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Guide to Job Search Networking
In Praise of Non-Phony Networking
By Liz Ryan
If you're horrified by face-to-face networking events, you're certainly not alone - you're probably not even in the minority. After a decade of ferocious networking activity, plenty of people are coming out of the I-hate-networking closet to admit that chitchatting with strangers is about as appealing to them as walking over broken glass.
It doesn't have to be that way, of course.
Test the Waters
When it comes to face-to-face networking events, the event host sets the tone and can have a huge influence on the tenor of the gathering.
If the host believes in schmoozy, rapid-fire elevator-speech networking, that's the kind of event he or she will throw.
If the host shares my philosophy that the best networking happens when a few, in-depth networking conversations have time to blossom, the event will reflect that bias.
That's why it makes sense to shop networking events before joining an association, Chamber, or other group.
I went to a networking event not long ago where the standard practice was to go around the table sharing rapid-fire (egg-timer-driven) introductions and sales pitches. I literally couldn't do it - I hid out in the Ladies room until the exercise was over. I don't think I'm physically capable of sitting with strangers and exhorting them to buy what I sell, but plenty of people evidently are. These events are not my cup of tea, and it's a good thing I hadn't taken the organizer's challenge to sign up (credit card or check accepted) as a new member of the club before that networking exercise was introduced. I would never have forgiven myself.
Avoidance Strategies
Networking doesn't have to be phony and cloying. Even at a false, back-slappy or air-kissy event, you can set the tone for your own conversations.
You can avoid me-first networkers who peer over your shoulder at the other attendees the entire time they're ostensibly talking to you. You can excuse yourself from a conversation like that by saying "Oh, I can see you're engaged" and walking away before Mr. or Ms. Looking for Something Better has a chance to react.
If someone begins to spit his audio business card in your face, you can smile and say "How lovely" in mid-spit and drift away before the elevator pitch hits the ground floor.
You don't have to be anybody's aural punching bag. There may be somebody, or more than one, at that event who's just as turned off by schmoozy networking as you are.
It may take awhile to find that person, as you make your way through the throng of “Shall we set up a sales call at your office tomorrow?” Sallies and Johns. Apart from the strengthening benefit of withstanding these verbal slings and arrows (in the sense of “That which doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger”) you’ll also learn via these schmooze attacks which networkers to avoid in the future. If you’re lucky, you’ll eventually find yourself chatting with a person who’s refreshingly interested in you as much as in him- or herself.
Non-Phony Networkers
The non-phony networker wants to know more about you than what you do in your business, and wants you to know more about her or him than the contents of a business card, as well. This networker is curious about what you did before the job you held, and what you like about what you do, and how the industry works. You may learn that this person plays the cello in the local symphony or that her son is currently studying endangered frogs in Peru. You’ll be pleased to hear about the frogs after fending off verbal blows from Stan and Judy and Mitchell, the me-first let’s-make-a-deal networkers you’ve been avoiding all evening.
The funny part is that after having sixteen or twenty brief conversations, one or two will stick in your mind as you drive home or fall half asleep on the train. Those one or two conversations had a spark to them – informed not by the fabulousness of the IT consulting services or promotional items somebody was trying to sell you, but by the character of the person you were talking with.
Smart networkers eventually figure out – and plenty never do – that networking about people is far more fun, more interesting and more fruitful than networking about products and services. The good news is that we can pick which type of networking we’re willing to engage in, and say no to phony networkers with our conscience clear.
After all, if a person doesn’t want to know you before he starts to sell you, you don’t need to know him, either. Your life will be much happier in the company of people who value you for yourself, whether you ever buy their wares or not.
Liz Ryan is Job-Hunt's Networking Contributor. Liz is a former Fortune 500 VP and 25-year veteran of corporate human resources departments. In addition, Liz is the author of Happy About Online Networking and an internationally recognized expert on careers and the 21st century workplace. Find Liz on LinkedIn.
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Reading and writing poems about ‘Where I’m From’. #writerinschool
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m using this blog as a place to keep a record of my residency at St Gregory’s Catholic College, Bath, a non-selective comprehensive school for young people aged 11 – 18. I go into school one day a week, run a creative club (open to any student) during break and at lunchtime, and work with small groups of students from Years 7 – 9 (aged 11- 14) during their timetabled English lessons. I also correspond with students about their creative writing via school email, and I’ve worked with a few sixth formers on their UCAS personal statements, as well as the Creative Writing elements of their A Level English Language and Literature course. You can find my posts on this blog by using the search terms ‘writer in school’ and ‘working as a writer in a school’.
Over the last three weeks, we’ve been reading and writing poems about ‘Where I’m From’. I was inspired by this great post by Jean Atkins and I thought that, as it’s still early in the new school year, and lots of students, as well as me, are new to the school, this would be good way of everyone getting to know each other a little bit more.
To begin with, we read Lament for Syria by Amineh Abou Kerech, aged 13, who won First Prize in this year’s Betjeman Poetry Prize and Where I’m From by Melanie Poonai, who was a winner in the 2007 Foyle Young Poets of the Year.
Students warmed to poems by writers who are close to their own age. We talked about how Amineh’s poem made us think about Syria in a completely different way from how the country is usually portrayed on news reports.
I am from Syria
From a land where people pick up a discarded piece of bread
We also talked about how poetry allows us to say a lot using few words, and how it breaks the rules of prose.
From: after you, aunt; as you wish, uncle; with pleasure, sister…
From a place which endured, which waited, which is still waiting for relief.
We liked the way Amineh used direct speech here, and thought about using it in our poems. One student used something a grandparent often says, to come up with the great line “I come from whatever the weather blows our way.” Another wrote the line “From: sad since my dog died.”
Some students chose to write a lament, like Amineh, about a place they loved very much and missed. Others followed Melanie Poonai’s use of anaphora to write an ‘I am from..’ poem.
I am from a life filled with colour,
From the chocolate brown that is my skin.
I am from the sunshine yellow of my mother’s laugh,
From the red and white of my brother’s favourite football shirt.
Some students also used colour in their poems, others tried using the sense of smell and sound to describe themselves and their lives.
We developed the theme of poems about ourselves by reading another winning poem from this year’s Betjeman Prize, Six Haikus From Mangalore by 10 year old Shanelle Furtado. Most of the students I was working with had already heard about haikus and had written some at their primary schools. What we particularly liked about Shanelle’s poem was the way she’d used six linked haikus which gave us scope to say more, either about a particular place, ie Mangalore, or about another subject (later, one student wrote a really good set of haiku about different fruit, for example).
But inside the house
The bafat masala cooks
Home in Mangalore
This poem also encouraged students to write about their own heritage, either about the country where they were born or where their family are from, and to use specific language to describe food, culture or customs, without the need to explain what it meant – we could all work that out from context.
Inevitably, some students race ahead, and seem to devour poems and produce them in large number! I was glad to have copies of Candlestick Press’ Ten Poems about Home to hand, to give to students to read.
One young writer I gave this pamphlet to, read it silently from cover to cover then told me that their favourite poem in it was Tony Harrison’s Long Distance. The student’s reaction reminded me of a post I wrote a while ago about making all poetry books available to young people, and not restricting their reading to ‘poetry for children’.
The poet Ben Bransfield, who is also a teacher and a Poetry Society Teacher Trailblazer (read Ben’s (and others) Top Tips for Teaching Poetry) has spoken about the benefits of bringing a wide range of poems into school. Ben is also a big fan of using poetry pamphlets in teaching sessions, since students are able to read the entire ‘book’ in one session, giving them a great sense of completion and ownership. At some point, I will invite Ben to comment further on this and I would like to design some sessions around a collection of different pamphlets.
We rounded off our writing about ‘Where I’m From’ by reading Kim Moore’s My People and Liz Berry’s The Sea of Talk. Students talked about the way you can have a strong sense of who you are and where you’re from, without knowing all the facts for certain. They liked the way Kim imagines who her people are. With Liz Berry’s poem, we talked about dialect and accent, and how the way we speak, the words we use, are as much a part of who we are as the way we look.
Please feel to add links to more poems that would work with this theme.
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jaynestanton says:
Josephine, I’m enjoying following your writer-in-school blog posts.
I don’t have a link, as such, but Romalyn Ante’s V. Press pamphlet, Rice & Rain, has poems that are rich with the sights, sounds and smells of home (from the Philippines to the West Midlands), not least the opening poem, ‘My Town.’
Josephine Corcoran says:
Ah, thanks for this! Good idea. Some poems from this pamphlet at And Other Poems.
Such a lovely, creative post! I’m very much enjoying reading about what you’re up to Josephine.
montagentle says:
I’m enjoying the blog too Josephine. Before I retired I did run some poetry sessions with Year 2 children and their parents when I was involved with Family Literacy programmes in Leeds. It’s a long while ago now – c. 2006 but I can remember a little of it, and compare. Sorry can’t just think of any to add at the moment. @moiragauthor
Thanks so much, Moira. Delighted to hear you’re enjoying the blog! 🙂
PS You’ve sent me searching through my home collection now! I don’t know if this angle about where you come from would be of interest. It’s on the magical end of poetry, Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The Cord’:
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview4#ampshare=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/31/featuresreviews.guardianreview4
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Critical Appraisal and Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews of Prediction Modelling Studies: The CHARMS Checklist
Karel G. M. Moons ,
* E-mail: k.g.m.moons@umcutrecht.nl
¶Moons and de Groot contributed equally to this work and are joint first authors.
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Walter Bouwmeester,
Yvonne Vergouwe,
Susan Mallett,
Affiliation Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, New Radcliffe House, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Douglas G. Altman,
Affiliation Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Windmill Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Gary S. Collins
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Citation: Moons KGM, de Groot JAH, Bouwmeester W, Vergouwe Y, Mallett S, Altman DG, et al. (2014) Critical Appraisal and Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews of Prediction Modelling Studies: The CHARMS Checklist. PLoS Med 11(10): e1001744. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001744
Copyright: © 2014 Moons et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: We gratefully acknowledge financial contribution by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (project 918.10.615). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed
Publications on clinical prediction models have become abundant for both prognostic and diagnostic purposes. Systematic reviews of these studies are increasingly required to identify and critically appraise existing evidence.
No specific guidance exists to help frame a well-defined review question and determine which details to extract and critically appraise from primary prediction modelling studies.
Existing reporting guidelines, quality assessment tools, and key methodological publications were examined to identify seven items important for framing the review question and 11 domains to extract and critically appraise the primary included studies.
Together these items and domains form the CHecklist for critical Appraisal and data extraction for systematic Reviews of prediction Modelling Studies (CHARMS).
Prediction models, both diagnostic and prognostic, are becoming increasingly abundant in the medical literature [1]–[3]. Diagnostic models are aimed at calculating the probability that an individual has a certain disorder, such as deep vein thrombosis [4],[5], ankle fractures [6], or conjunctivitis [7]. Prognostic prediction models concern the prediction of the probability or risk of the future occurrence of a particular outcome or event in individuals at risk of such an event. Prognostic models may involve models for individuals with a particular health condition, such as prediction of recurrence or death after diagnosis of breast cancer [8] or mortality after cardiac surgery [9], but also includes models for predicting the occurrence of future outcomes in apparently healthy individuals such as the risk of developing a coronary event [10] or type 2 diabetes mellitus [11].
There are over 100 models for predicting outcome after brain trauma [12], over 60 models for breast cancer prognosis [13], 45 models for cardiovascular events after being diagnosed with diabetes [14], 43 models for predicting prevalent and incident type 2 diabetes [15], and 20 models for predicting prolonged intensive care stay after cardiac surgery [16]. Furthermore, prediction models are increasingly being appraised and recommended for formal risk assessment in clinical guidelines [17],[18].
To evaluate the proliferation of prediction models, systematic reviews are necessary and led to the formation of the Cochrane Collaboration Prognosis Reviews Methods Group [19],[20]. Since then, search strategies for identifying prognostic and diagnostic prediction model studies have been developed [21]–[23], validated, and further refined [24].
However, no published checklists support the design of systematic reviews of prediction modeling studies, or what to extract and how to appraise primary prediction modelling studies. Existing guidance for synthesizing studies of prognostic factors [25],[26] does not address studies of multivariable prediction models. Instead, reviews of prediction model studies have created their own checklist [2],[12],[14],[15],[27]–[30], with variable inclusion of key details.
Our aim was to design a CHecklist for critical Appraisal and data extraction for systematic Reviews of prediction Modelling Studies (CHARMS). The checklist is designed to help form a review question for and appraisal of all types of primary prediction modelling studies, including, regressions, neural network, genetic programming, and vector machine learning models [1]–[3],[12],[14],[15],[27]–[30]. Some items, such as “selection of predictors during multivariable modelling” and “model presentation”, are somewhat more specific to regression approaches. The checklist is not intended for systematic reviews of primary studies of prognostic factors, for which we refer to the QUIPS tool [25],[26], nor is it intended for prediction model impact studies in which, in principle, a comparative (intervention) design is used [1],[31],[32]. Box 1 shows the types of prediction modelling studies for which the CHARMS checklist was developed.
Box 1. Types of Prediction Modelling Studies
Prediction model development studies without external validation aim to develop a prognostic or diagnostic prediction model from the dataset at hand: the development set. Such studies commonly aim to identify important predictors for the outcome under study, assign mutually adjusted weights per predictor in a multivariable analysis, develop a final prediction model, and quantify the predictive performance (e.g., discrimination, calibration, classification) of that model in the development set. As model overfitting may occur, particularly in small datasets, development studies ideally include internal validation using some form of data re-sampling techniques, such as bootstrapping, jack-knife, or cross-validation, to quantify any optimism in the predictive performance of the developed model.
Prediction model development studies with external validation in independent data have the same aim as the previous type, but the development of the model is followed by quantifying the model's predictive performance in participant data external to the development dataset. This may be done in participant data collected by the same investigators, commonly using the same predictor and outcome definitions and measurements, but from a later time period (temporal or narrow validation), or by other investigators in another hospital or country (geographical or broad validation).
External model validation studies with or without model updating aim to assess and compare the predictive performance of an existing prediction model using new participant data that were not used to develop the prediction model and possibly adjust or update the model in case of poor performance based on the validation data.
Prediction studies exploring which predictors independently contribute to the prediction of a particular prognostic or diagnostic outcome as well as studies aimed at quantifying the impact of using a prediction model (on, e.g., clinical decision making, patient outcomes, or cost-effectiveness of care) relative to not using the model may also be considered in a systematic review of prognostic and diagnostic prediction models [2]. However, data extraction and critical appraisal of those types of prediction studies is very different as they have different aims, designs, and reporting issues compared to studies developing or validating prediction models. Therefore, here we explicitly focus on reviews of studies aimed at developing, validating, or updating a prediction model.
Development of the Checklist
We developed our checklist based on published risk of bias tools, existing critical appraisal checklists for systematic reviews of randomised therapeutic trials and diagnostic test accuracy research, methodological recommendations for conduct and reporting of prediction model research, and data extraction sheets used in published reviews of prediction modelling studies after contacting authors.
First, we reviewed the existing reporting guidelines for other types of clinical research including CONSORT, REMARK, STARD, STROBE, GRIPS [33]–[37] and for the reporting of systematic reviews (PRISMA) [38]. Furthermore, we considered existing quality assessment tools including the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool [39] for randomised therapeutic studies, QUADAS (and QUADAS-2) for diagnostic accuracy studies [40],[41], and the QUIPS checklist for appraisal of prognostic factor studies [25],[26]. We then reviewed published systematic reviews of prediction models and prognostic factor studies, along with the checklists or quality appraisal criteria used in those reviews [12],[27]–[29],[42]–[46]. Finally, we identified key methodological literature discussing recommended approaches for the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of prediction models, followed by a search of the corresponding reference lists [3],[19],[31],[32],[37],[47]–[59].
Initial pilot versions of this checklist were presented and discussed at the annual Cochrane Prognosis Methods Group meetings and workshops from 2010–2014, held during the Cochrane Collaboration Colloquia, and modified based on feedback received during these meetings. Consecutive iterations of the checklist were applied, tested, and modified in various systematic reviews of prediction models [2],[14]–[16],[29],[60]–[62], which ultimately led to the current checklist. For the actual reporting of systematic reviews of prediction models, we refer to the PRISMA statement [38].
The checklist contains two parts. Table 1 summarises key items to guide the framing of the review aim, search strategy, and study inclusion and exclusion criteria. Table 2 and Text S1 describe the overall domains and specific items within each domain to extract from the reports of primary prediction modelling studies in light of the review question, with a view to evaluate risk of bias and applicability.
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Table 1. Key items to guide the framing of the review aim, search strategy, and study inclusion and exclusion criteria.
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Table 2. Relevant items to extract from individual studies in a systematic review of prediction models for purposes of description or assessment of risk of bias or applicability.
Risk of bias refers to the extent that flaws in the design, conduct, and analysis of the primary prediction modelling study lead to biased, often overly optimistic, estimates of predictive performance measures such as model calibration, discrimination, or (re)classification (usually due to overfitted models). Applicability refers to the extent to which the primary study matches the review question, and thus is applicable for the intended use of the reviewed prediction model(s) in the target population.
Guidance to frame the review question, search strategy, and study inclusion and exclusion criteria
Table 1 addresses seven key issues (i.e., prognostic versus diagnostic prediction model, intended scope of the review, type of prediction modelling studies [see also Box 1], target population to whom the prediction model applies, outcome to be predicted, time span of the prediction, and intended moment of using the model) that are helpful for systematic reviewers to frame the review question and design the review. A focused review question enables researchers to develop a tailored search strategy and to define the inclusion and exclusion criteria—and thus the applicability—of primary studies included in the review.
At the outset, the reviewer should decide whether the aim is to review prognostic or diagnostic models (item 1) and define the scope of the review (item 2). It is then important to decide whether to include model development studies, model validation studies, or both (item 3 and Box 1). For example, if the review aims to assess the performance of a specific prediction model, then only external validation studies of that model are applicable for the review.
Defining the target population of the prediction model(s) under review (item 4) and the outcome(s) to be predicted (item 5) are related items that are particularly important to indicate the potential usefulness and application of the review results. For example, relevance to physicians and patients is enhanced by models that predict patient-relevant outcomes, such as death, pain, or recurrence of disease, rather than those that predict process outcomes such as duration of hospital stay or intermediate outcomes, except when there is a clear and established causal association with a subsequent patient-relevant outcome (e.g., predicting CD4 count instead of complications in patients with HIV [47]).
Prognostic models commonly have a better predictive accuracy for short-term outcomes than for long-term outcomes (item 6) [63]. However, predicting long-term outcomes may sometimes be more relevant from a patient perspective, though this is obviously questionable in very elderly individuals [64].
Finally, clarifying when the model is intended to be used is important to define what sorts of models are relevant for the review (item 7). Models that incorporate predictors collected after this predefined time point are inappropriate. For example, if the aim is to review prognostic models to preoperatively predict the risk of developing post-operative pain within 48 hours after hip surgery, studies including intraoperative characteristics are not useful.
In Box 2 we give various examples of potential review questions of both prognostic and diagnostic models.
Box 2. Examples of Systematic Reviews of Prognostic or Diagnostic Prediction Models with Different Aims
Reviews of prediction models for specific target populations (development and/or validation)
Existing models for predicting the risk of having undiagnosed or developing (incident) type 2 diabetes in adults [15].
Prognostic models for activities of daily living, to be used in the early post-stroke phase [46].
Reviews of prediction models for specific outcomes in a target population (development and/or validation)
Prognostic models for survival, for independence in activities of daily living, and for getting home, in patients with acute stroke [27].
Prediction models for diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in patients suspected of having the disease [28].
Review of the performance of one or more specific models (validation)
Predictive performance of the EuroSCORE for operative mortality following cardiac surgery when validated in other patient samples [139].
Relative predictive performance of specific prognostic models for occurrence of cardiovascular disease when applied in general populations [44].
Reviews of all existing models in a particular clinical field (development and/or validation)
Existing prognostic models in reproductive medicine [29].
Existing prognostic models in the traumatic brain setting [12].
Review of methods and reporting of prediction models (development and/or validation)
Quality of reporting of diagnostic and prognostic modelling studies published in high impact general medical journals or in a specific time period [2],[48].
Reporting and methods used to develop prognostic models in cancer [60].
Review of added value of specific predictor or updating of a specific model (development and/or validation)
Added predictive value of C-reactive protein to the Framingham risk scores [134].
Added predictive value of carotid imaging markers to existing cardiovascular predictors in the general population [140].
Relevant items to extract from individual studies
The key items to be extracted from each primary study are grouped within 11 domains. Similar to critical appraisal checklists for systematic reviews of randomised therapeutic and diagnostic accuracy studies, these address potential sources of bias in the primary studies and issues that may affect the applicability of the results in relation to the intended use of the prediction models.
Source of data.
Data from cohort, nested case-control, or case-cohort studies are recommended for prognostic model development and validation studies, and cross-sectional designs for diagnostic modelling studies [47],[58],[59],[65]–[67]. Clearly, a prospective cohort design is preferable, as it enables optimal measurement of predictors and outcome. However, prospective studies evaluating (validating) the performance of an existing model predicting a long-term outcome, e.g., ten-year survival, may be too costly or the results insufficiently timely. Retrospective cohorts typically have a longer follow-up period, but usually at the expense of poorer data quality and unmeasured predictors [13]. A non-nested case-control design, as opposed to a nested case-control or case-cohort design, is inappropriate for developing a prediction model since the design does not enable calculation of absolute risks and thus yields incorrect estimates of model intercept or baseline hazard [65]–[68].
Randomised trials are a specific form of a prospective cohort study and thus share its advantages. However, restrictive eligibility criteria for entry into the trial may hamper generalizability of the prediction model. Furthermore, treatments shown to be effective in the trial should be acknowledged and possibly accounted for in the prediction model, as they may affect the predictive accuracy of the prognostic model [47],[56]. Finally, data from existing registries (e.g., administrative or routine care hospital databases) are increasingly used in prediction modelling studies. However, such databases are especially prone to missing data and missing important predictors, which can affect the predictive accuracy and applicability of the resulting prediction model [31],[56],[58],[69].
The participant recruitment method is important to establish whether the study population is representative of the target population. A review of 83 diagnostic prediction models for detection of ovarian malignancy found that studies often sampled participants non-consecutively [70], increasing the risk of bias due to selective sampling [42],[56],[71]. Also, it is important to ascertain from the publication whether all included participants were eventually used to develop or validate the prediction model [15],[56]. Selective inclusion based on data availability is likely to influence the predictive accuracy of the prediction model, as study data are seldom missing completely at random but are often missing in a selective and biased way (see section below on missing data).
Participant description, including inclusion and exclusion criteria, study setting (e.g., primary or secondary care), and number of centres, is important to allow for proper assessment of the applicability and thus generalizability of the study findings [40],[41],[56],[72]. For reviews of a single model that has been validated in different study samples, differences or heterogeneity in study design, sample characteristics, and setting that will affect the performance of the prediction model should be determined. For example, prediction models developed in secondary care perform less well when evaluated in a primary care setting [73],[74]. Reviews of prognostic models for patients with breast cancer [56] and patients with lower back pain [75] have identified that participant characteristics were often poorly reported.
The performance of prediction models may also vary depending on whether the study participants have received any treatment (including self-administered interventions) that may modify the outcome occurrence. It is therefore important to determine whether the review addresses treated or non-treated individuals or both, and whether the treatment effects (i.e., treatment predictors) were handled appropriately in the models. Finally, the dates of participant recruitment provide important information on the technological state of the tests and treatments used, and the lifestyle factors at that time. The predictive accuracy of models may change over time and require periodic updating [76], as was done for the QRISK models [77].
Outcome to be predicted.
The definition and measurement of the outcome event (prognostic models) or the target disease (diagnostic models) in the primary studies should correspond to the outcome definition of the systematic review question. Different outcome definitions and measurement methods may lead to differences in study results and are a source of heterogeneity across studies and thus risk of bias. Occasionally a different definition of outcome is intentional to examine the usefulness of a model to predict alternative outcomes. For example, one may intentionally seek to validate for non-fatal events a model originally developed for predicting fatal events. A review of cancer prognostic models found that outcomes were poorly defined in 40% of the studies [60],[78]. It was often unclear whether mortality referred to cancer mortality or overall mortality from any cause, and in the definition of disease-free survival it was unclear which events were included.
In diagnostic modelling studies, establishing the presence or absence of the target disease is known as verification by a reference standard. Primary studies on the same target disease frequently use different reference standards which may have different accuracy for determining the true target disease status, potentially compromising the validity of study results; using a suboptimal reference standard may lead to misclassification of the target disease [79]–[81].
Some modelling studies use a combined outcome; for example, cardiovascular disease often comprises myocardial infarction, angina, coronary heart disease, stroke, and transient ischaemic stroke. A combined outcome is considered easily translatable to clinical practice or to achieve a higher effective sample size, but could lead to important predictors not being identified, as predictors may have opposite predictive effects in the component outcomes, causing their predictive contributions to cancel each other out. Reviewing and summarising predictors in models using combined outcomes is particularly challenging [82],[83]. In studies validating a prediction model for a combined outcome, the number and severity of individual component outcomes may differ markedly from the derivation study, potentially affecting the predictive accuracy of the model in the validation dataset [84]. When available, the systematic review should record the frequency of the individual components in the combined outcome to enable comparison across studies. If this information is not reported in the primary study and cannot be retrieved by contacting the study authors, then this should be reported in the systematic review.
In diagnostic studies the importance of assessing the reference test without knowledge of (i.e., blinded to) the results of the index tests is well established [35],[40],[54],[69],[79],[80],[85]. The same issue is also important in prognostic studies where the assessor of the outcome occurrence should be blinded to ascertainment of the predictor [47],[48]. In the absence of blinding, the predictive ability of the model may be overestimated because the predictors may be used in assessing the outcome. Blinded outcome assessment, in both diagnostic and prognostic studies, is most important when outcomes require subjective interpretation (e.g., results from imaging) that could be biased by knowledge of predictors. For so-called “hard” outcomes, such as overall mortality, blinded outcome assessment is less important. However, cause-specific mortality may include subjective interpretation so that knowledge of the predictors could bias outcome assignment. Several reviews have reported that many studies did not blind the outcome measurement for the candidate predictors [70],[81],[86],[87].
A special case of incorporating the predictor information in the outcome assessment is the use of so-called consensus or expert panel outcome assessments. This is often used in diagnostic studies for target diseases where the reference standard used in practice is known to include a subjective assessment of information [52],[54],[88],[89]. Here, a consensus panel typically uses all available information on the study participants, including the predictors (or index tests) under study, to determine whether the target disease is present. The results of the predictors are directly and deliberately incorporated in the assessment of the target condition, usually leading to optimistic predictive accuracy of the developed models. This specific form of non-blinded outcome assessment bias is commonly referred to as “incorporation bias” [52],[88],[89].
In the prognostic setting, retrieval of the follow-up period or a summary of the follow-up from the primary studies deserves special attention. Disappointingly, these key details are often poorly reported [72],[75]. A recent review found the number of participants with ten years follow-up was frequently not reported, even in studies validating prognostic models predicting a ten-year outcome [15].
Candidate predictors.
Candidate predictors may range from simple patient demographics and clinical characteristics to advanced test results. We emphasise that candidate refers to the predictors chosen to be studied for their predictive performance, and not restricted to those included in the multivariable analysis [59]. The number of candidate predictors analysed in the primary studies is highly important. Together with the number of participants with the outcome (i.e., those with the event or the target disease) they contribute to the assessment of whether the model is likely to be overfitted. Overfitting occurs when idiosyncratic features of the development data attain spurious statistical significance and are retained in the final model: the model is too closely tailored to the data at hand [51],[58]. These models do not produce inaccurate predictions in the dataset from which they are developed, but they do when applied to other individuals. Predictions tend to be too extreme; low predicted risks will be too low and high predicted risks too high. Overfitting thus leads to models that are not transportable or generalizable.
Different definitions and measurement methods of candidate predictors are a potential source of heterogeneity and thus risk of bias, and the use of different measurement methods may affect the strength of predictors and influence whether the predictors ultimately are included in the prediction model [42],[61]. For example, type 2 diabetes mellitus, a known risk factor and therefore predictor for cardiovascular disease, can be defined by an oral glucose tolerance test, HbA1c measurement, fasting plasma glucose measurement, or even by self-report. These different predictors may have different predictive effects in the multivariable models. Also, models including predictors measured using routinely accessible equipment are likely more generalizable than predictors measured with less available techniques [61]. As with the outcome, the definition and measurement method of the predictors may sometimes be intentionally different when evaluating an existing model in a separate dataset. The review should highlight differences in definitions or measurement methods of any of the predictors, so readers can place the results in context.
Candidate predictors that can vary over time should be available and measured at the time of intended use of the prediction model, not at a later moment in time or after the outcome has occurred [47],[90].
As described for outcome assessment, measurement of predictors with knowledge of outcome information may inflate the predictive accuracy of the predictors and thus of the final prediction model. This concern particularly applies to predictors requiring subjective interpretation. In prospective studies, predictor assessment is inherently blinded, as it is completed prior to outcome occurrence. It may also be important to blind assessment of predictors to each other, particularly if a review seeks to address the predictive contribution of an additional subjective predictor beyond previously obtained predictors. For example, if the predictive ability of an MRI in addition to laboratory measurements is studied, the MRI should be interpreted blinded to the laboratory measurements to reduce possible bias [73],[91].
The methods used to handle predictors in the analysis can influence which predictors are selected for inclusion in the model and so affect model predictions. Continuous or categorical predictors are frequently dichotomised for the analysis [2],[42],[56],[60],[78] despite strong evidence and recommendations to the contrary [92]–[94]. Categorisation assumes a constant risk up to the cut-point and then a different risk beyond the cut-point, which is implausible and nonsensical. In addition, dichotomising discards information and commonly results in a loss of power [93]. Dichotomising predictors, particularly when choosing a so-called “optimal” cut point based on data from one study, often causes selection of spurious predictors and overfitting, reducing the reliability and applicability of model predictions in new patients [55],[93]–[96].
Sample size.
One of the biggest concerns when developing a prediction model is the risk of overfitting. For dichotomous outcomes, overfitting typically arises when the number of individuals with the outcome (event or target disease) of interest is small relative to the number of variables. The number of variables includes all candidate predictors, transformations for continuous predictors, indicator variables for categorical predictors, and interactions examined. The number of events-per-variable (EPV) is commonly used to calculate the sample size, where attaining a sample size with an EPV of ten or more is frequently recommended to avoid overfitting [97]–[101]. For studies validating prediction models, sample size considerations are not well established, but a minimum of 100 events and 100 non-events have been suggested [102]. For continuous outcomes, 20 participants per predictor have been recommended [51].
A systematic review should therefore record both the number of individuals in the study and the number of individuals with the outcome or target disease. Numerous systematic reviews of prediction models have reported that the number of events per candidate predictor is often poorly reported and, when it is reported, that the EPV is often less than ten [2],[15],[56],[78].
Missing data.
In all types of medical studies, including prediction modelling, some data is not available or not recorded. Differences between studies in the extent and type of missing data and the methods used to handle this missing data may greatly influence model development and predictive performance. Knowing the number of participants with any missing data across all included studies and whether these participants were included in model development or validation is important to understanding possible biases in prediction modelling studies. However, reporting on the frequency and type of missing data is often poor [2],[15],[56],[62],[78],[103]–[105] despite the adverse effects of missing data on development, validation, and updating of a prediction model [34],[103],[105]–[112]. These adverse effects are related to the amount of missing data [112] and the extent to which data are missing completely at random [108],[111]. Missing data are seldom missing completely at random; the missing data are often related to other observed participant data. Consequently, participants with completely observed data are different from those with missing data. A so-called complete-case analysis, which simply deletes participants with a missing value, thus leaves a non-random subset of the original study sample, yielding invalid predictive performance, both when developing and when validating a prediction model. Only if omitted participants are a completely random subset of the original study sample will the estimated predictor-outcome associations and predictive performance measures of the prediction model be unbiased [113]. Multiple imputation is generally acknowledged as the preferred method for handling missing data in prediction research. In this strategy, missing observations are substituted by plausible estimated values derived from analysis of the available data. However, when data are “missing not at random”, i.e., missing data is still partly due to unobserved data or characteristics of the participants, multiple imputation does not sufficiently solve the invalidity problem [107],[112],[113].
Detailed reporting in primary studies on whether missing data may reasonably be missing at random (by comparison of the participants with and without missing values) is invaluable for reviewers to judge the potential for bias. Numerous recommendations for reporting missing data in medical research have been proposed [103],[104],[114],[115]. It is therefore important during the systematic review to record from the primary studies whether the presence of missing data (how much and how handled) was mentioned.
In appraising studies that include model development, first the type of model (e.g., logistic, survival, machine learning, other models) used should be assessed. It is important to summarise and understand key components that might lead to bias and variability between models. An important source of bias in model development is in the method of selecting the final predictors, especially in studies with a small sample size. We split the selection of predictors into two components, the selection of predictors for inclusion in the multivariable analysis and selection during multivariable modelling. The use of different predictor selection methods and criteria for predictor inclusion across studies may yield different models and different amounts of bias. These issues should thus be carefully documented during the review.
Selection of predictors for inclusion in multivariable modelling.
In some model development studies, predictors are selected for inclusion in the multivariable modelling based on the association of each candidate predictor with the outcome. Although common, such screening or pre-selection based on univariable significance testing carries a great risk of so-called predictor selection bias [51],[56],[58],[116]. Predictor selection bias occurs when predictors selected for inclusion in multivariable modeling have a large but spurious association with the outcome. Including such predictors increases the likelihood of overfitting and thus over-optimistic predictions of a model's performance for other individuals. Furthermore, predictors that show no association with the outcome in univariable analysis because of small sample size may become associated with the outcome after adjustment for other predictors. The risk of predictor selection bias is greater in smaller datasets (when the EPV ratio is small), and when there are notably weak predictors.
Bias in predictor selection may also occur when continuous predictors are categorised. As discussed, it is recommended to keep continuous variables continuous and to check whether nonlinear transformations (e.g., using restricted cubic splines or fractional polynomials) are indicated [45],[51],[58],[93],[94],[96].
The systematic review should record how many candidate predictors were examined, any methods used to select predictors, and any methods used to transform predictors prior to inclusion in the multivariable analysis to assess risk of bias.
Selection of predictors during multivariable modelling.
Just as the selection of predictors for inclusion in the multivariable modelling can contribute to optimistic and biased models due to overfitting, so can the selection of predictors during multivariable modelling. There is no consensus on the best method, but certain methods have been shown to be less useful and increase the risk of model overfitting, such as forward selection techniques [51],[55],[58],[117]. Two of the most commonly used methods are the “full model approach”, and “backward elimination”. The full model approach pre-specifies all predictors in the final model and no predictors are omitted, which avoids predictor selection bias [51],[58]. Whilst this approach sounds attractive, it requires substantive prior knowledge about the most promising candidate predictors [59], which is not always straightforward. Backward elimination starts with all candidate predictors in the model and runs a sequence of statistical tests to remove them from or keep them in the model based on a pre-specified criterion. Possible criteria for predictor inclusion include Akaike or Bayesian Information Criterion, the use of a nominal p-value (e.g., <0.05 based on the log likelihood ratio test in regression approaches), or using a change in the model's c-index (see below) [58]. The choice of a relatively small nominal significance level for predictor selection (e.g., p-value<0.05 or even <0.01) generates models with fewer predictors, but increases the chance of missing potentially important predictors, while larger levels (e.g., p<0.20 or p<0.25) increase the risk of selecting less important predictors. In both cases, overfitting may arise, particularly in small datasets [51],[55],[58],[59].
To address possible overfitting of a model, shrinkage techniques can be used to adjust the estimated weights of the predictors. The corresponding adjusted estimates of predictive performance are likely to be closer to the predictive accuracy that will be found when the developed model is applied to other individuals. Hence, studies that develop prediction models that are adjusted or shrunk are less prone to bias. The need for use of shrinkage methods increases with smaller datasets, although in datasets with a low number of EPV, even shrinkage methods cannot account for all bias [51],[58],[117],[118].
Given the strengths and weaknesses of various modelling and predictor selection strategies, the systematic review should record all information on the multivariable modelling, so readers can gain insight into how each model was developed.
Model performance
Regardless of the statistical method used to develop or validate the model, various model performance measures such as calibration, discrimination, (re)classification, and overall measures of performance may be used [51],[58],[117]. Calibration and discrimination should always be recorded when reviewing clinical prediction models. Calibration refers to how well the predicted risks compare to the observed outcomes; preferably this is evaluated graphically by plotting observed against predicted event rates [51],[58],[119]. For time-to-event models using, e.g., Cox regression, calibration is usually evaluated at specific time points by comparing observed and predicted risks for groups of individuals [119]. Calibration plots are often supplemented by a formal statistical test, the Hosmer-Lemeshow test for logistic regression and its equivalent for Cox regression. However, such tests have frequently been criticised because of the limited statistical power to assess poor calibration and being oversensitive in large samples [58],[117],[120],[121]. Furthermore, the Hosmer-Lemeshow test gives no indication of the direction or magnitude of any miscalibration. Discrimination refers to how well the model differentiates between those with and without the outcome and is typically assessed using the c-statistic, which is the equivalent to the area-under-the-curve of a receiver operating characteristic curve. The c-statistic should not be used as the only performance measure, however, since it is influenced by the distribution of predictor values and is often insensitive to inclusion of an additional predictor in the model [59],[122]–[125].
Classification measures, notably sensitivity and specificity, may also be presented. However, the use of these measures requires a predefined probability threshold. The same model would show very different sensitivity and specificity depending on the chosen threshold. The reporting of performance based on thresholds chosen from the data itself can produce over-optimistic and biased performance [95].
Reclassification measures, such as net reclassification improvement or index (NRI), evaluate whether a single biomarker has any incremental value to a prediction model [124],[126]. Their use has been criticised as they rely on a priori–defined probability thresholds and do not account for difference in consequences of falsely reclassified individuals [122],[127],[128]. Furthermore, NRI is a measure of comparative performance and is therefore not directly useful as a measure of performance of a single model.
Recent systematic reviews have found the reporting of performance measures to be poor, with reliance on measures of discrimination [2],[15],[60]. Objective evaluation across multiple studies and models is difficult if other aspects of model performance are missing. Systematic reviews should ensure that if possible, at a minimum, aspects of discrimination and calibration are extracted. For a full appraisal of models across multiple studies, systematic reviews should also record whether the primary study actually evaluated both calibration and discrimination. The absence of either component makes a full appraisal of prediction models difficult.
When the predictive performance measures described above are evaluated or estimated in the same dataset used to develop the model, they are termed “apparent performance”. The apparent performance tends to be biased (i.e., overestimated relative to performance in other individuals). Regardless of which modelling technique (regression, neural network, or machine learning techniques) is used, this risk of bias is more pronounced when the development dataset is small, the number of candidate predictors is large relative to the number of outcomes, data-driven predictor selection techniques have been applied, and shrinkage techniques have not been used. The assessment of the performance of prediction models should not rely on the development dataset, but rather be evaluated on other data. In fact, evaluation in an independent dataset is all that matters; how the model was derived is of minor importance [49]. Quantifying model performance in other individuals is often referred to as model validation (Box 1) [1],[32],[49],[51],[56],[58],[59],[119],[129],[130]. Several strategies exist depending on the availability of data, but are broadly categorised as internal and external validation [1],[32],[49],[51],[56],[58],[59],[129].
Often the original dataset is randomly divided into a development sample and validation sample. However, this approach merely creates two similar but smaller datasets differing only by chance, and generally provides little additional information beyond the apparent performance, and for large datasets, the difference in performance in the development and validation dataset is even negligible, as expected [3],[32],[56],[58],[131]. Moreover, the method is statistically inefficient because not all available data are used to develop the prediction model, increasing the likelihood of overfitting, particularly in small datasets. Thus, for small datasets, the use of split-sample methods actually increases the risk of bias, whilst for large datasets there is no practical benefit [61]. If splitting the data is to be considered in large datasets, then a non-random split is preferable, for example splitting by time, centre, or geographic location [49],[51],[56],[58],[59],[129].
Internal validation using resampling (Box 1) is a method to estimate the amount of overfitting or optimism in the apparent predictive performance of the developed model, for which no other data than the original study sample is used. Internal validation by resampling quantifies bias in the apparent model performance. Rather than cross validation, bootstrapping resampling methods are generally regarded as the preferred internal validation method, as all the data is used for model development and for model evaluation. Regardless of the modelling technique, bootstrapping is particularly recommended in small datasets with many candidate predictors and when predictor selection techniques have been used [3],[49],[51],[55],[58],[59]. In addition to capturing optimism in model performance, bootstrapping provides a shrinkage factor to adjust the estimated regression coefficients and apparent model performance for such overfitting.
Preferably, the predictive performance of a model is quantified in data that were not part of the development study data, but external to it (Type 3, Box 1). External data can differ in time (temporal validation) or location (geographical validation) from the data used to derive the prediction model. Usually this second dataset is comparable to the first, for example, in patients' clinical and demographic characteristics, reflecting the target population of the model development study. Sometimes, however, it is of interest to examine whether a model can also have predictive ability in other scenarios. For example, a validation dataset may differ in the clinical setting of participants (e.g., primary care versus secondary care), in the age range of participants (children versus adults), in the clinical inclusion criteria, or even by using different predictor or outcome definitions and measurements [1],[31],[32],[56],[129],[132]. A crucial point is that a validation study should evaluate the exact published model (formula) derived from the initial data. Repeating the original modelling process in the validation data, refitting the model on new data, or fitting the linear predictor (in case a regression modelling technique was used) as a single term on the new data is not model validation, but rather model re-development [3],[32],[49],[51],[56],[58],[119]. If an existing model shows poor performance when evaluated in other individuals, researchers may adjust, update, or recalibrate the original model based on the validation data to increase performance. Such updating may range from adjusting the baseline risk (intercept or hazard) of the original model, to adjusting the predictor weights or regression coefficients, to adding new predictors or deleting existing predictors from the model [53],[58],[133]. Model updating, if done, usually follows an external validation of a previously published prediction model (Type 3, Box 1).
Systematic reviews should thus identify whether reported performance measures of the prediction models were obtained using only the development data (apparent performance), were corrected for optimism (e.g., using resampling techniques), used a random split-sample approach, or were based on performance in separate (external) datasets. If separate datasets have been used to develop and validate a prediction model, it is important to report any differences between the datasets. Updating or recalibrating a model based on external data should also be reported, if done. External validation studies provide the best insight into the performance of a model, indicating how useful it might be in other participants, centres, regions, or settings. However, many reviews have shown that external validation studies are generally uncommon [1],[12],[14],[15],[27],[29],[56],[78].
The results of the models in the review should match the systematic review question. If the aim is to review all existing prediction models in a particular clinical area, or for a particular outcome or groups of individuals (Box 2), results may include the components of the different models that have been developed, including the selected predictors, predictor weights, or regression coefficients (in case a regression approach was used) and their precision estimates, in addition to the performance of these models [12],[27],[29],[45]. If the aim is to review the reproducibility or predictive performance of the same model(s) across different study samples (external validation), as for example in [44],[134],[139], the predictive accuracy measures and their precision estimates are important to focus on, whilst issues surrounding the development of the models are less relevant to report.
As models are usually developed to estimate an individual's outcome probability, it is important to capture and record whether this can actually be done from the published model. The format used to present models in the original papers should be extracted. Options include the original model formula (e.g., the regression equation if a regression approach was used to develop the model) enabling direct probability estimation, rounded scoring rules, or predefined risk groups with corresponding predicted and observed outcome probabilities. Rounding or simplifying original predictor weights or regression coefficients is likely to cause a loss in predictive accuracy. Hence, if relevant, the systematic review should report the performance measures of the original and “rounded” models where this information is available in the published primary report [32].
Risk groups are frequently presented. For reasons described above, data driven methods to create risk groups, such as the “optimal” probability threshold method or at the median, are not recommended [135]. Therefore, it is important to note if and how risk groups were created. Recent reviews in oncology highlighted poor methods and poor reporting for creating risk groups [56],[60].
When a review includes both development and validation studies of the same model(s), or several external validations of the same model, reporting differences in frequency (binary) and distribution (continuous) of the predictors and outcomes across the study samples is recommended, as a different case-mix is known to result in different predicted risks that may influence model performance measures [49],[53],[129],[133],[136],[137].
Interpretation and discussion
All tools for reporting of medical studies recommend discussing strengths, weaknesses, and future challenges of a study and its reported results [33]–[37], including the PRISMA statement for reporting of systematic reviews itself [38]. How a model was developed and validated and its reported performance give insight into whether the reviewed model is likely to be useful, and for whom. Conclusions about model performance and applicability should be based on the validation results of the model, the comparison with other studies and other prediction models, and study strengths and weaknesses, rather than predictor effects or corresponding p-values. Furthermore, one may like to overview the performance of all prediction models for a specific outcome or target population before making decisions on which model to apply in routine practice [138].
In contrast to systematic reviews of therapeutic and diagnostic test accuracy studies, there is no formal checklist for guidance on defining a proper review question, let alone for data extraction or critical appraisal of primary studies on the development or validation of diagnostic or prognostic prediction models, despite the sharp increase of such studies in the past decade. We combined published risk-of-bias tools, existing critical appraisal checklists for systematic reviews of randomised therapeutic trials and diagnostic test accuracy research, methodological recommendations for conduct and reporting of prediction model research, and data extraction sheets used in published reviews of prediction modelling studies to provide the CHARMS checklist. The checklist is intended to help frame the review question, design the review, and extract the relevant items from the reports of the primary prediction modelling studies and to guide assessment of the risk of bias and the applicability of the reviewed prediction models. We recognise that this checklist will require further evaluation and use to adjust and improve CHARMS.
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A one-page checklist of relevant items to extract from individual studies in a systematic review of prediction models.
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Frustration & The Duty to Accommodate
Written on behalf of Mallins Law • July 5, 2019
A recent decision of the Ontario Divisional Court provides much-needed assistance in the definition of the duty to accommodate and the employee’s obligation to participate in this process.
The employee was the store manager of a pharmacy who had taken a leave of absence due to depression. While absent, he injured himself in two accidents which required a longer period of medical leave. He claimed “total disability” which was supported by the LTD provider.
The employer terminated his employment based on frustration of the employment contract. It did pay the statutory sums.
His lawyer soon advised that the employee was working hard to return to meaningful employment. The company’s requests for a medical prognosis and updated medicals and an estimated return to work date were ignored.
The company then proceeded to conclude the termination.
The employee sued, alleging that he was adversely treated under the Human Rights Code and also sought a common law severance sum.
The Decisions
The employer sought a summary dismissal to end the claim. It was denied. The employer successfully appealed to the Divisional Court.
Issue One: Frustration
The medical evidence clearly established that the plaintiff was unable to return to his prior job. There was no contrary evidence offered. This issue was clearly in the employer’s favour.
Issue Two: Accommodation
This question was also resolved in the employer’s favour. The employee was required to show some evidence of his ability to return to work and to disclose his current medical evidence to support and define his restrictions in order to trigger the employer’s duty to accommodate. This issue was straightforward. The employee cannot ignore the company’s requests for medical information and then cry foul. Accommodation is a two-way street.
Employers’ Guide
This case does illustrate an issue that is not litigated frequently. Frustration and accommodation are two edges to a difficult issue. In this instance, the employer acted fairly. It was aided in its position by foolhardy conduct by the employee in refusing to participate in the accommodation process.
Employees’ Claims
The law on this subject is not intuitive. Legal advice is extremely important in navigating dangerous waters. This case had a very simple solution which was to co-operate and be forthright with the employer’s requests. This would have made a tremendous difference.
Get Advice Before You Act
If you have questions about this issue or any employment question, contact the offices of Toronto employment and labour lawyers Mallins Law. We regularly advise employees and employers on legal workplace issues. Contact us online or by phone at 647-792-0310 to schedule a consultation.
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Team Penske Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying Report - New Hampshire
Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Race: Foxwoods Resort Casino 301
No. 2 Alliance Truck Parts Ford Mustang – Brad Keselowski
First Practice Position: 9th
Time / Speed: 27.904 seconds / 136/497 mph
Qualifying Position: 1st – 15th career MENCS Pole
Time / Speed: 14.803 seconds / 129.622 mph
No. 12 Menards/Sylvania Ford Mustang – Ryan Blaney
First Practice Position: 1st
Qualifying Position: 5th
No. 22 AAA Insurance Ford Mustang – Joey Logano
First Practice Position: 10th
Fastest Times:
First Practice – 27.784 seconds (No. 9 – Chase Elliott)
Qualifying – 27.927 seconds (No. 2 – Brad Keselowski)
In the opening practice session, Team Penske deployed split strategies, with the No. 2 Alliance Truck Parts Ford and No. 12 Menards/Sylvania Ford running all mock qualifying runs, while the No. 22 AAA Insurance Ford team spent the majority of the first session in race trim before swapping to a qualifying setup in the closing moments.
In qualifying at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, it was Brad Keselowski leading the way for Team Penske, winning his 15th career MENCS pole position in the No. 2 Alliance Truck Parts Ford Mustang, snapping a 68-race pole drought dating back to August of 2017 at Michigan International Speedway. Ryan Blaney will start Sunday's Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 from the fifth position in the No. 12 Menards/Sylvania Ford Mustang. Joey Logano will start the race from the eighth position in the No. 22 AAA Insurance Ford Mustang at his home track, looking to continue adding to his regular season points lead.
Live coverage of second practice will begin Saturday at 10:00 a.m. ET on CNBC and the NBC Sports App, with final practice live on NBCSN at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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Brexit & trade wars are causing a customs crisis. What’s the solution?
Answer: Broker expertise + technology
Anjali Krishnan
Jul 18, 2018 · 6 min read
The world of logistics is in turmoil. UK has only one year left till it officially leaves the European Union. In the US, President Trump comes up with a weekly wish list of items to include in tariffs and then China and US go round and round deciding which ones to choose for actually implementing.
According to a report by Institute for Government, a UK-based think tank, around 180,000 British businesses that operate only within EU will be faced with making customs declarations for the first time in the post-Brexit world. Around 200 million declarations will need to be made costing £20–£45 each.
That’s a colossal 4–9 billion pounds in expenses.
Not counting the increase in costs, where are these businesses going to find so many experienced customs brokers?
As our previous piece on the complication of categorizing pasta mentioned — customs classifications are a convoluted system, influenced by history, economics and geopolitical considerations. Changing tariffs will influence products all through the supply chain. And most companies do not know their supply chain. A survey by Business Continuity Institute shows that over 69% of companies do not have full visibility over their supply chains.
The increased costs of reporting along with the lack of visibility in a globalized supply chain means many companies are unprepared to deal with the rapid shocks that they’ve recently been subjected to.
Laying out the plot — how HS codes work.
So why hasn’t technology fixed this already? To answer that we have to go back a bit to the origin and taxonomy of HS codes.
The HS codes or Harmonized System of tariffs is exactly what it sounds like — a way to align different countries’ systems of product classification so that global trade can hum along. It consists of six digits. The first two denote the HS chapter, the next two the heading and the last two the subheading. Chapter indicates broad categories (eg. Cereal) which heading and subheading expand on the product characteristics in more details (eg. Rice milled but not polished).
That’s all well and good. But what about Arborio rice milled in Italy which is very different from the Basmati variety milled in India and Pakistan? Ah, that’s where country-specific variations of HS codes come in.
For the United States the country-specific portion is referred to as HTS codes. The first 6 digits of HS codes are international but the next 1–4 digits are country specific and vary between countries. This means that a Chinese supplier might give products properly classified but with the Chinese tariff codes which then need to be converted into the US tariff codes while importing.
The inefficiencies in the system
As you might have guessed by now, a customs brokers job is not easy. It requires years of experience to navigate a ever-changing complicated world of customs regulations.
Often the solutions implemented to solve these problems oversimplify the complexity of the problem. Take for example the US Custom’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) that was supposed to streamline data flow from the Customs & Border Protection agency. Over 3 years and $1 billion dollars later the system is still not fully functional. Quoting the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA), the ACE has —
“several critical issues with elements such as remote location filing, currency conversion for duties and value declaration, and insufficient automation of the invoice interface.
Communication is also an issue with the messages that ACE sends out. The NCBFAA is calling for a complete list of ACE messages and their meaning. The authors described the messaging system as “duplicative, inconsistent and prone to incorrect interpretation by CBP and stakeholders.”
Or take Canada for example. In a recently published tariff classification audit the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) revealed that 66% of the cases were non-compliant. This is a shockingly high number of non-compliance considering the dollar value of world merchandise exports was US$17.20 trillion in 2017 and it only going to grow further. It is such a massive amount that even the most conservative estimate will place the losses at many billions of dollars in value.
Canada’s solution? To pre-publish a list of verification targets! Yes, they’re that nice. For 2018 CBSA announced the list of categories that will be prioritized for trade certification. I guess their hope is that importers of hair extensions and bicycle parts will fix themselves if they know of the extra scrutiny this year.
There’s no single solution
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that a system which is designed to allow trade and communication between multiple countries, their agencies and its industries is not simple. And to fix such a system doesn’t require a solution, it requires multiple smaller solutions.
One such solution is Semantics3’s Categorization API.
Improving a legacy system
In our surveys with various logistics companies, we noticed something odd. The same product was being assigned up to 10 different HS codes and even clearing customs with such variations. This points to the (unsurprising) lack of uniformity in a purely-manual system. Compared against a machine based classifier which would have a repeatable output given specific input a manual-only system is slow and costly. However, a machine that consistently gives the wrong code is useless too.
There are also finer distinctions between products which AI systems might not be able to grasp. For example, apparel when knitted falls within Chapter 61, whereas apparel when not knitted falls within Chapter 62. With purely machine-powered systems, such finer distinctions might go unnoticed resulting in expensive errors.
Considering the accuracy/cost implications associated with either approach, we need to look at walking a fine line, a balancing act between the two paradigms.
A combined system
A suggestion system which provides both chapters, while highlighting the distinctions, could enable a human reviewer to pick the right code.
The time spent classifying a given product, in a purely-manual system could vary anywhere from 1 minute (for an expert given familiar HS chapters) to over 4 minutes (for beginners in the more arcane codes). Compared to the seconds it takes an AI-system, the cost/time savings of an AI system clearly stand out.
Intelligent systems can also identify the differences between high-cost and low-cost errors. By layering an AI system with human input, specific products can be (re-)sent through multiple classification methods to ensure a higher level of fidelity in the output. Our client, a 3PL provider called Aeropost, found that their classification time per item fell from an average of 2 minutes to under 25 seconds when their employees could scan products to get categorization suggestions.
Many simple solutions
HS codes classification, logistics optimization, tariff wars — none of these are simple topics and they do not have simple solutions. But the key to solving a complex problem, very often, is doing it in small parts. Our AI-categorization automation is just one such solution of many.
By combining AI-powered systems with human curation, a more robust classification engine can be built. Together, the combined system can tackle (in small parts) the customs crisis in an increasingly fragile world filled with global trade wars and uncertainty. After all, a small solution that works well can have a huge compounded impact.
Checkout Semantics3’s Categorization API here.
Written by Anjali Krishnan and Ramanan Balakrishnan.
The Ecommerce Intelligencer
A look at how data is shaping the future of e-commerce, gleaned from our stockpile of Ecommerce product, pricing and customer metadata. Also see www.semantics3.com/blog
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Gary Seven activates the servo
A servo was a multi-function device employed by Gary Seven that resembled a pen.
The servo had several functions, and served as:
A communicator, which allowed Gary Seven to communicate with the Beta 5 computer and initiate transport.
A personal defense mechanism. It had both a stun setting, which made its target go into a hypnotic state open for suggestion, and a kill setting.
An electronic manipulation device, which Gary Seven used to deactivate the force field keeping him in the brig of the USS Enterprise.
A mechanical manipulation device, with the ability to serve simple purposes such as unscrewing screws, and locking and unlocking doors.
In 1968, Roberta Lincoln attempted to use the device to warn off James T. Kirk, causing Seven to snatch it from her, as, unbeknownst to her, it had been set to kill. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")
The device is similar, both in shape and function, to the iconic sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who, with the exception that the sonic screwdriver cannot be used as a weapon. (citation needed • edit)
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Aug. 30: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois docket for "442 civil rights: jobs" cases
By The Madison County Record | Sep 7, 2019
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Case/Case #
Patrick Parker v. Jersey County, Illinois; Michael Ringhausen
3:19-cv-00948
Joshua R. Evans (plaintiff's attorney)
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Case activity for Tomy Haris vs Don Durham on Jan. 16
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Home » Sports Channel » Track & Field
Cushioned-Heel Running Shoes May Hurt Performance Study Finds
Many of today's running shoes feature a heavy cushioned heel, but new research presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) says that the shoes may alter an adolescent runner's biomechanics in a way that adversely effects performance.
Sexual Non-Conformity In Sports: Are All Men Straight And All Women Gay?
Despite progress in women's and LGBT rights, the way the mainstream media portrays non-conforming or sexually ambiguous athletes has not changed much in three decades, argues a leading expert on gender in sport, citing the treatment of Olympic athletes Caster Semenya (left) and Johnnie Weir.
Hip Strength and Stamina Important for Long Distance Runners
Whether an athlete is running high school cross country, preparing for a local half marathon, or getting ready for an ultra-competitive international triathlon, improving the strength and stamina of their hip muscles can help improve times while reducing the risk of injury.
Stress Fracture Risk Double for Girls in High-Impact Sports
Girls who play sports more than 8 hours per week are twice as likely as their less active peers to suffer a stress fracture, a new study finds. Most at risk were those engaged in three activities (running, basketball and cheerleading/gymnastics) which involve repeated jumping and landing which place particuarly high stress on bone, with the risk of injury increasing about 8 percent for each extra hour of activity over four per week.
Stress Fractures In High School Athletes: A Growing Problem
New research suggests that more intense training and inadequate diet are placing high school athletes at significant risk for developing stress fractures in the bones of the back, hip, leg and foot, with girls more likely to suffer such overuse injury and at an earlier age than boys.
Overuse Injury: Early Recognition and Treatment Allows Quick Return to Play
Early recognition and treatment of common overuse injuries to growth plates is key to the safe return to play of young athletes says a new study.
Overuse Running Injuries: Weak Hip Muscles Common Cause
Overuse running injuries such as patellofemoral pain syndrome (so-called "runner's knee"), and Achilles tendonitis may have more to do with weakened hip muscles than the sheer number of miles an athlete runs.
Pole Vaulters Allowed to Leave Ground Without Breaking Plane
Beginning with the 2008 high school track and field season, it will no longer be considered a foul if a pole vaulter leaves the ground without breaking the plane.
2009 Track and Field Rules Changes Announced
Rule 7-5-29 was one of seven rules revised by National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Track and Field and Cross Country Rules Committee at its annual meeting June 8-10 in Indianapolis. The changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.
Buying Shoes for Track
If your child wants to run track, selecting the right shoe is extremely important.
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Defensive switch, Chase’s big game rally South to win
Tanner Cook • Jan 15, 2020 at 1:25 AM
KINGSPORT — A halftime decision to switch defenses paid off for the Sullivan South boys basketball team Tuesday night.
The Rebels changed from man-to-man to a straight 2-3 zone defense, which slowed Elizabethton and allowed Michael McMeans’ team to rally for a 57-51 Three Rivers Conference win over the visiting Cyclones.
Elizabethton scorched the nets for 39 points in the opening two periods and led by 10 at the break. The defensive swap curbed the Cyclones’ torrid pace, and they managed only 12 total points in the second half.
“We knew we had to do something because we couldn’t guard them in man,” McMeans said. “It became evident that Nico (Ashley) was going nuts on us in the first half and for whatever reason, we let people cut right in front of us. We knew we had to change something and I got into them pretty bad at halftime. I told them we were going to play zone and stick to it.”
Ashley led all scorers with 21 points, but he had just three in the second half.
Gannon Chase stepped up big time for the Rebels, netting 18 points. Chase hit a dagger of a midrange jumper with 2:58 left to put South up by two possessions, 53-48.
“That was the best game of Gannon’s career and I told him that after the game,” McMeans said. “He absolutely put us on his back and kept us in it in the first half.
“What people won’t recognize that sit in the stands is that we went over three or four of their plays in practice yesterday. He read three of them in the game and cut them off. He was the player of the game for me.”
Arguably one of the biggest shots of the entire game was a 3-pointer by Cooper Johnson — his only bucket of the game and first score in nine quarters — with 5:53 left that put South ahead 46-45.
“I’m sitting on the sidelines screaming at him to shoot it and he wouldn’t,” McMeans said. “He’s a confident kid and he’s capable of making those shots. For whatever reason, he decided to square up and shoot it that time and he made it. We had been waiting on that one the whole game.”
Ben Diamond came through with 16 points for South, hitting a couple of big shots late in the third quarter to cut the deficit to single digits.
Jake Roberts also hit double figures for Elizabethton with 16 points.
POWER POSTS DOMINATE
The Lady Cyclones’ size advantage was too much for the Lady Rebels to overcome in a 53-38 loss to Elizabethton, which finished with 10 blocked shots.
Power posts Kaitlyn Bailey and Morgan Headrick stifled the Lady Rebels nearly every time they went into the paint.
Bailey finished with 11 points and Headrick had five, but Elizabethton’s offensive star was Kaylen Shell, who had a game-high 17. Five of Shell’s points came at the beginning of the fourth quarter when the Lady Cyclones were nursing a 37-30 lead and South had built momentum.
Shell’s 3-pointer from the top of the key and jumper in the lane gave Elizabethton a 42-32 cushion.
“That was huge,” said Lady Cyclones coach Lucas Andrews. “All of those shots were within our offense and big shots. That’s exactly what we want. She was able to knock them down. Most nights I feel like we have a big advantage inside. We’re blessed with kids that are 6-2, 6-3 and 5-11 — and we’re quick. Our defense is strong end on most nights.”
Nicole Troutman led South with 13 points.
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Margo Catts
Author, blogger, and curious traveler
Saudi FAQ
Book Group Guides
June 7, 2016 February 5, 2017
A few months after I arrived in Saudi Arabia, I found myself at dinner with a group of teachers. You know, school teachers. Ladies that taught English at Saudi girls’ schools. Old maid school teachers.
You got that picture squarely in mind?
Good. Now flush it. Whatever scars you still carry from that time you walked into the teachers’ lounge as a child (teachers? relaxing? aghhh!), it’s time to forget about them. These ladies were cool.
I am now firmly convinced that a memo went around when I was in high school, inviting interested students to come learn how to live an exotic, independent, globe-trotting life, and I missed it. I was never aware that there was more than one path available to humans. High school. College. Job. Maybe marriage. House. Family. The things responsible people do.
These ladies, though, got the memo and went to the meeting. These are women who got jobs in Saudi Arabia and came, alone, to a country that gives off some seriously scary vibes to women so that they could have experiences like no others. Except…they had others. Lots of others. I had to keep stopping the conversation to have them back their stories up.
“Hold it—so how were you in North Korea?”
“Wait—the Khyber pass? Like, to Afghanistan? What do you mean ‘used to be safe’?”
“So, New York first, then China, then here?”
The last, I think, made the best story. As a young, burnt-out PR executive in New York, my friend Jessica sold everything that didn’t fit into a suitcase and moved to China. She spoke no Chinese, knew no one, but managed to locate an expat group. Somebody asked if she could teach English. She thought, “Well, I’ve taught Sunday School. How hard can it be?” Her contact made sure it was okay that the job “isn’t in Bejing,” then when she said yes handed her a card and said someone would be outside her hotel at 6:00 the next morning. (Is this sounding like the way a kidnapping story should start?)
At 6:00 a.m., she got into a waiting car with a stranger and was driven 7 hours into the interior. At a crossroads they met another car, where the driver said, “Jeh-cah?” and waved her in for a trip that took her another 6 hours inland. She was dropped off in a village where no one had ever seen a Westerner. When she ate at a restaurant the owner put up a picture of her, showing everyone in the village that the American lady had been in his establishment. A little girl in her class used to drag her along on inexplicable shopping trips, and it was only after a few months that she learned the little girl was getting paid to bring her into places of business.
After nine months of this, she concluded that she’d found her new calling, went back to the U.S. to get her English teaching credentials, and came to work in Saudi Arabia. One of the other diners had been in and out of Saudi Arabia a few times, and was now doing her last stint while her husband worked as a doctor to native communities in far northern Canada. Another (the one who’d also been in North Korea and over the Khyber Pass) had recently married a Pakistani man, and was now trying to figure out how to get back to the U.S. in time to have her baby there because her husband might not be able to collect his Saudi salary if he left with her.
Dinner conversation. Sure. That’s normal.
On another occasion, in a safety/preparedness presentation by an embassy official, a roomful of expats was asked who’d ever had to flee a country or shelter in place. Hands went up on all sides. I was taking off in India as the runway was being bombed. I was snuck out of Uganda after my mother had to flee. I was shut in during a military coup in Korea. I looked around at the room full of normal-looking men and women. Who were these people? I never felt like such a sheltered white girl from the suburbs.
And it was about to get worse. I met another woman I would rank among the two or three most naturally elegant people I’ve ever known. She was in her sixties, willowy, delicate, with a china doll complexion and every hair always in place. She had such a soft voice I often struggled to hear her. If I was a white girl from the suburbs, she was a cap-L Lady from a Victorian ballroom, gracious, gentle, spotless, perfectly poised. A few weeks after the terrorist attack at the mall in Kenya, she and I happened to be at a lunch together. During a lull in conversation she said, “Does anybody want to go on safari? I understand flights to Nairobi are really cheap right now.”
Boom. Mic drop. I thought I was being pretty global because I was eating Filipino food, but then the Victorian cap-L Lady showed she was actually the coolest girl in the room.
I expected life in a foreign country to introduce me to new foods, smells, sights, expectations, routines, but I didn’t expect to be so bowled away by the kinds of people you run into on the global highway.
Living overseas I met a woman who’d had to act out the animal for the types of meat she wanted when she went shopping in Khazakstan. (The Khazak butchers thought the American version of a chicken, in particular, was HILARIOUS.) Another had to be airlifted from the Middle East to London after she got a life-threatening infection from a feral kitten that had strayed into the house and clawed her as she plucked it from the curtains. I got chilli sweats as I enjoyed lunch prepared by an endlessly kind Thai woman with a Canadian education learning to speak Arabic. A German woman had hated her charmed Bavarian childhood, wearing a dirndl and learning traditional dances, and was designing jewelry from her home at the edge of a rice paddy in Bali. I met women from the U.S., Canada, Finland, and England, married to Saudi men, raising children in a completely foreign culture, and in families where they don’t even share a language.
Canadian Expat Mom Lisa Webb on Once Upon an Expat release day
And now, from my sofa in the U.S., I’ve met even more. Canadian Expat Mom, a writer now living in Borneo and on her way to the Congo, put out a call for stories, and has pulled together Once Upon an Expat, an anthology of stories from extraordinary women around the globe. The Facebook group she formed for the contributors has proven, again, that I’ve barely begun to learn how interesting life can be when we step across boundaries. Like my dinner companions in Riyadh, like just about everyone I met while living and traveling abroad, these girls are cool.
You’ll find a story that opens with “My journey to living in Italy starts out as all good Italian stories do—with an Italian boy in tight white pants.” There is more than one story of being naked in France (go figure). Bumping across Africa in a bus. Romance predicted by a Chinese fortune-teller. We have women living in lands adopted by marriage. Women who teach. Missionaries. Diplomats. Businesspeople. Daughters, mothers, wives, adventurers. Stories are arranged by continent, until you get to my heroes at the end, grouped under “No fixed address.”
I think you want this book. These women want you to have this book:
Their kids do, too:
The people from Books Abroad, who will receive the profits and use them to promote literacy and education in developing countries, want you to have this book. And Amazon will help you get it, in paperback or Kindle.
Your summer of travel, from your favorite chair in the shade. Enjoy!
Posted in: Expat adjustments, Foreign Girl, People, Saudi Arabia, Travel | Tagged: expat life, expat women, Once Upon an Expat
A Little Help, Here, Please
The Places We Meet
18 thoughts on “A World of Stories”
Nancy Ackerman says:
Enjoyed this so much…and your delightful writing style. We were expats for 35 plus years….20 in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah and Dhahran) as well as Madrid, Mexico, Jakarta and Singapore. It’s a different world, and one I wouldn’t trade; my kids had a brilliant, unusual, very challenging life as they grew into wonderful adults. Some of it was weird and difficult, and others absolutely fantastic…and all memorable. Thanks for your writings……
Nancy Ackerman
margocatts says:
Thank you! I’m jealous of your adventures–our time was cut far too short. But the future is still open! Your lucky children are having extraordinary lives because of their upbringing, I’m sure.
Canadian Expat Mom says:
This is so great! (We are cool aren’t we!) 😉
The coolest. 😉
Jennifer Hart says:
Reblogged this on domestic bliss abroad and commented:
There are so many reasons I am proud to be part of this anthology. The biggest reason of all has been making more expat friends around the world. We are the sisterhood of women carving out lives that don’t have a conventional flow. We make it work where we can and laugh and cry together when we can’t. From a fellow co-author…
Thank you! If only we could find some corner of the world to meet and mingle with each other in person.
Bernadette Gillard says:
I am writing a dissertation on tourism in saudi arabia. Would you be able to complete a short questionnaire for me
Yes, you can reach me through the email link.
I LOVE your writing! So glad you are still sharing, even after returning to USA.
Thank you so much! Yes, the home country can be its own kind of foreign after you’ve been away. Or at least I hope it keeps being foreign enough to provide material!
sanchezamelie39 says:
A formidable post, to be sure!!
Haha! Yes, I do love to pile on the words, don’t I? 😉
lizzieharwood says:
What an incredible post, Margo. Love it.
Reblogged this on Lizzie Harwood Books and commented:
This amazing blog post about a new anthology I’m in Once Upon an Expat, by fellow contributor, Margo Catts, sums up what’s so lovely about expat adventures and expat buddies….
Many thanks for the compliments and the share!
carolanneb says:
Can’t wait to read it 🙂
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Sleater-Kinney talks fury and friendship at New Yorker Festival
Image: Neilson Barnard
By Tricia Gilbride 2015-10-04 18:02:02 UTC
Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss laughed off the idea of Sleater-Kinney being the best rock band in the world at The New Yorker festival on Saturday, but to many — including most occupants of the room — it's true. And the band kind of knows it, too.
“When we’re on stage playing, I feel like we’re the best band in the world,” Weiss told New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear, who was moderating the panel. It helps when your bandmates are your favorite musicians.
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“The beautiful parts were edged in disgrace and disgust, it bordered right on ugly the whole time," Brownstein writes of the first time she heard Tucker's voice in Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl, which is dedicated to Tucker and Weiss.
Weiss had a similar visceral reaction to her first exposure to Tucker and Brownstein's music, “A lot of different things were firing in me when I heard that.”
The concept of fandom and idolization even crept into their lyrics in "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" from 1996's Call the Doctor.
“I think we were playing with those ideas, I think it was a little bit cheeky. We were playing with all these archetypes, especially these male archetypes of rockstars," said Brownstein. "Almost like a child going into a closet and putting on these fancy clothes.”
When they played their first tour after their hiatus in early 2015, they updated the lyrics, singing, "I wanna be your Kim Gordon" in place of "I wanna be your Thurston Moore," retooling their Sonic Youth name check.
The band recalled getting a taste of rock superstardom when they opened for Pearl Jam in 2003, playing arenas full of largely indifferent audiences, who were more interested in the concession stands than their sets. “Our one goal was to watch somebody put down their hot dog," joked Brownstein.
They used the opportunity to experiment on stage, deconstructing their discography as they went along. These live experiments went on to inform their furious 2005 album The Woods.
And people did put down their hot dogs, including two audience members — in enviable Janet Fucking Weiss T-shirts no less — at The New Yorker Festival, who shared during the audience Q&A that Sleater-Kinney became their favorite band after hearing them the first time at one of the Pearl Jam shows. Rage seeps into their other creative projects, including Brownstein's Portlandia. Her favorite characters on the show are Toni from the feminist bookstore, “I love her sensibility, l love her comfortable clothes. I like her quiet anger,” and Kath for her “loud anger.”
“We leave it all up on stage," said Brownstein. "We play every show like it’s our last show."
Topics: carrie brownstein, Conversations, Entertainment, Music, new yorker, sleater-kinney
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San Francisco Too Expensive for Socialists to Live There
Leftists have been so successful at turning San Francisco into a “social justice” paradise that it’s getting harder for the rank–and–file cultural socialist to afford to live there. Statists who are already residents are being squeezed by higher property taxes and rising rent, while lefties who make their own Hajj to Bagdad–on–the–Bay and want to remain in the city can’t afford to buy or rent.
What’s a libertine to do?
In San Francisco they try to take out their frustration on someone else’s success. It’s the “social justice” way. In this instance the housing covetous tried to pass a referendum that would limit the number of days a resident could rent his house or apartment to tourists. This makes perfect sense in San Francisco the city that wants to register your guns and your spare bedroom.
The ballot initiative was called Proposition F officially and the Airbnb referendum colloquially. For those unfamiliar with the company, Airbnb is Uber for houses. Uber participants loan their car and their driving skill to the company in return for access to its app. The app then matches drivers with hot single women who get in your car all alone and pay for the privilege.
Something seems wrong about that last paragraph. I know! Sexual assault is a bug, not a feature. Uber just wants to match drivers who have a car and time on their hands with men and women who have a destination in mind and are willing to pay strangers to get there. As a result a company whose entire inventory consists of a list of drivers and a second list of passengers is worth billions of dollars.
Naturally Airbnb wants to get in on that action — not the assaults – just the valuation. Airbnb matches San Francisco residents with a spare bedroom, basement or hidden dominance room with other people who need a place to stay or be spanked while in town.
Do–it–yourself Hilton has always seemed to be a risky way to make money. Giving the keys to your home or apartment to a bunch of strangers while you leave town is the equivalent of Uber having you toss the car keys to someone you just met at WaWa. Some homeowners return to a dumpster fire and at least one renter has been held as a sex slave — evidently the Uber driver didn’t show up — but on the whole there are enough naive part-time landlords to make the system work.
So Airbnb is another company with two lists and a heap of enemies.
Market ignoramuses behind the referendum blame Airbnb for the high price of housing mostly because they are capitalists and deserve to be hated. Evidently they convinced themselves that if it weren’t for Airbnb, and that devious profit motive, they would be invited to stay in those spare bedrooms for free. As one spokesperson told CBS, “These units should be used to provide much-needed housing for local residents instead of being rented to short-term tourists.”
It’s too much to expect residents to blame the real causes: Rent control, NIMBY fanatics, red tape–manufacturing city bureaucrats and confiscatory “historical designations.” That would be calling into question the ideology they support lock, stock and no vacancy sign.
It’s easier to build a new house in East Jerusalem than it is in San Francisco. As a result a 765 sq. ft. shack — built as relief housing after the 1906 earthquake — sells for $408,000 after a bidding frenzy. Now, after paying almost half a million for a glorified storage shed, the new owners will be able to do almost nothing to improve the building because it has a “historic” designation that imposes heavy fines if you remove the derelicts from the backyard.
Supply and demand dictates what when you have a very limited supply of housing and an ever–increasing demand prices are going to go up. But SF residents only understand the demand part of the equation, so they make demands using ignorance and a ballot box as weapons.
Proposition F would have limited nights a home or bedroom could be rented to 75 per year. Pocket Marriotts would have to file quarterly reports with the city and even worse neighbors could’ve formed an impromptu STASI and sued if their infrared cameras detected new heat signatures on the 76th day.
Airbnb pumped approximately $8 million into the “anti” campaign, while supporters could only raise $800,000 from unions and hotel owners who didn’t want more competition. It was a good investment; Proposition F was defeated 55 to 45 percent, meaning locals can still have strangers and the strange in their domiciles for almost as long as they want.
Posted in Big Government, Business & Businessmen, Humor, Politics | Tagged Airbnb, Proposition F, San Francisco, socialism, Uber | 1 Reply
Science Proves Leftists Are Wimpy
Posted on July 3, 2013 by michaelshannon
Obama voter prepares for the beach.
Sometimes a story just sounds too good to be true. A study published in Psychological Science has found that girly–men are more likely to support a cradle–to–grave welfare state and “share–the–wealth” economic policy than more robust male specimens. This sounds reasonable to me and the fact it appears the research wasn’t paid for by tax dollars is a bonus.
“Psychological scientists” Michael Bang Peterson, of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Daniel Sznycer, of the University of California, found that conservative or right wing beliefs are strongly correlated with physical strength.
The researchers studied bicep size, socio–economic status and political views from participants in the U.S., Argentina and Denmark. Selecting participants from the U.S. and Denmark is not surprising, since that’s where the researchers are based, but why Argentina? Juan Perón was a famous Argentine strongman, but his appellation had nothing to do with muscularity and everything to do with being authoritarian socialist.
One wonders how specific participants were selected and the interviews conducted. Possibly they visited gyms and offered to spot the weightlifters if they could ask questions between sets. It would have been interesting to eavesdrop on some of the conversations researchers had after removing the calipers from the bicep.
You certainly wouldn’t want to ask a politically sensitive question of someone who was benching 300 lbs.
According to the hypothesis established before the testing began, Dirty Harry should be a reliable Republican voter, while Napoleon Dynamite will be supporting Barack Obama until he can afford to hire a personal trainer and release his inner Tarzan.
But the data according to what the Mail Online reported didn’t support the hypothesis. “The data revealed that wealthy men with high upper-body strength were less likely to support redistribution, while less wealthy men of the same strength were more likely to support it.” Had the hypothesis been accurate personal wealth should not have affected support for socialism as long their pecs were equally ripped.
Once the scientists stopped collecting data and started pumping up the results, they proved they know more about the motivation for feeling the burn than they do about the desire to “share the wealth.”
Professor Petersen concluded, “‘Our results demonstrate that physically weak males are more reluctant than physically strong males to assert their self-interest – just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation among small numbers of individuals, rather than abstract electoral dynamics among millions.”
That conclusion gets it exactly backwards and leads me to believe the Peterson and Snzycer need more work in the gym. When “weak males” support “share–the–wealth” politicians the weaklings realize they are too feeble to make it on their own. So instead they support policies that encourage the government — which hires those buff IRS collectors — to do the strong-arm stuff for them. Force those who have made it on their own to, in the words of our socialist–in–chief, “spread the wealth around.”
This goes a long way to explain why male art history majors are such strong Democrat supporters.
The only disappointing information contained in the study applied to women. There was no link between upper body strength and conservative views among the fairer sex.
They only question left unanswered is: Do women, regardless of their own strength, who prefer strong men also prefer conservative economics?
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I bought pot legally and it was weird
by Katie Lobosco @KatieLobosco April 17, 2015: 12:41 PM ET
Washington pot shops open for business
I've never felt so anxious doing something legal. In fact, I was so nervous that I ended up spending way too much money and bought a lot more weed than I wanted.
Like most Americans, I've never bought legal marijuana before, so I didn't know what to expect when I tried it a few weeks ago during a visit to Washington state. It wasn't like going to a liquor store, where aisles are stocked with drinks you've seen advertised millions of times. And it was nothing like a bar, despite the guy at the door checking IDs.
It must be how a non-coffee drinker feels walking into a Starbucks (SBUX). Except there wasn't a menu telling customers what's for sale at the shop I visited in Seattle, called Cannabis City. That's one reason why I was so flustered.
A friend and I waited on line outside the store for about 15 minutes before we were told to step inside to the counter on the right. We were slightly confused about what this "counter on the right" was all about. But something about having a bouncer at the entrance who allows only a handful of people in at a time made us think we shouldn't mill about. We made a beeline to the right.
Inside looked kind of like a jewelry store, with merchandise inside glass cases. There was one salesman standing behind our counter. He appeared to be assigned to us, sort of like a bank teller.
He said hello. Then there was awkward silence. I scanned the case in front of me, there were only a few different types of weed -- without any kind of description. Was this all they had? Were they supposed to give you different kinds of highs? Was I supposed to know? Could I ask?
After what seemed like an eternity, I said I wanted to buy an eighth -- because I heard that's what people usually ask for. The sales associate asked how much I smoke. I said "not a lot," so he suggested the two strains with lower levels of THC: Green Crack and Sage. I said I'd take both.
He rang me up. This little adventure was going to cost me $88. Already embarrassed about how this whole process had gone down, I laid down my Amex -- forgetting that dispensaries don't accept credit cards. Not a smooth move.
Recreational pot is legal in Washington and Colorado and now, thanks to successful ballot initiatives this week in Washington D.C., Alaska and Oregon, it will be soon be legal in those states too.
But it remains illegal on the federal level, so credit card companies and banks, which are regulated by the feds, hesitate to work with pot businesses.
At Cannabis City, it's cash only, or you can use the ATM. So the store charged my debit card $90 and gave me the $2 back in cash for the four grams (a little more than an eighth of an ounce) of pot.
But they did give me two free lighters. Score!
Interactive: Where pot is legal
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Tom Miller Reviews "The Two Musketeers" at The HIPP
Photo by Michael A. Eaddy
I came to this play for swordplay, fisticuffs, and music. Let’s be honest. Musketeer shows have always been about spectacle and music; two of six components in Aristotle’s Poetics regarding the Tragedy. Is this comedy a tragedy? In some sense, yes. The modern genre of the play-within-a-play in which actors cannot afford to present their work the way they wanted—mostly due to assholes like Governors Rick Scott, Mitt Romney, Jerry Brown, and their ilk sword-slashing funding for the arts—is a tragedy. Other shows along these lines include the HIPP’s Gutenberg! The Musical! In that show (which I actually adored, along with a small group of weirdos who appreciate quality cheese: Hello, Arline Greer!), two men play multiple roles to impress producers to produce their show on Broadway. They’d hire an orchestra, but they don’t have any money and so the costumes are scraps and ball caps, and one man on an electric piano as the Philharmonic. By the way, there are ball caps in Two Musketeers too, and also creative use of a red and white checkered plastic picnic table cloth which serves as perhaps the best costume in the show.
But back to tragedy. A few people get killed in this show. So there’s that. But the great surprise is that the body of the production outside the prerequisite violence is that the Two Musketeers is hysterical, well acted, musically kooky and wonderful, thrilling, and at times so witty—Monty Python looks like slow motion in comparison. No doubt Monty Python influence will spring to mind when enjoying the show, and the Director Lauren Caldwell is quoted saying as much about the legendary comic group, in terms of their influence on the play. Most all of the comedy lands, and lands hard and funny. Much of the work outside the impressive acting of the entire cast is the demanding physicality; so much so, I am in awe how these actors can do this play almost every single day, including two shows on Saturday and Sunday. It’s Jackie-Chan-level stuff here. They do all their own stunts. But back to the swordplay and fisticuffs—what I came for.
The fight choreography was directed by Tiza Garland, a Professor of Theatre at the University of Florida where she teaches in the MFA, BFA, and BA programs. Garland also teaches and/or advises on such diverse topics as movement, stage combat, period styles movement (a whole different ballpark), and Dialects. Garland is certified and accredited by almost everybody who matters. She’s easy to recognize in the play; she’s the one who, despite her exotic beauty and allure, looks like she can quick-snip everyone’s heart out with her pinky nail while at the same time, casually putting on her diabolical leather knee-high boots. She’s also a focused intense actor who demands and earns her presence and attention from the audience. Her fight choreography is top notch. I gasped out loud during some of the sword fighting. Imagine three pairs of Errol Flynn people cavorting around the small thrust stage waving pointy foils at each other in battle, all at the same time. I never feared for audience members and it was clear the actors were in total command of their combat work, but I sure did enjoy folks in the front rows ducking and flinching. Get those choice seats if you really want a thrill.
Lauren Caldwell’s direction has a little bit of everything going on and again, we are met with a dizzying mishmash of styles, genres, sensibilities that all serve the storytelling in a most loopy and abstract way. It’s a bit of her signature that certain 80s tunes will appropriately appear in the midst of the authentic music of the period. It's a given that the cast will break out in spontaneous synchronistic dance (think Do The Locomotion in the middle of David Lynch’s Inland Empire). And we love it! Caldwell, in a World Premiere situation where she has the freedom to do whatever the hell she feels like with the material, does exactly that. Her style is unmistakable and at its best, elevates and supports the material on every level into art beyond the play. She’s doing something like Picasso’s-Blue-Period meets Jackson-Pollock. She turns the play on its side and throws cockeyed stuff at it, and we as the audience must engage on many levels at once because it works. There is love and ownership of this material, and I would imagine few other regional theaters could take the same material and do better. This is an American original!
Each actor brings a range of skills to bear in this demanding play. They must be adept with swords, knives, hand-to-hand combat. They must be entirely physical, quick change artists, actors capable of portraying multiple roles, and in the case of this play, they must all be provocative, superbly timed comics, and sexy. Yes, this play is sexy! Every thrust of the sword runs deftly on the edge of blue. The costumes, some of which may be unimaginable to put on much less take off, become their own sort of steamy camp. It’s worth it to note that yes, there is a story (two really, if we take on the plight of the underfunded actors). The Musketeers legend is the glue holding this classic freak-show together. The most significant thing I could say about this ensemble is that they take their work and this material seriously. That’s how you squeeze comedy out of something. And above all, we as an audience share in the obvious joy and enthusiasm the cast is experiencing in acting these parts. All of them so good, I feel I’m doing a disservice pointing anybody in the cast out as a favorite. So let me quip them each: Tiza Garland - eminently watchable, a villain of Disney Cartoon quality but with a moral center that invites our empathy, should be playing Wonder Woman in place of Gal Gadot. David Patrick Ford as D’Artagnan brings dashing charm, sex appeal, and athleticism to our protagonist (think, Carey Elwes in Princess Bride). Am I losing anybody in these references? Michael Stewart Allen takes on several roles and brings his masculine wit, intelligence, and rationalism to the parts. He’s able to be the most serious which gives the comedy something to springboard off of. You may remember Allen as Father Flynn in the HIPP’s past production of Doubt. Both he and Sara Morsey out-shined their Hollywood counterparts from the film version in that production, all due respect to the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman and the virtually untouchable Meryl Streep. Caitlin Hargraves manages to be the softer side, yet equally fierce and capable as her counterpart, Tiza Garland. Garland’s intensity is expected and delivered as promised. Hargraves’ comes out of the blue when she strikes, and always as a surprise, which keeps us enthralled. And then there’s the half-a-musketeer played by Nick Clark Tanner, always arriving just moments after repeated infamous ritual man-bonding moments, “Two for one and one for two!”. He plays the flavor of this slightly-behind-the-curve wanna’ be musketeer pitch-perfect. And my gosh, is he gifted with comic timing!
Some of the thrill of live theater and with a show like this is that so much is demanded of the actors in terms of physical action, wardrobe, blocking, pacing, etc., that one or two little moments are bound to go extraordinary wrong or extraordinary right. This cast is so capable on-the-fly that we saw at least three moments of unscripted brilliance opening night. An enevelope with a message drops from the ceiling. A dead cast member sprawled face down on the stage manages to suddenly be standing alive in a split second as another character, and snatches the falling envelope out of thin air. A sword is put down, accidentally rolls off its perch, and is caught mid-flight by the actor who then makes a hilarious bit out of slowly and deliberately replacing the sword back where it dropped from. A chest door which the actor hides behind accidentally falls closed, revealing his hiding spot. How fast he was in pulling that door back up! And never missing a beat, he mugged the incident up and it became yet another happenstance flashpoint for comedy. And then there is Matthew Lindsay, a Hippodrome stalwart. Let’s just say he wears the checkered plastic picnic table cloth, and combined with his sports jacket and ball cap, makes for one of the most absurd Cardinal Richelieu portrayals since Cardinal Richelieu himself. Lindsay’s versatility, comedic timing, and surprising agility round out this extraordinary ensemble.
The lighting by Bob Robbins is superb, costumes by Jessica Nilacala Kreitzer are both period authentic and, when called for, absurdly camp-tastic. Properties by Angela Zylla, and there are many, must have been a monumental effort to source. And on that note, mad props (that’s a properties joke) to the Stage Manager Amber Wilkerson for what must have been a Herculean undertaking to keep under control. Mihai Ciupe’s scenic design evokes multiple environments and includes a visible backstage where the audience can have the distance pleasure of watching the actors, playing…actors, manipulate props, quick change in full view, and engage in other back-stage antics that will be a special pleasure for other actors and practitioners of the theatrical arts. The musical choices are broad-ranging, hilarious, environmentally supportive, and always engaging. In a way, the music is like an unsung actor. I was not entirely satisfied that all the volume levels of an admittedly complicated sound aspect of the show. Some scene changes which invited more volume for the music to take center stage seemed timid and quiet at times, as if there were some fear of blowing out the ears of older folks, maybe? Some of the environmental music was so low as to not be quite sonically present. But this is a trifle, and may have been something they’re working as the play evolves from opening night and over the run of the show. I figure if I can barely hear something (which then, ironically, becomes a distraction), either turn it up a little, or turn it off. As the music is integral to the show, I’d turn it up if I were me. We don’t want to piss off Aristotle, do we? The remarkable diverse sound design is by Amanda Yanes. And you know Director Lauren Caldwell was also highly influential in the sound department as well, if you know your 80s music.
The Two Musketeers is a high-quality, exuberant, hilarious, ribald, sexy, sword-fighting, face-punching, crotch-kicking, rollicking, musical good-time-adventure at the Hippodrome Theatre; a powerhouse comedic spectacle! Like I said, get those front seats if you can, make sure to duck (not that you have to, but hey, it’s fun…), and come on, support the arts. Seeing this show is a great easy fun way to do that. So do it. Because without your support, I can guarantee: The One Musketeer will not be a funny play.
— Tom Miller
BONUS MATERIAL: SECRETS OF THE TRADE
* It may interest you to know the actors have only three weeks from start to finish to mount a Hippodrome show. In the first three days, sans blocking and table-work, the cast spent this time exclusively on sword-work and stage combat under the direction of Tiza Garland.
* The Two Musketeers is a world premiere! Director Lauren Caldwell had complete creative control as to how to approach the material. You are seeing a Gainesville/Caldwell original production that nobody else has seen or will ever see again.
DON'T MISS THIS FABULOUS AND HYSTERICAL SHOW! Keep an eye out at THE HIPP for special discounts, extended run information, and more.
Thank you to 'Deep Throat' for the inside information.
Tabernacle of Hedonism - Downtown Edition
Contact: FREDInk Records - xx2-2x2-5xxx - Tom Miller
ITEM: The Reverend Angeldust's Tabernacle of Hedonism, in a sudden departure, takes it's Monday night services ("The Show") Downtown to a new location, The Side Car.
Asked about the reason for such an immediate relocation from 1982 Bar to the new venue, Tom Miller issued the following statement:
"The Alien Motherhood is attempting re-entry into Gainesville through a portal at the Known Center of the Universe, a.k.a. Maude's Cafe. We know this because former pastor of the Dove Outreach Center, Terry Jones (also a former Tampa hotdog vendor) is running for President.
The Tabernacle of Hedonism is relocating to The Side Car, just at the edge of the accretion disk, where we can effectively repel the Alien Motherhood and prevent such a catastrophe from potentially destroying mankind. Also, they serve Demon Alcohol and with a smaller venue downtown, we can play to a captured audience without the interference of Television Waves." - Tom Miller
SHOW #1 - The Reverend Angeldust's Tabernacle of Hedonism - DOWNTOWN EDITION begins Monday night, April 13, 2016 at 9pm. There is no cover charge and limited seating! We are playing off the board...
Please list this show in your calendars, and for questions, comments, interview, please contact 3xx-2x2-xxx1.
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Official FREDInk Release - Tabernacle & Son of the Bride of Gootis
ITEM: Tom Miller's Old/New Variety Show
WHEN: PREMIERES - Monday, Jan. 21 of 2013
WHERE: Club 1982
COVER: $3
In light of the closing of The Lab, where the "Tom Miller Winter/Summer Unspectacular en Espanol/American Sign Language" was held, Mr. Miller has been hard at work on his newest show-incarnation which will premiere in January of 2013.
"THE REVEREND ANGELDUST'S TABERNACLE OF HEDONISM WITH YOUR HOST, TOM MILLER" will begin it's run at Club 1982 on Monday, January 21, 2013. The show will run consecutive Mondays. Doors open at 9pm, and cover is $3. Mr. Miller will be holding a press conference where he, the Reverend Angeldust, and the 'Secret Council of Society Deacons' will become official Ordained Ministers under the umbrella of the Universal Life Church. (You can do this online now, and it's free). Effectively, this will establish the Reverend Angeldust's Tabernacle of Hedonism as Gainesville's newest OFFICIAL LEGALLY RECOGNIZED church. Funds will be raised during shows to help worthy causes, artists, and raise money for Gin Martinis for the Church's elite membership. Memberships to the Tabernacle of Hedonism will also be available.
Says Tom Miller, "The show will be like a Church collided with a morning Children's Television Show. There will be puppets, bands, all manner of performing artists, and independent videos. And we'll be giving communion for select members of the church, but I can't tell you what is in the wafers, or the wine bottle."
For more, see the Reverend Angeldust's Tabernacle of Hedonism With Your Host Tom Miller" webpage here:
http://millerworks.weebly.com/the-reverend-angeldusts-tabernacle-of-hedonism-with-your-host-tom-miller.html
At this link, you can donate to the church and see a preview sermon by The Reverend Angeldust.
The "Tom Miller Show", beginning in 1985, is the longest running variety show in the history of Gainesville.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ITEM: Tom Miller begins work on his new feature-length Independent VideoFilm, "Son of the Bride of Gootis".
WEB PAGE: http://millerworks.weebly.com/son-of-the-bride-of-gootis-page.html
The fourth in Miller and Shawn Spencer's 'Skunk Ape' series of films, this new movie stars a puppet designed by Puppeteer, Daniel Timothy Ballard, as well as live actor-Gainesville notables: George O'Brien, The Lady Pearl, James Wesson, Mr. Spagandy, Shawn Spencer, and features what has been described by one unnamed source who has seen the script as "...a notorious sex scene'.
The movie has been funded by a number of significant people in Gainesville who have ALL asked that their names be redacted.
Synopsis: The Bride of Gootis, shot in the head by The Gimp, gives birth to a genetically mutated creature that resembles a cross between a sea-monkey and a walrus. The creature heads out to the waters of the river to find it's way. It meets many characters including the 'fookin' loon', three versions of President Lincoln, and the Lady Pearl. After five years on the street as a mutant prostitute, it raises enough money for a cab to return to the crack house of its birth. And then...
Tom Miller: "This movie is about impermanence and the suffering of the Buddha. It is an apocalyptic message of hope."
Factoid: The first movie, "Womp Gootis" shut down Cincinnati Public Access Channel.
The previous films and a news clip about the Cincinnati fiasco are available at the link above.
Mr. Miller begins principle shooting the first week of January 2013. The film features local music, local actors, and local scenery and is set in Gainesville, Florida.
The movie will be premiered at a soon to be announced location when completed.
Tom Miller Show Press Release - NEW CHURCH COMING 2013
Re: TOM MILLER TO BEGIN NEW TOM MILLER SHOW IN 2013 - FORM GAINESVILLE'S NEWEST LEGITIMATE CHURCH - MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRESS CONFERENCE COMING SOON...
ITEM: The Tom Miller Show, the longest running variety/performance art show in the history of Gainesville, begins a new incarnation at a soon-to-be-announced secret location for January of 2013.
WHAT WE CAN SAY: The show will be hosted in a legitimate new Church: The Tabernacle of Hedonism [The Reverend Angeldust will preside]. It will have an open mic component, an independent video component, there will be bands, performers, entertainers, there will be a Little Rascals vintage episode before each evening's sermon, it will be podcast, it will have a multimedia-integrated web presence, it will benefit society, we will petition the City Commission to allow the Reverend Angeldust to provide a benediction for one of the future City Commission meetings [if they do not allow this, we will sue], we will demand the release of classified government UFO secrets, and we will abide by the primary tenet of the Church: "DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT". All are welcome, except parishioners of the Dove Outreach and The Rock. It will be like a Holy Church collided with a children's morning TV show. There will be puppets and glitter. Maybe a drag queen or two...who knows.
There will be membership cards for those deemed worthy by the "Secret Council of Society Deacons".
We will perform fund-raisers for the community. We will support freedom of expression. Nobody will be censored on our stage [except for the Dove Outreach and The Rock].
DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS NOW. THIS IS NOT THE PRESS RELEASE. THIS IS THE HOLY WORD OF JAMBA.
May you be blessed by the Goddess, Jamba. May you find a quarter-pound in the dumpster, from which all sustenance cometh.
Questions: Tom Miller - millerworks@hotmail.com / 386-295-0090 ==================
COMING JAN. 2013
TOM MILLER on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Miller_%28performance_artist%29
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE FOR GAINESVILLE'S FIRST PUPPET SLAM!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -
Date: Monday, July 23 2012
Time: Pre-events begin at 7pm. Official show start for Puppet Slam is 9:39 pm sharp!
Location: The Laboratory -
818 W. University Ave
TITLE: The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles Presents:
Gainesville's First Puppet Slam!
Description: This Monday, Gainesville's staple alternative open mic, The Tom Miller Winter Unspectacular en Ingles will honor the minority group of disenfranchised members of our community known as puppets. These beings will assemble, with special guest puppets from Orlando and the surrounding area, for Gainesville's first Puppet Slam! All regulars who typically perform in the show will be required to incorporate a puppet into their act in order to be permitted to perform. There will be scheduled feature puppet performances, puppet videos, and there will be man-sized puppets in the form of aliens, monsters, and puppets that look almost exactly like human beings. This production is being presented in cooperation with Tom Miller, Daniel Timothy Ballard (local puppeteer and monster maker), and The Laboratory (a Cafe of Science). It will run until 2am.
Pre-Event: Prior to this show, there will be auditions for the Alachua County Rapscallions theatre company which are open to the public at 7pm. This event has been incorporated into the Miller show because for the first time, puppets will be allowed to participate in Gainesville theatre auditions. This has never happened before in the city of Gainesville. Progress!
The open mic list will be limited to 15 lucky participants. There is a randomly drawn prize: a twenty-five dollar bar tab good for any drinks and food at the Lab and this coupon does not expire. There is a three dollar cover charge at the door, but with paid admission, the customer has a three dollar voucher at the bar for a drink.
Participants include Big Heads from local theatre director Gregg Jones, special appearance by Dolphin Wizard, and members of IBEX Puppetry (Orlando). Gainesville has never seen anything like this.
WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN. WHEN LEFT TO THEIR OWN DEVICES, PUPPETS HAVE REMARKABLY OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIORS.
Facebook Link to the Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/137924893012594/
The Gibblish
One day, a gerbil mated with a goldfish and evolution had a dramatic breakthrough. Against all possible odds, a Gibblish was born. On land it could not breathe and under water, it also could not breathe. It lived for about four seconds and said only one thing before it died. It said, "Fuck you, Tom Miller."
our professor spoke
about preparing food
on burning piles of
cow poop
child brides, female circumcision
blowing hallucinogenic powder
into the nose and discussing the visions
with the shaman
eating people
pigs as sin, the holocaust
whether or not to
observe or interfere
eating dogs eating
and here i thought
we would learn about
culture--opera, paintings,
songs and sculpture
if you survive infection
after your foreskin is cut off
with a sharp rock
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Opinion: EU Envoy Schmidt are an speaking like an NRM apologist similar to Ofwono Opondo over Besigye’s 2016 Election defiance!
I feel sorry for European Union Envoy Kristian Schmidt who are now sounding like a National Resistance Movement (NRM) apologist, instead of an independent spirit and understanding of the short-falls of the NRM Regime. He seems to been misunderstanding what happen during the General Election 2016. Surely, he wants the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) and Dr. Kizza Besigye, to say it just water under bridge and let it go. Since the Supreme Court followed the orders of the 31 Years and counting President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. First introduce some of the beautiful words of Ofwono Opondo, before the Kristian Schmidt’s foolish interview with Daily Monitor, before enlightening fellow European of his ignorance or forgetting the blatant impunity towards Besigye and FDC in and around the General Election 2016. Since he has forgotten while drinking Nile Brew in the Embassy and going on Safaries with his dignitaries. Surely, Schmidt must feel good about himself!
““In this election, Besigye gained 1.5 million votes compared to two million votes he got in 2011 while Museveni’s gain was a paltry 500,000. To the NRM strategists, this is the most shocking, indeed worrying trend, and having located the cause as being our messaging, strategy, campaign style, internal laxity, occasioned fraud and widespread bickering. We shall not blame anybody else except ourselves. Actually, to be frank, we were almost swept away by our collective failure to robustly respond to the Opposition demagoguery on issues of youth unemployment, despair among the urban population, poor and yet expensive public service delivery and bad public relations, especially to distribution of soft campaign cash that often got stolen along the way among other issues. This, to the Besigye camp, should give hope that with better strategic organisation, not only falsehoods, they can in the future topple NRM through the ballot instead of being bad losers” (…) ““The claims of rigging, especially at the last minute through alleged intimidation of candidates’ agents, ballot stuffing, falsification or alteration of results on tally and declaration sheets and at announcements are perturbing and incredibly unbelievable. These could pass as truth if the peddlers could at least adduce some verifiable evidence from eyewitnesses and documents in their possession that differ from those of the EC, which ought to be available from the multiple sources, including the media that observed these elections” (Opondo, 2016).
So when a NRM spokesperson and Uganda Media Centre director had to come in defense of his master. In the aftermath and with the current illegitimate government. Who has no problems in misusing the government funds and had no problem rigging the election in their favor. As the FDC had massive scores of leaders behind bars, had people with Declarations Forms from Polling Stations at Gun-Point, had their Headquarter barricaded and sealed off, Besigye was under house-arrest and the story goes on. Not an adventure, but a true theft a nation. Still Schmidt says this to the FDC and former Presidential Candidate:
“He added: “That is of course an issue that is dividing but I think it would have been good to come together and discuss. It has not happened and election reforms seem to be not going forward.” (…) “The law of Uganda is what it is: the conditions of petitions are what they are, and for a petition to be successful you have to do a lot of homework. Under your Constitution I believe you have little time, 10 days. I know one of the recommendations of the Supreme Court is to extend that time which I believe makes sense.” (…) “ He said “I think if Dr Besigye was convinced before elections that he would not be happy with the outcomes and the process, he should have been the one to petition. He should have prepared for that but he decided before that he was not going to and under the rule of law.” (Musisi, 2017).
EU Envoy to Uganda Kristian Schmidt, I know you visited him while on undetermined house-arrest. Since the Police Force had been stationed in Kasangati, Wakiso for so long days before the election and until May 2016. When he was able to escape and have his own swearing-in ceremony, before air-lifted to Moroto, where the state charged him with Treason charges. Which he still carries today, he is an arch-criminal and seen as an enemy of the state. Than after all of this, you talk about rule of law, justice and courts. Like Dr. Kizza Besigye haven’t had his time in court, haven’t been detained on more occasions than ordinary thief, even more than average murderers in the Republic.
So, the FDC was unable to counter with a petition, Amama Mbabazi was the only one able to fill in a form or petition. Because FDC has done so after General Election 2011. So it is like the EU Envoy for Uganda Schmidt is not in concern anymore of all the breaches that happen to Besigye. Like the whole House-Arrest period, the whole part of the general assault on the rule of law considering the elections and polls. The self sufficient pre-ticket ballots and Badru Kiggundu’s own special math-class. The statistics and the vicious attempt of forging the whole election in favor of President Museveni.
It like he wants the one on Treason Charges since May 2016, since the coup d’etat in February 20th 2016, when the Electoral Commission announced the result. That as the whole NRM and state organization was behind the whole ordeal. Even the European Election Observation Mission and the Commonwealth Election Observation Mission was explaining the massive flaws of the General Election. Still, the EU Envoy want Besigye just to let it go.
Let’s take his first reasoning, since it is shows his true passion, the Danish dignitary: “Now if this was in any other democracy, like in some European countries, it would be unacceptable that the Opposition party does not then recognise the winner of the elections” (Musisi, 2017). If this was an election in Europe, all of these ploys of the NRM wouldn’t have happen. Not normally, that the army is used to intimidate, that local leaders are paid-off with new cars, that ballot are pre-ticket ballots and all powers to be to silence the FDC. Together with the obvious rigging and mismatch of acts in favor of Museveni. If this would not have happen in a European elections and EU Envoy to Uganda knows this. That why it is remarkable that he says about Besigye.
Besigye knows better and the Ugandan people knows so. They are not fools, even if Schmidt is sounding like Ofwono Opondo and has taken lectures from Andrew Mwenda. He surely has hanged in the same bars in Kampala as these two. To sound so blatant ignorant and so forgetful. Peace.
Opondo, Ofwono – ‘The media shouldn’t parrot Opposition false claims’ (28.03.2016) link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Commentary/Media-parrot-Opposition-false-claims/-/689364/3135890/-/2m2g7v/-/index.html
Musisi, Fredric – ‘Besigye refusal to recognise government not helpful – EU envoy’ (09.07.2017) link: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Besigye-refusal-recognise-government-not-helpful-EU-envoy/688334-4006606-er8gyr/index.html
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Mzee have finally wiped out the opposition as he promised after the announced victory!
“I will wipe out the opposition completely in the next 5 years. NRM is going to be stronger” – Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
Let be clear, right after announced victory from the Electoral Commission and Eng. Dr. Badru Kiggundu, President Museveni said that he would wipe out the opposition and he has done it with passion and certainly soon done it as his duty. In a way to make sure that the Multi-Party system in the Nation is a flop.
The opportunities and the silver coined framed opposition figures in the Forum for Democratic Change are joining forces in the Shadow Cabinet to gain some estimated figures from the coffers of Parliament and play the parliamentary pawns that Mzee needs this term.
While the Uganda People’s Congress are busy trading their soul with NRM, as they are getting two slots in the 81 size cabinet of 2016-2021. The rest of UPC under Olara Otunnu are distancing and in general might even create another branch, and party that becomes a new profile, since they don’t want to be part of the NRM and Obote’s son selling of inheritance to Mzee.
Uganda Federal Alliance have also sold their fortunes for a Cabinet position and is therefore silenced by the Mzee, as she the leader of the party want to serve him and also be a part of his established court.
The hardliners of FDC are either lingering in jail, detained, house-arrested or kidnapped by security forces as the rest of the party are playing hide-and-seek close to Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala. So the party of FDC is even into the half who wants to continue the defiance of Dr. Kizza Besigye, and the ones that are settling for the silver-coins with the lingering blood on it.
The Grand question is: where is the Conservative Party of Ken Lukayamuzi? They are not to be seen, JEEMA are they still out there? Justice Forum and their men who even have been besieged by the Police during the days of officiating Mzee; the smaller parties are totally silent or at a non-approach. Democratic Party and Norbert Mao have addressed concern and the initial connection with the shoot-out in Gulu, while that was not true and government made conspiracy, and with the newly dispatched Amama Mbabazi, the party should be stronger, though their lingering nothingness, proves that the ability that Mzee have had since leaving for his swearing in,
The Police Force monitoring and detaining, silencing and attacking the opposition, together with trading with weaker minded opposition have made the stalemate livable, as the mentor and ticking problem of Besigye, is going from court to court, and addressing charges after charges and even treason, as IGP Kayihura are paying criminals to be witnesses and uses all means, and even most brain-dead police officers to lie in court; like he did in Kasangati Court of late; when the justice had to listen to the testimony of the Police Officer who was a former colonel, but never been to the army. So the truth is that, as long as he doesn’t have a voice, the men are walking around unsure of how behave towards the oppressive and militarized government of National Resistance Movement.
All of the Opposition parties are toothless right now, the Human Rights Organizations of Kampala are raided and nothing happens. People and activist are kidnapped, soldiers are being shot and killed in made up conspiracies, while colonels and sergeants are detained as well. The paranoia of the state combined with the militarized politics and police force are taken freedoms and taken all parts of the state. The Opposition is on life support… Who is out there to save it, as the big man Dr. Kizza Besigye is away and nobody else have the legitimacy or the charisma to fight the powers with peaceful means while Mzee uses every tactic in the book to destroy and conquer them. Something he has been successful with ever since election and the reaping results are happening now, as he 10th Parliament are soon in function and the government are soon departing into brown envelopes, as business is back to normal after a hectic year. Peace.
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FDC NEC with their recent actions “acting like a fish out of water”
As the news of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) National Executive Committee (NEC) accepted two persons who wanted to be in shadow cabinet in Parliament of Uganda. The ones that are shocked that certain parts of the FDC-O wanted this, shouldn’t be, as the FDC have been there before and is going back into its shell, like a tortoise.
FDC under Rtd. Maj. Gen. Mughisha Muntu who proclaimed victory over Museveni and his NRM in February have either swallowed a lot of scallops or lost the bargained time and though a WhatsApp update was to reinvent the internet. While his man and the one who made the campaign of 2015/2016 so massive is lingering in Luzira, and for those who don’t know that is Dr. Kizza Besigye.
While certain FDC candidates, leaders and others have been house-arrested, kidnapped or even tortured. So for their hardships certain parts of central leadership have given them up. Like the FDC Youth leader who was tortured in Northern Uganda. As much as the FDC candidate against Jacob Oulanyah, the new Deputy Speaker in Parliament is reported to be detained around Kololo. So while the FDC members and leaders, candidates even tortured and arrested without reason. Certain MPs still have the armor and Teflon to say they we’re loser and want to bend backwards towards the NRM and Museveni.
The 10th Parliament is a sham; it is rigged to fix the stamps for Museveni and his vision. While the rest of the men are puppeteers who are there to mop the floor of the vomit that is coming out Mzee mouth. I am just saying what so many are thinking, but not having the honor of saying. With this in mind, while he is handpicking the most useless heads to run dozen ministries, to follow his vision and his proposed laws.
Hon. Winnie Kiiza of Kasese is now the Leader of Opposition and has taken the token over from last term Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi. The second position went to FDC Spokesperson Hon. Ibrahim Nganda Ssemujju becoming the Chief Whip of the shadow cabinet in Parliament. So the FDC-O or the FDC NEC feared losing this would lose their little entitlement in Parliament in this term, even if this is smidge of gain, not even worth talking about. It would be like given Ministry of Information and National Guidance or some other tiny ministry without access to any central funds or such.
The action is countering the whole Defiance campaign and the one that the Party was standing behind went it was hot. The heat and the intimidation together with the little fear the Democratic Party MP or Uganda People’s Congress MP could shelf them even more in the Parliament; I presume that is the case. But what is to gain for compliance when you have fought with defiance?
Dear FDC MPs and FDC NEC what was with the defying the NRM and Museveni, was that a joke to you? Was that something that clings nice in November 2015 until March 2016? Now it’s like a living fish on land for certain of you, as you try to become fish in the water again.
I just have to ask, since this counters what Besigye who have heart and is stuck in prison for his faith in the will of change in the Nation. Not to be obedient to Museveni, as he sells his soul for an extra cow to his farms. With that he will soon be on trial for treason against the state. While the MPs and Central leadership tries to salvage some silver and gold in Parliament as Opposition. That is weak tea…
Don’t FDC Party President Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu cares about all the ones who were detained for the cause? Doesn’t the rest of FDC NEC care to: Vice Chairman Proscovia Salaamu-Musumba, Leader of Oppostion Hon. Wafula Oguttu, Amb. Waswa Birigwa, Hon. Cecilia Ogwal, Hon. Jack Sabiiti, Patrick Baguma, Hon. Ronald Reagan Okum and Nabilah Naggayi Sempala. And others who might be on the FDC NEC meeting this week and decided for Hon. Winnie Kiiza and Hon. Ibrahim Nganda Ssemujju.
We are allowed to question after they we’re so hardline and astute during the campaign and after, as the FDC headquarters we’re besieged and even made as a crime-scene. Party Youth and other activists we’re taken, even just pedestrians passing by demonstrations gotten detained because of the cause, the defiance of the NRM and Museveni; something that is now lost. As the FDC NEC accept the military takeover and the Police Brutality of the party and the members. The Defiance Campaign from their standpoint is just nonsense, when they sell their cause for a meager and meaningless position. If it was a position worth a damn, wouldn’t the ambition of the man as Hon. Nathan Nandala-Mafabi say “no” to it now. That because he knows how little it really matters.
The only one who has won on this is Museveni and his 10th Parliament that was rigged in favor and have the amount of MPs set for NRM Regime, so they set the standard and fixed to work well for Museveni, that is why the business as usual with Hon. Rebecca Kadaga as Speaker and Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah. They don’t care much for the opposition, and they will care even less, when they see how easy the FDC gave way. The Museveni have spoken many time to crash and crush opposition. This is a little kiss of death.
Like the one held by Special Forces Command who confirmed beaten Hon. Oulanyah in the rigged election Simon Tolit of Omoro County. NRM regime even tried to buy him with a job in Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) and 1.5 billion, so that he would silently go away from the victory, since he didn’t he got kidnapped for his defiance. So since he defying the business as usual, he has to now be detained in the mercy of the SFC.
With that in mind, The Museveni has the ability to tangle a little candy and the FDC NEC went to eat it. Instead of standing by the men and woman who have been and still are detained because of the Defiance Campaign, and actually defying the NRM Regime. That is just bickering sad and mediocre actions from the central leadership. They didn’t regain anything; they didn’t win anything and with taking the positions in Parliament, only lost…
After the knowledge of how little NRM plays a fair game, how it eats all parts of society and takes everything for itself, why validate the rigged election and now yet again look like a fish out of water?
They can’t be both winners with defiance and also losers with compliance, which is math that doesn’t add up. You can’t be both working against a Police State and being parts of it at the same time. You can’t hire certain MPs and use them as pawns and think that people will like it.
The FDC should be defiant against the meager offer of silver. Said “No” give it UFA, DP or UPC. UPC should have had it, they are a Museveni branch anyway, and they are working hand in hand in harmony, something that FDC should not do. They should stand on the point that they won the election and deserves to be compensated and get justice. Not stand nodding heads to the NRM and say “Yes we do, Sir!” This is happening while Museveni is using the Police and SFC to detain the FDC to silence them and crashing them. For the Museveni, this is perfect for him, and worse for Besigye who are lost nearly alone in Luzira, while his party said “Yes” to tainted silver. Hope that silver saves you, because you gave way to Museveni and NRM Regime by doing so, instead of standing on the barricades and actually weaken his force, day after day, and make him more and more dishonest. Make him more and more paranoid as he would do what he could to silence you and the actions would tarnish him, more and more. Now he can get away with all the nonsense and Badru M. Kiggundu can say: “I was sort of right” since the FDC gave-up. Peace.
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Remmy Bahati Speaks On Her Ordeal With The Police (Youtube-Clip)
“Remmy Bahati, the second NBS journalist who was arrested while reporting live outside Kizza Besigye’s residence, spoke to the Morning Breeze crew on her experience with the police after her arrest. A traumatic experience but a highlight in her career” (NBS TV Uganda, 02.03.2016).
It is hard to listen to her and hear what she went through in the car. Remmy Bahati and what they did in the car was sad to hear. The issue is also about Press Freedom and that Andrew Felix Kaweesi telling at Kasangati Police Station to not tell the Dr. Kizza Besigye or following what happens around his home there. That says how much they are trying to stop media and the press to be around Dr. Kizza Besigye. She had an appointment to get there, but she was not allowed in. She questioned that Andrew Mwenda could enter yesterday without an appoinment, but not her! The irony! It was DPC Kasangati who ordered the arrest of her yesterday, DPC James Kawalya!
I feel sorry about Remmy Bahati and I am glad she is telling the story of how the Police have harassed her and without charges. This here will always torment the regime that are now. Because the issue of not caring about the journalists or about the justice. Here is the example for inciting fear and unjustifying their actions towards her. This here is just sad that the Government of Uganda and that the Police of Uganda did. Peace.
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FDC-NEC Statement on 2016 Election (02.03.2016)
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Deadline day for petition deliverance for the ones the opposition to counter the Electoral Commission final result the 20th February; Journalist and Turinawe arrested at Kasangati today; while Mwenda and Dr. Kigozi enters the Compound and FDC Officials not allowed in!
Early in the morning today there was reported that Independent Magazine editor and owner Andrew Mwenda entered and was allowed to enter Dr. Kizza Besigye home and discuss with him. The high work ethic of Andrew Felix Kaweesi and DPC Kasangati of James Kawwyla is busy arresting and sending people away from the area and usually not letting people in. IGP Kale Kayihura must find some well spoken word of wisdom must come soon, as the journalist detained and the amount of FDC agents and mobilisers are piling up into the deadline. While CP Fred Enaga can’t keep up with actions from his peers, the Police Force is acting as a tormentor of the people and opposition; not preserving the peace of the people. As much as the army is still staying in the streets of Kampala and other places on deployment to secure that Regime lives on in a tense state and not in a peaceful harmony between government and its people.
Another report is that the money-man during the elections that had a son running as a Western Youth MP Gen. Tukumunde was either hurt by a canister of tear-gas or a bullet; the demonstrations against the result of the Western Youth MP. Even the Police and Army entered the venue of the 800 youths voting for their representative of their region.
While also journalist are sitting and waiting at Kololo to see the opposition delivers the petitions at Supreme Court. They are waiting for the lawyers of the opposition to come with the petitions.
On Facebook after visiting Dr. Kizza Besigye:
“Today I visited Dr. Besigye at his home in Kasangati. I did this after reading his Facebook post where he said he felt like becoming a real terrorist. Seeing his dilemma, I understand this sentiment even though I do not agree with it. We held very fruitful discussions on the present and future of Uganda. Even though we disagree on how to promote democratic reform, I have no doubt that he is genuinely convinced that he is working for the good of our country” (…)”But as an old man I told Dr. Besigye that truth is never objective but subjective; it is plural and not singular. We will never resolve the truth of who won the last presidential election but we can begin a dialogue on how to build a better future for our country. I hope all sides to the Uganda political debate see the need to work together rather than to work against each other. Hate will not bring us deliverance but destruction” (…)”If both sides cannot accommodate each other through compromise, there will be no winners. And Uganda will lose. Besigye represents a large disgruntled voter segment. We cannot afford to dismiss their disenchantment. Museveni represents an even larger voter segment. We cannot ignore their views. The challenge is how to create a common ground” (Andrew Mwenda, 01.03.2016).
Mugisha Muntu says: “Police was suggesting to send in their own representative. That is the level of arrogance we are dealing with”.
The FDC said this:
“We are now heading to Kasangati to meet Kizza Besigye and come up with a conclusive decision” (…)”We are operating under very hostile conditions. Our candidate has been arrested 8 times in 10 days” (NBS TV, 01.03.2016).
Continued House-Arrest:
“Our reporter Bahati Remmy in Kasangati says Police is still deployed outside Kizza Besigye’s home” (NBS TV Uganda, 01.03.2016).
As the media is following the Kasangati, the one journalist detained and taken cameras from yesterday Abubaker Muwonge, was supposed to get back his gear today; instead he will not get for some reason from the Police.
FDC not allowed to have a meeting with Besigye:
“Party officials allowed to meet with Besigye. Only if they leave their cars at this cross section” (Nduhukire, 01.03.0216).
As the NBS TV follows the situation at Kasangati and the FDC meeting at the place today; the NBS Journalist Remmy Bhati has been beaten up by the Police and manhandled by the police.
NBS TV on it themselves:
“BREAKING: Our reporter Bahati Remmy arrested by police live on air in Kasangati” (NBS TV Uganda, 01.03.2016).
On the FDC that had to leave their cars and supposed to be allowed in, that changed by the minute as the Police has changed their minds.
Ingrid Turinawe said this hours before press conference and the arrival at Kasangati:
“All earlier efforts, engagements and attempts to have Dr. Besigye freed by police remain imposible. The deadline for presidential elections court petition is today. FDC NEC meets today at Najjanankumbi. We still wait for Dr. Besigye to attend this meeting. He is expected to give direction and his views about the matter. We still keep the hope and patience despite dictator provocation. In case police block him again from attending or arrests him again… The party will communicate to Ugandans the next course of action” (Turinawe, 01.03.2016).
On the FDC:
“HAPPENING: Mugisha Muntu and other FDC members blocked from accessing Kizza Besigye” (NBS TV Uganda, 01.03.2016).
The FDC Report on the matter:
“This is the current situation at Dr. Kizza Besigye’s home. The NEC has been told to leave its cars on the junction to Dr. Besigye’s road to the home. Heavy police present that outnumbers everybody else” (Forum for Democratic Change, 01.03.2016).
Also happening the FDC Secretary for Mobilisation Ingrid Turinawe together with a journalist has been arrested and is driven away to a unknown destination. As NTV describes it: “Ingrid Turinawe and a journalist have been held and detained in this van here in Kasangati” (NTV Uganda, 01.03.2016).
As the event’s unravel on the gates of Dr. Kizza Besigye’s home and FDC Officials are not allowed to enter to finish the petition to have the ability to deliver it to the Supreme Court in time. While that is happening, Dr. Maggie Kigozi has arrived at Kasangati. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and the FDC official’s plea with the Police enter the compound, as Andrew Mwenda could enter without any fuzz. Do you also see the double standard of the loyalist of Museveni and the others?
From Parliament:
MP Odo Tayebwa: “I am not in the mood to attend this plenary session, Mugisha Muntu has been denied access to Dr. Kizza Besigye”. Also: “MP Odo Tayebwa asks for leave from parliament, saying he is not in the mood to attend the session because of what is happening in Kasangati”. Proves his manner to justice, props to Tayebwa!
While the FDC Officials was not allowed to enter his home, the Dr. Maggie Kigozi and the Woman’s Situation Room have been allowed to enter and discuss matters with Dr. Kizza Besigye, while the time is ticking to the end of deadline day. As this is a sending that has come to stall the time until the Supreme Court closes.
Hon. Ofwono Opondo are not for press freedom anymore:
“Media Outlets that are gonna be hacked by me are: New Vision, ChimpReports and Bukedde. HACKING in Progress. Thanks”, what pissed on his bonfire today?
While the actions and sieging of Kasangati continues. There was movement and people arriving at the Supreme Court. Here is the report:
“Vex Kingo ”Absolute Ambulera Govrnorment chairman as he claims has just arrived at Supreme Court Kololo to file his petitition.in brief he wants all recently concluded Presidential and Parliamentary Election be nullified because they were not carried out in accordance with eletral laws. VEX Kingo is known to be a political dramatist. But his arrived helped journalists break the boredom as the result of long day waiting for election petitioners”.
Yet more information about the Road-Blocks towards Kasangati:
“We are dealing with very unique and challenging times. A major route from Kiira-Matugga has been cut off. That means that many people are blocked and cut off to other destinations including Kasangati, a very sad state of affairs” (Forum for Democratic Change, 01.03.2016).
After the time and closure of the Supreme Court the Amama Mbabazi legal team came. They came at 17.05 when the time for addressing the court with petition was original time was set for 17.00. So that the Supreme Court. Registrar says he’ll accept their petition after 17h. That is big-men of the court. The Lawyer Severino Twinobusingye was the one representing Amama Mbabazi and was the one who was able to deliver a petiton from the oppostion to counter the result of the election and final annoucement.
From the FDC:
“We have failed to file an electoral petition today. We shall announce our next best steps on Wednesday 2nd March, 2016 at 11:00 EAT”.
There will come more as the story unravels. Here is what has happen this morning and the day is far from over and the Police and Government of Uganda. Will not let this one go, they do what they can to hold their hands over the opposition and with force at moment. Everything to stifle their chances to deliver the petitions while using unlawful methods as they have done since pre-election period. It is systematically from the Police and the Security Outfits in a display of arrogance and betrayal of freedom for the ballot or the FDC as civilized party during election time. This here is all nonsense and innocent journalist getting beating and arrested is just a manifestation of the militarized politics under President Museveni. Peace.
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Dr. Kizza Besigye still under house-arrest; The FDC have been oppressed by the Police in the recent days; Arrests of FDC Agents or Officials while trying to deliver Declartion Results Forms; Journalists arrested in Kasangati! (27.02.2016)
Recent days reports of how the oppression and harrasment of the FDC continues. Something that has been going before the Pre-Election period. As the Police continues to work against the opposition members, their methods are getting clear; there was reported that around 15 FDC supporters was taken from Kasangati while trying to visit Dr. Kizza Besigye.
Dr Kizza Besigye says about the situation today: “Situation at my home is getting worse. All traffic is now diverted from the road passing by our home and no one is allowed to come near home” (…)”David Mpanga & Ernest Kalibbala have been stopped at a roadblock in Lutete (3km before Kasangati) and told they can’t come to my home!
David Mpanga has commented on the matter: “Myself and other lawyers were invited to to attend. My colleague and I were stopped at a road block from attending the meeting”.
There been reported that four NTV Journalist and two Daily Monitor Journalists, while they we’re trying to enter the Kasangati home. They have been detained by the Police. As their equipment and also the driver for the NTV crew has been taken. And escorted in a dark van to Kasangati Police Post. There been reported that 11 more journalist gotten the same treatment by the Police as well. All of this arrests has happen without a direct reason from the DPC of Kasangati.
The more reports from the FDC, is that UPDF under orders of Andrew Felix Kaweesi has directed all people from entering the Kasangati area. As also Wassaw Birigwa, Gen. Mugisha Muntu and the legal teams of Amama Mbabazi and the FDC also have not been allowed to enter the home of Dr. Kizza Besigye! All the Traffic is general now blocked from the home. The UPDF and UPF is now evacuating all of the area and surroundings there.
At Wampewo where Amama Mbabazi was on the way to Kasangati to see how the situation of Dr. Kizza Besigye, he was there blocked from coming to him, but not allowed! The Police is claiming his life would be in danger if he enter the Kasangati area, apparently. What they was supposed to do (Kizza Besigye and Amama Mbabazi) was to compare their notes, the feasibility and what strategy of the petition. That is the danger that Police see as the Opposition are dangerous now-a-days!
Police to Amama Mbabazi: “We have info about what you are going to discuss with Besigye and we don’t want that meeting to happen”.
Today the reports are getting clearer as the FDC agents and officials who have the declarations forms from the election. They have tried to get to FDC Headquarter in Najjankumbi, they are not getting access to it. Those who have gone to the home of Dr. Kizza Besigye with the papers, has been beaten, tortured and arrested by the Police. Today at Najjankumbi:”Ibrahim Ngnda Semuju On Capital Gang: “When we went to visit our FDC headquarters , which are under police siege , Gen. Muntu opened the gate and he was immediately arrested and ordered to squat down by armed crime preventers “.
In the last 48 hours there been reported from the FDC that 40 agents and officials from the party has been taken to custody or threaten in a manner which isn’t gentle, they are either detained at the Kireka Police Station or Kasangati Police Post. And the one in charge here is DPC Kasangati James Kawalya who does what he can to stifle the business and life of Dr. Kizza Besigye.
Also reports of the Police are “Heavy deployed” and have surrounded the Rukungiri FDC offices in the town. So the Police is really working against the party at all levels and what Hon. Mafabi has said during the week that FDC officials, agents and supporters been at gun-point to either rewrite or give up declarations forms from the 18th February elections. Hon. Nathan Nandala Mafabi wrote on the 25th February: “Security agents and NRM functionaries are looking for our agents and FDC leaders across the rural areas of Western, Eastern and Northern Uganda to sign falsified Candidates’ Declaration Result Forms. They are being put on gun point to sign them with either an exchange for money or get arrested for those who refuse”.
So this here is proof that his word had sense behind them. The struggle of Dr. Kizza Besigye and the whole party continues as the NRM-Regime is in high-gear as they try and do whatever to get rid of evidence of the electoral fraud and the vote-rigging as the paper-trail left behind and given to FDC Officials and agents, because they have kept this evidence that gives the Electoral Commission, the partisan police and the NRM who try to cover-up their misfortune and acts of actual coup d’état as the actions is not for free and fair elections. The peaceful actions are not there, as the FDC continues to get under fire as a visible unit of opposition; this here is not exemption. The Police oppression, harassment and tactical use for the NRM are so visible. We know IGP Kale Kayihura will write more nonsense to clean his hands from the actions of his police. Just as his boss President Museveni blames everything on everybody else, even if it is his fault. That is the way that he are and can’t help to do something else. Well, the people should know about the issues in general happening with the FDC, that Dr. Kizza Besigye continues to be under house-arrest is an issue, but there is also more oppression that needs to be addressed and put light on! Peace.
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Dr. Kizza Besigye statement on the conduct of the 2016 presidential elections (Youtube-Clip)
Dr. Kizza Besigye’s message from House Arrest in Kasangati in Wakiso on the outskirts of Kampala. Listen to it! As we mourn the results and the way the Electoral Commission has taken the power of the People and given way to the President Museveni yet again. This message from the People’s President is deep and strong. A worthy message from a great man! Peace.
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FDC – Press Statement: Democracy on Trial – The Results of the Presidential Elections must be rejected (20.02.2016)
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Message from the FDC Party President (20.02.2016)
Fellow Ugandans,
On the morning of Friday February 19, 2016, Party leaders of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) were holding a meeting at the Party Headquarters in preparation for a press conference. We intended to show the gross discrepancy between the presidential election results that the Electoral Commission was releasing and those that we had in our possession and knew to be correct.
Before the press conference, heavily armed police, operating on wrong and illegal orders from President Yoweri Museveni’s regime, invaded and disrupted our meeting and arrested Dr. Kizza Besigye, our party presidential candidate, Ms. Ingrid Turinawe, our Secretary for Mobilization, and me. We were taken to Naggalama Police Station in Mukono where we were detained all day without any charges being laid.
In the evening of the same day, Dr. Besigye and I were told that we were free to go but that Ms. Turinawe would continue to be detained.
If our arrest was intended to intimidate the leaders of FDC, the effect was to strengthen our resolve and our single-minded focus on fighting for our rights, our freedoms and democratic governance in Uganda.
One thing that all Ugandans must understand is that our fight for our rights, our freedoms and democratic governance cannot be compromised. These are the objectives on which we have focused our efforts and we shall continue to do so. Our energies, efforts and attention must remain on the achievement of those objectives.
At a strategic level, the situation is highly in our favour. At a tactical level, where Museveni still has some temporary advantages, we must focus on shifting that imbalance in our favor.
I thank all Ugandan people who participated fully and honorably in this exercise and were bold in voting and in guarding our votes throughout the country. I thank you for the sacrifices you have made. I urge you not to lose hope or to be discouraged by this temporary upset. We must all remain focused on our objectives.
I call upon all Ugandans and the international community to reject and condemn the fraud that has been committed and to expose it to the fullest extent possible.
Lastly, we must all be psychologically prepared for the occurrence of more illegal arrests and other forms of intimidation. Clearly what we are witnessing in the choreographed announcements of the fraudulent results is part of a creeping political coup d’état. However, we have no doubt at all that the Ugandan people will ultimately prevail.
Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu
Party President
Forum for Democratic Change
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LET’S HAVE A LAUGH AT BREXIT
COZ WE HAVEN’T DONE IT FOR A WHILE
Mrs May has gone on a walking holiday in Wales.. and we all know what kind of farce that sort of thing can conjure up. Imagine her alone with her trusty advisor, Philip, for a whole week… [shudder].
So let’s laugh while we can, because heaven knows what crap she’ll come up with while she’s away.
So, it occured to me that there are now two Brexit parties lining up for the EU elections.
Firstly there’s Nigel’s party, launched last week (which, if I’m not mistaken, has lost its leader already) and then there’s super loonie “new” UKIP (even nuttier than before), which seems to have lost a lot of support, not least that of its own MEPs.
From 24 members elected, they are down to four serving members at the last count.
The defections are probably because of the hard right-wing stance of the latest in the party’s sad succession of leaders since Mr Farage declared “job done” and resigned back in 2016.
Mr Gerald Batten (at least it wasn’t Battenberg!) and his close advisor, Mr Tommy Robinson or (on Sundays) Mr Stephen Yaxley-Lennon make some of the previous holders of the post seem almost normal. Just imagine being too nutty for the likes of Coburn?
The thing is, that while I admit that there is going to be a fair number of people who will want to vote for one of the hard-line Brexit parties and secure a no deal Brexit, didn’t it occur to them that having two parties standing in every seat is going to split the vote and let other parties through the middle?
So don’t be surprised if you get calls from insurance companies. The Tories have to make money somehow.
And Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat…
Maybe add 14 o’clock and 15 o’clock…
Making your mind up…
Jeez… who told you that doing deals with the devil was a good idea? Actually, I’m not sure that I know which one of them I’m addressing that to. Both?
Author trispwPosted on April 16, 2019 April 16, 2019 Tags Brexit, Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, UKIP
217 thoughts on “LET’S HAVE A LAUGH AT BREXIT”
And to think that at least three of the – people – portrayed in that penultimate cartoon are possibles as Prime Minister of England…
I wonder what the bookies are saying?
To answer my own question…
(1) Paddy Power
Boris Johnson 9/2
Michael Gove 5/1
Jeremy Corbyn 5/1
Jeremy Hunt 8/1
Dominic Raab 9/1
Matthew Hancock 11/1
(2) Ladbrokes
Sajid Javid 12/1
David Lidington 16/1
So there you go, from worser to worser.
Jeez, what a sack of sh**
I wouldn’t like to be a bookie right now… well, or at any time really.
The tory party needs a truss.
Liz Truss for PM.
Depute, amber rudd.
Fox and leadsom to be the whips.
The Goon Show at westmonster to continue for another record breaking season of;
The magic of the conservatives in government but not Power.
English politicians, heroes to the few,
Hear them quack and drool,
Let’s sing their song,
A holiday for fools.
The panto season in the summer continues.
End of the pier, Dave
https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/foreign-affairs/brexit/news/103216/excl-ministers-blasted-after-%E2%80%98dodgy-statistics%E2%80%99-overstate
Vestas says:
I know (most of) Wales voted leave – quite remarkably stupid given the level of EU grants they get – but they don’t deserve this 😀
No… no one does. Remember that they voted on what they were told by the likes of Fox, Gove and Johnson.
It bore no resemblance to the truth.
They voted for a land of milk and honey. They got a land of Oz.
As I understand it, the Welshest bits of Wales voted to Remain, and the more anglified bits are as little English as can be; in that recent map of young people’s voting intentions, I think the Welsh Marches had the only three constituencies with a Tory majority – take with a pinch of salt, please, I am speaking purely from my own dodgy memory.
Indeed, which is why I mentioned Wales, not the Welsh.
However (and the name escapes me) there’s a town/large village in Wales an online (game playing) friend comes from & he declared them the stupidest people on the planet after the 2016 brexit vote.
Reason?
There are no immigrants in the town (they had one a few years back) and more than 40% of the people in the town are ENTIRELY dependent on EU grants for employment but they still voted 70-30 to leave.
That’s truly amazing, Vestas.
Alan Gordon says:
“didn’t it occur to them that having two parties standing in every seat is going to split the vote and let other parties through the middle?”
Probably not, sshsh.
Did anyone read what Nancy Pelosi has being saying? If not I can post it here. She stated things very clearly from a confident position, creating more squeeky bums no doubt.
Was it something about a trade deal being out of the question …. ?
I thought that was the point.
They don’t actually want to have to turn up and do anything in Westminster, all they want to do is make a lot of noise and drag the “political center” farther and farther right.
Well, in this case it is for the EU parliament and I suspect that some of them fancy that salary and expenses and all the Belgian beer!
Pelosi, here it is;
“First of all it is very hard to pass a trade bill in the Congress of the United States, so it’s no given anyway.
But if there were any weakening of the Good Friday accords there would be no chance whatsoever, a non-starter for a US-UK trade agreement.
The Good Friday accords ended 700 years of conflict.
This is not a treaty only, it’s an ideal, it’s a value, it’s something that’s a model to the world, something that we all take pride in.
It was a model and other people have used it as a model and we don’t want that model to be something that can be bargained away in another agreement.
We have met the speaker. We met with the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and we met with those who left the Labour Party and we made it clear to all that if there’s any harm to the Good Friday accords – no trade treaty.
Today we met with the Government, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and deputy prime minister and those who are in opposition in the Conservative Party and to all of them we made it clear: don’t even think about it.”
But, but but, DOCTOR fox promised…
"We made it clear to all that if there is any harm to the Good Friday accords: no trade agreement."
US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the prospect of a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal rests on maintaining the Good Friday Agreement. pic.twitter.com/PziGi92V6L
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 16, 2019
There was an article about this in the Washington Post today:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pelosi-warns-there-will-be-no-us-uk-trade-deal-if-brexit-harms-the-irish-peace-accord/2019/04/16/51dff152-6049-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html
Nancy Pelosi, as Speaker of the House, is by far the most powerful Democrat in Washington. She’s also a very effective bare knuckle politician. Trump can bluff and bluster all he wants, but nothing will happen on a trade deal with the UK if she (as leader of the Democrat-controlled House) doesn’t want it to.
It’s Congress’s Easter recess and Nancy was in London and Dublin yesterday and today, delivering the message that altering the Irish border arrangement of the Good Friday accords will mean that London can kiss a trade deal with the US goodbye. (Lots of Irish-Americans vote Democrat. 😉 )
Ho ho ho ho ho…
Kangaroo says:
I think ho ho etc is Xmas
Its Easter so should be hop hop hop
Triffic! Maybe the barstards will actually listen to her, because, you know, she speaks English, not like those rotten foreign Johnnies over on the Continong… To put it another way, maybe Pelosi will have succeeded in starving Priti Patel into submission when all else failed.
Fox must be furious with Pelosi. I mean congratulations to him for his deal with the Vatican and the Faeroe Islands, but America was his dream deal. And with his membership of the “Atlantic Bridge” and his political similarities to Trumpy, he musta thought it was a coup he could pull off.
For a moment I misinterpreted the subject of your first sentence a Fox News, Tris, being furious with Pelosi, and thought “So no news there, then” … still, no quarrel from me that DOCTOR Liam Fox-Werrity is a delusional and right-wing eejit, so very like Trump, and indeed Fox News.
Indeed… pretty much all the same stuff.
I’m imagining the penny is dropping with a loud clang for many leave voters given the drastic preparations, prophecies of doom and general negativity around the no deal scenario. Add to this the increased publicity/scrutiny surrounding their heroes and it must surely mean questions jumping unbidden in to their conscious thought as to any fitness for office. Bojos openly racist affiliations have to be causing a once supportive percentage to think, well erm… maybe not. I know this may not remove the keys to no 10 from his oily grip in the short term but it’s got to bite him sooner or later. If not then fascism beckons like a big spidery beckony thing.
Still if Brexit conclusively proved one thing to yours truly, it was the power of the tabloids over a large swathe of Englandland. The realisation and then the admission of being the marks in a major scam will hopefully show itself eventually and a long learning process will begin. Stuff like we was conned, we blamed the wrong crowd, will hopefully be heard with increasing frequency in the years to come.
It was easier in Scotland. Our choice was between those nice people in Europe or the evil empire in Westminster. The fact that the propaganda arm and certain politicians/establishment figures of said empire were telling us Europe was bad made many folk like me think the opposite must be true and vote accordingly. English exceptionalism is something I’ve been aware of and a victim of all my life but didn’t actually equate the experience with the term. (If that makes sense).
There’s been a new kid on the block for a wee while now. The internet savvy type who sees through all the old tricks and is having none of it. Is s/he here to last or is it just that the powers that be haven’t caught up yet. The trick will be keeping up with it all as it unfolds before brain death gets you.
Isn’t it amazing that these tabloids still have that kind of power despite the fact that so few read them? Still, placed in the entrance to so many supermarkets, as Stu has pointed out so often, all we really know of them is their screaming headlines. And they are invariably untrue.
They only have that “power” because of the BBC these days.
Our local shop says basically nobody under the age of 40 other than labourers on the (current) local building site buys papers. Out of those its pretty much 95% right-wing little Englanders.
Were it not for the BBC reporting “news” papers most of them would be irrelevant inside a decade.
I never see anyone with a newspaper these days. Of course that doesn’t mean they don’t read them on line.
I would have thought that she’d redouble her efforts and dive into even more intense negotiations with parliament to be sure that they’d have Brexit all sorted before the NEW final unchangeable set-in-stone withdrawal date next October. So what does she do? She immediately goes on holiday! Shocking!
BTW, what is it with the English and walking in remote places? England doesn’t have a Disney World or a Las Vegas-style resort to fly off to for some really serious fun? And what’s with the ski poles?
It caught the attention of the NY Times, that as soon as the Brexit can got well and truly kicked down the road, the politicians took the cue to take a vacation. There’s also the matter of upcoming elections, a summer recess, party congresses and what not to keep the politicians occupied between now and October 31.
LOL It didn’t escape the notice of Guy Verhoffstadt either. He noted exactly the same as you.
And about using ski poles for walking sticks????? Sort of an English thing? 😉
Certainly looks foreign to me. Maybe very rich people who don’t, in the general way of things, ever walk anywhere, need poles to keep them standing when the do actually have to walk. Who knows. Affectation if you ask me!
Tris……Maybe a walking technique for cross-country skiers who have no snow. 😉
Done properly, it’s a technique called Nordic Walking. It’s said to improve stability and spread some of the load to your upper body, giving it a work out as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_walking
My walking poles are gathering stoor up the loft as I write this.
Greig……Very interesting! I did think it had the look of cross-country skiing. Learn something new here all the time.
Conan the Librarian says:
Mine are in a cupboard since I broke my shoulder.
You could let the Maybot borrow them…
BTW, how is the shoulder?
90%. Aches like buggery when it’s cold.
Sorry to hear that, Conan.
I assume you have something to rub on it?
I understand Verhofstadt’s point very well, though; it must be incredibly frustrating to have to deal with a bunch of dishonest, delusional dimwits who don’t know what they want and keep on insanely demanding things that they have repeatedly been told, slowly and carefully in words of one syllable, that they can’t possibly have, and why they can’t have it. As I said earlier – maybe they’ll hear it from Pelosi. I hope Pelosi said quite a lot more about not just the Good Friday Agreement but also the sheer insanity of Brexit when she was having her little tête-à-têtes with the Tory heid bummers.
**RANT ALERT** **CASSANDRA FREEMAN STRIKES AGAIN**
Is it not clear yet to everyone that the Russian regime has been pumping dirty money into undermining the US, the UK, the EU and its other member States for its own ends? Putin and his pals are ethnonationalistic, cynical, kleptocratic, sociopathic scofflaws who view NATO and the West as existential threats not only to Russia but, more importantly, to themselves. They look forward to the UK leaving the EU and no taking EU-mandated action to clamp down on tax evasion and money-laundering, because the City is incredibly useful for their own nefarious purposes. The ruling elites, the oligarchs and the Russian placemen in the now “independent” former Soviet republics want to make themselves unassailably richer than the dreams of avarice; in other words, they have exactly the same goals as, oh, a Rupert Murdoch, a Trump, or most of America’s 1 per cent.
I say “Rupert Murdoch” in particular because he is on record as saying (of Downing Street under Cameron in the specific, but also as a general principle) that London would do what he wanted them to whereas Brussels wouldn’t. Rupert Murdoch also owns the New York Post, which in the past few days published an attack on Democratic, Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar which was tantamount to an incitement to violence. In my view, and in the view of many other commentators on the Left, who are obviously right because they agree with me, these attacks in the media put the congresswoman’s life in danger, given the rising threat of right-wing white nationalist / supremacist terror in America in particular but also elsewhere (e.g., the appalling events in Christchurch not so long ago).
I do wonder sometimes what the motivations of ancient auld buggers like Murdoch actually are: if you’re richer than Croesus, and in the normal way of things may kick the bucket at any moment, why would any sane person persist in accumulating even more power and wealth?
Consider Syria: Thousands upon thousands of (Muslim) refugees fleeing from the Russian-supported Assad regime, landing up in Europe and causing support for the deplorable xenophobic / islamophobic far right to become a threat to Western liberal democracies – while meantime Putin seizes Crimea, and Trump weakens support for Ukraine.
Take, for example, Italy, where so many of those refugees (and Libyans – remember that little conflict?) ended up – now taken over by an ethnonationalistic, populist coalition. From a BBC article last year: “The anti-establishment Five Star Movement and right-wing League have gone into coalition, preparing to set the eurozone’s third biggest economy on a path of tax cuts, a guaranteed basic income for the poor and deportations of 500,000 migrants.” (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44168602).
A guaranteed income for the poor sounds good, and as far as I’m concerned is a good idea (actually, a guaranteed income for everybody is the idea when it comes from us pinko lefties), but tax cuts at the same time? And… and… it smacks of the kind of assurances given out by the fascist regimes of the 1930s, and when juxtaposed / coupled with the anti-immigrant rhetoric, the effect is to cement in the minds of the electorate the false, zero-sum, economics-of-scarcity, scapegoating beliefs that “immigrants are taking our jobs”, “immigrants are costing us money”, “we could all be rich if it weren’t for those immigrants”, together with the usual “those Muslims don’t want to integrate”, “those foreigners only come here to steal”, “they want to take our jobs and live high on the hog on social security by making the Italian taxpayer pay to house them and feed them because they’re so idle they won’t work, and then they beg on the streets as well” – or “those Muslims want to kill us all”…
Cor, I’m more fun than a barrel of monkeys tonight, amn’t I?God save us from nitwits, sociopaths, demagogues and authoritarian, kleptocratic monsters…
Don’t forget gits Ed.
Och, and I left out “boneheaded nincompoops”, “useless [insert name of favourite genital organ HERE]” and “total wastes of space” too.
I must be slipping.
Ed….Well said! What WOULD the right wing authoritarian nationalistic demagogues do if they couldn’t blame every political and social problem on unwashed hoards of foreign immigrants? Trump goes to that rhetorical well over and over. Seems that Brexit voters had much the same motivations as the Trump voters, and Trump has been quite vocal in his support of Brexit while expressing disdain for the European Union. None of that plays well with Nancy for sure.
After he posted the video Tweet, Trump has continued to double down on his attacks on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM
I wasn’t aware that congresswoman Omar had actually received death threats, but it was only to be expected. Trump has repeatedly been challenged over his rhetoric, hasn’t he, and he always denies any responsibility for the right-wing nutters who act on it – like the Australian guy who killed 50 Muslims in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. Trump is not just a domestic American problem; hit words and actions are encouraging the far right worldwide, at least in the English-speaking world. His rhetoric is straight out of the playbook / talking points used by horrible outfits such as PEGIDA.
PEGIDA has spread well furth of German and has become quite a widespread threat. As an example, here’s a recent article from the Irish Examiner, entitled “We must embrace our Muslim community as part of who we are”: https://t1p.de/0l22.
Trump is a monster. The only source of comfort is that he’s so dimwitted, and that he’s incapable of doing his job effectively. I do wonder how long the institutions will hold – and they are under attack in the UK too, where the Westminster regime’s contempt for the democratic process and the rule of law is barely concealed at the best of times.
Tchah. Yet another proofreading fail. “furth of Germany”, of course.
Ed…..Good article! Reminds me that a change was made in the rules of the House of Representatives that had previously banned head coverings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/01/04/rep-ilhan-omar-prompts-new-rule-that-allows-first-time-years-head-coverings-house-floor/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.025ed08e45ec
The rule change being worded to apply only to religious head coverings will mean that Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson will still not be permitted to wear her signature brightly colored sequined cowboy hats on the House floor. 🙂
I’d never heard of PEGIDA, but no doubt Trump is a great inspiration to such people all over the world. Ironically, as you point out, he would be a lot more dangerous to the institutions of government if he were not so stupid and therefore relatively ineffective in the office of the presidency. Being a con-artist and provocateur will just take a demagogue so far. An almost complete ignorance of history, law and the norms of constitutional government can be a real hindrance to getting things done.
Danny, PEGIDA has a presence in North America too – here’s their facebook page (not that I like to give them any more views than they deserve): https://www.facebook.com/usa.pegida/. Take a look at it and you’ll soon see what they’re about!
As you know – and people throughout the Western world should know – is that these people and other right-wing fringe / lunatic fringe / white supremacist / ethnonationalist movements are very serious threats, and we should be on guard against them. We dismiss them at our peril – as Trump did in the past few days, saying he wasn’t worried about them. My analysis is that with his support for far-right, ethnonationalist groups throughout Europe and North America – and even Australia and New Zealand, as we just saw in Christchurch, Putin’s regime has turned Russia into a State sponsor of terrorism.
Trump, of course, appears utterly convinced that Muslims are the threat – and newpapers such as the (Murdoch) New York Post pander to the far-right, islamophobic / xenophobic / racist ideologies espoused by people like him, and organizations such as PEGIDA.
These people are hateful – in all senses of the word.
Ed……And as you know we have a president who is on record as saying there were “some very fine people on BOTH sides” including the white supremacists at Charlottesville. He can’t bring himself to disavow these people, apparently for fear of losing some votes among the far white crazies of the GOP.
It seems like Murdoch turns everything he touches to trash, with the New York Post a prime example. It’s the nation’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper, founded as a Federalist paper in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton…….an officer in the revolutionary army and a personal aide to George Washington, whose face (Hamilton’s) is now on the $10 bill. (Famously, he was in one of the boats which carried Washington and the troops across the Delaware River to attack the Hessian British at Trenton on Christmas night, 1776.) And now his newspaper is owned by Murdoch. 😦
Always good for a provocative cover though……
Ye gads….
Most people get bye with a broken branch as a support. The bigger the ponce the more expensive the ski pole, especially for those who cannot ski.
I’ve got a “wizard’s staff” as well. It’s made out of a wild cherry tree sapling and it’s about five feet long with the root bole at the top. I’d never dare to actually use it as because I get enough of being called Gandalf in the pub.
I often wonder if they help in any way.
I walk a lot in the country, or at least I did until recently, and never felt the need.
What’s your experience?
I inherited/was gifted two of these walking poles. I thought to use them and gave it a try.
You need to re-learn how to walk and to co-ordinate arms and legs, but after that…I reckoned they were pretty pointless and more hindrance than help. As to them being an affectation…well, I don’t use them but they do adorn the parcel shelf of the car. I like to think they dumb-down the brolly and shooting-stick and so in a way do after all help with balance.
LOL..
One of my favourite words in Am Eng… in English we have the word “gamp” for a big brolly, as toted by Sairey Gamp in Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit”. The Am Eng equivalent is “bumbershoot”. And if you don’t believe me, here’s Merriam-Webster on the subject: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot.
The 4-5′ shod staffs are great for: self-defence, checking bog-depth so you don’t lose your boots, and stabilising yourself on ice or shingle slopes.
If you only walk on paths, they’re kinda overkill outside of December/January. I used to go on walking holidays with my family in Glen Coe in the winter, and felt silly taking one except for the hidden valley and similar “no-path” routes.
Well, we certainly wouldn’t want Treeeza falling into a bog, would we?
Speak for yourself, Tris!
What? Irony alert? Where?
Marconatrix says:
Well I used to make do with an old broomstick handle (no use for flying though, y’see the big end’s gone ….
And thinking of Gandalf and still in ‘groan’ territory :
Q. Why are top politicians like wizards?
A. Because they never go anywhere without their staff …
Which in turn makes me wonder how could TM really be wondering the wilds of Wales with just her man. Do they have goons cordoning off and combing every bush for miles around? Sort of like a corps of copse cops …
(Apologies, I was clearly out in the woods too long earlier, the sun must have addled my brains)
LOL. All rather good.
No, I’m sure she has the secret service everywhere with her…poor buggers.
If they’ve got proper pointy bits on the end (the poles, not the people), I suppose Mrs. & Mr. Theresa May could perform a public service by picking up litter with them. Except they’re not exactly into public service, are they? More into making the world safe for hedge funds.
Sounds like the Mays.
Ed….Tris……I think that my preferred style might be a gold headed ebony walking stick with which to fashionably promenade the streets of London.
As for walking in the country, the longer version might be effectively used to fend off at a safer distance the occasional passing rattlesnake. (Perhaps rattlesnakes are not really much of a problem in Scotland and Wales though. 😉 )
Not too many of them…even in Wales.
What a lot of (serious!) comments you’ve got today — don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Anyway, as for May’s clock, my first thought was that the numbers should be counting backwards, but then maybe the hands just move anticlockwise?
But then again, as things stand, an unsettling recollection has surfaced :
“It was a bright cold night in April and all the clocks were striking thirteen …”
“Day” not “night” (that’s what happens when you cut and paste from online sources).
Yep… That was very interesting, as it normally is when the formidable intellects of Ed and Danny get together.
It has always occurred to me that it would suit Putin very well to encourage the break up of the West in general, and the EU in particular.
It’s hard not to imagine that Russia would be supportive of a particularly stupid and vain man in the Whitehouse. (We’ve already seen how he can be flattered by Putin into accepting HIS version of events over that of his own many security services.)
It would also be odd if Putin didn’t see the UK’s disenchantment with the EU and departure from the EU as something to be encouraged. After all, if it is the first brick in the wall, and the EU starts to crumble, the Russian empire could regain influence over its former client states, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia…
Trump too, I suspect, would like to see the EU crumble. America first can be easily facilitated over small countries… but the EU… not so much.
Putin probably takes the view that if it was legitimate from the West to actively work for the break-up of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact then it’s legitimate for him to return the favour .
Well, I can’t fault that logic.
Tris…….Having an American president who hates the EU for being an economic competitor, and will not fully commit to NATO because it’s composed of a bunch of Europeans must be Putin’s dream come true. Add to that Trump’s love of totalitarian dictators which is icing on the cake, and his (Putin’s) investment in getting Trump elected was the best money he ever spent.
I see he’s persisting with Kim, although I’d say that boat sailed some time ago.
Yes Tris……the romance between Trump and Kim has hit a rough patch. 😉
The first glow seems to have worn off… Oh well, it happens.
That glow was actually Cherenkov radiation and Bremsstrahlung from Kim’s latest weapons test, it turns out…
911 was an inside job. The planes did not cause the Towers to fall, they were demolished. Just remember building 7, described by the BBC as having collapsed twenty minutes before it actually did. Then look at the footage, classic demolition. No plane hit the Pentagon, more like a missile.
The Military Tribunals, currently underway, will bring out the truth.
Bin Laden was the classic patsy, just like Lee Harvey Oswald and others who have been played like a fiddle by the Establishment.
No doubt there will be scoffers at this, but the truth will win out.
Glad I’m not the only one who remembers that tower 7 went down late.
And Osama Bin Laden was considered “A valued ally of the USA” in the 90’s. Then he decided to try running his country for his own good, rather than America’s, and look what happened to him.
I don’t want to have to wait till Sunday so here is a pachyderm and a stripy horse.
Stop bothering the zebra little elephant 😂 pic.twitter.com/8pm5rDYoGJ
— I_love_nature (@i_iove_nature) April 16, 2019
Awwww seriously cute.
A propos of zebras … in Swahili, the term for zebra is punda milia, which means, literally stripey donkey (well, donkey stripey, because adjectives come after nouns in Swahili, usually, like in French).
You don’t see many horses in sub-Saharan Africa, you see, because of the African horse sickness (AHS) virus, for which zebras are a reservoir. The exception is around Cape Town, where a cordon sanitaire is in place to keep the virus out so the famous Cape Town races can be run…
The virus has an insect vector, a midge, actually, and maybe we would have AHS here too if it weren’t for our cold winters. Here’s the Wikipedia article on AHS: https://t1p.de/7554.
Lordie Ed… you are a mine of information!!!
It’s well known that I have a mind like a lint brush…
Ed…..I can’t hear the name “Cape Town races” without thinking of a song. 😉
I’m completely off-topic…but..but…but, I just discovered that Dundee is to loose it’s satellite tracking station!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/17/dundee_satellite_receiving_station_closure
Well, ain’t that typical.
This is terrible news!
It would be very short-sighted of the Scottish Government not to step in to save the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station (http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/weather/)!
On independence, Scotland will need its own Met Office rather than pay indirectly for the UK Met Office. You will have observed how the most public-facing aspect of the Met Office – the television weather bulletins – do not have much to say about the Republic of Ireland, and in Scotland after independence we will receive the same treatment – we will want our own weather bulletins on our own radio and TV stations, and our airports will need their own forecasts.
Naturally, all the worlds’ met offices feed their data into the global networks established under the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, but everyone needs their own national met office to run their own observational network, and they need to either develop their own capacity to produce the products which users need – or buy them in from outside.
Scotland will need not just its own met office, it will need its own membership of organizations such as CERN, the European Space Agency, the Galileo project and other international / global scientific and observational projects. Not only that, we already have a space industry, and we need the pure research to go into it as well as the applied.
We are a national renowned for our engineering and technological prowess. We will want and need a serious budget for science, and the necessary R&D to back it up.
Saving the Dundee Satellite Receiving Station should be a priority, and it is very evident that immediate action is required. I am sure many Munguinites agree with me on this, so let us hope that Mr. Munguin can bring his influence, and that of Munguin Megamedia Inc., to bear on the necessary high heid yins in the Scottish Government…
Good points, Ed.
Can you write me an article (I simply don;t have time at the moment)… and Munguin will publish it.
Of course, all of the Scottish government reads Munguin’s New Republic! (Or at least that’s what he thinks.)
I’m honoured! I’ll do a spot more poking around and work out just what we’re doing at the moment in the satellite / space / remote sensing area, among others. Computer (mainframe) infrastructure is a bit of a problem, actually; so many of the heavy-duty computer farms are located in England, and Lunnon in particular; I think it’s only Virgin Media who have actual plant in Scotland.
“Remote sensing area” reminds of a most unfortunate choice of words I came across in my career as an editor: “We must take concrete steps in the agricultural field…”.
“I’m honoured! ”
Oh I wouldn’t be – he lets any old idiot write atl 🙂
Joking aside this is not an area I’m familiar with so I look forward to reading more.
Hmmmm… Only if they don’t cost a lot!!!
Thank you, PP! I’m honoured to be part of the old idiots club. It is reassuring to find that people appreciate me for exactly what I am worth.
(Removes tongue from cheek) I’ll do my best not to bore everyone witless. Thanks!
Good man. Thanks.
Ed…..LOVE the concrete steps! 🙂 🙂
It’s all low resolution ( by these days standards) and low tech as the Register article points out, but it does the job and the funding they appear to be having cut looks like pretty small beer in the scheme of things.
Agree totally. Scotland must prepare for independence.
My suspicions are heightened about Westminster and their need to keep Scotland needful of the Union. Not from a tin foil hat base but from the evidence I see. Kishorn and the Fort William smelter is one example, the Pentland MeyGen scheme another. This satellite would just be another in the constant drip of erosion to our automony.
Take everything of value out of Scotland and, if they can, relocate it to somewhere south of the Watford Gap.
Just a wee input.
The EBC don’t get their weather from the Met Office.
Too dear.
They buy it in now from Meteo, or something like that.
Think the Dundee receiver is InfraREd, gives cloud coverage and density, in what appears to be black and white. You can work out if there is heavy rain in the clouds.
New technology shows wind speed and strength, water content superimposed on the land map.
Flight service programmes like SkyDemon put it all in one application.
Thanks, Dave – obviously I need to find out exactly where those met products are coming from – I don’t watch TV so I thought they still had a Met Office person coming in to do the weather forecast. I must check and see who’s actually producing the information I look at, and it’s been a while too since I checked out everything the DSRS site has to offer; their online stuff is pretty damn good as far as I recall, not low resolution at all, but I need to check that they’re still doing it – only a couple of weeks before they shut down!
Way back in 1984, I got my first gig as a freelance translator at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva. At one point a PC was set up in the lobby which showed animated weather maps / satellite images on a flickering CRT monitor. This was a wonder and a miracle of technology … and it would stop working if you looked at it sideways. And now we can see all that sort of stuff with a mobile phone app, or on our flat-screen hi-res desktop monitors.
Imagine what it would be like if we’d done a Rip van Winkel in 1984 and woken up just today – we would think we were still dreaming, wouldn’t we?
You can still sign onto the MetOffice site as a pilot into their weather service for pilots. Nil Cost.
You get the form 214 and 215, the Atlantic charts and the Forecast and Actuals for airports within the rUK.
You have to delve deeper to get FOREIGN reports but they are there.
The Atlantic chart is in colour and is issued with the ability to move the time scale forward, just a forcast remember, they aren’t that good. The 2 day forecasts are getting really good for accuracy but with a pinch of reality, some 90%, Unless.
Not as good as the old ” finger in the air” or a quick look out the window.
Tris, see what a space you have created? To be filled by the likes of Eddjasfreeman and others delivering the above.
Ed I find that stuff as good as joob joobs dipped in sherbett dab. AHS, I never knew about and also that Swahili shares the same adjective placement as french and gàidhlig but english and german don’t, well german for the most part follow that rule. Throws up an interesting mix of questions for me.
You also say that you have a mind like a lint brush, mine has been described as sponge like. I do have eclectic interests but I see myself more as an OAP who hasn’t quite grown up and with possibly a touch of ADHD.
Ambition, to wake up each day (I could stop at that) in the firm knowledge that I know less than I thought.
Ed even knows what all those little squiggles mean that are located above below and around the letters in French and other languages. (Called hypocritical markings….or similar words to that effect. 😉 )
PS: Tris knows all about those French squiggles too BTW. 😉
Or, at least some of them…
Tchah. “Hypocritical”, forsooth.
I even know that the French have a president named after one of them and some call it a superior trait, though it is is a bit strange because he’s no beanpole, though he is, I think, shorter than his predecessor, who was named after a couple of provinces of another country, but is definitely taller than the one before that, who was a short-arse with a Hungarian name, a part-Jewish, part-Greek ancestry and a wife who towered over him and was born in yet another country and into a religion I haven’t mentioned yet and whose maiden name means “German” in the language of that country, all of which proves precisely nothing except that little Englanders like Theresa May with her talk of citizens of Europe being “citizens of nowhere” is harking back to just the same sort of repugnant, scapegoating, anti-semitic claptrap that a certain German (actually Austrian) dictator used to come out with when he talked about rootless cosmopolitan international elites back in 1933, with the results we all know, and a certain Russian (actually Georgian) dictator who changed his name to “man of steel” in Russian which, I have always believed, contained a snide reference to the iron fist of Karl Marx (a German who was made stateless and went to live in London), and who won’t be allowed to stay if Theresa May gets her druthers except he’s dead already.
That’s how far to the right Theresa May and her party are, let alone Nigel Garage and all the other Nigels he wants to be elected into the European Parliament in May to cause maximum disruption, not counting that Mark Francois who sort of shares a name with that penultimate French president but probably wouldn’t recognize a cedilla if it reared up out of his bouillabaisse and smacked him in the chops, he loathes the French so much, and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who just wants to cause maximum disruption everywhere in England (I use the word advisedly) just like his namesake Bannon does in the United States and the Vatican (the first “Stephen” is pronounced “Tommy” in the same way that “Ralph” is pronounced “Rafe”, and “Yaxley-Lennon” is pronounced “Robinson” in the same way that “Marjoribanks” is pronounced “Marchbanks”, and “Milngavie” is pronounced “MulGUY” to rhyme with “pie” except in Dundee, if it comes to that).
There, so is that all clear to everyone now? It is? Good.
ed, that’s got the brain cells working this morning. Do you compile cryptic crosswords as well?
I bet he does the Times!
Cryptic crosswords are a think I just cannot do. I’m no bloody use at crosswords. Never have been.
Odd that
That’s me to a T, Tris.
Yip, all good here.
Ed…..I did notice a while back that one of the French markings is called a “micron.”
As for names, I think I read once that Noel Coward (with an umlaut “o”) had a disagreement with the Times over the proper rendering of his name. That was apparently contrary to their style manual and they refused to print it that way.
I’ve always liked the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and was surprised the first time I heard it pronounced “Rafe.”
OOPS….Typo: I meant “macron” not “micron.” 😦
🏆🏅🏆🏅and gold stars all round.
Very… It’s fortunate, is it not, that the French language doesn’t actually use the macron… otherwise the population would get confused.
Brilliant bet he can read bar codes, straight off.
Alan…..I’m sure that bar codes are a piece of cake for him. 😉
He could get a job as a Tesco till!
How ryude. I am tempted to flounce off in a snit.
Alan – “in the firm knowledge that I know less than I thought”. Absobloodylutely… the more we know, the more we know we know nothing compared to all there is to know, and the more we know that we can know nothing compared to all there is to know because the universe is very large and the human brain is very small.
Which is truly wonderful.
Off-topic Notre Dame update:
Victor Hugo remercie tous les généreux donateurs prêts à sauver Notre-Dame de Paris et leur propose de faire la même chose avec Les Misérables.
— ollivier pourriol (@opourriol) April 16, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/apr/17/steve-bell-on-donations-for-restoring-notre-dame-cathedral-cartoon
Very good! The commercial logos will change the look of the towers. Maybe the rose windows, even though they survived, could be knocked out and repurposed for commercial use. 😉
It really wouldn’t surprise me if the reconstruction plan includes a new chapel to honor the big donors down through future centuries.
LOL… ye gads. Not sure they would do that in France, but I bet they would in London.
Aye, well said there.
Sad though I am about the loss of the beautiful and iconic building, I am aware that there are people who can’t afford to eat. And you have to wonder which Jesus would have sorted first!
I have been going on a bit, haven’t I? I have now told myself to shut up.
“Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.”
“Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit.”? Did that yesterday, and as you know, yesterday was another day.
Did you know, Munguinites, that the name of the man who said that(the Latin bit, not me) is derived from the word for “chickpea”? (That’s garbanzo bean to you, Danny.) Kinda like the wonderful Mayor Pete Buttigieg could be Rocky Chickenfarmer (approximate translations, the last bit’s Maltese). https://t1p.de/nrxt
Struth! Is there a language with which you are not familiar?
“Struth! Is there a language with which you are not familiar?” – Tris, I wish!
It’s more that, as a professional translator pretty much all my working life, I know where to look, and I have a feel for things that impelled me into translation in the first place.
You know, when you go down a rabbit hole, like our good friend Conan often sets:
You realize that Google Translate – or the Latin Dictionary that it transported me to – has intelligence that I don’t?
What that Latin translates as is:
“He has left, absconded, escaped and disappeared”
For the two words in the middle you can, sort of see, if you squint a bit, modern parallels, excessit could become ran away (exited), evasit could sort of mean evaded (which is near as dammit the same as escape).
Ablit and erupit have less meaning to a monoglot such as myself.
This place is turning into the ‘Brains Trust’ of fond memory. Who is declaring as Lady Isobel Barnett?
Douglas……I know nothing about Latin, so I do have strong opinions about it. Mostly, I’ve noticed that Latin phrases seem to be words that convey certain fundamental ideas strung together in a more or less random order which can then be translated into pretty much any sentence that suits you.
It doesn’t take
Douglas…….To complete my thought…….(which was interrupted by an unintentional keystroke that sent “Post Comment” to WordPress):
I know nothing about Latin, so I do have strong opinions about it. Mostly, I’ve noticed that Latin phrases seem to be words that convey certain fundamental ideas strung together in a more or less random order which can then be translated into pretty much any sentence that suits you.
For example, it doesn’t take a genius to know why “E pluribus unum” is the national motto of ONE country composed of MANY states. But what’s really annoying about it is that people who translate the Latin use the “E” (a single letter which means god knows what) to turn “pluribus” and “unum” into an actual sentence. They translate it in all sorts of fanciful ways.
So I consulted the Wikipedia article “Latin Word Order” and discovered that the ancient Romans really didn’t have a clue about how to form sentences.
Wiki:
Latin word order is relatively free. Subject, Object, and Verb can come in any order; adjectives and possessives can go before or after their noun, and so on. A common feature of Latin is hyperbaton, in which a phrase is split up by other words, e.g. Sextus est Tarquinius “it is Sextus Tarquinius”.
A complicating factor in Latin word order is that there are variations between the style of different authors, and also between different genres of writing; in Caesar’s historical writing the verb is much more likely to come at the end of the sentence than in Cicero’s philosophy. The word order of poetry is even freer than prose, and examples of interleaved word order (double hyperbaton) are common.
So I’d say that “relatively free” is the kindest thing you can say about Latin syntax. Latin words were apparently written in any order the ancient Romans desired, to form sentences that meant pretty much anything they wanted them to mean. 😉
That hints at where the Westminster fudge may come from, “don’t say anything too definitive that can be use against you later”
This aspect was covered superbly by Sir Humphrey in the Yes Minister series.
Yeah… I think I should get a box set
And that more modern version with Capaldi. In the Loop, was it?
Haven’t seen the Capaldi series. I believe it was called, In the Loop.
It was hilarious.
Another for the list then.
Alan…….Sir Humphrey was great. I discovered Yes Minister long after its run. Bought the DVD sets.
Ah well, Danny… the (indoeuropean – I speaks about what I knows) languages which can do that relatively free word order thing have declensions, i.e., a case structure, and those twiddly bits at the end (or even elsewhere in the word – cf. Gaelic) tell you what the functional interrelationships are. E.g., canis hominem momordit = the dog bit the man; canem homo momordit = the man bit the dog.
So for “E pluribus unum”, the preposition e / ex, meaning out of, needs the ablative case, and that’s the -ibus in the pluribus. “Unum” has to be neuter singular nominative case (because it’s got no reason to be any other case or number or gender), and so means “one thing”, because if you gave it a gender – “unus” or “una” – you’d be asking yourself “one what?”, because all nouns have a gender in Latin (“neuter” actually means “neither the one thing nor the other”), and the neuter is the one you use when you don’t have a definite thing whose gender you know to hang it on.
Conan, all right so far? Your Latin is loads better than mine.
Russian is sort of the same: most of the time it trundles along with its bits in pretty much the same order as English, and then woops – it says something backwards.
Ed, that bit about the ablative case catapulted me back to my schooldays in the Latin class. I’ve forgotten most of it but the one thing that was indelibly imprinted on my mind was the list of prepositions “taking the ablative” – it was drummed (sometimes belted) into us. De, pro, ab, sub ex, in sine, cum.
Splendid explanation for Latin.
It isn’t where you put the word in the sentence that tells you what is going on; it’s the ending of that word… but you explained it better.
Ed, you brought back memories of my Latin master 50 odd years ago. He would entertain every first year with ‘amavi heri mani’. (Danny – you need the Latin pronunciation coupled with a Scottish accent to get the schoolboy humour).
I’m not sure any Latin master would dare say that today!
PS… Was he?
JoMac says:
An awfy lot of folk here today who are Latin scholars. Me Toooooo. Cannot imagine today’s youngsters sitting at home on a Friday evening translating Virgil’s Aeneid, but I had to because we had so much homework, especially in 5th year. I remember an English teacher telling us that he read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar before he studied Latin, so when he got to that well-known phrase (the only one I remember because I hated Shakespeare) “Et tu, Brute”, he translated it as ‘Ett ya brute’, or as we might say in Scotland “Here you, that wis sair!”. Come to think of it, Shakespeare would be so much more interesting in Scots. I’m not a philistine really, it just didn’t float ma boat as they say.
JoMac. I’ve always thought that, if you want to get kids reading, and who would think that a bad idea, you should give them something age appropriate and interesting to read.
If that’s Harry Potter, so be it.
Get them to love books. Those that want to may graduate on to read classics … those who don’t may go on reading mysteries or romances or murders or whatever…
If you make kids read Shakespeare or Johnson or Milton at 12… and they did… it is a wonder that you don’t put them off reading for life.
I remember that Gove bloke, when he was the English Education Secretary, demanded that Milton be on the syllabus for 16 year olds.
What tosh!
Thanks Ed, that helps. On first reading the “E pluribus unum” motto I got the pluribus/ablative bit, but for “unum” I jumped to the conclusion, wrongly, that it was the accusative form of unus ( singular & masculine)…that of course led me down a path of assuming that there was a verb-idea/implied verb, which had to be transitive, so the motto needed to be translated in the active rather than passive voice and left me pondering whether a proper translation should be “one, from the many” or “from the many,one”.
So thanks…unum…singular & neuter, got it. Simple, elegant and CORRECT.
All that about “unum!” I knew there was a good reason that I didn’t take Latin in school. I would have flunked for sure. 🙂
The word order in Latin doesn’t really matter, Danny. The endings of the words convey the meaning.
It’s all awfully complex and only a brain like Conan’s can get around it. 🙂
Tris…….Always nice to have a Latin scholar around. Definitely elevates the level of the discourse. 😉
Indeed it does Danny.
Ancient Greek adds that little something too!
…which is what I said while (I think) you were posting that, Tris, but was naturally extremely long-winded about it, unlike you.
Tris….Ed…..I can see how those Latin endings could be complicated. A couple of word endings being the difference between man biting dog and vice-versa. Amazing!
I think the inscription on the seal of the University of Missouri has been gussied up to look like Latin, but really isn’t. It’s “Sigill Universitatis Missourien”, and since “Missouri” is the name of an Indian tribe, I doubt that there was a Latin form of it. Not to be confused with the Missouri state motto, “Salus populi suprema lex esto.” And the national motto does make more sense when you know that the “E” means “out of.” But noun gender always drives me crazy. 🙂
Danny, Latin is still used for a few things, and of course there’s the Catholic church. I have had occasion to translate people’s degree certificates from Latin, for example.
The Missouri University one should, I think, be “Sigillum Universitatis Missouriensis”, which is fine, actually: “sigillum” (neuter singular) = seal of the red wax on parchment kind; “universitatis” is genitive singular of (feminine noun) universitas, so “of the university” – there are no definite or indefinite articles in Latin, in which it is like Russian; and “Missouriensis” where the -ensis ending is an adjectival suffix used for place names (toponyms) only.
Another example would be eboracensis from Eboracum (York); New York in Latin is Novum Eboracum, but the City is Civitas Novi Eboraci. You can see how “civitas” – actually “civitatem”, the accusative singular case, for reasons which are too teejus and long-winded to go into here – can turn into “ciudad” in Spanish and “cité” in French. So – where was I? Yes. The seal of the City of New York is Sigillum Civitatis [genitive singular again, feminine noun] Novi Eboraci.
The state motto of Missouri would be “salus populi suprema lex est”, and it’s actually rather good! The thing is, “salus” has a number of meanings, including – here’s Wiktionary’s take on it: safety; security;
health; well-being; welfare – not an exhaustive list.
Another thing. First, I’ll gloss “salus populi suprema lex est” as “The good of the people is the highest law” – that last “est” is Spanish “es”, French “est” (in which the “st” is normally silent) so it sounds like Yoda speaking. However… “lex” doesn’t quite mean “law” in English – or rather, “law” in English doesn’t cover quite the same semantic fields as “lex” in Latin. Here’s Wiktionary’s take on it again: “lēx f (genitive lēgis); third declension: 1. a proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill; 2. (figuratively) a bill which has become a law, a law; 3. (figuratively) a precept, regulation, principle, rule, mode, manner; 4. (figuratively) a contract, agreement, covenant; 5. (figuratively) a condition, stipulation.”
And just to tie a neat bow on things, if you look at that last Wiktionary entry for “lex”, you will see that the E vowels have – macrons over them. Not that the Romans actually bothered with such things, of course.
Ed….Nice to see the macrons…….and nice to know from your analysis that the Missouri Latin isn’t as far off the mark as I thought. 😉
I’ll leave those more scholarly than I to comment on the Latin.
The trouble with nouns having gender is that the pronouns have to have gender too, and the articles and the adjectives… and in some languages adjectives come before and some come after the noun… and in some, they mean different things depending on whether they are before or after…
Tris……I wonder how the English language managed to escape all that complicated gender silliness. 😉
It didn’t avoid the gender silliness – it dumped it along the way.
Like I said. It was a bit on the difficult side for the Eton set to manage.
Actually, at school in Scotland I was taught grammar to quite a detailed extent. When we moved to England, it wasn’t on the syllabus at all.
Didn’t know a noun from a plate of chips.
We had a teacher called Dubber (I think) and he wrote a school book on English grammar which was our text of course. I still find it incomprehensible gibberish, science and maths was my thing, much more logical. Though now Danny has said that with Latin you can just do random sentences. mmm. Maybe I should give it another shot. Could look really edumacated spouting all those funny words in totally random sequences. At the same time having a laugh as the listner tried desperatly to decontort my word order and usage. And a fewcrandomly chosen gender bender words in as well. Superbitum Fundom Exasperatum.
Ha ha… the advantage is that almost no one would have a clue whether what you were saying was right or wrong!
Kangaroo……My opinions about Latin are informed by total ignorance of the subject. 😉
Ed…..A VERY wise decision! Causes nothing but trouble! 😉
Indeed: in grammar, as in so many other things.
Might be something to do with Brits being too stupid to work it all out?
Tris…….A lot to be said for stupidity then….LOL. How much wisdom does it take to figure out which inanimate objects are male and which are female? 😉
LOL. I’m not sure about that, Danny.
What I do know though, is that, after a while, it grates when someone (sometimes me) gets it wrong.
Grammatical gender is a category we don’t have in English, that’s true; other languages too have categories we don’t have. These categories we don’t have make it difficult for us to get our English-speaking heads around them.
There are also such things as hidden categories: one is called “animacy”, which is that attribution of mind or volition. For example, in English we can say “I was run over by a bus”, but “A bus ran over me” is grammatically possible at one level, but not at another because of that hidden category, animacy: buses do not have the wit to run people over all by themselves.
Dutch has [may have, depending on where you are] a hidden category which I find interesting: grammatical gender. It’s not that Dutch doesn’t have gender, exactly, it has “common gender” and neuter. “Common” gender is masculine and feminine together, and they differ not at all in how you deal with the words grammatically – except you still have to know (in some parts of the Dutch-speaking world!) which are which, because it changes the pronoun you would use – that is, when you’re talking about things which don’t have an obvious, actual gender, such as men and women, cows and bulls. So – de zon, ze schijnt (the sun, she is shining), and de maan, hij schijnt (the moon, he is shining) – I’m saying that from memory so I may be wrong; standard Dutch (which is “algemeen beschaafd nederlands” = civilized Dutch) generally treats them all as masculine these days [my knowledge is WAY out of date and sketchy, and as far as I know the Dutch are still arguing about it], but in Flanders it’s another matter.
Ready for something completely different? You are? Then here’s the Wikipedia article about noun classes in Swahili: https://t1p.de/spni. As the American cousins say, knock yourselves out!
LOL. As Danny oft times says to me… No Quiz.
I thought your explanation rather more erudite than mine, Ed… and with examples of hungry folk, and dogs.
I have completely lost track of where we are in this conversation about language wot we are having and involves loads of me pontificating.
I was going to say that in most languages you can tell what grammatical gender most words are because they fall into patterns or classes; in French, for example, if the word ends in -ette (la oubliette, la manchette (https://t1p.de/jh9h, https://t1p.de/gz7w)) or -elle (la fontanelle (https://t1p.de/wvee) or la sentinelle (https://t1p.de/4eqb), its grammatical gender is going to be feminine, with few if any exceptions, because I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
Just en passant, the word “sentinelle” is a good example of all that is crazy about grammatical gender because, if you look at the URL I stuck in there, it means “sentry”. Now, whereas it is not inconceivable that a sentry should be a woman…
Contrariwise, if the word ends in -et (le cachet (https://t1p.de/9rm9), which you may want to compare with la cachette (https://t1p.de/n56j), or -l (and there are loads of those such as l’ail, le merveil, le chevreuil, it’s going to be masculine, again with no exceptions I can think of off the top of my head.
That said, although you can tell what the grammatical gender of most words is just by looking at them / hearing them, there are some you just have to learn. And there’s where it gets sticky, particularly when you don’t have the category “grammatical gender” in your own language.
Always remember: in Foreign Parts, even the idiots and the ar*seholes among the locals can speak the language, and even dogs and children. That means you can too if you set your mind to it.
Yegadds! I remember getting into all sorts of bother for writing sentences that were way shorter than those. My solution was simply to put as many full stops as possible in a paragraph (another alien concept to me) . Seemed to work as the teachers stopped putting red ink everywhere. Still don’t know why though.
Managed to get 33% in English, French and Latin in year two of high school. That took some special effort. Dropped frog and vatican after that (That’s not rude or abusive its “Fair comment” apparently, Kezia would be proud). English died at O Grade as the school wouldn’t let me sit the higher as I would have brought the school average down.
Scots and English are Germanic and that as possibly why the adjectives come before the nouns, in those.
Gadzooks, that was supposed to be a reply to edjasfreeman at 9:03 . Don’t know why it dropped down HERE? WordPress I presume or sticky fingers.
Kangaroo….I never have figured out who or what the lady (below) is LOL-ing about. 🙂
The lady below, Tris, is Lady Isobel Barnett. I don’t know if she was on “Brains Trust” – was that a radio programme? – but she was definitely on “Any Questions”.
Which of course you knew.
And What’s my Line, Ed.
Nope, wordpress.
Languages are hard, unless you have an interest in them, or you assimilate in the country where they are spoken.
We also start FAR too late in Scotland to teach foreign languages
Then there is the assumption (mostly correct these days) that other people will make the effort to learn English… or more correctly, American, and so we can save ourselves for other things like…. well, something anyway.
They move around as languages change and evolve.
Sheesh. That was a reply to Kangaroo on putting adjectives before or after the nouns they qualify.
Adjectives may know their place, but comments on WordPress? … not so much
Not much different now as against then.
The maybot; I won’t call a GE, I’m calling a GE.
No new referendum!!!!!
Brexit means !!!!!!
Now is not the time!!!!!
Time to go on holiday as all saints day is a long time off.
The auld mogg will be happy that we are on his wavelength and era.
It’s all rather unbelievable.
It’s like we’re all part of some ghastly TV reality show called “I’m a normal person, get me out of here”.
I am getting out of here. I have to tear myself away from this discourse, I have a bilge waiting elswhere for my head to fit into as I try and fettle a recalcitrant boat gearbox.
Tempus aestusque nemini moratur.
I’ll read your corrections tonight or tomorrow.
“Tempus æstusque nemini morantur” – almost perfect by my reckoning – let’s see what Conan says.
Errum semper caldum est…
Er… um?
semper caldum, I remember from my early non telly days on the island. Everybody gave a night class and one person did the latin names of trees but errum (my shoulders have just touched my ears) Genitive case erus?
Ed?
Buggered if I know.
Now let me see if I have been paying attention. Words can be in any random order and the listener can then create their own sentence and give it meaning. So here goes
Tempus storm
Aestusque am stucky
Nemini in my Mini car
Morantur dead
Fork I did it, too easy I’m getting the hang of this Vatican lingo.
Ha ha ha… I wouldn’t presume to correct any of it. but I certainly understood it.
The important thing is that you’ve enjoyed yourselves.
Well greig12 maybe has it is. Let’s drink whatever Trump is drinking and pretend that I truly knew?
Dear reader, I am not even American and your President is not a convincing leader.
Ita vero – pilam habemus!
Ita so, therefore
Veto In truth, to be sure
Pilam ball
Habemus we have
Had to use a translator this time.
Looks like we might be going to a football match.
I thought that, although I’m not sure that the Vatican has a football team.
Kanga, Tris: “Pilam habemus!” – that was me making my little translation joke: “We are having a ball!”
I realised Ed. That was me making my little translation joke. SNAP.
Managed to get the better of the gearbox, moved on to marine alternator, came back to here for a break, took up Edd’s suggestion and had a look at Swahili noun classes. Sheez, mu locative class (class xviii !). Decided to go back to the charging problem.
Still, thanks to you all for the education and entertainment.
What a varied afternoon you have had Alan!!!
Here is a very good and accurate, IMHO, take on the Assange situation.
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A♭ major 9th chord in Bach is unexpectedly dissonant/jazzy
Measures 21-24 in Prelude VII from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier I
I was looking at the Prelude VII by Bach and noticed that on the measure 23 Bach ended that phrase with a A♭ maj9 chord. I was wondering how often do extended chords show up in Bach's work. When listening the chord sounded kinda of jazzy. Also I have heard of rules being in place during the Baroque area about dissonant chords so how did this one slip through?
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Diego AlvarezDiego Alvarez
It doesn't end the phrase. The G in the soprano and the Bb in the tenor are suspensions, which resolve downward by step on the next beat. The end of the phrase comes later. The rules you mention about dissonances allow just about anything so long as the parts resolve in a prescribed way.
As for how often rich harmonies like this occur in Bach: they're extremely commonplace. They occur because he was composing from the horizontal perspective (thinking of voice leading, the motion of individual voices) as much as the vertical (thinking of harmonies).
Sometimes he comes up with harmonies that would not be heard again for another couple of centuries, like this extreme example from the end of the chorale prelude Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671:
Analysing this passage purely from the vertical point of view (naming the harmonies) would be a messy sort of fun, but might not be fully enlightening, because the passage is as much about the descending motion of the individual parts.
You can read claims that J. S. Bach thought horizontally, not vertically. That's surely too categorical. His mind is unknowable, so it's anyone's guess how much of his thought was on voice leading, and how much the resulting harmonies. It would surely have varied depending on the style and texture he was writing, too. What's beyond doubt is that he gives us plenty to value in both ways.
To hear it: youtu.be/i7sNw5wrSEo?t=264 – leonbloy May 6 '19 at 15:25
I don't hear that as "harmonies", I hear it as sheer joyful exuberant uninhibited and majestic sound. Thanks, @leonbloy: it's glorious. – Michael Kay May 7 '19 at 20:13
"What's beyond doubt is that he gives us plenty to value in both ways." - such an excellent way to describe J.S. Bach's music. – Zack Macomber Dec 16 '19 at 20:12
It's actually a suspension, which is to say that the actual chord is F Minor (F, A-flat, C, in first inversion) but the G and B-flat are held over from the previous chord before moving to F and A-flat. Dissonant suspensions resolving to consonant chords are very common in Baroque music. In jazz, 9th chords are treated as normal chords, so a G#maj9 might follow a D#maj9 and then be followed by a C#maj9 without suspensions.
I knew someone who didn't like modern music because "the dissonances never resolve." That's a fair criticism, I suppose. Bach can have some absolutely crazy sequences of chords, as in the Grave section of the Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major for organ (BWV 564), but they eventually resolve to C major. Ives and Stravinsky pound out the dissonances with no resolution. Modern jazz says, "Hey, these so-called dissonant chords are actually very beautiful. Just listen to them. Really listen." Ravel and Poulenc agree.
Mark LuttonMark Lutton
As the other answer point out you mis-identified the suspension as the end of the phrase, but the resolution is the end of the phrase.
Bach's Prelude #1 from the Well Tempered Clavier, book I is super clear example of extended chords and dissonances. This particular prelude started as an instruction piece for is some Wilhelm so it's original purpose is pedagogical - for teaching - and it's choke full o' chords but relatively easy to play.
It has harmonies that would not be out of place a jazz setting if the rhythm was made to swing. Take a look at this example of ii7 V7 I...
...thats Am7 D7 G.
Later, at the end, there is a short sequence of consecutive dominant seventh chords...
...mm. 31-33 is G7 C7 F. That move is very common at the end of classical pieces. It's a brief tonicization of the subdominant. But in this particular passage we get the direct movement from one dominant seventh chord to the next. In the inner voice we have the implied descending chromatic line B Bb A. That move is common in jazz.
Also the ending displays a pedal bass on the tonic. At m. 34 the full dominant seventh chord is played over the tonic pedal. Of course this is very dissonant. If we consider the pedal C as the chord root and wrote that chord with a jazz symbol it would be CΔ11!
The is a common harmonic sequence you should be aware of includes seventh chord dissonances on each chord...
...notice that with each chord change the role of the upper voice swap where the chord third is suspended and becomes the next chords seventh and then resolves at the next change to the third and so on as the sequence proceeds.
So, extended chords and dissonances were commonly used, but normally they were carefully treated to resolve.
Michael CurtisMichael Curtis
Some of Bach's "sustained" notes, of which counterpoint practice of the time can tell a different story, may be regarded as deliberately creating a jazzy chord. I can't quite remember, but in uni they showed us an example of very dissonant passage from Bach's work. It's down to to things: harmony can come from polyrhitmic passages as well as homophonic passages, and second, both can be interpreted as having either a counterpunctal or harmonic expression. Given that Bach was composing during a transitional time from counterpunctal way of thinking to a harmonic way of thinking, due to technical innovations in tunings, it's safe to say Bach may have deliberately created jazzy harmonies.
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The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup
While we’ve all no doubt seen countless pictures about American slavery, from Quentin Tarantino’s comical Django Unchained (2012), to Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997), none have been as impactful or as moving as director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, simply because there is a resounding honesty surrounding the entire project. An adaptation of the 1853 memoir 12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup himself, the picture documents the incredible heart wrenching true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom.
Set in the pre-Civil War United States 1841, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a free black man who resides in Saratoga Springs, New York. Solomon works as a skilled carpenter and fiddle player and lives with his loving wife and two children. After two men offer Northup a two-week job as a musician, he sets off to work with the strangers but is later drugged and wakes up in chains. Northup is shortly sold off into slavery in New Orleans under the false name of Platt, the identity of a runaway slave from Georgia. After observing the fate of others in his situation, Northup decides that cooperation is the best way to survive. Sold by slave-trader Theophilus Freeman (Paul Giamatti) to plantation owner William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), Northup manages to stay on good terms with Ford, a relatively benevolent master. After Northup engineers a waterway for transporting logs swiftly and cost-effectively downstream, Ford presents him with a violin in gratitude. Things take a drastic turn when a racist carpenter John Tibeats (Paul Dano) starts to resent Northup for his good work and begins to verbally harass him. Northup eventually fights back and Tibeats attempts to lynch him, but fails.
… expressionless, overworked slaves …
Unable to protect Northup from Tibeats, Ford explains that Northup must be sold to the malevolent slave owner Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender), to work in his cotton fields. There, Northup finds himself stuck in a living nightmare, as Epps believes it is his right to abuse and mistreat slaves as it is biblically sanctioned. Epps encourages his slaves to accept their allegedly predestined, divinely sanctioned fate by frequently reading them various pro-slavery Bible verses both real and fraudulent. For many years, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but also retain his dignity as he comes to terms with the harsh reality he finds himself trapped in.
Steve McQueen, who began his career creating music videos before directing full-length features, Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011), has an evident knack for utilizing long, steady single shots to emphasize various points within his work, in turn creating some very powerful imagery. McQueen uses this technique to produce several unflinching moments throughout the film forcing viewers to witness a number of horrific events, almost as if through the eyes of the ghost of a murdered slave, watching in sorrow and anger. Skillfully contrasting natural beauty with the ugliness of man, McQueen also generates an often, uncomfortable, atmosphere further emphasizing the grim reality of slavery in a way that’s never truly been depicted before. Although quite lengthy, McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, U Turn (1997), present Solomon’s unforgettable odyssey in a sincere and heartbreaking way, illustrating not only how slavery damaged African Americans, but how it also affected those who profited by it; the feature doesn’t shy away from exposing the true horrors that took place within the institution of slavery, creating a powerful, heart wrenching picture and McQueen’s most accessible and compelling film to date.
This poor guy should at least be listening to Rednex’s Cotton Eye Joe!
12 Years A Slave is anchored by Chiwetel Ejiofor’s, Children of Men (2006), remarkable Oscar worthy portrayal of Northup in quite simply one of the year’s best leading performances. As Solomon Northup is entrapped by the confines of slavery for the majority of the picture, he is unable to truly speak his mind throughout his ordeal, ergo Ejiofor is required to utilize his facial expression, predominantly his eyes, and body language to convey his emotions throughout the flick, resulting in a subtle, yet incredibly powerful piece of work. Ejiofor’s unforgettable final scene will surly strike a chord with most viewers and will no doubt earn him a spot beside today’s powerhouse performers. Lupita Nyong’o’s equally compelling performance as the slave Patsey is even more impressive, given that this is Lupita’s first major role in a motion picture. Patsey, who has become the object of Epps’ perverse affections, is tormented during her days as she is forced to endure Edwin’s merciless ‘love,’ the callous jealousy of his wife and the hard work she is required to repeatedly perform day in and day out. While Solomon refuses to break, Patsey has long been broken, having given up on life, she is consumed by unbearable sadness and her crushing situation is only heightened by Lupita’s tragic performance.
Michael Fassbender, who has worked with McQueen on both Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011), gives one of the best performances of his already impressive career as the nasty slaver Edwin Epps. Fassbender’s depiction of this deeply flawed man, who abuses his absolute power over others, is truly remarkable as he molds a menacing and cruel persona whenever on screen creating one of the most loathsome film characters of 2013. Paul Giamatti, Sideways (2004), is excellent in his minor supporting role as slave-trader Theophilus Freeman and Brad Pitt, Inglourious Basterds (2009), who also produced the picture, is a welcome addition to the cast as Canadian carpenter and abolitionist, Bass, who eventually alters Northup’s life forever.
Not much of a home sweet home!
12 Years A Slave is an undeniably incredible piece of cinema but it certainly won’t appeal to everyone as its subject matter is a little tough for some to stomach. At the same time, McQueen uses extreme amounts of silence and long shots to convey his message, again, slightly hindering the film’s overall ‘entertainment’ value. Nevertheless, the picture is equally astonishing as it is tragic, making 12 Years A Slave essential viewing for anyone old enough to understand it.
4.5 / 5 – Highly Recommended
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Good review. Felt like maybe just a bit too overrated in my book, but still a movie that deserves to be seen no less. There’s just no questions asked about that.
Mr. Movie says:
Some of my peers believe that ’12 Years A Slave’ is a tad overrated also. Nonetheless though, I still think that it’s an essential film to view for anyone interested in slavery or film in general.
Love all of McQueen’s work. This was a tough watch and I can’t say I really enjoyed it as such. I also had a couple of gripes with the story structure, but it was still an immense piece of cinema.
I agree that ’12 Years A Slave’ is a little difficult for some to ‘enjoy,’ but as you stated, it’s an immense piece of cinema that’s difficult not to recommend to others.
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Thanks for the good post to a great movie.
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The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat system with CRISPR-associated protein 9 nuclease (CRISPR/Cas9) has emerged as a versatile tool for genome editing in Candida albicans. Mounting evidence from other model systems suggests that the intracellular levels of single guide RNA (sgRNA) limit the efficiency of Cas9-dependent DNA cleavage. Here, we tested this idea and describe a new means of sgRNA delivery that improves previously described methods by ~10-fold. The efficiency of Cas9/sgRNA-dependent cleavage and repair of a single-copy yeast enhanced monomeric red fluorescent protein (RFP) gene was measured as a function of various parameters that are hypothesized to affect sgRNA accumulation, including transcriptional and posttranscriptional processing. We analyzed different promoters (SNR52, ADH1, and tRNA), as well as different posttranscriptional RNA processing schemes that serve to generate or stabilize mature sgRNA with precise 5′ and 3′ ends. We compared the effects of flanking sgRNA with self-cleaving ribozymes or by tRNA, which is processed by endogenous RNases. These studies demonstrated that sgRNA flanked by a 5′ tRNA and transcribed by a strong RNA polymerase II ADH1 promoter increased Cas9-dependent RFP mutations by 10-fold. Examination of double-strand-break (DSB) repair in strains hemizygous for RFP demonstrated that both homology-directed and nonhomologous end-joining pathways were used to repair breaks. Together, these results support the model that gRNA expression can be rate limiting for efficient CRISPR/Cas mutagenesis in C. albicans.
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Large Foundations: Rethink Your Priorities
The number of large foundations has been consistently increasing. Some of these foundations are bulging with billions of dollars in assets that could be contributed to nonprofit “good works.” It is potentially the golden age of philanthropy, but unfortunately many areas of recognized need are too often ignored by foundation boards and their executives. Organizations with track records of effective advocacy and accomplishment stand ready to take on neglected problems of our society. Unfortunately, these groups lack adequate foundation support.
When foundations do donate to important areas, such as energy policy, they often award grants to the same organizations that are not original, motivating or making necessary waves. Year after year, these bland organizations are seen as the “safe choice” for donors who are timid about new ideas and groundbreaking approaches. Cushy relationships, as has been demonstrated in the energy/environmental field, often amount to an annuity of contributions for lackluster studies and reports from the same old recipients futilely running over the same old ground.
What author and philanthropist Peter Buffett called, in a widely discussed op-ed in the July 26, 2013 New York Times, the “charitable-industrial complex” is in need of serious introspection. Is it just treading water or, in Buffett’s words, immersed in “a crisis of imagination” and not putting “foundation dollars on the best ‘risk capital’ out there?”
After decades of observing effective groups with untapped potential suffering from a dearth of funding, I can point to 15 specific missed opportunities by indifferent foundations. Even funders who acknowledge the importance of the problems these groups are grappling with almost always reply to funding requests by saying the proposals “do not fit within our guidelines.”
I say “almost always” because there were a number of pioneering moves by large foundations that serve as compelling contrasting examples. About forty-five years ago, Ford Foundation funded the startup of public interest law firms. Little more than a decade ago, the Rockefeller Foundation, followed by Ford and MacArthur Foundations, funded controversial NGO efforts, already underway, to break monopolies for pharmaceutical drug treatments for HIV/AIDs, which lowered prices from more than $30 per day to less than a dollar per day, leading to the inclusion of nearly 10 million persons on treatment from developing countries.
Here is my short list of areas where funding is needed, but lacking:
1. The area of pension rights and the shredding of pension assets by Wall Street machinations involves trillions of dollars and receives miniscule support from foundations (http://www.pensionrights.org/).
2. Pressing for action regarding corporate governance, corporate welfare, and corporate crime, fraud and abuse is largely underfunded. Years ago, a study by Archibald Gillies found less than 5% of foundation donations go to nonprofit groups working in this massive arena.
3. Over five hundred billion dollars a year are spent on all federal government purchasing of goods and services from corporations, including weapons systems, health care, energy, paper and more. In 1988 we hosted “The Stimulation Effect: A National Conference on the Uses of Government Procurement Leverage to Benefit Taxpayers and Consumers.” This successful symposium dealt with one aspect of this largely ignored subject.
4. Freedom of Information advocacy and litigation receives a pittance; but should be an easy grant focus. Information is the currency of democracy. Past and present advocacy has proven to be extremely cost-beneficial. Foundations that want to reduce chronic government secrecy should take a close look here.
5. Racial redlining is the practice whereby mortgage lenders figuratively draw a red line around minority neighborhoods and refuse to make mortgage loans available there. Mortgage and insurance redlining leads to the deterioration of communities. In 1993 we produced original GIS maps with detailed data on financial institutions that were redlining minority neighborhoods in cities all over the country. Yet, our researcher, John Brown, could barely scrape together financial support from foundations ostensibly committed to confronting racial discrimination and related poverty.
6. Auto, railroad, aviation and bus safety are terra incognita for foundation grantmakers who undoubtedly use these forms of transportation. One aviation safety group of long-proven merit, the Aviation Consumer Action Project, had to close down, while another, the Center for Auto Safety, has worked wonders, but on a tiny budget. Furthermore, advocacy groups for railroad and bus safety are rarely seen in Washington, D.C.
7. The indifference to occupational health and safety is astonishing. Foundations may think labor unions should be bearing the load in this field. Unfortunately, the AFL-CIO has very few people monitoring the weak Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Protecting worker health and safety would be a good project for a consortium of foundations to fund. Imagine—advocacy organizations focused on the companies that produce mayhem on workers. There are over 54,000 workplace-related fatalities each year. The number of injuries and illnesses is much greater.
8. Hospital-acquired infections take over 200 lives a day in the U.S.! Only recently have some foundations shown an interest in funding civic associations that work on this largely preventable tragedy.
9. Legendary foundation critic Pablo Eisenberg makes a strong case that these tax-exempt institutions should be doing far more about poverty in America (see Helping the Poor Is No Longer a Priority for Today’s Nonprofits).
10. Advocacy for tax reform is much needed considering there are hundreds of billions of avoided and evaded tax dollars every year. You can count the number of national citizen tax reform groups on one hand. This is another of the ‘starvation fields’ for worthy groups suffering from foundation indifference. (See what one group has done – Citizens for Tax Justice.)
11. Wars can often be prevented. The Iraq invasion might not have occurred if a well-staffed secretariat had been funded to organize retired prominent military, security and diplomatic officials who had openly opposed that reckless war of choice. Requests for funding for such an initiative in 2002-2003 prior to the unlawful Iraq War were ignored.
12. Some foundations avidly favor civic engagement. What better illustrates civic engagement than the hundreds of little local groups training themselves to successfully fight toxic environments facilitated by Love Canal activist, Lois Gibbs, turned national leader? Lois Gibbs is now the director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice and has had to lay off workers because of insufficient foundation grant support.
13. Encouraging consumer cooperatives, as does the National Association of Student Cooperatives (NASCO), should be an easy one for foundation support. This organization does many things right on college campuses and provides materials on the advantages of co-ops.
14. Organizing alumni classes to advocate for justice has been pioneered by Princeton University’s class of 1955 and the Harvard Law School class of 1958. The motivating affinity group known as the alumni class—out over 35 years—is an exciting model foundations should eagerly support. Yet, funding to stimulate such groups has received very little foundation support in the last 25 years.
15. The tumultuous technologies known as genetic engineering and nanotechnology receive less annual civic funding for ethical and safety monitoring than the annual salaries of one giant foundation’s executive suite. There are only three small national civic groups with a focus on questioning genetic engineering and fewer focused on the invisible nanotech industry. Nanotech and genetic engineering research has been heavily funded by taxpayers. But, holding government and corporate researchers accountable is almost impossible because of a lack of funding.
Consider the beneficial impact when foundation funding enabled, starting in the early seventies, new environmental groups to perform their historic work or the significance of foundation funding for the “real news” of independent media. More creative and bold philanthropy is needed across the spectrum of our faltering democracy; more foundations need to be interested in the justice of prevention.
Remember, increased justice lessens the need for charity. It’s time for an introspective symposium.
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Data thieves blew cover after maxing out victim’s hard drive
15 Nov 2019 2 Data loss, Privacy, Security threats
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An anonymous cybercriminal (or perhaps a gang) whose over-pilfering from a victim’s filesystem blew the “disk full” whistle on their massive data-stealing operation.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with InfoTrax, a Utah-based company that provides business operations software for multi-level marketers, after thieves stole a million sensitive customer records from its servers in 2016. The only reason it spotted the theft was because the crook filled up one of its server’s hard drives collecting the information, said the FTC in its complaint.
InfoTrax held data on almost 12 million consumers in September 2016, according to an FTC complaint which detailed what it called “unreasonable data security practices”.
The company didn’t delete consumer information held in its databases when it was no longer necessary, and didn’t audit the security of its software or network, the Commission said. Neither did it segment its network to stop attackers moving laterally through it. Perhaps the most damning allegation was that the company stored social security numbers (SSNs), full payment card information, bank account data and login credentials unencrypted.
These loopholes enabled an attacker to break into the company’s network back in May 2014 and insert a malware back door. Over the next two years, this hole let them view, download, and delete files on the company’s servers, and upload more software at will. The attacker accessed the network 17 times over the following two years before harvesting the lion’s share of the company’s sensitive data.
On 2 March 2016, they stole a million peoples’ private data, including names, addresses, email and telephone numbers, and SSNs. The FTC added that one of the compromised databases was a legacy system containing data that the company didn’t even know about.
The thing that finally alerted InfoTrax to the two-year problem was that the hacker was stealing more information than they could handle, explained the FTC complaint:
The only reason Respondents received any alerts is because an intruder had created a data archive file that had grown so large that the disk ran out of space.
The incident response was, shall we say, leisurely. When InfoTrax finally discovered the presence of the intruder(s),
Only then did Respondents begin to take steps to remove the intruder from InfoTrax’s network.
While those steps were being taken, more data was being pilfered: On 14 March 2016, the attacker hit the company through a website portal for its distributors. On 29 March they uploaded more malicious code via an InfoTrax client’s web portal, collecting fresh data that included “newly submitted full names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and CVVs.”
InfoTrax agreed to settle the case with the FTC. The settlement, with the company and its founder Mark Rawlins, forces InfoTrax to create an information security program with cybersecurity safeguards including network segmentation, detection of unknown file uploads, an intrusion prevention system, and data encryption. It must also enlist a penetration tester and software code review, the settlement added, and InfoTrax must get regular security audits from third-party providers.
InfoTrax posted a public statement saying that it had already put in place many of the FTC’s mandated steps, adding:
We deeply regret that this security incident happened. Information security is critical and integral to our operations, and our clients’ and customers’ security and privacy is our top priority.
The settlement agreement doesn’t impose any monetary penalties on the company. Commissioners passed it unanimously.
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The outstanding waters of Baldface Creek as the flow into the North Fork Smith - Ken Anderson
Recognize the North Fork Smith River As Outstanding Resource Waters
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Testimony to the Department of Environmental Quality for the Outstanding Resource Waters designation for the North Fork Smith River, its tributaries and wetlands.
Greetings Environmental Quality Commission,
My name is Jake Crawford and I am here today on behalf of the Native Fish Society, our 3,000 members and supporters, and over 80 grassroots River Stewards who are in favor of the Department of Environmental Quality’s proposal to designate the remarkably pure and clean waters of the North Fork Smith River and its associated tributaries and wetlands as Outstanding Resource Waters. NFS is a science-based, conservation non-profit that works with place-based volunteers to help protect and recover wild, native fish and steward their habitats.
The North Fork Smith River and its tributaries are truly an Oregon gem, and we are fortunate to have such outstanding, intact waters in our state. The first time I saw the North Fork Smith I was amazed by its beauty, and was grateful for water so pure you could drink from its ginclear falls that flowed right into your bottle. Not only should the North Fork Smith River and its tributaries be recognized for the exceptionally clean, clear waters it provides to downstream communities, but these waters are integral to the recovery of threatened coho salmon, and provide critical habitat for world-class runs of wild steelhead, fall Chinook salmon, sea-run and resident cutthroat trout and rainbow trout.
The long-term survival of these native species depend on the protections afforded to them, and an Outstanding Resource Waters designation will help prevent degradation to this unique and important watershed, and it is consistent with other goals and plans from other management agencies who work in this watershed. For these reasons, I urge the Environmental Quality Commission to designate the North Fork Smith River and its associated tributaries and wetlands as Outstanding Resource Waters. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today and for your consideration.
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First autumn storm of season to hit Netherlands on Wednesday
By Janene Pieters on September 12, 2017 - 08:29
Wind sockPhoto: Joanjoc / Wikimedia Commons
The Netherlands' coastal provinces will face the season's first official autumn storm on Wednesday, according to meteorological institute KNMI. The KNMI warns of wind gusts on the coast and the IJsselmeer of up to 90 kilometers per hour. Weerplaza forecasts winds of up to 120 kilometers per hour on the Wadden.
The KNMI issued a code yellow weather warning for Zeeland, Zuid-Holland, Noord-Holland, Friesland and Groningen. The warning takes effect at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning and will stay in place until 8:00 p.m. that evening. Traffic and outdoor activities may be hindered by the storms, the meteorological institute warns.
According to traffic information service VID, the height of the storm will blow across the country between morning rush hour and early afternoon on Wednesday, NU.nl reports. "The biggest danger lies in trees being blown down and branches being blown away", according to the VID. The service warns against driving with empty trucks or trailers on Wednesday.
Weerplaza warns that trees can be blown over easier than usual. "Because off the rainfall of recent days, the soil is looser than normal", Michiel Severin of Weerplaza said, according to the newspaper. "In addition, the trees are still full in leaf, making them easier to bow over than normal. Big branches with a lot of leaves can hardly withstand the winds."
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“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires” – Napoleon
The emperor Napoleon used two key interchangeable battle plans: manoeuvre and attrition. In the first, Napoleon's main force held the enemy's attention to his front, while other forces fell upon one of his flanks. The second poured frontal firepower into those he wished to overthrow in enormous amounts until they appeared to weaken, then great masses of men would be thrown in to smash their way through. Such a battle was costly affair. But it worked until Wellington beat him at Waterloo, in a far-from-guaranteed victory.
This week, history repeated itself.
From 19-21 April, for the first time in almost 20 years, the United Nations held aGeneral Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem and policy. This session, in New York, was the grand finale of heavily financed global pro-cannabis, pro-legalisation media manoeuvres. Taking up the rear, personal attacks including internet trolling were used to silence individuals wishing to prevent and reduce drug use worldwide – as my own and this website’s experience can attest.
According to the Washington Times, over $48million was poured into this campaign by George Soros alone, a man feted for his philanthropic funding of international-policy and journalism schools and scholarships in strategic areas.
Another $70million of his firepower was directed to pro-legalisation organisations, enabling groups such as the International Drugs Policy Consortium (IDPC, funded also by unwitting taxpayers via the EU Commission) and Stop The Harm, to smash their way via a further 213 organisations into UNGASS debates.
“The pro-legalisation movement hasn’t come from a groundswell of the people. A great deal of its funding and fraud has been perpetrated by George Soros and then promoted by celebrities,” confirmed John Walters, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
For example, Soros donated $5million in 2008 and more in 2012 for Barack Obama’s US presidential campaigns and has funded current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Soros’ accounts also show that he also donated at least $250,000 to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s foundation with Annan most stronglyadding his voice to the ranks of the pro-cannabis campaign.
The largest single recipient of Soros’s $200million largesse in this area since 1994, according to Forbes magazine is the Drug Policy Alliance headed by Ethan Nadelmann.
The outcome of all this investment has been, as no doubt planned, a constant salvo of headlines. “The war on drugs is dead,” wrote IDPC. “The best reasons why we must reform our drug laws,” blasted Richard Branson via the Virgin website, referring to and praising a pro-legalisation letter “brilliantly collated by the Drug Policy Alliance”.
And who else but the DPA called the press conference proclaiming that: “World leaders call for decriminalisation and regulation of drugs,” ironically referring to many of those it had itself been involved in funding. Dutifully and obediently, the Washington Post wrote that “More than 1,000 world leaders say the drug war has been a disaster” while the Huffington Post wrote of “Censorship and exclusion on Day One of UNGASS” (HuffPo and WP links to Soros).
Abroad, Kerry Cullinan, director of South Africa Health News Service funded by – well you probably guessed – fired a broadside with “How to get rid of a 'delusional, dangerous' policy on drugs”.
In the UK, Nick Clegg speaking on behalf of the Global Commission on Drugs Policy(GCDP) funded by – yes, you’ve guessed again –charged in, accusing Home Secretary Theresa May of tampering with a Coalition pro-legalisation report he'd engineered when deputy PM. Ironically, his attack merely succeeded in showing the ‘Portuguese Model’ of decriminalisation hadn’t emerged so bright and shiny under scrutiny.
The Lancet was also on hand to publish its sympathetic ‘scientific’ evidence for the legalisation cause. But then its editor chief editor, Sir Richard Horton, is a key adviser to the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy which in turn is funded by… do I need to repeat it again? Hence its promotion by Soros-funded Transform Drugs Policy Foundation. The British Medical Journal and the BMA have long given platforms to Transform to spin pro-drugs propaganda dressed up as science, asThe Conservative Woman revealed in another blog.
All these roads, so to speak, trace back back to one source – to one man.
Given his massive investment and global campaign, many feared that this month’s United Nations’ session would mark the beginning of the end of drugs control. But to the surprise of many, the UNGASS battle didn’t play out as the legalising lobby hoped.
“UN drugs summit opens with worldwide divisions laid bare,” came the BBC headline.
Yes, Jamaica defended its decriminalisation of possession of small amounts of marijuana; Canada stated its intention to liberalise drugs; and Switzerland argued for a four-pronged approach: prevention, therapy, damage limitation and repression.
But Iran stated it had seized 620 tons of drugs last year and was helping protect the world from "the evils of addiction”. Singapore, too, slammed calls for a soft approach. Indonesia called for a zero-tolerance approach.Cuba (please note) also opposed the legalisation of drugs and condemned any declaration suggesting them to be harmless: "It will be really difficult to solve the problems of mass production of and trafficking in drugs from the South, if the majority demand from the North [ie, US] is not eliminated”. Did Obama take this on board on his recent Cuban sojourn, I wonder?
But while US drug czar Michael Botticelli wobbled on the political tightrope, it was Russia and Putin who provided the most powerful resistance to the pro-legalisation campaign.
So, despite the barrage, on 19 April the United Nations, led by UNODC head Yury Fedotov of Russia, opted for a ‘new’ framework that wasn’t new at all. It reaffirmed the cornerstone principles of the global drug control system, emphasising “the health and welfare of humankind that is the founding purpose of the international drug conventions”.
Who won the UNGASS battle then? Not George Soros and his liberal American political allies, but the Russians filling the leadership void that the US under Obama has abandoned – with the backing of the majority of the world’s leaders (press: please note).
There was a Parthian shot. On the last day of the week, hors de combat,The Guardian proclaimed: “Legalise all drugs,' business and world leaders tell UN”. Actually, the world leaders had agreed and signed the UN document. The Guardianreferred merely to former leaders, members of the Soros-funded GCDP.
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war,” Bonaparte advised. We have been taught much.
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Suicide Rates in Illinois Rise 23 Percent from 1999 to 2016: CDC
WTTW News | June 8, 2018 3:58 pm
Across the U.S., suicide rates are on the rise. A report this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in every state except Nevada, rates of suicide increased between 1999 and 2016.
Illinois saw an increase of 22.8 percent during that time frame; in 25 states, the suicide rate rose more than 30 percent, the report states. More than half of those who took their own lives did not have a known medical condition.
The report comes during a week in which celebrity suicides are prominent in headlines. On Friday, CNN reported the apparent suicide of chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, the 61-year-old host of award-winning show “Parts Unknown.” The death Tuesday of American fashion designer Kate Spade was a ruled a suicide by the New York City medical examiner’s office Thursday.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. and claimed more than 45,000 lives of Americans ages 10 and up in 2016, according to CDC data. There is seldom a single factor behind the action. “Relationship problems or loss, substance misuse; physical health problems; and job, money, legal or housing stress often contributed to risk for suicide,” a press release about the report notes.
Firearms were the most common method of suicide.
The report stresses the importance of community involvement at every level in preventing suicide, from efforts by individual states to employers, schools and even the media. It also highlights warning signs – such as extreme mood swings and increased anxiety – and five steps for helping someone at risk: ask, keep them safe, be there, help them connect and follow up.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, contact the National Suicide Prevention Line by phone (1-800-273-8255) or chat (suicidepreventionlifeline.org).
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Mbaka Prophesy: Tension in Imo as Supreme Court to deliver judgment on gov election
Uche Emmanuel January 12, 2020 Politics No Comments
The Supreme Court has announced that it would deliver judgment on the petitions against the declaration of Emeka Ihedioha, as the governor of Imo state by the Independent National Electoral Commission on Monday.
While members of the Peoples Democratic Party are upbeat that the apex court would uphold Ihedioha’s victory, members of the All Progressives Congress and All Progressives Grand Alliance are also hopeful that the judgment would go in their favour.
The director of Imo Orientation Agency, Martin Opara, told newmen that there was no cause for alarm, expressing optimism that the apex court would uphold the governor’s election.
He said that the declaration of Ihedioha as governor was in tandem with the electoral act as against the position of the petitioners.
Opara said “there is no cause for the alarm. The governor will win at the Supreme Court as he won at the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal respectively. This is a governor that was voted by the majority of our people.”
But the APC chairman in the state, Daniel Nwafor, said that he was hopeful that the judgment would go in favour of his party.
Meanwhile, Newsflash247 had earlier reported that the Founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka on January 1, has revealed that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Hope Uzodimma will take over from the incumbent Governor, Emeka Ihedioha.
Father Mbaka made this known at his 2019 Passover ministration where he made other shocking prophesy about Nigeria.
The incumbent governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, is of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Mbaka, who said he did not know the manner which the revelation would manifest, however maintained that “no prophesy has ever been declared on this prayer ground without coming to pass”
According to him: “Many things are going to happen in Nigeria this 2020 that will shock countrymen and countrywomen; but all would be to God’s glory.
“In spite of all the hard time that would happen this 2020, there is hope.
“In Imo State, there is hope. Hope, hope, hope … hope in Imo State!
“Imo people have suffered but God is raising a new hope that would be an agent of salvation for them.
“He’s coming with a new flag to restore the dignity of that noble land. A new leadership that will break barriers and there would be joy in the land of Imo.
“Lift your candles as I bless Hope Uzodinma; and I empower him to, spiritually take over. How, I do not know.
“Please, if you heard that there would be a new government in Imo and you don’t like the message; if I say Hope, you can say hopeless but do not fight me.
“I am saying this in respect of those who may want to come after me because of the message. If you do that, the God of Moses, Elijah and Elisha will deal with you. I am only a messenger of God”.
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Panel to Discuss AI’s Impacts on Business
August 7, 2019 | Meetings, Second Feature
The Sept. 24 General Session of the ARTBA National Convention: Robots & Artificial Intelligence: How Transportation Design & Construction Firms Are Preparing for a New Era – Features:
Moderator: Tom Webb, vice president of strategic initiatives and customer relations, HCSS
Carson T. Carney, vice president of sales & technology integration, TyBot, LLC
Andy E. Kaiyala, vice president of engineering, The Lane Construction Corp.
Jim Peterson, design build director & senior vice president, HNTB Corporation; and
Mitch Tobias, Market Manager, Caterpillar Inc.
By Mark Holan, editorial director, ARTBA
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the July/August issue of ARTBA’s Transportation Builder magazine.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies are not far-in-the-future aids to transportation design and construction. It’s already on the job.
On the Koppel Bridge decking project near Pittsburgh, an autonomous rebar-tying robot sped the operation and reduced labor needs. Instead of splitting crews between placing, framing, and bulk tying the deck’s reinforcing steel, the contractor adjusted the work plan by focusing their preparation of larger areas as the automated robot worked uninterrupted over 125,250 horizontal rebar intersections.
“Currently, AI is trying to work its way into the existing work crews, equipment, and planning,” says Carson T. Carney, vice president of sales & technology integration at TyBot, LLC, and a convention panelist. “Eventually this will flip, and the industry will adapt the crews, equipment, and planning to maximize the benefits of AI.”
Potentially, infrastructure designs will be adapted to accommodate AI and other technology, and largely for the same reason the construction industry has made earlier changes: economics.
At ARTBA’s 2019 National Convention, business and other thought leaders and industry experts will discuss how AI, robotics, and automation are impacting the services offered by transportation design and construction firms; the workforce they recruit and develop, and how they interact with customers. This article previews the discussion to come.
Amber MacArthur, president of digital media company AmberMac Media, Inc. and the convention’s keynote speaker, says there are dozens of ways AI will impact the construction industry, including better systems to keep large projects on budget; as well as logistics, customer-relations, management support, workflow automation, human resources, and finance.
“The best opportunity for construction businesses to leverage AI in the near future is to integrate new tools and technologies that allow for work to be done smarter, faster, and more data-driven,” MacArthur says.
Tom Webb, vice president of strategic initiatives and customer relations at HCSS, will moderate a key panel of industry experts.
“We will look at comparable industries and see the impact already realized in those industries, discover where investment is happening in our industry today, and discuss where we expect this to be going in the short, mid, and long-term,” he says.
Webb asks attendees to prepare for the session—and really the whole convention—by asking themselves these questions: What could robotics be used for within our company? Where do I see artificial intelligence used today? What do I know about Blockchain? How can we use devices from the Internet of Things? How tech-ready are our newer employees compared to our traditional employees? What do our customers expect from us with technology?
Workforce Impact
Convention speaker Ross Smith, director of Skype for Good at Microsoft and one of the nation’s top innovation thought leaders, notes the number of workers displaced by technology is growing across industries, including transportation construction.
“Over the last few decades, design and build processes have leveraged technologies such as CAD/CAM,” he says. “Looking ahead, 3D modeling, 3D printed structures,
autonomous construction vehicles, radio-frequency identification (RFID), and sensors all have the potential to disrupt traditional processes.”
And processes impact the workforce. The construction industry is currently coping with a significant gap between workforce availability and demand.
“There is no expectation that this disparity will be resolved through increased availability, so we must resolve the situation by making the workforce more productive,” Carney says. “Automation allows the existing workers to be more productive.”
It also will keep them safer.
“Robots perform the same work while removing the workers from exposure to high risk activities,” says TyBot’s Carney. “The less manhours that are expended to perform high risk activities,
the better safety performance contractors will achieve.”
Smith and MacArthur, who each work outside the construction industry, also emphasize technology’s role in safety for workers and the public that use the transportation systems they build.
Panelist Jim Peterson, design build director & senior vice president, HNTB Corporation, warns that these changes won’t happen overnight.
“We have skilled operators throughout the industry,” he says. “Any change to a machine doing it without a person in the cab, or a machine back in the office controlling the equipment in the field, will take time.”
Peterson also says human project managers will continue to play a vital role, deploying AI and other technology as tools, as they continue to “run the projects and not let the projects run them.”
Still, he acknowledges that workforce will be impacted as some tasks shift to automated processes.
Lane Construction Corp. Vice President Engineering Andy Kaiyala agrees. “New personnel with new technical training will be required, and leadership that can embrace the elimination of paper documents as the contract deliverable and move toward a model-centric contract will also be required. There will be an expansion of the hiring pool into additional technical areas,” Kaiyala said.
Peterson and Kaiyala see the benefits of autonomous vehicles and other technology on the nation’s (and world’s) transportation infrastructure system. Vehicles will travel “faster and closer to one another, moving more goods and people through any corridor,” Peterson said. Commerce will be scheduled to move off peak through dense metro areas, or routed around commuter congestion.
The ability to “virtually” construct projects using 3D, 4D and 5D data will radically alter construction planning, said Kaiyala. “This alteration comes with an upfront cost of planning, and delayed ‘bucket in the ground’ execution, but at the same time yields more specific information on which to base the realworld planning and execution of complex tasks.”
“Some of these are incremental changes, some may move rapidly,” Peterson added.
Convention speaker Russell McMurry, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation, isn’t waiting. His agency is busy deploying 1,700 traffic signals that will communicate with autonomous vehicles about changing signals, adjusting speed, and alerting pedestrians.
“The opportunities in front of us to improve safety by embracing technology are huge,” McMurry says. “The use of AI will greatly enhance construction where our workforce doesn’t currently exist.”
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Hilton predicts the future trends set to dominate the travel and hospitality industry in the next 100 years. Credit: Hilton
Moon-walking Mini-breaks, 3D-printed Room Service and Hyper-personalised Spaces: Welcome to the Hotel of 2119
Hilton releases future-gazing report to mark its 100th anniversary
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LONDON and MCLEAN, Va. - Intergalactic getaways, fast-food nutrient pills, 2- to 3-hour working days and adaptable, personalised rooms that can transport guests everywhere from jungles to mountain ranges; in celebration of its 100th anniversary, today Hilton (NYSE: HLT) predicts the future trends set to dominate the travel and hospitality industry in the next 100 years.
In a report supported by expert insight from the fields of sustainability, innovation, design, human relations and nutrition, findings reveal how the growing sophistication of technology and climate change will impact the hotel industry in the future.
Key predictions for the hotel of the future include:
Personalisation is King
Technology will allow every space, fitting and furnishing to continuously update to respond to an individual’s real-time needs – the Lobby will conjure up anything from a tranquil spa to a buzzy bar, giving every guest the perfect, personal welcome
From temperature and lighting to entertainment and beyond, microchips under the skin will enable us to wirelessly control the setting around us based on what we need, whenever we need it
In a world filled with Artificial Intelligence, human contact and the personal touch will be more critical and sought after than ever
Technology will free up time for hotel staff to focus on what matters most: helping guests to connect with one another and building memorable moments
‘Sustainable Everything’ – The Role of Responsibility
Only businesses that are inherently responsible will survive the next century
Sustainability will be baked into everything about a hotel’s design – from weather-proofed domes to buildings made from ocean-dredged plastic
Hotels will act as the Town Hall of any community, managing local resources and contributing to the areas they serve with community-tended insect farms and vertical hydroponic crop gardens
Menu Surprises and Personalisation
Our diets will include more plant-based recipes and some surprising sources of protein – Beetle Bolognese, Plankton Pies and Seaweed Green Velvet Cake will be menu staples!
Decadent 3D-printed dinners and room service will provide unrivalled plate personalisation
Chefs will be provided with biometric data for each guest, automatically creating meals based on preferences and nutritional requirements
Futuristic Fitness and Digital Detoxes
Outswim a virtual sea turtle in the pool, or challenge yourself to climb the digital face of Mount Everest, your exercise routine will be as unique as you are. What’s more, exercise energy generated from workouts will be used to power the hotel, providing a zero-impact, circular system. Guests could even earn rewards based on reaching workout targets
Pick up where you left off with trackable workouts and holographic personal trainers
Offline will be the new luxury as we seek to find moments of tech-free time
“Since its inception in 1919, Hilton has pioneered the hospitality industry, introducing first-to-market concepts such as air-conditioning and in-room televisions. Last year, Hilton also became the first hospitality company to set science-based targets to reduce its environmental impact,” said Simon Vincent, EVP & President, EMEA, Hilton. “We enter our second century with the same commitment to innovation, harnessing the power of our people and technology to respond to guest demands. Our research paints an exciting future for the hospitality industry, highlighting the growing importance of human interaction in an increasingly tech-centric world.”
Futurologist Gerd Leonhard said: “In 2119 we will still be searching for unique experiences, but they will be more personalised than ever. As technology shapes our lives we will seek out moments of offline connection with others, including hotel team members who will help us truly get what we need from our stays. One hundred years from now hotels will have to create opportunities to converse, collaborate and connect, delivering moments that matter, individually, to each and every guest.”
To find out more, download a copy of Hilton’s report outlining the hotel of the future, here.
About Gerd Leonhard
Gerd is a futurologist, university lecturer and author working across EMEA. Gerd has a wealth of experience discussing future aspects on a range of topics, and is one of the most sought-after speakers and experts in this arena. Gerd is not just a leading expert on the future, he is also a humanist who believes that all scientific and technological progress should further collective human flourishing and has been noted as one of the most influential experts in Europe. Gerd’s work focusses on the future of humanity and technology, digital ethics, artificial intelligence, future-leadership and communications.
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 17 world-class brands comprising nearly 6,000 properties with more than 954,000 rooms, in 117 countries and territories. Dedicated to fulfilling its mission to be the world’s most hospitable company, Hilton earned a spot on the 2019 World’s Best Workplaces list, and has welcomed more than 3 billion guests in its 100-year history. Through the award-winning guest loyalty program Hilton Honors, more than 100 million members who book directly with Hilton can earn Points for hotel stays and experiences money can’t buy, plus enjoy instant benefits, including digital check-in with room selection, Digital Key, and Connected Room. Visit newsroom.hilton.com for more information, and connect with Hilton on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
Rosie Morris
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What’s Ahead For AMD in 2019
December 27, 2018 admin 160 Views 0 Comment 2019, Ahead, What’s
2019 is going to be a major year for both of the top players in the PC market — but it’s going to impact them in different ways, and the two companies are playing for remarkably different stakes. The Intel-versus-AMD story remains a major component of the tech community, but it’s evolved in some surprising directions compared to what one might have expected five years ago, and the two companies are playing for somewhat different stakes these days. We’re going to talk about what’s coming next for both AMD and Intel, starting with AMD.
AMD: Betting it All on Lucky 7
For AMD, 2019 is all about 7nm and the manufacturing and technological innovation tied to its next-generation process node. These transitions have historically been pain points for the company, and its long-term record over the past 17 years is scattered with a number of difficult shifts, either between microarchitectures, nodes, or both.
This is not to say that AMD has never had a successful transition, but these inflection points have tended to reveal strategic weaknesses in the company’s ability to maintain performance or product leadership. AMD’s most central challenge for the year is to continue building on the success of Ryzen and continue taking market share in desktop, server, and mobile. We don’t have a timeline for 7nm Ryzen or Epyc launches yet, but Rome (the 7nm Epyc die shrink) is expected in volume in the back half of the year, with Q3 a likely target. If AMD launches Ryzen first, that suggests a 7nm debut in Q2. If it leads with Epyc, we might also look to Q3 for Ryzen.
AMD will launch Navi at some point in 2019, though that GPU is rumored as a midrange part rather than a high-end challenger, and there are rumors of 7nm Vega chips for the consumer market as well. The focus, for AMD, will be on demonstrating a solid set of overall architectural improvements across both CPUs and GPUs to win new market space in server, desktop, and mobile. The focus for Ryzen thus far has been on server and desktop markets and presumably this will continue.
Marginal Considerations
At the same time, we expect Lisa Su to focus on continuing to build AMD’s margins. This has been a major focus on AMD conference calls and in Q&A sessions with investors. AMD’s stockholders are well aware that, the stock’s recent performance notwithstanding, AMD has historically suffered from erratic performance as the company’s fortunes have risen and fallen. Strong margins — AMD’s are currently up to ~40-41%, compared to ~34% in the recent past — are an important mark of overall health.
The margin question is complex, with a variety of pushes and pulls. Su’s tenure at AMD has been marked by a few distinct trends. Under her leadership, AMD has pursued multiple long-term licensing and product manufacturing deals, trading high margins for long design cycles in some cases (PS4, Xbox One), and signing IP licensing deals in other cases. The IP licensing deals are great for margin and can help smooth quarterly results, while the long console product cycles were critical to helping AMD survive into the Ryzen era in the first place.
We don’t expect to hear much about the Xbox Next and PS5 until 2020 rolls around, but AMD could still announce new semicustom wins in 2019 and we’ll hear at least general discussion of the expected shape of the console business as cloud gaming services continue to ramp.
Console and semicustom margins tend to be low, in other words, though the margins for PS5 and Xbox Next will be highest at launch, assuming AMD uses a similar agreement for these systems that it used for Xbox One / PS4. The impact of IP licensing is generally quite good for margins. Epyc sales and launching Ryzen into higher price points is good for margin. How much additional profit AMD makes on 7nm is a complicated question that’ll depend on how good its 7nm yields are, how much its paying for wafers at TSMC, any associated penalties or costs that might be part of its 14nm WSA with GF, any additional costs associated with combining the TSMC / GF silicon on the same package, and, of course, just how good 7nm Ryzen and Epyc actually are compared to Intel.
Long-Tailed Margins
AMD isn’t just depending on its 7nm hardware to drive profits, however, and this point is often missed in discussions of how companies price products at launch. According to Lisa Su during AMD’s Q3 2018 conference call, “2018 remains an inflection point for AMD, as we expect to exit the year with well over 50% of our revenue coming from new products, driving significant margin expansion.”
“New products,” in this context, refers to the Ryzen, Epyc, Vega, and Polaris families in their various refreshes and designs. It may or may not include the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro (as compared to the 2013 original designs). What’s striking about this paragraph is that it shows how long it takes for older hardware to transition out of the market. Based on how thoroughly Ryzen annihilated the old Piledriver cores, you might think Bulldozer and Carrizo had been completely driven from the market. This won’t actually happen until after Ryzen’s second birthday.
AMD’s Largest Challenges
AMD’s biggest challenges will be to demonstrate the strength and maturity of its 7nm deployments. CPU-side, that means Ryzen and Epyc and continued goals for increased market share in desktop, consumer, and mobile. GPU-side, consumer Vega didn’t demonstrate the kind of performance leadership that GPU fans were hoping for, leaving all eyes on Navi. AMD’s ability to build solid silicon for consoles is not in doubt, but the company hasn’t robustly competed in the high-end GPU market for years.
If AMD is serious about taking the fight to Nvidia and Intel in AI, ML, and GPU virtualization markets, it’s going to have to do a better job at both fielding and communicating about its competitive hardware solutions. When I’ve asked acquaintances and contacts who work in these fields whether they’ve considered AMD hardware, the response is always some variant of “I think Nvidia is required.”
Navi doesn’t need to revolutionize the entire space, top-to-bottom, but wherever it lands, it needs to land well, and AMD needs to demonstrate a sustained commitment to building the infrastructure and software development teams to support whatever play it intends to make in the GPU market outside of consoles, APUs, and their obvious adjacencies. 7nm Vega got the ball rolling in 2018, but AMD needs to demonstrate some momentum around its own parts.
2017 was the year AMD proved it could still build a high-end microprocessor. 2018 demonstrated it could build demand for those solutions and keep its 12nm refresh cycle on-track. In 2019, AMD will be focused on pulling off a difficult node-and-architecture transition, building new console SoCs, and working to break into markets like deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
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Richard J Bischoff, PhD
Professor, Children, Youth and Family Studies
Gwendolyn A Newkirk Professor of Leadership in Child, Youth & Family Studies, Children, Youth and Family Studies
Chairperson, Children, Youth and Family Studies
EmailRBISCHOFF2@UNL.EDU
Global proofing a collaborative care telemental health intervention in Brazil
Springer, P. R., Scheeren, P., Bischoff, R. J., Taylor, N. C., Cargnin, D., Barros, E. & Falceto, O. G., Jun 2018, In : Families, Systems and Health. 36, 2, p. 175-181 7 p.
Global Mental Health in Action: Reducing Disparities One Community at a Time
Bischoff, R. J., Springer, P. R. & Taylor, N., Apr 1 2017, In : Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 43, 2, p. 276-290 15 p.
Enhancing family agency through family-centered practices
Bischoff, R. J., Springer, P. R. & Baker, G., Oct 2016, In : Indian Journal of Social Work. 77, 4, p. 425-436 12 p.
rural community
Using Experiential Interventions With Distance Technology: Overcoming Traditional Barriers
Springer, P. R., Farero, A., Bischoff, R. J. & Taylor, N. C., Apr 2 2016, In : Journal of Family Psychotherapy. 27, 2, p. 148-153 6 p.
Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution: Using Technology to Support Couples Throughout Deployment
Farero, A. M., Springer, P., Hollist, C. & Bischoff, R., Sep 25 2015, In : Contemporary Family Therapy. 37, 3, p. 281-290 10 p.
Community-based participatory research: Where family therapists can make a difference
Robinson, D., Olson, M. M., Bischoff, R., Springer, P. & Geske, J., Jan 1 2014, Advanced Methods in Family Therapy Research: A Focus on Validity and Change. Taylor and Francis, p. 282-297 16 p.
Community-Based Participatory Research
Succeeding in Rural Mental Health Practice: Being Sensitive to Culture by Fitting in and Collaborating
Bischoff, R. J., Reisbig, A. M. J., Springer, P. R., Schultz, S., Robinson, W. D. & Olson, M., Mar 1 2014, In : Contemporary Family Therapy. 36, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.
Taped supervision as a reflecting team
Bischoff, R. J., Jan 1 2014, 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy. Taylor and Francis, p. 36-40 5 p.
Rural experiences with mental illness: Through the eyes of patients and their families
David Robinson, W., Springer, P. R., Bischoff, R. J., Geske, J. A., Backer, E. L., Olson, M., Jarzynka, K. J. & Swinton, J., Dec 1 2012, In : Families, Systems and Health. 30, 4, p. 308-321 14 p.
Training for collaboration: Collaborative practice skills for mental health professionals
Bischoff, R. J., Springer, P. R., Reisbig, A. M. J., Lyons, S. & Likcani, A., Jun 1 2012, In : Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 38, SUPPL.1, p. 199-210 12 p.
Finding the Heart of Medical Family Therapy: A Content Analysis of Medical Family Therapy Casebook Articles
Bischoff, R. J., Springer, P. R., Felix, D. S. & Hollist, C. S., Sep 1 2011, In : Families, Systems and Health. 29, 3, p. 184-196 13 p.
Connecting behaviors and newlyweds' sense of shared-meaning and relationship satisfaction
Phillips, E. E., Bischoff, R. J., Abbott, D. A. & Xia, Y., Jul 1 2009, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 8, 3, p. 247-263 17 p.
early marriage
Telehealth and Rural Depression: Physician and Patient Perspectives
Swinton, J. J., Robinson, W. D. & Bischoff, R. J., Jun 1 2009, In : Families, Systems and Health. 27, 2, p. 172-182 11 p.
Foster Home Care
Couple therapy for substance abuse
Bischoff, R. J., May 27 2008, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 7, 2, p. 175-179 5 p.
The role of dependence in couple relationships
Bischoff, R. J., Aug 5 2008, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 7, 3, p. 267-273 7 p.
Providers' Perspectives on Troublesome Overusers of Medical Services
Bischoff, R. J., Hollist, C. S., Patterson, J. E., Williams, L., Prest, L. & Barkdull, M. D., Dec 1 2007, In : Families, Systems and Health. 25, 4, p. 392-403 12 p.
Medical Overuse
Research on alcohol related problems: Implications for couple therapy
Bischoff, R. J., Nov 28 2007, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 6, 3, p. 81-87 7 p.
Research on american indians and alaska natives with implications for couples therapy
Bischoff, R. J., Dec 14 2007, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 6, 4, p. 85-91 7 p.
North American Indians
Current research on the relationship between work and marriage
Bischoff, R. J., Apr 27 2006, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 5, 1, p. 91-96 6 p.
Recent research with implications for working with latino couples
Bischoff, R. J., Oct 16 2006, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 5, 4, p. 81-86 6 p.
The implications for couple therapy of recent research on domestic violence
Bischoff, R. J., Jun 15 2006, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 5, 2, p. 71-76 6 p.
The implications of newsworthy research to the practice of couple therapy
Cancer and the couple relationship: The implications of recent findings for couple therapy
Bischoff, R. J., Feb 21 2005, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 4, 1, p. 93-99 7 p.
Inter-Cultural and Inter-Racial couples: The implications of the research on practice
Addressing the mental health needs of the rural underserved: Findings from a multiple case study of a behavioral telehealth project
Bischoff, R. J., Hollist, C. S., Smith, C. W. & Flack, P., Jun 1 2004, In : Contemporary Family Therapy. 26, 2, p. 179-198 20 p.
Considerations in the use of telecommunications as a primary treatment medium: The application of behavioral telehealth to marriage and family therapy
Bischoff, R. J., May 1 2004, In : American Journal of Family Therapy. 32, 3, p. 173-187 15 p.
Marital Therapy
Depression: Implications of recent findings for couple therapy
The husband’s experience of his wife’s childhood sexual abuse: An exploratory study and implications for couple therapy
Hunt-Amos, S., Bischoff, R. J. & Pretorius, R., Dec 14 2004, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 3, 4, p. 1-21 21 p.
The transition to parenthood: Implications of recent findings for couple therapy
Bischoff, R. J., Jan 21 2004, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 3, 1, p. 69-75 7 p.
Infidelity: The implications of current research for couple therapy
Recent research findings about elderly couples
Bischoff, R. J., Sep 20 2003, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 2, 1, p. 67-71 5 p.
Events and experiences impacting the development of clinical self confidence: A study of the first year of client contact
Bischoff, R. J., Barton, M., Thober, J. & Hawley, R., Jul 2002, In : Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 28, 3, p. 371-382 12 p.
Psychological Stress
Predictions of Marital Stability and the Implications of the Ability to Predict for Marital Therapy: The Contributions of John Gottman
Bischoff, R. J., Jan 2002, In : Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy. 1, 1, p. 105-110 6 p.
The pathway toward clinical self confidence
Bischoff, R. J. & Barton, M., May 15 2002, In : American Journal of Family Therapy. 30, 3, p. 231-242 12 p.
Critical Pathways
Primary health care und die folgen einer verleugnungsstrategie: Ineffizientes und unökonomisches management von gesundheitsproblemen durch weitgehendes ausblenden des weltverständnisses, des selbstbildes und der psyche der klienten aus dem behandlungskontext
: Primary health care and the consequences of a strategy of denial: Inefficient and uneconomical management of health problems due to a far-reaching omission of clients' world-view, self-image und psyche from the context of therapy
Bischoff, R. & Reitmaier, P., Feb 14 2001, In : PPmP Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie. 51, 1, p. 34-40 7 p.
The role of gender in the presentation of mental health clinicians in the movies: Implications for clinical practice
Bischoff, R. J. & Reiter, A. D., Jan 1 1999, In : Psychotherapy. 36, 2, p. 180-189 10 p.
Rocks and rituals in producing therapeutic change
Barton, M. A. & Bischoff, R. J., Sep 17 1998, In : Journal of Family Psychotherapy. 9, 3, p. 31-41 11 p.
Ceremonial Behavior
Training for collaboration: Suggestions for the joint training of mental health clinicians and family practice residents
Patterson, J., Scherger, J., Bischoff, R. J. & McIntosh-Koonitz, L., Jan 1 1998, In : Families, Systems and Health. 16, 1-2, p. 147-157 11 p.
Managed Care Programs
Curriculum changes to meet challenges: Preparing MFT students for managed care settings
Patterson, J. E., Baron, M., McIntosh-Koontz, L. & Bischoff, R., Oct 1997, In : Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 23, 4, p. 445-459 15 p.
Themes in therapist development during the first three months of clinical experience
Bischoff, R. J., Dec 1997, In : Contemporary Family Therapy. 19, 4, p. 563-580 18 p.
Client perceptions of couples and family therapy
Bischoff, R. J. & McBrlde, A. N., Mar 1 1996, In : American Journal of Family Therapy. 24, 2, p. 117-128 12 p.
Neighbourhood support to families with a disabled child: Observations on a coping strategy of caregivers in a Jamaican community-based rehabilitation programme
Bischoff, R., Thorburn, M. J. & Reitmaier, P., Nov 1 1996, In : Child: Care, Health and Development. 22, 6, p. 397-410 14 p.
Disabled Children
Therapist-conducted consultation: Using clients as consultants to their own therapy
Bischoff, R. J., McKeel, A. J., Moon, S. M. & Sprenkle, D. H., Jul 1996, In : Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. 22, 3, p. 359-379 21 p.
University Family Therapy Training and a Family Medicine Residency in a managed-care setting
Patterson, J. E., Bischoff, R., Scherger, J. E. & Grauf-Grounds, C., Mar 1996, In : Families, Systems and Health. 14, 1, p. 5-16 12 p.
Dropping Out of Marriage and Family Therapy: A Critical Review of Research
BISCHOFF, RICHARD. J. & SPRENKLE, DOUGLAS. H., Sep 1993, In : Family Process. 32, 3, p. 353-375 23 p.
A biopsychosocial model for treating infertility
Williams, L., Bischoff, R. & Ludes, J., Aug 1 1992, In : Contemporary Family Therapy. 14, 4, p. 309-322 14 p.
Therapist interventions: Do they really influence client resistance?
Allgood, S. M., Bischoff, R. J., Smith, T. A. & Salts, C. J., Jan 1 1992, In : American Journal of Family Therapy. 20, 4, p. 333-340 8 p.
Conflict (Psychology)
Contact Richard J Bischoff, PhD
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A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification
Lalit Gupta, Srinivas Kota, Swetha Murali, Dennis L. Molfese, Ravi Vaidyanathan
A strategy is introduced to rank and select principal component transform (PCT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) transform coefficient features to overcome the curse of dimensionality frequently encountered in implementing multivariate signal classifiers due to small sample sizes. The criteria considered for ranking include the magnitude, variance, interclass separation, and classification accuracies of the individual features. The feature ranking and selection strategy is applied to overcome the dimensionality problem, which often plagues the implementation and evaluation of practical Gaussian signal classifiers. The applications of the resulting PCT- and DCT-Gaussian signal classification strategies are demonstrated by classifying single-channel tonguemovement ear-pressure signals and multichannel event-related potentials. Through these experiments, it is shown that the dimension of the feature space can be decreased quite significantly by means of the feature ranking and selection strategy. The ranking strategy not only facilitates overcoming the dimensionality curse for multivariate classifier implementation but also provides a means to further select, out of a rank-ordered set, a smaller set of features that give the best classification accuracies. Results show that the PCT- andDCT-Gaussian classifiers yield higher classification accuracies than those reported in previous classification studies on the same signal sets. Among the combinations of the two transforms and four feature selection criteria, the PCT-Gaussian classifiers using the maximum magnitude and maximum variance selection criteria gave the best classification accuracies across the two sets of classification experiments. Most noteworthy is the fact that the multivariate Gaussian signal classifiers developed in this paper can be implemented without having to collect a prohibitively large number of training signals simply to satisfy the dimensionality conditions. Consequently, the classification strategies can be beneficial for designing personalized human-machine interface signal classifiers for individuals from whom only a limited number of training signals can reliably be collected due to severe disabilities.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
Discrete cosine transforms
Curse of dimensionality
Discrete cosine transform (DCT)
Ear-pressure signal classification
Event-related potential (ERP) classification
Feature ranking
Human-machine interface (HMI)
Multivariate signal classification
Principal component transform (PCT)
Gupta, L., Kota, S., Murali, S., Molfese, D. L., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2010). A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, 40(1), 98-108. [5170007]. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification. / Gupta, Lalit; Kota, Srinivas; Murali, Swetha; Molfese, Dennis L.; Vaidyanathan, Ravi.
In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 40, No. 1, 5170007, 01.01.2010, p. 98-108.
Gupta, L, Kota, S, Murali, S, Molfese, DL & Vaidyanathan, R 2010, 'A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification', IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 40, no. 1, 5170007, pp. 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
Gupta L, Kota S, Murali S, Molfese DL, Vaidyanathan R. A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews. 2010 Jan 1;40(1):98-108. 5170007. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
Gupta, Lalit ; Kota, Srinivas ; Murali, Swetha ; Molfese, Dennis L. ; Vaidyanathan, Ravi. / A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification. In: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews. 2010 ; Vol. 40, No. 1. pp. 98-108.
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abstract = "A strategy is introduced to rank and select principal component transform (PCT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) transform coefficient features to overcome the curse of dimensionality frequently encountered in implementing multivariate signal classifiers due to small sample sizes. The criteria considered for ranking include the magnitude, variance, interclass separation, and classification accuracies of the individual features. The feature ranking and selection strategy is applied to overcome the dimensionality problem, which often plagues the implementation and evaluation of practical Gaussian signal classifiers. The applications of the resulting PCT- and DCT-Gaussian signal classification strategies are demonstrated by classifying single-channel tonguemovement ear-pressure signals and multichannel event-related potentials. Through these experiments, it is shown that the dimension of the feature space can be decreased quite significantly by means of the feature ranking and selection strategy. The ranking strategy not only facilitates overcoming the dimensionality curse for multivariate classifier implementation but also provides a means to further select, out of a rank-ordered set, a smaller set of features that give the best classification accuracies. Results show that the PCT- andDCT-Gaussian classifiers yield higher classification accuracies than those reported in previous classification studies on the same signal sets. Among the combinations of the two transforms and four feature selection criteria, the PCT-Gaussian classifiers using the maximum magnitude and maximum variance selection criteria gave the best classification accuracies across the two sets of classification experiments. Most noteworthy is the fact that the multivariate Gaussian signal classifiers developed in this paper can be implemented without having to collect a prohibitively large number of training signals simply to satisfy the dimensionality conditions. Consequently, the classification strategies can be beneficial for designing personalized human-machine interface signal classifiers for individuals from whom only a limited number of training signals can reliably be collected due to severe disabilities.",
keywords = "Curse of dimensionality, Discrete cosine transform (DCT), Ear-pressure signal classification, Event-related potential (ERP) classification, Feature ranking, Human-machine interface (HMI), Multivariate signal classification, Principal component transform (PCT)",
author = "Lalit Gupta and Srinivas Kota and Swetha Murali and Molfese, {Dennis L.} and Ravi Vaidyanathan",
doi = "10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews",
T1 - A feature ranking strategy to facilitate multivariate signal classification
AU - Gupta, Lalit
AU - Kota, Srinivas
AU - Murali, Swetha
AU - Molfese, Dennis L.
AU - Vaidyanathan, Ravi
N2 - A strategy is introduced to rank and select principal component transform (PCT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) transform coefficient features to overcome the curse of dimensionality frequently encountered in implementing multivariate signal classifiers due to small sample sizes. The criteria considered for ranking include the magnitude, variance, interclass separation, and classification accuracies of the individual features. The feature ranking and selection strategy is applied to overcome the dimensionality problem, which often plagues the implementation and evaluation of practical Gaussian signal classifiers. The applications of the resulting PCT- and DCT-Gaussian signal classification strategies are demonstrated by classifying single-channel tonguemovement ear-pressure signals and multichannel event-related potentials. Through these experiments, it is shown that the dimension of the feature space can be decreased quite significantly by means of the feature ranking and selection strategy. The ranking strategy not only facilitates overcoming the dimensionality curse for multivariate classifier implementation but also provides a means to further select, out of a rank-ordered set, a smaller set of features that give the best classification accuracies. Results show that the PCT- andDCT-Gaussian classifiers yield higher classification accuracies than those reported in previous classification studies on the same signal sets. Among the combinations of the two transforms and four feature selection criteria, the PCT-Gaussian classifiers using the maximum magnitude and maximum variance selection criteria gave the best classification accuracies across the two sets of classification experiments. Most noteworthy is the fact that the multivariate Gaussian signal classifiers developed in this paper can be implemented without having to collect a prohibitively large number of training signals simply to satisfy the dimensionality conditions. Consequently, the classification strategies can be beneficial for designing personalized human-machine interface signal classifiers for individuals from whom only a limited number of training signals can reliably be collected due to severe disabilities.
AB - A strategy is introduced to rank and select principal component transform (PCT) and discrete cosine transform (DCT) transform coefficient features to overcome the curse of dimensionality frequently encountered in implementing multivariate signal classifiers due to small sample sizes. The criteria considered for ranking include the magnitude, variance, interclass separation, and classification accuracies of the individual features. The feature ranking and selection strategy is applied to overcome the dimensionality problem, which often plagues the implementation and evaluation of practical Gaussian signal classifiers. The applications of the resulting PCT- and DCT-Gaussian signal classification strategies are demonstrated by classifying single-channel tonguemovement ear-pressure signals and multichannel event-related potentials. Through these experiments, it is shown that the dimension of the feature space can be decreased quite significantly by means of the feature ranking and selection strategy. The ranking strategy not only facilitates overcoming the dimensionality curse for multivariate classifier implementation but also provides a means to further select, out of a rank-ordered set, a smaller set of features that give the best classification accuracies. Results show that the PCT- andDCT-Gaussian classifiers yield higher classification accuracies than those reported in previous classification studies on the same signal sets. Among the combinations of the two transforms and four feature selection criteria, the PCT-Gaussian classifiers using the maximum magnitude and maximum variance selection criteria gave the best classification accuracies across the two sets of classification experiments. Most noteworthy is the fact that the multivariate Gaussian signal classifiers developed in this paper can be implemented without having to collect a prohibitively large number of training signals simply to satisfy the dimensionality conditions. Consequently, the classification strategies can be beneficial for designing personalized human-machine interface signal classifiers for individuals from whom only a limited number of training signals can reliably be collected due to severe disabilities.
KW - Curse of dimensionality
KW - Discrete cosine transform (DCT)
KW - Ear-pressure signal classification
KW - Event-related potential (ERP) classification
KW - Feature ranking
KW - Human-machine interface (HMI)
KW - Multivariate signal classification
KW - Principal component transform (PCT)
U2 - 10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
DO - 10.1109/TSMCC.2009.2024648
JO - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews
JF - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews
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Name ID 1854
Arusha pre 1939
Babati
Kondoa
Loliondo
Mbulu
Monduli
Ngare-Nairobi
Oldeani
Usa River
Internet Web Pages
Extract Author: Robert S. Cragg
British Commonwealth Postmarks
Attached are lists of villages and other offices where you may find a circular date stamp. Well, most are circular and almost all are dated. The lists are loosely arranged as follows:
Name as it appears in an early cancel or in the majority of cancels. Many town names, especially in Africa and Asia, have a number of spellings in English. These are ignored. But, if the town name changed significantly, the newer name is in parentheses. Names often changed because of confusing same or similar names in the same colony.
Also, independence led to de-Anglicization, especially if the town name included words such as "fort". If the town is a post office outside of the colony but administered by the colony, that is indicated.
Next is the earliest date "known" of a dated cancel or, sometimes the date of opening. If not from literature, then from my collection. Sadly, most early dates from my collection are not that early.
Then there are letter or numeral killers used alone or in conjunction with a date stamp. Sometimes several different numbers were used, perhaps in different styles. This is a huge field, only touched on here.
Lastly, the location of the village is given (or will later be given) by latitude and longitude. Sometimes this is only approximate, variables including inaccurate old maps, inaccurate new maps, moving of towns, confusion over similar town names, quirky software and my own clerical errors.
The lists are a place to get started. They are incomplete, the degree depending on what literature is available to the author. Focus is on villages with post offices around the turn of the century without attempting to include newer offices. The cut-off date for each colony varies, depending on manageability of the number of offices.
Many of the village marks are rare. Occasionally, only a single example is known. Some offices were open only a few months and have disappeared from modern maps.
[short list, with some names from Northern Tanzania]
Arusha 1922 3s22 36e41
Babati 1935 4s13 35e45
Kondoa 1920 4s54 35e47
Loliondo 1937 2s03 35e37
Mbulu 1920 sl 3s51 35e32
Monduli 1939 3s18 36e26
Moshi 1917 3s21 37e20
Ngare Nairobi 1928
Oldeani 1934 3s21 35e33
Singida 1926 4s49 34e45
Usa River 1929 3s22 36e50
Extract ID: 4302
Chris Hitchcock
Pastor Elder Jackson
Karatu
Arusha Times
Extract Author: Thomas Ratsim
Page Number: 548
Extract Date: 13 Dec 2008
Karatu pioneer missionary dies in US
Pastor Elder Jackson, a former missionary with the Karatu Lutheran Church died at the age of 88 on Saturday, November 29, this year at the Benedictine Living Community in St. Peter, Minnesota, US.
A Memorial service was held on Friday, December 5 and was attended by former missionaries and friends. Burial was conducted in Resurrection Cemetery, St Peter.
Jackson was born on February 21, 1920 in Rosholt , South Dakota and attended West Central School of Agriculture before joining Augustana Seminary in Rock Island Illinois. He was ordained Lutheran Pastor in 1948. Jackson served as Pastor in Wheaton Minnesota for one year then became Missionary in Tanzania and Kenya for thirty six years.
The late Reverend Jackson served Lutheran Church in coffee Plantations at Oldeani before he moved to Karatu in 1954 after the Lutheran mission had acquired land from a South African family, Chris Hitchcock
He is most remembered in Karatu area for establishing primary schools in villages, then known as bush schools and building houses of worship. However, in 1959, They needed to move to Singida area to continue with their mission work because his wife Renee Jackson was allergic to Karatu’s volcanic dust.
He is survived by his wife, Renee, seven children, 18 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Horst Hausleitner
Esther Stein
The Long Riders' Guild
Extract Author: Esther Stein and Horst Hausleitner
Extract Date: 8 December 2003
The welcome in Tanzania
"Well, Horst's worm is gone, I had more, smaller ones, but they are also gone. We look fantastic - from the back. We've lost a lot of weight but our faces look ten years older. The sun is damn strong and the rain doesn't really want to come. We had a little but it stopped again. It's already a month late the people say. We are in Tanzania by the way.
The horses had a few minor problems still in Zambia. Trine's saddle sore needed a drain, Sambok had a stiff neck from the injection against Nagana, he and Misty had got mange (caused by mites), and Roland had an allergic reaction against I don't know what, his whole body was covered with pimples as big as a man's fist- but now they're are all fine.
The welcome in Tanzania was overwhelming. In Tunduma the children threw stones at us and yelled "Wazungu motherfucker, wazungu go home!!" At night they untied the horses and chased them away. It took us two hours to find them the next morning. I would have loved to follow their suggestion to go home, but the only number I had from someone in Tanzania who has to do with horses and might have been able to organize a transport for the horses was wrong. So we went on.
Tanzania is a very extreme country. People are either very polite or very rude. They are definitely all very complicated. One must report to the police, then to the village chairman, and then to the village executive officer to get permission to pitch a tent somewhere. And then it might still happen that you get chased away because you are in front of a school and the school director is a Muslim whereas the village chairman who allowed you to use this place is a Christian and hasn't talked to the director first.
And no one speaks English. I'm become almost perfect in stuttering Swahili. The children are plenty, very aggressive and completely uneducated. Women are only plenty and uneducated. They both get treated by the men like cattle, beaten with the stick, but it seems it is the only language they do understand. We are never alone, people are staring at us every second of the day. If we ask them to leave us alone they just make fun of us. The pepper-spray and the bullets of the pencil flair are almost gone, I wonder what we'll use against lions in the Serengeti but I'll rather be eaten by lions than refuse to react to the provocations of the children.
Today in Singida there were about 2000 people following us and for the first time someone tried to rob us. I had just unpacked the pepper-spray against the children when I turned around and saw a guy trying to pull down my saddlebag. He did me a favour by giving me a reason to offload all the aggression that has grown in the last weeks. He got a full load of the pepper-spray and afterwards I hit him with the whip across his face.
Now we are in something called a hotel. Well for Tanzania its luxury but in fact the best thing about it is the fence around it. Privacy for two days.
Well you see we have it quite funny here and we are not in the mood to give up any more after we have made it so far. I hope by Christmas we'll make it up to Karatu. There - we've heard - is the first tourist lodge. We are looking forward to spend Christmas and New Year in some sort of civilisation but one never knows how reliable information is in this country.
Well, enjoy your soft beds (we don't miss them), the TV (we don't miss it either), cool drinks (we miss them sometimes) and the possibility to close the door of your house or flat behind you and keep everyone outside - we miss that terribly.
All the best Esther and Horst"
The Long Riders' Guild sent a quick email to Esther and Horst to wish them well, and received the following response.
"Today, after a so-called continental breakfast: 2 pieces of bread and just enough butter for one piece, hot water and instant coffee, no milk, no jam, no tea and of course no cheese or anything like this, we feel already completely recovered again. One becomes modest in Africa.
Lake Eyasi
Wataturu
nTZ Feedback
Extract Author: David Erickson
Page Number: 2004 09 26c
Extract Date: 26 September 2004
Short film on the Wataturu
Here is a link to a short film about Wataturu Pastoralists who are from the Singida Region and currently live in the Lake Eyasi basin.
http://www.kemi.fi/voimala/CPSbody.htm
http://www.kemi.fi/voimala/2004_events.htm
Inner frame page
http://www.kemi.fi/voimala/trailers.htm
Link to the trailer http://www.kemi.fi/voimala/trailer_Wataturu_500_eng.htm
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∞ https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8vq37w6/
Finding aid for the Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album 7059
Sue Luftschein
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/special-collections
Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album
Identifier/Call Number: 7059
Physical Description: 1 album.
Abstract: Photograph album of earthquake damage in Santa Barbara after earthquake of June 29, 1925. The album opens with photographs of steel frame buildings in Tokyo after a 1923 earthquake and ends with photographs of the collapse of the Hotel Vincent in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The sequence of photographs illustrates "A Warning" given in the first photograph, a poem that extols the virtues of steel frame buildings in preventing earthquake damage.
Container: 1
The Santa Barbara earthquake photograh album consists of 47 photographs, 46 of them depicting earthquake damage in Tokyo, Santa Barbara, and Benton Harbor, Michigan. The album opens with a poem entitled "A Warning" that extols the importance of steel frames in structures to prevent earthquake damage. The first photographs are of a steel frame building in Tokyo, the Yusen Building, that survived a 1923 earthquake. They are followed by a few photographs of other buildings in Tokyo that suffered extensive damage during that quake. The bulk of the album is photographs of earthquake damage in Santa Barbara after the earthquake of June 29, 1925. The album concludes with a few photographs of the Hotel Vincent in Benton Harbor, Michigan, "A building that crumbled" between January 28 and 29, 1924, presumably after an earthquake.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Santa Barbara earthquake photograph album, Collection no. 7059, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Gift of Marla Woodward, November 29, 2017.
Buildings -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs
Buildings -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Photographs
Buildings -- Michigan -- Benton Harbor -- Photographs
Earthquakes -- California -- Santa Barbara -- Photographs
Benton Harbor (Mich.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
Santa Barbara (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Archival resources
Tokyo (Japan) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
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Assorted Random Thoughts....(Thread that is Open)
The GoT finale was okay and overly-criticized.
Uber IPO: Ha ha (he says, as he needs to submit receipts for Ubers taken on his last work trip...).
I still haven't seen Avengers: Endgame.
I don't understand the group of lawyers (and others) who are dedicated to preserving/expanding/keeping the supremacy of the Executive/Presidential power. This is necessary b/c why?
People need to use their turn signals more often and earlier.
What book should I read next?
The current spate of abortion bans are unconstitutional for the reasons expressed on Roe as well as under the 8th and 9th amendments.
Go GS Warriors.
OPEN THREAD!
Posted by Ugh at 07:53 AM | Permalink
I hate Putin and everything he stands for, but what people seem to be incapable of understanding is that he's just pursuing the bog standard objectives of politics driven by the "national interest", like many other nations.
I'm not convinced. Putin appears more focused on enriching Putin than anything else.
Skewing the system to favor the local elites is one thing. That is, as you say, not uncommon. But a flat-out kleptocracy is a different kettle of fish. Puts Putin behind other petro-states when it comes to minding the national interest. I've got no brief for the UAE, let alone Saudi Arabia. But they've done better by their nations than Putin's Russia.
Regarding Russia, I hate Putin and everything he stands for, but what people seem to be incapable of understanding is that he's just pursuing the bog standard objectives of politics driven by the "national interest", like many other nations.
But Americans or the British singling out Putin, Iran, China, or whoever the threat du jour might be, is either complete ignorance or astounding hypocrisy.
But last I heard, neither the Americans or British have (for the last several decades) been sending assassination squads to poison political critics/enemies in other nations, not to mention risking local populations' health with secret radioactive substances. (I suppose you can make a case for the assassination of Osama bin Laden, but good luck standing up that equivalence). And also not to mention the astonishingly awful human rights situation in Russia for LGBT people, or indeed internal critics.
1. the US is always wrong.
2. Russia might be wrong, but that doesn't matter because #1
Posted by: cleek | June 07, 2019 at 02:32 PM
Hey, Girl from the North Country, I've been reading something that made me think "I need to recommend this to someone besides my usual outlets", and realized, it's you. :) So here goes.
Reaktion Books publishes a series called Lost Civilizations. So far I've read The Greeks and am halfway through The Indus, and am loving both. They are, in a good way, at the level of a well-made documentary - they've sent me to the dictionary or Wikipedia a few times, but mostly been fine for me as is.
The Greeks is cool for being exactly what it says: about people identifying as Greek, rather than about the place. From very early on, Greeks spread throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, and later all the way over to Afghanistan. The author points out how across a lot of time and space, being Greek could matter a lot in terms of political access and social privilege, but wasn't much a matter of ethnicity at all. Do you speak Greek? Do you know some about Greek culture, history, etc? Do you live in Greek ways - wear the clothes, eat the food, honor the gods, etc? Then you're Greek.
It was profoundly relaxing to read about the opposite of an ethno-state and the successes of governing that way, as you well may imagine.
The author takes his story far and wide, too, and forward in time to the end of the Byzantine empire. He quotes a good line, to the effect of, they said "We are Roman", but they said it in Greek. :)
The Indus is equally engaging but quite different, since it's about the first civilization in eastern Pakistan and western India, with a script the experts cannot decipher, and say that without an equivalent to the Rosetta Stone and/or a whole lot more samples, probably never will. A lot of the book is about what you can and can't know about a society in the absence of its language, how people's whole lives shape their speculations, and like that.
The Indus society itself turns out to be fascinating, as well, for a bunch of reasons. High among them is that there's no serious evidence of warfare! Not much for major social stratification, either.
Obviously this isn't sf/f. But it deeply scratches the same itch that good imaginary world-building does, and I thought you might want to know about them.
I see they've also got a series on animals that's similar. Reaktion Books may be getting a lot of my money this year.
Posted by: Bruce Baugh | June 07, 2019 at 03:03 PM
Footnote: the title format is this: "The Greeks: Lost Civilizations", "The Indus: Lost Civilizations", and so on.
The idea that Greek is a culture not an ethnic group was quite a hot topic back then. Aristotle for example insisted on a (as we would say) genetic superiority of true Greeks making them the natural Herrenvolk (and everyone else a natural slave of the Greek masters). On the other hand 'barbarian' was originally a neutral term for those not speaking proper Greek with no automatic assumption of cultural inferiority (that came later).
Posted by: Hartmut | June 07, 2019 at 04:01 PM
ROTFLOL! Between history and statistics, you can learn so much.
Men selected as major-party nominees for president have failed to win the popular vote 50 percent of the time. Contrast that to the 100 percent of the time that a female nominee for president has won the popular vote.
Bruce Baugh, I thought I replied - it may be lost in the spam trap. Those books sound very interesting, I will certainly investigate further, thank you
Glad to recommend. I love sharing the enjoyment. :)
Bruce Baugh, you just recommended those books to me, too. Thanks.
Stalinist:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/white-house-climate-change-intelligence-agency
Well, maybe Bulgerist
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-whitey-bulger-letters
Bulger, quintessentially deplorable, loved them tax cuts, too.
Posted by: John D Thullen | June 08, 2019 at 11:29 AM
Max Boot:
Trump’s buffoonery is bad enough at home; it’s especially embarrassing when he is supposed to be representing the entire country overseas. He makes me ashamed to be an American. But don’t say you weren’t warned: From the start of his campaign in 2015 until today, Trump has been nothing if not consistent in his contempt for behavioral norms. It’s not his fault that he is so awful; after 72 years, he can’t help himself. It’s our fault that we elected him and might reelect him in 2020.
Posted by: cleek | June 08, 2019 at 11:36 AM
The State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research drafted testimony for Congress on climate change. It quoted government research on the expected effects. The author refused White House demands to remove those -- they said they "didn't jibe" with the administration's official position on the subject. Even though they were findings already published during this administration.
Read the proposed testimony here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/the-national-security-implications-of-climate-change/d5977183-15d9-45eb-a011-d4c701b02594/
Well, at least, they aren't (yet) trying to bar the author from testifying in person (as opposed to written testimony).
"It’s our fault that we elected him and might reelect him in 2020."
Why change the horseman in the middle of the apocalypse?
Who cares but at this moment I’m sitting in Detroit Tigers stadium next to my son and they’ve played Jimmy Mack and a bunch of Isley Brothers songs on the PA system so far.
That and a sausage sandwich with three different sausage in it and it couldn’t get better if the Beatles, Mickey Mantle and James Joyce showed up.
Posted by: John D Thullen | June 08, 2019 at 03:45 PM
He makes me ashamed to be an American.
JDT, that sounds like one hell of a good day. Carry on!
Treme bids the Doctor adieu.
h/t BJ
Speaking of Mickey Mantle, herewith one of the all-time-great entries from Letters of Note:
https://deadspin.com/mickey-mantles-outstanding-event-at-yankee-stadium-is-5750485
I particularly love, under the circumstances, how he signs it "Mickey Mantle, The All-American Boy"
Thanks for that, GFTNC.
So he has the edge in the Mantle versus Mays debate.🤫
At least he didn’t lie like a republican.
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2019/06/william-barr-is-liar-big-one-yuge.html?m=1
All kidding aside regarding the Mick, however, he gave one of the great heroic mea culpas for a life decimated by alcohol and some of the other deadly sins about the time he was dying of liver cancer in his final interview with Bob Costas.
He coulda been a contenda.
As an aside, it strikes me that NOLA must lead the world in trombones per capita.
On the Mickey Mantle thing, I realise after reading JDT's responses, that I knew nothing about him, except that he was a famous ballplayer. I had (lazily) taken the response that I posted to signify that he was being self-satirical, and particularly about his sobriquet, and I was (lazily) approving. But it didn't occur to me that it might have meant that he was a self-sabotaging fuckup, and that his response might have been considered pretty boorish, even by people who were not prudish about the actual experience described. Apologies if this was a misunderstanding of an American (anti)hero.
Most of Americas heroes are deeply flawed. That's who we are.
But then most human beings are deeply flawed, requiring all of us to see the essential goodness of humanity through that prism.
All I can say, GFTNC, is that you gave me a deliciously colorful piece of Mantle trivia with which to stump my Mantle- and Beatle-loving best friend.
I have a very similar piece of information regarding John Lennon at one of their clubs off the Reeperbahn in Hamburg during their early days.
Alexander Portnoy had nothing on those two.
No, To put a finer point on Marty's statement, Mantle was both a self-sabotaging fuck-up and the all-American boy hero of his time.
He was like a Greek God when I was a kid. Blond, clean cut, aw-shucks Oklahoma muscled kid fastest from home to first when he debuted with the Yankees the year I was born, could hit the ball 490 feet from both sides of the plate, and chase any ball down among the on-the-field monuments of the old Yankees Stadium, whose outfield sported the largest acreage of just about any park in the country despite the short distances down the foul lines.
His myth accrued early as all of the males in his family, his Dad and one son the last, died early from genetic Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and Mickey was sure he would too. Then his knees went early in his career hand by the end he running bone on bone, but gritted his teeth and did it.
The drinking stories are, first tragic, but Irish in their prodigious hilarity, especially when you consider his booze companions Whitey Ford and Billy Martin were along with, the latter the one who came up with the most outrageous dares during their bibilous hunting trips and other off-the-field "activities".
On the field, to which his hangovers accompanied him, it could be spellbinding too, amid the life-as-train-wreck accoutrements. One early afternoon Yankees game late in Mantle's career, Manager Casey Stengel looked down the dugout for a pinch hitter, and there sat Mantle, eyelids at nearly full mast with a very recent snoutful, having come nearly directly from the bars to the game, and Casey said, "Mick, kid, you're up."
Mantle limped over to the bat rack, dragged himself to the on deck circle, then half-heartedly dug-in at the plate and swatted the ball a country mile, blindly found his way around the basepaths by vague memory, and the Yanks took the lead.
It's not for nothing that Stengel, the raconteur and witnessing chronicle-ler of these feats, said: "Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional ball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
Course, Stengel also ordered his players to not "drink in the hotel bar. that's where I do my drinking."
They obeyed.
For good measure, it wasn't like Mickey couldn't put things in perspective.
He observed: "During my career, I came to bat almost ten thousand times. I struck out about 1700 times and walked almost 1800 times. You figure a ball player will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played almost seven years without ever hitting a ball."
To say that sums up what it is to play baseball, both the queer metaphysical beauty of it, and the unspeakable rate of failure (not the walks, though a guy likes to put the bat on the ball) is an understatement.
As Stengel said about baseball players propensity for uncommon humor, and regarding the amount of time a player has on his hands during games, "they tend to develop peculiarities of the mind."
This business advice too: "The secret to managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds."
Detroit may be a distant second for trombones par capita on the sidewalks.
Posted by: John D Thullem | June 09, 2019 at 12:30 PM
per and what's with the "m" on my name?
Memphis is second. Best guess. Mr Thullem
Baseball teaches a valuable life lesson: you have to be able to fail, pick yourself up and try again . . . knowing you will most likely fail again, but you still have to try.
Consider. As a major league hitter, if you fail 3 times out of 4, you're batting .250 and about average.
If you only fail 2 times out of 3, you're hitting .333, and quite possibly the top hitter on your team. (Keep it up across a career, and you're in the Hall of Fame. After all, only 2 guys ever had lifetime averages over .350.) Fail only 3 time out of 5, and you're one of the legends of the game. But note that, in every case, you've failed more than you've succeeded.
I keep meaning to read the book/watch the movie Moneyball. My impression of the thesis is that the right mix of good players can beat all-star teams while saving money on payrolls.
Both book and movie are worth the time.
I have many thoughts and second guesses not coalescing at the moment, so it's time for a song.
By way of introduction, I met this woman recently who introduced me to this band. We danced in my apartment. I now have new shoes. That is all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p_81l4DXlwM
She was that bad a dancer, huh?
Maybe it was the soles he wore out? Rather than damage to the tops of the toes. At least that was my thought on first reading....
I met this woman recently who introduced me to this band
All the young Russians I work with and all the middle aged beatniks I know worship Gogol Bordello. Crazy-ass Ukrainian gypsy punk. The singer shows up in the film Everything Is Illuminated when he plays basically himself in the form of shady driver-slash-tour guide.
There is a cynical, joyfully anarchic street level vibe to a lot of Eastern European stuff that can be kind of attractive if you just take it face value and go with it. We're all screwed, the institutions are all corrupt, let's crash all the parties, raid all the open bars, steal the hotel towels, and have fun.
Have fun, JDT.
"She was that bad a dancer, huh?"
I skipped some steps.
The new shoes came later when she decided I needed a funky upgrade.
I acquiesced.
Ralph Houk, not Stengel, might have been Manager of the Yankees when Mickey hit that alcohol fueled home run, but what the heck, the story is funnier with Stengel involved, and what's a little exaggeration beside the sewer of today's conservative fake everything.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network?via=newsletter&source=Weekend
It was a joke, though obviously not a good one!
I loved the alcohol-fuelled home run story...
Your joke was a great one.
The "That is all." was meant to be a tease to speculation, while also, natch, maintaining plausible deniability in the face of the rich imaginations round these here parts.
Kind of on the same tip, if you squint a bit, Macedonian jazz guitarist meets gypsy brass band in a tribute to the great NOLA drummer Ed Blackwell.
Politics is politics, and then there's people doing their thing and living their lives.
Plus, it has a good beat and you can dance to it.
Yup, the manager was Ralph Houk.
https://listverse.com/2015/09/18/10-sordid-stories-of-baseballs-greatest-switch-hitter/
The pitcher who threw the home run pitch was the itinerant late bloomer hurler George Brunet.
It's not beyond the pale to assert that alcohol may have been a factor on both sides of the ball.
Pretty cool, Russell. Thanks.
The wrong low people in high places can somehow dance to this while misunderstanding the lyrics:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-meks-fake-mouthpiece-and-western-credulity/
The case for reparations, redux:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/ta-nehisi-coates-revisits-the-case-for-reparations
Neither as scary or as impractical as its opponents pretend.
Posted by: Nigel | June 10, 2019 at 09:44 AM
The case for deforestation:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-macrons-symbolic-friendship-tree-has-died-reports-say?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
All the young Russians I work with and all the middle aged beatniks I know worship Gogol Bordello.
I was *this close* to seeing them on New Year's Eve in Philly some number of years ago. I don't remember why it didn't happen, but I regret it. That probably would have been the best NYE of my life.
Posted by: hairshirthedonist | June 10, 2019 at 10:20 AM
What's scary about reparations isn't something like the cost. It's the very idea that slavery is something to be apologized for. A lot of these folks are, after all, fans of the Lost Cause. (They still, even today, make remarks about how blacks were better off as slaves.)
So yeah, for them it's every bit as scary as they say.
Sometimes, you can actually see an upside to all the gritters. At least when it isn't our tax dollars they are taking.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/nra-money-flowed-to-board-members-amid-allegedly-lavish-spending-by-top-officials-and-vendors/2019/06/09/3eafe160-8186-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html
What's scary about reparations isn't something like the cost.
Well, that is until you have to include the multitudes of Irish slaves who suffered comparably to African slaves (according to some very well-informed people). You might not know about such things, though, if you've only heard the "official" story.
They still, even today, make remarks about how blacks were better off as slaves.
For an alternative view of slavery and much of the rest of American history:
"In this groundbreaking book, noted historian Thaddeus Russell tells a new and surprising story about the origins of American freedom. Rather than crediting the standard textbook icons, Russell demonstrates that it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free."
it was those on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles helped legitimize the taboo and made America the land of the free
Slavery having been "legitimized" by people at the very center of American "society", it's hard to argue with the proposition that anti-slavers were "on the fringes". But "subversive lifestyles"?!
Famously, Pat Buchanan.
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
No doubt I am taking his remarks out of context.
You simply have to define freedom and prosperity as having Europeans (or the descendants thereof) impose a way of life upon you. Then it makes all the sense in the world.
Posted by: hairshirthedonist | June 10, 2019 at 03:34 PM
hsh, but those Irish were papists*, so they too got the chance to learn the true faith in America (OK, that seems to have been a failure for the most part) ;-)
*and as Celts of course not 'really' white either.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/tiger-mom-amy-chua-daughter-clerkship-brett-kavanaugh.html
Good faith all round, I’m sure.
Posted by: Nigel | June 10, 2019 at 04:27 PM
It's all part of Make America Great Again.
If you want to outdo the Harding administration on its core competency (and it was, until Trump, the unquestioned champion), then you have to do the whole "favors for friends"/"it's not what you know it's who you know" thing. If you (and your people) don't, you have no chance at Most Corrupt Administration Ever!!! -- and wouldn't that be sad?
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FInal Fantasy: Genshiken II, Chapter 120
Posted on January 29, 2016 by sdshamshel
This month’s chapter of Genshiken Nidaime is about anal sex. No, I’m not kidding. Yes, my title for this post is awful.
Last chapter, after an emotional discussion between Hato and Madarame, Hato runs away. At the advice of Ogiue (who knows a thing or two about a situation like this), Madarame goes after him. As the two talk once more, Madarame explains that he does feel something for Hato (especially after that incident at the hotel), but as he goes into detail about the idea of being with a fudanshi, Hato brings up an important question. Is Madarame truly ready for what “Hato x Mada” really means? After discovering that the rest of the club was eavesdropping (a Genshiken tradition!), Madarame decides that he’ll have to “think about it,” and their date continues.
AHHH GENSHIKEN
— Dr. Kousaka Hanukkah (@sdshamshel) January 25, 2016
You can see my immediate reaction to this chapter in the tweet above. While Genshiken has gone many places, I never quite expected it to arrive at this point. Suffice it to say, I’m both surprised and impressed in a multitude of ways. I have to compliment Kio for being willing to take the story this far, and to do so in a way that makes sense for the characters of Genshiken. What also stands out to me about Chapter 120 is the way in which clarifies the conversation between Madarame and Hato in Chapter 119, whereby Madarame finally and much more clearly understands Hato’s concerns. In Hato’s own words, being with Hato consists of having to encounter a series of “landmines.”
Last chapter, Hato expressed the idea that Madarame doesn’t seem to understand what it means to be in a homosexual relationship. This chapter, Hato lays it out. First, Madarame mentions how he’d have to get used to the idea of being seen as a “sou-uke,” a total bottom, as is the trend among Genshiken’s BL fans. Second, Hato reminds Madarame that Hato is not like Ogiue: he’s not a fujoshi but a fudanshi, a guy. Third, he brings up the idea of Mada x Hato, and how he’s prepared for the possibility, which fazes Madarame a bit. Then, finally, he brings up “Hato x Mada.” As realization slowly dawns upon Madarame, the impact of that epiphany on Madarame is, in my opinion, a prime example of what I love about Kio’s storytelling through manga.
Madarame confesses that he hadn’t even thought about “Hato x Mada.” Right there, it becomes clear that Madarame hasn’t actually contemplated the prospect of being with Hato all the way through. Not only that, but it makes perfect sense given just how Madarame has approached the idea. In Chapter 72, Madarame mentions having played games with “girl-boy” characters, and that, because of the censorship and the effeminate appearances of the characters in those games, it’s not that different from heterosexual fare. In other words, Madarame has always seen himself in the “man’s role” so to speak, and the sticky, naked realities of having a mutually satisfying relationship with Hato was just completely outside his realm of imagination until now.
I don’t read very much BL or gay manga, but I get the feeling that these sorts of nitty-gritty details aren’t so common in stories unless they’re particularly explicit or raunchy. Not only that, but given the purpose of those stories, I believe the end result is usually what is expected. In contrast, it’s not clear where Madarame will end up. Of course, correct me if I’m wrong.
The fact that Madarame doesn’t just completely shut down and break away from Hato might say just as much in favor of Hato’s chances, as does Madarame asking the question of whether Hato x Mada would involve Hato in women’s clothes. However, I suspect that the story might actually be heading in a direction where, although the two have a kind of emotional or spiritual connection, Madarame might ultimately not want a physical one. Keiko even brings this up at the end, saying that the body itself will ultimately be the deciding factor (which she believes is in her favor, even with Angela around). In a way, this might be even more ideal for the fujoshi of Genshiken, just because it could be interpreted as a love beyond the trappings of flesh.
I have two more things to say about this chapter. First, we finally learned just what happened when Hato’s other selves, the BL fangirl floating in the sky as well as the Kaminaga version, “merged” with Hato. Obviously he didn’t really have magic ghosts with him. Rather, it was symbolic of him accepting all of his passions, that he can be into both “Mada x Hato” and “Hato x Mada.”
Second, at the beginning of the chapter when Ogiue is talking to Madarame, she mentions how Sasahara accepted everything about her. Just that one gag panel where she ends her sentence in a heart as she blushes profusely is actually one of Ogiue’s most adorable moments ever. As an Ogiue fan, it is quite satisfying.
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17 thoughts on “FInal Fantasy: Genshiken II, Chapter 120”
mudakun says:
Wow! Thanks for the additional on what they were discussing. Hato really is trying to scare mada off. Funny how the more Hato throws stuff in Madarame’s path, the more Madarame presses forward. Oh well, silly raunchy yaoi may demand violent butt-sex, but will Hato continue to insist? Can lurv conquer all?
I don’t think it will work out. Mostly because of spotted flower. Yeah, I know its not supposed to be the actual future for the characters, but Not-Hato’s bitterness towards Not-Madarame in that story just seems more interesting than Madarame being fine with everything. A relationship thats close but that ultimately breaks up because they can’t go all the way. Everyone trying to force a decision out of madarame cause’s a relationship that just hurts the two more.
Bahamut EOS says:
I just came up with a head cannon theory for Spotted Flower. I haven’t totally fleshed it out yet, but I think it’s worth posting.
What is Spotted Flower is a manga drawn and written by Hato, or maybe Ogiue in the future?
Like in the last chapter of spotted flower it’s just Hato and maybe Yakima in a room it’s totally like genshiken, but talking about how the mange he is making has so many similarities to the rest of the crew with a copy of spotted flower sitting on the table? The characters draw this kind of manga in the story before, why not have it be one of the characters exploring everyone’s relationship from a slightly different angle.
How cool would that be?
And Sue is the author, just check how she looks in spotted flower
Lambda says:
Uuuh. Not quite what I expected. But kudos to Madarame for not being completely bashful around Hato, even when he mentions profusely all the implications of “madaxhato”. The chapter is drawing more sides of these characters, but still it doesn’t seem that a sastifactory close would be near. Madarame, as always, will try to delay as much as he can the decision that he has to make. But that’s how he is. I also believe that, despite his best intentions, even if he could summon all of his will for this, he couldn’t. Choosing Hato, as he knows where his life is, would be a half-hearted choice. Hato knows this, but he’s desperate for a signal from Madarame, maybe a miracle….
‘Been thrashing all the ways it can work out and all the ways it IS working out and one odd but interesting theory keeps popping up: Madarame has enough confidence to keep after Hato, knows he felt something, and the more Hato throws realism and “thorny path” speeches at Mada, the more Madarame is intrigued and presses forward. It is as if Madarame is reading Hato’s protestations as “playing hard to get”. Mada’s pursuit switch has been flicked on. Mada isn’t really listening. Mada might even be reading all the protestations as endearing, as cute, as moe,
So per the above, Hato drops the final bomb. Hato expects “hatomada” and for yaoi fans that means -ahem- violent fetishised anal rape… Well, sure kiddo, whatever. La la la, you said something? Oh right, “I get to be seme” (pout!) was it? Did you just stamp yar purty little foot when you did that ???
Besides, no couple or two people considering getting together lead with their weirdest sex fantasies and anyone who wants to stay coupled learns to moderate their imaginations, because the real thing is very fine, thank you, so why ruin it by asking for leather and cat ears and painful weirdness? Fortunately, Mada isn’t listening.
Or maybe he’s got his own headful of weird fantasies? Or Hato was far too successful being supportive during Mada’s convalescence. The kid cooked for him, argues a correspondent. That counts. Confessions minus cooking him dinner equal zero. How traditional!
Alia says:
>Hato drops the final bomb. Hato expects “hatomada” and for yaoi fans that means -ahem- violent fetishised anal rape…
Uh. What?
>Besides, no couple or two people considering getting together lead with their weirdest sex fantasies and anyone who wants to stay coupled learns to moderate their imaginations, because the real thing is very fine, thank you, so why ruin it by asking for leather and cat ears and painful weirdness? Fortunately, Mada isn’t listening.
From the review, it sounds like Hato’s being the more realistic one.
Part of Hato is being realistic:discrimination, having to keep their relationship secret, Mada having to forgo the pleasures of the female body. Part of him is missing the point, thinking that Mada ONLY wants a fantasy Hato-girl – there are strong indications that Mada doesn’t really mind the “blur” between male and female versions of Hato. Then there is the part that is highly unrealistic; insisting on his deepest fantasies from the outset. Hato does not draw happy vanilla hand-in-hand western slash when he draws. Hato draws hardcore fetishized m:m bondage porn, of the kind that was lampooned as Ogiue’s tastes as well in the Anime second season, ep 5. A refresher:
kissanime.to/Anime/Genshiken-2/Episode-05?id=6439
This is why the yaoi fandom in Japan catches plenty of shit for turning m:m attraction into a default extreme representation. Not that guy fans don’t do the same with extreme het pr0n and exploitative yuri, but that’s why otaku are seen as indiscrete amateur porn enthusiasts. (Some of the gay manga for and by gay guys can get extremely sick-making too, but much of that stuff came after the earth was already scorched by the wimmins? Not solid on this, need research) Caveat: the lines between “BL” and the raunchier usually fan-made “yaoi” have been thrashed over for ages and everyone has their own way to define the categories.
Crap, I go on… in someone else’s blog too. My Bad. Final thot: Hato backing away and overturning furniture in pursuing Mada’s path is part of the chapter dynamics – it sure makes for an odd courtship. I dont know if it is an effective substitute for the expression of deeper feelings, but I can understand the “you don’t really want me” self-doubt routine – once I have been whacked upside on the head with it. Damn! I wish I could understand even the most rudimentary Japanese !!!!!!
Really, the otaku universe… It can be pretty extreme ( specially in the doujin scene). Anyway, you get a point. Madarame is not a complete stranger to some of the realities of adulthood, and one of these is being assured on himself (by identifying oneself with some accepted characteristics, etc… in his case, otakuness… And proud of it. He built his personality around it.). Of course, this doesn’t solve his irresolute behavior in most of things. But as once Saki said, he has unspoken traits that make him attractive. He’s calm, honest, collected and take things upfront. He’s tall and slender, and he doesn’t dress like a complete slob.The whole “harem game” wouldn’t have happened if the girls didn’t see those traits. Hato also picked up inconsciously on those, and even played on the same terms (using “feminine power”) as the rest of the girls. Unconnivingly, he accepts the “male” mindset of Madarame, and he even feels confortable ”as the girl”. For such a character, so strong in beliefs and attitudes, he’s surprisingly scared of making reality his supposed dreams. I can’t fault him for running away from Madarame, (even now!) because Madarame’s somewhat flaky behavior in response to his advances. Then, why Madarame continues to give him hope, or why Madarame speaks so freely of this “thing” that could happen between those two? Because Madarame is an inhabbitant of the cultural margin of society : the “despised” otaku. That includes the blurry views on genders, and most bizarre cultural fetishes and the like. He’s open about these things, and not afraid to discuss. The very real problem for Madarame is not his identity or his sexuality, but sentimental and romantic realization. This doesn’t imply that he’s needy, but that that’s his real necessity, one that he can’t still expresa neatly in words. Hato could be his love partner just because their comparibility on interests. Hato expressed the same to Yajima: (he and she) could happen because fujoshiness. But to Madarame the attractive prospect of MadaxHato could be, precisely that Hato’s mind is still the one of a guy, despite the feminine appearances and behavior of Hato. To him, sex with a male body is something bearable if it is with Hato’s body and face (heh, it could be even a tasteful experience).But, Hato could understand that? And if he knew, he would accept it? There are no clear rules or boundaries between them, besides the infatuation that sometimes sparks between them. There’s the evident possibility of the “Madarame’s stigma” , that there’s no real will and no true plans for a romantic prospect to take place. In this regard, Yajima’s more aware and prepared (and I dare say, determined) to take Hato’s castle, in Yoshitake’s truer words. I don’t think that Yajima won’t claim her prize in her due time . Madarame will make waste of this opportunity just because he doesn’t know how to make the best use of it, or let’s say that his opportunity will be fruitless (even if he manages to catch up) just because of that. Giving us hope is a bad idea, Shimoku! Don’t break the poor Madarame again, dude! I say this trying to board the MadaxSue ship….yes, those two dorks are so made for eachother, aaaayup ! XD
“”And if he knew, he would accept it?”” Ok, your take is the best so far; Mada might be unafraid of the (tourist) m:m excursion and in pursuit but will ultimately fail because he is too romantic. Complex AND harsh, Hmm, sounds like the old pre-Genshiken Kio Shimoku.
Heh, thank you.
I came back to read again my post, and thought that maybe I wasn´t very clear. That WAS almost a wall of text. Yes, Madarame isn´t very realistic in managing his sentimental life, and that´s why he fails to catch his “would-be lovers” needs, subtleties and not-so-subtle messages (body language, double-entendre, etc). He´s quite oblivious, you see. Something most males only learn to smooth that by experience, though. The “cringe” for the readers is seeing a grown-man that somehow still feels on the inside like that 12-16 year old making first contact with the other sex. And he knows that, but can´t help it. He´s very different from Yajima´s, whose views on her environment are more perceptive, and perhaps, well-grounded. That´s the big card that has Yajima over Madarame. In a way, she´s more mature. I believe the author of the blog has talked of the big shift between the “old” and the “new” otaku generations. This is likely a subtle representation of that “theme”. Anyway, you should name me some of the older works of Shimoku, I haven´t found any. Cheers!
Kagerou Nikki (陽炎日記?) (1995-as far as I know was never xl8ted. Raws can be found. Caution, other manga with similar titles exist)
Yonensei (四年生?) (1997)
Gonensei (五年生?) (1998) – sequel of Yonensei (both scanlated)
later works are more comedic, although Jigo Puri: The Princess of the Hell is dark comedy (one volume or less scanlated.)
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mjp says:
Hehe, love conquers all, yes. But here, in this Comments section, it looks like everyone is going crazy fighting for their ships. ^_^
Me, I don’t have any favorite pairings, I’m fine with whatever happens in the end. But I think there are a few things that are set in stone right now, and trying to ignore them is simply delusional.
1) Yajima will never, ever get Hato. The fact that they are together in Spotted Flower clinches it. Spotted Flower, you should remember, is an exploration of pairings and situations that *could* happen in Genshiken but are not meant to happen. Madarame with Saki. Yajima with Hato. Kanako turning into a baby-making machine for whoever her husband is (certainly not Tanaka, who can barely support two people but can’t support a big family). All this could theoretically happen in the original series, but will not happen, ever.
2) Angela knows. Angela can read Madarame like an open book. Remember, she knew about Madarame’s crush on Saki waaay before anyone else even suspected it. If Angela says Madarame loves Hato, then that’s how it is. Heck, for many chapters already, Kio has been giving us hints like juggernauts. The bed scene. The hand-in-Angela’s-cheek scene. Tons of giant clues. If you choose to ignore them, you’re in for a big disappointment.
3) This is not a manga thing, but I feel I should mention it. Anal sex is VERY uncommon, even between gay people. Even with a good lube, it *hurts*. In BL everyone does it, but that’s because BL is just a fantasy world for girls. In the real world, the usual for a homosexual couple is to pleasure each other using their hands and mouths. Thinking realistically about it, Madarame’s anal virginity is not in danger here. (And neither is Hato’s, probably.) The only problem for Madarame would be getting used to the touch of a boy’s body when making love, which is really not that difficult (especially with a cutie like Hato). All in all, Mada x Hato is a ship that floats, hehe. ^_^ Whatever will happen depends only on Madarame’s determination (or lack thereof).
Jackrabbit says:
I’m going to play devil’s advocate here for a bit, because you make good point but it’s not as cut out as it you think (and I say that a proud madaxhato shipper).
1) I personally agree that Spotted Flower is the playing ground for Kio, his personal AU fanfic. But! we have no official confirmation for it. I don’t think it will become a real sequel, but it’s possible Genshiken will end inconclusively enough for it to be in the air. We know Kio enjoys ambiguity, hence the lack of names for the characters of Spotted Flowers. It’s an underhanded trick and not one I think is likely, but it’s not entirely out of the picture.
2) I agree that Madarame has, at the very least, a sort of a crush on Hato. But relationships requires much more than affection to work, and there is no guarantee that either Madarame of Hato can really handle the responsibility and stress that dating requires, let alone being in a gay relationship. Sometimes people are in love and still can’t make things work out, you know?
3) Um. OK, I don’t know if this is a local thing or what, but uh, anal sex isn’t really that uncommon, in many places including Japan. Like, at all. Even in hetrosexual relationships, it’s one of the first non-vanilla things people try. As far as gay sex goes, it’s true that it takes a lot of preparation and it’s not something you do at the drop of the hat, but regularly? Definitively a common part of a gay couple’s sex life. I have friends in Japan’s queer community and in my local area, and in my experience letting someone know you’re exclusively a top/bottom is pretty important, albeit not a deal breaker. So realistically, if Hato wanted to top and Mada wouldn’t wanna bottom, it would lead to feeling of frustration and unbalance power dynamic in the relationship.
Put it in his butt (preferably Hato’s but… maybe Madarame’s, too)
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Windsor shuts out Roosevelt at home
Tyler Silvy
Windsor's Alejandro Mendoza slides in to make a shot on goal as Roosevelt's goalie Alec Stewart dives to block the ball during the game Wednesday afte...
Windsor's Christian Johnson gets head ball as he leaps Roosevelt's Nate Rameriz moves in to do the same during the game at Windsor High School Wednesd...
» Best individual performer: Windsor junior forward Christian Johnson finished with two goals and two assists against Roosevelt. Although the Wizards played better in the second half, recording six goals compared to two in the first half, Johnson was consistent, recording a goal and an assist in each half.
» Turning point: In soccer, a game can be over with just a two-goal lead. This game was clearly over only after Windsor’s fifth goal, which came on a penalty kick. Roosevelt coach Tom Fajardo said he could see a let-down among his players after that.
» What it means: Roosevelt falls to 0-2 but this loss may sting less than the 3-2 loss to Sterling on Tuesday. Fajardo will keep pushing his Rough Riders to remain mentally tough regardless of games’ outcomes. Windsor moves to 2-0 and hasn’t yet allowed a goal, outscoring opponents 15-0 in a stretch of early season domination the Wizards players and coaches have to be pleased with.
Windsor — Roosevelt coach Tom Fajardo said before the season began that his team may not be the most talented but it would be in the best shape. His Rough Riders, he said, would try to run opponents to death.
On Wednesday night in Windsor, Fajardo's team ran into a wall, falling 8-0 to a Wizards team that was clearly up to the challenge.
"The first 50 seconds wasn't fun," Fajardo said.
The Rough Riders (0-1 in 4A Tri-Valley, 0-2 overall) stood shell shocked after allowing two goals within the first minute of the game, falling in a hole before their strategy of out-running opponents could even kick in.
After those goals, though, Roosevelt's defense held, playing to a draw for the final 39 minutes of that first half. Windsor coach Phil Weiser gave the Roosevelt defense credit. The Rough Riders pushed their back line up near midfield to draw the Wizards' eager forwards offsides. It worked; Windsor (1-0, 2-0) was whistled for eight offsides penalties in the first half alone.
"We changed the way we wanted to play and the boys got a little too excited I think," Weiser said.
Junior forward Christian Johnson echoed his coach's sentiments.
"Those two goals very quickly kind of got us overwhelmed and we thought we'd just roll over them," Johnson said.
That wasn't the case, for Roosevelt drew a line in the sand near midfield, pushing defenders up in an effort to keep attacking.
"Our gameplan is to play to win, not to play not to lose," Fajardo said. "So, if we want to win, we've got to push everybody up and they've got to be a part of the offense."
Fajardo's gameplan worked to the tune of four shots on goal in the first half, no shots in the second half. Meanwhile, the Wizards had 24 shots on goal, 42 total shots. Defensively, it was a game of Rough Rider roulette. It was one they eventually lost in the second half win the Wizards exploited the strategy with better timing, more speed and more teamwork.
Johnson, who finished with two goals and two assists, and senior forward Alejandro Mendoza — two goals, one assist — played off one another well in the second half, setting up 2-on-1 opportunities for easy goals. Despite the 8-0 win, those mismatches seemed to be the only way Windsor was able to get past Roosevelt goalkeeper Alec Stewart.
Stewart said he wasn't afraid of his defensive line breaking down, despite several lapses.
"I'm not really worried about it breaking, but if it does break, it kind of gets me pumped, kind of like an adrenaline rush," Stewart said.
Stewart may have essentially lived off the adrenaline, stopping 17 shots in the game, including 10 in the second half.
"Alex really was the guy who kept it from being a 10-nothing game and kept it from being over halfway through the second half," Fajardo said. "He…both games…outstanding. The coach at Sterling, what'd he call him? Spiderman. He's everywhere."
Even Weiser jumped on board to praise Stewart.
"You have to give a lot of credit to the keeper for Roosevelt," said Weiser, talking about his team's first-half struggles. "We only scored two there but a lot fo the reason why is because he made some incredible saves."
After the loss, Fajardo was confident his team wouldn't be too down.
"(The Wizards are) one of the best teams in the conference," Fajardo said. "We've got a lot of respect for them. Our gameplan this year is just to be a resilient team. At the end of the game, you should have no regrets. They've got a lot of heart, these guys."
RHS 0 0 — 0
WHS 2 6 — 8
Scoring — WHS, Ryan Kurtz (Christian Johnson) 0:20; WHS, Johnson 0:50; WHS, Alajandro Mendoza (Johnson) 42:07; WHS, Johnson (Mendoza) 48:32; WHS, Jordan Schmerge 51:23; WHS, Mendoza 57:32; WHS, Ian Hause (Noah McKenzie) 64:40; WHS, Alex Carillo (Schmerge) 76:26.
Shots — RHS 4, WHS 42.
Saves — RHS (Alec Stewart) 17, WHS (Mitchell Winner) 2.
Corner Kicks — RHS 1, WHS 11.
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How Far Behind Is Too Far Behind?
You realize your institution’s website needs a facelift—but it’s still functioning, so any needed improvements get put on the back burner while available funds are used on other, seemingly more urgent, projects. How long can you put it off? A new study by Digital Clarity Group, available for free download on our website, explains why colleges and universities need to prioritize their web presence as students’ digital expectations are on a rapid rise.
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Like most colleges and universities, you’ve probably watched a steady increase in the number of visitors coming to your website on mobile devices. Ever wonder what that trend looks like among prospective students? Find out what they are doing on their phones and what it means for you in the admissions process.
By Jason Taylor, January 27, 2016
How Important Is Your Website to Admissions, Really?
Everyone in higher education goes through an exercise of prioritizing enrollment and marketing activities. When making decisions, how important, really, is an institution’s website to accomplishing admission and enrollment goals? Turns out, it’s hard to understate the importance of websites in influencing prospective students.
By Lance Merker, November 24, 2015
How Do Students Really Choose Their College? Survey Says...
Every year OmniUpdate co-sponsors a survey of thousands of prospective college students. This year’s E-Expectations report provides fresh data about the online and mobile marketing preferences of college-bound high school students – information that colleges and universities can put into action to refine their recruitment strategies.
By Lance Merker, October 05, 2015
Marketing Lessons from the 2015
E-Expectations Survey
Each year, the E-Expectations Report provides incredibly valuable information for those in charge of collegiate marketing and recruitment. There’s so much to take away from the 2015 report, including statistics about website usage, social media interaction, email trends, and interactive resources. For now, I’d like to highlight three interesting stats.
By Carol Clements, August 20, 2015
Social Media and Your Higher Ed Website
Continuity and consistency count in today's organizational communications. The same holds true for your social channels. Your social presence doesn't occur in a vacuum on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Snapchat, but is connected to everything else you do. Most importantly, it should be connected to your website.
By Michael Stoner, March 25, 2015
Online Magazines: Giving Your Content Life
Almost all colleges and universities have some sort of print magazine. One question though: How do you know the number of people that actually read the magazine? There's a relatively simple solution to lower costs, gain valuable readership statistics, and more effectively deliver content to your magazine readers: take your magazine online using OU Campus.
By Bradley Prasuhn, March 05, 2015
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Whether it’s open on your desktop or launched on a mobile device while standing in line at the store, email has become an integral part of everyday life. For any business, including higher education institutions, it is important to utilize email communication as part of a complete outbound marketing strategy.
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There is a website called walkscore.com. You might have heard of it. It quantifies how walkable any location is by calculating its distance from stores, services, transit, and takes into consideration other livability aspects. It’s primarily directed at home owners and renters looking to relocate. But, what if you used it on your institution’s website?
By Marcel Ayers, September 25, 2014
Marketing & Recruitment, Technology & Development
Introducing Email Campaign Manager
We all know by now that email marketing is not dead. In fact, it is very much alive; however, in need of a makeover. We discovered this in the 2014 E-Expectations survey conducted with 1,000 college-bound high school students. The results showed that two-thirds of students said they check their email at least once a day using their mobile device! These are the same students that are arriving on your campus right now.
By Carol Clements, September 16, 2014
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Why You Can Do A Pentacork And No One Fucking Cares
The Welcome Return of Relatable Snowboarding
[Unknown carver getting #relatable in Stubai. Photo: @samoetiker]
There was a time that the tricks that graced the silver screens of snowboarding generally tended to be ones that regular snowboarders could aspire to. Sure, you’d have Jussi Oksanen stomping the first switch back 10 in powder on film, Terje experimenting with natural terrain freestyle on big mountain lines or Romain hitting 30-odd metres of Hemsedal cheese wedges, but as a frothing young buck you could look up to this kind of riding as something you wanted to achieve and envisage a way you could get there – perhaps not on such a spectacular level, but you could certainly be inspired by it and try to emulate on your own terms.
Today, however, those at the frontier of pushing the technical boundaries of snowboarding are riding at such an insanely high level that it’s essentially unattainable to all but a select few. Kids need gym time, airbags, coaches and a sprinkling of disco dust to even get close to pulling off some of today’s stunts, and as a result such riding is becoming – at best – something akin to that lunatic shit the Nitro Circus lot do, or at worst, a turn-off. To blatantly contradict this article’s title; yes, if someone were to pentacork a bunch of people would watch it, discuss it, and most certainly would fucking care (no doubt caring so hard that they’d feel implied to tell the world that they’d prefer to see a slow, backside 180), but unlike watching Johan Olofsson tweak till the bindings creak way overhead or Nicolas Müller painting lines in Alaska, there’s little chance of it making any Average Joe want to go snowboarding. In the grand scheme of things how much would they really care? Mind blown? Certainly. Mind thinking ‘Wow, I’d like to do that!’? Unlikely.
“Kids need gym time, airbags, coaches and a sprinkling of disco dust to even get close to pulling off some of today’s stunts, and as a result such riding is becoming – at best – something akin to that lunatic shit the Nitro Circus lot do”
But herein lies the rub. For riders at the apex of the sport, progression is just as important – if not more so – as it is to regular, passionate non-pros. Learned your first back 3? You’ll want to step up to a back 5. If you’re at the point where you can pull a back 10 out the bag at will, it’s only natural to want to mix it up and try double dipping in the quest of bettering your riding. And this is compounded further when you figure competitive snowboarding in to the equation – after all, these guys earn their corn by doing tricks that are determined to be more difficult than the ones of their peers. As a result, much competitive freestyle snowboarding has reached a point where the top riders are at a level so high that it’s at once utterly incredible and completely uninspiring. It’s a Steve Vai solo when your heart craves Cobain’s simplicity.
Eero Ettala has done more bonkers tricks in his career than most, but sometimes it's the simplest of things that can be most inspiring. Photo: Ed Blomfield
The past decade has seen progression rise exponentially – what was once a steady, seasonal progression of tricks received a paradigm-shifting shot in the arm when internet video became widespread. All of a sudden if someone stepped to an NBD it could proliferate almost in real time, and snowboarding rapidly evolved from a couple of people doing double corks in 2007 to it being a stock trick by 2009, and Torstein cracking off a triple in 2010. It was an arms race, and more and more riders had become nuclear powers with increasingly hectic spins and corks becoming stock. Now, in this avenue of progression, we’re racing head on at a wall set by the Laws of Physics – plus what a human body can physically handle – and we’re headed at it fast.
But for most snowboarders, even those who would classify themselves as firmly in the freestyle camp, the thought of getting to the point of double, triple or – god forbid – quad corking is so far removed from what they can aspire to that it’s almost become a turn-off. Imagine a kid with dreams of turning pro these days seeing what the likes of Max Parrot or Dan Brisse get up to. ‘What, THAT’S what I need to be doing?!’ It’s not hard to imagine ‘fuck that’ to be the logical conclusion. And it’s not just on jumps, the democratisation of video took the power from a select few elite and gave it to the many. And the many were good, but many. So now – as delved into deeper in our article, The Wank – we have an internet absolutely littered with good snowboarding, but precious little that really strikes a chord with people outside the tight sphere of those producing it. We’ve become desensitised.
“Thankfully over the past couple of years there’s been a tendency to seek out the weird and wonderful over adding another rotation, kink, flip or cork.”
The march of progress has been inevitable, predictable, necessary and brutal. For several seasons we had contests awash with the much-maligned back 14 triple mute; street riding (a niche within a niche if ever there was one) seemed to be headed towards bigger rails, bigger gaps, bigger winches and bigger builds, and halfpipes kept on getting bigger to the point that no sane weekend warrior would ever look at Shaun White’s bonkers stunt ditch runs and think “I’ll have me some of that!”
Thankfully, over the past few years, there’s been a tendency for more riders to seek out the weird and wonderful. The best thing is, not only is such riding good enough to not be seen as a gimmick, it’s been received like a breath of fresh air from all levels of snowboarding. Actual inspiring riding that resonates all the way from the pro-level guys to the newcomers to the sport. Think Halldor’s übertweaked Method backflip, the emergence of setups like the Holy Bowly, mushrooming of Banked Slaloms, the recent affection for knuckle tricks, the urban lines of Louif Paradis’s Beacon, or anything from the Yawgoons or Fat & Furious. It turns out there’s more than one avenue open to getting progressive, and it’s signposted ‘Creativity’. Thankfully there are riders out there with the mindset to push boundaries in more creative ways, beyond tagging on another spin, flip or cork – ways that inspire distinctly average snowboarders because they will sow a seed that can flourish on many levels. Look at the response Arthur Longo got from his Side Hits Euphoria edit last year. Everyone but the absolute beginner can – and does – ride side hits, except there’s not many who could do anything like what Longo was doing on them. It doesn’t matter. You can put yourself there. Apply it to your own level.
Everyone can relate to ripping pow with a solid crew. Photo: Matt Georges
And you don’t even need to leave the ground to fire the stoke. As the creative flatground work displayed by more and more riders in their web clips, Korua’s Yearning for Turning series and the movie Glue from Christian Haller showed, there’s an eternal beauty to going fast and putting your board on its edges that resonates whatever your level. Specifically shouting out to the Yawgoons who showed the world at large that there was an untapped fountain of carving tricks that could be tapped. Then there’s Beacon, which despite being filled with some legitimately Class A street riding, also managed to make (at least some of it) look fucking fun.
Suddenly, after years of hurtling towards the inevitable Omega point, there’s a swing back to being relatable again. Adding shifties into spins? I can do that. Figuring out new ways to carve? I can do that. Spending a day sending it off sidehits? Dreaming up your own personal take on snow-covered street lines? Sign me up! Of course, Cab 12 Roastbeef shifty-shiftys, some Dylan Gamache wizard edge work, or going sidehit bananas like Longo is probably out of the picture, but you can be inspired to bring the riding these guys do at the highest level, to your own.
Fun, style and sickness are the essential cornerstones of snowboarding, and snowboarding that combines these will trump something simply technically impressive nine times out of ten. There’s certainly still a place for pushing boundaries and genuine WTF moments (the first draft of this brainfart parped out as Yuki Kadono just put down a quad cork 1980 – mindblowing, a bit of a blur, predictable comments of awe and disdain, and not exactly making me want to ride a snowboard) but these are inevitably rarer. The swing back to riders being actively happy to show the sport’s more relatable side, rather than just an onslaught of ‘the best tricks’ is both welcome, and important for the sport’s future.
Snowboarding is still comparatively young but there are signs that it’s started to shake off the follies of youth. Much like musicians who emerge from a teenage fever of just wanting to play the fastest, most complicated bars imaginable, the chops learned are now being applied to more creative, apparently more simplistic melodies as well as a mere brute force attack on what’s possible. The results speak to us more intimately than simply having our minds blown, and as a consequence the stoke to get out there and get some reaches new heights.
There will always be room for the latest new mindbending tricks, but as long as insanity is tempered with inspiration and creativity, snowboarding as a whole will continue to benefit.
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Learning about the world around us with @ littlePassports
Do you like to travel?
Growing up my family went on a holiday every other year. Normally, our destinations were to the United States. We celebrated Christmas in Florida, spent March break in the Pocono Mounts and ate all-you-can-eat crab in Ocean City, Maryland. Although, we didn’t travel too far, it was tons of fun to visit different places, see the landmarks that makes them special, learn about their local history and taste they famous foods.
When I was teenager, I was blessed to be part of a Pathfinder group who took a month-long trip to Europe. Our excursion took us to England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark and Sweden! I went to Camp in England and toured all the historical attractions. I took the chunnel to France where I practiced my French and enjoyed the Effle tower. I took an overnight train through German to Switzerland where I hiked a mountain and slept with cows. I had an authentic spaghetti meal in Italy, followed by a mini plane ride to Denmark. In Denmark, I rode a boat through the channels of its glorious city and spent a beautiful afternoon in Sweden. It was an adventure of a life time and I learned more in that month time then a year at school. The culture, rich history and language barriers taught me that the world is a big, beautiful place and in order to really live, you must venture pass your own backyard.
Although my traveling days are temporarily on hold due to children and family commitments, I believe that its important to expose my children to the different cultures and history of the world around us. My hope is that when the time comes to travel, my children will feel the bite of the travel bug and get to experience the world like I did.
As summer draws to an end, I begin to search for ways to entertain my bored children and prepare them for the return to school. When I came across the PTPA award-winning program, LittlePassports, I knew immediately it would be the perfect activity to share my traveling experiences with my children, while encouraging them to learn about the world.
Inspire your children to explore the world around them with LittlePassports!
Little Passports is a monthly subscription program (starting at $10.95/month), that provides your child with a unique monthly adventure from the comfort of their own home! Through imaginary pen pals, named Sam and Sophia, your children get the chance travel the world and learn about the geography, history, culture and more of a different country each month. Simply sign up for the convenient month-to-month plan or a set number of month at LittlePassports.com, select your subscription package and let the adventure begin!
There are two amazing subscription packages to choose from:
The World Edition – Follow Sam and Sophia as they travel to a different country each month. Your first month’s Explorer Kit arrives in a suitcase that contains everything your child needs to get started: your first pen pal letter from Sam and Sofia, a world map, your very own passport, ID stickers, a boarding pass and much, much more. (ages 5-10)
The United States Edition – Travel all over the United States with Sam and Sophia and learn about 2 states every month! Your Discovery Kit which includes your first pen pal letter from Sam and Sofia, a USA Field Guide, a USA scratch book, a map of the United States, and a camera. (Ages 7-10)
My children love receiving mail! Whether it be a card from their Aunt, the annual birthday coupon from our local pizza place or junk mail with their name on it, their faces light up when it arrives! With this subscription, my children receive their own mail each month! Unlike other mail that provides a moment of happiness, LittlePassports provides them a monthly surprise and hours of entertainment. Each month, Sam and Sophia will visit another country or state and share their experience with their ‘pen pal’. In their monthly packages, they will find cool stickers, letters, souvenir, etc. to track where they’ve been, a Boarding Pass with a secret access code to play fun games online, and fun activity sheets that gives your child clues to where Sam and Sophia are heading next!
My boys were so excited when their first LittlePassports kit showed up. DS7 is in grade one and loves practicing his reading skills. He loved reading the letter out loud to his brother, DS5 detailing how the adventure worked. I liked that it was written in such away that DS7 was easily able to understand what was going to happen and how they were going to achieve it. I loved hearing the boys talk about Sam and Sophia like they were real people taking a magic journey.
The next stage of our adventure included spreading the world map out on the table. My boys have only been to the United States, so I thought looking at a world map would be overwhelming. Immediately, the boys located Canada and discovered exactly where we live. Then the boys began excitedly pointing out the places that they ‘wanted’ to go (Most of these countries were places that they saw on TV or read in a book). I loved that they were pulling knowledge from other areas of their life and applying it to the task at hand.
Next we filled out the passport. These were designed in such a way to record the countries that Sam and Sophia visit, as well as a conversation starter to get the boys thinking about the places they want to visit and why. I loved this part of our adventure. It was through the passport that I shared the places I visited and the things I saw when I was younger. The boys loved hearing the stories and was so much fun reliving the past.
Following the passport, the boys completed the activity sheet and explored more adventures with Sam and Sophia online. After playing with kit for over 2 hours, they asked when they would be hearing from their pen pals again! It was a lot of fun and an adventure we’d like to continue!
LittlePassports is an amazing monthly subscription program that I would recommend for children 4 years and older! It is a great way to teach your simple geography, prepare them for an upcoming trip, or share an adventure you have been on!
To find out more follow them on their website , Facebook and Twitter!
One 1Heart1Family reader gets the chance to take a magical journey of their own with a chance to #WIN a three-month LittlePassports subscription!
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Rita O'Neal says
This is a cute idea. I didn’t travel much as a kid. Now that I’m grown, I try to take my kids places; however, they aren’t always far or exotic. I wish I could take them to Disneyland. They have never been anywhere ‘Disney’… neither have I!
NYCSingleMom says
We love Little Passports, its a great way for kids to learn about other countries
What a fabulous month! We take the kids abroad once a year, and they all love it, even the little guy. 🙂
Jenna Em says
Sounds like a fun and educational service! My kids are fascinated by travel and geography.
Mitch says
What a great educational tool for the kids!
I wish i loved to travel and i use to but with my health issues and being pregnant on top of them has made traveling not so fun for me anymore :/ my hubby LOVES to travel though
we are subscribers for the US version- when it expires we’ll definitely be doing a year of the world subscription. my daughter loves it- it’s fun and she’s learning so much! we also try to tie in facebook a little- so she asks each month who i know that lives in the states featured in the package and we look to see where they live and stuff.
What fun! I think every child would love to receive a Little Passports subscription and travel the world through the eyes of their “penpals”.
Doesn’t require a passport, but I would like to take my family to California. See the west coast since we live on the east coast
What a cool idea.
Sheila Zeller says
This is a very cool idea! I love the interaction and creative way to learn about new people, places and things in this world!
Karen@NourishWithKaren says
What a great idea! My daughter who is now 21, and struck by the travel bug would have loved this!
Dani @ lifeovereasy says
Sounds like so much fun – where were these things when my kids were young 🙂
Tia says
Neat! I’d never heard of these guys but will definitely check ’em out. Love this as a way to get kids to try new stuff, and realize there is a much bigger world out there.
I am not a huge traveller, but what a great way to teach kids about the world!
Bailey-Eileen Dexter-parr says
My family loves to travel everywhere!
heidi c. says
My kids love to learn and would really enjoy a subscription like this. As a family, we are hoping to get to Disney (any Disney property) at some point :).
Andrea Amy says
Well, I’ve never been anywhere (literally, I’ve never left Canada) so I would love to go anywhere. This would be a really neat thing for my kids, so thanks for the chance.
Bernadette @ Aimless Moments says
I have seen these a bunch of times! I might have to start ordering because I have a few kids that would love to have them. They love mail too so this is great. Where would I like to go….Australia would be nice to vacation to with the family.
Amiyrah says
I’ve never heard of Little Passports, but it sounds fantastic! I wish we would have known about this at the beginning of summer; it would have been a great thing for the kids to explore.
Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshell says
As someone with a passion for travel, I really love this. I am also hugely into exposing kids to as many cultures and world differences as possible!
How great that you got that experience as a teen. This looks like such a fun way for kids to learn about the world around them!
Miranda Sherman says
this is AWESOME! My kids would absolutely love this and it would keep them engaged, almost tricking them into learning.
Tammy Graham @ LoveMy2Dogs says
I don’t have the desire to leave the country, I just want to visit Alaska, Hawaii, Colorado and some other states out west.
what a cute idea! i think my daughter would love and enjoy having something like this to learn from.
My kids LOVE Little Passports! Its a great learning tool and they have a fun time “exploring and traveling”.
Ian Garstang says
What a really sweet idea… I love it!
Julial says
We want to go to Japan as a family.
andie says
We’d love to go to PEI.
Darwin says
Would love to go to Europe with the kids
Ashleigh Swerdfeger says
Italy, Australia or Disneyland or maybe even Ecuador!
Karine says
To Colombia 🙂
Amanda Komoski says
My dad is originally from Portugal so I would love to go there.
Sarah at Journeys of The Zoo says
I’d like to travel to Newfoundland and Australia with my family!
Thanks for making this open to Canadians and for linking up to my weekly Giveaway Linky (http://www.journeysofthezoo.com/2013/08/weekly-giveaway-linky-august13.html).
Shari G says
We want to go to Florida, or on a disney cruise.
Elyse says
Having emigrated from the UK to Canada I would love my family to explore America as it’s a short hop on a plane rather than a huge trip from the UK.
I think Hawaii would be an awesome place to go, but would love to take my kids to Disney in Florida too!
Terri Grothe says
Disney is next on my list, cannot wait it will be so much fun
I would like to explore Canada!
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Four simple SEO settings missed by hyperlocal websites
When it comes to news websites’ referral traffic, Google beats Facebook hands-down, with the search giant accounting for 40% compared to Facebook’s 26%. And yet hyperlocals, says publisher John Guinn, are making it harder for people to find them by not making the most of four simple SEO settings. In a guest post for OJB, John explains what those settings are — and how hyperlocal sites can use them to improve their SEO.
SEO setting 1: The <title> tag
The <title> tag — which describes the topic and theme of an online document — is seen as critical to both SEO and to the user experience. It is displayed in two key places:
Firstly, the internet browser — in the top bar of the browser
The title tag is “Crime News: van seized for illegal rubbish dumping crushed”
…And secondly, in Search Result Pages
The title tag is shown as the headline for Google search results
Even after search engines increased the complexity of their algorithms, the title tag is still an important factor for SEO.
It is the first HTML element that specifies your web page for search engines and to visitors. It is added to the <head> section of the webpage in the format:
<title>Crime News: van seized for illegal rubbish dumping crushed </title>
Title tags and SEO: what to include in the space allowed
Search result for Birmingham Eastside’s home page
In the example above, Birmingham Eastside does have a <title>, however it isn’t making the best use of this setting.
An improvement might be:
<title>Birmingham Eastside - The latest news for Birmingham, with investigations, features and live reporting</title>
Then the search result quickly shows how relevant the site is for the search terms.
Although the home page doesn’t make the most of <title>, it is used on posts.
title tag for an article about a play
However, in this case the <title>is too long. The full <title> is “Theatre tour puts investigative journalism on stage in Birmingham – Birmingham Eastside”. This is 87 characters (including the spaces).
Google typically shows 55–64 characters, but it is good practice to keep the title under 60. Titles longer than 60 characters get truncated. So, it needs to be readable and compelling before this limit.
In the above example, the words missing off the full title don’t matter. The ellipsis does make you wonder what is missing.
SEO setting 2: the meta description
The <META DESCRIPTION> tag influences how the page is described by a search engine.
The setting <meta name= “description” content=”News from the villages of Cranfield, Marston Moretaine, Wootton, Stewartby, Lidlington, Hulcote And Salford, Ridgmont and Houghton Conquest in Bedfordshire” /> is shown as:
Bing search result for my home page
Not every website I researched used the meta description. This means that search engines will have to do their best to provide a page description that is relevant for the search terms.
Birmingham Eastside’s home page is one example that does not use a meta description. The description shown by Google is made up from various headlines shown on the page.
Meta description has not been set for this page meaning that Google can’t be that helpful
As with <title>, there is a character limit for the description. Google allows up to 300 characters, but other search engines do not allow this many. The suggested limit is 155 — 160 characters.
Search engines say meta descriptions do not have a direct ranking benefit as they don’t use them in their ranking algorithm.
But, there could be an indirect benefit as Google uses click-through-rate (CTR) as a way of working out whether the site is a good result.
Meta descriptions: that’s the theory
The theory says that the meta description will be used by the search engine, however this isn’t always the case.
When searching for “van crushed cranfield dumping” on Google I got
Search result that doesn’t show the meta description
The page has “Environment Agency seized a truck as part of the operation into large scale illegal dumping of commercial waste. It was crushed at a licensed scrap yard.” as the meta description. But Google didn’t display it.
A search for “truck crushed illegal cranfield dumping” gives:
A different search gives a slightly different display
Even though the meta description is only 153 characters, Google still truncates the description.
Google sometimes generates its own description in the results based on other metadata. This can happen if it feels that the description isn’t directly relevant to the search terms or to the page’s content.
Google will also generate its own description, as it does with Wyre Life’s home page.
This home page doesn’t use a meta description, but one is still displayed as Google tries to be helpful with the search results.
Wyre Life doesn’t use a meta description so Google makes one up
Wyre Life does use an Open Graph (OG) description. This OG code was introduced by Facebook in 2010 to integrate Facebook with other websites.
It ensures that a link shared on Facebook will have the intended display, such as the correct thumbnail.
Wyre Life’s OG description for the above page is: “– School’s out, the sun’s shining – but how best can you entertain the kids and yourself on a budget? There’s lots of free and cheap things to do in and around Kidderminster, …”
It has been ignored by Google and instead the description contains some of the article and a small part of the author’s biography. The title is also too long…
Open Graph tags for a webpage will not directly affect the on-page SEO. It is useful, however, as it can influence a page’s performance on social media.
Meta descriptions summarised
The meta description is a passage of text that the user “might” see in the search results. If it is used it “might” affect the page’s click through rates. Without one the webpage is left to Google’s own interpretation of the page, which may not be useful.
However, a well-structured meta description that is written in active voice, includes the page’s keyword(s) and matches the content can help search engine users understand, and click through to, your page.
SEO setting 3: the main image’s file name
Image SEO starts with the file name. The file name will tell Google what the image is about without even looking at it. The keyword should be part of the file name.
For example, if the image is of Theresa May dancing in Africa it should be called “Theresa May dancing with South African schoolchildren.jpg” and not “DCS123.jpg”.
Theresa May is the main keyword, so it is at the beginning of the file name.
Using a descriptive file name is also essential for Google’s image search. No one is going to search for DCS123, but they might look for a picture of Theresa May dancing.
SEO setting 4: the main image’s alt tag
As well as adding the keyword and image description (as long as it matches the image) to the file name, the image should also have a good alt tag.
Alt tags strengthen the article’s message with search engine spiders. They also improve the accessibility of the website.
The alt tag describes the image, such as “Theresa May dancing awkwardly with South African schoolchildren while on Africa tour”.
If the image has a call to action, such as ‘buy our dance lessons’, it should have an alt tag of “button to buy dance lessons”.
The Wyre Life article described above has a picture of a canal as the page’s main image. The image is called ‘canal.jpg’. This does show that the image could be of a canal, but where is the canal and why was this image used to illustrate an article about free things to do in the area?
An alt tag may have given search engines the answer.
Keywords should be considered for alt tags where they are relevant to the image, but SEO author Jason McDonald advises that the use of keywords in this way should not be overdone, saying that just one keyword-driven alt tag per page is sufficient, while focusing on writing good content that reads well and is useful for humans as well.
No SEO guarantees
These four steps may not guarantee that a page will get to the first page of search results on any particular keyword, but they can help your reporting getting buried behind more SEO-savvy publishers.
John Guinn was a student on the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University (now the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism) and the publisher of Cranfield and Marston Vale Chronicle. A version of this post was first published on Medium.
This entry was posted in hyperlocal, online journalism, SEO and tagged Hyperlocal, Jason McDonald, SEO on October 16, 2018 by johnguinn50.
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EXPERTO EN SEO November 13, 2018 at 4:11 pm
With the majority of the world’s web traffic derived from search engine results, your meta-title is probably the first thing that movers and readers will see about your business, which is why having your website ranked by the right keywords is so important.
Aidan Collins December 5, 2018 at 4:27 pm
If you have very good backlinks, sometimes onsite changes mentioned above can be irrelevant in my opinion. Obviously combining onsite and offsite is great but offsite link building wins all day.
Gray SEO March 31, 2019 at 12:29 pm
I agree, as simple as these four elements are, they are however very important and would strongly advice not to neglect and it should better be optimized as well. Thanks for putting an emphasis on this important step and giving clear examples on how to improve it.
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Monarch 16.13
Posted on January 5, 2013 by wildbow
With Grue’s help, I seated myself on the intact edge of the destroyed swarmbox, scattering my insects to the walls and ceiling of the room. Grue paced a little, while I eyed Imp and Bitch. My female teammates didn’t look entirely convinced, and I couldn’t blame them. They’d just seen someone who matched my description attacking them. The nighttime darkness and the lack of city lights hadn’t helped, and the obscuring swarm of bugs had helped hide the details from the moment the impostor gave them reason to suspect her.
“What happened?” Grue asked me.
“We arrived at the place he was keeping Dinah, she grabbed my hand, we turned around, and the headlights flashed. Then I was somewhere else.”
“He switched to his highbeams, momentarily. Don’t know about the others, but my eyes had adjusted to the dark. I couldn’t see anything, used my darkness to try to cover us in case he was pulling something, but nothing happened. Turned around and you were fine.”
“Except it wasn’t me.”
Grue nodded slowly. “Looked like you, sounded like you.”
“I don’t know how. Genesis?”
“Didn’t strike me as much of an actor.”
“Then I don’t know,” I said, feeling lame. I knew I didn’t sound convincing.
“What happened? Was he only trying to separate you from us?”
“I’m ninety-five percent sure he tried to kill me.”
“What’s the other five percent?” Grue asked.
“I’m not a hundred percent sure of anything. But he didn’t have a bomb waiting to go off when I arrived, so that leaves me with some doubt. He did shoot me, and set the building on fire around me. And he had soldiers waiting to gun me down if I stepped outside.”
“Did he want you to come here, to frame you?”
“No,” I said, shaking my head. “Doesn’t make sense. Just as easy for ‘Skitter’ to disappear with Dinah, leaving you guys angry but still loyal. I think the way he wanted it, I’d die of the gunshot or burn up in a housefire, and he could use the lack of living reporters in Brockton Bay alongside some bribe money for the Travelers to ensure you guys didn’t know what he’d pulled. Maybe something comes out later about me betraying you, to put it in perspective and put any lingering doubts to rest.”
“He teleported you into a burning house, shot you, surrounded you with soldiers. And you escaped,” Imp said.
“Barely.” I touched the knot of metal where the bullet had settled in my armor. “I guess it’s bulletproof after all. I got away because of stuff he wasn’t aware of, mainly. My costume, tactics I’ve been using in the field, the fact I had a gun. Don’t know if Calvert knew about that. Are you okay, Rachel?”
Rachel didn’t respond. Her head was turned my way, and I could imagine her staring, trying to read me. Her hand gripped the chain at Bastard’s neck.
“It wasn’t me,” I told her.
“It wasn’t her,” Grue confirmed. “I saw with her power. That box was controlling the bugs.”
Bitch nodded slowly. I couldn’t see her expression to know whether she was glaring at me or narrowing her eyes behind her mask.
“If you have any doubts,” I said, “You can stay in a position to attack me if something happens. One whistle or one hand signal away from commanding Bastard or Bentley to tear me apart. I hope you won’t leap to any conclusions, but-”
“Are you sure? Because I don’t want there to be any hard feelings or… I don’t want there to be hard feelings.” I’d almost said retaliation, but I’d decided I didn’t want to bring that up.
“It’s fine,” she said, and there was a touch of anger to the words. “This shadow and dagger shit pisses me off.”
“Cloak and dagger,” Imp offered.
Bitch made a low, grunting noise in her throat that fell somewhere between a huff of anger, a belch and a grunt. “The way you acted before, the way that person acted when she shot me and the way you’re acting now, none of it makes sense, and maybe that’s ’cause I’m stupid. But I’m going to handle this my way. Next time someone shoots at me, I kill them. Or I have Bastard eat their hands and feet.”
“You shouldn’t maim people,” I said.
“Says the person who just emptied a gun clip at us,” Imp said. When Grue and I turned her way, she raised her hands, “Kidding. I’m just kidding.”
“…Want me to kill them instead?” Bitch asked.
“No! No. Just… nevermind. But hold back a bit for now. And don’t call yourself stupid. You think in a different way, that’s all.”
She offered a noncommittal grunt in response.
“We should talk rescue plans,” I said. “Calvert invited Tattletale to join him, probably so she wouldn’t tip us off about the body double. That means she’s probably caught. Regent too, since we sent him to look after her. This is the kind of situation we were hoping to avoid by playing along with his grand plan.”
“Having to tackle his full forces to save Tattletale, Regent and Dinah.”
“Right. If we go charging into this, we or one of his hostages will get killed.”
“I could go in,” Imp said. “Get them, walk them out.”
“No. He knows us. He’s anticipated something like this. Probably has for the Travelers, too. He’ll have planned around our powers, with counters in mind for each of us. That means video cameras to keep an eye out for you.”
“Pain in the ass.”
“Indirect attack?” Grue suggested.
“It won’t work if he’s holed up somewhere safe. Not with the countermeasures he’ll have put in place. If he’s in his underground base until this all blows over, then he’ll be impossible to access,” I said. I had to stop to cough.
Nobody chimed in with an answer or idea while I recovered.
I went on. “If he’s in the PRT offices, then we’ll probably have to get past the Travelers, his soldiers, his PRT officers, any countermeasures he’s put in place and any countermeasures the PRT put in place. It’d be a question of staggering out his various lines of defense so the more questionable ones are out of sight of the good guys.”
“And he still has his hostages,” Grue said.
“Fuck it,” I groaned, then I coughed more.
“You need a hospital,” Grue told me.
I shook my head, then regretted it. I felt dizzy. Vaguely nauseous. It was as though simply stopping and letting the adrenaline kick down a notch was letting symptoms emerge. “Can’t. Not now.”
“You’re nearly dead on your feet.”
“I’ll manage,” I said. I turned my eyes to the place I’d been lying while Imp stood over me. “What if I was dead?”
“Calvert doesn’t have a way to know how this turned out. Do you have phone service?”
Grue reached for his phone, but Imp had hers out first. “Sure.”
“He cut my phone off. I threw it away in case it could be used to track me, or in case it was how he was getting a hold on me with that teleportation device. If he suspected you, wouldn’t he do the same, limit your options?”
“So you think he thinks maybe something happened. Or he’s waiting to see if we bought his ruse.”
“He knows I was in the area. I attacked his men trying to save you guys. He had gunmen and explosives teams ready to wipe you off the map if you caught on to what that impostor was doing. So what happens if you call him and tell him you killed me?”
“He asks us to meet him at one of those secure locations you mentioned, and we can’t refuse without revealing that we know what he tried to pull. And destroying that box might have clued him in anyways.”
“Fuck,” I muttered.
“When the other Skitter disappeared with the girl, how did she do it? Exactly.”
“Teleporting,” I said. “Threw the first flashbang, teleported out, leaving rubble and another flashbang behind.”
“Mm,” he said, “Okay.”
“Why are you so curious about that?”
“Just thinking something through. Give me a second to think.” He pointed at me, “Make sure you’re taking deep breaths in the meantime. Even if it hurts.”
I nodded and did as he asked. For a little while, I ignored my bugs and focused on tallying the damage I’d sustained. My breath wheezed and rattled, my chest hurt every time it or something attached to it moved, and my eyes stung when I opened them. Not that there was any point.
Grue was pacing, breathing hard, while Imp and Bitch stood by. It was a bit of a reversal of the norm. I could sense Bitch scratching around Bastard’s ears, her fingernails digging in deep to get past the areas with armor and bony spikes. Imp was on the other side of the room, leaning against one of the wooden pillars and watching her brother.
“I’m calling him,” Grue announced, still panting a bit. Before any of us could protest, he said, “Quiet.”
I closed my mouth.
He put the phone on speaker. I could hear it ring.
Funny how something so mundane as the ring of a phone could sound so ominous and eerie, given the context of a situation.
“Grue,” It was Calvert’s voice. “What-”
When Grue spoke, his words were growls, barks. “You better not have had anything to do with this, or I swear, this is over. We’re done, gone.”
I could virtually hear Calvert switching mental gears to try to adapt to this. “Slow down and then explain. I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Skitter attacked us and then she used your technology to leave the scene. I know you wanted to keep that girl, but going so far as to fucking turn on us-”
“Grue,” Calvert’s voice was hard, firm, “Slow down. It doesn’t make sense that I’d arrange things that way. Why go through the motions of giving my pet to Skitter, only to… you haven’t fully explained what happened. You said she attacked you? Are you sure?”
“Pretty fucking sure, Coil. She shot Rachel and then turned on me. Imp disarmed her. Then she teleported away using the same device you described to us an hour ago.”
“I… I see. Is Rachel all right? And who else was with you, my driver? You’re all unharmed?”
“Your driver went ahead. No, we’re all fine, except for Skitter.”
“You said she teleported away.”
“She didn’t get more than two blocks away. We chased her down and stopped her.”
My eyes widened a bit. I could imagine Calvert’s next words before he spoke them, was already moving.
“Show me. Send a picture through the phone.”
I shifted position so I lay in the depression that Bastard’s front paws had made in the swarm box. It was a scene I had to stage in seconds, using dragonflies and wasps to carry hairs across my mask, moving my hand so my wrist bent at an awkward angle where the metal folded. The final touch was bringing all the bugs from around the swarm box to carpet me and the floor.
Not a half second after I finished, I heard the digitized camera sound.
“I see. That’s quite unfortunate. Where’s Dinah?”
You know where Dinah is.
“I don’t know,” Grue said. “I’m far more interested in hearing how Skitter managed to use your technology to do this.”
“You’re sure?”
“I saw it with my own two eyes,” Grue said. “She threw a flashbang, but light and darkness don’t affect me the way they do others. You know that much.”
Grue was lying, adding an element Calvert wasn’t aware of, to throw him off track. Good.
“I didn’t, believe it or not,” Calvert said. “And I don’t know how she would have gotten access to the controls. One moment. I’ll have to call you right back.”
My swarm felt Grue stiffen. He raised his voice, “Don’t hang up on me!”
The speaker phone buzzed with the dial tone.
We stared at each other. Or the others stared and I used my swarm sense to observe. As a group, we were still and quiet for long seconds, the dial tone still blaring.
Grue hit the button.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“Being aggressive, keeping him on his heels. If he’s constantly defending himself, he won’t be able to turn things back on us.”
“Except he hung up. He’s going to think through his options and give you an excuse when he’s ready.”
“I didn’t think he’d hang up.”
I frowned. I was thinking back to the meeting I’d had with the school, when my dad had been with me and we’d accused the trio of bullying. Both Emma’s dad and the school had played their little power games.
“It’s a tactic,” I said. “He regains control of the situation by being the one who can call back, and it helps establish the idea of him being an authority figure.”
“Damn,” he said. “Sorry. It made sense in my head, but I didn’t think it through, I’m tired. Didn’t sleep last night. I figured it was better to call sooner than later.”
“It’s okay. Maybe call him back?”
He didn’t get a chance. The phone rang.
“This wasn’t the kind of response I wanted, Coil,” Grue growled into the phone, the second he’d answered.
I heard the beep as he switched it to speaker phone. Calvert was already talking. “- have sequestered Regent in my custody, out of concern that he controlled Victor to have the young man hack into my systems.”
“You and I both know that Victor didn’t have that kind of access, and we didn’t know about your teleportation technology until an hour ago.”
“I fear Skitter may have known, and I’m simply covering my bases. Once we’ve verified what happened and that Regent wasn’t complicit, I’ll release him. You can understand where I’m wanting to be careful, given this turn of events.”
“I don’t understand anything, Coil,” I heard a tremor of emotion in Grue’s voice. “I liked Skitter, and she’s dead. The use of the teleporter says you’re complicit. I want to look you in the eye and believe you weren’t a part of this.”
“We’ll sort this matter out. If you’ll come to my headquarters, we can discuss this.”
“No. Not your headquarters. Not with the possibility you pulled this shit on us. We’ll meet somewhere else. Somewhere open.”
There was a pause. “As you wish. Name a location.”
Grue, this time, was the one caught off guard. Calvert’s response was fast, and Grue clearly didn’t have an area in mind.
A place where we’d be able to set up faster than Calvert, ideally open, not riddled with attack routes and vantage points for his soldiers…
I thought of a spot, and the air caught in my throat as I suppressed a small noise. I almost coughed. I drew the word in the air with my bugs.
“The market, north end,” Grue said, reading it. “You know it?”
“I do. It’s shut down at present.”
“Right. You come with only one small squad of soldiers, bring Tattletale and Regent.”
“If-” Calvert started.
Grue hung up on him. He looked at me, “Authority, right?”
“Right,” I said. But all I could hear was the emotion in his voice when he’d been talking about the idea that I’d been dead. Pretending. Grue wasn’t a guy who showed his emotions, he didn’t strike me as an actor. Hearing that had affected me more than I thought it would. I didn’t want to ask if it was because he really cared or if it was because he’d tapped into something else, some vulnerability that his recent trauma had left open to him.
I coughed lightly. “The market’s a good spot. His people were at the south end of town. It’ll take him a bit to get there, so he won’t be able to stage any kind of ambush.”
“It works. But if we’re meeting him, what are you doing?”
“Staying nearby,” I said. “I’ll wait in the wings. In the meantime, we should see if we can get our hands on something that we could have Bastard maul to the point that it looks like my mutilated remains.”
“There a butcher still in service anywhere?” Grue asked.
“We’ll figure something out,” I replied.
The market was almost empty, an expanse of asphalt devoid of cars, surrounded by tall grass. There were still faint marks where the treads and scoops of bulldozers had pushed the dirt and debris to the far side of the lot. Only a few stalls were standing, but the displays were empty.
I felt exposed, naked. I was wearing only my old costume and the built-in makeshift skirt to cover me where the fire had eaten away at the leggings. My utility compartment was the one that had been damaged during our altercation with the Nine, holding the bare essentials, while my new mask and the upper half of my remade costume were presently being worn by the fake we’d made. The sacrifice of the costume hurt, and the process of putting the fake together hadn’t been pretty.
The head, upper body and arms were simply taken from a child’s mannequin we’d salvaged from the inside of a store display and stuffed into the top of my costume. To get the meat for the torn midsection, I’d had to use my bugs to root out and kill a raccoon from the bins of a dumpster. I’d cut it open and tied the entrails to the base of the mannequin’s torso with my spiders. A wig that vaguely matched my own hair was simply bound to the head. We soaked the body, the wig in particular, with the blood of the dead raccoon.
Bentley’s tail wagged as he carried the thing delicately in his heavy jaws, one arm and a bloody mess of hair dangling from the left side of his mouth, raccoon intestines hanging out the other.
I headed into the tall grass and hunkered down. Volumes of insects and arachnids that I’d picked up during our trek to the market settled around me, hidden at the base of the grass.
Adrenaline kept me awake, despite the fatigue that I was experiencing. It had been an intense few days, an intense few weeks, with minimal chance to rest. My body was probably struggling to heal, and draining what little reserves I had remaining. Still, I wasn’t about to doze off.
Calvert arrived after ten or fifteen minutes, pulling up with one armored van. All in all, he had only four soldiers with him. He walked within twenty feet of me as he crossed the tall grass. I was aware of his footsteps crushing my bugs as he passed over the swarm.
Oblivious, he approached Grue, Imp, Bitch and the dogs.
“Ah. You brought Skitter. It seems there’s little doubt she’s dead. A terrible shame.”
“No kidding,” Imp said.
“I’d suggest my man look over the body, verify that it was her, but I suppose there’s no point trying.”
“Bentley wouldn’t let you get that close to his treat,” Bitch said.
Bentley growled, as if he understood the words and wanted to make it absolutely clear.
“Don’t talk about her like that,” Grue said. “Calling her a treat?”
“She betrayed us,” Imp said. “Why do you care?”
“Enough,” Calvert said, his voice hard. “Enough bickering. My time is valuable, and I’m not willing to waste it on entertaining this ruse.”
I didn’t have many bugs deployed on my allies or on Calvert, but I could still feel the others tense in surprise.
“Yes, I know. I commend you for trying, I might have believed you, but I do have other resources on hand.”
“Then-” Grue started.
“Ah, bup bup,” Calvert raised a hand, “I was talking. As I was saying, I have other resources available. I have a small cadre of supervillains, a small group of heroes, all the resources of the PRT and PRT computer systems, and all of their tools.”
He snapped his fingers, and soldiers began to teleport down to the edges of the market. Most were positioned so that the Undersiders would have to run off the edge of the pavement, over the grass and into the water if they wanted to get away. Surrounding a target while holding guns only promised to get people shot. The effect, as it was, was good enough.
The Travelers teleported in behind Calvert, followed by Chariot, Circus, Über and Leet, and a few of his lieutenants. People in suits. One held a laptop while the other typed on it.
Every gun, tinker made or otherwise, was pointed at my teammates.
Another gun pressed against the back of my head. Soldiers had teleported in behind me.
I felt despair sweep through me. No. Too many. Didn’t think he could teleport this many in.
The gun barrel prodded me, and I stood. I walked with the gun pressed between my shoulderblades, just above the spot where my utility compartment hung.
“Skitter. How nice of you to join us.”
“Cut the fake civility,” I said. “Where are our teammates?”
“Regent and Tattletale are safe and locked up, rest assured. I must say, I’m quite disappointed. I really had hoped this would work out, and the loss of the Undersiders sets me back by weeks or months in the grand scheme of my plan. Imp, you can cease trying to run. My men have cameras on you,” Calvert gestured toward the laptop.
Imp moved her mask to spit on the ground, just to my right. It was a bit of a shock to find her standing there.
“Farewell, Under-“
“Wait.” I said. Raising my voice made me cough.
“I don’t see any point to waiting.”
I hurried to recover and speak before he could give the order. “Dead man’s switch.”
Calvert sighed. “Ah. You are irritating, you know? On more than one occasion, I know, you’ve argued for the sake of the greater good. I’ve viewed the recordings the PRT has of your appearances at major events and I’ve come to know you fairly well. It’s rather hypocritical that you’re now working so hard to fight against the greater good.”
“Against your rule.”
“Essentially so. If you simply would have died quietly, the Undersiders wouldn’t have been stirred to rebellion, I could have established a peace we haven’t seen since the day Scion arrived and everyone involved here could have walked away happier and healthier. Your friends included.”
“Tattletale excepted,” I responded.
“Tattletale excepted, I admit. Too dangerous to be left unchecked. A shame. Now, you were saying?”
“I arranged a dead man’s switch. Kind of. Unless one of my subordinates receives a message from me every twenty minutes, she’ll mass-send emails to everyone important and even a few unimportant people.”
“Detailing the true nature of Thomas Calvert, I suspect?”
“I hate to break it to you, dear Skitter, but this isn’t enough leverage for me to let you walk away.”
I turned my head in the direction of my teammates. With my power, I noted their presence. Grue, Imp, Bitch, her dog.
“None of us?” I asked.
“No. I’m more confident in my ability to handle the chaos that any email creates than I am in my ability to get you and your teammates under my thumb again.”
“Okay,” I said. I could feel sweat running cold down the back of my neck. “Then I have a few questions, and a couple of requests. Satisfy that, and I can disable the dead man’s switch.”
“The requests first, if you please.”
“Dinah goes free when you’re done. You don’t keep her forever.”
“My dad, you don’t touch him.”
“I haven’t and I won’t have reason to.”
“And you take care of Rachel’s dogs.”
Calvert nodded, but I could sense his patience was running out.
“You do what you can to stop Jack from doing what he can to end the world. If you have capes at your disposal, you give them some job related to that. To stopping it.”
“Fine. Is that it?”
“If none of us here get to live, at least promise Tattletale gets to.”
“Fine. That can be arranged.”
“I’ll need to see her, to verify she’s okay. I get that you can’t prove you haven’t gone after my dad in retaliation for earlier, but you can bring her here.”
Calvert nodded at Chariot, who pressed a button on his wrist.
Tattletale appeared in a flash of light, arms bound behind her, legs shackled. She wore headgear that had her blindfolded and gagged. I couldn’t quite tell, but it looked like the ears were plugged too.
“Satisfied?” Calvert asked.
“No. It could be a body double, like you arranged for me. I’d like to confirm with her.”
“No. The restraints are in place for a reason.”
“Then it’s a body double,” I said. “And I’ll let the timer run down on this damaging piece of email.”
“I’m willing to run that risk.”
“Use your power,” I told him. “I’m going to say the words rose-L. She’ll reply with something green, followed by the letter A.”
“I’m familiar with your codes.”
“Great. And if she doesn’t, shoot us. If there’s a problem, go with your other world.”
“You know how my power works?” Calvert sighed. “I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised in the end, with the name she chose. No.”
“It’s all I’m asking for. You can send your computer experts to the destination I name, they’ll check the computer memory to verify no messages were sent, check the phones of everyone on my call history that you don’t already know, and then you’ll know you’re in the clear. That’s what I’m offering you in exchange for the assurance that at least Tattletale will get to live. Peace of mind.”
“I could kill your liaison, you realize. She’s a loose end.”
I thought of Charlotte, hoped I wouldn’t regret getting her involved. “I hope you won’t. All I’ve told her is that she should await my message and send the file I composed if she doesn’t hear from me regularly. I hope you’ll let Tattletale and my civilian live, but if you won’t, if you break your word, I guess I’ll have to live with you looking a little worse in the eyes of the people who work for you. Like the Travelers.”
“Don’t bring us into this, Skitter,” Trickster said. “This is your mess. Your consequences.”
“I didn’t do anything. He was the one who turned on us first,” I protested.
I sensed Trickster turn Calvert’s way.
Calvert sighed audibly. “As Skitter knows about my power and ever so kindly revealed the broad strokes of it to everyone in earshot, I suppose there’s no loss in explaining. I tortured one member of the Undersiders for information, in another world, days ago. They revealed that you were plotting to turn on me if I refused to release Dinah. I cannot afford to release her, so my hand was forced.”
“So it’s our fault?” Imp asked.
“Ultimately, yes.”
“How did you make those body doubles? Genesis?”
“The old-fashioned way. The one that replaced you was a Sudanese child soldier. I was preparing for the eventuality of your betrayal since the day after Leviathan attacked and your… wobbly allegiances became perfectly clear. It’s amusing, but the files you stole from the PRT offices after rejoining the Undersiders supplied much of the video footage my hired experts used to coach her in the particulars of how you move and speak. When you went to convince the Mayor of our way of thinking, Trickster carried the devices Leet designed to record the particular signals you use to command your bugs.”
“Which is how you built the swarm box.”
“The Famine Engine,” Leet said.
“Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb?”
“An unfortunate side effect of Leet’s power. Leet believes it was the proximity to the bomb or the particular signature of the vat of acid that made it so likely to occur, but with my power I observed that it wasn’t merely a chance that the teleportation would fail and your well-trained body double would be caught instead, but a surety. No less than twelve tries with the variables changed slightly. Leet’s power sabotages him, it seems.”
“Is that Leet’s passenger at work?”
“Passenger? Ah, that’s what Bonesaw calls the agents. Yes, I suppose that might be the case. In any event, we nearly ran out of time before verifying that guns, fire and alcohol wouldn’t skew his power. Whatever the cause of the errors was.”
“Okay. So I don’t suppose you want to let me confirm it’s Tattletale and tell you who to contact to cancel the dead man’s switch?”
“You’ve been careful every step of the way. Thinking five steps ahead, amassing resources, amassing top-notch underlings, getting us working for you, getting the Travelers. I’m surprised you’re willing to let things go ass-backwards when you’re so close to tying up the last loose end.”
“It’s precisely because I’m careful that I’m not willing to let Tattletale open her mouth and speak.”
“You’re still pretending it’s Tattletale,” I said.
“It is. I had no reason to arrange a body double for her as I did for you.”
“You had every reason. Like you said, you didn’t trust her, you couldn’t let her work unchecked, and it would have been too unusual if the two members of the Undersiders that posed the biggest threat to your goals happened to disappear at once.”
Calvert shook his head and touched fingers to his forehead, as if exasperated. “Your underling and Tattletale can live. That’s all I’m willing to offer. You’ll have to take my word on both points”
“Your word is worth nothing,” Bitch spat the words.
Calvert reacted as if he’d been slapped.
“You promised me safety, security, so long as I joined this team. I’ve never been less safe, less secure. Everybody lies through their teeth. Maybe there’s a couple of them I can stand anyways, but they’re still liars, they’ve made me a liar, and you’re the worst liar of them all. It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”
“Enough,” Calvert said, “Anything more and I’ll order my men to shoot you.”
“Shoot her and you’ll never get the info you need from me,” I said.
“You’re a cheat, Coil!” Bitch barked.
“I’ll have your dogs shot if you say another word,” Calvert said.
Bitch fell silent.
Silence reigned for long seconds. I was aware of my bugs, knew that I couldn’t have them attack without us getting shot. I knew my armor was bulletproof, Bitch’s armored jacket was the same way, but the thinner fabric, or a bullet through the lens or eyehole of a mask? There were a lot of soldiers here. Even if the suits could stop the bullets from penetrating, we could be pulverized anyways.
I heard a wave crash against the shore, not far away. Long seconds passed.
“If it settles the matter, then fine,” Calvert said. He signaled Chariot.
Another Tattletale appeared. She dropped to her knees the second she materialized. She wore a similar headset and bindings.
“Free her mouth and one ear. Be ready to gag her again the second she speaks.”
One of his soldiers approached the kneeling Tattletale. He undid the gag and freed her ear of the plug that was held in place with wire.
“Rose-L,” I called out.
“Stringbean-A,” she replied. She grunted as the soldier forced the gag back into her mouth.
“She gets to live,” I told Calvert. “If nothing else, you guys are going to need her help to figure out how Jack Slash ends the world in twenty-three months.”
“It’s amusing,” Calvert said, “That you keep asking me for things I was already prepared to do. You wanted me to improve the city, to restore it to a working state. Already planned. And this? Killing Tattletale was never in the cards. I intend to keep her like I do my pet. Her power will be invaluable. Rest assured, I will offer every bit of assistance I can when the end of the world approaches.”
“I suppose it was too much to expect that you’d let her go,” I said. My heart pounded in my chest. I wasn’t exactly feeling top-notch, so simply standing was feeling like a bit of a challenge. Fighting back, acting? No. No use. “Her name is Charlotte. She’s staying in the red brick house a block to the east of my dad’s place. She has a laptop, but she doesn’t know what I put on it.”
“Very well. Men? Ready-“
“-You’re not going to check?”
“Calvert!” I said, “Coil!”
The sound of the gunshots was deafening, debilitating when I was already missing my sense of sight, my bugs not present enough to give me a sense of the surroundings. I sensed Grue get hit, then Bentley… I took one in the stomach and folded over.
When the smoke cleared, for lack of a better term, we were still standing. There was the sound of a few isolated scuffles in the ranks of the soldiers. My bugs moved to the ends of gun barrels and to the soldiers themselves, noting their postures and positions.
Roughly half of the soldiers that surrounded us were holding the other half hostage. A few had managed to get shots off, but a quick feel-around with my bugs verified that nobody had been hurt enough to be knocked to the ground. Most of the bullets had gone over our heads.
“What is this?” Calvert asked. “Travelers-“
“Don’t do a thing, Travelers,” Grue boomed out, in his eerie, hollow voice. “Someone remove Tattletale’s bindings.”
One of the soldiers approached Tattletale and began undoing the restrictive binding. She wobbled slightly as she stood, working her jaw in the absence of the gag.
“Glad to see the stringbean plan worked out in the end,” she said. “Those of you I haven’t been in contact with, please hear me out. I’m paying twice what Calvert is for a year’s salary, and I’m paying it all upfront. Look to the other team captains if you don’t believe me. Fish, Minor, Richards, Meck, I’ve talked to them, and they’ve agreed.”
There was a slight shift in the tension among the soldiers. The ones at gunpoint began slowly lowering their weapons, and the ones holding them there similarly let it calm a notch.
“Lies,” Calvert said. There was an uncharacteristic degree of emotion in his voice. “I’ve tracked your funding. I know exactly how much money you have.”
“Not exactly. See, I revealed this to my team, just a little while ago, but I’ve sort of been skimming.”
“A bit. Not as much as you’d think. You keep good accounts. But our targets? For sure. Like, we go rob the Brockton Bay central bank, and maybe I skip off for five minutes to go visit the CEO’s room, use his computer to get access to more funds, and shift them into a personal account. Or I keep a few of the more valuable pieces of paperwork, or I pocket something expensive during a job. Funny thing about a power like mine, it helps me figure out what I can get away with.”
“You haven’t taken enough to pay twice what I can.”
“You’d be surprised. And some of your assets are in a position to be picked up by yours truly. Safe deposit boxes and safes don’t mean much against me. So that’s a bit more funding of yours that I can borrow to pay these guys. A year up front, and I’m not asking them to do a single thing. Most of them, anyways. I’m just asking that they ship out of Brockton Bay or they stay on the down-low.”
“I’ll pay triple,” Calvert said.
“You can’t pay triple,” Tattletale said, stretching as the chains around her wrists and ankles were undone. “You’ve dented your coffers too much with the city revitalization. Didn’t help that you paid such an exorbitant sum to the Dragonslayers for the information they were offering.”
“That was your idea.”
“Yeah,” Tattletale said. “You were desperate enough to deal with the Dragon threat before your big show at the debate that you didn’t make too big an issue of it. Either way, you forgot the cardinal rule of employing mercenaries. They follow the person with the money.”
“I didn’t forget,” Calvert said, “I had that in mind every step of the way. I was exceedingly careful of how much funding I provided.”
“Okay,” Tattletale sounded almost chirpy. “But you didn’t account for the possibility that I was picking up as much on my own as I was.”
Calvert made a noise that was a borderline snarl.
“Undersiders,” Trickster said. “This goes no further. Call it a stalemate, but we need his assistance.”
“Calvert’s lying, you know,” Tattletale said. “He can maybe help you, but he can’t help Noelle. None of the plans he’s been talking about will work, and he knows they won’t work. He wants Noelle for entirely different reasons. He thinks he can get her on a leash, so he’s got firepower even if he gets rid of the supervillains working under him. A threat that only the great PRT leader Thomas Calvert can address.”
“I’d rather see the truth of that for myself. You touch him and we kill you.”
“You guys aren’t wearing the same kind of durable costume we are,” Tattletale said. “If you want to make a point of it, my soldiers can gun you down.”
“I can swap your group with mine the second the gunshots happen,” Trickster replied, unfazed. “You don’t want to do that.”
I tried to speak, coughed once instead. When I finally had my voice, I said, “Ballistic. Sundancer. Any other Traveler with doubts, I know you guys aren’t happy with the status quo. If you want to stop running, stop moving constantly and move to Brockton Bay permanently, we’ll have you. We need you, even.”
A long pause stretched out, then Ballistic stepped forward.
“Hey, man,” Trickster said. “No.”
“I’m done. This was a doomed quest from the start,” Ballistic said. He stopped at Grue’s side, turned around to face his teammates.
“Sundancer?” I asked. “You said before that you were lonely, that all of this was too intense for you. Even the stuff I’ve done, it didn’t sit right with you. I get that. Don’t you want to stop? To say goodbye to this life?”
Trickster looked at Sundancer, “Mars.”
She shook her head. “No. No, Skitter. I’m staying. Don’t have another choice.”
“Genesis?”
She was in the form of a girl, but wore a simple mask. “Someone’s got to stay and be a real leader to this team. No. I’m standing by Trickster.”
“Teleport me to safety,” Calvert said. “Escort me away, and everything I have is yours.”
“Everything you have is mine already,” Tattletale cut in. “You’ve been dethroned, C-man. I’m going to rule as the mastermind behind the scene in Brockton Bay, organize the territories, pay the bills. My partners will see to the territories themselves. I suppose I won’t be head of the PRT, but I’m suspicious we’ll be able to work out a truce of sorts with the good guys. Hopefully we’ll get someone more sensible than Piggot and less shady than you.”
“Trickster,” Calvert said. “I can put you in touch with the woman who can cure her. Someone who knows as much or more about Parahumans than anyone on the planet. It won’t be free, but I can subsidize the costs. But I have to be alive to-“
Trickster collapsed to the ground. Sundancer and Genesis turned, confused, and Ballistic caught Genesis with a spray of pellets. She dissipated into gory wisps of whatever substance formed her body.
Sundancer was only just creating her sun when she collapsed as well. I could see Imp bending over, prodding the bodies. Über, Leet and Chariot backed away as guns turned to point at them.
“Anyone who shoots one of the Undersiders will receive one million dollars!” Calvert shouted.
I waited for the inevitable bullet. It didn’t come.
“Skitter and I had a little talk,” Tattletale said. “Way back when the city had been freshly sieged by the Endbringer and rejoining the team wasn’t even a consideration. I raised the idea of going after you, of taking you down. We knew that if you were going to let down your guard, if you were going to slip up at all, it would be when you were closest to achieving your goals.”
Calvert only glared.
“If you made any one mistake, it was keeping me at your base towards the end of the fiasco with the Nine. The problem with keeping your friends close and your enemies closer? It puts your enemies in the midst of your friends, so they can discuss better means of payment with the right team captains. Or they can maybe arrange to put something in Noelle’s vault during one of the feeding times, a few fire alarms with a low battery, tucked in where the door meets the wall. Irritate her, so she’s awake that much more, and she then costs you sleep.”
“That metaphor fell apart,” Imp commented.
Tattletale shrugged. “Not so much a metaphor, but I got off track.”
“Pettiness,” Calvert said.
“Strategic. Lots of little things add up. Seeding doubts. Making you second guess plans. Keep you up at night wondering, planning just a bit more, in both your realities. You were too focused on the big picture, on the thing I could find out, keeping me off-balance, that you missed out on my ability to see the little things, to exploit them. And it wore on you. You didn’t realize how much, but it did, and maybe that’s why you were that much more susceptible to making the critical mistake here.”
“Damn you,” Calvert said.
“But you made the mistake we needed you to make, using your power here, while you were talking to us. There’s no escape routes, now. The only loyalty you have is bought with coin, and I have more cash than you do.”
“Then send me to the Birdcage and be done with it,” Calvert said.
“To jail?” Tattletale asked. “No, no no no. I know you have contingency plans. Arrangements. We send you to prison and someone breaks you out before you get there.”
I took a step forward, then made myself take another.
“It doesn’t have to be you,” Tattletale told me.
“No,” I told her. “I think it does.”
Calvert turned my way, let his head sink back so it rested against the ground. “So it comes down to this.”
I thought of the countless lives I’d put at risk, if not directly, then indirectly: the ABB blowing up parts of the city, the ensuing gang war, Purity leveling buildings because she blamed us for the loss of her daughter.
There was the fat superhero I’d left to die when the tidal wave was incoming. I recalled leaving the dying Merchant to bleed out when I’d rescued Bryce from the merchant’s festival of blood. There were the people in my territory, the old doctor who’d had her throat cut because I hadn’t realized Mannequin was close until it was too late. The gas attack that killed nearly twenty people and the fires Burnscar had set in my territory, both because I’d provoked them and failed to consider how readily they’d go after the vulnerable point that was all the people I’d been trying to protect.
I remembered trying to kill Mannequin with grenades, going all-out in attempting to end a man’s life. A madman, a monster, but it was what it was.
And, much more recently, there was the case of me bringing Triumph so close to death that he’d needed life support.
I’d come to terms with so much of that by telling myself it was leading to this. I’d known deep down it would happen. That my fight against Calvert would have to end here.
I walked forward until Calvert was beneath me. I drew my gun, checked there was ammo in the clip.
“You’re not a killer,” Calvert said.
“No…” I replied. I couldn’t see, so I screwed my eyes closed, felt the moisture of tears threatening to spill forth. I took in a deep breath.
“…But I suppose, in a roundabout way, you made me into one,” I finished. I aimed the gun and fired.
The gun dropped from my hand as the recoil jarred it. It clattered to the pavement. It was quiet enough that I could only hear the ocean water crashing against the shore, just off the beach.
As an afterthought, I kicked the gun a distance away from where Calvert lay. Not that there was much point. I tried to learn from my mistakes.
I felt Tattletale’s arm settle around my shoulders. “We’re done. This is over.”
“The Travelers will be pissed. I can’t- we can’t kill them,” I said.
“We won’t. They’ll move on. They have no more reason to stay.”
Grue stepped around my left side, bent down, took Calvert’s cell phone from the man’s belt and then tossed it to Tattletale. As Tattletale withdrew her arm from my shoulders, he stepped forward to give me a hug. “Let’s go.”
I nodded into his shoulder.
We turned away. With my swarm sense I was able to recognize Minor, Tattletale’s man, helmetless, opening the doors of one van for us. I took a seat.
It wasn’t Tattletale or Grue that sat down beside me, but Rachel. She took my hand in hers, held it fiercely. I wasn’t sure what to make of it, so I simply accepted it.
We stopped at Coil’s underground base. Tattletale’s underground base. It was a relief to escape the silence of the van, surreal to be in the dim noise of downtown again. Much of the area still lacked power, but there were the noises of the occasional car, of people clamoring on the bottom floor of an apartment building. City noises.
“You okay?” Grue asked.
“More bothered by the fact that I’m not bothered,” I said. I knew how little sense I was making, but I didn’t feel like elaborating.
“But you’re okay?”
I nodded, coughed fiercely for a few seconds.
“Our next stop after this is the hospital.”
“Okay,” I agreed.
As it had been at sunset, the base was empty. The metal walkway sang with my footsteps as I walked to the far end of the complex. I stopped at a door without a handle.
“Here,” Tattletale said. She held Calvert’s cell phone. Held it up and pressed a sequence of buttons.
The door clicked open. I forced my fingers into the gap and hauled it open. Heavy and metal.
There was one more door, one with a key lock. Tattletale stepped over to the desk and got the key, opened it.
Dinah was inside with an unassuming man in a turtleneck sweater and corduroy pants.
“Go,” Tattletale told the man. “Your boss is dead. Just go.”
He fled.
“I’m going to get Regent,” she said. “Think we’ll leave Shatterbird in her soundproof cage for now, just to be safe.”
I nodded absently. I was holding on to Grue for support, watched as Dinah stood from the bed and slowly approached.
Her voice was barely above a whisper as she stared down at the ground between us, “I’ve been waiting for this for so very long.”
It didn’t sound like an accusation. More the words of someone who had been forced to watch the clock for days, weeks, months. Anticipating a possible moment that might never come.
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I’m sorry it took so long.”
She shook her head, “I’m the one who’s sorry, you were trying hard and I set you up, so you’d go the way where your friends tried to kill you. I shouldn’t have-“
“Hey, it’s okay. It offered us the best chances in the end, right?”
She bobbed her head in a nod.
A second later, she was running to me, wrapping her arms around my midsection. I winced in pain as her forehead banged against my chest.
“Medical care,” Grue said.
“For both of us,” I replied. “Dinah and me.”
As a trio, we stepped out onto the walkway, where Tattletale and Regent should have been waiting.
But I could see Regent at the end of the walkway, and Tattletale wasn’t with him. She was hurrying down the spiral stairs just to Regent’s left.
I leaned over the walkway, as much as I was able with the pain in my chest and Dinah clinging to my midsection. My eyes went wide. A moment later, I was hurrying after Tattletale, holding Dinah’s hand in one of my own and Grue’s elbow in the other.
We stopped when we reached Tattletale. She stood facing the vault door. The one that was used to seal Noelle within.
There were two vault doors, one set behind the other, and both were ruined, the one closest to us nearly folded in half, hanging by one hinge.
“A final act of spite,” Tattletale said. She looked at the phone in her hand. “He made sure she heard our conversation.”
“You didn’t notice?”
“He was using his ability to create alternate worlds to throw my power for a bit of a loop. I was more focused on the possibility that he had a loyal soldier in the ranks or a sniper waiting in the distance, ready to take a shot at one of us.”
The odor that wafted from the open vault was like sweat and rotten meat. It was dark. Nothing about it gave the sense of a teenage girl’s living space.
“On a scale of one to ten,” I asked, “Just how bad is this?”
“Let me answer your question with another question,” Tattletale said. “You think we could convince the PRT to turn on the air raid sirens?”
This entry was posted in 16.13 and tagged Über, Ballistic, Bastard, Bentley, Bitch, Chariot, Circus, Coil, Genesis, Grue, Imp, Leet, Regent, Sundancer, Tattletale, Taylor, Trickster by wildbow. Bookmark the permalink.
188 thoughts on “Monarch 16.13”
mc2rpg on January 5, 2013 at 00:11 said:
“Mm,” he said, “I remember.”
“I’m thinking. Stay quiet for a second. You,” he pointed at me, “Should lean back and make sure you’re breathing deep. Even if it hurts.”
In this little bit Taylor asked why he asked right? It just seems awkward for him to be addressing her about staying quiet, and then to point out he was adressing her for leaning back. That might just be in my head though.
wildbow on January 5, 2013 at 00:17 said:
Rewrote for clarity. I think some of that might have been a small editing snafu.
endochrom on January 5, 2013 at 00:21 said:
Wow, the Undersiders now control the city’s underworld… nominally speaking. I’m guessing Noelle is gonna turn out just as dangerous as any Endbringer. Can’t wait for the next chapter!
This is the last chapter of the arc. Coming up next is the event week.
I meant the next arc.
Which I cannot wait for.
dreamfarer on January 5, 2013 at 00:32 said:
Wow! That was an amazing chapter! Once again, did not see any of that coming, and yet it all fits so perfectly,
Noelle on the loose is a pretty terrifying setup for the next chapter, but the bit that hit me the most? Bitch grabbing Taylor’s hand after the final showdown. That one sentence spoke volumes and was pitch perfect for the moment.
dubloe7 on December 25, 2013 at 02:44 said:
As soon as it looked like Taylor convinced Coil to use his power, I knew they were going to at least TRY to kill him, I just couldn’t come up with any of the specifics.
Three Lefts Make a Right on January 5, 2013 at 00:36 said:
Very good chapter. Noelle is finally out, time to see what she can do.
taliesinskye on January 5, 2013 at 05:30 said:
I’m wondering if she’s related to the Endbringers (an Endbringer herself) or if she’s just a scary uncontrolled powerset.
twofoe on October 26, 2013 at 02:17 said:
Given that Leviathan was revealed to have never been human, I think it’s the latter.
Individuo on January 5, 2013 at 00:43 said:
After the event week, the shitstorm will be a sight to see.
What do we know about Noelle powers?
Matthew on January 5, 2013 at 04:45 said:
Some kind of brute/breaker/changer combo, most likely, has something to do with cannibalism, and Dinah reckoned she could fight the Siberian toe-to-toe and live, which should tell you all you need to know.
Mr Walaa on January 5, 2013 at 00:44 said:
Damm the suspense just dos not stop.
Gleam on January 5, 2013 at 00:46 said:
What happened to Chariot, Circus, Uber and Leet?
Reveen on January 5, 2013 at 01:00 said:
I’m abit more confused what happened to the other Travelers. It says they’re alive, so Did Ballistic figure out how to reduce the velocity of his projectiles, or was he using rubber rounds or something?
I’d feel pretty bad if Genesis and Sundancer ended up dead. Not so much Trickster, screw that guy.
Thomas on January 5, 2013 at 09:31 said:
Is genesis dead? I thought ballistic just destroyed her temporary body. I didn’t realize Sundancer was dead Thought she was just knocked out I agree that is a shame. Besides those three who is left?
Sundancer was tased. Genesis had a ‘walking body’ and simply had her created body destroyed.
Held at gunpoint. Briefly mentioned.
Around the time the Undersiders were surrounded with by soldiers and villains I was very seriously considering the idea that this might have all been one giant ruse. That this was the final chapter of the story, with a bunch of little epilogues for event week. I didn’t think it was likely, but it seemed possible that everyone would die there.
Pinkhair on January 5, 2013 at 00:51 said:
I’ll admit that the thought crossed my mind as well. Also, the thought that Coil might be the actual ‘Worm’ of the title.(It is interesting how many worms dragons and snakes and wyrms taylor fights…)
Well, that says a lot for the suspense of the moment, there, when you really truly believe that the protagonists could bite the dust.
Kagedviper on January 5, 2013 at 07:58 said:
The best protagonists die.
Kim on January 7, 2013 at 10:22 said:
How nordic
Hexa on July 4, 2016 at 11:22 said:
Sadly, that only really works when you can’t tell if it’s the end: reading later I was certain that at least Taylor would survive for the remaining arcs. I suppose it’s a major advantage of serials, to have that option (though other mediums could do it at the end of a book/film/whatever).
Also, if it had ended there, the event arc would have needed a MASSIVE amount of plot advancement if it wanted to resolve some of the Entity-Cauldron-Scion-endbringer mess.
Jeytrops on October 12, 2017 at 21:56 said:
To be fair, Wildbow rolled dice to see if people would live from the Levaithan fight. Including Taylor. So it wouldn’t have been out of character
Absolutely amazing. They were incredibly lucky- but they made enough of their own luck the hard way to… Oh man, this was just great. And then that ending. You’ve answered the question, “What do you get the reader who has everything?” in a few lines.
“The Famine Engine,” Leet said. “Whatever.” Perfect.
“It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”” I love when Rachel bursts out with comments like that. They are much more powerful coming from her.
Is tomorrow part of event week? Or does it start monday?
Starts Tuesday.
Damali on January 5, 2013 at 00:56 said:
This chapter feels a bit rushed. The only one who did any good here was Bitch. So glad she told Coil about himself, got it where he hurts. Skitter talks too much sometimes. Like someone you once trusted is attempting to kill you for the second time that day, and that’s what you say to them? Calmly managing your affairs? Weird to me her insistence to get the real tattletale especially since she/we didn’t know tattletale’s plan? Or did she? And the thing with Bitch, telling her to feel free to keep her dogs in an attack position if it makes her feel better. That sounds so….I dunno. But I’m really tired of skitter being seriously injured and still running around trying to save the world. The whole Dinah affair feels a bit hollow to me. What about her Dad? She’s always choosing something else over her dad. So much to say, can’t even think of it all. But I do very much love Bitch.
Don on January 5, 2013 at 05:31 said:
http://www.oddityjournal.com/2012/04/survival-stories.html
It happens in real life, too.
I really can imagine this happening as it does. With the people saying the things they do, and doing the things they do, given the circumstances. It’s actually pretty amazing how consistently these characters are drawn, imo.
I’m putting some of Skitter’s perpetual calm down to side-effects of her Thinker power, like the shift in personality between Taylor and Skitter (though Taylor hasn’t been appearing much lately, uncostumed Skitter has been more common. Well, apart from the major events with Brian and her father, anyway).
I’d feel bad about Skitter ending up killing someone, but the words “child soldier” kind of nix that.
And honestly, the way he plotted everything, backed his enemies into a corner, and the way he was hoodwinked by Tattletale there’s no real way he could have lost the gambit and kept his head. H brought this all on himself, and it didn’t matter who eventually pulled the trigger.
Rest in piece, you rat bastard.
You really think Coil is dead?
Anzer'ke on January 5, 2013 at 08:41 said:
Yeah, the bit about him torturing one of the Undersiders was the end point for him.
Grue, Skitter and Bitch would have given him nothing. Tattletale would only have given him false info. Assuming he’s at least part way to sociopathic Regent would also have been a dead end.
Which leaves one member who we know is much less smart when heavily wounded. And as tough as she acts, Imp is their youngest member…torturing her is unforgivable.
Hobbes on January 5, 2013 at 10:56 said:
If Regent’s a sociopath, which he pretty much is, he would feel no remorse over turning on his teammates. But Coil probably wasn’t willing to take that chance, and tortured Imp instead. She’s less likely to use her power to escape, too.
True sociopathy is often associated with a great deal of resistance to pain, the same brain chemistry that nulls empathetic reactions makes such people extremely hard to torture.
Furthermore remorse is not a factor, which is different from it simply being absent. We know Regent values his teammates and will put himself at risk for them. Thus we can safely assume that his actions are drive by something other then whether or not he will feel bad over them getting hurt.
End result, torturing him would be ineffective, he doesn’t want to give them away and wouldn’t be as…duressed by the pain as a normal person.
celer on January 5, 2013 at 20:26 said:
If psycopathy is innate, not learned, and Regent really was psychologically damaged by Heartbreaker to the point that he started exhibiting psycopathic tendencies, then he might not have the pain resistance.
Dread Pirate on July 9, 2017 at 15:01 said:
Specifically, Regent seems to be a sociopath, not a psychopath. Same inability to feel guilt, but still capable of forming bonds and even feeling love and friendship. I don’t know if sociopaths are resistant to pain, but the condition is similar enough to psycopathy I’d be inclined to guess they share the pain resistance.
Innate doesn’t match psych damage. However this is a point, though in any case the emotional deadening could easily also come with something like that, what’s more remember how he mentioned his own sensations seeming distant after how hedonistic he once was.
On a side note his current interests (art etc) struck me as a fascinating take on this. Akin to the evolution from lower to higher pleasures discussed in Mill’s expansion on hedonic calculus, it suggests that Regent responded to the deadening of base joys by seeking (on some level) more cerebral pursuits which would remain open to him.
This makes me wonder how many other times he did horrible things in his other timeline, killing Taylor’s dad, killing Rachel’s dogs etc. While whatever he did never technically “happened” the nature of his powers means that he’s still the same person who tortured a teenager for information.
I’m a bit disappointed that Calvert’s wasn’t outed to the heroes, but there’s still time for that. With Coil’s resources and Tattletale’s general contempt for secrecy she should probably lift the fog of war on the Siders scary rep before things get more out of hand.
Well, once Noelle is stopped, anyway.
Bluekazoo on January 5, 2013 at 20:44 said:
I thought this point was well-made during one of the bonus chapters from Coil’s perspective. In it, if you’ll recall, Coil starts a reality in which he kills the not-so-good doctor, simply because he can. It was written to suggest that this was how Coil ‘relaxed’. Any possibility of him being anything but a psycho pretty much went out the window after that, in my mind.
Now I’m wondering whether he was always this way, or if he’s like Bitch or Burnscar in that the nature of his powers changed the way his mind works.
The ability to do whatever horrible things you want in a separate reality and collapse it with no remaining damage and consequences might turn any of us into a monster. It makes too much sense considering how ultimately willing he is to throw lives away like they’re nothing.
Psycho Gecko on January 5, 2013 at 20:57 said:
Regarding psychopathy, I’m just gonna leave this here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUsGDVOCLVQ
Loki-L on January 5, 2013 at 01:14 said:
Well, that didn’t go at all like I expected.
Now Taylor who wanted to be superhero is a killer. It might have been necessary, but it doesn’t stop the fact that she killed in cold blood. It is a major turning point.
If words get out that she killed the new PRT-director she will have a hard time ever getting one of the good guys or neutral to cooperate with her ever again.
Also since Tattletale expects to rule from the shadows, they will need a face to present as the leader of the underworld to the outside world. Skitter recently got promoted to team leader by Grue so that means, she will likely become the one everyone thinks is running things.
On the plus side, she seems to finally be bonding with bitch and Dinah is free and everyone she cares about appears to be safe for now except for that thing with Noelle going on a killing spree.
On the minus side Coil was part of Cauldron’s plan and they are going to be upset about this. They might use their influence to at least discredit her if they don’t simply send in A-List capes to deal with her.
From the perspective of an outside Skitter has since her début dealt with rival gang leaders like Lung in a brutal way, and chased the remaining gangs out of town. She was involved in the downfall of Armsmaster, Glorygirl, Panacea, Shadowstalker and will probably get Blamed for some deaths like Battery. Her attack against Triumph in his civilian identity combined with her previous infractions against the code also will count against her. Add in her abduction of one PRT-Director and her assassination of her successor and you don’t really get a pretty picture.
Getting the good guys help for whatever is going on with Noelle and dealing with Jack’s end of the world and the Endbringers will be hard. Once she finds out that the major heroes are under control or part of a sinister organisation that she has to confront she will get a real PR problem for who would support notorious Evil Villain Skitter against the good guys….
To be fair getting the good guys to help with Noelle should actually be pretty easy. She is going to be running around eating people all over the place, the heroes HAVE to try to stop her, and if she is as dangerous as people keep saying she is they will end up taking any help they can get. They already have experience allying with villains, they are sure to do it again if things get bad enough.
TheAnt on January 5, 2013 at 01:18 said:
Oh the irony of how he died. So Skitter is officially a killer, but the scum sucker more than deserved it. Bitch is her wonderful self, with a huge step of holding Taylor’s hand in comfort. Now they have to deal with someone who A. Eats people, B. The Endbringers specifically targeted to cause widespread death/destruction and C. Is VERY pissed off. I like that Dinah knew very well who did so much for her. If she ever joins the PRT, she will have an interesting relationship with the criminals of Brockton Bay.
Hydrargentium on January 7, 2013 at 11:02 said:
You mean: B. The Slaughterhouse Nine specifically targeted….
Both the Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse Nine sought her out. Crawler’s motivations were fairly clear, but Leviathan’s, maybe a little less so.
Hmmm, must have missed that in all the chaos.
Someone (Coil?) mentioned a bit after the event that Leviathan came close to breaking Noelle out before Scion turned up.
So while it could have been a coincidence that Leviathan headed for her; probability, plot, and the author just above suggest otherwise.
Easy to miss though, since it was only mentioned a bit later.
Yog on January 5, 2013 at 01:35 said:
First of all, they should have shot him first, then monologued (to his subordinates or themselves) later – like he did to Skitter.
Secondly – I really, really hope and pray that he’s dead and IS GOING TO STAY DEAD.
Tattletale had to make sure that both realities synced up.
This is especially worrying since it goes against the Evil Overlord List rules but also because as Terry Prarchett wrote:
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat.
They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
In their defence they had to talk everyone else around first and skitter probably had to psych herself up for it and lets not forget Coil’s power.
Once he was trapped with both realities in a timeline without an escape all he could do is try to shift things around and create splits to ensure that he survived longer. In one timeline he would say things and in another he would stay silent and every time one of them ended with him getting killed he created another split. The final actual timeline is the one where he lived the longest and he was probably still splitting timelines as she fired in hopes that one of them would miss.
You’d think it’d be more impressive to put a sword into a stone than it would to pull one out.
deuseldorf on January 5, 2013 at 19:23 said:
Swords aren’t that sharp. I’m way more impressed with Merlin putting it in compared to Arthur puling it out.
Ah, any man properly equipped can put it in. It takes a will of iron to pull out.
It’s like the entendre split into two, doubled if you will, right before my eyes.
Um the Muse on January 7, 2013 at 17:49 said:
Not that hard. Just pour cement around the sword and there you go.
I wonder why nobody tried to break the stone, though.
Because it was God-ian, not Gordian, and Arthur, not Alexander….
Also, the sword was driven through, not cleaving through.
Irrevenant on April 16, 2014 at 04:54 said:
Excellent point. No possible way he could have escaped.
If only he had a history of using nigh-perfect body doubles or something… 😉
(Not that I expect that’s actually happened, but with Coil, who knows?)
For the people doubting that he is dead, he absolutely has to be. If Coil had an alternate timeline where he was still alive he would have defaulted over to it, and so this entire event wouldn’t have happened. He already used his body double and my suspension of disbelief would be absolutely shattered if Tattletale didn’t check the body to be absolutely sure it was him. It doesn’t make sense for him to still be alive.
I’m not thinking alternative timelines or body doubles. I’m thinking bonesaw-like bodymods. We already know that he has some – he wasn’t bothered by spider poison at all, after all.
But yes, it would be very irritating.
The resistance to spider poison was good ‘ol horse serum.
Even if he had bodymods that let him survive a gunshot to the head, surely Tattletale will check his corpse.
MrMoray on January 5, 2013 at 02:38 said:
He’s gone. And what’s this? A new codicil in his last will and testament? His body is to be catapulted into the town of Ellsworth instead of buried with honors? Sounds appropriate. 🙂
And then Nilbog had alternate timelines! Huzzah!
Skitter popped a cap in Coil’s crown. I don’t think there’s any way of stealing Coil’s power now. Even Bonesaw needs the brain fairly intact to Tinker with.
ironfalconlives on January 5, 2013 at 05:06 said:
maybe glaistig uaine could do something with that mess, if only she was free.
anonymus on January 5, 2013 at 11:27 said:
just gonna say “Amy/Panacea”
Now that I think about it, I can’t help but wonder if Dinah is even going to want to go back to her parents. She couldn’t convince them she had a power, and they couldn’t protect her when Coil came calling. Skitter is a pretty big heroic figure for her right now, especially when you consider just how long Dinah has known she was her only hope for freedom. I can very easily see Dinah latching onto Skitter as a protector/parent/sister figure and not wanting to leave her.
eduardo on January 5, 2013 at 02:50 said:
I agree, this is quite possible.
Well there is the fact that she is also still a drug addict. Hopefully she can use her powers to realize that her own chances of survival are better if she kicks the habit, but addicts are not always rational, she might very well choose to go where there is the highest chance of getting more ‘candy’.
There is also the danger that in another extreme situation Skitter might be forced to use her like Coil used her. If there is another attack by an Endbringer or somebody like the nine or even Noelle if it gets bad enough. Skitter might have to pressure Dinah to use her powers even if it hurts her ‘for the greater good’.
Then again, if Dinah is smart enough she might even look at the really big picture and try to figure out which move was better not just for herself but also for the world. If staying and supporting the Undersiders will affect the end of the world she might go for that.
Depends on what happened to her parents. But yeah I can see her deciding to stay at least for a little while. I can’t wait to see where we go next after Noelle. Will they join Dragon in hunting the 9 to save the world? How will the Undersiders rule the city now that they are in charge? How will the heroes/world react to them now? WIll Taylor ever tell her Dad? Will Cauldron decide to seek revenge of some kind? The fact that Taylor has finally killed someone, and felt no real difference is a big step. A Skitter who isn’t afraid to kill is a very scary proposition.
So Dinah will feel much safer with her.
Well, so when Coil teleported the real Tatetale in, he lost. I could bet that Taylor’s dad is dead or about to die, after all, Coil can make his own dead man switch.
Trickster gained the title of most stupid ever.
Gnarker on January 5, 2013 at 03:03 said:
Magnificiently played, Tattle. Stealing out his city and private army from right under his nose. Looks like there will be a new Director needed.
About Noelle, I take it her running free qualifies as something like an Endbringer Level Event?
Sure seems like team-ups between Heroes and Villains are becoming something of a common occurence in Brockton Bay.
You know, I think the Undersiders would do well to publicly announce that Coil was Calvert. Ideally provide some proof (account information, timeline of his locations, this kind of corroborating stuff).
They shouldn’t tell that he was killed, but instead tell that he escaped and is at large. That he tried to double-cross them (and broke the Rules), and that they are exposing him as the retaliation.
Aw man, I liked Coil, he was a magnificent bastard and grandmaster of the Xanatos Gambit, unfortunately Tattletale plays Xanatos Speed Chess.
Tattletale is so dangerous because she can play Xanatos Speed Chess as well as the more sedate regular variety, in addition to having super information gathering to work with.
Interestingly, there’s virtually no limit to what Tattletale and Dinah could accomplish together. And no limit whatsoever to what they could accomplish if they got working with Dragon.
Add in Skitter and these four are ludicrously difficult to deal with.
Skitter-Rapid fire planning and adaptation.
Tattletale and Dinah-Absolute information capacity.
Dragon-Global scale manipulation.
You forgot Skitters field coordination capabilities.
As long as you’re within her range, you got GPS’ older brother, near perfect scouting, and multitasking mission control all together on a line that’s very difficult to intercept.
Starry Sky on January 5, 2013 at 05:47 said:
Coil was definitely a bastard, but really, there really wasn’t anything magnificent about him. Quite frankly, he had all the charisma of a wet blanket.
Guy had style though, and smarts, and fractal plans-within-plans and all that goodness that a decent mastermind villain should have. I’m fine with him dying though, especially as Taylor was the one who pulled the trigger, which just cements Worm as the Breaking Bad of superhero stories.
Skitter – The One Who Knocks
Coil may be a mastermind, but his plans were a little worm out at the end.
Couldn`t resist this one.
Punk ass Coil didn’t even know any Latin.
Canis Canem Edit, bitch.
Korakys on February 8, 2016 at 02:01 said:
I liked his character too. If you removed his oddly written and jarring kick-the-puppy moments (shooting his PRT captain, torturing people in his false realities, giving children to that paedophile employee) that seemed tacked on and apart from the thing with Dinah which was just a bit over the line he came across to me as a good guy. I kept expecting to reveal a grand plan in which he does become the ruling cape of Brockton Bay and does actually clean up the city and then tries to woo other cities to his authority. Seems like there would be a lot easier ways of becoming PRT director and then forging control over the gangs from that position, I mean that sometimes happens in real life doesn’t it?
Oh well I like where Skitter’s story is going now, the threat escalation is getting kind of ridiculous and unrelenting though. I’m kind of expecting all 3 Endbringers to show up at the same time soon, or Skitter fights Scion in a one-on-one duel, on a ship, in the middle of the ocean, while chained up.
… In a vacuum, with Shamrock and Simurgh on the other side, and a time limit to the end of the multiverse.
Not that Taylor is one (though Skitter occasionally gets close), but imagine a Wormverse cape called Mary Sue who’s powers are to never make a mistake (other that grammar) and to draw attention.
acediamonds on January 5, 2013 at 05:44 said:
Well damn, this is the reason why all the characters in the interludes are more worried about Tattletale than Skitter. She fucked up Coil’s shit pretty badly and did it so cleanly Coil hadn’t suspected a thing until it happened.
It was a nice touch that Taylor was the one that pulled the trigger. Tattletale wouldn’t have come up with the plan if it wasn’t for Taylor anyway. It’s a line she can’t uncross and it’d be interesting to see how this will effect her in the long run.
Cool to see Bitch softening up finally, all Taylor’s work on befriending her wasn’t wasted.
Now that Coil’s dead, I wonder how that’s going to effect this end of the world thing. He was apparently their only hope and now he’s dead.
But yeah, awesome update.
Dis on January 7, 2013 at 21:27 said:
Coil was Cauldron’s only hope, but Cauldron wanted to make sure Jack could leave the city so…
The whole thing is suspect, basically.
Well, to be clear, Cauldron wanted Shatterbird and Siberian to leave the city, not necessarily Jack.
Indigo on January 5, 2013 at 06:48 said:
Coil is dead that’s good, Noelle is out that’s bad.
Don’t know if it’s still around at this point, but “Cut the fake civility,” I said. Where are our teammates?”
missing a quotation mark there.
Very interesting chapter. Good job at the credible death attempt. And I’m tempted to say Coil is really dead. After all this time, the speculation on how to kill Coil missed this possibility. At least we were right on how bad it is to fry your own mercenaries and expect them to stay especially loyal to you. Not sure if that comment I made on that actually got past moderation, but whatever. I don’t make a big deal over those.
Because money is a powerful motivator, sure, but it’s a loyalty that can be bought, ESPECIALLY if the boss might just kill one of them when a plan starts to go sour. You want expendable minions, you have to make sure they’re willing to give their life for you. They damn sure know you can’t spend a dime when you’re dead. And for mercenaries, you can’t rely on fear if love fails because they guard you and can up and fucking let someone kill you if they don’t like you. Fear can make people rather unpredictable.
Of course, having a power like Tattletale’s also helps to amass a lot of cash if needed, and Coil’s just been outspent in part thanks to the pricey necessity of dealing with Dragon. Looks like Dragon was good for something after all.
Damn, Coil really knew how to almost go the distance. I guess we can still give him a trophy for trying. How about something made of silver? No, no, too fancy. Maybe bronze? No, he’s not even in third place as a threat here now. I know, we’ll get him something made of lead!
He really should have taken pills for that premature assassination problem though. And with that snake in the grass gone, things are about to get way more interesting in Brockton Bay.
Oh, and by the way Coil? Bad move saying you’d keep Tattletale around as your pet the same way you kept Dinah. When I’m typing this, I don’t think I noticed too many people pointing out the implications, but that wasn’t a smart thing to say in any universe. Shouldn’t pick on Skitter’s girlfriend like that.
But if you’re done with that other lookalike who’s ok with being bound and gagged, and I know you are, maybe I can find a job for her. I’m just saying, not too many people are ok being paid to be bound, gagged, and unable to hear. Ok, not too many people outside of those websites.
I’m more thinking that it was a dumbass move not to realise that Tattletale would be better with people then him.
He did pretty much run down the list of scumbag options in that encounter.
Less a dumbass move and more a dumbass mindset. Coil see’s people as tools to be used and disposed of when he doesn’t need them anymore and doesn’t see the use in having friend and partners.
I like to think that this arc as a big deconstruction of the kind of villain that operates from that kind of self-centered, unprincipled attitude.
There are lots of baddies like that in fiction who unfortunately go unheadshotted because of a perception that cold, brutal pragmatism = smart.
A pretty good point, if he’d been a smidge more principled and tried to build something more positive then this would have all worked out much more in his favour. Heck, even just not trying to kill Skitter might have been enough.
I think that deconstruction is furthered by the winners being the ones who cultivated people instead of just resources.
Though you also have to love Tattletale’s constant schemings. She just loves playing the long game. Now then Lisa, please go play Go with Dinah.
The same message has shown up somewhat recently. Mass Effect (and probably a few of Bioware’s other games) and Fallout: New Vegas for example.
And if you want to see something funny, have Tattletale and Dinah play rock, paper, scissors. Long tie streak ever.
Even better, play poker. No-one else would be willing to…
Actually, thinking on their powers I think the Undersiders’ poker game would be more like a game of who could cheat the best 😉
ShawnMorgan on February 24, 2014 at 00:00 said:
Imp.
fghjconner on June 26, 2016 at 13:13 said:
Just walks away with all the money.
Oh snap, Coil, looks like it got a little hot in that brain of yours thinking up ways out of this. Here, let Skitter ventilate that for you.
It’s ok if you didn’t make it through the boss fight with two lives. You got the game set on Skitter difficulty.
By the way, while you’re down there, how about you shine my shoes. You know, with that bit of brain hanging out.
I haven’t had as much motivation to find this site again in a long time, but here is a small montage in memory of our dear departed Coil.
http://coil.just.got.owned.aninote.com/
I want to know what the story is on that one with the wood chipper.
“Teleport me to safety,” Calvert said. ”Escort me away, and everything I have is yours. Even the base.”
“All your base are belong to us,” Tattletale cut in. ”You have no chance to survive make your time.”
“Trickster,” Calvert said. ”Move Zig. For great justice-.”
Trickster collapsed to the ground. Sundancer and Genesis turned, confused, and Genesis dissipated into gory wisps of whatever substance formed her body.
“I knew I shouldn’t have let you cook the chili last night, Tattletale. Anyone who shoots one of the Undersiders will receive one million dollars!” Calvert shouted.
I waited for the inevitable bullet. Like a guy being told to “Fuck me like my grandpa’s seeing-eye dog” in bed, it didn’t come.
One of the guards called out in response, “Hey fuck you, man, you killed Charlie back at the warehouse. Now who am I going to tell dick jokes with?”
“Skitter and I had a little talk,” Tattletale said. ”Way back when the city had been freshly sieged by the Endbringer and rejoining the team wasn’t even a consideration. We discussed flowers, Durian fruit, pearl polishing, and spelunking, then I raised the idea of going after you, of taking you down. We knew that if you were going to let down your guard, if you were going to slip up at all, it would be when you were closest to achieving your goals and too busy watching those tapes from the women’s locker room.”
“If you made any one mistake, it was keeping me at your base towards the end of the fiasco with the Nine. The problem with keeping your friends close and your enemies closer? It puts your enemies in the midst of your friends, so they can discuss better means of payment with the right team captains. Or they can maybe arrange to put something in Noelle’s vault during one of the feeding times, a talkative Jar Jar Binks figure with long battery life, a Furby, tucked in where the door meets the wall. Irritate her, so she’s awake that much more, and she then costs you sleep.”
“That’s metaphorgotten,” Imp commented.
Tattletale shrugged. ”It was like a metaphor, but actually a simile.”
“Bitchiness. I know what every one of my periods is going to be like ahead of time. Lots of little things add up. Seeding doubts. Making you second guess plans. Keep you up at night wondering, planning just a bit more, in both your realities. Replacing that hand lotion on your night stand with poison ivy extract. Yeah, that was me. You were too focused on the big picture, on the thing I could find out, keeping me off-balance, that you missed out on my ability to see the little things, to exploit them. That’s how I found out you had a dick, after all.” She was briefly interrupted by some of the soliders going “Ooooooh,” “Oh snap!,” and “You need some more lotion for that burn, needledick!” She gave them a moment, then continued, “And it wore on you like an itch you can’t scratch in public. You didn’t realize how much, but it did, and maybe that’s why you were that much more susceptible to making the critical mistake here.”
“Everybody here who’s going to be alive in 10 minutes, raise your hand.” said Tattletale. Grue, Imp, Bitch, everyone really, we all raised our hands. Including Calvert. Tattle tale motioned to him, “Ok now Coil, put your hand down.”
“…pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,” I finished.
He said “What?”
I aimed the gun and fired.
(or take 2!)
“deadguysayswhat?,” I finished quickly. He said, “What?” I aimed the gun and fired.
I found this to be the funniest thing you’ve written so far. I actually laughed out loud.
“discussed flowers, Durian fruit, pearl polishing, and spelunking”
Never heard pearl polishing before.
Flowers are often said to look like some anatomy in some situations. Durian fruit smells quite pungent and unappealing, but supposedly tastes great and in at lease one instance that I read, like certain anatomy. Polishing a pearl is a term for actions directed at certain anatomy. And spelunking is when someone explores a cave.
All perfectly innocent. Just like that phrase “Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo” which I chose because it is the nickname and opening line of a poem from the time of the Roman Republic.
I believe it translates, quite innocently remember, as “I will sodomize you and facefuck you.”
Remember, kids, Latin is a wonderful thing if you want to insult someone who doesn’t know it at all right to their face.
STH on January 7, 2013 at 18:15 said:
“That’s how I found out you had a dick, after all.”
Headcannon. Tattletale now said this. I don’t care how much it would kill the moment or be out of character, it is too damn funny not to have happened. So from now on it did.
Oh god time travel tense trouble…
zoetewey on January 5, 2013 at 10:16 said:
You know what amused me. That Tattletale was monologueing at the end (well, at Coil’s end).
I’ve always enjoyed that Tattletale is way more “classic villain” in this sense–except that long monologues are almost part of her power.
Which is awesome.
Max on October 7, 2014 at 23:14 said:
Almost? She set off a chain reaction of events that doomed two heroes to a fate worse than death by just talking for less than five minutes. Then she called off a supervillain group destroying the city neighborhood by talking. Then she convinced the Nine to play by some rules by just talking. Then she performed a hostile takeover of a citywide villain network by just talking.
Monologues ARE her power.
Leave her ungagged and she’s potentially the most dangerous member of the group!
You know, I wonder if Tattletale’s power was bought from Cauldron. Her family was rich enough to afford it probably and it would explain why she didn’t want to tell anyone her trigger event.
Walker on January 27, 2015 at 17:31 said:
Having a trigger event would explain not wanting to tell anyone the trigger event.
acediamonds on January 29, 2015 at 01:23 said:
I don’t typically respond to any replies to posts I’ve made on Worm now that’s it over but eh, I’ll make an exception. Also, wow, can’t believe it’s been 2 years.
I don’t know if this is your first read through but up to this point Tattletale has avoided telling the story of her trigger event, more so than every Undersiders so far. She’s also the only one whose we didn’t know, so that’s just suspicious from a narrative sense.
Well, Undersiders have faced tragedy and grit and mishaps together. Now they are facing the worst challenge of them all – victory. How long will their friendship continue, I wonder?
Kessler on January 5, 2013 at 16:42 said:
One reason for Telltale monlouge could have been she was using her power to see, if Coil had any more plans. When he is dead, she can’t read any more information from him.
I am sure that Coil was using his power too.
He might have been trapped in a hopeless situation no matter what he did, but he was probably splitting time-lines like crazy towards the end. If he spawned a new time line every time he got killed, the one time line that became reality is the one where he lived the longest.
Thank you to Anthony for his donation.
Coil went to the rock to hide his face but the rock cried out “No Hiding Place”
To once again throw a clip at y’all, Coil’s death reminded me of one of the best scenes out of Babylon 5 that I’ve ever seen. Just so wonderfully perfect AND quite fitting here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKloZRwLu4
Wonderful- though I would also think of Vir’s little wiggly fingered wave to a certain head-on-a-pole. Maybe from Dinah.
Thank you to Daniel for his donation. I hope that next week’s event gets you your Worm fix.
Thank you to Orlando, as well.
ivolucien on January 6, 2013 at 15:26 said:
Absolutely devastating! Well done, very well done.
I imagine that the reason we didn’t see the reality in which Coil aimed the deadman’s switch threat at Skitter’s Dad is that Tattletale had hired Coil’s assasin in advance to negate that tactic. And Skitter would kill him even faster in that timeline.
It had to be easier to pull the trigger while blind.
Wageslave on January 6, 2013 at 22:32 said:
I would think it would be *harder* to pull the trigger while blind. Not mechanically, but making sure that the round was going to go where one wanted it to.
Overall, though, honestly relieved Calvert ‘got his’. Far too often in this setting morally and ethically challenged folks are given a ‘pass’ for things they have done… it was nice to see someone who had no qualms about slaughtering his superior become undone by underlings.
I think what evolution was getting at was that it’s morally harder when you can see your target’s face.
Morally it’s exactly the same, I think you meant to say emotionally harder.
Coil looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, ’cause Coil came to the realization that it was a typical case of American blind justice, and there wasn’t nothing he could do about it!
Thank you for the donation, Hannah. Appreciated.
Andrew as well. Thank you.
If this is what happens when you run into a moment of writer’s block, I’m going to have to nitpick more 😉 Seriously, though, awesome chapter.
Packbat on March 26, 2013 at 16:57 said:
Another continuity bobble – guessing this should say she probed with her swarm.
Christopher Evans on July 3, 2013 at 13:24 said:
So what really happened to coil? In the past interlude, coill was a LABORER in the vincinity of that city. Him having an identity as a prt officer doesn’t make sense.
storryeater on March 28, 2015 at 21:40 said:
His prt identity was his real identity,which the prt itself prolly helped him bury (see:Piggot’s interlude)
You are a god amongst writers!
This does mean that Taylor no longer has any motivation to do villainous deeds though…
I think by this point you should realise that the heroes don’t have any motivation for doing good deeds.
rmcd94 on September 21, 2013 at 09:54 said:
Hope they double tapped Coil, people don’t do that enough, leads to trouble.
If I was Coil I would have tortured Tattledale, not whoever he choose to torture, unless we’re meant to believe that she flipped every captain within a couple of days.
Jacob Anthony on October 23, 2013 at 04:16 said:
That was a fantastic chapter! I wasn’t sure how they were going to get out of that situation, but you pulled it off. And now Tattletale is the one in charge. Totally. Awesome.
starspawn on November 3, 2013 at 09:53 said:
Hi, I’ve been enjoying this series since the beginning ! 🙂
This is the first time I’m commenting, and that’s because to me this chapter is specially significant.
Here one of the highest antagonists throughout the series has been defeated.
One of the protagonist’s main goals throughout the series has been achieved.
If Worm were a TV serial, this will be a fitting finale to Season One.
The Simurgh’s awakening, Noelle’s escape etc are the mysteries that arouse the audience’s anticipation for Season Two.
Indeed, I am excited to read the following arcs 🙂
One small disappointment:
How come Coil only gets a bullet to the head? imo he deserves a more brutal end ! 😦
All the best ! 🙂
greatwyrmgold on November 13, 2013 at 10:02 said:
How come Coil only gets a bullet to the head? imo he deserves a more brutal end ! :(”
Yes, maybe Skitter should try burning a building down around him. Oh wait.
Coil’s smart, and his power basically lets him save scum. He could escape from complicated, brutal, or whatever scenarios. Taylor’s only shot (ha ha) is to shoot him now.
And this wouldn’t be the end of Season 1, not unless it was an oddly long season. Lung’s capture would be a good season-1-ender; the ABB were the antagonists for a while. That was what, arc 6? Then maybe the Nine through here would be a season, so this would end Season 3.
Jeremy Young on November 28, 2013 at 04:05 said:
Dead. I was reading this in the middle of work, and I died. Had to excuse myself for a bit and fix my mascara.
Curious George on December 5, 2013 at 07:05 said:
My heart breaks for Taylor here, but I’m glad she has the moral courage not to pass the buck when the time comes, even if I’m not glad that taking out Coil is necessary.
Then the scene with Dinah happens. I’m not going to lie, I cried a bit at that. For both Taylor and Dinah, I think. This may be my single favorite chapter in all of Worm; it’s certainly up there.
Between Grue, Bitch, and Imp last chapter and Tattletale, Bitch, and Dinah this chapter, there’s a hell of a lot of emotional stuff happening. I mean that in a good way.
This is the answer to anyone who thinks that Taylor has left her morals behind, I think. This one moment. And I like Dinah a lot more because she apologized, too.
It seems to me that Taylor has come pretty far in terms of saving the souls of the Undersiders. That’s no small feat.
Senalishia on December 5, 2013 at 12:06 said:
…Guess he was really trying to kill her. Guess she’s better at it than he is. Really I think the decision that sealed his fate was thinking he could keep Tattletale as a pet.
Sweet end to many of the arcs, sweet beginning to new ones! We finally get to see Noelle in action! I also can’t wait to see just how deep Tattletale’s scheming goes–we haven’t even come close to figuring her out, I don’t think.
Khaim on December 5, 2013 at 19:40 said:
I think I missed the part where Coil fell down?
Androkguz on February 2, 2014 at 12:22 said:
Me too. That was weird. There doesn’t seem to be such a part.
Mockingbuddha on December 8, 2013 at 22:18 said:
I’m late to this game, and reading this after it is complete. I won’t pretend I’ve read all the comments as I am addicted to this story too desperately to spend much time reading the comments. If someone else already expressed similar thoughts, apologies.
Having said that, I am SO glad that Coil is dead! Right after I read the scene where he created a separate world for the express purpose of commiting some horrid act on one of his subordinates, I have had multiple nightmares about him getting ahold of Taylor and repeatedly abusing her, over and over without her ever becoming aware of it.
A few times in the actual story, I imagined it was happening, but not being shown to us. I finally realized that Tattletale would probay figure it out if it was happening. Though I remain suspicious of her ultimate motives.
Either way, I’m glad the freak is dead. And congratulations Wildbow for creating the spookiest villan ever, even if some of the spooky was only in my mind!
alextfish on December 23, 2013 at 17:33 said:
Absolutely fantastic climax. I did think something was off about Skitter really wanting to have Tattletale present… and then when she described the code to Coil I thought “Wait, Lisa would answer with something green? When she’s bound, gagged, and going to be kept as a prisoner?” It certainly wasn’t enough to figure out the dénouement ahead of time, but just to have a little hint of the area it was in was satisfying.
Wow… that was a magnificent ending. To a magnificent villain who thoroughly deserved what came to him.
And then you had to have a cliffhanger even after a victory like that, hahaha 🙂 I reckon I can count the number of non-Interlude chapters that didn’t end with cliffhangers on one hand. (And if I’ve underestimated, well, I can count to 31 on one hand if I need to…)
Fantastic stuff, wildbow. I really hope to find out when we can buy this story in hardcopy form.
Megafire on May 1, 2014 at 09:27 said:
I see you also taught yourself to count in binary, nice.
hammerade on December 30, 2013 at 19:48 said:
This was fantastic. Tattletale is absolutely brilliant; the twist was totally unexpected but completely justified. How long did you have this planned out?
”Your underling and Tattletale can live. That’s all I’m willing to offer. You’ll have to take my word on both points” is missing punctuation.
Clumber on January 8, 2014 at 23:58 said:
Eh, it’s moments like these that I start to lose interest in the story. You set up an interesting villain that’s supposedly very intelligent, but the heroes win by him acting stupidly rather than through them really outsmarting him. The only thing that got me this far was interpreting Skitter’s escape from his “trap” to kill her as him having planned for her to escape and think he wanted her dead for whatever reason. Instead he’s just massively incompetent.
“inteligent”
He is not an idiot,I’d give him that,but I’d say,half of his intelligence comes from save scumming
“escape part of the plan”
it was explainedthat it was due to Leet’s power that he didn’t go more overkill,so its not incopotence on his part
Are you freaking kidding me?theiir complicated plan to take him down was foreshadowed since before its conception (at the bank robery)and consistent on many ingenius moves none of the savvy readers have picked up (dont underestimate it,the average reader of this story could take Light Yagami for a ride).Basically,this one chapter was,if you paid attention,the culmination of the plan,the point when Coil’s short range time scumming failed because he backed himself into a corner thanks to Tattletale’s thousand cuts of doing things too small for him to notice or savescum to,yet ,culminated,big enough to take him down.If that was not a masterplan worthy of taking down a mastermind,I duno what is.
davidgro on January 15, 2014 at 21:10 said:
One small error:
He raised his voice, “Don’t hang up on me!”
Phones don’t do that. Especially not cell phones! It’s a TV/Movie cliche.
“made a small beep and turned off” could work, some phones do that.
Ok, so explain em something:
Coil slipts realities, in one of them he tells Chariot to bring the real TT. In the other… what?
Logically, in the other he just doesn’t risk it and simply orders for the Undersiders to be killed.
But that reality had to have been worse for Coil to cancel it.
So what? How to the Undersiders win in the reality where Tattletale is not present? Maybe the traitor mercenaries betray Coil faster, more aggressively.
Maybe Skitter had planned to kamikaze in that reality where Tattletale is not present.
I am seriously confused of how they managed to fuck Coil in both realities here. I mean, I get it that they managed to get him to be in the same place both times, but how is the reality with TT present *worse* for him?
He prolly picked the reality where he survived the longer
He proly did more collateral in the reality you describe,but he died earlier,so poof,discarded.A cache of traitor mercenaries and/or kamikaze attaks would do that to you.
David Burns on February 28, 2014 at 03:10 said:
It’s not worse, that’s the point. He’s constantly using his power after the mercenaries betray him, and it always results in failure, probably he dies each time. The universe where he survives longest is the one where he stands there trying to talk Skitter out of killing him.
The critical thing is, how does Tattletale know that he arrived at the meeting in bi universes? If, in one universe, he did not come to the meeting at all, or came late, he could collapse the universe where the betrayal happened as planned. The fact that he knew that Skitter was alive and hiding nearby implies that he probably used his spare universe to counter Skitter’s surprise attack. But that does not guarantee that he is attending the meeting in both universes.
Here’s how Coil should have played it. Arrive near the meeting place but out of sight, split universes, in one universe proceed, in the other stay put. Collapse the universe where he gets surprised by Skitter, split universes again, go capture Skitter, again leaving one universe where he is out of range. Go through the negotiation, find out he was betrayed, collapse that universe. Now he knows he is in trouble, I’m not sure what he should do. Somehow he needs to deal with the disloyal mercs and the Undersiders. If he takes Trickster, Chariot, and the least disloyal mercs back to his lair and kills Tattletale, he is still in trouble, but at least he is still alive. Or he could pull the “torture Tattletale in an alternate universe” trick?
Maybe Skitter would notice that Coil had arrived in the “stay put” universe, if he’s within her bugs’ range. She figures out that Coil is probing their plans in another universe, so they need to attack immediately, or change tactics at the least.
Maybe Wildbow could come up with some time constraint, so Coil *must* arrive on time?
Because Skitter tricked him into discarding his other timeline to open another one in the middle of the negotiation
Pretty stupid move,but to be fair,he thought he had them…the worse TT could do,is say something that dropped a bomb,but her plan was not reliant on verbal communication,so once he missed the bait he was doomed.Plus,TT had been using psyhological war on him for months,so its excusable.
anKLJ on March 6, 2014 at 07:08 said:
“Calvert turned my way, let his head sink back so it rested against the ground.” This was the first I realized he was not standing. You might want to be more specific about where he is before/during/after the shooting.
I’m really amazed at how relentlessly the Wormverse just gets more snarled and dark and tangled in its own webs. Though, like many of the commenters above, I’m still a bit stuck about how Coil didn’t slip the noose in another split reality in this scene.
I’m still a little fuzzy about his power, and TT’s, and Dinah’s for that matter. I guess I’m just going to have to read on … and then re-read the archive, for Gaia’s sake! See ya in a few years, Life!
Two realities only,they operate simutulaneously,They tricked him to discard the one he surely had in reserve on the middle ofnegotiation,so his fate was doomed.Yes,stupid mistake,but also see my above comments.
Firstly, props on having been leading to this since before Taylor rejoined the Undersiders. Those are some seriously mad planning skillz!
I think I’m just going to decide that Dinah knew about the switcheroo (Taylor was teleported away while holding her hand, after all) but deemed it too risky to let the Undersiders know.
So Taylor *did* go with my “Dead Man’s switch” idea after all. 😀 I’m going to assume that the main reason she didn’t use that ploy *before* going to get Dinah was specifically to overextend Coil and lure him into this trap.
Still not clear about how Taylor being captured and coming within a hair’s breadth of being killed by Coil fits in, though. If that was part of their plan it’s a *serious* gamble to take. But without it, how were they planning to feint Coil out so he could be killed? Did Lisa just consider Taylor’s likely death an acceptable risk for pulling off the plan?
Reading this for the third time, and having paid attention to all the small details ahead of time, makes Coil’s comeuppance here easily one of the most satisfying moments in the series.
Zach on May 10, 2014 at 11:05 said:
Hi! I assume/hope you get notified for posts on old content like this one…
Just finished the second arc after discovering “Worm” a month+ or so ago. ****THANK YOU**** for reminding me why I spent the first 25+ years of my life reading (before the internet helped ruin my attention span :-P), which is sorta ironic, since I’m reading your story online 😉
I can’t tell you how much I’ve been enjoying this story. I’m finding excuses all day long, every day, to read a page or two (or more) of Worm. I’m occasionally skipping work to read it, I’m staying up late to read just one… more… page…., only to wake up early, and read another 😉 Every time I go to take a ‘break’, there’s a cliff-hanger that *forces* me to click “Next” (“What? Another ‘bonus interlude’?!?! Guess I have to read that first too!!!!!” ;-))
So again, as a life-long sci-fi/fantasy/super-hero fan, who has read/watched *countless* stories/plots/etc., *THANK YOU* for what is one of the most interesting, unpredictable, well-written and captivating stories with characters so real and believable I feel like I’ve actually met some of them.
I know it’s going to take me looong time to read from here to Chapter 27, but I’m already starting to feel sad that I’m halfway done one of the greatest stories I’ve ever read! No real comments or questions from me, I just can’t finish another arc without leaving a message behind to let you know this amazing story is still bringing joy to people out in the world 🙂
— your newest life-long fan, Zach 🙂
angrydrake on June 25, 2014 at 19:46 said:
Poor Coil.
bundle on July 17, 2014 at 11:06 said:
i love how leet’s power basically saved skitter. i think that any plan that would have killed skitter is instead foiled by leet’s power. that’s just adorable.
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“I could see Regent at the end of the walkway, and Tattletale wasn’t with him. She was hurrying down the spiral stairs just to Regent’s left.
I leaned over the walkway, as much as I was able with the pain in my chest and Dinah clinging to my midsection”
skitter should still be blind here, leaning over walkways is for people who need eyes.
Insect sense allowed her to drive,soooooo we’ll have to assume its better/as good as vision.
jwweather4 on August 1, 2014 at 16:27 said:
What vat of acid? This sounds like a dangling reference to something that didn’t actually happen. Or is it a hypothetical vat of acid, ie, “Why didn’t you drop me on top of a bomb or a vat of acid?”
Prolly because,since the comments asked a lot about a vat of acid,Wilbow thought of adding that to the reference about the bomb,which Wilbow prolly thought of Wilbow’s own,so that readers could not yell “plot hole”
Thats just my guess though
greatwyrmgold on January 2, 2020 at 02:41 said:
I’m guessing it’s something supervillainy that Coil set up just in case it was helpful. Possibly after being badgered by underlings that it could be useful to destroy someone/something that a bomb wouldn’t.
Wow way to go Tattletale! Talk about thinking ahead. I was hoping that maybe they had swayed people like Minor and Fish by shear charisma but knew that had little chance of succeeding so skimming for however long they were in existence was friggin brilliant. As smart as Coil is I can totally see him being arrogant enough to decide to use his powers right there and trap himself. It’s a bit idiotic but considering the day he’s had I can believe it. I find myself wondering just how much of that final part was planned. I know it didn’t exactly go as expected considering everything but Tattle and Skitter obviously had the secret plan worked out since she was so adamant about letting her speak.
I was a little disappointed that neither Genesis nor Sundancer joined the Undersiders. They both seemed the most moral/tired in that group and I’ve felt that Ballistic really hasn’t had enough characterization to swap sides while both of those two have.
I wonder which Undersider Coil tortured. Not Rachel, she wouldn’t break. Probably not Regent since he would hold out just to be a dick. I’d say Grue but considering the man made it through Bonesaw I don’t think Coil could do much. Not Skitter. Likely not Imp since while I can see her breaking easily, her power would seemingly make actual interrogation hard even with cameras and such. Was it Tattle?
It was nice to see Bitch pretty much default to believing Taylor almost immediately rather than spending tons of time hating her again when they had finally started to be actual friends. It was very sweet that the socially incapable one was the one to comfort Taylor after the mess went down.
Dick move Coil, dick move. Really just because you lost the game doesn’t mean you have to destroy the playground out of spite.
MisterTeatime on November 3, 2014 at 23:34 said:
Ballistic! Welcome to the Undersiders.
You’re gonna hate it here.
srave on December 31, 2014 at 01:19 said:
“I recalled leaving the dying Merchant to bleed out when I’d rescued Bryce from the merchant’s festival of blood.”
“Merchant’s” should be capitalised?
John Campbell on June 11, 2015 at 11:24 said:
Not only that, it should be the plural possessive: Merchants’.
Blikiendent on May 22, 2015 at 10:29 said:
didn’t catch who the woman was first read, figured it was coil bullshitting. but that might have actually stopped this.
axle on July 12, 2015 at 00:24 said:
Loved Taylor’s line,”in a roundabout sort of way, you’ve made me into one. “Perfect ending for Coil! Killed by the one person he thought he could control, turning a hero into a killer. Tattletale really came out on top of things, glad to know they both had master plan since the beginning.
Also, Tattletale should’ve used Noelle as extra leverage to get the Travelers on her side.
“Coil has had months of false hope ready to keep you guys stuck on his side long enough until he could betray you. How about a deal? I’ll use every resource he had available to help Noelle. If I can’t help Noelle in two weeks, it means Coil’s resources were never enough anyway. So what do you say? Wanna stick around for an extra two weeks? Seems like you could at least use the pay.”
inventorfrog on November 10, 2015 at 12:10 said:
Zachary Sloan on June 17, 2016 at 17:54 said:
Thank god, I’m assuming Coil is actually dead (I’ve been traumatized by situations in fiction where the protagonists monologue-ing means they’re about to mess up in some way). I’m not a big fan of “heh I have already countered all your plans” enemies, even though Coil is a well written one.
I like how Coil mentioned the torturing for info thing, because I had actually thought of that exact thing some chapters back. There’s no reason why he can’t create a reality where he tortures someone and then cancel it, keeping the info without the downsides.
shitfanboy on July 9, 2016 at 12:32 said:
Respect,skitter(wildbow). you,motherfucking batman this teenage girl has balls than you.if you kill joker first day,thousands of innocennts will live.instead he spend monney on battashits and abuse orphan robin.stupid,pedo,racist,fucking batman
Jonah on September 23, 2016 at 20:46 said:
I started reading this a couple weeks ago and this is my first comment. Good shit, wildbow.
Quinn on November 11, 2016 at 06:24 said:
Oh I could kiss Tattletale. On the one hand, I’m glad for the explanation, for all the info that needed to be revealed to readers. On the other hand, I was just waiting that whole time, wondering why she was giving him even a second of extra time in which he could figure a way out of the trap while she monologued.
Villains. Go figure.
jmdlugosz on April 17, 2017 at 18:00 said:
«You come with only one small squad of soldiers, bring Tattletale and Regent.» comma splice. To puctuate the spoken words in writing, use a full stop or an em dash between the sentences. The latter conveys the tone well: “You come with only one small squad of soldiers — bring Tattletale and Regent.”
«I’m paying it all upfront.» should be “up front”, two words.
Daryl Katana Algarra on July 9, 2017 at 16:26 said:
My Rache x Taylor Ship
I want it so badly
Jason Sng on December 3, 2017 at 15:02 said:
Super late but a slight continuity error. there wasn’t an indication that Coil was knocked to be ground. Not till right before he’s killed.
qwpanda on January 10, 2018 at 22:11 said:
If coil is dead, lol what now? The’re close to taking over the city
ALKATYN on March 16, 2018 at 11:02 said:
In the end the best power was money
Hey it’s me on August 20, 2018 at 07:51 said:
Spoilers incoming
As someone who’s been kinda waiting for Skitter to finally kill, I’m kinda glad it’s Coil. Finish out her mission
Again shitty plot armor.
It would have been more efficient if he would have killed her immediately.
McBehrer on October 8, 2018 at 16:04 said:
“It’s fitting you wear a snake on your costume.”
Now that was a great line.
Karalyn on November 19, 2019 at 12:43 said:
Tattletale has been my favorite character for a while. She seemed less featured in the story recently, but it paid off. Outmasterminding the timeline-splitting mastermind with her own long-term plans. I’m sure she’s holding back plenty of other secrets as well.
I do wonder how much of this “stringbean plan” was arranged with Skitter in advance, but not narrated.
The scene in (formerly) Coil’s base at the end implies Skitter has some form of vision, but doesn’t consciously realize it. Particularly when she leans over the balcony to look at the lower floor, which she wouldn’t need to do if relying on her bug sense.
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GSM Overview by Topic
Core protocols between network and MS
A-Bis
SMS Cell Broadcast
Fraud Information Gathering
GSM Interface (AT Commands) === UMTS ===Anyone with a base station for us?
Base Station System (BSS), Base Station Controller (BSC), Mobile-service Switching Center (MSC)
Section 1 -- Introduction, Goals
Section 2 -- Principals
Section 3 --- Networking
Section 4 --- (Important for us)
Section 5 --- Radio Interface
Section 6 --- Audio
Section 7 --- Terminal Interface
Section 8 --- Implementation notes (Important for us)
Section 13 === Section 21 --- UMTS ===
Section 22 --- UMTS === Section 23 --- UMTS ===
Section 36 --- UMTS === Section 41 --- ===
Section 42 --- === Section 43 --- ===
Section 49 ---
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standardised GSM and UMTS. The standardisation for UMTS was organized differently around 1999 through the 3rd Generation Partnership Project. The projects that are part of Osmocom currently focus on the last release before the inclusion of UMTS. In standards release terminology this is roughly R99 and follows the old-style specification numbering (01.xx - 12.xx). The release numbering is described on this page, while the specification numbering schemes are explained on this page at 3GPP.
The standards can be queried and downloaded directly at the ETSI Public Download Area. A good overview which also refers to each individual spec is found at the 3GPP overview page. ETSI requires a registered e-mail address to download files in case of problems BugMeNot may provide a solution.
An overview of how some of the standards mentioned below and the different layers in GSM are linked together can be found in the OpenBTS Project description document
Different Standards¶
Technical Reports (TR), Tecnical Specification (TS), European standards for compliance with R&TTE - Directive 1999/5/EC (EN)
GSM Overview by Topic¶
Core protocols between network and MS¶
The TS 05.xx standards describe the physical layer (L1) which is implemented in the phone firmware. Low level aspects such as modulation and channel coding are part of the DSP code.
GSM TS 04.04 - Layer 1 - General Requirements
GSM TS 05.01 - Physical layer on the radio path; General description
GSM TS 05.02 - Multiplexing and Multiple Access on the Radio Path
GSM TS 05.03 - Channel coding .
GSM TS 05.04 - Modulation
GSM TS 05.05 - Radio Transmission and Reception
GSM TS 05.08 - Radio subsystem link control
Layer 2 is also called the Datalink layer (DL)
GSM TS 04.05 - Data Link (DL) Layer General Aspects
GSM TS 04.06 - Mobile Station - Base Stations System (MS - BSS) Interface Data Link (DL) Layer Specification
TS 04.06 is based on ITU-T Q.921
Layer 3 specifications
GSM TS 04.07 - Mobile Radio Interface Signalling Layer 3: General Aspects
GSM TS 04.08 - Mobile Radio Interface Signalling Layer 3
GSM TS 04.11 - Point-to-Point (PP) Short Message Service (SMS) Support on Mobile Radio Interface
GSM TS 04.12 - Short Message Service Cell Broadcast (SMSCB) Support on the Mobile Radio Interface
GSM TS 04.80 - Mobile Radio Interface Layer 3 - Supplementary Services Specification Formats and Coding
Call control in TS 04.08 is based on ITU-T Q.931
GSM TS 03.22 - Functions related to Mobile Station (MS) in idle mode and group receive mode
A-Bis¶
GSM TS 08.54 - A-bis Layer 1
GSM TS 08.58 - A-bis Layer 3: Radio Subsystem Layer
GSM TS 12.21 - A-bis Layer 3: Organization and Maintenance Layer
A¶
GSM TS 08.01 - Introduction to the A-interface
GSM TS 08.02 - Interface Principles
GSM TS 08.04 - A Layer 1...
GSM TS 08.06 - A Signalling Transport Mechanisim (ITU SCCP)
GSM TS 08.08 - A Layer 3
GSM TS 08.20 - Rate Adoption BSS - MSC
SMS¶
GSM TS 04.11 - Mobile Radio Interface SMS Support
GSM TS 03.40 - Technical Realization of the SMS (Transport Layer, Relay Layer)
GSM TS 03.38 - Alphabets and Language Specific Information
GSM TS 03.42 - Compression algorithm for text messaging services
SMS Cell Broadcast¶
GSM TS 03.41 - Technical Realization of SMS Cell Broadcast
Audio¶
GSM TS 06.10 - Full Rate (FR) Speech transcoding
GSM TS 06.60 - Enhanced Full Rate (EFR) Speech transcoding
GSM TS 06.90 - Adative Mult-Rate (AMR) Speech transcoding
GPRS¶
GSM TS 01.61 - GPRS cipher algorithm requirements
GSM TS 03.60 - Overall GRPS logical architecture (above RL and MAC)
GSM TS 03.64 - GPRS radio interface
GSM TS 04.60 - RLC/MAC on PDCH
GSM TS 04.64 - MS-SGSN LLC spec (on top of RLC/MAC)
GSM TS 04.65 - SGSN SNDCP
GSM TS 08.14 - BSS SGSN Gb Layer 1 (Frame Relay)
GSM TS 08.16 - BSS SGSN Gb Layer 2 (NS)
GSM TS 08.18 - BSS SGSN BSS GPRS protocol
GSM TS 09.95 - Interworking between modified PLMN supporting legacy GPRS and GPRS mobiles
GSM TS 22.060 - GPRS Service Spec
GSM TS 23.060 - GPRS Radio Service Spec
GSM TS 29.016 - SGSN-VLR Interface Gs network interface spec
GSM TS 29.018 - SGSN-VLR Interface Gs layer3 interface spec
GSM TS 29.060 - GPRS Tunneling (GTP) over Gn and Gp
SIM¶
GSM TS 11.11 - Specification of the Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment (SIM-ME) Interface
GSM TS 11.14 - Specification of the SIM Application Toolkit (SAT) for the Subscriber Identity Module - Mobile Equipment (SIM-ME) interface
ETSI TS 100 922: Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM); Function characteristics
ETSI TS 101 413: SIM Application Programming Interface (SIM API)
ETSI TS 101 180: Security mechanisms for the SIM Application Toolkit; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 741: Mobile Station Application Execution Environment (MExE); Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 476: GSM API for SIM toolkit stage 2
ETSI TS 101 438: Mobile Station Application Execution Environment (MExE); Functional description; Stage 2
Lawful Interception¶
ETSI TR 101 105: Fraud Information Gathering System (FIGS); Service requirements
ETSI TR 101 514: Lawful Interception requirements for GSM
ETSI TS 101 507: Lawful Interception - Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 509: Lawful interception; Stage 2
Fraud Information Gathering¶
ETSI TS 101 107: Fraud Information Gathering System (FIGS); Service description
GSM Interface (AT Commands) ===
UMTS ===
Anyone with a base station for us?¶
Base Station System (BSS), Base Station Controller (BSC), Mobile-service Switching Center (MSC)¶
ETSI TR 101 635: Example protocol stacks for interconnecting Service Centre(s) (SC) and Mobile-services Switching Centre(s) (MSC)
ETSI TS 101 368: Example protocol stacks for interconnecting Cell Broadcast Centre (CBC) and Base Station Controller (BSC)
GSM Overview by Chapter
Section 0 -- ICC =
[ETSI TS 102 222]
Section 1 -- Introduction, Goals¶
ETSI TS 101 855: Introduction to the Series]
ETSI TS 101 626: General descritption of GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
ETSI TR 101 748: Abbreiations and acronyms
ETSI TS 101 623: ISDN-based DECT/GSM interworking; Feasibility study
ETSI TR 101 186: General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Requirements specification of GPRS
ETSI TS 101 106: GPRS ciphering algorithm requirements
Section 2 -- Principals¶
ETSI TS 100 500: Principles of telecommunication services supported by a GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
ETSI EN 300 904: Bareer Services (BS) for PLMN
ETSI TS 100 905: Teleservices supported by PLMN
ETSI EN 300 918: General on supplementary services
ETSI EN 300 919: Types of Mobile Stations (MS)
ETSI TS 100 906: MS features
ETSI TS 100 920: Security aspects
ETSI TS 100 921: Service accessibility
ETSI TS 100 508: Internation Mobile Station Equipment Identities (IMEI)
ETSI TS 101 624: Personalisation of GSM Mobile Equipment (ME); Mobile functionality specification
ETSI EN 300 923: Description of Charge Advice Information (CAI)
ETSI TS 100 907: Man-machine Interface (MMI) of the MS
ETSI TS 101 749: Immediate Service Termination (IST) Service description
ETSI TS 101 625: High Speed Circuit Switch Data (HSCSD); Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 512: Procedure for call progress indicators
ETSI Ts 100 513: Operator Determined Barring (ODB)
ETSI TS 101 626: Network Identity and Timezone (NITZ); Service description, Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 415: Support of Localised Service Area (SoLSA); Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 108: Tandem Free Operation (TFO); Service Description; Stage 1
ETSI EN 302 402: GSM Cordless Telephony System (CTS) Phase 1; Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 113: GPRS; Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 628: Packet Data on Signalling channels Service (PDS) - Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 715: Support of Mobile Number Portability (MNP); Service description; Stage 1
[[EZSI EN 300 924|enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption service (eMLPP)
ETSI TS 100 925: Voice Group Call Service (VGCS); Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 926: Voice Broadcast Service (VBS); Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 723: Location Services (LCS); Service description, Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 745: Call Deflection Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 995: Noise Suppression for the AMR Codec; Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 285: Customized Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL); Service definition; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 629: Support for Optimal Routeing (SOR); Service definition (Stage 1)
ETSI TS 100 514: Line identification Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 515: Call Forwarding (CF) Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 516: Call Waiting (CW) and Call Holding (HOLD); Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI Ts 100 517: MultiParty (MPTY) Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 518: Closed User Group (CUG) Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 519: Advice of Charge (AoC) Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI EN 301 702: User-to-User Signalling (UUS); Service description, Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 520: Call Barring (CB) Supplementary Services - Stage 1
ETSI TS 100 625: Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) - Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 630: Explicit Call Transfer (ECT)
ETSI TS 101 282: Completion of Calls to busy Subscriber (CCBS); Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 402: Support of Private Numbering Plan (SPNP); Service description; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 394: Name identification supplementary services; Stage 1
ETSI TS 101 746: Multiple Subscriber Profile (MSP) Phase 1 Service description; Stage 1
Section 3 --- Networking¶
ETSI TS 100 521: Network functions
ETSI TS 100 522: Network architecture
ETSI TS 100 927: Numbering, addressing and identification
ETSI TS 100 524: Signalling requirements relating to routeing of calls to mobile subscribers
ETSI TR 101 631: Technical performance objectives
ETSI TS 100 525: Restoration procedures
ETSI TS 100 526: Organization of Subscriber Data
ETSI TS 100 527: Handover procedures
ETSI TS 100 528: GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
ETSI EN 300 928: Technical realization of Supplementary Services
ETSI TS 100 530: Location registration procedures
ETSI TS 100 531: Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in the GSM system
ETSI TS 100 532: Support of Dual Tone Multi-Frequency signalling (DTMF) via the GSM system
ETSI TS 100 533: Technical realization of Operator Determined Barring (ODB)
ETSI TS 100 629: Subscriber Data Management
ETSI TS 101 043: Basic call handling
ETSI TS 100 929: Security-related network functions
ETSI TS 100 930: Functions related to Mobile Station (MS) in idle mode and group receive mode
ETSI TR 101 266: Multiband operation of GSM/DCS 1 800 by a single operator
ETSI TR 101 362: Radio Network Planning Aspects
ETSI TS 101 109: Universal Geographical Area Description (GAD)
ETSI TS 101 038: High speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD) - Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 967: Immediate Service Termination (IST)
ETSI TS 100 900: Alphabets and language-specific information
ETSI TS 100 901: Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS) Point-to-Point (PP)
ETSI TS 100 902: Technical Realization of Short Message Service Cell broadcast (SMSCB)
ETSI TS 101 032: Compression algorithm for text messaging services
ETSI TR 101 633: Support of Videotex
ETSI TR 101 634: Support of Teletex in a GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
ETSI TS 100 931: Technical realization of facsimile group 3 transparent
ETSI TS 100 539: Technical realization of facsimile group 3 non-transparent
ETSI TS 101 181: Security mechanisms for SIM application toolkit; Stage 2
ETSI EN 300 903: Transmission planning aspects of the speech service in the GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) system
ETSI EN 302 404: GSM Cordless Telephony System (CTS); Phase 1; Lower Layers of the CTS Radio Interface; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 252: Description for the use of a Shared Inter Working Function (SIWF) in a GSM PLMN; Stage 2
ETSI TS 102 355: Dual Transfer Mode (DTM); Stage 2
ETSI EN 302 405: GSM Cordless Telephony System (CTS); Phase 1; CTS Architecture Description; Stage 2
ETSI TR 101 110: Characterisation, test methods and quality assessment for handsfree Mobile Stations (MSs)
ETSI TS 101 344: General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Service description; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 636: Packet Data on Signalling channels service (PDS); Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 350: General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Overall description of the GPRS radio interface; Stage 2
ETSI EN 301 716: Support of Mobile Number Portability (MNP); Technical Realisation; Stage 2
ETSI TS 100 932: enhanced Multi-Level Precedence and Pre-emption service (eMLPP)
ETSI TS 100 541: Routeing of calls to/from Public Data Networks (PDN) and the GSM Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
ETSI TS 101 724: Location Services (LCS);Functional description; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 739: Call Deflection (CD) Supplementary Service; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 416: Support of Localised Service Area (SoLSA); Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 441: Customised Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) Phase 2; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 045: Support of Optimal Routeing (SOR); Technical realisation
ETSI TS 100 542: Line identification supplementary services; Stage 2
ETSI TS 100 543: Call Forwarding (CF) supplementary services; Stage 2
ETSI TS 100 544: Call Waiting (CW) and Call Hold (HOLD) supplementary services; Stage 2
ETSI TS 100 545: Multi Party (MPTY) supplementary services; Stage 2
ETSI EN 300 935: Advice of Charge (AoC) supplementary services - Stage 2
ETSI EN 301 710: User-to-User Signalling (UUS) Supplementary Service; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 637: Explicit Call Transfer (ECT) supplementary service; Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 283: Technical realization of Completion of Calls to Busy Subscriber (CCBS); Stage 2
ETSI TS 101 727: Multiple Subscriber Profile (MSP) (Phase 1) - Stage 2
Section 4 --- (Important for us)¶
Section 5 --- Radio Interface¶
Section 6 --- Audio¶
TODO, Audio Coding, Quality of Service, Echo cancellation
Section 7 --- Terminal Interface¶
TODO, 07.10 GSM Multiplexer, AT commands...
Section 8 --- Implementation notes (Important for us)¶
Section 9 --- ===
Section 10 --- ===
ETSI TS 152 008: Lawful Interception requirements for GSM
Section 11 --- Conformance, Testing (BSC-MSC Important for us) ===
Section 12 --- Management ===
ETSI TS 300 622: Base Station System (BSS) Management Information
ETSI TS 100 623: Network Manager (NM) procedures and messages on the A-bis interface)
Section 13 ===
Section 21 --- UMTS ===¶
Section 22 --- UMTS ===
Section 41 --- ===¶
Section 48 --- (Important for us) ===
ETSI TS 148 001: General Aspects on the BSC-MSC Interface
ETSI TS 148 002: Base Station Sstem - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface - Interface Principles
ETSI TS 148 004: Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface Layer 1 Specification
ETSI TS 148 006: Signalling Transport Mechanism Specification for the Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) interface
ETSI TS 148 008: Mobile Switching Centre - Base Station system (MSC-BSS) Interface Layer 3 Specification
ETSI TS 148 014: General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) Serving GPRS Support Node SGSN) interface; Gb Interface Layer 1
ETSI TS 148 016: general Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) interface; Network service
ETSI TS 148 018: General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN); BSS GPRS Protocol
ETSI TS 148 020: Rate Adaption on the Base Station System Mobile Service Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface
ETSI TS 148 031: Location Services LCS; Serbing Mobile Location Centre Saving Mobile Location Centre (SMLC - SMLC); SMLCPP specification
ETSI TS 148 051: Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC-BTS) Interface General Aspects
ETSI TS 148 052: Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC-BTS) Interface - Interface Principles
ETSI TS 148 054: Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Layer 1 structure of physical circuits
ETSI TS 148 056: Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Layer 2 specification
ETSI TS 148 058: Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC-BTS) Interface Layer 3 Specification
ETSI TS 148 060: In-band control of remote transcoders and rate adaptors for full rate traffic channels
ETSI TS 148 061: In-band control of remote transcoders and rate adaptors for half rate traffic channels
[[ETSi TS 148 071|Location Services (LCS); Serving Mobile Location Centr Base Station System (SMLC-BSS) interface; Layer 3 specification
Section 49 ---¶
ETSI TR 149 001: General network interworking scenarios
ETSI TS 149 008: Application of the Base Station System Application Part (BBSAP) on the E-Interface
ETSI TS 149 031: Location Services (LCS); Base Station System Application Part LCS Extension (BSSAP-LE)
ETSI TR 149 995: Interworking between modified PLMN support GPRS and legacy GPRS mobiles.
ETSI TS 151 010: Mobile Station (MS) conformance specification; Part 1: Conformance specification
ETSI TS 151 011: Specification of the Subscriber Identity Module Mobile Equipment (SIM-ME) interface
ETSI TS 151 013: Test specification for Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Application Programming Interface (API) for Java Card
ETSI TS 151 014: Specification of the SIM Application Toolkit for the Subscriber Identit Mobile Equipment (SIM - ME) interface
ETSI TS 151 017: Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) test specification
ETSI TS 151 021: Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification; Radio aspects
ETSI TS 151 026: GSM Repeater Equipment Specification.
ETSI TS 152 008: Telecommunication management; GSM subscriber and equioment trace
ETSI TS 152 021: Network Management (NM) Procedures and messages on the A-bis interface
ETSI TS 152 071: Location Services (LCS); Location services management
ETSI TS 152 402: Telecommunication management; Performance Management (PM); Performance measurements - GSM
ETSI TS 155 236: Specification of A8_V MILENAGE Algorithm: An example algorithm for the key generation function A8_V
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FEATURE: An Interview with Deek Labelle from The Laff
Craft beer has exploded in Ottawa and so has the number of amazing places that serve it. We’ve done our best to list what we think are the best places in the Ottawa-area (and surrounding) to visit for a good beer experience, but there are a handful of special locales that are a step above the others. It might be because of the location, board games, and atmosphere; or maybe they just have an extensive tap list and an awesome bottle list to back it up.
Wherever you go you’re going to find some amazing local brews and people who are as passionate (if not more) about beer as you. To help you get to know these spots and what makes them so special, we’ll be featuring one per week.
To kick off the series we’re starting with Ottawa’s oldest haunt, The Chateau Lafayette, commonly known as "The Laff". We caught up with Assistant General Manager, Deek Labelle to tell us about this Saturday's 164th Anniversary Celebration as well as what keeps people coming back to The Laff.
Ottawa Beer Events: Can you tell us a little about yourself and the Chateau Lafayette?
Deek Labelle (The Laff): My name is Dominique Labelle, but I go by Deek. I'm the Assistant General Manager of the Laff. My grandfather bought into the business in 1966 as a fun investment. He got more and more involved as the years went on, and eventually my mom and dad got into it. My dad was the Manager from about 1985 to 1998. My mom began the year I was born, and is now the general Manager; my dad just comes by to keep us in line from time to time. I was the rugrat running amok in the bar at a young age, annoying the daytime regulars with "Barbie Girl" and Abba on the jukebox. But I officially began my career here when I was about 14. I started in the kitchen, and worked the Market. I would sell breakfast, and lunch to all the outdoor fruit and veggie vendors. When I turned 18, I started in the bar. Over the last seven years, I've been here full time and have overtaken all marketing, bookkeeping, accounting, and management – I wear a lot of hats! (But that's the case for most family businesses.) This place is my second home!
How has the The Laff changed since it first opened?
164 years leaves room for many changes. When it first opened as the Grant's Hotel, it catered to the blue-collar workers building the canal. In that respect, not much has changed. We are still a people's bar – where locals come, relax, and we greet them by name as they come in the door. We've always been a tavern, and today we are Ottawa's only TRUE tavern – meaning we don't serve food, just drinks! The changes that are most apparent, and necessary, happened in the nineties. We used to be THAT bar, where you'd come, drink your face off, and fight each other. We transitioned into a more relaxed pub atmosphere after a rough couple years, and an infraction or two. The smoking bylaw nearly shut us down. It was closer than we'd ever like to admit (or remember). That was the reason for us buying the Quiznos and taking over half of our real estate in 2003 – they supported the bar during it's darkest days. From about 2007, we saw the change begin to happen. People got over the non-smoking and we reinvented our reputation. This past year, we've made a lot of changes to the appearance – cleaning things up, streamlining our systems and improving the efficiency of the bar. Today, we're the busiest we've ever been and we are loving every minute of it!
Why makes it different from other pubs – how has it stayed in business for so long?
The Laff stands on it's own. It's a tavern, we don't serve food, we NEVER charge a cover, and we welcome everyone in. We have no room for bullshit; our policy is NO STUPID DRINKS. Our menu is simple, and our prices are fair and consistent. We offer a variety of music for everyone's taste; our dedication to live, local, original music sets us apart from the cover bands and DJs. We expect respect for everyone in the bar, and we enforce it. I think we've outlasted all others because we are constantly adapting to change and trends; we reinvest in the business at every opportunity to maintain that friendly, home-grown feeling. We also have a very dedicated, very loyal group of regulars (I can name about 100 of them) who have been frequenting the bar for decades now. It's them – they are the main reason we are still here. Everyone knows of Yvette – our resident oldest regular. She's been coming here over 40 years and even though she might tell you to F-off, she's happy and content drinking her quarts of Canadian, periodically salting it, and singing out loud. My mom is a hero for this business. Her dedication to her father's investment is unwavering and he would be so proud of what we've accomplished in the last couple years. I think the strong family bond that we have here has made the difference in the long run. I hope to continue that for my family for years to come.
We aren't sure of the exact date the bar opened so every year, we celebrate on the last weekend in November. We know that our customers are the reason for our success, so we chose to give back to them on our anniversary. We will be handing out samples of Ottawa's favorite local craft brewery, Beau's All Natural, all evening. We get about 30 prizes, ranging from gift cards, to fridges, and we give them away, all night long, to the people who are there to party. Our good friends at Cakes on St. Phillipe in Alfred, ON. make about 150 cupcakes for us, and Quiznos will be giving out sandwiches and munchies for everyone to snack on. It's our way of saying thank you to our biggest fans! How should one celebrate the Laff – just come on by and give us a chance to say thanks! It's people like you – ambassadors for the bar, that help those weary of the old days, to rekindle their love affair with the ole Chateau!
How should we celebrate The Laff’s 164th year of business?
Signature Shot – The ByWash Bulleit! We came up with this shot as a nod to the old days, where York Street was an open sewer system. People used to toss dead animals, old food, the contents of their chamber pots, and more into it. We use Bulleit premium Frontier Whiskey, and our own ingredients, to mimic the murky waters of the ByWash! If you can stomach it, we'll ring the bell in celebration!
The Laff may be creeping up there in age, but that doesn't mean it isn't keeping up with the times. Follow The Laff on Twitter (@TheLaffOttawa) or like them on Facebook (Chateau Lafayette) or head down on November 23rd for a ByWash Bulleit to help them celebrate another year of business!
We'll be featuring a bar/resto/pub every Friday for the next couple of weeks – check back to see where you should be drinking (and eating!).
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BEER CELEBRATION: Customer Appreciation Day at the Chateau Lafayette
It's that time again! As we celebrate another amazing year in business, we honor you fine folks who make it possible! Come out, bring friends, and celebrate with us as we turn 164 years old!
We'll be giving away beer samples, prizes, cake, food, and so much more! This is not one to miss!
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Resin from various tropical trees which, during the 19th century, was cooked with oil to produce a picture varnish. Copal varnishes have been blamed for much of the cracking and darkening...
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Any substance that lowers the melting or softening temperature of the mix or compound in which it is present. In dentistry it is included in ceramic materials and used when...
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Resin from the evergreen shrub Pistacia lenticus and related species, with a flavour similar to liquorice, used in Greek and Balkan cookery.
A preparation of gypsum (calcium sulphate) that sets hard when water is added. It is used in various modified forms in dentistry to make plaster models. It is also used in orthopaedics for...
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(Rapper, actor)
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At the age of 16 Chris Brown released his first album. Chris comes from state of Virginia - city Tappahannock. His solo career had begun form 11 years. At that time he dreamt of becoming a rapper, however, some years, at the age of 15 he was noted by local producers during the contest of talented youngsters. It was a chance to rise above the crowd.
Chris left school and moved to New York where he entirely devoted himself to show business. The first album was written at studio Jive Records. His producers were: Jermen Dupri, Doctor Dre, Scott Storch were its producers at that point in time. His album was named 'Run It!', it jumped up the charts' top. Nobody expected such success. It was a first case when the debut single of a beginning male singer could rise in charts so quickly and high. However, the following album could not reach the first positions of charts. However he found out himself in the public eye.
After release of the first album Chris Brown started intensive work in various TVprojects and cinema. In 2006 he was seen in such TV shows as 'One on One', 'The O.C.'. And in 2007 cinema-goers could contemplate him in the film 'Stomp the Yard'. Simultaneously with shooting in films Chris Brown conducted active work over the second album.
Soon Chris Brown will be seen in a leading role in the film "Phenomenon" where he plays a basketball player.
Brown was accused of assaulting his girlfriend, famous R&B singer Rihanna. Due to this fact many of his advertising campaigns were cancelled, his music was forbidden on several radio stations. He was sentenced to 5 years of suspended custody and 1440 hours of public work (180 days, 8 hours per each day). R&B-singer is to wash fire fighting vehicle, mow grass and pick up rubbish from the streets of native Virginia. Chris is not entitled to come to Rihanna nearer more than 50 yards (45,72 meters), except for show business events: the distance is reduced to 10 yards (9 meters).
* 2005: 'Run It!' (partnered by Juelz Santana)
* 2005: 'Yo (Excuse Me Miss)'
* 2006: 'Gimme That' (partnered by Lil Wayne)
* 2006: 'Say Goodbye'
* 2006: 'Poppin''
* 2007: 'Wall to Wall'
* 2007: 'Kiss Kiss' (partnered by T-Pain)
* 2007: 'With You'
* 2008: 'Take you down'
* 2008: 'No Air' (partnered by Jordin Sparks)
* 2008: 'Forever'
* 2008: 'Dreamer'
* 2008: 'Superhuman
The performer's site: www.chrisbrownworld.com
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Vault Tours
Petersen.org
Senior Admission + Vault Tour - February 1st - 14th
Saturday February 1 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 1 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 1 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 1 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 1 / 5:15 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 2 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 2 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 2 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 2 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 2 / 5:15 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 3 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 3 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 3 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 3 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 4 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 4 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 4 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 4 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 5 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 5 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 5 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 5 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 6 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 6 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 6 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 6 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 7 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 7 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 7 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 7 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 8 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 8 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 8 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 8 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Saturday February 8 / 5:15 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 9 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 9 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 9 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 9 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Sunday February 9 / 5:15 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 10 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 10 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 10 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Monday February 10 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 11 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 11 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 11 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Tuesday February 11 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 12 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 12 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 12 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Wednesday February 12 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 13 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 13 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 13 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Thursday February 13 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 14 / 10:15 am - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 14 / 12:00 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 14 / 1:45 pm - $ 42.00 USD Friday February 14 / 3:30 pm - $ 42.00 USD
Take a “behind the scenes” tour of some of the most unique cars in the collection that are not on display in the museum galleries. The Vault is home to cars representing over 100 years of automotive history, some of which have rarely been seen by the public. A docent will guide you through the Vault while sharing stories about a selection of the cars in our diverse collection.
Vault Tours REQUIRE the purchase of a General Admission Ticket prior to entering.
Adult + Vault Tour, Senior + Vault Tour, Child + Vault Tour tickets already include General Admission Ticket with purchase.
Tickets are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged once the order is placed.
NO children under 10 permitted on Vault Tours.
NO Backpacks, food, or drink allowed in the Vault.
NO Photography in the Vault.
Online ticket sales close out on the morning of each date.
Visitors are asked to refrain from touching the vehicles and must stay together with their group during the tour.
Vehicles in the Vault are subject to change.
If visitors would like to take a Vault Tour but require additional accessible resources, such as interpreters or touch-based tours, please call Visitor Services at (323) 930-2277 during museum hours or email admissions@petersen.org at least two weeks prior to visiting.
Adult Admission + Vault Tour - January 16th - 31st
Senior Admission + Vault Tour - January 16th - 31st
Child Admission (Ages 10-17) + Vault Tour - January 16th - 31st
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Archive for the ‘Thomas Lynch’ Category
Auld lange . . . sigh
Posted in How to Stay Alive, Point of Arrival, Rick Cannon, Thomas Lynch, tagged 2020, aging, blogging, culture, life, men, New Year, poetry, poets, random on January 4, 2020| 6 Comments »
Here at the beginning of the 20thyear of the 21stcentury; in the spirit of “out with the old, in with the new”; bearing in mind the cartoon personification of the passing year as a weary white-haired fellow; in special consideration of those readers of age to shudder at Father Time; with a sympathetic nod to the male of the species who may in the present age feel unmoored and undervalued; in regards to certain 2019 Poem Elf pictures never posted; and finally, in celebration of using a year’s allotment of semi-colons in a single sentence—I offer you a few poems on men and aging.
(It’s true, I’m not the most desirable guest at a New Year’s Eve party.)
Anyway . . . as anyone who’s ever had to take keys away from an elderly male driver will tell you, this men and aging thing is fraught with loss. Loss of masculinity, status and potency. It ain’t pretty.
Full-steam ahead then.
I have six poems total and I’ll feature two paired poems per post. Today we have Thomas Lynch’s “How to Stay Alive” and Rick Cannon’s “Point of Arrival.” Lynch is a mortician and writer here in southeast Michigan. The Undertaking, his 2009 collection of essays, is one of my favorites, and he has a new one out this year, The Depositions. Rick Cannon is a poet and teacher at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. (featured in an early Poem Elf post, link here) and not coincidentally my nephew’s favorite teacher.
I left Lynch’s poem on a bench in the New York City subway.
How to Stay Alive
by Thomas Lynch
He found he had nothing of consequence
to say about the weather so he went
noiselessly about his sorry business—
a version of himself in which he kept
pace with his neighbors but at arm’s length
because his arms were too short and he ached
in ways he thought they’d hardly understand.
So he kept his distance, and assumed the stance
of someone he’d seen one time in a movie.
The sad sack in the poem is familiar as Prufrock and Walter Mitty, those characters who ache for emotional richness and settle for nothing of value. Lynch’s version—keeping pace with his neighbors but at a distance— seems to be in a race that he doesn’t want to win. It’s enough to be in the pack, to exist, to survive. He mistakenly believes—how many of us do too?— that in order to stay alive his true self has to die.
Cannon’s “Point of Arrival” is marginally less bleak. I stuck it on a twig by a random mailbox. Apologies to the owner if he took it personally.
POINT OF ARRIVAL
by Rick Cannon
He stands barefoot on the gray concrete,
the iron season cooling the blood
dull red through his flat slow soles.
He’s forgotten why he came to the garage
and stands in his shaggy robe before hammer,
awl and ratchet, dumb, blank,
as if stunned by a piece of news.
Out the window he sees the tight copse,
stripped spar and mast shrouded in pale
yards of light.
Still he stands, lost,
but beginning perhaps to sense, as dawn
will seep beneath a blind, that from far away
and through much trial he’s come
exactly here. And as he stands issuing
breath, that slow rhythm leaf by leaf,
he feels the earth shift slightly
under tonnage of wind
toward white winter.
For several minutes he stays his feet flat
on the stinging stone, a robed man
in a cold garage accepting his extremity,
seeing it had always been so:
even from the beginning he’d been,
by far, out too far to survive
more than just this little while.
A man in his bathrobe standing stock-still in his garage in the early morning is always going to worry me. Something is dying here, and it’s not just the late-autumn leaves. Will it end in suicide? Are we looking at the onset of dementia? The tools of the man’s former industriousness, the hammer, awl and ratchet, sit before him like a language he doesn’t understand anymore. He’s come smack up against his mortality. Perhaps his failures too.
I say Cannon’s poem is marginally less bleak than Lynch’s because at least this man feels connected to the beauty of nature. And he seems to be a work in progress. His acceptance of his loss, whatever it may be, happens as we watch, whereas Lynch’s man is stagnant from the moment we meet him.
Gee, welcome to Debbie Downer’s New Year’s celebration. More to come.
Scorn not the sonnet
Posted in Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets, Thomas Lynch, tagged culture, death, Irish, life, poetry, random on October 27, 2011| 1 Comment »
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Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets
It came to him that he could nearly count
How many Octobers he had left to him
In increments of ten or, say, eleven
Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five.
He couldn’t see himself at ninety-six—
Humanity’s advances notwithstanding
In health-care, self-help, or new-age regimens—
What with his habits and family history,
The end he thought is nearer than you think.
The future, thus confined to its contingencies,
The present moment opens like a gift:
The balding month, the grey week, the blue morning,
The hour’s routine, the minute’s passing glance—
All seem like godsends now. And what to make of this?
At the end the word that comes to him is Thanks.
This poem has me thinking about Doris Day, and not just because I think poet Thomas Lynch is adorable. (Imagine Jack Black balding, gray and bespectacled.) In so many of her movies, Doris Day begins with a firm resolve–I will not fall for a womanizing phone-hog I despise, I will not fall for a newspaper editor who doesn’t respect education, I will not fall for the pajama factory foreman who won’t give the workers the raise they deserve—and then she’s duped into falling in love with the very men she and her perky principles had refused to consider.
And so with this poem. The poet who refuses to write sonnets has written a sonnet.
Granted, “Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets” is not technically a sonnet. From what I gather, a sonnet has four defining characteristics:
has 14 lines
has a specific rhyming pattern, depending on whether it’s Petrarchan, Spenserian, or Shakespearian.
usually written in iambic pentameter
operates on what is called “the turn.” The first part sets forth a question, emotion or issue, and the second half responds in some way, resolving or contradicting.
Lynch’s poem misses two of the four criteria. “Refusing” has 15 lines and has no rhyme at all, beyond the clever consonant rhyme of “think” and “thanks,” the two words which end each section of the poem.
But Lynch has something up his sleeve here. The poem is written mostly in iambic pentameter, and 15 lines is so close to 14 that methinks he doth protest too much. If a poet were really intent on not writing a sonnet, he would likely come up with something more like Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, pages and pages of long, loose lines.
Besides, it’s “the turn” that’s at the heart of a sonnet, and the turn here is so clear it could be marked with flashing lights and a “Street Closed” sign. The poem physically separates at the tenth line; the verb tense changes from past to present; and most important, the mood changes from resignation and dread to gratitude.
In the first stanza, a man who seems to be a poet wonders how many years, at age 52, he has left to live. He tries to count them but numbers so overwhelm him that he loses count of his sonnet and writes nine lines instead of eight. His overthinking about the future (remember that this stanza ends with “think”) keeps him in the grips of a morbid mood.
The turn in the second stanza moves into the present. He gives a wonderful description of October:
lines which describe himself and his mood as well.
From the month, he moves to the week, then the time of day, and finally to the very moment (the minute’s passing glance) within which he exists. Only then is he able to move beyond his fear of death and feel gratitude for living.
If you’ve ever escaped from a health crisis or scare, a sudden brush with death, or as in the case of this poem a self-induced death watch, you understand the gratitude expressed at the end of this poem. All the sudden you realize that right now at this moment you’re alive. You get up from your knees, from your trembling and nauseau, and you can’t believe how wonderful the world is. Life is so great! Wake up, wake up! you want to say to everyone who complains about little things like dreary weather, inconveniences, annoying people. Life’s a marvel, even the falling leaves, the rain clouds, the dark mornings. So great!
But because the poet is not George Bailey pulled back from the bridge all wild-eyed with happiness, but Thomas Lynch, wry and bemused, the turn in this poem is quiet. Thanks. Emotion is contained. The containment is partly because Lynch is Irish, and the Irish are champs at containing emotion, but also because sonnets are champs at containing emotions. Writing a sonnet places limits on the writer—limits of line length, meter and structure—and those limits allow an expression of deep emotion that is very civilized. Would that all problems could be so contained.
“Scorn not the sonnet,” Wordsworth wrote. I’m sure Lynch would agree, so what to make of his refusal to write one? For one, he seems impish and doesn’t like to do what’s expected. He counts by elevens rather than the standard ten. He writes 15 lines instead of 14, perhaps because he wants more. The first stanza is about the limits of the years he has left on earth. He wants to go over the limit. Life is too big, even at 52, to follow prescriptions.
(Interesting that another meditation on the same themes of autumn and death, Hopkins’ “Spring and Fall to a Young Child,” is also, at 15 lines, an almost-sonnet.)
Anyone writing about Lynch has to figure out how to put a fresh spin on the fact that he’s an undertaker and a poet. There, I said it. Lynch himself draws the best parallels between his two professions. In an interview he once said, “It is the same enterprise: to organize some response to what is unspeakable. We need a way to say unspeakable things, and funerals do. So do poems.”
I have a special feeling towards Thomas Lynch. I’m inclined to like anyone who shares my background, that is, Irish and Catholic, but he’s also a funny and wise writer, and a native of Detroit. He went to the same high school my son just graduated from, and his book of essays, The Undertaking, is a favorite of mine.
Born in 1948, Lynch splits his time between his hometown of Milford, where the funeral home Lynch and Sons still operates, and County Clare, Ireland. He’s won a number of awards for his poetry and his essays. If you ever get a chance to hear him read, go. He’s entertaining as only the Irish can be.
Okay, enough with the Irish.
I left the poem in a local watering hole. It was a dark place, with all the trappings of a man’s gathering space, big screen televisions, wood paneling and brass rails. At the bar three or four men slumped in front of their beers. It all felt sad to me, and I found only irony in the lines which appear under the poem in my photograph: “Great places, good times.” But then again I’m Irish and inclined to darkness.
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Summer Workshop Introduces High School Students to Journalism Careers
Summer Workshop Introduces High School Students to Journalism Careers Tuesday, July 2, 2019
High school students explored careers in media and communication at Point Park University's Summer Journalism Workshop June 24-27, 2019. Photos | Emma Federkeil
On the set of KDKA-TV with anchor Kristine Sorensen
A behind-the-scenes tour of PNC Park with Dan Hart '97, '99, director of media relations, Pittsburgh Pirates
On field at the Washington Wild Things game and behind-the-scenes tour with Craig Lion, creative services and production manager
High school students ventured through Downtown Pittsburgh to work on their stories
Interviewing people in Market Square with Andrew Conte, director of Point Park's Center for Media Innovation
Students work on their stories in the Center for Media Innovation
Students had a tour of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette with Michael Fuoco, enterprise reporter
Professor Helen Fallon leads a session in the Center for Media Innovation
Students pose for a picture in Downtown Pittsburgh
Taking photos in Downtown Pittsburgh with alumnus Nathan Gentry , M.A. '19
Taking photos in Downtown Pittsburgh
2019 High School Summer Journalism Workshop — 12 images
2019 High School Summer Journalism Workshop — 12 images High school students explored careers in media and communication at Point Park University's Summer Journalism Workshop June 24-27, 2019. Photos | Emma Federkeil
"I learned how to interview people, what type of information to look for, good questions to ask, how to edit using Lightroom, how to write a broadcast script and the different types of journalistic writing."
Amelia Smerbeck, Peters Township High School student
From behind-the-scenes tours at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and PNC Park to watching a live broadcast of the noon news at KDKA-TV, 11 area high school students gained writing, interviewing and reporting experience at Point Park University's Summer Journalism Workshop, held June 24-27 in the Center for Media Innovation.
Led by Robin Cecala, Ph.D., associate professor of broadcast production, the workshop included:
Workshop sessions
Interviewing with Andrew Conte, M.S., director of the Center for Media Innovation
Writing with Helen Fallon, M.A., professor of journalism and director of the University's Honors Program
Photography with Nathan Gentry, M.A. in media communication '19
Guest speakers and off-campus tours
Covering the Tree of LIfe synagogue shooting with Pulitzer Prize-winning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporters Ashley Murray, M.A. '18, '09 and Andrew Goldstein '14
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tour with Michael Fuoco, enterprise reporter
KDKA-TV tour and watch a live production of the noon newscast with Kristine Sorensen, anchor
PNC Park tour with Dan Hart, director of media relations, Pittsburgh Pirates
Washington Wild Things tour and game with Craig Lion, creative services and production manager
Learn more about their experiences below and check out samples of their work on the student-created website.
Meet Amelia Smerbeck
High School: Peters Township High School
Dream job: Director or editor
What new skills did you learn this week?
Meet Catie Hohman
High School: Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School
Dream job: Broadcaster, video/photo producer
What was your favorite part of the week?
"My favorite part was visiting KDKA-TV to see how much effort and care it takes to produce a newscast."
Meet Jacob Kubick
High School: Seton La-Salle High School
Dream job: TBD
What was it like being on a college campus all week?
"It was exciting to be on a college campus in Downtown Pittsburgh all week. There are so many great photo and story ideas to uncover."
Meet Maggie Allwein
High School: Pine-Richland High School
Dream job: Investigative reporter, New York Times
What was your favorite part about the workshop?
"Before coming to Point Park, I was not sure if journalism was something that I really wanted to pursue. Now I not only know that, but I also know that journalism is my passion."
Meet Melina Tripoli
High School: North Allegheny Senior High School
Dream job: Journalist or graphic designer
What did you enjoy most this week?
"I really enjoyed all of the field trips we took around town to see what a job in the field would be like. It was fun touring KDKA and the Washington Wild Things park."
High School Students: Join us for Upcoming Media Days
Students interested in visiting Point Park's School of Communication are invited to attend a High School Media Day during the fall and spring semester. Registration information will be posted on the High School Programs page.
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Poll of Polls: Obama more popular than his policies
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
Obama's approval ratings have held steady.
WASHINGTON (CNN) An average of the most recent national polls indicates that six in 10 Americans approve of the job Barack Obama's doing as president.
According to a CNN Poll of Polls compiled Tuesday, 60 percent say they're happy with how Obama's handling his duties as president. Thirty-one percent disapprove of his performance.
"The president's average approval rating has held steady for the past two months," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland Tuesday. "Obama's average approval rating in the seven polls taken in early June was 61 percent, and the average approval rating of the five polls taken in May was also 61 percent."
While Obama's overall approval rating remains basically unchanged, his marks on some specific issues have dropped over the past few months.
"President Obama is more popular than his policies. Three-quarters of Americans like President Obama. But just over half approve of his policies," says CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider.
So how do Obama's approval ratings compare to his predecessors' at the same time in their presidencies?
"From a numbers perspective, Obama's track record so far is closest to Ronald Reagan's. Reagan's approval rating in mid-to-late June of his first year in office was 59 percent," Holland said. Obama is far more popular than Bill Clinton was in June 1993, when Clinton's rating was only 39 percent, he added - and far less popular than the elder George Bush, whose approval rating hit 70 percent in June 1989. George W. Bush's rating was 55 percent in the summer of 2001.
CNN's Poll of Polls consists of five surveys conducted over the past two weeks: ABC/Washington Post (June 18-21), the Gallup tracking poll (June 18-21), CBS/New York Times (June 12-16), NBC-Wall Street Journal (June 12-15) and the Pew Research Center (June 10-14). The CNN Poll of Polls is an average of several surveys, and does not have a sampling error.
Filed under: President Obama
NVa Native
If the extremes were real I'd take the socialism of the Democratic party over the fascism of the Repunblicans any day. The small brained dito-head and Fox minions love to demonize the European and Canadian governements. But if you/we truely understood how they are structured I'd bet 80% of Americans would love to have many their programs or systems of goverment ~ four to six weeks a year vacation, extended paternity leave for both parents, excellent free health care, education through college, just to name a few.
Sure you might not be able to buy a Hummer, but how many of you want a Hummer? Reality can be a good thing, give it a try.
June 23, 2009 01:05 pm at 1:05 pm |
Great Job President...in just 6 months you have done more than Republicans in 8 years
1. Improved our international image
2. clear ed the way for embryo research
3. closing Guantanamo prison
4. signed Lilly ledbetter fair pay act
5.creates credit card bill of rights
6. just yesterday .....prescription costs lowered for seniors
7. weapons system acquisition reform act
Keep it coming.....HealthCare Reform NEXT
Roger .. the last eight years were not typical Republican beliefs. Bush was a neo-con lunatic. A Ron Paul or JOhn McCain spending hawk Republican would have been different. Obama's stimulus plan was a huge mistake, as was Bush's. Stop being a partisan hack and realize that both parties are failing us.
to be honest guys i think obama would make a better wal-mart greeter then a president!! i can't wait for his 4 year term to be up so we can get this country back on the right track but man it is going to take at least 10 years to clean up his mess!
Shawn - GA
Nothing has changed, he is all hype and no substance. He was before the election and he still is. Far too many people will "approve" of the man no matter what he does and that is why we keep seeing these things...
Raymond Burgoon-Clark
Terry said:
"Our happiness and our lives are not significant or important to Conservative leaders. They are the handmaidens of the wealthy class."
EEEWWW!!! Scrub my mind with cauldron cleaner NOW!
Rush Limbaugh in a French maid uniform???!!!
Holmes, your comment was perfect; what else can be said about these types, its amazing. Thanks for summing it up in a more simple way than I probably can. God knows simple is their cup of tea.
I just keep wondering when these people posting for government controlled healthcare are going to wake up. Where do you think the funding comes from to pay for all of this multi-faceted array of public handouts? The private sector is frozen like a deer in the head lights, I am talking jobs that create commerce. We have lost the growth and development industries due to government interference, we have lost the auto industries due to government interference and now we are dooming the healthcare industry due to government interference. I wonder why they haven't hit up the legal industry yet by curbing in lawyers? It isn't all about Obama, it is now about putting food on the table and keeping the roof over your head, wait till the winter slow months if you think business is dead now!
Joe – "If you all think you can do a better job, why don't you go into politics! It is easy to talk trash on the sidelines..why don't you all get in the game and then talk"
Why don't you follow your own advice before making stupid comments like this?
Funny, the link from the Politics home page is:
Poll: Obama's approval rating holds steady
And then when you get to the page the title is:
Poll of Polls: Obama more popular then his policies
If that isn't media bias, I don't know what is. If someone just glanced at the link on the homepage you would feel that obama is doing great. But the poll really is saying what everyone is thinking: hey, I like Obama, love to have a beer with the guy BUT his policies stink.
CNN, stay above the brown-nosing please.
Party of NO
It was Carters gas lines that I was waiting in, Not Nixons. You know, Carter, the worst president ever!! Obama may quite possibly take that title from Carter!
If you're going to comment, please use actual facts rather than recycled pundit talk. You look and sound ridiculous.
If you think Obama is doing a great job, you voted for him and he can do no wrong. He's not infallible, get a clue.
If you think he's doing awful, you didn't vote for him and nothing he will do or say will change your mind. He's not a Socialist or a secret Muslim, get a clue!
If you're a normal person, you accept that he's on par with other presidents popularity wise and have some concerns about his policies and how they will affect us in the future. He's doing alright. Deal with it!
Terry from Texas – "They disagree with him because they want him out of power and they will oppose, block, stall, lie, intimidate, inhibit, prevent, exaggerate, confuse, minimize, distort, and defy him as a matter of principle — no matter how much the middle and lower classes suffer."
No, they disagree with Obama because his policies are bad for the country. Or can't you grasp that concept? Do you not see what's going on here? Or do you have too much of a man-crush on Obama to care?
worriedmom
Uh oh, the Libs are going crazy. Their Great One is slipping in Polls. What will they do? Maybe some of the Kool-Aid drinkers are now switching to another drink that causes their thinking to become more alert.
That's ok Libs, keep whining, crying, saying how much you hate Republicans, how the world is so mean to you and keep on with your miserable life. Just keep drinking your Kool-Aid and take your Valium.
You will need it when Obama destroys everything our country has fought for.
Can't we all just get alone
Can't we all just AGREE to DISAGREE? For those of us that love the President and the job he is doing . . . GREAT! For those that oppose the President for whatever their reasons may be . . . It's their perogative.
Please just stop the HATE!
eddy come on buddy the guy has never even held a gun in his hand and he is qualified to lead our military? im not sure what your job description is for the president of the united states but he certainly isnt qualified and for that matter i have to question if he knows what his job is supposed to entail b/c he certainly isnt doing it!
Jody Feldman
The comments regarding the latest poll results show just how polarized we have become in this country. Maybe we can't be one big country. We are so diverse and so different, and seemingly incapable of reaching any consensus.
I am struck by the relative tone of the comments against President Obama versus the tone of those in favor of his policies. The grammatical and spelling errors of those on the far right speak volumes about the quality of their thought processes. They are not intelligent, well-reasoned comments.
"Socialist"
He's a socialist...blah blah blah
He's making the country unsafe... blah blah blah
I'm moving to Canada... blah blah blah
Watch a lot of Faux News, eh?
lynn in NM
He can talk, but has no experience to lead in a dangerous world.
Philip Grant
ATTENTION OBAMA HATERS:
There is only one poll that counts. It was taken on November 4, 2008.
WE WON, YOU LOST. Get over it!! There's nothing you can do about it.
Stop crying, get ready for 2012, at the rate you're going you'll probably loose again.
The good news is Americans are starting to wake up about Obama. The bad news is we have 3.5 more years of him!
He has done more than any other president in the first 100 days? PLEASE! You are right though, in his first 100 days he raised the deficit by more than any other president has in their first 100 days, he has managed to ignore threats from North korea, managed to spend a lot of money to fix the economy which hasn't been fixed at all (hence the jobless rate continuing to rise) and he has managed to apologize to every nation he could for how bad we apparently are. Yeah, great job.
Mike in Indy
Indiana Governor Mitch "The Blade" Daniels is the only person that can get us out of this mess. He HAS TO BE elected in 2012. Democrats and Republicans both love him and he is a brilliant person, fiscally responsible, and a creative and innovative thinker.
Silly me
Somehow, this must be Bush's fault.
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Colombo Street 1992
Place in time
The Christchurch Documentary Project
01 Transitional Landscapes
02 Rewilding
03 As the Road Bends
04 (Re)Orientation
05 D,P,O
06 Bloodlines
07 re-Build
08 Vestiges
09 The Cardboard Cathedral
10 Thx 4 the Memories
11 Ko te whanga ko au; Ko au ko te whanga
12 Through the Trees
13 Adaptation
14 Support Structures
15 The Freeville Project
16 The Winter Garden
17 Pre-Marital Bliss
18 Caring for the dead
19 These are the Days
20 Red Bus Diary
21 Donʼt See You Round Much Anymore
22 My Place
23 Colombo Street 2002
25 The Aranui Project
26 The 9th Year
27 Up From Water
Since 2000, Place in Time: The Christchurch Documentary Project has been recording the city of Christchurch, New Zealand and a cross-section of its people through photography, oral history and documentary writing.
Exhibition news, stories, reviews, events and insights into photography and associated Place in Time activities, as well as the photography programme at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.
Educational projects linked to the primary and secondary school curriculum continue to play a significant role in the Place in Time project. Place in Time exhibitions and books have been used as starting points for students to develop their own work, both within the classroom and surrounding communities.
Documentary Writing
A repository of documentary writing and long form stories that reveal the significance of place, time and relationships between people.
Place in Time has produced and overseen the production of a number of publications which intimately capture people's stories and reveal the significance of our connection with places of importance.
The University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts teaches photography as a means of communicating information, expressing ideas and conveying insights into the world we live. A selection of student work can be viewed here.
Josephine Meachen
Sarah Laffan
Kirsty MacDonald
Chris Pownall
Robin Hely
Undertaken in 1992 by students studying within the third year photography programme at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, this body of work formed the base content from which the Place in Time archive later grew.
Over time, these images have taken on new meaning and grown in importance. It is fair to say that Christchurch’s city center suffered something of a downturn in the 1990’s and 2000’s, particularly as a result of intense suburban mall and retail development. A once bustling CBD with Cathedral Square as the epicenter of social activity–home to most of the city’s bus transfer points, movie theaters, video game arcades, take-away food joints and bars–the inner city as a whole, save for some innovative laneway developments, was fast entering a state of depression, and in may cases disrepair.
Popular opinion has it that the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes only finished off what poor city planning and miss-management had started. However, most would agree that the near clean slate the earthquake and subsequent recovery process has left us with has resulted in a profound, collective sense of loss and grief, not least because of the passing of loved ones, but also because most all things familiar and relatable to personal and collective memory in the city center no longer exist.
These images, taken in 1992 of one of Christchurch’s most iconic streets are however more than simple reminders of what has been lost or how we once were. Importantly, both individually and collectively, they are simply great pictures that testify to the importance of this kind of work, both as a form of creative expression and record.
A collaborative documentary project on Colombo Street, one of Christchurch’s main arterial roads that spans 6.2 kilometers and runs through the heart of the city, from Edgeware to Cashmere.
Josephine Meachen Sarah Laffan Kirsty MacDonald Chris Pownall Robin Hely
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England turned out in the rain to vote “Britain Trump” into power by a large margin. More nativist populism and a damaging hard Brexit it is. The Conservatives will own the recession and the consequences, but for the next five years they will have free reign to remodel everything according to their wishes.
London is still a different place to its hinterland: a blob of mostly red surrounded by a ring of blue.
The SNP have 81% of the seats in Scotland.
For the first time, there will be more nationalist MPs than unionist ones in Northern Ireland.
Sauve qui peut.
I’m terrified. If Boris Johnson gets a majority after today, it’ll take most of the rest of my working life to undo the social and economic damage.
Stop the coup
Like a lot of other people in London, I was moved to get down to Downing Street straight after work last Wednesday after the news broke about the Johnson administration’s cunning wheeze to suspend Parliament.
Using U2F for passwordless sudo
Now that I’ve got my SoloKeys working for website authentication, I’ve been looking at other things I can use them for.
SoloKeys on Ubuntu Linux
I finally received the SoloKeys open source FIDO2 U2F security keys I ordered via their KickStarter last year.
They’re little USB devices that you stick into your computer to act as a physical second factor when authenticating to websites (or, potentially, other software). Instead of typing in a code received via SMS or from an authenticator application, you press a button on the device and it cryptographically identifies itself.
That’s the theory, anyway.
Older entries can be found in the archive.
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10 Most Expensive Things Of 2015
As we near the end of another luxurious year, here is a curated list of 10 most expensive things of 2015, or the Christmas wishlist of a billionaire!
2015’s Most Expensive Car- Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita
Described as “Diamond On Wheels” on the Koenigsegg website because of the diamond infused carbon fibre body, this supercar is also super rare- there are only 3 CCXR Trevitas worldwide sold at an exorbitant price of $4.8 million each.
2015’s Most Expensive Watch- Chopard 201 Carat Watch
Chopard’s 201 Carat watch is priced at $25 million with yellow diamonds making the majority of the body while pink, blue and white heart diamonds adding more color. The watch comes with a special mechanism that opens three heart diamonds to reveal the time.
2015’s Most Expensive Chocolate- To’ak Chocolate
The finest and most expensive chocolate bar isn’t from France or Switzerland, but from Ecuador! A 50-gram bar of To’ak chocolate will cost you $260 if you are one of the lucky 574 people to get your hands on it before they run out!
2015’s Most Expensive Jewel- Blue Moon Diamond
The 12.03 carat rare Blue Moon Diamond, set in a ring, was bought by a private Hong Kong collector at an auction for a whooping $48.5 million making it the most expensive jewel! The billionaire is said to have bought the one of a kind stone to honor his daughter.
2015’s Most Expensive Painting- Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger
Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger was auctioned at Christies in New York for $179.3 million smashing world records in the art market with its price. The painting was declared sold after intense 11.5 minutes of bidding reported Forbes.
2015’s Most Expensive Bag- Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse
Topping the list for the most expensive handbags of the year, the heart shaped Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond purse that features 4517 diamonds, has also made the Guinness World Record for its jaw-dropping price of $3.8 million.
2015’s Most Expensive Shoes- Ruby Slippers By House of Harry Winston
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Wizard of Oz, House of Harry Winston launched the most expensive shoe ever- a replica of Dorothy’s iconic red slippers! The only difference between the original pair and Harry Winston’s version are the 4,600 rubies and 50 carat worth of diamonds, making the latter a clear winner in the rare-and-expensive shoe game with a price tag of $3 million (sorry Cinderella!).
2015’s Most Expensive House- Palazzo di Amore
Priced at $195 million last year, Palazzo di Amore that spans over 25 acres in the glamorous Beverly Hills. It still stands as America’s most expensive mansion for sale even after a price cut leaving at a staggering $149 million!
2015’s Most Expensive Wine- Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Grand Cru
Earlier this month a UK-based website, Wine Searcher, released its annual list of most expensive wines topped by a rare wine from France’s Burgundy vineyard. The average price of a bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Grand Cru is $13,055 and goes up to $40,000!
2015’s Most Expensive Christmas Ornament- Tree star by 77 diamonds
So what if you could not have the $11 million Christmas tree, you could still have the world’s most expensive star to top your tree with! Created by 77 Diamonds and sold exclusively by VeryFirstTo for $925,402, this tree topper has been adorned with 281 diamonds and can be worn as a necklace after the holiday season is over; sparkles and practicality rolled into this ornament for your tree as well as yourself!
Be ready to raise your prices 2016!
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U/A Drama, Romance, Thriller 2 hrs 19 mins Oct 5, 2018
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Andhadhun Review: A Glorious Thriller That Makes Us Ask What Happens Next
Sriram Raghavan is the sort of filmmaker who delivers twist-ridden bro noirs without giving a breathing space. His latest offering Andhadhun has all the makings of a top quality thriller with dozens what happens next moments. With an actress like Tabu in the cast, he has a perfect femme fatale. A sensuous, no so young but younger than her husband in the film with a scheming mind and the brains to match the intensity of both her appearance and well... Andhadhun tells the story of a blind pianist who aims to make it to the concert in Lon one day.
Loosely based on the 2010 French short film L'Accordeur (The Piano Tuner) by Olivier Treiner, Sriram Raghavan's Andhadhun (The Blind Melody starts apparently as the search for the perfect melody by Ayushmann Khurrana's Akash. One day, he comes across a beautiful woman played by Radhika Apte, in a surprisingly straightforward role (more about it in a bit), who asks him to play piano at her restaurant. There he gets the highest tip in the history of the restaurant. His talent!!!
The joy of watching a great thriller
Part of the joy of watching a good thriller asking ourselves what happens next. Any self-respecting thriller must make the audience do it apart from making them sit at the end of their seats. Being let loose amongst a bunch of people who say one thing, do another and mean something else entirely is a priceless experience.
Almost everyone in Andhadhun fits this bill perfectly. Aakash a blind pianist in search of his perfect dhun. Pramod Sinha (in a wickedly delightful role by Anil Dhawan) a yesteryear-star married to the foxy, bored Simi (Tabu at her best). A burly policeman who specializes in being in the wrong place at the wrong time (Manav Vij in a great role). A doctor (Zakir Hussain) who promises to do good but has other motives. There’s even a little kid who’s a big crook. No one is innocent. It's all grey in varying degrees of the color. Or the lack of it.
A guest at the restaurant takes a liking to Akash’s brilliance with the piano, unwittingly setting into motion a dizzying set of plot twirls that will include money, murder and a double-cross like in any crisp pulp story. Pramod Sinha the former movie star who witnessed stardom in the 1970s now settles as a real estate dealer. He adores his much younger wife Simi. Pramod Sinha asks Akash to give Simi a surprise piano recital on their wedding anniversary. But when Akash shows up, nothing is what it seems to be. As it should be in any good thriller.
Sriram Raghavan's brilliance
It is a lot of fun watching the mystery unravel because there is no mystery at all. The director shows us who the real killer is and his motive for the killing. The body count reaches the maximum by the time the film heads for the climax. With perfect timing in introducing characters in the scenes, he makes us forget everything else except the film itself.
What would you do if you find out that a crooked doctor is adamant on stealing your kidney, or you meet an investigating officer who is also the prime suspect of the same case? You’ll be confronted with such bizarre situations every few minutes in AndhaDhun, which flows like a breezy Beethoven composition and reminds us of another foreign thriller where music plays an important role.
It is probably also the kind of film which may grow on you with the passage of time. The audacity of Sriram Raghavan’s vision and the intricacies of the screenplay he cooked up would come back to you in their complete glory only when you acknowledge his understanding of the story thread and the psychological depths of tragically amoral people.
Ayushmann Khurrana is brilliant in his role. His variations of expressions and the wide range of minute details he injects into his act make the character the best he has played till now. It is proven beyond doubt with Andhadhun that it takes a director like Sriram Raghavan to utilize Tabu's range in a film these days. She was at her absolute best as the femme fatale. And she has the sensuousness apart from the dangerous air. She looks vulnerable too. Many shades and many laters. expertly unfolded both by the actress and the director.
As for the rest, Radhika Apte is a surprise packet in the film by playing such a simple role with minimal development. Sairat fame Chaya Kadam and Ashwini Kalsekar leave an impact. Yesteryear actor Anil Dhawan makes a memorable appearance as the yesteryear star. There are several nods to the good old '70s like the hero singing while playing the piano.
Coming to the music, Amit Trivedi’s score gives a haunting edge to the film. The interesting background score adds a perfect but anonymous layer to the proceedings. The cinematography by K. U. Mohanan lends the required atmosphere for this noir comedy. The writing by Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, and Yogesh Chandekar gives lessons in thriller writing. There are a couple of moments where the graph falls in the second half after an absolutely perfect first half but the writers and in turn the director lift the proceedings with another twist.
All in all, Andhadhun is a good advertisement for Bollywood thrillers when regional cinema is doling out gems like Kolamavu Kokila, Imaikkaa Nodigal, Goodachari, and Ratsasan (which incidentally releases today). Andhadhun's impact lies in Sriram Raghavan's precocity. And the way he used his actors as props in telling the story and the detailing in creating atmosphere. Rest fall in the line. Go and watch this film even if you are not a thriller buff. Andhadhun is pulp fiction at its best. You cannot afford to miss it in theatres and watching it in the atmosphere.
Andhadhun Critic Reviews
5 Oct 18 @ 7:48 PM
If you love a good suspense, you cannot afford to miss this one....
All said and done, AndhaDhun is one of the best thrillers to come out of Bollywood. It has been over...
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Once every few years there comes a film that makes the viewers forget everything and get spellbound by it. Sriram Raghavan who had made very few films in his career is known as the master of thrillers proved that once again. With a terrific cast and top class crew at his disposal, Sriram Raghavan delivered the best Indian thriller in a long time. Andhadhun is not for everybody. But for those who can stomach it, it is the film to watch at any cost. You will ask what happens next like every 5 minutes and you will be outguessed at every instance by the director. A genuinely great film. A film to savour by the Indian audience
5 Oct 18 @ 12:37 PM
Andhadhun Live Updates & Public Talk
Andhadhun features the very talented Ayushmann Khurana and Radhika Apte in the lead roles. The movie is directed by Sri Ram Raghavan who has earned his own fan base with interesting films like Badlapur. The film is all set for a grand release on October 5th and is carrying a great pre-release buzz. The trailer has connected well with its target audience and peeked up their interest. Here are some of the Tweets from a special premiere show of Andhadhun.
Sri Ram Raghavan is being praised by celebs for his work in Andhadhun and for etching out an edge-of-the-seat thriller which has some of the best performances from its lead cast. The characters of the film are said to be very unique in the typical style of Sri Ram Raghavan and the way he has written them is said to be one major reason why this thriller stands out. The screenplay is said to be water-tight with a gripping narration throughout. Check out the latest audience response for Andhadhun.
Ayushmann Khurana has become one of the bankable young actors of Bollywood who never fails to impress the audience. He seems to be exceptionally brilliant in playing the role of a blind man to perfection. Radhika Apte too seems to have given a noteworthy performance like she does most of the times. But, the surprise package seems to be Tabu who has been selecting very different roles in the recent past. The audience are going crazy for her performance in Andhadhun.
Famous celebrities like Hansal Mehta, Shashank Khaitan, Vicky Kaushal etc are expressing their thoughts on the film and are suggesting to watch this movie in the theatres. Andhadhun seems to be one of the best thrillers of Bollywood in the recent times where every actor and technician have excelled. Check out more public talk and live updates of Andhadhun below.
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card – 21 – Two New Keys to Victory?
In an extended opening act between Sakura’s brother and father, the two discuss her similarity to her mother Nadeshiko, both her smile and the “something mysterious” about her. Sakura’s husband left things he couldn’t sense to Nadeshiko and didn’t ask questions, even if it meant he felt left out. But unlike his dad, Touya has the power to aid Sakura, should that time arise…and it’s looking pretty likely that it is!
Meanwhile, Sakura’s grandfather gives her one of the two items her mother wished her to have: a jeweled key she always treasured. My first thought was that this could be the key she needs to focus her magical power in order to oppose Yuna D. Kaito. The second “item” turns out to be gramps’ villa itself, meaning not only does Sakura have a potential new tool in the key, but a base from which to draw power.
Eriol mentions to Yue and Kero that the mansion where Yuna and Akiho live was once torn down to build an amusement park, yet now the park is gone and the mansion is back; its location being a particularly strong base for magicial power. He also informs his associates that Yuna was excommunicated from the order that gave him the “D” title, ostensibly for stealing a magical relic.
Eriol has a lot of exposition this wek: confirming that it is Sakura herself who has summoned all of the cards she’s been securing. They represent various aspects of her power, and while that power is considerable, it is still chaotic, without focus, and most importantly, inadvertent on the part of their creator.
Perhaps sensing his enemies have conspired together long enough, Yuna launches an attack on Eriol, cutting off both magical and conventional communications between him, Yue, and Kero. Eriol manages to fight off the attack, cracking his staff in the process, but it exhausts him. Even he can’t go up against a “D”-class magician for long.
While Yuna’s watch is finally broken, he still has that stolen relic—I’m guessing the book—and doesn’t seem too perturbed about pushing Akiho has far as he can in order to get Sakura’s cards.
Sakura remains uneasy about recent events, but nevertheless blissfully unaware of the identity, nature, and scale of her enemy and his plans. Instead, while watching Syaoran and his reflection in the car window, she wishes she could look in a mirror and see the Sakura everyone else sees.
That wish casts a fog around her home, and when she and Syaoran arrive, it has flipped around; become a reflection of itself. While a little strange and unnerving, there’s no active physical threat; all Sakura has to do is release her staff and secure the card, somewhat unimaginatively called “Mirror.”
It’s her twentieth card, and it enables Sakura to “mirror” her Flight card, making a double which she affixes to Syaoran so they can fly around hand in hand. Of all the things she could have done, she did something to make her and Syaoran happy. Too much power will make its owner unhappy, and Sakura is certainly hella powerful at this stage, if still chaotic. But Syaoran embraces her in midair and promises her he won’t let her be unhappy.
I’m not sure what he, or Kero, Yue, Eriol, or Touya can actually do, considering it’s been implied Yuna is stronger than all of them, and Sakura is the only one who has a chance of defeating him. But first she has to be told that Yuna is even an enemy that needs defeating, right? He’s been operating in the shadows for far too long while she’s dilly-dallied about with her newfound powers and ancillary high school life.
If her boyfriend, brother, friends and allies are really serious about preserving her happiness, she needs to be told the truth, even if it makes her unhappy. She needs to know so she can prepare for what’s coming. Because you know what would make her even more unhappy? If they, or anyone else (say Akiho) gets hurt because Yuna successfully stole her cards and becomes an unstoppable force.
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Sun, 3 Jun 2018 Categories Anime Reviews, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Winter 2018Tags カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編, cardcaptor sakura, ccs, clear cards, creation, eriol, great grandfather, kero-chan, keroberos, kinomoto sakura, kinomoto touya, magic, mirror, mysterious, new key, powers, reflection, shinomoto akiho, shoujo, syaoran li, thirst for power, tsukishiro yukito, villa, yue, yuna d. kaito5 Comments on Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card – 21 – Two New Keys to Victory?
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card – 20 – The Lunch Mooch
Whatever the precise nature of Yuna D. Kaito’s goals, he seems pretty confident he’ll be able to pull them off. And can you blame him? Sakura still doesn’t have the slightest clue she’s being targeted, let alone how or why, and is content to continue living life as if nothing’s amiss.
She spends the morning making lunches for herself, Syaoran, Yukito and Kero for the day. I will say for the record she makes making rolled omelets look way too easy; aside from the fact those pans aren’t cheap, her method requires a lot of practice and a lot of failure.
Her date with Syaoran is replaced by a visit to the sprawling villa of Masaki, her mother’s grandfather, who apparently has something he simply must give her before departing abroad the next day. Syaoran accompanies her, and he and Sakura bicker over whose bento is better (each arguing for each other, not themselves, naturally).
When Grampa Masaki is alone with Syaoran, he comments on just how similar Sakura is to her mother; someone whose constant outward happiness and joie-de-vivre makes everyone around them happier. Meanwhile, Kero and Yue confer on the growing powers of both Sakura and Touya, while Kero receives a message from Eriol in England: a magic circle which both Kero and Yue replicate.
While wandering around the vast estate looking for someone to make more tea, Sakura comes upon her mother’s bedroom, which shines as brightly as the sun. Sakura uses Record to view a montage of moments from when her mother inhabited the room, but then the projection of her mom turns to her, puts her hand on her cheek, and warns her not to go any farther, lest she not be able to return.
Sakura and Akiho end up in the clock dream again, in which Sakura knows who the cloaked figure is (though doesn’t say it) while Akiho recognizes the cloak as the one passed down in her family. Yuna and Momo converse on how “the power of the dream is growing”, and much faster than originally thought. Kero and Yue arrive in England, where Eriol is finally ready to tell them what he’s learned, and it’s not good: “the one thing [he] feared the most is becoming reality”.
As confident as Yuna and Momo appear to be so far, and as oblivious as Sakura appears to be (it’s particularly unnerving to see her dip so far into her powers she becomes woozy and has to lie down), but she has no shortage of powerful friends, from Kero, Yue, and Eriol to Touya, who doubtless won’t hesitate to use his growing power to protect his sister. And then there’s always the slight possibility Yuna’s intentions aren’t even sinister…
Author magicalchurlsukuiPosted on Tue, 29 May 2018 Tue, 29 May 2018 Categories Anime Reviews, Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card, Winter 2018Tags カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編, cardcaptor sakura, ccs, clear cards, eriol, great grandfather, kero-chan, keroberos, kinomoto sakura, lunch, magic, mystery, powers, shared dream, shinomoto akiho, shoujo, syaoran li, the past, tsukishiro yukito, villa, yue, yuna d. kaito
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Rep. Devin Nunes's $250M Lawsuit Against Twitter Will Go Nowhere
The defamation (and negligence) claims against Twiter are blocked by 47 U.S.C. § 230.
Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.20.2019 7:56 AM
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You can read the Complaint, and see a story about it here. Nunes is accusing political consultant Liz Mair and some unknown commenters of libeling him—a fact-intensive question on which I have no opinion—but is also suing Twitter for "negligence," which in this context seems to mean negligently failing to stop people from using Twitter to libel him:
As the private operator of a public square, Twitter owed Nunes a duty to exercise ordinary and reasonable care in the operation of its platform, so as not to cause harm to Nunes. Twitter breached its duty of reasonable care. Twitter used its platform and allowed its platform to be used by others as a means to defame Nunes. Twitter failed to take action to enforce its Terms and Rules in the face of known abusive behavior and failed to reasonably monitor and police the platform to ensure that rampant abuse and defamation was not occurring.
This failure to prevent him from being defamed, he says, caused $250 million of actual damages to him.
But any such state negligence law claim is preempted by 47 U.S.C. § 230, the federal statute that immunizes online service providers from liability for things that their users post, however defamatory those things might be. That's true whether the claim is brought as a defamation claim or as a negligence claim; service providers don't have a duty "to reasonably monitor and police the platform" (which is why, for instance, I don't have a duty to reasonably monitor and police the comments here).
Nunes argues that Twitter is discriminating in various ways against conservative speakers; but that is irrelevant to a § 230 defense. The statute was passed precisely to make clear that online service providers are immune from liability for others' speech even when they make editing choices about which speech to allow:
Congress enacted § 230 to remove the disincentives to self-regulation created by the Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Servs. Co. decision. Under that court's holding, computer service providers who regulated the dissemination of offensive material on their services risked subjecting themselves to liability, because such regulation cast the service provider in the role of a publisher. Fearing that the specter of liability would therefore deter service providers from blocking and screening offensive material, Congress enacted § 230's broad immunity "to remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to restrict their children's access to objectionable or inappropriate online material." 47 U.S.C. § 230(b)(4). In line with this purpose, § 230 forbids the imposition of publisher liability on a service provider for the exercise of its editorial and self-regulatory functions.
And later cases have made clear that § 230's preemption of "publisher liability" extends to supposed negligent failure to police:
The decisions construing 47 U.S.C. § 230 have declined invitations to exempt the "negligent publishing" of offensive or unlawful content from the protections afforded by 47 U.S.C. § 230. For example, in Dart v. Craigslist, Inc., 665 F.Supp.2d 961, 967-68 (N.D.Ill.2009), the plaintiff, who served as the Sheriff of Cook County, sued Craigslist on the basis of allegations that the website's adult section constituted a public nuisance. After noting that "Sheriff Dart's complaint could be construed to allege 'negligent publishing,'" the district court rejected any contention that negligence sufficed to overcome the immunity granted by 47 U.S.C. § 230, noting that "[a] claim against an online service provider for negligently publishing harmful information created by its users treats the defendant as the 'publisher' of that information." As a result, the reported decisions construing 47 U.S.C. § 230 have treated the relevant statutory language as creating a broad exemption from liability even when the substantive facts underlying a plaintiff's claim are compelling. See, e.g., M.A., 809 F.Supp.2d 1041 (holding that immunity was available pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 230 despite the fact that a minor was subjected to sex trafficking as the result of ads placed on defendant's website) and Barnes, 570 F.3d at 1098 (holding that immunity was available pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 230 based upon a website's failure to remove defamatory postings despite the fact that the "case stems from a dangerous, cruel, and highly indecent use of the internet for the apparent purpose of revenge").
Section 230 does not extend, of course, to people's dissemination of their own speech (which is why the case against Mair and the other individual defendants isn't preempted). And it doesn't extend to platforms' creation and development of tortious speech (for instance, if a platform expressly invites users to post commercial ads that indicate discriminatory preferences, by asking them to fill in special fields designed expressly to indicate such preferences). But Twitter simply provides a way for people to post whatever they want; and, again, its choice to exclude some material based on political viewpoint or anything else doesn't make them a creator or developer of the material that they do allow.
I've occasionally heard arguments that Twitter ought to be regulated as a sort of public utility or common carrier, so that speech on Twitter is protected against restriction by Twitt. Whether Congress could constitutionally impose such a restriction on Twitter or other such platforms is an interesting question. But Congress hasn't done so; quite the contrary: It has provided Twitter and similar services with specific immunity even when they regulate speech on their services.
Nunes's negligence/defamation claim against Twitter, then, is a sure loser; more shortly on Nunes's "insulting words" claim.
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Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA.
Brett Bellmore
March.20.2019 at 8:58 am
Looking that up, I find the relevant language:
“(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(2) Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of?
(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B) any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]”
I assume that Nunes’ lawsuit is premised on the claim that Twitter’s actions aren’t in good faith.
This doesn’t appear to matter insofar as the claim is that Twitter failed to remove content provided by others, as the protection there isn’t premised on good faith. But he might have a handle to go after them in some manner on the basis of bad faith removals.
Quixote
The deeper issue, of course, is that something has to be done about all this horrible defamation of such a good man as Devin Nunes. On this deeper level, beyond the technicalities, perhaps there is solace to be taken from the ruling of the trial court in our nation’s leading criminal “parody” case, that “neither good faith nor truth is a defense.” See the documentation at:
https://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/
And compare the Second Circuit’s ruling that it’s okay to deceitfully send out emails in the name of another, as long as one does this with the intent to convey an “idea,” or as long as the emails are “puerile” enough; but that it’s not okay to do this with the intent to cause even truthful “damage to a reputation.” Clearly the assault against Nunes is aimed at damaging his reputation rather than at conveying an “idea,” and clearly the “tweets” in question are not sufficiently “puerile” to merit constitutional protection. What we really need to do is find a good legal pretext to criminalize this stuff, just as was done in the above-linked case, so hopefully this lawsuit is just the beginning.
I’m not in any way claiming that Nunes is a good guy.
I would, however, stand by the claim that Twitter is not acting in good faith with many of their deplatforming decisions.
Devin Nunes is a man of great honor who has been repeatedly insulted and libeled on Twitter. As everyone knows, even if he had committed plagiarism or some other similar sort of misconduct, it would be a crime to portray him as “confessing” to doing so. There is absolutely no excuse for defaming him with such mockery.
Krayt
March.20.2019 at 11:05 am
What about pointing out plagiarism and “he refuses to confess”?
March.20.2019 at 12:48 pm
Hopefully one day we’ll be able to criminalize that too, although it has less of a provocative impact and is thus more easily ignored. True, it still does tend to stir up unwanted controversy, which is not a point in its favor; but at least it does so without twisting words and crossing the line into rank criminality as defined in current, constitutionally valid law.
Devin Nunes is a man of great honor who has been repeatedly insulted and libeled on Twitter.
Nunes is an ignorant stupid man who shouldn’t be surprised his ideas and positions are insulted and mocked openly and publicly.
Braunschweigeronabunewiez
March.20.2019 at 1:04 pm
Hope you have a good criminal defense attorney, the feebs are on their way.
Such a shocking statement! If this decent supporter of our national leader, a distinguished American, a man almost as good as Eugene himself, deserved any form of condemnation, it could have been presented in an appropriate manner. The tawdry methods used to attack him demonstrate that the attacks are untrue.
Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland
That is one perspective.
Another is that Rep. Nunes is a partisan dullard who studied cow-milking in school despite a silver-spooned background; is an aggressively substandard public official; and a serial spouter of dogmatic nonsense. That cow has this guy pegged.
One might be able to get away with spouting such a dastardly “perspective” in the third person, but if someone came onto this forum calling himself “Dev Nunes,” and stated some such words as these:
“I must beg you all to bear with me in view of these inappropriate accusations; it is true that I should not have colluded in concealing certain documents from my colleagues, but please understand that my political career was at stake,”
that perpetrator would certainly eventually find himself in chains, and rightfully so, given that his statement would clearly be aimed at damaging a reputation rather than conveying an “idea.” Surely it makes no sense in this day and age to argue that highly popular academic officials and Vatican representatives (or priests, or sports stars or singers…) cannot legally be subjected to such “parody,” but that the rabble can subject public officials to unlimited degrees of torment.
So true. Twitter is clearly not acting in accordance with a good faith. Like Obama, Twitter is obviously a secret Moslem.
P.s. note that many of the offending tweets even claim to be writings of Devin’s mother. This is an act of deceit that draws readers to read the defamatory contents of the tweets. While, as a technical matter, the actual name of Devin’s mother doesn’t appear to have been used to open the accounts, surely the relevant criminal statutes can be expanded just a little bit to reach this sort of lie?
D-Pizzle
What about the twitter handle @epsteinsmother?
Man, you sure know how to ruin a party.
NToJ
Nothing in the petition about good or bad faith. I think the strategy is to get around 47 USC 230(c)(1) by treating Twitter as the defaming party as an information content provider rather than an interactive computer service. You can see their tortured reasoning in footnote 1, and the introduction. Twitter is a content provider, you see, because it (1) censors people; (2) selectively bans conservatives; (3) hosting defamers; (4) ignoring lawful complaints about offensive content; and (5) intentionally refusing to enforce its own rules.
More importantly, the allegation noted by Professor Volokh was negligent conduct. In order to get to bad faith, Nunes is going to have to allege more than negligent conduct.
In any event, I think you’re misreading the entire statutory scheme. 47 USC 230(c)(2)(A) was intended to protect Twitter from precisely the sort of thing you’re alleging–selective moderation of content. And 47 USC 230(c)(1) makes them a non-publisher–i.e., no defamation liability–regardless of (c)(2)(A).
Reading it, it appears to have been intended to protect Twitter from incomplete or imperfect moderation of content.
Twitter is not treated as the publisher of content others provide, and can’t be held liable for a good faith (Those words are right there in the statute.) decision to remove content that’s offensive.
The goal here was to avoid discouraging online forums from removing pornography, libel, violent threats, and things of that nature. But the protection was extended only to good faith efforts to do so.
A strong case can be made that Twitter routinely engages in bad faith moderation, deliberately leaving up offensive content that’s been flagged if the source is left-wing, and deliberately removing non-offensive content that’s right-wing under the pretext that it’s offensive.
But, based on the language of the statute, I think Twitter is still safe when refraining from removing things, even things of the sort that it has promised to remove. Where they run into danger is wrongful removals that weren’t done in good faith.
“Where they run into danger is wrongful removals that weren’t done in good faith.”
But Nunes still has to allege bad faith. Wouldn’t you agree with me that merely negligent conduct doesn’t amount to bad faith?
More fundamentally, how can Twitter have a duty to not negligently police defamation by its users, if Twitter doesn’t have a duty to police defamation by its users… at all? Even assuming that Twitter, in bad faith, removes some defamers and not others, it still isn’t a publisher (because of (c)(1)), and so can’t be liable for defamation for others’ content. But it can be held liable (in negligence) for others’ content if it removes some defamatory material but not others?
Even more fundamentally, what did you have in mind for them being liable for removing some content but not others? If it removed Nunes’s content, what’s his cause of action against Twitter? Did he have a contract with them, entitling him to post on Twitter?
“Even assuming that Twitter, in bad faith, removes some defamers and not others,”
The problem would be that they remove non-defamers on the pretext that they’re defamers. That’s the bad faith in question.
I suppose if somebody’s business is impacted by their wrongfully being booted off Twitter, they might have a case to make, and the statute wouldn’t protect Twitter because it only protects good faith removal.
Set aside the statute. You don’t need immunity if there isn’t a valid cause of action. If Twitter maliciously targeted my business and kicked us off Twitter, what would I sue them for? Is it breach of contract? Wouldn’t that implicate the Twitter limitation of liability, that users (like Nunes) agreed to?
Look, not that I’m terribly sympathetic to Nunes’ action here, but you could argue that kicking somebody off your platform for being an [Insert random awful thing] is accusing them of being an [insert random awful thing], and if you knew they weren’t, actionable as defamation.
And, yeah, Twitter, just like a lot of platforms, includes a denial of basically all possible forms of liability in their TOS. Sometimes that sort of thing is enforceable, sometimes it isn’t.
Why would Twitter’s decision to kick anyone off their platform possibly be defamation? It isn’t a published statement about the person, other than they are kicked off the platform. If Twitter publishes “We kicked him off because he is an X” and X is false, they’re just a normal alleged defamer, like the other defendant, and 47 USC 230 isn’t implicated. But that’s not what this lawsuit alleges.
Dilan Esper
Jesus, Brett, for once in your goddamned life would you read the fucking cases?
There’s 20 years of caselaw on Section 230. There are differences in interpretations on the margins and some issues that need to be clarified (I brought a cert petition on one such issue last year in Hassell v. Yelp, which was denied by the Court), but all of the things that you are misreading into the statute have been clarified in the cases. All you have to do is read them:
1. Section 230, while motivated to protect Internet sites that did imperfect filtering from being sued for their imperfect filtering, also protects sites that do no filtering at all.
2. Section 230 applies to negligence actions.
3. There are two immunity provisions in Section 230, and only one of them contains the discussion of good faith filtering anyway.
4. The cases are almost unanimous that you can’t sue Twitter in any manner that treats it as a publisher.
You would know this stuff if you would not think that you are a legal expert who can just read the text of the statute and magically know all the answers. If you would, instead, seek out the works of actual legal experts (such as the many law review articles and treatises on Section 230, or the major cases).
Voize of Reazon
I think that given the text of the statute it would be difficult to draw the lines you are attempting to draw. Given that the immunity extends to
any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable
the test isn’t whether you or I, or the court, or society at large find some particular content objectionable, but whether the provider does. So, if they believe that conservative viewpoints are objectionable and remove tweets on that basis, it’s hard to see how that could qualify as bad faith.
It’s a valid question to ask whether this is a good situation given that the Internet is today’s public square. I’m not sure where I land on that question, it is reasonable to conclude that all viewpoints do have equal access to the Internet, just not to individual platforms. But whatever the answer to that question is, the law today seems to allow Twitter to be as viewpoint discriminatory as they choose.
I’d say that “in good faith” language opens the door to a third party determination of whether they were reasonable to regard particular content as objectionable, rather than just leaving it entirely up to the site to make that determination in a totally arbitrary manner.
David Nieporent
Setting aside all the other problems with what you said, “reasonable” and “good faith” are different legal concepts. Someone can act unreasonably but still in good faith.
Correct — good faith is subjective, whereas reasonability is objective.
OldCurmudgeon
It’s worth noting that Twitter itself is a bit inconsistent about whether it’s an information content provider an interactive computer service. Twitter basically wants all the benefits of each legal framework, and none of their downsides.
Robert Crim
Nunes’ complaint may be at cross-purposes with itself since he demands censorship of what “defames” him AND condemns censorship of conservatives. But I see method in the madness since “good faith” requirements could be vitiated by censorship politically skewed and since Twitter only admits bad faith by using immunity to hide identities of individual defamers.
I’d suggest that Nunes allege more: In my opinion, Twitter doesn’t actually own tweets posted on its site; indeed, if anything, immunities they enjoy admit otherwise. Twitter owns an underlying advertising platform given value by Twitter’s allowance of the free communications channels created and owned by its users. I, myself, have considered suing Twitter (since its resident fascists have thrown me off twice).
Since Twitter has become a communications channel not only for private individuals but also for politicians and government agencies, that DOES raise whether Twitter has clothed its business with public interest — an interest made more obvious when one realizes the underlying communications channels DON’T belong to Twitter but to those creating them. I think Nunes’ suit has legs if it develops this way, and in any event, being thrown out may not be that terrible. He IS a Congressman and DOES help write laws. Having the law used against him abusively may be what Nunes needs to get it changed to something else. And, if that’s his objective, then I want to know where I can sign up to help him.
Try http://www.iamasocialist.com
Man from Earth
It does not. He is asking for equal enforcement of Twitter’s own rules. There are accounts on twitter which continue to post derogatory comments about Devin himself.
It is absolutely undeniable that Twitter is censoring with a distinct political bias.
Doing so makes them a publisher because they are now editors of political opinion.
As such they are not no longer considered a tech company.
We need more of these high profile court cases. They are long overdue
Here’s a hint: things you read on twitter are not law.
Absolutely! And when Brave Devin finishes bringing down the evil empire that is Twitter he can devote himself to finally determining what happened to that quart of strawberries. That is, if someone is willing to lend him a couple balls.
smartmuffin
He should sue for fraud instead. Twitter makes public claims that they will protect users from lies, slander, bullying, and harassment. It explicitly states in its terms of service that such content is not allowed.
Discovery would show plenty of evidence that Twitter is routinely made aware of such content posted against conservatives in general, and Nunes in specific, and chose not to act, in direct violation of its own service agreement with customers.
Twitter terms of service.
I don’t see anything about protecting users from lies, slander, bullying, or harassment. I haven’t looked very carefully. I did notice that Twitter limited its liability for any conduct or content of any third party on the service that is defamatory or offensive. In light of that, do you think there’s still a basis for a fraud claim?
Better yet–make libel a federal crime and have them all arrested, no matter how many thousands are involved. Yesterday we had a discussion of Eugene’s view (which I have wholeheartedly endorsed) that there’s really nothing wrong with criminalizing libel as long as it’s done in the right way; but the matter evoked little interest.
I have some bad news. Your ideas are going to continue to evoke little interest because you’re a crazy person.
I would have at ye with my spear for that uncouth remark, which seems to bear on Eugene just as much as it does on me. Eugene’s ideas and discursive techniques in defending the constitutionality of criminal libel are what they are, and it’s a pity to see them evoking such a small amount of interest in this forum. In particular, he deserves the highest praise for his proficiency in evading certain unpalatable issues, such as the many unfortunate rulings of international human rights courts to the effect that “jail is never an appropriate punishment for libel,” or the recent decriminalization of libel in England on grounds of “free expression” and the like (such rubbish!), and so on and so forth.
You’re good. I like you.
Thank you, I like you too. But above all, I like Eugene. I regard him as a fine example of an American academic skilled in “hit-and-run” argumentation. Definitely a skill that should be cultivated as much as possible in today’s academic environment.
P.s. perhaps, since you doubt my mental stability, you think I’m making this up? You might want to begin with this:
http://tinyurl.com/criminal-libel-standards
and I’d be happy to supply further links to the rich body of material that Eugene has so capably avoided discussing in his various comments on the constitutionality of criminal libel. Far from me to criticize the principled, conservative stance that Eugene represents in this regard, or to suggest that there is anything wrong with delicately failing to mention such material in academic discussions of such matters.
See, e.g., p. 4:
“The three special international mandates for promoting freedom of expression ? the UN
Special Rapporteur, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and the OAS
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression ? have met each year since 1999 and each
year they have issued a joint Declaration addressing various freedom of expression
issues. In their joint Declarations of November 1999, November 2000 and again in
December 2002, they called on States to repeal their criminal defamation laws. The 2002
statement read:
Criminal defamation is not a justifiable restriction on freedom of expression; all
criminal defamation laws should be abolished and replaced, where necessary, with
appropriate civil defamation laws.”
Such rubbish from these “international human rights” people! (And there’s of course a good deal of more recent material.) Eugene deserves nothing but praise for failing to mention this nonsense when making his various arguments that criminal libel passes constitutional muster.
I find it very unlikely that such a claim would ultimately succeed.
That said, I want as many potential lawsuits against social media companies as possible to go forward, because I think the process would be quite instructive for society as a whole as we decide what to do about these issues.
I think it would be quite useful to get these executives, in court, on public record, under penalty of perjury, to try and justify some of their rather questionable content moderation decisions, and to try to reconcile their written policies (which imply politically neutral content moderation) with their observed results (which are clearly and obviously biased).
Well can you identify the portions of Twitter’s terms of service that you think Twitter is violating?
The first thing that leaps out is, “We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including for example, copyright or trademark violations, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment.”
Note that they didn’t reserve the right to remove content that doesn’t violate the user agreement. Further down, they do say,
“We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason…”
Pretty standard TOS: “We can do anything we damned well please, and you agree you have no recourse.” That doesn’t necessarily stand up in court.
I’d be interested to know what you think “doesn’t necessarily stand up in court” means in this context. Do you think a court can order Twitter to reinstate a twitter user? Assume a court dismantled the limitation of liability on public policy grounds, what damages would Nunes still have? As David points out, he doesn’t pay to use Twitter. Twitter isn’t under any legal obligation to have Nunes on it at all, anymore than you’re required to host Nunes’s speech. So, assume whatever you need to assume about a court throwing out portions of the agreement on public policy grounds, what is it you think Twitter is liable to Nunes for?
Fraudulent inducement? The express terms of the agreement (regardless of whether they’re enforceable) would defeat reasonable reliance. But assume that away, he has no benefit of the bargain damages for fraudulent inducement. What are his out-of-pocket expenses for regular fraud? What are his breach of contract damages?
I assure you parties are free the country over to set forth the terms of their services agreements, including one party’s right to terminate the relationship at will.
So, in other words, they did “reserve the right to remove content that doesn’t violate the user agreement.” But anyway, what language in the terms of service did they breach? Your best interpretation is that a clause in which Twitter reserves a right to remove content, entitles the user to enforce an imaginary promise by Twitter in which it would host the content no matter what–despite language directly to the contrary. But even if you didn’t have the disclaimer, what is there for Nunes to enforce in the Terms of Service? Where in the “Your Rights and Grant of Rights in the Content” section does Twitter promise to not remove a user for any reason at all?
“Your best interpretation is that a clause in which Twitter reserves a right to remove content, entitles the user to enforce an imaginary promise by Twitter in which it would host the content no matter what–despite language directly to the contrary.”
They claim the right to remove content that violates the user agreement, and to remove users for any reason whatsoever. Content and users are different things, so long as you remain a user, their terms of service assert that content will be removed only for violations of the TOS.
First, they do reserve the right to remove content separately. See Section 4 (“We may also remove . . . any Content on the Services, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.”).
But set that aside. You’re in court. You’re in front of the judge. He asks you “which of the terms did Twitter breach?” What do you say?
I don’t care what the TOS say; Nunes should get treble damages for this egregious fraud. Three times what he paid Twitter for his account.
If a newspaper slanders you, does the fact that you don’t subscribe to it mean you cannot collect damages?
No. But why are you changing the topic to slander when the issue I was addressing was fraud?
Now, if you want to discuss slander: did Twitter slander him? Or did random Twitter users slander him?
(This is a set of trick questions: the answer to the first is obviously no, since Twitter didn’t say anything about him. But the answer to the second is also obviously no, since all the identified statements are nonactionable opinion or hyperbole.)
One could argue that the damages are losses of in-kind contributions. Twitter’s business model is such that although you do not pay them in cash for access to an account, you contribute your labor to them in such a way that they profit from. They provide the platform, you provide the content (which you must invest time and effort in). Your content is used to promote their platform, and to attract other users. Your content and the other users you attract is then monetized, by them, to attract advertisers.
They have offered you a thing (a platform) in exchange for another thing (your content). If the thing they are providing you is materially different than the thing they claimed you were getting (i.e. they promised a neutral platform, but are providing a heavily censored one) then they are guilty of fraud.
Now, I would agree that damages are hard to quantify. If one were to bring a fraud suit against social media companies, an advertiser would be much more suited to do so than a simple user. Or even a company that specific uses FB/Twitter to promote their brand and attract customers.
I fully concede the specifics of this exact case are unfavorable, and that Nunes is unlikely to recover much of anything. Would you concede that in the general sense, Twitter should not be allowed to provide a product that is materially different from the product they promise?
“…Twitter should not be allowed to provide a product that is materially different from the product they promise?”
How is Twitter materially different from the promised product? Where were you promised this product you don’t think you are getting?
Yes! One can argue that and let’s just hope that the argument succeeds as well as the arguments made by the bravest and smartest and greatest scientific minds of our day in their fantastic effort to expose the global earth believers (aka globetards) and reveal the truth of the flat earth!
Leo Marvin
Not to be pedantic, but when you’re defamed in print by a newspaper to which you don’t subscribe, it isn’t slander. The correct term is “RICO-Libel-Slander.”
Longtobefree
Libel be damned; he should be suing for conspiracy to violate his constitutional rights.
RICO them.
Oh, wait; DOJ is still full of flunkies of Emperor Hussein.
Which constitutional rights?
Per Son
It is the 1.5th Amendment: “Social Media Companies are government actors for purposes of the First Amendment when Conservatives get butthurt.”
>Which constitutional rights?
In fairness, what we really need is an actual “network neutrality” bill.
It amuses me how many people work themselves in a lather about completely-imaginary content-based decision making by ISP’s, yet completely ignore actual content-based decision making by Twitter, GoDaddy, PayPal, Patreon, Facebook, Google, banks (Operation Chokepoint), etc.
I’m not a net neutrality warrior, but try to imagine some differences between ISPs, and places that merely host content. If Twitter makes content-based decisions about what I can read on their site, I lose access to those things on Twitter. But Twitter can’t stop me from accessing content on other people’s content-hosting services.
Yes, thank the lord that there are sane and cogent purveyors of truth that the libtards have not yet managed to suppress or jail.
Zarniwoop
Longtobefree, I recommend you read this slightly tongue-in-ckeek analysis before pontificating about RICO.
David Cary Hart
For what it’s worth I was expecting Nunes’ counsel (not be confused with Nunes’ Cow) to be a hack out of Liberty U. However, Steven Biss is a Princeton graduate and then U. of Richmond Law (USN #63).
So far the result of this meritless misadventure is more ridicule of Mr. Nunes. The bovine went from 84K followers to 362K in about 24 hours.
Sorry USN-#53 not 63
Hey! Are you suggesting that U of Richmond is incapable of producing hacks? If New York University (#6) can produce hacks, why not University of Richmond?
JeffreyL
To the Author
Do the negligence and good faith clauses within Section 230 give Nunes the chance prevailing until discovery? I have this suspicion that discovery is what the real cause of action is here.
Yup. Getting the details of how social networking moderation actually works is the real win here.
Let’s force the sausage maker to show everyone their methods, in grizzly detail, and see what that does to the sausage industry.
Nunes may lose the battle, but if he can get these suits to discovery, might very well win the war…
“Let’s force the sausage maker to show everyone their methods…”
Yes, I’m sure the millions upon millions of twitter consumers who have never insisted on this degree of transparency are suddenly going to stop using a totally free entertainment service because Devin Nunes alleges he was unfairly treated. He’s crazy like a FOX!
If transparency about their moderation processes wouldn’t be damaging to Twitter, then why do they so insistently refuse to provide it?
Because their users don’t insist on transparency. Why would Twitter provide something that its customers haven’t demanded?
Bored Lawyer
I agree that the CDA (47 USC 230) will almost certainly let off Twitter.
The question is whether that is still a good policy. If Twitter were a newspaper, magazine, radio or TV station, it might well be liable (or at least would not enjoy immunity — Nunes still has to prove his case, of course).
In 1996, it was thought the Internet needed this special immunity or it would not get off the ground. Is that still true today — does Twitter (and others like Facebook, Instagram, or for that matter, various blogs and sites) need an immunity that CNN, the NY Times and Newsweek lack?
“…does Twitter (and others like Facebook, Instagram, or for that matter, various blogs and sites) need an immunity that CNN, the NY Times and Newsweek lack?”
CNN.com, NYTimes.com, and Newsweek.com do not lack this immunity.
But yes, Twitter needs this immunity to avoid lawsuits like the present one. If an online publisher is liable for the content of users, there won’t be online content.
And yet newspapers and other outlets have been around for a very long time without this immunity. I am not at all convinced you are correct.
And perhaps other alternatives can be considered. One idea (which I have not yet worked out the details) is to require an entity like Twitter to divulge its takedown policy. It can be any policy it wants, but it has to be divulged publicly. And if it is shown not to be followed, then it loses the CDA immunity. (The DMCA has something like this for copyright issues.)
Point is, the CDA is not some Constitutional mandate, and can be changed as the internet evolves. That is a debate worth having, regardless of what you think of Nunez.
Newspapers and other (offline) outlets do not host other peoples’ content. (There’s a limited exception for letters to the editor, which is very limited. They publish few enough of those that they can screen each one before publishing it.)
The model of Twitter is very different. People post stuff without pre-approval. That’s a necessary feature of the design of the service; if Twitter had to pre-approve each tweet, well, suffice it to say that it wouldn’t work. But if Twitter were liable for every one of the tweets, then Twitter would have to pre-approve each one.
Similarly here; if Reason (or Prof. Volokh) were liable for every comment posted, then we wouldn’t be allowed to post comments.
Stephen Lathrop
NToJ, ink-on-paper publishers are liable for every bit of the content they publish. And yet there is ink-on-paper content. What are you missing?
Answered 8 million times. Twitter isn’t publishing the content; it’s hosting the content.
Ink-on-paper publishers don’t allow the general public to publish content.
Because the number of things that NYTimes publishes in print in a day is small enough that it isn’t cost-prohibitive to review the materials. There are approximately 500 million tweets per day. If Twitter hired people to review them before publishing, there wouldn’t be anybody left to grow food or drive ubers.
So Twitter would have to get (much) smaller, opening space for competitors. Why isn’t that a good thing?
Absaroka
So, you think it’s economically infeasible for Twitter to carefully vet 500 million tweets per day, but repealing 230 will let 500 companies flourish while carefully vetting a million tweets per day each? Sort of a reverse economy of scale thing? Things don’t usually work that way.
Not only is his idea economically illiterate in that way, but it also fails to understand network effects. A much smaller Twitter is a much less useful Twitter.
As a tweeter, having to provide content on 500 different sites to reach the same audience is not workable; as a reader, having to go to 500 different sites to access the same content would be even less feasible.
If you’re arguing against 47 USC 230(c)(1), there wouldn’t be a Twitter at all (nor would there be comments sections on this website, or any other). If you’re arguing against 47 USC 230(c)(2), there wouldn’t be a Twitter, or comments on this website. Instead, you’d be able to have an online discussion about these issues, but only at places like 8chan.
Bored Lawyer, sure they need it. Their business model is to fill the entire publication space with cost-free content?either stolen from publishers, or provided gratis by subscribers. Then, insofar as possible, to monopolize advertising sales on the basis of their cut-rate giantism, plus monetized subscriber info in proportion. No way that model works if they don’t get absolute immunity.
Whether that model works for the nation, or for would-be competitors is a different question. And of course it doesn’t work. The platform model assures that every libel, every lie, every conspiracy theory, every bit of scurrilous private malice, and every copyright violation gets published without restraint. As we are seeing, that brings the notion of free speech itself into disrepute, and will eventually erode to nothing the honored place for speech in our constitutional order.
In reaction we see constant calls for government intervention and policing of speech (look at this thread, or any of the others) because to many folks the problem looks too complicated to solve any other way. That’s worse than the problem itself. But it isn’t complicated. Repeal Section 230.
…he said, in the comments section of a website.
That this comment section wouldn’t exist without ? 230.
Perhaps I should alter my question somewhat. I have no interest in protecting Twitter per se. The CDA was not drafted with Twitter in mind. The issue is whether robust use of the Internet could be preserved if the CDA immunity were abolished or restricted in some manner.
Suppose one instituted a takedown regime for defamatory or otherwise objectionable posts. (Same way the DMCA has a takedown regime for copyright infringement issues). What would the internet look like then?
Same question if you conditioned the CDA immunity on disclosure of takedown policies and adherence to same.
There may be other variables. Point is, every one assumes that without the extreme immunity of the CDA, the internet would come crashing down. I am not convinced. (What is the law in Europe, for example. Do web platforms enjoy the same immunity for third party postings? )
Good question about Europe.
But we don’t have to guess about what would happen without Section 230. Publishing was conducted for a very long time without anything like Section 230.
What happened then was that private individuals in the publishing business exercised private privileges about what to publish and what to turn down. Everybody knows that. To do that, they had to read everything they published. And if they screwed up and published libel, they stood to pay damages in a civil lawsuit. So they were careful.
On the business side, there was no monopolistic giantism. The market for ad sales was atomized, and distributed across the nation, leading to healthy competition. And publishers learned to compete on the basis of the quality of their content. Copyright was largely respected. Libel wasn’t that common. Swill, conspiracy theories, and scurrilous private malice struggled to find publishers.
And best of all, by far, that was all accomplished without delivering to government any political leverage to control speech. People are going to have to think long and hard to find a better model in support of free speech.
Sometimes the latest and greatest can’t come up with anything to match a system tried and adjusted over centuries. This is one of those cases.
We don’t have to guess what would happen without tractors. Farming was conducted for a very long time without tractors.
But a 230-less and tractor-less world would be a different one from what we have today. We wouldn’t have comments sections like this one, and 90% of us would spend our days plowing behind a mule. That may be your preference, but it’s not a popular preference.
I don’t like or use facebook or twitter or most of what we call social media, but that puts me in a very tiny minority. Your objections are precisely that there are these large scale media things, but they are large scale only because they are wildly popular. And it’s a democracy, so you don’t get to impose your preferences on all the people who like those services.
I’m sure Eugene is correct on the law but how can 230 protection extent to Twitter when they vigorously and extensively censor and thereby curate what is posted on Twitter?
So you set up a platform where people can post “anything” and then you delete and censor everything you don’t like and just leave up what you’ve approved, and you have no liability?
I would much prefer that platforms such as Twitter would have 230 protection, if only they actually behaved like an open platform of the type 230 was intended to protect and didn’t curate their content so heavily.
230 was not intended to apply only to “open platform[s]”.
True, point taken. Rather, 230 was intended to apply to an “interactive computer service” and specifically not an “information content provider.”
And if Twitter were authoring any of the content, it would be an information content provider (well, with respect to that content). But it’s not, so it’s an interactive computer service.
The case law seems clear that Twitter is protected.
And I think the NYT would theoretically be as well in my hypothetical below, no matter how much editorial control and selection they exercise over the content.
Unless, in either case, someone can show solicitation of or active participation in the development of unlawful content.
“To assess whether a defendant is an “information content provider” with respect to the content at issue, reviewing courts generally examine whether the defendant materially contributed to the content’s alleged unlawfulness. As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit explained, “A material contribution to the alleged illegality of the content does not mean merely taking action that is necessary to the display of allegedly illegal content. Rather, it means being responsible [in whole, or in part] for what makes the displayed content allegedly unlawful.” Courts have deemed simply editing allegedly unlawful content for grammar or punctuation insufficient to pierce Section 230’s liability shield. Similarly, courts have held that the provision of neutral tools to create or develop content does not transform an entity into an information content provider unprotected by Section 230. On the other hand, the solicitation and active participation in the development of unlawful content makes the liability shield unavailable.”
Agreed. These social media sites are clearly NOT neutral or open platforms. They heavily restrict what can and cannot be said in a manner entirely consistent with editorial control. To pretend otherwise is laughable.
Eugene Volokh
smartmuffin: That’s the very argument that the Stratton Oakmont case used in denying Prodigy immunity back in 1995:
In contrast [to nonediting platforms such as Compuserve], here PRODIGY has virtually created an editorial staff of Board Leaders who have the ability to continually monitor incoming transmissions and in fact do spend time censoring notes. Indeed, it could be said that PRODIGY’s current system of automatic scanning, Guidelines and Board Leaders may have a chilling effect on freedom of communication in Cyberspace, and it appears that this chilling effect is exactly what PRODIGY wants, but for the legal liability that attaches to such censorship…. PRODIGY’s conscious choice, to gain the benefits of editorial control, has opened it up to a greater liability than CompuServe and other computer networks that make no such choice.
Section 230 was deliberately designed to reverse that decision, and to leave online services free to restrict any material that they “consider[] to be … objectionable,” without thus losing immunity. If Congress doesn’t like it, then it needs to repeal or amend section 230.
Is your analysis really a fair characterization of plaintiff’s theory of liability? Reviewing your article, I couldn’t finding any mention of “shadow banning.” Isn’t it possible that the complaint may be claiming that twitter is acting in bad faith and not entitled to “good samaritan” protections by virtue of the specifically alleged bad conduct? Or, maybe restating the same thing, that such bad conduct (distinguishable from honest editorial choices) may make twitter a content provider, not a provider?
What is it about shadow banning that makes you think it is actionable?
I think the complaint alleges that this conduct, together with other alleged intentional bad actions on the part of twitter, shows that twitter is acting as information content provider. Shadow banning works, as claimed in the complaint, to eliminate plaintiff’s voice and amplify detractors.
Let me make sure I understand your position. If Conservative-Twitter came out tomorrow, and announced that it would ban content from liberals, are you saying that Conservative-Twitter was now liable as a content provider? Redstate, for instance, bans some comments for being left-leaning. Are you saying Redstate is liable as a content provider for anything I post on Redstate’s comment section?
Well, if “Conservative-Twitter” announced that it would ban content from liberals, then this wouldn’t be shadow banning. And I don’t know anything about Redstate, but if a provider actually were to employ surreptitious policies specifically calculated to harm a particular party and to support those publishing allegedly defamatory content, then they might have a problem. Has there actually been litigation specifically challenging whether a provider’s actions were taken in good faith under section 230?
It would be shadow-banning if it didn’t tell people when they were banned.
“…but if a provider actually were to employ surreptitious policies specifically calculated to harm a particular party and to support those publishing allegedly defamatory content, then they might have a problem.”
Why do you think they would have a problem? Is a host of a message board not allowed to police content on political grounds? Are you saying Stormfront isn’t entitled to police comments that are consistent with its political views? Do you know what Reddit is?
Thank you, Professor Volokh.
As a hypothetical, say the New York Times stops its print edition and goes online only, keeps its editorial functions but fires and rehires all of its reporters/content producers as independent contractors, perhaps giving them some kind of revenue share like YouTube does. How close are they to getting section 230 protection? Say they also open up their platform to allow a wider universe of people to post certain content like BuzzFeed does with quizzes and the like. Are they now an interactive computer service?
NYTimes.com is already an interactive computer service.
It is, with respect to its readers who post comments. I think what the hypothetical is getting at is NYT.com escaping liability for its articles.
If that’s what he’s asking, that won’t work, though, no. Whether they’re employees or independent contractors, they’re still agents of the NYT.
Right, as an entity that actually authors its own material online, NYTimes.com doesn’t get any protection. But neither would Twitter for material that Twitter authors.
But what if, hypothetically, the NYT decided to stop authoring content. And only posted content authored by others.
Sarcastr0
If the NYT started acting like Twitter, I’d imagine the law would treat them like Twitter.
They don’t remotely need to act “like Twitter”, they just need to be an interactive computer service.
That is what I’m asking. So what makes them agents exactly? Are YouTube producers agents of YouTube? Only the paid ones? If the NYT posts an article by an unpaid intern- not an agent?
markm23
The vast majority of NYT articles are paid for by the NYT, either as salaries for staff reporters or by purchasing the content from free-lancers. That’s a vast difference from posting unpaid content on Twitter or the Reason comment pages.
It worth noting that actual quote is “(A) any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected”
Normally, “or otherwise [x]” language is interpreted as being limited to the same general category as the enumerated list.
Put differently, if your interpretation was correct, they could have just said ‘…that the provider or user considers to be objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected” and skipped everything else.
Your interpretation renders superfluous the “or otherwise objectionable” language. But the contrary reading does not render “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing…” superfluous. Your interpretation is wrong.
This statutory formulation is fairly common. “or otherwise [x]” language is normally interpreted as a way to prevent loopholes (for lack of a better word) in the enumerated list. It’s not intended to completely render everything else in the list superfluous.
Your interpretation is that “or otherwise objectionable” is limited to things that are in the same category as the preceding list. So limited, “otherwise objectionable” can’t relate to things that aren’t “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, [or] harassing”. But if it was intended to be limited to those categories, there would be no need for “or otherwise objectionable”. Why are you not treating “or otherwise objectionable” as merely G in a list of things A-G?
The entire purpose of 230 is to protect online publishers from liability for their censorship decisions. Redstate shouldn’t get sued just because some commenter posts defamatory material on the website, even if Redstate attempts (or doesn’t attempt) to police defamatory content. That’s the whole point.
I get it. And “Redstate” could even post articles that are defamatory so long as the material came from someone else without their contribution.
Correct. That’s the entire point of ? 230.
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Could one of the strict constructionists here please explain where in the Constitution the power to regulate libel is to be found.
You’ve asked the question before, and it’s been answered before. We get it: you like censorship.
tkamenick
I take it, Professor, that you agree that claims against ArmsList and other online gun sellers are immune under the CDA despite plaintiffs’ arguments that they aren’t trying to hold ArmsList etc. liable for the content placed on the site, but rather that they negligently designed their site in a way that makes illegal transactions more likely. If that argument is accepted, then surely there is a lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook, etc. that they designed their sites in a way that makes illegal (defamatory) statements more likely?
https://reason.com/volokh/2018/…..dermines-w
Right, and see also this post about an earlier case.
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“But Twitter simply provides a way for people to post whatever they want; and, again, its choice to exclude some material based on political viewpoint or anything else doesn’t make them a creator or developer of the material that they do allow.”
You can post whatever you want, as long as Twitter wants it too.
Sounds like a publisher to me.
It can sound like an eggplant parmigiana to you, if you’d like ? but the law expressly defines it not to be.
Eugene states:
“Section 230 does not extend, of course, to people’s dissemination of their own speech (which is why the case against Mair and the other individual defendants isn’t preempted).”
But could a services’ promotion and demotion on a systemic basis be considered its own speech that could be the subject of a claim despite 230?
I don’t believe that such promotion/demotion being twitter’s speech is part of Nunes’ claim.
I see that 230(c)(2)(A) states:
“any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected”
While that may protect some promotion/demotion by services, it would be limited to good faith determinations and categorizations that would seem beyond what twitter may reasonably be found to have been doing in policy/outlook based promotions/demotions.
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You are here: Parliament home page > Parliamentary business > Publications and Records > Committee Publications > All Select Committee Publications > Lords Select Committees > European Union > European Union
Select Committee on European Union Progress of Scrutiny Fourteenth Report
SUB-COMMITTEE D
MEMBERSHIP: Chairman: Lord Renton of Mount Harry
Co-opted Members:
Lord Cameron of Dillington, Lord Christopher, Lord Haskins, Lord Lewis of Newnham, Lord Livsey of Talgarth, Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer, Earl Peel, Lord Plumb, Lord Sewel.
(For further information please contact the Clerk, Suzanne Todd, 020 7219 3015)
i. Documents awaiting consideration by the Sub-Committee
5032/06 + Add 1 & Add 2 [Supplementary EM] Communication setting out the Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of natural resources + Impact Assessment (Defra)
Sifted 21 March 2006
*5050/06 + Add 1 [Supplementary EM] Draft Instrument concerning a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste; Commission Staff Working Document Annex to the Proposal for a Directive of the European Council on waste and Communication from the Commission - Taking sustainable resources forward: A Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste - Impact Assessment on the Thematic strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste and the immediate implementing measures (Defra)
Sifted 24 April 2006
*7933/06 Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulations (EEC) No 27717/75 and (EEC) No 2777/75 as regards the application of exceptional market support measures (Defra)
Letter to the Chairman 21 April.
ii. Awaiting the outcome of Correspondence with Ministers, or held under scrutiny
Un-numbered Council Decision regarding the placing on the market in accordance with Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, of oilseed rape products (Brassica napus L., lines Ms8 Rf3 and Ms8xRf3) genetically modified for tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate-ammonium (Defra) [11.01.06]
Sifted 17 January 2006
Letter to the Government 16 February.
Letter to the Chairman 27 March.
10665/02 Agrileg 147 Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee:- Towards a thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides (Defra) (COM(02) 349)
Sifted 23 July 2002
(Awaiting Supplementary EM).
12985/03 Env 477 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution (Defra) (COM(03) 550)
Sifted 21 October 2003
Supplementary EM sifted 13 January 2004
Letter to the Government 17 June 2005.
Letters to the Chairman 7 March 2005, 31 May, 20 June, 20 July.
12200/04 Env 456 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council introducing humane trapping standards for certain animal species (Defra) (COM(04) 532)
Sifted 2 November 2004
Letters to the Government 20 December, 17 March 2006.
Letter to the Chairman 4 February 2005, 14 April 2006.
14181/04 Proposal for a Council Regulation on electronic recording and reporting of fishing activities and on means of remote sensing (Defra) (COM(04) 724)
Sifted 7 December 2004
Letter to the Government 26 January 2005, 17 March 2006.
Letter to the Chairman 28 February 2005, 22 February 2006.
14686/04 Proposal for a Council Directive on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel (Defra) (COM(04) 716)
8142/05 + Add 1 Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing Community financial measures for the implementation of the Common Fisheries Policy and in the area of the Law of the Sea, (COM(05) 117); and Add 1: Commission Staff Working Document - Annex, (SEC(05) 426) (Defra)
Sifted 7 June 2005
Letter to the Chairman 9 November.
8399/05 Proposal for a Council Directive on the control of potato cyst nematodes (Defra) (COM(05) 151)
Sifted 14 June 2005
9606/05 + Add 1 Proposal for a Council Directive laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production, (COM(05) 221); and Add 1: Commission Staff Working Document - Annex with Impact Assessment, (SEC(05) 801) (Defra)
9606/05 [Supplementary EM] Proposal for a Council Directive laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production; and
Add 1 of 13 June 2005 concerning a Commission staff working document: Annex to the proposal for a Council Directive laying down minimum rules for the protection of chickens kept for meat production - Impact Assessment (Defra)
Sifted 7 February 2006
Letter to the Government 16 March.
11408/05 Communication from the Commission - "TSE Roadmap" (Defra)
11880/05 + Add 1 Proposal for a Council Directive on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals (SEC(2005)
Proposal for a Council Decision amending Decision 90/424/EEC on expenditure in the veterinary field (Defra)
12735/05 + Add 1 & 2 Communication from the Commission to the Council and to the European Parliament on the Thematic Strategy on air pollution;
Commission Staff Working Paper - Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament "Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution";
Commission Staff Working Paper - Annex to the Communication on Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and the Directive on "Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe" Impact Assessment (Defra)
Letter to the Government 28 November.
12735/05 + Add 1 & 2 [Supplementary EM] Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution - RIA (Defra)
13759/05 + Add 1,
13700/05 + Add 1 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Framework for Community Action in the field of Marine Environment Policy (Marine Strategy Directive)
Commission staff working document: Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Thematic Strategy on the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment and Proposal for a Council Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Framework for Community Action in the field of Marine Environmental Policy (Marine Strategy Directive)
Commission Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: Thematic Strategy on the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment
Commission staff working document: Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament - Thematic Strategy on the Protection and Conservation of the Marine Environment and Proposal for a Council Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Framework for Community Action in the field of Marine Environmental Policy (Marine Strategy Directive) (Defra)
Sifted 22 November 2005
(Awaiting RIA).
+ Add 1
13700/05 + Add 1 (Supplementary EM) Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Framework for Community Action in the field of Marine Environment Policy (Marine Strategy Directive)
14335/05 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe
Commission staff working paper - Annex to: the Communication on Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and The Directive on "Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe" Impact Assessment (Defra)
Sifted 13 December 2005
14335/05 [Supplementary em] Proposal for a Directive on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe; Commission staff working paper - Annex to: The Communication on Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and The Directive on "Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe" Impact Assessment (Defra)
15796/05 Commission Communication on the review of the Sustainable Development Strategy - A platform for action (Defra)
Letter to the Government 2 February (awaiting RIA).
5032/06 + Add 1 & 2 Communication setting out the Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and; Commission Staff Working Document Annex; Commission Staff Working Document Annexes (Defra)
5047/06 + Add 1 & 2 Communication: "Taking sustainable use of resources forward: A Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste"; and Commission Staff Working Document Annex to the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and Communication from the Commission - Taking Sustainable Use of Resources Forward: A Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste - Impact Assessment on the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of waste and immediate implementing measures; and Commission Staff Working Document Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Taking Sustainable use of Resources Forward: A Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste - Technical Annexes to the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste (Defra)
5050/06 + Add 1 Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste and; Communication from the Commission - Taking Sustainable Resources Forward: A Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste Impact Assessment on the Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste and immediate implementing measures (Defra)
5058/06 Draft Instrument concerning a Proposal for a Council Directive on the supervision and control of shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel (Defra)
5101/06 Draft Instrument concerning a Proposal for a Council Regulation on organic production and labeling of organic products and a Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto in agricultural products and foodstuffs (Defra)
5403/06 Council Regulation establishing a management plan for fisheries exploiting stocks of plaice and sole in the North Sea (Defra)
Sifted 14 February 2006
5540/06 + Add 1 Draft Instrument concerning a Proposal for a Directive on the assessment and management of floods and Impact Assessment (Defra)
†6693/06 + Add 1 Draft Instrument concerning a Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending council Directive 76/769/EEC relating to restrictions on the marketing of certain measuring devices containing mercury; + Impact Assessment (Defra)
Letter to the Government 24 April (awaiting RIA).
iii Documents under scrutiny
In connection with the Sub-Committee's Scrutiny of the Nuclear Package
12386/04 Part 1 Amended proposal for a Council Directive (Euratom) laying down basic obligations and general principles on the safety of nuclear installations (DTI) (COM(04) 526)
Letter to the Government (Defra & DTI) 13 February 2006.
Letters to the Chairman 6 March (Defra), 7 March (DTI).
12386/04 Part 2 Amended proposal for a Council Directive (Euratom) on the safe management of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste (Defra) (COM(04) 526)
14074/04 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council Report on the use of financial resources earmarked for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants (DTI) (COM(04) 719)
Debated on Thursday 23rd March in the House (still under scrutiny) in connection with Sub-Committee D's Report: Too much or too little? Changes to the EU Sugar Regime, 18th Report, HL Paper 80, Session 2005-06 published 13th December 2005, the Government response has been received on 17th February 2006
11491/04 Agri 193 Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament accomplishing a sustainable agricultural model for Europe through the reformed CAP - sugar sector reform (Defra) (COM(04) 499)
10514/05 + Add 1 Agrifin 45 (i) Proposal for a Council Regulation on the common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector; (ii) Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No.1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers; and (iii) Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a temporary scheme for restructuring of the sugar industry in the European Community and amending Regulation (EC) No.1258/1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, (COM(05) 263); and Add 1: Commission Staff Working Document - Reforming the European Union's sugar policy - update of impact assessment, (SEC(05) 808) (Defra)
Letters to the Government (Defra and DFID) 10 November
Letters to the Chairman 22 November (Defra), 23 November (DFID), 9 December (Defra), 15 February 2006 (Defra).
10598/05 + Add 1 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing accompanying measures for Sugar Protocol countries affected by the reform of the EU sugar regime (DFID)
Letter to the Government (Defra and DFID) 10 November, 1 December (DFID)
Letters to the Chairman 22 November (Defra), 23 November (DFID), 9 December (Defra), 15 February 2006 (Defra)
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Efforts to eradicate yellow crazy ants on Johnston Atoll: Results from crazy ant strike teams X, XI and XII (June 2015–December 2016)
Technical Report HCSU-TR081
By: Robert W Peck, Paul C. Banko, Kevin Donmoyer, Katrina Scheiner, Rebekah Karimi, and Stefan Kropidlowski
Efforts to eradicate invasive yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes; YCA) on Johnston Atoll have been continuous since their discovery in 2010. Through 2014, a variety of commercial and novel formicidal baits were tested against the ant, but none proved capable of eradication. More recently, polyacrylamide crystals (“hydrogel”) saturated with a sucrose solution containing the insecticide dinotefuran has been shown to be effective over large areas when applied against YCA alone or sequentially with a protein-based cat food bait. During June 2015–December 2016, Crazy Ant Strike Teams (CASTs) conducted treatment and monitoring efforts across an infestation of about 57 ha on Johnston Atoll. Following three infestation-wide treatments (primarily using hydrogel) during 2015, YCA were reduced 98% and surviving nests became difficult to find. Subsequently, a protocol designed to detect ants at low abundance that combined hand searching with a high density of baited monitoring stations (12 stations/0.25 ha; HST protocol) was employed within a network of 50 x 50 m cells that subdivided the infestation. During 2016 YCA were found at numerous locations using this method and standard grid-based bait monitoring surveys. Overall, 65 cells where YCA were detected, or cells adjacent to detections, were treated with hydrogel or cat food bait. YCA were not detected during four monitoring events each separated by at least one week, on 85% of these cells after 1–3 treatments, but it was necessary to treat several cells 4–7 times before YCA were eliminated. Results from HST searches allowed us to estimate the probability that YCA were detected when present in an area when searched using that method. Based on this probability, it was determined that areas would have to be searched three times without YCA being detected to allow 93% certainty that the ants were absent. The level of certainty increased to 99% when the search was conducted four times and YCA were not found. Overall, the likelihood of eradicating YCA on Johnston Atoll appears high using existing protocols.
Other Report
HCSU-TR081
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
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Streamflow monitoring and statistics for development of water rights claims for Wild and Scenic Rivers, Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness, Idaho, 2012
Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5212
Prepared in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management
By: Molly S. Wood and Ryan L. Fosness
https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20135212
More information: USGS Index Page
Document: Document
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), collected streamflow data in 2012 and estimated streamflow statistics for stream segments designated "Wild," "Scenic," or "Recreational" under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness in southwestern Idaho. The streamflow statistics were used by BLM to develop and file a draft, federal reserved water right claim in autumn 2012 to protect federally designated "outstanding remarkable values" in the stream segments. BLM determined that the daily mean streamflow equaled or exceeded 20 and 80 percent of the time during bimonthly periods (two periods per month) and the bankfull streamflow are important streamflow thresholds for maintaining outstanding remarkable values. Prior to this study, streamflow statistics estimated using available datasets and tools for the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness were inaccurate for use in the water rights claim. Streamflow measurements were made at varying intervals during February–September 2012 at 14 monitoring sites; 2 of the monitoring sites were equipped with telemetered streamgaging equipment. Synthetic streamflow records were created for 11 of the 14 monitoring sites using a partial‑record method or a drainage-area-ratio method. Streamflow records were obtained directly from an operating, long-term streamgage at one monitoring site, and from discontinued streamgages at two monitoring sites. For 10 sites analyzed using the partial-record method, discrete measurements were related to daily mean streamflow at a nearby, telemetered “index” streamgage. Resulting regression equations were used to estimate daily mean and annual peak streamflow at the monitoring sites during the full period of record for the index sites. A synthetic streamflow record for Sheep Creek was developed using a drainage-area-ratio method, because measured streamflows did not relate well to any index site to allow use of the partial-record method. The synthetic and actual daily mean streamflow records were used to estimate daily mean streamflow that was exceeded 80, 50, and 20 percent of the time (80-, 50-, and 20-percent exceedances) for bimonthly and annual periods. Bankfull streamflow statistics were calculated by fitting the synthetic and actual annual peak streamflow records to a log Pearson Type III distribution using Bulletin 17B guidelines in the U.S. Geological Survey PeakFQ program. The coefficients of determination (R2) for the regressions between the monitoring and index sites ranged from 0.74 for Wickahoney Creek to 0.98 for the West Fork Bruneau River and Deep Creek. Confidence in computed streamflow statistics is highest among other sites for the East Fork Owyhee River and the West Fork Bruneau River on the basis of regression statistics, visual fit of the related data, and the range and number of streamflow measurements. Streamflow statistics for sites with the greatest uncertainty included Big Jacks, Little Jacks, Cottonwood, Wickahoney, and Sheep Creeks. The uncertainty in computed streamflow statistics was due to a number of factors which included the distance of index sites relative to monitoring sites, relatively low streamflow conditions that occurred during the study, and the limited number and range of streamflow measurements. However, the computed streamflow statistics are considered the best possible estimates given available datasets in the remote study area. Streamflow measurements over a wider range of hydrologic and climatic conditions would improve the relations between streamflow characteristics at monitoring and index sites. Additionally, field surveys are needed to verify if the streamflows selected for the water rights claims are sufficient for maintaining outstanding remarkable values in the Wild and Scenic rivers included in the study.
Scientific Investigations Report
10.3133/sir20135212
Idaho Water Science Center
vi, 65 p.
Idaho;Nevada;Oregon
Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness
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Functional group induced structural diversities and photocatalytic, magnetic and luminescence sensing properties of four cobalt(ii) coordination polymers based on 1,3,5-tris(2-methylimidazol-1-yl)benzene†
Jun Wang, *a Ning-Ning Chen,a Chen Zhang,a Li-Yong Jiaa and Liming Fan *b
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a School of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng 224007, China
E-mail: wjyctu@hotmail.com
b Department of Chemistry, College of Science, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, China
E-mail: limingfan@nuc.edu.cn
Based on the designed tripodal linker 1,3,5-tris(2-methylimidazol-1-yl)benzene (timb), four cobalt(II) coordination polymers, {[Co4(timb)2(Br–IPA)4]·5H2O}n (1), {[Co(timb)0.5(NH2–IPA)]·4H2O}n (2), {[Co5(timb)4(OH–IPA)4]·2NO3·2DMA·2H2O}n (3), and {[Co3(timb)2(SO3–IPA)2(H2O)2]·8H2O}n (4), have been obtained by adjusting the meta-functional groups of isophthalic acid (H2IPA). CP 1 displays an unprecedented 3D 3-nodal (3,4,8)-connected net with the point (Schlafli) symbol {42·64}{42·6}2{46·614·74·83·9} based on trinuclear {Co3(COO)6} SBUs. CP 2 shows an interesting 2D (3,4)-connected {63}{66} bilayer with ABAB packing. CP 3 is a 2D 6-nodal (3,3,3,4,4,4)-connected sheet with the point (Schlafli) symbol {4·52}{4·53·72}2{42·52·6·7}3{43}{53}2. CP 4 exhibits a 2D + 2D → 3D interpenetrating net based on the 2D (3,4)-connected {63}{66} bilayer structure. CPs 1–4 possess excellent luminescence sensing properties for Fe3+ and Cr2O72− ions in aqueous solution with high sensitivity and selectivity. Besides, the magnetic properties as well as the photocatalytic activities for the degradation of methylene blue (MB) of CPs 1–4 under visible light have been investigated.
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Suzuki January 8, 2019 posted by Aaron
Featured Listing: 1994 Suzuki GSXR-1100
Mid-1990s Gixxers get something of a bad rap for being portly, underpowered and undersprung when compared to their contemporaries, but that really does the iconic nameplate a disservice. Take this 1994 Suzuki GSX-R1100, for example. It’s a 500-pound beast stuffed with a 155 horsepower water cooled four banger and a riding position that favors comfort over elbow dragging. It has all the hallmarks of a fantastic sport tourer, and with a long swingarm aiding stability and pegs high enough to stay off the deck in the canyons, it will make a killer mount for any commuter, tourer or weekend warrior.
Sure, compared to a 1994 Honda CBR900RR it’s a slow-witted porker. But lined up next to a Kawasaki ZX-1100 or a Honda ST1100, it looks like the sporting choice. The mill is known for being a time-bending gem when the road straightens out. With 310mm Tokico clamps up front and an adjustable upside down Kayaba keeping things off the deck, the big Zook is plenty capable when things turn twisty or bumpy.
This example has lived a babied life in Wisconsin, collecting just 12,000 miles under one owner. Sadly, the original buyer passed away this year, and the bike is in the hands of his daughter, who is selling it through our good friends at Iconic Motorbikes. It has a fresh going over, including carb cleaning and syncing, tires, new fork seals and fluid, and new brake fluid, coolant and oil.
From the listing:
Most of the bikes you see on our classified are bikes available at our Dealership directly however, we also host bikes from our long list of collectors, business partners and friends. The difference between the bikes you see on our site and other sites…we will ONLY list bike’s that we can 100% confirm are legit and the owners have a direct connection with Iconic Motorbikes. That said…
Here we have a exceptionally clean example of a GSXR1100 with only 12K Miles on the clock. As you can see from the photos, the bike has been babied since new, 100% stock and one of our favorite paint schemes of the time with the black and electric purple/blue streak. You’d be hard pressed to find one in better shape! Even the frame stickers are intact!!
This one is located at our friends location in Oconomowoc, WI but can be brought to CA for only $500 or so with one of our carriers.
Here is the write up from the owner:
The only owner passed away and then current owner acquired the bike last spring from his daughter. Full maintenance updates within 75 miles ago include cleaning & syncing of carbs, front fork seals replaced with OEM parts, fresh Suzuki oil, coolant, & brake fluid. Metzler Road Tec tires have 1700 miles on them. Original Suzuki windscreen included with the bike. Turn key ready to ride & enjoy this original survivor. Bike is located in Oconomowoc, WI. $5450 or reasonable offer. Clean & clear Wisconsin title.
The bike can be transported to Los Angeles or environs for around $500, and is listed at $5,450. Head over to Iconic Motorbikes to contact the sellers if you’re as excited about this thing as we are.
Honda March 17, 2017 posted by Tad Diemer
The Big One: 1994 Honda CB1000 for Sale
We all love focused, hard-core sporting machines. It’s right there in the website’s name, so why else would you be here? But there comes a time when past injuries, the debilitating effects of aging, and old war wounds start to make the fully-committed, racer’s-crouch position required impossible to maintain for the length of time it takes to get from your garage to the good riding roads. So what then? Load your sportbike into the back of a pickup truck to haul to the canyons? Throw in the towel and buy a Harley? Ride through the pain and get addicted to prescription opioids? Fear not! There’s a middle ground option: buy yourself one of the brand new “super nakeds” from KTM or Aprilia. The V4 Tuono and Super Duke are great bikes, but very expensive so, if your money doesn’t stretch to one of those impressive, do-everything machines, something like this Honda CB1000 might give you plenty of bang for not too many bucks.
Introduced in 1992 and built through 1996, the CB1000 wasn’t actually sold here in the US until 1994. It used an updated version of the 1987 Hurricane’s liquid-cooled inline four that displaced 998cc, produced a claimed 97hp, and was backed by a five-speed gearbox. The CB1000 was known as “Project Big One” behind the scenes at Honda while in development and was apparently actually called the “Big One” in Japan. Make no mistake, this is a pretty large motorcycle: those are actually 18″ wheels front and rear, and the old-tech package weighed in at 542 lbs dry.
The bike was well reviewed and handled much better than you’d expect, considering the weight and spindly, non-adjustable forks, but Honda’s CB1000 was a bit before its time, a big naked before big nakeds were really popular. It’s always been a bit of an oddity here: Honda basically priced themselves out of the American market, as there was only a $500 difference between the CB1000 and the CBR1000, a much faster, nimbler, and an all-around more high-performance motorcycle. For buyers here, style won out over practicality, and the CB1000 is a pretty rare sight on our roads, especially in such nice, well-maintained condition.
From the original eBay listing: 1994 Honda CB1000 for Sale
Very hard to find conditions like this CB1000, NEW synthetic oil and filter, front fork seals, seal protectors, rear tire, front and rear brake pads, carburetors cleaned, synced, K & N air filter, D & D muffler, Corbin leather seat, no rust, no dent, no scratch, no smoke, never down or crash, start right up, all day comfort with powerful 1000cc engine, no issue everything works. clear title, Honda legendary build quality, you would swear riding a brand new bike with that solid feel.You see it you will buy it, no test ride unless full payment in my hand, Spring time is here, hurry to take this rare and beautiful bike to go for a ride, it will put a smile your face, absolutely no disappointment here.
The seller also includes a short clip of the bike starting and running. Bidding is active, but still well under $3,000. Miles on this one are reasonable, considering how practical these are, and condition appears to be excellent. I’m not sure these have all that much collectible potential in the near future, but throw on a set of modern forks and this might be a great do-it-all sporty bike for a rider with limited funds, a willing spirit and flesh that’s weak.
-tad
Yamaha February 21, 2017 posted by Tad Diemer
Going Solo: 1994 Yamaha YZF750R for Sale
A solo seat on a sportbike is a statement of intent that says, “I’m a very serious sports motorcycle rider, and a passenger will only slow me down when I’m out dragging a knee in the canyons.” Or maybe it just says that your significant other has their own motorcycle for canyon-carving… Honestly, considering the utterly impractical nature of modern sportbike design, pillion seats and pegs are, for all intents and purposes, largely decorative. Sure, people can ride back there in a pinch, but it ain’t much fun. The comfort situation might have been better back in the 1980s and 1990s, but the message broadcast by a solo tail like the one on this very clean Yamaha YZF750R is the same now as it was then.
The top-spec YZF750SP was never officially sold here in the USA, and the R lacked that bike’s adjustable swingarm pivot, flatslide carbs, and bolt-on rear subframe/solo seat combo. Gearbox ratios were different as well and the bike featured hotter cams and higher-spec suspension. With a claimed 125hp from the 749cc engine and a dry weight of 432lbs, absolute performance is closer to a modern 600 than a genuine superbike, but with some upgrades to the suspension and modern tires, there’s plenty of fun to be had.
Ironically, the most significant part of the YZF750’s story might be three other letters: CBR. The CBR900RR was introduced in 1993 and basically rewrote the rules for the class, offering nearly literbike power in a 750cc package. It ignored established rules that saw roadbike displacements reflecting racing class limits to embody the “win on Sunday, sell on Monday” philosophy: until the introduction of the CBR, the 750cc class was hotly contested on the street as it was in World Superbike, the premier production-based racing class of the era, where it represented the class limit for four-cylinder displacement. But the CBR belonged to no racing class at all and its popularity helped signal the end of the 750 class dominance.
But that certainly doesn’t mean the YZF750R is a bad motorcycle. In fact, the 750cc bikes represent the pinnacle of 1990s superbike development. I prefer the earlier round headlamps to these “cat’s eye” peepers and the simpler, less garish “speedblock” graphics of the late 1980s, but there’s no arguing that, if you want a 90’s superbike, you’d be hard-pressed to find one nicer than this YZF750R.
From the original eBay listing: 1994 Yamaha YZF750R for Sale
For sale is my truly superb YZF750R. I was with intention to hold onto it forever but I am seriously short of good garage space following my son’s moving here from overseas with his “toys” etc. This may be the best one in the country, no exaggeration! It looks like it left the showroom this morning.
This model was only imported for about 2 years and most of them were just used for the race track. This bike has NEVER seen a race track! It starts up instantly, idles smoothly, is very fast and I have never had it close to the red line of 13,000rpm. It has only done 6,600 miles from new, no noises or smoke or any leaks. When tested by magazines at the time, this model attained a speed of 165mph, a deep sounding after market exhaust system lets a bit more power out! For those not familiar with this machine, it has the 5 valves per cylinder engine.
It will purr along at 40 mph in 6th gear and carburates perfectly. I use full synthetic Mobil motorcycle oil and non ethanol 93 octane gas. I will be 70 years old next year and take it out for a 20 mile ride every few weeks on the local back roads here in NC. I have had many, many bikes over the years both on the road and on the track, and this one always gives me a grin when I dismount.
I am starting the bidding at $5000 with no reserve. NADA has it valued way above this with a lot more miles for the year. I paid more than this a few years ago. Ride it home or I will assist with any shipping to be paid for by the high bidder. Clear NC title.
I’m not sure the seller is correct that “most of them were just used for the race track,” as that was the job of the higher-spec YZF750SP. But, since the SP was never officially sold in the USA, you certainly would have started with this bike if you wanted to race a 750cc Yamaha here in the 1990s. That being said, the later YZF750 is a pretty rare machine in any guise here in the USA, especially in such extremely clean, low-mileage condition. Starting bid for this very nice YZF is $5,000 with no takers yet and four days left on the auction. That’s definitely on the high end for a YZF but, if you’ve got an eye towards collectibility, it doesn’t seem outrageous, considering this one is so clean you could just about eat off it.
The YZF750R generally came with pillion accommodations but the solo tail seen here, possibly from an SP, should save some weight and allows the aftermarket pipe to tuck in higher and closer for improved cornering clearance. It certainly looks the part. The D&D exhaust and the fake-looking carbon dash, on the other hand, are much more questionable choices but are easily replaced with a bit of careful eBay shopping. I’m not exactly sure what that switch on the left fairing in-fill panel does, though. Last time I saw one of those on a bike, it was a switch to turn off the rear brake light in case you needed to, um… run from the cops.
Ducati January 23, 2017 posted by Tad Diemer
Diamond in the Rough: 1994 Ducati Monster M900 for Sale
The very definition of an “affordable exotic,” the Ducati Monster M900 was designed from the beginning to be cost-effective: their proven air and oil-cooled two-valve v-twin and six-speed gearbox combo, the frame from the 851 with suspension, wheels and brakes from the 900SS meant everything except the minimal bodywork was off-the-shelf. Originally available in 904cc format, a 750cc version with a wet-clutch and five-speed gearbox was soon added to the lineup, followed by an anemic 600 and then a whole host of other displacements, including the liquid-cooled S4 and superbike-powered S4RS. The 916 may have been an icon of motorcycle design, but Ducati never could have sold enough of them to keep the company in the black and the Monster is the main reason they’re still around today.
The original bike used fairly crude, non-adjustable Showa or Marzocchi forks and a simple shock out back, and this limits handling if you’re planning to really tear up the back roads. But it’s easy to swap in more sophisticated bits from the later Monster 900S, the SS/SP, or even the entire front end from a 748, and shocks are readily available at a variety of price points. Hey, the 851 shock will fit, if you can find one! Certainly, the engine won’t set the world on fire, but more performance is available there as well, if you’ve got money to burn. But even in stock form, it moves the bike along smartly, considering its relative light weight, and there’s a reason it’s often mentioned as one of the most charismatic motorcycle engines of all time.
Today’s example is in good condition and has extremely low mileage. It appears to be in stock form, other than the non-original side panels, chopped tail, missing rear fender, and those reverse-cone mufflers. If you don’t like the pipes, you can certainly find stock parts easily enough on eBay, or just get yourself a nice set of aftermarket carbon cans for improved boom and lighter weight. Or buy some of the original cans on the cheap and “core” them for a stock look and a very not-stock sound. The oil-cooler is also mounted at a strange angle, but that should be an easy fix. Note: while I’m a big fan of the tail chop, it does require a couple bits of projecting frame be removed. It’s an aesthetic improvement but once you cut them, you can’t go back.
From the original eBay listing: 1994 Ducati Monster M900 for Sale
I have a 1994 Ducati M900 for sale. Motorcycle has been well maintained with one adult owner. VERY LOW MILES – 4830. This Ducati Monster was originally purchased from Burcham Cycles and serviced at Richmond Superbike. We recently performed a full service including timing belts replaced. Bike Runs and Sounds Great!!!
Front Carbon Fiber Mudguard
Jetted Carbs
Bar End Mirrors
Obviously, Ducati sold a boatload of these: they kept the company afloat through some difficult years. But since they were cheap, many were bought and ridden more than they were cherished and displayed, so it’s pretty hard to find them in good condition these days. Even nice Monsters can be had for very reasonable money: bidding on this one is up to just $3,500 with a couple days left on the auction. Obviously maintenance for a Ducati will cost you more than for other, less exotic motorcycles, but the two-valve Desmodue engine is relatively simple to work on, parts are reasonable, and the bike is surprisingly reliable, although electrics can reportedly be troublesome on some examples. Italian bikes and cars seem to suffer when they sit still, so my advice? Buy this budget exotic and ride it.
Yamaha January 12, 2017 posted by Tad Diemer
Tiny Two-Stroke Terror: 1994 Yamaha TZ125 for Sale
A tiny racebike with big performance, the Yamaha TZ125 was a pure racebike and should not be confused with the TZR series of sportbikes. Handling was thought to be on par with the Honda RS125 but the Yamaha was down slightly on power compared to its rival. At 56mm x 50.7mm bore and stroke, it was oversquare, compared to the slightly underquare Honda, and featured Yamaha’s “YPVS” to boost power. That little two-stroke single was backed by a six-speed gearbox with a dry clutch for extra lightness and improved rattle-osity. The owner’s manual claims 180lb with oil and a full tank of fuel which means you may not need a ramp to unload your bike at the track if you work out regularly…
The listing for this particular bike is very… um brief and doesn’t mention any spares, but several photos of parts are included, so I guess you can always email the seller if you want to know exactly what is included… Even if you’re very familiar with the TZ125, some idea of what you’re getting here would be a very good idea for the seller, especially since these are racebikes that need regular maintenance to keep them running and gearing/jetting changes to perform at their peak.
From the original eBay listing: 1994 Yamaha TZ125 for Sale
No title, no bill of sale, GP 125 for track, spares for a couple of seasons, ready to race. If you don’t know what you’re looking at. Don’t waste our time. This is not a TZR our some sort of race rep. See pics.
The price seems reasonable at $6,000 considering what folks have been asking for other TZ125s but, perhaps as a result of the lack of details, interest in this machine has been pretty limited up until now, with just about 24 hours left on the auction.
Honda September 2, 2016 posted by Tad Diemer
Featured Listing: 1994 Honda NSR250 SE for Sale
Update 9.4.2016: I’ve received word that this bike is now sold. Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc
This Featured Listing is part of a set from the sellers for a VFR400, TZR250, and an NSR250. They are available for purchase as a group or individually. The sellers are available this labor day weekend for personal inspections in Southern California. -dc
Competition may have been fierce in the 250cc two-stroke class, but it always seemed like it was Honda’s 800 pound gorilla that was setting the pace, with the others scrambling to keep up. Sure, there were plenty of fast bikes from Suzuki, Yamaha, and a couple years of krazy Kawasaki shenanigans, but the NSR250 seemed to define the class, and is certainly the most well-known bike. Today’s featured listing is the final iteration of the little sports Honda, and possibly the most desirable as well, the Honda NSR250 SE MC28.
Built between 1994 and 1998, the MC28 was actually the heaviest of the series, as that very trick-looking single-sided swingarm added noticeable weight compared to the more conventional item. This SE “Super Edition” has most of the even rarer “Sport Production” edition goodies, with the SP’s dry clutch and adjustable suspension at both ends. It only lacked the SP’s magnesium wheels.
The NSR250 MC28’s electronics weren’t as flashy as those very trick hard parts, but contained some of the bike’s most exotic technology. Introduced on 1987’s MC18, Honda’s PGM interpreted throttle position and rpm to simply adjust the RC “Revolutionary Controlled” Valve and air-correction circuit for improved midrange response. The Later PGM-II system added ignition timing to the magic box’s repertoire and the bike ultimately could create a 3-D ignition map from the various sensor inputs, strange when you think of that technology combined with good old-fashioned carburetors.
The MC28 version of the PGM-IV had the famous digital Smartcard in place of a key, and that card also stored ignition maps for the engine, along with a tiny gascap key that slotted into the corner! Want more performance for your racebike? Just get a real-deal HRC card and voila: 60hp! Unfortunately, that same technology means de-restricting the bike from the government-mandated 45hp can be devilishly difficult. Ideally, you’d just track down an original card, but that can be an expensive option or simply impossible.
So while the MC28 might not be the lightest, or the fastest two-stroke, it is arguably one of the best-looking sportbikes of the era and is absolutely dripping innovative technology and Honda refinement.
From the Seller: 1994 Honda NSR250 SE (MC28)
$9,000 with 34,938km
Purchased in 2011 from RSBFS listing, CA titled & current registration, this NSR has the Tyga 300cc big bore kit & expansion chambers, upper triple clamp, and rearsets, fresh Dunlop Sportmax tires, and new fork seals & front pads. Oil injection intact. A few very minor fairing scuffs and cracks, this bike needs nothing, ready to ride.
Spares & Extras: used OEM bodywork pieces (upper cowl, R side panels & tail section), cowl stay, stock upper triple clamp & more.
A bit of quick math indicates that the bike has 21,709 miles on the clock. As I mentioned in the TZR250 listing, parts availability can be difficult for these grey-market bikes, and plenty of owners have already begun hoarding critical maintenance parts for the rarer models. I haven’t tried to run one of these, but poking around the internet, one of the real advantages, besides the obvious Honda innovation and quality, is the relative parts availability in terms of aftermarket support for the NSR. Certainly, the other bikes in the class have their charms, Honda is, well: Honda. $9,000 is a big number for a little two-stroke, but the MC28 version of the NSR250 SE represents the pinnacle of the class in terms of technology and rarity, especially here in the USA, and that CA title is worth its weight in gold.
Honda August 10, 2016 posted by Tad Diemer
Little Brother: 1994 CBR400RR NC29 Fireblade for Sale
The Honda CBR400 was produced between 1988 and 2000 and was a perfect middle step between the entry-level 250RR and the supersport 600. Don’t let that “learner bike” displacement fool you: the CBR400 was in every way a grown-up sportbike: the liquid-cooled inline-four featured gear-driven cams, a six-speed gearbox, triple disc brakes, and a lightweight, aluminum beam frame. All squeezed into a package that looked very much like a CBR900 that had been a bit shrunk in the wash… It was limited to a mere 59hp due to Japanese licensing requirements but, as you’d imagine, more power is readily available if you de-restrict it, and the resulting 70hp is more than enough to play with on the street or on tight circuits that favor handling over outright power.
This does look very similar to a CBR400 posted last month, with identical colors and similar miles, but it seems to be different bike: that one was in Georgia, this one in Canada, and some of the accessories are different as well.
From the original eBay listing: 1994 CBR400RR NC29 Fireblade for Sale
Very Rare Bike in North America. Japanese only model imported to UK, then to Canada. 4 cylinder 4 stroke beauty that makes around 65Hp. 17,300Km mileage. Beautifully engineered and top quality components of the day. 3x previous mature owners. Has large scratch on Right Engine cover from falling over during maintenance. Some other minor dings and scrapes. Never raced or dropped on road. In excellent mechanical condition: Recent full tune up to include all liquids replaced and systems flushed, Carbs cleaned, new battery, new spark plugs, valves timed and adjusted, new brake pads, new front tire, lots of rubber on rear, new chain and sprockets, Runs like new. This is a very fun bike to ride. Handles very well. Its a little bigger than a 250cc machine but has the torque and zip of larger machine thanks to the 400cc engine. Great bike for new rider looking for unique/quality ride or for Collector looking for outstanding example of early 1990’s exclusive Japanese machinery. Looks just like 3/4 version of early Honda 929 models. Becoming collector item in Europe and in North America. Comes with front and rear paddock stands, shop manual (in English) and original owners manual in Japanese. Have British and Canadian paperwork. I just don’t have time to ride anymore. Asking price of $5900.00 Canadian. Am willing to negotiate. Buyer responsible for pickup/delivery. Plated and registered in Province of Ontario, Canada. Serious Buyers only please, no test pilots.
The $5,900 Canadian asking price equates to about $4,476 US, a very decent price for one of these, as recent CBR400s have sold in the $4,000-$5,500 range, depending on year and condition. The seller claims this has been recently serviced, features fresh rubber and is otherwise ready to roll. That black/burgundy paint scheme is pretty subtle, but I wonder if fans of the CBR are actually more interested in garish race-replica colors… In any event, the price is very reasonable, considering where recent examples have ended up. Obviously, US buyers will have to jump through some hoops after purchase, but that price is low enough to justify the effort. It’d make an ideal bike for someone of smaller stature, or someone who just wants to be different. Or someone who enjoys smoking much bigger bikes on tight roads with the throttle pinned to the stop.
Rothmans Race Rep: 1994 Honda NSR250R SP for Sale
With only 1500 ever made, the 1994 Honda NSR250R SP is one of the most desirable and exotic two-stroke sportbikes of the 80s and 90s. It checks all the boxes: snarling two-stroke v-twin with a manic powerband? Carburetors matched to an exotic ignition system that used plastic cards to load different maps? Single-sided PROARM swingarm? Cassette-style six-speed gearbox? Dry weight under 300lbs? Check, check, check and check. The liquid-cooled 249cc v-twin in the NSR250R produced about 45hp stock, nothing to sneeze at considering the bike’s weight. But de-restricted, these could pump out 60hp making them pretty formidable for riders who don’t mind having to work a little bit.
And to top it all off, this example has the very flattering and evocative Rothmans replica paint scheme. The premium tobacco manufacturer sponsored some of Honda’s racing efforts in the 80s and 90s and although we all miss the innocent days of motorsports prior to heavy corporate sponsorship, it’s hard to complain when those relationships result in machines that look this good.
Certainly, many of the 250 two-stroke sport bikes from this era are valuable in the USA because of their forbidden fruit status. Overseas, they’re well-loved but not especially valuable. They’ve been ridden hard and put away wet in many cases, used hard on road and track by young riders before they moved on to something bigger. But here in America, little 250 machines have traditionally been considered learner bikes, and the two-stroke market had dried up by the 90s anyway because of emissions concerns. These 250cc sport bikes offer up genuine performance and an involving nature that requires a rider skillfully exploit the limited powerband to make fast progress on road or track. In an era of stunning on-paper performance backed by an ever more sophisticated electronic safety net, many riders are happy to ride these scalpel-like machines that reward riding skill and offer up performance accessible to mere mortals.
Also, I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of addictive quality inherent in two-stroke oil: fans of the breed never seem to shut up about that smoke and the smell…
From the original eBay listing: 1994 Honda NSR250R SP Rothmans Replica for Sale
Authentic 1994 Rothmans NSR250R. Fully derestricted to accept HRC card on factory wiring, has aftermarket HARC Pro exhaust, HRC jet kit has been installed and bike is properly jetted for my area, engine has excellent compression and was rebuilt by previous owner and has about 1800 km since rebuild, there are some chips and cracks on the fairings but plastics are original and intact, front rim is not Magtek, bike runs fantastic and everything works the way it should, has 17552 km or about 10906 miles, will come with two stock key cards and one HRC P10 dry conditions only card, all fluids have been changed, clean California title with correct 11 digit VIN and engine # current registration ’till April 2017.
Although there are some cracks in the plastics, it sounds like this NSR250R has been properly maintained, and the fact that it has been de-restricted and includes several different PGM-IV cards is a bonus. The California title? That almost makes the asking price palatable. Almost. I think the $9,000 asking price is a bit high for a bike in this condition: certainly, with perfect plastics you’d be looking at a bike that could easily command that price. But while the bodywork is complete, I think collectors will balk at the wear-and-tear and the non-original front wheel. Magnesium wheels have a reputation for being fragile, so I wonder if it simply failed, or was the bike involved in a crash of some kind? Track day riders and two-stroke fans looking for their next fix might not mind the middling cosmetic condition, but I’m expecting collectors and our readers to give this one a pass considering that Buy It Now price…
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Another federal judge has found that the criteria for compassionate release, contained in the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, is inconsistent with the statutory changes made by the First Step Act. Yesterday, Federal Judge Sim Lake reduced Arturo Cantu-Rivera’s prior...
Federal District Court Judge uses compassionate release as a second look resentencing provision
by Shon Hopwood | Jun 24, 2019 | Bureau of Prisons, Early Release from Federal Prison, First Step Act, Reforms, Sentencing, Sentencing Guidelines, Shon Hopwood
I recently posted about my new law review article called Second Looks & Second Chances, and the argument that federal district court judges may use the compassionate release, as amended by the First Step Act, to give second looks in individual cases and then...
A Second Look at a Second Chance: Seeking a Sentence Reduction under the Compassionate Release Statute, 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A), as Amended by the First Step Act
by Shon Hopwood | Jun 18, 2019 | Bureau of Prisons, Early Release from Federal Prison, First Step Act, Reforms, Shon Hopwood
There is a viable argument for why federal district court judges can use the compassionate release statute, as amended by the First Step Act, as a second look provision to reduce a sentence for people in federal prison if “extraordinary and compelling reasons” are...
Why Prison Professors?
by Shon Hopwood | Mar 20, 2019 | Early Release from Federal Prison, Justin Paperny, Prison Consultant, Shon Hopwood
Why Prison Professors? I’m often asked why I co-founded a company called Prison Professors L.L.C. and further asked what the company does. I intend to answer both those questions in this post. I started Prison Professors with Michael Santos and Justin Paperny in the...
The Fight for the First Step Act
by Shon Hopwood | Feb 26, 2019 | First Step Act, Shon Hopwood
By the time this post is published, the Yale Law Journal Online will have published a series of essays from the formerly incarcerated, including mine on The Effort to Reform the Federal Criminal Justice System. In the essay, I explain how the First Step Act came to...
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Steven Wilson vs. Marco Minnemann: a study in personalities
Posted on December 3, 2016 by Rob
By now everyone know about the rift between Steven Wilson and former drummer for his band, Marco Minnemann. People are going to pick sides but is it really that easy? I think this goes way beyond a gold record and whether or not Wilson purposefully slighted Minnemann. This is a study in personalities and chemistry.
Wilson has been a leader for quite sometime now. While many people seem to think Porcupine Tree was a band, really it was Wilson’s project. He only brought in others when it became clear that he had a chance to tour the project. So he needed a band. Once he felt like those people were limiting his output, he went out on his own.
Once again, Wilson hired a band. As with any band, other people have input. To what extent the members of the Steven Wilson band had input is debatable. However, the material was written by Wilson and his name is on the music. Minnemann is an equally talented artist and he knows he is. So there’s some jealousy at play here and honestly that is understandable.
Back when Dream Theater chose Mike Mangini over Minnemann, I thought they made the right choice and it had nothing to do with ability. Mangini is the “good soldier” type and that’s what they really needed. Minnemann is VERY over the top and outgoing. He is also very opinionated, which reminds me a lot of Mike Portnoy. Personality type is just as critical to a band as talent.
Remember when the Storm Corrosion project was announced as Wilson, Mikael Akerfeldt and Portnoy? Remember how quickly Wilson said they were not using any percussion…but Gavin Harrison plays on the album? I am guessing that Wilson was not initially aware that Minnemann was quite as opinionated as Portnoy. Honestly he really isn’t QUITE as opinionated but he isn’t the “good soldier” type like Mangini or current drummer Craig Blundell.
This rift was inevitable. The gold record was just the easiest way to force it all out into the open. People don’t always get along and bands disband because of that reason as much as “artistic differences.” But the bottom line is that Wilson doesn’t owe Minnemann a thing. That’s why it’s not Porcupine Tree and it’s not called the Steven Wilson BAND on the album cover. It’s also why people like Mangini and Blundell will always find work and why people like Portnoy and Minnemann have extensive work histories.
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4 Responses to Steven Wilson vs. Marco Minnemann: a study in personalities
So far Minnemann and Satriani seem to be getting along.
Ruben Pineda says:
I saw Steven Wilson in Phoenix on November 9th in concert.
He said the band that accompanied him is the best he has had.
Craig Blundell in my opinion, is an exceptional drummer but Minnemann is the DNA of Steve’s sound.
Greetings from the limits of Arizona Sonora Desert in Mexico.
Simplifying the issue just so that we can chat about it, here is my opinion as chief designer of a work team.
To have a strong personality is a plus in a group, as long as it’s someway proportional to the talent! It usually gives more to the sum of the parts if you can (and it’s possible to) manage it.
It may leads to a faster brake up, especially if the ppl have met as adult, but at least the mix usually produce a more significant result. Now, in art, to just make a good job it’s quite a waste of time, isn’t it?
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Review: David Bowie's Blackstar
Peter Tabakis
[See Also: Revisiting Blackstar in light of Bowie’s passing]
SEEMINGLY in tandem, the Starman returns to our speakers as The Force Awakens across global cineplexes. Sure, it was little more than a coincidence—but could the timing have been better? David Bowie and Star Wars both are relevant-as-ever monuments of ‘70s sci-fi iconography. And much like J.J. Abrams’ blockbuster, Bowie’s previous album, 2013’s The Next Day, wiped the slate clean while satisfying deeply rooted nostalgia (right down to its album art and musical callbacks). It too was a roaring artistic success, if not a commercial one. So radiant and tuneful, The Next Day holds up as a late-period masterwork. Bowie’s latest twilight opus Blackstar, to be released on his 69th birthday, doesn’t soar quite as high. Instead, it veers sharply from a long-traversed career orbit into far-flung sonic frontiers. This collection of seven thorny tracks is a companion of sorts to The Next Day, a distorted sibling. Now that Bowie has reestablished his bona fides, he’s free to go a bit nuts. And nuts is where he goes, thrillingly and with glorious abandon, on Blackstar.
Blackstar holds the distinction as one of David Bowie’s strangest releases, and at times it even edges out the likes of Low and “Heroes” in that regard. On the surface alone, it’s an improbable feat for an artist of Bowie’s age and impressive oeuvre. And yet, in the wrong hands weirdness isn’t a virtue, but a cheap (if not maddening) stunt. With Blackstar, however, Bowie exhibits an ease with the bizarre, as if he’s flexing a well-honed muscle. His natural aptitude is unmistakable and impossible to fake. Taken individually, these songs seem like logical progressions from The Next Day’s riotous “If You Can See Me”. When packaged together, the album’s 41 minutes of clatter, jazz, and incantation coalesce into something otherworldly and almost marvelous.
I hedge my praise with weasel words because Blackstar feels awkwardly paced and frustratingly incomplete. It begins with a sprawling, ten-minute title track that unfurls in three movements. The opener’s middle section is as beautiful and haunting as anything Bowie has recorded, a sweeping bit of mystical balladry. It ought to be a grand centerpiece, the overblown apex Blackstar notably lacks. Once “Blackstar” concludes its wayward trajectory, the album settles into a leisurely sequence of six showstoppers—and then, with zero fanfare, it ends.
Now that I’ve registered my (somewhat churlish) quibbles, I should say the remainder of Blackstar, however disjointed and missing a center of gravity, is close to wonderful. Bowie and longtime producer Tony Visconti have teamed with the saxophonist Donny McCaslin to create a seamless mixture of rock and jazz. This combination of genres births delirious portmanteaus—which Björk discovered earlier and differently with a song like “Hyperballad”—on “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” and “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore”. The halting start-and-stop of “Girl Loves Me” gives way to the swooning sax sway of “Dollar Days” and then the lovely mid-tempo cheese of “I Can’t Give Everything Away”. But “Lazarus” is the true triumph of Blackstar, a sleazy and magnificent horn-ridden torch song that could’ve fit comfortably within Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy.
No, Blackstar’s components don’t add up to a perfect whole. Still, it’s as exciting as Bob Dylan’s latter-day masterpieces without the need to look backward for inspiration. David Bowie endures as a visionary, though his fans will have to settle for a trade off. The Next Day contained 14 incredible songs that felt familiar. Blackstar is shorter in length and also less purely enjoyable. Despite its many flaws, it’s an album of constant surprise.
On “Lazarus” Bowie sings “I've got drama, can't be stolen/Everybody knows me now.” I beg to differ. We know very little about the artist who bellows throughout his latest work. With Blackstar David Bowie remains an enigma, musically and lyrically. He emerges from isolation here and there to unleash some of the best music of his career. I doubt any of us are closer to understanding the man behind the squeals and squawks on Blackstar. This, of course, is not a complaint. The dark corners of mystery are often more welcoming than the harsh light of day. B PLUS
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Partial Ligatures
One of the features of the new text code is the ability to lay out a string of content and then render any substring using the whole-string layout. This is important because, for example, the user should be able to select any substring, and we need to draw that substring using the current selection colors. But it's hard because fancy fonts want to use ligatures, i.e., render certain combinations of adjacent characters using a single specially designed glyph.
The screenshot shows some text in DejaVu Sans using my text code and Pango 1.14. "fl" and "fi" are being rendered as ligatures. I'm selecting inside "fl" to show how that works. Basically it's a hack --- a ligature with N characters is divided into N vertical strips of equal width which I pretend are "pseudocharacters", and then I use clipping to draw the individual pseudocharacters. This seems to work OK.
The screenshot also shows another feature of the new text code: our text layout objects (gfxTextRuns) can span DOM node boundaries. In this example the textrun spans the boundary of an <a> element. This enables us to form ligatures across those boundaries but thanks to partial ligature support, we can still style the link element correctly. Not just ligatures but also kerning and shaping benefit from cross-node text layout.
Note: When I said above that any substring should be selectable, that was a lie. Multiple Unicode characters can combine to form "clusters", for example a character with an accent, and selection should always be restricted to cluster boundaries. More consistent support for honouring cluster boundaries is another feature of the new text code. However, I currently don't support clusters spanning DOM node boundaries, because we really have no way to render those, not even a hack.
By the way, I noticed the hairline crack in the fi ligature. It's probably a rounding error that I need to track down.
Dao 25 October 2006 at 09:52
> a ligature with N characters is divided into N vertical strips of equal width which I pretend are "pseudocharacters", and then I use clipping to draw the individual pseudocharacters. This seems to work OK.
Um ... What if it's not "fi" but "Wi"?
monk.e.boy 25 October 2006 at 10:02
Isn't there another project that uses these fonts and also allows the user to select bits of text? I'm thinking maybe the gimp, or some other photoshop type of app?
It seems that the work you are doing should be used where ever text is displayed.
Or maybe we need a better font definition, and stop using one glyf for two letters?
Philip Withnall 25 October 2006 at 10:05
Nice work! :-)
Is there a defined "standard" way of dealing with the cases where two letters that would normally form a ligature actually differ in their formatting?
By "standard" I mean guidelines that typesetters and graphics designers use when they layout type in magazines or similar manually.
My thinking is that if there is a font size difference, I assume the ligature would be broken apart into the separate characters. So is font size then a special case or just another type of formatting (along with color and decoration, for example)?
I can see how these "pseudocharacters" are necessary for selection, but should they be used for formatting as well, or should the ligature glyps be replaced by the separate characters and formatting be applied to those?
I guess I'm just curious of the rationale behind the technique presented in this post.
(Is a "font" technically not just the font face but the font size as well, perhaps? Arial 12pt and Arial 13pt are two different "fonts" from the layout perspective, even though the basic font face is the same.)
Christopher Blizzard 25 October 2006 at 17:12
Pango, and I imagine other complex text rendering systems, support the idea of cursor positions for selection. I added that code to the pango support in Gecko a couple of years ago and selection in complex text languages did support clusters and it's been shipping with the Red Hat firefox for just about as long (with lots of positive feedback from our Indian and Arabic users!) I'm not sure how what you're doing is any different than that?
Robert O'Callahan 25 October 2006 at 22:05
Dao: too bad.
Anonymous: I don't know if there's a better strategy. Pango does what I'm doing. I'm not aware of any OpenType font data that would help us do anything smarter. The good news is that if someone *does* come up with a better strategy on some platform, it can be incorporated into the gfxTextRun implementation without changing any interfaces.
We allow textruns to combine whenever there's adjacent text with the same font and size. One reason this is a good idea is that changing other attributes of text, such as its color, *should not* change its layout, from the user's perspective. (Imagine if you're using the HTML editor.) Even more so if you're doing something with no other visible effect, such as breaking a text node into several spans so you can set non-presentational XML attributes on the spans.
Chris: I'm not sure what you mean by "cursor positions for selection". Pango converts character indices to coordinates using the same ligature-breakup strategy as I'm doing here. We do call pango_break to find cluster boundaries via is_cursor_position, just as your existing code does.
Compared to your Pango nsFontMetrics code, this code doesn't provide much new functionality except for text runs spanning DOM nodes (which is actually pretty huge from an implementation point of view). It's more a refactoring to redesign everything around a richer abstraction that fits better with Pango/Uniscribe etc, so we no longer have to grapple with a bazillion poorly-tested code paths in nsTextFrame. And probably more importantly, gfxTextRuns persist so we can (and do) cache shaped glyphs and their geometry, and the gfxTextRun APIs push expensive operations (such as "find where to break this text") down into per-platform textrun code for maximum optimization possibilities. The performance of your Pango code was never very good, at SuSE we had to disable it for most locales.
Justin Kerk 25 October 2006 at 22:39
Odd, usually fonts with ligatures have an ffl ligature, but the word "Affluent" there seems to be rendered f + fl.
Fredrik 25 October 2006 at 23:24
Sorry, that was my comment that was anonymized by me--clicking before thinking apparently.
I can fully understand non-presentational XML attributes on spans not affecting the visual aspects of the layout.
My reasoning is that a ligature glyph is perhaps in itself is a character. It's a replacement for two characters that have some relation to eachother, yes, but when it comes to formatting it should perhaps be seen as a single character.
If the same formatting applies to both characters that make up the glyph, then there is no problem, but if the formattings of the two differ, it would be like trying to paint e.g. the letter A with half the one formatting, half the other.
It would have the ramifications you mention, for example "fi" not always being the same width depending on the formatting of "f" and "i" and therefore changing the layout.
I don't take issue with the way it's currently implemented in any way. I'm just curious, that's all.
Jeremy Lea 26 October 2006 at 02:30
You might want to consider looking up the width of each individual character in the ligature, take the sum and make each strip = char width / total width * ligature width. It would make the code more complex, but I think it would give a slightly more visually appealing look than the example.
Screwtape 26 October 2006 at 04:52
Apparently there's an OpenType feature called "LigatureCaretList" (Part of the "Glyph Definition Table") that tells you where the letter-divisions are in a ligature, rather than having to assume "N vertical strips of equal width".
There's a reference to it on this page: http://anakin.ncst.ernet.in/~aparna/consolidated/x1427.html
Jeremy: that's a good idea.
Screwtape: that is very interesting. I wonder if any fonts provide that data...
Tom Flowers 1 November 2006 at 04:23
In reading old texts, I often come across the ligature AR. How does one create this ligature on the computer (via unicode)?
Robert O'Callahan 2 November 2006 at 04:49
If the font specifies an "ar" ligature, it will be used automatically when text contains "ar".
jmdesp 16 December 2006 at 14:09
Roc, it's great to see you finally included some many feature WRT what you were apparently intending to do last february.
But I notice once thing, it's that the http://www.catch22.net/tuts/editor12.asp case is somehow still not correct even with the recent builds ?
Robert O'Callahan 16 December 2006 at 21:33
jmdesp: That's because none of this code is landed yet. I plan to land it soon but it still won't be turned on for a while.
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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Trail Running Near Portland
by Matt Wastradowski
The Portland area is a trail runner’s dream come true. Thick forests with heavy canopies keep runners relatively dry year-round; well-maintained trails provide plenty of running opportunities; and stunning viewpoints offer no shortage of breathtaking rewards at the end of difficult hills.
And spring might be the best time to go. Months of regular rainfall means the forests are greener than usual and the streams run a little faster, while the bulk of the crowds will stay away until the weather warms up in the summer.
So whether you’re looking for a new workout or are training for one of the myriad regional races—including the Hagg Lake Mud Runs, Gorge Waterfalls 50k, or Portland Trail Series—start with these destinations for some of the more scenic, challenging, or off-beat trails around town.
Balch Creek Canyon
Whether you’re just getting started or are looking for a quick run after work, Balch Creek Canyon provides a solid workout. The Forest Park trail is relatively flat and bypasses a number of fascinating sites, including some of Portland’s biggest Doug Fir trees and an old stone structure. It is a wide, well-maintained trail that’s mostly flat until it runs into the Upper Macleay Trailhead.
North Wildwood Trail
The most popular trail in Forest Park is the Wildwood Trail, a 30-mile trek that follows the contour of the ridge that Forest Park covers, and perhaps the best part of that trail is the North Wildwood stretch. Far from the crowds near Washington park and downtown Portland, the North Wildwood Trail provides a peaceful respite for runners seeking solitude. The trail is full of gently rolling hills, old-growth trees, and bubbling streams, with sections suitable for runners of all skill levels.
Forest Park Leif Erickson Wildwood Trails
Mike Rohrig
Forest Park offers everything a trail runner could want from a workout. The park includes more than 80 miles of trails across more than 5,000 acres, with a mix of pleasant scenery, challenging trails, and easy jaunts.
If the the 30-mile Wildwood Trail is the main course at Forest Park, the Leif Erickson Trail is a hearty appetizer. The low-grade, wide access road challenges new runners with a solid workout and gives experienced runners a reliable starting point from which they can explore the rest of the park.
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge demonstrates, as well as any other park in the metro area, Portland’s commitment to green spaces and nature preservation. The 141-acre park in the Sellwood neighborhood, only a 15-minute drive from downtown, is a floodplain wetland, and part of it was built on a sanitation landfill.
No trace of the landfill remains today; rather, the park provides a somewhat hilly trail along the eastside of a picturesque pond, with mostly-level trips through meadows and marshland. Given that it’s a wildlife refuge, animal sightings are common, with all sorts of frogs and salamanders calling the aptly-named Tadpole Pond home, while water birds and beavers can be found elsewhere in the park.
The park’s relatively small footprint and lack of elevation gain make it ideal for runners jonesing for a quick workout.
More than 1,000 species of trees from around the world call Hoyt Arboretum home, and the popular section of Portland’s Washington Park is perfect for runners in search of an exhilarating workout. Twelve miles of manicured, hard-packed dirt trails take runners past larch, spruce, oak, and sequoia trees, but the blooming dogwood and cherry trees steal the spotlight each spring.
Most of the Hoyt Arboretum’s trails are moderately graded, ensuring a challenging workout for relatively new runners and an arduous trip for more seasoned runners. The intricate network of trails means that runners can create any number of loops to their liking.
Lacamas Park
Camas—that small town just across the river and east of Vancouver—should be known for more than the legendary (and now largely absent) stuffy paper mill smell. Take, for instance, Lacamas Park.
The 325-acre park offers a diverse array of flora, deciduous trees, meadows, and rocky outcrops, all of which showcase the region’s natural beauty through spring and summer. Round Lake provides a lovely backdrop, as well.
Beyond the views, a network of interconnected trails provide options that vary from one- to six-mile loops, with a handful of bridges and waterfalls along the way. The trails are almost all relatively level, making them accessible to runners of all skill levels
Trail Recommendations: Balch Creek Canyon, Hoyt Arboretum, North Wildwood Trail
Races: Mount Hood 50, Gorge Waterfalls 50k, Portland Trail Series, Trail Factor 50k, Hagg Lake Mud Runs
Groups: Oregon Road Runners Club, Portland Runner
Retailers: Next Adventure, Fleet Feet Sports, Portland Running Company, REI
From Forest Park to Hoyt Arboretum, here is a guide to some of the best trail running opportunities near Portland.
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Esalen and Claudio Naranjo: “America and the Religion of No Religion” By Jeffrey Kripal |
February 22 by The Running Son
Esalen and Claudio Naranjo:
America and the Religion of No Religion
By Jeffrey J. Kripal
The University of Chicago press, Chicago 60637
Copyright 2007 Jeffrey J. Kripal
Transcription by Judy Turnbull 7-18-07
pp. 173-180 from the book for Claudio
(bottom of p. 173)
Tantric Shamanism of Claudio Naranjo
Along with Dick Price, Perls considered Claudio Naranjo to be one of his most gifted successors. Naranjo is a Chilean-born psychiatrist who made his first trip to the States in the early 1960’s for family medical reasons ( his mother needed an eye doctor). While in Boston, he met the psychologist Frank Barron at Harvard. When Naranjo later won a Guggenheim fellowship, Barron invited him to Berkeley, where he was introduced to the anthropologist Michael Harner. Harner was working on the Jivaro Indians of the Amazon basin and their use of the yage vine as a psychotropic ritual substance. Harner in turn introduced Naranj o to a young graduate student at UCLA named Carlos Castaneda, who was working on similar subjects in Mexico, allegedly with a native shaman named Don Juan. Naranjo and Castaneda would become close friends. Castaneda even claimed that Don Juan had “smoked” Naranjo, that is, seen him in a vision.
One of Naranjo’s first visits to Esalen involved a local television station (KRON), which had decided to film Murphy, Perls, Naranjo, Harner, and Castaneda discussing the subject of shamanism just after a seminar with a female Pomo Indian healer. Naranjo remembers arriving at Esalen and finally encountering one of his idols standing in the front door of the Big House, Fritz Perls. Having read Gestalt Therapy, Naranjo was somehow expecting a young man. Instead he met what he calls “an old sea wolf.” This old sea wolf moreover was not just old. He was old and feisty. Specifically, he objected strenuously to the “occult mud” that he felt Harner and Castaneda were dishing out to a gullible audience. Indeed, when at one point Castaneda asked something like, “How do I know that consensual [socially constructed] reality is real?” Fritz reached over and slapped him, not out of anger, but as if to demonstrate how reality is not that consensual. (page 175) Reports differ, but most say Castaneda responded with some version of “Fuck you, old man!”
Old man or not, slap or not, fuck or not, Perls made a profound impression on Naranjo. In one conversation that Naranjo remembers especially well, Perls pointed out to him that he could do all the same things the female Pomo Indian healer could do: if she was a shaman, well, then so was he. Observing first hand Perls’s uncanny psychological powers, Naranjo could only agree with him: “I came away feeling that he really was a genius, a shaman in another culture.” Indeed, he agreed so much with Perls’s personal assessment of his own shamanic powers that he left his original psychoanalytic orientation and became a gestalt therapist. By 1969, Claudio Naranjo was one of the second-generation gestaltists, along with Dick Price, Julian Silverman, Jack Downing, bob Hall, and Jim Simkin. Esalen was quickly turning into a kind of gestalt mecca.
Certainly Esalen embraced Naranjo. Perls gave him a “free scholarship” to any of his gestalt sessions, and Price offered him a space on the floor anytime he wanted to come with a sleeping bag to Big Sur. Naranjo had effectivel y won a permanent invitation to Esalen. He was part of the inner circle. Naranjo remembers we ll what a tremendous impact the place’s spirit of experimentation and sexual liberation had on him in turn. Born Jewish and having grown up in a sexually repressive Latin American Catholic environment in which “the flesh” was more or less a synonym for “sin,” Naranjo found Esalen’s metaphysical synthesis of sensuality and spirit especially powerful.
Like Price but in a somewhat different key, what Claudio Naranjo became known for was a creative synthesis of Asian meditation (again, with a pronounced Buddhist accent) and western psychotherapy. Alan Watts, of course, had written and talked about this a great deal, but it was Naranjo who perhaps did more than anyone to act on these remarkable resonances and come up with models and exercises to realize them. He left Esalen in the early 1970s to found his own psychospiritual school along these same lines (SAT institute, located first in Berkeley and now moved to Spain). Perhaps most interesting of all, however, is the fact that Naranjo’s path through Esalen toward his own psychospiritual community displays in some frankly astonishing ways many of the central themes I am tracking here, from the esoteric roots of western psychotherapy, to the felt energetic states of a distinct Tantric transmission. The later Naranjo understands such a transmission not as some ethnocentric Asian privilege, but as an always available gnostic contagion, a universal potential rooted in the physiology of the human body and its enlightenment. Naranjo understands perfectly well th at the original impulse for psychotherapy came from the altered states of Mesmer’s magnetism and Freud’s interest in hypnosis. Accordingly, he insists that psychotherapy is always more than what it purports to be.” This is also no doubt why his mature teachings on psychotherapy-as a kind of “assisted liberation from the barriers of ego” through a yielding to the body’s “organismic” spontaneity – draws deep, not only on Reich and Perls (the “organismic” part) but also on his own mystical experiences of Hindu Tantra and kundalini yoga, which he intuitively (and correctly) understands to be related to Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese Taoism. It is hardly an accident, then that the very first workshop Naranjo led at Esalen carried an explicitly Tantric title: Sadhana for the West. In short, he has received the Esalen gnosis. Naranjo knows.
How he came to know through what he himself calls his “tantric journey” is a story very much worth telling here. It involves Naranjo’s kundalini awakening, which he likens both to being possessed by a serpent and to an alchemical process that transfigured flesh and bones, “a kind of ‘kundalinization’ of the body from head to feet,” as he puts it. Interestingly, such an awakening was transmitted to him not by the touch of a Hindu guru in the Himalayas, but in a gestalt session with Jim Simkin at Esalen. Simkin told Naranjo that he needed to work on his breath, to pay attention to his breathing. This led Naranjo to hyperventilate, then to a new awareness of his ongoing experience, and finally to a “satori lasting some two hours as I drove back to Berkeley from Esalen.” Naranjo felt he had received a kind of “wordless contagion” that allowed him to surrender to the spontaneous move ments of his own body. This, he speculates, can happen through a formal initiation with a guru, spontaneously, or in groups conducted by a spiritual teacher who can inspire real surrender.
He is fairly certain such awakenings are not actual flowings of “subtle energies.” In a fascinating move, Naranjo suggests instead that, “blasphemous as it may sound,” the felt experiences of energy movements so common in so many types of psychospiritual experience (from Reichian therapy to the shakti-pat initiations of gurus) are in fact “an ever-shifting tonus dance that takes place in our muscle system in the situation of ego-dissolution.” One might feel that there is a literal flow, but “the anatomical fact is one of coordinated volleys of nerve impulses that follow preestablished patterns (according to the organization of our nervous and muscle systems).” But the key is not the metaphysical status of the subtle energies. It is the very real spiritual state of which all of this is a bodily response, that is, the spiritual state of surrender and ego-dissolution. In the end, (p. 177) then, there is no literal Tantric transmission. There is the enlightenment of the universal body through the surrender of the social self.
Having noted Naranjo’s elaborate analysis of his own kundalini awakening, it would be a serious mistake to lock Naranjo’s teaching into any single historical tradition, including Indian Tantra. Hence Naranjo actively resists any use of Hindu scripture or mention of the yogic chakras to explain what happened to him, and he does not hesitate to tun to Taoist dragon or Mexican eagle and snake symbolism to explain his more mature shamanic experiences of his scapular bones as felt “wings” and his nasal region as a kind of experienced “beak” (and indeed in his own mind, it is finally a nontraditional shamanism, not Asian Tantra, that best describes his mature spiritual life.) Twenty-seven years of meditation, psychotherapy, and altered states cannot be pigeon-holed into any “Hindu” frame for Naranjo. How could they be? The “inner serpent” of kundalini yoga is simply a South Asian construction of a universal neurobiology; it is “no other than our more archaic (reptilian) brain-mind.” The serpent power “is ‘us’-i.e., the integrity of our central nervous system when cleansed of karmic interference, “ the human body-mind restored to its own native spontaneity.”
Put a bit differently, Naranjo’s “one quest” is a religion of no religion that has come to realize how “instinct” is really a kind of “organismic wisdom” and how libido is more deeply understood as a kind of divine Eros that can progressively mutate both spirit and flesh once it is truly freed from the ego.
This, of course is yet another version of what we have learned to call the Freudian Left, an enlightenment of the body that has passed through both a Western psychotherapy (that is always somehow more) and an Asian meditative discipline (that is more often than not Tantric). Such was the Tantric journey of Claudio Naranjo to and through Esalen.
Oscar Ichazo and Arica
Naranjo’s last major impact on Esalen was an indirect one. Oscar Ichazo was a charismatic teacher from the Chilean seaport city of Arica (pronounced a-ree-ka). He claimed to be initiated into a legendary Sufi lineage called the Sarmouni or the School of the Bees. Naranjo helped Ichazo establish a community in San tiago, mostly by supplying him with many of his earliest disciples, who had earlier gathered around Naranjo himself. Subsequently, Naranjo returned to Esalen and brought back to (p. 178) Santiago many of the place’s central players (around fifteen, according to Naranjo) to apprentice with Ichazo. There was a psychiatrist and a pal of Price, Jack Downing. There was a psychologist and human-dolphin interaction researcher John Lilly, who among many other remarkable things, gave dolphins LSD and told the almost believable story of a dolphin named Dolly who seduced a man into making love with her in a holding tank. There was also encounter group leader Steve Stroud. All came with Naranjo back to Chile to study with Ichazo, whose in fluence on Esalen is now legendary. Heider’s journals, for example, record that Steve Stroud sold his house for $5, quit his Esalen job, and “gave away all his stuff” to travel down to South America. As for Heider himself, he didn’t go. He felt that those who did go were “copping out” to an external authority. Cop-out or no, “Arica cleared our bench,” as Price put it.
It also enriched their catalog. The winter Esalen catalog of 1972 included its own section called Arica Training, a series of workshops with titles like Arica Awareness Training and The Human Biocomputer taught by Esalen regulars who had traveled to Chile to study with the new master.
This event would go both well and not so well for Naranjo. Ichazo, like so many other guru figures, turned out to be a highly authoritarian teacher. He also had a way of turning the tables on his original generous host. After secretly sending Naranjo out to the desert for a special forty-day retreat designed to rapidly spiritualize Naranjo’s life, Ichazo gave the community the impression that Claudio was a megalomaniac who had disdained the community and was on a kind of Jesus trip. In actual fact, Ichazo had sent him out and Naranjo had experienced the desert retreat as “a kind of rebirth, a true beginning of a spiritual life.” It would be the first of many lessons for Naranjo in the spiritual potentials, ethical dangers, and psychological limitations of charismatic leaders.
Even Dick Price would come to study with Ichazo, this time in New York, only to learn similar lessons. One day in the early months of 1971, price came up to Silverman and said, “It’s yours. Take it.” And then he walked away and left New York City to take part in a three-month-long Arica training session. Price’ s Esalen ethic of never coercing a student or seminarian were violated again and again during his own retreat. The final straw was an exercise in which the group members were asked to perform a mudra (a Tantric yogic term for a hand gesture symbolizing a particular state of consciousness) that happened to be identical to the Nazi Heil Hitler! Salute. There is no such mudra in Hindu or Buddhist yoga. Price having grown up in postwar America in a Jewish family fearfully pretending not to be, was not impressed with such an exercise. He had (p. 179) had enough and left eight days before the retreat was scheduled to end. Other Esalen figures, however, would stay, and still others would take up Arica in various ways over the next four decades, indeed until this very day. Ed Maupin, for example speaks warmly of how his own Arica training from 1972 to 1973 in New York began his “karma cleansing about sexuality.” He believes Arica’s turn to such a focus was “a fundamentally new departure in alternative spirituality and in the human potential movement” and “had effects far beyond the borders of Arica.” More personally, it helped him come to positive terms with his homosexuality. Such feelings could be adequately processed now. He thus ended an affectionate but somewhat troubled marriage and, in 1974, met his partner, with whom he has lived happily for the last thirty-three years.
When Price left Esalen for New York, Silverman became, initially, the new director of Esalen. He quickly learned that he would now have to deal with Will Schutz, the emperor of Esalen, not to mention a whole bunch of hippies who had camped out on the famous grounds and were tripping on God only-knows what. Everyone may have been “tuning in,” as Timothy Leary would have put it, but they were also driving poor Julian crazy. Silverman called a community meeting to try to take some control of things. He began by telling people what they were going to do. Richard Tarnas raised his hand and asked in his typically gentle fashion, “But isn’t this a democracy?” Silverman erupted, “This is not a democracy! This is a damn business!”
Schutz’s response to Silverman’s business m eeting was to organize “an experiment in democracy” with the kitchen staff. Essentially, this was an implicit form of mutiny (or, as some have it, a desperate attempt to improve the quality and diversity of the menu). Silverman went along with it anyway, to a point, and then declared the experiment over. In Silverman’s words, the two men then “went at it” but ultimately survived each other. As did Esalen. In the end, though, it was gestalt psychology, not open encounter, that would come to dominate the Esalen catalogs well into the 1970s and beyond.
As for Julian, he stayed on for a full and fruitful seven years. Silverman finally stepped down as director in January of 1978, but only after he had penned with Wendy Ovaitt a manual on how to manage Esalen: Notes from and Esalen Director’s handbook. 56 This document, which was typeset and even illustrated but never professionally published, provides a clear window into the kinds of institutional changes Esalen underwent between 1971 and 1978, complete with salaries and budgets (Silverman’s director’s (p. 180) salary was $1,100 per month in December of 1977). In 1971, Silverman points out, the place was staffed by “transient hippies,” “male chauvini sm” was the norm of the day, and Perls’s dictum, “lose your mind and come to your senses” had been translated into a dysfunctional and rampant “emotionalism.” Not surprisingly, the institute was also a quarter of a million dollars in debt: “In all but legal declaration,” Silverman sighs in his introductory remarks, “we were bankrupt.” By 1978, however, the place was in excellent financial shape and the key managerial terms were now self-responsibility, co-operative processing, and nonhierarchical decision making. Things had changed quite a bit. Schutz was gone and Silverman was leaving too. But Esalen would on, and it would continue to change.
For citations and references please visit: http://www.claudionaranjo.net/pdf_files/nav_bar/autobiography/esalen_by_kripal_english.pdf
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Airbus on why it is bringing more and more cabin upgrades in-house
By John Walton →
Airbus’ recent focus on bringing cabin upgrades in-house is part of a shift in how the airframer sees its role in servicing — rather than just supporting — the aftersales market, with its eyes on lucrative maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business. Vice president of upgrade services Xavier Bertran sat down with Runway Girl Network to explain the carrier’s vision in the wider context of the interiors market and the changing scope of an airframer.
The move, which spans the Airbus portfolio of aircraft, is particularly noteworthy given that there is a relative oversupply of MRO capacity thanks to increasingly reliable aircraft with commensurately longer service intervals — and often fewer engines as the result of the transition to twinjet flying.
“We’re putting much greater focus now,” into the overhaul market, Bertran told RGN, “because in fact as we increase in service aircraft, the demand is increasing…” Quite simply, Airbus is seeing more and more customers willing to update systems and other interiors. “So there’s a real market traction and our role and our mission is really to keep those in service aircraft really up to date. This is really our role.”
RGN asked Bertran whether this work was being drawn into the Airbus family because aircraft interiors industry suppliers haven’t been delivering to the time, specification and quality that customers would want – a reality underscored again recently when Zodiac Aerospace confirmed to RGN editor Mary Kirby that it is shuttering its Seats California business and consolidating it with facilities in Texas and Mexico, following a FAA airworthiness directive affecting regional aircraft seats, and more broadly, production delays that it believes are now in hand.
“For sure, and I think we have a responsibility to make sure that that ecosystem is working properly, and that that industrial space is actually stepping up to the challenges they’re facing. And the challenges are big. I think that in the future that’s going to be a major driver,” Bertran said.
For the cabin industry, Bertran continued, “times where you were a little manufacturer and you were doing your things in your corner, these times are coming to an end. You need to be serialized, industrialized, while delivering quality, durability — this is what I’m hearing from customers. Quality, durability, reliability, robustness. This is becoming more and more increasingly important.”
It’s not necessarily about the size of the manufacturer, though. “I’ve seen conglomerates which have the same problems as small companies and vice versa, so I don’t think size is such a critical issue. It really depends on expertise, confidence, how you set yourself up, and the way you conduct your business.”
Delving more deeply into Airbus’ role, Bertran told RGN that it’s partly driven by the number of aircraft on the market, even with the roughly contemporaneous glut of MRO operations.
“Typically,” he said, “we come into play earliest three years after, latest maybe fifteen years, so if you look back at what we’ve done, at how many airplanes have been delivered, you can very, very quickly see the reasoning why today we’re in that position where we are. And on upgrades, we’ve been growing fairly well, between 10% and 20% year-on-year so far, and you just have to look back on that and you can see that the driver is there, and it’s really that driver, plus I see a lot of customers really trying too hard to compete better in the market. Differentiation, economics, more passenger seats — when we come out with a novelty solutions like extra seats or anything, then that is taken by the market.”
The context from an airline perspective is that carriers are “always driven by improving, basically by trying to optimize economics by themselves,” Bertran explained. “They’ve been largely driven through that. The question of affordability versus ‘what can I do to improve the layout and improve my economic situation?”
Beyond that, airlines are motivated “to meet the competition they’re driving, and then lately there’s also been quite a few customers which are trying to bring in [the] latest connectivity solutions on board, latest wifi, and this type of innovation into the cabin. And here we’re dealing with the aircraft which are between eight and twelve years, so that’s the timeframe where now we see these things coming through.”
All aircraft currently being produced by Airbus are included. “On A330s, this has always been quite a good market for us, in terms of cabin reconfiguration, there’s always been customers coming in wanting to change things and so on. We’ve seen a much increased growth in A320s, largely driven through innovation in product, so extra seating. This is really driving a lot of the projects we’re doing at the moment,” said the Airbus executive.
Airbus has a natural niche for the A380, too, with the airframer’s recent selection by Qantas and Singapore Airlines to refit their superjumbos both a vote of confidence in the aircraft and in Airbus’ refit solutions to upgrade the fleet.
“Qantas believes in the aircraft, they have confidence in the aircraft, and what we’ve done is to support them and serve them in optimising the way they gain benefit from that aircraft,” Bertran said. “I think that’s a very valid project and a very valuable opportunity for both companies, and that’s what’s driving us to find that agreement and say, ‘yes, let’s do it.’ That’s what’s happened in a very short time, so that again is a good demonstration that Qantas was very quick on the ball to say, ‘Yes, this is what we want to do.’”
With respect to Singapore Airlines, the carrier’s “trust in our retrofit competencies is a positive sign for the development of our services business, in particular in the fast growing Asia-Pacific region,” said Laurent Martinez, head of services by Airbus, in a statement.
The key for Airbus will be to ensure that its own management of its upgrade services is up to time, spec and budget — and that its own suppliers are too. Helping to keep Airbus on its toes, no doubt, are clear competitors in the refurbishment space including Lufthansa Technik (which carries a big stick), as well as the suppliers which are pitching mid-life retrofits like the Lufthansa Technik and Diehl improvements on Airbus’ Space-Flex, Zodiac’s A320 ECOS cabin with swing bins, and new space-saving lavatories in various aircraft.
But Airbus wants some of that pie too.
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Contributing Editor John Walton, an international journalist, contributes opinion and analysis to RGN’s Nose To Tail column. He specializes in cabin interiors, seating, connectivity, and premium class service. A keen analyst of how developing tools can be applied to aviation news, John is at the forefront of social media in the aviation sector, broke the hijacking of flight ET702 on Twitter (@thatjohn), and... Read More
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Dear Rugby Community,
With most of the winter Rugby competitions concluding across the country over recent weeks, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for your contribution to Rugby in 2019.
With the Rugby World Cup kicking off in Japan this weekend, it is a time for all people involved at all levels of the sport to be proud of their contribution and to celebrate everything that is great about our game while it is under the global spotlight.
The Wallabies have completed their preparation for their opening match against Fiji in Sapporo on Saturday and will be buoyed by the support of over 40,000 Aussies that have travelled to Japan to take in the action, as well as millions more who will tune in on Fox Sports or Network Ten back home.
While our game has endured some challenging headlines and unwanted distractions in 2019, it has been encouraging to see Rugby continue to thrive at the community level thanks to the dedication and passion of our club volunteers.
Our sincere gratitude goes to each and every member of our Rugby community from administrators, match officials, coaches and volunteers through to the players that make up each of Australia’s 900-plus Rugby clubs.
I wanted to take this opportunity to provide you with an update on some of the key developments in the game as the 2019 season comes to end on home soil.
This year Rugby Australia launched a ‘Get into Rugby’ program for community clubs, modelled off our schools program of the same name, and we have so far seen over 30 clubs sign up for the program and welcome scores of new members into their clubs this year.
Get into Rugby is an introductory five-week program for people of all ages that teaches the Rugby basics and helps them move into our three distinct formats: Touch 7s, Sevens and the traditional XVs format. If your club is interested in getting involved, please get in touch with your local State or Territory Rugby body. The success of this program is bolstering participation numbers and we are on track to report continued growth in participation across all three formats of the game nationally at the end of the calendar year.
Now that our winter competitions have wrapped up, we have a record number of spring-summer Sevens tournaments being played at clubs across the country, including 41 new competitions getting under way this month alone.
On the coaching front, we have had a major focus on building our coaching capacity at the community level to keep pace with our gains in playing participation numbers. Through the Rugby Xplorer app not only can you register to play or administer your club or competition, but you will soon be able to access over 200 coaching videos ranging from basic drills through to planning an entire session, all free for use by any member of our community. These videos are already available online at Australia.Rugby .
We have also continued to enhance our safety framework and have seen encouraging results from the mandatory ‘size for age’ grading in junior Rugby, as well as trialling new initiatives such as the ‘front row passport’ which was piloted in Queensland earlier this year with a view towards a further rollout in 2020.
We also recognise the crucial role that match officials play in our game and our investment in coaching development for match officials now extends all the way from the junior level through to the professional ranks. Rugby Australia is especially proud of the two referees, Angus Gardner and Nic Berry, whom were selected to officiate at the Rugby World Cup in Japan this month, giving us our best representation since 2003.
At the professional level it was a mixed bag during The Rugby Championship for the Wallabies, but it did include a record victory over New Zealand in front of a venue record crowd at Optus Stadium, where our Wallaroos shared the stage with the Bledisloe Cup clash for a second straight year on a memorable night.
Speaking of the Wallaroos, plans are well advanced to double their Test match program for 2020 after our women played a record number of matches this year.
Our Men’s and Women’s Sevens teams will soon begin their 2019/20 World Series campaigns in an important year in the lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, where once again the Sevens format will be held up in lights.
A strong focus has been on securing our best up and coming talent and following a comprehensive review of the development pathways our junior representative programs have been revamped, yielding immediate success. Our Junior Wallabies dominated New Zealand to win the Oceania Championship and then came within a point of claiming the World Cup.
The positive sign for the future is that over 90% of our Junior Wallabies squad has been locked in long-term with Australian Rugby and many are now making their mark in Super Rugby and the National Rugby Championship.
This is just some of the news I wanted to highlight on the eve of what promises to be an incredible Rugby World Cup in Japan.
I hope you can take some time out with your families to enjoy the spectacle of the World Cup and get loud and proud in support of the Wallabies wherever you are watching them.
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Q&A: Pershing’s Jim Crowley Takes the Helm as CEO
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In early May, clearing and custody provider Pershing, a unit of BNY Mellon, announced that Lisa Dolly would step down as CEO after three years in the role. Jim Crowley, chief operating officer, takes over for Dolly on Monday after 37 years with the firm in various roles.
Dolly and Crowley have worked closely together in recent years, even sharing an office. (The firm has been tight-lipped about her departure.) She leaves after three decades at the firm, previously serving as its COO in 2013 before being promoted to CEO in 2016.
Crowley takes over a business that encompasses 1,300 clients worldwide, including 744 registered investment advisors, and $1.8 trillion in assets, $665 billion of which are advisory assets, as of the end of March.
WealthManagement.com chatted with Crowley about his top priorities in the role, the convergence of the advisory and transactional business models, and the firm’s stance on Regulation Best Interest.
WealthManagement.com: What was your first role at Pershing?
Jim Crowley: I started in November of 1982, and the first thing I was asked to do was to work for our head of marketing and sales. I was immediately thrown into the client business. So the fellow that I worked for at the time really had me engaged with helping him talk about and prepare for how Pershing was uniquely positioned to serve this client or that client, which at the time were regional broker/dealers. I think it was the Kool-Aid that I drank in those early days that got me hooked on understanding what the client experience was all about.
WM: What’s your first order of business as CEO?
JC: First order of business is for the people at BNY Mellon and Pershing and our clients to know that there's a steady hand on the wheel and that there aren't going to be any sharp turns to the left or to the right.
From an execution perspective, we're going to stay very focused on this global shift to wealth advisory. We're going to be very focused on our technology and this integrated, intelligent, open architecture strategy. Third is, how do we create a noticeably superior experience for our clients?
WM: Which business is doing better: clearing or custody?
JC: While we have teams that are serving those market segments, the way that we think about the investments in our company, including the talent and the technology, we think about in a broader sense of who we serve and how we serve them. With the wealth and advisory business—those models are converging, and regulatory regimes are also converging, with Reg BI and states and fiduciary proposals. The advisory model is growing faster than the commission model, so from a growth perspective, one is growing faster than the other, albeit from a different base.
Overall, we are becoming the choice for those large, complex financial services companies as an outsourcing destination: the largest wealth managers, private client services groups, institutional businesses, bank platform businesses, advisory firms, prime brokers.
WM: How you’re seeing the business models converging? For instance, HighTower’s CEO, Bob Oros, recently joined the board of the Financial Services Institute.
JC: FSI is a trade association that long has been dependent upon the broker/dealer community. It has, I think correctly so, opened their doors to advisors that opened their doors to RIA franchisees because they recognize that it's in our collective interest. Whether you're an RIA or broker/dealer, we should be serving the best interests of the clients first. It creates efficiency, drive for scalability, productivity into their operating models, and that frankly is what our desire is. What's changed is the client business model, and we're going to stay on this track.
It's a great opportunity for Pershing to support our clients with that other transformation—which is serving advisors away from the grid, so to speak, and serve on a platform of services that they deliver for a fee rather than a commission and a grid transaction.
WM: In a conversation a couple years ago, you said you were seeing a trend of hybrid advisors closing their own RIAs to join their broker/dealer’s corporate RIA. Are you still seeing that?
JC: Has the trajectory been as steep as I would've thought? No. Do I still believe it? Yes. If you don't have professional management behind your firm, it's extremely difficult to grow your business. It's extremely difficult to step into an SEC or state regulatory exam. It's extremely difficult to maintain your technology stack. At a point, it makes all the sense in the world to partner with the people that you know and with the brand that your clients know and use that as your operating platform.
I think over the next three to five years, you will see more and more firms, whether they be RIA firms or broker/dealers, start to become more dependent upon enterprise technology platforms. Tech’s changing all the time. The regulations around it are changing all the time, and you should not want that as a burden that you've got to carry into the future. You should want to figure out, ‘Well, who is really on top of the technology? Who is really partnering with scalable commercially resilient businesses in order to provide those solutions?’ It's going to be the larger firms.
WM: There’s been a lot of hemming and hawing over the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest. What’s Pershing’s stance on it? What are you doing to prepare your clients for it?
JC: I don't think they'll be too much hemming and hawing. I really think that firms will embrace it because, what is there to argue about making certain that their client's best interests are first? You can argue about the challenge of disclosures. It's going to be challenging to disclose potential conflicts. You can hem and haw about implementation timelines and expenses, but the principle itself is hard to knock down.
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Comic Book Review: ‘The Flash’ #16
Posted February 2nd, 2013 by Jax Motes
At the end of the last issue, The Flash experienced a new super power using his brain at super speed in order to predict every possible result of the war against Grodd and his gorilla army. Unfortunately, none of the outcomes were good, so Barry Allen decided to turn himself over to Grodd who wants access to the Speed Force, which super charges him but, has also turned him into an addict.
Meanwhile, The Rogue’s take the fight to the gorillas and save a bus full of passengers, including Iris West’s brother Daniel who has a subplot going on about him having been sent to prison years earlier.
Iris herself and a group of civilians are trapped within the Speed Force, inside of an old, not-functioning Soviet tank, being attacked by a woolly mammoth. Outside, despite turning himself over to Grodd, The Flash unleashes his speed energy to suck Grodd into the Speed Force.
I’m enjoying this series in general and this storyline is entertaining, but I do feel like it’s dragging a bit at this point. I think it might be that there’s simply too much going on. This issue opened with a flashback to five years ago, with Barry eating lunch with Iris, who is seeking his help with her brother’s trial. Then we catch up to the brother in the present, in the middle of The Rogues’ sequence. Speaking of The Rogues, they each get a moment in the spotlight but their scene overall feels brief. Then there’s Iris and her group inside the Speed Force and oh yeah, we also have a scene at the beginning showing Barry saying goodbye to his current girlfriend Patty. There are just so many different storylines going on to the point that in some cases, the scenes feel too brief and not enough feels resolved. And that makes the overall story drag.
But it looks great! Francis Manapul art is just amazing. It really shines when he thinks outside the box and plays with non-traditional page layouts. In the beginning, as The Flash is running to meet Grodd, the pages are rendered with jagged, lightning-shaped borders. Toward the end, as The Flash cuts loose with his powers, the pages look like rock that is crumbling apart. Most of the rest of the pages are more conventional, but they still look incredible.
So stunning artwork, but kind of a dragging storyline… it’s still well-written, just slow (even for The Flash).
Script and Cover by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato
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Trilingualism and Uyghur identity in the People’s Republic of China
Mamtimyn SUNUODULA, Anwei FENG, Robert Damian ADAMSON
Department of International Education (IE)
In some ways similar to the last chapter, this chapter looks at the sociopolitical implications for identity faced with language choice. The difference in this chapter is that the choices are faced with the uninvited encroachment of Han Mandarin language and culture upon an unwilling Uyghur population. Uyghurs feel they have to learn Mandarin as their own language no longer enjoys institutional recognition. However, in similarity with the last chapter English represents a global opportunity for economic success and an empowerment to rival Mandarin. We see, in this chapter, that language is a ‘double-edged sword’ in that it can liberate identity as well as impose constraints on identity. Copyright © 2015 Bloomsbury Academic.
Language and identity: Discourse in the world
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Sunuodula, M., Feng, A., & Adamson, B. (2015). Trilingualism and Uyghur identity in the People’s Republic of China. In D. Evans (Ed.), Language and identity: Discourse in the world (pp.81-104). New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
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SGX RegCo teams up with professional body of valuers to tackle problem of questionable valuations
Chan Chao Peh
The Edge Singapore 27 January 2019
SINGAPORE (Jan 28): The Singapore Exchange Regulation has enlisted the help of the professional body of valuers, to bring its expertise to bear when listed companies face questions over the value of assets in potential deals.
Under a memorandum of understanding signed between SGX RegCo and the Institute of Valuers and Appraisals, Singapore (IVAS), which is part of the Singapore Accountancy Commission, the exchange can turn to the institute for expert advice and support on matters related to business valuation.
IVAS, according to SGX RegCo, can help check if valuaton reports are conducted and prepared in compliance with applicable codes and standards. “It is important that investors have confidence in valuations,” says SGX RegCo CEO Tan Boon Gin.
The MOU between SGX RegCo and IVAS follows an earlier tie-up between SGX RegCo and the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV), which focuses on real estate valuations. Last June, both parties jointly launched a valuation reporting guide for listed companies and REITs.
SGX’s partnership with SISV is to help address potential concerns in the valuation of properties – an increasingly important element in Singapore’s REIT-heavy stock market.
The latest collaboration with IVAS, on the other hand, addresses concerns over valuations of business assets. Similarly, this could be a growing problem as SGX tries to add to the variety of companies listed here.
Even with certain commonly-accepted parameters, valuation is an art that has an inevitable subjective element, as different valuers or analysts use different assumptions for their forecast. These might include utilisation rate of an asset and cost of funding. Depending on the timeframe involved, this can lead to significant differences in the final appraised figure of an asset.
Over the past few years, there had been a string of transactions undertaken or attempted by SGX listed entities based on doubtful valuations.
In 2017, a group of minority unitholders of Sabanah REIT took issue with the price at which the REIT manager acquired new properties. The minorities’ attempt to oust the board failed, but the REIT manager’s CEO quit eventually.
See: Disgruntled Sabana REIT unitholder lodges complaint with CAD over valuation of Changi South property
There were also several questionable deals done by companies in the mining, oil and gas sector where it is common to inflate the valuation of an asset in deals, using correspondingly inflated share prices.
In 2016, ISR Capital commissioned two valuation reports that each tacked a valuation of more than US$1 billion to a mining asset it tried to buy. Upon several rounds of scrutiny by SGX and other concerned parties, a third report valued the asset at just US$48 million.
See: Third independent assessment puts 'most likely value' of ISR Capital's Madagascar concession at US$48 mil
In an episode with far wider ramifications than ISR, Hong Kong-based commodities giant Noble Group had been criticised, for years, by a former employee and other parties for over-stating the value of its assets while understating the value of its liabilities. Last November, Singapore authorities finally announced a formal investigation on the company.
See: Noble's auditors come under fire
In Noble’s case, the auditor for the company, EY Hong Kong, has maintained the accounts are proper. Even with SGX’s specific request to go through the books again, EY Hong Kong said it has reviewed at least 80% of the contracts under scrutiny and found nothing amiss. Yet, substantial write-down followed. “The auditor nailed his colours to the mast,” says Tan.
Tackling audits
In addition, to address the roles of auditors and audit committees, SGX RegCo plans to continue with its more “interventionist” approach.
For one, SGX RegCo plans to be more active in determining the scope of the year-end statutory audit of certain companies, to include specific issues to be addressed, based on SGX RegCo’s own review of those companies in the prior year.
SGX RegCo also wants to make it compulsory for a Singapore-based auditor is required to sign off on year-end audits. Currently, the listed companies, citing their extensive overseas operations outside Singapore, can engage overseas auditors, like Noble hiring EY Hong Kong, to take on this responsibility alone.
“A Singapore-based auditor can give us more regulatory traction, or access. If they are based in Singapore, they will come under ACRA’s purview,” says Tan, referring to the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.
Tan adds that thus far, only around 20 Singapore-listed companies do not have a Singapore-based auditor signing off. New listings almost always have a Singapore-based auditor.
SGX RegCo is also signalling a tougher stance when it comes to the scope and responsibility of special auditors appointed when companies fall foul of certain deals or their books are questioned.
It can already appoint special auditors and SGX RegCo has done so several times when detailed probes have to be made. In the recent case of SBI Offshore, SGX RegCo has also made the company appoint a special auditor that has to report “exclusively” to SGX RegCo. Other special audits tend to go to the company boards first.
See: SGX RegCo orders Mirzan Mahathir-linked SBI Offshore to make special audit
As the worldwide auditing industry is dominated by the so-called Big Four, Tan urges the community not to “close ranks”, and instead have the “gumption to take a professional stance” when laws and regulations are breached.
He urges them not to hide behind terms of engagement, or expressing themselves in a language so vague that there is nothing specific enough for SGX RegCo to act on.
Tan reminds the auditing profession that appointments as special auditors oblige them to carry out the tasks in a “credible manner”.
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Six Flags' new West Coast Customs roller coaster has 'drag races'
Tony Markovich
Autoblog 14 January 2020
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The people at Six Flags Magic Mountain, which sits north of Los Angeles, have been hard at work on a new part of the park called The Underground. The "L.A.-centric urban-themed area" is said to have a "high-energy street vibe" and includes the Apocalypse wooden roller coaster and Cyclone 500 go-karts, with dining, games, and retail on the way. A new ride called West Coast Racers, a collaboration with West Coast Customs (WCC), just opened and will serve as the centerpiece of the new space.
Six Flags claims West Coast Racers is "the world’s first single track quadruple launch racing coaster." Translated, it will have dueling tracks, and on each track, there are four separate magnetic launches within the ride. This also includes two launches next to the other track for some fun drag races. Each trip on the ride will include two laps, and at one point, a simulated pit stop will be narrated by WCC Founder and CEO Ryan Friedlinghaus.
At maximum, the ride will hit 55 mph, but the track isn't all straights. West Coast Racers has four total inversions (three zero-G rolls and a zero-G stall), 14 track crossovers, side-by-side hills, and plenty of overbanked turns.
Somewhat surprisingly, the collaboration between Six Flags and WCC goes deeper than a brand and a logo. WCC says it helped create the look and feel of the ride, and the shop designed and built the coaster cars.
West Coast Racers is one of Six Flags' biggest 2020 launches, and it is open now. A single-day ticket to Six Flags Magic Mountain is listed at $62.99, while a season pass costs $92.99.
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5 Senses, One Sensational City: Learn how Celeb Mum Tara Sharma discovers Dubai's hidden gems while travelling with her kids
theAsianparent have partnered with Holiday Inn® to inspire your next family adventure. Travel with celeb mum Tara Sharma for a unique way of exploring Dubai with kids!
Bollywood actress and celebrity mum Tara Sharma is no stranger to Dubai. She’s been a frequent visitor to the Emirate’s City of Gold for a decade now, for both work and leisure. Tara even shot a song sequence for one of her well-known Bollywood films, “Om Jai Jagdish” (2002) on the sand dunes of Dubai!
Recently, Tara re-visited the same rolling sand dunes as well as some other hidden gems of this wonderful city. But this time, she had her two adorable munchkins and husband in tow, with a challenge to discover the city in a very special way.
What was the challenge? It was to explore this sparkling city through their five senses of taste, sight, touch, smell and sound.
We wanted to know more about this intriguing method of exploring Dubai with kids, so we got chatting with Tara to find out exactly how and why she did this. You can also watch the video at the end of the article to see how she tackled this challenge!
Dubai with kids: A sense-sational experience!
Some of the most amazing memories you get from travelling with your family are recorded through a multi-faceted process of sensation - the sights, smells, tastes of a destination linger on long after you return home. And this is exactly what Tara realised and wanted to explore further with her family.
“I tend to forget how much we as human beings are capable of observing,” she says. “So, yes, using senses to experience the city made me realise that.”
The challenge was not only for her but for the entire family. How did the kids react when she told them that they were going to experience Dubai through the five senses?
“I think they were surprised but they were also curious. Curiosity makes kids enthusiastic about certain things,” she says.
Tara also explained that her boys had already learned about the five senses at school, which heightened their excitement about the holiday even further.
Naturally, as a family, they had a discussion about this unique way of discovering Dubai before heading there. But at the same time they did not want to make the whole trip too academic by going into too many details about the process.
“As a family holiday, the priority was to relax and enjoy it and the learning that happens along the way is always a benefit,” she says.
Five senses, one incredible city
When they started off for Dubai, they did not have any specific learning in mind.
“The way we had structured the trip was that each outing was exploring one specific sense,” says Tara.
“It was not possible to explore just one sense at a time,” she says, adding a caveat. Some senses overlapped during an event or while enjoying an attraction. Sounds natural enough!
Here are the major highlights of Tara and her family’s exploration of Dubai employing the five senses.
1. Hanging with Dinosaurs in Dubai
To explore the sense of sight, Tara’s family visited Dubai’s IMG Worlds of Adventure, which is Asia’s largest indoor park.
One of the attractions in the park was the merry-go-round that had various species of dinosaurs mounted on it instead of regular ponies. Tara explains that the carousel was less energetic than what the boys were used to, but they still had a blast! Also, the beautifully painted dinosaurs were a treat to the eyes!
Another visual sensation at this park is the Avengers Battle of Ultron Ride. Here, you’ll join Marvel heroes such as Iron Man and Thor in an intense battle to defeat the villain Ultron – and all this in sharp 3-D clarity!
2. An adrenaline rush with sand-duning and sand-bashing
Among the outdoor activities, the entire family enjoyed the sand-surfing experience quite a lot. It was challenging and at the same time great fun for them. This even became the highlight event of their Dubai trip!
With the heat of the sun kissing their skin and the feel of sand between their toes, their sense of touch was certainly set alight.
“The hot favourite among the activities was sand-surfing and the wadi bashing (sand-bashing),” Tara remembers with a good deal of excitement. “Kids could do it so easily. They were falling all over the place!” she adds.
Tara mentions that that it was hard work climbing back to the top of the dune – and the kids also realised that about walking in the sand. After a while she and her husband got tired but the local team leading the activity were very good spirited and kept up with the boys demands of “again and again!”
Coincidentally, these were the same sand dunes where she shot the film Om Jai Jagdish over a decade ago with her co-star Abhishek Bachchan, and now, here she was with her kids trying out things she had never done previously!
The scorching heat of Dubai failed to dampen the spirits of the boys, teaching them lessons of grit and resilience.
The up and down journey to the sand dunes itself was rather challenging. “It’s quite scary in the Land Rover,” she remembers, as the wheels swerve and slip dangerously on the sand dunes. But this experience too just added to the overall sense of adventure they all enjoyed so much.
3. Dining and dancing, Emirati style
Enjoying delectable local delicacies provided Tara’s family with plenty of opportunities to deploy their sense of taste.
They decided to tickle their taste buds with Emirati food. “We really focused on the taste aspect,” Tara says.
“It was again interesting for the kids because they were more curious to try. As kids can be fussy, the curiosity for exploring the taste got them to eat better. The Emirati cuisine is very similar to Indian cuisine. They were actually quite happy because they had bread and naan and they enjoyed it.” The restaurant’s decor, with a fake camel inside it, added to the whole Emirati ambience.
Tanoura dancing (a kind of folkloric dance developed from sufi dance in Turkey and Egypt, distinguished by the use of a multicoloured skirt) provided the right outlet to explore the senses of sound and sight for Tara’s family.
When the dancer’s body moved in a rhythmic confluence with the Arabian music, the brightly neon-lit skirt (“Tanoura” means “skirt” in English) swirled in the air, creating a magical effect.
Tara and her kids enjoyed the dance and Tara, along with her husband, tried some moves with the performer.
Despite having loads of experience with Bollywood dance, Tara admitted she was a bit embarrassed to make these moves, but she still managed to pull it off! The kids had a good laugh throughout the performance, but were too shy to try out the dance moves themselves.
While exploring the city, Tara and her husband had some me-time too, thanks to their little ones keeping each other occupied. “The siblings were great companions to each other. They played together quite a lot, including playing imaginary games, and kept each other entertained,” she says.
4. On the spice trail
To stimulate their collective sense of smell, Tara decided to take her family to the Spice Souk, or the market of spices. “It’s very impressive. Again having been to Dubai several times, I never visited the Spice Souk. Visually and fragrance-wise it was very interesting as there were various smells and we were encouraged to ask about it and the kids could ask about it,” she remembers fondly.
Many of the spices in the market were familiar to her and her family, but some were new to them too.
“The visit was nice as it makes you realise sometimes what you overlook. You see things that are different and things that are similar (to what you see in India) and then you can relate to things,” she says. In the spice market, the senses of touch and smell mingled as the kids felt the textures of the various spices and inhaled their gorgeous fragrances.
The walk through the Spice Souk stayed with Zen and Kai even after they returned to Mumbai, India. They had even taken some spices home and the boys were excited about showing them to their grandmother, and talking about what they had seen.
5. The world as a classroom in Dubai
Exploring Dubai with the five senses offered a culturally rich experience to Tara and her family.
“Everything you do teaches you something,” she says. “Without being academic about it...we had such a great time and we had new experiences...I think they (Zen and Kai) had tremendous learning. They carried their own little backpacks, for example. They have to learn very quickly to be responsible and independent.”
Dubai being a cosmopolitan city, the children were exposed to some foreign languages too. For example, they picked up some Arabic phrases.
Tara’s husband knows a little bit of Arabic and he used a smattering of it here and there and kids were inspired by it, says Tara.
For Tara and her family, their stay at Holiday Inn® Dubai was also very enjoyable. The rooms were spacious and family-friendly, the staff were lovely and friendly, and the hotel provided a safe environment. Its location was very convenient as it close to a mall which had a play area for kids. The hotel had good food and offered kid-friendly activities too.
“I must say Holiday Inn® was a lovely place to stay--it was a very nice hotel room-wise and had a lot of space. Kids really enjoyed their stay there. People were very nice,” she says enthusiastically.
Tara could really relax and enjoy the trip as the itinerary was planned by the host, Holiday Inn®. “Going on a planned trip with people who are taking care of your activities is quite an amazing thing,” she admits, laughing sweetly.
However, it does not mean that they did not do any of their own fun research. To explore the Emirate’s paradise island involving the five senses, her family found the Little Big Travellers website very useful.
6. An unforgettable time for family bonding
“I am not very tech savvy but the kids are. They were very excited to click on the Little Big Travellers website and figure out what to do. When you are on a short trip, efficiency is also quite important. It was quite nice and clear and helped us to choose the places,” she says.
Learnings and memories of the trip have stayed with Zen and Kai. “Yes, they talk about it often,” reminisces Tara. “Recently they had to share some anecdotes from some wonderful holiday in school and they spoke about it. It definitely had a positive impact.”
Tara believes that travel is a wonderful way, for both adults and kids, to explore and learn so much about the world- we learn about new cultures and become empathetic towards other people and places.
In a nutshell, travel teaches you more than you ever thought it could!
Tara’s recommendation is that all mums and dads and their little ones go out and travel wherever possible. She also encourages all forms of travel. “Not everyone can go on international trips. I think any kind of outing, whether it is local or a short journey or long one, it just opens your mind. It shows you that there is a bigger world out there,” she says. We couldn’t agree more!
WATCH! Tara Sharma’s sensational vacation in Dubai with her family:
Happy travels to you, mums, dads and kids!
This article was brought to you by Holiday Inn®. Explore Dubai for more unique experiences to have with your kids at www.LittleBigTravellers.com. At Holiday Inn®, kids 12 and under stay and eat for free! Discover the Joy of Travel with us today.
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For Those in Need
Napa vineyard worker struggles to pay bills after cancer keeps her out of fields
Margarita Viorato, at her Napa apartment, was without work after the Wine Country fires in October 2017.
Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
Margarita Viorato missed working. And she needed to keep working.
Viorato, a 48-year-old from Napa, stopped working at vineyards, where she toiled in fields as well as cellars, soon after doctors determined in summer 2018 that a little ball she felt in her chest was cancer.
“When you get that kind of news, you think about your kids,” she said. “It’s difficult.”
Fear spread through Viorato as she reflected on the lives of her 20-year-old son who wants to be a firefighter and her 17-year-old daughter who is in high school.
“I had seen that a lot of people get ill,” she said.
Viorato underwent surgery in September 2018. Then came chemotherapy treatment once a week for about six months and daily radiation treatment for about 20 days to eradicate the cancer.
“I stayed strong,” she said.
But Viorato’s strength could not curb her bills — credit cards, loan payments and rent — from piling up.
She planned to rent out a room in her apartment. Her son, who is in college, picked up a part-time job at a restaurant. She started receiving disability benefits after she had to stop working, but one month this spring, all the costs ballooned while she was out of work. She could not afford to pay her rent. She worried she’d be evicted.
(L) Margarita Viorato holds childhood photos of her children Jocelyn Ochoa, now 17, and Jose Zepeda, now 20. They live with her in her Napa apartment. (R) Margarita Viorato organizes the kitchen at her apartment. Season of Sharing provided help with her rent.
Photos: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle
But then a woman that Viorato had met shortly after wildfires raged in Napa mentioned the Season of Sharing Fund.
The Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund works year-round to prevent homelessness and hunger in the nine-county Bay Area. Donations to the Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund help thousands of people in the Bay Area throughout the year, with administrative costs covered by The Chronicle and the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund. Assistance is in the form of grants paid directly to the supplier of services, such as a landlord.
Blanca Macias met Viorato when fires ravaged the North Bay in October 2017, putting Viorato out of work. When Viorato sought help in the spring, she ran into Macias, who told her about the Season of Sharing Fund.
“She is a warrior because even with the cancer she had to confront, she continues working because she is a single mother,” said Macias, a caseworker with Neighborhood Initiative, a Napa organization that provides resources to families. “She is a woman with a personality that transmits a lot of peace.”
Season of Sharing helped Viorato pay a month’s rent, and she said the aid made it easier for her to pay off other bills.
“If I hadn’t gotten help, what was I going to do?” she wondered in a recent interview, repeatedly expressing her gratitude. “I felt less drowned.”
Now, Viorato, who has worked at vineyards for more than a decade, can go back to doing what she loves. A seasonal worker, she has not had steady work recently. But it has been sufficient to keep her afloat — and happier.
“I would prefer 1,000 times over to be working than being stuck at home,” she said.
She said she enjoys watching wine production unfurl, be it helping clear grape vines in the fields or packing bottles of wine.
And since completing treatment, Viorato’s cancer has stayed away.
“Let’s hope it remains that way,” she said.
Alejandro Serrano is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: alejandro.serrano@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @serrano_alej
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Forge Ahead Arts to host reception for new art installation
Emily Alvarenga
Some 550 painted mouse traps of the exhibit entitled SNAP!. The art will hang at the Town Center Art Space until November 1st, on the second floor of the Westfield Valencia Town Center in Valencia on Wednesday. Dan Watson/The Signal
Forge Ahead Arts, a nonprofit arts organization, with the help of the city of Santa Clarita, has created SNAP, a new art installation on display at the Westfield Valencia Town Center Art Space.
A reception celebrating the installation is scheduled for Saturday, July 13, so guests can experience the art and have an opportunity to meet the artists.
“This is kind of an interesting project as it’s been several years in the making,” said Executive Director Stephanie O’Connor. “(The idea) was first conceived when we were installing our first piece at the mall (in 2015).”
Artists Moire Lendering prepares to hang some of the panels displaying the 550 painted mouse traps of the exhibit entitled SNAP! on Wednesday which will hang at the Town Center Art Space until November 1st, on the second floor of the Westfield Valencia Town Center in Valencia. Dan Watson/The Signal
This installation focuses on all the visual stimuli, such as media, advertising and the internet, that are “attempting to persuade, lure and direct us,” said O’Connor.
“Our philosophy around art is that one of the roles of art is to highlight different questions and concerns in society, not to provide an answer, but just to shine light on different questions,” O’Connor said. “Artists started noticing ways that art is used to bring people in. In the world we live in, everything is so fast-paced, and everything has to reach out and grab your attention in some way. It’s interesting for us as artists to look at that.”
Artists Moire Lendering, center and Martha Wilcox discuss placement of the panels displaying the 550 painted mouse traps of the exhibit entitled SNAP! on Wednesday. The art will hang at the Town Center Art Space until November 1st, on the second floor of the Westfield Valencia Town Center in Valencia on Wednesday. Dan Watson/The Signal
The piece aims to analyze “what ideas move us to action and what forces influence our beliefs and desires,” O’Connor added.
The installation is scheduled to be on display through Nov. 1, with a reception held 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at the Town Center Art Space in the Westfield Valencia Town Center, located at 24201 West Valencia Blvd. For more information, visit forgeaheadarts.org.
Artists Moire Lendering, center, and Martha Wilcox, on the ladder, hang some of the panels displaying the 550 painted mouse traps of the exhibit entitled SNAP! on Wednesday. The art will hang at the Town Center Art Space until November 1st, on the second floor of the Westfield Valencia Town Center in Valencia on Wednesday. Dan Watson/The Signal
Emily Alvarenga covers features and business for The Signal. She's new to the paper and Santa Clarita, but hasn't moved far from her hometown of Temecula, California. Emily graduated from San Diego State University in 2017 and has been writing and reporting since high school.
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Local water officials tackle emerging national problem
Jim Holt
SCV Water Agency board members discussed ways of tackling the problem of a non-stick chemical suspected of being carcinogenic in 17 agency wells, after being informed of the issue earlier this week.
On Tuesday night, members of the agency’s board received official word from staffers that trace amounts of a chemical called PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances, were found in 17 of its wells, requiring them to now notify key agencies about the discovery.
The trace amounts were so minuscule that none of wells required being shut down under state-set guidelines.
“Like many communities across the nation, we are finding tiny amounts of PFAS in our water supply,” Matt Stone, the agency’s general manager, wrote in a statement issued Tuesday. “We are taking immediate steps to tackle these substances through new strategies and proven treatment options.
“Our customers are our top priority, and we are committed to rigorously testing and treating our water thousands of times per year to ensure it meets or surpasses all water-quality standards and is safe to drink for our customers.”
The agency has already begun work on a new $5 million “quick-start” water treatment plant next to the William S. Hart Pony Baseball & Softball park to remove the chemical from groundwater in the Santa Clara River.
In August, the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Drinking Water handed down new guidelines for local water agencies to follow in detecting and reporting the presence of the two chemicals in drinking water that make up PFAS — perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS).
The state lowered the notification levels by more than half, to 6.5 parts per trillion for PFOS and 5.1 ppt for PFOA. Under these new levels, more wells fell within notification levels.
One well was removed from service in May when it exceeded DDW’s interim response level of a combined 70 ppt for PFOS and PFOA.
This interim response level is expected to be reviewed by the DDW this fall, agency spokeswoman Kathie Martin said Tuesday.
For perspective, she noted, one part per trillion is a microscopic measurement for something in the water and would be equal to four grains of sugar in an Olympic-size swimming pool.
SCV Water customers are expected to be notified by the agency through its website, newsletter and annual Consumer Confidence Report on water quality.
“We are committed to transparently communicating all water quality changes and how we plan to address them with our customers,” Stone said Tuesday.
On Twitter: @jamesarthurholt
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Query: Communications equipment
510 records — Page 20 of 51
40 Cubic feet (85 boxes, 1 oversize folder)
This collection consists of archival materials compiled by National Museum of American History Curator Katherine Ott, on numerous subjects relating to disability and the rights of the disabled.
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
Warshaw, Isadore, d. 1969
1,150 Cubic feet (approximately. Series 1 contains approximately 1108 cubic feet consisting of approximately 2050 boxes, approximately 326 oversize boxes, and map case material. Additional material in Series 2-4 is unquantified. With also, some digital images of select collection materials.)
The Warshaw Collection consists of approximately 1,150 cubic feet of material currently contained in approximately 2,050 vertical document boxes, approximately 326 flat oversize boxes, 34 map case drawers of oversize materials, 56 volumes of photographic photo prints, 17 boxes of 4 x 5 color transparencies and black and white photonegatives, 11 box...
Serge A. Scherbatskoy Papers
Scherbatskoy, Serge A., 1908-2002
17 Cubic feet (39 boxes)
Collection documents the professional career and business interests of inventor Serge A. Scherbatskoy, who specialized in petroleum geophysics. Papers include laboratory notebooks, license agreements, correspondence, blue line prints, patent litigation files, newspaper clippings, reference files, patents, promotional literature, and audio-visual materials.
Greenleaf Pickard Notebooks and Nikola Tesla Patents
Pickard, Greenleaf Whittier, 1877-1956
Cardwell Condenser Corporation (Lindenhurst, New York)
1 Cubic foot (5 boxes)
The collection documents Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, an engineer, and his experiments in wireless technology. Materials include Greenleaf Pickard notebooks and patents issued to Nikola Tesla.
Magellan Systems Corporation GPS Records
Magellan GPS
bulk 1986-1998
The Magellan Systems Corporation Records document various aspects of the development of several different Magellan GPS devices through engineering, research, design, manufacturing, and marketing records. Magellan Systems Corporation introduced the first hand-held differential GPS product and the conpany's focus was on research, product engineering, and design activities for GPS receivers. The collection includes correspondence and internal company reports and memoranda; design drawings; research notes; engineering notebooks, technical notes, schematics; photographs, slides and negatives; video and audiocassettes; advertisements; product literature, magazine articles and newspaper clippings; press releases; and user guides and manuals.
Bill Nye Papers
Nye, Bill
The collection documents Bill Nye's early life, his Science Guy persona and its development for his television program Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Mariner 2 Interview
(Reference copies).
Record Unit 9535
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
Medical Imaging Interviews
.rm files (Reference copies).
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Metals
1.86 Cubic feet (consisting of 4 boxes, 1 folder, 2 oversize folders.)
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Metals
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Metals forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
United Shoe Machinery Corporation Records
United Shoe Machinery Corporation
145 Cubic feet (296 boxes)
The collection documents the activities of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Massachusetts, manufacturers of shoe machinery equipment. The collection consists of engineering records, legal records, research and development records, employee/personnel records, correspondence, company catalogs, product literature, advertising materials, photographs, and moving images.
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Transport, Cars
Former U.S. Attorney General Is Lobbying on Behalf of Uber Against Safety Checks
Josh Cornfield, Associated Press
- Jun 09, 2016 2:00 pm
Uber’s hiring of political heavyweights to staff its policy team appears to be paying dividends.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has written to lawmakers on behalf of Uber to argue against the use of fingerprint-based background checks as they consider how to regulate ride-hailing service drivers.
A letter from Holder making the case that fingerprint checks are an unfair way to screen job candidates and potentially discriminatory was sent this month to lawmakers in New Jersey and Chicago.
Holder’s firm advises the company on safety matters and Uber asked him to write the letter, according to company spokesman Craig Ewer. Uber and Lyft, both based in San Francisco, pulled out of Austin, Texas, last month after voters decided against overturning city requirements requiring the checks.
New Jersey lawmakers are debating two different bills to regulate the industry. A state Assembly measure includes the fingerprint requirement, while a state Senate version would require checks without fingerprinting.
Chicago’s proposal would require ride-sharing drivers to get a chauffeur’s license, and undergo a criminal background check and fingerprinting. Democratic Alderman Anthony Beale, who proposed the measure, said he hopes the full Council will vote on it this month.
Holder wrote last week that because of deficiencies in the FBI’s database, fingerprint checks can prevent people from getting jobs even if they were never convicted of crimes. He said requiring fingerprint checks can discriminate against minorities.
He wrote that the purpose of the FBI database is to aid law enforcement during investigations and investigators are expected to follow up on information to determine whether it is complete.
“It was not designed to be used to determine whether or not someone is eligible for a work opportunity. Relying on it for that purpose is both unwise and unfair,” he said in a letter sent to Democratic New Jersey Sen. Paul Sarlo, chairman of the committee weighing the measure. The rest of the Legislature was copied in on the message.
Sarlo said Holder’s letter “definitely has some influence and I think the committee is weighing that letter.”
Sarlo said regulation of the industry is needed and must include background checks, but lawmakers are still debating whether to include fingerprinting.
Uber’s drivers are required to go through fingerprint background checks in New York City as part of individual licensing with the city. There is no statewide regulation requiring fingerprint background checks for New Jersey cab drivers, but they are required for limo drivers.
The Limousine Association of New Jersey has come out strongly in favor of the fingerprint background checks, arguing in a statement this week that they are “a must to adequately protect the riding public.”
Ana Mahony, general manager of Uber Technologies in New Jersey, told lawmakers at a Monday committee hearing on the Senate measure that fingerprint-based background checks are flawed and incomplete.
State Sen. Anthony Bucco, a Republican from Morris County, told Mahony he couldn’t support the regulation without the fingerprint check. He said he “can’t understand your objections to fingerprinting” and noted that even Little League coaches are fingerprinted in New Jersey.
Sarlo delayed a vote on the Senate bill until he could speak with sponsors of the Assembly measure. He said he’s hopeful to have a measure passed this month.
Associated Press writer Jason Keyser in Chicago contributed to this story.
This article was written by Josh Cornfield from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
Tags: politics, safety, uber
Photo Credit: Former Attorney General Eric Holder speaking in 2014. US Department of Education / Flickr
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15-Nov-2018 by Alethea Sandiford
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In five trials, acupuncture was compared to a drug proven to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks, but only three trials provided useful information. drugs originally developed for epilepsy, depression, or high blood pressure to prevent future attacks have been shown to be extremely effective in treating migraine. The best way to deal with migraine headache problems is to sufficiently educate the patients about all that causes the disease and how to avoid it. I had one patient that went on our list of avoidance and her migraine headaches were much. Most people have headaches once in a while, but not everyone gets the same type of headache and some people get more than one type of headache. What is involved in applying for the botox® program to treat migraine headaches. “migraines are the result of a perfect storm,” said dr. However, in about 60% of adolescents who experience their first migraine as an adolescent, the migraines continue off and on for many years. “headaches represent a significant cause of unit attrition in personnel deployed in military operations,” the study concluded. "many studies show conflicting findings on how weather, including elements like barometric pressure and humidity, affect the onset of headaches, geoffrey martin says. Headache and migraine is one of the most, if not, the most common ailment known to humankind. depending on the triggers of the migraines, treatment must be individualized to each patient and often involves a combination of medications and lifestyle modifications. Only 20 to 30 percent of migraine sufferers report auras. And it’s not only the headache sufferer who is impacted: american employers lose more than $13 billion each year as a result of the 113 million lost work days due to migraine, the migraine research foundation reports. One might notice the appearance of an aura or little cross-hatches or jagged lines in the visual field which alert that a migraine is on the way. Painkillers like ibuprofen, acetaminophen, and aspirin often didn’t work; to the point that if i went to bed with a migraine i was 100 percent sure i would wake up with one. Self-reported headache pain rating (0-10) and child quality of life as rated by pedsql™ child and parent-proxy reports. But with a migraine and headache program, a long lasting solution has been found. Migraine alert works by using machine learning to collect and analyze triggers that correlate with the onset of an episode like weather, stress, activity, and sleep. Surprisingly, recent studies show no effect of barometric pressure on migraine headaches, but there really aren’t enough studies to say for certain. 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With tension headaches, the pain is usually mild to moderate and tends to feel more like pressure. In the current study, the researchers based their clinical diagnosis of vestibular migraine on aforementioned guidelines, which were added to the appendix of the international classification of headache disorders (ichd)-3 β version in 2013,. Then, in a pivotal 2002 study, oleson and colleagues injected cgrp into the blood of migraineurs and found that they developed migrainelike headaches within hours, whereas nonmigraineurs got at most a mild headache. Millions of people deal with headaches and migraines on a daily basis. Migraines may run in families. One way surgeons know if surgery will work for a chronic migraine headache sufferer is to try botox treatments, something stout underwent before her surgery. Charles also said that “new treatments could work not just for migraine but other headaches, in lower doses. 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Worldwide, migraines strike roughly 12% of people at least once per year, with women roughly three times as likely as men to have an attack. Dihydroergotamine (dhe), a medication often used for migraine can be effective for some people. While the researchers have found a link, whether the change in bacterial growth is the result of migraines, or is the cause of the migraines, is a topic for further research. Many migraines start with an “aura” before the pain really sets in…so i always tell my patients to get those notes on paper during their aura, before the pain hits hard. It has lots of knowledge about migraines in general, how they are much more than a headache and how you can be getting them without headaches at all. {research update}: acupuncture for the prevention of tension headaches a 2016 research study published by the cochrane library concluded a course of six acupuncture treatments can be a viable option in the treatment of tension-type headaches. Treat migraines and other headaches," by dr. Daily prophylactic medication should be considered whenever migraine attacks occur several times a month or are very severe and do not respond well to abortive medication. Signs and symptoms of migraines. You will be notified in writing 30 days prior to any fee and/or program changes. Delaney said surgery offers another option for treatment since medications have side effects and fail to completely treat migraine headache pain for some patients. You will enjoy the standard package of the migraine and headaches program plus all the bonuses for $49 only. Holy name is the only facility in new jersey offering these types of treatment to headache patients of all ages. Have you heard of a low tyramine diet for headache. Also, headache symptoms can disturb sleep thereby increasing fatigue, making one susceptible to stress and aggravating headaches. Migraine & headaches program is a natural method that eliminates both migraine and frequent headaches and brings your normal life back. Buchholz says it may be worth giving up caffeine altogether—and suffering through a few days or a week of withdrawal headaches—to see if this reduces the number and intensity of your headaches in the long run. Frontiers in neurology, vestibular rehabilitation was found to ameliorate headache, dizziness, and psychological factors in patients with vestibular migraine or a combination of tension-type headache and dizziness. “the progression of these clinical biprograms for fremanezumab underscores the potential to advance the treatment paradigm for a large portion of the migraine and headache patient community in need,” said dr. The neurologist that wrote the book heads up the headache clinic at john hopkins university. Holy name medical center's headache treatment program specializes in caring for adults, adolescents and children who suffer from intractable migraine headaches, especially for those whom conventional methods of therapy have failed. There do not appear to be any hormonal triggers for migraines in men, although men’s migraines can be triggered by multiple other factors. Excessive use can actually increase headaches. The stress and physical demands of serving in combat areas can trigger head pain, according to experts, and concussions and head traumas increase the likelihood that service members will later develop debilitating headaches and migraines. Alcohol, especially red wine, the sugar substitute aspartame, caffeine, the food seasoning monosodium glutamate (msg), foods such as aged cheese that contain tyramine, and nitrites in foods such as preserved meats may cause migraines. I seem to have a sinus headache nearly every day, and over-the-counter medications don’t seem to work. Hormonal/menstrual issues are the most important trigger of migraine in women. But the international headache society (ihs) publishes criteria for what a migraine is (and isn’t). A migraine headache is characterized by intense throbbing or pulsing, typically in one area or side of your head, and is commonly accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. Typically, natural progesterone cream taken just before the migraine headache is supposed to appear in the cycle, may or may not help with the migraine headache. Some individuals can predict the onset of a migraine because it is preceded by an “aura,” visual disturbances that appear as flashing lights, zig-zag lines or a temporary loss of vision. Even if the drugs work like magicwhich they do for many migraine sufferersoveruse of certain pills (particularly barbiturates, triptans and opiates) can cause rebound headaches. Recent research found those who suffer from migraines have a different variety oral bacteria than those who don’t, breaking down more nitrates and increasing production of nitric oxide. This really helped me to understand the nature of migraines and how it really works: essentially every person has a 'threshold' and once your body reaches that threshold, bingo, migraine. The investigation will be used as a way to learn more about the migraines of an individual and validate the accuracy of the predictive model in a blind study. Most research has focused on the link between depression and migraines, but data show that anxiety conditions are the most common class of psychiatric disorders in the general population and almost twice as common in those suffering from migraines. Migraine and cluster headaches are severe and disabling. I have created downloadable forms for you to begin the daily migraine journey here’s to help and hope—with a dash of humor. The quality of life for patients suffering from a combination of depression/anxiety and migraines is predictably poor. The headaches continued into adulthood, occurring. Talk with your doctor or specialist if you believe your migraine may also be affected by dry eye symptoms as they might be able to recommend over-the-counter or prescription drops to help treat it. Free radicals are highly irritating to the physiology and their presence creates and worsens many disorders, including headaches. It’s the swelling and constriction of the blood vessels in the face and neck that cause headache pain.
Additionally, there are many non-medication treatment options that can help during pregnancy including supplementation with magnesium and biofeedback. We recommend alpha enf to replace food. I've read a few other books on medical topics and they're littered with citations. Whether and how hypnosis works involves greater insight-and research-into the mechanisms underlying human consciousness. The program blends rehabilitation therapies (physical, occupational and recreational therapy), psychological services, medical subspecialty care, alternative therapies (aromatherapy, acupuncture, biofeedback and reiki) and school. ‘in people with migraine, this nerve processing is disrupted and a normal stimulus is perceived as painful. She has developed a set of marble stones designed to be used on the forehead, temples, sinus area and back of the scalp. In nasal spray or injectable form as well as in pills. It has been proven to be extremely effective for relieving nausea and vomiting. Headache researchers are now finding evidence that suggests that moderate exercise can reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks in some people. It is best to do short, frequent sessions. The pain from these headaches usually is felt from the back of the neck radiating to the side of head, temple area, and even behind eye. Patients were assessed for sustained headache relief. Can my headaches be cured. It is a type of primary headache along with cluster and tension headaches. Acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine. This research clearly demonstrates the referral mechanism by which neck dysfunction can cause headaches, even in people who suffer migraine type headaches. Stress can trigger a migraine headache, and migraines can also put the sufferer at risk for stroke. The software produces an easy to follow step by step non-drug program, which includes a clinically proven, patented, formula that provides the brain with the nutrients it needs to make neurotransmitters. There are a number of things that can be taken at headache onset. Difference between headaches and migraines. This new information was confusing because i had always had daily migraines on vacation. The migraine and headache program. Yoga and meditation have been shown to help reduce stress, a known migraine trigger. This exercise can you save you from a horrible headache when you feel it starting to develop. "this therapeutic approach offers new hope for people whose migraines cannot be treated with existing medicine," dr. On a dark rainy day, i have to turn the lights on, but regular incandescent light bulbs are really best for most migraine sufferers. Most migraine patients do not experience auras, but some do. Other medicines treat symptoms of migraine, such as nausea and vomiting. Talk to your doctor about different migraine treatment options if you can't find relief. Complicating a migraine the diagnosis of migraine is that the headaches may be accompanied by other “sinus-like” symptoms, including watering eyes, nasal congestion, and a sense of facial pressure. The best analogy i can thing of is like where you put a sticker on a wall and then come back a week later and try to take it off and you will find it very hard to peel off off. Norman swan: they are not all explained by blood vessels. Until recently, experts recommended avoiding common migraine triggers. Despite the prevalence of pain and pressure in the cheekbone and forehead, allergies and sinuses are rarely the primary causes of headaches. Ayurveda describes how it is these imbalances in the inner intelligence of the body that prevent the natural self-repair processes from removing the physical sources of migraine and headache. More controversial approaches to migraine pain also exist. In our practice, patients have reported major reductions or complete elimination of migraine headaches after treatment with botox®. Exposure to second hand smoke can be a trigger for those with sensitivity and history of migraine. Furthermore, the aura falls under three distinct categories:. Using a special electronic machine, the patient is trained to become aware of, to follow, and to gain control over certain bodily functions, including muscle tension, heart rate, and skin temperature. There are two ways to approach the treatment of migraine headache with drugs: prevent the attacks, or relieve the symptoms during the attacks. Williams further detailed the auras as "troubles including blurriness, bright/flashing dots, wavy or jagged lines. However from time to time i’m tempted to ‘sin’; the last time i devoured an entire fresh bagel i had such a bad migraine, that since then when i’m tempted, i ask myself: “is this sandwich/muffin/wrap is worth the massive debilitating headache to follow. Ear – sinus problems and head – arm pain:. The raj program addresses the primary disorders of migraine, cluster and tension headaches. If the program doesn’t work to suit your needs for whatever reason, just email the support within 60 days from the purchase for a quick, easy and courteous 100% unconditional refund of your payment. 2) use of diet to prevent vata imbalance. I hope that you will share this invitation for participation with your members/patients/ friends/family members with migraine. Also, some people experience complications from migraines such as:. To begin with, the diagnosis is often complicated because there are various types of headaches. They may cause a pressing sensation felt all over head and tend to get worse as the day progresses. How migraine attacks are different. During ten years of experience of working with hypnosis for every type of issue ranging from anxiety, weight loss and chronic pain the positive, rapid results i saw were startling but i did not really understand the biology or the psychoneuroimmunology of hypnosis well enough to satisfy my curiosity. Usually an aura goes away after the migraine attack, but sometimes aura lasts for more than one week afterward. People with migraine also tend to treat themselves progressively by taking less than the prescribed amount of medication at the first sign, and then waiting a few hours before taking more, explains aubé. Key points about migraine headaches. Migraine & headaches program review, do you think that this product is worth buying. This was recommended to me by the neurologist i went to for headaches. Secondary headaches usually resolves when the underlying neurologic or systemic problem is treated. Individuals who experience frequent or severe headaches may benefit from medications taken before the pain starts. Debilitating migraines affect some 36 million americans, yet still is little known about what causes migraines or what the most effective migraine treatments are. Dean watson on behalf of the watson headache. In addition, about 40 percent of the participants who received fremanezumab saw at least a 50 percent reduction in their average number of monthly headaches. Use a migraine diary to find and track triggers so that you can learn how to avoid them. It usually only takes 7-10 minutes. That’s why, if you decide to enroll in the program today, i guarantee your success for a full 8 weeks. She has since learned about the tips and resources available from the nhf, and is not only committed to getting relief, but also to helping others. These medications also appear to have very few side effects, and take only a short time to show an effect, he said. If you have frequent migraines, your doctor may prescribe medicine to reduce the number of attacks. As soon as you complete the form, you will receive an email with information to access the natural migraine and headache program. If you can't exercise for 150 minutes every week, that's okay: you know your body best. Massaging your ears, ear lobes, and the "crown" of your head -- the ring of muscles that circle your head where a crown would sit—can also provide some relief. Norman swan: where was the pain. Most people experience migraines without aura. It is important for me to hear your story to have a full understanding of the processes involved that have led to your particular headache presentation. In acupuncture terms whenever we feel pain there is a blockage of energy (we call qi “chee”) that is prohibiting the flow of nutrients, blood, and energy to an area, thus creating the feeling of pain. Now i am not saying this situation is deliberate. Sumatriptan plus naproxen for the treatment of acute migraine attacks in adults. He says he's testing for the root cause of each person's migraines, not just treating their symptoms. David hunt says migraines have curbed his military career. The idea that csd is the ultimate cause of migraine is still controversial. Understanding the causes of migraine as well as the events that effect them will give researchers the opportunity to develop and test drugs that could be more targeted to preventing or interrupting attacks entirely. Patients with migraine headaches must have experienced at least five prior episodes of head pain lasting four to 72 hours. Stay away from things that can trigger migraine headaches. But moskowitz suspects that csd can cause migraines without the sufferer noticing an aura or connecting it to the headache. We care about your quality of life. A change in your diet and lifestyle may also help over the long-term. Here, we’ll cover what to look for in the best magnesium for migraines. Types of activities that can trigger exertional headaches include coughing, sneezing, running, having a bowel movement and sexual intercourse. ‘migraine is a condition that is very sensitive to whatever is happening in your life,’ says becker. fear/stress/anxiety leads to increased histamine. All that information is available online. For one, like any medication, there is the potential for side effects. This program begins with dr. Therefore, it helps the migraine cocktail be as effective as it is. It can take several months to “map” your triggers. First migraine headache that made him feel as though he was being hit. In this analysis, participants included those with different types of headaches like: episodic migraine, chronic tension-type headache, and chronic migraine headache. Why it’s personal; erin hamlin charts her course what makes headache and migraine such personal conditions is the varying degree of headache and migraine experiences, which can range from mild tension headaches every so often to chronic, crippling migraines. 5% who had heard about us by word of mouth. B vitamin that is also beneficial with migraines. So i want to talk about kids and migraine too. Children and teens are treated in the pediatric and young adult center while adults are treated in a separate adult infusion area. Migraine headaches can have a predictable pattern that can help you recognize and treat them appropriately. I wish i had known about the vicodine last week. Unlike migraines, headaches do not come with a myriad of symptoms. "if greater than a 15-degree difference is noticed between both sides, then the headache is caused by limited neck range of motion. What are some migraine triggers. Simple head muscle exercises that remove tension from the muscles around the head. The raj chronic disorder program is conducted under the supervision of an ayurveda health expert and draws on knowledge from the world's oldest and most complete system of natural health. Headache management is simple and most of the time over-the-counter medication works just fine. Overall, there is a risk that the triptan medications may cause minor unwanted side effects like taste disturbance, nasal symptoms, dizziness, fatigue, low energy, nausea, or vomiting. Loosening impurities from where they have been deeply embedded in tissues. Migraine is typically characterized by severe, recurring head pain, usually located on one side of the head and one or more of the following associated symptoms: nausea; vomiting; and increased sensitivity to light, sound and smell. Recognizing your pre-headache phase gives you time to implement behavior modification techniques or therapies to derail the headache severity. I'm hoping that they disappear completely as time goes on. Based on the study of fifty-five cases. According to the american academy of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery, over 37 million americans suffer from at least one sinus infection-related headache each year. The book addresses just about every concern i've ever had about my headaches from brain tumors to depression. Many migraines can be treated simply with appropriate drug therapy, so further research is needed to help choose the most appropriate patients (if any) to receive hbot. About one in four people who get migraines get auras before or during the headache. Again, if the migraine headache does not vary with the cycle then progesterone therapy and avoiding xenoestrogens will not help. Take a preventative headache medication prescribed by your health care provider. One patient, who is finally free from migraines, shared her story with fox 26 news. the fear leads to increased histamine. Migraine symptoms vary for each individual sufferer, making diagnosis -- the key to an effective treatment program -- complicated. Msg, often disguised as “added natural flavors” on packaging and used in some restaurants (not just chinese), is another known headache inducer. Headache remedies for migraine headaches are usually prescription drugs, such as. Growing recognition has positioned headache and migraine among such issues as post-traumatic stress disorder as a military health concern, and the defense department is funding millions of dollars in research. He got his first migraine. The board approved hydrocephalus, a brain blockage that causes headaches; trigeminal neuralgia, which causes facial nerve pain; and migraines. A migraine can happen spontaneously or be triggered by environmental factors. Allergy sufferers and migraine headache suffers experience some of the same triggers:. Common auras are numbness in the hands and face, tingling sensation, feeling less mentally alert, or an unusual sense of taste, touch, or smell. Migraine headache patients also report to have symptoms of neck pain, tenderness of the spinal joints of the neck, and limited ability to move the neck. Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide, a known headache trigger, and nicotine has been shown to reduce the effectiveness of many, if not most, headache medications by interfering with the liver's ability to break down (metabolize) these drugs. Accordingly, drugs that inhibit the passage of neurotransmitters in brain cells and, therefore, increase their levels, have been examined for their potential benefit in preventing migraine. At loyola, we understand how disruptive headaches and migraines can be. After getting permission to take blood samples from the jugular veins of people who had come to the emergency room for a severe migraine, the researchers measured the amounts of a range of different peptides, including substance p, during and after attacks. It analyzed the effectiveness of various preventive treatments and concluded that triptans, beta-blockers and anti-epileptic drugs prove effective for treating migraines. As a migraine patient who wakes up every day wondering whether i’ll get a headache, i can’t help but feel excited about the monoclonal antibodies. For a "bad migraine" is common practice. and over that period of time not only have i gone through various permutations with how much of what i’m taking, but i’ve also become aware of a number of other things that make a difference to managing the migraine. For instance, insomnia and fatigue can lead to muscle tightness, which can spark chronic migraine. First phase of the program is an attempt to clear symptoms. That was defined as a reduction in severity to either mild or no headache within two hours of treatment, and maintaining that level for 48 hours after one dose of medication. Things that increase your risk of a headache and fluctuations in parasympathetic, sympathetic, and sensory activation and regulation of the sphenopalatine ganglion—a collection of nerve cells deep in the midface associated with headache disorders can be avoided if you really want to reduce headaches. The university of utah department of neurology partnered with the danielle byron henry migraine foundation to establish a headache outreach program at the u. He says that negatively charged lightning currents were also particularly associated with a higher chance of headache. “my father was originally a family practitioner, but through the course of caring for my sister and then in the years that followed, he really increased his practice to focus solely on headache and migraine patients,” weyher said. If you get headaches associated with your menstrual cycle, is there anything you can do to prevent or get rid of them. Many people will outgrow their symptoms, while others will experience their first headache later in life. You experience a headache after a head injury, especially if the headache gets worse. Although headaches can be caused by many reasons, anyone who develops migraines starting later in life, especially after 50, should be thoroughly evaluated by their physician, cautions diamond, who says it’s vital to rule out other conditions, such as a brain tumor, aneurism, or infection. Step 3 is the optional one (if 1 and 2 don't do the job), and it involves taking medicine to raise the migraine threshold so that triggers don't activate the response. , eu5 and japan, nearly 75 million people suffer from episodic and chronic migraine – more than 38 million in the u. That is the time to lie down, relax, and simply take your drugs. I know i was at an event yesterday, sylvia, and a woman i know, ran into her, said, oh, we're going to talk about migraine and headache on patient power today, and she said, oh, i get them and my son gets them. It was a few weeks before i came across this product, plus it changed my life forever. Stem cell therapy can be a great alternative to the many migraine and headache treatments available. Alpha education printed books, alpha nutrition formulas and starter packs. In many respects, migraines are much like alcohol-related hangovers. What is migraine & headaches program. I usually see complete relief of headaches of most kinds—even those with no name or identified cause—within days after a change in diet. the list of drugs made specifically for the prevention or treatment of migraine is extremely short. Migraine prevention strategy #1: avoid common triggers. Saying goodbye to seattle was heartbreaking, but the cloudy weather there and the fickle weather in boston are terrible migraine triggers for me. Your headaches are more severe when lying down. The headache worsens or becomes more frequent. I’ll share my favorite magnesium supplement for migraines, as well. » expand to continue reading dean's letter. The world health organization considers migraines to be the sixth most disabling disease in the world. There are many migraineurs who rely heavily on over the counter or prescription headache medications like ibuprofen, acetaminophen and others…but with excessive use, these treatments can actually become part of the problem. My frequent headaches are triggered by gluten. It is also one of the distinguishing criteria for diagnosing migraine. How to control migraine triggers. Changes in barometric pressure can bring on headaches and migraine because our sinuses are filled with air. If you have any concerns about your health, or if you have not exercised for a long period of time you should inform your gp who can give you a basic health check prior to starting your program. In such a case, you may be able to use your list of triggers to manage a headache, if not prevent it. Due to its profoundly debilitating nature, this may be one instance where you could justify popping a pill for instant relief. Stout has suffered from bad headaches since age 13 that intensified into migraine pain three years ago at 47. Migraine headaches represent a serious health issue in america today, and the statistics are staggering. We’ll identify the type of headache you are suffering from and develop treatment focused on one thing: providing you with relief. Why am i so confident about my program. Botox is covered by the odb (ontario drug benefits) program. A migraine is a one-sided, throbbing headache of moderate or severe intensity. The headache usually resolves within three months, however, in 18-65% of cases, it may last longer and is then referred to as persistent pth. The exact cause of a migraine is yet to be fully understood though some doctors relate it to a brain chemical called serotonin – the chemical responsible for regulating pain in the nervous system. Brian grosberg, director of the hartford healthcare headache center and program director of the headache and facial pain fellowship in the department of neurology at the university of connecticut school of medicine, affirmed to me, "a migraine is more than just a headache. I think that overall though, the major issue was the lack of understanding of the migraine disease. The migraine cure seeks to restore health and quality of life by balancing bodily systems and tailoring the dosing of specific hormones and other natural substances to meet the unique needs of each individual. A belgian study published in the february 1998 issue of. " then she would have to put ice packs on her neck, eyes, and head. Va is able to connect veterans to a large network of doctors, neurologists and medical facilities that can help them better diagnose and treat their condition; it also can procure alternative treatment options through its va benefits program on behalf of patients. Common drugs used to treat an acute attack of migraine pain include ibuprofen, aspirin, and acetaminophen. Up to 20% or more of the population suffers from allergies. But because the drugs are monoclonal antibodies, which are made from living cells and are expensive to produce, they’re expected to have hefty prices. Experts believe that hormones may influence the risk of migraine. Let’s cure your headaches … starting today… starting now. Her team can tailor a migraine or headache treatment plan for the unique features of your diagnosis. Alexion’s soliris, which treats a rare immune disorder, has been dubbed by. They changed their computer screens so that suddenly she had to work with a screen that had orchid-colored lettering on a white background, which was very difficult for her to read, and it was causing her headaches. Although, there is not much women can do to prevent these “menstrual migraines. Aged cheeses, salty foods and processed foods may trigger migraines.
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bears us up; stone
weighs us
down; stone
marks the place where
once flesh
squabbled upon the earth…”
Extract from ‘STONE’ –
Ralph Hoyte (step in stone artist)
If you were to fly over the Mendip Hills in Somerset, UK, the most striking feature would be the number of vast quarries dominating the area – among the largest in Europe. Less obvious are several disused quarries, rapidly being re-colonised by nature. You can easily walk within a stone’s throw of many of these quarries without noticing they are there, so still and empty they stand but stumble across one by chance and you can’t fail to be amazed by their grandeur and beauty.
Artist Fiona Campbell discovered old quarries while walking her boxer dog and exploring the area a few years ago. Inspired and fascinated by their unexpected drama, Fiona embarked on an investigation into these hidden gems, while also finding a new source of discarded scrap metal for her sculptural work.
“The first disused quarry I came across was on a woodland walk. From a narrow dark pathway, an opening leads you to a rocky escarpment, down a scree slope into a huge canyon-like landscape, filled with lush lakes, massive stratified cliff faces and birds of prey hovering above – it was truly awesome and remains my favourite. So many quarries in the Mendips are now disused, enigmatic environments, taken over by wildlife, some designated as ‘Sites of Special Scientific Interest’. Others are desolate underworlds of canyons, lakes, huge ruins, and rusting machinery – fossils of both ancient and modern eras. Scoop out a hundred tons of rock a day – carboniferous limestone for example – for 120 years and you have a gargantuan cavity of time, reflecting life dating back over 350 million years. All this provides an extraordinary backdrop and inspiration for artwork”, Fiona explains.
3 years on, Fiona formulated an ambitious plan to stage an art-in-quarries trail, bringing together groups of like-minded, passionate artists, scientists and educators for a major art project entitled step in stone. Having received their full funding target for the project, thanks to Arts Council England/National Lottery, Mendip Hills/Mendip AONB, Ganes Trust, Somerset Art Works, Somerset Wildlife Trust, a local trust fund and numerous individual supporters via IdeasTap crowdfunding, (also a donor), step in stone built up to an extraordinary Finale, delighting thousands of visitors since its opening in July.
The 3 quarries have very different characteristics – Westdown/Asham is disused, massive and dramatic, with a long pathway, stream and neighbouring Asham Woods SSSI. It has been used as a backdrop for filming Dr Who. Halecombe is a working quarry with a peripheral circular public pathway overlooking the site, while Fairy Cave Quarry is mysterious with stunning limestone rock formations and renowned caves.
Christina White ‘Dinosaurs, Westdown Quarry, ST 705460’, 2013
step in stone artists at Fairy Cave Quarry for Artist Research Trip, Jan ’15 (photo by Duncan Simey)
“ I am very excited to have on board such high calibre artists. It will certainly be a challenging project!” Fiona said.
A free event, open to the public, step in stone offered local communities and visitors from afar a memorable experience linking culture and environment, encompassing meaningful art and science (natural history, ecology, geology), increasing public awareness of these beautiful spaces and issues surrounding them. Central to the project was broad public engagement. Guided walks ran in collaboration with ecologists from Somerset Wildlife Trust (SWT) and artists, exploring the quarries; artist-led talks and art workshops also engaged the wider community, reaching a broad spectrum of people. Workshops specifically to give school children an opportunity to experience a creative, educational resource were supported by SAW’s InspirED offers for subscribing schools. Linked exhibitions were held in the Black Swan Arts Centre (BSA), Frome, Somerset Earth Science Centre (SESC), near Shepton Mallet, and Frome Museum.
Somerset Earth Science Centre
Young budding artists had an opportunity to get involved and exhibit their own work alongside international artists. A sculpture design competition was held in May ’15 in collaboration with BSA, for under 20 year olds. Up to 20 of the best entries will be on show during Somerset Art Weeks Festival ’15 at the Black Swan Gallery. The winning designer work with step in stone artists to create her sculpture, which is now being exhibited as part of the Trail at SESC. (More about the competition)
The Mendips are characterised by a wide variety of sedimentary rock types formed in a range of different ancient environments from tropical seas through coal swamps to arid deserts, and more recently, cold glacial climates. Of the many different kinds of rock which make up the Mendips, the most important and useful is carboniferous limestone, a hard rock formed from calcium carbonate, full of the fossilised shells and skeletons of ancient sea life.
Carboniferous limestone shows an abundance of crinoid (sea lily) remains, corals (such as rugose) and brachiopods, ancient algae and stromatolites. Rock unconformities give the Mendip area pride of place in geological history. Several excellent hugely contorted fold structures can be seen in Asham Wood Quarry. Volcanic rocks are rare in the Silurian period, and the Mendips are one of the few places in UK where they can be observed.
Large scale quarrying started with the industrial revolution, though the oldest excavations in the Mendips date back to Roman times when the area was an important source of lead and silver. The rate of extraction has accelerated significantly since the 1930’s as the demand for roadstone in particular has increased, for which most limestone quarried locally (about 90%) is now used. All this history is insignificant though, in comparison to the millions of years of geological history exposed in a single quarry face and the 400 million years over which the Mendips have evolved.
The pros and cons of quarrying are ambiguous and controversial, fodder for comment and enquiry. With limestone being used at the rate of 5 tons, (approximately the weight of 1 fully grown elephant), per person per year there is no denying the demand for this material. Things made with limestone are all around us in the modern world. Limestone concrete is one of the most widely used construction materials, it is used in smelting of iron ore, in asphalt, the manufacture of plastic, in make-up and even in our cereal! Today the environmental impacts of quarrying are carefully managed. Plans are made and funds set aside for reclamation or beneficial use of currently active quarries for when they are eventually worked out, but how do such carefully managed schemes compare with the beauty and fascination of recolonisation by wild nature?
Despite this wonderful heritage, the Mendips are rurally isolated with limited engagement with the arts. The step in stone event offered opportunities for all to access the countryside while benefiting from arts/science engagement. The project also connected with 2015’s environmental milestone of sustainable development goals (SDGs) – see http://www.sustainabledevelopment2015.org.
step in stone was installed in stages from July-October ’15:
July-October – Workshops/talks/exhibition – SESC, Stoke St. Michael
August-October – Art installations/tours – Halecombe (working quarry, peripheral public pathway); Westdown (massive disused quarry), Chantry
3-18 October, finale fortnight tying in with Somerset Art Weeks Festival ’15 and Momentum programme – Exhibition – Black Swan Arts Centre and Frome Museum, plus Art installations – Fairy Cave (secure disused quarry), Stoke St. Michael
This film documenting the event was shown at the finale and gives legacy to the project.
The step in stone team includes leading local, regional and international artists, invited and selected with the assistance of Somerset Art Works and Black Swan Arts Centre. Fiona Campbell, with help from Amanda Wallwork (Sherborne House Arts Director & co-curator of exlab & B-side Fest, Dorset) and Zoe Li (SAW & Arts Council manager) curated the project. Somerset Earth Science Centre and Black Swan Arts Centre hosted related exhibitions. Other partners such as Somerset Wildlife Trust and Mendip Hills AONB were involved in public engagement and we acquired huge public support.
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The Customer could also write and send to the Seller a communication informing it about his wish to return the purchased item/items. In this case, the Customer bears the burden to demonstrate the correct and prompt communication about the return.
It is not possible to return an item in exchange for another.
The returns will be shipped to:
SCUDRERA SRL
30020 QUARTO D’ALTINO (VE)
Terms and conditions of return
The right to return products shall be deemed correctly exercised once the following conditions have been fully met:
– the Return Form or any alternative communication must be correctly filled and sent within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of the receipt thereof;
– the products have not been used, worn, washed or modified;
– the products should not be damaged.
– the identification tag is still attached to the products with the disposable seal;
– the products are returned in their original packaging;
– the returned items must be shipped back to the Seller within fourteen (14) calendar days from the date the Customer notifies us of decision to cancel;
If the Customer has fulfilled all requirements set forth above, the Seller shall refund the entire price for the purchased products. If the Customer decides to use the courier indicated by the Seller in the online Return Form (in the following email instructions), he will not have to take care of the return shipping costs upfront, which are at his expense. In this case, the Seller will pay the return shipping costs for the Customer and will deduct
from the refund the cost of return postage of 7 Euro. This option is valid only for Italy.
However, if Customer chooses to use a different courier or other postage method for the return, he will have to pay for the return shipping cost: this is a compulsory option for all Extra Italy Countries.
The Customer will be notified if the returned products cannot be accepted. In this case, the Customer may choose to have the products delivered to him at no expense to the Seller. If the Customer refuses the above delivery, the Seller reserves the right to retain the products and the amount paid for the purchase of the products.
Refund times and procedures
After the Seller has received the returned products and checked that the products meet all requirements, the Customer will receive an e-mail confirming the returned products have been accepted. Whatever the form of payment you used (Credit/Debit Card, PayPal, Bank Transfer, Cash on Delivery), the Seller will refund the Customer as soon as possible and by five (5) working days starting from the date of return delivery in the warehouse.
Once the Seller has checked that the return was carried out in compliance with the above conditions, the time period for refunding the amount paid for purchasing the returned products depends on the payment type used:
– purchase by Credit/Debit Card: refund time will depend on the Credit Card company’s policies. The value date for the credit will coincide with the date of the original payment;
– payment by PayPal (where available): refunds will be credited to the PayPal account and will be visible immediately. Reimbursement time to the credit card associated with the PayPal account depends on the company that issued the card;
– payment made by Bank Transfer and/or Cash on Delivery: the Customer will be refunded the amount paid for the products returned to the Bank account the Customer indicates in the Return Form; the time needed for refunding depends on the information provided; normally refunds take place within fourteen (14) calendar days. Please remember it is necessary to have a Bank account in order to receive a refund for cash on delivery orders.
Identification tag
All products sold by the Seller include a disposable seal. Please try on the products without removing the seal. Returned products without the seal will not be accepted.
Shipment of return to Italy
The Customer can ship the return using GLS or BRT courier suggested by the Seller. For this procedure, the Customer can follow all instructions for the pick-up, as indicated in the email received after the return request. The Customer does not directly pay the courier. The return shipping cost of 7 Euro will be deducted from the total refund.
If the Customer decides to use a different courier to send back the return, he will directly pay the courier. The Seller is not responsible in case of loss or damage to the products during transport.
Shipment of return to EU Countries
The Customer can ship the return using GLS courier suggested by the Seller. For this procedure, the Customer can follow all instructions for the pick-up, as indicated in the email received after the return request. The Customer does not directly pay the courier. The return shipping cost of 20 Euro will be deducted from the total refund.
Shipment of return to Extra EU Countries
The return shipments from Extra EU countries is totally in charge of the Customer. The Seller suggests ensuring the parcel: the Customer is responsible of the return. The Seller is not responsible in case of loss or damage to the products during transport.
About the return shipments from Extra European Union countries, the Seller suggests to ship via EMS. Any Custom fee and tax will be deducted from the total refund.
Shipment to Italy
For the shipment in Italy, the Seller uses GLS or BRT express couriers.
The time for delivery is about 3 working days from the time of receipt of payment.
The courier does not deliver to PO boxes. The courier delivers only during working days. The Customer cannot book or agree on the delivery time.
The Seller insures all shipments against theft and accidental damage. Once the shipment arrives at destination, insurance loses its effectiveness.
The Customer must verify the delivering parcel before to sign as delivery confirmation. If the parcel is damaged (or if it seems damaged), the Customer can refuse the delivery or can accept it with reserve. Then the Customer must inform the Eleventy Customer Care (info@scudrera.it).
The orders not delivered will be sent back to the warehouse. The Seller has the right to charge all fee and services costs to the Customer.
Shipment to UE
For the shipment in UE, the Seller uses international couriers.
The Customer must verify the delivering parcel before to sign as delivery confirmation. If the parcel is damaged (or if it seems damaged), the Customer can refuse the delivery or can accept it with reserve. Then the Customer must inform the Biancalancia Customer Care (info@scudrera.it).
Shipment to Extra UE
The time for delivery is about 10 working days from the time of receipt of payment. The shipment could be subjected to delays on deliveries causing by Custom procedures not estimable in advance and not imputable neither to the Seller either to the courier.
The cost of shipping is 25€.
Shipments destined outside the UE are subject to import fees based on the Customer’s home country regulations for the return as well. The payment of these is necessary to release the order from Customs and are sole responsibility of the customers. The Seller is unable to inform in advance the Customer about the fee, that change according to Countries law and rules. For more details, the Seller suggests the Customer to contact the closest Custom office or the Custom broker.
According to International Laws regulating Commerce and Trade of imports and exports, the Seller ships all orders with an official invoice, declaring the exact total of merchandise purchased in Euro.
For sale products, the amount on the invoice declares the discounted prices.
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