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IGTV: One year on and a hotbed for creative marketing
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Work - Volume 52, issue 1
Price: EUR 250.00
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the entire scope of the occupation of work. The journal's subtitle has been deliberately laid out: The first goal is the prevention of illness, injury, and disability. When this goal is not achievable, the attention focuses on assessment to design client-centered intervention, rehabilitation, treatment, or controls that use scientific evidence to support best practice. WORK occasionally publishes thematic issues, but in general, issues cover a wide range of topics such as ergonomic considerations with children, youth and students, the challenges facing an aging workforce, workplace violence, injury management, performing artists, ergonomic product evaluations, and the awareness of the political, cultural, and environmental determinants of health related to work.
Dr. Karen Jacobs, the founding editor, and her editorial board especially encourage the publication of research studies, clinical practice, case study reports, as well as personal narratives and critical reflections of lived work experiences (autoethnographic/autobiographic scholarship), Sounding Board commentaries and Speaking of Research articles which provide the foundation for better understanding research to facilitate knowledge dissemination. Narrative Reflections on Occupational Transitions, a new column, is for persons who have successfully transitioned into, between, or out of occupations to tell their stories in a narrative form. With an internationally renowned editorial board, WORK maintains high standards in the evaluation and publication of manuscripts. All manuscripts are reviewed expeditiously and published in a timely manner. WORK prides itself on being an author-friendly journal.
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Understanding and building upon effort to return to work for people with long-term disability and job loss
Authors: Saunders, S.L. | MacEachen, E. | Nedelec, B.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Effort is a concept that underlies programs assisting people with work disability to re-enter the labour force. During re-entry, attention is paid to the effort invested by the worker with an injury. However, for those with chronic work disability, the motivation to return to work (RTW) may be questioned by benefit service providers and healthcare professionals. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to describe the efforts made by people with long term work-disability to regain a foothold on the labour market. METHODS: This phenomenological study explored the meaning of work for people …with long-term work disability and job loss. Twenty-seven interviews were conducted with nine participants. A thematic analysis was completed of the collected data. RESULTS: A key finding of this study is the variety and degree of effort exerted by participants to regain employment, despite time away from the workplace and system barriers. Effort was exerted to retain pre-accident employment; to obtain new work following job loss; and, to remain in a new job. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that if the RTW effort of people with long-term work disability is not fully acknowledged or supported, this population will remain unemployed where their strengths as competent, experienced workers will continue to be wasted. Show more
Keywords: Musculoskeletal injury, chronic pain, phenomenology
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-141977
Citation: Work, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 103-114, 2015
Work ability and work-related stress: A cross-sectional study of obstetrical nurses in urban northeastern Ontario
Authors: Nowrouzi, Behdin | Lightfoot, Nancy | Carter, Lorraine | Larivière, Michel | Rukholm, Ellen | Schinke, Robert | Belanger-Gardner, Diane
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine: 1) if quality of work life (QWL), location of cross-training, stress variables, and various demographic factors in nurses are associated with work ability, and 2) nursing occupational stress, QWL, and various associated factors are related with nurses' work ability. There is limited research examining the obstetrical nursing environment. Given the amount of time and energy people expend at the workplace, it is crucial for employees to be satisfied with their lives at work. METHODS: This cross sectional study was conducted in 2012 in four hospitals in northeastern …Ontario, Canada. A stratified random sample of registered nurses (n= 111) were selected. RESULTS: The majority of participants were female (94.6%) ranging in age from 24 to 64 years (M = 41.9, s.d. = 10.2). For the stress and QWL model, one variable: QWL (home-work support - see Methods for definition) (p= 0.015), cross-trained (see Methods for definition) nurses (p= 0.048), and having more than 4 patients per shift (p= 0.024) significantly contributed to the variance in work ability scores. In the logistic regression model, the odds of a higher work ability for nurses who received home-work support were estimated to be 1.32 (95% CI, 1.06 to 1.66) times the odds of a higher work ability for nurses who did not receive home-work support. CONCLUSIONS: Work ability in the work environment of obstetrical nursing is important. To be high functioning, workplaces should maximize the use of their employees' actual and potential skills. Show more
Keywords: Stress, work ability, workplace, obstetrics, nurses, employment, quality of work life, work organization
An investigation on inter-individual variation in perceived discomfort of static posture holding
Authors: Ogutu, Jack | Park, Woojin | Son, Minseok
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Realizing population-level discomfort evaluation and control of common static posture holding tasks requires an understanding of the inter-individual variation in discomfort perception. However, little research is available. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine the types of mathematical probability distribution suitable for modeling population discomfort distributions of various static posture holding tasks and characterize how the magnitude of inter-individual variation in perceived discomfort varies across static posture holding tasks. SUBJECTS: Ten male and ten female subjects participated. METHODS: The participants conducted static posture holding for a set of 180 short-duration (20-second-long) static …posture holding tasks and subjectively rated the overall perceived discomfort for each task using the Borg CR-10 discomfort scale. Statistical analyses were conducted according to the study objectives. RESULTS: The static posture holding tasks exhibited multifarious discomfort distribution patterns. Probability distribution identification analyses indicated that no single distribution type could represent population discomfort distributions universally across different static posture holding tasks. Sample standard deviation of discomfort ratings data quantifying the magnitude of inter-individual variation in discomfort perception varied considerably across static posture holding tasks. It seemed to have a positive relationship with sample mean within the range of the experimental conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Population-level evaluation of discomforts associated with static posture holding tasks must be based on careful examinations of empirical discomfort distributions. Show more
Keywords: Static exertion, postural stress, discomfort, inter-individual variation
Analysis of factors affecting employee satisfaction: A case study from Pakistan
Authors: Rukh, Lala | Choudhary, Muhammad Abbas | Abbasi, Saddam Akber
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Employee job satisfaction has been a research focal point throughout the world. It is a key factor when measuring the performance of an organization and individuals. A leading engineering goods manufacturing enterprise in Pakistan, has been used in this case study. In Pakistan, very limited research has been done with respect to factors affecting job satisfaction. Some research has been done in medical institutions, banks, universities and the information technology sector but large public sector organizations in Pakistan have not been studied. A theoretical foundation for researching factors affecting job satisfaction in large organizations is outlined. …OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to analyze various demographic, financial and non-financial factors affecting the satisfaction level of employees and to study the effects across different employee groups. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY: This study is based on quantitative data analysis. The employees of the organization under study have been divided into 10 homogeneous groups based on their departments. Information on job related factors (affecting the satisfaction level) have been collected from subsamples of each group using a self-administered questionnaire. An overall sample of 250 (out of total 1100) employees has been selected. Before conducting the survey, reliability of the questionnaire was measured using Cronbach's alpha. The normality of data was also examined using the Kolmogorov Smirnov test. Hypotheses devised to address the research questions were tested by using non-parametric Spearman correlation and Kruskal-Wallis tests. RESULTS: The response rate was 73.2%. Research findings indicated the significant factors that affect the satisfaction level of employees. Median group differences existed between responses based on age, work experience, salary and designation (i.e. job position/rank) of employees. Job satisfaction was also positively and significantly associated with job related factors such as pay, promotion, relation with employees, relation with supervisor, work stress and job security. CONCLUSIONS: Job satisfaction of employees was significantly affected by demographic, financial and non-financial factors. Employees who are older than 50 years, with greater experience, and in higher management positions were more satisfied with pay, promotion, work stress, work condition and working environment. The employees' departments did not play any significant role in affecting satisfaction levels. Show more
Keywords: Job satisfaction, demographic factors, financial factors, non-financial factors
The concept of `work ability' from the view point of employers
Authors: Jansson, Inger | Björklund, Anita | Perseius, Kent-Inge | Gunnarsson, A. Birgitta
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Since work ability is manifested in working life and ``bought'' by employers, employers perceptions of the concept are important to understand. Studies have shown that people with health problems want to take part in the labour market, but experience difficulties in gaining access. Additionally, studies have demonstrated the doubt felt by employers when they consider hiring a person with a disability. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to identify and characterise employers' conceptions of work ability. METHODS: The study design was qualitative with a phenomenographic approach. Six male and six female employers from various workplaces …and geographical areas in Sweden were interviewed. RESULTS: Three domains were identified: employees' contributions to work ability, employers' contributions to work ability and circumstances with limited work ability. Work ability was regarded as a tool in production and its output, production, was the main issue. The employees' commitment and interest could bridge other shortcomings. CONCLUSIONS: The employers highlighted their own contributions in shaping work ability in order to fit with work circumstances. Health problems were not the only limiting issues; other circumstances, such as individual characteristics and contextual factors, could limit work ability too. Knowing the importance of commitment and interest is valuable in work rehabilitation. Show more
Keywords: Disability, vocational rehabilitation, work demand
Integrating health promotion and occupational safety and health in manufacturing worksites: Perspectives of leaders in small-to-medium sized businesses
Authors: Nelson, Candace C. | Allen, Jennifer D. | McLellan, Deborah | Pronk, Nico | Davis, Kia L.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that worksite interventions integrating worksite health promotion (WHP) and occupational safety and health (OSH) may be more efficacious and have higher participation rates than health promotion programs offered alone. However, dissemination of integrated programs is complicated by lack of tools for implementation - particularly for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study is to describe perceptions of acceptability and feasibility of implementing an integrated approach to worker health that coordinates WHP and OSH in SMBs. METHODS: In September to November 2012, decision-makers for employee health programming …within SMBs (< 750 employees) in greater Minneapolis were identified. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted and analyzed to develop an understanding of perceived benefits and barriers, awareness, and capacity for implementing an integrated approach. RESULTS: Worker health was widely valued by participants. They reported strong management support for improving employee health and safety. Most participants indicated that their company was open to making changes in their approach to worker health; however, cost and staffing considerations were frequently perceived as barriers. CONCLUSIONS: There are opportunities for implementing integrated worksite health programs in SMBs with existing resources and values. However, challenges to implementation exist, as these worksites may lack the appropriate resources. Show more
Keywords: Workplace, health promotion, occupational health, information dissemination
Sources of workplace violence against nurses
Authors: Kvas, Andreja | Seljak, Janko
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Health care employees, especially nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to study the frequency and degree of violence against nurses and to analyze correlations between various sources and types of violence. METHODS: A survey was carried out using a representative sample of nurses in Slovenia. Data was collected using a questionnaire designed specifically for the purposes of the survey. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive, correlational and inferential statistics. RESULTS: A total of 692 nurses participated in the survey. Verbal violence (n …= 416) and physical violence (n = 180) were identified. The most frequent perpetrators of verbal violence were patients (listed as a source of violence by 39.3% of the respondents) and peers (39.6%), with the most forceful identified as physicians and patients. Physical violence against nurses was most often initiated by patients (20.8%) who were also the most forceful source in this category. Nurse leaders were found to be the most frequent and forceful sources of violence in terms of leadership level. A positive correlation between external (patient and relatives) and internal (physician and nurse) sources of violence was determined CONCLUSIONS: A better understanding of the association between different types and sources of violence may support the development of action-oriented violence management. Health care organisations should limit violence at its less severe levels and at its primary source. Show more
Keywords: Verbal violence, physical violence, leaders, patients, peers, Slovenia
Anthropometric assessment of crane cabins and recommendations for design: A case study
Authors: Zunjic, Aleksandar | Brkic, Vesna Spasojevic | Klarin, Milivoj | Brkic, Aleksandar | Krstic, Dragan
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Work of crane operators is very difficult and demanding. Therefore, it is very important that the cabin of a crane be designed on the basis of relevant anthropometric data. However, it is very difficult to find a research that considers anthropometric convenience of crane cabins. OBJECTIVE: From the theoretical viewpoint, it is important to perceive and to classify effects of the anthropometric incompatibility of crane cabins. Globally, the objective is to consider the anthropometric convenience of existing crane cabins, and possibilities for improvements of their design from the ergonomic point of view. In this regard, …it is significant to detect constraints that impede or hinder the work of the crane operators, which could be overcome with certain anthropometric solutions. The main objective is to examine whether and to what extent is justifiable to use anthropometric data that are obtained on the basis of general (national) population, during designing the crane cabins. METHODS: For the assessment of existing crane cabins and the work of operators, four methods were used: observation of the work of the operators and design solutions of the cabins, the checklist approach, interviewing of operators and the experimental research based on obtaining the data on the population of crane operators. RESULTS: Results of the analysis based on the method of observation, analysis based on the application of the checklist, as well as interviewing of the operators indicate that certain construction constraints of the components in the cabins are the main reasons of reduced visibility and improper working postures of operators. All this has caused the emergence of continuous musculoskeletal loading of the crane operators. The results of the anthropometric research that were obtained on the population of crane operators in this case study suggest that there is a statistically significant difference, when compared data of this population of workers with anthropometric data from the general population. CONCLUSIONS: Analyzed workplaces in crane cabins do not correspond to the majority of operators from the anthropometric standpoint. The conducted anthropometric analysis has been indicated that could be made the mistake, if dimensions of the cabin and layout of equipment would be relied on data derived from the general population of citizens. In order to achieve greater precision in the design and configuration of equipment, it is recommended using the data that are obtained directly on the population of the crane operators when designing the cabin. Show more
Keywords: Operator's workplace, evaluation, ergonomic design
How group education impacts female factory workers' behavior and readiness to receive mammography and Pap smear
Authors: Seven, Memnun | Bahar, Mine | Akyüz, Aygül | Erdoğan, Hatice
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The workplace has been deemed a suitable location for educating many women at once about cancer screening. OBJECTIVE: To determine how group education about early diagnostic methods for breast and cervical cancer effects women's behavior and readiness to receive mammography and Pap smear. METHODS: This semi-interventional study was conducted at a textile factory in Istanbul, Turkey. Female workers (n= 125) were included in the study. A participant identification form and knowledge evaluation form developed for this study, along with the transtheoretical model, were used to collect data. A 45-min interactive group education was …given to the participants. RESULTS: Upon contacting participants 3 months after group education, 15.4% (n = 11) stated that they had since received a mammogram and 9.8% (n = 7) a Pap smear. As suggested by the transtheoretical model, group education increased participants' readiness to receive cancer screening, along with their knowledge of breast and cervical cancer. CONCLUSIONS: Group education positively impacted women's knowledge of cancer and their readiness to receive mammography and Pap smear. Group education can potentially create awareness of cancer screening tests among women and improve their readiness to receive such tests. Show more
Keywords: Cancer screening, educational intervention, participation, women
Backpack carriage effect on head posture and ground reaction forces in school children
Authors: Mosaad, Dalia Mohammed | Abdel-Aziem, Amr Almaz
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Carrying the school bag may lead to forward leaning of the head and trunk which may result in spinal deformities. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of carrying a backpack on neck angles and ground reaction forces (GRFs) in children. METHODS: 3-D motion analysis system, with a force plate, was used to examine the effect of carrying backpack on neck angles and GRFs of thirty children with mean age (10.06 ± 1.31 years), mean weight (34.56 ± 6.9 kg), and mean height (138.63 ± 9.82 …cm). The unloaded posture was compared with posture when carrying a backpack. The static test was used to assess the three angles of the neck, and the dynamic test was used to assess the GRFs. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the craniohorizontal angle and shoulder sagittal posture between carrying backpack and without backpack (p = 0.153 and 0.272) respectively. There was a significant decrease in the craniovertebral angle in carrying backpack than without backpack (p = 0.032). There was a significant increase in GRFs values in carrying backpack than without backpack (p < 0.032). CONCLUSION: Carrying backpack with a load 7.5% of the child's body weight alters the head posture and GRFs values. Show more
Keywords: Children, load carriage, neck angles, ground reaction forces
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Feed Me prepares for album release; shares ‘Lonely Mountain’
by: Michael Sundius Oct 12, 2013
As the dance music world gears up for the official release of Feed Me’s debut album Calamari Tuesday, Jon Gooch continues to build the hype by sharing “Lonely Mountain.” Beginning with some melancholic chords, the track proceeds a like metal-infused rock opera, eventually culminating in a powerful halftime section with a “Cliffs of Dover”-esque guitar solo. Gooch said of the track to Rolling Stone, “To me, it’s the track that defines what I’ve been trying to do in one go the most accurately.” “Lonely Mountain” and the rest of Calamari Tuesday will be released on Monday. Pre-order the album here.
Tags: Feed Me, lonely mountain, Original Mix
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[Interview] Drew Negus Talks Being a Solo Artist, Years in Music and New EP
July 26, 2019 September 19, 2019 Danii Gold
St. Louis native Drew Negus is more than just an artist. He’s a creator, from rapping to songwriting, to engineering and even film scoring. He’s been making music for over 15 years and doesn’t plan on stopping. He’s collaborated with artists in Atlanta and even Los Angeles. He likes to put positive energy into my music and wants to make the world a better place. Check out his interview below, where he talks about being in a group, his music experience and his projects.
Danii Gold: How did you get into doing music?
Drew Negus: Looking back I have always been into music even before I chose it as a career. I played instruments in elementary school and sung in the choir at church. I even played a rapper in a school play in 6th grade! I started taking music seriously when my best friends and I started a group called A1O. We released a song on an old social media site, “Bebo” and got a great response. The website even reached out to us and offered us what was basically a marketing deal! They agreed to promote our music if we only released music on their website.
Danii Gold: I definitely remember the Bebo days lol. With you being in a group back then, how did the four of you collectively contribute to your music?
Drew Negus: Our process was always fun and organic. We would all contribute to making the beats (not having a clue what we were doing) and then we each would come up with flows and melodies. Most songs would start off like a cypher with the next person taking over every 4 or 8 bars. We had a lot of fun for sure!
Danii Gold: Do you think being in a group is still as successful as being a solo artist?
Drew Negus: From a financial standpoint it’s easier to invest in the music as a group for sure! On the other hand money is split more ways. Clearly groups like the Migos show you can still be very successful as a group so I would say Yes.
Danii Gold: Would you or have you collaborated with your group members since you all went your separate ways?
Drew Negus: I have produced for my former group members since we separated. I don’t know what the future holds as far as making songs together but it’s a possibility.
Danii Gold: Finish the sentence, “I’m Drew, …. “
Drew Negus: I Am Drew; Artist, Producer, Engineer, and Songwriter
Danii Gold: What do you enjoy most, writing music, being an engineer or artist ?
Drew Negus: Lately I have found the most joy as an artist! This is really a full circle moment for me, starting out as an artist and finally finding my way back! It’s definitely close though because I Love producing! I also enjoy mixing! It’s just something about turning beats into actual songs that people can relate to that is very fulfilling to me.
Danii Gold: You’ve recently produced and engineered for artists in ATL and LA. Would you consider moving out of St. Louis to work with other more established artists or do you feel like you can bounce back and forth?
Drew Negus: I actually moved out of St. Louis In 2010 and it is one of the best decision I have made! I have lived in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Dallas. I would encourage any upcoming musician in St. Louis to expand their horizons. St. Louis music scene is definitely thriving and has some of the best talent I have seen. There are just much more opportunities to grow and learn about the industry in other cities like Atlanta and LA. I have found myself in rooms with artists, producers, and A&R’s that I would have never had access to in St. Louis. You separate yourself from 90% of other musicians just by BEING IN THE ROOM! I definitely want to work with and bring value to the St.Louis scene. Low key, there are many St. Louis natives in other cities THRIVING in the music industry behind the scenes.
Danii Gold: You recently got into film scoring. What sparked your interest to get into scoring?
Drew Negus: I actually have always thought it would be cool to work in film scoring. One of my good friends “Cherie Antionette” is an independent film director and actress in Atlanta. She solicited my help on her short film “The Porcelain Chef” and the rest is history. The film is actually award winning now and has been featured at several film festivals. It is a very fun experience! The music behind different scenes affects how you feel about what you are seeing so much! It’s almost like doing magic.
Danii Gold: That is dope and different. I haven’t heard of any music creator say they would be interested in film scoring. So switching topics–You released your first solo EP “Abundance of the Heart” back in June and it’s great! I personally like “Star”, “Swim” and “Signs”. Since you were making music when you were younger, what took you so long to come out with a solo project? Did you ever doubt yourself?
Drew Negus: Thank you! Once the group split up I felt that I should focus on producing and engineering. At a certain point I became completely entrenched in that and kind of lost sight of my passion for being an artist. My experiences over the years as a producer and engineer have led me to this point, and helped me a lot as I have begun my journey as a solo artist. I have been involved in and around the process of being a successful artist and worn a few different hats. I believe that gives me a well rounded perspective of how I should approach my artistry. I always knew deep down that I desired to get back on the mic. I am glad things have played out the way they have so far. My character and thought process have grown tremendously over the years and it reflects in my music.
Danii Gold: Well-put! So, would you consider signing to a label or staying independent?
Drew Negus: At this point, I am focused on being an independent artist and continuing to strengthen my team and resources. When the situation is right I would be open to partnering with a major label. Nowadays major labels mostly only invest in established, successful independent artists. As i continue to grow I plan to keep my options open.
Danii Gold: What do you have coming up? Performances, new music. Etc.
Drew Negus: I am currently working on “Abundance of the Heart II” which I plan to release in mid 4th quarter.
Danii Gold: That’s what’s up! Since you are a man of many titles, what is your end goal? What would you like to accomplish?
Drew Negus: End goal? Make the world a better place! My music career is only a vehicle to do that. Energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred, so I plan to put positive, uplifting energy into my music and spread it throughout the world! I also plan to build a Major Record label over time and connect some dots for independent artists along the way.
Danii Gold: That’s nice and inspiring. Lastly, What message do you want to send in your music?
Drew Negus: I just want to depict my inner world by expressing myself musically. God has me on an amazing journey and I’m blessed to be able to tell my story through music. I want to motivate my community. I want my sisters to be able to turn up without being womanized. A wise person once told me to put the medicine in the candy. I take that approach in my music.
Make sure you check out Drew Negus music on all streaming platforms and his latest EP “Abundance of the Hearts”
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Historic and Listed Buildings
There is a large list of properties of special architectural and historic interest where Darke & Taylor have undertaken electrical engineering projects. All of these projects are installed to very highest standards and have required the company to overcome stiff challenges such as working in occupied premises, integrating our works in manner that respects a building’s heritage and devising installation strategies and designs that enable modern technology to be embraced in listed buildings from a different era. Quality cannot be compromised as these are buildings of on-going interest and importance – in certain cases of exceptional interest and of national or international importance.
Here are some examples of work we have completed to the highest standard, and to complete customer satisfaction in historic and listed buildings.
Kensington Palace Restoration & Visitor Centre
Client : Royal Historical Palaces
Main Contractor : Mansell Construction (part of Balfour Beatty)
Project Manager : Gardiner & Theobald
Building Services Consultant : Giffords/Ramboll
Darke & Taylor Contracting were the M&E Services Contractor for this £12 million building contract at Kensington Palace, the official residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The project was to enhance the existing building and construct a first class visitor experience including new shop and café for Historic Royal Palaces. The contract involved the remodeling, alteration and refurbishment of parts of the Palace (including specialist and bespoke lighting) while the remaining areas stayed open to the public. The two-year project transformed Kensington Palace into a stunning visitor attraction; the site now boasts first class educational and recreational facilities, five exhibitions and a new shop.
The St Cross Building, University of Oxford
Client : Oxford University Estates Services (OUES)
Project Manager : Managed by OUES and Darke & Taylor Ltd
Building Services Consultants : QODA Consulting and OUES
Having undertaken the original electrical installation during the 1960’s, Darke & Taylor Electrical Services have completed a phased refurbishment project to rewire and replace all existing lighting and power systems. Using a specialist integrated cladding containment system to meet conservation officer requirements, we have installed a fully automated lighting control system and standalone battery backup LED emergency lighting solution, utilising existing cable routes, containment and conduits whilst the building has remained occupied and operational. The St Cross Building, home of the University of Oxford Law Faculty and the Bodleian Law Library is a celebrated work of the late Sir John Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson. Opened in 1964 it is now recognised as an architecturally important building of more than special interest and is categorised as Grade II* listed.
Chatsworth House, Interior Room Enhancements
Type : Historic/Listed Building
Value : £600K
Client : Chatsworth House Trust
Main Contractor : Fairhurst Ward Abbotts
Building Services Consultant : Aecom
Set in the heart of the Peak District, Chatsworth is one of the country’s most famous and iconic stately homes. Darke & Taylor Contracting was engaged to undertake the electrical work on this project which has involved both a high standard of finish, and the requirement to integrate the works into an environment where specialist conservation and restoration work has been undertaken on this Grade I listed building. The work has been carried out whilst one of the busiest country estates in the UK remains open to the public.
Fulham Palace
Client : Hammersmith & Fulham Council and the Fulham Palace Trust
Main Contractor/Project Manager : Mansell
Building Services Consultants : Gifford
Darke & Taylor Contracting were responsible for the restoration and transformation of Fulham Palace into a distinctive location for leisure and education. This required the installation of an electrical solution that was both sympathetic to the heritage of this Medieval Grade I Listed Building, whilst ensuring that it was fit for a vision of providing open access – this included enhancing and increasing public and disabled/less-abled access.
100 Park Lane, Westminster
Type : “Super-prime” Residential Mansion
Value : £1.75M
Client : Private Client
Building Contractor : Walter Lilly
Architect : Formation Architects
Building Services Consultants : Peter Deer and Associates
Partners : M&E Package led by CH Lindsey & Son
This project entailed the conversion of a historic Grade II* listed building back into a single private family dwelling of the very highest standard. Steeped in history and with a number of original Regency and early Victorian features the completed 44,000 sqft property is widely acclaimed as one of London’s finest homes. Darke & Taylor Contracting and its specialist suppliers used its many years experience in this market sector to successfully install and commission the electrical and life safety systems, including a stunning bespoke lighting scheme to compliment the ornate interiors and the latest life safety technologies to protect the property and its contents.
Greys Court
Type : Historic / Listed Building
Client : The National Trust
Main Contractor/Project Manager : Ward & Co
Building Services Consultants : EEP
Other Consultants : Oxley Conservation (Historic Buildings Consultancy)
Owned by the National Trust, this picturesque Tudor Manor has undergone extensive reservicing and conservation work. The electrical work undertaken by Darke & Taylor Contracting required a level of detail and craftsmanship that ensured key features of this building are conserved for future generations, whilst making it safe and functional for its visitors.
Type : Historic Church Buildings
Technologies : Specialist Lighting, Heating & Life Safety Systems
Location : Oxfordshire and London
Darke & Taylor has significant experience of working in are Churches and Cathedrals, a very specialist type of work. Many of these buildings date back to Medieval times and are of listed status and installing building services into such historically and culturally important buildings takes a great deal of care and attention. We have engineers with experience of requirements specific to these religious buildings such as the installation of mineral cable and bespoke antique lighting.
Historic & Listed Building – Further Projects
Type : Properties of special architectural and historic interest
Value : £50K to £5M
Darke & Taylor have substantial experience of undertaking electrical engineering projects in properties of special architectural and historic interest. All of these projects are installed to the very highest standards and have required the company to overcome stiff challenges such as working in occupied premises, integrating our works in a manner that respects a building’s heritage and devising installation strategies and designs that enable modern technology to be embraced in listed buildings from a different era. Quality cannot be compromised as there are buildings of on-going interest and importance – in certain cases of exceptional interest and recognised nationally or internationally.
High End Residential
Commercial Fit-Out
Science, Technology and Industrial
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Wolverton Decade!
Whamond Decade!
The Day I Got Dizzy
California’s War on Journalism!
Daryl Cagle, January 5, 2020
Zyglis Decade!
More of When I was President
Here is part TWO of my three part account of my years as NCS president. Read part ONE and part THREE of the story. –Daryl Cagle
Jack Davis’ lovely theme art for the NCS 2000 convention shows King Kong on the World Trade Center towers, along with the comics characters waving goodbye as Snoopy flies off with the posthumous lifetime achievement award trophy for Sparky.
This is the story of my first Reuben Awards convention as National Cartoonists Society (NCS) president, in 2000.
We wanted to do a 50th anniversary of Peanuts celebration, but hotel construction put the plans for a Santa Rosa convention on hold. United Media, the syndicate that owned Peanuts, was located in Manhattan, and NCS conventions draw the biggest crowds when they are in New York City, so I decided to do the 2000 convention in New York. My wife, Peg and I flew to New York twice and visited a half dozen prospective hotels. We got competing bids from three hotels and spent a month haggling prices with all three before deciding on the World Trade Center Marriott in lower Manhattan, which gave us a great deal on Memorial Day weekend, when lower Manhattan is traditionally deserted. Before that, the NCS usually had their Reuben Awards on Mothers Day weekend. I got some angry blasts of criticism from old NCSers in New York who thought it was outrageous to have the convention in lower Manhattan because it should have been in Midtown, where it always used to be. “Nobody wants to go downtown!” they told me.
The convention was extra difficult because our previous management company had crashed and burned soon after I became president. I had just hired a new management company, but they didn’t want to run the convention because they hadn’t gotten to know the NCS yet; they wanted to come to their first NCS Reubens event just to observe. My wife Peg ended up doing nearly all of the organizing work that we would usually expect a management company to do: starting with handling registrations and tracking all the payments, making seating charts and dealing with menus, responding to the many special requests, arguing about hotel bills and comps, manning the convention registration desk throughout the weekend, and serving as the bouncer for those who overstayed their welcome in the Presidential Suite. I couldn’t have done it without Peg. (And the new management company folks were good sports; they ended up pitching in on site –more than they first planned.)
The convention would be a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Peanuts. Charles M. Schulz (“Sparky”) was on board with it; United Media was delighted and generously offered to cover the cost of a big Sunday brunch for everyone at the Windows on the World restaurant at the top of the North Tower. Political cartoonist, Mike Luckovich stepped up and was a tremendous help; he did all the organizational work of getting the newspaper comic strip artists to draw 50th anniversary of Peanuts strips on the same Saturday that our banquet was held, when we planned to give our lifetime achievement award to Sparky.
All seemed to be going well when we received the terribly sad news that Sparky had died in February. With all the Peanuts celebration stuff planned for May, 2000, and with the commitments I had already made in the hotel contract, I thought we might be in trouble. We ended up having the biggest NCS convention ever, kicking off with a grand opening cocktail reception on the 2nd floor promenade of the North Tower lobby.
Mike Luckovich contacted all the newspaper comic strip cartoonists and got them to draw Peanuts “tribute cartoons” for that Saturday, rather than the Peanuts anniversary cartoons we had planned earlier. The tributes in the “funny pages” were great, and I was walking around the convention the whole time, with my cell phone on my ear, giving interviews to journalists who were writing about the big newspaper comics tribute. We gave the lifetime achievement award to Sparky posthumously.
Steve McGarry and Jeff Keane both have previous show business experience and ran the shows for the first time, raising our production quality to levels the NCS hadn’t seen before. Bil Keane, Jeff’s dad who drew The Family Circus comic, was a very funny guy; he had been the emcee of the Reubens for many years, but at his insistence, this was going to be his last year as Reuben emcee. Steve had the idea to do a Bil Keane Roast on the Sunday night, which led to a repeat of the King Features/Mort Walker kerfuffle, this time with King objecting to the Bil Keane Roast –Bil liking the Roast idea, and King adopting a positive tone again, becoming a second big sponsor, and paying for dinner before the Roast. Steve’s Roast of Bil involved lots of cartoonists doing skits and was great fun.
There were other fun things that happened. I’m a big David Levine fan, and he was a speaker, so I got to meet him. We had a panel of features editors from top newspapers across America talking about the comics (that’s something that would never happen today). There was an odd debate in the NCS at that time about seminars at the conventions, which were still a new part of the Reubens weekend; some old-timers thought the conventions should only consist of parties and objected to seminars. I was “pro-seminar” and pushed lots of seminars into the schedule. RJ Matson managed the many seminars and did a great job.
What is most fun about being the NCS president is that the president gets to “commission” the Reuben weekend artwork; I called my first choice, who graciously agreed, which gave me the delightful opportunity to serve as art director to the legendary Jack Davis. I love Jack’s work and I grew up looking forward to his art in each new issue of Mad Magazine; it was great fun to work with him on this. He was such a Southern gentleman. Jack Davis was, and always will be, my cartoonist hero.
My kids, Susie and Michael, were 16 and 10 years old at the time, and starting with the site visit, they had gotten to know the World Trade Center well, hanging around the shopping mall and becoming well acquainted with every nook and cranny of the entire complex. Susie danced with Jack Davis on Reubens night, and both kids went to most of the seminars.
This is how the Marriott World Trade Center Hotel looked for our convention in 2000.
There were also plenty of nervous moments. There were over 630 people at the banquet (a typical Reuben banquet size is half that size). Several local cartoonists waited until the last minute, that Saturday, to decide they wanted to come, and showed up at the hotel to register on site for the dinner. No one was turned away, though it meant continually juggling seating and adding extra chairs to numerous tables. The ballroom was filled beyond capacity and the new management company people got nudged out of the banquet, so more NCSers and guests could have their seats. We were lucky the fire marshal didn’t make a visit.
We always had a live band in those days, so I hired a band that the old-timers liked; one that had played for the NCS years ago when the Reuben Awards dinner was a single night at the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South. The band didn’t show up until the exact minute that the show was set to begin. I learned that if you want the band to be in place before the show starts, you have to pay them more for those few extra minutes.
The Sunday brunch at Windows on the World ran well over budget, with open bars and cartoonists who will drink everything they see. United Media contracted for the brunch directly, so the bill of well over $100,000.00 went directly to United Media (thank goodness). It was a great, boozy brunch, but chilling in retrospect. All of the staff at the Windows on the World restaurant were trapped above where the airliner hit the building on 9/11/2001, and the employees who served us brunch did not survive the attack.
This is how the hotel looked in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks.
When the Twin Towers fell, the entire 22-story Marriott was also destroyed. Most of the hotel staff got out safely, but forty people reportedly died there, primarily firemen who were using the hotel as a staging area. While it was a shock to the entire world to see the towers and hotel fall, the fact that this had recently been home to our convention and a playground for my kids made it feel personal. Marriott chose not to rebuild the hotel and the site is now a part of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
I look back on our convention at the World Trade Center with both warmth and chills.
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Study: More than half of all ad blocker users would disable them to read content
March 1, 2016 by Lucinda Southern
The latest IAB/YouGov study on the state of ad blocking in the U.K. contains more bad news for publishers — and a few glimmers of hope. While it finds that the number of people using ad blockers has increased to 22 percent, it also shows that over half of users are likely to disable blockers in exchange for content.
The IAB, which has a vested interest in supporting an ad-funded Internet, found the use in ad blockers has increased by 4 points since October, in a sample of 2,000 U.K. adults.
Ad blockers are still most popular with the 18-24 year old age bracket, with 47 percent of respondents in this demographic using them.
“That will soon be the majority,” warns Martin Ashplant, digital director at the Metro. “It adds to the sense that the rate of ad blocking is only going to grow if nothing is done to address the issue.”
Even so, Ashplant, formerly digital director at City A.M. during the time that the publisher’s ad blocking trials took place, said it’s “heartening” to see that 54 percent of those who have seen publishers’ responses to them using ad blockers would consider turning them off if they felt this was the only way to access content. Publishers like Axel Springer, GQ and Forbes have been preventing people running ad blockers from seeing their content until they disable the ad blockers.
“This chimes with what we saw at City A.M., where those users who valued the content did indeed turn off their ad blockers — and went on to consume far more than the average number of pages per user,” added Ashplant.
Publishers who produce more mainstream (and less differentiated) content will have a harder time persuading readers to disable ad blockers, said Ashplant.
Piers North, strategy director at Trinity Mirror, said the study suggests readers have a strong understanding of the role advertising plays. “There’s a value exchange with any publisher that is putting its content up online. That doesn’t come for free, and I think consumers are starting to appreciate that perhaps more than they used to, by accepting in return for such content they will need to give us the opportunity to serve them ads.”
Ultimately, it’s up to the publishers to keep educating their readers, according to John Barnes, managing director of Incisive Media and former AOP chairman. How they do it is up to them. For example, Barnes points out that those who use ad blockers don’t know that the blocking companies profit from publishers paying to have their sites whitelisted.
“Users don’t know that ad blockers are making money out of them,” he said. “That’s disingenuous. If all publishers pay to be whitelisted then users would start complaining to the blocking companies for letting in all the ads. We could play them at their own game.”
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Avalonia Festival
for short films 21 minutes & under in a variety of genres for every filmmaker
Avalonia Festival II
Avalonia 7 Theater Festival
Avalonia Festival III
Enter Avalonia Festival – a Distance from Avalon
“Our New World lineage traces to Avalonia. Avalonia – a continent lost is the mists of time, as if dissipated by magic. And I collect lost things. Relics. Diamonds in the rough and mere clay yearning to be molded into vases. And with this palette, I give you Avalon, our humble tribute to the once and future Avalonia. For I believe we’ve recreated a little bit of that old Avalonia magic right here.” – Jean La Croix Distance, Distance from Avalon.
On this website, you will find the the legacy pages of Avalonia Festival, Avalonia Festival II, Avalonia Festival III , and our exclusive Circle of Champions by clicking those very hyperlinks from earlier in this sentence or by the links at the top of this page (if you see three lines or circles on your smart phone, click those!)
Both our website and our Live Events HONOR, CELEBRATE and PROMOTE the Award winning short films, trailers, teasers, posters and photography in the artistic gathering we call Avalonia Festival.
To submit your own work, CLICK HERE for Avalonia Festival IV or hit the blue “submit” button!
Now, some of you might be wondering the origins of Avalonia Festival.… well, it all comes from a story… a distant story.
Avalon is a place you don’t want to be. Or maybe you do.
Distance from Avalon is a fantasy fiction novella written by Mike Messier. The story follows a more-than-an-average Joe with a chip on his shoulder into a realm of the unknown.
Joe, a school teacher going through a painful divorce, finds himself on a spontaneous Halloween night adventure with an attractive, younger co-worker named Shadow.
They find themselves at a small dinner party hosted by a cryptic genius named Distance and his lovely yet seemingly “captured” mistress Heartbreak, who may – or may not – pine for freedom. Spoils of the flesh and empathy are used as tools for seduction and manipulation, with a deep element of Joe’s time travel theory “M-Life” testing his own loyalty to his chosen existence. Ultimately, Joe must choose whether to stay in this odd yet seductive place, or create… a Distance from Avalon.
Distance from Avalon also is written as a film screenplay and a stage-play.
Writer/Director/Producer and winner of 28 Awards in film, television, and play-writing, Mike Messier has cultivated Joe’s story as a stage-play, screenplay and novella, introducing us all to Joe’s, his co-worker turned date Shadow, and their eventual Vampire hosts; the lovely mistress-muse Heartbreak and her mentor-master, Jean La Croix Distance.
The story of Avalon has gone on to foster Avalonia Festival , featuring short films 21 minutes & under, as well as related artwork & media, with a variety of genres for every filmmaker. The first three Avalonia Festivals, taking place throughout Rhode Island, USA, were often named a FilmFreeway Top 100 Festival among filmmakers. With Avalonia Festival IV coming up on December 8, 2019, Jacksonville, Florida has been named as the new host city for Avalonia Festival with the glorious All Beaches Experimental Theatre as our new home venue. For more information on the festival, click here:
Speaking of art, a few moons ago, Mike and a hard-working but makeshift crew assembled a week’s worth of initial footage that lead to a promotional teaser for Distance from Avalon, which has since won a Best Trailer from The Great Message International Film Festival
With an upcoming geographic move of his own to the southeast United States, Mike seeks to form a new collaborative or team with an established group of professionals to bring the Distance from Avalon story – and planned sequel stories – to full fruition in all its forms. Contact Mike at mikemessiermoviemaker@gmail.com with serious inquires for cast, crew, as well as Associate and Executive Producer positions.
Let’s now enjoy Chapters One through Three of the novella version of Distance from Avalon, with text by Mike Messier and photographs by Artist Anne Murray
CHAPTER 1 – meet Joe Humble
Joe Humble never thought life could be like this; quite painful. He had married his high school sweetheart but was now divorced or at least close to it. It was a Friday afternoon, the last day of the school week and for most teachers that would be a welcome reprieve but not for Joe. He actually enjoyed teaching, his school and his students.
Or at least he used to. But not so much, recently. These days, a dark depression has grasped Joe, taken him around the throat and refuses to let him breathe. It would be easy enough to blame Joe’s state on the separation from his wife Jackie and the fact that he is not seeing his three children – twin daughters and a son – quite as much as he’s used to.
Or that the one woman who he’s ever really loved or that seemed to understand him now just can’t stand him. But there’s more than that. Because Joe appears as just another average Joe with a chip on his shoulder, if we even notice the chip, we may not choose to notice Joe himself. And that would be our mistake.
Because this Joe, our very average Joe has tapped into something, a krinkle in our understanding of time, the nature of time, and the possibilities of how we think and how we make choices affects ourselves, others, and all of humanity.
Joe Average is a very important person after all.
Joe Humble is our hero in crisis.
CHAPTER 2 – meet Joe’s students
It’s been said that every generation hates the next but this current generation is very hate-able. They are intelligent, sure, but really just zombies. They like their smart-phones but are not smart themselves. They are cowards. They are afraid of both themselves – their own potential – and what they are both capable of and not capable of.
They’ve been beaten down. There’s something about these kids that screams “defeated”.
Was it 9/11? Growing up with the visage of the world falling apart all around you? Not even feeling disappointed or saddened at the knowledge gained of a failing government. A failing country.
Not even becoming disillusioned. But just being born that way. Born depressed.
And these are the kids that Joe Humble attempts to teach as a seventh and eight grade history teacher.
These are the kids Joe tries to reach.
CHAPTER 3 – On this Friday, late afternoon
She peers into that classroom to see what she can see.
She is a music teacher herself and she was nice today, let her students out five minutes early. She’s been warned by the administration before not to do this but she does it anyway. It’s Friday and the kids – her kids, music students – tend to get bullied and shoved around a bit, so she wants them to have that extra time to get to their lockers, then the buses or the cars or however they are getting home. They have recitals and performances coming up in the next several weeks as November is coming and then the Holidays which brings performances.
She learned about the intricacies and nuances last year, her first full year as a school teacher. And now, here she is, a teacher in her sophomore year, barely out of schooling herself.
But she is enjoying it, despite the challenges of academia. Getting along with other people – the administrators – all quite locked in to their ways of doing things and most looking forward to retirement. But for the most part, they leave her alone.
She enjoys the kids.
And her co-worker, this Joe, he’s not so bad for an old guy. He’s going through a divorce, and he has kids, but at least that proves, well, that he can procreate and somebody loved him once.
She looks into his classroom, through a small glass window.
She looks into his room.
End of Chapter Three…
for press or publishing inquiries for Distance from Avalon the novella, screenplay or stage-play , contact: mikemessiermoviemaker@gmail.com
Now, while they say that everyone has a story, it can also be said that every story has a story; or even more so ,another story that lead to the story.
The story of Avalon, and Avalonia, is no different; behind this story is another one, more fraught with a lovable chaos than perfect execution perhaps, but ultimately a success in art and perseverance.
Thus let us not forget, Disregard the Vampire – A Mike Messier Documentary is the dance that brought us to the ball. Some moons, and eight awards later, the journey now stands as a testimony to the heart and soul of several independent artists who never surrendered despite adversities of both the human and logistical variety.
Distance from Avalon & Avalonia Festival Creator Mike Messier
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Decipher Media Consultants
Media Insight
Its Time To Break Up BBC iPlayer
Posted on April 14, 2013 by DecipherAdmin
Steve Hewlett published an article in the press last week that suggested Tony Hall’s big challenge was to sort out the BBC’s ‘digital’ strategy. Steve was onto something in latching onto ‘digital’ as a key area requiring attention, but we think he erred in thinking that ‘digital’ was somehow a separate problem to core strategy. This article makes the case that you can’t separate ‘digital’ from the rest of BBC strategy. More importantly, it makes the case that there is a fundamental flaw in the way new media, and iPlayer in particular, are organised and managed within the core of the BBC. We believe that this flaw is now having a significant impact on the arguably more important BBC broadcast brands. Three BBC announcements in the last month have highlighted the need for a fundamental re-think.
The first announcement that concerned us, this month, was the slightly incoherent one heralding the trial of ‘VOD-first’ launches of new TV programmes on iPlayer. Announced by BBC centrally, with no comment from the channels involved or the TV division itself, they spoke of an organisation ill-at ease with what was happening. This was not a proud BBC1 or BBC3 announcement of a home grown innovation. It felt like activity undertaken by iPlayer around and despite the channels.
Secondly, the announcement of poor BBC2 viewing figures spoke a broadcaster that is losing sight of its core broadcast function. Our research indicates that poor scheduling and weak brand support for BBC2 has played its part in the audience decline, but the failure to support broadcast brands online, in favour of iPlayer is a big factor – particularly with young audiences. It is instructive that iPlayer has become a more recognisable brand than the BBC’s second most important TV brand, even though it delivers a fraction of the total viewing time.
The third announcement, that of the resignation of Dan Danker, Head of iPlayer is a serious loss for the organisation because, seemingly alone among new media execs at the BBC, he was aware of the problem. The only positive we can take is that his departure comes as Tony Hall starts his tenure as DG, and James Parnell takes over as Strategy Director. This provides a potential opportunity to recognise the flaws and reassess the way iPlayer and Future Media are structured within the BBC.
But What Is The Flaw and Why Does It Matter?
The central flaw that concerns us is that the iPlayer team control not only innovation and future developments of iPlayer, but they retain operational control of day-to-day delivery of BBC online output. They also control, and have dramatically reduced the wider web presence of the channel brands and restrict their ability to express themselves and build connections with their viewers.
This structure means that a key part of the day to day business of TV and radio in the BBC report, via FutureMedia, to Strategy not to the heads of TV or Radio. Of most concern is the fact that new media distribution of BBC TV programmes bypasses the normal TV chain of command. They are free to make decisions which support their own agenda, not the wider TV one. Hence the muted announcement of the VOD only programmes.
In their battle against the OTT web players like Netflix, it is crucial that we don’t get knee-jerk responses from broadcasters. The VOD-first announcements from the BBC fall into that category. Broadcasters like the BBC need to deploy the one powerful weapon that the OTT players don’t have – broadcast. It is the only mechanism that can deliver large punch-through audiences for a TV show which can then be carried into the catch-up window. But for this to work, it has to be done using a single, coherent presentational brand – the channel brand. Pre-releasing into VOD, under the iPlayer banner, blunts this weapon and renders the subsequent broadcast impotent in the fight. For the BBC to try this is a clear case of the new media ‘tail’ wagging the content ‘dog’.
Had a single team been responsible for all broadcast and catch up distribution, it is inconceivable that this outcome could have been arrived at. What has been interesting is the silence from Zai Bennett, Controller of BBC3 or Roger Mosey, the current head of Television. All the announcements have come from BBC central PR or from the iPlayer team. The only sensible comment on this has come from Kay Mellor, writer of the Syndicate, who declared that she wouldn’t want her programmes treated like this, because she wanted them to grow a proper TV audience on a broadcast channel first.
Is this the comment of someone who is a new media ‘rejecter’, or someone who has retained a proper sense of perspective of new media’s role in the TV distribution mix? ‘VOD-first’ distribution should have been slapped down as an ‘audience destroying’ idea when FutureMedia first tabled it. However, from the outside it feels like senior BBC management have been held in thrall to the cult of iPlayer since 2007. They have been unable to make tough decisions about iPlayer for fear of being held up to be Luddites.
The decision to give the iPlayer brand such dominance in TV VOD robs the broadcast channels of chance to provide coherence around their offering at a time when they are already under assault, not just from OTT players but from platform brands like VirginTivo, Sky and surprisingly, Youview. Previously, a consumer had a simple relationship with a broadcaster, with the centre of gravity being the channel brand. On platforms like Virgin Tivo and Sky this clarity has now gone as the platforms flex their brand muscles. But the BBC have the greatest problem, because FutureMedia control platform strategy. They are incentivised to look after their own brand, not maximise the strength of the channel brand. The same applies to YouView, which should have been a broadcast centric platform, designed to maximise the interests of the channels. Unfortunately, it was colonised early by iPlayer people and went ‘platform-centric’. It is possible to spend an evening watching BBC3 content, and come away with the YouView and iPlayer logos lodged in your brain.
This is happening at a time when we are finally seeing convergence between broadcast and on-demand. This convergence is best observed on the backwards EPGs on Virgin Tivo and YouView. It is now possible to jump from a BBC3 programme on the broadcast EPG, directly into its catch up version. However, because the development decisions were made by the iPlayer team without, it would appear, any discussion with the channel brands, the journey immediately becomes an iPlayer branded journey, not a BBC3 one. On both platforms, it is a dog’s breakfast of a consumer experience. These decisions were previously agreed to by senior BBC management and Trust figures, who didn’t have the understanding to push back or question the iPlayer teams. Senior management were so scared of being seen to be out of touch that iPlayer ran rings round them. The new management have a chance to put this right.
The emphasis on iPlayer has also robbed the broadcast channels of the tools to build audience relationships on the web and mobile. It is an astounding fact that there is no BBC3 web site where new initiatives, like the VOD launches, could be announced and discussed. Yes, BBC3 has an automatic programme page where metadata on upcoming shows is provided via an algorythm. Each channel also has the prerequisite, tick box elements like a Facebook page and YouTube channel. But all video plays jump you into iPlayer and even the individual channel blogs have recently been rolled up into a generic ‘TV blog’.
The net result is that there is no online expression of a BBC TV channels’ editorial position and nowhere for announcements, or web explanation of the new VOD-first idea. If we believe that channels like BBC2, 3 and 4 have distinct audiences, with the editorial strategy to suit, then they should be free to use new media to go out and build those relationships. They shouldn’t be forced to drive audiences to a central, monolithic ‘BBC’ entitiy. Most importantly, they should be able to use the iPlayer mechanism to offer those audiences video on their sites, without being forced to use the iPlayer brand.
This critique is often mistaken for an attack on iPlayer. However we don’t mean it that way. If you focus solely on iPlayer as a new media phenomenon then its success is indisputable. Its take-up and usage stats are the envy of new media operations the world over, and it can arguably be said to have eased the arrival of on-demand and catch-up in the consciousness of the mass of the British public. However, if we look at iPlayer as mechanism owned by a larger broadcast operation, then its impact is more controversial. This success has been bought with the programming and audience goodwill built by the broadcast channels with no sense that iPlayer should have a subservient role.
What people appear to have forgotten is that iPlayer was designed and created as an alternative destination to broadcast, at a time when people still feared that the internet would beat TV and not the other way round. It most certainly wasn’t designed as a support component of a broadcast centric organisation. It was created by a team led by Anthony Rose who declared at a conference that year that ‘broadcast is dead’. Its look and feel, was created to sit outside the core branding of BBC channels and genres, and it was intended to eventually develop its own content strategy. It was effectively set up as the ‘anti-BBC’. For a long period, its employees were the shock troops of the new future of TV. In the early stages this allowed great progress at a time of change, but Mark Thompson missed the moment to bring it back into the fold. The organisational structure he bequeathed is now an impediment to iPlayer’s integration in the rest of the BBC.
The world of TV has changed significantly since iPlayer’s inception. For one, it has been shown that linear broadcast has retained its central place in the UK viewers TV experience. This fact should have been reflected in the way new media is integrated with the whole BBC. For Future Media to retain new media innovation AND operations makes no sense in this new world. Far from being the new media guru that the New York Times thought it was hiring, Mark Thompson can be argued to have ducked the one big, brave decision he should have made, having first thrown tons of money at it.
To his credit, Daniel Danker recognised this early and has done a sterling job at bringing iPlayer back towards the fold. He has been asking how to bring channel brands properly into iPlayer, and how better to integrate operations with them. His new red button links on VirginTivo and Smart TV are a step in the right direction. However, we believe that the strategy starts from completely the wrong place. The question should be, what does a 21st century broadcast channel need to maintain its central role in TV in the face of onslaughts from both the TV platforms and new OTT providers. The answer is a TV distribution strategy built around broadcast. The belated inclusion of channel brands into iPlayer in the last couple of years, reflects Danker’s attempt to move towards this. We are told that his final act will be to release a new version of iPlayer that somehow closes this gap further. But it won’t be the outcome that a broadcast channel would design if it had a chance to put in place the utopian new media outcome.
Decipher make the case that this matters for two reasons: Firstly, this is our licence-fee money that is being used to prop up personal fiefdoms, and fund huge amounts of over-lapping or unnecessary activity. The current structure reflects the personal egos of Eric Huggers and Ashley Highfield, not the current needs of the BBC. To have a separate Head of FutureMedia and BBC R&D while claiming poverty under the DQF process is iniquitous.
Secondly, and more importantly, it hampers the proper evolution of the BBC as a broadcast centric organisation. In 1997, the BBC was 3 years ahead of any other UK broadcaster. It is now well behind the curve with ITV and Channel4 having done a much better job of integrating new media into a wider broadcast operation. The BBC like to hold themselves up as a template for other broadcasters. Not only can they no longer do this, but unless this flaw is rectified, they will fall further behind in defining the 21 century role for broadcasters.
We would make the following recommendations:
1. Clarify the key centre of gravity for TV and Radio in the BBC – We believe that this should be the broadcast channels and their brands, with new media distribution strategy rebuilt to support not compete with them. The BBC is, at heart, a broadcast organisation and it needs to be communicated clearly internally and externally
2. Split TV new media from Radio new media – their distribution strategies and functional requirements are already diverging. The radio player has developed a broad, commercial radio supporting position in the market quite unlike the TV player. Let the different genres dictate their needs and future direction.
3 Put channel heads in charge – Give distribution and presentation control of new media to the TV and Radio heads. Give them the power to build new media strategies that support the wider aims of their channels. They will need training and support to do this and if they can’t or won’t embrace it, replace them.
4. Let the channels fight the platforms – Where BBC catch-up content appears somewhere with a dominant platform brand (eg Sky, VirginTivo) then let the channel brands lead – and remove the iPlayer brand. The backwards EPG makes this an even more pressing requirement. When we click on a BBC3 show, from the BBC3 line of the EPG, we expect a BBC3 branded page to appear. We should be able to have a powerful, all encompassing BBC3 experience on Sky, Virgin or Youview.
5. Retire the black and pink iPlayer branding completely- It is a divisive brand livery and the BBC should unify the branding and presentation of on-demand content with the broadcast genres (TV and radio) that its meant to support. This means there should be a single brand architecture for TV at the BBC, with individual channel identities built within it. BBC iPlayer look and feel should reflect this TV brand architecture not compete against it as present. This is what ITV have successfully done with the recent ITV Player re-design.
6. Stop trying to build iPlayer as a BBC ‘platform’. However hard you want it to be true, no consumer views content that way any more. It is a strategy that will eventually isolate the BBC, not help it retains its position as the dominant beast in the broadcast TV pack. It is a strategy that works well in the export market, as a US iPlayer demonstrates. However, in the home market, the UK view increasingly wants aggregators to pull content together across broadcasters. This means increasingly working through the platforms, not against them.
7. Stop quoting iPlayer stats – the PR team behind FutureMedia have become adept at the classic social media tactic of bombarding the press with ‘scale’ statistics about iPlayer (see previous blog about Twitter). We are much more interested in the number of people who watch BBC on TV as part of a wider TV experience. This is never broken out in the numbers.
8. Finally, the rump of BBC Future Media, retaining the innovation brief, should be merged with BBC R&D. As a licence-fee payer I don’t understand why I need both.
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Continuing Education in Corrections
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MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual / Partitioning / Partitioning Types
22.2 Partitioning Types
22.2.1 RANGE Partitioning
22.2.2 LIST Partitioning
22.2.3 COLUMNS Partitioning
22.2.4 HASH Partitioning
22.2.5 KEY Partitioning
22.2.6 Subpartitioning
22.2.7 How MySQL Partitioning Handles NULL
This section discusses the types of partitioning which are available in MySQL 5.7. These include the types listed here:
RANGE partitioning. This type of partitioning assigns rows to partitions based on column values falling within a given range. See Section 22.2.1, “RANGE Partitioning”. For information about an extension to this type, RANGE COLUMNS, see Section 22.2.3.1, “RANGE COLUMNS partitioning”.
LIST partitioning. Similar to partitioning by RANGE, except that the partition is selected based on columns matching one of a set of discrete values. See Section 22.2.2, “LIST Partitioning”. For information about an extension to this type, LIST COLUMNS, see Section 22.2.3.2, “LIST COLUMNS partitioning”.
HASH partitioning. With this type of partitioning, a partition is selected based on the value returned by a user-defined expression that operates on column values in rows to be inserted into the table. The function may consist of any expression valid in MySQL that yields a nonnegative integer value. An extension to this type, LINEAR HASH, is also available. See Section 22.2.4, “HASH Partitioning”.
KEY partitioning. This type of partitioning is similar to partitioning by HASH, except that only one or more columns to be evaluated are supplied, and the MySQL server provides its own hashing function. These columns can contain other than integer values, since the hashing function supplied by MySQL guarantees an integer result regardless of the column data type. An extension to this type, LINEAR KEY, is also available. See Section 22.2.5, “KEY Partitioning”.
A very common use of database partitioning is to segregate data by date. Some database systems support explicit date partitioning, which MySQL does not implement in 5.7. However, it is not difficult in MySQL to create partitioning schemes based on DATE, TIME, or DATETIME columns, or based on expressions making use of such columns.
When partitioning by KEY or LINEAR KEY, you can use a DATE, TIME, or DATETIME column as the partitioning column without performing any modification of the column value. For example, this table creation statement is perfectly valid in MySQL:
CREATE TABLE members (
firstname VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
lastname VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
username VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(35),
joined DATE NOT NULL
PARTITION BY KEY(joined)
PARTITIONS 6;
In MySQL 5.7, it is also possible to use a DATE or DATETIME column as the partitioning column using RANGE COLUMNS and LIST COLUMNS partitioning.
MySQL's other partitioning types, however, require a partitioning expression that yields an integer value or NULL. If you wish to use date-based partitioning by RANGE, LIST, HASH, or LINEAR HASH, you can simply employ a function that operates on a DATE, TIME, or DATETIME column and returns such a value, as shown here:
PARTITION BY RANGE( YEAR(joined) ) (
PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN (1960),
PARTITION p4 VALUES LESS THAN MAXVALUE
Additional examples of partitioning using dates may be found in the following sections of this chapter:
Section 22.2.1, “RANGE Partitioning”
Section 22.2.4, “HASH Partitioning”
Section 22.2.4.1, “LINEAR HASH Partitioning”
For more complex examples of date-based partitioning, see the following sections:
Section 22.4, “Partition Pruning”
Section 22.2.6, “Subpartitioning”
MySQL partitioning is optimized for use with the TO_DAYS(), YEAR(), and TO_SECONDS() functions. However, you can use other date and time functions that return an integer or NULL, such as WEEKDAY(), DAYOFYEAR(), or MONTH(). See Section 12.6, “Date and Time Functions”, for more information about such functions.
It is important to remember—regardless of the type of partitioning that you use—that partitions are always numbered automatically and in sequence when created, starting with 0. When a new row is inserted into a partitioned table, it is these partition numbers that are used in identifying the correct partition. For example, if your table uses 4 partitions, these partitions are numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3. For the RANGE and LIST partitioning types, it is necessary to ensure that there is a partition defined for each partition number. For HASH partitioning, the user-supplied expression must evaluate to an integer value greater than 0. For KEY partitioning, this issue is taken care of automatically by the hashing function which the MySQL server employs internally.
Names of partitions generally follow the rules governing other MySQL identifiers, such as those for tables and databases. However, you should note that partition names are not case-sensitive. For example, the following CREATE TABLE statement fails as shown:
mysql> CREATE TABLE t2 (val INT)
-> PARTITION BY LIST(val)(
-> PARTITION mypart VALUES IN (1,3,5),
-> PARTITION MyPart VALUES IN (2,4,6)
-> );
ERROR 1488 (HY000): Duplicate partition name mypart
Failure occurs because MySQL sees no difference between the partition names mypart and MyPart.
When you specify the number of partitions for the table, this must be expressed as a positive, nonzero integer literal with no leading zeros, and may not be an expression such as 0.8E+01 or 6-2, even if it evaluates to an integer value. Decimal fractions are not permitted.
In the sections that follow, we do not necessarily provide all possible forms for the syntax that can be used for creating each partition type; this information may be found in Section 13.1.18, “CREATE TABLE Statement”.
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Agile Zone
DZone > Agile Zone > Getting the Most out of Functional Testing
Getting the Most out of Functional Testing
We take a look at how Agile software development teams can optimize their testing practices, using processes such as automation.
Erik Dietrich
RJ Williams
Dec. 07, 17 · Agile Zone ·
For as long as people have written software, they've also tested it. This applies both to the history of the industry and to the history of any individual programmer. Obviously, people coding against early mainframes verified the behaviors of the code they wrote for business purposes. But you, as an individual developer, started doing this right from the beginning as well. You'd write a "hello world" program, then run it to see if it did, in fact, print out "hello world" on your console.
So you might say that software development and software testing are inseparable (though the so-called waterfall approach did its best to separate them). And that makes sense. After all, creating software and testing it both count as knowledge work pursuits. They're also both absolutely necessary to ship good software. Oh, and they're both complicated.
You can observe this in the software world with the proliferation of different patterns, architectures, and algorithms. In the testing world, you see it with the challenges in organizing and categorizing testing methodologies. You cannot possibly test everything a piece of software might ever do in any scenario. So you find yourself faced with the daunting task of trying to represent the most likely and most important scenarios without boiling the ocean.
Broad Categories of Testing
To simplify for the purposes of this post, let's speak to some broad categories of software testing. Note that, because I'm staying at the 10,000-foot view, there might be some gray areas between these categories. But this should cover the vast majority of the space.
First, you have white box style tests. This name and variations of it arise from a vivid description. Imagine having something like a motor or appliance and, instead of the normal casing, it came in a see-through box (a "white box"). You could then see the interior mechanical workings. So we use this imagery to describe a style of software testing wherein we see and understand the source code. White box testing then largely describes the so-called test pyramid -- automated tests that software developers write and execute.
The white box label naturally invites comparisons to its counterpart, the black box. Imagine that same appliance, but wearing its normal casing. In that situation, you have no idea (or interest in) how the internal mechanics work. You just want to verify that it works the way its users expect. This is also called functional testing, and it's what the rest of the post will focus on. Generally, non-developers do this and, usually, it's specifically QA pros that handle it.
The third form that I'll mention sometimes earns the moniker "non-functional testing" because that's how people distinguish it from the aforementioned functional testing. I'd rather not define it by negation, however, so let's call it "fit for purpose" testing. This style of testing covers things that are important, but not directly related to the intended functionality of the software. Does it perform well with lots of people using it? Is it secure? Does it comply with regulatory concerns? Fit for purpose testing answers these questions and more.
Functional Testing in More Detail
Having oriented ourselves on the broader testing map, let's dive more into functional testing. What, exactly, does this involve, and how does it work?
Functional testing, at its core, examines whether or not the software delivers on its promises. Does the login screen let you log in when you enter the correct credentials? If you withdraw money from your bank account, can you observe a reduced balance? Does the "add a customer" screen successfully add a customer to your records? You get the idea.
Because it aims to address the core purposes of your software, it relates heavily to the software's requirements. This means that, like requirements, your testing scenarios, or "test cases," require a great deal of organization. For any given scenario, like "log in," you have to understand the inputs and their expected outputs, as well as understanding how to navigate to the relevant part of the application. With that information in hand, you also need to keep careful track of what you did while interacting with the software and then of whether the test succeeded or failed. Oh, and then you have to do that for hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of test cases.
As you can see, most of the complexity around functional testing resides in organizing and managing the comprehensive testing effort. Sure, actually executing these methodically requires some skill and knowledge of the domain. But management and coordination tend to dominate the effort.
The Importance of Automation
In years gone by, before tooling was quite as good as it is now, management of functional testing required a ton of elbow grease. QA groups would turn the requirements into binders full of test cases, which included exhaustive detail on how to execute the tests. They might then turn the effort over to data entry personnel, supervised by an experienced tester, who would expend a great deal of effort recording and organizing results.
Hopefully, your organization isn't still doing this. Two important areas of automation have emerged, simplifying matters greatly. First, test case management systems now exist. You can do away with lower-tech ways of gathering this data in favor of ones that organize it all based on requirements, trace it back to those requirements and to code check-ins, and track results for you over time. Test case organization has come a long way. And, secondly, you can automate the execution of test cases, meaning you don't have to pay data entry people to do it. You can achieve this with scripted testing tools like Selenium or with playback and record types of tools.
Do not confuse this type of automation with the white box automation that I mentioned earlier. You're not automating based on the internal details of the code. Instead, you're automating the procedural execution of steps that used to come from humans following a binder full of instructions. This allows your skilled QA personnel to spend their time in more productive ways than supervising temps hired to perform drudgery.
Get the Most Out of Functional Testing
So what does functional testing look like in a modern world, on a healthy team with a sophisticated approach? What do the QA folks do?
To understand that, consider an Agile construct known as the "three amigos" collaboration. This involves a developer, tester, and business analyst contemplating a requirement together and agreeing on what it will mean to call that requirement completed. For his part in this, the tester examines the requirement and conceives of a test that, when passing, means the requirement is done.
That captures, in a nutshell, the role of QA in functional testing. They understand the software, the domain, and their craft quite well. And they leverage that understanding to conceive of tests that establish the completeness of a given feature. "Sure, the login screen should log you in," they might say, "but we can't consider the login feature complete until it provides feedback on failed logins and limits you to three attempts." The functional testers contribute to defining done for features and then act as stewards of that "done-ness." And they leverage a lot of automation to help them.
In some ways, functional testing is the most basic and essential form of testing. Make something that prints "hello world," run it, and see if it does, in fact, print "hello world." It's basic and essential, though, because it's foundational. Without it, no concept of done exists. So make sure you do adequate functional testing and make sure you pay attention to the results. But leverage intelligent automation so that you can make sure you focus on the big picture instead of getting lost in the details.
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The Importance of Gift Acceptance Policies
August 2, 2018 By Evans Consulting Group
When to Say “Thank You” and When to Say, “Sorry, but We’ll Pass” By Ross Kasper RAICES (the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) is a Texas-based nonprofit that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant ch … [Read more...] about The Importance of Gift Acceptance Policies
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U.S. Charitable Giving Reached All-Time High in 2017:
What About Jewish Philanthropy?
June 12, 2018 By Evans Consulting Group
By Robert I. Evans Charitable giving in the United States in 2017 reached a record high of more than $410 billion, according to Giving USA, the major annual report that closely follows trends and actual philanthropic activities across the U.S. Released today, the report … [Read more...] about U.S. Charitable Giving Reached All-Time High in 2017:
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The Impact of Major Gifts and the Importance of Broad Participation
April 26, 2018 By Evans Consulting Group
By Robert H. Isaacs Imagine that you are the president of one of our Jewish communal institutions, e.g., a synagogue, Jewish community center, etc., which has identified $10 million in capital and endowment needs. Your organization moves forward with a major fundraising … [Read more...] about The Impact of Major Gifts and the Importance of Broad Participation
PERSONAL OPINION: Reform & Conservative Congregational Leaders Show Passion & Renewed Commitment!
December 19, 2017 By Evans Consulting Group
By Robert Evans Two critical gatherings of American synagogue leaders attracted major support and interest from a significant percentage of Reform and Conservative congregations in recent days. The Biennial of the Reform Movement attracted an estimated 6,000 delegates in … [Read more...] about PERSONAL OPINION: Reform & Conservative Congregational Leaders Show Passion & Renewed Commitment!
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As the Year Turns, Are You on the List?
November 27, 2017 By Evans Consulting Group
By Robert H. Isaacs Like so many Americans, Jews sit down at year’s end to make decisions about many of their charitable gifts. While we may be guided by the Jewish calendar or a fiscal calendar, it is often the secular calendar that determines when we make most of our c … [Read more...] about As the Year Turns, Are You on the List?
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Connecticut 1792 Council of Assistants, Nomination
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Benjamin Huntington, Stephen M. Mitchell, Joseph P. Cook, John Treadwell, Heman Swift, William Hillhouse, William Williams, Jonathan Ingersoll, Roger Newberry, John Chandler, James Davenport, Thomas Grosvenor, Samuel Huntington, Asher Miller, Oliver Wolcott, Thomas Seymour, Zephaniah Swift, Uriah Tracy, James Wadsworth, Aaron Austin, Joshua Cook, Roger Griswold, John Trumbull, William Edmond, Hezekiah Bissell, Samuel W. Dana, Sylvester Gilbert, Nathaniel Smith, Chauncey Goodrich, David Smith, Marvin Wait, Joseph Hopkins, Samuel Gilbert, Elisha Hyde, Joseph Williams, Jonathan Brace, William Judd, Nathan Hale, Constant Southworth, Ebenezer Devotion, Andrew Rowland, John Allen, John Davenport, Jeremiah Ripley, William Hart, Jeremiah Halsey, Simeon Bristol, Matthew Griswold
Benjamin Huntington[1]
Stephen M. Mitchell[2]
Joseph P. Cook[3]
John Treadwell[4]
Heman Swift[5]
William Hillhouse[6]
William Williams[7]
Jonathan Ingersoll[8]
Roger Newberry[9]
John Chandler[10]
James Davenport[11]
Thomas Grosvenor[12]
Samuel Huntington[13]
Asher Miller[14]
Oliver Wolcott[15]
Thomas Seymour[16]
Zephaniah Swift[17]
Uriah Tracy[18]
James Wadsworth[19]
Aaron Austin[20]
Joshua Cook
William Edmond
Hezekiah Bissell
Samuel W. Dana
Sylvester Gilbert
Nathaniel Smith
Chauncey Goodrich
Marvin Wait
Joseph Hopkins
Samuel Gilbert
Elisha Hyde
Jonathan Brace
William Judd
Constant Southworth
Ebenezer Devotion
Andrew Rowland
John Davenport
Jeremiah Ripley
Jeremiah Halsey
Simeon Bristol
Matthew Griswold
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What does “wading” mean in the context of technology?
I was at a English lecture when this word came out and the teacher didn't know the meaning. In addition I did a small online research but I didn't find a clear solution.
I cannot show you the word in a sentence because it was isolated in a word cloud.
One of the main meanings of "wading":
To walk in or through water or something else that similarly impedes normal movement
So maybe I can guess it has to do with surfing the web with difficulties or something similar. Is that right?
I don't really know, if anyone can help I will appreciate it.
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What does isolated in a word cloud mean, please? If you have individual words like that my advice it to use a dictionary. It was probably "wading through some thing". – Lambie Dec 4 '17 at 22:55
Sure, I have looked it up in the dictionary, but I didn't find anything useful related with technology. I found the word in a word cloud like this one @lambie – ChesuCR Dec 4 '17 at 23:10
"Being Involved in Events is Being in Water" is one of the "master metaphors" used in language (including English). See the Master Metaphor List, page 41. The metaphor of a human entering a body of water for getting involved in an activity informs a number of idioms: "getting your feet wet", "diving in", "take the plunge", and of course "wading".
Since "wading" is the initial stage of a slow, careful process of being in water, in reference to technology, it would refer to the initial stages of being involved in some technology. Someone "wading in to digital photography" would be reading about the subject, maybe buying their first camera. As opposed to "diving in" or "taking the plunge", "wading" is a more careful, cautious way of going from not being in water to being in water. Or in the case of technology, "wading" is a careful, cautious way to go from not being involved in it to being involved in it.
You often find metaphorical uses of "wading" accompanied by other metaphorical water references:
That means it's also too early to wield genetic engineering for good but that hasn't stopped scientists from wading into ethically dubious waters by trying.
— Popular Science, "Can Genetic Engineering Create Killers?", 2015
Note the metaphorical use of "waters" referring to scientific research to coordinate with the metaphorical use of "wading".
Last December, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited Eli, wading through a sea of eager young men to a packed hall.
— Christian Science Monitor, "In Israel’s army, more officers are now religious. What that means." 2015
Note the metaphorical use of "sea" referring to a mass of people to coordinate with the metaphorical use of "wading"
Sorting through the types of wheat and flour to find the most nutritious or flavorful -- or the best to use for a specific purpose -- requires wading into a deep gene pool.
— Mother Earth News, "Types of Wheat: What to Grow and How to Use It", 2014
Note the metaphorical use of "pool" referring to a collection of genes to coordinate with the metaphorical use of "wading"
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It's a metaphor. We use language that literally references being in water to talk about being involved in events. – nohat Dec 4 '17 at 23:00
Ok, if you wade through a topic or book or some intellectual thing, it means you are trying to understand it by reading and thinking about it. OK? :) – Lambie Dec 4 '17 at 23:12
@Lambie the word "wading" literally refers to getting into water, and using it to refer to getting involved is making a metaphor of getting involved with getting into water. It's a master metaphor of language, one that you probably don't even consciously think about. There are plenty of these metaphors; you can read about them in the link I put in the answer. – nohat Dec 4 '17 at 23:19
Wading does not require walking. Just standing in water is wading – nohat Dec 4 '17 at 23:30
Merriam-Webster gives as the first definition "to step in or through a medium (such as water)"—note in or through (merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wade) – nohat Dec 4 '17 at 23:35
to wade through a topic or subject means to read about it and think about it so you can come to understand it. That said, it is always: wade through something, as an image.
Children often play in shallow water. When they walk through it, they are wading.
I'm wading through elementary particle physics and having a hard time.
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Joey Homers Three Times to Power Cookies & Cream into Wiffle Series with Game 5 Victory Over Ham Slams
Despite being hobbled by an ankle injury, Joey went 4-for-5 and pitched the complete game win to lead Cookies & Cream back to the Wiffle Series with a win in game 5
Cookies & Cream clinched a return trip to the Wiffle Series and completed their comeback against the Ham Slams by winning the final two games in their first round series, capped by an 8-5 win in game 5. Joey homered in his first three at-bats, went 4-for-5 with 6 RBI, and pitched the complete game win to lead Cookies & Cream to victory, setting the stage for a Wiffle Series rematch against Questionable Outfit next week.
After winning game 4, Joey took the mound again for Cookies & Cream in game 5. Dan went 3-for-5 against Joey in game 4, and he continued to have success in game 5. After Joey retired Josh to start the game, Dan hit a solo bomb to left field, putting the Ham Slams up 1-0. Joey then retired Joe to end the inning, and Cookies trailed by a run.
Kessler and Dan celebrate at the plate after Dan’s solo homer in the first inning put the Ham Slams ahead 1-0
Joey would provide his own run support in the bottom of the first. After Blose singled with one out, Joey hit a two-run homer to left, putting Cookies & Cream ahead 2-1. Joe, the Ham Slams starter, then retired Dinger to end the inning.
Josh tripled with one out in the top of the second, but the Ham Slams couldn’t even the score, as Dan grounded out to left to end the inning, stranding the runner.
Cookies & Cream would add to their lead in the bottom of the second. Guthrie started the inning with a solo homer, making the score 3-1. Blose followed with a single, and for the second consecutive inning, Joey hit a two-run blast to drive him in. Joe retired Dinger to end the inning, but Cookies had pulled out to a 5-1 lead through two innings.
Joe helped himself out in the top of the third, starting the inning with a deep solo homer to left, making the score 5-2. Joey retired the next two batters, Kessler and Josh, to end the inning.
Cookies continued to hit Joe hard in the bottom of the third. Joey led off the inning with a solo homer, his third consecutive bomb, and Cookies led 6-2. Dinger followed with a single, and two batters later, Blose hit a one-out triple to drive him in, making the score 7-2. Joey then singled, scoring Blose, pushing the score to 8-2. Joey, hobbled by an ankle injury, was caught in between first and second for the second out of the inning.
Cookies & Cream celebrate at the plate after one of Joey’s three home runs
Joe singled with one out in the top of the third, and he moved to second when Kessler followed with a single. The Ham Slams had two runners on, but Josh flew out to left for the second out of the inning, stranding both runners.
Joe pitched his first perfect frame in the bottom of the fourth, retiring Dinger and Guthrie in order, and the score remained 8-2.
The Ham Slams were running out of time, and they started a comeback in the top of the fifth. Joe tripled with one out, and he scored when Kessler followed with an RBI double, making the score 8-3. Josh then hit a ball off the fence, and after a series of fielding errors, raced around the bases for a two-run inside-the-park homer. Cookies were showing signs similar to their collapse in the final game of the season against Questionable Outfit, and the Ham Slams were gaining momentum. Dan hit a double, and the Ham Slams trailed 8-5 with one out and a runner on second. Joey buckled down, retiring Joe for the second out of the inning, stranding the runner at second.
Cookies & Cream couldn’t add any insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth, as Joe retired the side in order, including sending Joey down for the first time in the game.
The Ham Slams were down to their final at-bat of the season, trailing 8-5 in the top of the sixth. Joey got the first batter, Kessler, to fly out to center, and Cookies & Cream were one out away from advancing to the Wiffle Series. The next batter, Josh, hit a towering fly ball to left. Blose camped under it, caught the ball for the second out of the inning, and Cookies & Cream had won game 5 by the score of 8-5.
The victory clinched a Wiffle Series berth for Cookies & Cream, where they will face Questionable Outfit for the fourth consecutive season. The loss ended the Ham Slams season, and they will look to contend for a title in 2017.
W: Joey (2-0)
L: Joe (2-1)
– Joey pitched the complete game win for Cookies & Cream, allowing 5 runs on 9 hits in 6 innings.
– Joe took the loss for the Ham Slams, giving up 8 runs on 10 hits in 5 innings.
– Joey led Cookies & Cream on offense, going 4-for-5 with a single, three home runs, three runs scored, and six RBI.
– Joe led the Ham Slams at the plate, going 3-for-5 with a single, a triple, a homer, 2 runs scored, and one RBI.
– Cookies & Cream are now 4-0 in game 5s in franchise history.
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Blose and Guthrie Lift Cookies & Cream to Game 4 Win Over Ham Slams and Force Pivotal Game 5
Blose went 4-for-6 to lead Cookies & Cream, driving in four of the seven Cookies & Cream runs
After falling behind 2-1 in the best-of-five series with the Ham Slams, Cookies & Cream bounced back in game 4, winning 7-4 and forcing a game 5 where the winner will advance to the Wiffle Series to face Questionable Outfit. Blose and Guthrie each went 4-for-6 to lead Cookies, with Blose contributing a single, two doubles, and a homer and Guthrie collecting a single, two doubles, and a triple.
The Ham Slams ace, Josh, took the mound for the Ham Slams, and he fell behind early. Guthrie led off the game with a triple, and Blose drove him in with an RBI double that put Cookies & Cream ahead 1-0. Two batters later, Dinger singled, putting runners on the corners with one out. Guthrie then singled, scoring Blose to make the score 2-0. Cookies had two men on and were threatening to take a big lead, but Josh retired Blose to end the inning, stranding both runners.
Cookies & Cream started Joey in his first pitching appearance of the 2016 postseason. After retiring Josh to start the bottom of the first, Dan tripled. Joe continued to swing a hot bat, hitting an RBI double to make the score 2-1. Joey then retired Adam to strand Joe and end the inning, and Cookies & Cream led by a run after one.
Josh fanned Joey for the first out in the top of the second, and he got Dinger to fly out to center for the second out. Joey allowed a one-out double to Dan in the bottom of the second, but stranded him, retiring Joe to end the inning.
Cookies & Cream would jump out to a big lead in the top of the third. Guthrie doubled to start the inning, and when Blose followed with a single, Guthrie was caught trying to get from first to third for the first out of the inning. With one out and a runner on first, Joey tripled, scoring Blose, and Cookies led 3-1. Dinger then singled, scoring Joey to put Cookies ahead 4-1. Guthrie followed with a double to put runners on second and third, and Blose cleared the bases with a two-RBI double, extending the Cookies lead to 6-1. Josh finally escaped the inning by retiring Joey, stranding Blose at second.
Down 6-1, the Ham Slams were retired in order in the bottom of the third, as Adam and Josh flew out to Jordan in center field. Josh matched Joey in the top of the fourth, sending Dinger and Guthrie down consecutively.
The Ham Slams cut into the Cookies & Cream lead in the bottom of the fourth. Joe triple with one out, and Kessler drove him in with a two-run blast to left, making the score 6-3. Joey then retired Josh to end the inning, and Cookies & Cream led by three runs.
Kessler squares up a pitch. His two-run homer in the fourth inning narrow the Cookies & Cream lead.
Blose led off the top of the fifth with a solo shot to left, putting Cookies & Cream ahead 7-3. Joey followed with a double, but Cookies couldn’t add more insurance runs, as Josh retired Dinger and Guthrie to strand the runner and end the inning.
Dan tripled to start the bottom of the fifth, and he scored on a Joe groundout to right field. Joey then retired Kessler for the second out of the inning, and Cookies led 7-4 heading into the sixth.
Guthrie went 4-for-6 with three extra-base hits in game 4
Josh retired the side in order in the sixth, as Blose and Joey both popped out.
Up four runs, Joey remained in the game to close things out in the bottom of the sixth. He got Josh to fly out to Blose in left for the first out of the inning, and Dan flew out to deep center field for the second out, ending the inning and the game.
The 7-4 Cookies & Cream win tied the series, forcing a decisive game 5 in the first round series.
L: Josh (0-1)
– Joey pitched the complete game win for Cookies & Cream, giving up 4 runs on 6 hits in 6 innings.
– Josh took the loss for the Ham Slams, allowing 7 runs on 12 hits and striking out one in 6 innings.
– Blose and Guthrie each went 4-for-6 to lead Cookies & Cream. Blose had a single, 2 doubles, a home run, 3 runs scored, and 4 RBI. Guthrie had a single, 2 doubles, a triple, 2 runs scored, and one RBI.
– Dan led the Ham Slams on offense, going 3-for-5 with a double, two triples, and two runs scored.
– Cookies & Cream have played in a game 5 the past four consecutive years in the first round of the playoffs.
– Dan tied the single-game playoff record for triples, with two.
Dominant Performance by Bob Fuels 7-3 Win, Questionable Outfit Sweep Eastbound & Dahn
Bob turned in another legendary playoff performance, going 6-for-7 at the plate and pitching the complete game win to carry Questionable Outfit back to the Wiffle Series
Bob went 6-for-7 at the plate and pitched a complete game win as Questionable Outfit finished a sweep in their best-of-five first round series with Eastbound & Dahn. The two-time defending champions Questionable Outfit will advance to the Wiffle Series for the fourth consecutive year, and they will await the conclusion of the Ham Slams vs. Cookies & Cream series which will determine their opponent.
BK took the mound for Eastbound & Dahn to start game 3, as Eastbound looked to extend the series and their 2016 season. He allowed a single to the leadoff hitter, Bob, and two batters later, Mike hit an RBI single that scored Bob from first, putting Questionable Outfit ahead 1-0. BK then retired Miller to end the inning.
In an odd managerial decision, Bob started for Questionable Outfit in place of their ace, Miller. After retiring the first batter he faced, Tim, Nate hit a double. Helal followed with an RBI single, scoring Nate to tie the game at 1-1. Helal was caught in between first and second on the play for the second out, ending the inning.
BK allowed a one-out single to Tom in the top of the second, but Questionable couldn’t take another lead, as Mike was retired to end the inning. Bob retired Eastbound in order in the bottom of the second, and the game remained tied.
Miller singled to start the top of the third, but he was caught trying to extend the hit to a double, and BK had the first out of the inning. Bob followed with a solo homer, putting Questionable ahead 2-1. BK then retired Tom to end the inning.
Eastbound bounced back in the bottom of the third, taking the lead. Tim doubled with one out, and Nate followed with an RBI triple that tied the game at 2-2. Helal then hit a triple, scoring Nate, and Eastbound led 3-2. Bob struck out Christian for the second out of the inning, stranding the runner at third.
Nate was solid in the field, recording 9 putouts, and led Eastbound at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a double and a triple
Eastbound was halfway to forcing a game 4 when Questionable had a big offensive inning, which has become their trademark. Mike led off the top of the fourth with a homer, and Miller followed with a titanic blast. The back-to-back jacks put Questionable Outfit back in front 4-3. Bob then hit a line drive off the fence, and a series of fielding errors led to an inside-the-park homer, and Questionable led 5-3. Tom hit a deep blast to left, and Questionable Outfit had homered in four consecutive at-bats to take a 6-3 lead. BK finally retired Mike for the first out of the inning, but Miller followed with a triple. Bob singled on an error, and although Miller couldn’t score, Questionable had runners on first and third. BK escaped further damage, however, getting Tom to ground out to left to end the inning, stranding both runners.
Bob cruised through the bottom of the fourth, retiring the side in order.
Tom scoops up a ball in center field with Mike looking on
Eastbound removed BK from the mound and turned to the bullpen, inserting Christian into the game in the top of the fifth. After retiring Mike, he gave up a single to Miller and a double to Bob, putting two runners in scoring position with one out. Questionable couldn’t add to their lead though, as Tom grounded out to Tim in center, stranding both runners and ending the inning.
Bob continued to roll in the bottom of the fifth, sending Tim and Nate down consecutively.
Questionable would add one more run of support in the top of the sixth. Mike doubled to start the inning, and two batters later Bob hit an RBI single to make the score 7-3. Christian then retired Tom to end the inning, and Eastbound trailed by four runs heading into the bottom of the sixth.
With their season on the line, Eastbound couldn’t string together enough hits, or any hits, as Bob retired Helal and Christian in order to end the inning.
Questionable Outfit and Eastbound & Dahn exchange handshakes after Questionable completed a three game sweep in the best-of-five first round series
The 7-3 victory put Questionable Outfit back into the Wiffle Series where they will attempt to defend their title and three-peat. Eastbound & Dahn finished a difficult season and will look to return to their 2015 form in 2017.
W: Bob (2-0)
L: BK (0-2)
– Bob pitched the complete game win for Questionable Outfit, giving up 3 runs on 5 hits and striking out one in 6 innings.
– BK took the loss for Eastbound, allowing 6 runs on 11 hits in 4 innings.
– Christian pitched two innings of relief for Eastbound & Dahn, allowing 1 run on 4 hits.
– Bob led Questionable Outfit on offense, going 6-for-7 with 3 singles, a double, a home run, 3 runs scored, and 2 RBI.
– Nate led Eastbound & Dahn at the plate, going 2-for-3 with a double, a triple, 2 runs scored, and an RBI.
Tags: 2016, Eastbound & Dahn, EWL Playoffs, First Round, Game 3, July, Questionable Outfit
Joe Pitches Gem and Hits Three-Run Homer to Put Ham Slams on Brink of Wiffle Series with 6-2 Game 3 Win
Joe scattered only four hits in a complete game win for the Ham Slams, and he provided three runs of run support for himself, going 4-for-5 at the plate
Joe is only three games into his EWL career, but he has already made his presence felt in a big way. After leading his team to a game 2 victory last week, he picked up where he left off, pitching another complete game win in game 3 and putting the Ham Slams ahead for good with a three-run blast in the bottom of the third. The win put the Slams ahead 2-1 in the best-of-five series with Cookies & Cream and one win away from the franchise’s first Wiffle Series berth.
Although Joe kept Cookies & Cream in check throughout the game, he got behind early. After retiring Guthrie to start the game, Blose launched a solo homer to center, and Cookies & Cream led 1-0 quickly. Joe then retired Joey, playing somewhat hobbled one week after sustaining an ankle injury in game 2 against the Slams.
Guthrie took the mound for Cookies & Cream, and he avoided trouble in the bottom of the first. Josh led off with a double and moved to third on a Dan groundout. Joe then singled, putting runners on the corners with one out. Guthrie maintained the one-run lead, however, getting Kessler to fly out to the mound for the second out, stranding both runners.
Joe cruised through the top of the second, retiring the side in order, and his team would pull ahead in the bottom half of the inning.
Josh led off with a solo homer to right-center, tying the game at 1-1. Two batters later, Joe doubled, and Kessler followed with an RBI single that gave the Ham Slams a 2-1 lead. Josh then doubled, and the Ham Slams had two runners in scoring position. Guthrie once again escaped a jam, getting Dan go fly out to right, stranding two more runners and ending the inning.
Joe continued to roll in the top of the third, sending Guthrie and Blose down consecutively.
Dan fires a ball into the pitcher after securing an out in left field
The Slams would open up a big lead in the bottom of the third. Joe led off with a double, and he scored when Kessler followed with his second RBI single of the game. Kessler was caught trying to extend the single into a double, and Guthrie had the first out of the inning. Josh and Dan then each hit singles, and the Slams had runners on the corners with one out. Joe came to the plate and crushed a three-run homer to deep left field, putting the Ham Slams ahead 6-1. Guthrie retired Kessler to end the inning, and the Ham Slams had pulled ahead by five runs.
Dinger would double with one out in the top of the fourth, but Cookies & Cream couldn’t capitalize, as Jordan was retired for the second out of the inning, stranding the runner at second.
Guthrie retired the side in order in the bottom of the fourth, and Cookies would cut into the Ham Slams lead in the top of the fifth.
Guthrie tripled to start the inning, and he scored when Blose grounded out for the first out of the inning. Joe then retired Joey to end the inning with the score 6-2.
The Slams couldn’t add any insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth, and they would head into the final frame with a four run lead.
Jordan tripled with one out in the top of the sixth, but Cookies couldn’t put together a rally. Joe retired Guthrie to strand the runner, ending the inning and the game.
The 6-2 game 3 win put the Hams Slams ahead 2-1 in the best-of-five series with Cookies & Cream. A win in game 4 would earn a berth in the 2016 EWL Wiffle Series.
W: Joe (2-0)
L: Guthrie (1-1)
– Joe pitched the complete game win for the Ham Slams, giving up 2 runs on only 4 hits in 6 innings pitched.
– Guthrie earned the loss in the complete game effort for Cookies & Cream, giving up 6 runs on 11 hits in 5 innings.
– Joe led the Ham Slams on offense, going 4-for-5 with a single, 2 doubles, a home run, 3 runs scored, and 3 RBI.
– Josh also went 4-for-5 with the Ham Slams with a single, 2 doubles, a home run, 2 runs scored, and one RBI.
– Guthrie, Blose, Dinger, and Jordan each had one hit for Cookies & Cream in the loss.
Bob and Mike Each Hit for Cycle as Questionable Outfit take Commanding Series Lead with 13-9 Win in Game 2
Bob went 6-for-7 with a single, 2 doubles, 2 triples, and a homer, hitting for the cycle and earning the win on the mound for Questionable Outfit
Questionable Outfit put Eastbound & Dahn on the brink of elimination and took a 2-0 lead in their best-of-five first round series with a 13-9 win in game 2. Bob and Mike each hit for the cycle, becoming the first teammates to hit for the cycle in the same game in EWL playoff history. Bob had six hits and scored five runs, and Mike had five hits, as Questionable held off a late Eastbound & Dahn rally to win and put themselves one win away from a fourth consecutive Wiffle Series berth.
Bob started on the mound for Questionable Outfit, and he cruised in the top of the first, retiring Nate and Christian in order.
Questionable Outfit would immediately provide Bob with run support, taking a significant lead in the bottom of the first. Bob singled to lead off the inning, and he moved from first to third on a Tom single. Mike then doubled, scoring Bob, and the score was 1-0. Miller came to the plate with runners on second and third, and he cleared the bases with a three-run bomb, putting Questionable Outfit ahead 4-0. Bob followed with a double, and after five consecutive hits to start the game, it looked like Questionable Outfit would have a huge inning. Christian buckled down, however, and avoided further damage, retiring Tom and Mike to strand the runner at second and end the inning.
Eastbound & Dahn showed resolve in the top of the second, bouncing back and cutting into the Questionable Outfit lead. Dustin singled, and he moved to second when BK followed with a single. Two batters later, Christian cleared the bases and rounded them all himself when Questionable Outfit unleashed a series of fielding errors that resulted in a three-run inside-the-park homer. Bob then retired Dustin to end the inning, but Eastbound had cut the lead to 4-3.
Christian’s three-run inside-the-park homer pulled Eastbound & Dahn within a run in the top of the second
Christian pitched a perfect frame in the bottom of the second, sending Miller and Bob down in order. Bob matched him in the top of the third, as BK and Nate were retired consecutively.
Questionable would add to their lead in the bottom of the third. Tom led off the inning with a solo shot, and Mike made it back-to-back homers with a solo homer of his own. Two batters later Bob tripled, and Tom drove him in with an RBI single that made the score 7-3. Mike followed with a single, and Questionable had runners on first and third, but Christian retired Miller to strand both runners and end the inning.
Tom went 6-for-7 with a record-tying four singles, a double, a homer, and four runs scored
Eastbound continued to hang in, narrowing the deficit in the top of the fourth. Christian doubled to start the inning, and he scored when Dustin followed with an RBI triple. BK then singled, scoring Dustin, and Eastbound trailed 7-5. Nate followed with a single, but BK was caught in between first and second for the first out of the inning. Bob then retired Christian to end the inning, and Questionable led by two.
Mike, who hit for the cycle in the Questionable Outfit win, comes up firing in left field
Bob led off the bottom of the fourth with a solo homer, completing the cycle in only five at-bats. Tom followed with a single, but Christian retired Mike and Miller to strand him, and Questionable Outfit led 8-5 after four innings.
Bob retired the side in order in the top of the fifth, and Questionable would extend their lead by a considerable margin in the bottom of the inning.
Bob tripled for the second time in the game to lead off the inning, and he scored when Tom drove him in with an RBI single that made the score 9-5. Mike then tripled, completing the cycle, and Tom scored on the play to put Questionable ahead 10-5. Two batters later, Bob doubled to score Mike, and the score was 11-5. Tom then doubled to score Bob, and Mike followed with an RBI single to score Tom. Christian finally retired Miller to end the inning, but Questionable had scored five runs to pull ahead 13-5.
Nate’s two-run homer cut the Questionable Outfit lead to 13-9, but it was the end of a dramatic late-game rally for Eastbound
Down eight heading into their final at-bat, Eastbound & Dahn made things interesting in the top of the sixth. Nate led off the inning with a triple, and Christian hit a deep sacrifice fly to center, scoring Nate to make the score 13-6. Dustin then singled, and he scored from first when BK hit an RBI single, and the score was 13-7. Nate then hit a towering two-run homer to left-center, and Eastbound had cut the Questionable lead to 13-9. Questionable Outfit removed Bob from the mound and brought in Tom from the bullpen. He immediately put an end to the Eastbound rally, striking out Christian for the second out of the inning, ending the game and giving Questionable Outfit the 13-9 win.
Questionable Outfit pulled ahead 2-0 in the best-of-five first round series with Eastbound & Dahn. A win in game 3 would put them in the Wiffle Series for the fourth consecutive season. No team has come back from an 0-2 deficit to win a first round series.
L: Christian (0-1)
– Bob earned the win for Questionable Outfit, allowing 9 runs on 10 hits in 5.5 innings pitched.
– Tom pitched 0.5 innings of relief, and struck out the only batter he faced.
– Christian took the loss for Eastbound in the complete game effort, giving up 13 runs on 18 hits in 5 innings.
– Bob went 6-for-7 and hit for the cycle with a single, 2 doubles, 2 triples, a home run, 5 runs scored, and 3 RBI.
– Mike also hit for the cycle, going 5-for-6 with 2 singles, a double, a triple, a homer, a sacrifice fly, 3 runs scored, and 4 RBI.
– All four Eastbound & Dahn players had at least two hits. They were led by Dustin, who went 3-for-5 with 2 singles, a triple, 3 runs scored, and an RBI.
Ham Slams Even Series with Cookies & Cream, Win Game Two 7-5
Playing in only his second career EWL game, Joe pitched a complete game win and went 3-for-5 at the plate with a triple, two home runs, 3 runs scored, and two RBI.
After dropping game one, the Ham Slams, led by free agent addition Joe, won game two 7-5 and evened the best-of-five first round series with Cookies & Cream at one game apiece. Joe pitched the complete game win and went 3-for-5 with a triple, two homers, three runs scored, and two RBI. Cookies & Cream suffered a blow as Joey left the game early with one of the most significant wiffle injuries in league history, and they may be without him for the rest of the series.
Dinger took the mound for Cookies & Cream, and he fell behind early when Josh led off the game with a solo homer to right-center, putting the Ham Slams up 1-0. Dinger then got Dan and Joe to fly out to center to end the inning.
Cookies & Cream evened the score immediately when Guthrie led off the bottom of the first with a solo homer, making the score 1-1. Blose followed with a triple, and Cookies were in position to pull ahead, but Joe got Joey to fly out in foul territory and got Dinger to fly out to center, ending the inning and stranding the runner.
The Slams took another lead in the top of the second. Kessler doubled to start the inning, and two batters later Dan hit a two-run blast to center, and the Slams led 3-1. Joe followed with a triple, and he scored when Kessler hit an RBI double. Dinger retired Josh to strand Kessler at second and end the inning, but the Slams had pulled ahead 4-1.
Dan’s two-run homer in the second put the Ham Slams ahead 3-1.
Guthrie doubled with one out in the bottom of the second, and he scored when Blose hit an RBI single. Joe then retired Joey to end the inning, and Cookies had cut the deficit to 4-2.
Dan led off the top of the third with a towering fly ball to center. Joey backed up against the fence and jumped to catch the ball and record the out. He came down awkwardly, however, twisting his ankle severely. He was carried off the field by his teammates and went to the hospital to seek medical attention. When play resumed, Joe provided his own run support with a solo homer, putting the Ham Slams ahead 5-2. Kessler followed with a solo shot, and the back-to-back homers made the score 6-2. Josh followed with a double, and Cookies & Cream made a pitching change, bringing Guthrie into the game. He retired the first batter he faced, Dan, for the second out, ending the inning and stranding the runner at second.
Kessler went 3-for-5 with 2 doubles, a home run, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI.
Joe rolled through the bottom of the third, retiring Dinger and Jordan in order, and the score remained 6-2.
Joe continued to help himself at the plate, leading off the top of the fourth with a solo homer. Guthrie retired the next two batters to end the inning, and the Ham Slams led 7-2.
Cookies would narrow the margin in the bottom of the fourth. Guthrie led off with a double, and Blose followed with a two-run homer, cutting the score to 7-4. Dinger followed with a double, and just when it looked like Cookies would rally, Joe retired Jordan and Guthrie to strand the runner and end the inning.
Blose went 4-for-5 with a single, 2 triples, and a homer. Here he connects on a two-run blast in the fourth that cut the Ham Slams lead to 7-4.
Guthrie retired the side in order in the top of the fifth, and he had met his innings limit for the week.
Blose tripled to start the bottom of the fifth, and he scored on a Dinger groundout to cut the deficit to 7-5. Joe then retired Jordan to end the inning, and Cookies trailed by two runs.
Dinger returned to the mound in the top of the sixth, and he had more success than earlier in the game, retiring Kessler and Josh consecutively.
Down two runs in the bottom of the sixth with their two best hitters due up, Cookies couldn’t string together a rally to extend the game. Joe retired Guthrie and Blose, ending the inning and giving the Ham Slams a 7-5 win.
With the win, the Ham Slams evened the best-of-five series with Cookies & Cream at 1-1.
W:Joe (1-0)
L: Dinger (0-1)
– Joe pitched the complete game win for the Ham Slams, allowing 5 runs on 8 hits in 6 innings.
– Dinger took the loss for Cookies & Cream, giving up 6 runs on 8 hits in 4 innings.
– Guthrie pitched two innings of relief for Cookies, and gave up one run on one hit.
– Joe led the Ham Slams on offense, going 3-for-5 with a triple, a homer, 3 runs scored, and 2 RBI.
– Kessler also went 3-for-5 for the Slams with 2 doubles, a homer, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI.
– Blose led Cookies & Cream at the plate, going 4-for-5 with a single, 2 triples, a homer, 2 runs scored, and 3 RBI.
– Guthrie also went 3-for-5 for Cookies with 2 doubles, a home run, 3 runs scored, and an RBI.
Miller Homers Twice, Throws Shutout as Questionable Outfit Take Game 1 From Eastbound & Dahn 9-0
Miller was in command on the mound, throwing a complete game shutout in game one. He also had four hits, including two home runs.
Miller allowed only five hits and provided his own run support, going 4-for-5 with two home runs and four RBI as Questionable Outfit took a 1-0 lead in their best-of-five first round series with Eastbound & Dahn, winning 9-0 in game one.
Nate led off the game with a double, but Eastbound couldn’t get on the board early, as Miller retired Christian and Dustin to end the inning and strand the runner.
Nate sets to gun a ball into the pitcher’s mound from left field.
Bob doubled to lead off the bottom of the first, and he managed to score from second on a deep groundout to left by Tom. BK, the Eastbound starter, retired Mike, and Questionable led 1-0 after an inning.
BK singled to start the top of the second, but he didn’t make it past first, as Nate flew out to shallow left, and Christian grounded out to right to end the inning.
Questionable Outfit would open up a substantial lead in the bottom of the second. Miller singled to start the inning, and he moved to second when Bob followed with a single. Tom doubled, scoring Miller, and Questionable led 2-0. Mike came to the plate with runners on second and third, and he cleared the bases with a three-run blast to left. BK retired Miller and Bob to end the inning, but Questionable had pulled ahead 5-0.
Dustin started the top of the third with a single, but Miller continued to strand Eastbound runners. He retired BK and Nate to end the inning, and the score remained 5-0.
Mike barely hangs on to a fly ball in left field.
Tom doubled to lead off the bottom of the third, but Eastbound would escape the inning without giving up additional runs. The next batter, Mike, attempted to bunt, but BK scooped up the ball for the first out and doubled up Tom in between second and third, ending the inning.
Dustin doubled with one out in the top of the fourth, but for the fourth consecutive inning, Eastbound was unable to drive in a base runner. Miller retired BK for the second out, stranding Dustin at second.
Miller extended the Questionable lead with a solo homer to start the bottom of the fourth, making the score 6-0. Two batters later, Tom singled with one out, and he moved from first to third when Mike followed with a double. Miller had one out and two runners in scoring position, and he hit the second three-run homer of the night for Questionable, as his second homer of the game made the score 9-0. Bob followed with a single, but when Tom followed with a single, Bob was caught in between first and second for the second out of the inning.
Miller delivers a pitch to Nate
Miller pitched his first perfect frame in the top of the fifth, retiring Nate and striking out Christian. Miller then doubled with one out in the bottom of the fifth, but Questionable couldn’t extend their lead to double digits, as BK retired Bob strand the runner and end the inning.
Down 9-0, Eastbound stranded one last runner in the top of the sixth. Dustin doubled to start the inning, but Miller got BK and Nate to groundout to left, ending the inning and the game.
Questionable Outfit had won 9-0 and taken a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five first round series.
W: Miller (1-0)
– Miller pitched the complete game shutout for Questionable Outfit, allowing only five hits and striking out one in six innings.
– BK took the loss for Eastbound, giving up 9 runs on 13 hits in 5 innings.
– Miller led Questionable Outfit on offense, going 4-for-5 with a single, a double, 2 home runs, 3 runs scored, and 4 RBI.
– Tom also went 4-for-5 for Questionable with 2 singles, 2 doubles, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI.
– Dustin was the only Eastbound player to collect multiple hits. He went 3-for-4 with a single, a double, and a triple.
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Week 8: Turbo (Jack Shack)
Week 10: Josh D (Jack Shack)
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Week 2 Playoffs: Joey (Cheap Goats)
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Loss Mitigation Win Wiffle Series in Five Games
Game 1:
Shady Characters 6
Loss Mitigation 9
Questionable Outfit 7
Shady Characters 11
Questionable Outfit 11
MVP: Bob
2018 Pabst Blue Ribbon Wiffler of the Week Winners
Week 1: Mike (Loss Mitigation)
Week 3: Bob (Loss Mitigation)
Week 4: Erich (Shady Characters)
Week 5: Jordan (Cheap Goats)
Week 7: Nate (Loss Mitigation)
Week 10: Bob (Loss Mitigation)
Week 1 Playoffs: Mike (Loss Mitigation)
Week 2 Playoffs: Bob (Loss Mitigation)
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2018 Champion: Bob
Questionable Outfit Win Wiffle Series in Six Games
Cookies & Cream 4
Cookies & Cream 12
MVP: Mike
Week 1: Steve (Ham Slams)
Week 2: Nate O (Eastbound & Dahn)
Week 3: Jordan (Cookies & Cream)
Week 4: Erich (Cookies & Cream)
Week 5: Miller (Questionable Outfit)
Week 6: Bob (Questionable Outfit)
Week 8: Dustin (Ham Slams)
Week 9: Mike (Questionable Outfit)
Week 10: Erich (Cookies & Cream)
Week 1 Playoffs: Tom (Questionable Outfit)
Week 2 Playoffs: Joey (Cookies & Cream)
Week 3 Playoffs: Mike (Questionable Outfit)
(Tom)
(Steve)
2017 Champion: Steve
Questionable Outfit Win Wiffle Series in Four Games
MVP: Bob (Questionable Outfit)
Week 1: Guthrie (Cookies & Cream)
Week 3: Tom (Questionable Outfit)
Week 4: Josh (Ham Slams)
Week 5: Mo (Questionable Outfit)
Week 8: Blose (Cookies & Cream)
Week 9: Joey (Cookies & Cream)
Week 10: Bob (Questionable Outfit)
Week 1 Playoffs: Week 8: Blose (Cookies & Cream)
Week 2 Playoffs: Joe (Ham Slams)
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Week 4: Reilly (Questionable Outfit)
Week 7: Tim (Ham Slams)
Week 10: Tim (Ham Slams)
Week 1 Playoffs: Vassallo (Cookies & Cream)
Week 1 Wiffle Series: Joey (Cookies & Cream)
Week 2 Wiffle Series: Bob (Questionable Outfit)
(Dinger)
Dinger
(Blose)
(Reilly)
Vassallo
Blose
Questionable Outfit Win Wiffle Series in Five Games
Week 9: Anthony (Ham Slams)
Week 10: Morrison (Questionable Outfit)
Week 2 Playoffs: Bob (Questionable Outfit)
Cookies & Cream Win Wiffle Series in Four Games
(7 innings)
MVP: Guthrie (Cookies & Cream)
Week 5: Hartley (Eastbound & Dahn)
Week 8: Mark (Eastbound & Dahn)
Week 10: Morrison (Cookies & Cream)
Week 2 Playoffs: Guthrie (Cookies & Cream)
Week 1 Wiffle Series: Guthrie (Cookies & Cream)
Caucasians Win Wiffle Series in Seven Games
Caucasians 10
Fish Sticks 4
Fish Sticks 11
Caucasians 1
MVP: Guthrie (Caucasians)
Week 1: Helal (Downtown Bobby Brown)
Week 2: Evan (Ham Slams)
Week 3: Guthrie (Caucasians)
Week 4: Ivan (Fish Sticks)
Week 5: Vassallo (Fish Sticks)
Week 7: Ron (Caucasians)
Week 8: Morrison (Caucasians)
Week 9: Frosty (Caucasians)
Week 10: Les (Caucasians)
Week 1 Playoffs: Les (Caucasians)
Week 2 Playoffs: Mark (Downtown Bobby Brown)
Week 1 Wiffle Series: Blose (Fish Sticks)
Week 2 Wiffle Series: Guthrie (Caucasians)
Fish Sticks Win Wiffle Series in Six Games
MVP: Blose (Fish Sticks)
Week 1: Joey (Fish Sticks)
Week 3: Blose (Fish Sticks)
Week 4: Holly (Pumice on Slow!)
Week 6: Ron (4 out of 5 Dentists)
Week 7: Dinger (Fish Sticks)
Week 8: Chris (4 out of 5 Dentists)
Week 10: Blose (Fish Sticks)
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Vietnamese Political Prisoner Allowed to See Family in Visit
Tran Thi Nga is shown at her sentencing in Ha Nam, July 25, 2017.
Nhandan News
Vietnamese political prisoner Tran Thi Nga has been allowed to see her family in a move reversing an earlier decision by authorities to refuse prison visits to punish her for refusing “to follow prison rules,” her husband told RFA on Monday.
The visit at Gia Trung prison in Gia Lai province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands took place on Dec. 15, Nga’s husband Phan Van Phong told RFA’s Vietnamese Service.
“She is not being ill-treated like before, but her health is not good. She has problems with her spine, which is always hurting her,” he said.
“Though prison authorities have given her some medication, they have not allowed her to see a doctor for a medical check-up. She is in good spirits, though.”
Nga had been refused permission to see her husband and children in September when her family came to see her, her husband told RFA’s Vietnamese Service in an earlier report.
“Prison authorities told me that she had not followed prison rules and has refused to admit guilt [in the charge for which she was convicted], so they would not let her see us,” Phan Van Phong told RFA on Sept. 29.
“I asked them to at least let her see her children, but they just said no,” he said.
Prisoners in Vietnam are normally allowed monthly visits with their families according to prison rules.
Beaten, threatened
Nga, 40, was sentenced in July 2017 to nine years in prison for spreading “propaganda against the state” under Article 88 of Vietnam’s penal code, a provision frequently used to silence dissident bloggers and other activists.
Her appeal was rejected in December.
Now held at Gia Trung prison, Nga told her husband in August she had been beaten and threatened with death by a cellmate assigned to her by authorities, Phong told RFA in an earlier report.
Phong then appealed for her protection in a petition sent to Gia Trung prison, the ministry of police, the supreme people’s procurator, Gia Lai province judicial authorities, and international organizations, he said.
Vietnam’s one-party communist government currently holds at least 130 political prisoners, including rights advocates and bloggers deemed threats to national security, Human Rights Watch says.
It also controls all media, censors the internet, and restricts basic freedoms of expression.
Reported by RFA’s Vietnamese Service. Translated by Viet Ha. Written in English by Richard Finney.
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Nash (1980)
For the character with the same last name in the Re-imagined Series continuity, see Silas Nash.
Birth place Galactican Fleet
Introduced Spaceball
Role Warrior and Viper pilot on Galactica
Portrayed by Jeremy Brett
Nash (1980) is a Cylon
Nash (1980) is a Final Five Cylon
Nash (1980) is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Nash (1980) is an Original Series Cylon
Nash (1980) in the separate continuity
Nash (1980) in the primary continuity
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Nash is a Galactican Pilot on Galactica who was born in the Galactican Fleet after the exodus from the Twelve Colonies.
His identity is stolen by Xaviar, who uses technology to temporarily transform himself to resemble Nash. In the disguise, Xavier tricks Troy and Dillon by giving them a Viper that he has sabotaged to prevent them from interfering in his latest plans to accelerate Earth technologies by nefarious means (1980: "Spaceball").
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1982 Detroit Grand Prix
The 1982 Detroit Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on June 6, 1982, in Detroit, Michigan.
Race 7 of 16 in the 1982 Formula One World Championship
1st Detroit Grand Prix
Detroit street circuit
Temporary street course
4.168 km (2.59 mi)
62 laps, 258.428 km (160.58 mi)
Sunny and warm with temperatures reaching up to 72 °F (22 °C); wind speeds up to 16.1 miles per hour (25.9 km/h)[1]
Alain Prost Renault
McLaren-Ford
Eddie Cheever
Didier Pironi
2 Classification
3 Championship standings after the race
SummaryEdit
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Starting from seventeenth position on the grid, Northern Ireland's John Watson stormed through the field to win the first Detroit Grand Prix, at America's sixth different Formula One venue.
Due to organizational problems, extra practice planned for Thursday was cancelled, and the first qualifying session on Friday had to be postponed. There was time for only a one-hour practice session on Friday, and so qualifying would take place on Saturday in two one-hour sessions, four hours apart. Saturday was cold and overcast with a very real threat of rain, and nearly all the drivers scrambled to get a time in on the dry track while they could, with lots of spins and trips down the escape roads of the unfamiliar circuit. The afternoon session was wet throughout, as expected, and the times from the morning session did indeed determine the grid.
Alain Prost took Renault's sixth pole in seven races on the season with a lap of 1:48.537, an average of less than 83 miles per hour (134 kilometers per hour), slower than Monaco. Andrea de Cesaris, the only non-Renault driver with a pole so far in 1982 (Long Beach), put his Alfa Romeo alongside Prost on the front row with a 1:48.872, ahead of the Williams of Keke Rosberg. For the second straight race, Ferrari had only one entry following the death of Gilles Villeneuve in Belgium four weeks earlier, and Didier Pironi qualified it in fourth spot.
The lone American driver in the race, Eddie Cheever, put on a fine show for the home crowd, placing his Ligier ninth, behind the Lotus pair of Nigel Mansell and Elio de Angelis and just ahead of Niki Lauda's McLaren. The biggest surprise, however, was seeing defending World Champion Nelson Piquet at the bottom of the time sheets. Problems with the BMW engines in both his race car and spare during the morning session and rain in the afternoon combined to keep him off the grid for Sunday's race.
In contrast to Saturday afternoon, Sunday was mostly sunny and very nice as a flotilla of boats dotted the river across from the circuit. The top three drivers all managed excellent starts, and Prost led de Cesaris and Rosberg through the first turn. Following them at the end of Lap one were Pironi, Mansell, Bruno Giacomelli, Cheever and Lauda. Manfred Winkelhock retired from an excellent fifth position when a front hub upright that had been replaced on the grid broke anyway, putting his ATS into the wall. Just two laps later, on Lap three, de Cesaris limped into the pits with a broken driveshaft, leaving Rosberg in second place, three seconds behind Prost.
On Lap seven, under pressure from de Angelis, Roberto Guerrero's Ensign went wide at the first corner. De Angelis tried to go through on the inside, but when Guerrero resumed his line, the two collided. The Lotus was able to continue, but Guerrero slid to a halt in the tire wall. Jochen Mass and Watson were able to avoid the disabled Ensign, but when Riccardo Patrese came upon the scene, he locked up and hit the tire wall right next to Guerrero, losing a wheel. A brake duct on Patrese's car quickly caught fire, and though the disabled cars seemed to be out of the way, the sight of two cars stopped on the track, one in flames, prompted the Clerk of the Course to call for the red flag.
The cars returned to the pits and waited for nearly an hour, while all manner of repairs were made by the mechanics. Prost had his skirts changed and fuel topped off, Lauda changed his leaking oil cooler, and Guerrero, Winkelhock and Patrese, who had retired, even brought their spare cars out on the grid for the restart! This, at least, was not allowed, and eighteen cars restarted the race in running order, with the final result to be determined by the sum of the two times recorded in the two parts of the race.
Prost again took the lead off the grid, and one lap later he led Rosberg, Pironi, Giacomelli, Cheever, René Arnoux, Lauda and Mansell. Immediately, Prost began to distance himself from Rosberg, who was also pulling away from Pironi and, after fifteen laps (total), led by five seconds. Gradually, however, the Renault began to develop electronic injection problems, as teammate Arnoux had several laps earlier, and the Frenchman saw his lead over Rosberg begin to evaporate. By Lap 21, the two cars were nose to tail, and a lap later, the Williams took the lead in brilliant fashion as Rosberg pulled alongside entering one of the many tight right-hand corners, stayed there through the corner on the outside, and emerged slightly sideways but in front. Prost continued to fall back and eventually pitted, while a furious dice continued behind Rosberg, now over second place, between Pironi, Giacomelli, Cheever and Lauda.
Behind this group, amazingly, came the charging McLaren of John Watson, having stormed through nearly the entire field from seventeenth place on the original grid. When Cheever and Lauda both overtook Giacomelli as he got sideways exiting a corner, Watson was quickly nose to tail behind Giacomelli and struggling to get through. On Lap 30, with Rosberg leading by 15 seconds, Watson passed Giacomelli but the Italian counterattacked a moment later when the McLaren went wide. Giacomelli tried to force his way through on the inside, but his left front wheel hit Watson's right rear, and Giacomelli ended up in the wall. Pironi had been holding up both Lauda and Cheever, but when Watson latched on to them, he passed all three on the same lap to take over second place, thirteen seconds behind Rosberg.
In two laps, the gap was down to seven seconds, then two seconds, and at the end of Lap 37, Watson was two seconds up, as Rosberg had lost third gear. Overall, however, on combined time, Rosberg was still eighteen seconds ahead, so he attempted merely to stay close to the McLaren. Meanwhile, Lauda, inspired perhaps by his teammate, had passed both Cheever and Pironi, and now also approached Rosberg. Likely knowing the Williams was in trouble, he unwisely made a late dive down the inside of Turn One. He locked his wheels, hit the wall and broke his suspension, leaving Cheever in third place.
Secure in the lead, Watson was able to back off as Rosberg struggled with fuel feed problems and worn tires, in addition to his ailing gearbox, and dropped all the way back to fifth on the track, fourth on combined time. With an average speed of only 78 mph, the two-hour time limit was reached well short of the intended 76 laps, and Watson took his second win of the season. American Eddie Cheever claimed second for his best Grand Prix finish, ahead of Pironi in third.
Despite a mountain of teething problems with the new circuit, the organizers of the race received excellent reviews for their efforts, and a new American city had made its entrance to Formula One. With two US races already run in 1982, one still remained, as, for the first time ever, one country would host three events in a single Grand Prix season.
ClassificationEdit
John Watson McLaren-Ford 62 1:58:41.043 17 9
Eddie Cheever Ligier-Matra 62 + 15.726 9 6
Didier Pironi Ferrari 62 + 28.077 4 4
Keke Rosberg Williams-Ford 62 + 1:11.976 3 3
Derek Daly Williams-Ford 62 + 1:23.757 12 2
Jacques Laffite Ligier-Matra 61 + 1 Lap 13 1
Jochen Mass March-Ford 61 + 1 Lap 18
Marc Surer Arrows-Ford 61 + 1 Lap 19
Brian Henton Tyrrell-Ford 60 + 2 Laps 20
René Arnoux Renault 59 + 3 Laps 15
Chico Serra Fittipaldi-Ford 59 + 3 Laps 26
Alain Prost Renault 54 + 8 Laps 1
Nigel Mansell Lotus-Ford 44 Engine 7
Niki Lauda McLaren-Ford 40 Collision 10
Michele Alboreto Tyrrell-Ford 40 Spun Off 16
Bruno Giacomelli Alfa Romeo 30 Collision 6
Elio de Angelis Lotus-Ford 17 Gearbox 8
Eliseo Salazar ATS-Ford 13 Spun Off 25
Roberto Guerrero Ensign-Ford 6 Collision 11
Riccardo Patrese Brabham-Ford 6 Collision 14
Andrea de Cesaris Alfa Romeo 2 Transmission 2
Jean-Pierre Jarier Osella-Ford 2 Ignition 22
Manfred Winkelhock ATS-Ford 1 Spun Off 5
Raul Boesel March-Ford 0 Collision 21
Mauro Baldi Arrows-Ford 0 Collision 24
Riccardo Paletti Osella-Ford 23
Emilio de Villota March-Ford
Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW
Jan Lammers Theodore-Ford
Championship standings after the raceEdit
Drivers' Championship standings
John Watson 26
Didier Pironi 20
Alain Prost 18
Keke Rosberg 17
Riccardo Patrese 13
Source: [3]
Constructors' Championship standings
McLaren-Ford 38
Lotus-Ford 14
Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
^ "1982 Detroit Grand Prix weather information". Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
^ "1982 USA East Grand Prix". formula1.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
^ a b "USA East 1982 - Championship • STATS F1". www.statsf1.com. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
Innes Ireland (October, 1982). "1st Detroit Grand Prix: Wattie, The Renaissance Man". Road & Track, 140-144.
Mike S. Lang (1992). Grand Prix!: Race-by-race account of Formula 1 World Championship motor racing. Volume 4: 1981 to 1984. Haynes Publishing Group. ISBN 0-85429-733-2
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Prairie Hermit
(fiction) by vonCube Wed Nov 25 2009 at 16:27:38
The hot July afternoon sun cooked James as he awoke in bed, bed which is used in the loosest possible way. Three-inch sofa bed mattress which has been used by god knows how many sweaty crackheads, welfare bums and assorted societal detritus was a better name for it. But a place to sleep is a good place indeed, and James didn't care, so long as he could afford new sheets, freshly washed.
The air was thick and musty with heated dust and stale marijuana - I mean Pot, marijuana is what parents call it. James walked to the window nearest his bed, above his computer, and cracked it open; a few flakes of white paint fell from it, as always. Even though a southerly breeze was blowing into the window, it didn't help much; high Noon on the high prairie, in summer, smelled like dust and distant cowshit. An olfactory reminder, everyday, that he wasn't back home in the humid climes of eastern Ontario.
Bored, he sat at his computer desk and started rolling a joint. He had to work today, but like in six hours, and by then the most he'd be is permafried. Which was not a significant improvement on the usual, but still. He'd filled the paper with fresh, moist weed when he heard the creaking of a door across the hallway, the shuffle of tired feet, and the predictable rapid, nervous knocking on his door.
Fuck. It's way too early to deal with Rob.
Probably not for Rob, who was up at 8 each morning hustling for dope. But James had no desire to deal with Rob right then, so he sat there at his computer, very still, trying not to generate any noise which might give away that he was home. Unfortunately, Rob was wily and shrewd, and started opening his mailslot to peek inside. James dove to the ground behind his bed, but alas, it'd been too late; he had been spotted.
"James? Are you in there? I know you're in there. Come on man, don't be a dick."
James, shamed into compliance, crawled up from behind his Chesterfield, walked to the door, undid the latch and twisted the deadbolt, and opened the door seven inches.
"Hey Rob. What's up?"
Rob looked back at him as always, with hooded eyes and a half-grin permanently etched on his face. As usual, James overcame the impulse to cover his nose; Rob smelled like cooking grease and BO, the universal odour of the indigent and underprivileged, living off of $3.99/ea bacon and no deodorant.
"Ah, well, not too much. Just wanted to know what you were up to, see if you wanted to hang out."
Which meant, roll and smoke a joint. Fair enough, Rob was, after all, James' dope hookup in Moose Jaw, since he didn't know anyone moving here. Or to be more accurate, Rob knew people who sold, and bought it for James in exchange for a small amount in return. But dope was a valuable commodity, always in low supply, and divulging some was a Jesus-like act of generosity.
"Well, I don't know, I mean-"
Rob fished a crumpled, dirty five out of his pocket. "I'll pay you for it."
Wow, he was offering money in exchange for goods/services. He must really be jonesing. Unfortunately, five dollars' worth of dope was far more valuable than $5 cash - after all, you can't smoke a 5 and get stoned. If you could, the gov't could really cut out the middleman. But James, not wanting to offend, spied a patchy growth above Rob's lip, and decided to change the subject.
"Hey Rob, what's that? You starting a moustache?"
He rubbed it thoughtfully. "Yeah man, my dad told me that if I didn't grow one, like a real man, he'd cut me off."
Wow, thought James, that's fucked up.
"Well, it looks good." It looked like shit.
"Thanks, it feels kinda weird though." He rubbed it again, slower this time, like he was really losing himself in an unfamiliar texture. He looked over James' shoulder to his computer desk, and his dull, prematurely aged eyes immediately lit up.
Dammit. He spotted it.
"Dude, you got a fatty ready to go right now, let's light that fucker up and chill!"
Which was logic difficult to refute, but James tried. "Well, I, uh, um..."
"What? Gotta do groceries, go to work? I've heard em all man, now don't be a dick, let's light that fucker up and fly."
James sighed. He wasn't going to win this battle. He invited Rob in, finished rolling the joint, and lit that fucker up, and it was good.
Six hours later, James was clad in a pinstripe suit (no overcoat, reserved for supervisors), dealing blackjack at the local casino. And although he projected an image of competency, the numbers were blurring in his head and it was difficult to concentrate; working on autopilot was difficult when permafried.
He finished dealing the hand (two busts, but you never say bust; always "too many") and pulled out his own cards; ten, three, two...and a six. Twenty-one. The table gasped in shock, yet after he collected their money, quickly put out their bets for another round. Because gamblers are funny that way, if they lose a hand, they'll blame the moon, stars, their dog, their partner, their supper, anything to deflect responsibility for losing $20 in a single hand. But if they win, then they will blame themselves for betting too little, even though they had that feeling; and resolve to not make that same mistake next time.
James dealt out the next hand; and naturally, the one idiot who got a blackjack was the one guy who bet $17, Christ. $17 x 3/2 =...
"It's $28.50, buddy" yelled a smoke-cured voice from the table.
Blackjack of 7 is...$13.50...blackjack of 10 is 15...15 plus $13.50 is...
"$28.50!" piped in another voice from the table. "Yeah, twenty-eight..."
Well, it didn't matter how drunk they were, gamblers sure were good at math. It was like James' uncle Ernie, in the hospital after double-bypass, still drunk on anaesthetic and yet arguing with his wife over exact cab fare; cheapness goes deep to the core, and can't be tempered by your poison of choice. James figured he'd let his patrons do the thinking, and duly paid out $28.50 using a variety of clay-based chips.
Two hours till close, and his brain was almost fully off. Patrons came and went like a blur, and he swept up money, and paid out on occasion, robotically and without noticeable emotion. A higher primate, properly trained, could do the same job and for much cheaper. A few people shuffled off the table, broke but acting like it was their choice to leave, and others planted themselves for the long haul, come hell or...an empty wallet. A sullen youth sat down, and James mechanically said hi.
"Heyy, man!"
He looked up and saw Rob sitting there, sans moustache, fucked up on something; but he faked his way sufficiently past security, and now he had to serve him.
"Oh, uh, hey, how's it going?"
"Not too bad man, not too bad." He reached into his pocket and slapped the filthy five on the table, reminding James that he had forgotten to get it off Rob that afternoon, but God knows what better uses it might have gone towards; 1/46th of next month's rent, perhaps. Or maybe a fresh pack of bacon.
James would have rather not dealt with Rob under any circumstances, much less at work. But rules were rules, and he dealt cards to him; a 10...shit...followed by a...yes! A 6. A 16, he'd probably lose this hand, then he'd be out of his hair. He dealt himself his upcard, an eight, and looked in Rob's clouded eyes.
"Hit or stand?"
Rob looked at his hand, and looked at the other patrons for advice, who were only too glad to provide it.
"Guy's got an 8, hit that!"
"Yeah, hit it!"
"You gotta hit 16s against an 8."
He looked incredulous. "But...there are lots of cards that could make me bust."
They looked at him seriously, like sages of the table. "Trust me", said one, "the odds are better."
Rob looked doubtful, but the chorus of approval from the table convinced him. He looked at James.
"Well, OK, I guess I'll take a card, I guess." James took a card from the shoe and slapped it down, praying for some paint.
Rob, naturally, was happy, and the Blackjack Sages all nodded approvingly; their wisdom had proven accurate, against the odds. James was disappointed; 1/3 of the deck, tens or face cards, and he had to slap down a four. Christ. He prayed for a miracle from his hand.
“Come on, Killer! Clean us out!” yelled someone at the table, sarcastically. James had been nicknamed “Killer”, based on his ability to make 21 with absolutely any starting card. It was funny how it worked that way, some dealers just, for whatever reason, paid better than others. James wondered if their attitude towards the patrons didn’t influence the cards somehow, the ones who genuinely liked a full table to talk to generally played the cards that let it happen. James preferred an empty table, and got it plenty. He slid the cards out of the shoe with his left hand, and snapped them beside his eight, one at a time.
Four...Three...Ace...
“Slam it hard! Show me some paint!” yelled a drunk gambler.
James slid the last card out of the shoe and snapped it in front of him; five!
The table groaned again, with annoyance. “Way to go, Killer.” Said one. “Nickel and dimed to death!” said another. The general consensus was that Killer was bad luck, and the table had gone ice cold; James quickly gathered up the losing bets, all of them, and robotically bid everyone who left a good night. Rob was left at the table, alone, looking despondent. James looked at him with all the sympathy he could muster.
“Sorry man, that’s the way it goes. Win some, lose more.” He gathered Rob’s lone red chip and plunked it into his chip tray.
“You don’t have to look like you enjoy it so much.”
James froze, but just for a second. Damn, he’d been called out.
“That’s not true,” he said. “I like to see people win.” He busily went about clearing off his table, and put the lid on his chip tray.
Rob looked at him clearly, with concentration;
“No, you don’t. You like it when they lose.”
He got up off the table, and slowly shuffled out of the casino. James stood there, alone at the table, the way he liked it.
James, unusually, didn’t hear from Rob for the next ten days, and it was just as well so long as his stash was full. But his dope was running out, and he figured a timely visit to Rob’s place to re-up was in order. He strode across the dim, musty hallway and knocked loudly on Rob’s door.
“Hey Rob!”. He knocked some more.
“Rob, you home?”
No answer. James looked up and down the hallway to make sure no one was around, and opened up Rob’s mailslot and peeked inside. To hell with it, he does it to me all the time. As far as he could tell, no one was home in the tiny, bare apartment.
"Rob?"
No answer. Maybe he wasn't home after all. James backed away from the mailslot, and turned around right into the face of the landlord, striding like a baron down his decrepit hallway.
"Hey!" he yelled. "Watch it!"
James apologized. "Hey, do you know what happened to Rob?"
Confusion creased the landlord's forehead. "Rob? Rob who? I know a lot of Robs."
"The guy who lives here."
He shook his head and sighed angrily. "The guy who lives here", he said tersely, "skipped out on the rent last week and left me high and dry. Now I gotta pay to get his shit moved out of there, thank god there's not much."
"Do you know where he is?"
"Don't know and don't care." His cellphone was buzzing in his belt holster. He answered it and kept walking down the hallway.
James walked back into his own shitty apartment, closed the door and twisted the deadbolt, force of habit. He wondered where Rob might have disappeared to. Probably Calgary, they all end up there eventually.
But Rob’s gone. Thank God.
He stood there, alone in his apartment, trying to force a smile. He was happy, wasn’t he? Wasn’t this just the way he liked it?
He sat down at his computer, lit up his last joint, and put Echoes on Winamp. It sure was.
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Everything Quests - The High Seas
Evaline Turns the Worm
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues that the Origin of Life Required “Purposeful Choices”
What is it that distinguishes life from non-living entities?
David K. DeWolf
Evolutionary Psychology Meets Economics 101
In an effort to show that “evolution” has vast explanatory power, David Barash refers to a survey of graduate students in public health at Harvard.
Materialists Beware: The First Gene Defends a Strictly Scientific, Non-Materialist Conception of Biological Origins
Can a book that is essentially devoid of the term “intelligent design,” doesn’t talk about “specified complexity,” and makes only scant mention of “irreducible complexity,” offer an argument that is friendly to teleology in biology? A new technical book, The First Gene, edited by Gene Emergence Project director David L. Abel, shows that the answer to that question is “yes.” Materialists will not like this book because its arguments are 100% scientific, devoid of religious, political, or cultural concerns, and most importantly, compelling. The arguments in The First Gene are rooted in what Abel calls “ProtoBioSemiotics” or “ProtoBioCybernetics,” which according to Abel answers questions like: How did a prebiotic natural environment of mere mass/energy interactions generate meaningful, functional messages? How Read More ›
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North Carolina Faces Legacy of Forced Sterilization as Hollywood Releases New Film Alleged Dramatizing Impact of Eugenics in the South
As North Carolina grapples with its legacy of forced sterilization, a new feature-length film dramatizes the personal toll of eugenics as well as its connection with Darwinism.
New Peer-Reviewed Paper Demolishes Fallacious Objection: “Aren’t There Vast Eons of Time for Evolution?”
When debating intelligent design (ID), there are countless times I’ve heard the old objection, “But aren’t there millions of years for Darwinian evolution?” Perhaps there are, but that doesn’t mean the Darwinian mechanism has sufficient opportunities to produce the observed complexity found in life. Darwin put forward a falsifiable theory, stating that his mechanism must work by “numerous successive slight modifications.” Michael Behe took Darwin at his word, and argued in Darwin’s Black Box that irreducible complexity refuted Darwinian evolution because there exist complex structures that cannot be built in such a stepwise manner. Darwin’s latter day defenders responded to Behe by effectively putting Darwinism into an unfalsifiable position: they put forth wildly speculative and unlikely appeals to indirect evolution. Read More ›
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Mickey Rourke starring in horror anthology Nightmare Cinema
Film's directors include Joe Dante and Mick Garris
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Sin City) is starring in a new horror anthology called Nightmare Cinema, it was announced Friday. The movie features five short films directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Mick Garris (The Stand, Psycho IV), Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead), Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) and David Slade (Twilight: Eclipse, 30 Days of Night, Hannibal).
In the movie, a series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit Rialto Theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by the mysterious and ghostly Projectionist. By the time our patrons realize the truth, escape is no longer an option. For once the ticket is torn, their fate is sealed at Nightmare Cinema.
Garris, who created Showtime’s Masters of Horror TV show, is producing via his Nice Guy Productions. Courtney Solomon and Mark Canton from Cinelou Films and 2016 Blood List alumni Joe Russo round out the producing team. Good Deed Entertainment’s Scott Donley and Lenny Shapiro, as well as The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones will serve as Executive Producers, along with Cinelou Films’ Scott Karol.
“I love being able to bring together visionaries of horror cinema from all around the world with their personal perspectives about what scares you,” said Garris in a statement. “This is a project I’ve been working on for some time and I couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with Cinelou and Good Deed to share with everyone.”
Garris, Slade, Brugués, and Dante are appearing on a panel at this weekend’s Son of Monsterpalooza convention in Burbank, California, to discuss the film and show exclusive footage. There are also plans for a Tales from the Crypt-style TV show, also to be called Nightmare Cinema.
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Our culture loves music. Too bad our economy doesn’t value it.
The digital world has a downside, too.
By T Bone Burnett December 18, 2015
T Bone Burnett is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer, whose numerous recognitions include 13 Grammy awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe. He is a member of the Content Creators Coalition’s Advisory Board.
Music runs through America’s soul and makes us who we are — as individuals, as communities, as a nation.
It fuels all the other creative arts, as I have learned working on music-infused films such as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and television shows such as “True Detective.”
And it has driven the incredible boom in digital media that seems destined to define our age. Facts don’t lie — musical artists blanket the lists of “top most followed” on Facebook and Twitter, and “always-with-us” access to music is a big part of why smartphones and mobile broadband are the fastest-spreading technologies in human history.
But this brave new digital world has a dark side, too — and it is the responsibility of everyone who loves and cares about music to acknowledge and deal with this uncomfortable truth.
Too much of the emotional, cultural and economic value that music creates is simply lost now, slipping through the digital cracks in some cases, outright hijacked by bad actors and online parasites in others.
Artists, fans and responsible music and technology businesses alike all know this. When my friend Taylor Swift spoke up for the value of our work and the righteous claim of all artists to be paid for what they do, she was celebrated and applauded — not just by her colleagues, but also by teenagers who care about the people who create the music that means something to them and businesses such as Apple that fundamentally want to do what’s right.
How bad is the problem? Consider this: In 2014, sales from vinyl records made more than all of the ad-supported on-demand streams on services such as YouTube. I’m not running down vinyl — it is still the best-sounding, most durable medium we have for listening to music, by far. But why should a technology most people consider outdated generate more revenue than an Internet service with more than 100 million American users? That’s just wrong.
Just two decades ago, a music superstar was born when her record went gold, selling 500,000 units. Today, experts say it takes 100 million streams to match that kind of success. Even the most relentless year-round touring schedule or advertising licensing deals can’t match the income that a hit record once produced.
For small and up-and-coming artists, the income collapse has been even more severe; copies of one-penny royalty checks are rampant on the Internet. These artists are struggling American small businesses, and the deck is stacked against them.
So what’s causing this gap between the value artists create and the price today’s world puts on their work?
Part of it is that the legal mess of U.S. copyright law has anchored royalties for music creators far below fair market value. In some cases, such as satellite radio, the law actually says they can pay below-market rates for music. In others, such as AM/FM radio, it’s even more absurd — when music is played on traditional radio, artists and their labels get paid nothing at all (songwriters receive AM/FM royalties, but no one else does), even though corporate radio chains earn billions selling ads around our work. That’s a legally sanctioned slap in the face to everyone who ever picked up an instrument or sang into a microphone. It is a corrosive economic dust bowl in which giant corporations grow rich on others’ work while music creators try to survive on scraps.
But the problem runs even deeper than that. In the digital marketplace, everyone seems to have found a way to make a living off music except the creators who actually record the songs. Websites put up illegal copies of music — or turn a blind eye while others do — then sell ads micro-targeted at everyone who comes to listen. Eventually, a site may be forced to pull down the unlicensed (and for the artists and labels, completely unpaid) copy, but in the meantime, its owners have cashed in.
For more legitimate sites, creators are pressured to accept a Hobson’s choice between licensing their music at desperately low royalty rates or wading into the legal quicksand and sending thousands or millions of “takedown” notices under a broken and antiquated law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Fortunately, creators have begun to band together and speak out — the roster of those demanding reform is a who’s who of the music business, from Elvis Costello to Annie Lennox, from REM to Chuck D, and hundreds more. Congress is reviewing the copyright laws, and this time, we will be heard, and there will be no more backroom deals or giveaways. Powerful new legislation called the Fair Play Fair Pay Act is being championed by leaders in both parties who care about music and the people who make it. That would be a vital step forward — a milestone of progress in a debate that has been running in Congress since Frank Sinatra lobbied Paul McCartney, Ella Fitzgerald, Bruce Springsteen and others to join him in fighting for a radio performance right nearly 30 years ago.
Music is an important part of who we are, an indelible record of what we care about and how we live.
And if we let that slip away — whether through legal gridlock, cultural apathy or technological drift — we will have lost something irreplaceable and fundamental to our lives.
(c) 2015 THE WASHINGTON POST – full article at https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/12/18/our-culture-loves-music-too-bad-our-economy-doesnt-value-it/
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Tagged Enonomy, Music, T Bone Burnett, The Washington Post
ENDLESS ROADS will no doubt achieve a high position in Eric Van Aro’s impressive catalog of recordings. Its combination of high quality vocalizing, stylistic versatility and stellar musical settings clearly identify him as one of the current music world’s most appealing male vocalists. It’s time for the Grammy voters to begin to recognize his many talents. – Don Heckman International Review of Music
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CD Review: Eric Van Aro’s “Endless Roads” By Brian Arsenault
The last time I reviewed an album by this guy in early 2014, I complimented his reclaiming stellar jazz singing for the guys in the face of so many fine current female jazz singers.
This time, withEndless Roads, Eric Van Aro has reestablished the stripped down rock/pop sound amidst an avalanche of overdubbed, over-produced, echo chambered, synthetic slop so dominant today. (We won’t name the purveyors as they know who they are; unshaken TV commercials abound for their concert tours; Good Morning America appearances before overexcited pre-teens. You know the drill.)
Eric himself writes that he has “been taught that the musical roads one can and should take are endless . . .” He may need to be careful, though, as the musical world has long since shown an obnoxious need to characterize artists and their art forms, neat little boxes to keep our tastes in without a lot of thought.
Eric, though, can find room for works by Pat Metheny, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Jimmy Page/Robert Plant, Bruno Mars and himself in the same album. Really.
Maybe the bravest piece is Mars’ “Just the Way You Are.” Reworking a big hit by a pop giant is to walk on the edge of unacceptable, as the original version is tucked so deeply into our musical consciousness. Singing along with the car radio and such. Eric pulls it off anyway by tipping his hat to the hit while singing it in his raspier, deeper way.
The lesser known Zep piece “Friends” moves effortlessly from bluesy at the start to jazzy at the end.
“This Is Not America” opens the album and sets the rocking tone with Max Elli’s slick rock guitar opening. Elli is a strength throughout the album, weaving in, under and around Van Aro’s vocals as if they had played together for years. In actuality, they seem to have met musically on Endless Roads.
Eric’s artistic generosity means this could almost have been billed as Elli’s album with Eric providing vocals, rather like the long ago days of Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart.
He notes that on this album he “really tried to let the producer in me stay at home and let myself by guided by my producer and my musicians.”
Kudos to Giordano Colombo for his production. As noted, a clean, crisp, basic sound is quite rare in these days of dubbing to the max.
Drummer Giordano Colombo is solid throughout and really breaks out on “Stratus.” If there’s such a thing as rock scat singing, Eric shows it off here.
Nyro’s “And When I Die”, recorded memorably by Blood Sweat & Tears, adds a little country flavor and Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” has just a dash of Van Morrison flavor in Eric’s vocal.
The album closes with Van Aro’s co-written “One Life One Song” and as an earlier song notes: “. . . that’s the way to treat a friend.”
The friend in this case being any listener.
Endless Roads will be released on September 17.
https://irom.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/cd-review-eric-van-aros-endless-roads/
(c)(p) 2015 The International Review of Music
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Tagged Brian Arsenault, Bruno Mars, Endless Roads, Eric van Aro, Jimmy Page, Laura Nyro, Pat Metheny, Randy Newman, Robert Plant
INTERNATIONAL SINGING STAR ERIC VAN ARO DISPLAYS HIS REMARKABLE MUSICAL VERSATILITY ON HIS NEW RECORDING, ENDLESS ROADS
Eric Van Aro’s world-wide array of enthusiastic fans have long been aware of his stylistic versatility, which he serves up with ease, singing in English, Italian, French and German. In the far-ranging selection of tunes on Endless Roads, he takes his performances up another level, applying his unique musical mastery to everything from rock, jazz and singer/songwriter classics, as well as his own originals.
Van Aro receives solid musical support from drummer Giordano Colombo, who also produced Endless Roads, and a collection of enthusiastic young European players that includes guitarist Max Elli, bassist Andrea Torresani, and keyboardist Antonio Chindamo.
The results, as with Van Aro’s previous recordings for Eraki, his Switzerland-based label, are irresistibly memorable.
And it’s no surprise that the stunning skillfulness with which Van Aro interprets Endless Roads’ fascinating array of songs has already attracted critical attention.
Reviewer Matthew Forss writes that “Fans of Southern rock, blues, jazz, Americana, roots, folk, and some pop will find a place in their heart for Eric Van Aro’s Endless Roads. Overall, there are endless possibilities of enjoyment with all of the songs on the album.”
Endless Roads will be released on September 17th 2015
Reviewer Heath Andrews accurately describes Endless Road as “a well-constructed collection of songs that are enchantingly sung and ferociously played.”
Eric Van Aro is the first to insist that his many accomplishments should be considered in the context of his creative heritage. His mother, Caterina Valente, has been an international singing star since the early fifties, selling more than 18 million recordings worldwide. His father is Erik Van Aro, Sr., a German juggler and producer.
Endless Roads is yet another example of the expressive versatility that is a primal element in that heritage. It is also a compelling display of Eric Van Aro’s growing skill at applying that versatility to every area of contemporary music.
– Don Heckman
International Review of Music
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Posted in Art, Eric van Aro, Music, Pop
Tagged Billy Cobham, Bruno Mars, David Bowie, Don Heckman, Endless Roads, Eric van Aro, International Review of Music, Pat Metheny
The Ugly Truth about Apple, Google, Spotify, and the Rest of the Music Streaming Universe By Anil Prasad
The Finger’s on the Self-Destruct Button
The Ugly Truth about Apple, Google, Spotify, and the Rest of the Music Streaming Universe
By Anil Prasad
These are insanely complex times for musicians. With virtually no consultation, musicians and independent labels are being led down the path of the streaming music construct controlled largely by technology companies. Streaming royalties for these services remain mired in mystery. Nobody is privy to how royalties are calculated or assigned to different players in the streaming ecosystem.
In what other industry would suppliers offer their goods to distributors without being told precisely how much they’ll receive for their inventory?
Yet here we are, with the majority of musicians and independent labels playing ball with the Apples, Googles and Spotifys of the world, as if their industry vision is the only way forward. It isn’t.
Many wonder why Apple is shifting away from iTunes over to Apple Music. It’s clear Apple’s hand was forced and it had to enter into the streaming world, just to maintain credibility and market momentum for its device ecosystem. Without a streaming play, that ecosystem would suffer. Apple’s success is built on end-to-end control of its distribution channels and Apple Music plugs a big hole for them. With the majority of the iTunes catalog available on competitors’ streaming services, Apple looked behind the times. Market forces were working against Apple’s device ecosystem with the erosion of iTunes’ paid downloads as streaming became the dominant model.
But for Apple, Google, Spotify and all the rest, the impact of streaming on musicians and independent labels was always irrelevant. While these companies intimate that economies of scale may one day benefit participants, the truth stands in dark contrast.
“Streaming makes it very difficult for cult bands who sell 1,000 copies of each release,” the noted British guitarist and composer Matt Stevens told me. “If 1,000 people stream an album 10 times, we probably make a few pennies versus 1,000 download sales which create a model that will pay for modest recording expenses. At present, with downloads, it’s roughly sustainable, but not profitable. If we move to streaming and that income disappears completely, we’re in serious trouble.”
Essentially, we’re in the middle of a perfect storm. Once the storm concludes, we’re looking at the decimation of the commercial music industry.
It began with Napster and listener complicity. Industry panic and an increasingly entitled, self-centered public that came to believe music should be free emerged. Musicians and independent labels jumped along for the ride when Spotify, Rhapsody, MOG, and the rest of the streaming companies essentially constructed services with payouts so low, the end result isn’t much different than piracy. That, however, doesn’t hold true for the core investors in these services, which include the old major label guard. For instance, Spotify’s key backers include Warner, Sony and Universal.
Discussions about “payouts to rights holders” emerged. Note, you will never once see them talking about “payouts to musicians.” The rights holders are mostly the investors. That’s right — the streaming services model largely involves investors paying themselves back.
In conjunction, musicians have been misinformed about the outcome of these services. Time and time again, they’ve heard that streaming companies will someday raise their streaming fees. The actuality, as documented by The Trichordist, is that as the services scale, the streaming royalties actually shrink. Only ad and subscription revenue grow for the services, not royalty payouts.
The grand irony of all of this is that no streaming service is yet profitable. That doesn’t mean there aren’t investors making incredible amounts of money, but the bottom line is in the red, not the black. Because of the incredible complexities of licensing and the ponzi-inspired nature of these organizations, money is rolling in. In Spotify’s case, they are looking at a giant monetization event in the form of an IPO or acquisition. If either occurs, everyone — including the major label backers — will cash out, and all that will be left is a feeble shell that will eventually collapse.
It’s obvious virtually all the insiders of the streaming companies see this model as a short-term, unsustainable play. They’re all in it for a quick buck and are just fine with pushing the self-destruct button.
Those that are unable to make a liquidity event happen are doomed. You will see the remaining companies rapidly die off. As George Carlin once famously said, “The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice.”
My advice is for musicians and labels to opt out of the commercial streaming services, and seek out other options available to them, such as Bandcamp and PledgeMusic, which appear to remain relatively honorable territory. Another option is to create your own infrastructure. I’m aware of at least a couple of teams that have a fair-minded, artist-driven structural concept in mind for streaming that can’t be rigged to benefit a few.
The big question musicians and independent labels need to ask themselves is why allow these companies to determine the value of your music?
While the streaming companies propagate a myth of mass-availability offering greater possibility of mass-adoption, the truth is it almost never works this way. It’s up to you to create your own audience and accompanying ecosystem via community, social media, virtual events, and non-electronic outreach, be that gigs, touring, and creative guerrilla tactics related to physical spaces that cater to musical interests. None of these things depend on your music being on one of the big streaming services. You can send people interested in what you do anywhere to access your music.
The inevitability is musicians and labels are eventually going to be on their own again as the streaming services begin to collapse one by one across the coming years. It’s time to plan for that future by establishing your own model now, apart from these companies. Reclaim your independence and ensure your music benefits the people that really believe in it, not soulless streaming companies seeking to take you for everything you’ve got.
Anil Prasad is the founder of Innerviews: Music Without Borders, the world’s first online music magazine, established in 1994.
Image by Danomyte, licensed via Shutterstock.
Tagged Anil Prasad, Apple, Apple Music, Google, Spotify
Quincy Jones: Honey, we have no music industry
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Project acronym 100 Archaic Genomes
Project Genome sequences from extinct hominins
Researcher (PI) Svante PÄÄBO
Summary Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Neandertals and Denisovans, an Asian group distantly related to Neandertals, are the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans. They are thus of direct relevance for understanding the origin of modern humans and how modern humans differ from their closest relatives. We will generate genome-wide data from a large number of Neandertal and Denisovan individuals from across their geographical and temporal range as well as from other extinct hominin groups which we may discover. This will be possible by automating highly sensitive approaches to ancient DNA extraction and DNA libraries construction that we have developed so that they can be applied to many specimens from many sites in order to identify those that contain retrievable DNA. Whenever possible we will sequence whole genomes and in other cases use DNA capture methods to generate high-quality data from representative parts of the genome. This will allow us to study the population history of Neandertals and Denisovans, elucidate how many times and where these extinct hominins contributed genes to present-day people, and the extent to which modern humans and archaic groups contributed genetically to Neandertals and Denisovans. By retrieving DNA from specimens that go back to the Middle Pleistocene we will furthermore shed light on the early history and origins of Neandertals and Denisovans.
Project acronym 2-HIT
Project Genetic interaction networks: From C. elegans to human disease
Researcher (PI) Ben Lehner
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA
Summary Most hereditary diseases in humans are genetically complex, resulting from combinations of mutations in multiple genes. However synthetic interactions between genes are very difficult to identify in population studies because of a lack of statistical power and we fundamentally do not understand how mutations interact to produce phenotypes. C. elegans is a unique animal in which genetic interactions can be rapidly identified in vivo using RNA interference, and we recently used this system to construct the first genetic interaction network for any animal, focused on signal transduction genes. The first objective of this proposal is to extend this work and map a comprehensive genetic interaction network for this model metazoan. This project will provide the first insights into the global properties of animal genetic interaction networks, and a comprehensive view of the functional relationships between genes in an animal. The second objective of the proposal is to use C. elegans to develop and validate experimentally integrated gene networks that connect genes to phenotypes and predict genetic interactions on a genome-wide scale. The methods that we develop and validate in C. elegans will then be applied to predict phenotypes and interactions for human genes. The final objective is to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic interactions, and to understand how these interactions evolve. The combined aim of these three objectives is to generate a framework for understanding and predicting how mutations interact to produce phenotypes, including in human disease.
Most hereditary diseases in humans are genetically complex, resulting from combinations of mutations in multiple genes. However synthetic interactions between genes are very difficult to identify in population studies because of a lack of statistical power and we fundamentally do not understand how mutations interact to produce phenotypes. C. elegans is a unique animal in which genetic interactions can be rapidly identified in vivo using RNA interference, and we recently used this system to construct the first genetic interaction network for any animal, focused on signal transduction genes. The first objective of this proposal is to extend this work and map a comprehensive genetic interaction network for this model metazoan. This project will provide the first insights into the global properties of animal genetic interaction networks, and a comprehensive view of the functional relationships between genes in an animal. The second objective of the proposal is to use C. elegans to develop and validate experimentally integrated gene networks that connect genes to phenotypes and predict genetic interactions on a genome-wide scale. The methods that we develop and validate in C. elegans will then be applied to predict phenotypes and interactions for human genes. The final objective is to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying genetic interactions, and to understand how these interactions evolve. The combined aim of these three objectives is to generate a framework for understanding and predicting how mutations interact to produce phenotypes, including in human disease.
Project acronym 2D-TOPSENSE
Project Tunable optoelectronic devices by strain engineering of 2D semiconductors
Researcher (PI) Andres CASTELLANOS
Host Institution (HI) AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Summary The goal of 2D-TOPSENSE is to exploit the remarkable stretchability of two-dimensional semiconductors to fabricate optoelectronic devices where strain is used as an external knob to tune their properties. While bulk semiconductors tend to break under strains larger than 1.5%, 2D semiconductors (such as MoS2) can withstand deformations of up to 10-20% before rupture. This large breaking strength promises a great potential of 2D semiconductors as ‘straintronic’ materials, whose properties can be adjusted by applying a deformation to their lattice. In fact, recent theoretical works predicted an interesting physical phenomenon: a tensile strain-induced semiconductor-to-metal transition in 2D semiconductors. By tensioning single-layer MoS2 from 0% up to 10%, its electronic band structure is expected to undergo a continuous transition from a wide direct band-gap of 1.8 eV to a metallic behavior. This unprecedented large strain-tunability will undoubtedly have a strong impact in a wide range of optoelectronic applications such as photodetectors whose cut-off wavelength is tuned by varying the applied strain or atomically thin light modulators. To date, experimental works on strain engineering have been mostly focused on fundamental studies, demonstrating part of the potential of 2D semiconductors in straintronics, but they have failed to exploit strain engineering to add extra functionalities to optoelectronic devices. In 2D-TOPSENSE I will go beyond the state of the art in straintronics by designing and fabricating optoelectronic devices whose properties and performance can be tuned by means of applying strain. 2D-TOPSENSE will focus on photodetectors with a tunable bandwidth and detectivity, light emitting devices whose emission wavelength can be adjusted, light modulators based on 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides or black phosphorus and solar funnels capable of directing the photogenerated charge carriers towards a specific position.
The goal of 2D-TOPSENSE is to exploit the remarkable stretchability of two-dimensional semiconductors to fabricate optoelectronic devices where strain is used as an external knob to tune their properties. While bulk semiconductors tend to break under strains larger than 1.5%, 2D semiconductors (such as MoS2) can withstand deformations of up to 10-20% before rupture. This large breaking strength promises a great potential of 2D semiconductors as ‘straintronic’ materials, whose properties can be adjusted by applying a deformation to their lattice. In fact, recent theoretical works predicted an interesting physical phenomenon: a tensile strain-induced semiconductor-to-metal transition in 2D semiconductors. By tensioning single-layer MoS2 from 0% up to 10%, its electronic band structure is expected to undergo a continuous transition from a wide direct band-gap of 1.8 eV to a metallic behavior. This unprecedented large strain-tunability will undoubtedly have a strong impact in a wide range of optoelectronic applications such as photodetectors whose cut-off wavelength is tuned by varying the applied strain or atomically thin light modulators. To date, experimental works on strain engineering have been mostly focused on fundamental studies, demonstrating part of the potential of 2D semiconductors in straintronics, but they have failed to exploit strain engineering to add extra functionalities to optoelectronic devices. In 2D-TOPSENSE I will go beyond the state of the art in straintronics by designing and fabricating optoelectronic devices whose properties and performance can be tuned by means of applying strain. 2D-TOPSENSE will focus on photodetectors with a tunable bandwidth and detectivity, light emitting devices whose emission wavelength can be adjusted, light modulators based on 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides or black phosphorus and solar funnels capable of directing the photogenerated charge carriers towards a specific position.
Project acronym 2DNANOPTICA
Project Nano-optics on flatland: from quantum nanotechnology to nano-bio-photonics
Researcher (PI) Pablo Alonso-González
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO
Summary Ubiquitous in nature, light-matter interactions are of fundamental importance in science and all optical technologies. Understanding and controlling them has been a long-pursued objective in modern physics. However, so far, related experiments have relied on traditional optical schemes where, owing to the classical diffraction limit, control of optical fields to length scales below the wavelength of light is prevented. Importantly, this limitation impedes to exploit the extraordinary fundamental and scaling potentials of nanoscience and nanotechnology. A solution to concentrate optical fields into sub-diffracting volumes is the excitation of surface polaritons –coupled excitations of photons and mobile/bound charges in metals/polar materials (plasmons/phonons)-. However, their initial promises have been hindered by either strong optical losses or lack of electrical control in metals, and difficulties to fabricate high optical quality nanostructures in polar materials. With the advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their extraordinary optical properties, during the last 2-3 years the visualization of both low-loss and electrically tunable (active) plasmons in graphene and high optical quality phonons in monolayer and multilayer h-BN nanostructures have been demonstrated in the mid-infrared spectral range, thus introducing a very encouraging arena for scientifically ground-breaking discoveries in nano-optics. Inspired by these extraordinary prospects, this ERC project aims to make use of our knowledge and unique expertise in 2D nanoplasmonics, and the recent advances in nanophononics, to establish a technological platform that, including coherent sources, waveguides, routers, and efficient detectors, permits an unprecedented active control and manipulation (at room temperature) of light and light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, thus laying experimentally the foundations of a 2D nano-optics field.
Ubiquitous in nature, light-matter interactions are of fundamental importance in science and all optical technologies. Understanding and controlling them has been a long-pursued objective in modern physics. However, so far, related experiments have relied on traditional optical schemes where, owing to the classical diffraction limit, control of optical fields to length scales below the wavelength of light is prevented. Importantly, this limitation impedes to exploit the extraordinary fundamental and scaling potentials of nanoscience and nanotechnology. A solution to concentrate optical fields into sub-diffracting volumes is the excitation of surface polaritons –coupled excitations of photons and mobile/bound charges in metals/polar materials (plasmons/phonons)-. However, their initial promises have been hindered by either strong optical losses or lack of electrical control in metals, and difficulties to fabricate high optical quality nanostructures in polar materials. With the advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their extraordinary optical properties, during the last 2-3 years the visualization of both low-loss and electrically tunable (active) plasmons in graphene and high optical quality phonons in monolayer and multilayer h-BN nanostructures have been demonstrated in the mid-infrared spectral range, thus introducing a very encouraging arena for scientifically ground-breaking discoveries in nano-optics. Inspired by these extraordinary prospects, this ERC project aims to make use of our knowledge and unique expertise in 2D nanoplasmonics, and the recent advances in nanophononics, to establish a technological platform that, including coherent sources, waveguides, routers, and efficient detectors, permits an unprecedented active control and manipulation (at room temperature) of light and light-matter interactions on the nanoscale, thus laying experimentally the foundations of a 2D nano-optics field.
Project acronym 2DTHERMS
Project Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Researcher (PI) Jose Francisco Rivadulla Fernandez
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Summary Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Design of new thermoelectric devices based on layered and field modulated nanostructures of strongly correlated electron systems
Project acronym 3-TOP
Project Exploring the physics of 3-dimensional topological insulators
Researcher (PI) Laurens Wigbolt Molenkamp
Host Institution (HI) JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG
Summary Topological insulators constitute a novel class of materials where the topological details of the bulk band structure induce a robust surface state on the edges of the material. While transport data for 2-dimensional topological insulators have recently become available, experiments on their 3-dimensional counterparts are mainly limited to photoelectron spectroscopy. At the same time, a plethora of interesting novel physical phenomena have been predicted to occur in such systems. In this proposal, we sketch an approach to tackle the transport and magnetic properties of the surface states in these materials. This starts with high quality layer growth, using molecular beam epitaxy, of bulk layers of HgTe, Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3, which are the prime candidates to show the novel physics expected in this field. The existence of the relevant surface states will be assessed spectroscopically, but from there on research will focus on fabricating and characterizing nanostructures designed to elucidate the transport and magnetic properties of the topological surfaces using electrical, optical and scanning probe techniques. Apart from a general characterization of the Dirac band structure of the surface states, research will focus on the predicted magnetic monopole-like response of the system to an electrical test charge. In addition, much effort will be devoted to contacting the surface state with superconducting and magnetic top layers, with the final aim of demonstrating Majorana fermion behavior. As a final benefit, growth of thin high quality thin Bi2Se3 or Bi2Te3 layers could allow for a demonstration of the (2-dimensional) quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature - offering a road map to dissipation-less transport for the semiconductor industry.
Topological insulators constitute a novel class of materials where the topological details of the bulk band structure induce a robust surface state on the edges of the material. While transport data for 2-dimensional topological insulators have recently become available, experiments on their 3-dimensional counterparts are mainly limited to photoelectron spectroscopy. At the same time, a plethora of interesting novel physical phenomena have been predicted to occur in such systems. In this proposal, we sketch an approach to tackle the transport and magnetic properties of the surface states in these materials. This starts with high quality layer growth, using molecular beam epitaxy, of bulk layers of HgTe, Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3, which are the prime candidates to show the novel physics expected in this field. The existence of the relevant surface states will be assessed spectroscopically, but from there on research will focus on fabricating and characterizing nanostructures designed to elucidate the transport and magnetic properties of the topological surfaces using electrical, optical and scanning probe techniques. Apart from a general characterization of the Dirac band structure of the surface states, research will focus on the predicted magnetic monopole-like response of the system to an electrical test charge. In addition, much effort will be devoted to contacting the surface state with superconducting and magnetic top layers, with the final aim of demonstrating Majorana fermion behavior. As a final benefit, growth of thin high quality thin Bi2Se3 or Bi2Te3 layers could allow for a demonstration of the (2-dimensional) quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature - offering a road map to dissipation-less transport for the semiconductor industry.
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Project acronym ICD
Project Intermolecular Coulombic decay and control of photoinduced processes in physics, chemistry, and biology
Researcher (PI) Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Summary When embedded in a suitable environment, excited or ionized atoms and molecules can hand over their excess energy to their neighbors extremely efficiently via the interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay (ICD) mechanisms. The ICD has been predicted theoretically by the applicant and co-workers and has recently found full confirmation in a series of spectacular experiments. The theoretical and experimental work on ICD performed until now and the progress achieved established the generality of the phenomenon and open new horizons for the ICD research. There is an enormous potential inherent in the ICD and the present proposal is aimed at exploring and exploiting it in systems of physical, chemical, and biological interest. In particular, the high efficiency of the ICD compared to various photoinduced processes like photon emission, isomerization, and charge transfer, makes the ICD extremely attractive for quenching in a controllable fashion such fundamental processes in biophysically relevant systems. Furthermore, the ICD phenomenon produces low-energy electrons and can be expected to be a relevant source of such electrons in nature. It has been proven that low-energy electrons induce serious damages in DNA and it is natural to investigate the importance of the ICD in the production of such electrons after irradiation. We are convinced of the fundamental and practical relevance of ICD and our vision is to be able to exploit this basic process in systems of interest. To achieve this breakthrough requires an enormous investment in advancing methodologies. This, in turn, can only be reached by a highly motivated strong team of scientists closely collaborating over a long period of time. The support by the ERC can substantially contribute to the realization of this vision.
When embedded in a suitable environment, excited or ionized atoms and molecules can hand over their excess energy to their neighbors extremely efficiently via the interatomic (intermolecular) Coulombic decay (ICD) mechanisms. The ICD has been predicted theoretically by the applicant and co-workers and has recently found full confirmation in a series of spectacular experiments. The theoretical and experimental work on ICD performed until now and the progress achieved established the generality of the phenomenon and open new horizons for the ICD research. There is an enormous potential inherent in the ICD and the present proposal is aimed at exploring and exploiting it in systems of physical, chemical, and biological interest. In particular, the high efficiency of the ICD compared to various photoinduced processes like photon emission, isomerization, and charge transfer, makes the ICD extremely attractive for quenching in a controllable fashion such fundamental processes in biophysically relevant systems. Furthermore, the ICD phenomenon produces low-energy electrons and can be expected to be a relevant source of such electrons in nature. It has been proven that low-energy electrons induce serious damages in DNA and it is natural to investigate the importance of the ICD in the production of such electrons after irradiation. We are convinced of the fundamental and practical relevance of ICD and our vision is to be able to exploit this basic process in systems of interest. To achieve this breakthrough requires an enormous investment in advancing methodologies. This, in turn, can only be reached by a highly motivated strong team of scientists closely collaborating over a long period of time. The support by the ERC can substantially contribute to the realization of this vision.
Project acronym INFOCOMP
Project Information and Competition
Researcher (PI) F Xavier Vives Torrents
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
Summary The project deals with economies with private information. Despite the growing body of work about economies with dispersed information there are at least three important stumbling blocks in the received literature that prevent scientific progress: lack of understanding of the dynamics of markets involving complementarities and information; consideration of public information as exogenous; and avoidance or extreme simplification of welfare analysis (e.g. because of the lack of a well-defined welfare benchmark and/or the presence of reduced-form un-modeled agents such as noise traders). I plan to contribute to remove these obstacles to progress by developing the theory of games with strategic complementarities and incomplete information; introducing static and dynamic models where public information is endogenous; doing away with noise traders and replacing them by hedgers, and performing a welfare analysis with an appropriate welfare benchmark for private information economies. This will be accomplished by developing a series of models where agents can use complex strategies (such as supply functions or demand schedules) and where dynamics matter. The tools used will involve game theory, information economics, market microstructure analysis, theoretical industrial organization and financial intermediation theory. The potential applications will concentrate mostly on industrial organization, and banking and finance.
The project deals with economies with private information. Despite the growing body of work about economies with dispersed information there are at least three important stumbling blocks in the received literature that prevent scientific progress: lack of understanding of the dynamics of markets involving complementarities and information; consideration of public information as exogenous; and avoidance or extreme simplification of welfare analysis (e.g. because of the lack of a well-defined welfare benchmark and/or the presence of reduced-form un-modeled agents such as noise traders). I plan to contribute to remove these obstacles to progress by developing the theory of games with strategic complementarities and incomplete information; introducing static and dynamic models where public information is endogenous; doing away with noise traders and replacing them by hedgers, and performing a welfare analysis with an appropriate welfare benchmark for private information economies. This will be accomplished by developing a series of models where agents can use complex strategies (such as supply functions or demand schedules) and where dynamics matter. The tools used will involve game theory, information economics, market microstructure analysis, theoretical industrial organization and financial intermediation theory. The potential applications will concentrate mostly on industrial organization, and banking and finance.
Project acronym QUAGATUA
Project Quantum Gauge Theories and Ultracold Atoms
Researcher (PI) Maciej Lewenstein
Host Institution (HI) FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES
Summary "This is an interdisciplinary proposal which concerns physics of ultracold atoms and quantum information on one side, and high energy and condensed matter physics on the other. The main objectives are: i) to identify experimentally feasible ultracold atom systems that may serve as quantum simulators of, or exhibit physics relevant for some challenging high energy systems and/or quantum gauge theories; ii) to study these ultracold atom systems, their properties and possibilities of control them for applications in quantum information and quantum metrology that go beyond the high energy physics and quantum simulations; iii) to make very concrete experimental proposals of preparation, manipulation and detection of such systems. In particular, it is planned to investigate: A) ultracold atoms in artificial non-Abelian gauge fields, and non-Abelian integer and fractional Hall effects; B) ultracold atoms with Dirac like dispersion relations (as in relativistic field theories and/or graphene in condensed matter); C) ultracold atoms in polymerized geometries, i.e. in lattices of weakly coupled groups of neighbouring sites (plaquettes); D) ultracold gases in frustrated geometries that can mimic quantum spin liquids, that in turn are often described by Abelian discrete gauge theories; E) ultracold gases with 3- or 4-atom interactions that can serve as simulators of Abelian lattice gauge theories; F) the ultimate, but rather risky and speculative objective would be to find the possibilities of realizing quantum simulators of non-Abelian gauge theories, i.e. to identify the dynamical degrees of freedom of ""gluons"" and to distinguish them from that of matter fields. Expected results are: i) concrete proposals to simulate quantum gauge theories;, ii) better understanding of quantum gauge theories with ultracold atoms, iii) discovery of novel types of quantum gauge field systems; iv) novel systems for robust quantum information processing and metrology."
"This is an interdisciplinary proposal which concerns physics of ultracold atoms and quantum information on one side, and high energy and condensed matter physics on the other. The main objectives are: i) to identify experimentally feasible ultracold atom systems that may serve as quantum simulators of, or exhibit physics relevant for some challenging high energy systems and/or quantum gauge theories; ii) to study these ultracold atom systems, their properties and possibilities of control them for applications in quantum information and quantum metrology that go beyond the high energy physics and quantum simulations; iii) to make very concrete experimental proposals of preparation, manipulation and detection of such systems. In particular, it is planned to investigate: A) ultracold atoms in artificial non-Abelian gauge fields, and non-Abelian integer and fractional Hall effects; B) ultracold atoms with Dirac like dispersion relations (as in relativistic field theories and/or graphene in condensed matter); C) ultracold atoms in polymerized geometries, i.e. in lattices of weakly coupled groups of neighbouring sites (plaquettes); D) ultracold gases in frustrated geometries that can mimic quantum spin liquids, that in turn are often described by Abelian discrete gauge theories; E) ultracold gases with 3- or 4-atom interactions that can serve as simulators of Abelian lattice gauge theories; F) the ultimate, but rather risky and speculative objective would be to find the possibilities of realizing quantum simulators of non-Abelian gauge theories, i.e. to identify the dynamical degrees of freedom of ""gluons"" and to distinguish them from that of matter fields. Expected results are: i) concrete proposals to simulate quantum gauge theories;, ii) better understanding of quantum gauge theories with ultracold atoms, iii) discovery of novel types of quantum gauge field systems; iv) novel systems for robust quantum information processing and metrology."
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PAEKTU, LAND OF NORTH KOREAN LEGENDS
Mount Paektu volcano is considered a holy place for North Koreans. It is deemed the place of origin for them. The country's founding father Kim Il- Sung commanded anti-Japanese guerrilla in the 50’s from a secret camp in this place.
North Korea says his son Kim Jong-il was born there in 1942. He was actually born in Siberia, where his father had taken refuge from Japanese troops.
The dear Leaders are said to have a "mount Paektu bloodline ». A famous slogan says: « Let us all turn out in the general offensive to hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu! »
A new probelm may erupt: when North Korea tests a nuclear weapon, specialists say the energy could trigger a volcanic...eruption in Paektu. That could be a huge disaster, killing thousands in North Korea and on the chinese side too.
Photo shows: The secret camp No.1 served as headquarters of the Korean People's Army. They are seen as heroes by the propaganda and the guides tell the visitors that their fireplaces are kept as relics!
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3 September 2017 by Syndicate
Review: Folkestone triennial – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions
Richard Woods’ Holiday Home … inspired by a leaflet inviting Folkestone locals to sell up and make way for the wealthy. Photograph: Thierry Bal
This article titled “Folkestone triennial review – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions” was written by Skye Sherwin, for The Guardian on Friday 1st September 2017 14.00 UTC
There’s an intruder among the varnished crustaceans and cat-themed tea-towels in The Shell Shop on Folkestone’s seafront. Admittedly it’s hard to spot, a small sculpture crafted from shiny shells, their smooth ovals suggesting the work of that great seaside modernist Barbara Hepworth. It’s one of a series by the artist Amalia Pica that have been secreted about the coastal town – in businesses and homes, above archways and beneath telegraph wires – offering visitors to its fourth art triennial a kind of late-summer Easter egg hunt.
It is exactly the sort of thing I’ve come to expect from the Folkestone triennial: an artwork that sees this faded bucket-and-spade resort of shingle sweeps and crumbling cliff-top hotels with fresh eyes, chewing over its present-day economic status and the role of cutting-edge culture within all that. Pica delicately plays on issues around public sculpture and urban redevelopment: the kitsch seaside souvenir joints that are part of the Kentish coast’s lure for the “down from London” crowd, as well as art’s role in its (spotty and not unproblematic) gentrification.
This is the awkward, interesting position the triennial readily locates itself in. The funder is local Saga ex-boss Roger De Haan, whose vision for restoring Folkestone includes culture, upmarket eateries and architect-designed beachfront property. While De Haan has drawn criticism for a harbour development whose target market clearly isn’t those living next door in the town’s deprived East End, the triennial is there to make everyone feel positive.
Loitering … Antony Gormley, Another Time XXI 2013 (Loading Bay). Photograph: Thierry Bal
This year, for instance, the town gets three of Anthony Gormley’s iron men, which have cropped up in odd places the world over. They loiter in the mossed concrete catacombs beneath the town’s promenades, which fill with seawater at high tide. Gormley is one of Britain’s best known living artists thanks to his Angel of the North, and his work has become an easy lightning rod for civic pride.
That seems a necessary, laudable impulse in a town where unemployment, empty shops, Ukip and the social tensions of the migrant crisis have taken their toll. At the same time, with Folkestone emerging as a petri dish of Split Britain’s problems, there’s a lot more to talk about.
Related: Richard Woods, artist: ‘I made six identical bungalows and installed them around Folkestone’
Richard Woods’ wacky bungalows, perched in peculiar plots from a cliff edge to a traffic island, strike squarely at the area’s contradictions. Inspired by a leaflet inviting locals to sell up and make way for the holiday-home market, these loud, bright interlopers are deliberately out of place and suggest, in their own, cartoonish way, not just wealthy second homers but wider anxieties about newcomers. Calais’s refugee camp, after all, was straight across the Channel.
Appropriately for a town caught between rich and poor, on the edge of Britain and Europe, curator Lewis Biggs’s 2017 edition of the triennial, entitled Double Edge, claims to tackle “liminal spaces”. Yet often the show itself seems to hover uneasily in an in-between zone.
Liminal space … one of Bob and Roberta Smith’s signs on the harbour wall. Photograph: Thierry Bal
There are lots of sunny, graphic murals slapped across buildings that aim to lift spirits: a Michael Craig-Martin energy-saving bulb in his signature flat, bold colours; Gary Woodley’s sharp monochrome tetrahedra beneath the Coronation Parade; Sinta Tantra’s striped coat of paint for the adult education centre, inspired by a 1947 Folkestone holiday poster, and Sonia Delaunay’s abstract fashion designs. Looking at these works, though, it’s hard not to think of the kind of quirky building wraps encasing new property developments. Cheery and head-turning, yes, but when art is reduced to seaside eye candy it demands little more than a surface glance.
At the other end of the scale are social projects bent on tackling local issues first hand. “Folkestone Is an Art School,” declare a series of banners all across town in Bob and Roberta Smith’s trademark wonky, end-of-pier lettering. A man of his word, he has organised classes for young people taught by the town’s resident artists. Folkestone, Smith implies, already has the creative riches it needs. Meanwhile, in the harbour railway – a dramatic ruin when the first triennial opened, now the site of busy redevelopment – Diane Dever has turned the old customs’ house into an urban studies library and venue for talks about Folkestone’s future. It’s what you wish local councils had the resources and inclination for, and while the intentions are impossible to knock, these schemes rarely have the strangeness or risk-taking that makes art tingle.
Bittersweet … Jelly Mould Pavilion by Lubaina Himid. Photograph: Thierry Bal
Folkestone’s dramatic landscape and mottled past make it a one-off, and the triennial will always be hardwired to its setting. Yet it’s difficult not to yearn for the odd moment when the show might go off-message with work that puts art before local context, confident that the audience will be game enough to follow.
That’s not to say this year doesn’t have its share of unexpected delights, such as in the 18th-century Baptist graveyard where composer Emily Peasgood’s song recordings commemorate its dead. Or Turner prize nominee Lubaina Himid’s pavilion on the shingle in the shape of a vintage jelly mould. With its milkshake pink and white diamond decor a lightly worn reference to sugar and the slave trade, its pleasures are bittersweet.
Folkestone triennial runs from 2 September to 5 November.
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Computer memories
Please forgive the double entendre in the title but, for my one-hundredth post, I thought I would reminisce about the calculating and computing equipment I have used over the years, and the amazing changes there have been in my lifetime.
My late father became interested in computers in the 1960s for use in his work, and I recall him showing me ferrite core memory and explaining how it worked. His use of programmable calculators fascinated and inspired me in my teens. He had the vision and kindness to give me the money to buy two early models of ‘pocket calculator’ while they were on sale in the high street (the HP-45 and the programmable TI-59) and, several years later when the Apple II+ was starting to become popular, he bought a second-hand Apple II+ which he brought half-way around the world to me, along with lots of early commercial software on 5.25″ floppy disks and a bundle of magazines full of Applesoft BASIC programs. These all helped me greatly during my studies and early professional life, and I will always be extremely grateful.
Anyway, in roughly chronological order, as best I can remember them …
A Multo 113 mechanical pinwheel calculator at home (my father’s, which he bought in the 1950s and which was still in use at home well into my teens).
The Olivetti Programma 101 (my father’s, for work). This was a desktop programmable calculator weighing nearly 30 kg! Actually I never used it myself, but I mention it here for interest as it was, I believe, the World’s first desktop programmable calculator. Mind you, there was not much space left on a desk for anything else when this was on it!
A slide rule (I still have my CONCISE circular slide rule) at high school. When I sat my university entrance exams we were allowed to use logarithm tables and slide rules but not one of the recently-invented ‘pocket calculators’.
An HP-45 scientific calculator in my final year at high school. Anyone remember Reverse Polish Notation?
A TI-59 programmable calculator (it had an attachable base station with a thermal printer) at university. An excellent piece of equipment that could store and retrieve programs on magnetic cards, and also had ROM modules with pre-canned programs (‘solid state software library’), although the magnetic card reader was rather unreliable. I remember the August 1978 issue of Personal Computer World magazine had an article on flowcharting using the game of NIM as an example, and I was engrossed for a couple of weeks in my summer holiday shoehorning it into the available memory of the TI-59, a real exercise in program optimisation. But possibly my most satisfying achievement was programming it during an exam to solve a problem by using the Newton-Raphson method while my fellow students resorted to recursion tables on paper.
The GEORGE 3 operating system at university, running on an ICL 1906. I initially used punched cards, but quickly moved to a 110-baud Teletype Model 33 terminal (known as a ‘TTY’ for short) with those cylindrical keys with long travel that you had to press hard and went “kerrrrchunkkk”! I also used 300-baud DEC dot-matrix printing terminals (the LA36 model, if I remember correctly).
I can’t remember the name of the OS on the CDC 7600 supercomputer at university, but I ran a lot of large FORTRAN 66 and FORTRAN 77 jobs, delivered to it as batch jobs via the ICL 1906.
Commodore BASIC on a Commodore PET 8k at work.
The RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems on a DEC PDP-11 at work, on which I programmed in BASIC.
Applesoft BASIC, Apple DOS 3.2 & 3.3 on an Apple II+ (48k RAM, later expanded to 64k!) and, later, on an Apple //e. I programmed in Applesoft BASIC, 6502 assembler and Apple Pascal, and some years later even built an A-to-D converter card and a 240 VAC TRIAC switch card for the Apple II+ in order to control the central heating in my house.
I had VisiCalc (5.25″ floppy disk), the very first spreadsheet application, invented by two guys named Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston. VisiCalc was the father of all spreadsheets: Lotus 1-2-3, MultiPlan, Quattro Pro and Excel. I actually used VisiCalc at work. I also had the first generation of SubLOGIC’s Flight Simulator for the Apple II, the predecessor of Microsoft Flight Simulator for the PC. It used line vector graphics, redrawn at a grindingly slow rate by today’s standards, but it was good fun.
CP/M on an Apple //e with a Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard and also the less popular Digital Research Z80 card. I programmed in Digital Research CBASIC and used various applications such as WordStar and MultiPlan.
ProDOS on an Apple //c with a whopping 128k RAM. This was my father’s machine for work, bought on my recommendation, and I used to help him sometimes with programming in BASIC.
Sharp PC-1500 pocket computer. This was another of my father’s work tools, also bought on my recommendation.
MP/M on a RAIR Black Box at work. I did some 8080 assembly language programming on it but mainly acted as a system admin (several VT100-style terminals around the office were connected to the RAIR Black Box). Also some Z80 assembly language programming on a microboard for work.
I remember programming a bespoke database management application in HP BASIC for a client company on an early model of Hewlett-Packard microcomputer at work (for various reasons the client specifically wanted a bespoke application). I cannot recall the model, but it may have been a HP-87. One of the batch of second-hand books my father had bought for me a few years earlier with the second-hand Apple II+ was Volume 1 of Donald Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming, from which I learned about doubly-linked lists, and I decided to use a doubly-linked list in my database application. The client was pleased with the result and, since I was self-taught, so was I!
OSC245 on Ferranti Argus computers at work, programming in the real-time language CORAL 66.
VMS on a DEC VAX at work, programming (badly) in Pascal. VAX/VMS was an excellent OS.
MSDOS 3.2 on an Amstrad PC1512, for BBS (bulletin board system) access, one or two games (the first Leisure Suit Larry was fun), WordStar and WordPerfect. When WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was released I thought it was the height of sophistication.
RISC OS 2 on an Acorn Archimedes A3000. What a brilliant microcomputer and OS. I just had to have one as soon as I saw the 3D vector graphics lander demo of the game Zarch. I also ran the Acorn PC Emulator software so that I could use MSDOS to run applications such as WordPerfect 5.1 and Quattro Pro for DOS, an excellent spreadsheet that introduced tabbed worksheets earlier than Microsoft Excel.
MSDOS 4.x, 5.x and 6.x on an IBM PC and various clones such as the ACT Apricot at work.
INTERACTIVE Unix (Intel PC, a computer manufactured by Intel having an 80386 CPU) at work, programming shell scripts, SQL procedures in Sybase SQL Server, and IEC 1131-3 (now known as 61131-3) languages.
IBM OS/2 1.3 and 2.0 on DEC PCs at work. A really nice OS, and streets ahead of the contemporary Windows 3.1.
MSDOS 3.22 on an HP 95LX palmtop. Even its RS-232 interface was useful for hardware interface testing at work, for BBS access using my Pace MicroLin fx modem, and for printing to my HP Deskjet 310 portable printer. It had built-in Lotus 1-2-3 in ROM.
Windows 3.11 on a PC clone at work, mainly for wordprocessing using Word.
Windows 95 on a tower PC and laptops. An excellent OS for its time, and streets ahead of its predecessor Windows 3.11.
Windows Me on a laptop and my family’s tower PC. This OS had a bad reputation but I never had any trouble with it on my Gateway Solo 9300 laptop and the tower PC, both of which were heavily used.
Windows NT on a desktop PC at work.
Windows 2000 on a desktop PC at work.
Windows XP on a laptop and my family’s tower PC.
At this point Linux came into the picture in my case and slowly became my OS of choice, Ubuntu 6.06 in October 2006 being replaced in March 2007 by Sabayon Linux 3.2 as my main distribution, with PCLinuxOS 2007 as a set-and-forget choice for old laptops and PCs. In 2010 I switched from Sabayon Linux to Gentoo Linux for my main distribution, although I still use Sabayon Linux on old laptops and an HTPC.
Windows Vista on my family’s tower PC (Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 CPU). After a few years the performance of Vista became so slow, despite periodic deframenting, that I ditched Vista.
Windows 7, dual-booting with Gentoo Linux on a laptop. I hardly ever booted Windows 7, and it was only left on the laptop in case I had a work application that could not run using WINE in Linux. I dislike Windows 7, although I found it faster and more robust than Vista, which I also disliked. Mind you, the UI of Windows 8.1 on my family’s current tower PC (Intel Pentium Dual Core G2030 3.00 GHz CPU) is even worse; what an awful OS.
Other microcomputers I’ve used through the years: Grundy NewBrain (my father’s, bought for work purposes on my recommendation) at home, and a BBC Micro at work, programming in BASIC.
I remember my first modem was a 300-baud and 1200/75-baud (remember Prestel, anyone?) Minor Miracles WS-2000, and I programmed my Apple II+ to pulse-dial it so that I could access various BBSs and British Telecom’s Telecom Gold, an ASCII electronic mail service and means of sending telexes (which I sent several times). In later years I progressed to a British Telecom 9600-baud modem for BBS use with my Acorn Archimedes A3000, and a Pace MicroLin fx pocket modem for use with my HP 95LX and Acorn Archimedes.
So, in my lifetime, calculating tools for home use have changed from a mechanical pinwheel calculator to the 2.8 GHz Core i7 laptop with 16 GB RAM running Gentoo Linux that I’m typing this on now. Amazing.
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Home Breaking News Uganda Who is Flavia Tumusiime: Biography, Age and Education of Andrew Kabuura’s wife
Who is Flavia Tumusiime: Biography, Age and Education of Andrew Kabuura’s wife
The Untold Story of Andrew Kabuura’s wife Flavia Tumusiime. Photo/Facebook
Flavia Tumusiime is a Ugandan Actress, Radio and Television host, Voice-over artist, MCcee and Author of 30 Days of Flavia.
Flavia Tumusiime, 30 years, presents a mid-morning radio show on 91.3 Capital FM in Kampala, a former co-host of Morning @ NTV on NTV Uganda where she also doubles as a news anchor on NTV Tonight news and is a VJ for Channel O.
Tumusiime played the role of Kamali Tenywa (lead role) in Nana Kagga’s television series, Beneath the lies – The series from 2014 to 2016, and has co-hosted the Guinness Football Challenge.
Flavia Tumusiime – Early Life and Education
Flavia Tumusiime was born on 11, February in 1989, to father Enoch Tumusiime, a Ugandan and mother Christine Asiimwe, of Rwandan origin in Nsambya Hospital, Kampala the Central District of Uganda and raised in Kampala suburbs. She is the only child of Enoch and Christine.
Although she’s a City-born, Tumusiime hails from Busheri Nyabushozi in western Uganda. Unfortunately, Tumusiime’s father died when she was young, at the age of 8 and her mother decided not to remarry but rather raise her only child as a single mother.
Narrating her story Tumusiime says her mother is a very wonderful person who has done her best for her wellbeing, performing the role of a father and a mother.
She says her father was a very authoritarian man who always wanted things to be done his style. So, after his death, her mother changed the house to a smaller one and even changed her school to a less costly school as compared to the one she was attending when her father was still living.
Flavia Tumusiime kicks off AM-PM show at Capital FM
At this time Tumusiime thought it was just a holiday programme after, they will return to their house. Unfortunately, it was all a dream, after being taken to a new school, she realised that life has changed, what she has now is herself and her mother. But before her father’s death, she was a distance from any of her parents, none of them was her friend.
At that time her mother advised her to study very hard such that one day she will be able to take care of herself and her mother.
From her mother’s piece of advice, Tumusiime began thinking about what she can do to get out of the miserable life they had adopted. She said we can live like this forever if we choose to, otherwise, I have to wake up and change the situation, because she wasn’t happy at all.
Tumusiime became more of a protector than a burden to her mother because she did not want to add up to her misery. Her mother had been forced to be the head of the family, which she wasn’t before.
She became the father, mother, sister and brother to her. Going to school, her mother could give her 200 Uganda shillings each day, for upkeep. But always Tumusiime could tell her mother not to give her the money, Tumusime told her mother that she will try not to eat at school.
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As a young girl, Tumusiime had fears over her life, because she only had her mother to rely on, as a child and as a teenager. Every single day she waked up, she wasn’t sure if things will turn around one day, she couldn’t even see the possibility of her life-changing.
Tumusiime says;
every single day her mother waked up, she could see that her only hope was her. And just the worry was a challenge to her because she didn’t know where her mother and she were heading to, they were at crossroad and life was so hard.
As time went by, Tumusiime managed to triumph over her worries, she got used to the situation and accepted what life had thrown unto them. And if she wants life to change for the better, it was in the future.
So, one thing Tumusiime had in mind was to go to school, pay attention to her studies and then after school things would change after getting a good job to help out herself and mother.
In her early school days, Tumusiime attended St. Theresa Kisubi Primary School for a short period and then changed to another City School from where she obtained her Primary Certificate after her father’s death.
Work and Experience
At that time, she was willing to do any kind of job, be it cleaning provided it pays. her first job was at WBS TV which no longer exists at 14 years of age, as a TV Presenter on Teens Club Show, she did along with other teens for four years. She wasn’t interested in being viewed on people’s TV screens or rather become a household personality.
Immediately, the programme producer had to step down and interrupted her wonders. she had to accept saying maybe that’s how they make those fine pictures she sees on TV.
After expressing herself on camera, the producer did not tell her whether she got the job or not, but she informed her to go sit and watch the other children do it. After the session, the producer informed her that it was now time for a practical test.
Flavia Tumusiime joins NTV Tonight news as anchor
Since she was not from a good background like the other children, she imagined if she speaks, they will shout at her. That’s why she was quiet at work, no interaction with the other children or anything, she was always quiet and work was her only business at the Station.
Immediately he asked her to go sign and pick all her money. It was a lot of money, and she was very excited. So, she kept the rest of the money with her mother. She did not want her mother to go through thin and thick for her sake, she wanted to help her where she could.
Since everything she needed was to raise money for her school. He told her that if you go on the radio, you can make some good money, go and look for radio jobs. But she hated radio work in her life, but she had to go because she needed money. She replied Radio presenter.
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She said no. The person who attended to her then said excuse me when you get the Radio demo, you can come back. Tumusiime thought the man was lying. From Sanyu FM, Flavia Tumusiime went out to seek what a radio demo was, fortunately, the person she asked was a radio presenter, Roger Mugisha.
She went to 91.3 Capital FM, did a demo and went back home. She said I have turned 18 years. He told her congratulations you have the job. He replied today.
Her reaction was that she had to go home first and brief her mother on the matter and collectively make up their mind whether to take the job or not. The next day she appeared, this time around she tried to wear a nice dress, nice shoes because she was going to discuss a contract agreement with her boss.
He answered that it’s part of their business. Her mother’s argument was that she can take care of her whether she has the job or not because she’s her responsibility.
She didn’t want her to live in worries all the time. Though it was hard for her, she managed to raise money to pay her school fees and other necessities. She did her UACE Exams while working and passed her UNEB exams.
In 2016, Tumusiime joined NTV Uganda as a news anchor of NTV Tonight news, an English news bulletin on NTV and in 2018, she hosted a morning show Morning @ NTV.
In 2014, Tumusiime featured in the Beneath the Lies – The Series, role as Kamali Tenywa.
Reserved a TV Show, role Herself-Host – Hosting celebrities on her web series.
Tusker Twende Kazi, role Herself – Contestant from Uganda.
Tusker Project Fame, role Herself – Auditions Judge.
In 2010, Tumusiime acted in the Irreversible movie, while in 2008, she acted in the Kiwani: The Movie played alongside Juliana Kanyomozi as her character’s niece.
Young Achievers Award for Media and Journalism 2013.
Silver Award in the best mid-morning show category at the 2013 Radio and TV Award.
Teeniez role model in 2013, Buzz Teeniez Awards.
Best Dressed Female Media Personality of the Year – Abryanz Style and Fashion Awards 2015.
Best Female Radio Personality – Uganda Entertainment Awards 2016.
Flavia Tumusiime – Family Life
Flavia Tumusiime is married to Andrew Kabuura who is also a media personality. Kabuura is a sports journalist who works with Supersport and NTV Uganda.
He is also a presenter of a sports segment on Radio City in Kampala.
Flavia Tumusiime and Andrew Kabuura got married on 12th January 2019, at All Saints Cathedral Nakasero in Kampala, presided over by Bishop Zac Niringiye and then hosted their guests at Kampala Serena Hotel.
Flavia Tumusiime is married to Andrew Kabuura
This was after their traditional marriage ceremony, Kuhingira in Ruyakitala that happened in Kiruhura District, western Uganda on 17th, November 2018.
In all her marriage events, Tumusiime kept it simple but perfect, she looked beautiful.
Her mother – every value you see in her the credit goes to her mother.
Those who have failed to understand Flavia Tumusiime thinking she’s a proud person, you are wrong. Tumusiime is not an extravert, she’s a reserved person but social.
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To her, all people are equals, right from the president, because all of them are human beings. The way she treats the CEO of a company is the same way she will treat a cleaner.
She says she may not kneel down while greeting you, but it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t love you. In her argument, everyone comes from a different background and raised differently, however, she respects every person.
She is not proud, but she doesn’t lower her standards, Tumusiime can’t force herself in a situation that she is not happy with. If she’s not happy with you or with what you have done, she openly tells you.
Which is good, but most people take it to be offensive and she can’t pretend about it because it’s her trait.
Tumusiime is an honest person, she doesn’t pretend about anything.
She is expensive. she buys what she wants using her own money. However, though she likes good and expensive things, she doesn’t reject or throw away a gift from anyone, cheap it may be.
She highly maintains herself, she doesn’t call out people to be highly maintained, she takes care of herself.
She remembers her father as a military man, not really an army man but very tough, who used to be very tough and strict on her. She had no freedom of movement and she thought he was pulling her out of freedom, but after growing up, she realised that her father actually did the right thing, trying to teach her that out there the world is tough not as you thing.
He was very strict on language, never allowed Luganda speaking at home, only English and home language. One day their maid at home called her and she replied Wangi, a Luganda word which she learnt from her boarding school.
Tumusiime narrates that the next thing she had was a slap on her back, only to see it was her father who had given her the hottest slap she will never forget in her life. She asked while crying Dad why have you slapped me? He said what did say? She answered she called me, and how did you reply? I answered Wangi and how pupils at school say.
Her father told her never to speak any bit of Luganda again, in his argument, she should not allow anyone to teache her their values but rather she should teach them her values. For that reason, during those times she thought speaking Luganda was an abomination.
Another memory was the time Flavia Tumusiime joined St Theresa Kisubi Primary School. At lunchtime, she asked where is the chicken? Who takes water I want milk. But they told her you will be fine after two weeks, and indeed she adjusted and got used to what the school provided.
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The online notebook of the artist John Graham
‘Studio’
Posted on 10/10/2012 by formworkstudio
My exhibition ‘Phase’ opens tomorrow night. Although frequently written in part or entirely by the artist, the ‘Press Release’ generally follows the convention of being written in the third person, the ‘third person’ helping to imbue description with an objective or authorative air. In the absence of another authority, and being unapologetically subjective, these notes make up the body of the Press release for ‘Phase’.
“Though in the genus of Print these new works are essentially drawings, print methods making drawings. I’m interested in qualities particular to the printmaking process, the way elements are layered for example, the emphasis on alignments, on mirroring, and multiplicity. Printmakers always seem to be up against limits. The sheet of paper, the printing press, the materials and processes used, while vehicles for expression, also seem to contain it. Boundaries provide definition but I also hope to find ways through or around them, to see beyond them, with sight sharpened by them at the same time.
Etching makes a bitten line that when printed sits up on the paper’s surface. The objective quality of this raised line helps distance it from the world of illusion and bring it closer to the material world. A group of five large etchings are called, ‘Abat-Voix’*. They are made in four adjoining sections, with dense fields of tightly packed lines juxtaposed against each other. Similar in format, surfaces – black (zinc plates) or silver (copper plates) – are differentiated by the specific characteristics of the metals and drawing tools used to make them. Made through a combination of autographic and mechanical process, the work requires a machine-like attention, but benefits from my not being a machine, or from my being only an imperfect one, a machine with feelings.
Smaller works, ‘Tests/Arrangement’, are made from test plates for the larger ones. Based on familiar tropes, off-settings, and doublings of various kinds, each work is made from combinations of repeated elements, unique iterations carrying the referent of other possibilities within them.
Working in the studio I listen to music. It’s part of the experience of drawing so I believe it makes its way in there. The exhibition title refers to a period of time, a particular phase, and also owes something to the composer Steve Reich. I’m interested in tensions between repeated acts and the changes occurring as time and repetitions coalesce. Reich’s ‘Phasing’ technique adjusts sequences of identical notes to move gradually out of time, out of phase, producing in the process an ever-shifting relationship between identical sets of repeating patterns. The linear surfaces of these printed works play against each other in a similar fashion, producing a kind of visual counterpoint.
A small group of lithographs are the first prints I’ve made in this medium. Entitled ‘Mirror’, the prints are based on a page from a notebook. There is no drawing as such; simply the copying and repositioning of ostensibly blank elements.”
JG September 2012
* An ‘Abat-Voix’ is a device for reflecting sound, specifically the sounding board over a pulpit or rostrum.
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Opening 6–8 pm, October 11, 2012
Exhibition Oct 12 – Nov 17
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Work – Flow
Preparing for a show –‘Phase’, Green on Red gallery, October 11 – the approaching deadline seems to draw everything into its vortex. Work speeds up, energies are spent, thinking becomes strained under the pressure of conclusion. Though the pressure to finish can’t be denied, it’s really only a pretend ending. Perhaps nothing can be made sense of without an end, or at least the sense of an ending.
Gardens back onto the river that runs through the park. The wall of one has an imitation heron guarding over the garden’s ornamental pond. The real heron is only a few feet away. Unimpressed by his imitation, he stands, one legged, on a submerged rock, gently clawing the passing water. I haven’t seen him catch anything yet, but he must do because he has been fishing this stretch of river for months.
Running across the wet grass Frankie crosses the white borderline that separates the pitch from the surrounding area. On one side of the drawn line a set of carefully worked out rules hold sway, on the other side, chaos. Frankie crosses with impunity, without sense of the division he conquers.
Several small weirs control the flow of the river. The largest one is close to the concrete steps leading down from the pathway to the waters edge. If you look into the water just before the drop, the surface appears still, clear, and unmoving. Two feet later it is cascading over the side. The weir’s backwash traps debris in its wake, metal cans and small branches, and footballs turning perpetually, running backwards against the river’s flow.
A framed etching by Dermuid Delargy, ‘The Imminence of Death’ (1988) hangs above our living room couch. The monochrome field is filled with scribbles and blobs, scratches and stains, and with remarkably fluent and confident lines. Several figures punctuate the scene, two stamping horses, a woman turning away, a man lying stricken on the ground. In the bottom right-hand corner another man, naked and with arms outstretched, is facing a charging bull. Though in peril the man’s posture is open – in bravado or fatalism – he is the hero of a moment transfixed.
Images stop time but we cannot. In ‘De brevitate Vitae’ the roman philosopher Seneca reminds us that time is precious. We imagine we have more time to come but we don’t really, there is only the present. We can alleviate anxieties about the brevity of life by remembering to live now. Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote that when greeting each other we should say: “Take your time!” Time should be possessed, not feared. Until recently I imagined Delargy’s hero was extending his arms in an acceptance of his fate, a gesture welcoming his own destruction. But now I think the figure’s gesture is one of defiance. In his out-stretched stance he is attempting to stretch out the present, pushing time sideways to his left and to his right, extending the moment that prefigures death forever.
In another image of resistance, from death as a kind of ecstatic dissolution, ‘The Drunken Boat’, returns, – “the sea has rolled me softly in her sigh” – to the dark pond. Rimbaud’s reverie culminates in exultation, “O Let my keel burst! Give me to the sea!”, but the desire for oblivion lasts for only an instant. The toy boat returns eventually to the boy, and to ordinary life, but carrying a cargo of extraordinary visions, of “Dawn rising like a nation of doves”, of, “Glaciers, silver suns, pearly tides, ember skies!”
The final verse, forlorn, as though worn out from the tumultuous voyage, contains a plea, “If I desire any of the waters of Europe, it’s the pond
black and cold, in the odor of evening, where a child full of sorrow gets down on his knees to launch a paper boat as frail as a May butterfly.”
I’ve been reading – re-reading – , ‘Agnes Martin: Writings’. Published by Cantz, the texts follow one another, the English version, and then a translation into German. The book feels perfect, its size and weight, and the smooth, coated surface of the pale grey cover. There is a photograph of Agnes sitting in a rocking chair in front of a painted canvas, or perhaps it’s a large drawing, a framed drawing, it’s difficult to be sure. She is wearing a white smock and her hands are folded in her lap. Her upward gaze, directed towards the camera lens, looks pensive and slightly bemused, she is wondering perhaps, what am I doing here, why have I agreed to this charade? Beneath the black and white photograph is a single word ‘Writings’, and beneath that the German word, ‘Schriften’.
Her writing style can seem awkward at times, with odd turns of phrase and a halting rhythm. Headings include, “What is real”, and “What we do not see if we do not see”. She says things like, “… we are struggling from death into life” and you think, fuck yeah, that’s a nice turnaround! In “The untroubled mind” she writes about painting, and a kind of mindlessness she aims for when working. Somewhere else she says, “I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking – now nothing goes through my mind.” She writes about beauty, and how it remains impervious to destruction; “We say the rose is beautiful, and when the rose is destroyed then we have lost something, so that beauty has been lost. When the rose is destroyed we grieve, but really beauty is unattached”.
Thinking about Agnes Martin I have no inclination to look at her paintings, at least not on the Internet or in books. To see them is a joy but they’re not images, they don’t translate visually beyond their physical selves. I like thinking about them, I like that they exist. She writes about solitude, “… people who like to be alone, who walk alone will perhaps be serious workers in the art field”. It’s odd in some ways, her preoccupation with solitude; isn’t making art a kind of communion with others? Her preoccupation with being alone – “I paint with my back to the world” – with classicism, and with perfection, can seem strange in our time of artworks concerned with contingency and the provisional. She exhorts artists to give up the company of others, and even of pets! But that’s never going to wash around here.
Recording the dimensions of a print on paper there is usually an, ‘image size’ and a ‘sheet size’. The larger sheet contains both the printed image and the surrounding area – the border. This area, though empty, has a significant effect on how the image appears; it frames and defines it. An intermediary between the image and the world, the border is also a reducer, defining the image as separate from the world around it. In the ambient world we live in demarcations are rarely so precise.
In Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Orpheus’ a mirror marks the passage between two worlds. Jean Marais (playing Orpheus) steps through the mirror (it becomes liquid as he passes through) and enters a passage to the underworld. I have no sense of an underworld, or the afterlife it necessitates (How can there be anything after life?). Beside us though, and I sense it running along beside us on a parallel track, is darkness – nothingness – its only definition given by what it is not. The line between existence and oblivion is thin. Lying awake at night I imagine this border as a pervious membrane (the liquid mirror). I am feeling blindly along its surface, leaning lightly against the tenuous sheet to better feel the pulse of life, and then, irresistibly, I am percolating through.
There is a photograph by Jacques-Henri Lartigue of his friend Guitty playing on the tideline. The photograph is old (1905) but depicts a search for a moment that never wears out. Guitty is trying to estimate the turning point (in French, the point mort), the moment when the incoming water will come to a stop and begin to recede. She runs across the line of water, lifting her skirts, fooled again by the unpredictable waves.
At the centre of Lindau, a tiny island on lake Konstanz in southern Germany, two churches sit side by side in the market square. The largest pipe organ resides in the loft of St. Stephan’s, while the catholic church of Heilage Maria boasts the more lavishly baroque interior. Both have a Kantor and an assembly of singers providing music for their congregations. Visiting St Stephan’s to attend a talk by the Kantor I found myself instead in the middle of the sunday service. Quickly finding an empty pew, I began to follow the worshippers movements, sitting or standing, according to them. The pastor, a woman dressed in a black gown and white ruffed collar, gestured to the front row of seats. The kantor and his singers stood up and arranged themselves in a line at the head of the church. Disavowing the instrument that made the church famous, the kantor uncovered a small electric piano and unsheated a slew of pages. He introduced the music by speaking briefly at the lecturn, finsihing with three words in english, “Lean on me”. The nine women and a male bass baritone wore identical shades of deep carmine. Gazing towards us, the attentive congregation (and me), the singers began to sway. With wide eyes and sincere gesticulations, the first words of the lyric came;
“Sometimes in our lives we all have pain, We all have sorrow
But if we are wise, We always know that there’s tomorrow”
German accents and Teutonic grooves (more jerky Kraftwerk than fluid Michael Jackson) combined to make this funky jingle strange. Mystery, by definition, remains allusive, but sometimes we might catch a glimpse of its location. The body language of the singers and the sentiments of the song were slightly out of sync, and this gap, between the singers and the song, was beautiful.
When a recent and still excitable fine art graduate (a long time ago) I was speaking to an artist older and wiser than me. I was boring on about how some artwork meant this or that when the older and wiser artist interrupted my monologue to ask, “What about mystery? Is there no room in your analysis for mystery?” I was embarrassed by the question, he had revealed my failure to understand something very simple; that not everything can or should be explained. What we can’t explain (what we can’t understand) is important, and often, paradoxically, where meaning lies. Blaise Pascal, the 17th century scientist and philosopher, believed that mystery – and he was a man dedicated to scientific enquiry – was of central importance in life. He believed that some things could never be adequatly explained but that didn’t mean they weren’t true. A devout Christain, he believed that seeking to explain the mysteries of faith was a kind of blasphemy. Mystery should be given it’s due.
… and of the mysteries of the heart he memorably wrote, “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”.
Thanks RG
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The global snacking giant has reported sharply lower sales in recent quarters, with results stung by two issues: a strong U.S. dollar has ate into the company’s top line and the loss of Mondelez’s coffee brands after it sold them to create a new company called Jacobs Douwe Egberts. Mondelez still has a noncontrolling stake in the new company, but the loss of the business has helped contribute to double-digit revenue declines in recent quarters. This year, Mondelez is only targeting net organic revenue growth of at least 2%, conceding that a challenging macroeconomic environment will result in slower growth for the global $1.2 trillion snacking market. Mondelez is planning to focus on so-called “power brands,” which include Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Cadbury chocolate, and Trident gum, while also eliminating less profitable lines to help simplify the company’s supply chain.
Irene B. Rosenfeld
Website http://www.mondelezinternational.com
Years on Fortune 500 List 9
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Profit as % of Revenues 24.5%
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Earnings Per Share ($) 4.44
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You are here: Eionet Forum NRC Freshwater Library 2018 Chemicals in inland waters Consultation - Improving protection against chemical risks to inland waters 5. Improving protection against chemical risks in water
2. "Known unknowns” – unregulated micropollutants and chemical mixtures
3. Known risks: Key pollutants and their sources
4. Strategies to reduce chemical pollution of water
5. Improving protection against chemical risks in water
7. Annex A: Derivation of emissions data for figures in chapter 2
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Earlier chapters discussed approaches to tackle the significant concern that we are failing to adequately protect aquatic ecosystems from mixtures of low concentrations of chemicals, and reviewed information available for established water pollutants. Once released into the aquatic environment, persistent, harmful chemicals are very difficult to control and may have long-lasting effects. We need effective ways to protect our water resources, so as to ensure their long term sustainability.
Two major challenges confront our understanding of chemicals in surface waters across Europe. The first is that, despite significant effort, we struggle to show that at the European level there have been improvements in the environment resulting from increased controls of the most well-known pollutants. The second is that chemical status under the WFD reflects scientific understanding that is at least 20 years old.
Headline chemical status is driven by the “one out all out” approach of the WFD, where the status reflects that of the worst component. For chemicals, the pass/fail nature of the EQS means that the failure of one priority substance or one RBSP will lead to the water body failing to achieve good status. Although it is possible to see improvements in individual priority substances (EEA, 2018a), the revision of EQS and addition of new priority substances to reflect better understanding of chemical risks represents recurrent new challenges to achieving good chemical status. This difficulty is more than a “communications issue”. Maintaining political support and resources towards improved environmental protection is difficult at every level when little, no, or even negative progress is made.
There is a need to be able to communicate about improvements made according to the standards when they were set. Equally, the WFD needs to reflect robust, new scientific understanding which identifies new risks. This chapter reflects on the findings of earlier chapters and proposes some possible ways forward.
5.2. Data collection on chemicals in water at EU level
Significant effort goes into reporting into the European system and then in making that information available. In the light of Peter Drucker’s observation, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t change it”, we reviewed what was available for key chemical pollutants.
5.2.1. Data on chemical status and priority substances
Monitoring obligations need to balance costs of resources to undertake them, with the value of the knowledge gained and application of that knowledge. Collecting data which have no application is not only wasted effort, it may mean that an opportunity is missed to gather information which would be used to inform measures.
What should be a priority substance? A working basis for a “European level pollutant” is provided by the prioritisation process, which considers a substance to be of European concern if it exceeds proposed EQS in 4 or more Member States (JRC, 2016). Following reporting of the second River Basin Management Plans, the continuing relevance of a priority substance can be considered. (table 5.1).
Table 5.1: Priority substances which exceed EQS in less than 15 (out of 111 105) surface water bodies and 4 or fewer Member States
Source: https://tableau.discomap.eea.europa.eu/t/Wateronline/views/WISE_SOW_PrioritySubstance/SWB_SWPrioritySubstance_Europe?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no (29 Aug 2018)
Preliminary results based on WISE-SoW database) including data from 25 Member States (EU28 except Greece, Ireland and Lithuania).
The very low numbers of water bodies failing for these substances suggest that, assuming monitoring and reporting are accurate, measures have been effective in preventing the entry of these chemicals into surface waters. This is a success for European water and chemicals policies.
With such low numbers of water bodies failing to achieve good status for these substances, they may be candidates for delisting as priority substances, freeing up resources for monitoring of substances now presenting more of a risk to the quality of European waters.
It is also possible to review River Basin Specific Pollutants to identify those which might have European wide relevance (table 5.2). RBSPs most often exceeding their EQSs are shown, with the range in EQS values used (derived from Member States RBMP reporting).
Table 5.2 Selected River Basin Specific Pollutants with largest numbers of countries reporting failures; Comparison of minimum and maximum national standards for annual average EQS.
Note: Data from RBMP reporting differ from those reported by Irmer et.al. (2014) which were derived from voluntary reporting.
– 1 country had standards for both free and total cyanide, hence 8 countries reported in table 2.1.
Source https://tableau.discomap.eea.europa.eu/t/Wateronline/views/WISE_SOW_FailingRBSP/SWB_FailingRBSP_Europe?:embed=y&:display_count=no&:showVizHome=no (30 Aug 2018)
Decisions on what substances are proposed as priority substances are made through the collaborative process under the WFD, prior to a Commission proposal subject to the co-decision process. It is currently unclear when the next revision to the list of priority substances may be made.
Guidelines for EQS derivation are set in the technical guidance document for environmental quality standards (EC, 2011b). Although such documents should promote coherence and harmonisation, EQS values can differ by up to 10 000 times for the same substance (e.g. phenol, glyphosate) (Irmer, et al, 2014).
As well as variation in values of EQS, there can be significant differences in numbers of RBSPs between Member States – between 1-136 RBSPs were reported as causing failure in the 2nd RBMPs[1]. This has an influence on the likelihood of an RBSP failing to meet an EQS, and so the likelihood of a water body being able to achieve good ecological status. More RBSPs make it more likely that a water body may not meet the EQS.
Looking forward, it would seem that improving consistency (or harmonising) RBSP EQS values would improve comparability between river basin districts. It would not address differing numbers of substances for which standards are set, and, given the variation across Europe of substances meeting the RBSP definition, it seems difficult to overcome that issue. Consideration should be given to including all chemicals information in one place, e.g. chemical status, reflecting actual water management, if other ways are found to better integrate chemical and ecological status.
5.2.2. Emissions to water
Reporting known or estimated chemical emissions is a way to gather information on trends over time, without knowing what impact those might have. Unfortunately, emissions data on priority substances as reported for the WFD, E-PRTR and WISE-SoE are only partially informative. The WFD dataset is difficult to interpret, with apparent errors, inconsistencies and missing river basin districts.
Lack of comparable information at EU level on diffuse sources of pollution to water represents a potentially significant gap (Roovaart et al, 2013a and b).
Given these significant concerns, what can we see in the data?
Table 3.2 provided an overview of the number of Member States reporting of emissions in 2010 for the different source groups: industry, UWWTPs and diffuse sources.
The metals cadmium, lead, mercury and nickel were widely reported, but even for these long-regulated substances are there difficulties with the data reporting. While a range of diffuse sources were reported for metals, different approaches in calculation between the countries render those data incomparable.
For another set of pollutants, about half of the countries reported on a regular basis (some PAHs, 4-Nonylphenol, DEHP). Although this allows for some overview at European level, there were difficulties with the data from different reporting streams (E-PRTR, WFD, WISE-SoE), making interpretation of trend difficult.
For a number of pollutants, only a few Member States report loads (TBT, Brominated diphenylethers, Isoproturon, hexachlorocyclohexane). Therefore, no useful overview exists for these pollutants at EU level.
Diffuse sources of pollution have been reported by only a few countries, even though – where they are reported – they seem to constitute a large proportion of diffuse sources for almost all priority substances (Roovaart et al, 2017). This represents a significant data gap.
Ways forward :
Currently, data on emissions are required under EU legislation for both EPRTR and WFD, and are voluntarily reported under WISE SoE. Improving emissions data so that they are collected under consistent and comparable approaches would provide clear information on the direction of travel for chemical pressures. This could be especially helpful for substances where the surface water chemical status assessed under WFD is driven by historic rather than current emissions. Streamlining reporting, so that robust data collected for one obligation would satisfy the European emissions reporting requirement, could offer a way to address this issue.
As point sources of pollution are better controlled, so the relative significance of diffuse sources increases. Our lack of knowledge about diffuse emissions represents an important information gap. Improvement in the monitoring and reporting of diffuse sources is needed, to ensure that pressures are correctly understood and measures can be appropriately targeted.
5.3. Conclusions on assessing ecological impacts from chemical pollution
The chemical status of surface waters, reported under the WFD, provides an assessment of a very limited number of harmful chemicals in water bodies comparable across Europe. Much more detailed information on chemical contamination can be available at a more local scale. Through scientific efforts like the application of novel methods of sampling and chemical enrichment (Schulze et al. 2017), the detection of several hundred organic chemicals in a single freshwater sample is becoming more common.
Currently, there is no established link between the assessment of chemical status and ecological status of surface water bodies. This is in contrast to the real situation where organisms may be living in polluted water, possibly impacted by multiple pressures. Improvements in our understanding as to how chemical mixtures can adversely impact organisms may be used to improve our understanding of the interlinkage between ecological status and chemical status. Application of the precautionary principle means this should include consideration of chemical mixtures, which can act along similar pathways in the organism. However, potential consequences of the presence of multiple chemicals is not reflected in current lists of priority substances and RBSPs.
More generic solutions are needed to protect water from contamination by chemicals. Approaches which regulate concentrations in water on a substance-by-substance approach will not cope with large numbers of substances present at apparently low concentrations but which might, in combination, have ecological effects. Effects-based approaches offer a way to combine existing information on the presence and abundance of species in ecological monitoring, while improving our understanding of the links between chemical and ecological information. The flexible approach of the WFD would allow Member States to use effects-based methods in a complementary way, alongside routine monitoring in water management. The major obstacles to the use of such tools seem to be the mis-alignment with chemicals source control approach, aimed at single substances, and the lack of legal obligation. In the absence of legal requirement, one way to demonstrate the value would be to collect case studies where effect-based information has been used in a regulatory context for surface waters. Another option is for effects-based methods to be used as part of ecological status assessment.
5.4. Conclusions on the effectiveness of source control legislation
Reported emission data do not allow quantitative conclusions about the effectiveness of source control measures taken in the past. The data are not sufficiently reliable and the time series are not long enough for analysis. However, emission loads should have decreased, driven by the implementation of the directives on Dangerous Substances (1976), Urban Waste Water (1991) and Industrial Emissions (2010). Additionally, chemicals are now widely regulated and environmental concerns reflected in risk and hazard assessments (chapter 1.3).
Over recent decades, reductions in emissions from industry have led to significant sources now being from domestic use (Gardner et al, 2014). Despite much tighter regulation, pesticide use in agriculture can still cause contamination. Events such as heavy rainfall can overload drainage systems and cause surges in the pollutant load into surface waters.
We rely on urban waste water treatment to reduce concentrations of many pollutants in water, but they may not meet sufficiently low concentration of micro-pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, ingredients of household chemicals, chemicals used in small businesses or industries, or pesticides. Investigations into more advanced waste water treatment techniques, for the elimination of micro-pollutants via a fourth treatment stage, are being tested in several countries. Such techniques cost about 10 to 15 EURO cents per m³ in big treatment plants, but they are not yet applied on a regular basis (UBA, 2018).
Table 5.1 showed examples of substances for which measures to prevent water pollution seem to have been effective. Sometimes this involved totally banning the use of a substance; less drastic measures may be to restrict uses where losses to water might occur, either through more careful use of the substance (such as in good practice for pesticide application) or banning its use in certain applications because such measures are not possible.
In this report, the focus has been on priority substances continuing to present a risk to Europe’s surface waters. Table 5.3 summarises the current situation and considers what more could be done to improve environmental protection.
Table 5.3 – Effectiveness of controls to prevent chemicals reaching aquatic environment from point sources
Note – Information on diffuse sources is mostly poor, so excluded from this table.
1 - see Table 3.2
2 – table 3.1 based on 111 105 water bodies and number of water bodies failing for substance (Many = over 10 000; Medium = over 1 000; Low = over 100)
3 – Historic = use before 1940
4 – International restrictions as POPS
5 – regulatory approval for isoproturon expired in 2017, so data reflect the period where its use was still permitted
Moving beyond the well-established pollutants represented by priority substances, we need to implement methods which effectively assess the risk presented by mixtures in the aquatic environment. Longer term sustainability can be provided by the development of alternative approaches which deliver the desired function currently provided by harmful chemicals. Developing a circular economy is part of this process.
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Bates wins Eureka. Paddon wins Cup
Australia’s Harry Bates and co-driver John McCarthy won the weekend’s Pedders Eureka Rush rally in their Toyota Yaris AP4, while New Zealand driver Hayden Paddon scored enough points for the Pacific Cup title.
The sixth round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), powered by Würth, covered roads across once gold rich lands of inland Victoria, Australia. Starting with two runs of a Super Special stage on Saturday night the remaining eight tests were run on the Sunday.
Adding to those entered for the APRC round, New Zealand’s Hayden Paddon and co-driver Samantha Gray raised the stakes by joining the final Pacific Cup round in the loaned Walkem team Hyundai i20 R5. Having clean-swept the opening two rounds there was a chance third Pacific Cup round winner Harry Bates would do the same and tie for the title. Needing one point to break a potential deadlock Paddon and Gray stormed to an early lead.
Setting fastest time in the opening three stages it all came to a halt in the fourth.
“We touched something on the inside of a corner and it broke a bolt in the steering – just one of those things really – that we couldn’t do anything about,” said Paddon.
In the same stage the Subaru of Molly Taylor and Malcolm Read impacted with a tree to halt their competitive pace. That left brothers Harry and Lewis Bates in their respective Toyotas to front the field.
The second-half of the day, contested as a second leg, allowed Paddon and Taylor to re-join.
While Paddon went on to comfortably win three of the four remaining stages, Taylor was unable to extract full-speed. Finishing the second half of the day gave Paddon more than the single point needed for the title.
“It was nice to get Hyundai New Zealand another title – that was the main objective here this weekend. While we would have liked to have done better in the rally we got the result we came here for.”
Along with the rally and round win, consolation for Bates was co-driver John McCarthy taking the Pacific Cup co-driver title.
The next and penultimate round of the APRC returns to the Northern Hemisphere for Rally Hokkaido, Japan – 21 to 22 September.
Eureka Rally – APRC Results (Provisional)
1. H.BATES/McCARTHY, Toyota Yaris AP4, 1:11:32.1
2. L.BATES/McLOUGHLIN, Toyota Yaris AP4, +2:51.6
3. PADDON/GRAY, Hyundai i20 R5, +2:58:52.7
4. TAYLOR/READ, Subaru WRX Sti P5, +4:17:57.6
Photos: Arron Wishart
Eureka to decide Pacific Cup
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Maven opens Durham office to manage £20 million Finance Durham Fund
Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active private houses and manager of the £20m Finance Durham Fund, is open for business in the North East after moving into Salvus House at Aykley Heads, the new £3.4m office building run by Business Durham. With a newly recruited local team in place, Maven is supporting Durham-based businesses by providing flexible funding packages to suit their growth requirements.
The new office will add to Maven’s strong presence across the North of England making it well-resourced to provide the necessary support to local companies, both in terms of the initial investment process and the ongoing support as those businesses grow.
Maven is able to identify and attract more local, dynamic businesses seeking the growth finance they need to thrive within the county. Eligible businesses can now enquire or apply for funding online through the website: financedurham.co.uk
The Fund’s objective is to deliver greater levels of investment into ambitious businesses based in, or looking to relocate to, County Durham to allow them to contribute to economic development, job creation and innovation within the county.
Maven will also launch a series of venture investment clinics run by the highly experienced investment team led by Michael Vassallo to provide advice sessions for Durham-based businesses seeking knowledge or support for growth.
Situated among the thriving business community at Durham City Park, Aykley Heads is also home to the North East Chamber of Commerce, Durham Constabulary, Swinburne Maddison, The Vardy Group and a range of occupiers at the Rivergreen Centre.
Michael Vassallo, North East Investment Director at Maven, said: “We are delighted to move into this great facility in the heart of Durham City. This is a fantastic location where the team is already engaging with businesses across the county and working with Business Durham to raise awareness of the support and funding available.”
Cllr Simon Henig, leader of Durham County Council, said: “Finance Durham has allowed us to take direct action to improve the economic prospects of the county and create much needed jobs. Seeing Maven Capital Partners move into the exceptional facilities at Salvus House is another big step in the Finance Durham project. We wish them a very warm welcome to the area and look forward to working together in the future.”
If your business is in need of finance to help unlock its growth potential, the Finance Durham Fund may be able to help. Contact our team today on 0191 731 8595.
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The One Flaw In Morning Star And How I Would Have Fixed It
Morning Star was an amazing conclusion to the epic Red Rising series. And while there are parts I liked more and didn’t like as much as previous books, I still gave it a perfect score in the end. Because books can have flaws and still deliver an amazing story. But there is one part of Morning Star that really stuck with me as being a mistake and I can only discuss it while spoiling some things. So this is your warning. [WARNING: AFTER THE BREAK WE’VE GOT SOME MAJOR MORNING STAR SPOILERS SO GO READ THE BOOK ALREADY AND THEN COME BACK.]
Morning Star begins with the painfully long section of Darrow’s imprisonment and torture. It’s uncomfortable to read and I should know because I read it twice (the first few chapters were released early but I reread them when the book came out). I believe they were intentional, both to drive home why Darrow is not the raging war beast of Golden Son in ability and desire and also to help set up the slower, more deliberate pacing of the final book.
One aspect of Darrow’s torture that is revealed to us is that the rest of the Society believes Darrow to be dead. The Jackal created a false video showing Darrow killed and even his friends believed it to be true. Sevro didn’t, but that’s because Sevro is the exact lovable goblin bastard who wouldn’t believe that video. Everyone else saw the video and trusted it to be true. But now they know better because Darrow is waging war.
In the middle of the war we’re told that even though Darrow’s army is comprised of members from all colors, things are a bit tense between the old factions. This comes to a head when the Jackal broadcasts a video showing the execution of Darrow’s beloved Uncle Narol. His army sees the video and it so upsets the Reds and other lowColors that they want justice on Golds and other leaders, even if those are allies belonging to the color.
Wait, did you say a video?
It seems the entire galaxy has forgotten that the Jackal knows how to fake videos. Or that in a technological age of interplanetary ships and terraforming the population no longer has access to Photoshop. The moment was important for the story in how it fractures the army and leads to a reforging of their bond (and gave Sevro one of his best moments in the series), but the instigating moment felt strange to me. As I was reading the passage I thought it was fake just like the Darrow video was fake–and yet not a single character asks if it was fake. It is accepted and everyone freaks the Hel out over the video. To me, that’s a flaw.
Here’s how I would have fixed it. The book establishes that even though giant armadas are mobilizing for war you can still fire a single torpedo across a long distance. Roque’s body is put into a torpedo and launched for the sun–that makes sense because it’s a big enough target and the torpedo might be avoided if another ship sees where it’s heading. So on that note, what if instead of executing Darrow’s uncle and putting it on future YouTube, the Jackal had instead loaded Uncle Narol into a torpedo and launched him toward Darrow’s fleet? Maybe he makes it move slowly, fitted with a transponder to make it obvious. Maybe he even decorates it with war paint saying Narol has a message for the Reaper.
Cautious, Darrow and the fleet bring the torpedo on board. They are wary of a trap, but they see it is Narol inside. So they decide to take the risk and open it. At the last minute, Sefi steps forward and insists on opening the torpedo. She says she knows Ragnar would have done it for Darrow, so she takes the duty. They open the casket and Narol wakes up. But he’s panicked–he knows it was a trap. And all he can manage is a pitiful “Sorry, Darrow. I’ll see you in–” before the bomb embedded in his gut explodes. Sefi is injured, which helps push her over the edge to declaring war on all Golds, and everyone knows for sure that Narol died because it happened on their shuttle deck.
Same result, better process. At least to me. But what do I know–I sure as heck didn’t write three awesome books comprising the Red Rising series.
Father of two boys, husband, attorney for Dell (Social Media, Retail, Gaming), Broadway geek, comic book geek, science fiction geek, gadget geek. View all posts by Ryan Garcia
Posted on February 15, 2016 February 15, 2016 Author Ryan GarciaCategories Books, Red Rising SeriesTags Books, Darrow, flaw, Golden Son, Jackal, Morning Star, narol, Pierce Brown, Red Rising, science fiction, sefi, trilogy
5 thoughts on “The One Flaw In Morning Star And How I Would Have Fixed It”
ibrews says:
I like that! Good idea.
My biggest problem with the book was actually the death of Ragnar. It doesn’t make any sense that Darrow would allow Ragnar to fight Aja, knowing full well that Aja is versed in fighting styles to which Ragnar would have no recourse. ESPECIALLY after Mustang just risked her life to save Ragnar under water, you’d think they’d be doing everything they could to keep him alive and make sure he gets the chance to talk to (read: kill) his mother and recruit the Obsidians. Putting him in such danger seemed both stupid and out of character.
Ryan Garcia says:
That was a bit rushed–but at least they tried to explain it as a rare opportunity to take out two important figures for the Sovereign. And the plan, remember, was for Mustang’s shot to take out Aja. That was thwarted at the last second which caused everything to go sideways. But once it was Ragnar vs Aja, we knew how that would end.
Didn’t Darrow ask Ragnar if he thought he could take Aja? And Ragnar was like ‘yes’, and Darrow was like ‘great’ and I was like ‘ah hells no.’
Ha! Might have been that way too. They had a lot of advantages going for them–picking the place, the ambush, the weather. But yeah, she was set up to be the boogeywoman and she delivered. I like to imagine that final fight with Aja and the Sons similar to that scene from the Captain America Civil War trailer where Cap and Bucky take on Stark.
Doris Flame says:
Octavia insisted to remove Darrow’s muzzle when she was about to execute him so people know that it was actually him. Narol spoke in his execution which I think convinced everyone that it was indeed him that got killed.
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US pauses training of hundreds of Saudi military personnel after deadly Pensacola shooting
Posted 7:45 pm, December 10, 2019, by CNNwire
PENSACOLA, Fla. (CNN)– The US Navy on Monday paused the training of hundreds of Saudi Arabian aviation students at several training locations following a deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola which was carried out by a Saudi Air Force officer.
A “safety stand-down and operational pause commenced Monday for Saudi Arabian aviation students at NAS Pensacola and NAS Whiting Field and NAS Mayport, Florida. Classroom training is expected to resume this week for those students,” Lt. Andriana Genualdi, a spokeswoman for the US Navy told CNN in a statement Tuesday.
Genualdi said there are approximately 140 Saudi Arabian students training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and 35 at Naval Air Station Whiting Field. There are approximately 128 Saudi Arabian students training at Naval Air Station Mayport.
The Pensacola attack took place Friday when Mohammed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a student naval flight officer, opened fire in a classroom building on the navy base, killing three sailors. The 21-year-old, one of 852 Saudis in the US for Defense Department security cooperation training, was killed after two deputies exchanged gunfire with him.
FBI says it presumes naval base shooting in Pensacola was act of terrorism
The shooter’s membership in the Saudi armed forces has led some to criticize foreign service members participating in US-based military training programs.
Sen. Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, repeated his calls Monday for the administration to suspend military training programs for “foreign nationals on American soil” pending a full review.
And in the tense hours after the attack on Friday afternoon, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said, “There’s obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi Air Force and then to be here training on our soil.”
President Donald Trump has spoken with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in the wake of the shooting saying the Saudi leader had told him they “are devastated,” and that the King would be involved “in taking care of the families.” The President promised that “we will get to the bottom” of what happened.
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Fortean Overview
Thread starter Anonymous
Tags coincidence synchronicity
mummyknave
Devoted Cultist
IbisNibs said:
Did you actually count, or are you using 18,000 the way that some people (like me) use "bazillion" for a random large number? (This is not intended as a rudely skeptical question, I'm just trying to clarify things.)
When younger I sometimes played solitaire for hours and the longer I played the more likely I was to win. I did my best to shuffle the cards well, but somehow over a series of games (not as many as you played), the cards seemed to become sorted in ways more favorable to winning.
Being a mechanic gives a good understanding of tangible things, but I think we need a mathematician to explain this one!
"18000" is just an estimate. It's probably a little conservative. I'd guess the actual number was between 15,000 and 30,000 but I didn't count.
In this case "mechanic" is a term for a person who performs parlour tricks with cards. Specifically I can shuffle the cards to make them come up in a desired order. I was not "stacking' these that I won. Even if I did it subconsciously it simply wouldn't have much effect on my chances of winning.
"Hospital solitaire is a simple game. You pull cards off the bottom of the deck and spread them in a fan on top one at a time. If the 4th card is the same number as the first all four cards are removed. If it's the same suit then the two cards in between are removed. Go through the entire deck comparing the last card from the bottom to the 4th card back in the fan removing cards the same way. A "win" is when you have no cards at all left.
It "seems" like an easy game to win but is very difficult. My math was never quite good enough to actually compute the odds but I'm guessing it's on the order of 1: 6,000 give or take.
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IbisNibs
Exotic animal, sort of . . .
Outside my comfort zone.
Thanks for explaining the game, and what kind of mechanic you actually are. I was completely unfamiliar with that type of solitaire and that definition of mechanic. I want to try the game now, though I don't expect to win!
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I should have mentioned that if you take only two out because of the same suit then you again compare the end card with the one four back so you can take out remove more than once with the same card. When you're done there should be no cards four apart that are the same suit or same number. It will feel natural after just a couple of games. Games go very fast.
I never thought of this before but hospital solitair is probably one of the big reasons I taught myself to stack cards. The game is almost as much shuffling as it is playing and you need to be able to handle and manipulate cards in order to play it rapidly. There used to be a few famous mechanics when I was young who performed for TV. I'm not sure they were as good as they appeared (I never was) since their tricks may have been staged and trick photography.
It's not that hard to remember where a few cards are in the deck and order them. You need a good deck and practice.
I usually just tried to keep my cards at or near the top until I was ready to put them in order.
Oh, I do know a guy who can do the calculation. Mebbe I'll ask him one of these days. Try a game or two and you'll see why ordering (stacking) the cards isn't going to help. You'd have to be able to project 30 to 49 plays but how these change with each shuffle. Even if you just put the same top and bottom card your odds don't improve nearly enough to win three out of four.
I've always wanted to program a computer to play the game just to see what happens. It's simple enough it could play thousands of games a minute. It would be great for checking random number generators.
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feen5
Justified & Ancient
I don't know if this should go here or in another section (if anyone can move it to a more suitable forum please do). I guess it depends on whether you think its a coincidence or a message from the other side. I don't know what to think myself.
My father passed away last December. Throughout his life he was always a very keen gardener, his flower beds and lawns were always immaculate and well looked after. This wasn't just a few plants and the odd shrub, by the way, this included growing roses up the entire front of a 2 storey house.
As well as that for many years we rarely had to buy vegetable's for 9 to 10 months of the year because he grew everything on allotments. This was enough veg for a family of 9 with a huge amount of variety. As we got older and left home the veg patch may have gotten smaller but it never dipped for both variety and amount, enough to keep my mum and dad in fresh veg nearly all year round.
Apologies for the long preamble but I think I needed it to explain how big a part of his life it was. Any way since he passed the garden was far to big for any of us to commit to, and definitely not for my Mum. As you can imagine though she was very reluctant to do anything as she thought Dad might not have liked to see it happen.
So any way she decided to 'ask' my dad in her prayers (she is fairly religious) if he would send her a sign to ask if it was ok to make the garden much more manageable for her or us to look after and she also got a Quote of €200 from a local handyman for the job. While my Dad's passion was gardening I can nearly say for certain that my mum had the same passion for Bingo. So after asking for a sign and then getting the Quote of €200 she won exactly €200 that Sunday night at the Bingo.
I don't know what to think of it, I'm probably a bit of an agnostic when it comes to these things but to see the relief on my Mum's face when she told us I can help but wonder if it really was a sign. I know she did agonise over the decision for quite a few months.
That's it, feel free to move this to a more relevant thread if you think its necessary.
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Disciple of Marduk
HM The Tower of London
feen5 said:
Can only add that last week I was ordering xmas presents and had to grudgingly pay extra postage which came to £30. Same day, I won £30 on t'lottery! The Universe likes to remind us when we've done the right thing.
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mummyknave said:
It's not that hard to remember where a few cards are in the deck and order them.
Maybe for you it's not!
I've always wanted to program a computer to play the game just to see what happens.
I hope you're able to do that someday. It sounds like it would generate some interesting outcomes.
Throughout his life he was always a very keen gardener, his flower beds and lawns were always immaculate and well looked after. This wasn't just a few plants and the odd shrub, by the way, this included growing roses up the entire front of a 2 storey house.
Two storey roses, that sounds beautiful! He sounds like he was very special. My condolences to you and your family, especially your mother. It doesn't matter if a loved one is elderly or ill or not, it's always a shock when they go.
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escargot said:
I was once explaining to a colleague how cold reading works, and had reached the bit where the 'mindreader' gets something wrong but is able to recover the situation with bullshit.
So I said, 'I could tell you that your mother's mother's name was, er, Muriel!' - this name belonging to a long-dead friend of my own mother's who popped into my head at that moment.
Instead of denying it, when I would say,'Ah! Of course, Muriel was her best friend!' or somesuch, he went white and sat down hard.
Muriel WAS his Nan's name, and as a bonus, she was also dead. As far as this poor bloke was concerned I was psychic and probably in league with the Devil as well!
Last night when looking up a coincidence I'd posted hereabouts regarding my brother Ivor, I noticed this one further down the page.
The bloke's mother, daughter of Muriel, was a local councillor and her death had been announced that very day.
Came across this very sad news item from June last year (2018).
Four motorcyclists from the Stoke area were killed in separate accidents in just over a week. Two died on the same day.
What an awful set of events.
Funerals this week for four bikers killed in crashes
The funeral dates of four bikers killed in crashes within the last month have been revealed.
This week, services will be held for Kendall Chadwick, Paul Rowley, Andrew Tunnicliff and Tony Dennis
Kendall Chadwick (aged 45) May 24th
Paul Rowley (aged 53) and Andrew Tunnicliff (aged 53) May 28th
Tony Dennis (aged 49) June 3rd
Terrible all round.
True, Stoke is a city so there will be lots of people having road accidents in and around it at any given time.
But these were four grown men, getting on for middle age, presumably going about their legal business and not road-racing or otherwise acting recklessly, being killed in unconnected incidents within ten days, two on the same day.
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James_H
And I like to roam the land
A listicle of photo coincidences, mainly strangers with similar looks
https://brightside.me/wonder-curios...s-that-prove-the-world-can-glitch-too-647610/
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PeteS
Seeking refuge
I've probably mentioned before, but I know an elderly couple who like the very occasional gamble, only betting small sums. Whenever they need an extra bit of cash for something Mrs puts a fiver or tenner on and usually without fail gets the money she needs. It may be £100 or a £1000 wanted- it doesn't seem to matter. The one and only time she put a quid in one of those hateful gambling machines she won £100. She decided to buy a few premium bonds and last year won a few quid on 10 out of 12 monthly draws. Me I've had premium bonds for 50 years and never won anything. Some people seem lucky in some ways.
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Mythopoeika
I am a meat popsicle
Inside a starship, watching puny humans from afar
PeteS said:
You need to have a substantial amount of money invested in the bonds before yielding any useful wins.
My Dad was earning above the rate of interest on wins from his premium bonds and my nephew is also doing well with his.
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Eight pounds ten in the biscuit tin
Walking alone through the afternoon traffic...
Yesterday Mr Zebra and I watched a film we'd recorded recently - Mr Denning Drives North. The protagonist puts a ring on the body of a man he killed in the hope of thwarting the identification process.
This afternoon we heard on the news that the Iranian General killed in the US strike was identified by his ring.
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Thursday lunchtime, I was sat with a couple of my colleagues and the conversation drifted in that wandering fashion that you get when people have worked together for a long time. One friend mentioned something about her husband changing the lyrics of a song called "Leave a Light On" by an artist I didn't recognise, so naturally I said that all I could think of was Belinda Carlisle at that point.
Got home on Thursday evening, and whilst preparing dinner, put the radio on, which I don't normally do - I'd generally stream from my phone instead. Lo and behold, I suddenly clock that they're playing "Leave A Light On" by Belinda Carlisle. Made me smile, and text my friend to point out this coincidence!
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King-Sized Canary
Leave a Light On is the best Belinda Carlisle solo single, I think.
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Yesterday I had to leave a key for a colleague at work in a drawer. He was supposed to pick it up today before 6am.
He couldn't remember where it was and texted me to ask about it.
I wouldn't have heard the text arrive if I'd been asleep, but luckily I was awake because I'd somehow left my phone's 5am alarm on for today.
So Peter has the key and I'm wide awake at 6am on my day off. That'll teach me.
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Tempest63
Abominable Snowman
That’s the type of coincidence that would prompt me to get another key cut and screw gun it to his head with a 4” wood screw
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Recovering policeman
Tempest63 said:
l used to have a coffee with the security police at a nearby military base on night shifts. The key to their safe was attached to a stout chain, which was screwed to a 6” cube of wood painted titty pink.
No-one ever forgot where that key was, much less inadvertently went home with it in their pocket.
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Sigils, Prosecco and crying are my main talents.
There's a particular song that's very dear to me (it's related to my now-boyfriend) and I listened to it a lot before I got in touch with him for the first time in years. He's moving down to live with me in a couple of months' time and we're both excited but a bit 'eeeek' about it all because it's such a massive deal. We were talking about looking for a sign to reassure us and on that very day, I had to deal with a document in which something had been written by none other than the lead singer of the band who sang that song...
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On the subject of @onetwothree's sign from the the universe:
Today I was thinking about how many rucksacks I own and whether I should get rid of a couple.
Later, mooching round t'car boot sale, I met a former colleague. She was looking for a serviceable rucksack for her grandson who's just started a new job. Oho, says I, I can help you there!
We arranged that I'd drop one one off later so I'll be popping out any minute. Just after we spoke I picked a guitar gadget (some kind of tuner) which I will put in the rucksack for Renee. A couple of years ago I acquired a guitar capo, which was exactly what Renee was saving for at the time. I gladly handed it over.
So Renee and his Gran will be happy and I'll have made a small step towards decluttering! Everyone's happy.
brownmane
I went to college in Toronto (2 1/2 hours from where I grew up). I found room and board with a woman who grew up only a few minutes drive from where I lived. It was during a recession, so one of her brothers moved to TO to find work and he rented one of her rooms. That's how I met my husband. Our families lived 20 minutes apart but we were in different school districts and so never met until both of us moved to TO.
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brownmane said:
That's mad!
ramonmercado
Eblana
There's a novel/film in that story!
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ramonmercado said:
l can hear Tom Hanks’s and Meg Ryan’s agents on the phone to each other...
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Yesterday my colleague had to collect a key I'd hidden for him at work. Today when I was leaving I noticed another colleague's locker standing open with the key still in it. So I hid the key in the same place and texted him the location. Keys, eh.
Talk about timing! Pedestrians narrowly avoid building collapse and fire truck arrives a second later...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...lding-collapse-misses-pedestrians-by-seconds#
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doesn't negotiate with terriers
Mythopoeika said:
The department of work and pensions will be all over that one in the blue coat now. I've never seen someone move so fast with a stroller.
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Here’s an easy calculator to work out your chances of winning according to your holding of Premium Bonds:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/premium-bonds-calculator/
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maximus otter said:
The strange thing is that the person I referred to has much less than £1k invested so by mse calculation should have won nothing instead of winning 10 out of 12 monthly draws. First time she entered the post code lottery she won a few quid on the first draw. It's the devil's work I tell ye.
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AdEasy seeks to expand network in Southeast Asia
Posted by Sharina Ahmad | 6 days ago | Enterprise, Featured
ADEASY Sdn Bhd, an online marketplace for offline advertising, plans to expand its reach beyond Malaysia by penetrating the Singapore and Thailand markets by the third quarter of 2020.
Its CEO Melissa Sim says the reason for entering these two markets is the huge interest from its potential media partners there. She adds that demand for offline advertising such as billboards is still there regardless of changing times.
“We have a strong network of contacts in Singapore and Thailand as the appetite for offline advertising is still high,” she tells FocusM.
The company also intends to venture into other markets in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam and the Philippines in the next couple of years.
“We will make thorough feasibility studies and if they show positive outcomes, we might consider leveraging our platform there. We believe that the offline advertising landscape will always be relevant as it evolves with time and technology,” she said.
Sim, who has 12 years of experience in the ad and media industries, says the offline ad sector began from the good old times of putting up posters, to evolve into billboards, and now digital billboards.
“And contrary to common misconception, there is no one or the other between offline and online advertising.
“It’s about understanding the functions of each, and deciding which would work best to achieve the objectives of the company. A good marketer would know how to strike a balance between the two, to be present in as many touch points as possible while working within the company’s marketing budget,” she says.
Sim notes that the demand for offline advertising will be on par with online. This is because when the market becomes more sophisticated, businesses will know the value of both online and offline advertising, and will be seamlessly integrating them in their campaigns for optimal results.
As an online marketplace for offline advertising, AdEasy is a one-stop-platform for advertisers to browse online and book offline advertising spaces such as radio, cinema, billboard, magazine, newspaper, television and car.
Staying relevant
To always be a step ahead in balancing user needs, industry practices and technological trends are compulsory to stay relevant, says chief operating officer Therine Goh.
“We maintain good conversations with our users and media partners and are always keeping abreast with the latest tech news to ensure that we keep evolving our platform to better serve our stakeholders,” she says.
User experience plays an important role in building a successful customer base, she points out.
“Our users mainly get to know about us by word-of-mouth and online search. Our team is trained to care deeply about our users’ success from the first interaction, be it online through our platform or offline when we interact with them on a personal level.
“We think through each step, from enquiries and bookings to post-campaign and issues and try to minimise the friction as much as we can,” says Goh, who had earlier moved from a multinational corporation (MNC) to a local company.
AdEasy was founded based on Goh’s personal pain points when buying ad space on traditional media.
Based on data AdEasy gathered last year, the demand for traditional media, especially radio, out-of-home (OOH) and cinema ads is still high. In fact, AdEasy’s 2018 revenue was made up mainly of radio 56%, OOH 21% and cinema 15%.
This seems to reflect a 2018 Malaysia advertising expenditure (adex) report by GroupM Worldwide Inc, one of the world’s largest media investment companies.
The report shows that of the RM4.48 bil spent on ads, 72% was on traditional media.
Strategies and tactics
As a one-stop solution for businesses of all sizes and budget ranges, the process of buying ads through AdEasy is easy and accessible to book the desired traditional ad space.
The online marketplace features over 90 media profiles across all offline media types and over 800 ad spaces.
Customers need to key in their budget, target audience, location and types of media that they are interested in, and the website will then recommend the most relevant spaces based on those criteria.
According to Sim, the company has deployed a mix of online and offline tactics to market its business and the result has been successful.
“For online, we use search engine optimisation (SEO) and search campaigns. However, for offline, we use public relations (PR) and offline advertising such as billboards.
“We can’t say which is more successful than the other as we have different objectives for each. For lead generation, SEO works well for us as we get most of our users organically. For overall brand awareness, PR and billboards did deliver the results as we have more and more people being aware of the brand, and engaging with us,” says Sim.
Recently, the company raised over RM850,000 from private investors, bringing the total investment amount to over RM1.8 mil.
The previous funding rounds included a successful crowdfunding campaign through Pitch Platforms Sdn Bhd, which runs the pitchIN equity crowdfunding platform, and a seed funding round from Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd.
The investment will be used to expand its technology on campaign planning and analytics, as well as to improve the user experience.
“There is still a gap when it comes to campaign measurement and analytics for offline advertising. We acknowledge this, and we’re investing a portion of our funds to address it.
“We’re currently in the R&D stage, working on a feasible solution by harnessing technologies such as big data. We’re also investing in improving our user experience (UX) and making our platform more intelligent. We hope to make it not only easy but also effective for businesses to buy offline media, and to be able to track the effectiveness of their offline campaigns,” says Sim. – Jan 13, 2020
How AdEasy’s offline advertising journey began
AdEasy Sdn Bhd began its journey at the end of 2013 when CEO Melissa Sim and chief operating officer Therine Goh found how manual and tedious offline advertising still was.
They were aware that there was no easy way to compare and book offline advertising space directly from media owners. The process to get information and rates, as well as space availability, could take weeks.
At that time, digital advertising had plenty of automated, tech-driven solutions. They decided it was time for offline advertising to have a digital solution as well. That was when AdEasy was conceptualised.
“Both of us come from enterprising families, so we’re exposed to entrepreneurship at a young age. We learnt that grit, resilience and being adaptable are important. What drives us to keep pushing forward each and every day is our purpose for AdEasy – being able to solve a real (validated) problem in the offline advertising industry.
“We aim to build a one-stop solution that is effective and transparent for businesses of all sizes and budgets to easily find and book the right offline ad space with just a few clicks,” says Sim.
Like other online marketplaces, AdEasy charges a commission for every booking made on its platform to the media partners.
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by · August 25, 2015
XBox Live is usually the only place I vent when gaming, and it’s either because someone on my ‘team’ has done something incredibly stupid, or I have. But it’s been a long long time since I ever swore at a game. Yelled, cursed and threatened it’s very existence.
But I found myself doing this quite a lot whilst playing Mega Man Legacy Collection.
Mega Man Legacy Collection features reproductions of the original six Mega Man games, from the heyday of 8-bit gaming. As well as the six Mega Man games, Legacy features two new ways to experience Mega Man. Challenge Mode remixes sections from all six games, creating an all new challenge for players, and Museum Mode contains a massive collection of history, high-res art and concept pieces.
If you don’t know what Mega Man is, it’s 8-bit platforming at it’s best. From an era of gaming where you couldn’t just save your game at any point, and you had to endure the frustration of redoing parts of a level so many times, only the most determined gamers made it through the game. It takes basic concepts, such as jumping and shooting, and combines them with levels that demand split second precision and an unforgiving attitude towards failure.
It’s one of the most frustrating games I have played in a very long time. But it’s also bloody addictive. That old feeling of not wanting a stupid game to get the better of me, kept me coming back for more and more punishment. I was certain I was going to throw my controller at the TV at many points. Fortunately I didn’t.
The only thing I can think of that comes close to Mega Man in modern gaming would be, dare i say it, Flappy Bird. Frustratingly simple, frustratingly hard, frustratingly addictive.
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Will Bored to Death Alienate Its Hipster Base?
Brian Moylan
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HBO's new series Bored to Death has a self-referential hero, tons of inside New Yorker jokes, and heaps of self-conscious cool. But it's also a mystery series. Just who is going to watch Miss Marple meets Arcade Fire?
Trying to give genre fare an ironic tweak is a hallmark of the hipster creative ethos, but usually delivered with a stink-face detachment that jokes at the genre's expense or calls attention to the falsity of its own conventions. Jonatham Ames, the wunderkind of literary post-post-modernism who created the show and provides the name for the hero (played by Jason Schwartzman) clearly loves detective novels in a real way. Sincerity is not something that the struggling artistic types depicted in this show do well, or connect with in their pop cultural fare. We can see a Williamsburg production of Murder She Wrote: The Musical, but never a straight up noir set on the Lower East Side.
The major problem is that Hollywood always tries to bottle the lightning of cool into some sort of simulacrum that is too watered down and false for those who inspired it, and too esoteric and elitist for those outside of it. Throw in some mystery stories and the formula for this show is two degrees away from what the mumblecore aficionados would consider in good taste. The thing that scenesters hate the most is anyone trying to lay claim to the label of the scenester or, blasphemy of blasphemies, spread its message outside of the barely gentrified ghettos where it is born.
A show has to walk a very careful line with hipsters, as Flight of the Conchords did brilliantly, of playing at story but not really acknowledging any world existing outside of its precious snow bubble.
But with Wes Anderson alumni Schwartzman, man of the moment Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson (and his hair system) playing a randy, drugged-out downtown scene fixture (that Ames said is based on George Plimpton) how can the hoodie and Converse set resist this pedigree? And they really shouldn't. The premiere episode was good for a few chuckles and shows promise for things to come. The action moved quickly and the characters well-drawn characters, even if they are a bit of caricatures of the Brooklyn types you'd find at a magazine launch party (if they still had those). Which poses another serious dilemma, will the cognoscenti have enough of a sense of humor to laugh at themselves?
We predict that, rather than ignoring the show altogether, those in the know will tune in rapturously, and then bitch about how horrible and unrealistic it is over PBRs. After all, the only thing hipper than liking something that's super cool, is hating something when everyone else thinks it is.
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Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, OCHA, UNCTAD, UNHCR, IOM, OHCHR, UNICEF 28 Aug 2015 [Video]
Geneva Press Briefing: WHO, OCHA, UNCTAD, UNHCR, IOM, OHCHR, UNICEF 28 Aug 2015
– Biweekly Geneva Press Briefing Chaired by Ahmad Fawzi, Interim Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva
:: Extensive briefing on the refugee/migrant crises.
:: Briefing Summaries
Lamenting Recent Migrant, Refugee Deaths, Secretary-General Appeals to Governments for Bolstered Efforts Ahead of Global Meeting at UN Headquarters 28 August 2015
Lamenting Recent Migrant, Refugee Deaths, Secretary-General Appeals to Governments for Bolstered Efforts Ahead of Global Meeting at UN Headquarters
SG/SM/17039-REF/1210
The following statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was issued today:
I am horrified and heartbroken at the latest loss of lives of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean and Europe. Yesterday saw the grim discovery of the bodies of more than 70 people inside a truck abandoned near the Austrian border with Hungary. Reports indicate that many of the victims were Syrian asylum seekers — including children.
Recent days have brought yet more news of hundreds of refugees and migrants drowning in perilous journeys on the sea. Earlier this year, I visited search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Despite the concerted and commendable efforts of the joint European search and rescue operation, which has saved tens of thousands of lives, the Mediterranean Sea continues to be a death trap for refugees and migrants.
These repeated tragedies underscore the ruthlessness of people smugglers and traffickers whose criminal activities extend from the Andaman Sea to the Mediterranean to the highways of Europe. It also highlights the desperation of people seeking protection or a new life.
A large majority of people undertaking these arduous and dangerous journeys are refugees fleeing from places such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. International law has stipulated — and States have long recognized — the right of refugees to protection and asylum. When considering asylum requests, States cannot make distinctions based on religion or other identity nor can they force people to return to places from which they have fled if there is a well-founded fear of persecution or attack. This is not only a matter of international law; it is also our duty as human beings.
I commend those leaders and communities who have stepped up to our shared responsibilities and obligations. But much more is required. I appeal to all Governments involved to provide comprehensive responses, expand safe and legal channels of migration and act with humanity, compassion and in accordance with their international obligations.
Let us also remember: the high number of refugees and migrants are a symptom of deeper problems — endless conflict, grave violations of human rights, tangible governance failures and harsh repression. The Syrian war, for example, has just been manifested on a roadside in the heart of Europe.
In addition to upholding responsibilities, the international community must also show greater determination in resolving conflicts and other problems that leave people little choice but to flee. Failing that, the numbers of those displaced — more than 40,000 per day — will only rise.
This is a human tragedy that requires a determined collective political response. It is a crisis of solidarity, not a crisis of numbers. I am encouraged that these issues will be an area of focus and priority when world leaders gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York next month for the opening of the General Assembly. I am organizing a special meeting devoted to these global concerns on 30 September.
Migrant crisis: “Let’s not pretend Europe’s response is working” – UN rights expert warns [UN OHCHR]
UN OHCHR Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights [to 29 August 2015]
Migrant crisis: “Let’s not pretend Europe’s response is working” – UN rights expert warns
8/28/2015 Press Releases
GENEVA (25 August 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, today called on the European Union to establish a human rights-based, coherent and comprehensive migration policy* which makes mobility its central asset. “It is the only way in which the EU can reclaim its border, effectively combat smuggling and empower migrants,” he said.
“Let’s not pretend that what the EU and its member states are doing is working. Migration is here to stay,” Mr. Crépeau stressed. “Building fences, using tear gas and other forms of violence against migrants and asylum seekers, detention, withholding access to basics such as shelter, food or water and using threatening languagee or hateful speech will not stop migrants from coming or trying to come to Europe.”
“Territorial sovereignty is about controlling the border, knowing who comes in and who leaves. It has never been about sealing the border to migration,” the expert said. “Democratic borders are porous by nature. Providing migrants and asylum seekers with legal and safe mobility solutions will ensure such a control.”
The Special Rapporteur urged Europeans to start focusing on regaining control of their external border from the smugglers by increasing mobility solutions available to most migrants, investing in integration measures – especially through supporting the action of cities – and developing a strong public discourse on diversity and mobility as cornerstones for contemporary European societies.
“If Europeans want their governments to regain control of their borders, then they must urge them to bank on mobility and offer migrants and asylum seekers official channels to enter and stay in Europe,” the human rights expert said.
“Opening up the regular labour markets through smart visas allowing people to come to look for work and incentivise them to return if they don’t find the job in question would allow for a much better regulated and controlled official labour market,” Mr. Crépeau noted.
However, he cautioned, such measures must be supported with sanctions against employers who exploit irregular migrants in underground labour markets (in agriculture, construction, care or hospitality). “This would considerably reduce the pull factor they exercise on irregular migrants and further reduce the market for recruiters, smugglers and exploitative employers,” the expert said.
“In addition, there is an obvious urgent need for Europe to create, jointly with other Global North countries, a massive resettlement programme for refugees like Syrians and Eritreans that could offer protection to 1.5 or 2 million of them over the next five years,” he said, highlighting that such a programme would impact the market for smugglers and allow European countries to decide who comes and make appropriate preparations.
The Special Rapporteur recalled that, last year, saving lives of migrants and asylum seekers at sea was seen as a moral imperative by the international community, which then put pressure on the EU to intervene and save the lives of those on the boats. The expert welcomes the positive steps taken by the EU and its member states in rescuing migrants and asylum seekers at sea. “However, rescuing people who arrive by sea and then turning a blind eye to their plight leaving them vulnerable to human rights violations is irresponsible,” the expert said.
“Talking about ‘flows’, ‘marauders’, and ‘swarms’ is an unsubtle way of dismissing the legitimacy of the asylum seekers and migrants’ claim to human rights, by creating images linking them to toxic waste or natural disasters” he noted. “We are talking about men, women, children and even babies, who have faced traumatic experiences. These are people just like you and me, and none of us have the moral high ground to say that we would never do the same if we were in their shoes.”
The UN Special Rapporteur warned that the political and popular discourse in Europe has seen a race to the bottom in the anti-migrant sentiments and use of inappropriate language which is often linked to criminalising migrants. “Migrants are human beings with rights. When we dehumanise others, we dehumanise ourselves,” he underscored.
Mr. Crépeau called on European political leaders “to show moral and political leadership in fighting much more vigorously racism, xenophobia and hate crime, in consolidating the common human rights culture that is now framing the evolution of all traditions, in strengthening the free movement of persons throughout the EU while developing regulated mobility solutions at its external borders, and in celebrating the diversity of cultures and religions as enrichment for everyone, citizens and foreigners alike.”
IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 29 August 2015]
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Selected Press Releases
IOM on Latest Austrian Truck Tragedy
Austria – IOM condemns the shameful act of neglect that the Austrian authorities say resulted in the suffocation of some 71 migrants in the back of a truck in Austria.
IOM Monitors Migrant Flows into Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
An estimated 1,500-2,000 migrants are crossing from Greece to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and on into Serbia every 24 hours.
Displacement Escalates in Iraq
Iraq – IOM Iraq’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) updated figures, released yesterday, identified 3,176,946 internally displaced Iraqis (529,491 families) across Iraq from January 2014 to 13 August 2015.
IOM Aids Colombian Deportees from Venezuela
Colombia – IOM has joined a humanitarian team of government entities and international agencies assisting the over 1,000 Colombians who have been deported from Venezuela in the last few days.
IOM Highlights Psychosocial Needs of Displaced People in Eastern Nigeria
Nigeria – IOM, with financial support from the US, French and German governments, has released a report based on a psychosocial needs assessment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) carried out in Yola, Adamawa State, in eastern Nigeria in April 2015.
IOM Seoul Hosts Counter Trafficking Policy Seminar
Republic of Korea – The lack of effective indicators to identify trafficking victims in the Republic of Korea (ROK) is resulting in a situation where victims are sometimes treated as criminals, according to IOM.
IOM Resumes Evacuation of South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia
Ethiopia – IOM Ethiopia this week resumed its emergency evacuation of South Sudanese refugees from the border, which had been halted since late July 2015 as all receiving camps had reached their maximum capacity.
Statement by First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos – European Commission
Statement by First Vice-President Frans Timmermans and Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos
European Commission – Statement
Brussels, 27 August 2015
The news of the 50 migrants found asphyxiated in the hull of a ship last night, and the lost souls of 20 or more migrants discovered abandoned in a truck on an Austrian highway today are frankly shocking. These are sinister, criminal acts, carried out by smugglers with no scruples whatsoever.
The migration crisis is not somewhere far away. It is happening right in front of us.
Chancellor Faymann is right when he says we cannot go on this way.This is not an Austrian crisis. This is not an Italian, French, German or a Greek or a Hungarian crisis. This is a European crisis and it requires a collective European response.
The Commission put that European response on the table – from increasing our presence at sea, to cooperating with countries of origin and transit, to clamping down on smuggling networks, making returns more effective and implementing the recently adopted common EU asylum rules whilst showing solidarity with frontline countries – we have to address the issue from all angles. We already announced that further proposals will come soon.
Now is the moment for joint actions, and solidarity with all Member States and our partner countries in the region. That is also why we will be visiting several of the most affected Member States, starting from Calais on Monday and also Austria on 7 September, to discuss further support and joint actions.
In the meantime, some of the measures proposed by the Commission have already found support. All the others now urgently need to be taken up by the EU’s 28 Member States – even those who have until now remained reluctant to do so.
IMO’s Sekimizu issues fresh condemnation of Mediterranean people smugglers
International Maritime Agency
Briefing – 28/08/2015
Recent incidents in which hundreds of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe have lost their lives, including dozens found dead in the holds of the ships that were carrying them, have prompted strong condemnation and refreshed calls for concerted action to tackle people smugglers from IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu.
Mr Sekimizu said that smugglers were sending people to sea in craft that were totally unsuitable for passengers and crowding them on board to levels that were completely unsafe.
“Not only are these activities illegal,” said Sekimizu, “they are also carried out with a callous disregard for human life and a total disrespect for any of the internationally accepted standards for safety of life at sea, developed and adopted by IMO. These boats should never be allowed to go to sea in the first place, and the perpetrators of these appalling crimes against humanity must be stopped.”
Mr Sekimizu praised the efforts of vessels operating under the auspices of the European Union in intercepting a number of smuggling voyages and saving thousands of lives. However, while commending the efforts of those participating in rescue operations, including navies, coast guards, merchant ships and private vessels for their role in rescuing the survivors of these potentially deadly voyages, Mr. Sekimizu called for stronger action by governments and the international community to prevent migrants undertaking risky sea passages in the first place.
“The sea is an unforgiving place. Any rescue operation is a dangerous undertaking for all concerned and places lives at risk – including those of the rescuers,” he said. “Ideally, these vessels should be prevented from taking to sea at all. I urge governments and humanitarian organizations to better manage migration ashore and authorities in the departure zones to redouble their efforts to keep overloaded, unsafe vessels from taking to sea.”
A special session of IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee on unsafe mixed migration by sea was held on 9 June, when it was agreed that greater focus needs to be placed on addressing unsafe migration by sea through more safe and regular migration pathways. Addressing the meeting, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said this global issue required everyone to work together with a comprehensive approach, which would protect human rights, uphold international law and recognize the benefits of migration. The Maritime Safety Committee agreed to continue to address matters pertaining to “Unsafe mixed migration by sea”, and invited IMO’s Facilitation Committee and Legal Committee to do the same.
Mr Sekimizu said the current situation was a truly humanitarian crisis and was simply not sustainable.
In July, a new inter-agency platform for information sharing on migrant smuggling by sea was launched by IMO, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in order to better understand unsafe mixed migration by sea. It is anticipated that the platform will assist in improved monitoring of incidents associated with unsafe and irregular mixed migration by sea globally, with a view to better analysis of trends and the identification of potential solutions.
The platform was initiated following the Inter-agency High-level Meeting to Address Unsafe Mixed Migration, which was held at IMO Headquarters in March, with the aim of aim of facilitating dialogue and promoting enhanced cooperation and harmonization between United Nations agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, Governments and the shipping industry.
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Ernesto De Angelis returns home
Ernesto joins Crown Seven Da Silva
Team: Crown Seven Da Silva
Category: Press-release
Crown Seven Da Silva is proud to announce
"Ernesto De Angelis returns home"
that it has signed Italian driver Ernesto De Angelis, to drive for the team in the FSR World Championship for the remaining of the 2008 season.
The 2002 World Champion returns to the Da Silva family after racing for the Silva Snake Rex team in 2007. In the first six rounds of the season, Ernesto has scored 19 points for Bracciano Racing, and is currently 3rd on the Standings. Ernesto will team up with Christian Smirnoff, while Fausto Pappalardo
"Crown Seven"
remains as the team's reserve driver.
Crown Seven Da Silva also takes the opportunity to announce a technical partnership with the Faster Than Speed team, which aims to make both teams stronger and scoring more World Championship points.
Ernesto, who is personally sponsored by Crown Seven, will be making his Da Silva comeback in next weekend's Monaco GP.
More info at: http://netrexgp.netsons.org
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THEDA BARA ~ VAMP OF THE SILENT SCREEN …
Posted on November 8, 2017 November 9, 2017 by Essie Fox
Theda Bara
I still feel as if I’m coming up for air after writing The Last Days of Leda Grey. It was such an immersive experience, and part of the novel’s allure for me was creating its central character. Leda Grey is her own unique fictional self, but visually I was inspired by a real-life movie star ~ and that was Theda Bara.
Often called the first celluloid sex symbol, Theda was known as a ‘vamp’ ~ with that vampire term alluding to women who sexually prey on men, rather than actual blood suckers or anything supernatural; though they often did star in spooky films and possessed an otherworldly air.
All these themes were strongly in my mind when I started to think of Leda Grey, even having my fictional character star in a film about an Egyptian queen ~ partly based on Cleopatra, and partly on H Rider Haggard’s sensational Victorian novel, She.
However, whereas my character lives in the seaside town of Brightland (very strongly based on Brighton), Theda was born and raised in New York before locating to LA. There, she was hired by Fox Studios to act in many of their films, including Cleopatra, which was one of the earliest epics and which led the way for many more based on this exotic queen ~ with actresses like Elizabeth Taylor defined by the glamour of the part.
Theda was soon a major star. She earned more than $4,000 a week. Thousands were hired to build her sets, while she herself would actively research the props and costumes worn. This was during the time when women were still campaigning for the vote and the hope for more equality. But Theda was independent and strong. A sexy dominant femme fatale who could be compared to Madonna today. A sensual and bold persona enhanced by risque stage attire; which was often so outrageous that several scenes from Theda’s films were deemed to be immoral by the public boards of censorship.
Of course this helped to enhance her fame, which only spread yet further when the studio’s publicity machine called her the ‘serpent of the Nile’, falsely claiming that Theda had been born to a beautiful French woman and a Saharan Arab sheik. More than a hint of things to come in Valentino’s desert films. However, unlike the lovers who would swoon when held in his strong arms, Theda Bara rarely played the second fiddle to her leading men. She fully understood her world and the power of the female sex, once offering this stark reply when asked about the roles she played …
‘I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin.’
Eventually, she did grow bored with playing the part of the femme fatale. When attempts at other roles then failed she married and quietly disappeared ~ and was lost to the public eye again when most of her films were destroyed in a fire at the studio warehouses.
Today, Theda’s flame is kept alight in the scraps of footage that survive, in which it’s very clear to see her confident charisma. And then, in the thousands of studio stills where we see the glory of her youth.
What would Theda have been in the present day? Visually, she reminds me of Siouxsie Sioux, a star of the British punk music scene. She was darkly attractive and dangerous too. Nothing meek in the photographic gaze which still seems to defy us when we look at the stills from Theda’s silent films. A hundred years may well have passed since she played her Cleopatra role, but her image is iconic. A legend and a goddess. As illustrious as any stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
A version of this article first appeared in Electric Sheep magazine.
LEDA GREY SELECTED FOR BBC RADIO ULSTER BOOK CLUB…
Posted on January 4, 2017 January 4, 2017 by Essie Fox
I’m delighted to say that The Last Days of Leda Grey has been selected for the BBC Radio Ulster Book Club which features on the Kerry McLean show.
The book will be discussed in full on January. In the meantime, you can listen to what the inspiring Esther Haller-Clarke has to say about Leda and other new titles ~ from approximately 38 minutes into the programme.
A NIGHT IN CANTERBURY
Posted on December 9, 2016 by Essie Fox
On Thursday December 8, I talked to a group of students who are members of the Creative Writing Course at Canterbury Christchurch University ~ discussing inspiration and how ‘Writing Comes Alive’ for me.
I’m sure no-one will be surprised that I spoke about all the works of art that inspired my Victorian novels, and then the Edwardian silent films that formed the dramatic backdrops for The Last Days of Leda Grey.
It was a really enjoyable night, and my special thanks must go to the organisers, and brilliant chairs, Danny Rhodes, and Professor Carolyn Oulton, and also to other staff members and much admired writing friends, Peggy Riley, and Katherine May. It was wonderful to chat with Craig who runs the university bookshop, and to meet with some of the audience including Sue Bassett, a long time virtual Twitter friend.
Canterbury looked magical, all the cobbled streets adorned with lights in readiness for Christmas. I look forward to visiting again.
PUBLICATION WEEK FOR LEDA GREY 2
Leda Grey ~ written and performed by Kirsten Morrison
On November 10 2016 Leda Grey was officially launched at the Cinema Museum in South London. This fabulously atmospheric venue was packed with friends and family, as well of my agents and publishers. Hopefully everyone who came along enjoyed the evening as much as me. We had great food, and drink, and cakes … and also a beautiful, haunting song written by Kirsten Morrison ~ with the song performed live on the night by Kirsten and Peter Shipman. I love it. It made the evening so special.
PUBLICATION WEEK FOR LEDA GREY Part 1
Posted on November 15, 2016 November 15, 2016 by Essie Fox
The night before the publication of The Last Days of Leda Grey, I was in the town where the book is set – attending the fabulous Bookish Supper Salon at the Brighton & Hove Regency Town House.
The Town House is the most splendid venue, and it’s currently being lovingly restored by a team of local volunteers. But, it was even more special to me, being one of the very houses that I used as a setting when writing The Last Days of Leda Grey: the house where my heroine lived as a child – even with the remnants of some wallpaper that could well be the same that I described in Leda’s childhood bedroom.
Another house very near in the terrace has now been converted as a hotel, just like the one in Leda Grey …
Leda. Leda. Leda Grey. Chanting the name inside my head I wandered through the bustling Lanes, and then along the seafront road until I found the small hotel I’d booked into the night before. Converted from a private home in the grandest of Regency crescents, it had wide stone steps and a pillared porch; though best not to look too carefully at the crusting rust on ironwork ~ or the paint that peeled from cracking wood when, back inside my room again, I forced up creaking window frames that opened to a balcony …
Sitting next to some well-repaired window frames, I was joined on the night by two other writers, Jules Grant and Mark Thompson. We were all wonderfully looked after by the evening’s host Laura H Lockington, and also by Anna Burrt. In fact, the evening was such fun that I hope to go back and visit again; this time as a guest, to really enjoy the chat and the general ambiance ~ as well as all the gorgeous food prepared by The Boys Cafe and Eatery in Hove.
With Laura Lockington, and Mark Thompson
Being interviewed by Laura Lockington
Brighton. The view from my hotel. I hope to be back again soon.
The Two Popes. Brilliant film!
Loving these Police Illustrated News images of sleepwalkers - has such fun researching Victorian ideas about somnambulism when I wrote my first novel The Somnambulist.
Unexpected Google discoveries. Young women of Otaheite.
Well, this is exciting. New book research begins...
A day of blasted oaks, storm clouds, and sunshine.
Sunday morning - Reading the newspapers. Drinking coffee. Providing a cushion for the dog.
Lovely gift.
#amwriting Too ghoulish?
My star boy.
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The best way to wash wine glasses, according to the pros
Top winter cocktails from bars across the globe
10 Things You Should Know About Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer
Bacardi bottles coconut cream liqueur Coquito
Available in the US, Bacardi Coquito is made using the brand’s signature white rum mixed with toasted spices, coconut cream, vanilla, and cinnamon.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/12/bacardi-bottles-coconut-cream-liqueur/
DISPOSABLE’ MINOAN WINE CUPS REVEAL HUMAN HISTORY OF WASTE
The 3,500 year-old clay cups have been found in large quantities across Minoan sites on Crete and the other Cycladean islands they inhabited in the Bronze Age.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/disposable-minoan-wine-cups-reveal-human-history-of-waste/
CORK STOPPERS ARE ‘LONG-TERM CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION’, PRODUCER CLAIMS
A French closure company has claimed its production process now helps to cut the level of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere instead of adding to it.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/cork-stoppers-are-long-term-contribution-to-climate-change-mitigation-producer-claims/
Chilling Out On Wine Delivery
According to Robert Parker, between 10 and 25 percent of wine delivered to the US alone, arrives damaged by heat.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2019/12/chilling-out-on-wine-delivery
Japan Is About to Become the Newest ‘It’ Region for Wine
Yamanashi is considered the epicenter of the Japanese wine industry.
https://fortune.com/longform/japan-wine-country/
Sherry and port offer the quickest route to hangover – and will give you a bigger headache than vodka, scientist warns
The safest thing to do, he says, is drink a large glass of water before you go to bed.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/15/sherry-port-offer-quickest-route-christmas-hangover-will-give/
Minnesota wineries challenge state law requiring use of homegrown grapes
The Minnesota winemaking industry has long required their beverages to consist mostly of homegrown grapes. But two wineries contended Tuesday that practice is no longer feasible or appealing to the bottom line or customer tastes.
https://stockdailydish.com/minnesota-wineries-challenge-state-law-requiring-use-of-homegrown-grapes/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=904ea67887-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_16_10_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-904ea67887-64683881
The Wines We Scored 100 Points in 2019
Tasters reviewed more than 25,000 wines. But only nine bottles from Champagne and Bordeaux in France, and Port’s 2017 vintage, were the epitome of perfection and deemed worthy of being scored 100 points.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/13/wines-scored-100-points-2019/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=904ea67887-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_16_10_40&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-904ea67887-64683881
From its Super Bowl debut, to its deep-anchored nautical roots, here are 10 more things you should know about Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer.
https://vinepair.com/articles/bon-viv-spiked-seltzer-guide/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=4abd927ca9-DEC_17_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-4abd927ca9-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-4abd927ca9-38937345&mc_cid=4abd927ca9&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Angry Orchard Just Launched a Limited-Edition Boozy Ice Cream
Hard cider maker Angry Orchard and the boozy ice cream company Tipsy Scoop have teamed up to create the seasonal blend of your dreams — a spiced cider ice cream.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/angry-orchard-ice-cream/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=4abd927ca9-DEC_17_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-4abd927ca9-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-4abd927ca9-38937345&mc_cid=4abd927ca9&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
STAR WARS CREATOR GEORGE LUCAS AIMS TO SETTLE LEGAL ROW OVER NEW VINEYARD AT SKYWALKER RANCH
Skywalker Ranch is the movie ranch and workplace of film director, writer and producer Lucas located in Nicasio, California, in Marin County.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/star-wars-creator-george-lucas-aims-to-settle-legal-row-over-new-vineyard-at-skywalker-ranch/
Is Olive Oil the New Wine?
The EU exported more than $6 billion worth of olive oil in 2018 alone, but the demand hasn’t kept up with the increase in supply. Now, prices are tumbling
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-12-16/is-olive-oil-the-new-wine-video
Is there such a thing as umami?
Is there such a thing as umami – and can it be detected in wine?
https://www.drinks-today.com/wine/general/there-such-thing-umami
The Growing Attraction of Private Wine Labels
All the indications are that private label wines are going to devour more market share over the next five years, leaving less retail space for branded wines.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2019/12/the-growing-attraction-of-private-wine-labels
The Biggest Food And Drink Trends For 2020
Since we’re heading into a new year, we thought it’d be fun to find out what foods and drinks will likely be on your shopping list in 2020.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/food-drink-trends-2020_l_5de973dbe4b00149f73dd323
New England’s Winemakers Don’t Care How They Do It in California
Funky, tart, and unlike anything made in Napa, New England’s new natural wines are changing the tastes of a generation. Don’t believe it? You must be over 40.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2019/12/17/new-england-winemakers/
Wine in Cans Will Represent 10% of Market in 2025
Year over year, wine in cans is on track to grow at least ten percent, and the most remarkable development is the variety of high-end wineries getting into this simple, cost-effective and environmentally responsible packaging; it is not unusual to see a single can selling for $20.
https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2019/12/18/wine-in-cans-will-represent-10-of-market?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=fa93aeffed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_18_10_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-fa93aeffed-64683881
Drinking Only One Type of Wine is Bad for Your Palate (Sorry)
“Cellar palate” is a phrase used to describe a condition that can afflict winemakers when they become too accustomed to their own wines and the wines of their regions, rarely tasting bottling’s from outside their orbits.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/18/expand-your-palate-wine/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=fa93aeffed-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_18_10_35&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-fa93aeffed-64683881
Carboniste is a California sparkling wine that doesn’t want to be like Champagne
California sparkling wine lives in the shadow of Champagne.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/wine/article/Carboniste-is-a-California-sparkling-wine-that-14916019.php
How to Drink Your Way Around the New Proposed Wine Tariffs
What you might be facing at the wine shop this coming year, and how to find just-as-delicious bottles that won’t be affected by price changes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/wine-tariffs-what-they-are-and-how-to-drink-around-them
The Most Important Wine Trends of the Decade (2010s)
A lot has changed since we said goodbye to the aughts and moved into the 2010s.
https://vinepair.com/articles/best-wine-trends-2010s/
Wine Pairings Made Simple By A Wine Expert
Balancing the abundance of different tastes, textures and flavours with the characteristics of a wine is understandably overwhelming- especially with the wide variety on the market
https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4096221.html
Walmart wants you to buy more alcohol from its stores, so it’s adding more high-end options like Veuve Clicquot and Buffalo Trace
Walmart is overhauling its adult beverage aisles to bring in more hyper-local craft beers and high-end wines and spirits.
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-sells-upscale-wine-bourbon-and-craft-beer-2019-12
Plants Are Resistant to Deadly Pierce’s Disease
https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/uc-davis-releases-five-new-wine-grape-varieties
A glut of hangover remedies crowd the Internet. Do any of them work?
In the absence of diligent watchdogging on the part of the Food and Drug Administration, the hangover remedy space is pervaded with a “buyer beware” skepticism. Which ones work, and which ones are snake oil?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/19/glut-hangover-remedies-crowd-internet-do-any-them-work/
The best performing wines of 2019
This year, only one wine from the Cote de Beaune made it into the top ten risers – Bonneau Martray Corton Charlemagne 2007, up 23% in value.
https://www.liv-ex.com/2019/12/best-performing-wines-2019/
Buying Wine In 2020? Experts Suggest Argentina, Italy, Oregon And Portugal For Value
Wine from every corner of the planet is available these days
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jillbarth/2019/12/18/buying-wine-in-2020-experts-suggest-argentina-italy-oregon-and-portugal-for-value/#10623143448a
What makes a winery Twitter account worth following?
The most common theme of many of these accounts is that they were boring as hell.
https://spitbucket.net/2019/12/18/what-makes-a-winery-twitter-account-worth-following/
Is There A “Correct” Temperature For Wines?
The idea that there is a “correct” temperature at which a wine should be served is largely bogus.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmariani/2019/12/18/is-there-a-correct-temperature-for-wines/#5948c62c11ef
NEW ASSOCIATION TO LAUNCH FOR ‘NAKED’ WINERIES OF CHILE
This would mean that member wineries must be either organic or biodynamic, and can’t add anything to the wine other than sulphur dioxide up to a maximum of 50ppm.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/new-association-to-launch-for-naked-wineries-of-chile/
Bartenders from top cocktail venues in Singapore, London and San Diego have taken inspiration from classic serves to produce cocktails perfect for the colder months.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/12/top-winter-cocktails-from-bars-across-the-globe/
How to Decant Wine in 7 Simple Steps
It actually serves a purpose.
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/how-to-decant-wine/
Target Is Selling Glitter Wine Fizzers That Are Like Delicious Bath Bombs for Your Rosé
And they’re just $6 for six of them.
https://www.kctv5.com/target-is-selling-glitter-wine-fizzers-that-are-like-delicious/video_49592c15-072a-5f14-96a9-1bc0fccf5af7.html
The Complete Prosecco Guide
Prosecco is a sparkling wine that’s often taken for granted.
https://vinepair.com/explore/category-type/prosecco/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=26e9765e62-DEC_20_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-26e9765e62-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-26e9765e62-38937345&mc_cid=26e9765e62&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Organic wine moves out of a niche into the mainstream
Global consumption of organic wine is on track to hit almost one billion bottles a year by 2023, more than doubling over the space of a decade, driven by concerns about sustainability.
https://www.drinks-today.com/wine/news/organic-wine-moves-out-niche-mainstream
Developments In The Italian Wine Industry
Vineyard designates for Soave; A new wine from Masseto; the end of an era in Campania
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomhyland/2019/12/20/developments-in-the-italian-wine-industry/#5ed8c47d207d
Everything You Need to Know About Pecorino Wine
It’s the kind of grape that can be approachably youthful or age-worthy and complex.
https://vinepair.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-pecorino-wine/
Can You Really Pair Chocolate With Dry Wine?
For those looking to get adventurous with wine and chocolate, there are ways to make it work.
https://vinepair.com/articles/wine-chocolate-pairing-tips/
How to pair wine with tea
Interestingly enough, when tea folk describe tea, their vocabulary borrows heavily from wine-speak.
https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/how-to-pair-wine-with-tea-11576844832362.html
There’s nothing more frustrating than realizing mid-party that all your stemware (and even those glasses sans stems) have water spots on them — ultimately harmless, but definitely ruining the aesthetic appeal of a perfectly poured glass of vino
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/21/the-best-way-to-wash-wine-glasses-according-to-the-pros_partner/
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Why Wine Costs So Much More At Restaurants
Non-alcoholic drinks: how healthy are they?
Everything you need to know about buying wine for the holidays
This New Gadget Will Turn Your Beer Cans Into Glasses In Seconds
The world’s first can opener specifically designed for beverage cans.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/beer-can-draft-top-gadget/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=e052ca6280-DEC_9_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-e052ca6280-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-e052ca6280-38937345&mc_cid=e052ca6280&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Jose Cuervo makes agave-based biodegradable straw
The material decomposes up to 200 times faster than regular plastic. Microorganisms can consume the straws, meaning they can completely biodegrade within one to five years in landfill conditions.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/12/jose-cuervo-makes-agave-based-biodegradable-straws/
US BREWERY FORCED TO PULL BEER WITH ‘HORNY REINDEER’ LABELS
North Carolina-based Sycamore Brewing has pulled the 2019 edition of its Christmas Cookie Winter Ale after the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission paid a visit to its taproom and discovered the beer cans featured cartoon reindeer in sexual positions.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/us-brewery-forced-to-pull-beer-with-horny-reindeer-labels/
Study Looks at Adding Nickel Deposit on Wine, Liquor in NY
A new study finds adding a nickel deposit on wine and liquor in New York would help keep them out of the trash but increase the cost to retailers.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2019-12-08/study-looks-at-adding-nickel-deposit-on-wine-liquor-in-ny
Wine Institute presents a free e-book of holiday cocktails
The Wine Institute in San Francisco wants to make sure your party has the perfect pairing.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/wine-institute-presents-a-free-e-book-of-holiday-cocktails
What makes wine dry? It’s easy to taste, but much harder to measure
Can we eventually come up with a way to automatically assess this dryness or astringency without relying on human tasters?
https://theconversation.com/what-makes-wine-dry-its-easy-to-taste-but-much-harder-to-measure-123506
10 Things You Should Know About Truly Hard Seltzer
Read on for 10 more things you should know about Truly Hard Seltzer.
https://vinepair.com/articles/truly-hard-seltzer-guide/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=6b9b954248-DEC_10_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-6b9b954248-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-6b9b954248-38937345&mc_cid=6b9b954248&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Napoleon’s Prison Life Included Champagne, Roasted Pigs, and Butlers
Based on a collection of handwritten notes auctioned off in 2015, which detailed the copious allowance of wine and provisions granted to Napoleon and a group of his officers in 1820, the disgraced emperor may have actually enjoyed his exile to a certain extent.
https://vinepair.com/articles/napolean-prison-champagne-history/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=6b9b954248-DEC_10_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-6b9b954248-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-6b9b954248-38937345&mc_cid=6b9b954248&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
AMORIM LAUNCHES NEW SCRATCH AND SNIFF CLOSURES
Amorim states that stoppers can be used to create “unusual ambient settings”.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/amorim-launches-new-scratch-and-sniff-closures/
The One Thing Wine Lovers Don’t Know About Themselves
A lot of chemistry and physics are behind how you perceive a sip of wine.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/one-thing-wine-lovers-dont-know-about-themselves-103372
How Drinking Red Wine Affects Your Body Is Less Clear Than You Thought
There are many experts who believe the French Paradox can be explained by many other factors having nothing to do with red wine,
https://www.bustle.com/p/how-drinking-red-wine-affects-your-body-is-less-clear-than-you-thought-19370107
Understanding Jura, the French Wine Region You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of
Jura rests in the north of France, between the exalted vineyards of Burgundy and the Swiss border.
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/jura-french-wine-region/
7 Merry Ways to Pair Christmas Cookies With Wine
Seven top recommendations for pairing vino with gingerbread, jam thumbprints, snickerdoodles, and everything else your tartan tin contains.
https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/recipe-collections-favorites/desserts/christmas-cookie-wine-pairing
Looking for the Wine List? Check Instagram
How savvy somms are using social media to hype their wines.
https://www.foodandwine.com/wine/wine-instagram-social-media-restaurants
Drinkers with college degrees prefer wine more than 2X as much as those less educated
The biggest threat to the wine industry in the next decade may be coming from regular wine drinkers substituting wine for other drinks at certain occasions, such as hard seltzer and cannabis wine
What’s becoming apparent from Wine Intelligence tracking data is that the wine category in the US is now being affected by trends relating to moderation and portfolio diversification.
https://www.wineintelligence.com/the-plural-drinker/
Are Wine Tastings A Farce?
After two or three courses can the palate be that discerning as to how well such beverages go with such involved recipes? Have you really learned anything about the wines worth using at your next dinner?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmariani/2019/12/10/are-wine-tastings-a-farce/#1f4281b72928
What Can We Learn from the Wine in Moderation Movement?
Wine in Moderation was founded in 2008 at a time when the European wine industry faced a growing threat. It wasn’t just that wine demand was falling — that had been going on for a couple of decades. And it wasn’t just the global financial crisis, either, although that didn’t help. It was rising anti-alcohol sentiments and policies that threatened wine both as an economic activity and also as an integral part of European culture.
https://wineeconomist.com/2019/12/10/wim/
MillerCoors plans to launch Vizzy, a hard seltzer with the antioxidant vitamin C, in 2020
Seeking to capture a bigger piece of the booming hard seltzer market
https://www.millercoorsblog.com/news/millercoors-plans-launch-vizzy-hard-seltzer-antioxidant-vitamin-c-2020?sf225724556=1
What Oak Trees Mean to the Health of Vineyards
There’s something iconic about driving through California’s Central Coast and seeing giant oak trees scattered across the landscape
https://www.growingproduce.com/fruits/what-oak-trees-mean-to-the-health-of-vineyards/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=c28f3a1018-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_10_10_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-c28f3a1018-64683881
The Top 10 Beers of 2019
Aaron Goldfarb picks the most memorable beers he tasted this year.
https://punchdrink.com/articles/top-10-beers-2019-bearded-iris-threes-brewing-sapwood-cellars-russian-river/
GLOBAL ORGANIC WINE CONSUMPTION TO HIT ONE BILLION BOTTLES BY 2023
Almost one billion bottles of organic wine are expected to be consumed around the world by 2023, new research has revealed, more than doubling from the 441 million bottles recorded in 2013.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/global-organic-wine-consumption-to-hit-one-billion-bottles-by-2023/
Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry. It’s also the season when the most anticipated meals of the year warrant wines that will live up to the hype.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/dining/wine/2019/12/10/everything-know-buying-wine-gifts-holiday-season/4358208002/
10 Under-the-Radar Places Wine Lovers Need to Visit Now
These unsung gems have all the charm and none of the crowds.
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a29797844/under-the-radar-places-wine-lovers/
3 Unexpectedly Insightful Non-Wine Books That Will Open Your Mind About Wine
Here were three books from this year’s list that helped to shift my thinking about some of the more salient topics in the wine world today.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cathyhuyghe/2019/12/10/3-unexpectedly-insightful-non-wine-books-that-will-open-your-mind-about-wine/#42adf7a521cb
Empire Vines: A Quick Guide to New York Wine
What comes to mind when you hear New York wine? Most would say white table cloth restaurants with wine lists the length of the Brooklyn Bridge.
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/new-york-state-wine-guide/
Napa Technology Announces New WineStation® Cellar: Dispenses and Stores Wine
WineStation® is the most effective temperature-controlled wine dispensing and preservation system in the marketplace today
Napa Technology’s WineStation Cellar in home.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/napa-technology-announces-new-winestation-cellar-dispenses-and-stores-wine-300972691.html
The Essential Guide to Port, a Global Powerhouse Born of a Happy Accident
What is Port, anyway?
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/10/port-essential-guide/
5 reasons *not* to give wine this holiday season
Here are 5 reasons not to give the gift of alcohol to those you don’t know well:
https://blog.timesunion.com/kristi/2019/12/10/5-reasons-not-to-give-wine-this-holiday-season/
Why There’s a Bump in the Bottom of a Wine Bottle
There are many theories behind the indentation at the base of most wine bottles and no go-to when it comes to the most plausible reason (shocking, right?).
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/wine-bottle-punt-explanation/
Why are wine producers in Spain moving their vineyards uphill?
Spanish winemakers are having to adapt to the effects of global warming, and many are moving their vineyards further up the mountains
https://www.euronews.com/2019/12/11/why-are-wine-producers-in-spain-moving-their-vineyards-uphill
The Countries That Drink The Most Bourbon
Spain’s love for bourbon is top in the world.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/countries-drink-most-bourbon-top-25-2018/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=864588d821-DEC_11_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-864588d821-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-864588d821-38937345&mc_cid=864588d821&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Is Hard Seltzer A Fad? New Data Suggests Otherwise
Is hard seltzer here to stay or will sales of the fizzy alcoholic water eventually go flat?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisfurnari/2019/12/10/is-hard-seltzer-a-fad-new-data-suggests-otherwise/#680d01d64f5b
Five Important Wine Trends and Predictions for 2020
It’s not always easy to make predictions, but it is fun.
https://fermentationwineblog.com/2019/12/five-important-wine-trends-and-predictions-for-2020/
The Art and Science of Aging Beer
A cold, fresh beer is tasty and all, but have you ever tried one that’s perfectly aged in a basement beer cellar?
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-science/aging-beer.htm
Wine Lovers Can’t Get Enough of This Merlot-Scented Soap (and No, It Won’t Get You Drunk)
There are whiskey and beer versions, too
https://people.com/lifestyle/red-wine-soap-amazon/
What’s a Négociant?
Everything You Need to Know about Wine Buyers
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/what-is-negociant-wine-buyer/
Plenty to Go Around with these Wine-Buying Basics
This is the season to eat, drink and make merry. When planning a holiday menu, don’t forget to include the wine.
https://www.northeastohioboomer.com/blogs/plenty-to-go-around-with-these-wine-buying-basics/
Alcohol-free beer and wine are certainly healthier options. But does that mean they’re good for you?
https://theconversation.com/non-alcoholic-drinks-how-healthy-are-they-127943
Gallo-Constellation planned wine, spirits deal now $1.1B after trimming brands
They are trimming their $1.7 billion deal for lower-priced Constellation wines announced earlier this year, after regulator concerns about the transaction.
https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/northbay/solanocounty/10455021-181/gallo-constellation-wine-business-acquisition?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=f8f428c121-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_12_10_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-f8f428c121-64683881
FOUR MAJOR LAWS SHAKING UP THE DRINKS WORLD
To make sense of it all and narrow the focus to what changes folks should really be concerned or excited about, we tapped legal minds all over the country
http://www.spiritedbiz.com/by-the-book-four-major-laws-shaking-up-the-drinks-world/
SUSSEX CLAIMS WORLD’S SMALLEST VINEYARD
Officially designated the Buckwell’s two grape vines in their Kitchen Garden as UK’s vineyard number 9321.
http://www.greatbritishwine.com/news/sussex-claims-worlds-smallest-vineyard/
The Best Limoncello Recipe You’ll Ever Make
Unlike many DIY projects, homemade limoncello provides maximum reward for minimal effort.
https://vinepair.com/articles/best-limoncello-recipe-infographic/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=8673a16b18-DEC_13_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-8673a16b18-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-8673a16b18-38937345&mc_cid=8673a16b18&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
7 Ways To Open A Bottle Of Wine Without A Corkscrew
Most of these methods aren’t 100% foolproof. In fact, they are all prone to screw up your bottle of wine if done incorrectly or without proper care
https://vinepair.com/articles/7-ways-to-open-a-bottle-of-wine-without-a-corkscrew/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=8673a16b18-DEC_13_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-8673a16b18-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-8673a16b18-38937345&mc_cid=8673a16b18&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
What goes into the pricing of a bottle of wine and why it’s so much more expensive table side.
https://cheddar.com/media/why-wine-costs-so-much-more-at-restaurants
500+ Wineries Add Augmented Reality to Labels
Augmented reality and artificial intelligence are propelling more than 500 wineries across the globe into futuristic marketing that cleverly connects wine-labels with millennial wine-lovers.
https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2019/12/12/500-wineries-add-augmented-reality-to-labels
The Best 50 Wines Under $50, 2019 Edition
After a year of sipping and swirling, a wine critic finds a whole constellation of new stars—ranging from cheap, fun fizz to exotic unfamiliar grapes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-13/best-50-wines-under-50-2019-edition-red-white-orange-fizzy
10 Best Wines for Mulling, According to Sommeliers
There’s a widespread belief that wines used in flavored beverages like sangria and mulled wine don’t have to be high-quality
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/best-wine-for-mulled-wine/
Four Christmas recipes for alternatives to mulled wine
From a warming cava spritz to a port and cranberry sangria, festive party tipples that can be prepped in advance
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/dec/14/christmas-recipes-alternatives-mulled-wine-cinnamon-spritz-mulled-cider-sherry-cobbler-winter-sangria
How to choose wine for a Christmas party
Why not take along a bottle you actually want to drink? You can always tuck it behind the toaster once you’ve poured yourself a glass
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/dec/13/how-choose-wine-christmas-party-fiona-beckett
CSW, CSS, CWAS, FWS, IWS*
Repeal Day For the Three Tier System is Coming
Wine Shops’ Biggest Mistake
Hard seltzer category to triple in US by 2023
AUSTRALIA UNVEILS ‘LABEL DIRECTORY’ TO PROTECT WINE BRANDS
Legislation introduced by the Australian parliament today will establish a wine export label directory to protect Australian wine brands from copycat and fake labeling.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/australia-unveils-label-directory-to-protect-wine-brands/
OPPOSITION INCREASED TO TOTAL WINES’ PROPOSED NEW YORK STORE
Opposition to US wine retailer Total Wines & More’s proposed Queen’s store has cranked up a notch, after 36 state and federal officials, some of whom who had previously supported the project, allegedly withdrew their support.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/opposition-increased-to-total-wines-proposed-new-york-store/
NEW INVENTION IN SPAIN REMOVES ALCOHOL CONTENT FROM WINE
The Alacarte machine is very simple to use and makes use of an innovative medical technology, similar to that of dialysis
https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2019/12/01/new-invention-in-spain-removes-alcohol-content-from-wine/#.XeaJva2ZPos
A new, easier methodology for assessing copper in white wine
A new methodology that makes it easier for wineries to assess copper (Cu) in white wine has been developed through a collaboration between the National Wine and Grape Industry Centre (NWGIC) and the Australian Wine Research institute (AWRI).
https://winetitles.com.au/a-new-easier-methodology-for-assessing-copper-in-white-wine/
This Is Your Body On A Hangover
Curious what’s actually happening internally the day after drinking?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hangover-effects-symptoms_l_5ddd46c2e4b0d50f3297d0d3?guccounter=1
Fertility and Wine
it is probably best for pregnant women to desist from alcohol during the first trimester of pregnancy but the evidence that moderate wine consumption (1–2 glasses of wine per week) during the second and third trimester are harmful is difficult to elici
https://www.ciencia-e-vinho.com/2019/12/01/fertility-and-wine/
FedEx, why won’t you deliver my wine samples?
Wine complicates the situation, since it requires an adult signature. The driver just can’t leave the package and zip back to the truck, but has to wait for someone to come to the door to sign the handheld.
https://www.winecurmudgeon.com/fedex-why-wont-you-deliver-my-wine-samples/
The real reason consumers reject Riesling
It’s not just that consumers identify it as “too sweet”, says Roger Morris. It’s also that it’s not very food friendly.
https://www.drinks-today.com/wine/analysis/real-reason-consumers-reject-riesling
TRUMP THREATENS 100% TARIFFS ON FRENCH FIZZ AND CHEESE
The US government has proposed tariffs of up to 100% on French goods, including sparkling wine, cheese and handbags, valued at US$2.4 billion in retaliation to a French tax placed on American tech companies.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/trump-threatens-100-tariffs-on-french-fizz-and-cheese/
CRISTAL LAUNCHES FIRST ‘BIODYNAMIC’ CRISTAL
Louis Roederer has announced the release of the 2012 vintage of Cristal, the first to be made from 100% biodynamically farmed grapes.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/cristal-launches-first-biodynamic-cristal/
The History of Sparkling Wine Includes Accidental Science and Exceptional Champagne
As you raise a glass of bubbly to toast the new year (or an average Tuesday), take a moment to drink in the centuries of culture and innovation in your glass.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/02/history-sparkling-wine/
Raventós Codorníu – the oldest winegrowing business in Spain
With nearly 500 years of history, Raventós Codorníu is the oldest winegrowing business in Spain, and one of the oldest in the world.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/02/raventos-codorniu-the-oldest-winegrowing-business-in-spain/
Walmart’s “Rosé Wine Drink Enhancer” Will Make Your Water Taste Like, Well, Rosé
The product is a pretty standard flavor additive, one you put a few drops of into a glass of water in order to transform the taste completely.
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a30079342/rose-wine-water-enhancer/
This is the condensed version of all the changes that will soon be published and official in the pliego so you can see that there’s a lot to take in, some of it great, some of it odd, and some of it very, very interesting.
https://www.hudin.com/what-the-new-do-rueda-classifications-mean/
Wine Spectator Top 100 Wine Values Under $25
We Have Many In Stock!
https://top100.winespectator.com/values/?utm_campaign=SipsTips120319&utm_source=SipsTips120319&utm_medium=email&utm_content=91848befbbb49a6a959f1361e3e000aa
France to become leading consumer of organic wine
In 2019, the rankings showed Germany on top, followed by France, the UK, Italy, and the US.
https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/France-to-become-world-consumer-of-organic-wine-by-2021-overtaking-Germany-as-natural-wine-grows-too
When It Comes To The World Of Wine, The Future Is Flat
A new design, made from recycled plastic, could be the biggest advance in wine ‘packaging’ for 200 years, and help to reduce the sector’s environmental impact.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2019/12/03/when-it-comes-to-wine-the-future-may-be-flat/#2044836f1ac2
Is It Time to Change How We Describe Wine?
It’s far easier for us to convey emotion with wine than throw out subjective tasting notes
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/03/how-we-describe-wine/
New PD-Resistant Wine Grape Varieties Named and Released
Patents Filed for Walker-bred Cultivars Developed at UCD
https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataId=223142
How to Upgrade Your Popcorn Nights With Bubbly
The brilliant thing about sparkling wine is that it’s at its best when teamed up with crispy, salty, or buttery snacks — the simpler the better.
https://vinepair.com/articles/how-to-upgrade-your-popcorn-nights-with-bubbly-infographic/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=6e1d4bfa86-DEC_4_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-6e1d4bfa86-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-6e1d4bfa86-38937345&mc_cid=6e1d4bfa86&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Drinks ordering app aims to improve ‘efficiency’
The newly launched Beam app encourages imbibers to order drinks from their tables using a smartphone. They will only be prompted to go the bar when their drinks are being created.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/12/drinks-ordering-app-aims-to-improve-efficiency/
CAVA REGULATOR ANNOUNCES NEW GEOGRAPHICAL ZONES FOR SPANISH FIZZ
Sparkling wine made in Spain will soon be labelled according to exactly where it was produced, according to the president of the Cava DO.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/cava-regulator-announces-new-geographical-zones-for-spanish-fizz/
Nomacorc announces the release of grape-based stoppers in 2020
Also announced a new innovation for its Green Line range of stoppers made from sugar cane.
https://www.vitisphere.com/news-90726-Nomacorc-announces-the-release-of-grape-based-stoppers-in-2020.htm
Jimmy Fallon Learns About Wine Tasting with Gary Vaynerchuk
Vaynerchuk, known for his enthusiastic and high-energy persona, taught Fallon about the color, nose and taste of red wine.
https://youtu.be/HCeB5SNfNe8
Certificate program develops understanding of beer selection
In response, the School of Hotel Administration has launched a Beer Essentials certificate program to help hospitality industry professionals develop the end-to-end understanding of beer production, tasting and selection necessary for establishing an effective beer program.
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/12/certificate-program-develops-understanding-beer-selection
HOW TO MAKE AND SELL CANNED WINE, ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS
Insights and advice for producers who want to cash in on the trend.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/12/how-to-make-and-sell-canned-wine-according-to-the-experts/
Religion, Royalty, and Bubbles: How Champagne Became the Go-To Drink for Celebrating
The tale of how Champagne became the belle of the ball, is one of religion, royalty, European aristocracy, and — like most things relating to the history of French wine — calculated marketing.
https://vinepair.com/articles/history-of-champagne-nye-parties/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=5b1f4f98c7-DEC_5_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-5b1f4f98c7-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-5b1f4f98c7-38937345&mc_cid=5b1f4f98c7&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
FitVine Wine Uncorks A New Bright And Bold Look
California-Based Winemaker Debuts a Vibrant Label and Approachable Logo Design Sharing the Brand’s Unique Winemaking Philosophy
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fitvine-wine-uncorks-a-new-bright-and-bold-look-300969058.html
4 New England breweries landed on Wine Enthusiast’s annual best beers list
Wine Enthusiast recently released its list of the Top 25 Beers of 2019,
https://www.boston.com/food/restaurants/2019/12/04/wine-enthusiast-top-25-beers-2019-new-england
A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING WINE THROUGH NUMBERS
Turns out, there are a lot of numbers involved in the world of wine. So, to help you learn a few wine basics, we’re revealing some key numerical factoids worth noting,
https://www.winecountry.com/blog/wine-basics-by-the-numbers/
Korbel Goes Italian
Korbel & Bros. is launching a Prosecco, produced and bottled in the Prosecco DOC under the Charmat method and made of 100% Glera grapes. Some 10,000 cases of the new Korbel Prosecco will be released this year, retailing at $15 a 750-ml. and initially available in Colorado, Florida, Texas, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and South Carolina. A national rollout is planned for next year.
Throwing fermented grape skins on icy roads could help cut down our salt use
That means less road salt entering our waterways and degrading our asphalt, bridges, and cars.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90438438/throwing-some-fermented-grape-skins-on-icy-roads-could-help-cut-down-our-salt-use
how to respond to the boom in organic wine sales
The background to the boom in organic wines and how to make the most out of listing them.
http://www.the-buyer.net/opinion/miles-macinnes-on-growth-in-organic-wines-and-opportunities-for-restaurants/
7 Things You Should Know About Bubbly
To start you on your journey of everyday sparkling, here are seven things you didn’t know about the wines
https://vinepair.com/articles/7-things-you-should-know-about-bubbly/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=729bcd66e8-DEC_6_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-729bcd66e8-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-729bcd66e8-38937345&mc_cid=729bcd66e8&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Led by brands White Claw and Truly, the category is already larger by volume than the leading spirits category in the US – vodka.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/12/hard-seltzer-category-to-triple-in-us-by-2023/
Who Suffers from Tariffs on Wine? You Do
How do tariffs work?
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/who-suffers-from-tariffs-on-wine-you-do
Whether you lean toward classic or creative, rest assured that all of these selections deserve a place on your bar.
https://www.winemag.com/toplists/top-100-spirits-2019/
7 Beer & Wine Subscriptions That Make Great Gifts
Is it just me, or does holiday gift shopping get harder every year?
https://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/2135237/beer-and-wine-subscription-gifts/
Total Wine Appeals To U.S. Supreme Court In Connecticut Minimum Pricing Case
In Connecticut, drinks wholesalers must post their prices in advance so that competing wholesalers can match them, hold those prices for a month, and may not offer volume discounts to retailers. This provision prevents larger businesses, like Total Wine & More, from using their size and scale to the advantage of the company and consumers, according to the retailer.
https://www.shankennewsdaily.com/index.php/2019/12/06/24394/total-wine-appeals-to-u-s-supreme-court-in-connecticut-minimum-pricing-case/
Is The Burgundy Comparison Good For Oregon Wine?
Is comparing Oregon wine to Burgundy a net positive association for Oregon wine?
https://fermentationwineblog.com/2019/12/is-the-burgundy-comparison-good-for-oregon-wine/
The biggest mistake that wine shops make, regardless if they’re a boutique indy or big box retailer, is not hiring the right people.
https://spitbucket.net/2019/12/05/wine-shops-biggest-mistake/
The critical factor in terroir
With global warming, we’re learning that choosing the right grape is more important than ever.
https://www.drinks-today.com/wine/analysis/critical-factor-terroir
Whether your services are required or not, whether your services are good or bad, your services must be used…so said the law in nearly every state.
https://fermentationwineblog.com/2019/12/repeal-day-for-the-three-tier-system-is-coming/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=91afd32c50-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_06_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-91afd32c50-64683881
Should Massachusetts lift its ban on coupons for beer, wine, and liquor?
In an attempt to protect the small Massachusetts-owned package stores that operate across the Commonwealth, the Legislature has long prohibited the sellers from discounting the product below the invoice cost.
A bill I have introduced in the Legislature, House Bill 345, would not lift this restriction. What it would do is allow any retailer, large or small, to offer coupons to its consumers.
In Massachusetts, the alcohol regulatory system is built on control practices that balance consumer demand and commercial interests against public safety concerns. The primary public safety objective is preventing the return of predatory corporate conduct that encourages the reintroduction of cheap alcohol. A return of monopolies is another concern.
Do you feel allowing coupons will be good for consumers or bad for safety?
There is a poll on this link that when last checked was 90% in favor of lifting coupon ban.!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/globelocal/2019/12/06/should-massachusetts-lift-its-ban-coupons-for-beer-wine-and-liquor/dp5P6NHHans7l2QOuVAdkI/story.html
Corvo: A Sicilian Classic
Corvo is a Sicilian legend, a storied brand with noble roots.
We stock the Pinot Noir. Great Value at $10!!
https://www.winemag.com/2019/12/06/corvo-a-sicilian-classic/
Milford MA selectmen: Not having available liquor licenses ‘stifles’ economic development
Selectmen are seeking to get a handle on the town’s supply of liquor licenses, saying that not having any on hand to give to new businesses “stifles” economic development.
https://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20191207/milford-selectmen-not-having-available-liquor-licenses-stifles-economic-development
Is Natural Wine Dead?
The movement, built on honesty and simplicity, is being corrupted by opportunists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/opinion/sunday/natural-organic-wine.html
5 Genius Tricks to Transform Your Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck Into “Finer” Wine
Here are five genius tips to salvage an inexpensive bottle of wine that’ll impress your guests (that is, of course, if they’re not a professional sommelier)!
https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/beverages/trader-joes-wine-hacks
Buying boxed wine not necessarily a bad thing
A convenient way to stock up for a big holiday celebration
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/food/buying-boxed-not-necessarily-a-bad-thing-565885642.html
Wine Industry Flourishing Thanks To Millennials
Tito’s bottles sport ‘ugly’ festive hoodies
Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season
What Makes French Wine So Great?
France is still considered the best winemaker in the world thanks to its status as a mecca of vins de terroir, affected by more than two thousand years of history.
https://frenchly.us/what-makes-french-wines-so-special/
These Are the Three New White Claw Flavors Coming in 2020
Adding to the six-strong original will be tangerine, lemon, and watermelon
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/new-white-claw-flavors-watermelon-lemon-tangerine/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=6accebec5d-NOV_25_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-6accebec5d-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-6accebec5d-38937345&mc_cid=6accebec5d&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Independent Liquor Stores Will Become Obsolete
Believe Nearly One Out Of Every Two Owners
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taranurin/2019/11/22/independent-liquor-stores-will-become-obsolete-believe-nearly-one-out-of-two-owners/#75aee78a7b9b
The old matter of wine scores versus notes
The moral is obvious: a high score doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone will (let alone should!) like the wine.
https://winemag.co.za/tim-james-the-old-matter-of-wine-scores-versus-notes/
Why does wine need to be made from grapes?
Wine is and always has been made from grapes. It’s just a fact of life. But does that have to be the case for ever more?
http://www.the-buyer.net/opinion/alistair-morrell-why-does-wine-still-need-to-be-made-from-grapes/
What Is a Delicious Wine?
So what more is required for a wine to be “delicious”?
https://foodandwineaesthetics.com/2019/11/25/what-is-a-delicious-wine/
Cumberland Farms’s ballot question to expand alcohol sales faces legal fight — from the packies
At issue this time: a ballot question pushed by Cumberland Farms that would create a new kind of beer-and-wine license for food sellers, to be made available at local authorities’ discretion, with no limits on the amount any one company could control.
https://www-bostonglobe-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/11/25/cumberland-farms-ballot-question-expand-alcohol-sales-faces-legal-fight-from-packies/wVidU10C1NCPTsZxE9c8tI/story.html?outputType=amp
8 Questions About Hot Buttered Rum, Answered
Read on to learn more about the historically decadent libation.
https://vinepair.com/articles/hot-buttered-rum-guide-recipe/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=d49f3fc03a-NOV_26_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-d49f3fc03a-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-d49f3fc03a-38937345&mc_cid=d49f3fc03a&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
How learning about wine can improve the way one drinks
The world of wine can sometimes feel intimidating to the uninitiated, but a bit of knowledge about wine from experts can help anyone navigate everyday situations.
https://www.willcoxrangenews.com/free_access/article_817f8588-0fdc-11ea-bebf-b314cbce923f.html
Drink the Season: 10 Holiday Cookie and Dessert Wine Pairings
The list of traditional holiday cookies is long. But what should you sip alongside them?
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/25/10-best-cookie-wine-pairings/
Why We Should Be Talking About Open-Air Winemaking
As winemakers return to traditional methods, they’re thinking outside the building
https://daily.sevenfifty.com/why-we-should-be-talking-about-open-air-winemaking/?utm_campaign=SevenFifty%20Daily%20Weekly%20Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=79898275&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8TS0_AS7aLBjMOKlbttfzB5m6UzmzFKHnB3-2ep5f0iDHYwYmg2pEHDVJXLpdAYrrIZ_nDiG-ZugkFhGm7azytnAM4P5W8HBZMK-_Mm7KgJelRS94&_hsmi=79899036
Consumers perceive wine as a feminine product. Marketers should take note.
Petaluma Gap AVA — What Everyone Should Know
The AVA overlaps the border between Sonoma and Marin counties.
http://www.fredswan.wine/2019/11/25/petaluma-gap-ava-what-everyone-should-know/
What are the genetic changes that led to their domestication? And how on Earth did our ancestors figure out how to domesticate them?
https://theconversation.com/thank-fungi-for-cheese-wine-and-beer-this-holiday-season-125793
‘First’ snack to cut alcohol absorption launches
Eating the Sobar before drinking is said to reduce peak blood alcohol concentration by 50% – compared to a 25% reduction after eating a regular snack mix.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/first-snack-to-cut-alcohol-absorption-launches/
This Man’s Whisky Collection Just Won a Guinness World Record
A collection of 535 old and rare Scotch whiskies valued to be worth $13.9 million
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/worlds-most-expensive-whisky-collection/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=702f8cb447-NOV_27_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-702f8cb447-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-702f8cb447-38937345&mc_cid=702f8cb447&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
The Complete Guide to Alpine Spirits, and How to Use Them
Highlighting the mountain range’s bounty of fruits, nuts, flowers, and herbs is a diverse selection of spirits and liqueurs produced in the region’s eight countries, from which the importer curates its selection.
https://vinepair.com/articles/alpine-spirts-liqueurs-cocktails-guide/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=702f8cb447-NOV_27_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-702f8cb447-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-702f8cb447-38937345&mc_cid=702f8cb447&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Three Quick Tips to Chill Wine Fast
Let’s get this out of the way: There’s no magic way to chill your wine to proper serving temperature in a matter of minutes.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/26/three-tips-chill-wine-fast/
Researchers Recreated Wine from Leonardo da Vinci’s Vineyard
A limited run of 330 bottles is set to be auctioned off.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/leonardo-da-vinci-casa-degli-atellani-wine
What’s a perfume lover to do about wine?
When you start out wine tasting, one of the first things you’re told is to avoid wearing fragrance. It will distort the aromas and leave you unable to appreciate what you’re drinking.
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/wine-grower/wg-opinion/what-s-a-perfume-lover-to-do-about-wine
American vodka brand Tito’s has revamped last year’s Ugly Sweater Christmas gift pack with an Ugly Hoodie iteration for the festive season.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/titos-bottles-sport-ugly-festive-hoodies-in-gtr/
15 Easy Wine Cocktails You Can Make With Boxed Wine for the Holidays
There are countless holiday cocktail recipes on the internet, and sometimes sorting through them can make it seem like it isn’t even worth it.
https://stylecaster.com/easy-wine-cocktails/
Direct-To-Consumer And Traditional Wine Retailing Are Not Rivals, Says An Expert
Only 14% of independent retailers stock their beverage alcohol shelves based not on trends but on in-store sales activity.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomaspellechia/2019/11/29/direct-to-consumer-and-traditional-wine-retailing-are-not-rivals-says-an-expert/#738ebcb64788
How to Clean a Decanter, According to Five Wine Professionals
It all depends on the size, shape and overall preciousness of your decanter.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/29/how-clean-wine-decanter-tips/
How The “Sideways Effect” Helped Shaped The Wine Industry
Causing an increase in Pinot Noir consumption, while decreasing merlot consumption. Additionally, it helped create a tourist boom in the San Ynez Valley, where the story takes place.
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/news/2019/11/29/how-the–sideways-effect–helped-shape-the-wine-industry
Why Chardonnay Is Not the Boring White Wine You Think It Is
Paradoxically, Chardonnay is both one of the most popular and most controversial wines in the world.
https://fortune.com/2019/11/30/what-chardonnay-white-wine-should-i-buy/
Classic Chicken Marsala
Despite the cooking wines labeled “marsala” in U.S. supermarkets, true Marsala is an appellation-designated wine from Western Sicily
https://www.winemag.com/recipe/classic-chicken-marsala/
HEALTHY SNACKS TO PAIR WITH YOUR WINE PARTY
Wine and cheese nights have been adapting over the years. With an interest in health-conscious eating on the rise, people want to indulge mindfully when they savor a glass of their favorite vintage
https://www.coldist.com/healthy-snacks-to-pair-with-your-wine-party/
Fumé Blanc Is Sauvignon Blanc. So How Did It Get A Different Name?
Back in the 1960s legendary winemaker Robert Mondavi wanted to make a high quality white wine from the sauvignon blanc grape
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ginapace/2019/11/30/fum-blanc-is-sauvignon-blanc-so-how-did-it-get-a-different-name/#77f856152069
They are much more prone to spending on experiences, be it food or travel. Instead of hankering for possessions, millennials are choosing to chase a richer life of pleasure, which sometimes includes luxurious wines.
http://blogs.bu.edu/suechen/wine-industry-flourishing-thanks-to-millennials/
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Only idiots take wine to a dinner party, says TV etiquette expert
11 Cheap American Beers Ranked From Awful to Drinkable
All the Anise Spirits That Aren’t Absinthe, Explained
Jack Daniel’s Finally Releases Its Advent Calendar In the U.S.
The sleek, black calendar features 18 mini bottles of the brand’s whiskeys
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/jack-daniels-advent-calendar/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=344655066f-NOV_18_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-344655066f-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-344655066f-38937345&mc_cid=344655066f&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
New Andre
E.&J. Gallo has extended its André sparkling wine brand with 375-ml. cans. Retailing at $4 a can, the new packaging is debuting for André’s Brut and Brut Rosé sparklers and is backed by a tie-in with holiday apparel company Tipsy Elves, which includes André branded sweaters and other offerings. The André brand was down 4% to 1.8 million cases in the U.S. last year, according to Impact Databank.
Popping a Champagne cork is rocket science, says study
It is already known that storing Champagne at higher temperatures increases the pressure in the bottle versus the air outside.
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/champagne-cork-popping-study-426794/#s0s4F8ajAZvbDKvU.99
10 Things You Should Know About WhistlePig Whiskey
In a few short years, WhistlePig has become a well-known brand, offering the most-awarded rye whiskeyin the world.
https://vinepair.com/articles/whistlepig-whiskey-best-rye/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=a7c2e1e528-NOV_19_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-a7c2e1e528-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-a7c2e1e528-38937345&mc_cid=a7c2e1e528&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
The 25 Biggest Cheese Exporting Countries in the World
See which countries make the most dough for their dairy.
https://vinepair.com/articles/top-cheese-countries-world-2019/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=a7c2e1e528-NOV_19_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-a7c2e1e528-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-a7c2e1e528-38937345&mc_cid=a7c2e1e528&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Here’s Why Shiraz Is the Most Popular Red Wine in Australia
Shiraz was one of the first grape varieties brought to Australia by James Busby. Busby was one of the forefathers of the wine industry in the early 1800s
https://vinepair.com/articles/heres-why-shiraz-is-the-most-popular-red-wine-in-australia/
7 Tips To Improve Your Staff’s Wine Education
By teaching your employees the following seven things about wine, you can wow your guests and drive repeat visitors.
https://totalfood.com/wine-education-7-tips-to-improve-your-staff/
Washington closes in on six new AVAs as wineries pass 1,000 mark
The new AVAs, which should be formalised over “the next six to 12 months”, according to Washington State Wine’s Doug Marshall, follow a significant psychological landmark for the industry, which reached 1,000 wineries this autumn, having expanded from just 200 back in 2003.
https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/26245/Washington_closes_in_on_six_new_AVAs_as_wineries_pass_1,000_mark.html
Wine Opinions Launches Monthly Newsletter
Company publishes newsletter revealing buying habits of wine consumers and trade professionals
What’s Up with Italian Wine in the U.S. Market?
Italian wine has a lot going for it in the U.S. market. Wines from Italy are by far the largest category of imported wines.
https://wineeconomist.com/2019/11/19/italian-wine/
Uncovering the pathway to wine’s acidity
University of Adelaide wine researchers say their latest discovery may one day lead to winemakers being able to manipulate the acidity of wines without the costly addition of tartaric acid.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/uncovering-the-pathway-to-wine-s-acidity
Should You Smell the Cork When Opening Wine? Always.
Tradition has held that you should inspect the cork. Indeed, there are two things you should look for.
https://www.winemag.com/2018/11/12/smelling-wine-cork-when-open-wine/
A guide to the world’s most well-known anise spirits and liqueurs, including ouzo, sambuca, pastis, and the lesser-known-to-us raki, arak, and Chinchón.
https://vinepair.com/articles/anise-spirits-absinthe-guide/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=012a206620-NOV_20_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-012a206620-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-012a206620-38937345&mc_cid=012a206620&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Venice’s Island Vineyard Venissa Tries to Save Rare Grapes After Floods
The flooding began on Sunday, Nov. 10. By Tuesday, waters had submerged nearly 80 percent of the city
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/venice-vineyard-flood-rare-grape/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=012a206620-NOV_20_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-012a206620-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-012a206620-38937345&mc_cid=012a206620&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Are the awards stickers on wine bottles even important?
Wander through your neighbourhood liquor store or the wine section of the local supermarket, and there’s a pretty good chance that your eye will be caught by the flash of stickers adorning bottles.
https://m.food24.com/Drinks/Wine/Features/are-the-awards-stickers-on-wine-bottles-even-important-20191023
PLANTINGS IN BAROLO TO BE HALTED FOR THREE YEARS
Vine plantings in Barolo will be put on hold for three years from January 2020 in order to regulate production of the revered Italian red, the region’s consorzio has revealed.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/plantings-in-barolo-to-be-halted-for-three-years/
Does It Make Any Difference If Wine Is Aged In Stainless Steel, Concrete, Wood Or Egg Tank?
The short answer is: Yes, it does make a difference what kind of container is used for ageing. The taste will be different.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlsson/2019/11/19/difference-wine-aged-in-stainless-steel-concrete-wood-egg-tank/#a67621f563ad
New System Stops Aroma Loss During Active Fermentation
A new machine is now available to help winemakers retain the aromas that normally escape, along with carbon dioxide, during the winemaking process.
Study finds worrying can make hangovers feel worse
After identifying two distinct types of hangover symptoms, those that were stress-related and those that were dehydration-related
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/study-finds-worrying-can-make-hangovers-feel-worse/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=2946953fe9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_20_10_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-2946953fe9-64683881
How to Set Up Your Home Bar, According to Bartenders
How you stock your bar is essential to entertaining at home.
https://vinepair.com/articles/how-best-setup-home-bar-guide/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=5f08cecca3-NOV_21_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-5f08cecca3-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-5f08cecca3-38937345&mc_cid=5f08cecca3&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Coors Light brewed with Jonas Brothers hits retail
Available via an online retailer in five U.S. markets — Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa, Fla., and Nashville, Tenn. — the beer has custom labels emblazoned with the faces of the Jonas Brothers. It is line-priced with Coors Light six-packs.
https://www.millercoorsblog.com/news/coors-light-brewed-jonas-brothers-hits-retail
Wine Spectator Top 100 Wines 2019
This annual list honors successful wineries, regions and vintages around the world.
https://top100.winespectator.com/lists/
RUEDA REMODELS WINE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM AND DO GUIDELINES
Spain’s largest white wine region, Rueda, has transformed its entire wine classification system with the adoption of new rules for premium wines and the authorisation of new grape varieties including the red variety, Syrah.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/rueda-remodels-wine-classification-system-and-do-guidelines/
Great novels for wine lovers
A novel where wine is weaved into the story so effortlessly and brilliantly that it puts professional wine writers to shame.
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/opinion/news-blogs-anson/best-wine-novels-428013/#09t25H3QtP7r2kL7.99
Two Powerhouse Brands Partner on Custom Wine Glasses
The glass they created, with its distinct elongated bowl and narrow mouth, brings out the mineral and fruity flavors and aims them at the mid-palate where our taste buds are more complex.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivanivora/2019/11/20/riedel-and-terlato-two-powerhouse-brands-partner-on-custom-wine-glasses/#6c757ec65d6e
What can you tell from a wine label?
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but does the same apply to a wine label? Yes and no.
https://www.wineinvestment.com/wine-blog/2019/11/what-can-you-tell-from-a-wine-label/
Histamines in Wine: The Likely Cause of Your Nasty Wine Headache
Alas, wine also sometimes seems like your worst enemy. Wine can cause some wicked headaches and stomachaches the following day, even after a mere one to two drinks
https://manyeats.com/histamines-in-wine/
How do you write about quality cheap wine when the system is rigged against it?
Yes, there is still plenty of cheap wine on store shelves, but just because a wine is cheap doesn’t mean it’s worth drinking.
https://www.winecurmudgeon.com/how-do-you-write-about-quality-cheap-wine-when-the-system-is-rigged-against-it/?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=836acdb924-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_21_10_45&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-836acdb924-64683881
Diageo and HBO launch Silicon Valley-inspired Tequila
Johnnie Walker owner Diageo has once again partnered with TV network HBO on the release of Tres Comas Tequila, which was “made” by Silicon Valley character Russ Hanneman.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/diageo-and-hbo-launch-silicon-valley-inspired-tequila/
The 5 Reasons Why Champagne Is Not Just for Special Occasions
Here are five reasons why:
https://vinepair.com/articles/5-reasons-why-champagne-is-not-just-for-special-occasions/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=f420183e31-NOV_22_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-f420183e31-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-f420183e31-38937345&mc_cid=f420183e31&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
It’s time to accept the inevitability and choose the best of the worst.
https://vinepair.com/articles/11-cheap-american-beers-ranked-from-awful-to-drinabkle/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=f420183e31-NOV_22_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-f420183e31-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-f420183e31-38937345&mc_cid=f420183e31&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
New Captain
Diageo has launched the latest seasonal Captain Morgan offshoot, Gingerbread Spiced. The holiday-themed, 30% abv spirit is now available nationwide for a limited time, retailing at $15 a 750-ml. The release is being promoted through a tie-in with Big Gay Ice Cream, which will serve a Merry Morgan Trucker, an ice cream sandwich made with Captain Morgan infused ice cream, at its Philadelphia and New York locations though December 26.Captain Morgan is the fourth-largest spirits brand in the U.S. by volume at more than 5.6 million cases, according to Impact Databank.
DIVERSITY OF SPANISH CUISINE A ‘KEY PROMOTIONAL TOOL’ FOR WINES
We want to showcase the modern Spain rather than the traditional side of the country
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/diversity-of-spanish-cuisine-a-key-promotional-tool-for-wines/
Prosecco and Asti spearhead new EU-backed promotion of GI-designated quality produce
The heartland DOCGs of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore, Asti and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano have joined with producers from Provolone Valdpadana PDO, Mozzarella TSG and Olio Extravergine d’Oliva Toscana PGI for the launch of Enjoy European Quality Foods (EEQF).
https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/26269/Prosecco_and_Asti_spearhead_new_EU-backed_promotion_of_GI-designated_quality_produce.html
Can Cannabis and Wine Coexist?
As California’s cannabis industry matures, development in winegrowing areas sparks conflict and concerns
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/can-cannabis-and-wine-coexist
You’re Not Going to Believe I’m Saying This, But Merlot Is Back
Yes, you heard me right.
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/merlot-comeback
How wine connoisseurs can’t actually tell one bottle from another:
Study finds they are mostly driven by color and can’t distinguish between grapes
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7716775/Wine-connoisseurs-tell-one-bottle-study-finds.html
5 Unknown Health Benefits of Drinking Wine
Wines, in general, are alcoholic beverages. However, unlike other liquors, they are made from natural ingredients.
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/42696/20191123/5-unknown-health-benefits-of-drinking-wine.htm
One thing you can guarantee is that they won’t open a bottle of wine that you’ve taken. Your wine is probably better than some of the wine you’ve been offered.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7718925/Only-idiots-wine-dinner-party-says-TV-etiquette-expert.html
15 of the Best Craft Whiskeys Under $60, Tasted and Ranked
What’s Your Sign? Matching Wine To Your Zodiac
TTB bottle size plans would ‘harm consumers’
THIS US STARTUP IS MAKING VODKA FROM CO2
The spirit made from air contains “no impurities, no carbohydrates, no sugar,” and “no gluten,” and is carbon negative
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/this-us-startup-is-making-vodka-from-co2/
GEOGRAPHIC INDICATION APPROVED FOR HIGH ALTITUDE MENDOZA SUB-REGION
San Pablo is located on the alluvial fan of the Las Tunas River, on the right bank, consequently the soil has a high pebble content as well as other calcareous materials.
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/geographic-indication-approved-for-high-altitude-mendoza-sub-region/
New Guinness
Diageo has unveiled Guinness Stock Ale Aged in Bulleit Bourbon Barrels, the second barrel-aged release from the company’s Baltimore brewery. The 10% abv ale is blended from Guinness’ barrel-aged Barleywine and Imperial Stout and is meant to bring together two bold, rich beers into one new complex experience, according to the company. Guinness Stock Ale Aged in Bulleit Bourbon Barrels will begin rolling out for a limited time on November 15 and will be available across the U.S. The beer will retail at $20 a 4-pack of 11.2-ounce bottles.
Orange Juice Is an All-American Cocktail Mixer With a Terrible Reputation
From the start of the singles bar scene in the 1960s until the late 1990s, orange juice dominated the mixed-drink game. It featured in popular classics and new cocktails created during this time.
https://vinepair.com/articles/best-orange-juice-cocktails-history/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=cf6b7ad310-NOV_12_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-cf6b7ad310-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-cf6b7ad310-38937345&mc_cid=cf6b7ad310&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
The TTB has been seeking public comments for its proposals to eliminate certain standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/11/ttb-bottle-size-plans-would-harm-consumers/
Who buys the wine? Research reveals how consumers make choices for groups
When tasked with making choices for a big group, like selecting wine for the table, independent people typically make choices that more strongly reflect their own preferences
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-wine-reveals-consumers-choices-groups.html
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Best Gifts for Wine Lovers
Need to pick up a present or two for the wine lovers in your life?
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/11/holiday-gift-guide-2019-best-gifts-wine-lovers/
Lidl has launched the first ever wine tasting in the dark event in London
The chain believes wine lovers will find quality wine without choosing their bottle based on price or appearance
https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/food-drink-news/lidl-launched-first-ever-wine-17235728
The ideal wine for Thanksgiving dinner? It’s complicated
Three things I do know about wine on this holiday:
https://wtop.com/holidays/2019/11/the-ideal-wine-for-thanksgiving-dinner-its-complicated/
9 Mexican wine brands you should try
Most people are familiar with French and California wines. Oenophiles will rave about Italian and Spanish wines. Chile is known for its cheap, but very delicious wines. And Mexico? Yes. Mexico makes great wines, too.
https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2019/11/9-mexican-wine-brands-you-should-try/
What’s Really in your Glass? Transparency, Accountability & Wine
It is interesting – and maybe a problem – that wine and other alcoholic beverages are for the most part exempt from nutritional reporting.
https://wineeconomist.com/2019/11/12/transparency/
The Dos and Don’ts of Wine Labels
Whether you scan a retail shelf, wine app or website, the design of a label jumps out at you and makes a quick impression, but not always a good one.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/12/wine-labels-good-bad/
This list of wine zodiac signs offers a new way to pair wines to complement the stars.
https://winefolly.com/update/wine-zodiac-matching/
Five Lesser-Known White Wines You Should Try
Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio, and Sauvignon Blanc dominate American white wine purchases. In 2018, these three grape varieties accounted for 102 million 9-liter cases of the total 147.6 million cases of white wine sold, according to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis data. That’s an astonishing 69 percent.
https://vinepair.com/articles/five-lesser-known-white-wines-you-should-try/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=38ba6d2326-NOV_13_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-38ba6d2326-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-38ba6d2326-38937345&mc_cid=38ba6d2326&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
HOW THE LOIRE’S SMALL PRODUCERS ARE CHAMPIONING SUSTAINABILITY
When you think of French wine, what springs to mind first?
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2019/11/how-loires-smaller-producers-are-championing-sustainability/
All About Tempranillo Wine in Just About Two Minutes
Tempranillo is an experience to behold.
https://winefolly.com/tutorial/tempranillo-wine-facts/
Four Loko High-ABV Hard(er) Seltzer Is Here
The “hardest hard seltzer in the universe” has arrived.
https://vinepair.com/booze-news/four-loko-hard-seltzer-launches/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=09a9420525-NOV_14_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-09a9420525-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-09a9420525-38937345&mc_cid=09a9420525&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
Kate Hudson Enters Spirits Market With New King St. Vodka Label
Hollywood star Kate Hudson has teamed with spirits entrepreneur David Kanbar to create King St., a new corn-based vodka. The brand will be marketed squarely toward women, who the founders believe remain under-targeted within the category despite comprising the majority of consumption. Kanbar previously co-created Skinnygirl with Bethenny Frankel (which was eventually sold to Beam Suntory), and co-founded Bulldog Gin (now part of Campari). He’s now CEO of Brand House Wines & Spirits, of which King St. will be a part.
King St. is named for Hudson’s old block in New York City. “I want to have the cleanest vodka out there,” Hudson told SND. “It’s seven times distilled and made from non-GMO corn. It’s everything I could think of to want as a consumer.” Hudson describes the brand as modern and accessible, and the floral label, with its art deco inspired typography, is based on her own ideas and sketches. The 43% abv liquid is produced by Cutler’s Artisan Spirits in Santa Barbara, California.
The initial launch is narrowly tailored, with Southern Glazer’s distributing King St. to BevMo stores throughout California, where it will retail at $25 a 750-ml. In the near future, the founders say, the brand will expand to New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.
What Are Grape Clones?
A grape clone is a cutting taken from an existing grape vine that’s grafted onto rootstock.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/13/what-are-grape-clones/
Enjoy getting to know the Spanish custom of aging its wines
Spain delays the sale of wine, allowing time to mature in vast cellars and arrive at your table with optimum flavor and texture just in time for dinner.
https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20191113/enjoy-getting-to-know-the-spanish-custom-of-aging-its-wines
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Announces Its First “UNESCO Vintage” and Promises High Quality
An exceptional qualitative harvest for Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G. concluded in mid-October.
https://wineindustryadvisor.com/2019/11/14/conegliano-valdobbiadene-announces-first-unesco-vintage?utm_source=Afternoon+Brief&utm_campaign=d46a59a488-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_11_14_10_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_778166e558-d46a59a488-64683881
“Craft” is a contested term in the spirits world. For some, the word connotes quality; for others, quantity; and still, for others, it’s merely marketing.
https://vinepair.com/buy-this-booze/15-best-craft-whisky-distilleries/?utm_source=The+Drop+by+VinePair&utm_campaign=8e46795eb0-NOV_15_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b653fb8c99-8e46795eb0-38937345&goal=0_b653fb8c99-8e46795eb0-38937345&mc_cid=8e46795eb0&mc_eid=d42ed911dc
How to Pair Wine with Fennel
You’ll find great pairings at the overlap of fennel and wine.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/14/how-to-pair-wine-with-fennel/
How to Become the Wise Grown-Up Who Buys a Whole Case of Wine
Most wine shops offer case discounts, and many will run promotions where you can sample a wine and you get the best price if you buy a solid case of that particular bottle.
We offer 20% off on 12 750mls!
https://www.thekitchn.com/buy-wine-case-tips-265821
The Best Wine for Thanksgiving Is Lambrusco
This oft-misunderstood Italian wine is having a moment. And that moment is on our 2019 Thanksgiving table.
https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/best-wine-for-thanksgiving-is-lambrusco-fizzy-red-wine-pairing-article
Behind the Rise of Native American Wines
Tribes in California, New Mexico, Utah and British Columbia have created small, successful and critically acclaimed brands.
https://www.winemag.com/2019/11/15/behind-the-rise-of-native-american-wines/
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Posted by: Fr Chris | April 23, 2014
Happy St. George’s Day; Christ is risen!
While it is Bright Wednesday it is also the feast of this popular soldier-martyr and model for Christian men everywhere as soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
One of the most popular saints ever, his feast day of April 23rd is the only universal feast of a saint other than the Virgin Mary or John the Baptist! Why? He reflects universal Christian values, ones that many men in the western world would do well to emulate: constancy, strength, fidelity, love of God and neighbor, self-sacrifice, upholding a true military code of chivalry and honor. Too often the gifts of Christian men are spurned in pseudo-feminist dialogues of the western world, missing the point of what a solid Christian man offers to the world, and how badly the world needs Christian men! A saint like George, who inspired others both in life and death, and whose heavenly protection has been felt for over 1,700 years, is one who can move Christian men forward in their faith lives.
The basics of the St George icon are the bold warrior astride a white stallion, raising his spear to pierce the dragon in its open throat, while a woman stands in the distance waiting to be rescued. Out of that icon, comes the legend of George slaying a dragon who was fed with an annual tribute of a virgin from a besieged town. But the icon has nothing to do with such a legend at all. Rather, the woman is Ekklesia, the Church. The warrior is indeed George, who we know was an officer in the Roman army and is one of many who died rather than sacrifice incense to a statue of the emperor. We also know that this George suffered a great deal in his martyrdom, probably because of both his high rank and own personal popularity among the troops, in order to frighten other Christian soldiers to convert to paganism. The dragon is the force of Evil – and the righteous George plunges the spear, which is topped with the Cross of the Savior, right into the jaws of hell. Thus Satan is destroyed, the Church’s victory won, and souls are inspired to follow George in his righteous behavior.
In Transcarpathia – East Slovakia, this feast is a major event in the agricultural cultures there. April 23 is when the flocks and herds are moved up out of the valleys and into the highlands, and when the fields are blessed. Even today, this marks the migration of shepherds and animals (they leave the highlands on the feast of another warrior-saint, Demetrius, at the end of October, and the farming season ends on the feast of the Dedication of the Church of Saint George in early November). All the animals are under George’s protection, so if a wolf or bear snatches one on the feast-day, it must be George’s will and no hunter will pursue.
It is also the day to bless fields and gardens. Parishioners come out of the churches carrying all of the processional banners, and the priests go forward to bless the farm fields first, then on their return the gardens of individual houses in the villages. I have seen this practice followed even in driving rain, because there is no thought of delaying the blessing – the private gardens provide so much of the food for villager and townspeople alike.
St George is the patron saint of the Republic of Georgia, of England, Germany, Palestine, Lithuania, Greece, co-patron of Ukraine; of all soldiers, Boy Scouts, the cities of Moscow, Beirut, L’viv, and Venice; the islands of Malta and Gozo where he appeared during an attack by Muslim navies who then withdrew; farmers, shepherds, horsemen and saddle-makers. We all have dragons which need to be slain, and we all should be upright defenders of the truths of the Church: O brave Saint George, help us!
Faithful servant of Godand invincible martyr, Saint George;favoured by God with the gift of faith,and inflamed with an ardent love of Christ,thou didst fight valiantlyagainst the dragon of pride,falsehood, and deceit.Neither pain nor torture,sword nor death could part theefrom the love of Christ.I fervently implore theefor the sake of this loveto help me by thy intercessionto overcome the temptations that surround me,and to bear bravelythe trials that oppress me,so that I may patiently carry the crosswhich is placed upon me;and let neither distress nor difficultiesseparate me from the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ.Valiant champion of the Faith,assist me in the combat against evil,that I may win the crown promised to themthat persevere unto the end.
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Life on a dumpsite - Friends-International Blog
by Friends-International · February 26, 2019
About 30 kilometers south of Vientiane lies a huge dumpsite: the city landfill. Impossible to miss when driving on Road 13: trash as far as the eyes can see, mountains of garbage piling up on over 13 hectares. An awful stench, dust and flies are part of the decor too.
Living and working there sounds unimaginable. Yet, between 200 and 300 people do. Men, women, adolescents, children. Every day, they look for plastic and scrap metal that they sell to the recycling facility located directly outside the landfill. With an estimated 400 tonnes of rubbish produced each day by Vientiane citizens, there is a lot to be sorted.
Despite the very difficult and risky living and working conditions, some families are earning up to 3 million kip a month, twice as much as the minimum wage in Laos. A fairly ‘good’ salary, making workers reluctant to switch profession.
“Now I am working in a factory. I’m sewing bags. But I earn less than when I was working at the landfill. And I don’t have a flexible working schedule as I could have before” said Mali*, a mother we are supporting to send her children to school.
A Mobile School to bring education to those who can’t access it
But living on the landfill often means no education for children. That’s why our Peuan Mit team (Friends Laos) came up with the idea of a Mobile School to go into communities where there is no school. Every week, the team drives to the landfill to meet with the kids and their parents.
Mobile school activities include offering the children the opportunity to read story books, draw and color pictures, play sports such as badminton, get life skills education on hygiene, eat fruit, and receive basic medical care.
We also provide adults with counseling, life skills education and material support. Our Futures team comes along on these visits too to inform young people and their parents about vocational training options, to provide career counseling services and to help them find better and safer jobs.
Since January 2019, people living on the landfill also have access to the first WASH station with toilets, showers and clean water, built in partnership with UK -based Small Steps Project. A first step for sanitation and hygiene and a life-changer for young girls and women who now have a safe and clean space to deal with their periods.
Families gathering for the opening of the wash station
Twenty five years on the dumpsite
Thavone* has been picking trash since she was five years old. She is about thirty now. Married and a mother of three children, she comes to the dumpsite every day to collect plastic before selling it. Luckily for her and her family, she doesn’t live onsite, but in a small house 20km away. Life is still difficult.
It’s very dusty and dirty here. And when it rains, it’s really difficult. I would like to work somewhere else but I have no skills.
Each time we visit, we meet with Thavone and provide her with basic medicine, some clothes and most importantly counseling. When she’s free, she joins in our activities and life skills sessions. We also support her with materials to enable her children to go to school.
My life is better now. Peuan Mit staff listen to me when I have problems, they provide a very good support.
In the future, Thavone would like to open a small business at home. She would be closer to her children. And further away from the dirt and dangers of the dumpsite.
*Names have been changed to protect identity.
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SNJ Millennials Means Business for Young Entrepreneurs
AC Joseph Media September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 The Future Today
WILLIAMSTOWN – In November, SNJ Millennials will celebrate its first year in existence with the inaugural 30 Under 30 Trendsetter Awards, marking a solid year of growth for young people eager to start their own business.
The organization has become a beacon for millennials to find their place in the business world and become their boss. The new 30 Under 30 ceremony, which will be held at the Lucien’s Manor in Berlin on Nov. 13, will be one of the highpoints for SNJ Millennials.
SEE: FRNJ Calendar of Events
SNJ Millennials provides networking opportunities along with workshops and panels geared toward the entrepreneur-minded individuals looking to start, improve and expand their businesses.
The response over that time has been strong with the SNJ Millennials website is filled with connections to aspiring young business owners.
“We’re in a different age from the baby boomers,” Angie De Milo, who runs her own consulting company in Philadelphia and is SNJ Millennials board chair. “The age of punch-the-clock, nine-to-five kind of jobs are over. I think it’s very important to set up millennials and the younger generation up for success, letting them know that there are other opportunities out there.”
The organization was founded by Williamstown’s Quandell Iglesia after starting his own photography company, Photobliss, at 16 and met other millennials looking to start their own business.
Along Iglesia, as founder and president, with De Milo, SNJ Millennials board of directors include: Jose Rodriguez III, treasurer; Colin Sagan, membership ambassador; Skyeler O’Brien, production specialist; Benjamin Kellum, public relations coordinator; Amber Pierce, Ernest Armstead, and Katelyn Darrow as an honorary board member.
SNJ Millennials has reached out into other to expand their influence. In mid-August, they met with the staff of U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross on behalf of young entrepreneurs. Norcross’s Congressional district covers Cherry Hill, Camden, Deptford and Washington Townships.
A few SNJ Millennials Board of Directors are with Congressman Norcross Staff discussing ways to SPARK CHANGE on our next generation! ⚡️https://t.co/JQ0en3CLo9 • @snjmillennials#SNJMillennials #TheFutureIsHere #PursueYourPotential #JoinToday … pic.twitter.com/RsHvOptkRU
— Quandell Iglesia (@IQuandell) August 15, 2018
“I want to oversaturate South Jersey to the fullest extent,” said Iglesia, who added that he was inspired by his grandmother, Zanda Rose, mother Sarita Iglesia. “We want to be the No. 1 resource for business professionals so they can have the professional development they need. They are getting education in school, but at the same time, many millennials and younger people lack needed social skills.
“They don’t know how to say it and conduct themselves. They don’t know what to wear. Those are the things are being overlooked in schools and we want to meet that need. We put these events together so they can know. When (millennials) know these things, they know that they can put their best foot forward in taking a job or doing an interview.”
SNJ Millennials networking events and workshops are not just for young people. Iglesia told Front Runner New Jersey that baby boomers, Gen-Xers and seniors have been coming to events, some even offering job interviews to their members in attendance.
“That’s mind blowing,” he said. “You walk into somewhere with no job and come out with interviews lined up.”
Sometimes the hardest part of starting a business is knowing where to begin. SNJ Millennials board members said that they hope to fill that gap for young people who want to be their own boss.
Amber Pierce, Angie De Milo, Benjamin Kellum, Colin Sagan, Donald Norcross, Ernest Armstead, Jose Rodriguez, Katelyn Darrow, Quandell Iglesia, Skyeler O'Brien, SNJ Millennials
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Barcelona vs Man Utd: Can Solskjaer’s men draw inspiration from PSG win?
By Solomon Fowowe
16 April 2019 | 3:34 pm
Manchester United travel to Nou Camp seeking to overturn a goal deficit against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League tonight by 8pm. Will the heroics in the dramatic second leg win against Paris Saint Germain provide enough inspiration against a Lionel Messi-led Barcelona?
Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said the memory from the Paris Saint Germain will help the players.
“It will help us as a team to try and turn things around.
“We know Barcelona at the Nou Camp is a difficult prospect, but the memory from that night will live with the players. It’s not that long ago and we are one goal better off.”
Admittedly, it was a different Manchester United at the Parc des Princes, full of verve and conviction accompanied with the extra dash of luck. Perhaps, it all just lines up perfectly for them, hard and fast breaks rewarded with goals and Chris Smalling playing out of his skin to keep Messi and Luis Suarez at bay. There’s speed to burn for Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard while Romelu Lukaku’s physicality could come in hand. The perfect smash and grab.
It does sound tenuous when you note Messi is well rested for the tie, Suarez is sharp in front of goal again and
Barcelona have lost only once at the Camp Nou in the Champions League knockout stages in the last 12 years.
Barcelona is a far different proposition to PSG. PSG was without Neymar in the second leg and the French Champions have a propensity for bottling such situations. They fumbled a hefty 4-0 lead against Barcelona in 2017 to lose 6-1 in the second leg.
It would take more than the memory of the PSG game to overturn the deficit at the impressive and vociferous Camp Nou.
Barcelona are seasoned and are probably one of the best teams in handling an away lead.
They will be comfortable in front of their home fans with their captain Messi leading them. Though not overly comfortable, knowing they are only one goal ahead.
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Gunderson High School is the only high school in the district to be implementing the Positive Behavior Intervention System (PBIS). Through the implementation of PBIS, Grizzly PRIDE (Personal Responsibility, Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Excellence) was created and these are the expectations for all students, staff and community members.
We are entering our 6th year of Grizzly PRIDE and it has become the standard for all on-site decision making processes and policies. Grizzly PRIDE continues to contribute to the success and growth of Gunderson. Gunderson High School’s daily average office behavior referrals are consistently below the national percentile rate of 25% and over the past 4 years, at least 94% of our students earned 0 to 1 referrals for each entire academic year, with the majority of that percentage earning 0. Based on the success of Grizzly PRIDE, Gunderson High School was designated a Model PBIS High School for Northern California by the Santa Clara County Office of Education in the Fall of 2013 and presented at the Northern California PBIS Symposium. Gunderson has also hosted visitors from high schools throughout California who want to implement a PBIS system at their site.
One of the characteristics of Grizzly PRIDE is to recognize students for displaying expected behavior. When doing so, students are rewarded by staff with PAW dollars which have that staff member’s photo on it. Students can use PAW dollars to purchase a variety of items ranging from food to Gunderson apparel. This year, Gunderson students turned in over 4,500 PAW dollars which is the most turned in so far.
Our Grizzly PRIDE members include teachers, students, parents, a campus supervisor, a dedicated PBIS coach, and an administrator. If you are interested in working with the Grizzly PRIDE team, please do not hesitate to contact us. We always welcome new members.
We are very proud of the hard work dedicated to continuing our Grizzly PRIDE ideology, and we are excited to continue moving forward this academic school year.
The Grizzly PRIDE Team
Grizzly Pride Matrix
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NBA 2K17 – A New Legendary Game
As the new basketball games season is about to begin, preparations are underway to improve the status of both the teams and the playgrounds. As the 2K Sports Brand Manager-Andrew Blumberg reported at Gamescom 2016, Visual Concepts and publisher 2K are keen on making the most realistic game on the market. Just like all the basketball announcements, this year’s report gave the update on spotlighting up and coming of new talents such as Indiana Pacer small forward-Paul George.
The upcoming games will have many changes and improvement done. Changes such as the inclusion of talented players like Italian forward Danilo Gallinari and Pau Gasol who will both appear as cover athletes of NBA 2K17 in some regions will make the games enjoyable. To expand the game, a total of 21 teams from the past have been selected much earlier this year than the previous years.
To the fans, the inclusion of the legendary 1992 USA Dream team is a big shot since it is coming back since 2K13. The addition will bring back the impressive lineup of Michael Jordan, Sir Charles Barkely, and Larry Bird to add to the current US Olympic Dream Team, headed by the coach of the Duke Blue Devils Mike- Coach K Krzyzewski who will serve both as sideline coach for the current team and voice of 2KU.
Besides, to improve the game, lighting and graphics have to be enhanced to custom every basketball field of play. The light will allow fans to have different experiences in various arenas. For example, Cleveland Cavalier’s Quicken Loans Arena will differ with the Staples Center which has a focused lighting. The light will help in improving the live TV capture of the games where the players will still look glassy but in the live broadcast, they will look and sound just as authentic as they are.
Further, there are gameplay changes made in the new development. The control is in the hands of the user and depends less on the probabilities and the game statistics. Also, the fatigue system is improved where now the digital athletes will only begin missing shots, react slowly, and be prone to injuries when you play them for an extended period. The new fatigue system will enable you to win the game by resting the starters of the game and playing your bench players into the match. Lastly, Visual Concepts has revamped the rebound system to make it be like in real life basketball.
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My JHS Guitars
Welcome to Gordon Giltrap's Website
Painting by Sue Martin © 2018
Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple and Blackmore's Night says:
"Anyone who asks me knows, that I think that Gordon Giltrap is one of the best acoustic guitar players in the world.
He gave me lots of hints on how to approach the acoustic guitar as opposed to the electric guitar.
He was always way ahead of his time. His concerts and playing are breathtaking. He's also very witty, and I love the fact that he has not cut his hair!"
Gordon awarded the MBE
To all my dear friends here and abroad.
I feel very honoured to be the recipient of an MBE in 2019.
The response has been very heartfelt and touching. All sincere thanks must go to our dear friend Carrie Martin for working tirelessly (and of course unbeknown to me) to help make this happen.
Nothing can alter the heartbreak us as a family has had to endure this year, but this honour has helped to heal the wounds and enable us to move forward in a positive way for the coming year.
Love and thanks to you all and a happy New Year.
I'm delighted to report that my biography Perilous Journey written by Steve Pilkington over a three year period is now finished and can be pre ordered by following THIS LINK
My dear friend Del Newman has kindly written the Foreword. More info HERE
To coincide with the book publication Gordon has with his producer and collaborator Paul Ward remixed and recorded songs including the original hit single “Heartsong” as well as the all-star version of “Heartsong” recorded in 1993 with BRIAN MAY, MIDGE URE, STEVE HOWE and RICK WAKEMAN all of which were released as a four track single on 28th September 2018. Details HERE
Sharing Days - next date 1st Dec 2019 announced
From 2017 I've been holding what I call "Sharing Days" and I'm delighted to welcome old friends and new to what hopefully will be a fun and informative day sharing my thoughts with you, once again at the charming Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire. This will be another return visit for me and one I'm looking forward to very much.
My chosen piece for the day is A Christmas Carol. Tab for the chosen piece will be emailed to you when you sign up.
The plan is to accommodate between 10 and 12 players who want to spend the day sharing all aspects of my music, my technique, composition, my advice on guitars, open tunings, nail care (yes even nail care) equipment, in fact as much information as I'm able to impart on the day. This will be aimed at mainly acoustic players but all players, electric or acoustic are welcome.
My special guest for the afternoon is that outstanding guitarist/teacher/ composer Martin Pleass.
I'm hoping he will be bringing that amazing Ralph Bown harp guitar along and demonstrate his skills on this monster of an instrument. Martin also has some impressive connections with world famous legends and I look forward to hearing about them on the day!
At times there may be other people to assist in any way they can. I really look forward to them as they are a fun INFORMAL gathering of players who like me love this instrument of ours.
The fee is £100 for the day.
The evening will see me perform an intimate concert in the upstairs gallery. The seating is limited so those who just want to attend the concert should book early. Those attending the workshop will have free admission to the evening concert.
Please get in touch for more details about Sharing Days and Weekends or go on the mailing list for future events.
E-mail Sue Holton for more information.
ggiltrap+sharingday@gmail.com
'HEARTSONGS' Charity Cd out now
It has been my privilege to record and release many albums over the past half-decade. All have been important to me, but none so quite as much as this release. Not just for musical reasons but for powerful and heartfelt life affirming reasons. This is a way of saying thank you to the surgeons and nursing team at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham where I recently underwent two lots of major surgery.
HEARTSONGS was created and developed over several months as a fund raising album for the Birmingham Hospitals charity.
Although the album is essentially a re-release of ‘Shining Morn’ it has extra tracks that weren't on there before.
More details on the background to this release can be found HERE along with the track listing.
Sadly during the course of creating the album my beloved son Jamie passed away, and the album acts as a fitting tribute to his memory.
As I say in the sleeve notes that this album is my way of saying 'THANKYOU' and in my own small way trying to give something back. That’s why for me this whole project is quite emotionally and spiritually charged and it truly means so much to me.
Please do feel moved to buy a copy. For £10 including UK postage and packing this truly does represent I think good value for money. PLEASE PURCHASE HERE
GORDON GILTRAP & PAUL WARD “The Last of England” now available on vinyl !
A vinyl limited edition release of this wonderful collection of tunes from the legendary guitar player, Gordon Giltrap. Gordon collaborated with Paul Ward, keyboard player and music producer to create this album partly inspired by the artwork from the pre-Raphaelite era. The title track also comes from the famous Ford Maddox Brown painting used on the cover. Gordon embarked on this project to celebrate his return to health after a major operation in 2016 and considers it as perhaps his best album yet. Keyboard player Paul’s wealth of experience includes working with David Jason and Martin Kemp amongst others.
The album is inspired by all the music Gordon has loved during his 40 year career. It is a truly heart-warming LP.
To celebrate its release, Psychotron Records hosted a Gordon Giltrap / Paul Ward concert at The Guildhall, Lichfield.
Previously released on CD (Angel Air) in January 2017, the album has received great reviews already. Losing a couple of tracks to translate onto vinyl was a difficult decision, but it is more than compensated for hearing the sound on vinyl pressing and owning a beautiful LP which shows off the painting that inspired some of the music in a semi laminated luxury gatefold sleeve.
Comes on gorgeous deep orange vinyl; first 100 copies with a signed poster, 150 copies with unsigned poster and 250 standard copies.
BUY LP HERE: http://psychotronrecords.co.uk/product/gordon-giltrap-paul-ward-last-england
The Last of England CD
As if he wasn't busy enough, Gordon released his latest album ‘The Last of England’ on the Angel Air record label in Jan 2017. “It is all good, solid material with the emphasis on melody.” says Gordon. “It’s a very romantic collection of tunes, because that’s what I’m all about. I’m a great devotee of people like Vaughan William's and Elgar - composers who were very much about melody…and that’s what I do. I’m a melodic writer for the guitar. When you hear this music it does have an orchestral feel to it, and lends itself to a much bigger picture.”
New Fret-King Guitar
Gordon’s latest Signature guitar, the Fret-King ‘GG’ (FKV3HGG £999 UK rrp) has just started to hit the stores in the UK and the Vintage Roger Williams Nylon Electro Acoustic Model (VE9000RW £599 UK rrp) - based on an original design by the celebrated luthier and also endorsed by Gordon (“A stunning sounding guitar acoustically, and with a great Fishman INK+ preamp and pickup system too!”) will be available in mid-October 2016.
Vintage & Fret-King Guitars are distributed Worldwide by JHS & Co. Ltd.
www.jhs.co.uk
The Gordon Giltrap Collection
Great news folks. The notation and tablature for many of my pieces are available to order as a download from my friend Steve Marsh's website.
My ambition is to get virtually everything of worth that I have ever composed in music and TAB form up and running on Steve's website, and believe me there are a lot of pieces on there. Thus far there are around 70 titles ready and waiting for all you keen pickers who want to have a go at some of these tunes of mine. All titles on this list come in a PDF format which includes both musical notation and Tablature. Each PDF costs £4.50.
There is also a new page in the Discography section which lists the tracks - these are just a taster of things to come, this is just the tip of the iceberg so check back regularly.
Get "up close and intimate" with Gordon
During his 40 year career, Gordon Giltrap has played in pretty much every kind of venue in the UK from the grandeur of Birmingham's Symphony Hall to tiny, out of the way village halls. He enjoys performing in all types of venues and particularly loves the challenge that the smaller venues present where the front rows of the audience are 'up close and intimate'.
This is where YOU come in. If you would like Gordon to perform a private concert especially for you and your friends in your home (or at a venue of your choice) then call or email Sue Holton, her details are HERE
Afterwards, people get to interact with someone they would probably never get to meet in such an intimate setting. Photos are taken, memories shared, CD's autographed, and often lifelong friends are made. Gordon loves it because he gets to meet people who, in many cases, have been listening to his music for years, coming to see him in large venues like theatres, always having to see him from "out in the audience," and only getting to interact with him on a personal level for a couple of minutes after the show. The private concert puts the power back into the hands of the individual fans. Now, you get to choose the venue and the artist comes to you. You can even get your friends and family to club together to pay for a booking - it could be the perfect solution of what to give the person who has everything! Private concerts are the future of intimate performances.
Bert Jansch Foundation
Gordon is delighted to be a patron of this special charity whose work it is to encourage students of the guitar and to keep alive the memory and work of this enigmatic genius. Bert Jansch Foundation
Tracy Sollis Leukaemia Trust
It has been my pleasure and privilege to be a patron of the Tracy Sollis Leukaemia Trust for twenty years now, and over that time the charity has raised a small fortune being put to outstanding benefits to patients afflicted with this terrible cancer.
Every year I do a fundraising concert, usually over the Easter period at The Fleece in Bretforton just outside Evesham in a medieval 500 year old barn. Each year Hilary and I look forward very much to this small but special event to celebrate the life of this remarkable young girl whose life was so tragically cut short.
On our new Charity Page you will find information about the charity and how you can help further the work of Tracy's mother Sue Sollis who has raised literally thousands from her unstinting downright hard work.
She should be on the honours list for the work she has done to help find a cure for Leukaemia and also to raise money to buy equipment for her local hospital. A truly great human being.
Read the News Update pages for extra details on these items and more.
You will read it first here on the website, but make sure you don't miss anything by signing up for Gordon's email newsletter "Airwaves" Click the link in the column to your right.
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PLAY/TEST is a monthly series that offers the opportunity to play works-in-progress, debug recent builds, experiment with new ideas, and connect with community. From retro-inspired platformers and action-packed shooters to tricky puzzles and narrative adventures, you’ll find an intriguing mix of locally-made games to jump in and PLAY/TEST.
Creators, players, and game enthusiasts of any level of expertise are welcome. The best playtests include players and makers from all kinds of backgrounds, interests, and knowledge of games.
Game Players:
Show up at GlitchHQ anytime between 6-9PM on on the first Friday of the month. RSVP on the Eventbrite to stay up to date on event details and let game makers know you’re coming!
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Sign up on the Eventbrite to participate with a free “I’ll Bring a Game” ticket. Your ticket guarantees a space to demo and includes social media promotion as part of the event. Space is limited and sign ups close two weeks before the event, so be sure to sign up early. All game makers must provide all of their own equipment for playtesting and game details for promotion.
Sign up, but can’t make it? That’s okay, we know life comes up. Feel free to release your ticket so another game maker can participate. This helps everyone involved by keeping players informed and ensuring opportunities for game makers.
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Who Is Who In Literacy – Meet Nal’ibali
Jan 24, 2017 /0 Comments/in Blog, General, Stories, Who Is Who In Literacy /by help2read
Last year, we took a long, hard look at the state of illiteracy in South Africa. By now, you may be well aware of the statistics and their implications, but what you may not know is what is being done by initiatives and organisations that, like ourselves, are working every day to solve the literacy crisis.
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We all have a role to play in tackling illiteracy in South Africa
Dec 13, 2016 /1 Comment/in Blog, General /by help2read
When reading becomes second nature, it’s not often that we stop to think about being able to read or what life would be like without it. In fact, once mastered, we take our literacy for granted, as if it’s a skill we’ve always had.
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Bridging South Africa’s Word Gap
Dec 8, 2016 /0 Comments/in Blog, General /by help2read
Every week, our volunteer Reading Helpers and Literacy Tutors passionately and patiently sit one-on-one with learners to help them learn to read. By the time children start our programme, they’ve already been identified as struggling readers. They are between grades 2 and 4, and have fallen dramatically behind in learning how to read.
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It’s never too late to give back: Volunteering when you’re 60+
Here at help2read, we believe you’re never too old to volunteer. In fact, a large majority of our volunteer Reading Helpers are over 60 years old. Studies show that when you’re further along in years, volunteering can have a number of tremendous benefits.
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The true reward of volunteering
Today marks the celebration of International Volunteer Day, commemorating the millions of volunteers around the world who give up their time to help others. Here at help2read, our work would not be possible without the incredible men and women that volunteer their time as Reading Helpers.
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The Sobering State of Literacy in South Africa
Sep 13, 2016 /5 Comments/in Blog, Events, General /by help2read
There’s an enduring crisis in South Africa, the effects of which will continue to be felt for decades to come. Its impact is far reaching, from sprawling city to rural farmland. It does not discriminate against age, race or class, but its destruction is felt most deeply among the poor. It is a crisis that perpetuates inequality and poverty, and has the power to bring the country to its knees.
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The Lost Vikings Hero Week
Vaeflare 2015-2-10
"Vikings, assemble!"
- Baleog the Fierce, The Lost Vikings, Triple Trouble
The Lost Vikings are back! While they briefly considered retirement after defeating the emperor Tomator, there were only so many polar bears they could wrestle before falling into a Nexus portal seemed like a solid life decision.
The Lost Vikings are an iconic triad from the early days of Blizzard’s history, and in Heroes of the Storm, they are three specialists in one, who each have their own unique strengths and abilities. This triple trouble trio is a just the rowdy bunch you’ll want by your side when you take it to your foes in the Nexus!
For an even more in-depth look into these iconic Blizzard Heroes and their abilities, make sure to check out the Lost Vikings’ Hero Page!
Battleground Tips
Quotes and Facts
The Lost Vikings start without any basic abilities and function differently. You can choose to unlock extra abilities by selecting various Talents throughout the duration of the match.
Olaf – Has lots of Health, regenerates Health quickly, and charges to Slow enemies.
Baleog – Deals splash damage to enemies behind his attack target.
Erik – Moves faster than the other Vikings and has a longer attack range.
Each Viking can move, attack, and be killed separately. They will also receive individual respawn timers upon their deaths.
Use the activated Talent hotkeys “1”, “2”, and “3” to select and control the Vikings individually, or press the “4” key to guide them as a group.
When using the heroic “Longboat Raid!” [R], all of the Vikings need to be near each other to perform the action.
When grouped, the Vikings can break the chests on Blackheart’s Bay very quickly.
"Got donut for Olaf?"
The starting skin for the Lost Vikings in Heroes of the Storm really shows off their best sides as Baleog, Erik, and Olaf pose at the ready for battle!
The original concept art for the Lost Vikings in Heroes of the Storm!
Interested in intimidating your opponents on the many Battlegrounds of the Nexus? Well history as we know it has been reimagined in the Lost Vikings’ newest alternative skin, Pajama Party Lost Vikings!
Pajama Party Lost Vikings - While "Party in Pajamaland" is technically a part of the Expanded Universe, the storyline is still considered a seminal work in the Lost Vikings mythos.
The original concept art for Pajama Party Lost Vikings!
If you’re eager to show off your mastery of all three of the Lost Vikings, look no further than their Master Skin! Once you reach Level 10 with the Lost Vikings, you’ll be able to purchase their Master Skin with Gold!
Master Lost Vikings - Now sporting the finest equipment a Viking can illegally procure from an evil alien overlord's robot army.
The original concept art for Master Lost Vikings!
Check out the video below for a look at some of these Skins and tints close-up!
"Get Lost will ya?"
- Erik the Swift, The Lost Vikings, Triple Trouble
The Lost Vikings first appeared in 1993 with the release of the Lost Vikings.
Erik the Swift - The tactical genius and self-proclaimed leader of the party. Erik is the swiftest and most agile of the Vikings which makes him an indispensable part of any expedition. His wit and resourcefulness are often key to resolving difficult situations. However, he has a short attention span and gets easily agitated by sitting in the same place too long. In fact, his patience is often times too thin to tolerate his two brothers. Despite these shortcomings, he proves to be a valuable companion on any adventure.
Baleog the Fierce - Baleog’s enormous ego is tolerable only in light of the martial skills he provides to the expedition. When he’s not accusing his brothers of being lazy or weak, Baleog can oft be found sharpening his sword and contemplating his strategy for world conquest. Nonetheless, despite his sometimes less than pleasant company, Baleog is a fierce foe to any that stand in the party’s way.
Olaf the Stout - This jovial Viking, with his hardy constitution and steadfast resolve, can be counted on in any situation. His appetite for adventure is rivaled only by his passion for pastries. Unfortunately, he is often seized by unprovoked laughing fits, making extended travel with him somewhat tiresome. His hulking presence is, however, greatly appreciated in the heat of battle.
At the start of the Lost Vikings, the members of the Viking village celebrated the fall harvest with contests of bravery and skill. But unbeknownst to them, the infamous intergalactic zookeeper, Tomator, piloted his spacecraft to Earth through a fiery vortex that appeared high above the fjords of the Baltic Sea.
Tomator was sure that he could find adequate specimens for his zoo on this tiny planet. He made preparations to go on a hunt of his own as his ship began its descent.
As Olaf the Stout, Baleog the Fierce, and Erik the Swift walked home from the feast, they were still bragging over their triumphs in the hunt. Eventually they retired to their cottages oblivious to the strange flying object that had appeared directly over their village.
Tomator’s computer located the selected humans and teleported his unsuspecting captives aboard his ship - Erik the Fierce, Olaf the Stout, and Baleog the Fierce.
With the acquisitions complete, Tomator took his craft out of orbit, and the Vikings’ only hope to return home would be to use of their skills as well as the strange vortices that could carry them through time and space.
At the start of the Lost Vikings II, we find out that after their escape from the evil Tomator, Erik the Swift, Baleog the Fierce, and Olaf the Stout lived happy lives.
Then one day, while they were returning home from a fishing trip, Tomator caught up with them and kidnapped them again, teleporting them aboard his spacecraft.
Fortunately for the Vikings, a blackout gave them an advantage over their robotic guard, whom they fought and dismantled. They proceeded to wear its parts on their bodies, thereby gaining new abilities.
Spotting a mysterious machine nearby with a sign, Olaf decided that the sign read, "Donuts." Impulsively he activated the machine, and it teleported them Transylvania in 1437 A.D. (Too late, he learned that the sign had actually read, "Do not touch.")
This proved to be the first of a sequence of funky locations and time periods the Vikings would need to traverse, much as in their previous Tomator-related adventures.
Equipped with their new robotic gear, the three Vikings fought their way through time and space, befriending a wolf named Fang and a dragon named Scorch.
Ultimately Tomator caught up with the three Vikings and their new friends, and Tomator was defeated.
However, upon his defeat, Tomator was revealed to be a young boy named Tommy, who had been disguised due to his wearing some sort of robotic power suit.
After the destruction of this armored suit, Tommy begged the three Vikings not to hurt him, saying that he'd simply been bored and wanted to have some fun.
Tommy's parents showed up and scolded their son for playing fast and loose with the fabric of time and space again. They told Tommy that when he got home, he was going straight to bed with no supper.
They made him promise to leave the three Vikings alone, and then they teleported the five adventurers back home, safe and sound. As the game ended, the five adventurers were bickering, trying to decide what to do next.
You can even play The Lost Vikings for free by downloading it from the Classic Games section of your Battle.net Account management!
“Olaf is as Olaf does. Get used to disappointment.” –Erik the Swift
“They'll be done with Lost Vikings III by the time we finish this level.” –Erik the Swift
“Baths! Vikings don't need no stinking baths!” –Baleog the Fierce
“We want to get back to plundering!” –Baleog the Fierce
“Watch it, I'm very sensitive about my weight.” –Olaf the Stout
“Are we there yet? I'm hungry.” –Olaf the Stout
Since the first appearance of the Lost Vikings, many talented artists have sought to do justice to this talented trio of Heroes. Below are ten fantastic pieces of fan art featuring the Lost Vikings, which were submitted by talented artists from around the world.
"The Lost Vikings Fan-sticker" by Milzs "Lost in Space and Time" by Zolombo
"The Lost Vikings!" by Dagobert88888888
"Lost Vikings" by West-Wood "The Lost Vikings" by LukeTheRipper "Lost Vikings" by TheSylverLining "Lost Vikings" by Sibaao
"The Lost Vikings" by Frobman
"The Lost Vikings" by BrendanCorris "The Lost Vikings – Erik the Swift" by Maddekartist
The Lost Vikings have seen quite a lot of sights in their adventures, if you’re interested in learning more about them, make sure to check out the following related content:
The Lost Vikings (Game – 1993, 2003)
Rock n’ Roll Racing (Game – 1993)
Blackthorne (Game – 1995)
The Lost Vikings II (Game – 1997)
World of Warcraft (Game – 2004)
You can also dive into some official art and concepts featuring the Lost Vikings below:
The Lost Vikings, as seen in the Lost Vikings The Lost Vikings, as seen in the Lost Vikings II
The Lost Vikings, as seen the World of Warcraft
“Want Baelog to stab something?”
We hope you’re enjoying our Lost Vikings Hero Week! What are you looking forward to learning about this quirky trio? Let us know in the comments below!
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'Joker' Final Cut Scrapped Most Important Scene, Says Joaquin Phoenix
Warner Bros. Launches Social Media Pages For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’
Warner Bros. has officially launched the social media pages Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
Three years after Dunkirk was released in theaters, director Christopher Nolan’s next project will be film shrouded in mystery titled Tenet. Now, Warner Bros. has launched the social media pages for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and released a short video that likely add to the mystery surrounding the film.
The social media accounts for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet launched with a short video that features the film’s logo spinning around in circles, with no sound effects included. The social media campaign for the Christopher Nolan film arrives amid reports of an IMAX prologue for Tenet debuting ahead of screenings for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Report: IMAX Prologue For Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ Coming Soon
Check out the post below to see the mysterious video for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
pic.twitter.com/myvU0cZ3Oc
— TENET (@TENETFilm) December 13, 2019
‘Yesterday’ Star Himesh Patel Joins The Cast Of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’
Full plot details on Tenet are currently under wraps, though Warner Bros. officially describes the film as “an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage.” Production on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet takes place across seven countries.
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Tenet stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh, and Himesh Patel. Christopher Nolan also serves as a producer alongside his wife Emma Thomas, with Thomas Hayslip on board as an executive producer.
Tenet is scheduled to be released in theaters on July 17, 2020.
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high on the hog.
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Belle Gunness, Female Serial Killer, Unsolved Murders US
Oof. I’ve come across Belle Gunness’ story several times, but I never read through all the details. What a horror show.
Belle Gunness (1859-1908?) may have brutally murdered up to 40 people, including her own children. All for money.
Belle moved to the United States from Norway in 1881 and married Mads Ditlev Anton Sorenson in Chicago. They started a sweet shop which failed -and- burnt to the ground (suspicious). The couple collected the insurance money and moved. They had four children, one of which died under weird circumstances (probably poison). So… another insurance payment. Sorenson died in 1900- again, under suspicious circumstances (poison) and Belle collected ANOTHER insurance payment the day after his funeral. She took the money and moved to Indiana.
She then married Peter Gunness. Peter was recently widowed with an infant daughter. The daughter just happened to drown in a bath tub while alone with Belle. Shortly after, a meat grinder “accidentally” fell on Peter’s head, killing him instantly (MORE insurance money).
THEN… she starts running ads for suitors in the Chicago Daily Newspapers:
“comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts in La Porte County, Indiana, desires to make the acquaintance of a gentleman equally well provided, with view of joining fortunes. No replies by letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with personal visit. Triflers need not apply”
(I had to look up trifler- it’s a person who lacks experience and competence in an art or science.)
One applicant, John Moe, mysteriously disappeared after paying Gunness a visit. As did Ole Budsberg, Andrew Helgelien, and several other lonely, middle-aged men. Most of which had last been seen withdrawing money from area banks.
There’s a fire at the house. When the firemen arrived- four bodies were found in the house. One of the bodies was a headless woman (the head was never found). Her three surviving children died in their beds- and although the authorities immediately thought the headless woman was Gunness… it was most likely NOT. Belle was six feet tall and weighed 200 pounds. The woman from the fire was about 5’3″ and would not have weighed more than 150 pounds even WITH her head. Later- it was discovered that the organs of the headless woman contained deadly levels of strychnine.
and there’s MORE…
After sifting through the burnt remains of the house- investigators found some teeth (with roots attached) a gold crown, and a porcelain tooth. The local dentist confirmed that this was all work he had performed on Gunness. BUT, her farmhand came forward with information that led people to believe she had put her own teeth by the body of her victim to fake her own death.
In 1908, the local police dug up Gunness’ farm (the hog pen) and discovered the bodies of 2 small children, along with Ole Budsberg, Thomas Lindboe, Henry Gurholdt, Olaf Svenherud, John Moe, Olaf Lindbloom, Jennie Olson and as many as 27 other possible victims, all of whom had, unfortunately, some sort of connection with Gunness.
Reports of Gunness Sightings came in from all over the United States- but nothing was verified. As late as 2007, forensic anthropologists exhumed the so-called remains of Belle from the fire. Their findings were inconclusive.
The case remains unsolved.
There are some HORRIBLE PHOTOS from the dig here (not for the squeamish):
http://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/gunness-belle-photos-3.htm
Another article with more info here:
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/unsolved-case-belle-gunness-lady-bluebeard/
la Saponificatrice di Correggio
Female Serial Killer, Leonarda Ciancuilli, Soap Maker of Correggio
Leornarda Cianciulli (1894 – 1970) was also known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio.
Her story is not for the faint of heart. You’ve been warned.
Leonarda had a very troubled life BEFORE she carried out some of the grossest crimes I’ve ever heard of. She attempted suicide twice as a young girl, and spent time in prison for fraud. After moving to Lacedonia, Italy with her husband in 1930, her home was destroyed by an earthquake. Oddly enough- after all that, she opened up a shop in Correggio and earned the reputation of a nice, gentle mother and neighbor.
While married, she had 17 pregnancies. Three were miscarriages, and ten died as babies. Apparently, a fortune teller had told her that she would have many children- but all of them would die. A palm reader told her that she saw a prison and an asylum in her future.
So… here’s where it gets INSANE. Like, so-gross-don’t-read-this-while-eating insane.
Her oldest son, Giuseppe, joined the Italian Army just before WWII. Leonarda believed that in order to guarantee his safety, she’d have to offer up human sacrifices. Her first victim, Faustina Setti was drugged, then butchered with an axe. But Leonarda saved her blood. In her own words (yes, Leonarda penned a memoir):
“I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.”
The next victim was Francesca Soavi. She was also drugged then butchered as was Virginia Cacioppo. Leonarda also wrote:
“She ended up in the pot, like the other two…her flesh was fat and white, when it had melted I added a bottle of cologne, and after a long time on the boil I was able to make some most acceptable creamy soap. I gave bars to neighbours and acquaintances. The cakes, too, were better: that woman was really sweet”
My stomach is turning.
She was tried and convicted for all three murders- but only sentenced to 30 years in prison and 3 years in an asylum (palm reader had that nailed).
If you care to see the pot in which her victims were boiled- you can visit the Criminological Museum in Rome. http://www.museocriminologico.it
If you can read Italian- her memoir can be purchased on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Leonarda-Cianciulli-saponificatrice-Sanvitale-Mastronardi/dp/8860817218/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1414096398&sr=8-2&keywords=leonarda+cianciulli
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On a steamy May morning in 2013, Canva CEO Melanie Perkins found herself adrift on a kiteboard in the channel between billionaire Richard Branson’s private Necker and Moskito islands. Her 30-foot sail floating deflated and useless beside her in the strong eastern Caribbean current, the 26-year-old entrepreneur waited for hours to be rescued. As she treaded water, her left leg scarred by a past collision with a coral reef, she reminded herself that her dangerous new hobby was worth it. After all, it was key to the fundraising strategy for the design-software startup she’d cofounded with her boyfriend six years before. Canva was based in Australia, thousands of miles from tech’s Silicon Valley power corridor. Getting a meeting—much less funding—was proving tough. Perkins heard “no” from more than 100 investors. So when she met the organizer of a group of kitesurfing venture capitalists at a pitch competition in her native Perth, Perkins got to training. The next time the group met to hear startup pitches and potentially write crucial early-stage funding checks, she’d have a seat at the table—even if it meant having to brave treacherous waters. “It was like, risk: serious damage; reward: start company,” Perkins says. “If you get your foot in the door just a tiny bit, you have to kind of wedge it all the way in.” Such perseverance has long been a necessity at Canva, which began as a modest yearbook-design business in the state capital of Perth on Australia’s west coast. From those remote origins, Canva has grown into a global juggernaut. Twenty-million-plus users from 190 countries use the company’s “freemium” Web-based app to design everything from splashy Pinterest graphics to elegant restaurant menus. Besides an impossible-to-beat price (millions of users pay nothing at all), Canva’s key advantage over rival products from tech giants like Adobe has been its ease of use. Before Canva, amateurs had to stitch together designs in Microsoft Word or pay through the nose for confusing professional tools. Today, anyone, anywhere, can download Canva and be creating within ten minutes. The company’s revenue comes from upselling to a $10-a-month premium version with snazzier features or, more recently, from sales of a streamlined corporate account option. High-quality stock photos—of which Canva has millions—cost another $1. It adds up. This year the company expects to more than double its revenue to $200 million; its most recent $85 million funding round valued it at $3.2 billion. Perkins, now 32 and an alum of the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, has an estimated 15% stake, valued at $430 million. Throw in her 34-year-old cofounder—and now fiancé—Cliff Obrecht’s similar stake, and the Aussie power couple are likely worth more than $800 million. In an era of billion-dollar checks from SoftBank and high-profile profligacy at WeWork, Perkins and Obrecht do things differently. They are couch surfers who prefer budget trips to private jets. (This summer, with Canva already valued at more than $2 billion, Obrecht proposed to Perkins in Turkey’s backpacker-friendly Cappadocia region with a $30 engagement ring.) Rarest of all: Canva says it’s been profitable—at least using the favored startup metric of adjusted EBITDA, which strips out stock-option expenses, financing and tax costs—since 2017. “We have been really conscientious about not taking on too much capital because we’ve been profitable for the last two years,” Perkins says. It all starts with Perkins, who onboards every new employee (now 700 in total) with a thorough rundown of Canva’s most sensitive financial numbers and past investor pitch decks. Other unicorn founders boast. Perkins keeps receipts. And as Canva grows she’s trying to prove you can build a global tech giant from anywhere. “Melanie is a rare breed of entrepreneur, the likes of which you don’t find often anywhere,” says Mary Meeker, a seasoned internet investor whose new firm, Bond Capital, made Canva its first official investment in May. Perkins’ family jokes that she has a 100-point plan for changing the world. First, Canva has a much more straightforward challenge: win over big business. Like Atlassian, Slack and Zoom before it, Canva faces a classic dilemma: a freemium model can make you viral, but most users will never pay a dime. And though Canva says it has users inside almost every large corporation today, they’re typically rogue individuals or small teams, not official corporate accounts. Moving upmarket means increasingly brushing up against Adobe, the $149 billion (market cap) graphics giant that took in $1.65 billion in revenue last quarter from its design-focused unit alone. Then there are a host of high-flying startups like Figma and Sketch that cater to pros but could easily move into the consumer space. And that’s not even considering Canva’s ambitions in new mediums like video and presentations, which could pit it against everything from small Instagram video-making apps to Microsoft, maker of the blockbuster PowerPoint. It’s daunting, to say the least, but for Perkins, who has already turned doubting Silicon Valley players into eager supporters and mastered the Chinese market—and has built a $200 million-plus bank account—it’s all according to plan. “I feel like we’ve done an incredible job, but we’ve done very little compared to what we want to do. We’ve done 1% of what I think is possible,” Perkins says. “Our company mission is to empower the world to design. And we really mean the whole world.” Perkins started working on what became Canva in 2007 from her mom’s living room in Perth. The daughter of an Australian-born teacher and a Malaysian engineer of Filipino and Sri Lankan heritage, Perkins had wanted to be a professional figure skater, enduring an adolescence of 4:30 a.m. wake-up calls before enrolling at the University of Western Australia. There, while teaching fellow students basic computer design as part of her communications and commerce studies, she had an idea. The process of designing and printing a poster or a flyer—composing it in Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word, converting it to the right size and saving it as a PDF, and taking it to a store like Staples to print—seemed cumbersome in the age of the internet. Wouldn’t it be much better to do it all in one place with one online tool? “The idea of making design really simple was the first idea,” she says. The problem felt so obvious that Perkins feared someone else would build a solution first if she delayed. So she hired freelancers to build a Flash website to target one niche she identified as steady and underserved: school yearbooks, typically the responsibility of student volunteers. Obrecht and Perkins’ startup, Fusion Books, found a market immediately. And with one semester of college left, Perkins put her studies on pause. In peak season, Perkins’ mom fed the printers ink overnight. Obrecht worked the phones cold-calling prospects. When schools asked to speak to a manager, Obrecht simply lowered his voice. The business eventually reached 400 schools, with licensees as far off as France. It was a start. But Perkins couldn’t go much farther without venture funding, then virtually impossible to find in Perth, a city built on mining and petrochemicals. Perkins spotted—and seized—the narrowest of opportunities in 2011 when a longtime Silicon Valley venture capitalist named Bill Tai came to Perth to judge a startup competition. A skilled kitesurfer who had backed TweetDeck and Zoom, Tai was in town mainly to play in Perth’s killer waves. Perkins and Obrecht sniffed out a dinner Tai was hosting and ambushed attendees with a pitch for something called Canvas Chef: a metaphorical pizza, with design elements as the toppings and document types—flyer, business card, restaurant menu—as the dough. “It wasn’t the most stylish analogy,” says Rick Baker, an investor who saw the pitch that night. The founders left without any capital—but with a newfound enthusiasm for extreme water sports. They became fixtures at Tai’s subsequent kitesurfing gatherings, which featured prominent tech executives looking to invest in new startups. In Maui, after a friend of Peter Thiel’s told them they needed a single leader, Perkins became sole CEO. Perkins and Obrecht were having worse luck in their visits to Silicon Valley’s venture capital gatekeepers on Sand Hill Road. Dozens of firms passed on the little-known, romantically linked cofounders from a startup dead zone. “I’m honestly, and unfortunately, not comfortable doing a deal in Australia,” wrote one. “I am not sure it’s going to make sense just yet,” another said. In the end, the wave-chasing connections paid off. Through the group they met Cameron Adams, 40, an ex-Googler who had founded a startup based in Sydney. Expecting to meet with them as an advisor in March 2012, Adams would sign on as third cofounder the following June. Now that they had a technical leader, the founders broke through: Canva raised $3 million in seed funding in two tranches in 2012 and early 2013, including a crucial matching grant from the Australian government. The company launched in August 2013 to a couple of reviews on tech blogs and few users. Adams and Canva’s engineers, who stayed up late in Sydney (the company relocated there in February 2012) to handle the expected influx of sign-ups, went to sleep dejected. What no one knew yet was that Canva’s timing was perfect. The rise of Instagram and Twitter were changing how businesses reached customers. From schools to sheriff’s offices, skating rinks to self-published authors, everyone suddenly cared a lot about their online presence. Canva was an affordable way to look good. The trickle of sign-ups grew to 50,000 users in the first month; by 2014, when Canva raised another $3 million from Thiel’s Founders Fund and Shasta Ventures, 600,000 users had made 3.5 million designs. In China, historically a fool’s-errand market for Western software makers, Canva is a rare success. Obrecht—a tall, amiable presence who, as COO, often rallies the troops (or delivers bad news)—opened Canva’s first office outside of Sydney, in Manila, in 2014, then hired the former head of LinkedIn’s China unit to build an office in mainland China. Today, a local engineering team handles a China-first version of Canva built from the ground up with features like deep integrations with Chinese messaging apps and easy-to-create QR codes, which are popular there. McDonald’s China is a customer, as is a nationwide real-estate brokerage that offers the software to its 1,000 agents. When it comes to serving big businesses, Canva is still a rookie. Its October launch of Canva for Enterprise came at a private event in New York. Perkins addressed staffers from about 100 companies, including Equinox, JPMorgan and HubSpot. A slow start for Canva’s enterprise business won’t sink the company. This December, the company matched more of Adobe’s own features by announcing a video-editing tool and an apps suite; it’s still working on improvements to its free alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint, which has already been used to make 80 million presentations. But Canva’s long-term growth prospects depend on whether corporations will progress from small pockets of fans to accounts reaching thousands of employees. After years of adding more features to Canva’s suite, Perkins is betting on the opposite approach for corporate America. By offering limited sets of templates and options, Canva hopes execs will trust more employees to create their own content. At Realty Austin, a midsize Texas residential and commercial real-estate firm, a marketing team of six used to create all printed handouts and digital assets for its agents to promote events like open houses. Now, with Canva, the company’s 550-plus agents create material for their own listings, faster and on their own time. Adobe isn’t sleeping while all this goes down. It has offered its own freemium, templates-driven app, called Adobe Spark, since 2016. While Canva claims that its tools are used at 50,000 universities and 25,000 nonprofits, Adobe says it’s given out 23 million free Spark accounts to students and teachers. In December 2017, Adobe reunited with Scott Belsky, the entrepreneur whose social media business Behance it acquired in 2012, to instill a scrappier ethos in its product teams. “They feel like they’re the underdog because they’re like, ‘We’re not the coolest startup,’ ” says Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe’s Creative Cloud unit. Then there are the typical startup growing pains. Until two years ago, Canva’s tool for editing its core code was so clunky that only five engineers could work on it at a time. Much of the company’s focus last year was on a complete rewrite of the front-end interface of its app. “We’re growing so fast that things are breaking constantly,” Obrecht admits. And in May, Canva suffered its biggest test of customer trust to date. Days after Canva announced that Meeker’s investment had valued the company at $2.5 billion, a hacker in Europe breached its systems, downloading 139 million user names and email addresses before Canva could stop the attack. Stuck in California, Perkins and Obrecht called and texted with Atlassian’s co-CEOs and cofounders (and Canva investors), Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, reaching Farquhar as the billionaire was on a runway in Peru en route to Machu Picchu. At their urging, Canva called the FBI and launched a formal review; two weeks later, Canva announced two-factor authentication for all users. Though Perkins says Canva’s users responded by rallying behind the company, it was a warning: With better recognition comes a bigger target on your back. Those close to Perkins are confident that she can handle the pressure. Guy Kawasaki started his career as a hype-man for Steve Jobs, traveling the world to tout all things Apple in the 1980s. The former Forbes columnist says he’s happy to end his career doing the same for Perkins, investing in Canva and joining the company as “chief evangelist” back in 2014. “More people can use the democratization of design than can use a Macintosh,” he says. “You don’t have to be in Silicon Valley—you don’t even need to be in America—to be successful. Holy cow.” About Writer Alex Konrad this sample is no follow, but on order we make do follow About Article Source Forbes this sample is no follow, but on order we make do follow
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Melanie Shaw convicted of arson charges
Following a two-day finding-of-fact trial at Leeds Crown Court, a jury took less than an hour to conclude yesterday that 48-year-old Melanie Shaw was guilty of three charges of arson.
All three incidents took place whilst Shaw was an inmate at HMP Foston Hall in Derbyshire and HMP New Hall.
Reporting for ExaminerLive, court reporter Stephanie Finnegan noted that while Shaw had a psychiatric examination and was found unfit to stand trial,
…a jury of seven women and five men spent less than an hour reaching the verdict that she committed three counts of arson being reckless as to whether property was damaged or destroyed.
During a police interview Shaw called her fire-setting a “cry for help” as well as a suicidal gesture, stating that her “human rights (were) being abused”.
She set two fires at HMP Foston Hall in February 2018.
Following the first, which damaged bedding in her locked cell, Shaw claimed that the fire had not endangered anyone, as “the building is made of steel and concrete”. She stated that she had set the fire as a “peaceful protest”.
A second fire two days later damaged bedding and Shaw’s prison cell.
She was then moved to a segregation unit at HMP New Hall. When she emerged from the locked cell, she blamed the fire on a non-existent person named “Lorraine”. While she was changing into clean clothing, she produced a lighter from her bra. At the time of the fire, New Hall allowed smoking, and lighters were available at the canteen.
A fourth charge of arson was dropped prior to the trial, and a charge of sexually assaulting a fellow prisoner was dropped during the trial, as the prosecution produced no evidence of it. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on 13 November, following a second psychiatric assessment.
‘The troof, the whole troof, and nothing like the truth’
—@ChrisGrey888, Twitter
Prior to yesterday’s verdict, conspiracy theorists had loudly proclaimed that we could expect to hear nothing of Shaw’s trial, as it had been covered up by whoever it is that usually covers such things up. Then again, perhaps not.
However, when Stephanie Finnegan, who had covered the trial, tweeted out the verdict, she received the usual response: There’s more, but you get the idea.
As the news of Shaw’s conviction spread, others jumped on the “she wuz framed” train:
Somebody named “Frances Leader – Activist” started out sound all reasonable—who wouldn’t want Shaw to get proper medical attention?
Sadly, the term “conspiracy theorist” was used, and that was the end of that: Uh-huh. Cool story, but untrue. You can check out the real story here. The term “conspiracy theorist” was used loooooong before 1960. Just sayin’.
We expect yesterday was just the beginning, and we’ll be hearing lots more about how it was all a stitch-up, how the “secret courts” are conspiring to take away people’s freedom to set their prison cells on fire, and how Tommy Robinson thinks Melanie Shaw is totes legit and therefore so should we.
Although we understand that Brian Gerrish, chief standard-bearer in the “Melanie Shaw is not a mentally ill woman but a national hero for some reason that’s not quite clear but just trust me, she is” war, has been informed of the verdict, he has not yet deigned to comment. Probably needs time to think up an explanation of why the court case was covered by media. Or something.
We’ll keep you posted.
And we really do hope that Shaw will receive the care she so urgently needs, in a secure setting.
17/10/2018 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: Brian Gerrish, trial, Twitter, UK Column
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76 thoughts on “Melanie Shaw convicted of arson charges”
News blackout. D notice (a term not used in 25 years and only applicable to military / national security). Conspiracy. Whistleblower.
All because a mentally ill woman set fires in her prison cells after being sent to prison for setting fires.
I hope Tommy Robinson’s plan to use her backfires on him.
I see what you did there lol
He could get his fingers burnt.
Posted by Steve just after the verdict broke:
Couldn’t have put it better myself, mate. It’ll be interesting to see what fresh twist Brian the sailor man puts on this in order to, ahem, cover up his incompetence.
I’m liking Stephanie Finnegan. She’s certainly got her head screwed on when it comes to Tommy Robbingsod:
He was jailed – despite concerns for his safety – because he is a CRIMINAL who BREACHED a suspended sentence for the SAME CRIME – one that can cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of pounds. He should have learned his lesson the first time at #CanterburyCrownCourt.
— Stephanie Finnegan (@StephanieFinneg) May 29, 2018
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/melanie-shaw-tommy-robinson-leeds-15287342
He’ll be singeing in the rain about it.
Not only that, a D-Notice is voluntary and not enforceable as PM Harold Wilson found to his chagrin when he took a newspaper to court for breaching one and he lost the case.
There is just an expectation the media will honour one when the countries security is at risk and they do. They are not, nor have ever been used to suppress information about a politician and the dimwits (Christ I’m sick of them- we never heard from morons before- now they have platforms and megaphones) ignore how Britain’s media have no qualms in exposing politicians of any stripe no matter how powerful they are or the fact in Parliament (let alone in individual parties) the enmity between some MPs is so immense they will seek to destroy each other where possibly which is why it was absurd that Edward Heath would party with Harvey Proctor when they hated each other.
Her answers are spot-on and she tells it how it is.
Refreshing and why should she put up with the Loon Squad who will be out in force about this. The Loon Squad (c) is the extended overall “cult” of which The Mob ™ belong to and I would never be so rude as to mention individual members but the names Andy Devine, Angela Power Disney and Brian Gerrish come to mind.
“Unlawful”?. Can she really be this stupid?. Perhaps she’s aiming to be a martyr. Good luck with that.
Plus if their recent rants are anything to go by, alleged child abuser Malcolm Ogilvy and convicted stalker Robert Green will be spitting feathers over this verdict, so that’s a positive.
Stop arson about.
All three of you. Now.
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I suspect she might find out how a gagging order works real soon (not that I would want to cause any issues regarding cases yet to be heard, but I think that comment is ok)
Sam, are you saying they’re fired?
Don’t tell me to leave, You’re fired !
I feel all burnt out.
The flaming cheek !
Ooh, feeling the heat are you?
Oh Gawd, who’s she fallen out with now? 🙄
Oh wow, heaveeeee 🙄
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo
“If a sentence has the word “quantum” in it, and if it is coming out of a non-physicist’s mouth, you can almost be certain that there’s a huge quantum of BS being dumped on your head.”
I wasn’t trying to dampen your enthusiasm.
Typical of the Loon Squad is that they NEVER bother to check the facts (which cannot be changed) rather they prefer the gossip and and created fantasy, seemingly as long as it has elements of a “elite pedo ring cover-up” and some Satanism tossed in. They are literally obsessed with pedophilia in a seemingly unhealthy way. They have an appetite for it.
Now we know why Shaw was incarcerated before her trial as she obviously breached numerous court orders (shades of Robinson). Here is one of Shaw’s victims.
I’m all fired up. Here’s one, where do gay campers roast marshmallows ? On a camp fire ! They caught Melanie with DNA evidence, it was a perfect match ! I’m here all. Week. When is a cigarette lighter funny ? When it’s a gas ! I know, I’m a real spark.
Dunny live again and sounding like a stuck record. Same lies, same script. Yawn
I was especially impressed with “Quantum Energy exists outside regular universal law of physics”. The Quantum Field Theory is the standard law of physics. So much so that it’s called the STANDARD model!
Went into the chat as Kells Bells. What was that Tom was saying about him having no problem with people questioning him or disagreeing as long at they’re polite?
If only it involved a real gag, her neighbours would be so greatful.
If he says “Guys, here’s the thing” one more time, I’m going to kill myself.
Zing! 😂
@Cunning Linguist – Apologies for the missing question mark. I shall do three hail Marys immediately.
I actually kind of enjoy Thomas talking shite because then I get to expose him 🙂
Feels good!
This thread needs to be extinguished.
Great work, Rational Christian:
Oh don’t say that – I was just warming up.
*covers ears and runs away*
Yes, this is excellent!
“You can disagree with me as long as you don’t actually disagree. Also I would like your driver’s licence and a short video featuring your face so I can verify your identity. Oh, not you, JJ Youngblood House flips. You neither, Michelle in LA. I’m sure there’s only one Michelle in LA, so you’re in the clear.”
Indeed and the video description’s worth a read too:
…Ryn Tin Tin…Planeflyer21…Drea East Coast…
No don’t SP!
Send him some Head & Shoulders & Claudia Winkelman, that’ll soon shut himself up!
They’re all off the hook too, TR. Geez, you clearly don’t get how this game is played! 🙂
Right, it had nothing at all to do with the multiple death threats he sent anybody he perceived as his enemy. A mere bagatelle, think nothing of it.
“…the multiple death threats he sent anybody he perceived as his enemy”
Ah, so he has much in common with the aforementioned Mr. Ogilvy, then.
Ooh, you nasty old woman…
Cat Snot @ 1:09 – eye roll emojis at the ready…
“I will say and do exactly whatever the fuck I like and nobody will stop me. I don’t care what anybody says – I am entitled to voice my opinion. And the vast majority of the time, those that know me will know the vast majority of the time I back my opinion up with facts and evidence or reasons why I’ve come to the conclusions that I have; and I will say exactly what I like to say, when I like to say it, and nobody will stop me, pretty much. I won’t be dictated to and I won’t be controlled and I won’t be manipulated. What I do is what I do and the reason I do it is because I want to; and the reason I says some of the things I say is because I think I need said [sic]; and nobody will curtail what I say or censor me in a sense. Haha, censor me in a sense, hehe. But you know, regardless of what anybody thinks or whether I offend people or whether they like it or not, I don’t care – I say what I say for a reason; I don’t just make shit up for the fun of it. And like I say, I won’t be controlled or manipulated or censored, so that’s that.”
“I will say and do exactly whatever the fuck I like…and the reason I do it is because I want to”
Oh, you do it because you want to. That’s ok, then 🙄
“Nobody will stop me”
Hmmm, we’ll see 😜
“I am entitled to voice my opinion”
…But you’re not entitled to harass, threaten, intimidate and slander. Check the law, Snotty 😏
“Those that know me will know the vast majority of the time I back my opinion up with facts and evidence”
Actually, those who know you know that you absolutely categorically do not. Thanks for asking 🙄
“I don’t just make shit up for the fun of it”
Er, yes you do. Frequently. 🙄
“Regardless of what anybody thinks or whether I offend people or whether they like it or not, I don’t care”
Yeah? So why are you practically whispering when you say it? I hear your kids playing in the background. Ashamed of what they might think if they hear you, perchance? 😏
“I’m entitled to my opinion…I won’t be…censored, so that’s that.”
But…er…you’re happy to censor others…?
I see she’s happy to start her video with a song written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Last I checked, they were on her paedo blacklist and were evil satanic mind control agents working for Tavistock. Oops!
Ah well then, I guess it would be okay for me to call her a sheep-shagger with black pudding where her brains ought to be, because it’s what I want to say and I feel like it. I won’t though, because I have this weird thing called “self-control”.
Aren’t they a bit stodgy about copyright?
No, the algorithm would have picked it up. In the case of publisher-owned material it would either block it, allow it, block it in specific countries or put ads on it, depending on what arrangement any given publisher has with YouTube. Once you’ve uploaded a video you get a notification on your ‘Creator Studio’ video page as to what the situation is with any songs etc. that you’ve used. It works differently to private-owned material, whereby the copyright owner would have to notify YouTube and request its removal.
Incidentally, they”re normally ok with Stones stuff. I’ve used their version of said song in a video of my own, funnily enough (one of the ‘Meme & Moody’ ones as I recall).
I’m not sure what publisher owns the Soup Dragons cover that Snotty’s used but it appears to have been uploaded multiple times to YouTube so they must be ok about it.
“Sue for torture” 🙄
That lady, the mum, she seems a straightforward unmalicous sort of person. I think they show a lot of compassion for Melanie Shaw. No one should have to put up with criminal behaviour even if the perpetrator is a survivor with serious mental health problems.
It puts a whole different light on Melanie Shaw’s behaviour.
I made the mistake of looking at the comments thread. This is me now.
One thing I learned from HR is that one “should always believe the children”. Unless the parents are a pair of Christianite gobshites pulling the whole Preacher scam, in which case one should believe them and the children are lying liars who lied.
The Nigerian couple, who claimed their kids were possessed by evil spirits, beat them with brooms, hoovers and wires and even gave their baby a morphine overdose just days after her first birthday.
The kids were finally rescued after their eldest daughter threw a heart-wrenching SOS note out of a window….
Mr Kirk is living evidence that alcoholism and Closed-Head-Injury brain damage are a bad combination. I can see why Ogilvy and Butlincat take his side.
Christopher Lee spoke some absolute shit there.
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The Musas: the case in which all Hoaxers have taken the side of the parents and which really shows them up as the bizarre hypocrites they are.
The endless mantras that “children never lie” is abandoned in this case where the children themselves threw notes from a window begging strangers to save them from their fanatical “Christian” parent’s physical abuse.
Children “lie” all the time such as: when they say Father Christmas is a real person and they willingly go and sit on his lap in a shopping centre on the same days millions of kids around the world are doing likewise. The “tooth fairy” etc etc. They repeat the “truth”, in total innocence, that is told them by adults or other kids.
Yet in the one case where there was actually NO-ONE to force the Musa kids into inventing abuse, the Hoaxers side with the abusive parents?. It surely demonstrates that The Mob / Loon Squad have no real interest in the welfare of children, rather they are fascinated & obsessed with a belief in Satanic Pedo Cult that runs the world. Children are just merely chattels to be used in that campaign, often in a crass & vulgar manner : Thomas Dunn ( Jon Wedger) by selling tacky t-shirts or mugs. Does the money go to a real children’s charity?. Not on your life.
# Apparently the Musa children now live with adoptive parents and have changed their names and are happy.
Not that you ever hear a single word of concern about them from the Hoaxers.
Yes, much of his rage at the authorities seems to be based on his having taken umbrage at the suggestion that he might have suffered a brain injury. His response was not “slow down and take care of myself”, but “hunt down the doctor who dared suggest such a thing, along with the police officer who tried to make me stop harassing the doctor”. Unsurprisingly, he how has a MAPPA order to his credit.
I was particularly impressed by her mention that she worked for an organisation dealing with prostitutes which is how she met Shaw.
I have no problem with how people earn a living but it explains a lot.
That’s right. I think that when one puts the Musa case alongside the Hampstead SRA hoax, certain patterns become all too clear.
The excellent website Barts Notes has a piece on the Melanie Shaw conviction. It also mentions that contrary to the Fanatical Hoaxer’s endless claims she is being persecuted for being a “whistle-blower” for revealing organised abuse, there has been an extensive police investigation and it forms part of the ongoing Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
This Important Fact is ignored: if the abuse was a bad as Shaw claims ( I have no reason to dis-believe her claim she was abused as a child) : there MUST be other victims as well yet we never hear from them.
Well there probably are who have also reported to police and perhaps they will appear as witnesses at the IICSA but they prefer anonymity.
Shaw’s entire campaign is hypocritical. On one hand she claims a massive ring of abuse yet never ever presents another victim and I have no doubt there are others if her claims are true.
In what other abuse inquiry has there only been ONE victim?. In what other abuse inquiry have we heard from just one claimant? The Catholic Church abuse inquiries- hundreds have told of their history.
This is not uncommon among some victims in the unfolding scandals of abuse in residential children’s homes. Not every adult abused as a child is a Saint. We’ve seen many attempt to become the Star of an inquiry.
However Shaw undoubtedly has mental health problems (and note in the video above the mother says the judge called her a “pathological liar”) which complicates matters.
Yet the Hoaxer Mob have seized upon her attempts to be a “whistle-blower” and ignore the illogical aspects of her claims such as being incarcerated for “whistle-blowing” when clearly she has history as a dangerous arsonist and of harassing innocent people for which she has been legally restrained yet has ignored those court orders which has led to present incarceration – not unlike Tommy Robinson who ignored Court Orders.
The shallowness of the Hoaxers and their “investigations – no names (Angela Power-Disney) and inability to discover the real facts demonstrates yet again they seek out a cause and the truth is malleable.
http://barthsnotes.com/2018/10/17/melanie-shaw-jury-finds-that-woman-backed-by-tommy-robinson-and-gerard-batten-committed-arson-in-prison/
Yes, I agree. And as always, BarthsNotes’ coverage has been stellar.
But he was talking about a movie. Dunce is trying to imply that he was trying to reveal real stuff under the guise of movie chat but it was purely movie-making chat taken out of context.
And it’s a great example of Dunny’s ignorance and lack of research that by his own admission he doesn’t even know what movie Lee’s talking about!
Ok you win, now scat ! 🙂 (I don’t know what she won, but I do hope she doesn’t choke on it)
Ditto and thanks for highlighting that, GOS. I watched some of the live coverage. The videos are not released yet, for further sharing.
It crossed my mind that the Tommy promoting Melanie thing was overshadowing the actual inquiry into Beechwood……
Personally, given the repetitive mantra ‘Common purpose’ and the fact that Eddie has mirrored the Tom Dunno crap and merchandise and said he was promoting it all at the events for Tommy….. Plus the background of many of the hoaxers attempting to infiltrate the inquiry from it’s inception and their attempts to mirror it with their own freeman of the land types of independent (useless), inquiries via FSF and ITNJ……… It raises that suspicion for me.
Christopher Grey says:
Oooh. Delighted to appear in this pages for the second time
Always a pleasure to have you here! 🙂
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The 5 Best Spoilers From “House of Cards” Season Four (And 5 Other Surprises)
Written by Daniel Villarreal on July 27, 2016
We binge-watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards season four (which only hit the innerwebs yesterday) just to bring you this article. So let’s get right to it.
Claire’s mom has cancer!
One of the most delightful surprises of season four has been the introduction of Ellen Burstyn as First Lady Claire Underwood’s mother Elizabeth Hale. Hale hates President Frank Underwood for controlling and thwarting her daughter’s political ambitions, and it makes things especially juicy at the season’s start as Claire stakes out her own political legacy while defying Frank’s control.
Granted, the ladies don’t get too far before Frank squashes rumors of he and Claire’s marital discord by announcing to the world that Hale has cancer. It’s a horrid move, using an older woman’s ailment to provide political cover, but par for Underwood’s crooked course; plus, it’s lovely seeing the Tony-award winning Broadway and film star back in the spotlight, even if her character is dying of cancer.
Lucas Goodwin hits rock bottom!
As if disgraced Washington Herald reporter, Lucas Goodwin hadn’t already been through enough — his lover splattered by a subway train, his reporting team threatened out of existence, his career and reputation destroyed over an attempted cyberterrorism charge — the fourth season opens with him describing sex to his masturbating cellmate; moments later, the masturbator threatens to choke him to death. Geez.
Goodwin quickly gets released from prison only to land in a demeaning car cleaning job where he’s forced to exchange gay sex for a car. He uses the car to meet with Heather Dunbar, Frank’s primary opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination. But even Dunbar wants nothing to do with Goodwin, writing him off as a disturbed paranoiac rather than a true victim of Underwood’s corruption, which of course leads to one of the season’s other huge surprises…
Frank gets shot (and Meecham dies)!
It’s about time that someone tried to kill Frank, the King Midas of Ruin, we just didn’t think it’d be the disgraced Washington Herald reporter, Lucas Goodwin! Goodwin gets two shots on Underwood, nearly killing the President and successfully killing Frank’s personal (and bisexual) secret service bodyguard Edward Meechum — where did Goodwin learn to shoot?
To be clear, we’re totally anti-murder and will miss seeing Meechum’s generically handsome face, but the assassination attempt provided a much-needed dramatic high-point, the best of which was seeing Underwood’s Chief of Staff Douglas Stamper FREAK THE FUCK OUT!! As Stamper considers his own irrelevance should the president die, he offers his own alcohol-drenched liver as a transplant option and then dooms another man to die by forcing the Secretary of Health to drops another man off of the liver transplant list just to save the president’s life. What a psychopath! Is there anyone who finds Stamper relatable?
Also, Frank’s hospitalization provides an impetus for he and Claire’s reconciliation, another big surprise this season!
Peter Russo and Zoe Barnes come back for revenge
Yeah, they only come back in a hallucinatory dream while Frank recovers in the hospital from his gunshot wound, but it’s nice to finally see all Frank’s prior sins come back to haunt him. Barnes goes all succubus in a short, white dress while Russo watches; Russo eventually presses Underwood’s face against a window pane shortly before all three of them simultaneously engaging in a torturous quasi-kiss, Underwood writhing in while the real-world surgeon replaces his liver.
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Russo and Barnes’ return signifies the season’s larger theme of Frank’s many slaughtered chickens coming home to roost — Freddy Hayes, the former BBQ restauranteur, calls out Frank for his over-privileged motherfuckery; ex-President Garrett Walker and Underwood’s political crony Jackie Sharp turns on him and spills Underwood’s secrets to dogged editor Tom Hammerschmidt, and it all makes for exquisite drama and a satisfying payoff to the multiple arcs created in the last three seasons.
Claire becomes a vice president candidate, kills her mom and then sleeps with an ex-sex worker
The probability that America would ever elect a husband-and-wife team as President and Vice President of the United States is as likely as a president hiring a video game reviewer to write his biography (something Frank did in season three) — that is, it would never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever happen in real life.
And yet, House of Cards goes there. Why anyone would want Claire as veep is beyond comprehension: she headed an unstable international non-profit where she had to fire pretty much everyone and was a shitty U.N. ambassador. But negotiate a Russian peace deal with while your nearly-assassinated husband gets a new liver and suddenly everybody wants you to be vice president!
Shortly before she’s nominated at the convention, Claire has to make the decision to euthanize her cancer-ridden mother in one of the series’ more sorrowful and touching scenes. Needing comfort, Claire beds the campaign’s head speechwriter, former sex-worker Tom Yates. Which leads us to the show’s five other most surprising moments…
5 Other Most Surprising Moments
The show is cool with open marriage: Even cooler, Frank is totally down with Yates giving Claire sexual comfort on the reg (he even tells Yates to stick around just so Yates to offer Claire what Frank cannot). This makes House of Cards one of the few depictions of an open marriage on TV — something that’s pretty neat, considering that three percent of the U.S. population is in a non-monogamous relationships. It’s pretty cool, even if Claire and Frank are like Lord and Lady Macbeth.
The season is actually topical: Season one focused mostly on a vague education reform bill, season two focused on an energy trade deal with China, season three focused on Middle Eastern conflict involving Russia, but season four is the only one that incorporates modern-day issues of racism (a slight nod to #BlackLivesMatter), election-year politicking and multimedia manipulation by homegrown, Islamic terrorists. Way to stay relevant, House of Cards!
Heather Dunbar drops out of the race: Who would’ve guessed that Underwood’s most formidable political rival would get taken out by her 30-second meeting with an attempted assassin? We were sorry to see her go, but she may get some payback if Hammerschmidt’s exposé on Underwood gains traction in season five.
Frank betrays his Secretary of State: In a weird and improbable sleight of hand, Underwood pledges to make Secretary of State Catherine Durant Vice President, only to turn around and discredit her in the media in a shadowy bid to get his wife nominated as VP at an open convention instead. Underwood even threatens to kill Durant if she tries to retaliate by derailing his campaign, and he does it all with a smile and a laugh, of course, which makes it all the creepier.
The show humanizes terrorists: Yeah, the terrorists introduced in the last few episodes are monstrous, but before they start slicing throats and screaming in Arabic, they’re portrayed as powerless people desperate to end violence against their families and spiritual brethren. Claire even gets asked how she would feel if her own family were unfairly bombed by U.S. forces — a great bit of writing that bestows humanity and empathy onto those who resort to unspeakable acts.
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Awesome new ‘Fantastic Four’ trailer reveals Dr Doom
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A second trailer has now officially been released by Fox after a pirated version leaked on-line earlier today. Fox have had to respond to a leaked trailer in the same way Disney had to on Thursday after the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer leaked. Both trailers have had to be released earlier than intended.
This new Fantastic Four trailer is fantastic, and I didn’t even realise it had run fr almost three minutes by the time it finished. There is still some cool, grounded moments of threat and menace, and director Josh Trank has certainly beefed up the realism aspect to his film.
The comedy in this trailer works well too, and thankfully is not in your face, but just right to add that human touch. We get an even better look at The Thing (Jamie Bell) and he really does look incredible, and finally we get our first look at main villain Dr Doom.
Toby Kebbell plays Dr Doom, and he revealed to Collider last year some details on this new take on the character:
“He’s Victor Domashev, not Victor Von Doom in our story. And I’m sure I’ll be sent to jail for telling you that. The Doom in ours—I’m a programmer. Very anti-social programmer. And on blogging sites I’m “Doom”.
Trank also revealed recently that he wants to make his film scary and realistic:
Trank told Kinberg he had two ambitions. First, the film had to feel scary and very real, more like a horror movie than a superhero flick. And second, it ultimately had to be a coming-of-age story. “Part of defining yourself,” Kinberg explains, “is that moment when you go from being dependent to being in control of your destiny.”
We also have a new poster to show you below.
Directed by Josh Trank, Fantastic Four stars Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm, Kate Mara as Sue Storm, Miles Teller as Reed Richards and Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm.
Fantastic Four arrives in UK cinemas on 6th August.
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
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A keen enthusiast and collector of all horror and extreme films. I can be picky as i like quality in my horror. This doesn't necessarily mean it has to be a classic, but as long as it has something to impress me then i'm a fan. I watch films by the rule that if it doesn't bring out some kind of emotive response then it aint worth watching.
No sex but plenty of weirdness in this new trailer for Lars Von Triers ‘Nymphomaniac’
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The latest trailer for Lars Von Triers controversial sex epic, Nymphomaniac, has arrived. This new trailer is to promote Part II, and while it features zero sex or nudity (unlike the first NSFW trailer), […]
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THE EAGLE RUNNING TIME:114 mins DISTRIBUTED BY:Universal Picures International REVIEWED BY:Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, […]
Tintin: Spielberg and Jackson’s huge movie releases its first trailer!!
May 17, 2011 Matt Wavish News 0
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiKjC_4BOo[/youtube] Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, quite possibly the two biggest director’s on the planet have come together to make a 3D animated movie of the classic Adventures of Tintin and the first trailer has […]
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Strengthening Cybersecurity in Singapore: Challenges, Responses, and the Way Forward
Author(s): Ching Yuen Luk (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Source title: Security Frameworks in Contemporary Electronic Government
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ryma Abassi (Carthage University, Tunisia) and Aida Ben Chehida Douss (Carthage University, Tunisia)
Keywords: Business & Management / Electronic Government / Electronic Services & Service Science / Information Science Reference
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This chapter uses a historical perspective to examine the development trajectory of e-government in Singapore, the trends and patterns of cybercrimes and cyber-attacks, and the measures taken by the government to combat cybercrimes and cyber-attacks. It shows that the government has adopted a proactive, holistic, and cooperative approach to cybersecurity in order to tackle the ever-increasing cybersecurity challenges. It has regularly reviewed and improved cybersecurity measures to ensure their effectiveness and strengthened its defense capabilities over time through coordinating national efforts with public and private sectors and cooperating with regional and international counterparts. The chase for a perfect cybersecurity system or strategy is both impossible and unnecessary. However, it is important and necessary to establish a cybersecurity system or formulate a cybersecurity strategy that can monitor, detect, respond to, recover from, and prevent cyber-attacks in a timely manner, and make the nation stronger, safer, and more secure.
M-Government and Its Application on Public Service Delivery
Vannie Naidoo, Thokozani Ian Nzimakwe. © 2019. 14 pages.
A Compliance-Driven Framework for Privacy and Security in Highly Regulated Socio-Technical Environments: An E-Government Case Study
Ayda Saidane, Saleh Al-Sharieh. © 2019. 36 pages.
Information-Centric Networking, E-Government, and Security
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Ines Mezghani Daoud, Marwa Meddeb. © 2019. 20 pages.
Ching Yuen Luk. © 2019. 33 pages.
E-Governance and Corruption Impasse in Nigeria: A Developmental Expedition Synopsis
Opeyemi Idowu Aluko, Gabriel Temitope Aderinola. © 2019. 21 pages.
Cyber Crime and Challenges of Securing Nigeria's Cyber-Space Against Criminal Attacks
Benjamin Enahoro Assay. © 2019. 23 pages.
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Afilias, a global provider of registry operations services and the registry operator for the .INFO top-level domain (TLD), announced that the 2011 .INFO Awards – celebrating the tenth anniversary of the .INFO domain -- are now open for public voting. Anyone can now vote for his or her favorite of the top 10 .INFO nominees, selected by a panel of distinguished judges. Each voter will also automatically be entered to win one of five new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets.
"Today, with more than eight million domain names and millions of live sites, .INFO is synonymous with quality information on the Internet," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and CMO, Afilias. "The .INFO Awards let you show your support for this year's nominees as well as giving you the opportunity to win this year’s hot ‘toy’: the Kindle Fire from Amazon."
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Dozens of sites were submitted from 17 countries for this year's awards. Entry categories covered include personal websites (28 percent), business websites (27 percent), non-profit websites (15 percent) and blogs (10 percent). Awards judge Anand Parthasarathy said, “Some of the best sites this year come from non-profit organizations who have created compelling resources, sharply focused on the needs of a specific community of users.”
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Introducing 6 New White Line Woodblock Prints
Posted At : August 30, 2010 3:15 PM | Posted By : Admin
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"Down Ellysville Road", 17 1/2 x 11 1/4
"Nine to Five", 11 1/4 x 7
"Liquid", 9 1/4 x 12
"Inside the Keyless Room", 11 1/4 x 18
"Another Day on the North Shore", 11 1/4 x 18
"It's All Around You", 11 1/4 x 10
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Recent Artist News
Posted At : August 7, 2008 4:45 PM | Posted By : Admin
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John Krenik's "The Pond in Winter" a new watercolor bath painting, 27 x 38 won Best of Show in Plymouth Center for the Arts 50th Anniversary Annual Juried Exhibit held September 30 through November 5, 2017 Plymouth, MA. John was juried a Russell Gallery Artist in Watercolor at Plymouth Center for the Arts in July 2017.
John Krenik's "Four Sisters in Remedial Reading" a new watercolor bath painting, 29 x 24 was juried in New England Watercolor Society Members Exhibit at the Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA, February 2017.
John Krenik's "Tribute" a watercolor bath painting, 37 x 26 was juried in New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall Members Exhibition, 2015 and California Watercolor Association Spring Members Exhibit April 2017.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting "Thoughts on Restrictions" was juried into the 2017 Art of Possibilities at the Courage Kenney Rehabilitation Center in Golden Valley, MN March 27 through May 25, 2017. "Thoughts on Restrictions"
John Krenik's watercolor bath paintings "Aunties Birthday", and "Emersion in Red" were juried into New Mexico Watercolor Society Spring Members Show held May 6-28 2017 at Fine Arts Gallery at EXPO New Mexico Fairgrounds.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting "Upside Down Therapy" was juried in "Proud", an LGBT exhibit at the Studio Door in San Diego, CA May 26- June 28, 2017.
John Krenik's white line woodblock print "Nine to Five" was accepted in Mokuhanga Japanese Print International Mokuhanga Conference 2017 Juried Exhibition Hawaii held at University of Hawaii at Manoa August 21 through October 1, 2017.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting, "Thoughts on Restrictions" was accepted in the Massachusetts Art Education Association exhibit, "Clearly Defined" at University Hall, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA October 16- November 13, 2016.
"Thoughts on Restrictions"
John Krenik was recently elected Signature Membership in Hawaii Watercolor Society, and New Mexico Watercolor Society. He is now a signature member of the following watercolor societies: Hawaii Watercolor Society, National Collage Society, National Watercolor Society, New England Watercolor Society, New Mexico Watercolor Society, North West Watercolor Society, Southwest Watercolor Society, Mississippi Watercolor Society, and Texas Watercolor Society.
John Krenik took a watercolor workshop in Albuquerque NM September 27-30 with Frank Eber AWS, NWS, TWSA. After the workshop, John went on a road trip to the Santa Fe/Taos area to sketch and paint.
John Krenik's "Cranberry Vista", a watercolor bath painting was accepted for exhibition at the Art Center in Mechanicsburg, PA, Art Center in Mechanicsburg, PA, in the 9th Annual Keystone National Juried Works on Paper juried by Chris Krupinski, AWS, NWS. The exhibition is scheduled September 11 through October 2 and the reception is on Friday September 11 6:00 – 8:00 pm 2015.
John Krenik's "Definitive Breakthrough", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited in Honolulu, at Hawaii Watercolor Society 2015 Members Exhibit juried by Jean Pederson, NWS April 1-30, 2015.
John Krenik's "Bifurcation", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited in New Mexico Watercolor Society 2015 Members Only Exhibit juried by May 10-31, 2015.
John Krenik's "Along the Ditch", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at The Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA in New England Watercolor Society 2015 Regional Exhibit juried by Tony van Hasselt, AWS July 8 through August 1, 2015.
John Krenik enrolled in two art classes at Provincetown Art Association and Museum during the summer, 2014; a drawing class with Selina Triff, and whiteline woodblock class with Katherine Smith.
John Krenik donated "Seaside Road in Truro", a white line wood block print for the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Auction in May 2014 at Orleans, MA.
John Krenik donated "Spy Hopping", a white line wood block print for the WGBH Fine Art Juried Auction July 7-27, 2014.
John Krenik's "Impediments Denied", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at Cape Cod And Islands Art Educators travelling exhibit, From Our Studios located at three Regional High Schools: Barnstable, Dennis-Yarmouth, Nauset Region April-June, 2004. John Krenik's "Province of Papadoos", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at New Mexico Watercolor Society Members Only Exhibit juried by Robin Lee Makowski, held May 11-June1, 2014.
John Krenik's "Definitive Breakthrough", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at the Keystone National 2014: Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper; juried by Laurin McCracken AWS, NWS, September 12-October 3, 2014 in Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania.
John Krenik's "Elephant Ear Patch", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at Hawaii Watercolor Society 2014 Open Exhibition juried by Ian Stewart at Art at Marks, Honolulu September 30-October 18, 2014.
John Krenik's "Making Connections", and "Construct of the Mind", watercolor bath paintings were exhibited at South West Society Members Open: Breaking Boundaries at THE ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Curated by Cathleen Cotter-Smith, 8/21-9/11, 2014.
John Krenik's "Thoughts on Restrictions", a watercolor bath painting was exhibited at New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall Open Watercolor Exhibition juried by Lian Quan Zhen, October 5-26, 2014.
Johns watercolor bath painting, "Impediments Denied" was accepted in the Massachusetts Art Educators Associations' "Design for the Future Create Now" exhibit at the CVPA Campus Gallery at UMASS Dartmouth from October 29 through November 9, 2013.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Elsewhere Dream" was accepted in Hawai'i Watercolor Society Open Exhibit held at ARTS as Marks in Honolulu, HI from 9/23/13 through 10/20/13. This painting won the Peggy Hopper and Sunshine Arts Gallery Award.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Making Connections was accepted in the Mississippi Watercolor Society Grand National Exhibition held at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS from 10/5/13 through 1/6/14.
John's watercolor bath paintings, "Making Connections", and "Disparity Always Rules" were accepted in the Massachusetts Art Educator Association's Summer exhibit, "Artists Teaching in Massachusetts" at the Massachusetts State Transportation Building, Boston, MA from 6/17/13 through 9/20/13.
John's watercolor bath painting entitled "Liberation" was accepted in New Mexico Watercolor Societies Spring Members Exhibition in Albuquerque, NM, May 4-26, 2013 and won the Rio Grande Art Association Award of Excellence.
John donated a white line woodcut print entitled "Blue Ginger of Ioa Valley" for the Nauset Regional Middle School Greenhouse Art Auction, April 6, 2013.
John's watercolor bath painting entitled "Making Connections was juried in the New England Watercolor Societies Members exhibit at the Guild of Boston Artists 162 Newbury Street, Boston, MA February 2 -28, 2013.
John had an opening reception for his whiteline woodcut prints and watercolor bath paintings at Cabot House, 266 Main Street, Weymouth, MA 02188, phone: 781 331 6000. The reception was held Saturday, January 19, from 2:00 to 5:00pm.
John's artwork was published in the January 2013 issue 87 of American Art Collector Magazine.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Eating Again", has been juried into the National Collage Societies' Signature Members Exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona, from December 14, 2012 – March 17, 2013. The opening reception is Friday, January 25, NCS members VIP: 5-6; Public: 6-9pm, 2013.
John's watercolor bath paintings, "The Dichotomy of Neurology", and "Construct of the Mind" were juried into Hat full of Art: Annual MAEA Juried Members Exhibition held in the Winfisky Gallery of Art, Ellison Campus Center, at Salem State University, Salem, MA, October 29-November 11, 2012. The Artist Reception, Wednesday, November 7, 2 pm.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Dare to Cross" was juried into "Gender in Art" at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, September 8 - October 13, 2012.
The School of Art at Kent State University in partnership with the National Collage Society has added to their permanent collection; "Red Rock West", a watercolor bath painting by John Krenik.
"Elsewhere Dream" a watercolor bath painting was juried by Jon Friedman and Maggie Van Sciver into "Portraits" at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, June 16- July 22, 2012
"An Experience" a watercolor bath painting was juried into "Art Educators of Massachusetts", Massachusetts Art Educators Association summer juried exhibit, on the second floor of the State Transportation Building in Boston, MA, June 16-September 14, 2012.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Lunch at the National Gallery" was accepted in the "Wild Things" annual juried major exhibit at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA, January 9-February 10, 2012 sponsored by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.
John's watercolor bath Paintings, "Feline Sensation", and "Dining with Dina" was in the "Creativity Flows" Exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA, sponsored by the Cape Cod And Islands Educators Association, January 24- February 12, 2012.
John's white line woodcut print, "Seaside Road in Truro" is exhibited at The Cape Cod And Islands Educators Association exhibit at the Centerville Historical Museum from September 30-November 26, 2011. www.centervillehistoricalmuseum.org
John's watercolor bath painting, "Entwineation" was accepted at the Cotuit Center For The Arts Juried Exhibit, "Exploring the Dark Side", October 5-November 14, 2011.
John's watercolor bath painting, "Along the Ditch" won an honorable mention prize in the Mississippi Watercolor Society's 26th Grande National Exhibit, October 2-December 31, 2011 held at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
John's watercolor bath painting; "An Experience" was accepted at the National Collage Society's 27th Annual Juried exhibit running online from November 1, 2011 to October 31, 2012 @ http://www.nationalcollage.com/exhibitions/current.html
John's watercolor bath painting; "An Experience" was accepted at the Copley Society of Art's www.copleysociety.org Summer Members juried Exhibit, at the Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA, from July 7 - August 25, 2011.
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Lunch at the National Gallery, and "Dare to Cross" were accepted for exhibition "Artists Teaching in Massachusetts", a Massachusetts Art Education Association exhibition at the Massachusetts State Transportation Building, June 20 - September 9, 2011.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Making Connections" was accepted at the North West Watercolor Society juried by Ron Pokrasso, and was exhibited from April 16-June 6 at the Plaza Building of the Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Making Connections" was accepted at the Copley Society of Art's www.copleysociety.org Winter Members juried Exhibit, "White Lights", at the Copley Society of Art, Boston, MA, from March 3 through April 15, 2011.
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Consruct of the Mind", and Upside Down Therapy" are part of an exhibit entitled "Faculty Spectrum", an exhibit by art educators of Cape Cod and the Islands hosted by the Cape Cod Museum of Art www.ccmoa.org in Dennis, MA from January 24 through March 28, 2011.
John's watercolor bath painting; "The Dichotomy of Neurology" was accepted in the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies' 36th exhibition juried by Dale Latinen. The exhibit is hosted by the New Mexico Watercolor Society at the Expo New Mexico Fine Arts Building, Albuquerque, NM from May 6th through June 5th, 2011.
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Winter Mentor", "Millenials", and "Parabolics in January Light" were accepted in the "Hope" Exhibit hosted by the Cotuit Center for the Arts. The exhibit is from November 13-December 18, 2010. www.cotuitcenterforthearts.org
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Upside Down Therapy", and "Dina's Dilemma" were accepted in the Massachusetts Art Education Assciation juried exhibition at the Herter Gallery on the UMASS Amherst Campus. Exhibition dates are from November 12 to December 10. This exhibition is in conjunction with the Fall 2010 Massachusetts Art Education Association Conference.
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Construct of the Mind" was accepted in the National Collage Societies' 26th Annual Juried Exhibit.
John's watercolor bath paintings; "Construct of the Mind", and "An Experience" are published in Studio Visit, Volume 11 published by The Open Studio Press, a juried selection of international visual artists. For more information visit www.studiovisitmagazine.com
John's watercolor bath painting; "Dare to Cross" will be exhibited in the New England Watercolor Societies' 125th Anniversary Exhibition at the Plymouth Center for the Arts October 20 – November 14, 2010.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Blackfish Creek" was accepted in the Cape Cod Art Associations' juried exhibition, All New England held from September 9- October 4, 2010.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Lunch at the National Gallery" was accepted in the Mississippi Watercolor Societies Grand National Exhibition juried competition held at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi from October 3, 2010 -January 2, 2011 juried by Judi Coffey.
John's watercolor bath painting; "An Experience" was accepted in Southwest Watercolor Societies' 47th Annual juried Membership Exhibition juried by Katherine Chang Liu on exhibition August 17-September 25 at the Art Centre of Plano, Plano, TX.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Dining with Dina" was exhibited in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum members juried exhibition Paper Works juried by Betty Carroll Fuller, Director and Curator of the Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College. The exhibit was February 19- March 28, 2010.
John has donated a White Line Woodcut to the 2010 WGBH Boston Art Auction entitled "Elephant Ear Patch".
John's watercolor bath painting, "Disparity Always Rules" was accepted in New England Watercolor Society's Annual Members juried exhibition at the Emmanuel Church Gallery in Boston, MA from April 30 – May 23, 2010.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Blackfish Creek" was accepted in the Copley Societies' juried Copley on Cape Cod Exhibition June 26, 2010.
John's watercolor bath painting; "Construct of the Mind" was accepted in the Cape Cod Art Associations' juried exhibition, The National from June 17-July 12, 2010.
John's Watercolor bath painting "Dining with Dina" was accepted in the New England Watercolor Societies New England Regional exhibition at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury MA from September 13-January 24, 2010. The Juror was Frank Fredrico.
John's Watercolor bath painting "Construct of Mind" was accepted in Southwest Wastercolor Societes' 46th Annual Membership Exhibition at the Art Centre of Plano in Plano TX. The exhibition was held from September 9-October 10, 2009. The Juror was Cheng-Khee Chee.
John's Watercolor bath painting "Lunch at the National Gallery" received an honorable mention in the Cape Cod Art Association's National Exhibition in Barnstable, MA. The exhibition took place June 18-July 13, 2009.
John's Watercolor Bath paintings "Disparity Always Rules" and "Upside Down Therapy" are on exhibit in the North West Watercolor Societies Signature Members exhibition at the University House in Issaquah, WA from June 11-October 17, 2009.
John Krenik has donated a White Line Woodcut to the 2009 WGBH Art Auction entitled "Tropical Virture".
John Krenik has been named a signature member of the North West Watercolor Society (NWWS). John Krenik's watercolor bath painting entitled "Construct of the Mind" was juried into the NWWS's Waterworks 2008 exhibition juried by Betsy Dillard Stroud. The exhibition was held at the New Dimensions Gallery in Bellevue, WA from October 28 through December 5, 2008. John recieved the "Canson Award", a 7th place award of 25 sheets of 140 lb Arches Watercolor Paper.
John Krenik has been named a signature member of the National Watercolor Society (NWS). The painting that brought John's acceptance in the NWS is entitled "An Experience". The exhibition was held at the National Watercolor Society Building in San Pedro, CA from August 30-November 1, 2008. The jurors of selection were Miles G. Batt Sr., Carrie Burns Brown, and Cathy Woo. The Juror of Awards was Peter Adams. An Awards ceremony and Exhibition reception was held on September 13, 2008.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting entitled "Dining with Dina" won an Honorable Mention in watercolor at the Cape Cod Art Association's 2008 New England Exhibition held at the Cape Cod Art Association on Rte 6A in Barnstable, MA. The exhibition was held September 11 through October 6, 2008.
John Krenik's watercolour bath painting entitled "Impediments Denied" was juried into the Southwest Watercolor Societies' 45th Annual Membership Exhibition held at the Art Centre of Plano, Plano, TX from August 29-September 27, 2008. The juror was Ratinda Das.
John Krenik donated a whiteline woodcut print, "Beach Cottages by the Sea" for the second annual Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Chatham (UUMH)which was held on Tuesday, May 27, at the Wequassett Inn on Pleasant Bay in Chatham, MA.
John Krenik donated a whiteline woodcut print, "Hyannis Harbor from the Dockside" for the 2008 WGBH Art Auction. The auction was broadcast on Saturday, May 31, 2008.
John Krenik gave demonstation on his watercolor bath technique at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Road, Route 28, Cotuit, MA on Friday, April 25, 2008 at 12 noon-1pm.
John Krenik's watercolor Bath Painting "Lunch at the National Gallery" was juried into the New England Watercolor Societies' New England Regional Juried Exhibition at the Cotuit Center for the Arts April 12 through May 12, 2008. The exhibition was juried by Tom Nicholas, NA, AWS.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting "Saturday Afternoon" was juried into the Northwest Watercolor Society's 68th Annual Open Exhibition 2008. John won the St Cuthberts Mill Award which is an award of $100. worth of some of the finest watercolor paper in the world. The Exhibition was Juried by Pat Dews, AWS, NWS, NCS, NAWA.
John Krenik's abstract watercolor bath painting "Impediments Denied" was juried into the New England Watercolor Societies 2008 Winter Members Show at the Emanuel Church Gallery on 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, January 17-February 14, 2008. The juror was Louise Melton.
John Krenik's watercolor bath painting "Dining with Dina" received the Edgar A. Whitney Award in the Southwest Watercolor Societies 44th Annual Membership Exhibition October 9-29, 2007 at the Charles W. Eisemann Center in Richardson Texas. The Juror was Pat Dews, AWS, NWS, NCS, NAWA.
John Krenik's Watercolor bath painting "Upside Down Therapy" was juried into the National Collage Societies Membership Exhibition at the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach, FL September 13-October 28, 2007.
John Krenik was juried into the New England Watercolor Societies 2007 Winter Members Show and won Honorable Mention for his watercolor bath abstract "Map of Midnight" which was also sold in this show.
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Le Cirque des Reves is only open from dusk til dawn, and is filled with black and white tents housing illusions and acts that defy imagination. There’s a wishing tree, a cloud maze, a contortionist, a fortune teller, and the illusionist, a young woman who can change the color of her hair while you watch.
This mystical, magical circus provides the board for a game of wits, for lack of a better term, between Celia, that young illusionist, and Marco, the circus’ manager. From the time they were children, Marco and Celia’s “caretakers” enter them into a sort of magician’s competition. As they grow, both Marco and Celia are trained for this competition though they are never told when it will take place or how a victor is declared.
This is the basic premise of Erin Morgenstern’s much buzzed debut novel, The Night Circus, and beyond that premise you’re not going to find much more than loads and loads and loads and then a few more loads of description.
If you’re the type of reader who eats up these kinds of minute details and begs for more, run out and grab this one. If you’re the type of reader who thrives on character growth and development, approach with extreme caution. A latter type myself, initially I found Morgenstern’s excruciatingly detailed descriptions of the circus tents and the wonders inside enthralling but soon grew bored with all the fluff that seemed outside of the actual story.
I wanted to know about Celia and Marco and how they felt about this macabre competition, and how/why they fell in love. The dueling illusionists meet once, on a rainy street in Prague, and the next thing you know they’re in love. I wanted to know why Celia’s father, a great illusionist himself, and Marco’s mysterious benefactor dreamed up this entire competition and why the participants never rebelled or refused to play along despite the deadly stakes.
However, despite the holes in the story, the circus is still pretty captivating. Even though I bellyached about all the detailed descriptions of the tents, I loved learning about the inner workings of the circus and how Celia and Marco used their skills (or powers, which doesn’t feel right) to keep things running and safe.
What I really liked, and what kept me slogging through the mountains of description, were the flame-haired twins, Poppet and Widget, born the very first night the circus opens and have a strong connection to it and the magic it holds. Whenever Poppet and Widget were front and center, I was a happy reader. Oh, I also loved that the circus develops a sort of deadheadesque cult following who call themselves the Reveurs.
But to get to these bits of goodness you have to wade through so much description it borders on masturbatory and a lot of pointless characters. It’s as though the author was creating an illusion herself, trying to distract the reader with beautiful images hoping nobody would notice that the story is full of holes and most of the characters serve no real purpose.
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Exchanging and using research evidence in health policy networks: a statistical network analysis
Jessica C Shearer1,
Michelle Dion2 &
John N Lavis1,2
Evidence-informed health policymaking is a goal of equitable and effective health systems but occurs infrequently in reality. Past research points to the facilitating role of interpersonal relationships between policy-makers and researchers, imploring the adoption of a social network lens. This study aims to identify network-level factors associated with the exchange and use of research evidence in policymaking.
Data on social networks and research use were collected from seventy policy actors across three health policy cases in Burkina Faso (child health, malaria, and HIV). Networks were graphed for actors’ interactions, their provision of, and request for research evidence. Exponential random graph models estimated the probability of evidence provision and request between actors, controlling for network- and individual-level covariates. Logistic regression models estimated actors’ use of research evidence to inform policy.
Network structure explained more than half of the evidence exchanges (ties) observed in these networks. Across all cases, a pair of actors was more likely to form a provision tie if they already had a request tie between them and visa versa (θ = 6.16, p < 0.05; θ = 2.87, p < 0.05; θ = 2.31, p < 0.05). The child health network displayed clustering tendencies, meaning that actors were more likely to form ties if they shared an acquaintance (θ = 2.36, p < 0.05). Actors’ use of research evidence was positively associated with their centrality (i.e., connectedness).
The exchange and use of research evidence in policymaking can be partly explained by the structure of actors’ networks of relationships. Efforts to support knowledge translation and evidence-informed policymaking should consider network factors.
The use of research evidence to inform health policy decision-making has been identified as a means to improve the effectiveness of health policy decisions [1]-[3], to strengthen health systems [4], and to achieve universal health coverage [5]. Yet, evidence-informed policymaking occurs relatively infrequently for reasons related to the evidence itself [6], the policy issue being discussed [7], and because evidence `competes’ with many other inputs in a complex policy-making environment, including institutions, interests, ideas and external events [1],[3]. There is a growing understanding among stakeholders of the complexity of evidence-informed policymaking and thus the need for approaches that understand and address such complexity [8].
The literature on evidence exchange and use in health policymaking [3],[8]-[11] consistently identifies interpersonal relationships between researchers and policy-makers as having a positive effect [8],[12]-[16]. Developing relationships between producers and users has become a core focus of knowledge translation interventions [16],[17], operationalized into approaches such as `knowledge brokers’ and `deliberative dialogues’ [18]. Justifications for such strategies include arguments related to shifting the incentives for research producers [17], reducing the costs to research users [8], reducing conflict around research evidence [17], and facilitating trust [8],[17]-all of which are thought to increase the likelihood of exchange and use. Yet, few of these approaches explain why some relationships form and others do not, beyond the simplistic `research producer’ versus `research user’ dichotomy. Even deliberative dialogues, which succeed in bringing together a range of actors, and thus affect network structure, operate with limited understanding of the social structure they are intervening on, or the causal mechanisms underlying their intervention. Thus, despite calls for more attention to social structure and social networks [8],[19], little has been done to elucidate the causal mechanisms underlying the current field of socially-targeted interventions for evidence-informed health policy.
This study applies an explicit social network approach in order to answer two research questions related to evidence exchange and use in health policymaking: first, what factors are associated with the formation of research exchange relationships between policy actors; and second, to what extent are these exchange relationships associated with the use of research evidence by policy actors in the policymaking process? These results will have important implications for the design of interventions for knowledge translation and evidence-informed health policymaking.
Social network analysis as a framework to understand evidence-informed health policy
Social network analysis (SNA) is a theory as well as a set of tools for exploring socially-influenced behaviours. Social network theory offers a persuasive explanation of why evidence exchange and use should be understood from an interpersonal, as well as structural, perspective. As seen through a social network lens, behaviours’in this case, evidence exchange and use-are predicted not only by an individual’s attributes, but by his or her position in her social environment, and the larger structure of that environment. Social network analysis has recently been applied to evidence exchange in a municipal public health department [20] and to information, broadly speaking, within organizations [21]-[25] and political networks, [13] but never to evidence exchange and use in a national policy setting. We thus extend the existing research agenda to answer questions about the exchange of research evidence (the social process) within policy networks (the social setting). Policy networks are simply social networks specific to policy actors-defined here as sets of individuals who interact on a given policy issue, and may include a range of actors from various sectors and levels of governance. In contrast to formal organograms or stakeholder maps that document who are expected to (or should) participate according to organizational boundaries [26], policy networks are empirically-driven measurements of who actually participates, thus embracing a policy arena’s fluidity and diversity. In many settings, including low- and middle-income countries, policy decisions are made by a range of diverse actors with varying levels of formal and informal power [27]-[29].
While social network analysis can be applied to research questions at actor, tie, or network levels, this study specifically exploits recent methodological innovations in statistical network analysis enabling the prediction of ties between pairs of actors as some function of their individual attributes and network structure. These models are referred to as the exponential random graph class of models (ERGM) [30],[31]. The present paper uses ERGMs to model the existence of research evidence exchange ties, specifically evidence provision and request, in a policy network.
Ties can form, in theory, between any two individuals. But in practice, network scientists observe more frequent tie formation in the presence of certain network structures. The next section presents common network hypotheses adjusted to the context of Burkina Faso (see Figure 1 for a synthesis), where, as in many low-income countries, the formal culture of research production, access and use is relatively weak due to language barriers, poor Internet access, and general resource limitations [32],[33]. A better understanding of interpersonal modes of exchange will be highly relevant for Burkina Faso and other low-income countries.
Network covariates and their hypotheses.
First, individuals are more likely than chance alone to form ties with other individuals if they have a friend in common [34]. This phenomenon is referred to as triangle closure and looks like a triangle between three actors on a network graph (see Figure 1). In the policy science and governance literature, triangle closure is associated with stronger group cohesion, cooperation, and shared norms [35]-[37], and many redundant ties is associated with the fast diffusion of ideas amongst dyads and sub-groups. At the same time, triangle closure limits `structural holes’ in a network; that is, the areas of a network where actors are relatively unconnected [34]. It is the bridging of these structural holes that is associated with the efficient exposure to and diffusion of innovations and new ideas at the macro-level [35]. We expect to observe a positive association between triangle closure and tie formation in evidence exchange networks with cohesive cognitive paradigms. A network with a tendency for closure will likely exchange ideas that reinforce the status quo at the dyadic and sub-group level, but will limit the introduction and exchange of new ideas at the macro level.
`Reciprocity’ is another social process that is frequently observed more often than chance alone [36],[38]. For example, a request for evidence from Person A to Person B is reciprocated when Person B requests evidence from Person A (see Figure 1). Networks with high reciprocity are associated with `flat,’ or non-hierarchical, governance [39]. An evidence exchange network with high reciprocity would indicate that its actors have relatively similar levels of expertise, access to and demand for evidence, and the political capital to exchange it with each other, as was recently observed in a Canadian municipal public health department [20]. In contrast, policy actors in Burkina Faso have varying levels of capacity for finding and using research evidence and the policymaking culture is hierarchical, with power and expertise centralized among certain few actors. For these reasons, we do not expect to observe a positive association between reciprocity and tie formation in these networks.
`Layering’ is the other side of the coin (also known as multiplexity or entrainment). Instead of measuring the existence of two ties for the same relation between a pair of actors, layering measures the co-existence of two different relations between the same pair of actors [36]. For example, imagine that Person A requests evidence from Person B. Layering occurs when Person B provides evidence to Person A (see Figure 1). Research exchange networks with high layering are achieving their instrumental, or practical, purpose-research is provided when requested-and we suggest that layering is an empirical signature of true `exchange’ models of knowledge translation [17]. A lack of layering could indicate many things. A tendency for provision ties to exist without request ties might indicate that evidence is being disseminated for advocacy purposes, and at the most extreme might signal the symbolic or political use of evidence [40]. On the other hand, a tendency for request ties to exist without provision ties might suggest that no evidence is available to fulfill the request, or that actors are refusing or ignoring requests. Both outcomes suggest a poor climate for research evidence. We anticipate that research is provided by a small group of development partners and researchers in this context, often in the absence of requests, and thus we do not expect to observe significant layering.
In addition to these structural effects, we assume that the individual attributes of actors will influence their propensity to provide or request research evidence. There have been few studies exploring which individual characteristics influence evidence exchange, other than to say that evidence is more likely to be exchanged by a researcher or someone with research experience [12]. We hypothesize that in this context, where the culture of research and evidence use is nascent, the provision and request of research evidence will occur more often by actors with research experience, actors with higher employment rank, and development partners. Each of those actor types will have greater resources and technical skills related to finding, exchanging and using research evidence. Higher employment rank and development partners may also signal exposure to larger external networks.
Finally, the phenomenon of homophily specifies that actors are more likely to form ties with `like’ individuals [41]. Homophily reduces transaction costs associated with exchanging evidence but limits the wide and efficient dissemination of evidence that would occur if ties connected researchers to non-researchers, crossed organizational boundaries, and traversed job levels. We expect to observe homophily in these networks.
Social network and demographic data were collected between October 2011 and March 2012 from policy actors active in one or more of three health policy issues in Burkina Faso: community integrated management of childhood illness; home management of malaria; and removal of user fees for antiretroviral treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); henceforth referred to by their substantive categories: child health; malaria; and HIV. Policy cases were sampled according to pragmatic reasons, including large enough networks to enable statistical analysis, as well as for their diversity on network structural variables of interest. High quality and locally relevant research evidence was available to inform each of these policy cases and each decision involved some amount of uncertainty that could have been addressed using research evidence, typical of many health policy decisions made by ministries of health in Sub-Saharan Africa. That said, Burkina Faso faces many of the same challenges in using evidence to inform policy as other countries and some challenges that are context-specific; namely, slow internet connection limiting searches for evidence, and a working language (French) that offers fewer research publications. Commonalities include the fact that evidence must compete with many other inputs in the policymaking process-including institution-, interest-, and idea-related factors, and that the overall number of researchers, and thus research capacity, tends to be fewer in low-income countries. A recent rise in donor applications requiring evidence of the problem and options has perhaps introduced incentives to exchange and use research evidence.
Burkina Faso is like other Sub-Saharan African countries in terms of level of development, political regime type, and dependence on foreign aid, as well as a health policy sector characterized by participation of diverse actors and frequent changes in institutions. These characteristics will improve the generalizability of results, contributing to knowledge translation efforts, and evidence-informed policymaking, in other Sub-Saharan African countries.
We defined policy actors as any individual who participated in policy formulation for each policy issue. Actors were identified according to established procedures for respondent-driven censuses of social networks [42]. Beginning with a review of policy documents and informational interviews with key informants, the lead researcher (JS) approached two actors from each policy issue considered to be central in their issue networks for an interview. The researcher asked: `With whom did you interact during policy formulation?’ generating `interaction’ ties. Respondents were encouraged to provide as many names as possible; respondents provided an average of five names. The researcher approached each actor named and the same process was carried out (see Additional file 1 for a consort diagram detailing this process). Following other studies of policy networks [43], we chose to cease sampling when a round elicited fewer new names compared to the previous round. This resulted in four rounds of nominations: most new nominations came during the second and third rounds; the fourth round consisted of 23 of a total of 116 nominations (19.8%) and actors interviewed during the fourth round nominated only six new actors. Of 101 unique actors identified, 69 were reached for an interview. Actors who participated in more than one issue were interviewed successively for each issue. Missing ties were dropped in the analysis.
Upon listing their interaction relationships, respondents were then asked to specify whether they had provided research evidence to any of the names they listed (provision ties), or requested research evidence from any of the names they listed (request ties). Ties were coded as 1 if at least one of the actor-pair reported that a tie existed. Provision and request ties were coded as directed from one actor to another based on each respondents’ reports of their exchanges and could occur in both directions. Provision and request ties could occur simultaneously (i.e., layering), but were considered separate constructs, and as such could also exist in the absence of the other.
Data were collected on actors’ relevant individual attributes (see Table 1), including: `research experience,’ defined as any formal experience participating in or leading a research project; `organization type,’ differentiating between actors working for government, development partner organizations, civil society organizations (CSO) and/or non-government organizations (NGO), and others (research organizations or independent consultants); and employment rank, dichotomized into manager/director-level and higher, or not. In-depth interviews elicited respondents’ perceptions and understandings of the policy issues as well as their awareness and use of research evidence during the policy-making process. Social desirability bias was avoided by indirect lines of questioning that did not suggest that respondents’ use of research evidence was being measured and response validity was achieved through probing strategies and in asking for specific examples or citations if a respondent claimed to have been aware of research on the topic, or to have included evidence in their reports. We hypothesize that an actor’s score on the use scale will be positively associated with their connectedness in the network, or `degree,’ where out-degree counts the number of ties an actor sends and in-degree counts ties received. We expect to see the highest rates of use amongst actors who provide and request evidence more frequently (i.e., high out-degree in either network) as the active sending of ties suggests positive attitudes related to evidence.
Table 1 Descriptive statistics
Qualitative interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed and data were managed and coded using NVivo software. Ethical approval was received from McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences Ethical Review Board and the Burkina Faso Ministry of Health Ethics Committee in Health Research. Signed consent was received from all study participants.
The probability of a tie existing between any two given actors is modeled using ERGMs, which can be expressed as a conditional log-odds of individual ties in a network:
logit P Y ij = 1 | rest of network =θ′Δ g y ij
where Yij is an actor pair in network Y, θ is the vector of coefficients, Δ(g(y))ij is the change in the vector of network statistics g(y) when the value of Yij changes from 0 to 1. As in other regression models, we can include covariates to control for other processes that might affect the existence of a tie. ERGMs are different from normal logistic models in that they can control for network structure, or structural effects (SE), as well as actor characteristics, or attribute effects (AE). Structural effects models (SE models) included parameters for triangle closure, reciprocity and layering. Triangle closure was modeled using the geometrically weighted edgewise shared partner distribution (GWESP) statistic, which has been shown to overcome model degeneracy by specifying decreasing marginal impact of the formation of triangles on tie formation. [26],[35] AE include researcher experience, organization type, employment rank and homophily. SE and AE models were run separately and then aggregated into full models.
Provision and request ties, the dependent variables, were modeled separately for each of the three policy networks, conditional on the existence of an interaction tie. Covariates were each modeled separately to determine which were most significant according to p-values and significant covariates were then entered into the full model step-wise based on their p-value in the null model (most to least significant). Covariates were retained in the final model if they improved model fit as tested by Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and likelihood ratio tests. ERGM coefficients represent the conditional log-odds of a tie. Data were managed using Microsoft Excel and analyzed in R using the Statnet suite of packages [44], including `ergm’ [45]. The ERGM model likelihood function was approximated using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation methods [44].
Goodness of fit was tested by comparing simulated networks to the observed networks to determine how well the model could reproduce global network properties (see Additional file 2 for goodness-of-fit test results).
The determinants of an actor’s use of evidence were explored in logistic regression models where the dependent variable was evidence use and was derived from in-depth interviews. A validated scale of evidence use by policy-makers [46],[47] was applied to interview data, assigning each actor a value from 0 (no evidence use) to 5 (`I made efforts to use this research evidence in decisions related to this policy issue’) based on the qualitative analysis of respondents’ discussion of how they used evidence during the policy process. While we had hoped to explain the ordinal outcome of `evidence use’ in regression models, those models did not converge and each actor’s score was collapsed into a binary dependent variable where the fourth category (`I cited the research evidence in my own professional reports, documents or conversations’) and fifth (`I made efforts to use the research evidence in decisions related to this policy issue’) were coded as `use’ and the third category (`I participated in meetings for discussion and dissemination of the research evidence’) and those below it were coded as `non-use.’ Univariate logistic regression models tested whether use was associated with in-degree and out-degree in the provision and request networks, and with actor attributes.
Table 1 describes the networks and their actors. Network composition varied slightly across issues, particularly in terms of organizational affiliation and employment level. Across all issues, provision networks were denser than request networks, meaning that evidence was provided more than requested. The child health networks were the densest and had the highest average degree, indicating that evidence exchange occurred more often for this issue than for the others. The child health networks had more triangles than other networks (80 triangles in the provision network). Approximately 13% of actors participated in more than one policy network. Figure 2 illustrates provision and request networks for each case.
Graphs of policy networks. (a) Child health evidence provision (left) and evidence request (right) (b) Malaria evidence provision (left) and evidence request (right) (c) HIV evidence provision (left) and evidence request (right). Arrows indicate direction of relationship.
Why do policy actors exchange research evidence?
The provision and request of research evidence were associated with factors related to both structural and attribute effects. All model converged [44], although some covariates did not improve model fit as judged by AIC criteria and were thus excluded.
Provision models
Models for child health and malaria networks fit best when they combined structural and attribute effects (see Table 2 for full results). HIV models were slightly better fit when only modeling actor attributes. Actors were more likely to form provision ties if they also had a request tie (i.e., layering), an effect that was statistically significant across issues. Only the child health network demonstrated a tendency for triangle closure (θ = 2.36; OR = 10.6, p < 0.05) where the odds of a provision tie were 10 times greater if that tie closed a triangle between three actors, conditional on the rest of the model. This suggests that evidence provision may have been used strategically to reinforce a cohesive paradigm. In the malaria network, the odds of a provision tie were 2.77 times more likely (θ = 1.02; OR = 2.77, p < 0.05) if actors had research experience and were half as likely (θ = -0.671, OR = 0.51, p < 0.05) if they worked for a CSO/NGO compared to working for the government. As hypothesized, there was no evidence of reciprocity in any of the issues, suggesting that evidence was provided and requested in a hierarchical manner.
Table 2 Parameter estimates (standard errors) of provision networks
Request models
Request ties were best fit in models combining structural and attribute effects (see Table 3 for full results). Layering, or the simultaneous existence of a request and a provision tie, remained the strongest predictor of tie formation in these models. Child health again had a significant coefficient for triangle closure (θ = 1.53; OR = 4.62, p < 0.05), meaning that the odds of tie formation were 4.62 times greater if the tie closed a triangle between three actors, conditional on the remainder of the model. Although this coefficient is not as large as in the provision network, request ties still seemed to occur to either strengthen or reinforce cohesion and shared norms in this case. As in the provision models, malaria actors were more likely to have request ties if they had research experience (θ = 1.73; OR = 5.64, p < 0.05), suggesting that this policy issue, in particular, had narrowly defined roles for who exchanged evidence. The malaria network demonstrated a significant negative effect of homophily within organizations (θ = -2.24; OR = 0.11, p < 0.05), meaning that actors were more likely to request research evidence outside of their organizations as compared to within, which runs counter to our hypotheses but presents a picture of interorganizational exchange of evidence for this case. The odds of forming a request tie were 3.36 times higher (θ = 1.85, OR = 3.36, p < 0.05) if an actor belonged to the `other’ organization category in the HIV network, a category which includes consultants and researchers. This is to be expected in a network that had high representation of CSO/NGO actors, who typically perceived a smaller role for research evidence as compared with lived experiences.
Table 3 Parameter estimates (standard errors) of request networks
Are exchange relationships associated with the use of research evidence?
Based on analysis and coding of interview data, 43.0%, 34.6%, and 31.6% of policy actors in child health, malaria, and HIV domains, respectively, used research evidence during the policy processes to inform their professional decisions. Actively providing evidence was positively associated with the use of evidence across all issues (see Table 4). Receiving a request for research evidence (in-degree) was associated with use in the malaria domain, and sending a request (out-degree) associated with use in the user-fees domain. The statistical significance of the continuous degree variable suggests a dose-response effect; in other words, an actor is more likely to use evidence for each additional exchange he/she has. Multivariable models combining actors’ degree and their individual attributes demonstrated that degree was more predictive of research use than their attributes.
Table 4 Univariate logistic regressions of actor degree on evidence use
This study illuminated the conditions under which evidence was provided and requested in three policy cases, and confirmed that evidence exchange is closely correlated to its use in health policymaking. Evidence provision and request ties were best predicted by structural factors, particularly layering (i.e., actors are more likely to send ties when they complement existing ties), consistent with social network theories of the significant role of networks and structure in predicting individual-level behaviours. Some individual attributes mattered, particularly the role of research experience in the malaria domain, but should not be solely relied upon to design or target knowledge translation interventions. In terms of evidence use, network position-as judged by connectedness to others-predicted use better than any individual characteristic-not job level, not organizational affiliation, not experience as a researcher. This finding is consistent with other findings that show interpersonal relationships with researchers to be the best predictor of evidence use by policy-makers [12]. Taken together, these findings support taking a network lens when designing knowledge translation or evidence-informed policymaking interventions [48] and focusing on strategies that increase an actor’s capacity to provide and request evidence.
Findings in relation to our hypotheses
Our findings were generally consistent with our hypotheses and clarify network theories that had not yet been tested in a low-income country policy setting. Only the child health network demonstrated a tendency for triangle closure. This network had the highest density of research provision and request ties and also had the highest proportion of actors who used research evidence to inform their decision-making, consistent with other studies that find the transfer of complex or tacit knowledge is aided by closed, cohesive networks that enable repeated exposure necessary for the synthesis and interpretation of complex ideas [22]. However, findings from linked studies suggest that while evidence was exchanged by dyads and used by actors in this network, the macro-level network used evidence `symbolically’ to justify pre-determined policy positions of certain actors [49]. The child health policy process advanced as part of a funding proposal process where the funders required that development partners had an equal seat at the table; respondents reported that most research evidence was disseminated strategically by development partners, typically to persuade hesitant government policy-makers. Thus, it is possible that active advocacy and persuasion during this policy process led to the observed triangle closure as opposed to pre-existing cohesiveness amongst actors in this domain. This finding is consistent with studies of information diffusion that contrast structural effects at dyadic and macro levels [34]. There is no question that actors can influence the shape of networks and their outcomes [50].
Ties were not reciprocated. Patterns of provision and request were hierarchical and unidirectional, as was expected for this context. Layering of the two relations was observed to a large degree, suggesting that these networks function instrumentally in that research is generally provided only when it is requested, and that most requests are realized. In considering these findings together, one can imagine a hierarchy of evidence flows, where requests flow one way and provisions flow the opposite direction, most often between the same individuals, but rarely will a pair reverse their roles as requesters and providers. Overall, evidence was provided more often than it was requested. This is consistent with the qualitative interviews where respondents suggested that certain actors, particularly development partners, provided unsolicited evidence.
We observed an absence of homophily, counter to our hypotheses. Homophily covariates did not improve model fit and were thus excluded, except in the case of the malaria request network where actors were less likely to exchange evidence if they belonged to the same organization. This finding reflects the malaria domain in Burkina Faso, where formal and informal institutional arrangements encourage exchanges between government policy-makers and research organizations. In the child health domain, the strategic dissemination of evidence by development partners overcame tendencies towards homophily. The finding that no single individual attribute seemed to drive tie formation was counter to our hypothesis, and to the implicit design of many knowledge translation interventions, but was also recently observed in a municipal public health department in Ontario [20].
Strengths and limitations
This study is the first to empirically measure and model research evidence exchange in policy networks and provides important insights for evidence use in low-income countries. The finding linking frequency of exchanges with likelihood of use is likely generalizable across policy issues and jurisdictions. However, understanding how evidence is being used (and therefore why it is being exchanged) will require knowledge of specific issues and context.
Linked studies exploring the contextual factors surrounding evidence use in these cases add clarity to the motivations for evidence exchange and use; for example that dense exchange networks for child health were associated with symbolic use, that there was little motivation for evidence use in the malaria case, and that evidence was used instrumentally to change policy in the HIV case. Future examples of policy networks will enable the refinement of theories related to network-based markers of evidence use and exchange. Finally, this study is limited, as are most social network analyses, by challenges in collecting complete data on whole networks. Missing data may affect our results.
Implications for policy and practice
In considering how to design network-based interventions for various settings, we suggest the aphorism: `know your network.’ Any knowledge translation intervention should begin with a baseline mapping of relevant policy network(s). While well-designed sociometric surveys remain the gold standard for network mapping, we acknowledge that sampling or ego-based approaches may still add-value above and beyond the status quo. Many local stakeholders have excellent intuition about their networks that can be harnessed to this end.
Deliberative dialogues could use this information to ensure that dialogue attendees are in strategic network positions-not just in strategic organizational positions. Dissemination of research evidence should include a message to share the evidence with a colleague or friend, and an encouragement to also request evidence from those same people. Ultimately, cultural shifts are needed to increase the perception that anyone can provide (or request) evidence; these shifts have occurred in other settings by building capacity and shifting incentives [17].
This study explores the exchange and use of research evidence among policy actors in Burkina Faso. It is among the first of its kind of describe structural and attribute-related factors associated with exchange relationships among policy actors. Study findings suggest that while research exchange networks and their outcomes are highly issue-dependent, networks have a significant influence on knowledge exchange and use. Network variables-including the propensity to send complementary ties, to join sets of three actors, and overall connectedness-were more important than individual characteristics in predicting whether research evidence was provided or requested between actors, and were certainly more important in predicting an actors’ use of evidence. These findings can be leveraged to design knowledge transfer interventions which focus on facilitating or reinforcing exchange relationships.
JCS conceived, designed, carried out the study and drafted the manuscript; MD provided input on study design, data collection, and statistical analysis; JNL provided input on study design, data collection, and measurement. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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We would like to thank Julia Abelson and Gill Walt for feedback on earlier drafts of this paper, as well as members of the University of Washington netmodeling seminar for their comments on the ERGM analysis. Funding for this work was provided to JCS through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Award, and to JCS and JNL through Canada IDRC’s Research Chair in Evidence Informed Policies and Health Systems.
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Rick & Morty follows the exploits of Rick, a mad scientist and his Grandson Morty as they travel across the universe and alternate dimensions. They encounter aliens and numerous planets along their way.
While animated, this series is more intended for an adult audience. With the fourth season of Rick and Morty not far away, viewers may be keen to go back and catch full episodes as a recap.
This quick guide shows the best places to stream Rick & Morty online.
Where to Watch Rick and Morty Online?
The adult orientated show airs on Adult Swim, which is the late-night channel, which is part of the Cartoon Network.
It was created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland and has gained many followers around the globe.
Where can I watch Rick and Morty, is a question often asked, and for all viewers outside the USA, the answer is not very good.
The good news is there are a couple of options where you can access the late-night channel without cable.
How to Watch Adult Swim and Rick and Morty
While pay-TV services are where you usually find this channel, these are becoming old hat and out of favour. Cable and satellite are becoming overpriced and restrictive.
Live streaming services are the answer. They used to be called “Skinny Bundles,” yet many surpass cable offerings. There is more choice and more flexibility without the long contracts.
Here are a couple of options where you can watch Rick and Grandson Morty on their adventures.
Hulu comes with 3 plans. One with ads, one without and one that has live TV. It also has all three seasons of Rick and Morty.
You will be able to watch the show on the small cheapest plan, yet once the fourth season starts, you will need the live TV option.
Prices are:
Hulu with ads $5.99 per month
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Both of these options come with a one-month free trial.
The live TV option is $44.99 per month and comes with a one-week free trial. There are 60+ top channels, which include sports, news, and a load of Hulu Originals series.
Signing up is straightforward once you have a VPN in place, yet some users struggle with payment options.
One of the easiest ways if you face payment issues is a Hulu gift card. You can purchase these online or directly from PayPal in $25 or $50 denominations.
This is the best option because it offers the longest free trial. Other options that come with a one-week trial are
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A VPN is required to access all of the services mentioned above. The choice of these does need considering because not all provide the best service to remote regions.
One of the most crucial things is download speed. If this isn’t sufficient, then you will encounter buffering, which will ruin your viewing experience.
For the best streaming experience, the recommended VPN is ExpressVPN.
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PlantCollections - A Community Solution
Boyce Tankersley, Christopher Dunn, Min Cai Henderson, David Vieglais, Greg Riccardi, Pam Allenstein, Dietrich Kappe
PlantCollections - A Community Solution is the first free application developed to serve the needs of scientists, students and gardeners that provides access on the World Wide Web to information stored in plant record databases of botanic gardens and arboreta. This information supports research into plants; the environments in which they are found; and their growth, propagation, ornamental characteristics and causes of death in gardens.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v13i8.2256
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Joint Commonwealth Fund
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In an increasingly automated world, reliable passive income for your families and causes becomes crucial. Blockchain technologies pave the way.
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Joint Commonwealth Fund (JCF) is an index fund designed to achieve Universal Basic Income (UBI) through automated cryptocurrency investment. Wealth is poorly distributed, resulting in increasingly high poverty for people from all walks of life; affordable housing, medical expenses, and diminishing pensions are resulting in poverty rates never before seen. With an index fund that invests in cryptos and runs on blockchain, we put capital to work to both create and distribute wealth effectively, for everyone.
What is Cryptocurrency?
A cryptocurrency is a digital asset that can transfer stored values and has limited supply. It is like gold or paper (fiat) currencies but is faster, more secure, and cheaper to transfer. It is currency’s next evolution, seen by many as the future of digital money.
What is Index Fund?
Index fund is a portfolio of selected assets designed to grow without active management. It returns profits if the asset values grow as a whole. Research shows that index funds perform better than 90% of actively managed funds. Warren Buffett also sees them as the reliable vehicle of choice for most investors.
What is Universal Basic Income?
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the idea that each human being is entitled to receive a certain amount of money periodically for basic living. Once without the burden to make a living, individuals can pursue personal and social goals more freely (be a full-time mom, aspiring artist, world traveler, or entrepreneur, etc.)
HOW JCF BUILDS INCOME WHILE BRIDGING WEALTH GAP?
Top 10 Holding
One joins JCF by investing cryptos such as ethereum to build up a portfolio of the top 10 cryptos based on their market capitalizations. Relative ratios among assets held are adjusted monthly by applying an “index fund” strategy.
Open Fund
JCF is designed to be open, as new participants can join any time. You can buy or redeem JCF tokens any time, without having to secure the consent or agreement of any authority.
Dividend-Paying
JCF’s profits (an increase in JCF token’s Net Asset Value, or NAV), ALL go into a “dividend pool”, where 25% of the pool is paid out monthly as dividends to JCF participants, in the form of new JCF tokens.
50% of the monthly dividends paid are “common dividend” based on the participant’s token holding ratio; the other 50% are paid as “shared dividend” across ALL verified token holders. Profits thus are redistributed automatically.
(“Monthly Dividend Mechanism”)
How to invest?
Crypto/Blockchain is one of the most promising, high-growth asset classes that may suppress stocks, bonds, or real estates. With our very friendly fee structure (0% entry, 0% annual), the potential return is maximized over time.
JCF invests with the proven index-based approach and pays monthly dividend tokens that can be reinvested, donated, or cashed out to fiat currency as a source of passive income for ANY purpose, providing financial security and freedom.
We’re on a social mission, not an “enrich the rich” mission. 7% of the dividends paid are given to individuals or organizations at your discretion. The recipients are entitled to the same benefits and passive income as other investors.
You might have heard of Bitcoin or Ethereum in the news, they are cryptocurrencies. It’s basically digital currency protected by very strong encryptions so that it’s nearly impossible to forge. It’s more efficient, secure, and decentralized in many ways than existing paper (fiat) currencies issued by governments. Because it is issued by a collection of “miners” instead of a centralized agency like the government, its value/price is mostly due to market forces as opposed to government officials or bankers. For major cryptos such as Bitcoin, it’s generally agreed that no single agency / group can control its supply.
Isn’t cryptocurrency very risky?
Cryptos is a new field and like the Wild West, sheriff is yet in town (though they’re coming! as governments are starting to regulate them). There are many factors that could impact the price, even the survivability of individual crypto coins or tokens. Lacking strong fundamentals, perhaps 95% or even 99% of today’s cryptos (1,600+ as of Aug. 2018) may disappear in 5 years, similar to how many Internet companies rise and fall during the 2000 dotcom bubble. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t fundamental values to cryptocurrency technology or use cases, where some likely will survive and become the backbone of a new digital economy. With an index fund approach, we’re not betting on any individual crypto, but on the overall trends, and our approach looks at time span of 5 years or more. When you’re taking note of the trend instead of individual performers, the risk is highly reduced. The only major risk is if cryptocurrency fail collectively. However, most trend observers agree that cryptos are here to stay.
Will cryptocurrency be banned?
it’s nearly impossible for crypto to be banned by governments, and there are two basic reasons: 1) the network of machines that sustain a particular crypto is distributed across the whole Internet, and they all have a copy of the same records, so unless the Internet is shutdown, the crypto network will exist in some form; 2) there is a well-established international network of banking system, where money can transfer from any country, to a crypto-friendly country, where it can then be used to purchase cryptos. So even if a government disallow crypto trading or exchange within its borders, its people can still buy / trade / use crypto by buying elsewhere.
Is cryptocurrency legal?
in many countries, there are not yet formal laws governing the use, holding, or transactions of cryptos, but most existing laws would trade cryptos as a form of digital properties (similar to in-game currency issued by game companies) and would make it fall under consumer laws. Unless specifically banned (for example, China bans companies from performing Initial Coin Offering, or ICOs). The holding and/or trading of cryptocurrency is not illegal in most countries (please refer to this list on specific countries).
How do I purchase JCF tokens?
Currently a person can only participate by invitation from either the JCF staff or another friend who’s already a JCF member. Next, you need to have some existing Ethereum (ETH) in our to purchase our JCF token. There are many exchanges where you can do this. Once you’ve been invited by existing JCF token holders to create accounts, you will find a custom, user-specific Ethereum address to fund your account. We will then use the current ETH to USD exchange ratio to determine how many JCF tokens your fund can purchase at JCF’s current Net Asset Value (NAV). The purchased JCF tokens will be stored at your own Ethereum wallet address within your JCF account. In the future we may support sending the tokens to your own Ethereum wallet.
How do you mine your token?
The JCF token is based on Ethereum, so all the mining involved are related to Ethereum’s current mining and operation mechanisms. The JCF tokens are created by our team alone, without having to be mined. The scarcity (limited supply) of the token is determined and guaranteed by the JCF smart contract.
How do you support basic income?
The “profits” of the Joint Commonwealth Fund, defined as the increase in Net Asset Value (NAV) of each token of the fund each year, will be put into a “dividend pool”, where 25% from the pool are paid as dividends to all token holders in two forms: 1) common dividend (determined by the holding ratio) and 2) shared dividend (paid to all “verified” natural person token holder). The design is that these annual dividends will serve as a form of passive income to JCF token holders, and when the amount exceeds some minimal living requirements (which vary from place to place), it can then be considered as a form of “basic income”.
How is JCF different from other “financial products”?
We differ from other financial instruments in our WHY and HOW: JCF started with the intention to realize UBI sooner than governments enactment, and to let technology serve humanity, instead of the other way around. As such, JCF in practice is more like the a “social dividend” system paid from a sovereign wealth fund as proposed by Guy Standing, except that this fund isn’t started by government, but by private investors who identify with the social mission of the fund. But the mechanisms are similar: when such a socially-oriented fund is established and may generate profits/dividends over time, the dividends can be redistributed to existing members such that everyone benefits, and wealth redistribution is built in. To our knowledge, most active or passive funds do not have such as “wealth redistribution” mechanism built in, and even so, such as the Alaska Permanent Fund, its membership would be limited to a certain geography (thus cannot be worldwide, which JCF potentially can), or the distribution mechanism would be costly (e.g., mailing out checks to citizens to cash in the dividend). Here JCF is trying to utilize the latest technology in smart contract to ensure automatic, verifiable, and transparent wealth redistribution, while providing identity checks via the latest ID technologies such as online KYC. All for the purpose to ensure a low-cost approach to build and manage a fund that may pay out a form of “social dividend.”
Sounds interesting! how do I learn more?
Please go read our whitepaper, which has the most detailed descriptions regarding the design and operations of JCF.
How are you different from many other “crypto index funds”?
There are quite a few "crypto index funds" out there (for example, Crypto20 being a more accessible one, it invests in the top 20 cryptos on behalf of investors), there are also some CryptoUBI efforts (Mannabase that distributes "free coins" to anyone who register, and supports its coin value by donated money that buys the coins on crypto exchange). But pure "crypto index funds" are simply wealth instruments (out of reach to less privileged people), while cryptoUBI coins likely will take some time to build up its coin value slowly (the "wealth accumulation" occurs only when many people decides to use and adopt it, so the UBI it distributes currently over months of periods amounts to only a few US dollars). Here's what we're doing differently: we use "crypto index fund" to build wealth (assuming overall blockchain will be on the rise in the near future), while using the same blockchain technology to also redistribute wealth via smart contract. So "blockchain tech" here is used both for wealth accumulation, and also redistribution, whereas most existing proposals appear to be only doing one or the other. If you know any other projects that work like ours, we'd be happy to know and exchange! thanks!
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World War II, Hitler, Cold War, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Space Race More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=j2eKaxU-8kA
How to classify numbers | Numbers and operations | 8th grade | Khan Academy
Learn how to classify numbers as whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, and irrational numbers. Practice this lesson yourself on KhanAcademy.org right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-numbers-operations/cc-8th-irrational-numbers/e/identifying-whole–integer–and-rational-numbers?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=8thgrade Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-numbers-operations/cc-8th-approximating-irrational-numbers/v/approximating-square-roots-2?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=8thgrade Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-numbers-operations/cc-8th-irrational-numbers/v/recognizing-irrational-numbers?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=8thgrade 8th grade on Khan Academy: 8th grade is all about tackling the meat of algebra and getting exposure to some of the…
Absolute value smallest to biggest | Pre-Algebra | Khan Academy
Not only will we identify several absolute values in this example, but we will order them from smallest to largest. Content provided by The NROC Project – ©Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Practice this lesson yourself on KhanAcademy.org right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/abs_value_tutorial/e/absolute_value?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=PreAlgebra Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/abs_value_tutorial/v/absolute-value-of-integers?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=PreAlgebra Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/absolute-value/abs_value_tutorial/v/absolute-value-and-number-lines?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=PreAlgebra Pre-Algebra on Khan…
Mitosis | Cells | MCAT | Khan Academy
Mitosis is how cells divide! Learn what happens in all the phases of mitosis: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/cells/cellular-division/v/comparing-mitosis-and-meiosis?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=mcat Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/cells/cellular-division/v/interphase?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=mcat MCAT on Khan Academy: Go ahead and practice some passage-based questions! About Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard…
Solving for F in terms of C | Linear equations | Algebra I | Khan Academy
Solving for a Variable 2 Practice this lesson yourself on KhanAcademy.org right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/solving_for_variable/e/solving_for_a_variable?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=AlgebraI Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/solving_for_variable/v/example-of-solving-for-a-variable?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=AlgebraI Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/solving-linear-equations-and-inequalities/solving_for_variable/v/solving-for-a-variable?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=AlgebraI Algebra I on Khan Academy: Algebra is the language through which we describe patterns. Think of it as a shorthand, of sorts. As opposed to having to do something over and…
Monotonicity Theorem
Using the monotonicity theorem to determine when a function is increasing or decreasing.
Stokes example part 1 | Multivariable Calculus | Khan Academy
Starting to apply Stokes theorem to solve a line integral Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/surface-integrals/stokes_theorem/v/part-2-parameterizing-the-surface?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=MultivariableCalculus Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus/surface-integrals/stokes_theorem/v/conditions-for-stokes-theorem?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=MultivariableCalculus Multivariable Calculus on Khan Academy: Think calculus. Then think algebra II and working with two variables in a single equation. Now generalize and combine these two mathematical concepts, and you begin to see some of…
Format changes to the new SAT | Tips & Planning | New SAT | Khan Academy
In March 2016, the SAT is switching to a new format. Sal covers how the exam is changing. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/new-sat/new-sat-tips-planning/new-sat-about-sat/v/sat-differences-of-new-sat?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=NewSAT Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/new-sat/new-sat-tips-planning/new-sat-about-sat/v/walk-through-sat-practice-platform?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=NewSAT New SAT (starting March 2016) on Khan Academy: Practice all of the skills you’ll need for the new SAT. We also have four official practice exams from…
Marginal cost and average total cost | Microeconomics | Khan Academy
Looking at marginal and average total cost in the context of a juice business Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/firm-economic-profit/average-costs-margin-rev/v/marginal-revenue-and-marginal-cost?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=microeconomics Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/firm-economic-profit/economic-profit-tutorial/v/depreciation-and-opportunity-cost-of-capital?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=microeconomics Microeconomics on Khan Academy: Topics covered in a traditional college level introductory microeconomics course About Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower…
Naming ions and ionic compounds | Atoms, compounds, and ions | Chemistry | Khan Academy
Naming cations, anions, and simple ionic compounds such as potassium chloride. View more lessons or practice this subject at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry/atomic-structure-and-properties/introduction-to-compounds/v/naming-ions-and-ionic-compounds?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=desc&utm_campaign=chemistry Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We offer quizzes, questions, instructional videos, and articles on a range of academic subjects, including math, biology,…
Oligopolies, duopolies, collusion, and cartels | Microeconomics | Khan Academy
Thinking about when oligopolies behave more like monopolies or perfect competitors Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/nash-equilibrium-tutorial/nash-eq-tutorial/v/prisoners-dilemma-and-nash-equilibrium?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=microeconomics Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/perfect-competition-topic/monopolistic-competition-oligop/v/monopolistic-competition-and-economic-profit?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=microeconomics Microeconomics on Khan Academy: Topics covered in a traditional college level introductory microeconomics course About Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study…
Worked example: sequence convergence/divergence | Series | AP Calculus BC | Khan Academy
How can we tell if a sequence converges or diverges? See Sal in action, determining the convergence/divergence of several sequences. Created by Sal Khan. Practice this lesson yourself on KhanAcademy.org right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-bc/bc-series/bc-inf-sequences/e/convergence-and-divergence-of-sequences?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=APCalculusBC Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-bc/bc-series/bc-finite-geo-series/v/series-as-sum-of-sequence?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=APCalculusBC Missed the previous lesson? https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-calculus-bc/bc-series/bc-inf-sequences/v/convergent-and-divergent-sequences?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=APCalculusBC AP Calculus BC on Khan Academy: Learn AP Calculus BC – everything…
Option expiration and price | Finance & Capital Markets | Khan Academy
Option Expiration and Price. Created by Sal Khan. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/derivative-securities/forward-futures-contracts/v/forward-contract-introduction?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=financeandcapitalmarkets Missed the previous lesson? Watch here: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/derivative-securities/put-call-options/v/actual-option-quotes?utm_source=YT&utm_medium=Desc&utm_campaign=financeandcapitalmarkets Finance and capital markets on Khan Academy: Options allow investors and speculators to hedge downside (or upside). It allows them to trade on a belief that prices will change a lot–just not clear about direction.…
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Blog, Couples Therapy for Parents, New Mom Struggles
Do You Have a Mother-in-Law? (or any difficult relatives)
Do you have a mother-in-law? The kind that doesn't "wear beige" and has a critical opinion about everything you do or intermittently shares her opinion with you, so you never know when she'll verbally strike? The kind that boasts about…
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Blog, New Mom Struggles
Double Pinky Promise
As you may recall, I wrote a poem called "Through the Yellow Door" about my struggle with my son's transition to Kindergarten and my realization that the only way to let go and move forward was for me to mourn and launch, too (which are actual…
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The Lessons Our Children ("Big Souls on Little Legs") Teach Us
I first heard the expression "Big Souls on Little Legs" at a Love and Logic workshop presented by Barry Ebert, a wise and warm-hearted youth pastor at Mile Hi Church. This phrase captured what helped me survive and later thrive during my parenting…
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The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting (based on Brene Brown's work)
“We all know that perfect parenting does not exist, yet we still struggle with the social expectations that teach us that being imperfect is synonymous with being inadequate. These messages are powerful and weend up spending precious time…
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Compassion Can End Mommy Perfectionism & Competition
“We're killing ourselves trying to be perfect and it's making us insane.” - Amy, Mom of two (Mila Kunis in “Bad Moms”) I think mothers today are lucky to have affirming pop cultural messages from movies like “Bad Moms”, which…
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Begin in Savasana & Other Self-Care Ideas for Busy Moms
“Only when we learn that taking care of ourselves is as necessary as taking care of our families; only when we begin to accept ourselves, imperfections and all; only when we permit ourselves to face the limits of what we can do for the people…
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Through the Yellow Door- A Mother's Journey to Kindergarten
The yellow door is the FIRST of many... that I cannot follow you through. I can only have faith that you'll be okay with your new Kindergarten crew. Gone are the long days of motherhood when we explored together- front carrying, hiking, stroller…
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Watch: Karma Wears White Ties Air "Maybe" Music Video
Chicago indie pop/rock band Karma Wears White Ties have aired the video for their current single "Southside".
The song is part of our current playlist and is the second single taken from their forthcoming EP 'Southside', which will be out this Sunday.
Check out the video below.
(facebook.com/karmawearswhiteties)
Publicado por KOOL ROCK RADIO en Friday, July 03, 2015 No comments: Enlaces a esta entrada
Etiquetas: Brian Flores, indie pop, Indie Rock, Karma Wears White Ties, Maybe, new video, Southside EP
Watch: The Creases Share Music Video For "Point"
Brisbane indie rock/pop band The Creases have shared the video for their newest single "Point".
The song is part of our current playlist and came out last week (June 26) via Liberation Music OZ. Buy it here.
(facebook.com/TheCreases)
Etiquetas: indie pop, Indie Rock, Joe Agius, Liberation Music OZ, new single, new video, Point, The Creases
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General Election 2019: One week to go – BBC News
Good evening, in a week’s time, next Thursday night, the poles will have closed the ballot boxes will be on their way to the counting centres on the first indications will image of the likely outcome of this election campaign. No surprise, then, that the parties have stepped up campaigning today or does Johnson was promising to pause his brexit deal until the budget within a hundred days. If elected to raise money, he said for schools in the NHS those plans are. Fantasy according to the lib Dems. Why labor from history 20000 extra teachers to make up for what it calls a decade of Tory failure? Hey these protesters were lying and wait for Boris Johnson in Derbyshire inside. He was driving to take us out of the EU by the end of next month to cut taxes on your pay and to relax the years-long he’s on public spending. To you, that’s what I should be said. We are seven days, Seven Days, Seven Days 7 days to get out of this three-and-a-half-year Pitstop that we’ve eaten and the pictures the world believe me tattoo. The promises are easy to make him come pains harder to keep your lucky enough to. When you have a budget in February that would cut taxes for people over. All your Manifesto would raise tax when you say everytime get brexit done. You could do it by the end of January, just open up take months, if not years, more negotiations. What time we actually believe from you or what cutting taxes on business rates for cutting National Insurance contributions for everybody in the country as far as filthy bust? It means we are no longer part of the legal and part of the EU. Several brexit party MVPs quit their own press conference. Today I only stood in May to fight for brexit, so they’re back people ready to be joined. The Coalition that I put together. They clearly with disaffected with Mrs may as leader and deposit, try to hang on to it. But you then pees in Scotland come together next week to vote in a way that locks the Toadies out of government that allows Scotland to escape the mess or brexit. Although there’s not much cheer for the lib Dems, the search Joe Swenson hope for isn’t much in evidence. The message stays the same when they walk into the police station and they get the pencil put their cruel and they can choose to put that cross next to the liberal Democrat logo on to vote, to stop Braxton to vote for brighter future winning the country. But time is running out for all sides in this campaign. The big picture suggest the Tories are on course to be the biggest party, but home and dry. By can governments don’t be so sure? Jeremy corbyn, speak. Hope, of course, is to move into number 10 himself to spend a lot more taxpayers cash on schools and public services, with a much bigger role for the state, a country where all children get a real chance. Victoria’S you carry on with the Stars, so you carry on with increasing gaps between the richest and the poorest, we’re very clear, and it will give will hope and opportunity to everyone in this country snooze option so whether it’s the conservatives in that promise of a attacks Cutting budget Olivas pledge to reduce clothes sizes and recruit thousands of extra teachers. The question is ever is whether the plans makes sense in terms of food originally said it’s at Faisal. Islam has been looking at the detail and he was not aware of the dates in terms of conservative plans, meaning extra taxes, but what’s the small print on claims of attack budget, there is a smallest tax cuts for workers, national insurance payments, which, after inflation, is with 85 lb sources of Revenue, tax revenue raised that goes up over six billion pounds after the cancellation of a tax cut the businesses. That’S already in low put a rule, you can call that a text cutting budget, the conservatives disappointed evidence of a tight ship on the public finances and levels should remain contained, only really used for investment purposes, but the chancellor was also pressed on brexit and what happens If the UK don’t leave in January, but with no trade deal in a year’s time, the chance that could happen. If the Prime Minister said he would not extend trade deal, negotiations independent columnist think the hits from that sort of exit is measurable. I’M going to leave tomorrow in game shop. Please up and take foreign levels to the same bull Park is labor plans. It’S trade negotiation and a similar scenario for labor economic strategy would see the redline considerably higher labor spending offer today was on education bearing to deliver 20,000. You teachers and cut class sizes 230 peoples England. Supposed to be significant increase in per-pupil spending. It would leave it at six and a half thousand pounds well above where it was at the start of the spending squeeze and funded by tax Rises, labor only on the top 5 % Savannah’s on business, but countries that raises much tax from their economies as labor Plans usually text average workers much more than Britain labor says it can book this trend, dozens of current and former staff of the Labour party of giving sworn statements in relation to allegations of anti-Semitism in the potty. The statements collected by the Jewish labor will form part of its submission to the equality and Human Rights Commission, which is investigating play the party because we believed in his true values that his auntie racism and social justice. We witnessed violation of those values, for the very people meant to be leaving all movements Stickman earlier today in the Labour leader, Jeremy, corbyn assistant processes in the body to deal with allegations of anti-Semitism have, in his words, improved a great the BBC’s Andrew Neil has challenged. Boris Johnson, to take part in an interview with him before next week’s election unlock Jeremy, corbyn and Jo Swinson, Nigel farage Nicola sturgeon, the Johnson has not faced the half-hour Primetime BBC One interview with misdemeanor no broadcast. I can compel a politician to be interviewed, but Lisa’s interviews ability part of the BBC’s Primetime election coverage for decades. We do them on your behalf to scrutinise those that is democracy. We’Ve always preceded in good faith that the leaders would participate in every election. They have all of them until this one was on speaking earlier Downing Street says that the prime minister has been interviewed by the BBC several times throughout the campaign and will be appearing in a debate with Jeremy Colvin tomorrow night on BBC One
In the last week of election campaigning the UK’s party leaders have been pressing home their key political pledges. The Conservatives say a majority for them will mean Brexit and a budget that will cut national insurance for workers, within the first hundred days. Labour has pledged to recruit twenty thousand more teachers – part of its overall bid to end what it calls “years of Tory failure”.
But whatever the pledges, the question is whether the plans add up, and make sense in terms of government finances. The BBC’s economics editor Faisal Islam investigates the details.
Part of the BBC News at Ten’s coverage of the 2019 UK General Election. Presented by Huw Edwards with contributions from BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg and economics editor Faisal Islam.
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At the Threshold of the Scientific Age
Wolfgang W. Osterhage
Part of the Springer Biographies book series (SPRINGERBIOGS)
Pages i-ix
Time and Space (1564–1642)
Early Years (1564–1588)
Pisa—Gravitational Experiments (1589–1592)
Padua—Important Steps in Astronomy (1592–1610)
Florence—Discoveries and Conflicts (1610–1623)
Cosmological Excursions
Florence Revisited—Dialogo and Its Consequences (1624–1633)
Final Years (1633–1642)
This new scientific biography of Galileo explores the influences on, and of, his exceptional work, thereby revealing novel connections with the worldviews of his age and beyond.
Galileo Galilei's contribution to science is unquestionable. And his conflict with the church establishment of his time is no less famous. In this book, authored by a physicist and history scholar, Galileo's life and work are described against a backdrop of the prior scientific state of the art in his various fields of achievement. Particular emphasis is placed on Galileo's vision of the world in relation to historic and also future cosmological models. The impact of his discoveries and theories for the later development of physics and astronomy is a further focus of the narrative.
Galileo Galilei biography Astronomy and worldviews Birth of physics Heliocentric model Geocentric model Church Index Galileo and Ptolemy Early gravity experiments Galileo and Kepler Medieval and modern worldviews
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Copyright Information Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
eBook Packages Physics and Astronomy
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District Judge David Reich, '82 Receives Inagural GameChanger Award
UND Law Features
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South Central District Judge David Reich got tired of seeing the same faces in his courtroom, so he started a running program to help keep addicts from relapsing.
More than five years later, the Bismarck judge is in Ecuador with Los Angeles skid row inmates and is the inaugural winner of the GameChanger Award.
The award, which replaces the annual Tribune Awards, commends people who go above and beyond to do good works, promote change and show kindness. It was awarded Saturday at the GameChanger Ideas Festival, hosted annually by Humanities North Dakota to debate important issues and promote innovative thinking.
Reich was announced the winner for his continued work with Runners Against Destructive Decisions, or RADD, a group he formed five years ago to help people recovering from addiction.
Reich wasn't able to accept the award in person, as he and two of his RADD runners were in Ecuador to run the Guayaquil Marathon on Sunday along with Los Angeles County Judge Craig Mitchell and 20 skid row inmates who are members of Mitchell's Midnight Mission Running Club.
Read more at Bismarck Tribune, by Bilal Suleiman, October 5, 2019
Local Judge Goes the Extra Mile - KX News, by Renee Cooper December 4, 2019 (video)
Local Judge Raises Money to Send Runners to Ecuador, Bismarck Tribune, Blair Emerson, March 5, 2019
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Jerry Parker Jr
Fayetteville, NC Attorney
(910) 892-9175 2919 Breezewood Ave
Free ConsultationAnimal, Business, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Campbell University
Jerry D. Parker, Jr., is a co-founding principal partner of Parker & Frey, PLLC. Mr. Parker directs all litigation operations. Mr. Parker is personally involved in every case and insures that each client receives impeccable representation. Mr. Parker's litigation team includes very experienced attorneys and paralegals as well as investigators who have worked as a cohesive unit successfully for over 25 years. Jerry recently received an AV rating from his peers, which means that he was deemed to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability. Only lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability receive a...
Rebecca Britton
Fayetteville, NC Attorney with 27 years experience
(888) 811-9738 2850 Village Drive, Suite 206
Campbell Law School
Rebecca Britton has fought for injured people across North Carolina for more than 23 years, representing those who have suffered serious harm or the loss of a loved on by another's negligence and helping individuals and families recover the compensation they need to move forward. She is well-known for the respect and care she offers her clients and has earned numerous honors for her professional standing and service to her clients and the Fayetteville Community.
Woodberry Bowen
Lumberton, NC Attorney
(910) 739-4357 433 N Elm St
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Matthew Plyler
Fayetteville, NC Lawyer with 27 years experience
(910) 483-4529 2545 Ravenhill Drive, Suite 105
DUI & DWI and Personal Injury
Attorney Matthew R. Plyler is a dedicated Fayetteville attorney focusing on serious personal injury. Mr. Plyler has been in practice since 1993 and is admitted to practice in North Carolina, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina. More information about Attorney Plyler can be found by visiting www.plylerlaw.com or by calling Plyler Law Firm at (910) 248-4276.
Robert E Price
LUMBERTON, NC Lawyer with 39 years experience
(910) 739-8172 408 N Chestnut Street
Business, Collections and Municipal
I concentrate in the areas of Local Government Law, Foreclosures, Civil Litigation, Document Preparation, and Business Law, and I am available to assist with most matters other than domestic disputes, criminal cases, disability, workers compensation, bankruptcy, or tax law.
Grant W. Patten
108 Hay St., Suite 302
Appeals, Bankruptcy, Business and Tax
Benjamin T. Cochran
(910) 333-3333 327 Dick Street
Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Managing partner Benjamin T. Cochran oversees the operation of Hardison & Cochran Attorneys at Law in addition to representing individual clients in cases involving workers’ compensation and personal injury law.
A lifelong North Carolinian, Cochran knew from his high-school days in High Point that he wanted to be an attorney. He received a B.A. degree in economics and African-American studies from the University of North Carolina in 1999 and then enrolled at the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University.
As a second-year law student, Cochran started working part-time in the law firm he now manages. During his third year...
Bruce Allen
(910) 867-7770 1000 Wildwood Drive
Bankruptcy, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Traffic Tickets
Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Concentrating in consumer and business Bankruptcy with over 25 years experience in the law. I limit the number of cases so that I know my clients and cases. Also experienced in tax issues, civil and criminal trials, both bench and jury, settlement, mediation, and all means to empower clients and produce a favorable result. My knowledge also includes contracts, adoptions, domestic matters, wills, estates, and most matters which may arise. Let me and my assistants tend to your matter. By practicing bankruptcy law I am a debt relief agency under federal law and proudly represent persons with debt problems.
David Courie
(910) 323-4600 230 Green Street
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Traffic Tickets and White Collar Crime
Danny Earl Britt Jr
Lumberton, NC Attorney with 16 years experience
(910) 671-4500 107 N. Court Square, Suite 22
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Domestic Violence
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Peifer NewsJeremy Critchfield2019-12-11T14:33:14-06:00
Miss Bourget, a third grade teacher, celebrated Thanksgiving with her students by placing them in designated Native American tribes and allowing them to use pieces of paper as crops or other materials to trade with the other tribes in the classroom. The students learned how to independently trade with other tribes and even experienced “uh-oh” cards which were cards that hindered them from trading at specific times.
Mrs. Savitski, the school librarian, taught one of her first grade classes how to make scarecrows out of paper bags for the Thanksgiving holiday. The students learned to glue the pieces together and follow directions.
On Monday Nov. 11, the students and staff invited their families to the annual Veteran’s Day Ceremony. The ceremony was held to honor all veterans who had served or are currently serving in the armed forces. Each grade contributed to the ceremony with either a speaking presentation or a song. To end the ceremony, the students came together along with Mr. DeLaughter to sing “God Bless the USA.”
Socktober was in full force at Peifer for the month of October. Socktober is a fundraiser to donate small items, such as socks, to give to people at homeless shelters. The whole school was asked to participate and many items were donated. Student council was in charge of separating all of the clothing items and Miss Chloros and Miss Rossi were in charge of promoting the fundraiser. The idea was seen on an episode of Kid President and sparked a schoolwide fundraiser.
Organized by Miss Colgrove, a fourth grade teacher, students at Peifer have been asked to participate on the special days of Anti-Bullying Month. Students were encouraged to participate in themed days that help raise awareness for the trouble of bullying among students. Some days included making encouraging signs to put outside of the classrooms, making leaves for the school’s unity tree, random act of kindness day, and even an orange out. Throughout the two weeks that these events were held, students and teachers worked hard to create door decorations for each classroom that would be judged at the end of the festivities. The winning classroom is then rewarded with ice cream to celebrate their creativity and participation in this good cause.
For almost 18 years, Henry Zahrn has been coming to read to Mrs. Izsak’s third grade classes. He comes in every Tuesday and picks out a book to read to the children and also records it for his Youtube Channel. This reading benefits Henry by helping him read out loud and interact with the students. The children are eager to hear from him each week.
On Sept. 26 Tim Hanning visited Peifer for another year of the “Pro-Kids Show”. Tim entices the children’s imagination and dares them to laugh at the amusing show he puts on. Tim encourages the students to make good choices that reflect positive character qualities all while putting on a magic show. He performed twice during the day and even came back to put on a show that night for the students and parents.
Pythons and armadillos and owls! Oh my!
On Tues., Feb. 19, the Silly Safari brought a zoo to the gym. Students learned about many different animals including the similarities and differences between reptiles, amphibians and mammals. While the owl proved how smart it was by flapping its wings whenever its handler said “wings,” the bunny rabbit seemed to be the favorite, at least among the kindergarteners. The biggest animal that was brought was the python named Nagini. All of the grades got to see a different combination of animals, and each grade had the opportunity to pet the animals on their way out!
Students in all grades participated in Valentine’s Day parties. From sweets to games, students were able to have fun and enjoy the holiday.
Learning from the pros
On Feb. 13, second graders learned all about journalism and writing from Mr. Jerry Davich of the Chicago Tribune. Davich showed a powerpoint presentation showcasing all of the work he has done as a reporter.
100 Days Smarter!
On Wednesday, January 23, students celebrated the 100th day of school. Kindergarteners dressed up as elderly “100-year-olds,” and first graders wore homemade shirts that displayed 100 items or a cute saying about surviving 100 days of school.
Penny Wars is a fundraiser ran by Lake Central Dollars for Scholars. The money brought in by students goes directly toward a scholarship that will be awarded to a Peifer graduate.
In honoring Martin Luther King Jr., students made projects declaring what their individual dreams are. While some are more serious and some are more lighthearted, all students respected the idea of creating a better future for themselves and society. On January 21, MLK day, school was closed for a day of remembrance.
To ring in the new year, students crafted new year’s “toasts.” Most of the resolutions wished for happiness and healthiness in the new year.
Counting Candy Canes
In Mrs. Kaitlyn Rossi’s first grade class, students broke into small groups to do math centers. The students worked on the math skills they have learned throughout the first semester, but with a holiday twist.
From reindeer to snowmen, the halls are decked with boughs of holly and holiday spirit. Every class has their own way of decorating for the holiday season.
Kindergarten Holiday Program
On December 13, the Kindergarten Holiday Program filled the gymnasium with Holiday spirit. Students sang songs they had been practicing with their classmates and everyone in the audience left with a smile.
Elflandia
For some early holiday cheer, third graders gathered on Dec. 12 to sing songs while dressed as elves. The highlight of the performance was when they sang “I want an Elfie Selfie!” and ran out to the audience to take a picture with their families.
All Aboard on Polar Express Day!
Kicking off the holiday season, second graders boarded the Polar Express with Conductor DeLaughter. The students received a golden ticket to ride the train to the cafeteria where they drank hot chocolate and ate donuts. One lucky student received the first gift of Christmas: bells from Santa’s sleigh.
Disney Day
Kindergartners in Ms. Ashley Chloros’ class dressed up in their best Disney spirit wear.
Happy Veteran’s Day from Peifer Elementary School!
Students celebrated Halloween with class parties and a costume parade.
On Wednesday, Oct. 24, students came to Lake Central High School to see the play Charlotte’s Web.
Boo Bash
On Friday, Oct. 19, Peifer hosted the annual Boo Bash, an event for students to come to school in costume, play games and win prizes.
Firehouse Field Trip
On Friday, Oct. 12, kindergartners took a field trip to the Schererville Fire House.
Farm Day
On Oct. 11, students participated in Farm Day where they dressed up like characters from Charlotte’s Web.
Adventure Club is a before and after school care program for students to have fun and learn.
Welcome to the 2018-2019 school year at Peifer Elementary!
It has been a great year for the lake central school corporation. Another school year has come and gone in a blur. Congratulations to all of the 2018 graduates and good luck in your future endeavors. Have a great summer everyone!
Senior Walk Through
It has come to the end of the school year. The time that kindergartener are moving on to the first grade, 8th graders are graduating to high school and Seniors are graduating to college. Today some of Lake Centrals Seniors went back and visited where it all started. Some of the Class of 2018 went to pay a visit to their old elementary schools. They said hi to their old teachers, reminisced about some of their memories and got to show the current students where they will be someday. It was a bittersweet moment for everyone, the staff and students, to see how fast time has flown by.
Art Show.
Peifer students have covered the halls with their art. Students invited family to come look at their work and even dance a little. The art show is to showcase the very talented students in Peifer elementary. Parents couldn’t look more proud while gazing at all of the hard work and beautiful creations that lined the walls and hung from the ceilings. Then they ended the night with music and dancing for everyone to join.
Kids Pro Show
The kids pro show brings everything to the table. Their is magic and jokes and singing. Really anything a kid could want. So and sis we how to get the students excited as well as the parents. It was a night of fun and laughter, a nice break from all the school work.
There has many award shows going on in Hollywood but this award show went on in oeifers classrooms. The 2nd graders had an award show for their favorite stories so far in the year. They also had awards for things like their favorite authors of these stories. The students dressed up in their best clothes and got to read off the nominees and then the winners to the whole class. After all the awards they got to go take a group picture on the red carpet in the hallway.
Peifer students are feeling the loving spirit on this Valentine’s day. All classes had a Valentine party at the end of the day. With students playing games and making crafts. Then of course giving out Valentine’s, like cookies or suckers to each and everyone. The classrooms were full of pink , red and hearts everywhere. They walked out of school with smiles on their faces, big candy bags in their hands and love in their hearts.
Silly Safari
On Feb. 8th Peifer had a visit by Amazon John from Silly Safaris. Amazon John visits different schools around the area, but he is not alone when he visits. Along with him are some of the animals that can be found in a rainforest. The animals he brought with ranged from an owl to a tree frog and even a beetle. He began by teaching the kids about each level of the rainforest and each levels role in its society. Once he started to explain each role, he would show the animals or insects that inhabited that level. He even allowed for some of the kids to play these roles and let them hold the animals in the process. So not only was it something exciting and new for the students but they learned something as well. Then once it was over each kid was able to get a closer look at all of the animals and even pet Amazon Johns dog that tags along on his trips.
In Mr. Terrys art class students would be learning from paint. To start off the class they had to separate their paper plates into sections for the primary colors. Once they all had the primary colors down they were ready to create new colors out of just those three. Taking blue,red and yellow, they would combined two at a time to create colors such as orange. It was all smiles when the art students began to see new colors forming on their plates.
Peifer students are learning different character conflicts in the book, “The Wizard of Oz”. They were going through different conflicts; character vs. self, character vs. nature and character vs. society. Each character was put onto the smart board and students were asked what character conflict they had gone through during the chapters previously read. Later, they would take what they have learned and after the hard work they would get to be creative. Each student would be assigned a character and would have to make it out of paper and then write about what they know on that character.
Getting into the holiday spirit.
Students are starting to get into the holiday spirit. Now that it is officially after thanksgiving they can break out all of the Christmas decorations and projects. Starting out with something simple and a Christmas classic,they are coloring gingerbread. But it is not just any coloring project,they have to follow different rules to know what to color with which color. For example,if they are a boy they color it blue,if a girl, color it pink. This makes for some exciting final pictures. And then once they are done with that,they learn of a surprise. There were many guesses to this surprise but no one guessed it. They were going to be watching, “The Polar Express” in class!
Halloween Moon
Kindergartners in Mrs. Dobias class are showing off their holiday decorating in some different way. Covering part of the floor of their classroom, were beautiful fall colored moons, painted by Peifers very own. The students were able to show how unique they could make their personal moon with colors like yellow,orange, and red. They called them their, Halloween Moons.
Pumpkin Decorating Contest
Pumpkin Contest
The students at Peifer are really getting into the fall festivities. Kids of all ages had the chance to enter into the pumpkin contest. But it was not your usual carving contest, it was decorating included. Students were able to bring their creative ideas to life with; paint, cotton balls, glitter or anything they saw fitting. Then throughout the day teachers and staff would stop by the pumpkin patch to vote in who they thought was the best and most creatively decorated pumpkin.
Hit a Home Run, was the name of the walk-a-thon held in the gym, at Peifer Elementary School, on Friday,September 22nd. Students,teachers and even the principle were all participating. Students that helped raise money for different programs such as the playground. Those that raised the most were given the title of 1st,2nd and 3rd place and given an award. Not only were individual students awarded but the class that raised the most as a whole. Students put in some exercise while walking around the gym,they did this all while dancing,spinning and skipping to music.
Students hard at work.
Only a month into school and students are well on their way. They start off class with a group activity. Students got together with their peers and took turns reading out loud. After different parts were read they would discuss answers to questions given by the teacher. It is a good start to the year and the students are ready to learn ,and participate.
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Asynchronous Communication December 19th 2019
You're reading Leading Software People, a curated newsletter for people who are managing software teams, brought to you by the people who built Status Hero.
How to Decline a Meeting With a Co-Worker
You're owning your calendar—blocking off time for deep work, working asynchronously with teammates, and spending uninterrupted hours on work that matters. But then your coworker schedules a one-on-one meeting right in the middle of your deep work time. What do you do? Rebecca Fishbein outlines steps you can take to politely decline a meeting with a co-worker, allowing you to stay focused and productive while keeping your relationship intact.
Asynchronous Communication: What It Is & Why You Should Care About It
Amir Salihefendic goes deep on the topic of asynchronous communication and its advantages over more common synchronous communication methods like chat and meetings. Learn how working asynchronously is leading to happier and more productive employees, higher quality communication, better planning, and increased transparency.
If you've been feeling the crunch of near-constant communication and disruption, then you should definitely give this a read and look for ways to incorporate more asynchronous communication into your work.
How to Talk to an Engineer
In this edition of her weekly advice column, Jessica Powell coaches a non-technical person on how to communicate with their technical counterparts in engineering. If you're more on the business side than the engineering side, you'll appreciate this article. The most important thing is to leverage facts and data, not opinions, to explain the problem. Let people process the information, come to their own conclusion, and then start the discussions.
Managing Remotely: Part I
Stella Garber, manager of Trello’s remotely distributed marketing team, shares what she's learned about 3 critical connection points remote team members need in order to function at their highest level. Learn how to build and strengthen the connections with the manager, the team, and the self.
Why All Engineers Must Understand Management: The View from Both Ladders
Most people are aware of the concept of dual ladder career paths - one management and one technical. It's become pretty standard as companies look for ways to keep and grow strong individual contributors that aren't interested in people management. Osman (Ozzie) Ahmed Osman explains why, regardless of which ladder you choose, you should understand the skills needed to excel in each.
Dumb Rules That Make Your Best People Want to Quit
Too many workplaces have rule-driven cultures, intended to keep management feeling in control but ultimately resulting in a culture of mediocrity. Lolly Daskal discusses how too many rules stifle the creativity of the team, pushing the best people to other companies and leaving only the average ones. "If you have mediocre people doing mediocre work, you are going to have a mediocre company."
A Machine May Not Take Your Job, but One Could Become Your Boss
Kevin Roose examines how AI is being used to replace management in various roles, evaluating people on everything from empathy, to interview skills, to productivity. You'll be surprised at how much can be (and already is) automated by AI. Could your boss be an algorithm someday?
Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced Into the 'Manager Schedule'
In Paul Graham's famous "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" essay he argued that people who make things operate on a different schedule than those that manage things. For managers, frequent interruptions in the form of meetings and Slack messages are normal. People on the maker's schedule, however, need long stretches of uninterrupted time to be most productive. Securing and protecting those stretches of time can be very difficult when the majority of your colleagues are "managers". In this article from the team at Nuclino, they discuss the approaches you can take to keep your maker's schedule safe.
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Productive Business Meetings
Rajiv Pant shares a set of tips and recommendations for holding productive meetings. Check it out for tools to help you decide if a meeting is necessary, templates for staff and 1:1 meetings, and tips for how to decline meetings.
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Can gaming become the happy-hour for remote teams?
While there are many advantages to remote work, there are some clear disadvantages. The lack of socialization is one of the big ones. How can we encourage "happy hour" type interactions on remote teams? Franco Petra thinks that video games could be the answer we've been looking for.
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Harnessing the Power of Shower Thoughts
Sometimes the best way to work through a problem is to take a break from it. Alex Ellis explains his system for tackling difficult problems: take time to focus entirely on the problem and then take some time to not focus on any problem. Sounds simple enough, right? Not always. Learn the best ways to distract yourself from a problem so you can allow your subconscious to work through it.
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Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space
What does an ancient religious ritual have to do with modern-day AI? In this enthralling article, Matteo Pasquinelli takes a look at the Agnicayana ritual and its use to transmit algorithmic techniques. "Agnicayana is among the most ancient documented rituals still practiced today in India, and a primordial example of algorithmic culture."
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More than 2,000 call for stronger gun laws at March for Our Lives in Riverfront Park
"I'm scared to go to school because I don't wanna be gone."
by Adam Manno
Adam Manno
Demonstrators walked near Riverfront Park in North Charleston during the March for Our Lives on March 24, 2018.
Thousands of students and parents called for stronger gun control legislation in South Carolina Saturday afternoon at Riverfront Park.
The North Charleston event was a sister march to the Washington, D.C. March of Our Lives, which drew close to 800,000 people earlier in the afternoon. The national march was organized by survivors of the Feb. 14 Parkland, Fla. high school shooting in conjunction with the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, formerly Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Charleston's march was put together and funded by local high school students. It comes 10 days after high schools participated in the 17-minute National School Walkout to honor the 17 lives lost in Parkland.
The afternoon was a repudiation of the perceived inaction by local and state officials to tackle gun reform and close the "Charleston loophole," a term that was popularized after the Mother Emanuel shooting in downtown Charleston to describe the limited three-day waiting period for gun purchases.
Gun reform advocates claim that a longer period would have allowed federal authorities to properly vet white supremacist Dylann Roof, who killed nine parishioners at the historically black church in June 2015.
A state Senate bill to extend the waiting period to five days still lingers in committee.
Organizers and protesters also expressed their opposition to proposals to allow high school teachers to carry concealed weapons on campus. Last month, Gov. Henry McMaster said he would sign such a bill if it came to his desk.
A young woman holds a sign reading "Am I Next?" at the Charleston March for Our Lives in Riverfront Park on March 24, 2018.
"We decide what will happen in this century," said Jefferson Taylor, a sophomore at Palmetto Scholars Academy, a charter school in North Charleston. "We refuse to be defined as the Columbine generation. We refuse to be defined by Donald J. Trump."
Lauren Haselden, a high school senior and a march organizer, told a crowd facing the Cooper River that many students now live in fear.
"We shouldn't start shaking when the school goes into code yellow because of a lockdown, but we are scared," she said. "I'm scared to go to school because I don't wanna be gone."
Standing on the sidelines, Issy Burch of Mt. Pleasant watched the crowd snake past her at Riverfront Park.
"We sort of stopped here and wanted to see some of the signs that we didn't see," she said. "So many of them talk about the kids in the future, and I think that's pretty amazing, because that's what we have to look at."
Maggie Davis, a 16-year-old march volunteer and student at James Island Charter High School, said she was drawn to the march out of concern for the gun culture at her school.
"A lot of teenagers in James Island have guns, and they have a lot of gun stickers on their cars and paraphernalia related to it," she said. "They all hunt, they're not using it for negative reasons, but it's still nerve-wracking to know that people have easy access to guns."
On March 9, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation that raised the minimum age to purchase firearms from 18 to 21. The legislation also included a provision that allows certain teachers to carry guns in the classroom.
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Pope Francis to determine if George Pell will be stripped of cardinalship, priest status
Pope holds Pell’s fate in his hands
by Ellen Whinnett in Vatican City, Italy
28th Feb 2019 10:18 AM
POPE Francis himself will have the final say on whether George Pell should be defrocked, with the church leadership in Rome expected to make Pell only the second cardinal ever to be removed from the priesthood.
While the Vatican is officially awaiting the outcome of Pell's legal appeals, it quietly removed him from the C-9 Council of Cardinals advisory committee last October, and, three days ago, allowed his contract as Vatican treasurer to expire.
But the church still has one sanction up its sleeve - laicisation, colloquially known as "defrocking'' - which would see him banned from ever practising as a priest.
He would lose all his church titles, would not be allowed to celebrate the sacrament, present himself as a priest or wear his clerical robes. The church would no longer he required to care for him in his old age. He would be banned from ordaining other priests, or working in a seminary.
While more than 800 Catholic priests have been defrocked across the globe in the past 15 years, including several bishops, it is virtually unheard of for such a senior figure to be expelled from the church.
However, the defrocking a week ago of the 88-year-old Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and Archbishop of Washington who sexually abused children and adults, appears to have set a precedent.
Pope Francis celebrated a final Mass to conclude his extraordinary summit of Catholic leaders summoned to Rome for a tutorial on preventing clergy sexual abuse and protecting children from predator priests. Picture: AP
Vatican observers say this is likely to be used against Pell if his guilty verdict stands after appeal.
McCarrick was the first American cardinal defrocked and the first cardinal worldwide to face the action as a result of sexual abuse, which he carried out over decades.
Only the Vatican, using Canon Law, can hand down a laicisation order, and with Pell once the third-highest ranking official in the Vatican, observers say Pope Francis will have the final sign-off on the decision.
Laicisation, or being "dismissed from the clerical state'' is the most extreme punishment the church can mete out and is often devastating for people who have spent their entire lives within the church.
A leading academic expert in canon law, Professor Kurt Martens, from Catholic University of America in Washington, told New York Times the defrocking of McCarrick was "almost revolutionary."
"Bishops and former cardinals are no longer immune to punishment," Professor Martens told the Times.
"The reverence that was shown in the past to bishops no longer applies."
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A pink house in the former pirate hangout of Camaguey. Jill Worrall
Swashbucklers ahoy
1st Jun 2012 6:00 AM
WHEN you're in the Caribbean, walking around a town designed especially to deter rampaging pirates, it can be difficult to let go the image of a swashbuckling charmer with dreadlocks and eyes lined with kohl. Well, it is for me.
However, the history of the real pirates of the Caribbean is much less picturesque than Johnny Depp.
For about 200 years, from the mid-1500s, pirates, privateers and buccaneers terrorised Cuba (as they did all of the Caribbean).
Remarkably, they did not just attack, burn and pillage towns on the coast. Camaguey, which is in the centre of the island, was targeted so frequently by pirates in the 1600s that its street plan was devised like a maze to disorient them.
Camaguey began life as the Spanish coastal town of Santa Maria del Puerto Principle in 1514. It was relocated inland just 14 years later - not because of the pirates but due to battles with the local Indian population.
Unlike almost every other Spanish colonial city, Camaguey is not built on a grid system with square plazas. Instead, to confound marauding pirates it has labyrinthine streets and narrow alleyways. Today there's the added advantage that these twisting lanes keep out the tour buses and encourage tours on foot or bicitaxi (the Cuban version of a bicycle rickshaw).
Among the pirates who sacked Camaguey was Sir Henry Morgan, one of the most notorious of all. Technically, Henry Morgan was a not a pirate but a privateer. So, bear with me while I veer slightly off course to explain the difference.
Pirates, most simply put, are robbers with ships. Traditionally pirates had no allegiance to any country or power, but were literally a law unto themselves. One of the most famous pirates of all times was Blackbeard (Edward Teach).
Privateers were men with privately-owned ships who were contracted by a nation at war to attack its enemies' ships - and in some cases their towns and cities. Henry Morgan was contracted by the English, who were at war with the Spanish at the time.
Also operating in the Caribbean were the buccaneers. The word buccaneer originates from a word in the local Caribbean language related to dried meat - particularly manatee meat. The original buccaneers traded this meat but eventually also began attacking ships, especially Spanish ones, as well as raiding towns. Apparently it was a lot more lucrative.
The lines between a buccaneer and privateer are very blurred.
It's also true that one nation's hero is another's privateer. Sir Francis Drake, for example, was lauded by the English as a legendary sailor and explorer but was detested by the Spanish who regarded him as a privateer and nicknamed him The Dragon.
But, back to the ancient streets of Camaguey, where Admiral Sir Henry Morgan once rampaged, but which now are officially listed by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.
Because Camaguey lies outside Cuba's main tourist trail (such as that is) you're unlikely to meet many other visitors here.
It's an easy place to walk around (and to get lost in) but much more fun is to hire a bicitaxi on which to rattle around the cobblestone lanes. If you're lucky your bicitaxi might be equipped with its own sound system (ie. an ancient boom box tied to the back axle).
The cyclists will take a rest and stretch out languidly along their bikes while passengers walk along the pedestrianised street leading to Plaza del Carmen. A 19th century church dominates one side of the square but what steals the show here is a series of bronze sculptures by Cuban artist Martha Jimenez created some years ago. The sculptor used local people as models.
One of the sculptures is of a man wearing a baseball cap sitting on a bench reading the newspaper. Rather poignantly, the subject - now a little more lined and stooped - comes to the square to sit beside it, complete with cap and newspaper, waiting for tourists to make the connection. He's been there two years running, which I find a little sad. I shamelessly cajole my group members to leave him small tips.
With so little motorised transport here, even non-pedestrianised streets are claimed by Camaguey's residents. In the late afternoon as the sunlight softens people spill out of their houses, most of which open directly on to narrow pavements.
Old ladies sit on rocking chairs in their doorways, men lean on walls and smoke cigars, boys kick footballs over the cobbles and young women in skintight lycra wiggle past.
I wandered around a corner and almost fell into a game of dominoes that had been set up in the road. A vocal audience surrounded the players as they slapped their tiles down on the table, their voices echoing through these streets once haunted by pirates.
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Where Is Owl’s Scarf?
By Brandy Cooke, Illustrated by Valentina Belloni
Owl is looking for his scarf. Is it between the branches? No, that’s Chipmunk! Is it behind the pumpkins? No, that’s Fox! Where can Owl’s scarf be? Little ones can lift the flaps in this adorable book to reveal cute forest critters, including a chipmunk, a fox, a deer, crows, a raccoon, a frog . . . and finally a turkey, who has Owl’s scarf! The large, easy-to-lift flaps are perfect for parents and children to share.
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German football expert Archie Rhind-Tutt believes that it would be good for Manchester United to quit their chase for the English winger Jadon Sancho, who is currently plying his trade for Borussia Dortmund. The former Manchester City ace has been linked with the Red Devils in the recent times.
Speaking on the “At the match podcast”, Archie Rhind-Tutt said, “When Dortmund had the ball going forward they weren’t able to use the ball very well, and the one person I would single out for that is the one man who is being heaped with praised to high heaven in England right now – because I think people just look at his assist tally – and that’s Jadon Sancho. Top assister in the Bundesliga. The issue with Sancho is it takes him a long time to get into the game. Either he’s subbed on late into a game and he’ll make an impact, terrifically so.”
He added, “Or he’ll have quite a few dodgy moments, like in the reverse fixture against David Alaba. If you talk to Dortmund fans they’ll say Sancho will come up with that moment of magic, and that’s why you won’t ever really see Favre sacrifice him.”
Concluding the conversation, he said, “The problem with Sancho is he’s not making the right decision all the time. You can see it go through his brain, but sometimes he needs to attack defenders with the same conviction he has every time. He’s made great steps this season, but it would be a false move for me if he was to go to Manchester United now. I don’t think it would be good for his overall development and he’s going to have a long career ahead.”
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by Jackie Sinnerton, Health reporter
FLAVOURED e-cigarettes, even those without liquid nicotine, are dangerous and likely to kill the cells that line the airways, a new Australian study has discovered.
The findings are a wake-up call for the skyrocketing number of Queensland teenagers caught up in the global vaping phenomenon - a trend that has sparked the state's top medical experts to call for a crackdown on the unregulated products.
They say they companies are targeting children with claims that lolly-flavoured vaping products are harmless and want a reining in of the sale of these nicotine-laced products that have not been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Serious fears are growing over the link between e-cigarettes and lethal lung disease following eight vaping-related deaths in the US and hundreds of diagnosed cases. Canada has just announced its first vaping hospitalisation. Vaping was once reserved mostly for smokers trying to quit but now vapers are often non tobacco smokers.
In 2016, five per cent of Queensland teenagers were smoking cigarettes daily and in the same year eight per cent, or tens of thousands of youths, were using e-cigarettes.
Scientists from the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital found that the vapour from e-cigarettes was toxic to cells and could trigger cell death, The vapour also disrupts the burying of the dead cells by the immune system.
"The problem with e-cigarettes is they are not a food and not a medical device so neither the TGA or FSANZ are responsible for regulating them. There is no government body currently able to regulate what ingredients go into E-liquids beyond not allowing nicotine in commercial products," Dr Miranda Ween from the Royal Adelaide Hospital told The Courier-Mail.
"This study really reveals that no two E-liquids are going to be the same. Apple E-liquid from one supplier may be very different from Apple from another. There is no requirement to list ingredients on the label," she said.
The research appears today in the medical journal Respirology.
"The Queensland Government and the community needs to make these companies accountable for their unethical behaviour, as they are marketing products that will cost lives," Australian Medical Association Queensland president Dr Dilip Dhupelia told The Courier-Mail.
"If we don't stop this now, we will have the same epidemic as they are currently experiencing in the US, at great cost to our already overstretched health system in Queensland," Dr Dhupelia said.
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Lion Air crashed jet, possibly in Java Sea
killed the 2-month-old Boeing planet in the Java Sea on Monday just minutes after starting from Jakarta and killing all 189 people aboard. "Based on the presentation of the head of the National Search and Rescue Agency, the coordinates of the suspected body of the aircraft have been found. We will send a team there to confirm," said armed forces Hadi Tjahjanto.Related: Lion Air crash: Southwest, US uses the same new Boeing plan in Indonesia's crash The disaster has restored concern about the security of Indonesia's fast-growing airline industry, recently removed from EU and US black lists, and also questioned the security of Boeing's new generation 737 MAX 8 plan. Boeing Co Experts are expected to arrive Indonesia on Wednesday and Lion Air has said that an "intensive" internal investigation is ongoing in addition to the probe of security regulators. Locating the vessel will lead the searcher closer to finding the aircraft's airplane, which is crucial for the accident investigation. Flight tracking information shows that the plane had uneven speed and height in the early minutes of a flight on Sunday and on the mortal flight of Mond ay. Security experts, however, warn that the data must be checked for accuracy against the planet's "black boxes", which officials are convinced they will be recovered. Passengers on Sunday flights from Bali to Jakarta have reported problems that include a prolonged delayed start for motor control and scary descent during the first 10 minutes of the air. Autoplay View thumbnails View caption…
killed the 2-month-old Boeing planet in the Java Sea on Monday just minutes after starting from Jakarta and killing all 189 people aboard.
“Based on the presentation of the head of the National Search and Rescue Agency, the coordinates of the suspected body of the aircraft have been found. We will send a team there to confirm,” said armed forces Hadi Tjahjanto.
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The disaster has restored concern about the security of Indonesia’s fast-growing airline industry, recently removed from EU and US black lists, and also questioned the security of Boeing’s new generation 737 MAX 8 plan.
Boeing Co Experts are expected to arrive Indonesia on Wednesday and Lion Air has said that an “intensive” internal investigation is ongoing in addition to the probe of security regulators.
Locating the vessel will lead the searcher closer to finding the aircraft’s airplane, which is crucial for the accident investigation.
Flight tracking information shows that the plane had uneven speed and height in the early minutes of a flight on Sunday and on the mortal flight of Mond ay. Security experts, however, warn that the data must be checked for accuracy against the planet’s “black boxes”, which officials are convinced they will be recovered.
Passengers on Sunday flights from Bali to Jakarta have reported problems that include a prolonged delayed start for motor control and scary descent during the first 10 minutes of the air.
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Officials said that uninterrupted search effort has sent 48 body bags containing human remains to police identification experts.
Angued family members have submitted samples for DNA testing and the police say the results are expected within 4-8 days.
Daniel Putut, a director of Lion Air, said the airline and Boeing will meet Wednesday afternoon.
“There are lots of things we will ask them, we have all the questions here, why? What about the new planet, he said.
The Indonesia Ministry of Transport has ordered that all Boeing 737 MAX 8 plans operated by Lion Air and national carrier Garuda to be inspected.
Boeing refused to comment on potential inspections globally.
The aircraft manufacturer told the airlines in a bulletin, “Boeing has no recommended operator actions at this time”, according to two people familiar with
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The exterior lighting of the Kallio office building of the city of Helsinki was fully renewed in 2012. Old mercury lamps were replaced by Valopaa LED luminaires.
Kallio Office building, Helsinki
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The exterior lighting of the Kallio office building of the city of Helsinki was fully renewed in 2012. Old mercury lamps were replaced by Valopaa LED luminaires. The superintendent of the office building, Marko Kumpulainen, lists several arguments why the lighting needed updating.
“The light efficiency of the old lamps was no longer satisfactory. We chose LEDs also because they produce plenty of light with rather modest energy consumption. And energy efficiency suits the present energy consumption policies of the city of Helsinki nicely”, he clarifies.
Kumpulainen says that the new lighting has received positive feedback.
“Our expectations have been fully met”, he concludes.
The Kallio office building was completed in 1965. It is quite large, with 42000 m² floor space and more than a thousand people working in it. Most of the building is taken up by the social services of the city of Helsinki, but the premises also house the city cashier´s office, the city archives, the health station of Kallio and the Palmia lunch restaurant.
The lighting renovation brought new LED luminaires to the courtyard, walkways and parking areas. In addition, a number of spotlights were installed. The total number of new luminaires was 54.
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cannot be unnoticed”
Lighting designer J-P Tanskanen of Uudenmaan Linjamestarit, who was in charge of the renewal, says that the installation was quite effortless. He is also pleased with the results.
“The lighting of the Kallio office building is really good now. The amount of light has increased 4-8 times, thanks to the LEDs. The change in lighting cannot be unnoticed by anybody”, he states.
In addition to light and energy efficiency, Mr. Tanskanen founds several good qualities in LED luminaires. He stresses the long lifespan, durability and low need for maintenance. The luminaires need replacing hardly ever. This saves a lot of time and effort. The old luminaries of the Kallio office building were replaced frequently.
“We had to replace up to twenty luminaires per year, as a result of storms and vandalism. This will now decrease significantly since the new luminaires stand heavy weather and vandalism much better”, he says.
Accordingtoi J-P Tanskanen´s calculations, the energy efficiency and durability presses down the payback time for the Valopaa LED luminaires to about five years.
Project: Exterior lighting of Kallio office building
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Plenty of New York City high rises lay claim to landmark status, and in a city with a skyline like New York's, many can make a good case. 20 Exchange Place, though, is different, it was officially designated a City Landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission back in 1996, and is currently entering a new chapter in its life by emerging as one of the hottest rental listings in the Financial District.
The slender, striking, limestone-clad 51-story skyscraper was planned as the second-tallest building in New York City when designed by star gotham architects Cross & Cross back in 1929, and it has remained one of the most revered examples of Art Deco design in the Financial District. 20 Exchange Place's elegant facade, unique stone statuary, stunning marble hallways and a dazzling lobby featuring bronze doors and 45 types of marble from all over the world makes 20 Exchange Place stand out even among the classic architecture of the Financial District. It has also made 20 Exchange Place something of a movie star it's a regular location in New York-based television shows, and was at the center of Spike Lee's hit film "The Inside Man," among many others. For those looking for lower Manhattan rentals, though, it's what's inside that counts. Thanks to a recent conversion to high end rental apartments, 20 Exchange Place is extraordinary in that category, too.
20 Exchange Place's rental apartments are rich in contemporary, ultra-luxurious amenities. The modern kitchens offer state of the art stainless steel appliances and custom European cabinetry; the elegant baths have marble floors and custom sinks and vanities. Each apartment home features soaring 11-foot ceilings and oversized windows offering spectacular panoramic city views. With 35 floors and 843 available rental units, each apartment is unique and every view offers a glimpse of New York City at its loveliest.
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Carisbrooke Shipping selects Marlink VSAT
Monday 14, March 2016
London, 14 March 2016 – Marlink has been selected as Carisbrooke Shipping’s preferred partner to provide the satcom solution for its fleet of modern dry cargo and multi-purpose vessels. Carisbrooke plans to improve vessel and fleet operations with greater access to data-centric applications made possible by higher and more available bandwidth on the Marlink Ku-band VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) service. The delivery, which is expected to be complete by the end of the year, includes the sophisticated XChange BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) solution. The system will enable Carisbrooke Shipping crews to communicate with friends and family using their own smartphones, tablets and laptops.
Carisbrooke Shipping owns and operates its fleet from offices in Cowes (UK), Zwijndrecht (Holland) and Bremen (Germany). All key aspects of ship management are covered by the group, including chartering/operations, technical and safety management, crewing and financial administration. The company has developed a large fleet of fuel-efficient vessels in recent years. The new monitoring and remote support capabilities enabled by Marlink VSAT will further support the efficient and smart operation of this well-established fleet.
Marlink VSAT enables Carisbrooke vessels to benefit from throughput up to 1028 Kbps (downlink) and global coverage with unlimited MSS (L-band) back-up in addition to Local Numbers and Virtual Private Networks (VPN). The VPN service is considered to be extremely valuable by Carisbrooke, allowing remote control of IT equipment and systems on board and inevitably leading to simplified IT management and increased reliability.
All Marlink installed vessels will use the Xchange communications management platform, which handles automatic switching between satellites including seamless transition to the L-band back up system in addition to enabling remote access and streamlining administration.
Carisbrooke Shipping also joins the growing number of crew focused shipping organisations that understand the benefits of providing flexibility for crew communications at sea. XChange BYOD is a ready-to-use Wi-Fi solution and comes with apps that provide voice and data access for crew using their own smartphones, tablets or laptops. The unique system ensures straightforward account administration while simplifying payment using pre-paid cards, making cost management and control easier and more transparent for vessel management and individual crew members.
“We have worked with Marlink on 10 vessels for four years. When we implemented our strategy to future proof our fleet with high-bandwidth communication on board, we decided to test a few other VSAT providers, but Marlink’s excellent service support made the selection process easy,” said Carisbrooke Shipping’s Fleet Technical Director, Martin Henry. “Improved control and management of systems and computer networks from ashore is a big plus, but more importantly, Marlink VSAT gives our crew members on board access to modern, reliable and fast communication services that can even be used from their own devices.”
“Marlink VSAT will complement an already modern fleet, allowing Carisbrooke to operate smarter and to support the changing communication needs of its seafarers wherever they are operating,” added Tore Morten Olsen, President Maritime, Marlink.
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Ledahn Muri was a male Bajoran who lived in the 24th century. He lived in Tamulna with his family. Ledahn began shaving his scalp in the 2370s, giving his features a more accentuated quality.
In 2376, Ledahn became Second Minister of the Republic of Bajor following Asarem Wadeen's accession to the position of First Minister. In October of that year, Ledahn contacted Asarem to tell her of Rava Mehwyn's death on Earth. He also impressed on her the immediate need for a replacement as Bajor's councilor on the Council of the United Federation of Planets.
Ledahn later helped Asarem to look at replacements such as Sorati Teru, Enand Adassa and Opaka Sulan. On the former Kai, Ledahn thought she would be better remaining on Bajor. Ledahn later echoed Theno's advice to make Asarem's ex-husband the Councilor. (DS9 - Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel: Bajor: Fragments and Omens)
In 2377, First Minister Asarem asked Ledahn to inform the rest of the Bajoran government about the Ascendant fleet approaching Bajor. (DS9 novel: Ascendance)
Asarem Wadeen Second Minister of the Republic of Bajor
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About Mary Griffith
Fencing Writing
Hail and farewell, Barb
My friend Barb died last week.
the one and only Barb Lynch
She was a fencing friend—one of those people from the opposite coast who I saw only at national tournaments. She was also one of the people who taught me how to run tournaments in the first place. In recent years, though, due both to her illness and the fact that we were both most often hired to chair, we didn’t work the same tournaments all that often, so I didn’t see her nearly as much as I’d have liked to.
Barb was a New Jersey girl through and through—you could hear it as soon as she opened her mouth. She was funny and generous and ferociously competent, and never someone you could mess with. But boy, could she mess with you.
A few years back when we were co-chairs (along with Tanya, I think) for a Summer Nationals, she got me good. She’d known for years that one of the major reasons I started working bout committee was that I couldn’t tolerate watching my kids fence—the suspense and the fact that I couldn’t do a damn thing to help them in their bouts made the experience far too stomach-churning for my taste. Working BC I could keep track of how they were doing without that close-up attention that was so nerve-wracking.
So there I was, up on the BC stage working on something or other, and Barb suddenly said, “Mary, turn around—you’ve got to see this!” I turned around, and there was Christie, fencing on the strip smack in front of the BC. “NOOOOOOO!!!!” I said. “I don’t WANT to see her fence!” But once I knew she was there, I couldn’t not watch. I don’t even remember what event it was or how Christie did that day, but I’ll never forget the evil glee Barb took in having arranged for Christie’s bout to be right there where I couldn’t miss seeing it.
I keep thinking now of a couple of years ago, when I was brought in to be “emergency back-up co-chair” for the Junior Olympics. Barb’s mom had died the Friday before JOs, and nobody knew for sure whether she’d be able to make it to JOs or be able to handle it once she got there.
She came, of course, and handled things with aplomb. When people kept wondering how she could even consider being there under those circumstances, she just said, “Mom would have killed me if I didn’t come just because she died.”
I can almost hear her now, laying into any of us who might—even briefly—consider dropping something we’d meant to do because we were grieving for her.
She made it hard for us, though. Wherever Barb was, she was always fully present—it was impossible to be unaware that she was around. And that was a great and good thing.
It will be impossible to be unaware that she’s not there anymore.
(Official obituary)
Layout & Strips, Part 2: Numbering Strips
Seriously? She’s going to write a post about numbering strips? Don’t you just start at the beginning with 1 and go on until you run out of strips?
Once upon a time, it was almost that easy. When strips were set up in rows from one end of the hall to the other, the only question we had to decide was whether to go back to the other end to start numbering the next row or to snake the numbering back and forth. When I first began working bout committee, I favored going back to the start, so that the numbers all increased in the same direction. It seemed to me that way was the easiest for fencers and coaches and spectators to grasp. But snaking has its advantages, often allowing strips across both rows at the same end of the hall to be numbered consecutively. (This only works at one end of the hall, though.)
But straight rows aren’t the only way strips are laid. Sometimes we get one row straight down the length of the hall and several clumps of strips at right angles to those, with or without large gaps between groups. (Structural columns and power access plates in the floor are often the reasons for such odd layouts.)
With pods, we number consecutively within the pods, and then down the rows through the pods in order. Not only does this make sense to fencers looking for their strips, it makes it easy for the strip assigner to keep track of which events are where—pods are always contiguous numbers on the chart we use to track our assignments.
(One time a few years ago, I arrived on setup day to find that the strips had already been numbered. Unfortunately, whoever’d done it had put the numbers up before the pipe barriers had been installed, so that the numbers went straight down to the rows with no regard for the pods. This meant that the first pod had strips 1, 2, 15, and 16, the second had 3, 4, 17, and 18, and so on. Keeping track of which pairs of strips matched up into pods would have been ridiculously confusing—we changed the strip numbering immediately.)
With some layouts, such as the one we had for Summer Nationals this year in Atlanta, there is no obviously good way to number the strips. When I first looked at the map of the layout, I thought, “There’s got to be a better way,” but after looking at it for a few minutes, I realized that it was already numbered in the least horrible order. (Sigh. So much in Atlanta this year amounted to “least horrible” options.)
With a good pod layout, good numbering can make the strip assigner’s job much easier. When pods are strips 1–4. 5–8, 9–12, and so on, it’s easy to visualize where strips and events are. In Atlanta, with that less-than-optimal layout, the first pod contained only two numbered strips (along with the Wheelchair frames), so that the pod numbering was off—whole pods were 3–6, 7–10, and so on. Combine that with the odd groups of two and three strips in half the hall, and it was almost impossible to assign events without constantly referring to a map. The layout and numbering were so unusual that it never began to feel familiar over the whole ten days.
Another issue to think about when numbering strips is whether a finals strip should be included in the numbering system. Actually, this is an issue that shouldn’t take any thinking—unless it’s absolutely the last strip, it shouldn’t be numbered at all. Anywhere else, that single strip will mess up the pod numbers and make the strip assigner’s job half again as difficult as it might otherwise be.
Next time: Figuring out which strips to use.
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Tagged as bout committee, Fencing, strip management, Summer Nationals, tournament layout, tournaments, USA Fencing
Tournament Layout & Strip Management, Part 1
For years, we bout commitee people have known we need to get better at collecting and organizing the expert knowledge we’ve accumulated while running national tournaments. We need to know what we know in order to transmit that knowledge—it’s tough to train new staff when we can’t explain what we do. So I’ve been thinking about how to figure out what I know about strip management, and being a writer, the obvious course is to write about it and see what comes out.
In 2000. when I first started working national tournaments, there were no pipe-and-drape barriers around strips—no barriers at all between strips and spectators. Not to mention that there was often not even any carpet for referees to stand on—usually there were just strips and concrete. Strips were not grouped into pods but were laid uniformly from one end of the hall to the next, with breaks only for structural columns or access aisles sought by the local fire marshal. The halls we used then were smaller, too. A NAC might use 24 strips; Summer Nationals might have as many as 40. or even 44. (For the 2009–2010 season, we used 40–48 strips for NACs and 66 for Summer Nationals.)
One big problem with this layout was the lack of barriers. It wasn’t just the people constantly cutting across strips or walking in front of referees during bouts, but even well-behaved spectators tended to crowd in ever closer while watching fencing, making it difficult for referees to do their jobs.
Over the next few years, we experimented with pipe-and-drape barriers. Sometimes we had sections of 12 or 16 strips set off by barriers, with entries only in one or two places to limit access to fencers and officials only. We experimented with the placement of the openings—two at opposite corners weren’t quite enough for convenient fencer access, but two openings directly opposite each other created major traffic through pods.
Such large pods also made it difficult for coaches to even see their fencers, let alone give them advice during bouts. Spectators could often watch bouts only from the ends of the strips.
Eventually, someone thought of trying pods of four strips, with pipe-and-drape barriers along the long sides of the pod (two strip-lengths) and the ends without barriers at all. I’m not sure this arrangement would have worked if we’d started with it, but by this time, fencing crowds had learned not to wander through pods during bouts, so the open ends provided plenty of access for fencers and officials without causing extra traffic through the pods.
A couple of years ago, when the budget crunch hit, we even went to barriers of pipe only—no drape. Christy Simmons told me at the time that eliminating the drape saved USA Fencing several thousand dollars per tournament. And it not only made it easier to see the strips from the bout committee stage, but tended to reduce the litter and random abandoned gear left in the pods, too.
Pods of four worked well for people-handling. But they turned out to be a good choice for managing strip assignments, too.
More on that later, though.
Next time: numbering strips.
Tagged as Fencing, strip management, tournament layout, tournaments, USA Fencing
August 6, 2010 · 4:33 pm
Ooh, it’s science-y!
We made our (mostly) annual trip to the State Fair last weekend. Our usual ritual is to hit the livestock barns first (my husband as a kid often spent summers on relatives’ hog farms in Iowa—he thinks manure smells good) to watch the 4Hers and their animals. If the dairy goats are still in town, we’ll look for Shining Moon Ranch’s Alpines to say hi to Micki and her goats. She was there this year and had practically the whole gang in town—Grant, and Reed and his kids, and Garth and his kids–Colfax grandkids, that is, not more dairy goats. We watched Grant and his crew win a couple of doe groups they showed in, and then we wandered on to other parts of the fair.
The counties exhibits were pretty low-key this year–not so many big and complex mechanical displays as in past years. I imagine state fair displays are among the first items (and rightly so) to be cut from ever-tighter county budgets. The exuberently silly commercial exhibits made up for that, though.
I always forget how entertaining all those sales booths can be. Sometimes it’s the hawkers—the manic guys with the headset mikes touting their superior pots and pans, vegetable juicers, exotic knives, or mops. There are the sneaker-cleaner vendors, who will happily clean one of your shoes in hopes that the dazzling results will make you buy their product so you can clean the other shoe, too. There are the sellers of cheap imported plastic toys and jewelry—this year, a guy at one of them was shouting out, “Fair Trade! All Fair Trade products!” I wonder if that will become a selling point for more of them next year (and whether it will have any basis in reality).
Then there are the exciting high-tech booths: The personalized horoscope place with the mock-up of what looks like a 1950s-era mainframe computer from which your personal individualized horoscope can be printed (for a fee, of course).
And there are the exercise devices. Last time I made my kinesiology-major daughter laugh when I sent her a photo of a vibrating-plate exerciser. This object is similar to those 50s-era machines that wrapped your hips with a vibrating belt to “melt the fat away,” except that there was no belt—you just stand on it or do exercises with specific body parts resting on it. This year there was a major technological advance: instead of just the plain vibrating platform with its attached controls, the vibrating plate exerciser now offered cable pulls from the base, so you can do bicep curls while you stand there getting yourself shaken. At least with this one, you’d actually get some exercise.
The other new health-and-fitness trend this year was “ionics.” A couple of booths were selling “ionic watches,” which looked exactly like the cheap plastic watches you could also buy in some of the import booths. But supposedly when you wear these special cheap plastic “ionic” watches, your arthritis and heartburn and miscellaneous other health problems will be relieved.
Another booth took the ionic trend to a whole new level, offering a snazzy, sparkly, souped-up blood pressure cuff attached to a control box, with electrodes to attach to various parts of the body. In operation, this device’s “ionic wave action” would relieve your arthritis, heartburn, aches and pains, and whatever else happens to be ailing you.
When I asked my husband, the physics guy, what ionic waves were and how they worked, he just made a funny gargling noise.
We passed on the chocolate-covered bacon, too.
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A Spot of Adventure: The Bronze Age – Part 1
Enter Supergirl
She’d been around for ten years, initially as Superman’s secret cousin, hidden away in Midvale Orphanage until he was certain she knew what she was doing which, given how he was used to treating Lois and Lana, was not a recipe for total disaster, oh no gollum. After four years, and an adoption by Fred and Edna Danvers, her cousin revealed her to the world, instantly becoming the world’s favourite blonde teenager. She’d gone on to Stanhope College, still wearing her brunette wig, still loyally backing up Cousin Kal in Action Comics. And in June 1969, Supergirl transferred from Action to Adventure Comics, bouncing out the Legion of Super-Heroes to claim her first real solo slot. The Legion – all 26 of them – had to exist in the back-up slot in Action. She would lead Adventure for the next forty-four issues, into the Bronze Age.
Whereas there is a pretty firm consensus as to the beginning and end of the Golden Age and the beginning of the Silver Age, there’s no such unanimity about the transition from Silver to Bronze. I’ve chosen for the purposes of this series of posts to make the transition from the Legion to Supergirl as the marker: you are welcome to suggest any alternate time.
But by 1969, people who had started out as fans had started to have scripts and art accepted at DC. Roy Thomas and Gary Friedrich had preceded them at Marvel. But some of the medium’s respected writers of the next couple of decades were starting out, taking over from those veterans whose attempt to secure a future for themselves led to their gradual ejection from DC.
I didn’t think much of the first story, which saw Supergirl going undercover at a ‘Sleuth School’ that was training shapely females (don’t look at me, that was the scripter’s word) to carry out robberies under hypnosis. It was just a bit too herky-jerky, with a poorly timed conclusion that revealed that Batgirl was also undercover with the same goal, not to mention a trip to the Batcave when Batman and Robin were ‘out’, without tripping a single alarm. But it was Supergirl’s first book-length story ever.
When placed against the next couple of issues, it quickly started looking like a classic. But there was an intriguing story as the lead in issue 384. Her room-mates’ use of the Campus Matchmaker computer inspires Supergirl to use her cousin’s supercomputer at the Fortress to pick out an off-world hero for her. Minus thirty points for such a condescending introduction, but plus fifty or so for having Volar’s planet be a Chauvinist heaven, in which all the women are brainwashed from birth to see themselves as fit only to be servants to men. Supergirl is determined to show how stupid that is, and Volar is on her side until one day he turns on her and drives her off the planet because the serum that gives him his powers can no longer be reproduced. Supergirl is happy to accept Volar for whatever he is after he stops being strong, handsome and dreamy, until she learns the truth of what Volar is and leaves humiliated and heart-broken. Because Volar is like her – a girl. Yes, there’s a weird mixture of sexual politics in here, and a lesbian undertone buried much deeper than it used to be in old Wonder Woman comics.
On the other hand, emboldened by Supergirl, Volar decides to carry on superheroing, as a girl, and start to change ‘his’ planet the long, slow way.
Coose costume
Yet I should be aware that this is the tail-end of the era when Supergirl’s series was a way for girls to enjoy superhero comics, with romances, dates and heartbreaks. Yes, it is patronising, to our eyes fifty years on, and the stories are tedious when they’re not being silly. But this is because they were intended for an audience of which I never formed part, and I should bear that in mind.
But that was until issue 396, for with that issue, Mort Weisinger stood down as editor of Adventure Comics. The role was given to Mike Sekowsky, former Justice League of America artist and one of the new editors that Editorial Director Carmine Infantino was bringing in from the pool of artists. Sekowsky had already taken over Wonder Woman and promptly removed her powers, turning her into a Diana Rigg-like human agent: what might he have planned for the Maid of Steel?
In one word: Change. To begin with, Sekowsky took over pencilling Supergirl and, from the look of it, writing the feature itself. His first story began with a bored Linda Danvers going shopping (?) for new fashions, with one of the groovy dress-shops she hit being the one where the non-super Diana Prince now worked. Next up, a new magical threat on campus shreds Supergirl’s staid old costume. With Ms Prince’s assistance she came up with a change of style that was hip, groovy and utterly horrible: a tabard-like miicro and thigh length red boots ought to look seriously hot but far from it (the new costume was chosen from reader’s suggestions over the past few months, and judging by the alternatives depicted on the cover, this one actually was the best, my life!).
The back-up story fared better by introducing a new regular creep in Nasty. This nick-name was short for Nastalthia, a name I’ve only ever heard elsewhere in Milton Caniff’s Terry and The Pirates (if you’re going to steal, steal from the gods). Nasty was out to discover Supergirl’s secret identity for her Uncle: Uncle Lex Luthor, that is.
The bathing-suit one
The next issue introduced a new logo for the ‘New Supergirl’ but only one Sekowsky story, the lead being a particularly naff reprint from Supergirl’s High School days. And there was another reprint the next month, but as this was an unpublished Golden Age Black Canary tale with prime Infantino art, it was the highlight of the issue.
And so to Adventure 400. Only two other DC Comics had reached the number by 1970, only four titles had run longer. Sekowsky celebrated by delving into the past for the return of Supergirl’s old foe, the Black Flame, a comeback that fell flat for one latterday reader who has to ask Black Who?
It might be a new era for Supergirl, with Sekowsky confounding the old expectations to the point where expectations left town, but that didn’t avert the double nadir of issue 401, in which the Supergirl lead turned out to be a dream, and a new back-up, Tracey Thompson, debuted. Who or what was Tracey Thompson? She was an inquisitive girl with a less-inquisitive friend. Have series been built on lesser information than that? Probably, but I wouldn’t want to read them.
Anyway, Tracey and Betsy lasted exactly two episodes before being abandoned whilst Sekowsky started to churn things up even faster. In issue 404, Supergirl was fed a pill that turned her powers on and off and two issues later she graduated from Stanhope College, inadvertently revealed her secret identity to Nasty, moved to San Francisco to join a TV news team and found Nasty joining her there, intent on exposing her. Also, her new costume got burned up: guess it wasn’t as popular as the letter columns suggested.
With guest star reprints
Issue 407 introduced a newer, and even uglier costume, whose military style top and red pants made it look even bulkier and more awkward than the first. It also reminded me that I’d once owned this comic.
I’d definitely stopped buying all comics, American or British, after September 1970 and wouldn’t resume until January 1974. This issue would have reached Britain sometime around June/July 1971. But once I started again, and accelerated by discovering my first comics shop in Manchester, with back-issues, I kept stabbing at filling in the gap. I had a few Supergirl Adventures, a product of collecting the later and short-lived Supergirl title. This was the oldest I recognise.
By the time of the back-up story in issue 408, Supergirl’s red pants had turned to blue, and I was already sick of Nastalthia’s constant needling of Linda Danvers about being Supergirl.
The next month saw the adoption of a new 48 page size format, and a then-massive leap from 15 to 25 cents. This was an adventurous policy by DC, trying to avert an increase to 20c for the same old package by leaping past it to give more for the money, the more in this instance being selected Legion reprints. It was supposed to be a joint venture, agreed with Marvel but, after just one month at this size, Martin Goodman pulled his last great shark-move and pulled back to 32 pages at 20c, undercutting DC and further cutting into their market.
As for the original material, I was surprised to find a back-up story that not only cut Sekowsky out with script by E. Nelson Bridwell and art by Art Saaf but provided Supergirl with yet another new costume, and this time an attractive one, being basically a backless blue bathing suit with a fair amount of the sides cut away, plus cape and red boots. Decidedly sexist and decidedly hot.
The swimsuit outfit only lasted one half-length back-up because it was replaced in the following issue by the costume Supergirl would wear for the next decade plus, the loose long-sleeved blouse with the miniature Super-logo on the left breast, the red frilly tennis-knickers and the lace-up moccasins. And there was a change in editorial leadership as Sekowsky was replaced by former EC Artist Joe Orlando, who would take Adventure into some strange places, as we shall see in the next instalment.
But, oy! The stories that Orlando started with. Plain, dull, even stupid stories by John Albano and Bob Oksner, with clean, neat art but not heart and silly premises. Sekowsky had at least tried to do something new. Only the new costume worked.
I’m sorry to go on about the costume thing but issue 412 featured a rogue Supergirl impersonator wearing the tabard-and-thigh-boots outfit whilst the real Supergirl wore an all-blue all body sleek costume that looks like the one Melissa Benoit wore into Crisis on Infinite Earths but the story was an horrendous mish-mash, dragging Supergirl into space for a careering fight with no logical development to it. Adventure had literally lost the plot.
The Legion reprints went out the window in favour of an eclectic mix of characters – Animal Man, Zatanna, Hawkman, Robotman – whilst the sleek, form-fitting blue costume stayed for an issue before the blouse and tennis knickers one was back in issue 414, another of my former back-issue acquisitions, which I remembered well, especially for its cover.
Ridiculously, yet another costume, an off, impractical, sleeveless square-necked blue top with red mini-skirt was used in the front of issue 415 before the long-term look came back in the back. That however was the end of the Constantly-Changing-Costumes, but not of the uninspiring stories. Frankly, only the changing back-ups, mixing new work and unexpected reprints, was worth attention, as these certainly went in for oddities.
The permanent version
But DC’s run at 48 pages was always going to be limited and this came to an end with issue 420, and announcements as to a cutback to 32 pages and 20 cents. The last Supergirl story was an oddball tale set in space, a whirlwind effort of love, War and death that nowhere anchored itself to reality. It used Dylan Thomas for its evocative title, “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”, a line the story bent itself to accommodate. I searched it out as a back-issue on reading a letter-of-comment giving it extravagant praise and was once mightily impressed. Now, I’m just wondering how such a ragged thing ever got published.
I was familiar too with the next story, a farrago involving black magic that tied itself to a spurious significance by turning the evil witch into Supergirl’s easily-eliminated death-wish, but I remember it mainly for the truly astonishing art, by the impossible but somehow gloriously effective team of Mike Sekowsky and Bob Oksner, a combination no more compatible than than Pablo Picasso inked by Norman Rockwell. But it worked.
Then it all finally ran out of time and place. Adventure 424 was a mainly down to Earth adventure about a Syndicate stool-pigeon that took an incongruous turn into outer space but this was the last time these flying by the seat of the pants stories would appear in Adventure. Some memorable art from Tony de Zuniga ended with Linda Danvers throwing a fit of pique, walking out of her job, her life in San Francisco, her rivalry with Nastalthia and her unrequited love for her boss Geoff, the guy who, three months earlier, had gotten her past her death wish and become closer to her than any man before: not that close, obviously.
Supergirl cleared the decks to go into her own title (which would only last thirteen issues) and Adventure was given a two-month hiatus, presumably because nobody had any idea what to do next.
What they did do next will be the subject of the last part of this series.
Don’t boither remembering her this way
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A Spot of Adventure: The Silver Age – Part 2
In issue 296 of Adventure Comics, editor Mort Weisinger tore a strip of a reader who’d demanded the Tales of the Bizarro World back-up be dropped. According to Weisinger, the Bizarro’s had lifted Adventure‘s circulation higher than it had been before, and spawned 5,000 postcards per month of Bizarro ideas.
Four months later, he dropped Tales of the Bizarro World and replaced it with the Legion of Super-heroes. It was the Silver Age: what else can I say?
So the Legion era of Adventure had begun, with new Legionnaires appearing every month, characters, costumes, powers but not necessarily personalities we would become immensely familiar with as the Sixties began to take form. And, to my tremendous surprise, there was a death as early as issue 304.
This was the famous death of Lightning Lad that I learned about in the Sixties when I first tried the Legion. It was the culmination of an odd tale that had Saturn Girl use her power to secure her election as Legion leader and immediately turn into a tyrant who grounded every Legionnaire in the process of stealing their powers. Yet this turned out to be an act of sacrifice: made aware that a Legionnaire would die battling a villain, Saturn Girl sought to protect her team-mates by becoming the only active Legionnaire. But Lightning Lad discovered her plot and beat her to the punch, sacrificing himself for her.
It was the beginning of a long romance, for when I learned of his death, he had already been resurrected. But that it had come so early in the series stuns me – unless Weisinger was thinking that with over a dozen of them already, who’d miss the odd one here or there?
The Girl Legionnaires Revolt!
The Legion of Substitute-Heroes, second only to the Legion of Super-Pets when it comes to dumb Legions, made its debut in issue 306. Back when Robert Loren Fleming and Keith Giffen were perpetrating Ambush Bug on us all, they combined for a gloriously funny Substitute-Heroes Special I used to own: to my glee, I now learned just how closely they based their goof-up on the original! I wish I still had it.
There was no forgetting Lightning Lad’s brave sacrifice at any turn, not least in issue 308, where ‘he’ returned to life, only to be exposed – not that literally – as his own very much alive twin-sister and replacement, Lightning Lass, whose hairdo was an atrocity: Thirtieth Century? You gotta be kidding me.
By issue 309, the Legion were so popular, they had taken the lead-spot in the comic, though Superboy continued to get the cover, which was a bit ludicrous in issue 310 when Superboy’s story was about him exchanging minds with Krypto and the Legion’s about they’re all being killed…
I shall pass over the Superbaby story in issue 311, which hit depths of silliness to make the Marianas Trench look like a puddle to get onto the following story, which was the supposedly always-planned story of how Lightning Lad was restored to life (at least that’s how Weisinger promoted it in the lettercol, just like he described Bizarro as a fixture four months before dropping it).
I’d heard about this story almost as soon as I discovered the Legion but this was the first chance I had to read it. The Legion are searching the Universe for ways to bring Lightning Lad back to life but all methods fail. Except that Mon-El knows a surefire method whose only drawback is that it will kill whoever does it. Saturn Girl, the telepath, can tell he’s holding something back, though Mon-El’s only keeping schtum because he intends to sneak off and sacrifice himself. Once the truth comes out, the legionnaires vie to be the noble one. Except that Saturn Girl intends to cheat by ensuring she gets struck by the lightning that will do it. And she does, and she dies… except that it’s Chameleon Boy’s protoplasmic, telepathic pet, Proty, who has decoyed her away and substituted himself in her place.
I knew all of this long ago, but reading the story at last, even with John Forte’s stiff, unemotional art, was actually surprisingly moving, which it had to be to overcome the Lana Lang spoiled brat humiliated by Superboy for-her-own-good story that backed it up. Pairing these two stories in one issue was plain bad editting.
Though Adventure was still a Superboy title, the Legion’s series was now taking first place every month. This didn’t matter to the Boy of Steel, who had had his own solo comic since 1949, and it was quickly becoming apparent that his future-colleagues would be taking over Adventure for themselves. Indeed, their story in issue 313 disposed with Superboy early on in order to feature Supergirl, who actually appeared twice in that she was revealed as being Satan Girl, who unleashed a lethal plague upon the girl Legionnaires.
Star Boy kills!
With so many Legionnaires, there was barely time to show everyone off, so a three page guide as to who, what power and what origin was included in issue 316, which extended the roster to 23, by including Jimmy Olsen’s occasional Elastic Boy persona and, lumped together as one, the Legion of Super-Pets (look, I won’t talk about the Super-Pets unless I’m actually forced to, ok?)
Finally, in issue 317, exactly seventy issues after their one-off debut, it became official: ‘Adventure Comics featuring Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes’ became the logo. The story introduced Dream Girl, temporarily, as a beautiful new member causing all the boys to fancy her, the girls to get green-eyed, and seven Legionnaires deactivated, all to needlessly divert one of her premonitions of their forthcoming death which was actually of android versions of them. Confused? Dreamy also fixed it that Lightning Lass lost her now-unneeded powers only to be re-gifted with the power to make things light (Star Boy, who makes them heavy, apparently hasn’t got a reverse gear).
The issue also reduced a ‘Hall of Fame Classic’ feature, otherwise known as reprints, which did no more than demonstrate that Superboy stories hadn’t change in over a decade, and to cap it off, the lettercol featured a letter from a Dora Knight, asking why Saturn Girl can be Legion leader when the boys are so much stronger than her? I’d give a lot to know if Miss Knight became a feminist and worked out the answer.
Right from his first appearance, Bouncing Boy had been a bit of a joke Legionnaire, rarely used, and that was clearly the general opinion at DC because in issue 321, he was abruptly, and undramatically, de-powered and demoted to permanent reservist. Of course, I know that won’t last forever.
I knew that at some point I’d catch up with my own first Legion story, though I didn’t expect it to be as early as issue 323, when Proty II sets a clever puzzle to determine the Legion’s new leaders – who turns out to be their old one, that smart blonde cookie, Saturn Girl. I even recognised the Hall of Fame Classic back up featuring Krypto. Every panel locked into place out of my memory.
Jim Shooter’s first script
But for every decent, and sometimes clever, story there were still a couple of dumb ones, usually based on some or all of the Legionnaires being dickheads, though that’s not possibly the ideal word for the story in issue 326 when the six girl Legionnaires get a mad on against the boy Legionnaires and set out to trap and kill them. There could have been a worse explanation for this too but I’m in no hurry to find one.
Interestingly, each girl Legionnaire got in a smooch with their chosen target first (and Triplicate Girl managed three, the little hussy), except for Saturn Girl, who couldn’t get Superboy to sample (wot an idiot!).
One of the problems with trying to read American comics in the Sixties was the erratic distribution. No two consecutive issues could be guaranteed. Then again, my budget for comics was strictly limited. Which one of these was responsible for my only reading the second half of the Legion’s first two-parter, in issues 330-331, I don’t know, though I remember the story as clear as a bell, as well as the Hall of Fame back-up which featured Lana being genuinely concerned for Clark without trying to penetrate his secret identity. Yes, they could write them.
Although I remembered a couple of stories earlier in the run, it was not until issue 340 that I fully caught up with my early enthusiasm for the Legion. This was the first half of the two-parter that introduced Computo, Brainiac 5’s evil super-computer, which changed Triplicate Girl into Duo Damsel by killing one of her three bodies (without any apparent trauma either) and which warped the Legion into the Batman ’66 Camp Era by introducing wise-cracking. Ah, the memories!
Indeed, there’s something special about this era of the run for me. The stories are (probably) no better nor worse than those before and those to come, but these are the stories from my time, full of back bedrooms at Brigham Street and Burnage Lane, re-reading runs on quiet summer holiday afternoons and evenings, each panel engraved on the eyeballs of memory. Star Boy’s expulsion. The Super-Stalag of Space. Jim Shooter’s unadvertised debut as a 13 year old writer by introducing four new members simultaneously, which was also the point that full-scale Legion stories supplanted the Superboy reprints.
A tie that bound for decades
One more thing to add about the Legion at this time is that it had something DC wasn’t supposed to have: continuity. Not necessarily in the form of subplots that became stories, but in situations that actually changed the status quo, like Lightning Lad losing an arm, Bouncing Boy his powers or Star Boy his membership. All these themes were brought together and restored in one go in issue 351.
And suddenly it all stopped. The Sun-Eater, the Fatal Five, Ferro-Lad’s sacrifice. The Adult Legion. I remember the cover to the first part of that but I read none of them. And none that followed, nor even saw the covers. This puzzles me now. This was only 1967 and I did not start losing interest in comics for another year. The only significant change was our move from East to South Manchester: was distribution really that random that by moving half a dozen miles away you could lose sight of an actual title? Or did I suddenly lose interest in the Legion?
Or did my childhood interest in comics, the Justice Society aside, start to fade earlier than I recall? I always thought it was 1968 because that was when I started on the football magazines, and besides, my parents had barred me from buying American comics at the full price of 1/-, a bar I got around, which a trickiness that well-befitted my future career as a Solicitor, by buying a preferred title in the newsagents coming out of school, selling it for 3d to a willing accomplice and then buying it back from him for 3d, so that I could truthfully say I’d bought it cheap off someone at school.
That was Burnage Grammar School, or High School from my Second Year on. I only went up into the Second Year in 1967: could I, who was naïve and immature for my age, have been that sneaky that early?
But the Legion stories that follow, two-parters all of them, are complete mysteries to me. Shooter, still only a teenager, was writing them, skilfully enough despite Weisinger, with some variable art, not all of it coming from the reliable Curt Swan. But the Legion’s days were numbered.
I have little to say about these late adventures. This was a strange, transitional period for DC, whose older writers, backbones of the company, were losing the plot, sometimes literally. Marvel was a threat kept in check only by DC owning their distributors and limiting them to no more than eight titles. The writers were demanding benefits as employees whilst being treated as freelancers for DC’s benefit. Things were slipping.
Some of the Legion’s stories were mildly memorable. The introduction of Shadow Lass, who’d already been seen dead in the Adult Legion’s hall of fallen heroes, as Shadow Queen, joining the Legion because she fancies Brainiac 5 (she’s not seen Mon-El yet), and that being the crucial point in issue 368, when a female governor of a world amplifies the girl Legionnaires’ powers and has them throw the boys out preparatory to installing a matriarchal government on earth, only for Supergirl to break her conditioning out of jealousy over ‘her’ Brainiac 5. Sheesh.
Introducing the Fatal Five
And the story in issues 369-370 not only introduced the Dark Lord Mordru but smashed Superboy’s Smallville continuity, with Jonathan and Martha Kent losing twenty years each and drawn unrecognisably whilst Lana Lang and the two girl Legionnaires who come to Smallville in Superboy’s ‘time’ all wear 1968 mini-skirts. Though apparently the Kents had taken a youth serum in Superboy and nobody noticed…
Issue 373 introduced Don and Dawn Allen, the Tornado Twins, ‘direct descendants’ of The Flash, though not as direct as they’d end up being years later.
And then, after issue 380, and a story whose only memorable moment was that it saw Chuck (Bouncing Boy) Taine showing his first feelings for Luornu (Duo Damsel) Durgo, the Legion were gone, without warning or explanation. They’d had an 81 issue run and whilst their replacement would have a stable run, for a while, emiwould have have so stable a lead feature again.
So the Silver Age was over, at least so far as this series was concerned, cover date May 1969, actual publication probably March. Join me for the Bronze Age, next.
By mbc1955in Comics and Graphic Novels December 27, 2019 December 24, 2019 2,315 WordsLeave a comment
Doomsday Clock 12
So the Undistinguished Thing is now here in its entirety. The set is going on eBay at any moment, One-Day Auction, Buy and Pay Thursday, Guaranteed First Class Posting Friday morning, maximum chance of delivery for Xmas, £9.99 plus postage starting bid or Best Offer. Get bidding!
Why you should want to is entirely another matter. I have made my opinion of Doomsday Clock amply clear over this past more than two years and I recant nothing now I have read the final, extended size issue.
But, in the manner of Lucifer on an Australian beach reluctantly give God his due over the matter of sunsets, I have to give credit to Geoff Johns for some of the things in issue 12. Despite the many flaws that I’ve held up to ridicule and scorn, some of which carry over into this wrap-up, there are elements to the outcome that, if attached to a story with a less mean-minded purpose, could have completed an event worth reading and re-reading.
The first thing to recognise is that I was completely wrong in the assumption I made on reading issue 1 back in 2017 that the ending would be a big fight between Superman and Dr Manhattan, to be won by the former despite the overwhelming discrepancy in power levels. Johns even set that up at the end of issue 11, all those months ago, but he had something more subtle on his mind.
The big fight is between Superman and everybody else. The Russians, the Markovians, Black Adam’s Khandaq brigade, the Brits, the Aussies, the Israelis, in short every other country in the world that has a superhero team we never hear about because americans really can’t be arsed about anything that isn’t American, all piling in at once to take Superman down and in for his part in the Moscow massacre, whenever that was. Dr Manhattan looks on. After all, he sees everything simultaneously so he is the man on no action and no hope: it all goes black in eleven minutes and fifty seven seconds, after which, ho hum.
There’s something of the rat pack mentality about this atomic pile-on. i don’t know whether Johns intended this or not but there’s an element of mean-spiritedness, a seizing of the chance to get back at, and drag down the paragon, to adopt the current Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series terminology. Superman’s been the perfect ideal for too long, now he can be clawed down, not so perfect anyomre. Tied in with the nationalistic implications of the battle being every other country versus the American boy, it leaves a sour taste on the mouth. But then, so much of what inspiresJohns to this work does exactly the same.
Dr Manhattan, like I said, looks on. He sees destruction in the forthcoming darkness: Superman destroys me or I destroy everything. But the DC Universe is one of hope and optimism, not like that nasty ol’ Watchmen Universe. Superman asks for a third choice.
And at exactly the same moment, Batman and the is-he-dead-or-is-he-not-dead Alfred catch up with Reggie, the New (I can’t write well enough to write Rorscharch so I’ll make up a second-rate version of him to speak what little superficially similar dialogue I can achieve) Rorscharch, who can lead them to where Ozymandias is, even though Veidt has moved elsewhere before since Reggie last saw him. They need Reggie to put on Rorscharch’s mask again (what the hell for? It hasn’t got a direction-finder or anything like that?). But Reggie won’t touch it, won’t even say the name. because everybody’s lied to him about Rorscharch and Reggie’s father and he hates the monster.
Until Batman tells him to change what people see when they see the mask so Reggie changes his mind. just like that. As you do when you’re in a superhero Universe that’s done the same thing for eighty years non-stop.
By now you must be wondering when we’ll come to something of which I approve but fear not. Just as Reggie undergoes a 180 degree change in character because Batman talks to him, so too does Dr Manhattan because Superman speaks. Everything goes black. Because Dr Manhattan makes it go black, for nearly three pages, until the Lux is Fiated once more, this time by the naked blue guy.
And also the shitty changes Dr Manhattan has made are unmade. Superman lifts a car over his head in 1938 again. The lantern is six inches nearer Alan Scott again. A girl a thousand years hence saves R.J. Brande’s life again. And a Superboy inspired by heroes of the past saves Jonathan and Martha Kent.
Suddenly, the sky is full of allies of Superman, aiding him against the treacherous, loathsome Old Worlders. Allies from the past, allies from the future. The Legion of superheroes to the doublespread panel left, the Justice Society of America with that old, calm authority to the right.
I’ve no idea whether this is yet another Universal reboot or just Rebirth Reborn, but either way it’s all turned round again. and this was apparently Ozymandias’s plan all along: he couldn’t persuade Jon to save the world again but Superman could so it was all about engineerng a confrontation.
Because not only is whatever Earth-1 equivalent we may be in at any given time, not only is the DC universe the Metaverse that steers the stars of every multiversal existence, but Superman is the fons et origo of everything. Every Universe our reading eye passes through is still there, growing the multiverse with it, and every future Crisis to come (Johns listing enough to get us to the Legion’s time though the ones for 2025 and 2030 are obviously the more immediate concerns, with the former’s 5G having already been hinted at) creating new versions.
So, Dr Manhattan regroups everyone from the Watchmen Universe so that they can go home (and write about what they did on their holidays?) Actually, the Mime and the Marionette will stay behind because despite being deeply evil, half mad and psychotic criminals, they do love each other and besides, they’ll be nice to their little daughter. The Comedian, whose resurrection from the dead to appear in this dog has always been completly pointless, shoots Ozy through the chest and this time he doesn’t catch the bullet, except in his chest, so he gets sent back to where he’s falling out of his penthouse, except that this one’s done by Lex Luthor cancelling out his altered vibrations, just like Barry Allen all those half-centuries ago. Veidt’s going to die a hero just as he wants to but Reggie stuffs the Rorscharch mask in to plug up the wound and, bare-faced, proclaims himself Rorscharch. Just as in the TV series, Veidt’s going back to be arrested. He is a mass-murderer, remember.
As just as in the TV seruies, Dr Manhattan dies. Everyone returns to Watchmen world in 1992, with no explanation of how the two Universes are running on such a time discrepancy, and Dr Manhattan invests his power in regrowing the world after its nuclear holocaust, only this is Watchmen rebirth: Janey Slater tells Jon Osterman her watch can wait: six months later, they marry and have three kids. The events of Watchmen the comic still happen even despite there being no Dr Manhattan (go on Johns, for your next trick tell us How?) because Laurie and Dan are still in hiding in their assumed identities with their daughter who’s really Mime and Marionette’s first child, and there are no nuclear weapons any more.
Oh, but there’s a visitor who comes to stay with Dan and Laurie. A little dark-haired boy. With a blue hydrogen atom symbol on his forehead. He says to call him Clark.
I’ve ended up being still as scathing about issue 12 as I’ve been about all the others, and not merely by force of habit. The ending is built on too rotten an edifice for anything more, and the edifice is still what I’ve called it all along: Geoff Johns’ inability to understand an approach to superheroics that didn’t exactly mirror everything it’s been since 1838, and his fear of that failure to understand. What might have been noble, entertaining and even worthy if it did not grow from that shit-heap of resentment falls apart upon analysis. As I’ve just said.
But the JSA are back, which we can all welcome. And so too are Jonathan and Martha who, though their death was for fifty years an integral element of Superman’s tale, come as most welcome. Though were we’re gpoing to go with Schroedinger’s Alfred I don’t know.
The one thing I can say about Johns’ Watchmen is that at least he put the toys back where they came from where, out of sight and out of mind, we can forget everything that happened before and after Watchmen the comic and pray that nobody ever fucks with them again.
I’d hate to have to do this again.
By mbc1955in Comics and Graphic Novels December 18, 2019 1,490 Words2 Comments
It’s February 1958, though the cover date says April, standard comic book practice then and for decades to come to try to fool newstands, drugstores and Mom-and-Pop stores to leave the comic out on display for longer and longer, before tearing the strip with the title off the cover and returning it for credit. The new Flash had appeared in two issues of Showcase, both big sellers, but the management at National Periodical Publications (you didn’t shout the word ‘Comics’ too loudly in the Fifties) would require two more, this year, before trusting him to a series of his own. The Silver Age was struggling to be born but Adventure Comics and its editor, Whitney Ellsworth, was about to make their greatest contribution to the new era. He, writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino were about to introduce the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Appropriately for the time, it’s a bit of a jerky story. Three kids from the future, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, the latter two of which looking nothing like the incarnations we would become familiar with in the future, and all of which boast artificial super-powers that, at this stage, are not the inherent abilities stemming from their respective home planets, ‘tease’ (i.e., horrify) Superboy by knowing his dual identity, invite him 1,000 years into the future to join their superhero club, put his through competency tests in which they deliberately sabotage him, and all for fun. Remind me again, why did he join this bunch of creeps?
We only get to meet these three Legionnaires, although the group includes at least four other identified members, one of which is green-skinned and could possibly have been Brainiac 5. We also learn that, ten centuries on, feminism hasn’t arrived, since Saturn Girl is ‘only a girl’ (curl lip in contempt). Of such acorns do oak trees grow, however implausible, but if superheroes are on the way back, the idea’s a doozy.
There are still our hapless D-listers, The Green Arrow and Aquaman, to go through, and it was back to Superboy solo next month, But the Silver Age had visited and left its calling card on the table. The In-Between Age was doomed..
As this is a new run, I actually started reading the back-up stories, or enough of them to finally pick up on the patterns. Green Arrow’s stories are always about the arrows, and how the crime-fighting archers have to keep using different ones, whilst Aquaman is about him acting out of character for some secret purpose that gets revealed on page 5. And it was interesting to see that, when Adventure hit issue 250, one of a very small number of titles to do so, absolutely nothing was done to mark it.
Or did it? For that and the next six issues, Green Arrow gained a new artist, the King, Jack Kirby. No, it’s not particularly memorable art, or that distinctly Kirby, and apparently it was being inked by his wife, Roz, but it’s Kirby. And in issue 252, not only did Superboy encounter Red Kryptonite for the first time (but not its more antic aspects), but Green Arrow’s story was continued into a second part!
A major change arrived in that second issue. It was not Superboy teaming up with a time-travelling Robin the Boy Wonder but rather the introduction of the Silver Age staple, the letters page.
I was also pleased to see the occasional resumption of house ads, particularly the full-pagers devoted to new characters in Showcase, such as Space Ranger and Adam Strange, under the rubric ‘Adventures on Other Worlds’. But on the debit side, Aquaman’s series was now adorned with his own sidekick, his pet octopus, Topo. Don’t anyone tell Jason Mamoa about this.
But we are really getting into some deep and, frankly, scary psychological terrirtory, especially with the Superboy story in issue 255, which sees some Martian Red Kryptonite split Superboy in two, one of them the Boy of Steel and the other a merely human Clark Kent. Clark goes criminally batty and Superboy ends up killing him in an explosion. That’s right, killing him, or rather himself, without qualm or regret. That’s seriously disturbing shit.
Kirby’s last Green Arrow, featuring the most identifiably Kirby art of his run, was a re-telling of his origin in it’s pre-Speedy form. In fact, the letters page, and several requests for who, what and why, seems to have inspired a sweep of origin recaps across the Superman titles generally, not to mention another ludicrous team-up in issue 258, this time with Superboy trying to inspire new-kid-in-town Oliver Queen to take an interest in archery… In time, practically half of DC’s characters would pass through Smallville during Superboy’s youth.
When I mentioned that Whitney Ellsworth was editing Adventure, I was surprised to see his name in the indicia, as I’d always assumed Mort Weisinger’s legendary possessiveness about Superman would not allow anyone else to be in charge. Weisinger replaces Ellsworth as of issue 259, reminding me that when Ellsworth was editor of All-Star, it was Julius Schwartz doing the work. I think Ellsworth was editor in the same way Stan Lee et al were editor-in-chief at Marvel: the overall boss but not the hands-on man. I think Weisinger’s hand was on the real controls all along. Now, it just became official.
One of those origin stories appeared in issue 260, as Aquaman’s origin was retold for the first time in eighteen years, or rather retconned, for now Arthur Curry was named for the first time, and he was revealed as being Atlantean, though not yet as the rightful king of that undersea world. Next issue, the Boy of Steel met a teenage Lois Lane at camp, sharing a cabin with Lana Lang and deploring the latter’s constant efforts to discover Superboy’s identity: Lois would never do that. All-in-all, it was a chance for the Boy of Steel to anticipate his adult self’s trait of acting like a dick to two women who love him.
By now, it was clear that the Legion hadn’t caught the imagination of Superboy’s readers first off. In fact, it took twenty issues for the teenagers of tomorrow to reappear, in issue 267, and they were still dicks, humiliating the Boy of Steel, driving him off Earth, imprisoning him. It was the same trio but this time all in the uniforms with which we would be familiar in the Sixties, except that Saturn Girl was brunette, not blonde.
Two issues later, Aquaman met Aqualad, an Atlantean expelled from Atlantis for being afraid of fish, cured his fear and ending up with the kid imprinting himself on the King of the Sea and adopting him as a surrogate father with no legal proceedings whatsoever.
For issue 270, the first of 1960, there was a sudden change as Green Arrow’s series was replaced by Congorilla, big game hunter Congo Bill who, by rubbing a magic ring, could transfer his mind into the body of a golden gorilla for an hour. Remember too that 1960 was the year the Justice League of America debuted, consisting of seven of DC’s eight adult superheroes. The only one to miss out was… Green Arrow. Is there a connection?
Next issue, Superboy met the young Lex Luthor, farm boy in Smallville, Superboy hero-worshipper and would-be scientific genius, and we see that Luthor becomes a Superman-hater after Superboy causes all his hair to fall out. Don’t laugh so much, there are sound psychological underpinnings to this rationale, I merely looks goofy. And increasingly the letters page is becoming a source of inspiration, with the kids raising questions that prompt stories being written to explain the answers. Weisinger certainly knew his audience.
After Robin, Lois and Luthor, it was inevitable that Superboy would meet a young Bruce Wayne when his parents, the great philanthropists and benefactors of Gotham City, decided to move to Smallville; well, wouldn’t you? Who wants to live in a plush mansion when you could live in a hick town? Bruce gets the hots for Lana who agrees to let him take her to the Prom if he finds out Superboy’s identity, which he does, being smart, only Superboy shows him film of the future where he’s Batman and they’re best friends, so he doesn’t. Funny how the Boy of Steel omits the bit about why young Bruce becomes Batman…
Both back-up series had a change of title is issue 277, to introduce their kid partners: Aquaman and Aqualad, Congorilla and Janu, with National announcing that, in response to many such requests, they were giving the first pair a two-issue run in Showcase to see if they could carry their own title.
Issue 280 saw the Mermaid Lori Lemaris become the latest Superman character to pre-empt her first meeting with Supes by turning up in Smallville years early. As usual, the story was 90% silly, the exceptions being the provision of an entirely sensible explanation for Lori’s Atlanteans having fishtails whilst Aquaman’s have two legs, and the instinctive effort of the jealous Lana to save the life of the ‘girl’ she fears as a rival. It was also announced that, from the next issue, the first of 1961, Congorilla and Aquaman would alternate as back-up, their combined pages giving the opportunity for thirteen page adventures.
This time, it took only fifteen issues for the Legion of Superheroes to return, in issue 282, with a new member, Star Boy (albeit one with super-strength, electrical vision and supercool breath, instead of mass controlling powers), as well as a cameo from the previously unseen Chameleon Boy. Unfortunately, the story was an excuse for Lana to cook up one of her least reputable plots to discover Superboy’s identity. Not even the sight of Lana in a most un-1961 short skirt and her frank admission that she loved the Boy of Steel kept him from acting like just as much as a dick to her. Just fly her off and snog her, you fool!
Congorilla’s brief run came to an end in issue 283, with the announcement that he was being replaced by the more Superman-oriented Tales of the Bizarro World. It was supposed to be just him but, come the day, Aquaman was sent swimming too. But three issues later I was hoping for one or both of them to return, as the Bizarro stories were stupid beyond belief. And they’re getting all the covers, too! The time between Legion stories was rapidly diminishing, with Sun Boy, the “Seventh Legionnaire” being introduced in issue 290.
And the big three of Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl were back after only three issues, this time introducing, wait for it, the Legion of Super-Pets. Yes, that’s right: Super-Pets. These were Krypto, plus Beppo the Super-Monkey, Streaky the Super-Cat and even the as-yet unnamed Comet the Super-Horse, pet and occasional lover of Supergirl (don’t go there, just don’t) who hadn’t even been introduced in Supergirl’s series yet (hey, every young girl is into horses, right?)
There was a letter of protest about the Bizarros in issue 296 which brought forth a stinging rebuke from Weisinger, about how Adventure‘s sales figures had rocketed to their highest ever since the feature began, and that every month they got 5,000 postcards with suggestions from ‘Bizarro business’. Yeah, but that still doesn’t mean the series isn’t crap.
Finally, the suggestion came up of a regular Legion series, alternating with the Bizarros. So, with issue 300, the day finally came when the Legion, 53 issues after their debut, took a permanent role in Adventure.
And I’ll be back in two weeks for the next instalment.
By mbc1955in Comics and Graphic Novels December 13, 2019 December 7, 2019 1,928 Words4 Comments
A Buzz around the Hornet: Part 3
Third time round for The Hornet, the D.C.Thomson stable comic, issues 201-300, covering the paper’s life from 15 July 1967 to 7 June 1969.
Though it’s 1967, the summer of psychedelia, Procol Harum at number 1 for six weeks, free games for May and Strawberry Fields Forever, Hornet shows no signs of stepping out of the time-bubble in which it is enclosed. It is not keeping up with the Sixties because it has never yet arrived in the Sixties. Of its line-up this time, there is little to enthuse me, just two of the comic’s round of regulars, a Rob Higson Runs that Count, introducing big, burly, ball-bashing, bird-watching batsman, Bert Bunting (another tone-lowering, independently minded scruffpot) and the start of a new Bernard Briggs serial, The No-Goal Goalie.
Bernard’s moved to the two-club Midland town of Stockley, bought a house that comes complete with a gasworks attached, and signed for the posh boys, Rangers on condition that they pay their down-at-heels neighbours Rovers £1,000 for every shut-out Bernard produces. You know where the money’s going.
The only other series of any distinction at this point is Laramie, an adaptation of an old TV Western, cancelled four years before – but only of its sole season in the Fifties!
Nor was the mix improved by the first new series of this batch, a run-of-the-mill World War 2 story replacing one about hunting King Solomon’s Treasure with a cheat ending. It’s Runs that Count completed its run in issue 207 (26 August), leaving cricket to be replaced by football in the familiar-sounding Ball of Fire, about centre forward Wally Brand. I didn’t recognise it as such, but it ploughed an enjoyably familiar trough with the forceful Wally another of the independent kind.
And a third new series in four issues was another enjoyable returnee, Jim Ransom, the Big Palooka, this time tackling American crooks muscling into Britain as from issue 210 (16 September), though only for a ten week run.
Two more new starters were lined up for issue 212 (30 September), both returnees. One was a repeat performance for one of the more abysmal SF series but the other, about due a revisit, was Wilson, though not my long anticipated Ashes Test story. How much longer before Nick Smith again?
Wilson’s new serial, It’s Wilson Again, saw him back in Africa searching for a lost city that turned out to be a Greek colony that had erected a replica of Athens that wasn’t all ruins. As ideas go, it was horribly trite. As for Nick, he wasn’t showing up just yet but the flood of new series swept in the Deathless Men again, in a V for Vengeance series titled ‘M’ Marks the Spot.
I haven’t had a jump of nostalgia for quite some time now and in issue 215 (21 October) it came in the unexpected place of the prose serial, which I’ve been guilty of ignoring since the first Nick Smith and Rob Higson because, well, they’re not worth reading. But Kid Laine the Dixieland Drummer, about a fourteen year old dockloader called Leo ‘Kid’ Laine who would go on to be a groundbreaking jazz drummer, and lead the massively successful and influential jazz band, The Big Five, was a tonic for the troops. Like some of Eagle’s serials, this was obviously being read by someone who knew what they were talking about, in this instance both jazz and drumkits.
Still the new series kept on appearing. After a long run, Laramie went back to the bunkhouse to free up space for a second go from ex-Special Air Service Greg Stewart, whose bag was finding antiquities for the Military Museum.
Briggs’ latest improbable season ended in issue 222 (9 December) whilst the Deathless Men finally got the British Agent to the crashed plane to destroy the secret papers. That left room for two new stories, one of which was the return of the unimpressive Limping Man, but the second ws another right from the memory bank, The Goals That Nobody Cheered. Stan Rankin, centre forward for Hampton Town was forced out of the game when he accidentally killed two goalkeepers in successive weeks, each by a kick to the head (this was a series for kids?). But Stan came into a large sum of money, enough to buy a majority shareholding in Hampton and reinstate himself as Player-Manager. Except that the fans boycotted him and the first team, leaving Stan with the hard task of winning them back around.
Two more new series arrived in issue 224 (23 December), with Wilson and the crap SF series ending to accommodate them. They were neither of them worth mentioning, but they were followed in Xmas week by several things I surprised myself by recognising.
The first was the cover story, about the amazing Xmas match between Charlton Athletic and Huddersfield Town. Reduced to ten men, Charlton were 2-0 down at half-time and 5-1 with half an hour to go, and their left-winger Johnny Summers was wearing brand-new boots, when he went on a spree that saw Charlton win 7-6 with the last kick of the game, including five goals from Summers, all scored with his ‘wrong’ foot. No, this wasn’t fiction, though I remembered the one-off Ball of Fire story, which was.
Last of all was a new series, Crazy School, starring young Jimmy Bell, sent to a snooty private school where everyone down to the porter boy was a snob out to make him feeling unwanted. Unpropitious stuff, and nothing to write home about… until I recognised every single stunt, because Jimmy has fantastic hypnotic powers!
The Dixie Drummer ended its first series in issue 227 (13 January 1968) with Kid Laine joining the British Army to fight in the Great War, but there has to be at least one more series to come because I remember the Big Five’s reunion in No Man’s Land. That left just two decent strips, and a couple of real SF schtumers: Hornet could not do SF to save its life.
After giving me a nostalgia jolt in its first episode, Crazy School ended in issue 230 (3 February) without ringing another bell. The same week, Stan Rankin was joined by another football series, Haddie, another amateur footballer who would end up dragging his club towards another FA triumph. Haddie, whose nickname came from his profession as a North Sea Fisherman, was a junior league Bernard Briggs, playing for fun and reserving his seriousness for his fishing.
And speaking of old Briggsy, the real thing returned in issue 234 (2 March), still scrapping but now scrapping, in the square ring that is. It was another of those times when new series seemed to start nearly every week. Stan Rankin was finally vindicated when television footage was discovered that exculpated him over the two keepers’ deaths, bringing the crowds back in to cheer his goals once more.
His replacement was Bring ’em Back Barney, another one that trips the memory. Barney Hines, the Mayor of Walla-Wogga, has opened a town museum that is empty, so he’s enlisted in the Aussie Army in the Great War to collect ‘souvenirs’ for exhibits. Why do I remember something like this when I have no recollection of The Devil Dogs of the Dravids in the same issue?
Also back the same week was Kid Laine in The Return of the Dixie Drummer, in France, in the War and about to be reunited with the rest of the Big Five. And one issue later it was time again for Wally Brand, the Ball of Fire, back in a new series in which, shock, horror, he’s still at the same club.
The Dixie Drummer’s second story ran until issue 244 (11 May) after which he gave way to Detective Paul Terhune, whilst Richard Sharp, The Blazing Ace of Space, also returned after a very long absence for more World War 2 RAF missions.
The next new series was The Fifth Wicket Fosters, a cricket strip. Unlike Bring ‘Em Back Barney, this was one of the series I had always remembered, and one I was looking forward to reading again. Peter Foster is the third generation of his family to bat at no 6 for Northshire, an attacking batsman. But he’s also a Special Ops Agent who, in order to stem an aggressive Dictator, agrees to appear a traitor delivering secret plans. The plot succeeds, but the Dictator susses that the plans are fakes and sends men in search of Peter, who, having undergone plastic surgery and been re-named Dave Palmer, applies to become a professional cricketer – at Northshire. An intriguing set-up.
It didn’t take long for ‘Palmer’ to give himself away, safely, to his younger brother John. John Foster suffered from a frozen right arm after a car accident but is secretly training himself to bowl left arm spin.
Another, if gentler, jolt of memory came with the debut of the Floating Man in issue 251 (29 June), about a salesman trying to promote a buoyancy suit that turned a man into his own boat, so to speak. A familiar panel, but nothing else was recognisable in the first episode, but it was recognisable to me.
Richard Starr’s second series and Bring ‘Em Back Barney both reached an end in issue 253 (12 July), with one being replaced by a nondescript treasure hunt series and the other a one-off war story. Meanwhile, The Fifth Wicket Fosters came to an end all-too-soon, with truth, exoneration and the County Championship all round, to be replaced, at last, by Wilson Did It. This is the Wilson Cricket story I’ve been waiting for all along, that I left unfinished when I gave up Hornet in 1968, the year of graduation from (most) comics to Football magazines like Goal, Shoot and Striker. An end is in sight.
The set-up is that the plane carrying the England Test Team, travelling too Australia for the Ashes, crashes in Arnhem Land, killing no-one but injuring every player. A second party crashes in the exact spot, where the Amazing Wilson is studying the Aborigines and their approach to cricket. Wilson discovers a dead Aborigine tracker, shot through the head, from a half-track vehicle that has vanished. A mystery.
Of the second party, the only player uninjured is our old friend Bert Bunting, the Highshire wicket-keeper (since when?). And there’s a double crossover when Rob Higson, not selected for either party, asks Wilson to lead a scratch English side in a charity match. When Wilson turns out to bowl at bat-smashing speed, Higson gets a fantastic notion…
The thought of completing the story after fifty years – a longer time by far than the Eagle serial I wrote about here (insert link) – makes every panel of this story a fascination, but I mustn’t forget the rest of the paper, not that the majority of the stories make forgetting them difficult. Two new series debuted in issues 257 and 258 (10 and 17 August), the first, Shawnee Fall Was Here!, a western about a small mining town that vanishes completely whilst Deputy Marshall Jubal Smith was away ten days, trailing a robber, and the second featuring the popular character, the Swamp Rat, this time revealing his real name of Peter Bold and how he got all his tattoos in The Badges of courage on Darkness Island: very boyhood of Arnold Tabbs with a soupcon of Lord of the Flies.
The same issue saw the rather lacklustre Bernard the Boxer end abruptly when he discovered his manager had been ripping him off, with the mildly interesting The Man in Black also concluding.
The long term replacement for Briggs was another returnee, The Diggers in New Guinea, two Australian cobbers at war. And no less than three old favourites returned in issue 261 (7 September), with Briggsy back in goals for an American tour, the Deathless Men in a new V for Vengeance series and a long overdue second series for Muscles Malone.
Briggs was just Briggs in an American context, and funnily enough Muscles Malone was also Stateside, but I should have realised which V for Vengeance story this had to be, coming so close to the end of my experience with Hornet. This was the origin of the Deathless Men, beginning with the escape by captured and tortured British Agent Aylmer Gregson from a concentration camp, and his decision to start the Army of Vengeance, an Army of Jacks: like the little metal things that turned over a fallen tank, human jacks that would overturn the Nazis. It also introduced plastic surgeon Anton Gerhard, the never before seen Jack Two. After two substandard series, only one episode was needed to show that V for Vengeance was once more at a cold peak, by concentrating on its original format: of vengeance.
The Diggers’ series came to an abrupt end after only six episodes in issue 264 (28 September), but I was more concerned with the Wilson series, which began with something I well remembered, and ended with something of which I had no memory: was this the point?
Yes, it was. The next Hornet saw the introduction of a new cover feature, one I had never seen, The Hornet Gallery of Sport, kicking off with a very unlife-like George Best, and Wilson’s story moving onto territory I had never seen. That dates, very precisely, when I gave up Hornet. But not this account: I have at least one series to finish, don’t I?
By stopping when I did, I missed a fourth Big Palooka series, this one at the Mexico Olympics: oh no! That must mean the story was taking place in 1968! Oh, calamity!
The mystery of the two crashed airplanes in Wilson turned out to be accidental engine interference from machinery used by uranium prospects though that did not quite explain why they were planning to do it deliberately to a third MCC team. Which didn’t explain the shock I got from very clearly recognising incidents in the episode in issue 269 (2 November). On the other hand, I had no recollection whatsoever of the latest execrable SF series.
Briggs’ American tour ended in issue 272 (23 November) with the discovery that the statue of Sam Houston he’d been toting around was made of solid gold, solving all manner of financial issues sprung in the last chapter. And V for Vengeance also came to an end, a final end, with Hitler’s suicide in his bunker bringing to an end the need for the Deathless Men. Their replacements were one each of football and war, with the former having the more promising set-up. For a start, it was a second series actually set in 1968. Danny Hawke, manager of struggling Ashfield Rovers, had managed a massively successful England Schoolboy team five years earlier. Now he set off to scour the world to reunite his Eleven Little Soccer Boys to rescue Ashfield.
Meanwhile, Wilson’s Australian adventure was still going on. Hie team had been awarded the Test series and won the First Test in a most improbable manner, but an espionage element had come into play, a spy for an East European power seeking to extract secrets from the scientist Dr Moffin, who was behind the two MCC plane crashes back at the beginning of the series. Issue 275 (14 December) represented 22 episodes with no end in sight.
Of course, Bernard Briggs wasn’t off the scene long. The Goalie was replaced by the Boot as our favourite rough diamond joined the Great Britain Ruby League team for a tour of Australia in issue 278 (4 January 1969). And Wilson Did It finally ended in issue 280 (18 January). The Test series was won with two games to spare, Wilson was off to remotest Canada to further test his endurance, and the spy was dead of a heart attack without any explanation of why he wanted to crash two MCC touring parties: I expected no more. But at least I got to the end of the story, 51 years after I started it.
After 282 issues (1 February), Hornet surprised us by introducing a one page comic series, Phil the First, about a lad obsessed with being first at everything, in the style of those many dumb one-pagers in Lion and Valiant. In in the style of those comics, it was dumb and unfunny.
Post-Wilson, there wasn’t much to enthuse me, and there was one less when The Big Palooka went back to England in issue 284 (15 February). However, just two issues later, I discovered that I was wrong about V for Vengeance and the Deathless Men. So many Hornet series’ were comic strip adaptations of prose serials from the Forties and Fifties. I have often wondered if V for Vengeance was amongst them, and now I was answered with The Voice from Berlin, a prose serial about a plan to discredit and kill a fictional version of the infamous Lord Haw-Haw, Basil Royce, not William Joyce.
This also teased a connection I’d long since pondered from the beginning of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta. To the semi-coincidence of the title, this now added a reflection of the three-parter dealing with the fascist Government’s propaganda broadcaster, Lewis Protheroe: Voice of Fate, Voice of Truth. Intriguing.
A second one pager, Harry the Hitch, started in issue 288 (15 March) with no better quality. Meanwhile, despite the accent on melodrama, the prose V for Vengeance was much stronger, thanks to its ability to go into details that could not be portrayed in panels.
The modestly entertaining Eleven Little Soccer Boys finished in issue 292 (12 April), giving way to another football series, The Team from Trisidium, featuring a team of aliens to whom football was archaic war: just your average notion, then. And with Barnard Briggs ending his Australian tour two issues later (and no doubt starting a short countdown to his next series), for the first time there were no ‘picture stories’ to really interest me.
And when the V for Vengeance serial ended in issue 297 (17 May), there were none.
There were also only three issues left to this instalment. Nothing changed in that time and thus another instalment is over.
I’ve outlasted the days of my original enthusiasm for Hornet, I’ve ended my interrupted story, and now it’s 1969, not that you’d ever known from within this comic. Time to look elsewhere. There are enough issues left on the DVD-Rom set for three more postings, but these will be reserved now to when I’ve run out of alternatives: I’ve had enough of the Fifties-style comics for a good time. We’ll be back to Adventure Comics next time.
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A Spot of Adventure: The In-Between Age
Most people agree upon the periods of the Golden Age and the Silver Age of Comics, though there’s room for argument as to the Ages that have followed. The Golden Age, from Action 1 to All-Star 57, covers the years 1938 to 1950, whilst the Silver Age starts with Showcase 4 in 1956. That leaves a gap that has never been tagged onto any Age, metallic or otherwise.
For the second instalment of my review of Adventure Comics, I’m calling the period in question the In-Between Age, and I plan to go up to 1958, for two reasons. One is that, although the Barry Allen Flash debuted in 1956, he only made four appearances in three years before finally being unleashed on his own series, in 1959. I’d call that the true beginning of the Silver Age, but before that, in 1958, National would introduce a new idea in the pages of Adventure that was as Silver Age as you could wish. This essay covers the years leading up to then.
We begin with issue 167. The Shining Knight was fallen casualty to the times, leaving Adventure with a line-up, front to back, of Superboy, Aquaman, Johnny Quick and The Green Arrow (still with the definite article). Superboy has the perky, red-headed teenage beauty Lana Lang trying to uncover his secret identity, just as his adult contemporary has Lois Lane, and Lana gets the idea into her pretty head that an ancient helmet brought home by her archaeologist parents gives her Superboy-esque powers. Instead of just taking her for a long, slow ride at the next hayride and enjoying some enthusiastic smooching, Superboy has to pretend the helmet works to keep her from getting the right idea about why a robber’s bullet just bounced off him. Silly boy.
Lana was a seeming fixture for a few issues but then dropped out, which was a shame because she brought an element of personality to Superboy’s strip. It was still a mostly domestic strip, calling for no great effort on the kid’s powers but without the pretty redhead it was empty.
Indeed, going into 1952, the comic as a whole was dull. Aquaman, who was clearly the favourite of the DVD maker who manages to come up with the Sea King’s story even when nothing else of an issue is available, tends to fight pirates, Green Arrow and Speedy can’t even come up with new trick arrows anymore, and only Johnny Quick comes up with an interesting read, mainly because it still hearkens to its Golden Age look instead of the bloodless DC art of the era.
I’ll mention the story in issue 181, which featured Joannie Swift, Queen of Speed. Joannie is a typist who accidentally gains the same powers as Johnnie when a list of equations she reads out duplicates his Magic Formula. Joannie turns out to be brave, resourceful, athletic, intelligent, in short bloody good at being a super-speedster. Johnnie only wants her to go away, at first to save her from injury because, being a girl, she’s bound to be a weakling, but, as soon as he realises she knows her stuff, a rather too revelatory reason comes out: Johnnie doesn’t want to turn out second best to her.
Of course, that fate will never happen because, inevitably, Joannie’s afraid of mice, which causes her to forget the Formula. So, instead of a skilful, brave, worthy foe of crime, using her potential to the fill, Ms Swift is condemned to go back to the steno pool, because she’s a girl. Sometimes this stuff can make you want to barf.
Johnny Quick
Meanwhile, a whole year of the DVD goes by with only two complete issues but with every Aquaman story. These are formulaic, uninspired affairs, six pages of nothing: no wonder DC struggled in the early Fifties. Piracy still turned up, but also silly ideas like Aquaman running an undersea hospital or an undersea fire service.
When full service resumes, for a while, in issue 201, there’s another delightful Lana Lang story, with Superboy thinking he’s blown his secret identity to her Dad, and so relieved to find he’s wrong, he welcomes Lana’s determined pursuit of his secret: just kiss her, you chump, she’d be a great girlfriend.
The American comic book package started off at 64 pages. Thanks to paper restrictions during the Second World war, it was reduced to 56 pages, and then to 48, all at 10c, irrespective of size. But with issue 205, Adventure Comics was reduced to the 32 page size that’s been standard ever since. Johnny Quick missed out, though he returned the following issue at the expense of Green Arrow. But his final appearance was in issue 207, sadly not on the DVD. Henceforth, Adventure had only three features, and if I say that Superboy is the pick of them, you’ll appreciate how dull it is.
There was a landmark story in issue 210, with the initially temporary appearance of Krypto, the Superdog, nearly giving Clark Kent’s other identity away again to guess who? This was the only story for that issue, whereas next time we only had the Aquaman so I can’t say whether it was that or its absent predecessor where Aquaman switched from yellow gauntlets to the green ones we know so well. Either way, he was back to yellow for issue 212, that is, when he was coloured at all in a bizarre approach that saw him monocoloured pale blue in the majority of panels. Nobody seemed to be able to make up their mind as green and yellow alternated. Meanwhile, Krypto returned in issue 214 to prove that stories of the Superdog were likely to be pretty stupid.
A typical Aquaman plot
The Superboy story in issue 216 had the Lad of Steel meeting Superman without time travel, but its twist was that the adult version was really archaeologist Professor Olsen. Rescuing him endeared Superboy to Olsen’s young son, Jimmy… And speaking of costume changes, Green Arrow started wearing a red cap as opposed to his usual green one in the occasional story.
Frustratingly, Superboy’s real parents, Jor-El and Lara turned up in issue 217, having escaped Krypton after all, preparing to take their son to their new off-world home. It’s a trick alright, from Superboy’s callous ignoring of the Kents to the con on death row who pieces together his identity as Clark Kent, even down to how the Els are only seen flying when Superboy is holding their arms, but this was a very rare two-part story and we only have Aquaman for issue 218.
One of the interesting aspects of reading Adventure during this period (it’s more fun than the two back-ups) are the in-house ads for DC titles of the In-Between Age. Lists and covers of all manner of titles unwanted and forgotten, a publishing era lost permanently. But the cusp of change is approaching. Issue 22 carries an ad for yet another new title, starring Fireman Farrell. He never set the world alight, and we know that the ad is full of lies when it describes the new comic as a response to all those reader letters requesting different subjects, requiring a new kind of comic to fit them all in. We know that the real reason was to try to control the losses, both in money and reputation, from the way nothing new was catching on. Fireman Farrell was the first subject, the star of Showcase 1. In six months time…
In fact, the Showcase ads are fascinating. No-one ever cares about the first three, overshadowed utterly by no 4. The second issue featured Kings of the Wild, three outdoor adventures. These adverts are a history lesson in themselves.
So they stop printing inhouse ads at all, and I don’t get to see 3, or 4, come to that. Has nobody any sense of responsibility to future generations?
Meanwhile, the Aquaman and Green Arrow strips are growing dumber. Aquaman no longer has to pursue pirates, not when his time can be taken up with nonsensical ‘stories’ about how he schools his finny friends to obey his instructions or how he apparently turns into an egomaniac except it’s all a secret scheme, whilst the Battling Bowmen go trading places with other archers or else emulate their own trading cards. Truly this was an age of inanity.
Superboy’s own series continued to be both silly and sententious, but the occasional nice moment came along. Taking advantage of the fact that a leaking special gas would give everybody amnesia for an hour, the Boy of Steel decided to reveal he was really Clark Kent to test if a secret identity was more of a burden than a benefit which, this being DC Comics in 1957 it self-evidently was a benefit. But there was a touching moment when Lana, the teenage pest so set on proving Clark and Superboy were one and the same, began to cry at the proof – because Clark was a dear friend and she would never see him again.
I had a surprise in issue 239, which saw Krypto’s return, for I had read this story before, a very long time ago. Not in Adventure but in a British Superboy hardback annual, reprinting this in black and white. The first in well over a hundred Superboy stories that I had previously seen.
And harking back to Lana’s genuine distress at the thought of losing her dear friend Clark, how does the Boy of Steel repay her in issue 240? By becoming as big a Superdick as his adult self and humiliating her in front of all of Smallville to conceal his secret identity. What did I say about this stuff making you want to barf?
Obviously Lana got over it by the next issue, in which Green Arrow and Speedy were joined by Queen Arrow, aka Diana Dare (any relation to Dan?), who temporarily hypnotised herself into acting out her deepest desire, namely to be told by her heroes that what they do is too dangerous for a girl. Once he joined the Justice League, did Ollie ever try that line on Wonder Woman?
Some superheroes, huh?
Issue 243 is the last complete comic for this section, the next three issues represented by one story only, two of them the simultaneously tedious and ridiculous Aquaman. The last of these is cover-dated March 1958, making its actual publication most likely January of that year. Two issues of Showcase thus far have featured The new Flash. Two more would appear this year. The Silver Age was cranking up for the off. The next issue of Adventure would see a change that I’ll explore in the third essay in this series.
Here’s the next 100 issues of The Hornet, the youngster of the D.C.Thomson stable, taking us from 14 August 1965 to 8 July 1967. It starts with series such as Muscles Malone MA, hiding his secret as an all-in wrestler to keep his job as a Form Master at a sports-hating Private School, the final episode of the current Nick Smith story, as he leads Kingsbury to the double of the Third Division and the FA Cup, The Bent Copper continuing his vendetta against the gang that framed him and the Second World War Private Army, the Deathless Men, in V for Vengeance. Will there be any nostalgic remembrance when we arrive in July 1967? Will I find I had given the paper up before then? Stick around.
Losing Nick Smith so quickly was a bit of a blow, and when The Bent Copper cleared his name in issue 103 (28 August), I was starting to think my reading material was getting thin, but I should have known better. Nick and Arnold Tabbs were back again next issue, under the It’s Goals That Count heading and, after an unprecedented fifteen week absence, so too was Briggs, Bernard the Boot, turning his multi-talents and mono-minded personality to Rugby Union. Something tells me I’m going to get the Tennis series in this tranche of issues.
For Nick and Arnold, it was the same old story, even though they were back in the First Division with Redburn Rovers, tasked with bringing the club the title and up against the usual self-important Director who thought Nick should have to defer his ideas to him, whilst Briggs’s new series set off on a slightly different tack. For once, Briggs was ignorant of Rugby League (I was surprised that we weren’t in the snootier territory of Union) and even had to practice a bit before he could kick the ball reliably each time. But after that, we all knew what would be coming…
Sadly, Muscles Malone was done the week after, when an understanding Governor secured his position as the new Headmaser. I could have stood a few more weeks of that.
Briggs’ story was a cut above his previous outings. For one thing, he had acquired an artist who could draw a normal sized mouth and jaw, and for another he was being a bit more humble than before. Though his kicking was every bit as pretenaturally good, he had a lot to learn about the game and for once wasn’t lording it over everyone else’s ignorance.
V for Vengeance ended on a panel I recalled in issue 109 (9 October), with a panicked Hitler trying to kill Himmler because news of the Deathless Men’s successes had been withheld from him. I’m hoping, indeed I’m pretty sure, it will be back: after all, this series didn’t explain why the Deathless Men take the name Jack.
This left Messrs Briggs and Smith to entertain me, plus a mixture of mildly interesting to dull series that left no great impression, and Smith’s latest series ended in issue 115 (20 November) on the dramatic point of working out goal difference to discover Redburn had won the League by one-hundredth of a goal. Oh what fun we had.
The popular The Swamp Rat was back again. I haven’t mentioned this before as I find it dull. It’s a Second World War series about an Australian jungle expert with multiple tattoos on his body, which obviously delighted the readers, just not me. And a new prose serial (yes, they’re still running) began, starring the mysterious Mr X. And no, this was not Lion‘s Mr X.
And as usual Nick Smith wasn’t gone long, returning in issue 117 (4 December) for the first in a series of complete stories drastically multiplying the number of clubs he played for.
Suddenly, it was old home week. A scar-faced RAF Corporal calling himself Greene undertook the task of first training POW Tom Vale to overcome a ‘dead’ leg and, post-War, to train him as a runner, all under the series title Has Wilson Come Back? (answer: yes, you fool) in issue 119 (18 December), whilst the following issue saw Bernard Briggs’ successful venture into Rugby League replaced by The Big Palooka in Chicago. And the unfunny Ugg, a neanderthal wrestler, also came back the same issue.
Once again, one of our comics reviews comes to 1966, to the year of the World Cup, and England’s Glory. Hornet began its celebrations with a World Cup wallet in issue 123 (15 January) and three new series, one and a half of them new. The wholly new was The Wonder from the Western Isles, another football strip from out of the recesses of memory, not for its star, 17 year old Rory Grant, but for Grant’s mentor, the Blind Laird, a man obsessed with reverting tactically to the days of the attacking centre half, and equally obsessed with down-at-fortune Longport Wanderers, for reasons that must already be obvious to anyone who knows boys comics.
The returnee was, to my delight, V for Vengeance, once more sacrificing to halt the Nazis, this time concentrating on the German Navy in Hamburg dockyard, whilst the halfway series was The Blitz Kid, starring Nick Smith’s best pal, Arnold Tabbs, as a 13 year old during the War. To escape the blitz on Rudley, Arnold is evacuated and placed with a mean, cruel, miserly couple (did any other kind take in an evacuee in the comic book version of the War?) Arnold runs home to Rudley only to discover his house has been bombed and everyone, including his dog, have been killed. This did not look like being a cheerful series.
Another new feature came on board in issue 126 (5 February), another War series about Captain Spencer, Britain’s top intelligence agent in the Middle East, aka The Limping Man. This is supposedly one of the classic Hornet features but I have no recollection of it and on the strength of the first couple of episodes, I can’t see why it’s so highly regarded.
Wilson finally admitted to being Wilson in issue 129 (26 February) in order to prevent a fraudster cashing in on his name, which made room for a new series the following week, The Blind Boxer, about a boxer slowly losing his sight but needing to keep boxing to pay for treatment for his sick son. And The Big Palooka brought down the Mr Big of Chicago before turning to England in the same issue.
It was another of those spells where most of the series were of little interest to me, just The Blitz Kid, the Wonder of the Western Isles and the perennially interesting V for Vengeance. Though there’s one aspect about the football story that has me reserving judgement: it’s one thing for the rogue to keep Rory’s real identity hidden from his bereaved father and another for Rory’s mentor, the Blind Laird, to do the same. Where is this going?
Having said that, V for Vengeance wrapped up in issue 134 (2 April) with the Deathless Men playing a vital part in the real-life sinking of the Bismarck, to be replaced, ‘like-for-like’, by The One-Pip Wonder. This was about a sharp Second Lieutenant taking over a Reconnaissance Patrol that had gotten sloppy, which was decently interesting.
And Rory Grant’s story ended in issue 136 with the Laird making a clean breast of everything, AND admitting he’d been a total bastard over the missing boy, which I didn’t expect. Oh yes, and winning the FA Cup too.
Just when it looked like I was in danger of running out of series to enjoy, an old favourite came to the rescue in issue 138 (30 April). The Forbidden Quest of William Wilson, set at a guess in the late Forties, concerned itself with Wilson’s desire to climb Mount Everest, via the then-primary route from Tibet. And the relief became a rush for, though Arnold Tabbs’ teenage years came to an end in issue 139, there was the simultaneous return of both Nick Smith and Bernard Briggs the following week and, yes, just as I predicted this was Briggsy’s stint as a tennis player.
The series went under the sub-title of The Roughneck of the Courts, and set Bernard up with two soon-to-be-competing interests: tennis and winning Lorry Driver of the Year. I remember a fair amount of this one. I don’t remember anything at all about the new It’s Goals that Count, but it’s got me hooked already. Nick and Arnold’s latest club are the English representatives in the new World League, a team of internationals except for J.P. Sedley, an unknown amateur brought in as right half, captain and tactician. Sedley, whose touch is cool, whose expression never changes, and who has all the unique skills of the former international Steve Woolmer, who vanished in the Blitz, but who would be over 60 by now…
And to cap it all, Rob Higson followed the list of stalwarts back into action in issue 141, in The Nameless One, another set-up I remember. The title character was Len Hamlet, a foundling seventeen year old super-cricketer from the Highshire groundstaff. But where was he born? Did he qualify to play from Highshire or did he belong to Broadshire? (This is the relic of the days when only men born within the County could play for the County Cricket Club).
The One-Pip Wonder ended in issue 146 (25 June), having proved to be a pretty decent, realistic War story, set in the Battle of the Bulge, though this was never referred to as such. A one-off story covered that slot, then in issue 148, three new stories started up. None of these looked immediately inspiring, and the SF one, The Purple Planet, paid all the attention to scientific and astronomic reality of Captain Condor at his stupidest.
But all good series come to an end. The Nameless One ended with the inevitable revelation that Len Hamlet was qualified to play for Highshire, and his crazy father faced up to justice in issue 151 (30 July). A week later, Wilson reached the summit of Everest, not that he admitted it, and took a breather, though to my delight this made way for one of those features I’d never forgotten, Nightingale Nobbs.
Nobbs was one of those natural ideas, funny without being silly, and flexible. Nobbsy was a wrestler, a beaten-up bloke with a broken nose, two cauliflower ears and missing teeth, a real horrorshow. He also had the voice of and angel, you just couldn’t put him on stage. Ken Barry was a reporter. He had the matinee idol looks but couldn’t sing. So music Manger Mike Mason put Ken on stage miming to Nobbs, singing in the wings, a trick they couldn’t afford to have exposed. Except that Nobbs still had contract to wrestle and a list of names as long as his arm – in fact, it was tattooed on it – on whom he wanted revenge.
Nick Smith made it three out of three endings when Granton United won the World League and Sedley finally remembered which past footballer he actually was, though the mystery of the ice-cold skin was conveniently forgotten, naughty naughty (just like with Fergus). Not that it mattered because, after just one week’s absence, Wilson was back, reunited with his usual artist, in Wilson and the Black Olympics.
The title tempered my usual enthusiasm for a Wilson story and the opening episode was not propitious. In the London Olympics year of 1948, prominent white sportsman were being kidnapped, to Africa, where for propaganda purposes the ‘simple’ black natives would see their own beating the white man. This was an inherently dodgy subject.
The clean sweep followed in issue 155 (27 August) in the remembered fashion. Briggs reached the Men’s Singles and Doubles Finals at Wimbledon, dropped out of the former to win the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition instead and then carried his crocked partner to victory in the Doubles. This time, he didn’t even take a week off, following in Arnold Tabbs’ footsteps in The Boyhood of Bernard Briggs, little Briggsy aged 11.
This was the start of another fluid spell, with new stories starting singly practically every week, none of any great substance. The best of these was The Rifleman of the Rocks, about a sniper in Borneo, the sole survivor of an ambushed platoon, single-handedly holding up the Japanese advance, because this had Hornet’s best artist on it, with some beautiful detailed figurework and backgrounds.
Nightingale Nobbs’ fun little story carried me through to issue 167 (19 November) and Wilson’s Black Olympics lasted only a week longer. Though the subject was dubious and the outcome severely colonial, it was better than it could have been, and the Zulu leader Chaka, though a fanatic intending to raise the whole of Africa, was presented with dignity and as a strictly fair man. And the Rifleman completed his self-imposed duty in issue 170 (10 December, and the last I read at Brigham Street in Openshaw; so I did read Hornet past the move to Burnage Lane).
If I was taking the contents of Hornet as any portent, life in my new home didn’t get off to a great start, as Briggs’ boyhood was the only decent series, and that had settled into a repetitive round, plus one half-bearable football story that was neither funny enough nor sporty enough.
Fortunately for my 21st century interest, Nick Smith and It’s Goals that Count returned in issue 173 (31 December). Nick and Arnold were transferred to their umpty-gazillionth club (and it’s only 1958), newly bought by an American Corporation who reckon that a successful football club is the way to British hearts, even in a Rugby League town: Nick’s going to have a lot of explaining to do, isn’t he?
This is an aspect of the entire comic that had long been evident but which has only now been made explicit: there are absolutely no contemporary series. We are one page away from 1967 and the setting for Nick and Arnold is almost a decade before. Wilson hasn’t even reached the Fifties yet. Contrast this with Lion and Valiant, if not the futuristic TV21. The DC Thomson papers all occupy a very narrow range of styles and it cannot be coincidence that they refuse to enter the modern era. I’ve heard some things about hidebound management, and this is in keeping with those stories.
Briggs’ Boyhood came to an end with an implausible twist in issue 175 (14 January 1967), which saw him set up for himself with business premises… at age 11? But I was more intrigued by the Nick Smith episode, and the unexpected appearance of Bert Bunting. Who? do you say? I have vivid memories of Bert, who is Rob Higson’s best pal at Highshire, his equivalent of Arnold Tabbs. It’s an unusual step for two separate series to have a crossover, but what concerns me most is that Bunting hasn’t yet been introduced in It’s Runs that Count. I want an explanation.
And five seconds research reveals the bitter truth that also accounts for the fixation with not setting stories in the Sixties: these are all bloody reprints! Nick and Arnold and Rob and Bert, from The Rover, at different times in the Fifties. What a chiz! (which is a swizz and a swindle, as any fule kno).
Bert turned out to not just be a bird expert who cured all the Blackford pigeons, but an enthusiastic supporter and a more than useful inside right, but I’m now waiting for his ‘debut’ where he really belongs, at Highshire.
For a few weeks, I only had It’s Goals that Count to keep me interested, and it’s not even that good a serial, but relief was on hand in issue 180 (18 February), with three new series, seeing the simultaneous return of Arnold Tabbs as The Blitz Kid, the ever-welcome Wilson and a third V for Vengeance. Arnold was now 15, homeless again and having to rebuild himself after his broken leg and blood-poisoning, Wilson was helping the British Government on an experiment in severe cold conditions and the Deathless Men were helping two British agents follow a trail of rare butterflies to rescue a third (no, seriously).
There was also a return from the Swamp Rat in issue 182 (4 March), even though the War in the Pacific was over, plus another in a recent run of gimmicky-boxing stories, this one with Tibetan overtones. And, to be honest, whether it’s a sign of the times now we’re solidly into 1967, or it’s me reading too many Hornets too fast, not only are the one-off series dull and uninvolving, the favourites are well below par this time. Only The Blitz Kid is maintaining the standard of its earlier run, and that consists of him being made homeless again every two to three weeks.
V for Vengeance came to an end in issue 188 (15 April) without the Deathless Men ever being more than supporting characters in their own series, a big letdown, and Wilson’s lacklustre story followed it two issues later. And I owe The Blitz Kid an apology for having prematurely accused it of being repetitive, for it did break out of the cycle of homelessness for Arnold.
There was a tremendous surprise in issue 192 (13 May), when Hornet entered new territory with an adaptation of the popular American TV Western series, Laramie, though appearances were kept up since the series had been off the air sine 1963 and the adaptation was of the first season, broadcast in 1959: never even unknowingly up-to-date.
Nick Smith ended his season in issue 196 (10 June), with another Double, Second Division Championship and yet another FA Cup (was there a season this man didn’t win the Cup?), making room for It’s Runs that Count, billed as starring Rob Higson and Len Hamlet, and introducing Bert Bunting. You really do wonder at times.
Arnold Tabbs’ back-story ended in issue 199 (1July) with his meeting with Nick Smith as seen so long ago, putting him into the First Division at the age of 26. Which ought to make him 40 at least when you count up the number of clubs he and Nick have been jointly transferred to by now, but who’s counting?
So another 100 issues goes by, with the teaser of a new Bernard Briggs story to lead off the next lot. This lot has been a mixed bag, with some glorious rolling in nostalgia giving way to a feeling of malaise. For the last half of this bunch, reading Hornet has been a mostly flat experience. After Nightingale Nobbs, there have been some series I have followed, but many more that, after a week or two, and several before the end of the first episode I have scrolled past.
Because this is a boy’s comic, and an archaic boy’s comic at that. It has no interest in reflecting its times, or in exercising the imagination of its audience. It is tied to the idea that what worked in the past is still the only way of doing things, and not even the only right way. It’s for kids, and no-one else, and it’s got more reprints than I realised, and the only reason I didn’t realise this sooner is because the new stories that wrap themselves round the reprints are created in the same mould.
I will produce a third instalment, though not necessarily for this slot next time. Two hundred issues in just over four weeks is a bit too much and I need to cleanse my palate a bit. And if the third instalment gives me the end of my Wilson’s Ashes story, it may be a long while before we see a fourth.
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My Richard Armitage: An interpretation. Early career to North & South
Here are links to Preface (explains what this series is) and Part I (covering Richard Armitage’s family background, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and early professional experiences and training).
This piece is my interpretation of what I know about Armitage, a picture drawn by me from my personal standpoint. In contrast: for an excellent, nuanced, thoughtful description of Richard Armitage that focuses on the stations of Armitage’s career and the conventional themes of professional biography, please consult this one at Richard Armitage Online.
IV. Early Career to North & South
[Right: Richard Armitage in rehearsal for Hamlet at the Birmingham Rep (1998). Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
Richard Armitage’s sojourn at LAMDA is followed by the overwhelming scale of the set experience for Star Wars (at first overwhelming, then fascinating to the young actor) and then by a year of stage roles, notably at the Birmingham Rep. The next step is an engagement with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which initially excites (finally — a long professional engagement, doing Shakespeare) and eventually frustrates (short roles; productions that the audience does not appear to enjoy). Building or sustaining a romantic relationship fades in interest as he focuses on career success. The episodic relationship he referred to as occurring in his LAMDA years and relating to his identity at that time ends; a brief relationship with a member of the RSC stage crew succeeds it. Studies for formal qualification in stage fighting. Volunteers in RSC school workshops because of his enjoyment of productions at Stratford seen during his own education; in a similar vein, Armitage will later become a patron of a project to bring students to the Globe Theater. In the atmosphere of a very high cultural institution, one of Armitage’s central values in performance emerges more clearly in his own self-awareness: shared enjoyment between actors and audiences. Engagement in small and then supporting stage roles, however, suggest his path to professional prominence may not lead through classical theater. Ongoing, mostly unarticulated artistic ambition and awareness that his talents are underutilized in “spear carrying” remain for the short term balanced out by enjoyment of ensemble work and lack of aggressive drive to lead or “killer instinct.” Ability to continue on this path suggests a number of personality elements and attitudes: a serious commitment to the aesthetic values and institutions of classical theater, a high tolerance for uncertainty, a dogged determination to keep at it, a willingness to tolerate dissatisfaction, a markedly high capacity to go along to get along, a nagging need for approval from authoritative sources — but perhaps also an awareness that the reasons for professional attention are often highly arbitrary, given the (in retrospect embarrassing) attention he receives from Japanese fans of Star Wars when touring there in the RSC Macbeth, as well as the ongoing enjoyment of youthful pleasures in London and environs and a feeling of being younger than his chronological age.
[Left: Richard Armitage, from the program for the RSC’s The Duchess of Malfi (2000), the production where he meets and makes friends with Liza Franks. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
The end of the RSC engagement is followed, after brief and minor — though credited — film appearances, by a professional dry spell (reported variously as eight or eighteen months in different interviews, although no eighteen-month gap is visible in his CV). Lack of work causes Armitage to feel “down” and to become weary of conversations in which he’s asked why he’s not working. He remains very nervous before auditions, reports later that he did not experience “blind faith” in his own talents. Growing awareness, expressed to his agent, that he may have missed the takeoff point for the type of acting career he wishes to pursue. Frustration with lack of success and continuing or intensifying dislike of work done to pay the bills, however, are countered by personal conviction that he has no other marketable job skills.
Armitage persists. Keeps reading and exploring. Does handyman work for friends to fill his time and wallet. Works in front-of-house jobs in theater, giving him the opportunity to look at the venue from a different angle and understand why people come there. Takes acting classes to keep his skill in shape and experiences breakthrough in a class taught by an American director in terms of touching or releasing emotional core of sentiments that are “not civilized” while acting — an experience that convinces him that he does have the necessary capacities (“instrument” — interesting as it’s a typical vocalist’s or musician’s metaphor) it takes to be successful. Possibly the period of unemployment contributes to ongoing contemplation of matters related to rewards / skill / luck /self-centering, providing him with productive ethical self-talk that he explicitly articulates subsequently in his career. Later statements also point to casual awareness / exploration of Buddhism that I am tempted to root in this period of struggle for acknowledgement and explanations for what’s (not) happening as well as acceptable response to circumstance. Acknowledgement of the necessity of luck in building a professional reputation conditioned by adult struggles remains balanced, however, by ongoing meritocratic conviction from other and earlier contexts about the significance of hard work and preparation.
[Right: Richard Armitage as Dr. Tom Steele in Doctors (2001). Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
After this tense period, professional employment resumes, and his career finally begins to take speed through television work. Armitage makes a last stage appearance, in Annie Lee, late in 2002, significant as well because it is a second data point (beyond contemporaneity at LAMDA) that connects him with Annabel Capper, one of few personal friends who is not a coworker with whom he is ever seen by fans in public. After that production, Armitage will not tread the boards again until a charity performance in the fall of 2010. TV would not have been his first choice; he remarked later that he enjoyed the work more once he had become familiar with what was going on in the medium, which suggests that despite enjoyment of TV as a child and early professional experiences as a TV extra, he had been genuinely most interested in pursuing a theatrical or perhaps an art film career, and had not closely considered television as a desirable career venue until relatively late, under pressure of realization that acting really was his calling in the sense not only that nothing else would please him, but that he couldn’t conceive of other work. Much later, after a season of Spooks, he will note that he couldn’t have seen himself pushing pencils.
[Left: Richard Armitage as Craig Parker in Casualty (2001). Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
Initial television roles clearly exploit Armitage’s two most obvious qualities at the time: first, a face that was shedding its boyish sweetness toward the end of his twenties and gaining a fascinating angularity that corresponded more closely to his chronological age; second, a capacity to act effectively while performing very physical action scenes that he no doubt owed in part to his extensive dance training. Although it’s hard to judge, since dialect speech is a piece of the toolkit of all actors, he may also have profited from his ability to perform some northern English accents credibly to outsiders. Despite his ongoing interest in high art, Armitage expresses no inhibitions about taking low cultural roles in television; the very rare interview at this time mentions his enjoyment of the “fun” or “boy” aspects of military drama, for instance, and eagerness to do different kinds of roles. Although one suspects that Armitage was concerned with issues of personal appearance a great deal earlier, because dancers as professional tend to be very openly conscious of their bodies and appearances, at the very latest after he is cast as Lee in Cold Feet, regular, goal-oriented physical training to enhance his visual appeal becomes part of his professional preparation. (After North & South, he will state that he wanted not to look like a “lard bucket” and that “the Speedos were popular.”) Going forward, Armitage seems to take away from this experience the desire to cultivate his body not just in order to fulfill the physical demands of a role, but as part of the “look” and thus the identity of a character. Professes ability to play rugby on the assumption that he will be able to manage it — reflecting not only “saying anything” to get a job, but also a physical and intellectual openness to unfamiliar experiences that corresponds to his experiential / somatic learning style and will increasingly play a role in helping him find employment. Roles in this period especially take him to a series of incongruous sources for information: aqua-aerobics classes, a farm with livestock, friendly coaching in rugby, suggesting a willingness to take research of even minor roles seriously, a solid work ethic, and also a strong interest in or at least willingness to encounter closely the unfamiliar. At the same time, along with the “circus” story, experiences during research episodes lay down a series of tropes that are useful fodder for exploitation in interviews, creating a pleasant picture of an individual whose seriousness is tempered by an appreciation for the absurd and a refusal to take himself too seriously.
[Right: Captain Ian Macalwain (Richard Armitage) on the rugby pitch in Ultimate Force 2.2. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
Looking back to this career threshold several years later, Armitage continues to narrate a meritocratic version of his development, although to his own disadvantage — he attributes the slow takeoff to his own insufficiencies as an artist. The beginnings of the change he puts down to figuring out how to audition more successfully, as he did for Sparkhouse, in which he wanted the role of John Standring very badly and succeeded at being cast against type. For him, being cast in this role was a consequence of his conscious decision to inhabit characters more intensely than in the past, which in meritocratic terms might be phrased as “working harder at it.” A trope with a similar valence against self-aggrandizement, his habit of telling self-deprecating stories about disastrous auditions that attribute his success to random factors or suggest that his engagement with potential roles is more casual than it really is — at this point, in particular, the story that he was cast in Cold Feet because of his boots, or that he hadn’t realized he’d have to play nude scenes in Between the Sheets — is in evidence from the beginning of Armitage’s television career. Possible factors influencing this style include rhetorical convention among actors and the perceived need to cover personal ambition in British culture; a desire not to look arrogant; and/or superstition. Fear of expressing ambition that comrades might find ridiculous or inappropriate seems to play an important role; not till 2008 will Armitage admit — in one single statement, never repeated, that he had thought about being in movies as a teenager. Various later remarks about failed auditions point to a genuine persisting tension around the experience, however; it will be 2011 before Armitage voices explicitly that he might have gotten a role because of one he had done well at, and even then he will undercut this statement subsequently. At the same time, a self-narration that relies heavily on the role of coincidence or (narrowly avoided) disaster for decisive stations in one’s development is also not infrequently a characteristic of highly ambitious people, in whose statements self-deprecation, statements about one’s incapacities or failures, or attribution of success to factors than one’s own merits serve as a socially acceptable mask for desires or achievements about which one does not wish to boast, or a way of avoiding attributing responsibility for success to oneself.
[Left: Giggly about the unlimited supply of Starburst on the Frozen set — Richard Armitage in 2004 2003 — see note at bottom.] Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
It is perhaps easiest in comparisons of Armitage’s earliest roles to see a brisk movement in the refinement of acting style from job to job that was occurring with lightning speed in this period — clearly underlining a later self-assessment that he is a “quick learner” when, indeed, he is given the opportunity to undertake the experiential learning most comfortable and effective for him. Working regularly, moreover, gives him the framework in which to think in specific terms about ambitions that had either been inchoate or too dangerous to admit to himself, especially during periods of struggle for roles. In ways both casual and important, Armitage remains young for his age, but a personal vibe of youthful sweetness or silliness is now increasingly divorced from an ever greater application to self-preparation at work. Apparent self-deprecation and boyish joking about auditions in the press mask a development occurring toward a more intense practice of characterization that involves developing and inhabiting a subtext that he places in the minds of his characters, as well as greater willingness to question writers / directors about his characters.
A clearly visible transition from a stage to a television acting style is also underway. Around the time of making Sparkhouse, Armitage considers more fully the issues around presenting a character’s inner life to an observer by adding vs. subtracting layers of personality and emotion in performances in different venues. The clearly evident facial moods of John Standring in Sparkhouse and Paul Andrews in Between the Sheets, which verge on the theatrical, will quickly be reigned in favor of a more naturalistic, less sculpted performance in evidence in the characters he plays in Frozen, Malice Aforethought, and In Divine Proportion. As he makes the transition from stage to television screen, Armitage starts to think of acting as an engagement in the search for truth and appreciates the chance to use acting to experience big emotions not typically available to humans in daily life. Somewhat later, he will mention that he enjoys the potential to get things perfect on television via retakes, though still he valued the discipline and concentration required for two-and-a-half hours of stage work. At the same time, he will say, more often as his career continues, that he enjoys the adrenaline rush of acting. Reading backwards, it seems possible that television work took on the role of a framework for disciplining the worst outcomes of the adrenaline rush Armitage experienced while acting. It may have allowed him to surmount (it’s striking how noticeably Armitage refers to roles as “mountains to climb”) what must occasionally have been a professionally damaging neurotransmitter response that resulted in nervousness around being observed while acting. In any case, success in the television framework bred more success and thus more self-confidence in encounters with the moments of the job that were potentially most nerve-wracking or challenging for the developing artist.
Breakthrough casting and role, from his own perspective: Richard Armitage as John Standring in episode 3 of Sparkhouse. My cap.
V. North & South: Armitage’s career comes into the public eye
[Right: Richard Armitage, promotional photo by Jenny Lewis, 2004]
Being cast in North & South (2004), although it is the production that most observers would later characterize as his defining professional breakthrough, thus comes for Armitage as the attainment of a new stage of career recognition rather than a personal, artistic, or cognitive breakthrough. For him, being cast results from internal and artistic developments that had been occurring and are visible in his work as it survives in approximately the previous two years. The major development in this production for Armitage lies less in the internal artistic developments necessary to audition successfully than in the capacity to sustain such a long performance as a lead actor and to maintain his confidence while doing so. This particular phase of his transition from stage to television acting is complete and visible, to great effect, as the facial and gestural responses of Mr. Thornton are carefully edited, heavily under control, and subtle enough against the stillness of his body to draw the eye almost involuntarily in several scenes, and as a result, often say a great deal more than the more voluble facial expressions evident in his earlier characterizations. Just as importantly, the experience of making North & South allows him to glimpse a new horizon for his career and ambitions. He will note later that his presence in a group of actors of much greater reputation sparked further acting developments for him, and that the entire experience redefined his standards for professionalism at work.
[Left: Amused? Richard Armitage interviewed in North & South DVD extra. Source: RichardArmitageNet.com]
At the point at which the very first fans of North & South crash the BBC message board to talk about his performance, then, Armitage has thus worked for a decade and a half without achieving much notice — indeed, as he says afterwards, not a single reference in the press that actually discusses his performance . This experience of anonymity will decisively influence both his career path going forward and his response to fame and the fans who suddenly appear.
Fans clamor for more of him, and successfully call forth the publication of a DVD of the production, although the BBC had programmed North & South as a low-budget effort and had not planned to print a DVD originally. An interview with the man who called forth all this energy is a foregone inclusion. At this point, however, the requisite smoothness of an actor accustomed to media attention is simply not yet in place; neither, apparently, can Armitage muster much of it in the first professional video interview in which he is recorded for posterity. In it, he appears to take the personal eschewal of sprezzatura to a fine art, starting with his appearance — which includes a choker that makes him look almost like a surfer together with a pinstripe jacket and a rather ragged haircut. Armitage disarmingly recalls his reaction to being cast as “shock,” followed by “fear,” mirroring repeated statements in the press before and after broadcast that his unknown status was a gamble to the producers. At different points in the interview, Armitage appears alternately serious and incredulous, nerdy and giggly, and from time to time stammers extensively. He looks down in shyness and wrinkles his brown in mild astonishment and then irons his brow out prosaically, suavely, almost ironically. He gestures rhythmically with his hands, almost as if to self-calm. He laughs about horse poo and a prop hitting him in the nose. He smiles shyly, almost enigmatically, when talking about kissing Daniela Denby-Ashe. At the same time, simple pieces of the artist peek through the interview — references to camera angles and writing, as well as a discussion of costume and characterization. Armitage refers here only briefly to elements of a family past in the North of England that made the story special to him, but he will expand on these in the press — a genre of “storytelling of self” that judiciously capitalizes on versions of factual details from his life that will endear him to audiences and reappear later to great effect in the leadup to the premiere of the The Hobbit. He also notes an apparent immediate and noticeable chemistry with his female co-star. Early reporters universally note his sweetness, shyness, humor, modesty, mild-mannered appearance.
What Richard Armitage does not do in this interview? Not for a second? Smolder.
The disjunction between the charismatic Mr. Thornton and the actual Richard Armitage on the North & South DVD interview, a man who moves between silly and serious, frightened and flirtatious, naive and expert, shy and calm, sometimes experiencing difficulty even making his sentences cohere, exposes a puzzle that will fans will try to crack for at least the next eight years. Who is Richard Armitage?
[Right: Richard Armitage as Mr. Thornton in North & South (2004). Source: RichardArmitageNet.com].
Revisions or additions I would propose as of 6/9/2013:
Per interview stemming from Between the Sheets, published 1/23/2003, Armitage had “just finished” filming Frozen in November 2003. Picture from Frozen excerpt thus most likely dates from before North & South, although fans will still have experienced the North & South DVD interview as their first glimpse of the private Armitage, as Frozen did not premiere until January 27, 2006 (per imdb). However, an examination of any data from that interview as an index of personality belongs in this section. Main matters of interest to me — is he struggling to keep a straight face in first section?; reference to “journey” theme of Shirley Henderson’s and his characters; apparent velarization of “l” in Auslaut as normal speech pattern, which he does rarely after 2006; giggly reference to Starburst candy.
Confirmation of issue of difficulty with auditions via interview with TORn of late 2012 that Armitage did experience difficulties with auditions and learned to get through them by pretending he’d already been cast and just had to go in to demonstrate what he’d be doing on camera.
Note from Hobbit interview blitz, 2012/13 that Armitage’s first experience of filming with green screen came not on The Hobbit set but from the Star Wars experience. Stated that one of his tasks was to cut Ewan McGregor in half with a light-saber. Some fans, however, have advanced potential grounds for questioning the veracity of the latter statement.
Note from Cinemaxx interview, December 2012, “I don’t want to be a fat dude” reinforcing this early evidence of concerns with body image.
Confirmation of “visual” learning style from December 2012 interview on Canadian radio (seeing images in response to lines) and 2013 “Bin Weevils” interview (memorizing lines via images). Possibly belongs in earlier section.
If we ever get to see it beyond excerpts, discussion of the “Staged” (1999) performance would go in this section.
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~ by Servetus on November 21, 2012.
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42 Responses to “My Richard Armitage: An interpretation. Early career to North & South”
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My Richard Armitage: An interpretation. Background, childhood, adolescence, professional preparation, young adulthood « Me + Richard Armitage said this on November 21, 2012 at 3:44 am | Reply
Hi Serv,
I love the way you weave known “facts” with your insightful analysis. You really bring Richard Armitage as a person into clearer focus–despite the man who is still being formed at this point.
And I totally agree with you about the juxtaposition between the shy and articulate man being interviewed on the North & South dvd compared to the commanding character of John Thornton. No way did I think that the interviewee was the actor who had portrayed JT–maybe his younger brother. Ha!
But the seemingly incongruous pairing of real man and his reel persona emphasizes the art and storytelling that an actor, such as Richard Armitage, embodies. Actors might inhabit a role for a while–but that role is not them. Well, maybe bits here and there as they draw upon personal experiences to give life to a character.
Cheers! Grati ;->
Gratiana Lovelace said this on November 21, 2012 at 4:24 am | Reply
Grati, Thanks. Nowhere in this piece do I argue that that the role of Thornton WAS the same as Armitage, however, nor that it should be. I was stating (and I think this is one of the most uncontroversial statements i make in this piece) that the apparent incongruity was, and remains, fascinating to fans. I also stand by this assessment. You see interviews with Tom Hiddleston, and you can connect personality features easily with his roles. That’s incredibly difficult for Armitage, if you’re relying only on this interview. It makes one wonder what’s going on in this personality — if he plays someone *so* different from himself. That will be an ongoing theme of his career, as none of the characters Armitage will play appear to have much to do with Richard Armitage the person.
Servetus said this on November 21, 2012 at 5:22 am | Reply
You and I are in agreement with each other about RA.
Wow. Thanks for that. I know it’s your interpretation, but I think your perception must be close to accurate in many aspects. This was rather fascinating to me, as I’ve not delved too deeply in Richard lore. I only watched the N&S DVD interview twice. That choker really distracted/annoyed me – lol! Maybe he’ll be pressed to out with an autobiography someday.
Trudy said this on November 21, 2012 at 4:28 am | Reply
Thanks, Trudy. Either that, or you and I have quite similar subject positions (which is also not impossible).
When Didion and I saw the interview for the first time, we looked at each for a split second, saw the choker and said, “Eurotrash,” giggled, and turned it off. We really felt like it spoiled the illusion of Mr. Thornton. I only started looking it at closely after the second time I saw N&S, because that viewing got me interested in Armitage as well.
I’d love if he’d write an autobiography (even in self-defense), but I suspect that it would not answer all the questions we most seriously ask. Autobiographical sources are like that. One has to work really hard at understanding oneself and most of us (me included) don’t do it all that well.
Happy that you are going on with this perspective of an actor and person. An area we can be timid to trespass. But we think a lot about it.
Just initial thoughts before re-reading:
Mr. A certainly does not appear to be an agressive person. To those, who like many of us, were attracted first by the Thornton, and then Gisborne performances, perhaps these were so much more the mark of a really good actor-no more the anti-hero of attraction. And not necessarily more than having the attributes that we wish to see in the man – gentle, kind, charitable. Mother Teresa? (VoD):D
For what it worth, I think he is, and has been a Working Actor, doing the things (LAMDA etc) to both qualify and learn. The craft. And work, work, work. To learn, and to be self-sustaining. No experience is wasted.
I must suspect he has his share of vanity, he clearly takes very good care of his face and body, etc. There is a dedication that is common to any artist – single-minded, probably selfish, and in persuit of goals, leaves little room for anything else.
For what’s worth 🙂 I think he is a top-class actor and artist. And with potential to be considered (in the eyes of the critics), one of best of his generation. Besides, he’s drop-dead gorgeous. Whoops, there goes a career as dispassionate acting critic… Oh well. Can’t have it all all…
fitzg said this on November 21, 2012 at 5:55 am | Reply
I don’t think he’s aggressive — but I do think he’s ambitious in ways that he has never allowed himself to state.
Servetus said this on November 21, 2012 at 5:19 pm | Reply
Interesting take on his modesty, as that is something that has always puzzled me and that I don’t buy 100%. It is certainly one of his most endearing traits but at the same time one that may not be completely genuine. Surely partly it is the result of his upbringing and having struggled for so long. And of a naturally more reserved/introverted personality. I personally think he learned that being modest and self-deprecating is a perfect weapon to disarm anyone who might want to criticise him and to endear people to him.
I think while he had to wait long for relative success, people he met must have always reacted to him as a person/man in a very positive way. He likes to paint himself as an ugly duckling as a teenager but photographic evidence shows he was a nice looking boy/young man. Not drop dead gorgeous but with an appealing boyish sweetness. Not to mention he probably had the same likeable personality and natural charm he has today. I think even if he is not at the centre of every party, he must have been popular among his peers, both as a friend and as a potential partner. And I think if people react positively to someone, that adds to to their image of themselves.
Jane said this on November 21, 2012 at 10:40 am | Reply
I’m glad for this comment b/c I know you like that interview and I was afraid you’d think I was trashing it.
re: modesty — I think *the appearance* of modesty is overdetermined, and I’ll go into this more in the next piece (it’s about 2500 words long already and so I decided to cut this one off here or it would have been way too long). It’s hard, looking at this developmental path, to imagine a Richard Armitage who would be publicly arrogant. Too much militates against it.
Your comment does a great job of teasing out threads that I think fans often conflate — naivete, modesty, shyness (a term that covers dozens of behaviors), introversion (also often misunderstood), reticence or not being aggressive, and self-confidence or lack of it are six distinct strands (of many more) in what’s going on in his personality and influencing his public statements. Some of these traits or tendencies, I would argue, are probably innate, but at some point any adult realizes that you have to go with your strengths. I think I said in the previous piece that the combination of these things develop into a personal style — he uses these tendencies, rather than allowing them to control him. There’s an interview where he says, “I like to leave people wanting more.” I think he must realized at some point that he can exploit some of his natural tendencies that might be liabilities in some situations very productively. I don’t think this means he isn’t genuine. I think he is still genuinely both somewhat introverted and somewhat shy in the sense of not inherently wanting to start interactions with strangers or be observed. It’s just that he’s learned by now how to make those things work for him.
I agree w/you w/r/t likeability as a teenager. I’m sure he got teased about the nose, but everyone gets teased in school about something. He strikes me as possibly having been one of those kids you get to know and like while sitting next to them in class every day — not the kid who looks like he’s going to be everybody’s best friend on the first day, or who’s always raising his hand or comes over to introduce himself or the person who’s always planning the parties or what will happen after school, but the guy you share notes with, study with, etc., and slowly realize you’re laughing at the same jokes and you like him. I think sometimes people build up the “shy” thing to extremes in trying to explain him — but quiet or reticent and shy or people-avoidant are not quite the same thing.
It is hard to determine how shy or introverted or unsure of himself he really is without knowing anything about his social life outside his work and interaction with colleagues (who universally seem to adore him). He likes to paint himself as a loner or a geek and I cannot imagine that to be true. I think it is a way to avoid further questions about his private life by suggesting there is basically nothing to know. He may well be the kind of person who needs time to get to know people and build up a friendship and who has few close friends. I also imagine a job that means being away from home most of the time and working with new people every few months makes it hard to form close friendships, even if he gets on brilliantly with co-workers. But I am pretty sure he has a social life and enjoys having fun. And that he has people in his life.
Jane said this on November 21, 2012 at 8:11 pm | Reply
I think the evidence that he is introverted (in the Jungian sense) is stronger than the evidence that he is shy, fwiw, although I don’t peg him as an extreme introvert, either. As far as geek goes, we’d have to have a definition of “geek” before I could say anything. re: implying that he’s boring as a defense mechanism, although i can imagine based on how he behaves in interviews that there’s a grain of truth there, I certainly agree with you.
This has been a fascinating and thought provoking article and discussion- i’m tagging on at this point as these comments about RA’s introversion chime very closely with my own assumptions. I fear if i started to write about why i find personality (and particularly this personality) so fascinating, i too would run into thousands of words and, although i know you encourage lengthy rumination Servetus, i would regard it as sheer bad manners on someone else’s blog! The main reaon for contributing today is to state my appreciation for this piece. thank you for posting.
bollyknickers said this on November 22, 2012 at 4:55 am | Reply
thanks, bollyknickers, I’m glad you find it useful.
introversion is going to be a topic next time — but I also would be the first to say that I am not neutral on that question, personally. I am an introvert but not a shy one. That influences my reading of him, of course. But I’ll try to make clear what my definitions are and the reasons why I am pursuing them so they’re easy to critique / analyze.
I’ll just say what most of us are thinking I just don’t know how you do it. This post, as many others, reads like an amazing biography that I would gladly pay for. I’m astounded and the detail you go intom and you always have your facts straight. It’s interesting, compeling and yet doesn’t put a strain on the reader. You have an interesting take on things, and although I don’t always fully agree, it does give me ffod for thought.
I take my hat (bonnet…) off to you!
AgzyM said this on November 21, 2012 at 3:21 pm | Reply
Aaaw, thanks, AgzyM.
Up to this point it’s relatively easy to feel that I’ve “controlled” all the data. From here on it gets harder.
May I join to the statment of my fellow citizen? 😉
Thank you Servetus!
Joanna said this on November 23, 2012 at 5:23 pm | Reply
Thanks, Joanna!
Yes, i think he is extremely ambitious. I think that, in a quiet way, he is very aggressive about ambition.Do you think he let ANYTHING get in the way of his goals? Appearing “humble” etc. works for his public persona. I doubt it is simply assumed – as with most people, there are probably the usual self-doubts, and both humour and self-deprecation can work instinctively, really well as protection of a kind. And of course, it’s disarming.Gosh, this sounds so cynical. Not true. I LIKE him, at least what I can see. People are not simple, that’s all…
fitzg said this on November 21, 2012 at 8:27 pm | Reply
I think he has let himself get in the way of his goals, yes, or perhaps that there are things in his personality that have prevented him from pursuing his goals in the most efficient / direct ways. (That is not a criticism; it is an observation.)
I think one reason that people have tried to avoid this conversation is that in this fandom, anyway, if you make an observation that appears critical, you end up being under threat of not being a good / loyal enough fan and a flame gets started. The result of not allowing talk on this issue has been a sort of self-escalating idolization of the guy on the basis of a few indices that to my mind is troubling — both because it means a misunderstanding, and also because I think it ends up working as a trap for him. (There’ll be a lot more about that specific issue in the next installment.)
One thing I’m very interested in, here, is how does a guy like Richard Armitage — not from an artsy or wealthy family, from the middle of nowhere, become successful? In considering that question, it’s important to try to strip away the accretions of the idolization process and try to get down to a base where we assume he’s normal in the sense that we can consider that he experiences normal human motivations. Wanting to be successful / ambition are normal tendencies, shared in various degrees among most humans. So in order to understand that we have to look closely at what the discourse about modesty does for him or why he might choose to espouse that.
I think it is very healthy to have this discussion now because very soon we will confronted with a much more cynical view by outsiders on a hopefully rising star, that wouldn’t dream of feeling loyal or protective. On the other hand we may or may not soon be confronted with a much more polished version of Richard Armitage.
you had said something like that in email, but I’m really glad that you put it here as well. I think that one reason that motivated me to go live with this now is precisely my feeling that the terms of the discussion are about to change drastically. I welcome that but I don’t want to forget this period. The other thing is that even in the time I’ve been blogging, sources have disappeared or been disappeared. I’m not the Richard Armitage archivist, but I wanted to make some kind of record that takes account of as much as we know as possible.
Very much appreciate your remarks and, for a long time, those of Jane. That is perceptive, that the fandom could well do with a healthy dose of new views on the actor’s acting, and a bucket of cold water on the idolising elements. Obviously, I shy from offending anyone (c’est moi) but Mr. A is, after all just one actor. He is good. He has worked hard. And I assume he has his share of strengths and weaknesses as a person. It’s lovely to have fans describe one as humble/kind/blah etc. But it’s a little patronising, too, and there must be strong ego backing the long rise to maybe stardom. (The fuss over 7 screen minutes of CA last year was – think I must stop here. Just leave it that I suspect Thorin will/might take him a bit further.) And we might infer that some sort of stardom was in his head? At some point? There is much disingenuousness in many interviews that appear humility. Yikes, I could be off the mark here. At the least, possibly not too popular in the really lovely “older” RA community. Not older in terms of age, just those around for a minimum of about 2/3 or more years. He is a very good actor. And has potential to be considered a great one…
fitzg said this on November 21, 2012 at 10:37 pm | Reply
It’s absolutely not my goal to douse anyone’s fan fever, though, and I’m sorry if my comment above read that way. I am one of the most feverish fans of all and I was excited about Captain America, too. I don’t want to criticize fans and I have been vehement on this point now for some time. Armitage fans are adults and they know what they are doing. People should feel how they want, and Armitage — too — is responsible for his own life and for dealing with the effects of what he says or does, and his own feelings. We should all let each other get one with our feelings.
My only goal here is to try to understand who I think Richard Armitage to be because of his significance in my own development as something I “fell in love with,” and in order to do that I have to pull away accretions onto his personality that have been built on by fans by looking as critically as possible at the sources for our information.
I also need to state, because I am not sure exactly what you mean from your comments about disingeuousness, that the point here is not to say “it’s all an act.” (That charge was laid at my door the last time I tried to write about this.) While i suppose that could be true, I am not arguing that everything about Richard Armitage’s appearance of modesty is disingenuous (or true). My point is a very different one: it lies in asking, what is the meaning of a discourse of modesty for the person who puts it into the world?
Servetus said this on November 22, 2012 at 12:51 am | Reply
I love these posts, Servetus. They are a great read, and the picture you are paiting seems very realistic to me. I wonder if he’d be scared by how close it is, if he read it 🙂
I’m not certain there is a conflict between ambition and modesty. It’s very possible that he believes his talent limited in comparison with some great actors of past and present. At the same time, he is seeing others, who he thinks are even less gifted, get much greater success. That might well fuel a desire for more acclaim and success for himself. Actually, he said once that he would like to see how far he can get with his limited talent. I think he might have honestly described what he felt.
rbb said this on November 22, 2012 at 6:59 am | Reply
Thanks, rbb. I suspect, if he were reading this, he’d feel misunderstood, even if he felt I had gotten certain things close to right. It’s not easy to listen to someone analyze one’s personality — even if it’s one’s friends or a psychiatrist, let alone a total stranger who’s doing it on the basis of media sources.
re: modesty vs ambition — I think that’s fair.
that limited talent remark was one that we discussed in the past at some point. An American hears that and thinks, “ouch.” A UK person hears that and thinks it’s a joke / self-deprecation. I think it was both. Iirc, think he said it after the Spooks 9 reviews came out, which were partially not very kind to him.
Another convincing psycho-biographical essay on Armitage. I am delighted that you are basically confirming the impression I have of Armitage in my mind. What a relief to think that he is such a wonderful human being, so worthy of my interest. Do I sound cynical? I don’t mean to. However, I am conscious of the fact that Armitage is an actor. If he can convincingly portray a medieval dark knight, then how about playing himself in front of the audience? This is a genuine question – and not an implied accusation or criticism. How much Armitage is in Armitage??? We all construct our own identities artificially to some degree. And we place identities on those around us. (BTW, by that I am not saying that you are misconstruing Armitage, Servetus – to reiterate: I find your interpretation thoroughly convincing!) I would love to know how much “Armitage” Armitage is putting on, whether he has been prompted to do so by his agents or whether it is his own strategy? I wonder whether there actually *exists* one “real Armitage” that we do not know and from the (undetected) observation of whom we could draw solid, cogent conclusions?
guylty said this on November 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm | Reply
I have long thought, if he could choose to play a different character (or would want to) he would come across differently. He is very good at oozing confidence when in character of Thornton or Guy or presumably Thorin, so why didn’t he choose to put on that coat for public appearances, photoshots or interviews. He knows how to act that. As himself, either he can’t or he doesn’t want to, especially early on. Given that the smoulder in photoshots very often doesn’t convince me, I think he can’t when he is not fully in character. While I think shyness or modesty is endearing and can be a useful tool to disarm people, I also think that may shy people are shy about being shy, not about being unattractive or stupid or inadequate in some other way. So if they could choose not to appear shy, they probably would.
I also don’t think it’s something one is born knowing — how to play yourself. If it’s a role you play, you get more experienced at it over time.
I don’t know about the smolder thing, just because I do often find it convincing in photos. (i.e., again I don’t think it’s “either it works or fails.”).
re: whether he would choose not to appear shy, that’s intriguing. I’m going to get cracking on the next piece!
This question, the “Richard Armitage” character, is really the Stolperstein of this blog. The first time I tried to argue that, back in 2010, I wasn’t very self-confident as a writer and I let a troll shut me down. I am more confident now and more people are coming over to this point, so that’s the piece that I have to get out (if the word were to explode tomorrow).
One thing, however, that will be important to keep in mind is that I am not going to be talking about genuine / fake, true / false, real / fake, because i don’t think identities are really constructed in those terms. I’m going to be talk about the employment of discourses, their plausible meanings to a contextualized speaker, and what happens to them when they get out of the hands of the person who sets them in motion. For me, words and discourses are real because we can’t get outside of them. (I assume you and I have some kind of agreement on this point, Guylty, and actually your willingness to come aboard here was part of what strengthened my resolve to finally push this stuff out).
My husband always likes to say that we all act to some degree. We will act different at home to what we do at work or around different people. As for the shy part, I know that at times I do not have control over my shyness. I have to get to know someone awhile before I can over come my shyness with them. There are those people who are just better at making me at ease than others. I also think that when you work with people day to day helps also. But given that my coworkers don’t know that I am a fan of Richards, but know that I can’t wait for The Hobbit. Servetus I do like what you have written so far and will be waiting to read the next part.
katie70 said this on November 25, 2012 at 5:25 am | Reply
This is a great comment because it gets to the question of whether there is a “real” self there we hide or reveal, or simply different manifestations of ourselves that appear in different settings.
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Thanks for the kind words! Remember, this is my *interpretation*.
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A longer version of the BBC Midlands interview — he likes Red Leicester, too!
ETA: the user removed the video. Look in the comments for a link to a transcript of the full interview.
and specifically mentions Melton Mowbray.
~ by Servetus on April 3, 2014.
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34 Responses to “A longer version of the BBC Midlands interview — he likes Red Leicester, too!”
Really nice interview. It’s nice to hear him expand on some things.
guylty said this on April 4, 2014 at 12:03 am | Reply
yeah — I didn’t know that he’d gone back to the original sources for the Robin Hood thing.
Servetus said this on April 4, 2014 at 2:02 am | Reply
Ahh, parents. Of all the curiosities about Thorin Oakenshield…how did they get your eyes so close together? LOL
CarlyQ said this on April 4, 2014 at 12:11 am | Reply
that was really funny. And the pattern continues of deflecting questions about his family.
Although you could see he did sort of do an impression of his dad at that point, which always amuses me when people do that. 🙂
alyssabethancourt said this on April 4, 2014 at 4:42 am | Reply
yeah, that was sweet.
It’s also one of those high sympathy points. My dad heard me lecture once (in modern history, on “who voted for Hitler” and which social segments in Germany were most likely to support the NSDAP) and afterwards the only thing he said to me was, do you know what kind of motor moves that sliding chalkboard?
Oh gosh, fathers. My dad never knows what to say to me when presented with something I’ve worked hard on. The last time he came to one of my choir performances, his only comment was, “You sure look like you’re concentrating.”
This interview makes much more sense now! I could not understand why he launched straight into talking about being in the orchestra when she asked about his arts background.
Missey said this on April 4, 2014 at 12:51 am | Reply
I also really appreciate the comment about free music lessons. The man has a conscience.
Yes, it’s interesting that he has started to comment on social issues lately. Just prior to the NY interview I was reflecting that he never spoken on those topics.
Missey said this on April 4, 2014 at 4:02 am | Reply
Well, if he ever wanted to say anything about social issues, this next role should give him that opportunity.
YEP! I am very curious about what he will say. He certainly has a conscience but I’m not sure that he is used to thinking about these problems in a systematic way…
I don’t think he’s a systematic thinker, period. But that’s been a tense topic here.
Joanna said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:43 am | Reply
see discussions on posts “How thick is Richard Armitage?” — I think there are two. I had to close discussion both times.
I’ve seen those posts. Perhaps a provocative title 🙂 ? It was interesting that in this interview he expressed disappointment that there was not a single original Robin Hood story. He didn’t seem at all happy that it is a fable that is re-told over and over again. I think he’s naturally bright but it’s obvious that he hasn’t had the kind of intellectual training that a university degree gives you.
the title wasn’t the problem. The problem was that I dared to say Richard Armitage isn’t the intellect many people want to believe him to be.
What i thought was odd about it was that he obviously knows a lot more about myth now (after all the Hobbit preparation). Maybe he was recalling his frustration from back then.
Servetus said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:24 pm | Reply
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX He also showed that he realizes how important that free music was and I’m sure if he expanded on it he would also say that it is really a shame that music is one of the first things cut from school. It is the same here really. I didn’t buy the comment that he didn’t know what his mother thought of him in The Hobbit but for some reason he chose not to share that and to share his father’s comment instead which was funny. It was a very nicely done interview with some really good questions.
Peggy Kincaid said this on April 4, 2014 at 2:23 am | Reply
I had free music lessons at school too. I learnt the violin and hated it! I really was one of the kids who pretended to play in the school orchestra. Lol! The fact that he played in the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra playing at the big concert hall in Leicester suggests he was much better at it than he’s willing to admit!
Lack of musical instruments in schools today is a hot topic at the moment, with less and less money being available for music education. Yesterday I donated an electronic keyboard that I never use to the school I work in. The nature of my school means music plays quite an important part so our kids are quite well served but they’re still short of instruments that are in good condition.
As for Red Leicester cheese is not a favourite of mine…a bit too orange for me 🙂
And my dad is also quite reticent about saying anything too positive about anything I do! My mum on the other hand is always telling me how clever I am! Lol! She thinks anything I do is clever if she doesn’t know how to do it herself, like finding information on the internet or driving 🙂
kathrynruthd said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:17 am | Reply
We had free music lessons at school but we had to come up with the instruments ourselves (unless it was something like a tuba). However, my school didn’t have string instruction. We borrowed a clarinet from someone for two years and then my parents bought a used one that served pretty well for a few more years.
My violin was mine not the schools, but there were instruments at school. I was taught by a peripatetic teacher that I assume the school or local education authority funded. I had piano lessons too but those were outside school and paid for by my parents.
kathrynruthd said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:31 pm | Reply
We also had free music lessons at school. My parents purchased a flute for me and a clarinet for my sister. We had a band not an orchestra, like Servetus mentioned we didn’t have strings either. My sisters and I all took private piano lessons for about six years each. The thing I remember most about band is the girl who played flute next to me did not have a pinky finger. Her hand did not look deformed but it did make it harder to play the flute. Funny the things you remember.
By the time my son (now 30) was in school they had a program to rent instruments. You paid a monthly rental fee but the lessons were still free. My step father taught music and substituted until he was 90.
richardtreehouse said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:43 pm | Reply
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX That is so true. I never had an offer of any kind of music instrument. Very self conscious about my voice as it wasn’t like most girls so no singing even for me. I would have liked to learn the piano I think but we didn’t have money for that sort of thing. The fact that he took the free music lessons and accepted the cello says that he was interested but he downplayed himself as usual. His tastes in classical says that he got a lot out of playing it. All we had in school for music was a music appreciation class.
I love cheese but can’t have much of it due to headaches. Never had that Red Leicester though.
Yes, fathers will play it all off by a comment like that but you know that they noticed and it wasn’t meant to hurt. You know that his mother is very proud of him but understandingly he doesn’t want to elaborate on that so he just says he doesn’t know what she thinks.
if you have access to a Whole Foods or a store like that, you can probably buy a tiny piece of gold-plated Red Leicester to try 🙂
The video is not available any more for viewing. Do you know why? It’s not available on Youtube either.
Mermaid said this on April 4, 2014 at 8:19 am | Reply
probably the rightsholder objected.
According to BBC they can’t find the video anymore. They actually didn’t know about a longer version, only the one which is in their page. hmpf
Miss Emms said this on April 4, 2014 at 6:58 pm | Reply
Any chance someone downloaded it from YT? Pretty, please?
Miss Emms said this on April 4, 2014 at 9:18 am | Reply
I can’t see it either. sobs
MoonRAker said this on April 4, 2014 at 9:45 am | Reply
Neither can I. (Several Guy of G sniffs of disappointment)
Rafaella said this on April 4, 2014 at 11:42 am | Reply
I couldn’t see it either. I wish I hadn’t waited on this one. I found info at http://richardarmitagecentral.co.uk/
UPDATE: The video has been removed from youtube by the user. However, we did update our transcript with the new bits of the interview. The first of five pages is HERE, click the next arrows to continue.
I’m going to read it now.
I’ve read the transcript earlier. I guessed I’ve missed the clip only by minutes last night.
His answer about his dad is a typical story and made me giggle. This could be my dad. They never make a fuss and a good clap on the shoulder is all those old school dads can give. It’s sweet he told it!
I’ve had music lessons at school, too. I learnt the flute and was singing in the choir for couple of years incl musicals. Great projects! Don’t know if it’s still offered in our schools today. But I think, playing the cello is as difficult as playing the violin? I had enough with the flute.
Red Leicester, Stilton or any other cheese is good with me. Can’t live without it.
I’m sure that vid will eventually reappear somewhere. Cough.
I went to watch it again late last night and was really sad to find it had been removed. It was a great interview and gave us a few more glimpses into his younger days, and his food preferences! 🙂
I too was blessed in having received free cello lessons at school and I doubt if I recognized at the time how thankful I should have been. According to a very musical uncle, I played rather well, but of course I had to give it up when I left school as my parents could not afford to buy me an instrument of my own. I still find it sad that the importance of music in children’s lives is still not recognized by some, even though it has been proved to be so beneficial to their general education.
Teuchter said this on April 4, 2014 at 8:22 pm | Reply
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