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Denver’s Jamal Murray leaves game with ankle injury: X-rays negative
January 16, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC
DENVER — Denver Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray was ruled out for the rest of the game against the Charlotte Hornets after leaving late in the first half after rolling his left ankle.
Murray tried to contest a 3-point shot by Terry Rozier on Wednesday night and appeared to land on Rozier’s foot. Murray instantly grabbed at his ankle as play was stopped. He was helped off the floor by teammates and then placed in a wheelchair once he left the court.
Here is Michael Malone’s full quote about Jamal Murray’s left ankle injury.
"Obviously he has had an issue with ankle injuries. I just looked at it and it is rather large which is kind of scary."
Full quote: pic.twitter.com/cYqJQRZVOG
— T.J. McBride (@TJMcBrideNBA) January 16, 2020
Murray had five points and one assist against the Hornets before leaving. While no grade of sprain or timeline was given, it sounds as if Murray is going to miss some time.
He was also dealing with a sore back. Murray is averaging 17.9 points a game this season.
The short-handed Nuggets were already without Gary Harris (groin) and Paul Millsap (bruised knee).
Reserve Monte Morris figured to get more time with the first unit in Murray’s absence.
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NFL Power Rankings: Steelers won't have an easy time fixing their mess before next season
Frank Schwab
January 1, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC
After a season in which the Pittsburgh Steelers began as a potential Super Bowl contender, started 7-2-1 and somehow managed to miss the playoffs, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had a positive vibe.
“I don’t think our window is closed,” Roethlisberger said.
That comment seemed dubious as Roethlisberger said it on Sunday night. Then it became practically laughable when we found out Monday what was going on behind the scenes last week.
The Steelers, who have trademarked locker room drama the past couple years, had star receiver Antonio Brown get in a heated argument with Roethlisberger in a Wednesday morning walkthrough, then basically go AWOL the rest of the week and show up Sunday looking to play. He was deactivated for a must-win game. If a report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is true, the Steelers lied about Brown having a knee injury on the injury report. One player told the Post-Gazette it was “embarrassing” and “the worst I’ve seen.”
Where do you even start to fix these Steelers? There are plenty of big issues …
Mike Tomlin: As of Monday evening, there was no sign Tomlin wouldn’t be back on the job next season. He’s scheduled for a regular press conference on Wednesday, according to NFL Network’s Aditi Kinkhabwala. It might upset some fans who want a change, especially after a bad season, but the Steelers don’t fire coaches. And they’re very unlikely to find anyone in this thin candidate crop who is better than Tomlin. But some of the Steelers’ coaching decisions through their late collapse were questionable, to be polite. And that was before the Brown fiasco came to light. For multiple years, Tomlin hasn’t been able to calm down a locker room full of drama. Maybe that’s not all his fault, but he has to get a handle on it, somehow. That might include getting rid of …
Brown: Maybe there’s another side to the story of what happened last week that would change the perception of Brown. As it stands now, Brown basically bailed on his team when they had to win to keep their playoff hopes alive. It’s not the first time the Steelers have had issues with Brown. It’s hard to believe Brown could come back to that locker room, but can the Steelers be better without him? He’s still a great player. According to Pro Football Talk, the Steelers would have to live with $21.12 million in dead money if they trade or cut Brown, though they could spread it out with about $7 million in 2019 and $14 million in 2020 by cutting him a post-June 1 designation. There’s no great answer here. Either the Steelers bring back a player who abandoned his team before a must-win game, or they lose a future Hall-of-Fame player and take a massive cap hit to do so. What fun.
Age: Roethlisberger will be 37 years old next season. Brown will be 31. Four-fifths of the Steelers offensive line will be 29 or older (though one of those players, left guard Ramon Foster, will be a free agent). Both of the Steelers’ starting cornerbacks this season will be in their 30s, as will Pro Bowl defensive lineman Cameron Heyward. There are some good young players on the roster, but there are also some key stars who could see a quick decline.
Flexibility: How can the Steelers improve? They were too good this season to get a great draft pick. They’ll pick 20th, the last pick before the 2018 playoff teams get their turn. They’re among the 10 teams with the least amount of projected available cap space, according to Spotrac. The Steelers can continue to tweak the roster, but they’re not going to make wholesale improvements. Also, even though it has been a foregone conclusion since he didn’t play this season, it’s worth noting the Steelers are going to lose an All-Pro player in Le’Veon Bell.
The 2018 collapse: To think the Steelers can contend in 2019 ignores the last seven weeks of this season. It started when the Steelers played terribly against the Jaguars but got lucky that Jacksonville coach Doug Marrone choked away the game. Then over the last six weeks of the season the Steelers went 2-4 and that included losses to the Broncos and Raiders. They looked bad in a tight win against the Bengals in Week 17, though it now appears the Brown situation affected them. To believe the Steelers — who don’t have the wiggle room to revamp the roster, are suddenly pretty old in key spots and have a mess of a situation to deal with when it comes to Brown — can return as Super Bowl contenders next season overlooks that they weren’t anywhere near that level for almost half of this season.
The Steelers will be one of the teams we focus on all offseason. They always are, because they’re a marquee team. And now they have some incredibly difficult questions to answer. Roethlisberger said he doesn’t think the Steelers’ window is closed, but it can’t be open by much anymore.
Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Mike Hilton (28) was dejected after the Ravens won in Week 17, ending the Steelers’ season. (AP)
Here are the power rankings at the conclusion of the NFL’s regular season:
32. Arizona Cardinals (3-13, Last Week: 32)
No matter whether you agree with the Cardinals firing Steve Wilks or not, it does seem a bit odd he’d get no patience while general manager Steve Keim doesn’t seem to be under much pressure at all. It’s not like the roster Keim has put together is very good.
31. Oakland Raiders (4-12, LW: 31)
It’s not that Mike Mayock definitely won’t work out as Raiders general manager. Perhaps it will, because he’s a sharp guy. But the move will be received with more enthusiasm than it should because fans are familiar with Mayock’s TV work (which was consistently good) and the media likes him. But there’s obvious risk in hiring a 60-year-old with zero front-office experience. There are a lot of sharp people in front offices around the league waiting for a chance, they’re just not on your televisions.
30. San Francisco 49ers (4-12, LW: 29)
Year three for Kyle Shanahan will be a big one. He has gotten a lot of leeway for two terrible seasons. It’s hard to blame Jimmy Garoppolo’s injury for everything, including the 49ers giving up 48 points in the finale. I like Shanahan and think he’ll be a good coach, but there has to be progress in year three. Blind faith can only last so long.
29. Jacksonville Jaguars (5-11, LW: 28)
Of course you’d want to retain the entire power structure of the most disappointing team in the NFL this season. But hey, rip a couple players for sitting on the bench, that’s the real problem.
28. Cincinnati Bengals (6-10, LW: 30)
Marvin Lewis is finally out and unfortunately he became a punch line for his playoff record. And yes, 0-7 in the playoffs is unfortunate. But in the big picture, Lewis took over a job that was beyond toxic and made the Bengals respectable. He did a good job overall, though it was clearly time for a change.
27. Denver Broncos (6-10, LW: 27)
Vance Joseph didn’t do enough to keep his job so the move to fire him made sense. But here’s the problem: The Broncos job is a lot less attractive than the team or its fans will want to admit. I’m not even sure what you sell to a candidate. Case Keenum (maybe) at quarterback? John Elway, and his terrible recent track record, as your overlord GM? The most chaotic ownership situation in the NFL?
26. New York Jets (4-12, LW: 26)
Of all the coaches fired at the end of the season, the one I’d be most confident in succeeding elsewhere is Todd Bowles. I get why he was fired, but I still believe he can succeed in a better situation.
25. New York Giants (5-11, LW: 24)
Saquon Barkley’s 2,028 yards from scrimmage led the NFL. He was the only consistent part of a terrible offense. I get why someone would vote Baker Mayfield as the offensive rookie of the year, and I’d rather have Mayfield than Barkley on my team going forward due to quarterback value, but I’d still vote Barkley as OROY.
24. Detroit Lions (6-10, LW: 25)
Good of the Lions to finally show up this season, even if it took until Week 17. Maybe that shows the players are still buying what Matt Patricia is selling.
23. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-11, LW: 23)
No surprise that Dirk Koetter got fired. But what has GM Jason Licht done to earn another season? Was it him passing on Derwin James (and others) in the 2018 draft for Vita Vea, or drafting Ronald Jones in the second round? Is it the Bucs’ 27-53 record since Licht became GM? It must be something that isn’t obvious, because there’s no clear answer.
22. Miami Dolphins (7-9, LW: 19)
The Dolphins are another team that had to make a coaching move — I can’t really think of one reason the Dolphins would have kept Adam Gase that doesn’t involve blaming Ryan Tannehill’s injuries — but they don’t have much to sell a good candidate. I’m also not sure why general manager Chris Grier survived, but a lot of teams decided to give GMs the type of patience not afforded head coaches. It’s a strange trend.
21. Buffalo Bills (6-10, LW: 20)
It’s not like Josh Allen had a great rookie season, but there seems to be something to build on. Everyone knew it would take time for him. Putting up three passing touchdowns and two running scores in the finale is a great way to enter the offseason.
20. Green Bay Packers (6-9-1, LW: 18)
If you had even a moment’s thought about interim Joe Philbin being a long-shot candidate for the permanent job, that should be gone after the Packers utterly rolled over in Week 17. Still though, I don’t get why any team would entertain the Josh McDaniels thought after what went down with the Colts a year ago.
19. Carolina Panthers (7-9, LW: 22)
It really never made sense why Ron Rivera’s job security was an issue. The Panthers weren’t going to hire a better coach, especially with this weak crop of candidates. Being patient and not just reacting to a bad season by firing a good coach is OK.
18. Washington Redskins (7-9, LW: 17)
The fiasco with dumping all of the business office executives but keeping the football people that are responsible for the messes on the field underscores that the Redskins will never be good as long as Daniel Snyder is owner. I’ve never seen another professional sports team have so many fans disavow it and change favorite teams.
17. Atlanta Falcons (7-9, LW: 21)
It’s an interesting offseason for the Falcons. Coaching-wise, they made their big move by firing their offensive, defensive and special teams coordinators. On the personnel side they have to look at their roster and feel the talent is still very good, despite the 7-9 season. But most teams don’t mostly keep things the same after a losing year.
16. Minnesota Vikings (8-7-1, LW: 14)
The Vikings aren’t making a move at coach or GM, and that makes sense despite a very disappointing season. It’s hard to run it back and expect more favorable results, but I don’t see a better option for the Vikings.
15. Cleveland Browns (7-8-1, LW: 16)
I don’t think Gregg Williams would be a good hire. But the Freddie Kitchens part of the equation is challenging. Kitchens did a very good job at offensive coordinator after Todd Haley was fired. Clearly the Browns should want him back. But I’m not sure making Kitchens the head coach would be the right move. Yet, it might cut down your pool of candidates to force an offensive coordinator on them. I’m not sure how the Browns navigate it all while retaining Kitchens as offensive coordinator.
14. Tennessee Titans (9-7, LW: 12)
We can give the Titans a pass for playing Week 17 without Marcus Mariota, but that’s part of the problem with the Titans. Mariota hasn’t stayed healthy yet. The term “injury prone” can be overused, but it’s getting more difficult to believe it’s bad luck with Mariota. And it’s hard to go into a season not knowing if you’ll get more than three-quarters of the season from your quarterback.
13. Pittsburgh Steelers (9-6-1, LW: 11)
When you think about what the Steelers will do about Antonio Brown this offseason, they’ll also consider how lost they looked without him in Week 17. The Steelers won, and because the Ravens won too it didn’t even matter, but that performance against the Bengals was troubling.
12. Philadelphia Eagles (9-7, LW: 15)
Doug Pederson did a great job down the stretch, after all seemed lost. On a day with so many firings, many pointed out that of the seven coaches hired in 2016, only Pederson remains.
11. Indianapolis Colts (10-6, LW: 13)
I wonder if Frank Reich will get coach of the year votes. Probably not because the Matt Nagy train seemed to leave the station long ago, but what Reich pulled off, getting the Colts to the playoffs after a 1-5 start, was remarkable.
10. Seattle Seahawks (10-6, LW: 10)
I really don’t get why the Seahawks and Cowboys played their starters an entire game. A week of rest would have been great for either. Was a meaningless last-second Week 17 win over the Cardinals really that important?
9. Baltimore Ravens (10-6, LW: 9)
The one issue the Ravens might have in the wild-card round is they won’t have the element of surprise. That has been a big edge since Lamar Jackson got the starting job. The Chargers just saw this offense two weeks ago. Still, that doesn’t make it easier to move the ball on Baltimore’s defense.
8. Dallas Cowboys (10-6, LW: 8)
Something to keep in mind: The Cowboys are a different team at home. They were 7-1 at home and 3-5 on the road. That’s great for the opener against the Seahawks, which will be in Texas. Might not be so good for subsequent rounds, if Dallas advances.
7. Houston Texans (11-5, LW: 7)
It was a bit surprising to see Deshaun Watson have 13 rushing attempts in Week 17, his most of the season. He had 10 rushing attempts on Oct. 7, and hadn’t reached double digits in any other game. It gives the Colts something to think about before their wild-card matchup against the Texans.
6. Los Angeles Chargers (12-4, LW: 5)
Perhaps lost a bit among all of Monday’s coaching news was that ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported tight end Hunter Henry, considered lost for the season to an ACL injury, is expected to play in Sunday’s wild-card game. Expectations should be too high, but even if Henry can be a factor for a few red-zone snaps, that’s a huge boost for the Chargers.
5. New England Patriots (11-5, LW: 6)
It’s a little scary to trust what you see in Week 17, with so many teams struggling to find motivation. Maybe the Patriots’ 38-3 win on Sunday was a product of the Jets checking out early. But that was as good as the Patriots have looked all season. It was Tom Brady’s best game of the year, rating wise, all season. Maybe the Patriots are just turning it on at the right time?
4. Kansas City Chiefs (12-4, LW: 4)
Not that the Raiders’ offense is great, but the Chiefs defense looked very good in a 35-3 Week 17 win. It’ll be a lot tougher facing the Ravens, Chargers or Colts in the divisional round, but if the Chiefs get anywhere near that level of performance by the defense in the playoffs, they’ll be just fine.
3. Chicago Bears (12-4, LW: 3)
Good teams can’t keep top assistants forever. Still, it would be a huge blow for the Bears to lose defensive coordinator Vic Fangio to a head-coaching job. In the big picture, Fangio leaving the Bears would be as important as any other coaching news this offseason.
2. Los Angeles Rams (13-3, LW: 2)
Aaron Donald finished with 20.5 sacks. That’s the new record for a defensive tackle in a season and that record (which had stood for almost 30 years) might last a long time … unless Donald breaks it himself.
1. New Orleans Saints (13-3, LW: 1)
While Week 17 was meaningless to the Saints, you’d have liked to see a little more effort, especially since New Orleans did play a lot of starters. Instead, they were blasted by Kyle Allen and a Panthers team that had nothing to play for. We’ll chalk it up to Week 17 apathy, but it’s not the way you want to go into the playoffs.
Frank Schwab is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at shutdown.corner@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter!
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Yahoo DFS Basketball: Saturday Picks
Mike Barner
RotoWire.com December 21, 2019, 10:02 AM UTC
The NBA follows up a busy Friday with nine more games Saturday, seven of which will make up the main evening slate on Yahoo. Several teams will be playing the second night of a back-to-back set, so be sure to keep your eye on the news for potential load management days. As things currently stand, here are some players to consider adding to your entry, as well as a few to avoid.
Ben Simmons, PHI vs. WAS ($39): It will be interesting to see what the Sixers do here with Joel Embiid. They will not only be playing for the second consecutive night, but this will be their third game over the last four days. This is also a vastly inferior foe in the Wizards, who have been completely decimated by injuries up front. If Embiid sits, the Sixers could lean even more on Simmons for production. Even if Embiid does play, Simmons is a great option with the Wizards playing at the second-fastest pace in the league.
Tomas Satoransky, CHI at DET ($17): Satoransky is coming off of back-to-back performances with at least 34.4 Yahoo points. He logged at least 33 minutes in both contests, but playing time hasn't always been consistent for him with Kris Dunn and Coby White coming off the bench behind him. With that being said, this is still a great matchup for him with the Pistons allowing the fifth-most Yahoo points per game to opposing point guards. The last time these two teams faced off, he scored 33.3 Yahoo points across only 26 minutes.
Guard to Avoid
Elfrid Payton, NY vs. MIL ($19): It's difficult to trust any point guard on the Knicks when everyone is healthy, which they are right now. Payton has posted some impressive performances of late, but he's also scored 24.3 Yahoo points or fewer in four of his last six games. With so many other viable targets during a busy slate, taking a chance on Payton seems unnecessary.
Paul George, LAC at SA ($44): George torched the Rockets on Thursday, posting 34 points, nine rebounds, three assists, two steals and two blocks. With that juicy stat line, he's now scored at least 54.2 Yahoo points in four of his last seven games. His price tag is on the rise, but he's still a great option based on his incredibly high floor.
Donte DiVincenzo, MIL at NY ($15): With Eric Bledsoe (lower leg) sidelined, DiVincenzo now finds himself as the Bucks' starting point guard. He's played well in three games filling in for Bledsoe, scoring at least 35 Yahoo points two times. The Knicks have allowed the 10th-most Yahoo points per game to opposing point guards, so don't sleep on DiVincenzo at this cheap price.
Forward to Avoid
Marvin Bagley III, SAC at MEM ($24): Despite Bagley being healthy, the Kings for some reason continue to bring him off the bench. While he did play a little more Friday against the Pacers, he still only logged 27 minutes. Until he starts to see more playing time, he's going to be awfully risky. Since he's not that cheap, it might be best to keep him out of your entry.
Andre Drummond, DET vs. CHI ($47): This is a juicy matchup. The Bulls can't slow down opposing big men, resulting in them allowing the most Yahoo points per game to the position. The Pistons could also be shorthanded with Blake Griffin battling a knee injury. The first two times Drummond faced the Bulls this season, he scored 66.8 and 40.8 Yahoo points, respectively. While pricey, this is one of the nights where paying up for him could be well worth it.
Frank Kaminsky, PHO vs. HOU ($17): The key here will be the status of Deandre Ayton (ankle), who only lasted one game after returning from suspension before suffering an ankle injury. He wasn't able to play Friday and his status is still up in the air for this contest. Kaminsky is already hot right now having scored at least 31.5 Yahoo points in four of his last five games, so any added playing time here could leave him with another valuable stat line.
Center to Avoid
Brook Lopez, MIL at NY ($18): This game has blowout written all over it, which makes me worried about how much Lopez will play. He's already scored 22.2 Yahoo points or fewer in six of his last eight games, which doesn't make him a very appealing option. If Ayton sits again for the Suns, Kaminsky makes a lot more sense at a dollar cheaper.
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Sprout Blog » Press
Sprout Social Moves to New Office Space in Chicago’s Loop
CHICAGO December 22, 2016 — Sprout Social, a leading provider of social media solutions for business, is closing out the year with new digs in Chicago’s Loop.
Sprout remains in the Citadel Center at 131 S. Dearborn, but is moving its global headquarters to a floor built by Skender and custom-designed by Partners by Design in collaboration with Sprout’s in-house design team. The new 64,500 square foot space will accommodate roughly 320 members of the company’s rapidly growing team and allow for continued Chicago expansion. Sprout also recently opened a satellite office in San Francisco.
This new space is designed to reflect Sprout’s culture, values and Chicago roots. It will include additional spaces for collaboration—20 conference rooms and 18 open lounge areas for group work—and increased capacity and amenities for company and community events like Sprout’s monthly All-Hands meeting and happy hour. These rooms and workspaces are named for inspiring figures, nominated by team members, who comprise a diverse group of leaders in technology, media, art, activism and communication. These include individuals like Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first software algorithms, Sylvia Rivera, a founder of the modern transgender movement and advocate for disenfranchised communities, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, an innovative civil engineer during the Industrial Revolution.
Artwork will include numerous murals and other pieces by Chicago artists including Adé Hogue, Kyle Letendre, Chad Kouri, Crystal Hodges and Hebru Brantley as well as members of Sprout’s in-house design team. In homage to Team Sprout’s favorite beverage, one piece is made of 1,035 cans of LaCroix.
“Sprout has been through incredible team and product growth this year,” said Justyn Howard, CEO and Founder of Sprout Social. “We’re looking forward to starting 2017 in a space designed to foster the collaboration and open communication that are the hallmarks of our culture.”
About Sprout Social
Sprout Social offers social media management, analytics and advocacy solutions for leading agencies and brands, including Hyatt, GrubHub, Microsoft, Uber and Zendesk. Available via web browser, iOS and Android apps, Sprout’s engagement platform enables brands to more effectively communicate on social channels, collaborate across teams and provide an exceptional customer experience. Bambu by Sprout Social, a platform for advocacy, empowers employees to share curated content across their social networks to further amplify a brand’s reach and engagement. Headquartered in Chicago, Sprout is a Twitter Official Partner, Facebook Marketing Partner, Instagram Partner Program Member, LinkedIn Company Page Partner and Google+ Pages API Partner. Learn more at sproutsocial.com and getbambu.com.
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NIHR SRMRC’s PPI lead attends Headway Worcestershire’s Princess Anne visit
Posted on 18th October 2018
Team effort keeps trial on track
NIHR SRMRC Nursing and Delivery Teams were second top recruiters for ICU trial recently published in JAMA
The NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC) Patient and Public Involvement Officer, Laura Nice, recently attended a visit from the Princess Royal celebrating the work of a local brain injury charity.
Princess Anne visited Headway Worcestershire to officially open its new kitchen, meet some of the brain injury survivors the charity support, and unveil a small plaque to commemorate her time with the charity.
The Princess was due to visit the centre on March 2 but that trip was postponed at the last minute after the county was covered with snow and a severe weather warning was issued.
Headway Worcestershire, which is based in Gregory’s Mill Street, support brain injury survivors and their families from across the county, providing them with crucial rehabilitation opportunities, as well as the chance to socialise, develop and interact with others with similar challenges.
Kathryn Davis, chief executive of Headway Worcestershire, said everyone at the charity was thrilled and delighted to welcome the Princess to the charity.
She said: “It will be an opportunity to showcase our outstanding team and for our service users to share their stories with The Princess Royal of how acquired brain injury has changed their lives and their family’s lives, as well as the role Headway plays in supporting their recovery and future life.”
Laura Nice, NIHR SRMRC PPI Officer, added: “It was a privilege to be invited to attend the Princess Royal’s visit and to see the support for trauma patients that are available at Headway first-hand.
“The SRMRC works closely with Headway, working on trauma research to improve outcomes for all patients, including brain injury survivors.”
Help is available from Headway at their hub in the middle of Worcester, and through an outreach service.
One of the survivors who has benefitted from the outreach service is Jenny West, who had a stroke and two brain haemorrhages sixteen years ago.
She said: “It is great that the Princess will see all the ways Headway helps people with brain injuries in this area.
“I really like the Princess Royal. She has great spirit”.
More information about Headway Worcestershire can be found at http://headwayworcestershire.org.uk/
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Reaching the Unreached – Flood Relief in Sangli & Kolhapur-Aug 2019
Aum Sri Sairam
Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation-Maharashtra
Place: Sangli & Kolhapur-Aug 2019
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Reaching the Unreached -Flood Relief in Sangli & Kolhapur-Maharashtra-Aug 2019
Heavy rains along with the subsequent overflow of river Panch Ganga and Krishna had caused severe flooding and extensive evacuation in the districts of Sangli and Kolhapur. About 3.78 Lakh people were evacuated due to flood. Seventeen people had died when a boat capsized near Brahmanal Village in Sangli. Many parts of the districts got isolated since road and rail access had been cut off, while the failure of the power and communication system elevated the risk. Those affected needed access to resources like food, water and medical care. With the blessings of Bhagawan, Sri Sathya Sai Disaster Management Team undertook disaster relief operation in the flooded district of Sangli
Our DM team consisted of 14 members hailing from the districts of Nagpur, Bhandara and Wardha.
Health and hygiene were a big issue in the flood-affected areas. Another most painful truth was the scarcity of pure drinking water. Surface water may itself have been contaminated by pathogenic bacteria from sewage, wastewaters and dead animals or humans. Water for drinking and food preparation should be treated as the same will be contaminated. Disaster management team visited one of the remotely located villages Narsobhawadi and supplied water purifying liquid to the residents of the entire village. We also supplied washing soap and savlon lotion to all residents. People were made aware of the necessity of cleaning water before it is consumed or used for cooking. How to use water purifying liquid was explained to them.
The team also cleaned the entire streets of Narsobhawadi village which was filled with mud and filth. Even walking was impossible in this area before we took up cleaning of mud and filth. The entire population of Narsobhawadi were benefitted by our action. Many young adults of the area joined hands with our team during our action which blurred the cultural differences amongst communities.
We received a call from village Padmad regarding foul smell emanating due to the animal carcass in the village. The team visited the village and necessary step was taken immediately to dispose of the carcasses. This provided a huge relief to the major part of the village and prevented the spreading of diseases. After the flood, common items that can’t be disinfected include mattresses, pillows, carpeting, rugs, grains, upholstered furniture etc. People were finding it difficult to dispose of these items as manpower and transport was required to dispose of these items. Our team took up this Seva in Sangalwadi area of Sangli City. The entire area was cleaned up and disinfected by the use of bleaching powder benefitting more than 2000 families of this area. This action of ours will help to stop the spreading of communicable diseases. Our Seva has helped thousands of flood-affected people and was well appreciated by the community.
Shri Murli brother, District President, Samithi Convenor and youth wing of Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Sangli extended great support and amazing care during our operation. The National Coordinator (DM) Shri Amit Dubey and Former DM State Coordinator Shri Vasu brother gave the necessary guidelines to be followed during our operation.
JAI SAIRAM.
Contact Person: State President, Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisation, Maharashtra Email sp.mh@ssssoindia.org
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Wall of Wellness
With the help of a University Sustainability Fund grant, students, faculty and staff can now reap the benefits of a vertical garden installed last week on the ground-floor patio inside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union-Center for Student Life.
Amid a Frozen World, a Data Desert
A UMD researcher from the Department of Biology is urging government agencies and scientists to make immediate investments in specialized snow data that can improve wildlife ecology and management in the Arctic.
Do your actions match your values?
Tim Knight, director of the Environment, Technology and the Economy (ETE) Scholars program at the University of Maryland gives insight into what the ETE program is about, why students would benefit from ETE even if they're not majoring in environmental sciences or environmental policy, and how ETE helps students navigate their professional lives.
A ‘Green New Deal’ Is Far From Reality, but Climate Action Is Picking Up in the States
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America: At the Crossroads, or the End of the Road?
By John Zmirak Published on August 1, 2018 •
A picture is worth a thousand words. Unless I drew it. In that case it’s worth a lot less. In the course of routine educational testing as a child (“What is wrong with this strange boy? Is he dangerous?”) I learned that my graphic skills fell in the range of “developmentally disabled.” In other words, I drew like one of the Special Ed kids.
So instead I draw words with pictures. But today I’d like to do a little of both. Let me string together for you a series of pictures and videos that convey, better than words can, the choice we all face in November.
Are We Citizens or Veal Calves?
Will we be a country where people defend their homes like this brave mom, confident that the law and their neighbors will support them?
Criminals beware, don’t mess with armed mothers. pic.twitter.com/jHQtXYut2E
— Derek Utley (@realDerekUtley) July 31, 2018
Or do we want to live like Britons, where citizens are mostly disarmed? Where citizens don’t have the presumptive right to resist home invasions? Richard Osborn-Brooks is a 78-year-old Englishman who lives with his disabled wife, Maureen. He killed one of three burglars armed with a screwdriver who menaced them in their home. Osborn-Brooks was arrested on suspicion of murder. Though he was later released, he and his wife had to be moved to a police safe house after sympathizers with the burglar vented outrage. Neighbors who side with the criminal keep putting up memorial shrines to him at Osborn-Brooks’ home. He never felt safe to return, and now lives in hiding for fear of reprisals.
Do We Defend Our Property and Our Country?
Here’s a recent (July 12) video of a small businessman whose Los Angeles jewelry store was invaded by two thieves with hammers. He emerged from the back with a firearm and sent them fleeing:
Here, by contrast, are images of Spanish beachgoers and tourists watching in horror as a wave of military-age Muslim migrants land on their beach and disperse. Spain’s socialist government has announced its welcome of refugees.
Do We Have Rights and Duties? Or Just Pleasure and Pain Quotients?
Or scroll around in this video of a 2012 Tea Party rally in Florida. Nicely dressed citizens organize to talk about civic issues. (Groups like these were those targeted for legal harassment by Lois Lerner’s IRS under Barack Obama.) They pray, sit calmly for talks, and sing patriotic songs. And they leave the place as clean or cleaner than they found it.
By contrast, look at the Antifa protestors who occupied federal property for weeks, causing extensive damage and shutting down ICE’s deportation of human traffickers and drug dealers. It took dozens of police in riot gear to close down the encampment:
For a little more action, watch these Antifa protestors attack conservatives, in a Canadian Broadcast Company news feature:
Two Radically Different Visions
Our nation is deeply divided, between two conflicting visions. In one, the government serves to protect the claim of citizens to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the other, the State is a blind rugby scrum of ruthless group competition, for control of the means of coercion. For the right, we are creatures of God with both rights and duties. For the left, we are featherless bipeds pursuing pleasure, avoiding pain, like rats in some experiment.
The safe, sane middle that once made elections like those between Nixon and Kennedy occasions for calm debate and prudential decisions? It’s gone. The left has scorched it, left it a no-man’s land pock-marked with blast cavities and poison gas. Leading Democrats now openly call for open borders, socialism, and “abortion on demand without apology.” The party of Hubert Humphrey is now the party of Cecile Richards.
And we will decide on November 6 whether to hand those Democrats the power to reverse a presidential election by a lawless act of impeachment. To defund ICE, and leave our communities as much the plaything of cartels as any village in Mexico. And forbid religious agencies from handling adoptions. To further whittle back our right to defend ourselves and our property, our churches and our country.
Those are the stakes. I’d say “Go vote or go home.” That has a nice ring to it. But this is our home. There are no more Americas to flee to, as our ancestors did. This is it, the last ditch at the end of the road. We stand here as at the Alamo, and it seems we are surrounded.
And that’s the picture I’d like to paint for you.
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Study Topics More Likely to Make You a Billionaire
These careers are the most likely, statistically speaking, to help you become a billionaire.
By Daniel Reed
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Getting motivated to study can often be hard work in itself, and students sometimes ask themselves the question – why bother? One of the best ways to psyche yourself up into putting in the effort and knuckling down is to look at other normal people who have made obscene amounts of money through hard work.
Take a look at the likes of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who is now worth over $61 billion, or founder of Virgin Group Richard Branson who is worth around $5 billion. These people made their fortunes through grit and determination. So what can you study that will increase your chances of joining this elite group of billionaires?
Engineering Popular Among Billionaires
While Zuckerberg’s success is astonishing, there are few billionaires who make so much money in such a short space of time. Lord Alan Sugar who started Amstrad for instance, took 44 years to make his first billion. In fact, according to Betway, the average age at which people become billionaires is 51, while the average for the first million is 37. This should give some hope to people still in their twenties.
How to Get a Job in a Disappearing Career Field
But what are the best industries to get into to achieve this kind of financial success? There has been research into that as well. 100 billionaires were used in the study, and the most studied degree among them was engineering – 23 of the billionaires studied a topic in the field. Economics or business were among the second most popular choices.
The Tech Industry Is Thriving
The best industry to get into if you want to join the highly exclusive club of the 2,124 billionaires in the world is technology. This is where the leap from millionaire to billionaire has been quickest, with the average being 7.3 years. Microsoft creator Bill Gates went from being a millionaire at the age of 26, to a billionaire five years later at 31. Other examples are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google. The two of them also took five years to make the leap from seven figures to ten.
With these moneymakers, they saw a potential market for something and pounced on it quickly. If you are studying technology, you could consider which platform will be the next to guarantee success. Cryptocurrency start-ups and virtual reality companies are cropping up everywhere at the moment, trying to take advantage of things that are expected to boom. But what else could come after those? This is what aspiring billionaires need to identify.
Becoming a billionaire may be a target that seems out of reach, but people in history have proved it is possible. Remember that if you’re beginning to feel that studying at university is seemingly pointless, it could end up leading to unimaginable wealth one day in the future. What more motivation could you need to knuckle down and get studying? Take a leaf out of Branson’s book today.
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About Joint PhD Programme for Global Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The mission of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Nagasaki University (NU), referred here as the "Partner Universities", is to improve global health through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate education, advanced training and consultancy in international public health and tropical medicine.
The Partner Universities believe that this mission is best achieved through international collaboration. By working together for a common purpose, whilst valuing differences, they can draw on a wider range of human and technical resources to tackle the major global health issues.
Nagasaki University is renowned for its work and research into infectious diseases, and has a long history of collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, which includes a link with their School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (TMGH). Through working with researchers in the UK and Japan and studying within a community of global researchers, research students will have opportunities to appreciate and celebrate the diversity of cultures and approaches to improving global health.
This joint PhD programme aims to support the mission of both institutions to improve global health by developing research students who are:
competent independent researchers,
with expertise in core research concepts, methods and skills, and
have key transferable skills, and
can work effectively within international collaborative groups
Please visit the programme webpage to view available research topics available.
The PhD Programme is training for research that involves completion of an independent piece of original research. The research will be carried out under the guidance of supervisors from both Partner Universities, with additional support provided by members of an Advisory Board.
Students will have at least one named supervisor from each Partner University. A Lead Supervisor will be identified, which will determine the Lead University for the research student.
Research students will be registered directly for the Joint PhD award, without a preliminary period of registration for the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree. Normally, research students will spend at least six months at each of the Partner Universities. The timing, and possible subdivision, of these periods of residence will be aligned to the needs of the individual research degree study. There will also be opportunities for research students to undertake research in resource-poor countries around the world.
The supervisors will prepare progress reports every six months and they will submit these to the Joint Academic Committee (JAC).
A Qualifying Examination (QE) Panel will review the progress of each research student after 7-11 months of full-time registration (pro rata for part-time registration). Continuation in the Joint PhD programme will be allowed only if the QE Panel is satisfied that the research study and the research student's progress are sufficiently advanced to indicate that the PhD standard will be reached within the permitted period of registration.
PhD Research Thesis
Students complete a written research thesis for the PhD degree which must be written in English with satisfactory literary presentation, and include a full reference list. The thesis should not exceed 100,000 words in length.
PhD duration
Research students will be registered at both Partner Universities in early October, enabling them to access the resources of both universities, subject to the relevant regulations, policies and procedures at each university.
The minimum, normal and maximum periods of registration for the Joint PhD programme will be as set out below. If a research student transfers from full-time to part-time registration, or vice versa, the remaining period of registration will be calculated pro rata.
MinimumNormalMaximum
Full-time: 24 months: 36 months: 48 months
Part-time: 36 months: 54 months: 72 months
Research students will conduct their studies in places approved by the Lead University; normally at the Lead University, the Co-University and one or more approved research site(s).
Applications to this Joint PhD Programme should be made directly to Nagasaki University.
Application deadline: 16 February 2018 , 17h30 - Japan Standard Time (or 08h30 Greenwich Mean Time)
select a project from the Research topic list, and
contact the research topic supervisor for an informal chat
Submit your application form to Nagasaki University
Students applying for the Joint PhD Programme are required to pay an application fee to Nagasaki University during the designated payment period of 22 January to 16 February 2018.
Application Fee: JPY 30,000
Nagasaki University (NU)
The history of Nagasaki University goes all the way back to 1857 when Dutch naval surgeon Dr Pompe established Igaku Denshusho, which was the oldest medical school in Japan. Although Nagasaki Medical College Igaku Denshusho was completely demolished in 1945 by the atomic bomb, it has now grown into an important university that comprises nine faculties and six graduate schools (Global Humanities and Social Science, Education, Economics, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Studies and Fisheries), affiliated hospitals, libraries, the Institute of Tropical Medicine and the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute.
Nagasaki University is the only university in Japan with I
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Applicants will usually hold a MSc in a relevant discipline and must be willing and able to carry out research on one of the approved research topics. Applicants who does not fully meet the academic requirements, but who has relevant professional experience, may still be eligible for admission.
It is essential to have an excellent command of the English language to benefit from studying for the programme. All students will be required to meet the LSHTM English language requirements (Band B).
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Adding a video thumbnail
» Want your video to play within Gmail?
EasyEditor allows you to easily add video thumbnails to your campaign.
Contacts clicking on the thumbnail will open up the video in its hosted location in a new browser window (see Information below for more on this).
This thumbnail link is also a tracked link.
The video building block is a link to a video, not an embedded video in the email. This means that when the email recipient clicks on the play button (or anywhere on the video thumbnail), it will launch the video in a browser (or in a video app, if they're using a mobile device).
There are only a handful of mobile devices that will play video inside the email itself. We decided we wanted to design this in a way that works for everyone regardless of their device, rather than just target those platforms and devices and provide a feature that only worked for a limited few.
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Book Blitz of The First Touch of Sunlight by Len Webster
Title: The First Touch of Sunlight
Author: Len Webster
Genre: A Standalone Contemporary Romance
My Josh. His Beth. Someone else’s Meredith.Destined to fall apart before their lips have even touched, Samuel Michaels and Meredith Driessen have seven years of almosts between them.
Seven years ago, a night by the river would bind them together. Seven years ago, Sam’s entire world blew up before his eyes.
His only saviour …
Meredith.She saved his life, exposing him to what it could be like to be with her. But that wasn’t Life’s plan. Because deep down, his secrets will destroy their lives and separate them. His secrets will break both their hearts until the day he finds her standing on the edge of the train platform, completely lost.
He did this to her.
And Sam knows that if he doesn’t go to her, he’ll lose her forever.
Will seven years be enough to mend their scars? Or will the secrets they both keep deny them once more?
One thing is certain …
You may never know tomorrow’s sunlight if you’re drowning in yesterday’s storm.
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CHAPTER ONESAM
It’s my fault.
It’s always my fault.
Samuel Michaels picked up the bottle of Jack Daniel’s from the passenger seat. It was lighter than before he got in the car. His mother wouldn’t be happy. Disappointed wouldn’t even come close. She couldn’t look him in the eye. Not after what had happened.
Because of Beth.
Because of what they had done.
They destroyed what they knew.
They destroyed how they lived.
Their lives would now change.
He uncapped the bottle of whiskey and brought it to his lips. He paused and stared out at the river. It had started raining almost ten minutes ago, and in those ten minutes, his phone had rung a handful of times. Looking out the windshield, he was thankful the moonlight aided in his view of the river. Sam could just make out the raging waves. A sigh had left his lips before he threw back the alcohol and felt the burning on its way down his throat. Whiskey had never been his drink. The way the liquor scorched waves in his stomach was one he hated, but for Sam, he needed strong. He didn’t want weak beer.
He wanted to be numb.
To forget.
The ringing of his phone had him returning the bottle back to the seat next to him and picking it up. He saw Phillip Hall’s name flash on the screen—no doubt, his mother had called his best friend. Sam declined the call and threw his phone next to the empty bottle. It’d been over an hour since he’d run out of his house to his car. He drove to the bottle shop and then to the riverbank. It was too dark for anyone to notice his car, not unless they came close.
Sam curled his fingers tightly around the leather-wrapped steering wheel and let his forehead rest on it. He wouldn’t cry. He promised himself he wouldn’t. But the flash of Beth’s trembling lip had him sobbing. It had been a mistake. She had said that months ago, and now, that same mistake had caught up to them.
The alcohol had finally kicked in, and he no longer felt. Instead, he relished the numbness consumed by his body. He smiled and then belted out a heavy laugh.
“What the fuck has she done?” He leant back into the driver’s seat, and his hand searched the door for the handle.
The moment he found it, he opened the door and fell out of his Jeep, landing on his hands and knees. Sam ran his palms through the wet grass and rolled onto his back, laughing. Once he was able to get back on his feet, Sam lifted his arms up and down as if he were flying and stomped towards the riverbank. He let his feet sink, even squishing his shoes into the sloshy mud. He laughed like a child, continuing to march in the dark night.
When he had reached the edge of the bank, he watched the water rush past him. With the moonlight beaming from above, he was just able to see the river current drowning a log.
“I want to be that log,” Sam said as he bent down and unfastened his shoes. He removed them and placed them on the wet ground. Moisture seeped through his socks and hit his skin, causing his toes to wiggle.
“Sam?”
“Can’t save me,” he said to the sweet and gentle voice. “I need to be the log… I need to die.” He closed his eyes and leant forward, intending to fall into the cold water and never resurface.
To be free.
The impact of the water had him opening his eyes. The current was strong, trying to force him under. His instincts had him fighting against what he had wished for. Water rushed into his mouth, and he swallowed it for air, choking him. His arms fought against the strength of the river.
“Dutch, stay!” the voice commanded.
Sam turned his head to see her. She was on her stomach, reaching for his hand. His heart had drowned at the sight of her. The look of determination on her face was one he could not miss. Sam paddled—not to reach her but to get away from her.
To die quickly.
“Sam!” she screamed and reached out further, almost falling in.
I can’t let her die.
The sight of her instantly sobered him.
Not her.
Sam pulled his hand up from the water in time for her to take hold of it. He kicked his legs to get closer to the bank and to stop her from falling in. When he was close enough, she had tried to pull him out of the water, but Sam had fought her. He just wanted her to fall back on the ground.
“Stop fighting me!” she demanded loudly, tugging on his hand.
A wave hit him, dragging him under and pulling her entire arm into the water. It was a miracle he hadn’t dragged her with him. He broke through the surface, and his eyes met hers. It was too dark to see the colour, but he already knew they were a bright blue. Not dark enough to resemble the ocean, but not light like crystal clear water. The colour was somewhere between.
Sam coughed, trying to breathe in air. “My life isn’t worth much. Let me go, Meredith.”
Can’t let her die.
She gripped his hand tighter, as if she knew he was moments away from letting the current take him.
Meredith blinked once, and the fear in her eyes left her. The determination had returned along with her tears.
Meredith Driessen was crying.
Because she thought he was about to die.
“Your life is important to me, Sam. The moment you give up, I’m following you,” Meredith said.
Don’t save me, Meredith.
His heart squeezed in a way it had never done before. He held Meredith’s hand tighter, his lifeline.
“You’d …”
Don’t let me live a life where I want you.
Meredith nodded. “Yes, Sam, I would. I wouldn’t hesitate.”
Don’t let me love you.
She wrapped her other hand around his arm and gave him a small smile. “Let me save you, Sam.”
Let me drown, Meredith.
Len Webster is a romance-loving Melburnian with dreams of finding her version of ‘The One.’ But until that moment happens, she writes. Having just graduated with her BBusCom from Monash University, Len is now busy writing her next romance about how a boy met a girl, and how they fell completely and hopelessly in love.
She is also not a certified explorer, but she’s working on it.
Guest Post by Deepti Menon
Hello fellow readers,
Today I would like to invite Deepti Menon who has released her book, Shadow in the Mirror. I asked her a question and she beautifully expressed her views. Good luck for your furture endeavours maam 🙂
Which genre is close to your heart and why?
Thank you for your question, Surbhi. While I enjoy reading different genres, I particularly love mysteries and thrillers because, as a reader, I have grown up on Agatha Christie and Conan Doyle. I enjoy that frisson of anticipation, that quiver that goes up my spine when I get to the end, and realize that the twist is one that I have not expected. My heart has taken a number of hard knocks in the process! J I do not relish blood and gore, but prefer mysteries in which “ze grey cells” are used, as Hercule Poirot is so fond of saying.
I also enjoy short stories with a twist in their tales/tails. The stories of Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant and O Henry have always been close to my heart. Jeffrey Archer, whom I had the good fortune to meet and interview, is another writer who thrills and enthrals. ‘A Twist in the Tale’, ‘Cat O’ Nine Tales’ and ‘Twelve Red Herrings’ are all books that one can whiz through and savour.
One of my favourite quotes of all times is by the inimitable Stephen King, who also wrote a book titled ‘On Writing’, which is like a Bible to me.
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” I absolutely love that.
Shadow In The Mirror
Deepti Menon
Publisher: Readomania
It all begins with a death. Nita, a pregnant woman falling from her balcony becomes the string that unravels the plot. Her death casts a shadow over many lives; her heartbroken father, her husband and Vinny, a young journalist, drawn in by the whiff of foul play and murder.
What follows are stories within stories, eras and worlds colliding with each other, leaving behind splintered relationships and mesmerizing slices of lives that appear to be drawn together and driven apart by the whimsical threads of destiny.
As events cast their shadows ahead to link the stories of Vinny, Kavita, Roma, Krish and Nita in an unrelenting knot, a journey starts to uncover the truth. What is the secret that links Nita’s death to the other characters? Will Vinny be able to unravel the mystery of Nita’s death?
From intimate diary entries and letters, to bantering over a meal and sharing memories while spring cleaning, this novel de-familiarizes the ordinary, presenting a kaleidoscope of our own pasts, broken edges and pulsating hearts.
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Deepti Menon has always believed in the power of the pen. Having done her post graduation in English Literature and her B.Ed. in English, she had the option of teaching and writing, and did both with great enjoyment. She started writing at the age of ten, long before she acquired a Diploma in Journalism. She also had the advantage of being an Army kid, and later an Army wife, and loved the idea of travelling around India, meeting new people and acquiring new skills. She firmly believes that much of her personality was honed during those travels.
In 2002, her light hearted book, ‘Arms and the Woman’, depicting life as seen through the eyes of an Army wife, was published by Rupa Publishers, Delhi. This was written mainly to reveal the warmth and camaraderie within the great institution. She is now working on her second book that is a work of fiction, and not- to-be divulged yet!
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How Vaping Culture is Contextualised on Social Media
Social media is changing everything. Years back, we used it only for the purpose of communication. Today, social media is evolved into many other areas, including giving businesses a boost.
This is particularly true for the development of vaping culture. It is a relatively new industry that has been on its rise for the last few years. Still, you can find a lot of vaping posts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other social nets. This shows how many people in the whole world enjoy a novel way of smoking.
Social media is a good place to start your research on vaping. Here you can find both positive and negative reviews of various e-cigs and popular vape flavors, tips on using vape products or tutorials on cloud chasing.
All these posts are part of marketing strategy. The companies have official accounts on several social platforms. But they do very little marketing. The majority of information is posted by ordinary consumers or fans. So, there are three types of people who do this:
The independent vapers who share their vaping experiences, both good and bad.
The proponents who are well-versed in the industry and are willing to educate people on all aspects of vaping. They often act as brand ambassadors.
The marketers who directly aim at bringing traffic to the brands’ sites and increasing the sales.
There is an abundance of vaping messages on social media. And it has been growing every year. They can influence buying choices.
Teenagers respond best to such ads. When they see their peers making vape tricks or talking about the delightful taste of an e cig juice, they are very likely to buy the featured product.
Perhaps, the most famous vaper who draws the attention of young people is Austin Lawrence. Notorious for his tricks, he makes videos of himself manipulating vapor in ways that seem to defy all rational laws of physics. The videos get thousands of views and shares around the internet. Lawrence uses his Instagram account with almost 2 million followers as an advertising platform for his own vape brand.
The accuracy of data on social media depends on who is posting it. How do you know that they are not lying to you? Maybe it’s just a hater of the new smoking practice.
No matter how old you are, be wise and think critically. Does a person refer to some study or simply express an individual opinion? Before jumping to conclusions after reading a negative tweet or Instagram post, look for the facts.
In addition to posts, teenage users are exposed to direct advertising on social media. Facebook prohibits paid tobacco advertisements. But the platform is full of brand-sponsored pages for vape products.
Facebook’s weak control over these ads is blamed for the popularization of e-cigs among teens. The tobacco industry has always targeted adolescents. Vaping follows the same route.
Young people are active users of social nets. Robert Jackler, a professor at Stanford, saysthat “If you want to reach teens in 2018, the place to do it is via social media”.
Why Do Teenagers Like Vaping?
Traditional cigarette smoking in the US has dropped to historic lows. And it seems that e-cigarettes are the reason. In fact, vaping gained such an impressive popularity among former smokers because it helped them to quit tobacco.
Scientists and officials start to express concernsfor the increasing number of vaping teenagers. In contrary to desperate struggling smokers who choose it as an alternative to smoking, most teenagers choose it as a lifestyle.
Vaping is attractive for young generations for many reasons. When e-cigarettes began to gain popularity, they were legal for young people. They implied a minimum level of danger, something youth knew they shouldn’t do but that seemed not as harmful as a regular cigarette.
Now, these products are only for sale to adults at least 18+ years old and nicotine-containing liquids have warnings on the labels. But neither age restrictions no warnings can stop teens under 18 from following the current trend.
In addition to the apparent reduction in health risks, vaping comes with a price advantage. Vape liquid is usually cheaper than cigarettes.
The initial skepticism to vaping still lingers. Could the cigarette substitute ever become cool and fashionable? However, it is becoming a mainstream while traditional smoking among young people is heading down. And the wide variety of flavors is often cited as a primary reason youth starts using e-cigs.
Modern electronic smoking devices are more advanced than the original design. Users can create more vapor and enjoy different vape juice flavors. The range of choices is wide – from predictable menthol or fruit flavors to the unexpected “Stoned Smurf” (Alien Vapor) and “Mother’s Milk”.
Other weird e-juice flavors available on the market taste like Red Bull, beer, bacon, crab legs, butter, espresso, Hot Dog, etc. Thanks to science, vape enthusiasts can experiment endlessly with the most bizarre juices.
A study proves that a variety of e-juices is a credible reason that vaping is getting this sort of publicity. The aim of the study was to investigate how the use of flavored e-cigarettes varies between three groups:
youth (12-17 years old),
young adults (18-29 years old),
older adults (30+ years old).
Most vapers said their first and usual e-cigarettes were flavored. 98% of Texas school students, 95% of Texas college students, and 71% of young adults nationwide said that their first e-cigarettes tasted not like tobacco. Fruit and candy flavors prevailed in all groups. For youth, flavors were a leading reason to try e-cigarettes.
Vape-centered social media hype and the popularization of blogs, videos, and pictures about vaping made it undeniably fashionable. Vaping is the new cool. It developed its own culture with its competitions, lounges, games and tricks. And since there are no scientifically proven facts that vaping cannot be safer than traditional smoking, the predictions for the culture are optimistic.
About the Author:Phyllis Baker is the blogger and PR manager of the biggest US quitting smoking community. She writes about health, lifestyle and self-development.
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Blockchain; distributed ledger technology, able to record every single transaction in blocks that are time-stamped and part of a chain. It is transparent, incorruptible and fool-proof: transactions cannot be altered, thus rendering it a safe and efficient process. Blockchain really is all it is touted to be; a new age method to record every financial transaction in a permanent way, safeguarding it against potential tampering and doing without a central party to oversee the process. It would be, however, extremely erroneous to believe that the audit trail Blockchain provides precludes the need for human auditors.
The crux of the matter lies in the fact that transactions and records are not generated automatically. There is human intervention before, during and after a transaction takes place, necessitating a third party controller to check for fraud and human errors. Essentially, while the record is a permanent fixture on the chain, the process fails when it comes to recording the reason behind the transaction and its nature. Accountability, ironically, is limited in this sphere.
Despite its excellent traceability, the blockchain phenomenon should not be viewed askance by auditors and finance professionals. Nor should businesses believe they have the perfect audit if their records are simply submitted on the blockchain without checks in place. If anything, it should be seen as a tool that does some of the “dirty”, repetitive work that takes its toll on resources, freeing up the auditor’s time for more analytical tasks. The auditor will still have an important say in determining whether the entire process is doing what it is supposed to do, defining the parties with access and managing controls.
The accuracy with which we can deal with financial transactions in the very near future is unparalleled in the history of finance. That is not to say that every company can start recording on blockchain as from tomorrow; these revolutions (no matter how swift) will still take time until they trickle down to the smallest enterprise. However, we are already witnessing change on a massive global scale. The auditor’s game has not taken a backbench – on the opposite, it has levelled up considerably. Auditors will be required to shed time spent on petty, periodic payments, and invest more time into insightful analysis that can seriously affect business operations.
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Dev Team Show
Episode 6: Alternatives to Native Mobile App Development
19:53 with James Churchill
In this episode, we talk with Amit Bijlani, a teacher at Treehouse and mobile app developer, about the alternatives to native mobile app development.
Speaker's Notes
Mentioned References
Native Wrapped WebView
One Source Cross Compiled
Ruby Motion
Native + Hosted JS Runtime
NativeScript
Appcelerator (Titanium)
Learn Once, Write Anywhere
Xamarin Test Cloud
Chrome Dev Tools
Other Resoures
Progressive Web Apps (Google)
Auth0 - Alternatives to Native Mobile App Development
App Development: Cordova vs React Native vs Xamarin vs DIY
Welcome to the Dev Team show.
My name is James.
In this episode, we're going to talk about the alternatives to doing native,
mobile application development.
Joining me is Amit Bijlani.
Amit is a teacher here at Treehouse and is a mobile application developer.
Welcome to the show, Amit.
>> Hey James, thanks for having me on the show.
[SOUND] >> So I thought we would start,
by just kind of giving a lay of the land and talking about what are the options
that are available to you, as a developer, for doing mobile application development?
>> Right, so I think there are like four different options.
And the first one of course being native app development,
which is basically you do development in the native language of the platform.
So for example, for iOS it's Swift, or Objective C.
For Android it's Java.
So you're basically building in those languages,
using those native libraries and building the app with all the native components.
The second one, which was pioneered a long time ago and
it's now part of phone gap and Apache Cordova.
Which is basically a web wrapper.
You have your Web view, and you're building your application using HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript.
And you're interfacing with the native API's using your JavaScript calls.
And that didn't take off very well,
because the web views weren't very performant.
And even though you could leverage a lot of your web team to build a mobile app,
it was never like the way and you could build nice little prototypes, but
I don't think you could really do full fledged applications with that.
After came Xamarin, which basically you leverages one language and
you cross compile it on different platforms.
So if you have a team that's very proficient at C#,
that same team can go out and build an app for iOS and Android.
In that similar venue you have something called ruby motion,
which basically leverage your ruby team to build iOS and Android apps.
And finally you have the hosted JavaScript run times.
Your basically React Native and Native Script and
even Titanium Accelerator, which basically you're communicating with
Java Script and the Java Script runtime is sending native calls to your native.
You know, native libraries and native app there.
So, you know, for example, if you want some control on the screen,
it actually live, the run time sends that called to basically
test that control and display it on the screen.
>> That's a lot of options,
and I can imagine that as a developer or if you're leading a project or
working with your customer, whether that be internal or external.
How do you even begin,
what does that process look like in evaluating these technologies?
in determining like what is a good fit.
>> Yeah, I mean that's a great question.
I think that all starts with where you are in the company.
Right? I mean,
what kind of resources do you have available?
How big is your team?
What's the know how, and what do the teams
comfortable with, what technologies the teams are comfortable with?
So for example, if you're basically a .NET shop, so
probably Xamarin makes a lot of sense for you guys because you already have a team
of C# developers that you can leverage and build mobile apps really quickly.
In the same vein, if you're probably a shop that's pretty heavy on
front end UI on your web team, so you're probably using something like Angular,
React or any of those big JavaScript libraries.
Then you have a lot of java script developers and honestly,
i think, react, and react native, and native script,
these are pretty good contenders to your Native mobile app development.
I mean, if you ask me personally,
of course I always advocate native app development.
And there's a very basic reason for that.
A phone or device is basically your finger on glass.
And whatever is beneath the glass has to be closest to the metal, and
the closest to the metal you can get is by native app development.
I'm not trying to bash any of the other approaches, but
I think the best case is what resources you have available on your team.
>> So that user experience it sounds like.
In my experience of working with mobile development and teams,
we spend a lot of time talking about what that user experience was like and
what we needed to do in terms of performance.
It always seemed like it came to performance time, and time again.
That you wanted, like a user says hey I want to do this action.
You had like, I forget, it was like less than a second typically.
[LAUGH] That the expectation was, they need to see that something is happening on
screen, or you run the risk that they're going to just basically leave your app and
go do something else, because they just don't have the patience.
Is that, like, aligned with your own experience?
>> Absolutely.
I think with shrinking attention spans, performances are a huge key,
decision maker when you're talking about mobile apps.
And we talk about performance a lot,
especially in the IOS world in a In the scrolling views.
When you're just scrolling through pages of content, performance is a huge topic.
Because when you're scrolling and you're downloading information on the fly and
trying to display that.
And if your finger does not match what's beneath that glass, the user is
going to kind of get pissed off, or just not have a very good user experience.
And, like you said, they have so many options out there.
There are millions of apps in the app store today, and you're competing for
all of that attention.
>> Yeah, and I think Cordova in particular, so
the native web view wrapped apps Have had a,
definitely a reputation for poor performance.
And I think it's fair to say, that as phones have gotten more powerful, so
Cordova's been around for a while.
And as phones have become increasingly more powerful,
it's not even a linear increase, right?
Phones just continue to get more and
more powerful that even those applications are benefiting from that boost.
And maybe so what used to be a scrolling problem a list four years ago,
maybe it's not so much a problem today?
But I think that there's still a delta, there's still a difference between native
like list scrolling performance and even a web view wrapped application.
>> I totally agree, also especially for a lot of these libraries out there or
development frameworks that are out there that are not native.
You definitely hit edge cases, especially like your
building an app that's very specific to your use case.
And that use case has not been explored by any of these non native tools.
And you hit that edge case and then what happens?
Do you try to work around that edge case?
Do you try to build your own bridging from the native to the non native SDKs?
And that also boils down to how many resources do you have to spend on that.
So if you had a dedicated team that was working on the native platforms
then you wouldn't have to worry about all these edge cases.
And also is mobile, how variable or
valuable is mobile to your business, right?
So if you're business is heavily relied on mobile,
then I highly recommend investing in a native team.
>> Yeah, and I think that you bring up a good point that you know Your
situation may, or may not be the same as someone elses situation.
So, for instance, if you're developing a mobile business application,
you're company might dictate that everyone is on Android phones.
So, if that's the case, the value proposition of doing something,
other than just native Android development.
It just not make sense and that maybe what you're gonna focus on.
The other thing to that I think is interesting is that by adopting like one
of these, we call them hybrid, but alternative technologies, you're adding
one more thing to your technology stack >> So
no longer are you just thinking in terms of iOS or Android, but
now you've got C# and .NET potentially that you also have to consider.
And whether or not you can
keep at arms length the platform specific concerns that you were just talking about.
It's hard to know, and
that's probably gonna be very variable across different situations.
>> Right. I don't think you can ever
get away from not knowing platform specific stuff.
Even with stuff like React Native or NativeScript,
there are UI components that are platform specific,
that you have to know about, and know how to use them and implement them,
regardless of whether you're not an iOS developer, or Android developer.
And I think one of the key things to consider here is probably,
the mantra that Facebook has, which is learn once and write anywhere.
Which I think is a great mantra, because if you have a team that's familiar with
React, tomorrow they can turn around and build an app for iOS, and build an app for
Android, without having to learn any new technologies of languages.
And that goes very far.
>> Yeah, that is a powerful idea, and you mentioned this earlier,
knowing, looking at what resources you have available.
And kind of making a decision, you're making a bet on something, right?
So if you choose react native your investing time and money,
your own resources into learning that and hopefully that continues to be viable.
And something that's going to be around.
And so, you need to be a little careful about that too in terms of determining
what it is that you're bringing into your shop, into your situation.
That one feels like not that risky, comparatively?
But who knows, right?
I mean, things change, and sometimes they change quickly.
That's a really good point that you brought up,
which is how long things are gonna be around.
Things like tools that Facebook introduces, or native script,
which is I think by this company called Telerik.
These tools have enough backing that they can survive whatever comes their way.
And they're not only just like, you can't just build a tool and put it out there and
be like, all right, we're done.
You have to keep evolving with each new version of iOS and Android.
And you have to keep pushing the envelope.
So I'm sure that the tools probably have better caching mechanisms or hot push or
just more innovative technologies that they keep baking into the tools so
that it can make the life of the mobile developer a lot easier.
That said I love all of these tools and I played around with all of them.
But I always keep coming back to native app development, because I feel like
there's nothing like building closest to the platform, and using the tools,
and libraries that are provided by the platform and the vendors of the platform.
>> Yeah, and I imagine that there's a little bit of a risk when you're trying
to focus on shared code.
You know, or develop once and deploy you know, two multiple platforms
that you need to make sure that you're taking it to consideration for
instance like the UI design elements.
On those specific platforms and I know that these tools like summer for
instance you know, have put a lot of effort into making sure that,
that does happened, that if you say, I want a list, or I want this button, or
a dialog, that you're getting a UI element on that platform that looks appropriate.
But even then, I do think that you need to make sure that you're thinking of that and
you need to make sure that you're not giving something up in translation.
You know by doing more of a shared approach, we're right once and
deploy or run everywhere >> Yeah,
and you bring up a really good point, which is testing.
You have UI, and UI on different resolutions, and
different screen sizes, and you have landscape and portrait.
You also have to evaluate what kind of debugging and
testing tools these platforms provide you, these none native platforms.
Because that's vitally important, especially if you're placing a button.
You wanna know where that button gonna end up in a different screen resolution.
Where it's gonna end up in a landscape mode, in a portrait mode.
And at least on the iOS and Android side,
all of these tools are provided to you by Apple and Google.
And so, I'm not sure, I think Xamarin has a pretty extensive tool.
And now that they've been acquired by Microsoft, they keep evolving and
reading and building better and better testing tools.
And I haven't seen a lot of great testing stuff with react native.
Although they use a lot of the web,
the Chrome developer tools, which is something as a web developer,
if you're already familiar with, then you can just leverage that and use that.
Because a lot of the tools are, you
have JavaScript debugging built in the Chrome debugger tools.
So, yeah, I would definitely sit and evaluate what kind of Debugging and
testing tools are out there with these nonnative platforms.
>> So for business applications like I mentioned earlier,
these certainly I think have the opportunity.
Maybe, maybe you don't, maybe it's,
maybe it's more of bring your own device kind of environment.
And and who knows, like someone may show up with, with a Windows device or
a Blackberry or something like that and gets really complicated quickly, right.
But you might have the luxury of having a single platform, so there's always that.
But in the consumer space, occasionally you hear people make the argument of like,
well given our product or the service that we're developing, maybe
they launch only in the Google Play Store, or the Apple app store, and start there.
And then sort of opportunistically, move into the other,
when it makes sense to do so.
Is that also a common, a viable way of thinking of this?
>> Absolutely, definitely.
Like I said, if your main play is not mobile,
so your main product is web or your business is something else and
you have a web component to it, and you're evaluating mobile so
you can start off with just one platform and see how it does there.
And also evaluate whether most of your users lie on that platform.
Maybe your platform is only IOS,
the majority of the users are using just iPhones.
Or a majority of your users are using just Android phones if
you're not outside in third world countries or something like that.
And, your major user base is based on a different platform.
And you can go out and evaluate what that feels like.
And then come back and reassess.
Like hey, like do we want to dedicate more resources to this?
And do we want to rewrite this?
Or do we want to use this non-native tools or do we want to go full native?
Because these are the edge cases that we might run into so a lot of questions that
you can ask and evaluate before you dedicate completely to one platform or
all of them, or any of the tools that we've been talking about.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
And, I mean, there is obviously,
there's huge dose of reality mixed in here as well.
Given your specific situation, you may just not have the resources or
the budget you know, to develop native applications on multiple platforms.
And so giving that you know,
it may force your hand to look at something like React Native or.
Or Xamarin or one of these others.
And it's more of a practical thing.
And hopefully, if that is the case, that the requirements for
your specific application are such, that makes sense.
And then you're able to do the majority of everything that you need to do and
do it well enough.
And maybe you can avoid.
Because let's face it.
It's not going to be a cheap proposition either in the beginning developing or
over the long haul as you mentioned earlier.
Adding features, maintenance to that application,
that's a significant investment to make that call that says, well,
we're going to do this on each of the platforms.
So stand alone if you will, right?
>> Yeah, you can just like build an app and put it out there and hope for
>> [LAUGH] >> You have to keep investing and
evolving and you know, ulcerating because if that's.
If you've even dedicated that many resources to actually building the app,
it's only fair that you dedicate resources enough to maintain or
add more features and evolve the app.
So that you can grow the user base over time.
>> So in sum, I think it's fair to say that there is no magic bullet,
right, or silver bullet into the this equation.
You have to think about your users, you have to think about your product and
how your users are gonna use that product, what's gonna give the best experience,
you have to think about your development team, right?
So you gotta think about who's gonna be developing this application,
who's gonna be maintaining it and what is the best fit there.
And then there's other constraints, like cost, schedule.
So if you think of those things and
try to find the solution that gives you the best of those for
your given situation at that, that probably is the best way to presume.
>> Yeah, I think that's a great way to summarize it, because there are so
many different variants and so
many things that you have to consider when actually thinking about a mobile app.
And given that we have all of these tools now available to us.
And I don't want to put down any of these non-native solutions because,
like you said, given your constraints, maybe your team has only
These many days to produce something and it have these set of skills.
So, you can leverage all of those skills and technologies that your team is already
familiar with, and then run with whatever solution that you guys decide upon.
And there is no right or wrong here, right?
So, if you can put out an MVP using react native or
using native scripts there is nothing wrong with that.
>> Well thanks, thanks for taking time to talk with me about native
application development and alternatives to doing application development.
It's great having you on the show.
>> Same to you, thank you so much, James.
>> Be sure to check that notes that accompanied this video for
links to additional resources.
Also, be sure to rate this video, and let us know how we're doing.
Or, if you have a topic that you'd like to see us talk about,
let us know about that, too.
Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time.
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online furniture
Jayanth Mysore
HomeLane ropes in Jayanth Mysore as chief product officer
Mysore was previously working as the senior product manager at Google, involved in rolling out several features of Google Maps, Google Analytics and Google CheckoutVikas SN | ETtech | Updated: November 19, 2015, 13:36 IST
Home furnishing solutions startup HomeLane has appointed former Google executive Jayanth Mysore as its chief product officer. In this role, Mysore will be responsible for looking after the startup's consumer experience aspect.
Mysore was previously working as the senior product manager at Google, involved in rolling out several features of Google Maps, Google Analytics and Google Checkout. He has also worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, advising them on various aspects of business strategy and operations, including market entry, mergers and acquisitions and international product rollouts, HomeLane said in a statement.
Bangalore-based HomeLane was started by former Pearson chief executive Srikanth Iyer and Rama Harinath in August last year and is currently present in six cities. It raised $4.5 million in funding from Sequoia Capital in February this year and acquired tech startup Doowup in September this year.
Post acquisition, Doowup founder Vivek Seetharaman took up the role of chief innovation officer at HomeLane. Mahesh Shah, founder of modular furniture store Elenza, also joined HomeLane as chief design officer in July this year.
In June, it launched a virtual reality-based device 'Kaleido', which allows users to view different looks and furnishing options for their kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms in real time.
Other players in this segment include Helion Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners-backed Livspace that acquired YoFloor, a mobile platform that offers a "virtual trial room" for home design decisions in September this year. It also bought Dwll, a curated network of interior designers and home furnishing stores in May this year and dynamic design marketplace DezignUp in April this year.
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Finnish startup Revonte secures $2 million to ‘make e-bikes smart’
By Robin Wauters , September 6th, 2019.
Tampere, Finland-based Revonte has raised a $2 million seed round following the recent public release of their first e-bike drive system, dubbed Revonte ONE.
Founded in 2018, Revonte’s seed investment round was led by Maki.vc, joined by Butterfly Ventures and a group of angel investors, and brings the total investment to $2.4 million. The startup has also received funding from Business Finland.
Built to equip the next generation of connected e-bikes, the startup’s system features automatic stepless transmission and easy customisability in one package. With the investment, Revonte is preparing for the mass production phase and intends to ‘aggressively grow its team’.
“As the motor defines the characteristics of an e-bike to a great extend, we saw how bike brands started losing their identity to the providers of drive systems. Customers were increasingly coming to stores asking for a bike with a specific motor – regardless of the bike brand. We wanted to change that with a fully customizable system, giving control back to the e-bike manufacturers”, says Antero Jalkanen, co-founder and COO of Revonte.
Revonte is taking its drive system to mass production in 2020 with a few selected (unnamed) customers. Production will then be ramped up for e-bikes arriving in stores in 2021. Interestingly, Revonte will also be opening all their service APIs to third-party developers to build and integrate great products with its system.
“Just like in electric cars, software plays a major role in future e-bikes. A fully connected drive system can provide features like integrated theft protection, automatic ride tracking and remote diagnostics. With the help of our mobile app, end users can customize their e-bike and integrate it into their digital lives. The data collected by our platform helps users to see when their bike needs service and provides manufacturers an opportunity to improve their products based on real user data. Having an integrated solution is also very valuable for companies building bike sharing or rental systems as there is no need for additional components”, added co-founder and CEO Otto Chrons.
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Archive for the ‘Western’ Category
Posted: November 6, 2017 in 2007, USA, Western
Gave up after an hour and a half (with another hour to go).
What a drag!
The Hateful Eight – *(*)
Posted: March 1, 2016 in 2015, Drama, Gangster Movie, USA, Western, X1/2
Last screening at the local cinema. Missed the premiere several weeks ago. Didn’t hear anyone rave about this movie. Nor did it appear on any best of 2015 movie lists. However, it’s still Tarantino and worth a cinema ticket. That is, if you are not jet lagged and tired.
The Hateful Eight is disappointing. Everything you expect from a good Tarantino is absent: motherfucking funny dialogue, excessive violence, great acting, a cool soundtrack and some awesome cinematographic shots. Nothing!
Maybe, just maybe, if I’d seen it all fresh and awake upon its premiere I might have been more excited. Now it just felt like a compulsory watch. And it bored the hell out of me.
Tarantino’s worst. Well, still need to see Deathproof
The Revenant – ***(*)
Posted: January 31, 2016 in 2015, Action, Adventure, USA, Western, XXX1/2
Finally! A movie that fascinates from beginning to end! With great acting, a great photography and a great soundtrack. A movie so cool, you wish it lasted even longer. It’s a slow action adventure western that doesn’t bore one single moment. Better make that a northern, because it takes places somewhere up north in the Rockies.
Sometimes movies, directors and actors win awards because they deserve them. Let it win 12 Oscars! Or at least 8, including best actor (DiCaprio), best supporting actor (Tom Hardy – who is just as good if not better), best director (Iñárittu) and best cinematography (Lubezski). Come to think of it, no, George Miller can win best director. Or a tie!
Just go see it!
Lucky Luke – 1/2
Posted: April 1, 2014 in 1/2, 2009, Action, Comedy, France, Western
This is crap.
The comic book series isn’t funny. This movie isn’t either. It’s silly.
But the cinematography is amazing. And the editing at times as well.
Meek’s Cutoff – **
Posted: November 12, 2013 in USA, Western, XX
Meek’s Cutoff follows a group of pioneers on their way to the West in the mid 1840s. They hired a guy to guide them in the right direction, but the two-weeks journey already lasts more than five weeks and the area becomes more and more barren, cold and dry. The guide is their only way out of this desert, but nobody trusts him anymore. Then out of nowhere comes a native american which they are able to take prison. Maybe he knows the way to the fertile valley they have been hoping to reach for over a month now.
Nice set up. Nice cinematography. Nice set design. Nice directing too. But… silly story development with inexplicable twists.
A tad boring really. But it’s such a relief to see someone scenes where the camera stands still and the action just takes place in front of them. No video clip style editing, no chases, no aerial shots. It’s like you’re watching the scenes from behind the hills where none of the characters can spot you.
True Grit – **1/2
Posted: May 10, 2011 in 1969, Classic, Drama, USA, Western, XX1/2
Since all passengers tell me the new True Grit is nothing compared to the old one, I decided to watch it. Well, whatever the Coen brothers say as it not being a remake but a reinterpretation, it’s a remake! They almost stole scene by scene. Watching the old movie was a bit of a bore because of that, because I had just seen the new version and I still knew everything that happened. Hm.
That said, I liked the old version. It wasn’t half as bad as I thought it would be. Everyone’s acting fine, the humor is funny and it must have been pretty daring in the time it was released. Not sure if John Wayne deserved an Oscar for it. I preferred Jeff Bridges in the new one. But the girl in the old one is better than the new girl. 😉
Anyways. worth watching!
True Grit – ***
Posted: February 19, 2011 in USA, Western, XXX
I’m not a fan of the Coen brothers. I think they are incredibly overrated. That movie they won Oscars for was terrible. So when I started watching this flick, I kind of feared for the worse. The intentional overacting. The over the top weird side characters. The zooming in and out. They are, as usual, all there. The interrogation scene at the court in the beginning of the movie is so Coenesque. You either like it or you don’t. (I didn’t) But then the adventure starts and you want to know what’s going to happen. Until the very last minute. A movie that can captivate my attention until the end is a good movie. Period. It helps of course to see magnificent landscapes. The cinematography is awesome. And it also helps that Jeff Bridges does an excellent job as the Marshal and that Matt Damon is kind of funny as a Texas Ranger loser. But it’s still Matt Damon though. He can’t help being Matt Damon in movies.
The story in case you haven’t read anything about this movie before: a 14y old girl hires a Marshall to get the outlaw who killed her father. She not only pays him well, she also wants to escort him in the Indian Territories where the killer presumably fled to. They get the unwanted help of a Texas Ranger who’s also on the hunt for the killer. And in the mean time they encounter all the wild west clichés possible. I actually really liked this movie.
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Are millennials spawning next wave of NPA piles for banks?
PTI | Nov 13, 2019, 10:22 IST
While millennials, who have been driving credit demand by a large margin in the past 2 years, in what can potentially raise concerns for lenders, most of them have been taking the riskier unsecured loans, warns a report. The number of millennials — those born after 1980 — opting for a new loan grew 58% as against a 14% growth in the non-millennial segment.
The number of millennials -- those born after 1980 -- opting for a new loan grew 58 per cent as against a 14 per cent growth in the non-millennial segment
Lenders are increasingly depending on the retail segment for their loan growth as its quality is better than the corporate segment which is shying away from investing
(Representative image)
MUMBAI: While millennials, who have been driving credit demand by a large margin in the past two years, in what can potentially raise concerns for lenders, most of them have been taking the riskier unsecured loans, warns a report.
The number of millennials -- those born after 1980 -- opting for a new loan grew 58 per cent as against a 14 per cent growth in the non-millennial segment, a study by credit bureau TransUnion- Cibil said on Tuesday.
Lenders are increasingly depending on the retail segment for their loan growth as its quality is better than the corporate segment which is shying away from investing having already sitting with bloated balance-sheets.
There have also been concerns raised about the financial behaviour of the millennial segment, especially if there are over-leveraging in the process and those raising such flags are pointing to the dipping national savings rate.
In what displays increasing consumption-oriented tendencies in this segment, the Cibil study said unsecured loans consisting of credit cards, personal loans and consumer durable loans contribute 72 per cent of the millennials' credit requirements.
As compared to this, the secured loans of two-wheeler and auto loans consisted of only 9 per cent of the millennials' credit appetite, the study said.
However, it what can assuage the concerns, the bureau report said the millennial segment is more conscious about their credit scores, as they believe in self-monitoring and the average is 740 out of 900.
Millennials in Gujarat have the highest average score of 747, followed by Haryana at 743 and Rajasthan at 742, it said.
The bureau also said that millennials have a tendency to correct their behaviour, as 51 per cent of them with a score of less than 700 improved their scores within six months of checking their scores by an average of 65 points.
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French scientists
LAST UPDATED : Jan 18, 2020, 11:15 AM IST
No resolution this year for Anindya Chatterjee
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Religious Fanatics | Theist Stampede Kills
February 11, 2013 Filed under:
Hindu Stampede
Stampede Kills 10 at ‘Largest Gathering in History’
MASSIVE GATHERING ATTRACTS UP TO 30M DEVOTEES TO BATHE
(AP) – At least 10 people were killed and a dozen more injured today after a stampede broke out at a train station in the northern Indian town where millions of devout Hindus gathered for a religious festival dubbed the“largest human gathering in history.” As many as 20 people are feared dead, and some 30 others injured. News reports said the large crowds caused a section of a footbridge at the station to collapse leading to the accident.
News reports said tens of thousands of people were at the train station at the time. Television showed large crowds pushing and jostling at the train station as policemen struggled to restore order. “There was complete chaos. There was no doctor or ambulance for at least two hours after the accident,” an eyewitness told NDTV news channel. An estimated 30 million devotees were expected to take a dip at the Sangam, the confluence of three rivers—the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati—today, one of the holiest bathing days of the Kumbh Mela, which lasts 55 days.
Hindu devotees take a holy dip at ‘Sangam’, the confluence of Hindu holy rivers Ganges, Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati, during the Maha Kumbh festival at Allahabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
(Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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Tag Archives: July 4
When I was much younger, I would stand on the side of the road watching the fireworks being launched off of “Luskin’s Hill” just about a mile from my home. With each new sonic boom and brilliant blast of color, amidst the chorus of “oohs” and “aahs” that weaved through the crowd like the ripples of the American flag, I was the kid thinking about those “bombs bursting in air” and if they really looked like the fireworks that were exploding in front of me.
It was always impressed on me that the fourth of July was about what we went through to earn our freedoms, the sacrifices we made and the gutsy courage we displayed to build the foundation of a democratic, independent nation. I wasn’t ignorant to the fact that it has often been ugly. I had read Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. I knew we weren’t the Rockwellian image we’ve always hoped we might be. But what I extracted from these fireworks was a responsibility, a duty to those who gave us these freedoms, this independence; we owed it to the men and women who established a foundation of comfort, compassion, and opportunity for all within our United States.
Even as a kid, I felt obligated to uphold the legacy of what it means to be an American 200-plus years after the bursting of those bombs and the defiant red, white, and blue still waving in that dawn’s early light.
None of this has changed for me as I have gotten older, especially as I have learned more about the horrors of assimilation, the ugly demonstrations of cultural appropriation, and the despicable existence of racism still today. Yet, we believe that this is a time for us to boast our mighty strength and freedoms to the world, as the bodies of immigrants washing up on shores goes largely ignored.
Maybe that’s why things seem a little, oh, hollow these days when it comes to waving and praising that good old red white and blue. When I revisit the Declaration of Independence, I am reminded of why we broke free from Great Britain, and how we opened our arms for those in greatest need. The words of Emma Lazarus, who penned “A New Collosus” that is etched into the base of the Statue of Liberty, ring true:
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she / With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Have we forgotten this? Have we forgotten the actual text of the Declaration of Independence that outlines, very clearly, what we were breaking free from?
I offer you the complete text of the Declaration of Independence, below. Please read every word. Every single word.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
On this day of independence, on this day that we celebrate everything that America stands for, I offer a Declaration that is a little less of the grandiose and a little more of the introspective contemplation of what it means to be “American.”
I declare that, as an American, I respect the rights of my neighbors, regardless of political affiliation.
I declare that, as an American, I open my arms to the homeless, the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses.
I declare that, as an American, I embrace the independence and individuality of my neighbors as long as that independence and individuality does not bring harm or injustice to others.
I declare that, as an American, I shout my encouraging words, my art, my music, my ideas, my beliefs of what is right for all to the world regardless of the risk of suppression or judgment.
I declare that, as an American, I work hard to support my community, to be honorable in my efforts, and to offer good will toward others who contribute to the wellness of our country.
I declare that, as an American, I embrace inclusion, not exclusion, and my words and efforts shall carry opportunities instead of consequences.
These declarations do not hinder or dampen our parades, our fireworks, our backyard picnics; instead, they shift our focus to what really makes America a united, independent nation that was once revered as the greatest place for opportunity and freedom.
Instead of excluding political opponents, instead of casting blame on each other, instead of beating our chests with mighty tanks and powerful flyovers, instead of using bellicose language and building ourselves up by putting others down, instead of turning away those in need, instead of abhorrent tweets and social media bullying, choose the essential elements upon which our country was founded: Life. Liberty. Happiness. For All.
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HISTORY WAS MADE! -- Baseball vs Cal Poly
Bringing funk to the funkless
(This post was last modified: 05-15-2019, 07:10 AM by martyup.)
Had totally slipped my mind, but it's on. 0-0, Mid 2.
http://pac-12.com/live/stanford-university
martyup
(This post was last modified: 05-14-2019, 06:37 PM by martyup.)
Daschbach just crushed a home run. 1-0 Stanford.
Kinamon hits a deep grounder and gets thrown out at 2nd on a good play by the center fielder
Tawa doubles with one hopper over the right field wall.
And . . . Bellafronto doubles and Tawa scores. 2-0
Cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude
(This post was last modified: 05-14-2019, 06:37 PM by JJJ.)
(05-14-2019, 06:31 PM)martyup Wrote: Daschbach just crushed a home run. 1-0 Stanford.
I blinked and missed it but I believe Kinamon tried to stretch a single into a double and was tagged out at second. So 4 straight hits to open B2?!
Now 2-0 heading into T3.
StanfordMatt
(05-14-2019, 06:36 PM)JJJ Wrote:
Accurate. Minor nitpick but we make too many outs on the base paths trying to stretch singles into doubles. Maverick is especially guilty of this in my opinion. I like the aggressiveness but our hitters are too good to be gifting opposing defenses free outs.
3rd inning and the Mustangs are on their 3rd pitcher.
Wulff was just robbed of a HR with an over-the-wall catch in center field. Nice play by the Cal Poly outfielder.
Daschbach with another HR. 3-0
Williams pitching a nice game. After 6 innings, he's allowed just 2 hits. 77 pitches.
OMG!!! Daschbach with another beautiful HR blast. That's 3 homers tonight! Now 5-0
And . . . he hit them on three different pitchers.
First time in over 19 years that a Stanford player has hit 3 homers in a single game.
Mustangs bring in their 5th pitcher to start the 7th inning.
WOW--Dasch-bombs galore!!!
Make that FOUR for Daschbach.
MAKE IT 4!!!
Against 4 different pitchers.
4 for 4. Dingers. ON FIRE.
What a night. Congrats to Dash.
Mr Baseball you nailed it
Stanford sports history was made last night. Against Cal Poly SLO, Daschbach had 4 at bats against 4 different pitchers. In each at bat he hit a home run. He is the first player in Stanford history to hit 4 home runs in a single game. Fantastic performance!
Hulk01
(05-15-2019, 07:10 AM)martyup Wrote: Stanford sports history was made last night. Against Cal Poly SLO, Daschbach had 4 at bats against 4 different pitchers. In each at bat he hit a home run. He is the first player in Stanford history to hit 4 home runs in a single game. Fantastic performance!
And left, left center, right center, and right.
Phogge
Farhan knows who he is now. Haven’t seen him play. How is his range and arm?
OutsiderFan
You'd never know it by going to the useless Pac-12 site. Not one mention of this historic feat on the freaking home page, or even the Baseball page. Daschbach's performance was as impressive as the Pac-12's effort to promote the accomplishment by one of its own is pathetic.
Langdude
Daily Editor
Do you think he has an outside shot at Pac-12 Player of the Week?
-m.
CTcard
(05-15-2019, 09:26 AM)Langdude Wrote: Do you think he has an outside shot at Pac-12 Player of the Week?
There's a little more to that question than you might think (though of course I don't know what you might be thinking).
Most of the time, Pac-12 players of the week are connected to performances in the more prominent weekend series. However, most of the time nobody has a player hitting four home runs in four at bats in a single game.
Of course Daschbach could end any idle speculation by merely hitting a few more over the weekend.
(05-15-2019, 01:50 PM)CTcard Wrote:
I was asking it tongue in cheek, because it was such a singular performance that I can't imagine they'll bypass it, but I take your point that weekend series are weighed more heavily, generally speaking.
All four HRs in one clip:
And gostanford.com did cover it properly:
Quote: – Andrew Daschbach made history as the first Cardinal to ever hit four home runs in a game, leading No. 3 Stanford to a 7-1 win over Cal Poly on Tuesday night.
"I've never seen a performance like that in my entire career as a coach, nor as a player," said the Clarke and Elizabeth Nelson Director of Baseball David Esquer. "Daschbach picked up the team on his shoulders tonight, and we certainly needed it tonight when we were lacking other forms of offense. The next two weekends will be against Super Regional-quality teams, so it will give us a chance to test ourselves and figure out what we need to do to win in the postseason."
Daschbach left the yard in all four plate appearances, finishing with 16 total bases and five RBI while homering off of four different Cal Poly pitchers. Starting pitcher Alex Williams was phenomenal, allowing one run on four hits in a career-high 7.2 innings, striking out three without allowing a walk.
Quote: Cardinal Notes
It was Daschbach's second multi-home run game of the season, upping his career total to 32, which leads all active Cardinal. Daschbach is the first Cardinal since June 15, 2000, to hit at least three in a game (Edmund Muth) and the only player in Division I baseball this season to hit four.
Daschbach is the second player in Pac-12 history to hit four home runs -- UCLA's Bill Scott hit four in a game against Washington on March 30, 1999.
Daschbach's 16 total bases were the most of any Pac-12 player in a game by five – Daschbach had 11 total bases in a win at Oregon (April 19). No other Pac-12 player has homered three or more times in a game this season.
Stanford has hit at least one home run in 18-of-19 games with 54 in its last 23 games. It was the 18th game of hitting multiple home runs and 15th time in 23 games.
Williams is the second Cardinal pitcher to throw at least 7.2 innings – Brendan Beck tossed 8.0 innings against Texas (March 7).
http://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/14/bas...story.aspx
The announcers seem to barely pay attention to the game. They nearly missed the second HR and treated the 3rd like it was a run-of-the-mill base hit. Only on the 4th HR did they even animate their voices with a little excitement. Jeez, you have one job ... DO IT WITH GUSTO!
I was in bed watching the livestream and my wife was nagging me to turn it off. I told her that I wanted to see Dash's last at bat before I shut it down. It was worth enduring the wrath of the wife to watch that 4th homer.
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Miscalculation means less financial aid for students
Published on December 6, 2011 at 10:55 pm
By Liz Farmer
Hundreds of UT undergraduate students did not receive need-based financial aid this fall because of a $3.2 million miscalculation by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, said Tom Melecki, director of UT’s student financial services.
The miscalculation affected the state-funded TEXAS Grant, which awarded $2,500 per semester to qualifying UT Austin students this academic year. Melecki said the board double-checked its calculations, found an error and verbally notified the financial services office last week. Melecki said although 644 prospective freshman did not receive the grant because of the error, $3.2 million will be granted to the University for distribution to students.
“Hopefully, we’re going to be able to help some of our freshmen, but we just need a little time to do some analysis,” Melecki said.
Melecki said according to state law, the TEXAS Grant is awarded to first-year students and must continue to be awarded throughout their undergraduate studies. He said his office will try to distribute the rest of the grant funds in early spring, but the time frame also depends on their analysis of how many students the grant can fund throughout their UT careers.
Melecki said $21.8 million went to 4,591 undergraduate students in June to aid them this past semester.
“Those students will continue to receive the TEXAS Grants provided they re-enroll in the spring,” Melecki said.
Melecki said the miscalculation is unfortunate, but the board acknowledged the error and is doing what it can to mend the situation.
The board miscalculated for nine institutions, with the largest error occurring for UT Austin, said Dominic Chavez, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board spokesman. Chavez said there was a higher level of uncertainty about funding this year because of state budget reductions.
“We tweaked the methodology so we could stretch those dollars further,” Chavez said.
Chavez said part of the change included a different strategy to calculate grant factors at individual institutions. He said the board underestimated the number of returning students to UT Austin who would qualify for the TEXAS Grant again.
“In financial aid, there’s constant movement that happens,” Chavez said. “It’s not like we calculate it and walk away. We constantly re-calculate it.”
Chavez said the allocation of the grant is up to UT Austin, but in order for students to qualify for the grant, they must receive it during their first academic year in college.
Communication studies junior Shelby Wallace has received the TEXAS Grant since her freshman year.
“If I didn’t have it, I would have to get a loan, so it’s helped a lot,” Wallace said.
Wallace said the students who did not receive the TEXAS Grant this semester may have to take out more student loans than she has had to in order to cover tuition.
“It will affect them later in life financially,” Wallace said.
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University delayed until 10 a.m. because of inclement weather
Photo Credit: Caleb Kuntz | Daily Texan Staff
Published on February 6, 2014 at 7:03 am Last update on February 6, 2014 at 7:33 am
By Jordan Rudner
Citing "winter weather," University administrators canceled all classes before 10 a.m. Thursday morning.
"Weather is often predictable, and conditions can change rapidly," read a statement issued by the University. "Before traveling to campus, please carefully assess your personal safety. If conditions are not safe for you to travel, please stay home."
Essential personel, which according to University policy are "employees designated by their departments to as vital to the operation of the University," were asked to come to work as requested by supervisors.
Austin Independent School District also announced Thursday it would be operating on a two-hour delay, including bus routes.
This is the third weather-related class change in the semester, as the University cancelled classes on Jan. 24 and Jan. 28.
Student leaders criticized the University's handling of inclement weather last week, when administrators decided the University would remain open, then operate on a delay, then close down entirely, all within the same eight-hour period. On Tuesday, student government representatives introduced a resolution calling for improvements to the University's emergency preparedness policy.
History senior Joshua Tang, SG Administrative Director, said he hurt himself on campus before the Jan. 28 closures were announced.
“I decided to be a good student and take the day to study on campus,” Tang said at the meeting. “I wound up on the ground. It was me versus the ice and gravity, and I lost.”
Administrators issued an apology for the confusion the same afternoon.
“We’re very sorry for any trouble, inconvenience or problems that our students and employees faced related to our decisions,” the University said in a statement. “We are always working to improve our processes and to learn from each incident. Clearly, that includes today’s episode.”
According to UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, Thursday's Board of Regents meeting will also be delayed until 10 a.m.
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Human rights seminar tackles barriers to women’s leadership
By Dana Walters, December 3, 2019
This fall, Harvard Law School Clinical Professor Susan Farbstein ’04 is teaching “Human Rights Careers: Strategic Leadership Workshop,” a seminar focused on advocacy and leadership for students interested in careers in human rights or social justice.
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Through a sweeping array of new, hands-on courses, Harvard Law School’s January Experiential Term, or JET, gives 1L students a chance, early in their time on campus, to learn by doing, to work in teams, and to explore—or discover—what inspires their passion in the law.
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By HLS News Staff, November 18, 2016
In a recent conversation at HLS with Dean Martha Minow, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and U.N. special envoy on El Niño and climate change, told the story of how she came to be an “Angry Granny” on the topic of climate change, starting with her discussions with people in the most deeply affected communities.
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Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter’s funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster
human rights, open government, policing
(not satire – it’s the UK gutter press!)
The Mark Duggan photograph used by most of the tabloid newspapers – which supposedly shows him as a hard-faced gangster – was actually cropped from a photograph taken of him mourning his dead daughter.
The following photograph was used regularly by tabloids like the Daily Express and the Daily Mail to accompany their articles painting Mark Duggan as a tough gangster:
But what the tabloids didn’t tell you is that Mark’s grim expression in the photograph is because at the time it was taken he was at his daughter’s funeral.
Here’s the uncropped version:
That’s not a ‘tough-guy’ expression on his face.
It’s grief.
Thanks to Richard Donnelly for the heads up on this.
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203 thoughts on “Photo of Mark Duggan at daughter’s funeral cropped to paint him as a gangster”
Anyone notice the media obsession over the past few days on child sexual exploitation? Every newspaper, TV news & Radio has mentioned each case in great detail.
The Press & Media have no credentials for delivering the moral beacon of light.
Its a pity they forget the feelings of its victims when they sensationalize and spin, distort and destroy what’s left of truth & compassion for cynical aims.
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Ginger Ninja said:
Wow even I got a little suckered by this one; what a shameful way to represent someone just for the sake of controlling dialogue and legitimising police violence.
Guy Ropes said:
Who supplied the rags with the photo. Surely the supplier maintains copyright and can demand how the photo is used. Or was it taken by the paparazzi?
does paul dacra need his head kicked in or what.
The ‘gangster’ impression given or not given by this photo is highly subjective and so is irrelevant. Isn’t the more serious problem that the Mail and other media use words like “gangster” when they have absolutely no evidence? Duggan was never convicted of anything other than possession of cannabis and handling stolen goods. Millions of people did exactly the same in their youth, probably including most Daily Mail journalists, and perhaps you too…
yes i thought that as well
seachranaidhe1 said:
Reblogged this on seachranaidhe1.
thom said:
Yeah – who of us hasn’t been arrested on murder charges twice?
arrested is not the same thing as convicted those charges were dropped.
Yeah – The police know what they’re doing, we should let them alone and trust them to do whatever is necessary. What about those Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six too? I bet they were up to no good!
BOGMAN PALMJAGUAR said:
any attempt to misrepresent the unfortunate Mr Duggan in this way is quite sickening–in the whole the grief in him is clearly visible and understood. Those in the hidden world of the persecuted like myself understand.
Boz said:
it’s just more of the ‘distraction therapy’ that they are indulging in – to say nothing of leon brittan – helps us sleep at night
what an evil thing to do.
tldk said:
Nice jacket to wear to your daughters funeral…
fuugu said:
This is incredibly sad
cjmccormack said:
He looks no less threatening at all in the uncropped version. The truth is this photo, cropped or not, doesn’t prove what this man was like as a person, no photo proves that. Even if you could somehow prove that Duggan was a nasty piece of work with a photo, does that mean it was wrong to shoot him? Does it mean it was right to shoot him? Of course not. What’s the paint being made here? that the Media manipulates? Well of course they do, that’s their job!
If you want to raise a debate about Mark Duggan maybe it should be about the way in which armed Police are trained to read situations and how they make decisions about when to shoot someone and when not to? The enquiry returned a verdict of lawful killing. The system we have put in place to regulate this kind of activity has run it’s course, if people have an issue with the way that Police act they should look at themselves, who they vote for and how much interest they take in these mechanisms BEFORE something goes wrong. WE put politicians in office, WE put them in charge of training the Police and setting the rules of how they work, WE choose to take little or no interest in how this is done and then start bleating that it’s all unfair and horrible when it all goes horribly wrong.
yes put a rather different context on why he looks like that.
but it does put a rather different context on why he looks like that.
Martin S said:
There are non-sinister reasons for cropping photos. Most of the time it’s about what works best on the page – a landscape picture often fits better than a portrait one. Especially on a web page. There probably aren’t that many pictures of Duggan to choose from – that’s the reason this is so ubiquitous. I don’t think he looks particularly hard-faced here, either. Some sub or picture researcher will have looked him up on a database – and this image will be among a handful. The Guardian have also used it cropped. See here: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/10/mark-duggan-inquest-jury-counselling
Go search for “Mark Duggan” on the Guardian website and see how often this cropped image turns up. This is just how newspapers work. The Guardian does have an agenda in relation to Duggan – except it’s the opposite of that of the Mail/Express.
Since when was the job of the media to manipulate, I always thought it was there to report factual news and the truth, silly me.
m said:
I walk around with my gun every day…like old Dug did
Cropping the photo is a right thing to do.. It looks like a mugshot, or a normal passport photo… much better without context, then putting him in the context of his daughter funeral…
The fact someone loves his daughter does not justify him from breaking the law
i cant see that he was breaking the law.
C said:
So whats the point here?
1. Duggan did not have a gun?
2. The media manipulates things to sell papers?
Only one of those two things would shock me.
the the propaganda unit for the met most of the time.
he dident have any drugs on him ether so i cant see why people keep saying he was breaking the law.
The only people breaking the law were the armed police and they did so according to their own reporting, because they were passed the wrong information about Duggan having a gun.
What law did they break, and what is your evidence that they did so?
So it is lawful to shoot someone on flawed information?
… and no doubt you can also manage to leave no DNA on it, and throw it 20 feet away over a fence whilst being shot in the chest, whilst holding a phone in the same hand, and without anybody seeing you do it!
You said the police broke the law… What law did they break? Alternatively, you could just admit that you’re talking out of your backside, yet again!
This is not the first time the police have killed innocent people on flawed information, I could name more than one occasion, but the one that sticks in my mind is the one where the police said they had an anonymous tip off that a certain person was in a pub and he had a gun in his bag, the police shot dead a man who came out of the pub carrying a suspicious package, which turned out to be a chair or table leg.
they also lied about duggan shooting at them. and have refused to cooperate with inquiry.
I am sure you do not follow any moral code of law yourself so I would not expect you to consider it illegal to kill someone on flawed evidence, not only on the flawed evidince in the run up to the shooting, but the evidence and legal system that found that killing an innocent person was a legal act.
Perhaps you could change your moniker to fink offensively, then we can all reply to you with the acronym.
the fact officers lied in there statements makes them guilty of crime
I have a moral code, and one aspect of it is that I don’t accuse somebody without evidence. So I will ask you again – What law did the police break, and what is your evidence that they did so?
P.S. “moral code of law” is meaningless twaddle. You’re conflating two completely different things – morality and legality – but I doubt that you can understand that.
Callum said:
Past few days?! Try the past few years. 2013 was the official “Year of the Pedophile” in the news. The pedophile is new scape goat. Gotta rally the rabble around a common enemy. It’s the first rule in the book.
…perhaps they did, but unless it can be proved in a court of law then they are innocent. Don’t you agree that everybody is innocent until proven guilty?
Actually you’re wrong, it wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was others who made public statements. And as far as I know, no officers refused to cooperate with the inquest. If they had then they would have committed a criminal offence.
the claim an unarmed fired at them.
that to means they lied in there statement.
sorry that should read the claim an unarmed man fired at them.
Nuggy you are correct, there is evidence to prove the police wrong .
“everybody is innocent until PROVEN guilty”, who proved Mark Duggan was guilty enough to be shot?
Who from the legal profession will criticize the police and provide the evidence that proves them wrong?
See my answer above – It wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was other officers who made public statements to the media. They later retracted the statements. That isn’t illegal. If giving a false story to the media was illegal then the House of Commons would be empty!
nuggy
i always get what you mean….
You can’t convict ‘the police’ of a crime. You have to prove that a certain person committed a crime. You lot are so ignorant of the law it astonishes me!
fair enough, but why don’t you correct the argument by offering solutions, instead of digressing….
P.S. In case you hadn’t noticed, in the UK NOBODY can be guilty enough to be shot. Maybe it was murder, maybe it was manslaughter, maybe it was a genuine mistake. You don’t know. I don’t know. You are all missing the point!
I thought I just did! You have to follow the law. If you think the law should be changed then fair enough, make your argument. In this case I don’t think it should.
Pat F said:
Well obviously yes? If you have reasonable reason to believe something, even if it’s in fact false, then you can and should lawfully act on it. i.e. if I have a gun and start shooting innocent people in front of everyone, then disappear behind a pillar, throw my gun down the sewers, then take out a replica… well, at that point I’m no longer actually a threat. But if the police turn up they won’t know that, and will have reasonable reason to believe I still am a threat, and they’ll shoot me, and that will be lawful. It would obviously be moronic to prosecute officers involved in shooting me in that case as acting unlawfully.
Now obviously for the Duggan situation the reasons the police had false beliefs, flawed information, aren’t as clear cut as that. But you see how it’s entirely possible, and actually happens all the time, for the police to act on false beliefs but still be acting lawfully?
Mrs Fawkes – Actually you are on the right track with “Who from the legal profession will criticize the police and provide the evidence that proves them wrong?” Obviously it’s not the legal profession which usually collects evidence – so who is it?
You are the one that is missing the point and that is that it was proved to be a legal killing, even though as you have just said NOBODY can be guilty enough to be shot.
I think we all know the law is an ass or the truth that could be presented to prove a person’s innocence as in the case of the Guilford 4.
In this case and many like it I do think the law should be changed, unlike the immoral finkfurst.
Your point? said:
While it is obviously highly inappropriate for the press to misuse the image – it’s his daughters funeral, do journalists have no common decency?! – that doesn’t change the fact that he had a gun. A photo doesn’t make someone a ‘gangster’, having a gun does. Throwing the gun out the window when you see the police changes nothing.
So which law do you think should be changed, and what do you think it should it be changed to? I bet you can’t answer!
In the case of the Guilford 4 was hidden. ( error.)
In fact all that was proved was that a gun was found near the scene, not how it got there. There was no proof that he had it in his possession, or that he threw it anywhere, let alone through the window (which in fact was never even mentioned).
Get your facts right!
In fact the Guildford Four were never ‘proven innocent’ (if that is even conceptually possible) only that the guilty verdict was unreliable.
the above ps clarified your position, to me…nobody can be guilty enough to be shot…..so lets work from that premise….there is no instant solution to this, but one must be found…
Pat F – Spot on. Rational opinions are scarcer than hens teeth on here!
Obviously whichever law that made it legal for the police to kill an innocent man or even a guilty one for that matter, or would you and the likes of Mccormack who says people shouldn’t bleat about the police and laws unless they clue themselves up on every legal entity before they have a right to an opinion.
Why should we clue ourselves up on the legal system. there is supposed to be prosecution and defence, claims and counterclaims, the only problem is there is probably a law that could have been used against the police in this instance, but the legal profession would not put themselves out to find it, or have probably changed it by now anyway if there was such legal powers to prosecute.
That is just practicing the art of deception in terminology, something you are well familiar with.
something we can agree on.
cps i believe.
do we know for it was even his gun.
“moral code of law” is meaningless twaddle and you call yourself moral.
We would not have a need for the legal profession if we were all experts in this field, pull your claws in.
“Why should we clue ourselves up on the legal system”
Because if you can’t be bothered to find out the facts (in this case about UK laws) then you don’t have a valid opinion, as you have so perfectly proved time after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time, after time!
Wow!!!!! You are so amazingly ignorant! No, that’s totally wrong. It’s the police who collect evidence.
We do not have to know the law, to have the opinion that to shoot a man dead is wrong, all we need is a conscience, something you lack.
My moniker is guy Fawkes not mrs Fawkes, that could be misconstrued that I may possibly be connected with Guido Fawkes and his rantings, funnily enough a lot like yours.
“Since when was the job of the media to manipulate”
…since the invention of writing!
Yes I do. “moral code” and “law” are two completely different things. People have moral codes, societies have laws.
So Mrs Guy ‘what gender problem’ Fawkes – Would you say it’s wrong to shoot a man dead under ANY circumstances?
What is it with you that you refer to me as having a gender problem, Tom Pride took the name of an historical figure so have I, does he/she have a gender problem,
I’m sure there are many people that choose the names of those of the opposite sex or even idiotic names like yours.
Until you refer to me by my correct nom de plume, I refuse to answer your question.
Mrs Fawkes – I’m sorry, I was wrong to say that you are ignorant. That isn’t the point. EVERYBODY is born ignorant, but it’s what we do about our ignorance during our lives which marks us out. You could have taken a couple minutes to find out the answer to the question, but apparently you couldn’t be bothered.
You specifically asked me in a previous thread to call you by your correct title of “Mrs”!
Is Mrs Fawkes OK? Or do you prefer Mrs Guy? I don’t have anything else to go on!
I did not ask you to call me mrs, I said I did not like the name ms, I am a mrs, I did not even disclose what my gender was to you nor would I of, but bear no grudge against the person that did, only you for using it as some kind of verbal ammunition by implying I have a gender problem.
If you do not have anything else to go by try reading what is printed alongside my gravatar/avatar, or are you blind as well as thick.
Charmania said:
It is immoral to kill – thou shalt not kill.
It is right to give the benefit of the doubt.
It is right to be innocent until proven guilty.
Mark Duggan was found to be innocent at the time he was shot – he was not holding a gun.
The police officer is guilty of breaking a moral code. He shot a man dead. We allow it if there is a reason.
The reason he gave was that Mark Duggan held a gun.
The police officer did not pause long enough to see there was no gun.
In his mind he was certain there was a gun, he did not allow Mark Duggan the benefit of the doubt.
His own discriminations and beliefs caused his judgement to be wrong.
He judged Mark Duggan to be guilty of holding a gun before allowing for the fact that there was no gun.
His belief was proven to be wrong.
Therefore he had no reason to kill.
Therefore he is guilty of a crime.
If we believe he is not a liar, then we must accept he has poor judgement.
He sees what is not there.
He is deluded and needs to seek psychiatric help.
It was proven that the police officers reason was incorrect. Therefore the killing was unlawful.
Only by twisting the law and allowing the jury to discriminate towards the police officer did he go free.
Our justice system is therefore corrupt and without reason.
CJJodes said:
Legitimising police violence? Regardless of this, or any photograph taken, the fact remains that he was carrying a gun that night and was therefore a public threat. If events had transpired any differently police would have been criticised for their lack of action on or against an unlawfully armed member of the public.
which role models would you have us learn from?
It’s now a bit of a cliché to say Nelson Mandela, but it’s still true. Of those who you can read about, I would also add Fred Sanger.
…and before you ask – No, I think I’m not a good role model.
It doesn’t help if you keep moving the goalposts! Do you prefer to be called “Mrs.” or not?
You really think you have found my Achilles heel don’t you? I’m sorry to disappoint you but all it shows is that the “genius is out of the bottle” and that a woman is more than a match for you.
he was not carrying a gun that night the inquest proved it.
as we are all born ignorant as you say, why should we bother to try to remedy this?
I’m only asking what you prefer to be called! Why is that so difficult? I thought you said you preferred “Mrs.” but apparently now you don’t. Please just say simply and clearly what you prefer, and that is what I will use from now on…
No reply from you to me is necessary, so you do not have to address me at all.
Happy 🙂
If you don’t tell me your preference then I’ll call you whatever I feel like.
So Mrs Guy ‘I really don’t have gender problem’ Fawkes – Would you say it’s wrong to shoot a man dead under ANY circumstances?
Only if it’s you!
JM said:
Hmm, article looks very similar to this! Good work for sharing though! Not sure who got there first… http://marchthefury.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/that-mark-duggan-photo-theres-more-to-it-than-meets-the-eye/
OBD – If you want to remain as ignorant as the day you were born then that’s up to you. I do not. I want to continue to learn until the day I die.
Alex said:
There’s no smoke without fire! He shouldn’t have had a gun! His a thug!
Mrs Fawkes – You really are a nasty little piece of work, aren’t you? I have never before seen anyone say they wish another contributor would be shot dead. You have gone beyond a point of acceptability and decency and I will not forget it.
that is not what i was asking, if we are born ignorant, why bother to remedy this….?
How do you know he had a gun? Because the police said so? Do you remember the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, and the many other miscarriages of justice before and since?
with all the police and press smears it surprising the jury reached the verdict they did.
… then I don’t understand. Are you asking why we should bother to remedy our ignorance? If so, the answer is so we can improve our own lives and the lives of others.
Nuggy – Have you ever served on a jury?
finally! some one talking some sense!
we simply are not born ignorant, but with a hunger for knowledge for our new surroundings, the same hunger for knowledge that we had in the womb…our brains are preprogrammed with the knowledge of who we are…when we see the light of day our hunger to learn accelerates…. “If you want to remain as ignorant as the day you were born then that’s up to you.”…that supposes that i am ignorant, and you are not…i find you very difficult to communicate with….the corpus callosum rapidly hard wires to accommodate our new environment, caused by instinctive learning…..
I have served on three juries. In each case there were only 2 or 3 of the jurors who gave a sh*t about reaching a fair verdict. The rest had already decided on a verdict for no rational reason at all, or they were just bored and wanted to go home or to the pub. The fact that a man might go to jail based on their decision was completely unimportant to them.
to then i don’t understand….
why would we bother to remedy our ignorance, coz we don’t know that it will make any difference, we would simply be ignorant to that fact, we would not know it….where does the thought or concept that we can help improve our own lives, or the lives of others, come from within us and our natural expectations of the world, that we are preprogrammed to know…the answer is that we are born lovable, cooperative, sociable, and non-violent….
If you read what you wrote and what I wrote you will see that you asked if it was WRONG shoot a man dead under any circumstances, and I replied only if it’s you, because I would not want to see you shot it would be too quick I would choose something a lot slower and more painful for you.
I think I misunderstood what you meant, and to be honest I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say. We ARE all born ignorant, but I agree with you that we are born with an instinct to learn… though some more than others!
It takes a woman to talk common sense. Nobody should be allowed to shoot anybody else and that includes the police, there is enough of them and plenty of other ways to apprehend and restrain a gunman with resorting to shooting them dead. They are supposed to be marksmen anyway so surely a rubber bullet in an area that would bring down an assailant should be sufficient if absolutely necessary.
f f though some more than others!
ok now if someone is ignorant is it their fault that they are, and does calling them ignorant, remedy their ignorance, clearly not, so then what is the remedy?
the remedy is to help others find themselves 1st, then people learn easily what they want to know…….
ps I hope charmania is a woman? If not this one holds the same point of view, despite my ribbing of ff who would be an exception to the rule.
Joking aside this is a serious situation that has been repeated my times previously and laws need to be brought in to curb armed police.
my should read many.
the whole approach needs to be seriously reconsidered….when i was young, several hundred yrs ago, it was a widely held consensus that armed police, just made the whole gun problem worse, a view i still hold…
yes i have
mac said:
yea, me too, suckered by scum sector of the media. whatever and whoever the man was, and I don’t know, the scum media set out to make us hate him, and they succeeded, bastards, we just cannot trust them.
Midnight said:
First off lets start with some common sense… The guy wouldn’t be stupid enough to be carrying a gun in the car in the first place… Yeah he had a reputation as a ‘Gangsta’ but he was more like a bully to the area.. he wasn’t a nice person and i’m sure if you asked around the area or surrounding areas you would hear stories. But this is a guy that was killed because of itchy trigger finger police.. simple as that.. his reputation preceded him hence the shooting.
The worst part of this is the press have and are continually trying to make him the fall guy for all of this.. The riots were more to do with greed than anything else, I would throw the 90% range for people who were in on the riots for reasons other than the death of Mark Duggan.
CJRhodes there is no ‘fact’ that he was carrying a gun.. unless YOU were there then there are no facts just rumours and whatever you can make the public as a whole believe through your stories.
OBD – Yes, in most cases if somebody is ignorant about something then it IS their fault, though of course they may not be interested in whatever it is, in which case they they shouldn’t shoot their mouth off about it.
It’s only by recognising one’s own ignorance that one can learn. You’re right that simply calling somebody ignorant seldom helps, but pointing out somebody’s ignorance specifically and with reasoning can help… but then again for some people it doesn’t! (…and I don’t mean you).
And did you find the same lack of interest and responsibility that I did?
Mrs Fawkes – “It takes a woman to talk common sense” …and you accuse other people of being sexist!!! YOU HYPOCRITE!
Have you forgotten what I actually did write in other posts i.e.” there are not many ism taboo’s I have not broken” or been accused of breaking in the name of satire – reel your neck in.
Your view as far as I am concerned is correct.
yes i did from some members but not all.
So you think it’s OK for you to be a sexist, provided you admit it? Do you think the same about racism?
That’s why I’m seldom surprised by a ridiculous jury verdict. They happen all the time.
That’s also why a person who is guilty is well advised to seek a jury trial, because it becomes more of a lottery. If you are innocent however, avoid a jury trial like the plague!
OBD – Also you are absolutely right when you said – “then people learn easily what they want to know”. Exactly!… WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW
It was also used by The Voice, The Guardian, the BBC, 4Ward4Ever “Deaths in Custody” campaign charity, and United Families and Friends “Deaths in Custody” charity. What’s your conspiracy theory about them?
Anthony said:
If he’s mourning at his daughter’s funeral, why is he wearing a tracksuit????
Is everyone missing the fact that he had a gun, and why did he have a gun in the first place? Clearly to kill someone in the future.
Anthony – Where did you get that ‘fact’ from? Was it from the same police who shot him?
I’m sure it does not matter what he wears to his daughter’s funeral, for all you know it may be his best and only outfit or perhaps his favourite.
i wrote…the remedy is to help others find themselves 1st, then people learn easily what they want to know…….finding themselves 1st is the need to know…..
I am sure if your judgements during jury service were anything like most of the ones you have expressed on this blogg, you were probably the one that jailed the innocent.
OBD – I know what you wrote. I think ‘finding yourself’ is meaningless cr@p. It’s not difficult, just look in the mirror and there you are! How is ‘finding yourself’ a remedy for anything? Recognising your own deficiencies, ignorance and lack of understanding is a different matter, and if you can do that then becomes perfectly clear what you should do next… START TO LEARN!
Cathy Butler said:
He should obviously have asked you first.
Then you would be wrong, as is obvious because you don’t have a clue about any of the cases! Why do you continually give silly opinions about things which you know absolutely NOTHING about? It only shows you for the mindless bigot that you are.
I think it does matter what people wear on certain occasions such as funerals, but I can see nothing wrong with what he was wearing. Maybe also it was his daughter’s favourite?
because you, i, we, all want answers….and we intuitively/instinctively know that our culture is crap….so look in other places….see this vid clip does this man have a point? http://www.selfishcapitalist.com/
servedup said:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/07/article-2023254-0D55639E00000578-342_472x619.jpg doesn’t look like a gangster in this picture either
OBD – I assume you mean Oliver James? If so yes, he has many good points. Is he right about everything? No. I’m not sure what point you’re making…
I strongly disagree with you that we ALL want answers. Many people (perhaps even most people?) do NOT want answers, except when they fit with their own bigoted ideas, and Mrs Fawkes is one of them
It only matters what people wear on certain occasions if you subscribe to institutionalized cultural bigotry.
response to..”No. I’m not sure what point you’re making”…
ok, sorry, i could not be clearer, i’ll work on being clearer….
No – Once again you are totally wrong. It is a matter of considering the feelings of the other people attending that occasion.
OBD – Thanks, that would be helpful. By the way, the “No.” referred to the previous sentence.
You mean the snobbish bigots who would be discerning about someone’s dress?
My mother would be upset if I didn’t go to my father’s funeral in sombre clothing. Are you calling my mother a snobbish bigot?
Given your replies on here she should be more concerned about how you conduct yourself on public forums than how you dress to a funeral, but hey if the cap fits she can wear it too.
Not only have you deliberately insulted my mother, you said “I would not want to see you shot it would be too quick I would choose something a lot slower and more painful for you” and then you criticise MY conduct on a public forum?????? I think you are the nastiest person I have ever seen on such a forum.
Oh Shucks, you’re too easily offended by those who offend you in defence of your offensive behaviour, but I will take your criticism on board before jettisoning it.
I doubt you even have a mother.
Can you tell me just one offensive thing I have said about you without justification, and one offensive thing you have said about me with justification?
If we were in a court of law YES, but at the moment I am concentrating on helping Columbo solve his mysteries on the off chance I may be called for jury service.
Well Mrs Guy ‘What gender problem?’ Fawkes… What a picture of your sad life you paint!
servedup
No he looks like your average rapper fan, emulating their dress.
OBD – I meant which one of the points Oliver James was talking about. Can you explain sometime?
Do you agree with me that some people in this world are not interested in finding real answers?
They don’t come much sadder but I relish every minute of it.
Do you relish saying that somebody deserves die slowly and painfully purely for something they said with honesty and justification?
P.S. If you get called for jury service, please don’t go – no defendant deserves to get you on their jury.
servedup – Please tell us all, exactly how can you tell who is a gangster and who isn’t from one photograph?
Well Mrs Fawkes, you didn’t answer – Do you think the same about racism?
On the contrary, I think they would love having me on their jury.
i’ll simply answer yes…to cover both points for now….
No, you are wrong. You are not a moral person. No moral person would say that somebody deserves die slowly and painfully.
Go on then I would grant you a quick death, lethal injection!
Are you trying to say that you didn’t mean it? Go on, try opening up a little, you might be surprised at the results. If so, there is a possibility of communication, and that is the only valid reason for being on this site.
personally I think we have over communicated with inane banter on what is in effect a sombre subject that Tom presented us with and which should be given more respect, so I will sign off on this one – catch you later.
Mrs Guy ‘Moron or monster’ Fawkes
YOU have communicated with inane banter, but I have not. I don’t know whether you are a fundamentally immoral person or just so shallow and stupid that you say anything which comes into your head. The outcome is the same. You may think that what you have written on this site is transient, but you will find out that it is not.
OBD – I’m glad you agree that some people in this world are not interested in finding real answers, and I hope we might agree about which ones! I think Mrs Guy Fawkes is clearly one such, do you?
I look forward to what you will say about Oliver James’ points. Will you do that on this thread or a different one?
no, guy fawkes is not one of those….a different thread when the post is relevant and my yes is a grey area yes, of real answers, to me real answers can only mean universal truth, so as i said i need to reflect on being clearer….and i do need a break atm…remind me at some point in the future, meanwhile i’m sure that you will continue to explore….
Since I have friends of many nationalities and sexual persuasions I will ignore your last remark, but I would add they are not as politically correct as you appear to be, they have a sense of humour.
he dosent look like a ganster to me from those photos.
Do you think I will not stand by my words serious or not, I thought you had realised by now how intransigent I can be, so am not in the least bothered that my posts are intransient.
You know when you grow up you might not take yourself so seriously.
Mrs Fawkes – You’ve changed your mind often enough, so it’s very plain that you do NOT stand by your words. On the other hand, I do. You have failed to get a single shot on target, and in every case where you think you have, I led you there! If you think I’m taking this exchange seriously then you haven’t been reading very carefully. Look again……
OBD – I have to disagree with you about Mrs Fawkes. Read what she says – can you can find a single open question that she’s asked? She seldom asks any questions at all, and those few are only to seek confirmation of what she already thinks. Her behaviour is not that of somebody who is looking for real answers.
Mrs Fawkes – I used to work with somebody who had exactly that same attitude. She thought that if people didn’t appear to take her sexist and racist jokes and comments seriously then they didn’t matter. She was wrong, and so are you.
… and “sexual persuasions”??? It’s a long time since I heard that phrase! It really gives your thinking away.
Katie said:
It was actually his mobile phone. And yes their was a gun found on the crime scene, But it was found no where near mark it was found behind a wall on the grass, which funny enough didn’t even have marks finger prints on. And also the police statements didnt actual add up, because the officers claimed he chucked the gun infront of them, which the medical report stated that was inpossible because the police officer shot mark in the arm, and again like i stated no finger prints was found on the gun for that to be true. So before you make silly remarks at least no details of the facts.
Who gives a shit about him anyway! One less thug on the street to be mugged by!
Are you some narrow minded repressed gay man, because you protesteth too much about issues that are not relevant to the headline topic?
So now you think I’m a repressed gay man, do you? Are there any more labels you want to attach to me from your bigoted little mind?
I bet like the homophobics of yesteryear you still actually think sexuality is a ‘persuasion’. You really do, don’t you?????
…and if I was gay, why the hell would you think I should protest about it????? It’s not a crime any more! You clearly ARE homophobic.
I have obviously hit a sore point, too near to the truth,perhaps you need a dummy to calm you.
Definition of persuasion in English:
Line breaks: per|sua¦sion
Pronunciation: /pəˈsweɪʒ(ə)n
1 [mass noun] the action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something: Monica needed plenty of persuasion before she actually left
More example sentencesSynonyms
2a belief or set of beliefs, especially religious or political ones: writers of all political persuasions
2.1a group or sect holding a particular religious belief: the village had two chapels for those of the Primitive Methodist persuasion
2.2 • humorous sort, kind, or nature: half a dozen gents of British persuasion
Unless you missed it, it was the last listing for the definition of persuasion, you really do have a one track mind and are doing a lot of protesting for someone who has nothing to protest about.
Randall said:
“It wasn’t the officers involved in the killing who said that Duggan shot at police, it was other officers who made public statements to the media.”
They work for the same organisation! The whole police handling (rather like the panic shooting of a man without a gun) was a shambles.
Should we trust an organisation that handle the public like this, like idiots?
Plus FF, you seem to desperately arguing for a futile cause:
I don’t think anyone is asking for law to be changed. Just for the police to tell the truth. Or you will be asking for FURTHER RIOTS. Bigger picture. WHo would be interested in “taking police to court” haha, the masses won’t be that patient/naive!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
How old are you both, by the way? Forget gender issues, you seem to have maturity problems.. Even if I do agree with Fawkes’ views over FF’s views.
The police would basically garner far more respect fro the general public (of ALL ethnic groups, geo locations, classes) if they just
…..told the truth….
For the record I do not think the law is robust enough to deal with police issues such as this one. The first crime was possession of a firearm, correct? Unless the gun was planted, which I don’t think was proven. So going off that, MD had a firearm illegally. He didn’t deserve to die for that, however, having arrested the man the police should then not end up shooting anybody. Correct? So both parties are at a wrong for different crimes.
Dan said:
Proven or not, lets be fair the guy tossed a gun which was found about 100 yrds from the cab he was in.there’s a pretty good chance he was a gangster convicted or not. And there’s a good chance he’d of ended up shooting someone. At the same time u don’t want to condem a man not proven to be guilty, don’t automatically jump to his defense.
So Ms Fawkes, you’ve decided you were using the humorous definition, do you? That means you were laughing at different sexualities. Exactly like the person I described earlier as being like you!
…and if I were gay, why do you think that would be “a sore point, too near to the truth”? Do you think there’s something wrong with being gay? Your every post stinks of homophobia.
Randall – I agree with most of what you said, especially your second paragraph. Which of my views do you disagree with? Perhaps you would like to discuss them…?
Randall – You’re missing the point. Obviously they work for the same organisation, but you can’t prosecute an organisation, you can only prosecute the individual(s) and you must have evidence to do so. I agree that huge numbers of people (including me) do not trust the police. But it’s no good just complaining that they don’t tell the truth… what should we do to ensure that they DO tell the truth more often? I subscribe to some ideas, but I would like to hear yours.
The only person that thinks there is something wrong with being a homosexual is so obviously you, the way you have ranted about it, not being able to tie me to being a homophobe in a serious sense you thought a humourous sense would do, well you have certainly got me laughing.
Now take those fidgetting fingers to a more appropriate and relevant post Mr rain man and we will continue the argument there. OK.
Just to start you off those Bi-sexuals are another kettle of fish altogether, they cross boundaries and muddy the water so so speak.
Ms Fawkes – I happen to think that old homophobes such as you are disgusting. Some people might say it’s not your fault, because you were raised at a time when it was mainstream opinion. I strongly disagree with that. It’s about morality, and anyone CAN question their own morals if they want to.
If you want to dismiss defending the rights of LGBT people as a rant then that’s up to you and your sense of morality. To then also try to imply that such opinions are a result of autism just reinforces the breadth of your bigotry.
If you kept up with what is going on on the rest of the site, you will find I was referring to you as rain man as in the sense that Gay men have supposedly brought the floods. That UKip fella could be right with the gay’s floods of crocodile tears. I’m switching channels as I said go elsewhere and I will continue to argue TTFN.
Ms Fawkes. Your statement – “That UKip fella could be right with the gay’s floods of crocodile tears” pretty much sums up your morality!!!
Fink(rampant homosexual and hetrosexual basher)furst
You mean the generation your parents came from ?- the rest of my answer is further down.
P.S. Nobody on this site (or any other that I’ve seen) has referred to him as “rain man” – it’s only you. And if this site is where you get your news from, then no wonder your perception of morality and reality world is so warped!
Oh dear – what a sad spectacle! All I have to do is quote what you ACTUALLY said, whilst you have to make things up!
Guy said:
Rexfeatures.com has it, already cropped. I’ve always presumed photos can be cropped as they have to fit the page layout.
someone give this man a medal, most public services investigate themselves miserably,but you can then go to the cps if you think you have a good enough case against them.
educatedindividual said:
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The trickery of the media in the case of Mark Duggan
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DRONE FLYOVER: Scientology’s failed underground vault project in Wyoming
By Tony Ortega | September 1, 2017
The drone pilot is back! Since last September, the Underground Bunker has been the beneficiary of a shadowy anonymous drone operator who has allowed us to premiere his amazing overhead views of secretive Scientology sites.
He’s twice given us amazing views of the CST headquarters in the mountains above LA, where we believe that Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige banished his wife in 2005. He’s also been over Int Base near Hemet (twice), as well as vault locations in Tuolumne County, Petrolia, California, and near Trementina, New Mexico, as well as the ranch near Creston, California where L. Ron Hubbard died.
Each time, he’s made his lavish 4K videos available free of charge and with no strings attached, and filmmakers and television production companies have been taking advantage of it. (We’ve seen his footage pop up in Leah Remini’s A&E series, for example.)
And now the drone pilot is taking us somewhere we’ve never been before: Sweeney Ranch in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, where Scientology’s odd Church of Spiritual Technology has run into problems with another vault project.
The Church of Spiritual Technology is Scientology’s most secretive subsidiary, and its mandate is to develop underground vaults intended to house the preserved works of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to last thousands of years. With vaults already placed in California and New Mexico, several years ago CST began a new project in Wyoming.
But as Mike Rinder has pointed out, the project ran afoul of local authorities, who didn’t like that Scientology was building a doomsday shelter on land that was zoned for agricultural use. Rinder reported that not only was the work halted, but the church was ordered to return the hillside it was drilling to its original state.
As you’ll see in the high-resolution footage we have for you today, the hillside dig site is still pretty visible, even if the hole being dug into the ground was collapsed. Also, you’ll see that there’s still a lot of storage containers on site, which makes us wonder if CST is still hoping it can, someday, get back to digging.
Thanks again, drone pilot, for taking us on such revealing trips over Scientology’s secret locations!
(Note: This video our drone pilot edited together from two separate overflights. For raw video from the two separate flights, see video 1 and video 2.)
[The approximate location of the CST property is marked with a red star.]
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Who Was the Most Streamed Artist on Spotify in 2019?
Music By TooFab Staff | December 5, 2019 2:50 PM
Basically the Grammys, but on an app.
The year 2019 had its ups and downs: TikTok went viral worldwide, Miley and Liam broke up, Meghan and Harry welcomed baby Archie. But nothing captures the zeitgeist of 2019 quite like what we listened to across the world.
In case you haven't heard, music streaming service Spotify does annual roundups of the most-streamed artists, songs and albums of the year, plus personalized roundups showing who you've been loving in 2019.
But Spotify's also lumped in a bonus this time around. This year's roundup happens to be on the eve of the roaring twenties, which means that you also get to see who's topped the Spotify charts for this decade.
Spotify has over 248 million active users monthly across 79 countries according to its investor relations website, making this a pretty good picture of what the world listens to. Here's what Spotify's data shows:
Top Streamed Artist for 2019
Post Malone, a man of Beerbongs, Bentleys and now, Spotify immortality, tops this list for the first time. This comes just 12 weeks after the release of his third album, "Hollywood's Bleeding". Honorable mentions go to breakout star Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, who came second and third respectively after the success of their albums "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" and "thank u, next."
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Top-Streamed Album of 2019
Let's all think about the fact that Billie Eilish is 17 years old and has two Grammy nominations and a RIAA-certified 2x Platinum album to her name. To add to her list of accolades, "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?" also took the title for the top-streamed album of 2019.
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Top-Streamed Songs for 2019
Congratulations to Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello for taking over the radio (and our hearts) with their steamy collaboration "Señorita." The song has over one billion (yes, with a b) streams on Spotify, meaning that literally one-seventh of the world has listened to it.
Billie Eilish and Post Malone take second and third spots with "bad guy" and Swae Lee collab "Sunflower" respectively.
Top Breakout Artists
Lil Nas X, Lizzo and Lunay share this award this year for storming the scenes with their work on "Old Town Road," "Juice" and "Épico" respectively.
Top Podcasts 2019
The genre for the year was comedy, and the three most-streamed podcasts were "The Joe Budden Podcast with Rory & Mal," "My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark," and "Gemischtes Hack."
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The Five Most Streamed Songs From 2010 - 2019
We apologize in advance for getting these songs stuck in your head all over again.
“Shape of You” – Ed Sheeran
“One Dance” – Drake, Kyla, WizKid
“rockstar (feat. 21 Savage)” – 21 Savage, Post Malone
“Closer” – Halsey, The Chainsmokers
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Open up your Spotify app, hit the home button, and it should be at the top of your screen! If you're on your computer, go to this link to find your personalized Spotify Wrapped list when you hit the "2019 Wrapped" image.
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Review of Compensation for Loss in the Financial Services Sector
Chapter 7: Market Licensees
The purposes of this Chapter are:
to ask whether market licensees should be required to make compensation arrangements;
to assess the various compensation arrangements required of market operators and to question the current requirements;
to ask, if market licensees are to continue to be required to have compensation arrangements, what shape should they take;
to raise the question whether consolidated market arrangements are justified; and
to ask whether any obligation to make compensation arrangements on prescribed clearing and settlement facilities (through which uncertificated financial products are transferred) is justified.
A: Should market licensees be required to make compensation arrangements?
194. It can be seen from the summary of the origins of the National Guarantee Fund in Attachment C that, at least in the case of the Sydney Stock Exchange, the decision to establish a fidelity fund was made as a means of protecting its reputation and discouraging regulation following the collapse of a broking firm.
195. Fidelity funds were subsequently required in several jurisdictions by legislation in 1970 and 1975 and in all jurisdictions by the Securities Industry Act 1980 and its successors. The National Guarantee Fund was created in 1987 from the amalgamation of a proportion of the fidelity funds of the capital city exchanges. The relevant provisions were re-enacted in 1989, amended in 1990-94, re-enacted in 2001, and retained in substance in the Financial Services Reform legislation.
An assessment of the general features of current Australian compensation funds
196. The ASX's National Guarantee Fund and other Australian exchanges' fidelity funds fall under this heading.
197. The advantages of these funds are:
they probably provide the greatest certainty for the consumer in relation to the particular conduct covered (see Attachment B);
they can be used in combination with surety bonds and professional indemnity insurance;
thus the SEGC, having paid a claim, is subrogated to the claimant's rights against the financial services licensee (backed by its professional indemnity insurance);
compensation fund managers may well be better placed than retail clients to get to the bottom of an issue through obtaining documents and dealing with the licensee, if solvent, or its lawyer;
in the case of the National Guarantee Fund, funds in excess of the required minimum are made available for securities industry/financial services industry development purposes;
a total of over $110 million has been paid out of the NGF for this purpose since its establishment.
198. We also note that the International Organisation of Securities Commissions' Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation contemplate that investors in securities markets will have access to compensation for improper behaviour.51
199. The disadvantages of requiring these arrangements are:
the current exchange-based funds in Australia relate particularly to the protection of assets, and do not cover advice;
there is, of course, an issue (discussed in Chapter 5) as to the appropriateness of requiring a compensation scheme to cover additional risk, such as negligent advice;
putting aside its clearing guarantee functions, the National Guarantee Fund coverage in relation to investor protection is significantly different from that required of other fidelity funds;
is this justified?
to make them comparable would involve additional costs on participants in other markets, or reducing the level of protection currently provided by the National Guarantee Fund;
if individual financial markets are required to have such a scheme, how do the schemes interact in the cases where a participant is a member of several financial markets;
this may create complexity for the client, if there is doubt as to which market his or her instruction was to be executed on, or whether it was to be executed on a market at all;
requiring financial markets to have compensation arrangements may impose a cost on them;
however, the National Guarantee Fund currently costs the ASX and ASX participating organisations nothing to maintain or administer;
on the contrary, as indicated above, the National Guarantee Fund has provided over $110 million for `securities industry development' purposes since its establishment - for example research, investor education and improvements to the automated trading system;
it is not clear that the requirement on other financial markets to have compensation arrangements imposes an onerous burden;
compensation arrangements made by the market operator may remove the element of personal responsibility from the licensee;
however, in most cases the scheme operator will, when it pays the claim, be subrogated to the rights of the claimant - that is, the scheme operator acquires the rights of the claimant and will take action against the licensee (and its professional indemnity insurer);
the scheme operator may also seek to prove in the licensee's insolvency;
compensation arrangements under Division 3 of Part 7.5 involve some regulatory costs in that they must be approved.
200. In summary, market compensation arrangements, while potentially covering the same events as a professional indemnity insurance policy, offer greater comfort to the client by providing both a decision-making process and a source of funds. This is provided to all clients of stockbrokers in the case of the National Guarantee Fund, and, in the case of markets other than the ASX, to retail clients (once the market transitions into the new Chapter 7 compensation regime).
CASAC's view
201. CASAC concluded that the compensation arrangements in new Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act:
'can create inconsistencies and administrative complexities in awarding compensation, given that eligibility under a scheme operated by a particular market operator is based on establishing a connection between the actions of insolvent financial service providers and that market. It can also create possible overlapping sources of client compensation between financial market operator schemes and intermediary schemes. The existence of multiple schemes can result in investor confusion, forum shopping, potential inequality and fragmentation of avenues of redress.'52
202. The difficulties are indicated by the relevant provisions of Part 7.553 which seek to establish the necessary connection with a particular market. In the absence of such a connection, the client is left to rely on the section 912B compensation arrangements. (An alternative would be to require the market compensation scheme to cover eligible claims arising from the whole of a participant's securities business, for example.)
203. CASAC considered54 that the Financial Services Reform compensation arrangements could be confusing for retail clients, particularly if a client had to seek compensation from several different schemes in the event that the insolvent intermediary traded on that client's behalf in various markets. It could also create inequalities, to the detriment of investors if different eligibility and recovery criteria applied in different markets.
204. Further, CASAC pointed to:55
increased regulatory responsibilities and costs, given the requirement for the regulator to assess the compensation scheme of each financial market operator;
the inefficiency of having several compensation schemes administered separately.
Questioning the current requirements
205. There are further arguments against requiring market licensees to maintain compensation arrangements:
if the purpose of establishing a fidelity fund is to retain confidence in a market, it should be left as a matter for the business judgment of the market operator whether or not to have compensation arrangements, rather than being mandatory;
separate compensation arrangements for exchange-traded financial products cannot be justified, given the purpose of the Financial Services Reform Act as providing harmonious regulation;
the requirement is a relic of a previous era and does not fit the range of financial markets (including markets which do not fit the traditional exchange model) which will be regulated under Part 7.2 of new Chapter 7.
206. While there are difficulties with the current market compensation requirements, there are also reasons to consider retention of market-based compensation arrangements including:
Government policy is that a market operator must supervise the relevant conduct of its participants. This is reflected in the provisions of the new Chapter 7 relating to the obligations on market licensees.56
Requiring the market operator to have compensation arrangements which would apply in relation to its participants' conduct as intermediaries in relation to retail clients would appear consistent with this supervisory role.
The special position the ASX has in the Australian financial marketplace and the increasing participation of the Australian population, particularly retail persons, as direct investors.
207. Retail investors on the ASX may wish to consider whether alternative proposed compensation arrangements will provide comparable protection. We note that while there has been only one stockbroker insolvency since 1993, there has been an increased number of claims against the National Guarantee Fund for unauthorised transfer.
208. If market operators were no longer required to make compensation arrangements, and the element of the National Guarantee Fund attributable to clearing house support were paid out,57 there would be no further function for the National Guarantee Fund and it would presumably no longer provide funds for the financial services development account. This leads to the question what would be done with the remaining funds - see secondary issue 15. It is likely that the exchanges would oppose them being used as the basis of any statutory fund of broad application - see paragraphs 250 to 254.
Principal issue 8
Should market licensees continue to be required to make compensation arrangements (as they have in the past and are in Part 7.5)?
B: If market licensees continue to be required to make compensation arrangements
209. If the obligation to make compensation arrangements were to continue to be imposed on market licensees, what changes from the current Part 7.5 would be appropriate? — for example:
On what grounds should claims be paid?
should they be the same across all financial markets? If so, should they be based on the National Guarantee Fund criteria, the current fidelity fund criteria or some other basis?
if they relate only to property entrusted to the financial services licensee, should this protection extend to authority a financial services licensee has over property of an investor (for example, broker sponsored uncertificated holdings and authority over client bank accounts)? Is this consistent with the treatment of unauthorised transfers of other holdings (including issuer sponsored holdings)?
Should the arrangements only relate to on-market transactions (rather than all transactions by market participants, whether on- or off-market, that must be `reported' to a market operator, for example)?
Should the arrangements cover wholesale clients (as the National Guarantee Fund does)?
How should responsibility be divided where a licensee is a participant on several markets? Is this, in practice, a real problem?
210. A number of other issues of relevance here are discussed in Chapter 10. They include subrogation and capping.
Principal issue 8(a)
If market licensees are to continue to be required to have compensation arrangements, what changes to the current Part 7.5 should be made?
C: A consolidated market scheme?
211. A cross-section of international schemes are summarised in Attachment D and some conclusions reached from consideration of these schemes included at paragraphs 239 to 240.
212. Consideration of the various international schemes leads to the question whether a consolidated market scheme would be justified. This would involve amalgamating the existing market arrangements into a single statutory scheme.
213. On the one hand, this would address the issue of responsibility where the licensee participates on several markets and may assist in resolving what to do with the existing National Guarantee Fund and SFE fidelity fund. In addition, if sufficiently similar to the current arrangements, it would provide an assurance of continuity for clients of market participants and it would provide a scheme comprehensible to overseas investors.
214. On the other, such a scheme treats clients of market participants or transactions undertaken on formal markets as requiring a higher level of protection. While they have been treated this way for some time, without further argument it would appear to be inconsistent with the theme in the Financial Services Reform Act of harmonised regulatory treatment across the financial services sector. Further, depending on the governance and structure of such a scheme, it may be seen as involving Government assumption of responsibility more properly borne by market licensees.
215. It also involves many of the issues of any broad statutory scheme — see Chapters 8 and 9.
Principal issue 8(b)
Is there justification for a consolidated scheme for financial services licensees who are market participants?
D: CS (clearing and settlement) facility licensees
216. In the context of secondary sales, financial services licensees hold (or have authority over) financial products and the money of clients largely for the purpose of settlement. With developments in this area, some licensees will offer services in relation to clearing or settlement and may not be participants on a licensed market.
217. Unauthorised transfer is relevant to certificated and uncertificated securities. It is particularly relevant in relation to uncertificated securities transferred through a prescribed CS (clearing and settlement) facility under Division 4 of Part 7.11. In this case, the mechanism is solely within the control of the CS (clearing and settlement) facility licensee, not the market operator. Indeed, the relevant transaction may have been entered into off-market.
218. Currently, there is only one clearing house with this capacity — the ASX Settlement and Transfer Corporation Pty Limited, which was the `Securities Clearing House' of Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act prior to the comme
ncement of the Financial Services Reform Act.
219. Compensation for losses arising from contravention of the Securities Clearing House rules regarding cancellation of certificates, and unauthorised transfer of securities was provided by the National Guarantee Fund,58 and continues to be available under new Chapter 7.59 (This protection does not require conscious wrongdoing on the part of the Exchange participant — the fraud may be perpetrated by another.)
220. However, the new Chapter 7 includes the capacity for other clearing and settlement facilities to be prescribed for this purpose and hence also to facilitate the electronic transfer of legal title.
221. As indicated above, there have been an increasing number of claims against the National Guarantee Fund on the ground of unauthorised transfer since 1997. In addition, there is clearly a need to maintain confidence in uncertificated systems.
222. On the other hand, traditionally clearing houses have not supervised the conduct of participants except to the extent that it relates to risk to the facility.
Should prescribed CS (clearing and settlement) facility licensees be required to have compensation arrangements in relation to unauthorised transfers/certificate cancellation? or some wider conduct?
51 See para 4.2.1 of the Objectives which are on IOSCO's website - see www.iosco.org.
52 CASAC Consultation Paper page 4.
53 Section 885C (the losses to be covered) and section 885D (certain losses that are not Division 3 losses).
54 CASAC Consultation Paper, page 6.
56 Part 7.2.
57 Under section 891A.
58 Divisions 7 and 7A of Part 7.10 of Chapter 7 prior to the Financial Services Reform Act.
59 See Division 4 of Part 7.5 and relevant Corporations Regulations.
Abbreviations and Terms Used
Principal Issues
Secondary Issues
Chapter 2: The Problem and Objective
Chapter 3: Current Australian Compensation Requirements
Chapter 4: The Purpose and Design of Compensation Arrangements
Chapter 5: Coverage
Chapter 6: Financial Services Licensees
Chapter 8: Is a Broad Statutory Scheme Warranted?
Chapter 9: Subsidiary Issues Relating to Statutory Schemes
Chapter 10: Other Issues
Chapter 11: Options
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Attachment A: Outline of Financial Services Licensing Regime
Attachment B: Current Compensation Mechanisms in the Financial Services Sector in Australia
Attachment C: The Origins of the National Guarantee Fund
Attachment D: Comparison of International Compensation Schemes
Attachment E: The Current Professional Indemnity Insurance Market
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9 days in United States Itinerary
Created using Inspirock United States vacation planner
Start: Chicago
Chicago Midway (MDW) — Las Vegas (LAS)
Chicago — Milwaukee, WI - Amtrak
Milwaukee, WI - Amtrak — Milwaukee (MKE)
Milwaukee (MKE) — Las Vegas (LAS)
Las Vegas, Nv — St George
St George — Zion National Park
Las Vegas — Cedar City, Ut
Cedar City, Ut — Zion National Park
Bryce Canyon National Park — Parowan
Parowan — Green River, Ut
Green River, Ut — Arches National Park
Drive: 45min
Grand Canyon — Flagstaff (FLG)
Flagstaff (FLG) — Las Vegas (LAS)
Las Vegas (LAS) — Chicago Midway (MDW)
Las Vegas (LAS) — Milwaukee (MKE)
Milwaukee (MKE) — Milwaukee, WI - Amtrak
Milwaukee, WI - Amtrak — Chicago
End: Chicago
Nicknamed the "Entertainment Capital of the World," Las Vegas sits in the middle of a desert in the southern section of Nevada.
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Chicago to Las Vegas is an approximately 6-hour flight. You can also do a combination of train and flight; or drive. The time zone difference moving from Central Standard Time (CST) to Pacific Standard Time (PST) is minus 2 hours. Expect a bit warmer temperatures when traveling from Chicago in August; daily highs in Las Vegas reach 101°F and lows reach 77°F. You will leave for Zion National Park on the 16th (Fri).
Things to do in Las Vegas
Nightlife Outdoors Tours
Towering cliffs of red, white, and pink Navajo sandstone, stream-carved slot canyons, and big blue sky all characterize Zion National Park.
Kick off your visit on the 16th (Fri): explore the wealth of natural beauty at The Narrows.
For other places to visit, traveler tips, more things to do, and more tourist information, read Zion National Park trip builder website .
You can drive from Las Vegas to Zion National Park in 3 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of bus and taxi; or do a combination of bus and car. You'll lose 1 hour traveling from Las Vegas to Zion National Park due to the time zone difference. When traveling from Las Vegas in August, plan for little chillier days in Zion National Park, with highs around 90°F, while nights are cooler with lows around 54°F. Cap off your sightseeing on the 16th (Fri) early enough to go by car to Bryce Canyon National Park.
Things to do in Zion National Park
Nature Parks Trails
12:30pm, Fri Aug 16
You can find hoodoos--rock pillars formed by erosion--all around the world, but those of Bryce Canyon National Park remain the standard bearers thanks to their bright red color, tall stature, and arrangement in large amphitheaters.
Start off your visit on the 17th (Sat): trek along Navajo/Queens Garden Loop, hike along Navajo Loop Trail, then take some stellar pictures from Fairyland Point, and finally take some stellar pictures from Inspiration Point.
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You can drive from Zion National Park to Bryce Canyon National Park in 3 hours. Plan for little chillier temperatures traveling from Zion National Park in August, with highs in Bryce Canyon National Park at 77°F and lows at 46°F. Finish your sightseeing early on the 18th (Sun) to allow enough time to drive to Moab.
Things to do in Bryce Canyon National Park
Parks Trails Outdoors
Navajo/Queens Garden Loop
9:30am, Sat Aug 17
4:30pm, Sat Aug 17
Navajo Loop Trail
12:30pm, Sat Aug 17
A Red Rock Wonderland
Mother Nature kept reaching for red when she painted Arches National Park's 2,000 sandstone arches, resulting in one of the country's more distinctly shaped and colored landscapes.
On the 18th (Sun), take in the dramatic natural features at Double Arch and then don't miss a visit to Delicate Arch.
To see where to stay, more things to do, reviews, and more tourist information, go to the Arches National Park online visit planner .
Traveling by car from Bryce Canyon National Park to Arches National Park takes 5 hours. Alternatively, you can do a combination of car and bus. Prepare for somewhat warmer weather when traveling from Bryce Canyon National Park in August: high temperatures in Arches National Park hover around 92°F and lows are around 63°F. Finish up your sightseeing early on the 18th (Sun) so you can go by car to Moab.
Things to do in Arches National Park
12:30pm, Sun Aug 18
The gateway to Utah's popular canyon country, Moab sits engulfed in the middle of desert wilderness.
To see maps, where to stay, reviews, and other tourist information, you can read our Moab online tour itinerary planner .
You can drive from Arches National Park to Moab in an hour. Expect a daytime high around 92°F in August, and nighttime lows around 63°F. On the 19th (Mon), you're off toCanyonlands National Park.
Things to do in Moab
Outdoors Parks Tours
Canyonlands National Park features myriad canyons and buttes that the Colorado River, Green River, and their tributaries have carved over millions of years in hues of red and orange.
Kick off your visit on the 19th (Mon): trek along Pothole Point Trail, then take in the dramatic natural features at Mesa Arch, and then get great views at Grand View Point Overlook.
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You can drive from Moab to Canyonlands National Park in 1.5 hours. In August, daily temperatures in Canyonlands National Park can reach 92°F, while at night they dip to 63°F. Cap off your sightseeing on the 19th (Mon) early enough to go by car to Monument Valley.
Things to do in Canyonlands National Park
Parks Nature Trails
Grand View Point Overlook
1:30pm, Mon Aug 19
Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1000ft above the valley floor. Valley of the Gods has been added to your itinerary. On the 20th (Tue), explore the striking landscape at Valley of the Gods and then take in the dramatic natural features at Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
To see traveler tips, maps, ratings, and tourist information, read Monument Valley trip itinerary maker site .
Getting from Canyonlands National Park to Monument Valley by car takes about 4.5 hours. Plan for a bit cooler temperatures traveling from Canyonlands National Park in August, with highs in Monument Valley at 87°F and lows at 58°F. Wrap up your sightseeing by early afternoon on the 20th (Tue) to allow enough time to drive to Page.
Things to do in Monument Valley
Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park
Center of Canyon Country
Originally little more than a simple camp constructed to house workers who built a nearby dam on the Colorado River, Page is now a popular stop for travelers preparing a trip to Arizona's canyon country.
Antelope Canyon has been added to your itinerary. Start off your visit on the 20th (Tue): explore the stunning scenery at Antelope Canyon.
To find traveler tips, reviews, photos, and other tourist information, refer to the Page journey builder app .
Getting from Monument Valley to Page by car takes about 2.5 hours. Prepare for somewhat warmer weather when traveling from Monument Valley in August: high temperatures in Page hover around 93°F and lows are around 69°F. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 21st (Wed) to allow time to drive to Grand Canyon National Park.
Things to do in Page
4:30pm, Tue Aug 20
The size, shape, and color of Grand Canyon National Park combine to leave an impression on visitors as deep as the canyon itself.
Start off your visit on the 21st (Wed): trek along Bright Angel Trail and then get great views at Powell Point. Get ready for a full day of sightseeing on the 22nd (Thu): take a memorable drive along East Rim Drive and then take some stellar pictures from Lipan Point.
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Traveling by car from Page to Grand Canyon National Park takes 2.5 hours. Traveling from Page in August, expect Grand Canyon National Park to be slightly colder, temps between 80°F and 50°F. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 22nd (Thu) early enough to drive to Las Vegas.
Things to do in Grand Canyon National Park
Outdoors Parks Trails
Lipan Point
1:00pm, Thu Aug 22
Bright Angel Trail
East Rim Drive
For ratings, where to stay, reviews, and tourist information, refer to the Las Vegas trip planning tool .
Getting from Flagstaff to Las Vegas by car takes about 4.5 hours. Other options: fly; or take a shuttle. The time zone changes from Mountain Standard Time (MST) to Pacific Standard Time (PST), which is usually a -1 hour difference. Plan for warmer temperatures traveling from Flagstaff in August, with highs in Las Vegas at 101°F and lows at 77°F. You'll set off for home on the 24th (Sat).
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Hollywood Actors Try To Blackmail Georgia Over Measure To Protect Life In The Womb
Hollywood elites are threatening the state of Georgia with a boycott if the state protects unborn lives once their heartbeat is detectable. Georgians don’t need Hollywood’s consent to affirm humans' personhood.
By Nicole Russell
Last week, Hollywood elites launched a full-fledged social media attack, threatening the state of Georgia with a boycott if the legislature passed HB 481, a “heartbeat bill,” that would essentially ban abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detectable. Just as soon as actress Alyssa Milano spearheaded the effort, complete with a plea to Gov. Brian Kemp and some 50 signatures, the House passed the bill. Kemp is expected to sign it into law.
The Georgia Senate passed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act on a party-line vote earlier this month. The bill will “protect the fundamental rights of all persons, and specifically to protect the fundamental rights of particular classes of persons who had not previously been recognized under law” by making it illegal to abort a baby once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is usually around the six-week mark.
Alyssa Milano Tries to Bully Kemp
When this measure came up for a vote in the House, Milano unveiled a letter telling Kemp, a first-term Republican, her plans. These included a threat to remove entertainment industry-related work from Georgia, a hot spot for filming television and movies.
To back herself up, she listed dozens of big-name actors, names she has continued to ad to the list, pledging o boycott Georgia as well, should HB 481 pass. Many on the list are powerhouses in the industry, including folks like Mandy Moore, Don Cheadle, and Amy Schumer.
Thank you to @sethgreen, @DavidArquette @AshleyJudd @michaelaWat @kellyoxford @pamelarackguest and @jamesocromwell who have signed on to join us in opposing #HB841 in #GA. Our letter to @BrianKempGA and David Ralston with updated signers below. #HB481IsBadForBusiness pic.twitter.com/99ZpPMikbt
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) March 29, 2019
Despite Milano’s boycott, the Georgia House passed the bill. Still, that hasn’t stopped her from securing additional signatures and tweeting the boycott repeatedly, tagging Kemp in attempt to lure him—extort him, even—into vetoing the bill. Not only did Hollywood stars continue to gleefully add their names to this letter, but governors from other states treated it like a sane business move and applauded this effort.
Tomorrow, @FirstLadyNJ and I will meet with film industry reps in CA to make the case for choosing NJ over anti-choice states like GA.
States that claim to be a good value for business need to demonstrate the right values, including standing up for women’s rights. #HB481
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) April 1, 2019
Milano maintains the passage of the bill is “bad for business” or #HB841isbadforbusiness. Planned Parenthood quoted Milano:
.@alyssa_milano: "Women who work in Georgia’s film industry — many of them visiting from other states — need access to safe and legal reproductive care, including their constitutional right to an abortion. HB 481 takes that right away." #HB481 https://t.co/uGiavUk7wG
— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) March 26, 2019
Hollywood’s Boycott Was Full of Fallacies
Several states have passed heartbeat bills or are reviewing them. The governors in both Mississippi and Kentucky recently signed fetal heartbeat measures into law. Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas are all reviewing heartbeat bills and expected to pass them. Of course, some states have passed them—Kentucky, Iowa, and North Dakota—and been blocked in the courts. This is normal and expected, but for many advocates, it does not lessen the point or the principle of the bill.
Heartbeat bills acknowledge the personhood of babies in the womb (heartbeat detection is one of the most common ways to confirm pregnancy) while also limiting abortions, since they’re banned once the baby’s heartbeat is detected, which is around six weeks following conception. The also could kick a case up to the Supreme Court, where they will finally have to address the issue after many years of avoidance.
One of the biggest reasons Milano’s boycott efforts are completely out of bounds is that she doesn’t reside or pay taxes in Georgia—she lives on a hobby farm in California. Thus Milano and company are attempting to directly undermine the constituents who voted Georgia’s legislature into office, and who have a legal and natural right to have their political views represented and made into law. They’re essentially attempting economic sanctions on fellow Americans. Or, to use another word, blackmail.
This is a technique the left has been amplifying for some years now. Its watershed moment was in Indiana in 2015, when then-governor Mike Pence and the legislature capitulated to out-of-state mobs and big business in his state to erase potential religious freedom protections and replace them with LGBT legal preferences that his own constituents opposed. Similar tactics worked in North Carolina and many other states soon after.
Milano’s Concerns are Unfounded
Milano is correct that Hollywood brings business to Georgia. The Motion Picture Association of America stats from 2016 show: “In Georgia, the film and television industry directly employs 25,700 people and pays more than $1.7 billion in wages. There are over 2,700 motion picture and television industry businesses in Georgia, including 1,822 production-related companies.” So Hollywood brings some work to Georgia. Why does it matter if Georgia essentially bans abortions?
Milano claims women working in the film industry there might want abortion access. Statistics vary, but women don’t exactly dominate the Hollywood industry. They make up about one-third (on camera and off) of it. How many of those are of childbearing age? How many of those are likely to get pregnant? How many of those will want an abortion? Right there while working in Georgia?
Let’s say a film production set hires a local wardrobe or dry cleaning company, made up of mostly women, to handle costumes on a set. They’re already living and working in Georgia, so many of them have probably already weighed in on this issue by voting and ringing up their their elected representatives. That’s their constitutional and natural right. Hollywood shouldn’t try to take it away.
The only strong argument that remains is that Milano and company don’t agree that babies are people with legal rights. That’s the most honest answer. Yet instead of just saying that, Milano is attempting to snooker the state of Georgia and its governor into believing that hypothetical economic gains ought to be more important than reducing mass murder.
Nicole Russell is a senior contributor to The Federalist. She lives in northern Virginia with her four kids. Follow her on Twitter @russell_nm.
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STRONG female characters, Mary Sues and Manic Pixie Dream Girls… What the Heck is up with Female Characters in Books!?
Published on December 9, 2018 December 9, 2018 by theorangutanlibrarian
Hello all! So as you guys may know I was reading Kingdom of Ash recently. As the final book in a l-o-n-g series, you’d expect there to be some changes from the original works, and that’s fair enough. But there was one tiny issue that bugged me: most of the female characters had become warriors (though #notall). Now, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a good kickass heroine and I didn’t by any stretch of the imagination dislike this book. Yet there were two things that struck me with this decision: a) Celaena, as she was originally known, stood out less than she had in previous books (where she’d been an exception to the rule in a world where there seemed to be few female fighters) and b) it kind of leans in to the idea that women *have to* be more masculine in order to be considered strong women.
Time and again, I’m finding that female characters are being type cast into the “strong” role of warrior. And it doesn’t seem to just be one character- it’s got to be the bulk of them. Regardless of whether the author wants to dress up this character in girly clothes and makeup, I don’t think there’s any denying the fact that their heroism predominately comes from their ability to kick ass and not their penchant for applying lipstick. Often it feels shoehorned in and doesn’t seem to be a necessary part of the character (like Clary in Mortal Instruments, who already had killer powers). It also doesn’t seem to matter if the world obeys the laws of earthly biology or not- it seems to be something we have to accept the predominance of the warrior woman in the large bulk of genre fiction (especially fantasy/sci fi, but even in historical fiction as well). Unfortunately this mentality seems to bleed into real life- I can’t tell you how many times (mostly male/female feminists) have criticised me for not being physically strong. Because, in case you didn’t know, I’m a regular girly monkey who doesn’t have the superhuman ability to kick butt.
Guess I’ll just use any excuse to get dressed up 😉
Evidently, I’m not crazy about this trend for many reasons. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Buffy growing up and like the occasional Wonder Woman style heroine. I also think this can really work in the fantasy genre- such as with characters like Nona from Red Sister, who come across as representations of shadow and myth. HOWEVER, I don’t recall it being the case that these were the *main* and *only* kind of female characters. Even when it came to Buffy, there were a bunch of other roles fulfilled by female characters. And thank goodness for that- because Buffy wasn’t the character I gravitated towards anyway! I’ll let you in on a not-so-surreptitiously held secret: I always identified the most with adorkable-brainy-oddball Willow- cos that’s who I found relatable. And this is a bit of a trend for me. While Tamora Pierce is famous for her Lioness character, I fell in love with Daine from Wild Magic. I adored the heroines in books by Eva Ibbotson- who never went raging to war but were fearless nonetheless. And I know that a few of the heroines in Game of Thrones fall into this super strong type- yet I love the series because it plays with every type it introduces and never presents a singular view of people.
A lot of the reasons this arose in the first place was a desire to challenge the status quo, to create something different and be appealing to a wider audience. And yet it’s not relatable; and somehow it has become a type. Regardless of whether they wear dresses or not, this STRONG female character is close to becoming a caricature just like any other irritatingly unrealistic representation. Many might have heard of terms like Mary Sue and Manic Pixie Dream girls getting (over)used all over the internet. What I understand about people that have problems with both of these, is that it’s irritating to see so many poorly conceived female characters. Naturally, these don’t simply apply to female characters- there’s always the people who shout “sexist” first and ask questions later (fyi for all those offended by the term Mary Sue, Marty Stus are a thing as well). And of course sometimes the criticism can be unearned- such as the infamous example of 500 Days of Summer using the Manic Pixie Dream girl trope… when it’s actually a deconstruction of that idea. Also, naturally, as in the case of unfinished or contentious works, these terms can be open to debate (as much as I’d like to insist that Rae from Star Wars is 100% a Mary Sue). So, whether in reading or writing, I think it’s good to be careful how we apply these terms- because boy is it frustrating to see characters reduced to nothing more than a trope.
If I was a lonely voice in the crowd, one could say I was a random butthurt woman (or “wahmen” 😉 ) blowing things out of proportion. Yet, I don’t seem to be the only one who thinks this way. In recent years, I’ve seen amazing articles from fellow readers like the lovely Kelly over at Another Book in the Wall, and videos from the likes of the Authentic Observer and even Jordan Harvey on similar topics. I know there are so many more- so forgive me if I left any obvious ones out. Point is: perhaps the zeitgeist of public opinion is changing. Maybe, just maybe when people were crying out for different types of female characters, they weren’t looking to be type-cast into yet another role. All I have ever wanted in fiction is believable, interesting and realistic characters. Wielding a sword is optional.
Hope you didn’t mind my somewhat rambly thoughts- I just wanted to get all this off my chest. What do you think about this trend? How do you like your female characters? Let me know in the comments!
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I enjoy a strong badass leading lady. However I will admit that I have also noticed the same character traits in a lot of the books that I have been reading. They dress them up differently but the outcome is always the same. So yes, I guess it’s kind of hard to not ask yourself what type of message are they trying to send out 🤔
Yeah I totally get what you mean- I’m not completely adverse to it. But it’s strange that this seems to be the majority of female characters in a lot of books. Yeah for sure.
Same. I sometimes feel as if I’m basically reading the same books with the same characters, and I think we can do better. And I agree that the “badass warrior who also likes frilly things” is just not that different from “badass warrior who hates dresses” so we can stop pretending it is. There are different ways to be strong! And, honestly, not everyone even *has* to be that strong.
I really agree with you there- I’d just like to see more variety. And yeah- to be honest it’s a bit of a superficial difference to me. And absolutely! I love when books show all different kinds of strength and I can also respect characters who maybe aren’t as strong as others. It’s okay to show vulnerability too.
Great post! I am only on Throne of Glass and am not enjoying the main character too much. I read The Assassin’s Blade, but she is not a great character to me. Her personality flip flops from extreme girly girl to killer of men and I just don’t buy it. I am going to continue the series, but am having some iffy feelings. This is a great post! I think about the YA female main character pretty often as the majority of them are on the nose obnoxious to me.
Thank you! Yeah i can understand that- personally, I began reading it a long time ago and liked her character back then cos it felt more different. Looking back, it’s perhaps not as great as I remembered. And yeah I so relate to you there- cos I often struggle to like the mc nowadays.
I haven’t read many YA, and even less of those “warrior women” ones, so i haven’t come across many of these tropes. But it is not enjoyable when all female characters are basically just cliches and tropes and are not like actual people. Most real people are not just one thing.
That’s fair- it mostly comes up there (and in fantasy). And yeah I really agree with you there. Absolutely!
Kim @ Traveling in Books says:
I’m open to a warrior woman character in a book. Women really can be warriors, after all. I mean, would you really want Serena Williams coming after you with an axe (or even a tennis racket)? But the ‘dainty girly girl who is also a badass warrior who can beat up men twice her size with just her fists’ thing is just aggravating. Much as I like to read about a good warrior woman, I want her to be realistic. And I’d like to see women portrayed with the full spectrum of skills and abilities that real women in the world have, not just the Warrior Woman, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or the other handful of tropes that show up in so many books.
Like I said, I’m not against it and it can happen- it’s just not my favourite character type since it’s not as common as these books would make it seem. hahaha that’s a funny image!! I don’t think I’d want that either 😉 And yeah I do agree with you there. I don’t think it makes much sense when it’s always the dainty girls… but to me, that doesn’t mean girls who aren’t as physically imposing should be written out- like you, I’d appreciate seeing girls with different skill sets. And yeah I absolutely agree- I don’t want them boiled down to just a trope.
I’m also tired of the “strong female lead” only being represented by a warrior. I like strong characters, but I don’t see why strength has to be shown with a sword. In my opinion this shows just how entrenched our society is in toxic masculinity. Instead I would love to see more characters (both male and female) showing their strength in other ways. It was one of the reasons I loved The Goblin Emperor so much. Maia and other characters ARE strong, but nobody ever picks up a sword! It’s also what I’m loving so much about the Wolf Hall series! I feel like this is something especially lacking in YA, for whatever reason, and is a big part of why I’m getting so burnt out of that genre.
I really agree with you there. I love strong characters, but that doesn’t mean they have to be a warrior every time. Like you, I don’t think strength can only be shown with a sword. And I want to read both of those books- so I’m really glad to hear they both don’t conform to that (though I had an inkling with Wolf Hall 😉 ) And yeah I can understand that completely!
Agree to disagree about Game of Thrones the changes made to Brienne and Arya, in the series especially, were pretty much what brought this one to the boiling point for me. But one could write a thesis work on female representation in that book/show (and someone probably has.) You raise good points though. I think getting sick of the trope has just made me look all the harder for work that subverts it or just plain has better representation so… bright side! Great article!
Fair enough! I’m not saying that the tv show does a great job all the time with the characters or that the books are perfect, cos they’re not. hehe that’d be an interesting thesis! And that’s such a great point! I’ve definitely reached that point where I’m bored of it too! Thank you so much!
ofmariaantonia says:
Yeah, it has become a bit cliched. And with all cliches, they start out strong 😉 but then they get boring because they all end up being copycats. Give me interesting characters. Real, flawed, strong… whatever. I just want characters I care about and can root for! (And like you said… Wielding a sword is optional.)
Ah so true!! I really, really agree with you! Absolutely!
I’m fine with “strong female characters” when they feel like real, three dimensional people. I’m also OK with female characters occupying a more conventional role, if they also feel like real, well thought out people. I think that if a character has thoughts, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, etc that character will resonate because people can identify. Tastes and opinions about what a female character “should” be change over time. Different tropes gain and lose popularity. So the way to avoid making a character seem like a dated cardboard cutout is make that character three dimensional. If the reader can identify with the character as a fellow human being (even if the character isn’t technically human!) then that character will continue to resonate.
Totally get that. I’m happy with either conventional or unconventional, provided they feel real and like you said, come across as well thought out. Increasingly, I don’t feel like that’s the case and to me personally it feels like a lot of unconventional portrayals seem to be to prove a point rather than for the sake of character development (for instance, in the book I mentioned in the post, a female character who was introduced as a spy-like character became a warrior by the end of the series- which wasn’t an improvement on an already strong female character- it just suggested the only way she could express her strength was in a physical way now). And yeah, I do agree with everything you’ve said- just got a bit carried away 😉
This will be interesting because I’m on my THIRD gin of the evening but I pretty much agree with you. I don’t like any kind of stereotypes because people are multifaceted and I find them unrealistic and reductive – especially when you see them over and over.
I think it’s really interesting what you’re saying about female characters essentially taking on more masculine traits in order to be seen as good strong role models. I hate that – I’m a tiny blonde girly looking girl (even if I am secretly quite strong and good at lots of traditionally boyish things) and I very rarely see a heroine who reflects someone like me. It’s one of the reasons I love Arya – I’m so glad she didn’t get given a whacking great big broadsword and told to fight in the same way as the men.
I think there’s always been a lot of negative connotations attached to anything feminine and I’m really not ok with that.
Also, who is criticising you for not being physically strong? Throw bananas at them for being so rude!
hahaha hope you enjoyed!!
And yeah I definitely agree there!
I can very much relate to that. It’s funny because whenever I have to think of female characters I actually relate to, it’s really hard (and usually it’s only ever the same few that come to mind) which is a shame cos a lot of what I read is dominated by female characters… and yet they don’t resonate with me a lot of the time. I really do agree with you there- Arya is a great example because she was always a tomboy, but that didn’t mean she became the next Brienne (in the books at least 😉 )
And yeah that’s definitely true unfortunately.
hehe it happens- I’ll do that next time 😂
I did enjoy my gin, thank you! I actually had to go and read my comment again because I’d entirely forgotten what I’d said 🙈
Is that because you read overly simplistic YA? 😉 Seriously though, I feel like it will take YEARS before we start to value more traditionally female traits (whether they’re evidenced by male or female characters) so we’ll be waiting a good while yet.
hehehe well good 😉
hahaha quite possibly! That is unfortunately too true!!
Making women a Man with Boobs and calling them “strong” does a disservice to all women. It also shows a genuine lack of understanding of the bloody fact that men and women ARE different. Sigh….
I really agree with you there.
I completely agree. Women don’t need to take on traditionally masculine characteristics in order to be strong. There are all kinds of women and all kinds of ways to strong. Usually authors can showcase this more when they have more than one female character, so I find it odd that an author would slowly transform the bulk of female characters into warriors.
I’m really glad you agree. And yes absolutely! I definitely think that. And yes it’s a real pity- especially since I was discussing one of the changes with my sister and seemed like an odd choice for them (they were a spy type of character, but transformed into a warrior by the end of the series, which negated the different kind of strength they’d shown earlier in the story and was a real shame).
That IS odd! People love spy characters! Why change her into a warrior? It also seems potentially out of character. People who like sneaking around don’t seem like they’d necessarily be the same ones charging at people with weapons.
I know right?! It made no sense to me either. Exactly!
I love warrior woman but I do hate how that’s the first thing that pops up when we think of strong female characters. Plenty of characters are deserving of being called a strong female character and they don’t wave a sword around.
Yeah I think that’s a good point. It shouldn’t be the first thing that comes to mind.
I actually don’t mind a cliché, I can’t kick ass, but I am one of the strongest person I know… So in my books, I don’t mind if a heroine is typecast as long as she is intelligent and does not play damsel in distress waiting for man to rescue card…. I generally don’t care how she is dressed or if she is given masculine characteristics, as long as she can think for herself… I hate simpering, fawning, vapid main characters…
I haven’t read any of books mentioned. But I have seen Buffy, I liked her, but I didn’t like her decisions, hence I would disconnect with her depending on the episode.
My view may not be the popular one, but this is what I like…
Well I think everyone’s entitled to like whatever they want and I don’t always dislike it- I just wish it wasn’t turning out to be the majority of strong female characters. I just think strength can be portrayed in different ways- like you said, you’re the strongest person you know, and yet that doesn’t mean you can physically kick ass. I just wish there were more characters like that in books. I’m not a fan of vapid characters either- so I agree with you there.
And I also do like Buffy, I was just pointing out I preferred Willow, if that makes sense.
No worries! You’re very welcome to like whatever you want 🙂
I like my female characters strong. I enjoy reading about the kickass ones precisely because I’m not. Heck, if I try to kick something I just end up hurting my toe or ankle! 😉
But I don’t think my heroines need to be aggressive and physically strong to be great. I liked Willow more than Buffy too… cuz as much as I liked Buffy, I saw more of myself in Willow. Thankfully in the genres I read more of the females’ strength doesn’t have to play out in a physical or aggressive way. Cozy sleuths mostly have to just be clever. ☺️
hehe well fair enough! I also like strong characters, but for me that doesn’t have to be physical. I’m glad you agree there! And yeah I was the same!! hehhe I totally get what you mean 😉
Agreed. It seems a solid confrimation of the strength of the prevalent patriarchal attitude that in order to appear strong a woman must start to resemble a man. Not only in books, in movies as well. Take the movie I already criticized long and often, Thor: Ragnarok, where Hela is a character turned on her head, a lost warrior sister to Thor and Loki :/, bigger and badder than both of them.
It’s also a rather new trend, I’d argue: women in books by Robin Hobb or Ursula le Guin, for example never needed to become warriors to show their inner strength. This trend seems strongly influenced by UF, I think 😉 And don’t get me started on Rey 😉
Well yeah it’s very frustrating to see strength portrayed as masculine a lot of the time. And yes, definitely agree that this happens *so much* in movies as well. That’s a really good example! Very much agree!
And yes, I definitely see this as a new trend. While it did happen in older books, even books that were famous for having female warriors like Tamora Pierce, there were still characters who fit outside of that trend. hehehee better not- I had to really rein myself in from going all out on Rey in the post lol 😉
Nil says:
Don’t those points apply to male characters as well? Most strong male characters are shown to be warriors who kick lots of ass yet I’ve seen hardly any criticism against them. Maybe the problem is just badly written
one dimensional characters.
Well, talking about female characters doesn’t, to my mind, preclude talking about male ones. The reason I was addressing this was because it’s a current and particular trend. And yep, I definitely have a problem with characters just being boiled down to a single trait. Incidentally, I have talked about male characters who were not warriors (like Kvothe for instance) going down the sword-wielding route unnecessarily, just because it was what’s expected of the character in order to appear “strong”.
I agree. I just feel that female characters get more flak for that sort of thing than male characters do. Not blaming you for that, don’t take it the wrong way.
I did not know Kvothe does that (I’m currently half way through the first book). That is a bit disappointing. One thing I liked about the book so far was that there was not much emphasis on fighting unlike most fantasy books, which was refreshing.
Well, I think there are two reasons for that: 1) it’s a current trend and a new thing, which means people are bound to examine and question it and 2) it doesn’t reflect a lot of people’s reality. I’m not saying that everything has to be about realism or that there has to be conformity, but asking people to constantly suspend their disbelief is going to create more questions.
I don’t think having physically strong women who can kick a lot of ass is harder to believe than dragons and stuff. Saying that I can see it’s not for everyone.
Yes, I’m just trying to explain why people will question it more. It’s not that you can’t do it or that you shouldn’t- just explaining why people might question it. Especially if it goes against the rules of the established world (eg in a world where women are shown to be physically weaker, it’s interesting to play with the idea, but not necessarily make every female character a warrior cos that’s boring and doesn’t make sense in the established world) Also not discounting that art is often a reflection of reality, even if it’s fantastical
I wholeheartedly agree with all of what you said, love! ❤ It's such a shame when the only way a woman can be considered "strong" is if she's a kick-ass warrior. There are so many ways to show power and strength through means other than physical strength, and I wish authors would illustrate this more often. And THANK YOU for linking to my post! *sheds tear* You're too sweet! ❤
Thank you! So glad you agree!! ❤ Absolutely! I so agree with you!!
Aww no worries!! ❤
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I disagree with the idea that strong warrior type female characters are a result of the idea that women have to be like men to be strong. In settings where there is an emphasis on war, fighting etc. there is very little scope for non action characters. If you don’t write women who physically kick ass in such settings, you’d end up having no female characters at all, or only damsel in distress type characters. Women who kick ass do exist and in certain settings, those are the type of women who would get to do things. I’ve heard characters like that being dismissed as ‘men with boobs’ which I think is rather insulting towards women who don’t confirm to traditional ideas of femininity.
Of course, it would be nice if we could have more well-rounded characters and not physical badasses. However I don’t think that’s necessarily a gendered issue. It is unlikely most male readers would be able to kick ass the way male characters do in books.
No worries. I think I’d disagree with you there- because there are most definitely other types of characters (and also a lot of the genres I’m talking of don’t specifically *have to* have a war setting). But even if they did, in fantasy, there are magical roles, and in both historical fiction and fantasy there are roles such as healers, strategists, politicians, ladies of the court, performers, spiritual leaders etc. I think it’s very limiting to only think of these things in terms of warriors vs not warriors- and to see anyone else who’s not a warrior type as a “damsel”. And yes, this can be applied to male characters as well. But the reason I focus on women, particularly in settings where this is relevant, is that there is a biological and physical difference that would mean the prevalence of women in certain roles does shift. In my view, women don’t have to conform, but it would be nice if some books could recognise the existence of femininity beyond superficial things like wearing a dress or putting on makeup.
I do agree that there are other roles. However in some settings the number of characters in less and the warriors are the focus and in such a setting it would be realistic to have the main characters be warriors regardless of gender. Regarding biological differences, I don’t think that matters that much in a fantasy setting. A lot of authors create unrealistic characters and still manage a willing suspension of disbelief . A lot of cases it is wish fulfilment- for instance I’m not the type who could kick ass in real life but I like imagining myself to be like that while reading fiction. However I do realize that may not be for everyone, nor is it applicable to all genres.
I don’t agree that that’s the case- because there are physical attributes that make some people more desirable warriors than others. I think it does matter if the author engages with human characteristics and biology. And even made up worlds have to have rules. If the rule is that there is no difference biologically, then have at it, but bear in mind this won’t necessarily resonate with a female audience. And yes, I do agree that this can be wish fulfilment- and like I’ve already said, I’m not opposed to this on occasion- I just think it occurs more frequently than one would expect.
Okay I think we can agree to disagree on this.
Another wonderful discussiob post! Ok my two cents speaking “in general” I agree with you. The best example is Kestrel from the Wiiner’s Curse. Not a warrior but strong female MC. Now for KoA I think we overlook that in time of war people change and rise to the occasion! At WWII many women had to learn new “manly” skills because it was needed! Also maybe Aelin drew in women with a warrior potential bacause that’s what would be needed later? But I do agree that she does not shine alone any longer.
Thank you very much! Ah yes I loved Kestrel as a character- she was brilliant!! And that’s true- except that in WWII the large majority of women entering male roles didn’t mean they physically fought- women showed their strength and bravery in other ways (and this is also reflected in women’s choices after the war as well). To me, strength doesn’t necessarily have to be physical and I feel like that’s overlooked a lot of the time in some fiction. I think that could have been a fair view (much like how the lioness in Tamora Pierce books later inspired other women) but I think in the time allotted there wasn’t room for that to manifest and it also meant that previously established characters developed in a way that wasn’t necessarily true to them (Lysandra is a good example, because she had a fascinating, subtle role as a spy, which showed a different kind of strength… but morphed into kicking butt by the end- which, to me, made her less interesting). Also by introducing a lot of characters who were warriors all along (and who Aelin might have known about) made the whole part about her being special for being a female assassin less relevant to begin with. That shock of her being a young girl *and* an assassin wouldn’t have had such an impact- so it kind of becomes a plot hole that suddenly all these people who were femlae fighters turn up. Anyway, hope all that made sense!
Hahaha yes …somehow LOL
hobbleit says:
I am not a fan of the strong female character mostly because when an author uses this trope, it becomes the one defining feature of that character. They never seem to have any other personality trait other than kickass.
I really do agree with you there! To me, it often comes across as superficial as well.
Personally I think that we like characters that we can relate to or admire; when this new wave of feminism started we started seeing powerful female central characters and people got behind them. Now, however, I think the bandwagon has been jumped on too many times and, what was once new and exciting, has become cliched. Therefore, in attempts to recreate the popularity that these characters had in the beginning, they become more and more exaggerated and therefore less relateable. When you add in the long legs, perfect hair, pouty lips and an excess of leather to the mix the ‘strong’ female lead just becomes a parody.
ps. I started reading Scythe yesterday – you were right, it’s very good :O) x
I think that’s a really fair point. That’s very true! hehehehe I really agree with you there 😂😂😂
Ahh I’m so glad to hear it!!
This is a wonderful topic, one I’ve been thinking for long – thus it made me to pick up my YA fantasy books carefully.
Just like you, I’m so over this “kick ass women who rely more on brawn than brain” trope. I mean, a female lead can save the world through number crunching as well!
She doesn’t have to throw that spear every goddamtime. Also, such emphasis on “making women more masculine” in books got me into thinking that- the authors should mention what happens to female warriors when their bodies go through transformations- be it menstruation, menopause or childbirth.
I mean these things can’t be swept under carpet. *Sorry for hogging your space * 😛
Thank you so much! I really relate to that- I’m increasingly avoiding certain books where I just know it’s going to fall into this trap.
Ah I’m so glad I’m not the only one! Absolutely!!
YES!! And yeah I really agree with you there!!
Ah I so agree! No worries- I enjoyed your comment 😀
This is definitely true and I think it’s effects are seen across media from books to TV shows and films. I think this came from a desire for female characters to be front and centre and to be the protagonists of their own stories but as a result, they’ve been written to be masculine. And speaking of Buffy, while I loved that show and her character, I always saw her reliance on her physical strength as being a weakness at points. The number of times she tries to punch her way out of a situation rather than talking it through (especially with Spike) was huge and I thought it was a solid character flaw that was linked to her superpowers. Great discussion!
Yeah I’ve definitely seen this across all mediums. And yeah, I definitely understand where it’s come from. And that’s a great point- I really agree with you there. I think it’s generally great when any strength is exposed as a weakness as well. And that’s explored to great effect in Buffy (gosh I loved that show 😉 ) Thank you!
I think sometimes, people assume that a “strong woman” is basically the opposite of a “feminine woman”, which I don’t agree with. It’s a pity that more modern novels don’t explore different facets of what ‘strong’ means – for example, I think Fanny Price for Mansfield Park is a strong character, in that she stands up for what she believes in even though she’s generally very meek and mild.
I really agree with you there!! And absolutely!!
Such a fantastic post. Kate Elliott has written about this at length, I think she may have even had an article on Tor about the topic of ‘strong women characters’ and how strength doesn’t just mean physically strong but just a well fleshed out character in whichever role and also how people should write more than one type of female character into their works and all of that stuff.
This is also one of the reasons why I really liked the newest Mackenzi Lee book, because one of the messages is that women can be strong in various ways and you can still love frilly dresses and be a feminist. 🙂
Ooh that’s interesting- I’d like to check that out! I really agree with that point!
And that makes me really intrigued about that book 😀
This is a great post, and I loved reading your thoughts on the topic too. I haven’t read Kingdom of Ash yet (it’s on my TBR list so it’s probably going to end up a priority of mine for 2019) but yeah I’ve noticed there tend to be a lot of women-warriors in books now. Don’t get me wrong it’s great to see kick-ass female characters in books but sometimes you do need a bit of variety.
I’m read The Lady’s Guide by Mackenzi Lee and someone else in the comments pointed this out too but there’s a great character who is smart and definitely kick-ass but loves feminine dresses and make-up and she doesn’t let anyone look down on her or discount her for those likes. All the female characters in Mackenzi Lee’s books are so well written and so different too. 🙂
Thank you! Oh cool! Hope you like it! And yes, I really agree with you- I don’t actually dislike it, but I wish it wasn’t the only role for a lot of characters in books nowadays.
Oh I just heard somebody else praising that exact same author and it makes me really excited to read her work! I actually have the first book on my kindle 😀 So that’s really great to hear!!
We need variety in female characters, if not it’s just going to become a cliche isn’t it?
Definitely, she’s an incredible writer and The Gentleman’s Guide and the sequel are two of my favourite books for sure! 😀
Absolutely! Ah that’s so great to hear!!
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I want my female characters to be believable. So sure, some of them can be Strong Women or Mary Sue or even Manic Pixie Dream Girls. But they can’t *all* be like that or I won’t believe it.
I really agree with you there!
Amanda Hurych says:
I like it when females are known for more than just being female. Like the Strong Woman is still identified as being a Woman, you know what I mean? It’s almost as if by identifying some one by their gender forces them to be stereotyped. Take Doctor Who. The latest doctor is now known as the “Female Doctor.” None of the male Doctors were ever known as the “Male Doctor.” But maybe I’m just being nitpicky.
Ah that’s a really good point! Personally, the reason I’ve made the distinction is cos it’s made a big deal of in the book. If it had been integrated in a way that it wasn’t a big deal, I wouldn’t have noticed. But the thing is, particularly with this trope, the desire to reflect reality is naturally going to draw attention to this. And that’s a good point about Doctor who.
This is a thoughtful post, and I appreciate how it opened my eyes to some things. I love a strong female character, but I definitely don’t need a caricature. Well-done!
Thank you so much! I’m really glad you thought so!
This is so true! Many a time I’ve been trying to figure out why “strong female characters” have to lean towards the tough warrior type. I agree that it’s all fine and alright, but that this shouldn’t be the only way to depict feminine strength. A random example I thought up on the spot is Queenie Goldstein from J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts. Compared to her sister Tina who is much more tougher in appearance and mannerisms, Queenie (who adores pink and is leaning towards the pastel aesthetic type – if this makes sense), is in no way weaker. She displays a different strength (the only difference being her exterior, I guess)!
I really get what you mean. And absolutely! Oh so agree with you- that’s such a great example (and I love Rowling in general for her ability to show such a great range of female characters). For sure!
What a brilliant posts. 👌 You managed to articulate extremely well what has been going through my mind recently, bravo! 👏
These so called STRONG female characters really bug me too. I love Tamora Pierce’s books because her heroines don’t mind asking for help and their strengths are in their vulnerabilities, not their abilities to kick some butts (even though they can do that too lol). And I also preferred Daine to the Lioness… And Willow… 💕 She was my fav character in Buffy as well. ❤️
I think it’s important to show that being brave doesn’t always mean screaming and roaring. That bravery has many forms. That saying: I’ll try again tomorrow, I love you, I can’t do it alone, I don’t know how to do this… are all forms of bravery. 😊
I really agree with you- especially in relation to Tamora Pierce who was so wonderful at showing a range of characters, with strengths and weaknesses. Ahh so glad you agree!! ❤
Absolutely!! Love how you put that!! 🙂
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bailey. says:
I completely agree with this. This was actually one of my issues with the particular series mentioned from the get-go. There are so many types of strength, but I feel like lately there’s a very specific type of woman being portrayed particularly in YA fantasy and it definitely is becoming a type of Mary Sue. She’s got to be sassy, brash, and butt-kicking while still being physically desirable. I loved the Tamora Pierce reference. Daine was actually my favorite.
Thank you so much! I’m really glad to hear I’m not the only one. And yes I really agree with you about there being other kinds of strength- which unfortunately rarely get portrayed in books! And yeah that’s so true. That’s awesome!
Carrie @ Cat on the Bookshelf says:
The strong, fighter type of girl has really annoyed me in books and movies over the last couple of years. I agree with this post. I never got passed Throne of Glass, but I remember that there were a lot of complaints about Calaena being an assassin who never killed anyone for several books. I don’t know how the changes later helped or hurt her character development, but that was the reason for the changes.
The only time I’m into the strong female trope is when it’s used more appropriately, like Katniss Everdeen or Mac from Rites of Passage by Joy N. Hensley. Katniss had to be this tough to survive the harsh realities of living in District 13, and she’s shown in other lights when she has to visit the Capitol or fight to be out of the 75th Hunger Games. I like Mac because she is someone who wanted to go to this military school where she is in the first class that allowed girls in, and she is forced to deal with hazing and figure out who in her group that she could trust to not let her get literally killed. She even has to accept help from a hacker girl and watch as the other girls find different ways to try to survive. These books give good reasons for making the strong, fighter girl type and complicate it in a way that would make sense if this were real life.
Oh! Yes! Brilliant! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. What get’s me is how people seem to forget that much of what women “are” is from homones: more nurturing, less muscled, and less prone to violence. I keep pointing out to people how wrong it is to celebrate and support boys who want to be princesses (which is great), but then turn around and judge girls who want to be princesses. They will also cheer on transgendered people getting hormone therapy when they start feeling and acting more emotional, but then scold other women for being too emotional. As long as it’s not hurting themselves or others everyone should just be allowed to be happy. And you are right, there need to be more female characters who are strong in hormonally female ways. 👍✨
What a fascinating topic! I’ve never really thought about the labeling of female characters as “strong” tends to be the ones that are physically strong. There are so many different forms of strength. There are those that are emotionally strong, intellectually strong, spiritually strong, morally strong, etc. I agree, just because a woman is not physically strong, doesn’t mean she is not a “strong” female character.
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Great post! I do think women can be strong warrior characters it’s just when that idea is over used too many times and it starts to get old. They do need to be realistic as well. But it is nice to see character development when a weak character becomes stronger through certain events xx
I certain,y can relate to this post and totally agree. It bugs me like Hell.
Ah so glad you agree!!
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We subconsciously cater to patriarchal standards when we insist on female characters being strong like a “man.” Excuse me?! The strongest people I know are those who possess feminine qualities, they’re gentle, sensitive, they cry (including men) and they’re freakin’ resilient. Women as women are strong. It’s about time we see more feminine characters. Not only that, I think it demonstrates just how deep internalised misogyny goes and it’s sad to see female readers lack this self-awareness, like come on, root for your own team. I wish Characters like Fleur were given more pages because I think she’s an excellent example of a feminine strong character.
YES- just saw this comment and really agree!
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Annie Bookdevourer says:
I one hundred percent agree with the points you made here! It’s crazy how women who behave like men are said to be ‘strong’ but men who behave like women are called sissies and told to ‘man up’.
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"You know what my father used to say? Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually, they hit you in the face."
Don loses an account. Roger, stuck in the city for Labor Day weekend, attempts to cheer him up, which results in a heart attack. Meanwhile, Joan has a night out on the town with her roommate.
This episode contains examples of:
Anguished Declaration of Love: Carol, Joan's roommate, reveals that she's actually in love with her, and pleads with Joan to "just think of her as a boy". Joan rebuffs her, but gently, especially given the time period.
Cessation of Existence: Don comes to believe that this is his fate, and finds this exposure with mortality to be enough of a reason to express his passion for Rachel.
Don: Jesus, Rachel. This is it. This is all there is, and I feel like it's slipping through my fingers like a handful of sand. This is it. This is all there is.
Rachel: That's just an excuse for bad behavior.
Don: You don't really believe that.
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The Confidant: Don sees Rachel as one, being the only one that he feels he can express his fears about Roger to. He also reveals some of his past to her, namely that he was born to a prostitute who died in childbirth and that his father was killed by a horse when he was 10 years old.
Double Entendre: One of the twins lampshades Roger's partiality for these.
Mirabelle: Oh, my. Everything he says means something else, too.
Dramatic Irony: Roger suggest running a critical campaign ad on Kennedy, despite knowing that it could come across as underhanded. Near the episode's end, it turns out that they've been beaten to the punch, as Don and Roger see a commercial for the Kennedy campaign that puts Nixon in a bad light.
Flipping the Table: After being told that an unsatisfied client has left the agency, Don takes his anger out on his desk, shoving all of its contents onto the floor.
Peggy: (walking into Don's office) Were you buzzing me? My intercom was making a funny sound. (sees everything on the floor) Oh.
From Bad to Worse: As if Roger's heart attack wasn't bad enough for the agency, Richard Nixon's campaign is put in a hole when incumbent president Dwight Eisenhower is caught on camera making disparaging remarks about Nixon's performance as vice-president, which the Kennedy campaign quickly weaponizes and uses against their opponent.
Gayngst: Carol, as is the standard for homosexual characters on the show.
Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Don slaps post-coronary Roger to get him to stop calling out Mirabelle's name.
Mona! Your wife's name is Mona.
Hollywood Heart Attack: Subverted, since we don't actually see the initial stages of it, but when Don finds Roger suffering from the heart attack, it's progressed to the stage where it feels like "there's a tank on (his) chest".
Lipstick Lesbian: Carol, who dresses in a very feminine manner and reveals herself to be a lesbian in this episode.
Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: Roger draws Joan's attention for a private meeting in his office. He starts pitching out fake questions and queries as a way of excusing the interruption, but Joan doesn't even attempt to play along with his conversation.
Nouveau Riche: Don argues that Kennedy is this, thinking of him as a silver spoon who bought his way into Harvard.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Peggy delivers a subtle one to Pete, telling him off for bothering her at work after a long time of cruelly ignoring her, she even calls out his confusion over his life.
Shout-Out: To The Apartment, which Joan professes to being affected by. Roger counters its effectiveness by saying that it was just another piece of Hollywood extremism, citing Psycho as another example.
Stalker with a Crush: Carol's story carries this feeling, since she essentially had been following Joan around since shortly after college. It's portrayed in a sympathetic manner, though, given the amount of angst she has to undergo in dealing with her feelings for another woman.
Talking in Your Sleep: Roger, in a half-daze as he's being wheeled off to the hospital, calls out for Mirabelle's name. Don is quick to slap Roger in the face and remind him to stick to calling out his wife's name.
Tears of Remorse: After seeing his wife and daughter shortly after his heart attack, he breaks down crying and embraces them.
Trying Not to Cry: Joan, who is forced to type out a memo right after finding out about Roger's cardiac arrest.
Twincest: Roger attempts to invoke this in a form of Girl-on-Girl Is Hot by asking one of the twins to kiss her sister. It leaves both of the girls (and possibly even Don) stunned.
Mirabelle: Why do people always ask us that?
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: The dates that Joan and Carol bring to their apartment are very unremarkable in both looks and wit compared to both women, especially Joan. Justified in that Joan only meant for her and Carol to have some fun and get a free restaurant dinner out of them.
What Does She See in Him?: Bert states this to Joan about Roger, she first thinks it's about her horn dog date.
Don't waste your youth on age.
Your Cheating Heart: Aside from the typical debauchery that Roger and Don get into with the twins, this episode also has Rachel and Don act upon their feeling for each other.
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September 5, 2019 September 6, 2019 by thesaffrongael
Con Magees hurlers win promotion to Division 3
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All County Hurling League – Division 3 & 4 Play Off
Con Magees 2-7 Na Magha 2-3
Con Magees Glenravel won promotion to Division 3 of the Antrim Hurling Leagues when they overturned a two point deficit from their first leg against Na Magha by winning Wednesday evening’s second leg by four at Pairc MacUilin, Ballycastle. On a wet and windy evening the Glenravel men played with the wind in the opening half and were 2-6 to 0-2 to the good at the break. When they got the first point of the second half it appeared to be one way traffic for the Division 4 runners up, but they failed to raise another flag for the remaining 29 minutes plus injury time, but their defence held out to see them become the first runners up to win a promotion play-off against higher opposition.
Johnny Fyfe punches the air after Niall Donnelly centre) scores Glenravels opening goal.
Early points from Johnny Fyfe and Niall Donnelly got the Con Magees going but when Alan Grant pulled one back for Na Magha in the tenth minute it was getting a little worrying for the Glenravel men. Two more points from Padge O’Neill and 45 year old veteran Vic McCann had them 0-4 to 0-1 clear at the end of the first quarter but when Grant pulled another one back for the men from Derry city things did not look promising for the Glenravel side. However they really got going in the second quarter and after McCann added a second point they won the puc-out and put together a good flowing move which ended with Niall Donnelly crashing in their opening goal.
That score really got the Glenravel men going and after Donnelly had added a point from a free he dropped a 65 in around the Na Magha square where Brian ‘Twig’ O’Neill connected with the dropping ball to send it flying to the back of the net and give his team a 2-6 to 0-2 lead at the break.
Na Maghas Dairmuid Shiels in action against Glenravels Shane Woulahan and Johnny Fyfe
When Donnelly grabbed another point in the opening minute of the second half the Con Magees were eleven clear, and when they still held that advantage at the end of the third quarter they appeared to have it all wrapped up. However when Alan Grant fired a 20 metre free to the Glenravel net in the 46th minute the game began to change and when he added a point from play on 50 minutes the game was still within the Derry mens’ grasp. It was backs to the wall for the Glenravel men as they battled the Na Magha forwards and the strong wind and, though the Derry men grabbed a late goal to cut the gap back to four it came too late to really make a difference and the Con Magees held out for the win.
CON MAGEES: Ronan Donnelly, Conor Carey, Shanlee Kerr, Caolan Mullan, Damian O’Hagan, James Duffin, Conleth O’Loan, Stephen Acheson, Padge O’Neill, Niall Donnelly, Sean Burns, Shane Woulahan, Brian O’Neill, Neill McCann, Odhran McAleenan.
Subs – Johnny Fyfe.
August 2, 2019 by thesaffrongael
Junior B Hurling Championship continues tonight
Junior B Hurling Championship semi-final
Davitt’s v All Saints
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The first of this year’s championships continues tonight with the semi-finals of the Junior B Hurling Championship where holder All Saints face Davitt’s at Tir na nOg at 7-30 while at the same time Latharna Og take on Loch Mor Dal gCais at Feystown.
Holders All Saints reached this year’s semi-final with a resounding win over Ardoyne at Hightown in the quarter-final but they are likely to face a much stiffer test tonight against Michael Davitt’s who defeated St. Agnes in the other quarter-final.
These sides met in the 2017 decider and on that occasion Davitt’s emerged victorious but an improving All Saints claimed last year’s title and tonight’s game has all the makings of a tight contest.
Davitt’s withstood a second half comeback by St Agnes’ in their quarter final at St Teresa’s to book a place in tonight’s semi-final. They were five up at half time and had appeared to be comfortable when they stretched their lead to seven during the second half but the Aggies were able to stay in touch by grabbing goals and twice got it back to just two, and even had the chance to snatch it with a Kevin Grieve injury time free.
However Davitt’s were deserving winners and had they have shown a bit more accuracy then they would have had the game wrapped up much earlier and they will need to sharpen up in that department before facing holders All Saints in tonight’s semi-final.
Stephen McGivern with 0-6, Gearoid Cosgrove, 1-2 and Ciaran Rice, 1-1 were the danger men for Davitt’s and will need some watching by the Ballymena defence.
All Saints weren’t really pushed against Ardoyne in their quarter-final and with a strong wind in their favour they had the contest more or less tied up by half time. Chris McAffee, Damian Gillan, Cormac Magill, Liam Cassley, Colum Neeson, Luke O’Rawe, Niall McGarry and Ciaran Neeson are the men who will carry the greatest threat for the Slemish Park side.
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Latharna Og v Loch Mor Dal gCais
Latharna Og of Larne made their return to ACHL Division 4 action this year and have acquitted themselves well. They meet a Loch Mor Dal gCais side who have struggled for results despite turning in a number of creditable performances in tonight’s semi-final at Feystown.
The sides met in the league at Brustin Braes a number of weeks back and on that occasion Latharna Og came out tops in a high scoring game but Loch Mor showed in glimpses just what they are capable of.
The game finished 4-19 to 1-13 in favour of the home side with Matthews, Lismore, McNeill and Lismore again the Lathara Og goal scorers with the Loch Mor goal coming from McDonnell after good work by Darragh and Drayne.
The Larne men have recorded five wins in their 12 outings in a very competitive division 4 with a win over All Saints in Ballymena perhaps their best result to date and they will start this one as firm favourites against a Loch Mor Dal gCais side who have recorded only one win in the league to date.
Championship and league can be entirely different things and with nothing to lose this one could be closer that you think but the Larne men should go through to possibly another meeting with All Saints in the final.
July 29, 2019 July 29, 2019 by thesaffrongael
Goals pave the way to heaven for Saints
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St Teresa’s 3-9 Con Magees 0-11
St Teresa’s took a giant step towards clinching the Division 4 Hurling title on Sunday when they defeated previously unbeaten Glenravel. Victory in their final game of the season this Wednesday night at home to All Saints would see them level on league points with Glenravel but the Belfast men would be crowned champions on a head to head basis despite a very much inferior points difference.
The incessant rain was kind enough to switch off for the entire duration of the game but it left very slippery underfoot conditions for the players to cope with and the tight Glen Road pitch seemed to work better for the home team. Glenravel opened the scoring through the normally dependable Niall Donnelly from a free which was quickly cancelled out by the Saint’s free taker Phil Maguire who would go on to record seven points, all from frees; a masterclass given the swirling wind conditions. Robbie Gallagher would extend the home team’s lead but Glenravel were starting to find their range and two points from Niall Donnelly from frees and a well taken score from Stevie Acheson nudged them in front by two. Half way through the first half St Teresa’s struck two goals in a minute from Jordan McAllister and Darren McCann to go into a lead of 2-02 to 0-04 and they would never relinquish that lead to the end of the game. Glenravel’s Shane Woulahan was a real handful for the St Teresa’s defence and he scored from a tight angle to reduce the deficit after twenty minutes. An altercation in the midfield battle saw one yellow card for Glenravel and a red for St Teresa’s reducing their numbers to fourteen. The visitors pounced on that numerical advantage to record a couple of fine points from play from Shane Woulahan and James Duffin but St Teresa’s rallied in the closing minutes with points from Phil Maguire and Colm McGoldrick taking them into the half time break leading 2-04 to 0-07.
Glenravel mentors made a couple of positional switches at half time and they appeared to be working well for them when Conleth O’Loan, now berthed in the half forward line, scored from a tight angle to reduce the deficit to two points. Phil Maguire added one for St Teresa’s in the second minute and then a tight battle ensued for six minutes without a single score. Sean McKay broke the deadlock with a point for Glenravel but that was his final contribution as shortly after he made way for Odhran McAleenan. Patrick O’Neill was also called ashore due to injury and veteran Neil McCann entered the fray. Shuffling the Glenravel deck appeared to work into the home team’s hands as Glenravel struggled to contain St Teresa’s forwards. Two more frees from Phil Maguire would stretch the home team lead and a goal in the 49th minute by Robbie Gallagher sealed the deal for the home team, now leading 3-07 to 0-09. Niall Donnelly did pull one back for the visitors but again Phil Maguire capitalised on indiscipline in Glenravel defence to pop over his sixth and seventh points form frees. With one minute left on the clock, Neil McCann put over the final score of the game but it was too little too late for Glenravel, St Teresa’s running out deserved victors on a 3-09 to -0-11 scoreline.
Though St Teresa’s have now one more match to play, this game was looked upon by many as the “title decider”. Those of us of a particular vintage couldn’t help but hark back to a previous title decider between these two great clubs. That was in a big ball game to decide the winners of 1979 Division 1 Football. The game played in Jan 1980 amid snow and ice in Fr Maginn Park also saw St Teresa’s emerge victorious. Surely none of today’s players will remember that game but they will remember this one for a long time and the impact it had on their bid for divisional glory.
May 26, 2019 by thesaffrongael
Con Magees go marching on
Division 4, Hurling
All COunty Hurling League – Division 1
Latharna Og 1-07 Con Magees 2-20
Photos and report by Brian Quinn
Latharna Og welcomed Con Magees to a blustery Brustin Braes for this ACHL Division 4 fixture, motivated to show their improvement since the opening day fixture against the same side that resulted in a heavy loss of 6-14 to 0-2.
Division 4 high flyers Con Magees have won all league fixtures going into this game and started the game with intent, Sean McKay opening with a point in the first minute against the breeze and quickly followed by a point from McIntyre and a third for Kerr.
Latharna opened their account in the 6th minute with a 40 yard free from Ryan O’Donnell before McKay did likewise in the 8th minute for the visitors. Further quick scores for McIntyre and that man McKay increased the difference between the sides and it looked like despite the Larne men’s industrious work, a heavy defeat could be on the cards.
Latharna battled on though and on the 15th minute, Philip Craig was the most alert to a loose ball in the box and pulled home to keep Larne in this game. The scoreboard was kept busy with points for Lismore, O’Donnell and McGoldrick for the Brustin Brae natives and Kerr, McIntyre and McKay did likewise for the vistors to make the half time score, Latharna Og 1-05 Con Magees 1-09.
With the change of sides, Con Magees had the wind on their backs and key man McKay got them up in running with a point in the 31st minute, quickly followed by a goal from the impressive McIntyre who fired past the helpless Keenan and from then on Con Magees hit another 0-8 unanswered to ensure the scoreboard matched their dominance on the field.
The home side had battled hard but in the second half Con Magees had too much and showed why they are the league leaders. There were good performances from McIntyre and Kerr but the stand out performer was Sean McKay, scoring 0-8 and looking dangerous everytime the ball was near.
For Latharna, there will be better days but they should take heart from the improvements from that first game with a poor second half the difference here today. Ryan O’Donnell was the home teams’ best performer, working hard and scoring 0-4.
LATHARNA OG
Keenan,O’Neill, Petticrew, Barkley, Carson, Matthews, Martin, O’Donnell (0-4), McKendry (Inj 22), Lismore (0-2), McGoldrick (0-1), Hegarty, Martin, Craig (1-0), Stewart
Subs Milliken Bergin McKillion Regan Rolston Rogan
CON MAGEES
Donnelly, McAuley, Carey, Atcheson (0-1), McDonnell, Duffin, O’Loan,O’Neill, Fyfe (0-2),McIntyre (1-5), Burns, Donnelly, McElroy, Kerr (1-2), McKay (0-8), Subs O’Hagan, McCann (0-1), McAleenan (0-1)
Referee Ciaran Mc Closkey (Loughgiel Shamrocks)
May 23, 2019 May 23, 2019 by thesaffrongael
St. Teresa’s get back to winning ways
ACHL Division 4
All Saints 2-9 St. Teresa’s 4-12
After suffering a first league defeat away to Glenravel on Monday night St. Teresa’s got back to winning ways when they made another trip to the South West on Wednesday evening to play All Saints.
St Teresa’s pointed after 30 seconds to give them the perfect start at a sunny Slemish Park. The home side took a while to settle into the game with the Belfast men making all the early running. Another point and goal gave them a five point lead before Damian Gillan and Padhraig Magill replied for the Saints. Growing in confidence the home side were dealt another blow when St Teresa’s star man Phil Maguire ran through and despite being put under pressure finished to the corner of the net with a one handed swing. The sides then traded points with a pointed free for Gillan and one from Vinney Esler keeping the Ballymena men in touch. St Teresa’s stretched their lead with 5 points with Maguire again punishing the Saints although they kept battling for every ball and got their reward when Niall McGarry finished to the net just before the half time whistle.
The second half started in similar fashion as the first with St Teresa’s making all the early running. A long delivery was misjudged and ended up in the back of the Saints net to extend the gap to double figures. Back to back frees from Gillan and a long range point from Esler reduced the gap before St Teresa’s cancelled it out at the other end with another goal. Late scores from Gillan, Padhraig Magill and a goal from his brother Cormac kept the scoreboard ticking over but it was the Belfast men, led by top scorer Maguire who ran out eventual 9 point winners
All Saints: Anthony Mitchell, PJ O’Kane, Chris McAfee, Frank Casey, Sean O’Rawe, Colum Neeson, Marty McNally, Brendan McDonnell, Vinney Esler (0-2), Paul Scullion, Padhraig Magill (0-2), Cormac Magill (1-0), Niall McGarry (1-0), Barry Dorrity, Damian Gillan (0-5)
Subs. Terence Diamond for Marty McNally
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Eddie Reinhardt|March 29, 2019
Global Gateway students pose in Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Spain
Creating community and education on a global scale are values Suffolk University hopes each and every student has the ability to benefit from. One of the premier ways the school is able to do this is through the Global Gateway Program.
This program takes 60 freshmen students each year overseas to Madrid, Spain to explore the Suffolk Madrid campus. The trip allows students the unique experience of living, learning and engaging with a culture of a country different than their own for possibly the first time.
The trip is a highly subsidized week-long non-academic excursion that looks to serve quite literally as a gateway for students into studying abroad and becoming a global citizen.
“This is the fourth year we’ve done it, with two major goals, one was to foster community with first year students, so organizing activities that promote that is a huge priority,” said acting Provost Sebastian Royo in an interview with The Suffolk Journal. “Ultimately we think that study abroad can be a transformative experience for the students, by doing this we hope it can open new horizons for the students and that students who participate in the gateway program will study abroad in their collegiate career.”
Global Gateway students at alumni dinner in Madrid
By keeping the program affordable, costing just $495 per student with travel, living and food accommodated, Global Gateway is able to choose from a diverse pool of students to take on the trip. Freshmen students must apply and complete several interviews in order to be accepted to go on the trip. They also have to agree to create a group project upon the completion of the trip.
“I have two brothers and my family couldn’t afford to go abroad so in my application I said how I was working now so I could afford this,” said freshman Megan Qualters in an interview with The Suffolk Journal. “This would be my trip because my family couldn’t afford it.”
The program looks to take particularly motivated students who they think will take advantage of the opportunity and fully immerse themselves in the experience to the fullest.
“It’s not just about going to Spain for a week, it’s about making sure you have the curiosity, the willingness to invest the time in exploring, learning, engaging and making the best out the opportunity,” said Royo. “It’s a very significant investment for the university so we want students that are committed.”
Before the trip students attend information sessions that outline the details of the trip and educate them on the history of Madrid and the accompanying cities that they visit while in Spain. The group travels to Toledo and Segovia, two cities with medieval architecture and rich history.
Suffolk President Marisa Kelly has joined the trip in each of the last three years and interacts with the students on a personal level. The chance to make connections with Provost Royo and President Kelly on such an intimate level makes first year students feel immediately connected to the university on more than just an academic level.
“The president and her wife came, it was really cool getting to know the president and getting to sit next to her at lunch and talk to her and establish a connection,” said freshman spanish major Autumn Hall in an interview with The Journal. “By the end of the trip she knew me by name.”
The Global Gateway Program hopes to leave a lasting impact on their alumni. Staff have expressed that they genuinely enjoy watching the first-year students mature and grow.
The students also work with Global Gateway alumni to help create more interest in the program and keep in contact with them throughout their Suffolk careers.
“The first cohort of students is graduating in May and some of those students are still very close and I see them around campus and we talk about [the trip],” said Royo. “Some of them email me about going back to Madrid if there is any way we can get them back on them plane. They are really dying to go back.”
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To the Californian a burrito is not just an assortment of fillings inside of a tortilla, it is a way of life. But, there are several ways to live in California. In this battle, we want to look at two of the more prominent types of recognized burrito styles. They hail from San Diego and Los Angeles respectively.
Any self-respecting Californian knows the San Diego burrito. It is a "no frills" burrito. From Wikipedia.
The carne asada burrito is considered a regional food of San Diego. It has been said that to San Diegans, "carne asada burritos are as integral to the experience of the place as a slice of pie is to a New Yorker." The San-Diego style carne asada burrito is served with chunks of carne asada, guacamole, and pico de gallo salsa. This "wall-to-wall" use of meat contrasts to other burrito styles, which use rice and beans as filler ingredients.
Many argue that the San Diego burrito is more authentic in its flavoring and has a stronger influence of Mexican cuisine.
But those who love the Los Angeles burrito would beg to differ. Los Angeles has a lot of variants on the burrito but the "classic" LA burrito...
...consists of only beans and cheese; beyond this there are the "green chile" and "red chile" burritos, which may simply mean the addition of chiles or a meatless chile sauce to the plain beans (as at Al & Bea's), or meat and/or cheese as well. Rice, again, is rarely included, which along with the choice of chiles is one of the style's most defining traits. The menu will then usually go on to list multiple other combinations, such as beef and bean, all-beef, a "special" with further ingredients, etc. If the restaurant also offers hamburgers and sandwiches it may sell a burrito version of one or more of these, such as a hot dog burrito.
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En la edición del diario El País del pasado día 19 de este mes de marzo se publicó un artícuo de sobre el libro Veneno en dosis camufladas, firmado por Diego A. Manrique, que ya se ha comentado en esta página web. De este artículo existe una versión en inglés. Este es su texto:
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Diego A. Manrique 23 MAR 2012 – 20:39 CET
Thanks to a sort of collective amnesia, fomented by obscure interests, there are still unexplored territories in the history of the Franco regime. Now an encyclopedic new book has shed light on a forgotten aspect of the regime’s tenacious struggle against pop modernity. From The Beatles on down, everyone’s work was subject to the censor’s scissors.
Veneno en dosis camufladas (or, Poison in camouflaged doses), published by Milenio, is a tome of feverish erudition, in which Xavier Valiño reveals hundreds of cases of censorship, subtle or crude. Stuff we had never heard of. And of course we all knew about the relentless censorship of any and all songs with political content. Indeed, the title is drawn from a censor’s reticent report on the “protest flamenco” songs of Manuel Gerena. What we didn’t know so much about were the mechanisms of control over the recording companies.
Remember that many songs were sold in shops, but theoretically prohibited on the radio, being tolerated there only if their text was suitably modified. However there was a filter that came before the radio, where it was determined what records might be sold publicly in Spain.
This censoring machine worked at full speed from 1966 onward, until it slowed down and ground to a halt, after the Watchman of the West (Franco) finally went west in 1975. The ministerial archives in Alcalá de Henares hold tons of paper containing refusals of songs, appeals of record companies, and other official correspondence.
The watchdogs scrutinized the record covers but also the content, in whatever language. Valiño shows how implacable the screening was. It was applied equally to unknown groups from Amsterdam, and to English-language superstars.
Needless to say, they frowned on the reputed icons of the counterculture, such as Zappa and Dylan. Another one who raised their hackles was John Lennon. The average censor’s bigot brain took it as a national insult to Spain that Lennon got married in Gibraltar. Accordingly, The Ballad of John and Yoko, which narrated this episode, was removed from several compilations. But the watchdogs also bit chunks out of Paul McCartney, the nice Beatle.
Valiño covers the interminable push-and-shove with the record companies, forced to fight for potentially top-selling artists. The squeakiest wheels got a little grease, in the form of favorable verdicts. There are vast long letters from CBS, tirelessly appealing against barbarous decisions, such as censoring six of the 14 songs in Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde. Arguing against another attempt at mutilation, the company alleged the peculiarities of the artist: “It must be kept in mind that Bob Dylan is an obscure singer in the English language, who is not easy to understand even for the Americans themselves, owing to his difficulty in pronunciation.”
CBS also used the artistic defense. In a sexually repressed country, which forbade every contemporary representation of the human body, a loophole was found for Mati Klarwein’s busy paintings, used by Santana, Miles Davis and the Chamber Brothers, full of opulent unclothed women. On the other hand the Ministry of Information and Tourism said no to the discreet breasts of the temptress Eve on Under the Jasmine Tree, of the Modern Jazz Quartet, obliging Hispavox to invent an aseptic cover.
Yet Hispavox had tried to score Brownie points with the Ministry. In 1970 its president turned informer, reporting that he had received an offer to launch Lie, 12 songs by none other than Charles Manson. He proclaimed that he had rejected out of hand this “immoral deal,” attaching a copy (and translation) of his correspondence with the US company. This report did not prevent Lie from finally being published by Movieplay, a firm related to (pay attention) the financial elite of Opus Dei. As has often been noted, our country’s history is full of surprises.”
Aquí se puede consultar la versión en inglés del artículo en la edición digital de El País.
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Innate immune markers that distinguish red deer (Cervus elaphus) selected for resistant or susceptible genotypes for Johne’s disease
Brooke Dobson1,
Simon Liggett1,
Rory O’Brien1 &
J Frank T Griffin1
Veterinary Research volume 44, Article number: 5 (2013) Cite this article
While many factors contribute to resistance and susceptibility to infectious disease, a major component is the genotype of the host and the way in which it is expressed. Johne’s disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting ruminants and is caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP). We have previously identified red deer breeds (Cervus elaphus) that are resistant; have a low rate of MAP infection and do not progress to develop Johne’s disease. In contrast, susceptible breeds have a high rate of MAP infection as seen by seroconversion and progress to develop clinical Johne’s disease. The aim of this study was to determine if immunological differences exist between animals of resistant or susceptible breeds. Macrophage cultures were derived from the monocytes of deer genotypically defined as resistant or susceptible to the development of Johne’s disease. Following in vitro infection of the cells with MAP, the expression of candidate genes was assessed by quantitative PCR as well as infection rate and cell death rate. The results indicate that macrophages from susceptible animals show a significantly higher upregulation of inflammatory genes (iNOS, IL-1α, TNF-α and IL-23p19) than the macrophages from resistant animals. Cells from resistant animals had a higher rate of apoptosis at 24 hours post infection (hpi) compared to macrophages from susceptible animals. The excessive expression of inflammatory mRNA transcripts in susceptible animals could cause inefficient clearing of the mycobacterial organism and the establishment of disease. Controlled upregulation of inflammatory pathways coupled with programmed cell death in the macrophages of resistant animals may predispose the host to a protective immune response against this mycobacterial pathogen.
Understanding the protective immune response following mycobacterial infection is crucial to the design of preventive treatments, improved diagnostics and vaccines. The majority of immunological data on this topic is derived from studies of inbred strains of laboratory mice. However, experiments designed to characterise this immune response should consider the genotypic heterogeneity of outbred populations and how this could impact on responses to mycobacterial pathogens.
Johne’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease of ruminants caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP). Red deer (Cervus elaphus) are natural hosts of MAP and are prone to develop Johne’s disease at a young age [1]. Johne’s disease conforms to the classical “iceberg effect” seen with infectious diseases, where a large proportion of animals may be infected with MAP but only a small proportion of animals develop pathology or clinical disease [2], demonstrating that the microorganism itself is necessary but not sufficient for the development of Johne’s disease. Individuals within a host population may display a spectrum of infection outcomes ranging from resistant to susceptible under certain environmental conditions. A wide spectrum of resistance and susceptibility to mycobacterial disease has been observed within human populations and in-bred mouse strains [3]. A previous study [4] identified breed-lines of red deer that exhibited polarised susceptibility or resistance to tuberculosis caused by M. bovis. Heritability of these phenotypes in progeny bred from resistant or susceptible sires was high (0.48 +/− 0.10). Heritability for tuberculosis in Irish and British dairy cows has been reported in the range of 0.04 to 0.27 [5, 6].
A number of scientific studies infer that there are breed differences in the susceptibility to Johne’s disease of cattle [7], sheep [8, 9] and deer [10] suggesting a genetic component to susceptibility. Our laboratory has identified breed-lines of deer that express a resistant or susceptible phenotype for Johne’s disease on a large stud farm that had eight distinct breeds of deer that were derived from stags and hinds imported from disparate herds throughout Europe. The heritability of Johne’s disease resistance or susceptibility in this stud herd was estimated to be 0.30 +/− 0.06 (J.F.T Griffin, Disease Research Laboratory, unpublished data) whereas heritability in crossbred deer herds has been estimated to be 0.2 [11]. An estimated heritability for susceptibility to MAP infection in a herd of Dutch dairy cattle was lower at 0.06 [7] while heritability for the production of antibody to MAP was estimated at 0.15 for Irish dairy cows [12] and 0.10 for Danish dairy cows [13]. Moreover, findings from Johne’s disease research in sheep suggest that a resistant phenotype exists where the animal prevents the establishment of MAP infection [14] or the infected animal is able to cure itself over a period of time [15].
The heritability of resistance and susceptibility in different deer genotypes was confirmed by an experimental MAP challenge study using the progeny of sires selected from breeds that display either a resistant or susceptible phenotype [10]. Striking differences were observed between the two groups of deer where seven of nine progeny from a resistant sire displayed a resistant phenotype in contrast to eight of nine progeny from a susceptible sire which expressed a susceptible phenotype. Disease status was determined by the severity of histopathology, detection of MAP in infected lymph nodes and immunodiagnostic markers such as serum IFN-γ and antibody (Paralisa™) levels [10].
A focus of many studies of mycobacterial pathogens is the macrophage as this cell plays a central role in both the innate and adaptive immune response to mycobacteria. Several studies have investigated the immune response of bovine macrophages to MAP infection and contrasted the response of macrophages from animals which are not infected with those that are infected or diseased [16–18]. Within an infected group, there will typically be those that will eventually develop Johne’s disease (susceptible) and those that contain or clear the infection (resistant), similar to what is seen from experimental infection trials [10, 15]. We hypothesised that uninfected red deer that have either a resistant or susceptible genotype may be distinguished by the differential expression of candidate genes in macrophages following infection with MAP in vitro.
A group of purebred animals where breed integrity had been preserved, and a group of crossbred animals of more heterogeneous genotypes, were sampled to determine if differences existed between resistant and susceptible animals in terms of the immune response to in vitro MAP infection. Quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) was used to analyse the expression of a panel of candidate genes associated with the innate immune response to mycobacteria in macrophages.
Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) was chosen as a target gene as it has been reported to play a role in the bovine monocyte-derived macrophage (MDM) response to MAP [18]. IL-α, TNF-α and IL-6 are key pro-inflammatory cytokines associated with macrophage function and have been described as important molecules in the innate response to mycobacterial pathogens [19, 20]. IL-10 is an anti-inflammatory, regulatory cytokine that is produced by macrophages to reduce excessive inflammation and its expression is thought to play a role in both protecting the host from MAP-related pathology and the subversion of the immune response by the microorganism [17]. The inflammatory cytokine IL-23 is integral to the function of Th17 cells which are involved in the pathology of human inflammatory bowel disease, particularly Crohn’s disease [21] and have also been implicated in the pathology of Johne’s disease [22]. Finally, IL-12, which is a key molecule involved in the Th1 pathway considered to provide protection against mycobacterial disease [23] was included in the study. Cell death and infection rates were also assessed in cultured macrophages in response to MAP infection.
The identification of animals prone to developing Johne’s disease or other mycobacterial diseases may enable the tailoring of treatment and management programs for these conditions. The ultimate goal of this study would be to identify laboratory markers which could be used diagnostically to select sires or dams in foundation breeding programs to develop resistant herds. Furthermore, elucidation of the protective immune response to mycobacterial pathogens seen in resistant animals would also be informative for future vaccine development by providing correlates of protection and markers to test vaccine efficacy.
Bulk blood samples (300 mL) were collected from all animals by jugular venepuncture by trained, experienced technicians or veterinarians into citrate phosphate dextrose-containing blood bags (Pharmaco, New Zealand). All experimental manipulations on animals were carried out under ethical approval from the Invermay AgResearch Animal Ethics Committee (AE#12102).
Two groups of animals were sampled for these experiments. The first group of animals comprised 20 purebred, one year old animals from a deer stud farm. The herd had experienced high levels of exposure to MAP from 1999 onwards. When serological monitoring began in 2004, there was a high level of infection (> 20%) with significant numbers of animals dying from clinical Johne’s disease between 2000 and 2004. The stud herd contained seven distinct deer breeds, some of which historically displayed extremes of resistance or susceptibility to Johne’s disease after chronic environmental MAP exposure. This is demonstrated in Figure 1 where serological testing, measuring MAP-specific antibody levels (Paralisa™ test [24]), was undertaken on 1135 animals of different breeds and deaths from clinical Johne’s disease recorded over a 6 year period before serological testing commenced (Figure 1). An extensive database of breed value parameters, pedigree and infection/disease status, as measured by Paralisa™ and confirmed by histopathology following necropsy, was available for all the animals born on this property from 2000 onwards. The whole herd genotype database was analysed to generate Johne’s Breed Values (JBV) which resulted in a probability score that an individual animal would resist infection or develop clinical Johne’s disease and become ParalisaTM positive following exposure to MAP. In order to generate JBV, a Johne’s disease presence/absence trait was created for every animal on the property. Animals that were culled or died from clinical Johne’s disease and animals with a positive Paralisa result were given a value of 1 and the remaining animals with negative Paralisa results were given a value of 0. Animal-model restricted maximum likelihood (REML) analyses were then used [25], to estimate heritabilities and genetic correlations, with a repeated-record model. A positive JBV (0.1 to 0.5) implies that an animal is susceptible to infection whereas a negative JBV (−0.1 to −0.5) is indicative of resistance to Johne’s disease and the likelihood that they will not seroconvert following exposure to MAP. The JBV was calculated using existing Paralisa™ and clinical Johne’s disease incidence of progeny born on the property since 2000. The experimental group comprised 20 yearling animals including 10 animals of susceptible genotype (dam or sire JBV of greater than 0.3) and 10 animals of resistant genotype (dam or sire JBV of less than−0.3). In this purebred group of animals, there were ten females and ten males which were all Paralisa™ negative and considered uninfected at the time of testing. Peripheral blood samples from these animals were used for gene expression experiments.
Resistance and susceptibility to Johne’s disease in a red deer stud herd. (A) Diagnosis of MAP infection by Paralisa™ in animals of distinct pure breeds (anonymised to A – G, n = 1135 animals total). Differences in reactivity rate are statistically significant (p < 0.01) between breeds with the exception of differences between Breeds A, C and G. (B) Deaths from clinical Johne’s disease in the different pure breeds (A – G) recorded over a 6 year period prior to serological testing (n = 1244 animals total). Differences in death rate are statistically significant (p < 0.01) between breeds A – C and breeds E – G. A high level of exposure of all animals confirms that the resistant breeds, with low incidence of MAP infection and no deaths from Johne’s disease (breeds A – C), have a resistant phenotype and do not include unexposed indeterminate animals.
The second group of animals comprised 13 animals and were selected to represent cross-bred animals with a predicted resistant or susceptible genotype based on historical breed and sire information. They were the progeny of an artificial insemination programme using semen from three stags. The animals of resistant genotype were all the progeny of one sire of a resistant breed which has historically hadvery low incidence of clinical Johne’s disease or serological reactivity (breed B in Figure 1). Animals considered to have susceptible genotypes were the progeny of either of two sires, both of mixed breeds associated with susceptibility as observed from high clinical Johne’s disease incidence and serological reactivity rates (breeds D – G in Figure 1). As the dams were outbred females of indeterminate genotype and mixed breed, the genotypes of the progeny were specified by linkage to the paternal genetics. The herd of origin had a history of very low levels of MAP infection so the risk of any of the experimental animals being infected was negligible. These animals were sampled at 5–6 months of age and at the time of sampling were all ParalisaTM negative. Samples from these animals were used for gene expression experiments and cell death detection experiments.
Monocyte-derived macrophage culture
Whole blood was mixed 1:1 with cold citrated RPMI (3.83 g tri-sodium citrate per litre) (Gibco, USA). The blood/RPMI mixture was layered over Histopaque 1083 (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) and centrifuged for 20 min at 600 g. Mononuclear cells at the interface were removed by aspiration into centrifuge tubes (Becton Dickinson, USA) containing citrated RPMI and centrifuged for 15 min at 500 g. A wash step followed, which involved resuspending the cells in citrated RPMI, centrifugation at 500 g for 15 min and then resuspending in RPMI (Invitrogen, USA) supplemented with 4 mM L-Glutamine. Cells were counted in a Countess® Automated Cell Counter (Invitrogen, USA) and the concentration adjusted to 4 × 106 live cells per mL. Cell suspensions were aliquoted into slide flasks (Nunc, Germany) for cell death detection experiments and 25 cm2 vented cell culture flasks (Becton Dickinson, USA) for gene expression experiments.
The cell culture vessels were incubated at 39°C in 5%CO2 for 2 h to select for monocytic cells that adhered to the plastic surface. Media was removed and the cells were washed once with PBS followed by the addition of RPMI containing 10% deer serum obtained from healthy mixed age animals. The culture vessels were incubated for 24 h at 39°C/5%CO2 and then were washed thoroughly with PBS before addition of 10% deer serum RPMI culture media. The macrophage cultures were matured for 7 days by which time the cells had taken on the characteristic morphology of mature macrophages in culture. Confirmation of macrophage phenotype was undertaken by α-naphthyl acetate esterase staining (Figure 2A), CD14 cell surface expression by flow cytometry using the monoclonal antibody CAM36A (Veterinary Medical Research & Development Inc., Washington State University, USA) as previously described [26]. The recovery of CD14+ cells from different animals ranged from 77 to 90%. Functional assays including phagocytosis detection (Figure 2B) and microbicidal activity following E. coli infection (data not shown) also confirmed these cells had the functional capacity of macrophages. Macrophages were counted on the Olympus IX-71 inverted microscope (Olympus, Japan) prior to infection experiments.
Characteristics of mature deer monocyte-derived macrophages. (A) Monocyte-derived macrophages stained positive (black) for α-naphthyl esterase at day 7 of culture (20X magnification). This enzyme is detected primarily in monocytes and macrophages and is virtually absent from granulocytes and other leukocytes, confirming that these adherent cells derived from deer blood are of a monocytic lineage. (B) Ziehl-Nielsen stain of deer MDM (blue nucleus) which has phagocytosed MAP bacilli; red, acid-fast microorganisms (100X magnification).
Infection of MDM
The bacterial strain used to infect the macrophage cultures was Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis K10. This strain was chosen because it is a virulent, low passage clinical bovine strain, typical of the strains identified as causing Johne’s disease in red deer [27]. The MAP culture was incubated in Middlebrook 7H9 medium (Fort Richard Laboratories, NZ) supplemented with OADC and mycobactin J (Allied Monitor, USA) and slowly agitated on a stirrer at 37°C for 10 days before enumeration by light microscopy. Maintaining the MAP culture on a stirrer minimized clumping and facilitated enumeration (cell numbers were confirmed to be accurate by plate culture). At day 7 of deer MDM culture, the MDM were washed twice with warm PBS and 10% deer serum RPMI, without gentamicin, was added to the cells. The cells were subsequently infected with MAP at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 10:1. The tissue culture vessels were incubated for 2 h at 39°C/5%CO2 before washing twice with warm PBS and replacing the gentamicin-free media with 10% deer serum RPMI with gentamicin. The tissue culture vessels were then incubated for a further 22 h (gene expression and cell death detection experiments, 24 h time point) or 46 h (cell death detection experiments, 48 h time point). For gene expression experiments, media was removed and 500 μL ISOLATE RNA Lysis Buffer (Bioline, USA) was added to the culture vessels. For cell death detection experiments, media was removed and stored at −20°C before preparing the slides for staining.
RNA extraction and cDNA synthesis
The SuperScript® VILO™ cDNA Synthesis Kit (Invitrogen, USA) was used according to the manufacturer’s instructions to synthesize first strand cDNA from the mRNA in the total RNA sample. Total RNA amounts reverse transcribed were normalised among individual animals. The resulting cDNA was diluted 1 in 4 with water and stored at −20°C until use in Q-PCR experiments.
In this work, efforts have been made to adhere to the Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE) guidelines as advocated by Bustin [28, 29] in the reporting of Q-PCR methodology and results. Using the NormFinder [30] and geNorm [31] algorithms, β-2 microglobulin (B2M) and peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase B (PPIB) were selected as appropriate reference genes. Q-PCR primers had previously been developed for some of the target genes (IL-10, IL-1α, TNF-α, IL-23p19 and B2M) [22]. For those genes that had not been investigated (iNOS and PPIB), primers were designed as follows. Cervine sequence information was obtained from the AgResearch Cervine Genome Database using the coding sequence information of the bovine homologue and a BLAST-like tool. Bovine splice sites were identified from the UCSC Genome Browser [32] and mapped to the corresponding location in the cervine sequence. Primer Express version 2.0 software (Applied Biosystems, USA) was used to design primers that would span the marked splice sites and so prevent possible amplification of genomic copies of the target gene. Primers were synthesised at a commercial facility (Sigma Aldrich, USA). Information for all primers for reference and target genes is presented in Table 1. All primers for reference and target genes were confirmed to amplify a single product of the expected size according to gel electrophoresis and dissociation curves (data not shown).
Table 1 Cervus elaphus primer sequences
Q-PCR was carried out in a 96-well format in 15 μL reaction volumes per well. PCRs were performed in duplicate using ABsolute™ QPCR SYBR® Green mix (ABgene, UK), with amplification primers at 70nM and 2 μL diluted cDNA. The plates were analysed by the 7500 Fast Real-Time PCR System (Applied Biosystems, USA). Thermal cycling conditions consisted of enzyme activation at 95°C for 15 min, followed by 40 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 15 s and annealing and extension at 60°C for 60 s. Post-PCR dissociation melting curves were determined for every reaction to confirm specificity and melting temperature of the amplification products (data not shown). Relative gene expression was calculated using the ∆ ∆ Ct method [33, 34]. For each sample, the difference in Ct values between the target gene and reference genes (the average of B2M and PPIB) was calculated (the ∆ Ct). Relative gene expression after infection (or fold change) was then calculated by subtracting the uninfected control sample ∆ Ct from the infected sample ∆ Ct to yield the ∆ ∆ Ct. PCR efficiencies for every Q-PCR experiment were calculated by linear regression of individual amplification plots using LinRegPCR software [35]. The negative value of the ∆ ∆ Ct was subsequently used as an exponent of the calculated PCR efficiency, resulting in fold changes of expression in the treated sample relative to the untreated control sample.
Cell death detection
DNA fragmentation as a measure of apoptosis was assessed by the in situ terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labelling (TUNEL) technique using an in situ c ell death detection kit (TMR red; Roche Applied Science, Switzerland). Following 24 or 48 h of MAP infection, culture media was removed and the cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in PBS (pH 7.4) before TUNEL staining was performed according to the manufacturer’s instructions. MAP organisms were stained using the TB Fluorescent Stain Kit M (Becton Dickinson, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions followed by counterstaining of cell nuclei using Hoechst 33342 at 2 μg/mL (Invitrogen, USA). The slides were rinsed in water before ProLong® Gold Antifade Reagent (Invitrogen, Life Technologies, USA) and coverslips were placed on the slides. At least 75 cells were counted for each animal and treatment on an Olympus BX-510 upright microscope (Olympus, Japan). The researcher was blinded to the genotypes of the animals from which the samples were obtained as well as the treatment of the cells. The number of cells infected with MAP and TUNEL positive was counted and recorded. Infected cells were further recorded as containing less than 10 MAP per cell, 10 – 20 MAP per cell or greater than 20 MAP per cell. The amount of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) released into the supernatant of cell cultures 24 or 48 h after MAP infection was used to determine death from necrosis and was measured using the cytotoxicity detection kit (LDH; Roche Applied Science, Switzerland) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. The absorbance of the samples was measured at 490 nm, with a reference wavelength of 650 nm, using an ELISA plate reader (Bio-Rad Model 3550 Microplate Reader, Japan). Uninfected macrophages treated for 4 to 6 h with 200 ng/mL staurosporine (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) were included as a positive control for cell death.
Significant differences between proportions (as in Figure 1A) were calculated using the z-test for proportions. To determine statistically significant differences in relative gene expression between the resistant group and the susceptible group, the Mann–Whitney test was performed on fold change values. Results for all other experiments with two or more groups or treatments were compared by the Kruskal-Wallis test and significant differences were calculated by Dunn’s post test. Significance is expressed as p < 0.05, p < 0.01 or p < 0.001 as described.
When MAP was added to the macrophages isolated from purebred red deer, the expression of most of the genes was altered and relative gene expression differed between resistant and susceptible animals (Figure 3). Macrophages from susceptible animals upregulated the expression of the inflammatory molecules TNF-α (p < 0.01), iNOS (p < 0.01), IL-1α (p < 0.001) and IL-23p19 (p < 0.001) significantly more than did macrophages from resistant animals (Figure 3). Within the original group of ten susceptible animals, there were three animals which clustered together and displayed a resistant-like gene expression profile in the iNOS, IL-1α and IL-23p19 plots. These animals are the representative progeny of a single sire with a JBV close to neutral (0.04) and have been placed in a separate “intermediate” category in Figure 3. The low sire JBV of these animals indicates no paternal bias towards a resistant or susceptible genotype thus the genotype of these animals which resulted in their original inclusion in the susceptible group has been contributed by their respective dams (JBV > 0.3). The differences in gene expression between the resistant and susceptible groups remain significant (p > 0.01) for the iNOS, IL-1α and IL-23p19 molecules even when these three outlier animals are included in the susceptible group (data not shown).
Relative mRNA transcript expression of MDM from purebred animals of a resistant or susceptible genotype. MDM were infected with MAP for 24 h before expression of the genes iNOS, IL-1α, TNF-α, IL-23p19, IL-12p35 and IL-10 was measured by Q-PCR. Fold changes (mean ± SEM) are defined as expression upon infection compared to the uninfected control, n = 20 (10 resistant, 3 intermediate and 7 susceptible). Three animals of susceptible genotype were removed from the susceptible group into an “intermediate” category on observing that their macrophage gene expression profiles resembled a resistant-type animal for the iNOS, IL-1α, TNF-α and IL-23p19 molecules. Statistical significance has been calculated using the Mann–Whitney test where ** denotes p < 0.01 and *** denotes p < 0.001.
While there was a trend for greater upregulation of IL-12p35 in macrophages from animals with a susceptible genotype compared with macrophages from resistant animals, this was not statistically significant. There was also no difference in the relative expression levels for IL-10 in response to MAP infection between the groups (Figure 3). Indeed, the mean fold change of IL-10 after 24 h of MAP infection was close to 1 in both the resistant- and susceptible-type macrophages (0.78 and 0.86 respectively), indicating that there was no change in IL-10 gene expression levels, compared to the untreated control at this time point.
The patterns of gene expression in macrophages from crossbred animals infected with MAP in vitro were similar to that of macrophages from purebred animals but did not reach statistical significance (Figure 4). The mean upregulation of the inflammatory gene targets (iNOS, IL-1α, TNF-α and IL-23p19) in the macrophages from animals with susceptible genotypes was higher than that of cells from the animals of resistant genotypes. The cytokines IL-12p35 and IL-10 again did not differentiate the groups. The range of fold change values seen in this crossbred group of animals was also similar to that of the purebred animals although there was a larger scatter of values evident for these animals than was seen with the purebred animals.
Relative mRNA transcript expression of MDM from crossbred animals of a resistant or susceptible genotype. MDM were infected with MAP for 24 h before expression of the genes iNOS, IL-1α, TNF-α, IL-23p19, IL-12p35 and IL-10 was measured by Q-PCR. Fold changes (mean ± SEM) are defined as levels of expression after infection compared to the uninfected control, n = 13 (6 resistant and 7 susceptible). No statistically significant differences were observed between the resistant and susceptible crossbred groups.
Macrophages from resistant and susceptible animals had a similar infection rate after 24 and 48 h MAP infection as determined by auramine staining and fluorescent microscopy (Figure 5 and 6A). At 24 h, an average of 48.6% of macrophages from resistant animals and 50.5% of macrophages from susceptible animals were infected. At 48 h, the infection rate increased slightly for both resistant and susceptible macrophage cultures at 59.2% and 56.2% infected respectively.
Fluorescent microscopy images. (A) Hoechst 33342 Stain (Nucleus), (B) TB Auramine M Stain (acid-fast MAP), (C) TUNEL TMR Red Stain (Apoptosis), (D) Overlay of the images, arrow pointing to macrophage containing an acid-fast bacilli (20X magnification).
Infection dynamics of MDM from resistant or susceptible deer, infected with MAP in vitro. (A) Infection rate of macrophages from crossbred red deer of a resistant or susceptible genotype. MDM were isolated from crossbred red deer and cultured for 7 days on slide flasks. At day 7 of MDM culture, the cells were infected with MAP (MOI of 10:1) for 24 or 48 h and the resulting MAP infection rate was determined by auramine staining. The data are expressed as percentages of MAP-infected cells (mean ± SEM) and at least 75 cells per slide were counted, n = 13 (6 resistant and 7 susceptible). (B) Numbers of MAP bacilli per infected macrophage from crossbred red deer of a resistant or susceptible genotype. The data are expressed as percentages of MAP-infected macrophages that contain different numbers (≤ 10, 10 – 20, ≥ 20) of MAP bacilli at 24 and 48 hours after infection (mean ± SEM), n = 13 (6 resistant and 7 susceptible).
Of the resistant and susceptible macrophages that became infected, the majority (mean > 80%) had phagocytosed less than 10 MAP organisms at 24 h after in vitro infection (Figure 6B). However, at 24 hpi, an average of 14% of infected macrophages from resistant animals contained 10 – 20 MAP bacilli compared to 7% of infected macrophages from susceptible animals but this difference was not statistically significant. The proportion of infected macrophages which had >20 MAP bacilli per cell was low for both types of animals at approximately 2%. At 48 hpi, the majority of infected macrophages from animals with either genotype still contained <10 MAP bacilli (Figure 6B). However, there was an increase in the number of infected macrophages from susceptible animals which had between 10 and 20 MAP per cell from an average of 7% to 19% of infected macrophages but this was not statistically significant. The equivalent condition in the macrophages from resistant animals remained relatively unchanged, with 14% of cells containing 10 to 20 MAP at 24 h and 13% of cells after 48 h infection. While the proportion of macrophages from resistant animals that contained >20 MAP also remained unchanged after 48 h at less than 3%, the number of infected macrophages from susceptible animals with >20 MAP per cell increased from a mean of less than 2% to more than 7% but this change did not reach statistical significance.
Apoptotic events were detected by TUNEL staining coupled with fluorescent microscopy and the results of the various treatments on macrophages from resistant or susceptible animals are presented in Figure 7A. There was a very low level of apoptosis in untreated macrophages samples from both types of animals and at both time points, but macrophages from both animals showed the capacity for apoptosis induced by staurosporine treatment. Infection with MAP caused a greater proportion of macrophages from resistant animals to become apoptotic at 24 h than macrophages from susceptible animals; a mean of 37% of cells from resistant animals compared to a mean of 6% of cells from susceptible animals. However, this difference was not statistically significant and was observed at 48 h, as the rate of apoptosis in macrophages from animals of both genotypes was approximately 13%. No differences in total cell loss between slides from resistant animals and slides from susceptible animals were observed following MAP infection. The level of cell death of MAP-infected macrophages from resistant or susceptible animals, measured by LDH release, showed no statistically significant differences between the groups at either 24 or 48 hpi (Figure 7B).
Cell death in MDM from resistant or susceptible deer following in vitro MAP infection. (A) Detection of apoptosis by TUNEL TMR red staining of MDM from crossbred animals of resistant or susceptible genotype at 24 or 48 h after MAP infection. Results are shown as mean percentage TUNEL positive cells ± SEM, n = 8 (4 resistant and 4 susceptible). Un = untreated, MAP = MAP-infected, STS = staurosporine at 200 ng/mL for 6 h (positive control). (B) Detection of total cell death by LDH release from MDM isolated from crossbred animals of resistant or susceptible genotype. Following 24 or 48 h MAP infection, supernatants of cultures were collected and analysed for LDH release. Results are given as mean absorbance values ± SEM, n = 13 (6 resistant and 7 susceptible).
Historically, infectious disease has played a major role in shaping the genetic make-up of populations due to natural selection [3]. Susceptibility and resistance to infectious disease shows marked variation in genetically diverse populations with some individuals expressing extremes of these phenotypes [36]. A goal of livestock breeding programs is to enhance the resistance of animals to infectious disease by selecting for resistant traits and excluding susceptible animals from these programs. The current study focused on Johne’s disease as a model to investigate the underlying biology of this resistance and susceptibility spectrum by targeting red deer which had a genetic bias towards either of these two poles.
In vitro infection of monocyte-derived macrophages with MAP resulted in quantitatively different gene expression profiles in animals with a resistant or susceptible genotype. Macrophages from genetically susceptible animals increased the expression of candidate inflammatory markers (iNOS, IL-1α, and IL-23p19, Figures 3 and 4), to a greater extent than the macrophages from genetically resistant animals. Other researchers have observed increased pro-inflammatory cytokine expression, particularly IFN-γ, IL-1α, TNF-α and IL-17 in the tissues of clinically diseased animals [22, 37, 38]. This suggests that the excessive transcription of inflammatory molecules by genetically susceptible animals observed here may lead to a dysfunctional or dysregulated innate immune response that is incompatible with the development of a protective adaptive immune response. In contrast, resistant animals may produce a more finely regulated and controlled increase in the expression of inflammatory markers in response to MAP which may be a precursor for the initiation of an appropriately controlled, protective adaptive immune response.
Given that immune responses to MAP in macrophages occur early and mycobacterial pathogens are known to express different antigens at different times in the infection process [39–41], the differences observed in gene expression between resistant and susceptible animals could also be a consequence of the sampling endpoint for the assays. At 24 h after infection, the macrophages from resistant animals may have dampened down the response which, initially, may have been considerable. By contrast, the macrophages from susceptible animals may have a persistently high inflammatory profile which could contribute to the activated state of these cells at 24 hpi. A dysregulated inflammatory response may fail to control the primary infection and trigger the immunopathology associated with chronic MAP infection. Monitoring immune markers at earlier and later time points than 24 h will be required to investigate this speculative hypothesis.
Macrophages from three animals of the purebred group displayed a very similar gene expression response to MAP to each other and to the macrophages of the resistant group. It is striking that these animals cluster so closely together and share the same sire which possessed a JBV close to neutral (0.04). On this basis, these animals were removed from the susceptible group and placed in a separate “intermediate” category (Figure 3). These animals were classified as susceptible due to the JBVs of their dams (> 0.3) but their macrophage gene expression responses suggest a strong genetic influence from their sire. While it would be interesting to explore the phenotype of these three “intermediate” animals, a limitation of the experiments presented here is that the study animals could not be classified as phenotypically susceptible or resistant. The functional phenotype could only be disclosed by experimental challenge or monitoring animals exposed to MAP infection naturally under field conditions, which was outside the scope of these experiments.
The expression of IL-10 remained relatively unchanged in response to MAP infection after 24 h and did not differ between the resistant and susceptible animals. IL-10 has been shown to be expressed at a higher level in clinically diseased animals compared to those that are sub-clinical or uninfected [42] as well as in bovine MDM isolated from infected cattle, in response to MAP challenge in vitro [17]. This cytokine is also reported to be expressed transiently in MDM from cattle and sheep early in the infection process [43, 44]. The data reported here is limited to a single time point of 24 hpi so changes in IL-10 mRNA levels occurring earlier after infection would not have been detected. An alternative source of IL-10 following MAP infection in vivo may also be regulatory T cells as has previously been reported [45]. Another cytokine that may have benefited from earlier or later time points of analysis was IL-12p35 as the expression of this cytokine, while increasing in response to MAP, did not differentiate between resistant and susceptible animals. While IL-12p35 is a key cytokine promoting the Th1 pathway thought to be protective in mycobacterial diseases [23], the Th1 pathway has also been implicated in the pathology of Johne’s disease [22, 46, 47]. It is difficult to pinpoint the role of this Th1-associated cytokine in protection and disease with no separation in terms of gene expression of macrophages from resistant and susceptible animals.
Two groups of animals were used in this study to assess gene expression of macrophages from genetically resistant and susceptible red deer. The purebred animals showed statistically significant differences in gene expression between the resistant and susceptible genotypes. However, while the crossbred animals displayed similar trends to the purebred group, statistically significant differences were lacking between the resistant and susceptible genotypes. The greater scatter seen in the data obtained from the crossbred animals is compatible with the concept that disease resistance or susceptibility is due to small effects involving multiple genes rather than a single contributing genetic factor. Further, the lack of separation between the resistant and susceptible crossbred animals may be a result of the increased genetic heterogeneity of this group, the smaller groups size (n = 13 compared to n = 20 in the purebred group) or could be influenced by the different method used to categorise the animals as resistant or susceptible.
The use of an exotic model species such as red deer is challenging as protein detection reagents are either not available or have limited cross-reactivity in this species. To investigate functional differences between animals of a resistant or susceptible genotype, fluorescent staining and microscopy techniques were used to assay MAP phagocytosis rates as well as cell death rates. The rate of MAP infection at an MOI of 10:1 was approximately 50% at 24 and 48 hpi, for both types of animals (Figure 6A). Other researchers have noted similar infection rates of approximately 40-70% macrophage infection [48–50]. The majority of infected macrophages from resistant and susceptible animals had ingested less than 10 bacilli (Figure 6B). However, while the numbers of MAP within infected macrophages from resistant animals did not change over the 48 h time point, MAP numbers within macrophages from susceptible animals increased between 24 and 48 h. This could represent the replication of MAP within macrophages from susceptible animals while macrophages from resistant animals are able to prevent MAP multiplication. Further investigation with larger sample numbers is warranted to determine if this trend is significant.
Following MAP infection of macrophages in vitro there are three possible outcomes for the host cell: necrosis, a form of death characterized by plasma membrane disruption, apoptosis, a form of death in which plasma membrane integrity is preserved, or survival of MAP-infected macrophages [51]. The experiments described here were designed to distinguish these three outcomes at 24 and 48 hpi. In general, while the addition of MAP induced greater levels of macrophage apoptosis compared to uninfected controls, the proportion of apoptotic cells was low relative to the positive control (Figure 7A). MAP has been shown to induce apoptosis in bovine monocytes [52, 53] but the levels are generally low as has been noted by Berger et al. in ovine MDM [44]. Several researchers have found that avirulent mycobacterial strains induce higher levels of apoptosis than virulent strains [54–56]. Consequently, apoptosis has been proposed to be an innate defence mechanism which can be subverted by virulent mycobacteria [56, 57]. However, macrophage apoptosis can be increased when a higher MOI of virulent mycobacteria is used in the infection protocol although it has been noted that the apoptotic process quickly converts to a necrotic cell death modality [58, 59]. A greater proportion of macrophages from resistant animals were apoptotic following MAP infection for 24 h compared to the equivalent treatment in the macrophages from susceptible animals (Figure 7A) but this effect was not evident at 48 hpi. It is possible that the macrophages from a resistant animal use apoptosis as an innate defence mechanism in the early stages of infection by depriving MAP of its preferred growth niche, by broadening the activation of other immune cells such as dendritic cells through efferocytosis and by direct anti-mycobacterial activities found in apoptotic macrophages.
Control of mycobacterial infection requires a properly balanced and regulated cytokine environment within infected tissues. The data obtained in this study infers that a dysregulated immune response characterised by excessive inflammatory gene expression occurs in macrophages from susceptible animals. This may pre-empt the development of protective immunity. In the absence of an appropriate adaptive immune response, MAP infection could invoke the chronic immunopathology observed in clinical Johne’s disease. In contrast, macrophages from resistant animals, while expressing the same inflammatory genes as those cells from susceptible animals, do so at a significantly lower level as well as exhibiting higher rates of apoptotic cell death. Together, this implies that controlled regulation of inflammation may be pivotal to protection against chronic inflammatory bowel disease caused by MAP infection.
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Support from staff at Peel Forest Estate for sample collection and staff of the Disease Research Laboratory for technical assistance is gratefully acknowledged. AgResearch scientists, Ken Dodds and Neville Amyes, are acknowledged for their bioinformatics support. We also acknowledge the financial support from Johne’s Disease Research Consortium and scholarship support for BD by the University of Otago.
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BD conducted the experiment, analysed the data, and drafted the manuscript. SL contributed the data in Figure 1. RO and FG assisted in the experimental design and contributed to the interpretation of results. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Dobson, B., Liggett, S., O’Brien, R. et al. Innate immune markers that distinguish red deer (Cervus elaphus) selected for resistant or susceptible genotypes for Johne’s disease. Vet Res 44, 5 (2013) doi:10.1186/1297-9716-44-5
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Planning Primer: Pitfalls
Build a solid and long-lasting virtual infrastructure around virtualization's many moving parts, including servers, storage, network, security and management.
By Chris Wolf
Let's just get it virtualized, and then we'll worry about the rest ..." is a phrase I hear all too often from administrators in the field eager to virtualize. After all, tools such as PlateSpin PowerConvert and VMware Converter allow admins to convert physical computers to virtual machines (VMs) in as little as a few mouse clicks. Rushing to virtualization is always enticing. Vendor return on investment (ROI) calculators show enormous and fast returns on the virtualization investment, so the sooner an organization virtualizes, the sooner it can reap the financial and operational rewards of virtualization.
While this makes sense in theory, moving too quickly toward virtualization can often lead you into a series of pitfalls, including:
Infrastructure instability
Failure to meet required service levels
Reduced infrastructure security
Many organizations typically have a few naysayers that don't want to virtualize, so falling into a virtualization migration pitfall may give the naysayers the ammo they need to set any planned virtualization project back months or even years. Don't worry. I'm not going to spend any more time shouting out warnings against virtualizing. The bottom line is that with the right plan, virtualizing your IT infrastructure will give you the benefits you expect, and probably additional benefits that come from looking at IT problems differently once a virtual infrastructure is in place.
Memory Share and Share Alike?
Hypervisors that support memory sharing, such as VMware's ESX, can improve consolidation ratios when similar applications and operating systems are located on the same physical host. Memory sharing will consolidate redundant Read-only memory pages into single-instance Read-only pages. The result can be increased consolidation density as high as 40 percent.
Vendors that don't offer memory sharing will push back and tell you that such features cause slow performance. That's true, and the comparison is similar to the timing of when transaction logs are committed to databases. Scanning memory pages for redundancy can be a resource -intensive task, but resource utilization is not a big deal if the hypervisor waits for periods of low utilization for performing the memory-consolidation jobs, which is the case with ESX. So when you first consolidate, you may not see an immediate savings on shared-memory consolidation.
If you wait a week, you'll see a significant difference. You may ask, "If I have to wait a week, what good is it?" Considering that physical servers can remain online without a reboot for months to even years (depending on maintenance and patch requirements), you'll have plenty of time to enjoy the fruits of memory sharing. Also, considering that you'll continually add VMs over time, memory sharing can allow you to stretch your hardware investment further than you may be able to when running hypervisors that don't support memory sharing.
Shared resources will also place a strain on service-level requirements. Service levels are best assured by configuring resource pools, which give you the ability to pool VMs and guarantee them specific service levels relating to resource consumption.
Resource Utilization and Performance
Capturing resource utilization is an integral part of consolidation planning and is used to determine consolidated VM physical placement, as well as to disqualify some systems from being virtualized.
As a general rule of thumb, the following resource characteristics will prevent a server from being virtualized:
Specialized hardware requirements unsupported by the virtualization engine
Extremely high-resource utilization on the bare metal
Specialized adapters such as video capture cards are not supported in VMs on server virtualization platforms; however, if consolidation is a top priority, you could leverage an OS virtualization solution such as Parallels Virtuozzo Containers to consolidate the system and still allow each virtual container to access the specialized hardware device.
High-resource utilization will often prevent a server from being virtualized during the initial consolidation project. For me, high is 50 percent; if a host is using more than half its CPU resources on the bare metal, holding off on virtualizing the server is generally a good practice.
Following are guidelines to avoid performance pitfalls in each core resource: CPU, Memory, Storage, Network.
Most consolidation projects involve moving workloads from slower CPUs on older systems to faster CPUs on newer systems, so before-and-after CPU performance is never an apples-to-apples comparison. Consolidation tools capable of performing what-if analysis against new hardware (such as, "What will performance look like on an IBM x3650?") can take much of the guesswork out of before-and-after CPU performance.
Organizations are often wary of virtualizing CPU-intensive workloads such as database servers, but it is possible to virtualize these workloads as long as you don't oversubscribe the CPU. CPU oversubscription occurs when the number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) on a physical host is greater than the number of physical CPUs (pCPUs) on that host. For example, eight two-way VMs (16 total vCPUs) could run on a four-way quad-core system (16 total physical cores) without taxing the hypervisor's CPU scheduling workload. Of course, pCPUs are frequently oversubscribed for non-CPU- intensive workloads, so adhering to vCPU-to-pCPU affinity is only necessary for CPU-intensive apps.
Interoperability must also be considered when planning the compute architecture. Today, for example, you cannot live migrate a VM between an Intel platform and an AMD platform. Even in the case of an offline migration, you still need to be careful because hypervisors do not fully virtualize physical CPUs. This is important because applications with licensing or activation bound to the CPU may require a reactivation once their associated VM is moved from an Intel host to an AMD host.
One other consideration is symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). VMs should only be assigned more than one vCPU if the applications running inside the VM can be marshaled to multiple CPUs and hence take advantage of them. Otherwise, the added CPU scheduling overhead associated with the extra vCPU could actually degrade performance.
Some migration tools don't provide the option to select the number of vCPUs in a target VM. So if a two-way physical host was migrated to a VM, the VM would automatically be configured with two vCPUs. If that happens and only one vCPU is needed, you should remove the second vCPU before powering on the new VM for the first time. Once a single vCPU VM powers on, you should verify that it has a uniprocessor HAL driver installed in Device Manager. While the VM will run fine with an SMP HAL driver, CPU performance will be slightly degraded.
Memory is frequently discussed in virtualizing planning because it's the most common bottleneck. This is because many of today's hypervisors (with ESX and VMware Server being two exceptions) don't support memory overcommit.
The effect is that in a physical server with 16GB of physical memory, the total memory allocated to all VMs running on the server cannot exceed 16GB. Because VMs are sized based on the maximum amount of memory needed under their peak workload, hypervisors without memory-overcommit support will not provide the same consolidation density as those that do. VMs on the same physical server rarely need all of their memory at the same time, so memory overcommit allows the hypervisor to page some of a VM's memory to disk and allocate physical memory to the VM as needed.
A common practice is to just throw more memory at a performance problem, but that doesn't always work. Take Exchange Server 2003 for example, which is capable of using up to 4GB of RAM. Running Exchange 2003 in a VM with more than the 4GB of allocated memory would simply be a waste of resources. Be aware of the memory maximums associated with each virtualized app and allocate memory accordingly.
Finally, you should also keep a close eye on hardware-assisted memory virtualization, which is a technology currently shipping on quad-core Opteron processors. Intel's hardware-assisted memory virtualization (named Extended Page Tables) should be available later this year.
Hardware-assisted memory virtualization has shown substantial improvements in enterprise application performance in virtualized environments, especially with multithreaded apps. The bottom line is that hardware-assisted memory virtualization allows VMs to modify their own physical page tables and removes the bottleneck of shadow page table- based memory virtualization. When selecting hardware and virtualization platforms, check to see that both support hardware-assisted memory virtualization, especially if you have future plans to virtualize multithreaded enterprise applications.
I personally only deploy virtualization solutions as part of high-availability (HA) clusters, so in my opinion, shared storage is a must. When evaluating storage solutions, you need to be careful to ensure that adequate bandwidth will be available for all VMs sharing a particular storage interface. For example, suppose an iSCSI array allows you to aggregate two 1GB interfaces into a larger 2GB interface. While that's good, such a feature is only useful if you can perform similar aggregation on the other end of the data path-at the hypervisor. Not all software iSCSI initiators support multipath, so if multipath and aggregated links are needed to meet I/O requirements, you'll need to use a hardware iSCSI HBA, such as the QLogic QLE4062C.
All I/O connections-network and storage-should be redundant, as a single point of failure will impact multiple VMs on a given host. So a substantial investment in networked storage may be required, depending on what you already have in place.
When evaluating arrays, it's important to look for features that improve VM storage scalability (such as thin provisioning) and also provide serverless backup options such as snapshots.
Step 1: Conduct a thorough analysis of the IT infrastructure that includes both technical and non-technical constraints. Leverage the collected data to access virtualization platform and hardware feasibility for the consolidated environment.
Step 2: Verify hardware compatibility (server, storage, network) and software compatibility (operating systems, applications) and support for the prospective virtual environment.
Step 3: Re-architect existing business processes for compatibility with the virtualized environment before the consolidation project completes.
-C.W.
Virtual networks give you the ability to allow multiple VMs to share physical network interfaces, and with that ability it's essential to ensure you're not voiding any internal segmentation restrictions when architecting the virtual switch infrastructure. Some organizations still require physical isolation of security zones, which means that VMs will need to be physically isolated on different physical networks in some circumstances.
As with storage, your consolidation analysis should provide detailed information on average and peak network I/O requirements for a given system. Keep in mind that if you plan to change your backup architecture following the migration, your network I/O requirements may be much lower (assuming an earlier LAN-based backup) and may impact the number of physical resources you need for the consolidation project.
You should also plan for plenty of network ports. Most organizations dedicate two ports as a network interface card (NIC) team for management and cluster heartbeat traffic. So as a good practice, you should not consider the two onboard ports that come with a physical server as part of the consolidation analysis. Instead, plan to leverage the server's available PCIe expansion slots for dividing up both network and storage I/O. Like with the management network, all production network ports should be teamed in order to provide both load balancing and failover support. If availability is a requirement, you should avoid hypervisors that don't support NIC teaming.
When purchasing NICs, it's always a good idea to offload as much CPU work to the NIC as possible, so it's a good idea to purchase NICs with TCP offload engine (TOE) support. TOE NICs improve VM network performance and reduce the hypervisor's CPU tax resulting from processing TCP overhead.
Beware: Sales Pitches
It's always easy to take what a virtualization vendor says at face value, but experience has shown most of us that significant differences usually exist between a marketing checkbox and a true product feature. For instance, there's a huge difference between virtualization HA that relocates VMs to the next node in the cluster following a physical server failure and one that invokes a fan-out failover that equally distributes VMs across all remaining physical nodes in the cluster.
For some virtualization products, VM failover occurs solely by logical node order. So if VMs are running on node 1 and node 1 fails, every VM will try and start on node 2. The ones that can't start on node 2 will move to node 3 and so on. With that system, failover can take significantly longer to complete. This is why when you evaluate virtualization solutions you must do so on a three-node cluster at a minimum. This will let you validate the failover behavior of the HA solution. Live migration behavior also varies by vendor, so it's equally important to validate how live migration will work on a production workload.
Virtualization solutions are not the same, so when sizing up hypervisor or OS virtualization platforms, keep the following questions in mind:
Operating system and application compatibility and support: Will my applications and OSes be supported on the virtualization platform?
Performance: Will the virtualization platform outperform competing platforms?
High availability (HA): What are the available HA and failover options?
Automation and management: How well does the virtualization platform integrate with my existing management infrastructure?
Hardware compatibility: Can I use any of my existing server, storage and network hardware with the new solution?
Vendor histories of skeptical, one-sided benchmarks have caused most to take benchmarks with a grain of salt. Virtualization benchmarks aren't much different. For example, benchmarks with unrealistic workloads (such as running only one VM per physical server) or unrealistic configurations (such as those that use RAID 0r back-end storage) should be viewed with extreme caution, as you should not expect to see similar results in a real-world implementation consisting of multiple VMs per physical host and fault tolerant back-end storage (for more on benchmarking considerations, see "Planning Primer: Benchmarking").
Hardware choice for the consolidated solution is critical as well. Virtualization deployments often involve the purchase of new server and networked storage platforms. When it comes to virtualization, scalability should be your primary concern. For example, some blade solutions will look really good for virtualization on the outside, but when you look a little closer you may see that a particular blade chassis only supports 18 physical I/O ports per chassis, for example. Consider a blade chassis with 14 blades and 10 VMs per blade and you have a total of 140 VMs sharing 18 I/O ports. In most cases, the math just doesn't work.
Not all newer third-generation blade solutions have such chassis I/O restrictions, so by no means are blades always a bad choice for virtualization. Some organizations prefer to go with very large servers in order to reap the rewards of a high-consolidation density; however, you still need to consider the impact of physical system failure and failover time.
In some cases, it's better to go with a lower consolidation density on 2U servers and have quicker failover than to go with 4U servers and a prolonged failover. Of course, all of this falls into the proverbial "it depends" IT assessment, as I've successfully deployed blade-, 1U-, 2U- and 4U-based servers in virtualization projects. 1U servers may not make sense for enterprise workloads, but are often a good fit for a few VMs running in a branch office. Take a couple of 1U servers and Stratus Avance or Marathon FT, for example, and you have a very cost-effective branch office virtualization solution.
Don't Panic! But Fear the Shortcut
There are plenty of tools that make it extremely easy to convert a physical system to a VM, but just because it's easy to get virtualized doesn't mean that you should hurry up and do it. Instead, taking the time to properly plan around virtualization's technical and non- technical pitfalls is the safest way to ensure you'll successfully realize the benefits of virtualization without any ensuing panic.
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Control Add-ins
Sure Step
Fit Gap and Solution Blueprint Estimates
March 11, 2010 by Vjeko
The Sure Step season seems to have started in its fullest for me – it is the second time this year already that I’m delivering the Sure Step course, this time in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I must say that I truly enjoy it.
Anyway, while discussing the Fit Gap and Solution Blueprint decision accelerator, an important component of the Diagnostic phase, a student asked me an interesting question: why do we need to give effort estimates to meet the requirements at this stage?
And indeed – isn’t it far too early to give or commit to any effort estimates at this early stage, isn’t there a huge risk that the customer might understand these estimates as final project estimates? What’s the true meaning of effort estimates during Fit Gap analysis in diagnostic phase?
Actually, the effort estimates at this stage have nothing to do with the proposal. Yes, they can be a valuable input into budgetary estimates later on, however, this early, and at this point, the idea behind hourly estimates is completely different.
These figures are actually very much related to the Degree of Fit, and are almost as important as the degree of fit itself. (I wrote about the degree of fit two times list year, if you need a short refresher, click here, then here.
The goal of hourly estimates here is to give an order of magnitude assessment of how much time you believe will be needed to cover a set of requirements for decision making purposes only. It is not intended to be a detailed, or scientific estimate, and you should by no means employ some exact estimation technique such as PERT at this stage.
Consider this: you conduct a product agnostic fit gap analysis, and you prepare four different fit gap analysis worksheets for for different Microsoft Dynamics ERP flavors. In the end, you end up with these:
Degree of Fit
Hourly Estimates
While degree of fit in itself is a nice indicator of how risky the project might be, and how difficult it might be to deliver the solution for the customer, the combination of the degree of fit and hourly estimates gives a much better picture.
In the example above, the degree of fit is fairly close for all products. AX is pretty good – with the degree of fit of 85% it would seem the best choice. However, with 300 estimated hours to bridge the gaps, you might want to consider other solutions.
While SL and GP have exactly the same degree of fit, their hourly estimates tell you clearly that SL will require less work to come from the standard solution to the one customized to meet customer’s needs.
Finally, NAV has the lowest degree of fit, but also the lowest hourly estimates.
Provided that all estimates are equally reliable, and that you bill the same hourly rate for all of the products above, you might want to give advantage to that product which will deliver the easiest solution, and that’s the one with least hours spent on customization and configuration.
Degree of fit doesn’t tell you anything about the importance of the requirements, as far as it is concerned, the business critical requirement has as much weight and as much influence onto the degree of fit, as some nice to have feature which has been listed as in-scope for the project. Also, it doesn’t care about whether you spend 10 hours meeting a requirement, or you spend 20 – both requirements have exactly the same effect on the degree of fit. Therefore, it might easily happen that you have a higher degree of fit with AX (as above), because you meet more features with standard AX, however, to bridge those 15% gaps, you need 300 hours. At the same time, you can only meet 78% of the requirements with standard NAV, but to bridge those 22% gaps, you’ll just spend 150 hours.
If the degree of fit difference would be higher, say 85% for AX, but only 65% for NAV, then the decision should definitely go in favor of AX, which would be less risky. But if you have close shots of the degree of fit for two different approaches, the hourly estimates is an invaluable tool to help you reach the decision.
Another good application of hourly estimates at this stage becomes obvious when you have to fine-tune the scope to fit the high-level budget for the project. If you are aware that you cannot meet the project scope within the budget, and you have to trade off features, then hourly estimates can help you reach the most achievable scope for the defined budget. By shifting requirements from Phase 1 to Phase 2, you can fine-tune the degree of fit, and, say, come up several different approaches where you can achieve the same degree of fit with varying effort estimates, focusing on different sets of requirements. If you can manage to deliver 90% of fit with 300 hours with one set of requirements, as opposed to, also 90% with 150 hours with another set of requirements, then you can easily fine-tune the scope and scale it to the available budget.
Again, you wouldn’t take these estimates as the definite and final, and they should by no means be your commitment, they are there just to help you, well, accelerate your decision. That’s what a decision accelerator should be all about, after all.
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Letter – NortheastLynx Update
Dear Mayor George Lefebvre,
My colleague, Eric Boutilier of All Aboard Northern Ontario, has asked me to provide you and your colleagues with an update on our upcoming NortheastLynx proposal for the revival of the former Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) rail passenger service linking Temiskaming, Cochrane, North Bay and Toronto.
We have made tremendous progress over the summer and we are now aiming for a public launch of the proposal in late October, immediately following the municipal elections.
At the outset, let me say that we have received tremendous support and input from numerous members of the rail industry, retired and active, and the new provincial government. These have included Minister of Finance Vic Fedeli, members of Minister of Transportation John Yakabuski’s staff, ONTC staff, MP Charlie Angus, MPP John Vanthof and retired Amtrak president David Gunn, who now resides on Cape Breton.
Our NortheastLynx proposal draws on many of the service-proven concepts I employed in the development of my SouthwestLynx plan for Oxford County. It may be accessed at:
http://www.oxfordcounty.ca/Your-Government/Speak-up-Oxford/Campaign-Details/ArticleId/14251/SouthwestLynx-Integrated-High-Performance-Transportation-for-Southwestern-Ontario
SouthwestLynx is part of a four-component plan for the improvement of rail and public transportation throughout Southwestern Ontario, much of which is adaptable to the needs and the realities of transportation in Northern Ontario. The four-part series of reports, under the banner Connecting Southwestern Ontario, may be accessed at:
http://www.county.oxford.on.ca/Portals/15/Documents/SpeakUpOxford/2018/SouthwestLynx/Connecting%20SW%20Ontario_electronic%2020180816.pdf
Like this plan, NortheastLynx is not merely a proposal for rail passenger service restoration, but a plan for integrated, multi-modal transportation that optimizes the resources and services of the ONTC and local transit operations.
The NortheastLynx draft report will be completed at the beginning of next week and, after peer review by industry experts, it will proceed to graphic design. Among the major points we have developed are:
(1) A phased implementation plan to deliver an interim Cochrane-Temiskaming-North Bay-Toronto rail service by 2019 with coordinated improvements to ONTC and provincially-owned GO Transit feeder bus services;
(2) A second phase that will improve the interim Cochrane-Toronto service in 2020;
(3) A third phase that will add a second North Bay-Toronto rail frequency in 2021;
(4) Opportunities to take advantage of economies of scale, should certain aspects of the SouthwestLynx plan be adopted and implemented by the Government of Ontario;
(5) Strict adherence to the financial limits placed on ONTC rail service restoration by the new provincial government in the policy statements issued during this year’s election campaign;
(6) Benefits for the freight service provided on the entire line by both the ONTC and the Canadian National Railway;
(7) Longer-range improvements that can be undertaken on an incremental basis on the Cochrane-Temiskaming-North Bay-Toronto corridor, including a westward extension to Kapuskasing, and on the Toronto-Parry Sound-Sudbury rail corridor; and
(8) Scalability based on the actual ridership generation and financial performance of each phase of the NortheastLynx plan.
As endorsed by our advisers, we have taken an approach to NortheastLynx that can best be described as “adopt, adapt and optimize.” Everything in the plan rests on techniques and technologies that have been proven elsewhere and may be readily adapted for implementation here. It also aims to optimize the use of the existing resources of the ONTC and its partners in the delivery of this service.
Please feel free to forward this brief update to your fellow council members and the members of the Temiskaming Municipal Association, the Northeastern Ontario Municipal Association, and the District of Parry Sound Municipal Association to whom we are most grateful for the generous support you have all extended to us. If you or any of your colleagues require further information in advance of our delivery of the NortheastLynx plan, please feel free to contact Eric or me at any time.
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Is 2020 recruiting class make-or-break for Badgers & Gard?
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Wisconsin saw its streak of NCAA tournament appearances end in 2018. A year later and the Badgers finished 4th in the Big Ten and took a trip back to the NCAA tournament. But, a first round defeat at the hands of Oregon has many wondering if the program is heading in the right direction now that the roster is full of players who Greg Gard has personally signed off on as the head coach.
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I don't know that the 2020 class is make or break, but it'll be a large part of the evaluation that will be done on Gard after the 2020-21 season.
Gard will have an experienced, senior laden team that season. If he repeats some version of the past season, he'll be on the hot seat in a big way going into 2021-22. Without some solid recruiting in 2020, that 2021-22 team will be in tough shape and could be worse than last years group. If that happens, Gard is likely to be shown the door.
Packinatl
Easy answer no. The same reason Bo was not on the hot seat 2 seasons in a row, 2011 and 2012 with double digit losses and 1 and done's in NCAA's or when Bo went 1 and done and lost to Cornell in the NCAA's. As long Gard is in the top half of the B1G and gets to Sweet 16 or even 1 and done he is safe. The Gard vs Ryan recruiting comparison is very similar. Ryan's big haul was in 2 years getting Koenig and Dekker, other than that he was very average on the recruiting trail. Gard has not hit a 5 star kid like Dekker but Reuvers and King were well sought after (4 Star).
ChampionshipBelt
Recruiting might be similar but Ryan got more out of his players and they played better defense. Gard is an average coach at best. He needs to go away, IMO.
Do I know who to replace him with? No. I have not done the research. I just don't like what I see from Gard.
ChampionshipBelt said:
Wisconsin was #9 in the country on defense, I will take that. As far more out of his players that subjective. Not this year but last was an aberration. Ryan left the cupboard bare, the top 2 kids were out for the season, Davison played with one arm and the top reserve in the backcourt was out for the year but even with that beat Purdue, Maryland and lost to #5 MSU by 3
I'm going to have to see what happens over the next two years to really determine how good Gard and his staff are in finding kids for the program. Not only does he need to have his kids in place, but a second generation of them entering the program, where it will show if his message is really getting across.
GBP4EVER
Disagree if Gard is doing a #1 and done in tourney he won't last more then 2 more years before he's shown the door.
GBP4EVER said:
That's what I meant. Two years is what I see.
So when Ryan went 1 and done did you feel the same way or losing to Cornell in the NCAA's. Oh pesky fact, Gard already has 2 sweet 16 appearances and beat #1 and #2 seed along the way but lets base his record on one year
Packinatl said:
Remember though Gard now in back to back years has missed tourney and suffered embrassing loss to a 12 seed. Another 1-2 years of that he would deserve to be canned
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LA County Probation
Why Assaults On Officers in LA County’s Juvenile Halls Are Soaring
by Lauren Lee White
Written by Lauren Lee White
On Monday, April 16, a Detention Services Officer was escorting a young probationer to the infirmary at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. At some point along the way, the kid allegedly assaulted and choked the officer, who is now on leave.
On Thursday, April 5, there was reportedly an assault by another young probationer, this one on Unit KL at Central Juvenile Hall. In both cases, the officers received medical treatment.
These incidents are part of a striking increase in assaults on officers inside LA County’s juvenile halls by kids in the county’s custody. Data provided by the LA County Probation Department shows that in 2015, there were 98 juvenile assaults on officers and staff in the halls. In 2016, that number nearly doubled to 182 assaults. In 2017, it shot up again to 314.
The department wasn’t able to provide specifics about dates, locations, nature or severity of assaults, as it doesn’t track that data, a department spokesperson said.
It appears that this spate of attacks is mostly taking place in the halls, and not in the longer term juvenile probation camps. LA County’s juvenile halls are short term facilities, akin to jails for adults, and also the place where kids facing serious charges wait for their cases to be settled.
“It’s not every day,” a DSO who works at Central Juvenile Hall told us. But “the severity has increased,” said the officer, who asked that he not be named. “Before, it was mostly just pushing and now it’s more violent.”
Central Juvenile Hall, courtesy of LA Country Probation Governance Study, Aug. 18, 2017
With the end of six years of federal oversight of LA County’s juvenile probation camps in 2015, the county’s recently approved massive youth diversion plan, and the much-lauded opening of Campus Kilpatrick last summer, it seemed as if things were on the right track.
Yet, a 500-page assessment of the LA Probation Department released on February 13, 2018, commissioned by the county, and conducted by Oakland-based Resource Development Associates (RDA), reported that “Department staff and youth described the juvenile halls as unsafe environments for everyone inside them.”
Then came recent reports of a spike in the use of pepper spray, and now this.
So what’s going on?
What’s behind the rise in assaults?
Luis Dominguez, acting Deputy Director of the Detention Services Bureau—meaning he oversees the county’s juvenile halls—said it would be premature to speculate on the reason for the spike in assaults before conducting a thorough analysis. “What is evident, based on the numbers that we pulled [for WitnessLA’s inquiry] is that the number of assaults have increased significantly over the last three years,” he said.
Sue Burrell, policy director, Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
In general, youth assaults on officers are rare, said Sue Burrell, Policy Director at the Pacific Juvenile Defender Center, a nonprofit that provides support to juvenile trial lawyers, and other juvenile attorneys, to “ensure quality representation for children throughout California.”
“It’s very common to have fights between youth in facilities because it’s a completely unnatural situation and people are stressed,” she said. But “attacks on staff are usually when there’s a generalized crisis in a facility and the youth are very frustrated.”
The various groups who work in and around juvenile probation each point to different theories behind this “generalized crisis,” which only partially overlap.
One factor frequently mentioned in connection with the increase in assaults has to do with plunging morale among the officers. This is due in part to the frequent turnover in department leadership, said Deborah Lares, president of the Professional Managers Association, AFSCME 1967, a.k.a. the supervisors’ union Los Angeles County has had at least five Chief Probation Officers over the past 10 years, which “has been really hard on us,” she said.
(Chief Terri McDonald took over the large and complicated agency on January 1, 2017, after former probation chief, Jerry Powers, retired under a cloud.)
“Chiefs come in with their own philosophies and protocols,” said Lares, “and we’re jumping from one style to another.” The result, she said, is a level of chaos and confusion regarding what is considered an acceptable response from an officer in the event of an assault.
In the RDA report, the study’s authors noted that “morale is particularly low among line staff in the juvenile institutions”–in other words, the camps and the halls. “Though there are some variations between facilities,” the authors wrote, “most institution line staff interviewed do not believe that the Department cares about their well-being or safety; instead they feel expendable and ‘just a number.’”
Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, Sylmar
Another factor mentioned by several officers we spoke with, and also by a representative from SEIU 721 at the January 31 meeting of the Probation Department’s Safety Commission, was the “need for experience and maturity in the halls.” The union rep said he was “concerned that newest and youngest employees are being thrown into hardest environment,” meaning the juvenile halls.
Luis Dominguez said that bringing the newest employees to work in the halls is not a recent development. “The majority of staff come in through our juvenile halls,” he said. “That’s where our promotional ladders are.”
But the question is whether these new DSOs are being properly trained in how to diffuse and deescalate difficult situations with kids who are often dealing with severe trauma and other challenges.
At a recent Probation Commission meeting, attorney Maureen Pacheco, with the Los Angeles Alternate Public Defender’s office, told Mitchell and Dominguez that she thought the officers at the “compound” at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, where she had clients, needed “particular” attention when it came to training. The compound is the facility’s highest security unit, and houses kids fighting serious cases. Pacheco said she and her colleagues were “seeing a profound increase in the number of incidents, assaults, and fights” in the unit.
Maureen Pacheco, Youth Justice Attorney, Alternate Public Defender’s Office
Her paralegal, she said, was on the phone with one of her clients “who was attacked by another youth while he was in a staff office” making the phone call. Pacheco said she talked to one of the hall’s supervisors about the problem, who told her that the officers working in the compound were “very, very inexperienced.”
Pacheco also said she had noticed that the compound kids, some of whom had been at the hall for two to three years, were not receiving much in the way of programing.
“I don’t know what’s going on,” she said, “but I think this needs some attention.”
Burrell confirmed that the situation Pacheco described can be a recipe for disaster. “If kids are spending a huge amount of time in their rooms because of understaffing and underprogramming,” frustrations tend to boil over and end in violence, she said.
Turnover and understaffing
Several sources told WitnessLA that the assault crisis is due in part to understaffing and high staff turnover.* These sources said that many shifts in the halls end up being understaffed, in part, because officers are leaving faster than they can be replaced. A significant percentage of officers are also out with an injury, we were told. Some of those injuries, according to one retired supervisor from Central, are exaggerated. Due to the low morale, he said, “People just say ‘screw it,’ and stay home.”
Central Juvenile Hall/WLA
The result, sources say, is that people fresh out of training are being assigned to more challenging units where experienced officers have traditionally been assigned.
“Right now [new officers] are being thrown to the wolves, and then they quit because they’re not ready for it,” one Central officer said. “I’ve talked to many people who decided to look for employment elsewhere, because they say this isn’t what I was told to expect. They’re just completely blown away that this is the type of environment they’re going into.”
The authors of the RDA report heard from officers that “inconsistent staffing levels [were] due to a high number of staff under investigation, staff that are injured, or staff that call out sick. Both the Department’s line staff and leadership acknowledged in interviews that newer staff in the halls feel underprepared to face day-to-day challenges.”
Luis Dominguez, acting Deputy Director of the Detention Services Bureau, LA County Probation/WLA
Asked whether these factors have contributed to a greater number of inexperienced staff in the halls at this time, Dominguez offered a different explanation. “The change is probably, given [the AB 109] legislation and some of the [subsequent] programs out there within our department, that there’s been more promotional opportunities for our staff so they may be promoting at a quicker pace,” he said. “And as we’re running new academies, [new graduates] are back-filling those vacancies.”
Regarding the high rate of officer injury, Dominguez acknowledged that there is “a significant number of work-related injuries right now,” but said he will have to complete an analysis of the situation before he can offer a theory as to why this might be.
The net effect, deputies say, is that inexperienced officers can find themselves dealing with kids they haven’t been sufficiently trained to handle.
For instance, staff trained for the position of Group Supervisor, Nights (GSN) work the10pm-6am shift, when kids are in their rooms and activity on the units is generally calmer. But officers told us that due to understaffing, GSN staff are often “held over,” required to work consecutive shifts the following day so that there are enough officers on the unit.
“This works fine when it’s done once in a while,” Lares said, “but it’s my understanding that it’s happening on a regular basis.”
Other current and former DSOs we spoke with described a similar pattern.
And that’s when things can easily go south, they said.
When the GSN staff work the more active and demanding day shift, things can get dangerous if they have not been adequately trained for it, or if they are sleep deprived, because “your decision-making process might be inhibited and reaction time slowed,” explained one officer.
John Tuchek, 1st Vice President of the Association of Probation Supervisors of Los Angeles County, SEIU 721
John Tuchek, 1st Vice President of the Association of Probation Supervisors of Los Angeles County, SEIU 721, pointed to current disciplinary policies, as another possible factor in the “generalized crisis.”
“Staff are scared to act” for fear they will be terminated, Tuchek said. “The attitude right now is, ‘I am not going to intervene in any incident, because I don’t want to lose my job.’ And the kids understand this. They’re not dumb.”
The reported lack of proactive supervision can allow a minor incident to escalate. “If you don’t set limitations for kids, you lose control,” Tuchek said. “We know that from raising our own kids. And if you let kids run amok, they don’t feel safe. And if the kids don’t feel safe, the staff don’t feel safe.”
Dave Mitchell is Deputy Director of Juvenile Institutions, meaning he oversees the county’s juvenile probation camps. In response to the point that officers are “scared to act” during an assault in defense of themselves or their colleagues, Mitchell said, “There’s this perception that they’ll be in trouble if they get involved and we’re dispelling that perception. You would be in more trouble if you didn’t get involved and you allowed someone to get hurt as a result of not getting involved…Follow the policy, get involved. Even the utilization of [pepper] spray, if it’s done appropriately, then you’re within policy. You’re not going to get in trouble.”
Or, as another higher-up in the department put it, “If you assault a kid,” or you “lie about seeing someone else assaulting a kid,” you don’t belong in this department.
But many staff members are still fearful.
Kids with needs
Another frequently cited element in the rise in officer assaults is the changing population of youth in the halls. In both LA County’s juvenile halls and camps, the number of kids in residence has fallen dramatically as juvenile crime has continued to drop, and reforms have diverted kids with nonviolent offenses to community programs rather than the juvenile lockups they would have been sent to in years past.
At the same time, according to data provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, the average daily number of open mental health cases has jumped significantly since 2016.
“Populations in the halls are low, which is good,” explained Lares. The problem is that, by default, many of the youth who now wind up in the juvenile halls are more “serious offenders with serious mental issues.” At the very least, some of these kids need the support of officers with more resources and training than an inexperienced and/or sleep-deprived officer might possess.
Sue Burrell pointed out that juvenile halls are being used as de facto mental health treatment facilities, which does a disservice both to the kids who need intensive, professional treatment and to the officers expected to handle these kids despite having no mental health background. “Juvenile hall isn’t a treatment facility,” she said. “I do feel for those staff, because they aren’t trained to deal with high level mental health disorders. I feel like they’re doing the best they can, but those children shouldn’t be in juvenile hall.”
One officer told WitnessLA that officers receive “barebones minimum health training,” an issue that was also mentioned in the RDA report.
A lot of these kids can be violent, the officer said. Some of the most volatile kids are housed in what is known as an Enhanced Supervision Unit, where kids who may need more supervision are placed. “But even then, it’s rough. Sometimes you feel like you’re trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon.”
At the same time, officers in the halls complain that, in general, they have a shrinking set of tools with which to respond to kids who act out.
Hope and solitary
The SHU in old Camp Kilpatrick, before it was torn down and rebuilt as Campus Kilpatrick/WLA
One officer who spoke to WitnessLA, but asked that his name not be used, believed the rise in assaults on officers began in May 2016, when the Board of Supervisors voted to prohibit the use of solitary confinement for kids in county facilities, except in circumstances when the safety of the youth or staff was involved, and then only for strictly limited periods.
The special housing units (SHUs) in LA County juvenile halls were replaced with “Hope Centers.” The idea was that by creating a non-punitive environment that includes soothing colors and comfortable furniture, in combination with “behavioral incentive programs,” and the like, an upset kid would have a place to calm down safely without experiencing the well-documented adverse effects of lengthy confinement in a cell.
(California instituted similar limitations throughout the state in September 2016, and the law went into effect on January 1 of this year.)
The ban on solitary was to roll out over five months. But at three facilities, Central Juvenile Hall among them, it was reportedly instituted within just a few weeks of the board of supervisors vote, with very little in the way of preparation for the staff.
“It’s our goal as a department, when we take a perceived tool away from them is to give them skills and training to replace that tool,” Dave Mitchell said. “We really need to give our staff the requisite tools to deal with this type of kid [who previously would have been put in the SHU].”
So what is on the horizon for the officers at the county’s three juvenile halls to replace the tools they feel have been taken away?
Living area for Campus Kilpatrick cottage/WLA
According to John Tuchek, one possible intervention to stem the violence is to bring more radios into the facilities.
“Radios are a major factor for safety,” he said. “If we had radios maybe then we could call for help and prevent assaults on staff, and prevent kids from getting hurt.”
But at the moment, Tuchek said, there aren’t enough to go around, so officers are at times unable to communicate if they’re in need of help.
Other ideas discussed at the January 31 Safety Committee meeting were to “reach out to minor’s family to inform them when behavior is poor,” and to create localized committees devoted to safety at each facility.
According to Dave Mitchell, the committees would be led by superintendents at each facility and would be made up of line staff, teachers, nurses, and therapists. The idea, said Mitchell, would be to engage hall staff in finding ways to create safer environments at each facility.
Multiple new committees didn’t impress some of the officers, however. “We’ve been committee’d to death,” one officer told WitnessLA.
“To improve this situation, we need enough staff on duty to be able to supervise properly,” said Deborah Lares. “We need people with backgrounds in law enforcement, probation, public safety, and mental health–we need resources to do the right training in the right way.”
The conclusion that additional training is needed seemed fairly universal, particularly in the case of the new recruits who wind up working in the halls as their first stop after graduating from the training academy.
“Staff reported they felt unprepared to deal with conflicts and other challenges they face during their workday,” according to the RDA study, “and some expressed frustration they are no longer allowed to use certain disciplinary techniques to manage conflict.” In recent years, they wrote, regulation changes have required juvenile halls to reduce the use of pepper spray for controlling violent conflicts and also to end the use of the secure housing unit (SHU). “While these changes were designed to increase safety for the youth in detention, without these disciplinary tools some staff feel more at-risk because of insufficient training to support the transition.“
Eventually, the “LA Model”–the governing theory behind the probation department’s model facility, Campus Kilpatrick–is supposed to be instituted in all the county’s juvenile facilities. The goal is to shift what will be a reduced group of six camps and the three halls into therapeutic, research-guided, “trauma-informed” environments that help and heal, not punish, kids in county lock-up.
At Campus Kilpatrick there have been zero assaults on staff and reportedly only ten uses of force by staff.
Despite that, the only LA Model-related training scheduled for the county’s juvenile halls so far is an eight-hour, one day workshop for officers on trauma-informed care.
The LA Model is comprehensive. It includes training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), for example, which has been demonstrated to help incarcerated young people better understand, reframe, and redirect their emotions and impulses. DBT also appears to successfully address staff burnout, which is common in both adult and youth lockups.
Another training component comes from the famed “Missouri Model,” which pioneered the use of rehabilitative and therapeutic methods in youth facilities, rather than the traditional “correctional” methods.
And according to Mitchell, after officers at Camp Glenn Rocky in San Dimas were trained per the LA Model in December and January, the staff saw a difference right away. “Their use of the Hope Center has diminished completely,” he said.
But the average stay in the halls is so much shorter than in the camps, Luis Dominguez explained, that the department isn’t sure if the current, camp-based LA Model will translate to the halls. So for now, the trauma class is the only rehabilitation-oriented training on deck.
“The trauma class is just one small piece of the overall training picture we have to incorporate in the halls,” Dominguez acknowledged. “It won’t solve all of our challenges.”
That overall training [for the halls] is not yet designed. In designing it, the officers’ needs should be as much of a priority as the kids’, said Sue Burrell.
“Whatever model or intervention the department settles on, that focus on mental health should extend to staff, as well.” she said. “There’s so much focus now on trauma-informed care, and when you have a trauma informed-system, staff are a part of that. You take care of staff, and realize that they are scared sometimes or don’t know what to do, and you make sure they have a place to go.”
Burrell described a model she’s familiar with in which officers have a debriefing session and a meeting with a mental health counselor any time they’ve “done something they didn’t want to have to do,” like restrain a kid or act in self-defense.
It’s crucial, according to Burrell, to allow officers to feel that describing their experience won’t jeopardize their positions.
“We expect so much of these people,” Burrell said. “And it is really a hard job.”
Despite their frustration, most officers WitnessLA spoke to for this piece went out of their way to say they were drawn to this work because they wanted to help kids. “You don’t come here for the money, you really don’t,” Tuchek said. “You come here because you want to work with kids.”
But officers interviewed for the RDA report said that, in the halls, “there were inadequate opportunities for positive, rehabilitative engagement with youth.”
One retired officer recalled a phrase he picked up from a former co-worker who “was tough on the outside but had a real soft spot for the kids.” While the kids were eating in the dining hall, the officer said, he would tell them, “You may not like us or what we do, but we love you.”
*Data provided to WitnessLA from the Probation Department did not bear out either theory about the cause of increased turnover in hall staff—in fact, the data don’t demonstrate an increase in staff turnover over the past few years at all, neither in terms of discharges nor promotions. The exception was an unusually high 20 discharges from Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in 2017.
Top photo of entrance to Central Juvenile Hall/WLA
Ownership says:
Assaults are way up in adult jails too. They’re up because it’s now acceptable to aggressively challenge authority , protest, block freeways, riot and assault the police. It’s actually socially acceptable.
The behavior then transcends into the custody environment.
I’m sure you believe that officers do their job without bias too. Bias infiltration is a huge part of law enforcement which causes protest. When authority is abusive it should be challenged. Address the cause don’t blame the victim
Maj Kong says:
What? the policies championed by clueless,middle aged,nice,liberal, white ladies doesn’t work ?Who could have seen that coming? Looks like the new buzzword catch all is “training”. Right up there with “deescalation”.
Friend not Foe says:
The closure of the Special Housing Units to appease the “myth” of solitary confinement was the beginning of the Bureau’s troubles. The erasure of behavior modification programs signaled the end of accountability to detained youth. The endless purge of staff members for protecting themselves and other youth created the easily observable fear and depression in the workplace. Hope Centers sit empty for lack of staffing. Finally, a beloved officer took his life because of the hopeless atmosphere he presided over. All of this because the of mismanagement. Get used to it, it’s the foreseeable future.
The Truth says:
Absolutely Agree!!
DSO says:
And to top it off officers with injuries caused by this dysfunctional department are getting harassed mistreated sent home on their own accrued time and forced to take a demotion
The department falsified medical records to forcibly demote injured officers.
Joe NoBuckles says:
Shocking, I thought that only the crooked executives, at the sheriff’s department did it, like the Stephen Johnson type….
Nation says:
The author needed to interview some officers and not refer to them as staff! The lack of respect starts from the top! The attack on officers are on the rise because officers are being stripped of the tactics that were once at their disposal. Officers are walking on egg shell to respond for fear of losing their jobs! Minors are running wild with very little consequences! Administration doesn’t have a clue as to how to address important issues such as discipline and holding these minors accountable for their actions! The structure is gone! It’s an unsafe environment for the officers and the minors!
Absolutely!!!!!
The lack of sound leadership and judgment at all levels plays a pivotal role in the deterioration of the department as we know it. After spending the last 30 years working the halls with populations aproaching nearly 900 in some cases and now down to barely 200, I’ve seen and heard all of these issues and arguments before. Children need and crave discipline with accountability. This makes for better adults. Society has made it a crime to discipline your own kids leaving them to believe there is no accountability or consequences for their negative behavior. Probation further removes incentives for juveniles to reform by removing any semblance of accountability or consequences for their behavior once they enter the system. Staff are left with few options. Continue to struggle with the daily frustrations of a no win situation, do the job as it should be done and possibly get fired, or just quit. How the BOS along with management can allow this to continue after so many years of failure is beyond any rational thinking persons comprehension.
So right! Poor management and lack of discipline and accountability for these kids creates the next generation of free labor. Alice Baileys 10 points of “ New World Order” she lays out the plan.
JB…. Well said. The pure incompetence of the BOS and leadership of SEVERAL county entities is mind boggling.
B.ham says:
The children of today know that they can’t be touched and disciplined.Thepeople who are in charge of the correctional facilities are just appeasing the situations by not working these areas but letting the staff take the fall for the problems.they the higher ups should take the time to be in the staffs shoes to see how and it works and the HALL should not be a means to babysit mentally imbalanced kids who have the upper hand over their PEERS.meetings happen to show that your are taking responsibility to YOUR job so I say improve the conditions for the staff so they don’t get stressed.
Gilbert Rodriguez says:
I have worked for the Probation Department for 38 years prior to my retirement in 2015, I have seen it all assualts on staff, lack of response by upper management, cover-ups. I worked in Juvenile Hall (Barry Nidorf Juvenile Hall) for over 27 years and Camps for 11 years.
Grant it there has been staff that over reacted but in most part not many, I have prevented alot of incidences from occurring by stepping in at the right time. We had programs that worked and the tools were taken away from the staff which has resulted with the incidents and attacks on staff today, since my retirement I have noticed another the the lack of respect by these same Juveniles in the streets knowing we can’t do anything because the Juvenile detention is a joke and a majority know they won’t get locked up for long or not at all. I do want to say one more the not all Managers are bad but some of them also have their hands tied.
The Gospel…..politics!!!
Edward Anhalt says:
I managed and ran 5 camps and a juvenile hall over a period of 34 years. How things are being run by the higher ups is appalling. Its neither safe for the officers nor the juveniles housed there. The people calling the shots fail to take into consideration simple basics like discipline and structure for the safety of those minors who are housed there and the officers who work there.
I find what is going on in Los Angeles County to be almost insane. Personally I would not work under conditions where juveniles do what ever they want to do whenever they want to do it.
I know behind the scenes officers, supervisors and directors are trying their best to manage this under the toughest of circumstances. Best to you all.
Thank you, Mr. Anhalt you served well.
Calhoosier says:
You need people in charge making policies, that have actually done the job.
Not ppl who are political chess players. These “child advocates” have it twisted about these kids. CA’s have allowed their emotions to cloud their judgement. Kids need discipline, love not abuse true. Understand that parents and lack of parenting creating these behaviors in these kids not the deputy. We don’t work with children who stole candy from the store but rapist, assaultive, or even murderers.
I don’t know what the programing is like now, but keeping juveniles active and engaged and not just warehousing them would help.
It helps to bring both officers and juveniles closer together through positive and comprehensive activities.
Agreed Ed! That’s one of the big problems in the compound. Anger management classes, which are so important, are bible study. They need serious gang interventionists in there , arts and writing courses, life skills and intensive therapeutic counseling. Kids and staff need to be engaged. Right now it’s more reminiscent of the gladiator days of djj.
Conspiracy..... says:
Articles like this are amazing when you also consider the fact their are folks who want to prohibit the use of OC spray in the juvenile halls. The article covering this was on this site not to long ago. It’s terrible that the start of zero discipline and accountability starts in the home, is reinforced in school, championed and even promoted in our society and disdain for authority figures supported in our penal system.
Those who wanted to create an impotent and toothless criminal justice system have succeeded. Hacks like the current probation chief and Sheriff are mere puppets to the worthless BOS which sways to whichever cause they think will give their regime mileage.
The mental health professions is clueless and keeps on allowing people to go diagnosed but untreated. Look at the numerous mass shootings that have occurred starting from Aurora, Sandy Hook, Parkland and the the most recent incidents in Tennessee. Individuals with diagnosed mental illness but who who still killed numerous people. What good is a diagnose if there is no effective treatment and innocent people end up dead? Oh…just prescribe legal analog versions of Meth and Heroine, they’ll fix you right up. Not a very good track record for the profession that claims to be able to treat broken minds.
New World Order plan…… check of Alice Baileys 10 point plan for the New Workd Order.
25 year veteran says:
Getting rid of SHU was the worse thing that they could have done and time out I their room for negative behavior. We give our own kids time out-Room time, for negative behavior. And pepper spray means no physical abuse. A lot of the article was accurate. I give you that.
This article sugar coats The Truth. The clueless authors of this article and RDA report need to “run a board” in unit MN for one week. The clueless authors need to talk ti Local 685 line staff to get the real picture of the disfunction of the institutions. The Truth is that there is a need for SHU. There is a need for structure and regimentation. And most importantly, there is a huge need for legal accountability in the courts and instituions. These whole limp-wristed, slap on the hand criminal justice policies are only setting the minors in general up for failure in life.
The Chief probation officer is a puppet of the BOS, and they’re both garbage. They’re only out to fire people and open investigations from incidents that happened a long time ago. Big Bird did it in the sheriff department, and now she’s doing it here…
Concerned 1 says:
Until the BOS and Probation Executives have one of these youth commit a crime against them (or someone the love), then that’s when real change is going to happen. Situational ethics is the name of the game. I remember for years P.O’s were trying to get armed in the field, and former BOS Antonovich opposed the idea; until one day a probationer shot up a Jewish elementary school. Immediately, Antonovich became active and assisted with spearheading the Probation DISARM unit. Simply put, no action was taken until someone attacked something that mattered to Antonovich. Probation policy is heavily influenced by philanthropists and child advocated. Although many of these groups have no experience dealing with the youth, they tell the probation puppets how to run halls and camps. The sentiment of the child advocates and philanthropists goes something like this: As long as we keep “them” out of our neighborhood, we can test nonsensical methods and policies, although we won’t be around to see how it turns out.
Bahahaha….. so true
Old and Jaded says:
Oh, okay then – that makes it okay. Let’s just keep doing what has not worked well in years. The Department has had significant numbers of new hall employees quit. This comment just beautifully illustrates Probation Department top management. The same old excuses and no real thinking out of the box. Are there any real leaders left?
JB said it beautifully. There is a balance between structure and rehab efforts. These kids need both. Right now, they are often running the institutions and don’t think they don’t know it. It’s no accident that over the years, they have become increasingly assaultive. At the same time, the Department has become more punitive. So there are staff out all over behind injury, investigation or frankly, the desire to burn all available sick time and not be at work because the work environment is so negative.
In addition to obeying the orders of the court, the kids housed in Probation detention facilities need the following:
1. To learn to behave appropriately toward others – whether staff or peers.
2. To be held accountable when they engage in repetitive or serious misconduct. That means a penalty meaningful to them – time in SHU, time added to their program, a return to court, new charges, etc.
3. To improve their education.
4. To receive medical and mental health care as needed.
5. To EARN their way into special events/activities by good conduct. As in real life, nothing should be free.
Believe it or not, back in those horrible years where to hear it told now we were so abusive, we had safe facilities. We had staff that would hang out with kids on their free time and let them participate in special interest clubs. In camps, we took kids out hiking, into the community to a baseball or basketball game, out running, had music groups, movie groups, etc. Staff and kids had a good relationship. A lot of kids did well post release and would contact us after they left camp, as we were the first adults in their life that both set limits and cared about them. Now, it’s a joke – gang loyalties trump any loyalty to staff b/c staff are viewed as powerless. In custody, power matters.
Until the power shifts back to us as parents, like teens everywhere, these youth are going to take full advantage. In addition to them leaving as bad or worse as they arrived, this hurts the kids that really do want help. Staff are so tied up handling paperwork or running a unit short handed, that they can’t get to these kids. While there are surely some exceptions someplace, in general, EVERYONE is losing in our current custody model.
We need a Board and a Chief that understands the need to go back to basics. We need a Chief that does not come on the job proclaiming her interest in terminating a certain percentage of staff in order to send a message to the rest. Guess what…the only message sent is that she and her minions can’t sort out those staff that do need to find another line of work from those that need a slap on the wrist. Once again – no real leadership – only another self aggrandizing professional climber. LASD lucked out when she left.
JB Mitchell says:
You said it much better than me. Appreciate you insights.
Great insights……However LASD was doomed when the BOS allowed the current probation chief to select her successor (utterly worthless) and anoint the current sheriff.
Concerned Civilian says:
Well said “Old and Jaded.” Hopefully, those in power will heed ur advice for what it is: practical steps that work from someone with years of direct experience and success.
Purple says:
Chief McDonald is out of touch. She’s not even following policy. McDonald’s words “fire them and let them fight to get their jobs back”. She’s fired some great people without allowing people to be trained, educated, etc. The top administrators are pulling a trump on our officers and doing what they want to do. Nobody is following the rules and no one is being forced to do so.
SHU is still in our manual, it’s still a policy, hasn’t been removed. Why?
Moral is down because promotions have stopped, people are stuck, even supervisors are looking for other careers. Probation is not a good place work these days. The lack of support needed to do the job isn’t there. Kids are being allowed to do whatever they want, this isn’t new to McDonald. What is she going to do to fix it?
Gridiron Gang says:
This job SUCKS once upon a time I loved going to work. All you DIRECTORS and Administrators…. FU”K you for forgetting where you came from. Anyone looking to join this mismanaged circus… steer clear! I gotta take a dump, someone hand me the paper version of WitnessLA so I can wipe my Ass.
rwheels says:
Concerned 1,
I worked with a a P.O. at ELA Gang unit 96″ 97″. He was working with the union for P.O.’s, at least the ones assigned to gang unit supervision, to be armed. Molina was the issue then. She was adamant about refusing P.O’s to be armed. LASD deputies were the units protection. Deputies backed them on taking numerous juveniles with a history of violence and a lot of times armed history back into custody.
@Concerned 1 – I remember those days and you are absolutely right. I attended a rally and hearing at the BOS to arm DPO staff. Gloria Molina was not only unsupportive, she was incredibly rude. As people spoke, she literally strolled around the chambers chatting w/people. She paid no attention, could have cared less and once our special unit personnel were armed, refused to allow any armed DPO staff in her District. The only comment I recall her making that day is that if probation officers were armed, then they would be no more than deputy sheriffs. It was a demeaning remark. I wanted to ask her if she had ever looked down as she stuffed food in her mouth and noticed that Deputy Sheriffs protected her every day. Many thanks to those Deputies (and police officers) then and now that have worked with us in the street in an effort to help keep our communities safer.
Pardon me – my comment above should have been directed to rwheels. Some days I don’t drink enough coffee. 🙂
Yeah….Molina was as much or bigger (literally and figuratively) Prima Donna than many of the BOS members. She protected who and what she cared about at the expense of the LA County taxpayers. She can also be credited with leading the charge to destroy the former Office of Public Safety as well. Many careers and lives were ruined by this horrible lady.
I teach in the juvenile halls. The probation staff cannot structure or discipline a minor. My students can do whatever they want and all the adults can do is stand by and watch. How is this safe and what does this teach our young people? These are the children who need the most structure not the least. It’s always some white hero who doesn’t have a clue trying to save the poor minority kids. These clueless hero’s should work in a juvenile hall for a week. I bet they would change their tune.
@Teacher – I don’t know how you do it…God bless you and your colleagues for coming to work. You are so right on in what you have shared. These kids do need structure and the current lack of structure is unsafe.
I wonder what it will take for someone to hear and take appropriate action? Hoping for better days.
I spent years working in the Special Housing Units and the Staff there were exceptional..Their elimination and replacement with “cookies, milk, and sympathy,” and bright furniture, is not going to get through to a violent criminal delinquent kid that society has rules that need to be followed for the safety of others..Since these lessons are no longer taught, there is no correction..These ineffective policies are a direct reflection of Gov Jerry Brown’s soft position on crime and the Department’s inability to stand by years of successful youth rehabilitation. L.A. County’s best Programs were the Military structured ones..Staff were safe, the kids enjoyed their time there, picked up vocational and educational skills which included accelerated units and/or a G.E.D. They played sports, and learned to work together as a team..The 1-2 year recidivism rates were nearly non existent..They learned manners and skills on how to conduct themselves to seek employment..Kids would return, sometimes with their parents, thanking us for turning their son around..That is no longer the case today..Today, the Staff Academy training is militarized, while the kids are not allowed to be disciplined..It is as if the roles have been reversed, but to who’s benefit? The Department is therefore, failing in its obligation to serve the community and straighten these youth out so that they can have a shot at a Free and productive life..
Sadden and Retiring says:
I have worked in a juvenile facility for the past 20+ years as a line staff. When I first came on with this department we were in the top of our class for staff training, supporting staff, and putting officer safety first. It’s sad but over the past 10 years that fallen to the waste side. Officer safety is no longer a priority and little do they realize when the kids feel safe you have less incidents. Our assaults on staff have increased, riots have increased, and blatant display of defiance has increased. If the public new what was happening they would be outraged; the release of violated offenders, and the orders to not violate youth’s probation if they break their court orders. The people need to know that yes these are children however they are not in custody for stealing bubble gum…the type of kids we are working with are in for multiple shootings, caring weapons, carjacking’s, murders, sexual assaults. These kids are in the process of being adult criminals and we are now teaching them whatever they do is ok. We have a lot of clients that start with us and act however they want and get into the adult system and end up sitting down for 10 years because their types of violent crimes. The numbers are lower in some juvenile halls in CA however the crimes rates are increasing, the amount of violent crimes are on the rise and we as the probation department are not offering any help or support for the parents and families.
Charles wetstone says:
I spent my whole adolescences in the system in juvenile halls from east lake central juvenile hall to Barry j I completely agree with each and every one of you guys if I had a lil more structure while I was in the facility’s mostly activity’s I would have been better off I unfortunately graduated to county jail and prison after doing 5 years I was released with a new out look on life After getting off parole in 11 months I got a job and had a son I now have three kids and happily married but I know both sides to the struggles of juvenile hall and I’m great hopes I good be someone to help implement a program for those staff members
David Turner says:
Los Angeles County supervisors, eliminate the LA Co Probation Department. It does not work and has gotten from bad to horrible. At its incipience it might have been a good social experiment. Civility in the US is now practically gone. Policy makers used to be excellent thinkers and earned their positions by recognized success, by merit. Civil service is no longer what it was. It was mpartial, a system of merit. Now, it is a good ol’ boy or girl club. The people of LA Co vote carefully when voting for your policy-makers. Those who are currently in office are arrogant know-nothings. Unfortunately, line staff, you can’t elect the probation “executives. You have to live with their inane and dangerous decisions, which change quicker than the seasons. From one month to the next, you won’t know what policy is. Governor Newsom effectively eliminates the death penalty. I say eliminate state parole, as well.
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Pay the Rent!
Posted on July 10, 2015 by Workers BushTelegraph | 24 Comments
If we are to survive, let alone feel at home,
we must begin to understand our country.
If we succeed, one day we might become Australian.
- Bill Gammage
“You Are On Aboriginal Land”, 1981. Poster production in support of Mimi Aboriginal Arts and Crafts, PO Box 318, Katherine, NT, 5780, Australia.
You are on Aboriginal Land
‘Pay the Rent‘ is a political demand for land rights over property never ceded.
Aboriginal society has very careful rules about the ownership of land – there are distinct property rights held by clans and tribes and this has been worked out over many thousands of years.
The establishment of property rights is a feature of human society generally, these are the rules whereby land was acquired with the spread of human society out of Africa. It defines human civilisation.
Aboriginal cave paintings depict people coming by boat to Australia. From that time a sophisticated process of land acquisition developed. Aboriginal management of the land on this continent survived an ice age, megafauna and beyond.
Archie Roach said it very well in Musgrave Park during the 2015 NAIDOC concert yesterday:
“People do not realise the ground they walk on here, we must tread softly on this place and be gentle with it cos we don’t know what has come before. We must respect the land because we come from it.”
Another, Adrian Burragubba is curently fighting to protect the land of the Wangan Jagalingou people from Indian coal company Adani. Adrian told me he and his family have moved back Clermont in Central Queensland’s Galilee Basin to protect the land and particularly the water from the ravages of coal mining.
Adrian said: “We want to link up with the pastoralists to defend the land against the coal miners.” So the Wangan Jagalingou people are prepared to form an alliance with pastoralists whose predecessors took their land in order to defend it against transnational businesses like Adani.
So sacred is the land. It has always been thus.
My neighbour, Cosimo, quotes his father, a peasant farmer from Calabria:
“ If you do not eat the earth, the earth will eat you.”
Thus describing the importance of land to our survival.
The core dispute between the colonisers and the aboriginal people is about how property was acquired from the original owners, the tribes and clans that walked this earth for thousands of years.
When Captain Logan came to Brisbane and squatted with his troops and convicts on the south bank of the Brisbane River they displaced the Jagera people from their land.
For thousands of years, the Jagera people celebrated the sunrise at Kangaroo Point, a special place. Last Sunday, the Lord Mayor of Brisbane can claim to celebrate the building of the Story Bridge from Kangaroo Point only 75 years ago.
In an instant Jagera were driven from their land by the British interlopers. They were pushed from their place onto the lands of others, Turrbul, Djindubari, Dalla, Manunjali, Gubbi, Undanbi and others. They became refugees from their own country into the country of other tribes.
When Dundalee fought for land rights uniting the Dalla, Djindubari and other tribes together to fight Captain Logan and his troops that resistance was a recognition of the injustice that had been done to all by displacing people from their land without negotiation and without treaty.
The tribes never ceded the land despite the brutal hanging of Dundalee in Post Office Square in Brisbane city on 5 January 1855. But they did lose it. It is little wonder that to this day you hear ‘Pay the Rent’ from the descendants of these tribes.
‘Pay the Rent’ is used more broadly to apply to other things that are not property. For example it is incorrect to apply it to manufactured goods and devices that have come from the labour of workers using a variety of designs and raw materials. The term ‘Pay the Rent’ does not apply to the labour that produced commodities, that demand is for land rights not for commodities.
Commodities are the product of workers labour. Some of these workers are aboriginal people whose parents had their wages stolen. So the union movement on behalf of workers, recognizing this injustice, have demanded the repayment of stolen wages to aboriginal workers and their families.
The property system that did exist in this place, exists no more; yet injustice remains.
To resolve this matter requires a recognition of prior ownership and compensation for its loss providing an economic base for the survival of traditional owners.
View from Mistake Mountains. Photo: Ian Curr, 2004
Until the political process deals with that issue, there can be no progress from a colonized state to a society that shares its wealth with original owners and workers alike.
Ian Curr,
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24 responses to “Pay the Rent!”
John T. | July 16, 2015 at 1:15 am | Reply
– Video messages from Mungo traditional owners
http://www.visitmungo.com.au/video-messages
(an excerpt) “Mungo means a lot actually, it means recognition, to me it means a lot because over the years growing up in Australia, a lot of people come up with a lot of different ideas that we didn’t come from here, we come out of Africa, or we come out of Asia, but Mungo is putting us here in Australia and its given us the opportunity to talk about Aboriginal Australia”
– “Message from Mungo”
http://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/9901/message-from-mungo.html
note – “Mungo Lady” is in a keeping place in the Mungo National Park under the control of traditional owners who ban tourists etc. from going near her and there are no photos in national parks guides and promotions. However, scientists are still allowed access to her.
However “Mungo Man” is still in a box in the ANU – after decades of fights about repatriation. He was due to be returned this year, to be beside Mungo Lady as the TOs have demanded, but I have not heard of it happening yet. The university has been stalling for years.
I’m not really that interested in where we came from, I don’t think there ever will be or can be an answer and trying to find that answer seems quite futile. What I am interested in is the extent to which cultural myth determines what we believe to be scientific fact.
Bourgeois European (so-called) enlightenment society in an era of industrialisation and imperialism considered the white “race” to be supreme over other races and the human “species” to be supreme over the whole of nature. It is no coincidence that this cultural assumption is reflected in the science of the time including Linneaus’s taxonomy, Darwin’s tree of life and Engels’ stages of human development (savagery, barbarism, civilisation). The ideology of the dominant social structure determines the nature of science.
ian | July 15, 2015 at 7:30 am | Reply
Thanks John for your input, disclosure and interest in the great mystery of who we are and where we came from.
As that small probe passes Pluto and leaves our solar system who knows what discoveries await future generations?
And just a final point of disclosure. I really am a creationist. The pre-cambrian explosion of life, from which almost all species today emerged from, is what the bible in Genesis describes as elohiym (collective of creator spirits) breathing animating life into the world. The scientists say the most probable cause was the development of an atmosphere.
Genesis 1 “In the beginning when God (Elohiym) created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God (also translated as breath of God) swept over the face of the waters.
Charles Darwin in “Origin of the Species” says that his theory cannot explain the pre-cambrian life explosion.
John T. | July 13, 2015 at 11:51 am | Reply
“Evolution: Charles Darwin was wrong about the tree of life”
The substantive article is in the New Scientist that has a paywall so I can’t get it, but here is a report of it.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jan/21/charles-darwin-evolution-species-tree-life
“The great naturalist first sketched how species might evolve along branches of an imaginary tree in 1837, an idea that quickly came to symbolise the theory of evolution by natural selection.
But modern genetics has revealed that representing evolutionary history as a tree is misleading, with scientists saying a more realistic way to represent the origins and inter-relatedness of species would be an impenetrable thicket.”
Don’t take the kangaroo stuff too seriously, it was just a rhetorical exercise but this is still pretty interesting –
http://www.livescience.com/5196-scientists-map-kangaroo-dna.html
“And they’ve found the Aussie icon has more in common with humans than scientists had thought. The kangaroo last shared a common ancestor with humans 150 million years ago.
“We’ve been surprised at how similar the genomes are,” said Jenny Graves, director of the government-backed research effort. “Great chunks of the genome are virtually identical.”
“Mitochondrial DNA sequences in ancient Australians: Implications for modern human origins”
http://www.pnas.org/content/98/2/537.full
“This finding does not imply that all living people originated in Australia, any more than previously described deep lineages in Africa demand a recent origin of humans on that continent. Deep lineages in Africa and our finding of an even deeper lineage in Australia are consistent with a number of possible models of the demographic and evolutionary history of our species.”
p.s. “epigenics” – the genetic hardware/software I spoke of probably wasn’t in your 1957 textbook either. While this field has become accepted in the new genetic science, the new idea on the block (based on research data of course) is that DNA can be transmitted horizontally – that is from one organism to another through viruses and bacteria and things (the virus etc. being the transmitting organism, not a carrier of some other organism).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Epigenics and horizontal DNA transference have huge implications for the theory of evolution of any and all species, yet they cannot be incorporated or reflected in 19th century Linnaean taxonomy and evolution theories based on it.
There has been a big controversy about “Mungo Man” DNA – it is a big part of the recent out of africa debate..
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/01/01/2813404.htm
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/mungo-man-fossil-which-challenged-out-africa-theory-099837
“…… Australian National University graduate student Greg Adcock and colleagues, who analysed the mitochondrial DNA from bone fragments and found that Mungo Man had a genetic lineage that is both older and distinct from the common ancestor that originated in Africa in the female line of all living humans, the so-called “Mitochondrial Eve”.”
As the second link indicates, various hypotheses can explain why he might be related to Africa without the DNA link but, just like my Kangaroo hypothesis and the Darwinian missing link, they are speculation.
I guess the point I am making in all this is that your attempt here to support land rights has included a public dismissal of the Aboriginal sacred knowledge on which land rights is based – you have published the opinion that Murris come from Africa. That might make sense to you but it is a repackaging of the situation to conform to your own world view and mode of knowledge.
This is a similar dilemma to the Wave Hill strike. Aboriginal people were demanding their land because it was their dreaming. White supporters were demanding equal wages in accord with their own ideologies and world views and the land rights struggle was repackaged into a white frame of reference. Same with reconciliation, native title and recognition that repackaged the struggle into white democratic liberalism.
The task is to listen and adapt to Aboriginal knowledge, law and ceremony, not to dismiss it or reduce it to a matter of personal faith amongst equals in a pluralistic multicultural society. The dreaming is the dance is the law is the sovereignty of this land. This is the songlines paradigm I mentioned earlier as antithetical to colonial property rights. Reducing the struggle to issues of property fees while negating the dreaming is, I suggest, not really that supportive of Aboriginal struggle on its own terms.
p.s. did you know that “Mungo Man”, described by scientists as a modern human, has no DNA from African humans?
http://unlearningtheproblem.wordpress.com/
John T. | July 12, 2015 at 10:28 pm | Reply
I have heard dreaming stories that people evolved from, amongst other things, kangaroos – which is why I investigated that particular hypothesis.
How can you so strongly support Aboriginal claims to land yet dismiss the basis on which those claims are made – the dreaming? Are you suggesting that white people who have been in Australia for many generations and know the landscape intimately, have a similar claim to land rights? Or is the Aboriginal claim something more than just occupation and geographic knowledge?
Iraqi Maralinga | July 13, 2015 at 2:10 am | Reply
did you know that “Mungo Man”,
described by scientists as a modern human,
has no DNA from African humans?
Where did you get that statement from?
Not sure you are understanding what DNA is or you may just be using shorthand?
Anyway readers may be interested.
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid which has a helical structure that enables it to be self-replicating when two strands are intertwined. DNA is present in nearly all living organisms. There is great similarity in DNA between humans and the simplest organisms. DNA is the main constituent of chromosomes, the strands that carry genes. The human genome is the complete set of nucleic acid sequence for humans. There are four possible nucleic acids in DNA and they can be arranged in different sequences giving almost endless possibilties when arranged on the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome.
Even though the human genome has been described it is not fully understood.
When I did the biochemistry of genetics in 1972, it was even less understood because Watson & Crick had described the unique helical structure of DNA less than 20 years previously. So we are talking about a science that is still in its infancy. And a pretty paternalistic science it was too, cos the actual helical structure was discovered by one of their colleagues, Rosalind Franklin, who died before Watson & Crick got the Nobel prize for DNA research in 1962. Would the Nobel committee have given Rosalind Franklin the prize if she were alive?
Putting DNA science in another light, in 1981, forensic scientists mistook a sticky liquid on the floor of the Chamberlain’s car for Azaria’s blood and it was this that helped persuade the jury that Lindy had killed her baby and not a dingo. So I’m sure you will agree that we should be little skeptical of science.
So you asked why do I support land rights?
There is one sure way to upset human DNA … increase radiation as the U.S. shelling in Iraq did in the first Gulf War. Uranium was used to harden the shells to penetrate Saddam’s tanks and these shells lie around the desert. Lancet, a British medical journal, researched still births and deformities caused by this increased radioactivity and reported it in the 1990s. The researchers were pilloried for their work by U.S. and U.K. governments. This led the British Medical Journal, a more conservative rival, in an uncharacteristic move, to come out in support of the researchers and their competitior, The Lancet.
I just look at the good sense shown by the traditional owners of Muckaty in comparison to such Governments.
Or as Kev Carmody puts it in ‘Thou Shalt not Steal’:
Your science and technology
Hey you can make a nuclear bomb
Development has increased the size
to 3,000,000 megatons
But if you think that's progress
I suggest your reasoning is unsound
You shoulda found out long ago
You best keep it in the ground
The Sydney Morning Herald National – The case that split the nation
Watson and Crick describe structure of DNA 1953
“Linnaean”, not linear (sorry I spelt it different ways)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnaean_taxonomy
Darwin certainly was Linnaean.
Here is a more considered and more widely googled hypothesis as to why there have been no primate fossils found in Australia. In short, we evolved from kangaroos not apes. Apes evolved from kangaroos too, but not in Australia.
I write this not to convince you of its probability but to offer a logical, scientific challenge to the out of Africa assumption and Linnaean genus classification as a definition of humanness and human ancestry.
According to DNA research, primates diverged from marsupials about 85 million years ago. (the oldest primate fossils are about 50 million) At this time Gondwana was breaking up and Australia was connected to antarctica which was connected to South America and Africa.
Marsupials have been in Australia for over 100 million years.
The dominant theory of Australian Marsupials appears to be “out of South America”, via antarctica which I also dispute and suggest it is the other way around, but that is another story and I will accept the consensus for now. The point is, Marsupials travelled between Australia and the other continents before the emergence of primates.
The hypothesis that we evolved from apes is based on 19th century science, the simple observation of the physical similarities between humans and apes.
21st century DNA science has identified a strong similarity between human and kangaroo genetics including large identical sections of the genetic spectrum, providing new insights into the human evolution from marsupials. (a wallaby DNA has been recently sequenced)
DNA does not mutate much, genetic mutation is a very small part of evolution. The primary force of evolution is environmental changes that (through natural selection of course) causes pre-existing dormant genes to awaken and irrelevant or dysfunctional genes to turn off. This is why there is such a strong genetic correlation in all animals – most of the difference is a matter of genetic software, not hardware.
If marsupials can turn into primates in Africa, why cant they turn into primates in Australia in the same timeframe too?
Or, what if marsupials did turn into primates (or post-marsupial-proto-primates) in Australia, some of whom followed the Marsupial tracks through antarctica and South America to Africa where they evolved, from the same genetic blueprint adapting to different environments and circumstances, into apes and humans?
Now, obviously this hypothesis lacks weight without evidence of the missing link. The ape hypothesis suffers exactly the same lightness.
What more evidence for ape ancestry is there than for kangaroo?
(If a missing link of any sort is ever found it will come through DNA research not superficial observations such as measuring skulls as per Linnean taxonomy.)
The 'Missing' Link | July 12, 2015 at 7:56 pm | Reply
“In short, we evolved from kangaroos not apes.”
I wonder what aboriginal dreaming stories say about that?
Regardless of how aboriginal people got here, there is one thing not in dispute, when the aboriginal woman in the screen print (see article above) says you are on aboriginal land, she means you are on her land.
Her land is defined, it is not vague; she knows which trees and which streams fall on her land. When she says that she does not want a nuclear waste dump on her land like Dianne Stokes did at Mukaty, her claim carries weight.
Diane Stokes convinced most of her people that ‘a rent’ of 11 million dollars would not pay for the damage done to the land near Tennant Creek. Dianne told me that she did not wish to be the granddaughter who gave Manuwangku land away. When science minister, Brendan Nelson M.P., claimed the site at Mukaty was in the “middle of nowhere”, he showed his ignorance of how strong Warlmanpa and Warumungu connection to that land was.
So strong was the connection to that land, they fought for 7 years to save it from being a waste dump.
It was Warlmanpa and Warumungu who made sure the gas pipeline was fixed after an earthquake occurred near Tennant Creek. It was Warlmanpa and Warumungu who, after long consultation, had allowed the gas pipeline in exchange for jobs and money.
So when the Northern Land council lawyers tried to convince Warlmanpa and Warumungu to accept the nuclear dump, the women rolled 44 gallon drums onto the highway and painted them up like this:
The Mukaty fight joined others into the fight, but it could not be subsumed under the notion of ‘aboriginal land’ and so when neighbouring clans who had no direct claim to Mukaty signed the deal, that the Northern Land Council wanted, it was null and void.
So when the federal court judge and the Commonwealth came to Mukaty and saw Dianne Stokes living on her land and protecting it, and how much support she had built up over 7 years, they realised how baseless the contract signed for the nuclear dump was.
The judge ordered that the case be dropped and the Commonwealth withdrew.
I tell this story, so we can understand how colonisation using torrens title has weakness in the face of people who were not dispossessed and still have culture, language and who know who they are … and how aboriginal connection to land is still powerful and strong.
When Dianne came and stayed at our house, she was teaching her daughter-in-law language, she had been to China to study medicines and to Mexico to learn about indigenous struggles there and knows more than most about the world at large. But her commitment to her grandfather’s land is unshakeable.
The Commonwealth even took her to Lucas Heights Nuclear facility in Sydney and tried to convince her how safe nuclear is. Dianne told the scientists: “If it is so safe, why don’t you keep it.” When the Commonwealth tried to buy her off with $11 million and the lawyers tried to bully her, she said: “$11M is a lot of money, but you know what, you can shove it up your arses!”
No rent can pay for land never ceded.
p.p.s. there was never a land bridge to Asia, only to Papua. The space is two continents colliding.
Albert Einstein in “Relativity” –
“Since there exists in this four dimensional structure [space-time] no longer any sections which represent “now” objectively, the concepts of happening and becoming are indeed not completely suspended, but yet complicated. It appears therefore more natural to think of physical reality as a four dimensional existence, instead of, as hitherto, the evolution of a three dimensional existence.”
Albert Einstein in letter to friend Besso –
“…for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.”
What magic happened to suddenly make the hominid a human as distinct from their ancestors who, according to your framework, were not human?
There was of course no magical transformation. The assumed transformation is simply a product of Linnean taxonomy – an arbitrary and ideologically motivated classification that defines the species – a cultural myth.
If we are to look at humans as spiritual beings, when and where did the human spirit begin? With the hominids? at the beginning of the first single cell? or even eons before that?
Aboriginal notions of history are based on dreaming consciousness that sees humans as spiritual beings and time as an illusion. The difference between this perspective and western science that defines humans by taxonomy and time by calibration, is not just a matter of mutual tolerance of diverse belief. The assertion of scientific ideology as fact against Aboriginal so-called belief, even (or especially) by white supporters, is itself a key dynamic of cultural genocide – it assumes the supremacy of white modes of knowledge. Western science, in particular Linnean taxonomy and social Darwinism are pillars of the ideology and power structure of white supremacy – they are the mythology that subconsciously justifies it all.
The dreaming is central to Aboriginal politics, economy, law, psychology, education, health and so on, the dreaming is the fabric of Aboriginal relationship. The difference between it and Western science is not an argument of interpretation of facts but an existential clash of world views in the context of an imperial war, part of what I referred to earlier when I said – “ The essential problem of migrant society is that it is disconnected, separated and self excluded from the fabric of Aboriginal relationships – it is at its core alien to and alienated from the whole paradigm of Aboriginal people, land and spirit. That is the problem, not just overdue property fees.”
Common humanity ... | July 12, 2015 at 11:23 am | Reply
The thing that aboriginal people and non-aboriginal people have in common is their humanity. I reject the notion of an existential clash of civilizations. For example, I think the story of the coming in the boats as depicted in the aboriginal cave drawings and the science are in accord. There was no land bridge, i agree. I thought I had made that clear. I’m not wanting to get caught up in a detailed scientific discussion. i am not sufficiently versed in aboriginal dreamtime nor in scientific theories to do that. However I do accept the concept of evolution as put forward by charles darwin. His theory is anything but linear. Taxonomy played an important part in developing theory of the origin of species. Unlike the american behaviorists I accept the notion of human consciousness. Aboriginal notions of the spirit, i think, are not dissimilar to consciousness. I do not think that science and mathematics had its origins in the west. Who invented the idea or concept of 0? Was it europeans? No. That concept came from india. The whole idea of modern accounting was only possible because of this concept. Modern day iraqis claim that mathematics itself came from mesopotamia not from europe. More later …
Current theory ... | July 11, 2015 at 7:02 pm | Reply
“Humanity is older than scientific instruments can measure”
If you look at list of fossils relating to human evolution, they date back 6 – 7 million years.
The earliest human-like (hominids) fossils came from places in Africa like Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. They date back to the late miocene (means earlier) and pliocene (means later) periods which is about 7 million years ago depending on what kind of calendar you use.
My current theory, for what it is worth, is that a rift valley formed around Ethiopia and became the cradle of humankind. Pre-humans came down from the trees and walked on two legs across the savannah (Homo Erectus). This happened millions of years ago.
These pre-hominids learnt how to use stone for tools and how to make fire and became (Homo Sapiens). They spread southwards and northwards from Africa to Asia Minor creating human societies and civilization long documented in places like Mesopotamia (Iraq), Palestine, and Persia.
They developed language and mathematics and art. They spread east to Asia and west to Europe (my theory is not really European). I think Peking man came from the same line not a separate one … note that the fossils of Peking man were lost in World War II.
The earliest remains of humans in Australia (near Lake Mungo in NSW) date back 40 – 50 thousand years. I think the version given by some aboriginal people that they came here from Asia walking across the land bridge and navigating via boats is a possible scenario to explain the coming of humans (the lack of apes in China and Australia makes me doubt that humans evolved separately in those places). I have always been struck by the similarities of aboriginal people to people from the sub-continent but this is only an observation not a claim of genetic relationship.
Over a very long period people had managed to come a very long way to an ancient and harsh land populated by marsupials (mammals who rear young in a pouch) not primates. Famously the megafauna were still here when these people arrived. The survival of aboriginal people through the last ice by living in caves and by the use of fire is a remarkable achievement.
You suggested I ask my aboriginal friends about their beliefs … and, of course, we have discussed this many times. Many have dreamtime stories that are not consistent with what I have just said. It may strike people as strange but I accept and respect their dreamtime stories as I think my aboriginal friends respect my version.
Some of these stories reject evolution in favour of creation. I respect that too even though I was trained in science and evolution [When I won the prize for religious knowledge in Grade 9 at St Joseph’s College, the Brothers gave me a book called “The Wonders of Science”]. Somewhere within all of these stories lie seeds of who we are and where we come from. This is important to know and to try to find out cos I think it is wrong to deny our common humanity and that even enemies in war will reach out to each other on the basis of it. It is our common humanity that makes a better world possible during the political struggle ahead.
But the Warumpi band say it better than me …
An interesting question I had never considered before.
Firstly, the theory of evolution does not dictate that humans evolved from apes. There has been no fossil evidence at all of this (the missing link). I note that early social Darwinists considered Aboriginal people to be the missing link.
The theory of evolution also allows for the possibility that apes and humans both separately evolved from a common ancestor.
Therefore, in hypothetical rhetorical response to your fascinating question – if the common ancestor was in Gondwana when Africa and Australia were still the same land mass, or even earlier in Pangaea, the separation of Africa and Australia in the breakup of Gondwana would explain the absence of ape fossils without negating the ancestral connection of humans and apes.
But then, it could also be that apes evolved from humans?
However a quick google of the matter has lead me to the following wikipedia info –
“There are no fossils known that can be directly linked to the living African apes, nor any that could be considered representative of the last common ancestor between them and humans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fossil_primates
It seems there is no ape fossil link in Africa either.
Ask your Aboriginal friends if they think they came here by boat or have always been here.
I didn’t say anything about creationism. My own opinion is that humans have been migrating for millions of years, in response to climate change.
During the various ice ages with the continents in their present configuration – Africa, South America and Australia remained habitable during the ice ages. As climate cooled the migration was towards the equator, as it warmed and populations grew the migration reversed away from the equator. There was relative stability in Africa and Australia (taking into account local migrations due to rising oceans and inland seas).
Evolution theory suggests that human ancestry in some form must go back to Pangaea and Gondwana where Africa and Australia were connected – where else could we have come from, according to the theory? Migrations in the last 100,000 years, such as the migration from Africa to Europe (where there were already Neanderthal humans) give no indication of a genesis point, they are just the most recent part of the journey for some of the people.
Humanity is older than the scientists’ instruments can measure.
Why no primate fossils in Australia? | July 11, 2015 at 10:13 am | Reply
If Humans evolved from Apes.
So if humans came from Australia (Gondwana), how do you explain the absence of primate fossils in Australia?
'Not a protagonist of any theory of how aboriginal people got here ...' | July 11, 2015 at 4:39 am | Reply
A quick note … you raise some interesting questions.
I did not intend any comparison between imperial property acquisition and aboriginal land acquisition. And I do not subscribe to anthropologists views of aboriginal people. Nor am I a protagonist of any theory of how aboriginal people got here, I merely quoted a story that came not from one cave nor one source, it is a version of history repeated by many.
I think the jury is out on how aboriginal people got here.
But I think it unlikely that humans evolved separately in different places and at different times.
Nor do I subscribe to creationism. I think people should be wary of dismissing the theory of arrival by boats. In doing so, people may be dismissing the possibility of an even greater story of courage, perseverance and survival.
To get some idea where I am coming from about land management and control, I include below a quote from Bill Gammage in his book, ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth’. In case readers are not aware, Edward Curr is one of my ancestors.
Ian Curr
“The chief ally was fire.
Today almost everyone accepts that in 1788 people burnt random patches to hunt or lure game. In fact this was no haphazard mosaic making, but a planned, precise, fine-grained local caring. Random fire simply moves people’s guesses about game around the country. Effective burning, on the other hand, must be predictable.
People needed to burn and not burn, and to plan and space fires appropriately. Of course how a pattern was made varied according to terrain and climate: heath, rainforest and Spinifex each require different fire. Yet in each the several purposes of fire remained essentially the same. A plant needs fire to seed, an animal likes a forest edge, a man wants to make a clearing. Means were local, ends were universal. Successfully managing such diverse material was an impressive achievement; making from it a single estate was a breathtaking leap of imagination.
Edward Curr glimpsed this. Born in Hobart in 1820, pioneer squatter on the Murray, he knew people who kept their old customs and values, and he studied them and their country closely in the decades of their dispossession. After 42 years in Victoria he wrote, ‘it may perhaps be doubted whether any section of the human race has exercised a greater influence on the physical condition of any large portion of the globe than the wandering savages of Australia’.
He knew that linking ‘wandering savages’ to an unmatched impact on the land startlingly contradicted everything Europeans thought about ‘primitive’ people. He deliberately defied a European convention that wanderers barely touched the land, and were playthings of nature.Some researchers still think this.
They give ground grudgingly on whether Aborigines altered the land. They argue or assume that nature alone made the 1788 landscape, perhaps via lightning fires.
There is no evidence that lightning caused most bushfires in 1788, nor that it could shape plant communities so curiously and invariably as to exclude human fire impacts. Today lightning fire estimates vary from 0.01 per cent in western Tasmania to 30 per cent in Victoria, the latter an over estimate compared to 7–8 per cent for southern Australia and at most 18 per cent in the north. Only for western Queensland (80 per cent) does any researcher think lightning the major cause of fire.
Today’s ‘relatively low frequency of lightning strikes in Australia’ was even lower in 1788, because people lit so many fires then, leaving less fuel for lightning to ignite. If lightning fire distributed Australia’s plants, outside towns and farms the distribution pattern should be similar now and in 1788. It is not.
Firstly, the out of Africa theory is falling apart as archaeologists and their developing technologies find older and older societies in Australia and Asia. The consensus now is that there must have been some earlier migrations from Africa to explain the new data. It seems obvious to me that either a) humans migrated out of Australia or b) the human species has more than one genesis point or c) human migrations across the globe have been occurring for much longer than the last age, are equally valid theories – scientifically speaking. The out of Africa theory is firmly rooted in ideology – social Darwinism, not science.
I understand there are some Aboriginal stories about boat arrivals and a recent TV show featuring a cave with such a painting but most creation stories say people either came here from the stars or came from within the earth itself. This dominant Aboriginal perspective clashes with the “out of Africa” myth and is too often ignored in favour of the “we are all boat people” myth.
You cannot compare Aboriginal land rights to imperial/colonial property rights as if they were both similar manifestations of the same human condition rooted in the same African exodus. For a start, all imperial/colonial property rights were created through wars of invasion. Aboriginal land rights were not.
The fences and lines on maps of imperial/colonial property rights represent exclusions, separations and distinctions. Aboriginal land rights, defined by song-lines not map-lines, represents inclusion, connection and relationship. In broad terms, the line between one tribal area and another does not separate the tribes but connects them (even if sometimes in war but the wars were not territorial, the wars were about other business). The complexities of blood lines – 2 or more parents, 4 or more grandparents, 8 or more great grandparents – and so on till the limits of ancestral memory, means that each individual has a broad fabric of ancestral connections to many places that weaves in and out of other individual’s ancestral connections and places. The moiety or “skin” system weaves in and out of the bloodlines, connecting them and their diverse land connections to each other.
The notion of “tribe” is a European anthropological invention – a classification of Linnaean taxonomy. Property rights based on anthropological notions of tribe, such as Native Title, are illusions of invader consciousness. The reality is extended family and the family extends across the continent.
The essential problem of migrant society is that it is disconnected, separated and self excluded from the fabric of Aboriginal relationships – it is at its core alien to and alienated from the whole paradigm of Aboriginal people, land and spirit. That is the problem, not just overdue property fees.
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* Par. 39 / 63: Display for how long log events are kept when advanced reporting is used rather than relying on site admin to keep that info up to date in the T&C manually.
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** When user logs in for the first time, they should probably get a pop-up telling them that their profile page is visible by either only their institution or the entire site and what that means. That would be more explicit than having that in the T&C. Though initially, we could probably put that explicitely into the T&C that they accept.
** When user logs in for the first time, they should probably get a pop-up telling them that their profile page is visible by either only their institution or the entire site and what that means. That would be more explicit than having that in the T&C. Though initially, we could probably put that explicitly into the T&C that they accept.
** We have the possibility to retain the access to a copy of a portfolio when that option is ticked in the sharing options. Right now we don't inform the user who copies the portfolio about that. We should put a notice on the page when the copying is done to let the user know of this fact so they are not surprised when they go to the sharing screen and see it. Something like: ** ** Your portfolio has been shared automatically with “...” as per the copying options. You can change the access permissions. [link “change the access permissions” to the sharing screen specifically for this portfolio rather than the “Shared by me” overview screen]
** Remove gender, marital status and visa as resume fields as they are not needed. Rather have the possibility to set up custom resume / profile fields.
** Make it possible for fields to be hidden entirely in the profile rather than just greying them out when they are locked.
** Big change as connection to other provider (needs more analysis into feasibility and ease of use or if simple Leap2A would be sufficient): Transfer a portfolio from one Mahara site to another directly (par. 68).
* Review account creation process as [https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=8097&offset=10&limit=10#post32652 per discussion].
=Look into and make decision for going forward=
* Recording of user agents (UA) could be an issue: User-agent is a complicated one, because it looks like it isn't personal data, but it's possible that it could become so. The definition is essentially, 'can you identify a person from this data' - and while it's far less common than it used to be, browsers do sometimes insert extensions' names into the user agent. Combinations of these could potentially be unique to an individual's account on a computer. This is firmly in theoretical territory though because nothing that could be found suggests UA is considered personal anywhere, but a lot of the discussions about it qualify that with 'yet'.
* Under age people registering: Initially, this can be handled by an institution using an external auth method or manually creating accounts rather than allowing self-registration. Since a Mahara instance can be set up for one institution only, only they could gain access. We don't have any legal ways to verify the age of a person performing self-registration and would need to believe the data they enter.
Some more links:
* [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/smedataprotect/index_en.htm Data protection - Better rules for small businesses]
* [https://www.nzte.govt.nz/about/news/news-and-features/new-european-data-privacy-rule-could-cost-4-of-turnover NZTE: New European data privacy rule could cost 4% of turnover]
Discussion forum thread for the GDPR
Blueprint on Launchpad that collects all related bugs in one place.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is going into effect in Europe on 25 May 2018. It's a regulation and thus organizations need to adhere to it.
1 Non-technical considerations for the privacy statement template
2 Must do technical changes
3 Nice-to-have technical changes
4 Look into and make decision for going forward
Non-technical considerations for the privacy statement template
Here are a few items that will need to be reviewed and potentially some sample content written for an updated privacy statement template.
Institutions will need to have institution specific wording which covers how they see/implement data protection compliance; not every institution has the same requirements.
Time limits for keeping data: It should be stated in the privacy statement for how long backups are kept and assessment data if portfolios are submitted for evaluation purposes and an institution needs to keep that data as well as log files that are used for reporting purposes.
Data being processed for analytics purposes and internal reporting: the student should be made aware that their data will be included in analytics, whether it's a separate consent depends mostly on what exactly will be done (kept with the controller / given to third parties, and whether data is anonymised on some level or not).
Keeping logs of user activity for reporting purposes (currently, we can't exclude individuals from logging and an institution could argue that students shouldn't be able to opt out as the institution can't perform its work properly in supporting students).
Integration points so users know from where other data of theirs is coming from or going to. The simplest cases and most frequent cases here are SSO and LTI.
Purpose(s) of the data processing and who's doing it (see Par. 39 and others).
Where is data hosted.
Recital 48 - this is something that would be sorted out between the institution (as controller) and the provider (as processor) and should be declared as part of the consent declaration. In theory a UK university using Catalyst EU to manage hosting on AWS should declare all three. Whether this will happen in practice is not clear, but it's not really Mahara's problem provided the administrator can write an appropriate declaration/privacy statement.
Contact person in the EU.
Plain language in the T&C and privacy statement rather than legalise.
Must do technical changes
Bug 1734166 Need to re-think the possibility for institutions to have their own T&C and privacy statements since they are still part of the wider site, site admins can also run reports, and institutions can't decide which reports to make available or not. Rather than allowing institutions to fully overwrite the T&C and privacy statement, allow them to add additional information to an existing statement. That way they can add more institution-specific information without removing site information. Since the privacy statement is what the GDPR is concerned about most, we'll make the changes there and T&C can come at a later stage if we don't manage to get that change in for the 18.04 release.
Bug 1734169 Explicit consent checkbox / Yes/No switch.
Bug 1734171 Revoke consent.
Bug 1734178 It needs to be possible for anybody to delete their account, no matter whether registration is allowed on the site or not. Institutions may want to review the deletion though just in case they need to keep anything or the user had previously agreed that certain data can be kept.
Par. 32:
Bug 1734166 Re-order where T&C are stated during registration. Currently, it's below the “Register” button, which encourages people not to read them. We should have registration details, T&C text, then the agreement radio button and only then the “Register” button.
Bug 1734169 We also need a separate consent button besides the T&C agreement checkbox / Yes-No switch, i.e. we need the consent for the privacy statement.
Bug 1734174 People coming via external authentication or having accounts created will also need to be able to accept the privacy statement.
Bug 1734174 It should be possible to re-trigger the privacy statement acceptance, e.g. when they changed. This could be done via a DB command in the beginning, but more comfortable would be an admin setting. If institutions can have their own privacy statement, they would need to be able to re-trigger acceptance just for their institution.
Bug 1734182 Keep previous versions of the consented privacy statement and make these available to both user and admin.
Nice to have: Inform people a week or more in advance of the upcoming changes. This can be done via announcement on homepage and dashboard. -> No change needed at this stage.
Bug 1734169 Theoretically, it should be possible for a user to consent to different sorts of data that are kept and opt out of others, .e.g. accept that data is displayed in Mahara but not consent to the keeping of log files for reporting purposes. However, that is rather complicated and also does not conform with institution requirements to support the student in their learning and thus gather data. For the time being, users wouldn't be able to opt out of certain data types. However, our technical implementation should allow for that, i.e. create the consent section in such a way that we could add more fields later on if needed. We might already need that anyway for multi-tenancy:
Agree to the site T&C and privacy statement.
Agree to additional institution T&C and privacy statement (where applicable).
Consent to the data processing on the site.
Consent to an institution utilizing the data and having it processed.
Bug 1734188 Par. 32: Have an admin report (column in the user overview report) that shows when a user last accepted the privacy statement (applicable to their institution) and link to the relevant privacy statement that they agreed to. Initially, it could be sufficient to require everyone (new and existing users) to accept the privacy statement or they'll not be allowed into their account.
Bug 1734186 Par. 59: Need to check what data we keep when a user account is deleted. We know that the username and email address get a “deleted' and a hash appended, but it's still possible to deduce the previous information. This needs to be fully pseudonymised, i.e. a complete hash rather than keeping anything of the previous username and email address. We can't completely delete the record as it is still needed for group content (which still needs decisions).
Nice-to-have technical changes
Blueprint for additional changes.
Versioning of the T&C similarly to the privacy statement.
Keep a log of which admin (site and institution) made what changes in the site and institution settings.
If the deletion of forum posts and other group artefacts created by a user should be allowed (institution setting), we'd need a placeholder like we have right now that says “Deleted by the owner” or if an account is entirely deleted “Account was deleted” (when an artefact / portfolio is missing). YouTube does that for example when media was deleted. It's not removing it quietly but showing you that it was deleted. Same should be done with files and journal entries that appear in pages so it's clear that there used to be content at some point.
Before group content is deleted though, it might be good to have it in a pending state so that the group admin can review the request to prevent students deleting content that they shouldn't because other group members still need it or where the content has proper license that allows re-use for example. Comment: The definition of 'personal data to be deleted' is quite vague because exactly what 'personal data' is, is defined by a data controller in practice. There are also arguments supporting preservation of data that is group content on the basis of not infringing on the rights of others, but collaborative works are not really covered in the GDPR on any level. Giving an administrator the choice to delete or not delete would provide suitable functionality from Mahara's perspective.
Page where user can see info about all of their group activities, i.e. forum posts, file uploads, journal entries, group page / collection, journal entries, comments, annotation feedback with direct link to these. Info should include:
Artefact type
Maybe even possibility for bulk delete
Par. 39 / 63: Display for how long log events are kept when advanced reporting is used rather than relying on site admin to keep that info up to date in the T&C manually.
When user logs in for the first time, they should probably get a pop-up telling them that their profile page is visible by either only their institution or the entire site and what that means. That would be more explicit than having that in the T&C. Though initially, we could probably put that explicitly into the T&C that they accept.
We have the possibility to retain the access to a copy of a portfolio when that option is ticked in the sharing options. Right now we don't inform the user who copies the portfolio about that. We should put a notice on the page when the copying is done to let the user know of this fact so they are not surprised when they go to the sharing screen and see it. Something like: ** ** Your portfolio has been shared automatically with “...” as per the copying options. You can change the access permissions. [link “change the access permissions” to the sharing screen specifically for this portfolio rather than the “Shared by me” overview screen]
Remove gender, marital status and visa as resume fields as they are not needed. Rather have the possibility to set up custom resume / profile fields.
Make it possible for fields to be hidden entirely in the profile rather than just greying them out when they are locked.
Big change as connection to other provider (needs more analysis into feasibility and ease of use or if simple Leap2A would be sufficient): Transfer a portfolio from one Mahara site to another directly (par. 68).
Review account creation process as per discussion.
Look into and make decision for going forward
Q: Do we keep the IP address only in the access and error logs or also in the database? A: Only in the access / error logs unless someone reveals their own IP address in an artefact or forum post.
Recording of user agents (UA) could be an issue: User-agent is a complicated one, because it looks like it isn't personal data, but it's possible that it could become so. The definition is essentially, 'can you identify a person from this data' - and while it's far less common than it used to be, browsers do sometimes insert extensions' names into the user agent. Combinations of these could potentially be unique to an individual's account on a computer. This is firmly in theoretical territory though because nothing that could be found suggests UA is considered personal anywhere, but a lot of the discussions about it qualify that with 'yet'.
Under age people registering: Initially, this can be handled by an institution using an external auth method or manually creating accounts rather than allowing self-registration. Since a Mahara instance can be set up for one institution only, only they could gain access. We don't have any legal ways to verify the age of a person performing self-registration and would need to believe the data they enter.
Data protection - Better rules for small businesses
NZTE: New European data privacy rule could cost 4% of turnover
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Wott's Up With That?
A response to Climate Change disinformation at wattsupwiththat.com
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers
Posted on 2012/08/02 by Ben
“Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers” (2012-07-31). “In case you missed it”, Anthony Watts wants you to know that someone important is singing the praises of his submitted paper manuscript final draft “discussion paper”. Occasional collaborator Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., who has spent years declaring with a straight face that Anthony “is devoted to the highest level of scientific robustness”, still thinks that every time Anthony flaps his trap he educates the world.
It’s a game changer! Yes, but what’s the game?
Pielke Sr. started backing away within a day: “To be very specific, I did not play a role in their data analysis. [Anthony] sent me the near final version of the discussion paper and I recommended added text and references.” He tries hard to maintain BFF status though: “Anthony Watts clearly understands the research process in climate science.” This like telling someone they’re not fat, just “big-boned”.
But surely co-author and obsessive skeptic Steve McIntyre will back Anthony unequivocally? Nope:
Anthony sent me his draft paper. In his cover email, he said that the people who had offered to do statistical analysis hadn’t done so (each for valid reasons). So I did some analysis very quickly, which Anthony incorporated in the paper and made me a coauthor though my contribution was very last minute and limited. I haven’t parsed the rest of the paper.
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40 thoughts on “Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers”
Dennis on 2012/08/02 at 9:25 AM said:
It’s been fun to read all the scientific commentary over Anthony’s paper. I wonder if he’ll consider any scientists as his friends after all the dust settles on this.
[The list of people who are dead to Anthony is a long one and growing. – Ben]
Ooland on 2012/08/03 at 1:04 AM said:
So who’s on that list Ben?
[Pretty much anyone that changed their mind. Dr. Muller is the classic example, going from revered to hated because he followed the evidence. Steve Mosher’s another semi-turncoat who has gone from touted poster to disdained commenter for the same sin. – Ben]
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Shelama Leesen on 2012/08/02 at 1:19 PM said:
There’s an interesting new addition this morning to Pielke’s recent string of posts on “game changer” papers: http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/more-on-the-best-ncdc-cru-and-giss-analyses-of-multi-decadal-land-surface-temperature-trends/
Marco on 2012/08/02 at 2:15 PM said:
Interesting? It’s the usual “but this paper is really important! [insert self-citation]” and handwaving.
[I detect a trace preparing the ground for a face-saving withdrawal from the subject: Anthony may end up accidentally proving there’s no bias… – Ben]
Actually, Marco, in the post Pielke also admits that:
“The inclusion of the TOB may eliminate the differences in trends in the means, maximum and minimum temperatures between well- and poorly-sited locations. Or it might just eliminate the differences in one or two of these temperature measures. If it eliminates all of them, the Watts et al 2012 study remains a game changer, as it would confirm (from a skeptical source) that the BEST. NCDC, GISS and CRU assumption that siting quality does not matter is robust. This is not the “game changer” that we expected, but if that is what the science tells us, you accept it. Coming from the detailed, thorough analysis that Anthony is leading, this would be a definitive result.”
[So much pondering from Pielke and so little thinking! – Ben]
I thought it at least interesting since, as far as I know, Pielke still stands in support of Spencer & Braswell 2011.
Personally, I’d prefer to see more actual engagement of Pielke on the science. A little, occasionally, on RealClimate and more often on SkS but I’d like to see a continually updated “Pielke Watch.” Barring that, I’m guessing that Watts will go down in flames on this one, taking Pielke down a bit too.
More interesting than Pielke is your snippet from Steve McIntyre. If I read it right, Watts was desperate for statistical analysis and is now submitting with perhaps only some quick statistics from from McIntyre.
I know he admits that, but just before that he was touting the McNider paper, claiming some kind of potential problem with measurement height. “Game-changer”, right…
And he still manages to follow that section you quote with a sneer at the scientists who actually already know there is a Tobs that has an effect, that know that siting has an effect (there is a reason they were working on a new network), that know that homogenization is a necessity, etc.
BillD on 2012/08/02 at 8:55 PM said:
As a scientist, I cannot imagine being inserted as a co-author on a paper that I had hardly read and for which I had only some last minute analysis and critique. It would not help that the first author has essentially no scientific/academic credentials.
[For all his squirming McIntyre seems okay with it actually. – Ben]
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Heystoopidone on 2012/08/09 at 7:03 PM said:
Hi Ben.
Spotted by way of “Lotharsson” on Deltoid Science blog and again reproduced by the wiley rabbit “Eli”.
Non Sequitur, sequence of cartoons sums up nicely the denialati science of pure nonsense:
Link 1: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/06/06
Link 3: http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2005/06/10/
Or, as a group of Australian Research Scientists would say, in this rap song (clean version), released on May 13th, 2011.
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” Winston Churchill
Chris Smith on 2012/08/13 at 6:20 PM said:
I know that sometimes we jest, but this is a serious question and I just want an honest and serious response from you without any of the character assassination etc…
apparently-goverenor-brown-youve-never-visited-the-weather-station-at-lake-tahoe
Do you agree with Anthony that the data *for that particular station* has been biased by its location right next to that fire bin and/or tennis court?
Can you post data from close by (with pictures of the stations to illustrate that the location is better) which contains similar rises in temperature?
Christopher.
[“goverenor-brown”, huh? To think Anthony has the brass to tweak the noses of others about quality control… Surprisingly, Lake Tahoe is the only weather station in the world for which I don’t have complete historical/geospatial records. Seriously, get a life. How often do you think that trash barrel is ignited? Please give me your estimate in hours per month, broken into five year divisions and by season. Then we can have the deep discussion you’re itching for. – Ben]
Chris Smith on 2012/08/14 at 1:20 AM said:
I reckon it is on fire most of the time given the temperature readings of the thermometer which is next to it. Can show that the readings are higher due to some other factor – such as Global Warming, by posting data from other thermometers in the area which are not next to a fire bin.
Can’t you use some of your contacts to get the data for that region?
dada on 2012/08/15 at 8:33 AM said:
Even if it is on fire most of the time, it is a no-brainer that the *rate* of temperature increase over the years, and not the actual temperature, is insensitive to it. I suppose you are clueless about why data homogenizations are needed when compiling the overall US temperature trends from individual weather stations? But then brains do not exactly come to mind when thinking of high-school graduate Anthony, does it? By using a photo he thinks he can hide his agenda of trying to undermine the science/facts.
Ah, where would Anthony be without the sycophant followers like you? Birds of no-brains flock together, don’t they?
Louise on 2012/08/15 at 2:16 PM said:
It is unlikely that it is ever lit in its current position – it’s standing on a wooden pallet for flips sake!
@dada Well if that is true then Ben won’t mind posting the data from other stations in the area along with evidence that they are not next to a source of heat. That way he will have shown evidence contradicting what Anthony wrote rather than just brushing it off with the usual slurs.
Keep your personal insults and prejudice to your self please. They have no place in a scientific discussion and have no impact on me.
[You still haven’t provided your estimate of trash barrel burn time in hours per month, broken into five year divisions and by season that I requested. What are YOU hiding? – Ben]
vrooomie on 2012/10/18 at 2:23 PM said:
“What are YOU hiding?
Lack of training? An agenda? No data? Trick question, Ben?
>;-)”
Marco on 2012/08/16 at 2:15 AM said:
OK, Chris, let’s have a scientific discussion. Let me start that discussion with a few questions, several of which may be leading:
Can you come with a reasonable estimate how many times that fire bin would be used? Once a day? Once a week? Once a month?
If Anthony is right that paper is burned in that fire bin, can you come with a reasonable estimate as to how warm that fire bin would become?
How long would that fire bin have to burn to have a noticable influence on the temperature recorded by the weather station?
Feel free to start with question 2 + 3. You can even do an experiment: take some papers, put them into a pan, and burn it (please do so outside!). Then stand at different distances and “feel the heat”.
After all that, you may not even need to answer question 1…
“It is unlikely that it is ever lit in its current position – it’s standing on a wooden pallet for flips sake!” – another rip roaring scientific analysis of the data proves AGW!
Just post the data already! Anthony says that the bin biased the data. You say it didn’t. Just post the data which proves your point. If the other stations do not contain a fire bin near the thermometer and are not placed near a heat island and they show similar warming then you will have shown some evidence that there was a warming which completely discounts Anthony’s objection. I mean, duh! It is pretty simple.
[Always demanding that we do something that you can do for yourself if you weren’t so enthralled with the sound of your own voice. Here’s a tip: Anthony’s the one who’s making the claim of bad data, its up to him to defend it. – Ben]
@Chris Now we have to even pretend that you are interested in a “scientific” discussion, do we? And that too even after I gave you the answers, which didn’t get through because Anthony and his sycophants like you live in an alternate reality. Just in case you have missed them, here they are again:
the *rate* of temperature increase over decades – after all we are interested in the rate – is insensitive to the trash burner, although the absolute temperature value may be.
There is an incredible amount of peer-reviewed literature on data homogenization around – how to combine temperature records from various sites, go dig that before you swallow the global conspiracy theory on cherry-picking and data-fudging by climate scientists.
Evidently you are not interested in them, as your favorite hobby seems to be going around the bloglands and then trolling the science – easily done from behind a computer, and requires little training and background.
“Scientific” discussion, what an audacity! Grow up, find how data homogenization is done for yourself before you come back for a scientific discussion – don’t be a crybaby and expect others to find things out for you.
Marco on 2012/08/16 at 12:31 PM said:
Chris, in a scientific discussion you need to provide evidence for your claims. Anthony Watts provides no evidence, he merely states his belief that something is present. That’s not science, and hence not worthy of a scientific discussion.
Also, history has shown that on most cases that Anthony Watts held a belief in the field of climate change, he was wrong. The most obvious example being his continuous attempt to claim there is spurious warming in the surface record. He even went as far as doing one of the most unscientific things ever: ignoring KNOWN biases, not correcting for them, and follow that analysis with false claims about spurious warming introduced by the correction procedures. A rational person, one capable of having a scientific discussion, would have been much, much, much more skeptical of anything Anthony Watts says. You are not a rational person.
Chris Smith on 2012/08/17 at 11:23 PM said:
@Marco “Feel free to start with question 2 + 3”. There is no data available to answer those questions.
But you could show the data for other stations close-by which are not next to a fire-bin or other source of UHI. If they have the same temperature rise then Anthony cannot claim that the temperature rise is due to the fire-bin or UHI.
It seems like the ideal post for Ben to write on his website. He could even go as far as writing it in a mature manner without the usual personal attacks and insults.
It’s pretty stunning the reception that somebody gets for saying, hey, Anthony claims XYZ. Here is a way to show he is wrong, which is easy for somebody who has all of the data in the correct format (aka you guys). It is incredible how spiteful Ben and co get against anybody not sharing their belief system. But that is your choice to behave that way.
The simplest “debunking” is not to examine the details of the fire-bin but to show the data from other stations close by which do not suffer from UHI or a fire-bin. Don’t you agree, Marco? I mean, if you had a Ph.D. student who was setting out to investigate the “fire-bin effect” at this station, would your first advice be “go and learn about the fire-bin” or would it be “compare the data from that station with data from other stations close-by which do not have a fire-bin”?
[Once again you tell us what we should be doing but won’t do it yourself. I don’t have to “debunk” anything until a factual claim has been made. Anthony, and by extension yourself, is the one who must prove these scattergun assertions. Until then Anthony’s just a partisan blowhard. Given Anthony’s “success” with his surface stations claims, I think he prefers that status. – Ben]
Chris, it is clear you do not have any experience with setting up scientific experiments. There are many aspects that can affect the temperature readings of a temperature station. You know, it includes the stuff Anthony Watts willfully ignored in his latest attempt to have his preconceived notions satisfied. Just comparing to nearby stations (which likely are still far away) will tell us nothing, whether they confirm the readings of Lake Tahoe or not. We’d have to dig much, much further to determine any and all possible reasons for a difference (other side of mountain, Tobs changes, change of equipment, prevailing winds, etc). Thus, if we’d find a station really nearby with a different trend, we don’t know what causes the differences, and if it is the same, it may well be an ‘accidental’ similarity.
However, it is very easy to confirm whether one of Anthony’s suggestions will have any impact: the fire bin. I proposed the experiment, but I know why you will not even try it out: deep down you KNOW it will do nothing. But you are like Anthony: come with as many as possible objections, demand people come with evidence of the absence of an impact, and if that evidence is not provided, declare the whole thing suspect.
What is and remains unscientific is to react to any and all brainfarts from Anthony Watts, considering the lack of actual scientific sound content in the vast majority of blogposts on his website. A scientist would demand Anthony Watts to come with proof of his claims, and so far he has consistently failed in the very few attempts he has made (that would be Fall et al.; Watts et al shows he could not even get the partisans to approve of his manipulation).
You “reckon?” Is that, like, post-modern science-y talk, for “I really have no data, but I don’t LIKE the idea of data anyway” remark? Really? YOU RECKON???
Do you RECKON that the few THOUSAND other t-stations around the freakin’ planet, the vast majority of which indicate a general trend upwards, *might* have some relevance? Or that BEST study, funded by the Kochtopus Brothers (devoutly hoping Muller would find “for them”), found that ~1.6 BILLION bits of data, showing the globe is warming, *might* just obviate any *possible* error, from a temperature probe you “reckon” is “on fire a lot of the time” [data, please],” if true, might not be an outlier?
“Anthony Watts provides no evidence, he merely states his belief that something is present. That’s not science, and hence not worthy of a scientific discussion.”
Well, er, not really. He shows the picture of the fire bin and tennis court next to the station (ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE DO YOU WISH TO DISPUTE IT? Are you claiming the picture is false?) and he shows the plot of the temperature readings from that station (ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE DO YOU WISH TO DISPUTE IT? Are you claiming the readings are false?). He claims there is a “jump” not a ” rate of change”.
As to when the fire-bin was alight:
“Some investigation revealed that 1980 was about the time a concrete tennis court was installed next to the surface station. According to the condo property manager that an investigator spoke to said the court was installed in the “early 80′s”, though she was not there at the time. This tennis court heats up during the day and gives up energy at night, warming the area. According the grounds keeper, he picked up trash during the day and burned it at the end of the shift, leaving a warm burn barrel to increase the night time temperatures.” (ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE [WITNESS EVIDENCE AND CONFESSION OF RUBBISH BURNER] DO YOU WISH TO DISPUTE IT? Are you claiming that he is lying about this?).
He then goes on to show data for “Starting in the late 1980s the Forest Service started installing remote automated weather stations (RAWS) well way from built up areas with potential heat sources like the Tahoe tennis court. These remote rural sites do not show any significant Sierra warming.” (ENTERED INTO EVIDENCE DO YOU WISH TO DISPUTE IT? Are you saying that these data are incorrect?].
So as you can see, Anthony provided much evidence. Which bits do you dispute? Where is your counter evidence? Where is the data form nearby stations which are not next to a fire bin which somebody says gets lit every day and is not next to a UHI source?
I mean, come on Marco! Where is *your* evidence and science here? I don’t know who is right on the issue, but you are not doing a very convincing job of debunking what he said on that page. And debunking what Anthony says is what this site is for? Right? That is why I read this site, to read a criticism of what Anthony posts on his site. So far, all I have encountered is personal attacks.
[What you consider “evidence” is nothing more than unsubstantiated assertion. – Ben]
There we go, Chris does not want to have a scientific discussion, he wants a legal discussion. Well, I can do that, too:
Tennis court installed in the 1980s: hearsay. Worse even, double hearsay: Anthony Watts telling what a woman told who had not witnessed it.
Tennis court causes spurious warming: evidence not provided, it is merely an assertion.
Fire barrel: same story – hearsay and not shown it affects the trend.
Combine that with the proven track record of Anthony Watts being wrong (aka “unreliable witness”), and even in court the issue would be waved away.
That leaves the evidence provided for ONE other station, of which the data starts well after the notable increase in the Tahoe City data, of which the location is not shown, and of which no evidence is provided that there are no potential biases in THAT station. Double fail.
Note that I do not claim anywhere that Anthony Watts is lying. I am merely pointing out that Anthony Watts has a pretty poor track record in providing evidence for his claims. Remember his years of insisting that the pictures of the poorly sited stations showed (yes, SHOWED) that there was an artifically inflated trend? That when the first person to do an analysis on those stations did not find such inflated trend, it was ignored (one apparently does not crunch the numbers, one makes assertions, and that’s it). It took Menne et al to finally make Watts do that number crunching, which he then had to outsource to John Nielsen-Gammon, and they found…what Menne et al already had found: the poorly sited stations did nothing to the trend of the average temperatures. Anthony Watts, not happy with his own data showing him wrong, then decided there MUST be something (you know, it’s physics, somehow at least, that those pictures show the trend is at least in part an artifact), and thus ignored known biases. And found what he always wanted to find: a supposedly artifactual increase in the trend. Confirmation bias rears its ugly head again, and Chris Smith cheers it on, because it nicely fits HIS confirmation bias: it ain’t warming, and if it is, it isn’t warming that fast, and even if it is, it isn’t (that) bad, and anyways, it isn’t us, and if it is us, we can’t do a darn thing about it, so there!
Well, some posts past that’s what I tried to convey about the high-school graduate Anthony Watts’ ability to do a proper calculation. No wonder he has to outsource all his number crunching – remember that in the most recent discussion masterpiece paper he had to invoke McIntyre for some last moment statistical analysis? The ignorant man is incapable of doing science, and it is most definitely worse for his sycophant cheerleaders.
Froth out nonsense faster than one can blink, in the name of “scientific” discussions, and FoI requests to “prove” conspiracy theories by climate scientists. If you throw a lot of mud, something should stick, and in any case, sow confusion. That’s all there is to WUWT.
[The burning question: is Anthony a high school graduate or a college drop-out? – Ben]
I vote for…DNFTT. It’s only a troll, it doesn’t care about truth, and it keeps spouting bullshit.
DNFTT.
adelady on 2012/08/15 at 1:59 AM said:
Well I vote we just omit the data from Lake Tahoe in all future calculations of temperature anomalies for the whole of the world.
That’ll make a difference. (Those Argo floats measuring ocean temperature will be completely overridden by somethingorother from Lake Tahoe, betcha.)
[But… Cherry Picking proves that there’s no global warming!!!!! – Ben]
That is a great idea. Do not include stations for which there is reason to suspect a bias, such as being in an urban area or next to a fire-bin. If you do that then your argument will become more robust. [Thanks for the beautiful example of ignorant perfectionism, a favorite denialist tactic for sowing confusion. This is not a planned and controlled laboratory experiment, it’s the real world where data collection procedures and environmental conditions change continuously. Ben]
Ben: That is not called cherry picking, it is called good science. If you know that there is an external bias for some of the stations then it is good science to compare the results you get by excluding those to the results you get when including them. [You’ll truculently find fault with every temperature record that doesn’t suit your goal, won’t you? Statistics; look into them. Well-applied they reduce bias while retaining the data. Your “sciencey” way is to discard data until you like the result. – Ben]
Cherry Picking would be to select, say, a certain tree ring data set which gives the result you want and designing a weighting scheme which over weights that data in order to produce the desired result. [Not sure invoking Steve McIntyre’s game-playing helps your argument. – Ben]
You are suffering from a severe case of garbage in, garbage out. More garbage in will reduce your estimated “error bars”, but all you get is a more precise measurement of garbage.
There is nothing wrong with saying, hey, many scientists object to these particular stations [Except they don’t. Denialists do for their own purposes. – Ben]. Let’s, show ’em, let’s repeat the analysis without those stations included. Sure, our naive error bars will increase because we have fewer data points, but if we are correct about the mean behaviour of the system then the AGW bias will still be part of the dataset and those objections cannot be used against our conclusions – our conclusions will be more robust, even though we used less data (because nobody can tell us the data we did use contained e.g. UHI biases so the bias must be from GW of the climate or some unknown process). [You seem to have forgotten how Anthony’s “surface stations project” tried to claim exactly that, but when only Anthony’s “best quality” stations were used the trend was exactly the same as the ‘maliciously biased’ set of stations. – Ben]
That is called good science and I would be surprised to find that a reviewer did not ask for such an analysis to be carried out (hmmm, actually, perhaps we should not be surprised given the standard of “peer” review in this field!) [Lazy ad hominem. – Ben].
What you have done is purposefully included data which you know contains an external bias unrelated to AGW and then claimed that the bias which you inevitably found is due to AWG. That is a complete no-no in Statistical Analysis. [No. The scientists are retaining as much historical data as possible. – Ben]
The fact is that it is temperature measurement 101 to not place the thermometer next to a source of heat (such as a fire bin or tarmac). What idiot put it there anyway? What the hell were they thinking? In any event you have to accept that that particular station is bad, due to the idiot who put the thermometer next to the fire bin, and ignore that data. [Good one, Einstein. You think the station was intentionally placed next to the fire barrel! Is it possible the barrel came second? The environment changed, the temperature trend was examined for introduced bias, no correction was needed. Not scientifically controversial, but a great denialist distraction. – Ben]
You do need to carry out data quality control to eliminate factors such as the UHI. That is part of the Statistical Analysis. It is called Data Selection and Quality Control.
I mean, how the hell do you think we can measure the UHI strength? Any ideas? Well here’s a thought. You could split the data into two groups and compare them. And that is all you need to do here. It is not rocket science it should be obvious to a five year old. [Which is why, Rip Van Winkle, scientists have been doing precisely that, amongst a host of valid analytical techniques, for 100 years. – Ben]
Thumbs up..for *Ben’s* “clarifications,” not the troll’s continued and tiring use of standard denialist memes. Yawn…
adelady on 2012/08/17 at 12:44 AM said:
“Do not include stations for which there is reason to suspect a bias, such as being in an urban area or next to a fire-bin.”
Or we could get all fancy and sciencey. We could check (what a concept!) whether any concerns we have show up in the data. If we find no problem, no problem! If we do find a problem we try to work out how it arose. We work it out, we work around it. No problem! We can’t work it out just now? We keep right on working.
Louise on 2012/08/18 at 3:00 AM said:
This is an excellent summary of a thread:
“Smokey, I’m not sniveling. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of complaining about climate scientists calling others a jerk, in a thread where you call someone a coward and a hater, and your mates call him a national socialist and an idiot.
It’s especially hypocritical when the insults in the thread are exactly the same as those in the emails (right down to specific words: “nit-picking.”) It’s real shoe-on-the-other-foot stuff, this is: you are laughing at climate scientists for getting “uppity” when someone “nit-picks” their work, but then when someone does exactly the same thing to an extremely bodgy analysis you like, you get really angry at them for it and use lots of rude words.”
[Beautiful. – Ben]
Rob Murphy on 2012/08/19 at 3:54 PM said:
What is particularly galling is the fact Smokey is the sock-puppet of moderator David Stealey, “dbs”.
http://tamino.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/the-small-picture/#comment-65910
He gets to be an insufferable ass while using an alias, something Watts has accused others of doing out of cowardice, yet he lets one of his own mods do just that.
John McManus on 2012/08/18 at 4:12 PM said:
Whoever was in charge seems to have corralled the dangerous Steffy screen to keep it from biting republicans in the ass. Notice that the are has become a junk yard. Old palletts, unused burn barrells, trickle down hopes.
One wonders if there are any thermometers in the screen or if the whole site was junked.
Tony once published a poleroid that proved something. The stupid scientist ( smart scientists can see in the dark) installed a LIGHT BULB in a screen thus disproving global warming. What our tiger failed to notice was that there were no thermometers present.
I am sure that no warmists were injured by Tony’s junkyard pics.
John McManus
You seem to be forgetting Tony *proved* that UHI effect was present in Antarctica! I mean, Wattsy showed us a *pidger*!!!!
>;-D
Ben, just a side-note. Can you enable some kind of deeper threading for discussions if that is possible?
Back to the scientific discussion.
“Once again you tell us what we should be doing but won’t do it yourself. I don’t have to “debunk” anything until a factual claim has been made.”
But Ben, isn’t that the point of your website? To “debunk” what Anthony writes on his site? As for factual claims, see my recent response to Marco where I list the factual claims that Anthony made. So now that you have the claims, you can go ahead and “debunk” them.
[Anthony call spout bullshit faster than anyone can correct it. That’s precisely the poisonous impact he seeks. If Anthony presents a honest scientific argument I will present a legitimate assessment. But just to clear up your apparent mistaken perception, I’m not a climate scientist. I’m a real skeptic that is disgusted by Anthony’s dishonesty and manipulation. – Ben]
@Marco You make some good points. Thanks for your response.
Yesssss (stroking my non-existent Van Dyke), yesssss, Roger Pielke, Jr, who DOES NOT HAVE a degree in any earth sciences. THAT expert opinion?
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March Madness Has Arrived!
It’s Thursday, March 21st – you know what that means: MARCH MADNESS IS FINALLY HERE! We’re pretty pumped about it in the FCFL offices and love trash talking one another’s brackets.
ESPN released the ‘People’s Bracket,’ with a strong majority picking Duke as the NCAA Championship winning team. We may not agree on that outcome, but it’s certainly interesting to see which upsets fans went with. We want to hear from OUR fans that filled out their own brackets in attempt to hold bragging rights over their friends and coworkers, who do you have taking it all in the end? Are you hoping for a major Cinderella story moment, or do you want to see the same usual suspects make it to the Final Four?
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Dumfries & GallowayEllisland FarmnatureRobert BurnsScotland's National Bard
The road from Kilmarnock to Dumfries is often busy with trucks, coaches, caravans and cars. Yet, if you turn down a side road, some six miles west of Dumfries, where a signpost points to Ellisland Farm, you can leave the traffic and most of the rackety 21st century behind, for a while at least.
In the quiet, you might even be tempted to try your hand at writing poetry. Robert Burns did. He had travelled the same route a few times, on horseback, from the family farm of Mossgiel, near Mauchline, in Ayrshire, before taking up the tenancy of Ellisland Farm in 1788.
When he finally flitted, he took the best part of four days. Burns could only travel at the speed of his few cows. With a horse pulling a cart stuffed with farm implements, household goods and cooped chickens, he might even have walked much of the way.
The actual farmhouse we see today wasn’t yet ready for him, so he had to stay with the outgoing tenant couple about half a mile away. It seems Robert wasn’t impressed.
‘This hovel that I shelter in is pervious to every blast that blows, and every shower that falls, and I am only preserved from being chilled to death by being suffocated with smoke,’ he wrote.
Eventually he moved into the single story L- shaped farmhouse. Many of his possessions are still there. Adding to the ambience, ‘smoked hams’ hang from the meat hooks fixed in the ceiling above the kitchen range where Robert’s wife, Jean Armour would have cooked numerous meals.
From his front door, Robbie need walk only a few steps to be on the banks of the River Nith. Thickly tree-lined and sweet-smelling with wild flowers, he found its nearness and beauty inspiring. This was the poet’s reason for choosing this particular farm and not either of the others on offer. Let’s stroll there in Rabbie’s footsteps.
The caretaker of Ellisland has created a grass pathway now named Tam O’ Shanter Walk. It runs parallel to the river alongside an old, stone wall. The story goes that hereabouts, Jean Armour Burns heard her husband talking excitedly to himself as he made his way homewards of an evening. It seems he was absorbed in the process of composing his famous narrative poem, Tam O’ Shanter, a tale of drink being taken, ghosts, a certain ‘winsome wench’ and advice ignored.
“O Tam, had’st thou but been sae wise,
As taen thy ain wife Kate’s advice!
She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum,
A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum…”
At the end of the path, a barred gate allows wide views down the River Nith and across the field where the poet was moved to compose his famous poem, ‘On seeing a wounded hare limp by which a fellow had just shot.’ Here’s the last verse,
“Oft as by winding Nith I musing, wait
The sober eve, or hail the cheerful dawn,
I’ll miss thee sporting o’er the dewy lawn,
And curse the ruffian’s aim, and mourn thy hapless fate”.
Robert Burns struggled here as a farmer, sold up, and moved with his family to a rented, first floor flat in a tenement in Bank Street, Dumfries. They were still close to the River Nith but their surroundings were far less picturesque. The cow that was brought along with their other possessions from Ellisland Farm had to be sold since there was nowhere for the beast to graze.
A plaque high up on the wall of the building states, ‘here in the Sanghoose o’ Scotland between November 1791 and May 1793, Robert Burns completed over sixty songs including, Ae fond Kiss, Bonnie Wee Thing, The Lea Rig, Duncan Gray and The Dei’ls Awa Wi’ the Excise Man.’
I wonder what he would have made of the present day businesses at street level that make use of his name - a café, a newsagents and a barber shop.
It’s no distance to Burns’ favourite howff, The Globe Inn, up a narrow alley off the High Street. Farmers would gather there for refreshment, but also to do business, so it was natural for Burns to call in on market days from his farm at Ellisland. His move into Dumfries, to a job as an exciseman, meant even more opportunities for convivial nights.
The hitching posts for visitors’ horses are long gone and other properties have since been built round about, yet the Globe Inn, a three-storey building, is still pretty much as it was in Burns’ day. The ‘howff’ proper, the room the poet mostly frequented, is a little snuggery on the ground floor. Let’s go in through the dining room. The poet’s favourite chair is still there. Could you resist a chance to sit in it? Well, be warned. Should you get comfortably settled and be unable to recite a Burns’ poem or sing one of his songs when asked, you’ll be expected to pay for a round of drinks for the company.
Upstairs, visitors can look around a small bedroom with a fireplace and writing desk. On two of the window - panes there are poems Burns scratched on the glass using a diamond tipped pen, not a diamond ring as is sometimes thought. One of the poems – no surprise there - praises a young lady.
‘O lovely Polly Stewart
O charming Polly Stewart
There’s not a flower that blooms in May
That’s half so fair as thou art.’
Like locals and visiting Burns enthusiasts from all over the world, I felt it would be remiss to leave The Globe without sampling haggis, praised by the poet, as the ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin-race’. With neeps and tatties, the dish was well worthy, as the great man said, ‘of a grace as lang’s my arm.’
In May 1793, Burns flitted for the last time to Millbrae Vennel. He would still recognise the house today. In one of the upstairs rooms you can see his writing desk. The box bed looks very small.
An opening at the side of the house leads to the entrance of an adult learning centre. There is a small garden off to the side. This would have been Mrs Jean Armour Burns’s plot. Seemingly she grew all sorts of unusual plants. Not far away, the River Nith flows past Dock Park, so-called since the time when sailing ships reached there to tie up. Jean Armour would walk down to the riverside to meet returning sailors who brought her plant seeds from distant lands.
A few years ago a statue was erected to her about midway between the Burns’ house and St Michael’s Church where the family came to worship. Some people think this commemoration to Jean Armour Burns was long overdue after her trials and tribulations of life with Robert.
In the south – east corner of the cemetery in St. Michael’s churchyard stands the elaborate Burns mausoleum, erected by public subscription 18 years after the poet’s death. His remains were taken from the original grave in another corner of the graveyard and re-interred in the mausoleum with great ceremony. The inscription on the gravestone from his first grave reads, “In memory of Robert Burns, who died the 21st July, 1796 in the 37th year of his age.”
Scotland’s National Bard is remembered throughout the world as a man of exceptional abilities as well as everyday human failings. He penned works of genius, but I also like to think of him deliberating over another of his verses,
‘To make a happy fireside clime
To weans and wife
That’s the true pathos and sublime
of human life’.
First published in The People’s Friend
One of many portraits of Robert Burns
Millbrae was Robert Burns' Last home in Dumfries
Robert Burns' Ellisland Farmhouse
The Statue of Robert Burns in Dumfries
Jean Armour, Robert Burns' wife would visit Dock Park
The entrance to the Globe Inn Dumfries
Banks of the River Nith where Robert Burns walked when composing.
Statue of Robert Burns, Dumfries
Dock Park borders the River Nith in Dumfries
Field where Robert Burns saw a hare being shot
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Turkey Talk with Scoot and Chef Lusk
I had the opportunity to speak with Chef Christopher Lusk, chef at The Steakhouse at Harrah's Casino, about all things Thanksgiving cooking. Lusk isn't from New Orleans, but he loves the city.
“It's the people. We have people that love food. We have great ingredients. We have a great city. What else could you ask for?”
What's on the menu for Thanksgiving at The Steakhouse?
“We're going to do a smoked turkey breast. We're going to smoke it with laurel leaves. And traditional oyster dressing. We have some stewed green beans, a giblet gravy, and my cranberry sauce, which is more alcohol than cranberries.”
Sounds good! You have to love New Orleans. We have a chef looking for ways to put alcohol in the cranberry sauce.
I have a confession to make. I do something for Thanksgiving that's controversial; I get a lot of criticism for this. I try to watch what I eat. So I cut all the skin and fat off my turkey before I put it in the oven.
“Oh man, that makes me so sad,” Lusk laughed. “But no, that's not a bad thing. If you're watching your health, it is good.” Lusk went on to say he never tells anyone how they should eat. “You can eat whatever you want, however you want. If you want a well-done steak, it makes me a little bit sad; but that's okay.”
Now, on to some turkey talk.
What's the biggest mistake people make ?
“People get too stressed out about it. They get so concerned and so worked up. Three weeks in advance, everybody's trying to plan things. They're running to the grocery store. The main thing is to try to be organized. Have everything you need on hand so you're not running back and forth. And have a glass of wine while you're cooking. Enjoy it!”
Chef Lusk recommended buying a digital thermometer to make sure you get it right and don't get anyone sick.
How do you know when it's done?
You want to cook it to 165 degrees in the thickest part. Usually the thigh or the leg will be the best part to stick the thermometer into. Once you get to that point, take it out and let it rest. Resting helps. As you cook, all the moisture expands to the outside. By resting, the moisture goes back in; so when you cut into it, you have a nice, plump, juicy bird.
How do you avoid having the turkey fully-cooked on the outer parts but still kind of raw at the center?
“You cook it at a lower temperature. Cook it at about 275 degrees for about two hours, depending upon the size of the turkey. As it's getting close to being done, about the 150 degree range, I'll crank the oven up to crispy up the outside. That way you know it's cooked all the way through. It takes a little longer to cook that way, but you get a much better final product.”
What's the benefit to brining turkeys?
“We brine our turkeys, and that helps a lot too. The benefit is you impart flavor. Whatever you have, you're using a solution that has salt in it. And the salt will help pull moisture out and exchange whatever you have in the liquid. So say you have brown sugar in the liquid, that salt will pull out the moisture; and the brown sugar goes in. It also keeps it a more moist bird at the end of the day.
What are your favorite sides?
Cranberry sauce with a lot of alcohol. Green beans that have been cooked Southern style with bacon...oyster dressing. When I got to New Orleans I thought that was the weirdest thing I've seen...after years of making it, I'm like, 'this is amazing!'”
What advice do you have for carving the turkey?
The main thing for the breast is you start at the very end. You have a thicker end and a thinner end, so start at the thinner end. That way you'll get more skin on it. If you're trying to cut from the thicker end, it'll fall all over.
And for the legs and the wings?
Normally, I take the wings off. I'll take the wings and set them aside, and we'll make buffalo wings out of them. Toss 'em in hot sauce and have them as a side while we're cooking.
What do you do with your leftover turkey meat?
I'm from Texas originally. I make tacos out of it. I love to make tacos out of it. Take the leftover turkey meat, cut it up, [add> a little bit of onions, cilantro, and salsa and put it on a tortilla. Or you could make gumbo, a delicious turkey gumbo.
You said to cook it at 275 degrees. Since not everyone has a thermometer, what about how long to cook per pound?
About 20 minutes per pound. You want to temp it after about the first hour. Usually after the first hour, you're around 85 to 90 degrees. You can also tell by looking at it too. If it's warm all the way through, there's no pink to the inside. Now there will be a little pink around the bone even at 165 degrees. That's just the coloring of the bone.
Once everything's done, how long can you leave the turkey out on the table or counter at room temperature?
You really shouldn't leave it out more than two hours in an ideal situation. I know in reality it's probably left out longer than that, but around two hours is the window you should keep it at.
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Gold Coast Suns' Steven May misses AFL ban for umpire touch
Gold Coast captain Steven May has been spared a suspension despite touching an umpire, and is free to lead his AFL side in China against Port Adelaide this weekend.
The 26-year-old pleaded not guilty to a charge of intentional contact and instead was found guilty of carelessly touching an official in the club's heavy loss to Melbourne on Saturday.
The decision brings into question the commonly held view that the umpires can not be touched.
It also gives Carlton hope that Charlie and Ed Curnow - who will appear at the tribunal on Tuesday night on the same charges - could escape bans.
Steven May. Photo (AAP)
Last week, Geelong forward Tom Hawkins was issued a one-week suspensions for touching an umpire in the club's round seven win over GWS Giants.
While the actions of the two Curnows are similar in nature to Hawkins' effort and are more likely to see suspensions issued, May's action was different.
May was replicating the contest that led to a free kick being given against him by Harris when he touched the official.
The Suns leader was referred directly to the tribunal after making contact with field umpire David Harris.
May said he didn't even feel the umpire at the time.
"I actually didn't realise I hit him when I was walking off the field for halftime and I saw the big screen," he said in evidence on a video-link from the Gold Coast.
"It happened really fast and I didn't even know."
Hawkins given one-match ban
He admitted being "frustrated" by the decision, with player advocate Stephen Russell saying May showed "no aggression and nothing of that sort" towards Harris.
The tribunal, chaired by Ross Howie, deliberated for 12 minutes before finding him not guilty.
May's downgraded charge brought a $1000 fine and allows him to take part in the marquee fixture in Shanghai.
Already without co-captain Tom Lynch, Pearce Hanley and several other key players, May's availability is a major boost for the out-of-form Suns.
Sam Day won't be heading to China with the Suns after he accepted a one-week ban for a low blow on Neville Jetta.
Gold Coast have just one win - a five-point triumph over Brisbane - in their last six matches.
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Managers' feud adds spice to FA Cup final
By RAW
Jose Mourinho's relationship with Antonio Conte has been acrimonious since they took the hot seats at Manchester United and Chelsea respectively but the Portuguese can have the last laugh at Wembley on Saturday.
Few FA Cup finals have been as eagerly awaited as this season's with both managers desperate to avoid the ignominy of ending the campaign without any silverware.
Mourinho did at least steer United to runners-up behind Manchester City in the Premier League but Conte's Chelsea trailed in fifth and defeat in what is expected to be his final game in charge would be a bitter pill for the Italian.
Ever since Mourinho, Chelsea's most successful manager, criticised Conte for his wild celebrations during Chelsea's 4-0 rout of United in the early weeks of the 2016-17 season, the two have been trading insults.
Conte has criticised Mourinho's spending at United and accused him of being obsessed with his former club.
Mourinho upped the ante by labelling Conte's touchline manner as clown-like and alluding to a match-fixing allegation Conte was eventually cleared of in Italy.
There will be no love lost going into the climax of the domestic season on Saturday when United hope to join record-holders Arsenal with 13 FA Cup triumphs to their name.
Chelsea have not won the Cup since 2012 when Conte's compatriot Roberto di Matteo was in charge.
Last season they were favourites going into the final but fell flat, losing 2-1 to Arsenal.
Chelsea's Spanish midfielder Cesc Fabregas said the only thing that counts now is to make sure the club ends a disappointing season on a high.
"We don't have to think about next season, we need to win now, Saturday," he said. "We can't make (the season right) ... but to finish on a high would be nice."
While Mourinho would like nothing more than to lead United to victory against his old club, several of his players could also rub salt into Chelsea's wounds too.
United's Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku was deemed surplus to requirements by Chelsea but has flourished at United while midfielder Nemanja Matic was surprisingly allowed to join Mourinho at Old Trafford last season.
Lukaku is battling to shake off an ankle injury but is expected to be available for the final.
United midfielder Ander Herrera knows the club is defined by winning silverware.
"This club is about titles, about trophies, it's about finals," the Spaniard said.
"We will respect Chelsea, they are a top team and are used to winning as well. That makes the final even more difficult."
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EMR, ESD, and EFTR
H Chung Hyunsoo Chung, MD
Epublication WebSurg.com, Feb 2015;15(02). URL: http://websurg.com/doi/lt03enchung003
In this authoritative lecture, Dr. Chung outlines the common indications of EMR, ESD, and the role of endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) of digestive lesions.
Endoscopic surgery
Peroral endoscopic myotomy of a suspected type III achalasia with a double scope control
A 59-year-old woman was referred to our unit for progressive dysphagia and chest pain associated with heartburn and chest fullness. A nutcracker esophagus was suspected at the HD manometry and the patient was scheduled for a peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). The procedure started with an esophagogastroduodenal series (EGDS), which showed abnormal contractions of the distal esophagus and increased resistance at the level of the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) with a high suspicion of type III achalasia. The tunnel was started 12cm above the EGJ in a 5 o’clock position. After submucosal injection, a mucosal incision was made with a new triangle-tip (TT) knife equipped with water jet facility. The access to the submucosa was gained and a submucosal longitudinal tunnel was created until the EGJ, dissecting the submucosal fibers with the TT knife. The myotomy was performed by completely dissecting the circular muscular layer muscle fibers using swift coagulation. To assess the extension of the myotomy just at the level of the EGJ, a “double scope control” was performed by inserting a pediatric scope, which confirmed the presence of the mother scope light in the esophagus. The submucosal tunnel and the myotomy were then extended together for 1 to 2cm. A second check with the pediatric scope showed the presence of the mother scope light in the correct position above the EGJ. The mucosal incision site was finally closed using multiple endoclips.
H Inoue, RA Ciurezu, M Pizzicannella, F Habersetzer
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty: live procedure
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is a novel endobariatric procedure with a mechanism of action totally different from the one used for a standard sleeve gastrectomy. An over-the-scope suturing system mounted on a dual-channel Olympus® scope allowed to place full-thickness sutures in order to reduce the volume and the size of the stomach. The procedure was performed with the patient under general anesthesia and carbon dioxide insufflation. Once the Overtube™ was placed, the scope equipped with the OverStitch™ (Apollo Endosurgery®, Austin, Tex) suturing device was inserted through the stomach, and the suturing was initiated at the level of the incisura. The tissue-retracting helix device was used to grab the stomach wall, allowing for full-thickness bites. Each suture consisted of multiple sequential U-shaped bites along the anterior wall, the greater curvature, the posterior wall, and then in the opposite direction. Once completed, the suture was tied and knotted using a cinching device. Three sutures were applied in order to obtain gastric tubulization, and to spare the fundus.
S Perretta, M Pizzicannella, D Mutter, J Marescaux
Gastrojejunal anastomosis resizing with Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC) and Apollo OverStitch™ endoscopic suturing system: live procedure
In 2004, a 57-year-old lady underwent a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) for morbid obesity. After the surgical intervention, she lost 13Kg and she started to regain weight back with a current BMI of 41.
During this live procedure, Professor Perretta performs a gastroscopy that shows a normal gastric pouch and a gastrojejunal anastomosis increased in caliber. The operator does an endoscopic resizing of the anastomosis with Argon Plasma Coagulation (APC) followed by the placement of an endoscopic suture with the Apollo OverStitch™ endoscopic suturing system.
S Perretta, M Pizzicannella, B Dallemagne
All you need to know to perform an ERCP for biliary stones extraction: live procedure
An 82-year-old man underwent an emergency endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for acute cholangitis secondary to choledocholithiasis 11 days earlier. At that time, since the patient was under Clopidogrel, the sphincterotomy was not performed and a plastic stent was released in the common bile duct (CBD) to bypass the stones. In this live procedure, Dr. Boškoski performs an ERCP with sphincterotomy and biliary stones extraction. During the procedure, the operator gives every fundamental tips and tricks to perform the correct procedure. At the end of the intervention, a 3D cholangiography is performed to confirm complete biliary stones extraction.
I Boškoski, M Pizzicannella
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG): live procedure
In this live procedure, Professor Perretta performs an endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) using the OverStitch™ endoscopic suturing system (Apollo Endosurgery) in a 50-year-old obese male patient (with a BMI of 35.3). In this particular case, preoperative esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) showed a Barrett’s esophagus with positive histology for intestinal metaplasia, which is not a contraindication for this kind of endoscopic intervention. ESG is performed with the patient under general anesthesia and carbon dioxide insufflation. The supine position is preferred because it is safer than the left lateral decubitus position as it allows for a better exposure of the stomach. Sutures are placed in a U-shaped fashion from the incisura angularis to the fundus, which is spared using the OverStitch™ suturing system, mounted on a double channel Olympus scope. The system allows for the placement of durable full-thickness stitches to obtain gastric volume reduction and shrinking.
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Laparoscopic total hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy for endometrial cancer
C Pomel Christophe Pomel, MD
A Wattiez Arnaud Wattiez, MD
J Nassif Joseph Nassif, MD
C Zacharopoulou Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, MD
Epublication WebSurg.com, Sep 2009;09(09). URL: http://websurg.com/doi/vd01en2734
The video "Laparoscopic total hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy for endometrial cancer" authored by A Wattiez, J Nassif, C Zacharopoulou is analysed by Dr. C Pomel, sharing in this way his own personal experience and highlighting the different surgical approaches available with tips and tricks.
Laparoscopic total hysterectomy and unilateral adnexectomy with resection of urinary bladder nodule for endometriosis
The video "Laparoscopic total hysterectomy and unilateral adnexectomy with resection of urinary bladder nodule for endometriosis" authored by A. Wattiez, J. Nassif and C. Zacharopoulou is analysed by Dr. Sara Brucker, sharing in this way her own personal experience and highlighting the different surgical approaches available with tips and tricks.
S Brucker
Sentinel node technique in uterine cancers (update of April 2012 lecture)
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy. In the majority of patients, the disease will present at an early stage, without metastasis, and with an excellent prognosis.
Total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with or without a lymph node dissection is the standard method in the management of endometrial cancer. Although the rate of metastasis in patients with early stage endometrial cancer is low, the standard of treatment still includes a complete or selective pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy for staging, resulting in detrimental side-effects, including lower extremity lymphedema. SLN mapping is based on the concept that lymph node metastasis is the result of an orderly process, that is, the lymph drains in a specific pattern away from the tumor, and therefore if the SLN, or first node, is negative for metastasis, then the nodes after the SLN should also be negative. Among gynecological cancers, a variety of methods have been described to detect a sentinel node in situ including colored dyes and radioisotopes, the latter requiring a specialized gamma detection probe. In this key presentation, Dr. Querleu will talk about the SNL technique in uterine cancers.
D Querleu
Role of para-aortic staging lymphadenectomy in advanced cervical cancer (update of September 2014 lecture)
Pelvic and para-aortic lymph node evaluation is a major component of the surgical staging procedure for several gynecologic malignancies. Cervical cancer is clinically staged, but assessment of pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes is performed with lymphadenectomy and/or imaging. The surgical and oncologic goals of lymph node dissection are to define the extent of disease, and thereby, to guide further treatment. Lymphadenectomy may also have a therapeutic goal in conditions in which removing nodes harboring metastatic disease improves survival. The role of para-aortic lymph node dissection for women diagnosed with LACC had been described in these slides.
F Kridelka
Anatomical classification of radical hysterectomy
In the last century, numerous classifications of radical hysterectomy have been developed according to the knowledge gained from the anatomy. In addition, the way to perform surgery and the radicality of procedures changed over the last decades according to the development of new instruments and depending on the understanding of the pathologies.
This lecture explains the reasons why a classification is required and how it has led to the development of a new classification by Querleu-Morrow in 2008.
The lecture ends with a detailed explanation of limits and landmarks of the new 4 classes of radical hysterectomy.
G Centini
Laparoscopic hysterectomy: techniques and principles
In this key lecture, Dr. Ferreira outlines the techniques and principles related to laparoscopic hysterectomy.
H Ferreira Carvalho
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Minneapolis: May 08 to May 11, 2017
Here are some concerts taking place in the Minneapolis/St Paul area from May 08 to May 11, 2017.
As part of the Psychocandy 30th anniversary celebrations, The Mary Chain have also agreed to appear at Austin Psych Fest on May 8-10, 2015. …
at Palace Theatre
Tuesday 05/09/17, 7pm ($30)
palacestpaul.com
After a very successful Pyschocandy 30th Anniversary Tour in 2015, the reunited Scottish band The Jesus and Mary Chain (brothers Jim Reid and William Reid) is back on tour in support of their new record Damage and Joy (ADA / Warner Music). The record is their first in 19 years.
For those who missed them the first time around in the 80s and 90s, this upcoming show cannot be missed.
Philadelphia’s The Cobbs (named after brothers Paul Cobb and Ryan Cobb) to open.
The Jesus and Mary Chain North American Tour Dates:
5/09 - St. Paul, MN @ The Palace
5/10 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera
5/12 - Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
5/14 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
5/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
5/20 - Oakland, CA @ The Fox Theater
5/22 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
5/23 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
5/24 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
I love We're pretty excited to find out that CJ Ramone (the Ramones bassist from 1989 to 1996) is coming to the Twin Cities this June 10th in support of his latest Last Chance to Dance …
at Triple Rock Social Club
triplerocksocialclub.com
With all the original The Ramones are dead, its youngest member CJ Ramone continues the tradition by playing those classic Ramones numbers, along with CJ originals. We’ve seen CJ before, it’s really great to see all the Ramones fan gather and celebrate and remember the legendary band.
Big Eyes and Drones (not to be confused with Australia's The Drones) to open.
5/6/2017 Broken City Calgary, AB
5/7/2017 Mercury Room Yeg Edmonton, AB
5/8/2017 Park Theatre Winnipeg, MB
5/10/2017 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
5/11/2017 Cobra Lounge Chicago, IL
5/12/2017 Majestic Café Detroit, MI
5/13/2017 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto, ON
5/14/2017 Les Foufounes Electriques Montreal, QC
5/16/2017 Higher Ground South Burlington, VT
5/17/2017 Middle East Upstairs Cambridge, MA
5/18/2017 The Loft Poughkeepsie, NY
5/19/2017 Milkboy Philadelphia, PA
5/20/2017 Gold Sounds Brooklyn, NY
7/10/2017 Hard Rock Pub Pamela Torun, Poland
7/11/2017 Poglos Warsaw, Poland
Skating Polly
Grrrl rockers Skating Polly will be in town next Wednesday, March 30th. The duo (Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse) was previously in town in in 2014 with White Fang. …
Kitten Forever
Local trio Kitten Forever (Corrie Harrigan, Laura Larson, and Liz Elton) is celebrating their 10th Anniversary as a band next Saturday, July 23rd. They’ve enlisting various …
Tony Peachka
Next up was local all-girls Tony Peachka with a Melissa on vocals/guitars, Stephanie on guitars, Haley on drums, and Danielle on bass. Apparently Danielle is also …
at 7th Street Entry
Thursday 05/11/17, 8pm ($10)
first-avenue.com
Skating Polly (trio of stepsisters Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse and brother Kurtis Mayo) is headlining the 7th Street Entry on May 11th, their first post-support for legendary punk band X. SP’s New Trick EP (El Camino Records) features Nina Gordon and Louise Post from Veruca Salt.... so these girls, or rather grrrls have a thing for 90s alt-punk/rock.
The trio (previously a duo) was previously in town on March 2016
Local girl bands Kitten Forever and Tony Peachka will open.
May 5 | Knuckleheads* | Kansas City, MO
May 6 | Delmar Hall* | St. Louis, MO
May 7 | City Winery* | Nashville, TN
May 8 | Neighborhood Theater* | Charlotte, NC
May 9 | Cat’s Cradle* | Carrboro, NC
May 11 | 7th Street Entry | Minneapolis, MN
May 12 | Lyric Room | Green Bay, WI
May 13 | Subterranean | Chicago, IL
May 14 | Magic Stick | Detroit, MI
May 15 | Grog Shop | Cleveland, OH
May 16 | Smiling Moose | Pittsburgh, PA
May 17 | St. Vitus | Brooklyn, NY
May 19 | Pouza Fest | Montreal, QC
May 20 | Kung Fu Necktie | Philadelphia, PA
May 21 | DC9 | Washington, DC
May 22 | Rumba Café | Columbus, OH
May 24 | Ready Room | St. Louis, MO
May 25 | Bottleneck | Lawrence, KS
May 26 | Opolis | Norman, OK
June 3 | The Nile | Mesa, AZ
June 4 | The Shop | Prescott, AZ
June 6 | Casbah | San Diego, CA
June 7 | Bootleg Theater | Los Angeles, CA
June 8 | Constellation Room | Santa Ana, CA
June 10 | The Parkside | San Francisco, CA
August 26 | It’s Not Dead Festival
* Dates w/ X
The Wild Reeds
NPR described The Wild Reeds as Americana’s “newest and most promising voices”. The band recently released a new three-song EP called Best Wishes and will …
Tears for Fears is massive, yet when they reformed to do some tour dates (with Spandau Ballet in Australia!) there is no official website or outlet for touring information …
You know we absolutely love Hall & Oates, so I was fooled into clicking a news link on Facebook about “Hall and Oates got into a bloody confrontation that ended with Hall getting bit in the face and Oates landing in jail …
Other shows in the area:
05/08/17 Froth is headlining the 7th Street Entry. The Coax to open. 7:30pm, $10.
05/09/17 Boston’s Pile is on tour in support of their fifth album A Hairshirt of Purpose (Exploding In Sound Records). Stereogum said the band harkens “long-since-passed rock legends.” Gnarwhal and Double Grave to open. 7pm, $12.
05/09/17 UK singer/songwriter Lewis Watson is headlining Triple Rock Social Club on Tuesday. Watson is on a post-SXSW tour to promote Midnight (Cooking Vinyl). The new record is a departure from his earlier work. The 24-year-old is grown up. Prams will open. 6pm, $14.
05/10/17 Emel (full name Emel Mathlouthi) returned to Minneapolis in support of her new record Ensen (out May 10th). Bae Tigre to open. Seated, all ages show. 7pm, $15.
05/10/17 Leif Vollebekk is back at the 7th Street Entry. As of this writing, no opening band listed. 7:30pm, $12.
05/10/17 From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia The Steel Wheels will be bringing their folk music to the Dakota Jazz Club in downtown Minneapolis. Their new album Wild As We Came Here is out now via Redeye Worldwide thanks to crowdfunding PledgeMusic. 7pm, $25.
05/10/17 Los Angeles-based quintet The Wild Reeds is headlining the Turf Club in St Paul on Wednesday. Blank Range and Superior Siren will open. 7pm, $10.
05/11/17 Tears For Fears and Hall & Oates (billed as Daryl Hall & John Oates) will be co-headlining the Xcel Energy Center. 6pm, $35.
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Bright College Days: Part II →
Bright College Days: Part I
Posted on February 1, 2018 by gcochran9
I have a problem in thinking about education, since my preferences and personal educational experience are atypical, so I can’t just gut it out. On the other hand, knowing that puts me ahead of a lot of people that seem convinced that all real people, including all Arab cabdrivers, think and feel just as they do.
One important fact, relevant to this review. I don’t like Caplan. I think he doesn’t understand – can’t understand – human nature, and although that sometimes confers a different and interesting perspective, it’s not a royal road to truth. Nor would I want to share a foxhole with him: I don’t trust him. So if I say that I agree with some parts of this book, you should believe me.
Bryan Caplan’s view is that most people don’t like school – find it boring and rapidly forget most of what they do learn. Largely true, I think. I don’t much care about how boring school is – if lots of useful information were retained, it would be well worth it. But that doesn’t appear to be the case: surveys generally indicate that adults don’t remember much of what they studied in school, and in general don’t know much. Caplan says ” Basic literacy and numeracy are virtually the only book learning most American adults possess. While the average American spends years and years studying other subjects, they recall next to nothing about them.” Only about half of the general public knows that the Earth orbits the Sun, while few Harvard graduates know the cause of winter and summer. Probably this is true of Caplan as well: I see no reason to believe that he understands how to extract the cube root of eighty-seven, or why Van Buren failed of re-election. He says that he doesn’t remember anything from his Spanish classes, and I believe him.
Caplan doesn’t talk about possible ways of improving knowledge acquisition and retention. Maybe he thinks that’s impossible, and he may be right, at least within a conventional universe of possibilities. That’s a bit outside of his thesis, anyhow. Me it interests.
He dismisses objections from educational psychologists who claim that studying a subject improves you in subtle ways even after you forget all of it. I too find that hard to believe. On the other hand, it looks to me as if poorly-digested fragments of information picked up in college have some effect on public policy later in life: it is no coincidence that most prominent people in public life (at a given moment) share a lot of the same ideas. People are vaguely remembering the same crap from the same sources, or related sources. It’s correlated crap, which has a much stronger effect than random crap.
These widespread new ideas are usually wrong. They come from somewhere – in part, from higher education. Along this line, Caplan thinks that college has only a weak ideological effect on students. I don’t believe he is correct. In part, this is because most people use a shifting standard: what’s liberal or conservative gets redefined over time. At any given time a population is roughly half left and half right – but the content of those labels changes a lot. There’s a shift.
Today, maybe a quarter of the population would deny that men, on average, have much greater upper body strength than women. That fraction is almost certainly higher in people with a college education. In reality, the difference is very large ( ~90% greater in men, about 3 standard deviations). We’re talking belief in something that flies in the face of reality, a notion obviously falsified every day of the week. Without some sort of powerful inculcation, no-one would believe this.
I think the fraction of the population that believed in butt-kicking babes was lower in 1920: probably less than 1%, with most of those believers suffering from tertiary syphilis. What changed? At the root, most of the change must stem from professor-types. There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. Many of those absurd ideas now have wide currency.
This is a significant cost of education, one that Bryan Caplan does not discuss. It’s not just what you don’t know, it’s what you know that ain’t so.
More generally, the lasting scraps of education have political effects. They make for better or worse citizens. Not that higher education is the only factor influencing basic political tendencies ( thank God! ) but I think it matters.
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162 Responses to Bright College Days: Part I
Dave Pinsen says:
I remember the cube root business — at least the way I was taught, by a pretty young blonde math teacher. I don’t know if she’s why I remember, or that it seemed so tedious without a calculator: bracketing the number with perfect cubes, or whatever they’re called, and then trying numbers in between their cube roots times themselves 3 times. So for 87, the cube root would be somewhere between 4 (cube root of 84) and 5 (cube root of 125). So about 4.3.
Nice to see you have a preview image for this post in your tweet, btw. I think you’ll get more clicks that way.
A good example of perfectly useless knowledge. We used logarithm tables, my teacher was an Italian dwarf with a big head.
archandsuperior says:
4^3 is 84? I do learn so much reading the comments here.
amac78 says:
Typo, Dave Pilsen meant 64.
f = x^3 – 87
f’ = 3*x^2
x_0 = 4
x_1 = x_0 – f(x_0) / f'(x_0) = 4 – (64 – 87) / 48 = 4 + 23 / 48 ~ 4.48
x_2 = 4.48 – (89.92 – 87) / 60.21 = 4.8 – 2.92 / 60.21 ~ 4.431
4.431 ^ 3 ~ 86.997
But my math teacher wasn’t nearly so pretty.
Starting with 4 or 5 as an initial value Newton’s Method will give you the root to six decimals in 3 iterations. The number of significant decimals at each iteration roughly doubles so 4 iterations gives you the root to 12 decimals.
Newton’s Method is easy to remember and program and can be used for all kinds of equations. For example I just quickly used an Excel spreadsheet to calculate the solution of x = cos x using Newton’s Method. Starting with 1 as an initial value it had the solution to 10 decimal places at the third iteration.
Newton’s Method will also work for systems of equations in many variables. Again the number of accurate digits roughly doubles at each iteration,
Logarithms are precise, your approach is an easy common sense approximation….
Newton’s Method for roots requires only rational operations. There are known methods for calculating any simple real root of a polynomial with real coefficients which actually have cubic convergence as opposed to the quadratic convergence of Newton’s Method. But Newton’s Method is so easy and quick that one would hardly ever need the cubic convergence methods.
Newton’s Method works for systems of equations in many complex variables again with quadratic convergence, the number of accurate digits doubling with each iteration. It works in infinite dimensional Banach spaces, real or complex, and also with p-adic numbers. A modified version of Newton’s Method was the basis of Nash’s proof of the Embedding Theorem for compact Riemannian manifolds.
“Only about half of the general public knows that the Sun orbits the Earth”.
This sentence invites comments by pedants like me. According to Discover magazine at least 74 per cent of Americans know the answer. That means that 26 per cent really don’t. Hopefully we are among those who know.
There are two answers allowed: if people guessed randomly they’d get 50% right. So 50% right = no one knows… 74% equates to about 50%. Do you want to hear how many know that it goes around in a year?
This is a dangerous question to ask a pedant. Not long ago NASA’s SDO added one second to the solar year, Earth orbiting Sun, so probably not one of the questioned knew the correct answer.
Even more pedantically, both answers are wrong. The Sun doesn’t orbit the Earth and the Earth doesn’t orbit the Sun. They both orbit their common center of mass, the barycenter.
While we are at it, let me refer to The Three-Body Problem (三体). The Sun and the Earth – contra NASA, contra MawBTS – do not have a barycenter, because they are not alone. There are other bodies near and afar, big and small, constantly changing their positions. From my vantage point the whole thing is wobbling.
Well obviously they have a barycenter at any given moment of course very near the center of the sun.
Which is of course well inside the Sun.
Most of the time.
The distance between the center of the Sun and the center of mass of the Earth and Sun is about 500 kilometers. The diameter of the Sun is about 1.4 million kilometers.
biz says:
And even more pedantically, there is a perfectly valid framemwhere the Sun does orbit the Earth. It is not inertial, but the frame where the Earth orbits the Sun is not inertial either because of the Sun’s motion through the Galaxy.
Boyd Silken says:
“Sun orbits the Earth”?
What the hell school did he go to???
dlr says:
Ha, another typo, an even funnier one : Gcochran9 typing fast said “Only about half of the general public knows that the Sun orbits the Earth”. And I bet 99% of the people reading the blog didn’t notice it. I certainly didn’t until j. quoted it, here. 🙂
I don’t know how those tests are run, but, I assume that it was semi ‘volunteers’ or people doing it for a few bucks, or they had to do it as a part of high school graduation assessment testing BUT THEY DIDN”T GET ANY REWARD FOR HAVING MORE RIGHT ANSWERS. Plus the questions were so simple, and basic and boring, I am sure many people mentally dozed off from boredom and started working on autopilot. I mean, why even try for someone who is so rude as to waste your time asking such insultingly easy questions? Or maybe they got to leave as soon as they were done, ie, they were rewarded for speed, not accuracy. And some people would think it was funny or a payback to deliberately answer every question wrong. So, I’d say you have to make a lot of big assumptions about the level of motivation and general kindliness and cooperativeness of the test takers. And, as usual, those test results can be relied on about as much as most social science research…at least a 50-50 chance they have no relationship to reality. And perhaps I am being kind. Maybe a 75-80 % chance?
Thanks. Fixed. Might just be senility.
People really don’t know.
I, too, thought you meant it in a tongue-in-cheek way. You could’ve always get out of it by accusing us, the readers, of being humorless.
Nah. More likely it’s just MCI (Mild Cognitive Impairment). Hey, how about doing a post on that…while you still can?
It was funnier in the original version….
I noticed. Thought it was witty. Sad it was just a mistake. I kind of feel he should put it back…
Any social science finding that a typical social scientist would find depressing is more likely to be true.
GAY_WEED_DAD_69 says:
I thought he was being sarcastic
Randall Parker says:
I had a problem with Caplan’s explanation (though the raw survey data still conveyed a picture of mass ignorance) of how often people actually knew something. If 50% of the people get the right answer to a question with two answers there are two possible interpretations:
A) People were all just guessing. Noone has a clue.
B) The wrong answer is way more appealing to ignorant people (e.g. the idea that the sun revolves around Earth seems plausible to ignorant people). So actually having 50% give the right answer indicates a lot of people remembering what they were taught.
If there is not an appealing wrong answer then we can expect random choices made by igorant people. Then we can correctly calculate the people who have real knowledge. But if there is an appealing wrong answer it is much harder to figure out how many were guessing or really knowing.
Andrew Swift says:
I enjoyed the article, especially the example of body strength. And I agree about Caplan… he lives in some weird logical universe of his own.
The main benefit I received from my (admittedly elite) college education was having to argue a lot, to defend my ideas.
There’s a universe of difference between reading a bunch of blog posts about a subject and thinking you understand it, and spending a semester reading actual books and arguing in class about it.
You may not necessarily understand the subject at the end of the class, but you will have some appreciation for the richness and complexity of the questions evoked.
As to whether most college educations provide this kind of stimulation, I doubt it.
That’s just part I.
At West Point, measuring male vs female cadets, they found men were slightly over 100% stronger in the upper body…Which doesn’t make any difference when everyone can observe on a daily basis that men are much stronger, and women constantly make use of that fact…The ability to believe things that are transparently and obviously false by a large amount, such as that black people are just as smart as whites and asians, is a startling product of modern Academia….I don’t think it existed to any great degree in the past…
What do we make of the fact that Bryan Caplan wins almost all of his bets?
To me, it looks like he takes up easily defended positions (“Ron Paul will not be the next US President”), and uses his fame and platform to attract weird cranks to bet against it. Sort of like a boxer who builds a 30-0 record by fighting midgets.
…But is that right? A lot of the people he bets against don’t seem overly crankish. And some of predictions seem genuinely bold, such as Hillary losing the Presidential Election.
(And for all the Captain Hindsights ready to condescendingly explain how Trump would obviously win and I’m an idiot for ever thinking otherwise…how much money did you make at betting markets with this knowledge? Were you willing to put your money where your mouth was, like Caplan did?)
He’s a smart bettor. Notice nearly all his bets are against a specific prediction – he lets others take a stand and bets against it, which is clever because specific expected things usually don’t happen exactly that way.
Michel Rouzic says:
I bet about a month worth of living expenses and got over 4 back betting on Trump, and to me it was obvious not that he was going to win (I thought he was 60% likely to win, the percentage includes the uncertainty) but clear that he was absolutely more likely to win than commonly thought, which if right makes any bet good. It was obvious to anyone who understands that pollsters and pundits are full of it and that more often than not you’ll be right to believe the opposite of what they say, but that leaves everyone who believes all the BS they hear.
So both views are right, it was obvious enough and you didn’t know enough about how everything involved works if you didn’t realise he was more likely to win, but on the other hand so few people understood enough about the situation and saw it coming that you have to give credit to Caplan for getting it right.
There’s a guy on twitter who claims to be Nixon who does even better than Caplan when it comes to bets but I’m not inclined to take his advice on public policy, especially since he REALLY DOES seem to believe he’s Nixon. Besides, most of the people Caplan goes up against are Leftist loons who are even crazier than Caplan. In the Kingdom of the Blind…
William O. B'Livion says:
the Nixon, or just a Nixon?
I assume he’s coming in through the IP-over-Ouija-board gateway.
cthulhu says:
Ah, documented in RFC 666…
“Looking for value,” as the sports bettors say. 58% winning bets is their make-a-living point. The famous bet on Leicester City that came in at 5000-1 over a year ago would have been a good example. With their best player coming back from prison and having finished strong, they sitll didn’t look like a good team, but were probably only 500-1 instead of 5000-1. Is was misvalued by the professionals because no one looks hard at things that unlikely, they just slap a number on it.
Chip Smith says:
Caplan’s betting strategy is smart and conservative. He bets against faddish overconfidence, trusting long term trends. In no case on his books would I have taken the bait, but there will always be takers. It’s a neat trick as long as stable trends are stable. If he starts losing, we may have bigger issues to worry about.
Patrick L. Boyle says:
Actually a large proportion of famous boxers do indeed have 30-0 records – at least early in their careers. You can see this pattern in Wikipedia boxing statistics. They don’t actually fight midgets. They fight hopeless, helpless guys who get beaten up for a living. Some job.
It seems to take at least twenty fights against real palookas before most fighters are allowed to get in with any one who has any chance of fighting back.
Not in MMA, however, where a record of something like 18-2 is regarded as amazing, which tells you that the MMA is far more legitimate than boxing every was….
GAGCAT says:
I know what you mean about foxholes. Caplan’s a smart guy, but if aliens invaded from space he’d argue it would boost GDP.
Caplan would be the guy in ‘One Eyed Jacks’ who goes for ammunition and never comes back…
“I think the fraction of the population that believed in butt-kicking babes was lower in 1920: probably less than 1% … What changed?”
Xena: Warrior Princess, Lara Croft, Katniss Everdeen, all the way up to Rey for pay Daisy Ridley today.
I stumbled on an interesting data point for this subject this week. In 1976 Lenard Lakofka published an article “Women & Magic,” which he distributed in the July 1976 issue of his obscure fanzine Liaisons Dangereuses. In October, the third issue of The Dragon reprinted the article and added the subtitle, “Bringing the Distaff Gamer into D&D.”
Lakofka made what looks like a good faith attempt to reflect average sex differences in the then new Dungeons and Dragons RPG. For his efforts, he was denounced as sexist, in part for suggesting that female characters were on average less good at killing things with swords and clubs.
I find this controversy deeply funny, but it is clearly an early instance of the butt-kicking babe phenomenon in its native range: nerds. The kinds of people who will write letters to complain about RPG character creation are not remotely representative of the general population. However, they probably do overlap reasonably well with the kind of people who go on to produce influential media that help convince consumers that butt-kicking babes are real. Whedon and Abrams, I’m looking at you.
Also, there was this illuminating gem:
Admittedly, much of the outcry in Alarums came from men who played female characters, rather than from female players.
EoT says:
Most of the fanbase for butt-kicking babes is weird nerdy guys who secretly fantasize about being a hot woman who acts like a man.
Really? Sounds like a tiny niche.
Yeah I don’t know about that, probably more nerdy guys who are too immature to appreciate romantic story lines but still want beautiful women to look at.
random observer says:
The phenomenon seems to go back at least to that strange man who created the character of Wonder Woman decades earlier. He at least drew on the canon of Greek mythology, in which a certain amount of divinity can boost anyone’s capabilities quite a lot. But he seems to be a very early example of the this psychology, all the same.
Looking at nerds over the past 35 years, the fascination seems to be one of three versions:
1. desire to submit to the butt-kicking female superior
2. [Overestimated] personal ability to equal and/or “tame” same
3.sublimated desire to actually be that character.
Not to get too Freudian. But that seems to cover the major bases.
From the depths of 80s-90s nerd fandom, came the TV version of 50s comic “Tales from the Crypt”. Its genre would best be called “camp horror”.
There was actually one episode about a weedy low-life guy who obtained some magic power to seduce the gorgeous pop star/model of his dreams, but it turned out that wasn’t enough. He had to actually be her to get what he wanted. Fortunately, dark powers obliged him.
In retrospect, perhaps this script was instructive of some wider sensibility among nerd tv writers.
Among a certain sort of nerd (and possibly in a certain time period), the statement “men generally have much higher upper-body strength than women” isn’t really true.
Yeah, I don’t think this comes from higher education either. People like these movies and TV shows.
Also, an ever-larger share of the population works in jobs where little physical effort is needed.
This delusion has led to some hilariously one-sided martial arts matches, so good for entertainment purposes. It also led to the Williams sisters, who claimed they could beat any man below #200 in the world, losing a match to an intoxicated #207 by scores of 6-0 and 6-1…
superposition says:
Are you going to look at what Haidt is saying about education, too? He claims education wasn’t completely poisoned until the later 1990s, but I learned there was no way I could survive in academia before then because I wasn’t a Marxist. These days corporate America isn’t much better.
I agree about Caplan 100%. He sure does think he’s cute.
People are more easily fooled re: biology because so few are physically active. No one questions the propaganda because we’re all sitting around getting fatter.
No one moves furniture any more?
There is a YUGE difference between anything on this page http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/sofas_armchairs/
and anything on this page https://www.ethanallen.com/en_US/shop-furniture-living-room-sofas-loveseats
The biggest problems in moving Ikea furniture is (a) bulk, and (b) breakage.
Ethan Allen OTOH you don’t worry about breakage so much.
Bies Podkrakowski says:
Polish feminists, proud after moving refrigerator on a fourth floor (that would be fifth floor in USA?):
I’d like to see them move our piano. Of course it’s a player piano…
Laurel and Hardy?
Player pianos are full of metal. Heavy, heavy, heavy.
No one has a good time moving pianos..
Polish feminists…
Did they remember to empty it first, or did they think it would be faster to move full?
Would someone please plausibly explain how this fairly slim woman can bench-press 315+ pounds? Something about longer muscle-fibers as in chimpanzees, and higher percentage of fast-twitch fibers, due to a weird mutation, or what?:
https://barbend.com/jennifer-thompson-bench-press/
I would describe her as “beefy”, rather than slim. As for explanations, who knows? Could be beneficial mutations, could be PEDs, which are rampant in powerlifting, although she does seem to compete in the lifting federation that tests for that.
If you a real point of comparison, look at the men’s records in the same meets. A guy back squatted 833 lbs. That is more than double Thompson’s 325 lb back squat. [2.56x for the pedants] These powerlifters are the far right tail of strength for both sexes. I don’t see anything unusual from a distribution point of view.
However you’d describe her, she’s not overweight, and it would be surprising if a man her height with that pretty limited amount of upper body muscle (looks to me like what a male high school sprinter might have) benched 225, let alone 315+.
Performance-enhancing drugs don’t explain it. They add the muscle mass that makes sense of extraordinary strength. A guy on steroids and human growth hormone is 50 pounds heavier than a guy who isn’t; the 50 pounds of extra muscle is what explains his extraordinary strength. This woman only weighs 140 pounds.
Her squat’s not mind-blowing; it’s her bench-press that’s mind-blowing.
Patrick Boyle, she’s a professional powerlifter; she’s not using fake weights.
Of course, if she’s a mutant then if she passed on her mutation to sons they’d be way stronger than her. They’d bench 1000 pounds, not just 325. What I’m wondering about is whether she’s a mutant. It seems to me that she must be.
I think drugs probably partially explain it.
It’s not as simple as steroids = ridiculous muscle mass. Think of A-Rod and Lance Armstrong: neither of them look like bodybuilders. Much depends on the exact esthers and cycles, as well as training and diet. You can be strong yet small.
This woman only weighs 140 pounds.
That’s just her weight class!
How it works: when you show up at a powerlifting meet, you have to weigh in. It’s desirable to be in the lightest weight class possible, so athletes spend days preparing. They cut their calories, and cut their water. By the time they hit the scale, they’re depleted and dehydrated. Once they’ve made weight, they shotgun water, and eat carbs.
Jennifer Thompson might weigh 150lbs or more by the time she lifts. And when she’s training she might be heavier still.
Also, women tend to have about 35% body fat. A professional athlete is probably a lot leaner than that.
Rainforest Giant says:
Peds.
In any event, the percentage of women who can bench press even 100 pounds is extremely low…I sometimes work out in jiujitsu with a woman who is a purple belt and also a 3d degree black belt in karate and super fit. Despite being forty years older, I am much stronger in the upper body….
When we were going to the gym together back in 2010 I had my wife on the 5×5 program. We got her bench up to about 125-130. Took about 4 months IIRC.
Then again the percentage of women who bench is negligible.
The answer may be simpler than you imagine. There is now a spate of lifters making videos in which they use “fake weights’. The big thick plates they lift are believed to be rubber.
There is a woman on YouTube named Heba Ali who can be seen lifting 900 lbs. She is a rather small woman.
Decades of training, good genetics, and drugs. She seems to have fairly short arms, which helps (less distance to lockout).
I have a slightly higher three-lift total (about 1100lbs) but a way worse bench press (242.5lb). She’s amazingly good at that lift.
The raw bench press record is 739lb, if anyone’s curious.
If you compare the male and female records at the same weights, you will see that there is still a sizable difference. Thompson lifted 141.5kg in the 63kg weight class. The male record in the 66kg weight class (different classes for different sexes) is 188.5kg.
How she does it: great genes, great body type (short hands), juice.
I wonder what those genes do, exactly.
It’s just that when you’re in a gym and you look at people doing upper-body exercises there’s a fairly consistent correlation between certain obviously apparent features such as muscle-mass in proportion to frame and what the person can do. (The correlation is less consistent with lower-body strength.) If you saw Jennifer Thompson in a weight-room you’d maybe guess she could bench 155 pounds at most. (There’s a cube-shaped woman about 4’8″ inches tall at my gym who can do a set of 3 at 165; she doesn’t look look like a human female, while Thompson does.) So there’s something extremely weird about her benching 325.
Sometimes small thin men can bench astonishing amounts too, I know. So I have the same question about them — what’s different about them?
If you’re interested in science as it relates to strength training and bodybuilding, you might check out StrongerByScience (e.g. https://www.strongerbyscience.com/size-vs-strength/). The owner and main author of the site is Greg Nuckols. Reading between the lines of things he’s written, I bet he understands/accepts HBD.
Thanks! Perfect. I’m reading it now.
Greg Nuckols says:
Just a note about Jen Thompson: she’s potentially the biggest outlier female athlete in any sport on the planet. When pooling across all weight classes using allometric scaling, her bench is 6.4 standard deviations from the mean female bench press. Her bench is actually still 2.14 standard deviations from the mean male bench press. There’s a big difference between 98th percentile (where she’d be if she was competing as a man, which is still pretty insane) and a 1 in 13,424,546,173 outlier (which is how she stacks up compared to other women), though.
Caplan is an intelligent guy, but tell me what he’s going to do as a Polish Jew when the nazis occupy your country and start industrialized killing? And then during postwar Poland, as a business owner, when the Bolsheviks come to install a puppet communist dictatorship? Or as a libertine in revolutionary Iran? I don’t think pacifism, the NAP or tolerance will work out for you.
And he’s dead wrong on terrorism or immigration being small problems. They’re small problems, because governments keep them small. When the Caplans get their way, it’s bye-bye Westciv.
Caplan is aided by the fact that, as a libertarian, he believes some things that are incontestably true – that Capitalism outperforms Socialism economically, that Communism was murderous lunacy, that most of our interventions in the Middle East have been counterproductive, etc. As long as your opponents are actually crazy people, such as leftists or neocons, this will get you a long way. But his overall philosophy is still fallacious. He’s the kind of guy who thinks that ordered, more or less peaceful societies just create themselves, which means he know little history and no biology.
JerryC says:
I think the idea is that swamping western countries with immigrants and saying bye-bye to Westciv will prevent the Nazis from reappearing.
Caplan seems amazingly blind to the fact that Westciv won’t exist when enough low IQ third worlders have invaded the country….It’s almost as bad a delusion as not noticing that men are stronger than women…
I’ve had Psych majors tell me that they didn’t think schizophrenia was a mental illness. You can explain to them the low average fitness of schizophrenics, its origins from mutational load, its correlations with stuff like your mother getting the flu during your first trimester- it all goes in one ear and out the other.
I strongly suspect they just fail to answer the mind body problem- they must think that brains exist as a Cartesian conduit for some nonmaterial thought entity rather than an organ subject to selective pressures that exists to aid reproduction. How someone could miss that mark after taking neuroscience courses is beyond me.
Where and how could that idea possibly enter someone’s head- and if they believe it, are they really qualified to do clinical or research psychology in any context at all?
On average, psych majors aren’t very smart. Possibly less sane as well. Clearly they should not be allowed to do psychological research.
ilkarnal says:
I have definitely found that half-remembered, not fully understood bits from high school helped me fully understand and solve chemistry problems years later. Smoothed the path.
But I think the biggest cost of education is being ignored – all those lost years of productivity that could be captured if you gave the little buggers jobs! You could give them ‘humane’ working hours, ‘humane’ conditions, whatever, and still capture a great deal of valuable labor. Building skills and a work record earlier would be a big help.
If the education we’re givibg them is doing them no good, we might as well let them play video games all day or something. Making kids do unpleasant things because it helps them later in life makes sense—making them do unpleasant things that benefit nobody is just dumb.
reiner Tor says:
I think staying in school was probably more beneficial to me than playing video games, would be especially true if the video games taught me that ass-kicking babes were real.
There are quite a few examples now of kids bailing from the education “system” and becoming very successful coders…I know one kid who bailed after HS, started his own business, and the last I heard had about 30 employees.
This is an anecdote, not data, but, when I have to educate myself about something I was exposed to in school, I pick it up much, much fast, than when I have to educated myself about something that is completely new, that I wasn’t ever exposed to previously. It’s like 10x, easily. Even if the stuff I am re-learning is all a total blank when I start. So, some of the neural traces still have to be there, even if they are too faint to spontaneously all fire together at the same time in an attempt at conscious recall. Presumably all it takes is one or two synapses dropping down past some critical threshold to interfere with pulling the whole thought up, spontaneously, but, repairing those few weak places is way easier than laying down a whole new trace, from scratch.
I agree. Continuing your anecdote…
It’s like the information is buried somewhere and you don’t know where till you get a clue from some current information on the same topic. It directs the brain where to start digging. Or something.
I might not remember what the word for X is in French (in Canada, we took French in high school), but if I saw a sentence containing the word there’s a good chance I’d remember it. It would definitely help if was in a sentence, rather than on its own.
Different things are differently. Music, for example, really seems to be easily remembered. Now, you may not remember anything else about it but know you’ve heard that tune. I remember Dave Barry writing a humour column about bizarre pieces of music you’d remember, while forgetting something that you were supposed to do that day.
I totally agree..I don’t really learn anything unless I have explored the ins and outs of the subject on my own time and in my own way. In the process, I typically learn that much of what I was taught in school was simply wrong…
On the other hand, it looks to me as if poorly-digested fragments of information picked up in college have some effect on public policy later in life: it is no coincidence that most prominent people in public life (at a given moment) share a lot of the same ideas
Why do you assume those ideas were picked up years ago in college and are being regurgitated now? Aren’t they just getting those ideas from the media they consume and from their peer groups in present, real time?
Today, maybe a quarter of the population would deny that men, on average, have much greater body strength than women.
Some number will deny it in certain circles but that doesn’t mean they believe it. The number that actually believes it is minisule.
I don’t think people claiming to believe stupid and outlandish things are all lying.
Jews are not smarter on average than the rest of us?
Blacks (or Gypsies in my native Hungary) are not dumber on average than the rest of us?
The Dutch are taller than Greeks because of nutrition?
There are less female politicians or CEOs or scientists because discrimination?
Stereotype threat is real?
Many many many people actually believe these. I personally believed most of it at some point in time. (Perhaps all of it? I’m not sure I ever thought about why the Dutch were taller, but I remember having read something about their consumption of yoghurt.)
Maybe I’m dumber than average. But still.
All the funnier because the builders of Stone Henge and many other ancient structures had a rather precise understanding of such matters…
Oh for sure, on those things you listed many people are actual believers.
But women being of equal strength to men contradicts what anyone who leaves the house, and even some people who don’t leave the house, sees every single day of their lives. I was just saying that for that one in particular, which is the example that Greg used, there aren’t very many true believers.
There is another reason that – few Harvard graduates know the cause of winter and summer.. Maybe they saw too many movies.
There is surprisinly good big Hollywood historical film called “Agora”. It is an attempt to promote the fourth century female Greek philosopher Hypatia. So it is a drama supporting the feminist idea that women are just as good at math and the sciences as men.
But to establish this thesis they make the story revolve around the mystery of the seasons. In the final reel Hypatia figures it out – something no mere man had ever been able to do. She realizes that the earth’s orbit is not circular as everyone hitherto had thought. She explains that at some times of the year the earth is closer to the sun (summer) and sometimes further (winter). The picture ends and the screen explains to the audience that the great Hypatia was the first person to ever figure this out.
As I’m sure the readership of this blog all surely realize, this is nonsense. There is no mention of axial tilt but this goofy idea that our planet’s orbit is highly elliptical and that this causes the seasons. What is even more depressing is that no reviewer seems to have noticed the error. This is a multimillion dollar production with big sets and major stars that purports to convey real history to the viewing public.
Really? I can hardly believe that. An entire movie was produced and not a single person told them…?
ghazisiz says:
And a movie starring Rachel Weisz…
The ancient Greeks actually made some measurements of the yearly variation in the apparent size of the solar disk which of course is quite small. Probably their measurements were not very accurate. At any rate they knew that the distance from the Earth to the Sun does not vary much over the year. About 5 million kilometers compared to an average distance of about 150 million kilometers.
That’s especially funny since that would presumably cause a year to have two summers and two winters. Although I guess these people are also not aware that the calendar year is based on the orbital period of the earth.
Gkai says:
Really? The attraction center is at one focal point of the ellipse, not at the center, so no, it’s wrong, fly in the face of easy observations, but it’s not that stupid…
To be fair to Harvard, a fairly recent survey of Princeton students (described in a FB article!) disclosed that about 1/3 of them couldn’t locate the dates of the Civil War within 50 years…
Gerbil says:
That’s because they all know the event as ‘The War Between the States’.
Difference Maker says:
Not sure whether to be pleased I never finished this movie
SMack says:
Here’s a real mystery about Caplan. How can the same guy who wrote “Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids” and “The Case Against Education” (which taken together argue that people are who they are thanks to heredity, and that neither parents nor teachers can shape them into anything they aren’t), how can the same guy also believe that immigrants become practitioners of Western Civ. simply by crossing a line on a map?
It’s a genuinely odd dissonance, dwelling in that boy’s head. Most people who want open borders also believe humans are infinitely malleable. At least they’re consistent. Most people who admit the existence of human nature want nothing to do with open borders.
Bryan’s the only guy I’ve ever seen who KNOWS what the twin-adoption studies show, and STILL wants to throw the gates wide open.
Good point, FYI here is his response to Hive mind:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/11/a_swarm_of_thou.html
I can easily imagine Hive Mind inspiring a wave of IQ NIMBYism. I can also imagine it reinvigorating Soviet-style emigration restrictions to fight “brain drain.” This doesn’t mean Garett’s wrong, any more than nuclear war would invalidate Einstein’s theory of relativity. But it’s a sobering thought – and Garett doesn’t seem sobered by it.
Wow, that’s a disappointing response for someone operating at Caplan’s level. At one point he pretty much says “Garrett should be more worried about people who might take his evidence against open borders and use it as evidence against open borders”.
Sounds like a confession that he’s willing to bury evidence when it gets in the way of converting his moral intuitions into national policies.
The appeal to transnational adoption studies isn’t great either. First of all because it’s crazy to keep the migrants flowing while we wait for that data to accumulate until even Bryan’s can no longer ignore it.
Most of all because Bryan knows damn well what those adoptions studies will show. It’ll be the same thing they always show, which is the opposite of what he wants.
Transracial adoption meta-analysis: Van Ijzendoorn et al (2005) – Clear Language, Clear Mind
I’m afraid the simple truth is that it’s in the nature of his own people to consistently try to do just that.
Know what you mean, not sure I buy it.
Though I admit sometimes Caplan comes across in such a way, you wonder if Kevin MacDonald planted him for propaganda.
There was probably at some time a fitness advantage for the genes that allow someone to be able to understand certain facts and yet espouse opinions invalidated by those facts.
All economists believe in open borders because it lowers wages.
It must be an axiom.
Caplan spoke at our university maybe 7 years ago. His talk was about immigration–an event I avoided since I didn’t trust myself to keep quiet. A colleague squired him around and told me afterwards that Caplan talked a lot about twin studies, as if he had just discovered them. Considering that this was about 14 years after Judith Rich Harris’ book, he was not exactly with the zeitgeist. I was amazed that he was unable to put two and two together to see the problem about immigration, and my best guess is that he was hanging on to the old Lewontin thing about only within-group genetic differences existing (not between-group). This would allow him to retain his advocacy for open borders, which are a kind of article of faith among libertarian economists, and Caplan definitely values his membership in that libertarian tribe.
He’d be shunned by economists if he came down against immigration. And I do mean shunned in the way certain religions will shun someone who leaves it.
That may be the best explanation. There could be large numbers of people in prestigious positions who know darn well about the IQ problem but it would affect their personal life so badly they choose to not speak of it.
There’s no way to tell.
But there is one way prestigious economists could help. Get behind a “point-based” system of evaluating immigrants. We have in Canada (unless that unspeakable idiot Trudeau has done away with it)
I can’t bring myself to read news very carefully.
I’m already suffering enough depression and anxiety that I’ll be on meds for the rest of my life. My sister passes along big news.
“There’s no way to tell.” Tickle them?
Why is it so hard to believe for ppl that openborderite economists are sincere?
We’ve just had a century with ideologists of all stripes Jacobins, fascists, nazis, bolsheviks, anarchists, progressives and 100s of others showing everyone utopianist dreams to supersede reason — to the point of murderous insanity.
Clearly: these ppl are both insane AND sincere.
Rodep says:
My impression of Trudeau, and the Liberals more broadly, is that they parrot all the social justice talking points, but mostly ignore it when it comes to making actual decisions. Not that their brand of semi-competent cynical centrism doesn’t have it’s own issues, but it’s better than actually drinking the Kool-Aid.
For instance, my impression of their handling of the refugee crisis was: 1) Make a bunch of tweets and speeches about how welcoming Canada is, 2) Welcome enough refugees to make Canada look welcoming of refugees, 3) Limit the inflow to exactly that many.
That said, I haven’t been following too closely. It might just seem this way because I’m surrounded by lefties who hate that he isn’t lefty enough.
What about the Liberal plan to get the population of Canada up to 100 million (it’s about 30 million now)? This is so upsetting to me that I’m ignoring articles about it. But maybe you can read this approving Globe & Mail article (OK, I read enough to see that they aiming for that by 2100).
But just having this plan is awful. They’ll have to get started somehow. I’m not worrying about myself, but I do have children and grandchildren.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/immigration-how-a-bigger-canada-benefits-us-all/article32302399/
Is that a Liberal plan? As for as I can see, it’s a former banker who started a non-profit to promote a policy he likes. (the editorial itself is written by him, too)
Why can’t these idiots see they’re proposing something that can’t be a long term solution.
All you hear from economists is growth, growth and more growth. How long can you keep that up? You don’t have to be an economic whiz to see the long term problem.
Japan has stopped growing and won’t take immigrants. So maybe they’re less prosperous than they could be. But what they’re doing can be continued. If the population drops enough, I predict fertility rate will increase to replacement level. Of course I can’t prove that.
But I can predict what will happen if we continue what we’re doing. I’m no “white nation” advocate I do think we should carefully vet all immigrants.
The New York Times is furious because they think Trump wants to stop the “browning of America.”
Japan is very mountainous with little arable land. They are way overpopulated.
Trudeau better be promoting global warming like crazy if he wants Canada to have 100 million people. It’s the only way it could work.
I thought I was the only one in Canada having that problem based in part on public events, news, and what fellow Canadians talk about around me. Glad to not be the only one.
It’s like living in a totalitarian yet cuddly and smiley-faced nuthouse.
“She explains that at some times of the year the earth is closer to the sun (summer) and sometimes further (winter).” No wonder a mob of pedants tore her apart.
Philip Neal says:
I was at Oxford in the 1980s and worked in universities in the 1990s, just the time when old-fashioned workerism was giving way to political correctness. I don’t know where the new ideas came from but it wasn’t the lecturers, who were mostly traditional Labour supporters. In my limited experience, students are already left wing when they arrive and open indoctrination takes place at other points.
One is the schools between the ages of 10 and 13, when children are encouraged to “think for themselves” about the alleged problems of the world. These have of course varied with the years. Forty-odd years ago I was informed by adults I respected that by the end of the 1980s Britain would have a one-child policy to prevent overpopulation and that a scarcity of fossil fuels would lead to the disappearance of the motor car. Last Christmas I heard my bright 10 year old nephew announce that he wanted to explore the Amazon one day, but that “50% of species” would be extinct by then. He had plainly been taught this as undisputed fact. British education is specialised – three subjects from 16, one from 18 – and once beliefs like this have been acquired, there is little reason or opportunity to revise them.
The other is in the pseudo-universities, former vocational colleges where Jack the Lad learns sports management or photography and has his mind broadened with Theory, Frankfurt School nonsense tacked on to a purely practical course to turn it into a subject fit for future Bachelors of Arts.
I don’t know what “butt-kicking babes” means. I don’t think I’ve heard that expression before. Can you explain?
Smithie says:
Kicking butt (along with variants) is an idiom. It means easily prevailing in a fight, to the point of embarrassing someone. Babe, in this case, of course, means a good-looking woman.
Ex: a supermodel defeating three or four Marines.
I’ve heard the phrase “kicking butt” but I’m having trouble remembering if it referred to physical fighting or was more metaphorical.
I am positive I’ve never used the expression. What do you mean a supermodel and three Marines? What context?
Maybe it’s because I’m a woman. It’s not a phrase women use. At least not the ones I know.
Fight scenes where some 5 foot 6, 140 pound woman beats up a whole group of men effortlessly. You see it in all sorts of action films.
Here is a standard example. This sort of thing is very much directed at men.
OK, I see what you mean now. Such films don’t interest me, but thanks for the help. Thanks to gay_weed_dad too!
In general, it can be physical fighting (with kicking or not) or metaphorical. Some added meaning comes from the context of the blog post. As it is basically a Hollywood trope that a slim woman may take heavy blows from several large, powerful, and skilled men at once, roll with them, and give back heavier blows, knocking the men senseless or even killing them.
I realize you are supposed to suspend disbelief and Hollywood is about sex appeal. But my criticism of it would be that it is usually poor art – not proper spectacle – unless the woman has enormous acrobatic skill, like Michelle Yeoh did in her prime. That wouldn’t make it much more realistic, just more entertaining.
But the whole point is less that movies are unrealistic and more that many currently seem to believe that women and men are physically interchangeable. For instance, there was recently some TV drama where a woman became a baseball star playing on a professional men’s team. I never watched it, but heard a young, egalitarian man make the ridiculous argument that because women have better manual dexterity, they would make good baseball players. He (a college grad) was obviously confusing manual dexterity for hand-eye coordination, but generally ignoring evolutionary theory. Males fighting each other, or needing to take down big game in order to mate successfully.
Whereas in the real world, actresses can’t even fend off a decrepit tub of goo like Harvey Weinstein, let alone take down a squad of Marines.
The Weinstein problem involved more than physical strength.
We are having fun here. But no one mentioned picking up the Tom Lehrer reference, so I’ll claim first on that.
First, Randall Parker’s idea that an appealing wrong answer influencing the result seems right. Human beings need to have an explanation, even a bad one. Few can tolerate leaving the answer they believe in and going out into the void, awaiting further review. This is how minds are changed – not by brute force in a single application (usually), but by having a plausible alternative that some people believe and finding one’s own view less and less tenable. We are loyal to our opinions. We don’t start from zero every morning. This can make the conversion look swift and very complete, when it has actually been gradual but subterranean.
I don’t think warrior princesses and womyn’s studies are the overwhelming causes of the refusal to believe upper-body-strength reality, though they contribute. It starts early, in schools favoring conscientiousness, attentiveness, and fine-motor coordination and thus females, run by females who daily reward girls as “better.” Into this mix we have a societal arc that has allowed women into professions where they actually do turn out to be as good, near as good, or even better. The Grrl Power idea grows up that all these things they said women can’t do will eventually turn out to be socially-conditioned nonsense. There is an underlying narrative that Explains Everything. At this point confirmation bias kicks in and people acquire a lot of supporting evidence. Before puberty, the upper body strength of girls is closer (though not equal). There are female tennis players who are better than nearly all men. Textbooks and popular culture feature stories of girls doing strong things. Movies, comics, D&D, video games…
Finally, there is tribal loyalty. People do not want to even have the wrongthink of believing that femaleses are less good at anything. Some lie, knowing or suspecting the truth, but others really sign on to the “If we gave girls hockey sticks when they were two…” belief. Yet even beyond that, one shows loyalty by believing the tribe when the evidence is against it. ANYONE can be loyal when you are reasonable. True loyalty is sticking with the tribe even when the evidence is against you. Scott Alexander over at Star Slate Codex wrote an excellent essay on that. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ He and his commenters reference this blog from time to time, BTW.
I put it this way, a while ago: “When you think about it, falsehoods, stupid crap, make the best group identifiers, because anyone might agree with you when you’re obviously right. Signing up to clear nonsense is a better test of group loyalty. A true friend is with you when you’re wrong. Ideally, not just wrong, but barking mad, rolling around in your own vomit wrong.”
You just explained the Credo quia absurdum doctrine. I always wondered if it was nonsense. It is not.
Someone on twitter caught it first – got all the way to “sliding down the razor blade of life”. Which I explained is now called “transitioning”
One way to test how deep these ideas run is to check cases of assault of women by men. One could see if there has been an increase in women who try to fight off their assailants over the last few decades.
People try to fight back in a life or death situation instinctively.
I have one anecdote: when my daughter was about 10 or so, her friend called her upset that “Mummy is hurting Daddy.” In a situation like that if I thought that anyone would be seriously hurt I would have called the police.
Although the mother was a large, beefy, bad-tempered woman and the father was mild tempered and of slim build, it didn’t cross my mind to call anyone. Very few people in Canada have hand guns in their home so that scenario was very unlikely. The father was not ill or disabled in any way. I thought it impossible that she could serious injure him. If she’d even had a knife it might alarming but wouldn’t the daughter have mentioned it?
And in the event, I was right. No injuries.
This is true, but back when people believed that women had no hope of winning in a fight with a man, a larger portion of them might have tried to run away than is the case now.
When I started in mental health there were many who still believed that schizophrenia came from unresolved developmental conflicts or double-bind family systems, or that autism came from cold, rejecting parenting. I stopped seeing that by the 1990’s, but it still comes up from time to time now. You’d think that people who actually dealt with hundreds of schizophrenics couldn’t possibly believe that, but they did.
Making the Harvard/earth orbit story even worse is that Cambridge is far enough above the equator that days do get noticeably shorter and longer over the year, which should be an additional clue.
As to learning, I think dlr is correct that something once learned, even if forgotten, is easier to access. Memory is like cross-referenced filing cabinets, which is why you search for a word under many categories “It’s a longish word, begins with a ‘u’…maybe Germanic…” The labels on the folders and the cross-references fade, but if you can get into the right drawer and flip through, or if you start to look it up and do much-easier recognition memory, other information can suddenly be available. Bright minds learn things, whatever is lying around, which is why 60’s nerds read cereal boxes and liner notes on albums. As they will acquire quantity on their own, and can’t help but pick up a ton of what everyone is talking and writing about, it becomes important to pay attention to the quality of what they learn. As a tribe’s narrative tends to hang together pretty well, even if it is wrong, the college-bound/in college/went to college tribe has beliefs that reinforce each other, and are thus constantly used. Information that contradicts, or is even just outside the many narratives, are cups that have no shelves or cuphooks to go on.
Charles W Abbott says:
“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever, get it out.”
Attributed to Cardinal Wolsey, re: King Henry VIII. Wikiquote has details.
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It does seem that certain things just end up there in the memory synapses. Yes to the cereal box, album liner notes, and song lyrics in general. And also “Half-remembered fragments of bad advice,” as mentioned in the beginning of the novel Snow Crash.
crew says:
OT but there are claims there were Pygmies in Australia up until 1960 or so:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/
I am not sure what to think.
Joseph Hertzlinger says:
“Today, maybe a quarter of the population would deny that men, on average, have much greater upper body strength than women. That fraction is almost certainly higher in people with a college education.”
I think this needs a statistical study. After all, the percentage of college grads in favor of nuclear energy is higher then the percentage of non-college grads.
I enjoyed my undergraduate days enormously and also learned tons of stuff that I used in later life. It may be relevant that in those days only about 5% of my age cohort went to university. And quite a few of them were failed: the heaving out at the end of first year was fairly brutal, and there were further losses at the end of second and third years.
I also greatly enjoyed secondary school. I don’t remember much about primary school but I do remember being bored silly. Consequently I propose we abolish primary school but retain secondary school and university.
dux.ie says:
Re: “””Caplan said that only about 5 percent of Americans should go to a four-year college.”””
Previously I suggested that in USA due to the high under-employment of university graduates, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_unemployment#College_major_by_underemployment_rate , it might be more cost effective to reduce the population %graduate from about 40% to 13% in line with the norms for the global developed countries. Otherwise it might be an expensive way to train burger flippers or basement computer gamers. Example of under-employment https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/business/dealbook/states-say-navient-preyed-on-students.html
For USA the uni entry IQ for various university majors estimated from the SAT scores are available, http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-college-major/ . Merging the above data with the under-employment data showed that there are finer grain obvious characteristics. The merged data naturally split into two clusters with noticeable demarcation between them (strangely at IQ 115) and the cluster characteristics are opposite and statistically significant. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=10n5ph5&s=9
For uni courses entry IQ (or SAT score) ≤ 115, it is strange that in the real world the %UnderEmploy increases with IQ, as if running away from courses like EarlyChildhood, Primary and Secondary Teaching or the lure of becoming multinational CEOs. Alternatively it could be that the universities dispite the high demand (and hence might be able to raise the entry scores) for those high %UnderEMp courses have decided to keep the min entry scores low to admit more students and hence having more tuition fees income. Or it might have something to do with diversity quota.
For uni courses entry IQ > 115, the %UnderEMp decreases with IQ as commonly expected, with increasing entry scores and reducing student numbers, the prestige of the courses imporve and less graduates are under-employed.
Because of the conflicting trends of the two clusters, on the left hand side it might be better to de-emphasize academic merits whereas the right hand side it is just the opposite, it might be apporpriate to split the universities into two types of independent organizations with different teaching strategy, just like the German system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany#Types_of_universities . The actual USA data implicitly showed that the min uni entry IQ should be 115 as in other developed countries.
This was posted elsewhere concerning if IQ affect graduate salaryies. The naturally occurring demarcation uni major entry IQ at 115 not only more or less influence the mindset of the graduates resulting in might be better teaching strategies and uni organization, it might also influence the graduates’ later job performance and salary levels and the perceptions of the employers and the market places on the values of the graduates.
It is usual that people live and interact with people of the about the same abilty and background and it is understandable that they tend to extraplote from that position. However, to be able to draw conclusion across wider population a more comprehensive hard data are needed. The median wage early career data from the Fed is given here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_unemployment#College_major_by_underemployment_rate . The university major entry IQ estimated from the SAT score is available here, http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estimates-by-intended-college-major/ . Merging the above data gives two charts.
With respect to the under-employment rate it is clearer that the data split naturally into two clusters with the demarcation IQ about 115. http://tinypic.co/view.php?pic=10n5ph5&s=9
With respect to the median wage using the demarcation IQ at 115, the characteristics are also different for the two clusters, http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30ms2n8&s=9
For uni major entry IQ ≤ 115, there are no statistical significant trend within the range 103 ~ 115. The higher wage outliers are those dealing with confidential information (BusinessAdmin, Accounting) or life situation (Nursing, MedicalTechnician), otherwise statistically the salaries are not dependent on IQ. However, for uni major entry IQ > 115, the wage level statistically increasing with uni major entry IQ,
MedianEarly = +1791.41*IQ -178043; # n=36; Rsq=0.4013; p=3.367e-05 *** (very signigficant)
In this region on average each additional IQ point increases wage by $1791. STEM courses entry IQs are about 10 IQ points above 115, not to mention the lower than average rates of under-employment (defined as graduate working in a job not requiring a degree).
Your world view most probably depend on where you are.
Marvelous and sly Heinlein reference, and to my favorite Heinlein book to boot! Dr. Russell would be proud.
I referenced Euclid, George Orwell, and Josh Billings. Not just Heinlein.
Thought I detected Richard Halliburton. Still do. But that wasn’t a winking one, so maybe it doesn’t count.
kot says:
Caplan has his shtick where he pretends to be schizoid/Asbergerish and thus has to re-derive basic social constructs from scratch. Or maybe he’s not pretending.
It’s a useful perspective sometimes, but other times he’s just beating around the bush.
He does seem autistic. Could he be faking it?
I’d think that it’s impossible to fake the positive qualities of autism (high IQ, powerful depth-first problem solving, large working memory). It’d be like faking that you can shoot a three-pointer. You either have the ability or you don’t.
The bad qualities of autism (social incompetence, etc) are easy enough to mimic. I don’t know what advantage he gains from that, though.
He has a wife and a large family, which is a bit unusual. Like Greg, he’s homeschooling his kids. Well, to be correct, he’s enrolling his kids in the “Caplan Family School”, with a 9-point attendance contract. The prom is going to suck.
God, I hope so.
Kn83 says:
The fantasy of butt-kicking babes is nothing new. There are numerous examples of it throughout world mythology and folklore. And its actually more popular in many non-western cultures (which don’t care about feminism) like Japan than in the P.C. West. Not everything has to have some sociopolitical cause. A lot men like it because they simply thing is cool (and sexy).
Brünhilde from the Nibelungenlied is definitely one memorable example, but arguably there are even older ones. Scáthach who trained Cú Chulainn. The Amazons.
Good point about Japan. I think part of that comes from anime being a more fluid medium – easier to frame an action sequence in diverse ways than live action. Plus fantasy being more in the mainstream. But Japan doesn’t have the same political power dynamic being monoethnic, so there is less reason for egalitarian subtext to be added.
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English Professor says:
The information about the failure of Harvard students to know the cause of the seasons may be out of date. From the little bit I could find on the topic, the evidence goes back to the 1980s.
I teach at a so-so university in the Midwest. This semester I’m teaching a course for honors freshmen on the nature of Modernity. One of our topics is the rise of science. So out of the blue I asked them to write down what causes the seasons. 17 out of the 21 students in the class used some version of the phrase axial tilt. (Of the 4 who got it wrong, two mentioned the idea of the earth being closer to the sun in summer, and two simply wrote something vague about the earth circling the sun.) These are all above-average students, but I doubt that any of them would have got into Harvard. Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if the original Harvard survey, which had to be embarrassing, didn’t cause a change in high-school teaching on this particular subject. The students may be generally ill-informed on other topics of basic science.
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Long road back to trust: bank CEOs
The heads of two of Australia's biggest banks have acknowledged the institutions took too long to address misconduct that was eventually uncovered by a royal commission.
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn and Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer have also admitted the banks have their work cut out for them to regain the public's trust.
The sentiments emerged while the bosses were being grilled by federal politicians at a parliamentary hearing in Canberra.
Mr Comyn, who took up the top job at the Commonwealth Bank six months ago, said the bank had been too slow to fix customer service problems because it had become complacent.
"There have unfortunately been failures of judgment, failures of process, failures of leadership, and in some instances, greed," he said.
"We've been too slow to identify problems, too slow to fix underlying issues, and too slow to put things right for customers.
"We became complacent."
Westpac was also too slow to grapple with customer issues, particularly in its financial advice services area, Mr Hartzer said.
"We weren't quick enough to identify and fix the problems, and we accept the consequences of this delay," he said.
The leaders laid bare the steps the banks have taken to turn things around, with both stressing they have improved accountability by clarifying exactly what each of their senior executives are liable for.
The leaders also noted the banks have changed incentives for those working at branches.
Other reforms at the Commonwealth Bank have included strengthening lending processes and making it simpler for customers to choose products.
Heads have rolled at the Commonwealth Bank over misconduct, Mr Cormyn revealed, with 41 people sacked so far this year and nine stepping down while being investigated.
Mr Hartzer said improving the way Westpac deals with complaints has been central to its response, with a new group executive hired to oversee complaints handling.
But neither chief executive is under any illusions about how long rebuilding trust will take.
"From an overall reputation point of view, this is obviously going to take years to restore," Mr Hartzer said.
Mr Cormyn said his bank's recent changes are only the beginning.
"I accept that, and understand that you will judge me, and the Commonwealth Bank, on our actions."
The hearing comes two weeks after banking royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne QC delivered an interim report, blaming greed and the pursuit of profit for the widespread misconduct in the banking and financial services industries.
ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott will appear at the hearing on Friday, while National Australia Bank boss Andrew Thorburn will appear a week later.
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[Suggestions] Just a "few" changes
By Hye Kyung, August 7, 2018 in =ADK= Discord Community
Heyo! I've only just got back to ADK after being away for quite some time, thought I'd leave a mark by making a few suggestions to your lovely discord server and the community as a whole! Commence the walls of text!
1. Less channels but more channels with purpose! - So something I've noticed is that a lot of the channels aren't being used currently and it's using up a lot of space. I think it's a shame that there are so many channels covering up the active ones and it would be awesome if we could cut some of these less used ones out and try to put more focus onto the games! For example I think the Admin/member of the month could be removed and pushed into announcements and then when those sorts of announcements are made, they could be pinned and the member could be given a tag to represent that MVM.
Maybe it'd also be a plan to cut out some of the less played games, so only the popular games (for now) have their own sections dedicated to them it means that when people come along that really love a particular game (like I love heroes of the storm) we can try to put in effort to make our player base big enough to deserve a section all to ourselves!
It also feels as though too many channels that aren't accessible by normal members or below are visible, it's cluttery and difficult to figure out what you're able to do and not, while I appreciate it the old Teamspeak times I think it'd be cool to make use of the awesome streamlined options that discord itself has to offer
2. Admin roles aren't defined in the welcome channel (also why isn't it called a welcome channel) - At the moment if you aren't experienced with ADK or don't take the time to view the roles on the website, or maybe you forgot and need to remind yourself, there's no way view these roles in an easy way. it'd be awesome if the welcoming channel mentioned the admin roles and who to look out for, not just for the users, but to bring a bit of attention to our beloved admins who put their efforts into looking out for us and our community.
3. Incentive for joining in with game nights, events, town halls, and other weekly gatherings! - Currently there's no real incentive to join in with events, it'd be really awesome if we had some sort of point system in place to track our time spend at events, maybe this could be tied into being a full fledged member. At the start of each event you could take attendance of each member who has shown up to the event, even giving bonus points to those who posted on the forums and then shown up! This would gamify the gatherings, and make it easier to track for member of the month!
4. Interviews! Get out our recruitment admins and get them to talk to new members, give them a helping hand into the community until they find their feet! - I always loved an interview system, and thought it was a seriously important part of bringing new people into the fold, it demonstrates the importance of our community and how much we care about who joins. I know that this is a time consuming one, but this all could be condensed down into googledocs or something similar to try to make the interview flow faster, it'll be easier to explain systems like the incentive system on voice if that was to come into play, and you can also take the individual and introduce them into a current group of players. I have a firm belief that as a recruiter you don't just bring people into the community, you make sure they are situated and happy, that's what we're all here for at the end of the day.
A recruit role would be perfect for this too, being able to see the difference between the lurkers who joined only to not take part, and those who joined to have their interview would be perfect for the application process here on the forums!
5. Too many admin roles for discord to look nice, maybe condense some down into each other? - I can imagine this is going to be something people will disagree with, mainly because I know teamspeak allowed for you to have tons of roles and it looked good doing it. But maybe it's time to try to shorten the list a little and condense these roles into each other, maybe making good use of the none separate tags.
6. Keep Donor channels hidden from other members unless Donor asks for it to be opened for particular people? - Another idea that might not sound so good, but the reason I suggest this is because it's adding to a lot of the clutter that's currently in the server section again taking away from all the games that are being actively played.
7. Some harsher rules for channels and using images without much context? - Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between the general chat and the spam chat, maybe it'd be an idea to enforce harsher rules for this and to set discussion titles for the channels in question?
8. Limit new users to a "NEW USER" category? - They have access to view the rules and the welcome, and have an intro chat. The intro chat can have a welcome message that pings certain admins to come and "interview" them or give them a guest tag. This could stop spam in the normal chats and allow the admins to be the ones to integrate new members rather than trolls etc running rampant if they were to come across the server. The intro server will be hidden once the user has tags, as it should be only visible to brand new users and admins.
That's all I have at the moment, I'm sure there's a lot of things that can be done to make things just a little better around here, but hey one step at a time . Hopefully in any next discussions these could be brought up somewhere ^^. Oh also just for clarification sakes, my discord name is Zheran I just haven't gotten around to changing my name on here yet.
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boi, i could give a paper on what i think should be done.
7 hours ago, SLIMJIM said:
So... Is this all wishful thinking then?
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@Hye Kyung I appreciate the time and effort you put forth with your post.. @CaGregorio will talk over your suggestions and get back with you.. Thanks for being a member of ADK and welcome back!
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On 8/8/2018 at 5:31 AM, Hye Kyung said:
Thank you for this. Looking into some of these things
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The big super funds are targeting self-managed super – a popular choice for small business owners – over burgeoning borrowing for property investment. And the push is on to make the $20,000 write-down facility permanent. Here’s what to watch for in next month’s Federal Budget.
It’s shaping up as the battle of the big guns against the little guys.
The big super funds are calling for a crackdown on self-managed super funds (SMSFs) borrowing to invest in property.
It puts at risk an increasingly popular wealth-creation strategy for business owners: to use Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements (LRBA) to buy their own commercial premises through SMSFs.
In the past 10 years, banks and non-bank lenders have been issuing loans products to target the growing SMSF market, promoting them as a way for business owners to buy commercial premises through their super fund.
In a pre-budget submission, the big super funds’ peak body, The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has called on the government to end direct borrowing by superannuation funds because it is becoming too risky.
“The amount of funds borrowed using LRBAs has increased substantially from $497 million in June 2009 to $25.4 billion in June 2016, an increase of around 5,000 per cent,” the ASFA submission states.
The submission argues direct borrowing, even through LRBAs, puts retirement savings at risk
if investments go south. Taxpayers may end up carrying the can, through the provision of aged pensions, the ASFA claims.
The association acknowledges only about seven per cent of SMSFs were currently using LRBAs,
but it states half of these had more than 80 per cent of the fund’s total assets in LRBAs.
“This indicates a lack of diversification within such funds.”
The big super funds’ position echoes that of David Murray’s 2014 Financial System Inquiry, which also recommended an end to direct borrowing through superannuation.
Acknowledging the difficulty of unwinding existing arrangements, the ASFA pre-budget submissions calls for an end to borrowing, leaving current loans in place.
“ASFA considers any changes to the arrangements should involve removing the ability to enter into LRBA arrangements in the future,” the submission states.
With the 2018/19 Budget to be handed down on May 8, the big super funds are also hoping the government will crack down on sham contracting.
The rise of the ‘gig economy’ has many in the industry, and in government, concerned about stagnant super balances. To that end, the ASFA submission also urges the government to increase penalties and lower the bar for prosecuting business caught using sham contracting arrangements.
If a worker is classified as a contractor, rather than employee, businesses are not obliged to pay benefits such as superannuation or annual leave. While more flexible work practices have caused confusion, many employers have been found to have deliberately misrepresented staff to avoid super obligations.
The legislation currently requires the employer’s error to have been reckless, but ASFA backs a Productivity Commission call for the Fair Work Act to be amended to allow prosecution where the classification was something an employer could be reasonably expected to know.
In other pre-budget submissions, small business industry groups are pushing to have the government’s popular $20,000 instant asset write-off scheme for small business made permanent. At present, it is set to end on June 30, reverting to $1,000.
Introduced in the 2015/16 budget, the write-down facility aims to encourage small businesses
with turnover up to $10 million to invest in new equipment by allowing them to claim accelerated depreciation on items up to $20,000 in value.
Tax and Super Australia, which represents tax agents, argue in their pre-budget submission that constantly changing thresholds cause confusion for SMEs and the $20,000 limit should not merely be extended, as was done in 2017/18, but made permanent.
“This ($20,000) threshold is having a real effect in the small business community in both encouraging investment in productive assets and reducing compliance burdens,” the submission states.
The Council of Small Business Australia (COSBOA) also supports making the $20,000 threshold permanent, and renews its support for the establishment of a small business investment allowance
to facilitate greater deductions on assets above $20,000 and up to $2 million.
On the productivity front, COSBOA also calls for mental health programs aimed at small business owners and the introduction of federally-funded domestic violence leave, which could be more impactful for small businesses that often lacked the resources to respond effectively.
Pre-budget submission from a range of industry and interest groups can be viewed on the Treasury website.
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Academy Software Foundation Announces NVIDIA as Premier Member
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Ftrack and Red Hat Become General Members
The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a neutral forum for open source software development in the motion picture and media industries, announced that NVIDIA has joined the Foundation as a Premier member, and ftrack and Red Hat have joined as General members.
“We are very excited to welcome NVIDIA, ftrack, and Red Hat as new members,” said David Morin, Executive Director of the Academy Software Foundation at the Linux Foundation. “These companies have a wealth of expertise across graphics, open source, and project management that will be beneficial to our communities and our projects as we continue to grow.”
Launched in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Linux Foundation, ASWF provides a neutral forum for open source software developers to share resources and collaborate on technologies for image creation, visual effects, animation and sound. The Foundation is home to OpenVDB and OpenColorIO, and announced that OpenEXR and OpenCue have also been accepted as Foundation projects. More details on that announcement are available here.
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“NVIDIA is committed to developing technologies that support the motion picture industry through accelerated graphics, 3D rendering, AI and deep learning, simulation and virtual production. Already a member of the Linux Foundation, we’re looking forward to working with the Academy Software Foundation to help shape the future of this creative industry,” said John Ison, Director of Media & Entertainment Partnerships at NVIDIA.
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“At ftrack we are firm believers in the open source model and its importance in the growth and advancement of software development in the movie-making industry. As such, we’re very proud to join the Academy Software Foundation and play a part in its vital initiative. The visual effects industry is built on collaboration – we make several ftrack components and extensions free to use, share and modify, and actively encourage customization of ftrack via our API with this in mind. The more our users can benefit from inventive new approaches to production tracking, the better the projects they produce and the more the industry can thrive. We’re excited to align with the ASWF in this goal and work to support a better, stronger open source community for all,” said Fredrik Limsäter, CEO at ftrack.
“Open source technologies have been a source of innovation for the motion picture and broader media industry for many years, and Red Hat has been proud to collaborate with many of the leaders in this space to both enable their adoption of open source and to progress technologies in a way that has enabled this innovation. We’re happy to join the Academy Software Foundation to expand this work and drive open standards that deliver sustainable interoperability,” said Chris Wright, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat.
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Australian couple staying in B.C. says fires in their state double the size of Vancouver Island
The fire burning near Jillian Dirou and Ross McKinney’s home in New South Wales was about 500 metres away on Saturday. (Courtesy of Jilllian Dirou)
A photo from the Australian wildfires burning in New South Wales. (Courtesy of Jillian Dirou)
The Eucumbene dam wall near Jillian Dirou and Ross McKinney’ home in New South Wales. (Courtesy of Jillian Dirou)
Jillian Dirou and Ross McKinney said the wildfires that are ravaging Australia, their home country, were not only expected but serve as a warning to other parts of the world as well.
“It’s unprecedented, never before experienced, but not unexpected,” said McKinney. “Scientists and experienced people like myself have been telling the politicians for years that this will happen.”
Ross McKinney and Jillian Dirou are house-sitting in Metchosin, B.C.. They are constantly monitoring the wildfires in New South Wales, Australia, which are 500 metres from their home. (Shalu Mehta/News Staff)
The couple has made a village called Eucumbene Cove in New South Wales, bordering a national park, their home for nearly 30 years. Right now, the wildfires are burning about 500 metres from their house and the one closest to their home is 120,000 acres large.
Dirou and McKinney left Australia in November to house-sit for a friend in Metchosin, just outside of Victoria B.C., but have remained in constant contact with friends and family back home and have been monitoring the situation from afar.
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They said their attitude about being in Canada during the wildfires in mixed. Dirou has severe asthma and would have been “another casualty” if they stayed.
Before they left for Canada, they prepared everything they could for the fire. Brushes and shrubs around their home were cleared, no trees are hanging over the house, the gutters are full of water, sprinkler hoses are in the front and back yards and a friend is watching their home.
“If he gets the order to evacuate, he will turn on the tap and leave,” McKinney said.
The fires in their state alone – not including Queensland or Victoria – are double the size of Vancouver Island. The fires in Australia have killed at least 26 people and have destroyed more than 2,000 homes and a significant amount of wildlife, including 30 per cent of the koala population.
On Saturday, the couple said aerial support was present, keeping watch on the main fire and prepared to drop water bombs. Bulldozers and graders are also being used to widen containment lines.
When the couple left their home the fires weren’t in their area yet.
“When we left, I knew the fires were on the north coast and I thought ‘surely not, but if…’ and I just took a really long look,” Dirou said. “We thought it was all over last Saturday but there was a bit of a wind change, the temperature dropped, a light rain … and the whole situation changed.”
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The fires sparked again a few days later and their friend could see the flames clearly from their front deck.
McKinney, who was born in Edmonton, has 25 years of experience working with the National Parks and Wildlife Service in New South Wales, Australia. He had the highest field position in his state and worked in fire control. He also consults with bush fire management planning and was the assistant director with the Federal Department of Environment. Since retiring, McKinney has become very vocal about his concerns for the environment and the threat of bush fires.
He has written several letters to politicians, ministers and local news outlets about his concerns, asking what government officials will do to mitigate disasters such as these. His letters, however, have gone unanswered.
McKinney said the National Parks and Wildlife Service budget was reduced by $120 million and that over 200 firefighters were made redundant by that action. He said those firefighters were the ones who helped out Canada since the two countries’ fire seasons are opposite each other. However, the seasons have begun to cross over with fires in Australia starting in September this year. He said the window of opportunity to perform controlled burns has also shrunk.
“This is a warning,” McKinney said. “It’s a warning for any country to look at Australia and say ‘wow, could this happen here?’”
Dirou said they faced massive fires in 2003 as well. They fought them for five weeks and managed to save their home.
“I was traumatized,” Dirou said. “It was the first time I had experienced fires like that.”
But the ones occurring now bring on a new level of anxiety for the couple and many others, they said.
“People are battle-weary,” Dirou said. “They’re surrounded by smoke. It’s a constant, relentless threat. We feel helpless and hopeless.”
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The country is just entering mid-summer now, with no clear end to the fire season in sight. McKinney said a decade of change in climate – with less than average rainfall and rivers drying out – has led scientists and firefighters like himself to call for more resources, but not enough action has been taken yet.
“It’s been a catastrophe waiting to happen, and it’s happened,” McKinney said.
Dirou and McKinney’s home remains safe at the moment and they’ve expressed their gratitude to the firefighters who’ve come from around the world, including Canada, to help. However, they know conditions can change quickly and are prepared for the worst. They said the main focus now in Australia is to ensure people are safe.
“We are wholly and solely trying to save lives right now,” McKinney said. “Properties and the environment have gone by the wayside.”
Dirou said those that would like to help from afar can consider donating to LAOKO: Looking After Our Kocsciuszko Orphans, WIRES: Wildlife Information and Rescue Service and ARC.
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Stolen vehicle located, woman arrested
By Melissa Cantu Trevinomelissa.trevino@aliceechonews.com
Mar 9, 2015 at 12:01 AM Mar 9, 2015 at 10:19 AM
Woman arrested in stolen vehicle
Officer Tim LaGesse arrested Crystal Renee Quintanilla Sunday night for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after he received an alert on a possible stolen vehicle entering Alice.
The stolen vehicle, a 2014 gray Dodge Charger, was reported out of Bexar County. The vehicle was located at a convenience store at Fourth and Johnson Street. According to the report, the vehicle left the store and LaGesse initiated a traffic stop. Quintanilla, the driver, stated the her and her common law husband had an argument three weeks prior and he reported the car stolen, according to the report.
Three individuals inside the car with Quintanilla were allowed to leave the scene. Quintanilla was transported to the Jim Wells County jail. Double R Wrecker Service took custody of the vehicle.
Minors drinking
Officer Juan Reyes was dispatched to the 300 block of West Farm Street Sunday morning in reference to loud subjects having a party.
According to the report, Reyes exited his unit and heard multiple subjects talking and saying 'go inside the house, don't let them see you. Reyes made contact with Christopher Cantu who stated he was 19 and appeared to be intoxicated. Christopher called his mother and owner of the residence, Brenda Cantu, who was inside the home. Brenda stated Christopher was 20. According to the report, Brenda stated she was aware of the party and the beer however, the minors were not drinking it was the adults who were at the party earlier. Reyes explained to her that he had seen several subjects with beer in their hands. Brenda continued that no one was in her home even through assisting officers could see minors inside the residence through the front window still holding alcohol beverages, report stated.
She was arrested and transported to the JWC jail with a charge of purchase furnish alcohol to a minor.
Shooting a tree
Friday night Officer Julian Cavazos was in route to a call when he heard several pops which sounded like gun shots.
He observed three individuals on the north side of a building on the 50 block of North Johnson. Cavazos made contact with the individuals who appeared nervous. According to the report, Jason Jacob Gelista, was arrested for discharging firearm within city limits.
Gelista told Cavazos where the black tactical .22 caliber rifle could be found. Gelista stated he was shooting a tree that was laying on the ground. Cavazos located the gun, 26 shell casings and four rounds of ammunition.
He was transported to the JWC jail.
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8th May 2018 8th May 2018 by 125 Group
Brand new Inter-City 125 sets 254014 and 254012 stabled at Newcastle Heaton Depot, 13th May 1978. © 53A Models of Hull Collection (the late D R Vickers)
40 Years Ago today, 8th May 1978 saw the launch of regular 125mph passenger running on the East Coast Mainline when the new fleet of High Speed Trains was introduced on timetabled services between London Kings Cross, Newcastle and Edinburgh. The streamlined Inter-City 125s transformed long distance rail travel, bringing new levels of comfort and a step-change in journey times, the striking new trains were dubbed ‘The Journey Shrinker’.
With more HSTs delivered over the following months, Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and Aberdeen were added to the 125 network. ‘The Nosecone Effect’ boosted passenger numbers at the same time as bringing social and economic benefits through improved connectivity, which still gives towns and cities on the route an advantage today. Over the past 40 years the iconic HST has become a firm favourite with railway passengers, staff and enthusiasts and is still going strong on the ECML under the charge of Virgin Trains East Coast, however replacement is planned soon in the form of new class 800 series ‘Azuma’ trains.
125 Group is working hard raising funds to achieve our goal of preserving a production HST powered by the original Valenta type engine. Established in 1994 we are now a registered charity with a proven track record, having restored prototype 41001 from static museum exhibit to working order, Sir Kenneth Grange is our Hon President. If you are interested in 125s then please support our cause by joining us, members receive our exclusive quarterly magazine with detailed behind the scenes information on our preservation activities plus informed articles on the changing HST scene. Membership is £17 for 12 months or sign up to our direct-debit scheme for as little as £5 per month, this really helps our preservation efforts and includes free membership. JOIN HERE!
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HST Diagrams Summer 2017
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GWR HST power car 43010 emerges from Narberth tunnel on the scenic Pembroke Dock branchline, on service 1L90 1455 Pembroke Dock-Paddington, 1st August 2015. ©125 Group
Up to date High Speed Train diagrams are now available on the 125 Group website, showing full listings of services for each passenger TOC for all days of the week. 2017 will be the last summer of full HST operation on Great Western Railway, with the first new Hitachi units planned to enter traffic later this year. Summer Saturdays see HSTs straying off the main Intercity routes to visit scenic branch lines and seaside resorts including GWR to Weymouth and Pembroke Dock, EMT to Skegness, XC to Paignton and Penzance plus daily GWR to Newquay, these workings are all included in the diagrams, available from our website homepage HERE.
HST withdrawals will soon be upon us, 125 Group needs your help raising funds to preserve a Production HST to join Prototype 41001. Please subscribe as a member or sign up to our regular donations scheme and receive free membership, details HERE.
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Bound for Craigy – Record Breaking Fundraiser!
22nd March 2017 22nd March 2017 by 125 Group
Virgin Trains Power Car 43300 leads the ‘Bound for Craigy’ charity railtour around York Avoiding Line past the Regional Operations Centre, Saturday 18th March 2017. ©Robin Patrick
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the iconic High Speed Train, the Branch Line Society marked this milestone by chartering a special train, in conjunction with Virgin Trains East Coast (VTEC), 125 Group and the Preserved Locomotive Enthusiasts Group. Over £43,000 was raised on the day for the charity Railway Children, which supports children at risk on the streets in the UK, India and East Africa who run away from home or are forced to leave due to poverty, violence or neglect.
Starting from the newly renovated Kings Cross station, the special Inter-City 125 chartered by the Branch Line Society took rail fans from London to Edinburgh and back on March 18, 2017. Ticket-holders travelled in style, enjoying an array of food and drinks as they journeyed along the famous East Coast Main Line, also taking in the Blyth and Tyne route plus very unusual visits to Bounds Green and Craigentinny maintenance depots.
Those on board the nine-coach High Speed Train, included its original designer and godfather of British modernism Sir Kenneth Grange. Not just train designer royalty, Sir Kenneth is also the designer of the celebrated Kenwood Mixer, the 21st century revamp of the Anglepoise lamp, and the classic ‘Venner’ parking meter, not forgetting Kodak’s Instamatic camera. Sir Kenneth is now Hon President of 125 Group, the enthusiasts’ society which aims to preserve one of the iconic trains when they are finally taken out of service.
Sir Kenneth said: “Four decades on, the high speed train remains the backbone of the rail network and has had a major impact on the general life of most people in this country. I think it’s still fair to say that the Inter-City 125 remains one of my proudest achievements and it has given me a great deal of pleasure to share this anniversary with so many other HST fans for such a good cause.”
Kev Adlam, Fixtures Secretary, Branch Line Society, said: “Thank you to everyone from Virgin Trains, 125 Group, PLEG, East Midlands Trains, Network Rail and Rail Gourmet that made Saturday’s special train such an interesting, enjoyable and record breaking railtour.
“At over 800 miles it was the longest distance travelled by a one day railtour in the Society’s 62 year history, and we believe the new UK record holder for a one day charity railtour in terms of funds raised. The atmosphere on board was amazing, and for the total revenue to be over £43,000 is red hot.”
Bound for Craigy Cheque Presentation at Newcastle, (from left): VTEC Edinburgh Driver Ross Clark, VTEC Newcastle Driver Hugh Cowan, Dave Ellis (Corporate Partnerships Manager, Railway Children), Sir Kenneth Grange, David Maidment (Founder of the charity Railway Children), Katie Mason (Events Manager, Railway Children).
Dave Ellis, Corporate Partnerships Manager at Railway Children, said: “The High Speed Train stands as testimony to the excellence of British Rail engineering and the genius of the industrial designer Kenneth Grange who created the aerodynamic front cab and nosecone of the Inter-City 125, giving the train its iconic shape.
“It has been a fantastic experience to celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the world’s most successful trains. Thanks to the support of the Branch Line Society, Virgin Trains, 125 Group, PLEG, East Midlands Trains, Network Rail, Rail Gourmet and enthusiasts, over £43,000 has been raised to help us in our fight to change the lives of street children, which is a huge achievement.”
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Railway Children is a leading children’s charity fighting for vulnerable children who live alone at risk on the streets, where they suffer abuse and exploitation. In the UK, society often denies their existence, and in other countries the problem is so prevalent that it has become ‘normal’.
Children and young people run away or are forced to leave home where they suffer poverty, violence, abuse and neglect. They find themselves living on the streets because there is nowhere else to go and no one left to turn to. The problems they face on the streets are often even worse than those they endured at home. Every day we fight to change their story.
Railway Children races to reach children as soon as they arrive on the streets and intervene before an abuser can. Our pioneering work in the UK, India and East Africa enables us to get to street children before the streets get to them.
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George Volchko served his country in World War II with the 13rd AF .
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Umphrey's McGee takes Philadelphia: Night 2
10/21/2016
Words: Steven Vickner | Photos & Vids: Alex Buschiazzo
Umphrey’s McGee once again treated fans to an all-out musical onslaught on the second night of their three night stand at the Fillmore in Philadelphia, setting the stage for a big Saturday night finale. This show had it all folks – original material arrangements, covers, an acoustic segment and sit-in from Philadelphia native Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits.
The first set lead off with “Le Blitz”, which soon gave way to a “1348” segment which wove in and out of the original version of “Cut the Cable”. A silky “Wellwishers” would ensue, and by this time the venue floor was near capacity without ever feeling crowded. The crowd received their first clue about things to come during “Utopian Fir”, which included an “In Bloom” tease and filled the air with a palpable amount raw energy. After “Stinkos Ascension”, a new song for this budding fan, the band would shift gears as matching acoustic guitars were brought out for band mates Brendan Bayliss and Jake Cinninger. “Gone for Good” was dedicated to a long-time UM fan who passed away the night before, a beautiful tribute to celebrate her life through music. Staying on acoustic guitars to close the set, the tune “Great American” sandwiched “Dim Sum” before the band left for set break.
The second set kicked off with the band staple “Nothing Too Fancy”, opening the doors to what would be an incredible set of improvisation and a non-stop dance-a-thon. Segues into “Push the Pig” and “JaJunk” ensued, followed by a guest appearance by Marc Brownstein. Brownie replaced bassist Ryan Stasik for an amazing 14-minute “In The Kitchen”, but Stasik and his light-up kicks would return to the stage for the Sturgill Simpson version of Nirvana’s “In Bloom”. A wonderful version of“August” followed, eventually leading us back to the song that started the set an hour earlier and completing the journey. A double encore of band-original “Attachments” and The Who’s “Join Together” capped off the show in rock star fashion, check out the videos of the two songs below.
One more night of Umphrey’s awaits us tonight, and we hope to see you there! Get in the van, car or bus, and get down to the Fillmore tonight to catch Round 3 of this heavyweight event!
Photos from the show at Fillmore Philly
(setlist and videos below)
Setlist
Set 1: Le Blitz > 1348 > Cut the Cable[1], Wellwishers, Utopian Fir > Stinko's Ascension, Gone for Good[2], Great American[2] > Dim Sun[2] > Great American[2]
Set 2: Nothing Too Fancy > Push the Pig, JaJunk, In The Kitchen[3], In Bloom[4], August[5] > Nothing Too Fancy
Encore: Attachments, Join Together
[1] original version
[2] with Brendan and Jake on acoustics
[3] with Marc Brownstein replacing Ryan on bass
[4] Sturgill Simpson version
[5] with In Bloom (Nirvana) teases
(Setlist and notes from www.allthingsumphreys.com)
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Welcome to 324 LARKIN Apartments
Jump into Downtown’s entertaining fray. Union Square shoppers, FiDi workers and culture junkies crisscross the city center at a brisk clip. Fist pump your way over to Ruby Skye’s thumping dance floor, hang with the theater geeks at S.F. Playhouse, or get a plateful of prime beef at Leatherneck Steakhouse. Night or day, work or play, this non-stop neighborhood never quits.
50 feet from stardom! Influencers, divas, and other aspiring power players should make this central location their headquarters. San Francisco Symphony, Opera, Ballet and myriad museums and music venues surround-sound this historic building. Full-frontal City Hall views take top billing. Artfully remodeled to showcase mint condition hardwood floors, design-conscious kitchens and efficient appliances – this home is a hit encore performance.
RentSFNow’s classic properties combine the best of both worlds – timeless character and contemporary comfort. Many of our units are pet-friendly, too. Iconic Charm. Modern Living.
Building History
324 Larkin commands a special place in San Francisco’s rich, storied history as a center for the LGBTQ community, which was enshrined in June 2019 when owner Veritas Investments rechristened the building as the Rainbow Flag Apartments at the behest of The Q Foundation
In 1992, Bill Jones – the first single (and gay) man in California to adopt a child, in 1969, and an LGBTQ civil rights activist – purchased 324 Larkin from its previous owners. At the time, the area around City Hall was undergoing considerable change. Already a fixture in the news as the seat of San Francisco government, the neighborhood was receiving extra attention from media and tourists for construction at the Asian Art Museum and new main branch of the San Francisco Public Library.
Cognizant of heightened public awareness (and the resulting photo opportunities) and eager to represent the LGBTQ community, Jones decided to fly a large rainbow flag over the building. Jones soon installed brass letters over the front door proclaiming 324 Larkin as the “Rainbow Flag Apartments,” and an icon was born.
A chance meeting while searching for housing for his AIDS-afflicted partner connected Brian Basinger and Bill Jones. Soon after, Basinger had a dream where a booming voice told him “to organize housing for people with AIDS” – in a stroke of luck, he received a phone call the same day from 324 Larkin’s building manager offering two units to tenants suffering from AIDS. A lightbulb went off; Basinger quickly founded the AIDS Housing Alliance (now called the Q Foundation), with Bill Jones joining as its first board member.
The Q Foundation has since evolved into the largest housing provider to the LGBTQ community in the country; through its work, 324 Larkin became a vital source of safe housing for disabled people with HIV/AIDS. But somewhere along the way, a subsequent owner removed the rainbow flag and sign – the building had lost a part of its identity.
In 2019, in conjunction with Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, a rainbow flag was once again raised above the building. A bronze plaque permanently commemorates 324 Larkin as the Gilbert Baker Rainbow Flag Apartments, reaffirming the historic building’s status as a haven for the LGBTQ community and reclaiming its rightful place in San Francisco history.
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Living Deliberately
Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
Bare skin meets raw iron. Such a relationship can only be found in this exact situation. The focus is so intense that nothing else matters. Pure concentration and expression translating into perfect execution - it's a physical marvel. It's the art of the perfect lift.
Each time I grab the stretch of metal, I feel a sense of euphoria. It's as if there is nothing in the entire universe other than me and the bar. It's as if the safety of the world relies on my ability to get this bar off the ground.
Each time I grab the stretch of metal, blood rapidly pumps through my veins. The tension at the top of the movement feels like that of a rubber band, waiting to explode. As the tension is released, my muscles begin to feel the worst pain they ever have. Maintaining perfection in the lift becomes harder and harder as time progresses. Eventually, failure seems imminent. My entire nervous system is screaming for mercy. I begin to feel like I am being punished for every wrongdoing in the history of mankind.
Only in the gym can human limits be tested so intensely. Only in the gym can every single muscle in the human body be activated. Only in the the gym can such strain be placed on the mind through the necessity to adapt to the infinite amount of variables that come with each individual repetition. Only in the gym can both the yin and yang of the homo sapien be tested so fiercely, and so equally.
Weightlifting is an art form. Just as music or literature, it is a tool for self discovery and experimentation with human potential. On the surface, it seems so simple. However, as one delves further and further into it, its complexity is revealed.
While executing a lift, there are thousands of things to be kept track of. In a deadlift, one must keep the back straight, chest up, triceps locked, head up, hands outside the shins - the list goes on and on. However, these things are learned through experience, I have learned new guidelines during every trip to the gym. There are always new things to be learned, whether it's learning new strategies or perfecting the old. As I have learned more and more about each particular exercise, I have developed a better understanding of how all of these minute details connect; a better understanding of how they come together to build an ideal lift.
Lifting at the gym has improved my ability to not only pick up heavy things, but to perceive on an exponentially deeper level. Humans aren't physiologically designed to lift such heavy weight on a regular basis. Therefore, the mind-muscle connection I develop to make these lifts strengthens my ability to understand my own body on a deeper level. Through lifting, I've been able to activate muscles that an average person will never even recognize. This connection is magnified by the isolated nature of lifting, allowing me to achieve a sense of clarity in its purest form. The harnessing of both the body and mind is unexpected, and such activation is unmatched. This makes the outcome that much more wonderful to experience; that much more beautiful.
Henry David Thoreau lived in the woods in order to "live deliberately". The gym is my personal forest. I have the opportunity to take human expectations, and destroy them. I'm able to focus on the most minuscule of muscles without interruption. I'm granted solitude in this world of constant distraction.
Today's world and its complications seemingly don't allow such control. It's only thanks to the woods that I am permitted to experience it.
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Unit 1 Structure And Properties Of Matter Chemistry Sv 0424-7 Boyle’s Law
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Softwood lumber is pictured at Tolko Industries in Heffley Creek, B.C., on April, 1, 2018. Mills in the heart of Canada’s timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
B.C. forest industry facing uncertain future as mills close across province
Finance Ministry budget numbers show forest revenues are down 11 per cent so far this year
It seems barely a day goes by without an announcement about layoffs, temporary closures or permanent mill shut downs in British Columbia’s struggling forest industry.
As a result, thousands of workers, their families and many communities have been left facing uncertain futures.
The layoffs and shutdowns are causing widespread economic and social pain, says B.C. Liberal forestry critic John Rustad.
“It’s unfathomable to think of the carnage that’s already happened, let alone what will happen this winter,” he said in a recent interview. “It’s going to be a very bleak winter.”
Rustad said on a visit to Campbell River a car dealer told him he repossessed 10 vehicles from forestry workers who were out of work. One laid-off worker asked him if he could keep his vehicle until Christmas and sold the dealer a load of firewood to make a payment, Rustad said.
On Vancouver Island, where Mosaic Forest Management announced an early winter shutdown of timber harvesting operations, 2,000 people are out of work indefinitely.
Among those affected are also about 175 workers at a mill owned by Tolko Industries in Kelowna where the plant will close permanently on Jan. 8, while Canfor’s decision to permanently close its mill in Vavenby, north of Kamloops, resulted in the loss of 172 jobs in the community of about 700 people.
“Basically, I would say 80 per cent or more of the coastal forest sector is down,” Rustad said. ”It’s not good. It’s really, really tough.”
Finance Ministry budget numbers show forest revenues are down 11 per cent so far this year and projected harvest volumes of 46 million cubic metres are the lowest in years.
The NDP government faced daily calls for action from the Liberals during the fall session of the legislature, which concluded Thursday.
“When will the premier and his government start paying attention and do something?” asked Liberal co-finance critic Shirley Bond, whose Prince George riding is facing about 50 impending layoffs at a mill.
READ MORE: B.C. forest industry aid on the way, Doug Donaldson says
Liberal rural development critic Donna Barnett wants the government to grant payment relief to Sigurdson Forest Products, which owes the province $4.6 million in stumpage fees. She said the company in Williams Lake is committed to paying the fees but needs a temporary stay on the payments to save up to 200 jobs.
“SFP is a viable company and wants to continue operations,” said president Brian Sigurdson in a letter to Finance Minister Carole James, Premier John Horgan and Forests Minister Doug Donaldson.
“We want to continue to support all of our employees and our local businesses and community.”
Donaldson said the request for relief is before the Ministry of Finance, but he added stumpage rates in the B.C. Interior dropped by 12 per cent in October and 24 per cent on the coast.
He also said political intervention into the stumpage system could make matters worse for B.C. companies because it could result in a trade challenge from forest producers in the United States. B.C. lumber exports to the U.S. already face tariffs of about 20 per cent.
Low timber prices and the large-scale destruction of Crown harvest zones during the pine beetle epidemic and two successive record wildfire seasons have hurt the industry, Donaldson said.
“We understand the impact the global downturn is having on the economies of the Interior and we’re determined to address it,” he said in the legislature.
He said the province has taken steps to drive more logs to domestic production and for use in value-added products.
Industry spokeswoman Susan Yurkovich said it can rebound but companies need assurances from the government about long-term availability of a timber supply at a reasonable cost. The industry itself must move to greener products and become more competitive on the global market, she added.
READ MORE: Fewer trees, higher costs blamed for devastating downturn in B.C. forestry
“I’ve spent 25 years in the resource sector and I’ve spent a lot of time in many of the communities that are hurting,” said Yurkovich, president of the Council of Forest Industries.
“The most important thing we can do for those communities in transition is to look at where are the future opportunities for the sector.”
A report by the council in September said the industry has been a cornerstone of the B.C. economy for more than 100 years and the well-being of 140 communities is closely linked to the health of the sector.
It said forestry supports about 140,000 jobs and generates about $4 billion in revenues annually for the province.
Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press
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Childhood Poverty, Parental Abuse Cost Adults Their Health for Years to Come
Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.
"Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."
Daughters of Interracial Parents More Likely Than Sons to Identify as Multiracial
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Study Finds EITC Bolsters Recipients’ Self-Respect While Helping Them Financially
America's welfare state is quietly evolving from needs-based to an employment-based safety net that rewards working families and fuels dreams of a better life, indicates a new study led by a Michigan State University (MSU) scholar.
The major reason: the little-known Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a $65 billion federal tax-relief program for poor, working families. The program has been expanded dramatically during the past 25 years, while cash welfare has been sharply curtailed.
Study Finds Foreclosures Fueled Racial Segregation in U.S.
Some 9 million American families lost their homes to foreclosure during the late 2000s housing bust, driving many to economic ruin and in search of new residences. Hardest hit were black, Latino, and racially integrated neighborhoods, according to a new Cornell University analysis of the crisis.
Led by demographer Matthew Hall, researchers estimate racial segregation grew between Latinos and whites by nearly 50 percent and between blacks and whites by about 20 percent as whites abandoned and minorities moved into areas most heavily distressed by foreclosures.
With Racial Segregation Declining Between Neighborhoods, Segregation Now Taking New Form
Recent research has shown that racial segregation in the U.S. is declining between neighborhoods, but a new study indicates that segregation is manifesting itself in other ways — not disappearing.
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ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA will be held as scheduled at AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong on 4 to 6 September 2019
Hong Kong/Berlin, 16 August 2019 – Global Produce Events GmbH, organizer of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA, the leading continental trade show for Asia’s fresh produce business, announces ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA will be held as scheduled at AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong on 4 to 6 September 2019. Show preparation is in full swing despite recent public incidents in Hong Kong. Business remains largely as usual in Hong Kong and protest activities are normally announced well in advance.
“We are proud that Hong Kong has been our home at ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA for one week every September for more than a decade”, says Wilfred Wollbold, Commercial Director of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA. “The organizing team will continue to closely monitor the situation and provide timely updates as needed. Our goal is to ensure another successful and safe edition of ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA for our exhibitors and visitors.”
Over 800 exhibitors from 40 countries are expected to meet with over 13,000 visitors worldwide and to do business in fresh fruits and vegetables. Three onsite forums, including Smart Horticulture, Cool Logistics and Asiafruit Business Forum will take place concurrently; provide the best strategic and practical insights for decision makers and trade professionals. Asiafruit Congress, Asia’s premier fresh produce conference event, will also be held as scheduled on 3 September 2019.
“The safety and security of every exhibitor and visitor at ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA is our number one priority. Our management teams in Berlin and Bangkok are meeting on a daily basis to review developments and fine tune contingency planning. We are working closely with our venue partner Asia-World Expo, which runs the exhibition centre where ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA takes place. Asia-World Expo has confirmed that heightened security measures will be put in place to ensure the smooth running of normal business activities.”
Business travelers are advised to pay close attention to flight information, exercise increased caution and avoid going to protest areas and police stations. Timely updates and useful website links will be shared on the ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA website www.asiafruitlogistica.com and social media platforms, namely Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Wechat.
Exhibitors and trade visitors who are looking for helpful information and guidance on the current situation are welcome to reach out to the organizing team at info@gp-events.com or their familiar ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA’s foreign representatives.
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Consolidation of final keel block for first Air Warfare Destroyer. *** Local Caption *** Minister for Defence Materiel Dr Mike Kelly AM MP today announced the final keel block for the future destroyer, Hobart, has been successfully lifted into place by the AWD Alliance in Adelaide.
Consolidation of the entire hull will be complete in early 2014 and will be followed by fit-out and testing of the ships’ systems before sea trials are undertaken.
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Clash Royale tips and tricks: strategies and tactics to help you win
Update: New Clan Chest tips added
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Authored by: Cory Schmidt Dec 21, 2016
If you're looking for help with Clash Royale, then you've come to the right place. At AndroidPIT, you'll learn how to be more successful at Clash Royale with expert tips, tricks, strategies and tactics. Additionally, you will find deck recommendations and a Clash Royale review. Now you can get incredible drops from Clan Chests so make sure you head down to learn how to net these.
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Clash Royale: We want your input
There are many paths to success in Clash Royale and oftentimes there is little that decides victory or defeat. But it's these details that are unfortunately overlooked, and that's exactly why we've created this comprehensive guide. It provides an overview for beginners and advanced players alike so you can have even more fun with this game.
Some tips might seem obvious to experienced players, but, remember, everyone has to start somewhere.
Write your own tips in the comments so you can discuss them with other players and help other AndroidPIT readers with their Clash Royale gameplay. We will evaluate your comments regularly and include the best ones in this guide as well as other strategies that we come up with. This guide will constantly be expanding.
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Review of Clash Royale
Clash Royale: tips for beginners
From the start, you should try to create a balanced mix among your units. So don't just take strong units, which can cost a great deal of elixir, include some weaker, quickly regenerated ones, too.
Don't become panicked if your opponent is putting you under pressure or you lose a tower. He who acts hastily has already lost!
When only one minute remains, don't immediately throw all your units forward. Pay attention to the fact that your towers and the King's Tower (the tower in the center) are protected.
Make sure you keep a balanced mix of cards in your deck. / © AndroidPIT
Question to you: What tips can you give for beginners?
Tip from our reader, Hannes Gutsch
Hannes proposes to first use a giant and ranged troops. Then, repeat this until you have won the first tower. Then he would go on the defensive and wait and see what the opponent's move is.
For players who have reached level three, he recommends using so-called prince tactics. The player sends a force that can withstand a lot and then a troop with flight units. Hannes often used the balloon and thereafter used the prince. He continues to use this tactic until the enemy is defeated.
Clash Royale: deck tips
Anyone who wants to enter a game of Clash Royale not only needs sophisticated tactics but also a good deck. It's important to note that there is no perfect deck out there and no perfect tactic. However, to be successful in Clash Royale, you should follow these guidelines:
As mentioned in the beginner tips, don't just fight with expensive units. It's also not advisable to carry just cheap units into the battle. The key is in the balance.
As a rule of thumb, you should get units that are fast, units that perform well against air units, tower-destroying units and units that specialize in defense (for example, defense towers).
Your cards should fit your fighting preference. If you play aggressively, take units that can move quickly. However, for those who prefer defensive tactics, utilize units that can withstand a lot of damage. But it's really about the mix.
Know your elixir averages so you can figure out how much time it takes to get your cards down. The lower the time, the better you'll play.
Question to you: Which cards are in your Clash Royale deck and why did you choose those cards (please specify your level)?
We want to know what cards you have. / © AndroidPIT
Deck tip from our reader, Joel Roxx
I use three different decks at random. I am a Level six player in Arena four.
1. I use the minion horde in all the decks as they're strong. When a giant or a giant skeleton comes, these guys are what you need.
2. Rage spell is really useful, especially if you use a lot of cards with multiple units. When a bunch of goblins are nearing a tower, I put down one of these and within a matter of seconds and they're destroyed.
3. The witch is one of my favorites. It can attack a dragon while skeletons distract or attacking another ground unit.
4. Goblin huts are pretty good too. It's especially useful when your opponent has one too, you can balance at least one side of your territory. And when these guys get delayed for a while, it's nasty.
5. Baby dragons are super. Their splash damage can wipe out a spear goblins card with one hit.
6. Rockets are cool. Do you sometimes feel that your opponent is trying to annoy you with four cards of spawn buildings and two defense buildings? Well, take it out. It does about 250 damage in level one. They can wipe out a big crowd as well.
My secondary cards.
1. I mainly use barbarians for holding attacks. They are tough and it takes a while to take them out.
2. High-level bombers are also sweet to take out a crowd of goblins, or anything else.
Clash Royale: tactics and strategies
The player that does not react quickly enough to their opponent's actions and simply send a few units into the field has no chance in Clash Royale. Players should consider how they want to make a match. Here are some simple hints to help you with your strategy.
Wait to start until the elixir meter is full (10) and then play your cards
Shield your ranged troops with strong combat units, sent, for example, before a giant and behind a bomber.
Secure your victory. If you have already destroyed an enemy tower, you have an advantage and can respond to enemy attacks very well. This is especially true with strong players. It is advisable to focus on tower destruction when on the defensive.
If it becomes apparent that one of your towers will be destroyed, dispatch troops to an enemy turret. It often doesn't help to doggedly fight for a tower that has little energy. Often it is destroyed by a fireball anyway.
Your towers can defend very well against many opponents. For example, if rather weak goblins attack from a goblin hut, you do not necessarily need to employ a fighter to defend. The tower might take a little damage but it will withstand it.
Units that quickly destroy towers, such as knights, giants, etc., are very troublesome and other combat units are superior to them. It makes sense to sure them away from the tower and put a building in their way (like a leprechaun cottage).
Make sure you make good use of the taunts. They are in the chat bubble at the bottom of the screen. Get in your opponent's head, say oops when you meant to do something, and say good game and cry when you think you have an opening close to the end of a match. Just remember, be a good sport at the end.
Good use of taunts can get inside of your opponent's head. / © AndroidPIT
Question to you: Which strategies and tactics do you use?
Tip from our readers: Inventalcom
According to Invetalcom, the combination of a hog rider and a freeze spell is very effective. Instead of using a hog rider you can also use a prince. The prince is quite versatile and can even get you out of a defensive jam at the end of a game.
Only those who have the right tactics will be successful. / © AndroidPIT
Clash Royale: improving cards
In Clash Royale, you can improve your cards through the use of gold once you've reached a certain level. The only question is what unit should you improve? Here are a few simple steps to help you decide.
If you have a preference for a card, improve it. That's pretty simple.
Anyone who uses real money on Clash Royale has enough gold to improve more of their units.
It may be worthwhile regularly improving units that are not included in the player's deck. By making improvements, units are not only stronger but fit into a wider strategy in the future.
Question to you: Which units have you improved?
Make sure you strategically upgrade. / © AndroidPIT
Clash Royale: chests and jewels
Chests can be opened only after a certain waiting period. If you don't want to wait then you can use your jewels.
Players can unlock new jewels when they earn achievements. You can unlock five jewels, for instance, if you watch a match on TV Royale.
Keep track of the time it takes to open a chest, you might want to time the bigger ones for when you'll be busy with something that's not Clash Royale.
Time the chests so you can open the most and the best ones. / © AndroidPIT
Clan Chests
If you're in a clan then you have the ability to collect Clan Chests at the beginning of each season. You can contribute with Crowns from normal matchmaking games on the ranked ladder. You have seven days to fill up a Clan Chest and they can be opened right away without a waiting period
Big drops
As of December 20, players have been reporting some huge drops from Clan Chests. Make sure you get in a clan immediately and start working on the Clan Chest tiers. The further you get, the better the prizes get. Once you get in a clan, head to the Chest Tab and see your progress for the next chest. Remember you just need to contribute one Crown to get the Clan Chest so do it before you forget.
Clash Royale: cheats
There are as yet no cheats for Clash Royale. You should, therefore, be wary of any promises of free jewels in exchange for your account information. These are scams and can result in the loss of your account to thieves.
Clash Royale: review
Clash of Warcraft: royal tower defense
Although similar in terms of graphics, Clash Royale and Clash of Clans 2 share little in common when it comes to strategy. There are many fighters from Clash of Clans in Clash Royale, like the barbarian and the giant, but they have different appearances. The gameplay is nevertheless fundamentally different.
Clash Royale for Android is a mixture of tower defense and the Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card game. Fighting is done with a card and the center is divided by a river. The fighters can get to the other side via two bridges. Each player has three towers which must be defended. If the main tower is destroyed, the game is lost.
Clash Royale is an excellent mixture of a tower defense and card battle game
If after three minutes a player has more towers left standing than their opponent, then they are the winner. To prevent this, the player sends different fighters into battle and takes spells for the different enemies. Once a fighter goes down range, the player cannot control it. The warrior fulfills his duties autonomously.
The fighters are represented by cards at the bottom of the board. The card can only be played if there is enough mana available. After a player is put into the game, it may take several seconds until the next one can be placed. The player, therefore, must quickly decide which fighter he wants to play and where he wants to put it.
You have to wait for a while to use some of the bigger cards. / © AndroidPIT
The road to success: a balanced deck
Anyone who has played Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, or the card game Magic: The Gathering, knows that a good deck is the key to success. Players who, for example, select only fighters who are very strong but also very costly in terms of elixir have no chance against an opponent with many cheap and quick troops. The right mix makes all the difference and this mix should correspond with the player's style.
The selection of fighters and spells is pretty neat and may be improved with gold. Gold is unlocked by chests, which are available after a certain time. This can take anywhere from three to 12 hours. This waiting period can be shortened using gems that can also be found in treasure chests. Players can also invest real money but it's not imperative to do this. If a player waits and opens up their one or two free chests a day, they still have a good chance of getting good fighters and enough gold for an upgrade or two.
You can upgrade items using gold. / © AndroidPIT
Clash Royale also provides replays of games of other players so you can learn from their successes or failures. Clans are also an integral part of the game, and joining one can help you acquire cards much more easily.
Clash Royale is a big game with lots to unlock and organize, but it's not overwhelming. After a short training period, most newcomers will find themselves well acquainted and later fully able to concentrate on quick and tactical fights.
It's a great game, with a few quirks
Many strategy games or tower defense games for PC and Mobile can take a long time to build before you get to the real action. Clash Royale, on the other hand, doesn't wait around. The gameplay flows from one exciting event to the next. So whether you're defending or attacking, there is lots of excitement.
Clash Royale does not lack tension. Only players who pay attention to the in-game timer and to which troops to deploy next can get a victory. The battles are so fun because each fighter is balanced against different forces. This is the rock-paper-scissors concept. No one unit is overpowering and each is easily offset by different forces.
It's important to know that each player is balanced against another. / © AndroidPIT
As a player progresses in the game, they will face more difficult opponents, although it rarely happens that a player will be overwhelmed by too powerful of an opponent, Supercell should take a look at this.
Overall, there is nothing to complain about. The cartoon graphics look great and the controls are outstanding. Even if the game gets hectic, the player always has their troops under control. The background music is a matter of taste. While sounds of fighting fit very will into the game, they are for me, personally, a little unnerving.
'The game must go on.' This saying is well suited to players of Clash Royale because once they start, they can't stop.
What sets Clash Royale apart from other games in this genre is the excellent mix of card battle and tower defense. Basically, the best elements of these two genres were taken out and processed into a more wholesome mixture. On top of this, there are beautiful graphics and intuitive controls.
The only point of contention would be the lack of game modes, an increase in which would make the game feel more varied.
Don't let this deter you, however: Clash Royale is a hit and will be with us for a long time. But be careful: it's addictive.
Do you play Clash Royale? What do you think of it?
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jonsnow67 8 months ago Link to comment
Million 11 months ago Link to comment
Im a player in ing lvl 9.
Deck: [lvl]
Executioner [8]
Cannon Cart [9]
Rage [9]
Tornado [9]
Balloon [9]
Zap [8]
Baby Dragon [9]
Inferno Dragon [9]
Do you have any ideas what i can fix with this deck?
Jinu Engels Dec 24, 2018 Link to comment
Hello @androidpit,
As a more experienced player, I was wondering if I could input some of my tips as well so the deck tips could be more accessible to players in higher level arenas. I'm a level 12 in challenger 3, and my average deck cost is 3.5. The cards in the deck are:
Hog Rider-Level 12
Mega Knight-Level 11
Poison-Level 12
Zap-Level 12
Bats-Level 12
Royal Ghost-Level 11
Ice Golem-Level 11
Inferno Dragon-Level 12
Thanks, Trainer Jinu
P.S. My Statsroyale pin is #LVY92GRC So you can see I'm legit.
swapnali Nov 17, 2018 Link to comment
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FACTS AND GAMEPLAY!!! (GamingTime) Apr 5, 2018 Link to comment
Sup,
So I'm a level 8 at arena 10 ( I had a 2nd account long before so it probably explains why I'm at arena 10 when I'm just lvl 8, you can have my second account if you want, arena 11 lvl 9) so trust me when I say these tactics work:
1. Wait for your opponent to move first while you sit at 10 elixir
2. DON'T SPAM RANDOMLY (yet)
3. Have a push destroyer card (like an Inferno Tower, Inferno Dragon, Tesla, Pekka, etc.)
4. I personally don't use the minion horde, I use the normal minions (fun fact: Normal minions can destroy a ballon) so if you use them ( same goes for skeletons, goblins, spear goblins, etc.) to take down a push, first place a tank/mini tank. These will soak up damage from support troops. Place your minions (or whatever you have) on the enemy support troop, NOT THE ENEMY TANK. This will allow the cards to destroy the support unit then go for the enemy tank.
5.Have at least one spell. If you are going for a spell that does well damage and doesn't cost too much damage, use the fireball. High damage? Rocket. Low elixir? Zap or log.
6. Find out what your enemy deck is. If you know they have a log you probably would toss your goblin barrel right at the tower. If you now they answer to your tank with an Inferno in the middle of their side you would probably not waste your lightning/zap or your spam cards (here's where the spam comes in)
7. Remember to keep your cool. When you lose a lot you will placed into a different BATTLE server ( you don't change countries, you are just placed into a specific group of people when doing 1v1) in clash royale. This group will also have people with losing streaks. Once you win a battle you will be placed back into the normal server ( there is no winning streak server.)
8. Most importantly this game is based on making you rage and once you make it to the arena of your dreams, you feel amazed. That's exactly why millions of people are playing clash royale, it isn't fun its exciting.
You could join my clan. We get 10/10 on the clan chest in 2 hours. Reply if you are interested. This was definitely grammatically correct.
By the way there is a large chance of getting a legendary in a 10/10 clan chest compared to other chests. You can look it up if you want to.
Mr.Branded Apr 8, 2018 Link to comment
hey bro....i always score more than 180 crown everytime...i would like to join ur clan....tell me if u allow
Hey bro...i really appreciate ur strategy.... I'm too using this strategy...i want a id....u said u can give ur 2nd id....i want that .... atleast give me to use it me....u can take it back whenever you want...i just want to play much... I'm on arena 10 ...plzzzzzzzzzzzz
Hossain nirjhor akash Apr 4, 2018 Link to comment
I play Clash Royale since the global release and I'm enjoying the game a lot. I'm currently at level 7 (at 1700 trophies) and using the following deck:
- Mega knight
- Giant skeleton
- Morter (can be replaced with cannon )
- Goblins (can be replaced with minions)
- Wizard
- Heal spell
- Zap (use it as arrows, but to get an elixer advantage)
- Skeletons (1 elixer)
Allie Arana Mar 23, 2018 Link to comment
I am level 8 in arena 8 - 2323 trophies. This is my deck:
1. Witch
2. Valkyrie
3. Spear Goblins
4. Dark Prince
5. Hog Rider
6. Skeleton Army
7. Balloon
8. Fire Spirits
Celia Griffa Mar 11, 2018 Link to comment
I am level 7 in arena 6-1800 trophies. This is my deck :
1. Minion Horde - For strong ground troops, baby dragon and the witch (if you put it right on top) because there are 6 minions so they do a lot of damage. It can be killed with a fireball though. (5 elixir).
2. Skeleton Army - Pretty much the same as the minion horde but it's ground and it's great because it costs less elixir. (3 elixir).
3. Witch - Helps for troops that attack slowly because they go for the skeletons. (5 elixir).
4. Zap - I use this because it's very low elixir cost and can kill the skeleton army and nearly kill the minions/minion horde. (2 elixir).
5. Rage - It's very low elixir cost and it can really help when you already have a lot of troops because like this your troops can kill any other troops your opponent puts. Also help to do more damage. (2 elixir).
6. Goblin Barrel - Really useful for finishing off a tower. It can be killed though, unlike the arrows or the fireball. Can be replaced with arrows or fireball. (3 elixir).
7. Valkyrie - It's very useful for the skeleton army and has great life. I also use it by itself against a tower because it does quite a lot of damage. (4 elixir).
8. Baby Dragon - It's very good because it's air and deals a good amount of damage. Has OK life. (4 elixir).
I go for the first tower and then I see if my opponent applied good resistance, then I choose if I should go for the King Tower or for the other Crown Tower. I only attack the King Tower if I'm sure that I will be able to win. It's a bad idea to attack the King Tower if you're not sure that you'll win because then the cannon will come up and you will receive much more damage to your troops, damaging their towers less.
Hossain nirjhor Akash Feb 8, 2018 Link to comment
Your deck was so powerful . I appreciate your hard work .
stello Nov 16, 2017 Link to comment
Great one. Useful hack for Clash Royale can be also found on www.10tacle.de. Really unexpected, but working for Germany.
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Christian Jansen Nov 16, 2017 Link to comment
You're right. It seems still is. Just used it few days ago. It's on german language and doesn't have translation. But i think it's not hard to understand what is all about and how to engage it.
Marko Strahija Nov 16, 2017 Link to comment
Can you confirm the site? where is the link? can you paste it, please!
Reydel Castillo Aug 18, 2017 Link to comment
Will someone please tell them to bring back 2v2
They finally did!
Joe Soap Feb 26, 2017 Link to comment
Take a look at MasterIbi on YouTube - there is a clan where they give you advice with friendlies and help you get to high arenas :).
Bernardy Jan 13, 2017 Link to comment
That's very addictive game. I love it. And I don't think that it's a copy of clash of clans. It's just impossible. Also, I love gambling. That's why I often play poker and slots at casinoz.club. Those games seem to be some kind of strategies or something like that, in general, they make you think.
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Peaches for Monsieur le Curé
Daniel W Roberts
I choose this book on a compete whim. I didn't know who Anna was at all. Such a wonderful memoir full of fascinating observances and recipes . It's is beautifully written, perfectly read and captivating. Looking forward to trying her recipes
Mrs. C. Hayes
I didn't want this book to end.
I was emersed into Anna's world from the start to the finish. Beautiful book...I just didn't want it to end.
Sue C
Not enough sting
I think the author thought that the addition of recipes would lift the book to literary heights. Although she lived through the war in Italy she had a relatively comfortable life with not as many hardships as most of the rest of Europe. It didn't inspire much admiration. The book was saved for me by the wonderful narration. I remember Rula doing the Alberto V.O 5 ads in the 1980s. My kids and I loved her voice.The weekend I finished it I was at my local Farmer's Market and found fresh nettles. I made the risotto. It was lovely.
Great memoir with food
What did you love best about Risotto with Nettles?
A very fine memoir about one of the most important Italian food writers. Perfect balance of life stories, food stories and recipes.
What other book might you compare Risotto with Nettles to and why?
If you liked My Life in France by Julia Child you may enjoy this book very much.
Which character – as performed by Rula Lenska – was your favorite?
The reader was excellent. I had to remind myself time and again that it was not Ms. del Conte reading the book.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not a funny book but it clearly has sense of humor. Ms. del Conte recounts a joke about a Genovese widow that made me laugh out loud.
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The Human Division, Episode 2
By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
Series: The Human Division, Book 2
Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
4 out of 5 stars 4.2 (1,078 ratings)
We Only Need the Heads
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has been loaned out to a CDF platoon tasked with secretly removing an unauthorized colony of humans on an alien world. Colonial Ambassador Abumwe has been ordered to participate in final negotiations with an alien race the Union hopes to make allies. Wilson and Abumwe’s missions are fated to cross - and in doing so, place both missions at risk of failure.
We Only Need the Heads is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division.
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By Professor on 02-02-13
Albert Birnbaum was once one of the biggest political talk show hosts around, but these days he’s watching his career enter a death spiral. A stranger offers a solution to his woes, promising to put him back on top. It’s everything Birnbaum wants, but is there a catch? And does Birnbaum actually care if there is? "A Voice in the Wilderness" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
See Review for "The B-Team"
By Grant P. on 12-24-19
Tales from the Clarke
Captain Sophia Coloma of the Clarke has a simple task: Ferry around representatives from Earth in an aging spaceship that the Colonial Union hopes to sell to them. But nothing is as simple as it seems, and Coloma discovers the ship she’s showing off holds suprises of its own...and it’s not the only one with secrets. "Tales from the Clarke" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
The Conclave is a confederation of 400 alien races - many of whom would like to see the Colonial Union - and the humans inside of it - blasted to extinction. To avoid a conflict that neither side can afford, Conclave leader General Tarsem Gau appoints Hafte Sorvalh to resolve an emerging diplomatic crisis with the humans, before the only acceptable solution is war. "The Back Channel" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
too many downloads
By Keith Curtachio on 10-27-18
The Sound of Rebellion
The Colonial Defense Forces usually protect humanity from alien attack, but now the stability of the Colonial Union has been threatened, and Lieutenant Heather Lee and her squad are called to squash a rebellion on a colony world. It seems simple enough - but there's a second act to the rebellion that finds Lee captive, alone, and armed with only her brains to survive.
Look with your ears.
By Kindle Customer on 03-06-13
The Dog King
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson has one simple task: Watch an ambassador’s dog while the diplomat is conducting sensitive negotiations with an alien race. But you know dogs - always getting into something. And when this dog gets into something that could launch an alien civil war, Wilson has to find a way to solve the conflict, fast, or be the one in the Colonial Union’s doghouse. "The Dog King" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
Best Episode Yet!!!!
The Human Division, Episode 10
Colonial Union diplomat Hart Schmidt is back home for Harvest Day celebrations - to a family whose members wonder whether its youngest son isn’t wasting his life clinging to the lowest rung of the CU’s diplomatic ladder. When his father, a legendarily powerful politician, presents him with a compelling offer, Schmidt has to take stock of his life and career. "This Must Be the Place" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
Great Character-Driven Episode
In an effort to improve relations with the Earth, the Colonial Union has invited a contingent of diplomats from that planet to observe Ambassador Abumwe negotiate a trade deal with an alien species. Then something very bad happens to one of the Earthings, and with that, the relationship between humanity’s two factions is on the cusp of disruption once more. It’s a race to find out what really happened, and who is to blame. "The Observers" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
This series is getting Better and Better!!!!
Earth Below, Sky Above
At last, the Earth and the Colonial Union have begun formal discussions about their relationship in the future - a chance for the divisions in humanity to be repaired. The diplomats and crew of the Clarke are on hand to help with the process, including Ambassador Ode Abumwe and CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson, both of whom were born on Earth. But not everyone wants the human division to be repaired.... And they will go to great lengths to make sure it isn’t....
Thrilling Yet Open-Ended Conclusion
The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads
United States Diplomat Danielle Lowen was there when one of her fellow diplomats committed an unthinkable act that had consequences for the entire planet. Now she’s trying to figure out how it happened before it can happen again. Putting the puzzle pieces together could solve the mystery - or it could threaten her own life. "The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
A 38-minute murder mystery
By AudioAddict on 06-04-13
A Problem of Proportion
A secret backdoor meeting between Ambassador Ode Abumwe and the Conclave’s Hafte Sorvalh turns out to be less than secret, as both of their ships are attacked. It’s a surprise to both teams - but it’s the identity of the attacker that is the real surprise, and suggests a threat to both humanity and The Conclave. "A Problem of Proportion" is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
A Scalzi Twist on a Sci-fi Theme
The B-Team
Colonial Union Ambassador Ode Abumwe and her team are used to life on the lower end of the diplomatic ladder. But when a high-profile diplomat goes missing, Abumwe and her team are last minute replacements on a mission critical to the Colonial Union’s future. As the team works to pull off their task, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson discovers there’s more to the story of the missing diplomats than anyone expected... a secret that could spell war for humanity.
Whole Series – Just OK
The President's Brain Is Missing
A Tor.Com Original
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back?
Has its moments, but not Scalzi at his cleverest
By David Sewell on 10-05-19
A Very Scalzi Christmas
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Dina Pearlman, Kevin T. Collins, and others
New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps 15 short takes on the holiday season - interviews with holiday notables, "informational" articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s - and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for friends, family, or yourself.
Very Scalzian indeed!
By Andre Wallace Simonsen on 12-03-19
Old Man's War, Book 6
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, John Scalzi
Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.
why a lower rating on performance?
By D. Kassiday on 09-06-15
The Sagan Diary
Narrated by: Stephanie Wolfe, John Scalzi
Jane Sagan: Soldier. Killer. Lover. Dreamer. In John Scalzi's best-selling Old Man's War series of science-fiction novels, we see this warrior woman as the other characters see her - silent and strong, from the outside. But now The Sagan Diary shows us Sagan from another point of view: her own, as she prepares to leave military life and join her new husband and adopted daughter on a colony world.
It's a Poem
By wyatt on 03-27-13
The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Luke Daniels, and others
The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.
Small doses of "Scalzian" humor
The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU’s secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance - an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they’ve invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.
A Middling Position
By linda on 05-23-13
Wildcat colonies are illegal, unauthorized, and secret - so when an injured stranger shows up at the wildcat colony New Seattle, the colony leaders are understandably suspicious of who he is and what he represents. His story of how he’s come to their colony is shocking, surprising, and might have bigger consequences than anyone could have expected.
Walk the Plank is a tale from John Scalzi's The Human Division, a series of self-contained but interrelated short stories set in the Old Man's War universe.
Listen to the complete edition of The Human Division, the fifth full-length book by John Scalzi in the Old Man's War universe.
©2012 John Scalzi (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Dispatcher
AudioAddict
Boring Hard-to-Follow Transcript
The narrator did a good job, considering what he had to work with. He had to read the name of every speaker!!! The book is 39 minutes of a boring story that sounds like this:
Brown: Hey, John. How did you like "Walk the Plank"?
Smith: It was pretty boring. I fell asleep listening to it.
Jackson: Oh, no. And you bought the whole series, didn't you?
Smith: Yeah, Steve, I did.
Andrews: Bummer. You bought it too, didn't you, Mary?
Perkins: Yep. I'm going crazy listening to the narrator read everybody's name!
Brown: Man, I bet that really sucks.
Smith: No kidding. Hope it gets better as the series progresses.
Prologue to the next episode
39 minutes ARE YOU SERIOUS?
If you exclude all names, there will be only 20 minutes left
this is just a prologue-side story to the next episode,
so don't waste time and buy episode 2 and 3 at once.
Lansing, MI, United States
Bad style - at least for audio version
What would have made Walk the Plank better?
The writing style. The narrator having to say the characters name each and every line of dialog... ouch
How could the performance have been better?
I think the performance suffered with what he had to work with.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I couldn't finish listening to it. I suffered through the first series but I just didn't look forward to listening, so I stopped.
Just listen to the preview and ask yourself if you can tolerate that writing style for very long in audio format. The story seemed interesting but the dialog was choppy and the poor narrator had to constantly announce the person talking. Maybe this would be a better read vs. a listen because you could just gloss over the names. Thinking about it more, maybe as just text it would be better because there are those times where you read some dialog assuming it is one character, only to find out it was someone else talking at then end.
But in audio format like this, it just drove me crazy. Since the narrator does different voices, maybe they should have cut some of the name announcing out.
mcleansville, NC, United States
Short Interim Episode
This short, tense installment is written in the form of an audio transcript, and has a bit of a horror theme to it. It works all right, though you could skip it if needed since it doesn't involve the same characters as the first installment.
Grant P.
See Review for "The B-Team" this is Episode 2 (minimum 15 words in a Review)
R. MCRACKAN
Good but not his best
The Human Division is another chapter in the saga of Old Man's War, which is a hit and miss series. This one is somewhere in the middle. Good humor, middling characters, overall engaging writing, and convoluted plot.
I'm giving it a rock-bottom overall score due to the fact that this is not the version you should get. Pick up the final full book, not these expensive piece meal episodes.
mDye
Ridiculously short
This review is longer than the book. Especially since Audible makes me add these 8 words.
I usually love scalzi! buy the was two chapter excerpt... not what I thought it was.
another know it all
ok addition to the story. hard to know or care about characters in such a short story. Scalzi is always good however
Not a fan of screenplays disguised as literature!
This audiobook is not so much a book but a oral presentation of a screenplay. I was not impressed!!!
Continues to be entertaining
Each episode is its own tale. However they are interconnected - even if it does not really seem so at first in some cases. It's one Universe and one big story - and these are lots of little ones within. Personally I've enjoyed the writing and the reading - I'm now on episode 9 and enjoying it as much as the first. If you like sci-fi you won't be disappointed.
Even Shorter But Just As Sweet
Having listened to "The B Team" By John Scalzi and Narrated by William Dufris i immediately Downloaded/Listened to this episode "Walk The Plank" The second Episode in the Human Division and Written/Narrated by Scalzi/Dufris.
If you have read my review of the previous episode you will know that i thought the narrator (Dufris) was brilliant which really helped the story along. He narrates very passionately (or so it seems). In this volume he does not disappoint.
This story is good, but much like the last one the charm is in the narration more then the actual story. having said i'm starting to feel that the "season long" storyline may be starting to show through. which may build upon the charm of the actual story. Don't get me wrong the each episode does have a good plot and they are well worth listening to.
Much like the title of this review suggest this episode is shorter then the last one but its just as good.
I don't feel i connected as much to the characters in this weeks episode(2) to that of last weeks (1) i did find myself thinking when will last weeks charters be back i hope Wilson is in the next episode....
Karl Gjertsen
Great short story
This is a great short story, in a collection of intertwined short stories.
I will look for more title by this author.
It keeps being interesting...
I continue to be sceptical about the story, but the change of story format keeps it interesting. It certainly has something.
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Recovering Our Creative Calling
Autor: Andy Crouch
Sprecher: Sean Runnette
Kategorien: English - Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
1 out of 5 stars 1,0 (1 Bewertung)
Andy Crouch unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture makers. For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators that God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. By making chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work of culture making.
Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. He guards against naive assumptions about "changing the world," but points us to hopeful examples from church history and contemporary society of how culture is made and shaped. Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture.
©2008 Andy Crouch (P)2010 christianaudio.com
A Simple Guide for Normal People
Autor: Pete Greig
Sprecher: Pete Greig
Pete Greig has been teaching on prayer - and leading a nonstop prayer movement - for 20 years. Now, for the first time, he puts his life's work into a response to the question everybody ultimately asks: how do I pray? This down-to-earth introduction to life's greatest adventure will guide you deeper in your relationship with God, helping you to become more centred and still, clearer in discerning God's voice, more able to make sense of your disappointments and more expectant for miraculous breakthroughs too.
You Are What You Love
The Spiritual Power of Habit
Autor: James K. A. Smith
Sprecher: Claton Butcher
In this book, award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that who and what we worship fundamentally shape our hearts. And while we desire to shape culture, we are not often aware of how culture shapes us. We might not realize the ways our hearts are being taught to love rival gods instead of the One for whom we were made. Smith helps listeners recognize the formative power of culture and the transformative possibilities of Christian practices.
Reappearing Church
The Hope for Renewal in the Rise of Our Post-Christian Culture
Autor: Mark Sayers
Sprecher: Tom Parks
For decades, we set our hopes on technology, politics, and the appearance of peace. We wanted to believe we were headed somewhere better - that progress was happening. But now, as our technology ensnares and isolates us, our politics threaten to tear us apart and our cultural decline continues to accelerate, people are understandably distressed. But throughout history, these periods of decline traditionally precede powerful spiritual renewal - and even revival. What if all the bad news in this world is actually good news for the church?
Culture Care
Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life
Autor: Makoto Fujimura
Sprecher: Kirby Heyborne
Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
Autor: John Mark Comer, John Ortberg - foreword
Sprecher: John Mark Comer, Kris Koscheski
"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he appeared successful. But inwardly, things weren’t pretty. So, he turned to a trusted mentor for guidance and heard these words: "Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life. Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life." It wasn’t the response he expected, but it was - and continues to be - the answer he needs. Within this audiobook, you’ll find a fascinating road map to staying emotionally healthy and spiritually alive in the chaos of the modern world.
How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth, Fourth Edition
Autor: Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart
Sprecher: Henry O. Arnold
Understanding the Bible isn't for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It's meant to be comprehended by everyone from armchair listeners to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your 21st-century life. More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their understanding of the Bible.
The Making of the Western Mind
Autor: Tom Holland
Sprecher: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis.
A War of Loves
The Unexpected Story of a Gay Activist Discovering Jesus
Autor: David Bennett
Sprecher: David Bennett
Author David Bennett came out to his parents as gay when he was 14 and entered Sydney's active gay community a few years later. In A War of Loves, he shares his growing desire as a gay rights activist to see justice for LGBTQI people, his journey through new age religions and French existentialism, and his university years as a postmodernist - before Jesus Christ showed up in his life in a highly unexpected way, leading him down a path he never would have imagined or predicted.
The Prodigal Prophet
Jonah and the Mystery of God's Mercy
Autor: Timothy Keller
Sprecher: Sean Pratt
The story of Jonah is one of the most well-known parables in the Bible. It is also the most misunderstood. Many people, even those who are nonreligious, are familiar with Jonah: A rebellious prophet who defies God and is swallowed by a whale. But there's much more to Jonah's story than most of us realize. In The Prodigal Prophet, pastor and New York Times best-selling author Timothy Keller reveals the hidden depths within the book of Jonah. Keller makes the case that Jonah was one of the worst prophets in the entire Bible.
We Need to Talk About Race
Understanding the Black Experience in White Majority Churches
Autor: Ben Lindsay
Sprecher: Ben Lindsay, Cleo Sylvestre
A clear and compelling discussion of how the church can better reach, support and champion black congregation members. From the UK church’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade to the whitewashing of Christianity throughout history, the church has a lot to answer for when it comes to race relations. Christianity has been dubbed the white man’s religion, yet the Bible speaks of an impartial God and shows us a diverse body of believers. It’s time for the church to start talking about race.
The Tech-Wise Family
Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place
Autor: Andy Crouch, Amy Crouch - Foreword
Sprecher: Andy Crouch, Amy Crouch - Foreword
Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using Internet filters and determining screen time limits for our children. It's about developing wisdom, character, and courage in the way we use digital media rather than accepting technology's promises of ease, instant gratification, and the world's knowledge at our fingertips. And it's definitely not just about the kids.
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Autor: Tish Harrison Warren
Sprecher: Sarah Zimmerman
In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God's presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something - making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys - that the author does every day. Come and discover the holiness of your every day.
Autor: John Mark Comer
Sprecher: John Comer
Many of us ache for relationship with God, yet feel distant and disconnected from him. As if he's more of an idea we believe in our head than a person we relate to. But God has a name: Yahweh. This one simple idea has the potential to radically alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way.
12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion
Autor: Rebecca McLaughlin
Sprecher: Rebecca McLaughlin
Christianity is the most widespread global belief system and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated Westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea - challenging some of their deepest beliefs. Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ.
Desiring the Kingdom
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Sprecher: John Pruden
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans - as Augustine noted - are "desiring agents", full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love. James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy and desire in Desiring the Kingdom, the first book in a three-volume set on the theology of culture. He redirects our yearnings to focus on the greatest good: God.
Spirit and Sacrament
An Invitation to Eucharismatic Worship
Autor: Andrew Wilson
Spirit and Sacrament by pastor and author Andrew Wilson is an impassioned call to join together two traditions that are frequently and unnecessarily kept separate. It is an invitation to pursue the best of both worlds in worship, the Eucharistic and the charismatic, with the grace of God at the center. Wilson envisions church services in which healing testimonies, creeds, exuberant praise, and ancient liturgy coexist, and in doing so, deepen our worship and increase our joy.
Every Good Endeavor
Connecting Your Work to God's Work
Sprecher: Lloyd James
In a work world that is increasingly competitive and insecure, people often have nagging questions: Why am I doing this work? Why is it so hard? And is there anything I can do about it? Tim Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times best-selling author of The Reason for God, has taught and counseled students, young professionals, and senior leaders on the subject of work and calling for more than 20 years.
The Common Rule
Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
Autor: Justin Whitmel Earley
Sprecher: William Sarris
The answer to our contemporary chaos is to practice a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule offers four daily and four weekly habits, designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor.
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Evolve Your Brain
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AZGFD program delivers culturally significant wildlife items to Native American tribes
PHOENIX — Whether it’s the full hide of a fallen bear, an empty tortoise shell, antlers shed onto the forest floor or a found eagle feather, wildlife binds Arizona’s Native American tribes to the world around them.
In recognition of that rich cultural history, the Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) formalized a repository program that allows wildlife managers and staff to collect, inventory and properly store items found in the field that can be donated to and used by the state’s tribes.
“Wildlife plays a critical role in Native American culture and the Arizona Game and Fish Department is pleased to honor these multi-generational traditions by forming the Non-Bird Wildlife Repository,” said Jim deVos, AZGFD assistant director for wildlife management. “This program allows the department to honor our state’s Native American traditions and further the appreciation for Arizona’s wildlife.”
AZGFD partnered with the non-profit Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, an organization that represents professional wildlife managers on tribal lands, to purchase four freezers for the department to store carcases and other items found in the field or confiscated after being illegally harvested.
“We receive requests for full bear carcasses, mammal skins and tortoise shells fairly regularly,” said Jon Cooley, AZGFD endangered species coordinator who began developing the the department’s Non-bird Wildlife Repository in 2015. “We’ve also received requests for full deer pelts with antlers, antelope and badger carcasses among other wildlife remains — all of which are ultimately used by tribal members for ceremonial purposes. Repository items can also be directed to support public outreach and to educate children about Arizona’s wildlife. These are all items that may have otherwise been discarded, if there was no other use found for them.”
AZGFD has worked with and given items to the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe after receiving requests seeking specific items.
“The Hopi are a resourceful people,” said Clayton Honyumptewa, director of the Hopi Tribe Department of Natural Resources. “The Hopi people harvest animals for their holistic and comprehensive use, ranging from consumption as food to assimilation in spiritual and ceremonial functions; no part of the animal is squandered or discarded.”
For Hopis, Honyumptewa continued, “the ultimate veneration of any animal is through its use in ceremonies and prayers conducted for the renewal and continuation of life. The carcasses that the Hopi Tribe receives from the Arizona Game and Fish Department enables the Hopi people to honor these animals by offering them in our prayers to life’s eternal cycle.” The department continues to develop the program as a model for other state wildlife agencies. Tribes interested in partnering with the program can email jcooley@azgfd.gov for more information.
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Researchers Use Neutron Scattering to Study Quantum States in Copper Elpasolite Mineral
Written by AZoQuantumDec 22 2017
A research team including Georgia Institute of Technology professor Martin Mourigal used neutron scattering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to study copper elpasolite, a mineral that can be driven to an exotic magnetic state when subjected to very low temperatures and a high magnetic field.
Georgia Tech’s Martin Mourigal (left) and Xiaojian Bai (right), along with Florida State University’s Lianyang Dong (center), explore low-temperature quantum states in the mineral Cu-Elpasolite at HFIR beam line HB-2A. Credit: ORNL/Genevieve Martin
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A better understanding of the mineral’s magnetic moments and the associated quantum coherence effects could lead to new applications in spintronic devices and quantum computing technologies.
“Studying the behavior of magnetic materials in extreme conditions such as very low temperatures and high magnetic fields is important to obtain a better fundamental understanding of quantum materials, and to write the basic dictionary relating their microscopic structure to human-scale properties,” Mourigal said.
To reveal the material’s magnetic structure, the team used the Neutron Powder Diffractometer and Polarized Triple Axis Spectrometer instruments at ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor—a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
Neutrons are well suited for investigating magnetic materials given their sensitivity to the organization and dynamics of electrons’ spins at the microscopic scale.
“The goal of this experiment was to understand the magnetic structure of the material below its 700 mK [millikelvins] transition,” Mourigal explained. “We know that spins talk to each other, but we don’t know what organized pattern they collectively choose or why.”
The researchers, led by project leader Art Ramirez at the University of California, Santa Cruz, recently published the results of their experiment in Nature Physics. The mineral sample was synthesized by Florida State University graduate student Lianyang Dong.
HFIR is a DOE Office of Science User Facility. UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the DOE's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov/.—by Jeremy Rumsey
Source: https://www.ornl.gov/
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Carroll County Crime
Manchester man charged with assault after allegedly pointing shotgun at vehicle, firing ‘warning shot’ into the air
By Mary Grace Keller
Carroll County Times |
Aug 21, 2019 | 11:28 AM
Jason A. Uhler (Courtesy of Carroll County Sheriff's Office) (Carroll County Sheriffs Office / HANDOUT)
A Manchester man was charged with six counts of assault after he allegedly fired a shotgun into the air and pointed the firearm at a vehicle, police say.
Jason Uhler, 20, of the 4700 block of Wentz Road, was charged with three counts each of first-degree and second-degree assault Aug. 15, according to online court records. Uhler was released on $5,000 bond Aug. 16, online court records show.
According to the statement of charges, Uhler and two men were at a gas pump at Jiffy Mart in Hampstead when a Jeep pulled up Aug. 9 just before 10:40 p.m. One of the Jeep’s occupants exchanged words with Uhler and two of his friends before getting back into the Jeep and driving away, according to the statement. While the Jeep “pulled down by the traffic light at Main Street,” the same man got out of the Jeep and came toward the trio again at the Jiffy Mart, then Uhler grabbed his “shotgun” out of his truck, loaded it with birdshot, and fired into the air, the statement reads. The man got back into the Jeep and left, according to the statement.
Uhler told Hampstead Police he “felt threatened” when the man came toward him, the statement reads. Police found two shotguns in Uhler’s Ford F-150, according to the statement.
Police found the Jeep at the Hampstead car wash and asked the three occupants about the incident, but they were “vague about the details of their involvement,” the statement reads. The men said they saw Uhler fire the shotgun into the air, not at them, and said they did not want Uhler arrested and did not want to press charges, according to the statement.
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Police informed Uhler it is illegal to fire a firearm within town limits and warned him against doing so again, the statement reads.
On Aug. 13, police again reviewed surveillance footage from the Jiffy Mart, but this time rewound it further and saw Uhler point the shotgun at the Jeep as it backed out of the parking spot, according to the statement. The Jiffy Mart employee did not rewind the footage far enough the first time police reviewed it, the statement reads.
Police interviewed Uhler again Aug. 13, according to the statement.
Uhler said while he was pumping gas with his friends, a Jeep pulled up and a man in the rear passenger seat “yelled something about being white and having a staring problem to” Uhler and his friends, the statement reads. The man who yelled at Uhler and his friends threatened to assault and spit on them, then went into the Jiffy Mart, according to the statement. When the man got back into the Jeep he started to record Uhler and his friends as the Jeep pulled away, the statement reads.
Uhler said he grabbed his shotgun, held it with one arm, and aimed it “towards the ground in the Jeep’s direction,” according to the statement. When the Jeep stopped at the traffic light, the man who yelled and another man got out and came toward Uhler’s group, then Uhler fired the “warning shot" into the air, the statement reads. Uhler said he and his friends had no previous contact with the people in the Jeep, according to the statement.
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During the interview, the police officer told Uhler the video clearly shows him holding the shotgun with two hands as the Jeep backed out of the parking lot, according to the statement.
The men in the Jeep were not charged as of Aug. 21.
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Uhler declined to comment when reached by phone. An official from the Carroll County Public Defender’s Office said the office does not typically comment on cases. A court date is scheduled for Sept. 18.
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Contact and gustatory effects of spinosad on the survivability of Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in wheat
Umme Habiba Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh
W Islam Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh
Selina Parween Department of Zoology, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Keywords: Contact and gustatory effects, spinosad, developmental period, Sitophilus oryzae
The present study was planned to evaluate the effect of spinosad on the survivability and development of Sitophilus oryzae on four wheat varieties viz., BARI-26, BARI-28, Shatabdi-21 and Prodip-24. Three doses in three replications for spinosad were applied to four wheat varieties. Spinosad concentrations significantly increased the total developmental period compared to the control in a dose-dependent manner on four wheat varieties. The highest developmental period took 41.67 ± 0.33 days to become adult was recorded in S-21 at 0.0003 μl/g of spinosad in F1. All adults of F1 did not reach in F2 because surprisingly all adults died after emergence. So, no developmental period was found in S-21 (0.00±0.00) and B-28 (0.00 ± 0.00) days at 0.0003 μl/g spinosad in F2. On the other hand, five mated females were released on the treated wheat with different concentrations of spinosad for 10 - 15 days; then they were removed. Treated wheat was checked for up to 30 to 60 days and observed the progeny for two successive generations (1st and 2nd). Each combination of insect species, insecticide rate, and exposure duration were replicated three times. Among four wheat varieties, the lowest adult emergence was recorded as 08.00 ± 0.58 in F1 and totally controlled in F2 generation in S-21 variety at 0.0003 μl/g. Spinosad concentrations significantly increased the total developmental period compared to the control in a dosedependent manner on four wheat varieties.
Habiba, U., Islam, W., & Parween, S. (2019). Contact and gustatory effects of spinosad on the survivability of Sitophilus oryzae L. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in wheat. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology, 47(2), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjz.v47i2.44336
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