have happened was pretty minor, as both planes were able to continue flying. We also reached out to Naval Air Station Lemoore, which was in charge of this flyover, but have not received an answer from them at the time of this writing.
So, the much-discussed flyover debris remains a mystery—that is, unless you somehow found a large souvenir in the Monterey area. Did you see the planes touch, or a piece fly off? Do you have the piece of F-18 in your living room now next to your salvaged Ferrari door? It’s time to go on a scavenger hunt, Monterey-area plane and/or car lovers—just let the NAS Lemoore folks know before you decide to keep it, please. It sounds like they may have been looking for this chunk, too.
Either way, we’d love to know the rest of the story: tips@jalopnik.com.
CORRECTION [9/28]: While technically this was before both the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship and Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge races, this was was specifically the opening for the CTSCC support race on Saturday. This has been corrected above. Our apologies for the confusion; clearly The Pass 2.0 is still on our minds.
UPDATE [9/29]: Commander Ron Flanders sent the following statement to us, confirming that the two planes in the flyover touched wingtips:
Two F/A-18E aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151 inadvertently bumped wingtips during a military appreciation day flyover of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Saturday Sept. 23. Both aircraft landed safely at Fresno International Airport. A small piece of the wing tip fell off one of the aircraft over an unpopulated area. There were no injuries and the incident is under investigation.
Flanders currently serves as a Public Affairs Officer for the Naval Air Forces.
[H/T PorscheFanatic!]
Driver Nails One Of The Most Insane Passes In Motorsport History To Win At Laguna Seca
Winner: This Dude Carrying Home A Race Car Door
Mazda Team Joest Has Started Testing Together And It's Still My Favorite New Thing
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Why Is There a Fake Dodge Charger Taillight on This Cadillac CT5 Prototype?
Filed to:cadillac
All Photos: Eric Petor
In an email titled “What is this car?” a reader named Eric sent us spy shots of a car sitting just outside of his workplace in Pittsburgh. The answer to his email title is almost certainly the upcoming Cadillac CT5, a sedan slated to replace the CTS and ATS. But the real question that should be in the subject line is: What’s with that fake Dodge Charger light covering the rear end?
I say this is a Cadillac CT5 because the spy shots of the hoodscoop-adorned sedan line up with a number of shots posted by other car news outlets, and they’re all saying this is a Cadillac CT5. Some of those outlets have photos showing what looks very much like a Cadillac front grille, so I have no reason to doubt this thing’s CT5-ness. (If you don’t believe me, check out the spy shots some of the other sites have run.)
The CT5 is, you may recall, the car that Reuters reported awhile back would replace the ATS and CTS. From that story:
“We have to rebalance our sedan portfolio,” Johan de Nysschen told Reuters in interview, offering new details about the strategy.
Cadillac will not directly replace the current XTS, CTS or ATS sedans when they end their life cycles in 2019, he said. Instead, Cadillac will use a single new car called the CT5 to appeal to consumers shopping for sedans priced between $35,000 and $45,000. New versions of the CT6 sedan will be offered to customers who want a larger car starting at $50,000.
The CT5 will be built at a factory near Lansing, Michigan, that currently builds the slow-selling Cadillac ATS and CTS models. A small luxury sedan to compete with the Audi A3 will be built in the same plant, de Nysschen said.
We all know crossovers are Cadillac’s moneymaker for the time being, but it still needs some sedans. And it’s hoping the CT5 will do double-duty.
Now that we got that out of the way, it’s time to address part of Eric’s email. Specifically, this one: “The tail lights are deceiving, as the outside lights up and the inside looks to be fake?” Eric was kind enough to send a picture to help explain the confusion.
Motor Authority speculates that the big section on the trunk lid that’s blocked off in the image above will be functional, writing:
“it looks like the taillights will be joined by a horizontal strip of LEDs, which seems to be in vogue among the luxury brands at present. Expect the actual taillights to be in the shape of a Cadillac fin-resembling boomerang as seen on the Escala concept.”
I’d say that’s likely, but the real mystery isn’t so much what that black and red bra is hiding, but rather why the heck that bra has a Dodge Charger taillight drawn on it. Here’s a closer look:
And now compare that to this:
Photo: Dodge
There are, of course, other cars that have similar taillights (like the Lincoln Continental), but come on—the taillight bra on this CT5 is a dead ringer for the Charger’s rear light design. I mean, just look above at the lights within the “Racetrack” taillight—there’s a thicker one on top on each side sitting on a thin light sliver. It matches what’s on the Cadillac mule. Between that, and the telephone shape to the “Racetrack” full-width light, it seems apparent that Cadillac—for whatever reason—put a fake Dodge Charger taillight over top of what I assume will be lights on the CT5's trunk lid.
I have no idea why. Perhaps for fun? Or maybe to throw people off to get them to think this is an FCA product and not a Caddy? Or maybe I’m missing something—who knows.
For now, it just seems a bit odd. But fun, in a way.
Cadillac Is Replacing The ATS And CTS With Just One Sedan Because You Jokers Didn't Buy Them
Cadillac CT5 Coupe Possibly Revealed In Patent Drawings And It Looks Great
Cadillac Has a Lot of Convincing to Do
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Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a gun safety forum Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Biden ads focus on early-voting states as he counters Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is committing to $6 million worth of television and digital advertising in the first four states on the 2020 election-year calendar. It’s the latest demonstration of an increasingly aggressive campaign as he tries to hold his place as the party’s top challenger to President Donald Trump.
The ad buy comes as the former vice president steps up his counter-attacks after disclosures about Trump’s effort to use the Ukrainian government to try to tarnish Biden, which has driven the Democratic-controlled House to undertake an impeachment inquiry.
Biden still sits atop most national Democratic primary polls, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren gained ground throughout the summer and pulled even or surpassed Biden in some recent Iowa and New Hampshire surveys.
Warren recently announced a $10 million advertising commitment in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, where Biden is now focusing his ad buys. Trump has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and is blanketing social media with advertising.
Biden’s buy also will include digital platforms YouTube, Hulu and streaming services for news and sports. The campaign says the effort will highlight Biden’s “core messages.” Those have combined dire warnings about Trump as a threat to the nation with policy proposals aimed at improving health care, education and economic opportunities for the middle class.
Biden first two television ads in Iowa offer clues for how the campaign hopes to promote Biden’s candidacy while making his arguments against Trump. One ad mixed images of Trump, Biden and former President Barack Obama. A voice-over describes Trump as “an erratic, vicious bullying president” and Biden as the “strong, steady, stable” alternative.
The second Iowa ad featured Biden talking about the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife and daughter, and the cancer diagnosis that claimed his adult son, Beau. “The fact of the matter is, health care is personal to me,” Biden said.
Follow Barrow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BillBarrowAP .
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Sponsored by …
Davon Demoss (USA – unattached)
great career at U of Memphis at 100, 200, 4×100 and 4×400
ran a brilliant 10.05 in the NCAA semi-final in June
bests of 6.61 in the 60 and 10.05 in the 100
currently women’s assistant TF coach at U of Memphis
Cick on Davon’s image to see more information.
Eddie Lovett (US Virgin Islands)
won 4 SEC conference indoor hurdle titles running for U of Florida (2011, ’12, ‘13 and ’14)
2013 NCAA and world university games gold medalist
2015 World championship competitor
2016 finalist at K of C, Millrose Games and the world championships and ran in the Rio Olympic Games
a Millrose Games hurdle finalist and a world championship semi-finalist outdoors in 2017 and indoors in 2018
Duan Asemota (Canada – Speed Academy Athletics)
competed for Ohio State
conference finalist in the 200 and 4×100
2nd in the 2018 Big Ten 100m (10.22) and in the NCAA 4x100m
represented Canada in the 2019 World Student Games
#14 ranked Canadian in 1019 at 10.36
Click on Duan’s image on the left to see more information.
Andrew Riley (Jamaica)
in 2012, he became first man to win both the 100m and the 110hurdles in the same NCAA championship
2013 World Championship finalist in the 110m hurdles
2014 Commonwealth Games champion
2016 Olympic semi-finalist
19th fastest in the world for the 110 hurdles in 2019 at 13.33 sec
Chad Zallow (USA – unattached)
NCAA All-American at Youngstown State, Ohio
triple gold medallist in conference indoors and out in ’17,’ 18 and ’19
Horizon League indoor track athlete of the year for 2019
9th fastest American in 2019 for the 60m H at 7.66 sec
Click on Chad’s picture on the left to see him race.
Benjamin Williams (Canada – Voleo Athletics)
4 x 100m silver medalist for Canada in 2017 Francophone games and bronze in the NACAC U23 champs,
2nd fastest Canadian of 2019 for 60m at 6.71 and 8th at 100m (10.27),
bests of 10.23 in the 100m and 20.79 at 200m
Click on Benjamin’s image on the left to see more information.
Siddhanth Thingalaya (India – Allstarz Mgmt)
won Australian National Championship in 2011, 2012 and 2013
2013 and 2014 Asian Games hurdle finalist
ran for India in the 2017 and 2018 World Championships and the 2012 and 2014 Commonwealth Games
current Indian record holder for 60mH (7.70) and 110mH (13.48)
Jackson Cheung (Canada – Kajaks)
ran for Canada in the PanAm Juniors in 2015
2017 Canada Games hurdles champion
2018 U-Sport hurdles finalist
4th fastest Canadian at 60m hurdles in 2019 (8.07)
Roland Dodoo (Canada – Oakville Legion TC)
returning for his fourth year in the K of C Games
5th in 2019 K of C 50m
#8 Cdn of 2019 at 6.80 for 60m and ran 10.36 for 100m
Click on Roland’s image to see more information. In this image we see Brandon Tyrrell (left) and ROLAND DODOO strain as they approach the finish line in the senior boys 100m final at the GHAC track and field championships in Hamilton.
Sean McLean (USA – Nike)
2011 Pan American Junior medalist (2nd at 100m and 1st in 4 x 100m)
bests of 5.77, 6.55 and 10.01 for 50m, 60m and 100m
defending K of C 50m champion and USA indoor championship bronze medalist at 60m
Austin Edwards (Canada – Running Wild TC)
#2 in Sask. for 60m in 2019 at 6.95sec and #2 at 300m in 34.04 sec.
#4 all-time Sask. 300m runner at 33.75
best for 60m is 6.93sec
Click on Austin’s image to see more information.
D’Angelo Cherry (USA – unattached)
6th fastest 60m in US college history
his best 60m time of 6.49 sec won the US and NCAA indoor-championships in 2013. That was the #1 time by an American and the 2nd fastest performance in the world that year.
3rd in K of C 50m and 60m last year
Cordero Gray (USA – unattached)
K of C 50m champion in 2012, 2013, 2017, 2nd in 2015
K of C 60m champion in 2013, 2014, 2nd in 2016
“Invitational Athlete of the Meet” in 2014
in Feb, he won the silver medal at US champs in a lifetime best of 6.59 after finishing 2nd here at K of C in 6.68
Sgt Marcus Maxey (USA, US Army / Nike)
5-time ACC medalist including gold in the 60H in 2012
has bests of 7.74 in the 60H and 13.48 in the 110H
this past summer he was a finalist in the Military World Games in Wuhan, China, organized by the International Military Sports Council
he’s an information technology specialist and member of the US Army World Class Athlete Program
Click on Marcus’s image on the left to see more information.
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Geographic Variation of Melanisation Patterns in a Hornet Species: Genetic Differences, Climatic Pressures or Aposematic Constraints?
Adrien Perrard ,
* E-mail: perrard@mnhn.fr
Affiliations UMR 7205 ISYEB, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
Mariangela Arca,
Affiliations Unité de Recherche IRD 072-UPR9034 CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution Génomes et Spéciation, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
Quentin Rome,
Affiliation UMR 7205 ISYEB, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Franck Muller,
Jiangli Tan,
Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Sanjaya Bista,
Affiliation Entomology Division, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC), Lalitpur, Nepal
Hari Nugroho,
Affiliation Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Cibinong, Bogor, Indonesia
Raymond Baudoin,
Affiliation CBNBP, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Michel Baylac,
Jean-François Silvain,
James M. Carpenter,
Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America
Claire Villemant
Adrien Perrard,
Jean-François Silvain
Adrien Perrard Mariangela Arca ... Claire Villemant
Coloration of stinging insects is often based on contrasted patterns of light and black pigmentations as a warning signal to predators. However, in many social wasp species, geographic variation drastically modifies this signal through melanic polymorphism potentially driven by different selective pressures. To date, surprisingly little is known about the geographic variation of coloration of social wasps in relation to aposematism and melanism and to genetic and developmental constraints. The main objectives of this study are to improve the description of the colour variation within a social wasp species and to determine which factors are driving this variation. Therefore, we explored the evolutionary history of a polymorphic hornet, Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836, using mitochondrial and microsatellite markers, and we analysed its melanic variation using a colour space based on a description of body parts coloration. We found two main lineages within the species and confirmed the previous synonymy of V. auraria Smith, 1852, under V. velutina, differing only by the coloration. We also found that the melanic variation of most body parts was positively correlated, with some segments forming potential colour modules. Finally, we showed that the variation of coloration between populations was not related to their molecular, geographic or climatic differences. Our observations suggest that the coloration patterns of hornets and their geographic variations are determined by genes with an influence of developmental constraints. Our results also highlight that Vespa velutina populations have experienced several convergent evolutions of the coloration, more likely influenced by constraints on aposematism and Müllerian mimicry than by abiotic pressures on melanism.
Citation: Perrard A, Arca M, Rome Q, Muller F, Tan J, Bista S, et al. (2014) Geographic Variation of Melanisation Patterns in a Hornet Species: Genetic Differences, Climatic Pressures or Aposematic Constraints? PLoS ONE 9(4): e94162. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094162
Editor: Alexandre Roulin, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Received: September 19, 2013; Accepted: March 11, 2014; Published: April 16, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Perrard et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This work was funded by two ATM (“Formes possibles, formes réalisées” and “Biodiversité actuelle et fossile”) from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, the Bourse Eole of the Franco-Netherland alliance and the Bourse Germaine Cousin of the Société Entomologique de France. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Geographic variation of coloration is one of the most striking aspects of diversity within many species [1], [2]. Numerous factors could influence this colour variation, including evolutionary drift [3], but also various selection forces triggered by environmental differences between populations [1], [4]. One of the factors of selection on coloration is aposematism, the use of a highly visible signal to warn predators of unpalatability [4]–[6], such as the black and light stripes of wasps [7]–[9]. Efficiency of aposematic signals relies on the frequency of this signal in the habitats and its probability to be experienced by predators [4], [10], [11]. Therefore, it may seem counter-intuitive to find colour diversity under aposematic constraints. However, colour variation occurs in many aposematic species [11]–[13]. In these species, selection on aposematic signals can also interact with other selective pressures for driving the colour variation in the species. For example, the main colour variation within wasp species is a change in the degree of dark pigmentation, or melanisation, inducing light- or dark-coloured morphs and confusing the taxonomy of the group [14], [15], [16]. This melanism is known to be of adaptive importance in insects: it has been related to crypsis, to thermoregulation and to the resistance to pathogens [17]–[20]. Selection on melanism can thus interact with selection on aposematic patterns of coloration [21]. Surprisingly, the potential relations of intra-specific colour variation with aposematism and melanism have been rarely studied in social wasps (but see [16]). In this study, our aim is to determine which factors influenced the geographic variation of coloration within a species of wasp.
In many organisms, melanism is expressed by a roughly homogeneous increase of the melanin pigmentation over the body [19], [20]. On the contrary, in aposematic insects such as wasps and ladybirds, contrasted colours are a major component of the warning signal. In these organisms, melanism occurs through an increase of the area of delimited melanic patterns on the body [22], [23], [19]. We thus described the variation in coloration of the species by the variation of these melanic patterns.
Warning signal in wasps includes the colour patterns of the different body segments. In order to maintain a recognizable warning signal among the different colour variants, the variation of body parts may follow an integrated process over the entire body, i.e. the different segments would vary in a coordinated way, thus maintaining the unity of the general pattern [24], [25]. Furthermore, the different body parts are not likely to play an equivalent role in the warning signal. The coloration of some body parts may be either affected by stronger selective pressures or be under the influence of the same developmental pathways. These phenomena would result in modularity [26], i.e. some body parts co-varying more between them than with the other parts, forming colour “modules”. Integration and modularity may enhance the quality of the warning signal of the different colour variants by conserving a coherent pattern between the different body parts involved in this signal.
The evolutionary history of the species is also a major component in understanding the colour variation. In case of highly convergent variation in distantly related populations, the melanism variation could be induced by selective pressures caused either by abiotic factors related to climate, or biotic factors related to aposematism. If melanism convergence was caused by abiotic factors, melanisation should present geographical or altitudinal clines related to climatic proximity [27]. On the other hand, the geographical variation of coloration driven by aposematic pressures would more likely reflect a mosaic of locally selected phenotypes than a cline [28].
We studied the colour variation of the yellow-legged hornet Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 which presents a dozen distinct colour morphs across its distribution in South-East Asia [15], [22], [29] (Fig. 1). Its coloration varies among populations from almost entirely yellow or orange to extensively black [15], [30], and can be labile within populations. This phenomenon underlay previous distinction of a second species, Vespa auraria Smith, 1852, because of the apparent sympatry in different localities of this colour form with another form called nigrithorax [14], [31].
Figure 1. Known distribution of the different colour morphs of Vespa velutina across south-east Asia.
In order to assess the evolutionary history of the species across its distribution and to disentangle potential taxonomic differences that could bias the analysis, we first explored the genetic relatedness of Vespa velutina populations using mitochondrial DNA sequences and microsatellite markers. Then, to quantify the colour variation of the individuals, we built a “colour space” from the gradual colour variation between populations based on the measure of melanic patterns of the different body parts. We tested the integration of the melanic variation and its modular nature through the correlation of the body parts vectors in the colour space. Finally, we tested whether the colour variation across the species was congruent with the genetic variation, geographic clines or a spatial mosaic by comparing geographic, genetic and phenotypic distances. These analyses allowed us to answer the following questions:
Is auraria a lineage genetically divergent from the other colour morphs of V. velutina?
Is the colour variation of hornet well depicted by a “colour space” based on melanic patterns?
Was the coloration of an aposematic species influenced by developmental processes such as integration and modularity?
Was the colour variation driven by genetic variation or differences in climatic niches?
We then discussed the implications of our results for the understanding of the development and variation of colour patterns in social wasps.
A total of 448 specimens of Vespa velutina from 216 localities were studied, including 125 recently collected specimens from 69 different localities from Nepal, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and six Indonesian islands. Other specimens used in this study were assembled from public and private collections. No endangered or protected species were sampled for this study. Specimens sampled in Indonesian and Vietnam were collected partially in national parks with the corresponding authorizations: the research permits were obtained from the head office of the forest protection and nature conservation in Indonesia and from the Tropical Institute for Biology in Vietnam; the permits to collect in National Parks (NP) were delivered by the local authorities of Gunung Rinjani NP in Lombok (Indonesia), of Laiwangi Wanggameti NP in Sumba (Indonesia) and of the Bidoup-Nui Ba NP in Vietnam. The localities sampled in other countries were not protected in any way. No specific permits were required for these collections made in collaboration with local researchers and authorizations of the land owners. Indonesian vouchers were stored at the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense. Other vouchers were housed in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. The study of public collection specimens was allowed by curators Y. Gérard and A. Drumont (Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Brussels), J. van Achterberg (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden), G. Broad (Natural History Museum, London) and F. Gusenleitner (Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseen, Linz). The study of private collection specimens was granted by their owners J. Gusenleitner, J. Haxaire, J.-L. Renesson and P. Tripotin.
Over the 216 studied localities, populations were delineated based on colour morphs, geographic distances and ecological environments. We defined ten continental populations (Kashmir, Nepal, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Guangdong, north of Vietnam, south of Vietnam, Thailand, Kra and Malaysia), and eight insular populations from Taiwan and nine Indonesian islands (Sumatra, Java with Bali, Lombok with Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Sulawesi and Timor) (Fig. 2, Table 1). Four populations (Kashmir, Nepal, Thailand and Yunnan) each encompass two to three colour morphs for which colour distributions are known to overlap in these areas (Fig. 1). The delineation of these populations was based on the geographic distances of collected individuals and altitude. For example Yunnan specimens were defined as specimens from the mountains while Thailand specimens were defined as located at lower altitude in the North Indo-Burman valley. Three closely-related species were used as outgroup: V. bicolor Fabricius, 1787, V. simillima Smith, 1868, and V. vivax Smith, 1870 [32].
Figure 2. Sampling of Vespa velutina across the distribution of the species.
Dotted populations are represented by less than 10 specimens.
Table 1. Population sampling.
DNA extraction, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequencing and Genotyping
Recently collected specimens were preserved in 95% ethanol. Genomic DNA was extracted from legs using QIAGEN ‘DNeasy tissue Kit’.
A 658 bp sequence of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome C oxidase subunit I (CO1) was amplified for 119 specimens of V. velutina, one of V. bicolor, one of V. vivax and one of V. simillima using universal primer sequences HCO and LCO [33]. DNA amplification followed the standard Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) protocol of the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding [34]. PCR products were checked on a 2% agarose gel. The purified PCR products were sequenced in both directions. BIOEDIT 7.0.5.3 and CodonCode Aligner V.3.5 were used to align both strands of DNA [35]. Sequences were truncated to the same length (658 bp) to avoid missing data. No insertions, deletions or stop codons were found in the alignment.
Genotypes of V. velutina populations were assessed using 11 of the 15 microsatellite loci previously developed for the analysis of the origin of the invasion of V. velutina in France: D2-185, R4-100, R4-114, D3-15, R1-36, R1-75, R1-77, R4-33, R1-137, R1-169 and D2-142 [36], as well as two supplementary loci (List 2015 and List 2020B) [37]. PCR protocols and genotype scoring are detailed by Arca [38]. Because of high frequencies of missing values in the sample caused by low-quality template DNA, the other loci used in Arca et al. [36] were not analyzed.
Genetic analyses
Haplotype network and diversity among CO1 sequences were calculated using NETWORK 4.6.1.0 software [39]. An evolutionary tree based on CO1 sequences was computed using the Maximum Likelihood criterion (ML) under a GTR model with PhyML 2.4.4 [40]. Bootstrap supports were calculated from 1000 resamplings.
We built a Neighbor Joining (NJ) tree [41] of individuals using (microsatellite) shared allele distances (DAS; [42]) with the R software and “ape” library [43], and performed a Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) on these distances. Population structure was explored using Bayesian clustering through STRUCTURE 2.0 software [44]. We used admixture model and correlated frequencies. Length of the burnin and the MCMC were 10.000 and 100.000 respectively. Simulations were iterated 10 times for each number of clusters from K = 2 to K = 15. Specimen assignment to a cluster was defined by the probability of the specimen to belong to this cluster with a threshold of 0.5.
Descriptive statistics of populations based on microsatellite data as the genetic diversity estimate θ were obtained using Arlequin 3.01 [45].
Colour pattern analyses
The curved nature of most body segments of wasps makes a standardized quantification of colour over the insect body difficult, due to reflectance and luminosity problems caused by the 3D structure. Furthermore, colour of specimens in natural history collections can be altered by the different collecting methods and conservation conditions. Direct colour quantification using common photograph and pixel-based methods are hardly suitable to such analyses. On the other hand, a semi-quantitative characterisation of melanin patterns can be applied.
We identified the melanic patterns, or modalities, of the different body parts using the original descriptions of V. velutina colour morphs and the observation of 448 collection specimens. Body parts with constant coloration (e.g. clypeus, propodeum), rare colour variation present in less than 5% of the specimens studied (e.g. middle- and hind-femora) or variation without clear patterns (e.g. coxae) were not included in the analysis.
We found 23 recurrent colour variations over the body parts, four concerning the head, five the mesosoma, three the legs, seven the metasomal dorsum and four the metasomal sterna (Table 2, Fig. 3). These characters were coded in two to five modalities, giving a total of 73 patterns depicted in Figure 4 (cf. Appendix S1). For each analysed body part, extreme melanic patterns were coded as two binary characters of the presence/absence of the darkest and the lightest modalities. Intermediate modalities were coded following a fuzzy coding between these two extreme characters [46]. In practice, it is equivalent to coding the modalities following their ranking in an ordination of the modalities from one extreme to the other as: where r is the rank of the coded modality, starting from 0 for the extreme modality not described by the character, for example the darkest modality for a character of presence/absence of the lightest modality, and n the total number of modalities.
Figure 3. Terminology of the studied body parts of Vespa velutina.
Characters coding variation of melanisation are in bold and numbered from one to 23. The twelfth character (spot at the apex of the hind-tibia) is not depicted.
Figure 4. Modalities of colour characters.
Each colour character was depicted independently from the others. The ensemble of colour patterns gathered in a given illustration is thus not necessarily reflecting an actual coloration found in wild organisms. A. Variation of the four head characters in dorsal view. B. Variation of the four dorsal mesosomal characters. C. Variation of the lateral mesosoma character and the two anterior leg characters. The hind leg with a spot at the apex of the hind-tibia was not depicted. D. Variation of the seven dorsal metasomal characters. E. Variation of the four ventral metasomal characters.
Table 2. List and descriptions of colour characters.
Only workers were coded in order to avoid bias caused by social colour dimorphism within the species [15].
We analysed the resulting matrix of 46 variables ranging from 0 to 1 using a correspondence analysis (CA). The coding in two opposed variables for each character induced a marginal value identical for every individual, independently from their melanisation level, and so the same weight in the CA. In such analysis, colour variation is estimated by semi-quantitative variables describing the level of melanisation of each body part. Because the modalities of a given body part could also be considered as independent discrete states between populations, we also computed a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) on a matrix considering each modality as a variable. The second analysis being based on 73 variables, its description of colour variation was seemingly more precise than the one using the fuzzy coding. However, the CA with fuzzy coding has the advantage of describing the variation of melanic patterns of each body part by a linear direction in the resulting multivariate “colour space”. In the MCA, the variation of a single body part is described by a succession of vectors, due to the different modalities.
In order to quantify the accuracy of the colour spaces from the two analyses, we compared the distribution of individuals in these spaces to the classes of colour morphs distinguished by systematists. We tested for the separation of individuals from these different morphs in the colour spaces using cross-validation from a canonical variate analyses.
Both light and dark characters of a body part being vectors with opposite directions from the origin in the CA, we estimated the directions of variation of melanic patterns in the colour space by focusing only on variables describing the lightest modalities. We used these directions to compute a correlation matrix between colour characters in order to explore the potential integration and modularity of the melanisation variation. We tested for melanisation integration in organisms by comparing correlations between characters. If melanisation is an integrated process over the entire body, correlation between “light” variables of the different body parts should be mostly positive.
Comparison of colour, genetic and geographic diversity
In order to test the congruence of colour pattern variation with genetic and geographic variation, the distances between colour patterns were compared to the geographic, climatic and genetic distances using pairwise vectors correlation (RV) tests on principal coordinates. The RV coefficient is a multivariate equivalent of the correlation coefficient and addresses the relationship between two sets of variables drawn from a same sample [47], [48]. Its significance was tested using an approximation of a permutation distribution with the library “FactoMineR” in R [49], [50]. The different distances were simultaneously available for 84 specimens from eight populations because the genetic sampling comprised fragmented specimens or specimens from the queen caste. Both individual and population distances were analysed. Geographic distances were computed as geodesic distances between GPS coordinates of the different sample localities using the library “oce” [51]. Genetic distances were computed as allele-shared distances and haplotypic distances. Climatic distances were computed on scores of a Principal Component Analysis of eight climatic variables used in a previous niche modelling of the species [52]: Annual mean temperature, Temperature seasonality, Maximum and Minimum annual temperatures, Annual precipitation, Maximum and Minimum monthly precipitations and Precipitation seasonality. These variables were extracted from the BIOCLIM database as five arc-minutes grids (http://www.worldclim.org/; [53]) on the basis of GPS coordinates, and scaled by their standard deviation. Colour pattern variation was described from scores of the CA. Principal coordinates requiring Euclidean distances, genetic and geodesic distances were transformed following Lingoes [54]. Disparity between the distance matrices was visualised using neighbour joining on the dissimilarity matrix with one minus the squared RV coefficient as a dissimilarity index. We illustrated details of the dissimilarity between haplotypic and phenotypic data by plotting the correlation matrix of distances per individuals between the two datasets and their corresponding hierarchical clustering with the “gplots” package [55]. Under the hypothesis of a strong similarity, the structure of the two clustering trees should be equivalent and the correlation of distances for each individual should approach one. Consequently, the correlation matrix of distances should present clear blocks of high and low correlations related to the corresponding clusters.
The low intra-population diversity produced a similar structure in every distance matrix computed on individual distances. In order to test the correlation of phenotypic, geographic and genetic distances among populations, we also computed distances between populations' colour, climatic, geodesic and genetic averages. We used respectively population mean colour and climatic scores, mean GPS coordinates and mean DAS and haplotype distances.
Previous studies used Fst and Qst estimates to compare phenotypic and neutral genetic differentiation between populations and to test for geographic clines (e.g. [56], [27]). However, these estimates involve the intra-population variation [57] which can hardly be estimated for lowly sampled populations such as some of ours. Furthermore, Qst computation requires an assessment of the heritability and of the additive genetic variance of the phenotype [27], [58]. These values were unknown for the wing shape of social wasps and a sensitivity analysis showed that they critically influenced our Qst estimates. Therefore, we chose not to use these estimates in our study.
Haplotype diversity
We found 25 different haplotypes in our mitochondrial DNA sampling of V. velutina. Populations were separated into two main clusters: a cluster from the Indonesian archipelago and a cluster from mainland populations (Fig. 5A). More than 15 mutations occurred between these two clusters, while the maximum of divergence within each cluster reaches 11 and 12 mutations for mainland and Indonesian haplotypes respectively (Fig. 5B, C).
Figure 5. ML tree and haplotype network of CO1 variability of the populations of V. velutina.
A - ML tree computed on CO1 sequences. Scale bar represents the expected mutation per site, node values are bootstrap supports. B - Haplotype network. White diamonds are the inferred mutations. C - Populations sampled. Size of triangles (A) and circles (C) are proportional to the related number of specimens having these haplotypes.
In the ML tree Indonesian haplotypes were grouped in the cluster that was the sister group of all other Asian haplotypes. They were more similar to Nepalese haplotypes than to haplotypes from other geographically closer populations. Indonesian haplotypes exhibited high genetic diversity within and between populations without shared haplotypes between islands.
Haplotypes from mainland Asia were split in two groups not entirely congruent with the geography of populations. Nepalese haplotypes were basal or grouped with haplotypes from the southern part of Vietnam but this group was not supported by bootstrap values. Thai and Yunnan haplotypes were related to Zhejiang haplotypes in a relatively well supported group.
Genotype diversity
Allele-shared distances were congruent with distance computed with CO1 in distinguishing mainland from Indonesian specimens in the NJ tree. Overall, mainland specimens were split between a western cluster with the specimens from Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam, and an eastern cluster with specimens from Zhejiang. Specimens from Yunnan formed three different groups spread over these two clusters.
Nepal and Zhejiang populations displayed on average similar genetic diversity (θ = 2.29 and 2.55 respectively) with similar number of localities sampled, but the highest genetic diversity was found in the Yunnan population (θ = 2.64).
We found a significant departure from Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium for many loci of the Yunnan population and for the L2015 and the R4-114 loci of the Nepal population. We thus excluded them from the Bayesian clustering.
Bayesian clustering distinguished Indonesian and continental populations from K = 2 (Fig. 6). According to Evanno's method, K = 4 would be the best estimate number of clusters in the sampling [59], [60]. At K = 4, continental specimens were split across three clusters, one with Nepal and Thai specimens, a second with Zhejiang specimens and a third with those from Vietnam. With increasing number of K, new clusters occurred mostly within the Zhejiang and Nepal clusters. These relationships may be obscured by the higher allelic diversity found in the Zhejiang and Nepal samples. With K greater than 7, new clusters were not congruent among iterations of simulations. The Indonesian cluster remained as a whole in most iteration, but Sulawesi specimens were found separated from other Indonesian populations in few iterations from K = 5.
Figure 6. Bayesian clustering of Vespa velutina specimens with microsatellite data.
Most recurrent results of Bayesian clustering on microsatellite data with increasing number of clusters K. These results were the clusters found in more than 60% of the analyses.
Colour diversity
The CA returned a colour space with 23 dimensions of which the first dimension gathered 40.64% of the total variation. This axis described a variation from dark to light characters states (Fig. 7). All the vectors of the lightest modalities were on the positive part of the axis. The second dimension encompassed 13.05% of the variation and essentially opposed the coloration of the metanotum and anterior metasomal dorsum to that of the head, legs and pronotum. The third component, accounting for 9.23% of the variation, opposed the coloration of antennal scape and mesepisternum to the coloration of ventral and apico-dorsal metasomal surfaces and the presence of a spot on hind-tibia. The fourth to seventh components mostly described the variation of two characters in relation to all the others: the spot at the apex of the hind-tibia and the spot on the mesepisternum.
Figure 7. Colour space of Vespa velutina specimens.
Two first dimensions of the colour space resulting from a correspondence analysis on melanisation described by two binary variables of the extreme light and dark coloration for each body part. Intermediate modalities were integrated using a fuzzy coding. Coloured spots described the mean values of each colour morphs (see Fig. 1). Colour forms: N = nigrithorax. K = karnyi. C = celebensis. V = velutina. U = flavitarsus. W = variana. T = timorensis. R = ardens. A = auraria. F = floresiana. D = divergens. P = pruthii. B = sumbana.
Cross-validation confirmed that the colour space separated most of the colour morphs: more than 92.05% of specimens were correctly attributed to their respective colour morph. Of the 31 specimens misidentified from their colour coding, six corresponded to bad discrimination between the auraria and pruthii morphs, for which the main divergence concerns leg colours not taken into account in the analysis.
The MCA resulted in a similar distribution of the specimens with the first axis of global melanisation encompassing 20.8% of the variation. This analysis returned a colour-space with higher dimensionality allowing only for a slightly more accurate attribution of the specimens to their respective colour morphs with cross-validation (93.08%). Results of the MCA will thus not be further discussed.
The correlation matrix computed between the vectors of lighter coloration of the different body parts in the colour space defined by the CA showed 96.84% of positive correlations (Fig. 8). The negative correlations opposed primarily the presence of a colour spot at the apex of hind tibia and the darkening of the fourth metasomal tergum to the darkening of the scape, the metanotum, the first three metasomal terga and the fourth metasomal sternum. Correlation between colour patterns revealed two complexes of correlated characters: one including the three head characters, the anterior leg, pronotum, mesoscutum and scutellum and the other the colour patterns of the metanotum and the three first metasomal terga.
Figure 8. Correlation between the colour variation of body parts.
Correlation matrix of the vectors of variation of light colour characters in the colour space (see Fig. 7). Blue marks indicate negative correlation among the two characters.
Comparisons using RV test on the individual distances resulted in a significant relatedness between every dataset. The RV coefficient was the highest between climatic and geodesic distances (RV = 0.680) and the lowest between mitochondrial and colour distances (RV = 0.163). Correlation matrix and hierarchical clustering showed low correlations and clear differences in the structure of these haplotypic and phenotypic distances (Fig. 9). Correlation between the two types of distances was low for most of the specimens. Overall the correlation matrix was not highly structured. Clustering using mitochondrial distances grouped individuals per populations except for Sulawesi, Flores and one specimen from Yunnan, and distinctly separated continental and Indonesian populations. On the contrary, phenotypic distances split most populations and mixed distant specimens. The two main colour clusters separated specimens from Zhejiang, Java, Sulawesi and some specimens from Nepal in one group characterized by a dark head and mesosoma, and specimens from Yunnan, Zhejiang, Vietnam, Flores and Lombok populations presenting a lighter head and mesosoma, in a second group.
Figure 9. Detailed dissimilarity of haplotypic and colour distances between individuals.
Correlation matrix between haplotypic distances (rows) and phenotypic distances (columns) with associated dendrograms. Correlation between distances of a same individual are marked with white squares. Under the hypothesis of similarity between the data, the trees should have the same structure and the individual correlations should approach one. Furthermore, high correlations should be organised in well delimited blocks corresponding to clusters. Haplotypic distances were computed on CO1 sequences and phenotypic distances were computed as the Euclidean distance between individuals in the colour space. Correlation coefficients ranged from −0.6 to 0.6. Dendrograms resulted from complete-linkage clusterings and should not be interpreted as evolutionary trees. Order of specimens differs in rows and columns. Populations: L = Lombok; F = Flores; J = Java; N = Nepal; S = Sulawesi; V = Vietnam; Y = Yunnan; Z = Zhejiang.
Population distances returned fewer significant relationships between the different datasets. Mitochondrial, geodesic and climatic distances were still significantly related but these datasets were no more related to the colour distances and to distances based on genotype data (Table 3).
Table 3. Results of pairwise RV tests between populations.
Evolution of Vespa velutina
Our results highlighted two main genetic groups of populations: one from continental Asia and the other from the Indonesian islands. Genetic variation for CO1 within the Indonesian cluster was equivalent to the variation observed within the continental group. However, the structure of the Indonesian variation was not congruent with geography. The low sampling of these islands limited a more detailed interpretation of this structure and may explain the absence of resolution found with the Bayesian clustering on microsatellite markers. Within the continental cluster, mitochondrial and nuclear markers returned distinct results. Sequences of CO1 clustered populations from Nepal and Vietnam while Thailand, Yunnan and Zhejiang specimens were in a different clade (Fig. 5). The microsatellite markers supported a different partition of populations with Nepal and Thailand as a group, Zhejiang and Vietnam being independent populations (Fig. 6). These differences could be explained by the different transmission of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA combined with the unequal sample sizes of populations. Bayesian clustering returned subgroups within the two populations with the largest samples, Nepal and Zhejiang (Fig. 4), while the discrepancies in results between markers involved Vietnam and Thailand populations, both having very low sample diversity. Subgroups found within the continental group should therefore not be considered as relevant biological groups without further genetic data. Both markers confirmed nonetheless that Yunnan sample was genetically heterogeneous, potentially influenced by high migration from the surrounding populations.
The strong genetic difference between continental and Indonesian populations suggested an ancient divergence of these groups of populations. It also raised the question of a potential speciation of southern populations. Two populations from Sumatra and Peninsular Malaysia are located between these continental and southern populations. The absence of molecular data from these two intermediate populations limits our understanding of the isolation of the Indonesian and continental populations. Furthermore, the lack of morphological characters discriminating the two main groups did not support the hypothesis of a long isolation leading to a speciation event.
The presence of a continental cluster confirmed that populations of the auraria colour form belong to the same species as populations of the nigrithorax and variana forms [31]. Populations of the auraria colour form were long considered as a different species on the basis of sympatry with the colour form nigrithorax in north-eastern India, Nepal, Burma, Assam and western China [29]. In fact, these two colour forms may interbreed: they present intermediate coloration forms in a single locality, as in our Nepal sample presenting typical auraria specimens and darker specimens with a coloration somewhat similar to the nigrithorax form as observed in northern Vietnam [31]. Considering the close relationships between Nepalese nigrithorax and auraria specimens, the different populations of nigrithorax, and possibly auraria, observed in Figure 1 are likely convergent evolution in different populations.
Patterns of melanisation
We quantified the variation of melanism across V. velutina distribution by decomposing the global melanisation pattern into a suite of discrete variations of the different body parts. Some of the colour variation between the populations of V. velutina could not be included in this analysis focusing on defined melanic patterns. For example, the differences in light colour that are clearly yellow or reddish in the different populations were not coded and some variation in leg melanisation was too labile or too rare to be taken into account without overweighting these characters. However, the high rate of correct identification of specimens to their colour morph confirmed that a characterisation of melanin patterns of the different sclerites is a good estimate of the colour variation across the species. Furthermore, the use of a fuzzy coding forcing each character variation to follow a linear direction in the colour space minimally affected the results, when compared to a more complex colour space of each variation considered as a discrete binary variable.
This quantification of melanism highlighted that the melanisation of numerous sclerites varies differently in V. velutina (Table 2). Each sclerite tended to have a well defined set of particular and complex melanin patterns across the distribution (Fig. 4). These patterns involved mostly an antero-posterior extension of the black stripes, on the metasoma (Fig. 4.D and E). Other segments like mesoscutum, metanotum or mesepisternum presented well-defined marks of light colours which size may vary (Fig. 4.B). Finally, these patterns seemed restricted to a given sclerite, not extending to different segments.
Genetic bases of melanin production and patterning genes
The genetic control of pigmentation has been widely studied, notably in fruit flies and butterfly wings [61]–[64]. This genetic control occurs at different scales in melanin synthesis: directly on the genes coding for proteins of the synthesis chain, like the yellow gene [61], [62]; indirectly on genes coding for proteins altering melanin precursors, like ebony [65]; or on genes modifying the expression of these two previous groups of genes, like engrailed or Abdomen-B [66]. Patterning expression of these genes has been related to the diffusion of small compounds called “morphogens” from source cells through the tissues during the development [67]–[69]. Morphogen diffusion is tightly related to temperature, but also to body topology: for example, wing veins act as barriers in signal diffusion across the wing [70], [71]. This may explain why some light or dark spots in hornets do not extend to their neighbouring sclerites through cuticular sutures, such as those on the metanotum or mesepisternum (Fig. 4).
In our analysis, the black and yellow stripes of the different metasomal segments were formed by an apical yellow stripe extending more or less anteriorly and often interrupted by a median band and sometimes lateral spots of melanin (Fig. 4.D). This variation appeared strikingly similar to the patterned activities of three genes Hox, decapentaplegic, wingless and engrailed, regulating the abdominal pigmentation in Drosophila melanogaster [72]–[74] (Fig. 10). In the fruitfly, engrailed was found responsible for the light band on the posterior margin by repressing the expression of the yellow gene, blocking the production of melanin [74]. On another hand, decapentaplegic seems to enhance the formation of the median band of melanin [72]. Interaction between these three genes and the variation of their level of expression could explain the complex patterns of melanisation of the metasomal segments of social wasps [75]. These three genes are probably not the only genes involved in the variation of melanin patterns, but they may be good candidates for identifying genes involved in the formation of patterns in metasoma melanisation.
Figure 10. Expression patterns of regulatory genes and variation of melanisation in metasomal segments.
A. Expression patterns of engrailed (en), wingless (wg) and decapentaplegic (dpp) on an abdominal tergum of Drosophila (modified from [75], after [72], [74]). B. Variation of melanisation of the third metasomal tergum of V. velutina. The blue dotted lines represent the part of the segment covered by the second tergum.
Variation of melanisation between the different segments
The first axis of variation in the colour space described a global variation in melanisation and appeared positively correlated to the 23 variables of light coloration (Fig. 7). Furthermore these variables were positively correlated in 96.84% of the pairwise comparisons. The correlation between vectors of melanisation of each body part was not homogeneous and suggested two modules: one combining the melanisation of the cephalic capsule together with the pronotum and scutellum, and another the melanisation of the three first metasomal terga with metanotum and in a lesser extent with mesoscutum (Fig. 8). Together, these results suggested a partial integration of melanisation variation over the body, with potential regionalisation of this phenotype.
Because the aposematic signal is located over the entire body in social wasps, such integration and modularity may enhance the quality of the warning signal of the different variants. Colour integration over the body may result from variation of the general regulation of coloration. Two regulation processes of the pigmentation are hormonal levels, melanin production being related to ecdysone titre [75], [76], and genetic variations. Sensitivity of genes involved in melanin synthesis to morphogens may differ from one population to another: the influence of the different morphogens in inhibiting or stimulating a gene expression results from the ability of their transcriptional regulators to bind to a regulatory region of the DNA next to the coding part of the gene [77]. For the yellow gene, a cis-regulatory promoter has been identified as responsible for pigmentation difference between species due to evolutionary changes altering the number of binding sites of the regulators [78], [66]. Variation in these cis-regulatory sequences returned different pigmentations of several body parts, either the whole abdomen, sometime with the thorax, or only the two last abdominal segments. The integration of melanism over the body and its structure in modules may thus be linked to variation in hormonal production, but also to a difference in regulatory genes' sensitivity to morphogens' signals that evolutionary changes alter from one population to another.
Colour variation between populations
Our results of comparisons of distance matrices showed that colour pattern diversity did not match the evolutionary history described by our analysis of molecular markers, nor the geographic distances or the climatic similarity between populations (Figs. 9). Climate, geographic and mitochondrial based distances presented similar structure, but the data based on genotypic and phenotypic distances were differently structured. The absence of congruence between genotypic and CO1 sequences or geography may indicate an influence of the restricted population sampling on the genotypic distances. Another hypothesis would be an unbalanced dispersal of males and females in the species, with males dispersing more than females; however this is not congruent with our current knowledge of this species [79], [52].
Non congruence of colour-based distances with the other dataset was explained by the presence of several populations having very dark colour patterns both in Indonesia and on the continent, while a southern Indonesian population has the lightest colour morph, similar to the Malaysian population and, in a lesser extent, to the continental eastern populations (Fig. 1). On the other hand, Indonesian and continental populations are two divergent lineages discriminated by both mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Most of the similar patterns of melanisation found between these two lineages are thus convergences with different evolutionary origins.
In theory, such convergence could be either induced by a high phenotypic plasticity or by convergent evolutions of genes regulating the melanisation process. Phenotypic plasticity of the coloration has been shown in butterflies through day-length influence on the hormonal production [80] and in paper wasps through variation in rearing temperature [81] and diet [82]. Tibetts highlighted that diet influenced only limited melanin patterns involved in social signal such as the clypeus markings [82]. MacLean and her collaborators showed that colour variation in paper wasps induced by a rearing temperature change did not reach the inter-population variation [16]. Furthermore, diet of a single colony of hornet can change through the season in temperate areas [79] without inducing a colour variation in individuals (pers. obs.). Finally, in contrast to the paper wasps studied by Green et al. [81], hornet larvae develop in enclosed nests with buffered temperature and humidity, lowering the influence of external physical factors [83], [84]. Dark specimens of V. velutina from semi-tropical China have been accidentally introduced to temperate areas of France and Korea several years ago [52], [85] and these invasive populations did not change in coloration [85], [86]. It is therefore unlikely that the observed convergences in coloration of several V. velutina populations are due to phenotypic plasticity induced by similar local factors.
A more probable hypothesis is a parallelism in the evolution of the regulatory and patterning genes either by similar or dissimilar mutations [87]. This evolution may also have been influenced by extrinsic factors through selection: melanism, with a genetic basis, can have both positive and negative impacts on the organism's fitness [19], [20]. The different factors that may induce a selection on melanism are related to the climate and associated environments, but also to the local communities of predators and of Müllerian mimics.
Climatic pressures
Climate is known to have an influence on melanism in insects. Melanism has been related to thermoregulation [88] and dessication resistance [89], [90]. Higher melanic insects were found to warm up faster under the sun, to reach higher temperature, but also to lose less water and resist desiccation better than lighter morphs [88], [89].
However, studies do not agree on the distribution of melanic forms. Some authors suggest that melanism occurs mostly in dry environments [89], while other argues that they are found in cool and wet habitats [16], [88] or in tropical areas [91]. Our results concur only partially with this last study. Two of the least melanised populations occur respectively in Nepal and in the driest island of the distribution of V. velutina in Indonesia while geographically intermediate populations are mostly darker, with the exception of the population from Malaysia. However, we found only low structured climatic differences between the localities of light and dark coloured populations and no cline is visible (Fig. 1). Melanism does not appear to be influenced by altitude, average or extreme temperatures or humidity of the locality of sampling. Especially, the difference between the geographically close Malaysian and Sumatran colour forms, respectively the lightest and the darkest, rejects the hypothesis of climate pressures as the major evolutionary force driving colour polymorphism in V. velutina.
Predator pressures
Besides physical elements of the environment, hornets are likely to be selected for the efficiency of their warning colours [4]. Like other social wasps, hornets have a painful sting and are distasteful due to their venom gland, making them avoided by predators [8] [92], [93]. They benefit from being recognized by potential predators that may attack them or disturb their nests. Furthermore, predator avoidance may be critical in one part of the life-cycle of V. velutina: like in many other social wasps, each colony is annual and founded by one solitary queen [79]. At this time, selective pressures within the species are high, as each queen has to survive for weeks before being able to produce the next generation. As such, warning colours play an important role in social wasps by protecting queens during their solitary phase.
The notion of warning colours depends on the perception of colours by predators [94], [95]. While dark coloration may be advantageous for crypsis [19], the yellow coloration seems to be a warning colour naturally avoided by bird predators [9]. Vidal-Cordero and his collaborators also showed a direct link between the lightness of the metasoma pigmentation in a paper wasp and the size of its venom gland [96]. Light coloration may therefore intervene in predator avoidance through its intensity.
On another hand, black and yellow stripes patterns help in prey recognition both by vertebrate [97], [9] and invertebrate predators [8]. This may explain the presence of black and yellow metasomal stripes in most of the V. velutina populations and the potential patterns observed in mesosoma: the pronotum, the scutellum and sometimes the metanotum can become lightly coloured while the mesoscutum and the propodeum always present black markings. This coloration creates over the mesosoma an alternating pattern of light and black colours extending the striped pattern of the metasoma (Fig. 4.B). It is therefore unsurprising to find yellow marks even on the darkest morphs of V. velutina as well as black segments and markings on the lightest populations (Figs. 1 & 4).
Müllerian mimicry
The influence of warning signal on predator behaviour depends on other harmful species encountered by the predators through the process of Müllerian mimicry, different harmful species sharing a similar aposematic signal, thus mimicking each other. This mimicry reinforces the impact of warning coloration by augmenting the probability of association between the bad experience of the predator and the signal displayed [4]. This phenomenon has been widely studied in butterflies [98], [12], but is also known among bumblebee species [91], [99], [100] and wasps [101]. Both being stinging Hymenoptera, bumblebees, bees and wasps are likely to be recognized as similar prey items by predators and may share the Müllerian effect of their coloration. For example, Hines and Williams pointed out drastic variation of colour in bumblebees from Malaysia, for which specimens are fully orange [100], matching the singular orange morph divergens of V. velutina found in the same region. Another example is the mimicry between the nigrithorax form of V. velutina and queens of two yellow jacket species Vespula koreensis (Radoszkowski, 1887) and Vespula orbata (du Buysson, 1902) found in southern China.
Presence of Müllerian mimicry is also often accompanied by strong phenotypic variation structured in mosaic across the distribution of the species [28]. Polymorphism between populations of V. velutina may thus be the result of different selective pressures induced both by variation in the local stinging Hymenoptera communities and by the pressures on melanism-related traits: crypsis, thermoregulation, desiccation and pathogen resistance. While hornets may not be highly sensitive to some of these pressures, co-mimic species with open nests or solitary habits may be, thus leading to an indirect effect of these factors on hornet coloration. Furthermore, the critical phase in colony development associated with the potential founder effects in island colonisation during Vespa velutina evolutionary history may explain the high variety of coloration found across islands while colour variation is more progressive and colour forms more widespread in continental Asia.
In order to test for this hypothesis, further studies could focus on characterising the melanism of the different species of stinging Hymenoptera of similar sizes in different regions. This work has already been started on bumblebees [91], [99], [100] but should be extended over the different families of Hymenoptera, as mimetism is not restrained taxonomically.
Our study described the changes in patterns of melanisation over the distribution of the hornet species Vespa velutina. The main axis of pattern variation in the resulting colour space described a global melanisation of the body indicating that the melanisation is a partially integrated process across the distribution. Correlations among the melanisation of the different body parts revealed a structured variation with two apparent modules: one composed of the head capsule, anterior part of mesosoma and anterior legs and the other connecting melanisation of the anterior metasomal dorsum and metanotum.
Based on mitochondrial sequences and microsatellite markers, we identified two highly divergent lineages within the V. velutina species: a continental lineage and a lineage restricted to southern Indonesian islands. The existence of a continental lineage confirmed the synonymy of V. auraria under V. velutina. The evolutionary history of the species could not explain the observed colour variations: the variation in melanisation clearly included convergence in different populations. Comparison of the climatic, genetic, geographic and colour diversities showed that melanism was unlikely driven by abiotic factors such as climate variation or latitudinal clines. This variation may result instead of mutations selected by high local constrains on aposematism and Müllerian mimicry with potential influence of the founder effects in islands.
Together, these results confirmed that colour patterns should not be regarded as reliable criteria for population relationships or species distinction in social wasps. They also suggest that colour variation in aposematic species is not tightly related to abiotic conditions. Further studies could use the quantification of colour patterns to track correlated changes between species within communities of aposematic species and test for the influence of Müllerian mimicry, predators and habitat types on the geographic variation of aposematic coloration.
List of light colour characters with their modalities. All modalities are depicted in Figure 4. The coding for the different modalities is mentioned in brackets for the 23 light coloration characters. The coding for the 23 dark characters is equivalent to one minus the corresponding light coloration character.
We thank Adrien Quiles and Claire Capdevielle Dulac for their help with microsatellite analysis, and Nelly Gidaszewski, Mathieu Joron, Alexandre Roulin and the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the subject and the manuscript. We are grateful to Alain Roques (INRA, Orléans), Agnès Rortais (CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette), but also the LIPI authorities from Indonesia, especially our counterparts Yayuk Suhardjono and Oscar Effendy, NARC from Nepal, Truong Quang Tam (Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnam) and the Pr. Xue-xin Chen (University of Zhejiang, China) for helping us to collect specimens in Asia. We are also grateful to Josef Gusenleitner, Jean Haxaire, Jean-Luc Renesson and Pierre Tripotin that shared their private collections, and Rémi Perrard for his help with posterior GPS coordinates of ancient sampling localities. Special thanks are due to curators Alain Drumont, Yvonnick Gérard, Kees van Achterberg, Fritz Gusenleitner and Gavin Broad who allowed the study in their respective museum collections. This study benefited of other public collections: the American Museum of Natural History (New York, USA), the University of Zhejiang (Hangzhou, China), the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense (Bogor, Indonesia) and the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France).
Conceived and designed the experiments: AP MA JFS CV. Performed the experiments: AP MA QR FM JT SB HN CV. Analyzed the data: AP MA RB MB CV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP MA QR FM JT SB HN JFS JMC CV. Wrote the paper: AP MA MB JFS JMC CV.
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“Operation: Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal being made into a big screen Hollywood movie…
October 23, 2015 Kev Brock Leave a comment
First Michael Bay made a movie about the Benghazi attacks and it will soon hit theaters in January of 2016 (which is perfect timing incase Hillary wins the nomination). Now there’s another Obama admin. crime being made into a big screen movie. Yep, there’s a movie about “Operation: Fast and Furious” coming to the big screen soon brought to you by Lionsgate studios. Not to be confused with “Fast and Furious” with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. This is a different “Fast and Furious”, the one about the Mexican drug lord gun running scandal that killed American, Brian Terry.
This movie will be based upon the book that is titled “The Unarmed Truth” (which I haven’t read yet but I will look into it) and the movie will be scripted by World War Z writer, Matthew Carnahan.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fast-furious-gun-scandal-heading-834059
Another movie that I’m sure that Obama and Holder are not gonna like. I’m pretty sure the movie won’t be called “Operation: Fast and Furious” because it will cause a lot of confusion with the other “Fast and Furious” franchise so they will probably title this movie, “The Unarmed Truth”, I would think.
I wonder who they’re gonna get to play Brian Terry?
As you can see Brian was young and not trying to sound gay or anything but he was good looking too so they would have to find an actor who resembles him. Brian was 40 years old so they would have to pick an actor around that age. Who does Brian resemble? I’d say he reminds me of Ben Affleck a little bit.
I hope they don’t get Jeremy Renner ’cause I’m tired of seeing him in everything.
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“Operation: Fast and Furious” documents finally released by the Judicial Watch…
November 20, 2014 Kev Brock Leave a comment
The Judicial Watch were successful at forcing the “Operation: Fast and Furious” documents out of the DOJ finally… thanks to the Freedom of Information Act. While it’s good news that they got the documents; however, no bombshells about Obama and Holder have been exposed predictably.
I took a look at through some of the documents. While there is a back and forth discussion going on with the people of the ATF all that stuff, the e-mails and the letters have a lot of blank spaces. The Judicial Watch didn’t put the blank spaces on some of these documents, the DOJ did… I would think. They left a lot of spaces blank in some of the documents ’cause if they showed the whole thing… it would have showed Obama’s and Holder’s name on them. They hid stuff to keep Obama and Holder from getting in trouble.
One thing that these documents did prove was that they tried to target Sharyl Attkisson for reporting the story and it proves that this administration knew about this gun-walking scandal when they claimed they didn’t know anything about the “Operation: Fast and Furious”.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/fast-furious-documents-released/
Speaking of Sharyl Attkisson, I’m in the middle of reading her book “Stonewalled” and I’ve read the “Operation: F&F” chapter. It’s pretty interesting stuff. Holder is in the middle of this and being accused of it ’cause he claimed he never heard of the “Operation: F&F” and people are trying to prove that he knew. That’s what this is about.
It doesn’t yet prove that Obama and Holder started the gun-walking scandal but getting there.
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Could Obama finally get impeached over “Operation: Fast and Furious” scandal???
Finally, Obama have been exposed for his cover-ups in one of his scandals… “Operation: Fast and Furious”. Obama have been caught protecting Eric Holder and his wife over the gun running operation. The gun running operation where they sent guns to Mexican drug lords which ended up in gun violence leaving one American dead… Brian Terry.
Obama have used executive privileges as a way to help hide Eric Holder’s e-mails to his family which had evidence that Holder lied to Congress when he first found out about “Operation: Fast and Furious”.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-key-fast-furious-information/
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/10/obama-asserts-fast-furious-executive-privilege-claim-holders-wife-2/
While this is good news, could this lead to Obama impeachment proceedings? Hopefully. We’ll just have to wait and see.
All this shows is that all Obama does is cover up all the crimes that happened under this administration. Obama have been covering up Benghazi, IRS, NSA and everything else you can think of.
When will people wake up that Obama is nothing but a fraud and a criminal? Will this latest report on “Operation: Fast and Furious” be good enough for liberals to see what kind of man Obama really is? I think no.
Hopefully this does get Obama in big trouble. He should have been in big trouble a long time ago as has done lots of impeachable offenses long before this. It’s amazing that he’s still standing and in the White House. Hopefully, he gets impeached and thrown in jail soon ’cause that’s what he really needs.
Now you know exactly why Eric Holder resigned all of a sudden.
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The reason why the NOW former DOJ Eric Holder resigned…
September 25, 2014 Kev Brock 1 Comment
He was ordered to hand in “Operation: Fast and Furious” documents. It’s just simple. Trying to avoid impeachment and arrest. If he resigned when ordered to hand in documents, then it proves he’s got something to hide.
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The law “should” apply to everybody and that includes the President of the United States…
March 23, 2014 Kev Brock Leave a comment
I know how some people mistakenly believe that nothing will happen to the President of the United States if he commits a crime or doesn’t follow the Constitution but laws “should” be enforced on the President just like laws are enforced on the rest of us. With that being said, nobody is above the law and that includes the President. It should be that way, anyway. It shouldn’t matter if you’re the King or Queen or some really famous person. It shouldn’t matter the color of your skin or who you are. It shouldn’t matter how powerful of a person he/she is. Everybody needs to be held accountable if they break the law. It maybe pretty risky to impeach and convict our first black president but if Congress does nothing about it ’cause they maybe intimated by “racism”, that’s just gonna do nothing but let this asshole win. It WILL NOT put America to shame impeaching the first black president, it’ll put America to shame just by letting him go and doing nothing about him.
If Obama is proven to be behind Benghazi and Operation: F&F, he SHOULD be charged and taken into custody. This is not really about hate against Barack Obama. It’s what is right for the law, the US Constitution and our country. People fight back at Barack Obama because some of us are patriots… we care for our country and we are just trying to protect our homeland. This is what I do this for. I love the USA just like everybody else. I get all over Barack Obama out of love for this country. I just want you guys to wake up and see what kind of man is running our country.
This is why some in Congress are trying to do whatever they can to get the President to follow the law. That’s why they came up with stuff like “Enforce The Law” act and it’s why some in Congress are suing the president. He shouldn’t be getting away with the things he does. It’s fine if you want to think Barack Obama is harmless and innocent — that’s your prerogative but the more you think that he is innocent, the more you’re letting him win too. You’re just allowing him to get away with everything the more you continue to support this man or continue to think there is nothing wrong with him.
He should be held accountable. He should at least be brought into questioning but that hasn’t even happened yet either.
I also think it’s quite obvious that the Obama administration are controlling the media. That’s also how they are getting away with stuff.
Sharyl Attkisson the former CBS news anchor, just admitted in an interview that government officials work together with reporters in the media on what they can and can’t report in the news… proof:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/03/21/sharyl-attkisson-there-is-coordination-between-reporters-and-politicians/
Even Sharyl knows that liberal media is getting really bad ’cause that’s the reason she left CBS in the first place. Government controls the media and she knows it. That’s why you don’t see much of Benghazi and Operation: F&F in the news. Those two incidents would have been BIG news stories but it isn’t ’cause that’s the governments intention. They are intentionally keeping Benghazi and Operation: F&F off the news the best they can. Instead you see news stories like Obamacare, the Malaysia plane, and the Russia/Ukraine crisis being all over the news. Why? Because the Obama administration allows that stuff to be all over the news. It helps distracts people from “Benghazi” and “Operation: F&F”.
The government even controls late-night TV. That’s why they got rid of Jay Leno ’cause of his Obama criticism. Now they have Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers taking over late night TV and guess what? Both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers seem to have liberal views in politics and those guys are more friendlier with Obama.
If you think nothing will happen to the President of the United States ’cause he is breaking laws and committing crimes, you’re delusional. He should be treated the same way just like every criminal in the nation. Some may think, who cares about “Benghazi”, deaths happen all of the time and move on? That’s the most ignorant and hypocritical statement you could ever make. If you really believe that then you wouldn’t care about 9/11/01 and other crimes/murders that happen in the country. ALL TERRORISTS ATTACKS AND MURDERS DESERVE ANSWERS. EACH AND EVERYONE OF THEM. That includes “Benghazi” and “Operation: F&F”. You should care about them ’cause they have something to do with us in so many ways. Americans were killed through these two crimes. The victims of these crimes helped defended our country. If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t be here today. They sacrificed their lives to protect us just like US soldiers would. The victims of these crimes are heroes: Ambassador Stevens and Brian Terry, the rest of the victims too. They died protecting the country. That’s why they deserve their justices.
This president should be held accountable. I think “Benghazi” and “Operation: F&F” should be good enough to take him down once the truth comes out of both of them. You’re making a huge mistake defending this man and acting like he does nothing wrong. You’ll regret that you did.
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Sharyl Attkisson, journalist from CBS mysteriously resigns with no explanation…
I have resigned from CBS.
— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) March 10, 2014
First, Lara Logan was forced to leave CBS due to her “Benghazi” report on 60 Minutes and now it’s looking like that Sharyl Attkisson is going through the same thing. Sharyl is known for her reporting about “Benghazi” and “Operation: Fast and Furious” crimes. She’s one of the very few in news media reporting the stories on “Benghazi” and “Operation: F&F”. I totally blame the Obama administration for forcing these two women out of CBS ’cause they simply knew a little bit too much.
This just kind of shows that the Obama administration has complete control over media. They’re trying their best to get Benghazi out of the media spotlight. This violates the 1st Amendment of the Constitution.
Sharyl should stay low for a while and she should have bodyguards everywhere she goes. I wonder what fatal accident awaits her? Mysterious car crash? A heart attack? I hate this administration and can’t wait until they’re out in 2016.
Hey Obama, in case you’re reading this by spying on my computer… you can keep “Benghazi” and “Operation: F&F” off the news all you want to, you’re gonna be held accountable for both, you fucking murdering scum bag piece of shit.
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The “Operation: Fast and Furious” defendant sentencing is just a cover-up for Eric and Barack…
February 11, 2014 Kev Brock Leave a comment
The family and friends of Brian Terry may have finally gotten the answers of who killed him but they still didn’t get the full-answers on who started the “Operation: F&F” which made this shoot-out happen in the first place. So the big news is that Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, the man who shot and killed Brian Terry in cold blood was just sentenced to 30 years in prison. Manuel was just one of the 5 individuals who was charged in the death of Brian Terry that was announced by the Justice Department. Noticed how the 5 men charged for the murder of Brian Terry was announced by the Justice Department who is led by Eric Holder. That’s because these men were sent out by the Justice Department as a way to cover up their crimes.
What’s funny is that a lot of people don’t realize that the real criminals are none other than Eric Holder and Barack Obama who started this whole gun-running operation. Eric and Barack Obama should have been the ones in trial instead.
They are putting these men who killed Brian Terry on trial and sentencing them so they can give people answers on, “Operation: F&F”, and so political media can finally move on from this. Eric and Barack were behind this gun-running operation sentencing all the people involved. I agree that these men deserve to be sentenced but 30 years isn’t long enough. They deserve life in prison and I think the Justice Department wanted 30 years on Manuel intentionally. This is just the Justice Department’s way of hoping to get people to shut up about, “Operation: F&F”. It’s a cover-up. Period. End of story. Manuel may have been responsible for killing Brian Terry but Eric and Barack was responsible for making that happen.
They are willing to hold those accountable for, “Operation: F&F” and nothing’s being done about Benghazi??? This is Eric protecting President Obama, nothing more… nothing less. I’m happy for the family of Brian Terry but they don’t realize who the real criminals are who started this thing. The DOJ is not doing this to help Terry’s family… they are doing this for themselves… to protect themselves and Barack.
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Boston, MA (September 14, 2018) Suffolk University, a nationally-ranked university located in Boston has announced a partnership with Keypath Education to advance its already-distinguished online graduate-level business programming. https://online.suffolk.edu/
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Three swooping entangled sculptural steel pieces celebrate the Bavarian marque's centenary. A hollow monocoque steel shell construction delivers an astonishingly lightweight and rigid structure pushing all the boundaries of form, curvature, span and slenderness. For the client brief the aim was for the sculpture to be flawless, with perfectly smooth curves and not so much as a single ripple in the steel to break the spell.
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Anti-Israel Vassar student group focuses on race of crowd at my speech
Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 11:59am | 5/7/2014 - 11:59am
“I have never seen so many older white people packed into a room”
Not all minds were changed by my speech at Vassar. The speech and lengthy Q&A (see video below) took place after none of the 39 Vassar professors who signed a letter defending the academic boycott of Israel took up my challenge to debate any or all of them.
But that’s okay.
It’s a shame, though, that people who disagree with me have to focus on race.
(Original tweets here, here, here, here)
Their comment isn’t even accurate and is insulting to the diverse crowd in attendance. Certainly the crowd was mostly white, just like Vassar’s student body and faculty. But so what?
Dividing people by race and trying to drum up racial tension is a deliberate tactic of SJP at Vassar and elsewhere, as was reflected in the highly racialized taunting of two Vassar professors at a March 3 open forum on campus, as previously reported.
I guess I’m not really surprised.
Updates: The link to this bit of logic from Vassar SJP was sent to me by a reader. I, apparently, am a “a right wing mansplaining pundit.”
The Case for Israel is Falling Apart – Recently, William Jacobson, a right wing mansplaining pundit,… http://t.co/UFbK7k1H3X
— SJP Vassar (@SJPVassar) May 7, 2014
Also, a Professor at Ithaca College notes that SJP, at its Tumblr website, links and quotes an anti-Semitic White Nationalist website for arguments attacking supporters of Israel on the internet.
@SJPVassar Occidental Quarterly is NOT leftist, it’s racist, white nationalist, etc. You claim not to be antisemitic, so why link to OQ?
— R. Lesses (@argaman) May 8, 2014
@argaman hey, you’re definitely right that QQ is a white nationalist publication, that doesnt mean everything they say is invalid though!
.@SJPVassar If you want to be anti racist, why have anything to do with a WN pub.? They believe whites are superior to blacks.
As I wrote when it turned out that the Overland Park KKK shooter linked to Max Blumenthal’s anti-Zionist conspiracy theories, this is a shared space.
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Ragspierre | May 7, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Ah, remember…
The FIRST knee-jerk thing (“jerk” being the operative term) these Collectivists so is count color, gender, and any other superficial divisor they can employ.
Except, of course, when they are the pressure group, such as at Rutgers WRT a commencement speaker. Then, a monochrome gathering of old fat men is peachy (pun intended).
O BAMA617 | May 7, 2014 at 12:16 pm
I think the person thinks that those who are ok with status quo in Isreal are older whiter people. And those who seek change in Isreal/ Palestine are younger and more diverse. Which is what many people believe about America. Younger and diverse want change and older white conservative don’t wAnt health care and minimum wage and gay Mariah’s and welfare and rap music and facebok and twitter and e cigarets and everything else colorful and young. Idk I could be wrong
“Idk I could be wrong”
Yep. But why worry about that today?
Radegunda | May 7, 2014 at 4:34 pm
Which older people “don’t want health care”? A lot of people — young, old, in-between — have had their affordable, functional insurance stolen by the hope-‘n-change crowd and are left with inferior and/or unaffordable options. Then there’s the $700+ billion that the hopey-changies siphoned out of Medicare. Was that because old folks “don’t want health care”?
Rap “music”? So you’re proud of aligning yourself with the most vulgar, ugly, violent, anti-musical excuse for music ever produced. Historians will someday wonder how human taste and sensibilities could have been so coarsened and degraded among people who imagine themselves to be “progressive.”
And they’ll still be listening to what I listen to and calling it great music.
Typo gay Mariah’s = gay mariage my mistake auto type
n.n | May 7, 2014 at 1:31 pm
Selective exclusion. Why not normalize all dysfunctional and unproductive behaviors?
cbenoistd | May 7, 2014 at 12:18 pm
You want monolithic older people, Small Jihadist Pimp, wait until Springsteen tours again. Clarence was the diversity.
Why are conservatives so surprised that in a country that laws are made based on color than the citizens think based on color? Do you think that has anything to do with it?
The Progressive Era called. They want their Jim Crow back.
Not A Member of Any Organized Political | May 7, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Progressive = REgressive
Progressives were the cause of the rise of organized crime in this country – because of the Prohibition Act. Now the Regressvies have outdone themselves with an even more reviled law – ObamaCare.
Black Americans created slavery???? You are a delusional joke who can’t refute the facts that conservative politics do not have a diverse appeal. Only a certain demographic
I’ll just leave that cluster of stupid hanging there, where all can see it.
O BAMA617 | May 7, 2014 at 1:05 pm
I really think you watch way too much hannity dude. Hahahah you need to wake up its 2014 wake up and smell the coffee…
Ragspierre | May 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm
I don’t watch any Hannity. Dude.
But what a stupid thing for you to say. Dude.
tom swift | May 7, 2014 at 3:22 pm
Black Americans created slavery????
Interestingly enough, we know a great deal about the history of the Atlantic and African slave trades, and blacks in Africa – but not in America – were the start of it all. A small but persistent slave trade existed in central Africa before Europeans arrived. It was easy revenue for chiefs to sell some of their own villagers to any passersby who might be interested. Meanwhile, Europeans had reached the New World. The Spanish were looking for gold, partly because of the colossal debts accumulated after some six centuries of warfare with various Berber caliphates from North Africa. The French were interested mainly in trade, particularly for animal pelts which at the time were grossly overvalued in the European market. But the English were interested mainly in settling and farming. But some of the farm lands were in regions with tropical or sub-tropical climates, and tropical diseases caused high mortality rates among European farmers. The theory was that laborers native to tropical and subtropical climates would not be so susceptible to these contagions. Equatorial Africa seemed to be just the place, with a developed trade in laborers just waiting to be tapped.
The supply line was local chieftains in the interior selling villagers to their neighbors to the west, who would sell them to their neighbors, etc, until reaching the coast, where they would be sold to Portuguese or English slavers, with everybody along the way getting their markup. The English slavers would transport them to the plantations in the Carribbean, primarily Jamaica, or in the southern US (but not Florida or the Gulf coast, which were Spanish and closed to English trade).
There was some similar trade from East Africa, ending up with Arab traders, but the practice of selling one’s own villagers for profit was rare among the chiefs in East Africa, which is why physical features commonly seen in today’s populations native to Sudan, Ethiopia, Somaila, etc. are not seen in modern black populations elsewhere which are primarily descended from ex-slaves.
The Atlantic trade continued to the end of the nineteenth century, but by then the black laborers weren’t slaves, of course, but contract workers. The big market was construction crews for the Panama Canal, first attempted by France and then by the US. Yellow fever was the big killer there, even more than malaria. It was so severe that the usual source for hired labor in those days, China, wasn’t even tried, as everyone was sure that the Chinese would be stricken and killed almost immediately. They still thought black laborers would be able to hold up better, and hired large numbers, mainly from Jamaica. The pay was good and work opportunities in Jamaica were scarce, so there were plenty willing to give it a shot.
Paul | May 7, 2014 at 4:03 pm
And what is one of the biggest stories in the news THIS WEEK? Boko Haram (a group of radical muslim blacks) in Nigeria (black country) has kidnapped 300 (black) girls and sold them (to other blacks) into slavery.
Don’t get me wrong… slavery in this country is a horrible stain on our history, but the “white guilt” thing is getting a tad old.
Crawford | May 7, 2014 at 8:09 pm
“A small but persistent slave trade existed in central Africa before Europeans arrived. It was easy revenue for chiefs to sell some of their own villagers to any passersby who might be interested.”
Those passersby were — and still are — Muslims.
The USA’s first overseas war was against the Barbary Pirates, who enslaved anyone and everyone they couldn’t get a ransom for.
ConradCA | May 8, 2014 at 4:57 pm
It was blacks in Africa who sold slaves to the Westerners and that is why the vast majority of slaves were black. They are still at it according to the news from Nigeria.
Slavery was created hundreds of thousands of years ago and it’s origins are lost in history.
Can you read? Or do you just make stuff up? Point to where someone claimed that “black Americans” created slavery.
WiserWords2 | May 7, 2014 at 8:03 pm
Thank you for articulating a question that has been pestering me each time I hear the denial of racism in America. This country was founded about 237 years ago. For the first 187 years, racism was legal. This didn’t change until the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights act only 50 years ago.
How can racism NOT be a part of American culture?
It is the Progressive Fascists like you and Tyrant Obama the Liar who want laws based on race. We are against all forms of racism including affirmative action.
dmacleo | May 7, 2014 at 12:21 pm
Pretty sad i had to sit through that tragic affair
wow, you actually forced them to attend and handcuffed them once there?
well done Prof 🙂
Now that would be a cool video.
Especially with some computer graphic animation added for the action scenes, and to zing up the Professor’s tie a bit.
Emperor Penguin | May 7, 2014 at 12:24 pm
well done Prof, you were so good they had to go with a race and gender in order to criticize you. Bravo 🙂
tom swift | May 7, 2014 at 12:24 pm
All of those tweets are admissions of a tactical defeat.
I’ve never seen so many older white people … translates as Oops, looks like we’ve been trying to stampede the wrong crowd;
Academic freedom must come with a level of social responsibility means I sure wish the term “academic freedom” meant something more useful to us;
be sure to bring a fact checker certainly sounds like we definitely need somebody more mentally agile than me to do this; and
Really I expected more from the zionist lobby is a rewording of Jacobson is a poopy-head, and … SHUT UP!
The second one is particularly malignant. “Social responsibility” is the same thing as “social justice”, which is code for strict Party line. And “academic freedom”, or any other kind of freedom, is not what the Party is about.
Great Comments Tom Swift!
You can tell that racism is still endemic in the progressive fascists. They hate white people and don’t think they have the right to participate in society. Not much different the the Democratic party from the Jim Crow era.
That student is ageist and RACIST!
Typical evil O-bot.
“Dividing people by race and trying to drum up racial tension is a deliberate tactic of SJP at Vassar..”
You said it Prof!
A crowd of older white people is not diverse that does not represent America as a whole. I think that’s what the tweeter was trying to get at. but fact don’t matter in the neo con bubble only red meat rhetoric.
You poor moron. “Diversity” is not about superficial appearances, by how people think.
It’s embarrassing you have an idiot troll here, posting.
You are welcome to stay and learn, however.
I think you are an embarrassment to claim you know how people think. Oh and I think you shouldn’t be so insulting. I’m embarrassed by you and feel you have problems. You are self righteous and holy than though and this is why normal people free thinkers would never follow your divisive bitter angry politics.
tom swift | May 8, 2014 at 3:09 am
I think you are an embarrassment to claim you know how people think.
And this, written by the twit who waltzes in and starts pontificating about what conservatives believe, even though it’s painfully obvious that he knows approximately as much about conservative beliefs as a goldfish knows about the New Jersey tax code.
Well, keep up the, ummm, good work, but maybe you should consider keeping it up someplace else.
But you would think like that with your head buried up in the end of your back like that…….lol
Yukio Ngaby | May 7, 2014 at 4:03 pm
You thought of that “zinger” right after you hit Submit, didn’t you?
It sucked.
Shouldn’t this be enough to get this troll booted?
A crowd of older white people is not diverse
A bunch of “typical white persons”, eh?
Cuz we all know all white people are identical. And all older people are identical. So older white people are, like, totally identical, Dude.
Yes it’s America your race and background influences your thoughts. It’s America it was once illegal for a black person to read. In this same country oh but republicans think that never happened.
You’re overdoing the “stupid” act a bit; you need to retain some shred of plausibility.
The Republican party was formed specifically to oppose the pro-slavery policies of the Democrats. The actual issue of the day involved the question of whether the new territories in the West would be accepted by Congress as “slave” or “free” states. The Republicans insisted that they be “free” states; the Democrats disagreed.
Sadly, the same argument continues today, with the Democrats demanding their favored constituencies be allowed to live off the labor of others.
It’s America that I write this way. It’s America that makes me not get MY RACE OUT OF MY HEAD!!!! It’s America that the KKK was all about Southern Democrats. It’s America that the Black Caucus was praising racist Cuba and Castro http://babalublog.com/2014/05/06/reports-from-cuba-blacks-and-mixed-raace-still-marginalized-in-cuba/
Sunlight78 | May 7, 2014 at 6:18 pm
O BAMA617, you seriously need to take a history class if you do not know that Democrats were the proslavery, KKK, and Jim Crow party. There was a reason Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Democrats did not start being superficially problack until LBJ an. d if you read some of his quotes on it your hair will stand on end. Basically, all the Democrat hand outs were set up to tear apart the black families and make them dependent on the government. Conservative blacks are trying to fight back for their communities and the Progs are calling them every vile name in the book.
My suggestion is to read primary source material to learn and make up your own mind. The prog talking points and their pet media twist
Continued.. twist things around until it is very little truth left and tons of lies.
Right now you are just spouting canned talking points and taking the proglodytes word for it. The real racists in America these days are the progressive left but they keep deflecting by accusing others and their pet. news media lies through their teeth which is why I stopped watching tv news years ago.
As to who showed up to the talk…. It was obviously people who cared and had the time.
“It’s America it was once illegal for a black person to read.”
genes | May 7, 2014 at 8:49 pm
You’re right. It was illegal in some states to teach SLAVES to read and write. Free blacks were allowed to learn.
Free blacks were allowed to learn.
In the slave states, free blacks were allowed to own slaves, too. And some did.
One of the biggest slave breeders in South Carolina was a Black man and himself a former slave. I haven’t read that he sold his own mother but he did sell several of his daughters.
LukeHandCool | May 7, 2014 at 12:29 pm
https://twitter.com/starrfin/status/464062870041276417
Watching the video, I couldn’t help but think Professor J looks like a throwback to a more respectable time in academia. Numbed by seeing so many strident, self-righteous, unprofessionally unprofessorial professors over the years, I’m shocked to find it shocking to see what should be viewed as an ideal archetype of the temperament and bearing of what should be expected of a professor.
In a nutshell, he’s sort of a walking, talking, one-man broken-windows theory of what it is to conduct oneself as a professor.
At the risk of being called an oxymoronic moron, I’d say his presentation screamed and shrieked of fairness and civility.
He went way, way, far out of his way to give his opponents a benefit of the doubt I feel is completely undeserved—hair pulling stuff—but I like to think that if I were a professor, I’d feel compelled to eschew the easy soap-box antics and do the same.
He won by challenging them, 39-1.
He won by being the visiting team, playing in their stadium.
He won, after their cowardly 39 separate, individual instances of boycott, by continuing on, and not stooping to mocking their cowardice (as I’d have been tempted to do, and should be done by others).
He won not only with logic and substance, but in style points, also.
As he said, referring to the ASA vote, what matters is who shows up.
He showed up. They didn’t. We hear so often these days of the supposed “adult in the room,” but we just saw an adult in the faculty lounge.
An adult in the faculty lounge. I’d sooner expect to see Sasquatch cruising down the Sunset Strip.
And if I may be allowed just one final football metaphor …
“The Drive,” as it’s known in Denver, led by John Elway, covered 95 long, brutal yards.
That’s some 200 miles less than the drive from Ithaca to Poughkeepsie.
Observer | May 7, 2014 at 12:33 pm
You know you’ve won the argument when the best rebuttal the opposition can manage is: hey, you’re mighty white!
Know what other group of people was largely white, SJP? The millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
I would be mad at her after she quatered the play girl
Model and ran him out of Boston with his tail between his legs. Boston people love lizzy.
Henry Hawkins | May 7, 2014 at 12:37 pm
WAJ should have introduced himself as Cornell’s first Cherokee law professor.
Great one Henry!
Lizzie Borden, er I mean Warren will get you for that! LOL
I’m not given to playground taunts, but but but buck … buck … buck … (that’s a chicken)
Paul | May 7, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Has SJP Vassar elaborated on the supposed ‘falsehoods’ that Professor Jacobson ‘spouted?’ Let’s hear them and discuss them.
Again I say this country was founded on laws being applies to certain races and it’s natural Americans think by race. It’s only right conservatism also does this and this is why they lose time and time again.
America inherited certain European practices and attitudes – specifically, the English slave trade and the Spanish approach to Indian relations – which have taken a while to root out. They’re now history. Conservative Americans don’t think by race. Progressive Americans do, because they find it useful.
150 yrs plus rooted out? My grandfathers father was put to death hanged because he learned to read and taught others. Be careful how you dismiss history because you were not effected my friend.
dmacleo | May 7, 2014 at 1:36 pm
yeah we’re gonna take lessons from someone who doesn’t know how to write great grandfather.
you lie.
Right, ancient history. “Root out” means existed at one time, doesn’t exist now. That’s also called “progress” (not to be confused with “Progressive”).
We’re not dismissing history here; we think it’s a good idea to understand it.
Moron, there were free, educated black people in America all during our history.
Which I recognize is a total mystery to you. History, that is…
Now, go get some help. I have nothin’ but love for ya’. See if there’s a counselor on your ObamaDoggle plan.
And you also admitted that it was the law to think in terms of race. Naturally this way will continue conservatives deny this at their own political peril.
Laws don’t normally try to regulate thought. Some people would like to be able to do so, but all they can manage to regulate is communication. And thus was born “political correctness”.
D’oh! And the concept of “hate crimes”, of course.
I find it touching how concerned you are with the political peril of conservatives.
You really are a Grade-A idiot, aren’t you?
Today, are Republicans or Democrats more likely to support laws that discriminate on the basis of race?
The answer is the same as it ever was — Democrats want laws focused on race, even resorting to discussion of “blood quanta” that have their roots in the darkest Jim Crow swamps.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/6/carson-rethinking-americas-decline/
Apparently, Dr. Carson…and thousands like him…are not “black”.
And if there is a racist here, THAT would be our troll.
Arminius | May 8, 2014 at 1:46 am
No, genius, this country’s legal system at it’s founding was English Common Law. Which was never based on race, because everyone was white.
You can not have a legal code based upon racial discrimination if there are no races to discriminate.
And in fact blacks were not permanently scarred by slavery. Blacks have been scarred by liberalism. Did you go to college? It doesn’t matter; the liberal education establishment does the same crypto-Marxist indoctrionation at lower levels now. And did they do a great job of indoctrinating you.
Yes, it is rooted in Marxism. The Marxists of the Frankfurt School learned that they couldn’t divide people by class in the US. But that race would do fine as a substitute. Instead of economic class determining how you think, your race does. The Whites substitute for the bourgeois oppressors, racial minorities substitute for the oppressed proletariat.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_3_ed_school.html
“Teaching for ‘social justice’ is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids.”
“…Thus Maxine Greene urged teachers not to mince words with children about the evils of the existing social order…”
You’ve been well and truly had, O BAMA617.
Conservatives will never admit that this country at one time carried laws outlawing the education of blacks. No no no libs did that.
Really, stupid…you need to troll somewhere else.
You have lowered the IQ here appreciably. And trolling is a pathology. Find some good counseling.
What’s stupid is your denial that there was once slavery laws in this country. Does that word hurt your feelings. Slaver slavery slaver in the free land. Let me tell you something descendants of slaves were forced to think in terms of race it could mean your life or your death. You play ignorance and make yourself look like uneducated Viagra swallower. Now I don’t want to be insulting but speaking to you about anything more complex than Legos will make you sad. Good luck.
Post the link to where I made any such statement.
Slavery does not hurt my feelings in the least, although I do hate it in all its forms. Wherever it is being practiced. Including Africa today.
Descendents of slaves are NOT “forced” to think in any manner whatsoever. They can elect to embrace any number of ideas. Just like me.
There is no race of people I can think of that has not had a slave experience in their history.
You are not special.
You really don’t have anything except contempt for other, your “natural” racism, and slavery, do you? Oh, that and misplaced self-righteousness.
I mean “Slaver slavery slaver in the free land.” LOL I can see you foaming at the mouth as you write this.
It amuses me.
Yes, there WERE laws enforcing slavery in this country.
Then Christian Republicans fought and died to end them.
Democrats created a terrorist group to create a political order not much different than the slave era, then spent a century protecting that terrorist group.
No no no libs did that.
Surely you are aware that abolition – the elimination of slavery in America – was a religious movement. There was nothing remotely “liberal” about it.
It was said here and argued here on LI website blog that black Americans have been disadvantaged by liberal politics and not by slavery Jim Crow and institutional racism. And I understand you don’t believe these things ever existed.
I’ve never seen a post at LI supporting slavery, Jim Crow, or institutional racism. Those are Democratic aberrations, and you won’t find many aberrant Democrats here.
But of course you don’t have any links to the offending items.
MaggotAtBroadAndWall | May 7, 2014 at 2:02 pm
You’re like the Japanese WWII soldier who spent 40 years living in the jungle because nobody bothered to tell him the war was over. Here’s a newsflash: Slavery is over. 600,000 white Americans went to war and died in large part so black people could be free. Jim Crow laws were put in place by Democrats. They’ve been outlawed for half a century.
The Japanese soldier had an excuse for hiding in the jungle for 40 years. He sincerely did not know the facts had changed. He was living in an alternative reality.
You, on the other hand, know that the reality has changed but for some reason you want to pretend it has not. Yours is a psychiatric problem.
LukeHandCool | May 7, 2014 at 2:22 pm
MaggotAtBroadAndWall,
There were two of these eternal Japanese WWII soldiers.
My wife told me that for the last one, they had to find his commanding officer, who luckily was still alive, fly him from Japan over to the island, and have him give the soldier the order to surrender.
The war finally ended for him, he returned to Japan, and led a happy life for the years left of it. He put those lost years behind him.
But I think he’d be shocked at these true believers we still have today hiding in the weeds and thickets of academia.
Jim Crow was a Democrat policy. The problem you are having is that Progressives in the Democrat party have co-opted the term liberal when they are nothing of the sort and were not the historical abolitionists and free thinkers.
Basically you are sleeping with the enemy of your ancestors and current black people (but now it is hidden and more subtle) and don’t know it.
You really need to read what Marx had to say about Bourgeois education, O BAMA617, and then read books written by people like Bill Ayers. Who wrote Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader. Or Eric Gutstein, who wrote Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice.
You’ll finally discover whose mind you are using. I was going to write “whose mind you are thinking with” but that clearly wouldn’t be the right phrase.
The Difference Between O BAMA617 and LukeHandCool: A Metaphor for The Difference Between Left and Right on Race and Ethnicity.
I’m told, and believe, that no two snowflakes are alike.
O BAMA617 would say all snowflakes are exactly the same.
—by LukeHandCool (with a little help from Henry Gibson, who was an occasional customer of Luke’s many years ago. Nice fellow. A Laugh In giant, but an unassuming man in person)
The difference between o bama617 and lukehandcool is that I think slavery has permanent negative effect on black America he thinks it was a temporary bad think. What a joke it’s like Donald trump telling people what it’s like to be hungry.
Burnside | May 7, 2014 at 1:57 pm
Despite what you said, no one here has denied that slavery, Jim Crow laws or anything you else you spouted existed. Let’s drop that canard.
You have said that slavery has a permanent negative effect on black America. By your logic, then, the holocaust also has a permanent negative effect of Jews. In that case, weren’t those “old, white guys” a member of a disadvantaged and harmed class of people?
And how long is permanent? In 25 years, will black America still be negatively effected? In 100? In 500? At the end of the sun’s natural life?
“You have said that slavery has a permanent negative effect on black America. By your logic, then, the holocaust also has a permanent negative effect of Jews. In that case, weren’t those ‘old, white guys’ a member of a disadvantaged and harmed class of people?”
—Well, when speaking of people in America in 2014 who are obsessed with linking subcultural dysfunctions, low rates of success in areas, etc., to historical grievances, don’t overlook or dismiss the suicide bombings in German cities today by Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, etc.
And don’t turn a blind eye to the suicide bombings on buses in today’s Tokyo by historically aggrieved Chinese, Koreans, Singaporeans, Filipinos …
The widespread genocide and slave labor practiced by Japanese troops just a few decades ago is THE effect why all of Asia is a backwards, primitive, technological and economic third-world suckswamp today.
Oh, God. I have two intensive advanced accounting classes I’m taking now (and should be studying for this very moment).
I remember one student in my geography grad program whose self-designed and approved program of study was “Marxist Geography.”
Please don’t give them any ideas about historical grievance accounting or bookkeeping.
I can just see that field coming. Huge, huge ledgers … where no balance of accounts is ever achieved … for years and years and years.
Remember, you heard it here first.
slavery has permanent negative effect on black America
It will have precisely the negative effects you want it to have.
That’s a trap you’ll have to escape from on your own.
Actually the joke is you claiming to know anything about slavery.
At least Donald Trump could go a few days without eating and feel hunger. What are the chances of you going off to Niger or Chad and doing some forced labor there? Not too good I’d bet.
Slavery will have a permanent effect on blacks because they embrace permanent victimhood.
The following article proves the truth of my words: http://www.black-and-right.com/2013/07/01/before-its-deleted-of-the-day/
Luke would say rap music causes teenage pregnancy….
wow, you’re like a slightly retarded, petulant little child playing with his two favorite Super Hero dolls…. Straw Man and The Red Herring. POW!! SLAM!! WHAMO!!
No, idiots deciding to have sex before they’re mature enough causes teen pregnancy.
Rap just causes headaches and enriches thugs.
“The difference between o bama617 and lukehandcool is that I think slavery has permanent negative effect on black America he thinks it was a temporary bad think.”
Do you think past anti-Semitism has a permanent negative effect on American Jews?
Why are they arguably the most successful people in the world today?
Do you think relocation camps and anti-Japanese official and societal policies from the past still have a permanent negative effect on Japanese Americans?
Why their disproportionate success in academia and the professions?
I could go on and on.
What coincided with Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s warnings about the disintegration of the black family?
What was it?
Hint: It had nothing to do with slavery.
No he wouldn’t.
Just like Professor J said in the video, that he tries to be very careful with his choice of words, I, too, try to be very careful.
I would never say rap music causes teenage pregnancy. Wouldn’t say it in a million years.
I might say that vile rap lyrics contribute to a coarsening of our society which contributes, as many other coarsening factors do, to a weakening of many societal norms that would have heretofore acted to lessen the risk of risky, careless behavior.
See, dude, you gotta stop talking like inane bumper stickers.
RITaxpayer | May 7, 2014 at 2:47 pm
BWAAHAAHAA!! Pretty much puts most of this thread in perspective, LukeHandCool…er…I mean, dude.
ayanchin | May 7, 2014 at 2:03 pm
A lot of hysteria in the comments. Sad. Thank you, Prof., for talking.
“What a joke it’s like Donald trump telling people what it’s like to be hungry.”
Imagine that. Me, Donald Trump.
Oh, gosh, no. It isn’t to be.
I have much better hair.
I have about $200 in the bank until payday next week.
O BAMA617 …
You’re fired.
Bruno Lesky | May 7, 2014 at 2:09 pm
Re: O BAMA617 comments. All but one of the Vassar student protestors were “people of color.” I have not seen one comment ever on this site drawing a conclusion about race, or any overall considerations of “people of color” as O BAMA617 does about white people.
Is this what the whole thing is about … for the protestors and O BAMA617? Hating white people?
Because we know how to succeed and have let them in on the secret. And the secret is delayed gratification, hard work, and self-discipline.
jennifer a johnson | May 7, 2014 at 2:49 pm
A great solo presentation! Hopefully some of the no-show 39 will watch the video within the safety and comfort of their ‘irrefutable’ positions.
Professor, I heard you make the point, I think twice, of the dehumanization of Israel, of the discord itself. This inferred, I believe, that the BDS seeks to exclude the Jews at the state level and at a human level. And, that the underlying issue of dehumanization affected everyone and not just the Jewish people.
The facts you relayed help flesh out the reality of Israel’s own humanity, its common desire to thrive as a nation, its well-documented desire to work with its opposition and that, like other nations, it is not perfect. You put an honest non-hostile face on a thoughtful and graceful presentation.
Hannah Arendt made a point at one time about how people (the Nazis army specifically), when they choose to no longer be people because they stop thinking, can then commit heinous crimes against others. The “banality of evil” was the term she used to describe people who acted mindlessly against others, without even a second thought, from a life already emptied of its own humanity.
Why did the 39 Vassar professors cross the road?
replied and followed you 🙂
Backatcha, my friend.
By the way, how many pro-boycott Vassar professors does it take to screw up their courage to debate one man?
As for the SJP Vassar tweetists,
I’ve heard of poor winners.
I’ve heard of poor losers.
But poor forfeiters?
I know it sucks to be a loser. And I know it really sucks to be a real loser.
But SJP Vassar, it must really, really, really, really, really, suck to be you right now.
Check your back for post-its, suckers.
If the crowd was too white, wasn’t that the fault of all the people of color who failed to show up? Or was someone at the door denying them entry?
JackRussellTerrierist | May 8, 2014 at 6:27 pm
They were too busy cashing their welfare checks and yakking on their obastard phones to show up.
“I have never seen so many older white people packed into a room.”
Ummm … don’t let SJP Vassar see this, okay? That might constitute a micro aggression. I mean, it’s not an MSNBC staff meeting or an Elizabeth Warren campaign volunteers gathering, or a Snow White casting call … it might not be as perilously of pallor as all that pale-faced stuff, but it’s still a shocking display of so many older white people packed into a room:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jpg
Disgusting!!
Gag me with a spoon!!
Probably too young to have been invited to one of Clinton’s “Renaissance Weekends”. 90% White and 99% from the 1%. And some of the messiest people you will ever meet. Just as bad as OWS, except they actually paid good money to engage in a conspiracy.
hophmi | May 7, 2014 at 6:24 pm
“What could it all mean?”
I tweeted back that it meant either that @SJPVassar was blind or that he didn’t respect older white people very much.
BannedbytheGuardian | May 7, 2014 at 8:26 pm
If I wanted a view on anything ME i would ask every camel in the world before a Vassar student .
That includes Asian camels & circus camels .
What about tobacco camels?
They’ve been banned.
Even more so ,he looked very witty .
A poser …
We see here a very strange phenomenon, exemplified by these quotes from the same poster, all from this thread –
Naturally this way will continue conservatives deny this at their own political peril.
Conservatives will never admit that this country at one time carried laws outlawing the education of blacks.
What’s stupid is your denial that there was once slavery laws in this country.
And I understand you don’t believe these things ever existed.
Every one of these statements is not just dead wrong, but downright bizarre; and something I don’t think I’ve run into before.
Now as we all know, it’s perfectly routine for Democrats to impune their own rich crime history – support for slavery, rampant sexism, warmongering, corruption, voter fraud, and instutional racism – to their opponents.
And sometimes a more novel line is proposed, such as the howler that slavery was some kind of “conservative value” (I’ve only seen that one argued once, but it was too FUBARed to forget).
And I’m familiar with the “excrement” school of propaganda, in which one throws any old manure and hopes that something sticks. Primitive, but easy.
But this weird “denial” claim is beyond that – just totally wacky in every sense. New wackyness must have an origin, and I see no reason to suspect that O BAMA617 has the brains to synthesize it himself. So, where did it come from? Is it some new meme being pushed by DemocraticUnderground or DailyKOS or NPR or some such intellectual wasteland?
Henry Hawkins | May 8, 2014 at 11:51 am
Hint: Our troll is not American and English is not its first language.
Arminius | May 8, 2014 at 6:00 pm
It both is and it isn’t bizarre. If you believe in that there are objective standards of truth then it’s bizarre. On the other hand if you’ve been indoctrinated to believe that there is no such thing but that the “truth” is whatever serves your agenda then it’s not.
For instance, O BAMA617 asserts that “slavery has permanent negative effect on black America.” This is classic leftist sophistry. People believe it now only because they’ve been taught to believe it. So it sounds plausible. But if you actually look at the evidence (which of course O BAMA617 would reject because it conflicts with his indoctrination) it’s completely untenable. Before someone came up with that theory, black Americans did not act as if they were permanently scarred by slavery because they didn’t believe they were.
Take academic achievement. Thomas Sowell has written extensively on the subject of how black students performed on par with white students from the 1890s through the mid-1950s in Washington DC and in NYC, even though the schools in Washington DC were officially segregated and and the schools in NYC were de facto segregated.
Neither the teachers nor the parents thought that black Americans had suffered permanent negative effects from slavery. They expected the students to work hard and behave themselves. Consequently the students did, and it never occurred to them that they had suffered permanent negative effects of slavery, something with which they had no personal experience.
What happened in the mid-50s? Of course desegregation and the rise of the civil rights movement. Which is of course a very very good thing. But it did lead to some very strange elements being introduced into education. Essentially the curriculum became politicized. And the students started failing. And as the liberal educators politicized the curriculum even more, the more the students failed. Naturally the educators couldn’t be the problem, the educators concluded. And certainly the black students weren’t the problem. Aha! They’re suffering the permanent negative effects of slavery! So that’s what they taught the students. Of course, to actually look at the evidence blows that explanation out of the water. That’s what Dr. Sowell found in the early ’70s when he first started looking at the issue. The people who came up with the theory that excused their own failures rejected his evidence out of hand. Because no evidence was necessary; wasn’t int self-evident?
And that explains people like O BAMA617, who actually believes it. I think, but I can’t be sure, that he’s saying we’re denying slavery and Jim Crow, etc., because we’re denying that these things caused “permanent negative effects.”
Odd that the “permanent negative effects of slavery” didn’t start showing up until the late ’50s/1960s though, isn’t it? Along with liberalism increasingly running amok in the classroom.
Jazz | May 8, 2014 at 9:25 am
I find it interesting that SJP can say, “you’re definitely right that QQ is a white nationalist publication, that doesnt [sic] mean everything they say is invalid though!”, yet not give the same accommodation to Prof. Jacobson, who doesn’t bear any stain of hatred or discrimination.
why have anything to do with a WN pub.? They believe whites are superior to blacks.
Unlike fans of Perpetual Affirmative Action, who believe … what, exactly?
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The Master (MA 15+)
Strong sexual references,coarse language & nudity
Director:Paul Thomas Anderson
Featuring:Philip Seymour Hoffman,Joaquin Phoenix,Amy Adams
Running Time:137 minutes
This is a superbly crafted film that's at times intentionally opaque, as if its creator didn't want us to see all the way into its heart of darkness.
It's an emotional history of charlatanism and gimcrack philosophy, a world of snake-oil truth salesmen offering selfmedication of the spirit, all set in a postwar America. In charge is the charismatic Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, a puce-faced public speaker who styles himself "The Master", hammy and plummy and steely.He believes in curing physical and psychological ills by rooting out previous selves and interplanetary interlopers from millions of years ago, through confrontational interrogations and therapies that are like hypnosis or recovered memory or even electro-convulsive shock treatment. The Master is amused by Quell, gets a taste for his hooch, and decides to make of him a special case for his treatment.The Master resolves to break Freddie down and build him up anew, and Quell's chaos and Dodd's charlatanism become locked together in a dance of death.
On one level this is the personal story of Quell and Dodd, and their absurd, sinister and poignantly doomed love story. Freddie's gift for brewing up moonshine out of anything to hand (paint-stripper, developing fluid, fruit, bread) and making himself the life and soul of the party is no incidental detail. His booze-genius is of course analogous to Dodd's gift for intoxicating rhetoric and ideas, cobbled together from bits and pieces of science and established religion. They are a match made in sociopath heaven. The Master is a supremely confident work: audacious and unmissable.
Original review by Kenneth Turan - The Los Angeles Times & Peter Bradshaw-The
Guardian. - Extracted & compiled by Janez Zagoda
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Dissertation Abstracts
Abstract Title
Clark, Patricia. (1984). Measurement of learning style dominance and hemispheric dominance of fourteen and fifteen-year-old high school students (Doctoral dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1984). Dissertation Abstracts International, 45(12A), 3528.
This study focused upon the measurement of hemispheric dominance and learning style dominance of a group of 38 fourteen- and fifteen-year old high school students. The factors considered in relationship to learning style dominance were sex, achievement, and hemispheric orientation.
The measurement of hemispheric orientation was conducted using E. Paul Torrance’s test, Children’s Form of Your Style of Learning and Thinking: Form C-A. This was a 36 question self-report questionnaire which identified the right, left, and integrated modes. The second measurement which was used was the Multi-Modal Paired Associates Learning Test (MMPALT II). This test was conceptualized by Dr. Russell L. French (1975), implemented by Dr. Daryl Gilley (1975) using six perceptual styles; and further developed using seven perceptual styles by Dr. C. Edwin Cherry (1981).
Spearman Rho correlations, t-test values, and mean rank orderings of the seven perceptual learning styles were statistically computed to establish relationships and/or differences between, within, and across groups and sub-groups. Since the subject population was selected for the purpose of this study, the conclusions of the group and subgroup population can only be generalizable to this population. Scores and rank orders of the seven learning modalities represented in the MMPALT II and their relationship to the variables of sex, achievement, and hemispheric orientation indicate the following findings in response to two study questions. These findings are reported in the context of each variable.
Scores and rank orders of the seven learning modalities in relationship to sex. Visual learning mode had a moderate correlation with the sex of female subjects. T-test values displayed a significant difference between the scores of males and females on the haptic learning mode as the primary learning style for both males and females.
Scores and rank orders of the seven learning modalities and achievement. Interactive learning modality had a moderate correlation with high achievement. Visual learning modality had a moderate correlation with low achievement. Results of the mean rank orders of the MMPALT II recognized the visual learning mode as the primary style for both high achievers and low achievers. T-test values demonstrated significant differences between the scores of high achievers and low achievers in the interactive and haptic learning modalities.
Scores and rank orders of the seven learning modalities in relationship to hemispheric orientation. T-test values recognized a significant difference between right and left-hemisphere subjects and the visual learning modality. Mean rank orders of the MMPALT II exhibited the visual learning modality as the primary learning style for both right and left-hemisphere subjects.
History of ILSR
7 Perceptual Styles
Perceptual Modality Preference Survey (PMPS)
Multi-Modal Paired Associates Learning Test (MMPALT-III)
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AceShowbiz - Tekashi69 (6ix9ine) is reportedly being sued by Danish rapper Sleiman over a collaboration that's gone wrong.
According to editors at TMZ.com, Tekashi69, real name Daniel Hernandez, and his label 10k Projects have reneged on a deal regarding track "Red Bandnna/Black Hoodie".
Sleiman claims he began working with Tekashi69 in September (18), securing him to provide vocals on the song with a fee of $99,000 (£76,000).
But when it came to releasing "Red Bandnna/Black Hoodie", 10k put a stop to any progress by claiming it had exclusive rights to Tekashi, so the track couldn't be made public without its permission.
In legal documents obtained by TMZ, 10k executives threatened Sleiman with a court case if he released it on his own.
The Danish musician, who claims the hold-up has cost him a record deal, is now asking a judge to declare him the rightful owner of the song so he can release it. He also wants Tekashi69 to repay his fee back in full.
It's the latest legal issue for the 22-year-old rapper, who has been behind bars since he was arrested on racketeering, weapons and drugs charges in November. He pleaded guilty to nine counts in February and is due to be sentenced in January 2020.
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Summer Walker Sparks Debate After Saying Racism Should Be Classified as Mental Disorder
The 'Playing Games' singer receives mixed responses from people on the internet after she posted and then deleted a post where she seemingly likened racism to psychological disorder.
AceShowbiz - Summer Walker sparked controversy on the internet over her comment about racism. The "Playing Games" singer suggested racism was mental illness. "I don't understand how racism isn't classified as a psychological disorder… like being bi-polar.. so odd," she wrote in a now-deleted post.
She received mixed reactions, but many of them disagreed with her. "Because there's a huge difference in biological disorders & learned behavior, Goofball," one fan scolded the singer. Another gave a similar comment, "You're not born with or develop racism. You're taught and further CHOOSE to be racist." A sarcastic individual wrote, "Sooo she saying a racist needs medication to not be a racist anymore....got it."
Some others blasted her. "Summer you should've sat this one out," one commented. "Is she slow?" another dissed the R&B star. More similar criticism: "Wtf? That's basically excusing racism sis...I can't," "This is dumb," "When trying to sound smart goes incredibly wrong," "Somebody Take Her Phone Away," and "Google is free you know."
A few, however, agreed with her. "Oddly I get it," one claimed. Another explained, "It takes a mental person to hurt someone because of the color of their skin. That's definitely mental in my opinion."
More similar comments: "Well she has a point people who are racist swear they aren't the s**t is sick as f**k," "I hear her tho cus they way ppl be stuck in their racist ways and how deeply rooted their hate is, it would seem like only medication can manage it," "I agree cus that s**t is mad weird how you're treating someone like s**t cus of their race... make it make sense."
Summer Walker didn't respond to the controversy. She herself revealed her battle with social anxiety following criticisms over her disappointing meet-and-greet and dry live performances. "I'm a person, I have my feelings," she said. "I get tired, I get sad and that's just a lot. So I don't wanna lose myself for someone else. I wanna give y'all what I can. I'm gonna keep making music and Imma do a few shows but I can't finish."
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The Michael J. Fox Show (2013–2014)
TV Series | 30 min | Comedy
A comedy inspired by the life of Michael J. Fox.
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27 September 2013 | ftbear
Back to the Future it's not.
Michael, Michael; what in the world is going on? Don't get me wrong. I like MJF. But I don't like this show. It is poorly scripted, poorly shot and BADLY in need of a genuine sense of humor.
After the first three parkinson's jokes the rest of them just fell flat. Enough was enough already. I didn't know if I was supposed to laugh, feel sorry for him or what. For me, it just didn't work.
The characters in the supporting cast are not well defined. I don't know who the heck they are or what they're supposed to be. They just kind of wander in and out of camera view doing a fast and furious set of blackout jokes; kind of like a rude and crude vaudeville routine.
Speaking of rude and crude about one third of the "humor" was on the level of nine year old toilet jokes.
Your show is not for me, Michael. You're better than that. Or, are you?
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Posted on June 10, 2013 June 7, 2013 by Steve Murray Columns, Video Games
Microsoft Has Lost the Console War Before It Started
The Microsoft keynote event at E3 is about to begin and it doesn’t really matter. Over the last few weeks, Microsoft has repeatedly shot itself in the foot when promoting their upcoming Xbox One. They think that they can do no wrong with their next-gen console but the reality is that the can do nothing right.
Microsoft is walking into E3 thinking that they’re Justin Bieber, they’re on top of the world and full of swagger. They are Justin Bieber but everyone sees them as Justin Bieber, self-important douche, with a bit of Amanda Bynes’ delusional separation from reality.
As I’ve mentioned in a previous column, Microsoft is marketing their Xbox One as a console for the casual gamer by adding live TV viewing, Skype and fantasy sports integration to the console.
However, the official confirmation of the Xbone’s “features” aren’t so much confirmation that Microsoft is targeting casual gamers as it is confirmation that Microsoft doesn’t care what the core gamer wants to the point where they seem to be actively testing the loyalty of their dedicated gamer base.
In case you missed it, Microsoft issued a press release last Thursday that effectively confirmed what Microsoft execs told the press and then immediately denied after the Xbox One reveal.
Among the things that we knew that Microsoft confirmed after saying that policies were still being finalized were the online check-in every 24 hours, a broadband internet requirement, game rentals are effectively dead, and the Kinect has to be connected to your console.
These things should all be fairly concerning for the average gamer. Not everyone has their Xbox 360 online and not everyone online has a fast enough internet connection for Microsoft’s tastes. If you’re GameFly, you’re hoping that your Xbox users switch over to PlayStation because you could quick end up out of business.
And I don’t care what Microsoft says, if hackers can turn on my webcam, I’m sure they can do that to a Kinect too. Not to mention that Microsoft was the first company to sign up for the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program in 2007. If Microsoft has been allowing the NSA to secretly spy on us for six years without telling us, I’m really going to believe them when they say that there’s no privacy concerns with the Kinect.
However, it gets worse. Used games won’t be banned by Microsoft because they’ve left it up to the publishers to set used games policies. That would be the same publishers that have been, at best, attempting to disincentivize the purchase of used games and, at worst, crush the second-hand market altogether. No wonder why EA ended the online pass system, the Xbox One will give them power to set restrictions on games without the single-use code. For the sake of balance, the PlayStation 4 will do the same thing.
If allowed, you can still sell your old games but the system is skewed to the advantage of “participating retailers.” Yes, Microsoft is only allowing selected retailers to sell used games. Basically, Gamestop can still sell used games after being vilified for the last stretch as the cause of the financial woes of the games industry.
Private game sales and loaning of games is a little less encouraging. Loaning isn’t allowed yet. You can play a game on a friend’s console if you log into your account and check-in hourly. To sell a game, you have to transfer your license to play the game to an Xbox Live friend who has been on your friend list for at least 30 days and can that license can only be transferred once. Presumably, “participating retailers” won’t have that restrictions. I actually kind of wish I could gift games I’ve played to friends on Steam so I’ll give Microsoft a little credit for that but they’re still killing private used games sales.
What this really says is that when you buy an Xbox One game, you aren’t buying the game. You’re buying the right to play the game with limited rights to transfer the license to play the game.
On the plus side, you can share games with a family list. Xbox users are allowed to designate ten people as family and share games with them. Only one family member can play one of your games at a time so you can’t play CoD with cousins Billy and Suzie at the same time but you can with just one of them. How you designate family members and what stops you from putting ten friends on your family list hasn’t been disclosed yet.
You can even let anyone play any games tied to your home console. If your friends come over and want to play your game on your console, they can without any DRM issues. That’s a massive and revolutionary feature on the Xbox One that we haven’t had since… Oh, wait! We’ve always had that!
So what Microsoft has finally copped to is that some of our worst fears for the next generation of home consoles have come true. I can appreciate that legitimate money losers like piracy are a concern but that doesn’t excuse trying to end the second-hand market, the privacy concerns of an always-connected Kinect or the likely occurrence of server issues that leaves the Xbone unable to play games for some or all users.
The scary thing is that people are still trying to justify these so-called features of the Xbox One. Justification like having to be online to use Steam while ignoring that no other console in history requires me to be online to play games and that I use my PC for more than just gaming. Sure, there aren’t used games or games trading on Steam but I’ve also never paid $60 for a game on Steam because I can easily find great deals on games which is something we seldom see for console games.
My internet is catastrophically slow. I can’t game online without a ton of lag. So you know what I do? I don’t play MMOs and I don’t do much online multiplayer. I play single-player games and game offline. That’s done me pretty good my whole life. What Microsoft is doing is punishing me for having a terrible ISP so I can’t use the Xbone if I actually wanted to.
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. Microsoft is smart to shove this news before E3. The only places that will cover news about the Xbox One are gaming sites. Casual gamers aren’t going to know or worry too much about all the issues that the core gamer has with the Xbone because they don’t frequent these sites. That allows Microsoft to focus on the games which is all that the mainstream/casual media will cover, if they cover E3 at all.
So if I think that the casual gamer won’t care about Microsoft’s underhanded restrictions, why do I think that the Xbox One won’t win the console war against the PS4? Among the core gamer base, I’d be shocked if even half of current Xbox 360 users get the XB1. Treating people like thieves with check-ins and DRM isn’t a good way to appeal to people.
They could also be cutting out part of the casual gamer market. There’s nothing beyond exclusive games for most users outside of America who won’t be able to take advantage of many of these apps the Xbox One runs. Only 73% of Xbox 360s are online while only 68.2% of Americans have broadband internet. In theory, that could cut one-third of Microsoft’s user base out without being able to choose to buy it or not. That doesn’t include other parts of the world with spotty internet connections. You could easily start a campaign accusing the Xbox One hating the troops since I doubt that soldiers in the field have 24/7 broadband internet connections.
Most importantly, people talk. While Little Jimmy and his mother might not visit here or IGN or another gaming news sites, they do hear people talk. Twitter was abuzz with discussion about the console. One would imagine that the same talk would carry over to Facebook and the Xbox fan page which could then trickle down to John, the white-collar grunt, who games to unwind after ten underpaid hours on the job.
Microsoft is banking entirely on the uninformed public buying the Xbox One despite the consumer rights that the so-called features strip from the people who buy the system and that core gamers will buy the console to continue playing Halo. No wonder why Halo 4 came out on the 360. It was so people would have to think about giving up the story part way through if they don’t get the Xbone.
Microsoft ended their press release by saying that they would listen to our feedback and may change its policies as a result. However, between their announcement and this release, Microsoft had two weeks of very clear user feedback about their policies and they didn’t listen. The only thing that will get their attention is when console sales fall massively below expectations and targets. At the end of the day, the only way we can get Microsoft’s attention is with our money.
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First principles study on 2H-1T’ transition in MoS2 with copper
H.H. Huang, X. Fan, D.J. Singh and W.T. Zheng Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 20, 26986 (2018).
Bipolar conduction as the possible origin of the electronic transition in pentatellurides: metallic vs semiconducting behavior
P. Shahi, D. J. Singh, J. P. Sun, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, Y. Y. Lv, J. Li, J.-Q. Yan, D. G. Mandrus, and J.-G. Cheng
Phys. Rev, 8, 021055 (2018).
Optimal bandgap in a 2D Ruddlesden-Popper perovskite chalcogenide for single-junction solar cells
S. Niu, D. Sarkar, K. Williams, Y. Zhou, Y. Li, E. Bianco, H. Huyam, S.B. Cronin, M.E. McConney, R. Haiges, R. Jaramillo, D.J. Singh, W.A. Tisdale, R. Kapadia and J. RavichandranChem. Mater. , 30, 4882 (2018).
Orbital controlled band gap engineering of tetragonal BiFeO3 for optoelectronic applications
L. Qiao, S. Zhang, H.Y. Xiao, D.J. Singh, K.H.L. Zhang, Z.J. Liu, X.T. Zu and S. Li. J. Mater. Chem. C, 6, 1239 (2018).
Reactivity of sulfur molecules on MoO3 (010) surface
M. Misawa, S. Tiwari, S. Hong, A. Krishnamoorthy, F. Shimojo, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, and P. Vashishta,
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8, 6206-6210 (2017).
Ultrafast non-radiative dynamics of atomically thin MoSe2
M.-F. Lin, V. Kochat, A. Krishnamoorthy, L. Bassman, C. Weninger, Q. Zheng, X. Zhang, A. Apte, C. S. Tiwary, X. Shen, R. Li, R. K. Kalia, P. Ajayan, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, F. Shimojo, X. Wang, D. M. Fritz, and U. Bergmann,
Nature Communications 8, 11745: 1-8 (2017).
Re-doping in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides as a new route to tailor structural phases and induced magnetism
V. Kochat, A. Apte, J. A. Hachtel, H. Kumazoe, A. Krishnamoorthy, S. Susarla, J. C. Idrobo, F. Shimojo, P. Vashishta, R. Kalia, A. Nakano, C. S. Tiwary and P. M Ajayan,
Advanced Materials 29, 1703754: 1-8 (2017).
Computational synthesis of MoS2 layers by reactive molecular dynamics simulations: initial sulfidation of MoO3 surfaces
S. Hong, A. Krishnamoorthy, P. Rajak, S. Tiwari, M. Misawa, F. Shimojo, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, and P. Vashishta,
Nano Lett. 17, 4866–4872 (2017).
A derivation and scalable implementation of the synchronous parallel kinetic Monte Carlo method for simulating long-time dynamics
H. S. Byun, M. Y. El-Naggar, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, and P. Vashishta,
Comput. Phys. Commun. 219, 246-254 (2017).
Regulating top-surface multilayer/single-crystal graphene growth by “gettering” carbon diffusion at backside of the copper foil
I. H. Abidi, Y. Liu, J. Pan, A. Tyagi, M. Zhuang, Q. Zhang, A. A. Cagang, L.-T. Weng, P. Sheng, W. A. Goddard III, and Z. Luo,
Adv. Funct. Mater. 27, 1700121 (2017).
Atomistic analysis of room temperature quantum coherence in two-dimensional CdSe nanostructures
S. Pal, P. Nijjar, T. Frauenheim, and O. V. Prezhdo,
Nano Lett. 17, 2389 (2017).
Microwave reduction of graphene oxide rationalized by reactive molecular dynamics
V. V. Chaban and O. V. Prezhdo,
Nanoscale 9, 4024 (2017).
Sn2Se3: A conducting crystalline mixed valent phase change memory compound
G. Xing, Y Li, X. Fan, L. Zhang, W. Zheng, and D. J. Singh,
J. Appl. Phys. 121, 225106 (2017).
Nonadiabatic charge dynamics in novel solar cell materials
R. Long, O. V. Prezhdo, and W. H. Fang,
Molecular Science 7, e1305 (2017).
Infrared absorption and visible transparency in heavily doped p-type BaSnO3
Y. Li, J. Sun, and D. J. Singh,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 051904 (2017).
Using gapped topological surface states of Bi2Se3 films in a field effect transistor
J. Sun and D. J. Singh,
Bandgap control via structural and chemical tuning of transition metal perovskite chalcogenides
S. Niu, H. Huyan, Y. Liu, M. Yeung, K. Ye, L. Blankemeier, T. Orvis, D. Sarkar, D. J. Singh, R. Kapadia, and J. Ravichandran,
Adv. Mater. 29, 1604733 (2017).
Electronic properties, screening and efficient carrier transport in NaSbS2
Phys. Rev. Appl. 7, 024015 (2017).
Thermal conductivity of single layer WSe2 by a Stillinger-Weber potential
P. Norouzzadeh and D. J. Singh,
Nanotechnology 28, 075708 (2017).
Cross-plane thermal conductivity of tungsten diselenide
Phys. Stat. Solidi C 14, 1700078 (2017).
Nonadiabatic charge dynamics in novel solar cell materials R. Long, O. V. Prezhdo, W. H. Fang
Wiley Interdisc. Rev. Comput. Mol. Sci, 7, e1305 (2017).
Nucleation of graphene layers on magnetic oxides: Co3O4(111) and Cr2O3(0001) from theory and experiment,
J. Beatty, T. Cheng, Y. Cao, M. S. Driver, W. A. Goddard III, and J. A. Kelber J. Phys. Chem. Lett, 8, 188 (2017).
Sulfur adatom and vacancy accelerate charge recombination in MoS2 but by different mechanisms: time-domain ab initio analysis
L. Li, R. Long, T. Bertolini, and O. V. Prezhdo
Imidazolium ionic liquid mediates black phosphorus exfoliation while preventing phosphorene decomposition
V. V. Chaban, E. E. Fileti, and O. V. Prezhdo,
ACS Nano 11, 6459 (2017).
Dynamic optical tuning of interlayer interactions in the transition metal dichalogenides
E. M. Mannebach, C. Nyny, F. Ernst, Y. Zhou, J. Tolsma, Y. Li, M.J. Sher, I.C. Tung, H. Zhou, Q. Zhang, K.L. Seyer, G. Clark, Y. Lin, D. Zhu, J. M. Glownia, M.E. Kozina, S. Song, S. Nelson, A. Mehta, Y. Yu, A. Pant, O.B. Aslan, A. Raja, Y. Guo, A. DiChiara, W. Mao, L. Cao, S. Tongay, J. Sun, D. J. Singh, T.F. Heinz, X. Xu, A.H. MacDonald, E. Reed, H. Wen and A.M. Lindenberg,
Nano Lett 17, 7761 (2017).
Properties of the ferroelectric visible light absorbing semiconductors: Sn2P2S6 and Sn2P2Se6 Y. Li and D. J. Singh,
Phys. Rev. Mater, 1, 075402 (2017).
New stable ternary alkaline-earth metal Pb(II) oxides: Ca/Sr/BaPb2O3 and BaPbO2,
Y. Li, L. Zhang and D. J. Singh J. , Phys. Rev. Mater, 1,055001 (2017).
The curious case of cuprous chloride: giant thermal resistance and anharmonic quasiparticle spectra driven by dispersion nesting
S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Bansal, O. Delaire, D. Perrodin, E. Bourret-Courchesne, D. J. Singh, and L. Lindsay
Phys. Rev. B 96, 100301(R) (2017).
Prediction of nontrivial band topology and superconductivity in Mg2Pb
G. Bian, T.-R. Chang, A. Huang, Y. Li, H.-T. Jeng, D. J. Singh, R.J. Cava, and W. Xie,
Phys. Rev. Mater 1, 02120(R) (2017).
Regulating top-surface multilayer/single-crystal graphene growth by gettering carbon diffusion at backside of the copper foil
I. H. Abidi, Y. Liu, J. Pan, A. Tyagi, M. Zhuang, Q. Zhang, A. A. Cagang, L.-T. Weng, P. Sheng, W.A. Goddard III, and Z. Luo
Adv. Funct. Mater 27, 1700121 (2017).
Epitaxial growth of cobalt oxide phases on Ru(0001) for spintronic device applications O. Olanipekun, C. Ladewig, J. A. Kelber, M. D. Randle, J. Nathawat, C.-P. Kwan, J. P. Bird, P. Chakraborti, P. A. Dowben, T. Cheng, and W. A. Goddard III.,
Semicond. Sci. Technol, 32, 095011 (2017).
J. Beatty, T. Cheng, Y. Cao, M.S. Driver, W. A. Goddard III, and J. A. KelberJACS Nano , 10,9370 (2017)
Schottky-barrier-free contacts with two-dimensional semiconductors by surface-engineered MXenes
Y. Liu, H. Xiao, and W. A. Goddard III,
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138, 15853 (2016).
Fragment molecular orbital nonadiabatic molecular dynamics for condensed phase systems
B. Nebgen and O. V. Prezhdo,
J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 7205 (2016).
Boron doping of graphene-pushing the limit
Nanoscale 8, 15521 (2016).
Energy storage in cubane derivatives and their real-time decomposition: computational molecular dynamics and thermodynamics
ACS Energy Lett. 1, 189 (2016).
Sub-picosecond Auger-mediated hole-trapping dynamics in colloidal CdSe/CdS core/shell nanoplatelets
S. Dong, S. Pal, J. Lian, Y. Chan, O. V. Prezhdo, and Z. H. Loh,
Identification and properties of the non-cubic phases of Mg2Pb
Y. Li, G. Bian, and D.J. Singh,
AIP Adv. 6, 125108 (2016).
ThFeAsN in relation to other iron-based superconductors
D.J. Singh,
J. Alloys Compounds 687, 786 (2016).
Metallic nickel silicides: experiments and theory for NiSi and first principles calculations for other phases
A. Dahal, J. Gunasekera, L. Harringer, and D.J. Singh,
Pressure evolution of the potential barriers of phase transition of MoS2, MoSe2 and MoTe2
X. Fan, D. J. Singh, Q. Jiang, and W. T. Zheng,
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 18, 12080 (2016).
Valence band splitting on multilayer MoS2: mixing of spin-orbit coupling and interlayer coupling
X. Fan, D. J. Singh, and W. Zheng
Design of ternary alkaline earth metal Sn(II) oxides with potential good p-type conductivity
Y. Li, D. J. Singh, M. H. Du, Q. Xu, L. Zhang, W. Zheng, and Y. Ma,
J. Mater. Chem. C 4, 4592 (2016).
Interference evidence for Rashba-type spin splitting on a semimetallic WTe2 surface
Q. Li, J. Yan, B. Yang, Y. Zang, J. Zhang, K. He, M. Wu, Y. Zhao, D. Mandrus, J. Wang, Q. Xue, L. Chi, D. J. Singh, and M. Pan,
Phys. Rev. B 94, 115419 (2016).
Adsorption and diffusion of Li with S on pristine and defected graphene
Z. Liang, X. Fan, D. J. Singh, and W. T. Zheng,
X. Fan, D. J. Singh and W. Zheng
J. Phys. Chem. Lett 7, 2175 (2016).
Direct growth of graphene on dielectric substrates: epitaxy at incommensurate and reactive interfaces
J. Kelber, J. Jones, B. Beauclair, O. Olanipekun, S. Lightbourne, M. Zhang, B. Pollok, J. Beatty, M. S. Driver, T. Cheng, Y. Liu, and W. A. Goddard IIIProc. Int. Conf. Solid-St. Integ. Circ. Tech., ICSICT (IEEE) , 470,9370 (2016)
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closed 6/14/2012 via BusinessWire
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synopsis: Perfect Commerce LLC announced their acquisition of Supply Chain Connect, formally ChemConnect, a prominent supplier network provider, specializing in the direct materials purchasing needs of cable, chemical and manufacturing industries with robust inventory management functions.
buyer: Perfect Commerce LLC
Perfect Commerce offers world-class sourcing and procurement solutions for companies of all sizes. Perfect Commerce global customers and partners include market leaders such as Hostess, Starbucks, BNP Paribas, Johnson Controls, Inc., YRC Worldwide and Honeywell, Inc. "
target: Supply Chain Connect
Supply Chain Connect, formally ChemConnect, is a prominent supplier network provider, specializing in the direct materials purchasing needs of cable, chemical and manufacturing industries with robust inventory management functions.
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announced 5/7/2018 via BNC Analysis
Infibeam Incorporation Ltd, will acquire Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd.
See 156 Comparable Transactions
synopsis: Infibeam Incorporation, India’s first listed ecommerce player, is acquiring Snapdeal’s wholly owned subsidiary Unicommerce, a cloud-based inventory management company. Indian Unicommerce enables Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Distributors, Retail Chains, Individual Store owners and E-commerce sellers to automate their supply chain operations.
buyer: Infibeam Incorporation Ltd (BSE:539807:$117.49)
Infibeam Incorporation, an Indian e-commerce company, provides a cloud-based platform, e-commerce infrastructure, and logistics support for various merchants, products, and services. They own the Infibeam BuildaBazaar e-commerce marketplace, and Infibeam.com, a multi-category online retailer. "
target parent: Snapdeal.com
target: Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd.
Indian Unicommerce is the leading global E-commerce Supply Chain Solution which enables Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Distributors, Retail Chains, Individual Store owners and E-commerce sellers to automate their supply chain operations for online and offline business to sell more.
closed 3/31/2017 via PE Hub
Agile Network, LLC, acquired Pantechnik International
synopsis: Agile Network, a leading provider of multi-carrier and multi-modal transportation execution technology in North America, announced it has acquired Pantechnik International, a leading provider of transportation execution technology in Europe and Asia.
buyer: Agile Network, LLC
Agile Network LLC designs, builds, and implements world class, multi-carrier shipping software for shippers that need automated transportation for UPS, FedEx, USPS and hundreds of LTL and FTL carriers to operate within their current business information systems. "
target: Pantechnik International
Pantechnik is a leading provider of transportation management software, providing business-critical multi-carrier shipping solutions for corporate clients throughout the world. Their solutions deliver supply chain visibility by optimizing operational processes and integrating with carrier systems.
announced 9/14/2016 via GlobeNewswire
Generix SA, will acquire Sologlobe
synopsis: Generix Group, a company that develops software solutions for the manufacturing, logistics and retail ecosystems, is acquiring a majority stake in the Canadian Company Sologlobe Logistique. Sologlobe helps manufacturing as well as logistics companies to optimize their operations across their supply chain.
buyer: Generix SA (ENXTPA:GENX:$65.21)
Generix Group develops software solutions for the manufacturing, logistics and retail ecosystems, helping its customers to manage, pool, integrate and optimize their information flows. "
target: Sologlobe
Sologlobe develops, distributes, deploys and supports a suite of software: SOLOCHAIN. This solution allows manufacturing as well as logistics companies to optimize their operations across their supply chain.
closed 8/9/2016 via BusinessWire
Plex Systems, Inc., acquired DemandCaster
synopsis: Plex Systems, the leader in cloud ERP for manufacturing, announced it has acquired DemandCaster, a leader in cloud-based supply chain planning solutions. The acquisition means the Plex Manufacturing Cloud now delivers a comprehensive suite of cloud applications for running manufacturing enterprises.
buyer parent: Francisco Partners Management LLC
buyer: Plex Systems, Inc.
Plex Systems, Inc. is the developer of Plex Online, a SaaS ERP for the manufacturing enterprise. Plex Online's comprehensive functional coverage delivers a "shop floor to top floor" view of a manufacturer's operations, enabling management to run its business at maximum efficiency. "
target: DemandCaster
DemandCaster is a pioneer and leader in cloud-based supply chain planning, with solutions that scale to support mid-sized manufacturers and global enterprises.
closed 11/16/2015 via PR Newswire
Upland Software, acquired Ultriva Inc
synopsis: Upland Software, Inc., a leader in cloud-based Enterprise Work Management applications, announced its acquisition of Ultriva, a cloud-based manufacturing and supply chain work management software provider. Ultriva offers a suite of applications that allows manufacturing companies to collaborate with their customers, plants and suppliers.
buyer parent: Austin Ventures, L.P.
buyer: Upland Software (UPLD:$183.83)
Upland Software is a leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management software. Their family of applications connects people through technology, automates the flow of work and brings visibility to all aspects of organizations. "
target: Ultriva Inc
Ultriva's cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end-to-end pull-based replenishment solution. Ultriva implements a global demand-driven manufacturing model by providing full visibility, scheduling, and production sequencing of customer orders.
announced 8/11/2015 via Company Press Release
Infor, will acquire GT Nexus
synopsis: Infor has entered into an agreement to acquire GT Nexus, the world's largest cloud-based global commerce platform. Approximately 25,000 businesses rely on GT Nexus, including six of the top ten logistics service providers and 30 global financial institutions, all managing more than $100bn in goods each year using its cloud-based business network.
buyer parent: Golden Gate Capital
buyer: Infor
Infor builds beautiful business applications with last mile functionality and scientific insights for select industries delivered as a cloud service. They builds software that automates critical processes for industries including healthcare, manufacturing, fashion, wholesale distribution, and more. "
target: GT Nexus
GT Nexus operates the world's largest cloud-based business network and execution platform for global trade and supply chain management. Over 25,000 businesses across industry verticals share GT Nexus as their standard, multi-enterprise collaboration platform.
closed 4/26/2009 via PR Web
Waypoint Global, LLC, acquired PowerWay, Inc.
synopsis: Waypoint Global, LLC announced the acquisition of the assets of Powerway, Inc a leading developer of manufacturing software solutions for managing product and process quality.
buyer: Waypoint Global, LLC
Waypoint Global helps companies streamline business processes in product development. "
target: PowerWay, Inc.
Powerway, Inc. is the leading product community software provider to manufacturers and their supply chains that conform to industry and international quality standards.
closed 4/5/2012 via Company Press Release
QL2 Software, LLC, acquired RivalWatch, Inc.
synopsis: Hale Global and RivalWatch Inc. announced that Hale Global’s portfolio company, QL2 Software, LLC has acquired the intellectual property of RivalWatch, the leader in online competitive pricing and assortment information for retailers.
buyer parent: Hale Global
buyer: QL2 Software, LLC
QL2 Software, LLC is the industry leader in providing services and technology for near real-time pricing and product data from unstructured sources such as the Web. With over 200 customers across more than 35 countries, "QL2data" drives better business decisions and increased revenue. "
target: RivalWatch, Inc.
RivalWatch, Inc is a market-leading provider of Internet-based competitive intelligence services for Fortune 1000 retailers and manufacturers.
announced 8/2/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Eurazeo, will acquire Elemica, Inc.
synopsis: Eurazeo, a leading global investment company, is to acquire Elemica, the leading cloud based Digital Supply Network for the global Process Industries. Elemica accelerates digital transformation by connecting, automating, anticipating and then transforming inter-business supply chain processes for the products they buy, sell, and move.
buyer: Eurazeo (ENXTPA:RF:$5,507.79)
Eurazeo is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €17.7 billion in assets under management, including nearly €11.6 billion from third parties, invested in nearly 400 companies. "
target parent: Thoma Bravo, LLC
target: Elemica, Inc.
Elemica is the leading Digital Supply Network for the process manufacturing industries. Elemica accelerates digital transformation by connecting, automating, anticipating and then transforming inter-business supply chain processes for the products they buy, sell, and move.
closed 7/13/2017 via PR Newswire
Temasek Holdings, acquired Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC
synopsis: Temasek, an investment company headquartered in Singapore, has completed the acquisition of Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a provider of connected intelligent healthcare supply chains. Temasek acquired a majority stake while Thoma Bravo, the existing owner, retained a minority position.
buyer: Temasek Holdings
Temasek is an investment company based in Singapore. Supported by 10 offices globally, including New York and San Francisco in the U.S., London in Europe, Beijing in China, and Mumbai in India, Temasek owns a S$242 billion (US$180b) portfolio as of 31 March 2016, mainly in Singapore and Asia. "
target: Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) drives costs out of healthcare with cloud-based supply chain management technology and services in order to help enable better patient care and savings by maximizing automation, efficiency and accuracy of business processes.
Thoma Bravo, LLC, acquired Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC
synopsis: Thoma Bravo, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm, has completed its acquisition of Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a provider of connected, intelligent healthcare supply chains.
buyer: Thoma Bravo, LLC
Thoma Bravo, LLC is a leading private equity investment firm. Thoma Bravo invests across multiple industries, with a particular focus in enterprise and infrastructure software and financial and business services. "
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has created an open and neutral Internet-based trading exchange, along with additional value-added products and services, to reduce costs and improve efficiencies for all participants in the healthcare supply chain.
closed 12/5/2018 via GlobeNewswire
Hub Group, acquired CaseStack
synopsis: Hub Group, a world-class supply chain solutions provider, completed the acquisition of CaseStack, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain management services for consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) – with the services to efficiently take products from manufacturing plant through to all retail channels.
buyer: Hub Group (HUBG:$4,486.37)
Hub Group is a world-class supply chain solutions provider that offers multi-modal transportation services throughout North America, including intermodal, truck brokerage, dedicated and logistics services. "
target: CaseStack
CaseStack is a leading provider of collaborative supply chain management services for consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) – with the services to efficiently take products from manufacturing plant through to all retail channels.
ResMed, acquired Jaysec Technologies, LLC
synopsis: ResMed announced it has acquired Jaysec, a provider of Internet-based software solutions for the home medical equipment (HME) industry. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., Jaysec's products help HME providers resupply their patients and communicate with referring medical providers.
buyer: ResMed (RMD:$2,404.82)
ResMed changes lives by developing, manufacturing and distributing medical equipment for treating, diagnosing, and managing sleep-disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and other chronic diseases "
target: Jaysec Technologies, LLC
Jaysec Technologies is a provider of Internet-based software solutions for the home medical equipment (HME) industry. Jaysec's products help HME providers resupply their patients and communicate with referring medical providers.
Court Square Capital Partners, acquired AFS Technologies Inc.
synopsis: AFS Technologies, Inc., a global leader in software solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods industry (CPG), including the Food and Beverage segment, announced that Court Square Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm with over $6 billion under management, has acquired a majority interest in AFS.
buyer: Court Square Capital Partners
Court Square is one of the most experienced teams in the private equity industry. Since 1979, the team has made over 200 investments including several landmark transactions and has developed numerous businesses into leaders in their respective markets. "
target: AFS Technologies Inc.
AFS Technologies Inc. is the leading provider of business enterprise and on-demand software solutions. The company serves over 1,500 customers across the Americas with a portfolio of solutions for the food, beverage, logistics and financial segments.
announced 2/22/2012 via Forbes
eBay, will acquire WHI Solutions, Inc.
synopsis: eBay has agreed to acquire WHI Solutions, a Rye Brook, New York-based provider of software and digital catalog solutions for auto parts distributors and retailers. The company said that the deal will enable its eBay Motors business to improve parts selection for customers while allowing sellers to reach more buyers.
buyer: eBay (EBAY:$10,856.00)
Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. connects millions of buyers and sellers globally on a daily basis through eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, and PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive online payments. "
target: WHI Solutions, Inc.
WHI Solutions provides web based eBusiness solutions to the Transportation Market. Its solutions include eCommerce, eCatalog, Distribution Management and Business Intelligence. Its core customers are Automotive and Heavy Duty Parts sellers and Service Providers.
closed 7/7/2016 via PR Newswire
Thoma Bravo, LLC, acquired Elemica, Inc.
synopsis: Thoma Bravo, LLC, a leading private equity investment firm, and Elemica, the leading Supply Chain Operating Network for the process industries, announce the completion of their merger agreement. Elemica is a world-wide leader in supply chain solutions with headquarters in Wayne, Pennsylvania, and employees around the globe.
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity investment firm that provides equity and support to management teams and growing companies. The firm seeks to create value by collaborating with company management to improve business operations, invest in growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions. "
Elemica is the leading Supply Chain Operating Network for the process industries. Elemica transforms supply chains by replacing manual and complex approaches with efficient and reliable ones.
DemandTec, Inc., acquired TradePoint Solutions, Inc.
synopsis: DemandTec, Inc., the leading provider of Consumer-Centric Merchandising, Sales and Marketing software for retailers and manufacturers, has acquired TradePoint Solutions, Inc., Pleasanton, Calif., the industry's first and leading provider of online deal management software linking manufacturers, sales agencies and retailers on one platform.
buyer: DemandTec, Inc. (DMAN:$82.42)
DemandTec enables retailers and consumer products companies to optimize merchandising and marketing decisions, individually or collaboratively, to achieve their sales volume, revenue, and profitability objectives. "
target: TradePoint Solutions, Inc.
TradePoint is a leading provider of Electronic Business Communication and Services to support trade promotion management in the CPG and Grocery industry. TradePoint enables manufacturers, brokers, and retailers to automate the execution of trade promotions in a secure, web-based environment.
Intelligrated, acquired Knighted, Inc.
synopsis: Intelligrated® announced the acquisition of Knighted®, a provider of supply chain software solutions. The acquisition is a strategic component of Intelligrated's mission to deliver innovative solutions that increase fulfillment velocity for e-commerce, multichannel retail, 3PL, wholesale, consumer products and food and beverage industries.
buyer parent: Permira
buyer: Intelligrated
Intelligrated is a leading North American-owned, single-point provider of automated material handling solutions with operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Intelligrated designs, manufactures and installs complete material handling automation solutions. "
target: Knighted, Inc.
Knighted provides web-enabled logistics software specializing in warehouse management software, warehouse control software and labor management software for the retail, e-commerce, route distributors, 3PL, and consumer goods manufacturing markets.
Systech International, acquired Apostrophe Systems
synopsis: Systech International, a leading provider of Packaging Execution System technology to help protect product integrity and authenticity, and the recognized global leader in serialization, announced it has acquired Apostrophe Systems, a specialized SaaS and Cloud Services provider.
buyer: Systech International
Through its innovative, proven, holistic packaging execution system technology, Systech International helps protect product integrity and authenticity to improve brand loyalty, optimize profitability, maximize supply chain efficiencies, and meet global regulatory demands. "
target: Apostrophe Systems
Apostrophe Systems, LLC is a SaaS and Cloud Services software company specializing in serialization and RFID which provides software applications and tools for partners and integrators to implement functionality through a services based model leveraging cloud technology for scale and flexibility.
Perfect Commerce LLC, acquired Hubwoo
synopsis: Perfect Commerce announced it has finalized the purchase of controlling ownership of the share capital of Hubwoo S.A., a leading provider of comprehensive spend management and business process automation solutions, headquartered in Paris, France.
Perfect Commerce offers world-class sourcing and procurement solutions to the enterprise and public market sectors. With the broadest global reach and deepest global capabilities of any independent provider, Perfect Commerce is utilized by more than 1.3 million users in 150 countries. "
target: Hubwoo (ENXTPA:HBW:$31.08)
Hubwoo connects companies by providing comprehensive spend management and collaborative business process automation solutions for both goods and services, in the cloud, through The Business Network.
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Perfect Commerce, Inc., acquired Commerce One, LLC.
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synopsis: Perfect Commerce, Inc., the largest provider of On-Demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions and The Open Supplier Network, announced it has acquired Commerce One, LLC, a leading e-commerce solutions provider. Commerce One pioneered e-commerce by bringing suppliers and buyers together over the Internet.
buyer: Perfect Commerce, Inc.
Perfect Commerce provides Enterprise Supply Management (ESM) software, services and expertise that enable Global 2000 companies such as America West Airlines, Bechtell, and others to increase profits and improve product and service quality. "
target: Commerce One, LLC.
Commerce One, Inc. is a provider of business-to-business electronic commerce solutions that link buyers and suppliers of indirect goods and services into trading communities over the Internet.
closed 11/20/2019 via BNC Analysis
Medius, acquired Wax Digital Ltd.
synopsis: Medius, a leading global provider of accounts payable (AP) invoice automation solutions, announced that it has acquired Wax Digital, an industry leading e-procurement and spend management solutions provider headquartered in the U.K.
buyer parent: Marlin Equity Partners
buyer: Medius
Based in Sweden, Medius is a leading global provider of accounts payable (AP) invoice automation solutions helping companies drive their business forward by providing best-in-class process efficiency and greater financial control. "
target: Wax Digital Ltd.
Based in the UK, Wax Digital has been working closely with savings-focused organisations to deliver e-Procurement and spend management solutions that help them get better value from their buying. Wax Digital provides web3, an innovative spend management software suite.
closed 6/25/2019 via BNC Analysis
Main Capital Partners BV, acquired Onventis GmbH
synopsis: Netherlands-based Main Capital, a strategic investor focused on the software sector, has acquired Onventis, a cloud-based platform provider for e-procurement headquartered in Germany. Onventis’s software offers buyers and suppliers a user-friendly, fully-integrated suite to connect, automate, and control the entire chain from sourcing to payment.
buyer: Main Capital Partners BV
Netherlands-based Main Capital is a strategic investor with an exclusive focus on the software sector in the Benelux, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Nordics regions. Within this sector, Main Capital is the most specialized company in management buyouts and later-stage growth capital. "
target: Onventis GmbH
Germany-based Onventis is a cloud-based platform provider for e-procurement solutions for midsize enterprises. The Onventis Cloud Procurement Network connects B2B business processes for buyers and suppliers through a suite to connect, automate, and control the entire chain from sourcing to payment.
eRequester merged with Fraxion,
synopsis: Fraxion, a cloud-based procure-to-pay solution for easy business spend management, has merged with eRequester, a US based e-procurement software suite leader.
buyer: Fraxion
Fraxion offers an innovative cloud solution for spend enablement and efficiency trusted by thousands of brands worldwide. Using Fraxion, businesses can spend smarter and streamline the procurement process for better business outcomes. They are based in South Africa. "
target parent: Roman Road Capital Partners LLC
target: eRequester
eRequester is a developer of an enterprise software designed to facilitate corporate accountability. The company's enterprise software and web-based application suite offers powerful requisition, PO, invoice automation and expense management tools.
announced 5/10/2019 via BNC Analysis
Mercell Holding AS, will acquire EU Supply PLC
synopsis: EU Supply PLC, one of UK's leading suppliers of electronic tender management and contract management solutions will be acquired by Norwegian peer Mercell Holding AS, a provider of eTender system and Tender Offers.
buyer: Mercell Holding AS
Mercell is a leading Nordic provider of eTender system and Tender Offers. Suppliers in all industries use Mercell eTender system to find tenders and contracts in the public sector. They simplify the public procurement process and makes it easy for the buyer to interact with suppliers. "
target: EU Supply PLC (AIM:EUSP:$6.63)
Headquartered in the UK, EU-Supply is one of Europe's leading suppliers of electronic tender management and contract management solutions. The company is focused on procurement and contract management.
closed 4/10/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Corcentric, LLC, acquired Determine, Inc.
synopsis: Corcentric, a fast-growing provider of procurement and financial process automation solutions, has completed its purchase of substantially all of the assets of Determine, Inc, a leader in global Source-to-Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management solutions.
buyer: Corcentric, LLC
Corcentric's procurement and finance solutions help companies run smarter, enabling them to control their spending and increase their cash flow by optimizing how they purchase, pay, and get paid. "
target: Determine, Inc. (OTCPK:DTRM:$26.02)
Determine, Inc. is a leading global provider of SaaS Source-to-Pay and Enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (ECLM) solutions. The Determine Cloud Platform provides procurement, legal and finance professionals analytics of their supplier, contract and financial performance.
Verdane Capital, acquired Scanmarket
synopsis: Verdane Capital, a private equity firm, has acquired a 90% stake in Scanmarket's source-to-contract company. Scanmarket is a market-leading global strategic sourcing platform that since 1999 has delivered superior bottom-line results in savings, transparency and efficiency to hundreds of organizations globally. They are headquartered in Denmark.
buyer: Verdane Capital
Verdane funds provide flexible growth capital to fast growing software, consumer internet, energy or high-technology industry businesses. The funds are distinctive in that they can invest either in a single company, or in portfolios of companies. "
target: Scanmarket
Scanmarket is a market-leading global strategic sourcing platform that since 1999 has delivered superior bottom-line results in savings, transparency and efficiency to hundreds of organizations globally. They are headquartered in Denmark.
GTY Technology Holdings, merged with Bonfire Interactive
synopsis: Bonfire Interactive, a leader in strategic sourcing and procurement software, has formally merged with GTY Technology Holdings Inc. in a business combination with five other leading software as a service (SaaS) companies specializing in government technology.
buyer: GTY Technology Holdings (GTYH:$0.00)
GTY Technology is a company developed to consummate a business combination with established technology companies. Their objective is to identify companies with a leading competitive position, a strong management team, a collaborative and collegial culture. "
target: Bonfire Interactive
Bonfire, a leader in strategic sourcing and procurement technology, empowers organizations to make the right purchasing decisions. With tools to support the entire vendor lifecycle, Bonfire goes beyond traditional mechanics to make complex decision making easy.
Proactis Holdings PLC, will acquire Esize Holdings BV
synopsis: PROACTIS Holdings PLC ("PROACTIS"), the global spend management and B2B eCommerce solution provider, announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of Esize Holdings BV ("Esize"), a Netherlands based procurement software business for buy side organisations.
buyer: Proactis Holdings PLC (AIM:PHD:$51.76)
Proactis helps organisations around the world to operate faster, leaner, smarter. They enable buyers and sellers to eliminate wasted time, money and talent by transforming the way they buy and sell all types of goods and services. They offer spend management solutions. "
target: Esize Holdings BV
Esize Holdings BV ("Esize") is a Netherlands based procurement software business for buy side organisations. Esize is a recognised territory leader in the Netherlands for its cloud-based spend management solutions. Its solutions cover the full procurement cycle for indirect spend.
closed 3/2/2018 via BNC Analysis
Advanced, acquired Science Warehouse Limited
synopsis: Advanced has acquired Science Warehouse, a British developer of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) procurement solutions. Science Warehouse is an established provider of spend management and eMarketplace systems to over 80 customers in multiple sectors including commercial, government, higher education, NHS and social housing.
buyer parent: Vista Equity Partners
buyer: Advanced
Advanced is a provider of healthcare, enterprise, and other business solutions and services to the public and private sectors. Their healthcare portfolio includes patient care management and clinical software solutions, while its enterprise suite includes financial management, HR, payroll, and CRM. "
target parent: Mercia Technologies PLC
target: Science Warehouse Limited
Science Warehouse provides cloud-based spend management platform and e-marketplace systems designed to drive efficiencies through the source-to-settle process. They give customers control of the purchasing cycle from requisition to payment, helping them deliver cost savings and manage spending.
closed 12/11/2017 via GlobeNewswire
Coupa Software, acquired Simeno
synopsis: Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, announced that it has acquired Simeno Holdings AG, a leader in cross-catalog search and advanced catalog management. Simeno creates localized content from third-party supplier sites to power cross-catalog searches, including content from many of the leading B2B marketplaces.
buyer: Coupa Software (COUP:$353.18)
Coupa Software is the cloud platform for business spend. They deliver “Value as a Service” by helping their customers maximize their spend under management, achieve significant cost savings and drive profitability. "
target: Simeno
Simeno is a leader in cross-catalog search and advanced catalog management. Simeno creates localized content from third-party supplier sites to power cross-catalog searches, including content from many of the leading B2B marketplaces.
JAGGAER, acquired BravoSolution S.p.A.
synopsis: JAGGAER, a leading independent spend management technology company, has completed the acquisition of BravoSolution, a leading global strategic procurement solution provider, from Italmobiliare S.p.A., an Italy-based investment company.
buyer parent: Accel-KKR
buyer: JAGGAER (SQI:$106.31)
JAGGAER, Inc. is the producer of the world's most comprehensive Source to Pay (S2P) spend solutions suite. JAGGAER’s comprehensive and complete spend solutions suite enables commerce between any businesses, anywhere. "
target parent: Italmobiliare S.p.A.
target: BravoSolution S.p.A.
BravoSolution is a global strategic procurement solution provider. Their procurement technology platform and practitioner experience help companies unlock the power of procurement to drive financial performance, develop procurement organizational excellence, manage risk and influence innovation.
closed 11/20/2017 via Company Press Release
AvidXchange, acquired Ariett
synopsis: AvidXchange announced that it has acquired Ariett, a leading cloud solution provider in the fast-growing purchase-to-pay market. Ariett has helped midmarket and enterprise customers to generate savings on contracts, requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, payments, and expense reports with a unified procurement platform since 2005.
buyer: AvidXchange
AvidXchange revolutionizes the way companies pay their bills. Serving more than 6,000 clients throughout North America, AvidXchange is an industry leader in automating procurement, invoice and payment processes for midmarket companies spanning multiple industries. "
target: Ariett
Ariett generates savings on every contract, requisition, invoice, expense report and payment with a unified cloud platform. Accounting teams everywhere benefit from upfront purchasing control, global visibility to spending and audit trails, which drive cost savings across the enterprise.
announced 3/8/2017 via BusinessWire
Tradeshift, will acquire IBX Business Network
synopsis: Tradeshift and Capgemini have entered into an agreement under which Tradeshift will acquire Capgemini’s IBX Business Network. The combination of Tradeshift and IBX will create the world’s largest business commerce platform connecting 1.5 million businesses & 500 global enterprise customers that have access to the largest supply-chain app ecosystem.
buyer: Tradeshift
Tradeshift is a business commerce company that provides a global commerce platform connecting buyers and sellers. Tradeshift offers solutions for Procure to Pay, Supplier Engagement and Financial Services, and enables companies to build custom or commercial apps on its business commerce platform. "
target parent: Capgemini
target: IBX Business Network
As the creators of one of the largest European B2B networks, IBX is one of the most experienced source-to-procure teams. They have best-in-class software to address the entire source to payment process, including sourcing, e-invoicing, AP automation, and eProcurement.
closed 2/22/2017 via Company Press Release
Roman Road Capital Partners LLC, acquired eRequester
synopsis: Roman Road Capital Partners LLC acquires Paperless Business Systems, developer of eRequester a leading spend management software suite. eRequester is a leading web-based requisitioning, purchase order and expense management software for the middle market developed by Paperless Business Systems.
buyer: Roman Road Capital Partners LLC
Roman Road Ventures is a unique investment group comprised of successful entrepreneurs, executives and luminaries in the business world. Together, with strategic advisors, they bring a strong industry background in SaaS and business technology. "
eRequester is a leading web-based requisitioning, purchase order and expense management software for the middle market developed by Paperless Business Systems. eRequester is top-rated by Gartner, an independent analyst group, in: time-to-value, ease-of-use, customer care, and technology platform.
Dun & Bradstreet Australia Holdings Limited, acquired TenderLink.com Pty Ltd.
synopsis: Dun & Bradstreet Australia, Australia and New Zealand's longest-established credit information bureau, has acquired TenderLink, one of the largest online procurement communities in Australasia.
buyer parent: Archer Capital
buyer: Dun & Bradstreet Australia Holdings Limited
Established in 1887, Dun & Bradstreet is Australia and New Zealand's longest-established credit information bureau. Backed by its extensive database, Dun & Bradstreet helps businesses to make informed credit decisions, and consumers to access personal credit information. "
target parent: Fairfax Media Ltd.
target: TenderLink.com Pty Ltd.
TenderLink, established in 1994, is one of the largest online procurement communities in Australasia. TenderLink provides a central gateway for the advertisement and management of tenders, quotes and expressions of interests published by government, public and private sector procurers.
PRGX Global, Inc., acquired Lavante
synopsis: PRGX Global, Inc., a global leader in Recovery Audit and Spend Analytics services, announced that it has completed its acquisition of Lavante, Inc., a SaaS-based procure-to-pay (P2P) supplier information management (SIM) and recovery audit services firm based in San Jose, CA.
buyer: PRGX Global, Inc. (PRGX:$134.85)
PRGX Global, Inc. is a global leader in Recovery Audit and Spend Analytics services. With over 1,400 employees, the Company serves clients in more than 30 countries and provides its services to 75% of the top 20 global retailers and over 20% of the top 50 companies in the Fortune 500. "
target: Lavante
Lavante is the leader in SaaS-based supplier information management and profit recovery. Lavante solutions generate millions in cost savings and deliver the highest-quality data to clients and suppliers to partners throughout the procure-to-pay (P2P) ecosystem.
closed 11/18/2015 via PE Hub
August Equity Ltd., acquired Wax Digital Ltd.
synopsis: August Equity LLP has backed the management buyout of UK cloud provider of eProcurement software Wax Digital Limited (“Wax”). Based in Cheshire, Wax manages £5bn worth of indirect spend for large and mid-sized organisations both in the private and public sector and its integrated Source-to-Pay software is delivered across 102 countries.
buyer: August Equity Ltd.
August Equity is an independent private equity firm investing £10 to £30 million in UK based companies. It invests in buy-outs of high growth service-orientated companies in the UK mid-market. "
Wax Digital, of the United Kingdom, is a cloud provider of eProcurement software. Wax Digital is the UK’s No1 Source-to-Pay vendor and a top 5 vendor globally.
iVeridis Corporation merged with Technotomy Ltd.,
synopsis: Technotomy Ltd., an experienced bespoke software development and data analytics provider, and iVeridis Ltd., a leader in efficiency and cost-saving technologies, announced a merger to form Synoptic Technologies Ltd., a new company focused on linking innovative SME’s to global brands and government agencies.
buyer: Technotomy Ltd.
Technotomy Limited is a modern company, established in 2007, passionate about business related software development, in the area of data mining, information retrieval and intelligent computing. "
target: iVeridis Corporation
iVeridis software enables the world's leading organizations to globally source and manage the right innovations faster, cheaper and with better results.
closed 8/3/2015 via Market Wire
Selectica, Inc., acquired b-pack, Inc.
synopsis: Selectica, Inc. has acquired b-pack, a global leader in purchase-to-pay (P2P) software and services. Complementing Selectica's offerings and go-to-market strategy, b-pack delivers solutions in eProcurement, Purchase to Pay, Asset Management, Budget Management, Invoice Management, and Expense Management.
buyer: Selectica, Inc. (SLTC:$20.88)
Selectica, Inc. provides a platform for enterprises worldwide to create, manage, and optimize business relationships with contracts at the core. Since 1996, Selectica helps global companies actively manage their contracts throughout the sales, procurement and legal life cycle. "
target: b-pack, Inc.
b-pack is a global leader in purchase-to-pay (P2P) software and services. b-pack delivers solutions in eProcurement, Purchase to Pay, Asset Management, Budget Management, Invoice Management, and Expense Management.
Selectica, Inc., acquired iasta, Inc.
synopsis: Selectica, Inc. has acquired Iasta, an industry leading SaaS-based sourcing and spend management solutions company focused on providing strategic sourcing, business intelligence, spend analysis, supplier management, and contract management technology to empower procurement and sourcing professionals.
buyer parent: Trilogy Enterprises, Inc.
Selectica, Inc. enables large enterprises with sales over $1 billion to reduce costs and increase revenue from complex product and services offerings. Selectica solutions unify customers' business processes to deliver product, service, and pricing flexibility across multiple distribution channels. "
target: iasta, Inc.
Iasta 's blend of acclaimed software and services provides the means to easily and effectively incorporate best-in-class procurement practices on a global scale. Iasta technology is focused on strategic sourcing, business intelligence, spend analysis, supplier management, and contract management.
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The discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans are present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world are discovered in a coal mine in Schöningen where three 380,000 year old wooden javelins about 2 meters long are unearthed. The Neander Valley is the location where the first ever non-modern human fossil are discovered; the new species of human is named Neanderthal man. The Neanderthal 1 fossils are known to be 40,000 years old. Evidence of modern humans similarly dated are found in caves in the Swabian Jura near Ulm. The finds include 42,000 year old bird bone and mammoth ivory flutes which are the oldest musical instruments ever found; the 40,000 year old Ice Age Lion Man which is the oldest uncontested figurative art ever discovered; and the 35,000 year old Venus of Hohle Fels which is the oldest uncontested human figurative art ever discovered. The Nebra sky disk is a bronze artifact created during the European Bronze Age attributed to a site near Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt. It is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.
The Deutscher Bund (German Confederation) is a loose association of 39 German states in Central Europe that the Congress of Vienna creates in 1815 to coordinate the economies of separate German-speaking countries and to replace the former Holy Roman Empire. The Confederation is weak and ineffective as well as an obstacle to German nationalist aspirations. It collapses due to the rivalry between Prussia and Austria, warfare, the 1848 revolution, and the inability of the multiple members to compromise. It dissolves with Prussian victory in the Seven Weeks’ War and the establishment of the North German Confederation in 1866. The dispute between the two dominant member states of the confederation, Austria and Prussia, over which has the inherent right to rule German lands ends in favor of Prussia after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 and the collapse of the confederation. This results in the creation of the North German Confederation with a number of south German states remaining independent although allied first with Austria (until 1867) and subsequently with Prussia (until 1871) after which they became a part of the new German Empire.
The obsolete units of measurement of German-speaking countries consist of a variety of units with varying local standard definitions. Some of these units are still used in everyday speech and even in stores and on street markets as shorthand for similar amounts in metric units. Some customers ask for ein Pfund (one pound) of something when they want exactly 500 grams. Some obsolete German units have names similar to units that had been traditionally used in other countries and that are still used in the United Kingdom and the United States. Almost every town has its own unit definitions prior to German metrication. Towns would often post the local definitions on a wall of city hall. The front wall of the old Rudolfestat city hall (still standing) has two marks which show the Rudolstädter Elle. Supposedly by 1810 in Baden alone there are 112 different standards for the Elle which is a distance between elbow and fingertip. The smallest known German Elle is 402 mm and the longest 811 mm. The metric system became compulsory on 1 January 1872 in Germany.
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Gem Tablak September 23, 2019 September 23, 2019 Mets 2019
Rosario SS
McNeil 2B
Alonso 1B
J.D. Davis LF
Ramos C
Frazier 3B
Conforto RF
Lagares CF
Matz LHP
A sick and struggling Marcus Stroman helped the New York Mets secure the win and the series victory yesterday against the Reds in Cincinnati. Today, the Mets will look to keep this momentum going as they host the Miami Marlins for a four-game set before the last series of the season against the Atlanta Braves.
Steven Matz will hit the mound for the New York Mets in today’s contest after being swapped in the rotation with Marcus Stroman. The reason for the swap? Well, Matz has been nothing short of brilliant when pitching at Citi Field. The left hander from Stony Brook is posting a 1.94 ERA while pitching at home and owns a 7-1 record under those circumstances. Overall, Matz is 10-9 with a 4.16 ERA, a 1.33 WHIP while also having struck out 143 batters in 149.1 innings.
The Miami Marlins will have fellow left hander Caleb Smith on the hill and on the road, Smith hasn’t been seeing much success. Smith owns a 3-6 record with an ERA of 4.94 while pitching away from Miami. While he’s 2-0 against the Mets throughout his career, this season Smith is 9-10 with a 4.24 ERA, a 1.16 WHIP while striking out 164 batters in 144.1 innings pitched.
J.D. Smith will likely get the start in left field with Robinson Canó having to be removed from yesterday afternoon’s game due to being hit by a pitch on his big right toe. This will allow the Orange & Blue to shift Jeff McNeil over to second base from left field, adding more power to the lineup. Against left handers, Davis is hitting .308/.374/.519/.893 with seven doubles and seven home runs.
Tonight’s contest will be held at Citi Field with first pitch scheduled for 7:10 PM EST and will be televised on SNY as well as for free on the MLB app.
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Boy in a 'narco-ween' costume, complete with plastic body bag.
‘Candy or kidnapping:’ narco-Halloween in northern Mexico
'We're losing this country,' said one observer about narco costumes
Published on Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Young boys dressed up as drug cartel members and the shouting of “candy or kidnapping” by children while trick-or-treating were among examples of a “narco-Halloween” in northern Mexico last week.
In Mazatlán, Sinaloa, one young boy who was dressed as a sicario, or hitman, caught the attention of shoppers as he walked through a city mall on October 31.
Wearing ripped blue jeans, a black shirt with the top buttons undone and a gold chain and sporting a drawn-on mustache, there could be no mistaking that his costume was inspired by Mexico’s notorious gangsters.
In case there was any doubt, the boy had a toy gun in his jeans and – perhaps most shockingly – was dragging a black plastic bag of the kind commonly used by cartels to dispose of the bodies of their victims.
Photos and video footage of the boy went viral on social media and triggered criticism of his mother, who accompanied him through the Mazatlán mall.
Photos of the Ovidio Guzmán costume went viral.
“. . . That mother should have her child taken away from her . . .” one Twitter user said.
Images of another young boy dressed as Ovidio Guzmán López, a suspected Sinaloa Cartel leader and son of former drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, also went viral on social media.
The young boy – perhaps two years old – was dressed in clothes that mimicked those worn by the 28-year-old suspected narco when he was detained in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on October 17 before being released after the operation to capture him triggered a wave of cartel attacks.
His pale shirt, black pants, cap and a religious pendant hanging around his neck ensured that he was a near dead ringer of Guzmán López. He was even given a stubbly beard and mustache to help him look the part.
The costume also triggered condemnation on social media.
“We’re losing this country. Who could think of dressing up their child as Ovidio?” said Twitter user Mario Castillo. “It’s not at all funny. On all fronts, day by day, we’re consolidating ourselves as a banana republic.”
In Reynosa, a notoriously dangerous border city in Tamaulipas, another Twitter user said she heard children shouting “dulce o levantón” (literally candy or kidnapping) when trick-or-treating.
Beyond social media criticism, the narco-inspired costumes and behavior were also denounced by the head of the Sinaloa child protection agency.
Margarita Urias Burgos said that dressing up children in such attire could affect them for the rest of their lives because the photos will remain on the internet indefinitely.
She was critical of people who shared the images in order to criticize the children’s parents, contending that they only contributed to their wider dissemination.
Urias added that authorities are not seeking to impose sanctions on parents who dressed their children up in inappropriate costumes but rather raise awareness about the damage they can cause to young people’s lives.
Source: Infobae (sp), El Universal (sp)
Officials close store after Zombie mannequin makes fun of mayor
What was meant as a ghoulish Halloween joke turned out to be rather more serious for a business owner in Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Halloween horror show opens its doors in Guadalajara
Horror Land, one of Mexico’s premier horror shows, opened its doors to the public in Guadalajara on Thursday.
Unusual storm buries parts of Guadalajara one meter deep in hail on Sunday
Parts of Guadalajara were buried in ice more than a meter deep yesterday morning after a heavy hailstorm that damaged at least 450 homes and 60 cars.
Anti-noise enforcement having negative impact: restaurants
Restaurant owners say enforcement of an anti-noise law is seriously affecting investment and employment in the food service sector.
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Toolkit For... New Hires Managers Student Employees
My Benefits and Wellness
My Life Events
My Professional Development
Behavior-Based Interviewing
Manager Toolkit
Behavior-based interviewing is designed to identify screening competencies, effectively conduct behavioral interviews, objectively evaluate candidate responses, and avoid legal pitfalls.
Sample Competency Questions
After reviewing the list of questions below and identifying which ones to use, you must use the same questions for each applicant. It is permissible to ask follow-up questions based on applicant responses.
Intrinsic Values: Adaptability, Motivation, Professional and Self Development
Tell me about a time when you instituted change or helped implement change. What was the outcome? Who was involved? What were the results?
Tell me about a time you offered a new idea. What was the idea? How did you present it? Who was involved? What were the results?
Tell me about a time you adapted to a change within an organization. What was the change?
Tell about a time you tried something that was out of your comfort zone. What was the situation? What did you do? What did you learn? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time where you had too much to do, and too little time to accomplish your tasks. What did you do? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you did not adapt very well to change. What was the situation? What did you do? What did you learn?
Tell me about a time you had to react quickly to an important situation. What was the situation? What did you do? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you changed your priorities as a result of the current situation. How did you choose to reorder your priorities? What criteria did you consider when shifting your focus? If others were involved, how to get them to adapt? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you outwardly showed your enthusiasm for a work assignment or project. What was the work assignment or project? What role did you play? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you used your problem-solving skills to tackle a challenging assignment. What was the assignment? What did you do? Were there others involved? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you went above and beyond to help someone else. What was the situation? What did you do? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you motivated others around you to be more successful. What was the situation? When did it occur? Walk me step-by-step through what you did. How did everyone feel in the end?
Tell me about a time you pitched in and helped when needed. What was the situation? How did you help? Who else was involved? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you proactively addressed a problem. What was the situation? What did you do? What was your thought process? How did you go about addressing the situation? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time your actions inspired someone else to do something better or different? What was the situation? What actions did you exhibit? How did you help the other person? What was the final outcome?
Please give me an example of a time where you acted as a self-starter. What was the situation? What did you do to be a self-starter? Who else was involved? What was the end result?
Professional and Self Development
Tell me about a time you solicited feedback. What was the situation? What did you do to obtain the feedback? What did you learn? What did you change as a result of the feedback?
Tell me about the last time you sought out a learning opportunity to keep current with your role within the organization. What did you do? What steps did you take? What did you learn? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time where you served as a role model, trainer, or coach for another person. What was the situation? What role did you play? What actions did you take? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you learned a new skill and applied it to a project. What was the skill? What was the project? How did you approach the situation? What actions did you take? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you did something to improve your skill set. What was the situation? What did you do? Who else was involved? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you realized you needed to make a change for the better. What was the change? What did you do about it? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you had to learn a new skill. What was the skill? How did you go about learning it? If you encountered roadblocks, how did you handle them? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you set out to learn something new? What did you set out to learn? Why did you focus your efforts on this topic? How did you acquire/gain the knowledge about the topic? What was the outcome?
Positional Values: Job Knowledge and Quality of Work, Stewardship, Service Orientation
Job Knowledge and Quality of Work
Please give me an example of a time you took on a complex task. What was the task? What steps did you take? Who else was involved? What were the results?
Tell me about a time you did not agree with a policy or procedure. What was the policy or procedure? Why did you disagree? What did you do about it? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you took on other responsibilities in addition to your regularly assigned tasks. What were the additional responsibilities? How did you manage the heavier workload? How did you plan your time? What was the end result?
Please give me an example of a time you received accolades for a job well done. Why did you receive recognition? What was the outcome of the “job well done?”
Tell me about a time you initiated an opportunity to learn how to do your job more effectively or more efficiently? What opportunity did you seek out? What did you gain from the experience? What did you do differently? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time when you met a work goal. What was the situation? What did you do to accomplish the goal on time? Who else was involved? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you did not meet a work goal. What was the situation? Why were you not able to meet the work goal? How/why did you keep others involved about the progress of the goal? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time your partnered with someone else to find a better/easier/more efficient way of doing something. What was the situation? What was your responsibility? How did you solicit their help? Who else was involved? What was the end result?
Please give me an example of a cost-saving or streamlining idea you shared with your organization. What was the idea? How did you present the idea? What was the outcome?
Give me an example of a time where you were able to get a lot accomplished in a small amount of time. What was the situation? What did you do? How did you plan your activities? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you used your resources to benefit your organization. What was the situation? Explain the process you used. What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time something went wrong. What was the situation? What role did you play? What did you learn? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you stopped or course-corrected a rumor or inaccurate information that was floating around the workplace. What was the situation? Who was involved? How did you go about addressing the situation? What was the end result?
Please tell me about something you have done to conserve your organization’s resources. What did you do? How did you hear about the idea? How did you personally implement this idea? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you respected the need to keep something confidential. What was the situation? What did you do? If you became uncomfortable, how did you deal with it? Who else was involved? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you felt very productive? What was the situation? What did you do? Why did you feel productive? Who else was involved? What ripple effects did your productivity have? What was he end result?
Service Orientation
Tell me about a time you went above the call of duty to help a customer. What was the situation? What specifically did you do? What was the outcome?
Tell me about something you have done in the past to improve upon your relationship with your customers. What did you do? How did you do it? Who was involved? What was the result?
Tell me about a time you did not meet a customer’s expectation. What was the situation? Why were they dissatisfied? If you remedied the situation, what actions did you take? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time a customer paid you a compliment as a result of your service. What was the situation? What action did you take to help the customer? How did you respond when you received the compliment? What effects did it have on the “big picture”?
Tell me about a time you showed a sense of urgency in helping a co-worker or a customer. What was the situation? What did you do? How did the other individual respond? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you effectively dealt with a challenging customer or co-worker. What was the situation? How did you effectively deal with him/her? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you welcomed a complaint so that you could make the situation right. What was the situation? What actions did you take to remedy the situation? Who was involved? What was their reaction? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you received recognition for your great customer service. What was the situation? Who was involved? What did you do for the customer? What was the end result?
Engagement Values: Teamwork, Communication, Inclusiveness
Tell me about a time you had to work within a team and the role you played. What was the situation? Who else was involved? What role did you assume? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you recognized a need and responded without being asked to do so. What was the situation? What did you do? Who else was involved? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you did not work as well as you could have with a group or team. What was the situation? What was your role?
Tell me about a time you went out of your way to ensure a co-worker knew you respected them. What was the situation? What did you do? What was the result?
Tell me about a time you expressed appreciation to another person on your team. Why did you choose to outwardly recognize him/her? What did you do? What impact did it have on your team?
Please give me an example of how you have shown your commitment to your team. What did you do? How was it received by others on the team? What was the outcome?
Please give me an example of something you have done to promote teamwork. What was the situation? What did you do to promote teamwork? How was it received by others? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you offered an idea to help you team work together better. What was the situation? What did you do? How did you implement your idea? How was it received? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you offered helpful feedback to someone on your team. What was the situation? What feedback did you offer to him/her? As a result of the feedback, what changes did you see? What impact did this have on your team?
Tell me about a time you used effective communication skills to problem solve with another individual. What was the situation? When did it occur? What role did you play? What was your thought-process in approaching the situation? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you offered feedback to another individual. What was the situation? What feedback was offered? How did the other person receive it? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you asked for others’ input when working on a collaborative assignment. What was the project? How did you solicit others’ ideas? How did you approach the assignment? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time where you used verbal and/or written communication to deliver an important message. What was the situation? What did you do? How did you communicate your message? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time your communication was not effective. What was the situation? Why was your communication ineffective? What did you do differently as a result of this situation? Who was involved? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you communicated something effectively. What did you do that made your communication style/method effective? Who received your message? If any, what feedback did he/she offer? How did you know your delivery method was effective? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you demonstrated effective listening skills. What was the situation? What did you do? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you did not demonstrate effective listening skills. What was the situation? Who else was involved? What was the end result?
Tell me about a difficult situation and how you handled it. What was the situation? How did you approach it? What steps did you take? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you embraced and championed a situation where everyone was treated equally and fairly. What was the situation? What did you do? How did others respond? What was the outcome?
Tell me about an action you took to make your working environment more welcoming. What was the situation? What actions did you take? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you learned something new about another culture. What was the situation? How did you apply this to your work environment? What was the end result?
Tell me about a time you sought out someone else's perspective about an idea, situation, or process. How did you go about soliciting their ideas? What did you do with the information? What was the final outcome?
Tell me about a time you did something to promote diversity. What was the situation? What did you do? How was your initiative received? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a time you effectively worked with someone who shared a different opinion of the situation than you. What was the situation? How did you handle the difference in opinion? Who was involved? What was the outcome?
Tell me about a learning experience you encountered. What did you learn? Why was it important? How did you come to this experience? What will you do the same and/or different in the future as a result of this experience?
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Funny Sh*t
Each State Has Their Favorite Horror Movie
Click on each of these to find out what they are and why!
Pierre Roustan
Jul 24, 2019 · 2 min read
According to a Nationwide Study, the State of New York Is "Psycho" Over PSYCHO!
www.topbuzz.com
Shouldn't Be Surprised: Residents of North Carolina LOVE the Movie HALLOWEEN
Which State Loves These Buggers the Most? Believe It or Not: It's North Dakota
Strange That the State of Ohio Seems to Enjoy Some Hannibal With Their Fava Beans and Chianti
Remember That Viscious Vampire Flick "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night?" Apparently the State of…
Pennsylvanians Love to "Silence All the Lambs" According to This Nationwide Film Study
She's Sexy, Yes, but You'll Have to Fight the Residents of Rhode Island for "The Love Witch"!
You Wouldn't Believe That People in Oklahoma Dig the Horror Comedy This Is the End!
"You Wouldn't Believe That People in Oklahoma Dig the Horror Comedy "This Is the End"!
These Guys Dance for South Dakota, Because the State LOVES the Movie "Cabin in the Woods"
Of Course Residents in Tennessee LOVE "The Witch"!
We Shouldn't Be Surprised That the State of Texas Ranks This Film as the Most Popular in Horror
Woody Harrelson Is Weeping Tears of Joy for Utah and the Film "Zombieland"
What? VERMONT Ranks "The Exorcist" as THE Best Horror Flick Ever?
Don't Be Shocked Like This Guy, That the State Of Virginia Digs "Drag Me to Hell"
Freddy Is SO Feelin' It With West Virginia, Because the State LOVES His Movie Franchise the Most
She Might Be Terrified, but the State of Wyoming Can't Get Enough of the Babadook!
Guess What Clever British Zombie Horror Comedy the State of Washington Likes the Most
"Guess What Clever British Zombie Horror Comedy the State of Washington Likes the Most.
That's One More State Lovin' the Antics of Shaun of the Dead: Simon Pegg Says Thank You, Wisconsin!
"That's One More State Lovin' the Antics of "Shaun of the Dead": Simon Pegg Says "Thank You, Wisconsin!
Michiganders Reportedly Crazy About This Classic Vampire Horror Flick
And believe it or not, it’s not The Lost Boys….
That’s just 19 freakin’ states…. CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL OF THEM!
Scary Horror Stuff
The Medium, uuh, “Medium” hub for all viral content from SCARYHORRORSTUFF.COM
prolific writer, published author, editor, experienced copywriter, avid reader, father and God-fearing Christian
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Weird Alchemy – Clever Unicorn Games – Review
7 months ago Jordan Macnab
Jordan Macnab
"We’re all mad scientists but we’re all useless at it."
Jordan Macnab, Writer
8.5/10
Publisher: Clever Unicorn Games
Designer: Chris Winterburn
Artist: Juan Moore
Game Type: Card Game
Game Type: Hand Management
Expected Playtime: 20 Minutes
Number of Players: 3-6 Players
We’re all mad scientists but we’re all useless at it. We keep creating these wacky creations but they just don’t turn out the way we planned. We need to hide as many of these mistakes as possible but also expose as many of our oppositions mistakes as possible through these fantasy rich and beautifully illustrated fast paste card game.
Weird Alchemy plays in very quick rounds where players pass cards amongst each other trying to palm off all of the monsters but keeping the powerful action cards where ever possible. The directional cards can be fairly random but in a game like this you really don’t care where your cards go so long as they don’t stay in front of you.
Every once and a while you pull an accident card which halts the passing actions and everyone has to see how many of their creations will be exposed. Some action cards can help with the accidents but playing them affectively and in the right order can also be tricky.
I first saw this game at the UK Games Expo where I had the pleasure of meeting the creature, Chris Winterburn. From the first glance I knew I would enjoy this game mainly due to the art alone. I even commented on the cabbage patch kids feel to it that I remember so well from when I was a kid.
I’m sure many people will be drawn to this for the same reason I was which is testament to the art.
The card stock for Weird Alchemy is great, ideal for the type of game it is.
My only small gripe about the build quality would be the storage solution. This is obviously a small card game and comes in a standard size deck box. This means sleeving the game and using the same box is impossible.
Like I said this is just a niggle and far from being a deal breaker just something to be aware of.
What can I say without gushing too much… I personally love the art style! Its a very fresh twist on a very playful art style that I’ve loved over the years and I’m very happy to see it being brought to such a fun game. The colours explode off the cards and every card puts a smile on your face due to its sheer wackiness.
Well, I’ve played this game several times since receiving it with a couple of very varied groups.
First I played it with my 5yr old and 8yr old… We had such a blast and had absolutely no idea who was going to win right up until the end. The game took a little longer with them but as many of you will know, keeping the attention of young children can be tough at the best of times.
Second I played with a bunch of lads who haven’t played a board game since they were probably the age of my kids but we were on holiday and I forced them. It very quickly turned into a drinking game (sorry Chris, this may not be your intended use) and became one of the wacky highlights of the holiday.
It was simple and quick enough to teach. It also plays with zero effort and it can obviously be enjoyed in several different ways.
I took the PG route with this by letting my kids play this but I couldn’t see anything abusive in it that they would find offensive. I think the age range can be taken with a pinch of salt personally but obviously I encourage everyone to review the content of the cards before giving to small children.
The timing is pretty accurate. Like I said, the game with my kids took a little bit longer than expected but I agree the average game should take about 20 mins.
Weird Alchemy is a barrel of laughs and in my experience entertaining for everyone who has played it. It’s hard not to love the art work and silly play style.
At its core, it’s a filler game but it can clearly be used in any occasion.
I can tell this has been a labour of love for Chris and Juan (artist) and I very glad they brought it to the table.
If you’d like a fun, light-hearted game this is a very solid choice.
I wouldn't like to say board gaming is life... But... Well, ya know! I love playing, reviewing and previewing board games of all types as often as physically possible.
Tags: 2019, card game, Chris Winterburn, clever unicorn games, hand management, Juan Moore, Weird Alchemy
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Brewers Have Cubs Right Where They Want Them
Category: Satire
Created: Monday, 01 October 2007 17:38
Written by Brian
Nearly News
While some fans are disappointed with the finish to the [insert year here] Milwaukee Brewers season, team members believe they have the Chicago Cubs right where they want them. Instead of the Brewers going on to lose in the first round of the playoffs, players will be able to sit at home with their families and watch the Cubs lose in the first round.
“Honestly,” said commentator Bob Costas, “this whole scenario is what baseball lore is made of. A team, desperate to catch the front runner and seemingly ready to fall apart in the blistering summer swelter, makes a furious onslaught to the front, staving off the upstart Brewers on one final weekend of blissful elegance that is baseball, their rivalry coming down to prayers to the gods and the sweat-glistened, dirt-stained abilities of their opponents’ fortitude, as they play the perfect game, not as individuals, but as teams, wearing each others’ hearts on their emblem-embroidered chests, playing as men.”
Said Brewers manager, the always articulate Ned Yost: “Those %^$# won’t win another @%$#%^ game! #%&&#!” The Brewers are predicting that the curse of the goat will get to the Cubs in the playoffs, and they are all planning to have an excellent fall vacation watching their arch-rival’s demise. “It would be nice to win the rookie of the year and for Prince to win the MVP, but what’s really important is that the Cubs lose in the playoffs,” said Ryan Braun. Chris Capuano, who pitched in 22 straight Brewers losses, said, “It’ll make my season worthwhile if the Cubs lose in the playoffs. The recognition I’ve received for the team losing 22 straight when I pitch is nice, but what’s important now is that the Cubs don’t win the World Series.” Ben Sheets agreed, saying that his injuries will likely heal more quickly if the Cubs have an early exit from the playoffs. Bill Hall believed that spending next year as the highest-paid minor leaguer would be worth the ribbing if only the Cubs lose.
The Brewers have not said if they plan on making any big off-season acquisitions, but word is that they believe that they only need to play .500 baseball or a little below to win the division next year. “We play in the worst division in the league, top to bottom,” said general manager Doug Melvin. “We believe the rest of the teams in the division will not improve much, so we’ll be happy to play .500 again.” When asked how the Brewers plan on improving on the fourth worst (AL and NL) road record, Melvin said that the team will fill and seal jars containing Miller Valley air, and then open them while on the road. When asked if this was a bit unorthodox, Melvin said, “The dog fights we took them to in Atlanta last week didn’t work, and the multiple Coors Brewery tours in Colorado in August was a disaster. I think this Milwaukee air thing is legit. Anyhow, it won’t be any worse than when we rounded up all those Polish girls for the team in Pittsburgh during the first week in July. What’s important right now, however, is that the Cubs lose.”
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Rapid Impact Archive
Metabolism Collection
Signaling and Regulation
Fos-Related Antigen 1 Modulates Malignant Features of Glioma Cells
Waldemar Debinski and Denise M. Gibo
Waldemar Debinski
Denise M. Gibo
DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-05-0004 Published April 2005
Malignant gliomas, and high-grade gliomas (HGG) in particular, are nonmetastasizing but locally infiltrating, hypervascularized brain tumors of poor prognosis. We found previously that a c-fos-inducible vascular endothelial growth factor D is ubiquitously up-regulated in HGG grade IV, glioblastoma multiforme, and that glioblastoma multiforme overexpress Fos-related antigen 1 (Fra-1) rather than the c-Fos. We have thus become interested in the role Fra-1 may play in malignant glioma progression/maintenance, because Fra-1 has the capacity to modulate transcription of a variety of target genes. In this work, we have analyzed the biological effects of ectopic Fra-1 expression or Fra-1 knockdown in malignant glioma cells. Ectopic Fra-1 induced prominent phenotypic changes in all three malignant glioma cell lines examined: H4, U-87 MG, and A-172 MG. These changes were reflected in cells becoming more elongated with larger number of cellular processes. Furthermore, Fra-1 transgene caused H4 cells, which do not form tumor xenografts, to regain tumorigenic capacity. The genotype of these cells changed too, because 50 of 1,056 genes examined became either up-regulated or down-regulated. Conversely, Fra-1 knockdown altered prominently the morphology, anchorage-independent growth, tumorigenic potential, and Fra-1 effector expression, such as vascular endothelial growth factor D, in HGG cells. For example, cells transfected with antisense fra-1 showed shorter cellular processes than the control cells that did not grow in agar, and their tumorigenic potential was significantly diminished. Thus, Fra-1 may likely play an important role in the maintenance/progression of malignant gliomas and potentially represents a new target for therapeutic interventions.
Fos-related antigen-1 (Fra-1)
malignant gliomas
tumorigenicity
activating protein 1 (AP-1)
Malignant gliomas are brain tumors of astroglial cell origin and a variety of their forms are highly progressive, morphologically heterogeneous malignancies that are resistant to current therapy (1). High-grade gliomas (HGG) are a prevalent type of rapidly progressing brain tumors of dismal prognosis (2). In search for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM; HGG grade IV)–specific markers/therapeutics targets, we uncovered previously a receptor for interleukin (IL)-13, IL-13Rα2, whose gene is located on chromosome X (3-6). IL-13Rα2 is overexpressed in a vast majority of patients with HGG and is a molecularly defined target for therapeutic deliveries to HGG (7-9). We subsequently documented that a X-linked, mammalian member of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family, VEGF-D (10, 11), is a ubiquitous angiogenic factor in GBM (12). Notably, GBM is characterized by a well-developed and abnormal neovascularization and is in fact one of the most highly vascularized human tumors (1, 13, 14). Of interest, VEGF-D had been isolated originally as a c-fos oncogene, a member of the activating protein-1 (AP-1) transcription factor family, inducible mitogen (11). In expectation that AP-1 factors may take part in up-regulating VEGF-D in GBM, we uncovered that a Fos-related antigen 1 (Fra-1) rather than c-Fos is involved in up-regulation of VEGF-D in the diseased cells (12).
The role of AP-1 factors, especially that of c-Fos and c-Jun, in oncogenesis has been studied extensively (e.g., refs. 15-17). However, more recent hypotheses relate to a possible central role AP-1 may play in tumor invasiveness and progression and thus in determining dismal prognosis of many cancers (18, 19). The finding of Fra-1 being highly up-regulated in GBM directed our attention to the role of AP-1 transcription factors in up-regulating gene expression in GBM. For example, other proteins, whose genes possess AP-1 binding sites and have been widely implicated in the invasiveness and neovascularization of GBM, such as urokinase-type plasminogen activator, urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor, gelatinase B (matrix metalloproteinase-9), tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1, and fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2), are prominently up-regulated in GBM (e.g., refs. 20-27). This is consistent with an unopposed, activated AP-1 axis in GBM and an up-regulation of gene expression in a transcription factor–specific manner (18, 19). The presence of up-regulated Fra-1, which is also an AP-1 controlled factor, in several aggressive cancers, including HGG, further supports a role for AP-1 in tumor progression/maintenance (27-32).
We therefore proposed a hypothetical model in which Fra-1, being under the positive control of AP-1 activity, is continuously up-regulated in transformed cells (12). This sustained up-regulation may come from two complementary pathways: (a) abundance of epidermal growth factor (EGF), leukemia inhibitory factor, oncostatin M, FGF-2, and others in GBM, which produce AP-1 stimulatory signals, and (b) accumulation of the Fra-1 protein in cancer cells. These lead to a selection of Fra-1 as a mediator of mechanisms important for the oncogenic characteristics of glioma cells, because c-Fos was found not to be stably activated in glioma cells (12), and Fra-1 is known to overtake c-Fos-dependent functions (33). Other cancers may use the phenomenon of Fra-1 substituting for c-Fos (31), because Fra-1 is up-regulated, for example, in a vast majority of colorectal cancer cases (30). Interestingly, VEGF-D is also overexpressed in >70% of colorectal cancer, representing an independent prognostic marker of survival (34). Moreover, VEGF-D that seems to be under Fra-1 control is a prognostic factor in other aggressive cancers, such as breast and ovary (35, 36).
Recent findings strongly support the biological importance of Fra-1. The fra-1(−/−) genotype in a mouse knockout model was lethal due to the lack of proper vascularization of the placenta (37) and we suspect that VEGF-D is one of the missing angiogenic factors in fra-1-deprived mice. This notion is based on our data demonstrating that fra-1 transgene induced VEGF-D expression in otherwise Fra-1/VEGF-D-negative cancer cells (12). It is noteworthy that an insufficient expression of urokinase-type plasminogen activator and matrix metalloproteinase-9 has been suggested to be responsible at least in part for the lethal deficiency in vascularization of the placenta in fra-1(−/−) mice fetuses (37).
However, Fra-1 as well as Fra-2 lack the AP-1 transactivation potential that distinguishes these factors from other AP-1 family members (32). All members of the Fos family contain highly conserved basic leucine zipper domains, which enable heterodimerization with Jun proteins, the complexes of which bind to 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate–responsive elements (32, 38). The NH2- and COOH-terminal domains of the Fos proteins are much less homologous to the NH2- and COOH-terminal domains of other AP-1 factors, unlike their basic leucine zipper domains. The COOH-terminal regions of c-Fos and FosB harbor transactivation function, which are absent in Fra-1 and Fra-2 proteins. There is also another transactivation region in the NH2-terminal domains of c-Fos and FosB proteins, which similar to the COOH-terminal domains is completely absent in Fra-1 and Fra-2 proteins (32). Nevertheless, Fra-1 exerts potent biological effects on its own (39) and they were mapped to the NH2-terminal end of the protein (40, 41). The transactivation potential of Fra-1 is, however, low as revealed in transfection assays in different types of cells (40, 42). It has been recently documented that under these low transactivation potential conditions Fra-1 nevertheless controlled cell motility in at least three different model systems (42-44).
A limited number of studies on the pathobiological importance of Fra-1 have been conducted thus far on epithelial cells or epithelioid carcinomas. We documented that Fra-1 is overexpressed in brain tumors of astroglial origin, malignant gliomas (12). Thus, in the present work, we attempted to explore whether Fra-1 may be important for malignant behavior of glioma cells by examining phenotypic, growth, and tumorigenic characteristics of malignant glioma cells with ectopic Fra-1 or Fra-1 silenced.
Fra-1 Expression Increases Prominently during AP-1 Stimulation of GBM Cells
We have continued testing our hypothesis of AP-1 stimulatory factors up-regulating Fra-1 in astrocytoma cells (12). Thus, we treated SNB-19 and A-172 MG GBM cells with GBM-relevant stimulatory factors, such as EGF and FGF-2, as well as IL-4 as a negative control, which is primarily a STAT-6 inducer (45). We examined the presence of immunoreactive Fra-1 protein using Western blots on cell lysates. Twenty-four hours of stimulation with either EGF or FGF-2 resulted in a large, more than a 10-fold, increase in an immunoreactive Fra-1 in both SNB-19 and A-172 MG cells (Fig. 1A), suggestive of Fra-1 being either overly produced and/or accumulated in those cells. This was not observed using IL-4.
A. Immunoblots for Fra-1 in SNB-19 and A-172 MG GBM cells that were mock treated (Control) or treated with EGF, FGF-2, or IL-4 for 24 hours. B. Immunoblot for c-Fos in SNB-19 cells treated with EGF, FGF-2, or IL-4 for 24 hours and in A-431 epidermoid carcinoma cells treated with EGF for 24 hours. C. Northern blot of fra-1 mRNA in SNB-19 GBM cells treated with 20 ng/mL EGF for 1, 4, 6, and 24 hours. D. Analysis of fra-1 mRNA levels in SNB-19 GBM cells. Histogram of fra-1 gene expression as determined by Northern blot (C) was normalized for the internal control (actin).
In contrast to a large increase in Fra-1 in GBM cells in response to EGF and FGF-2, the levels of c-Fos remained below the detection limit independently of the stimulant (EGF or FGF-2) and GBM cell line analyzed. c-Fos immunoreactivity was not seen in SNB-19 cells stimulated with either EGF or FGF-2 (Fig. 1B) and a similar result was obtained in A-172 MG cells (data not shown); only nonspecific immunoreactive bands were observed in these GBM cells. However, the A-431 epidermoid adenocarcinoma cells treated with EGF for 24 hours showed specific c-Fos immunoreactive band of ∼53 kDa, as expected (Fig. 1B). Of interest, the expression of Fra-1 can be similarly up-regulated in A-431 cells using either EGF or FGF-2 (data not shown). Thus, c-Fos is silent during prolonged AP-1 stimulation of GBM cells, similar to what was observed in some other malignancies (32), which is in sharp contrast to the ability of Fra-1 to accumulate in response to growth factor/mitogen stimulation.
Fra-1 Accumulation in AP-1-Activated Cells Is Discordant with the Levels of Its Message
We next monitored the gene expression profile for fra-1 in GBM cells treated with EGF. The analysis of SNB-19 cells stimulated with the growth factor (two separate experiments) revealed that fra-1 mRNA was higher in cells treated with EGF compared with nontreated cells at 1, 4, 6, and 24 hours of stimulation [1.1-, 1.3-, 1.1-, 1.9-, and 1.5-fold increase of normalized to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) message, respectively] as determined by Northern blot (Fig. 1C and D). The magnitude of change in mRNA was, however, much lower than that seen with the gene product.
Ectopic fra-1 Causes Prominent Phenotypic Changes in H4 Glioma Cells
In further search for a direct link between Fra-1 and the behavior of glioma cells, we have cloned a human fra-1 gene from the G48 GBM cells into a pcDNA3.1 eukaryotic cell expression vector. H4 malignant glioma cells were stably transfected with the construct, because we have found the levels of both Fra-1 and VEGF-D low in this glioma cell line, and H4 cells are completely nontumorigenic when injected into nude mice. First, we examined pooled transfectants of H4 cells for their morphology. The mock-transfected cells retained the features of parental cells (Fig. 2A). However, we found that H4[fra-1](+) cells became prominently elongated when compared with their controls and these cells formed readily noticeable multiple processes (Fig. 2B). The phalloidin staining further emphasized the profound changes in the transfected cells architecture (Fig. 2B, inset) when compared with mock-treated cells (Fig. 2A, inset).
General morphology (crystal violet) of mock-transfected or fra-1-transfected H4 cells (A and B, respectively) and their actin/nuclear (phalloidin/DAPI) staining (A and B, insets).
Immunoreactive Fra-1 Is Readily Detected in H4 Cells Transfected with fra-1 Transgene
We found that H4 cells with fra-1 transgene express the protein at higher levels than the mock-transfected and parental counterparts, with clone 10 being a higher expressor of Fra-1 than clone 4 (Fig. 3A). Fra-1 was also readily detected in the pooled transfectant H4[fra-1](+) cells and the levels of the immunoreactive protein corresponded to the ones seen in the isolated clones: higher than in clone 4 and lower than in clone 10. As seen in Fig. 3B, the message for endogenous fra-1 was detected at low levels using Northern blot analysis, whereas H4[fra-1](+) clones 4 and 10 had elevated levels of the message for fra-1 transgene; the size of the transgene transcript was slightly lower from the endogenous one (Fig. 3B). Microscopic examination revealed readily noticeable differences between the parental, mock-transfected and ectopic Fra-1-expressing H4 cells, and these differences were similar to the ones shown in Fig. 2.
A. Western blot immunoreactivity for Fra-1 in H4 cells. Parental, mock-transfected clones 4 and 10 of H4[fra-1](+), pooled mock-transfected, and pooled H4[fra-1](+) cells are shown. The immunoreactivity was developed using chemiluminescence. B. Gene expression analysis of fra-1 in H4 cells. Northern blot of fra-1 message was done in parental, mock-transfected, and clones 4 and 10 of H4[fra-1](+) cells. Human GAPDH was used as reference. C. Actin/nuclear staining (phalloidin/DAPI) of H4 cells: I, parental; II, mock-transfected; III, H4[fra-1](+)clone 4; and IV, H4[fra-1](+)clone 10.
H4[fra-1](+) Cells Become Tumorigenic
H4 cells do not form tumors in nude mice at all. It was surprising to observe that H4[fra-1](+) cells, unlike parental or mock-transfected H4 cells, produced tumors at an 80% of tumor take in immunocompromised mice. We harvested and preserved some of these tumors and stained for Fra-1 (Fig. 4). We found Fra-1 to be expressed in H4[fra-1](+) tumors, indicating that the transgene was still present in situ. Of interest, Fra-1 localized to both nuclei (Fig. 4A) and cytoplasm (Fig. 4B) of tumor cells.
A. Immunostaining for Fra-1 in paraffin-embedded sections of H4[fra-1](+) tumor. Arrows (yellow) point to the cells nuclei stained for Fra-1. B. Same as A, but the arrows (white) point to the cell cytoplasm stained for Fra-1.
Transcriptionally Active AP-1 Complexes in Malignant Gliomas
There are few data on the involvement of specific AP-1 factors in forming transcriptionally active complexes in brain tumors. The results of DNA binding by productive AP-1 complexes formed in SNB-19 GBM cells and H4 cells are shown in Fig. 5A. We found that Fra-1 and Fra-2 as well as JunB and JunD, but not c-Fos of FosB, participated in the most effective binding of AP-1 complexes to the DNA in SNB-19 and H4 cells under normal culture conditions. It is noteworthy that although the immunoreactive Fra-1 is relatively low in H4 cells it could evidently produce productive complexes to bind AP-1 sites (Fig. 5A). This is similar to what we have observed with Fra-2 whose immunoreactivity is relatively low (data not shown) but whose participation in forming the AP-1 complexes is readily detected (Fig. 5). Next, we measured AP-1 activity in H4 cells from the fra-1 transfection experiments. The most striking difference was seen in H4[fra-1](+) clone 10 when compared with clone 4 and control cells (Fig. 5B). These cells exhibited a prominent, almost a 2-fold, increase in Fra-1 participation in forming active DNA binding complexes and this was not seen with Fra-2. Furthermore, there was an increase in the c-Jun and JunB involvement in the binding to AP-1 sites.
A. AP-1 activity profiling in SNB-19 and H4 cells under baseline conditions. Nuclear extracts were assayed for the c-Fos, FosB, Fra-1, Fra-2, c-Jun, JunB, and JunD activity using the TransAm AP-1 family kit. WI-38 is the assay's positive control. B. AP-1 activity profiling in H4 cells transfected with fra-1 transgene. Nuclear extracts were assayed for the c-Fos, FosB, Fra-1, Fra-2, c-Jun, JunB, and JunD activity as in A.
The Genotype of H4 Cells Changes with the Introduction of Ectopic Fra-1
Prominent phenotypic and malignant behavior [i.e., tumorigenicity changes occurring in H4[fra-1](+) cells] prompted us to seek at least preliminarily for the cellular mediators/targets of the Fra-1 transgene actions. Thus, we did a targeted cDNA microarray analysis (1,056 genes) focusing on a subset of genes related to the cytokines, their receptors, and oncogenes/tumor suppressor genes (Table 1). Our experiments revealed that 18 different genes were overexpressed in H4[fra-1](+) clones 4 and 10 when compared with their controls (Table 1). The most significant changes took place for insulin-like growth factor binding proteins 3 and 6, JunB, RBBP4/RbAp48, PLK, TNFRSF1A, and GROγ. Noteworthy are increases in VEGF, furin, and MAPK3. Expression of several genes diminished as well. Among them were N-cadherin, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor, and insulin-like growth factor binding protein 1.
Up-Regulated Genes in the H4[fra-1](+) Cells Compared with Parental Cells
Transient Silencing of Ectopic Fra-1 Reverses Morphologic Changes in H4[fra-1](+) Cells
Ectopic Fra-1 changed the phenotype of H4 cells (Figs. 2 and 3). We transiently silenced fra-1 in H4[fra-1](+) cells clone 10 using small interfering RNA (siRNA) approach. We observed that fra-1 siRNA, but not nonsense nucleotides, produced >75% decrease in immunoreactive Fra-1 (Fig. 6A). Under these conditions, a substantial reversal of the morphologic features associated with ectopic Fra-1 in H4 cells (i.e., their ability to form long processes and assuming more elongated cell shape) was evident (Fig. 6B).
A. Western blot immunoreactivity for Fra-1 in H4[fra-1](+) cells in which silencing of fra-1 was achieved with siRNA. Mock-, nonsense-, and fra-1 siRNA-transfected H4[fra-1](+) cells clone 10 are shown. B. Phase-contrast microscopy of H4[fra-1](+) cells in which fra-1 was silenced using siRNA.
fra-1 Transgenes Alter Immunoreactive Fra-1, Morphology, Anchorage-Independent Growth, and Tumorigenicity in U-87 MG GBM Cells
Ectopic Fra-1 caused glioma cells to change morphology and genotype and to produce tumors in nude mice in one malignant glioma cell line (Figs. 2-4). Next, we asked whether Fra-1 is linked to the tumorigenic potential of malignant glioma cells in which Fra-1 is elevated and which forms tumors in nude mice. We thus transfected the U-87 MG GBM cells with fra-1 in both sense (+) and antisense (−) orientation. Immunoreactive Fra-1 in Western blot decreased to almost undetectable levels in U-87[fra-1](−) cells or increased in U-87[fra-1](+) cells (Fig. 7A). Furthermore, the message for fra-1(−) was detected in the U-87 MG cells transfected with an antisense fra-1 by Northern blot, but it was absent in the control cells (Fig. 7B). The staining revealed profound morphologic differences between the parental, mock-transfected and ectopic Fra-1-expressing U-87 cells. The U-87[fra-1](−) clones became larger, more rounded, and with fewer and/or shorter process than the controls (Fig. 7C). The opposite was seen in U-87[fra-1](+) clones, because the cells became more elongated and started to form longer processes that spanned even more than one magnifying field (Fig. 7C).
A. Immunoblots for Fra-1 in U-87 MG cells. The mock-transfected, antisense, and sense fra-1 gene transfected clones are shown. B. Gene expression analysis of an antisense fra-1 in U-87 MG cells. Northern blot of fra-1 antisense message was done in both mock-transfected and U-87[fra-1](−) clones. Human GAPDH was used as reference. C. General morphology/architecture of the U-87 MG cells: I, parental; II, mock-transfected; III, U-87[fra-1](+); IV, U-87[fra-1](−) cells as revealed by phalloidin/DAPI staining.
We next determined whether supplanting or silencing fra-1 in the U-87 MG cells had any effect on their anchorage-independent growth. We noticed that the U-87 MG cells formed colonies in soft agar rather poorly and the mock-transfected cells exhibited a similar or slightly lower potential to expand in agar (Fig. 8A). However, the U-87[fra-1](−) cells lost an ability to grow in agar completely, whereas the U-87[fra-1](+) cells started to form multiple colonies much more so than the control cells (Fig. 8A). We also monitored the tumorigenicity of U-87[fra-1](+) and U-87[fra-1](−) cells implanted into nu/nu mice. We found that the U-87[fra-1](−) tumors were on average one tenth of the size of tumors that grew from the parental U-87 MG cells, whereas the mock-transfected cells formed tumors efficiently although somewhat smaller than that of parental cells by day 30 of the experiment (Fig. 8B). By day 22, there were 80% U-87[fra-1](−) tumors formed (8 of 10), with an average size 20 mm3, whereas the size of U-87[fra-1](+) tumors (10 of 10) was 135 mm3. On the other hand, the U-87[fra-1](+) cells produced tumors as efficiently as the U-87, if not better (Fig. 8B).
A. Anchorage-independent growth of U-87 MG cells transfected with fra-1 in sense and antisense orientation. B. Tumor-forming abilities of the U-87 MG cells transfected with fra-1 in sense and antisense orientation in nu/nu mice. Vertical bars correspond to the SE, which can be smaller than the data point marks. The number of animals was 10 per group. C. VEGF-D staining of the U-87 MG tumors growing in nude mice.
We harvested the U-87, U-87[fra-1](−), and U-87[fra-1](+) tumors when grown to larger sizes and the respective sections were stained for VEGF-D (12). The U-87 MG tumors were highly vascularized with the cytosolic VEGF-D readily detected in astrocytoma cell bodies as well as cell processes (Fig. 8C). The U-87[fra-1](−) tumors were, however, poorly vascular and the immunoreactive VEGF-D was close to the detection limit of the assay in these tumors (Fig. 8C). Furthermore, the U-87[fra-1](+) tumors showed gross morphology similar to the control tumors and VEGF-D was also readily detected (data not shown). However, VEGF-D in the U-87[fra-1](+) tumors was associated more with the glioma cell processes rather than cell bodies seen in the parental U-87 MG tumors (Fig. 8C). The shift in the pattern of VEGF-D localization dependent on the Fra-1 status in U-87 MG tumors was unexpected and is most likely related to the changes in morphology of these cells (i.e., cell elongation and formation of long cellular processes; Fig. 7C).
fra-1 Transgenes Alter Immunoreactive Fra-1, Morphology, and Anchorage-Independent Growth in A-172 MG Cells
To examine whether other HGG cells of different characteristics than the U-87 MG cells would be similarly affected by the varying levels of intracellular Fra-1, we examined the A-172 MG GBM cells. The A-172 MG cells exhibit lower levels of Fra-1 under baseline conditions than the U-87 MG cells but considerably higher than that in H4 cells. Fra-1 did not change significantly in mock-transfected cells when compared with parental cells but decreased to almost undetectable levels in A-172[fra-1](−) cells and increased prominently in A-172[fra-1](+) cells (Fig. 9A). Furthermore, the morphologic differences between parental, mock-transfected and ectopic Fra-1-expressing A-172 MG cells could be characterized as very similar to that observed with the two other glioma cells studied (Fig. 9B). We also stained the A-172 cells for VEGF-D and the A-172[fra-1](−) cells showed a visible drop in the levels of VEGF-D immunoreactivity when compared with parental and mock-transfected cells (data not shown). However, the immunoreactive VEGF-D in A-172[fra-1](+) cells was higher than in all other A-172 cells examined.
A. Western blot immunoreactivity for Fra-1 in A-172 MG cells. The immunoreactivity was developed using chemiluminescence. B. Phalloidin/DAPI staining of the U-87 MG cells transfected with fra-1 in sense and antisense orientation. C. Anchorage-independent growth of the A-172 MG cells transfected with fra-1 in sense and antisense orientation. Ten random low-power fields in duplicate with minimum of 10 cells per colony were counted.
We next analyzed anchorage-independent growth of the A-172 MG cells. These cells, surprisingly, had little capacity to form colonies in agar. The mock-transfected cells were not different, with the exception that a few colonies were in fact formed (Fig. 9D). The A-172[fra-1](−) cells did not grow well in agar either (Fig. 9). However, the A-172[fra-1](+) cells showed a completely different picture in that they formed multiple colonies in agar in sharp contrast to all other A-172 cells used in this assay (Fig. 9).
In this work, we have documented an ability of Fra-1, an AP-1 transcription factor that is deprived of transactivating potential, to modulate malignant characteristics of brain tumor cells originating from malignant gliomas. Firstly, Fra-1 is frequently up-regulated as well as accumulates stably to even higher levels in response to an AP-1 activation in malignant glioma cells. Secondly, the introduction of ectopic Fra-1 causes prominent phenotypic changes and alters the malignant characteristics of glioma cells independently of the background levels of this transcription factor. This phenomenon takes place in all three malignant glioma cell lines studied: H4, U-87 MG, and A-172 MG. Thirdly, Fra-1 transgene is sufficient to confer tumorigenicity in otherwise nontumorigenic cells expressing low levels of endogenous Fra-1, H4 cells. The ectopic Fra-1 also induces prominent changes to the genotype of H4 cells. Fourthly, silencing fra-1 by its antisense transgene alters the morphology, anchorage-independent growth, and tumor formation in vivo of glioma cells. The alterations seen with the antisense fra-1 were opposite to the ones associated with the ectopic Fra-1. In general, a characteristic pattern of biological effects occurs in response to manipulation with Fra-1 in malignant glioma cell lines.
Fra-1 is either up-regulated in HGG cells or its levels are increased to a large extent by the treatment with growth factors and/or mitogens, AP-1 activators, such as EGF, or FGF-2. Our results show for the first time an ability of glioma cells to raise dramatically the levels of immunoreactive Fra-1 in response to AP-1 stimulatory factors. Considering the observed discordance between the mRNA and the protein levels in glioma cells treated with AP-1 activators, we suggest that the stability of the Fra-1 protein is likely enhanced in HGG cells. Previously, it was found that the COOH-terminal deletions of Fra-1 increased prominently both its accumulation and its biological activity. This was documented in a mouse breast carcinoma model when the mRNA for fra-1 changed disproportionately less than the protein levels (40). Hypothetically, a higher stability of Fra-1 in glioma cells may be pertinent to one of the possible mechanisms for Fra-1 to exert prominent biological actions in these cancer cells.
Malignant glioma cells exhibiting low basal levels of Fra-1, H4 cells, responded with prominent phenotypic changes to the ectopic transcription factor. Of interest, very similar, if not identical, phenotypic changes have been reported in low-grade mouse mammary adenocarcinoma CSML0 cells supplanted with Fra-1 (40, 43). Whether this is reflective of a general biological function of Fra-1 remains to be seen. However, the fact that two other malignant glioma cell lines, U-87 MG and A-172 MG, showed similar phenotypic changes in response to the fra-1 transgene suggests the existence of Fra-1-dependent mechanism of cellular morphology control. Furthermore, antisense fra-1 strategy resulted in phenotypic changes that are opposite to the ones observed with ectopic Fra-1.
Although Fra-1 lacks the transactivation potential, it has a proven function of regulating expression of a subset of genes, some already known (e.g., ref. 43). Interestingly, the biological function of Fra-1 is confined to its NH2-terminal end, because the removal of amino acids 1 to 94 inactivates Fra-1 (41). Moreover, previous studies have shown that the removal of the entire COOH-terminal domain increased the osteoclastogenic activity of Fra-1 (41). It is therefore plausible that the experimental COOH-terminal deletions in Fra-1 activate the protein due to the enhancement of its stability. Pathobiologically, the COOH terminus of Fra-1 may undergo post-translational modifications and/or interact with other partnering proteins mimicked by the COOH-terminal deletional experiments; AP-1 factors do function through tight protein-protein interaction mechanisms (46, 47).
Fra-1 is very effective in changing the tumorigenic potential of malignant glioma cells. We have found that H4 cells regained an ability to form xenografts in nude mice when transfected with a Fra-1 transgene unlike their controls. To the best of our knowledge, such an effect of Fra-1 has not been reported yet. Furthermore, antisense fra-1 significantly altered the potential of highly tumorigenic cells, the U-87 MG cells, to grow tumors in immunocompromised mice. Thus, Fra-1 plays a prominent role in tumorigenicity of glioma cells in immunocompromised mice.
Ectopic Fra-1 induced multiple changes in the genotype of malignant glioma cells. One of the most intriguing is the fact that junB is being highly up-regulated in H4[fra-1](+) cells (Table 1). This is of interest because the lack of junB has been documented to be the only one to produce identical abnormality to fra-1 knockout in mice and which are different from all other individual AP-1 factor knockout effects (13). Thus, in view of our results, the question arises whether fra-1 may directly regulate junB and whether the cancer-related effects of Fra-1, such as the ones presented in this work, can be mimicked by JunB. These possibilities are currently under investigation. In addition, an up-regulation of furin may be also of pathobiological significance, as this protease has been recently linked to the control of the invasive properties of glioma cells (48).
Recent data are indicative of other cancers, such as the breast, head and neck, thyroid, and skin cancers (28-32), using AP-1 members to regulate specific subsets of genes and self-sustainable loops of activation of the factors, such as Fra-1, which are important in more advanced stages of disease. An unopposed, activated AP-1 axis, including Fra-1 functions, may thus be a hallmark of advanced cancers (12) and Fra-1 may be an attractive target for new rational molecular anticancer therapies.
We have documented a direct involvement of Fra-1 in the modulation of several malignant features of glioma cells. With this new knowledge, it will be of interest to examine in detail the role of Fra-1 in glioma cells migration, motility, and invasiveness. The motility of other cells has been already shown to be under the Fra-1 control and our pilot studies are pointing in the same direction. Another important aspect of Fra-1 biological function to explore is to verify whether there is a direct dependence of JunB on Fra-1 and/or whether the two represent at least in part pathobiologically redundant mechanisms. Moreover, the mechanism of Fra-1 biological activity is not known and the search for its interactive partner(s) in mediating this activity in malignant gliomas is under way.
GBM cell lines A-172 MG, U-87 MG, SNB-19, and malignant glioma H4 cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA). The GBM A-172 MG and H4 malignant glioma cells were grown in DMEM with 10% FCS (Life Technologies, Rockville, MD). The U-87 MG cells were grown in Earle's MEM, 10% FCS, 0.1 mmol/L nonessential amino acids, 2 mmol/L glutamine (Life Technologies), and 100 μg/mL sodium pyruvate. G48a human explant cells were grown in RPMI 1640 (Life Technologies) 10% FCS, 100 μg/mL sodium pyruvate, 100 μg/mL l-cysteine (Life Technologies), 20 μg/mL l-proline (Sigma, St. Louis, MO), 1× HT supplement, consisting of 0.1 μmol/L sodium hypoxanthine and 0.016 μmol/L thymidine, 5 units/mL penicillin G, and 5 units/mL streptomycin sulfate (Life Technologies). G48a GBM cells were isolated in our laboratory and their karyotype is as follows: 49∼67, X?Y, +X, +add(1)(p11), +2, +add(4)(q35), +add(4)(p11), +5, +5, −6, −7, +8, +8 add(9)(q34), add(9)(q34), +add(9)(q34), +10, +10, +dup(11)(q25p15), +12, +16, +16, −18, −19, add(19)(q13.4), and +mar1[cp2].
Transfection Experiments
Cells were plated in six-well dishes and allowed to grow until 60% to 70% confluent. Then, the cells were rinsed with PBS and the medium was replaced with Opti-MEM (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA). DNA (2 μg; fra-1 sense, fra-1 antisense, or pcDNA vector control) was transfected using LipofectAMINE 2000 (Invitrogen). After 24 hours, the Opti-MEM was replaced with appropriate growth medium containing 20% fetal bovine serum. Twenty-four hours later, the cells were split into 100 cm2 Petri dishes and geneticin (800 μg/mL) was added to select clones. First, pooled transfectants were monitored and harvested, and individual clones were isolated (at least 10 per transfected cells) and maintained in appropriate growth medium containing 200 μg/mL geneticin.
siRNA Transfections
Cells were plated in six-well dishes at 5 × 104 cells per well. The cells are allowed to grow until 60% to 70% confluent. The wells were rinsed with PBS and the medium was replaced with Opti-MEM. siRNA (100 pmol/L, Dharmacon, Lafayette, CO) was transfected using LipofectAMINE 2000. Morphology was monitored and protein lysates were collected at 2, 3, and 5 days following transfection. Target sequence for siRNA was 5′-CACCAUGAGUGGCAGUCAG-3′ and the control nonsense siRNA was G/C content matched.
Western Blots
Cell lysates were collected from subconfluent cultures. Cells were washed in PBS and lysed in radioimmunoprecipitation assay buffer (PBS, 1% Igepal CA-630, ICN Biomedicals, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA), 0.5% sodium deoxycholate (Fisher Scientific, Fairlawn, NJ), and 0.1% SDS containing mammalian protease inhibitor cocktail (Sigma). Lysates were passed through a 21-gauge needle to shear the DNA. Phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (1 mmol/L, Sigma) was added to the lysates and incubated on ice for 30 to 60 minutes. The nonsolubilized debris was pelleted at 10,000 × g for 10 minutes. The supernatant was collected, aliquoted, and stored at −80°C until use. For AP-1 activation experiments, cells were allowed to grow to 70% to 90% confluence. Cells were washed in PBS twice and serum-free medium was added and left for 24 hours. EGF, FGF-2, or IL-4 (20 ng/mL) in PBS/0.1% bovine serum albumin was added and the controls contained PBS/0.1% bovine serum albumin.
Proteins (40 μg) were loaded on 12% SDS-PAGE gel. Proteins were transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membrane (Pierce, Rockford, IL) and blocked overnight with 5% blotto (5% dry milk, PBS/0.05% Tween 20) at 4°C. Membranes were incubated with primary antibody diluted in 5% blotto for 1 hour at room temperature while shaking. Primary antibodies include Fra-1 (1:100) and c-Fos (1:100) from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA). Anti-β-actin (1:50,000) antibody (Sigma) was also used as a loading control. Following the three washes of 5 minutes each in PBS/0.05% Tween 20, membranes were incubated in secondary antibody in 5% blotto for 1 hour at room temperature while shaking. Secondary antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase (goat anti-mouse IgG or goat anti-rabbit IgG) was diluted at 1:10,000 in 5% blotto. Membranes were washed with PBS for three changes of 5 minutes each. Detection was done using the SuperSignal West Pico chemiluminescent substrate (Pierce). Membranes were exposed to autoradiographic film X-OMAT AR (Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY) for up to 1 hour. Films were scanned at 600 dpi and images were compiled in Paint Shop Pro version 6.0.
Immunostaining
Cells were plated at 104 and grown overnight on glass slides in their respective medium. After 24 hours, slides were washed in PBS and fixed for 2 minutes in cold acetone and washed in PBS twice left to air dry and stored at −80°C until ready to use or assayed right after washes. Primary antibodies include rabbit polyclonal Fra-1 (1:100, Santa Cruz Biotechnology) and VEGF-D (7.5 μg/mL). Slides were then washed in three changes of PBS and blocked for 30 minutes with 10% normal goat serum in PBS at room temperature. Primary antibodies were diluted in 1.5% normal goat serum/PBS and incubated at room temperature for 2 hours (Fra-1 and VEGF-D). Slides were washed in PBS for three changes at room temperature for 5 minutes each. Secondary antibodies, goat anti-rabbit rhodamine (1:200, Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc., West Grove, PA) or goat anti-mouse Oregon green (1:200, Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR), were diluted in 1.5% normal goat serum/PBS and incubated in the dark at room temperature for 1 hour. Hoechst no. 33258 nuclear counterstain [4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI), 1 ng/mL, Sigma] was added to the secondary antibodies and was used to counterstain the cells. Double labeling was used with the experiments. Slides were washed in three changes of PBS for 5 minutes each and then mounted with Gel-Mount (Biomeda Corp., Foster City, CA). Pictures were taken at ×40 magnification.
Phalloidin staining was done as follows: cells were plated on glass slides and allowed to grow for 2 to 3 days. The slides were washed twice in PBS, fixed for 5 minutes with 4% paraformaldehyde, and permeabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100 for 1 minute. Then, the slides were rinsed in PBS and then stained with 1:200 Alexa Fluor 488 phalloidin (Molecular Probes) at room temperature for 1 hour. The cells were counterstained with DAPI, washed with PBS, and coverslipped for analysis. The crystal violet staining was done on cells plated on either glass slides or six-well dishes and cultured for 2 to 3 days. The cells were washed twice with PBS and fixed for 5 minutes in 10% acetic acid/10% methanol. Then, the cells were stained with 0.4% crystal violet for 5 minutes followed by two rinses in distilled water. Slides were air dried and the coverslips were mounted with Permount. For the crystal violet staining, the pictures were taken at ×20 magnification.
Treatment and Isolation of RNA
Cells were plated in 100 mm dishes. After 24 hours of serum starvation, EGF (20 ng/mL) or vehicle alone was added. RNA was isolated using the acid-guanidium isothiocyanate-phenol-chloroform method (49) at 0.5, 1, 4, 6, and 24 hours after treatment. Polyadenylate [poly(A)+] RNA was further isolated using the Oligotex mRNA kit (Qiagen, Inc., Valencia, CA). Total poly(A)+ RNA (2 μg) was electrophoresed on a 1% agarose formaldehyde gel, transferred to 0.45 μm magna charge nylon membrane (MSI, Westborough, MA), and UV cross-linked (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA).
fra-1 Riboprobe Construction
Poly(A)+ RNA was isolated from GBM explant cells, G48a (a GBM cell line isolated in our laboratory), as described above. Following first-strand synthesis with oligo(dT) primers and Superscript (Invitrogen), full-length fra-1 was amplified with pfu Turbo polymerase (Stratagene) and the following primers: forward 5′-TAGCTAGAATTCATGTTCCGAGAGTTCGGG-3′ and reverse 5′-ATAAGTGAATTCTCACAAAGCGAGGAGGGT-3′.The resulting fragment was ligated into pcDNA 3.1 vector (Invitrogen) in both forward and antisense orientation. The constructs were sequenced using an ABI 377 automated sequencer (PE, Norwalk, CT). fra-1 antisense and sense were labeled with 32P using T7-Riboprobe System (Promega Corp., Madison, WI).
Northern Blot Analyses
The membrane was prehybridized overnight at 60°C in a solution consisting of 50% formamide, 50 mmol/L sodium phosphate, 5× SSC (0.6 mol/L NaCl/0.6 mol/L sodium citrate), 1 mm EDTA, 2.5× Denhardt's solution, 10 μg/mL sheared salmon sperm DNA, and 1% SDS. Membrane was subsequently hybridized overnight at 60°C in the same solution with the addition of [32P]fra-1 riboprobe. The membrane was washed with 0.1× SSC/0.1% SDS thrice for 30 minutes each at 60°C. The membrane was exposed to autoradiographic film X-OMAT AR and placed at −80°C for up to 3 days. The membrane was subsequently stripped and reprobed with GAPDH as described previously (4, 8).
cDNA Arrays
Atlas Oncogene/Tumor Suppressor and Cytokine Arrays were purchased from R&D Systems and poly(A)+ RNA (1 μg) was labeled with [α-33P]dATP according to the manufacturer. Membranes were prehybridized overnight at 68°C in ExpressHyb (Clontech Laboratories, Inc. Palo Alto, CA) containing 0.1 mg/mL sheared salmon sperm DNA. Labeled cDNA probe was denatured and added to the prehybridization solution and the membranes were hybridized overnight at 68°C. Membranes were then washed twice in 2× SSC/1% SDS for 20 minutes followed by two washes in 0.1% SSC/0.5% SDS at 68°C. The membranes were exposed to autoradiographic film for up to 10 days at −70°C. Films were scanned on a transparency scanner at 88 × 88 pixels and the densities were acquired using ImageQuant software (Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA). Duplicate spots were averaged and normalized to the GAPDH values on the same films. The arrays contain cDNA-specific fragments for oncogenes, such as c-fos, junB, and c-myc. Housekeeping genes included ubiquitin, liver glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), and phospholipase. RNA used for the cDNA microarray assays was isolated from subconfluent cultures of GBM cells using the acid-guanidium isothiocyanate-phenol-chloroform method (49). Poly(A)+ RNA was further isolated using the Oligotex mRNA kit. Normal human brain poly(A)+ RNA was purchased from Clontech Laboratories.
Preparation of Nuclear Extracts for AP-1 Activity Measurement in Cultured Cells
Confluent cell layers were washed with ice-cold PBS/phosphate inhibitor buffer. The cells were scraped into PBS/phosphate inhibitor buffer with a cell lifter. The cells were pelleted in 15 mL tubes at 300 × g for 5 minutes at 4°C and the pellet was resuspended in 1 mL ice-cold hypotonic buffer. The cells stayed on ice for 15 minutes. Then, 10% NP40 (0.5% final) was added and cells were vortexed vigorously for 10 seconds. The homogenate were microcentrifuged for 30 seconds at 4°C. The supernatant was saved for other uses. The nuclear pellet was resuspended in Complete lysis buffer and rocked gently on ice for 30 minutes on a shaking platform. The nuclear suspension was then centrifuged for 10 minutes at 14,000 × g at 4°C and the supernatant was saved as a nuclear extract, aliquoted, protein concentration determined, and stored at −80°C until used.
We employed TransAm AP-1 family transcription assay ELISA-based kit (Active Motif, Carlsbad, CA). The assay uses 96-well plates to which oligonucleotide containing a 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate–responsive element (5′-TGAGTCA-3′) is immobilized. AP-1 dimers contained in nuclear extracts bind specifically to this oligonucleotide and are detected by an antibody directed against c-Fos, Fra-1, etc. Secondary antibody is horseradish peroxidase conjugated and the readout of the assay is colorimetric and quantified by spectrophotometry. Briefly, binding buffer (30 μL, according to the manufacturer) was added to each well. Then, cell extract (5 μg) was diluted in 20 μL complete lysis buffer and added to wells. Control nuclear extract (WI-38) was also added to wells; no antibody-containing wells served as a blank. The plates were incubated for 1 hour at room temperature with mild agitation. Then, the wells were washed thrice with washing buffer. After wash, one of the diluted AP-1 primary antibodies was added (100 μL/well), such as Fra-1, c-Jun, etc., to each well being used. The plates were incubated for 1 hour at room temperature and then washed again thrice in washing buffer. Horseradish peroxidase–conjugated antibody (100 μL) was then added to all wells and another 1-hour incubation at room temperature ensued. The plates were then washed four times with washing buffer. Developing solution was added from 2 to 20 minutes at room temperature in the dark to develop color. The stop solution was added when medium became medium blue; the solution then turns yellow. The absorbance was read at 450 nm within 5 minutes.
Transient Silencing of fra-1 with siRNA
We attempted to down-regulate ectopic Fra-1 in H4 cells by transient transfection with silencing RNA duplexes (siRNA). The siRNA sequence that already successfully targeted human fra-1 in cancer cells is 5′-CACCAUGAGUGGCAGUCAG-3′ (44). Those sequences were Blast searched against expressed sequence tag libraries to ensure the specificity of the siRNA molecule. Desalted, deprotected, and duplexed synthetic oligonucleotides were made by Dharmacon. Control duplex oligonucleotides were a siRNA nonsense duplex. siRNAs were transfected using the LipofectAMINE 2000 reagent. Transient transfections were carried out on 50% to 60% confluent cells plated 2 days before the experiment in Opti-MEM without antibiotics using the siRNA fra-1 duplex and corresponding controls in duplicates at least. For one well of a six-well plate, 100 pmol siRNA duplex were added. The effect of silencing was assayed 2, 3, and 5 days after transfection. The transfection efficiency was evaluated by Western blotting of Fra-1 and general cell morphology and compared with our stably transfected and their control cell lines.
Soft Agar Assay
Base layers consisting of 0.5% Noble agar (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD) in medium were prepared in six-well plates and allowed to harden. Cells were trypsinized, washed, and counted before plating. Cells (1 × 105) were added to prewarmed medium containing 0.35% Noble agar and layered over the base. Plates were allowed to harden at room temperature for several minutes and then placed in the 37°C incubator. Plates were regularly inspected for anchorage-independent growth. Cells were plated in triplicates and the experiment with each cell line was done at least twice.
Parental, mock-transfected fra-1(−) clone 33 (U-87 MG) and parental, mock-transfected fra-1(+) clones 4 and 10 (H4) and clone 34 (U-87 MG) glioma cells were cultured and harvested in a log phase of growth for tumor implantation in nu/nu mice. H4 (6 × 106) or U-87 MG (10 × 106) cells were injected s.c. into the flank of 8- to 10-week-old nu/nu mice in a volume of 100 μL. A total of 5 (H4 cells) or 10 (U-87 MG cells) mice were injected per group. Tumors were measured every 2 to 3 days according to a standard formula (3). The experiment with each cell line, H4 and U-87 MG, was done twice.
Karyotyping
The karyotype of G48a cells was done in a blinded fashion by clinical cytogeneticists at the Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Genetics & IVF Institute (Fairfax, VA).
We thank Becky Slagle-Webb for excellent technical assistance in this project, Marc G. Achen and Steven A. Stacker (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia) for the generous gift of VEGF-D antibody, and Dr. Costas Koumenis for comments on the article.
Accepted March 16, 2005.
Received January 5, 2005.
Revision received March 8, 2005.
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The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has handed over a 15-point list of ‘demands’ to its nominated peace talks committee for the consideration of the government of Pakistan. The content is not surprising at all, and only reaffirms the unlikelihood of any positive outcome from the ongoing peace talks.
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The first demand is that of the implementation of Sharia law in courts. The fact is that an entity known as the Federal Shariat Court already exists. It practices Islamic jurisprudence – exactly what the TTP is looking for – and is very much open for public. Perhaps if we start chopping off hands and introduce public beheadings, the TTP will find it adequately Islamic.
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Thirdly, the TTP would like to see an Islamic system of governance in place, and send the democratically elected government home once and for all. The people of the country, with their participation in the latest general elections and their constant struggle throughout the history of the country, have clearly demonstrated that they stand behind the current system, and really aren’t enthusiastic about the idea of being ruled by a Caliph. The militant organisation has been kind enough to offer us some financial advice in abolishing interest in banks. How we will then conduct business with the rest of the world, we can always figure out later.
It also wants the Pakistan government to stop US drone strikes. The TTP doesn’t care whether the government is in a position to guarantee something which it has no control over, it just wants it done. Furthermore, it seeks rehabilitation, compensation and jobs for the families of the victims of drone strikes. The government would have done that long ago if the militants didn’t present a serious threat to life of anyone visiting the related areas. It also wants equal rights for the rich and the poor. Karl Marx would have been proud. These demands are aimed to give the impression that the TTP is all for the welfare for the common people – the same people they’ve been killing since many years now.
Other unrealistic demands include withdrawal of armed forces from the tribal areas, removal of all checkposts and the release of several hundred local and foreign militants currently in jails, in exchange for a few of our people being held by the TTP. It also wants all charges against it to be dropped just like that. The state can neither surrender its territory to terrorists who have a history of using the space to launch attacks nor is it possible to let those who killed innocents walk away scot-free. Justice is as desirable to their victims as anyone else. The TTP will have to take the familiar jailbreak route in order to reunite with lost friends.
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Allen entered the NBA with a chance for a somewhat fresh start. But beginning his career with the Jazz, he brought similar nonsense to the court.
After being traded to the Grizzlies in the Mike Conley deal, Allen again showed who he is. Allen got ejected from a summer-league game yesterday for flagrantly fouling Celtics rookie Grant Williams twice in succession.
The second flagrant foul was a little strange. Allen caught a lot of ball in what could’ve been a blocked shot. But he also wound up for a swing that doesn’t look like the typical approach for blocking a shot.
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The Knicks announced afterward that Barrett will be re-evaluated in a week.
The No. 3 pick in the draft from Duke is averaging 14.1 points.
Trae Young gets ankles absolutely destroyed by Dejounte Murray (video) January 18, 2020 11:00 am EST Tristan Thompson slaps Jae Crowder’s rear end, gets ejected (video) January 18, 2020 10:00 am EST Kyle Lowry flings in wild 3-pointer (video) January 18, 2020 8:00 am EST Knicks rookie R.J. Barrett out at least a week with right ankle sprain January 18, 2020 12:55 am EST Heat: Justise Winslow out at least two more weeks January 18, 2020 12:08 am EST Kevin Huerter’s 3-pointer gives Hawks first win in San Antonio in his lifetime (video) January 17, 2020 11:15 pm EST Buddy Hield on Kings getting booed at home: ‘That’s how Sacramento fans are’ January 17, 2020 10:00 pm EST 76ers play 6-on-5 vs. Bulls (video) January 17, 2020 9:00 pm EST Thirty days after being called ‘day-to-day,’ Karl-Anthony Towns returns to Timberwolves January 17, 2020 8:00 pm EST Knicks’ Marcus Morris after 23-point loss to Suns: ‘We were a better team’ January 17, 2020 7:00 pm EST Kyrie Irving on his leadership style: “It’s not like I’m an a****** yelling at everybody” January 17, 2020 6:00 pm EST Report: NBA cancels vote for in-season tournament, play-in tournament January 17, 2020 4:55 pm EST LeBron James again leads NBA jersey sales, Giannis Antetokounmpo second January 17, 2020 3:58 pm EST Frustrated Bradley Beal reportedly “angry with and emotional about” Wizards January 17, 2020 3:04 pm EST Barrier to entry for NBA playoff race is historically low January 17, 2020 1:54 pm EST PBT mid-season awards: Defensive Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and more January 17, 2020 12:01 pm EST DeAndre Ayton got the start for Phoenix, put up 26 and 21 (VIDEO) January 17, 2020 11:00 am EST Here’s video of Klay Thompson getting up shots in an empty Chase Center January 17, 2020 9:58 am EST Three Things to Know: Brandon Ingram has earned an All-Star nod and max contract January 17, 2020 9:04 am EST LaMelo Ball’s Australian basketball career ends after 12 games, he packs it in after foot injury January 17, 2020 8:00 am EST Brandon Ingram drops career-high 49, Pelicans end Jazz 10-game win streak in wild finish January 17, 2020 12:26 am EST Giannis Antetokounmpo looked like an MVP with 32 points, 17 boards vs. Boston January 16, 2020 11:35 pm EST Tests on Jamal Murray’s ankle reportedly come back clean, he’s out multiple games January 16, 2020 9:58 pm EST PBT Podcast: Our NBA mid-season award picks for MVP, Rookie of Year, more January 16, 2020 8:59 pm EST Gregg Popovich second-guesses cutting Bam Adebayo from Team USA January 16, 2020 7:45 pm EST Report: Ja Morant declines dunk-contest invitation January 16, 2020 6:45 pm EST Report: Hawks no longer engaging Pistons on Andre Drummond trade January 16, 2020 5:45 pm EST Report: Timberwolves intensifying pursuit of Warriors’ D’Angelo Russell, not progressing January 16, 2020 4:48 pm EST PBT mid-season awards: MVP and All-NBA January 16, 2020 3:44 pm EST Alex Caruso jumps Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry in All-Star voting January 16, 2020 2:43 pm EST LeBron James misses open dunk (video) January 16, 2020 2:11 pm EST Russell Westbrook’s trash talk to Damian Lillard backfires (video) January 16, 2020 1:35 pm EST Report: Timberwolves trade Jeff Teague to Hawks January 16, 2020 12:35 pm EST JaVale McGee meets Terrence Ross way above rim for electrifying dunk block (video) January 16, 2020 11:24 am EST Kyrie Irving on Nets: ‘We need one more piece or two more pieces’ January 16, 2020 9:45 am EST Three Things to Know: This is the confident Markelle Fultz we’ve been waiting for January 16, 2020 9:19 am EST Denver’s Jamal Murray leaves game with ankle injury: X-rays negative January 16, 2020 8:03 am EST Back home, Philadelphia wins again, beats Brooklyn behind 34 from Tobias Harris January 15, 2020 11:05 pm EST Trae Young says it’s too early to judge who won/lost Luka Doncic draft night trade January 15, 2020 9:30 pm EST Hawks’ Chandler Parsons suffers concussion, whiplash in auto accident January 15, 2020 8:06 pm EST
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Maintaining High Standards
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Weekly Update: July 12, 2019
LEGISLATIVE UPDATE:
The General Assembly remains in session. Returning after a few days off over the Independence Day holiday, the effort to override Governor Cooper’s veto of the budget remains on the House calendar each day. Each day House leadership does a vote count to see if they have enough votes to override. They need several Democrats to join the Republican majority to accomplish that. In the meantime, the House passed H-111, SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT by a vote of 118-0. That is a stopgap measure that will fund certain areas until the budget is actually approved.
There are ongoing negotiations to come to some kind of agreement between the General Assembly and the Governor, but it’s a tangled web and doesn’t just include the budget itself. Specifically, H-655 NC HEALTH CARE FOR WORKING FAMILIES was approved in the House Health Committee and has been on the House floor calendar for a while. No vote has been taken because it’s being used as a budget negotiating tool. It’s all about the debates over Medicaid expansion, but that discussion is too lengthy for this update!
Budget provision for voluntary buyout of commercial fishing licenses: This was explained in the legislative update several weeks ago. It’s not a bill but was introduced as a Special Provision in the Senate budget with the funding for the measure coming from the Commercial Fishing License Fund and any licenses bought back would be retired or lost. We worked to get the language changed so the funding now comes from the General Fund and any licenses bought back would go back into the commercial license pool. That measure stayed in the budget that was sent to the Governor.
H-483, LET THEM SPAWN, passed the House and remains in the Senate Rules Committee where it is not expected to move any further this year. The bill will remain alive for the short session which will begin in May of 2020.
H-597 WILDLIFE RESOURCES AMENDS has passed the House and is now in the Senate Rules Committee.
H-655 HEALTH CARE FOR WORKING FAMILIES has passed the House and now in Senate Rules.
https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H655v2.pdf
H-648 SUPPORT SHELLFISH AQUACULTURE has been signed by the Governor and is now law.
THIRD DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL RACE
The Republican runoff was held this past Tuesday with Greg Murphy coming out as the winner. So, the names on the ballot in September to determine the person to replace the late Walter B. Jones, Jr., are: Democrat Allen Thomas, Republican Greg Murphy, Libertarian Tim Harris and Constitution Party Greg Holt.
Next week we will continue listing events scheduled for those candidates.
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NASA Seeking Partner in Contest to Name Next Mars Rover
This artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying its surroundings. Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July or August 2020 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA has a class assignment for corporations, nonprofits and educational organizations involved in science and space exploration: partner with the agency to inspire future engineers and scientists by sponsoring a contest to name the next rover to venture to the Red Planet.
The contest will allow U.S. students in grades K-12 to propose a name for NASA's next Mars rover (currently being built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California) and write an essay about their choice. The partner will work with NASA to conduct the contest during the 2019 academic year.
The announcement for proposals can be found here. All proposals must be received by Oct. 9, 2018, to be considered. Questions by corporations, nonprofits and educational organizations interested in participating should be sent by email to: hqmars2020namingproposals@mail.nasa.gov.
"We've been doing naming contests since the very first Mars rover back in 1997," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, in Washington. "Thousands of kids participate, and their enthusiasm for the contest and Mars is infectious."
The selected partner will have an opportunity to be part of a historic mission, helping NASA engage students from across the country by letting them participate in the next mission to Mars. As part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 rover mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars, including key questions about the potential for life on the Red Planet.
The Mars 2020 Project at JPL in Pasadena, California, manages rover development for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA's Launch Services Program, based at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is responsible for launch management.
For more information on Mars 2020, go to:
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While descending from Western Butte, Curiosity has stopped to investigate a strange trough along the way.
Sols 2645-2646: A Strange Trough on Western Butte
Curiosity is still on the shoulder of Western Butte at a location that provides a good vantage point, exposes changes in stratigraphy, and reveals some interesting float blocks in our workspace.
Sols 2642-2644: Contact Science at Western Butte
The Curiosity rover is still at the highest point it will reach on “Western Butte,” having done a short bump to allow it to do contact science.
Sols 2640-2641: Like a Dog Under the Table…
Sunrise was late this morning in Earth's mid-northern latitudes, so I made a point of looking for Mars before dawn when I woke up.
Sol 2639: SAM Is Feeling Better
We found out that over the weekend the planned “bump” to get the rover in position for contact science didn’t execute.
Sol 2638: All Too Familiar
At the start of planning for the 3-sol weekend plan, we were told that telemetry showed one of Curiosity’s middle wheels was lifted ~15 cm off the ground following the previous drive.
Sols 2635-2637: Doing a Wheelie
The two MRO passes that should have downlinked the data from Curiosity’s New Year activities, to enable planning today, got delayed during processing on the ground.
Sol 2634: Happy New Year From Mars!
The clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was open to the media to see NASA's next Mars explorer before it leaves for Florida in preparation for a summertime launch.
Media Get a Close-Up of NASA's Mars 2020 Rover
From rockets to rovers, JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility has been at the center of robotic spaceflight. Here's a closer look at what makes it so special.
Space History Is Made in This NASA Robot Factory
Today, we put together our last plan of the decade! On Wednesday, we planned activities for Curiosity up to December 30th.
Sols 2631-2633: Exciting Plans for New Year's Eve
We anxiously awaited the images from the end of our 20 m drive further up “Western Butte,” as we anticipated having both the bedrock that covers this part of the butte and an intriguing dark block, possibly shed from a layer higher up on the butte, in the workspace.
Sols 2620-2630: All Dressed up…
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Tennis star Maria Sharapova fails drug test
Maria Sharapova at a news conference in Los Angeles on Monday. Sharapova says she has failed a drug test at the Australian Open.
Image: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
By Marcus Gilmer 2016-03-07 21:24:05 UTC
Tennis star Maria Sharapova announced Monday that she failed a drug test during January's Australian Open.
SEE ALSO: Kremlin denies damning claims of widespread doping scandal in Russia
"I did fail the test, and I take full responsibility for it," Sharapova said, speaking at a news conference.
Sharapova tested positive for the substance meldonium, which she said she has been taking for personal health reasons for 10 years. The drug was just added to the list of substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in January.
Sharapova admitted she had received an email with information about new banned substances in December, but said, "I didn't click on that link."
Just to clarify: according to WADA, meldonium is a “banned substance” and NOT a PED (performance-enhancing drug). Big difference. #sharapova
— Jeff Donaldson (@jddtennis) March 7, 2016
Meldonium, also known as mildronate, is a Latvian-manufactured drug popular for fighting heart disease in former Soviet Union countries. The drug also aids oxygen circulation in the blood and can increase endurance.
Several athletes have tested positive for the drug since it became illegal in January, including two Ukrainian biathletes and Russian cyclist Eduard Vorganov. Earlier Monday, Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova, a European champion ice dancer, told local media she had tested positive for meldonium.
There's no word on what punishment Sharapova could face from the International Tennis Federation, but Sharapova said, "It's my body, and I'm responsible for what I put into it."
John Haggerty, Sharapova's lawyer, tells #NYT Sharapova will be provisionally suspended on March 12 & will not ask for B sample to be tested
— Christopher Clarey (@christophclarey) March 7, 2016
Sharapova's penalties could range from a multiyear ban to a minimal sanction with no suspension if officials believe she made an honest mistake.
Additional reporting by The Associated Press.
Topics: doping, Entertainment, Maria Sharapova, meldonium, Sports, tennis
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Governors and students celebrate 50 years of EOF at William Paterson
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Gov. Phil Murphy and former Gov. Tom Kean hosted a roundtable discussion Thursday with students at William Paterson University on New Jersey’s program to support low-income college students, the Educational Opportunity Fund.
Rider to offer master’s program in health communication
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Beginning in the fall of 2019, Rider University will offer the first master’s degree in health communication in New Jersey.
Rutgers faculty members vote to authorize strike
David Hughes, vice president of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT faculty union and a professor of anthropology, said labor union members voted Monday to authorize a strike after more than a year of contract negotiations.
Saint Peter’s University debuts MS in finance
The university will also offer an accelerated program enabling undergraduates to obtain their master’s degree in finance in five years.
NJIT, Cornell student teams awarded $45,000 EPA grant
Student teams from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Cornell University received funding to develop sustainable technologies to help solve environmental and public health challenges.
Saint Peter’s University hosts Esports Business Symposium
The event included three panel discussions: Esports Ecosystem and Opportunities, Women and Gaming, and Esports and Education with panelists including Ashley DeWalt of WD | Esports + Entertainment; Neil Duffy, vice president of Collegiate StarLeague; and Keisha Howard, CEO of Sugar Gamers.
Two years ago, Rutgers University graduates Chisa Egbelu and Kayla Michele founded a company called PeduL to make college more attainable by creating a platform for students to raise money for their education. “We believe a more accessible education is better for people in all aspects of society,” Egbelu said. “In order for society to ...
HCCC, Ramapo College announce transfer agreement
The agreement, recently signed between HCCC and Ramapo College, allows for students who earn an associate degree at HCCC to transition to Ramapo in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree.
DOE extends Princeton University plasma physics laboratory contract
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Friday that Princeton University will continue to manage and operate the DOE’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, located on Princeton University’s Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro.
EWNJ accepting Graduate Merit Award applications
Executive Women of New Jersey is accepting applications for the 2019 EWNJ Graduate Merit Award Program to award women who are non-traditional graduate school students attending New Jersey colleges and universities.
Horizon responds to meningitis outbreak at Rutgers with no cost inoculations
Horizon BCBSNJ said that it would provide no cost vaccinations for Meningitis B to members who are students and employees at the campus.
Employment app lands 1st place in William Paterson pitch tank competition
First place winner Mojahed Hamdeh, a senior at William Paterson, believes his platform uniquely targets students from ages 16 to 25 who are seeking jobs or internships, and matches them with employers who have difficulty filling those entry-level positions.
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Billie Eilish Fans Literally Lost Sleep Listening to Her Music on Spotify in 2019
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Billie Eilish fans quite literally lost sleep listening to her music over the past year. The culprit for their lost ZZZs? The artist's ironically titled debut album: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Spotify's new Wrapped experience includes a measurement for artists to see how much sleep their fans have lost listening to their music between the hours of 1 AM and 6 AM. As it turns out, the 17-year-old's fans have lost more sleep than any other artists' fans on the platform.
In other words, fans seem to have cracked the answer to Eilish's question of where people go when they're sleeping: they're not sleeping at all!
2019 has been a whirlwind year for the "everything i wanted" singer, who won the American Music Awards for the coveted New Artist of the Year category and Best Artist- Alternative/Rock category.
Eilish made history at the upcoming 2020 Grammy Awards as the youngest artist to have nominations in the major four categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year for "Bad Guy" and Best New Artist. She is also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album for When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Bad Guy."
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Source: Billie Eilish Fans Literally Lost Sleep Listening to Her Music on Spotify in 2019
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Horror Countdown #1 SUSPIRIA 2018!!!
Date: October 31, 2019Author: mlmillerwrites 4 Comments
M.L. Miller here! Welcome horror fans to my Annual countdown of the Best of the Best in Horror! Running every day through October, this list will culminate with the best horror film of the year announced on October 31st. Some of these films can be found in theaters—others have unfortunately only seen the light of day On Demand, DVD, BluRay, or digital download. I’ve tried to indicate in the reviews how you can watch and enjoy these films yourselves. I’ll also provide a “Worth Noting” secondary film suggestion in a separate post. These are films that stood out or just missed being on the list by a skosh—a little extra for those who can’t get enough horror.
How did I compile this list? I simply looked through films released between October 1st 2018 and September 30, 2019 and worked and reworked the list until I had the magic number, 31. This countdown is not for the elitists or festival goers, so if the film hasn’t been released to the masses, it won’t be on the list. Also anything released this October will most likely be on next year’s list—so sorry, no films like DOCTOR SLEEP or ZOMBIELAND 2 just yet. Don’t forget to like and share my picks with your pals across the web on your own personal social media. Chime in after the review and let me know what you think of the film, how on the nose or mind-numbingly wrong I am, or most importantly, come up with your own darn list…let’s go!
#1 SUSPIRIA
Released on November 2, 2018, here’s my lengthy dissection of the Best Horror Film of the Year, SUSPIRIA 2018! Available on DVD/Blu-ray, On Demand and digital download!
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
Written by David Kajganich (screenplay), Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi (original story and characters)
Starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela, Chloë Grace Moretz, Angela Winkler, Vanda Capriolo, Alek Wek, Jessica Batut, Elena Fokina, Clémentine Houdart, Ingrid Caven, Sylvie Testud, Fabrizia Sacchi, Brigitte Cuvelier, Renée Soutendijk, Christine Leboutte, Vincenza Modica, Marjolaine Uscotti, Charo Calvo, Sharon Campbell, Elfriede Hock, Iaia Ferri, Gala Moody, Sara Sguotti, Olivia Ancona, Anne-Lise Brevers, Halla Thordardottir, Stephanie McMann, Majon Van der Schot, Maria Bregianni, Josepha Madoki, Navala ‘Niko’ Chaudhari, Karina El Amrani, Mikael Olsson, Fred Kelemen, Greta Bohacek, & Jessica Harper
Find out more about this film here!
Just short of a masterpiece, SUSPIRIA 2018 is a visual and spine-tingling achievement for the horror genre. Instead of making an out and out remake, as many try to do these days, SUSPIRIA feels more like a successful homage and more—a separate and extended story using the original film as a starting point and then taking it in bold, wild, unique, and often nightmarish directions.
I am one of the many folks who revere Argento’s SUSPIRIA as a classic. SUSPIRIA 1977 is a fantastic feast for the eyes. Jessica Harper is great as the wide-eyed American gal plopped into the middle of this posh, new, and wicked world. The colors and shapes Argento were able to create, as well, as the intricate death sequences are the stuff of horror legend. And who can forget that awesome Goblin score? But at the same time, SUSPIRIA 1977 does tell a typical tale of innocence being corrupted by the grotesque culminating to a battle between good and evil in the end and ending on a somewhat predictable yet satisfying note of good vanquishing an all-powerful evil.
Like SUSPIRIA 2018, Argento’s classic tells the tale of a school run by witches, housing an evil secret, and luring young and innocent ingenues into their lair in order to feast, recruit, and accommodate their talents and vibrance. But it is only in those ways—the setting and that concept, that these two films resemble one another. The rest is an altogether different story, and while I love the colors, grand guignol deaths, over the top acting, and simplistic effects for its time, SUSPIRIA 2018 takes the concept to a level far, far beyond.
In SUSPIRIA 2018, a talented but naïve dancer from Ohio named Susie (Dakota Johnson) is accepted into a prestigious dance school in Berlin run by the stern Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton). Almost immediately, Susie adapts into the class and shows a talent that leaves her teachers and classmates in awe. With the previous lead dancer Patricia (Chloë Grace Moretz) going missing, Susie steps into the lead in a classic choreography that serves as a crucial ritual for this coven of witches that doubles as a dance school. Meanwhile, a psychologist named Dr. Kemperer (also played by Swinton under heavy old age makeup), who saw the deeply paranoid Patricia before she disappeared, begins investigating the school as civil unrest and a terrorist hijacking occur in the streets of Berlin around them. As Susie’s dance talents continuing to grow, she unlocks a hidden power exploited by the witches that run the school and edges closer to a dark secret that has taken the lives of many of the most talented dancers to attend there.
The acting in SUSPIRIA is impeccable. Tilda Swinton plays three roles in the film—each one very different than the next. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, by having the film acknowledge this in the world in which it is playing out, with Blanc casting some kind of illusionary spell and allowing her to see the film from three different viewpoints, but this never occurs. While she is fantastic as the stern Madame Blanc, she is also quite convincing as Dr. Kemperer. Kemperer is sort of the emotional lynchpin of the entire film, giving the viewer someone to be utterly sympathetic to from beginning to end. Despite the fact that she is under a ton of old age makeup to make her look like an elderly man, it is a testament to Swinton’s acting prowess that she was able to make me feel for Kemperer’s story as strongly as I did. While Susie is the focal point in the film, she is tempted and teased by the “dark side” throughout the film, while Kemperer is truly the one at the emotional center of it all.
Dakota Johnson is quite good in this lead role as the wide-eyed dancer from Ohio thrust into this diabolical world. On top of being convincing as a modern dancer, she is also given quite an arc to play with and is convincing every step of the way. Maria Goth once again plays an otherworldly oddball character in Sara, a dancer who befriends Johnson’s Susie, but Goth, as usual, plays this type well. Chloë Grace Moretz offers up one of her best performances in the brief role of the paranoid Patricia and Elena Fokina dazzles in her small role as one of the first victims of the brutal power behind Susie’s dance spells.
While Argento dazzled us with bright colors and vivid backdrops, director Luca Guadagino goes in the exact opposite direction and makes everything muddy, colorless, and industrial. One might think that would make for a less vibrant film, but this decision allows the movements of the dancers to be the artistic flair that stands out. There is less focus on elaborate death sequences as well. There is a death toll, but they are done within the world of the dance that is created in the movie rather than taking influence from elaborate Giallo murder set pieces that Argento relied on. I’m not saying one is better than the other, but Guadagino’s deaths seem much more at home in the dramatic world of dance.
There is a sort of magic in all forms of art. Be it film, painting, writing, or dance, there is a flow that the artist finds themselves in that is almost uncategorizable. It is almost a form of magic. SUSPIRIA 2018 is built on that concept. Much like a witch’s brew or a special incantation, dance, if done in a specific way, can be a powerful spell in this world Luca Guadagnino has made. I like this sophisticated take on magic that makes it all more powerful as it relates to something that is innate in us all at humans—our ability to create and dream. It is that powerful center that this film delivers most of its most powerful scenes.
Appreciators of modern dance will definitely be able to look past the blood and gore and see some pretty vivid and electric choreography throughout SUSPIRIA 2018. It understands and highlights the passion of the craft of dancing, even when it is casting it in a dark, witchy light.
I hate to continue to compare the original to the remake, but I have to say that I prefer the bombastic and explosive ending of the remake to the rather rushed and choppily edited denouement of the original. Again, Guadagnino keeps things all about the dancing in this film, ending with a ritual that is one of the goriest, sleaziest, and twisted finales I have ever seen. The twist at the end truly is a surprise and plays out in a grand and operatic fashion. The final blood soaked minutes of this film will definitely leave you in awe. And the epilogue, focusing on Kemperer once again, gives the film a soulful sendoff that really makes it all feel as if all of the subplots and plot threads have come to a decisive and fitting conclusion.
This is all around fantastic filmmaking. Deft writing, talented art, gorgeous performances, and a gore-drenched ending that should leave the horror fans satisfied. While the runtime is quite long, I never was bored with the sights and sounds that make up SUSPIRIA. I’m sure the length of butt-in-the-seat time is going to get to some though. Still, after seeing this film three times, I am at a loss for what I would cut from it in order to make it a brisker length. SUSPIRIA 2018 also not only tells the tale of Argento’s original, but his entire “Three Mothers” trilogy, giving Argento’s SUSPIRIA, INFERNO, and MOTHER OF TEARS a big budget and high craft treatment that definitely overshadows the latter parts of Argento’s originals. Guadagnino never seems to disrespect what has come before, rather he builds on it and makes the material his own.
SUSPIRIA 2018 is a commitment of a film. If you’re not into highbrow and arthouse horror, this one might not be for you. But if you like some emotional depth and thematic heft to your horror—if you long for people to take horror seriously—if you want to show how horror can be high art as well as terrifying, SUSPIRIA 2018 is the best of the best at it.
THE COUNTDOWN 2018-2019
#1 – SUSPIRIA 2018
#2 – US
#3 – LUZ
#4 – GET MY GUN
#5 – THE HEAD HUNTER
#6 – TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID
#7 – ARTIK
#8 – POSSUM
#9 – ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
#10 – HALLOWEEN 2018
#11 –THE NIGHTSHIFTER
#12 – MIDSOMMAR
#13 – THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER
#14 – ZOO
#15 – READY OR NOT
#16 – THE DARK
#17 – TRAUMA
#18 – I TRAPPED THE DEVIL
#19 – VELVET BUZZSAW
#20 – HAGAZUSSA
#21 – TERROR 5
#22 –THE GOLEM
#23 – THE CANNIBAL CLUB
#24 – DEPRAVED
#25 – TERRIFIED
#26 – BRIGHTBURN
#27 – I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD
#28 – BLISS
#29 – LEVEL 16
#30 – ASSASSINAUT
#31 – CRAWL
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LeeAnn Paige says:
A very strong #1 this year that’s impossible to beat in my opinion. An incredible remake done perfectly with slight homages to original but a wholly completely unique take on the story. Beautiful in every way, even the gore is something to behold. A rarity that this type of story be given this much of a budget, cast, crew and a great director in Luca Guadagnino. Having seen his 3 previous films (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash and Call Me By Your Name), I knew how gorgeous this would be. He is already very high on my list of directors and I can’t wait to see what else he does. As a horror fan, I’m just very pleased to have this one as a classic to look back on and show the genre can still be taken very serious.
I was hoping this would make the countdown. Not my #1 as I felt the Dr Kemperer part was largely unnecessary. I would have been happy with a third of the screentime the character was given. The music and dance at the end is spectacular though
Modok says:
I fully agree. The Dr. Kemperer parts really did not fit well with the rest of the film. I kept thinking he would be integrated into the story more, or would be revealed to have some deeper connection, but he was basically off on his own arc.
As for Suspiria ranking #1, it was certainly different–it was bold, artistic, occasionally shocking and at least true to the witchcraft nature of the original. Those types of artistic choices in the genre deserve praise. But I can’t say the film really worked for me despite those occasionally fascinating elements.
Maybe it was Guadagnino’s failure to pull the elements together through better pacing or editing, or the loss of momentum whenever Kemperer showed up, or even too much indulgence in the dance sequences. I don’t know. I’m glad the movie exists, and I’m sure I’ll re-watch it, but I can’t say I loved it nearly as much as I had hoped.
Also…thanks again for another great countdown, Mark! I look forward to it all year. It’s always a blast seeing how these movies stack up against one other and my own opinions. And it’s not a countdown if I don’t leave with at least a dozen new movies to watch that I might have otherwise overlooked.
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the art of the novella reading challenge 5/42: the awakening by kate chopin
The reality of Edna Pontellier's marriage is evident from the start of the book when returning from a swim in the ocean, she is critically sized up by her husband.
"You are burnt beyond recognition," he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists. Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm."
Edna does not yet see the strength of her hands before she sees the absence of her wedding rings, but things are about to change for her. The late 19th century Creole society in New Orleans of which she is a part dismisses her summer attentions from Robert as all part of a game of flirtation and therefore harmless, yet they share a deep understanding of one another, right before Mr. Pontellier, and that understanding grows into a love that prompts a metamorphosis in Edna. It begins slowly and builds off a self-knowledge that Edna has always possessed.
"The sentiment which she entertained for Robert in no way resembled that which she felt for her husband, or had ever felt, or ever expected to feel. She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own, and she entertained a conviction that she had a right to them and that they concerned no one but herself."
Rather than mere "mother" or "wife" or some other patriarchal defined role, Edna is consciously tied to her own individualism despite the impossibility of that in her time and place. In a heated argument with a friend, she tries to explain that the connection with and possession of self must come before all else.
"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me."
And from this point on the self-revelation picks up pace as she literally and figuratively attempts to crush the restrictions her wedding ring represents under her heel. She begins to paint, distances herself from her family and social obligations. On one level, she appears terribly depressed about her circumstances and the fact that Robert is removed from her, yet on another level, she seems to be coming alive.
"He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed palpitant with the forces of life. Her speech was warm and energetic. There was no repression in her glance or gesture. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun."
Later, with her husband on business in New York and her children in the country with their grandmother, Edna hosts a grand dinner party as a farewell to the constraints of her marital home before she moves to a smaller house around the corner of her own choosing. This description of her suggests the full power of her newly acquired sense of self.
"The golden shimmer of Edna's satin gown spread in rich folds on either side of her. There was a soft fall of lace encircling her shoulders. It was the color of her skin, without the glow, the myriad living tints that one may sometimes discover in vibrant flesh. There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone."
I love that. Love this book that seems to grow better with each reading for me. You either already know or can imagine where Edna is headed, but if you have not already, you should read this. And imagine the bravery it took for Chopin to publish and stand behind such a work in her own time, a work that effectively ended her writing career because of the controversy it elicited.
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Bring me your rude and/or clever trail names...
andy-eunson
Tungsten is right on this one. Some trail names should be changed as they are racist. May not have been the intent of the builders but Squaw Hollow is a demeaning name.
Being 5’4” ish I find Angry Midget....to be accurate. Asshole.
Captain Hindgrinder has always been one of my faves...it has some seriously steep rock faces where your tire can buzz your crack...
We also have Rapist Ridge and N\\\\\* Pole over here...the guy who named 'em thinks he's funny but can't seem to bring himself to use the second trail name in front of his black friend...disgusting.
Edit: I reconsidered participating in this part of the convo. Carry on.
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June 3, 2018, 8 p.m.
Sofa king and mother hucker at Hartland. Wizard sleeve, dirk's diggler in Squamish are a couple more good ones.
fun-house
Joined: Oct. 18, 2016
Buggered Pig in Cumby was one that always confused me as a young lad.
Posted by: andy-eunson
Golden boner in Whistler. Story is one month of no sex equals a bronze boner. Two months, silver. Three months... it was the builders situation of being very single that spawned the name.
golden boner is 1 year no sex, 2 = platinum!
One year! That’s unpossible. I guess I remembered it wrong.
and the builder actually went over 2 years! and was relatively proud.....but we didn't get a platinum trail out of it unfortunately.
skidrc
and then he wisely left town
We have a trail section here called the Gang Bang Spot.
Very challenging on the bike but it's a very cozy and scenic viewpoint off the bike.
cooperquinn
For those wondering what Cam is on about here, its probably partly a Bike Squamish dumpster fire of a thread, but also this: http://frontlinesmtb.com/2016/12/23/ep-5-whats-in-a-name-offensive-trail-names-and-why-change-is-important/
I suggest (yet, people will comment anyway) listening before commenting.
This isn't about "Golden Boner".
Its about what @Tungsten is on about - regressive racist/sexist/otherwise bigoted naming. And the broader question of "Why are people so insistent on defending things like that?".
Just because there's "history behind the name" or "its always been called that", doesn't really mean it should be - its 2018 and we're better than that. Much to the chagrin of many, mountain biking is no longer a fringe sport, for weirdos. It is, however, still dominated by white dudes.
Simply renaming a trail like "Squaw Hollow" is simple, easy, and doesn't actually change the trail, beyond making the name not a racist slur. [insert something about "a rose by any other name" here]
goose8
Psyched to see this much-needed conversation happening. Thanks for the context @cooperquinn. Recently had a discussion about naming trails at a local area and it was much harder than expected to come up with witty trail names that even vaguely described the nature of the trail.
On a side note, there was a particularly challenging section of trail where I grew up that was called "Thumping Dick Hollow." Apparently it was a reference to some odd-sounding machinery run by a fellow named Dick, but it used to give us the giggles back when we were in middle school. Hopefully we've moved past that stage!
paul-lindsay
The rule here is that the trail builder names the trail. We might have had a trail called "Golden Boner" but instead we have "Date Night".
cory-booker
As far as I know there isn't a trail with this name yet, and maybe it's not offensive enough to be worthy of this thread, but I really want to name a trail Brokebike Mountain. (Of course for that to happen, I'd have to build a trail ...)
johnny_deformed
placenta descenta in nelson...not crude, but i always thought kinda witty or at least unique. no idea the origins
i read way back when that big money in fernie was named because the builder rolled his vehicle while driving up to work on it
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Sudan crisis: Internet restored - but only for lawyer
A lawyer in Sudan has told the BBC that the internet has been restored after a three-week shutdown - but only for him.
Abdel-Adheem Hassan on Sunday won a lawsuit against telecoms operator Zain Sudan over the blackout ordered by Sudan's military rulers.
However, he says his victory is only benefitting him so far as he filed the case in a personal capacity.
The internet was cut off after security forces violently dispersed protesters camping in central Khartoum.
The protesters want an end to military rule following the coup against long-time leader Omar al-Bashir in April.
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Mr Hassan said he is currently the only civilian in the country able to access the internet without resorting to complicated hacks.
He said he is going back to court on Tuesday to win the right for more Sudanese people.
"We have a court session tomorrow and another one the day after tomorrow. Hopefully one million people will gain internet access by the end of the week," Mr Hassan added.
BBC Arabic reporter Mohamed Osman in Khartoum confirms that the internet remains blocked despite Sunday's court order.
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Mr Hassan told the BBC: "The operator failed to provide written orders to disconnect the internet.
"Everybody is trying to avoid responsibility, nobody wants to be personally liable - it's a crime and an international human rights violation."
On Monday, the United Nations urged Sudanese authorities to grant human rights monitors to access the country and end "repression" against protesters.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on the military government to end the internet shutdown during her opening speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
What has happened in Sudan?
Sudan's military removed long-time President Bashir from office in April after months of protests and unrest.
A council of generals assumed power on 11 April but it has struggled to return normality to the country.
The seven-member Transitional Military Council (TMC) is led by Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan. The council says it needs to be in charge to ensure order and security.
But the protesters want a civilian rule.
The council has faced international condemnation for launching a violent attack on protesters in Khartoum on 3 June which reportedly left at least 30 dead.
Most African and Western countries have backed the protesters.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed flew to Sudan to try and broker an agreement between the TMC and the protesters earlier this month.
On Sunday, the council rejected Ethiopia's proposal which the protesters had agreed to on Saturday - on the grounds that they had not studied the Ethiopian initiative, which they described as unilateral.
BBC's Mohanad Hashim, a Sudanese journalist, says that there is real fear the situation in Sudan could turn very bad very quickly.
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May 18, 2019 July 3, 2019
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By Daisy . . . I have been wanting to share my story for quite some time, but I could never muster the courage to do so. After keeping it locked inside for an exhausting and difficult 15 years, I finally—and cathartically—confided in a close friend whose empathy is surpassed by that of no one else I have ever met. She ultimately convinced me to share my story with others like me in the hope that my words will act as a source of light and support as they navigate the fallout of a family member’s criminal conviction. It has taken me more than a year to put my feelings into words, but it finally feels like the right time to share it.
What is the secret that I have kept hidden for so long? I am the wife of a man who is a convicted sex offender.
That very statement has defined me as a person for nearly two decades, no matter how hard I tried to not let it do so. I am simply unintended collateral damage of our criminal justice system. I have gone unnoticed. I have drowned in anxiety, depression, and PTSD to the point that I have nearly been destroyed as a human being, while just hanging on by that tenuous thread to the few good things that life has to offer.
If you were to meet me on the street, you would think that I’m a very positive, happy-go-lucky person who has a good life. I laugh a lot. I smile. I joke. I value warmth, empathy, and understanding. I feel the emotion of love very intensely—especially for my husband, whom I love relentlessly and unconditionally. But, on the inside, I am like a building that has been completely leveled by a massive earthquake, which I have painstakingly tried to rebuild brick-by-brick. This has left me feeling hollow and sad with an absolute dearth of confidence. I have become defined by my soul-shaking grief. Even today, I am in mourning. I am grieving the loss of what amounts to freedom—an incontrovertible, necessary freedom that you expect to acquire naturally as you move from childhood to adulthood. My husband has been given an indelible mark, an unremovable label, a scarlet letter—and I feel it vicariously. I cannot help feeling it, and I’m positive that there are others out there who feel the same. I am the result and the consequence of having defenselessly witnessed the process that nearly destroyed my husband’s life and my own.
Family members of convicted sex offenders seem to live their lives just under the radar as we have very few options for emotional and community support. We are simply supposed to “just deal with it” somehow; we are supposed to just live with our shame, embarrassment, and sadness. That can be an exceedingly difficult task. If there are hundreds of thousands of convicted sex offenders on the sex offender registry, then there must be millions of family members standing quietly and powerlessly by as they watch the lives of their loved ones—and possibly their own lives—completely unravel. My personal story focuses on the difficult terrain that those family members must navigate, which is always uphill and always a battle. However, I can tell you that there is a silver lining, no matter how ephemeral and unreachable it might seem to be. I’m now in the 16th year of my journey, and I’m doing my best to see the sunlight through the clouds while attempting to live a meaningful, impactful, and authentic life without (too much) regret.
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Sex offenders live their lives the same way pre-war European Jews in the 1930s.
Of course Mr. Scalia understood by recall the Nazi’s USE of the ” registration regime” as it unfolded similarly (concerning individual liberty) in American Society and structure before his death. Let us confront those who’d ignore history and their are many. He claimed to be a ” textualist” yet blatantly disavowed punitive and retribution intent inherent in ” was in prison for” in statute text.
NARSOL needs to be on top confronting those in authority armed with the correlating plight of those who suffered before from popular “registration”.
I intend do so to a jury of 12 here in Rock County Wisconsin in the very near future. The problem is The press refuses to report The true use of the registration databases.
The American public needs to comprehend that Hitler and the Matzo democratic socialists were NOT armed with the power of the electronic database. Such an unnatural Agenda would necessarily need tending in a society of free men. Free men are paid to maintain machines.
obvious answers
You are correct. Something else people fail to realize is America designed Hitlers registry scheme and even funded it. It was an American project right from the start. What the registry is now is nothing more then a continuation of its original demonic purpose. America “wasn’t the good guys” our history likes to paint our government as. America didn’t disavow Germany because it was doing terrible things to humanity. History proves Americans paid for and asked for much of the experimentation on humans to take place.. All the freezing Jews, Christians and “criminals” tortures? they were paid for by the American military programs to develop better equipment for Arial combat soldiers.. America only disavowed Germany when it became to large and threatened Americas world power domination schemes. ..When one really learns their own history then they can learn why the registry is so dangerous..Where the registry will go again. And the only way to stop it….. (spoiler alert) dont count on the supreme court, whom forgot babies and blacks are humans, and there for protected under the “all humankind” statement to come to the rescue of anything.. Also dont expect that you have many years left to stand up and do something.. Look at where it has went in 20 short years…I give it 5 more and we will be close to seeing cattle cars again if not already seeing them.. Some may argue the “civil incarcerations” are already the start of cattle car days..
This is just how I feel! Thank you Daisy for these words.
Lorraine Hodge
Everyone says “I know how you feel”, but unless you have lived with all the “labels” and continuous punishment of being on the registry with all the requirements and humiliation, you can’t possibly know how someone feels. All you can ask of anyone is support and understanding. Unfortunately the general public has no sympathy for anyone convicted of a sex crime. They don’t see a sex offender as a human being who regrets what they have done. Who wants nothing more than to have a job so they can support themselves and their family. Be able to work where they are qualified work. Live where they want without harrassment.
Therapy is a joke. Any therapist I have met says, “a sex offender CANNOT be rehabilitated.” Whats the point of therapy if the “therapist” doesn’t think you can be helped? I guess because there is no registry for all other crimes, those who commit them can change and be rehabed!! Yet the recidivism rate is a lot higher for other crimes than it is for people on the sex offender registry.
Wifes, girlfriends, children, mothers, fathers, brothers and all relatives go through everything that the registrant goes through. No way one can live a calm and peaceful life.
I pray to God that someday there will be no registry for anyone. Someday, someone will wake up and realize registries don’t work.
Andy Hudak III
Lorraine-
I am unsure as to where you live, or whether you will be helped or feel a little more hopeful when you read my comments, but here goes.
There are MANY therapists that may respond in the way you describe. On the other hand, there are thousands that do not.
Many of the latter are members of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. (Check out ATSA.org, and you will see lots of info that many people like myself have been disseminating for decades towards changing public policy.
In Montana, where I am from, our Legislators will be taking a serious look at the impacts of the registry, and hopefully begin to make some long overdue changes.
MOST importantly, we are active in many state legislatures towards educating them on changing our laws to reflect the positive stories that MOST people convicted of a sex offense represent.
The majority of clients that we support in treatment not only demonstrate using their pain, (from realizing how their betrayal hurt others), as a motivation to learn what they need to learn to walk a path of redemption, but also often surpass (in growth) by far, many of those in our culture that condemn them, and/or isolate their family members…like Daisy sadly describes in this article.
For myself, I often end up genuinely admiring how many of my clients, and their families, use the relationship skills that I teach, to heal from their own childhood neglect and abuse impacts, and become positive members of our communities. They, in essence demonstrate the principle that “Poop, processed well, is the source of almost all beauty and food that feeds our people and planet!” : )
We educate our Legislatures across the country about how when we screen out the MAJORITY of people that offend, (Low and moderate risk), and support their recovery, their , and their family’s journey represent what I once titled in an op ed “The Good News About Sex Offenders”.
In spite of the fact that change proceeds at a frustratingly glacial pace, I just wanted both you and Daisy to know that there IS hope!
Hi Lorraine, I’ll agree and disagree with one of your points. I’m a therapist and I can attest that not ALL agree that sexual offenders can’t be rehabilitated. Those who have drank the Koolaid of sex offender treatment and make their living from it are definitely indoctrinated into a false belief. But, an unbiased therapist would know better. Behavior can always be modified. The error is coming from pop culture and Hollywood more than from therapists. Than Law and Order SVU for 20 plus years of public reeducation into the myth of incurable.
I know those who work on behalf of the state system all sing the same tune and work from the same playbook. But they don’t represent the mainstream of the counseling profession. Psychology politics has screwed this one up like alcoholism and other so called diseases for the money and the group acceptance of group think. Don’t be fooled by them. All behavior has a purpose, and when the purpose is no longer needed, the behavior can be extinguished.
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@Charlie
I know who you are Charles and in Pennsylvania, you cannot be a licensed therapist.
” I’m a therapist ” False.
So while you may be a moderator on NARSOL, please don’t lie about what you do to further your opinions.
Charlie is not Charles from Pennsylvania. That person is no longer a moderator with NARSOL. Charlie is indeed a licensed therapist and an active volunteer for our cause.. Calling out our moderators and pinpointing for everyone where they live will not be tolerated.
David Kennerly
Daisy, a really lovely and poignant message. I know your anguish and hopelessness, too having been a Registrant for twenty-five years, precisely. [Shouldn’t I be getting a quarter-century ribbon or somesuch?]
The one thing that has been missing for many of us has been a sense of community and belonging. However, that is changing and rather quickly. You’ve obviously discovered NARSOL which is a great resource for essential information as well as a resource for connecting with others who share a pain with which you have been unjustifiably burdened.
I look forward to reading the next installment.
Ernest B Tucker
This is absolutely true. My wife couldn’t take it, so she left. I am now totally alone. I am blessed that I am a crippled old man and retired. The only interaction I have with people is at the so group therapy. That’s the only saving grace about being forced to go be condemned and castigated. I pray for those that are trying to change this daily.
Ernie, I feel your pain.
I had a relationship with a woman for 5 years. The pressure from not being able to freely see her grand hild finally got to her.
My second wife and reunited only to fail again because she was afraid to lose all she had worked for.
My sister and my mom significantly support my because I can’t afford to live without their help due shaky self employment, and/or, slave wage jobs. I do both and still lean heavily just to pay basic bills.
Thank you for your heartfelt and inspiring comments, Daisy.
I will also look forward to your next post.
(Check out my note to Lorraine, as I had you in mind as well!)
Brenda Jones
Daisy (and others reading), please remember that NARSOL launched the Fearless project precisely to fill that gap… that need for an understanding, nonjudgemental community. Groups are forming around the country, following an established stucture so that wherever one goes, he or she will find familiarity and a sense of homecoming. They are private and for registrants and adult family members ONLY.
To see if there is a group near you, or to get help starting a group, reach out to narsol.org/contact and we will get you connected or help you get started.
Wifeofarso
Very good 1 st page Loraine , you hit it right on , this how I feel too ;( as a wife of a registered sex offender I’ve loved almost 12 years and dealing with the pain of the registry my hub on past ten years ;( everything changed like a blink of an eye ;( all our lives have ;( I look forward to reading rest your story , Gbu
Wearethepeople
Nice job Daisy! We all need your story! I wrote a book because of what happened to me. I am the Collateral Damage!
David Higham
This introduction of your story is very appealing to me I am on the registry have been for the past six years everyone that my wife and I knew before this horrible nightmare has stood side by side with the both of us.When this first happened I had told my wife to leave me but she said absolutely not I will be beside you all the way and she has never wavered the secret to our happiness is we have stayed close to the people who have stayed by outsides people that we met who had a problem with our situation we just stood up to them and informed them of they did not like our situation to leave that we never asked them to associate with us anyways so from reading your first article all I can say to you is stay strong and don’t give into the bullies once they realize that you will not back down they will leave you alone.
I looked at a few pictures on line being abused myself by an older half brother at age 7 he was 14
This went on for years .my father physically abused me as he was a marine Navy seal Chicago diver in lake Michigan. I had horrible ptsd from both of these people. My father died alone and cried and told me he loved me right before he dieshedied
Our society has, always has, and possibly always will cling to hate and anything they are allowed to hate with no repercussions. The concept of “sex offender”, a relatively new term coined to define anyone who violates any current or new law regarding sex, is universally added into the “Its ok to hate, harm, and wish for their death and/or torture” category. It’s sad that the human race needs something to hate with such evil intentions, that they race to jump on the next hate fad. I for one have no desires to have sexual relations with prepubescent youths, yet am wise enough to know that it was the norm in most of the human races history to think it makes someone an evil monster deserving of death or even a life of misery. Society can change norms at anytime, and a new category of hated people stripped of their freedoms will emerge. Yet no one talks about this and I have to ask why? Accept the norms, I don’t disagree. But the fact that’s it’s a new norm, that for thousands and thousands of years was the complete opposite, would explain its not an uncommon thing, possibly a dark part of humanity in more people than we realize, and we should question whether our hatred is deserved. I’ll stop my comment here as I doubt the level of truth I could offer would be welcomed by most others.
Donna S
Daisy you have written something that I could have written, just not as well. In my case it is my son. But our pain is our pain. My son has been on the registry 12 years and I worry about him so much. I would gladly take him into my home but that is not possible given where we live. We are surrounded by young families with parents who are not exactly open minded when it comes to sex offenders. I have seen more than one family chased from this town because a husband or son is on the registry. I, too, have one good friend that I can talk to about this and I am grateful to her. I have another friend who I opened up to because she has a family with many different issues and I thought she might be compassionate and understanding. I was wrong. I wish there were self help groups for family members of offenders but as far as I can tell there are not. And you are right there must be millions of us. I am sorry for what you are going through and hope that someday this nightmare will be over.
Hi Donna, the good news there is a support group for families AND for those on the registry. It’s called Fearless, and it’s a brainchild of NARSOL! Check out https://narsol.org/projects/support/fearless/
And the email NARSOL and they can put you in touch with Brenda or myself. If there is no group near you, consider forming one. No experience or expertise is needed to launch a Fearless support group. And then you will have that wish fulfilled. Having a group of folks who know exactly what it’s like to live under the impacts of the registry is a huge benefit. Help yourself, and help others who feel like you to get this special level of community support. I’ll help you in any way I can. I launched one myself in he tidewater area of Virginia and it was both simple to do and rewarding to experience.
Anita Tarlton
Thank you, Daisy.
You described my life as well. I dearly love my husband; his one incident that resulted in his “Scarlet Letter” happened several years before we met.
There is always apprehension when we meet new “potential” friends. There are those who see only a label, and don’t bother to get to know the man he is today. That’s their loss — but I can’t help feeling resentful of a label that defines us by one incident.
Thank you for sharing your story. I look forward to reading the rest of it.
Paul Hanley
Daisy thanks for sharing this powerful story. I have been a registrant for 25 years. I have long maintained that it’s often the loved ones of registrants who get hurt most by our wrongheaded registration schemes – you are often shamed by society more than we are. My own theory is that it’s because of what I call the “Incurable Dogma” – that “Sex offenders cannot be cured.” If I cannot be cured (even though my crime was my choice, so that my choice NOT to offend is as good as a cure), then society can simply write me off while saying I “couldn’t help it – that’s just the way he is.” But a loved one sticks by us by choice, and this really gets under the craw of the haters. That’s my theory, anyway. I look forward to reading the next installment!
Daisy actually you should be proud of yourself and yes speaking out is good. Yes we all at times have to have someone to lean on. Now I know we all worry about this ordeal that a lot of men and also women and families go thru. weather convicted or not as it can tear you up inside. Even the tramatic shock of all this can tear one up.
Brendsa Jones and a whole group of people have made it possible to counsel or to interact and help in all this combat of this sex registry that many go thru. Listing and understand is is one of the keys and that goes true for married couples or any relationship.
Sure me and my sister have our ups and downs but she’s their with her love. Even my sister had her battles. After collage graduation and getting married in the 70’s. her and her husband started out working to grow their marriage. She studied accounting in collage and worked at a bank in the mid to late 70. She was working the teller window one evening when a car pulled up and a man with a gun told her to give me the money.
Tramatic yes, well they are trained to give them the money. We were discussing that today and she said I think it was 10 thousand I gave them. That was a tramatic shock to here as she didn’t have anyone to talk to to compair this to.
Now I enjoy NARSOL and reasching out and helping others is good. The old steryotype of you do the crime and you pay the time is a bit much in many of these ordeals when their is no crime or a victimless crime. Sure therapy is good in many endeavors to help understand but I believe Standing by your man is good as Tammy Wynette said.
Sure support groups are good and even an AA group a victims’ right group are good and so Brenda Jones and all at NARSOL are there to help and strive in this for all. Even their love ones’.
Hello, my belief is the government knows the truth and that truth is that sex offenders are not the high danger they try to say they are because for one the government has done many studies before megans law and there own study shows recidivism rates are below 5% plus that proof is on the governments own website plus anyone can change anyone! Here’s the other thing if the government truly believes that sex offenders are a high and frieghtening danger then why would they be allowed to walk the streets? Because they know thats a lie, that sex offenders have the second lowest recidivism rate, and all of that proof is out for all to get and read on the governments own website just for starters, plus people talk about rehabilitation, how can anyone be rehabilitated if there not allowed to, like aloowed to work to be able to sustain a place to live and food to eat an to support there family just for starters, what i don’t understand is go to grade school n high school i was taught to learn from our past because if we dont we are doomed to repeat it!
Janna T
Thank you for telling your story. I have been wanting to share mine also, I have considered writing a book but just can’t figure out how to start. My husband & I had been married 10 years when he molested his niece. Our lives fell apart. He is still on probation, or as I say, WE are still on probation. I have felt from day one that I have been charged with this crime and I am also facing the consequences. I chose to stay with my husband because of our Pastor at church. It was his counseling us thru the first year and teaching me about Foregiveness that convinced me to stay in my marriage. It has not been easy but I have also decided to help other registrants. I am now a NARSOL contact in my state. My husband did complete a treatment program that was the BEST thing for him. He has taken full responsibility for his actions from day one & even taught me things that he learned from his treatment program. I am looking forward to the rest of your story.
Tyrus Young
Through excellent writing, I can feel your pain and heartbreak. I think most of us can identify with the challenges you were forced to endure. However, pleased feel blessed that the government has not decided to interfere with your marriage. Unfortunately, some of us have not been so lucky.
I have been on the registry for over 21 years. Thirteen years ago I met a wonderful woman at church. We dated, she was informed of my registration and cause of it, and accepted me for who I was, and we married later that year. She was from Japan but we figured that once married, she could receive her green card and permanent residency. Unfortunately, it was 2006 and the AWA was passed. There is a provision in there that states that anyone convicted of an offense against a minor cannot sponsor ANYONE… parent, spouse, sibling, etc. After fighting USCIS for 8 years,our petition for my wife’s green card was denied and she was forced to move back to Japan in 2014. We have had to live apart since then. It is getting harder and harder for me to travel internationally and she has been unable to return to the US, even temporarily.
Their reasons are facetious. Apparently, I have to prove that I pose “no risk” to her. Now if my crime was against a minor (she was of legal age, but under 18 years old), what danger do I pose to my wife who is 60+ years old? I have no problem with the law forbidding the sponsorship of minors… that is a reasonable precaution, but to apply it to someone that is not in that category is overbearing and blatantly punitive. What risk… I pled to a charge that I touched the young woman… who had entered my bedroom and crawled into bed without asking… started touching… then complained that I touched her when she was asleep (thus not giving consent). That is a risk for my wife? As that would be asinine to even give as a reason, the government is accusing people in our position of being capable of all levels of abuse and denying petitions.
Doesn’t my wife have constitutional rights… wasn’t she essentially deported for a crime that I pled out to? When will the government… through unconstitutional laws, ineffective registries and manipulating media misinformation … going to quit victimizing rehabilitated individuals, their families and friends?
You have made some very good points. Most Americans simply refuse to change their minds about SOs. They will remain fearful, bitter, and ignorant. But know that some of the so-called “scum of the earth” will go to heaven as compared to those that are doing well for themselves on the outside and are “good,” “law-abiding” citizens. And you can certainly “make it” there too. Though I don’t know your situation. I must believe this for myself as I still let the case/situation God saved me from a couple of years ago eat me up. Four years and a couple of months have passed, since that horrific day of my arrest where 32 charges where unjustly, unlawfully, and maliciously thrown onto my back per law enforcement and a prosecutor, that started a horric case/situation.
Politicians, lawmakers, law enforcement, prosecutors, defense attorneys (like the one that represented me who told me “Whose gonna want to be with a sex offender?” several hours I was to be saved from that situation), those that work for the news, psychiatrists, psychologists, and most other Americans refuse to change their way of thinking. It’s a modern day witch hunt that grew from seeds planted decades ago. Remember, the fallen angels work with whatever is at their disposal in this natural realm.
You were certainly right about the therapists. When I was caught up with a case/situation with the demonic American justice system, I had no place out in the community. It was by God’s Grace and Providence that I had spent some months at a psyche hospital, a treatment center, and an apartment complex for a program. I slipped through whatever barriers were thrown in front of me and was eventually saved completely.
At the psyche hospital, there were 4 people that worked in the unit I had been placed in who conspired against me over the lie. They were a quack(psychiatrist), a therapist, and 2 “MHTs”(mental health technicians, which their job was to watch patients and mark their actions and whereabouts on paper and was a bogus job). They conspired against me over the lie straight from the pit of hell, that I had told one the MHTs, a female, that I was “going to rape” her and that the other MHT, who was a rude, disrespect, spiteful, despicable, and evil man, had “overheard” me say that to her. They knew my situation and how deadly it was. The man who had previously worked as a CO had “coincidentally” been stationed in a unit for those with pending cases (not sexual cases and I was the only one in that unit I believe who had a sexual case and also most of us were fairly normal and not typical psyche patients) before I even went to the place.
He calmly and collectively, despite being the type of person to get worked up and bark at others, walked into the courtroom with the thetapist and I, and then seconds after the judge called my name for me to stand at the podium facing him, the man lied to the judge about me being “in his care” (he didn’t give a damn about me or any other patients for that matter and had indicated that his job was nothing and easy-money while playing cards with patients at a table one time) then said he was a “witness” who heard me tell a woman he worked with that I said I was “going to rape” her which was perjury or lying under oath. All while his eyeball, locked onto me, reptilian-like(some big-time demon took over that man), and not budging as he stood a couple of feet away from me in front of another podium before the judge. He didn’t work with the lady as his shift and the MHT that worked with him throughout the day would end, right as the lady and her assitant would come into the unit to start their shift. He used my name as he worked against me, which is something that was very significant in that demonic court/justice system. There was this strange emphasis on my name not just from him but from others who had a evil influence on them.
The therapist had just stood there and waited for him to add extra damage to my case. Right after the perjury, he calmly said “Thank you,”to the judge then walked. I had told the therapist my side of the story at that place over a day before that court appearance. Both what I actually said and the reason I said it. The female worker had said something like “F#÷% your mother” or “Go f#÷% your mother,” in another language over me being dishonest about the time I spent on the patient phone. I tried to reason with her and nicely asked why she had to do my mother (who could have died over the deadly case/situation where I had 11 very serious charges as it was too much) like that to which she replied something like “Get out of here,” or “Get the hell out of here,” in the same language. I then got worked up and said “You are very lucky,” “I would wreck you.” Wreck, meaning beat up. Which I would not have done. That horrendous man was nowhere to be seen when I told the lady that as he was all the way down the hall in some patient bedroom. Oh and it just so happened that audio couldn’t be recorded in the place either. Coincidence? He didn’t “hear” her say what she had said to me though and no workers at the place spoke about what that vile/foul woman had done as they had a convo with me about what I “told” her several hours before. Like the quack who had wrote a report with the made-up threat on it upon being told by whoever had “informed” her of the “threat” and sending the false report directly to the court without my knowledge. Nor did she lose her job as I had found out several months later, after calling the trash dump from the treatment center only to have the phone hang up in my face after I responded. Without having said my name, I only asked for someone. I recognized her voice upon her picking up and saying the name of the unit. After I responded by asking for a particular person, she hung the phone up in my face. This played out 3 times. One time a nurse picked up and whom I had done nothing to and was on good terms with me at that place, turned into this raging buffoon on the phone upon me telling her who I was. At 1st she talked normally and nicely but right after I had told her my name, upon her asking “Who is this” or “Who am I speaking to?” she got some raging demons. You could hear the demons as she snapped and said “Crash, what do you want!,” “You have some nerve calling here….,” “Don’t you ever call here again!”
Back to the story. The judge being the good-spirited, and kindhearted individual that he was asked the therapist if I were able to stay in the program(despite the type of lie he had just been told) and the therapist blatantly shook her head and said “No, no, no.” The judge then angrily had me remanded, or cuffed right then and there in plain view if others in the room. That experience from those people was something out of a horror movie. Especially the experience with those two individuals in the courtroom, and most especially what the man did out of the two.
Demons had used him many times before they drove him into the courtroom to bring damage to my life. He was rude, disrespectful, condescending, etc. He told me “shut up!” simply for me saying “You are a very nice person” causing his female assistant, another MHT but not the lady I spoke of above, to laugh. One time he stood like a statue at the doorway of the bedroom I was assigned to, with some twisted look on his face and said “Get in the fu@@ing” dayroom..” in this calm, sinister voice. I swear the man was possessed. No one else could have seen it. Though we were alone, no one would have seen that even if they were around. Only I could have noticed and understand the influence from the realm of darkness. He also said “Why is she crying over this guy?” to another worker, in referrence to my mother sobbing over me in that place because I was placed on visitation restriction. There had also been where I spent money off of my own food stamps to buy him a medium-sized bag of Jalapeño Cheetos, despite telling me “Shut up” and certain other horrendous things he did. I indicated that I was the one that bought them for him and then he twisted his face at me and said “You didn’t get(or buy, cant remember) sh@@!” He also, with a really twisted look on his face, had threatened me with a false/malicious report with his signature and that of the female(the MHT that laughed when he said shut up) that worked with him, in plain view of other patients after I nicely said that my goal of the day was “to respect staff, even when they don’t respect me.” He said something like “I have a (gift) for you!” “With my signature and ‘Rhondas’ signature(or ribbon) on it.” She wasn’t there that day, by the way, and was kinda mean but not as messed up as he was. Though he didn’t make the report, he would eventually do what I spoke of.
The therapist had been very aware of how rude, imposing, and condescending that man was and I had tried filling her in on it even way before the night I had retaliated against that lady that said “eff your mother” to me. I hope anyone reading this learns a great deal from this story. Be aware of what type of world this is. Be aware of what’s out there. Very aware.
To think that a therapist and mental health worker in their blatant disregard for rape victims would use such a lie against me. A therapist most especially. On top of that there had been a woman who was raped in the same unit way before I went there. Maybe a couple of years before I arrived and after that, only male patients were to be placed into that unit. I can only imagine the number of sexual assault and rape victims who spoke to this lady in the community. After all it’s just a hustle for her. I can’t be surprised after the horrors I have seen and experienced in that situation. Anyone getting all of this?
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Also. Notice how in many cases, the so-called “scum,” and “perv@$ts” that are “dangerous” and that “no one wants” are somehow forced into treatment. Somehow they end up having some place to be at, though the society around them tells they that they have no place nor should they ever have a place. Regardless of whether they are an actual danger or not. Many SOs that get forced treatment especially are those whose charges are seen as “light” like for example the politician who had supppsedly sent nude(shirtless by the way) pics of himself to a 15 year old girl. He was in a faciltity for SO “treatment.” Or an attractive white or hispanic female teacher in some cases.
Either a person will be sent to a facility as part of a sentence like the politician was or be forced to get treatment and classes out in the community or get put in some hospital indefinitely after already having served punishment. Every ounce of treatment such men get is punishment, as opposed to basically anyone else who gets treatment. Whether or not those others who get treatment, have or had criminal cases, or not. Though citizens with no cases or record are prioritized. People with attractions to minors who haven’t commit and never will can’t “squeeze in” and find a place because of that negativity. They themselves can’t say anything about their condition.
The fact that most people involved in treatment places and programs out there want nothing to do with people who were caught up with sexual charges( men in most cases), especially the therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, just shows how much of a farce they actually are. They are just hustles. Being involved with SO’s is “bad for business” and bad for whatever false image of theirs that they put out. Most wouldn’t have anything to do with people like us even if it weren’t bad for business. Many would actually deliberately lose buisiness!
One hispanic psychologist(the quack worked as a “forensic” psychologist who evaluated inmates and worked with the legal system) had baited me in jail, during an “evaluation” with words such as “Competency classes..,” “You are doing well, keep going,” only to lie and commit perjury against me as much as she could during a hearing in court some other day. With a dazed and cold look on her face with glassy, eyeballs. Even used victimization as part of her work against me. She lied about me having told her I was sexually abused right before my eyes in the courtroom. In jail when she had asked me if I was I simply sat there and said nothing. After the “evaluation,” she had me give her a number of someone who was close to me and who also knew my mother. Sometime before that court date I spoke of, she had called the person and told him that she “found” me “competent” and came to that “conclusion” because I wouldn’t “open up” to her or I was “withholding information” from her or some nonsense like that. The person had told me that by phone while I was in jail. She did fool the person by the way, as he did believe that I didn’t “open up” to her. A couple of days later was the court date I already mentioned, where to my great horror, this vile/foul woman was working against me moments after having her hand raised and saying an oath and sitting in the seat next to the judge. She tried to kill me indirectly through the court/justice system and through the prosecutor, yet at the same time “helped” people out in the community with “behavorial issues,” “spirituality”(well what do ya know?), and other things.
I have seen it all and learned a lot during the horrific situation I had been in. Nothing is real. America and everything in it are just businesses. Only God understands.
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Urs Fischer makes wax portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio and his family
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Gagosian is pleased to present Leo, an exhibition of new work by Urs Fischer.
Across his protean oeuvre, Fischer frequently evokes art historical genres and motifs with wry self-awareness and humor. In Fischer’s work, the processes of material creation and destruction are often explored through the use of impermanent materials, as in Bread House (2004–05), a life-size cabin constructed from loaves of sourdough bread. Embracing transformation and decay while resounding with poetic contradictions, Fischer’s art excavates the potential of its materials and media, producing joyful disorientation and sinister bewilderment.
Fischer’s candle sculptures exemplify the relationship between permanence and impermanence. He began to make them in the early 2000s with a series of crudely rendered female nudes, standing upright or lounging in groups. A series of realistic figurative candle portraits followed, including a full-size replica of Giambologna’s sixteenth-century sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women, and Marsupiale (Fabrizio) (2017), which amalgamates a portrait of the Florentine antique dealer Fabrizio Moretti with an oversize bust of Saint Leonard, the patron saint of prisoners. In 2018, Fischer created a candle replica of the art patron and collector Dasha Zhukova, which burned for weeks in the shopfront gallery at Gagosian Davies Street in London.
Artwork © Urs Fischer
Fischer’s newest candle portrait, Leo (George & Irmelin) (2019), depicts Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents, George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken. Cast entirely in wax, the family is posed in mid-action: George gestures while conversing with Leo, as Irmelin holds Leo in her loving embrace.
As with all of Fischer’s candle sculptures, Leo (George & Irmelin) will melt slowly over the course of the exhibition, its original composition transmuted into a form dictated by the wayward laws of physics. Captivating in their materiality and haunting in their implications, Fischer’s candles serve as both portraits of—and meditations on—the passing of time. Elaborating on traditions of memento mori, they remind viewers of the transience of life, beauty, and even art itself.
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Global UNCG: Shrirang Sahasrabudhe enjoys new access
India native Shrirang Sahasrabudhe shares his story about leaving his life in India to come to the U.S. and attend UNCG. Sahasrabude lost his eyesight… Read More >
Global UNCG: From Philippines to America, a life of exploration
In the latest installment of #GlobalUNCG, Philippines native Rodell Barrientos shares his story of growing up living the “simple life” in Manila, Philippines, and later… Read More >
Don’t knock this door
For nearly 80 years, the Alumni House has greeted students, guests and alumni alike to UNCG’s campus with its inviting facade, stately front porch and… Read More >
Building the best: New rec center to open in August
A 54-foot climbing wall. Seven basketball courts. A mat room for combative arts. And a roof patio for outdoor classes and events. These are just… Read More >
Holiday hoops
UNCG’s campus may be slowing down for winter break, but there’s no rest for Coach Wes Miller and company. Spartan hoops is in full swing… Read More >
Digital Media Commons bridges the gap between technology and success
Did you know that UNCG’s Jackson Library has not one, but two 3-D printers for students to design and create 3-D projects? Navied Alamoudi, a… Read More >
Winning in 180 seconds: Graduate students to show off their theses in 3MT competition
The final round of UNCG’s Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT, competition is Tues., Nov. 17, and you don’t want to miss it! Where… Read More >
Students show off design with 8th annual Best Dressed Room Contest
Gone are the days of decorating dorm rooms with a few band posters and a “We’re #1” foam finger. For UNCG students in 2015, creating… Read More >
Ain’t That a Ship splashed, paddled and strategized its way to victory Wednesday night, beating Super Splash Bros and two women’s rugby teams to be… Read More >
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Popular Battle Canoes competition returns to campus
Battle Canoes, the thrilling intramural sports competition held at universities across the nation, returns to UNCG on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 6 p.m. at Rosenthal… Read More >
LiveSafe use on the rise
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Colorful pinwheels on EUC Lawn raise awareness for suicide prevention
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Collage of sounds
The big start to UNCG’s musical year will be Saturday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., in Aycock Auditorium. Big is the word. More than 300 students… Read More >
UNCG raises awareness with Mental Health Month
Movies about college life show football games, wacky professors and wild parties. They rarely show the hidden struggles that many students face – challenges like… Read More >
LiveSafe!
By Thursday, August 27 at 5 p.m., UNCG’s new LiveSafe personal security app had been downloaded 2365 times since the app was launched in early… Read More >
The Fencing Club. Equestrian Club. Quidditch Club. Rugby Club…. At UNCG Fall Kickoff, one table after another of student-led club sports showed off their season… Read More >
Living Safer With LiveSafe
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Safer Lives – FREE!
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Edge of a new Spartan era
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Rawk On!
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Pegasus takes flight in lively debut with Glenn Dicterow
Sun Nov 24, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Glenn Dicterow and Eiko Kano performed Bach’s Double Concerto with Karén Hakobyan conducting Pegasus: The Orchestra in their debut concert Saturday night at the Kaufman Music Center. Photo: Chris Lee
An orchestral startup with big dreams made its New York City debut Saturday night on a modest scale–just 19 string players on the stage of Merkin Concert Hall performing familiar works of Bach and Tchaikovsky, plus a world premiere.
The ensemble, which styles itself Pegasus: The Orchestra, was ably led by its founder, the pianist and composer Karén Hakobyan, who also contributed the evening’s new piece, Contempo: Bach Recombinant.
Headlining the event was violinist Glenn Dicterow, longtime concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, who brought an old master’s touch to Bach’s Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, teaming with Pegasus concertmaster Eiko Kano.
The orchestra has scheduled full-fledged symphonic concerts for later in the season, including a Rachmaninoff concerto marathon with five piano soloists in Alice Tully Hall next May. Its social ambitions are as lofty as its musical ones, to judge from a mission statement in the program that spoke of artistic freedom, advocacy of music in schools and community, and “promoting humanity and equality.”
On Saturday, however, it was enough just to give a lively account of Bach’s concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 48, and introduce Hakobyan’s intriguing new piece.
Inspired by Bach’s Double Concerto, and subtly quoting it, Contempo: Bach Recombinant—the composer-conductor evidently likes titles with a colon in the middle—was a brief but eventful piece that functioned in this concert as a kind of prologue to the Bach work.
By his account in the program, the composer aimed to combine his Armenian “musical DNA” with that of Bach, while showcasing the Pegasus musicians with brilliant solos and playing divisi, i.e., divided into subsections.
Perhaps not every listener spotted the “Armenian tetrachordal scale system” promised by the composer, but there was no mistaking the feeling of musical fragments (including the Bach quotation) “recombining” into a sinewy string texture, driven by concertmaster Kano’s urgent violin solo.
The music built to a fortissimo climax in vibrant tremolando before giving way to a series of solos stepping down through the sections, first violin to double bass. The piece closed quietly and rather open-endedly, as if expecting Bach’s concerto to begin immediately.
Instead, there were the usual bows and exits and entrances and bows, plus brief remarks from the stage by the conductor, before the Bach performance could get under way. It proved worth waiting for, however, as Hakobyan led a bracing, rhythmically alive rendering of the opening Vivace, with Dicterow giving a master class in poised execution and natural phrasing that fellow soloist Kano and the other players did their best to match.
Alert to Bach’s marking “Largo ma non tanto,” Hakobyan put a lilt under the second movement’s slow three-to-a-bar that gently boosted the soloists’ soaring lines. Unlike many conductors, he led the persistent long-short, long-short rhythm exactly in time, resisting the temptation to shorten the long beats.
The Largo theme’s return near the end was as beautifully played as the first time, but one felt the need for a change of atmosphere at this point, a feeling of parting, not just “second verse, same as the first.”
In the Allegro finale, Hakobyan and his players punched out an incisive ritornello and snappy answers to the soloists, while Dicterow and Kano played an exhilarating game of stretto tag. While his youthful colleagues poured on the energy, Dicterow the silver-haired pro seemed to make it all happen with a few flicks of the bow.
The fervent opening pages of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade benefited from that same youthful élan, as hair on strings produced a big, eager sound. The ensuing Allegro moderato, however, could have been a bit more moderate; all that energy produced a driven, edgy feeling that didn’t really suit Tchaikovsky’s balletic style.
The Valse slowed and paused in all the right places, yet it too sounded a bit driven overall. The group’s tonal limitations were again evident, as they produced a bright, present, Bachian sound where something more velvety was called for.
The ensemble’s playing in the Élégie was expressive on the bar-by-bar level, but it would have helped if Hakobyan had led them on a longer line, so that the movement’s forte climaxes meant something. But one welcomed the shift to a more shadowy tone color for the meditative theme’s final return.
The staccato Russian theme of the Finale was a toe-tapper, but its smart rhythm came unglued in the legato second theme, which was played conspicuously out of time. However, the crisp stretti of the development were a delight, as was the accelerando coda.
Hakobyan and Pegasus: The Orchestra topped off a lively, successful concert with Grieg: The Encore—a merrily chugging rendition of the Praeludium from that composer’s Holberg Suite, Op. 40.
Kaufman Music Center presents New York Philharmonic Ensembles in chamber music by Mozart, Taffanel and Tchaikovsky, 3 p.m. Sunday in Merkin Concert Hall. kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch; 212-501-3330.
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PHT Power Rankings: Bounce-back candidates for 2019-20 NHL season
By Adam GretzAug 12, 2019, 12:44 PM EDT
After looking at the top breakout and regression candidates in our previous offseason PHT Power Rankings, we shift our focus this week to more established players that should be better (and maybe significantly better) than they were a year ago.
Who are among our top-10 bounce-back candidates for the 2019-20 NHL season?
To the rankings!
1. Patrik Laine, Winnipeg Jets. For the majority of NHL players scoring 30 goals in a season would be a huge accomplishment. For Patrik Laine in 2018-19 it was probably a hugee disappointment. He was supposed to challenge Alex Ovechkin for the goal-scoring crown but never really came close to doing so. His season was made by one 12-game hot streak in November where he scored 18 goals, then managed just 12 goals in the other 70 games thanks mostly to an uncharacteristically low 6 percent shooting percentage in those games. That is a fluke and will not last. He is too good, too talented, and has too good of shot for it continue.
2. William Nylander, Toronto Maple Leafs. He missed the first quarter of the season due to an extended contract negotiation and never really had a chance to get rolling once he returned. Despite the poor production, there were a lot of positive signs that indicate he can (and will) bounce back. HIs possession numbers were outstanding and he still generated a fair number of shots, he was just crushed by a 5.6 shooting percentage. A fresh start and a full season will do him well.
3. Drew Doughty, Los Angeles Kings. There is really no way to sugarcoat Doughty’s 2018-19 season — it was bad. Maybe it was the result of playing on a terrible Kings team that had nothing going for it. Maybe it was the fact he is inching closer to his 30th birthday and reaching a point where he will inevitably start to slow down. Maybe it was just a down year. It was probably a combination of all three. Whatever the case, he had a miserable year as the Kings were absolutely steamrolled when he was on the ice. He is too good and has too much of a track record for that to happen two years in a row.
4. James Neal, Edmonton Oilers. His days as a 35-or 40-goal scorer are probably done but did his career really fall of a cliff that quickly? Scoring 20-25 goals shouldn’t be an unrealistic expectation, and if he manages to do that it will be a nice bounce back season and really help a painfully thin Oilers roster.
[Related: Can James Neal bounce-back after tough year in Calgary?]
5. Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins. The raw numbers point to a strong season offensively, but there weree a lot of flaws to his game in a lot of areas (5-on-5 and defensively, to be specific). He wasn’t *bad* but he can definitely be a lot better and will no doubt be motivated to show he is still one of the elite players in the league. It is a big year for him in Pittsburgh.
6. Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings. Quick has always been a polarizing player because he’s never been as good as his loudest supporters think he is or as bad as his loudest critics think he is. He’s a perfectly fine starting goalie that’s had two amazing playoff runs. That’s it. He’s not an all-time great and he’s not bad. He’s just … good. For some reason that is difficult for people to accept. No matter what side of the Quick argument you fall on you should probably be willing to acknowledge he is not going to repeat the .888 save percentage he finished last season with. He is WAY better than that.
7. Mathew Barzal, New York Islanders. There were a lot of shocking things about the Islanders’ turnaround a year ago. One of the more overlooked storylines is that they were able to make the playoffs despite their best and most important returning player — Barzal — regressing almost entirely across the board. After one of the finest rookie seasons we have seen in years, expectations were through the roof for Barzal in year two. He was good, but probably fell short of what was expected of him.
8. Jamie Benn, Dallas Stars. Benn’s slower than expected start drew the ire of team CEO Jim Lites even though he was still one of the four or five players on the team that actually produced. Still, it wasn’t the typical Jamie Benn season in Dallas. His 0.68 point per game average was the second lowest of his career (only his rookie season was worse) and a sharp decline from what we are used to seeing from him. The fact that is considered a “down” year is a testament to how good he has been. He is not finished as an elite scorer just yet.
9. Rickard Rakell, Anaheim Ducks. During the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons Rakell was one of the best and most overlooked goal-scorers in the league, scoring at a 37-goal pace per 82 games. He was one of the go-to players for the Ducks offensively and looked to be ready for another huge year this past season. But his down year was one of the many things to go wrong in Anaheim as his offensive production plummeted. A lot of the decline was shooting percentage driven and he should be able to recover from that this season.
10. Clayton Keller, Arizona Coyotes. Like Barzal in New York, Keller went through a bit of a sophomore slump for the Coyotes. The good news is he didn’t regress all that much, is still only 21 years old, and has already demonstrated an ability to be a top-line player in the league. If he gets back to the level he was at during his rookie season (or even takes a step forward) it will go a long way toward ending the Coyotes’ playoff drought.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, Clayton Keller, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Jamie Benn, Jonathan Quick, Los Angeles Kings, Mathew Barzal, Patrik Laine, Pittsburgh Penguins, Rickard Rakell, William Nylander, Winnipeg Jets, Alex Ovechkin, Clayton Keller, Drew Doughty, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Jamie Benn, Jonathan Quick, Mathew Barzal, Patrik Laine, Rickard Rakell, William Nylander
Ducks’ Rakell tossed from game after ugly hit from behind
By Scott BilleckFeb 28, 2019, 12:09 AM EST
You’re supposed to let up on a hit if you see the numbers, or avoid it completely. Rickard Rakell didn’t seem to get that memo on Wednesday night.
The Anaheim Ducks forward saw Drake Caggiula‘s No. 91 for a good stretch of time as they both chased down a puck that was dumped in by the latter early in the second period. As they both convened deep in Anaheim’s zone, Caggiula tried to slow up and make a play on the loose puck. Tried, because Rakell didn’t slow up at all, rather he made like a freight train and unloaded on the Blackhawks forward, who was helpless to the cause.
The reverse angle showed Caggiula’s head getting bounced off the glass before he fell to the ice. Caggiula needed to be helped up and helped off the ice, down the tunnel and out of the game.
Rakell, too, needed an escort out of the game as bloodthirsty Blackhawks players tried to seek out revenge. He was given five minutes for boarding and a game misconduct (and perhaps a call from the league’s player safety folks).
The Blackhawks managed to score on the power play but also gave up a shorty to make it a wash.
Caggiula was ruled out of the rest of the game with a concussion.
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks, Drake Caggiula, Rickard Rakell, Drake Caggiula, Rickard Rakell
Ducks’ injury problems could derail hot streak
By James O'BrienDec 11, 2018, 1:53 PM EST
The Anaheim Ducks have really been heating up lately, grabbing six wins in their last seven games. A painfully familiar problem could derail all of that promise, however, as injuries are once again mounting.
The Ducks provided two unfortunate updates on Tuesday:
Ryan Miller: The superb backup suffered an MCL sprain during Sunday’s wild 6-5 shootout win against the Devils. His recovery window is estimated at six weeks, while they’ll evaluate the veteran goalie once more in two weeks.
As you can note from this breakdown from Anaheim’s five-game winning streak, much of the Ducks’ success came from an impeccable goalie duo of Miller and John Gibson. Gibson is the Vezina-level workhorse, but don’t count out Miller’s contributions. He’s continued a so-far-phenomenal run with the Ducks, managing a .922 save percentage in 10 games this season (with four goals allowed against New Jersey hurting his numbers more than a bit).
Anaheim did get at least one bit of good luck here, relatively speaking. The Ducks were able to pluck an experienced goalie in Chad Johnson off of waivers, as they took him off of the St. Louis Blues’ hands. His former Bengals WR namesake celebrated the occasion:
I love you guys & thank you for the opportunity ? https://t.co/9L6pYcLljf
— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) December 11, 2018
Johnson’s off to a lousy start in 2018-19 (.884 save percentage in 10 games), and really struggled with the Calgary Flames last season. Even so, his .909 career save percentage is still pretty good for a journeyman backup, especially since the Ducks didn’t need to cough up any assets to give him a try.
None of this makes Miller’s loss good news, yet there’s at least a chance that Johnson could hold down the fort whenever Gibson needs a breather.
Rickard Rakell: the Ducks didn’t provide a timetable for the winger’s return, labeling his injury as a sprained ankle.
The Athletic’s Eric Stephens reports that Rakell was wearing a protective boot this weekend:
Talked to Rickard Rakell (ankle) briefly on Sunday. Still walking in protective boot. Doesn't want to rush it but hoping to make upcoming trip. Will update when he returns to practice. https://t.co/Vau2quNu3C
— Eric Stephens (@icemancometh) December 11, 2018
Despite being out since Dec. 5, Rakell stands as the Ducks’ second-highest scorer (20 points in 30 games), trailing only Ryan Getzlaf.
While that 6-5 shootout win against the Devils shows that Anaheim can fill the net from time to time (pauses for own-goal jokes), they’ve generally been scoring just enough to win lately. With that in mind, Rakell’s injury really stings, especially if Nick Ritchie and Pontus Aberg start to cool off.
To review, Miller and Rakell join a growing list of injured Ducks. Corey Perry and Cam Fowler are recovering from significant issues that required surgeries. Patrick Eaves is also dealing with injury/health issues, and it’s fair to wonder how often Ryan Kesler is truly at full-strength.
At the moment, the Ducks are ranked third in the Pacific Division with 37 points in 32 games, as the Sharks have the same 16-11-5 record but own an edge in ROW (16 to 13). They’ll close their current homestand out on Wednesday, then head out on the road for six straight away games, mostly against Eastern Conference teams:
Wed, Dec. 12: vs. Dallas
Sat, Dec. 15: @ Columbus
Mon, Dec. 17: @ Pittsburgh
Tue, Dec. 18: @ Rangers
Thu, Dec. 20: @ Boston
Sat, Dec. 22: @ Buffalo
Thu, Dec. 27: @ San Jose
It hasn’t always been pretty for the Ducks, but credit them for fighting through injuries. Unfortunately, it looks like they’ll need to keep doing so.
MORE: Your 2018-19 NHL on NBC TV schedule
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Chad Johnson, Rickard Rakell, Ryan Miller, Cam Fowler, Chad Johnson, Corey Perry, John Gibson, Nick Ritchie, Patrick Eaves, Pontus Aberg, Rickard Rakell, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, Ryan Miller
The Buzzer: Lightning back in first, Varlamov hurt, Ducks gain ground
By Scott BilleckMar 31, 2018, 1:18 AM EDT
Players of the Night:
Cedric Paquette, Tampa Bay Lightning: Paquette scored twice and added an assist as the Lightning thumped the New York Rangers 7-3 on Friday. Paquette had five shots on goal and the Lightning threw 50 at Ondrej Pavelec to regain first place in the Atlantic Division. Tampa matched its regular-season record for points with 108.
Semyon Varlamov and Jonathan Bernier, Colorado Avalanche: The duo (but mostly Varlamov) combined for the first combined shutout in Avs history on Friday. Varlamov made 30 saves in 53:31 before he was injured in a collision with Chicago Blackhawks forward Tomas Jurco. Bernier finished the game, making three more saves to complete the blanking.
Rickard Rakell, Anaheim Ducks: Double R scored the OT winner to give the Ducks a 2-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings, putting the Ducks into the first wildcard in the Western Conference, one point back of L.A. The Ducks have a game in-hand on their California counterparts.
Highlights of the Night:
Domingue’d
LOUIS! ? #TBLvsNYR pic.twitter.com/mYGlR2BfF5
— x – Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) March 31, 2018
Hello, Andrighetto:
Some zig, some zag with a dash of dazzle. @Andrighetto10, that's some crazy stuff. pic.twitter.com/axssKZiRAc
— NHL (@NHL) March 31, 2018
MacKinnon saves:
The definition of teamwork. pic.twitter.com/eIxgf8ljip
Juke and jive:
Pulling out all the moves tonight aren't ya, @JustinFaulk27? pic.twitter.com/aXsOZRQixu
Rakell’s OT winner was special:
Rickard Rakell with a sweet shot to win it for the #NHLDucks in overtime! @SUBWAYCanada pic.twitter.com/bWKAYBeKRk
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 31, 2018
Factoids of the Night:
Frederik Andersen earned his 37th win of 2017-18 to match the single-season @MapleLeafs record for most by a goaltender, a mark set by Ed Belfour in 2002-03 and matched by Andrew Raycroft in 2006-07. #NHLStats #TORvsNYI pic.twitter.com/b7X9FmPvxV
— NHL Public Relations (@PR_NHL) March 31, 2018
#Leafs have now won 9 straight games when Auston Matthews scores.
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) March 31, 2018
Scores:
Hurricanes 4, Capitals 1
Maple Leafs 5, Islanders 4
Lightning 7, Rangers 3
Avalanche 5, Blackhawks 0
Ducks 3, King 2 (OT)
Golden Knights 4, Blues 3 (OT)
Tags: Cedric Paquette, Jonathan Bernier, Rickard Rakell, Semyon Varlamov, Cedric Paquette, Jonathan Bernier, Ondrej Pavelec, Rickard Rakell, Semyon Varlamov, Tomas Jurco
Adam Henrique finding new life on West Coast
By Scott BilleckDec 9, 2017, 2:30 PM EST
Remember when Adam Henrique scored 30 goals one season?
He does. His fans do. And the Anaheim Ducks would love for that to be a memory of their own in the near future.
The good news Henrique, who was traded to the Ducks from the New Jersey Devils for Sami Vatanen 10 days ago — and all involved for that matter — is that he’s rekindled that penchant for putting pucks past goalies in his new threads.
Henrique scored for the third time in five games on Friday since joining the Ducks and now has six points in that span. That puts him one goal shy of the four he scored in the first 24 games of the season with the Devils. Prior to joining the Ducks, Henrique had one goal in his previous 15 games.
Evidently, the change of pace has helped.
(Perhaps Matt Duchene in Ottawa should take a few notes.)
Indeed, Henrique, 27, has found new life on a line with Corey Perry and Rickard Rakell. The battered Ducks envisioned some adding scoring when they slotted Henrique on the top line in Anaheim and he’s since delivered.
The move has had added benefits as well, including getting Perry going.
Perry has missed a playmaker like Ryan Getzlaf in the middle. Getzlaf has been limited to six games this season due to two separate injuries.
Perry has found some good chemistry with Henrique, managing to score twice in as many games last week, with Henrique playing a part in both tallies. Perry has also returned the favour, assisting on two of Henrique’s three markers.
It’s a good sign for the Ducks, who might be getting healthy soon to boot.
God knows they need it. Even with the offensive boost, the Ducks have still only managed two wins out of their past 10 games.
Tags: Adam Henrique, Anaheim Ducks, Corey Perry, New Jersey Devils, Rickard Rakell, Sami Vatanen, Adam Henrique, Corey Perry, Matt Duchene, Rickard Rakell, Ryan Getzlaf, Sami Vatanen
PHT Power Rankings: Bounce-back candidates for 2019-20 NHL season August 12, 2019 12:44 pm EDT Ducks’ Rakell tossed from game after ugly hit from behind February 28, 2019 12:09 am EST Ducks’ injury problems could derail hot streak December 11, 2018 1:53 pm EST The Buzzer: Lightning back in first, Varlamov hurt, Ducks gain ground March 31, 2018 1:18 am EDT Adam Henrique finding new life on West Coast December 9, 2017 2:30 pm EST It’s Anaheim Ducks Day at PHT August 2, 2015 9:00 am EDT Ducks juggle lines ahead of Game 7 May 30, 2015 1:45 pm EDT Boudreau mulls line changes ahead of Game 7 May 29, 2015 5:30 pm EDT Ducks insert Fleischmann into lineup, mix up lines May 25, 2015 9:17 pm EDT Blackhawks even series against Ducks with triple OT win in longest game in franchise history May 20, 2015 2:30 am EDT Video: Crawford tries to bump Rakell, falls over, scrum ensues May 19, 2015 11:19 pm EDT Ducks’ Rakell makes franchise history with overtime winner April 21, 2015 1:52 am EDT Ducks silence Winnipeg’s whiteout crowd with OT win, push Jets to brink of elimination April 21, 2015 12:33 am EDT Video: Rakell, Scheifele collide knee-on-knee April 20, 2015 10:29 pm EDT Ducks move to top spot in NHL standings with win over Habs March 5, 2015 1:47 am EST Not dealt at deadline, Beleskey still working on extension with Ducks March 3, 2015 12:28 pm EST Welcome Matt Beleskey to the trade rumor mill February 5, 2015 10:57 am EST Kane, Sharp lead Blackhawks over Ducks January 31, 2015 2:00 am EST Canucks’ Dorsett suffers upper body injury in loss to the Ducks January 28, 2015 1:45 am EST Rakell channels Selanne as Ducks execute big comeback vs. Jets January 12, 2015 1:06 am EST Corey Perry (knee injury) will be evaluated when Ducks return to Anaheim December 6, 2014 5:38 pm EST In praise of Matt Beleskey December 2, 2014 12:50 pm EST Ducks sign Heatley: one year, $1 million July 9, 2014 5:49 pm EDT Ducks don’t qualify Perreault, who essentially becomes a UFA June 30, 2014 3:52 pm EDT Ducks parting ways with Koivu, Hiller and Winnik June 19, 2014 2:28 pm EDT Ducks to revisit trading for Kesler? May 20, 2014 3:11 pm EDT Add Perreault to Anaheim’s list of walking wounded May 9, 2014 3:15 pm EDT Ducks break out on power play, cruise to Game 5 win over Stars April 26, 2014 1:33 am EDT Video: Garbutt booted from game for spearing Perry April 25, 2014 11:35 pm EDT Ducks’ Getzlaf (upper body) isn’t available for Game 4 (Updated) April 23, 2014 7:47 pm EDT Ducks still wondering what life would’ve been like with Kesler March 31, 2014 1:42 pm EDT Wounded Ducks recall first-rounders Etem, Rakell March 20, 2014 4:10 pm EDT Saku soon? Ducks return Rakell to AHL November 18, 2013 4:18 pm EST
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Buhari Signs 2020 Appropriation Bill
In News 2019-12-17 15:59:02
By Ufuoma Egbamuno
President Muhammadu Buhari has praised the efforts of the National Assembly in ensuring the successful transition of the Budget Cycle to January-December. President Buhari made this known in a statement shortly after sign the 2020 Appropriation Bill into law.
The 2020 Budget passed by the National Assembly provides for aggregate expenditures of Ten-point-Five-Nine-Four Trillion Naira (N10.594 trillion) - an increase of Two Hundred and Sixty-Three-point-Nine-Five Billion Naira (N263.95 billion) that was submitted in October 2019 by the President.
“This patriotic zeal adopted by the Ninth National Assembly has restored our budget cycle to a predictable January to December fiscal year,” President Buhari said in the statement.
The President added: “I thank the National Assembly, in particular, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and indeed all the Distinguished and Honourable Leaders, and Members, for passing the 2020 Appropriation Bill, expeditiously.”
“I am very pleased that the National Assembly worked uncommonly long hours in the interest of our people and the national economy to ensure detailed legislative review and passage of the Budget within two months,” President Buhari noted.
The nation’s leader also stressed the need to “sustain this harmonious working relationship.”
“I expect that going forward, this will be the norm,” Buhari said.
According to the President, his government is “optimistic that we will be able to finance the 2020 Budget” using “today’s global oil market outlook and our strategic approach to revenue growth.”
President Buhari said the Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Ahmed Zainab will make a public presentation of the details of the approved budget.
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Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain led to decreased healthcare costs and improved functional measures
A study presented at the International Neuromodulation Society 12th World Congress (6–11 June, Montreal, Canada) showed that hospitalisation costs for a set of pain patients at the Vancouver Island Health Authority fell after receiving spinal cord stimulation treatment.
The study was initiated by the health authority’s interdisciplinary pain programme. British Columbia’s Ministry of Health had funded a 160% increase in the number of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) implants annually for several years. In turn, the ministry requested patient-reported outcome measures, said Carla Service, authority manager of the regional pain programme at Royal Jubilee Hospital, Canada.
The pain programme created a neuromodulation patient database in 2010 of patients who received SCS implants from 2007 to the present, which tracked baseline measures as well as functional and clinical outcome measures. Patients who received their implants from 2008 to 2013 were asked to participate in a research study that used the database and Ministry of Health data to assess patient outcome. Forty patients (a 40% response rate) participated. Eleven of the patients also reported functional outcomes.
The study was presented by principal investigator Nouri Najjar, a PhD student in economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Mean annual expenditures increased in each of the three years before SCS treatment, and decreased in each of the three years after, Najjar, said, with hospitalisation more probable prior to SCS. Trends in hospitalisation contributed to changes in the overall expenditures.
Total mean expenditures fell by 29% overall, he said, when all three years before treatment and all three years after were compared. Comparing all three years before and after treatment, pharmaceutical costs went down by 31% and non-pharmaceutical costs went down by 29%.
As the study was underway, Krishna Kumar, of the Division of Neurosurgery at the Regina General Hospital, was co-authoring a paper published in 2014 in Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface that summarised his earlier findings in which data from 15 years or more indicate that effective pain management from SCS is inversely proportional to wait times.
Najjar’s fellow researcher on the project, physician investigator Alan Berkman, of Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, mentioned Kumar’s long-term findings when describing the value of the current study.
“This research is a very useful tool to show the funding authority that neuromodulation saves money in the short term with regards to overall health care dollar costs,” Berkman said. “It has been shown to continue to save money after this period by Kumar. It confirms the value of this very important modality in the treatment of patients suffering with pain.”
For the 11 patients who reported functional outcomes, Najjar found they had statistically significant post-procedure improvements in all functional measures except the Tampa Scale for kinesiophobia.
In his 2014 paper, Kumar and colleagues wrote that SCS success has come to be considered an improvement in functional outcome more than strictly a reduction in the perception of pain, which is “now regarded as highly variable and subjective, arbitrary, and a poor correlate of a patient’s quality of life.” Instead, the focus has shifted to how SCS permits patients to resume activities of daily life and participate in work, domestic pursuits, or social endeavors. “Ultimately, it is on this metric that SCS therapy should be judged by patients, society, and payers alike,” Kumar and colleagues state.
They add that the cost-effectiveness of SCS is demonstrated in studies that show post-implant healthcare savings offset the initial expenditure of an SCS implant, with implantation within two years of symptom onset appearing to offer the greatest success rate.
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At New Life, we value and prioritize ministry to the next generation. We love children and teenagers. It is vital to pass faith from one generation to the next.
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The Revenant becomes an action-packed Tony Hawk-style video game
Joe Blevins
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Is Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant a joyless, two-and-a-half hour slog, consisting of revenge, death, wilderness survival, and bear attacks? Not when you add some classic graphics and sound effects and turn it into a video game in the great tradition of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. That is exactly the premise behind “Leo DiCaprio’s Pro Revenant,” a high-concept new short film from video madman Dominick Nero. What Nero has done with this two-minute video is to transform Iñárritu’s epic from a grim, Oscar-nominated drama into “a fun extreme sports game that award[s] players for completing cool tricks and doing generally destructive things,” just like the beloved skateboarding simulator of yore. Here, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hugh Glass is a playable character with a simple mission: avenge his dead son. The player has all sorts of options, especially as far as locations go. Leo can seek vengeance in a cold river, a cold tundra, some cold woods, a cold mountain, or a warehouse. Fun, right?
If this seems like a far-fetched mashup, the video’s creator describes the numerous parallels between the classic video game and the current movie:
Since subtlety was clearly not the concern for director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and the film itself awards DiCaprio’s character for performing rad survival tricks (fighting bears, jumping horses, killing Native Americans, etc.), The Revenant somehow seems like a torturous session of [Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater], as the fearless Hugh Glass rampages through a landscape full of steep inclines and big drops, collecting power-ups like raw bison organs, and dodging Native American arrows with style.
In the game footage provided here, Leo manages to show off several sweet moves, including the Horse Slap and the 180 Head Spin. Unfortunately, those are not enough to gain him victory this time around. But, as the clip points out, accumulating 3,000 points will finally nab him that elusive Best Actor award.
Leo DiCaprio’s Pro Revenant from One Perfect Shot on Vimeo.
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Boy Scouts delay vote on gay membership ban
We're going to have to wait a bit longer to see whether the Boy Scouts will drop their across-the-board ban on openly gay members.
The Boy Scouts of America on Wednesday delayed its vote on a proposal to let local troops decide whether to allow openly gay members and leaders.
The organization, which had been expected to vote Wednesday, said it needs more time to get input from its members. The vote will now be held in May.
"After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy," the group said Wednesday morning.
"To that end, the executive board directed its committees to further engage representatives of Scouting’s membership and listen to their perspectives and concerns."
Read more about the delay here.
Post by: CNN's Jason Hanna
Filed under: Boy Scouts • Gay and lesbian
I believe that the last line in the Boy Scout oath is a promise to be morally straight.
Hows that going to work?
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You and your religion are not in charge of a country as a whole to decide what is moral or not. I respect your right to live your life as yuor book tells you to and I doubt that you follow it. So respect mine not to follow your books and live how I see fit
CGBatcho
Just change their morals. People do it all the time. Or not base them off of ignorant ancient literature.
I won't work. If the BSA cave, then it will be just like every other liberal group, hypocrites.
It works just fine if you dont believe being gay is immoral.
As a Mom of a current scout I was looking forward to a decision today, faulty as the proposal to "leave it up to local troops" was to begin with... BSA needs some leadership into the modern times! There is no place for discrimination. And being gay does not have anything to do with being moral or not. Plenty of straight men in scouts in the past who were morally bankrupt (read the "perversion files"!
Yes, you're right. BSA has the right to determine what is moral for their organization instead of gays pushing their lifestyle as OK onto them, or even requiring them to openly accept it. You'd think people that are bullied would not bully others... tsk
Clayton Colwell
"the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy"
Really? This has been a hot topic for years - they never noticed before?!
My speculation is that the CEO of American Try & Talk (AT&T) was pushing for the hоmо agenda. Then after it leaked to the press a week ago what the BSA was probably going to do, the ground swell from current members "told" them to change their mind.
TiredODaCrap
WoW...They are going to look into it and try to make a decision based on the input of their members? Can't wait to see how badly this decision gets bashed!!
..because there hasn't been ample time up to now to review said policy. Stay classy, BSA. I'll keep buying my popcorn locally until you extricate your head from your hindquarters.
Kerry M. Berger
Talk about obfuscating responsibility by delaying a decision to let individual troops make determinations for themselves? What's the point in having a national Boy Scout Leadership team if they are not going to LEAD and set policy for the organization. I call the leadership a bunch of moral midgets and amoral cowards. It is simply unconscionable that they refuse to act now. This issue is a non-issue in many other countries. What happened to this nation as global leader? We are nothing more than wimpy followers who are afraid of changing the status quo. How un-American can we act?
Table it and maybe it will go away.
YeahRight
It won't go away. This is about civil rights. Heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality. Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be “cured."
garwin1
Is the Rainbow Coalition going to pony up the money the Boy Scouts lose when their funding is cut off? FAT CHANCE!!
what funding? i mean a large number of corporate sponsors have already said they will stop donating because they discriminate.
The Boy Scouts are largely funded by the United Way. They have already said that they will drop their funding. The gay movement is all about equality until the bills come in.
Well since they have been losing funding due to their discriminating policies it stands to reason that a lot of that will come back when they end the discrimination.
'The Boy Scouts are largely funded by the United Way. They have already said that they will drop their funding'
Yes, they said they will drop the funding UNLESS the boy scouts allow gays.
wth CNN? why not post my comment????
all I said was that the scouts seem to think that it is ok for the adults to harm the children but not ok to make the cildren feel safe and included..... great "morals"
plumbline
Any backbone left.........
........13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
ShawnDH
What does your goofy religion have to do with anything?
karlotious
ive read a book too yet i feel no need to quote it. Maybe use your own brain instead of copying an obviously poor written collection of crap
The scriptures actually say nothing about homosexuality as a psychosexual orientation. Our understandings of sexual orientation are distinctly modern ones that were not present in the minds of Scripture writers. A few passages of Scripture (seven at the most) object to certain types of same-sex expressions or acts. The particular acts in question, however, are sexual expressions which are exploitative, oppressive, commercialized, or offensive to ancient purity rituals. There is no Scriptural guidance for same-sex relationships which are loving and mutually respecting. Guidelines for these relationships should come from the same general Scriptural norms that apply to heterosexual relationships.
RobCM
Time for the Boy Scouts to come into the 21 century.
Tom Kloster
It's sad to watch the organization devolve, but in a distinct parallel to the GOP, the BSA made a fateful decision clear back in the 80s (when I worked for them) to hitch their star to the Christian conservative movement (arguably more so than the GOP, given how the LDS Church holds the BSA hostage these days). Until the organization backs away from the Christian conservatives, it will continue to shrink into a fringe movement serving only a few. That's too bad, because it once offered a lot to boys of all (or no) faith.
sliderx69
If they decide to allow gays in the scouts, all the parents with morals need to pull their kids and donations.
that will get there attention.
Bigots aren't morally sound, they just hijack the term "morality" and revel in it. Hate never breeds morality. Your warped world view is, fortunately for the rest of us, on the wane. You are on the wrong side of history. Thump that book a little harder if you are scared.
8ratatoskr8
As an Eagle scout, I think they should ask us. Let us vote. As long as the scout next to me could carry his pack as well as the rest of us, I didn't really care who he had a crush on in school.
Former Scout
i guess my son and i will also need time for a more deliberate review of our potential membership. as a former scout, i hold certain principles sacred and the current ban violates those principles.
And I believe that this is why the BSA is now backtracking. I'm a Cub Master and if BSA goes fаggаdосіоuѕ then I too will be reviewing my current participation.
Quartermaster Sea Explorer & Eagle Scout, 1973
well scott, sounds like they could benefit from you quitting, your hatred is against everything the scouts stands for.
Well cedar, if I and others with my view quit Scouting then your fellow rump-rangers will stand a better chance at molesting the remaining boys in the units.
As an eagle scout i am appalled that you scoutmasters are not accepting. Maybe the BSA should consider removing your ignorant butts. Way to raise children to be accepting of everyone *sarcasm*
Scott apparently in your mind all gay people think about is molesting children. theres no way that these people could want to participate in raising children in an accepting society. You're pathetic... Go seek council at a church since they never molest anyone. Straight people have never molested anyone right
'Well cedar, if I and others with my view quit Scouting then your fellow rump-rangers will stand a better chance at molesting the remaining boys in the units.'
yep the scouts certainly failed to impart any lesson on you it seems.
"Well cedar, if I and others with my view quit Scouting then your fellow rump-rangers will stand a better chance at molesting the remaining boys in the units." – Scott
Right, because the bigoted policies of the scouts up until now have completely prevented molestation. You are absolutely hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Sad that you are, apparently, serious.
That's OK. CNN will see to it that GAY IS IN THE HEADLINES every minute of every day anyway.
The scouts just announced they will delay the gay vote. What sort of headline would you expect to see referencing that?
"The scouts just announced they will delay the gay vote. What sort of headline would you expect to see referencing that?" – Cedar Rapids
Clearly, they should have said "satanists" instead.
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Conductor and MP Tarmo Leinatamm Dead at 57 ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}})
Tarmo Leinatamm, a Reform Party member of Parliament, a conductor and a comedian, died Monday at the age of 57.
Leinatamm had kept away from the public eye in recent years, battling cancer.
Leinatamm spent 10 years as the choir master at the Vanemuine theater in Tartu, then was a conductor for the Estonian National Opera before leading the Tallinn Philharmonic Society.
He was also a member of the comedy trio Kreisiraadio, and performed in the finals of Eurovision in 2008 along with the other two "crazy radio" members, Peeter Oja and Hannes Võrno. Apparently performed in a non-existent Balkan or Slavic language and entitled "Leto Svet," the song was widely seen as a send-up of the song contest's ever more self-important establishment.
He was a member of the Reform Party since 1995, and an MP between 2003 and 2007, and again starting in 2011.
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Galley to kitchen in a flash
Published on November 09, 2014 by LEUT Will Singer (author), LSIS Peter Thompson (photographer)
Guest chefs from Albany restaurant Due South, Martin Morgan and Nic Lancaster (2nd and 3rd from left) join the team of Maritime Logistics - Chefs aboard HMAS Arunta.
The timing of the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event provided an ideal break for Navy chefs to interact with the local Albany business community as part of the Australian Chefs Exchange Program.
Great escape relic returns home for Anzac Centenary
Published on November 08, 2014 by Mr Bob Crawshaw (author), Unknown (photographer)
A lifebuoy from the Schooner Ayesha that was seized by Lieutenant Hellmuth Von Mucke in 1914 after being stranded on Direction Island.
Part of a schooner hijacked in the Great War comes home to the Cocos Islands.
The band played on
Published on November 08, 2014 by LEUT Will Singer (author), CPOIS David Connolly (photographer), LSIS Jayson Tufrey (photographer), ABIS Jake Badior (photographer), ABIS Bonny Gassner (photographer)
The Royal Australian Navy Band perform at the Albany Entertainment Centre as part of the activities associated with the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
If music is the ‘universal language of mankind’ then the Royal Australian Navy Band kept their communicating all weekend, with three community concerts over the three day period at the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
Battle of Cocos commemorated 100 years on
Published on November 09, 2014 by LCDR Chloe Wootten (author), LSIS Paul McCallum (photographer)
The Governor-General, His Excellency the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove, AK, MC (Retd) and Her Excellency Lady Cosgrove lay a wreath on behalf of all Australians during the Service to Commemorate the Centenary of the Battle of Cocos Island.
The Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove, and Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, travelled to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to commemorate the action between HMAS Sydney (I) and the German light cruiser SMS Emden, which occurred on 9 November 1914.
Amazing book captures 100 years of pride in the fleet
Published on November 06, 2014 by Mr Ian Paterson (author), Images courtesy of SALT (photographer)
‘Celebrating 100 Years of Pride in the Fleet’, a book launched after the International Fleet Review which captures the story of today’s Navy in stories and pictures.
A quality coffee table book that captures the story of today’s Navy in stories and pictures will be launched by the Chief of Navy at the end of this month.
Adelaide turns on a treat for South Australia Navy Week
Published on November 06, 2014 by LEUT Todd Austin (author), ABIS Cassie McBride (photographer)
Members of HMAS Newcastle conduct a Ceremonial Sunset onboard during the Commanding Officers Reception in Adelaide, South Australia during their Navy Week celebrations.
Adelaide turned on a warm welcome when HMAS Newcastle visited the City of Churches for South Australia Navy Week recently. The visit was the first by a Navy warship in two years and marked the final port visit for Newcastle before the frigate headed home to Fleet Base East, Sydney, concluding a three month trip around Australia.
'The Continuing Journey' art exhibition opened
Published on November 06, 2014 by Ms Dallas McMaugh (author), ABIS Sarah Williams (photographer)
Commander Australian Fleet, Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer, CSC and Bar, RAN (left), opens 'The Continuing Journey' exhibition at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, with curator Mr Terry Hetherington, showcasing artworks by Mr John Downton.
Fleet Commander Rear Admiral Stuart Mayer had a brush with the art world when he opened 'The Continuing Journey' an exhibition of work by artist John Downton at the Fleet Air Arm Museum Gallery, Nowra.
Defence depart Albany
Published on November 05, 2014 by LEUT Kara Wansbury (author), CPOIS David Connolly (photographer), ABIS Tom Gibson (photographer)
A family waves good bye to HMAS Arunta as the ship exits the Atatürk Channel at the conclusion of the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
In the deep waters south of Albany, Australian, New Zealand and Japanese surface and air units will attempt to locate, identify and isolate a submarine as commemoration is replaced by warfare in the Southern Ocean.
Bungaree covers 'the place of rain'
Published on November 04, 2014 by LEUT Will Singer (author), LSIS Jayson Tufrey (photographer)
The Indigenous Performance Troupe, Bungaree, perform at the Community Concert as part of the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
The Royal Australian Navy Indigenous Performance Group, Bungaree, proudly entertained visitors in their traditional energetic style at different venues throughout the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
Anzac and Japanese ships on show
Published on November 03, 2014 by LEUT Will Singer (author), ABIS Bonny Gassner (photographer)
Members of the public take a closer look at the 5 inch gun aboard HMAS Arunta during the Navy ship open day during the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event.
Rarely do the public get a chance to stroll around the forecastle and flight deck of a warship, until now. HMA Ships Anzac, Arunta, HMNZ Ship Te Kaha and JDS Kirisame rolled out their welcome mats, ball-caps and memorabilia for the Albany Convoy Commemorative Event Ship's Open Day on 2 November.
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Piggly Wiggly Stores
Piggly Wiggly Store, Piedmont Avenue - 1920. Note the "All Over the World" slogan on the sign, and the "We Double dog dare anyone to undersell this store" painted on the window.
Photo courtesy of the Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room 1
The Piggly Wiggly grocery-store chain was heavily represented in 1920s and 1930s Oakland. The 1928 Polk’s City Directory for Oakland lists fully 39 stores citywide (plus another 11 in Berkeley and 4 in Alameda). One was on College Avenue in Rockridge; another was at 3966 Piedmont Avenue. East 14th St. [International Boulevard today] alone had no less than 6 branch stores.3
According to OMCA Collections, Piggly Wiggly Pacific Co., Inc. “was one of the earliest grocery chains, established by Andrew Williams about 1921.” 2 Piggly Wiggly Pacific was purchased by Safeway Stores in 1928, and all existing Piggly Wigglies in Oakland were converted to Safeways by the mid-1930s - which helps explain why over 80 Safeway stores are listed in the 1941 Polk’s City Directory for Oakland.4
Piggly Wiggly Store, College Avenue looking north toward Shafter Avenue in the Rockridge District, Oakland, California - 1930. Also visible is the Uptown Theater, Campbell’s Shoes, and Tower’s Gift Shop with “Merry Christmas” banner over the street. The store with the "CIGARS" sign is now the bar Ye Old Hut. This is taken from the east side of the street at Lawton. (Photo courtesy of the Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room) 1 1928 directory listings 3
Circa 1927, Piggly Wiggly sponsored an amateur baseball team in Oakland. 5
part of 1926 ad
College Avenue, looking north toward Shafter Ave. CaliSphere
OMCA Collections: 40th Street at Piedmont Avenue Oakland Museum of California
1928 Polk’s Oakland, California City Directory
1941 Polk excerpt.pdf
Piggly Wiggly on Good Old Sandlot Days
historic business
Lakeshore Avenue
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Elon Musk Mistook a ‘Blood Moon’ for Mars in New SpaceX Tweet
By Sissi Cao • 06/24/19 12:01pm
The moon during a total lunar eclipse in July 2018. JASPER JACOBS/AFP/Getty Images
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said there’s a good chance he will retire on Mars. But before leaving Earth, the space entrepreneur still has a lot of work to do—such as sharpening his knowledge about what the red planet looks like.
SEE ALSO: So You Want to Be a Space Tourist?
On Sunday night, Musk posted a picture on Twitter that said “Occupy Mars” with a pretty image of a reddish planet attached.
pic.twitter.com/yUUSNdWMEw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 23, 2019
But his followers quickly noticed that that image wasn’t Mars at all, but an image of the “blood moon” taken during a lunar eclipse last summer.
Musk was quick to admit his mistake, too. In a Twitter reply, he jokingly said “[occupy] Moon, too” and even suggested that he could land on the moon before Mars because “it’s only three days away and you don’t need interplanetary orbital synchronization.”
Moon too
For sure moon 1st, as it’s only 3 days away & u don’t need interplanetary orbital synchronization
Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has been developing a launch site for reusable Mars rockets in Texas since 2014, Business Insider reported earlier this month. If all goes according to plan, the launch system will send humans to Mars by the mid-2020s and build a sustainable city there in the 2050s.
And by the way, this is a real photo of Mars taken by the European Space Agency in the planet’s natural color in 2007.
Mars pictured in natural color in 2007. European Space Agency & Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research for OSIRIS Team
Filed Under: Business, Technology, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Mars, Moon
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OII Europa
Internationale Vereinigung Intergeschlechtlicher Menschen Europa
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4th International Intersex Forum – Media Statement
Between the 20th and 23rd of April 2017, a Fourth International Intersex Forum was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The world’s largest intersex human rights forum to date was attended by 40 representatives of intersex organisations and independent advocates across all regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Post-Soviet countries, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania. The depth and breadth of diversity and global intersex representation at the forum was groundbreaking.
During the four day event, the international community exchanged knowledge about the situation of intersex people in different regions and highlighted widespread and horrific human rights violations that still persist all over the world. These include but are not limited to infanticide, intersex genital mutilation and other harmful medical practices, lack of appropriate and consented health care as well as discrimination in access to education, other services and employment. While intersex issues have become more visible and acknowledged since the Third International Intersex Forum in 2013, stigma, fear, shame and taboo unfortunately also still prevail.
Meeting each other serves not only to exchange information about challenges and developments in the different global regions but also serve to strengthen intersex activists in their fight for intersex human rights. “I am extremely grateful to be here! These events nurture and give me the strength, energy and clarity to continue my work”, points out Mani Bruce Mitchell, Executive Director of ITANZ in New Zealand. “Learning from each other has been an extremely positive and empowering experience”, emphasizes Dan Christian Ghattas, Co-Chair of OII Europe, “this Forum has clearly set the path for developing and strengthening the intersex movement on a global, regional as well as domestic level.”
The Fourth International Forum delivered a strong consensus that reaffirmed the demands expressed in the Declaration issued by the Third International Intersex Forum in Malta in 2013, and emphasized the unity of the intersex movement as a collaborative global movement, while also recognizing additional unique barriers faced by intersex people in some regions.
“We have welcomed the opportunity to learn from the global intersex community, make our voices heard and develop tools to continue our work for intersex people in our countries,” says Laura Inter, Founder of Brújula Intersexual in Mexico. Irene, Co-Founder of Intersex Russia and an interACT Youth member, states, “We are very happy to be able to discuss important regional differences and have the possibility to learn from other activists from all around the world.” And Tebogo Makwati, from D’Gayle Northern Cape in South Africa, adds,„The global community of intersex people has clearly been strengthened by this exceptional event and we are proud to have added our experience and expertise to the conversation. We are certainly looking forward to supporting and getting supported by the international Intersex community while working together to end human rights violations on intersex people in Africa and worldwide.”
Hiker Chiu, Founder of OII Chinese and Intersex Asia, agrees, “As a new rising movement in Asia, we are proud to now have six intersex activists from different countries of Asia in the forum this time. It creates an opportunity for us to learn the different issues within Asia and with the other regions and also helps the world to identify and recognize the specific issues from Asia which is extremely important for us in the global intersex movement.” Morgan Carpenter, Co-Executive Director of OII Australia, emphasizes: “Regional statements, like the new Darlington Statement by Australian and New Zealand advocates or the Vienna Statement in Europe, translate global declarations into our local context. We hope that folks in other regions will also be able to meet in coming months and years, and develop concrete programs of action.”
Participants spoke about pressing global issues, amongst them a severe lack of necessary consented medical care, “There must be an end to enforcing any anatomy on people with variations of sex characteristics. We are assigned a sex at birth and the surgical and hormonal interventions aim to enforce that sex on us without taking into account our gender identity. For many intersex people, including but not limited to those with chromosomal variations like myself, this means to choose between no treatment or treatment that is against their gender identity,”says Stephanie Stine Toft, Chairperson of Intersex Denmark.
The international intersex human rights movement also recognizes and celebrates the support and the work of the international human rights system, including recommendations by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CHRCoE) and United Nations Treaty Bodies that, as of this date, have issued more than 50 statements and concluding observations condemning abuses including forced sterilization, irreversible genital surgery and other harmful medical practices.
Holly Greenberry, Director of Intersex UK says, „In the light of growing lived testimonies and UN condemnations of member states it has become essential within Europe and all other Global regions that governments accept responsibility of signed UN treaties and associated requirements. Governments should collaborate with intersex human rights NGOs, human rights commissions and advisors to remedy condemned practices.”
In order to ensure the growth and sustainability of the global intersex movement our focus is also on the need to support of intersex youth and create spaces for young people with variations of sex characteristics. “Intersex youth from all regions need a space to come together and share their realities, build their capacities to build the next generation of intersex leaders,” emphasizes Kitty Anderson of Intersex Iceland. And Kimberly Zieselman of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth in the U.S. adds, “We are beginning to see real impact from an increased number of young intersex voices here in the United States. Broadening international scope is only possible with increased funding for collaborative capacity building across the globe.”
In the future the global intersex human rights movement will work to further increase regional representation. The Fifth International Intersex Forum is therefore planned to take place in a region of the Global South.
Collectively, global participants made an urgent call for more capacity and strategic funding investment in desperately needed intersex human rights work happening in every region. Miriam van der Have, Executive Director of NNID, and ILGA board member for the Intersex Secretariat, remarked on an associated discussion with donor organisations,„One of the most important outcomes of the fourth international intersex forum is that better funding for the intersex movement is necessary and possible.“
Alessandro Comeni, Co-Founder of OII-Italia stated that, “events like this forum are crucial for our community in order to improve our local work and international advocacy. Since the first International Intersex Forum in 2011, our movement grew a lot and it is exciting to see a bigger international representation here in Amsterdam. I am extremely grateful for the amazing support of the funders that made this forum possible, but we must also highlight that available fundings allowed only a limited participation, while intersex activists willing to attend the forum were over 100. The intersex movement needs financial resources to shape itself and to grow.”
The 4th International Intersex Forum thanks everyone who made this forum a success, including Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice Intersex Human Rights Fund, COC Netherlands, Mama Cash, Open Society Foundations, Netherlands Netwerk Intersekese/ DSD (NNID) and International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Organisation (ILGA).
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Stolen scooter slows life for 11-year-old
Kelsey Warner
A large hill separates Jenny Barry from her friends. In the case of this 11-year-old the hill presents a large problem.
She overcame the problem, though, when friends of her mother bought Jenny a motorized scooter, which she owned for only two months before it was stolen Wednesday.
“She has a medical need for it,” said Kathleen Barry, Jenny’s mother, something the thief probably didn’t think about when taking the scooter.
“It’s important to get this out because they probably think it was just some rich kid’s,” said neighbor Tricia Smith. “It’s been a big hardship; you know they’re not rich.”
Jenny is asthmatic, a condition compounded by Type 2 diabetes. Her asthma medication makes her blood sugar rise, a problem that can be remedied only by insulin shots.
“One triggers the other,” Kathleen said.
As a young girl, Jenny is active playing with friends, which presents a problem when she begins to feel ill because she has a history of losing consciousness because of her diabetes.
“I always go places, have fun, run around,” Jenny said.
Kathleen isn’t about to stop her.
“You’ve got to let them play,” Kathleen said.
After an incident resulting in Kathleen carrying Jenny home for medication, friends of Kathleen pooled their money to buy Jenny a motorized scooter.
“A group of friends got together and gave it to me for Jenny so I wouldn’t have to worry,” Kathleen said.
Without the scooter, Jenny’s social life has declined.
“I can’t go anywhere, and none of my friends will come to my house,” Jenny said.
And Kathleen, a single mother trying to go to school, can’t afford to replace the $212 Schwinn S250.
After the robber,y Kathleen reported the scooter missing to the Evans police, called Wal-Mart, where the scooter was purchased, asked neighbors if they knew anything and canvassed the area for any evidence.
“I feel like I’ve done everything I can do,” Kathleen said.
A reward is being offered for information about the scooter, which is blue with a seat and a basket on the back.
“We won’t ask questions. We just want it returned,” Smith said.
But returning the scooter still won’t make the Barrys feel safe.
“You should be safe in your neighborhood,” Kathleen said. “You should be able to trust your stuff outside.”
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Ottawa mayor Jim Watson joined Stantec president and CEO Bob Gomes to cut the ribbon at 1331 Clyde Ave. bringing together the architectural and engineering practice’s more than 280 employees into one central location.
“This move demonstrates Stantec’s commitment to the City of Ottawa, to the community and to our clients,” Gomes said. Stantec’s new offices span five floors, ocupying approximately 72,750 sq. ft.
Stantec has worked with the City of Ottawa on several major water, transportation and buildings infrastructure projects, including the award-winning Ottawa River Action Plan’s Real Time Control (RTC) system for the city’s combined sewer system. In the second year of operation, this project has already reduced combined sewer overflows to the Ottawa River by almost 70 per cent, a Stantec news release reported.
Mayor Watson praised Stantec and companies like it as key partners in maintaining and enhancing the city’s infrastructure.
“We need dedicated companies like Stantec to grow and prosper along with the city, and to help us build and maintain infrastructure for future generations,” Watson said.
At the open house, representatives from Stantec and the Senators Alumni also presented a cheque for $22,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa in support of Camp Smitty. Stantec and the Senators Alumni have pledged to raise $500,000 for the camp for underprivileged kids. Over the past six years, Stantec has raised more than $100,000 for Camp Smitty and donated more than $50,000 in professional services.
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Petronilla of Aragon1
F, #5175, b. 1136, d. 17 October 1174
Father Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre b. 1075, d. 16 Aug 1147
Mother Agnes of Aquitaine b. c 1100, d. a 1147
Petronilla of Aragon was born in 1136 at of Aragon, Spain. She married Raimond IV Berenger, Count of Barcelona, son of Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona and Douce (Dulcia) of Provence, on 11 August 1137. Petronilla of Aragon died on 17 October 1174 at Barcelona, Spain.
Raimond IV Berenger, Count of Barcelona b. c 1113, d. 26 Aug 1162
Alfonso II, King of Aragon, Marquis of Provence+ b. 25 Mar 1157, d. 25 Apr 1196
Dulce of Barcelona+ b. c 1160, d. 1 Sep 1198
Sancho, Comte de Roussillon & Cerdagne+2 b. c 1161, d. 1226
[S989] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 58, Vol. 2.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. II, Tafel 70.
Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona1,2
Father Raimond II Berenger b. c 1057, d. 6 Dec 1082
Mother Matilda Guiscard b. c 1059, d. 19 Sep 1108
Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne (#1)
Some Descendants of Charlemagne (#2)
Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona was born on 11 November 1082. He married Maria Rodriguez, daughter of Rodrigo "El Cid" Dias de Vivar, Count Valencia and Jimena Diaz, before 1103. Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona married Almodis de Mortain in 1106. Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona married Douce (Dulcia) of Provence, daughter of Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence and Gerberge of Provence, on 3 February 1112.3 Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona died on 19 August 1131 at age 48.
Maria Rodriguez d. 1165
Jimena de Barcelona+ b. c 1100, d. a 1136
Douce (Dulcia) of Provence b. c 1095, d. bt 1127 - 1130
Mafalda of Provence+
Raimond IV Berenger, Count of Barcelona+ b. c 1113, d. 26 Aug 1162
Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence, Vicomte de Rodez, Gevaudan & Carladet+ b. c 1114, d. 1144
Berengaria of Barcelona+2 b. c 1116, d. 3 Feb 1149
Estefania of Provence b. c 1118
Sibylle de Barcelona+4 b. 1125
Almodis of Provence+ b. c 1126, d. a 1171
[S990] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 69.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 21.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Milhaud.
[S59] GeneaNet, Généalogie Wailly: Sibylle de Barcelone.
Douce (Dulcia) of Provence1,2
F, #5177, b. circa 1095, d. between 1127 and 1130
Father Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence1 b. c 1071, d. bt Jun 1110 - 1113
Mother Gerberge of Provence1 d. bt 3 Feb 1112 - Jan 1113
Charts Some Descendants of Charlemagne
Douce (Dulcia) of Provence was born circa 1095.1 She married Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona, son of Raimond II Berenger and Matilda Guiscard, on 3 February 1112.1 Douce (Dulcia) of Provence died between 1127 and 1130.
Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona b. 11 Nov 1082, d. 19 Aug 1131
Mafalda of Provence+3
Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence, Vicomte de Rodez, Gevaudan & Carladet+3 b. c 1114, d. 1144
Berengaria of Barcelona+ b. c 1116, d. 3 Feb 1149
Estefania of Provence3 b. c 1118
Almodis of Provence+3 b. c 1126, d. a 1171
[S991] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 187, 805.
Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre
Father Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre b. bt 1042 - 1043, d. 4 Jun 1094
Mother Felice of Roucy d. 3 May 1123
Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre was born in 1075. He married Agnes of Aquitaine, daughter of Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine & Gascony, 7th Count of Poitou and Philippe of Toulouse, between November 1135 and December 1135 at Jaca, Huesca, Spain; They had 1 daughter (Petronilla, wife of Raymond Berengar IV, Comte de Barcelona).1 Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre died on 16 August 1147 at St. Pons de Thomiere.
Agnes of Aquitaine b. c 1100, d. a 1147
Petronilla of Aragon+ b. 1136, d. 17 Oct 1174
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Aquitaine.
Agnes of Aquitaine1,2
F, #5179, b. circa 1100, d. after 1147
Father Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine & Gascony, 7th Count of Poitou3 b. 22 Oct 1071, d. 10 Feb 1126
Mother Philippe of Toulouse3 b. c 1073, d. 28 Nov 1117
Agnes of Aquitaine was born circa 1100 at of Aquitaine, France. She married Aimery V, Vicomte de Thouars, son of Geoffrey III, Vicomte de Thouars and Ameline, before 1117; They had 3 sons (Guillaume, Vicomte de Thouars; Guy; & Geoffroi IV, Vicomte de Thouars).2 Agnes of Aquitaine married Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre, son of Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre and Felice of Roucy, between November 1135 and December 1135 at Jaca, Huesca, Spain; They had 1 daughter (Petronilla, wife of Raymond Berengar IV, Comte de Barcelona).4 Agnes of Aquitaine died after 1147.
Aimery V, Vicomte de Thouars d. 1135
Geoffrey V, Vicomte de Thouars+2 d. a 1173
Guillaume, Vicomte de Thouars d. 1151
Guy de Thouars+ d. c 1152
Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre b. 1075, d. 16 Aug 1147
[S993] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 104; Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 810, Vol. 3, chart 76, Vol. 2.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 128.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 126-127.
Raimond II Berenger1
M, #5180, b. circa 1057, d. 6 December 1082
Father Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne b. 1023, d. 27 May 1076
Mother Almodis de la Marche b. c 1020, d. 16 Oct 1071
Raimond II Berenger Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona, Carcassone, and Radez. He was born circa 1057.2 He married Matilda Guiscard, daughter of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, Sicily and Sikilgaita of Salerno, in 1078.3 Raimond II Berenger died on 6 December 1082; Assassinated.
Matilda Guiscard b. c 1059, d. 19 Sep 1108
Almodis of Barcelona+ d. 1140
Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona+ b. 11 Nov 1082, d. 19 Aug 1131
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, La Marche.
[S59] GeneaNet.
Matilda Guiscard1,2
F, #5181, b. circa 1059, d. 19 September 1108
Father Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, Sicily b. 1015, d. 17 Jul 1085
Mother Sikilgaita of Salerno b. 1040, d. 27 Jul 1090
Matilda Guiscard was born circa 1059. She married Raimond II Berenger, son of Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne and Almodis de la Marche, in 1078.2 Matilda Guiscard married Aimeri I, Vicomte de Narbonne, son of Bernard V, Vicomte de Narbonne and Foi de Rouerge, in 1083.2 Matilda Guiscard died on 19 September 1108 at Girona, Catalonia, Spain.2
Raimond II Berenger b. c 1057, d. 6 Dec 1082
Almodis of Barcelona+3 d. 1140
Aimeri I, Vicomte de Narbonne b. c 1055, d. 1103
Aimeri II, Vicomte de Narbonne+ b. 1083, d. 17 Jul 1134
Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence1,2
M, #5182, b. circa 1071, d. between June 1110 and 1113
Father Berenger, Vicomte de Gievaudun, Milhaud d. a 12 Apr 1080
Mother Adela of Carlat d. c 1071
Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence Also Count of Corbat and Arles. He was born circa 1071. He married Gerberge of Provence, daughter of Fulk Bertrand I, Marquis & Count of Provence and Hildegarde (Eveza) de Toulouse, between 1092 and 1098. Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence died between June 1110 and 1113.1
Gerberge of Provence d. bt 3 Feb 1112 - Jan 1113
Stephanie de Provence+ d. a 1160
Esclarmonde de Gevaudan+3 b. c 1092
Douce (Dulcia) of Provence+1 b. c 1095, d. bt 1127 - 1130
[S996] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 805.
[S56] Généalogie Famille de Carné.
Gerberge of Provence1,2
F, #5183, d. between 3 February 1112 and January 1113
Father Fulk Bertrand I, Marquis & Count of Provence3 d. c 27 Apr 1051
Mother Hildegarde (Eveza) de Toulouse3 d. a 23 Jun 1040
Gerberge of Provence married Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence, son of Berenger, Vicomte de Gievaudun, Milhaud and Adela of Carlat, between 1092 and 1098. Gerberge of Provence died between 3 February 1112 and January 1113.1
Gilbert, Viscount Gevaudan, Carlat, Lodeve, & Milhaud, Count of Provence b. c 1071, d. bt Jun 1110 - 1113
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. II, Tafel 187.
Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre1
M, #5184, b. between 1042 and 1043, d. 4 June 1094
Father Ramirez I, King of Aragon d. 8 May 1064
Mother Gisberge of Foix d. 1054
Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre was born between 1042 and 1043. He married Isabel de Urgel, daughter of Armengol III, Count of Urgel and Clementia de Bigorre, circa 1065. Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre and Isabel de Urgel were divorced before 1071. Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre married Felice of Roucy, daughter of Hilduin IV de Rouci, Comte de Montdidier, Seigneur de Rameru & d'Arcis and Adele de Roucy, in 1071. Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre died on 4 June 1094 at Battle of Huesca, Spain.
Isabel de Urgel d. 20 Dec 1071
Peter I, King of Aragon & Navarre+ b. 1069, d. 27 Sep 1104
Fernando Sanchez of Aragon+2 b. c 1065
Felice of Roucy d. 3 May 1123
Alfonso I, King of Navarre & Aragon b. 1073, d. 7 Sep 1134
Ramirez II, King of Aragon & Navarre+ b. 1075, d. 16 Aug 1147
Felice of Roucy1
F, #5185, d. 3 May 1123
Father Hilduin IV de Rouci, Comte de Montdidier, Seigneur de Rameru & d'Arcis d. 1063
Mother Adele de Roucy d. 1062
Felice of Roucy married Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre, son of Ramirez I, King of Aragon and Gisberge of Foix, in 1071. Felice of Roucy died on 3 May 1123.
Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre b. bt 1042 - 1043, d. 4 Jun 1094
Alfonso I, King of Navarre & Aragon1 b. 1073, d. 7 Sep 1134
Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne1
M, #5186, b. 1023, d. 27 May 1076
Father Berenger Borella, Marquis de Barcelona b. 1005, d. 26 May 1035
Mother Sancha Sanchez of Castile d. 26 Jun 1026
Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne Count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona, and Radez. He married Isabel de Nimes, daughter of Raymond Bernard II Trencavel Vicomte d'Albi & Nimes, Count of Carcassonne and Ermengarde de Carcassonne. Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne was born in 1023. He married Blanca before 16 March 1051. Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne and Blanca were divorced circa 1052; Repudiated.2 Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne married Almodis de la Marche, daughter of Bernard I, 3rd Count de la Marche, Count of Perigord and Amelia d' Aunay, circa 1056.3 Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne died on 27 May 1076 at Barcelona, Spain.
Isabel de Nimes d. 29 Jun 1050
Almodis de la Marche b. c 1020, d. 16 Oct 1071
Ines of Barcelona+ d. 1076
Sancha of Barcelona+ d. a 1079
Raimond II Berenger+ b. c 1057, d. 6 Dec 1082
Almodis de la Marche1
F, #5187, b. circa 1020, d. 16 October 1071
Father Bernard I, 3rd Count de la Marche, Count of Perigord b. c 986, d. b 16 Jul 1047
Mother Amelia d' Aunay d. 1072
Almodis de la Marche was born circa 1020 at of LaMarche, Normandy, France. She married Hugh V 'the Pious', 5th Seigneur de Lusignan, son of Hugh IV 'le Brun', 4th Seigneur de Lusignan and Aldearde de Thouars, circa 1039; Her 1st marriage.2 Almodis de la Marche married Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi, son of William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse and Emma of Avignon, between 1040 and 1045.2 Almodis de la Marche and Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi were divorced before 1056.2 Almodis de la Marche married Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne, son of Berenger Borella, Marquis de Barcelona and Sancha Sanchez of Castile, circa 1056.2 Almodis de la Marche died on 16 October 1071; Murdered by her step-son, Peter Raimond of Barcelona.3
Hugh V 'the Pious', 5th Seigneur de Lusignan d. 8 Oct 1060
Hugh VI 'the Devil', 6th Seigneur de Lusignan+4 d. May 1102
Mahaud de Lusignan+5
Melisende de Lusignan+6 d. a 1070
Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi b. 990, d. 1060
Almode de Toulouse+ d. a 1132
Raimund IV, Duke of Narbonne, Count of Toulouse, St. Gilles, Gevaudan, & Tripoli, Markgraf von Gothia & Provence+ d. 28 Feb 1105
Guillaume IV, Duke of Narbonne, Duke & Count of Toulouse, Albi, Dijon, Perigord, & Carcassonne+ b. c 1040, d. 1093
Raymond I Berenger, Count of Carcassonne b. 1023, d. 27 May 1076
Ines of Barcelona+7 d. 1076
Sancha of Barcelona+7 d. a 1079
[S1000] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 763, Vol. 3.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 819.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Lusignan.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. X, Tafel 77.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XIV, Tafel 48.
Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi1
M, #5188, b. 990, d. 1060
Father William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse b. c 947, d. Oct 1037
Mother Emma of Avignon d. a 1063
Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi was born in 990 at of Toulouse, Aquitaine, France. He married Marjorie before 1037. Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi married Almodis de la Marche, daughter of Bernard I, 3rd Count de la Marche, Count of Perigord and Amelia d' Aunay, between 1040 and 1045.2 Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi and Almodis de la Marche were divorced before 1056.2 Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi died in 1060.
Pons of Toulouse d. c 1063
[S1001] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 763; Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 61.
William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse1
M, #5189, b. circa 947, d. October 1037
Father Raymond III Pons, Duke of Aquitaine, Marquis of Gothie, Count of Toulouse & Albi d. a 961
Mother Gersende of Gascony
William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse was born circa 947. He married Arsinde of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II 'the Good', Count of Anjou and Gerberge of the Gatinais, circa 975. William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse married Emma of Avignon, daughter of Rotbald III, Count of Provence and Ermengarde, in 1019. William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse died in October 1037.
Emma of Toulouse+
Emma of Avignon d. a 1063
Hildegarde (Eveza) de Toulouse+ d. a 23 Jun 1040
Pons III, Count Toulouse, Dijon, & Albi+ b. 990, d. 1060
Rangarde de Toulouse+2 b. 1033, d. 1077
Emma of Avignon1
F, #5190, d. after 1063
Father Rotbald III, Count of Provence d. 1014
Mother Ermengarde d. 22 Aug 1057
Emma of Avignon was born at of Provence, France. She married William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse, son of Raymond III Pons, Duke of Aquitaine, Marquis of Gothie, Count of Toulouse & Albi and Gersende of Gascony, in 1019. Emma of Avignon died after 1063.
William III Taillefer, Count Toulouse b. c 947, d. Oct 1037
Rangarde de Toulouse+ b. 1033, d. 1077
[S1003] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 187.
Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias1,2,3,4
M, #5191, b. 1 March 1105, d. 21 August 1157
Father Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo5 b. c 1070, d. 26 Mar 1107
Mother Urraca of Castile5 b. 1082, d. 8 Mar 1126
Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias married Gontrode de Asturias, daughter of Pedro Diaz de Asturias, Señor de Aller and Maria Ordoñez, DID NOT MARRY. Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias married Sancha Fernandez de Castro DID NOT MARRY.6 Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias Emperor of Spain. He was born on 1 March 1105 at Castile, Spain. He married Berengaria of Barcelona, daughter of Raimond III Berenger, Count of Barcelona and Douce (Dulcia) of Provence, in September 1128 at Saldana, Palencia, Spain.3 Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias married Richilde of Poland, daughter of Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia and Agnes of Austria, in July 1152. Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias died on 21 August 1157 at Fresneda, Spain, at age 52.
Estefania of Castile+7
Sancha Fernandez de Castro
Fernando Alfonso de Benavides+6 b. c 1138
Gontrode de Asturias
Urraca of Castile+ b. a 1126, d. 12 Oct 1189
Berengaria of Barcelona b. c 1116, d. 3 Feb 1149
Ferdinand II, King of Leon, Galicia, & Extremadura+ b. 1135, d. 21 Jan 1188
Sancho III 'the Desired', King of Castile+ b. 1135, d. 31 Aug 1158
Sancha of Castile+2 b. c 1140, d. 5 Aug 1179
Constance of Castile+3,4 b. a 1140, d. 4 Oct 1160
Richilde of Poland b. bt 1130 - 1140, d. 16 Jun 1185
Sancia of Castile+ b. 21 Sep 1154, d. 9 Nov 1208
[S576] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 106.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 353-354.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Burgundy.
Richilde of Poland1,2
F, #5192, b. between 1130 and 1140, d. 16 June 1185
Father Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia b. 1105, d. 30 May 1159
Mother Agnes of Austria b. c 1113, d. c 25 Jan 1160
Richilde of Poland was born between 1130 and 1140 at of Poland. She married Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias, son of Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo and Urraca of Castile, in July 1152. Richilde of Poland married Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence & Melgueuil, Vicomte de Rodez, Gevaudan, & Carladet, son of Berenguer Ramon, Count of Provence, Vicomte de Rodez, Gevaudan & Carladet and Beatrix de Melgueuil, in 1161. Richilde of Poland married Albrecht III, Graf von Everstein, son of Albrecht II, Graf von Everstein, after 1166.2,3 Richilde of Poland died on 16 June 1185.
Albrecht III, Graf von Everstein d. a 1197
Albrecht IV, Graf von Everstein+4 d. 19 Sep 1214
Konrad III, Graf von Everstein5 d. c 1233
Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias b. 1 Mar 1105, d. 21 Aug 1157
[S1004] Unknown author, Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 67; Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 9.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XVII, Tafel 82.
[S11582] CD-ROM: Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire and Other European Nobility, by GenQuest.
[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XVII, Tafel 82.
Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo1,2
M, #5193, b. circa 1070, d. 26 March 1107
Father Guillaume II 'the Great', Comte de Franche Comte, Burgundy, Macon, & Vienne, Lord of Salms b. c 1024, d. 11 Nov 1087
Mother Stephanie de Longwy d. 30 Jun 1109
Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo On a crusade against the Moors in Spain. He was born circa 1070 at Burgundy, France. He married Urraca of Castile, daughter of Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon and Constance of Burgundy, between December 1092 and January 1093 at Saldaña, Palencia, Castile-Leon, Spain.1 Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo died on 26 March 1107 at Grajal de Campos, Castile-Leon, Spain; Killed by the Almoravids.1
Urraca of Castile b. 1082, d. 8 Mar 1126
Alphonso VII, King of Castile, Leon, Galicia, Toledo, Zaragoza, & the Asturias+1 b. 1 Mar 1105, d. 21 Aug 1157
[S964] Unknown author, Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 63.
Urraca of Castile1,2
F, #5194, b. 1082, d. 8 March 1126
Father Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon1 b. Jun 1040, d. 20 Jun 1109
Mother Constance of Burgundy b. c 1046, d. bt Jan 1093 - Feb 1093
Urraca of Castile was born in 1082.1 She married Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo, son of Guillaume II 'the Great', Comte de Franche Comte, Burgundy, Macon, & Vienne, Lord of Salms and Stephanie de Longwy, between December 1092 and January 1093 at Saldaña, Palencia, Castile-Leon, Spain.1 Urraca of Castile married Alfonso I, King of Navarre & Aragon, son of Sancho-Ramirez, King of Aragon and Navarre and Felice of Roucy, in September 1109 at Castle of Muno, Burgos, Castile-Leon, Spain.1,3 Urraca of Castile and Alfonso I, King of Navarre & Aragon were divorced in 1114.1 Urraca of Castile married Pedro Gonsalez de Lara, son of Gonsalo Nunez, Count de Lara and Goda de Salvadores, before 1126; May not have been married.3 Urraca of Castile died on 8 March 1126 at Saldana, Spain.
Raymond II, Count of Burgundy, Galicia, Coimbra, Amous, & Castile, Governor of Toledo b. c 1070, d. 26 Mar 1107
Pedro Gonsalez de Lara d. 1130
Fernan Perez 'El Hurtada' de Lara+4 d. a 1158
Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia
Father Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir b. 20 Aug 1086, d. 28 Oct 1138
Mother Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev b. c 1087, d. 1113
Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia was born in 1105 at of Krakow, Krakow, Poland. He married Agnes of Austria, daughter of Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria and Agnes of Germany, between 1120 and 1125. Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia died on 30 May 1159.
Agnes of Austria b. c 1113, d. c 25 Jan 1160
Boleslaus "the Tall" I, Duke of Silesia+ b. c 1127, d. 7 Dec 1201
Richilde of Poland+ b. bt 1130 - 1140, d. 16 Jun 1185
Mieszko I, Prince of Silesia, Duke of Oppeln & Ratibor+ b. c 1138, d. 16 May 1211
Agnes of Austria
F, #5196, b. circa 1113, d. circa 25 January 1160
Father Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria b. c 1075, d. 15 Nov 1136
Mother Agnes of Germany b. bt Jul 1072 - Mar 1073, d. 24 Sep 1143
Agnes of Austria was born circa 1113 at Vienna, Austria. She married Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia, son of Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir and Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev, between 1120 and 1125. Agnes of Austria died circa 25 January 1160 at Altenburg, Thür; Buried at Cloister Pforte, Saale.
Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia b. 1105, d. 30 May 1159
Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon1,2
M, #5197, b. June 1040, d. 20 June 1109
Father Ferdinand I, King of Castile, Leon, Navarre d. 27 Dec 1065
Mother Sancha of Leon b. 1013, d. 13 Dec 1067
Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Ximena Nunez de Guzman, daughter of Munio Rodriguez, Count of Bierzo and Ximena of Leon, DID NOT MARRY. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon was born in June 1040. He married Agatha of England, daughter of William 'the Conqueror', King of England, 7th Duke of Normandy and Matilda of Flanders, in 1068. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Agnes de Poitou, daughter of William VIII (Guy-Godfrey), 6th Count of Poitou, Duke of Gascony & Aquitaine and Anna de Perigord, in 1074. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon and Agnes de Poitou were divorced in 1077.3 Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Constance of Burgundy, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Auxerrois and Ella of Semur, on 8 May 1081.4 Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Zayda of Seville, daughter of Mohammed III (Abul-Qasim) 'Benqbet', Emir of Seville and (Miss) de Balearic Isles, in 1090. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Bertha of Burgundy in 1093. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Elisabeth/Isabel of France after 1100. Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon married Beatrix de Poitou, daughter of William VIII (Guy-Godfrey), 6th Count of Poitou, Duke of Gascony & Aquitaine and Aldegarde of Burgundy, in 1108.3 Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon died on 20 June 1109 at Toledo, Spain.
Ximena Nunez de Guzman d. 1128
Elvira Alfonso of Castile+ d. a 1151
Teresa of Leon+ b. c 1080, d. 1 Nov 1130
Agatha of England d. b 1074
Agnes de Poitou b. 1052, d. 6 Jun 1078
Constance of Burgundy b. c 1046, d. bt Jan 1093 - Feb 1093
Urraca of Castile+5 b. 1082, d. 8 Mar 1126
Zayda of Seville
Sancha of Castile+ d. 1125
Sancho of Castile d. 1108
Bertha of Burgundy d. c 1100
Elisabeth/Isabel of France d. a 1108
Elvira of Castile+2 d. 6 Feb 1135
Sancha of Castile+6 d. a 1122
Beatrix de Poitou d. 1110
[S1007] Unknown author, Omnibus, Vol. 12, p. 10; The Augustan Society.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 462.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Capet.
Constance of Burgundy1,2
F, #5198, b. circa 1046, d. between January 1093 and February 1093
Father Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Auxerrois1 b. 1011, d. 21 Mar 1076
Mother Ella of Semur1 b. 1016, d. 22 Apr 1055
Constance of Burgundy married Hugues II, Comte de Chalon-sur-Saone, son of Thibault, Comte de Chalons and Ermentrude of Chalons.1 Constance of Burgundy was born circa 1046 at of Burgundy, France.1 She married Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon, son of Ferdinand I, King of Castile, Leon, Navarre and Sancha of Leon, on 8 May 1081.1 Constance of Burgundy died between January 1093 and February 1093.
Hugues II, Comte de Chalon-sur-Saone d. a 1080
Alphonso VI, King of Castile & Leon b. Jun 1040, d. 20 Jun 1109
Urraca of Castile+ b. 1082, d. 8 Mar 1126
[S1008] Unknown author, Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. I, p. 63; Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 20, Vol. 2.
Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir1
M, #5199, b. 20 August 1086, d. 28 October 1138
Father Vladislas I, King of Poland b. c 1043, d. 4 Jun 1102
Mother Judith 'the Older' of Bohemia b. bt 1056 - 1058, d. 25 Dec 1086
Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir was born on 20 August 1086 at of Krakow, Krakow, Poland. He married Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev, daughter of Swjatopolk II Michael, Prince of Novgorod, Kiev, in 1103. Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir married Salomia von Limbourg, daughter of Heinrich I, Graf von Limbourg & Arlon, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Adelaide von Pottenstein, between March 1115 and July 1115. Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir died on 28 October 1138 at age 52.
Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev b. c 1087, d. 1113
Adelheid of Poland2 d. b Feb 1132
Wladyslaw II, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Poland, Duke of Breslau, Lord of Krakow & Silicia+ b. 1105, d. 30 May 1159
Salomia von Limbourg b. 1101, d. 27 Jul 1144
Ryksa of Poland+ b. 12 Apr 1116, d. a 25 Dec 1155
(Miss) von Poland b. b 1119
Boleslav IV 'the Curly', Prince of Massovia & Cujavia3 b. c 1122, d. 5 Jan 1173
Mieceslaus III, King of Poland+ b. c 1126, d. 13 Mar 1202
Dobronega of Poland b. b 1129, d. a 26 Oct 1147
Judyta of Poland+ b. 1130, d. 8 Jul 1174
Agnes of Poland+ b. bt 1137 - 1138, d. a 1182
Casimir II 'the Just', King of Poland+ b. 1138, d. 5 May 1194
[S1009] Unknown author, Royal Highness, Ancestry of the Royal Child, by Moncreiffe, p. 94.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. I, Tafel 39.
Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev
Father Swjatopolk II Michael, Prince of Novgorod, Kiev b. 1050, d. 16 Apr 1113
Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev Her mother was a concubine of her father. She was born circa 1087 at of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine. She married Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir, son of Vladislas I, King of Poland and Judith 'the Older' of Bohemia, in 1103. Zbyslava (Shileva) of Kiev died in 1113.
Boleslaw III 'Crooked Mouth (the Liar)', Duke & Grand Prince of Poland, Lord of Breslau, Krakow, & Sentomir b. 20 Aug 1086, d. 28 Oct 1138
Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria1
M, #5201, b. circa 1075, d. 15 November 1136
Father Leopold II, Duke of Austria b. 1056, d. 12 Oct 1095
Mother Itha von Ratelberg d. a 1101
Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria was born circa 1075 at of Austria. He married (Miss) von Perg, daughter of Walchun von Perg and Adelheid, circa 1100.2 Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria married Agnes of Germany, daughter of Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Duke of Bavaria and Bertha of Maurienne, in 1106 at Cloister Neuburg, Austria; There were 7 other children born to this marriage, all of whom died young.3 Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria died on 15 November 1136; Buried at Cloister Neuburg. Killed while hunting.
(Miss) von Perg d. 1105
Adalbert, Markgraf of Austria b. c 13 Feb 1105, d. 9 Nov 1137
Agnes of Germany b. bt Jul 1072 - Mar 1073, d. 24 Sep 1143
Heinrich 'Jasomirgott' II, 1st Duke & Markgraf of Austria+ b. c 1107, d. 13 Jan 1177
Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria, Markgraf of Austria b. c 1109, d. 18 Oct 1141
Bertha of Austria+ b. c 1111, d. c 9 Apr 1150
Otto of Austria2 b. 1112, d. 22 Sep 1158
Agnes of Austria+ b. c 1113, d. c 25 Jan 1160
Ernst of Austria2 b. c 1114, d. a 1137
Konrad of Austria2 b. 1116, d. 28 Sep 1168
Elisabeth of Austria b. c 1119, d. 20 May 1143
Judith of Austria+4 b. c 1121, d. a 1178
Gertrude of Austria+ b. c 1123, d. 4 Aug 1150
[S1011] Unknown author, Wallop Family, p. 43; Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 39.
[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/1, Tafel 84.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Swabia.
[S54] Middle & Far East Families, Montferrat.
Agnes of Germany1,2
F, #5202, b. between July 1072 and March 1073, d. 24 September 1143
Father Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Duke of Bavaria1 b. 11 Nov 1050, d. 7 Aug 1106
Mother Bertha of Maurienne b. 21 Sep 1051, d. 27 Dec 1087
Agnes of Germany was born between July 1072 and March 1073.1 She and Frederic I, Duke of Swabia were engaged on 24 March 1079 at Regensburg, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, Germany.1,3 Agnes of Germany married Frederic I, Duke of Swabia, son of Frederick Free, Graf von Büren & Riesgau, Baron Waiblengen, Swabia, Wuertemburg and Hildegarde of Bar, in 1086 or 1087. Agnes of Germany married Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria, son of Leopold II, Duke of Austria and Itha von Ratelberg, in 1106 at Cloister Neuburg, Austria; There were 7 other children born to this marriage, all of whom died young.1 Agnes of Germany died on 24 September 1143; Buried at Cloister Neuburg.1
Frederic I, Duke of Swabia b. c 1050, d. 6 Apr 1105
Richilde de Swabia+
Heilika of Germany3 d. a 1110
Bertrada (Bertha) of Germany3
Hildegardis of Germany3
Giselhildis (Gisela) of Germany3
Heinrich of Germany3 d. 1102
Beatrix of Germany3 d. a 1146
Gertrud (Fides) of Germany3 d. a 1182
Kunigunde (Kunizza) of Germany4
Sophia of Germany3
Frederic II Luscus 'One-Eyed', Duke of Swabia+1 b. 1090, d. 6 Apr 1147
Konrad III, Emperor of Germany+ b. 1093, d. 15 Feb 1152
Leopold III "the Saint", Margrave of Austria b. c 1075, d. 15 Nov 1136
Leopold IV, Duke of Bavaria, Markgraf of Austria5 b. c 1109, d. 18 Oct 1141
Elisabeth of Austria5 b. c 1119, d. 20 May 1143
[S1012] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists by F. L. Weis, p. 50; Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 39.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XVI, Tafel 120B.
Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran1,2
M, #5203, d. November 1184
Father Guillaume de Sabran, Constable of Toulouse3 d. a 1109
Mother Adalaicia3 d. a 1138
Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran married Rocie d' Uzes, daughter of Rainou du Caylar (Calla), Seigneur d'Uzes and Gauceline de Lunel. Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran married Constance Amic, daughter of Guiraud Amic, Seigneur de Vedene and Ayelmus.4,2 Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran died in November 1184.
Constance Amic d. 1136
Guiraud I Amic+4,2 d. bt Feb 1179 - 1184
Guillaume II de Sabran+4 d. c 1199
Rocie d' Uzes d. a Apr 1192
Elzear de Sabran, Seigneur de Uzes+ d. a 1208
Rainou de Sabran, Seigneur d'Castellan, Count Forcalquier+ b. c 1155, d. 1224
[S11600] 40000 Ancestors of the Counts of Paris, Person 35-94.
[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. XIV, Tafel 179.
Rocie d' Uzes1
F, #5204, d. after April 1192
Father Rainou du Caylar (Calla), Seigneur d'Uzes b. c 1115, d. a 1200
Mother Gauceline de Lunel
Rocie d' Uzes married Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran, son of Guillaume de Sabran, Constable of Toulouse and Adalaicia. Rocie d' Uzes died after April 1192.
Rostaing III de Sabran, Seigneur de Sabran d. Nov 1184
Elzear de Sabran, Seigneur de Uzes+2 d. a 1208
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Just Eat Dublinbikes Station Opens in Grangegorman
March 27, 2018 by Orla O'Muiri No Comments
Great news, more dublinbikes stations are coming to Dublin! This is another small step towards a more sustainable city and we heartily approve.
The first of 15 new Just Eat dublinbikes station is officially opened. The rest will follow in the coming months. Today Dublin’s Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha officially opened Dublin city’s newest Just Eat dublinbikes station in George’s Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7. That means there is now 116 (up from 101) stations and 1,600 bikes available in the city.
In addition to George’s Lane, three stations will open the vicinity of the Grangegorman campus. These are at St Brendan’s Way (South), the Clock Tower (Central) and Ivy Avenue (North). The Just Eat dublinbikes scheme is one of the most successful public bike share schemes in the world. Figures published in February 2018 show there are 67,890 long-term members of the scheme and since launching in 2009 there have been 22,417,162 journeys. 96% of all journeys taken are completely free and the average journey time for users is just 14 minutes.
Amanda Roche-Kelly, Managing Director,Just Eat Ireland;Joanne Grant ,Managing Director JCDecaux Ireland; Dublin’s Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha who officially opened Dublin city’s newest Just Eat dublinbikes station in George’s Lane, Smithfield, Dublin 7; and Anne Graham, Chief Executive Officer, National Transport Authority.The expansion of the bike scheme into Grangegorman and the surrounding areas will increase the number of stations to 116 and the number of bikes to 1,600. (Pic:Naoise Culhane)
Minister Paschal Donohoe says, “When it was first launched in 2009, no-one could have envisaged the future success of the Just Eat dublinbikes scheme. With more than 22 million journeys taken since that time, their addition to the Dublin transport landscape has been transformative.”
Anne Graham, CEO, National Transport Authority, says, “Bike share projects such as the Just Eat dublinbikes scheme have been a great success story. We have seen mode share for cyclists increase dramatically in the Dublin city centre area from 2.3% in 2006 to 6.0% in 2016. The Just Eat dublinbikes scheme has played a significant role in getting people to shift to sustainable modes, and particularly to cycling.”
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Status Candidate
Race condition in the scan_get_next_rmap_item function in mm/ksm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.3, when Kernel SamePage Merging (KSM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.
Authored by Debian | Site debian.org
Debian Linux Security Advisory 2389-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation.
tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, vulnerability
systems | linux, debian
advisories | CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2898, CVE-2011-3353, CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-4127, CVE-2011-4611, CVE-2011-4622, CVE-2011-4914
MD5 | 32bf67cb13953699a69550235620efa8
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu Security Notice 1285-1 - Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain information, leading to a loss of privacy. Various other issues were also addressed.
tags | advisory, denial of service, local
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-2495, CVE-2011-2517, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909
MD5 | e74dde7810f3e397c92db107a7f9f975
Ubuntu Security Notice 1281-1 - Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on "/dev/zero" was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
MD5 | aecce7ab016e9e29fd83a81e5038ab8d
MD5 | b453296a7d8bffc0468a45fc6110c91e
Ubuntu Security Notice 1278-1 - It was discovered that CIFS incorrectly handled authentication. When a user had a CIFS share mounted that required authentication, a local user could mount the same share without knowing the correct password. Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
advisories | CVE-2011-1585, CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2496, CVE-2011-2517
MD5 | 7b0e3a87a8ff04a70dd2b49f153c0e5c
MD5 | c2b4be0547b37342a1395a83ffc9187b
Ubuntu Security Notice 1256-1 - It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities. Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the Bluetooth stack did not correctly clear memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1244-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel X.25 implementation incorrectly parsed facilities. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service. Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1253-01
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1253-01 - Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact.
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1189-01 - Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue can prevent PCI passthrough working and guests starting. Flaw in the client-side NLM implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service.
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Opportunities and Obstacles for Life on Proxima b
August 28, 2016 Pale Red Dot 12 Comments
by Prof. Rory Barnes, University of Washington
The discovery of Proxima b is the biggest exoplanet discovery since the discovery of exoplanets. The planet is not much bigger than Earth and resides in the “habitable zone” of the Sun’s nearest stellar neighbor. This planet may represent humanity’s best chance to search for life among the stars. But is Proxima b habitable? Is it inhabited? These questions are impossible to answer at this time because we know so little about the planet. However, we can extrapolate from the worlds of our Solar System, as well as employ theoretical models of galactic, stellar, and planetary evolution, to piece together realistic scenarios for Proxima b’s history. The possibilities are varied and depend on phenomena usually studied by scientists in fields that are considered distinct, but an integrated perspective — an astrobiological perspective — can provide a realistic assessment of the possibility that life could have arisen and survived on the closest exoplanet.
As an astrobiologist and astronomer at the University of Washington, and a member of NASA’s Virtual Planetary Lab, I have investigated the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs for years. My research involves building computer models that simulate how planetary interiors and atmospheres evolve, how stars change with time, and how planetary orbits vary. The discovery of Proxima b has me very excited, but being Earth-sized and in the habitable zone are just the first two requirements for a planet to support life, and the list of requirements is much longer for planets orbiting red dwarfs than for stars like our Sun. If Proxima b is in fact habitable, meaning it possesses liquid water or even inhabited, meaning life is currently present, then it will have traversed a very different evolutionary path than Earth. This difference is frustrating, in that it will make our initial interpretations challenging, but also exciting, as it offers the chance to learn how Earth-sized planets evolve in our universe. Whether Proxima b is a sterile wasteland or teeming with life, we are now embarking on an unprecedented era of discovery, one that may finally provide an answer that age-old question “Are we alone?”.
To evaluate the possibility of life on Proxima b, we must begin with the only habitable planet we know, Earth. Life on Earth has established itself in a stunning diversity of habitats, including acidic hot springs, the deepest reaches of the oceans, microscopic channels in sea ice, and the deepest levels of Earth’s crust. Regardless of how extreme the environment, all life on Earth requires three basic ingredients: energy, nutrients and liquid water. The first two ingredients are very abundant throughout the universe, as is the water molecule. The limiting factor from an astrophysical perspective is that water must be in its liquid phase. The habitable zone is a map of where liquid water could exist on the surfaces of rocky, Earth-like planets, hence its status as the first requirement for a planet to be habitable. Life also requires sufficient time to originate and evolve, but on Earth it has proven resilient to calamities as trivial as a thunderstorm or as traumatic. The variety and tenacity of Earth-bound life encourages astrobiologists to imagine that life can exist not only on Earth-like exoplanets, but also on strange, exotic worlds.
So what to make of Proxima b? It is at least as massive as Earth, and may be several times more massive. Its “year” is just over 11 days and its orbit may be circular or significantly elongated. Its host star is only 12% as massive as our Sun, 0.1% as bright, and it is known to flare. It may be joined to the stars Alpha Centauri A and B, 15,000 astronomical units (AU) away, by their mutual gravitational attraction. All three stars contain substantially more heavy elements than our Sun, but we know very little of the composition of Proxima b, or how it formed. The new data point toward the presence of a second planet orbiting in the system with a period near 200 days, but its existence cannot be proven at this time. These are the facts we have and from them we must deduce whether Proxima b supports life.
Proxima b was detected via the radial velocity method, which does not provide a direct measurement of the planet’s mass, only a minimum mass. So, the first question we’d like to answer is whether the planet’s mass is low enough to be rocky like Earth. If the planet is much larger, it may be more like Neptune with a thick gaseous envelope. While we don’t know where the dividing line between rocky and gaseous exoplanets is, models of planet formation and analyses of Kepler planets suggest the transition is between 5 and 10 times the mass of Earth. Only about 5% of allowed orbits place Proxima b’s mass above 5 Earth masses, so it is very likely that this planet is in the rocky range.
The next question to ask is if the planet actually formed with water. Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen, the first and third most common elements in the galaxy, so we should expect it to be everywhere. Close to stars, however, where Proxima b resides, water is heated into its vapor phase while planets are forming, and hence it is difficult for planets to capture it. Planets that form at larger distances can gather more water, so if Proxima b formed farther out and moved to its current orbit later, it is more likely to be water-rich. At this time, we don’t know how the planet formed, but three scenarios seem most probable: 1) the planet formed where it is from mostly local material; 2) the planet formed farther out while the gas and dust disk that birthed the planetary system still existed, and forces from that disk drove the planet in to its present orbit; or 3) the planet formed elsewhere and some sort of system-wide instability rearranged the planets and b ultimately arrived in its current orbit. The first method is how Earth and Venus formed, and so Proxima b may or may not possess significant water if it formed in this way. The second method produces planets that are very water-rich because water is more likely to be in its ice phase farther out in the disk and so the forming planet could easily gather it up. The third method is inconclusive as the planet could have come from an interior orbit and formed without water or farther out and be water-rich. We conclude that it is entirely possible that this planet has water, but we cannot be certain.
Next let us consider the clues from the stars themselves. Computer models of the evolution of our galaxy suggest that stars enriched in heavy elements like Proxima cannot form locally (25,000 light-years from the galactic center) as there just aren’t enough heavy elements available. But closer to the galactic center, where star formation has been more vigorous and transpiring for longer, stars like Proxima are possible. Recent work by Dr. Sarah Loebman and colleagues has found that stars in our local solar neighborhood with compositions like Proxima must have formed at least 10,000 light-years closer to the galactic center. It would seem Proxima Centauri has wandered through our galaxy and this history may have played an important role in the evolution of Proxima b.
Computer models of the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy suggest Proxima Centauri has moved outward at least 10,000 light-years from where it formed, shown by the orange circle. The Sun and Earth probably formed near where they orbit today (blue circle), which is where we find Proxima Centauri, too.
The orbit of Proxima around Alpha Centauri A and B, assuming they are gravitationally connected, is large compared to other multiple star systems. In fact, it is so large that A and B’s hold on Proxima is weak and the effects of the Milky Way galaxy have shaped Proxima’s orbit significantly. The mass of the Milky Way as a whole causes Proxima’s orbit to vary both in shape and orientation continuously. Proxima is also susceptible to gravitational encounters from passing stars that can change its orbit. Recent simulations by Prof. Nate Kaib have found that these two effects can often lead to close passages between the stars in a multiple star system that disrupt their planetary systems. The disruption is often powerful enough to eject planets from the system and completely rearrange the orbits of the planets that remain. New simulations by Russell Deitrick are revealing that this scenario is a real concern for Proxima, too; there is a significant probability that at some point in the past, Proxima swooped in close enough to Alpha Centauri A and B to cause its planetary system to break apart, hurling Proxima b’s siblings into deep space. If such a disruption occurred, Proxima b may not have formed where we find it today because its orbit would have been affected by this disruption.
Even if Proxima is not currently bound to Alpha Cen A and B, it appears to be travelling with them, and it is very likely the stars formed from the same cloud of dust and gas. If they formed together, they should have similar compositions and nearly identical ages. Connecting their ages is important because it is very difficult to measure the ages of low mass stars like Proxima Centauri. Astronomers can estimate the age of Alpha Cen A via asteroseismology, the study of “starquakes.” Stars bigger than the Sun vibrate with large enough amplitudes that brightness fluctuations can be observed, and careful monitoring of the pulsations can reveal a star’s age. Recent work by Dr. Michaël Bazot has found that Alpha Cen A is between 3.5 and 6 billion years old. This range is larger than we would like, but Proxima is certainly old enough to support life, and Proxima b might even be about the same age as Earth!
Next we turn to clues from the Proxima Centauri planetary system. The vast majority of the energy used by life on Earth comes from our Sun, and small stars like Proxima can produce energy for trillions of years. The host star is almost as small as stars come, so for a planet to receive as much stellar energy as Earth, Proxima b must be about 25 times closer in than Earth is from the sun. This distance is where the habitable zone lies. While Proxima is much dimmer than the Sun, it is still a thermonuclear explosion, and, everything else equal, life seems more likely at larger distances. And indeed the close-in orbit does produce numerous obstacles that life on Earth did not have to overcome. These include a long formation time for the star, short and energetic bursts of energy in UV and X-ray light, strong magnetic fields, larger starspots, larger coronal mass ejections, and gravitational tidal effects that cause rotational properties to change and frictional heating in oceans (if they exist) and the rocky interior.
The history of Proxima’s brightness evolution has been slow and complicated. Stellar evolution models all predict that for the first one billion years Proxima slowly dimmed to its current brightness, which implies that for about the first quarter of a billion years, Proxima b’s surface would have been too hot for Earth-like conditions. As Rodrigo Luger and I recently showed, had our modern Earth been placed in such a situation, it would have become a Venus-like world, in a runaway greenhouse state that can destroy all of the planet’s primordial water. This desiccation can occur because the molecular bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water can be destroyed in the upper atmosphere by radiation from the star, and hydrogen, being the lightest of the elements, can escape the planet’s gravity. Without hydrogen, there can be no water, and the planet is not habitable. Escaping or avoiding this early runaway greenhouse is the biggest hurdle for Proxima b’s chances for supporting life.
Figure 2: Proxima Centauri’s habitable zone has moved inward since it formed, which may mean that Proxima b lost its water shortly after it formed, when the system was 1—10 million years old. The habitable zone, shown in blue, doesn’t arrive at the orbit of Proxima b until almost 200 million years after it formed. This early brightness may be the biggest obstacle for life to have gained a foothold on Proxima b.
As the star dims, the water destruction process halts, and so total desiccation is not inevitable. If some water remains, the atmosphere may also contain large quantities of oxygen leftover from the water vapor destruction. While having large amounts of water and oxygen may sound like a good recipe for life, it almost certainly is not. Oxygen is one of the most reactive elements, and its presence in the young atmosphere of Proxima b would likely prevent the development of pre-biotic molecules that require conditions with little oxygen to form. Life on Earth formed when no oxygen was present, and photosynthesis ultimately produced enough oxygen for it to become a major component of our atmosphere. Note that the destruction of only some water leads to the rather surprising possibility that the planet could possess oceans and an oxygen-rich atmosphere, but has been unable to support life!
Another intriguing possibility is that Proxima b started out more like Neptune and the early brightness and flaring eroded away a hydrogen-rich atmosphere to reveal a habitable Proxima below. Such a world was investigated by Rodrigo Luger, myself and others, and was found to be a viable pathway to avoid total desiccation. Essentially the hydrogen atmosphere protects the water. If Proxima b formed with about 0.1-1% of its mass in a hydrogen envelope, the planet would lose the hydrogen but not its water, potentially emerging as a habitable world after the star reached its current brightness.
This wide range of possible evolutionary pathways presents a daunting challenge as we imagine using space- and ground-based telescopes to search for life in the atmosphere of Proxima b. Fortunately my colleagues in the Virtual Planetary Lab, Prof. Victoria Meadows, Giada Arney and Edward Schwieterman, have been developing techniques to distinguish the possible states of Proxima b’s atmosphere, whether habitable or not. Nearly all the components of an atmosphere imprint their presence in a spectrum, so with our knowledge of the possible histories of this planet, we can begin to develop instruments and plan observations that pinpoint the critical differences. For example, at high enough pressures, oxygen molecules can momentarily bind to each other and produce an observable feature in a spectrum. Crucially, the pressures required to be detectable are large enough to discriminate between a planet with too much oxygen, and one with just the right amount for life. As we learn more about the planet and the system, we can build a library of possible spectra from which to quantitatively determine how likely it is that life exists on Proxima b.
While the early brightness of the host star is the biggest impediment to life, other issues are also important. One of the original concerns for the habitability of planets orbiting red dwarfs was that they would become “tidally locked”, meaning that one hemisphere permanently faces the host star. This state is similar to the rotation of our Moon, in which the same tidal forces that raise waves in our ocean have caused the Moon to show only one face to Earth. Because it is so close to its star, Proxima b may be in this state, depending on the shape of its orbit. For decades, astronomers were concerned that such a tidally locked planet would be uninhabitable because they believed the atmosphere would freeze and collapse to the surface on the permanently dark side. That possibility is now viewed as very unlikely because winds in the atmosphere will transport energy around the planet and maintain sufficient warmth on the backside to prevent this freeze out. Thus, as far as atmospheric stability is concerned, tidal locking is not a concern for this planet’s potential habitability.
Although tidal locking is not very dangerous for life, it is possible for tides to provide large amounts of energy to the planet’s atmosphere and interior. This energy is often called “tidal heating” and is a result of the deformation of the planet due to changes in the host star’s gravitational force across the planet’s diameter. For example, if the planet is on an elliptical orbit, when it is closer to the star, it feels stronger gravity than when it is farther away. This variation will cause the shape of the planet to change, and this deformation can cause friction between layers in the planet’s interior, producing heat. In extreme cases, tidal heating could trigger the onset of a runaway greenhouse like the one that desiccated Venus, independent of starlight. Proxima b is not likely to be in that state, but the tidal heating could still be very strong, causing continual volcanic eruptions as on Jupiter’s moon Io, and/or raising enormous ocean waves. Based on the information we have now, we don’t know the magnitude of tidal heating, but we must be aware of it and explore its implications.
The host star’s short, high energy bursts, called flares, are also a well known concern for surface life on planets of red dwarfs. Flares are eruptions from small regions of the surfaces of stars that cause brief (hours to days) increases in brightness. Crucially, flares emit blasts of positively-charged protons, which have been shown by Prof. Antigona Segura and colleagues to deplete ozone layers that can protect life from harmful high-energy UV light. Proxima flares far more often than our Sun and Proxima b is much closer to Proxima than Earth is to the Sun, so Proxima b is likely to have been subjected to repeated bombardments. If the atmosphere could develop a robust shield to these eruptions, such as a strong magnetic field that then flaring could be unimportant. Alternatively if it exists under just a few meters of water. Therefore, flares should not be considered fatal for life on Proxima b.
The concern over flaring naturally leads to the question of whether the planet actually does have a protective magnetic field like Earth’s. For years, many scientists were concerned that such magnetic fields would be unlikely on planets like Proxima b because tidal locking would prevent their formation. The thinking went that magnetic fields are generated by electric currents moving in the planetary core, and the movement of charged particles needed to create these currents was caused by planetary rotation. A slowly rotating world might not transport the charged particles in the core rapidly enough to generate a strong enough magnetic field to repel the flares, and hence planets in the habitable zones of M dwarfs have no atmospheres. However, more recent research has shown that planetary magnetic fields are actually supported by convection, a process by which hot material at the center of the core rises, cools, and then returns. Rotation helps, but Dr. Peter Driscoll and I recently calculated that convection is more than sufficient to maintain a strong magnetic field for billions of years on a tidally locked and tidally heated planet. Thus, it is entirely possible that Proxima b has a strong magnetic field and can deflect flares.
So is Proxima b habitable? The short answer is “It’s complicated.” Our observations are few, and what we do know allow for a dizzying array of possibilities. Did Proxima b move halfway across the galaxy? Did it endure a planetary-system-wide instability that launched its sibling planets into deep space and changed its orbit? How did it cope with the early high luminosity of its host star? What is it made of? Did it start out as a Neptune-like planet and then become Earth-like? Has it been relentlessly bombarded with flares and coronal mass ejections? Is it tidally heated into an Io-like (or worse) state? These questions are central to unlocking Proxima’s potential habitability and determining if our nearest galactic neighbor is an inhospitable wasteland, an inhabited planet, or a future home for humanity.
The last point is not as rhetorical as it might seem. Since all life requires an energy source, it stands to reason that, in the long term — by which I mean the loooong term — planets like Proxima b might be the ideal homes for life. Our Sun will burn out in a mere 4 billion years, but Proxima Centauri will burn for 4 trillion more. Moreover, if a “planet c” exists and slightly perturbs b’s orbit, tidal heating could supply modest energy to b’s interior indefinitely, providing the power to maintain a stable atmosphere. If humanity is to survive beyond the lifetime of our Sun, we must leave our Solar System and travel to the stars. If Proxima b is habitable, then it might be an ideal place to move. Perhaps we have just discovered a future home for humanity! But in order to know for sure, we must make many more observations, run many more computer simulations, and, hopefully, send probes to perform the first direct reconnaissance of an exoplanet. The challenges are huge, but Proxima offers a bounty of possibilities that fills me with wonder. Whether habitable or not, Proxima b offers a new glimpse into how planets and life fit into our universe.
Thanks to Victoria Meadows, Edward Schwieterman, Giada Arney, and Peter Kelley.
Editorial note. This is an outreach article based on the scientific report “The habitability of Proxima b I : Evolutionary scenarios”, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016arXiv160806919B , which was submitted to the Journal Astrobiology on Aug 25th. Proxima’s b putative habitability assessments are crucial to interpret the significance of the detection of Proxima b, design follow-up observations and even reshape instruments and space missions. The Pale Red Dot team contacted two expert groups in advance to provide these early habitability assessments at the time of the announcement. Prof. Rory Barnes led one of the teams. The results from the other team (led by I. Ribas + M. Turbat) are summarized at: http://proximacentauri.info and are also technically explained on two research papers. More studies are surely underway.
About the author. Rory Barnes is a professor of astronomy and astrobiology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Washington in 2004. After a post-doctoral position at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, he returned to the University of Washington and NASA’s Virtual Planetary Lab in 2009, joining the UW faculty in 2013. He has studied exoplanets through computer models, initially focusing on the orbital dynamics, but has now broadened his investigations to include the roles of the Milky Way galaxy, stellar evolution, atmospheric effects and the thermal and magnetic evolution of terrestrial planet interiors.
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Adam Imiałek says:
Nazwijmy ją CHIRON na cześć wodza centaurów i nauczyciela Heraklesa, Ajaksa, Achillesa i innych herosów.
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Michael Way says:
Hi Rory, When I first read this I was a little confused by this: “In extreme cases, tidal heating could trigger the onset of a runaway greenhouse like the one that desiccated Venus, independent of starlight.” It almost makes it sound like Venus entered a runaway greenhouse because of tidal heating! But on a 2nd reading I realized you didn’t mean that. 🙂
Otherwise excellent piece!
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pres1dentkang says:
Enjoyed the condensed analysis.
But, now I’m going to be grumpy.
Why, oh why do so many people think like this: “If humanity is to survive beyond the lifetime of our Sun…”??? Seriously?
It’s been “only” 500 million years since the Cambrian Explosion. We have been us (in the most generous interpretation) for less than 1% of that. It seems beyond absurd to assume that some sort of extention of our civilisation will exist by the time Sol leaves the Main Sequence let alone that that extention could be regarded as “humanity”.
But, if your are firmly convinced we’ll still be around in few billion years how long do you think it will take before “humanity” reaches the capability of a post biological existence? I suspect it won’t take quiiite that long.
Once the capability is reached we will likely fracture into a variety of species (based on ur-biological forms through a hybrid spectrum to purely “artificial”) once that becomes socially expedient or advantageous. There exists no unindellible agent in our existence that dictates eternal homogeneity of social/corporeal form. Etc., etc.. Anyone still reading this? 😉
rant off
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Torbjörn says:
“Oxygen is one of the most reactive elements, and its presence in the young atmosphere of Proxima b would likely prevent the development of pre-biotic molecules that require conditions with little oxygen to form.”
That is a major concern. But I note that there may be natural oxygen free oases precisely in the locales of a major emergence theory, vent theory. For oxygen mixing ratios of Earth’s deep ocean, vent hydrogen sulfide reacts sufficiently with oxygen to establish anaerobic conditions. [ https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Chemotrophy_Along_Seafloor_Hydrothermal_Vents ] Of course, that is out of the fire into the frying pan so to speak, since sulfite also tend to inactivate metabolic like pathways. [Ibid.] And that is why the alkaline vents of the theory should release smaller amounts of sulfide to be optimal, for Earth.
Great synthesis, and I like the idea of looking for a retirement home for humanity! [I say “humanity” writ large, since the average lifetime for a mammal species is 1-2 Myrs.]
On further cogitation, emergence vents shouldn’t have any specific restrictions on sulfide release, outside of pH concerns. So that may work even better than I initially thought.
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